Bank of america county. More rain where that comes from. Look at where the heavier stuff is rolling through. Starting to roll out. Vineland briefly missing here. Starting to move into Atlantic County. Good bit of rain over jersey. Pocket of thunderstorms rolling right through philly. Take a closer look here. Drop down to neighborhood level. Look at very heavy rain with lightning rolling through south philly. Just looked at camera over the link. You could see the lightning rolling through the area. Start tracking into center city and then northeast philadelphia as well over the next half hour or so. Temperatures mostly mid to upper 60s. 69 in philadelphia. 68 in dover. Atlantic city 70. Wont be a warmup today. Because of all the rain. Talk more about that in just a moment. Right now go traffic with jessica boyington. Watching an accident right now on the westbound side of the schuylkill. Camera actually a little bit shaky right now. Once in a while it starts to freeze. Doesnt matter. Its what it looks like right now. Even though its frozen, right here is the westbound side. Police activity there. Over into the left hand shoulder there. Seeing delays moving through. Youll run into some of that. Also watch for crash on limerick. Right around west ridge pike. New into our system there. And route 30 around 295. White horse pike crossing over. Its the most powerful Atlantic Ocean hurricane in recorded history. Here are new pictures from ante gentleman late yesterday as the storm was approaching. Irma is category five hurricane. Sustained winds at 185 miles an hour. Warn the damage from the storm could be catastrophic. Fm, puerto rico, and the u. S. Virgin islands all under a state of emergency. 7,000 National Guard members report to florida on friday. Back to puerto rico. 500 buildings across that island being turned into Emergency Response centers. Florida keys primarying to evacuate tourists and residents starting today. All over florida, people stocking up and finding empty store shelves. Long gas lines as well. In miami homeowners filling sandbags and several sporting events have been canceled or relocated because of the potential threat. One of those games could move here to philadelphia. Report from the nfl network says the link or field in pittsburgh could host the game between tampa and miami. Nbc 10 is sending crews to florida to bring you the very latest on the storm. Coming up at 6 30. Live report of how irma is impacting travel here in philadelphia and beyond. You can count on nbc 10 for updates on air and nbc 10 app. 6 04. Leader of a philadelphia dance troop for kids is charged with sexually assaulting children in his organization. Police say the abuse went on for nearly a decade. Nbc 10 is live outside special victims in hunting park with a story. Randy, tell us what you know. Special victims detectives working this case. Yesterday Philadelphia Police announced the charges against him. Leader of a popular dance troop in west philly now facing charges of sexual assault. Im the ceo and founder of dollar boys. Largest Entertainment Youth Group in the tristate area. This is him on his website. Found this video of him promoting the philadelphia dance troop describing it as a Youth Led Movement that attracts thousands of kids age 1117, but Philadelphia Police allege he sexually assaulted children over the course of a decade. Latest case back in june. Cases stretching back all the way to 2008. Neighbors who know the suspect say it comes as a complete shock. He always had a lot of kids with him. He was irma one time he was starting up a group. A dance group as a kid and felt like he was very successful at it. He was doing video and dance groups. So seems like a really nice guy as far as i can tell. If congress does not act on fixing deferred action for childhood arrivals he will revisit the issue. Protects immigrants who came to the u. S. As children. Known as dreamers. Decision to end the program could impact nearly 800,000 people. Supporters of the move call daca unconstitutional. People on the other side of the debate call the decision cruel, cold hearted and short sided. People filled the square to show support for the dreamers who could soon be deported. We grew up here. Every single day from Elementary School we got up, put our hands on our hearts and said the pledge of allegiance every single morning. We dont know none of us have gone back to our countries. Former president obama calls the decision cruel. Self defeating and against common sense. Rereleased a statement that reads in part today that shadow has been cast over some of our best and brightest people once again to target these young people is wrong. They have done nothing wrong. Now to nbc 10 follow up. Philadelphia police have now identified 22yearold monique mcnooiknight as the driver who plowed her car in a block party on monday. Facing dui charges. Nine people including Senior Citizens and a pregnant woman were hurt. All are expected to be okay. Crews are expected to make repairs after a broken water main. Sky force ten over the scene. King of prussia yesterday. See the water pooling there after the street caved in. Water service has been restored to customers who lost water after the break. 