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let's go over to matt pellman with the roads. >> reporter: i would love to help you. suburban traffic report, we were taking guesses going into the break which ramp will it be that will close this weekend. it's the westbound side of the conshohocken route 23 it's closing from 8:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. they will block off the ramp entirely, so if this is normally your ramp to get into conshohocken keep going out to gulph mills you can exit there or hop on the blue route and work your way into conshohocken from the in order. right now everything looks good on the schuylkill expressway. speaking of the blue route if you're heading north 476 on the northeast extension. overnight work we had north of quakertown is gone, a reminder on sunday morning, midnight to 6:00 a.m., they will close the southbound lanes of the northeast extension between quakertown and lansdale for a 6 hour period like they do sometimes. north hampton, bucks county they are closing alms house road between jacksonville road and hatboro road as they work on the drainage pipes. >>> plump stead, bucks county

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matt pellman remember to keep the sunscreen handy if you're going to the pool or the beach. we'll be back with the weekend call. >> reporter: you know i need to keep the sunscreen handy with this pail skin. we're drying out this morning, i know i drove through chester county there's a lot of standing water because of all the downpours. you'll see finds puddles as you head out. no issues on the schuylkill expressway or the boulevard. we had an earlier crash on southbound 309 near bethlehem pike near the split that's gone. eastbound near willow grove on the turnpike, the construction has cleared. there's construction taking out the left lane until late. a man has been beaten to death outside his philadelphia home. the action cam was on the scene north fairhill street. they found a 54-year-old man lying in a pool of blood outside his home. witnesses have told police they may have spotted the killer. >> responding officers got some information that a male was seen running from the victim south in the 2800 block of fair hail possible with some type of metal object in their hand.

. >> david murphy is here and matt pellman is in for karen rogers good morning. >> reporter: let's start you out on radar. as you look, it's easy to see where arthur is located. it came ashore as a category 2. it's back to 100-mile an hour winds which makes it a category one. we're seeing rain bands coming up from the storm. you can see on storm tracker 6 live double scan it's a little bit of steady rain passing northeast right like that through lancaster and reading and lehigh valley. another band possibly trying to come into the shore, although we may have to wait until a little bit later this morning until that becomes a big issue. we have the flood watch into friday afternoon. it will expire around most of these counties, but we'll leave it up in case there's other heavy bands that pop in. we have a rip current issue, remember if you get caught in a rip current, don't panic, swim parallel to the beach north or south, you'll get out of the current fairly quickly and you can bring yourself back to shore, that's the way to defeat a rip current. 74 in philadelphia, 72 in sea isle city. t

matt pellman if you have plans to be out on the town tonight you picked a great night for its going to be comfortable and fun weather. when i come back we'll talk about the the exclusive accuweather five-day forecast. the weekend call there are changes. overall, i'm digging this summer. good stuff, thank you, david. we're digging the traffic, the summertime volume we're seeing, this week's volume definitely has been lighter than normal. and so far this morning we're not seeing any problems even in the work zone at i-95 at cottman avenue. when i left you last evening we had a car fire in the southbound lanes. at this point this morning everything is clear and open and ready for you. also, no problems on the schuylkill expressway or the boulevard. our crash in abington along brookdale cleared out. westbound on the turnpike look good heading toward fort washington. watch out for a crash at 13 and dupont highway and hamburg road. camden county into burlington county watch out for continuing restrictions along 130 southbound between church road and browning road. >> we're following a breaki

matt o'donnell is off and erin o'hearn is joining us and matt pellman is in for karen. first off david will look at weather. good morning. >> good morning, guys, now we have clear skies overhead. maybe a couple clouds trying to filter in from the south during the morning rush hour. generally speaking is it will be fairly bright start out there and over all partly sunny skies today. 68 in philadelphia. 66 wilmington and 65 allentown and 60 trenton and 65 sea isle city. comfortable with 60s everywhere. once again it is summertime in philadelphia and will feel like this this afternoon. 81 by noon. high today 3:00 will be the 86 degrees. might feel humid as the day goes on and over the weekend. generally speaking not bad out there humiditywise of high of 6 through the afternoon. more humid air beginning tomorrow and eventually thunderstorms details in the 7-day. matt what about traffic. >> so far looking good on most of the roadways and highways included david like the schuylkill expressway sign open the westbound side though a little penndot activity partiallytic sticking

