Holiday travel is expected to break records. More than 100 million americans traveling this weekend and that headaches are to the over yet. For some just getting to the airport turn out to be major hassle. Plenty of people crowding the terminals there as flight traffic sores. And if you didnt take off just yet, well, the weather could possibly slow you down. Thanks for joining us tonight. Im dawn timmeney. Lots of cars cruising down the highway tonight as we countdown to christmas. Tonight we have team cove covere for you. Lets begin with brad sattin who has all your traffic frustrations and delays. Heres the good news as far as air traffic today, this is the busiest air travel day and the general consensus across the country were hearing not so b bad. Air traffic travel was okay. How about the roads, were above the schuylkill expressway here. It is 11 00 oclock. Everything seems to be moving just fine. We know about 30 of us will travel 50 miles or more. We also know that gas prices a
Washington im natasha brown, kate bilo is timing out the rain and thats not all. Kate, theres a lot to talk about with this holiday forecast. Everyone wants to know. Weve got everything from temperatures near 60 to rain, to colder air and even aow. Lets start off with temperatures are still in the 40s, in fact, temps Holding Steady overnight, which is good news as the precipitationin. It will stay liquid. Not expecting rain orin its 47 still in philadelphia. 45 in wilmington, 42 in pocono at 35. Here comes the rain. You can see light swers starting to move inform steadier rain, forming over northern in extes back to portions of the mississippi valley, way, you start off saturday with that system rolling through someme e the day, as the cold front comes through tomorrorning, showers and even perhaps a rare winter rumble of thunder before that clears out. Sunday Christmas Eve looks tosso that cold air and possibly bring a little north and west light rain or wintery mix in the city. Clear
Headaches well theyre not over yet. And for some just getting to the airport a major hassle. Packs of people and the terminals as flight traffic sores. And if you didnt take off just yet, well, the weather just might slow you down. Thanks for joining us tonight. Im chris oconnell. Im dawn timmeney. Plenty of cars cruising down the highway. Kind of a christmas site with all those lights. We have team coverage. Meteorologist Scott Williams is tracking hiccups in your holiday forecast. Lets start with brad sattin who has all your traffic frustrations and delays, brad. Reporter Holiday Travel by plane, train and automobile. We know 30 of us will travel 5e of the next week or so. If you are driving, the bad news is, that gas prices theyre up about 24 cents compared to last christmas, and if you are uflying, youll be one of about 800,000 people passing through Philadelphia International airport through january 1st. Today we had chance to meet few them. Reporter dwayne and riley finally made
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Meteorologist chris sowers standing by with the new update from accuweather. Plenty of people will be staying dry inside the malice and stores as they make the final dash for deals this super saturday. Eagles could clinch Home Field Advantage in the entire playoff tonight and they dont play until monday. First, lets get a check of the forecast, a lot of people have errands today and they can do it, chris. Reporter today is not a great day were not expecting a total wash, well have mild temperatures and some of us could crack 60 degrees later this afternoon. Should be nice temperaturewise. You can see the shield of rain all the way out to lancaster. Allentown, reading, yellows up through here, thats heavier rain, theres another heavier band pushing through the i95 corridor from wilmington through philadelphia. This starts to clear down to the south. This is a warm front thats lifting through. It comes through later in the afternoon and the evening hours when the numbers start to climb.