>> and meteorologist dave murphy. >> good morning everyone, it's 6 o'clock on this tuesday august 16th and here's what's happening the. >> the you're said guilty. pennsylvania's attorney general convicted of leaking grand jury secrets and lying about it. >> two sides clash over an iconic statue of a former philadelphia mayor. >> new this morning police blame a fire bug for the wildfire burning down scores of homes out west. >> and today will be even more of a scorcher than yesterday. let's turn to mearns karen rogers in for dave murphy and matt pelman. >> this afternoon you'll notice the difference. the excessive heat warning continues until 8 o'clock tonight and the national weather service is also added advisories around the surrounding area also until 8 o'clock tonight. 77 degrees right now in philadelphia, 72 in allentown, 74 in reading, 74 in millville, 76 in atlantic city. so, we're looking at warm and muggy conditions. the dewpoints are already over 70 degrees but they're going to climb well into the 70's through the day today. so, how it feels oppressive even more so than

outside to dave daib with the latest -- david murphy with the latest from accuweather. >> reporter: it's a beautiful morning, 72 degrees in philadelphia. the human is dropping and there's a nice comfortable breeze kicking through the region. this afternoon, less humid than over the weekend. breezy, a nice day. tomorrow, 82. gorgeous. wednesday, 87. still not all that humid. thursday, a bit stickier. >> a father was shot though death in front of his children during a home invasion in the hunting park session. a man's wife was shot and she is in critical condition. coming up at noon we'll have more on how the masked men were able to break into the family's home. "live with kelly" is coming up next. i'm tamala edwards. have a great monday! announcer: i also, kelly hits the streets and takes on the reigning soapbox derby champ, plus andy cohen is today's co-host. all next on "live"! [cheering and applause] [captioning made possible by disney-abc domestic television] now here are kelly ripa and andy cohen! kelly: are you serious? [cheering continues] ohh! ooh! what? [dance music playing

. >>> right now let's he go over to dave murphy. he's got your accuweather and matt pelman has your traffic. he's in for karen. good morning. >> and what a breath of fresh air we have across the region this morning. lots of sunshine getting ready to come up over the horizon. it just feels so much more comfortable on the terrace. you can see the lack of cloud cover on satellite. as we take a look at temperatures, how about 68 degrees. we've been starting in the muggy 70's for the last several days but today not very humid at all. 68 degrees refreshing in philadelphia. and i tell you what, as you step outside in places like trenton allentown and reading with those low 60's it's just cool and comfortable, really nice start. dewpoints are down into the low 60's so it's not that humid. the exception would be down in dover, delaware, where it's still a little stickier and cape may might feel a bit on the sticky side as well. as we're rolling outside to maybe take that early morning jog or just russell on down to the bus stop 69 degrees under growing sunshine. it should be pretty good. 75

storm tracker6 live double scan this morning. good morning everyone, dave murphy here with your accuweather update as we take a look outside sunshine starting to build in. a couple of neighborhoods probably still dealing with a bit of patchy fog but that's burning off pretty quickly this morning. we're in the 70's in a lot of neighborhoods. this afternoon, hot and more humid than yesterday in most areas, a high of 91. some thunderstorms overnight tonight and some showers around mainly in the morning tomorrow, perhaps lingering into the afternoon in some spots. hoping for afternoon sun with 84. long standoff can police. a beauty queen says he threatened her with a gun telling "gma" about the terrifying night inside his house. >>> then the big football star sitting down with a little boy for lunch at school. the photo making so many headlines this morning. the story behind it and why his mother now says this image brought her to tears. this is my body of proof. proof of less joint pain. and clearer skin. this is my body of proof that i can fight psoriatic arthritis with humira. hu

