Return of a decent amount of sunshine as we move through the morning and afternoon. 71 degrees in philadelphia right now, 68 in allentown, 69 in trenton, 67 in wilmington, 72 in cape may. Were starting out rather muggy across the region but we expect those humidity levels to drop at least away from the shore. Down farther south it might still be rather sticky later today. Heres where the numbers are going. 85 degrees by noon. By 3 oclock, 88. Sun perhaps mixing with a few clouds but pretty bright overall. 87 degrees by 5 oclock and by 7 oclock, 86 degrees. One other big issue and this goes for those of you down the shore either in new jersey or delaware, doesnt matter its covered everywhere. Rip current risk today and this is one of those rare high risks days where its dangerous surf for all swimmers. I would recommend that you definitely go and check with your lifeguard and follow their advice before you try and get into the water down the shore today. Its all because of that hurricane off the coast. Karen, well have more in the accuweather 7day forecast kline you you including the possibility for strong thunderstorms friday. All right dave. Starting with breaking news. A big accident right on the schuylkill expressway involving this tractortrailer and can you see this car, its facing the wrong way kind of jammed underneath the cab of the tractortrailer. I was watching a minute ago when we saw a lot of ems workers converging on that vehicle looking as if they were trying to get some somebody out of that a little earlier. This the schuylkill westbound past girard avenue. We have a tractortrailer, another car facing the wrong way wedged underneath of it. Weve got police and penndot on scene. There you see some of the ems workers that were responding to the scene. We watched live as they started to shut lanes and brought down an ambulance to the scene. Looks like the ambulance has left. At times only one lane getting by. Were watching penndot leave the scene. Maybe they will be allowing two lanes of traffic to get by. At the moment all lanes are blocked while they back up the tow truck and try to pull this car out of there so currently schuylkill westbound right now watching live and we can see theyre blocking all lanes with this big accident involving a tractortrailer and a car facing the wrong way. Also in morrisville bucks county weve got an accident here on i95 northbound approaching 332. Its involving a motorcycle. A minute ago these speeds were down into the teens. They just popped up to 54. I think theyre allowing more traffic to get by right now with this big accident in bucks county. Live on the vine street expressway, the overnight construction is cleared. Theyre in the process of reopening. You see only a hint of the fog that is really dense in some areas, matt and tam. All right, thank you, karen. Lawmakers from both parties continue to criticize president trump. His responses yesterday about the weekend violence at a rally of White Nationalists in charlottesville kicking off a new firestorm. The president once again blaming both sides. You look at both sides. I think theres blame on both sides and i have no doubt about it and you dont have any doubt about it either. Only nazis and if you reported it accurately, you would say so. During an impromptu questionandanswer session in the lobby of trump tower yesterday the president denounced the alt left protesters who he says came charging at a group. That equivalency House Speaker paul ryan saying White Supremacy is repulsive. There can be no moral ambiguity. The White Nationalist group was in town to protest the removal of a statue of robert e. Lee. Local and state governments across the country have started the process of removing confederate monuments. There are even calls in philadelphia to remove the frank rizzo statue outside the Municipal Services building across from Philadelphia City hall and some have described the former mayors controversial tenure as racist. Action News ReporterJeanette Reyes is live from the statue that may have actually been vandalized. Good morning. Reporter good morning, tam. President trump set off a twitter firestorm yesterday but the National Rhetoric is hitting home. Over the last 24 hours weve seen peaceful demonstrationing but others have decided to focus in their efforts on the frank rizzo statue and it is possible that it has been vandalized. Im sad about more angry than sad. Were committed to what can we do to challenge it. Reporter the backlash was swift and fierce, this after President Donald Trump doubled down on his initial remarks placing the blame of the deadly attack in charlottesville on both sides. The counterprotesters as well as the white supremacists. People around the country were outraged. Some acted on that in a variety of ways. Tuesday night dozens gathered at the 9 11 garden of reflection. This gathering today is to give voice to people who are all feeling very angry right now and very afraid of what were seeing and