from philadelphia international. morning fog will only be around for a few hours and then it clears out. we might see a break or two of sunshine. during the day, the clouds will be building and then later this afternoon and tonight, clouds will be building for showers, thunderstorms, and a potential for heavy rain. which will lead to a flood threat. we're starting off with fog. just got a bit thicker in allentown. one mile visibility in pottstown and quaker town. thicker than when we went on air this morning. light fog. three mile visibility. seen some dense fog in new jersey too. atlantic city at the airport. zero visibility. light fog in millville. one mile visibility there. temperatures are down into the 60s for the lehigh valley and the suburbs. and the temperatures have cooled down enough to produce the fog this morning. we'll see the temperatures climb from the 60s and 70s into the 80s. most of the day is going to be dry. this afternoon that we'll see those clouds building with a chance of showers and thunderst

philadelphia 68 degrees. right now at bustleton and northeast philadelphia airport, graduate hospital 68 degrees. solidly in the 60s this morning. we will get some breaks in those clouds for warmup up to 75 degrees at noontime. 79 degrees at 4:00 this afternoon. this time of year we would normally warm into the upper 80s. not happening today. suburbs 74 degrees with some breaks of sunshine at lunchtime. then the clouds come right back in at 4:00 this afternoon. the lehigh valley we've seen a few showers this morning. showers less likely at noontime. clouds building later in the day. there is a chance we'll see showers. the shore, that's where you find more sunshine today. breaks in the clouds. won't clear out completely. 74 degrees at noontime. 4:00 this afternoon. partly sunny and 75 degrees. inland, you'll see the clouds building in new jersey and for delaware. upper 70s. partly to mostly cloudy skies later today. there is wet weather on the way. it gets here before the weekend. you may have noticed it. wee

philadelphia and trenton. the chance of showers and thunderstorms increases as we go through the afternoon and evening hours and through tomorrow. in fact, by 3:00 tomorrow when our first alert comes to an end, more than an inch on wilmington. look at that very heavy rainfall in southern delaware. parts of south jersey. while this commuter model showing philadelphia, doylestown, trenton getting off pretty easy. the trend is for the system to stay to the south. that's why i have eliminated the lehigh valley from the first alert. still a potential that we'll get downpours in philadelphia. some of the southern pennsylvania suburbs. the greatest threat is still delaware and south jersey. first alert goes into effect at 3:00 this afternoon. first showers and thunderstorms will pop up. then more widespread heavy rain coming in tonight. into tomorrow, but by midday tomorrow, start to taper off. that heavy rain could produce flooding. still a possibility of some severe thunderstorms development which could lead to fla

. >> at the philadelphia citizen, we printed up philadelphia all-star corruption playing cards, so people can trade them with their friends. and in that exercise, we found that it much worse now when you read what people have done. they're more inventive -- you think of vince fumo, who innovated in terms of using non-profits. >> sure, sure. >> and, you know, you actually pine for the days of buddy cianfrani. >> but this is nothing new. look what lee beloff did back in the day, look at abscam. i mean, i grew up in south philly, i say to my dad, "why do we keep voting for these people over and over again? the neighborhoods get worse and worse, crime gets worse, taxes get higher. people are leaving the neighborhood. you can't attend the public school, and our guys keep going to jail." you know, there's two councilmen and then buddy cianfrani, and vince fumo was an unindicted co-conspirator. and you go down the list. vince and myers. and this is nothing new. this is a culture of corruption in philadelphia. i think we need to give -- we need to have two-party rule again in philadelphia. >> let

in philadelphia nobody does italian pastries like philadelphia termini brothers and they're known forir cannolis and i love their italian cookies also. >> if you want to be a little healthier we've got something right here. >> right. you can have the cannoli at nice and juice the next day so sip and glow is that local. they have a handful of locations in philadelphia. all of the great expected flavors and also some of these little shot juices if you need a shot of energy or, you know, to wake up. >> sounds really good right about now. thank you kristen. >>> and again the july august issue of philadelphia style magazine is available right now. and katie joins us right now with her steamy forecast. katie. >> yeah, rahel i can really go for one of those cannolis or maybe a good gelato. that would hit the spot on a hot day like this right. is it a taking a look at storm scan3 which remains nice and clear at the moment. well off to the northwest just behind the three of storm scan3 some pretty heavy thunderstorms rumbling through upstate new york and if lake ontario. that looks like it's g

