Stronger. President trump says fema i helping people recover. Two deaths in puerto rico with another 17 across the caribbean. The numbers are expected to rise. People on the island are pleading for help. A woman trapped by floodwaters filmed this video. Rescue crews used a cherry picker to save this elderly couple. Power is out for weeks if not months. Fuel difficult to find, and Cell Phone Service unrepible. Everybody has unreliable. Everybody has felt the anxiety of not speaking to loved ones. A steady wave of relief flights is expected to start today in san juan to help 3. 5 Million People recover from the storm of their lives. At home, people are stepping up to help Hurricane Maria victims. Matt delucia from the ben franklin parkway. Organizers of the puerto rican day parade are turning the event into a federal funds raiundrai. Reporter thats right, the puerto rican parade will happen on sunday, but this year it will have more of a somber tone. With a large puerto rican population
Of frank rizzo. This time a mural honoring the former mayor in south philly was arcticed with vandals tossing paint on rizzos facing action News Reporter joins us with details. Wallet, this vandalism is extensive, it comes after the mural Arts Organization finished touching up last incident of vandalism in may. Some are asking whether this mural should be removed completely. Its horrifying. Reporter for south philly artist, joe, the vandallism of the frank rizzo mural is personal he help paint it and seeing the white paint running down the mayors face pains him. Five times, ten times, its just very it happens too often. Reporter a group of vandals splatted paint and wrote the record kill killer copss of comes days after a statue of rizzo was marred with the word black power. Rizzo served from 1972 to 80. A controversial figure when it came to Race Relations his public like nesses drawn renewed criticism. Head of mural arts philadelphia wrote a column calling for a discussion about the
Fox29goodday. Heres what i would do. Buy a new comb this has statistic in it y hair is a mess. No, its not. You know why . Because it rained. We have a lot going on. Humidity and rain. A lot of rain. Good morning, its saturday, august 19, 7 01. Wild weather across the area now. Loud thunder, bright lightnin lightning, drenching rain. After it all stops we have to show you what happened. Once the sky cleared up check that out. You guys sent us in these photos and the videos from center city cherry hill and collingswood. Rainbows in the sky. Scott. Lots of rainbows across the area, lauren, well talk about the Science Behind those rainbows coming up. A live look right now outside of the studio showing return of sunshine and its still pretty muggy. Lets go to science class. Remember roygbiv the spectrum we see red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indgo, yellow and vie lot. A lot of people were submi submitting those pictures of the rainbows. On a scale of one to ten well give it an eight. Mug
The horizon. We had Severe Weather in pennsylvania late yesterday thats done. We have Sunshine Building and cloud cover out here, it stays sunny as we roll through the day. 69 currently in philadelphia. 61 in allentown and reading and lancaster. 65 in trenton. 68 in millville. 69 in dover. 74 warmer in cape may. Your dewpoints are running in the levels we like to see from philadelphia up north, low 60s. Upper 50s, you got to get to 60 before you Start Talking humidity, millville a little bit more humid, that dark patch of green above dover a bit more humid there, not bad feeling comfortable this morning and staying low with the humidity the rest of the way. Were looking at mostly sunny skies, well see serious clouds at times, and pop up fair weather cumulus and generally very bright. 3 00 p. M. , 88 degrees, might be sitting on that at 3 30 p. M. Or 4 00 p. M. We have the Solar Eclipse tomorrow, 80 coverage in the delaware and lehigh valleys. Well talk about the timing of that when i c
4 30. Lets head on over to david murphy. Good morning. Good morning, were off to a somewhat cloudy start. There may be a couple of early sunny breaks but the clouds, fill in thickly. Im not expecting a lot of rain until this evening, when theres a better chance of shower popping in. 44 in philadelphia. 43 in allentown. 44 in trenton. 39 in wilmington and 38 in millville. Arlt side of the wind barbs not sure what they wanted to. We still got no real pronounced wind across the region, five Miles Per Hour in philadelphia but all these 0s indicate calm and at times in the city also have calm wind profiles. Early sunny breaks cant be ruled out. 41 by 7 00, 46 by 10 00. 58 is your high at 3 00 and back down to 50, and down to the 40s pretty quickly. As we get to the opening the, in a moment, ill show you on future tracker 6. We got the weekend call now, its ahead in the accu weather sevenday i was just going to ask if i should wash my car today theres going to be a shower tonight. I dont kno