you have the wilmington naval reserve and they have a small -- and these people shut down wilmington. they were strip searching men women and children, black men women and children in every corner. there were a number of black letter carriers who were beaten to death by white mobs and some white women came to the rescue and gave them shelter in their homes. there were a number of other white women who sheltered black servants in their homes to keep them safe but this was catastrophic or wilmington in so many ways. a lot of these people that were being chased and harassed and shot at left the city and swam the river and hid in the swamps. they went to cemeteries. for three days wilmington shut down. you can pretty much mark the end of wilmington's ascendancy in the city of north carolina to the day of this coup and it was called the riot but it was really a coup d'État because the next thing they did was round of the alderman and a gun pointed at city hall megamall resigned and appointed white supremacist down the line. the leader of the violence becomes the mayor and becomes a multi-t

the wilmington naval reserve in a small howitzer. in these people shut down wilmington because of martial law. they were strip searching black men women and children on every corner. there black letter carriers were beaten nearly to death and some white women came to the rescue and got the hooligans oftenth there is a number of other white women who sheltered in their home to keep them safe but this is catastrophic for wilmington. a lot of the people being chased and harassed and shouted fled the city, swim the river went out to smith creek and hid in the swamp.eries. they were for three days only ten shut down. you can pretty much mark the end of their descendents in north carolina to the date of this queue. it's been called the riot but it was really a coup. at gunpoint at city hall they made them all resign and appointed white supremacist down the line and the leader of the violence becomes the mayor. and becomes a multi- term mayor. when he dies there's a huge funeral and he is eulogized as a fine figure of seven children. no leg

comfortable in allentown 62. 65 in wilmington. 67 in dover. with low humidity crack the windows let that light breeze in. that northwesterly breeze in hammonton. 60 degrees. sea isle at 70. the ocean water temperature still warm at 74 degrees. our current setup shows a few spotty showers west of harrisburg. could make it into berks county and allentown through the lehigh valley but just a few spotty showers that would be about it. high pressure really dominating our area. over chicago now the flow around us clockwise that's why we're gettingetting that northwesterly component to the wind that means cool temperatures over the next several days. that's a good thing it will be very good sleeping weather as we say. the big weather to talk about is hurricane harvey right now maximum winds at 85 miles an hour moving northwest at ten and the latest track moves this inland early saturday morning near corpus christi then it takes a little bit of a loop and goes parallel to the texas coast heading toward houston. a very unusual path and this would mean

scattered showers for philadelphia and wilmington. inland areas are not going to be hit near as bad as the jersey shore and delaware beaches. continues into the evening hour. as the storm system pulls away, drying conditions tomorrow and improving conditions tomorrow. winds increasing, at the shore, steady winds. 25-mile-an-hour with gusts running 35-40 miles an hour. all combine to keep temperatures cool. going nowhere. a little warmer this morning we'll see when the rain and winds kick in later today. dry weather ahead, maybe not completely dry for the holiday weekend. look at that with the ten day on ten when i'm back in ten minutes. >> thanks for that. >>> stay ahead of the storm with the nbc 10 app on your smartphone. send you severe weather alert specifically for your neighborhood. >>> 5:43. 66 degrees outside. get you to work this tuesday mornings with a check of route one. jessica boyington standsing by with a look at that. ing by with a look at that. >>> when the construction lifts and we start to see delays, we're in that lu

police department. >> reporter: wilmington police are not taking this lightly. investigating the incident as hate crime and vowing to get to the bottom of it. residents who live in the neighborhood are appalled at the nature of the graffiti. >> you walk out the door and see something like this it really just hit me like a ton of bricks. oh! here? >> bobby mccormick surprised and deeply saddened to see his neighbor's car covered in hateful profanity laced antisemitic graffiti the images posted on a local bomb's facebook page and have been shared thousands of times. the vandalism happening sometime early wednesday morning. the mini van park on the 600 block of bayard avenue in wilmington spray painted with swastikas and words like kkk and go back to africa. >> we never had no problem here. all of our neighbors here -- we look out for each other. cut each other grass and well all have no problem with each other. something like that something you don't want to see. >> very hurtful. i never expected anything to happen like this. i never thought anything -- would occu

this fort was to help protect the fort of wilmington. by august of 1863, this was the primary port for most blockade runners coming in when they came into wilmington, they could offloot their supplies on to trains in the town of wilmington. and they could directly head north to richmond. there were a series of defensive fortifications that were posted all along the river. there was fort holmes, fort johnston. you had ft. anderson, three miles up river. numerous batteries all over the area. that was meant to keep the union fleet. they literally ran into the mouth of everything and sailed right past the defensive positions. >> when ft. fisher was first constructed or started, it was april 1861, there was not a lot of organizational capacity to this nobody thought about what was supposed to be the basis. five different gun in placements. they were not interconnected, they were not interlocking. they were just sort of poundses of dirt with artillery pieces on them. in july 4th, 1862, a new commander came to the fort. what he decided to do wa

