Is what we are dealing with on the on and off ramps but we are looking good, nice cool post card shot of the ben franklin bridge coming into philadelphia and no problems on mass transit, karen, back to you. Well, we are excited, how could we not be it is just two days away. What a weekend we have. We have game faces on and we are throwing a party, pep rail , we have live team coverage. We have jenny joyce at the linc. Lets he start with steve keeley at chickie and petes where we are having please come out and get your dogmas accounts and everything else, hey there, steve. Reporter i noticed our latest tweet from jackie, our excellent assignment editor up on the desk. She said join us at chickie and petes we will be there from 6 00 to 10 00 a. M. We, being the rest of the staff, i guess im not part of the we, on this show, that is fine. Always felt like an out liar anyway. But if you do come, early, one benefit you have here is this is a first come, first serve thing that mike promoted
H er hour from the blue route up towards the vine street expressway. We are watching for a road closure in philadelphia due to a house fire. Walnut is closed at 54th street. Take Chestnut Street to get by. More coming up in ten minutes. Overnight, while most of you were asleep lawmakers in South Carolina were working well into the wee morning hours. They took a decisive and final vote to remove the Confederate Flag from statehouse grounds. This idea long debated gained new life after last months massacre at a black church in charleston. Vai sikahema is live for us in our digital operations center. This final vote was in doubt much of the night, right . Thats right. The South Carolina senate had passed the bill to take down the Confederate Flag. Last night, it was up to the house to go along. Some members tried to tack on amendments and use parliamentary procedures. In the end the measure did pass. House members debated nearly 13 hours early into this morning before approving the bill 9
Again. Reporter baker does his routine imitating victim at least three times before throwing that sucker punch. Police say now stunned victim got in his car and called police. Victim showed a lot of dignity, i cannot say same thing for the defendant here. It is sad. Reporter we played video for people as you might expect they were disturbed watching bakes allegedly mock the victim. But when the punch was thrown. Then hits him. My goodness. Reporter baker surrendered on monday and charged with assault. People believe there should be serious consequences. He definitely should do jail time. He clearly deserves jail time. Reporter baker has a extensive criminal history according to Chester County court record they show he has been in jail before on guilty plea toss theft, forgery, and d. A. Tom hogan says a strong message must be sent. It is just shock nothing to days world you would have somebody attacking you, simply because you suffer from cerebral palsy. Reporter we have sent messages
Seeing rain, as well, as the rain from the southwest comes at us today. Then theres more as we go through the week. Temperatures will be climbing. Were stuck in the 50s. 54 in new jersey. 56 in philadelphia. Middle 50s for the Lehigh Valley and delaware. You see the clouds over the Lehigh Valley. 57 with scattered showers at 9 00. Steadier rain the noontime hour. 59 degrees. What you wont see is sunshine. The rain will be tapering off today. Thats not going to be the end of it this week. Ill break it down hour by hour for the area when i come back in ten minutes to show when you you can expect the steadier rainfall in your area this morning. Jessica boyington is tracking traffic. How is it looking . Pretty good so far. Roads are wet. Nothing major going on now. No major accident to report. Of course, its still early on a monday. 422 is what weather were watching. Cameras around trooper road. This is the eastbound side. No delays yet moving toward the schuylkill. Typically the 6 30 mark
Out whats to come with nbc 10 chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz. Glenn . Yeah, tracy, we do have more rain and some places will get hit harder especially delaware and in south jersey. This is what were seeing now. South jersey and the philadelphia area getting hit pretty hard, but there is another area down by washington thats coming straight up at us and even if the rain tapers off a little bit, it is going to be increasing and getting heavier. We do have one fairly heavy area right over philadelphia itself. Right now that is moving to the northeast as you just saw head the toward northeast philly, so it will taper off for a while, but you saw that other area that is coming in. Weve also had more rain in this area right to mays landing to other areas. Some of these places have already seen over an inch and there will be localized flooding in that area, but to the north and west of that area and a lot of pennsylvania counties much lighter rain. Well have fewer hours of rain.