little encouragement maybe to tell the senior citizens in your neighborhood to get to a local senior center, the closest in this neighborhood is at 41st and poplar. i m rosemary connors, nbc 10 news. you step outside, you feel it. we are in day eight of a heat wave. change is in the air. big changes coming our way. so far it is still hot as the heat and humidity leave us simmering. these people are looking for a sea breeze along the atlantic city boardwalk today. nbc 10 first alert chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz is tracking some rain. and a break in the heat, we hope, right? yeah, that s right. they didn t get the break with the sea breeze at the shore today because it was a land breeze and it was every bit as hot right at the beaches. we ve got a lot of sunshine. we ve had that during the day today. that helped push the temperature up. we have gotten into the 90s once again. we started this last tuesday with 93 degrees. we had three straight days of 9
into the river. reporter: across the river from burlington is bristol borough, pennsylvania. over here there are no signs telling you not to go in the water. in fashgts tonl warning isfact, the only warning is about these rocks. the borough is now considering changes especially after the family of marqueese richardson spent days looking for his body which surfaced while his family was talking with nbc 10. here we go right here. it s tragic. reporter: these signs may not change everyone s mind about going in. there is always one bonehead who will think i m a good swimmer, i can do it. reporter: at least they will have a fair warning. drew smith, nbc 10 news. this summer s scorching temperatures have killed a 64-year-old man and an 88-year-old woman in philadelphia. that s why neighborhood block captains are reminding residents now is the time to check on the elderly. nbc 10 spent the afternoon with alice wright of west philadelphia. she s the founder of the unite
i dispose of them. what do you mean, rest of them? i got five or six other kids i did. reporter: he admits he was working as a prostitute at the time and says butcavage was a repeat client. he says he told police about what he had seen and authorities launched an investigation into abo butvavage. six years later he pleaded to numerous sex crime charges against numerous boys. he remains in prison. during a renewed push in june to solve the himebaugh mystery, investigators confirm to nbc 10 butcavage is one of several persons of interest in mark s disappearance from middle township. i have been to the grand jury, i ve testified in camden for the feds. reporter: he decided to speak publicly for the first time after our series of reports on the himebaugh case in the past few months. he also says he s terminally ill. i just need people to know the truth, you know? reporter: middle township police are confident the man we interviewed is the same former prostitute who trig
philadelphia, south philadelphia right now is 76 degrees. most of the rest of the area is running cooler 71 in millville where the humidity is still elevated right now. there s drier air working in from the northwest and that has allowed the temperatures to come down from reading to pottstown into the 60s. also in trenton. a nice day ahead. yes, a break from the heat wave. 75 degrees with clouds at 6:00. by 9:00 we ll start to see those clouds thin out and with bright sunshine at noontime 86 degrees. look at the wind that starts to pick up as we go through the morning. that wind will be stronger this afternoon. that s the drier, more comfortable air coming in for the afternoon hours. your neighborhood by neighborhood forecast when i come back in ten minutes. but right now, let s check in with jessica boyington with your first alert traffic. we re looking live right now at 95 around girard avenue. this is typically where we see tons of volume the first spot in the morning ho
traffic around the area for now. on 295 in new jersey we re working through the work zone where we re losing out that left-hand lane. move the camera. there s active work zone crew up there but still a 13-minute drive time southbound from 38 up towards this point at the black horse pike. moving forward to the 42 freeway, everything is moving along, a five-minute drive time you re headed up to the philadelphia area and the walt whitman bridge. currently no problem on the walt. the tac pal is fine the ben is clear. we re losing two right-hand lanes due to ongoing construction headeding westbound in philadelphia. we ll have an update for you in ten minutes on mass transit. for now, we get a check on today s forecast with bill henley. temperatures climb back into the 80s this afternoon. we won t see the 90s. it s a cooler start this morning. look at the 60s for pottstown, doylestown, 74 degrees right now in philadelphia. and 70 in northeast philadelphia. a cooler start this mor