Falls. Thmc clouds are affecting traffic. Jessica boyington has first alert traffic. Bill, so far were typically up for a quiet friday. Were starting to see jams on 95, the schuylkill expressway, some parts of new jersey on the 42 freeway. Right now we are taking a look at the xx examine on girard avenue. The eastbound lanes, all traffic moving. Lanes open, a 13minute drive time from the blue route to the vine street expressway. Average speeds of 59 miles per hour. The westbound lanes are doing okay as well. In Montgomery County on 422, everything is moving along there. You can see all of the roadways are green, eastbound from 29 up towards the schuylkill expressway. Thats where we typically see the jam in the morning time. Only about an eightminute trip. We are getting reports of a road obstruction still out in lower providence on Feather Bed Lane and woods edge road. Watch out for that. An accident scene out in upper merion, river road and east fourth street. Still 20 minutes delays for warminster, west trenton and doylestown for septa. Were following breaking news down the shore where some streets are flooded. Matt delucia joins us live. Tell us what youre seeing. Reporter well, tracy we rolled into town here just a few minutes ago an we saw a lot of flooding out here. Initially we were coming down because we heard about Power Outages as a result of a storm last night. You see right here, this is 12th avenue by central, the entire street is flooded. We do see as the streetlights are on, we do see homes have power at the moment but down here on the street, you can see at least a few inches of water. My photographer is walking through that right now to give you an idea of what people are experiencing as theyre driving through this area. On central avenue, it is not terribly bad but the vehicles are using the center lane out here. You see the side streets are heavy affected by this. A lot of the cars not going to be able to get out until the flooding goes down. I just got off the phone a few minutes before we went on the air, they say the flooding is the big issue. You see the emergency vehicles down the street there. They are still dealing with power outage issues as well. We did see a lot of lightning in this area. That is what this town is dealing with at the moment. Power outages and also a lot of flooding. Im told that the flooding has gone down quite considerably since this all started at 4 00 this morning. Well cross the street here. Again, you can see this area here along central is not too bad right here. This is new jersey avenue that were cross ofrg at the moment. You can see that the flooding is so intense that the storm drains are just bubbling up out here. And so its very intense situation, if you will, in terms of the flooding in this area. Very heavy winds, heavy storms came through last night. Garbage cans had been toppled over as well. Weve seen trash floating in the street. So far, no reports of any major injuries as a result of this. Well stay out here, give you another look in the next hour of the conditions that are out here. This is in North Wildwood, again, not a good area to drive in if youre down here or heading down here for a summer weekend. Live in North Wildwood, matt delucia, nbc 10 news. 6 04 now. New from overnight, Philadelphia Police want to find the killer who ambushed a man as he sat in his car. Investigators say the victim was parked on longshore avenue in the mayfair section when the killer walked up and fired at least 12 shots. You see the bullet holes in the ka are there. Car but died on the sidewalk. As philadelphia prepares to welcome pope francis next month, septa is putting the Regional Rail tickets to the popes visit on sale again today. Monique braxton is live at the radnor septa station with what you need to know if you plan on picking up one of these passes. Monique, walk us through this. Hey, tracy. The radnor station is one of 15 select stations selling the special regional passes for the weekend the pope is in town. This is what the special oneday pass looks like. They go on sale today and will be the only septa fare accepted during the papal visit. When you arrive here, youre asked to bring your identification and if you have a valid medicare card, disability transit i. D. Or pennsylvania Senior Citizen transit i. D. The Regional Rail passes will allow riders to get on the train at one of 18 regional stops. You will get off at university city, 30th street or Jefferson Station which is on market street. Passengers may purchase ten passes, including one for the elderly or disabled. Children over the age of 5 must also have a pass. Now, the passes are 10, 5 if youre elderly or disabled or a classified Senior Citizen in pennsylvania. We want to remind you, according to septa, bicycles will not be permitted. Previously septa had offered the passes online. You may remember the first time the system was shut down. Theyve offered them a second time but they still have plenty of regional passes for sale. Septas spokesperson tells us this weekend there will be extended hours here at the radnor station and 14 other Regional Rail stations. Make sure you go to nbc10. Com for a listing of where you can purchase those passes between 9 00 and 5 00 this weekend. Live now in radnor, Monique Braxton, nbc 10 news. On monday, well get a very clear outline from the city of philadelphia on its detailed plan for the papal visit. Thats when the city will relee its online pope playbook. We did get some of the information from the playbook yesterday. They released this. People living in restricted areas can leave. They wont be allowed back in. Also, the faa has decided no drones allowed in the city during the papal visit. Heres a live look at Citizens Bank park. Heres what else we learned. This is where buses and rvs will be park. The lots athe linc and Wells Fargo Center will also be used for buses and rvs. City schools will be closed starting on the 23rd for yom kippur and they will stay closed through the rest of the week. Mayor nutter also says hes considering closing schools on monday the 28th. Well keep you posted on that. Tap on the nbc 10 mobile app for everything you need to know to get ready for the papal visit. Youll find the popes itinerary, including where you can see the pope in person. 