Listen for yourself. Heres senator Jeff Sessions during his Senate Confirmation hearings for attorney general back in january. Senator al franken asked him what he would do if any communication with the russian government in the course of the campaign. Heres what sessions says. I had been called a surrogate at the time or two that that campaign and i did not have communications with the russians. Now, a spokesperson for the attorney general has confirmed that sessions met with the Russian Ambassador to the u. S. Before the president ial election last year. Many democrats want him to recuse himself from the investigation into Russian Election hacking because as ag, he oversees the fbi which is investigating alleged connections between the Trump Campaign and the russians. And other Top Democrats are going a step further inexisting that sessions resign as attorney general because they say he lied under oath. Well have comments coming in at 5 00, reporting live from the digital operations
Point during the day. Right now, its the winds, you probably heard them howling through the area overnight. Topping 30 miles an hour in philadelphia, coatesville and allentown. Wilmington, closer to 40mileperhour winds. Above 40 miles an hour for dover an millville. And close to 50mileperhour wind gusts right now in toms river. Thats cold air just starting to move in. The coldest air isnt here just yet. The winds, though they wont be as strong this afternoon, theyll still be with us. That will be the colder air that keeps coming in during the day thats going to lead to temperatures pretty much going nowhere. 47 degrees in Lehigh Valley. The temperatures will be coming down in the short term. 8 00 with some clouds blowing through. 41 degrees. And then down to 40 degrees, in spite of more sunshine later in the morning. Its the wind thats really going to hold the temperatures back. 50 degrees right now in philadelphia. In midnight, it was in the low 60s. Winds out of the west at 24 miles
Last hour. But the wind, even though the strongest gusts will be this morning, the wind will still be blowing this afternoon. And thats colder air thats slowly flooding into the area. So thats going to make for a chilly day today. Temperatures will tap out in the 40s nor Lehigh Valley and delaware. Lots of sunshine for the suburbs and new jersey but going to be 30s and feel colder than that with the wind blowing. Take a look at the feels like temperatures for your neighborhood when i am back in ten minutes but first, Jessica Boyington with first alert traffic. Thanks, bill, around trooper road, right here, no backups or delays yet. Were seeing more volume head ig eastbound towards the schuylkill expressway. We typically watch for the delays but nine minutes only right now. Eastbound from 29 to the schuylkill expressway. Speeds are still up there also. Checking in with bridges, the scheduled opening for the Burlington Bristol, that was scheduled about 5 350. Checking in with mass transi
Restored within the next hour or so. Deanna durante is live. Reporter were getting some up close looking here at the damage here. You can see how widespread this substation, one of the main substations in the area, delivering power to thousands of people in philadelphia. At its peak 36,000 customers. Thats not people. Thats homes. There could be multiple people in the homes and multiple people in the businesses. Were told about 3,000 customers still in the dark right now. However, peco hoping to have the lights back on by 2 00 this afternoon. For some customers, it could be early evening. Whats still unknown is what caused this fire that broke out. Flames crawling all over the peco substation here. A very difficult fire for firefighters to put out. Were told they had to shut down all the power coming to the substation before firefighters could try to put it out with water. What we dont know again how it started and how long it will take to fix the damage. Were told that crews will be i
The killers. Lets go over to karen rogers and david murphy and maybe well get a little bit of snow this morning. Reporter all right guys, were looking at cloudy skies, snow slow to push into the region it is in harrisburg and pottstown and reading and allentown. It is these areas we expect slippery Road Conditions later on. So far so good if you have to get out and about. Theres a slight change to the Winter Weather advisory. They have drown it through the heart of bucks and montgomery counties, philadelphia and delaware counties and chester counties are not part of this, these are the areas where we think the snow is intense at times, where it comes down heavy it could put down slushy coating on road surfaces and sidewalks that have not been treated in particular. This is the advisory and it goes until 2 00. Slushy and slick roads and sidewalk conditions. 45 greece in philadelphia. Not exactly setting the table for a problem in allentown and reading with the numbers in the upper 30s.