we are at 79 degrees in philadelphia. won't be long and we'll be in the 80s, then 90s by lunchtime. 92 degrees in philadelphia. with the elevated humidity, the feels like temperature at noontime, 99 degrees. it tops 10 degrees for feels like temperatures this afternoon. the suburbs, not a lot better. 73 degrees right now. 85 degrees at 10:00 and near 90 at lunchtime. it will feel like 95 degrees with the elevated humidity and 97, the feels like temperature for the suburbs. lehigh valley, 71 degrees right now. the cool weather won't last long, though. 89 degrees at lunchtime, then feels like 98 degrees with temperatures in the low 90s this afternoon. that's the lehigh valley. new jersey night see a pop-up shower. most of the day, hazy, hot and humid. 63 in a few neighborhoods, but not for long. it will blast through the 70s, 80s this afternoon. 94 at 2:00 feels like 100 degrees and feels like the triple digits at 4:00 this afternoon. the jersey shore, not much better. 70s now, into the 80s and 90s this afternoon at the sho

especially north philadelphia. hear a lot about the negative not enough about positive. >> reporter: it is his positive outlook on his humble beginnings that truly make him the heart of the city. for a long time to come. >> he identifies himself as a philly guy and north philly guy and his stories are about philadelphia and from philadelphia and he has gone on from comedy, writing books, doing mover is but he remembers our city and he remembers the people. >> reporter: kevin was presented with the liberty bell and phillies jersey. his son joined him on stage, his wife, daughter and other family members were in the crowd. >> eat, live, breathe and sleep this city. >> reporter: but it goodies that we celebrate today, a good man, and an amazing mural >> ♪ happy birthday to you >> reporter: lasting legacy. >> happy birthday. >> that is awesome. >> happy birthday, deaf, welcome home. no place like home, indeed. >>> rain was off and on it held off. >> it looked like the show was going on fine. >> not too bad in center ci

british army had taken the rebel capital of philadelphia and was, you know, hoping to split off philadelphia and the northern colonies from the southern colonies and end the rebellion. washington's army marches into valley forge. like i said, about 20 miles west. this is actually a pointing. will be very recognizable to people. it's probably one of the most iconic images of the american revolution. it was painted after the civil war. so that's about a century later as a commemorative work. very evocative of the date, december 19th, 1777. as washington's army marches along the golf road into its winter quarters at valley forge. and a couple of the objects i have here would have been witnesses to that winter encampment. the first is a pair of silver camp cups here. if you can see them. and these pass down through the washington -- through relatives of general washington who had this "w" engraved on them later. and the legend camp cup owned and used by general washington during the war of the revolution. these two are part of a set of 12 camp cups. what's remarkable is we know the original rece

yesterday's high 95 and today in philadelphia we maxed out at 93. so, you look at the heat index numbers across the region. still pretty oppressive. it feels like 96 in philadelphia. 100 in dover, 90 degrees the heat index value in cape may. are heat index numbers anywhere from the upper 90's to close to 100 degrees. changes are coming and they're going to be pretty stormy. storm tracker6 live double scan radar 3-d showing you a complex of showers and storms moving across minnesota and wisconsin pressing into the great lakes. this will work its way to the south and east as we go throughout the day tomorrow afternoon into tomorrow night. so, what to expect for our saturday. it stays pretty hot and humid. thunderstorms will be bubbling up early in the day but the main activity moves in as we get into the evening hours and this will bring the possibility of damaging wind gusts and the possibility of hail. we'll take a closer look coming up with the full and exclusive accuweather forecast, monica. >> thanks melissa. >>> to "action news" reporter bob bro

a live look at center city philadelphia. good morning. >> don't put your umbrella away yet. parts of our area could see scattered showers and more thunderstorms later today. >> we are looking at that round of rain that really hit us overnight having moved off. you can see the tail end clipping past mercer county. the rest of us, scattered clou s s and sun out there. that's not the case for the afternoon. you can see scattered showers and storms starting to redevelop here in the northwest corner of pennsylvania. that's coming our way. as we get to the afternoon hours, yet again, we will see the chance of rain, spotty thunderstorms developing across our region. i don't think it's as strong as those rounds of storms have been the last two nights. but it will be coming in during afternoon hours. here are our temperatures. 80 in philadelphia. some of us may flirt with near 90 by this afternoon. 82 in wilmington. dover the same. atlantic city, 80. reading, 78 degrees. we are seeing the warm-up now that the clouds have broken and a

