Weekend. Thats going to be all people talk about this morning. Good day everyone. Its sunday, august 27th, 2017. What the people in texas are dealing with, life look out of houston. Looks like some flooding there on their highway. Its been more than 24 hours since Hurricane Harvey made landfall in the Lone Star State. Even though its been downgrade to do Tropical Storm, the heavy rains are expected to fall for several days now as people try to keep damage minimum. We have Team Coverage this morning. Sabina kuriakose track our people in the area helping out those in texas lets begin with meteorologist monica cryan who continues to track the Tropical Storm. Hi, monica. Hi. When we talk about when were saying a downgrade to Tropical Storm, it doesnt mean this storm is going to have less of an impact it means the winds died down bringing it to Tropical Storm category. Those winds at 45 miles an hour. But what that really does mean, though, is that the flooding is still going to be a threat
Was a snake. The snake was paving but still. After 911 was called a sergeant put on gloves and went in action. A snake went into a bag and then a second bag. And went to the shelter and then a hesitant reporter meets said snake we met the shelters director of operations, her take on this guy he is pretty calm, very handleable. To me, he has to be someones pet. If not well cared for a snake can become aggressive or scared. Very laid back and well fed. 12 pounds and a relative baby the species could reach 22 pounds in length, where his home is despite our best efforts he remains silent. Well let norman have the last word. Nothing surprises me in south philly anymore this here proves it all. If you are missing a burmese python, the people at act shelter would like to hear from you. Live in hunting park. John rawlins, channel 6 action news. All right thank you. In other news investigators in bucks county are trying to figure out what started a deadly house fire the flames broke out on the
Birthday. Does he laugh about it or hit him, does he get emotional. Its a big honor. First up, lets get weather and traffic. Karen rogers is off, matt pellman is in for her. Reporter if a ton of i have a ton of issues on the road. Reporter we have a lot of cloud cover in place, we have shower activity to the south and west starting to well into theen for now its light rain highlighted in lighter shades of castle countyinto chester delaware where it is falling a part north of wilmington. Farther to the darker shades of green and yellow by baltimore, all that is on the way. At off and on shower activity. 70 in allentown. 73 in cape may at this hour. Its a little bit humid out there. Noon, 77. The high today 78 well be on or about that about 3 00 p. M. Mid 70s by 7 00 p. M. Were posting thunderstorms for each and every part of the day here, it doesnt mean it will be a washout, the means there can be a popup shower or thunderstorm at any time during the day. Were looking at the possibility
Oh, critics comes out. With all of the patterns, there is the babies. I know, right. We will zoom in. We did that for about an hour, we kept showing where are babies. Shes holding the babies. Yes. Lets get to weather, raining like crazy outside, little bit of the break, is that just rolling through. More, you get those heavier downpours and flash flooding and then over that quickly and we still have puddles left here in olde city. Our number of the day is a six out of 10 because of the messy weather. We have been saying steamy, stormy. It is humid when not raining. Buddy is red which his giant umbrella there. He is in the backyard waiting to go swimming because he is ready for bastille day to have fun, it is friday after all but look out to the west in Lancaster County we see another round of thunderstorms moving through and another round moving across pennsylvania maryland border west of hageers town. Lots to watch here on radar. We will get more in depth here but still raining lightl
To stay in bed. We have issued a first alert because of the rain and flooding. This is a live picture of beach avenue in cape may. The shore received the brunt of the storm overnight. Shore towns are dealing with quite a bit of flooding especially in those low lying areas. And we are tracking a system that will be with us through much of the day. Krystal klei has those details. We really lucked out with a dry wedge starting to move into our area. This has really cut those rain totals for some parts of south jersey, but the shore has not escaped the pounding. We see heavy rain for hours and hours now, more than 5 inches in some parts of our jersey shore line. And what were looking at now is the herriest bands fortunately are starting to get pushed offshore. But still a very steady rain that is continuing to fall and i think will for the next couple hours. So because of that, we all right have a Flash Flood Warning in place. In cape may, 3 to 4 inches is already reported and still a stea