Middle of californias war on water. Early today starts right now. Good morning, im dara brown. The South Carolina house has overwhelmingly approved a measure to take down Confederate Flag from the state capitol. Lawmakers spent more than 13 hours debating the issue. Staet representative jenny horn delivered an emotional speech warning her fellow lawmakers that the world is watching. I cannot believe that we do not have the heart in this body to do something meaningful such as take a symbol of hate off these grounds on friday. And just after 1 00 this morning, the final vote, 9420. The bill must be ratified and then sent to governor nikki haley, who has already called for the flags removal. Shortly after the vote, Governor Haley posted a message saying, its a new day in South Carolina, a day we can all be proud of and a day that truly brings us together. As we continue to heal as one people and one state. Elsewhere, the debate over the Confederate Flag continues. Commissioners in one Ce
Orange. Were talking damaging winds in excess of 60, 70 Miles Per Hour we could see some Power Outages and more Straight Line wind damage. There kohls be isolated tornado tornado, small hail a threat, some downpours and also vivid lightning as we watch those cells kind of move toward our area over the next several hours hours. So you can see were pretty quiet, dry right now across parts of the area. However, as we watch how things play out, you can see by five, 6 00 oclock the activity starts to move toward the pocono mountains, Lehigh Valley and then it continues to move into sections of Chester County, montgomery, bucks county by 7 00 8 00 oclock. Watching some of those cells as well as watching the potential for a bowing company indicative of some Straight Line wind damage potentially boone 9 00, 10 00 oclock you can see it finally moves into parts of south jersey as well as central and southern delaware before it moves on out of here. So the bottom line the timing of the system sta
Tipping point between donald trump and the Republican Party . As we look ahead on sunday morning futures. This is not the son we knew. That is the message from the family of Mohammad Youssuf abdulazeez. The family blaming depression and not radicalization for his actions. Actions that led to the deaths of these five brave men in uniform. The attack shedding light on socalled gunfree zones, areas where military members and others cannot carry weapons. Governors from these six states indiana, florida, arkansas, oklahoma louisiana and texas are now arming their National Guards. Georgia already allows the National Guard to arm themselves if they choose to. And new changes to prevent another attack like this from happening. Congress is expected to propose a bill overturning that ban this week. Ed royce is with us this morning. Congressman, good to have you on the program. So governors are taking action across the country. Whats your take on arming the National Guard in the wake of what we s
So if you are stepping outdoors, of course, we have excessive heat warning in effect for those urbanized areas along the immediate i95 corridor. Heat advisories elsewhere for those feels like temperatures mid 90 toss triple digits. Remember these hot weather safety tips, of course, dress for the heat, throw down takes breaks and drink a lot water. When i talk indoors well talk much more about how this oppressive heat and humidity will last. Ill dray hydrated and take a drink of this water before i come indoors. Back to you. It signed the ac scott. See in you in a few minutes. Develop to go night it is one of the biggest tests for mass transit ahead of the popes visit in september. And septa has failed in a big way. The website selling passes to get suburbanites in and out of the city crashed just an hour into sales. Bruce gordon is live at 30th street station with what happened and whats next here bruce . Reporter yeah, chris 30th street one of the locations that folks were lump into o
Im Shirleen Allicot in for lori stokes. Today i go wednesday, all 3rd. Bill evans is here with the exclusive forecast. We are kicking off the doug days of august. We will talk about interesting weather this week. But todays monday, hot and humid weather continues. We look at a temperature of 70 across the area. Parts of the area low 70s. Central park mid70s to 77 and we like 70s. Hanover 61. Its not so warm up in the suburbs. 73 out to the hamptons and Shelter Island and Northern Branch on long island, the far east end. Hiding 90 today. Like 95. The week. It is. Into the 70s. We will talk about that in the Heather Orourke is here. Yes, i am. How was your weekend . It was great. I cant tell you. I was on a secret mission. I figured you were. Maybe i can get information out of you after this report. We will talk about 78 west near exit 3 a tractor trailer fire. A couple of lanes are closed down. On to the belt parkway, westbound near bay parkway an shut. 3 trains no service between 149th