Today gradually drawing that drier air in all the way down to philadelphia and beyond and we do expect that humidity to drop as we go through the morning and into the afternoon. Taking a look at where temperatures are going its still going to be a hot one. 80 degrees by 8 oclock, 85 by 10 oclock, noon 90. Your shy 95 but unlike yesterday were not going to have to warn you about sire high heat index values because the humidity is going to be a lot better. Karen it looks like another improved day tomorrow and then the humidity creeps back in on thursday. More storms are possible. Details coming up in the seven day. All right, day. I had friends in delaware telling me it took two hours to get to work yesterday and you know why . Exhibit a. This is the Police Checkpoint right here in southwest philadelphia. I95 by the platt bridge, the exit for the platt bridge and the schuylkill so what can you see from this shot . Weve got police blocking the left lane on i95 but theyre also blocking the
Region and dewpoints are still running kind of high, about 71 in philadelphia but we expect that number to drop as we go through the day as drier air comes in from the north and west. Guys todays high is going to be 95 degrees but its not going to feel as humid as we go into the afternoon so thats good and the exclusive accuweather 7day karen in a couple of minutes well talk more about tomorrow also being a little more manageable and then a rise in humidity heading later into the week. All of that coming up from accuweather. All right, dave, were starting to see a little more volume as you travel through these Police Checks pointsly i want to show you live right here, this is i95 at exit for the platt bridge and the schuylkill so here are police, you see the checkpoint blocking the left lane and the shoulder on i95. Also restricting traffic right here as theyre kind of forcing any vehicles that are over 5 tons, theyre not allowing them to continue on i95 northbound forcing them off tow
For passengers are getting out of their cars only to realize a systemwide outage has granted all delta flights. This is the shorter of the two lines. The longer is just behind these screen doors here. Inside that line around the interior terminal 2. Take a look at this video. It is from a few hours ago. The number of passengers are frustrated. Starting at 2 30 am for the system outage. Some sort of glitch that has caused worldwide outages or delta and a number of passengers are frustrated. Frustrated. I am not really understanding what the problem is and why we have other airlines have things flowing. I am wondering what kind of database they have. It is very frustrating. That frustration. We do know all delta flights are grounded. Please check before you get here. We continue to see passengers out of their car and say they have no idea what was going on. Large groups are impacted including the unc Womens Basketball team stranded in ireland trying to get back to rdu because they were t
Hillside. Someone started it and its just yards from these homes on bryer wood court. Its scary. Its really scary now. The arsonist is up to it again. Reporter diane castro lives within yards of three of the fires set in dry grass near homes. Possibly the same arsonist set a front door wreath ablaze, then a car inside the garage on trinity court, injuring the homeowner, who declined to be identified. Hopefully catch the person doing it, and it is its a scary thought, very scary thought. Last night, somebody could have been killed with the fires that are going on. We take this very seriously. Were upstaffing our Engine Companies today t. Reporter investigators possibly detected an accelerant at one of the scenes and collected possible evidence in these bags. They declined to elaborate. Police told us a string of 60 novato arson fires in january 2012, two years ago, remains unsolved. They say they are actively investigating now any links and potential suspects. The evidence that was coll
Reporter the fire did reach the summit of mount diablo and up there are Communications Towers and buildings, including the beacon. When the fire reached the summit there were firefighters up there and they were able to protect those structures. On the south side of mount diablo, Ken Pritchett, ktvu channel 2 news. And more details now. Long time residents of clayton may remember a lightning sparked wildfire on mount diablo in august of 1977. It was the last major fire to burn on mount diablo. These pictures were taken the day after the fire started. It burned 6,000 acres in a few days along the north side of mount diablo. The weather is changes around the mount diablo, our chief meteorologist bill martin is live with how that is helping. Thicks are changing. Things are changing. Mount diablo, temperatures in the triple digits and humidities in the teens. High fire danger. The thing that is missing is had strong winds and that is good news for firefighters. That is forcing the fire to b