In philadelphia. Good evening. At a time when they will be in big demand, some of philadelphias taxi and limo drivers planning to boycott the Republican National convention this july because of Services Like uber, x and lyft. Nbc 10 joins us live with more on the message they hope to send. Reporter a Group Representing some of these taxi and limo drivers say theyre tired of getting the runaround and hoping Democratic Leaders take notice when they refuse to open drivers in the three days of the convention or longer if necessary. Limo drivers play cricket to pass the time. The cars are idle near the airport with nowhere to go. Drivers are not making money. Im working about 90 to 100 hours a week. Reporter they say its because of thousands of thousdr that operate in the city but its technically illegal. Thats why the drivers previously protested snarling traffic for hours around city hall. The philadelphia limousine, cab and taxi associations plan to do it again boycotting in the National
Meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz. The good news is the last of the rain is moving out. The last of the rain is moving out and well see dramatic changes in the weather as we go through this afternoon. The roads are generally still wet, but the rain is pretty much gone. As you can see, the heaviest rain from new york city into long island, we still have a little bit of patchy, light rain toward the shore down toward cape may and much of the philadelphia area already dry, but this afternoon the wind is going to pick up like that and the wind advisory is in effect for the entire area until midnight and we may see gusts close to 50 miles an hour. Here is the futurecast. Nothing more than an isolated showers around the middle of the day, but look at the clearing that is coming in. Its going to be sunny by later this afternoon, if you can believe that. Temperatures are in the 50s now and headed into the 60s in much of the area. 40s to the north and west. So its not really going to be a
Not as strong as yesterday. Were seeing gusts up to 30 miles an hour in the area. Thats going to continue today. Temperatures are in the 40s and 50s with winds gusting to near 50 miles an hour in the pocono mountains and 25mileanhour wind gusts in philadelphia. 50 degrees even in the city. But there are some cooler spots. Look at the 30s for allentown and reading. Low 40s for Atlantic City and wildwood. Sunshine. Clouds are out of the picture. 47 degrees at 6 00. Bright, sunny skies at 9 00. Up to 22 miles an with temperatures in the low 50s at lunchtime today. Well go through the forecast neighborhood by neighborhood when im book. Jessica is watching the traffic. Were watching the schuylkill expressway. These are our cameras around montgomery drive. A few cars headed in either direction. No big delays heading in or out of center city, at least for now. Route 202. Were still in the green here. Drive time is still great. No increase. Were into the 50s but the high 50s for average speeds
Lucky tomorrow. Sunday night, sarahs off, the big story on action news is a damp start to your monday morning commute. Heading back to work or School Tomorrow you might want to bring an umbrella meteorologist Melissa A Magee is live at the accu weather big board with the first check of the forecast. If you bring the umbrella you will only need it for first half of the day. We will talk about the specifics, moisture that moves through overnight but overnight outside in philadelphia, 47 degrees after a high today of 60. Fifty for reading and lancaster. Fortyfive at the north of our region up in the poconos. 47 degrees in cape may. Heres what is going on Satellite Six with action radar a fair amount of cloud cover a cross the region today. Cloud are continuing to build up and thicken in the region. We are tapping into an easterly wind off the atlantic and we are dealing with light precipitation and light rain showers, for philadelphia and areas to the south and east across south jersey. H
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