Going to be. Lets get a check on the roadways with Jessica Boyington. Were watching center city right now, through vine street expressway and doing okay for the most part. 8th street, no problems right in here. Thats headed towards 95, headed eastbound. Obviously westbound the opposite direction towards the schuylkill expressway. No problems or delays in either direction, especially approaching 30th street stations where we typically see volume. Not yet. Heres the schuylkill expressway. Once you get there, no problems, through the conshohocken curve, eastbound, westbound. Average speed into the 60s. Mass transit, the market frankfurt line is experiencing problems. Otherwise, no problems or delays for the rest of mass transit. Lauren . Thanks, jessica. Right now, a new jersey state trooper is in the hospital after he was hit by a car while responding to an emergency. This all happened just before 8 30 last night on i295 in gloucester county. The road reopened but take a look at the back
The hospital. He is one of the coolest kids i have met as a freshman. Was a cool kid. This day is devastating, the past two days have been there is really not words to put in place what the days have been like. Students were informed yesterday and the letter went home to parents explaining that bacterial meningitis is contracted through very close cant but parents have concerns they hope are concerned. She is a little concerned. I had reservations sender her because she is stressed. I am concerned and i plan at being at the meeting today at 6 00. Briggs was remember today as a happy young man and an athlete would played on the jv team this year. I feel for his mother, i cant imagine what that is for her. They are such a great family, they are thinking about these kids, they are wonder if these kids are okay . The coach added she plans to retire briggs number, number 44, again that meeting going on right now, parents meeting with School Officials and Health Experts hoping to get their q
Look where we top out this afternoon, around 70 degrees. It will be a warmer day today. Aside from this, we have record High Temperatures. Lets get a check on the roadways with Jessica Boyington. Watching the vine street expressway. Were good through center city. These are our cameras around 24th street. These lanes in here headed westbound. Thats headed towards the schuylkill expressway or 30th street station. No problems or delays there. Eastbound towards 95 we have no problem there also. That drive time between the schuylkill and 95 is just under five minutes. Good to go there. Heres the blue route. Were still in the green. You can see a 16minute trip southbound. This is typically where we see the morning volume or delay. We watch that drive time, from the schuylkill to 95, average speed in the 60s. New jersey construction, thats scheduled until march 13th around 6 00 a. M. Route 70 westbound between spring dale road and westgate drive. Lauren . Thanks, jessica. A new jersey state t
While it may be mostly dry, it will pick up in the next hour or so. If you want to go out and about, i would leave about right now. And elmore, it would be more wet, with more ponding of water. The rain begins to push on in. Weve been sitting here pretty much all day long the temperature hasnt moved much, especially with the spotty showers. Its coming to an end. Theres an end in sight with some of the rainfall. The temperatures slowlyfall. It will bring in cooler air tonight. Thats why they are falling about a degree per hour. It becomes a little more spotty around 9 00 tonight. Most of it is moving on out. We will be mostly dry as we wake up tomorrow morning. Finally we will get to dry out the roadways. Its going to be cooler. Were going to be in the middle 40s by early tomorrow morning. Weather on the way. Were talking about the dry day we have tomorrow. The showers move in on saturday. We will go in the exact hourbyhour by saturday. If you have outdoors plans, its coming up in about
Meteorologist tom kierein. Football games, have the tour decure bike ride, nationals are playing baseball, a Music Festival this afternoon. It looks like it will stay mostly dry. However, just to our south we have rain. Its showing up on the storm team 4 radar. Through the shenandoah valley, along the Atlantic Coast just off of the Virginia Beach area down to outer banks. Getting heavy surf and heavier downpours there. The closest rain to us is right down 95, southern Prince William, west of lou ray. Sprinkle activity in st. Marys county and the Northern Neck as well. A look at our weekend in detail. Thats all coming up as well as a look at next week in just a few minutes. All right. Thank you, tom. Pope francis getting ready to leave new york city and head to philadelphia this morning. Thats right. All eyes are on that city where some of the biggest crowds of the u. S. Visit for the pope are expected this weekend. Pope francis will leave jfk airport around 8 40 this morning and is exp