. >> karen rogers is in for david murphy and we have matt pellman with traffic. >> reporter: good morning, we have storm tracker 6 live double scan we are watching it today and tomorrow. at this early hour, we can see thundershowers and thunderstorms down to the southwest. in particular this cell that's crossing delaware looks like it will develop, as well. right now we'll see much of the region is dry we're watching the showers slowly move in. him this is nothing what we're going to expect today. this is lasts through tuesday evening we're expecting the storms with drenching rain today and tomorrow. the temperature is 75 degrees, it's warm and sticky. 72 in allentown, 73 in millville, new jersey. as you're heading out early today, expect i meant to be warm and rather -- expect it to be warm and rather humid. today we're looking at hot and humid high high of 901 degrees. i'll try to time out your evening commute, because we'll have trouble there. >> reporter: we are starting our monday morning with not so nice situations. on the garden state parkway we have an overturned vehicle near ware

matt o'donnell is off and erin o'hearn is joining us and matt pellman is in for karen. first off david will look at weather. good morning. >> good morning, guys, now we have clear skies overhead. maybe a couple clouds trying to filter in from the south during the morning rush hour. generally speaking is it will be fairly bright start out there and over all partly sunny skies today. 68 in philadelphia. 66 wilmington and 65 allentown and 60 trenton and 65 sea isle city. comfortable with 60s

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we have david in to do accuweather and matt pellman has traffic.cloudy skies we're on the humid side during yesterday's hot and humid afternoon. we have left overshowers to the south and west of us. some of this is pulling apart into chester county. we have showers in parts. cumberland and northern gloucester county. during the morning we have to allow for scattered showers. we had s

david is outside and matt pellman is in for traffic. good morning. >> reporter: we have clouds around, we have some sunny breaks. looks like we'll be dry as the rain up in the great lake states gets here tomorrow afternoon. it's warm, a tad muggy, 74 in philadelphia. 70 in allentown and 70 in wilmington and 70 in sea isle city. as we roll through the day, it will be a hot one, 77 by 9:00 a.m., noon, 85. 3:00 p.m., 92. the high of 93 hits around 4:00 p.m. we'll be in the upper 80s by 6:00 p.m., dry. a little bit more humid than over the weekend. it's one of those days where there's enough sun poking through where you want to keep the sunscreen handy. when i step inside we reintroduce the christmas idea a thunderstorm in the forecast. i'll have an idea where to expect that in the seven day. >> reporter: sometimes thing don't go according to plan that's what happened on the northeast extension this morning, they expected the northbound lanes to be reopened by lansdale. we had an overnight crash, actually two separate crashes, one involving

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matt pellman humidity kicks in. before the end of week we get one day in 90s and another day of strong storms. all ahead in the 7-day. >> you had nice warm for mid mek. >> surprise glare that you will be contending with as you travel eastbound, like the schuylkill expressway.ng with as you travel you see the vehicles here headed eastbound to conshohocken curve and into the sun glare. although westbound at the moment stacking more heavily as you head out to conshohocken ep and blue route just normal volume in both directions in addition to the software. still have wind taking out the right lane. in norristown an overnight crash basin street at green valley road. the ben franklin bridge this is a welcome relief. four lanes again coming into center city for the are you. might remember last week we had three available and it caused delays. back to normal westbound side. eastbound you're still without that right lane long term for construction. people better ton watch for a crash along make pound road. 42 northbound volu

. >> all right, karen is off, dave has weather and matt pellman has traffic. >> reporter: at least the airline has a sense of humor. the sun is coming up, it's comfortable, take a look at satellite and radar, the rain is off the coast. probably not too much coming today, maybe a pop-up shower or thunderstorm. and a lot of sunshine on the way early. wilmington, 67. 66 in trenton. 64 in allentown. 69 in sea isle city. as we go through the day it will be warm, 77 by 9:00 a.m., noon, 84. 3:00 p.m., that's the high, 87 degrees, slightly humid, 82 by 6:00 p.m. a slight chance of a pop-up shower or thunderstorm most of us that activity appears to be in south jersey or central delaware not so much southeastern pennsylvania. when i step inside great weather for saturday, things change in the second half of the weekend matt pellman. >> reporter: 87 degrees today that sounds good for that free 7-eleven slurpee on this 7/11. so far so good on i-95 in the on going work zone by cottman avenue. southbound go the tail lights. the roads are dry, no overnight construction. the volume will be lighter tha

moment, david murphy gets to go outside, it's a beautiful day and he has your accuweather and matt pellman is in for karen rogers. >> reporter: cool and beautiful we have sun ready to burst up over the horizon, it's behind me, the only clouds i see are over the coast. high pressure is coming in from the west. lots of sunshine and low humidity. as i said refreshing as you step outside. 63 degrees in philadelphia. how about 55 in allentown and reading. you get outside there, and it's like should i get a coat. 66 degrees in sea isle city. it will feel warmer in the afternoon, it is summer, after all. 71 by 9:00 a.m., 79 by noon. the high, 84 degrees will be a comfortable high with the humidity remaining low. if you have lance to go out on the town, it's going to be great. some of you may be thinking of an afternoon barbecue after work. not a bad day to get the grill fired up. very comfortable if that's your plan. when i step inside, i have the weekend call coming you mean. >> reporter: you're talking about the barbecue, does that mean an invasion, your subtle message, i'll be over later on. i