we're live in wilmington. pamela, people living in the community though are sending a strong message that hate is not welcome there. >> reporter: tracy, you're right and i should start off by mentioning that wilmington police are investigating this incident as a hate crime. the vandalism appears to have happened overnight. the man who owns the van discovered the racist graffiti when he woke up wednesday morning. it has since been covered. a swastika was spray painted on the hood of the van. the vandals wrote other words. some of them we can't show or say on tv. his heart sank when he saw it. we talked to the uncle of the man who owns it. he says this was troubling, concerning and hurtful for the entire family. >> it even disturbed my mom. you know, my mom, 77 years old. >> reporter: and the family believes this is all over a parking space. anyone with information should give wilmington police a call. reporting live in wilmington, i'm pamela osborn, nbc 10 news. >>> and police have arrested a man accused of spr

few scattered clouds over wilmington. they're breaking. you'll see plenty of sunshine and warm into the low 80s this afternoon. the temperatures are much cooler than yesterday to start with. 14 degrees cooler for redding and potstown. 9 degrees cooler in philadelphia. so that's put us in the 50s and 60s right now. 55 degrees in the suburbs and 60s for delaware, south jersey if the 50s but the temperatures have dropped into the very low 60s for chestnut hill, park side at 60 degrees and 61 right now in parkwood. we'll warm into the low 80s but all day long the sunshine will be bright. the warm temperatures you'll feel them but the humidity stays low. in fact, it goes lower this afternoon for philadelphia and the suburbs. look at the lehigh valley, 78 degrees this afternoon. nothing but sunshine ahead for new jersey. and at the shore, sunny skies, those clouds from yesterday have finally pushed out of here and you'll see sunny skies across delaware too with high temperatures in the low 80s and not just during the day. the beautiful weather c

seventy-five in wilmington.pper 60's north and west, mid 60's in the poconos mountains as we look at the visibility, good, a 10 there in wildwood but five millville, four in wilmington, quarter mile in lancaster and you can see pottstown, allentown visibility down to five. along that i-95 corridor, urbanized areas feels like temperatures approaching triple digits. so take it easy heading to the ballpark later on this afternoon, it will be hot, humid, remember that sun screen, 92 degrees by first pitch at 4:05. as we look at high temperatures in the area 92 in philadelphia, 91 in millville, 90 in allentown and lower 90's for reading and lancaster. that seven day forecast with the fall preview coming up, back over to you. >>> 5:38. bill cosby will be back in court today with the new legal team, we know these are new faces tom mesereau won an acquittal in the michael jackson's child molestation trial and also represented mike tyson and su ge knight. cosby is set to appear for his pretrial hearing on sexual assault

look how the winds increase for philadelphia and wilmington. not as much wind and not as much rainfall. the shore and delaware beaches going to see the impact of the system. part of that is rip current risk. heard matt talk about that. remaining high for dangerous surf and potentially life-threatening conditions. here komcomes the rain. just shy of womening torn. a system i mentioned could become a tropical storm. little less likely happening today. will give us a rainy and windy day. see tropical affects at the shore. why we issued a first alert. rainfall totals during the morning not a lot. quarter of an inch in avalon. barely anything in philadelphia. later this afternoon, that's when we're close to an ninch dover. avalon while we get a third of an inch in philadelphia. today, a dreary one. grab the umbrella. gusty winds. 69 degrees. high temperature with the rain and wind keeping things cool. all out of here for tomorrow. sunshine and 78 degrees. few extra clouds on thursday. slights chance of a shower on thursday. better chance unfortunate

raining in wilmington. some of the suburbs and into berks county getting rain is s the south from still developing storm system. centered right in here. this may strengthen into a tropical storm and head out to see. close enough to us to see the tropical effect of the tropical threat. nowhere like what they've seen in texas and louisiana. harvey is chugging moisture in there. centered over the gulf of mexico. slow moving system and it's going to say over the gulf of mexico through the day and finally starting to move back inland early on thursday. there's a lot of moisture with it. you can see where it's going. coming our way over the holiday weekend. we may see some moisture from harvey. today we get moisture from developing tropical system. keeps us in the 60s this afternoon. gusty winds. strongest winds along the coast. tomorrow clearing up. winds diminish during the day. 78 degrees. high temperature wednesday. little warmer on thursday. slight chance of shower from thursday from a week front coming by.

we'll take a live look outside at wilmington. we issue first-alert to give you a heads-up on potentially severe weather. we know the heat and humidity is coming. and then storms later on. we'll get you updated with details and timing with bill henley and the most accurate forecast. >>> you can feel the clouds in the air. you can see the clouds overhead. looking the other direction from new jersey to philadelphia, you see the low clouds and light fog in the city. where we are seeing breaks in the clouds is rehoboth beach, delaware. it will be a muggy day at the beach with high humidity all around. the new jersey shore is at 73 and philadelphia at 75. the cooler neighborhoods, this is where you are more likely to see fog this morning. not widespread fog. as the temperatures dry, that goes for northern delaware se g seeing light weather. look at afternoon temperatures soaring into the 90s. with the elevated humidity, it will stay dry all day and feel like 98 degrees in center city. 95 in doylestown. and in the lehigh valley, an isol

