For philadelphia, starting to get brighter. The view from the mellon bank building. It the temperatures will stay chilly through the 7 00 hour. At 10 00, were in the 60s and warming into the 70s. In fact, a little warmer than yesterday afternoon. 75 degrees for philadelphia, even south jersey will warm into the low 70s today while it stays a little cooler at the shore. You may have noticed on the seven day some rain. Muchneeded rain is on the way. Ill take a look at that when im back in ten minutes. Jessica boyington has your first alert traffic. Thats right, bill. Were watching 422 right now for this accident scene. Hasnt cleared out of the way yet. Now we have another Police Officer on scene. A few vehicles over here on the lefthand shoulder. A little bit of a slow go by it. Emergency construction on the delaware Memorial Bridge again today. Only two right lanes are open to traffic this time. Yesterday we only had one. We will see a little relief in that sense, but still major delays
Im tracy davidson. Its cold. The cold came in on those gusty winds yesterday, and this is what we have. This is pretty close to normal. A cold start and the temperatures are still falling and skies are clear which, of course, means were going to sunshine too. A little breeze out of the northwest at 7 miles an hour. Nowhere near as windy at 9 00. 33 degrees above freezing and a pretty good warmup. Upper 30s today. But well start to watch some clouds moves into the area during the afternoon. And that will set the stage for snow coming in tonight. Ill go through the forecast neighborhood by neighborhood when im back in ten minutes. For now, jesse boynton. Si. Its real early for this. You can see we have Police Activity there. Its over into the shoulder right now. Several vehicles involved. You can see it trails up a little further up there, but the traffic headed northbound by this scene is still moving along just fine but with the several vehicles involved in Police Activity, it could be
More on the way. The winds coming right off the ocean, this is cape may from the marquis de lafayette and its one soggy and windy day. You can see just a tremendous area of rain and its getting heavier in portions of maryland and some of that is headed this way. You can also see its getting a bit heavier with the lighter green. Now its getting darker and so if anything the rain is going to be getting heavier as we go through the afternoon. You can see some of those darker colors in maryland. The yellows, of course, some of the heavier rain. And that continues to move straight in our direction so portions of delaware are going to get it first, then Chester County and then its going to be moving right into philadelphia as you can see this on the futurecast. But then things taper off a bit as we go into the night tonight. But that is just temporary because theres more rain that is going to be coming during the day tomorrow. The temperatures way higher than this time yesterday. 56 in phila
The delays. Some of them as long as two hours. Its been raining for two hours so that means a slow go of it is ahead for a whole lot of folks that you see hopping out of cars right now, running to airplanes. When we were inside, lines at the tsa checkpoints were incredibly long before sunrise. Aaa is telling us today is likely the busiest day because students are getting out of school for the christmas holiday. They also say people are taking advantage of the holidays falling on friday, which means a threeday weekend twice before years end. Aaa is projecting 73,000 people will fly. We caught up with grandparents on their way to spoil their grandchildren. Youre taking them shopping when you get there . Of course. Reporter is this tradition for you . You always go to minnesota. This is my first christmas. I usually go thanksgiving and easter. Reporter but they said weve got to have you christmas. Oh, you know it. We have two suitcases full of christmas presents. Reporter fun. Fun what ar
Going on today. We have the Rainy Weather and the wind and fog and the possibility for record warmth. Its warm already, temperatures in the upper 50s. By this afternoon, we could near 65 degrees and 63 is the record set back in 1950, so we are chasing that later on this afternoon. Otherwise, its windy. You can tell by the shot here blowing the flags around and its wet and damp, but we are starting to see improvement to the south. Heres what the storm looks like right now on radar. You see the cold air on the backside of the system in the ohio valley producing snow for us, and all rain for everybody. Not seeing any wintry weather but seeing pockets of heavy rain in some spots. Still in parts of bucks county and Mercer County in new jersey, we are seeing pockets of heavier rain. You see the yellow and oranges and darker shading indicating that heavier rain. Ocean county also seeing heavy rain especially where you see the red on the edge of burlington and ocean county. 59 degrees in phila