steve sosna is tracking this unseasonably warm weather. steve? >> temperatures in the 9 0s for today and most places falling short with one exception, allentown. meanwhile, most places got close with temperatures in the low 90s from the lehigh valley to delaware valley and down to delaware. we have lower temperatures for tomorrow but the humidity comes up. 87 in the northeast. 89 in allentown. 86 in philadelphia. temperatures tonight drop back down into the 60s. we're also tracking hurricane maria. yes, a storm that will not go away. will it have any impact on our weather and also a big cool down for the weekend in the first alert ten-day forecast coming up. >>> right now at 6:00, a wilmington firefighter is paying tribute to three of his fellow colleagues who died in a fire that nearly took his life as well. >> a lot of emotion goes through my head. i think it's a beautiful tribute. >> reporter: firefighter brad returned to the force a few weeks ago after he was seriously burned in the arson that killed three firefighters last december. tim furl

not so much right now. >> first alert meteorologist steve sosna joins us now. i feel like we've been spoiled but changes will be coming. >> changes are coming whether you like it or you don't like it. i am just the messenger here. i am telling you. i don't have an opinion. but the heat is basically going to be gone by later tonight and tomorrow. much more comfortable if you do not like the humidity. i know there are mixed opinions on all this. a look outside right now where we have the haze, heat and humidity as you look at the philadelphia skyline. we are looking at mostly sunny skies at the moment. you can see some of the tropical-like clouds in the background because of the heat and humidity. officially, 88 degrees. so far the high in philadelphia. this evening look for more warm and muggy weather. the change comes overnight tonight. that's when you notice the humidity levels beginning to drop. at the shore tomorrow it will be a beautiful day. even nicer than what you saw today. the surf will still be angry and churned up. we'll be looking at the risk for ri

and first alert meteorologist steve sosna is here. >> you can see a couple things from the camera behindme. we have about 8 to 12-foot waves coming ashore. you also see some of the dune grass here blowing around. we see a lot of low clouds. this is the outer fringe of maria. we'll not take a direct impact from the storm. as you can see, hundreds of miles away from the center of the storm, which is off the coast of the outer banks. it will not impact them directly. we will see some of these outer rain bands move in across areas like virginia and maryland. even delaware and new jersey beaches may see some of the showers. what to expect, 8 to 11-foot waves. wind gusts up to 30 miles per hour. and could be a couple showers. i'll track the showers hour by hour and have a look at your weekend forecast, coming up. >> the effort to repeal obamacare stalled again. mitch mcconnell announced the move today saying the gop lacked the votes to get that bill passed. >> republicans putting on hold an issue they campaigned on for three election cycles. >> we haven't given up. we are not going to be able

ç meteorologist steve sosna is with us.t we begin with ted greenberg live in atlantic city. >> people that we have seen today seem to be heeding the warnings of lifeguards. most of them not going into the ocean people all along the jersey coast are being urged to stay out of the water completely. mary is taiking her last dip in the ocean this year, but not venturing too far into the surf in atlantic city. >> life threat k rip currents fuelled by hurricane maria remain a serious danger at the jersey shore. >> they started to deteriorate this time yesterday. >> atlantic city has a limited number of beach patrol members watching the still warm water, but beaches in many other shore communities are unguarded this time of year despite summer like weather luring big crowds to the coast. 100 people have been rescued from the surf. three people in ocean and ma'am mouth counties died after being pulled from the water. this drone video capturing the scene is sunday as a struggling swimmer is saved from the churn ing sea. >> if you're

for the timing of the change we bring in first alert meteorologist steve sosna. >> the cooler air is off to the west and our neighbors are already feeling it. it was a hot day. not just hot. record hot in parts of our area. 91 today in allentown. philadelphia, you saw a high of 89 degrees. wilmington, you were at 90. reading, you tied your record at 89 degrees. so it was a hot day no matter where you were. temperatures right now are still very warm. we still have a lot of sunshine out there and a lot of humidity in the air. 84 in philadelphia. the philadelphia suburbs are at 82. 84 in new jersey. even up into the lehigh valley we saw temperatures in the upper 80s to lower 90s. we will continue to see the warm weather here through the next couple of hours. it's after 11:00 tonight the temperatures will start to cool off. then that's when the humidity will start to lower as we move into tomorrow morning. what follows behind tomorrow afternoon will be a gusty wind, a lot of sunshine and a big change. that change will last into the upcoming weekend. i'll have that forecast and your ten-d

