As the city gets ready to host the nfl draft. Its going to be fun, but its going to be a handful, karen rogers well have more on the restrictions be first up, lets talk about david murphy and the temperatures. Reporter good morning, we have a decent start a little bit of cloud cover around the region, a little more off to the west, but well maintain mostly sunny skies. Were starting off cool, after all it is april, were down to 48 degrees in philadelphia. 42 in millville. In allentown, 40 on the nose. At least theres not much wind. What is coming in is coming up from the south. Thats a source region for us of warm air. Warm air is what well get big time this afternoon. 47 degrees by 7 00 a. M. 70 by noon. A great afternoon for lunch on a park bench. 79 degrees by 3 00 p. M. We think well get a high of 81 degrees. That will clock in right around there, about 4 00 p. M. 7 00 p. M. , 73 degrees. Beautiful day today, warmer tomorrow, and then changes coming, ill detail it all in the seven
On whats happening there right now, lauren . Reporter good morning, the eye of Hurricane Matthew is still 50 miles or around there off the coast of florida, but the impact of this category 3 hurricane with 120mile an hour winds is really being felt here with pelting rain, major gusts and power outages. Hurricane matthew barreling toward florida, the brutal conditions intensifying as the eye of the storm pummel coastal cities. Overnights violent winds along the beaches, gusts in some places clocking in above 70 Miles Per Hour. The storm bringing the look and sound of fireworks in the form of downed power lines, thousands facing outages. Officials fearing up to 3 million may end up in the dark. The National Weather service say matthew will be devastating. Floridas governor making this dire warning. Unfortunately this is going to kill people. Reporter already it has, matthew taking the lives of 100 people as it swept through haiti. The death toll skyrocketing as the floodwaters recede. Ma
Looking at mostly sunny skies. The big story is the surge of air coming up from the south and well get mild later. 35 degrees in philadelphia. 30s, allentown, reading, lancaster, millville. 50 degrees on the nose in cape may. Winds out of the northwest just a tad, but still fairly light at this point and eventually turning out of the south and thats going to warm us up this afternoon. 51 by 10 00 a. M. Noon, 61 degrees, that will be nice, well up over the average high. The high today will be 68 degrees at 3 00 p. M. Well fall pretty quick to 58 degrees by 6 00 p. M. If you have plans to go out this evening youll want are a jacket or coat. Karen rogers well have the weekend call that includes the change for sunday. Vine street expressway closed in both directions for construction. No westbound or eastbound traffic moving just yet. Watch for that on the vine. The closures in place. No major problems on the blue route, moving in the 50s pretty good, schuylkill expressway, 40s and 50s and
Party. Tamala edwards will have live reports from the Wells Fargo Center. David murphy has the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, we had thunderstorms this morning. Reporter we did, we have heavy downpours and lightning pushing east over south jersey. These were severe thunderstorms producing strong damaging wind gusts, the severe warning has been dropped, the main issue is downpours and lightning. You want to be careful if you want to ride those out indoors, probably take 15, 20 minutes for the worst of that to pass by you. We have the excessive heat part of the story. Theres an excessive heat warning until 6 00 in the Center Counties highlighted in purple where the heat index values could feel like 105 or more. In the advisory areas it could feel 100. Everybody needs to hydrate and take ac breaks. If you can avoid being outside, good for you. 78 in millville. The numbers will be bouncing up once the rain gets out of here. We have dewpoints in the 70. Once you get into the 70s w
Pregnant women and their partners told to stay away. And golden moment. A doover for team usa pays off but it is heartbreak on the track for the mens team. Why their bronze medal was taken away. Theres usain bolt. And for usain bolt, three more golds. Why hes running away with history this morning. Hey, good morning, everybody. Paula is off this weekend. Very, very, very happy three veries. She asked me to add a very. Very happy to have cecilia vega in this weekend. We should tell you, a lot of new developments in rio this morning. Usain bolt, the fastest man alive, making even more olympic history overnight. His win in the 4x100 relay gives him an historic tripletriple as they call it taking the same three gold medals in three straight olympic games. That is for those of you who are nine olympic gold medals and some. Good math. I didnt need a calculator. I had an abacus. And for the women, it was redemption for the womens 4x100 relay team granted a doover in thursdays preliminary heat