Labor day weekend. Wednesday night. Jims off. Im rick williams. And the the big story on action news tonight is tropical trouble, as the latest forecast puts the storm on a forecast for the tristate area. Hermine is already bringing flooding rains to the Sunshine State and it hasnt even made landfall there yet. That wont happen until tomorrow night at the earliest. And it may be a hurricane by then. 51 counties are now under a state of emergency. Meteorologist adam joseph is monitoring hermines progress at this hour. Whats the latest . The latest just came in from the National Hurricane center and hermine continues to strengthen over the last several hours. Winds now sustained at 60 miles an hour. That is up from near 40mileanhour sustained winds early on today. The center of the storm is right about there. You can see the flareup of storms especially southeast displaced from the center of hermine but also were dealing with southerly winds bringing in tropical rains already through muc
Back to you. All right, scott, thanks also tonight, another child hit by stray bullet in our area. Now shes telling fox 29 how her night took a terrifying turn just as she was coming out of a corner store. Police say the gunfire left three people injured yesterday evening. Along the 3,000 block of North Marshall street in fair hill. Now one of two adults remains in critical condition. The third victim was a 12yearold little girl. Lets head tout bruce gordon outside Police Headquarters tonight and, bruce, you spoke to that young girl and her friend. Reporter yeah, i sure did. Frankly, her story is all too familiar in all too many philly neighborhoods. Day to day street violence making it nearly impossible for kids to be kids. And for parents to relax. Best friends reunited after a night of terror. Says the little girl with the limp makes me feel so sad because this world used to be better place. Reporter around 6 30 monday night jew deli sanchez, jew jew and nineyearold is a myra lindsa
Tropical rains already through much of the state of florida. In fact, stormtracker 6 live double scan will show these thunderstorms through tampa, orlando, where several inches of rain has already fallen and the storm is still close to 300 miles away from the coastline of tampa. There are Tropical Storm warnings and watches for much of northern florida, but something that the National Hurricane center just added is a hurricane warning now from apalachicola to cedar key where theyre expecting that landfall to happen somewhere in between those two cities. And they upgraded it to a hurricane warning because now theyre thinking is their think something that hermine will become a weak category 1 hurricane before landfall on thursday, so expecting to strengthen a little more. And then it heads up the eastern seaboard, first pretty quick i had and then it will drift around hour our region between saturday, sunday and labor day just off of our coastline with that latest track. So sunday is the
Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 11. Right now some nasty weather in the tropics could alter your plans for the holiday weekend. Its all thanks to Tropical Storm hermine spinning in the gulf coast right now. Good evening and thanks for joining us im iain page. Lucy is off tonight. That storm causing problems in in order. Flooding roads and neighborhoo neighborhoods. Here there are already warnings about some rip currents down the shore. Meteorologist Scott Williams is here with your forecast first at 11 00. Hi there iain. Were keeping tabs on whats churning in the gulf. That is Tropical Storm hermine. Maximum sustained winds are now up to 60 miles an hour and look at the movement to the north northeast at 10 miles an hour. So a lot of heavy rainfall moving into florida. That system could spell tropical trouble for us as early as the holiday weekend. Were looking at some wind and also some rain depending on your location. But look right now at the center of c
At the airport. Lower 70s through most of the outlying suburbs, tad cooler up toward Lehigh Valley for example but our area headlines we are off to a cooler beginning, to the month of september here and when i say cooler we are just typical for standards of this first day. 84 degrees is where we top off in the city as skies gradually clear and it looks like a nice end to the week. Problem is hermine is starting to have a little bit more of a mind of her own here now that we have a Tropical Storm in the gulf of mexico. Track is starting to change and it means our tore cast may get downhill much more later in the show. Katie, thank you. What i want to show you is what we were talking about what justin will be talking about in a moment as well. I want to give you a bird eye shot. We are talking about an accident involving a tractor trailer and fire truck. The injuries are involve. I95 south between vine and columbus boulevard all lanes block. Once you take i95 and move up there whence you