. >> cannot wait for that and dave zinczenko is here to help you lose weight with your favorite smoothies, everything under 300 calorie, guys. >> that's great. >> great advice and the morning rundown from paula. >> something affecting a lot of people, the breaking news at airports around the world. delta air lines had to ground its flights this morning because of a computer system failure that the airline says began in atlanta and was caused by a power outage. the computer systems are now coming back online but cancellations expected throughout the day and delta is waiving fees for passengers who want to reschedule flights through friday. >>> and the other big story this morning, the tragic death of a young boy at i awater park in kansas. the 10-year-old son of a lawmaker died while riding the world's tallest water slide which is 170 feet high and alex perez has more on the safety questions raised in the past. alex. >> reporter: good morning, paula. you can see just how steep that slide is behind me here. the park was packed with families when something went tragically wrong. no

. >> we'll hear from dave roberts, too. >> how local farmers are putting fresh fruits and vegetables on the tables of families. >> trees are brought down by severe thunderstorms this weekend. >>> back here at home, taking a glimpse there, temple university camera. hate to tell you folks, felt like 11 yesterday, it will feel like 108 today. chris sowers will have the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast. >> but first we remember captain noah. >> one of the best ways to find out about fire fighting to take a right on a fire truck. would you like to join me? come on! >> i don't want to go, i don't want to go. i don't want to go. ♪ asking top aides at the state department for favors. >> you know what, that's >> upstate new york was hit by severe thunderstorms yesterday afternoon. trees and power lines were downed in the lake george area. four people were hit by lightning near lake george. several people were hurt at a campground when high winds picked up several campers vehicles. >> time for accuweather dangerous heat again today, criminals. >> reporter: today is another -- dangerous heat

yesterday at his montgomery county home. >> we'll get to all of that in just a moment but dave murphy is it off. let's get out to karen rogers talking about this heat and humidity really coming on today and matt pelman is helping you out with the commute. good morning. >> good morning. the real difference today, the oppressive humidity. that's the one thing that's going to hit you as soon as you step outside. the temperature profile will be kind of similar to yesterday. excessive heat watch in effect. it starts tomorrow and lasts through saturday afternoon an excessive period of high temperatures, high humidity and that's the real difference here. 77 degrees in philadelphia. and holding at that number through most of the region right now but it feels so uncomfortable and that's because of the dewpoints. they are well into the 70's throughout the entire area. so we have oppressive humidity not just today but the next five days we're keeping that feeling of oppressive humidity. i want to show you this. satellite6 and action radar showing the clouds that have moved in. we're starting off

. we'll tell you why the berks county was dismissed. >> first up weather and traffic with dave murphy and karen rogers. >> all right guys off to a very nice start out here on the terrace. feels so much more comfortable with the humidity down. take a look at satellite and you can see that there is a lack of cloud cover out there across the region right now and we are expecting plenty of sunshine early and we probably maintain mostly sunny skies straight through the day. 71 degrees in philadelphia right now. just 59 cool and comfortable degrees in allentown, 67 in trenton, 63 he in reading. almost 70 in wilmington and low 70's down at the shore. and dewpoints are lower today. just 58 in philadelphia. anything below 60 is not considered humid. and those higher numbers well down south, a ce of spots farther to the south still a bit on the sticky side. going to be a nice one overall an great day across most of the region to get it started with a run. by 7 o'clock 71 degrees humidity as you saw low across most of the region. 78 degrees by 10:00 a.m. it does get warm this afternoon 84 by noon an

traffic with dave murphy and karen rogers. good morning. >> boy is it going to be a nice one today. humidity is he'sing back. we'll see plenty of s shine. satellite making that pretty obvious to you and it's also going to be warm this afternoon but a really nice summer afternoon in philadelphia and the rest of the delaware and lehigh valleys. we're at 74 degrees currently in the city. just 60 up in allentown, 64 in reading, 66 lancaster. very comfortable through these northern areas. another 67-degree reading in trenton. 72 in wilmington and 73 in cape may new jersey. and best of all the dewpoints are back down into the 50's across most of the region, low to mid 60's farther south so a little more humid down toward the shore points butter everybody else really feeling comfortable this morning. for most of you if you want an early run, you're in great shape with lower humidity today. 71 degrees by 7 o'clock. bus stop also looking good this morning. 78 degrees by 10 o'clock. by 90 will be getting warm enough for cool drinks if you're outside work organize playing. 84 degrees by noon