steady rain to begin with in wilmington.eaks to the southwest and the precipitation. but you see a thunderstorm in baltimore, that's a possibility for us too. thunderstorms during the day. the next round of wet weather for later this morning and through this afternoon, into the evening hours, and that's when we could see some heavier downpours in the area. 10:00 this morning, rain from delaware, south jersey, the suburbs, lehigh valley and philadelphia and it is going to be ramping up this afternoon. look at that heavy rainfall for delaware and south jersey, 2:30 this afternoon. may see some improving conditions for allentown, reading. the rain will be coming down. just a lighter rain at 2:30. and during the evening commute, we may get breaks in the precipitation for trenton, philadelphia and wilmington. at 7:00 this evening. look at those downpours for south jersey and in delaware. that's when we have a thunderstorm risk, some strong thunderstorms later today. that's at 7:00. by 9:30, we're mainly dry. few more showers to t

this is union street in wilmington. you see the flooding there, i always say turn around don't drown do not drive through nooded roads, north wilmington receiving 3 inches of rain. stormtracker 6 live double scan showing those storms have now pushed into south jersey also over the mouth of the delaware bay we have a special marine warning for the up ever delaware bay. you don't want to be boating there now. really exploding crossing from route 13 to cedarville. six lightning strikes and heavy rain. this extends east of philadelphia to trenton. if you drive the new jersey turnpike heavy rain and a line through speed well heading towards the coast and more rain pushes towards the coast in the evening hours, but these storms diminish once we get past sunset and the good thing about the rain it's cooled off the temperatures. take a look at the temperatures right now. philadelphia down to 71 degrees, our high today 89 and that means this week is not the sixth heat wave of the year. this is not a heat wave. wilmington 71 and

seventy-five wilmington. right around 76 in millville. overall trend today will be to improve, turning sunny, less humid by the afternoon, looking for high temperatures in the mid 80's. things looking much better but we will have to watch potential for flooding as we head through morning hours. could we see trouble on the road because of the flooding. >> probably a little bit, we will see more on smaller roads and, sidewalks, bridge decks and sidewalks so would i say head up walking as well because that will affect you on the sidewalk or under those bridges. just be careful out there, primarily what we are looking at in terms of the main things is just construction this morning. we are seeing that in bucks county route one both directions are closed at oxford valley and then reenter on oxford valley. we were talking about that a few weeks ago. now it is back out there just a head up on. that overnight resurfacing schuylkill and gulph mills that right lane compromised there and see how wet it is, that water condensing to the side of the ro

flash flood warning until 5:45 newcastle county and wilmington over 4 inches of rain have fallen in wilmington itself. temperatures fallen into the 70s where we see the clouds and downpours and thunderstorms. dover, 87 degrees at the shore dry and temperatures holding into the 80s. satellite 6 along with action radar most of the action earlier fired up near philadelphia points north and west and now beginning to sink to the south and east a little bit. give it an hour or two and most of the radar is becoming very quiet. the evening thunderstorms in spots and otherwise warm and humid 67 to 73 for the overnight low and tomorrow afternoon not as active as today. you see on future tracker one or two storms trying to pop up here especially north of town. temperatures upper 80s to near 90 degrees tomorrow and it is hot and hazy. and that summer feel in the air and then the cold front comes through here early saturday with a morning shower and clouds giving way to sun in the afternoon saturday and much drier air this high pressure will push everything to the east. and the shore tomorrow humid and low

trenton. 60 deg wilmington. 68 in cape outay t doo get that exercise runnimorninsese people never anywhere. do you noticehat. it's going run or anything else you want to do. if you'r 10:00 a.m. 82 by 3:00 p.m. that will be high this afternoon. we've gotming in teaer futlue the details on t make progress. >> reporter: good morning t make quick along expressway with the overnight paving work, but slowly, but suy through thef overnight lane closures we hadt night in both directions. at this point you can see the eastbound right lane out of commission by the blue route 476. it should be gone in theour.ar side outer blocked for the oxford circle. 95 south is clear. we're watching the crash union avenue at bryn mawr avenue and one to avoid in upper dublin, walsh road 63. is closed each morning this week stay on markley street. bucks county, c directionsm. usually the breaking this gun when itchildren's h philth >> reporter: matt, the 11-y conscious and expected to survive and remains in critical conditn. the t scene ifthat was boyimself in the fa circumstances surrounding this remain under inves

tropical system by the time it gets to our latitude. 56 in reading, 61 this philadelphia. 58 in wilmington, 68 in cape may. dewpoints are low, so it's not that humid again today. 75 degrees by noon, 3:00 p.m., 78 degrees, you can see how it gets cloudier as the day goes on. 5:00 p.m., 76 degrees, 72 comfortable degrees by 7:00 p.m. as we head into tomorrow, though, a little bit of rain and the rest of the seven-day forecast doesn't look too bad, we'll have more on that coming up. we're looking at overnight construction happening right now on the schuylkill expressway, here you can see it between city avenue and belmont. traffic is moving better right now. the left lane off ramp to city avenue has been blocked. we can see the crews out there. the schuylkill expressway eastbound overnight construction is cleared, westbound between city avenue and belmont have been taking longer. the crews are blocking the right lane on the pennsylvania turnpike eastbound past 29. 42 in new jersey, northbound coming up from turnersville or deptford we expect more traffic coming back from the shore after a nic

