. >>> and erika a bala cynwyd woman with the devastating lung disease using her voice to help others and new she's

you can see the sheets of rain coming down in bala cynwyd. we are getting updated power outage numbers. ppl electric has more than 1,100 outages in lehigh county and more than 360 in northampton county. nbc 10's matt delucia has been checking on travel conditions for us. he joins us live from storm force 10. matt, earlier you were in chester county. now you've moved to conshohocken. explain to us what you've been seeing. >> we were in chester county as i mentioned earlier. now we move closer to the philadelphia area. let's give you a view outside our dashcam here. we're on 76 east. we just passed conshoho we are now heading toward the philadelphia area through bala cynwyd in just a couple minutes here. traffic is moving quite steadily out here. a little bit of ponding on some of the shoulder areas of 76. really not all that bad right now. i can tell you about 2:30 3:00 this morning some of the heavier bands of rain were coming in the area on the right now. you can see the ponding off to the shoulder. we were driving through this area hitting

check out the downpour just outside our studios in bala cynwyd montgomery county not too long ago. this is a look inside the blue rock minor league stadium. you look closely, you can see water pooling on the tarp covering the fields. >>> two people are dead from this car fire on 76. what it means for your early morning commute. >>> this is nbc 10 news today. i'm rosemary connors. right now, a flood watch is in effect for much of our area. let's get the details from meteorologist bill henley. good morning, bill. >> all the heavy rain we had over the weekend plus the rain we had yesterday and we're getting more rain in the area. there have been heavy downpours with fast-moving thunderstorms. a first alert for this morning, a flood threat is still with us flood advisories and watches are still in effect as you mentioned, potential for flash flooding this morning, ponding, low-lying surfaces and streams are at issue this morning. thanks to the heavy rainfall that is quickly moving through the area. now it's light rain from philadelphia into the western suburbs. the heaviest rainfall is

a cell, settled right over the border between the city and bala cynwyd. a time lapse from sky six shows one of the cells moving through center city, weather in the extreme. >>> it is tuesday night and the big story on "action news" tonight is another tuesday night of destructive storms, race ago cross the tri-state area and once again they caused serious damage. >>> this is video from chester county specifically from west goshen and honey brook. the government will to have decide if communities and suburban philadelphia suffered rotational wind or not but whatever they were, they damaged homes and brought down trees and power lines. the meteorologist cecily tynan has latest facts and figure from accu weather and sharrie williams has extraordinary images sent to us by you our viewers but lets start with lehigh valley correspondent walter perez in coplay bureau. it looks like that area got the worst of it tonight. >> reporter: it sure seems that way jim. sometimes pictures tell better story then i ever could. you could see this big tree toppled over this tr

fender-bender here in bala cynwyd. city avenue right here near ramps for schuylkill expressway.if you use patco high speed line give yourself extra time and grab a new schedule. they have a new timetable that went into effect yesterday and that will impact both the morning and the afternoon trains for the next couple of months, right now in problems, out of the gate, septa's 5101, 102 they are using shuttle buses, chris and lauren back to you. >>> david sweat back in prison after being released from the hospital. >> this time he is housed in a maximum security prison in new york. he will reportedly be staying in the infirmary under 24 hour supervision after that, he will stay alone in the cell, confine for 23 hours a day, on suicide watch. sweat and fellow inmate richard matt escaped june the sixth. federal agents killed matt two days before police shot and captured sweat on june 28th. >>> congress will return back to work tomorrow after they face a work load of deadlines. lawmakers trying to avoid another shut down as funding deadline approaches september 30th. also on the agen

sheets of rain corp manying down at our studios here in bala cynwyd. ppl has more than a thousand outages in lehigh county. and more than 340 in northampton county. combine that with first energy reporting more than 720 outages in northampton county. we're also getting a look at some of the damage in whitehall township. a ppl crew was on scene where a tree was knocked down. this is everhart road. another landed on a pickup truck in north catasauqua. the app is free for your cell phone or tablet. >>> it's a historic step and it's expected today in u.s./cuba relations. at any moment now president obama is said to announce that the countries have agreed to open embassies in each other's capitals. the two countries agreed to restart diplomatic relations. u.s. embassy in havana is expected to open later this month. nbc news will have a special report when president obama makes his announcement. we'll bring that to you live when it happens. three people were killed after this car crash. it burst into flames at the schuylkill expressway early this morning. ou

this downpour happened just outside our studios in bala cynwyd, montgomery county. >>> we're in storm force 10 tracking the rain as it moves on out of here. this is nbc 10 news today. i'm rosemary connors. >> i'm vai sikahema. it's wednesday, july 1st right now. >> i heard you say july 1st. i thought is vai right? >> let's get to nbc 10 first alert meteorologist bill henley. bill? >> vai, june is over and so are the big storms and the rain is quickly moving out of here. just as quickly as the heavy downpours arrive with thunderstorms overnight, we're seeing it come to an end in philadelphia, cloudy skies. the first alert just expired, the flood threat diminishing. still a few rain drops in the air area. mercer county and new jersey trenton, hamilton seeing light rain in browns mills and at the shore, atlantic city is getting light rainfall but not the big storms we had overnight. temperatures have dropped into the 60s and low 70s. 70 at philadelphia international. 67 in trenton, 68 in wilmington. we will see improving conditions as the morning goes on the clouds will thin out. by 11:0

