move closer to shore what you can do to avoid what lies beneath. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening i m tom llamas in for lester tonight we begin with breaking news massive ground stops and delays across some of the country s biggest airports, making the holiday travel chaos even more complicated. a difficult summer travel season is now going from challenging to worse before the severe weather even moved in, americans facing a rare combination of high gas prices, high airfare, and mass cancellations across the country. the july fourth getaway is under way it is unclear how far people will get. nearly 50 million navigating clogged airports and roads gas prices down slightly, still painfully high for so many americans tracking it all for us tonight, tom costello who starts us off. reporter: friday night and america s july 4th getaway looks dicey. critical airports up and down the east coast in ground stops with severe thunderstorms from or
Early Tuesday Morning by an unknown arsonist. At first i was really angry. And then i got really sad because i have a child. I have a dog. If this had gone any further are then just the flags on to the poles of the deck we could have been suck in the burning house. Potentially tied. Reporter Lower Providence Police are investigating and say whoever is responsible lighting flags on fire between 1 30 and 7 00 in the morning. They brought in detectives. I see people to check out our cameras. Reporter hard lah who lives in the home and does not want to give her last name says she hopes cameras caught those sonsible. I understand that there is in equality for women, there is in equalities for blacks, hispanic, in equalities all over, but this is not the way to solve it. Reporter she has this message for suspect behind this vandalism. Im not taking them down and i will relays them. Keep burning them but they will keep coming back. Reporter investigators here tell he, there has been a series
Early Tuesday Morning by an unknown arsonist. At first i was really angry. And then i got really sad because i have a child. I have a dog. If this had gone any further are then just the flags on to the poles of the deck we could have been suck in the burning house. Potentially tied. Reporter Lower Providence Police are investigating and say whoever is responsible lighting flags on fire between 1 30 and 7 00 in the morning. They brought in detectives. I see people to check out our cameras. Reporter hard lah who lives in the home and does not want to give her last name says she hopes cameras caught those sonsible. I understand that there is in equality for women, there is in equalities for blacks, hispanic, in equalities all over, but this is not the way to solve it. Reporter she has this message for suspect behind this vandalism. Im not taking them down and i will relays them. Keep burning them but they will keep coming back. Reporter investigators here tell he, there has been a series
Dramatic smash and grab robberies in our region. And a connecticut man is found dead in new jersey and investigators found clues to his murder in an up scale new york apartment. Action news learned there are felony and misdemeanor charges filed against a man suspected of filing a drone over protesters in center city. They arrested him last night, accused of operating the drone in restricted air space bringing it dangerously close to a philadelphia helicopter who were monitoring demonstrations from the air. They followed the drone south watched it land on the roof there and later took roselli into custody. A big change is headed our way from accuweather. Looking live at sky 6 hd over center city. A sunny day with mild conditions and the next few days are even better and then things start to feel more like november again. Meteorologist, david murphy, with a check of your accuweather forecast. We have several days to prepare for the chilly weather. And lots of sunshine to mention and a fe
Goes into effect later tonight at 7 00 p. M. And lasts through tomorrow and tomorrow night. Well see wind gusts up to 45 Miles Per Hour. They are going to be the winds of change. So right now were starting off with temperatures in the 30s in some of the suburbs, its a chilly start, 36 in allentown. 37 in poconos. 40 in trenton. 35 in millville. 40 in wilmington. 45 degrees right now in center city. Lets look at the satellite and radar, bright sunshine out here, well have a pretty start to the day with lots of sunshine. You can see the clouds filling in from the west, the powerful front with showers and periods of rain mixing in out to the west. That front is moving in tonight. Its going to be a huge weather changer for us. Lets bring in hour by hour, 9 00 a. M. , pretty sunshine 46. 11 00 a. M. , 53 its a warm day ahead. 1 00 p. M. , 67 degrees well above average. 3 00 p. M. , 71. Thats the high today. Its still going to be nice and dry at 3 00 p. M. With clouds building in. 5 00 p. M.