Plus weather and traffic. Karen in for david and matt pelman with the roads. Good morning. Good morning. Ive got the umbrella up right now. Its just some light rain out here at terrace of our studios but i want to show you right now the National Weather services concerns. We have flood advisories in effect for parts of salem and Cumberland County in new jersey for minor flooding until 9 15. Storm tracker6 live double scan showing us why. We have heavy rain moving through parts of the area the well start right here in south jersey. This is the heaviest were seeing, the areas of red that are now moving through malaga and elmer along route 55 and route 40, up near glassboro near Rowan University and 322 youre getting this rain and the heavier rain is about to hit that area as well. So be careful as youre traveling through this because you see enough rain with this that it could cause a real problem as youre driving. Also in Chadds Ford West chester, malvern all busy areas as youre trying
The south getting into the delmarva, theres another band closer to the shore. Well zoom to the one in philadelphia. Route 1, jenkintown, philadelphia, moderate to occasionally heavy rain. Lots of ponding on the roads, you need to allow yourself extra time take it easy on the roads this morning. Lots of ponding and reduced visibilities out there. Theres this band work its way off the coast Sea Isle City to cape may. This band in particular is heavy. National Weather Service issued a flood advisory in effect for Cumberland County and Cape May County and southeastern portions of Atlantic County because of heavy rain. Look at the totals from yesterday afternoon to the present, cape may, 2. 32inch. Dover, 1. 3. Philadelphia, 3 4 of an inch. Cloudy and damp morning rain, lunchtime skies brighten up, its breezy and cooler this afternoon with the return of sunshine highs around 63. Nydia . Chris, thank you. This morning a Delaware County mother is grieving the loss of her 20yearold son who was
Lets hit the roads right now. Were still pretty dry on the schuylkill expressway looking live here at girard. This is your eastbound traffic as you head towards center city. If youre coming from conshohocken or gladwyne youre looking pretty good so far. We want to warn you about this in fairmount park. Theyre doing that resurfacing project until 6 30 this morning youre going to see restrictions on kelly drive between Huntington Park and fairmount avenue. Its not causing a problem at this hour but just watch for that with these restrictions. Stick to mlk drive instead. Burlington bristol bridge expect an opening about 5 40 for a northbound ship. Stick to the turnpike connector instead. On the new jersey turnpike as youre heading southbound at the delaware memorial toll plaza an accident involving a jackknifed tractortrailer. Crews are out that right now. Theyre blocking the right lane so expect some slowing on the turnpike southbound. Matt and tam. Thank you, karen. We continue to follo
As you can see villanova fans are on cloud tonight nine tonight have a they beat oklahoma a by 44point. Tonight know of ace earning a spot in the Ncaa National championship game. Saturday night im walter perez. Big story on action news is the v which stands for victory tonight. Wildcats are heading to the ncaa championship with the win over oak a they beat sooners by 44 points. The worst blow out in semi final history. We have Team Coverage from houston all the way to the Delaware Valley, action News Reporters jeff chirico and dann cuellar are live with fans. Alycia vitarelli live from houston. But we will begin with Jeff Skversky live from nrg stadium. Jeff, cats made a statement tonight. How about that at final four, 9551 villanova over oklahoma. It is biggest win in final four history. And now villanova, oh, so close to a National Championship, they are a win away from their first title in 31 years. Take a look at villanova head coach jay wright all smiles, as he comes off the floor
Of cloud cover behind that active rain and well probably redevelop some additional sprinkles and spotty showers as we go into the afternoon. I could see that once this early batch of rain gets out of here we get into a little bit of a lull where its cloudy and cool but not quite as actively wet for the rest of the morning anyway. 51 degrees in philadelphia, 51 in allentown. Some moist can conditions up here, drier conditions down there. 50 degrees in dover, 59 degrees in millville. On the bus stop this morning it looks like well be on or about 50 between six and 8 oclock and for some of you especially in Northern Areas you might want the umbrella as you head out to the bus. Then this afternoon after a little bit of a lull during the morning, we start to redevelop some spotty showers. By 1 oclock, 56 degrees. Were also staying cool today. Your high is only 58 degrees, clouds and some spotty showers redeveloping through the afternoon and hanging with us through at least part of the eveni