This friday, Thomas Drayton with karen hepp, bob kelly and Scott Williams. Good morning, everyone. Happy friday, tgif. You look nice and summery. We could be prom dates were matching. Yes. What time do i have to have you home. Where is the corsage. Make it official. Yes. And then you guys are match y matchy with your purple no corsage here. You dont have your little thing one always leave it on the december being, rushing in the morning, ill get it a lot to talk about, fall preview for us, will continue but all eyes long the gulf coast. Hurricane harvey right now max sustain wind at 105 miles an Hour Movement off to the north and west at 10 miles an hour, 185 miles just to the south ande of Corpus Christie. It will continue to movement on off to the north and west, and take a look by later today it could be a major category three hurricane with max sustain wind of 125 miles per hour, as it moves, toward Corpus Christie. Look at ultimate doppler let up, that pin hole eye and you can see
Storm and has more from accuweather. Hurricane harvey is maximum sustained 130 Miles Per Hour. Its slowed its Forward Motion moving at eight Miles Per Hour at last report. Rockford Emergency Management texas with people trapped inside. This storm will sit there for days. I want to show you wind gusts from the center. Galveston reporting 40 Miles Per Hour. Cant report from the station because the power has been shutdown but we have storm trackers reporting maximum wind gusts 140 Miles Per Hour making landful near rockford right now. This is the first to hit texas since karla in 1961. Once it moves inland, it will stall along the coast. What that means, the storm surge of six to 12 feet continues for days. We are looking at epic amounts of rain falling from the sky, some areas 30inches of rain, a years worth of rain in a matter of days. Well talk about this storm system for a long time because it will likely effect the area well into next week. We have the local forecast later on. Jim .
Storm and has more from accuweather. Hurricane harvey is maximum sustained 130 Miles Per Hour. Its slowed its Forward Motion moving at eight Miles Per Hour at last report. Rockford Emergency Management texas with people trapped inside. This storm will sit there for days. I want to show you wind gusts from the center. Galveston reporting 40 Miles Per Hour. Cant report from the station because the power has been shutdown but we have storm trackers reporting maximum wind gusts 140 Miles Per Hour making landful near rockford right now. This is the first to hit texas since karla in 1961. Once it moves inland, it will stall along the coast. What that means, the storm surge of six to 12 feet continues for days. We are looking at epic amounts of rain falling from the sky, some areas 30inches of rain, a years worth of rain in a matter of days. Well talk about this storm system for a long time because it will likely effect the area well into next week. We have the local forecast later on. Jim .
This is a live look at i95 where crews are started pretreating the roads. The First Alert Weather Team is making sure youre ready for the doubledoze of weather. The cold air is starting to come in. Weve seen the west winds gust up to 30 miles an hour during the afternoon. We were up to 54 degrees. Were down to 49 now. Allen town is down to 43 degrees. Why is the temperature dropping . This is where the air is coming from. Its 17 degrees in chicago right now. 3 in minneapolis. In the middle of the afternoon and 1 below zero in bismarck, north dakota. Middle of the afternoon temperature not windchill. The arctic air is hiding straights in our direction. It gets movdified a little bit. We wont get near zero, but the arctic air, once its here, it will last through the weekend and into monday. Thats about as long as its going to last. To give you an idea of what is going to happen in the next few hours. In philadelphia the temperature dropping to 35 degrees by 10 00 and feeling like 25. Fee
On the blue route a fly, no problems, northbound 18 minutes from 95 to the schuylkill expressway. The southbound side where we see the volume and delay for the morning hours, we only have 15 minutes. Well check with mass transit when i come back. See you then. Many important races happening in our area today and one of the biggest factors could that could impact them is who doesnt vote. Well probably see low voter turnout today. Matt delucia is live in norristown. Matt, you talked with some people in Montgomery County. Some of whom are planning to get out and vote. Right . Reporter and there is a big race here in Montgomery County, the district attorneys race is happening, so that is the something people are looking at. But usually when you have these offyear municipal elections the turnout is usually low. It doesnt make them less important. And in fact, the people who are elected today will have an impact on courts, on schools, Crime Fighting efforts all of which happen locally. We we