Extended through tomorrow afternoon. It will feel like its about 100 to 105 degrees. This evening temperatures not falling all that much staying basically in the 80s right through the 11 00 oclock hour. So coming up well talk more about the heat wave record heat in the forecast and potential for some weekend rain. We need it. My garden is scorched. Unfortunately i dont think well see a lot of it. Well talk more about that coming up later in the broadca broadcast. You and me both kathy. This extreme heat is behind some school troubles. Many schools are letting kids out earl ball its too hot. Fox 29s karen hepp is live in mayfair tonight. Early dismissal something students dont mind too much, karen. Reporter gosh, theyre cheering. Theyre so excited. We already saw with the trenton schools they had half day. Reading schools the same problems. Now it is phillys turn so the kids of course couldnt be happier. The parents sort of on the fence m say ive got scramble and get the kids. Others sa
As a mother, you hear these day care Horror Stories and pray it doesnt happen to your children. The fact of the matter is the employee who was supposed to be watching these children wasnt doing her job at the time. Reporter deputies say 23 yearold casey burke failed to properly care for the children. The arrest report says the kids were napping while burke should have been watching. Instead, she talked to colleagues and ate lunch. At one point, she heard crying neglect which is a felony. We went to the day care looking for answers. But they didnt want to talk. Im not going to talk about it. Reporter 8 on your side went digging into records and found since december, the day care was cited twice for improperly supervising children. The department of children and families is steping in saying in a statement what happened to this child is absolutely unacceptable. We are conducting a child care attorney. Burke no longer works at this facility. We are told the boy that bit this other child n
Were not expecting anything other than isolated showers in the next couple of days. Well see how hot its going to feel the next couple days, too, in the next few minutes. All right, glenn. As we mentioned, philadelphia public and archdiocese schools will dismiss early tomorrow because of the excessive heat. But for some parents, tomorrow cant come soon enough, so they took kids out of school today. Ive called up there and got the runaround so i decided to do something myself. Reporter having his daughter sit in a stuffy classroom in south philly just didnt seem right to ron. She told me that the acs arent working well. Reporter almost 60 of the schools have air conditioning, and the ones that dont have fans running at full speed. But some parents wonder about the quality of the education on days like this. She told me its just too hot to study. Or to listen to the teacher. Everyone is irritated. The teachers are doing their best to keep the children comfortable. But when it gets to be
Way through our area so this heat is going nowhere. In fact, the heat advisory has now been extended. It was supposed to expire at 6 p. M. Tonight. Expires 6 p. M. Tomorrow night when the heat index is going to go above 100. And you just showed you millville felt like 105, not in the heat advisory, but i just want to tell you, if youre in the along the shore, everywhere expect it to be very dangerous and very uncomfortable for another day tomorrow. Well let you know when this heat wave is going to break coming up in that full accuweather forecast. Brian . All right, adam. Thank you. These steamy temperatures are forcing some schools in the area to change their schedules already. Students in trenton got out early today for the second day in a row. New jersey correspondent Nora Muchanic live in trenton this afternoon with reaction from parents and students. And, nora, im going to go out on a limb and say students were not too upset about this. Reporter no, most of the kids i spoke with,
And im maria silva. Welcome to fox5 news this morning. First les krifaton joins us with a quick look at the fox 5 weather 247 forecast. With some clouds are in our forecast for friday through monday. Above seasonal to seasonal temperatures are expected the next three days. Strong winds moves in saturday and lingers through monday. Gusts of up to 50mph are forecast for the valley by sunday. We have fire weather watch for sunday between 11am until 11pm. As the front that drives the winds into las vegas pushes east, expect temperatures to plummet. The high monday is forecast to reach just 74. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie says it is too early to make assumptions about thursdays tragic train accident in hoboken. A mother was killed when the commputer train slammed into the busy transit station. 108 other people were hurt. Foxs joel waldman has the latest on the engineer who was just released no positive train control in their locomotives. In hoboken, new jersey, joel waldman, fox news