Right now dangerous heat gripping our area. Folks buying up water ice and ice cream and bottled water just trying stay cool out at the art museum. Moving live to trenton move us are in the 80s right now and the mercury is only going to climb back up. Many kids out running through the spray park in front of city hall tonight. We are only in the beginning of this heat wave. Only going to get hotter. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland and kathy orr is live outside our studios here in old city. We could could be close to 100 degrees by the end of the week, kathy . Thats right. Were talking about temperatures soaring in the mid even upper 90s by the end of the week and it will feel like its well over 100 by then and this heat is not going to break until at least the second half of the weekend. Take a look at the numbers out there right now. It is balmy. When you look at how warm it actually is, right now in philadelphia its still 84. Little bit cooler in the poconos 69. Its comforta
Lehigh valley. These will continue to increase from west to east throughout the day. Forecast for this afternoon, temperatures climb into the low 60s by 1 00 p. M. We could see scattered showers in the city at that point. 3 00 p. M. , 59. 5 00 p. M. , were back down to 57. Same thing. The best chance of seeing the showers would be later this afternoon shooting for a high of 62. When i come back in just a few minutes, we have showers in the forecast overnight tonight, swells tomorrow, there are several other days where we could see wet weather, as well. Thats straight ahead in the sevenday forecast, ill time it you will out with future tracker. Developing right now, Philadelphia Police are looking for the attacker who stabbed a 24yearold man to death near Rittenhouse Square. The victim was celebrating st. Patricks day with friends. Trish hartman is on the scene with the details. Trish. Reporter well, nydia, police say it happened at the buildings behind me at 18th and rittenhouse, a gro
Rosemary connors, 6 00 saturday me saturday. We are talking about wet weather. Not a washout . Just a few showers, mild, that is the tradeoff. Another mild day before we cool down. Temperatures right now mainly in the 50s and 40s, 40s are in the area. A live look outside waking up to clouds. Peeks of sun here and there. 47 in allentown, 53 in mount pocono. South and east, temperatures in the 40s and 50s as well. 49 in dover, 52 in wildwood, and 52 in millville. Theres a cold front moving through today. A chance of scattered showers, light stuff, not everyone sees showers, but theres a chance to see the showers on saturday. Can the, cloudy, 54, lunch, chance of showers, mild, 62, and low 60s at 4 00. A mild day today, cooler on sunday, and then chilly by monday. The numbers coming up. Breaking news weve followed this morning about another deadly attack in mali at a u. N. Peace keeping base. We learned that two peacekeepers and civilian are dead and at least 20 others hurt. Rockets were
Work, thats how he close his inaugural address after a swearing in and speech from him and the city council president. I will discharge the duties of my office, i will discharge the duties of my office. With fidelity. With fidelity. With that oath, jim kenny a veteran of city council became the 99th mayor. The south philadelphia native and son of a fireman campaigned promising to launch a war on the high profiter rate and create universal preschool for children of philadelphia. We will have to put aside our differences and acknowledge two things that black lives do matter at it is the overwhelming majority of our police are decent hardworking public serve servants who risk their lives everyday. Reporter the new city council was sworn in and Darrell Clark was elected president again. He said they will work on more funding for Public Schools. Together we have to find a away to get more Public School students on a path of tech health and science jobs in the city of philadelphia thats how
See snow showers coming down out of new york state. Flurries not out of the question. 33 in philadelphia. 27 in allentown. The freezing mark in wilmington. Cold out there this morning, but its colder thanks to the winds which are beginning to pick up a windchill making it feel like the teens and reading and allentown and trenton and 23 in philadelphia as you head outside early. As we roll through the day we hit a daily high of 35 at 3 00 a. M. Him well not see that the rest of the way. 28 dries by 8 00. Noon, 31 during the daytime period and back in the 20s by 3 00 p. M. The windchills making it feel like the teens this afternoon as the winds continue to get stronger. Worse windchills overnight tonight into tomorrow morning. Theres light at the end of the tunnel. Ill detail that coming up. First day back to work for a lot of people. We have problem on i95 creating heavier track. I95 at cottman, southbound traffic slow because of an accident out of the view here involving two vehicles n