Damage from irma still too extensive for people to go outside or return from evacuations. Nbcs Sarah Rosario standing by right now in miami with an update on irmas impact. Reporter as people are waking up and taking a look at the damage and destruction left by irma with, were seeing a good amount of it here in miami. Here look this dock, weve seen at least a half a dozen boats completely underwater. And with damage and debris scattered everywhere, the biggest problem were seeing in this state is the lack of power. Weakening in strength, irma continues its churn through florida, packing a powerful punch, as it pushes through the panhandle. Entering the state as a category 4, the keys took the first hit from the storm. Hurricaneforce winds ripping away roofs, testing the limits of everything in its path to the mainland. Toppling cranes in miami and ft. Lauderdale and flooding street. Then a phenomenon sometimes called hurricane bulge occurred, temporarily sucking the water out to sea, st
58 in vineland. 63 in dover, delaware. We have a good looking day ahead. The dewpoints have increase a little bit. It might feel slightly humid as you head out later on today. Lets look forecast, mostly sunny skies, bright sunshine, 66. By lunchtime you may see high clouds streaming in. 81. 5 00 p. M. , 82 by 78 00 p. M. , 80 degrees as you head out the door. Its a good one, were starting off with walltowall sunshine, enjoy the sunrise send me pics of that on twitter, i like when everyone shares that with me, matt. Reporter delaware rivera stipulate coming northbound on the righthand side of the screen heading to the taconypalmyra, the bridge is expected to be in the up position coming in in 15 minutes, if youre heading out right now head to the betsy ross bridge in the background instead. Coming off the bridge hopping on i95 southbound its a slow go from the betsy ross bridge through this point from allegheny into girard. Morning volume is starting to kick in if youre on the vine stre
Win yesterday. Were glad about that. Lets head over to david murphy, he has weather and karen has traffic, flashing lights. Reporter take a look at the eastern sky theres a dark part of the moon sliver of moon its pretty cool. We had rain overnight, perhaps you have bubbles of water on your car windshield or hood. We have plenty of sunshine. Some of the clouds to the west might make a run at us later. Temperature keeps dipping. 6 in philadelphia, 60 in allentown. Theres a bit of a breeze blowing around. At least these numbers are not as cool as where we were for much of last week. As we head out the door to catch the school bus or regular bulls, mid 60s at 7 00 a. M. Mainly clear and cool. 65 by 9 00. 67 by noon, 3 00 p. M. , 1 degrees thats the high this afternoon with a bit of a breeze. Tonight autumn arrives, the official arrival time is 10 29 the sun will be directly over the equator at that moment. Karen, when i step inside were looking for warmer air to return to the region later
Ill have the details when i come back in just a minute. Super saturday could be the biggest shopping day of the year, even bigger than black friday because christmas fall also in the middle of the week this year. Millions have one final weekend to get their shopping completed. Sales are expected to soar to ten billion dollars. The stores are ready for the shoppers. Have opened their doors around the clock to accommodate all the lastminute shoppers. A warning for shoppers this morning and the weekend and the days leading up to christmas. Police in cherry hill say they have seen a number of pick pocketing cases. Investigators say the woman in this surveillance picture here stole a womans wallet and racked up 14,000 in charges. The pick pocketers work in tandem, one distracts the shopper while the partner reaches into a purse on the shopping cart. The theives look for unattended handbags. If youre traveling this hole day season, a Worldwide Travel alert was issued yesterday, warning all a
Continue to surface. Some of us are below freezing this morning. We have Team Coverage of this arctic blast that is gripping us and much of the nation. Lets get the very latest. We have dave murphy outside to tell you how cold it is. Karen has traffic. Good morning. Good morning. Its flies to have a heavy insulated coat like the one channel 6 gives us. I also have the hear muffs on for the first time. Cold an bit on the windy side. Lets take a look at satellite. A couple thin clouds trying to clear the coast. My twitter follower christian in dauphin pennsylvania up by harrisburg reports 23 degrees. As you look at temperatures across the region we are all suffering a bit. Philadelphia is now officially into the upper 20s as we thought it would be, 23 in allentown, 23 in reading, 26 degrees in wilmington. 26 in trenton. Little better down the shore but there is a wind that is blowing through the region at about 15 to 20 Miles Per Hour right now. Maybe a little higher than that in some sp