The lollapalooza festival in chicago, as we learn about the note he left behind. Those stories, plus, degrading and disrespectful. What i did was extremely unacceptable. Cam newtons apology to women. O. J. Registers with police as part of his parole. And home run fever. Cleveland and houston slug their way over wins over the yankees and red sox. A quadruple header today, on today, friday, october 6th, 2017. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. Nice to have you with us for a friday morning. Nice to have craig in for matt. Its been a very busy week. A busy friday, as well. Lots to get to. We start with the newest storm threat that millions of americans face today. Nate is expected to hit the gulf coast as a hurricane this weekend. But right now, it is cutting a deadly path in central america. That brings us al, who is over from looking at your maps. 20 people dead at least
Good afternoon sara bloomquist is off and in the news security efforts are heightened following sundays deadly shooting in las vegas as strangers step up to honor the victims and a school in new jersey is closed after mold was discovered. And parents are expressing anger and confusion about the districts actions. And the big story on action news at Tropical Storm nate. Which is being blamed on two dozen deaths in Central America and could reach the gulf coast as a hurricane over the weekend. Nate dumped 6 to 10 inches of rain over honduras and its likely to stren enover the Caribbean Sea. And louisiana and alabama and florida have issued warnings. You need to be where you want to be by dark on saturday. We are experiencing another storm and we all have to be prepared. The storm is already impacting the oil industry, exxon and shell have shut down some facilities in the gulf and some production is already off line. And while states along the gulf coast are bracing for weather from nate.
Couple of days. Significantly warmer because of the land breeze instead of the sea breeze. 55 in philadelphia. You see were going up through the 60s and into the 70s with nothing but sunshine this afternoon. You see the northwest wind there. And its kind of preventing us from getting even warmer. Its not really cooling us down. 49 in lancaster. 47 in millville. The cool spot. 55 in philly and close to 60 degrees at the shore already. Nothing on the satellite and radar close by or even far away. The country is extremely dry, and its going to continue that way. Temperatures getting into the 70s in much of the area. And lots of sunshine. Well see how warm that lasts coming up. Thanks for that. I wanted to bring this camera back up when i saw you about five minutes ago. I showed it to you, and there was clearly some Construction Activity in the camera that i had not seen before. This is whats going on there is longterm construction going on this stretch. 295 between route 42 and route 168.
It will allow the shore to be significantly warmer than it has been the last couple of days with the sea breeze coming in. 59 Atlantic City marina already. 55 in philadelphia. Were not seeing much in the way of 40s like we did yesterday. A couple of areas in the 30s. We continue to see clear skies, going back to the middle of the country and beyond. Its a pretty quiet weather pattern, and that is good timing for us as we head through the weapon. Temperatures again through the weekend. Temperatures again into the 70s. Perhaps as high as the mid 70s in parts of the philadelphia area. Close to 70 in the Lehigh Valley and into the 70s at the jersey shore. Well see whats ahead for the weekend and when well see changes next week coming up. Thanks. Starting with a look at 95. The headlights coming at you, thats the southbound traffic. As you see, traffic has gone from pretty light to moderate. We have traffic making your way out of center city philadelphia. On 95 and the majors in pennsylvani
Reporter say what day it is, again. Reporter it is friday. Reporter were on the verge of a new day well squeeze out a nice sunny day, the weekend looks bright. Starting out cool, its a slightly milder trend, 50 degrees in allentown. Thats the mildest start weve seen this week at this time of the day. 63 degrees in cape may. As we roll through the day. 69 degrees by noon. 74 is the high around 3 00 p. M. 7 00 p. M. , fairly comfortable, 65 degrees, if youre dressing the kids on the way out the door this morning were looking at fairly nice one compared to where we were a couple of days ago, 48 degrees, not a lot of wind thats the outlying suburbs. On the bus stop, 54 degrees. Its dry and breezy and theres a concern of brushfires dont flick cigarettes out of your car and dont park your car over high grass today. Reporter lets head outside and check the roads on friday morning. The schuylkill expressway westbound at 0th street. The overnight construction continues we see the cones that are