let's go to wnbc meteorologist steve sosna to get the latest on things. so far, so good with our correspondents out there. things are definitely calming down, at least where our guys are. >> one thing i would like to see are the images from the keys. we haven't seen a whole lot of images there. >> hard to get access. >> right. we had through that section. we'll get a better idea today as things settle down down there on what kind of damage was done. a lot of damage done across parts of florida. a very messy but not catastrophic. that's certainly the takeaway. let's look at what the storm i doing right now and where it' going. right now it is across northern florida where the wind is still roaring, believe it or not, in the orlando area for the better part of the last four or five hours they've been gusting 60, 70, close to 80 miles an hour. that line where it stops is very close to you now. thins will settle down a little bit but then the wind will come back out of the west and northwest. you can see some areas gusting to 70 miles an hour still in norther

let's bring in meteorologist steve sosna. went to cat 1 about an hour ago. any chance this could resurge and go up to a cat 2 at this point? >> i have really good news for you. that's not going to happen. >> yea! >> everybody's nerves are frazzled, everybody's exhausted. we will get better. it's not there yet but we do have some improvement in the fact this will not intensify. so, certainly the takeaway here after we've had just a really tough 72 hours across the state of florida right now. it's an 85-mile-per-hour storm, a cat 1, the loews on the scale here. its not a storm that is void of problems here. we have some heavy rain, some gusty winds out there. and, certainly, that will cause some problems. let's take a look at the projected path. when do we get rid of the storm in northern florida? it doesn't happen until probably late in the day today and into tomorrow night until this storm is finally out of here. so, that means that the rain and the wind across north florida will still continue here as you wake up on this monday morning and as you head off t

let's go to first alert meteorologist steve sosna. >>> yes, we certainly have hot temperatures around and fell shy of the record high for today, at least the last check. but it's still going to be pretty humid for the next couple of days. you still have to deal with that even as you back away from the 9 ohs. rough surf at the shore. it's a big story throughout the week and everybody is looking forward to this big change coming. you won't need to pump out the ac in your car. you can open up the windows and feel that crisp, refreshing air. certainly not crisp or refreshing for today. a little sweaty outside. 91 was the high so far at philadelphia international airport. the record was 92. we'll see if summer is ending here shortly. 91 in allentown. meanwhile, the shore points had a beautiful breeze and that will continue once again for tomorrow. 26 days at 90 or higher in the month of -- in the year of 2017, i should say. i don't think we're going to add to that count here for the rest of the week. the 90s, good-bye. humidity, a few more days until we get rid of that. it's very sticky ou

first alert meteorologist steve sosna is here. how long is this heat going to stick around?>> it's already stuck around too long. but not too much longer. a few more days to get through and then we see that big relief. today, it was another hot one. records in the lower 90s. i've been hitting the refresh button on my computer to see what the official number is but 91 was the high in philadelphia. we'll have to wait and see over the next few minutes whether we hit that record or not. either way, it was a very, very hot day. the humidity is up higher, too. reading and allentown, you were both near 90 degrees. in the shore, 80s with humidity and that will continue to be the theme as we go through at least wednesday. so here's your planner for tonight. 8:00, 78 degrees. that will feel much better than the 91 earlier today and then 73. watch out for that patchy fog rolling in here. whenever you get this much moisture, you'll get fog this time of year. 89 in philadelphia right now. we have temperatures in the lower 80s from dover down into the jersey shore points where they've coo

let's go to wnbc meteorologist steve sosna to get the latest on things. so far, so good with our correspondents out there. things are definitely calming down, at least where our guys are. >> one thing i would like to see are the images from the keys. we haven't seen a whole lot of images there. >> hard to get access. >> right. we had a category 4 storm roll through that section. we'll get a better idea today as things settle down down there on what kind of damage was done. a lot of damage done across parts of florida. a very messy but not catastrophic. that's certainly the takeaway. let's look at what the storm is doing right now and where it's going. right now it is across northern florida where the wind is still roaring, believe it or not, in the orlando area for the better part of the last four or five hours they've been gusting 60, 70, close to 80 miles an hour. that line where it stops is very close to you now. thins will settle down a little bit but then the wind will come back out of the west and northwest. you can see some areas gusting to 70 mile

right to steve sosna to get the latest on the tracking of irma. we look at people who have hunkered down in shelters as they have been told to do by the governor and everybody else. so what is it like out there now? where is it heading? >> they did the right thing. want to be sheltered in place here now. we have severe weather, new at this hour, we have tornado warnings around the ft. lauderdale, broward county area. and that area extends up north towards ft. pierce. we'll be tracking in the only storm surge and devastating winds, also the potential for tornadoes and severe thunderstorms throughout the day and also the heavy rainfall. alex? >> okay, steve sosna, thank you for that. more coming from you in the next hour. that's for sure. we're back at the top of the hour, live reports from both coasts of florida, and the very latest on the path of hurricane irma.

