Life on mars and liftoff. The worlds most powerful rocket successfully launching into space sparking a new era of other worldly ambitions, a tesla car now orbiting earth on a mission toward mars, so whats next . Good morning, america. The first liftoff of the sundtrack right there. Brandnew era in space exploration. Theres another look. Uhhuh and seeing that tesla with starman, the mannequin, driving into orbit a car. Its a real car and some people dont believe that image but it is a real image. The New York Post has this, car trek. I love it. David kerley was there, lucky man, there to witness the incredible launch of that and he hes joining us from titusville, florida. Good morning, david. Reporter good morning, michael. A new space race is on this morning and elon musk just took a half billion dollar leap ahead of the competition and launched a private company, the biggest rocket in the world successfully with the most unusual cargo weve probably ever seen. He sent his car into spac
Shes in for dave murphy. Matt pelman has your commute. Good morning. And as you suggested its not going to last long, either. You got to enjoy it while you can. Right now were waking up in a fog for sure. Theres a dense fog advisory for coastal waters and along the bay. Lets look at these visibility reports. You can only see. 3 of a mile in trenton, in millville, half a mile in atlantic city, wildwood and wilmington. 6mile visibility now at Philadelphia International airport even in the Lehigh Valley, two, 3mile visibility. Getting drizzle underneath the clouds. Its 62 degrees right now in philadelphia t its at least a warmer start than yesterday. 61 in reading, millville and cape may and temperatures are going to be up today but were already starting to see some storms build. Theyre pretty far out to the west now. Were watching them north and west of harrisburg but you see the progression of that lifting up to the north and east in the Lehigh Valley youll be among the first to get som
Traffic with matt pelman in for karen rogers and meteorologist, david murphy. Good morning. A cool and comfortable start even though we are dealing with a lot of clouds early. Storm tracker6 live double scan shows a couple of showers here or there, one down by dover kind of sitting in place and another light batch of showers pushing away from reading and berks county and getting closer to allentown. That is light stuff but it takes awhile to get past any one spot because it isnt really on the move. Cloud cover on satellite. Were starting out cloudy and well squeeze out a little bit more sun as the day goes on. Temperatures are not bad. 68 degrees in philadelphia right now. 68 in allentown. Everybody in the 60s away from the boardwalk in atlantic city. And dewpoints arent that bad, too. In the low 60s in much of the region. A little stickier down south by the shore. 67 degrees by 7 oclock under the clouds. By noon, 75 and then the rest of the day its clouds with some sunny breaks, a hig
Taking a jog youre feeling the humidity. Thats going to change very quicking. Satellite6 and action radar slowing the storms from yesterday off the coast. The front is limping off the coast so were stuck with a lot of Early Morning clouds but they continue to push through the east and well sea bright sunshine filling the day today. Lets take a look at these temperature. Its 74 in philadelphia but a comfortable 66 in allentown and reading, 64 in lancaster. Still sticky in millville, 73. 73 in cape may. 74 in Atlantic City and 75 this morning in beach haven. Now, in the next few hours the dewpoints are going to drop below 60 degrees and then for the rest of your late morning, early afternoon its going to feel gorgeous out there. That means its going to be nice and comfortable with low humidity through the day even though were starting it off early this morning feeling a little sticky. By 8 00 a. M. Still seeing clouds mixing with sunshine, 78 but bright sunshine after that front pushes o
Uncomfortable and thats because of the dewpoints. They are well into the 70s throughout the entire area. So we have oppressive humidity not just today but the next five days were keeping that feeling of oppressive humidity. I want to show you this. Satellite6 and action radar showing the clouds that have moved in. Were starting off with cloudy skies. You see the rain thats up to the north and west. Weve got a weak disturbance moving through could trigger a shower or thunderstorm at any point. Not seeing a whole lot of anything at any point. By 8 00 a. M. 78 degrees watch for a quick shower in one or two spots. By 10 00 a. M. , its 81. By lunchtime 85 degrees with mostly cloudy skies. By 3 oclock 90. Thats your high but its going to feel like its about 97. By 6 oclock, 86 degrees. Weve got more opportunities for showers and storms after today. Well talk about that in that sevenday forecast coming up, matt. Were starting to feel less comfortable with the traffic situation, too, karen. Al