Americas birthplace for fourth of july events. This is where the u. S. Declaration of independence and u. S. Constitution were debated and signed. It is expected to be crowded here later on. At 10 00 this morning there will be a celebration of freedom ceremony which will be followed by an independent state parade. More than 6,000 participants will march through philadelphias most historic neighborhood. Now heres a live look over center city where more than half a Million People will be partying on the ben franklin parkway for the fourth. Jesse gary is live on the parkway this morning with a preview of the block party, free concert, and fireworks. Its going to be busy there today, jesse. Reporter it already is busy and look how things have changed. Look what im not wearing. Sleeves are up. Look whats out right there. I dont want to jinx anything so im not going to say anything more than that. Things have definitely changed. Ill move out of the way and you can see how busy it is behind m
Of the flooding has subsided as we look at double scan live radar, a line is developing east of pittsburgh and one in the ohio valley, these two push to the east overnight tonight, they wont pass through here until after midnight you wont be jolted out of bed after midnight with the line of downpours and rum arables of thunder and another round of showers and thunderstorms midday tomorrow in the afternoon, and that is especially in new jersey and southern parts of delaware and we begin a drying out process in the afternoon, when we come back well look at the sevenday forecast. Wait until you see thursday and friday some spectacular days, and the good part of the forecast as well. Stay ahead of Severe Weather, with the Storm Tracker 6 app, youll find the radar images and alerted for incoming storms and when you see Severe Weather happening, we want to know send your picture to jointheaction 6abc. Com or post them to 6abcaction. President obama is minutes away from delivering a special a
Totaled. And the skies were dark here again. Even though it is drizzling now. Just these puddals left over this mornings flooding cone sided with the high tide in addition to the flooding here in atlantic county. There were hundreds of outages, one Restaurant Owner telling us even though he was only out for a couple hours, it could hurt him him. Thank you for that. We can tell you further north on long 3w50e67 island four inches of rain in less than two hours, left many streets waterlogged. Sections of lbis main drag quickly flooded. Police shut down some portions of the roadway. Some drivers still chanced it by maneuvering through the high water, other people decided the safer bet was to get around on foot. We decided to turn around and take the car for a walk. Its up to our knees. Members of the Beach Haven Volunteer Fire Company spent much of the day cleaning up after several inches of water flooded their firehouse. That mess. Our nbc10 coverage continues now with glenn hurricane sc
But they are saying there is a long list of violations. Including violating a protection order. The white van refused to pull over and he stuck close to what his department called moderate speeds and there in philadelphia the city assisted in providing a helicopter that spotlighted the chase in areas near old city, at one point two Police Officers were struck by the fleeing van that then returned to new jersey. At the depford mall, they shadowed that van, philadelphia units joined in using a rolling road block that slowed and forced the van off the exit. Finally in a lightly traveled stretch of pavement, a Pennsylvania State trooper was authorized to use a pit maneuver where the front of a police car is used to it allows the fleeing vehicle to rotate and eventually stall. And when it does that you can apprehend the driver and last night as everybody saw last night on tv it was done successful. Arrested was Robert Ritter of blackwood with an extensive violence history and two arrest war
Feels good outside and humidity is way down and temperatures have cooled down nicely overnight and seeing readings in the 60s for most of the area. Still a couple of spots left in the 70s this morning but that wont last. We will see temperatures back in the 80s this afternoon. 71 now at Philadelphia International. Look at the 60s northeast philadelphia at 68, 61 pottstown and wrights town and roxborough 67 and warm side in south philadelphia. Delaware river trails 75 degrees at this hour. We will see lots of sunshine to start with but changes as the day goes on. Start off with the cool numbers. 69 degrees. A few scattered high clouds at 9 00 and mainly sunny skies at lunch time and 74 at noon. Later today, 80. We will see more clouds and likely lead to showers. Right on now lets check in with Jessica Boyington with your first alert traffic. Watching the vine street expressway right now. All lanes open and moving along nicely and some ongoing construction and signs throughout the area o