here come the first cars coming east away from route 29 here at the phoenixville-collegeville interchange. the eastbound lanes had been blocked since before midnight. that's when a vehicle ran off the roadway eastbound approaching the oaks interchange. they just towed that vehicle away. so, 422 in the process of reopening as we speak. but now there's new issues on the pennsylvania turnpike. it's a motorcycle crash eastbound approaching the valley forge interchange. you're seeing some westbound slowing there. i think that's the combination of a gaper there was as well as construction up ahead in the right lane. accident is eastbound, construction and gaper delay westbound so you've got problems coming and going on the pennsylvania turnpike in chester county. also have a downed pole from an overnight crash in whitpain township. a water main break in norristown blocking off johnson highway at arch street by joe's getty nod you. >> we continue to follow breaking news out of italy. a massive 6.2 earthquake struck during the middle of the night in central it tape. at least 23 people are dead an

but right now they're still forcing all traffic off at route 29, the phoenixville-collegeville interchangeu can't keep going east on 422 toward king of prussia which is a big problem but again, we hope to et cetera good it opened shortly. ridge pike or 724 into route 23 are some some alternates. in whitpain township a downed pole from an overnight crash blocking north wales road at yost road. stick with 202 or whitehall road to get around that. vine street expressway reopened this morning but crews return tonight at 11 o'clock to close it down once again. a couple work zones in delaware 95 southbound for the next half hour between churchman's road and the delaware service area and some zones on 141 northbound at boxwood road. matt. >> thank you, matt. breaking news a strong earthquake rattled central italy leaving one noun ruins. at least 11 people are dead and many more are hurt and missing. the quake a magnitude 6.2 was centered 100 miles north of rome and struck while many were sleeping. one person said it was so strong it felt as though their bed actually walked across the room. the 5.

and we have a warning for this particular cell that does include phoenixville, west goshen, radnor, main line, norristown, plymouth meeting places like that until 5:30 this afternoon. biggest threat damaging wind and frequent lightening with this storm this is something we will see over next few days. any storm that does develop has potential to be strong or severe, feeding off heat and humidity. you can see it is cooler behind the storms but still 96 in philadelphia look at these feels like temperatures. feels like 107 in the city. it feels like 118 in dover and tomorrow, it is even hotter then today. we have just expanded the excessive heat warning, to include the entire region, i'll tell you when that goes in effect and when relief could finally get here coming up in just a few minutes. for now, back over to you. >> kate, thank you. >>> this dangerous heat is on the the mind of those preparing for several big events down in atlantic city this weekend. "eyewitness news" new jersey reporter cleve bryan is there with that part of the coverage, cleve. >> reporter: well, it is august

starting today this is not as much fun in noon e -- phoenixville roadwork, it will be shutting down 23, 113 gets you around that for the next week half. that's not too far away from the other chester county work zones, the one blocking 29 is lasting through the end of the month and the one blocking 252 in valley forge national park is lasting through the end of the year. >>> new video on "action news" shows a car speeding into a laundromat in wyoming. this happened last week. police don't know why the driver crashed into a park car and into the front window of the shop. the driver, the other than were all hurt. the owner said he only had a few bumps and bruises. >>> 15-month-old twins have died losing their lives after they were left in a hot car outside a home in georgia. before police arrived father and neighbors try to cool the little girl by holing them in a shallow pool. some people were cruising ice packs to bring their temperatures down. the twin's mother was in the hospital recovering from a car accident. >>> george zimmerman is back in the news who came to national prominence

see the rain and pocket of the lightning to the green lane east of pottstown and pressing into phoenixville and lansdale, as well. the showers and storms are moving east. another pocket that we're tracking south of new hope south and west of pennington. not a lot of lightning associated with it. when you hear the roar head indoors. a lot of time people are out and about celebrating summer activities. but these be drenching showers and thunderstorms. camden, new jersey, looking at the bridge. you can see philadelphia on the other side of the delaware river. clouds are starting to produce showers across portions of our region. high today in philadelphia, 91 degrees, but it felt hotter when you factored in the humidity. right now we're coming in at 89. 7 of in allentown. 835 in cape may. 82 in trenton. here's the big difference in comparison to yesterday. dewpoints are in the lower 70s. we have an 83 in dover. you can feel the owe -- -- oppressive air we have overhead. satellite and radar, not an organized line of activity we're tracking. the moisture will sag to the south and east as we go th

