Ill let you know how long well see the mild conditions sticking around coming up in my sevenday forecast. For now, well go to nbc 10s first alert traffic reporter jillian mele. Good morning. Good morning. Well certainly take that 60 degrees today for sure. This is a live look at new jersey, route 73 at the new jersey turnpike. 73 looks good. New jersey turnpike clear of any accidents. Keep in mind wet roads, foggy condition, you may want to leave yourself a few extra minutes. Heading out on i95 no delays to report just yet. Typically at 6 00 a. M. We get the southbound volume. But so far were looking good. 13 minutes is the drive time in both direction between woodhaven road and the vine street expressway. Tracy . Thank you. We continue to follow breaking news this morning out of egglands air force base in the Florida Panhandle where an Army Helicopter crashed during a night training exercise. It went missing last night around 8 30. Seven marines and four soldiers were on board at the
Everyone wanting to know why that train accelerated so quickly just before it hit the curve. The lawyer for amtrak engineer bostian says investigators hope they can fill in the blanks to what happened. Why did the train speed up so rapidly before going into the curve . And why did bostian deploy the emergency brakes when he did . Sources tell me he gave blood and urine for testing and thats standard. And the District Attorneys Office wants to search through his cell phone records. His attorney has publicly claimed the cell phone was off as amtrak requires. Sources tell me the ntsb is also looking at internet posts that bostian rote v wrote, talking about rail safety. I did ask the ntsb about additional video, perhaps from on board the train. They tell us they are in the process of looking at all Surveillance Video from around the area trying to figure out why this train derailed killing eight people. Again, that briefing set to come up in less than a half hour and we will bring it to y
Alerted to this threealarm blaze about 3 30 this morning, so this is been going on now for about two hours. Dozens of firefighters here on the scene, you can see that at least four ladder trucks are battling the blaze from overhead. Over firefighters who have brought in hoses, extending probably three or four blocks away are inside at the scene, still engulfed here. You can see the flames that are erupting, at several different points where my Vantage Point is. I want to walk around a little bit, because i know the trees are blocking it. I can see flames from at least three different points of location inside the Flooring Company. Now, what weve been told is this is a familyowned Flooring Company. Its been here for a couple of dozen years. Were located in an industrial park. When you are traveling eastbound on the schuylkill expressway and then getting on to the blue route, heading towards new jersey, you can see that the flames are billowing over that part of the highway. But if you c
The scene of this threealarm fire here at the Philadelphia Floor company for about 2 1 2 hours. Initial reports of multiple explosions have not been confirmed, but the chief says he is currently working on a press release. So mideasthes moving all of us to one central location. But we can tell you, as you know, some flooring products are highly flammable. Ladder trucks battling this blaze from above and dozens of Fire Companies are here on the ground. Four ladder trucks in all, weve been able to count. Maybe one more has joined us now in the past half hour. The Park Companies are here from conshohocken, plymouth meeting, lower maryland, narberth. Its unbelievable the flames. We have seen flames shooting up from about three different locations inside the building but we are being moved downwind of the smoke and the flames at this point. So if youre traveling on the blue route, no doubt, the smoke is something that youre going to notice this morning. But for now, the only detours are in
Today is going to be a lot like yesterday. Yeah, it is. Its humid, its warm. Already really warm to start out with. We have kind of gray skies, a little haze out there. We may see the chance for some storms like we did yesterday. Lets go ahead and take a look outdoors. Theres the gray skies. Mostly cloudy on this sunday morning, mostly the haze over the city. Temperatures already into the 70s across the area and we actually have some showers falling at this hour. So back to the west in Lancaster County, Chester County to the south, and in New Castle County in delaware parts of Cape May County in southern new jersey were seeing some light showers. So everyone has a chance. Were seeing some showers and everyone has a chance for seeing thunderstorms later on today with that humidity in place. Right now, we are very mild. Temperatures already into the 70s in a lot of spots. 73 already in philadelphia. 71 in horsham. 72 in wilmington. As you step out this morning to the north and west were