With rainfall coming down at a rate of more than an inch an hour. Off to the west more storms starting to inch into western berks county this morning. The temperatures, they are starting off warm. As chris mentioned it is muggy. 71 degrees in philadelphia. Nobodys really chilly this morning. Clouds, fog and storms to start with. Mostly cloudy during the morning. The fog will seize. There is a chance of scattered showers even late morning hours. By noon time with some thinning of the clouds well see 81 degrees. Well still be tracking showers into this afternoon. Hour by hour forecast when i come back. First jillian mele has traffic. Good morning to you, bill. 95 for a second, we had overnight construction but it wasnt that construction expected to start. This is 95 at girard avenue looking good now. The problem is all of that rain we had yesterday the severe storms that passed through yesterday afternoon, put a damper on the construction project. When you have a project thats starting a
His first alert forecast. Total 180 from yesterday with the sunshine. Now were waking up to wet Pavement Outside and it should be that way throughout much of the morning. A live look outside shows fog, patchy fog has developed. This morning right now some areas seeing some rain, especially in the Lehigh Valley where in the last hour you had heavy rains push through. Now its moving into northern new jersey. Elsewhere were seeing rain from philadelphia all the way down toward Camden County and all the way toward portions of millville at this hour. Other areas down the shore remaining dry, that could change this morning as that rain starts to pass through. We have plenty of clouds this morning, those clouds will be around throughout much of your day today so well call it cloudy today with also showers in the forecast. Temperatures right now about 68 for philadelphia, mid60s for allentown, mild for Atlantic City at 69 and dover youre just shy of 70 degrees. This is the forecast. What you c
Okay, so we will be calling item 2 first. Madam clerk, can you please call item 2. Thank you, file number 130159, the hearing on shared scho scho schoolyards project. By member farrell. Thank you, i want to call up supervisor farrell and to make comments first. Thank you, chair kim, much appreciated. And its great to be here with all the school board members. Colleagues, today we will do a hearing and update on a shared schoolyards project. I have worked on this closely over the last two years with hydra mendoza and a number of people as well as rec and park and denny. And other folks from rec park as well. I want to thank all of those involved over the last two years. To give you background, i have talked about this a lot publicly. For me the impetus came up when first in office. And my children were learning to ride there, with the training wheels off of their bikes, and we lived close to roosevelt and thought that would be a great place to learn. We went over there on a saturday mor
Sfgov and those taping todays session. Madam clerk, any announcements . Seeing none. I would like to change order of the agenda and call up item 2 first, if thats okay with the committee . Okay, so we will be calling item 2 first. Madam clerk, can you please call item 2. Thank you, file number 130159, the hearing on shared scho scho schoolyards project. By member farrell. Thank you, i want to call up supervisor farrell and to make comments first. Thank you, chair kim, much appreciated. And its great to be here with all the school board members. Colleagues, today we will do a hearing and update on a shared schoolyards project. I have worked on this closely over the last two years with hydra mendoza and a number of people as well as rec and park and denny. And other folks from rec park as well. I want to thank all of those involved over the last two years. To give you background, i have talked about this a lot publicly. For me the impetus came up when first in office. And my children wer
Ride there, with the training wheels off of their bikes, and we lived close to roosevelt and thought that would be a great place to learn. We went over there on a saturday morning, and very frustrated by the fact that the schoolyard was closed and locked up. Huge black top, although asphalt great place for families on the weekends. And came back to city hall and talked to the head of Public Schools, and rec and park and hydra. And i said, if we could open up the schoolyards on the weekend, and it was closed because of the budget cuts. I know that growing up here in San Francisco, i grew up playing ball in the neighborhood in the local schoolyard. And if kids and families are not given that opportunity. I think its a real shame. We have embarked on a project and have had fundraisers over the last years, that have been very successful. And thank you to the sponsors that helped participate. And wouldnt have happened without all of those involved. And i am glad to say that we have 24 schoo