So all of this coming to an end in the Lehigh Valley and the poconos. Philadelphia and our suburbs sleet and freezing rain for the next couple of hours at least until about 8 00 oclock and then south jersey delaware freezing rain and rain and that should be moving off the coast by about 10 00 oclock or so. Coming up, huge changes things are looking up. Major warm um but that will bring one to 2inches of rain with it license that rain be out in time for the birds game on saturday . Thats the big question. Well talk more about that iain in just a few minutes. All right, kathy. Look forward to that. Thank you. Rough ride this morning on route 73 in south jersey because of a water main break. That backed up traffic big time. The break happened near signal drive in voorhees this morning. Tonight all lanes are back open. In west philadelphia, another water main break. Early this morning on the 100 block of north 54th street. Pools of water filling the streets. The Water Department staying si
He was all in. All the time. He lived ate slept and breathed this job. Reporter lieutenant matthew latourneau took his last breath doing what he loved, trying to help others, during a north philadelphia house fire this past saturday, two alarms on a bitter cold morning, the floor caved in and latourneau died. Friday his casket loaded on to engine 45, his companys truck , 11 year veteran surrounded by his brothers and sisters of the Philadelphia Fire Department, arrived at basilica cathedral of saints peter and paul. Funeral mass attended by hundreds. Even azamat math becomes part of our storied past i will always be with us, in the future. Reporter all remembering a hero who gave his life protests others. He has gonna head and joined a company of other heroes and there is no doubt that they are working their way, down that smokey hallway making it safe, for the rest of us. Reporter Philadelphia Fire Department says that they will posthumously promote lieutenant latourneau to captain, t
Than an inch, doylestown. 85, pottstown about a half inch. Atlantic city youll notice really hasnt gotten into the action quite yet, only. 02 of an inch. An additional quarter to a half inch of rain again causing minor street flooding where you have the poor drainage then temperatures crashing as an arctic boundary moves in and this could cause an icy mix in the far north and west suburbs. You can see right now were in the 60s but temperatures in the 30s behind it. Weve got Winter Weather advisories. Ill talk about that coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Gina. [inaudible] traveling out right now i do have some good news. That earlier tractortrailer that we had in langhorne on 95 has cleared. Now were just sort of waiting for this delay to really run its course but it looks like for the most part youre moving along, a little slower than you should be but the tractortrailer is gone so things are going to be moving along a lot nicer now for you. Lets also take a live look at the
And this is it. Eagles fans are gearing up for the battle of the birds. Game day less than 24 hours away, and the hype is unreal. Now, fox 29 news at 10 00. Talk about a weather whiplash. This time last week, we had sn snow. Tonight rain, warm in the 60s. Hard to believe. And check out this video down at penns landing. Intense fog just hanging over the delaware river. Ice floating on top of the water just as we start to thaw out. But dont get too excited because we are talking about a dramatic drop in temperatures. Like 30 degrees. Thanks for joining us im dawn timmeney. Im chris oconnell. Folks starting to peel back some of those layers today. But if youre headed to the eagles game tomorrow, youre going to need to bundle up. Scott, i hope the Atlanta Falcons are watching from the hotel rooms tonight because were talking about freezing cold temperatures at kickoff. Absolutely. It will be a shock to the system, chris. Temperatures right now look at this. 62 degrees in philadelphia. But
Looking good. All right. It is game day. Saturday, january 13th, 2018. Its an exciting day in philadelphia. Absolutely. We are ready to go. Ready to win. I know. So lets talk weather first because a lot of people are head down to the linc to tailgate go to xfinity life or they will actually be inside the linc to see the game. Now, last week we thought it was going to be a little warm. So the cold couldnt really affect the falcons because theyre dome team. Umhmm. Its going to be a little chillier and temperatures dropping quickly. Absolutely. Lauren, well freeze out the falcons. Utoh. Yesterday it was warm it felt like april with High Temperatures in the 60s. But right now, that arctic front is moving through. Now, the precipitation its moving out but those temperatures they are dropping pretty rapidly. We have some areas of leftover drizzle there might be some freezing drizzle far north and west but look at the air temperatures right now. 16 degrees mount pocono. Allentown checking in