So whether by car, airplane, or boat, get ready for some company on your travels. That is our cover story this week. Im actually heading to philadelphia. My best friend and i are traveling to florida for a girls trip. Were on our way upstate, so we still have a ways to go. And shes not alone. Aaa says 44. 2 Million People will travel at least 50 miles from home this Independence Day holiday. Thats a million and a quarter more than last year. The total number of travelers is up 2. 9 from 2016. Drivers make up 85 of those traveling this weekend. 37. 5 Million People. Falling gas prices and cheaper rental cars are some of the incentives to put the pedal to the metal. 3. 4 million are expected to take to the skies. Thats up 4. 6 from last year. In fact, airlines have added 123,000 seats a day this summer just to keep up with demand. Aaa says airfares are down 10 from last year, and this weekend a little more than 3 Million People will be traveling by rail, bus, or cruise ship. So what are
Oh, critics comes out. With all of the patterns, there is the babies. I know, right. We will zoom in. We did that for about an hour, we kept showing where are babies. Shes holding the babies. Yes. Lets get to weather, raining like crazy outside, little bit of the break, is that just rolling through. More, you get those heavier downpours and flash flooding and then over that quickly and we still have puddles left here in olde city. Our number of the day is a six out of 10 because of the messy weather. We have been saying steamy, stormy. It is humid when not raining. Buddy is red which his giant umbrella there. He is in the backyard waiting to go swimming because he is ready for bastille day to have fun, it is friday after all but look out to the west in Lancaster County we see another round of thunderstorms moving through and another round moving across pennsylvania maryland border west of hageers town. Lots to watch here on radar. We will get more in depth here but still raining lightl
Camera shaking at time. As a storm makes landfall, well see the worst of it overnight. Once its here, its likely going to stay for awhile. Even before landfall, harvey is already unleashing furry on the texas gulf coast. This is a hurricane that will come inland and then its expected to hover for a long period of time. Driving rain and sustained winds of more than 110 Miles Per Hour, its the strongest storm in almost a half century. We could see storm surge between, 10, 12 feet. The mideast severe hit from the storm is expected overnight leaving those in the path leaving little time to move to higher ground. Were targeted the areas encouraging people in the strongest language to get off the island. In other words just get out of dodge. Thats what thousands are doing in corpus christy. They are material things. We can always get that back. Im not willing to risk my childs life. The same push is underway where bus loads of people and pets are being shuttled to safety. Financially, we don
In the eagles third preseason game, this is big game of the preseason, so what do we take away from a 3831 win . Yeah . It was fun to watch. But what did we learn . Are we ready for redskins . Good day, it is friday, august. Im glad we won but there were some concerns. Oh, we have concerns, o line concerns, this reminds me of 12 years ago starting weekend talking about a big hurricane in the gulf, katrina , this is biggest hurricane since katrina ready to hit texas coast. Yeah, we will be going live to Corpus Christie but scott, i mean, a lot of people are concerned in texas. What are they expecting. Yeah millions in the path, of course, we are looking at right now alex at ultimate doppler and look at that buzz saw of the hurricane look at those feeder bands impacting texas coast from brownsville to Corpus Christie, houston area, were talking double digit rainfall totals not inches, but feet of rain likely out of this system as it makes land fall late tonight, early tomorrow morning an
At formula one recently. And a little later in the programme well be speaking live to the boss of one of the big teams in the sport mcclaren. Zach brown also has lots of other roles. So today we want to know, what would you like to ask him . Let us know. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. 0k, everybody is going, what does trump on, trump of mean . I would explain why we get to the markets welcome to the programme. We start with facebook, because despite predictions of a slowdown, the worlds Biggest Social Network keeps getting more popular, more profitable and more powerful. Late on wednesday it reported quarterly numbers that were much better than expected. They round off another year of rapid growth that has seen it become one of the biggest advertising businesses on the planet. Its massive reach has also raised concerns about the amount of influence it can have, and the reliability of information thats shared on it. So we put a Little Something together for you. Just how big is facebo