. >> we head outside now to the nbc 10 studios in bala cynwyd to talk to sheena parveen about this heat and humidity. you are right in the middle of it. >> it is just as hot outside as our maps are showing, of course when you factor in the humidity little bit of relief in the shade but since there's not much of a breeze you don't get the best relief you are probably better off in air conditioning. on a day like today where temperatures are in the low 90s and tomorrow we expect the mid 90s. that's going to give us the start of a heat wave. we have a heat wave starting today. now the humidity is going to be making it feel hotter outside so as we go into tomorrow and especially thursday we could have areas feeling closer to 100 degrees. we don't just expect three days of this which is a heat wave. we expect several days of 90 degree plus temperatures. so it is going to stay hot for quite awhile. a live look outside, center city 91 degrees is the temperature but the humidity is making it feel three degrees hotter. feels more like 94 degrees. over the next few days that humidity will make it

one little problem to tell but, in bala cynwyd, this is old lancaster road at north latches lane andhere is an accident there. so watch out that area closely. still green on the maps but we will continue to look for any problems on the the roadways, that we have over the next few hours but right now we are all clear, chris and lauren. >> thank you. >>> lets get to this right off the top 59:32. investigators investigators say they have no evidence but a lone gunman was level in the deadly shooting of four marines in chattanuga, tennessee yesterday. investigators are trying to figure out motive but figuring out if this could have been an act of terrorism. that gunman, has been identified as mow hamel youssef abdulazeez of kuwait. there is no indication that the 24 year-old had been under investigation by fbi or, radar, at the time of the shooting. in addition to the marines killed three other people were reported wounded shall including a sailor who was seriously hurt. >>> here at home police in west fill and investigating the death of the drexel grad found dead inside of her own apart

emily kramer-golinkoff lives in bala cynwyd. the champions of change program was created to feature people in this country who empower and inspire members of their communities as emily has done here. she talked about her organization on her website. >> we are at heart a family organization that is being propelled by a community that keeps getting bigger. and we're one family and there's a lot of other families just like us. >> she is an amazing woman. does so much for the cystic fibrosis community. last year the white house launched the president's precision medicine initiative with the goal of using research and technology to focus on individualized treatment. >>> now your nbc 10 first alert weather. >> a steamy start this morning, warm, too. 78 degrees at 4:27. the flags are blowing. that's more mugginess coming in. could fuel showers and possibly thunderstorms already tracking showers moving across pennsylvania this morning. >>> drivers, listen up. you'll be digging for more change in your console soon. it will cost you more

. >>> yesterday's event was held at the bala golf club in bala cynwyd.'re too old to be jordan. >> whoa. >> that took -- >> nice work. >> that took 100 up 57 takes. [laughter] >> there it goes again. looks good. >> looked great matt. as we putt, putt on our way into work this morning, so far so good on the schuylkill expressway. westbound some midday work today, tomorrow and thursday. watch out for crews roving about between south street and city avenue in the west lanes of schuylkill during the day midday. probably better off on the mlk drive or kelly drive. they began tearing up a couple roads in the city. market street between 30th street and city hall as well as south broad i saw the rough road surface as they started their work. watch out for those restrictions during the overnight and the rough ride around the clock. mass transit though on time so far on this tuesday. karen. >> storm tracker6 live double scan showing we've got some heavy rain through parts of our region. we want to go in a little tighter right now. we're seeing it in elmer where we

. >> reporter: from her home in bala cynwyd she started emily's entourage about raising money about cystic fibrosis. it has contributed more than 1.5 million-dollar for research on the rare mutation that is threatening her life. >> we're really trying to buy time, so that there is a future where i can benefit from. we're running out of time report report her time fighting cystic fibrosis will be recognized by the president's precision medicine initiative that is encouraging research on targeted treatments and honoring people like emily who will be among nine awarded as champions of change. >> my hope is that emily's entourage, and this precision medicine initiative will lead to a break through that gives me, you know, a future. >> reporter: now emily says research evolving from research precision medicine has potential to save her and tens of thousands of other patients. we have more information about her entourage and the white house honor on cbs philly to the come and i will put that on my facebook and twitter feed. emily says she's excited about meeting the president tomorrow, at the wh