, dave. >>dave: let's just skip everything and start with that. wow. amazing. 75 degrees out towards the coastline this morning. it is a beautiful start to the day. and a couple of spots we have some leftover cloud cover from last night. no biggie, though. i think we'll hold off on the rain until late this afternoon. look what just popped up over the horizon. it's beautiful, lake mirror, 75 degrees with that sunshine this morning. we're going to go back to 91 with the rain chances of 40% along the coast. 50% inland. primarily late in the day into the evening hours. >>vanessa: all right. and we have a big trouble spot brewing here northbound 75, hillsborough county. a crash we're seeing here live in the area of i-4 is blocking, say, just one outside lane at this time in the northbound direction but causing traffic to back up towards the area of the selmon expressway pretty heavily so drivers can take a few area of concern is from i-4 back towards the selmon expressway. we have sky fox checking out a crash along southbound u.s. 19 in the area of east bay roosevelt, that intersection, a

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the heat is ending the another heat wave could begin this week. >> dave murphy is off. karen rogers has your accuweather. matt pelman is taking a look at traffic. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. it's going to be very warm today but the oppressive humidity isn't here yet. you at least have one more day to enjoy. that satellite6 and action radar slowing unlike yesterday we have clear skies over philadelphia. yes, you see the clouds and the showers that are still suppressed to the south with that -- with the disturbance that has been moving through but so far in our region you're looking good to start your day. how about the numbers? right now it's 61 in martin's creek, 58 in pottstown, 66 in saint davids. it's 71 in center city. and feeling humid to start but this afternoon won't be too bad just a bit humid. 62 in browns mills, 72 already in glassboro, new jersey. 70 in hockessin, 66 in dover delaware. here's your call for today. very warm a high of 89 degrees. we're going to start off with lots of sunshine. we'll see more clouds until through the afternoon. humidity won

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seconds away. first though tuesday trivia brought to you by target. >> ♪ >> good morning. dave murphy here with an update from accuweather. nothing showing on the radar. stepping outside we have a fair amount of cloud cover early but there are some sunny breaks. a little bit muggy but not as oppressive as yesterday and early morning temperatures in the low 70's. your exclusive accuweather 7-day shows a high today of 82. a little humid. clouds mixing with some sunny breaks and at times there could be a pop-up shower or thunderstorm but most of you won't have to deal with that or if you do see it, it won't be by any means the majority of your day. it will just be a quick passing thing. nice tomorrow. about those offensive tweets and the controversy over whether she should keep her crown. >>> a paraglider living to tell the story. he is speaking out about those dramatic moments for the first time this morning and you'll see it only right here on "gma." come on back. that was invigorating! you're probably wondering why i've just carved a giant wooden tiger. well, the answer is that a real

as we couldn't to deal with this heat and humidity. dave murphy hag that and karen rogers is dealing with that. >> right now we are still very sticky across the region. take a look at satellite. you had some showers and a couple of thunderstorms that rumbled through last night. watch box is gone though. still a little shower activity north and west of reading that may or may not hit you up there in reading. if it does it won't last long won't be much. 79 degrees in philadelphia so still pretty warm. 74 in allentown, 78 in wilmington, 78 in cape may. when you check out those dewpoints man it's still oppressively muggy out there. even in allentown and reading and trenton we have dewpoints of 70. as you get down into south jersey and delaware it's even worse with dewpoints in the 70's. your exclusive call from accuweather shows a warm and muggy start with a temperature of 79 by 8 o'clock. now by noon we're at 86 and drier air will be working its way gradually in from the north so that areas around philadelphia and the northern suburbs will start to feel less humid. still going to be hot

