Than an eye opener. The message tonight, hope for the best, prepare for the worst. You can always repair property. You cannot restore a life if it is lost. Good evening. Newschannel8 is tracking Hurricane Matthew. We have coverage throughout the state. We begin with chief meteorologist steve jerve. He joins us now from the forecast center. This thing continues to be just a menace to floridas coast. Absolutely jen. Thats a category 3 hurricane forecast to become a 4. Especially on friday, affect floridas east coast. Some are estimating a landfall. Some say just offshore. It is still a concern. We will start with max defender 8. A few showers continue to pass across the area. Thats a live sweep picking up on showers in Hillsborough County at the moment. They are drifting rapidly to the southwest. You can see a few lightning strikes involved with that. But these are really not at as well. We expect that to get much more active the next 24 and 48 hours. 120 miles an hour winds. Hurricane w
Big hop or you can make a recovery. Jim taylor who had the fumble earlier in this half perfectly played this one and he was the only one there. Again, no timeouts for Joe Decamillis and denver, but they have hope. They have 27 seconds to go. Phil there was really nobody there to recover the football for the san diego chargers. Jim siemian sideline caught green. How about siemians arm to heave it into the end zone . Not that he has to do it here. Phil theyre in a spot where he can do that easily. Jim you said earlier these players never think about the pass, a guaranteed as a whole legions of charters fans all over the world right now who are thinking about what happened in recent weeks peered phil got to keep them in bounce of a jim completes, and anderson cradles it, goes out of bounds at the 41. Wow. Phil tremendous job by denver this managing the scam. Mike mccoy cant even believe they are still in this situation. Jim we saw a hail mary last year on thay Aaron Rodgers to richard rog
7 weather team. See the screen for your complete weather information. Here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team areas of high clouds over us this morning will stick around most of the day. Temperatures are holding mostly in the low to mid 40s and the winds are turning to the west and will eventually turn to the northwest and run mainly 1015 mph. We keep the variably cloudy skies and keep our highs in the mid to upper 50s with those northwesterly winds mainly dry this week, but there is a change as we head toward the weekend. Ill have those details in a few minutes. We begin with the white house transition. President elect donald trump takes over in 67 days. Tracie potts has the latest on shes following up on a few of his Campaign Promises. The Trump Transition Team has announced Republican Party chair Reince Priebus will serve as chief of staff and conservative news executive steve bannon who headed the Trump Campaign will become chief strategist.
Reporting that live wears are down around western and Mount Company ball avenue. We want to go to err ache who is live tracking the storms for us. It is a mess out there. It is a mess right now and we have a flash flood warping for Middlesex County until 8 00 p. M. , but the rest of the area rainfall and that of course is causing some of those lowlying roadways to take on water. If you encounter a roadway that is covered in water, you need to turn around and find a different route. There is no way to know how deep it is unless you can see the painted lines. There is no way to know. It could be too deep where you need to be rescued like some people have already been needing the rescues during the afternoon and evening so far today. We need to show you the precipitation rates. And more than an inch down towards new jersey along i95. Some indications that we have seen very, very intense heavy rainfall in the area. Maybe as much as five inches has fallen and there is a potential for even m
Frontal boundary which is a little lack lust when he it comes to moisture content, but will certainly bring in some interesting changes. And i think welcome changes, in this pattern down the road. But later today, we do spike all the way to 89 degrees, in philadelphia, although it is not terribly humid. But, again, in that full sunshine, it will feel pretty toasty. Wrapping up the month of august, brooke mentioned, yes, only few more days left here, very warm to do so. Although, we see nice change of pace come september, and also, few storms along the way, in the meantime, we will be staying warm, as well. Meisha, a we head it off to you. Katie, great news, thank you so much. Looking outside right now, actually looking pretty good. A loft headlight, taillights eastbound direction, before spring garden, you can see moving, looking good both directions on the schuylkill anywhere we are looking on the schuylkill right now looking real nice for those every you headed outside. Also, the ben