wilmington 73. as we take a look at where numbers are going today it's going to be on the warm side. 79 degrees by noon. 83 around 3 o'clock. now this temperature profile they may fluctuate up and down a little bit these numbers. it depends on whether or not it's raining whenever that happens the numbers are going to drop temporarily but we expect to be in the low 80's for a time today and then by 7 o'clock, 79 degrees. just about any time a pop-up shower or thunderstorm is possible. dewpoints are up today. 68 in philadelphia. that's pretty muggy. anything over 60 is humid. and when you start to get into these 70's that's where we start to call it oppressive humidity and a lot of you are feeling that this morning in the southern half of the region. better day tomorrow in terms of humidity but it's hotter, karen. details coming up in the seven day. >> all right dave. we still have construction crews out there working pretty hard. this is 422 westbound between 202 and trooper and you can see the crews

also moving just to the east of wilmington.e'll put a tracker on the line of showers and thunderstorms. you can see moving toward winslow 6:51. millville shortly after 7:00 o'clock. moving down the shore after about 7:30, 8:00 o'clock moving toward places like toms river also egg harbor. so here's the bottom line. if you're stepping out for your friday evening plans tropical downpours, gusty winds also watching out for the potential of vivid lightning and some small hail. we'll go hour by hour. you can see continuing into parts of south jersey, delaware, down the shore after seven, 8:0. weakening as they move down the shore. twenty eight a beautiful day down the shore. watching out for those showers and thunderstorms boy 9:00, 10:00 o'clock it's weakening it's pulling out of here and then tomorrow morning, few morning clouds. giving way to sunshine. lower humidity tomorrow will still be warm but the weekend looks dry. we have rain cooled air off to the west. low 70s right now mount pocono. foo degrees in pottstown. rain cooled

the mini van parked on the 600 block of bayard avenue in wilmington vandalized. some time in the early morning hours on wednesday. >> it's ignorant. not knowing. not having knowledge of. that's what ignorant means. >> reporter: bobby mc couric lives right across the street. and was surprised and saddened to see the vile vandalism. swastikas and the words kkk and go back to africa spray painted on the navy car in white. >> you walk out the door you see something like that. it's really just hit me like a ton of bricks. oh! here? >> very hurtful. i never expected anything to happen like this. i never thought anything would occur like this in my neighborhood. never. >> donny hamilton was walking by yesterday morning and says she's disgusted by the racist graffi graffiti. she's just glad the car has been taken away. >> my six and eight-year-old be out here playing. i'm glad they don't have to look at it and read it season me wait means. >> reporter: car owners family says while she is type of hate cannot be tolerated they just want to move on. >> only thing that can s

upper 70s in trenton, reading, wilmington, philadelphia, dover and 81 in millville. down the shore it's cool for some of you, 76 in ac. 78 in cape may is not too bad. low risk of rip currents and ocean temperature in the 70s. defending world champion cubs are in town for the next three days, tonight 7:05. 76 in the first pitch, 70 in the 9th inning. maybe you can shut your eyes and pretend the phillies are in the playoffs it has that autumnal feel. hurricane harvey strengthening faster than expected looks certain to be a category 3 as it strikes an area of texas around corpus christi. as late as wednesday it's dumping rain around houston. with the weekend landfall, refineries are closing down, that could create a gap in the service, i guess or in the supply that could raise gas prices. fill up your car now rather than waiting. 68 in the poconos. 70 on sunday. at the shore, low risk of rip currents this weekend, 77 today, 76 on saturday and sunday, the seven day from accuweather in philadelphia. 79 today partly sunny, comfortable conditions, saturday and sunday, 78-de

wilmington, we'll get 83 in trenton and allentown. 84 in reading, same thing in lang. 83 in wilmington, if you're on the beach today look for highs in the low 80s. low risk of rip currents at the beach today clouding up as the day goes on. ocean temperatures in the 70s, who cares stick to sun block and enjoy yourself. at times we could see a shower passing through, this goes straight into tomorrow morning as we get on the air at 430. showers and rumble of thunder in spots. noon, looks like mainly clouds and sun, a couple of sprinkles around later in the afternoon you could see more spotty showers and perhaps a thunderstorm. tomorrow a little choppy, but not horrific. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, 86 today, sun and clouds, dry during the day. overnight into tomorrow morning, a shower or thunderstorm possible and perhaps a spotty pop-up shower or thunderstorm in the afternoon. mainly dry, high of 88. sunny and hotter on wednesday, high of 90. wednesday might feature a slight uptick in humidity. thursday, warm and humid, 88 degrees, thursday begins a series of days where w

at 9:00, 10:00, nice and clear. 79 degrees in wilmington. suburb at 59 degrees.hat 69 degrees in philadelphi 72 degrees at 8:00. at 11:00 up to 82 degrees. a little bit of a southwesterly that will bring in more humidity during the day today but ramps this afternoon mostly sunny no problem seeing the eclipse. delawa mostly sunny skies. lehigh chance for an it will hold off until after the eclips

