So this is a controlled environment. The cool thing about minnesota , i dont know if many people know this, we have these sky ways that wrap around minneapolis. And listen to this they connect over 80 buildings over 11 miles of temperature controlled space so the dead of winter people dont actually have to walk outside. More or that coming up. It is a good thing that youve got that happening there, meisha, because itlooks freezing on the day of the super bowl. Well have a lot more on that later on in a larger weather hit. I want to get you back out the door in the delaware valley. Cold not as cold as the twin cities but action to track. We have very light snow, most notably across ocean monday Monmouth County next one moving in. Reports from the weather watchers there has been some light grassy accumulation, but the beginning of the next disturbance just starting to move n so the farthest western suburbs. Do you have wet roads here and there. I would say nothing more than minor caution
Constant rain creates flood ago long the roads and rivers. Plus we will continue to follow developing news out of russia where an air liner has crashed and no survivors have been found. And how will you remember super bowl lii . The determined fans are showing they really do bleed green. More on those stories in a moment but first we are under a accu weather alert with rain and flooding causing problems with many folks. Lets start with meteorologist chris sowers and accu weather, it is messy, chris. Good afternoon, it will come to an end, i prom that is but it is continuing to rain. We have been seeing this since yesterday evening. Starting to ease autopsy cross south jersey and delaware areas hit very hard, but were still, dealing with heavy rains north and west of philadelphia we will make a quick zoom to a couple of areas here one to the west of the trenton area, rapidly lifting off to the northeast and then there is this heavy ban right here just to the west of philadelphia which i
Its just as cold in south korea as here in the philadelphia region. Were looking at a reprieve, more than they are. Im rosemary connors. Im dray clark. Nice to be with you this morning. Weve issued a first alert as heavy rain moves throughout the area this morning. This is a live look outside just minutes after sunrise. Some neighborhoods could see up to 3 inches of rain before it is all said and done with. Were watching rising creeks and rivers for potential flooding. Not good. Krystal klei is tracking the conditions for you this morning. Good morning, krystal. Good morning, guys. Lets talk about that first alert. Heavy rain and flooding as a result. Philadelphia, the suburbs, south yers i ajersey and delaware. We may need to extend it dee pepding out the streams and rivers react. By the time its all said and done, 2 to 3 inches of localized spots, 3 inches possible. Potential for thunderstorms developing later this morning into the afternoon. As i mentioned, urban and stream flooding
Held a hearing on the growing problem of individuals buying illicit opioids over the internet and shipping them to the United States through the mail. The Opioid Crisis, sadly, continues to get worse, not better. Last month, the center for Disease Control reported that more than 63,000 americans died in 2016 from Drug Overdoses. Indications are that number increased in 2017. These Overdose Deaths are shocking. The number of deaths continue to grow. My own home state of ohio, we were told recently is now second in the country in terms of Overdose Deaths. Its heartbreaking. And increasingly, these overdoses are due to a synthetic heroin, illegal versions of fentanyl, a drug that is 50 to 100 times stronger than heroin. In fact, in ohio, fentanyl and its variations were involved in 60 of the Overdose Deaths last year. So, its become the number one killer in ohio. The vast majority of illegal fentanyl is purchased online from labs in china and then shipped to the United States through the
Good sunday morning, chelsea grab those umbrellas and keep them hand toy day. Today is a day to stay inside, watch a movie, take a nap, cook dinner at home because it is just a mess out there we will show you rain that continues to fall across the Delaware Valley and yes, there is more, to come, we started off off the dry and then conditions deteriorated heading in the afternoon. Today we have rain pretty much all day from start to finish, sunrise to sunset. Storm scan three showing a batch of heavier rain now pushing on Eastern Shore of maryland and beginning to make its way in to portions of New Castle County north of the dover and portions of south jersey so some extremely heavy downpours, are going on, near lets say morris river, vineland, stow creek as well and very heavy downpours, currently happened in middletown, delaware. Heres what you can expect tonight, heaviest rain will fall during the first portion of the day, and an additional one to 2 inches of rain, will be possible s