Expressway closed. Now that is actually preventing any access to the schuylkill expressway westbound. The eastbound side is doing just fine. You can see the road closed signs here so no access to the westbound schuylkill. Take girard to the schuylkill expressway just for right now and they also have local detour signs posted throughout the area. We are still dealing with 11 minute drive him heading westbound from the vine street expressway toward the blue route and eastbound side of the schuylkill expressway from the blue route up to the vine 12 minutes there. No problems on 95. 15 minute trip there from the schuylkill up to the vine street expressway. Mass transit no problems or delays so far. Indicted. Longtime congressman chalk a fa talk of philadelphia is accused of bribing and stealing money intended for charity and dates back to his failed race for mayor in philadelphia in 2007. The indictment alleges his misuse of congressional influence and misspending of taxpayer money and cha
Morning in reading and up by two in trenton and wilmington and millville six degrees warmer. Which means 70s to start with. Hourbyhour forecast we can see some clouds that are around. A few spotty showers possible this morning and storms this afternoon. Ill be back with the hourbyhour future cast in ten minutes. Jessica boyington here with your first alert traffic. We are starting things out right now in Montgomery County on 422 so right around trooper road where we see a drive time hasnt really been lifted yet. Eight minutes from 29 to the schuylkill expressway. The eastbound side here. You can see that drive time. Westbound doing just fine as well. Heading out the door on to 95 our drive times havent creeped up at all so southbound from wood haven road to the vine street expressway the same trip if youre going northbound and going the opposite direction. Arlington township fallen power cable around edge hill road. Take rockwell road to get through the area and mass transit youre free
But those have died down. That is not the main threat. This is. The storms moving through southwestern pennsylvania. Right along North Central pennsylvania too. That line of storms will be moving in. Before it gets here the temperatures will head up. You see mostly cloudy skies right now. We will see some breaks of sunshine. 79 degrees at 8 00. Middle 80s by 11 00. At 2 00 this afternoon, 90 degrees and then we will be watching for storms during the later afternoon hours in philadelphia. We will go through the future cast hourbyhour when i come back in ten minutes to show you when the storms will likely arrive in your neighborhood. If youre heading out the door right now Jessica Boyington has your first alert traffic. We are working through a work zone here on 295 in new jersey. As you can see right here around the black horse pike we are having work zone here in the center. We are losing some shoulder on either direction. Left hand shoulder. Good news the off ramp is open here. Vehicl
Heres our Congressional Correspondent nancy cordes. Save our schools, no to devos. Reporter the debate over betsy devos followed senators home this weekend, as protests popped up outside the state offices of several republicans. Here in washington, the pressure is even more intense. Good afternoon, senator Susan Collins office. Reporter the Senate Switchboard swamped by hundreds of thousands of calls. So he is not supportive of this nominee . Reporter some Democratic Senators took their own turns at the phones. So shes really way outside of the mainstream. Reporter and even turned to schoolkids to help make their case. We must oppose betsy devos as secretary of education. The future depends on it. Reporter President Trump chose the 59yearold billionaire because of her long time support for school vouchers, a cause many republicans support. South carolina senator tim scott. The real debate is generations of kids that are stuck in underperforming schools. Betsy devos has got to go. Repor
President trump tweeted yesterday that the suspension of his ban is now allowing people to pour into the u. S. We dont have a complete picture, but we can tell you that the number of refugees over the last three days is 27 families. Who have gone through a vetting process that can take years. Jericka duncan was at new yorks jfk airport today when a family from syria arrived. Hi. Reporter this is the moment dr. Ghassan asaili and wife sarmad dreamed about for more than 13 years. Im happy. Im happy like i won the super bowl like yesterday. Im very happy. Reporter the reunion with asailis two brothers wa canceled when President Trump signed the executive order. After landing in philadelphia, the six syrian immigrants were forced to return home. Inhuman what happened to us. Reporter 17yearold matthew asaili had to wait even longer before joining his relatives. We did everything by the rules, everything what we done was right. We did not do anything illegal. Reporter why did your family lea