Right now we have 71 degrees, in philadelphia, 06 lancaster, beautiful morning in allentown also 06 degrees, mount pocono 51 degrees. And millville, new jersey, it is 62, atlantic city, 63, up in Medford Lakes 664 degrees and 68 in lewes, delaware. Practically perfect yesterday, with 87 degrees. Just where we were supposed to be, today, we exceed that a bit, with 90, and a bit more humid, just a bit, but extreme heat and humidity on the way, give you the numbers coming up in the seven day forecast, dave warren, good morning. Slightly imperfect today. There is a fire not along the road but building just off the roadway there. So, the outer drive is blocked, and along the southbound side of the boulevard there, so might want to work your way around that, this morning, southampton township, pemberton road, birmingham road. Crash there. Little slow around that area. And also, this is an issue that will be happening all morning. The route 13 southbound ramps from tyburn road to or from rout
Reporter in the video given to us by a student the front offices filled with students signed out of school. She would sign the paper and then go on to the next. Reporter this is what they say is a bed bug in the school . Lassroom and this idea is taking off in social media. This is an epidemic going on and everyone is going crazy. The district tells us at first learned of a bedbug in the classroom late yesterday and they say that maintenance crews fumigated overnight and still found no evidence of dead bugs of any kind. Students talk and this is just a big rumor but some paaents are notang the slightly. The climb and choose, close, backpacks. Its disgusting. Reporter we asked a local specialist to tell us what this be identified under a microscope because of their similarity to bedbugs. This pet control specialists as they cannot see it clear enough to identify. Whatever it is, it is all the talk here and letting some kids out of school for the day. Contrary to what we are hearing from
This is getting stuck is you have High Pressure to the north. A really expansive high. This acts as a wall so hermine cannot bust through that high so it essentially slows down, stalls and gets stuck off of our coastline and that is why youre going have a continuous flow around that low and the high to the north to pound the jersey shore as well as the delaware beaches. So, Tropical Storm warnings are in effect for pretty much all the way from georgia the carolinas and into virginia. At this point were still under a Tropical Storm watch meaning the potential is there for Tropical Storm conditions all the way up through long island but more than likely in our area this is either going to be put to a warning within an hour or even a hurricane watch. Meteorologist Melissa Magee is here to talk about the effects at the shore which are going to be damaging and significant. Yeah, this is going to be a big storm especially for our coastal communities adam as we go throughout the rest of our H
3 00 a. M. Steve keeley has been on this story, from i95 south. Jenny joyce, five firefighters injured at Hahnemann Hospital. And she is thereto update us on their condition. We start with steve keeley. It looks like he is on the bridge to martin street. Reporter the people just joining us action at 7 00 like so many do, have avoided all of the bad news, so we start with good news for your thursday morning. Which is a rarity in this news business. You see traffic knowing smoothly. Those headlights are nine southbound, drivers, and they are able to drive for the First Time Since 3 00 a. M. Southbound, because they were forced off at the vine street expressway all night, and all morning, because of this accident. So, the accident happened under the Chestnut Street bridge, and then went to the next overpass, and so, you saw a jackknife tractortrailer, under this bridge, for three plus hours, so they were able to remove t and then in front of this accident, of the jackknife tractortrailer
To change the strategy from metro. Brianne carter has more on the strategy. Brianne this comes after a showstopper was discovered here at the foggy bottom metro station. Ment to the general manager said there will be a change with the policies and the practices to keep the rails safe. We sat down today with wiedefeld less than 24 hours after defects were discovered. If it wasnt for the fire, this wouldnt have been discovered until inspections were slated to happen and it wasnt to happen until june. He is coming up with a plane to detect the issues before they threaten the safety. We will come out with a different plan. It will require different technology. Now remember the metro officials said tracks were checked after the deadly smoke incident. We have the situation 14 months later that happened this week. Wiedefeld called it unacceptable. Other around the region are calling for them to step down to metro. We will have that tonight at 5 00. Jonathan stay with abc7 news on air and onli