Days of the weekend. The weekend was beautiful. Today just slightly warmer. Similar picture outside. Lets talk temperatures over the next several hours as you get out the door this morning. 59 the temperature at 8 00 a. M. You still might want the light jacket. Up to 69 by 11 00 a. M. Sunny to mostly sunny with scattered clouds expected by this afternoon. Those are the clouds from irmas moisture. Were going to talk more about the track of irma, as well as look more closely at when rain returns to the region coming up. Now to traffic and jessica boyington. Were starting on the vine street expressway right now. Moving through center city. Cameras around 8th street. We were open all morning. Didnt deal with the Construction Projects here. Heading to the off ramp. If you look back here, this is the traffic coming off of the ben franklin bridge. No big problems or delays. Heading westbound toward the schuylkill, youll get there just fine. Watch for the crash in pottstown at Armand Hammer bo
Progressively get thicker in coverage as we go later into the day. Right now, 52 degrees the temperature in northeast philadelphia and wimbledon. Pottstown and wilmington. Pottstown, 46. At the Atlantic City arena, 58. Not a bad start. We are going to see the temperatures nice today making their way into the 70s by this afternoon. Not just low 70s like the last few days. Instead, upper 70s were talking later today. For a warming trend that continues into the 80s come your workweek. Tomorrow, we see more clouds filling out the area. Then those showers do return to the region. Were going to track out when the rain actually hits our area coming up. For now, well start traffic with jessica boyington. Thanks. Southampton township, an overturned tractortrailer on route 70s eastbound side. No closures in place now. Traffic is getting by. Theres going to be cleanup underway especially if theres a spill involved, too. Keeping my eyes on that. Well get back and watch for a crash on bridge road a
Is pretty good evidence of what damage the storm left behind. Trees are down everywhere and look at the shear force of the winds to take down a tree of this size and to toss metal off of signs, from street signs all over the place. Despite was see here on the ground behind me people i talked to today say they know it could have been so much worse. We sat on our patio and watched the whole storm. Reporter marilyn is one of many whose nerves may take some time to recover. Nerve rattling. It was so i was so tense when it was all over that i couldnt even lay down. Reporter against the advice of local authorities, marilyn rode irma out with her family inside their naples home. It was so intense. Parts of it were so scary we werent even sure but we all just stayed at home. Reporter blake and his family evacuated their low lying house to seek shelter at a nearby friends home. It was the worst storm that weve stayed for. We were here for andrew in 92 and we were here for charlie in 2004. Repor
We have an nbc crew at the scene talking with neighbors describing the emotional scene. Well have a live update at 4 30. As we told you, irma is down to a tropical depression, but storm surges caused record flooding. Crews rescued 46 people from swamped homes. Heres whats left of irma on the first alert radar. This morning the push is on to recover after the hurricane. It will be a long and slow process in the florida keys. Look at the video. The hardest hit area of the state. The keys are still cut off from the mainland by flooding, and supplies are dwindling. Military cargo planes are flying relief missions. More than six Million People are without power across florida. Officials say it could be weeks before it is fully restored. At least ten people died in florida, georgia, and South Carolina. Most of the deaths are blamed on falling trees. A 57yearold man in South Carolina died when he was clearing branches from his yard and another tree limb hit him. Irma goes in the record books
Is a foot which is major change of pace from yesterday where neighbors say waters rose to three or 4 feet high, threatening, some cases damaging vehicles, property, homes, today, it is about clean up, trying to get back to normal not just here in jacksonville but throughout the entire state. Long line of evacuees inched south on u. S. One for first look at irmas destruction in the florida keys. Official as loud upper keys residents back today but they are keeping people out of the lower keys while they make emergency inspection and repairs. Unaudible. Reporter marathon residents who stayed behind are checking on neighbors a lot of them levittown, and, i have one here that was a boat. Reporter view shows island chain took a devastating hit from the category four storm, most of the area has no power, water, sewage or fuel. More than 400 miles away, jacksonville is trying to dry out, irma swamped the city with record flooding, more than 350 people had to be rescued. First responders just