. >> let's go over to david and matt pellman is in for karen rogers good morning. >> reporter: it's not going to be too bad out there today. i expect sun and clouds through the morning. eventually we'll be on the look out for the precipitation move closer to us, we have a cold front out to the north and west, that will be tomorrow afternoon and only parts of the region. 73 in wilmington, 73 in allen up to, 72 in trenton. we have bumped up to 70 in 'sea isle city. it's not all that humid just yet. 77 degrees is the 9:00 a.m. temperature, 85 by noon, 92 by 3:00 p.m. today's high is likely to be 93. this is the way i do crossword puzzles. i do them in ink and i have to keep scratching over things. 93 is the high, we'll reach that around 4:00 p.m. thunderstorm chance comes back into play tomorrow, i'll have details on where that's going to happen. >> reporter: you need a pencil. good morning, david, i hope you had a nice holiday weekend. it is back to work for so many people this morning. as you head out and back to work, we have some spots for you to avoid. northeast extension right at lan

but first up, let's look at accuweather and traffic karen rogers is in for david murphy and matt pellman has traffic. >> reporter: we're looking at the temperatures in the suburbs, 58 degrees in martins creek, 59 in saint davids and kennett square. we're at 65 in center city. it is not as cool at the airport. 61 in browns mill. 59 in affirm ton, new jersey, and 62 -- in hammonton, new jersey. and 62 degrees in dover delaware. the dewpoints are in the 50s. it's nice and comfortable unlike the first part of the week. it will be a nice dry day and nice stretch for us in the weather. let's talk about how the numbers progress, 9:00 a.m., 73 degrees, partly sunny skies, noon, 79. 3:00 p.m., 83 that will be the high for the day, mix of clouds and sun, 6:00 p.m., 81. we have changes in the forecast for the weekend, matt. we'll talk about that in the seven day. >> reporter: i think we're moving in the right direction here. >> reporter: i like it. >> reporter: good morning, everyone, we're not moving in upper pits grove in salem county because of a crash that injured a person blocking off route 40

. >> let's go over to david murphy and matt pellman filling in for karen rogers. >> reporter: the big story is hurricane arthur pulling away from north carolina, still on a track to go close enough to our coast to provide a little rain this morning. currently there's not a whole lot going on related to arthur. we have a branch of rain in the northern and western suburbs that is producing steady rain in berks county, lancaster county and allentown. a couple of cells popping in along the coast that's it for now. as we take a look we have that flood watch in effect up until noon today just in case anymore cells pop in from that passing hurricane. not a lot of expected. all day there's an advisory for rip currents down the shore. if you get swept out to sea, don't panic, that's the first rule of thumb. all you have to do is swim parallel to the beach north or south, you'll get yourself back in, and swim near lifeguard stations today. all right. 74 degrees, still muggy as you survey the numbers. 76 by noon, a little rain around in the morning. noon, 77. maybe a few lingering showers, 3:00

we have david in to do accuweather and matt pellman has traffic. good morning. >> cloudy skies we're on the humid side during yesterday's hot and humid afternoon. we have left overshowers to the south and west of us. some of this is pulling apart into chester county. we have showers in parts. cumberland and northern gloucester county. during the morning we have to allow for scattered showers. we had storms last night and my twitter follower, miles in towning down, tweeted me these pictures in downingtown coming in from the north and west. you can see the heavy weather is off the coast and we'll get showers. hopefully we'll see the break in the clouds in the afternoon. 71 in wilmington. 68 in allentown. 69 in trenton, 73 in sea isle city. as we roll through the day, 735 degrees by 9:00 a.m. noon, 79 anticipate drying out. 84 by 3:00. that's the high. 81 degrees by 6:00 p.m. with increasing sunshine as the day goes on especially in the western suburbs and hopefully if philadelphia, as well. beautiful weather heading into the weekend and change during

david murphy is here, matt pellman is filling in for karen rogers good morning. >> reporter: let's check storm tracker 6 live double scan we have rain off the coast. a couple of showers popped up in chester county they may move into northern montgomery and southern berks. but most of the rain is gone. we're expecting rain today and tonight, some of it could be heavy. there's a flood watch posted for virtually the entire region. one to three inches of rain total from what we had last night and what we'll get later today and tonight. we'll get a brush by from arthur, friday morning. this will extend until friday at noon. this afternoon we had a late round of showers and thunderstorms in the overnight hours. now we have a cold front to our west still producing pop-up showers ahead of it, as that moves toward the east and starts interacting with the heating we'll looking at a round of drenching storms. 75 in philadelphia. 73 in allentown, 70 in dover. it's muggy again, as we roll through the day it's a sticky hot one. 79 degrees by 9:00 a.m. 86 by noon, 3:00 p.m., temperature is 89 i'm looki