temperatures are warm. 74 in philadelphia o73 in wilmington.gain we're still in the upper 60's in allentown and reading and 74 down in cape may. dewpoints are up there, up to the 70-degree range in philadelphia, wilmington and down in cape may. not much different in dover. whenever in fact you see this darker shade of green on the dewpoint map that's sort of mapping out areas where it feels more sticky and that 70 is an oppressive humidity level on the dewpoint scale so cool drinks as you step outside today and if you're doing a workout you'll sweat a little bit. as we start out future tracker6 showing you that we have a lot of cloud cover out there. then we get to noon and there's some sunny breaks beginning to build in. i think the afternoon is going to be the best chance of some showers and thunderstorms. they'll be spotty but the model is showing you that they are here and there through the afternoon. this is 5 o'clock and every now and then in this humid air mass you could get a drenching downpour as we did in a couple isolated spots yeste

right now that's what we got in allentown, low philadelphia, and wilmington not too bad, a little bit more humid toward the shorepoints. humidity zing bthe week. karen. >> reporter: we have breaking news, i-95 northbound off-ramp on the betsy ross bridge, a firearm discharged within one of the vehicles, a firearm discharged, nobody else was involved, police are here, they are investigating the scene. this is not an act of road rage, a firearm discharged within a vehicle. they are responding to the scene. in the meanwhile, traffic was stopped on the off-ramp i-95 northbound to the betsy ross bridge, the action cam was in bridesburg capturing that scene. there are number of police officers on the scene, they are allowing traffic to squeeze by on the ramp from i-95 northbound to the betsy ross bridge. outside live on the vine street expressway, no construction overnight, westbound eastbound all open, the crews will return tonight and shut the vine down 11:00 p.m. tonight tomorrow and wednesday night, you have three nights worth of construction on the vine street expressway. schuylkill ex

that first line of light showers move through wilmington.e a few more showers moving through eastern maryland and into delaware this morning. showers in delaware county, chester county and montgomery and bucks county. the steadiest rainfall has been in lehigh and berks county. just a brief one. showers moving off to the northeast thinking spring. you can see it's coming a little heavier there. that's going to change. it's all going to be out of here this afternoon. temperatures are back in the 60s this morning. low 60s now for the lehigh valley in the suburbs. new jersey at 61 degrees. rain in the lehigh valley will be breaking this morning. then we'll get sunshine. look at the sunshine clearing up for 10:00. 68 degrees. cool day by august standards. we should be in the 80s. middle 80s. going to be 70s for the suburbs and philadelphia. up to 80 degrees in new jersey and lehigh valley. those showers this morning will clear out for sunshine this afternoon. we'll go through it hour by hour for each part of our area when i'm back in ten minutes.

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closer to two inches of rain for wilmington. with all the rain we had lately, this additional rainfall could very well lead to some flooding today. we'll be drying out, however, tomorrow, after the showers and a chance of thunderstorms for today, 83 degrees, little cloudy in the morning, 65 degrees. clouds thinning out as the day goes on tomorrow. and then we're in for a nice couple of dry days from wednesday and thursday. before the chance of showers and thunderstorms arrives for friday and into saturday. but not all day saturday and not all day sunday. just a chance of scattered showers for sunday, monday and tuesday and we'll finally dry out next wednesday. >> bill, thanks. >>> remember, you can always get instant updates and alerts as we watch this rain on the nbc 10 app. track the storms in real time with our radar to find out exactly when they will hit your neighborhoods. you're prepared for you and your family. >>> rain means wet pavement, wet pavement means slicker roads, more careful out there. >> you do indeed. check t

wilmington, still a chance of a shower in central and southern delaware. through the day today, the humidity drops as the tempted climbs. much dryer air that moves in. it stays low tonight. then tomorrow that line goes lower. the air mass is dryer. we peak near 80 degrees tomorrow afternoon. we still have to get rid of these last few showers and clouds. can you see sprinkles moving through reading and into chester county. at the shoreline it's dry. that line of clouds will push into the southeast. a chance of showers will arrive at the shore. look how nice and clear in pittsburgh. that's the weather coming our way for tonight and tomorrow. you'll start to see it later today. 85 degrees this afternoon. perfect weather for the eagles game. the temperature will be in the 70s in south philadelphia. tomorrow, sunshine during the day, high of 81 degrees. look at these temperatures. friday, the weekend may be one of the nicest weekend of the entire summer. morning temperatures in the low 50s and 60s. clouds will start to move in on tuesday. that's when the humidi

low 60s at that hour in allentown, 68 degrees in wilmington. then at lunchtime, still plenty of sunshine and that's when we reach into the low 80s. might see a few scattered clouds in northern newcastle county scattered around new jersey, and at the shore, possibilities from scattered clouds. 75 degrees at noontime. a sea breeze will be working this afternoon, so not much warmer at the shore but inland will be in the middle. 80s this afternoon. that's at 6:00 this evening. look how quickly it cools down. low 70s for allentown and at 9:00 in pottstown, 76 in w wilmington and 79 in philadelphia. a beautiful day today. and a warm day again tomorrow with lots of sunshine. then the chances for rain will be increasing, and that's going to drop temperatures for friday. we'll see a possibility of showers this weekend. still warmç into the 80 fors f saturday and sunday. a steady rain will bring the temperatures down a little bit more on monday. i'll walk through it hour by hour and day by day when i'm back in a few minutes. >>> 5:08 this wednesday. >>