in the phoenixville area don't forget the 23, nut portion is closed. stick with 113 to get around that. in upper chichester naamans creek road is shut down because of railroad work. welsh track road closed through september for construction. maybe chestnut road or old baltimore pike to get around that. time for the waze app computer report, 476 without there's construction going on there near lower sal folder. >> presidential hopeful hillary clinton says there could be tremendous consequences over donald trump's comments about her candidacy and second amendment supporters can stop her. she said he lacks the temperament for being commander-in-chief. she faces questions about e-mail and political favors. >>> donald trump accused president obama for being the founder of isis. he is critical of the troop pullout from iraq and he said led to the rise of the islamic state. >>> a police shootout in arkansas, a sheriff's deputy on the verge of retiring was killed and the police chief was wounded. that suspect held police at bay for 4 hours he was wearing a bul

in the phoenixville area, all last week you were detouring around nut road it was shut down for constructionconstruction wrapped on friday, use that chunk of 23 this morning it is reopened. a couple of down trees are giving us closures in delaware, in townsend, deckser -- dexter road is closed. we have an object 295 south south of 42 watch out for that as you head southbound on 295. >> an autopsy is scheduled today for the south jersey man who was struck by lightning while swimming at a lake in carbon county. he was able to get out of the water on his own, but became unresponsive on the beach an later died at the hospital. park officials say a few others were treated for injuries from the same lightning strike. >> it's been two years since boko haram captured 76 school girls in nigeria causing worldwide outrage. the parents of one of the girls watched the video and you see how emotional they are at a bring back our girls protest yesterday. it was the first proof their daughter is alive. in the video, the girl begged the nigerian government for the detained militants for the girls. >> usain b

no problems, coming up from phoenixville or chester springs, a quiet volume and no precipitation right there. i-95 southbound traffic heading toward cottman. we can see it moving nicely at this point. no problems on i-95. a 13 minute ride from woodhaven to the vine. we have construction out here, it's blocking the right lane northeast extension southbound near lansdale, watch for that. storm tracker 6 live double scan, showing we are mostly dry, we've got a couple of spots of precipitation, south of atlantic city, near dover and you're watching for that one in salem and cumberland county, a shower there, as well, the bigger cluster has been out near reading. we can go in closer on this, we have a track move moving towards pottstown, graterford, 5:38. watch for that cluster of heavy downpours moving your way. the rest of the area not looking too bad just yet. tam and gray. >>ght. >> 5:15, we have breaking news from overseas, it's been a deadly day for police officers in turkey, 8 policemen were killed and 70 others injured after an explosion at a checkpoint. the blast comes twofter turk

the phoenixville-collegeville interchange.ell, just as soon as they liftd that closure just about a half hour or so ago, there was a second accident just out of view on 422 eastbound approaching phoenixville and collegeville. looks like that accident is being pushed off to the side but you're still seeing significant delays coming east of limerick on 422 at this point. once again you might want to head for ridge pike or 23. 422 eastbound remains jammed. on the pennsylvania turnpike westbound past malvern overnight construction taking out the right lane. and there was an overnight crash that brought down a pole and wires involving a penndot truck. we're hearing that truck is out of there now but in whitpain township north wales road still closed at yost road. you can stick with 202 or whitehall road to get around that and there's a water main break in norristown by joe's getty blocking johnson highway at arch street. germantown pike or for nance street are alternates around that. also have an early morning motorcycle crash in u

if you're driving through phoenixville all this week we'll be without a chunk of route 23, 724 arena township line road stay on 113 all this week. that chunk of 23 will remain closed. a closure in west hampton, burlington county, it's ahmad road shut down from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. burlington jacksonville road an alternate. in winslow township closing egg harbor road. old lancaster pike in hockessin will be closed 41 is the alternate around that. an object on the blue route southbound near necessitier -- necessitier providence. >>> a college student was shot while playing pokemon go. a friend told police they noticed someone suspicious watching them from atop a hill, but it was too dark to make out a face. they found him with a bullet wound he received first aid, he later died. >>> it's been a tense chargedded -- tense charged day for the third day in a row as people protest the shooting of a black man. video has been released of police shooting paul o'neill shooting at 15 rounds at a car he had stolen. officers shot and killed him after a foot chase. police are not supposed to fire

it's the phoenixville area. new closure goes into effect for two weeks, a chunk of 23 schuylkill road and the township line road by the red ners. the zone along 29 has been pushed back to the end of the month. 252 remains closed for on going construction through the end of year. a crash in the warrington area police on the scene 202 near lime kiln pike. >>> this new on "action news," 15-month-old twin girls have died losing their lives after they were left in a hot car outside a home in georgia. before police got to the scene, the father and neighbors were reviving the girls by holding them in a shallow pool. the 15-month-old girls died at the hospital. the father is under arrest. the girl's mother was in the hospital during the incident recovering from a car accident. >>> time 5:16, someone is leaving dangerous booby traps along a popular hiking trail in north jersey. police are discovering broken bottles and barbed wire. so far no one has been hurt. >> a formers sixers superstar is back in philadelphia, alan i