good morning, everyone, 5:30, tam is off, nydia han joins us, karen is off, we have matt pellman and david, good morning. >> reporter: boy there's a lot going on in the weather today. we have a flood watch posted today into friday until noon because of heavy rain that's expected to come in later today and tonight. and arthur-related rain on friday morning. be careful of ponding an -- and puddling and flashing creeks and streams. we have a cold front that has yet to come through. ahead of it it is warm and huggy. line of precip doesn't look like much right now will fire up later today and tonight. drenchers on the way. 75 and mainly dry across the immediate philadelphia area. 74 in wilmington, 69 in millville. 72 in sea isle city. of course it's humid. today will be humid and relatively hot one, 79 degrees by 9:00 a.m. 86 by noon, 89 by 3:00 p.m. high of 90 by 4:00 p.m. and still in the upper 80s with the late day and evening thunderstorms on the way. by the way if we manage the 90 it will be the season's heat wave. hurricane arthur. it has become a hurricane just declared a half-hour

matt pellman in the traffic center with the latest. it looks like some trouble listened you. >> the cost for driving on the roosevelt boulevard, some extra time. costing you a few extra minutes. northbound off the schuylkill through 9th street, a spot that is normally busy, but this afternoon the outer drive here is blocked, northbound at 9th street because of a crash. you can see the fire crews and penndot and police on the scene. and everyone funneled into the inner drive north of broad street, it is slower than normal on the northbound side of the boulevard. eastbound of the schuylkill expressway and going through the tunnels a broken down tractor-trailer taking out the right lane and a row home fire in bridesburg, steer clear of that. and an earlier crash near broad street that is out of there, but delays on the vine. and back here on the ben franklin slow on the down side westbound into 8th and vine. in pottstown a crash near king street. on 202 in westchester the right lane blocked as they make repairs. and a crash by van buren s

accuweather and matt pellman has your traffic. >> reporter: good morning, it's a beautiful day ahead. let's look at the numbers right now. we're on the cold side. 60 degrees in quakertown. manners creek, 58. 59 in kennett square. temperatures below average. 65 degrees in the city. 6 is in browns mills. 57 on the boardwalk in ac and 61 in dover. storm tracker 6storm tracker 6 e scan. not showing a darn thing. we can see high pressure which is building in. we're going to have not just a nice day, but a nice stretch of weather. let's show you what it looks like through the day. 9:00 a.m., 73 degrees, noon, 79. 3:00 p.m., 83 degrees, mostly sunny skies, and 6:00 p.m. coming down from our high of 83, 81. what does the weekend look like. >> reporter: i think we deserve some beauty weather after what we dealt with in the middle of the week. i-95 southbound side we're stacked coming past the walt whitman bridge on down to broad street. it's late-running overnight construction, you can see the cones right here, they are funneling you down into one southbound lane, same with the northbound side

> the wait is over to get out of that terrible sticky weather, it's here, david has that and matt pellman is looking at the roads. >> reporter: we have sunshine getting ready to pop up over the horizon with the lack of any significant cloud cover around. there's a large area of high pressure that dominates us keeping us sunny and keeping the humidity low and knocking out the clouds. it's a gorgeous day ahead and a nice evening if you have plans out. if you're heading out to work or school, you might have summer classes. college kids summer session, sure. 60 degrees in wilmington. allentown, 56 degrees really cool and comfortable, low humidity everywhere across the region. 71 degrees by 9:00 a.m., 79 by noon. 3:00 p.m., 84 degrees that's going to be the high folks, a little bit below average, 81 degrees by 6:00 p.m. gorgeous day, nice evening. if you have lance to head out in the yard and do a barbecue. you picked a great night for it. 72 degrees by 8:00 p.m. comfortable. when we come back we'll talk about the weekend call, a couple of changes there. >> reporter: i took couple of summer co

. >> we have david murphy and matt pellman in for karen. >> reporter: good morning, guys we had rain skirt parts of the region in south jersey and delaware and one thunderstorm in the lehigh valley that's gone. we have clearing to the west, we expect partly sunny skies with a slight chance of a pop-up shower or thunderstorm in parts of the region today. 75 in philadelphia. 73 in wilmington. 70 in trenton. 73 in the city. in the 60s in reading and allentown. humidity not so bad here, but from philadelphia south it feels rather muggy. that will change a little bit during the day. as we roll through the day, warm, 77 by 9:00 a.m., noon, 83. i think we'll get a fairly early high around 86 it. it will strike around 2:00 p.m. before we slide back to 81. a slightly chance of a shower or thunderstorm. the best chance of that is down the shore or parts of south jersey or delaware. even in pennsylvania, keep a look out for that, i don't think it will be a whole lot. things get better we head toward the weekend. >> reporter: up, up, up, good morning, mr. murphy, things are looking better on the

