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There. The National Hurricane center says it made landfall northeast of Corpus Christi around 11 00 p. M. Our time. This morning we have Team Coverage of the storm. Sabina kuriakose tracking the storms possible path lets start with meteorologist mon any yes cryan a lot of people comparing this storm to Hurricane Katrina back in 2005. It did make landfall Even Stronger storm than katrina. Katrina made landfall as cat three, we had cat 4a very very scary situation in texas lets take look. Earlier we did have a category four landfall. Now what were seeing it really really has weakened significantly. So weve got a category one hurricane those winds at 85 Miles Per Hour that doesnt mean anything. This is still going to be a devastating storm because of the forecast and heres whats going to happen. As we head into monday and tuesday, this is going to weaken into a Tropical Storm, but then loop back around and thats going to continue to be bringing rain this whole time. All the way through tuesday. Wednesday its going to take more northerly turn becoming a depression, but still, we are talking rainfall all the way into tuesday and wednesday through parts of texas. Thats why flooding is the big concern here. Because weve got a prolonged period all the way into the midweek a very heavy rainfall. Storm surge is still a concern. Those winds are big concern and tornadoes also through today its that rain that 15 to 25inches in general. Not to mention those localized areas getting 40 plus inches of rain. So from Corpus Christi to houston is where we are expecting some of the hardest hit areas especially along the coastline when it comes to that storm surge. Well keep up to date. But back here, guys, things are absolutely gorgeous. I was saying as i was working last night its hard to talk about how beautiful our weather is here when theyre dealing with such horrible weather down in texas, but back here, the weekend is turning out to be great one. 67 right now. Those dew points into the low 50s so were not only dealing with low humidity, lots of sunshine. Ive got a look at the full forecast coming up in just bit. Im keeping track of Hurricane Harvey as it continues to bring and pound parts of texas. All right. Monica, thank you very much. As the sun rises this morning were getting our first look at the damage along the texas coast and its not over. As monica just indicated the storm continues to pummel the region with heavy rains and strong winds. Sabina kuriakose in our newsroom with the very latest. Hi, sabina, good morning, laur lauren. So far no deaths have been reporter. That is the most important thing although we are getting reports of some injuries. We dont know the extent of those. Now the National Weather service says this morning although harvey again has been downgraded in strength to category one the hurricane is moving slowly inland into texas bringing with it walls of rain over 100 Miles Per Hour winds and storm surges that could reach as high as 13 feet. Now, this is video from overnight as harvey battered the texas coastline. Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated. Others were told to shelter in place. Now were getting reports of major structural damage to buildings including a high school and a Senior Housing complex whose roofs had caved in. Authorities say they are treating people from that Senior Center but right now we have no word on what their injuries might be, and check out this video. Firefighters in victoria, texas, spent last night trying to put out a duplex fire that broke out just after 8 00 while wild winds from harvey battered down on those emergency workers. Now the town is about 40 miles from the texas coastline. Reports indicate that that duplex burnt down to the ground. Officials right now warning residents may not be able to return to their homes in texas in the areas hardest hit for weeks or months. The people who live here have been through many, many hurricanes and Tropical Storms. So were prepared, and ready to ride it out. The most important thing that you can do is to safeguard orien life. People need to be aware this is significant rainfall that is being projected. Were already seeing some rainfalls of four to 6inches throughout the county, and its going to be rain like this overnight. The going to be raining for the next three to five days solid according to the National Weather service. Thats lot of rain. Its going to somewhere. Reporter as you heard there this is just the beginning and again we could be seeing the effects of this storm for days. Now, the worry right now is historic flooding especially in places like houston as you heard there the National Hurricane center is calling that flooding potentially catastrophic and life threatening, again, thats possible through wednesday. Now coming up half an hour well have what local volunteers here in our area are doing to try to help the people in texas. Lauren, back to you. Sabina, thanks for that update. Hurricane harvey coming ashore as the fear rest hurricane to hit the u. S. In dozen years. Harvey is the first category four hurricane to make landfall in texas since carla in 1961. Rob schmidt has the very latest. Reporter Hurricane Harvey battering the texas coastline with rain and whipping winds fierce winds. Pelting trees and toppling rooftops. National Hurricane Center warned texas to prepare for life threatening flash flooding. This huge system grew from unnamed storm to a life threatening major hurricane in just over two days. All right. Here at home our local red cross already helping those in need as sabina mentioned Regional Call Center at 23rd and chestnut handling calls coming in from texas and louisiana. Also, two volunteers from philadelphia already dispatched and arrived at the gulf coast last night. We anticipate that we will have to send more staff and volunteers as harvey makes landfall, and we can anticipate the impact of it on the affected communities. And you can help the American Red Cross in two different ways. Donate online or text 90999. You can also donate blood at local red cross centers. Now to our top stories. President donald trump spend the weekend at camp david where he will monitor Hurricane Harvey. The first Major National disaster of his presidency. Hes also dealing with yet another one of his advisers out of the white house. Top Counter Terrorism adviser is he bass cher gore carre sign once a National Security editor for breitbart the far right website. Gosh today joined the long list of high profile departures from the white house including chief strategist steve bannon, chief of staff Reince Priebus and press Secretary Sean Spicer and in a controversial move the president has decided to pardon joe arpaeo former arizona sheriff. He gained National Attention for his crack down on illegal ill grace. The judge said the patrols amount totter racial profiling. He expressed his appreciation to the president. A little off my shoulder but im disturbed at the way this government went after me. Went after obama. The white house says hes now 85 years old and after more than 50 years of Admiral Service to our nation, he is worthy of a president ial pardon. Now to developing stories n delaware new castle cun tee police need your help finding an 88yearold woman whose been reported missing there. Police issued a gold alert for winfred. She lives in townsend in odessa national. Spence was supposed to drive to relatives house in the town of bear but never showed up. She hadnt been seen or heard from since 8 00 oclock last night. Winfred spence may be driving a 2017 maroon lincoln mkz with delaware plates. If you see her or know anything where she might be, youre asked to Contact Police. More than a dozen people burn out of their homes after fastmoving Fire Destroys an Apartment Building in sharon hill. Demolition crews worked throughout the night to tear down the charred remains of the 1100 block of woodland avenue. The fire started at 2 30 yesterday afternoon. Everyone was able to make it out okay. But angela costa lost everything in the fire including her two cats. I guess i cant ask for anything more. Its gods plan. Its not mine. One person was treated at the hospital for smoke inhale layi laying. The cause of the fire remains under investigation. Stay with us. Much more to come on good day. Get ready game of thrones fans. Theres a new delicious way to enjoy the finale of hbos hit show. Later on good day, why Gwyneth Paltrow is being accused of targeting people when they are most vulnerable. Good saturday morning. Weekend wendy headed to the blue cross river rink for summer fe fest. Theyre having Michael Jackson tribute from 4 00 until 9 00 oclock this evening. Its free. Food, music, much more and, yes, theyre going to have an impersonator doing the hits. Pyt thriller have a great weekend. Take a look at this video. Incredible look at Hurricane Harvey from space. Cameras on the International Space station captured the shear magnitude of Hurricane Harvey as it strengthened into a powerful category four storm near the texan coast last night. Mandatory evacuations were issued in some parts and President Trump issued a state of emergency. Monica, scary stuff for everyone involved. First responders, those riding the storm out. Everyone in texas right now. Yeah, very scary situation. That continues to unfold and unfortunately with this, what im thinking is going to be the big issue where a lot of hurricanes, you know, its the wind and the storm surge at the initial part of landfall some of the most devastating part of this. I think this is going to be prolonged so even as the hurricane really weakens and moves away, the flooding is going to continue from Corpus Christi up at houston area for quite sometime. This is going to be weeks that we will be covering the effects of Hurricane Harvey. Heres what were looking at right now. Again it made landfall. It hasnt weakened but we still can see the eye. Meaning this is a strong storm. It is still very strong storm bringing gusty winds an lot of rain much heres the threats for today for parts of the texas coast. Possibly 25 or more inches of rain. The surge getting up to 12 feet