You can track those storms in your neighborhood right on your smartphone or tablet with the nbc 10 news app. Get up to the minute live radar and instant weather alerts. The nbc 10 app is free. How about this now. A tree limb wayeighing more than a ton plunged on to a tree Service Employee pinning his legs in the bucket he was working in. The limb came loose to soon as crews worked to clear a vacant residential lot in haddonfield. The Service Crews were working to clear the lot. Nbc 10s cydney long is there live. Tell us about the dangerous rescue. Reporter i can tell you it was dangerous and delicate. This private contractor right now is hospitalized but take a look. He was trapped and terrified right here about 50 feet in the air. You can still see that limb hanging in the balance, the one that fell on top of him. Its more like a tree trunk, about 25 inches in diameter. Haddonfield police kept residents away from the danger. Neighbors tell us they heard an extremely loud snap and this
This is nbc 10 news first alert weather. It is a first alert weather day because of this. Were tracking severe storms moving through. They will affect the morning commute. After this line passes we could see more just like it throughout the day. Heres what it looks like outside because of that heavy rain parts of the area seeing downpours and lightning strikes. Well have the timing for when it could hit your neighborhood. Its 4 31. 74 degrees outside. Theres the lightning. This is nbc 10 news today. Im tracy davidson. Im chris cato. That will wake you up this morning. You want to give yourself extra time if youre leaving the house, especially around towamencin, norristown. This rain is falling heavy and fast. Hes standing by now with a look at whos getting hit now. This is a line of storms that has seen very heavy not only rainfall but damaging winds. You can see this area right in the philadelphia area including south philadelphia intol, extreme southern Montgomery County and much of
Two, in some spots more than three inches of rain. There you can see active thunderstorms moving through Northampton County clearing the allentown area. Flood warnings in effect for pennsylvania and south jersey. Flash flooding can occur even after the heaviest rain has ended because it takes some time for the runoff to accumulate and cause the flooding. Be on the look jut for flooded streets this morning. The thunderstorm threat stays with us this morning and into this afternoon. Well go through it hour by hour with the future cast when i come back in ten minutes to show you where the strongest storms are expected to pop up later today. Lets see how the traffic is moving. First alert traffic reporter Jessica Boyington. Jessica . Were looking live at the boulevard around fox street. You can actually see how wet the roadways are right here. Southbound lanes headed towards the schuylkill expressway, theres not a lot of volume. Definitely something to watch out for. You can see which cars
She laughing. She knows i say in all good fun, right . Looking at storm scan, worse of any wet weather starting to retreat. Off shore from ocean, monmouth counties, finding heavier rain say along the garden state parkway, say around Cape May County for example, you got to clock, look at the last three hour loop here, real heavy thunderstorms cell, now well out to sea, fizzling as it goes, and what you are left with, here, few residual flood advisories, one pop up, the Pennypack Creek starting to come out of it banks here reaching flood stage. But should very quickly be receding now, really just because it is downstream from all of the rain that came in through the overnight. Meanwhile, you really just have the flood advisory because of the current rain situation, until 8 30 this morning, out through ocean, Monmouth County. Meanwhile we go further inland, berks county we go, to kutztown area middle school. You have the little fine fog set in, breaks in the clouds, continue to be the sto
Half hour that this. Trooper was shot three times and he was air lifted here to st. Luks hospital where they worked on him throughout the flight and immediately after he was shot there on the ground along the highway. Go ahead and take look. We had some video thehere. A lot of. Troopers, cars and officers here at st. Luks hospital. Some of them even had some of those evidence bags carrying out of the hospital. The trooper shot has not been identified by police as of yet, but we did learn hes a corporal with the state police out of the belle fast r barracks. He was shot three times during that altercation along the highway. They did not tell us where he was shot. He was worked on at scene and throughout the flight to the hospital. Police say he was critically injured. He did go through surgery this afternoon and police say they are encouraged by the progress hes made in the last few hours. He remains critical and not out of the woods just yet. Our guy is up there fighting for his life.