67 year-old north philadelphia woman and a eight two-year old northeast philadelphia woman. in addition to those four deaths during this current heat wave, there have been four other heat-related deaths this year. >>> remember, city has a heat line to help if you are having trouble in the extreme temperatures, health department nurses are manning the phones, the number 215-765-9040. you will also find more information on fox 29.com. >>> in berks county new information about a family of five killed in the murder/suicide, the district attorney's office says father and husband mark short was the one to pull the trigger on his wife, megan and their three children. leana, mark junior and willow before turning the gun on himself. fingerprint and note left behind provided clues in the case. police say couple was breaking up and megan was set to move out the day she and the kid were killed. berks county community has been immediately gripped by grief. >> these children were young and whenever we lose youthful, innocent human beings, it is never easy for a community to recover from t

philadelphia.the suburbs, scattered clouds right now. 79 degrees at this hour. king of prussia is mostly cloudy but we're about to see sunshine. just a few minutes away from the sun coming up. the temperatures will be coming up from the 70s in the lehigh valley and delaware. you will see sunshine, 90s this afternoon, 95 degrees at the lehigh valley. 96 in new jersey, while the shore reaches into the middle 80s. it will feel like it's in the upper 90s this afternoon. the lehigh valley and the suburbs, most likely to see scattered thunderstorms this afternoon. jessica boyington has an update from the first alert traffic center. >> camden, admiral wilson boulevard around 676, they just started moving this camera around. maybe something that's reported in the area. right now we're looking at these lanes over here, these cars are headed toward philadelphia, toward the philadelphia bridges like the ben franklin. no big problems or delays right now. we'll check in on whatever they're zooming into. northbo

now here in philadelphia it's a different story.by 7 o'clock, 79 and probably still somewhat humid by 10 o'clock with a temperature of 81. by noon or so, though, points north all way down to the i-95 corridor for the most part should start feeling a little better humidity-wise. it will be a little humid today but not as humid. the higher humidity air is going to be shoved down by the shore. 92 is today's high in philadelphia. it is going to be a hot one even with the lower humidity level. all green aircraft at the airport. no rain spotted in any of our most commonly destinations. matt and tam. >> thank you david. >>> a couple in china somehow managed to survive a crash. watch your screen and you'll see why this is incredible. keep an eye on the van driving in the center of the screen. >>> as it pulls into the intersection a cement trip flips right on top of the couple's vehicle. the strangers rushed over to the crushed van desperately trying to free the passengers. rescues had to use a forklift in order to get them out of that vehic

his first time in philadelphia, since being traded. now the question is how much love will we show him. >> i think a lot of love. will it be a sellout? he will have a press conference,

philadelphia, the suburbs, lehigh valley and berks county.nd thunderstorms this afternoon and into this evening. damaging winds, heavy rain and a flash flood threat later today. we have two things to keep an eye on for today. the hour by hour forecast shows at 3:30 this afternoon, dry in philadelphia. but you can see the showers starting to take shape in the lehigh valley and berks county as they swing through the area. heavy downpours. well in the philadelphia area at 6:30 this evening. they push into new jersey and delaware. by 8:30 this evening, heading offshore later tonight. a look at the 10 day on 10 to show you when the heat and the storms will finally take a break when i'm back in ten minutes. tracy. >>> 4:42. taking to the streets and fighting for frank. supporters of philadelphia's late mayor, hear what happened when they crossed paths with those who want the statue removed. >>> and next, meet the local doctor who helped keep the new jersey olympian on the right track. >>> and olympic medal count brought to you by independence. live

a possibility of storms in philadelphia. for reading, that chance for sunday and monday will be increasing. steamy conditions on sunday. atlantic city at the shore, not quite as much in the way of showers and thunderstorms. dover, the threat is fairly low. and again saturday and monday. the heat, well, that's already building this morning. and it's going to be soaring over the next couple days. 97 degrees tomorrow afternoon. 79 degrees in the morning. very high humidity. look at the afternoon temperatures on saturday. pushing to near 100 degrees. and it will feel like closer to 105 to 110 for saturday and sunday. finally, a break in the heat. as expected, it hasn't changed. that chance of storms for the area. tuesday, we may see a few more scattered showers and thunderstorms. low of 72, and thursday, it will be cooler. the chance of storms continues at the end of the work week. next saturday doesn't look bad, high of 86. tracy. >>> eight minutes before 5:00, nbc10 needs your help spreading the word about free money for those

hillary clinton comes back to philadelphia again rallying with supporters, in west philadelphia thisfternoon and meeting with volunteers and launching a voter registration effort in pennsylvania. perhaps the most contested battle ground state between hillary clinton and donald trump. she will continue her message of being stronger together while talking jobs and the economy. clinton campaign with gentlemen by men scranton appealing to white, working class democrats. biden took on the roll of his 2008 vp status, role of attack dog and ripped into donald trump saying he is unfit to lead. >> some of the judgment cannot be trusted. there is a guy that follows me right back here who has the nuclear code. so god forbid if anything happened to the president and i had to make a decision, the code are with me always. he is not qualified to know the codes. he can't be trusted. >> in the meantime clinton's campaign says her philadelphia visit business getting voters registered well ahead of the october 11th deadline, clinton lead trum in pennsylvania by more than nine-point in the real clear po