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have been great. dave murphy does it go on and matt pelman how is the traffic? good morning. >> basically it does go on. it will be a little bit warmer today but still sunny and humidity should still be relatively low. you can see the lack of cloud cover. plenty of sunshine up over the the horizon in the morning and probably staying pretty bright through the afternoon. 68 degrees in philadelphia currently. that's a little bit milder than the last couple days although allentown is still down into the upper 50's. 62 in reading. 65 in wilmington. 62 in trenton. and 68 by the water in cape may. a pretty cool comfortable start. and most of us are looking at dewpoints still in the 50's. philadelphia's popped to 60 but really that's not all that humid. 67 degrees by 7 o'clock as we plan the next 12 hours. 76 degrees by 10:00. 82 by noon and today will be a little bit warmer with that high of 87. we'll probably hit that at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. lots of sunshine. it does get a little bit more humid tomorrow, matt pelman and even more so on friday. where did that come from

before a new month brings a bit of a cooldown. >> dave murphy and karen rogers are joining us to help us say goodbye to august. >> so long august. and it is leaving on kind of a muggy note. you can feel that this morning. start you with satellite. there are some clouds around but a good portion of the region should pick up some early sunshine. there's also patchy fog here or that. we've seen this mostly in south jersey, a little bit up to northeast philly and parts of montgomery county and now extending into bucks county but it should be burning off pretty quickly once the sun gets up over the horizon. 72 degrees currently in philadelphia, cooler in the northern and western suburbs. we've got 61 in allentown, 64 in reading and even in wilmington just 65. 73 down the shore. dewpoints are up today. we have slipped to 69 in philadelphia but that's an indication of pretty humid air. in allentown and red hing the numbers aren't quite so high. remember anything over 60 indicates the beginning of what we consider to be humid but 70 is oppressive and there are a couple of areas close to

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us. let's find out about accuweather. you're going to love this. dave murphy and matt pelman is in for karen rogers taking a look the all right traffic. >> bad flight to get thrown out of the ball game, too. the phillies had good night. anyway, satellite showing you that there's not a whole lot of cloud cover out there. can't rule out a little patchy low lying cloud cover or nothing a couple of neighborhoods but i think most of are you starting out bright and certainly staying that way today. best news of all the humidity is down to the south kind of shoved down there where you see those showers down in west virginia and maybe parts of the eastern shore of maryland. 67 degrees, that's your temperature this morning in philadelphia. cooler than it's been the last several mornings. same story up in allentown where we're only at 63. 63 in trenton, 66 in wilmington. boy, these are just nice numbers. you step outside most of the area you're just feeling refreshed. the dewpoints are still running a little bit high down in dover delaware so central delaware that's a spot where it's still s

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apartment after he didn't show up for work. he co-hosted the dave and veronica morning show. the service will be held at the mccalfy theater. doors open at 4:30. tears are accepted but laughs and hugs are encouraged because dave wouldn't have wanted it any other way. down tonight in the brandon area, and our photographer shot this video as water started collecting on the streets in the area of adamo drive and 78th street. so a little bit of rain out there, paul. we hadn't seen this. we have seen so much rain over the past two days, but not like our typical afternoon storms rwe back in that regular pattern now? >> paul: yeah, i think finally went back to last week where it was. you wake up in the morning. you look at the radar, big band of rain at the coast that's tracking storms which i think we do pretty well. let's take a look out today, guys. sunshine, time lapse. looks like a nice day. lots of blue skies and clouds building on the sea breeze. then things get kind of whacky as the sea breeze boundaries intersect. that looks good. nothing but sunshine. and then all of a sudden, heavy r

. dave murphy is outside with that and matt pelman is in for karen rogers with traffic. good morning. >> it's another cool comfortable start everybody. we have clear skies, sun getting ready to burst up over the horizon. take a look at sat life. the closest cloud cover is well on the other side of pittsburgh. temperatures respect comfortable. 68 degrees in philadelphia currently. just 57 cool and comfortable degrees in allentown. 61 degrees in reading. 60 in trenton, 64 in wilmington. we're at 70 down the shore in cape may. dewpoints still low. most of us in the 50's. a couple of spots down south in the mid 60's. so, it's moderately humid there but overall it looks like another nice day. 67 degrees by 7 o'clock for those of you out for a run and then as you plan the next 12 hours, it gets warm. 76 degrees by 10:00, 82 degrees by noon. and 86 by 3 o'clock with a high of 87 at about 4 o'clock. by dinnertime probably back down into the mid 80's in philadelphia. matt pelman we've got an uptick in humid and temperatures over the next couple of days. we'll have that story, starter talking