were really here to say we stand up for community, for love. Im an africanamerican. Being in a country when this is constantly happening it makes it difficult. Reporter others directed their anger at the statue of former philadelphia mayor frank rizzo in center city. The former Police Commissioner is known for tough tactics aimed at africanamericans. The calls to remove the statue now intensifying. White marks were later discovered possibly damage from paintballs. And mayor jim kenney did release a statement saying in part that there are ways to address this issue, structured ways and now is the time to do that. Meanwhile as far as the battle rizzo Statue Police are investigating that incident. Matt. Thank you jeanette. New this morning a home caught fire in the holmesburg section but everyone inside was able to get out safely. The home caught fire just after 2 00 a. M. On the 4700 block of sheffield avenue. Firefighters were able to get control of the fire quickly. Action news has learned that the man suspected of urinating on a northeast philadelphia synagogue has turned himself in. Authorities questioned him last night but have not released any information about his identity. Investigators say the Surveillance Video clearly shows this was an intentional act on sunday. The vandal made this obscene gesture to the camera before desecrating congregation beth solomon. 15,000 reward is being offered to find the person who attempted to light several Philadelphia City vehicles on fire. Cameras caught the suspected arsonist entering a southwest philadelphia parking garage at 65th street and woodland of a one week ago. Police say he doused the garage with flammable liquid and tried but failed to burn several Streets Department vehicles. Philadelphia police are still looking for the gunman who shot four men in the citys mantua section. It happened during a Large Block Party near 39th and mellon streets late sunday night. Former High School Basketball star Jarrod Stukes was most seriously wounded. The 18yearold was set to attend Clarion University on a full basketball scholarship. His High School Coach is one of the many pulling for the teen by his bedside. You hate to see somebody so young with so much life ahead of him with tubes and wires and ivs coming out of his body. Police believe stukes was an innocent bystander. The three other victims. Are expected to survive. The Delaware County day care worker who pleaded guilty to pushing a fouryearold girl down a flight of stairs will be sentenced today. Sara gable pleaded guilty back in june to simple assault and endangering the welfare of children. The 52yearold had been caught on camera shoving a little girl at childcare of the future day care back in march. The child was not seriously hurt. Time to turn to dave murphy. When you step outside the frog the fog is stunning. The frog is stunning, too, but the fog. Fog. In some cases there is thick fog out there. This morning theres no active rain but when you hit that fog you can get drizzle on the windshield and you may have to run those wipers. In philadelphia it hasnt been all that bad. Sky6 still shows ben franklin bridge fairly visible from our sky6 camera atop Society Hill Towers but that could change as we go through the morning and in a lot of neighborhoods just outside the city it already has changed. 71 degrees in philadelphia currently, 68 in allentown, 69 in trenton, 68 in wilmington, 72 early on at the shore. Dewpoints are still up there fairly high especially in the area in the southern half of the region where you see that darker shade of green. These numbers are going to tend to dip during the day so it wont be as humid in the afternoon. The exception may be farther south in dover and cape may where its still kind of sticky. Philadelphias visibility 5 miles. Thats not too bad. How about less than a third of a mile visibilities. Trenton allentown reading lancaster wilmington millville and then half mile visibility in wildwood and a. C. So you can see from this map that a lot of you are dealing with that fog and you want to slow it down. Harder to see animals on the highways pedestrians stalled cars things like that. Satellite shows you once we dump the fog after about 8 oclock, 9 oclock we dont have a whole lot of cloud cover out there. Well probably develop some clouds. It looks better this afternoon with sun mixinging with some clouds but fog for now. Lehigh valley sun a few clouds 87 with that humidity definitely dropping beneath where it was yesterday. Today in philadelphia sun mixing with some occasional clouds, very warm with a high of 88 but again that humidity tending to drop during the afternoon. And then were keeping our eyes on hurricane gert which is nowhere near land splitting the distance between us and bermuda. Category one probably becoming a category two later today or tonight. But the swells from that storm are creating big issues at the shore today. Its going to be a nice day on the beach with high temperatures in the low 80s and sun mixing with a few clouds but this is very rare. We have a high risk of rip currents today and this goes for all locations up and down the jersey and Delaware Coast lines. They may recommend that you just not get into the water in some beach locations. In any event you definitely want to check with your lifeguard and follow their advice. This is going to be a situation where it could be dangerous for all swimmers and remember its not just the rip currents but heavy surf can always give you the potential anyway for back and neck injuries. 