police are lo looking for the people who stole jewelry from philadelphia mills in northeast philadelphia. skyfox flew over the mall this morning and police say three men armed with sledge hammers took some gold and diamond rings from the zales jewelry store in the mall. investigators are reviewing surveillance cameras. >>> happening right now, the union represent workers at the taj mahal is asking for your help. leaders of united here local 54 are using gofundme to raise money for the employees that will lose their jobs at the end of this summer. now in july, workers at the casino went on strike. they're demanding better benefits and wages and then earlier this month, casino announced it is closing after labor day. p tropicana entertainment which matches the casino is losing millions a month. no path to profitable. >> turning to you decide tonight major shake up in donald trump's campaign. trump named two top republican strategists as new campaign manager and cam pin ceo a mid sagging poll numbers. they are expected to push the republican nominee to emphasize substance over style. >> i t

this is right now, looking at your temperatures. 84 in philadelphia.f you were out last night, it was hot even past sun set. 79 in the suburbs. 73, the lehigh valley. 82 in delaware. we do see now, mostly clear sky conditions. if we flip the board over to the forecast highs today, mid upper 90s across the map, similar to what we saw yesterday. 95 lehigh valley, 97 in new jersey. these temperatures could be accompanied by spot showers and thunderstorms again. we'll talk about where, and take a look at when the humidity might start to drop, more on temperatures coming up. >> crystal, thank you. >>> this current heat wave has led to the death of two women in philadelphia. nbc 10 monique braxton is live in center city to tell us more. monique. >> reporter: hi, ted. yeah, the steamy weather conditions and the philadelphia health department has told us the two women who passed away are ages 67 and 82. both had other heat related issues, and the steamy weather conditions for this morning. now, taking a look at the video now, the steamy weather has claimed two

. 70 at philadelphia international. see sunshine. it's back into the 80s this afternoon. a southerly wind at 8 miles an hour, not offerly strong but just enough to warm temperatures this afternoon. the real warmup comes tomorrow. for the suburbs, sunshine and 64 degrees now. into the middle 70s at 10:00. completely dry through the day today as we warm into the 80s. the lehigh valley, you can see clouds moving through. no showers with those clouds. 63 degrees to start with. we'll see sunshine and some clouds in fact, more clouds this afternoon with temperatures in the 80s. those clouds coming in advance of a system that will be here tomorrow with a chance that you'll need your umbrella. that's the lehigh valley. what about south jersey? we'll see plenty of sunshine there. 60 degrees right now. 76 at 10:00 and into the 80s this afternoon. those light southerly winds just below 10 miles an hour. at the shore, stronger. the wind at 2:00 this afternoon. at 13 miles an hour and a southerly wind at 14 miles an hour, just enoug

it will be dry in philadelphia. still be watching showers at the shore, possibly some thunderstorms in southern delaware as well. that's later today. before we get there, into the 90s this afternoon. 95 degrees in philadelphia. will feel like 100 degrees this afternoon. another steamy day. get those evening showers and thunderstorms tonight and then more showers and thunderstorms a possibility tomorrow. the high of 95 degrees. then the temperatures come down in a big way for wednesday. still into the very low 90s, then upper 80s for thursday, partly sunny skies thursday and friday. the temperatures will be remaining elevated right on through saturday. by sunday, though, a few showers will keep us cooler with a high of 86 degrees. on monday, a chance of showers and thunderstorms. scattered showers and thunderstorms continue into tuesday. by wednesday afternoon, 84 degrees. we get more 90s to get through. the worst of it will be today and tomorrow where the humidity will be elevated and will feel like it is 100 degree

the wednesday after labor day, guys. >> that is first day of school here in philadelphia, the philadelphiachool district. >> renaissance academy second week of school in phoenixville already. >> nors wood academy jacqueline going off to her first day of school and bensalem high school, they are in class early. >> they are getting a head start. >> we were talking about the soul, and souls fans. >> mass of soul fans. >> we are getting support. this is a championship in philadelphia take a look at this in collegeville that is great thing about championship everybody comes together. we will show tonight a bit. >> what am i looking at. >> look at the this sign. >> they are world champions. we have a championship here in philadelphia. >> we should i have parade. >> soul won the at rena bowl friday night and we will show you this break. they beat rattlers, they beat arizona rattlers at rattlers home arena. how about that. so if you want to be part of the parade there will be some players here and maybe at least one bowl of the water. supposed to keep you clean but why do so many people find it gr

this happened in north philadelphia. police taped off the crime scene on the 1700 block of north newkirk street last night. both men were shot in the chest, one died at the hospital. the other we are told is in critical condition. so far no arrests have been made and police are searching for a motive. >>> 12:06, the family of gabriel carter is pleading for information to come forward in connection wither death. she was caught -- with her death. she was caught in the crossfire of a shooting last week. there was a vigil at the home. gabby's family appealed to those in the crowd who are afraid to tell police what they know about the shooters and her mother described her beautiful child to the crowd. >> everybody who did not know gabby, gabby, she loved to read and write and sing may bobby was a strong person and very strong. i don't know what i am going to do. she is in a better place. >> a mother and a community heartbroken. >> that reward for information leading to an arrest increased from 5,000 to $24,000 over the past f

