3 00 p. M. , 87 thats the high today, sunshine and clouds, 6 00 p. M. , 83 coming down from a high one or two places see a shower or thunderstorm. Mostly dry but we have a chance for a shower. It will be worse tomorrow with showers and thunderstorms. Details on that coming up in the seven day. Reporter the many, many packages you ordered are on their way. The mail struck disabled i95 is okay. If youre traveling i95 to the schuylkill expressway so far so good on the vine street express way not closed for construction, not scheduled to be closed again until early august when they set the beams for the family court pedestrian bridge. For the rest of the nights in the july the vine is excelled he scheduled to stay open. We have the ben franklin bridge westbound right lane is out. This gave us big delays last week we expect big delays this week especially during the morning rushes without that lane. This is the taconypalmyra back down, traffic is moving again. Delays have thinned out, as we
buzz buzz if youre the guy from the operation game, you get operated on. Its what you do. buzz if you want to save fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance you switch to geico. Its what you do. From the cbs Broadcast Center in philadelphia this is cbs3 Eyewitness News. Well the sun has set over philadelphia but it is still hot and humid all around the area. Tonight at 11 00 were bracing for yet another day of dangerous heat. Good evening, everyone, im natasha brown. Thanks for joining us. It felt like 100 degrees out there today and the brutal weather isnt over just yet. Weve live team three coverage for you tonight. We begin with meteorologist Justin Drabick out on the cbs3 sky deck. Justin when will we get some row left . Well have to wait a little bit. Probably another day or so, natasha, be happy youre inside the studio in the aircondition it feels like oven out here. 11 00 oclock feeling like 90 degrees in some spots across the Delaware Valley and todays high officially did make i
Natasha, back over to you. Justin, see you inn sigh soon. Many people went swimming to escape this heat today but for some a day of fun turned tragic. Tonight search crews recover the body of a male swimmer who disappeared into the Delaware River off of burlington, new jersey. Witnesses say the man tried to swim to a they are by island around 7 00 oclock. New Jersey State Police marine units and burlington fire and rescue all participateed in the search. They have not released the mans identity just yet. And just across the river in bristol, pennsylvania, crews tonight suspended the search for a man who went missing in the Delaware River. He went under this morning at bristol wharf near mill and radcliffe streets. Marine units sevenned for several hours in that area. One eyewitness described the scene when the man went under. The boy was swimming by the buoy he went down, straight down. There was a boat that was just passing at the same time. Kept on going. He was saying help and he kn
There is little hint in moisture showing up on storm scan3, i dont want you to worry too much about any wet weather at least initially but later today some of will you likely see quick shower or pop up thunderstorm, actually, might welcome that, it helps you at least cool you down briefly. It is another scorcher though, excessive heat warnings in the red, heat advisories are in the orange, and everyone is included here, no one gets a break. Look at these dew point. Youre at a 80 degrees dew point. I cant even remember the last time ive seen. That will so basically talking completely saturated air mass, dew points in the mid 70s in philadelphia, thats down right insufferable if you ask me, 81 the actual air temperature meanwhile in the city and expect to go only go up from here. Now that the suns officially up we dont have too much of it breaking through the clouds. But we are going to call it partly sunny regardless, as we hit the noon hour, already at 09 degrees, and then by the time
Even off the field. One of the difficulties obviously with trading a guy like cole hamels is what hes meant to our organization over the years. You know, when we have players that are home grown, guys that we drafted, it was a tremendous draft we developed him, he developed himself he made himself the player that he was. Hamels was certainly one of the best. Now hamels is the biggest name move by the phillies but hes not the latest name moved by phillies. Well talk more about that coming up next hour. Were live at Citizens Bank park im Ducis Rodgers channel6 action news. Brian and sharrie back to you. Ducis thank you. Big departure. Yeah. Time for a check of the forecast. Melissa magee in for adam joseph this afternoon. Shes wisely decided to be outside and for good reason. Yeah, you said it. Its hot pretty warm but the good news is the humidity is low as we close out our work week on this friday. Check out the numbers across the delaware and lehigh valleys. It is 90 here in philadelph