potentially especially near south padre island. The National Seashore and then wind 74 Miles Per Hour. This will start to weaken as that hurricane starts to weaken as well and becomes Tropical Storm. But theres Severe Threat for today. Saturday for tornadoes to pop up. We have few tornado warnings out there already, and then once we head into the next few days, that severe component the tornado threat will diminish as we head into our sunday. Back here, though, a much different story. Look how quiet we are. All across the Delaware Valley, south jersey, delaware, even into pennsylvania, philadelphia, weve got mostly clear skies and thats forecasted to continue as we head into our afternoon. So here we are looking at the afternoon and were kicking off lunch hour pretty nicely with partly so mostly sunny skies a few stray showers out west. But most of us keeping it clear and dry for today. Even as we head into our sunday weve got mostly color weather. So actually this is going to continue as we head into our monday. And tuesday. Take look at the seven day. Not much to talk about. Upper 70s. So below average temperatures. Its really wednesday that were picking up rain chances, lauren. Thank you very much. Debate underway right now over the statue of former philadelphia mayor frank rizzo. Now, the city wants to hear from you about the fate of the longtime fixture in center is he. Only in philly our bruce gordon breaks it down. Reporter im bruce gordon. Frank rizzo was known as a cops cop as philadelphias Police Commissioner back in the late 1960s and the citys mayor for most of the 70s rizzo fully supported his officers. You might say he always had their backs. Fitting because now a days, they have his. Literally. Philly cops spend fair amount of time these days surrounding the rizzo statue out front of the Municipal Services building across from city hall. Protect it from vandals. The recent racial violence in charlottesville, virginia, has reignited a National Debate over who is statue worthy. Many have decided that succession any of the slave Holding Confederate generals are not but what about italia italianamerican Police Commissioner and mayor i want you to be proud again. With a decidely mixed record on race and accomplish many for that matter. Kenny Administration Just announced it wants input, comments from the public on what to do with the rizzo statue. Keep it where it is . Move it . Give it back to the sculptor. That kind of public debate, calm, rationale, should be applauded. But for the record, im not entirely sure why an over oversized statue of frank rizzo was placed in such a prominent location in the first place. I was a reasonably alert teenager here back in the 1970s and i couldnt recall any major civic accomplishments. So i did some reading on the subject. Maybe i had missed something about the man. What i saw was a lot of talk about rizzos larger than life personality and his up from nothing bio. Good stuff, but still where was the actual a accomplishment . Heres what i do know w a business succeeds or fails economists talk about the marketplace deciding winners and losers, that is, customers tell you whether youre doing a good job. Well, heres what we know about the decade of the 1970s, the population of the city of philadelphia during that time, again, most of it the rizzo years, plumetted by more than 13 . Thats right. Nearly one philadelphian out of every seven picked up and moved out. That kind of exodus on that kind of scale hasnt ever before and hasnt happened since. Having said thats correct the statue is where it is. So the question now is, what do you do with it . Im not incentive to claims by members of the Minority Community that rizzos policies and practices and pronouncements did more to divide this community than to unite it. But heres an idea. Here in the birthplace of democracy, maybe we could come up with better tools to fix this problem than raw eggs and spray paint. Vandalizing the statue accomplishes nothing. Other than hardening the stance of rizzos many supporters. This is out of control. The final decision on the statue may be weeks, even a few months away. Thats as it should be. Many believe the move to honor rizzo after his untimely death was rushed. Leading to mistakes. Lets take our time with this debate. And get it right. Only in philly. School days, school days, dear old golden rule days, kids and parents ditching bathing suits trading them in for backpacks hitting the stores in big numbers for those back to school sales. Parents are stress stressed about back to School Shopping in particular spending as it relates to back to school clothing, back to School Supplies and even back to school technology. The National Retail federation says back to School Spending and back to College Spending will reach 83point sick billion dollars this year. More than a 10 increase from last year. All right. Get ready game of thrones fans. Theres a new delicious way to enjoy the finale of hbos hit show. Enemies to the east. Enemies to the west. Enemies to the south. Enemies to the north. Whatever stands in our way we will defeat it. Arbys plans to sell 1 pound whole turkey legs for the season end of came of thrones. They will will be smoked and seasoned with salt and brown sugar. The meat tee offering at nine different kings domms across the nation closest for us means youll have to travel to pittsburgh but other cities include la, seattle, phoenix, denver and atlanta. So enjoy. 7 20. Back to the situation unfolding in texas. The state being slammed by the strongest storm to hit the u. S. In in over a decade. Rainfall from Hurricane Harvey could create catastrophic flooding. Steven morgan is in Corpus Christi with the very latest right now. Hi, steven. Reporter good morning, lauren. Yeah, 1961 hurricane carla was the last hurricane to impact the texas coast to bring category four winds and were out here on popular t head in Corpus Christi and theres a restaurant that has this canopy sort of like i would say like a roof coveri covering. Kind of blown like it was justs toed about the wind. Those winds came roaring into the area at 130 Miles Per Hour. Its hard to grasp. Thats stronger than some tornadoes that we get into the midwest occasionally but here in Corpus Christi the damage is still preliminary. Still assessing everything, but 50 to 100 yards these suckers were tosse tossed hyped me is te Corpus Christi bay this t head has unrestricted wind access i would say from the hurricane. So there was nothing blocking that wind as it came on shore. And people here in Corpus Christi a lot of them sleeping without power this evening. More than 162,000 people without power and as the sun rises here, hopefully win the next hour well be able to get a better picture of the extensive damage really done here. Now the red cross, they have asked for donations and stuff to be limited here in Corpus Christi because finding that room and space for that whatever might be blankets, toilet tree items, food, theyre asking for monetary donations. So they can figure out exactly what the people here in Corpus Christi need. Now this isnt even the epicenter its about 30 miles north city call rock port. Thats where theyre hanging out and thats where were trying to get access to, because as it stands right now, theres no Cell Phone Service up there. Getting up there is difficult. Power lines are down. Corpus christi here like i said over 150,000 people currently without power. But as we wake up as we get this morning going, i think were going to be surprised by some of the damage coming out of Corpus Christi, texas. Back to you. Absolutely. All right, Steven Morgan reporting from Corpus Christi. Thank you so much for the update, steven. 7 22. Lets switch gears from weather to sports. Theyve been trading verbal drags for months now. Floyd money mayweather will have to defend all that smack talk coming up well get analysis on tonights big fight between mayweather and Connor Mcgregor. The best way to get together is with a treat you make together. This is fox 29 sports in one minute. Good morning Lauren Johnson and good day viewers. Im sean brace. All eyes are on philly slugger Reece Hoskins who continues to hit homeruns in what seems like every game possible. You know why that is . Because hoskins does hit a homerun every game possible. Phils and cubs at the bank much hoskins during his first at bat hits another jack deep to left and with that homerun hoskins is now the only player in Major League Baseball history to hit nine homeruns in his first 16 games. Phils go on to win seven to one. The philadelphia soul hosting tampa bay storm tonight in the arena ball. The so soul are looking to row pete as arena champs ands and get this their third consecutive to the arena championship. Kick off at 7 00 p. M. And finally, the fight of the year takes place tonight in las vegas. Flied money mayweather versus Connor Mcgregor. Many have floyd may money mayweather as a five to one favorite. Should be a good fight. Thats sports in a minute. Go, soul, and have a good day, philadelphia. All right. As sean just mentioned the fight is here. A lot of people trying to decide when theyll watch it tonight. A Connor Mcgregor within could spell trouble for las vegas casinos. Book makers will suffer the biggest single event loss in Sports Betting history if mcgregor somehow manages to win. Remember, mayweather is 49zero multiple Million Dollars bets were played on mayweather on thursday. Still 95 of the bets are on mcgregor totaling a seven figure liability. So mcgregor hes going to earn outrageous amount of money either way. He decided im going to splurge on my little guy. Look at that. A little three piece suit for his three month old son. Connor jack. Hell be dressed to impress to watch daddy and mayweather battle it out tonight. Tell fuss youll watch it. Where are you going to go . Are you spenting big money to get it at home . Thats a lot of money i think. All right. 