Construction on an off ramp off the schuylkill expressway. Around Spring Garden street you can see right here road closed signs. We have no access to the schuylkill expressway westbound from the Spring Garden ramp. Eastbound access is okay. They do have local detours posted around the area. This will be out there until at least august 4th for right now. They are going to have to plan your trip accordingly. If you dont follow the local4z stbound 13 minutes from the blue route up towards the vine street expressway. Pretty much the same going westbound towards the king of prussia area as well. 202 cars are green and moving. 11 minutes northbound or southbound up towards the schuylkill expressway. Area bridges doing just fine so far this morning. Waltman bridge is clear and so is the ben. Two lanes blocked headed westbound into the city. One of our regions longest serving congressmen indicted. Chaka fattah is accused of participating in schemes and years of illegal activity. 29count indict
Morning in reading and up by two in trenton and wilmington and millville six degrees warmer. Which means 70s to start with. Hourbyhour forecast we can see some clouds that are around. A few spotty showers possible this morning and storms this afternoon. Ill be back with the hourbyhour future cast in ten minutes. Jessica boyington here with your first alert traffic. We are starting things out right now in Montgomery County on 422 so right around trooper road where we see a drive time hasnt really been lifted yet. Eight minutes from 29 to the schuylkill expressway. The eastbound side here. You can see that drive time. Westbound doing just fine as well. Heading out the door on to 95 our drive times havent creeped up at all so southbound from wood haven road to the vine street expressway the same trip if youre going northbound and going the opposite direction. Arlington township fallen power cable around edge hill road. Take rockwell road to get through the area and mass transit youre free
But those have died down. That is not the main threat. This is. The storms moving through southwestern pennsylvania. Right along North Central pennsylvania too. That line of storms will be moving in. Before it gets here the temperatures will head up. You see mostly cloudy skies right now. We will see some breaks of sunshine. 79 degrees at 8 00. Middle 80s by 11 00. At 2 00 this afternoon, 90 degrees and then we will be watching for storms during the later afternoon hours in philadelphia. We will go through the future cast hourbyhour when i come back in ten minutes to show you when the storms will likely arrive in your neighborhood. If youre heading out the door right now Jessica Boyington has your first alert traffic. We are working through a work zone here on 295 in new jersey. As you can see right here around the black horse pike we are having work zone here in the center. We are losing some shoulder on either direction. Left hand shoulder. Good news the off ramp is open here. Vehicl
This afternoon. The threat tracker shows that there is moderate threat of any kind of localized flooding or lightning. The highest threat is for highs, strong gusty winds. A severe thunderstorm watch out already. This is the line of showers back in central pennsylvania that is approaching. This is the excessive heat warning today and tomorrow. Once the line of showers comes through thats it for the dangerous heat at least for several days. 86 right now. Wilmington, dover, millville, georgetown, a lot of places in the mid 80s. The humidity is high. It already feels like its getting close to the mid 90s. Weve got at least a couple more hours of heating. Back to the north and west showers are going to come in before we get a chance to have that feels like temperature triple digits. We have a lot of rain and showers and thunderstorms. And then it comes through the area so just about everybody is going to get rain. And then everybody is going to get significant relief from the high humidity
Fortunately 476, construction southbound at 95 at davidson, the exit has cleared. I am following construction taking out the left lane on the northeast extension between the exits for 63 and the exits for route 63 and route 22 and i78. 95, 76, and 476, typical trouble spots all looking good this hour. Thank you. Breaking from overnight in philadelphia, a woman is dead after someone murdered the mother in a city neighborhood. Monique braxton is live near the scene. What have you learned . Reporter she was shot execution style once in the head. Neighbors interviewed by homicide have returned to the scene. Some were startled after hearing a loud bang last night. Were getting a look at the young working mother killed here. Relatives and friends tell us the 22yearold was shot once in the head in her secondfloor bedroom. Her 2yearold daughter who was nearby of unharmed. Dukowsky worked for a local dentist. Theyre puzzled by the murder in their midst. Beautiful, sweet, would do anything for a