This afternoon. The threat tracker shows that there is moderate threat of any kind of localized flooding or lightning. The highest threat is for highs, strong gusty winds. A severe thunderstorm watch out already. This is the line of showers back in central pennsylvania that is approaching. This is the excessive heat warning today and tomorrow. Once the line of showers comes through thats it for the dangerous heat at least for several days. 86 right now. Wilmington, dover, millville, georgetown, a lot of places in the mid 80s. The humidity is high. It already feels like its getting close to the mid 90s. Weve got at least a couple more hours of heating. Back to the north and west showers are going to come in before we get a chance to have that feels like temperature triple digits. We have a lot of rain and showers and thunderstorms. And then it comes through the area so just about everybody is going to get rain. And then everybody is going to get significant relief from the high humidity
3 00 p. M. Well have showers and thunderstorms building in the northern and western suburbs and through philadelphia. 78 degrees currently and muggy as i mentioned under partly cloudy skies. 71 in allentown, 73 in wildwood. Were dealing with oppressive humidity if we get sun out from behind the clouds later on, it will feel darn miserable. 79 degrees by 8 00 a. M. Noon 87 degrees, 3 00 p. M. 90 degrees that he is the high. Ill track the thunderstorms in just a couple of minutes. Reporter pretty darn miserable, youre making me not look forward to the rest of the day. Traffic not miserable weve seen worse mornings, but the volume is building on i95 as you can see. It has built on the westbound side of the vine street expressway were stacked up heading toward the schuylkill expressway again just normal volume. On the schuylkill expressway itself not so bad thats the top left corner of the screen. This ramp from Spring Garden coming away from the art museum coming from the westbound schuyl
You get started. Heres the excessive heat warning. Philadelphia the surrounding counties where it will feel like it is around 100, with temperatures in the 90s, and then we have our air quality warning, in effect, for just about everywhere else. We are at 76 degrees, in philadelphia right now, cant find a breeze anywhere. And relative humidity is at 85 . So the air is very still, temperatures in the 70s this morning, by lunchtime, already up to 90 degrees. And it is already hot. So, it is the 3hs today. Hazy, hot, humid, high of 95 degrees. How long will this go on . Well let you know in the seven day forecast, bob kelly, it is hot already. Hope you got the ac cranking this morning, good morning, everybody, 60 00; live look at i295 in south jersey. Right near the black horse pike, where they were at a little extra learning, i know jenn fred got struck in some construction traffic on her way headed down to the shore this morning, along 676, 130, where the black horse pike all comes toge
The expense of the very people they serve. This is not deflategate. All right . This is a normal issue of which there are allegations after a very long run eight year investigation. Federal investigators say the 11 term congressman and four others allegedly engaged in a series of five schemes misappropriateing hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal charitable and Campaign Funds. Then they tried to hide it. Fattah and his associates engaged in a coverup lasting years in an effort to avoid detect. The investigation started with a tip to the fbi in march of 2013 and led down a path straight to fattah and others. 20 year veteran of Congress Also used funds illegally to pay off his 2007 Mayoral Campaign debt. He paid personal expenses for he and his wife, paid for a Vacation Home and helped reduce his sons Student Loans by 23,000. Corruption like what is charged today really shakes public confidence. Fbi says the 58yearold fattah also took 18,000 bribe payment from former depth pew tha
Jersey upper 80s low 90ss right now in camden, trenton its hot 92 degrees. 92 in Medford Lakes as well. But how your body reacts it feels like 99 degrees right now in wrightstown. It feels like 93 in wilmington. So the heat, the humidity its going to continue tomorrow we also have some scattered showers and thunderstorms. When i come indoors ill have the timing of that rain as well as when to catch a little bit of a break from the oppressive humidity when i come indoors. Back to you. All right, scott. Thanks. You can stay prepared for the heat with the fox 29 news app. You can get weather alerts sent to your phone check the temperature for the next seven days and download it for free. Developing right now philadelphia congressman wrapped up in scandal. A long running federal investigation yielded an indictment against chaka fattah. U. S. Attorneys Office Coming down hard against the congressman this morning. Fattah and four others on his staff mace charges of corruption corruption, bri