so trenton down to wilmington.f a chance in areas like easton until this evening when the line will pass through and that will finally dry us out afterwards. so here is a look at our radar and sat lie. right now just scattered showers along the jersey shore and the delaware beaches, but notice i have this wide view to show you what is down to the swefts of us. more showers that are moving this direction. so we're not done with the rain. in fact we're just starting today and then it will be the in out action that we continue to track through your afternoon hours. there is a closer look along the shore. light showers over the jersey shore through atlantic city, a little more steady rain along cape may and then heaviest rain is right along the southern edge of sussex county. we're at 72 in philadelphia, suburbs at 64. these temperatures will boost up into for most of us the low 80s. but we're not quite there yet when we look at our philadelphia neighborhood. 71 society hill, 72 officially at the airport. and 69 right

millville, 56, cape may 75 and wilmington 67. dewpoints tell the story, dewpoints in the 70s yesterday, oh pressive humidity, now dropping to the 50s and trending down as weward the waikik weekend. we had lingering clouds along the coast, a few sprinkles this afternoon. high pressure is building in. if you are lucky enough to be on the beaches, put on the sunscreen, comfortable with temperatures in the upper 70s to low 8 0s. ocean temperature 75. with canadian hi slow moving brings us sunshine, pleasant days t cool nights and low humidity. that's key this time of year. there is another slow moving system, tropical depression harvey. this is really regenerating in the gulf of mexico. this causes a lot of problems over southeast texas this weekend. 12 to 20-inches of rain between houston and corpus christi likely causing widespread flooding. back at home, 82-degrees. perfect weather for the eagles game. the weekend, 78 on saturday, 79 on sunday. comfortable weather monday, 78 and tuesday cloud cover and 79, wednesday increasing clo

nonetheless if you run into fog slow it down. 68 in wilmington, 67 in allentown. a little cooler, 64 in trenton. 65 in reading, 70 in millville. 70 in cape may at this early hour. the dewpoints are indicating humid air what else is new. not as humid this morning as yesterday, though when we had a lot of 70s around the region. 69 in millville. down here in the darker shades of green with the higher numbers it's more humid, moderately humid from the i-95 corridor to allentown. you'll feel it with the walk or run this morning. future tracker 6, we're likely dry clouds and sun, but in the afternooning there's a chance of pop-up showers and -- in the afternoon, there's a collapse of pop-up showers or thunderstorms. they could produce local flooding. the big issue is the lightning and the flooding. we go from 3 to 5:30 p.m. there's more of that. not as much as yesterday, but i'm seeing enough on the model to warn you we may have issues in sports this afternoon. later tonight there could be lingering drenching town pour producing -- downpour proveses proveses -- producin

wilmington, 87 degrees. up to 88 degrees in trenton. isolated thunderstorm is possible for hammonton. most of south jersey and delaware stays dry. look at the shore. low 80s this afternoon. on track for another beautiful day. a little bit of wet weather out there. see they've been streaming off to the northeast. one thunderstorm has moved into north western ocean county. still scattered showers in burlington county. just to the east. those will move out. most of the day is going to be dry. it's during the afternoon that we'll see a few spots on the radar screen off to the northwest. we're seeing a few light sprinkles right now in upper lehigh county and berks county. just glancing berks county. then there's this. a cold front. and behind it is much cooler drier air. that's what chicago is getting. st. louis is about to get. this sweeps through our area late tonight and first thing tomorrow morning. rapidly improving conditions. might see more showers earlier saturday. most areas before sunrise. clears out if for the area. warms into the

see some breaks in the clouds overwilmington wilmington. that's a possibility in inland portions of north carolina. cape may is going to stay dry. mostly cloudy to start with. clouds break for sunshine. pretty nice day at the shore. inland more clouds around today and better chance we'll see showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. right now, the temperatures have cooled down into the lehigh valley. there were more breaks in the clouds. delaware 73 degrees. mostly cloudy skies. philadelphia the sun is up. looking at clouds and 74 degrees and south jersey, the temperatures a few neighborhoods have made it to the 60s. along with lumberton and pemberton is 68. most locations are muggier this morning. a little warmer than yesterday. low 70s for washington township and voorhees. mount laurel 72 degrees and 73 in florence. warming into the upper 80s and possibly the 90 degrees mark. some breaks in the clouds. see it here on the doppler radar and satellite. no showers with the clouds. a little bit thicker nor south delaware and jersey than they a

