Were getting rid of jose but maria is the next issue. Lets go ahead and take a look at the coastal Flood Warning which is still in effect across our delaware and jersey coast lines. Theres less area covered by this. The advisories are shooting closer to the shore. We have high tide between 8 oclock and 9 oclock this morning and were looking at that coastal Flood Warning with the possibility of moderate flooding during times of high tide today. Satellite and radar showing you that jose which is now a Tropical Storm, no longer a hurricane pretty much off our coast. There is the possibility of a little sprinkle or shower today but mainly its just clouds and sun with that storm weakening and also starting to push away from us a little bit. 71 degrees in philadelphia. 71 in wilmington. 71 in allentown. 72 in beach haven and 72 cape may. Pretty comfortable out there, a little bit humid. As we go through the afternoon it is going to be warm. 81 by noon, by 3 oclock a high of 84 and 82 by 5 oc
Developing now on action news, Hurricane Maria closes in on puerto rico. We spoke with one local whom who is prepared to ride out the storm. Also developing, the death toll rises from a devastating earthquake in mexico. Search and recovery operations are still under way. Noplace for hate. A local college responds to a second student targeted with racist graffiti in a matter of days. Hello everyone. It is 5 31 on this wednesday, september 20th. David and karen you are up right now. If youve been missing the sunshine we get a little of that back. We do get a little back. We have issues down the shore and its all because of now Tropical Storm jose Still Producing breakers of five to 7 feet along the coast and thats still going to give you a high risk of rip currents today and some heavy surf. Dangerous for swimmers. Theres also a coastal Flood Warning until 2 oclock. High tide is between about 8 oclock and 9 oclock this morning along most of our coast and during that time we could have an
Im Natasha Brown in for rahel. Lots going on this morning, globally. I swear. Still looking at outside on the road, feel guilty talking about this construction, not much going on but matt, i know you are really busy. We are bus toy day, we had jose, that is starting to move away. We all are taking an eye, taking our eyes to maria, of course, is affecting puerto rico, already definitely affecting puerto rico. Tough to see but we are looking at margate beach, it is rough surf down here and here is storm scan three this is a live picture, maria now making land fall in the southe coast of puerto rico affecting many, many people down there, we will be looking for wind gusts that are close to 150 or so miles an hour, this is a very strong catastrophic category four storm making land fall along southeast coast of puerto rico. We are keeping an eye on maria affecting everybody in puerto rico there this morning. Temperatures close tore home, we have to talk about that, 60 s and 70s, warm and mu
Im Natasha Brown. Rahel is off. Maria meantime came ashore this morning with winds of 155 miles per hour. It is one of the strongest hurricanes to ever strike the island. Cbs correspondent david filed this report as the storm hit. Reporter the building about 100 yards behind me there are pieces of that building that have flown off and are now flying through the air like projectiles. This video was taken just outside of our hotel room showing the force of marias violent winds. It was enough for the hotel to order guests down to the lobby level. The region was still rebounding from the last storm. Irma when maria rolled in. Weve never had any back to back hurricanes before. Reporter Yolanda Maldonado has been without power since Hurricane Irma two weeks ago much shes in a shelter in san juan. I passed through hurricanes but this one its going to be very hard. Reporter eddie and his allege year old daughter riding out the storm in hotel room. We are trying to dot best we can to survive. Y
It is still several hours from high tide and water is lapping against the mounding of sand that bulldozers pushed up here to reenforce what is left of the dunes behind me where you see those big cliffs, joses gone but the storm left lots to clean up. Nature made a withdraw in a North Wildwood man was working to redeposit sand that erode add way while remnants of jose passed off shore this week. Is what left of the beach is same but probably dropped down. Sand is hard now. Reporter at tenth street in avalon it created mounds and gully close to the slow water lied. Storm surge pushed it back a football field beyond where the soft sand begins. We have a stroller here and we could barely get the stroller on the beach. It was smooth sailing today because of the impact on the sand. Reporter in ventnor the new beaches who some but not significant amount of sand near fishing pier. And in margate pumps just about had the flooded basins between dune and bulkhead dried out n ocean city there wont