Wow, it feels wonderful out. Especially considering were in the midst of a heat wave. The poconos 49 degrees, temperaturewise its not all that bad. We dont have too much humidity to speak of. If you have a chance to get out early and enjoy the comfortable air. Yesterday, philadelphia, 90 degrees, we managed to hit that for only 15 minutes, out of a 24 hour day only 15 minutes were we ever in the 90s thats all you need. As long as philadelphia keeps punching out 90s the heat wave continues. Atlantic city another 90 degrees. Everywhere else made it into the upper 80s. Wilmington, 88. Yesterday, pottstown, 87. Allentown, yesterday, topping out at 86. Current temperatures, tanersville, 58 degrees, look at the 50s showing up north and west. Coatsville, 59. Oxford, 59. Chester 59. Saint davids getting into the 60s, 61. Kennett square 61. Levittown, 64. Mid 60s across south jersey and delaware. Buena, 65. Satellite and radar, just like yesterday should be another day featuring full sunshine.
Are concerned that this fire may spread even more on this block. The action cam is also headed to the scene to give us pictures from the ground as firefighters battle this blaze in camden. Good morning to you. Lets find out whats going to happen with your accuweather. Dave murphy has that and matt pelman is filling in for karen. Hes got traffic. Good morning. Well, theres a little sweep of clouds over parts of the region but it does look like were going to get some fairly bright sunshine in quickly. Take a look at satellite. Cloud cover high and thin enough where a lot of it will probably evaporate and i think were going to get a decent amount of sunshine in for most of the day. 76 degrees right now in philadelphia. 61 in allentown. 62 in reading. Winds starting to turn a little bit more out of the west but across those southern portions of the region where you see that yellow mixing in, its still a little bit on the humid side. Northern and western suburbs are beginning to improve. Yo
Resort island of barbuda is in ruins. Stephanie ramos live in florida with the latest. Reporter this morning there are people trying to make a mass exodus out of florida as the monster storm raging closer to the coast and grows stronger. Irma is inching closer to south florida with winds 160 Miles Per Hour. The storm shifting farther west the eye of the storm on keys in florida. Nowhere in the florida keys will be safe. Were running out of time, the storm is almost here, if youre in an evacuation zone you need to go now. Reporter more than 5. 6 Million People have been asked to evacuate, many living in lowlying coastal areas. As time runs out, people are trying to escape the storm. Traffic so bad on the three main routes out of south florida, some people abandoned their cars because they have run out of gas. Those trying to get out by air finding themselves stuck, Fort Lauderdale airport closed. Miami International Spending all flights. Those trying to get in hoping to get a last minut
President at the oakland as will be speaking to reporters shortly about the big announcement this morning that the team has chosen the site for its new ball park. The team wants to build its field of dreams right next to leiny college. Our new sky map 7 on sky 7 shows exactly where it is between lake merit and interstate 880. The area has warehouses, parking lots, and offices. Abc 7 News Reporter matt keller is live at the site, matt. Reporter kristen, city leaders expect mixed feelings this morning about the proposal. Theyre excited that the as to want stay here in oakland, but theyre not sure that the peralta site is the best place to build in their city. Look at this video from sky 7. You can see the area that were talking about that you just described. The as are looking at breaking ground in 2021 and opening the new ball park in 2023. Of course a lot of other things have to happen before that including permitting, environmental approval, and ball park design. They also need to buy
Today to be a really nice of sunshine b it day going to be a little breezy with those a anumut look at the exploratoriu. No fog out there at all. 51 to 56. Look at that, 61 to 65 at noon. 61 to only 68 at 4 00. Already youre in the 50s at 7 00. So get ready for cooler than average day. Grab those sunglasses. Youll need them. Lets talk about the commute, alexis. Were off to a great start. A live look at walnut creek. Southbound 680 not seeing any brake lights yet. No issues as you head to the 24 interchange. A quick check of mass transit, looking great this morning. I want to remind you warm springs b. A. R. T. Station will be closed this weekend and next weekend for work on the Silicon Valley extension so there will be a free bus bridge set up eth at warm springs taking you to fremont station that could add 20 to 30 minutes to your trip. t drive to warm springs. Well take a look at drive times up next. Alexis, thank you. Developing news now. Rescuers frantically working to save survivo