Wind and that moves in south jersey by nine or ten and then off the coast by 11 or midnight but biggest threat with these storms will be damaging wind and heavy rain. There is that severe thunderstorm watch for the entire area until 11 00 p. M. And high risk for downpours and damaging wind and moderate risk for frequent lightening. We will track this and i do have Better Weather news for weekend coming up in the three day forecast jessica. Track storms in your neighborhood by down loading the cbs philly weather app a. You can get latest forecast check live radar anytime down load app for free right now on google play and itunes. Only Eyewitness News has exclusive video of the fire erupting from a manhole. Buildings were evacuated until crews go the that situation under control. Syma chowdhry is live from olde city now with more on what happened, syma . Reporter jessica, it was a chaotic day for folks here in olde city when an underground fire ended up causing many Power Outages in this
Not only thunderstorms, but severe thunderstorms are likely as a line of showers and storms moves to the east. Damaging winds is the greatest threat with this not the flooding like we saw yesterday. Theres even a threat of one or two tornadoes in the area by the time the day is over. The highest risk of storms as you can see, is in our part of the country. Especially from the philadelphia area, north and west, most of our pennsylvania counties, included in all of this and extreme northwest delaware. Anywhere in that yellow area has a threat for severe storms during the day today. Were dry now. Early showers moved out, so there may be clouds around. But its not going to rain for quite a while. This is the activity thats going to be moving our way. Its going to be strengthening as it goes into the hotter and more humid air. Clouds have kept the temperatures down a bit. Were still in the midto upper 70s. If the sun comes out, that will help fuel the storms even more. It already is into th
Good afternoon rick and sara are off, im matt odonnell, we begin with breaking news in the old city section of philadelphia chopper 6 hd is live over walnut street a transform he erupped underground and power is out in some of these buildings in the area and we know of at least one residential build that was evacuated. Firefighters and peco crews are on the scene right now lets go to a picture an action news viewer sent us clearly showing the smoke from the transformer fire. Peco believes they will have the power restored in an hour from now and the fire looks to be out and they are underground trying to fix things and hopefully getting people back online in about an hour. Now to accuweather, we could be in for a stormy afternoon sky 6 hd taking a look the the philadelphia waterfront from our Temple University camera and light rains moved through our area it can be a preview of what comes later and well feel the first true relief from the heat and humidity david murphy is tracking it o
Sheer, a change in the direction of the wind as you go higher in the atmosphere and that mean a low to moderate risk of isolated tornado the spin up if the storms start to rotate the timing between now and 7 00, this is when the storms are moving in to the far northwest suburbs, the metro area from wilmington to trenton between 7 00 and 9 00, central delaware and southern new jersey this is a late night event between 9 00 and 11 00 tonight. Well have more on what to expect where you live. In other news, a group of Philadelphia Police officers could be in trouble after this video surfaced online. It allegedly shows the officers repeatedly hitting 22yearold tyreke harrell in german town. An internal investgation is now underway. David henry is live at Police Headquarters tonight with the latest. Reporter yes the Police Department has opened an intenal investigation, in the meantime though, the Police Officers involved involved remain on active duty but the suspects grandmother wants them
Orange all of southeastern pennsylvania damaging wind threat perhaps isolated tornado some small hail, downpours as well as lightning. So a lot going on in the atmosphere as we time everything out, right now north and west continueing to move toward the i95 corridor between seven eight, 9 00 oclock approaching philadelphia and moving into south jersey and down the shore between 9 00 and 11 00. Of course, continuing to follow the computer models and ultimate doppler throughout the show. Follow me on twitter as well for updates. Ill be live tweeting. Scott fox 29. Lucy and iain. Scott, thank you. You can stay ahead of the Severe Weather with our fox 29 news app. You can see live radar and get weather alerts sent right to your phone download the app for free and the apple or google play stores. Video posted on youtube shows Violent Arrest by Philadelphia Police. What it captures at least a half dozen Police Officers kicking and punching a man in the street street. Grandmom . Grandmom call