Could bring us rain for tomorrow. Walk you through it hour by hour. Future cast when i come back in just a few minutes. First, Jessica Boyington has your first alert traffic. Starting on 95 right now. Around girard avenue. Cameras with the southbound side right in front of you here. Moving up from center city. Moving up to vine street expressway. Center city drive times away into the green. 1213 minute trip there. Theres a crash in lower merion. End here with this crash thchlt is upper merion on Valley Forge Park road. Breaking right now, catastrophic, unprecedented and devastating. Houston is underwater and the rain isnt done yet. Far from done. Tropical storm harvey still hovering over texas dumping rain and causing massive flooding. Desperate rescues happening across the state this morning. The storm is being blamed for two deaths in texas. President is scheduled to visit houston tomorrow. And a controversy is brewing. Katie and tracey. Thousands of people have been rusked thus far. Rain continues to fall at this hour. Escued thus far. Rain continues to fall at this hour. We have been watching the video and photos coming in from texas. Some videos from overnight here. Stranded in a flooded car when a freeway. The driver crawled out back window to escape as firefighters came in to help. There has been controversy brewing over how evacuations were handled. Texas governor urged people to flee. The mayor of houston says he did not order an evacuation because of the sheer volume of people. You cannot put in the city of houston 2. 3 Million People on the road. That is dangerous. If you think the situation right now is bad, you give an order to evacuate, you are creating a nightmare. Emergency crews have been quite busy there and there is a shelter in the Convention Center with more shelters set to open. Now the biggest problem facing folks through and around floodwaters to get to the emergency shelters. Of course were going to follow that. Tracey, back to you. President trump says he will travel to texas tomorrow. White house made the announcement after President Trump met with cabinet members to get an update on the Tropical Storm. Over the past few days, president has phrased federal and state emergency workers. Femas current administrator promised that mistakes of the past, mainly hurricane katrina, will not be repeated. Already pushing forces to be on the ground to implement National Flood insurance program, policies as well. And doing the inspections that we needs. Were setting up and gearing up for the next couple of years. Fema chief said President Trump promised to give the agency everything it needs for texas as federal workers plan to spend years helping the region recover. New at 5, flooding is on epic scale. Flooding is not uncommon, but manmade causes have contributed to the flooding. A scientist at texas a m University Says the nations fourth largest city is set in low lying areas. Tough for rainfall to drain into the bay you and nearby bay. More dramatic video shows crews rescuing people from rising floodwaters. This happened late yesterday. People loaded into rescue boats and rafts. Helicopter rescue crew also on the scene. Firefighters had to carry an elderly woman to safety for possible medical attention. We are hearing from a man who was saved along with his wife and two dogs. Credited his neighbor for helping them make it out alive. We got lucky. A neighbor of ours had a kayak and his senior in High School Son was taking people either to the shelter or church. Flood water submerged hit house. Both are total losses. Livestock is also dealing with Tropical Storm harvey. Take a look at heard of cattle that just walked right off their saturated land. Once their dairy farm got flooded out. Headed for dry land. Some other cows got in trouble. One led this cattle drive to rescue a heard from the flooding. Rounded up the cows and led them along a state highway to higher grounds. Nbc 10 has been with you every step of the way during this deadly storm. All men were killed after a destroyer ran into a much larger ship. First body to be recovered and identified was a native of camden county, electronic technician kenneth smith. Bank employee may have within stealing donations from the ankle drchdiocese of the chf philadelphia. In a letter, warned donors their donations might have been stolen. Mailed for the Catholic Charities appeals. Church uses lock boxes at td bank. Thats where the money was taken from. Td bank said no personal information was compromised. Happening today, hundreds of your favorite wines and spirits are going to cost a little more at Pennsylvania State stores. Price of more than 400 products go up at least a dollar or more. State liquor control board is not releasing a list of items to go up in price. Expected to bring in 185 million to the states general fund. Now heres a live look. First of several road closures begin today. In anticipation of the budweiser made in america festival. Two lanes in front of the art museum are already closed. Two day music event over the Labor Day Weekend includes 60 bands on five stages including jayz, chain smokers are headliners this year. Coming up on 5 38. Heading out right now, clear and cool this morning. Little bit of an autumn chill in the air. Most neighborhoods in the 50s. Just a few spots including center city in the 60s this morning. Nice and comfortable during the day. Humidity stays low. See bright sunshine this morning. This afternoon high clouds is that right moving in and thicker clouds moving in this evening. Stay dry during the day. Tomorrow a different a story. Nice and clear this morning. Look to the south. See the wet weather thats moving just along the carolina coastline. This could become a Tropical Storm. Not associated at all with harvey. Harvey is spinni inning over te this will stay there for days. Doesnt look like its going to arrive until the week weekend. Stay dry today. See sunshine and temperatures climb. 