Did someone use the storm to cover up a crime . And reunited. Thousands of pets displaced in houston, the families desperately trying to get them back. Michael is there for an emotional reunion, how to keep your animal safe as Hurricane Irma approaches. We do say good morning, america. And a lot of news to get to on this wednesday morning. Were getting our first look at Hurricane Irma hitting the caribbean islands right now. One of the most powerful storms ever in the atlantic. We want to show you the image of the hurricane from space right now. There it is, it shows the eye of this now category 5 storm. It is moving toward puerto rico right now then florida, states of emergency are already declared and some cities have ordered mandatory evacuations. Officials call this a worst Case Scenario for the florida keys. As you can imagine the lines are growing in florida to get gas and many of those stations, unfortunately, are sold out. People desperate to stock up and hit the road and thats
Upper 50s through 11 00 a. M. , and a gradual warmup in the afternoon to the lower 60s. Thats it for today. Well talk about the clearing conditions. Now to traffic and jessica boyington. Thanks. In westchester we had an accident on route 202s northbound side at boot road. Headed northbound, you see traffic is green on the map system. Everythings moving, but watch for that. Heres route 422 and cameras at route 29. So far, so good here. Here we typically see more of a delay on the eastbound side in the morning time. Right now everythings moving. The p. A. Turnpike looks good, too. Well check the drive times, route 1 to valley forge, still 22 minutes in both directions. Speeds into the high 60s. Now to breaking news in southwest philadelphia. A driver hit and killed a man trying to cross the street. The driver sped away. It happened last night on south 67th street. Matt delucia has more from the Accident Investigation Division in brewerytown with more on what police know about the driver.
Barrier and fuel sparked the huge five destroying the truck and littering the highway with debris. Amazingly the driver escaped and will survive although he does have serious injuries, live right now, crews on scene trying to clear away the wreckage likely for the next couple of hours. Lets get to the alert, 7 00 a. M. Gray is off, jeaneatte reyes joins us, meteorologist chris sowers is outside. A lot of rain strong winds the written is knocking on the door raining heavily in baltimore and dc, National Weather service issued a Flash Flood Watch. The area that is you see highlighted in green and in particular, the its the smaller creeks and streams were most concerned about, low lying areas and areas of poor drainage, rainfall totals will range anywhere from one to three inches when all is said and done, with isolate heavier amounts possible to four inch, a real good soaking is on the way. Here is Storm Tracker 6. Weve set it in motion. And the rain will come in bands today, its not goi
In delaware and south jersey with some heavier downpours. You see it in dover, getting heavier downpours there. Even a chance well see a thunderstorm during the day today. Its not going to be an allday rainfall. Rainy conditions will taper off this afternoon. Moving into salem and cumberland counties. Camden and gloucester counties seeing rain, as well. It will continue the next never days. Temperatures into the 50s. 60s this afternoon. A rainy one for philadelphia, 69. 68 in new jersey and the Lehigh Valley up to 66 degrees this afternoon. Ill walk you through it hour by hour with the futurecast and show you when the heavier downpours are likely to reach your neighborhood when im back in ten minutes. First, Jessica Boyington is watching first alert traffic. Thanks. On the blue route this morning, cameras around the Germantown Pike on ramp. Everything looks good so far. The blue route drive times are where they should be now, as well. In malvern watch for a crash on Phoenixville Pike b
Karen rogers with the morning commute. Reporter we have rain passing through, especially on the south jersey side of things. This will push east, but the morning looks wet. 56 degrees in philadelphia. 57 in allentown. 5 in wilmington. Very even numbers across the region, cooler in the poconos, slightly milder at the shore. Winds are light, seven miles per hour, but of course thats not your problem, its the wet roads this morning. 55 degrees by 7 00 a. M. 60 degrees by noon. 67 by 3 00 p. M. Were going for a cool high of 68 degrees, relatively so, anyway. Well see that by 4 00 p. M. , 5 00 p. M. 67 by 7 00 p. M. Well have rain in the morning gradually tapering in the afternoon. Well have temperatures pop up later in the week and more chances of rain all ahead in the seven day. Karen what have you got going on this morning. Reporter im looking at the vine street expressway, westbound eastbound moving just fine. We have an accident near south 58th street. Watch for crews on the scene with