Year continues. Some sought we le relief in t fountain asks some dined outside in rittenhouse square. It is here for a few days. The big story is the extreme heat. The excessive heat warning extended for parts of the area until tuesday evening as the heat wave continues. Today another person died from the heat. That marks the third heatrelated death this weekend in the city. We move on to meteorologist Melissa Magee live at the action news big board with her first check of the accuweather forecast. Walter and sarah, it is not just the heat, it is the humidity that makes it feel unbearable at times. This trend will continue as we return to work this week. The dewpoint numbers tell the story. Along the 95 corridor still in the lower 70s. Any time they are that high, it is quite oppressive across the region. We have lots of moisture in the atmosphere at this hour. The current heat index in philadelphia coming in at 90. 85 in washington, d. C. Feeling like 89 in richmond and 92 up the i95
The yellow cab, it hit the side of the newspaper stand and then had it hit the shoe shine and then it hit the shoe shine stand and the pole went over. He went flying up the air. Of course his dad, he was still on the ground. He had a bunch of debris on top of him. Reporter she is just hoping and praying that those two people pull through. Theyre at the hospital right now. Also at the hospital is the taxicab driver. If you take another live look, i dont know if you can pan down to see it, but it is so sad to look at this as you can see the shoes lying on the sidewalk. You can see empty bottles of shoe shine polish as well. The shoe shine stand itself, it is just completely tilted over their side and that taxicab is completely ruined on the hood there. This must have been an intense crash as we dont know how fast that driver was speeding. Police have not said whether or not that speed was a factor or something that they will be looking into at this point and of course that we will try to
For this officer and he may still get a call that he has to work overtime tonight. How tired are you . Pretty tired. But it is my friday, thank goodness. Reporter today, san jose pd is in the middle of a staffing crisis, not enough officers to cover the shifts. Between march 16th and august 16th, more than 1400 times, officers have been ordered to work overtime and in most of those cases the overtime was for at least six officers. Its rough. Friday and saturday nights are rough. Reporter they are scrambling from calls to calls which is why he will declare a staffing emergency pulling detectives to patrol cars. You know, when the phone rings, my heart drops. Theres only a few reasons that i get that call. And its brutal. And, you know, like i said, i dont want to especially for something that i can help. Reporter tonight, swing shifts are on the streets hoping theres enough officers on patrol to watch ear others backs. And we ran into officer jepson here and hes working an extra six hou
East bay hills where a few dozen big money donors had gathered. Ktvus Jana Katsuyama is live on the scene for us. The democratic nominee arrived after 8 00. Is she still there or has she left . Reporter she left 20 minutes ago, julie. Still some people cleaning up inside but she was in there for an hour talking with a few dozen donors. Take a look at what happened afterwards when she went outside and met with the crowd. There were children and neighbors who had been waiting for a long time hoping to take a glimpse or catch a glimpse of clinton. She crossed the street surrounded by secret service agents. And went up to the crowd taking selfies, and also shaking hands with the young people who were there. She spent about 10 minutes with them and i asked her if she had a message for the young people who had been waiting outside hoping to get a chance to meet her. Thanks, guys. Thank you. I know. Im so grateful. And im so happy i had a chance to see them and to thank them. Thank you. Repor
But lots of sunshine and youll wander those cool drinks handy. Matt, when we take a look at the seven day in a couple of minutes were going to see an uptick in humidity and heat as we head toward the weekend. Details on that and the tropics coming up. But at least we have the weather going for us because this morning the traffic has been giving us some issues david but some positive progress here on 422 eastbound. Here come the first cars coming east away from route 29 here at the phoenixvillecollegeville interchange. The eastbound lanes had been blocked since before midnight. Thats when a vehicle ran off the roadway eastbound approaching the oaks interchange. They just towed that vehicle away. So, 422 in the process of reopening as we speak. But now theres new issues on the pennsylvania turnpike. Its a motorcycle crash eastbound approaching the valley forge interchange. Youre seeing some westbound slowing there. I think thats the combination of a gaper there was as well as constructio