Good evening. And its great to have you with us here on a monday night. 50 million americans bracing for Severe Weather tonight, but first, the storm hitting the new England Patriots tonight. Word just moments ago that Quarterback Tom Brady has been suspended without pay by the nfl for the first four games of the new season. And the patriots facing that 1 million fine now. It comes just days after the investigation into the deflating of the footballs determined that quote, it was more probable than not that tom brady was at least generally aware of what was going on. Abcs ryan smith leading us off. Reporter tonight, tom brady sacked suspended for four games without pay. The nfl telling the fourtime super bowl winner your actions clearly constitute conduct debtrimental to the integrity of professional football. Bradys refused to address the leagues report which found he was more likely than not generally aware he was playing with intentionally deflated footballs. I dont really have any
Alerted to this threealarm blaze about 3 30 this morning, so this is been going on now for about two hours. Dozens of firefighters here on the scene, you can see that at least four ladder trucks are battling the blaze from overhead. Over firefighters who have brought in hoses, extending probably three or four blocks away are inside at the scene, still engulfed here. You can see the flames that are erupting, at several different points where my Vantage Point is. I want to walk around a little bit, because i know the trees are blocking it. I can see flames from at least three different points of location inside the Flooring Company. Now, what weve been told is this is a familyowned Flooring Company. Its been here for a couple of dozen years. Were located in an industrial park. When you are traveling eastbound on the schuylkill expressway and then getting on to the blue route, heading towards new jersey, you can see that the flames are billowing over that part of the highway. But if you c
The scene of this threealarm fire here at the Philadelphia Floor company for about 2 1 2 hours. Initial reports of multiple explosions have not been confirmed, but the chief says he is currently working on a press release. So mideasthes moving all of us to one central location. But we can tell you, as you know, some flooring products are highly flammable. Ladder trucks battling this blaze from above and dozens of Fire Companies are here on the ground. Four ladder trucks in all, weve been able to count. Maybe one more has joined us now in the past half hour. The Park Companies are here from conshohocken, plymouth meeting, lower maryland, narberth. Its unbelievable the flames. We have seen flames shooting up from about three different locations inside the building but we are being moved downwind of the smoke and the flames at this point. So if youre traveling on the blue route, no doubt, the smoke is something that youre going to notice this morning. But for now, the only detours are in
Is tracking the summerlike conditions outside, and michelle, in a word sticky may be the best way to describe the weather this weekend. Yeah absolutely. We felt that yesterday and well feel it once again today. It was so humid, we had that haze all day long. Mostly cloudy skies, and then we had the thunderstorms that came through later in the afternoon. And we may see a repeat performance today. Looking outside, mostly cloudy skies this morning in philadelphia. Were also seeing some patchy fog from all that leftover moisture. So to the north and west visibilities down to a mile and a quarter in mt. Pocono down to 3 miles in allentown, down to 4 miles in alan and lancaster. Trenton, reduced visibilities down to 3 miles and mt. Holly dropping down to 2 1 2 mile. As youre out and about on your sunday morning, be careful in some spots. Good idea to use the low beams and take it a little bit slower. Temperatures are mile this morning. Were looking at temperatures mainly in the 70s in philad
Some showers showing up on radar, especially to the west in Lancaster County chester county. Also to the south of philadelphia and northern and central and southern delaware and also extreme southern new jersey. Were already seeing some showers out there. Again, more numerous later on this afternoon and even the chance of some thunderstorms. It is a mild start, 78 in philadelphia. 72 in washington township. 71 in kennett square. Even mild to the north and west. 66 right now in mt. Pocono. 72 in lancaster. 75 in blue bell. And if youre walking out the door at this hour in beach haven, youre walking out to 71 degrees. 76 in millville, and 75 in mt. Holly. So for today, plan on a day a lot like yesterday. A summerlike day, warm and muggy, showers, with some gusty thunderstorms later on this afternoon. Temperatures well above normal for this time of year. So 85 i think thats where well end up later on this afternoon. Much cooler during the workweek. Well get back to the 70s, back to averag