we have a number of 74 in philadelphia. seventy-eight in millville. lower 80's there in dover. 75 degrees to the north there in the poconos. the it is not just heat but also the humidity. when we look at high index we have seen so far today philadelphia heat inn, 111 degrees, 120 degrees in dover. heat index in allentown today of 107, and 111 down the coast in cape may. and, as we head over to bethlehem and lehigh valley we've got you covered because musikfest continues to roll on lady anbellam will be head liner tonight. 7:00 p.m. that temperature of 91. staying in the 80es into 8:00 right through 11:00 p.m. tonight underneath a partly cloudy sky. we will talk about the heat because it is quite dangerous. we have the excessive heat warning that stays up. some key tips, do what you can to help each other out. check on seniors and pets. stay hydrated with lots of water, seek out shade, void afternoon sun. if you don't have any air conditioning open up some windows and get a fan circulate to go get air moving around. coming up we will have the latest on

philadelphia is in the 70s.itions, yes, even steamier than yesterday. 77 in philadelphia. 76 for delaware. the suburbs are 75. a little bit cooler in the lehigh valley. in new jersey, at the shore, and inland, both communities are in the middle 70s right now. voorhees 76. 77 in mt. laurel. these reading will climb right back into the 90s this afternoon. it will feel like it is beyond 100 this afternoon. this is a heat index projection, the feels like temperature. by lunch time,ç noontime, 96 degrees for philadelphia. 97 in swedesboro and into the 90s for the suburbs, the lehigh valley and delaware. but watch how it goes up this afternoon. by later this afternoon, the numbers top 100. feel like 105 in swedesboro, that's at 4:30 this afternoon. add to that the threat of storms for later today. we're tracking light scattered showers in new jersey. this batch of showers that will miss our area, head towards williamsport and just north of harrisburg. the steaminess that's around will lead to not only dangerous heat

low to mid-80s for the suburbs and philadelphia.our forecast when i'm back in just a few çminutes. let's get a check of traffic with jessica boyington. morning, jess. >> morning, bill. we're watching the schuylkill expressway right now. right near the vine street expressway on ramp. that's because the vine street expressway construction has just cleared out of the way. a little bit ahead of schedule, normally we see a little bit of a delay here at this off ramp spot, just because they have -- that's usually one of the last ramps to open back up to traffic. it seems like we're all good to go. no problems on the schuylkill or the vine street expressway. watch for extra construction crews in the area just to be safe. other than that, all lanes are open. mass transit, we have delays already this morning. pretty early for that. 28-minute delays for septa's airport train 401. all of the rest of mass transit pretty much run on time or close to schedule. i'll check in with more co

sunny skies for wilmington, philadelphia, trenton. 1:00 this afternoon, a few high clouds in berks county and into chester county. those high clouds will make it into the lehigh valley as well for allentown and northampton counties. isolated showers, a sprinkle or two possible at 3:00 in central pennsylvania while it's completely dry for delaware and south jersey, nothing but sunshine for cape may, atlantic city, barnegat, dover, warming into the middle 80s this afternoon. the clouds, they'll still be in the area, just scattered around at 5:00 in theç afternoon. nice, sunny day today. the humidity will be in check cure the day today where where we were yesterday. the steaminess starts to move in overnight tonight. that's when clouds start to increase a little bit. that's at 1:00 early tomorrow morning. we'll start the day dry, 4:00 in the morning. we'll be watching for that line of showers moving in from the west and look at that, showers and thunderstorms by 2:00 in the afternoon. we sue see them in portions of montgomery county, sc

hottest day so far in philadelphia coming in at 98 degrees. humid, hazy hot and humid this is day four of heat wave number five here in philadelphia, the heat index coming in today 111 degrees and this heat wave could last a total of eight days. at this hour with that southerly wind 88 philadelphia, 76 allentown 72 poconos at the coast in cape may 81, 83 out to the west lancaster and 86 in dover but here is the big story you factor in the humidity and it feels much hotter and feeling like 101 still at this hour in philadelphia. the heat index in dover 105, 96 in wilmington and 93 in ac and beach haven and 93 as well. satellite six along with action radar and a frontal boundary draped to the north and finding activity and where it will stay for the rest of tonight but things will refire in the heating of the day once again on sunday afternoon. future tracker 6 showing you 8:30 in the morning as you are waking up how hot it will feel feeling 93 in philadelphia and heat index in allentown 87, feeling 93 degrees in wild wood and by 5:00 in the eve

the story of philadelphia as the u.s. capital is the story where we take a new constitution and actually operating it, doing things like adding new states to the original 13. also the bill of rights would become a part of our constitution while philadelphia was the capitol. in fact, the setting of state thomas jefferson would announce the amendments to the constitution by basically coming to congress here in this building and officially announcing that we have changed our constitution. which, of course, the bill of rights is a huge part of our history and will be in the future continuing talking point in our political life. but also, it's the amendment process itself. we're proving that that part of the constitution works, that we can update and make changes to that constitution without having to start completely over again from the beginning. but really, for this building, it's to a large degree -- it is creating the american political system. the two party system that we know today is going to begin here. and it's going

