Heavy rain could cause flooding. This is new video of cars taking a dangerous curve and ponding on lick condrive in germantown. The nearby creek is swollen. Its 7 00 a. M. On a sunday morning. Chris sowers is here with a soggy look at that accuweather forecast. The dense fog is starting to settle in and that image is a good reminder to slow it down. Not only are we seeing the dense fog, the heavy rains, theres a lot of ponding on the roads. My trip into work this morning was difficult. The visibility was chopped in half because of the spray being kicked up from the car in front of me, it was a miserable time. Flood watch continues through the whole area until this evening. Pockets of heavier rain are actually in the process of pushing through now. Heres Storm Tracker. We have a couple of heavier bands across south jersey at the moment with the heaviest just off to the southwest. Just getting ready to push into portions of kent and new castle county. This is in the berks county, 222 int
And bob kelly, i hope you had a nice birthday, yesterday. Yes, yesterday was my birthday im still partying with a few of my friends, good morning, from newark, grain on main, check this out we are here at grain craft bar and kitchen where it is dog friendly. Say hi to my friend manny. Hi there, manny, he is smelling that scrapple, scrapple cheese stake that i had a few moments ago. We will have some fun all morning long from that great spot on the campus blue hen country lets check jam cams heading out the front doors this morning. Disabled on the roosevelt boulevard southbound on the ramp to broad street as we go to i95 right at girard, everything is all wet, and slowry, and, 2 feet of snow, so that is one way to lot ate. Tacony palmyra bridge had an opening at 4 45, a little bit slow in both, directions. Back here live out front with the fire pit, how cool is this , gang . You got to love it. No matter how cold, they said folks like to come out, gather around the fire pit. We are rig
So back here live check out this cool fire pit that we have here, out on the, front patio of grain craft bar and grill, come on by were right on main street, and, the officers are here, as well. We have virgin bloody marries s until we can officially open up the bar but all morning long we will be here having fun. Karen being back to you in the studio. Back to you in the studio. Good morning, newark. Good morning, wake up right back at you. Thanks very much, bob. Happening right now, we have to watch out when you are driving especially when the sun has not come up yet you may not know what you are driving into. We have had some closures on many roads because of the rain lets get on it to Lauren Johnson along Martin Luther king drive boulevard, lauren, good morning. Reporter good morning to you. Dont you love it, it happens as our show starts . That is what happens here, it is mlk drive is back opened here this morning. We just had a Police Officer unlock gates and opened up the roads.
That have pulled through the last 12 hours but theres still more off to the southwest. Last night the heaviest rain fell here, the heart of south jersey. This batch that came through this morning also fell heavily across south jersey and if you look at the trajectory of this band here just to the southeast of baltimore and dc, it looks like that is going to run right over south jersey and delaware as well. So were getting whats called training. A lot of times we use that term during the summer months when we have thunderstorms in a row that run over the same areas over and over again sort of like train cars on a track. Thats what were seeing here and because of that north and west weve picked up. 75 to an inch of rain. We still have much more to come. Heres our Storm Tracker from ocean county Seaside Heights sandy hook through belmar and into Seaside Heights thats the rain that came through earlier this morning. Lighter shades of green for most of the immediate philadelphia area, were
The drowning danger. Tonight, americans on vacation, nine drownings in less than two weeks in the same area. And the deadly crash. The former nba player and a former American Idol contestant who did not survive. Good evening. And its great to have you with us here on a very busy wednesday night. And we begin with that deadly train collision, onboard, more than 100 republican members of congress. That amtrak train was taking those lawmakers to a retreat, colliding with a garbage truck in virginia. It happened this morning, not long after the state of the union last night. The driver of the truck was killed. Several lawmakers jumping in to help many of the injures on the scene. And several people tonight, including congressman jason lewis, were taken to the hospital. House Speaker Paul Ryan among those onboard. And abcs linzie janis leads us off from the scene tonight. Reporter a train packed with dozens of lawmakers, their staffers and families on their way to a retreat today, slamming