Worse. If you have to head out, get the shades on and youll have no rain to deal with. 70 in allentown. Low 70s in the northern suburbs, 71 in sea isle city, its a bit humid this morning, as we head outside, 65 degrees by 6 00. 68 by 8 00. A few clouds and humid conditions mainly bright early. As we roll through the day, a few weather cumulus clouds develop in the afternoon. 90 by noon, 94 by 3 00. High of 95 late in the day around 4 00. Todays record high is 96. So we are in record territory. Not the kind of record we like to set. Well see how long the heat and humidity last in the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. Reporter lets hit the roads and get the day started. We have construction blocking the right lane on the schuylkill expressway westbound near city avenue. You can see the crews out there. Eastbound they have cleared out, and traffic is moving nicely. Watch out for the westbound traffic restrictions. They set up a new traffic pattern on i95 near cottman. Look for that
Ozoneaction day, more cars on the streets because its a work day and because its going to be hot and humid it will make ozone issues pretty bad. If you have heart and lung issues limit your afternoon activities special during the afternoon up to dinnertime when the ground pollution is at its worse. We have fair weather cumulus developing during the day. 74 degrees in philadelphia. 68 in allentown, 70 on the nose in wilmington and trenton, 71 in sea isle city. As we check out the afternoon, boy it gets hot, noon, 78. 3 00 p. M. , 90, at 4 00 p. M. , 95 one degree off the record high in philadelphia of 96 on this daylight. Doesnt look like the heat wave, it will be a heat wave officially this afternoon, doesnt last forever, well have lowering temperatures later in the week. Karen, what about roads . Reporter i95 look at this disabled tractortrailer, southbound at cottman around the curve. First there were no police here and people were swerving at the last minute, now they have police an
Tests at the hospital show manley had opiates and marijuana inside his system. Right now, more than 40 men are walking from baltimore to washington. The 300man march Organization Denounces the hundreds of murders in baltimore every year. 35 mile trip will take about 20 hours. Marchers are expected to arrive at the National Mall around 2 00 this morning. More than 200 people have been killed in baltimore this year. On metro this morning a whole new ride to work if you take the green line. The 7000 rail car debuts on the line at 5 30 at the greenbelt station. Blue, orange and red lines have them in service already. Metro plans to buy 748 rail cars. So far, only 52 have been delivered. We know that Meagan Fitzgerald will be out there this morning when the first one takes off. Nice, good working air conditioning system. Just blasting the entire time youre in the new cars. Because well need it for sure. It will get hot where you live and we want to check in with tom kierein to find out just
Right near the bay, 70. Its near 70 in the shenandoah valley, but out of the mountains low to mid 60s on this monday morning. Next weather and traffic on the 1s, your drive time forecast. Melissa checking on some problems on the rails. Yes. Problems on the rails on marc. Grab that extra cup of coffee this morning. Youll have a few extra minutes. Penn south 401, running 20 minutes behind. Not giving us a reason, but theyre 20 minutes below. Braddock road at clifton, an crash and a tow truck on the scene. Beltway at st. Barnabas, no problems there. 66 overall, 95 looking quite good this morning and then headed up to 95, b. W. Parkway, 29, everything here nice and green and no major issues. See you back here at 5 11. See you then, thank you. 5 01. Another monday, another day of students heading back to school. Students in warren, fauquier and frederick counties all headed back today. And there were students in Manassas Park where they have not had much time off. News4s molette green is ou
Per hour. Back in ten minutes with more on the metro issue. Thanks. As melissa just mentioned happening right now, metro having some problems as it tries to roll out the newest 7000 rail car at the greenbelt metro station. We want to get to Meagan Fitzgerald with more on what happened before the rail cars get there. Whats the issue . Reporter well, a lot of folks are frustrated because theres an issue with the train that stalled on the tracks. Its monday morning, they were excited to ride on a brandnew 7000 series train. But if you take a look here, youll see thats not happening any time soon. Metro officials tell us that some sort of an issue with this train here. Not able to function properly so passengers had to get off and theyre certainly not happy about it. Now, it was around 5 35 when we noticed that the train was stalled. Passengers waited inside for a few minutes before metro employees told them they had to get off the train. Were told theres some sort of a mechanical issue th