sixty-two in wilmington. we are at 60 in millville. low to mid 60's down the shore sixty-five in wildwood. we will get out the door in atlantic city at 63. we are cooler compared to 24 hours ago, 13 degrees cooler in allentown, nine in philadelphia, 12 in wilmington overall a very refreshing start to your thursday morning here's what you can expect as we head through the afternoon around 9:00, a comfortable morning low 70's, all day, gorgeous sunshine by lunchtime you can eat that lunch outside , right in the mid 70's , 83 degrees by the afternoon a very nice afternoon on tap. you're witness weather seven day forecast looks like this looking good for komen three day friday, saturday, sunday temperatures near 80 degrees. sunshine through the weekend. we will not see more cloud in the forecast until we head into the tuesday time frame and we will have potential for a shower, as we head into wednesday right around 79 but nice stretch of very dry weather heading our way. what can we expect on the road , meisha. >> roadways are looking g i

right now philadelphia 79. 75 in pottstown. 79 in wilmington.own the shore temperatures in the 70s. throughout the northeast some lower 70s especially toward boston which is unsystemly cool for this time of year. ultimate doppler is tracking a few of these showers moving across the delaware valley. they are spotty it's just light rain more of nuisance than anything else out there this evening. when we look at the chance of rain spotty showers tomorrow. wednesday it looks like great day, thursday a few afternoon showers or storms. friday more widespread showers and thunderstorms so that's going to be a better day to be inside. we'll go hour by hour. you'll see some of the rain moving through. even tomorrow morning some spotty showers. not a wash out by any means. and then during the day on wednesday, we clear it out and temperatures will be warming up through the 80s and some spots around 90 degrees. so looking good. all eyes on gert right now. the storm will become a category one hurricane and curve its way out to sea staying away from the mainl

so moving forward wilmington, by 6:00 o'clock. 6:01 philadelphia. moving toward middletown around 7:07 as this line continues to move from west to east. also, a lot of lightning if you struck by lightning. take a look at the lightning strikes win this area. almost 200 and as we take look at the set up, you can see how ahead of a cold front very tropical air mass so squeezing out a lot of that moisture that's why we have that severe thunderstorm watch in effect pretty much the entire area until 9:00 o'clock this evening and also we have a flash flood watch until midnight. so once again as we time this activity out, by 6:00 o'clock, moving along the i-95 corridor. then into parts of south jersey and down the shore by seven, eight, 9:00 o'clock. we'll talk much more about totals from this system and that weekend forecast. back to you. >> all right, scott, thank you. as we take live look at cape may we want to remind you that you can download our fox 29 weather app to get up to the minute conditions from the fox 29 weather authority. be sure to turn on

wilmington 90 and the poconos 8. we have a line of showers and thunderstorms some severe storms highlighted with these yellow boxes that's a severe thunderstorm warning that's all moving toward the northeast. they are going to weaken as they move eastward but the best chance of seeing some damaging winds would be to the north and west of philadelphia late tonight after the 9:00 o'clock hour. and until midnight. so that's a big chunk of time. but our main concern would be those gusty winds. now right now the temperature none in philadelphia. but look at this dew point temperature at 70 and that is oppressive. the good news in the wake of these storms much humid conditions will be snuffed out by drier canadian air. right now, in the poconos it's 78. 91 in philadelphia. 89 in millville. catching a break down the shore. that summer sun is strong. but high temperatures in the 80s today in north wildwood still 80. sea isle 79 and ocean city 71 and that ocean water temperature has been warm for over a month. 77 degrees. dew

it looks like 6 in cape may and 62 wilmington.59 cool comfortable degrees in millville. the dewpoints are low, this is the exercise running. we're starting a string of those. by noon, 78 all the way you'reg at low get to the pool and do whatever you degrees b that will be the afternoon before he the 70s.tant today. otherwise relax and if you're working the nice stmiuff.i dolphins at homeartly cloudy 10:00 p.m., 7 degrees. matt pellman the beat goes on in thave nice numbers coming up. >> reporter: one thing we don't like if you drive the schuylkill expressway is the overnight construction we deal with eachn the process of the eastbound lanes, right lanend the b route. they are backing up picking up the cones and will be out ofbound side shortly and the shortly. crews cleared fxford circle. no overnight construction on the vine. 476 southbound by.rash out of waymenue and o welsh road cleared. t overnightuction gone in both directions all lanes we opened, the crews tonight at 9:00 p.m. work has cleared from the burlington bristol bridge they are out there this morning on th

in philadelphia on the brink of that for reading and allentown and trenton, 88 in wilmington and coolery nice at the shore today. temperatures there in the low to mid-80s with the ocean temperature nearing 80 degrees. as we look at the next eight hours as we go through this evening, upper 80s through 6:00 and then it slides a bit and we don't get into the upper 70s through 8:00 tonight through the midnight hour and temperatures slowly drop into the mid to low 70s for the rest of the overnight. dew points that measure how it feels outside. 60 degrees is technically not all that humid in philadelphia and slightly humid for trenton and allentown and 67 for lancaster and dover and close to that in wilmington and more humid in delaware and southwest of the city in philadelphia. satellite and radar a few thunderstorms popping up in the poconos and downpours but the biggest concentration continues to be along the appalachians in west virginia and into kentucky. it's a good thing because we need a break from some of that rain coming off the month of july. and the first day of august we look bac