he had a putt off with local state troopers at bala golf club in bala cynwyd. camp cadet shows 80 teenagers from delaware, montgomery and philadelphia counties what it is like to be in law enforcement. did he make it? yes. (applause). >> time for accuweather going from fairly what many to really hot. >> yes you'll feel the humidity and especially the storms firing up. it's dry through philadelphia, most of south jersey and our western suburbs in pennsylvania but down in delaware we are tracking some light to moderate rainfall. we'll go in tighter on street level of storm tracker six and some showers in dover and also if you're traveling south along route one into milford and these showers will more than likely drift over into southern sections of new jersey as we go throughout the rest of the evening hours. so, we are allowing for some spotty activity this evening but things look to be more numerous as we get into tuesday. here's the picture outside the action cam was outside earlier this afternoon its a gorgeous shot in washington square. water fountain there

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. >> bala cynwyd. >> however you want to say it, but very close that one tricky. so ball akin wood. close. >> getting there. >> this one is kind of trick one. passyunk. >> exactly now, you can say passyunk or parkyoung but both work. >> look at you. >> okay. >> and you already know, we throw it up anyway. >> schuylkill. >> i can't spell this one. >> i can't! >> i was making my note, not spelling it that way at all. >> do you know thousand say it, you get a pass. >> this one always issue in the morning rush? >> right now still early things actually looking pretty good in fact, speaking of the schuylkill. >> there go. >> hoaxer hey, good morning everybody, up see i'll walk over here, tell you what's going on, taking a look at the schuylkill expressway right now, we move in the eastbound direction at montgomery drive. and you can see right now things looking pretty good. in fact, it is kind of like just a ghosttown out there. the schuylkill expressway, you won't hear me say that very often. but right now, plenty of roadway, stillman offering around of course another stretch for you. we

that's of course in bala cynwyd. the power outages in the lehigh valley, ppl electric has more than 1,100 outages in lehigh county and more than 360 in northampton county. ppl has a handful of customer still in the dark in berks county. matt delucia is checking on road conditions for us. he's live in storm force 10 in chester county. you were in downingtown the last half hour. where are you now? >> we are in coatesville right now, on lancaster avenue out here. we'll show you from our dashcam here, you can see that the roads are still fairly wet right now. we have a little bit of a drizzle at the moment. not as bad as it was in the past couple of hours in terms of the steady rainfall we've seen. every now and then it picks up a little bit. for the most part it's started to ease up. not seen too much flooding. right about at this point there's a creek in this area in in fact over this little overpass right before this traffic light here. clearly there's no flooding as a result of that. as we approach now first avenue h

her name is emily crammer a 30 year-old bala cynwyd woman whose advanced cystic fibrosis inspired her to find new treatment for the the disease and in the process she has raised one and a half million-dollar, an effort recognized by president obama a. so this is a big deal. today em lie license one of nine people as people awarded champions of change as part of the precision medicine initiative that encourages research on targeted treatment. through her organization, emily's entourage she's buying time for a medical break through that she hopes to benefit from. despite losing 65 percent of her lung function her voice as an advocate is as strong as ever. >> my hope that is emily's entourage and this precision medicine initiative will lead to a break through that gives me, you know, a future. >> emily says research is evolving from precision medicine and has potential to save her and tens of thousands of other patients but of course as you heard her say time is running out so she hopes that today's honor will raise more awareness and money for that cause. you can find out more about emi

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there's a crash to watch out for in bala cynwyd at old lancaster road at latches lane. we're getting word of a cash in warminster, eastbound lanes of bristol and jacksonville road. use bristol instead of alms house, the westbound side closed for the next few months. it was eastbound that was closed before. stay on street road that's probably the best bet. in delaware we had the crash and tractor-trailer fire in christiana that's off to the side, so the lanes are open and looking good on a friday morning. >> we begin with breaking news, a domestic fight that injured a child overnight. the fight started with a man and a woman. the fight escalated and the woman jumped into the jeep with a small child and took off hitting a group of people and two parked cars. she came to a stop when she crashed into a fence the driver and small child and three pedestrians suffered injuries, but are in stable condition. >>> breaking two men are rushed to the hospital after a drive-by shooting in north philadelphia. this happened at 2:00 a.m. near north front and west clear field streets. po

one of them is from bala cynwyd. >> more about our local champion. >> she's an amazing young woman. >> emily kramer is a young woman trying to save the lives of others and her own. she was honored at the white house for all that she's doing to change how cystic fibrosis is researched and treated. you can see her right there on stage in the yellow sweater. one of only nine people being honored today. she's a co-founder of emily's entourage. emily does more than just help raise money. she even donates her own cells for research. outside the white house today, she told us how honored she is for today's)invitation. >> it's exhilarating, it's been totally surreal. i feel deeply honored, the stories and people, the other champions of change are so inspiring, and it's really really powerful to be here and i'm so honor eded. >> emily's entourage has raised over $1 million in the last four years. one person really making a difference. >> headed in the right direction. >> incredible amount she's donating her own cells is really impressive. >> renee, thank you. >>> the doctor is in. they will be

