Saturday july 22, 2017, speaking of basketball okayly irving. All these talks about okay lie and lebron and sixers if we have anything to do with it. You think he might come here. I dont think so. A lot of people are like no, dont. I dont know. You never know what happens with those guys. Agents working with the front offices, so much we dont hear about. Its hot outside. Its hot out. Its gross. I got in my car after getting my hair done. It says 101. Dangerous heat out there. Speaking of cars. A car can heat up rapidly with this intense heat. So the fifth heat wave of the season the longest one, it will continue for today. Already, temperatures around the Delaware Valley upper 70s. Right around 80 currently in philadelphia. We have Severe Weather to get through late this afternoon into this evening. Weather by the numbers scale of 11 to 10 today we will give it a six. Live look right now on the parkway. Sunshine out there. Temperature already 80. Look at the dew points. In the low to m
Center, katie. Great to be inside this noon, that is for sure because we have a very soaking rain that continues to pummel parts of the area. Southe of philadelphia we will start off by taking another glimpse of the storm scan, a little more of the localized zoom, very evident where heaviest rain has fallen. New castle and kent county and across delaware bay into parts of the salem, cumberland county. As we zero in on the heaviest rain falling locally we have got not only lightening strikes coming in here across parts of the salem county as well and cumberland but also highest rainfall rates. Thinks doppler indication that we are seeing in that dark maroon shade aired use, the part you see in the bulls eye in the center of the screen. They are as high as two and threequarters inches per hour that is definitely leading to flash flooding in these areas. Not saying that Little Pocket will be over you for an hour but it will cause problems, as we try to travel through these areas. Just bli
An hour ago or so. Watch for that. P. A. Turnpike looks okay. You see on the roads here, everything is green, 22 minutes in both directions, though. Westbound and eastbound from route 1 to valley forge, speeds into the 60s. Back to you guys. Now to our breaking news this morning, legendary phillies catcher dutch daulton lost his battle with cancer, he was 55. The phillies released a statement saying all of us are saddened to hear of darrens passing. From the day we drafted him until today he constantly earned our respect and admiration as both a player and a person. He spent 14 seasons in philadelphia. Yeah, he left as one of the most beloved phillies of all time. Csns Marshall Harris looks back at the man we came to know simply as dutch. Reporter on the field, he was strong. Im a philadelphia philly. Reporter two bad knees, hollywood good looks, darren dutch daulton became one of the most beloved phillies of all time. Drafted in 1980, daulton spent parts of 14 seasons behind the plate
Theyre still going on in the court behind me. You know, Business Owners are testifying this afternoon about how their businesses have been devastated by the construction out there. Lifeguards telling stories about how they got rashes from the contamination in that pond of the basin but the government says the shut down is costing taxpayers about 125,000 a day, and theyre asking the court to let them get back to work while they try to figure out what happened here. Absolutely not. If theres a problem, you need to stop, figure it out and do something thats going to work. Reporter residents and locals not buying the governments explanation that they need to complete the dunes project, have everything in place before they know for sure how the system works there. Theyre stumped. Reporter stumped for now admitted an army corps of engineer project manager and theyre hydraulics expert saying, theyve seen this kind of prolonged ponding before working a similar project in sea isle. And it all w
Information. But were told that none of them have lifethreatening injuries at this moment. All we know that peco has been called out to the scene. This was some incident that was a result of something that happened underground. Some sort of a fire underground here. So, again, gay street still blocked off. The surrounding area though still very active. The bar, the restaurants are still open for business. People are out eating. People are Walking Around with their dogs just as the scene is still under investigation right now. So again this call came in at around 3 30. 12 firefighters have been hurt. The good news here, nonlife threatening injuries i do have a call into peco so were waiting to hear from them for more details. But back here out at the scene, still an investigation underway. Thats the very latest that we have from here. We do have to go. Weve been told that Emergency Management is bringing in a piece of equipment and our truck is in the way. We want to get out of the way a