7 27. Later on good day, how schools in camden are getting creative when it comes to keeping kids in the classroom. Lets discuss this, and how do you win the war against opioids for philadelphia, the most potent weapon might just be two men taking it stott streets. We go with them as they lead the way to recovery. And were keeping an eye on the Live Ultimate Doppler Radar as Hurricane Harvey a powerful category four storm takes over texas this morning. Its been downgraded to category one but it is still causing some trouble. A live report is just minutes away. Lets get back to our continuing coverage of Hurricane Harvey. You can see the swirling red and or ranch right there on the ultimate Doppler Radar. Well have more in a live report in just a moment. But first, tensions continue to rise with north korea after the nation conducted another missile test yesterday. South korean Officials Say the projectiles flew northeast for about 155 miles before falling into the sea. The launch is the first in almost a month by the north which has increased threats to the u. S. After it continued military drills with south kor korea. In spain, dozens of people gathering at a memorial to remember the victims of the terror attacks in barcelona. Visitors brought flowers, candles and letters to that site. Last week a van plowed over people walking on the famed promenade killing 13 people injuring more than 100 others. The eventual death toll was 15 including a woman killed in cambrils an man carjacked by one of the suspects. Welcome back. Youre watching good day weekend im Lauren Johnson. Millions of people in texas bracing as the most powerful hurricane hits the us in years. Hurricane harvey has now been downgraded from a dangerous category four to a category one storm. Lets toss things over to our meteorologist monica cryan. We hear experts are concerned about recordbreaking flooding happening there. Yeah, even as the winds begin to calm down, tornadoes dissipate, we are still going to be dealing with this flooding not just this weekend and the next few days but were talking weeks of flooding in texas. Thats the big concern with this because well get to the forecast in just a bit. So the wind at 85 Miles Per Hour has downgraded this to category one hurricane but still very dangerous situation, because through saturday theres that tornado threat. Theres also storm surge up to 12 Miles Per Hour. But what were expecting this to do is become a Tropical Storm through the next few days or so, and then its going to continue to kind of loop around and this is going to be bringing rain to those same areas that are already flooded, its going to bring more rain as it loops back around. Then it takes more northerly turn. Notice, though, want to you notice the cone of uncertainty gets very big once it makes that turn around and heads north. Meaning this forecast is not set in stone. Theres a lot of uncertainty about exactly what this storm could do as we head into lets say tuesday, wednesday and into thursday. What we do know this is going to continue to bring rain. So thats one of the only kind of Silver Linings is that even though the forecast is so uncertain about exactly where its headed we still know that were going to see possibly 15 to 25inches of rain anywhere from Corpus Christi up into houston. Often getting more like 10inches. But a little bit further east of austin theyre still under that general vicinity of 15 to 25inches. So this is what we could see and localized areas possibly even more. 30 even 40inches of rain when all is said and done. And when we are talking about 4t come all at once. A lot of times it starts to run off into those lakes and into the creeks. Thats when we start to see the flooding n can take days, even after the storm, is gone. Back here, were taking a look down the shore as absolutely gorgeous. So we are expecting no impacts of harvey here in the Delaware Valley and into the shore points. We are keeping it clear and dry. 67 is your temperature right n now. Those dew points low as well in the 50s. Ive got look at your weekend forecast coming up just a bit. Lauren, ill be keeping track of Hurricane Harvey as well. 7 34. The first life this Morning Light will allow all of to us get a good look at the damage in texas as hur care harvey storms through that area. Sabina kuriakose is in our newsroom with the very latest. Hi, sabina. Good morning, lauren. No deaths so far have been reported. We want to make that very clear. We have some reports of injuries. We dont know how serious or the extent of those. Now, again, as you mentioned, were getting our first look at the damage as the sun rises. These are the latest pictures from our houston affiliate showing houses damaged, trees ripped from their roots, you can see there, brick faced rip from some homes. Iron gates toed across lawns. Were also hearing about roofs collapses and toppled at a local high school and Senior Center. Thats actual wrl were hearing some people might have been injured but well still waiting on more information from that. We also heard about several fires that were reported overnight with Emergency Responders working to douse those flames even as they were being battered by Hurricane Force winds were also hearing about tens of thousands every people right now without power. So as youre seeing some infrastructure like signs and light poles have been brought down by the rain and wind so a lot of heavy damage right now that we are starting to see this morning. Now the National Hurricane center says although harvey is weakening to a category one storm as you heard monica talk about there, catastrophic rain and storm surges are expected especially for flood prone areas like houston. Now parts of texas are dealing with flash flood warnings, tornado warnings, Tropical Storm and storm surge warnings. So all of this prompting President Trump to sign a disaster declaration at the urging of the texas governor. Right now there are stillman today tower and voluntary evacuations in effect throughout parts of texas. Here are some officials talking to us about the extent of everything thats going on right now. Were going to be 19 nate according to this 22 hours from now they will be matching the start 1998 crest and it will climb over the next few days. So folks need to be ready to go asap. They need to remember this time theyre going to be evacuating in downpours. Weve got heavy rains that are due through possibly next thursday and we could have the rains. This event is going to take place by monday and tuesday. So theyre going to be evacuat evacuating in downpours with winds of 30, 40, 50 miles an hour. Reporter so you heard there. They cant say it enough these local officials the worry retama is again for the coming days as historic flooding is expected. Especially again in cities as lare as houston now the National Hurricane center is calling that flooding lifethreatening. Again possible through wednesday, and back here at home, we do have some local people trying to help. Our local red cross is already helping those in the path of Hurricane Harvey. The Regional Call Center you might remember is at 23rd and chestnut. Its handling calls coming in from as far as texas and louisiana. We also have at least two volunteers from the red cross from philadelphia they were dispatched to the storm last night. They are at the gulf coast this morning trying to help but again, lauren, no deaths reported so far and were still waiting on reports detail any possible injuries right now. Back to you. Thats the good news so far. Thank you so much sabina. Leader on later on good day how about this story . Thats a bunch of goop. A watch dog group is cueing Gwyneth Paltrows beauty brand of empty promises. More on that claims coming up. 7 when only the best will do. Tempurpedic delivers. Tempur material provides up to twice as much pressure relieving power, so you wake up feeling like a champion. Through september 17th, save up to 500 on select adjustable sets. Tempurpedic sleep is power. 7 40. Taking live look at cape may. Looks like great weather out there if you plan to enjoy the beach on this saturday. Happening today, hundreds of people from our area and beyond are continuing their 60mile journey to raise money and awareness in the battle against Breast Cancer. These people have spent countless months training and fundraising for the susan g. Komen three day walk that started yetter in willow grove and walkers are head to the navy yard. My tenth walk. We have 12 year walkers, 14 year walkers. We started for our friend marsha who is a Breast Cancer survive and her sister sue who is also a survivor. And i lost my sister to Breast Cancer in 2010. So were walking for our family and our friends and were just so grateful to be here. That woman and her friends part of a church group that traveled from outside of memphis, tennessee, to be here in our area. The walk in philadelphia has raised more than skate Million Dollars since it started in 2003. All right. The fight against opioids not slowing down. Here in philadelphia, two men are waging war. We hit the streets with them coming up after the break. We buy any car dot com we buy any car dot com we buy any car dot com any any any any did you know trading in your car at a dealer could cost you money . A recent study found consumers who trade in their car pay an average of 990 dollars more. So dont trade in. Sell it. To we buy any car. Learn more and get your free online valuation now at we buy any car dot com find out how much your car is worth at webuyanycar. Com 7 44. Youre taking live look at a camera that we have there in galveston, texas. Looks like a lot of people there are sort of waiting and bracing wondering what category four Hurricane Harvey is going to do next after it slammed the south texas coast. Monica, you said that galveston experienced terrible hurricane back in the 1800s. Actually the worst hurricane when it comes to, you know, total of deaths were talking 8,000 people died in galveston from this hurricane. Now it was in the 1800s they had very little warning. They had no resources. No hurricane should ever impact the u. S. Like that ever again because we have the resources to really get people out of danger. Still hurricanes pose such a threat because of the flooding and thats exactly what were experiencing with harvey through today. Were going to see this weaken but that doesnt matter. Its still going to be bringing a lot of rain so within the next few days, and even weeks, were still going to be talking about the impacts of harvey and the flooding as those as that water begins to run off and collect in some of those streams and those lakes and become very full. Heres a look at the threats for the next few days. Flooding 25inches of rain. Surge really thats going to be an issue through today. I think the surge wind and severe components of this are going to be the biggest threat through today and that starts to diminish and all were left with is really just that flooding threat. So through today we could see tornadoes and there are tornado warnings actually near the houston area. So well keep track of Hurricane Harvey but back here when we look at your ultimate Doppler Radar, its a tale of two cities. Weve got very little to talk about on your ultimate Doppler Radar. Not much going on and thats how we stay through the next few days. 67 degrees in philadelphia. 