G re nfell tower tribute to those affected by the Grenfell Tower blaze here in west london. Good afternoon. Ten of thousands of People Living in the us state of texas have been ordered to leave their homes, as flooding caused by Tropical Storm harvey continues to cause devastation. Its expected up to 30,000 people may need temporary emergency shelters with more than two and a half feet of rain fallen on the city of houston alone. Unconfirmed reports suggest up to five people may have drowned but Officials Say they cant confirm figures until the floodwaters recede. Thousands of people have had to be rescued, many plucked from rooftops by helicopter. Richard lister has the latest. Taking only what they can hold, the people of houston are trying to escape the deluge. Three days of torrential rain and the most powerful hurricane in 50 years have left this city struggling to cope. An armada of rescue boats is patrolling the streets. More than 2,000 people have been rescued so far, but the E
Celebrations, right. Of course, avoid all that traffic. So if a third of the trains are out of service, what will you do. Find an alternate way. You dress up in red, white and blue and you do it anyway, right. Yes. You can still get a train. They just dont have as many running. Hi. Hi. Hi, sue. They are not happy with me at all today because of the forecast. Im really concern, sue. I sit in the rain one more time during this fire works display, i am going to spit. What . Nobody will notice. Yes. I will spit. Is it going to rain at about 9 00 oclock tonight. Yes, there is going to be rain. I will punch you right in the face. What is going on. Im so glad you are back from vacation. How was merit will beach. Great. And i met folks there from quaker town. Yes. Anyway, we will talk about that later on, right now we will get to it. Yes. Number of the day, we will go with optimistic seven because there is sunshine this morning. Bus stop buddy 67 degrees. Look, what happened there, he disappea
Celebrate the fourth of july but will Mother Nature cooperate . Sue serio has your holiday forecast. That seems like a perfect transition on this fourth of july, right to sue serio. Anything you want to do, do it as early as possible. You know im new. I had my first wawa welcome america concert. Have you ever guys cancelled it. No, you do not cancel. I have watched fire works in the driving rain storm. They will have the concert rain storm. Some people standing in the rain. If you have a patriotic picture, what do i mean by that . Youre dressed up like monte g. Hey monte g. He is dressed as a flag. If you are dressed up in patriotic stuff, send it in and we will broadcast that to the rest of the delaware valley. Or if you have anything you are preparing for, maybe people will cook out and get things ready. Yes. More embarrassing the better. Sometimes people think it is cake and strawberry and they make them look like the stripes. Yes. All kind of ways to be patriotic and we are doing y
We can have some fun today. Weather later on will not be fun. We do have have a little bit of green on ultimate doppler radar. It is not the ideal fourth of july forecast. Lets give that to you right out of the gate. Couple areas of green that will not make it in the ground in delco New Castle County maybe in West Philadelphia but there is a possibility of the shower this morning. There you can see that green, that were seeing Chester County, part of the delco, around wilmington delaware but we are not seeing too much in the way of showers, we have live look at our flag, waving across the street here in olde city celebrating the holiday today. 68 degrees with 84 percent relative humidity and southeasterly wind at 5 miles an hour. It means it will be more humid then yesterday. Sunrise time 5 38, if you are up early with us and heading out for some reason this morning temperatures are not too bad they are kind of comfortable. Sixtyeight in philadelphia. Fiftythree in mount pocono. Sixtyo
Give more room for National Defense the researchers point out the problems that are seeing the forest. Typical of nearly three years after that the governments of north and south korea have agreed to hold reunions of families separated by the korean war they will take place beginning with every twentieth. Fred rouse officials from the two countries met to discuss the issue at the border village of palm and joan on wednesday one hundred people from both sides of the border will take part in the six day re unions at the balcony and resort in the north. It will be the First Time Since two thousand and ten that families divided by the war have been able to meet the korean war lasted from nineteen fifty to nineteen fifty three both countries agreed to hold family reunions last september. But the north called the moms at the last minute south korean Preston Parker down last month. First the norths allow families to be back together. Analysts say north korea may set conditions for the reunion