you can tell the story of philadelphia. for this is the history of a piece of philadelphia that changed over time and left this material record for us to study. scott: the site of the museum of the american revolution was parkof the historical created in the 1950's, and it was federal property. the private nonprofit organization that has built and operated the museum of the american revolution acquired this site through a land exchange with the national park service. land that was owned near valley forge national circle park was an old visitor center built for the bicentennial, which had been replaced by a newer visitor center did not really have a future, so the land was exchanged, but because it was federal property, the highest level of cultural resource consulting and archaeological investigation transferred with that land, so we were obligated and wanted to do right by the resources that were in the ground, so we complied with all of the federal regulations section 106, the historic , preservation act, to consult with

hyper loop that includes a stop in philadelphia.transportation system would be in an underground tunnel he plans to dig. the trip would take less than half hour ultimately. right now it takes three hours on the amtrak. there are several reasons to question how soon it will happen, the main one, there is no prototype of a hyper loop and no cities have signed off on it. penndot said it was news to them and elon musk has had no contact with philadelphia officials. >>> this tiny tiger cub born at the philadelphia zoo will be adopted at another zoo. the mother here is showing no interest in the ten day old cub. her litter siblings have died, so keeperers are trying to keep her healthy and give her a chance to be a mother herself one day. >>> a soldier deployed six months pulled off shock and awe for his own kids today. >> dad! sweet reunion. staff sergeant kyle woods embraced his older son at school. a few minutes later did the same for his younger son. mom was there as well for the sweet moment. nice to see him. welcome home to him. sor

how long it has been going on in philadelphia?eith jones takes a look back. >> reporter: let's go back to 1993. ♪ billy ray cyrus' achy breaky heart was on the radio. mayor ed rendell was in office. >> people had given up on philadelphia, businesses were thinking of leaving. >> reporter: rendell came up with a plan and put meryl levitz in charge. >> i lost 14 pounds. >> reporter: what happened next was welcome america, ten days that changed the way america saw its birth place. >> barry manilow song, looks like we made it. i started to hum, looks like we made it. >> reporter: bursting at the scenes. >> i think it is wonderful. the entertainment is great. it is free. >> it is wonderful. it is great. >> new people moving in, more people sending their kids to college here. >> reporter: 25 years later, philadelphia's hosted two party conventions, an nfl draft. >> i think the city of philadelphia is going to love it. >> reporter: and a pope, not to mention an annual tradition, wawa welcome america, a huge concert on the parkway. in '93

philadelphia, northeast philadelphia. little bit warmer in pottstown than yesterday at this time. 60s in lehigh valley and allentown. millville and dover in the 70s to start with. warm afternoon and a bit muggier than it was yesterday. first of the shower could come through the poconos and into the lehigh valley this morning. right now dry, wilmington, philadelphia, trenton, hat field, look to north and west. see a little bit of shower and thunderstorm activity moving through the area. showers to the south as well. give you a better view of showers and thunderstorms that are moving east to 25 miles an hour. so that is going to bring them into the lake within an hour and possibly allentown just after 6:00 this morning. some scattered showers and chance of morning thunderstorm. then there's a chance we'll see scattered showers and thunderstorms this afternoon as well. 88 degrees and into the evening hours. most of those will stay in delaware and south jersey. 85 degrees tomorrow. get sunshine. drying out and humidity comes

particularly around philadelphia. so very warm air even in place at this point in time we are still in the 90's. ninety-four in philadelphia. ninety-two wilmington. upper 80's in millville. wildwood at 89. ninety-two in atlantic city. down the shore temperatures comfortable for places like ocean city where we have 84 degrees. that sound good right about now. factor in the combination of the heat and humidity and, of course, still feels so much warmer out there. feels really hot in philadelphia. 98 degrees. into, into new jersey, feels more like triple digits for millville, atlantic city feels like 103 degrees. heat index values will continue to climb as we head into tomorrow looking at triple digits for friday. saturday not much in the way of relief but 96 degrees is what it will feel like in the afternoon. we have a severe thunderstorm watch that has been issued until 10:00 p.m. tonight for philadelphia and counties on toward the north. that is for very strong line of storms that we are tracking , making its way in t

