Pope francis is here. A traffic box around center city will go into effect at 6 00 p. M. On friday. Another box stretching from the Schuylkill River to 38th street in West Philadelphia is slated to start at 10 00 p. M. Friday. Officials say while drivers cannot reenter the traffic boxes once theyve left, no decision has been made about taxis, uber drivers and shuttle services. Anthony runs global limousine in south philadelphia which lies outside of the traffic boxes. If all else fails well bring them as far as we can from the outside area and then hopefully be able to have vehicles in the box area in order to transport them to their final destination. Reporter the Independence Visitors Center says philly flash buses will not run saturday and sunday during the popes visit but flash will offer extended service during the world meeting of families. We want to make sure flash is running september 19th through the 25th particularly for the conventions so we think well Still Service a lot o
Reading, 62 and trenton 65, as alicia mentioned there is no humidity out here at all. Satellite and radar, we are Crystal Clear for as as far as you can see from philadelphia to the least to the far western suburbs, jersey shore. Everybody enjoying a mostly sunny sky this morning. High, thin clouds across Cape May County they will thin out this afternoon. 74 degrees at 9 00 a. M. Lunchtime, 82. 3 00 p. M. , 85. High, thin clouds this afternoon not a big deal. 6 00 p. M. , another 85 forecasting a high of 86. Its a nice, quiet start to the weekend. Tomorrow looks just as nice. High temperatures topping out in the mid 80s. Its a comfortable dry weekend overall with seasonable temperatures. The only negative in the forecast if youre down the jersey shore its not in terms of the weather rather the rip current risk its increased thanks to a storm developing off the coast and pulling out to sea. There will be rip currents and four to 6foot waves bashing the shoreline. It is important you pay
Beautiful day. As we head into the weekend, the humidity returns and we heat up a bit. Ill have the details in the sevenday forecast. What about the highways and by ways . , karen. This is i95 at cottman, we had cleared construction and penndot came back and blocked the right lane, now they are cleared again. We have the accident in cheltenham avenue washington lane at water main break fromy either. Still an issue in this fire causing problems on humphreys drive. Stick to bristol road. You heard about the tractortrailer fire on new jersey turnpike. Youre moving better on the new jersey turnpike if youre heading northbound youre doing all right at this point, tam. Breaking overnight, a massive explosion killed 62 people, the bomb went off hours ago in baghdad at a packed market. We know that 89 people were hurt and police say a refrigeration truck which wouldnt seem suspicious in a market like that was used to carry the bombs. In the last hour, isis took responsibility in an act of sect
Good afternoon sara bloomquist is off and we are following breaking news at this hour. Chopper 6 hd is live over a plane crash in allentown. Officials say that the single engine plane went down in the Little Lehigh river, are you looking live at the wreckage just west of the i78 overpass, the pilot was rescued from the water and taken to the hospital, no word on what caused this crash, the ntsb will take over the investigation and this is live in allentown from chopper 6 hd, stay with the breaking news on this story on 6 abc and online at 6abc. Com. Our other big story is another potential heat wave in the forecast, we are enjoying a beautiful, sunny friday as we look live at the sky 6 hd skyline in center city. Karen rogers is here with more. Reporter its beautiful out there, we have nothing but clear skies, some clouds and showers up to the northwest, and that is not our problem. Taking a look at the temperatures, 81 in Martins Creek season 80 in kroetsville, and the dew points are n
Out at 90 degrees, it was a comfortable 90. There was no humidity. Today will be similar to that. Tomorrow, temperatures are up a few more degrees. Humidity starts to increase. Today is a comfortable 90. Theres the view over the ben franklin bridge. All is quiet on this saturday morning. Quakertown doesnt feel too warm up there, 61. 60 in tanersville. 62 in saint davids. Pottstown, 63. Gandys beach, 68. Glassboro, 67. Cinnaminson checking in at 66 degrees. Ocean water temperature right now if youre down the shore and have a nice day relaxing on the sand, the ocean water temperature is 76 degrees, thats like batting water. Noticing going on, huge High Pressure system sitting over the mid atlantic states. Lunchtime, 80 degrees, Facebook Facebook maybe a few puffy come will you say clouds thats about cumulus clouds thats about it. Heres how many 90 degrees weve had. Atlantic city, 22. Wilmington, 12 philadelphia, 22, Atlantic City, 1, reading 12 and wilmington 9. Police are looking for th