we have one smaller cell that's going to phoenixville about 6:42. the heat wave continues. it was another brutal day today. 94 for the high. it felt like 105. day seven. but we're going to be getting relief in the form of lower humidity. sunshine, some of the western suburbs now. the ocean warming back up a little bit. but a nice sea breeze, so it's not as hot. vent nor 84. cape may point 88 degrees. inland it's been feeling like it's just a terrible, terrible afternoon. we've seen the feels-like temperatures getting up over 110 degrees. here's the futurecast, as we go through the evening, you see the computer model really nailing the southern storm and northern storm and the weakening in between. so what's going to happen? by 10:00, there's practically nothing left on here. what it's doing is knocking some of the humidity out of the air. you should feel that tomorrow. then as we go toward tomorrow night, and into thursday morning, we may see some more showers, especially in delaware and south jersey, starting the day off thursday with the clouds. but we're going to be seei

phoenixville, 78. upper 70s for bedminster.t alert" in effect for philadelphia, the suburbs, new jersey and delaware today. right on through sunday for this very hot and humid conditions. it's going to feel like 100 to 110. and air quality for the next several days. and given the chance of showers and thunderstorms. just a few scattered sprinkles. nothing to show you this hour. but as the temperatures build and humidity stays with us, the chance of storms will continue for today and overt next few days. the biggest threat is the dangerous heat that is going to continue to build over the next few days. that "first alert" won't really die down until beginning of next week. that's when the temperatures will finally get a break. feels like temperatures as we head into the weekend. they will soar more than 100 degrees for philadelphia and the feels like temperature. the temperatures will be getting closer to 100 degrees later in the week. saturday afternoon, 98 degrees. and a chance for scattered storms for today. less likely tomorr

we're 69 degrees right now in phoenixville.0 degrees in malvern. 70 in west bradford township. we'll go up further north. it's 71 degrees in new hope. 72 in newtown and the same with warrenton. temperatures overnight, mid-60s to upper 60s. we're going to stay comfortable as we move through our monday and tuesday. here's a look at philadelphia. plenty of sunshine. high temperature tomorrow about 83 degrees. our average high temperature this time of year is 85. we'll be just shy of that. but, wow, what a span of sunshine as we go ahead and look at the ten-day forecast. this is just about the entire region we're looking for dry conditions all week long. we do get warmer. more humid as we go into the end of the week. temperatures bump up to 90 degrees on friday as we head into our next weekend. we will be teetering with the 90-degree mark again. right now upper 80s with clouds mixed in. we do stay dry and as i mentioned, we are going to be feeling much more comfortable as we wake up tomorrow morning and start our next workweek. >>>

the closure of the eastbound lanes right here at route 29, the phoenixville-collegeville interchange.cause of an accident up ahead approaching the oaks interchange involving a vehicle that ran off the roadway into the brush. happened before midnight but they're still out there investigating so if you normally come east on 422 this morning which so many of you do, at this point you can't get by. stick with ridge pike or 724 into 23 as some alternates and of course we'll keep you posted 6789 in when it pain township an overnight crash brought down a pole and wires so north wales road is blocked at yost road. stay on 202 or else whitehall road as alternates around that. but in northampton township bucks county some better news. bustleton pike is opened this morning. they've patched that water main break that had it closed pretty much all day yesterday. overnight crash on the schuylkill eastbound by girard is gone as is overnight construction other southbound boulevard at fox and northbound work on 95 at girard also clear on this wednesday morning. matt. >> thanks, matt. >>> new video her

phoenixville, ber trtramville fs like 100. temperatures climb into the 80s, 90s this afternoon.mperatures topping 100, closer to 105 degrees this afterfan for philadelphia. there go the last few rain drops at the shore. we'll be drying out this morning. storms inland. this first round of storms will miss us. later in the day, we could see showers and thunderstorms swing through the area with damaging winds and heavy downpours. it won't take much for those to bring some very heavy rainfall. that could lead to flash flooding late this afternoon and the risk is greatest for northern delaware into new jersey through southeastern pennsylvania and even northeastern pennsylvania. that's later this afternoon and this evening. by tomorrow, though, we'll get sunshine. the humidity will be coming down. it will still be hot but really a break from the extreme heat and a break from the storm. storms will clear late this evening. there's a chance we'll see scattered showers on thursday. that will drop the temperatures a little bit, hovering right near the 90 degree mark for friday and saturda

