Humidity because its humid outside it will feel closer to 100 degrees. Get ready for that. Temperatures right now are mostly in the 70s across the area. Lets look at our delaware neighborhoods all in the 70s for the most part. 74 in odessa. Middletown, 72 degrees. In dover and smyrna, temperatures in the 70s. Dover at 73 degrees. Harrington, 74. Look at all of these 70s on the map. Briggsville, 75 degrees this morning. Its a very warm start in delaware especially. Excessive heat warning running through philadelphia through trenton and pennsylvania suburbs and new jersey neighborhoods. That will start at 11 00 a. M. Today. Temperatures will heat up quickly and its going to run all the way to the end of the week. 6 00 p. M. On friday feeling close to 100 degrees believe it or not. Yesterday we hit 89 degrees. Not exactly 90. Close enough. Today we start the heat wave. 94 for a high temperature. Thursday and friday look at that, 97 degrees. Heat wave in the forecast starting today. Average high 87 degrees. Well be well above normal. We also have a few thunderstorms in the forecast before the week is over. Well look at this coming up. Lets get a check on the roadways with jessica boyington. Watching the accident even on upper dublin at computer avenue and welsh road. Police activity there on the scene. No delays into center city. No problems if youre headed westbound. Drive times doing better than that. Moving into new jersey, this is around cherry hill at route 70. You can see both directions pretty much look the same. Whether you are heading southbound or northbound, its clear. More updates when i come back in ten. Septa rail riders need to be prepared for an even tougher commute today in day two of a slowdown. Thats the warning this morning from septa as more people return to work after the holiday. Nbc 10s matt delucia is live with what commuters need to know to keep moving today. Matt . Reporter thats right, tracy. I spoke with septas general manager yesterday and the worry is todays commute could be worse than yesterday because people may have extended their fourth of july weekend so you may have more people trying to ride the rails, Regional Rails especially. Very quiet at the jenkintown station. No issues at this point. The train was on time. The spot is serviced by lines that experienced delays and overcrowding yesterday. Take a look here. This is what it looked like at stops throughout the Regional Rail system yesterday. Large crowds and long lines and trains packed to capacity. That would force some trains to pass by the remaining stops especially as you get closer to center city because they could take no more passengers. We spoke to a rail expert from the university of delaware. Hes not involved with the repairs involving septa but says the scope of the problem means riders should develop longterm alternate plans. At the very least were talking about weeks. Weeks would be pretty quick in this time of environment given the number of cars that are involved. Reporter meantime, the manufacturer has flown in several engineers to work on a plan to fix the 120 Regional Rail cars. That could take several weeks to possibly months to finish. Weve been talking with some of the passengers here. Just spoke with a gentleman a few minutes ago that says fortunately he doesnt have to deal with the overcrowding at this hour but of course as you get into 6 00, 7 00, 8 00 in the morning is when we saw Problems Develop yesterday and could possibly see that again today. As you sit at home, if you have to leave later on in the day, 6 00, 7 00, 8 00 in the morning, might be a good idea to form those alternate plans right now. Im matt delucia, nbc 10 news. A live look now from 30th street station where we tell you that septa is giving riders a refund for the slowdown. Youre eligible if you bought a weekly regional trail pass for the week starting july 4th or if you bought a monthly pass for july. You have to mail the pass back to septa by tomorrow to get your money back. Check the nbc 10 app for your septa survival guide. Well have a look at the wait times and any delays for the septa slowdown. Its 4 35. A philadelphia woman is in Police Custody accused of macing a bus driver and a handicap passenger. Police say the driver stopped at 5th and west alny before 8 00 last night to help a wheelchair passenger when the attack happened. Both were hospitalized but expected to be okay. The suspect was angry because the driver did not stop for her mid block. Democratic president ial candidate Hillary Clinton will visit Atlantic City today. Shes expected to use her speech to attack her republican rival donald trump. Clintons says trumps casino bankruptcies created problems in the town. And shes expected to comment on the fbi not criminally charging her in relation to her email scandal. There was no evidence that the former secretary of state intended to break the law when she shared classified emails on her private email. There was evidence of carelessness and he was critical of that. Reaction from donald trump coming up at 5 00. A man is optize e e ed hospitalized after a shooting in a popular park. The 21yearold man was shot in the stomach around noon yesterday. Hes in stable condition. The shooting prompted police to block some of the streets. We dont know anything about the shooter. Battle over gun control. Democrats used a sitin to force a vote on legislation. Wrangling could keep lawmakers from taking any action at all. Feeding the homeless. Well tell what you philadelphias mayor has done to make it easier to provide help to people who need it. A live look outside. Its a warm, humid start to the day and this afternoon hot and humid. Excessive heat warning for parts of the area. Well talk about that coming up next. Good morning, everyone. First alert traffic reporter jessica boyington. Checking out baltimore pike. Not a lot of cars on the road. Looks dark out there. No problems north or southbound. Both directions doing great. Pa turnpike looks great. Were still having a quiet morning. 