Flames shooting from their plane midflight. U. S. Open shocker. The worlds number one player is thrown out after his ball hits the line judge in the throat. What Novak Djokovic is saying this morning. And on patrol, the goat that broke into the Police Patrol car and took a bite out of crime literally. Good monday morning, everyone, and happy labor day. We begin with a new state of emergency in five counties across california because of fires raging through the state. More than 2 million acres are burning so far this year. Thats a record. One fire this weekend trapped 200 people. They had to be airlifted to safety. And now authorities are warning conditions could get even worse because of recordbreaking heat. Abcs faith abubey begins our coverage. Reporter this morning, a new state of emergency in Southern California after a wildfire exploded to more than 70,000 acres in just days and a terrifying glimpse from inside this inferno in fresno revealing smoke so thick, it blocked the midday
Shes got traffic. I missed you guys. We missed you too, karen. In a moment well hear you talking about wopped full traffic issues which have been going on while you were away. Sunshine early but there are some high clouds there is some high cloud cover pushing down from the north and today is going to be a fairly sunny day with occasional patchy clouds coming through. The temperatures are on the cool side in most neighborhood right now. 64 in allentown, 65 in trenton, 67 degrees in philadelphia. 65 in millville. Couple of spots like wilmington and cape may are in the low 70s probably dipping into the 60s over the next half hour or hour. Dewpoints though are higher today. Remember we had them in the 50s yesterday morning. Today 64 on your dewpoint reading in philadelphia and anything over 60 is considered humid and today overall is going to be a bit more humid than yesterday. As we roll through the afternoon its another warm one, too. 70 degrees by 7 oclock. A little sweaty on the runni
Humid but if you got to get stuff done today is not a bad day to do it because tomorrow karen is going to be soupier. Lets talk about septa Regional Rails where we expect major delays once again today. Last week we were 13,000 seats short after they took a third of the rail cars out of service. Now theyve leased some and were about 11,000 seats short so its getting a little bit better for some of you but you want to expect major delays. Watch for this with Regional Rails. We expect them to begin after about 7 oclock. Yesterday we had problems where some trains got full and just bypassed, these kind of became express trains and we expect Something Like that could happen again today. Pack a lot of patience and make sure to grab that new schedule with septa Regional Rail that went into effect yesterday. Lets hitd roast. Weve got this accident on the schuylkill westbound involving an overturned truck. Theyve cleared the truck. This is westbound Near University. Now we can see both lanes ha