Ago, the storm brought down this large branch. Local Power Companies also reporting several thousand outages. And the windshield wiper are going there, a rainy commute for drivers,s in in delaware county, be careful on the roads too many. The First Alert Weather Team is following these storms. Lets get the latest from krystal klei. This is just really starting to come down now into philadelphia, Montgomery County as well. We are under a severe thunderstorms watch across the entire area, but specifically in philadelphia, now under a warning, which means it is happening and it will continue to happen as it moves from west to east. Lets take a closer look in, right now through philadelphia. You see just on the edge of the county line, these deep reds, yellows, oranges, thats the heaviest rain thats falling, in some areas more than 2 inches per hour. It certainly is enough to dump a half inch to an inch of rain over the areas. In the right against the county line, but moving this direction
When you head out the door you might be detoured. Watching the pa turnpike for construction here. Eastbound side between north side is closed. Not affecting drive time. Jury is in place in the federal case against Seth Williams today trial begins with opening statements. Katy zachry live at center court. What will reporter to start off, i want to tell you a jury and alternate medical school in this high profile federal Corruption Case made of mostly women. Two men chosen yesterday to serve on this jury. Seth williams was confidence when he walked into the courtroom. Hes accused of taking gifts in exchange for favors from him. The 50yearold has denied the charges and remains District Attorney during the trial. He is not running for reelection. This is a high profile case. Presented the first problem for lawyers yesterday as they picked the jury. What matters is that you dont want to get people who have already prejudged the case, that have read about it in the newspaper, that have watch
We will be heating up. Humidity will be dropping. Nice breeze blows in for last day of spring. Whats blowing out, at the shores. Cleared out for wilmington, redding, allentown. If i sprinkles. Watching the poconos moving out quickly too. Heading out the door, need sunglasses. Leave the umbrella at home. 66 degrees at the suburbs. Nice and sunny view from king of prussia. Pruss prussia. Winds will come in out of the west. Humidity goes lower and lower as the afternoon progresses. Westerly winds, nice warmup not only for inland new jersey, but also at the shore. Temperatures in the low 80s. 86 degrees for philadelphia this afternoon. Ill walk you through it hour by hour with the future cast when i come back in ten minutes. First, Jessica Boyington has your first alert traffic. Were watching construction. This is to start over in wilmington. Where were watching 495 in both directions moving through wilmington where were seeing some delays. Right now more of a clay on the northbound side.
Latest developments in the murders of four men in bucks county. The lawyer of the man detained in the case said he had confessed. New this morning, a vehicle hits and kills a pedestrian in a philadelphia neighborhood. Storm tracker 6 live is tracking Stormy Weather for our friday. I know we have to let david murphy tell us about that, i dont think i want to, lets go over to karen rogers with good news. Reporter we started with the storms and the roads will be wet. Reporter im waiting for the good news. Reporter its coming. Reporter Storm Tracker 6 live will show you in a second we have thunderstorms around, for now, the wide view shows you cloud cover on satellite. We have thunderstorms moving west to east across the region. As we look closer at these, some of these are piling into the Center Portion of Chester County and it does look like those are producing lightning strikes and also heavy downpours and possible flooding theres the chance of a 30mile an hour wind gust here, as well.
They service the vehicles for the police and u. P. S. The driver has been with u. P. S. For 13 years, hes expected to recover from whats being called a graze wound to his shoulder. His delivery partner also in that truck with him was not injured. To our first alert weather, now this friday night, were tracking that rain moving from the west that will arrive in our area overnight. First alert chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz has the timing of the rain in your neighborhood. It looks like its going to be well after midnight before theres any rain moving in. We have clouds around here, but as you can see, its a good night, visibility is excellent. Wilmington 39, allentown, coatesville and dover. Theres some rain coming into ohio, this system not that well organized. Its not a big storm, but it certainly will be bringing rain to the area as we start the holiday weekend. In the middle of the night tonight, we could see a little bit of light snow or a little bit of wintry mix up t