rogers is off, we have matt pellman. >> reporter: good morning everyone we have cloud cover early, but we are expecting sunny breaks, run is off the coast. we're looking out for showers and thunderstorms as we move through the day most of us -- most of them will be down the shore and wilmington. areas to the north cooler, not as humid. from i-95 south we're feeling sticky this morning. 69 in sea isle city, currently. is you head outside the door, look for partly cloud skies mild, temperatures in the 70s between 6 and 8:00 a.m. 77 degrees by 9:00 a.m., still comfortable early in case you have plans to get out there and maybe do a jog, walk the dog or run errands. 83 by noon. as we go through the afternoon, 84 by 3:00 p.m. this 86 will slide in around 2:00 p.m. we'll see the temperatures fall a little bit. while we're looking at clouds and sun, matt pellman do keep in mind there's a chance of pop-up shower or thunderstorm as we roll through the day. probably not a lot of that activity. okay. >> reporter: the old noggen. i-95 the road is dry, no issues on i-95 or the vine street expresswa

let's head over to matt pellman.'s a new accident on i-95. >> reporter: looks like a bad one, as we look beyond the church steeple, you can see make out the emergency crews northbound on allegheny avenue. the crash involves an overturned vehicle. the right lanes are squeezing by the left lanes are blocked. choke out the parking lot north of the vine snakes up to allegheny avenue. southbound heavy from bridge to allegheny with the gaperfor sthia,actirtnewn aloent cs. o eyent ikweoran beautiful todayr: iditymorr ikweoran beautiful todayr: iditymorr woks lied ad humi with>> overao s > am loong i lightwntknow rit brdonquestintow en?re> alsog ,he inedwo ser foy to ssaly >>> then we are celebrating broadway and screen legend elaine stritch. six decades in showbiz, no one quite like her and the tributes just continue to pour in this morning. >> she was truly something else. >> no question about that. >>> first in this half hour the latest on our top story, the passenger jet shot down over ukraine. that area is a large debri

matt pellman? >> reporter: i know you are, it's your favorite day of the week. ready or not let's start the workweek. i say yes indeed, dreams are coming true on 202, but i may be overselling it just a bit. we have a new traffic pattern southbound between 252 and 401. you can see the traffic that used to move here in these lanes is off to the right side of the roadway on the fresh, smooth concrete, so, hey, that's exciting. the other exciting part of this is this our last construction pattern, the project is expected to wrap up in fall, as you may know the project will give us three lanes in each direction on 202 which will severely reduce the congestion we see through the rush hour in chester county. it's good stuff that's happening along 202, just a different traffic pattern to get used to this morning. elsewhere in chester county, parks burger, route 10 -- parks berg. a downed pole. in chester county, 23 is closed between country club and valley park road, stay on palings road or egypt road as the alternates. time for the commuter waze app. dead eye man says

morning, everybody, i'm matt o'donnell along with erin o'hern, tam is off, david is here and matt pellman is in for karen rogers. >> reporter: we have some breaks in the clouds, and we have rain up by toronto, this is in association with a cold front that will produce showers and thunderstorms tomorrow at the earliest. 75 degrees in philadelphia. 73 in allentown, 73 in reading. 70 in sea isle city and up the coast in atlantic city on the boardwalk. 73 by 6:00 a.m., 8:00 a.m., 75, fairly comfortable with humidity fairly low for now. as we roll through the day it gets hotter than over the weekend and a bit more humid, 75 degrees, okay to get out and run errands if you're doing that early. we have a fair amount of sun, so matt pellman sunscreen important if you head to the beach or the pool. >> reporter: did you have a nice weekend? >> reporter: yeah, it was nice. >> reporter: here we go back to work and back to reality and you'll expect backups, right now we have slowing on northeast extension approaching lansdale. we had a disabled vehicle and in the darkness a tractor-trailer comes along

. >> karenas weather and matt pellman has traffic. >> reporter: we're in the 50s this morning, 53 in quakertown. 56 in coatsville, 555 in kennett square and now only 60. the temperature dropped in center city. in south jersey you're looking at 50s in many of the communities like browns mills, cinnamon, 58. 58 in vineland and bridgeton and 58 in dover, delaware. starting off on the cool side and nice and bright. satellite and radar, showing hardly a cloud. as we look at the day ahead, the a.m., 73 degrees at least in the city. i think the suburbs will take longer to get into the 70s, noon we're up to 80. low humidity, 3:00 p.m., 85 that's our high today with mostly sunny skies and 6:00 p.m. coming down from that high at 83 degrees, how does weekend lookik what about the the poconos? that's coming up next. >> reporter: all right, karen, i might have to nap outside later today. good morning to you and good morning everybody, the action cam just arrived on the scene in southwest philadelphia. it's an overturned minivan that took down the pole and wires close to the payless car rental alo

