Eyewitness weather g sunday morning, chelsea a bit mess toy day. Were talking rain, wind, that is the big story but it is a wet start for marathon runners and it is out there warming up probably getting in those damp feet but the good news i think rain will be moving out just in time for start of the marathon so we should be turning dryer, as they are finishing, their race today. Lets take you to storm scan three note that is we have those showers pushing through the region. They will be moving on out from west to east as we head throughout the Morning Hours ill zoom into get a better look where we are dealing with shower activity. We are dealing with moderate rain just east of philadelphia , down into new jersey, and those showers are going to be pushing out though throughout the Morning Hours. Now temperatures are checking in the 40, 50s and 60s quite a spread, right. Fiftyeight in philadelphia. Fiftyeight in allentown. We are in the 60s down the shore. Sixtyone in atlantic city. Not
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the open wheels it will cause accidents and drivers to lose control and because of high speeds they don t have time to react from the spinning cars in front of them. jon: in the open cockpit, they don t have the safety of role cage that nascar drivers have. my understanding that protective loop sits behind his head actually snapped off his car and he died of massive head injuries? yeah. i believe he died when his head hit the side of the wall after he, after he went into the catch fence, his helmet and head hit the side of the wall as his car was coming back down to the ground. jon: he was starting at the back of the pack as part of this special $5 million challenge. if he won the race he was going to split that money with one of the fans. and, you know, irony he wasn t involved in any way in creating this terrible accident, was he? no. it was pretty much, oh, in creating the accident, no.
high-speed oval tracks that were built specifically for nascar. in practice this weekend before the race the cars were reaching 224 miles an hour. you had had larger than usual field. you had 34 cars and you had some drivers there relatively inexperienced on the ovals. and several of the drivers before the race expressed fears that something really bad could happen. it only took, 11, 12, laps for this absolutely horrific accident to occur. jon: for our viewers might not be familiar with that that means, because they have banked oaf vals and put the pedal to the metal and not slow down the entire race. exactly. they don t lift off the goose for example. it is called pack racing and the cars are stuck really close together. in nascar they can touch and will not automatically wreck. if in indy cars touch with
jon: obviously this morning there are a lot of new questions about indy car racing safety after the fiery crash that killed two-time indy champ dan wheldon. it is a sport that is of course inherently dangerous, even with the sweeping safety improvements put into place 10 years ago after the death of dale earnhardt. lars anderson, is senior writer with sports illustrated. . dan, obviously after the earnhardt nascar crash and, you know, the changes that have been made to the indy cars, it was starting to feel like a fairly safe sport. it had been a long time since there had been a crash like that. what is this one going to say to the racing league? well, i think indy car needs to look long and hard whether or not they want to keep racing on the