Gm is recalling nearly 700,000 silverados and sierra trucks. The auto maker says the vehicles may have a Software Problem that can cause them to lose electrical power steering assistance. Those are some of the top stories on this monday august 7th. From abc news, this is world news now. Were going to start this half hour with what is a massive cleanup effort taking place in tull sar tulsa, oklahoma, new orleans and parts of the midwest after a particularly destructive set of storms this weekend. Currently they are over the ohio valley and pushing eastwards toward the east coast. Richard cantu has the latest. Reporter the ef2 tornado ripped through tulsa in the middle of the night with winds over 110 Miles Per Hour. Three restaurants still open. Dispatch started getting calls of people who were trapped in the restaurants, because the roofs had started collapsing in on them. Reporter in the Greater Tulsa area, at least 30 people hospitalized, two with lifethreatening injuries. Daylight r
Where it will turn heavy. Satellite and radar were stuck with the clouds already. The showers are not that far from philadelphia. We have an area of low pressure thats tracking to the south and west that will bring us heavy rain through the area. I want to start you off with this local view of Storm Tracker 6 live. Take a look at this, pockets of heavy rain will be hitting us in the next couple of hours, this is round one. In coatsville weve got light to moderate rain, its heavier in lancaster and reading its coming down pretty good. In norristown, malvern, philadelphia glassboro, you can see youre currently dry through the area. Thats going to change and the rain will stick with us for a while, 72. Temperatures will hold in the low 70s today. Temperatures are not going very far its a rather cool day, heres a look at the day ahead. Periods of rain today. The heaviest i would say from noon to 3 or so, thats when you get the heavy rain. You can see the temperatures holding 69, 73. That w
Like tam said the umbrella is up, im standing under light rain. It will get heavier thats why the National Weather service has flood watch that goes into effect at noon today and lasts through the evening. There could be heavy rain heavy enough to cause flash flooding in spots today. The satellite and radar showing the first round of rain for the most part is bringing light rain to the region. We could see periods of rain. We get a little break and the next round moves through. Its the afternoon an evening hours where the rain will pick up in intensity thats the concern. The temperature has dipped from 72 to 69 within the last hour and temperatures are going to hold upper 60s, low 70s. They will be waffling back and forth. Its a cool day today, the high today, 73 degrees. Lets look at how the day will go, 7 00 a. M. , 70. Lunchtime, 71. Thats when we expect the rain to pick up in intensity. Pockets could be enough to cause flash flooding in the afternoon and early evening hours. The St
News big board. Reporter yeah, rick, were tracking the rain throughout the day. Pockets of heavy rain is picking up south of philadelphia. Storm tracker 6 live double scan radar showing you the rain from trenton to wilmington. Northwest suburbs, poconos, allentown, reading, and lancaster. The moisture is moving in across south jersey and delaware. Tighter on street level with Storm Tracker 6 live you can see in elmer, millville, fortescue, we have the heavy rain. Not a lot of lightning strikes in the past 15 minutes, just one, this will be an issue today with primarily heavy rain thats sitting on top of moisture weve already picked up. So Storm Tracker 6 live double scan radar 3d showing you what were tracking. This will work southwest to northeast direction this afternoon into the evening hours. Thats why we have the flood watch up and tracking the potential of severe storms. The Storm Prediction Center placed the region a marginal risk of severe storm activity down into delaware and
In with about four and a half inches of rainfall Hopewell Township three and threequarters and laurel bend with nearly 4inches of rain this afternoon. Technically a Flash Flood Watch remains in effect for philadelphia to the south until midnight but with the rain moving out more than likely this watch will expire a little earlier than expected this evening t well chat more about that accuweather forecast with some brighter days ahead for the week coming up in just a little bit. Sharrie. Adam thank you. Some of the strongest storms have been to our south. This is a picture of a car that are witnesses say flipped in a parking lat in maryland. Experts are working to determine if a tornado touched down. There are a number of downed trees that have damaged property and also knocked out power lines. Be sure to track todays rain and storms with the 6abc app. The images that we have there from across the region. The 6abc app is a Free Download for our mobile device. The search is on this after