May, seeing heavy rain, as well. Well zoom into the jersey shore area, you can see along the Atlantic City expressway from mays landing down into Atlantic City. You see this here thats the dry spot were starting to clear out, nicely there, so it should not be too much longer before the rain shut off at the jersey shore. Take a look at the rainfall totals, very, very impressive. We have seen just to the southeast of egg harbor over 7 inches of rain and counting. River land area, 4. 6. Dorothy, 2 inches. Absecon, 2. 6 and close to Atlantic City, about 2. 4 inches of rain. I can go farther to the south, as well. Sea isle city, looks like youre about 4. 5 inches. Avalon, 4. 5. Villas, 4 inches of rain. This is another bout of heavy rain over the last ten days, some areas have picked up over 8 inches of rain in south jersey, thats part of the region why weve seen some of the flooding thats the main reason why the flood advisory is in effect in philadelphia. Heavy rains exiting the coast, le
Into good afternoon in the news this noon, police are searching for two Home Invasion suspects who tied up a robbed the victims this morning in philadelphia. And an Early Morning inferno caused this Property Damage at the jersey shore. But the big story is the cleanup in upper darby at the site of yesterdays septa crash. The National Transportation safety board is taking over the investigation as crews are removing the derailed train cars. Katherine scott joins us now with the latest. Reporter sara, as the train operator remains in the hospital this noon in critical condition, the effort to clear all of this up and the investigation continues. You can see the crews are still at work here on this loop. They have been focused on that section of the train now for hours. As far as service this morning was concerned. There was no significant delays reported due to this incident. In the overnight hours, and into the morning septa crews were still at work engaged in the tedious process of rem
120 Lightning Strikes. These continue to push to the east quickly at 45 Miles Per Hour. Looks like the most severe part of this now is moving off the coast, that is good. A little bit wider, lets show a wider view paul of the entire area, i want to show you what is go on. Delaware is getting hit very hard. The past 15 minutes, this view alone we have 558 Lightning Strikes, lightning can be deadly. Especially a week when a lot of people are on the beaches. This is what im watching now pressing across the delaware bay, we see the bowing out and that mean a rush of winds behind the system not look agent rotation but when we get the bowing that indicates there are damaging winds and this is all beginning to push into Cape May County. So cape may you are not out of the gun yet. Right now the most severe part of the storm is north between Sea Isle City and stone harbor that continues to push off and this shows the rainfall rates, why dont we show how much rain we are talking about. I dont wa
Senphiladelphia firefighter is being laid to rest right now. And donald trump is back on the campaign trail after claiming the general election could be rigged. A former Catholic Church official once convicted of covering up sex abuse is getting out of jail. Monsignor william lynn is expected to get out of bail after pennsylvanias highest Court Granted him a new trial. He is the first Roman Catholic official convicted of shielding abusers in church. Lynn was up for parole in october and today Philadelphia District attorney, seth williams, vowed to retry lynns case yet again. We know the name of a young woman killed while trying to crass a street in new jersey. The young woman was killed by a vehicle that took off and left her to die on the side of the road. Janet reyes is following the search for the driver. Reporter we are told that the aftermath of this hit and run is pretty horrific, the 17yearold girl was hit in the crosswalk and police are desperately searching for clues that may
Today gets a pass i think. Storm tracker 6 live double scan showing we have dry conditions across the region. But as we go in tight we have brief rain thats pushing in from ambler, eureka and horsham and willow grove 6 15. Bryn athyn down the pike. We have heavier showers pushing to the east of the belt away around trenton. Beltway around trenton. One down south just pop up. We have showers pushing in from millville, south and fortescue, we have one closer to Dover Air Force base pushing toward Cape May County. Once we get rid of the showers, well transition to partly sunny skies and then the story becomes the heat and humidity. 74 in trenton and wilmington, 73 in cape may. Dewpoints in the 70s almost everywhere, its oppressive humidity this morning and it stays oppressive this afternoon. Up close to 90 at noon. 3 00 p. M. , 95 with a heat index value feeling like 100. It looks hot over the weekend, although the humidity eases back, ill have details on that and another look at the trop