Years, this is unlike anything i have seen. Having seen the path of devastation irma left behind in the caribbean. This is nature at its most fierce. We are on the sixth floor the flooding is amazing and the win and rain is bringing it through the sliding doors. And florida is preparing for a direct hit and miami sits right now in the bullseye. Floridians are running you of the necessities. The manager told us they dont have water in yet so ill pick up other nonperishable items and get prepared for the storm. Gas is running out everywhere right now, so im just a little too late trying to get it. Lines for water are wrapping around the block. I went to costco and they are sold out of water. And homeowners are scrambling to board up win doze. And many areas are under mandatory vacations near ford laut and miami. And the latest path has it moving up the coast of florida and slamming into the carolinas. But they urge that the storm is a couple of days from hitting the u. S. And these are o
Time headed southbound from woodhaven road up toward the vine street expressway. These are the southbound lanes right in here. The accident was here a moment ago. Police got on the scene, cleared it out of the way. Now we have residual delays there. Now that were moving into rush hour, i dont see it clearing out of the way anytime soon. Well probably add 10 to 15 minutes to the commute just to start. A fuel spill in Chester County on gap newport pike and north guernsey road. 422, still looking okay. An eightminute trip. Everything is green, eastbound from 29 up towards the schuylkill expressway. Currently no problems or delays so far for mass transit. Well have more updates for you for the philadelphia majors to come. Vai . Thank you, jessica. Now lets get back to the heat. As you heard bill say earlier, it will be hot and humid today. Because of the weather, some schools are dismissing classes early. Matt delucia is live in the philadelphia neighborhood of tacony where a charter still
If youre still down the shore somehow and we have an accident on the Atlantic City brigantine connector, southbound around the Convention Center with the right lane blocked. Well check in on mass transit when i come back in ten minutes. The first of the 10,000 tickets for the festival of family on the ben franklin parkway will be available starting at 4 00 this afternoon. At 8 00 p. M. , you can logon and try to get a ticket for sundays papal mass. Tickets for the popes speech on saturday at Independence Hall on september 26th went online at noon yesterday and by 12 02, they were gone. 394,000 people visited the world meeting of families website at noon trying to get those tickets. So if you didnt get a ticket to that event, thousands of others are being given to parishes with large immigrant populations. The popes speech on september 26th will focus on immigration and religious freedom. Just as fast as those tickets were given away at noon, some of the lucky people tried to cash in. M
Yesterday and that humidity was oppressive. It will be high again today. 94 yesterday. Close to this this afternoon, this morning, the temperatures in the upper 70s in philadelphia. 78 in northeast philadelphia. Wilmington not much cooler at 76 degrees. Even farther north and west where we normally see cooler temperatures, allentown at 74, 73 in reading and middle 70s in delaware and south jersey. Its a warm start all around. It will be another hot and humid day today with the temperatures taking off. 75 degrees at 6 00 but well be close to 80 degrees at 9 00 and there will be more clouds around today as we go into the noontime hour, 87 degrees with a southwesterly wind bringing in additional humidity. Dry this morning. Well be watching for showers this afternoon. Your neighborhood by neighborhood forecast when im back in ten. Chris . The new school year was just getting warmed up when the weather warmed up. Todays heat means a half day for some schools in this area. We learned schools
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