the same to declare a climate emergency. here we are. we don t know why the white house stopped short of making this emergency declaration on climate today with of course president biden standing in front of a once-fired coal powered plant being converted into an offshore wind manufacturing facility. there s speculation a tough time to roll out that announcement amid high gas prices and recession fears and since can it be used as a legal basis to drop oil and gas drills. congressional republicans say pain at the pump is the point. i think the administration does want us to suffer. the secretary of transportation said yesterday you don t like the cost of gasoline, buy an electric vehicle. so some announcements did come from the president s remarks plan to propose wind mills in the gulf of mexico and a record of amount of fema funding for infrastructure, neil. jackie, thanks for that. let s go to jeff block right now. he s in philadelphia. witnesses this for himself. the
Murphy and ma and matt pelman. Today is 62. Like the way were going. And were looking right now with our sky6 camera at the center city skyline. We can see mostly clear skies above. Its a mostly good start to the day. Numbers a bit milder than yesterday morning. In fact were in the low 50s in cape may. 52. Its 50 degrees at the airport in plans and specifications, 47 degrees in millville. We dipped to 46 in the city. Still just the 30s in allentown. Thats one of the spots yes where youre below freezing. 37 in reading. Were seeing quite a range in temperatures this morning but if youre in one of the warmer spots, why not head out for a jog and youre looking at 6 00 a. M. We saw 45 degrees now and at 8 00 a. M. , 46. By 11 00 a. M. , its up to 58 degrees so temperatures pretty quickly rising today and were going to hit it up to 62 so its going to feel good out there this afternoon. In fact, temperatures a little more than 10 degrees above average. Hey, great day to do a little decorating
Good afternoon sara bloomquist is off. The big story on action news is an accuweather alert. With another round of light snow expected to be very soon. A number of schools made the call to dishis early today. You see them running at the bottom of your screen. Lets go live outside as we take a live look at Dillworth Plaza outside of city hall. A Winter Weather advisory is in effect across philadelphia and other parts of the region, we expect the snow to start falling at any minute and may last through the evening commute. With the latest with what to expect lets go to Melissa Magee in for david murphy. We issued the accuweather alert because of the snow that will be falling and also because of the timing of the system. We have a windchill weather advisory posted across the region and goes up at 1 00 through 9 00 tonight. So it is for philadelphia, the i95 corridor and coastal new jersey and we expect the snow to fall at that time. We expect the snow to fill in to the north and west too.
And ferdinand began looking for the hitman. As a result of April Kauffmans desire to divorce James Kauffman he was intent to rather have her killed as opposed to losing his financial many prior. The man allegedly hired to kill april, mulholland. They are charged with murder and Rick Williams tearing and six others are charged with their alleged roles in the drug operation and kauffman is accused of running out of his egg harbor medical practice and kauffman is in jail stemming from weapons charges after he pulled a weapon when a search warrant was executed at his office. We just got off the phone with James Kauffmans defense attorney ted jacobs and that his client plans to enter a not guilty plea and had nothing to do with his wifes death. Back to you. Thank you. Philadelphia police are looking for a man that they say has stolen Church Donations several times. Today they released the crime in action inside of the romancal calvary church. Officers say he did the same thing december 4th
Have winds of 40 to 45 miles per hour. And we did hit 90 briefly making this heat wave number three today the number was lower than the last couple of days but the big story is dew points are in the mid70s, it feels uncomfortable but by tomorrow morning they dropped into the 60s, a breath of relief here, well talk about the turn around here in the accuweather forecast, well have it for you in the full accuweather forecast. If you find yourself in the middle of Severe Weather and breaking news join the action email your pictures and videos to jointheaction 6abc. Com or use the hashtag 6abcaction on social media. Three young people are dead and two are hurt after a high speed crash they believe they may have been racing at the time. Chad pradelli has more on the investigation. This is what is left of 2007 accura that smash nood a tree last night. The twisted metal and torn leather and broken glass show a crash that killed three and hurt two others. I cant believe it it doesnt feel real t