And lehigh valleys crushing cars, toppling trees and tearing down power lines. Thousands were left without electricity and tomorrow will be a day of cleanup for many. Sunday night and the big story on action news is a day of damaging winds and cleanup begins in ernest tomorrow as we prepare for another night of cold temperatures. Ab an has a look at damage. But first well go to meteorologist mel bhel more on the winds that whipped across the region today. Melissa. Sarah that was big weather story today. We had blustery winds and highest winds reported earlier this morning. Peak wind gusts in philadelphia as high as 48 miles an hour and gusts today in poconos of 47 miles an hour. Wilmington, dover, atlantic city, clocking in with gusts as high as 45 miles an hour. Heres cup pretty and reason why it was so windy today. Stormtracker 6 double scan radar showing you were tracking coastal storm essentially noreaster for areas in new england that produced heavy snow across maine today exiting
Tuesday we have to vote. Once again, election day is tomorrow. We will have fum coverage for you here on cw philly. New this morning, one person is rushed to the hospital after fire rips through their home in north philadelphia. It broke out in a 3story house on the 2200 block of camac street. After 11 00 last night. Crews quickly place that fire under control. Katie, after really cold weekend, homing for little relief. How about . At at least a little bit. But does still feel like winter outside walking out the door. You do want to have heavier coat, ready to go, and keep in mind, it is not just temperature. You have to throw in that wind. Factor that in, too. Lets talk about the baby roller coaster ride we will be taking here Going Forward in the forecast. Yes, upward trend, initially, but then we drop right back down. So we are going to flirt with seasonable, and actually exceed it, in a couple every days coming up here, then we drop right back off on the thermometer, so the evan fl
Better from here, looking at storm scan three wont finds too much in the way of storm i necessary at least not today. The weaken certainly was different story outside, the shadows, sun up an extra hour early, 43 the current temperature, i can tell you there are a lot of 30s, that were finding across the objection boards here, right now. As we go forward, you can expect the temperatures to at least flirt with 60, the normal daytime high on this day, 61, so just shy of that, but warmer by about 10 degrees, compared to yesterday. And no where near as winnie in short it is a better day. Ukee, over to you. Katie, thank youment checking roadways, we have an accident to tell but on 76 eastbound past conshohocken, see Police Lights off there in a distance, flashing the top of your screen, where this accident occurred, just heads up from you are head in the that direction. Roost develop boulevard, experiencing some slow moving traffic and on map ongoing closure, been in effect since last week,
Street by her captor and then forced in to a car in germantown. Police released the video hoping to generate leads tonight and to tonight there is a reward in the case. Action News Reporter dann cuellar is live at northwest detectives and dann, youve got the latest tonight. Reporter well, tonight city has upped ant which mayor michael nuts proving a 10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction. The fbi has join Philadelphia Police in the intense manhunt for the 22year old victim and her abductor. A Philadelphia Police chopper scour the a area from the air while Police Cruisers on the ground went in and around the 100 block of west colter looking for clues in the violent abduction of 22year old car leash a Freeland Gaither. Surveillance shows it was 9 30 that the us pecks car drove down the block and then park, a man in the hooded sweat shirt gets out and walks over to the victim. She tries to run. Man grabbed her and dragged her all the way down the block. She scre
High above chicago. Walking 671 feet on a rope no wider than a penny. And look at this Mission Impossible. Superstar tom cruise clinging to the side of a plane soaring 500 feet above england. And good morning, america. Happy monday. How about that tom cruise, still doing his own stunt. We showed him on the plane there. Lara, youre bringing us that in a little bit. That and dressed in a suit. And nik wallenda, every time he tries to top himself. Blindfolded this time. With a stiff wind. Crazy. Thats so easy. So glad he made it. Oh, my gosh. I cant look that. The wintry blast. Frigid temperatures across the country. Ginger back there chicago. I got to feel the frigid temperatures. North carolina, tennessee, record snow in the one to even almost twofoot category. Parts of tennessee, more than 22 inches. I want to show you the deep freeze in place from parts of mississippi up through pennsylvania. Warnings and advisories everywhere. The temperatures in the northeast, sub freezing for pitts