The winds coming up. That wildfire is 90 contained right now after burning some 300 acres. Sam joins us live in lakewood tonight, crews are getting a handle on the fire and evacuations were just lifted . Reporter that is right. Good news we found out a couple minutes ago. The work is still going on. You take a look over my shoulder and you can up on Green Mountain putting out the hot spots. Just below you see homes. It it gives you an idea how close the fire got. At some point you can see it across the metro area. It was a terrifying euplg from afar and especially up close. Reporter the fire crawling down Green Mountain lit up the night. Jumping through dry brush, fueled by gusting winds. Firefighters poured water on neighbors panicked. I never seen fire this close. Reporter he grabbed a hose and started dousing a neighbors house as a precaution. I am just trying to keep it from burning down. I dont go what is going on. Reporter the police blocked intersections as evacuations grew. Rep
Earlier. Ktvu fox 2s alex savidge has been checking the news feeds and wires this morning. He has the latest. There was no distress call from this egyptair flight. Whatever brought it down was sudden and brief. The Egyptian Government is suggesting this was a terror attack. Security officials are running background checks on all passengers on board to see if any of them had ties to extremist groups. Several countries are taking part in a joint search effort in the Mediterranean Sea to find the wreckage from the plane. A short time ago crews found two items in the waters off the coast of the greek island. They appear to be debris from egyptair flight 804. Egyptian Officials Say the possibility of a terror attack again far more likely than some sort of a mechanical problem, but they do caution against jumping to any conclusions. This plane, according to radar, made several abrupt turns, then lost altitude before it dropped off the radar. They could have had trouble with the controls. The
We look very coordinated. Roads are looking good, construction out there, otherwise, looking good. As far as the weather goes, much, much nicer weekends. Look at this nice wide zoom on storm scan, still have system upper level low, swirling nearby, primarily off to the south, however, and that is going to potentially trigger hit or miss shower, maybe thunderstorm with time. But overall, weve got some pretty decent weather un folding, not just today but for the majority of the week. Still few speckles on the radar here across delaware, new jersey, again, could see sprinkle, maybe even fog, overall, we are starting off on milder note and dry note specially the further north you g nice clear sky to kick it off. Fiftyseven the current temperature at millville, 55 in Atlantic City as well as wildwood. As the day goes on we rebounds what looks like pretty typical daytime high. So little cool to the standards, but it is at least closer to average, 72 degrees our eventual high with some sun, b
The sidewalk this morning in the Spring Garden section of the city of philadelphia, rain was falling making for a dreary start to the workday. Good afternoon im jim donovan. Im brooke thomas. Overnight parts of the central pennsylvania saw 3 inches of rainfall in 90 minutes this was the scene in clear field north offal tune a in reports of anyone hurt here but some people had to be rescued, by boat. And more showers are on the way today for us. Lets get a first look with the forecast with meteorologist Katie Fehlinger live on the cbs3 sky deck. I know you said it would be wet but i was surprised a at the noise, sound of the rain, you know. Yeah, it is definitely coming down the at a maryland rate rain intensity right now, brooke but we are going to be dodging this kind of a variety of hit or miss light or moderate rain showers, maybe even a rumble of thunder at any point the rest of the day. It all comes courtesy of a sluggish front but it is a front that is weakening. We dont to have
Well, it is cleanup time after storms uprooted entire trees, snapped branches like toothpicks. Power lines down as well. That car, minivan didnt even stand a chance. Minutes. Up first, 15,000 people still without power. Still may be another fiver hours or sew five hours or so before they get back online. We have Team Coverage as greg d gives us a look at the storm damage but get to betsy tracking the storms. Yeah, most of these scattered storms are few and far in between and very intense where they are. We have heavy ra some areas. There you see it. We have flood advisories for ashtabula counties. West first into eerie county and western section of lorrain county. If you have family or friends at cedar points give them a call and tell them to get to shelter because its only about 6miles away. Shutting the rides down. Further to the east, very heavy rain continues along the turnpike in florence and amhurst. Not expect Severe Weather but weve seen gusty winds at time from those thunderst