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Spots. Talk more about the neighborhood forecast in a new minutes. For now, look at traffic with jessica boyington. Blue route right now. Cameras around Germantown Pike onramp. Everything looks great so far. Maybe looks like were seeing a little bit of rain hitting spots. The roads are a little bit shiny right now. Schuylkill expressway looks good too. Were watching here. You can see all green. 13 minutes on the eastbound side. Moving to center city should give you no problems right now. Made its first land fall. Eye of Hurricane Harvey passed over ante gentleman and barbuda in the northeast caribbean early this morning. Category five hurricane with sustained winds of 185 miles an hour. Forecasters and leaders in the caribbean warn the damage in the storm could be catastrophic. Fm florida, puerto rico under state of emergency. Report to florida on friday. And florida keys are evacuating tourists today and residents tomorrow. And as puerto rico gets ready, 500 buildings across the islan
Derailment. A mid all of the turmoil, President Trump leaves washington today for a multi city overseas trip. Meant to bolster relations with muslim and nato allies. Everything offends me, honestly, noisy eaters, people e a bit late, theyre twice as late, im furious. Comedian ricky on the late show. There is good news for our weekends if anyone is offended my heat were having, right, katie . Not me. Yes, and anybody that has ever followed or looked into Ricky Gervais tweet, know that hes completely sarcastic when he says that hes offended by anything else. Right . Specially with his humor. The man can be smashing i, put it that way. Youre right, the scene becoming offense to us, i think, because it is very, very steamy outside. It is another straight day of 90 agree heat that were expecting. So weve upped the and tee, something g upper 80s, still obviously very hot, do think well get another degree or two in there for you here today. So going 90 officially for the high in the city. At
Well have the latest on the situation. Well talk about the rain and some of you are seeing it around the region. Reporter thats right, birthday boy. Happy birthday. Reporter thank you very much. Reporter weve got a storm to celebrate. Reporter i want to show you the flood watch thats been posted overnight into this afternoon and most of tonight. We are looking at heavy downpours some of them this morning most of them the afternoon and evening, roads creeks and streams could be affected by this. Lets go ahead and bring in satellite you can see there are a lot of clouds around. We have precipitation off to the north. Storm tracker 6 live will show that to you. This is mostly a thunderstorm thats pushing through allentown right now. Not a severe storm, but obviously brief drenching downpours. Its going to be the next rounds of storms coming in later this afternoon that will give most of us problems. The rest of the area is dry right now. You want to be careful of the lightning and downpou
And flood watch in effect this afternoon and tonight. Roads creeks and streams could take on high water. Remember florida flash flooding situation if you get a downpour and you start to enter a road that is starting to flood, the water can rise in the hurry. Drivers and pedestrians should avoid that. This morning we had a thunderstorm rolling through the Lehigh Valley looks like its bothering easton and clearing allentown and bethlehem. Theres smaller blips in south jersey, were seeing the moisturing of the atmosphere. The bigger stuff will be in the afternoon in all likelihood. 70 in allentown. 76 in cape may. Dewpoints are up there. Most of the regions in the 70s. I expect the numbers to climb. It will be tropical humidity for most of us this afternoon. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast shows us it will be warm, 3 00 p. M. , 87. The high 88 between 4 00 p. M. , 5 00 p. M. , own though there could be a even though there can be a lull around midday, most days feature spotty s