Of flooding at the shore points, folks are piling up the sand bags, dreading the next high tide. Elsewhere, scenes like this. People wondering how theyll get anywhere tomorrow with huge trees still blocking roads across the area. And you can blame this, live look at radar right now. The drenching rain may be moving on out, but we are not out of the woods yet. Heres live look at the ben franklin parkway. Gusty winds are making it feel pretty chilly out there and theyll be sticking around until tomorrow. Those winds also proved deadly today. Im iain page. Im lucy noland. Thousands in our area are in the dark tonight. Fox 29 though has you covered. Our Dave Schratwieser is tracking the major problems for commuters. Chris oconnell is at the flooded jersey shore. But we begin with meteorologist kathy orr. Kathy, this is proving to be one dangerous storm. Absolutely. A very powerful storm and here it is, heres your noreaster packing winds gusting to over 60 miles an hour today right now were
Might the see the sun again. Because we have all certainly missed it. Heard it all morning, toll accounts at wawa say when will this rain go away. Not the just rain but wind, wind that will get you. Good morning everyone it is tuesday, january 24th, 2017. So sue, please, answer this burning question. Yes, the short answer not the yet but other short answer is not as bad as yesterday. So, wind and rain are still out there but nothing to the extreme. This will be annoying today. Give you an annoying four out of ten in your weather by numbers, there it is, four out of ten. Bus stop buddy still has rain gear on with temperatures in the upper 30s. For most we are seeing just rain. When we get some. Very spotty but there is a lot of moisture around as coastal low has not left us just yet and is there even pink sometimes mixed in with the green which means you could hear a little sleet on your windshield but should not amount to anything. Win gusts 25 miles april hour in wilmington. 17 miles
Michelle the president s cabinet grew today. The u. S. Senate confirmed retired neurosurgeon ben carson as the new secretary of housing and urban development. An hour after carsons confirmation, they voted in rick perry as the secretary of state of energy. Perry famously forgot the name of the department in 2012 when listing agencies he would eliminate if elected president. He said eliminating the department would be a mistake since then. President trump spent the day aboard the uss germed r. Ford speaking to members of gerald r. Ford speaking to members of the naver i navy. He also discussed an Expansion Plan to increase the navy. Alison right now police are investigating a threatening email sent to a woman in winchester. Michelle she is the leader of a Government Watchdog Group working to protest president trumps agenda. Alison but as Richard Reeve reports th it was alarming. I dont alarm easily. Richard for lisa holiday, founder of the Watchdog Group indivisible winchester it began
Destroyed a section of the sidewalk and part of the road. Were told that strong winds and dry rot are what caused the tree to fall. Bring in our chief meteorologist bill martin to talk more about all this. What are we looking at here . A lot of too with the trees abandon other trees that may tall over the next week they still have their leaves on them. We have winds like today were going to see rain. It weights the tree down youre going to notice that the next week or so more rain and wind as well. Well see a lot of branches down. Were not deep in the fall. Its raining out there now. Heres where the rain is falling mainly north. There is wind weve been talking about that. The winds have been fairly significant. Weve seen fairly gusty winds plainly along the cold front and inland bay valleys. You see satellite loop not change for some reason. Lets go live picture. This low Pressure Center is just the beginning of more weather coming our way. Right now as you look towards future tower so
Has been tough day as they remove the brain in their yards and street. Some trees are just too big to move right away. E just a really big tree get through the roof the housese. Its all piled up in the. Many people have to deal with all of the damagege. Big old trees damaged in lakewood thursday. She says th tree was scheduled to be cut down and few weeks but nature beat them to it. Large tree limbs crashing through the roof of the home. All the way through the rafters and poked through twice and the ceilingsan is come down the tree goes all the way across the backyardhe and not down part of the fence. First energy was busy reconnecting homes to the power grid but it is so work they had to be cautious and hav been very busy. But everyone will get the power restored quickly. Less yard, there are power lines als ayearold nissan sentra. It looks like the top of the tree was simply sawedoff. Justin pumpkinstein says hes glad the tree fell where did. Kigot a family and it could haveot taken