Into delaware and south jersey. Now, lets talk about irma. This storm bombed out over the past 24 hours. Maximum sustained winds 185 miles per hour. This is a strong category five hurricane. If you look at it you can see the eye of the storm clearly well defined wraparound convection thunderstorms and its very close to antigua. Its only about 135 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands continuing to move to the west. To put this in perspective weve only had one storm in recorded history stronger than irma. That was allen back in 1980. Ill talk about the latest path of irma and what it means for the u. S. Coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Monica and rick. Thank you, cecily. With irma bearing down on the united states, preparations are well under way in the miami area tonight. Folks are stocking up onas, water, food and the cash in the event that south florida does take a direct hit. And in texas, the recovery continues more than a week after Hurricane Harvey hits gulf coast
Beach front hotels. Everybody is evacuating. Everybody has to go. Reporter are you planning to ride the storm out at the airport. If need be. This is where ill be. Reporter after seeing the devastating impact of irma in the caribbean most recently impacting cube the bahamas and the u. S. Virgin islands floridians on both coasts are heeding the warnings to get to safety. Lining up outside of shelters. We moved in together away from Hurricane Harvey but now were here and Hurricane Irma is coming. Reporter at least five of those shelters already at capacity. I dont know where were going to go. Reporter many of those evacuees are coming up from the keys which will start feeling the first effects of irma tomorrow morning. In New Smyrna Beach florida Marci Gonzalez channel6 action news. We continue to monitor the track of irma. We have our own action news crew on the ground in florida. Action news anchor brian taff is there right now leading our Team Coverage and well get to meteorologist ad
Corner on the 900 block of emily after the man stole the familys suv with the little girl inside. She started to scream come here come here. Someone left a baby there. And i said okay and ran to the street and called the cops. This neighbor is describing the reaction from residents near emily street when the thief stopped the rav 4 and put the child on the sidewalk. Left the baby in the car seat. Just ran back to the car and left. This girls mother had just left the familys laundry mat business and buckled her daughter inside of the suv when she darted back inside for just a second. Maybe 10 seconds because the baby was crying about a certain toy and she want back in to get the toy and then the car is gone. The minnie mouse toy was the toy he wanted. He stopped and did the right thing when he saw the child. Here is a closer look at the pennsylvania license plate. Everyone is relieved that the vehicles precious cargo is safe. Luckily he some whit about him to release the baby. He will b
Action action news, delaware valleys leading news program with meteorologist Melissa Magee, jeff skversky, Sarah Bloomquist and walter perez. Sunday night, Police Investigate a possible break in at Philadelphia City hall. Also developing news out of texas where search is on for gunman who shot and killed a Police Officer right outside of Police Headquarters. But the big story on action news is a cold, windy day and if you spent anytime outside today you likely wanted to get indoors as soon as possible it was raw. Wind chills in the lower 30s and wind advisory remains in effect. Meteorologist Melissa Magee with our first check of the accu weather forecast, melissa. Yeah, walter and sarah a dose of reality for second half of the weekend and contrast from the day, yesterday. Yesterday we had a high, early high of 72, and right now thumbs are only in the 40s, and 30s. Peak wind gusts was other part of the story to day. Gustness wilmington 51 miles an hour, million will had a gusts at 49 mi
This was the scene, tonight at 30th street station in philadelphia, hundreds of commuters found themselves stranded, when septas Paoli Thorndale Regional Rail line went down. Septa spokesperson said during the rush hour it is probably the worst time for this to happen. Shes got that right. It the is thursday night, and the big story on action news tonight is a power outage on amtrak which shares its tracks with septa. That turned the evening rush hour into a nightmare for both transit agencies. Action News Reporter jeff chirico is live at 30th street station. Jeff, what is the status of the outage . Is there a potential problem for the morning rush hour . Reporter jim, there is a big question mark over the morning commute. Now amtrak is reporting hour long delays, on the keystone line between here and harrisburg. Septa suspended it rail service to paoli. It was a hectic evening here meaning many commuters did not make it home in time for dinner they stood and waited, hundreds of septa