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matt pellman is here. >> we could use a third lane, on the pennsylvania turnpike westbound side. they are blocked up ahead because of an overturned accident, two lanes by downingtown are absolutely parked, it's accident is two miles west of here, on the westbound side of the pennsylvania turnpike, i would not get farther west than valley forge and stick with the delays on the 202 south on the bypass west and 222, but that is not where you want to find yourself this afternoon. mlk blocked because of a downed tree and the kelly and schuylkill are alternates. 95 southbound by allegheny, a motorcycle crash taking out a lane and new hope, a crash with a dump truck towing construction equipment. street road is an possible alternate. three medical choppers are called to the scene of the accident. it turned into a busy, nasty afternoon out there. more to come on "action news" tonight. something was cooking in this montgomery county neighborhood, and it landed two young intruders in hot water. we'll explain. cecily tynan is live at the philadelphia zoo for you with this week's outdoor --

lets head to matt pellman in the traffic center. it's busy there. >> if are you feeling lonely, go for a drive on the schuylkill expressway you won't feel lonely anymore. this is the scene close to montgomery drive, busy in both directions, travel times should be 14 minutes oornl way between the blue route and the vine, an even half hour eastbound and 29 minutes westbound. the westbound delay due in part because of the roosevelt boulevard, off the schuylkill moving up to wissahickon, where we have the broken down fedex tractor trailer blocking the left lane. lets talk about our problems on 611, on ontario there was a fire there today and giving us detours on septa's route 16 bus and in oxville buck county on 611 easton road all lanes are blocked by uncle bob's self storage. mountain view drive, or beaver run road are possible alternates around that accident. we'll check it again rick and monica in the next half hour. >> thank you. more to come on "action news" for you. a moving company, the focus of an "action news" investigation, r

continued problems on the northeast extension let's go over to matt pellman filling in for karen.y is over and the fun is over, and there's no fun on the northeast extension. this gray vehicle struck the median barrier happened after midnight and the tractor-trailer came along and struck the disabled vehicle. seven hours later without the northbound lanes of the northeast extension at lansdale. everyone forced off, the better bet would be to stay on the northbound side of 309. the other big accident in bear, delaware. happened after 2:30 a.m. a truck carrying yogurt and hummus overturned at route 40 pulaski highway and school bell road stay with us on 13 to get around this one. >> live picture, the delaware river getting hotter this week. let's go outside to david murphy. yes it is, it will wind up a little more humid, 75 degrees, cloud cover overhead and sun is trying to break through in philadelphia, currently. all the numbers are in the mid 70s. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast shows a high of 93 it will be hotter than over the weekend, gradually more humid. hot and

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matt pellman in the traffic center with an update. >> we have some sort of problem, and this afternoon it's a broken down tractor trailer, fedex truck we are watching here on the roosevelt boulevard extension northbound side by wissahickon en, taking out the left lane, cars stacking up and trying to swerve on the right side of the roadway to get around it, it's causing a substantial and heavier than normal delay in this busy spot on the boulevard northbound coming off the schuylkill expressway to that point at wissahickon is blocked. >> and a fire in north philadelphia, at north broad and ontario, it's causing delays on septa's route 15 bus. in charles town township, look for a crash on phoenixville pike with the normal heavy stuff on the southbound side of 202 and oxville the awful head-on collision earlier this afternoon and that continues to close 611, easton road at uncle bob's self storage. stick with beaver road as an alternate. and inmers her county, a crash blocking the northbound lanes of business 1 at lake drive. stick with princeton drive or route 1 as an alternate. we'll ch

. >> carnal is in for karen is in for david, pel sell sell -- matt pellman has traffic. >> reporter: we're watching dry conditions in philadelphia, we're looking at the showers heading toward the i-95 corridor. in dover, delaware we have a cell that's starting to develop and cape may, south of atlantic city, as well. showers and thunderstorms developing, but these will become more plentiful later today. that's why the national weather service has a flash-flood watch in effect not just today, but through tomorrow, as well. starts at noon and lasts through tomorrow evening. we could see one to three inches of rain with the storms as they move through. the temperature, 75. feeling sticky. le in the low 70s in the lehigh valley. 70 in trenton. beach haven and 68 degrees on the boardwalk in ac. the our high today, a hot and humid 91 degrees. we'll see sunshine, 9:00 a.m., 81. him noon, 86. a shower or thunderstorm at any point. i think especially from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. that's when we see the storms develop. 91 by 3:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m., you're in the upper 80 with a chance of the storms

