Lets check in with meteorologist ted florendo and the changes coming over the next several days. Ted . Yes a Beautiful Day for our fathers day. Another gorgeous day across the region. Four weekends in a row of beautiful weather. Live look at Citizens Bank park. Phils take on the cubs today. Take dad to the game. Going to have another nice day for that. Winds breezy yesterday. Today not so bad. Right now were starting off rather mild outside. 59 for quakertown. Already around 62 philadelphia this morn. Down the shore 58 degrees. 64 wildwood. That will be a nice warm day. Lancaster currently 55 degrees. Of course like we said the breeze is blowing. Today could see them 10 to 15. Not a bad day. Fathers day high of 82, sunny and gorgeous. Mostly sunny skies. Tomorrow well see increase in clouds. Also get humidity and thunderstorms for the upcoming week and also the first 90 degrees day next week as well. Well show you that coming up on your exclusive first alert forecast in just a few minu
Equipment anticipating a long stay, chairs, and a reinforcement of people. The topic on many lips, a strike both sides will dispute saying they did not want and yet thats exactly what they have. Were disappointed. We really felt that the one issue that was a Sticking Point was something we could continue to discuss. The we did ask for a twoweek extension with or without the pay raises that we had offered to the employees. Those offers were denied. Reporter that denial has led to workers for two Regional Rail unions, standing outside their job this morning instead of working at their job. Late last night executives say representatives from the blet and iew told them they were on strike effective 12 01 this morning. The Regional Rail system stretching 280 track miles is now shut down for the First Time Since 1983. The issue thats created this impasse centers on pension increases offered to other Union Employees and fourees worth of raises. The two striking unions do not have a pension, s
On the beach. Lancaster 76 for your temperatures out now. Breezes yesterday, not the case now. Things fairly light. Breeze for Atlantic City and trenton. Could get breezy on the shore this afternoon. Highs today 82 philadelphia. Well be about mid 70s for the shore. Sunny skies throughout the afternoon. Maybe few clouds by later in the evening. Not a bad day. Tomorrow, more clouds expected tomorrow afternoon. Going to be a hot and sticky week next week as we approach the 90s again. Well talk about what to expect coming up in your first alert forecast here on nbc 10. Rosemary . Thank you ted. Setpas Regional Rail service is back on track. Workers returned to work after workers resumed after the strike. Katy is there. How are things running this morning . Reporter last check things were running well. I spoke to a spokesperson that said one engineer didnt show up for work. That affected a train on the doylestown line. Other than that a, all employees showed up. You can see from the board t
Good sunday morning, start with the breaking knew the deteriorating situation in iraq. This morning there are reports of a Suicide Attack in baghdad and hislamic terrorists are threatening the iraqi capital, though the advance has slowed. The u. S. Aircraft carrier george h. W. Bush, is in the persian gulf. Richard engel has covered the region for almost two decades. He is in irbil in Northern Iraq. Despite this mornings attack in baghdad, the slowing of the terrorist advance has lessened some of that tension there, correct . It has, david, just yesterday, fierce across this country that baghdad could fall, that the sunni extremists could anchor the city and take it, collapsed government. Krit clirks starting to see the shiite militias take to the sweet sweet. The shiites found their the fog it doesnt seem at this stage that baghdad is going to fall imminently, instead, looks like they are heading into a long, sectarian fight. The advance of sunni fanatics from an al qaeda offshoot sta
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