You can see them on the radar screen. The showers to the southwest arent looking that impressive just yet. We have a chance of heavier downpours. Some moving through baltimore right now. Your hourbyhour forecast is calling for clouds today. By 9 00 77. And the chance of showers at noontime, too, just a chance at each hour not an allday rainfall. Lets see if anything is affecting the roads today. Jessica boyington is the first alert traffic center. Were starting things off on the vine street expressway. Twominute drive times and no ongoing construction. All lanes open. Definitely a good thing. These are our cameras starting at broad street. We are watching an accident scene on 95 in the southbound ramp to bartrum avenue exit 14. That ramp is blocked. Follow the detours throughout the area. The rest of the drive times, in the clear. No problems on the schuylkill headed eastbound, the blue route doing fine as well. Well check in with mass transit coming up in the next ten minutes. The u.
Have survived. The boys mothers join us live. And footballs first female. Meet the new coach with the Arizona Cardinals. A historymaking hire today, tuesday, july 28 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. We have a lot of headlines in politics this morning. No question. We are happy to have governor Mike Huckabee in studio live. You were right. Hes taking fire for comments he made on the iran nuclear teal. Well talk to him about that and other big developments in the race so far. Meantime the weather is a story today. We have al here looking at a major heat wave hitting much of the east coast. Its actually expanding through the midwest and central plains. The northwest is going to get involved in this before its all over. Weve got a dome of High Pressure. We have been talking about it. Look how far north the jet stream extends, all the way into canada. This dome of High Pressure
Lets go to meteorologist bill henley. The excessive heat warning is still in effect right . The first alert is still in effect because of the high heat and the very high humidity and the potential for strong storms later today. The showers and thunderstorms already showing up on the radar. This morning im tracking a few on isolated showers moving through Lancaster County and the pottstown area light rainfall there. The line of storms for this afternoon is already in western pennsylvania and moving our way. Before it gets here another hot and humid day. We are starting off in the upper 70s for philadelphia northeast philadelphia just dropped down one degree from 80 and still in the 80s in doylestown and pottstown. Otherwise hotter than yesterday morning and just as steamy. 77 in roxborough. We start off with clouds and few isolated showers and 78 by 6 00. 9 00, 81. Upper 80s into the afternoon. As we move into the afternoon, we are watching for showers and thunderstorms. Ill take you th
85 degrees by 11 00 and near 90 degrees at lunch time with the potential for more storms developing later today. A look at the hourbyhour futurecast when i come back in ten minutes with more on where the storms are more likely to develop. Lets check in with Jessica Boyington. Jessica . Were looking at 295 in runnemede, new jersey around the black horse pike. Everything moving along, even through the work zone where we are losing out that lefthand shoulder. Part of the righthand lane as well. All vehicles moving. The on ramps are moving there as well. The drive time still doing okay despite damp conditions. Southbound from 38 up towards the black horse pike is still about a 13minute drive time. If youre heading out the door on the schuylkill actively raining right here. Slippery spots all up and down the schuylkill. The drive times relatively unaffected so far. A 13minute trip at the most if youre headed eastbound from the blue route up towards the vine street expressway for the morning
Road. Take almhouse road or 611 depending on which area you have to go. 32 people getting help from the red cross because of their apartment complex fire. It started just after 1 00 this morning in Cumru Township. Matt delucia has been at the apartment complex all morning long. Matt, do firefighters now how this thing started. Reporter firefighters are starting the task of how this fire started. You can see a couple lights shining on the back of this building. The only one in this complex that is damaged. Were at the schillington commons apartment building. 32 people are displaced. You figure 1 00 a. M. When this fire started, people are sleeping. The firefighters say they had to evacuate this building rather quickly. Fortunately, no one was injured. They believe they know at least where this fire started. Right now were focused on back of the building in an area thats right above the entranceway. Its some sort of a decorative type of porch type area if you want to call it. Its not rea