69 degrees. Just heard heavy showers over the studio here. Its wet across most of the area. Take a live look at a wet broad street. Find out whats to come with first alert meteorologist krystal klei. Most accurate forecast for your neighborhood. Just a few minutes ago. Said it was going to move into center city. See the live picture. Ban of heaviest rain here. Lower merion to center city. We heard it on top of building just minutes ago pounding the area. The heaviest looks like its falling right over parts of center city here. Going to start to move along the northeast. Areas going to be next to see this heaviest rain. Say in the next 1520 minutes. One pocket of heavy rain to the next one. Thunderstorms as well. Down over Cape May County and Atlantic County. All getting a good keel of rain right now. Falling at about an inch per hour. Not lasting in one location for an hour. Might see minor Little Pockets of flooding. Bottom of the storm drain fills up and going to drain off quickly. Moving so fast around the area. Cloudy with spot showers. Not getting heaviest area of rain moving through new jersey and philadelphia. Back to School Forecast though definitely something the kids need an umbrella. Not going to warm much at all today. Maybe a light jacket. Upper 60s this morning and afternoon. Forecasting the high around lunchtime into the low 70s in philly today. On off rain. Spot thunderstorms are likely this morning and this afternoon. In the suburbs, 66 at 9 00 a. M. Low to some mid 60s in the lehigh valley. Highs again only going to make it to the upper 60sed and thats all for today. And the clouds, rain, the cool air from the front, in delaware. Notice upper 60s this morning and afternoon. Were at 79 a. M. In new jersey. At the shore, 73 degrees. A little pelttle peek of sun. Fairly cloudy today with the rain moving by. Coming up, talk more about Hurricane Irma. See you then. Ten minutes past 6 00 a. M. On wednesday. I think the weather clearly has an effect on the roads as well. Slippery. Got to slow down. Flashing lights. Jessica boyington has first alert on traffic. Were watching the schuylkill expressway. Barely moving on the westbound side because of crash here. Our camera just around gladwyne. Two Police Officers on the scene as well as the accident scene in general. Watching traffic merge together on the westbound side. Traffic moving towards the king of prussia area. Moving very slowly as you can see. Just kind of merging one lane. Everything blocked there september for righthand shoulder. Starting to see a little bit of a gaper delay and slowdown on the eastbound side. Traffic on the westbound is backed up past city avenue now. Check in with drive times in a minute. Also hearing reports of an accident on 295 near barrington near the black horse pike. Camera were looking at here. From the northbound side. Might not be over here. Might be a little bit south of this camera. Either way, not seeing any delays anywhere yet. Just a headsup theres another crash heading out the door too on the northbound side. Traffic moving torle ing toward end with that. Keep our eyes on this crash. When i come back, check in with drive times from the schuylkill. Thank you. Disneys new production of aladen is sparking a debate about race. New character getting backlash. Road to recovery. Harvey victims made the long trek through texas to begin lives here in texas. How local animal lovers are going a step further to save even more. Been trying to prepare for this day. And im still not ready. The reason im telling you this is that there will be moments in your life that. Youll never be ready for. Your little girl getting married being one of them. 6 15. Heavy rain moving into philadelphia. Take a lootca center. All across philadelphia showing lightning over the last couple of minutes. Heavy downpours here. New from overnight. Four vans filled with Hurricane Harvey mallest victims arrived in chester county. Hope to find forever homes. Now locals going one step further to help out. Nbc Pamela Osborne live for us. Story for us to this morning. Labor of love. Yes. Earlier this morning, 27 cats and dogs arrived here to the shelter and despite that long ride. A 36 drive up from texas we saw quite a few wagging tails once the vans finally came to a stop here at new temporary home. Now you may be wondering why these animals were brought here in texas. The reason is this, a lot of people were forced to leave their homes and pets behind because of the floodwaters hav subsided, those pets are being rescued and housed at local shelters until families are able to claim them. Many people able to return to homes and living out of hotels. Brandy wine spca stepping up to take in adopted animals from texas so lk after family pets and other rescues, but thats not all theyre doing to help. Deploy down to houston. Helping in two different locations. One asked from best Friends Animal Society to help set up new temporary shelter to hold up tow 1,000 animals in that location to help with a lot of overflow. Also going to help a small shelter in the southern part below houston right on the gulf coast there. Still getting secondary flooding. They