Issues. Its been difficult morning for those emergency teams in northampton county, fire quickly reached 3 alarms with flames coming through the roof and dense smoke visible for miles. Chopper 3, over the 16 hundred block of east 8 street, officials declared evacuation order, called it may day, 29 year old firefighter shattered his ankle and to leap from the upper floors, now at st. Lukes hospital. No other injuries have been reported. Much more on the bethlehem fire on Eyewitness News beginning at 5 and throughout the day you can get the latest updates on line on cbsphilly. Com. Memorial day weekends is almost here. And experts say Holiday Travel this year will be the busiest in more than a decade. Triple a expects more than 38 Million People to hit the road this weekend, thats up by 7 hundred thousand travelers, since last year. And the most since 2005. Triple a says rising personal income, lower gas prices, are encouraging more people to head out of town for the holiday. Whether tra
If you are heading eastbound. Expect that could really slow you down here with the glare. Storm scan nice and quiet. You can see a little bit of green below or behind, the storm scan wording there but we are expecting more than anything, sunshine, here today. You will start to notice it feeling humid with time here and in addition to that we have got some pretty high levels of ground level ozone. Air quality is now, again, a problem, unhealthy for everyone, at this point. So just take it easy out there you can go outside obviously but if you have got asthma, respiratory problems, this could be a rough day for you. Please keep that in mine. Pollen levels are still moderate. Uv index is off the charts at this point. Heat index, you have to use caution, too since humidity is creeping up. Mid 60s as we mentioned here in the city, 63 in Atlantic City. Fortyeight right now in the poconos. Cooler by comparison as it typical in the mountains but we will definitely spike here, 89 degrees later
Point it appears that incident is totally unrelated to what happened inside that home on 66th street. As soon as we get more information, well bring it to you. For now were live in maspeth, Kemberly Richardson, channel 7 Eyewitness News. We have new information about an incident on a plane that landed this afternoon at laguardia airport. Delta Airlines Says a tire on a flight from tampa deflated upon landing just before 3 p. M. The boei the runway without incident, then continued to the terminal where customers disembarked normally. None of the 110 passengers or five crew members onboard was injured. After a very wet weekend, weve got some more showers headed our way but nothing like what we just experienced this past weekend. Meteorologist lee goldberg is here now with a check on the accuweather forecast. No question. We have a few showers that are trying to get in to the area. But we do not have any flooding imminent. We do have a flood watch thats of northern new jersey. But the sev
Back here this wednesday night. Now new yorks number one news. 16 people are dead after a hot air balloon crashes and catches fire. New details from the scene as the investigation gets underway. First, torrential downpours in new jersey turns streets into rivers and scrambling for safety. Good evening. The rain was widespread today. New jersey was hit the hardest. We will have more in just a moment. First the showers continuing at this hour and we might get more tomorrow. Meteorologist jeff smith has been tracking it all evening. New information hot off the presses here from the National Weather service. Flood warning now for southeastern Hunterdon County in new jersey. We are talking about the of Middlesex County, southern parts of somerset and mercer counties through 2 15 in the morning. Some of the rivers in those areas include the millstone river and Lawrence Brook rising and probably going above flood stage as we head through the night. Also, a flood advisory in effect for much of
Center today as the Democratic National convention has come to a close. So how did the city do . Playing host to thousands of delegates, and visitors . Our coverage continues with that part of the story from nbc 10s drew smith. Whats the city saying now that it is all behind us . Reporter taking a little victory lap here, feeling pretty good about this. There is a sense of pride among a lot of the people out and about today. Some people still getting their pictures with the donkeys around town. Four days of immense pressure. The National Spotlight was right here. People in charge of the convention are saying that philly is looking pretty good. The sun broke through the clouds today above the center city skyline. Philadelphians in the afterglow i think the city was phenomenally well prepared. We had a great time. Everything was on point. Reporter one of the convention senior advisers, david cohen, who also works for nbc 10s Parent Company comcast said all the planning, effort and money