in philadelphia from 2004 through 2011. she was most recently with the law firm he will yet greenleaf leave. her pursuit of justice runs deep in her days back in virginia as a criminal defense attorney in 1997. >> the gravity at impact of this moment is not lost on me as i serve you. my race, my gender are what i proudly am but my experience and intellect are what i have been able to be able to stand here. >> hodge distanced herself from the cloud of controversy that i has swirled around the d.a.'s office since seth williams arrest and departure. she's promising a new day and renewed commitment to the office and citizens of philadelphia. >> this is our restoration period, our opportunity to look at adversity from the rear-view mirror and know you have weathered this storm. now you can look in front of you and do what you have been task todd does district attorney with your head held high. >> well, hodge is a montgomery county native. she will remain in office as district attorney of philadelphia until the newly elect d.a. t

here is a live look over philadelphia.ooking pretty good out there, just a few clouds this morning. but mostly sunny. it is going to be another hot day ahead. already 73 degrees. meteorologist krystal klei has the details for us, first alert forecast is coming up in minutes. >>> we love our country. we love our families. we love our freedom. and we love our god. >> president donald trump is saluting america this holiday weekend. last night he honor veterans in washington during the first annual presidential freedom rally. president urged unity and religious freedom and lashed out at the media saying, quote, the fake news is trying to silence us, end quote. >>> it may be the july fourth weekend but the president is taking no holiday from posting on twitter. here's how president trump's tweets read out yesterday. he gave a friendly shoutout with happy canada day. then back to his feud with the host of morning joe calling them crazy and dumb as a rock. the president then targeted more than two dozen states refusing to submit

warm in philadelphia. some 60s in the suburbs. 70s for most of the rest of the area. 78 degrees right nou in delaware. the warm up will be fast. a lot of sunshine. 77 degrees at 7:00. in delaware, 88 degrees, that's by 10:00 this morning and no cooling breezes or showers this morning. there's a chance of isolated shower this afternoon. a little more likely in delaware and popping up in south jersey. the temperatures, that's going to be the main thing to watch today. 96 in new jersey. 96 in philadelphia. suburbs 94. if you think you are looking for relief and will find

today in philadelphia, kids and their parents can rock out at smith memorial playground in philadelphia. music festival called kid chill la continues tonight. visitors can enjoy food trucks and art stations at the event. >>> temple graduate could win $8 million in the world series of poker. >> a lot of tuition money right there. plays his cards right. is one of nine players running to become the main event champion in las vegas. from atlantic county. started the event last night with the most chips. poker championship runs through tomorrow. >> got a good poker face. >>> two preschoolers in montgomery county got a very welcome surprise. take a look at this. cell phone video. >> dropping in on kids yesterday. watch this. runs and jumps. kids hadn't seen their dad in six months since he was deployed. report for a few weeks then back on reserve status. and be home with his family once again. >> that little boy is going to hold on. >> very sweet. >>> next toplines we're following for you on this friday morning. >> includes the vip visit in philadelphia. controversial issue attorney general j

-- delivery business in philadelphia. wegmans will use insta cart in delaware, new jersey and bucks county. the dow, nasdaq and s&p 500 closed at record highs. we have weekly reports on jobless claims. stay cool today. it's a scorcher everywhere. >> seems like it. everywhere you go around here. >> reporter: especially philadelphia and southwest tend to be areas that are heating up. that's going to be the case today. it will feel like 105. wow. let's take a look right now, storm tracker 6 live looks like we have a sprinkle near cape may. it is not reaching ground at this point. we're dry through the region. only a slight chance for a pop up later on. let's go outside and see what it looks like. skies are bright. there are some shots when i looked outside, a beautiful shot of the sunrise. on the ben, hazy conditions. the temperatures in the upper 70s, we're above the average high for this date. 79. dewpoint, 74. it's oppressive with the humidity. the winds light out of the of the southwest, the ocean temperature, 77 degrees

the city of philadelphia celebrates kevin hart day. the funny man himself is here to join in on the fun. as the sixers prepare to close out summer league play if utah, rookie markelle fultz shares what he learned so far. >> it was a rainy and cool day and the high in philadelphia today a measly 75 degrees 12 degrees below average and i'm tracking it's return of warm sunshine i'll let you know when in the accuweather forecast. >> reporter: hey cecily it's about the barbecue check out the ribs on the grill. but matt says i have to work for it. so we have to get the grill cleaned and have more ribs from the barbecue blues festival in wildwood when "action news" comes right back. >> boy does that look good. those stories season more when "action news" continues tonight. ♪ this summer in a place where flavor runs deep, any dish and every glass might be the best you've ever tasted as long as you don't forget your appetite. new york state. it's all here. it's only here. plan your trip to the finger lakes at iloveny.com fios is not cable. and

