Back in ten minutes. Jessica boyington is watching the traffic. And bill, were checking in with new jersey roads. Construction lifted out of the way. Right around the deptford area at route 41 you can see a 5minute drive time. No problems at 55 to the walt whitman bridge. Here headed northbound so if youre heading to the philadelphia area or you have to get to 295, youll have no problem from the 42 freeway right now. Also watch out abington for an accident on Meeting House road and devon road. And ongoing construction on the ben franklin parkway between 21st and logan. The inner drive between 21st and logan square has the right lane closed. Youll be fine. As far as drive times, still no problems, starting to see a little increase on 95 southbound, thats usually about a 13minute trip. Still a little early for that. The schuylkill and the blue route are okay so far. And ill have more in drive times when i come back in the next 10 minutes. Following breaking news this morning. And police
Lets begin with meteorologist bill henley and his all important first alert forecast. Hello, bill. Good morning, chris. We have clouds with us and were tracking showers. You see the showers along the coast. Theres low pressure offshore, thats missing us. Another round of showers starting to creep into the shot off to the northwest. Thats going to be here later this morning. Philadelphia for now is dry, most of the morning is dry but as we go through the day those clouds will thicken up. Temperatures will be climbing in spite of the clouds. Well start at 60 degrees. 9 00, 63, and midday showers in philadelphia and 69 degrees. Well go through the forecast when im back in 10 minutes. Jessica boyington has first alert traffic. Bill, we are a big story of the morning so far the closure of the vine street expressway with ongoing construction. So east and westbound closed between broad street. Thats going to be set until about 5 00 a. M. This morning. So if they pick up a little early we will
The temperature that begins to fall. Meteorologist Sheena Parveen joins us with a closer look. Sheena . Yeah, we have a cold front thats about to move through, so cooler day tomorrow, so enjoy the 70degree temperatures that we still have around right now. One area in the low 70s, cape may, nice look at cape may, but we have the clouds in place. Now the rest of the area mostly dry. We just have the cloud cover and were watching some more moderate rain showers around maryland, about to make their way into parts of delaware, otherwise just scattered sprinkles up through the Lehigh Valley and more scattered spr g sprinkles to the west. Youll notice tomorrow temperatures in the 50s and 60s, but in philadelphia we are sitting in the mid 70s so we are still fairly mild today, then the cool down tomorrow. Allentown at 69 degrees, pottstown 68, reading 70 degrees. So as we go through the rest of your evening, going to be pretty nice. By 6 00 p. M. , 72 degrees, clouds around, but cant rule out
Us late today Governor Wolf has been the one unwilling to compromise in this budget battle. They say the budget needs and philadelphia and schools do not occur in a vacuum and tax cuts cannot be ignored. Governor wolf, there you see mayoral candidate jim kenny are speaking, well have their side of the story at 5 00. If i cant have you, someone has to go. Police say that was the motive behind a deadly Home Invasion in Montgomery County late last month. Authorities arrested nadir abdulali today. They say he wanted revenge after his exgirlfriend refused to take him back. More from lower more land township. Their relationship can best be described as possessive, obse obsessive, violent, and his conduct was completely controlling. Reporter the 18yearold lower moreland woman had had enough and wrote 20yearold nadir abuleali that he was an abuser, he was not going to change, and would only get worse. Less than 12 Hours Later Police say awe ali and Desmond Smith showed up looking for revenge.
This wednesday. Im chris cato. We begin with meteorologist bill henley and his first alert forecast. A nice start to the morning. Yes. If it was sunny that would be the headline. Its 4 00 in the morning, cool, a nice breeze blowing and the humidity has come way down, no sign of fog. Pottstown down to 50, 53 in doylestown and millville. Its 59 at Philadelphia International and northeast philadelphia and look at south philadelphia, 51 degrees. Well see sunshine, after 7 00 this morning. The temperatures will start coming up as well. 58 at 6 00, 9 00, not much warmer, a westerly wind. Well be in the middle 60s by lunch time with a few passing clouds. You wont need your umbrella today. Neighborhood by neighborhood forecast when im back in ten minutes. Jessica boyington is watching first alert traffic. The big thing were dealing with so far is the vine street expressway closure, doing repairs so in between the schuylkill expressway and broad street here that started monday, that will be out