. >>> they set up a viewing area on wilmington. nasa space ambassador and wilmington university carry blanche the professor there was on hand to lead a question-and-answer session. >>> in south jersey, people gathered on the campus of rowan university to watch the eclipse. chopper6 hd was over the campus in glassboro where they handed out glasses to everyone who gathered there outside the university science building and planetarium. >> in our area we had about 80 percent of viewing of this total solar eclipse but we really needed the weather to cooperate to make that happen. >> it did for the most part. meteorologist cecily tynan live outside this afternoon. cecily i would say we did pretty well. >> for the most part. we did have intermittent clouds and the marine influence did bring at more clouds on shore than inland. in philadelphia we would have a cloud that would cover it and then it would move on and you could see it. i want to show you this satellite imagery. this is visible satellite. it depends on the sun so if you look, t

high temperatures in the upper 80's in allentown, reading, wilmington. 80's in trenton, millville and dover. if you're down the shore, 82 to 83 are your high temperatures. a nice day on the beach but not a great day in the water. hurricane gert a category one probably becomes a category two later today or tonight. the swells are already moving in on the coast. and for that reason, we are posting a rare high risk of rip currents today and that means conditions are dangerous for all swimmers. heavy surf can also produce back and neck injuries and conditions like -- in conditions like this. it's not just the rip currents. check with your lifeguard before you head to the water today. your exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast, 88 is today's high. sun mixing with some clouds. humid tomorrow. 86. a slight chance of a thunderstorm popping up in the afternoon or evening but i think most of us are probably dry and it's looking fairly good for the eagles. it will be warm and humid. check with us before you head down to the stadium just in case. on friday, that's a

wilmington also with a couple of sprinkles and showers.is getting a couple lighter cells and that wide view showing you more rain out to the west and even more still down by washington, d.c. so it's going to be one of those days where we're in and out of raindrops. that's what we're going to see. as we take a look at outside we got sky6, lots of low lying cloud cover obscuring some of the tops of the tallest buildings in philadelphia and it's not only cloudy but muggy out there this morning and certainly setting the table for some rain today. 73 degrees is your current temperature. dewpoints up there at 68. that's pretty high. so, it is stickier out there today than yesterday. winds are light at five. ocean temperature at 76. future tracker6 shows you that between now and 8 o'clock there's the chance of some of these showers around. the model has been wanting to sell the idea of the heaviest stuff being down in wildwood. i could see this filling in a little bit closer to philadelphia at times and by noon we're also looking at spotty shower

half a mile visibility atlantic city and wildwood, wilmington. 5-mile visibility in philadelphia.'s like a little hole in the fog near the city right here but through much of the rest of the area visibility is significantly reduced because of this fog. it's dense today. 71 degrees the current temperature. we're going to see a good amount of sunshine later today. 88 degrees for your high. so, it's getting very warm and the afternoon won't be quite as humid as it was yesterday, matt. >> okay, thank you, karen. >>> new this morning, former new york city mayor rudy giuliani is recovering from surgery he had due to a fall on long island. the new york post reports giuliani's right leg gave way on sunday and he fell to the ground so he was rushed to the hospital. it happened while he and his wife were hosting a barbecue at their home. giuliani underwent quadriceps tendon surgery and will be in the hospital for a few days. >> a wisconsin grandmother fought off three would be carjackers. this happened at a gas station in milwaukee on sunday night. surveillance video shows the 50-year-old v

it's dry in wilmington right now. 64 degrees. clouds will be increasing along with the temperature. the suburbs are in the 50s right now. nice cool down this morning. then upper 70s during lurch time and into the 80s this afternoon. in fact, most neighborhoods warm into the 80s today. 84 in new jersey with skies turning mostly cloudy. and that thecludes the shore, 79 degrees with clouds taking over later in the afternoon. and dry in the lee high valley and delaware at 80, too. the chance of showers coming in tonight and first thing tomorrow morning. >> you two talk to each other? >> maybe we should have. >> complete coincidence. >> the "today" show starts now. >>> good morning. nbc news exclusive. >> these extremist fringe groups have no place in the american debate. >> vice president mike pence condemns white supremacist and the kkk for that deadly violence in virginia. president trump under fire for stopping short. the attorney general jeff sessions responds to the uproar. as the suspect of that fatal attempt goes to court. >>>

just to the south of wilmington. we saw the greatest amount of that. also this is hail. >> first alert weather with you wherever you are with the nbc 10 app. download it for free to get severe weather alerts sent to your phone before the storm hits your neighborhood. >>> police arrested a daycare owner for sexually assaulting two children. >> aundrea cline-thomas is laif at special victims unit with that brand new information from police. bring us up to date. >> police say a 5-year-old boy and girl were sexually assaulted at the spraus daycare center. someone called dhs the same day were interviewed and disclosed d the sexual abuse. according to detectives, physical evidence was also found at the daycare. today the 53-year-old turned himself into the special victims unit. he's facing seven felonies including rape. he owned the daycare for ten years. >> we're concerned there may be other victims. at this point in time, we don't have any information. if there's any parents that believe children were victimized, they can reach out to us and let us know. >