59 in pottstown. Allentown at 54 degrees. 61 for those of us in wildwood. Now looking at your future cast, ill push it through but theres really not much to talk about. There could be a few stray isolated showers as we head into the afternoon and closer to the evening. Most of us stay dry. Most of us keep that nice sunny weather. Thats especially true as we head into our sunday. Were expecting once again only an isolated shower chance through sunday most of us keeping it sunny. Now down the shore, maybe pack a sweatshirt if you havent headed down and fight that traffic on the ac expressway. Getting on to the garden state. But, pack a sweatshirt because temperatures in the mid 70s. Factor that that sea breeze it will feel a it will chilly especially into the evening time. I still think its a great weekend for one of the last weekends of the summer. 78 is your high today. Were mostly sunny here in philadelphia. Once again a few stray showers popping up into the afternoon. Nothing to really be upset abo about. We head into our sunday. Were at sunny temperatures in the upper 70s. Thats where we stay money and tuesday. This well below average. Were talking average temperatures in the mid 80s. But were staying in the upper 70s through the next few days. I dont know about you lauren i actually kind of like 70degree temperatures. Its refreshing. I agree. There was no humidity when i was out walking the dog last night. Right. I loved it. Okay. Gwyneth paltrow under fire for her goop wrapped website the watch dog group truth in advertising calling for an investigation into the brand. Theyre accusing goop of using the type of deceptive marketing that targets people desperate for cures and treatments without offering any scientific proofer that the products their pushing actually work. Taking lines, destroying families and under mining the quality of life in philadelphia. Were talking about the opioid epidemic. Photojournalist shaken and our lucy noland hit the streets of kensington a place many call ground zero in the war. Reporter lives on the line. We go through struggles. Dont worry about it. All you need to do is get here and then theyll take care of everything. Reporter two moments in time. You got to have faith within yourself. You got to take the first step. Reporter this played out 11 minute of us hitting kensington avenue. Ive seen nurses, teachers, correction officers. Ive seen them lost in this neighborhood. And actually die in this neighbor. Reporter philadelphia not just about neighborhoods. Its also about territories. Youre not going to up to Strawberry Mansion and get heroin. You might go up there and get crack. You might go to 17th and jefferson to get pills. But you go to kensington to get heroin and alike. Folks come here from all ov over. Bucks county, harrisburg, allentown, pottstown. Boston. Reporter they get stuck. When you get mice on the track, they come down here and get stuck. Cant get out. How long have you been out here . A year and a half. Year and a half. You never thought you was going to be out here a year and a half. You just came out here to get high one day, right . Thats what happens. People get lost out here. Reporter rick ford got lost. Had we met 20 years ago on the streets i would have rotted. Reporter ramon cruz got lost. Just a couple of years ago, i was running right through these streets. Everybody know me around here. Report roar both on the streets. Both jailed. Pleasure meeting you. Reporter both now talking the talk of recovery because theyve walk the walk of addiction. Stop doing what youre doing. Im one of these people too its not a book story its real life story. Reporter do you think that god led you through the valley of darkness of course. To be able of course. Reporter how do you break people free from the shadows . From the den of whats known as hell under the el. I say this quite often. It takes village to raise child. But what be if the village is sick . What about if the village is sick . Are you trying to go into treatment . Detox . Detox, yes. Okay. Reporter within the past year, the city of philadelphia has expanded the availability of narcan. It has expanded medicated treatment slots, recovery hous houses, residential treatment facilities. But the most important weapon epidemic we cant think right if we continue to use. Reporter getting out from behind the desk and taking it to the streets. Derek and company are just, you know, always going to be very very important. In fact, um, you might say in some ways theyre going to be the most important. Sometimes folks need to be confronted with somebody who been there. How therapeutic is that when i say, hey, i was homeless living in the streets. Hey, i went to jail. I slept in ever shelter. Whose going to believe you evidence. Reporter evidence, ford has it in spades. I got stabbed once, twice. Reporter scars from stabbings, a gunshot wound. Wisdom. Sometimes the bear gets you and sometimes you get the bear. Reporter gleaned from years of bad choices. Beginning in the sixth grade. I smoked a cigarette with some guys because i wanted to fit in. Listen to this word here progression. Seventh grade pills. Eighth grade cocaine. Ninth grade alcohol. Tenth grade everything. Reporter progression. How he got here. Ford and cruz have never seen it this bad and they lay the blame squarely at the feet of prescription opioids that hook you. Now drug dealers chomping at the bit to lure you in, leave you twisting in the wind. Then they said you know what the annex dote for thats tendollar bag of heroin. Reporter its a lot cheaper. Here we are. I cant take 80 for oxy company don pills. Reporter this is your hood. Yeah, this is born and raised and, um, i love it here report roar cruz and ford pound these streets every day battling addiction with compassion. Dont cry. Its fine. Its fine. Listen, were all struggling. Reporter education, treatment. You on the right road. Reporter theyre working for the city as its front line warriors but for these two this is their calling. God saved me from the harms of addiction. So you got to upped what your assignment is. Sometimes you really got to understand what your assignment is. Go get well. Awesome, man. Have a long day. Found out my brother died yesterday. Reporter dead from an overdose he leaving this man up all night struggling with his stark reality. Addicted to heroin. Reporter just like his brother but now ready for help with cruz pointing the way. Hang in there. All right. Hang in there. Go tomorrow morning. All right. Weve been through so much and we, god was just preparing us to do what we do now. Reporter coaxing. We also have the partial program which is down the stre street. Reporter prodding. Its your responsibility now is rick, im going to call the lady and then yeah. Leading the way. I still make 12 step meetings for almost 27 years. Because i know what i suffer from. I aint drug proof. By a long shot. Rick ford ran moan cruz say recovery is long long. If you know or someone you know relapse dont give up on yours or them its part of the process. The city of philadelphia has resources to help and we have posted on our website head to fox29. Com and look under seen on tv. All right. Next, keeping school kids interested in learning. It can be a challenge, but camden thinks they may have a trick that works. Well explain what it is after the break. And were honoring National Womens equality day. Later in the show, the unnecessary risk too many women are taking with their money. Our experts will break it all down. Beautiful sunrise over wilmington, delaware, 7 00 vick. Schools in camden are getting creative when it comes to keeping kids in the classroom the opposite of going time out, suss detention or suspension. Theyre actually using a calming room. It has yoga, sand therapy and activities part of the program to drop suspension levels the School District are trying to be proactive about student discipline and support. We discovered that if we have this room where students can have a ten to 20 minute respit to reset and build relationships with staff, we are helping them learn to self control and get back into the classroom. The superintendent says camden schools have already reduced student suspensions by 53 just last year. Papa jayz gushing over his youngest bundles of joy. What inspired the baby names rumor me and sorey. Our top stories keeping an eye on Live Ultimate Doppler Radar. Hurricane harvey powerful category form storm taking over texas this morning downgraded to a category one. We have live report just minutes away. Stay with us. From the fox 29 studios, this is good day philadelphia weekend. Hurricane harvey slams into texas. Strongest storm two hit the us in more than a decade. 