, mainly south philadelphia.i'm from aren't traditionally attractive people. for me being blessed with beauty as beautiful woman know is a blessing and a curse. to grow up in such an area and be blessed with beauty, it was very difficult for me. >> all right. so on saturday tmz caught up with amber at playhouse nightclub and she said she never said anyone was ugly. she was referring to society standard of beauty and she never felt beautiful as a kid. a lot of people are saying it is simply too late to apologize, amber. more on that one. >>> talk about a sweet sequel for father/son story that garnered national attention last summer. philadelphia father got best of his son by pro tending he forget his 12th birthday. his joke ended with a very special gift. >> happy birthday. >> don't cry. you where to make me cry. don't cry. pull it out. let the world see. i ain't forget about you. yeah. i want to see some home runs. i love you very special bat he wanted, a passport, one year later he took that neon green bat and m

today in philadelphia. oppressive and a high of 95 degrees and heat index values get up to 100 or so. and some going higher than that. it's going be muggy, 89 degrees at 7:00 and 79 at 8:00 bring along cool drinks if that are where you are going. partly cloudy and humid there. as we take a look at saturday a sprinkle our shower or thunderstorm. but the period is late at night after 8:00, 9:00, 10:00 you are looking at showers and thunderstorms that could role through and produce heavy downpours and gusty winds. 95 is today's high and we have the red bar up there because of the excessive heat warning and you want to hydrate today and take it easy, for the weekend low 90s on saturday and sunday and each day could feature a thunderstorm at times and could be a strong storm especially saturday night and we die down a bit on sunday and still sticky and monday humid and 90 and later next week, tuesday, wednesday and thursday we are back in the 80s. >> dog days of summer. >> yes. >> thank you. >>> we want to see h

the rain is falling in philadelphia. that's a live view of philadelphia international. no storms right now, but late this afternoon if you have a flight out late this afternoon or evening, may be looking at delays in the area. strong storms take shape for the eastern part of the u.s. impacting the ocean city area, later this afternoon, we see a few scattered showers. see the clouds and the sun is trying to breakthrough the clouds this morning. just a chance of that happening this morning will more likely see breaks of sunshine this afternoon. 70s to start with. in fact we're all in the 70s this morning. won't see a huge warmup today. 75 degrees in philadelphia. wilmington, right now 72 in pottstown. 78 in dover. go through the day. easterly winds will keep the clouds in place for much of the day and help to keep temperatures cooler today. not much of a warmup into the 80s for philadelphia. you see the moisture level. that's elevated too. not going to reach into the 90s. the heat wave is broken. going to be a muggy day all day today. here's a few showers at the shore bet

the british abandoned philadelphia. they started marching helter skelter across new jersey trying to make it to new york, washington chasing them. they kol long island in the et battle -- collide in the battle of monmouth in june of 1778 and the british make it in there.h while there's plenty of fighting that takesck place in the north ultimately british commanders decide thatth the way to try to confront the revolutionaries is to move the fight to the south. there are a number of factors that are involved.he one of them is it is presumed thatat there is a larger loyali population in the south and that these people will rally to the king's scolors, as they would have saidis in the 18th century. also because it had a much higher proportion of enslaved people. of course, enslaved people living throughout the colonies, north and south, but the proportion much greater particularly in the lower south, placesg like south carolina and virginia as well, the carolinas. you know, as early as 1775 the british had offered freedom t

the official high temperature in philadelphia was 94 degrees.ut of course, felt even warmer than that when you factor in that combination of both the heat and humidity that we dealt with throughout the day today. the average high temperature for this time of year is right around 87. take a look at this, there's your high temperature for the day. 94. our temperatures across the region are now checking in in the 70's and 80's across the delaware valley. 76 in millville, 80 in cherry hill. we have 78 in pemberton, 78 in atlantic city. 78 in thomas river, down to 82 in philadelphia. 11:00 we're still in the 80's. 82 in trenton, 79 in mt. holly. allentown is 78, cool spot on the map, that's mount pocono 75 currently and quakertown due points are in the 60's and 70's. a due point of 73 in philadelphia, that is making for a muggy and uncomfortable night and we're going to have more mugginess where that came from along with the dangerous heat. an excessive heat warning has been issued goes into effect starting noon tomorrow all the way through 8:00 frid

