Live in havana. And is she or isnt she . The National Zoos most popular resident showing signs of being pregnant. Let the great panda watch begin today, friday, august 14, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. [ cheers and applause ] good morning. Welcome to today on a friday morning. That poor panda will get no privacy from now on. We are sending natalie on panda watch. We have the live feed. Is it a hard and fast rule, never ask a panda if shes pregnant. It never ends well. Exactly. Well tell you more in a little why. First todays top story. Just when you thought the president ial race couldnt get more chaotic, speculation growing that al gore may jump into the race, this as confirmed candidates head to iowa for a time honored campaign tradition. Nbc White House Correspondent Kristen Welker has the latest on this. Good morning. Reporter matt, good morning. The buzz about al gore comes as the ap rep
Of the summer season. The 90 plus temperatures will be hanging around for another day. Hi g evening. Im ukee washington. Im jessica dean. There is relief from the heat in sight in the form of rain and storms. Meteorologist kate bilo is live on the cbs3 sky deck tracking it all for us. Kate . Jessica and ukee, today was day three in the 90s making it the fourth heat wave of the season. But its not over yet. Weve got another day in the 90s on the way for tomorrow. Now, the good news we dont have any heat advisories or excessive heat warnings and thats mainly because our dew points are not quite high enough to make the heat index go above 100 degrees and with that being said it feels okay at night because the dew points are lower than they were during our last heat wave. But with that being said weve still got a lot to heat to talk about with the heat and humidity comes the threat for thunderstorm. Weve had some locally heavy but isolated storm this evening. One earlier tonight over north
But its not over yet. Weve got another day in the 90s on the way for tomorrow. Now, the good news we dont have any heat advisories or excessive heat warnings and thats mainly because our dew points are not quite high enough to make the heat index go above 100 degrees and with that being said it feels okay at night because the dew points are lower than they were during our last heat wave. But with that being said weve still got a lot to heat to talk about with the heat and humidity comes the threat for thunderstorm. Weve had some locally heavy but isolated storm this evening. One earlier tonight over northeast philadelphia. And now this shower right now which has weakened now originally there was a flood advisory for upper bucks county that has since been cancel just light showers in portions of the bucks county at the moment but temperatures very warm still all across the area. Were still hanging on to 80 at the airport. Still 82 degrees in allentown. 75 meantime in millville and 65 de
Then 81 degrees at 10 00, near 90 and climbing at 1 00 this afternoon. Neighborhood by neighborhood forecast when im back in ten minutes. Right now, a check of your first alert traffic with katy zachry. Thanks, bill. Skies are clear and roads are clear for the most part other than some of the overnight construction, we typically see that should be clearing around this hour if youre in new jersey, around the 6 00 hour. Things are running smoothly on the area roadways. A live look if youre traveling on 95 southbound near girard avenue. 13 minutes it will take you to go woodhaven road to the vine street expressway. Northbound a few minutes less than that. Your 59 drive times if youre in new jersey on 95 between 295 anc 495, ten minutes in both directions. We have really good drive times across the ambassador right now. Delaware Memorial Bridge, right around this time, the overnight construction, painting and repairing of the towers should be lifting. I wanted to remind you. Sometimes they
All the moisture in the air they are producing some heavy downpours and theres really no steering flow to push these along so theyre just sitting there dropping a lot of rain. Now, a wider view on storm tracker6 live double scan showing that theres a lot of active weather to our south and west and this will all be rolling our way by the middle of the week. It will ends our heat wave and also bring us some much needed rain. Ill talk more about what to expect coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Monica. Thank you so much cecily. Get the latest details on the heat wave on 6abc. Com back slash weather. Youll find live the hourly forecast from accuweather. Also remember to follow our team of meteorologists on facebook and twitter. Well, if you plan to take part in the historic visit of pope francis next month, youll need comfortable shoes and patience. Road closures will menials everyone will be walking to try to get a glimpse of the pontiff. Action News Reporter david henry is live