have a lot of need to help manage intake and medical processes. Take a look at this. One of the guys who helped drive the animals up from texas has already decided to adopt one. He named this little guy trap. They bonded on the way and he is so looking forward to bringing him home. You can bring one of these animals home as well as. All you have to do is contact the shelter. They say if you have any other dogs at home right now. You can also bring them in. Do a little meet and greet. Expecting people to come in and check on the animals you can even bring one home the same day if it works out. Definitely come by and help when you adopt an animal. Clears space so more animals can come and be here at the shelter. Reporting live in westchester. Pamela osborne. Nbc 10 news. So much help coming into houston. They need much more. Beyonce wants to host a star studded teleon thisthon. 6 18. Get you to work or school. Heading out the door. Need your umbrella. Thats for starters. Check in with jessica boyington. Who is looking at the schuylkill and gladwyne. Yes, approaching gladwyne in camera here. Closer to belmont avenue right now. What youre dealing with when youre heading out the door because of a crash at gladwyne on the westbound side. Westbound traffic you can see the offramp right there around belmont completely dead stop. Traffic barely moving at all. Check in with drive times too. Eastbound side looks better. Westbound look at this. 57 minutes. Take you an hour to do a trip that typically takes you about 15 minutes or so. Specially in the beginning of the rush right now. Pretty big delay right now. From the vine to the blue route. Average speeds lower than the teens right now. We headed back towards that central area where youre running towards the 42 freeway. Watching that and checking back with the the schuylkill when i come back in ten. 69 degrees outside. Live look outside. Thats our camera from the Adventure Aquarium looking over the river at the skyline. You really cant make out the top of the building right now. Also the camera weve been seeing lightning strikes on. Yes. Weve got low clouds and got the rain all hindering visibility there and through many spots around the philadelphia neighborhood. Thats the issue. Take a look at radar and satellite. Starting wide. Show you pretty big area of rain passing by our area. The reason it is still over us is theres a front, a cold front, and kind of stalled over us. Thats means this rain is going to continue to pump over the direction until the front starts to move on which isnt until later today. And into tonight. On the radar and satellite. Thunderstorms as a result of that front. Kind of boundary sitting right over head. You know, this is philly and down all the way to Atlantic County. Take a look at Atlantic County here. Still heavy rain in Cape May County. Pocket of thunderstorm and lightning moving through. Little to the north. Thunderstorm weve been tracking. Was in parts of lower merion. Heavy rain in the valley as well. Move along to northeast. Next up Lower Bucks County for heaviest rain moving through. Hour by hour model. Going to show off on and off periods of rain. Spot thunderstorms as well throughout the day. Not a constant rain. There you go through 1 00 p. M. Steady rain is to the north. Kind of continues down to 5 30. I95 corridor. You think its the end. Not quite yet. More rain this evening as well. 8 30. Steady rain over delaware and south jersey. Possibly a few more thunderstorms and early a. M. Hours of thursday. And finally to start to clear out around 7 00 a. M. Linger light showers possible. Good news by thursday afternoon, i think well see sunshine out there. Lets look right now at conditions. Were at 69 degrees in philadelphia. 64 in the pennsylvania suburbs. Too dark on this camera. Looks like to show the location at 64 in new jersey. 66 for the lehigh valley. 68 in delaware. All these Gray Pictures rain coming down over various locations throughout our neighborhood. Thats current conditions. Look at our highs. They dont change much at all. Low 70s for philly. Probably only mid to upper 60s throughout the lehigh valley. Switching gears now. Tracking the tropics. Wide satellite imagery i want to show you. Because we are very closely watching Hurricane Irma. Making over the leeward island. Track north of puerto rico. Check this out. Tropical storm sitting right off the mexico coastline. Likely to go into mexico. Another Tropical Storm fired up. Tropical storm jose just behind irma and likely to take the exact same path. The Leeward Islands may have a similar issue before it will likely start to spin up to the north. Several situations in the tropics. Models keeping irma moving just to the north of puerto rico and Dominican Republic. Models are more consistently pulling it quickly to the north of cuba instead of delaying that turn. That means theres a better possibility this storm will brush up against the eastern coastline of florida as it attempts to make land fall. Thanks for the update. 