phoenixville heads up, this cell is moving your way and it will continue to move off to the south andt and eventually could impact parts of philadelphia as we head into the next hour if that cell can hold together. storm scan3 showing us parts of delaware right now just seeing a little bit of shower activity but might be chasing a few people off the beach there in fenwick island way little shower moving on through so we have that chance of a strong thunderstorm over the next couple of hours. otherwise partly cloudy conditions becoming mostly clear after midnight. 72 degrees and decreasing humidity by the time we wake up tomorrow morning, it's going to feel so much better. it's still a warm day up at 88 degrees abundant sunshine a great looking end to our weekend in store and great feeling as well. 90-degree days, remember last month we had 16 of them. so far this month we haven't had a 90-degree day until today. so, now we're up to 25 so far this season. our high temperature hit 90 on the head in philadelphia got to 90 in ac, 91 degrees in wildwood and temperatures are still very hot

continuing to dissipate, but bringing little bit of light rainfall from pottstown making its way into phoenixville poolside today, though, don't think you'll have to worry about the shower activity because over the next several hours, those showers will start to dissipate. decrease in clouds into the afternoon, justin, hot, humid, 93, the pool is a place to be today. >> i'm with you there, pool to shore. good dollars news, humidity, staying warm. northbound delaware county. good shape right now. cottman volume starting to pick up. ninety-five at cottman headed toward the city. just heads up there. typical rush hour as we head toward prime time. 422, eastbound, around oaks, now, watch out for the shower lauren was talking about pottstown, headed on 422, could run into some slow go there. so far so good as far as travel times, 95 south of woodhaven to the vine, clear, 14 minute trip. and again 422 oaks to 202 eastbound at six minutes. all right, so that's a look at your ride, brooke, back to you. >> this morning, california bakery is at the center of controversy for it latest creation. >> it is a tr

if you're coming up from phoenixville or chester springs, no delay just yet.retty good right there. i did find something on the commuter traffic report on the waze app here. new falls road in middletown bucks county we've got an object on the road. it's shake and bake who is upper merionly reporting that. thank you shake and bake and thank you for being a part of our 6abc team. don't forget to join us when you go to the waze. pennsylvania turnpike westbound between virginia drive and valley forge, we've got construction blocking the right lane so watch for crews out there hard at work and they're also shutting down baltimore pike here near church lane. stick to macdade boulevard as your alternate while they're doing that construction they had to shut it down. let's check the temps. it's 73 degrees in philadelphia. it's a warm day today, very warm but not terribly humid. so we can handle this. 89 degrees to your high, mostly sunny skies. a bit less humid than it has been. the really nice weather lower temperatures start on thursday. erin. >> all right, thanks s

pottstown, phoenixville, you're about to get rainfall right now. will be heading towards norristown. don't be surprised if you see wind shield wipers going first thing this morning. then we dry out for the rest of the day. those showers way to the west are going to skip us. the next round of showers not going to be coming into the area until after the weekend. steam heat today, you'll really feel it. the temperatures soar into the 90s this afternoon. it will feel like 100 degrees this afternoon. the feels like temperature, 98 degrees at 2:00. the actual temperature will be at 92 degrees at this hour. the temperatures climb back to near 90 degrees in philadelphia on saturday and again on sunday. you're looking for cooler weather, the shore, even cooler on sunday with a high of 81. the humidity a bit lower come sunday. the weekend is looking good. next chance of some showers and thunderstorms, well, for the shore doesn't look like that for the next five days. into next week, the temperatures in the low 80s. but for the philadelphia area, 90 degrees t

no big issues there coming from phoenixville or lionville.ve this accident we've been talking about in feltonville. a serious one on whitaker avenue at loudoun street and katherine scott has been on the scene talking about this fatal hit and run. we have crews on the scene. avoid that area if you can with police on the scene. let's take a look on i-95 southbound. we've got not one, not two but three lanes blocked southbound and that's between christiana and the delaware service area until 5:30 this morning so they're still out there right now but they should be wrapping up pretty short physical you're on i-95. let's look at the visibility reports. we are seeing less than a mile visibility in toms river. half a mile in millville. only .3 of a mile in dover. philadelphia international airport not as bad at 6-mile visibility but just watch for that as you're headed out. it's a another hot day. six day of our heat wave. things get better starting tomorrow matt. >> thank you karen. new here on "action news" an ohio man faces murder charges for sho

