Following breaking news. Mexico is bracing for a potentially catastrophic hurricane set to make landfall near acapulco hours from now. Hurricane otis rapidly intensified from a Tropical Storm to a category five hurricane in just a few hours. People are going through the neighborhoods warning people, urging them to hunker down or head to one of the hundreds of shelters set up by the government. We called the airports, no words on Flight Cancellations so far, that may change. Chief meteorologist jeff ranieri, what are you seeing . It looks intense. This is a lastminute situation. It was just a Tropical Storm, but its gotten exponentially stronger than expected. Going from a Tropical Storm yesterday up to the stop of the hurricane scale, category 5 barrelling to acapulco. Now ballooning up to 165mileperhour winds. A storm nobody wants to be in path of. Tomorrow, 120 Miles Per Hour over the region. Wind, 8 to 16 inches, flooding and landslides, strong wind, dangerous storm surge. Well look
Falling. That heavy rain could lead to flooding. That is why we have issued a first alert for today. Krystal is here. What we are looking at the first alert for the heavy rain and flooding through much of our area, starting around philadelphia and the northern air just areas north into the pennsylvania suburbs. Also through new jersey and delaware where theres the biggest threat of flooding because some of the heaviest rain will go through those areas. We will keep this in effect through midnight. The heaviest rain will taper around sunset. We could see flooding into the nighttime hours are rain thats been moving through and pockets that are heavier that will be leading to flooding and flash flooding. Its the quick flooding when you may get a downpour. Some grounds are so saturated that flooding will occur regardless. Theres a Flash Flood Warning in place for kent county. This includes right through dover and just south of smyrna. Some of the heaviest rain has moved through. Lets look
Series and overcame career threatening knee injuries for an allstar and the only catcher in team history to post back to back 100, rbi seasons and spent 14 years with the phillies and inducted in wall of fame in 2010 and here is his team make talking about Darren Dalton and the radio. Remembering what this guy was and i said it he is the best leader i have ever been around in any environment ever and helped me grow up and i would not have had the career i have if not being around dutch and getting my butt chewed out by him at all times. Reporter and a statement from David Montgomery all of us at the phillies are sad to hear of his passing from the day we drafted him until today he constantly earned our respect and admiration as both a player and person, dutch was truly one of a kind and we will dearly miss him. Our condolence to the family and rocky is one way to describe how the phillies road trip started and looked like they were heading to a six Straight Loss against the rockies whe
A lot of people were not friendly with the press and darren had their backs with a double locker and he had a lounge chair which tells you everything you need to know that he was the absolute leader of that clubhouse and everybody knew it and everybody followed his lead and fast forward later at the Radio Station 97. 5 the fanatic we created a show for him talking baseball with dutch and he warmed up to it immediately and got to be pretty good pals and he was a straight shooter and had one of these infectious personalities and he was not a loud guy but he had some kind of appeal that you gravitated towards the guy and what i remember most about him and he fought this battle so hard, he got that news that he had a remission and he went out and did his personal appearances and never thought that he was going to pass away. He just had that attitude that he was going to beat this thing. He was such a fighter and you think about just how strong he was even during his career over coming five
And next thing you know the guy jumped out the window. He was all filled with black smoke and the girl two. Too. She had a sheet of rounder and he said help me. Reporter a very sad scene out here this morning. Everything began before 3 30. I spoke with the assistant chief from the Cleveland Fire Department and they say everything is still under investigation. They will release more information later today. Clifton is shut down for those traveling in that area. Clifton is closed at west 100 12th street because of the fire. Were also seeing slowing on clifton in that area. Rta were rerouted but are now leading rta through this area. This area make sure you take detroit avenue as the detour option. Other than that were looking good on the traffic map. 271 south as you approach 71 which is only adding to3 minutes 23 minutes to the commute. Rain later in the week but wind today. It is a cool fall morning. 40s and 50s now. 67 at noon and 72 for the high today. That is perfection. The wind pr