First, what you need to start your day in the morning minute today is friday, october 20th. Racist messages spark school fight in south jersey. Thats a teachable moment. This has been very difficult week for student here just fraught with tension if you elect a call a family like this, about the most difficult thing you can imagine. Chief of staff john kelly addresses the president s phonecall to the family of a fallen army sergeant. It stuns me that a member of congress would would list never on that conversation. More grim news out of california, recent wild fires could end up being the costly he is in that states history. Hoping to become the home for amazons second headquarters. Philadelphia is in the goldie locks zone for amazon, just right. Mayor jim kenney thanks the coalition that made the citys bid possible. More from our own ukee washington. Dancing with kids at a coat drive in chichester. Got to love the ukee. I taught him those moves. Oh, okay. All right. Ukee has a little
Couple of days. Significantly warmer because of the land breeze instead of the sea breeze. 55 in philadelphia. You see were going up through the 60s and into the 70s with nothing but sunshine this afternoon. You see the northwest wind there. And its kind of preventing us from getting even warmer. Its not really cooling us down. 49 in lancaster. 47 in millville. The cool spot. 55 in philly and close to 60 degrees at the shore already. Nothing on the satellite and radar close by or even far away. The country is extremely dry, and its going to continue that way. Temperatures getting into the 70s in much of the area. And lots of sunshine. Well see how warm that lasts coming up. Thanks for that. I wanted to bring this camera back up when i saw you about five minutes ago. I showed it to you, and there was clearly some Construction Activity in the camera that i had not seen before. This is whats going on there is longterm construction going on this stretch. 295 between route 42 and route 168.
Reporter say what day it is, again. Reporter it is friday. Reporter were on the verge of a new day well squeeze out a nice sunny day, the weekend looks bright. Starting out cool, its a slightly milder trend, 50 degrees in allentown. Thats the mildest start weve seen this week at this time of the day. 63 degrees in cape may. As we roll through the day. 69 degrees by noon. 74 is the high around 3 00 p. M. 7 00 p. M. , fairly comfortable, 65 degrees, if youre dressing the kids on the way out the door this morning were looking at fairly nice one compared to where we were a couple of days ago, 48 degrees, not a lot of wind thats the outlying suburbs. On the bus stop, 54 degrees. Its dry and breezy and theres a concern of brushfires dont flick cigarettes out of your car and dont park your car over high grass today. Reporter lets head outside and check the roads on friday morning. The schuylkill expressway westbound at 0th street. The overnight construction continues we see the cones that are
Comfortably mild beginning to the morning. But, still jacket weather at it finest as i like to say, going throughout the day, also , going to start to notice specially eastern half of our area notice mount pocono winds speeds, winds starts to kick up little bit more. Because weve got that dry air mass in place, combined with the breeze, thats going to elevate the fire risk at least little bit. Be smart, but for now, just more of the same. Temperatures back to the low and mid 70s from the shore up to the city and fog but walltowall sun continuing all the way up to the mountains. 66 degrees, for you there. But nice fall day regardless. Now, as we move forward in the forecast, that stretch of sun will continue with temperatures trending around if not more than 10 degrees above average. Right through the weekends. But, this pattern as i mentioned, pat, comes to screaching halt, ill let you know when a little later. Just soak it in while we can. Got to love it. Goes down nice. I like. That
Were already a good bit warmer than we were at this time yesterday. Allentown with the lowest temperature on the map, 50 degrees. We have dry air across much of the country actually, from philly toward the rockies. It will be a while before significant moisture moves in. Highs getting into the low to mid 70s in the philadelphia area. Near 70s to low 70s in other parts of the area, each the jersey shore getting into the 70s because of the land breeze. 6 00 on your friday. We have 95 to look at. 95 southbound, this is the traffic making its way past girard toward center city fills. You see pretty heavy traffic. Still, the drive time is pretty good. Only a 14minute drive. Speeds in the upper 50s. Ill let you know when that changes because we are seeing a lot of vietnam. Into the height of the rush. We have a story in new jersey. 295 at route 168. This traffic here that you see going slow, that is headed southbound. Look southbound on 295 between route 38 and route 168. Thats because of th