now we've shifted over to the pennsylvania suburbs, west chester at 87, phoenixville at 87 for your forecast high as well. in philadelphia, fairmount, 90 as well in mount eerie, good news, we don't have a red, the feel like temperature will be nearly or exactly the same as the actual temperature. we don't have high humidity today. it won't make it feel sticky and muggier. 89 in trenton, a few spot clouds around there through the jersey shore. 86 and atlantic city, sunny at 84, avalon, a little lower, 82. so the shore where you can fine the relief today. wilmington, 89, dover, 85, relief at 82 at the beach. sunshine, in some areas making it a heat wave. 90 will continue for several more days. we'll check in with more coming up. >>> happening now, nearly 5,000 runners racing through the street of philadelphia. the philly 10k began at 8th and south street. participants are winding 6.2 miles through the city, ending up at 5th and pine. we spoke with some of the racers before they took off running this morning. >> we're in the middle of training for a marathon now, so we thought this a good optio

we have a couple of good things, we'll share one right now in the phoenixville area, they opened a chunkute 23. use that this morning it is reopened. if you're using the ramp 422 westbound to armond hammer web they will be shifting the barriers today. crews will be out there watch out for them. linfield trap road is closed, stick to ridge pike. 202 king of prussia mall today is national relaxation day not to be confused with national lazy day. so far so good at the king of prussia. over next week they will be doing water main work watch out for restrictions along 202. bucks county, they reopened bristol road. starting this week they will close old york road west of york stick to york to get around that closure. there's an accident at clifford avenue between 4th and 5th. a pair of downed trees in delaware, dexter corner road closing townsend. >> thank you matt, there's new word that the new york police department is questioning a person of interest in the shooting death of a muslim cleric and his associate. this comes as the nypd released the sketch of the suspect. he is accused of openin

phoenixville, 84 degrees. skatserred showers and storms. 84. in new jersey, 85., closer to the shore, temperatures in the mid to low 80s. 83 for atlantic city tomorrow. and dover around 87 degrees. tomorrow showers and storms, some heavy. by tuesday, cloudy skies. some showers around, too. on the lighter side, most likely 83 degrees. wednesday through thursday, a mid-80s. we're going to be on the drier side. by friday, back near 90 degrees and going into next weekend, showers and thunderstorm chance on saturday. so far, sunday doesn't look too bad. >>> i'm danny pommells. coming up next in sports, carson wentz had plenty of fans in the stands today at open practice. what does doug peterssderson thf the rookie so far? >>> brian dawkins is back with the franchise. we'll hear from the weapon next on the other side. >>> welcome back. i'm danny pommells. the eagles had more than 18,000 fans on hand for their open practice today at lincoln financial field in south philly. for many it was their first chance to see this year's first round pick carson wentz. sit behind sa

phoenixville, westchester, 86, and for philadelphia, fair amount at 89 degrees.of us right near the low 90s today. trenton at 87. if we drop along to the shore, upper 80s right around atlantic city. some of us should be pulling back mid 80s along the shore and these temperatures in delaware similar as well. 89 your temperature in wilmington. dover, 88. your t10 day on 10 showing you upper 80s for next couple days but late wednesday into thursday we pull in storms friday through your weekend next weekend as well. >>> ten minutes until 7:00 right now on this sunday. a live look at sugarloaf mountain in rio de janeiro. we check in now with nbc olympic correspondent jay gray who joins us live from rio with highlights from day one and a look ahead to day two. >> good morning. great day in rio. sun is up. beautiful. temperature maybe upper 70s when it's all said and done. just a day into these games and already team usa on the medal stand. leading in the overall medal count after that first day. thanks to shooting for gold and finding a silver lining in the olympic poo

phoenixville 87. much of montgomery county is in about the mid to upper 80s. collegeville with a reading of 90, a little bit warm, but warrington coming in at 85 degrees. the humidity, not as oppressive today, and the heat wave very close to coming to an end. so far today in the philadelphia area, we've been in the upper 80s. but we broke a little bit out of the 90s this afternoon. we'll have to see what the official high is in just a little bit here. over the weekend, the temperatures will be back around 90 degrees. it's still going to be hot this weekend, around 92. thunderstorms as we go through part of your weekend. not the whole thing, of course. your plans still look pretty good. as we go into next week, that's when weapon get the relief. it will be later on next week, not this weekend just yet. but the heat will be much lower, the humidity will be much lower. i really think you're going to like the forecast. locally on radar, we're nice and dry. a few small showers trying to move into the poconos. best chance for anything later on this evening will be n

no cool spots phoenixville is 78. and new hope is upper 70s to start. should be about ten degrees cooler at this time of year. the heat index projection shows it's going to be soaring over the next few days. that's why we've issued a "first alert" for dangerous heat for philadelphia, suburbs, new jersey and delaware. today, to sunday, the time period that you can expect hot and humid conditions and feels like conditions from 100 to 110, as well as poor air quality for today. right on through the weekend. it's after the weekend, we'll finally see a break from the heat and humidity. that's when we'll get a better chance of showers and thunderstorms. if you're watching a few sprinkles mainly in parts of our area, the showers that are streaming through pennsylvania are going to miss most of the area this morning. but there's a possibility for this afternoon. 95 degrees in philadelphia today. look at the heat building for friday and saturday. it will feel more like 100 degrees even on sunday. but by monday. the heat wave comes to an end. showers and thunders

