The u. K. Prime minister suffers a blow at home as lawmakers secure a final vote on the brexit deal. She heads to brussels to continue negotiations with e. U. Leaders. Good morning, your risk radar, some the assets you should watch carefully today. Oil is on the top of my list. About. 2 after falling 2. 4 over the last two trading sessions after u. S. Eighth weekly his gain, now at a 30 year high. Watch for that number, kind of a dead cat bounce to possibly fade throughout the day. Take a look at the pound after said mays humiliate humiliation parliament yesterday. Up on the cable rate, just a slight gain their but you may see that new, depending on the headlines that come out of brussels today. And the 10 year after the fed 2. 36 percente ec is the yield here, rising as investors selloff that debt. Janet yellen telling investors the fed still expects to raise rates three times next year and does not expect a giant jump in the economy from the tax cut. So a lot of interesting things to
Of flooding at the shore points, folks are piling up the sand bags, dreading the next high tide. Elsewhere, scenes like this. People wondering how theyll get anywhere tomorrow with huge trees still blocking roads across the area. And you can blame this, live look at radar right now. The drenching rain may be moving on out, but we are not out of the woods yet. Heres live look at the ben franklin parkway. Gusty winds are making it feel pretty chilly out there and theyll be sticking around until tomorrow. Those winds also proved deadly today. Im iain page. Im lucy noland. Thousands in our area are in the dark tonight. Fox 29 though has you covered. Our Dave Schratwieser is tracking the major problems for commuters. Chris oconnell is at the flooded jersey shore. But we begin with meteorologist kathy orr. Kathy, this is proving to be one dangerous storm. Absolutely. A very powerful storm and here it is, heres your noreaster packing winds gusting to over 60 miles an hour today right now were
A lot of people asking me why the goggles tonight. If you are in unprotected area like we are right now in Townsends Inlet, were just getting blasted with sand, bla blasted with white wash from the water. I clocked 54mile an hour gusts the last hour coming off Townsends Inlet right here. We were all over the jersey shore towns tonight. We were in Atlantic City, we were in ocean city, here in avalon, stone harbor, much the same all over. Were getting reports wildwood, almost every Street Corner was flooded earlier tonight. Especially in the lowlying areas. Well luckily most of the rain has moved offshore lucy as you were saying but now were contending with these winds. We understand theyre going to be pounding us all night. Again, especially in these unprotected areas. One of the things that happens when this kind of wind comes these noreasters, beach erosi erosion. Local municipalities throughout the night have been checking beaches and theyre going to get a handle tomorrow on how much
A lot of people asking me why the goggles tonight. If you are in unprotected area like we are right now in Townsends Inlet, were just getting blasted with sand, bla blasted with white wash from the water. I clocked 54mile an hour gusts the last hour coming off Townsends Inlet right here. We were all over the jersey shore towns tonight. We were in Atlantic City, we were in ocean city, here in avalon, stone harbor, much the same all over. Were getting reports wildwood, almost every Street Corner was flooded earlier tonight. Especially in the lowlying areas. Well luckily most of the rain has moved offshore lucy as you were saying but now were contending with these winds. We understand theyre going to be pounding us all night. Again, especially in these unprotected areas. One of the things that happens when this kind of wind comes these noreasters, beach erosi erosion. Local municipalities throughout the night have been checking beaches and theyre going to get a handle tomorrow on how much
Into the mix. Some parts of viewing air regard getting snow and sleet mixed with the rain. We may have School Delays so we will check in with that. Look at the radar, there is rain on the radar right now, we have some white, and you probably know by now what those colors mean, it means that we have, a mix have of preuptation in plenty of places. We will all in closer. You can see berks county, northern montgomery and bucks, Lehigh Valley, poconos getting some snow this morning. Tricky travel, possible, and wind advisory, has been lifted , from yesterday, so that is a good thing but wind speeds still breezy out there 14 miles an hour in philadelphia, 16 in at Atlantic City with wind gusts of 24, 20 miles an hour and compared to yesterday that doesnt seem like much at all but the temperatures have dropped in many places. Most of the time at surface it is above freezing but in the upper atmosphere we see some snow, and sleet mixed the with the rain. We have 30 degrees in mount pocono wher