23 minutes headed westbound from route 1 to valley forge. Speeds into the mid 60s. Of course were keeping our eyes on mass transit, specifically septa. No delays there. Everything seems to be running. For patco, amtrak, dart, everything running on time. Good morning. Its a warm, humid start to the day. It will be hot and humid this afternoon. 76 degrees right now in philadelphia. 73 in trenton. Waking up in dover, youre already at 77 degrees. 74 degrees in Atlantic City. Also dont forget at the bottom of your screen is your sevenday forecast with our new neighborhood weather. Today because of the heat we expect combined with the humidity, we have an excessive heat warning. This is going to run from trenton down to wilmington and all of New Castle County. Some pennsylvania suburbs also some of our new jersey neighborhoods. Thats going to be from 11 00 a. M. Until 6 00 p. M. Friday. It will run through the rest of the week. Temperatures in the mid 90s. A heat wave is in the forecast this week. With the humidity, its actually going to feel closer to 100 degrees. You really want to avoid being outdoors for a long period of time right in the peak of the day and also you want to definitely stay hydrated. If youre going to Outdoor Activities like the phillies came today, stay hydrated. A hot one out there. Neighborhood temperatures today, 92 university city. Reading, 93 degrees and dry today. Mostly sunny through the afternoon. If youre along the shore, youre not in excessive heat warning but it will be a hot day. If youre in delaware, 93. Wilmington, dover, around 90 degrees. Heres future weather as we go through time today. We city dry. Skies mostly sunny. Maybe a few passing clouds and humid. It will stay humid for the rest of the week. By tomorrow morning, a warm, humid start to the day. Hot in the afternoon tomorrow giving us popup showers and thunderstorms. Not until tomorrow afternoon. Sort of your typical summertime afternoon thunderstorms starting to develop by tomorrow afternoon. This runs through saturday as well. If you do happen to see a popup shower tomorrow, it will Cool Temperatures down bigtime so thats the good news. Well take a closer look at the heat in the forecast coming up. The show will go on but that doesnt mean neighborhoods at the jersey shore are happy about it. Find out what we learned about a controversial concert thats coming back this month. Plus this. I thought he had three bundles. A cab driver makes an incredible find. Well tell what you he finds in his taxi and you may not believe what he does next. 4 45. A judge just sentenced Oscar Pistorius to six years in prison for the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp back in 2013. He served a year in jail for manslaughter but his conviction was changeded ed td to murder Appeals Court last year so a judge had to resentence them. Republicans say there will be no vote on gun control measures this week in the house. Paul ryan says they can set the agenda which s when they become majority. Democrats staged a sitin demanding action on the issue that lasted more than 24 hours on the chamber floor. The senate is back from its holiday break today but gun control legislation is not on its agenda. Four control measures were on the agenda in june but failed to move ahead. A popup shop will open at noon. Its an official retail store for items created by local artist for this months convention. It started selling online last month. Philadelphia mayor jim kenny removed a fouryear ban on feeding homeless outdoors. Minyquimike nutter said it targe citys Homeless Population and find a civil rights lawsuit. A federal court issued an injunction preventing the ban from taking effect and both sides ask the injunction be dismissed. The road to rio is nearly in the homestretch. The summer Olympic Games are now just 30 days away. Opening ceremony exactly a month from today, august 5th. Crews in brazil are busy putting finishing touches on everything. More than 10,000 athletes will be at the games and theyre expected to have access to all of the venues by july 24th. Nbc 10 is getting you ready for the action and excitement. This saturday on nbc 10, were taking you behind the scenes as some local athletes prepare in this final month before the games. Well feature cunningham this saturday in the debut of our nbc 10 threepart series going for the gold. Shes the daughter of former eagles quarterback Randall Cunningham and vai sikahema will have your allaccess pass. Dont miss the story this saturday at 7 00 exclusive on nbc 10 and nbc 10 is your official olympic station. Well be in rio to bring you stories from our local olympians. 4 48. From our jersey shore bureau, a Charity Concert on the beach will go on next weekend. Crews are setting the stage for the beach glow music festival. There were objections from businesses. They filed a lawsuit to block the festival after past problems that included vulgar language and bad behavior. A judge ruled the concert could go on. Beach glow benefits music programs in philadelphia and Atlantic City schools. Lets get you to work on this wednesday morning. For that we check in with nbc 10 first alert traffic reporter jessica boyington. What are you seeing . We are watching a bunch of roadways. Still quiet this morning. Pretty much all across the board. Well check in with route 38. You can see not a lot of cars in sight. All lanes open and no big problems or delays in either direction. Checking in with the rest of our majors, if youre headed out the door on 95, clear north and south. Schuylkill no problems in or out of center city. Everything is clear with no delays yet. 4 22. Watching that. Watching construction around route 23 from our cameras. You can see flashing lights ahead in either direction were seeing some lane restrictions but with traffic moving through the area theyre not dealing with problems yet. More updates for you when i come back in the 5 00 hour for your morning drive. Get ready for a hot day. Its the start of a heat wave today. You cant see it now on the camera but skies are clear. Sunny this afternoon and thats going to help temperatures heat up. Right now were mostly in the 70s across the area. 76 in philadelphia. Lets take a look at our pennsylvania suburb temperatures here. Neighborhood temperatures. 