Tracking how long it will stick around plus tracking storms and when this heat wave will end. Ill go over that in my full forecast in about ten minutes. First, lets check in with nbc 10 traffic reporter Jessica Boyington. Overturned vehicle on 95. Well have skyforce 10 over the scene in just a moment. 95 northbound approaching the Commodore Barry bridge. It is look blocking the righthand lane. Police activity on the scene as well. Updates to are you to come in the next ten minutes or so. Out in kensington air emergency go avenue at lehigh avenue still an accident wean have police activity. Your best bet to get through the area frankford avenue. If youre out the door on the schuylkill expressway right around Spring Garden street you can see the schuylkill starting to gather a little bit of volume. Everything was moving east and westbound. We have the Spring Garden street off ramp closed to the schuylkill expressway right now. Your best bet is to take girard avenue to get around the area
To effectively move emergency vehicles as well as a large number of buses that are expected. Lets talk about bridges, the ben franklin bridge is going to be shut down from new jersey into philadelphia. This is the first time officials have confirmed that for us. This will allow people to literally from new jersey walk across the bridge on the road into center city to see the pope, and lets hear from the drpa from a few minutes ago. The bridge will be closed to all vehicles except for emergency vehicles. And we will use it to allow pedestrians to cross into philadelphia from new jersey and back. Real quick, the walt whitman bridge will remain open. That will allow people to get from 95 into new jersey and back. As for when this all gets back to normal back to open again. It could take until monday by noontime. Live at city hall Randy Gyllenhaal nbc10. Our Team Coverage continues now with nbc10s george spencer. A lot of the popes events are in center city philadelphia. The street closure
Fortunately staying far enough out to sea so that south jersey and jersey shore only saw cloud cover. Heavy rains were well off shore. As that storm continues to strengthen and pull off to the north east, it is generating some pretty good swells. Matter of fact heres a live view looking down at the the Atlantic City beach and we have three to 4foot waves, good three to 4foot waves battering the beaches once again this morning and that is producing those rip currents. Matter of fact some beaches yesterday in avalon were closed because of the rip currents that were developing and some beach erosion that was taking place. The beach patrol is out there right now. They will be surveying things to see if they can open up the beach this morning. Heres the call for the beach, rip current risk once again is on the moderate side, you have to pay close attention to the life guard. Wind north at ten to 15 miles an hour. Sea of three to 5 feet. Rough surf. 86 degrees in the city. Jersey shore aroun
Us rest of the mall remains opened but we will stay on top of the situation and we will have more information for you as it becomes available. Fire damages a structure and Oil Refinery Complex in delaware, this all happened around 1 00 this a afternoon at Delaware City Refining Company on blank will hill road. Crews worked quickly to place the blaze under control and no evacuations or injuries were reported. The cause of the fire is now under investigation. Developing right now, terror on a train in france, a gunman opens fire on a high speed train, traveling from amsterdam to paris. These are photos from this scene as Authorities Say at least three people have been wounded, two of them critically. It has happened as the train passed through belgium, two american passengers subdued that gunman until Police Arrested him. When train stopped in the city of 115 miles north of paris. After days of high humidity and storms, it is not so bad outside. The lets see what the weekend will be like
Of the video officer identified as three twoyear old matthew sirgersky is heard using a homophobic slur, while talking to the men in the car. Breast cancer, my mom. Not only is his language on one of the tapes, homophobic which obviously is a violation of our policy and not what we expect from our officers but in the second video which deals with the tickets for the hero thrill show, it is equally, bad. Reporter police are still trying to track down the driver and passenger who recorded these changes. Meantime internal affairs has taken over the investigation. The the hero thrill show is something that we should all be behind, it is a event that raises money for families of Police Officers and Fire Fighters kill in the line of duty and this officer has managed to taint that. Reporter officer has been placed on paid leave, pending the outcome of the internal affairs investigation. Also the the Police Commissioner tells us that they will be looking to see if he should be criminally charg