69 is the overnight low. Wouldnt be surprised if we get a little fog again tomorrow. It may not be as bad and widespread as what were seeing this morning. 88 is todays high in your exclusive accuweather 7day, sun, some clouds and humidity dropping off a little bit. And then tomorrow humidity starts to creep back in, 86 and tomorrow there is the chance of a. M. Spotty afternoon a spotty afternoon this afternoon. Its something to keep in mind. Friday is a bigger ticket day. It does look like were in line for some downpours and some potentially heavy thunderstorms now in the afternoon and evening again this is friday were talking about. Humid, 87. On saturday, if we see a thunderstorm it now looks like its probably down the shore, the rest of us are okay and humidity drops on sunday. We wind up with a really nice day sunday. Thank you david. 5 11. Former new york city mayor Rudy Giuliani recovering after emergency surgery. Details on what hes going through. Grandma versus carjacker. See how a woman was able to fight off three people and get away. Anticipation for mondays Solar Eclipse is growing but First Responders are being put on high alert because of it. Well tell you why. Karen. Were jammed on the schuylkill westbound from Spring Garden to past girard where weve got an accident thats involving a tractortrailer and another vehicle thats facing the i dont wrong way. Details on that when we come back. How would you like to earn four times gas reward points . Thatd be awesome. You can do that . Just buy participating grocery items during the anniversary sale and youll earn 4 times the gas reward points. Groceries for gas rewards, i wish can i get one more wish . the acme anniversary sale. Its just better. Welcome back. Taking a live look here Philadelphia International airport. At least things look a little clearer there but that is not the case around the region. There was a lot of fog when i stepped outside the door and it could be an issue wherever you are. It is 5 15 and 71 degrees. Karen has been looking at her traffic cameras. What are you finding . We had a huge accident right here on the schuylkill westbound with a tractortrailer and a car facing the other way just cleared a minute ago. You might remember a few minutes ago at the top of the show you a showing you how all lanes were temporarily blocked. Thats really changed and on the schuylkill westbound past girard they made quick work of this accident scene. They cleared it out and the delay is thinning as well on the schuylkill westbound past girard. Looking towards the fog you see only a hint of it in the city right now. In other areas its really dense and you need to be careful. Heres an accident on 95 northbound approaching 332 involving a motorcycle in morrisville, bucks county. Its been moved to the shoulder so traffic there is moving a little better. Heres the Atlantic City expressway westbound approaching route 73. Theyve got some emergency road work going on and the crews are out here blocking the right lane. Weve got the cones set up and its a little hard to see with the fog so be careful as youre traveling around. If you have construction crews or pedestrians, if youre only looking at. 3 of a mile visibility, in trenton nmillville, in allentown, reading, lancaster, thats a wide area where youre seeing this dense fog. Half a mile visibility Atlantic City and wildwood, wilmington. 5mile visibility in philadelphia. Theres like a little hole in the fog near the city right here but through much of the rest of the area visibility is significantly reduced because of this fog. Its dense today. 71 degrees the current temperature. Were going to see a good amount of sunshine later today. 