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bala cynwyd also the wynnefield area of philadelphia.o just some potent storms that bubbled up during the heat of the day. overnight, there's still could be a few scattered rumbles of thunder and heavy rainfall especially north and west of the area but we start to get a break early tomorrow morning but more activity could pop up during the heat of the day. much more on the timing of that and a look ahead to your holiday forecast coming up. >> goodness. so much to talk about. remember stay ahead of the storm with our fox 29 news app. you'll see live radar and get alerts sent right to your phone it's free to download search for it in the apple and google play stores. >>> police are on the hunt for a group of guys they say held up a bank in chestnut hill tonight. police say it happened just before 7:00 o'clock at a td bank on the 8600 block of germantown avenue. investigators say five men entered the bank at least one had a gun they demanded cash. they were all wearing hoodies sunglasses and hats. they made off with seven grand accordingly

nbc 10 in bala cynwyd earlier. boy, was it humid out there. some wet changes could be ahead. >> let's check in with first alert meteorologist sheena parveen. where's the threat of storms? >> everyone pretty much has the threat of seeing storms this evening but i think it will be maybe an hour or two before we actually see a few more starting to develop. aside from the dark clouds we were mostly dry. live look at the radar. most of the storms off to our west and southwest but locally, we have a few showers flairing up through parts of northampton county and also in new castle county couple very small showers developing. then moving into sussex county in delaware. from maryland that's where we have one thunderstorm. we will watch the progression of these storms as we go through the rest of the evening. but a wider view shows the area of low pressure off to the west. that's creating all the thunderstorm activity off to our west and south. locally, we have been on the drier side of this. i think this evening we should at least start to see a few m

thirty year-old bala cynwyd woman is being honored for her efforts in finding new treatment options forstating disease. today she will go to d.c. as one of nine people recognized by the white house as champions of the change specifically for her work with emily's entourage which has raised one and a half million-dollar so far. at ward will be presented to emily as part of the president's precision medicine initiative that encourages research on targeted treatments. >> my hope is that emily's entourage and precision met initiative will lead to a break through that will give me a future. >> emily says presearch from precision medicine has potential to save her and tens of thousands of other cf patients but time is running out so she hopes today's honor will raise more awareness and money for this cause. if you'd like to help emily's even rage or learn more about her honor head to our web site at cbs philly.com. i thought it was interesting that with cf, so often awe peer healthy people cannot tell that anything is wrong but this is a serious serious illness she wants to raise awareness. >

i'm right outside the nbc 10 studios in bala cynwyd where temperatures feel more like the mid 90s because of the humidity. it will keep feeling hotter through this week so we are talking about a heat wave in the forecast and not just a couple days but several days of 90 degree temperatures. the heat wave is actually going to be starting today with temperatures already hitting the low 90s and it will be feeling close to 100 degrees at least one day this week with the humidity and several days of 90 degree temperatures even as we go through the weekend. we are at 94 in northeast philly, 90, philadelphia. 91 in chester springs. it feels about three to five degrees hotter with the humidity. actual temperature is 91 in allentown, in reading. 90 in blue bell. closer to the shore, temperatures about the mid 80s. 88 a little farther in in millville. 86 dover. 90 degrees in newark. the future feels-like temperature when you factor in the humidity take a look at what happens. overnight, we won't feel any cooler than about the 70s. by 10:00 tomorrow morning, we are already going to be feeling like t

we shot this just outside of our studios in bala cynwyd, montgomery county.he rain is out of the picture. now we're seeing some sunshine. the clouds thin out during the day. it will be a warm afternoon. still mostly cloudy skies at cape may. that's a live view from the marquis de lafayette. clouds, yes. rain, no. the rain is you don't of the picture for the rest of the morning. just a slight chance of an isolated shower this afternoon. 71 in philadelphia trenton at 68 and 07 in wilmington. >>> remember you can get the latest weather updates and storm alerts with our nbc 10 news app. download it for free on your smartphone or tablet. jessica boyington is keeping an eye on the traffic cameras out there and watching what's happening on mass transit. jessica? >> yes, rosemary we're dealing with from earlier storms we're dealing with weather-related delays. on amtrak suspended between philadelphia and harrisburg and the northeast corridor dealing with delays between washington and philadelphia. as well as septa dealing with delays and suspensions. service is suspe