tweeted me and dave muir. you can't believe how fast it's going. >> reporter: temple university, good for you, andrew. >> reporter: i bet your wife is temporariy eyed. >> reporter: this is eastbound at grays ferry, a truck moved out of the way, we have a disabled van there, penndot on the scene, blocking the right lane. this adding to the other problem schuylkill expressway westbound at south street. mass transit everything is looking good, septa regional rail on the interim schedule no major delays. >> reporter: a few bits and pieces of rain on the big board. we have a cluster that pushed to the east of trenton. there's light rain pushing north of philadelphia. looks like northeast philadelphia and areas around mount airy and chestnut hill might pick up a little bit of that, that's light. and slightly heavier cells in cumberland county, new jersey. as we go through the day, the big story of the day is the heat and humidity building and it's a typo on this and i forgot to correct it. we'll build from the 70s up to 935. the human will -- humidity willo bad it will feel like 100. the ai

viewers and long time weatherman dave roberts. the 6abc app is a free download for your mobile device. >> time for a first check of the "action news" traffic report today. >> hey, let's go live to matt pelman in the "action news" traffic center. hi, matt. >> lifetime memories of captain noah. keep going to 6abc.com and sharing them with us. this afternoon brian and sharrie we're watching a crash here on the schuylkill expressway westbound pushed to the gore point right by the exit for gulf mills but it has been attracting attention and it was blocking a lane for a little while so coming west on 76 you start to hit the wall of traffic around gladwyne and that extends with speeds in the teens there on out to gulf mills where, again, that accident is in the gore point. also a broken down vehicle one of many we've seen today in the extreme temperatures once again. on 95 it's northbound side by bridge street taking out the left lane. so, just 19 miles per hour headed toward that. at 15th and locust in center city by the dunkin' donuts watch out for a crash involving a pedestrian. police ar

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figure out what's going on with all this heat and humidity dave murphy and karen rogers has your traffic. >> the heat continues at a. the humidity is going to drop off a little bit later this afternoon across about half or maybe two-thirds of the region. for now we're dry out there. there's a little bit of a shower trying to come at us from the west. you can see how these try to push east and then couldn't to fall apart. if you're in berks county maybe the lehigh valley it's not out of the question that you see a bit of that over the next hour or two but hopefully it just avoids you. 80 degrees is the current temperature in philadelphia, 75 in allentown, 73 in reading, 76 in trenton, 79 in wilmington and low 80's in millville down to areas close to the shore. dewpoints this morning are still very high. associatiohigh. it still feels rather sticky as you walk to the bus stop. and it's particularly bad in south jersey and down toward dover and cape may. as we go through the afternoon though he from about philadelphia and points close to the city's latitude and north, you're going t

your accuweather. dave murphy is off. karen rogers is in and matt pelman is taking a look at traffic. good morning. >> it's so sad to hear about captain noah. i look forward to everyone sharing their pictures with him. excessive heat watch goes into effect tomorrow. the national weather service posted thursday through saturday a long period of excessive heat. today is going to be hot. today the high will be 90. weird all right already at 77. 77 through most of the region including allentown reading millville, cape may. 74 in dover. 75 right now in trenton. the difference today though is the humidity. so that starts today. this oppressive humidity sticks with

breaks. if dave. dave osterberg erg beggar this morning showing a solid. and working its way over the coastal areas. now you're sta and more breaks throughout pinellas county. hillsborough county, and points north. starting to watch more of the activity, shift further inland. that's where worry going to tend to see the stronger thunderstorms as we go through the afternoon hours. right now the heaviest rain from say about riverview stretching through southeastern hillsborough county, up into central and northern polk county. along i-4 heading up towards orlando then heavy rain right through the middle of manatee sarasota. so if you're going to be driving along i-75, down in that area you're basically looking some torrential rain and lighter amounts as you work your way further and further to the south. again more moisture and rain into the gulf of mexico. but a lot of that activity kind of drying up some. so don't necessarily expect to see a lot of this large rain band working its way over us. but we will start to see more scattered showers as we go through the afternoon. rainfall tota