130 miles an hour winds. Storm surges up 213 feet and rain could hit 40inches. The winds so bad emergency crews cant get into those hardest hit areas, and this could last awhile. Plus, our local red cross already helping sending people two assist those areas hit hardest. The big question, what can you do . Officials have some advice on how you can help. And were celebrating National Womens equality day. Later in the show the unnecessary risks too many women take with their money. Our experts will break it all down. Good day everyone its saturday, august 26th, 2017. We begin with a latest on Hurricane Harvey. You are taking a live look out in texas this morning. Looks like our camera in galveston the powerful storm slammed into the gulf coast late last night. The National Hurricane center says it made landfall northeast of Corpus Christi, texas, around 11 00 p. M. Our time. We have Team Coverage this morning. Hurricane harvey Sabina Kuriakose tracking the storms possible path but we begin with meteorologist monica cryan. Monica, the president waking up and speaking to the people talking about we are closely monitoring Hurricane Harvey from camp david. He says we are leaving nothing two chance. City, state and federal governments working great together. Thats the whole thing. As this continues as we start two see more and more flooding, local governments actually kind of the first line of defense when it comes two these rescues and also handling all of the issues. So looking at Hurricane Harvey, we are now at a category one hurricane. It really weakened very quickly but that happens a lot with these hurricanes. The second they move over land they lose that main source of power. Which is that very warm water. So they lose a lot of that power, and the winds do start two die down. Now weve got winds at 80 Miles Per Hour. But theres Still Holding on two a lot of moisture which is why flooding is the big threat. Lets take look at that. Notice what this does. It becomes a Tropical Storm loops back around possibly hitting some of those open waters, restrengthening a bit, but it does look like it takes a sharp northerly turn before it does. Now, this is the official National Hurricane center forecast. But they put a big cone of uncertainty. See that big area . Thats the cone of uncertainty. It could go over here. It could go back over here. But theyre thinking it takes that more sharp northerly turn becoming a depression. But all the while still bringing more and more rain and were talking through wednesday and even into thursday. Flooding issues will continue through the next few weeks, because the expected rainfall 15225inches just in general were talking from Corpus Christi up into houston austin expecting near 10inches of rainfall. This starts two select and we see a lot of run off over the coming days when storm is long gone we start two see a lot of run off. The next few weeks texas will be flood down towards the coastlines. Here what were looking at, much nicer weather. Weve got temperatures in the mid 60s right now. Dew points even into the 40s. Thats a pretty dry dew point. So weve got low humidity, lots of sunshine, back here in the Delaware Valley its kind of an interesting tales of two cities thing lauren weve got gorgeous weather here, hard to talk about the devastation in texas. But ill keep track of it coming up. Speaking of that, were getting our first look at the damage along the texas coast. Monica. Its not over the outer bands will continue to beat up texas with more and more rain rains coming. The wind whipping. Sabina kuriakose is live in the newsroom with the latest images. First and for most no deaths reported this morning. We have reports of some injuries coming in. We dont know the extent of those, but with the expected major flooding authorities worry it could happen. Theyre worried that all of that all of the no deaths and few injuries that were seeing could change. Now take look at this video. This fire a direct result of Hurricane Harvey destroying at least three homes after strong winds caused a massive fire to spread and were hearing the Galveston Fire Department reported could not ghetto that fire because the ferry was closed due to Hurricane Harvey. These are the latest pictures from our houston affiliate showing houses damaged, trees ripped from their roots some brick faced ripped right off of homes and iron gates tossed across lawns. Were also hearing that roofs have been toppled at a high school, at a courthouse and a Senior Center with injuries reported from some of those seniors residents who were in that center. Again were not hearing exactly what those injuries might be. Were hearing they are being treated, though, at a local shelter. Now, tens of thousands of people also this morning remain without power. Thats what were hearing and there are of course mandatory and voluntary evacuations throughout parts of texas that remain in effect. And heres a look at Hurricane Harvey settling over the tech text coastline. Again, this was taken this morning. You can see those huge waves still ramming and battering the coastline there. The people who live here have been through, many, many hurricanes and Tropical Storms. So were prepared. And ready to ride it out. The most important thing that you can do is to safeguard your own live. People need to be aware this is significant rainfall that being projected. Were already seeing some rainfalls of four to 6inches throughout the county, and its going to be rain like this overnight its going to be raining for the next three to five days solid according to the National Weather service. Thats a lot of rain. Its going to somewhere. Reporter so solid rain right through wednesday, and, again, as we have been saying, no reported death deaths so fare Hurricane Harvey has made landfall although, again, you heard officials are worried that that could change. They want people to continue to take every precaution. Now, President Trump has signed a disaster declaration at the urging of the texas governor. That means federal funds will begin flowing in to those hardest hit areas. So, again, the worry continues to be that historic flooding as harvey continues to move inland. Now well start see it start to target parts of louisiana as well. Lauren, well be keeping a close eye on this for the coming days. Back to you. This story still developing. Sabina, thank you very much. Here at home our local red cross already helping those in the path of Hurricane Harvey. The Regional Call Center at 23rd and chestnut handling calls coming in from texas and louisiana. Also, two volunteers from philadelphia already dispatched to that storm and arrived at the guf coast late last night. We anticipate that we will have to send more staff and volunteers as harvey make landfall, and we can anticipate the impact of it on the affected communities. You can help the American Red Cross in two ways. Donate online or you can text 90999 or you can also donate blood at local red cross cente centers. Now to our top stories. President donald trump spending the weekend at camp david and he will monitor Hurricane Harvey. The first Major National disaster of his presidency. Hes also dealing with another one of his advisers out of the white house. Top counter rich adviser Sebastian Gorka resigned he was once a National Security editor for breitbart the far right website. He joins a long list of high profile departures from the white house including chief strategist steve bannon, chief of staff Reince Priebus and press Secretary Sean Spicer. The president also signed an executive memo prohibiting transgender people from serving in the military. The directive applies to those looking to enlist in the military. Trump declared no action may be taken for the time being against those who are already serving. Trump criticizes former president obama and the memo claiming obama should not have allowed transgender people to serve because studies are inclusive on if they quote hinder military effective. Were celebrating National Womens equal lat day later in our show. The unnecessary risks too many women take with their money. Our experts will break it all down. 8 11 this morning. Hurricane harvey now category one storm but it hit the texas coast as a category 41 of the stronger storms to hit the u. S. In more than ten years and its not going anywhere for while. Take look at one reporter in the middle of the storm just about an hour from where harvey hit shore. Gotten worse every hour leading up to where we are right now. Very violent winds and rain. I mean, you would not guess this is category one. You would feel like this is much worse than that. What we are looking at is probably a very large storm surge here. We first got here last night we were able to see probably five to 10 feet out where the water line is and now you can see its inching up behind me here and in the distance it is probably ten to 15 to 20 feet into the grass line. So very large storm surge here mixed with perhaps the rising tied. Local Law Enforcement told us they worried about the damage that was going to be done to the storm surge here to this fishing town of about 5,000 people. The power has been kicking in and out since weve been here. Theres a large dark behind me going in and out a Large Community to my left here and the power has been going in and out. Weve been seeing blue sparks in the air the entire time weve been here. So you can assume that those might be power lines or they might be electricity or something going in and out. The ahead of the emergency officials here in the county says that one of the biggest concerns is that there are some people who stayed behind and tried to weather this storm, and they could be without power for days on end which could spell disaster for them. There is and was a mandatory evacuation here. The buses left yesterday and if you werent on them youre here now basically by yourself. Local mayors and the county government says if you decided to weather this thing and hunker down they cannot help you at this point. It is gotten progressively worse here. Weve been hearing reports from the north and the south and per happen the storm has spaded. It has not here. It is gotten progressively worse lead to go where we are right now. So dangerous situation for anyone who decided to weather this one out. That is some tough reporti reporting. You can only imagine how painful some of that wind whipped rain and sea spray is especially for his eyes you can see him wiping away throughout the entire report. But theyre doing great job down there. I hope all of the reporters and everybody in texas who decided not to evacuate are staying safe. Leak sabina was saying no deaths reported just yet. But we are just Getting Started with Hurricane