This was the scene, tonight at 30th street station in philadelphia, hundreds of commuters found themselves stranded, when septas Paoli Thorndale Regional Rail line went down. Septa spokesperson said during the rush hour it is probably the worst time for this to happen. Shes got that right. It the is thursday night, and the big story on action news tonight is a power outage on amtrak which shares its tracks with septa. That turned the evening rush hour into a nightmare for both transit agencies. Action News Reporter jeff chirico is live at 30th street station. Jeff, what is the status of the outage . Is there a potential problem for the morning rush hour . Reporter jim, there is a big question mark over the morning commute. Now amtrak is reporting hour long delays, on the keystone line between here and harrisburg. Septa suspended it rail service to paoli. It was a hectic evening here meaning many commuters did not make it home in time for dinner they stood and waited, hundreds of septa
Happen. Shes got that right. It the is thursday night, and the big story on action news tonight is a power outage on amtrak which shares its tracks with septa. That turned the evening rush hour into a nightmare for both transit agencies. Action News Reporter jeff chirico is live at 30th street station. Jeff, what is the status of the outage . Is there a potential problem for the morning rush hour . Reporter jim, there is a big question mark over the morning commute. Now amtrak is reporting hour long delays, on the keystone line between here and harrisburg. Septa suspended it rail service to paoli. It was a hectic evening here meaning many commuters did not make it home in time for dinner they stood and waited, hundreds of septa passengers lined up outside 30th street station hoping to find a way home after the train line that they expect to take was closed just a after 5 30. I was at the flower show. We are trying to get back to malvern. Get to the station. They tell us there is no pow
Expect delays as they resume the service, amtrak keystone line is causing problems between philadelphia and harrisburg. Take pay Paoli Thorndale. Lang avenue, city avenue we have an accident watch for that. 202 route 1 live in chadds ford, delaware county. We have sprinkles around. Roads are dry, its not impacting traffic too much, but i know youre watching the sprinkles. Reporter im watching them evaporate in a lot of cases. Storm tracker 6 live double scan most of the showers off the coast, these are light sprinkles and showers coming in. This may be making roads slightly wet. Its not lasting that long, they are falling apart. Less and less of a an issue in the text hour sore. We have a lot of cloud cover around out to the west. We expect the clouds to break apart later this morning and we should return a fair amount of sunshine into play as the day goes on. 61 degrees in philadelphia currently. Mild for this time of the year and morning. 57 in trenton, 62 in wilmington. 56 in allent
Well take it. Brittney . Well see plenty of sunshine. It will still be a nice afternoon. This is closer to afternoon. Yesterday was a treat with a high of 61. Today closer to 50. Theres a live look at cape may. Plenty of sunshine today. No fog to deal with today so it should be a smooth ride to work. Wind speeds at 15 miles per hour. Well see gusty winds at least through 10 00 in the morning and then start to see the wind speeds subside into the afternoon. 42 degrees in allentown. 34 in mt. Pocono. 43 in trenton. Dover in the low 40s. 43 in wildwood. Plenty of sunshine in store for us today. Heres a look at your hourly breakdown. By 9 00 a. M. Still in the low 40s. Sunny by 4 00 p. M. 50 and mild. Our high at 50. But i am tracking changes as we end your workweek and head into the weekend. Heavy rainfall in store for us. Ill let you know when to plan around it coming up in my full forecast. For now we check in with traffic reporter christine maddella. So far problem free. As we look thr
But big changes friday night into saturday. Today, you can expect temperatures to stay in the 40s. By 9 00 a. M. Mid to high 40s by noon. By 4 00 p. M. 50. Mild with plenty of sunshine. Ill go over the changing forecast in my sevenday in just a bit. For now well send it over to first alert traffic reporter christine maddela. Good morning. Good morning and happy almost friday to you, brittney. Route 130 in Burlington Township as part of your morning commute, be aware there is an accident on the northbound side at beverly road. Crews are out there working with those folks involved in the accident. Right turn lane is closed. So it will slow you down just a little bit. Just in that spot right there. No major delays. 676, vine street expressway at 24th moving along quite nicely at this hour. There is some added volume. Of course, the later we get into the morning commute, well see that continue. Taking a look at your drive times right now on the blue route, 476, still looking pretty good no