The delaware and the Lehigh Valleys. Accuweather looks ahead to the holiday forecast. Speaking of which, lets check in with david murphy and matt pellman in for karen rogers good morning. Reporter good morning, everyone we got hammered with rain overnight set a one day record with over two inches in philadelphia. Storm tracker 6 live double scan a couple of sprinkles clearing the Lehigh Valley and a couple of more falling a part near baltimore. Were seeing the return of sunshine as you guys just mentioned. As we go through the day were looking at a warmup, too, were on or about 60 degrees and wind up up at 75. Theres a chance of a spotty afternoon shower we dont see it on radar, but its coming. And then comes the weekend, when i step inside well look at the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, a little bit of instability each and everyday, a positive change coming on sunday, ill have the entire call for the shore and the poconos coming up. Reporter we have instability already this
Quigley boulevard in new castle. That is a thats when he witness add medical helicopter go down right in front of his eyes in a Drainage Ditch behind the us postal facility here. Big explosion, flames, felt, you know, the heat from it kind of just shock. Sounded like wrote spellers werent moving. Like it was struggling. Reporter roberto kara bellow thought the chopper actually hit the building where he works. The way it shook this building and it rocked it. So i thought it was going we started running out this way and when we look across we saw that big ball of fire and the smoke. Reporter debris was strewn everywhere. Nearby cars damaged. Marian williams was just walking out of her business in the Industrial Park to meet her husband for lunch when she heard the loud noise coming from the sky and looked up. I heard it explode and then i saw this golf of black smoke. It was terrible. Im still shaking. Because theres a life there. Its gone. Reporter marian and her husband raced over to s
When his helicopter went down. Witnesses describe a fiery and frightening scene. It sounded like a missile coming in. It was weird. You know, i just all die was duck. I was like, you know, didnt know where it was coming from. Reporter john hughes had just pulled into the Industrial Park on quigley boulevard in new castle to do some i. To work at a business here. Thats when he heard a loud noise from behind and witnessed a medical helicopter take a knows dive. Sounded like the propellers werent moving. Like it was struggling and kind of looked up and i seen it like going straight down, you know, at the last minute. Big explosion, names, felt, you know, the heat from it. Kind of just shocked. Reporter chopper went down in Drainage Ditch behind the us postal facility. Dominic kara bellow works across the street. The way it took this building and it rocked it. So i thought it was going we started running out this way when we look across we saw that big ball of fire and the smoke. Reporter
Pants . Her bracelet caught on the garage door and it is going up. And storms are still popping up as we head into memorial day weekend. Your news starts in 30 seconds. Black smoke and flames. Helicopter down in delaware. We just found out who was insi inside. Severe weather strikes. Thunder, even hail and of course a lot of rain and its not going away for your Holiday Weekend. Now fox 29 news at ten. First at ten do you need to change your Holiday Weekend plans . Drenching showers on the radar tonight. Not just rain take look at center city. Philadelphia a couple of hours ago that of course is hail, droves of people will head right there tomorrow. The jersey shore which is get be rain right now. The question on a lot of minds on this thursday night, when will things dry out . Thanks for joining us. Im iain page. Im lucy noland a lot of folks already have the car pack, the cooler filled for the weekend barbeques and all of that. So is it going to be wash out because that doesnt look go
In the meantime look at ultimate doppler it is still lit up. Moderate to heavy rainfalling right now. Maces like Chester County, mop, bucks county also getting another round of that rainfall around the Center City Area points north and west. Lower merion, radnor, moving toward conshohocken looking at some of no moderate to heavy rain that continues pushing through Montgomery County, also bucks county right now. Bensalem, doylestown look ago the some of rain as we move into Burlington County receipt now, cinnaminson, moorestown look at some of the rain. Break for folks down the shore also central and southern delaware. But look at the rainfall totals so far today. Over 2inches in philadelphia. Almost 2inches in wilmington. Millville over an inch rain. As we go hour by hour, still looking at some of the leftover showers rumble of thunder. The good news, by tomorrow morning, its partly sunny. A dry break for the most part on friday. Also, saturday there could be a 20 chance for some pop u