Im pat ciarrocchi. Im erika von tiehl after stormy morning we hope you have some improvement busy all morning long, how is it looking . Only better from here at least good news. Storms will be fizzling with time, but issues to track. Flood waters yet to recede, a loft issues so far this morning, in the just with the slow travel like we showed you from the eyewitness photo also, with cars just getting stuck. Never, ever want to drive through them doesnt take much for either your car to stall or to you get stuck. Let me start things off getting you quickly what we do, go way back in time, going all the way back to 2 30, thunderstorm start today boom across the western suburbs look at the lightning we counted hundreds hundreds of lightning strikes with these storms throughout the morning. Brunt every which, led to severe thunderstorm warnings to be posted across salem cumberland, as well as Atlantic Ocean now this is where we stand at noon right now brunt of the storm moved taught sea wha
Details are coming out. Revealing plan to get people into and out of philadelphia for not only the world meeting of families but also for the papal advice the, the papal weekends, one way to park in jersey, tune walk across the ben franklin bridge, which will be closed to vehicle traffic. Officials held a news conference, in north jersey, earlier this morning, and detailing plans to increase transit lines to philadelphia. This afternoon we also are expecting philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter to update city plans, and also, how it will affect city businesses, well have more for you on Eyewitness News starting at a. In other news this noon, the death toll is expected to rise after explosions rocked philadelphias sister city in china yesterday. The fiery blast errupted at a port warehouse with Hazardous Materials inside, killing dozens, injuring hundreds. Cbs news correspondent set dont report from the disaster area. The explosions turned the night sky a vivid orange. First one ball of fi
I have to tell you you, you can see in ocean city we have win, rain, it is down right nasty out there. We have seen a few flying umbrellas when i took a walk out for my break. We are under a coastal Flood Warning and for good reason, because we are going to see things increasingly get worse as we head in the day today. Let take a look, moderate flooding expect all the way from toms river down to cape may down to Rehoboth Beach. Even into philadelphia where were under that coastal Flood Warning heading throughout the daytoday. Live look at the Neighborhood Network boardwalk plaza at Rehoboth Beach, notice wind there 32 miles an hour those waves have been crashing against the the shore, and it doesnt help with the temperatures in the 50s. We have wind alerts, gusting to 40 to 50 miles an hour. You can see warning from Atlantic City down to bethenny beach and flange by advisory on either side. Looking at storm can three this rain is coming through right now heavier showers near dover, you
Services that he is participating in right now, that is a jewish cantor who is singing at the scene, were live and we will listen live to the popes message, also from this historic speech at the united nations. Im pat ciarrocchi. Im erika von tiehl. We are in the final count down less than 22 hours until pope francis arrives here in philadelphia. And in fact this time tomorrow, what you are going to see will be a sea of people, beginning to flood into ben franklin parkway, everyone, eager to see the pope. As we look over our shoulders you can see people are gathering right the now, setting up chairs, media is arriving in town, lots of people getting those final touches on the area. This is very exciting. We have a spectacular day to be able to a share with everyone today but one of the key factors as we have been most concerned about in philadelphia has been security. Security is now, stepping into high gear, on this eve of the papal visit. If you are traveling in Center City Philadelp
Certainly not cool start to the month of september. Good afternoon everyone, im pat ciarrocchi. Im erika von tiehl. We head outside to kyla out on the skydeck, 1 degrees away from the heatwave, right, cellula. 1 degrees, thats right. So the on official heatwave criteria that we use in the northeast is three days in a row of 09 degrees, and we had it sunday, we had it monday, today we are one agree shy of it, so i think well get there too. Current temperatures, 89 degrees here in philadelphia, check out atlantic city, already at 88 degrees, and as you can see, allentown, 85. The poconos, the only ones in the 70s right now, coming in at about 77 degrees. Dew Points Holding steady, in the mid 60s. So, the humidity is out there, it could be worse. But, you know, definitely could be worse, im glad to see those numbers kind of held up little bit there holding in the 60s, about 47 humidity. This is why we have been able to heat up so quickly, take a look at storm scan3, this live look here, j