6 07 now. 74 degrees. A 16yearold girl is charged with murder, charged with murdering a man in camden. Prosecutors are withholding the girls name for now. They say shes from berlin borough. Last week she said she shot a 21yearold pennsauken man in camden. He died in the hospital yesterday. No word on a motive. In cumberland county, a grand jury cleared two Police Officers of any wrongdoing in the Fatal Shooting of a man during a traffic stop last december. She mec your hands. Sew me your [ muted ] hands. This is dashcam of the actual traffic stop. Reed was shot and killed after failing to follow the orders from the Police Officers. The panel believed that the officers knew reed once fired on Law Enforcement and police said they did find a gun in the glove box of the car. Reed was not holding the gun when the officer shot him. The shooting led to protests in the community youll remember. One local activist says the grand jury got it wrong. Well, we are outraged about it. Its disappointing but not surprising. Bridgetons police chief says his department stands behind the actions of his officers. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. Coming up on nine minutes after 6 00. We have minor flooding thanks to heavy rainfall that came through overnight. Not everybody is seeing it. Some spots in philadelphia and what we saw in cape may from matt delucias report. Clearing skies, well see sunshine, drying out and the flooding will subside. Less humid air starting to arrive today will be staying for the weekend. 67 in reading, philadelphia, 75 degrees. Cape may is 72. Cloudy skies right now. The storms are way offshore. Beach avenue is damp, no flooding there. Theres been heavy rainfall, not just in cape may. In philadelphia, too. Numerous locations saw more than 2 inches of rain as this line of storms moved through. Theyre offshore, cape may. Theyre still going with showers in barnegat bay, ship bottom and others. The rainfall estimates, the totals in maurice river, 2 1 2 inches there. Closing in on 3 inches of rain in cape may county. That has led to the minor flooding there. Lots of rainfall in the philadelphia suburbs, in Montgomery County and bucks county. More than 2 urchls in the king of prussia area. That rain is now hitting the streams and rivers. Pennypack creek is seeing minor flooding. Its above flood stage this morning. That wont last all that long. The clouds wont last either. Clearing skies, middle 80s for allentown and quakertown. 87 in trenton. Less humid conditions later today for doylestown and mt. Holly. Mostly cloudy morning. Youll see breaks of sunshine for Atlantic City and rehoboth and cape may this afternoon. More sunshine for the weekend. 88 in philadelphia today. While westchester and wilmington warm into the middle 80s with sunshine, youll need your sunglasses today. A look at the weekend forecast when im back with the sevenday in ten minutes. We always like it when bill calls for the sunglasses, much better than umbrellas. Lets hope your drive for friday morning is a nice one. Hope. Lets check. Jessica boyington is watching the roads for you. Jessica . If you are heading to the shore early youll be fine around route 73. You can see both lanes on 73 or the ac expressway are all doing great, all lanes open. Not a lot of traffic in the area. On the 42 freeway heading into philadelphia, if you do have to head to work, fiveminute trip northbound from 555 to the walt whitman bridge. For the rest of the area bridges, were doing okay on the tac pal, the ben and the betsy ross. Coming up, well do massc transit. Officials have identified three firefighters that were killed while battling a wildfire in Washington State. And the spreading flames are forcing more people to leave their homes. What crews are up against as they work to contain the fires. A hunt to a man who robbed a post office. Were looking into why he did it. Oh my gosh, its the guy from last night. What . can i jump on your wifi . Yeah, you can try it. Hey i had a really good time last night. Yeah, me too. The only thing is that. The only thing is what . Whats the only thing . Oh my gosh hes married. Hes a kleptomaniac. Hes a pyromaniac. Hes a total maniac. Hey hey go back to your wife you sociopath leave slow internet behind. The 100 Fiber Optics Network is here. Get out of the past. Get fios. Tea . Now 79. 99 a month. Go online or call now. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v. A heartbreaking scene in Washington State. A procession of emergency vehicles escorted the bodies of the three firefighters killed while fighting a fire. Their truck crashed and were overcome by flames. Firefighters on the front line face another dangerous day ahead as several wildfires begin to merge, burning an area of land about the size of seattle. Soaring temperatures and strong winds will likely cause the flames to spread in Eastern Washington state. The governor praised the courage of the 3,000 firefighters fighting several fires raging across that dry landscape. There are people who are lost, doing what firefighters do, rush towards the fire rather than away. This is an unprecedented cataclysm in our state. There are 390,000 acres burning. 