70 degrees kenneth square. Phoenixville at 70 degrees. St. David, 70. And mostly around the upper 60s through montgomery county. 70 in newtown. Bensalem, 71 degrees with humidity today. Hot and humid. Excessive heat warning from trenton through trenton and wilmington. Includes New Castle County and new jersey neighborhoods and our pennsylvania suburbs. Basically what this means is that from 11 00 a. M. To 6 00 p. M. Friday, we expect afternoon high temperatures in the mid 90s. When you combine the humidity, its going to feel closer to 100 degrees. This is potentially dangerous heat. You never want to be outside and not be hydrated in this kind of heat. Make sure you have your water with you. Never leave babies or pets in the car with the windows up. Thats recipe for disaster with this heat and this is the case as we go into saturday. Were nice and dry for today. We dont have any rain in the forecast. This pattern is going to keep us hot. We have thunderstorms in the forecast starting tomorrow afternoon. Those are your typical summertime storms. Until then, were going to keep this heat and humidity in the forecast even with those storms. For today, tomorrow, friday, and saturday, temperatures will stay in the 90s. Thats a heat wave right there. With the humidity that feelslike temperature will be around 100 degrees. So its going to get very hot, very fast as we go through the afternoon today. For philadelphia, 92 degrees. Mostly sunny. Tomorrow, 97. Afternoon storms. Friday, 97. Afternoon thunderstorms. Pennsylvania suburbs, expect the mid 90s across the board. Storms tomorrow afternoon as well as friday and even through the lehigh valley. Well look at new jersey and delaware coming up. Eight minutes before 5 00 right now. Happening today, Philadelphia Park and Recreation Department launched the swim philly program. Dedicated to teaching kids and adults how to swim. Philadelphia has more public pools per capita than any other city in the country. Salsa music took center stage at Philadelphia City hall yesterday. The event marked the beginning of salsa philly week. There will also be several events through sunday to introduce salsa music to the community. From our delaware bureau, wilmington is preparing for a makeover. The square is getting new lighting, security cameras and bus shelters with electronic kiosks to help people feel safer. It was created in the early 20th century and listed on the National Register of historic places. It could be an even tougher day for septa rail riders on day two of the slowdown. Septa says todays trains could be even more packed than yesterday. Were live in just minutes checking in with rail riders. A new fine creating a sensation in peru. When its summer you can just feel it. But it also leaves your feet feeling rough. Amope keeps you sandalready with the pedi perfect. It buffs away hard skin to reveal salon pedicure smoothness. Feel the difference for yourself. Amope. Love every step. 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More updates on your morning drive when i come back in the 5 00 hour. Scientists discover two new rock paintings in peru. Archaeologists say they could date back to before the age of the empire. Found in ancient ruins and reportedly the first set of paintings discovered at the site since 1911. According to experts, the painted figurines represent a human silhouette. America celebrated its independence on the fourth of july and venezuela had its turn yesterday. Venezuelas flag was raised for the first time in philadelphia history at city hall yesterday. Part of a tribute to the local venezuelan community. A local nonprofit organized the ceremony. And today marks the start of the general conference for the a. M. E. Church. Thousands are in town celebrating 200th anniversary of the founding in society hill. There was an opening reception last night at the Pennsylvania Academy of fine arts. An organization that works to improve lives through nourishment will get a big boost today. Nrg is donating 20,000 to the manna childrens service. Employees will give a check to manna at its center city office later this morning. Three minutes before 5 00. What would you do if you found a bag full of cash, 187,000 to be exact . You would turn it in, right . Thats what a boston cab driver did. Hes being honored for his honesty. The driver found the money in a back seat of his cab on saturday. He says he thought about taking the cash home but decided to go to the police. They tracked down the man who left the money in the cab. Turns out it was a homeless man who had just cashed an inheritance check. He gave the cab driver 100 bucks as a reward for turning in that sack of cash. I did the right thing. What are you going to do, you know . You have to love buzzys voice first of all. His honesty. Heres the kicker. The cab driver gave the guy a ride back to the hotel but this time he did remember his backpack. Dont forget that. Whenever we hear about these stories, we always site joey that found 1 million on the street. It didnt end well for joey but good for buzzy. Nbc 10 news today at 5 00 a. M. Starts right now. Announcer nbc 10 news starts now. Right now on nbc 10 news today it could get even worse. Thats what septa of