98 degrees. Record was last set and then actually tied in 1892 on this day as well as 2002 but we should just flirt with that here today. Problem is it feels so much hotter when you factor in the humidity. High this afternoon expect a few puff i clouds along the way. We are expecting the high to hit 95 degrees but by 5 00 p. M. We are at 93. We will end up feeling that heat basically all afternoon. Looking a head to the area headlines, we are tracking a new frontal boundary by tomorrow to bring in some thunderstorms but it doesnt too much to cool us down. We will stay hot right in the weekend. So we will have all of the details of how hot it will remain in your full seven day forecast as the show progresses. Meisha, over to you. Silver lining waking up so early, not as hot yet and opened roadways. Happy wednesday. If you are just joining us good morning. The always so great to have you with us. Road are looking pretty good right now. This is what we have going on in northeast philadelp
Politicians in our area. Pennsylvania congressman chaka fattah indicted op charges of corruption but tonight he vows to stay in office. Good evening im ukee washington. Jessica is off tonight. Federal Authorities Say fattah mishandled hundreds of thousands of dollars of charitable and campaign funds. Eyewitness News Reporter david spunt is in our Satellite Center right now with a closer look at the charges against the influential democrat. David. Reporter ukee the congressman mentioned numerous times in this 85 page indictment indictment. He denies any wrongdoing but federal officials they believe and they are confident that he will be behind bars at some point. The conduct that congressman fattah engaged in undermines public safe and government. Blunt words from us attorney zane david hem injury who laid out this case against congressman chaka fattah. Fattah and his associates engaged in a coverup lasting years in an effort to avoid detection. Reporter the 29 count indictment tells th
The charges against the influential democrat. David. Reporter ukee the congressman mentioned numerous times in this 85 page indictment indictment. He denies any wrongdoing but federal officials they believe and they are confident that he will be behind bars at some point. The conduct that congressman fattah engaged in undermines public safe and government. Blunt words from us attorney zane david hem injury who laid out this case against congressman chaka fattah. Fattah and his associates engaged in a coverup lasting years in an effort to avoid detection. Reporter the 29 count indictment tells the story of what authorities call schemes. Some words included in the do you mean, fraud bribery, sham and conceal. The congressman who went to washington in 1995, is accused of borrowing a Million Dollars from a wealthy supporter and only paying some of it back using money and federal grants from a Nonprofit Charity he runs. Hes also accused of using 23 grand in Campaign Money to pay off his son
Steamy day but there is relief on the way it does come in the form of showers and thunderstorms, but lets go start things off by taking you back in time here. We are looking back to yesterday ever so slightly, under achieving from the expectations in terms of the actual daytime high. We did hit 93 on the the a airport. Average is 87. But that made it to the 16th, 90degree plus day of 2015. However, you cannot go by face value of these numbers when we are dealing with the humidity we had. It was feeling like triple digits in dover as we went on the air at noon. I remember that from yesterday. Storm scan three is clear as a bell. We have a couple cloud out there. Unfortunately we will not cool off under that clear sky we do still have an excessive heat warning in effect even though it is not as oppressive right now. Once again, later today those heat index values will sky rocket for i95 and adjacent counties here to about the triple digits. So again it is another second day in the row of
Granted but more than anything just so much moisture in this atmosphere that these clouds have formed. It is a mild start. Muggy start. In the terribly windy start but i dont think you have to deal with too much in the way of fog. That is some good news. Storm scan three quiet as can be. I want to take you on a tour here and you will see we have wet weather rumbling through and just the form of granted a line but it is pockets within that line, of some showers and right now you can see lightening strikes that fire up here outside pittsburgh area. That is what will happen for us, we are looking ahead to noon, as we go on the air at Eyewitness News at noon, we will have something to track at least over central a pennsylvania, and it is mainly an afternoon and evening event for rest of us say two or four or 5 00 p. M. Those speckles start to show up for our area and then we will see pockets moving over philadelphia, notice timing 5 00 p. M. Prime time for some folks to be out there travel