Storms. Lets get you to Justin Drabick and storm scan3 at this hour. Justin. Good evening, natasha thats right a lot of heat and humidity going on over the Delaware Valley right now. So thats helping to fuel these stronger showers and even some strong to even severe thunderstorms coming across the region. Lets break it down. Theres that line moving into the western portions of the viewing area. Lancaster seeing a strong thunderstorm right now so watch out western Chester County probably in another hour or so. These are indicating theyre weakening heading eastward but heavy rain potential and strong gusty winds. We have one severe thunderstorm to talk about in the Lehigh County nearly a town moving to the southeast. This goes until 6 15 this evening so basically the southern half of Lehigh County moving southeast at about 20 Miles Per Hour so this puts the snowstorm lower macungie by 6 21. And milford at 6 53. They should weaken later tonight. Mainly this evening scattered showers, thun
Introducing the oneandonly Volkswagen Golf sportwagen. The sportier utility vehicle. From the cbs Broadcast Center in philadelphia this is cbs3 Eyewitness News. A truck slams into a Montgomery County school killing the driver and tonight at 11 00 the search for answers about this deadly crash. Good evening everyone, im natasha brown. Thank you so much for joining us much the crash happen at lower mooreland high school. Tonight a High School Janitor tells Eyewitness News reporter Steve Patterson hes lucky to be alive because he happened to walk into another room at just the right time. Reporter it was a matter of time. What took hours to pull out only took an instant to go in. It was bam and it was out. Reporter School Janitor dan said if that instant was just a few seconds earlier he would would be dead. I i would have been gone. No question. It blew it apart. Yeah i feel lucky. Reporter police say shortly before 2 00 this afternoon, this black pickup truck drove straight into a wall a
Before the amtrak crash. The ntsb meantime is trying to figure out if amtrak train 188 was also hit by a projectile shortly before it crashed. There was a hole in the trains windshield. Eyewitness News Reporter matt rivers spoke exclusive a passenger on the septa train that was hit. Monica williams was few rose behind the engineer when the train came ton abrupt stop a few minutes later amtrak 188 sped by her stopped train and moments later as seen in this exclusive video obtained by Eyewitness News the derailed. Immediately i wonder if its connected how often does it happen that the glass on your train is shattered and then the train we just saw there was a tragedy. Even if the amtrak train was hit by a projectile there is no telling if that is what actually caused the train to rapidly act is he rate seconds before the crash. Now for a check on the weather, its been a stormy day for parts of our area and more wet weather could be on the way for us. Meteorologist Justin Drabick is in th
Yeah i feel lucky. Reporter police say shortly before 2 00 this afternoon, this black pickup truck drove straight into a wall at lower moreland high school. Eyewitness josh, says he watched the car accelerate with no sign of braking. I saw a black truck. I saw it rev its engine and smoke coming from it. I her it gun down the parking lot all the way down until iheard this gigantic whack. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene. The truck struck several water pipes causing flooding and cutting power to the high school school. Less a minute away from changing dans lifer. Ive already thanked god more than once. Reporter the work now is speedy repair. Not only patching that whole but fixing any flooding left over and restoring power after what happened in this accident. In the meantime, no word yet on if school will start on monday. School officials will make that decision on sunday. Reporting from lower mooreland Steve Patterson cbs3 Eyewitness News. Turning now to our weather. We saw
Areas pick up much needed rain. Be area, almost pick up the haze, little bit of fog look out there just not Crystal Clear and then there are clouds in the sky as well. 69 degrees is the temperature not just in center city, but also down in the Rehoboth Beach boardwalk and it looks fairly nice there. But it is a little gray, the sky and the ocean are sort of blending in together. Now, storm scan3 shows some of the showers that weve even seen this morning. Theyre light moving on, but were going to be finding more to be moving in to the area as we go through the day. Our temperatures every single one of them in the 60s this morning, this is much milder than we should be this time of the morning we should be in the 50s, instead were in the 60s almost 70 through philadelphia. We will be finding these temperatures today by 3 00 p. M. , they are at 83 degrees, thats close to our high. Probably 84, eight a degrees for the High Temperature today, and then we start to cool down little bit. But r