see the temperatures go higher than that. a few other spokes. we will go through the spots when i m back in ten minutes. jessica boyington is watching first alert traffic. on the southbound side, we have two left-hand lanes blocked, traffic moving by. that s gad news there you see that in here. off the off-ramp and extending into some of the lanes on 422. you can see drive times are doing okay. still at 8 minutes. these are the eastbound lanes. from 29 to the schuylkill, it hasn t even bugged yet for the morning. we will check out the schuylkill flying through the area. eastbound, westbound, no problems. this is center city area. we have a 12 minute trip from the blue route, average speeds are 60 miles per hour. i ll come back in ten minutes with a check on your traffic. an update on breaking news out of reading, berks county, this will take you to the live picture. crews have the house fire under control now. this is 9th where the fire started in a row home around 3:30.
hi, tracie. reporter: and a long one, too, vai. we ve been monitoring this hearing since the beginning. we ve been told to prepare for up to eight hours of questioning and, in fact, the republican chair of this committee said he s not going to shut down anyone, including who you re hearing here, elijah cummings as we look live at what s going on right now. he s been questioning secretary clinton about what he says are eight investigations that have already asked and answered every possible question. but the republicans in charge of this committee, well, they have a different opinion about that. trey gowdy the chair, who i just mentioned, earlier in his opening statement said those investigations were insufficient. they were incomplete. they did not have hillary clinton s e-mails. they did not have ambassador chris steven s e-mails. he was killed in benghazi and his e-mails just started coming out of the state department be request recently. they will now be part of this hea
right now. good evening. former secretary of state hillary clinton stood her ground in the questioning of the benghazi attack. her answers, her tone, her expressions all under the microscope because as much as it is secretary clinton testifying before the house benghazi committee, it is presidential candidate clinton who stands the most to lose in a testy and politically-charged showdown that has continued into the evening. andrea mitchell is covering it for us tonight. reporter: it was supposed to be about benghazi, but soon dissolved into bickering. i don t care if you sent it by morse code, carrier pigeon, smoke signals, what is relevant is that he was sending information to the secretary of state. will the gentleman yield? i would be happy to. make sure the entire record is correct. that is exactly what i want to do. reporter: while they argued, the star witness tried to stay above the fray unlike in 2013. what difference at this point does it make? repo
your first alert forecast. doesn t feel like late october. we ll see sunshine, we ll see temperatures climb. at this hour look at these numbers. 54 in pottstown, wilmington is 55. 58 in mount holly and 61 degrees northeast philadelphia. just a little bit cooler at 59. the temperatures are falling now. so the numbers come back down before the sun comes up. once it comes up we ll see a warm-up back in the low 60s. 56 at 6:00, a wind kicking in at 8 miles an hour. actually a little cooler at 9:00, then 59 degrees at noon time today. show you how much is going to warm up when i m back in ten minutes. jessica boyington, watching your first alert traffic. bill, we want you to watch out for construction of course for this time of morning on kelly drive eastbound between hunting park avenue and fountain green drive. ongoing construction, this is where the vine street is looking sad and lonely. you don t see cars here between the schuylkill expressway and broad street, that will b
victory. we ll share that in a moment. let s begin with meteorologist bill henley and football like weather. temperatures are cooling down though it s warm for this time of year. we have a breeze blowing, that s cooler, drier air coming into the region, that s going to make a big difference this afternoon. clear skies over boathouse row and the temperatures now down to 59 degrees. 40s, that s normal for this time of year. that s where the pocono mountains are but the rest of the area starting off very warm, 59 in dover, 58 in atlantic city. the breeze will be with us through the day. sunshine nice and bright and a slow warm-up today. 55 degrees at 7:00, by 56, not much warmer thanks to the northerly wind which will still be blowing at 1:00 this afternoon when we ll be at 60 degrees, and will go warmer than that. we ll go through the forecast neighborhood by neighborhood, when i m back in 10 minutes. right now jessica boyington has your friday morning first alert traffic.