Afternoon rush is dryer, give those wipers a break there this afternoon, bob. Good morning, everybody. 7 01 on a tuesday, wet behind the ears and already we have had a handful of problems. Live look here at westbound route 30. Watch this fellow here coming up around the curve. They have the flares and roadway here and then on the eastbound side delays all near route 340 in chester county. Heres a picture from i95 we have headlights southbound heavy from academy into center city. We had an earlier accident at betsy plus your normal delay, northbound i95 an accident near academy road so that catches you by surprise. Heres a live look at 295 and 42 as you work your way in toward the city. We had earlier delays on 495, ben franklin bridge stacked up into downtown. Tuesday is the busiest morning rush hour, and this morning, everyone is slower getting out of the gate because of the rain. An accident on the pennsylvania turnpike between reading and morgan town in the eastbound direction. The
Once i hear music i go like this. Reporter this is John Macintyres seventh ninth mummers day parade. How long does he plan to keep coming. I dont know. Reporter is there something about that strut, the skill, that um, just cannot be easily taught. In center city, alexandria hoff for cbs3 Eyewitness News. A for effort, alex, indeed. Which mummers club will pick up top prize. Winners will be announced later tonight. You can find them on our web site the at cbs philly to the come. During the parade groups of protesters led to city hall to bring attention to their cause including members of the black lives matter. Rahel solomon was there and joins us now live, rahel, good afternoon. Reporter nicole, good evening. Im told this was a open call type of an event so there were different causes for different protesters but when i asked why target mummers event a event set to be a celebration i was told this is where all of the people were. Their causes were varied. Black lives matter and then th
Addition. Eyewitness News Reporter alexandria hoff is live along the parade route in center city with the instrumenting, feathers, and what is going on there, alex. Reporter nicole we are getting a backstage view here. It is funny this is just practicing against this right now. This is a lot of action, festivities, and the frills, the costumes they just keep coming. Parade route is different for this year but enthusiasm is all of the same. For the 160th time in philadelphia, the the city becomes a carnival. Wow. Reporter 2016 route is new it began at 9 00 a. M. At city hall with judging at 15th and jfk and wrapping up at washington avenue. We come out here every year. We have a wonderful time. Weather is great. Reporter sights and sound on broad cannot be mistaken. Upwards of 10,000, women, children but lavishly dressed men strutting through the streets to ring in the new year. Performers are made up of mourn 40 clubs, divided into categories to be judged, from the fancy brigade to the
Middle of the day, happy new year, right after sunset temperatures will plunge, back down into the the 30s but speaking of plunging temperatures, wait until you you see what we have willing on in the seven day forecast coming up. 5 01, bob kelly continuing his four day weekend with the family. We will start off with a look at the schuylkill expressway, which is, fine right now, eastbound a approaching Spring Garden street but earlier we had an accident, that really was scar toy look at, with an overturned vehicle, you can see air bag deployed there in that van and at one point in time we saw that the two wheels of that vehicle will were on the median strip. It closed down the schuylkill briefly but they were able to clean up that accident quickly and it was just what we dread on new years eve, hopefully everybody is okay. Ben franklin bridge is cleared this morning. Everything is moving well. We dont expect a lot of traffic on the morning of new years eve, so, we will be able to go to
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