Right now at 10, another wave of Metro Safetrack program goes into effect tomorrow. Holiday weekend travel. Hats off to a founding father. Crafted by ben franklin credited for saving. S a little rain wasnt enough to damper the 4th of July Celebration here at the nations capital. Thousands packing into the National Mall to see americas independence. Fox 5 local news at 10 starts right now. Hello miley cyrus kicking off jim lokay. What a close call fireworke a show went on as planned. We cannot say for all 4th of July Celebrations. We have Team Including overnight forecast. We start with fox 5 lindsay watts. She had the fun assignment livea at the National Mall where all l action was going down. Reporter hey jim, throughou, the day we really did not know what was going to happen with hp the fireworks. Its been raining on and off allf day long. L its still sprinkling right now thank goodness the weather t cleared at just thehe right time and the Fireworks Show went offn as planned. It was
Happening right now a party on the parkway but as Mother Nature playing the role of party pooper . For tens of thousands of people who came out to see the fireworks g evening to you. And happy fourth of july. Im lucy noland. Iain has the night off. Its been rain off and on all evening. Whats on tap . Lets get right to meteorologist dave warren. Dave n radar is lit. More rain coming in. That rain will get heavier here overnight tonight. Flash flood tag problem. Flash flood watch in effect between 3 00 and 8 00 oclock tonight overnight tonight. Impacting your morning rush. Rain with a few spots of yellow indicating thats getting to be moderate or heavy rain this moved out of delaware county. Theres the blue route, theres 95 pushing in through the city here. Its slowly moving not going to clear out quickly. Its slowly pushing its way through. Well see a little bit of a break before this moves out and heavier rain moves in overnight tonight. But heaviest rain now is right through philadelp
Expressway here. This area of rain pushing northwards, Burlington County, a little bit of a break but then more heavy rain comes in. Now, watch this heavy rain it will continue to increase this is what we could be waking up to tomorrow morning very heavy rain in short period of time that could lead to some flash flooding by the time youre waking up tomorrow morning for the rush hour. Temperatures will be into the mid 70s and upper 60s not dropping much from here. But that heavy rain is a big concern especially along 95 and south and east where we have flooding possible. The rain clears out tomorrow morning. Then were talking about excessive heat, though, thats in the seven day forecast. A look at those numbers is coming up. Lucy. Talk to you then, dave. Wet weather really send out the welcome tipped out the welcome fest cal crowd. We held our breath hoping the grand finale fireworks on the parkway would not get rained o out. It looks like theyre going on. Brad sattin on the parkway und
As you can see behind me, crews are still on kennon drive, as they have been all day, working to repair multiple power poles and multiple power lines. Were pretty lucky. Id say were lucky. Lucky because the storm couldve been much worse. Around 750 people in danville lost power as a result of yesterdays storm, but now only about 150 are still without power. Jerone mabe engineerin g technician if it had kept raining and the temperature had staid around freezing, 31 to 32 degrees, we wouldve had a lot more people out. The city says the biggest concentration of outages came this morning when around 500 people lost power due to a problem at the piney forest substation. Utilities worker are hoping to have everyones power restored before the end of today. Last time the city experienced a large number of Power Outages from a winter storm was february 20th last year when around 25 hundred people lost power. In danville, colter anstaett, wsls 10. People in danville arent the only ones without p
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