In philadelphia to 30 degrees below zero up in the poconos. We do not see this kind of cold that often around here. This is a big deal. Right now at 4 00 in the afternoon, our air temperature in philadelphia is 17. The feels like is 1 below zero. Wilmington, delaware, lets see if its any better. Not really. Feels like 1 below here too. Its neighborhood by neighborhood and everywhere is the cold at this hour. 17 debelow in mount pocono. 2 below in reading. And Atlantic City feeling like 2 below zero. Er t want a ski of hours time. G nly t that. What you need to do layer up feels like temperature tonight. Minus 5 to minus 30. Actual air temperatures getting close to record territory. Htt, that wind chill will not get any better. Unfortunately, we still have more cold to go but there is a significant ch way. A january thaw is in the forecast, ill have more on that coming up here in just, guys . The dangerous cold is complicating the cleanup on side streets in philadelphia. Aundrea clineth
Over the roads. Lets take a look at our camera at the battleship new jersey in camden. The view across an icy delaware river. Make sure you layer up in this hypothermia and frostbite can happen quickly. Taking you to center city now, this is the view of broad street. The next 60 hours in many neighborhoods will be brutally cold. We cant say it enough. Stop and take a look at first alert radar now. Tonight the feels like temperature could be as low as 30 belown parts of our region. It looks like a tundra out there. Steve sosna kicks off our Team Coverage. Its been years since weve experienced cold air like this . When you look at the consecutive days, we havent seen cold like this since the early 80s. Unbelievable stuff. Its not just your imagination. It is way colder than normal. Thats why we continue the first alert for the entire viewing area. We continue it through 8 00 a. M. On sunday. The reason why, we mentioned 30 degree below wind chills in the elevations in berks and lehigh. 5
Karen. Its such a great day to do it. It feels fabulous out here. The humidity is way down. The sun is coming up and were going to see bright sunshine. The one fly in the ointment storm tracker6 live double scan showing we had just a small cluster of storms but they tore through delaware and parts of south jersey. Now making it off the coastline in Atlantic City. These storms brought 65 miles an hour winds and in some areas hail so very heavy downpours. We can see how it kind of dissipated now that its pushing through Atlantic City and off the coast but we are watching for that to 12 especially in delaware at any point the first half of the day we could see he that or extreme south jersey. 59 in quakertown. The rest of us just dry and clear. 59 in pottstown. 64 in saint davids. 71 in center city. Currently in new jersey its 62 in browns mills, 66 in hammonton, 68 in woodbine, 67 in dover, delaware. The humidity way down there. The dewpoint are just in the 50s in philadelphia and the no
With the latest. Reporter authorities taking action in brussels conducting raids around the city. Man believed to be carrying a bag of explosives wounded and arrested in the scar beck district the mayor there says the operation is linked to tuesdays attacks as well as the arrest of a terror suspect in france. We know there are other networks because even though the one that carried out the a tracks in paris and brussels in the process of being wipe out with a number of its members arrested theres still a threat looming. Reporter belgium facing criticism for not doing more to prevent attacks. Turkish Officials Say abraham elbakraoui blew himself up at the Brussels Airport caught last june and deported to the netherlands. Identified both dutch and belgium authorities he was a terrorist fighter. He was set free due to lack of evidence. Incompetent governments we dee taped this man and deported him. We sent him back but those gentlemen didnt do what was necessary. Reporter secretary of sta
Pope francis prepares to do what no pope as ever done before. Philadelphia gets ready for its biggest changes yet. By this time transform philadelphia will be transformed. Your papal visit Survival Guide is coming up. We begin with pope francis spending his last night in the nations capital. Here he was arriving at the Apostolic Church in washington, d. C. , the equivalent of a Vatican Embassy where the pope is staying during the first leg of his u. S. Visit. President obama and First Lady Michelle Obama greeted pope francis. The commander in chief escorted the head of the Catholic Church to the south lawn where the pontiff addressed the crowd in english, one of the few types he will do so during this trip. As the son of an immigrant family, im happy to be a guest in this country. Which was largely built by such families. Pope francis delighted an adoring crowd with his possibly mobile procession through the streets of washington. As hes known to do the pope paused to have babies broug