Between philadelphia and mt. Vernon for a not very president ial reason. With us now is lee around ornol senior director of the library and collections and chief operating officer. Thanks so much for joining us. Its a pleasure to be here. Youre the historical person forgo to facts. Im happy to be here. Ive been with the Historical Society for 24 years and tour guide within the city. Its always amazing that people even locals dont know a lot of the history of their own city and area. One of the first ones starts with the founding of philadelphia and that it was first founded by william penn, a quaker. You already mentioned early that race street used to be called sasa frasthe east west trees were named for trees and north south after numbers and philadelphia was the very first city built on a public grid and public quar system in the United States and also first city that established a street numbering system based on numbers systemically. And why numbers and trees . Its because part of
The delaware bay region you get into cape may you had a couple of showers an hour ago. Most of the sunny skies off to the northwest. Wider view shows activity building out here where the cold front is. For us, it will hold off until after 8 00 p. M. , 9 00 p. M. Easter sunday looks fabulous. 11 00 a. M. Were up to 77 degrees, mostly sunny skies, by 1 00 p. M. , 82. 3 00 p. M. , 83. By 5 00 p. M. , that should be 84 not a 64. Sun and clouds shooting for a high of 85. When i come back in just a few minutes we have cooler changes. Thats probably the high two days from now. Ill have the details in the sevenday forecast coming up in just a bit. A 24yearold woman was died after shooting in the kensington section overnight. Police tell action news the gunfire broke out at 1 00 a. M. In the 700 block of east tillton street. She was shot in the chest and taken to Temple University hospital where she died a short time later. No arrests, but police recovered a hundred gun at the scene. A shooting
5 40. So that you want to keep into the plans to are your morning commute. The watch whitman bridge looks great, so does the ben franklin. Were watching the admiral wilson boulevard. This is moving through camden. Traffic is moving towards philadelphia. Right underneath the graphic you can see the bright lights. That is the ben franklin bridge toll plaza. Lets move offer to construction. This is over in new jersey. Theres a new ramp to 295 northbound from the 42 freeway headed northbound. Watch for that new construction layout. Additionally in the same area, should be clearing up in the next minute or so, at least right here, this exit ramp is closeded from 295 northbound approaching the black horse pike. That is an ongoing project as well. Should be clearing in the next couple minutes. Updates when i come back. Gone in the blink of an eye. Philadelphia police are look for the car thief who took off with more than just someone elses car. A child was in the car that was stolen. Nbc 10s
To quaker town. We were earlier seeing southbound delays there. Right now they are diverting all traffic off. It is right around mile marker 31. Your best bet to get by will be there for a little bit longer. There were four tractor trailers involved. An injury on the scene, so an Investigation Underway and a fuel spill as well. There is a massive clean up. You can take route 309. Moving over here is 95 around woodhaven road. You can see slow moving maintenance here making all of this traffic ton northbound side merge together into one. We are seeing delays there. Watch for some traffic lights that are malfunctioning at fairmount avenue. One last accident on montgomery avenue around price avenue. Burglars target a famous philadelphia store. They broke in where nbc 10 Monique Braxton has the latest on the investigation. What have you learned, monique . Reporter hi. Good morning to you. A glass Restoration Company arrived about an hour ago to dw begin the process of replacing the safety g
He literally drops the mic. First up weather and traffic with matt pelman in for karen and meteorologist, david murphy. Starting to get a little bit cooler out there. Yesterday we had low temperatures in the morning in the upper 50s in a lot of spots. Youll see a little difference today. Also theres not quite as much cloud cover gathering up to the north and west and we expect mostly sunny skies. Cool this morning, though. 49 degrees right now in philadelphia and like i said yesterday you had a lot of 50s. Right now you got to go down to the shore to find 50degree reading in cape may. Thats 53. 46 degrees in wilmington, 46 in allentown. Theres also a bit of a breeze blowing in the double digits across much of the region. Youre kind of going back and forth between singles and doubles but a little bit of a shoulder huncher this morning. Maybe an extra layer is a good idea on the kids on the way out the door. 44 degrees by 7 oclock. We expect the in rubs to continue to dip over the next c