tuesday, clinton is in philadelphia holding a voter registration rally at west philadelphia high school. nancy pelosi urging democratic lawmakers in washington to change their personal phone numbers after the party congressional campaign committee was hacked. she made the call after receiving a deluge of object seen voice mails and text messages. a hacker said he was the one who post the the personal information and he said he is romainean and not working for russia. >>> captain noah passed away, and word of the beloved captain's death had people not in tears, but in song. >> it's captain noah and his magical ark all aboard. when we asked if people remembered captain noah some would break out singing his trademark song. mayor jim kenny was among those they don't grew up watching the captain and mrs. noah. >> his songs would stick in your head. >> send your pictures to dear old captain noah ♪ ♪ send right away. >> reporter: his real name was carter merbreier since 1967 until he retired in 1994. all kids knew him as captain noah. >> here comes mrs. noah. >> i watched captain noah every sa

breaking news in the west oak lane section of philadelphia.'re taking a live look at the scene of a deadly crash. this is at 18th street and 66th avenue. two cars involved in this crash, as you see here. one flipped on its side as you see. we're working to get more information from police at this moment. >>> new from overnight, bullet holes cover a van after a shooting in philadelphia's frankfurt neighborhood. police say a woman was shot as she sat in the passenger's seat around 11:30 last night. the woman told police she was sitting in the van with a man and at wakeling and saw streets when a man walked out of the alley and started shooting. the driver and the shooter have not been found. >>> happening today, norristown, the jury in the kathleen kane perjury trial is expected to get the case after lawyers make closing arguments. she's accused of leaking grand jury information to the media and lying about it under oath. kane did not testify. kane faces up to seven years in prison if she's convicted. >>> we may learn new details about a berks c

list includes philadelphia d.a. seth williams and former pennsylvania supreme court justice mccaffery and also kane's former first department bruce beamer and her current chief of staff, philadelphia daily news reporter christopher brennan is also a possibility. kane is charged with leaking secret grand jury information and then lying bit in a series of political squabble was elected and appointed officials. opening statements set to start this morning. this trial could take about a week although it could go longer then that. back to you. >> just see how it plays out. >>> jailed local mob boss joey merlino due in court in florida today. 594 year-old is set to appear for a bail hearing in west baum beach. prosecutors will argue merlino should stay in jail. fbi arrested him on federal charges with 40 others connected to organized crime. the indictment contains charges such as racketeering, gambling, loan sharking, arson and fire arms offenses as well as health care fraud. this dates back to 2011. merlino's attorney sa

at 8:00 we should be still right in those upper 70s in philadelphia. we're going to crank it up. 87 by noon, upper 80s as we move into your afternoon and that's when we could see spot thunderstorms starting to pick up. we cannot rule out a strong even maybe severe thunderstorm developing as we move into your afternoon in philadelphia. if we look at south jersey, same situation here, temperatures starting mid 70s, warm it up to the mid 80s by your lunch hour and this line of storms will move from west to east. breaking apart a bit as it hits the shore but all of us looking at the possibility of pop up storms and temperatures in the upper 80s. for the suburbs mid 70s moving into mid 80s by 2:00, peaking the upper 80s for us. some of us in the low 90s. don't forget with a potential thunderstorm and the heat it will feel humid out there. we're looking at feel like temperatures or heat indices even hotter. that's something we will take a look at coming up in just a few minutes. >> today in the lehigh valley it's day two of music fest in bethlehem. stick aro

fog not an issue in philadelphia.k oned to new jersey, that's where the thickest fog is this morning. quakertown, a quarter mile visibility. not bad in trenton or northeast philadelphia. wrightstown seeing dense fog. it extends into south jersey and delaware as well. a foggy start for much of the area. sunshine, it's just coming up right now. the temperatures will be coming up. the fog will disappear this morning. we will see sunshine. right now, clouds over the lehigh valley, some low clouds, no fog in easton right now. with sunshine, we will see the temperatures into the 80s this afternoon. and for the suburbs, too, you can see the skies are starting to brighten. king of prussia, will see mostly sunny skies. the fog around now will be disappearing. 72 degrees at 9:00 and 84 degrees this afternoon. for philadelphia, 90 degrees the high temperature. the rest of the area will get a warm day, even at the çshore, into the low 80s later today. i'll go through the forecast hour by hour to show you how quickly the temperat

-- -- northeast philadelphia district office. we have a lot to cover and we have a lot of reporters working on this. nbc 10 live team coverage of these raids. we begin with nbc 10's rosemary connors. she is live outside dougherty's home in south philadelphia. rosemary, what are you seeing there? >> reporter: tracy, all morning long, investigators have been inside two homes here on the 1900 block east moinminhsa evidence. the brown brick home belongs to john dougherty. and the home next door, that belongs to a family member of john dougherty. investigators also inside there. oftentimes in these kind of fbi raids, you will see investigators bringing bags of evidence outside. that has yet to happen in this case. in fact, very little movement in and out of the homes, at least so far as we've seen this morning. state troopers have been positioned outside. right here on the side block, throughout the morning. in the meantime, johnny dougherty is positioned a little bit further up the block. he's with his lawyer and with his friends and

again, that storm heading towards philadelphia. philadelphia by about 5:47.e severe storm that we're talking about across the area. also, we're seeing indications of hail, like i mentioned golf ball-sized hail near 30 there. wideford will see that very soon here. this will all track to the east. so that's the strongest storm we have in the area right now. we're also talking about storm ranger 10. this is our new mobile radar. our newest tool. we can move it wherever we want whenever we want. we have it near trenton and mercer county, heading toward the trenton area. krystal klei is out there with storm ranger 10. >> reporter: hi, sheena. right now, where we are in mercer county, we're in west winter township. we're dry. but there are cells tracking all around us. in fact, driving in, very heavy rain. we've got the pockets of thunderstorms moving through. and i want to show you what we're looking at. if we look off to what is our north, you see a little bit of light touching in with the clouds. if we track around what is more a northwest-west view, you can see

