Coming up and impacting southern delaware and the jersey shore. Well all see some rainfall today, but during the day today and through tonight at the shore, right along the coast and the delaware beaches, high winds. High surf if the potential for heavy rainfall. The rain has started in cape may. Already coming down. Just light rain. See in clear live view from marquis de lafayette hotel. Atlantic city area as well. Slowly spreading to the north. Hasnt reached wilmington yet. Drying out in philadelphia. More on the way. Its part of the system that potentially could become a Tropical Storm. Hasnt happened yesterday. Running into some problems. Becoming a Tropical Storm. Looking less likely today. Even if that doesnt happen. Still going to see a lot of rain and strong gusty winds and high surf making for some treacherous conditions for the shore. 60 degrees right now in new jersey. Suburbs 59 degrees. Another cool start for the lehigh valley. 67 degrees in delaware. During the day, rain, clouds and wind will combine to keep temperatures in the 60s. We are a vehicle off into the woods over here. Trying to toe it out of the way. Clearly see Police Activity on the scene there. Tow truck right over here only blocking right now the righthand shoulder. Earlier we headed off part of the ramp too that was blocked. Right now the northbound side is still getting by. One lane at a time. Not a lot of traffic out there now. Its okay. Out in upper moreland watch for a crash. Right along newtown road. Wednesday the pa turnpike. Looks good so far. Westbound and eastbound. Speeds into the high 60s. 5 02. 66 degrees outside. Breaking right now. Dramatic look at a new video into the newsroom. Another round of rain in store for soaked and battered southeastern texas. Thousands of people forced from houston homes. Floodwaters there rise to three feet. The center of the storm has moved off the coast and is expected to track back inland tomorrow. Which means periods of torrential rain and more flooding. Tropical storm harvey has been blamed for three deaths. Several people missing includen an entire family. Floodwaters chest deep are stretching the resources thin. Hundreds of volunteers are using their own boats to save people from the water. These guys are heroses to me. We were just over there struggling. Were not heros or anything. Just here to help people. Tens of thousands filling area shelters. Including houstons Main Convention center. Mayor called it a total care operation. Death toll appeared to jump by six yesterday news that a van carrying this elderly couple and four grandchildren, including this teenager was swept away by floodwaters. Two relatives reported it. Officials have not confirmed it yet. Today trump will head to texas to see the damage harvey is causing. President is expected to serve a flooding evacuation effort and how Emergency Responders are handling the crisis. First Natural Disaster to hit during his administration. Getting a much needed lifeline from private citizens with boats. Asked people to help. Sent nbc 10 to texas. Saw firsthand how order people are becoming heros. Yesterday afternoon jumped aboard a boat in usa as boaters answered the call for help. Tried to help as many people as we can. Get water to the people who dont want to leave. Houston is i have tons of friends and family here. Trying to do what we can. Cars were nearly covered with water. At one point, volunteers had to turn back because the current along the needed out highway was too strong for their boat. They planned to try again desp theite danger. Nbc 10 and telemundo have a team of reporters covering Tropical Storm harvey. Look for Randy Gyllenhaal live report this afternoon on nbc 10. Five after fife. A family from houston is visiting our area right now. Originally from Burlington County came to town before harvey hit and now roads in her neighborhood are flooded with homes torn apart. Its never been this bad. Weve never been flooded in my neighborhood. Never been anything like that. Had no idea we would not be able to get back. The family is looking on the bright side. So far, theyve heard of few, if any, injuries in their hometown of plantation texas. Now give you a look at the devastation at texas braces for more rain. Nbc sara is live south of houston. Da lollof sara dalloh dallof s f dallof. May not be the resources to come get them should they get into trouble. Meanwhile dramatic rescues continue and the problem now where to put the estimated 30,000 people who will be displaced in the end by this storm. The Convention Center opening its doors. Dallas Convention Center as well. Private businesses stepping in. Furniture store. Katrina evacuees now taking in harvey evacuees putting people to sleep in display beds. At least three people are confirmed dead and six members of a family, including four children are missing. Relatives say after their van was swept away by floodwaters. A fatal storm, katy and tracey, that just wont quit. Sara, thank you. Nbc 10 and telemundo will host a Hurricane Relief drive on thursday. 5 00 a. M. To 6 00 p. M. , youll be able to call, text, or go to our website to donate money. Which will aide the people impacted by harvey. Money is going directly there. Several homeowners are tellitell telling sunoco clean up your mess. Those sandbags are still there. People in the raerp say the bags a. Is entire structure is a by product of drilling and construction of the mariner east two pipeline. Homeowner Christina Johnson said it kept away people who fish in that part of the creek. When you have a company thats telling you theyre safe and theyre careful and they take care of things and this is what happens before the pipeline goes in. Its a major concern. A spokesperson from sunoco said the sandbag structures have remained in the area in anticipation of the restart of construction. We will continue to work to minimize any impact to chester creek. Sunoco has repeatedly said the drilling clay that spilled is nontoxic. Nine minutes after 5 00. 