Good day everybody it is wednesday july 26, 2016. Nothing good to report. At least the phillies won yet again. Talk about hot. The phillies are hot. Sue, the weather will be really hot for a few days . Yes, we have been preparing you for. This just we were distracted by all of the rain, thunderstorms yesterday, and we were distracted by the holiday weekend, all every these distraction, but yes, radar is not going to be something that we will need to watch. We need to watch temperatures and dew points over the next couple of days. 76 degrees right now in philadelphia. Relative humidity, the percentage; 82 . Sunrise is 535. So what we do here is we check the actual temperatures, which are pretty mug any philadelphia. It is already 76 degrees. 60s to the north of us. Seventyfour Atlantic City. Already 78 in dover. Think about it, it is 4 00 in the morning and close to 80 degrees. Now, the dew points, once they get into the 60s, and 70s, thats when things start to really get uncomfortable.
And now its 14 minutes late already. Reporter shes one of tens of thousands of septa customers feeling the effects of major rail car defect. Forcing the Transit Authority to pull 120 silver liner rail cars out of service. The result, a modified saturday train schedule causing crowding and confusion. It could be a little worse tomorrow. Reporter just as septa officials were bearing the bad news, some of those defective rail cars were being brought in to septa rail yards to be inspected. Engineers are still trying to get a handle on what caused fatigue cracks on Weight Bearing undercarriage beams on a third of septas rail car fleet. So just how long will these delays last . Lets just say it may be a long summer. Its still very tough to gauge as far as how long things are going to take. Reporter back at suburban station, the platforms were packed. The trains were running behind schedule. I boarded the Paoli Thorndale local to see first hand what the commute was like. Passengers packed in
Right now a travel nightmare around our area thats only going to get worse. Thousands trying to squeeze on to septa trains for their daily ride m trains so packed they had to skip stops and septa warning it could be months before things get back to normal. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland. Third of its Regional Rail cars need big over hauls before they are safe for passengers. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell live at suburban station tonight. Chris, it was such a tough ride home. Reporter yeah, septa train passengers thought today was bad, with the heat the congestion and the delays, septa Officials Say just wait until tomorrow. Rush hour chaos on the rails. Its just running late and its hot. People are miserable. Reporter it took Robin Weichert more than an hour and a half to get to work today. I left work early so i didnt have to go through that again and now its 14 minutes late already. Reporter shes one of tens of thousands of septa customers feeling the effects of major rail car d
Nbc 10 was on scene as police and their search dogs set up a perimeter in this area and combed the neighborhood looking for the suspect. This all apparently started about six blocks from here when undercover officers tried to pull over a suspect driving a cadillac escalade. The suspect had an outstanding warrant. He panicked and sped off, hitting a police car with an officer inside as he left. The chase ensued, moving around the neighborhood, even entering i95 for a while, then returning to local roads before finally the suspect ditched his car in this vacant lot on merry street. This is the suspect, this is the field where the suspect apparently ran away, leaving the escalade in the middle of the field. When we got here, we saw police tow trucks towing it away, also police with search dogs out here combing this neighborhood for that suspect. Those search dogs only made it about a block away from here before losing the scent, but the Police Commissioner here in chester just told me the
Police. And the hero that tackled a suicide bomber received the highest military honor from president obama. But the big story is the rain moving through the region right now, meoing live outdoors sky 6 hd the view from our Temple University camera, its gray and gloomy as we look over i. Ay and gloomy as we look over conditions are moving in,ighor the latest lets meet a check on things with meteorologist david murphy. At the tail end of the showers we meot rthn in trento and burlington county, new jersey, and the heavier cells up in new york state, there is another batch coming up i95 and we are not entirely done but it looks actke aoloer 1 00, 2 w, most of this is past us and things are looking ndetter, future tracker 6 p, iys t. 2 00, 3 00, we not only expect the cloy as but as we meo pewst tu w and around sunset, 3 45, we see the skies brighten a bit and there is a sacthatt chance of a sprin hae, and the main body moving over us. 56 in wilming min 59 in millvile and if couu are head