as we look at tranquil philadelphia international airport.hing much happening yet but they are getting ready for a busy monday morning. weekend is over. here we are. we have high pressure in control of our weather just like it was pretty much all weekend and it is way up around the great lakes, so, we have another day of it, probably tomorrow before we see this system to our south, get on the move and start to move northward which will bring us back with heat and humidity because when it moves northward this will be a warm front. just so you know what is going on as we look at radar as we put satellite picture in there too quite a few cloud around this morning. it didn't get as cool as it could have overnight. 76 degrees in philadelphia 69 in lancaster. comfortable 60 in mount pocono. twenty-seven in wildwood, dover and millville this morning. a little bit on the muggy side from our dew point temperatures are missing here on this map but we have 68 at dew point in dover and that gets a little bit in the muggy range as we look at our measure o

mostly west of philadelphia. possibly approaching the philadelphia area and also dying out at the same time and then early tomorrow morning the model shows us dry and other models do have a few early morning showers and we'll keep our eye on that and tomorrow afternoon through the lehigh valley, possibly by 5:00 p.m., we could be looking at strong thunderstorms. if those hold together they can move into the philadelphia area by 8:00 p.m. or so and then we go into wednesday and it's going to be a dryer day so tomorrow just have the umbrella with you throughout the afternoon especially. neighborhood temperatures for tomorrow, if you're in chestnut hill 93 degrees and newtown square 92 and allentown coming in at 90 degrees and millville 92 and stone harbor 96 and harrington is 96 and filling more like 110. that will mostly stay confined to the lehigh valley, the poconos where we could see stronger winds. tuesday is still hey lighted in wind. wednesday around 990 degrees and thursday upper 80s so not as brutally how

there's that 70 in philadelphia. it's 10 degrees cooler in south jersey and at the shore, 63 degrees. delaware, 67 degrees. that's in wilmington. there will be cooler spots but not a lot cooler. right now 66 in newark, claymont is 64. reidy point, warmer at 67 degrees and 65 in lewes. rehoboth beach is 67 degrees. lots of sunshine, will be another nice summer day today. there are some changes ahead. you won't see activity on the radar, the satellite today other than a few high clouds coming in this afternoon. but this is the line of wet weather that will be affecting our weekend. look at the heavy storms that are moving toward the st. louis area at this hour. and it's part of the system that extends into canada. this is the line that's slowly going to move into our area. won't bring us showers but we'll start to see high clouds later this afternoon. you can see that line making it into pennsylvania early in the morning. even a possibility of some scattered showers in the pocono mountains, first thing tomorrow morning

thunderstorm lightly, south of philadelphia most spots stay dry and 94.ot on tuesday with scattered showers and storms on the way in at 94 degrees. the not as harsh with the heat on wednesday. thunderstorm still around from the atlantic city air show and at 90. very warm and sunny on thursday, and 89, and 91 on friday. and sunshine and cloud, as we get into both saturday and next sunday, guys, highs in the upper 80's. along stretch that we are dealing with constantly taking time outside. >> got it, thank you. >>> finally tonight folks were able to get an up close look with live chrisers in center city today this is annual bug fest at academy of natural sciences at drexel university. hundreds of beatles, millipieds, scorpions and butt are flies and more were on display. the academy collection includes more than 4 million insects. >>> would i imagine they didn't handle scorpions. >> that is what my nightmares looks like right there. >>> abc world news sunday next here on channel six. "action news" continues at 11:00. >>> don't miss "action news" at ten on p

>>> live from philadelphia. this is fox 29 morning news. >>> we're following two breaking news stories. fires overnight. flames shoot-out of a philadelphia apartment building. how one firefighter is recovering from injuries right now. >> another fire erupt in south jersey. steve keeley putting together the latest details for us live at the scene. >> and expected creepy crawly consequence of the brutal heatwave. cockroach taking over our city invading local restaurant. but that's not all. the special power they're getting in this heat. >> chase utley makes us miss him even more. highlights of the game. big return and homecoming, lauren dawn johnson. >> good morning, it is wednesday, august 17th, 2016. best day on the calendar year, because my mother was born on this day. >> oh, happy birthday. >> hoping she is sleeping soundly a lot of people here didn't know because it stormed overnight. >> it did? i slept right through it, scott you. >> slept right through it? scattered showers, thunderstorms across the area, b

this bug the emerald ash gamer has been identified in west philadelphia and northeast philadelphia aore than 200,000 trees in philadelphia are arbitraries. researchers in the preservative or preventive or they are taking preventive steps is what they are trying to do as sue looks at the me in difficulties tane. sue said city will lose them to the insect if something is not done to eradicate this. >> all right, sue serio, good morning to you. >> that is deceiving, very pretty color, emerald is why it is called the emerald ash game but destructive. so far we have had four heat waves one came in may. we didn't have any in june. we had three during the month of july. we are preparing for another one, later on this week. it looks certain we will be able to string three days together in a row of 90 degrees or above and that constitutes a heat wave. hot temperatures, coming out of the southwest, we have been, warm, but appropriately warm as we said yesterday for the month of august and we also have this bit of rain around norfolk, virginia moving northward eventually and then touch off a fe

