Around 3 00 this morning. Evacuations involve just about 100 people, many from a hotel nextdoor. Eyewitness News Reporter chantee lans live at the scene live with the fire commissioner. Good morning. Reporter good morning, jan , just learned that the fire is now considered to be under control joining me is the fire commissioner, the fire under control so whats that mean right now . Well, that essentially means we think weve confined it to the building where it started, or the buildings were started. Yes. Certainly does not mean the fire is out. Far from that, as you can tell tell me about this building , and how complex it is for you guys to fight this type of smear. These Old Buildings, the building over the years, might have start out as separate occupancy, now are have been connected and reconnected and renovated over time. We never know what we are dealing with in these situation. So when all of that happens , what, i mean, i see there are guys up there, guy on the ground. It is mo
Welcome back, kate. I yes, looking outside, so you nailed it, reign go away. We have some flooding on mlk drive. Actually has has the road complete immediately closed down. That will will affect us in the 5 00 hour. Plus some accident out there. I always call mlk drive the secret spot. For whatever reason it is right next to the schuylkill and people dont use it that much. But if it is your goto, youll be in trouble. Thats tough, yes. The but the rain making its exit. Basically done in the city. Do still have rain out there across the southern counties. So cape may, cumberland, atlantic getting hit right now , then kent and sussex, seeing rounds every rain rolling through in the last few hour loop on this radar. Actually also a little band of snow showers off to the west. It is off the map here to the west. Making it eastern approach. So there is a possibility that maybe berks, lancaster counties see few flakes of snow before said and done. But not huge concern. But when you look at th
Across the river palmyra cove nature park, in new jersey, couple every raindrops on the camera lens. Rain going to be tame erring off, so some, as we head into the late morning, other by the afternoon. And then, everybody else later on tonight. So, storm scan3, shows this rainfall. More moderate rain, for instance, down the shore, near little egg harbor, also cents into Atlantic City points out the yellow specs from the map, where the moderate rainfall is coming down. Steady, light rain, across the region, so, periods of rain, expected throughout the day today. That rain will be coming to an end. From northwest, through southeast, and so lingering down the shore, little bit longer, we will talk more specifically about the timing, and my full forecast, also, talk about our next chance for little snow. Jan, back to you. Okay, thank you, chelsey. 8 01. Theyre leaving as underdogs but hoping to come home as champions. Today the eagles are headed to minneapolis. Their game plan, the eagles
Earned it at this point. Thats right. We will keep the humidity level somewhat on the low side. Waking to good hair day thats right. Extra hair gel in case. Looking good. Looking pretty good today some clouds around early this morning, but dont worry well break out to sunshine in the afternoon. It does warm up progressing through the second half of the weekends. Not whole lot happening clouds over philadelphia, dry conditions right now little bit of different story the farther south and east you go. Going over to storm scan3, you can see little disturbance trying to bring few light rain showers, south of wilmington, delaware, through dover. They may clip extreme southern new jersey, into Salem Cumberland and Cape May County over the next hour or two. Then we clear the clouds up and back to mostly sunny skies. So good midmorning shaping up across the region. There are the temperatures, 74 in philadelphia, everyone else still in the 60s, dover at 72 degrees comfortable 60 at this hour up
About the heat, no way. Doesnt complain, thats terrific. Hey, if it is dry roadway i am all smiles. Speaking of katie how is it going to look . I feel part of it, for you mere, a you can put your feet up when you have this time of morning for one thing and also the temperatures arent that hot yet. Definitely mild outside. Walking out the door, you certainly do not need a jacket at all. That said, we will start heating up in a significant way. Looking at skycam 3, overlooking center city, very sleepy looking city at the moment, not too much happening out there not obviously too much traffic. That will all change, though, as the sun comes up, we start to heat up significantly. So storm scan, may remain empty at this point we are seeing High Pressure now currently building in. Generally calling for more sun than anything. But you will see some clouds along the way here today. Keep in mind, i am not surprised took place air quality alert now posted for portions of new jersey, specifically,