With katie and commute with meisha. It is gateway to the weekend, yeah but first we will talk about the roads. We have an accident out there in newtown square, we will talk about that coming up in a lot of closures out there at the vine in particular. Yes. But at least that is opening up. Yes, it will. Within the half an hour. We have the heat. That will be a problem if you are not a fan of the heat and humidity it will be a issue the next couple days. Real quickly, we will check on storm scan three with a few blips on the radar, nothing major quick hitting shower. We may need to flick your windshield wiper once and twice but overall we are off to an okay start. Thing is, it is really steamy outside, and looking at excessive heat warning scheduled to take effect at high noon we will be on the the eras it takes effect on Eyewitness News at noon. Up and down i95 and those counties, urban corridor that gets hit the hardest with the worst we have to offer with when it comes to the heat ind
Making its drudge east but we have stuck with scatters showered and heat and humidity is the big issue for us here. Everybody gets hit by. That these showers are very, very scattered. That is what you will find later today. We have 76. I mean that is pretty oppressive stuff. It will stay that way generally throughout the rest of the day. So we call it insufferable. I mean worst adjective used to describe it, and it will stay that way. Looking at current temperature already at 81 degrees. Sunnies not up and feels like flirting with 90. We do expect to hit 80s but dont go by the thermometer. You have to tack on 10 degrees, that is how it will feel, meisha. Crazy because 90s with no humidity doesnt feel that bad but you add that humidity, yikes. A lot of it feeling it yesterday, i was outside walking it around, and i was running for cover. Ben franklin bridge in the westbound direction from new jersey. Nice and beautiful shot there for you. Were looking g looking fairly typical. Ben frank
Anybody working outdoors indeed. And what they have to wear. With heavy work clothes. Thank goodness there is things such as wicking material. It is needed. You want to wear your wicking material to the bus stop because your suit will get soak through if you do not do that you will to have change clothes here to daze. It that is steamy. Do expect it is going to be uncomfortable. Even though we have seen a couple little blips on the radar last couple of hours overall it is a quiet a start to the day. Excessive heat warning we have been discuss ago this goes into effect at high noon, for counties shaded in the hot pink. We call it hot pink for a reason, right. We will be experiencing feels like values that easily top off in the triple digits with no problem later on today. Heres where we are standing 77 is current temperature for one example outside cape may courthouse here at middletown ship high school in the city of philadelphia, we are already in the 80s we will have no problems gett
Heat, hey, katie. Guys, if it seemed bad out there, you just said it, he zest i have heat warning went into effect, it will be in effect for couple of days, not just couple of hours, actually turn our focus quickly here to storm scan3 yes, those storm rumbled through quickly thankfully, but led to flashing into i across portions of the kelly drive. Do still have wet weather to track a toss portions of ocean county. All moving along relatively quickly. A look at the heat warning, counties in the hot pink. Youll feel that heat today. Up and down i95, where you will find it, and all of the counties that flank it from New Castle County up to mercer. Heres how it currently feels. Brutal stuff, feeling like the century mark in millville, atlantic city, feeling like 108 currently dover, thats rough stuff. Even reading feels like 100 degrees. So it is only going to feel a little hotter than this, as the day progresses, we expect to hit these values on the thermometer, but you will have to do a
Because even people complaining it ties warm i have a feeling youll miss this. For now jessica and ukee, back inside to you. Wise word, kate thanks very much. Testing, testing 123, crews are testing the 40 yum bow trons lining ben franklin parkway for visit of the pope francis. Chopper three is live over the francis festival ground. Right now. The big screens are strategically placed to give huge crowd a chance to see everything that is going on but also, in that area, just beware, traffic is backing up, because of road closures. So keep that in mine. The excitement is building, and so is the security, for pope francis visit to philadelphia federal authorities are in town to review cities securities plans and Eyewitness News reporter Todd Quinones is live in center city with details on that, todd. Reporter jessica, as you know there will be unprecedented levels of security here during papal visit and these cameras that we see lining ben franklin parkway, well, they will play a key role