30s and rights now hes in Critical Condition at hahnemann and has undergone surgery. This is loaded gun Police Feared was about to be used against them and this is the bullet casing that may have prevented. It detengt activities vektsing the shooting scene 8th and fairmont where an hour earlier several officers respond tide call of a man Walking Around with a gun. They ordered him to show his hands five or six times the male refused and then the male grabbed his company and started pulling it from his waist band. One officer fired a shot hitting suspect in the chest. They recovered his hand gun him and they point out their officers showed restraint. It was not only a radio call with person with begun and they arrived and the suspect had the gun in plain view and refused to she his hand. I think police do a good job. Theyre in a tough spot. Its a split second decision. You see what is going on with furgeson and all these other neighborhoods it hits home. I mean you have to support what
On double scan live radar moving away from bear and parts of central parts of New Castle County but this is beginning to fall apart but it would be nice if many of us could see a quick little shower to cool us off. Thats not going to be the general trend this evening. Future tracker showing tomorrow afternoon our heat index near 90, 94 philadelphia. So were getting rid of the 100s as we get into tuesday. When i come back well talk about a beautiful stretch probably the best so far this Summer Season ahead in the full accuweather forecast. Well focus on that adam. Thank you. Todays temperatures mean more than just another day in the soup for some people these conditions are down right dangerous. David henry continues our live coverage this afternoon. Hes live in logan square. David. Reporter yeah, alicia, kids have an easier time of it with this heat. They can take a dip in the fountain like here at logan square or in the Neighborhood Rec Center pool but seniors cant cool off so easily.
That happening in south jersey, were down to light to moderate rain in the city. You can see lightning strikes one that popped up near dover delaware. Looks like area of Cape May County are beginning to get the first rain and Atlantic City another five or ten minutes away. The movement is toward the coast, once we get beyond it, well get into a lull this morning, with a couple of popup showers around and later in the afternoon more shower activity is possible. The latest on the flood advisory southeastern pennsylvania has been taken out of this as have New Castle County delaware. Places that have been affected are salem gloucester and kent county delaware, we have the advisory up. Flooded roads are an issue. Until they drain you dont want to drive through. 70 in wilmington, 70 in dover. 70 in allentown. Mid 70s down the boardwalk. Dewpoints are up there, as well. The humidity roared back into place yesterday and right now we have dewpoints in the upper 60s and northern suburbs, 70 down
Thunder especially south jersey and delaware. Most of you will be dry, though. 75 degrees right now in philadelphia, warm certainly. 68 in allentown, 71 in trenton and low 70s in millville. Mid 70s down along the coast. I got to show you dewpoints because the humidity which started to come up yesterday is even worse this morning. Weve got some dewpoints up over 70 in some spots. And that is oppressive humidity and of course it will feel worse as the sun gets up over the horizon and temperatures are going up today, too. 87 by noon. 3 oclock is your high today 92 degrees and 87 by 6 00 but you can probably add about three, four, maybe 5 degrees to the temperature at any given moment through the day to get the heat index value how it actually feels out there. A little worse on the heat and humidity tomorrow, matt pelman and then were going to go for a heat wave on thursday. Details coming up in that seven day. We just keep adding those degrees. I know. But on the other end of the spectrum
Construction on an off ramp off the schuylkill expressway. Around Spring Garden street you can see right here road closed signs. We have no access to the schuylkill expressway westbound from the Spring Garden ramp. Eastbound access is okay. They do have local detours posted around the area. This will be out there until at least august 4th for right now. They are going to have to plan your trip accordingly. If you dont follow the local4z stbound 13 minutes from the blue route up towards the vine street expressway. Pretty much the same going westbound towards the king of prussia area as well. 202 cars are green and moving. 11 minutes northbound or southbound up towards the schuylkill expressway. Area bridges doing just fine so far this morning. Waltman bridge is clear and so is the ben. Two lanes blocked headed westbound into the city. One of our regions longest serving congressmen indicted. Chaka fattah is accused of participating in schemes and years of illegal activity. 29count indict