Announced he will not be supporting this Nuclear Agreement. The man expected to lead the Senate Democrats in 2017, the new york senator, comes out against president Barack Obamas nuclear deal with iran. In a long Statement Last night, the senior senator said in part, quote, i will vote to disapprove the agreement. Not because i believe war is a viable option nor to challenge the path of diplomacy. It is because i believe iran will not change and under the agreement it will be able to achieve goals of eliminating sanctions while retaining its nuclear and nonnuclear power. For week, people inside and outside the beltway have waited to see which way the powerful democrat would vote. Many see his decision as a huge blow to the white house. On wednesday, president barack obama did not hold back in a speech on the deal at american university. Lets not mince word, the choice we face is between diplomacy or some form of war. Reporter the agreement would lift sanctions on iran. Among his concer
Just the beginning. Today we hit a high of 91 degrees. Thats the start of stretch of 90s, once again. Probably the start of our next heat wave. Temperatures up to two to five degrees warmer than yesterday. Enough to put us into the 90s yesterday. We reached an official high of 91 degrees. Minly in the 80s and 88 in allentown and 66 in lancaster and 82 in wildwood. A warm night tonight if you have saturday night plans by 7 00, were looking at 86 and 8 0082. Well talk more about the hot weather tomorrow and how long it is going to last in a few minutes. Thanks, michelle. Happening now, were tracking travel troubles up and down the east coast. More than 200 flights have been canceled. Many others delayed and its all because of an automation problem at a Flight Control center in virginia. Those issues have since been resolved, but flights are still being impacted. Nbc 10 drew smith joins us live at Philadelphia International airport and, drew, it sounds like the Ripple Effect is hitting tr
Crystal clear High Pressure in control. A cold front is out to the west. There could showers dotting the new york pa state line getting as far south as the poconos. Otherwise, heres the day planner. 87 degrees by lunchtime. 3 00 p. M. , theres your 90. 6 00 p. M. , 89 forecasting a high of 90. Sun sets at thunderstorm channels not much in the way of thunderstorms. Not much activity to talk about, when i come back well talk about how the heat and humidity starts to build in the sevenday forecast. Thanks, chris. Developing this morning, authorities are trying to figure out what sparked a massive fouralarm fire in trenton that critically burned a woman on her 22nd birthday. Chopper 6 over the scene on the 200 block of hills place. The fire destroyed five homes and left 13 people displaced. A 22yearold woman suffered critical burns. Officials have not said how the fire started, but a woman who leaves nearby said she heard a loud boom and saw a flash of light. I heard everybody screaming an
Morning. 74 degrees in philadelphia. 68 in allentown. 70 in trenton. 72 in wilmington. 73 as you head out the door in sea isle city. Everybody dealing with muggy air. You can tell that by looking at the dewpoints. Weve got a lot of mid to upper 60s other map a70 here or there and that is pretty noticeable humidity especially as you start moving around. As we roll through the day by 8 oclock 73. Get your stuff done early because by noon were up to a humid 88 and we spend most of the afternoon in the 90s with a high of 93 today. At 3 oclock. A couple of degrees below yesterdays high but still hot and humid. As i mentioned, things do get a little bit better tomorrow. Then we have to deal with some late week drenching thunderstorms. Karen, all of that coming up in the accuweather 7day. All right, dave, weve got a handful of problems this morning and were starting with this vehicle fire on the mantua section of the city mount vernon street at union street. Hang right now. Youll see crews on
Reporter if you are trapped in a car and the wires are around you, you never try to get out of the car unless firefighters help you out. These are storms pushing through Burlington County and ocean county. If youre down in cape may and Atlantic City, a lot of thunderstorms clearing the coast right now youre no doubt hearing the thunder, but it is moving away from you. Over the the next halfhour or so, you should be out of lightnings danger. 322 Lightning Strikes in the southern areas not so much in Burlington County. The rest of the area is drying out. But we have a residual problem with foogd from the heavy down flooding from the heavy downpours. In southern bucks county, and mercer county, the water is receding. Down in cape may it could last another hour or so, because of the proximity of the rain thats just clearing the coast. 70 in allentown. 4 in millville. As you step out its going to be humid with dewpoints in the 70s. Dry air is starting to come in from the northwest. You can