This afternoon. Then well be watching for scattered showers and some thunderstorms a possibility today. Well go through it neighborhood by neighborhood when im back in ten minutes. Right now, traffic time. First alert traffic reporter Jessica Boyington. Well do a check on the area bridges first. Well start things off on the walt whitman. Currently no problems in the clear there. Construction on the ben franklin bridge, two lanes blocked headed westbound into philadelphia. Scheduled for an opening for the tacony palmyra at 6 00 a. M. Were monitoring our cameras in new jersey around the area to make sure youre not going to be stuck in too much backup. This would have been the schuylkill expressway right around route 1. There it goes. Im actually taking this camera because i wanted to show you the reduced visibility and rain hitting the area. Either direction not a whole lot of volume. Definitely something to watch out for, might set you back a little bit with the rain falling right now.
Morning. Its a steamy start and a warmer one. 78 degrees. Dry,lhx right now in philadelphia. You can see what is moving across central pennsylvania. These are light showers but there are heavy downpours moving through punxsutawney right now. Those showers moving in for some areas this morning. Everybody will start dry. Look at the temperatures low 70s in allentown. Upper 70s for dover and millville. Theres the 79 degrees right now at Philadelphia International and northeast philadelphia. Both close to the 80 degree mark at this hour. Hour by hour forecast 6 00 76 agrees. The temperature has come down a little bit, then right back up at 9 00 81 agrees. Then we see a chance of showers and thunderstorms as we get closer to the noontime hour. The showers and possibly heavy downpours this afternoon. Well go neighborhood by neighborhood with the forecast when i come back in ten minutes. First, Jessica Boyington with first alert traffic. Bill what were dealing with is ongoing construction. Th
Carlis homecoming. Well check with him ahead at 5 30. New information in the bill cosby scandal. A public official tells us he believes cosby could Face Criminal Charges based on the comedians testimony and a Sexual Assault lawsuit ten years ago. Vai sikahema is live for us in our Digital Operations Center now. Vai, what charges could cosby possibly face . Well chris, let me sum it up in one word perjury. Were hearing that from the former prosecutor who tried to file charges against the comedian years ago. Monday night we brought you cosbys admission that he got quaaludes, a sedative with the intention of using them for young women with whom he wanted to have sex. The admission came from a deposition cosby gave ten years ago in 05. A Temple University employee accused him of drugging and sexually asauling her at his home. Conte commissioner and former d. A. Bruce caster who is running for his old job says cosby may have lied under oath. It is as good as what wed get in a Sexual Assault
Climb into the middle to upper 80s. Neighborhood by neighborhood forecast. That clz the shore when i come back in ten minutes. Right now, a check of traffic with first alert traffic reporter Jessica Boyington. The first place we see volume in the Morning Hours is 95. Thats ringing true right now. In the southbound lanes, southbound ahead towards the Center City Area 14 minutes from that point, from woodhaven road up towards the vine street expressway. No real problems yet. Everything still moving along and no incidents around that area as well. The pa turnpike 22 minutes westbound or eastbound from route 1 up towards valley forge. Septa, dealing with fleet upgrades on several trains. There will be fewer cars on most of the trains this morning. For new Jersey Transit and patco, theyre running on time. Well check in on new jersey road coming up. Vai . I couldnt do it without you all. Every single one of you, so proud of this team. Everybody collectively we got the job done. Well that was
And 55 up to malaga, and a secondary area near hammonton and rich land 5 05 and Pleasant Mills 5 18 and around that same time for weymouth. Not severe but we are dealing with severe rain and water on the roadways and that is leading to a flood advisory in this general area, as far south as cedarville and as far north as buena vista and weymouth until 8 30 p. M. , and same for pits grove 1 to 3 inches have fallen and find an alternate route never want to drive through an alternate route west is a powerful low developing near kansas city and st. Louis, this lifts to our north today and tomorrow, most of the day tomorrow is sunny and hot, and late in the afternoon and evening look for a line of storms that pass through the Storm Prediction Center and all points west to State College and a high risk tomorrow and the main threat will be the torrential rain and the possible of strong winds well come back and time the storms for thursday afternoon for you coming up in the full accuweather for