college ville, you need to exit at 29, now there is will cause havoc for hoax traveling through phoenixville, to begin with, and hopefully we get that stretch of the roadway opened up soon. we are open on the vine street expressway, construction, cleared, so, we are good to go from end to ends, both directions, and nice little something different here. in northeast philadelphia, 95, the overhead street light are out, chris, did you pay the bill? did you put the check in the snail. >> ya. >> ya, did you put a stamp on it? >> no. >> did you -- how much was that stomach innocent was it one of the old stamps? ninety-five, look out, northeast philly, with the light out. chris, lauren, back over to you. >> thank so much. north north carolina highway patrol, not to jump to conclusions in the 29 year old deaf man by police. daniel harris gunned down by state trooper after officer tried to pull him over for speeding. harris kept going. but when he he finally stopped, and got out of the car, he was shot. relatives say he was unarmed, likely didn't understand the officer's commands, the incident is now

up toward reading and it will continue to move east toward pottstown and chester county around phoenixville. it will weaken moving in but just a brief downpours. pick up by computer forecast, there it goes, crossing over i-95 at 8:00 in the morning. by 9:00, done with the rain and that is the case for the rest of the the day. only showers, wearing seeing right now and one or two moving through north and western suburbs. seventy-five, dew .70. that is why it feels so humid out there. another heat wave, question mark? could be. that temperature could hit 90 today and could stay there over weekend but look at that in the seven day forecast in a bit. we will look at the roads now heading over to bob. >> i was going to get my car wash yesterday and did not, made a good chose there, extra 20 bucks in my pocket. good morning, everybody. we are looking good. 5:03 on a friday, vine street expressway opened this morning but an accident, on the off ramp to the ben franklin parkway, and it involves a vehicle and one of those street cleaning sweeper trucks there obviously clean up from the construction.

over about the next hour, but seeing couple of raindrops coming down right now, in and around the phoenixville area. but, this cell is trending to weaken. we will continue to do so as we head into about the next half hour. couple of little tiny sprinkles, popping right now in and around the trenton area, but i think if you leave the umbrella behind, you'll be a-okay today. just the chance of morning sprinkle over the next couple of hours, otherwise decrease in clouds headed into the afternoon. hot, humid, although we will have little breeze will help cool us off. shifting over to the northwest as we head into the second half of the day, justin, formerly component to the wind flow will bring us lower humidity, headed into the upcoming weekend, we talk more about that if your full forecast coming up. >> good news, a lot of people excited about that. not the best sunrise shaping up this morning at about 23 minute, do have some clouds around, saw couple of showers, and wet roads. this is 422 right near collegeville, again, we had that brief shower that rolled on through, but traffic, moving direct

in the pennsylvania suburbs, phoenixville coming in with partly sunny skies and 87 degrees. jersey neighborhoods near 90. trenton 85. haddenfield coming in 89 degrees. if you're along the shore, that's where we have the rip current risk. that's why we have the red exclamation points. atlantic city 80 degrees tomorrow. if you're in delaware, temperatures near 90, wilmington be careful of any rip currents and we'll be updating you. a closer look at your labor day forecast coming up. >> let's turn it over to savannah guthrie who is joining us from the nbc studios in new york. >> jim and jacqueline, good to see you. a top aide to hillary clinton huma abedin announces she is separating from her husband former congressman anthony weiner amid yet another sexting controversy. >>> the maker of epipen launching a cheaper alternatives, but critics say it's not enough, and we'll have a look back at the life and career of comedy legend gene wilder when we see you in just a few minutes. >> great loss there. all right, savannah, see you at 6:30. >>> well, as savannah just mentioned, no str

phoenixville coming in 85 degrees. philadelphia area, expect mid-80s.rsey, 82 at trenton. 84 degrees in haddonfield. galloway township around 79 tomorrow. dover, right around the low 80s and sunny. the weekend forecast for everybody. going into friday, sunshine, temperature near 90 in philadelphia. the rest of the area mid-80s. by saturday, low 90s across most of our neighborhoods. temperatures will be hotter by saturday. that's when we have the most humidity. the thunderstorms by sunday, we're clearing up. temperatures in the mid to upper 80s with more sunshine. if you're heading to the shore this weekend, or the delaware beaches, rehoboth beach 87 saturday. scattered showers and storms later in the day. 88 degrees avalon and margate. temperatures will be in the mid-80s, sunny skies and humidity, lower uv index, very high. sunburn in about ten minutes. you want the sun block. >> thank you, sheena. >>> savannah guthrie joins us from the nbc studios in new york. >> she has a look at what's coming up on "nbc nightly news." >> hi. good to see you tonight o