622. Back to school. Book reports are coming. Educators say Old Fashioned real life books are better tools despite digital takeover. Fraternity suspended. Problem that has a school year off to rocky start. Today is the first day of school for freshman. Older students report tomorrow. Wont be long before teachers will start assigning projects or book reports. Some students rely heavily on internet for research, libraries are both to help with digital and hands on resources. Workers at Upper Merion Library offer test prep classes. And use launch pad. Tablet focuses on vocabulary, math and trivia. Hands on resources can help younger students sort the facts. Its so difficult to find credible Information Online and a lot of younger children cant discern what is an accurate resource. Test prep books are popular. Students tend to learn better from the real thing. Well be right back. Irma makes land fall. Breaking overnight. Came ashore in the islands. Beginning a path of destruction to the u. S. Corruption trial for new jerseys senior center. Threatening a bigger impact in washington. Meal mission. Local universities explore new techniques to help feed students who cant afford to feed themselves. Lets get right to meteorologist krystal klei. Details with the most accurate first alert neighborhood forecast. We are looking at rain thats moving through parts of our area right now. Few of those embedded thunderstorms. That means rain across this whole area. Only a couple of thunderstorms popping up. One of which has just moved out of philadelphia. And now moving to bucks county. Progressing half hour by half hour through each county. Trying to move out in another hour through this area. Then well have more rounds of rain on and off throughout the rest of today. Which means the more spot thunderstorms will be possible. In fact, look at the next several hours. Model giving us a spot storm around 9 00 a. M. And rain at lunchtime. Also notice the temperature doesnt budge throughout all of our morning time and i think the afternoon too. Well talk more about the rest of our neighborhood temperatures today compared to the days to come in just a bit. Right now traffic with jessica boyington. Traffic at a complete stand still. Right now drive time is 16 minutes. At this point, usually this time of the morning, we dont really see a drive time like this at all. Typically be about a 20 minute trip or so. About an hour take you westbound from the vine street expressway. If youre moving from center city to the blue route and if youre heading down the vine too. Back up delays there too. Right now 12mileperhour average speed. Not even in the teens anymore. Most of that westbound side. Delaware street exit 21. Vai and tracie, back to you. 633 right now catastrophic and devastating. Grim prediction from puerto ricos governor as the island nation prepares for Hurricane Irma to roar through later today. Texas size storm made first land fall in the caribbean overnight. Now on path headed to florida. See the drastic change. Plane crosses from the store vp storm to the calm of the hurricane eye. Now irma is the most powerful Atlantic Ocean storm ever recorded. New video of early damage from the caribbean. Now florida, puerto rico and the u. S. Virgin islands all under a state of emergency. Officials in the florida keys doing mandatory evacuations for visitors starting today and residents starting tomorrow. Matt, travelers are scrambling to get out of harms way. And some of them have been fortunate enough to get out of there recently as last night. If you are heading to the caribbean or southern florida over the next few days, you might want the check on those flights and status of that. A lot of cancellations to the caribbean. Seen already. So far for southern florida. We have not seen much in the way of cancellations just yet. Not a good idea to travel towards the caribbean right now. Seen many travelers happy to get out of that area. And back home to philadelphia. Flight came in from puerto rico last night. Passengers changed plans and cut vacation short. Take a listen to those who cut vacation short because of whats turning in the atlantic. We feel bad for all our new friends there and watching them board the windows. It was scary. Yesterday we tried to get flights back home. They were all sold out. Just a lot of people at the airport today trying to get off the island. And if you or your loved ones have plans to head in the area or come back from the area. Some of the airlinesky waving change fees in certain circumstances and i also just tweeted out a list of tips and advice for you if you are heading to southern florida to disney. Have a cruise that is scheduled. Some tips from tipple a mid atlantic what you should look out for in the coming days if you have travel plans. If youre flying out, good idea check the flight status and check it often. For now live at philly international. Now to the latest on where irma is headed next. Meteorologist krystal klei back with that. The path is starting to come into focus a little bit here. Over the weekend saying by wednesday, thursday, of this week we should have a better idea of the impact for the u. S. Before we talk about that, i want to show off the satellite imagery coming in off irma right now. The eye of the storm look at the proximity to saint marten. Currently in the process