This is cbs3 Eyewitness News. Right now on Eyewitness News, a storm pounds part of the area bringing driving rains and dangerous flooding, water across many drivers by surprise, causing a number of water rescues in Mercer County. The rain is letting up, hopefully now, but the storm system still lingering in part of our area. Good evening, im natasha brown. Thank you for joining us, these storms rolled in this afternoon, didnt let up four hours in some part of the region. Right over to meteorologist, lauren casey, to find out what the next few hours is throughout the night we can expect. Lauren . Thanks, natasha. Did have rainfall moving in, heavy, stead any nature specially across parts of Mercer County check out the rainfall total from princeton, nearly 6 inches every rainfall, bulk fell in just few hours time, earlier this evening, leading to that flashflooding that was widespread across parts of the area. Bethlehem picking up 2 inches every rainfall over inch in reading and Kennett
News. Right now on Eyewitness News, a storm pounds part of the area bringing driving rains and dangerous flooding, water across many drivers by surprise, causing a number of water rescues in Mercer County. The rain is letting up, hopefully now, but the storm system still lingering in part of our area. Good evening, im natasha brown. Thank you for joining us, these storms rolled in this afternoon, didnt let up four hours in some part of the region. Right over to meteorologist, lauren casey, to find out what the next few hours is throughout the night we can expect. Lauren . Thanks, natasha. Did have rainfall moving in, heavy, stead any nature specially across parts of Mercer County check out the rainfall total from princeton, nearly 6 inches every rainfall, bulk fell in just few hours time, earlier this evening, leading to that flashflooding that was widespread across parts of the area. Bethlehem picking up 2 inches every rainfall over inch in reading and Kennett Square coming in with in
Again hit and miss stuff. So just keep your eyes to the sky. It will warm up pretty rapidly today. 77 degrees currently, calm winds, does feel like 78. So humidity running high. Current showers right now, twohour loop. Starting to diminish. The exception is central ocean county south of toms river, still dealing with slow moving shower, very heavy rainfall over 3 inches of rain, from that little system right there, but showers beginning to move out of bucks county, and south jersey looking whole lot better, too, over the past hour, flashflood warning stays in effect because of the heavy rain over central ocean county, that continues to about 11 00 this morning, still some flood advisories in effect for bucks county, part of northeast philadelphia, extending into northern Burlington County into trenton, from earlier showers. So there could be little bit of urban flooding going on being some of the smaller streams or creeks on the rights. Mid and upper 70s for the air temperatures, dew p
Back here this wednesday night. Now new yorks number one news. 16 people are dead after a hot air balloon crashes and catches fire. New details from the scene as the investigation gets underway. First, torrential downpours in new jersey turns streets into rivers and scrambling for safety. Good evening. The rain was widespread today. New jersey was hit the hardest. We will have more in just a moment. First the showers continuing at this hour and we might get more tomorrow. Meteorologist jeff smith has been tracking it all evening. New information hot off the presses here from the National Weather service. Flood warning now for southeastern Hunterdon County in new jersey. We are talking about the of Middlesex County, southern parts of somerset and mercer counties through 2 15 in the morning. Some of the rivers in those areas include the millstone river and Lawrence Brook rising and probably going above flood stage as we head through the night. Also, a flood advisory in effect for much of
Land county and parts of orange and put as well. A lot of oranges and reds on the radar picture. Theres more where that came from to our west. We go to our High Resolution future cast and that shows the rainfall gradually weakening a little bit as we head into the evening hours, the most wide spread activity north and west of the city, were going to get showers in around the city along western wyoming. Dangerous situation middlesex. Details in your accuweather forecast later in the newscast. Ken. Thank you jeff. You can get accuweather alert information by using the abc7 ny app. A hot air balloon is called the deadliest in history. That balloon hit a power line and crashed in a field not far from austin early this morning. At least 16 people were onboard the balloon. There were no survivors. Safety board will investigate. Abc jimmy lee is in lockhart texas with the latest information. Reporter that hot air balloon crashed directly behind me in this pasture. As you can see the road lead