66 degrees. Its going to be a rainy day today. Rain is moving in along the coast. This is avalon. You can see the surf is kicking up too. The wind, rain, high surf risk is high. Going to see a dreary day compared to what weve been through lately. Winds in philadelphia will be up to 18 miles an hour. 20mileanhour in wilmington. Strongest in delaware and south jersey along the coastline. Winds of 24 miles an hour with gusts of 35 to 45 miles an hour. Thats the wind. The rain, starting to move in already. Thats a light rain for cape may and into delaware too. Central and southern delaware getting the first of it. Slowly spreading towards wilmingt wilmington. Not yet in philadelphia or the lehigh valley. You can see some light showers developing in lancaster county. This is beginning of whats going to be a dreary day. Event with us all day today and into tonight. And with this system coming up from the south is a potential for heavy downpours and the heaviest i expect it to delaware and south jersey. Hour by hour forecast. 9 00 this morning. Still scattered showers in philadelphia. Look at the rain coming down. Spreads through the shore. Heavy downpours start offshore spinning inland. Wind stronger during the day. This is just afternoon time at 12 30. Heavy downpours in the Atlantic City area and steady rain for philadelphia. Rain will be all day. Best chance of seeing thele heavier downpours is to the south. First alert to delaware beaches and jersey shore. This is 5 30 this evening still going and by this evening, well see light rainfall, but thats a steady rainfall for Atlantic City into philadelphia and dover and thats at 9 00 this evening. Then finally overnight tonight we will be drying out and the wind will be settling down tomorrow. Take a look at the wind and what you can expect as we go into the Holiday Weekend and beyond with the ten day on ten when im back in a few minutes. Thanks for that. Dont get caught in the rain. Make sure you have nbc 10 app on your smartphone important tool to have especially as your kids head back to school. Send you Severe Weather alerts ahead of the storm specifically for your area. Important tool to get you to work on any given morning. Quick check with jessica boyington. Thats right. Jessica boyington is our tool. Were offering you and shes going to focus on route one. Were watching route one over near langhorne. In the shoulder here. Looks to move a vehicle that went off into the shoulder and woods almost here. Tow truck on the scene. A few Police Officer there is too northbound side of route one still getting by. One car or so at a time. Not a lot of traffic in the area. Upper moreland watch for a crash on county line road and new town road and route 70 around kings highway in new jersey a good drive so far. Both directions good there. East and westbound not dealing with problems. End with mass transit. No problems or delays. Nothing major yet. Everything on or close to schedule. Septa, new Jersey Transit amtrak and patco. Major security changes. Pennsylvania airport switching up security calls. Tracking rain and wind. Take a look at radar. For us when potentially Severe Weather could hit you today. Shipping on hold in the south. How that will impact it will entire countrys economy. Rain is still falling. As nearly 280,000 customers in the houston area are still without power. Houstons mayor said police made more than 3,000 water rescues so far. President trump will tour down the coast in Corpus Christi where harvey first made land fall has a hurricane. Now to weather first alert in our area. Radar storm is heading our way. Set to slam us with wind and rain. Nbc 10 matt delucia live in ocean city maryland with showers are scheduled to get there before the immediate area. Been monitoring for hours. Whats happening right now. Right now were not seeing anything in the form of rain at this point. We are starting to see that wind pick up. You can see the effects of that here on the board walk within the last half hour. Moved to the ocean city board walk here. Not many people at all, but you do see the effects of the wind just blowing here. Not a strong wind at this point. Are expecting wind gusts to get up to 50 Miles Per Hour later today. At this point, more of just a nuisance. Over here see the trees blowing and also on the beaches theres another big issue talking about surf advisory that is in effect right now so you have the rip current risk that is not just here in maryland, but going to go up to the delaware beaches and also to the jersey shore. Not going to be a great beach day at all. If youre going to be heading to the beach, make sure youre swimming in front of a lifeguard and be aware of the rip tied risk. Storm ranger two to three miles away from where we are right now. Mobile radar keeping eye and scanning the area as the storm approaches. Check in with matt later this morning. First, first alert meteorologist bill henley is here. Timing is that the rain will move into philadelphia during the morning commute, but its going to be light rain to begin with. What were already