of making a land fall over saint marten. This is the next island to see devastation. Seeing reports that some web cameras available in this area have totally crashed out and no longer available likely due to the strength of the wind. 185mileperhour winds we see here. The movement is to the west, northwest at 16 miles per hour. Now lets talk track. This is the updated track came in just about an hour and change ago. To the north of puerto rico likely to cause serious damage to puerto rico as well as parts of haiti and Dominican Republic thursday early friday morning. Still 160mileperhour winds. Category five hurricane. Hooking just to the north of cube saturday and this is a little different from previous model runs. Starting to trend a little more to the east. As it makes that north run. So as a category four potentially by sunday into monday a land fall over southern florida. Some models pulling it further east. Still time for this to change. Focus on the cone here. See a close call for land fall very near miami. More updates on this as they become available. All right. Thank you. Nbc 10 is sending crews to florida to bring you the latest on the storm. Telemundo 64. Will be there monitoring the storm that beers down on florida. Stay with nbc 10 on air and online for the updates. 6 37. Happening today the corruption trial is scheduled to begin for new jersey senator bob menendez. Lawyers are expected to make Opening Statements today. Menendez is accused of accepting expensive vacations and Campaign Donations from a florida eye doctor in exchange for political favors. He is the first u. S. Senator to face bribery charges in more than four decades. Because of the trial, the democratic could miss key votes on the senate floor. It is 6 38 and while were a lot of people throughout the country concerned about irma. Were looking at this this morning. The rain this morning over the roof here. I need to mention that i just got a message on twitter. Someone said you need to stay away from the window with lightning. This isnt really a window. You know that, right. Thats a camera looking at center city. Correct, but its a live camera and boy has it shown us a lightning show. That is right. Revealing our secrets. Live camera behind you. Wanted to go back to radio and satellite imaginery. In the process of making another land fall. Appears over saint marten. The white is the cloud top. The coldest area with the strongest winds that wrap right around the eye wall. This is the area of major concern that we are watching as it starts to make land fall again over saint marten. Now talk about current concerns. Start with rain right on over philadelphia. More of a light to steady rain now. Heaviest pockets mufd into Lower Bucks County and about to move to Mercer County. Oved into Lower Bucks County and about to move to Mercer County. Lightning associated with this. Drop further south. What you see is we started to clear out of Cape May County. Heaviest storm is now moving from Atlantic County. Galloway township. Just checking on rainfall. About an inch, inch natural per hour. Good news is its not staying in just one spot for an hour. Not going to get those kind of totals. Nonetheless, very heavy rain and will continue to move up and along the coastline here. May start to see rain as well starting to impact the area. Lets look at the rain moving through. Its still kind of patchy and that will be the case the rest of today. On off rain and spot thunderstorms. Coming up in a few minutes looking at future model and track out when the rain exits the region all together. Thank you, lets get a check of traffic. Looks like the schuylkill tied up. Jessica boyington watching that. We had a complete stand still almost on the westbound side of the schuylkill expressway approaching the crash around gladwyne. A little bit closer terror camera around belmont avenue right now. 61 minutes for total drive time. Usually about a 25 minute trip. Add that much to your morning commute westbound to the vine street expressway. Moving from center city to the blue route. Going to get stuck. Back up all the way on the vine street expressway too. Westbound traffic right now moving towards king of prussia. Anywhere on the westbound side youre going to run into this. Speeds are even dropping if that was possible down to 11 miles per hour. Off the offramp, everything stuck. Just crawling for right now. Just around the avenue overpass. Traffic is still moving on the westbound side. Were getting a little bit of a creep on that drive time. For the most part okay. Watching for jackknifed tractortrailer. Hearing this is over into the woods. Thoracic is still getting by the scene. Just near delaware street. Exit 21. Disney under fire. Why the entertainment giant is getting backlash for casting a white actor for new production. Students at local colleges are getting a helping hand as they move back to class. How to feed students struggling to stay afloat. Im danny. Youre danny . Im steve. Joseph, im steve. How are you . Nice to meet you sir. No different from everyone else. They just want a job. They want respect and they want dignity. Steve called fairly frantic. You know, he had a premature