It is happening right now at the lumber yard on delsea drivein Franklin Township where action News Reporter jeff chirico joins us live with the very latest, jeff . Reporter walter, sarah, this is as close as we can get you right now but looking through those trees you can see Fire Fighters are still putting water on the hot spots. There are 30 companies here from across south jersey working on this operation, that the chief of police here, im sorry, fire chief hearsays the building is a total loss. This ace huge blow to the community as the coluci lum where yard has been serving this Community Since 1945. Viewer video shows the flames and heavy smoke ripping through the lumber yard on the 300 block of delsea drive nearly 200 Fire Fighters, spent hours, battling the blaze in near 90degree heat. The wind side trying to make an effort to stop the fire. But conditions deteriorated rapidly. They back out with the defensive operation. Reporter because the community does not have hydrants tan
Joining us. Lets go over to david murphy and matt pellman is in for karen rogers, good morning. Reporter why not, mainly dry warm and muggy this morning. We have a warm shower and thunderstorm passing off the coast of ocean county. Some of you in Burlington County may be seeing that, too. Anything that forms in the warm and humid atmosphere without any circulation moving through it will be a slow mover and drencher. We have a flood watch in effect in the northern suburbs because of the slow moving drenching showers and thunderstorms. Most of them hold off until this afternoon they are spotty, not everyone sees them. The reason we have the flood watch in these areas is because you got the most rain 4 to of inches. We set a record rainfall for july 31. That postponed the poconos race today they will probably get it. In drenching showers and downpours possible. 72346 76 in wilmington, 75 in cape may. Dewpoints up in the 70s across the region. That means its oppressively humid. Well spend
Birthday. Hold on, is she still with us. Yes. Really. I mean, i appreciate you are asking. Your great grandmother is alive at 102. We will show her to you. 102. We have to solute her. Yes. Make some smucker jelly or Something Like that. Yes. Is she seeing anybody. What is wrong with you. Majorly something is wrong with me. We have a seven today. I love seven. Improved from yesterday at least, but still muggy this morning. We have seen a couple of showers but we will eventually see some sunshine, and muggy the doggies still with your pal and mine, bus stop buddy pool side today. We will see umbrella just in case you get a stray shower. We see a few popping up on radar but few and far between. So not much to concern you about there. We have fog in the mountains and out in lancaster county, reduced visibility, there. Temperature range from 64 degrees in mount pocono to 72 in reading and wilmington. And down in wildwood, new jersey we have a muggy 75 degrees, heading to about 82 degrees to
We will give you have out of ten in weather by the numbers. It is so muggy. Once again we have a chance of pop up showers and then are storms dont we every day. Here we go with buddy, ready to watch for the lightening, and listen for thunder later on. Muggy the doggies here as well. Temperatures in the 60s and 70s as we get started this morning. The our pop up thunderstorm of the morning is in ocean county. We have another cell that developed in Burlington County, new jersey. You can see quite a bit of lightening there on garden state parkway right around seaside heights. We will take a closer look at that in a moment. The kind of cloudy here in philadelphia and very humid. We have 90 percent relative humidity. 75 degrees. Right now as your official sunrise time, just happened at 6 00 oclock on the dock. Big milestone there as days get shorter. Land quarter ter 72. Seventytwo pottstown. Sixtyfive mount pocono. Not too far from where they will try to get that race in that was cancelled
Fares will be collected, what you need to necessity before you start your commute. First big week of camp is in the books but where are all of the fans . Have we lost interest in the eagles . We will go live to the novacare complex. I have been schooled already about that comment that by dave spadaro of the eagles. He is saying last year there was only 16,000 fans, so this year, there was 18,000, it is pretty good. More than last year. Maybe im confusing it with military day where they had 40,000 people, that was the following week even. Military Appreciation Day. A pol guys to eagles fans from coast to coast. But still, it is a good question, as we get into this season are we as excited. Last year we were talking super bowl this year in the so much. Some pundits had us in the super bowl. Difference because they are not in lehigh anymore, because we take them for granted, maybe they are just around. Maybe so. Lets get to the number of the day because it is sticky out there. Six out of