Reading area and intensified through maryland and delaware and philadelphia will see raindrops this morning but its the storms this afternoon that are of greatest concern. 76 degrees at 8 00. Some scattered showers at that hour. By 11 00, we will get some breaks in the clouds. That is going to really heat things up quickly. 79 degrees at 11 00. We should be near 90 this afternoon. That will fuel the storms when they roll in later today. The timing of the storms ill show you with the latest future cast when im back in ten minutes. Now a check of traffic and Jessica Boyington with the first alert traffic. We are watching ongoing construction on 95 around the betsy ross bridge. Lane restrictions here so that lane closed and that lane is closed and signs throughout the area. Traffic is actually moving northbound as well. You can see the southbound side. Where we see volume and delays first in the Early Morning hours but everything is still moving but something to watch out for as rush hour
Head quarters in new york this is nbc nightly news with lester hold. Good evening. With the stroke of a pen, South Carolinas governor just a few hours ago signed the law that will bring the confederate battle flag down once and for all. It follow as hardfought and emotional battle that went to the wee hours of morning with a hate motivated attack on members of a black church in charleston. It doesnt remove racial divides or bring back the nine lives taken but those who fought for the removal believes it makes a powerful statement, rippling to the halls of congress tonight. We start with ron allen. Reporter with the stroke of nine pens one for each worshipper killed at motheren manuel church nikki haley signed a bill that will remove the plag from the confederate grounds. Im proud to say that it is a great day in South Carolina. Reporter history after an extraordinary 12hour debate by lawmakers about heritage hate and the flag. I cannot believe that we do not have the heart in this body
Nightly news with lester hold. Good evening. With the stroke of a pen, South Carolinas governor just a few hours ago signed the law that will bring the confederate battle flag down from the state capital grounds once and for all. It follow as hardfought and emotional battle that went to the wee hours of morning with a hate motivated attack on members of a black church in charleston. Removing the flag doesnt heal racial divide or bring back the nine lives taken but those who fought for the removal believes it makes a powerful statement, one that is already rippling to the halls of congress tonight. We start with ron allen. Reporter with the stroke of nine pens, one for each worshipper killed at mother emanuel church, governor nikki haley signed a bill that will remove the flag from the state house grounds. Im proud to say that it is a great day in South Carolina. Reporter history after an extraordinary 12hour debate by lawmakers about heritage, hate and the flag. I cannot believe that w
Orange. Were talking damaging winds in excess of 60, 70 Miles Per Hour we could see some Power Outages and more Straight Line wind damage. There kohls be isolated tornado tornado, small hail a threat, some downpours and also vivid lightning as we watch those cells kind of move toward our area over the next several hours hours. So you can see were pretty quiet, dry right now across parts of the area. However, as we watch how things play out, you can see by five, 6 00 oclock the activity starts to move toward the pocono mountains, Lehigh Valley and then it continues to move into sections of Chester County, montgomery, bucks county by 7 00 8 00 oclock. Watching some of those cells as well as watching the potential for a bowing company indicative of some Straight Line wind damage potentially boone 9 00, 10 00 oclock you can see it finally moves into parts of south jersey as well as central and southern delaware before it moves on out of here. So the bottom line the timing of the system sta
The u. S. Womens soccer team is here. I believe that we just won. The coasttocoast celebration of their victory continuing here in new york. Abby, carli, christine and the entire team, theyre the best of the best and before they make history one more time this morning, theyre joining us live on gma right now. And good morning america, you are looking live at the statehouse in Columbia South carolina where the Confederate Flag is come down. Welcome to our viewers he in the west. I want to pause for a moment to the rest of the country can enjoy a special report. Announcer this is an abc news special report. Now reporting, george stephanopoulos. And we are coming on the air right now for a moment of history. We are going to look live right now at the statehouse in Columbia South carolina where the Confederate Flag flying for more than 50 years at that statehouse is about to come down an honor guard will approach the flag poll, bring down the flag for the last time and be moved to a Milita