Harvey. Because flooding is going to be an issue. Not just through the next few days, but the next few weeks. Here we are looking at hurricane her z you can see that eye is beginning to diminish. So we are losing some power. Those winds are dying down. But this is still a very very threatening storm. Notice some of these outer bands and that brighter color those brighter colors indicate very heavy rainfall. Some strong thunderstorms near houston. Actually Houston Houston area were seeing tornadoes warnings popping up and we knew this from the beginning tornadoes were another threat. Not only are we dealing with flooding and very high winds but tornadoes. We were expecting near the houston area. Thats whats happening. Houston also had a to keep on alert for any tornadoes that could develop from this. So this is continuing to spin. Well keep track of it. The threat force today like i was saying severe component tornadoes. Winds 74 Miles Per Hour. Surge through today up to 12 feet. Those are the three threats through today. But then they start to diminish as the storm loses power. Flooding will be a concern like i was saying through not just the next few days the next few weeks. Could not be a more different story. Here in the Delaware Valley, philadelphia, the shore points, even into the poconos, lots of sunshine through today. Temperatures into the 60s. 67 degrees in philadelphia. Wildwood coming in at about 64 degrees. Mount pocono 54. Your future cast showing us that there could be a few stray showers into the afternoon. Most of us staying clear and quiet though as we head through this afternoon into sunday. Sunday morning. Lots of sunshine to start with into the afternoon. Maybe a few clouds. Maybe a stray shower. But still most of us staying d dry. Your shore forecast mid 70s. Its looking great. Your rip currents low to moderate risk and here we are looking at your seven day forecast. Upper 70s all the way through sunday, monday, tuesday. This is actually below average but im not arguing, lauren. Im in the either. I like that actual. It looks good, mon k8 16. May seem to be no shortage of holidays celebrating women, mothers day and equal pay day on april 4th and interNational Womens day is march 8th. Today is women equality day. Its more than just celebrating women. Its more about commemorating womens history in particular the passage of the 19th amend which gave most women the right to vote. While women have made some extraordinary political and professional strides, did you know that in 2015, women working full time in the us typically were paid just 80 of what men were paid . According to the American Association of university women, that gender pay gap is even worse if youre a woman of color, youre a mother and youre older. This morning, well talk about some of the unnecessary risks too many women take with their money. Joining us dan our money man. Maven turn finance teacher ashley fox. Thanks for joining us special ed dig of crashing in. Great to be here. I love it. Lets start with ashley. You walk on wall street. Did you notice some of those jetter pay gaps maybe people treating i was little differently because you were a woman and maybe a mail dominated industry . Um, i wasnt conscious of it. I think more of it was about how i felt. So i would think oh my goodness im a woman. I was the only africanamerican on my floor that was woman. I think it was all in my head. I didnt personally experience it although statistics do show men make more than women. For meets more focusing how you can be better, how you can add value and not be so conscious of the disadvantages that may be relevant today. Dan, you and i just talk about this the other day when i came to see you. Yeah. Women are out living men which means we got to make smart decisions. Demographic perfect storm. Statistically women will out live men. Statistically women have less money saved than men. That is not good. Right . Thats not a good equation. So youre absolutely right. There are special invest many consideration that apply to women that dont necessarily apply to men. You need to understand what they are and women you need to take control of your financial destiny. So lets start with 401k that seems ooh seize. Right. You can invest in that. Company matches it sometimes. Are people being smart about those investments or do you think people know enough. Myself personally i just saw dan the other day i said i have no idea what im doing. You always hear invest money in your 401k you dont know what youre doing with it, mutual funds, stocks, bonds that kind of thing. So i think its a good resource to have especially if your company matches. If your company matches you, thats free money. I think we shall be, f i ask you how much of your money do you care about . All of it. You shall know where all of it is. And so i think us being conscious asking our employer what are the fees in our 401k what are our fund options, how have they done over the past five years, ten years, 15 years but definitely take advantage of it. Because especially if they give you free money it is a way for to you set money aside unconscious and paying yourself first before you get your money in your bank account. Dan we talk about that too. Yeah. What do you think the biggest mistake women are making. Two thing i think. First is you got to be in it to win it. Right . Start early. As in your first job, guys, right out of college or right out of school. You want to get in early. Right, ashly. Yes. The second thing you wanted to make sure if youre younger youre appropriately invested. You can take more risks. If youve got 30 or 40 years to go to retirement, its okay to load up on stocks. Forget about whats happening in washington, d. C. Today. It doesnt matter. Right. Whats going matter is over the next three or four decades your returns will be better than cash or bonds. Right. If youre little bit older ashley will tell uhuh want to dial the risks down a little bit. Right. So thats its basic. But wall street wants to make this very complicated. Why . So they can charge you high festoon complicate it. You dont need to pay high fees. Learn the basic get value out of it. Ashley, do you tell people you cant rely on man to take care of your money . [ laughter ] im being honest a lost women just assume my husband is in charge of the wallet at home they take back seat approach. Right. Not necessarily thinking about the longterm effects of that. I think, again, we have to own our responsibility. Our money is our money. Its great to have assistance but i think what happens when something goes wrong . What happens when you guys may break up . Its your responsibility to take care of your household. To take care of yourself. To pay yourself first and then take care of everybody. So i definitely think its a good luxury to have, but youve got to take care of you. You matter. I work with women every day. Very successful women and i will tell you ashley what she just said is incredibly important because all of a sudden maybe youre running a household, youre the chief operating officer. Right. Something happens. A divorce, a death. All of a sudden youre the chief financial officer. Right. You dont know where the checkbook is. Ladies, get engaged now. Got it. Thats good advice. We were going to speak about side jobs a lot of women of color having to get more side jobs. Um, thats a good thing to sort of supplement your income i think ashley always says, millionaires have seven streams of income. Right. Thats one thing i take heed to. But it doesnt mean that they have seven different jobs. I think were so focused on having money now, now, now weve got to ensure our life is greater later. Its putting things in place whether its creating a busine business, but you dont always have to go out and make more money just to spend more money. We got to pay ourselves first. Like i always say set money aside take care of you but work smarter. Not harder. Perfect. Thanks for taking care of me. I love it. He helped me big time this week ashley. I went in and asked for help. I wasnt scared. You are ahead of the game. I love it. Were so proud of it. Im single with no kids. 8 21. Lets check out winning lottery numbers and well be right back. Im jenn frederick and this is mammo log and this is one of my favorite teachers, mrs. Mccormack. Okay. A couple weeks ago on good day you taught us how to get ready now everyone is going to school probably in the next couple of days. Should i send my kid in with an apple, a gift a note, a something . Thats very nice. Its very nice thought but no. No . No just tell them to behave have great first day. Show the teacher who they are. 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Drop off your car and wait inside clutch beauty bar attached to the garage. Whole idea started a few years ago when patrice was less familiar with her car. I used to call myself an auto air head. I was one of those women who hated my automotive experiences. I always felt tanka advantage of. Reporter she went back to school and learned how to fix cars. Patrice like fixing cars so much she eventually left her job as an engineer to work as a mechanic. I tell people that was probably one of the easiest decisions i could have made. Reporter patrice gives back what she learned by teaching women the automotive basics in her car car workshops. Theres a huge lack of female mechanic. I think thats why we have this big disconnect. Why so many women are dissatisfied and miss treed because people dont look like this. Reporter to keep them from feeling mistreated she wrote the girls auto clinic glove box guide. Helping everyone not just women become empowered. Every person not just women needs to have this book in their glove box. Its a guide. Its not like a cover to cover read. I dont want to see it on your book shelf. I want to see it in your car. Get it dirty. Get fingerprints on it. Youre good shape for your trip youre going on. I dont think youll have any problems. Report roar hearing a she mechanic like patrice saying that is all you need. Feels good to provide a service for women that makes them feel good about themselves. Reporter bill rohrer fox 29 news. 8 27. Look at that cute