tributes were paid today in miami, new york and here in philadelphia. funeral arrangements are still pending. lucy? >> all right, thank you dave. >>> another hot one in your weather authority. let's check in with meteorologist kathy orr who is keeping an eye on this incredibly long stretch of heat. kathy? >> absolutely. and we took a break from the humidity just a little bit today. we do have more storms to talk about. did you hear those rumbles of thunder, did the house shake last night between 1:00 and 2am it did at my house. more storms by virginia and west virginia going to move along the same plane into philadelphia its suburbs and to the south and east. that's going to come later night. first let's talk bout temperatures. so far in philadelphia the high 89. i think we'll spike at 90 again. millville 91. wilmington 89. look at the poconos refreshing at 75 degrees. lower humidity and you can see here's the proof. right now in philadelphia the temperature is 89. it only feels like it's 90. far cry from the 100s of yesterday. even in dover it feels li

we'll feel like 99 degrees in philadelphia.rbs, into the 90s, upper 90s for feels like temperature for lansdale and allentown. it feels like temperature of 96 agrees. the actual temperatures are in the 90s. well into the 90s in new jersey and even at the shore, into the low 90s for longport and cape may, 89 in stone harbor. look at that temperature. it will feel like 90 degrees this afternoon. steamy conditions for smyrna, make it feel like 105. 9 93, the high temperature for smyrna. the heat will break. i'll show you when to expect that with the 10 day on 10 in just a few minutes. >> 6:10 on this morning morning. >> nbc 10's first alert traffic reporter jessica boyington has you covered. how does it look on 73, jess? >> we're out in mt. laurel. route 73 looks great. typically on monday mornings we see a little bit less of a morning commute and definitely lighter on the roads for at least a little bit later on in the morning. we'll start to see rush hour hit about the 9:00 hour or so. normally we see volume at 6:30. right now,

tell us about her visit to philadelphia. >> she'll be at west philadelphia high school at 1:15 thisç the public at 11:15. the theme of this stop is voter registration. clinton will urge people to sign up ahead of the state's october 11th dead liline. she'll also kick off a post-event canvass. democratic voters outnumber republicans in the city of philadelphia, 7-1. hillary clinton's goal is to try to widen that margin. clinton got her latest campaign swing through pennsylvania under way in scranton yesterday. she got high-powered support from a hometown favorite. vice president joe biden joined clinton on the stump. biden was born in scranton. he attacked republican donald trump, calling him the least prepared majority party nominee ever to potentially oversee american national security. biden then blasted trump on the economy. >> and he's trying to tell us he cares about the middle class. give me a break. and to repeat myself, that's such a bunch of malarkey. it makes no sense. >> following their rally, biden gave clinton a tour of his childhood home in scranton. clinton also has ti

heading back from philadelphia into in which.problem on the ben franklin and the burlington brookville is fine as well. 35 minutes now getting better. from the expressway, speeds in the 20s. westbound delays in some parts as well. and 24 minutes from the vine street expressway to the blue route also into the high as well. >>> team usa is adding to its medal count. next, we'll take a look at the leaderboard. >>> plus, clean sweep, philly native,nia ali is part of the team of sprinters. >>> and a south jersey woman doesn't receive her tax refund. we'll show you how we helped her get that cash, after she waited for months. ♪ i was on my way to work, the next thing you know, i was on the ground. ♪ the trash truck ran over both my legs. ♪ i had sixteen surgeries. ♪ i don't sleep through the night unless i have my medicine. ♪ my medical bills was piling up. my employer stopped paying me. pond lehocky has put me back together. ♪ moms know their kids need love. and encouragement. they also know milk is a nutrient powerhouse. with 8 grams

northbound into philadelphia, no big problems there.but there is a disabled vehicle that's reported out in abington on old york road and bader road. more updates on the rest of your morning drive. >>> police are looking for the driver in a deadly hit and run in atlantic county. they say an suv hit and killed a woman while she was crossing the white horse pike in galloway township last night at 6th avenue. witnesses told police the suv ran a red light, hit the woman and then took off. they are looking for an older model chevy tahoe or suburban. >>> monsignor william lynn could walk out of prison after serving three years. matt delucia is outside the criminal justice center in south philadelphia. >> monsignor william lynn's attorneys are asking the judge for a release, all the while, prosecutors are trying to decide whether or not to retry the official. the pennsylvania supreme court last month upheld a superior court ruling that lynn deserves a new trial. prosecutors argued that monsignor william lynn knowingly transferred pedophile prie

philadelphia will warm up to 87 degrees. and then delaware, 86 degrees while it's middle 80s for new jersey and the lehigh valley as well. and upper 70s with mostly sunny skies at the shore. all in all, a pretty nice day. but as you may have noticed with the seven dayç scrolling at th bottom of the screen, there are changes for the weekend. i'll go into that when i come back. first, jessica boyington with your first alert traffic. >> we have an update on the vine street expressway. headed through center city, that construction that we typically deal with until the 5:00 hour has cleared out of the way. both directions back open. watch for construction crews though, still active in the area. other than that, you should be fine heading out on the vine street expressway this morning. heading over to the pa turnpike, the northeast extension headed northbound. there's an accident between quakertown and lehigh valley. over on the pa turnpike we're watching for construction. west and eastbound, the left lane is closed between 29 an

