Johnson. Also speaking today, trauma doctors who responded to their mayhem on thursday night including dr. Brian williams. He addressed police with conflicted feelings. I support you. I will defend you and i will care for you. That doesnt mean that i do not fear you. But theres a need that if you approach me i will start worrying for my personal safety. And more protests tonight in philadelphia. Action News Reporter walter perez is live at broad and cecil b. Moore. Walter, whats the story there . Reporter well, jim, a black lives matter protest just went by moments ago kicking off at broad and cecil b. Moore. As you mentioned right behind me here Police Officials say this certainly seems to be the pattern will remain through the Democratic National convention and thats why today the Police Commissioner reached out to protestors. Todays round of protests came courtesy of an Organization Called surj which stands for showing up for racial justice. Their method of operation was similar to
Exciting night here in south philadelphia because eagles are getting set to take the field here in less than an hour. It will be our first look at the 2016 philadelphia eagles, and also our first look at the number two pick in the draft. This is not only a local story but a national story, all eyes watching carson wentz. We will show you video of him earlier and, of course he is getting ready and fired up before this match up. And you have to remember why is this a big deal . Eagles gave up five draft picks to move up and take this guy. He is the future of the franchise. This is just a preseason game but our first real look at what he can bring to the field. Is he pumped up . You bet he is. Really exciting. It has been a long time coming. We have been out here going against each other for quite sometime. Ready to face someone else. Im exited to play in front of the link and tonight i will finally get the my opportunity. We talk about how excited he is and how excited we are to see him.
Youve been getting new information into the wet sent. Thats right. Jessica this storm upgrade to do major hurricane category three. Winds at 115 miles per hour. But still little bit early in the game a lot going on in the upper atmosphere to get an exact track on this storm. Now here we are just east of the bahamas. You can see good looking hurricane on satellite imagery. The progression again still to the south and west but eventually forecast to move to the north over the next 48 hours or so but back hole, things are drying out now. So thats good news there. At least catch break from the rain a couple of showers earlier. But the front stays stalled offshore and another wave of said dee rain will start to move northward impact our region especially again tomorrow night and certainly on friday. Thats not associated with joaquin. Heres what we know. Expected to intensify a little bit more over the next 24 hours. Toe potential us landfall highest risk in the mid atlantic at this point. S
So thats good news there. At least catch break from the rain a couple of showers earlier. But the front stays stalled offshore and another wave of said dee rain will start to move northward impact our region especially again tomorrow night and certainly on friday. Thats not associated with joaquin. Heres what we know. Expected to intensify a little bit more over the next 24 hours. Toe potential us landfall highest risk in the mid atlantic at this point. Still uncertainty remains because some of the models take this storm inland into the mid atlantic but the euro model keeps it out to sea. Those two scenarios are possible. Heres a look at the model spread right now. From the storm and again you can see the consensus now trying to confine it more into the carolinas thats most likely bet at this point but still some models take it farther to the north an few take it out to sea. Little bit uncertainty still to go yet hopefully in the next 24 hours we can nail this down. Heavy rain and wind
Joaquin. Its in the bahamas gaining strength with a possible track for the east coast this weekend. Good evening everyone. Im jim rosenfield. The umbrellas are up. Were tracking the impact in our area. Sheena parveen is watching the first problem. Strong winds and heavy rain. Thats right, jim. The first round going into the weekend will begin friday into saturday. We do have a first alert weather day. Tomorrow well have rain around but the strongest winds and the heaviest rain we expect to start friday. Heavy downpours with very gusty winds. Possibly up to 50 miles an hour wind gusts. Also flooding along the shore and inland. Beach erosion and storm surge possible with the strong on shore winds. Heres whats happening now. A cold front moved through. Now a cooldown going into tomorrow. The winds increased. Windy and breezy and chilly temperatures through the afternoon. Then well be watching this area of low pressure to our south. Right off the southeast coast. This is what were watching