Holiday travel is expected to break records. More than 100 million americans traveling this weekend and that headaches are to the over yet. For some just getting to the airport turn out to be major hassle. Plenty of people crowding the terminals there as flight traffic sores. And if you didnt take off just yet, well, the weather could possibly slow you down. Thanks for joining us tonight. Im dawn timmeney. Lots of cars cruising down the highway tonight as we countdown to christmas. Tonight we have team cove covere for you. Lets begin with brad sattin who has all your traffic frustrations and delays. Heres the good news as far as air traffic today, this is the busiest air travel day and the general consensus across the country were hearing not so b bad. Air traffic travel was okay. How about the roads, were above the schuylkill expressway here. It is 11 00 oclock. Everything seems to be moving just fine. We know about 30 of us will travel 50 miles or more. We also know that gas prices a
Headaches well theyre not over yet. And for some just getting to the airport a major hassle. Packs of people and the terminals as flight traffic sores. And if you didnt take off just yet, well, the weather just might slow you down. Thanks for joining us tonight. Im chris oconnell. Im dawn timmeney. Plenty of cars cruising down the highway. Kind of a christmas site with all those lights. We have team coverage. Meteorologist Scott Williams is tracking hiccups in your holiday forecast. Lets start with brad sattin who has all your traffic frustrations and delays, brad. Reporter Holiday Travel by plane, train and automobile. We know 30 of us will travel 5e of the next week or so. If you are driving, the bad news is, that gas prices theyre up about 24 cents compared to last christmas, and if you are uflying, youll be one of about 800,000 people passing through Philadelphia International airport through january 1st. Today we had chance to meet few them. Reporter dwayne and riley finally made
Falling here lifting north to the poconos. South and east, mainly cloudy skies and mist and drizzle. This is the first of several rounds that will push through throughout the duration of the day. The Lehigh Valley northwestern suburbs, upper bucks, montgomery county. Green lane, easton, moderate rain. The farther south you go, it lightens up in intensity. Well see several rounds as the day progresses. For today, cloudy skies, mild and damp. 59 degrees for the city of philadelphia. Some locations maybe as warm as 62 or 63 especially in south jersey and delaware. Places like millville, cape may, dover, probably hitting 62 to 63. Breezy, as will, winds out of the west at 10 to 20 miles per hour. Temperaturewise watch how the numbers drop off. 59 by 2. There is our 60 or close to it. The bottom drops out, 11 00 p. M. , 40. Tomorrow morning were waking up with temperatures close to freeze. Windchills in the 20s. What to expect a quarter to half inch of rape turning colder tonight and light
Swamp road. In Montgomery County, police on the scene at the intersection, kind of flagging traffic, look, right in front of the gas station there, the luke oil. So just be careful. Roads are wet this morning, everything is slippery over here in new jersey, a pedestrian struck, route 73, so anyone leaving maple shade or philadelphia trying to get down toward 295 youre pushed off waverly road rye thereby the burger king, then go over to church road, make left that will put you back on at fellowshipment looks like some folks going through this what used to be used car business here, kind of going through their parking lot. But it is the southbound side of 73 closed and the fog really thick up here between the northeast extention quakertown interchange and called way up to the poconos. Mike and alex back over to you. Course the big story in the country is this mass shooting at an american high school. This time it happened in parkplanned florida 17 people are dead after a gunman opened fi
Good day, everybody, it is friday, february 23rd, 2018. It is not going to be a perfect weather weekend certainly. But there are plenty of fun things to do it last weekend of february, five out of 10, yeah, yucky out there but bus stop buddy is still smiling partly because the flyers and sixers both won last night so we have got a warm coat on, because temperatures are in the 30s, upper 30s, so it is only rain but it is i chilly rain out there and in a few places, heavy rain, especially salem county, Gloucester County in new jersey getting those heavier downpours right now. For us annoying rain 37 degrees. Factor in the wind and it feels like 29. Make sure you wear that warm coat because it hasnt been that cold all week. Winter weather advisory little later on, well, starting now through 1 00 for carbon and Monroe County for possibility of freezing rain but for the rest of us there are showers, 42 by lunchtime High Temperature in the upper 40s later on, bob kelly. You got it, sueby. 7