let's go to first alert meteorologist steve sosna. >> if you like the heat, soak it up today. you may have to wait several months before we get this hot again. probably next spring. let's look at what's new at 4:00. maria still sending us waves. the wave activity will continue through the day tomorrow. dangerous rip currents still in place even though it will be a beautiful thursday. don't let that deceive you. the last day of heat is today. if you don't like the heat, certainly some good news in your forecast. that comes with a gusty winds. the gusty winds arrive later tonight and tomorrow and usher in the crisp feeling. sons y as soon as you walk out the door tomorrow you'll notice the very comfortable air. the low humidity lasts right into the weekend. i am calling this weekend absolutely glorious. it looks like a delightful weather weekend to be outside. why am i showing you this number? 26 days of 90-degree temperature days in philadelphia in 2017? we're close to it right now. it's 88 in philadelphia. if we go up a degree or two we make that mark. 88 right now, feels like

let's bring in nbc's steve sosna, he is dealing with not just these winds but the fact that there are tornado watches in the area. >> that's right. these warnings pop up as quickly as they are issued. so we had a tornado warning in the miami area with circulation coming on board here, it has

let's bring in nbc's steve sosna, he is dealing with not just these winds but the fact that there are tornado watches in the area. >> that's right. these warnings pop up as quickly as they are issued. so we had a tornado warning in the miami area with circulation coming on board here, it has been canceled now, but more spinups definitely likely as these outer rain bands come pivoting in here rapidly. when that tornado warning was issued the storm was moving at 80 miles per hour. so it gives you little to no warning to prepare. so the latest here at 8:00 this morning is that eyewall is making landfall, it still hasn't technically made landfall by hurricane center definitions but it's awfully close and it's battering areas of the keys right now. we've seen top wind gusts of 94 miles per hour. so let's take a look at the latest update here on the radar as we go over to the big monitor. you will be able to see that we do have the big circulation spinning here to the northwest at about 6 miles an hour, i believe -- actually, 8 mile per hour. so it's a little bit faster than how you would w

steve sosna is tracking it all. >> if you didn't break out the sweater or sweatshirt by now, i challenge you tonight and tomorrow morning. gusty winds whipping the trees around. looks like a late fall sky there. the that blustery breeze you see right now will start to relax during the overnight hours. what that allows the temperatures to do is drop. we'll see that here during the overnight. 30s and 40s as those winds slowly ease. now, we are entering a very sunny pattern. if you like sunshine and a lot of it, this ten-day forecast is for you. we barely have a drop of rain in that. along with that sunshine will come a warming trend. if these cool temperatures aren't for you, wait until the middle of next week. temperatures approaching 80 degrees. like i said, the rain is staying missing in action here. there's barely a drop of it in the forecast. we saw a few sprinkles today across areas of new jersey. other than that, we were fairly dry. we have a good deal of cloud cover. we'll lose that cloud cover as we go through the evening hours. 9:00, 58 degrees with that north wind at 15 miles pe

the storm's track from wnbc's steve sosna. steve, give me the latest. when i look at those images behind you, they don't look good. >> stephanie, this is still a very, very powerful hurricane. 185 are the sustained winds, category 5. we've seen those images coming out of st. maarten and it's absolutely devastating. one of the definitions of catastrophic is an area will be uninhabitable for weeks and/or months. for some of these islands that's what we'll be seeing. there has been a little bit of a shift to the east now and we'll have to see if this is a trend or if this will stop here, but it was enough to change the national hurricane center path of projection. i'll show that to you here in just a second. just getting you up to speed with the latest stats, winds of 185 miles per hour. again, one of the strongest storms we've ever seen here in the atlantic basin. 15 miles west of st. maarten. we'll get a new advisory out. now it takes it just north of puerto rico where the eye wall may not come on shore now. again, this is an hour-by-hour situation. that

