Sunny day staying cool. We have Team Coverage of the happening as cross the region. Action News Reporter Trish Hartman is live in Fairmount Park and jeff chirico is live in ocean city but we will begin with meteorologist Melissa Magee enjoying a sunny evening with the first check of the accu weather forecast, melissa. Reporter walter, it feels nice for the start of our Holiday Weekend, we have plenty of sunshine and enough sun to get our numbers above average today. In fact making this an official heat wave here in philadelphia first heat wave of the year, and it started out on thursday with the high of 90, yesterday we have maxed out at 90 and today we have climbed up to 90 degrees, normal for this time of the year is 77. We have an official heat wave, on our hand. Right the now it is southerly wind down to 88 in the city. Eightynine in allentown. Same thing in reading, 85 in western lancaster. At the companies in cape may afternoon sea breeze kick nothing at beach haven and along cap
Unofficial start of customer is upon us. Family and friends are getting together, and of course, paying tribute to the men and women who served our country. And a great start to the Holiday Weekend. It was hot, no doubt, but after a spring of gray, rainy weeks, we were all ready to enjoy the sunshine. Team coverage, Christie Ileto live at penns landing, jeff chirico live in ocean city. But we begin with meteorologist Melissa Magee and the first check of the accuweather forecast. Walter, we have been off to a very good start for our Holiday Weekend across much of the delaware and lehigh valleys. And today official heat wave in the city, the first of the year. It started out on thursday with a high of 90. And yesterday we had a high of 90. Today in philadelphia, climbed up to 90 degrees. Well above average. Normal for us this time of year is 77 degrees. At this power it is still pretty warm, pretty comfortable with the southerly wind. 74 in the city, 77 in allentown and the lehigh valley
Now clear skies in denver. Heres a look from our camera in akron and not as much fog as yesterday. Mid to upper 70s this afternoon, closer to 90 by 3 00. Its a warm one by 6 00 and clear skies, perfect for tonights game. Dropping into the 70s before the game. Mid up 80s in store eastern colorado today. As you get up in the mountains 70s and 80s there. Heres your first alert it will be cooler tomorrow. Were tracking a cold front and well show you what that means for showers. Mitch is asking for better game time weather. The southbound side of i25 is looking great. Its a mad house on i25 obviously around the stadium later today so be prepared for a early. Theyre hoping everyone gets in the stadium before the 6 30 kick off so well see that push today. Take a look at the overall map. A lot of green out there wrapping up the work. The north side nice a and quiet. The some streets closing down around bannic and 14th as well as other restrictions continuing there this morning. For the first a
A huge challenge in iraq. We have succeeded in combating daesh on the ground. The area we have liberated so far is more than half of what was occupied by daesh before. Now we have almost all areas liberated from daesh apart from two areas. We intend this year to make it the final year and the last year for the existing of daesh in iraq. This reflecting of the area which is occupied by de daesh and this is a huge moment as oil has dropped in price. It is a huge drop in two years in a country where the budget relies 90 on oil. We have many during the 2015 where oil prices were also very low. They dropped to Something Like a third to what it was before but we managed the country. We managed the war successfully during 2015. We liberated tacrete and ramadi. Some people say ramadi was lost and regained. But we lost a small area of ramadi and regained a larger area now. It is not only restoring or liberating the city of ramadi. We have liberated a large chunk of anbar which was never under c
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