Yup. Want to get their eyes on eagles before they head to minnesota. Good day everyone. Its saturday, january 27th, 2018. So were about a week away. One more win away it. Seems like its taking for over to get here, doesnt it. Tick tock, tick tock youre still celebrating with the green. Im trying. Im running out of options, though. Me too. I dont have a lot of green ties. Are you sick . I think im losing my voice. The flu . No. Dont say that. You sure. Dont say that. All right. Okay. Tell us what the heck is happening outside. Well, i think we have a street closure that youll talk about little bit about too. Gotcha. Heads up, drivers. Scott is keeping me in line right now. Streets department temporarily closed several streets in center city. Crews will be working in the area near city hall until about 2 00 oclock this afternoon. Signs have been posted. But if you need a full list of the affected streets and how to get around them, we have all that information on our website. All right.
You can track those storms in your neighborhood right on your smartphone or tablet with the nbc 10 news app. Get up to the minute live radar and instant weather alerts. The nbc 10 app is free. How about this now. A tree limb wayeighing more than a ton plunged on to a tree Service Employee pinning his legs in the bucket he was working in. The limb came loose to soon as crews worked to clear a vacant residential lot in haddonfield. The Service Crews were working to clear the lot. Nbc 10s cydney long is there live. Tell us about the dangerous rescue. Reporter i can tell you it was dangerous and delicate. This private contractor right now is hospitalized but take a look. He was trapped and terrified right here about 50 feet in the air. You can still see that limb hanging in the balance, the one that fell on top of him. Its more like a tree trunk, about 25 inches in diameter. Haddonfield police kept residents away from the danger. Neighbors tell us they heard an extremely loud snap and this
Hours. This was the first band of storms that moved through chester, montgomery and pushing past bucks county. Heavy rainfall Flash Flood Warnings in effect in those areas. Look at the heavy rainfall and lots of lightning just to the west of glassboro, glassboro seeing the heavy rainfall is moving towards gloucester right now and into camden county. This particular area of storms is reaching into south philadelphia producing heavy rain. Got some lightning there as well. Part of why weve issued a first alert weather day fmr today. Localized flooding is possible because of the heavy downpours and the threat of that will continue this afternoon. Weve already seen some severe thunderstorms this morning with the potentially damaging winds bringing down tree limbs and power lines. Cant rule that out later today either. The forecast is calling for storminess ahead. Well go through the day hour by hour when i come back in ten minutes. Lets see how this is affecting the roads this morning. Firs
Even off the field. One of the difficulties obviously with trading a guy like cole hamels is what hes meant to our organization over the years. You know, when we have players that are home grown, guys that we drafted, it was a tremendous draft we developed him, he developed himself he made himself the player that he was. Hamels was certainly one of the best. Now hamels is the biggest name move by the phillies but hes not the latest name moved by phillies. Well talk more about that coming up next hour. Were live at Citizens Bank park im Ducis Rodgers channel6 action news. Brian and sharrie back to you. Ducis thank you. Big departure. Yeah. Time for a check of the forecast. Melissa magee in for adam joseph this afternoon. Shes wisely decided to be outside and for good reason. Yeah, you said it. Its hot pretty warm but the good news is the humidity is low as we close out our work week on this friday. Check out the numbers across the delaware and lehigh valleys. It is 90 here in philadelph
Nonunion employees in case Union Members walk off the job. A number of buildings that tested positive for legionella. A fourth person now died and 675 gotten sick. However, were told that all of the people who died did have underlying medical conditions that had weakened their immune systems. On saturday, Health Officials revealed that the bacteria turned up in two additional bronx buildings. Steam Line Plastics on park avenue and a Verizon Office Building on 167th street. News 4s Michael George as the latest. Reporter infections on the rise. Now four people have died and 65 are sick in the outbreak of legionnaires disease in the bronx. Its got a lot of people who live here worried about their own health. Try to avoid this area as much as i can. Not much i can do. Its caught when people breathe in an airborne bacteria. Thats been traced to cooling towers on the roofs of buildings. Shopping center a plastics business and now a verizon office. I am concerned. There are a lot of Old Build