A rainy commute not usually easy good morning. Reporter were starting out wet on the terrace this morning, we have light misty drizzle. Storm tracker 6 live double scan we have a line of heavy rain scooting off to the northeast going through Burlington County and shifting out gloucester and Camden County and affecting Atlantic County. Its coming through Cumberland County and cape may county. Theres more on the other side of the baltimore, if you have drizzle or a lull in the rain theres more of that out to the west wrapping through washington and east of philadelphia this afternoon. 56 degrees in philadelphia, damp. 55 in wilmington. 56 in allentown. 58 degrees in cape may. Roads still a little damp even in places where the active rain has shut off temporarily. The winds are not that strong, Single Digits off the ocean though adding moisture to the picture. Noon, 60. 3 00 p. M. , 67 the rain will have a tendency to dry out west to east during the afternoon. By 5 00 p. M. We have the hi
Video we shot moments ago. We captured this video of the leak, the cloud of white smoke coming from the rail car, this happened on Center Square road in Logan Township. A 30,000 gallon type rail car leaking from a valve. That is the initial report its not clear how much propane was in the rail car or how much leaked so far. No serious injuries and two people were transported to the hospital. We are told now at least one person was taken to the hospital just to be evaluated so that changed. This taking place in Logan Township a half mile radius evacuated because of this leak. With when we first got here there was no heavy smell of smoke and faint smell of of that smoke. People didnt know and we alerted them to what was happening, the evacuation is in process now. The good news is that this is not a residential area, we are told that officials are about to hold a press conference any minute and well bring you the latest as we get the information. Again this propane leak happening here an
Surgery. David murphy is here with weather, karen rogers is off, matt pellman has traffic. Reporter i think most of you will be dry keeping an eye on the showers to the west. Were looking at warm conditions across the region. 66 degrees in philadelphia. 64 in allentown. 67 in wilmington and millville. Farther south weve got 68 at the airport and Atlantic City, cape may and almost 7 in dover, delaware. Dewpoints this morning are still low in philadelphia, but they are beginning to creep up a little bit, you can see in dover, cape may and millville it is getting more humid with the numbers over 60 and in some cases over 65. Today were looking at changes. 66 degrees by 7 00 a. M. 77 by noon. The high today 82 around 3 00 p. M. , 4 00 p. M. Its not going to be wam, [laughter] it will be warm, showers and thunderstorms popping at times through the day. Ill show you future tracker 6 in a bit. Well get you for the shore, the poconos and philadelphia. Reporter maybe a good time for wam this af
Start. There will be some cloud cover mixing in and and you could additional stuff to the west. Obviously it will get a little bit more humid as we go later into the day. Lets see if we can get this rolling. Here we go. Temperature 68 degrees in philadelphia. Your allentown temperature just 58 degrees. As you look at the numbers, fairly comfortable, cape may, 70 degrees. Dewpoints are low, its a good morning to get your exercise walk in. Sunshine by 7 00 overall. 71 degrees. High today is 88 degrees at 3 00 p. M. After we get past 3 00 p. M. , 4 00 p. M. , you will feel the humidity come up, it wont be oppressive, but its part of the package. Dewpoints were in the 50s in a lot of spots and the numbers in cape may and dover, the numbers are in the 60s. Ahead in the workweek, we have a couple of issues to talk about. First of all it will get hot and more humid starting tomorrow. Heat index tuesday, wednesday, thursday, could be 100 to 105 by thursday. Thursday will be the most oppressive
Spaces mark where a thriving commercial district once stood. There are lingering questions and issues that led to the rioting. We are here with the Detroit Free Press. And we are joined by heather and thompson and detroit page editorial editor. We will be live for the next two hours taking your calls, tweets, and facebook posts. Can we start with definitions in the sense that the event is described as a riot. Would you describe it as such or is there a better way to define what happened . That term connotes chaos and it is suggested everyone showed up and destroyed city for no reason. It also suggests how we should understand what happened and the impact it had. We prefer to think about it like a rebellion because all of the energy and anger at that went into that moment had long been predicted. The economic discrimination, that frustration cannot be understood as chaotic and incoherent. It was a rebellion. The word i have come to over some time is uprising which captures what happened