Extended through tomorrow afternoon. It will feel like its about 100 to 105 degrees. This evening temperatures not falling all that much staying basically in the 80s right through the 11 00 oclock hour. So coming up well talk more about the heat wave record heat in the forecast and potential for some weekend rain. We need it. My garden is scorched. Unfortunately i dont think well see a lot of it. Well talk more about that coming up later in the broadca broadcast. You and me both kathy. This extreme heat is behind some school troubles. Many schools are letting kids out earl ball its too hot. Fox 29s karen hepp is live in mayfair tonight. Early dismissal something students dont mind too much, karen. Reporter gosh, theyre cheering. Theyre so excited. We already saw with the trenton schools they had half day. Reading schools the same problems. Now it is phillys turn so the kids of course couldnt be happier. The parents sort of on the fence m say ive got scramble and get the kids. Others sa
Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 10 00. First at 10 00 breakin breas stretches from philadelphias kensington neighborhood to Port Richmond. Skyfox in the air life over one of the scenes where police are gathering evidence. Shots fired by a police officer, a chase and a crash ton night one person is arrested. All of this played out in master minutes and that at one point the driver tried to ram an officer with the car. Good evening, im lucy noland. Im iain page. The details are still coming in. Lets get right tout fox 29s Chris Oconnell who is live near where this whole thing came to an end. Chris . Reporter even yann, lucy some of those details just coming into us. As you can see behind us, eighths very active scene. Let me get out of the way and show you what is exactly going on. A simple traffic stop ended up to a very dangerous situation for Philadelphia Police officers. Ended up here in Port Richmond. This is what youre looking at the end result, this su
There may be an isolated shower and the we are back to sunshine for tomorrow afternoon with temperatures in the mid70s. Mostly cloudy tonight was showers and temperatures in the low 60s. More rain later this week which will lead to a bead a big weekend cool down. Cut them up coming up later i will have the full forecast. You may see a few more signs of normalcy today as cedar rapids continues to recover from we have flood 2016 coverage. Reporter the commute is running smoother than it has in recent days. As of this morning, all access on and off 380 is open to commuters. All pictures all bridges are opened as well. V and f avenues are open to one lane eastbound and westbound, joins us live from the best western Coopers Mill Hotel with the latest there. Hotel sits along first street northwest just a few hundred feet from the cedar river and on the wet side of planned flood protection. Protection. This morning the city Flood Control System Committee was briefed on Flood Control updates i
Communication with parents. Youre watching kcrgtv9. Now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrgtv9 news morning news. Wet weather is on the top of the mind today. After torrential rainfall last night, another round has moved b morning, and is unfortunately impacting the same areas as last night. As a result, flooding is a certainty, but the severity is something well need to assess day by day. Remember to heed all warnings and evacuations over Northern Iowa should they become necessary. This next round of rain will be capable of another 14 over Northern Areas, before dropping southward towards cedar rapids and iowa city later this morning. More rain is possible tonight with drying conditions from midday friday into all of saturday. Another round of rain is also possible sunday into monday. Please stay tuned for further flooding updates. Today storms likely. Isolated very heavy rain totals possible. Wind s 515. High 79 tonight chance of storms. Wind s 510. Wind s 510. High 83 tom.
Reporter millions of motorists use more than 610,000 bridges in the united states. Most drivers are unaware of the frightening state some of these below the structure you have a lot more traffic going over bridges today than you used to. Reporter as a result these have taken a pounding through the years. Many u. S. Bridges are dangerously dilapidated. One of the basic functions of government is maintaining our infrastructure. Our roads and bridges. Reporter lawmakers requested the Government Accountability office to assess the damage to u. S. Bridges from 2005 to 2014. The gao report found that nearly 25 percent of the nations bridges are considered deficient. Ten percent are considered structurally deficient which means theyre in poor condition. Nearly 15 percent are considered functionally obsolete. Which means their design is no longer up to date with todays heavy traffic patterns. Poor conditions some way or another. Were talking about 150,000 that are de nisht some fashion. Report