Onshore. Highway 17 is just going to be brutal, along with most of the commute. And the morning rain and wind, and the thunderstorms turning more showery in nature and colder. And look at the breed, over 30 for some. And much stronger system, than yesterday. At least the initial impact, it is a windy colder day as well but we get the intense rain this morning and all of this has to filter in, and no rain it is going to miss. And rain and wind. And showers and thunderstorms. Already there. In fact the Storm Prediction Center has us painted for a general area of thunderstorms and a moot point but temperatures are in the 50s. And sal has been here for an hour and you have the screen lit up already, dont you . I do. A bunch of minor accidents. A couple of them are blocking lanes. I want to show you already, on the east shore freeway, 25 minutes drive time. And this is, if you remember, it is 5 00 in the morning. Already troiive times here, there is a crash reported, westbound 80, and right
Storied tradition in philadelphia, mummers prepare for the new years day parade. Were starting the new year with cooler temperatures and winds will make it feel colder. Lets find out about the accuweather forecast we bundled up to come in here and go over to karen rogers. Good morning. Reporter good morning, the temperatures are not bad. We have a gusty wind making it feel chilly. 37 in martins creek. 40 degrees in center city. 38 in browns mills, 37 in boon boon buena. Lets look at the windchill. Feels like 35 degrees in philadelphia. Feels like the freezing mark in allentown. Below that in reading. 20degree windchill right now in mount poconos. 33 in trenton, 35 in wildwood. Well have a gusty breeze out of the northwest at 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour. That could impact you at the parade today. Its a dry day today. The satellite image doesnt look too promising, we could see breaks in the clouds. Well see a good amount of cloud cover to start, but sunshine breaking through, as well. The hi
Here. Reporter we started out in harrisburg this morning with the governor but the legislature is not in session so all the members are in their home district soz we came to springfield to talk to the House Appropriations committee chair, a republican, first lets hear from the governor who is a democrat. In doing this i amex pressing the outrage that all of us philadelphians should feel after the garbage that the legislative leaders tried to dump on us. These are harsh words. Im going to exercise my constitutional right to line veto this budget. Wolf called it a pretend budget. There is a reason why the outside rating agencies have downgrading our debt there is a reason they have done that, they are telling the world what our legislators really want to ignore and that is that our financial house is a mess. State funding has been cut off to schools and philadelphia borrowed a half billion to pay staff and bills and signal tropical disturbance could run out of cash next month. And the go
Perfect. The mood festive. For the fifth year in a row the malloy and flag families from burlington township, new jersey, came to philly to soak in new years weekend family style. Starting with a skate and some smores at winter fest to a trip to the mummers parade tomorrow. Little guys come to and come get to come and have fun and we have fun. Our fifth year and hope they bring their kids here. Celebration began with star wars themed fireworks display. One of two, 14 minute displays packing up to 4 tons of explosives. We have kids. So its like a good atmosphere for the kids come down and watch the firework. Reporter Family Friendly event is getting bigger and bigger every year. For many parents its the perfect and safest way to ring in the new year. I just think its very family oriened. You can skate, you can hang out, you can make smores. You can listen to music. And theres not a lot of craziness going on. Reporteron. The kids love it. The weather is great. We have the children out an
And the scene of a house fire with the dispatchers tell us firefighters told themstarted with live wires falling on that helmet. No one is hurt. This apparently started around 5 30 tonight, and speaking of the power lines, this was just in greenville county. Nearly 2000 in pickens county, nearly 500 in anderson county. Carol more than 1000 outages in greenville county, 520 in oconee, and in anderson county, power. Certainly has received the brunt of t snowfall today. Carol lets check in with myra myra this rant, a very popular place to be, because we have the outlet mall, multiple businesses, and even totoy, this take a look at the exit ramp. You can see what was happening earlier today. An orange semi was stuck. Other vehicles attempted to take the exit, not knowing what was d. Cars were able to drive around the trucks or safely back up onto the interstate. However, it did take a while for the orange some i to get enough traction and eventually make its way up the rest of the exit ram