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the day. we will see a warmup in spite of mostly cloudy çskies, 55 degre right now in philadelphia. 40s now for the lehigh valley and the suburbs and delaware is in the low 40s. at the shore, 51 degrees. there are some cooler spots. 48 degrees in mullica township. 52 in atlantic city. we ll go through the forecast hour by hour. the futurecast when i m back in ten minutes. jessica boyington watching your first alert traffic. that s right, bill, we re starting on the vine street expressway. this is right around broad street. i picked this camera specifically because just a few moments ago we did have all of this side completely blocked off. westbound/eastbound in between broad street and the schuylkill expressway has been block off. you can see now they re letting traffic through. a few moments ago all traffic was diverted off on the broad street exit. it looks like the westbound side may be back open. that doesn t mean all of closures or lanes are back open completel ....
the temperatures are in the 40s. a nice warmup in spite of mostly cloudy skies. some breaks of sunshine are possible like we did see yesterday. philadelphia, 56 degrees. that s at 8:00. by 4:00 this afternoon, 70 degrees. a decent warmup in the suburbs in spite of cloudy skies, 52 this morning. at 8:00, by lunch time today, 62 degrees. in the lehigh valley, you re more likely to see breaks of sunshine. 54 degrees at 8:00 by lunch time. 65 and 70 degrees this afternoon. as far as delaware, south jersey are concerned, plenty of clouds but the temperatures will be climbing in spite of those clouds. there will be some thin spots. you could see a little bit of blue sky peeking through at times. there s still a chance of shower. 8:00 this morning, 54 degrees by noontime. 60 degrees at the jersey shore. we ll go through the futurecast hour by hour, show you when the next chance of showers comes into our area. that s when i m back in ten minutes. jessica boyington has your firs ....
at 11:00. the train was going more than twice the speed limit around the curve in port richmond. what s amtrak done in the last year to make it safer for riders everywhere? nbc 10 s investigative reporter mitch blacher is live above the crash site. mitch? reporter: jim, this is the site of the deadliest rail accident since 1997. a.m. rack 188 hit this curve at more than 100 miles per hour, and while it took days to fix the track, it s going to take years to lace the country s rails with technology to prevent future accidents. the carnage and chaos from a year ago faded away. the lessons have not. this has been an incident that s affected every person at the fra, and it really drives our work on safety today. reporter: as the head of the federal railroad administration, sarah fineberg demanded railroads install ptc, positive train control, within months of the 188 track, amtrak had it on every line owned in the northeast corridor. the train safety system automati ....
reporter: bandaged and handcuffed, he showed no emotions. tell us what happened. lost it. reporter: the 46-year-old is charged with setting a fire at the lincoln hotel that killed his girlfriend. people was running down the hallway. everybody was like get out, get out, there s fire. reporter: surveillance video from across the street shows small putting gas into a coffee cup. according to the affidavit, he returned to his first floor room at the motel. then it said just after 2:00 this morning, he threw gasoline in her face as she smoked a cigarette. small said because he was angry. we believe she reached out to him and yelled his name and he left her in there to die. reporter: authorities found small walking in the area. his hands were burned and he smelled like gas. small s family contacted authorities saying he called them confessing to the crime. nbc 10 was there as police were hauling him away. when we asked do you think you should go to jail? sli ....
this morning. the temperatures are still falling, 37 degrees in the suburbs. new jersey is at 38 degrees. this afternoon we ll warm with sunshine into the 60s. it s going to take most of the day to get there. low 40s right now at the shore. south jersey is 38 degrees. look at the suburbs, 37 degrees right now and still falling. some of these numbers getting near record low temperatures. unionville just 1 degree above freezing. exton is 37 degrees and it is 37 in perkasie and bedminster as well. a cold start but a sunny day today. get ready for plenty of sunshine. i am tracking showers for as early as tomorrow. just doesn t want to stay away that rain. take you through the futurecast, hour by hour when i m back in ten minutes. see how that monday morning commute is going to be shaping ç up, jessica boyington with first alert traffic. we are watching the vine street expressway at 24th street. westbound right now, towards the schuylkill and eastbound towards 95 doing ok ....