Reporter chris, hundreds of firefighte firefighters and t responders stood out here in the poring rain out of respect for a man who made the ultimate sacrifice. Many of them telling us they came to pay tribute to a fallen hero. Reporter as raindrops fell on mourners outside, tears flowed from mourners inside the basilica as the city of philadelphia, family members and fellow firefighters said goodbye to lieutenant Matthew Letourneau a hero who lost his life in the line of duty. He lived, ate, slept and breathed this job. Matt, every dave his life was truly a hero and were all better off because of his bravery and service. Hundreds stood outside in the rain during the morning viewing and mass. Hundreds more pack the cathedr cathedral. Lieutenant letourneau was remembered for his smile, his enthusiasm, his compassion but mostly for his bravery. He is truly a firemans fireman. He fought that fire to the best his ability as long as with everyone else on that fire ground. I mean hes hero. W
And this is it. Eagles fans are gearing up for the battle of the birds. Game day less than 24 hours away, and the hype is unreal. Now, fox 29 news at 10 00. Talk about a weather whiplash. This time last week, we had sn snow. Tonight rain, warm in the 60s. Hard to believe. And check out this video down at penns landing. Intense fog just hanging over the delaware river. Ice floating on top of the water just as we start to thaw out. But dont get too excited because we are talking about a dramatic drop in temperatures. Like 30 degrees. Thanks for joining us im dawn timmeney. Im chris oconnell. Folks starting to peel back some of those layers today. But if youre headed to the eagles game tomorrow, youre going to need to bundle up. Scott, i hope the Atlanta Falcons are watching from the hotel rooms tonight because were talking about freezing cold temperatures at kickoff. Absolutely. It will be a shock to the system, chris. Temperatures right now look at this. 62 degrees in philadelphia. But
Action News Delaware valleys leading news program with jim gardner. It is tuesday night the big story on action news is a full blown accuweather alert a Winter Weather advisory is going in effect at 4 00 a. M. Metrologist cecily tynan has the full story from accuweather cecily. Jim double scan live showing plenty of moisture coming our way and running into colder air and we have occur occur alert for i95 corridor areas north and west for tomorrow really focused on the first half of the day and a winter storm warning in effect for the poconos as the system pulls in its what is called over running and its precipitation and warmer air over colder air at the surface and future tracker showing 7 30 in the morning and snow and philadelphia areas to the north we have ice and then we just have rain so really the impact on your morning commute depends on your location. Lehigh valley and northwest suburbs tricky roads covered with snow and wilmington and trenton will be somewhat of a slushy mix
Wonder if it will be like cher, vinyl, then 20 years later still going at that time. Because you want to go see the final tour, until they realize wow that was pretty good, the final tour. One more final tour. We forgot to include joey. Lets bring joey on the final tour. Exactly. A check of the roads, transit in a moment. Soup, lets talk about the wintery application. Far from my final weather tour i might say. Weve got miles to go before bee sleep. Winter weather advisory in effect for all of the areas you see that are in purple. But, up in the pink area, thats the mountains, where we have a winter storm warning. Our number today is a four. Even though, nothing may be happening at your house right now, it is not too long a way from a messy morning, were ready for snow, rain, with bus stop buddy and his umbrella. And i think youll need the rain gear for a longer time, than youll need to worry about the frozen precipitation, but will be tricky for awhile there. When this all begins, you
For eagles fans. He has a chance to get a super bowl ring this tomorrow as well because hes in the he helped this team grow up very quickly and Brian Dawkins congratulations to him. Well celebrate before his enshrinement in august in canton, ohio. So much when it comes to the hall of fame. So many distractions like with the super bowl. But players still try to keep some normalcy. They have some interesting ways that they try to keep try to keep normal and frank reich and Doug Pederson they meet as you know for 90 minutes the night before every single game to go over the first 15 plays that are scripted i talk to frank reich this week. He says he doesnt think it will be even different even though theres a super bowl on the li line. There will be light hearted and well be laughing and joking but theyll be going through every situation. Going through the first 15 and then the other thing we do a lot of is we talk a lot about situational football. What about two minutes situations, four mi