390,000 acres. And authorities evacuated a third city overnight because of the fastmoving fire. Thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes. Federal agents are on the hundred for a man who robbed a post office. The entire thing was caught on camera. This is the Surveillance Video. Take a look. This is from the Oxford Circle post Office Yesterday afternoon. This guy looks like hes going fishing. He pulls a gun, pointing it right at the workers. People rob a post office, theyre generally after cash, postal money or stamps. Its really ridiculous. It is hard to see his face. Hes wearing that hat but hes described as a man in his 50s or 60s with a bushy gray beard. Get details on a 20,000 reward for information on our website at nbc10. Com. It is 6 17. Weve had rain move through over the morning. You may find the road wet when you get out there on them. What else will you find . Jessica boyington has your traffic. Foggy conditions in the Lehigh Valley on 78, lehigh street. East and westbound, still moving along nicely in both directions. 202, pretty much the same story. The cars are still green, moving ten minutes from northbound or southbound sides from route 30 up towards the schuylkill expressway. Septa really cant catch a break so far this morning out in doylestown, the line, 501, ten minutes light, thorndale 501 ten minutes late and elwyn train, up to 15 minutes there. No delays at the Philadelphia International airport. Coming up in the next ten minutes, well check in with 959 and see how the delays are working there. Now, your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. Were looking at clouds in the area that are going to be thinning out as the day goes on. And temperatures will be warming up this afternoon. The humidity is still on the high side. Thats a live view of center city from the adventure aquarium. Sunshine will be on tap, especially this afternoon. Its going to take some time for those clouds to clear out but they will be heading out during the day as the showers, the thunderstorms have already moved out of the area. Were looking for less humid conditions during the day today. Well see those humid conditions stay low for the weekend as well. Right now, the radar showing some scattered showers just offshore for most of the area. The heavy downpours are still in portions of ocean county. You can see the bright white clouds, thec storms. Theyve already cleared philadelphia, those thicker clouds. With less humid air moving in, we have a nice day shaping up clearing skies, a warm afternoon. Middle to upper 80s today. The winds out of the north at 10 miles an hour. The dry air coming in. Youll feel the difference later today and tomorrow, less humid conditions. A beautiful saturday, lots of sunshine. Getting comfortable for the eagles game. Maybe too comfortable for football. Should be storming of some sort, mostly snow. Thats really unlikely. Sunshine on sun, 88 degrees, 90 for monday and then it gets really comfortable again. Tuesday, wednesday and thursday, the humidity drops. Nice and comfortable with highs in the middle 80s. Are you rushing snow along . Is that what youre doing, bill . Not doing that. New hightech help for people who are disabled. It comes from the company that gave voice to renowned physicist steven hawken. Well show you what youll soon be able to download, free. If you havent seen this video, come to your tv and watch it. Lightning hitting a delta plane in atlanta. This happened as the plane was grounded on the tarmac at atlantas Hartsfield Jackson international airport. Thankfully, everyone, all the passengers were inside. The planes were grounded at the time. Passengers recorded the video of the lightning striking there. It traveled through the metal fuselage and exited to the planes tire to the ground. No one was hurt. 6 23. The Iraqi Ministry of defense released video it says shows air strikes against isis targets. The country confirmed on tuesday that its forces started that operation, Shiite Paramilitary groups have taken charge of the offensive and plan to clear remaining isis strongholds. North korea this morning declared front line troops are in a, quote, quasi state of war and warned of military operations just yesterday. The rival koreas exchanged fire across the border. The north made similar claims before and with troops along the border it is always essentially a quasi state of war but the new declaration could signal an escalation in the tense region. For the eighth time this year, tsa agents stopped a passenger for trying to carry a loaded gun on to a plane at Philadelphia International airport. The latest incident happened wednesday and heres a picture of the gun and the ammunition. Tsa agents tell us they found the gun in the mans carryon luggage. The man had a ticket to fly from philadelphia to chicago. Investors are nervous about how the week will end on wall street after the market had its worst performance in 18 months. The dow dropped 358 points, the nasdaq fell 142 points. A third of the dow is now in bear market territory or down at least 20 from recent highs. Weak Economic Data out of china led to the losses and added to investors worries about a global slowdown. Its 6 25 now. The technology thats given an artificial voice to renowned Physicist Stephen Hawking could soon be helping others with disabilities. I rely on technology to help me communicate and live. Intel, the company that makes that program has now made it available for anyone to download and experiment with for free. Intel hopes developers and researchers will use the opportunity to spur innovation and build on the program making it even more efficient for those who need it most. Hwnf and Jessica Boyington with your first alert traffic this morning. Were watching route 100 around pottstown pike, north and southbound, no problems. A little bit lazy out there, though. Coming up in the next few minutes, well check in with 959 because were starting to see volume. Ill show you where. Lets get a check on the weather with meteorologist bill henley.