Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 10 00. Hurricane harvey dangerous category four storm bearing down. The eye wall of that storm making landfall in texas as we speak. This could be a hurricane of historic proportions. The powerful and slowmoving storm could bring up to 3 feet, thats 3 feet of rain to the gulf coast. Thanks for joining us at 10 00. Im chris oconnell. Im dawn timmeney. This is the most powerful storm in the region in roughly a dozen years. Foxs Lauren Blanchard is just north in galveston, texas tracking harvey. Reporter life threatening and catastrophic thats how officials are describing Hurricane Harvey having reached now well beyond major hurricane status. I would stress that this is serious storm. Reporter Hurricane Harvey now a monster as seen from spa space. We are predicting an extreme event. I rent a trailer and im worried about the flooding. Reporter last minute evacuations have been taking place all across the gulf coast. I figure we g
Everything because that cold air just takes warmth right away from your skin. If you look behind me you can see old city philadelphia a pleasant day and a decent evening with temperatures still in the upper 30s. The high today 43 degrees. Winds out of the west at 9 miles an hour. They will turn gusty though late late tonight. Temperatures not so bad along the i95 corridor. Central pa in the 20s. Pittsburgh in the 20s. That colder air is going to be moving in late tonight. Some clouds at 7 00 oclock mostly cloudy by 9 00. By 11 00 oclock clouds an few snow showers especially south and east of philadelphia. We have that arctic front moving through and late tonight were going to see some snow developing near the baltimore Washington Area and push toward the northeast through dover, possibly into wilmington and into south jersey where we do expect accumulating snow overnight in association with this arctic front. So when you look at the details were talking about burst of snow coating to a
Finally the snow. Have you been outside tonight. Some places are already seeing snow. To escaping it youll get a dose of Winter Weather and winter does not even officially start until next week. Im iain page. Im lucy noland. Its physical all right. Lets get straight to meteorologist kathy orr. Tis the season, kathy. It certainly is. And here it is. For the first time im seeing white popping up close to Philadelphia Movement of this not making it to the ground but we do have some flurries making it across northern parts of, lets see, delaware and also into Chester County, New Castle County, Delaware County in pa. Temperatures right now cold enough for snow in most of the area. Philadelphia 36. Wilmington 34. But in allentown it is 27 degrees. So well go hour by hour and see those snow showers developing mainly through delaware and south jersey and moving off the shore by about 3 00 a. M. So just a couple of hours of snow but it will be a burst of snow and that means there will be a very
One sign that tomorrow mr. Trumps life will change forever. Foxs joel waldman live in washington tonight. Joel, theres got to be a feeling of excitement in the nations capitol. Reporter iain, good evening to you. Definitely a buzz in the air right now. Palpable feeling of excitement by some anx from others. President elect drum is that heading over to the Lincoln Memorial theres a day long concert going on hes expected to give some remarks there sho shortly but there is a major security effort underway throughout washington about 28,000 Law Enforcement officials on the ready ahead of tomorrows inauguration. Theres Nothing Specific no credibility threats at this point. Reporter despite no specific threats, heavily armed Police Patrolling the nations capitol. Law enforcement agents saying theyre ready to respond to possible large scale protests preparing well in advance of fridays inauguration. Just this past i went out to our Training Facility where we had every member of secret service
After a high of 74 today. Close to the record but not quite close enough. Wilmington still seeing a southerly wind at 66 degrees. Now, this is what to expect into the evening a few additional spotty showers. Thats just about it. The Severe Threat is over across the entire region. Winds are already increasing gusts to 35 miles an hour likely during the evening period and temperatures will continue to fall fast. Coming up well talk about the possibilities of wind advisory as those winds increase late tonight and also theres talk of snow for friday. Ill be back with that as well. Oh, my good negligence thanks kathy. As we take live look outside our studios in old city remember you can see Live Ultimate Doppler Radar and get up to the minute weather conditions on our website. Just go to fox29. Com. Developing right now another disturbing act of anti semitism in our area. A family in the citys bustleton section discovered a swastika spray painted outside their ho home. This of course comes