Seventytwo wilmington. Seventythree in lancaster. In the 60s in mount pocono, recapping a few spots that actually set new record highs, today, philadelphia, 71, previous record was 70. Atlantic city at seven. Mount pocono 64. Wilmington 74. Georgetown at 72. All, new, records. It does feel like spring even more so tomorrow where we are backup to 75 degrees, and temperatures do buckle up a little in the week, weekend shows more warmth but we will track rain chances, at a pay for this nice weather somehow. We will pay with days of rain chances and tell you when to expect it when i join you inside. Now back to you. If you need to make outdoor plans during this stretch of warm weather we can help track conditions by down loading free cbs philly weather app available on i tunes and google play. Happening not outrage at Maple Shade High School, authorities in the south jersey town are investigating racist, social media posts, Eyewitness News reporter cleve bryan is live in maple shade with d
Yesterday. That was after the snow fell that morning. She spoke to a woman who was hit by falling ice and spotted a warning sign outside liberty place. You hear that . Winds were whipping flags around at the upper marion town ship building. No snow on the sidewalks today. Lucky for us a warmer weekend on tap. Meteorologist erika martin has your neighborhood forecast. We are finally seeing a warm front making its way into the Delaware Valley. Current temperatures, the good news is were seeing above freezing for parts of our area. Wilmington, 33 degrees. Dover 34. Philadelphia currently at 32 degrees along with vineland, allentown currently at 28. The record high for philadelphia today, 65. Far from that. Todays high 32. The normal high 43. So, were tracking the nice warm up for you. Its due to the fact were seeing a shift in those winds right now. Currently, theyre westerly but shifting southwesterly soon enough. That means were bringing a lot of warmer air, sliding into place. Even tho
57 derailed. Reporter the derailment causing a third train on another track to collide. Septa says an electric signaling system should have prevented this. Theres an automatic train control system, its a signal system, the trains move under signal authority and the signal system will keep the trains separated. Reporter the ntsb will have to determine why that signal system failed. Im told those trains were going at max ten miles per hour. Theres one train operator still in Critical Condition, another less seriously injured as well as two passengers who were actually not supposed to be on board. They also suffered injuries. Live in upper darby, randy gyllenhaal. Theres more trouble for septa tonight. In the past ten minutes septa completed repair works on the fox chase Regional Rail line, however its causing delays up to a half hour on several different lines including lansdowne doyles town. A crash that left several people hospitalized including children. Police now tell us 2yearold tw
From the airport. We can tell from the shot behind you its a lot better now than it was a few hours ago. Reporter thats right, katy. The systems are up and running again. The ground flight order, the cancellation rather, for incoming flights has been lifted making things a little easier for passengers flying out at this hour. Unfortunately, things werent as smooth for passengers who left early this morning. Got here about 4 00 and the lobby here was mobbed. People were all over the place. Reporter American Airlines passengers departing from philly international showed up this morning only to realize that while they were here there really wasnt any way to go. About 20 minutes after i got here, they started to announce that there was a power outage. Reporter the airline began checking passengers and their baggage in manually, but that took a whole lot of time. That line looks about a 25, 30minute wait. Ill miss my plane by then. Reporter they were worried they would miss a convention in
A check on weather and traffic with katie and meisha. Good morning. Katie, welcome back. Thank you to be back, feels good. Good morning, guys, lots of construction out there for your friday commute. Tree trimming going on on the turnpike. Thankfully it is dry outside, and will stay that way all day. I see you wore your excessive heat dress brooke, it matches very well with the map im about to tell youment excessive heat watch, head into our saturday morning, so it will be a hot one, guys, as we mentioned, the kind of heat that we havent actually seen in quite a while. Essentially region wide, lancaster county, poconos, only counties not going to be involved in this excessive heat watch. At the moment just muggy outside. You have some clouds out there certainly, it is quiet at least initially, and it is going to stay that way, throughout the day. The big story again, continues just to be the heat. Were off to very mild start. It is not hot necessarily, but it is uncomfortable, to start