Lets go over to david murphy and karen rogers with weather and traffic. Reporter its a miserable monday. Reporter yes we have rain in the poconos and sleet and making it down into the Lehigh Valley. Generally speaking just wet roads coming through. You can see how the blue and white the mixed precipitation and light snow up in the poconos at this point. We are not so much looking at that down around our neck of the woods, but we have steadier cells popping throw parts of montgomery and bucks county highlighted in yellow. Most of it is light to moderate rain, a little bit steadier. Most of this will be with us through the morning commute. 39 degrees in philadelphia. We dropped 36 in reading. 37 in allentown. Looks like well stay mild enough to avoid a freeze up on roads. There was an earlier concern about that. If youre in the Northern Areas in particular and you see 3 32 on your dashboard they remember slow it down. 48 will be the high. The rain will have a tendency to taper off early
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Destroyed homes and buildings, tore down power lines. At the height of the storm, more than 380,000 homes and busine businesses were without power. Michael has been downgraded to a Tropical Storm, but it continues to batter the southeast with rain and winds. The destruction is not over. Were still looking at a pretty active day in parts of georgia and the carolinas. This came on shore yesterday around 12 30 central time, 1 30 eastern time. Were going to see it moving very fast. It really picked up speed. Its not going to be like florence thats going to drop all this rain. Its going to move very quickly. Its going to bring some very heavy rain and tornados. Matt is live in tallahassee. This is the kind of damage thats typical here in Florida State capital. These trees are the pride and joy of tallahassee. I dont know if you knew this, but trees are kind of tallahassees thing. That was the main damage we saw her, these felled trees and branches and destroyed cars, houses and electrical l
But we begin in florida bracing for Hurricane Michael after the storm strengthened to a category 4 over not to. As well destructive winds and hfby rainfall are expected. The National Weather service is calling this an unprecedented event. Noting no category 4 storm on record has ever made land fall on floridas pan handle. Roughly 375,000 have been urged to evacuate. Yesterday parts of florida were already feeling effects oof the storm. Some minor flooding during high tide. And lets check in with bill karins. This is just going to be a sight. For anyone with interest in the Panama City Beach areas, they wont look the same. Er for if youve ever been on the sugar sand beaches the beaches will be there after the storm is gone. Its just out from the National Hurricane center. So right now 1line 40 Miles Per Hour winds. Still move thing to north at 14. Were bhout 11 hours away from land fall. And 1 00 p. M. , 100 thrive 35 mileperhour winds. Strongest ever in this region of florida and well
Good morning, joe. Reporter good morning, poppy. The truth is the president ran into reality on this issue. There was heated debate we know among some of his top advisers about whether to go down the road once again of trying to repeal and replace, if you will, obamacare. A lot of back and forth right there in the oval office, and then what we also had was a lawsuit, a lawsuit essentially inn validating obamacare which the administration decided to jump into which at that time saying, hey, we agree with this. The problem is of course on capitol hill democrats took it and ran with it and in the Oval Office Just last week i asked the president about healthcare. He said as far as a lawsuit goes, he was expecting to get a good result in the Supreme Court and after that he said aspiration nael that they would have something even better than obamacare, but that was pretty clear they did not have a plan as of that time. Its also really about the reality that democrats did very well in the mid