Expressway, very busy all the time, that will be entirely shut down all the way from conshohocken at the blue route, all the way south into 95. No traffic on the schuylkill, going westbound, it will be shut down from 95 all the way up to u. S. One. Lets talk about u. S. One really quick, that will be shut down in the west philly section from lancaster over to belmont, that is the area where the pope will be staying overnight, so that busy city avenue section will also be shut down. Ben franklin bridge will be entirely closed. Officials confirming that for the first time today. That will allow pedestrians to walk across from new jersey into center city and walk over to see the pope at the world meeting of families events. There is one rumor that was spreading around that i95 would shut down. Theyre telling us no, not at all. 95 will remain open entirely, there may be some exits and onramps that are completely closed. Lets take a look at penndot from a few minutes ago. These road closure
Theres a shower coming into that warning area. It has weakened in the last 10 minutes or so. You can see the heavy rain is going through cheltenham, about to go into abington, this is right in the Flash Flood Warning area. Further to the north, upper bucks county, youre seeing heavy rain near milford moving up toward parts of the poconos. We got into the 90s again today. Extending the heat wave to five days. Its 89 in philadelphia now, 75 in dover, temperature knocked down by the rainfall. Trentons temperature down as well, it has felt as high as 96 degrees in philadelphia during the day today. The other thing were watching out in the tropics, pretty far away, but its peak of hurricane season, this is Tropical Storm danny, well have the latest forecast on that, along with when were going to see more thunderstorms an here with the sevenday in a few minutes. Speaking of that wet weather, heres what drivers in north jersey are seeing. The road flooded, drivers barely moving here. Police w
All is off the streets and under investigation and tonight the driver who filmed it says it began with a traffic stop up in kensington because his back taillight had gone out. You and your friend got any money . Reporter the roadside police stop is not a standard picket window. But in the window a Philadelphia Police officer appears to push the driver to buy fun raiser tickets or face having his unregistered car impounded. That driver says he was in disbelief. It was never about the tickets. It was just how he talked to me. Reporter rob tells us the officer was disrespectful yesterday afternoon but the ticket sale demand startled even him mplg support your police department. 10 bucks each, man. Either you buy these or i take your car. Reporter rob handed over the 30 bucks and got these tickets. He never expected that the video posted later would go viral with many outraged by what they call extortion. I thought like a couple people would comment on it or whatever. But it got big. Bigge
Our morning. Just some clouds. And it will be a humid one. My hair actually is a great forecaster because i can tell when its humid, it goes flat real quickly. So we are looking at hot and humid conditions about spot shower, but not a washout. Right now weertre at 72 in philadelphia, 68 in wilmington and redding. Allentown, youre at 67. And at the marina, 74. Not bad today well have a southwest flow, so that will keep our temperature pretty nice even along our shore points will be in the mid80s for our High Temperatures. As for philly, we go through the next few hours, 77 at 9 00 a. M. And 83 by your lunchtime. But we wont stop there. Were talking more right around 90 for forecast high. And well look neighborhood by neighborhood and ill let you know what sunday is looking like, that is my pick of the weekend, thats coming up. Protests raged through the night in hamburg. Police say that the protesters set fires and looted supermarkets. As you can see, officers had to use water could not
During the overnight hours. That will mostly be a nuisance. Nothing like what weve seen today. As we head into mothers day, were talking about more sunshine through the course of the afternoon. Definitely improving conditions with more sunshine through the course of the afternoon. Again showers in the forecast during the Early Morning hours, were talking about 8 00 in the morning but that will changing through the day. It will be a little breezy with the temperatures in the lower 70s. Well take a closer look at how long the warmer temperatures will last. Well the stop in the rain today and the peeks of sunshine came just in town. Nbc 10s drew smith checked in at several events. Reporter the band played for mt. Airy day on this part of germantown avenue shlgs its greet to see neighbors and friends and have a good time outside and enjoy some food. Reporter but the ice cream wasnt popular because it got a little chilly. We have moose tracks, chocolate, vanilla. Reporter many people went f