Coast. As it inches closer to the east coast. The storm is already causing a major rip current danger on the delaware beaches and jersey shore. Heres a live look at avalon where you see its causing a powerful and dangerous surf. Lets look at the heavy surf in cape may yesterday. The last weekend of the summer. Officials urged people to just look at the water and not go in it. Meantime, people in ventner watched wave after powerful wave yesterday. The beach patrol warmed swimmers about rip currents, advising extreme caution. I spoke with a lifeguard to try to explain because, of course, they might seem to listen better to the lifeguard than their better. Its like really strong. When youre in there, you feel like youre going to fall over. Staying shallow or not going in at all were the best bets yesterday. Despite the warnings and precauti precautions, two swimmers got caught up yesterday. Two people rescued in wildwood. Keep track of hurricane jose any time you want with the nbc10 app,
Eye on the surf and the potential for flooding and following an accuweather alert for parts of our region as the impact of hurricane jose begins to peak. We have Live Team Coverage tracking the effects at the shore and we begin with cecily tynan with the latest from the National Weather center. Monica and rick hurricane jose remains a category hurricane maximum sustained winds 75 Miles Per Hour. Its tracking 200 miles off coast and you can see the highest winds, the most intense rain right around the center of it, beginning to make the turn to the northnortheast. Moving at 8 Miles Per Hour. Some showers are moving in south jersey and delaware and even a few light showers near philadelphia and the reports show you that we are dealing with gusty winds and one buoy in the mouth of the delaware bay winds sustained at 28 Miles Per Hour and gusting up to 40 Miles Per Hour but the most intense part of jose is the wave action. Its really whipping up the surf wave heights impressive up to 25 fe
Shortly by the d. A. Kevin steele. Hes going feel in some of the blanks in this story and ask for the publics help in finding the man that the police are seeking at this point in time. That individual apparently his just his reputation alone and what happened today held led to a lockdown of a hospital here about 15 to 20 miles from here in sellersville. Apparently that individual held a grudge about a doctor and as a precaution that hospital which is Grand View Hospital went into a lockdown for a period of time because they feared what might happen given what happened here in Montgomery County earlier in the day. So, it is an evolving situation to be sure. Live in limerick, john rawlins channel6 action news. Monica. Thank you, john. Philadelphia police are trying to figure out if a young child is responsible for accidentally shooting his uncle. It happened at 11 30 this morning near the corner of 16th and arch in center city. Police say a 24yearold male was in the drivers seat waiting
Problem. The rip current risk, though, is still high for the shore. Ill break it down hour by hour and show you whats ahead for your day when i come back in a couple of minutes. First Jessica Boyington has your first alert traffic. Thank you. Were starting on the vine street expressway moving through center city to start. Around 24th street, both directions look good. You see here moving to the schuylkill, no problem. Eastbound toward 95 doing the same. And speaking of 95 southbound from woodhaven moving to the vine street expressway, speeds into the mid 60s there. A 13minute trip. Were not seeing any of those problems. Were still watching for the closure. Its supposed to last until 5 00 b. This time, maybe a little behind schedule. West potts grove for the construction project. The westbound side of 422, theyre diverting all traffic off around route 100. Back to you. Breaking this morning, gunfire downtown. One person was shot in a Chester County community. Investigators are trying to
Sunshine and cloudy in the afternoon with peeks of sun. At the linc, temple taking on the houston cueing cugars. President trump prepairs prepares his tax plan it is putting many of his cabinet under the microscope. Reporter as he boarded air force one, sounds like President Trump made up his mind about tom price just before he asked if price was going to ask. Youre making a decision to fire price today. By the time air force one landed price was out. The president askedded secretary to resign. He did. Price took more than two dozen work trips on reductionry private jets. Ive heard the concerns and the criticism, we are sensitive to the taxpayer on the incident. The flights cost taxpayers 400,000. Price promised to reimburse the government but only for the cost of his own seat, 52,000. Paying back 52,000 and the plane cost is that enough . No that would be unacceptable. Reporter five secretary of state are under fire for expensive travel habits to the tune of 600,000. Ryan zinke defian