people here at septa headquarters don t want to take any chances when it comes to safety. expect long commute times if you take septa after multiple structural issues were found in more than 100 septa cars. 120 to be specific. we reduced it by a third with the 100 cars that we lost so we re doing a lot of inspections to be able to, you know, get more of our older cars available. reporter: septa manager rob hopkins said at a july 4th news conference 120 cars are out of service. a septa employee discovered multiple cracks in beams on silver liner v cars once discovered septa officials made the call to pull all 120v cars and run saturday service the rest of this week. i m just glad that they did something. and they re doing something. reporter: computers still have to come up with a back up plan. buses will help in some cases but each circumstance is different. and moving up your alarm clock likely is the best idea. it s even packed now. when you have seven cars going
rail fleet off the tracks. the move comes after septa discovered structural defects in train cars. good evening everyone i m ukee washington. jessica has the night off. septa is urging commuters to pack patience as they head back to work tomorrow. eyewitness news reporter david spunt is outside septa headquarters right now with more on how this will impact the commute. david? reporter: hi, ukee. it will be big impact. no question. there will be big headaches tomorrow for commuters but people here at septa headquarters don t want to take any chances when it comes to safety. expect long commute times if you take septa after multiple structural issues were found in more than 100 septa cars. 120 to be specific. we reduced it by a third with the 100 cars that we lost so we re doing a lot of inspections to be able to, you know, get more of our older cars available. reporter: septa manager rob hopkins said at a july 4th news conference 120 cars are out of service. a septa
we re expecting a lot of heat lo and humidity.idy. tucker is standing by withg by your full forecast. f good morning, i mor allison m a seymour. and i m steve chenevey. welcome to fox5 news morning. m. breaking news in the district.ic police searching for thehing driver involved in a hit and ait run happened about 4:00 a.m..m. on suitland parkway and firstnd sterling avenue in southeast.nuu the victim is in serious condition.io however, the outbound lanes ofds suitland parkway are opened pkwy now. they had been closed for been cr several hours so good news forsg the commute.ommute. we ll check in wither flynn ar few minutes to see what thethe impact is to the commute. cmute minutes after the hour now. developing overnight protests developing outside of thede othe governor s mansion in minnesota after a 32-year-old african-american man was shotafm to deathan w by a police officef during a traffic stop. fernando castillo was with his girlfriend and her four-year-old daughte
into the area just a few light showers pick up by the radar here in the north and western suburbs heaviest rain is in chester county and it s spreading to the east. this will all start to fill in just a bit. it s not going to miss us. it will really start to come down after midnight but before then, light rain will spread north. it s moving along 95 pushing up towards philadelphia. timing will be close here for everything that s happening tonight. first off it s picked up by the computer forecast. we ll stop it right her at 8:00 o clock that area spreads to the northeast. coming down in philadelphia just some light rain initially but it does pick up intensity and gets a bit more widespread by 10:00 o clock so it s still a few still seeing a few breaks here around the city. likely seeing some rain coming in. might see little break. then it will get little heavier this is 1:00 o clock in the morning now. this is when the rain will really start to come down. between, say, one
heavy initially but it does get hester eighty three after 1:00 o clock in the morning. so that could be the one good news here. but the rain continues very heavy overnight tonight and look what we re waking up to tomorrow morning this is heavy rain over the same area. that s why that flash flood watch is in effect by 8:00 o clock in the morning. so we ll see temperatures dropping into the mid to low 70s overnight tonight. not moving much. but the rain gets heavy especially into the areas south and east. so the rain continues light to moderate along i-95. maybe even a few thunderstorms to the south with a temperature of 72 degrees. heavy rain for the rush hour. plus an excessive heat comin cop in the seven day forecast. all that s coming up your way in jut little bit. lucy. sounds g talk to you soon, dave. hopefully you won t miss the fireworks if you re hitting the road to make it back hope. this is i76 at washington street in philadelphia it is wide open. that is good news