It will be a quick warmup. Because of the winds from the north northwest at 12 miles an hour still a northwesterly wind. A few scattered clouds and 84 degrees at 2 00. Well go through the forecast neighborhood by neighborhood when i come back in ten minutes. Right now, a check of traffic as the sun is getting brighter. Jessica boyington with your first alert traffic. Yes, bill, you said it. Were on 95 right around state road actually. So 14minute drive time were not seeing a ton of volume stack in there. Woodhaven road towards the vine street expressway. If youre headed northbound or southbound, theres lane restrictions and were also dealing with sun glare. You can actually see that reflecting off of some of the road work around the area. That is if youre headed northbound is where youll run into the sun glare. Give yourself extra time be more careful than you normally would. Old city, Second Street is blocked between chestnut and walnut street. Heading out the door for mass transit, s
Summer day meisha. It is a close call. We are flirting with 90 degrees yet again today but regardless of the thermometer and if we did extend the heat wave by an extended day it will feel a lot more comfortable to you. Humidity has been what has been getting to us in the last few days here as we start to see that ramp up and wet weather moves through. Lets start off by getting you outside. Things are quiet at this hour. Nice clearing sky for you overlooking center city, heavier thunderstorms through our southern most communities last night those have moved out to sea and in center city and every where else things are looking good. Lets go back and talk about the heat wave. We are officially at this point in the middle of the eight day heat wave. We dont think that we will necessarily continue that today, but what youre also going to notice here that you start to cool down a bit but see that humidity dropping off. Quick check of storm scan, those then are storms, all of them out to sea
Far as temperatures all over the place. Not bad this morning. The we are waking up with some clouds but dry across the region. Still in the lower 40s over a lot of location bus stale good shot the of reaching 50 degrees this afternoon with some sunshine. Temperatures running well above average. Live look outside here, 42 degrees at the airport. The southwest breeze at 10 miles an hour. The little wind chill in the mid 30s heading out to the parade still will need gloves, heavy coat but it will feel good especially early this afternoon and wind backs off a bit. Mid 30s in allentown. Thirtyfive mount pocono. Fortyone wilmington. Lower 40s in dover, delaware. Not much different, still a breeze, mixing the air up to the lower 40s, pottstown, doylestown 44 and palmyra, new jersey. Storm scan 3a few clouds rolling through a weak cold front passing by and there is no cold air behind it. All of the moisture is associated with just with some clouds, so were precipitation free. Lets check out th
Renewed panic among two reports of more shots fired. That turned out to be unconfirm. Lets go to julie bander race for the latest. Julie. Reporter multiple people are dead at a shooting at Fort Lauderdale airport in florida. We do not know the motive. Authorities initially saying several people were killed and multiple others wounded when a man opened fire at airports terminal two early friday afternoon. The active shooter shot at least 13 people. Eight people as i know right now are in area hospitals being treated. I dont know the degree of their injuries. Five people have succumb to their wounds tragically are dead. Reporter witnesses report seeing a man who appeared to be in his 20s wearing a star wars tshirt. Firing a weapon near a baggage carousel. They say the shooter was silent, reportedly shot by police when he tried to reload a gun. Police saying one shooting suspect was taken into custody. Sources identifying him as a 26yearold man named Esteban Santiago and they say he was c
Jessica boyington has her eyes on the streets and the rails. Were experiencing minor delays, no surprise there. Right were just in the yellow though, right now 20 minutes is the most delay were seeing. Thorndale trenton, 20 minute delay. A lawsuit septa filed to get Union Members back to work. Lets listen in. That News Conference is getting ready to start. Thank you for coming, im the director of media relations. Im here to give you a very brief statement to read. Its purpose is to give you the latest updates on the developments concerning septas union strike. Septa today filed a lawsuit in the court of common pleas seeking an injunction to end the twu local 215 strikes asserting that it constitutes a clear and present danger to the health, safety and welfare of our riders and the citizens of philadelphia and the region. In the lawsuit, septa notes that the strike has caused people to miss critical medical appointments, its making it impossible for some disabled residents to get to fac