The places and the person who will likely decide the most consequential until election of our time. Thats tonight on these lines good evening im abby phillip in new york and welcome to the official start of the general election is shaping up to be a rematch for the history books. In the red corner is donald trump twice impeached, indicted insurrectionist, depending on who you ask. And the blue corner, joe biden, older, unpopular and beset by questions about his ability to do the job for four more years but there is a third man in the ring to robert f. Kennedy jr. More on him in a moment. But first, a reminder, this election will be close and it will be decided by a few thousand votes in roughly a handful of states. Six to be exact. So here is where it could all come to a head. This november six states where lets face it, each ballot might make a bigger impact than in the rest of the country. Nevada, arizona, georgia, michigan, pennsylvania, and wisconsin. These are the swinging list of
Poor drainage area living in the flood prone area you will be dealing with flooding throughout the daytoday and could see flooding on area creeks, streams, as well as rivers, so keeping an eye on everything, flood watch remains in effect through midnight tonight for counties that you see there in green. So lets just talk about how expansive this system is, it drapes all the way from new england down into portions of the panhandle of florida, and it is just a soaker, we have a soaking rain, currently moving right into philadelphia, and we are dealing with extremely heavy downpours right along i95, 76, portions of gloucester Camden County right around clayton we are dealing with extremely heavy rain and that will continue through the daytoday. Trade off is temperatures on the rise to around 59 degrees, more coming up in your full forecast for now, back to you. Chelsea, thank you. We will begin with new, a news story this morning an accident that killed two people is under investigation i
Tomorrow. If it were sunday people wouldnt care as much. Showers coming in waves. Heavier stuff toward richmond. Right now, light showers in the neighborhood, so to speak. Many areas not seeing much at all. Leesburg is quiet. Fredericksburg is quiet. Montgomery county, not much going on at the moment, but some showers south of prince gorges, and a lot of light showers from Charles County to prince georges. Western maryland, west of hancock, thats lifted to pennsylvania. Were going to see this on and off shower activity overnight and during the day on saturday. Heres future cast tomorrow, 6 00 a. M. , some showers around. You notice its not a solid wall of green or yellow. But the problem is, as we go throughout the day, look what happens. By 2 00, weve got heavier showers, maybe thunderstorms. 4 30, you got the cookout planned. That could be a problem. Im going to be optimistic, that well get out of here by 9 00 or so, when were getting ready for fireworks. Those will be okay. Parades,
Carolina through virginia but we too here in southern new england have a very slight risk of a few embedded thunderstorms in here. The time frame of that is during the predawn tomorrow where a couple of those storms could be a little on the stronger side. Not nearly as severe as what they are experiencing to the south. The story for now is a couple pockets of 32 cogee degree weather. Worcester could have a few slippery patches outid 495. 40s outside of 495. Couple showers out of somer set and somerset and a couple lighter showers in between north redding and stretching back up on the south side so you want the wet weather gear with you. Between now and mid afternoon pockets of rain are going to fill back in. And notice it takes longer to kind of scour out the cold air in southwest new hampshire. This is the map at 4 p. M. Outside 128, you will notice the exception cape and islands are removed from steady rain until overnight tonight and through the 40s and into the 50s tonight. When we
Been focused across the worcester hills in through Southern New Hampshire and back edge of the steadiest precip is ending so from millford New Hampshire back to Southern New Hampshire nashua and still dealing with pockets of freezing rain a it up of sleet mixed in where you see the heavier downpours. Some sleet mixing in but its generally rain when you get from the Merrimack Valley stretching down into eastern massachusetts so you will encounter wet roads and need the wipers but at least its not an icy threat this morning inside 495. Other than that, most of theprecip tape overs through late morning but another round you notice tapers off through late morning but another round you notice. Temperatures in the 40s or 50s. And the rain is going to come down hard overnight tonight. Look at downpours and it lingers into early tomorrow morning. Off pretty like i quickly during the morning. High wind watch has been issued from midnight tonight until 8 p. M. Tomorrow. Gusts over 50 Miles Per H