Little encouragement maybe to tell the Senior Citizens in your neighborhood to get to a local senior center, the closest in this neighborhood is at 41st and poplar. Im rosemary connors, nbc 10 news. You step outside, you feel it. We are in day eight of a heat wave. Change is in the air. Big changes coming our way. So far it is still hot as the heat and humidity leave us simmering. These people are looking for a sea breeze along the Atlantic City boardwalk today. Nbc 10 first alert chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz is tracking some rain. And a break in the heat, we hope, right . Yeah, thats right. They didnt get the break with the sea breeze at the shore today because it was a land breeze and it was every bit as hot right at the beaches. Weve got a lot of sunshine. Weve had that during the day today. That helped push the temperature up. We have gotten into the 90s once again. We started this last tuesday with 93 degrees. We had three Straight Days of 90 plus, thursday, friday
Our southern counties last night. That is now long gone. We are seeing temperatures at the moment start to reflect the fact that you have got a clearing sky and more of the dry air mass settling into allow these temperatures to drop off. Now that the sunnies rising, obviously we will see these thermometer readings rebound with time but youll also notice that is less humid out there. So feeling more comfortable for us by 9 00 a. M. , pair of sevens on the thermometer we should hit 85 at noon and up to 88 by 3 00 p. M. We expect daytime high in philadelphia to hit 89 degrees. So technically we expect to break the heat wave but it will be a close call and obviously still warm, meisha, over to you. 1 degree it matters, katie. Thanks very much. Good morning, happy hump day, sunnies shining so because of that i will jump in the car with you as i to around this time. We take a lot at roadways, 422 eastbound heading toward king of prussia and you can see a nice, moment. We were traveling at po
Of the video officer identified as three twoyear old matthew sirgersky is heard using a homophobic slur, while talking to the men in the car. Breast cancer, my mom. Not only is his language on one of the tapes, homophobic which obviously is a violation of our policy and not what we expect from our officers but in the second video which deals with the tickets for the hero thrill show, it is equally, bad. Reporter police are still trying to track down the driver and passenger who recorded these changes. Meantime internal affairs has taken over the investigation. The the hero thrill show is something that we should all be behind, it is a event that raises money for families of Police Officers and Fire Fighters kill in the line of duty and this officer has managed to taint that. Reporter officer has been placed on paid leave, pending the outcome of the internal affairs investigation. Also the the Police Commissioner tells us that they will be looking to see if he should be criminally charg
Go,. Good morning. Theres a little bit of a breeze this morning which you need because it feels oppressively humid out here but were in the process of seeing dewpoints drop and things turning around for us. Lets take a look at storm tracker6 live double scan. The only showers we have currently are along the coastline through cape may and Atlantic City and Sea Isle City and thats because of the front that still hasnt quite cleared the area. As you look at satellite6 and action radar you can kind of see that the showers moved through our northwest suburbs. Theyve moved through philadelphia. Theyre now along the coastline and we do have lots of cloud cover through the region but everything really changes for us this afternoon. Its 75 degrees right now in philadelphia. 66 in allentown, much mover comfortable there. 67 in reading, 69 in wilmington, 73 in millville and 74 degrees in trenton. Look at the dewpoints. Weve dropped just a little bit already in philadelphia but still very humid at
Conditions more dangerous. Elderly residents were evacuated this morning from a hollywood nursing home that lost power during Hurricane Irma. Police say three patients guided the facility and two at a hospital. We believe at this time they may be related to the loss of power and the storm. Reporter police have started to criminal investigation into the deaths. They did not say whether the facility had air conditioning when paramedics were called early this morning. As we arrived on the scene with our fire rescue crews, we saw that there were a number of people in respiratory distress. Reporter across florida 4. 4 million homes and businesses still have no power. Floridas biggest utility lined up prepare trucks this morning in the miami area. But Officials Say could it be more than a week before electricity is back for everyo everyone. Power outages also remain an issue here in jacksonville. More than 800 utility workers are trying to restore electricity to the more than 100,000 custome