Fever reducing medication. Dr. Karyl rattay urged sick people to call their doctor rather than show up an emergency room antiviral drugs can be prescribed over the phone without the risk of affecting others and like pennsylvania, new jersey and other states, delaware is seeing a higher share of b strain cases than normal for this year. So, even if youve been sick once, get a flu shot if you havent gotten one already because it is possible to get sick again. And while School Absentee rates are higher than normal theres no reason for any of the schools to close because of this. And there are also other viruses going around this time of year. As for the flu we expect high levels of the virus to stick around for several more weeks so you want to make sure that youre washing your hands with soap and water frequently, wipe down common surfaces with a disinfectant and of course cover all coughs and sneezes with your elbow or with a tissue. You want to do what you can to protect yourself. Rick
Cover from yesterday which did start to break up nicely in the afternoon is now off the coast and were expecting a nice sunny start across the region, maybe some of those clouds out to the west and southwest start to roll in later today. 28 degrees though in philadelphia, so it is colder this morning than it was this time yesterday. 25 degrees in allentown, 25 in reading, 26 in trenton, 28 in wilmington. 30 degrees in millville and 30 currently in cape may. Theres a little bit of a breeze out there, too, so your wind chills in some cases are making it feel like its the teens. Thats pretty much the story across southeastern pennsylvania at this hour. And in philadelphia a wind chill of 18 and down in millville, 22 which aint much better. As we take a look at the Current Situation with flood warnings we still have that one from yesterday up along the Rancocas Creek between pemberton and lumberton and all the small stream tributaries up until at least noon today. Theyve also added the Mau
High clouds may streak in later on. Generally speaking its going to be a bright one but were starting out colder as karen mentioned. 28 degrees in philadelphia, 25 right now in allentown. 24 in reading. Were ick in trenton, 26 in wilmington and 28 degrees in millville. Little bit of a breeze kicking around in philadelphia its around 10 Miles Per Hour or so and thats enough to give you wind chills in the teens this morning in many areas so do bundle up. Not only with the winter coat but maybe a little extra gear, too. Still have some residual flooding left over from those rains on sunday. The Rancocas Creek is still running a little high between pemberton and lumberton. Be careful there not only along the creek but its tributaries. The Maurice River also giving us problems as well as some of the streams that feed into that. And little while ago we also added the Great Egg Harbor River in atlantic county, again tributaries running into that river may also have high water and some flooded
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Scene. Matt delucia, well get updates from him. You can stay with us onair and our nbc 10 app. Two fires rip through homes less than a mile from each other killing one person. The fire commissioner called the efforts to fight this hurklen. This is the second death ip24 hours from a fire ipphiladelphia and reports of people trapped inside this burned out home sent another group of firefighters racing to 50th street. We know paramedics took those people to the hospital with burns. Authorities have not updated on those conditions. Well keep you updated on the app. And today stupidities who survived the shooting in parkland, florida, will be returning to school. The School Principal tweeted last night our focus is on emotional readiness so theres no need for backpacks today. Armed deputies will also patrol the campus as students return. Republican congressman Brian Fitzpatrick is calling for congress to pass the bipartisan restraining act. It would petition a judge to temporarily take guns