Thousands on the parkway and watching on t. V. Its wednesday night. The big story on action news tonight is thetry state area making lastminute preparations for thanksgiving. Two of the most important components of the holiday are cooking and traveling. Melissa magee will have the latest facts and figures from accuweather. Dann cuellar is standing by for his parade preview extravaganza. Christie, lets start with you. More people are traveling for the holiday. What is the situation tonight . Jim, a lot of long lines and crowds we saw at the airport and train station have thinned out. People are still on the roads trying to get to their loved ones in time for the holidays. We are on the way to north carolina. We are from connecticut. We left new haven around 1 00 this afternoon. We are making pretty good time. We should reach our destination in about five more hours. They are part of 51,000,000 americans traveling 50miles or more this thanksgiving holiday. 94 of us are traveling by car.
Ones in time for the holidays. We are on the way to north carolina. We are from connecticut. We left new haven around 1 00 this afternoon. We are making pretty good time. We should reach our destination in about five more hours. They are part of 51,000,000 americans traveling 50miles or more this thanksgiving holiday. 94 of us are traveling by car. Its expensive. Gas prices are up there, though. Yes, indeed, but still cheaper than flying a family of four. 86,000 flyers touched down wednesday alone. We flew into boston friday night. We stayed in new york three nights. We are here tonight. We leave tomorrow and go to washington. 30th street travelers found ways to cope with the clouds. I did it best i could with a margarita before hand, a drink on the train. And at the citys greyhound terminal crystal jackson took comfort in being driven to her destination. Would you say the bus is the best way to travel . I like it. I get to meet people. I see the scenery and i can just have fun on the
The parade, matt pellman is here along with david murphy. Reporter i want to take a bath in hot gravy. Reporter this is not a surprise, weve been talking about it all week, we have cloud cover north an south, 29 degrees in allentown. 27 in reading and lancaster. And 33 degrees in philadelphia. 31 right now in trenton, wilmington, in case youre coming up and down i95, 28 degrees in millville, 37 in cape may. As we take a look at the day overall it will be a chilly one for the parade. Let me step out of the way and let those guys go by. Were looking at a cool start. 33 degrees by 8 00. 35 by 9 00 a. M. 38 by 10 00. 11 00, 40 degrees, noon, 42, not much wind out there, you wont have to deal with that and youll have a lot of sunshine on your shoulder. 46 degrees, chilly and below average, the overnight low getting down to 34. Pretty cold. That spells a chilly start for the friday shoppers who like to get up before dawn and sit and shiver in line. Ill have that in the exclusive accuweather
Really d today will end up being even warmer, great day to do some shopping on Small Business saturday. Let me take you to some current numbers across the region, as we are checking in on chilly note, at least to start the day. It is 37 degrees in philadelphia, actually in the 20s down in millville, at 27 degrees, down the shore were right around 30. Wildwood as well as atlantic city, and in delaware, in the low and mid 30s, and wilmington, it is 33 degrees, and in dover, right around 35. As far as our temperature change, we are warmer compared to just 24 hours ago, and, in fact, 6 degrees warm nerve philadelphia, than is going to be the going trends, as we head into the afternoon. We are dry right now on storm scan3, were going to start out your saturday with sunshine, as i zoom out, notice we have frontal boundery located up winds up to the north and west over the great lakes. Thats going to be passing through today. Well see increasing clouds as a result. I do think, how much, most
We could see sprinkle for points north, especially up into the poconos. More coming up in your exclusive forecast, for now, back to you. Chelsey, thank you. It is 6 00. Time to check the roads. Lets go over to Amanda Mueller in the cbs3 traffic center. Hi, amanda. Hi, jan, taking live look at 95 at the vine, near the ben franklin bridge. Not many folks out there. This is what youll see on most of the roadways in the area. Maybe because of the holiday. Maybe everyone decided to sleep in today. Aside from the construction closure, weaver one, been pretty quiet. Here we go. Bells mill road between henry avenue and germantown pike, will be closed for construction, starting today, in about an hour. Thats scheduled to start at 7 00 this morning, and last until 6 00 this evening, for detour there, through indoor road onto northwestern avenue before taking right back onto germantown. It caused too many problems as traffic remains low today. Final live look at the boulevard, everyone out for dr