He was all in. All the time. He lived ate slept and breathed this job. Reporter lieutenant matthew latourneau took his last breath doing what he loved, trying to help others, during a north philadelphia house fire this past saturday, two alarms on a bitter cold morning, the floor caved in and latourneau died. Friday his casket loaded on to engine 45, his companys truck , 11 year veteran surrounded by his brothers and sisters of the Philadelphia Fire Department, arrived at basilica cathedral of saints peter and paul. Funeral mass attended by hundreds. Even azamat math becomes part of our storied past i will always be with us, in the future. Reporter all remembering a hero who gave his life protests others. He has gonna head and joined a company of other heroes and there is no doubt that they are working their way, down that smokey hallway making it safe, for the rest of us. Reporter Philadelphia Fire Department says that they will posthumously promote lieutenant latourneau to captain, t
Cold air as long as the rain is coming down in the Lehigh Valley and delaware. Take a look at that snow potential when i come back, but first Jessica Boyington with your first alert traffic. You can see in terms of traffic not really seeing any problems. But when you car goes by you can actually see theres a good amount of rain on the roads because its kind of spraying out from underneath the cars. On and offramps might be a problem when there starts to be more rainout there. This is between bay view road and port penn road is blocked right now because of that. And theres a disabled vehicle, too. Ill check back in with new jersey, too. A Florida Community comes together to mourn and remember the 17 People Killed in wednesdays deadly high school massacre. Meantime were learning more from investigators on what the suspect told them about the shooting. Authorities are holding that suspect Nicholas Cruz without bond. Cruz confessed to wednesdays attack, bullet his motive remains unclear. A
Them. Good morning this is nbc 10 news today first look at 4 00. Im tracy davidson. And im vai sikahema. Lets get right to meteorologist bill henley with his first alert forecast and most accurate forecast. A steady light rain for philadelphia, and were going to see a lot more of that coming out of the sky during the day today. So grab your rain gear. You can see the showers thats been stretching across philadelphia right now, that is light rain. And its a little bit steadier and coming down just a bit heavier in a few neighborhoods in the Lehigh Valley. The fog first thing this morning. Thick fog, well not yet for allentown. A mile and a quarter contributing. Thats considered light fog. No sign of cold air. Were in the 50s right now, and thats where were going to stay for most of it day today. 57 in philadelphia, a rainy day for new jersey, the Lehigh Valley and delaware, too. Rain today, snow over the weekend. Ill break it down hour by hour with the future cast when i come back in te
However, what this will do is finally bring us an end to the heat wave as we head towards the second half of the week. Tonight, though, the evening planner showing it is certainly going to be a warm night, becoming more humid. At 7 oclock 89 degrees. By 8 oclock 86. 84 at 9 oclock and at 10 oclock, temperatures Still Holding in the low 80s, 83 degrees. So, whats ahead. Looks like we have one more hot day tomorrow likely hitting around 90 degrees. That would be the eighth day in our heat wave. The middle of the week im tracking some showers and thunderstorms thursday into friday especially. A good chance of some heavy rain on friday and then get ready for a dramatic pattern change. Believe it or not you might want to think about finding the sweaters. Ill talk about that in the full accuweather 7day forecast. Back to you rick. Sweaters . Yeah, cool. Temperatures not even getting out of the 70s. Wow. All right cecily. Thank you very much. Of course stay with 6abc. Com weather as our heat
Diminishing in intensity a little bit. We do however have strong storms coming into the west of baltimore. These are all really cooking towards the east. This one Still Producing some warnings and well have to keep an eye on that as it pushes towards the east and closer to our neck of the woods. The dying thunderstorm we have right now is Still Producing some heavy downpours and some gusty winds briefly ahead of it. The lightning is beginning to become less of a threat. If youre in ridley park Folcroft Collingdale lance do you five after the hour youre expected to see this come through, darby a little after that. 12 minutes after 5 oclock south philadelphia will be hit by this. The main issue is now is heavy rain maybe a little bit of a wind gust ahead of it. We cant totally rule out a Lightning Strike but thats probably become less of an issue. Looks like Philadelphia Center city gets hit in about 15 minutes. Takes about 30 minutes for the storm to move the length of this red arrow an