Policy issue you want to discuss this morning. If you cannot get through on phone lines, try social media. Twitter cs[apanwj. Facebook. Com . . Cspan and you can send an email. Heres the front page of the Chattanooga Times free press. Nightmare for our city is what they say about the shooting by mohammed abulazeez. The Washington Times leads with that story. Down lower on the front page is a story about congress and what they did. Congress guts no child left behind system. Both chambers of congress have voted to scrap much of the bush Era Education plan, meaning the government will continue to shift billions of dollars to states but well cut her loose and many of the Strings Attached to funding that is a little bit about what happened in congress this week. And the president was in oklahoma, and heres the article in the wall street journal. Rivals team up for justice revamped. One president obama praise conservatives charles and david koch for their efforts laughter rippled through the
Nbc 10 news starts now. And the workweek is off to a hot and steamy start. You can almost see the humidity here in this live picture from beach avenue in cape may. Temperatures will, again, soar well into the 90s. Along with the dangerous heat comes the threat of poor air quality. You will need to take precautions when outside. 82 degrees already at 4 31. Good morning, this is nbc 10 news today. Im tracy davidson. Im chris cato. Yes, the overnight low wasnt low at all. Its still hot out there this morning. Meteorologist Brittney Shipp is in with her first alert forecast. Another first alert weather day because of the heat, brittney. Thats a good way to put it. Feelslike temperature is still in the 90s this morning. We have dangerous heat until at least tonight for virtually our entire area with the exception of the poconos and lancaster conte. Everyone else under a heat advisory. Feelslike temperature will be anywhere from 100 to 105 degrees. Take precautions, drink plenty of water. St
Philly but the feels like temperature is still even close to 90 degrees in some locations like northeast philly stretching down into philadelphia and this is at 5 30 in the morning. You can only imagine as we go into the afternoon, the sunrises, we start to see the temperatures rising. We should push into the mid90s, feelslike temperature in the triple digits. 79 in reading, 74 in allentown and our actual temperature at 69 in the poconos. Our entire area pretty much under a weather alert for daenk russe heat. Thats going to stay in effect until tonight at 8 00 p. M. That heat index, the feelslike temperature, its the same thing between 100 and 105 degrees. It is going to be an uncomfortable day. Make sure you keep that in mean as youre heading into the rest of your morning. By 10 00 a. M. 87 degrees. Wind speeds out of the west southwest at 10 miles an hour. By the time you head out for lunch, im tracking how long this is going to stick around. Ill ill have the details in the extended
By the time youre heading home from work mid90s. Ill let you know how long this heat and high humidity will stick around for our area. Thats coming up in my extended full forecast. For now we check in with first alert traffic reporter Jessica Boyington. The roads are good for now. Were not dealing with a whole lot of volume. The schuylkill expressway relatively light. Were looking live around girard avenue. So we are losing out that righthand shoulder on the eastbound side. Theres a little bit of equipment in the area. Not an active work zone but something to watch out for. Headed eastbound right in here a 12minute drive time. From the blue route up towards the vine street expressway, no real problems there. Well head over to new jersey now. We are seeing just a tad more volume than normal. And a little bit earlier than we normally do, possibly some folks heading home from the shore. So northbound from 55 up towards the walt whitman bridge still seeing an easy drive time. 61 Miles Per
Operator. Enjoy the rest of your day. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] coming up later today a discussion on the outlook for consumers and patients in the health care market. Well hear about the plans that are available. The event is hosted by the alliance for health reform. It begins noon eastern on cspan3. The annual summer meeting of the National Governors association with the opening session with remarks from john hickenlooper, and gary herbert, device chair. That starts at 12 45 eastern. On cspan3 a briefing with the latest update on the new Horizons Mission to pluto. We will hear a discussion on the latest results from the spacecrafts flight past pluto. That breathing starts live at 2;00 eastern. And now remarks from loretta lynch. She spoke at the National Black Prosecutors Association earlier this week and was honored