Scientists make history. 3 billion miles away. Live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. Hello pluto. We are at the big bay area Party Tonight as nasa scientists make history 3 billion miles away. Im ken bastida. Im veronica de la cruz. Liz has the night off. Pluto is known as the icy planet but Christin Ayers shows us we earthlings are giving it a very warm welcome. [ cheers and applause ] reporter this is the sound of success a decade in the making as cheers went up inside nasas mission control. Hundreds of people at this party were cheering too. It is really monumental. It is a moment in history. It is really exciting. We got all the way out to pluto. It is cool. Reporter just shy of the dwarf planet pluto, the spacecraft new horizon phoned home with essentially this message. Yeah, im still working and everything went cool. Reporter new horizons sent back this very cool image of pluto. Scientists explain the probe which is the size of a baby grand piano has been hurdl
Were filled to the max. Ge we are going to go to megan mcgrath. Tell us how things are out there right now. Getting back to normal yet. Reporter they are. Seeing the trains go by they were not too crowded. Things are returning to normal. For a lot of people riding the red line this morning, it was a tough rushhour. It is an amazing thing. They just cant get it right. They ought to tear it down and rebuild it. Reporter frustration on the red line. It began as the system opened. A foam spill on the tracks that caused big delays yesterday was still a problem early this morning. With single tracking between the grosve stations. Im very upset. I have to be at work at 6 30. Now, im probably going to be late. Later came power issues. Lauren at brownie curls tweeted out this picture of a dark train. James is the trogs lost power too and airconditioning for about ten minutes. There were still lights inside the tunnel itself. That was fine. It was getting very warm on the train. Reporter as rush
Took off. It was quite a scene here, of course, very loud, but we saw a person over there who knew this was going on and had an American Flag standing there, very solemn, some other people standing on top of a building watching as this solemn very low key procession happened. The official honorable transfer ceremony will happen at Dover Air Force base and thats where the helicopters are going now. Were not exactly sure why they didnt just fly from chattanooga. Perhaps it was a safety issue, perhaps logistics, but we do understand that they drove the entire way from chattanooga today, some 500 miles, to the manassas Regional Airport here at this very secure airpark here. We believe its obviously very secure and some black federal helicopters took those bodies, had them loaded. We believe three caskets were put on one helicopter and one on another one. A number of people here assisting with this process today and then at 5 45 the helicopter took off and are right now headed to dover, del
It is going to feel like summer today. Definitely starting to get warmer back out there. The humidity is back with us and remaining with us for the next several days and another heatwave on our hands as well. Lets get it started with the michael son weather cam and the day planner. The temperatures quickly on the rise today, already 82 degrees at 10 00, 88 degrees at 1 00, 92 at 4 00 and thats dropping down from a High Temperature of 93 degrees, which will reach between 3 00 and 4 00 in the afternoon. The threat for thunderstorms is minimal until we get into the evening today with a slow moving cold front making its approach, it could trigger an isolated storm by about 6 00 or 7 00 in the afternoon and evening and then the chance for thunderstorms will start to increase as we head into the evening, kind of counter intuitive. We usually see the storms more so in the Late Afternoon but today we will see them later at night. Right now 68 degrees in fredericks, still 71 in hagerstown, 75 i
Day is ahead as we get ready to close out the weekend. Temperatures will warm to the mid 80s today. The threat of thunderstorms is back this week. Good morning, this is nbc 10 news today. Im rosemary connors. Its just after 6 00 this sunday. Lets get to the first alert forecast with meteorologist michelle grossman. Talk about perfect weekend weather. Hasnt it been . So beautiful yesterday. It will be beautiful again today. Its midaugust. It could be worse. We could be in the mid 90s with humidity. That will not be the case. Look at this pretty shot. Mostly cloudy skies in philadelphia. We have some clouds out there. A mix of sun and clouds today. Waking up warmer compared to this time yesterday. Five degrees warmer in mt. Pocono. 4 degrees warmer in northeast philadelphia, reading, two degrees warmer in philadelphia. Thats putting us in the 60s across the area. We have some 70s, 50s on the map. Right now 63 in allenallentown. 64 in lancaster. 72 in philadelphia. 62 now in millville, ne