Yet to come through. Ahead of it it is warm and huggy. Line of precip doesnt look like much right now will fire up later today and tonight. Drenchers on the way. 75 and mainly dry across the immediate philadelphia area. 74 in wilmington, 69 in millville. 72 in sea isle city. Of course its humid. Today will be humid and relatively hot one, 79 degrees by 9 00 a. M. 86 by noon, 89 by 3 00 p. M. High of 90 by 4 00 p. M. And still in the upper 80s with the late day and evening thunderstorms on the way. By the way if we manage the 90 it will be the seasons heat wave. Hurricane arthur. It has become a hurricane just declared a halfhour ago by the National Hurricane center this is continuing its track to the north with 75mile an hour winds still a looks like a hurricane as it passes us. Well have impact in the morning anybody getting out there cooking hamburgers at 11 00 a. M. Reporter definitely not too early for hamburgers in my humble opinion. This is a pontiac grandam, the she will of a gr
Closed conshohocken state road between manayunk and rock hill road. Take bryn mawr or levering mill road if you need to get around it. Heading into new jersey, a downed pole in mt. Ephraim, kings highway at lincoln avenue. And new jersey turn, southbound at route 168, exit 3. Active construction out there until 7 00 this morning. Vai . New from overnight, Philadelphia Police are working to figure out exactly where a young man was shot before he was found at a West Philadelphia intersection. Investigators discovered the man in his 20s slumped over a car at 46th and parish streets but say thats not where the shooting happened. The man was rushed to the hospital in Critical Condition. Police are searching for the gunman. Also new from overnight, police in Atlantic City are investigating a crash that left two people hurt there. A jeep and car collided at route 30 and Martin Luther king boulevard shortly after midnight. The jeep flipped on to its side, the car crashed into a traffic signal
Area, we have a few more thunderstorms developing this evening late at night. In atlantic county, crossing the ac expressway near mays landing one strong thunderstorm there. Another one around willingboro in parts of burlington county. This storm is strong too. Its going to be moving along the Atlantic City expressway here. This one will continue along the i95 corridor. Other than that were looking at another storm in new castle county. More showers and storms in the washington area. We can certainly see a few isolated ones tonight. Tomorrow is the first alert weather day, another one because of heat again and heavy rain. The potential for flash flooding, that is also possible tomorrow. And the risk for some strong thunderstorms, again. We have a Flash Flood Watch out for pretty much the entire area, not everybody in new jersey, but for most of us for tomorrow morning through friday morning. And also the potential for some severe storms for the area shaded in yellow tomorrow. Heavy rai
Rain. It is wednesday night, and the big story on action news tonight is what happens when heat and humidity reach the breaking point. And most of you saw it and heard it tonight. This is a time lapse from sky six in center city philadelphia. It went from utterly stormy to utterly spectacular. The rain made driving a tad dicey on route 202 in chesterbrook tonight, and flash floods made driving down right difficult, in reading. Tonights storms knocked out power to thousands across the area, more than 5700 peco customers are still in the dark, mostly in philadelphia a. While Atlantic City electric is dealing with over 11,000 outages. Del marva has more than 3,000 outages, and new castle county. Pse and g says power is out for more than 28,000 customers, across the the entire state of new jersey. Meteorologist cecily tynan and adam joseph have been following the storm as it ran rampant through the tristate area tonight. Lets begin with double scan radar and cecily tynan at the action news
Four children killed in the fire, i am told four others were injured, they suffered minor injuries, and they are in the hospital, and 42 people homeless. The fire commissioner did not now how the fire or where the started fire. This was a fastmoving fire, according to neighbors and the fire commissioner. Right now i will bring in a person with the American Red Cross. You have been helping the families and first responders. This is a sad day for our community. We lost four children. Anytime there is a death due to fire its significant for our community. I cant tell you how hard this is on first responders, on our volunteers, but most importantly so we have been providing spiritual care, Mental Health care to address their immediate trauma, but we also set up a facility at Bartram High School physical needs. Because everybody is going to the high school now, i imagine you are seeing that emotion come out from the people who not only lost their loved ones here, but the people that lived i