it's affecting a larger area that spreads through limerick, phoenixville, getting light rainfall alongith chester, brooke and norristown, about to move into the area. a brief rain shower this morning and a few scattered showers to the south and east. then we are dry through the weekend. this wet weather moving in the midwest and beyond is not coming our way. the next chance of any wet weather will be next week. for now, we are warmer this morning. 5 to 10 degrees warmer compared to yesterday morning. 76 degrees in philadelphia. dry in south jersey and into the 70s for delaware, the lehigh valley is cloudy. see the showers moving through the suburbs right now with the clouds overhead. these temperatures are holding steady, even the rain hasn't cooled it down this morning. high humidity and 73 degrees right now in west bradford township. it's 74 degrees currently in newtown and warrenton, ft. washington, right in the middle 70s as well. sunshine and steam heat this afternoon. the temperatures will be the hottest of the week and the humidity will be the highest as well. it will feel like

it includes charlestown down through coatesville approaching westchester, and stretches from phoenixville down to coatesville. very heavy rain. a lot of lightning right over 76. here as we look in chester county, and even the potential for hail in this storm. it's moving to the east around 35 miles an hour. it's going to be in chest business chester very soon. marion by about 5:30. philadelphia by about 5:45, and then on its way to camden. golf ball-sized hail is possibly getting even a little bit larger in size. as it continues moving to the east. so we'll be watching that very closely. damaging winds also expected with that storm. now we're looking through parts of bucks county. scattered heavy rain even up toward lehigh county in lehigh valley. near 476. this one showing indications of some hail, possibly golf ball-sized. again, we have some strong thunderstorms on the radar today, even as you get into parts of mercer county. we'll take a closer look at that coming up as well. 93 wilmington. 94 right now in dover. but when you talk about the humidity, take a look at the feels-like temp

phoenixville, 76. st. david's up to 84 degrees. ft. washington, 80. perksy, 80.ope, 82 degrees. so, it is another beautiful day out there, but it's the last sort of comfortable one. nothing more than high, thin clouds around right now. and the clouds thicken up in ohio, the nearest rain moving into indiana right now. so nothing but sunshine this afternoon. temperatures getting at least into the mid-80s. tonight, you may notice, it's not going to be as cool or comfortable as it has in the last couple of days. and that is going to be the case throughout the area. the lehigh valley, it was down in the 50s in the last couple of mornings, only in the 60s tomorrow morning. that's an indication of that humidity coming up. we'll see if there are any showers with that, and if the heat's going to last through the weekend, with the rest of the forecast in a few minutes. >> glenn, we'll see you then. thank you. >>> vice president joe biden is in turkey this morning. he arrived this morning for talks that will include discussions on recent developments in syria. just hours be

have a crash along pawlings road at 23 and today route 23 nut road closed near phoenixville, that's for about a week and a half. 113 your alternate around that construction. this is 95 southbound side little sluggish by cottman. had an earlier broken down vehicle by allegheny but that's now gone. here on 295 in camden county still seeing a slow travel time but the southbound pace has definitely picked up. now that that crash near the white horse pike is gone. crash on the a.c. expressway mostly off to the side now but in the backlog there was one on 42 southbound approaching the expressway so a lane is blocked there and speeds just in the 20's as you head down the shore. we'll check it again rick and monica, in the next half hour. >> okay, see you then. thank you, matt. >>> much more still to come, it is fitness friday and we are focusing tonight on some young athletes who are hoping to hit the peak of their talent. they're doing so by attending a unique program right here in our area. see me coming up -- >> or not. also coming up facebook wants to put the face back in its mobile app. t

it's normal afternoon volume just slowing us down passing oaks headed out towards phoenixville and collegevillernoon. earlier delays westbound near pottstown have cleared out. we've had another accident on the northeast extension, this one northbound at&t approaching lansdale. it's taking out the right lane but at this point speeds don't seem to be impacted the way they were by that earlier broken down truck up around quakertown. in ambler still working on those downed inquires wires by saint joseph's roman catholic church along spring guards street at popular street. some jams there in ambler along butler pike as a result. we have jams because of a broken down tractor-trailer in weswest windsor mercer county. speeds in the teens. mantua township gloucester county still have that accident involving a vehicle that ran off the road way. all the activity is on the shoulder but some slow speeds there as you head northbound toward deptford. and we have got new updated schedules on four of the septa regional rail lines affected this morning. warminster media elwyn west trenton and lansdale doylestown

