This very closely. Reporting live here in that port richmond, Christie Ileto channel6 action news. Jim. Christie, thank you. This was a record tying day in philadelphia. We hit a high of 74 degrees on this 24th day of february and if that doesnt sound terrific, well, we saw a lot of smiles on the faces of people taking advantage of this extraordinary spell of weather. In fact in parts of our area, it was the warmest february day ever, ever but not everybody is jumping for joy as well hear from bob brooks in a moment. But first lets check in with meteorologist cecily tynan with the facts and figures from accuweather. Cecily. Reporter jim, it was warmer here today than san diego, it was warmer than phoenix arizona. Take a look at these numbers. These numbers we typically see in the middle of may, not the end of february. Philadelphia again tying that record high of 74, allentown 77, that is the highest february temperature ever recorded. Reading tying the february record of 77, trenton 7
Of the storm lies and it is going to be pushing on southwest to northeast kick as we get into tomorrow morning. 24 in the poconos. 37 philadelphia. These temperatures are pretty easy to take and certainly above average. But we are advertising a wintery mix north and west as you can take look northampton lehigh, berks and lancaster counties this is a weather advisory that goes into place 6 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning going into 6am on sunday. Why . Because of the storm system. Its cranking away across the upper up of michigan it will slide on a southeast motion. Its going to cross over the ohio valley and pop coastal low by sometime saturdayevening, saturday night as this low lifts towards the normal it is going to send a band of energy back along the coast. We call this an inserted trough. This is a rapid motion of air rising air thats going to allow for the snow to start to fluff up and i want to bring you over to High Resolution future cast because this is doing a great job showing yo
Of the storm lies and it is going to be pushing on southwest to northeast kick as we get into tomorrow morning. 24 in the poconos. 37 philadelphia. These temperatures are pretty easy to take and certainly above average. But we are advertising a wintery mix north and west as you can take look northampton lehigh, berks and lancaster counties this is a weather advisory that goes into place 6 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning going into 6am on sunday. Why . Because of the storm system. Its cranking away across the upper up of michigan it will slide on a southeast motion. Its going to cross over the ohio valley and pop coastal low by sometime saturdayevening, saturday night as this low lifts towards the normal it is going to send a band of energy back along the coast. We call this an inserted trough. This is a rapid motion of air rising air thats going to allow for the snow to start to fluff up and i want to bring you over to High Resolution future cast because this is doing a great job showing yo
Winds and tornadoes expected. And if the Glass Slipper fits. Thats it. Xavier. The 11thseeded xavier musketeers upset the Arizona Wildcats in the sweet 16. Kansas cruises. Gonzaga and oregon surviving nailbiters. For the elite eight. No. All eyes on tonights game to see who will round out the elite eight. Today, march 24th, 2017. From nbc news, this is today with savannah guthrie. Live, from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Matt has the morning off. We have carson pitching in. And once again, the sweet 16. I want to say im sorry. The sweet 16, has left me sour. Soulcrushing. Im happy for you, xavier. You had michigan hassing. They had an awesome run, as well. The wildcats, they took a bad shot. They only needed two. Okay. Were going to get to the games as we work through our grief. A lot to talk about in politics. Drama unfolding in washington, after the Republican Health care plan failed to get more support, President T
Between eight and 12. Police say they went to check on brown after he was shot by an officer in southwest philadelphia but brown ran to a car to get away. He was then shot by the New Castle County officer after a fight and crashed the car. He was later pronounced dead. I heard a lot of shooting going on. Really loud and everything and it kind of like scared me. They toll us to go back inside, um tox stay in our apartment and so we did pretty much for the entire night. Reporter two hours before the first situation at 56th and whitby. Philly police say they answer add call of a person with a gun and found a man dragging a woman from a van. When officers arrived, they say brown through the van in reverse, hit and dragged the cops several feet. The woman and four kids were in the van the whole time. Philly police say the injured officer saw brown reach under his seat when a shot was fired hitting brown. You got four kids in the car and you going to discharge a weapon. Reporter investigator