Suspicious. A shark scare this morning. The beach was evacuated after a possible sighting. Lifeguards spotted a possible shark in oyster bay around noon. Close to 2,000 people were on the beach at the time. Lifeguards blew their whistles everybody was evacuated into the sand. The shark is believed to be about five feet long. Police using a helicopter to spot it. Believe it or not, its just two months away until the pope arrives in philadelphia. The city wants to look its best for his visit so you may have noticed all the construction work clogging up traffic in center city. Nbc 10s Deanna Durante is along the ben franklin parkway. The rush is on to get these projects finished by september. Reporter yeah it is. Take a look. You have seen them. All these orange barrels, the road signs blocking off lanes and of course the closed lanes. They seem to be everywhere in center city. The Streets Department says thats because they are. From broad to market even along city side streets, chewed up
Serio. Stevie wonder has a much better voice than i do sue. Well, attempt was very brave. Satellite and radar picture and were thinking about this fabulous weather. And hoping that it will keep going for the weekend. We do have hardly cloud in the sky, we have 70 degrees in philadelphia, 55 relative humidity 7 miles an hour wind out of the northnorthwest, in the 50s mount pocono this morning, 63 degrees in allentown, six an in trenton 07 as we mention here in the sit. Sixtythree in reading, all very cool, comfortable walking out the door this morning, maybe you left off the airconditioning last night, and through open the windows, it was a good choice. 7mile per hour winds out of the northnorthwest as we told you, and calm winds in many other places, it got pretty breezy yesterday and it was quite bright with all of the sunshine, and our High Temperature was eight a degrees, average hi, 87, never more happy to be below average, just by couple of degrees, because it was gorgeous, so her
The past hour. So here we will zoom in on the city and this is a loop over last hour. We have had lightening and thunder and we are just experiencing heavy rain outside our door. We will go north as far as the poconos mountains and we have a Flash Flood Warning until 5 30 in the morning for Carbon County and Monroe County and then we will go down to lancaster county, and we are clearing out of there for time being but there is plenty of rain in Chester County and New Castle County delaware and as far east as mount laurel and see then are storm activity there and it looks like heavier rain is falling in New Castle County, around middletown, dover delaware. State fair in harring town, continues today. So 71 degrees is where we are in philadelphia with a 5mile an her breeze out of the east north east and 90 percent relative humidity n surprise with all that rain. 5 55 is your sunrise time as these days start to get a little bit more note iably shorter. In weather by numbers we will go wit
Yes. What happened to his hair. You know, it is blending with the background. Okay. He is indoors, at basketball camp . You can see it with the lightening. Yes. Hey were trying to keep him indoors because of the lightening and thunder out there. Temperatures in the 60s and 70s playing a little basketball. Plenty of heavy downpours still with us, mostly in southern delaware and southern new jersey. We will zoom in on radar, and show you the worst of it. It looks like around ocean city, and Atlantic City we are seeing heavy downpours right now. So 90 percent relative humidity out there. 71 degrees, sunrise happened officially at 5 55, a as those days get shorter and we will see hazy sunshine today, but also some more scattered thunderstorms throughout the afternoon, high of 85 degrees. So that takes care of the somewhat messy monday, we will talk about the next heat wave in store in the seven day forecast, hi there bob kelly. Coming up at 6 02, good morning to south jersey, a live look f
United states dramatically shaped our energy future. Today, there is no greater source of power than coal combustion. Its responsnsible r nearly 4 40 of our electricity. But burning coal generates waste. Its called coal ash, and every year in the u. S. , 130 million tons of it is created. Its thehe largest industrial waste stream in america. You could fill the boxcars of a Freight Train that would stretch from new york city to melbourne, australia, with the coal ash thats generated every year in this country. The ash contains toxic metals. Lead, arsenic, chromium, cadmium, others. And it even s radioactive substances. Its these pollutants, many of them known to cause cancer, that have people worried. And the big question is, where are all ththese toxins ending u . Theres fly ash and coal dust. Well go on the front porch and do the same thing. You can see as you look up there the fresh ash. Its like an orangish color. When its windy, it can get into their homes, it can get into their ca