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dover it feels like 106 and we may get up of 100 in philadelphia by this afternoon.and cloud cover out there, we'll call it owe partly sunny and hot and sticky and 92 is the high in allentown and 92 in reading and 95 in philadelphia. and similar number in wilmington and down the shore relief from the high temperatures with highs of 89 but still muggy and moderate risk of rip currents. 95 is your high at 4:00, by 8:00 the chance especially if the suburbs we are getting down to the mid-80s and philadelphia may hold 90 and by 10:00 down to 80, if you head to the phillies and the brewers starting a three game set at citizens bank park and plan on drinking the cool drinks it's humid. and water and sports drinks is the best. 80 in the ninth inning it's muggy tonight. and saturday during the morning and early afternoon a chance of an odd shower or thunderstorm popping up but the big issue is later in the evening at night as we get a line of strong thunderstorms coming down and some could be severe and the prediction center in norman oklahoma has the line at night and giving

by 3 o'clock in philadelphia clouds and sun, 89, that's your high. and then by 5 o'clock, 86 and by 7 o'clock, 79 and you can see that i am posting the possibility of a spotty shower or a thunderstorm rolling through parts of the region. as we get into the afternoon and evening. for your fireworks call for tonight, 82 by 6 o'clock. 79 by 7 o'clock. by 10 o'clock, we're down to 75. we're calling for mainly dry conditions, a bit humid, but there is that chance of a spotty pop-up shower or thunderstorm and i'm posting that for six, seven, eight and even 9 o'clock before it starts to settle down a little bit and in a moment we'll show you future tracker6, matt and we'll try and take a stab at where exactly these storms are going to pop. they will be spotty but where they hit they could at least temporarily hinder some of your activities today. when we come back in a little bit, we'll have that and the rest of the accuweather seven-day forecast. watching the skies today, though, matt. >> yeah, for sure, not only for the storms but the fireworks as well an

warming quick warm up to upper 80s this afternoon for philadelphia. middle 80s for the suburbs and new jersey. 88 trees inland at the shore. 80s degrees the high temperature. warm one too for the lehigh valley in delaware. even though temperatures are cool to start with, upper 80s this afternoon. hotter weather on the way. show you when to expect that. the temperature trend when i'm back in ten minutes. first, jessica boyington has your first alert traffic. >> bill, to start, starting on the schuylkill. construction project that should be out here until about a:00 or so. in between the apply route and city line avenue. we have lane restrictions in both directions. here's one camera from right near the blue route only one lane getting by. cones out there. we are blocking some lanes there. also watching in allentown for a crash. west of allentown. route 222 northbound just around route 100 dealing with a crash there. the vine street expressway, open. not dealing with construction this morning. a good thing you can get through center city right now. broa

trenton just under five and a half inches and just under five in philadelphia. add heavy rain potential on top of that and we'll be talk bog you having to watch for flooding issues by the end of the week, once again. down the shore, plenty of sunshine, we're in the 80's thursday and fridays and we'll have to watch out for the chance for more thunderstorms, overnight temperature of 65, as we head to wednesday, plenty of sunshine and comfortable. . it will be nice with a high around 80. eyewitness weather seven-day forecast goes like this, 84 on thursday, 87 on friday. looking for thunderstorms but the weekend is looking good with high temperatures in the mid 80's and no extreme heat. get outside enjoy it. looking good. >> you like that forecast >> i do, yes. >> is back from south philly way update >> what carson needs to work on, and no release for the phils, how one of baseballs best showed you're not taking these. hey, hey, hey! you're not taking those. whoa, whoa! you're not taking that. come with me. you're not taking that. you're not taking that. you're not

it also hit philadelphia.rs flooded streets in center city, making them look more like overflowing streams. and the weather also wrecked parts of a mobile home park in camden county. high winds caused a large tree to topple, pliting o half. at the woodland trailer park. fortunately, the family who lives there wasn't home at the time. the family returned home heartbreaking surprise. also an emotional sight for the neighbors who came by to check it out. brandon spoke to janet soto, who the branches fall on her home, too. >> i was in my house. i felt a really bad wind. a tree hit my house, but it wen. >> we learned the family who had their mobile home split is rel. to stay on top of our summer storms and heat any time, make sure you download our free nbc 10 app. you'll get weather on the go any time, plus, you can track live radar in your neighborhood. >> an update now on the forest fire in burlington county we have been following days. it's now fully contained. the fire continues to burn but is no longer spreadi

