Providing 100 million to try to control the outbreak. The news is particularly tough for people in our area who do have roots in west africa. Eva pilgrim is live in University City with that part of the story. Eva. Reporter shirleen, we are not seeing ebola popping up in our area hospitals but the outbreak is hitting families hard right here in our area. In the heart of the Liberian Community here in philadelphia, most have their mind on home right now. Everybody is calling family members to come back home here because you know the situation is serious and nobody wants to lose their loved ones. Reporter a lot of friends and family went back to liberia to celebrate Independence Day july 26. Everybody afraid they dont know what to do. All you can do is trust sgod. A group Prayer Service is planned and that service is sunday 3 p. M. Khurp of the living god 61 and woodland. 1,000 people are expected. How they feel. I feel for them. But what i can do is pray and trust god for their lives. R
High of 84 probably hitting around 4 00. Theres an increase in humidity tomorrow and were starting to introduce a better chance of rain through part of weekend, ill have details coming up. Lets take you outside to delaware county, this is i95 at 4 30, last time i showed you the shot we had the cones out, they were doing the construction with the paving, now looking good at this hour. In fact on the big picture, no accidents, blue route, schuylkill expressway, i95, all in good shape. Mostly were talking speeds in the 50s, a concert tonight at the mann center. Cruel see extra congestion there, but no congestion just yet. We were jammed yesterday on the ben franklin bridge today youre good to go. Burlington bristol bridge, construction has cleared, traffic pattern back to normal matt and tam. Thank you, karen. Were following two developing stories this morning. In camden a shooting left a mother in critical condition. According to Police Someone shot her in the neck outside her apartment
And driver sends police on a wild chase as he weaves in and out of his lane to avoid getting caught. What happens next. Good day everybody, it is 4 01, a thursday, thursday eve. Weve made t looks like decent weather, right . Here, the last day of july, moving into august starting tomorrow. You can feel the summer days starting to dwindle. With it it is the summer weather dwindling it, has turned very cool over the past couple of days, while i think we turn warmer today, the overall pattern not too hot as we said way into the lasts month of the summer. Okay, ultimate doppler showing some showers, falling out toward our west around harrisburg, six hours ago, they faded, pretty good as we head into the overnight hours. But right now, still seeing few showers up in the Lehigh Valley. So allentown, up through lehigh itself, mount pocono, seeing tiny bit of rain. These are very isolated showers moving through. And they should quickly depart. 56 degrees in philadelphia right now. Winds out of
Shot outside of her apartment while her children slept inside. And a plane crashes in a costco parking lot, hear from the man that tried to save the pilot. But the big story this afternoon is the concern over the spread of the deadly ebola virus. The peace corps is pulling volunteers from the area because of outbreak. For the latest we go live to Marcy Gonzales in new york. Reporter sara, leaders in the impacted countries are declaring this a Public Health emergency and experts say that medical professionals need to be alert. Its the worst Ebola Outbreak in history. Outbreaks in new guinea and sierra leone more than 6 600 people have died. People have to be checked before boarding flights. One emergency room in charlotte closed before they would clear a patient that returned from west africa. Some doctors fear it could happen. I would not be surprised that isolated cases arrived here. You could have no symptoms for three weeks before you are affected and they would not spread it around