face. Its national dog day. The best toys for your Furry Friends plus what better way to celebrate the holiday than by helping a pup find that are forever home. More on that coming up and were also keeping an eye on Live Ultimate Doppler Radar. Hurricane harvey with a powerful category four storm as it made landfall this morning much its been downgraded to category one. Well have a live report in just minutes. Police issued a gold alert for Winfred Spence she lives in town zen in the community of odessa national. She was supposed to drive to relative house in bear but never showed up. She hasnt been seen or heard from since 8 00 oclock last night. Winfred spence may be driving a 2017 maroon lincoln mkz with delaware plates. If you see her or know anything about where she might be youre asked to Contact Police more than dozen people burned out of their homes after a fastmoving fire destroyed an Apartment Building in sharon hill. Demolition crews worked throughout the night to tear down the charred remains on the 1100 block of woodland avenue. The fire started at 2 30 yesterday afternoon. Everyone was able to make it out okay. Thats good news there. Welcome back. Youre watching good day weeke weekend. Im Lauren Johnson. Lets toss thing over to monica cryan keeping a close eye on the radar as we all monitor Hurricane Harvey. Late last night it made landfall at a category four hurricane bumped up from a category three. Winds at 130 Miles Per Hour. Those winds have diminish. That bumped it now back to category one. But this is still going to be a devastating storm for parts of texas. Because what were expecting this to do is actually turn right back around as a Tropical Storm as we head through the next few days. Monday and into tuesday becoming Tropical Storm. Then it makes a right hand turn and you can see that northerly track as depression as we head into thursday. So this is bringing rain all the while. Were talking through this weekend and monday, tuesday, all the way into thursday. Were still seeing rain in those same locations. Its going to just going to train in that moisture which is why weve got 15 to even 25inches of rainfall forecasted in general for from houston all the way into corp. Pee christie not to mention localized area getting 40inches of rain. Storm surge wind and even a tornado threat that goes through today. Then that flooding threat just continues not through the next few days but through the next few weeks. Its absolutely gorgeous here, though. A much different story for the Delaware Valley. Were thankful for that. While we keep texas in our min minds. 67 degrees in parts of the region. Were looking in the due point in the upper 40s. So its dry out there. Its sunny and its pretty comfortable. I got a look at the full forecast and how long this nice weather lasts as well as well continue tracking Hurricane Harvey in just a bit. Lauren. Seeing of Hurricane Harvey the most powerful storm to hit the United States in decade. The storm slammed into texas late last night as category four storm. This morning its been downgraded to category one. Hurricane bringing storm surges up to 13 feet and were getting our first look at some of the damage this morning and with heavy rain expected as monica just mentioned, for the next few days in that region it is only going to get worse. The president already approved the disaster declaration. Our local red cross already helping those in the path of the storm. Joining us now judge renee card well hughes the ceo of the American Red Cross of eastern pennsylvania. Thank you so much for stopping by. Thank you for having me. I know you guys are busy right now. Let talk. To volunteers went ahead of the storm. Correct. Now you cant get any more people in there. For few days. We have to wait until the conditions stabilize, and thats why its so important for people even in our community and this is a gorgeous day but we dont always have gorgeous days. Right. When emergency Officials Say get out its critical to get out. If you cant get out make sure you can shelter in place. We always hear those warnings. I lived through hurricane charlie in 2004 i think is the last hurricane, category four storm to hit the us since then. People just dont heed those warnings because you think in your head its not going to happen here. It wont happen to me. Right. We always assume it wont happen to me. But what i want people to do is to prepare, because it will happen. So they need to be able to stay in their homes for thee days. If he were listening to monica minute ago its going to rain until thursday. Which is going to hamper first responders. So you need to have enough water and non perishable food, blankets, flashlights, radios that are powered by batteries in your home so that you can stay in your home safely for three days. Especially when you hear up to 40inches of rain now heres the question a lot of people are think wagon can i do to help . Your natural instinct buy a lot of things and ship them to texas. Thats not what youre saying do. No. Because what people fail to realize is that we have to sort, clean, ship, store, all of those things cost money. What we need right now is for people to make financial donations so we can get volunteers and mys to the affected areas immediately. They can actually its so easy on your cell phone text harvey. Okay. To 90999. Okay. That will get ten dollars donation. Or for those people who can are more generous, if they go to red cross. Org they can make donation and theyll see right there where to donate to harvey. Its very easy. Have you been in touch with the volunteers that are already there . Yes. We tried to actually get them so you could interview them. Aww. It wasnt possible because of the movement. Right. They are highly trained and they are safe and theyre helping others stay safe. And we appreciate that. Thanks. You guys are always busy. You were just telling me the story we saw in the story above that you are housing familiars from that fire. Correct. We had fire fires an flood last night. Jeez. So every day we take care of seven to ten responses. Seven to ten fires metally because its the east coast. Right. Some were always taking care of families. So people can volunteer to help us, too. Same thing. Go to red cross. Org and they can sign up to volunteer with us. Its wonderful way to make difference in the community. Money and manpower. Money and manpower. Thats what we need. We love it. Thank you very much for stopping by. Thank you. 8 00 arthritic. Jayz hes a daddy now again. His youngest bundles of joy. Rumi and sir. What inspire those names . Well talk about it after the break. All right. That looks like fun, right. Yeah. Trying to decide if it was wildwood or ocean city. Where is it . I think it looked more like wildwood. I do, too. Crazier rides. The coasters. Weve been thinking about it, right . How did jayz and beyonce come up witness names for their twins. Everybody was wondering atopies. Two girls, a girl and boy, two boys. The rapper opened up on friday roomy is favorite poet which made the perfect name for their baby boy. Sir is how his son will carry himself. Quote he just came out like sir. Okay. I just think its going to be funny. Hell be sir carter, right. Right. And cirigliano carter. Cirigliano. Sir carter. Mr. Sir carter. Roomy carter. Then theres blue ivy. Yeah. Theyre interesting names. I do wonder if maybe these arent just names that they want the public to call them and they have their own names. Names at home. Yeah. Thats true. You know how celebrities all have differ names. Yeah. I feel like maybe they gave them different names that they will address them as and then the public will know them as sir and rumi and blue ivy. Thats true a lot of people like even tv personalities they have different real birth names. Right. But they have their like public name that people call them. Like whats on the birth certificate is different. Its different. People ask mow all the time is Lauren Johnson your tv name or real name. Its so boring it cant be. I would have made up something much more fabulous than Lauren Johnson if that wasnt a my real fame. Thats really true. Public name. Private names. All right. Sabina, apparently, yoga is happening at the aquarium today. Reporter lauren, you wouldnt think sharks and yoga. Sharks knot to the usually that common were at Adventure Aquarium right now and it could not be calmer and sweeter here. Well talk to the instructor coming up just before this class and shes going to tell you why shes combining her two loves. Stay with us. Good saturday morning. Weekend wendy is headed to the blue cross river rink for summer fest. Theyre having a Michael Jackson tribute from 4 00 until 9 00 oclock this evening. Its free. Food, music, much more and, yes, theyre going to have an impersonator doing the hits. Pyt, thriller have a great weekend. Looking for balance in your digestive system . Try align probiotic. For a nonstop, sweet treat goodness, hold on to your tiara kind of day. Get 24 7 digestive support, with align. The 1 doctor recommended probiotic brand. Also in kids chewables. Hey julie, i know todays critica. A sick day. Need. Dads dont take sick days. Dads take dayquil severe. The nondrowsy, coughing, aching, fever, sore throat. Stuffy head, no sick days medicine. Lets get back to our continuing coverage Hurricane Harvey. People in texas waking up to rough winds and severe weather. Some people in the dark. Incredible look at Hurricane Harvey from space. Cameras on the iss captured the shear magnitude of Hurricane Harvey as it strengthen into a powerful category four storm. And near the texan coast last night. Mandatory evacuations were issued in some parts and President Trump issued a state of emergency. Mon carbs i remember living through hurricane charlie back in 2004 in central florida. That was the last category four hurricane to hit. It was awful. That is so crazy that you actually experienced that. Umhmm. You can talk about it. Because again this was a category four. The only thing i experienced was floyd. That was 1999. So i dont really remember much from then. But this is going to be a devastating impact from Hurricane Harvey in the fact that this is going to bring lot of rain over the next several days and even weeks possibly. The flooding is going to continue. You can just see how expansive this storm s like we were saying back in houston, theyre now dealing with tornado threat. Those winds are still very very as that eye wall does begin to diminish and this is going to downgrade into a Tropical Storm its still going to bring a lot of, a lot of rain. Thats why flooding is the main concern with Hurricane Harvey. 