How about a check on toda todays forecast with katie and traffic with meisha. Happy mlk day for all of you. Good to see you. Im very tired. I was up late watching football. Looking good. We were talking with the schuylkill closure each ill have the details in a moment. Weather is quiet and that should not have any behind reference on morning commute out here today. Things are looking quiet right now. Eventually light snow works its way in. Well talk about the timing later. For now just to get you out the door quiet activity on storm scan and chill in the air. Actual air temperatures only into the teens right now. Each mount pocono onlt at 5. Its another cold morning hat, scarf, gloves always a good idea especially if you are waiting on a platform. And it will be harsh. Now for now again its still quiet throughout the entire day. Just clouds out there. Still pretty substantial chill in the air. High in the city 31. Youre a little better at the shore. Not by much though meisha up to 34.
Base is and the city of philadelphia not having that celebration, i know what it means and how close we are, and how excited the city is. We love it, we feel it the same way as players. Jenkins one of the captains on this team told everyone, he made is clear we are not just going to minnesota for the super bowl. We are going to win the super bowl perhaps the third time will be the charm for your eagles, live at team headquarters, jeff skversky, channel 6 action news. It seems everywhere in philadelphia there are eagles, life size cardboard cutouts and banners at city hall and fans wearing their best birds gear but with the reputation for having the passionate and unruly fans will a trip to the super bowl help our image . Jeff is live on Independence Mall with what folks are saying about that. Reporter hey monica both experts and tourists agree that it helps philadelphias image long considered an underdog and an image that characterizes an eagles team. This is an invaluable opportunity.
Keeping players safe in this heat. Reporter we try to go live in front of stuff actually happening on tv but you can see whats happening here. Nothing. Because the way they are keeping the kids safe at Concord High School, they arent having them out in the worst of the heat. Teams and bands in delaware were just allowed to start practicing on saturday. The road to the state title starts here on brutal hot summer days. When its this hot even the sign about the Christmas Trees coming cant take your brain to a cooler place. Its saernl not helpis certainl Concord High School marching band. They are in full swing getting ready for the season. The concrete gets warm. Reporter the band is doing quick sessions with lots of water breaks. They have a long season ahead. Its never good. Never good. We got the worst temperatures. You got to go from sunburn to frostbite. They are usually wearing a wool uniform which is either not enough or too much. Reporter the Field Hockey Team is also out here to
A sister station sent news members to help with reporting and messages of love from parkers boyfriend, the evening anchor at the television station. We just moved in together. We were about to celebrate nine months together. And every morning i would wait up for her to wake up and we would i would make her breakfast. We would talk. I would make her lunch and send her off on her day. Reporter adam ward was engaged to the morning producer. Vicki gardner, in the video, underwent a second surgery. Shes expected to make a full recovery. Alison thanks, liz. Since the shootings, several politicians are calling for stricter gun control laws. New jersey governor and republican president ial candidate Chris Christie is not one of them. On the Fox News Channel today, he called gun violence in lawlessness issue. He says the country does not need more laws, just better enforcement of the ones in place. When i was u. S. Attorney, we enforced gun laws. We put more folks in jail than in previous years
3 as it moves through the caribbean. Right now it is lashing the Dominican Republic with near Hurricane Force winds. People will wake up without power and surrounded by widespread devastation after the hurricane hit the island yesterday as a category 4 hurricane. It could be four to six months before the electricity is restored. Ive never seen devastation like this one. Its the human spirit is going to have to rise up real high, and im sure we have the strength to do it but we have to find it within ourselves. Puerto ricos governor imposed a 6 00 p. M. To 6 00 a. M. Curfew to allow rescue crew to do their work and the mayor says the san juan that we knew is no longer there. Now the Dominican Republic is getting ready to face maria. People putting up plywood. Schools suspended, flights suspended and about 4,000 tourists were moved to other hotels. Danger at the jersey shore is subsiding, but the high surf as expected caused beach erosion. We captured monster waves crashing over the sea