88 degrees for your high. So, its getting very warm and the afternoon wont be quite as humid as it was yesterday, matt. Okay, thank you, karen. New this morning, former new york city mayor Rudy Giuliani is recovering from surgery he had due to a fall on long island. The New York Post reports giulianis right leg gave way on sunday and he fell to the ground so he was rushed to the hospital. It happened while he and his wife were hosting a barbecue at their home. Giuliani underwent quadriceps tendon surgery and will be in the hospital for a few days. A wisconsin grandmother fought off three would be carjackers. This happened at a gas station in milwaukee on sunday night. Surveillance video shows the 50yearold victim walking to her car when another woman attacks her from behind. Two more women join in the scuffle and one of them grabs the victims car keys but she still had a lot of fight left. She fought back and eventually all three suspects ran off. The phillies faced the padres in the Series Finale in san diego tonight. Rhys hoskins hit his third homer in two days last night. A two run shot in the ninth but the phillies lost eight to four dropping a fifth of their last six games. Yesterdays rain didnt stop the eagles from holding practice. Fletcher cox returned to the field recovered from his back spasms while the eagle cut running back ryan mathews after two seasons with the team. The birds host the Buffalo Bills in their second preseason game tomorrow night. Oprah winfrey isnt apologizing for anything especially her weight. The 63yearold media mogul and former talk show host tells vogue magazine the high profile fluctuations in her weight were a physical, spiritual and emotional burden for her but she says when you hit 60 there are no more apologies. Winfrey also opened up about her relationship with long time partner stedman graham. She says if she and graham had married long ago they would not still be together. Winfrey explains she would not have been able to fit into a traditional marriage role. Interesting. I dont know why she would have to apologize for her weight. Isnt that her own business. I agree. She volunteered it but yeah, absolutely, sure. Lets take thats my two cents. Were looking in mount laurel, burlington county. Route 73 at 295. We can see a little bit of fog out there, in in some spots just. 3mile visibility. Just be careful and remember you cant use high beams when youre drying with driving with fog. Slow speeds 95 between the Delaware Service area and 273. Thats because the three right lanes are blocked until 5 30 dave. All right karen on the big board two issues this morning. Karen mentioned the fog. Also down the shore today a high risk of rip currents so check with the lifeguard before you think about swimming. Its not going to be a bad day once we dump the fog. 70 degrees by 7 oclock. By noon 85 and 88 is going to be your high at 3 oclock. We should see a fair amount of sunshine with a few clouds. 7 oclock holding onto a warm 86. Its humid now but we expect the humidity to drop off during the day the exception might be down in cape may and dover where its still kind of sticky. At the airport philadelphia has been in one of those pockets where the fog hasnt been that bag. Thats fortunate if youre flying. No major delays out of Philadelphia International airport right now nor are there any delays or sign of rain in our big travel cities. Tam. Thank you david. Going to health check women who are pregnant or thinking about having children soon want to start stocking up on chicken tuna and peanuts. Eating these three could prevent birth defects and miss carriages. Lab tests involving pregnant mice show placing vitamin b3 in their diets led to perfectly healthy babies being born. Researchers say they need to try to figure out the hormone level of women if they need to boost their vitamin b3. In the morning buzz a message from a popular game of thrones actor. It has to to with how the hbo series has led to a problem with a certain breed of dogs. Also, an unexpected find in an Atlantic City hotel. An alligator. Details about how that got there but first up heres gmas first look. In this mornings gma first look millions of americans pouring into those few American Cities with the best possible view of the coming eclipse. Local police, hospitals and Emergency Medical Services in those cities are on high alert. Were kind of throwing everything at it. In some cities theyre preemptively declaring a state of disaster a maneuver that allows them to call on the National Guard to help direct the masses of people. Police department in certain areas are overwhelmed then need us to come help set up traffic checkpoints were ready to do that. 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Geico motorcycle, great rates for great rides. Placing blame on both sides. President trump is taking heat for his new comments on the violence in virginia. Happening today, septa takes see something Say Something to the next level with a brand new safety app. Patchy fog could slow down the morning commute. Accuweather will help you through it. Lets find out more about that accuweather with dave murphy and karen rogers has your traffic and that looks like it could lead to a lot of trouble. Yeah, the fog is really dense in a lot of areas. Yeah it is and we have an issue down the shore with rip currents. Its a dense situation across much of the region. The Weather Center has that dense fog advisory for you. Visibility is under a quarter mile in a lot of spots and this exists until about 8 oclock this morning, might linger a little longer than that in some spots. As karen has been saying, high beams not really a good idea. As we take a look at satellite, though,