Im at mcdonalds on 51 is the street. Help me, please reporter Sergeant Young was ambushed shoetree pottiedly friday night while sitting in her patrol car in a West Philadelphia rampage that ended with the shooter and an innocent bystander dead and several others wounded. Youngs police vest likely saved her life. Among the crowd on hand to show their support, officer jesse hartnett. Here at the hospital for rehabilitation after his ninth surgery to repair wounds suffered when he was ambushed back in january. By a gunman claiming allegiance to isis. You see all the support that you have out here. I couldnt believe when the doors opened the amount of support that you have, you know, and they try to keep everyone away at first but really the Law Enforcement community theres tons huge outpouring and its a lot of support and very very welcoming. S a black suv carried Sergeant Young to her home forest and recuperation, commissioner ross said she like hartnett would like to return to duty desp
Screen. Bill, possibly a record breaker today. The record is 94 degrees. Im forecasting 95 this afternoon. With the humidity its going to feel like its closer to 100 degrees. You mentioned it, its a warmer start this morning. You can feel the mugginess in the area. 81 degrees right now in philadelphia. The suburbs at 80 degrees. Its just dropped to 79 in south jersey. Not much cooler in the Lehigh Valley. 78 degrees there. We will see sunshine and a quick warmup, 81 degrees at 9 00. At noontime, partly sunny skies. Near 90 degrees. Thats in the Lehigh Valley. Well be watching for lateday showers and thunderstorms. Its more likely than the suburbs and the Lehigh Valley in the rest of the area. Most of the day its just steam heat at 95 degrees this afternoon will feel like 100 degrees for philadelphia and it will feel like its near 100 for the suburbs, new jersey and delaware. Not much cooler at the shore, 90 degrees and the humidity higher there. Upper 90s is what it will feel like at t
Thank you, jessica. 4 30. Still summer. Temperatures head into the 90s today. Because of the dangerous heat, all philadelphia public and Catholic Schools will dismiss students at noon today, same is true for Reading Middle School students and students in camden and trenton. Nbc 10s matt delucia is live outside Ben Franklin High School with more information on this. Matt . Its already hot and humid. Its 4 30 in the morning. It was hot yesterday, too. Especially in the afternoon. Philadelphia schools stayed open anyway. District leaders made the decision to close schools early later on today at noon, before the temperatures go up into the 90s once again. Students yesterday they left the classrooms a little warmer than they probably wanted to be. It was only day two of the school year for philadelphia. Kids are still getting used to schedules and assignments only to deal with this heat on top of all that. Some schools and classrooms have air conditioning while others, plenty of others do
Well be talking about the schools that are closing early because of the heat. Lets get you updated on what will happen today and when well get a break from the heat. Meteorologist bill henley has been tracking that. He has your nbc 10 first alert neighborhood weather. Suffice it to say, it will be a warm one. Its steamy this morning. The temperatures are warmerc tn yesterday. 82 degrees in philadelphia. 80 for the suburbs and new jersey and steaminess, you can feel it in the Lehigh Valley where its 79 degrees and delaware, too. Well see bright sunshine, about an hour away from sunrise this morning. The temperatures will cool down a little bit more by 7 00 and quickly warming into the middle 80s by 10 00 this morning. From philadelphia, 82 degrees right now. A southwesterly wind at 8 miles an hour. Thats bringing in additional humidity and going to help boost our temperatures, 85 degrees. Thats by 10 00 this morning. Add another ten to that for the High Temperature this afternoon. Hitt
Beginning today . Were going to see the temperatures. We were in the 80s yesterday. Will be in the 80s again today. Indeed, a little bit warmer. We need the warmup to get rid of any fog around this morning. You can see light fog in south philadelphia over Citizens Bank park. Its much thicker in a few of the suburbs, blue bell has threequarter mile visibility. Thats getting thicker, not nearly as bad in lancaster as it was yesterday. Look at south jersey. Mt. Holly and wrightstown, dense fog and burlington county. Youll run into fog to start with but it disappears as these temperatures climb. At this hour, though, theyre still falling. 62 degrees in the Lehigh Valley. Youll see low clouds over easton this morning. Mostly cloudy to start with, 11 00, 77 degrees. As we go into the afternoon, thats when the clouds will be thinning out. Philadelphia will warm from 69 up to 86 degrees this afternoon. 80s for the suburbs and for new jersey, at the shore, mostly cloudy skies and 77. Some break