phoenixville, 98. still hot. humidity fairly comfortable. nothing extreme., haddonfield, 90. trenton also around 90 to start your week. along the shore, atlantic city, 86. if you're in avalon, temperatures in the upper 80s and sunny. rehoboth beach, 87. wilmington, around the low 90s. here's a look at the tropics. florida and just south of florida, tropical depression nine. also tropical depression eight right off the north carolina coastline. and the one i think is going to be our main concern for the u.s. will be tropical depression nine. look at eight first since it's the closest to us. this one still a tropical depression. could become a tropical storm. could skim the north carolina outer banks here. we'll be watching that closely. it's expected to curve out to sea. not expected to impact us. we'll be watching that forecast closely still several days out. now tropical depression nine. this one just south of the florida keys and key west. this one is expected to become a tropical storm moving into the warm waters of the gulf of mexico, especially on wedne

phoenixville at 69 degrees. while unionville is at 66 and 68 in kennett square and chadds ford.degrees. most of the rest of the area has cooled into the upper 60s to start with. it will be a quick warmup. now that the sun is up, we'll seat temperatures come up. as they do, a little bit of a northerly wind. the humidity dropping this afternoon. satellite and radar, show we're in the clear. the showers overnight have moved out. the next system that will bring us wet weather over the weekend, that's in montana. it's got a long way to go. billings is getting wet weather. this will come together over the next 36 hours. that's a developing cold front and low pressure area. that will clear things out behind it. but ahead of that front, warm, moist air. you'll feel the additional humidity on saturday with lots of showers, scattered showers and some thunderstorms, saturday afternoon for most of the eastern half of the u.s. the western half clears out nicely. and that's the weather that we will see next week. but come sunday, this is the wet weather that will be moving in during the day.

all right everybody if you're waking up and you're coming in this morning from phoenixville or chester, this is your ride. route 100 at commerce drive its a pretty ride. got no problems. light volume so looking good so far. we're seeing some heavier traffic on 42 northbound coming in right now from this morning from deptford or turnersville you're dealing with that. no real traffic southbound just yet but we'll see that volume build as people head to the ac air show he today. big deal if you're on the waze app coming from philadelphia heading to atlantic city on the atlantic city expressway. no problems just yet because it's early. it doesn't start until 11:00. we see a 53 minute ride. if you're going to take the black horse pike instead it's about an hour and three minutes and if you're going to stick -- take 73 onto the atlantic city expressway an hour and 10 minutes so a couple of options that we're going to keep an eye on for you. but a lot of people head there early. you want to because the crowds get pretty extensive as you can imagine and so does the traffic. as we look at our m

there's another cluster just to the south of this activity pressing into areas in phoenixville to the getting close to you. also if you travel along route 202 north of malvern we've got the showers and storms, a a lot of lightning and remember if you hear the roar head indoors. storms traveling to the east at about 15 miles an hour. another cluster in mercer county and trenton pressing into your region. light to moderate pockets of rain. the problem you're getting a lot of rain in a short amount of time. rainfall rates probably about 3-inches an hour so it's a good soaking that moves through. then it moves out but the humidity unfortunately is sticking around right through our weekend so the heat index currently in philadelphia coming in at 108 feeling like 107 in wilmington current heat index in cape may some relief not as bad as inland locates at 99 and 94 up the coast in beach haven. here's satellite6 along with action radar. a lot of activity starting to bubble up across the region. there's a back door cold front draped across portions of canada northern new england. this is dippi

the it is for reading, boyer town, robeson and northern chester county including my hometown of phoenixvillewest chester, east whiteham township, southwestern montgomery county including in that warning as well in 5:15. i expect these warnings to follow storms as they continue on that north/northeasterly path through the next couple of hours. if we pick up a storm here in philadelphia alikely between six and 7:00 o'clock hours. we will have more on these storms as we continue to track them throughout the rest of tonight but one delaware family received quite a shock, last night, their house was hit by lightening. it caused quite a bit of damage. meteorologist justin drabick is live in middletown new castle count which more on that are ordeal, justin. >> reporter: that is right, kate. you know lightening so unpredictable you just never know when and where it will hit and it could be so strong, one bullet can add electricity, up to 1 billion volts of electricity, and could get as hot as 50,000 degrees. that will cause destruction just ask the family their home was hit struck by lightening, it

. >> renaissance academy second week of school in phoenixville already. >> nors wood academy jacquelineoing 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 grubs, the issue many millennials seem to have with a bar of soap. >> you mean shore body wash. >> i hate body wash and i