For post storm rescue missions and lay the ground work for the long term recovery effort. The fema organization will do quick assess many try to find out where the most damaged areas are so we can get the teams out in the street and do much good quickly. Time zest essence. Reporter millions of residents here continue riding out the storm, many others headed for the mainland. They say they didnt want to leave their homes but they are putting safety first. It was just time for to us get off. We didnt stay for maria. Disastrous situation for the island. It will destroy some homes. Reporter right now the destructive winds are causin the most damage but in the followup to this storm there could be major flooding, storm surge of 9 feet and potentially deadly mudslides. In san juan, puerto rico, steve harrigan, fox news. And so here at home philadelphia sizeable Puerto Rico Community is watch and waiting for word from familiar and friends on that battered island. The fair hill section of cour
Between broad street and the schuylkill schuylkill, do not use the south street option. Did i that this morning, what a hot mess, none of the traffic lights are singed, takes awe hour to come down south street when there is nobody even there, because you get stuck at all of the light. Also, working on the schuylkill itself eastbound, between like girard and 30th street. Looks like theyre about ready to pick up the cones here, all the way out in king of prussia, as well, here is a live look, at the paving crews, what looks like dust cloud, but it is actually that milling and paving operation, theyre working westbound between conshy and gulph mills, and also a left over crew eastbound. So, schuylkill down to one lane again, guys are out there until 5 00. Working on the Commodore Barry bridge down to one lane both directions here between new jersey and pennsylvania. Morning to cherry hill. They are working g along route zero seven right near haddonfield road. Mass transit looking good wit
Marathon this weekend. So maybe we will go down, also irish weekends a lot to do this weekend. Checking your forecast, sue serio, good morning getting early start to your weekends, a ten out of ten, your number today. Here is bus stop buddy, happy the phillies won another one against the dodgers last night, got the short sleeves shirt on, should be fine. We have summary afternoon ahead. Temperatures are starting offer mostly in the 60s, weve got couple of 70s out there, and Tropical Storm jose continues to spin well off of our shores, it is up toward new england right now, so just few clouds here and there, but plenty of room for sunshine today. The current temperatures, 07 degrees in philadelphia, with northwesterly breeze at 5 t too muggy out there, sunrise time official, at 6 48. We have a day game for the phillies today. Theyre hoping to get out the broom and sweep the dodgers, 82, will be the temperature at game time, which is 1 05, bring the sunscreen, because you can expect plen
By police is jason kessler. The organizer of the alt right rally that turned deadly. He blamed the police for the rally saying the officers stood down and did not follow through with the agreedupon security arrangement. Hes charged with ramming his car into a crowd killing one woman and injuring at least 19 others. His mother thought he was attending a President Trump rally not a nationalist march. A woman was hit and killed by fields while trying to cross the street. A local rabbi who was in charlottesville when the attack happened returned to philadelphia this evening, and nbc was one of the first people he spoke with upon his arrival. Shes at 30th street station tonight. Lauren, what did the rabbi tell you . Reporter he said it was a frightening experience. He said his group of clergy tried to radiate calmness there, singing, at times trying to make contact with people. But he said there just werent enough of them to stop the violence. In philadelphia, rabbi leebling returning from
Our funding because were just trying to keep Public Safety issues. Philadelphia has some of the same rub. Should we jump on the bandwagon . Monica, you know, i do this every day. Im in the trenches on immigration, and so i have sort of like a bottomup view of this, and i have a problem with both extremes on this issue. We have people who do not only want to limit illegal immigration but also legal immigration, and so what theyre doing is theyre conflating criminal activity with illegality, with your legal status. There is absolutely no correlation there. On the other hand, you have immigrant advocates who are unwilling to even acknowledge the fact that you need some kind of Cooperation Among all of the Public Safety officials and officers to keep everyone, including those who may not be here in a documented way, safe. I do tend to agree with those who argue, though, that if an immigrant, legal of illegal, feels that theyre in danger of being arrested and or deported by ice if they go a