Lower floor and need to be in the basement and in that interior room because if a tree falls on your home that is mess safe place to be. As the threat for tornado moves through we will see a threat for windows being blown out and things like that. Even if there is not a tornado out there and take you back to the radar. This keeps me to the severe thunderstorm watch. There is that signature and rotation. I want to take you back to the warning and show you a area we are most focused on. I will zoom in so we can see what this is doing. Up are providence toward norristown. It is moving out of the Upper Providence area closer to the blue route, closer to 476 here, that yellow that you see is our Severe Thunderstorm Warning in effect and query this so you can see how many people are impact by it. Portions of chester, Montgomery County, including lower providence, norristown, Upper Providence that does include Plymouth Meeting and conshohocken, impacting over a quarter Million People right no
The 60s, 63 degrees is as warm as it got all day yesterday. Its going to be a warmer day today. Still breezy at 1 00, northeasterly winds at 12 miles an hour. Your neighborhood by neighborhood forecast when i come back in ten minutes. Right now, your first alert traffic. Were on 95 right now where we have an offramp closure on 95 northbound. But just wood that it has reopen a few moments ago which is a little early so definitely good news for drivers this morning. You can see the drivers in that area. We have a great drive time, about a 13minute trip. No problems there. On the express way, were doing okay so far. As you can see, east, west. So if you heading into the center to the area we have a 12minute drive time. Otherwise in philadelphia, 19th street between vine street and ben franklin parkway watch out for construction. Right new they have detours and signs posted. Youll be fine getting around. Might take you a few extra minutes. Colleges and universities in the philadelphia area
Chill in the air. Then in the pacific the strongest hurricane ever recorded is closing in on mexico, Hurricane Patricia could have a catastrophic impact. Glenn hurricane schwartz is tracking patricia. But we begin with Brittney Shipp with a weekend chill in the area. Brittney . What a difference a day makes, yesterday in the high 70s and today anywhere between nine to up to 18 degrees colder, so 18 degrees colder in the poconos, down 13 degrees in philadelphia from this time yesterday, down 9 degrees in wilmington, down 10 degrees in Atlantic City and millville, so your current temperatures are barely in the 60s. 64 degrees in philadelphia, 61 in chester spring, 62 degrees, mid 60s in wilmington, barely at 60 in pottstown, low 50s in the poconos. Closer to south jersey, 69 here in woodbine, and tonight temperatures are going to get down into the 40s and 30s, so it is going to be a very cold start to your weekend, as well, temperatures hovering around freezing for allentown and the poco
Directing traffic around the incident. And construction also on route 1 southbound between quakerbridge road and 95. This is right in center lanes closed due to downed pole and wires. Mass transit, in the clear for the morning so thats a great alternate. Another check on traffic when i come back in the next ten minutes. To breaking news we got in on a murder suspect who is still on the run after a deadly shooting in southwest philadelphia. The victim, a man in his early 20s was shot several times on midas place. Police arrived quickly and arrested one guy at the scene. But authorities are looking for a second shooter who may still be in the area. Witnesses tell police they heard arguing before the shots rang out. And new from overnight a man lying in the middle of the street in philadelphias homeford neighborhood was run over by a car and died. Witnesses say they saw the victim, they tried to help him up but then the car came down the street and hit the man. The witnesses say the man s
Accountable to the people it serves. [ applause ] i learned that truth working my early days of government. I started my political career working in constituent services. It was my job to help the folks get their water turned back on and to change the alley lights and to replace the basketball nets at the rec center. Yeah. Thank you. [ laughter ] councilman johnson. You spend all day on the phone with people, you realize the Government Works as it is supposed to it can dramatically change peoples lives. For the one in four people in this city living in poverty, that effective Public Transportation assistance can make the difference of whether or not they can afford to go to that job interview. For a young family, affordable prek can make the difference of whether or not they can save for their childrens college education. For immigrant entrepreneur, a city commerce representative who can speak their native language can make the difference between a business that succeed he is and one t