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street in northeast philadelphia blocked off. the main broke on penway street causing a partial cave in. right now about 45 customers without water. workers will make repair there is this morning. >>> a massive evacuation is underway in france because of raging wildfires in three french rivera towns. 1,000 people have been given evacuation orders. sea planes fighting the winds from the sky. make containing the fire even more difficult. meantime, portugal is also dealing with a massive wildfire. take a look so far. no reports of casualties in portugal or france. >>> 5:38. heading out right now. we've got clouds. clouds making things cool this morning. also giving us a few scattered showers. possibly during the day. most of the day is going to be mostly cloudy. some breaks of sunshine. clouds lingering through the day. even a chance of brief light shower this evening. nothing heavy about the rainfall around for most of the area today. most of the area is dry. clouds for wilmington, philadelphia, trenton, look what we have here. sho

. >>> and amber rose puts south philadelphia on blast. >> amber from south philadelphia you are right she's attractive. she says people are not traditionally attractive in south philadelphia, well, i don't think that is right. let's prove her wrong, send us a picture of an attractive person who you know i believe criteria should be, born and raised in fail. >> okay. >> she's not saying she is, she's saying everybody is generally unattractive but she wasn't. >> she comes along and wow, she's a knock out. >> she's like you must not be around philly because she was so attractive. >> let's prove her wrong. send your pictures on twitter. should we use the #fox 29 good day. >> yes. >> let's prove her wrong. >> or famous people. >> this might be more interesting. send pictures of ugly people, what, why did you punch me up. good day, everybody it is friday july 28th, 2017. >> it is friday. i'm very excited except we will be dealing with some rain today. >> a little rain. >> there is rain on the way but not yet, take a run on the ocean city, new jersey boardwalk, and this morning then it was,

she's 34 and lives in philadelphia. staff at the knights inn hotel found her 7-month-old in the room. illegal drugs were in sight in the room. the baby was fine. if you know where she is, call police. >>> happening today in montgomery county, a former teacher who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting two teenage girls will learn his punishment. sentencing set for this afternoon. he was a social studies teacher at a middle school. earlier this year he reportedly admitted to having sexual contact with two female ninth graders. he was once a starting football player at villanova and served in the u.s. army in iraq. >>> we are starting at the shore. a live look at conditions in cape may. we will warm into the high 80s today. looking good out there. >> forecast looks great today. very nice summer day. especially for maybe some of those at the shore who extended the weekend. a look at current temperatures. warming up nicely. we're at 78 degrees in philadelphia. 82 in wilmington. lancaster, 81. allento allentown, up to 79. atl

philadelphia in the beginning of this, northwest of philadelphia, fairly steady rain highlighted in yellows and oranges, the red stuff passing north of glassboro, lightning strikes with this that's a thunderstorm. and heavier showers and thunderstorms pushing into central new castle county, delaware and pushing into oxford, chester county heading toward wilmington later on, i want to leave you with the wide view. as the stuff pushes to the east, there's additional rain coming into the northern areas, and there's a heavier thunderstorm heading toward allentown this morning, as well. taking a look outside, we have sky6 live hd it's very cloudy out there, as philadelphia is starting to see some of that rain and the clouds lowering as it begins to deliver the rain drops. 72 in allentown. 76 degrees warm out there in philadelphia. 74 in cape may. it is very muggy and humid always yesterday. future tracker 6 shows you that current cluster of showers and thunderstorms probably gets out of here fairly quickly and then we get into the afternoon, i would allow anytime after 2:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m., for

. >> he put a number of our own police officers, philadelphia police officers, philadelphia fire fighters, we put their safety, lives at risk in order to deal with this. >> you are taking your life, you don't know who else is there who else you are endangering, that is just not responsible. >> both men face third degree felony criminal mischief and interference with transportation charges. >>> this was certainly a dangerous climb by these two photographers and we wanted to put tonight perspective, for you just how high they were. so, again, the towers on the ben franklin bridge, they stand 382 feet high, measuring from the top, to the delaware river below. and they stand 250 feet above the roadway, for comparison lets take a look at philadelphia city hall, from the ground to the top of the william penn statue hat is 548 . next, the statue of liberty, from the base of the pedestal to the top of the torch stand 305 feet 6 inches. finally historic independent hall, from the ground to the top of the steeple, including that wind vein is 168 feet. ukee. >>> well, car crashed into a home in the