they are getting ready for the 4th of july festivities. 4th of july forecast david murphy and matt pellman filling in for karen rogers. >> reporter: hurricane arthur is barrelling up the coast and still on a track that will take it well off our coastline. the closest that we have right now in terms of rain is off to the north and west ahead of a frontal boundary we've been dealing with, not a whole lot of rain directly from the storm a little bit spinning off through cape may and atlantic county. not a whole lot right now. as we go into the morning and the afternoon, we're looking at the flood watch it's still up for south jersey and delaware, because that's where if we get any bands from arthur that's where we would see them. we have an issue with rip currents with the storm off our shore. remember if you get caught in a rip current. don't panic, keep your wits, and swim north or south and parallel to the beach, and you will get out of the rip currents and get back to shore. 73 degrees is the current temperature. cloudy skies, a little bit damp in spots as you just saw. as we roll through

. >>> lets go live now to matt pellman in the traffic center, we know there is a lot of problems out there. >> reporter: this could be going better. chopper 6 hd remains live over the ben franklin bridge, the base of the bridge in old city, as you come off the vine street expressway and 6th street, this is the entrance to our good buddy ben, not looking good because of an earlier overturned truck accident. a spill there and sand on the roadway, with just that one left lane getting by we are dealing with major gridlock, check out the streets here, 5th 6th and 8th. just a solid line of traffic on the vine from the schuylkill through this point at the exit for the ben franklin bridge. it's enough to make you want to scream, you know we all scream for ice-cream. there is a broken down ice-cream truck on the schuylkill expressway approaching spring garden street, in the backlog, on 76 eastbound, is the whole way from king of prussia through this point where the ice-cream truck is on the shoulder into the vine. and 9 is heavy past tasker, through girard. mid-day construction there ran late

we turned it on over now to matt pellman live in the traffic center with the latest on this. and a lot of people taking 95 home today. >> 95 northbound, this is our one stretch of roadway you want to avoid this afternoon, the northbound side from philadelphia international airport and broad street, this is what started off the mess, this accident involving the dump truck mising a wheel now, they had all three lanes blocked for a time at the girard point bridge and then the backlog from the initial accident, there was a second accident on 95 northbound right by philadelphia international airport it too is taking out the left side of the roadway in the inner drive and police remain on the scene. you come north on 95, 420, the initial accident on the girard point bridge, the better bet is to sit through the delay on i-95 northbound and bail for the platt bridge, use that to get to the schuylkill expressway to the vine and then by the betsy ross bridge the normal afternoon delays at just 18 miles per hour, in mercer county, we see chopper 6 the crash at princeton pike southbound

. >>> matt pellman is here now from the traffic center. >> it would be a busy ride home because of a holiday weekend and the world cup, but this is the case here on 95, 413 and business 1 and it's a crash taking out the left lane, southbound traffic is heavy from route 1 in bucks county on to 413, a disabled vehicle on conshohocken state road is gone, and a crash on the lincoln drive, northbound side by gypsy and rittenhouse, heading towards hatfield, by hill town crossing shopping center, and king of prussia at north gulf road at kirk avenue and in burlington county, a two vehicle wreck blocking 206 and powell and 38, we'll check it again in the next half hour. >> thanks matt. >>> more ahead on "action news," an important recall for parents of newborns, greco is pulling a million car seats from stores. and summer means an increased risk of asthma attacks and ali gorman will show us the program keeping children safe this season. >> we'll check back in with cecily tynan and the hot forecast. >>> greco is recalling 2 million car seats after parents had problems getting their children o

karen is off, let's go to matt pellman for a look at the roads. >> reporter: hey, matt, we made it toworse, normal volume on the eastbound side side as you head into girard avenue. westbound is slow in the normal spots. a couple of issues a downed tree in langhorne mannor is blocking mannor. park gets you around that. downed wires near broad and cyprus. in northern delaware there's a downed tree blocking mendhal hall road. pretty easy morning, matt. >> sounds good, thank you, matt. let's take a live look at beautiful center city skyline, not a cloud in sight. >> reporter: take a look at numbers, 72 degrees in philadelphia. some spots in the upper 60s including allentown and sea isle city. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast shows a warm afternoon high of 87. maybe humid, but not horrific. nice and warm for the most part we're looking at the potential of a pop-up shower or thunderstorm. most of that south of philadelphia partly sunny saturday, gorgeous, 87. sunday it's more humid, hot high of 90. afternoon thunderstorm possible, monday and tuesday strong storms are likely. >>

