Into the hottest weather of the day. Its 87 degrees in philadelphia. This just updated. Philadelphia at 61 humidity. Thats a little higher than yesterday. The temperature is warmer than yesterday at this time too. Its 3 degrees warmer and it will stay warmer this afternoon. Around the rest of the area wilmington, 85. 88 right now in wrightstown. The hot spot is toms river at 91 degrees. 1 degrees warmer than yesterday in wilmington. Up by 2 in trenton. Its not a lot hotter than yesterday but with the additional humidity it feels warmer. Thats part of the problem for today. Were watching for clouds. A lot of haze but not too many clouds yet. A possibility well see a cooling shower this afternoon in a few spots. Most areas will stay dry today and hot and humid. 1 00 this afternoon, look at the feels like temperature. The temperature plus the humidity will make it feel like 98 degrees in wilmington at that hour. 98 for trenton. 97 degrees in philadelphia. 100 at 3 00 is what it will feel
Good evening. Im jim rosenfield. John terruso is off the job tonight as the fire chief in audubon park Camden County. Drew smith is live where the community is reacting to this arrest tonight. Reporter it was right inside this fire station where investigators tell us the chief is accused of sharing child porn. Tonight another event went on this building here firefighters meeting inside all under new leadership. Investigators say audubon park fire chief john terruso abused the public trust saying Fire Department computers and hard drives are evidence containing more than 1,000 porn child files on them. He hid his demon well if this is true. Reporter the mayor of the small town says hes looking into more oversight for the department to correct any possible problems with computer use. Firefighters host bingo thursday nights when we went inside not here not now. Reporter the volunteer members said they had no comment on the chiefs arrest. We also went to his address hes not here. Reporter
Climbing. Well go through the forecast neighborhood by neighborhood when im back in ten. Lets get a check of traffic with Jessica Boyington in the first alert traffic center. Were watching the expressway where we see volume. Obviously everything is moving along nicely. Westbound we see more jam in the morning. Westbound toward schuylkill threeminute trip. No problem eastbound toward 95. A car fire out in holmesburg. State road is closed. To get around that take frankford avenue or hop on the highway and get on 95 to get through that area. 95 is also okay as well. Not a lot of volume. Also in hatfield a crash there. Rest of the drive times everything looking okay. No problems so far for the morning. Chris . As bill showed us that extreme heat is moving in and it may feel like almost 100 degrees today and that means you need to take extra precautions if youll be outside for long at all today. Nbc 10s katy zachry is live for us outside in center city. Still muggy out i imagine . Reporter
Philadelphia look at south philadelphia at 77 degrees. 76 degrees in northeast philadelphia. The humidity thats high is going to be staying with us as temperatures take off so feelslike temperature, temperatures and humidity combined up to 97 degrees by lunchtime today. Close to 100 this afternoon for that number. The temperatures, air temperature, measured in the shade, 77 degrees. By 11 00, 87 and then 92 and climbing at 2 00 this afternoon. Well go through the day neighborhood by neighborhood with a forecast when i come back in ten minutes. Right now, lets tell you how traffic is moving. Jessica boyington in the first alert traffic center. Were starting to pick up just a little bit. Downed tree in bucks county. Well keep you updated. 295, right around black horse pike one of the active work zones hanging around. 12 minutes southbound by the scene from 38 up toward this point at black horse pike. Part of the right hand shoulder and it goes back a ways but two lanes getting by and see
Into the hottest weather of the day. Its 87 degrees in philadelphia. This just updated. Philadelphia at 61 humidity. Thats a little higher than yesterday. The temperature is warmer than yesterday at this time too. Its 3 degrees warmer and it will stay warmer this afternoon. Around the rest of the area wilmington, 85. 88 right now in wrightstown. The hot spot is toms river at 91 degrees. 1 degrees warmer than yesterday in wilmington. Up by 2 in trenton. Its not a lot hotter than yesterday but with the additional humidity it feels warmer. Thats part of the problem for today. Were watching for clouds. A lot of haze but not too many clouds yet. A possibility well see a cooling shower this afternoon in a few spots. Most areas will stay dry today and hot and humid. 1 00 this afternoon, look at the feels like temperature. The temperature plus the humidity will make it feel like 98 degrees in wilmington at that hour. 98 for trenton. 97 degrees in philadelphia. 100 at 3 00 is what it will feel