Im reena ninan. And im phillip mena. Lets start with that Severe Weather rolling across the middle of the nation. At least two tornadoes were reported in the chicago area late yesterday. The areas they were spotted in are very rural. No initial reports of any damage from the tornadoes. Take a look at this. The scene at Wrigley Field in chicago. A strong thunderstorm bringing the tigers cubs game to a haul. The delay lasted more than two hours before the game could start again. Several suburban chicago areas were hit hard by the storms. Its believed a Lightning Strike ignited at least one house fire. At one point nearly 15,000 customers were without power. The radar, you can see the system swirling in the midwest. Lots of rain coming from those storms plus triple digit temperatures. Accuweathers Justin Povick tracking it all. Good morning, justin. Reporter phillip and reena thanks, good morning. Another steamy start, another steamy afternoon on the way for the northeast and i think it w
Beaches having standing water. And the work to pump it out continues. John rawlins is live in camden where the hearing got underway this morning. Reporter hi rick, kind of a complicated problem involving two sets of courts, army core of engineer is in court allowing a judge to allow it to finish the controversial dune project, that will overrule the state issued stay order. But not so fast the issue, the unexpected ponding in drainage spaces and dunes in the sea wall. The system was designed so rain water runoff would collect in the basins and quickly drain away in 24 to 36 hours. But something has gone through and the stagnant water has not receded. Leaders in margate are irate. They went to state court to temporarily stop the project. And the stoppage is costing the court 120,000 a day and margate wants the project to remain on hold until a fix can be identified and put in place. Assemblyman chris brown represents margate and testifies that the controversial dune project was governme
Blo block. Its disrupting traffic here. We can tell you again that a null of the properties on this block are currently evacuated. Residents told police while hazmat goes in and checks the house to see what besides marijuana might be in there, but at this point, we can tell you there have been no injuries. George spencer, nbc 10 news. Police say an 84yearold woman was tied up with belts inhin inside her own home in south philadelphia. A man in his 30s broke into the home through a back door or window and tieder will up with belts in the bachlts and tried to rob her. The woman managed to untie herself and go outside to get her. He had her tied up and she untied herself and went up and yelled fire. Shes a genius. One of my best friends. Ive always admired her. The 84yearold woman was not sdwr injured. But police havent said if anything was stolen from the house. This egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence, it ma noose place noose pla has no place in america. Two days after the
Nazis, White Supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as americans. Meanwhile the ceo of Merck Kenneth Frazier who was born in north philadelphia, resigned from President Trumps Manufacturing Council today citing a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism. World news tonight with david muir will have much more on the violence in virginia including more on President Trumps statement and the continuing fallout. You can watch that following our broadcast at 6 30 tonight. Philadelphia police are trying to find the bandit who staged a Home Invasion in Queen Village this afternoon and tied up an 84yearold woman. Action News Reporter Annie Mccormick is live in the 700 block of south front street and annie, whats the full story there . Reporter well, jim, police and also friends of the 84yearold victim say that she is in good spirits tonight. She was even able to walk around with detectives through the crime scene that is her home
Concerns today at the jersey shore. Onealong those lines lets turn to karen rogers and dave murphy. Roads a little damp. Gert too far out to sea but were getting some cloud cover in off the ocean today and there is going to be that issue down the shore with the rip currents as we just said. You can see on satellite and radar a little bit of spotty precipitation here and there and as we take a look at storm tracker6 live double scan, its not raining everywhere as karen mentioned but we are seeing some occasional showers popping through. Most of this popping in from the southwest and pushing off toward the northeast it looks like the current heavy band now out of the area. However, just to the north of philadelphia in and around trenton down by wilmington and another batch coming up from baltimore a little bit of precipitation down in dover delaware. You can see that some of you are dealing with some of that light precipitation right now. 73 in philadelphia, 73 wilmington, 68 in allentow