25inches of rain in general with localized areas getting over 40inches possibly. Now the surge and wind and severe component of this threat through today will once again like i was saying start to diminish that surge wont be as bad through the evening time. Winds start to die down. Tornado threat is through today. Then sunday not as much of an issue. Through today it will be a big issue and then flooding that concern will continue through the neck few days and weeks. Ultimate Doppler Radar here weve got quite the opposite story. Weve got a prolonged period of dry weather. Theyre going to see prolonged period of rain and rain and wind. Weve got a lot of dry weather ahead of us. Im sure lost people are liking especially since temperatures arent all that hot. It will be very comfortable. 67 in philadelphia. 66 for those of us in dover. Allentown coming in at about 58 degrees. Your future cast keeping it dry through this afternoon. And into the evening. Just a few clouds out there. Then as we head into sunday, sunday morning lots of sunshine. Maybe a stray shower into the afternoon. But most of us keeping it dry. Great us in for our shore forecast. Partly sunny that was saturday. High of 75. With that sea breeze especially into the evening time it could feel a bit chilly make sure you carry maybe some layers, a few layers into the evening. 78 is your high in philadelphia today. Mostly sunny. A stray shower into the afternoon. And then looking at your seven day forecast this is a pretty mon in the us in one. Temperatures in the upper 70s over the next few days much lots of sunshine to enjoy. Then when we head back into the 80s we pick up some rain chances. Weve got a lot of phillies games out ahead of us saturday, sunday, monday, tuesday all the way into wednesday. Great weather to enjoy the phillies. I love this dry stretch weve had. Okay. Monica this is different kind of shark tank. No business pitches to millionaires. What about a child pose and downward dog in cam at the Adventure Aquarium. Sabina is over there. My question who is teaching these classes . Reporter well, lauren, believe it or not, this is liz. She is an animal biologist, and a yoga instructor. So you today are combining your two loves. Tell us about. Ive been working here for 12 years and i have a huge love for sharks and i found yoga and i also fell in love with that what i wanted to do is bring our guests, my two loves and show that shark are extremely peaceful and beautiful and they shall be respected. And i have to tell you walking into the room here, and just walking into, you know, this view, it was so calming and soothing just to see them swimming around. Its really incredible. Its very thai tiff to walk into a room of any sort of wildlife and just, you know, you stare at it and its like a lava lamp. Its just soothing. It absolutely is. You have a special connection to these animals. Youve been here for 12 years and you started from just, you know, feeding them and checking the water quality. So its like a bond that you have. Yeah. It sure is. You know ive watch these animals grow and im excited to share them with everybody. Its something that really unique that you told me. This is also its yoga but its a learning opportunity too because people are going to leave here with more of a pro found sense of wildlife and these sharks these animals that you love. Tell us about that. Yeah. Todays practice will focus on hims a which is non harming i hope people leave here with a nonsense of non harming to protect our planet. Can you tell us i made you go through this early the list of creatures if here. So we have sand bar sharks, we also have tiger sharks very native to this area the delaware bay is actually a pumping ground for these species. And then we have black tip in here as well as some pork fish, um, we have a snapper in here. We got blue tanks. Blue runner. So many animals. So many. So many. Youre going to have people coming. I already saw some of the people are waiting outside. First class starts at hin clock this morning. People can still show up. Yes. We have another class at 11 00 oclock theres still room available if anybody wants to come down and sign up for yoga in front of the shark. You got such great response too. I was online people are commenting and theyre saying whoa, i would loved to yoga at the aquarium. I mean people are so excited about this. Yeah. Im very excited about it. So im happy, you know, everyone else is so excited as i am. Thank you so much for having us down here. Not problem. Great idea. I love that educated, you know, animal lover and scientist and bringing us it altogether with your other love of yoga which is so spiritual and interesting. Thank you very much. Yeah. Thank you. Again, 9 00 oclock this morning and you have another class at 11 00. First yoga day theyre having here but theyre hoping by a lot more. Judging by the response they got i can see that happening. Back to you. Sabina, thanks for taking us that. From yoga to cute little faces. Its national dog day. Not every dog is lucky enough to have a forever home. But you can help if youre willing to open up your heart. Well talk about it coming up after the break. Who let the dogs out, who, who, who who let the dogs out yeah. Who let the dogs out . Hey, dont forget to paws and show love for your four leg friends. Its national dog day. It sure is. Dana humphrey youre here with us. Who is this little guy. This is charlie the bulldog. Charley is not facing the camera you can see how cute his face. Take my word for hes adorable. Hes ready to celebrate national dog day. Its a pear. This is miss lean knee. We have five ways to celebrate today and the first way is to adopt. I love it. Lenny is available for adoption from tiny paws rescue tenyearold yorkie looking for her forever home. Very sweet girl and she is shes looking for some loving. Anyone out there you can look at t p paws. Org. I have to tell you. Tp rescue. Org. I rescued my little baby from shelter in orlando, florida. Thats the best way. Adopt dont shop. A mall tease yorkie mix. Awesome. Kind of looks there she is. Thats diamond. Hey, diamond. Diamond looks like lien knee. Can you tell me about lean knee. Does she like kids people always have those questions. Shes very socialable. Shes really good girl. And, um, you know, check out her details on the website. Perfect. Something else you can do to celebrate marble dog day you can donate. You can donate money. Maybe beach towels from the end of summer little dog is loving that to get a little cozy on. While theyre waiting for forever. And toys. If you go to dollar tree you can buy like 20 toys for 20. Right. Other dog gifts that are great of course every dog will love smart phone. Dont they. Chicken and peanut butter. Charlie loves them. Loves them. Great gift for the pet owner is room spray or Little Candle to help your pet home smell fresh. With the odor situation. Another thing you can have a dog party to celebrate your dog today. Whoo yes. Or take your dog on adventure and thats what i love. If youre doing to take your dog on adventure we have this awesome this is a new pet dine net and lear you can put the water the food, your keys, everything you need to go for adventure right there from sit, stay, go. Its not heavy either you dont pipe carrying it. Thats really nice. Leash taj many. You can check that out. Something else is if youre taking a dog on adventure theyre little nervous maybe they get anxiety in the car pet mates new calms and this harness is actually has the calm device down the dogs spine its a high tech drug free option to naturally calm them down for any adventure they might be having. Another great option is treatables. These actually have cbd in them. So its can any boyd for doing. Your dog wont get high. Just doing to feel a little bit calm and relieved and ready for the ride. Kind of cool, right. Look it says hemp wellness on it. Hemp wellness. And of course, if youre going for adventure you need a carrier. So true. Charlie has been checking this one. Leni like it too new carrier from a pet with paws and it is made from recycled materials, and its fun for any adventure or if youll be training your pet the new bentley training bag where you can have your bowl, your treats, your poop bags and good to go. I forget the poop bags. I took dye manned to fdr park and i freak out. She starts pooping. Luckily i had one left. One. Youre like you cant do that any more. If you have this bag, you can just you have them handy right there. Look at the little purse. They need to make a little fanny pack for that. You can also wear it as fanny pack. I heard now its a bum bag fan fee packs of the old day. We can make them stylish with our dog. Do you have dog. My parents do. I dont have a dog. Gotcha. Lenism. Hey. Come to momma, leni. Come to momma. Good going home with dog. I notice le any of the i has on shirt. I dress diamond a lot. Its calming thing you mentioned there. Diamond shivers a lot and acts very nervous. When i put something on her, she sort of like callie manies down. Exactly. Like little massage. Makes them feel comfortable hike theyre having hug. I like how she was kind of anxious and he cay calmed down once you pick him you. How heavy is he. Hes pretty heavy. Stay with us or continuing coverage of charlie havent great saturday. This kid makes stains like you would not believe so when we had him, we bought one of those he washing machines but it took forever turns out it wasnt the machine, it was our detergent. So we switched to tide turbo clean and now we get way cleaner clothes way faster make a mess make a mess, make a mess thats a big mess your first words save time with tide he turbo clean. 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