seeing pick up in the city is the wind. For now comfortable breeze. Humidity is still low. Going to be rain and wind during the day and the strongest of winds going to be right along the coastline. Already 10 miles an hour in Atlantic City and wild wood. Not stronger than what were seeing in philadelphia. Look at wilmington. Steady 16mileanhour wind. During the day. Winds gusting 3545 miles an hour. Along the coastline. Steady winds of 24 miles an hour. Look how the winds increase for philadelphia and wilmington. Not as much wind and not as much rainfall. The shore and delaware beaches going to see the impact of the system. Part of that is rip current risk. Heard matt talk about that. Remaining high for dangerous surf and potentially lifethreatening conditions. Here komcomes the rain. Just shy of womening torn. A system i mentioned could become a Tropical Storm. Little less likely happening today. Will give us a rainy and windy day. See tropical affects at the shore. Why we issued a first alert. Rainfall totals during the morning not a lot. Quarter of an inch in avalon. Barely anything in philadelphia. Later this afternoon, thats when were close to an ninch dover. Avalon while we get a third of an inch in philadelphia. Today, a dreary one. Grab the umbrella. Gusty winds. 69 degrees. High temperature with the rain and wind keeping things cool. All out of here for tomorrow. Sunshine and 78 degrees. Few extra clouds on thursday. Slights chance of a shower on thursday. Better chance unfortunately after a dry day on friday to get rain showers to start the Holiday Weekend for saturday and sunday. Labor day looks dry and dry on tuesday. Clouds back wednesday and thursday. Chance of more showers. Thanks for that update. Get an update on the roads with first alert traffic reporter jessica boyington. Taking a look at the vine street expressway. What are you seeing. Its open. Thats the good thing. Were looking a little bit further east along eighth str t street. Maybe heading eastbound here towards 95. Westbound side towards the schuylkill. Really no problems there right now. Moving through center city is going to be good. Moving on 202 is good. Ten minute drive time in both directions. Route 30 to schuylkill speeds into 60s there too. Looking at the new jersey turnpike. Right here the traffic moving in this direction where you see the taillights going, thats southbound. Moving towards delaware. With no problems or delays there. Even with the delaware Memorial Bridge construction that weve been watching. Its an ongoing project of course. We dont see any delays or backup on the 295 or turnpike. Katy, back to you. Big security changes are happening at a busy pennsylvania airport and this change has not been seen since the september 11 attack. Plus, unprotected. Thousands of flooding victims might not have the proper insurance. The massive cost effect its set to have. Heres the latest on Tropical Storm harvey. Nearly three feet of rain has swamped the city so far with two more feet of rain possible. Death toll is at least three. It could be as high as nine right now. President trump today will tour the coast in Corpus Christi where harvey first made land fall has a hurricane. To pittsburgh for the First Time Since september 11 attack people without plane ticket will be able to go right to the airport gate. Thats past security. The security change begins next week at Pittsburgh International airport which will be the first airport in the country to let visitors closer to the shops, restaurants and terminal gates. Tsa is testing the program in pittsburgh only. Not clear if other airports will eventually make the change. When its all over, Tropical Storm harvey could leave behind 20 billion in damages. Major concern is not enough people in storm battered houston have the right insurance coverage. Landon dowdy here with that story on cnbc business news. Good morning landon. Good morning. The Insurance Industry is struggling toll assess the damage from hurricane harvey. J. P. Morgan says the best guest estimate is 1020 billion in insured losses thousands of victims whose homes are damaged or destroyed could lack adequate coverage. Flooding is typically excluded to homeowner policy to cause more damage than the wind. Now lets switch gears and talk about shipping cost. They could bump up the prices of all goods because of harvey. It is a big chance. Trucking, railroads, rerouti ii car go. Gridlock is going to be felt beyond houston. Houston is a key entry for cars, appliances made in mexico. Many stores bring in foreign goods there. Estimated 10 of trucking capacity is affected by harvey. Shipping costs could rise as much as 22 . Also lets give you a quick check of the markets on wall street. Start the day sharply lower as investors react to north koreas missile launch. Asia closed in red overnight. European markets at six months low and u. S. Dollar at a four month low against the japanese yen which tens to gain in times of go political or financial stress. Landon, thanks as always. 5 27. President ial visit. Southeastern texas braces for more rain. President trump set to see some of the damage. Help from home. Local agencies rushing to the heart of the storm to provide relief for victims dealing with fierce floodwaters. A separate tropical threat coming our way. Already spreading rain in the area. Jersey shore, delaware beaches in for some gusty winds. Heavy rain, why we have issued a first alert. 66 degrees. 5 27. Neighborhood forecast just ahead
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