One of the themes that emerged in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire was the link between the disaster and austerity. Thats an idea thats particularly galling, given just how rich the royal borough of kensington and chelsea actually is. Im here in elm park gardens, which is a road about three miles south from Grenfell Tower, on the other side of the borough. The average Property Price here is £1. 8 million. But its actually here that the real story of the grenfell fire begins. You see, on this road, the council sold off a load of its property, including some of these basement flats. They took £6 million from those sales, they added in £3 million from elsewhere, and they put that £9 million or so budget towards renovating and refurbishing Grenfell Tower. That refurbishment was supposed to make it a nicer, warmer place to live. Grenfell was selected by the borough and kctmo, its tenant management organisation, to complete the renovation of buildings in this corner of the boroug
Water. And these all the red areas those are the flash Flood Warnings in place until midnight or even after midnight tonight as this line traverses eastern massachusetts this is the rain were talking about and theres thunder and lightning. Dont try to travel in it and you dont want to be outside in the lightning. This is the heavy rain i was talking about. Look for the red and orange, roxbury to chelsea and north shore getting hit hard into the southeastern portion of New Hampshire, too theres west newbury, new breez newburyport, metro west heres your rain. Norwood getting some torrential rain right along 1a from norwood to Westwood Metro west area getting some heavy rain, too between newton and natick. Around carver and Middleboro Attleboro also into plymouth. Around buzzards bay you dont even have a Flood Warning out on cape cod because you wont get the heaviest. 4. 50 inches in sterling, worcester airport thats four inches of rain tonight is more than have you for the entire summer,
Water. And these all the red areas those are the flash Flood Warnings in place until midnight or even after midnight tonight as this line traverses eastern massachusetts this is the rain were talking about and theres thunder and lightning. Dont try to travel in it and you dont want to be outside in the lightning. This is the heavy rain i was talking about. Look for the red and orange, roxbury to chelsea and north shore getting hit hard into the southeastern portion of New Hampshire, too theres west newbury, new breez newburyport, metro west heres your rain. Norwood getting some torrential rain right along 1a from norwood to Westwood Metro west area getting some heavy rain, too between newton and natick. Around carver and Middleboro Attleboro also into plymouth. Around buzzards bay you dont even have a Flood Warning out on cape cod because you wont get the heaviest. 4. 50 inches in sterling, worcester airport thats four inches of rain tonight is more than have you for the entire summer,
We had construction that cleared out we do have some on the cross bronx expressway. Westbound added to the bronx. Two lanes closed. You can see delays over here. Overturned vehicle on the process of being cleared eastbound on the service road. Take note of that. Well take a quick look outside at the belt parkway where things are moving along nicely by the airport. Again, youre in for a nice ride here, well have more weather and traffic on the 4s. New information this morning about the suspect in a deadly carjacking. Police a joshua colon ran over and killed the victim in sunset park. Today in new yorks Lori Bordonaro does some digging into his past. Reporter we learned that 24yearold joshua colon is now facing murder charges in a carjacking. He was led out of the station house at the 72nd precinct a few hours ago. Reporters about the incident. Police tracked down colon at a nearby residence where he was allegedly hiding out. Hes accused of hijacking philip dellegrazie and running over
An online threat of violence is made against universities around philadelphia and the fbi and police are taking it seriously. Heavy rains and winds are gone and now people are cleaning up the streets flooded at the jersey shore this weekend. Heres a live look outside in philadelphia where the streets are dry this morning. A little later, the sun will be out. Good morning, this is nbc 10 news today. Im tracy davidson. I was in my bathrobe for the entire weekend. Started a fire if the fireplace. That was nice. Lets go to bill with the forecast. Am i going to need a fire today . It would be dangerous if youre just wearing a bathrobe. Its a little chilly today. Were an hour away from sunrise. No showers this morning. Theres a slight chance of a sprinkle at the shore but overall improving conditions today. 51 at philadelphia international, 40s for allentown, redding and pottstown, wilmington is down to 48 degrees. The wind, thats still blowing. Not going to be as strong as we had over the w