baby and i think he had just been given the diagnosis that she had down syndrome. Lauren brought out the best in me. She made me a different person. Laurens the spark that started the fire. The goal is keep places like this open so all people, regardless of disability, have an opportunity for employment. Quarter of seven this wednesday morning. Heavy pockets of rain moving through the area. See the Comcast Center here. A lot of low clouds in center city this morning. More wet weather moving through the area. Forecast for your neighborhood coming up with crystkrystal klea few minutes. Take a look at this video from texas. Suspect locked in the back seat of a Police Cruiser slips out of handcuffs and waits for the cops to turn around and climbs in front of the vehicle and takes off. Hits the gas. Cops flying everywhere. Theyre chasing their own vehicle. Shes all over the road. Gets offroad a bit at times. About 20 minutes after the chase began. She lost control of the vehicle and was arrested. Wow. Lets take you state by state and county by county for a look at stories across our area. In the lehigh valley, two fraternities on temporary suspension at Lehigh University this morning. Too many alcohol incidents already. Temporary suspensions are the results of a crackdown on drugs and drinking. Excessive drinking can leave them more vulnerable to injury, sexual assault, extremely reckless behavior and even death. And now to delaware county. Police in upper darby need your help to find the person who abused these two dogs. They were found at the park. Officials say they were used in dog fighting and below half their normal body weight. Both are being treated. Theres a 500 reward for information leading to arrest and conviction. Jersey shore consider proposal to rename a street in Atlantic City in honor of late form mayor gym way landjim whel group will look at Public Safety and Cyber Security and legal issues. Economic impact. Delawares governor says 90 of traffic accidents are because of drivers. If that number could improve with driverless vehicles, it would be, quote, tremendous progress. Fans of the disney animated classic aladen hitting twitter upset over casting choices. Din upset over casting choices. Main complaint hes being played by a white actor dispute the routes of middle east and south asia. Star wars movie in need of a new director. Kicked out of job on the set of Star Wars Episode nine film. Scheduled to be released in 2019. We have a winner. Yes. We can now tell you about. Nbc 10 asked fans of the smash hit this is us to tell us why you love the show so much. We picked the grand prize winner. At the end of the day when push comes to shove, i love my family and brothers and this show connects me at an emotional level. I wouldnt be half the man i am without them. Thank you for creating such an incredible show to help us connect. Im really close to my siblings. Sure does. Huge congratulations to james from chester county. Heading to los angeles for the season two premier party. This is us premiers on september 26 only on nbc 10. James, take a lot of pictures. We want to see your pictures when you get back. Absolutely. Lets show you a live picture now of broad street. Going to be a wet morning and wet day. Get you details on when well eventually dry out. Krystal klei watching most accurate forecast. Lets look at radar and satellite. Rain rolling through the area. Heaviest rain wasnt philly. Now the heaviest rain has moved to the northeast. Start with pocket of thunderstorm sitting right now to the north of Atlantic City and tracking right along the coastline. Galloway township and moving towards areas like ship bottom. Lightning associated with this. Best to be indoors if you can while that passes. Then we got a little area of thunderstorms as well moving through Mercer County and bucks county. Buckingham. Looking at heavier rain. Trenton as well. These are the spots of thunderstorms. Rest light to steady rain falling. Not all of us seeing rain at this point. Throughout the day, were pretty much all seeing periods of on rain, offrain. Spot thunderstorm moves out. R spot thunderstorm moves out. Showing us steadier rain starting to hit the area. Maybe breaks of rain further south. That doesnt last for long. Go from 35 00 p. M. Extends down 95 corridor. That doesnt last for long either. Next round of rain, 8 30. Tracks along and out. One last round of rain in the overnight hours brings a few thunderstorms as well before we finally start to clear things around your thursday morning. Thursday afternoon may even see a little sunshine mixing with the clouds. 72 degrees in center city today. Really going to be no warmup today. A lot of clouds. Ryan falling throughout the day. And cool air moving behind a cold front. 70 in lansdale. 70 in trenton. 74 Atlantic City and low 70s as well over delaware with rain continuing through. Heres the good news. As we dry out thursday, things really good for your weekend. Saturday and sunday. Will be cooler than average. Low 70s. 71 saturday. 