Lot of people head back to work, a lot of kids heading back to school, the wind chill will make it feel like 2 degrees below zero in philadelphia, it stays cold on wednesday. But it eases. Everythings relative. Wind chill wednesday morning 11 degrees. But then im tracking a noreaster developing on thursday. A big question where does it track and that has a big impact on how much snow we would see. Ill have details on that coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Rick. All right, cecily well check back in later. Thank you. Chopper6 flew over the 2018 mummers parade as the performers marched from Philadelphia City hall down broad street. But it appears the frigid forecast kept some of the fans away. There were sparse crowds along the parade route today and those who did show up were bundled up tight. Action News Reporter bob brooks has reaction from the spectators who did brave the cold on this new years day 2018 and he joins us live in center city tonight. Hey, bob. Reporter hey, ric
North koreas foreign minister describe President Trumps recent assertion that its leadership would not be around much longer as a declaration of war, and said pyongyang now had the right to shoot down american bombers even outside north korean airspace. The white house described that interpretation as absurd. Heres foreign minister ri translation this is clearly a declaration of war. All the Member States participating in the united nations, and the whole world, should clearly remember that it was first the United States that has declared war on our country. The un charter stipulates individual Member States right to self defence. Since the us declared war on our country, we have every right to take countermeasures, including shooting down us strategic bombers, even when theyre not yet inside the air space border of our country. The question of who wont be around much longer will be answered then. The white house had its regular press briefing not long afterwards and a reporter put the
Slippery spot or two. So be careful. Big drop in temperatures arrives here Late Wednesday and chance for wintry weather as we get toward the weekend. So this is the week to have your nbc washington app downloaded. Its rain up and down the i95 corrid corridor. Temperatures are near 40 around town and will be in the upper 40s to maybe low 50s briefly this afternoon. Maybe a peek or two of sunshine, but on the whole going to be a lot of cloud s around here. More about the polar plunge coming up. Taking a look at the situation 95 and the icc, again, we still have the wet roads all over the area. It will be this way as chuck has been saying through much of the morning commute. Northbound 95 at 200 is where the crash is. In the service roadway. Is out of the roadway. 66 looking pretty typical. 95 north through woodbridge is getting a little slow here this morning. Looking at the beltway overall, inner loop and outer loop are okay. 66 inside the beltway, a bit slower than normal at this point
Trump name. Trump plaza and now trump taj mahal, shutting down. But all these workers, 2800 of them, who are losing their jobs are all somehow convinced that this place will reopen if they cannot shut down nearly 2 billiondollar massive casino, biggest casino in Atlantic City. They are cheering, as they go to the unemployment line today. So very loud, very raucous as they hit out to the place they called work for 26 years, guys. Unbelievable scene. People that used to work inside that building now walk out of that building. Listening to steve all morning covering this talking about what it was like in the opening, Michael Jackson was there. It comes to this point where 3,000 people are without jobs. What a way to start your monday, right. Lets try to make the best of this week that is stinking hurricane got out of here, sue. Not without leaving a lot of unhappy memories for so many people, but for us we got the through the weekend as well with the cool change to start this yesterday. W
69. Its comfortable there dover 84. 83 in trenton. It feels much warmer feels like 90 in philadelphia. 91 in dover and that excessive heat warning will continue through friday evening. Feel like 100 and 105 degrees. By tomorrow afternoon, in philadelphia feel like 100, 101 in wrightstown. It will feel like 100 in wilmington right along the i95 corridor we will see the searing heat. Coming up well talk more about summer storms that will move in with the heat tomorrow when the heat turns dangerous and when over the weekend we will see a break in the heat and intense humidity over the delaware valley. Cant come too soon. Official heat wave by friday but continue even after that. Ill see you later in the broadcast with more on the cool down. All right, kathy, thanks. Heres live look at the ben franklin parkway. Cities and counties around the area issued heat alerts and warnings with oppressive temperatures expected through the weekend as kathy told you theyre urging people who dont have ai