atlantic city and northeast philadelphia.donations of backpacks, notebooks, crayons and pencils lined our tables. and in northeast philly, we had an excited bunch collecting for schools. our volunteers played music, got people pumped up to help out. >> i wasn't always fortunate, so i feel like you're supposed to give back. to anybody in need, no matter who it is. >> getting supplies for the kids makes me feel good. i really do enjoy it. >> he said it. everyone who donated received a swag bag in return as a thank you from us for donating. >>> coming up next, a house for sale that is truly the cat's meow. in fact, it's wall to wall cats. we'll take you on a tour when we come back. >>> there is an unusual house listing on the market in arizona. if you're a cat lover, it may be a perfect fit. jane shows us what's inside. >> oh, my gosh. >> it's the most unusual home for sale in america. >> there's more? >> there is more. this is just her exercise room. >> this 2200 square foot home situated on 20 acres in a remote part of arizona

part of their philadelphia felines play ball event today. the philly shelter is located at 111 west hunting park avenue. >> pro wrestlers from the wwe invade the wells fargo center. they'll host a so-called battleground event that includes john cena. the action starts at 7:30. >>> a family makes a plea for charges to be filed against a man who killed a mother and her boyfriend. lauren mayk is at police headquarters in philadelphia following this. lauren. >> this grieving family now looking for action. we'll show you what they're doing in and out of a philadelphia neighborhood. >>> guys i'm really excited about the wwe and john cena, so happy we have a really nice day in the forecast for them. i'll see you on the other side of the break. here's a look outside. it's looking lovely. >> emily: i want to live on my own but i know it won't be easy. how will i keep up with everyday expenses: rent, food, bus tickets? >> joe: hi. this is pennsylvania state treasurer joe torsella. our state treasury is proud to offer the pa able program, a savings pla

we're back here at 4am for "good day philadelphia".nks for watching v a great night. ♪ >>> happening right now on good day fail cosmo's confession person of interest in the disappearance of four bucks county men makes a stunning admission, as police take another person of interest in custody. >>> steamy, stormy round two of unsettled weather, tracking through our area just in time for our morning commute but sue says it is not all bad especially the weekend. >>> also trouble from the tap, dirty drinking water that has a community at their witt's end. >>> and it is what we have been waiting for, baby reveal, beyonce sharing pictures of the new babies twins for first time, and for a lot of excitement. >> i could barely sleep last night. >> i'll bet. >> i got my scrap book out and everything. >> names, hope they match up. great to have you with us,

this ap wraps around philadelphia. new castle county has been totally saturated and even parts of upper chester and montgomery county as well. we can certainly see that much through your friday and saturday. >> you're lotalking about 2 to inches, it locks like it's quite possible. that's almost a sure bet. that's what it it's going to look like thursday morning. we have a couple showers perhaps later on during the afternoon. that occurs on friday. here come the showers and thunderstorms. and some of this is on the heavy side. you can see the yellows and oranges and reds zipping through there friday night and into saturday morning. it is possible this rain lasts into saturday. so not that much rain through 7:00 a.m. be look at the amounts from this one computer model. there are some models showing more rain than this. look at this. dover at 6 plus inches of rain. you don't need 6 inches. just 2 is going to cause some flooding. so that's why we're pretty sure there is going to be some flooding. >>> now is the time to joi

a live view outside philadelphia. bright, sunny sky. clear and blue. we're not tracking any clouds moving through today. we keep with the sunshine, center city with the start of tour de shore. right now, temperatures in the 60s. as we go to the shore around noon, i had to look up how long it would take a rider, but around noon is apparently when people will be getting to atlantic city. 77 will be the temperature. winds only 11 miles per hour. perfect conditions for the riders today. eagles training, we just heard drew saying people are already getting out there. as we go through the next several hours, 66 through 8:00. 72 through 10:00 a.m., and 1:00, 79 the forecast temperature. we're sunny in philadelphia as well. very nice to be out for straining. in the lehigh valley, 58. 75 by lunch time, and low 80s this afternoon with winds light, sunny skies everywhere. looks perfect for outdoor events on sunday. as we move forward, 90s. we'll get to the ten-day coming up. >>> the first major u.s. city has passed a ban on texting and walking. coming up, where p