Hurricane. It continues to move toward the north northeast at 8 miles an hour and at this speed it will be off well off the jersey coast by tomorrow afternoon and make this loop could restrengthen if it gets into some warmer water but this hurricane is already churning up the surf in the ocean to the west. Well keep a careful eye on that. Even into the weekend. Winds gusting to 25 even 30 miles an hour down the shore. Still seeing 27 miles an hour gusts tomorrow morning. And then the winds diminish out of the northwest as the storm pulls away during the day tomorrow. But still a breezy day. As we look at the coastal Flood Warning this is until 1am tomorrow morning. For high tide. We do expect at least moderate flooding of streets and along the coast. The waves will be breaking eight to 10 feet over the next several hours. Beach erosion as lucy showed you significant and more to come tidal and roadway flooding will be at least moderate. So we have some hours to go here coming up well ta
Your neighborhood when i come back. First, Jessica Boyington has your first alert traffic. And bill, moving through center city, we started to clear this last bit of the closures. The schuylkill expressway ramp to the vine street expressway. You see theyre just getting out of the way now. Some of our first cars starting to move through and heading to the vine. Earlier, we were closed right now at least until this exact moment. You see the cars, being held back there, moving through. Being let through because earlier we were closed between broad and the schuylkill on the vine eastbound and westbound. The p. A. Turnpike looks good westbound and eastbound, 22 minutes on the westbound side specifically from route 1 to valley forge. Speeds into the 60s. Mass transit looks good so far. On time for amtrak, septa, new jersey transit, and patco. 5 01. Were tracking Tropical Storm jose this morning as it churns closer to our shoreline. Jose is creating strong waves and has closed flooding along
Take. You see how it just kind of meanders into saturday morning. So were going to be watching this one closely for days. During the day today, especially this morning, were going to be feeling the impacts of the jersey shore and the delaware beaches. Both areas still under a first alert for tropical impacts through tomorrow morning. High surf continues, rip current risk continues. Moderate coastal flooding this morning. Thats less likely later today. The beach erosion will continue as it turns off shore. Otherwise our weather will be fine. Sunshine and a nice warmup. 66 in the suburbs to 70 in new jersey. The Lehigh Valley is at 70 degrees. No sign of fog that we saw earlier in the week. By 11 00, 77 degrees. Well top out in the 80s this afternoon. That includes the jersey shore with partly sunny skies, 80 degrees. Ill break it down hour by hour and show you the latest on maria which is minutes away from making landfall in puerto rico when i come back. First, Jessica Boyington has you
So nice to see. Where, good wednesday morning to you, very, very busy night, lots every breaking news thats happening, new stuff coming in all over the place. We do have at, l allentown, g to you. Lets get a check on your traffic and weather. Scott williams in for sue to talk about. Folk just on the 5 00 advisory just came in on hurricaine maria, about 50 miles south and east, right now, of san juan puerto rico t has weakens a bit. Now down to category four hurricane with maximum sustained winds, at 155 Miles Per Hour, but we put tracker on that, and you can see, it is about 50 milesn an, that cenf circulation, but look at this outer eye wall, already lashing the rico with Hurricane Force sustained winds, already toward san juan, looking at wind over Tropical Storm force. So here is the latest as of the top of the hour. 155 Miles Per Hour sustained winds, category four hurricane, movement to the northwest, at about 10 Miles Per Hour. So impacting puerto rico, really pretty much the ent
Continue to get her out of the wreckage continues. Pulled them from the school, all of them were. Death toll 225. We do want to show you new drone video as well to show you the destruction. Hard to see. But nbc news tweeted this footage. Shows rescue operations under way in mexico city how fied twit devastation is. This interrupted an interview they were conducting in mexico city. Cruel twist was the deadly earthquake in 1985. Heres that moment. And now back to the search on the ground. Entire country of mexico is under a state of disaster. Nbc Steve Paterson is under way right now in mexico city. Reporter right now this is a race against time with crews and operations around mexico city. Basically look foring for peopl that could be alive in rubble. Thats the scene behind me in this beautiful neighborhood in mexico city. I want to show you, you can see rescue crews are digging through the rubble. This was a circumstancestory employment agency. People were in this building at the heigh