High water stranding drivers. Some of them needed to be rescued. Ran people are still dealing with damage. Reporter the problem in a lot of these neighborhoods is drainage issues. The rain may have stopped but as you can see a lot of roads are still blocked off hours later especially in low lying areas as residents begin to clean up after this sudden and torrential rain. The Late Afternoon thunderstorms seem to hover overhead for hours. Drivers heading home from work became stranded as more than four inches of heavy rain and nasty hail fell in toms river new jersey. Ive never seen it rain that bad and ive been here since 1989. Reporter when skies cleared, 8yearold blake watched out to his mailbox and watched as cars became stuck. A tow truck came and pulled them out. Reporter the floods keeping tow trucks busy. More than 30 vehicles were stranded. We brought back into a safe spot and thats it. We go back to the next one. Reporter there is some damage cars driving through flood waters a
Could cooperate. Brittney, not as steamy as it was yesterday. Less steamy. As we head into the weekend temperatures still going to stay above average but were also tracking rain as we head into sunday. Live look outside now. Could see a mix of sun and clouds. Checking out scattered showers moving into dover. Wind speeds out of the northeast at 7 miles per hour. 65 degrees in trenton. 68 in wilmington 66 waking up with us in Atlantic City. Our temperatures today will range between 85 and 88 degrees. Sun and clouds. Well be tracking the weekend forecast. Now well check in with first alert traffic reporter Jessica Boyington monitoring the roads. Thank you, brittney. Upper more land we had a disabled vehicle. They got that incident all out of the way. Nash ave. And quigley avenue is free and clear. No problems on 95 as you look around cottman avenue. This is a rare sight to see on 95. Especially once our morning commute gets underway. Friday dealing with southbound woodhaven road towards t
Way into dover. Only moving 10 miles per hour. Over the next eight hours it will be a warm one. Temperatures by 1 00 p. M. At 82 degrees. Again, we will see a mix of sun and clouds. Well stay cooler along the shore. As we head into the weekend, i am tracking rain as we push into sunday. Ill go over all the details and help you break down your weekend coming up in ten minutes. Now lets take a look at how our traffic is shaping up with first alert traffic reporter Jessica Boyington. Brittney we are watching some ongoing construction here on 295 in new jersey where were blocking off the exit ramp towards the black horse pike. Two lanes getting by on the southbound side. You can see the drive times are not really being affected by that. Starting to gather in some volume about 13 minutes from 38 up towards this point at the black horse pike. Something to watch out for and plan your trip accordingly. Give yourself an extra ten minutes before you head out the door. Berlin new jersey dealing w
Today our temperatures will range between 85 and 88 degrees. Mix of sun and clouds and less humidity. Wind speeds starting off from the northeast. They will shift eventually out of the south 8 to 15 miles per hour. Tracking those changes for you. Ill go over the details. Check in with first alert traffic reporter Jessica Boyington. Hey brittney. Yeah, we are monitoring an accident on the schuylkill expressway in upper merian. I monitored the cameras. No delays or backup behind that scene. Just something to watch out for in the lane restriction there. As we head north to 295 around the black horse pike that ramp has reopened thats been closed for the ongoing construction. You can see the lane restrictions have been removed. All lanes getting by. 12 minutes southbound from 38 up towards the black horse pike at that point. As we head out the door to 95 currently no problems for the drive times there. Heading into the Center City Area a 14minute trip from woodhaven road towards the vine st
This is in the point breeze section of south philadelphia. Several construction workers in that area didnt want to go on camera say they have seen the suspect in the case in the weeks leading up to the crime but not since then. Police say it shows the man as he leaves the victims south philadelphia home early monday morning. He steals the car, moves it a few blocks and goes back to the victims house and sexually assaults her. The suspects mother fears he could be killed if a con front with police turns violent. Anything can happen to him. You can get killed or something or anything. Ill be even more devastated if that happens. Reporter Police Believe its the same suspect responsible for a crime in philadelphia late march. Police found orange gloves and sneakers. The victim from monday says the attacker was wearing orange gloves and sneakers. They also collected dna evidence. Ill have an update in the next 30 minutes. Well see you with that update in half an hour. We have information on