To bring the temperatures down. Theyre still falling at this time. Right now its in the 40s in philadelphia. Look at the 30s, pottstown just above freezing at 33 degrees, 34 in allentown. While its closer to 30 degrees in south delaware. Chilly morning and bright sunshine. 42 at 6 00. By 9 00, 45 degrees and then its into the 50s at lunch time and still climbing. Neighborhood by neighborhood forecast when im back in ten minutes. Lets check on the roads. Jessica boyington has your first alert traffic. We are watching for a disabled vehicle out in Montgomery County out in lansdale. If you take the vine street expressway, good to go this morning. We had ongoing construction closing it for portions of last week but now eastbound westbound is open. You can see around 24th street, no problems or vehicles traveling along. In Galloway Township on a disabled vehicle scene, clearing out of the way right about now on the garden state parkway, headed southbound around exit 40, the white horse pike
Starting to move again here in the southbound lanes. But a lot of questions here that was mallory hoff reporting. This is causing major traffic problems on the new jersey turnpike. Residual delays out there. 7th man no one stone is live in news copter shannon stone is live in news copter 7. Reporter what we are left with is the southbound lane getting through. The inner roadway has all lanes open, but an interesting phenom no one happening here. We are going to bring you all the way back to the happening here. As you look at the picture you can see the inner roadway delay roadway. You have a 3mile jam despite through. People are hearing the accident is on the outer roadway and are opting to take the inner roadway. As a result of that your inner roadway is a bumper to bumper jam for 14 miles. If goes all the way back to interchange 10 so avoid this at all costs. Route 130 works well as an alternate. Shannon stone channel 7 Eyewitness News. And you can follow all the latest developments
The cool spot, the Lehigh Valley at 43. Skies are clear there. Once the sun is up well see the temperatures start to come up at 7 00. Bright sunshine as we head through the morning. For philadelphia, 52 degrees. Not quite as mild as yesterday but close. Well cool down a little bit by 6 00 and then sunshine will quickly turn temperatures around, 56 degrees is what were looking for by lunch time today. This afternoon, right up to the 07 degree mark for most of the area, south jersey at 67 degrees and a little cooler at the shore today. 59 degrees, though the winds will be light this morning, well see an easterly wind develop this afternoon. That will limit the temperatures. Change is ahead. You can see it on the seven day scrolling at the bottom of your screen. Its not just one seven day. Its a seven day for each part of our area. Right now, Jessica Boyington has your first alert traffic. Were watching the vine street expressway right now. This is right around 24th street on our cameras.
Out of that building. This is at the hunters glen apartment complex. We spoke with a woman off camera who lives in the building. She tells us she was asleep when a Maintenance Worker knocked on her door, alerted her to the fire. She got out okay. She said the Maintenance Workers went back in and rescued her cat. As far as she knew, there were no injuries. And based on what we could see, it looks like at least a few of the units there were damaged. I went to speak to someone at the front office. They said they were busy trying to figure out what to do with those residents whose apartments were damaged. Were checking in with fire officials right now to figure out if they were able to track down a source or an origin of that fire. Reporting live, im Pamela Osborne. Thank you. And a fire destroyed a Delaware County home this morning and caused a rush hour detour. Crews battled the twoalarm fire. The flames broke out about 4 00 this morning. Firefighters got the situation under control, but
Falls. All lane were shut down while crews cleared the scene. 5 00 a. M. Now to a developing story. Theres just one hour until verizon employees plan to walk off the job and on to the picket lines. More than 36,000 workers are promising to strike after months of working without a contract. Two unions, Communications Workers of america and the International Brotherhood of electrical workers represent verizon land line and cable workers from mass pass to virginia. The unions say that verizon wants to freeze pensions, make layoffs easier and rely more on contract workers. Verizon says with higher medical costs, there are Health Care Issues that need to be addressed. Verizon says it also has thousands of nonunion employees trained and ready to fill in. Also new this morning, a major milestone in the fight against cancer is happening right now. The university of pennsylvania is part of an elite group of Cancer Research centers taking part. Nbc 10s katy zachry is live for us outside the Abra