. >> let's go to matt pellman who's filling in for karen and a look at the roads. >> reporter: lighterormal volume on this thursday morning. 295 coming out of the gloucester county heading to camden county there is a crash on 42. speeds in the teens coming from 45. we're seeing delays on the septa regional rails in fact 20 minutes on the media/elwyn line because of signal problems like we often see in hot weather. >> download the ♪ >>> smash hit song, "slapstick" from nkto. it is the longest-running single in the top 40. and guess what? the band is here live this morning, traveling all night through those storms to get here. and they made it. >> they made it. might be a little sleep-deprived. but aren't we all? it's 7:30, as we say good morning, america. welcoming you back. >>> coming up this half hour, "gma" investigates. the smartphone protective cases. you and i have been walking around for weeks with the cracked phones. if you drive over it, you're going to have a problem. that's gio. he's testing them all. one cheaper, one pricier. >>> and cookout dangers, heading into the july 4t

. >> lets get a check of roads with matt pellman in the traffic center. >> he looks so proud that is so nice. we have bumps in the road for the way home on this hump day, big delays on the pennsylvania turnpike westbound because of overturned vehicle crash we told you about in the last half hour, five miles west of the downingtown interchange, this is the camera right by the interchange and we are looking at a five mile parking lot in the westbound lanes of the pennsylvania turnpike, you want to avoid it like the plague, if you are headed towards lancaster, use 100 north to 23, that is the official detouring route, i would stay farther away like 322 and the 30 bypass westbound. we'll keep you posted on that. and blocked is the mlk because of a downed tree from earlier today. the kelly drive is open as is the schuylkill and it doesn't look too terrible. a downed tree closing delaware, and walnut green road gets you around it. and by the delaware memorial bridge, a fuel spill, and three left lanes getting by in newcastle. a crash in cinnaminson closing it in cherry hill and we expect t

karen is off, matt pellman is here with traffic, the schuylkill expressway is always making us go grrrter: there's always something on the schuylkill expressway. we have a broken down vehicle on the eastbound side between the boulevard and montgomery drive. police assisting, eastbound is stacked from belmont to montgomery. westbound is busy past montgomery to gladwyn. in northeast philadelphia, traffic light troubles along welsh road at bluegrass road by the shopping center. throughout the day today and tomorrow, in north hampton, bucks county. alms house road is shut down for construction. stay on bristol. bristol is the alternate for lime kiln in chalfonte. that's the ben franklin bridge trying to back up in the municipality today. david murphy has the accuweather forecast. >> reporter: i expect the humidity to dip in northern areas and lastly down the shore. speaking of which we have thunderstorms to deal with at the shore, it's pushing rve pushing -- atlantic county and cape may county. 75 degrees in philadelphia. and muggy. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast high of 86 c

lets get a check of the roads with matt pellman in the traffic center. looking at jams out there. >> reporter: we sure were, you may be better off on one of those riding lawn mowers, the schuylkill expressway westbound has been very crowded and very slow for the drivers in the cars from university through this point at girard avenue to past gladwyne where we had an earlier crash, the travel time of 36 minutes to get to conshohocken. better news on the mass transit front, we are back to normal, on all the mass rails and the trolleys are back to running normal this afternoon. in and chester county, they reopened route 23 between white horse road and paulings road. we have downed trees blocked 113 in chester county, and in delaware county, peco is working on downed wires in upland and there is a crash along edgewood avenue. >> thank you matt. we'll be right back with the exclusive accuweather seven-day fore ♪ ♪ fill their bowl with the meaty tastes they're looking for, with friskies grillers. tender meaty pieces and crunchy bites. in delicious chicken, beef

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let's head over to matt pellman you say there's a minor accident on 309. >> reporter: for the most partor crash southbound near welsh road. all the lanes are open and the traffic is moving fine. there's a crash in montgomery township richardson road county line road. up in the lehigh valley, we're without macarthur road because of an overnight crash. on the schuylkill expressway, i-95 normal morning delays, here's i-95 tinicum township, southbound, they did milling overnight, watch out for a rough road surface there. tam. >> let's take a live look at sky 6 looking out after center city. you say hang in there it will get better. >> reporter: it will be brighter later, we had a couple of sprinkles and showers and most of it is over later this morning. 72 in philadelphia. 68 in allentown. the humidity is in the process of dropping 0 of. the high of 84, beautiful, friday, saturday not bad, either, tam. >> sounds good. we'll send you back to "g.m.a." and see you in 30. ♪ someone like you >>> kings of leon right there and they are going to be right here tomorrow central park, our big party in

. >> good morning, everyone, 5:30, david is off, karen rogers is here along with matt pellman good morningeporter: it's starting off cool. we're down to 54 in quakertown. 55 in oxford. 58 in browns mills. 57 in vineland. 58 in dover, delaware. so doesn't feel like july. satellite and radar showing we're nice and clear. that's one of the reasons we've allowed clear skies that has dropped the temperatures even more. we had cloud cover in south jersey and delaware. nice and bright 66 in the city. 8:00 a.m., 71 degrees, as you look at the day ahead. today it's a good one. low