Construction on an off ramp off the schuylkill expressway. Around Spring Garden street you can see right here road closed signs. We have no access to the schuylkill expressway westbound from the Spring Garden ramp. Eastbound access is okay. They do have local detours posted around the area. This will be out there until at least august 4th for right now. They are going to have to plan your trip accordingly. If you dont follow the local4z stbound 13 minutes from the blue route up towards the vine street expressway. Pretty much the same going westbound towards the king of prussia area as well. 202 cars are green and moving. 11 minutes northbound or southbound up towards the schuylkill expressway. Area bridges doing just fine so far this morning. Waltman bridge is clear and so is the ben. Two lanes blocked headed westbound into the city. One of our regions longest serving congressmen indicted. Chaka fattah is accused of participating in schemes and years of illegal activity. 29count indict
Tries to explain himself to his patients. And there is crying in baseball. New york mets player shedding tears on the field after being told he was traded. Why it was all a big and emotional mix up. Today, thursday, july 30th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning everyone. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. I dont usually watch a box of tissue when watching a baseball game there is crying in baseball. Reference to league of their own. This is a touching story. Well tell you more about the new york mets player in awhile. What appears to be a piece of wreckage from Malaysia Airlines off the coast of madagascar. That is 4,000 miles from the planes last known position. Tom costello has been covering this from the beginning. Reporter good morning. The australian command center is not surprised that the debris washed ashore so far from the search zone. Thats consistent with ocean modellin
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
Line. You can see by 5 09 moving toward millville. 5 26 toms river. Atlantic city within the next hour and because of the heavy rainfall take look at the areas highlighted in green. That is an aerial flood advisory mainly for ponding on the roadways until about 7 45. So watch out for your evening commute. So as we go hour with hour you can see that heavy rain continues pushing into south jersey. Still raining outside of our studios here at fourth and market. The main timeing now through about six 7 00 oclock south and east of philadelphia. Follow me on twitter and facebook for updates. Well talk much more about how long yes our third heat wave will last. We officially hit 90 degrees today. How long to expect 90degree temperatures coming up. All right, scott, thank you. You can stay prepared for any weather that rolls through your neighborhood by downloading our fox 29 news app. You can see live radar images and have weather alerts sent to your phone download the app for free in the app