philadelphia international, 75 degrees.northeast philadelphia, you're in the low 70s with a couple of exceptions. somerton down to 65 degrees right now. we'll see a nice warmup as the day goes on, into the upper 80s. the lehigh valley, 86 degrees this afternoon. mostly sunny skies there. you see scattered clouds at times in delaware. 87 degrees this afternoon and clouds won't be all-day cloudiness. you'll see scattered clouds into the afternoon and the suburbs 87 degrees. at the shore, it will be a nice day. 82 degrees, the high temperature. we'll go through the forecast hour by hour when i'm back in a few minutes. first an update from the first alert traffic reporter with jessica boyington. >> we're watching an accident scene out in fishtown, frankford avenue and girard avenue. there's a tractor-trailer blocking off part of the road. also in abington, there's another accident in huntington pike and dale road. 422, no big problems or delays. eight minutes eastbound from 29 headed up towards the schuylkill expressway with sp

philadelphia on tuesday. she plans to campaign at west philadelphia high school. on monday, hillary clinton will be courting voters in scranton. vice president joe biden will join her there. both leaders have ties to the scranton area. biden was born there. so was clinton's father. the visits to scranton and philadelphia are part of clinton's push to win pennsylvania, which is a key battleground state in the upcoming election. >>> yesterday, hillary clinton and her running mate, tim kaine, released their 2015 tax returns. clinton and her husband, former president bill clinton, made $10.5 million and paid more than 34% in taxes. kaine and his wife paid almost 26% in taxes. republican white house nominee donald trump says an ongoing audit is preventing him from releasing his tax returns. >>> speaking of trump, he's making his own push for pennsylvania. at a rally in altoona last night, trump said there's only one way that hillary clinton can win the state in november. >> only way we can lose in my opinion -- i really mean this pennsylvania -- is if cheating goes on.

. >>> violent erupts overnight in the philadelphia area. let's begin with the deadly shooting in south philadelphia. a 28 year-old man is dead after being shot in the face. the shooting happened on the 2800 block of south seventh street, a weapon was found at that scene, no word of any arrests at this time. >>> another deadly shooting in north philadelphia, a three three-year old man dead after being shot in the 1700 block of jefferson street. it happened around 9:00 o'clock last night. that victim was shot in the head, the chest, the torso, and shot in the arm. police say that they have not made any arrests. >>> in southwest philadelphia police are investigating a shoot helping in and carjacking there that happened after midnight on wood land avenue police say two men shot a 31 year-old man multiple times, took off in his car. victim a's car was found a short time later just a few blocks from the scene of the shooting. and right now police are looking for those to men, the victim was taken to penn presbyterian in critical condition. >>> in

you'll find 60s in center city, northeast philadelphia at northeast philadelphia airport, 59 degrees.ght in the same territory for parkwood and chalfont. a pleasant start this morning. the temperatures are cooler for three reasons. the humidity is low, like yesterday, very dry air is in place. the wind has died down. and there's barely any wind right now for most of the area. it's completely calm. the other ingredient, clear skies. we have that this morning. no sign of clouds in our area. i don't expect any other than a few scattered fair weather clouds. we saw some of those blow through the area yesterday. less likely to see clouds today. stan by with your sunglasses. bright sunshine, upper 70s at noontime. then into the low 80s for philadelphia. and the suburbs, plenty of sunshine, 60s to start with, into the upper 70s this afternoon. the winds will stay light through the day and the sunshine will be bright all day long for the lehigh valley, from the 50s to 60 degrees. by lunch time, 76 agrees and climbing. delaware, nothing but sunshine. the humidity stays low for delaware and for

we'll take out philadelphia mills mall for all the fun today. lauren. >> heavy rainfall and thunderstorms traversing delaware valley. by tomorrow, sunshine and much lower humidity moving in. i'll have the beautiful forecast coming up in a couple minutes. >> and straight ahead in sports the eagles make a new roster cut and signed a linebacker as well and lesley has all the details for you coming up in a well and lesley has all the details for you coming up in a bit in sports. >> welcome back tevrp was art class meets gym class today at philadelphia mills mall. jerry greg from kyw news radio twlaz this morning for unique 5k race. >> it's a new form of fitness that transforms runners into human tie die shirts. >> runners start with a clean white slate and run through color stations and end in array of color. >> drew kurt is director of color vibe 5 k 2300 people registered for the race which allows families to dress up, gear up, exercise and then get colorizeed. >> it's a blast you can take handfuls or squirt bottles available for people and the be

philadelphia in blue heavily favor hillary clinton.he lehigh valley show trump neck and neck with his rival. clinton's campaign is capitalizing on the overall momentum. her camp is opening eight offices this week across the state. three in the mild area. including this new office where we visited yesterday in the frankford section. trump supporters say don't count him up. >> trump can probably sharpen up his game. also you have access from the ground. >> it's important to note the trump campaign has not opened an office in philadelphia. all is handled by the local republican party. so much focus is focused on p.a., because it say battleground state. the latest presidential polls show clinton has more than a ten-point lead over donald trump in both of those areas. i'm live in the digital operations center. katy zachry. >>> hillary clinton is slamming trump for what she called casual inciting of violence. speaking to a crowd in iowa, she responded to the comments that trump made tuesday as some took as a call for clinton's assassination.

