Live from the cbs Broadcast Center in philadelphia, this is cbs3 Eyewitness News. Tonight on Eyewitness News, dry no more. If you have to head out bring your umbrella. The weekend washout is under way and right now the region is under a. M. Flood watch. One look at storm scan3 shows that band of rain moving up and into our region this evening bringing the possibility of some heavy downpours with it. Good evening and thank you for joining us. Im alexandria hoff in for natasha brown. The rain hack coming down since early this afternoon and its going to continue to be a soggyght. Meteorologist Matt Peterson is in for lauren this evening. Much of our region is under a flood watch. How much rain are we talking about. Multiple inches of rain. Its going to expand as we go through the night. Widespread showers. This is what center city looked like early this afternoon. You needed the rain boots because it was a soggy, soggy start to the weekend. Those showers came in really into the midafterno
We start you off with a forecast, here is meteorologist, Chelsey Ingram with eyewitness weather. Good saturday morning, chelsey very mild, south winds, we also have the cloud cover, so that allows temperatures not drop as much as they did the past couple every nights, but it will come at a cost. Now is the time to go out, walk the dog, grab the newspaper, this morning, if you have any outdoor plans, you want to accomplish, i would do it as soon as possible, because we have quite a bit of rain thats going to be headed our way. A look at the cloud cover right any cloud cover right now. We have lots of cloud cover across the region. 33 degrees right now in philadelphia. Not too bad. Thirtyone in wilmington, 35 in millville, down the shore temperatures are in the 40s, 42 atlantic city, four in wildwood. Above freezing up in the poconos right around 33 degrees. Now hearings the temperature difference over the past 24 hours, 9 degrees warm nerve philadelphia, 12 degrees warm nerve allentown,
For 17yearold taylor white of jackson, mississippi people have it on their houses. Its everywhere. Reporter and rose kenney i dont know of any other, you know any other place when you have a war and the loser gets to fly their flag. Reporter witnessing this historic fall of the Confederate Flag over South Carolinas capitol is a moment they will forever embrace. Even watching it on a tv screen from the Pennsylvania Convention center. I had a great great uncle who was lynched under the flag and my great grandmother had to take care of him. Reporter kenny and his sister are united having felt the divide and hatred they say associated with the symbolic battle flag in their native north carolina. Even running into the woods from the ku klux klan. People used to throw things at us and use the n word go home and we were only third and fourth graders at the time. Reporter as young girls they crossed the Railroad Tracks among the first black students to attend a white school. So for those of us
Hes been locked up since for burglary. While police wait for dna results the veteran head of the homicide unit says he hopes the District Attorney will seek the Death Penalty for harris who killed his own father in 1982 and has committed multiple sexual assaults. That daughter did everything the right way. She was a very nice young lady. She graduated from under grad, went to grad school and was about make her mark in this life and to be killed in this fashion is very sad and very tragic. Reporter Harris Police tell me is right now in the homicide unit right now continuing to refuse to talk but the cops say hes been caught red handed through dna in this vicious 50th street murder. Live at Police Headquarters in center city, vernon odom, channel6 action news. Okay, vern, thank you. Meantime police in delaware say a woman found dead in a wilmington park was murdered and they say theyve caught the man who did it. Police found the body of 29yearold jamie murphy yesterday on a playground on
Bill henley and his first alert forecast. South jersey is not one of the spots that has dried out and wont have any more showers. Cloudy skies in south jersey, a quick downpour here and there, mainly inland. Some of them will be crossing the shore as well. Look at the temperatures, 78 in northeast philadelphia, wilmington is 72 degrees. A warmer start this morning but as the day goes on, the clouds that you see here will be clearing out and humidity dropping. 74 at 6 00. By 9 00, 77 degrees and a westerly wind kicking in and 84 at noontime, still some clouds in the area but we will see more and more sunshine as the afternoon goes on. Your hour by hour futurecast when i come back in ten minutes. Right now, lets see how the roads are looking. Jessica boyington has first alert traffic. Were right around girard avenue, right now were doing okay, still early for this to jam up. On the southbound side headed toward thec Center City Area, 13minute drive time from woodhaven road up towards th