Mateo bridge just past the toll plaza and this is stacked up already for the monday morning commute. We are more delays to tell you about but first lets check the weather with Neda Iranpour. I am watching the doppler to show you what is going on, a lot of lightning strikes happening right now, some strong bands of rain coming through and places to the south, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara along the 101 and interstate 5, this strong sell picks up south of monterey, this is not necessarily our region but all of this is moving north and is expected to reach her area tonight. Look at these lightning strikes west of king city, soledad, and monterey could be next. It is causing some swirly conditions when it comes to winds, some coming out of the east and northeast and north winds, west winds, we are feeling the breeze. 10 mileperhour winds and san ramon just picked up southwest winds at 70 Miles Per Hour, this tends to happen, alejo 15 mileperhour winds coming out of the southwest, berke
And Recovery Efforts after the storm passes. We begin with the latest on Hurricane Irma leaving a deadly trail of destruction in florida as a category 2 hurricane. Officials say theyve now had four confirmed deaths from irma in florida, but they expect the death toll to rise when crews go door to door in the florida keys tomorrow. There are widespread outer out annals. More than outages. More than 3 million homes and businesses. 6. 5 Million People in florida evacuated their homes. Emergency shelters are housing more than a Million People. The Florida Governor rick scott says he expects massive flooding and devastation along parts of coast, including the area around naples. Single its a its a flat town. Some coastal areas could get 10 to 15 feet of water and the damage will stretch up the coast to tampa and the panhandle. Heres more from miami on the latest conditions. Reporter it started out at a category 4 storm 400 miles wide, packing 130 Miles Per Hour. Now irma is making its move
Days of the weekend. The weekend was beautiful. Today just slightly warmer. Similar picture outside. Lets talk temperatures over the next several hours as you get out the door this morning. 59 the temperature at 8 00 a. M. You still might want the light jacket. Up to 69 by 11 00 a. M. Sunny to mostly sunny with scattered clouds expected by this afternoon. Those are the clouds from irmas moisture. Were going to talk more about the track of irma, as well as look more closely at when rain returns to the region coming up. Now to traffic and jessica boyington. Were starting on the vine street expressway right now. Moving through center city. Cameras around 8th street. We were open all morning. Didnt deal with the Construction Projects here. Heading to the off ramp. If you look back here, this is the traffic coming off of the ben franklin bridge. No big problems or delays. Heading westbound toward the schuylkill, youll get there just fine. Watch for the crash in pottstown at Armand Hammer bo
40s in allentown, reading and lancaster and 56 down in dover, delaware. As we roll through the day, it will be a good one, 72 for recess at lunch time, by 3 00, 78, few clouds popping up, generally speaking mostly sunny, boy 5 0077, worry looking at a cool one to start out with temperatures in suburbs in the 40s, between 6 00 and 8 00 and in philadelphia, averaging about 55 degrees, not a lot of wind, were looking at Hurricane Irma deteriorating a little bit, its still a dangerous storm and a category 1, now moving away tampa about 60, 70 miles north of tampa and pushing a lot of wind and rain on places like Jacksonville Florida and eventually up into georgia today as well. This one is beginning to wind down be we still have jose in the northern caribbean and a little uncertainty about the future of that storm. Well talk about both of those mega storms coming up. A lot of news in the weather, traffic its kind of quiet, so far, we like that it way, were looking outside live at the schuy
Wednesday. Here are those numbers though. 57 in philadelphia. Just 47 now in allentown and reading, those are actually cooler numbers than what we have maybe a half hour ago. How about the poconos, 39 . 52 in wilmington, 59 in trenton be 53 in millville and 57 in cape may. Heres how it will go, well improve in a hurry, by noon, 72, 3 00, 78 and 77 boy 5 00. Hurricane irma dropped to a category 1 and pushing would from tampa. The center pushing up toward the georgia Florida Border to the west of jacksonville and this should become a Tropical Storm later today down from category 1 hurricane status, might be a Tropical Storm by atlanta but in the process of deteriorating. We do have jose to copy an eye on in the atlantic. Ill have more on that and the effects of irma and our forecast as we go later into the week, thats ahead. Breaking news, i just got off the phone with police in Burlington County, theyre telling us about a tanker truck that is on its side here, so i told you about this e