Our meteorologist is standing by with a weekend warmup, the rain chances, and, of course, that Big Christmas day forecast. Amari stone here in a state trooper cruiser. They are cracking down on suspected dui drivers. Ill tell you all about it all new at 11 00. News 4 at 11 00 starts now. Just three days to christmas, and we know many of you cant wait, passengers packing the airports, and travelers flooding the roads. Tonight, we are following the weather situation in our backyard and hundreds of miles away could affect your holiday plans. Good evening, everybody. Im jim handly. Rain will impact saturday, e but what about your Christmas Eve and day . We are in the storm center with the holiday forecast. Guys, we are watching the rain now coming in across parts of the area, parts of our western areas, look at the radar now. Nothing in the d. C. Metro area right now, but you can see its close in areas like leesburg and frederick, seeing light rain, back to the winchester area where its be
23 in pittman. 23 in audubon. As we move north, 22 mt. Laurel, 23 lumberton. To mercer county, temperatures around 21 at hamilton square. Add in the wind, temperatures slice to the teens flood watch terms of flurries, theres flurries in Northern Maryland now. Some of these flurries may skirt into south jersey this morning. Dont be surprised if you see a few flakes. I dont expect any accumulation. Any accumulation should stay in the washington, d. C. , area where they have Winter Weather advisories at this moment. Future feelslike. 7 00, feels like a balmy 9 degrees in doylestown. 14 in philadelphia. We dont see any improvement throughout the day. Ill wake you through an even more numbing air mass coming up. First well look at traffic with pamela. Traffic is looking good. I think the hardest part of the commute is going to be getting to your car in the cold temperatures. The blue route at ridge pike. You see a few cars on the roadway there. Northbound, southbound lanes looking good. The
20s to around 30. You factor in the breeze, and it will feel that much more numbing. Numbing in the car this morning. I had to turn on the seat heaters, wheel warmer. What else do you need . Yeah. People are hibernating because there are only a few people on the roads. 202 at town center road, everything moving smoothly. Well look at drive times for the area if this is the route you take. Say youre going northbound trying to get to the schuylkill expressway, average speeds in the 60s. It will take you about nine minutes to get there. Looking good going southbound, as well. If youre traveling mass transit, again, bundle up before you get outside. Septa, new jersey transit,ment i cant, and patc transit, amtrak, and patco running on time. Thank you. Forced out by flames. Crews are heading back today to this fireravaged Delaware County apartment complex to figure out what sparked that destructive blaze. Neighbors escaped the flames but now have no home during this bitter cold stretch. Nbc1
This camera now. I think everybody enjoying commute for the most part. The day, planning ahead, temperatures today in the mid to upper 20s this morning. You see the gray skies. Look what happens by 2 00 and 4 00. The sunshine breaks back out. Its a great start but a gray start but a bright finish. Well need every ounce of sunshine today. Feelslike temperatures in your neighborhood, 8 in reading. 12 in philadelphia. 17 in dover. 22 in rehoboth beach. High temperatures today will climb into the mid to upper 20s. Like yesterday, feeling like middle teens. Im tracking snow, new years, and the eagles game. Thats coming up. First to the roads and pamela this morning. Reporter yesterday we had issues with water main breaks because of the extreme cold. Things are looking good out there now. This is the camera on the schuylkill expressway right at the interchange with 676. Things are looking good there. Lets take a look at drive times, though, going eastbound and westbound. Everything is in the
For example lyft uses a Company Called sterling to conduct checks. They said they conduct search criminal records in 46 states. We asked which local areas are not been checked. Did you notice that that uber ceo had to resign because of sexual improprieties. Do you notice that hundreds or thousands of women are talking on the internet and papers about being sexually assaulted in different ways. Your duty is to protect these women. You do not have any meaningful way of doing this. That is, except by doing a fingerprint check. Reporter a. Check is run through the fbi database. Unlike those commercial databases every jurisdiction has to report crimes to the database. Taxi driver still have to submit fingerprints and pass a background check through that database. In 2016 uber agreed to settle a lawsuit that was filed. They agreed to settle for 10 million because they were being taken to court for claiming that there background checks were not as affected effective as fingerprint checks. Rep