63 degrees. Up to 72 degrees in philadelphia. Winds will be increasing. 12 mile an hour winds in philadelphia. Feel that breeze blowing clouds through the suburbs. Dry during the day. Sunshine, 73 degrees at noontime. Few extra clouds at 2 00. Just high cloudiness. 74 degrees at 4 00. Lehigh valley see a few thin clouds. 54 degrees to start with. This is cool. Still be cool at 8 00 this morning. We blast through the 60s and into the 70s this afternoon. Humidity stays low for new jersey. Scattered clouds this afternoon. 74 degrees at noontime. Pretty good warm up compared to where we are right now. Easterly winds only going to be middle 70s for new jersey and at the shore. Low 70s with the winds stronger. 25mileanhour winds this afternoon, but dry, no sign of wet weather today. The clouds move in this evening and come tomorrow weve got some wet weather. If you notice that the 7 day forecast at the bottom of screen, possibility of wet weather over the weekend as well. About 20 minutes before 6 00. On your monday first alertstand update. Cherry hill. Route 70 around kings highway. Goofd drive if you look at the roads. Everything dry not seeing traffic or backup through there. Rest of the roads look good too. 295 clear. No problems on the new jersey turnpike. 42 freeway is good. Headed northbound up towards philadelphia. Not seeing any problems there. New accident out in upper dublin. Another crash in upper merion. Thanks for that. Coming up, taking you live to the heart of Tropical Storm harvey. Look at the damage on the ground and ongoing work to rescue people who are trapped in their homes. Plus celebrity outreach. Famous. Bull headed nuisance on the road. As the storm stalls over southeastern texas, dumping continuous rain, emergency crews are working nonstop to handle an overwhelming number of calls for help. Nbc joins us live from dickenson texas. Whats the latest . Reporter good morning. The National Weather service describes this storm and its effects as beyond anything before. Now, estimating some areas may see up to 50 inches of rain when its finally over. Reporter this morning on run. Thousands of residents forced from homes by record floodwaters. The water was up to here. I walked out and i was just like, screaming. Helicopters plucked people from rooftops, officials put out a call for help. Those of you who have boats and high water vehicles that can be used in neighborhoods to help move people out of harms way, we need your help. Texans responded. Strangers helping strangers to safety. Problems not just in houston. Dickenson texas, this photo taken of residents at a nursing home. Later rescued by helicopter. Houstons mayor defended decision not to order evacuation. I want to thank those thousands and thousands millions of houston yans who heeded the advice and did not get on the road. Days of rain. They have seen a tremendous amount of rain. The winds have died down. That could change later today as it moves back out over the gulf of mexico. Right now the winds at 40 miles an hour. Just spins over texas with a band of some very heavy rain just northeast of houston. That storm system is just barely moving. Theres the problem. Not going anywhere. Three miles an hour. Now its moving southeast. Thats going to take it back towards the gulf of mexico. Heres a look at rainfall totals. Based on the doppler estimate since friday evening more than 21 inches over the houston area. 14 inches in southwestern louisiana. Going to get more rainfall and even the areas that are not as hard hit are still hard hit. See just south of usa, 17 inches of rain. And the forecast rain is continuing for day. By thursday evening when this storm system starts pulling away, youre looking at additional close to 15 inches in houston and port arthur could get another 15 plus inches of rain. Theyre not done with that at all. Meantime, were enjoying beautiful weather. Cool clear start at cape may. Cape may is going to see changes today. The rip current risk is going to run higher. Winds are picking up. See dangerous surf. Potentially life threatening. These extreme caution if you plan on going into the water. 70 degrees in atlantic city. 68 degrees at cape may point. Look inland. 50s. A lot of 50s around. The Lehigh Valley, the suburbs, and delaware some neighborhoods in the suburbs getting close to the 40s. Just happened, just dropped the 49 degrees. May need your jacket this morning. See sunshine and high cloudiness coming in today. Middle 70s this afternoon. What wont change compared to the weekend is the humidity. Moisture level stays very low. The clouds im expecting tomorrow have nothing to do with harvey. These are coming from a system that is just starting to form. This could potentially become a Tropical Storm. Hasnt happened yet. Still running into problems. Even if it doesnt become a Tropical Storm, going to produce wind and rain. Right up the carolina coast. Up the coast and offshore, but close enough for us to produce some rain in our area. Future cast keeps us dry. That rain starts moving in tomorrow morning. Tomorrow morning 5 30, just to south. During the day tomorrow. Standby. Today sunshine will fade later today with clouds. Breezy at the shore today. Windy all around tomorrow. Wind and wet conditions. 