Its going to be a hot one. Its the Holiday Weekend and expected to be a scorcher. Lets go over to meteorologist david murphy, matt pellman is in watching the holiday traffic. Katherine scott is at the shore. Good morning, everybody. Reporter good morning, we are off to a comfortable start, if you want to get out and do exercising now is the time to do it, its going to change as we go past sunrise. We have an air quality alert that extends through this afternoon. Yesterday it was a code red and today were back to code orange. If youre a Senior Citizen or young kid or you have Young Children or suffer from asthma or any heart and lung aliments, you want to limit your outdoor exposure between noon and 6 when ground level ozone will not be at healthy levels this afternoon. You can get a lung problem building up. We had showers earlier up north they are dissipating and leaving the area. Were off to a muggy start, 70 in philadelphia. 67 in allentown and trenton. 68 in wilmington and 69 in mi
Toasty 87 degrees with plenty of sunshine. However, we are going to see that humidity level drop through the morning. By the time we get to that 87 it will be what i call a comfortable 87 because it wont be all there humid. Still, sunscreen and cool drinks will be important if youre headed out and about today. Matt pelman looks like this nice stretch of weather continues for the next several days. Ill have details in the exclusive accuweather 7day. We always like it when its comfortably were pretty comfortable with the way the traffic is moving so far this morning david but like you said there is some fog down the shore. If you look live in Cape May County along the garden state parkway at the cape may toll plaza you can see a little bit of that fog. Were not seeing a whole lot of traffic just yet here headed northbound through the toll plaza but we do expect some extra traffic later on this morning on the northbound parkway, the westbound a. C. Expressway, the northbound 42 freeway. A
Routes. First lets get to meteorologist, david murphy. Weve had some pockets of heavy rain overnight and there is the potential of flooding. Theres also a line of thunderstorms right now dumping heavy rain down in south jersey and delaware. You can see all of this pushing over toward the east. But for now youre getting inundated with heavy rain. There have been pockets of heavy rainier philadelphia and other areas as well. It takes awhile for any roads that have taken on flooding conditions to drain so be careful driving around this morning as we could see a slow down because of some of the in backed up water. Flash flood watch in effect until 10 oclock across the region. Possible that some areas to the north and west will get dropped before then but a reminder we have had those heavy pockets of rain and there could be Flooding Issues out there. As we take a look to the west were going get rid of this main pockets of rain. Well transition to a mix of clouds and sun later on but theres
Karen. Its such a great day to do it. It feels fabulous out here. The humidity is way down. The sun is coming up and were going to see bright sunshine. The one fly in the ointment storm tracker6 live double scan showing we had just a small cluster of storms but they tore through delaware and parts of south jersey. Now making it off the coastline in Atlantic City. These storms brought 65 miles an hour winds and in some areas hail so very heavy downpours. We can see how it kind of dissipated now that its pushing through Atlantic City and off the coast but we are watching for that to 12 especially in delaware at any point the first half of the day we could see he that or extreme south jersey. 59 in quakertown. The rest of us just dry and clear. 59 in pottstown. 64 in saint davids. 71 in center city. Currently in new jersey its 62 in browns mills, 66 in hammonton, 68 in woodbine, 67 in dover, delaware. The humidity way down there. The dewpoint are just in the 50s in philadelphia and the no
Site throughout the city were raided by the fbi including ibew local 98 headquarters at 17th and Spring Garden where federal agents worked all day bringing out boxes of evidence. They raided this south philadelphia pub on second belonging to dougherty. The fbi wouldnt comment on the nature of the investigation. A source tells action news it involves a broad scope of alleged activity. A Union Representative spoke outside doughertys home. The allegations of financial impropriety is somewhat puzzling because ibew local 98 is subject to multiple audits throughout the year and multiple levels of scrutiny. Reporter again, its fbi has not addressed the nature of these allegations whether they are financial or otherwise. Dougherty and local 98 say they are cooperating fully with the investigation. Reporting live in south philadelphia, Trish Hartman channel6 action news. You heard her mention the 2006 raid on doughertys home but he he is also currently under investigation for an incident back i