Wind and that moves in south jersey by nine or ten and then off the coast by 11 or midnight but biggest threat with these storms will be damaging wind and heavy rain. There is that severe thunderstorm watch for the entire area until 11 00 p. M. And high risk for downpours and damaging wind and moderate risk for frequent lightening. We will track this and i do have Better Weather news for weekend coming up in the three day forecast jessica. Track storms in your neighborhood by down loading the cbs philly weather app a. You can get latest forecast check live radar anytime down load app for free right now on google play and itunes. Only Eyewitness News has exclusive video of the fire erupting from a manhole. Buildings were evacuated until crews go the that situation under control. Syma chowdhry is live from olde city now with more on what happened, syma . Reporter jessica, it was a chaotic day for folks here in olde city when an underground fire ended up causing many Power Outages in this
H er hour from the blue route up towards the vine street expressway. We are watching for a road closure in philadelphia due to a house fire. Walnut is closed at 54th street. Take Chestnut Street to get by. More coming up in ten minutes. Overnight, while most of you were asleep lawmakers in South Carolina were working well into the wee morning hours. They took a decisive and final vote to remove the Confederate Flag from statehouse grounds. This idea long debated gained new life after last months massacre at a black church in charleston. Vai sikahema is live for us in our digital operations center. This final vote was in doubt much of the night, right . Thats right. The South Carolina senate had passed the bill to take down the Confederate Flag. Last night, it was up to the house to go along. Some members tried to tack on amendments and use parliamentary procedures. In the end the measure did pass. House members debated nearly 13 hours early into this morning before approving the bill 9
Im scared of you. You should be. Run for your life. Hes loaded up, folks. Okay, you can see very calm wind in this dark photo of our neighborhood. In old city, so, very, very humid, very close out there once again this morning, even though we did have some rain yesterday, 78 degrees, right now, as you walk out the door. It is another warm one. 81 relative humidity. Sunrise happens at 5 41, so lets check the radar because there is little bit to show you on radar this morning some showers around, the occasional heavy downpour, as we zoom into berks county, right, there in the southeastern part of berks some rain that one isolated heavy shower there around reading, casino of light showers. Then we go up to the pocono mountains, see showers as well. Nothing in our neighborhood at the moment. But, as we look at the future cast in a few moment, and show you that the possibility is there. So we go once again with seven out of ten. Weve had about three of those in a row. High temperature today
Feel the humidity levels drop. Well call it a partly Sunny Afternoon ahead. Temperatures are starting out warm. 74 in philadelphia. Dipped into the upper 60s in allentown and lancaster. 73 in millville. For the walk on the boardwalk 77 in sea isle and ac. 72 by 8 00 a. M. Partly cloudy and comfortable although if you start exercising youll feel the humidity a bit evident early on. 82 by noon, 86 by 3 00. High of 87 late in the afternoon around 4 00 and 5 00 p. M. The humidity levels drop off and we stay dry today. The weekend is looking good, although on the hot side, well talk about that in the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. Reporter things are looking up were moving in the right direction. Moving in the right direction on the vine street expressway, westbound is reopened. Eastbound stayed open, will close tonight at 11 00 p. M. That will be the overnight closures of the vine at least for the rest of july. This is the overlook at fox street overhead lights are out but the sk
Seeing heavier rainfall and scattered showers into delaware and philadelphia too. Grab an umbrella. Well see occasional downpours with showers and thunderstorms at 7 00. By 10 00, were seeing breaks of sunshine and we will see that to warm us up to 80 degrees. 84 at 1 00. Theres a possibility of more storms as we head into the afternoon. And parts of the area could see strong storms with damaging winds. Well go through it hour by hour with the future weather. Back in ten minutes to show you when the wet weather will arrive where you live. Jessica boyington has your first alert traffic. Bill, were currently dry higt right here on certain spots of 95. Were starting to see volume specifically in the southbound lanes, now, this is a little bit early, about 45 minutes earlier to see this volume. Still a 13minute drive time. Im going to suspect its going to slam up once the storms hit the area. Heading out the door on the 42 freeway in new jersey currently no problems. The cars are green. Th