Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. These are the equivalent if not stronger than the tubbs fire of 2017 and kinkaid in 2019. Theyre shutting down after of california, thats crazy to me. Seemingly everyone in the bay area is preparing for the effects as critical fire conditions move in this morning. It means Power Outages could be widespread. Take a look, pg es Public Safety power shutoffs could kick in for the areas you see here in orange in just a matter of hours. Good morning, everybody, it is sunday, october 25. Im liz kreutz. Thank you for joining us. We have complete coverage of these Power Outages and what you need to know about them. Were tracking fire danger as well. Lets get right over to meteorologist lisa argen. Good morning, lisa. Good morning, liz. All is calm right now with the south wind, an onshore flow. Here is live doppler 7 with the cloud cover. By the afternoon this will be abruptly changing. Northeasterly winds, 25 to 30 mi
Lifeguard. Its humid but not as bad by the coast. I have a twitter follower down the shore who has guests coming today. Youll probably be okay today but keep an ear out for thunder and get off the beach if you hear that. We have a fair amount of cloud cover across the beach. I had the sun breaking out from behind the clouds extra minutes ago on the terrace. The rain is to the west pinwheeling around a approaching low. As we get into the afternoon and evening some that will approach from the west and hit some of us. A gusty thunderstorm wouldnt be out of question. 82 in philadelphia. 84 in washington. 81 in notion. Again, most of us with the flow coming up from the south and in from the ocean are getting humid. The dewpoints from here all the way down through washington and richmond, virginia and roanoke are 70 or better. That means oppressively humid air. The rest of the afternoon 2 00. 85. 87 is the high at 4 00. 83 at 6 00 p. M. Down into the 70s at 9 00 p. M. A chance of thunderstor
Thunderstorm warning that is now extended into Delaware County parts of philadelphia New Castle County and into parts of south jersey. Its all because of this line of storms coming in from the west. Some of these are producing not only heavy wind gusts downpours but also lots of lightning and if we go in closer, storm tracker6 live double scan is tracking this one as it heads in towards Chester County out of lancaster county, areas of Chester County already being hit with heavy downpours, lots of lightning, 37 strikes in the last couple minutes and that white lightning bolt there is a live one. Chatham will get this about 4 31 avondale 4 34. Down towards kaolin 4 38 in Chester County, Kennett Square 4 39 hockessin 4 40. York wood between now and 4 42. Youre encouraged to take cover indoors inside, because of all the frequent lightning. Again producing about 40 Miles Per Hour wind gusts right now pushing east into Chester County and may make it all the way into philadelphia and media la
Gloucester county. Officials say the propane is coming from a rail car parked in austin court in Logan Township. Residents living within a half mile radius is asked to leave their home. Its up clear how much has leaked out so far. We have learned that this leak as forced police to close exit 10 on i295 southbound. And logan police are handling the evacuation of nearby homes. Stay with channel 6 action news and 6abc. Com for the updates on this breaking story. Turning to accuweather a rainy morning is giving way to a damp afternoon. As we look live outside. Sky 6 hd showing you trying to show you the gloomy view of the ben franklin bridge, its a soggy thursday for sure. Meteorologist, david murphy is here now with the latest from accuweather. Keep the umbrella handy today david. There is a little bit a lull now and later on in the afternoon and evening some additional thunderstorms are headed our way and most of the rain that came through at times in the morning commute. Has now passed
Rash of bomb threats has been called into Jewish Community centers around the country including some in our area. The jcc on springdale road in cherry hill is being searched as a precaution. A threat came into jcc talleyville, delaware, New Castle County police are responding there. This is the third threat made to the center on garden of eden road. These come on the heals of vandalism in the heels of vandalism in wissinoming section of philadelphia. Jewish headstones were damaged, theres a reward that leads to the culprit. And is live at the cemetary annie. Reporter you can see what the vandals left behind. Police say they must allow the investigation to take its course before they can determine a specific motive or label it as a particular crime. However, they say this is a crime that appears to target these particular headstones, toppled headstones remain at Mount Carmel Cemetary, as many as 100 graves were vandalized, but those part of the cleanup effort say there were hundreds mor