allentown, atlantic city, philadelphia and dover.e we get to the weekend, that's pretty nice weather. clear, the satellite and radar, no sign of showers nor thunderstorms this morning. the nearest activity is far to the south. it's the activity that is in canada, long way away. way to the northwest. that's the system that we'll be watching that will move our way for the weekend. before it gets here, the temperatures in the comfortable zone. 84 degrees this afternoon for philadelphia. less humid cooler, as a result, 65 degrees with a high of 86 degrees. 88 on friday and then it's into the 90s for just within day this week. 92 degrees on saturday. that's when we'll likely see showers and thunderstorms. but they clear out nicely for sunday. sunday is looking good, 87 degrees. the humidity coming down, making for a nice day on monday. tuesday, we're back into the low 90s. we'll see more of that for the rest of the week for wednesday, thursday and friday. >> all right, bill, thank you so much for that. i love bill's forecast when they're

i love philadelphia.ery grateful to have everybody here. >> nia made history being a member of the first country to win gold, silver and bronze in that race. swept it. >>> another local olympian fresh off winning gold in rio returned to the place where she learned her craft. sierra runge held a meet and greet at the jennersville ymca. she showed off her medal and signed autographs. for a breakdown of the athletes that competed in rio, tap the nbc 10 app or go to nbc10.comç >>> good morning. we're still keeping an eye on an accident for you. this is on 95 near route 332, the southbound lanes. there were multiple vehicles involved in this accident. you can see flashing lights, police activity there. that tractor-trailer and two other vehicles also pulled over on to the shoulder of the road. now in the meantime, it looks like they have things down to one lane there. something to keep in mind if you're headed out your door this morning. if you're on 95 southbound trying to get to woodhaven or allegheny ave, i

philadelphia feels like 101. vineland 103. mount holly feels like 99, as well as wilmington. 100 in allentown. the radar showing a little bit of rain relief but only if you're in parts of bucks or mercer county. even berks county earlier today. here's one big thunderstorm. this is north of ewing there. and this one is mainly moving into new jersey. a lot of lightning here. even near buckingham. rain near saulsbury. and hilltown. these storms aren't moving very fast, but heavy rain in a short period of time is expected in some parts of central bucks county. we'll keep an eye on the storms for you. if you're heading to the eagles game tonight, temperatures will stay mostly in the mid-90s through the game, upper 90s is what the feels-like temperature by the start of the game. mid-90s the feels-like temperature by about 8:30. make sure you stay hydrated. tomorrow, though, temperatures will still be in the mid to upper 90s. humidity making it feel around 100 degrees for many areas. even if you go into easton township, 86 degrees. f

heat index in philadelphia coming in at 98 ees. this is day six of heat wave number five here in philadelphia. the current heat index numbers 98 in philadelphia it feels like 103 in cape may. 103 as well in dover, current heater index in reading coming in at 92. unto the north inos. the excessive heat warning stays up. >>> it has been extended until tuesday evening. right along that i-95 metro area and the immediate suburbs to the north and west also to the south and east. the heat and humidity certainly feeling some showers and storms across our region. here's storm tracker6 live double scan radar 3-d. you can see a lot of activity off to our south and west. we'll go in tighter on street level. we'll have to track some of this moisture as it works its way eastward some precipitation could skirt south of philadelphia later on tonight. otherwise the dangerous heat is on for tuesday. the last day of the extreme heat is tomorrow. heat indices a little higher, 100 to 105. coming up we'll have a closer look at the heat wave and let you

feels like 103 in philadelphia. 106 in millville, and 103 in wilmington. the temperatures on par as yesterday. but yesterday's heat index in philadelphia was 98 and we had dew points in the 60s. dew points now into the tropical air mass in the 70s and that is makes it so uncomfortable and dangerously hot. in the meantime, double scan live radar picking up this line of storms slicing through ventral pennsylvania this, is all heading to the east. most energy should pass to the west but it has potential to pass through the area with strong gusty thunderstorms. the national weather service issued a thunderstorm watch until 11:00 tonight for most of our viewing area except for delaware and along the coast. anything that moves through has the potential for damaging winds and hail. it will be a broken line of storms, not everyone will get them. the best chance to get the strongest storms is north and west of philadelphia and heavy rain and gusty winds with them. it should be weakening as it pushes to the south, behind the system there is not much relief from the

tomorrow arch 105 for philadelphia. -- tomorrow around 105 for philadelphia. monday, wilmington, 99. philadelphia, 98. it's hot, but a little bit better. trenton, 97 degrees. forecast for today, these actual air temperatures. 98 for philadelphia. 97 in wilmington. millville, 97. trenton, 97. reading, 97. call from accuweather in a word, terrible. spotty thunderstorm later on. shorepoints not much relief, 90s popping up from cape may to atlantic city. there's a moderate risk of rip currents. be careful as we had a lot of reports of rip currents this week and the risk continues today. hazy, hot and humid today, 90 degrees. musikfest in the lehigh valley it's a steam bath maybe a scattered thunderstorm, lady antebellum, 6:30, she is the headliner. 91 by 7:00 p.m. 10:00, 11:00 p.m., we're in the mid 80s. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, we've highlighted today and tomorrow because of the dangerous heat and humidity. 98 today. 97 tomorrow. feeling like 110 today, feeling like 107 tomorrow. tuesday, 92. wednesday, 90 for wednesday, 90 for thursday, ther