73 sunday. Look at this. Mostly sunny. Sunny conditions. And across all of the neighborhoods. Plenty of sunshine out there. Tracking irma with one computer model shows us the euro keeps it just to the north of puerto rico and north of the rest of the islands it tracks by. Watch this now hooking up against the atlantic coastline of florida. For potential impact there. More updates throughout the day. Nine minutes before seven. A lot of backups today. Look at the schuylkill. Now 95. Were looking over there at the monitor be behind you jessica. Doesnt look good. 95 and cottman. Believe it or not, still better than the schuylkill expressway. Get there in a second. 95 around cottman avenue. Vehicle has spun out and lost control a little bit up ahead. Seeing massive delaying approaching the scene there. 31 minutes on the southbound side for the drive time. Woodhaven road to that point. Average speeds dropping to 20s too. Everything is pretty slow. Speaking of the schuylkill. I said i would get to that. Bad news here. Westbound crash around gladwyne thats been pretty much snarling traffic the last hour or so. 67 minutes right now. Still climbing. Were not getting better. Speeds are dropping still. Almost into the Single Digits from the vine street expressway. To the blue route and even see were starting to get slow on the eastbound side. Montgomeriville watch for the crash. Tractortrailer off to the shoulder. 295 northbound side around delaware street just near exit 21. Traffic should be getting by right now. If not, take new jersey turnpike as alternate. Happening today, manner college open brand new campus food pantry. Called a bird feed. Combination of an idea brought up by the student senate. Collected hundreds of nonperishable items to stock up. Pantry meets a growing need of College Students who are not sure if they can afford their next meal. Issue people have is they want to go to school they can get financial aide for that, but not necessarily get aide for food and toiletries. Most of the donations have come from faculty and also the staff. However the pantry will get bred donation from panera and wawa gave a campuses all across the country addressing this issue. Bucks county college starting a pantry. Stockton has a Meal Voucher Program for students in need. Both temple and new jersey are exploring pantry ideas. Headlines were following for you today. Includes the latest on Hurricane Irma. Straight ahead, the impact on travelers and projected path through the caribbean. If youd have told me three years ago. That w whused to take. Minutes. That guests would compliment our wifi. That we could video conference. 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Florida, puerto rico, Virgin Islands all under state of emergency. Evacuation in the florida keys begin today and evacuations on florida mainland could be announced today as well. Irma is cancelling flights here at Philadelphia International airport. Flight came in from puerto rico last fight carrying passengers who cut vacation short. Some Airlines Offering to weigh change fees. Coverage of Hurricane Irma continues on the today show in just a few minutes. Live in florida where people are preparing for the worst. Today in new jersey, the corruption trial is scheduled to begin for senator bob menendez. Accused of accepting expensive donations and Campaign Donations from a florida eye doctor in exchange for political favors. Plan to announce reward money to help crack a cold case murder of mother and sixyearold son. Both victims found stabbed to death in maple shade apartment in march. Happening today in delaware. Announce next step to fighting opioid crisis. Based on needs study that looks at treatment needs in the state. Jersey shore, prelims begin for the 97 misamerica paejt tonight. Maybe dvr in case i have to get up super early for work. Watching the schuylkill. Around city line avenue. Watching here at a stand still now. 78 minutes to drive time. Climbing because of earlier crash around gladwyne. Vine to blue route. Speeds are down into the Single Digits. Now nine miles an hour. Schuylkill westbound towards conshohocken big delays all the way past and to the vine street expressway. Lets take a look at ten day on ten. Today only a high of 72 degrees. May hit around noon. Little cooler in the afternoon. And steady in and out rain today with thunderstorms. We will stay cooler than average only those mid 70s to low 70s through the workweek and weekend, but the good news is after today, we start drying out and this weekend looks great. Sunny to mostly sunny. That means everything. And keeping an eye on irma. Absolutely. Updating as soon as new updates come to us. Everybody bring umbrellas. Hope so. You can use mine. Local updates throughout the morning on the nbc 10 app. Thanks for watching. Good morning. Breaking overnight, roaring ashore. Hurricane irma makes landfall in the caribbean a catastrophic category 5, with 185mileperhour winds. The atlantics most powerful storm ever. Florida residents waing for what could be a direct hit. Do not sit and wait to prepare. Get prepared now. Were live throughout the storm zone. Dream revoked. Donald trump has got to go. New protests ranging coasttocoast, after the white house rescinds a controversial immigration program. President trump defending his decision. . A i have a great heart for e