75 degrees. Rain takes a break on thursday. Few extra clouds wednesday. See sunshine. If we get the remnants of harvey, if that happens to come through on sunday, meaning labor day, monday is looking good now. Nice warm day. Cooling down with dry weather next tuesday and wednesday. Bill, thank you. Ten minutes before six. Get youd to work on this monday morning. Check of route one for starters. Jessica boyington standing by with a look at that road and others. Watching the boulevard right around ridge avenue. Right now looks good. Both directions okay. No problems there. Speaking of the schuylkill check in with drive times here. Eastbound, 13 minute trip. 15 minute southbound drive time. Watch for the crash on lower merion. Lancaster avenue. End with this crash in upper dublin. Happening today, if your commute takes you through university city, closures you should know about. Northbound lanes of schuylkill near 30th street will close between walnut and chestnut street. The closure will last for two years. Closures are needed so pen dot with rehab the bridge over the schuylkill river. Nine minutes before 6 00 a. M. Celebrities sty ies step up. Plus, politics take center stage. New this morning, the message behind one of the biggest nights in music. Nbc smash hit, this is us comes back september 26, but right now, its your chance to see the show live in la. Nbc 10 is teaming up with 93. 3. We are giving away two tickets to the shows taping in la. Also giving away daily prizes all next week. All you have to do is shoot a video telling us what the show means to you and upload it to nbc10. Com under context. The winner will be announced september 1. Good morning. Jessica boyington with you with a check on the roads. Were watching route 202. See there in the bottom corner flashing lights on the screen. Looks like a disabled vehicle just near route 29. Both directions on the north and southbound side for now look good. Watching this lane restriction here with the disabled vehicle in place. Keep eyes on that and check in with new jersey roads when i come back. The flooding has reached epic levels in houston and southeastern texas. Many victims desperate for shelter. Damage estimates at 2 billion. Tropical storm harvey is hitting home for Brandon Brooks for the eagles. Used to play in houston, a low lying city where floods are not uncommon. He told csn, harvey was different. When ich was down there and ready to leave, flood similar came as well. I definitely understand what theyre going through and things like that. Keep in contact with a couple of guys down there. Making sure everything is safe and good with them and their families. Definitely paying close attention to it. Praying for everything down there. Actor comedian kevin hart. Posted on instagram. Calling this the Hurricane Harvey relief challenge. Lets go, Hurricane Harvey relief challenge. Pray for houston. I am getting a link together now. People help me help houston. For a second day in a row, protesters squared off with police in berkeley california, this is what it looked like. Large crowds converged for a rally against hate yesterday. More than 100 demonstrators dressed in black and attacked right wing protesters. Police used smoke grenades to break up one fight. Ten people were arrested. Just a couple of minutes before 6 00 a. M. Take you state by state and county by county for a look at stories that were following this morning. Authorities in the Lehigh Valley are offering a 10,000 reward for the safe return of 77yearold audit audreryeyaudr a car hit and killed a homeless man who went viral. Grabbed National Headlines after a man offered him 5 to pour hot coffee on himself and let the man record it. Number of people helped him get off the street and into Residential Health facility. Calling all fathers and father figures. Stone Hill Elementary School is Holding First ever million father march. School day begins at 8 45. Legendary musical act is coming to camden tonight for a free concert. El gran combo, sometimes called the most famous salsa group ever. They will perform a free show tonight. Door there is open at six and show begins at eight. The sight of a highway looked more like a rodeo over the weekend. Bull you see there broke loose on the side of the road just outside of trenton. Troopers had to slow down traffic where route 130 meets 15 195. They called in the experts. Thats not something you see every day. No, definitely not. Award show meant for music was politics that took center stage last night. From the first award at mtv mid music award, stars used platform to denounce hatred. Came when descendent took the stage, pastor robert right lee said his ancestor has become an idle of White Supremacy and called on the nation to find ways to end by gotigotry. He even placed heather. What a poignant moment there. Now to more stories we are following for you on nbc 10 today at 6 00 a. M. Danger, new video shows drivers being rescued from cars moments before they were swallowed by flood water. Miles from underwater. Drowning towns and highways across texas. No end in site, right now Tropical Storm harvey is parked over texas. Could dump 50 inches of rain this week. It is 6 00 a. M. A lot to cover. Good morning, nbc 10 news today. Im tracey davidson. We are tracking every angle of Tropical Storm harvey and the deaf station it devastation its causing. Chilly start in our area. In the clear right now. Few thin clouds in the suburbs. See it in the Lehigh Valley. Look at the temperatures down to 50s degrees in the suburbs
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