. >> meteorologist steve sosna is tracking the conditions. >> we wish we weren't accurate about this.heat and humidity that many of you are sick of will continue tonight. if you're headed to the phillies game, keep yourself hydrated and also wear shorts and a tank top if you will. it's that kind of weather out here. 89 in syracuse. look at the neighbors here across the great lakes states in the 990s. there are some changes coming up. that's the cool air up here in the upper midwest. we do not kid you. there's cooler air coming and it has eyes set on us coming up on the day thursday. right now we're at 84 degrees with a lot of humidity in the air. the east wind at 7 miles per hour. and look at today's highs. not quite as oppressive as yesterday. did it feel any better? i don't think so. the humidity values went up. 88 was the high in allentown wp we'll see if you hit 90 you have a lot of sunshine and it's in the realm of possibility. what does that mean? it means the air feels muggy to tropical outside. we have to deal with the clouds, fog, wind and waves. more on that and the big brea

steve sosna, help me understand what's going on now. the storm has -- seems to be meandering, headed towards orlando? >> luckily not moving as slowly as harvey. harvey we could walk faster down the street than harvey was moving. this is moving at a good clip which will provide the widespread catastrophic flooding we saw during that storm. the problem with this storm is the winds are still strong. we still have storm surge issues along the coast. we'll walk you through that. and then we'll talk about jose. one thing at a time. it's one of those seasons where we're dealing -- >> thanks a lot. >> i know. i'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news. you'll hear about it this week and you may as well hear about it from me before you hear about it somewhere else. wind gusts with this storm that came in today were ferocious. naples, 142 miles per hour. 130-mile-per-hour observed winds at marco island. down into the keys we had wind guses over 100 miles an hour. the storm could have been worse. the reason why, because it was a 5 before it interacted

joining us now is nbc's meteorologist steve sosna, who has been tracking irma's path. steve, what's the latest? >> well, what we have for you is still a category 2 storm, which is nothing to sneeze at here. it is not as strong as it was in the keys, but it's still delivering impacts that are going to be very disruptive and just down right dangerous, especially now that we don't have daylight across central florida. 66 miles per hour at the international airport in orlando. 63 miles per hour in lakeland. the center now is getting close to tampa, so the wind has gone from a westerly direction to more of a north to mostly direction, and eventually it's going to start pivoting down from the north and northwest. so that's going to be signaling that the eye is passing north of you. then that water from the gulf of mexico can start to come on in here. so we've had it easy from tampa surge. but now it's your turn as the center of the storm passes up to the north. even on the eastern side of this, the winds still gusting, roaring at 70 miles per hour. you saw thomas' live shot o

thanks so much steve sosna. >> we have to take a turn, rehema ellis is live in nassau, the bahamas right in the path of irma. rehema, let's talk about that in a min u there's widespread destruction in other caribbean islands. when i've seen images of saint maarten, it seems they are decimated. >> it's really frightening and people are coming to water filling stations like this and seeing what damage the storm has done. let me show you something really quick. as fast as they can get these pallets of water in underneath this tent, they are being loaded on to cars and people are riding out. they've been lining up since 4:00, one person 3:00 in the morning to get that water. let me share with you as you pointed out what's going on in the other islands which is the reason people are so worried. we have pictures to show you what happened in barbuda, prime minister there says that island was devastated. nearly 90% of the structures were damaged or totally destroyed and they are trying to assess what else might have occurred in terms of loss of life. virgin islands, also hard hit, saint martin a

i want to take the information you've given me and walk over to steve sosna here. right now, the wind in naples is going that way. so if you're on the beach where kerry is, you're not seeing something that looks dramatic. >> you're seeing the water levels go back out. what we're watching is this pocket right here. it's the south west wind, when this center moving to the north and look at these winds, 120 miles per hour winds are pushing that water up. that's why we have big concerns here for the southwest coast. they're living easy right now in terms of the storm surge threat. not for much longer. this outer eye wall is lifting north. >> that's why kerry say thaurs' going -- he may have an opportunity to show people. it is important that people see this because he may be able to show you how you go from the scene he just had where sea levels are very low and lower than normal, into something where all of a sudden, this wall of water comes into napele the and fort meyers. >> we've seen this happen in the keys. winds gusting 100, 105 miles per hour. things calm down