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. Theres 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 well 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. Thats 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, lets check in with Jessica Boyington with your first alert traffic. Were looking live right now at 95 around girard avenue. This is typically where we see tons of volume the first spot in the morning hours. Again, its s
Road. Take almhouse road or 611 depending on which area you have to go. 32 people getting help from the red cross because of their apartment complex fire. It started just after 1 00 this morning in Cumru Township. Matt delucia has been at the apartment complex all morning long. Matt, do firefighters now how this thing started. Reporter firefighters are starting the task of how this fire started. You can see a couple lights shining on the back of this building. The only one in this complex that is damaged. Were at the schillington commons apartment building. 32 people are displaced. You figure 1 00 a. M. When this fire started, people are sleeping. The firefighters say they had to evacuate this building rather quickly. Fortunately, no one was injured. They believe they know at least where this fire started. Right now were focused on back of the building in an area thats right above the entranceway. Its some sort of a decorative type of porch type area if you want to call it. Its not rea
Traffic around the area for now. On 295 in new jersey were working through the work zone where were losing out that lefthand lane. Move the camera. Theres active work zone crew up there but still a 13minute 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 fiveminute drive time youre 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. Were losing two righthand lanes due to ongoing construction headeding westbound in philadelphia. Well have an update for you in ten minutes on mass transit. For now, we get a check on todays forecast with bill henley. Temperatures climb back into the 80s this afternoon. We wont see the 90s. Its 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 morning and less humid. Youl
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Are concerned that this fire may spread even more on this block. The action cam is also headed to the scene to give us pictures from the ground as firefighters battle this blaze in camden. Good morning to you. Lets find out whats going to happen with your accuweather. Dave murphy has that and matt pelman is filling in for karen. Hes got traffic. Good morning. Well, theres a little sweep of clouds over parts of the region but it does look like were going to get some fairly bright sunshine in quickly. Take a look at satellite. Cloud cover high and thin enough where a lot of it will probably evaporate and i think were going to get a decent amount of sunshine in for most of the day. 76 degrees right now in philadelphia. 61 in allentown. 62 in reading. Winds starting to turn a little bit more out of the west but across those southern portions of the region where you see that yellow mixing in, its still a little bit on the humid side. Northern and western suburbs are beginning to improve. Yo