start off with a check of the forecast, with dave. hot and humid, with a 20% chance of a pm storm. high temps in the lower 90s. tonight will be mostly clear and steamy; lows around 79. rain chances slowly begin to go back up tomorrow, at around 30%, with high temps around no closed captioning is available for traffic. ((vanessa)) developing this morning: the search for a man who climbed out of a patrol car... and took-off running... handcuffed, and barefoot.((wally)) how did he do it? and where is he? that's what manatee county deputies want to know. ((wally fox-13's shayla reaves is on the story for us... shayla: he slipped-away saturday night... that means he's been on the run for about 36-hours... the polk county sheriff's office is looking for a person who carjacked someone in a lakeland parking lot. it happened early sunday morning in the parking lot of the bonefish grill on pipkin road west. deputies say the man approached the car with a and demanded the driver get out. the victim's vehicle was later found crashed and burned at west pipkin road nad county line road. the thie

seconds. first though the heat index brought to you by target >> good morning, everybody. dave murphy here with your update from accuweather. storm tracker6 live double scan no precipitation and as we head outside boy, what a gorgeous morning. lots of sunshine, humidity is low. most of you still in the 60's so just cool and comfortable as you step outside. one of those just refreshing kind of mornings. this afternoon looks pretty good. mostly sunny, nice, low humidity. 84 is the high and really good out there. probably warm enough for cool drinks if you're out playing or working but still not bad. beautiful for the phillies tonight. another gorgeous day tomorrow. behind a suburb been grocery store. police poring over surveillance video searching for clues. we'll be back. carol's painting with confidence because she went to lowe's. she knows if she doesn't love it, they'll make it right. and being a parrot, i know color - okay. do you mind, sparky? now get up to $20 off paint + primer, stains + sealants and resurfacers via rebate good is a catalyst,ue diamond almond. good is contagious

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is moving into the bay area right now.. dave's tracking the big line of weather moving into area right now. dave's tracking the storms and will tell us who will get hit the hardest. >> and st. pete is about to get a lot more colorful where you will see these new cross walks. >>> from tampa bay's news station, this is good day tampa bay. >>> hey everybody it's 8 o'clock i'm russell rhodes. i'm laura moody. it's monday ought 8. rains falling right now. some areas are under a flood watch this morning. there horrific crash that shut down sheldon road in west chaste. vanessa will talk about that coming up in a minute. first we need to get to dave right away. here's tracking all this weather and telling us where it's headed good morning. indeed we do heavy rape a round earlier. now it's kind of weakened and lightened up a little bit. now an ecuador isary line of heavy rain is moving into parts of pinellas county. it's really become widespread some of moderate to heavy rain. that is just really going to absolutely slow things down this morning. take look from palm harbor down through du

pennsylvania while hillary clinton makes a new pledge. >> let's go over to dave with weather matt pellman has traffic good morning. >> reporter: satellite showing no rain out there, we have sun toward the east and we'll see clouds later on today, 74 degrees in philadelphia. 70 in allentown. 73 in trenton. 76 down the shore in cape may. the dewpoints are running high especially in the southern half of the region. 70 in philadelphia. that's borderline oppressive humidity worse as you go toward the shore. as we roll through the next 12 hours. 73 degrees with sunshine by 7:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m., 81 degrees. a little bit humid out there for the morning workout or walk to the bus or el. 96 degrees by noon. 90 at 3:00 p.m., the high of 91 at 4:00 p.m. we are looking at changes for the weekend and great changes next week. the very late in the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast coming up, matt. >> reporter: good morning, david, happy friday not so great situation to start off the morning in glass -- glass go, delaware. a pick up truck caught fire, annie mccormick will have more on what

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joins us. we also have dave murphy and karen rogers. [laughter] >> there she is. >> okay, so, we are going to get another hot one this afternoon. we did manage 90 briefly yesterday so the heat wave continues. this will be day six and it is feeling more humid out that. you can see some clouds rolling in. there is some patchy fog around, low lying stuff especially in south jersey and a little bit just north of philadelphia. you see some visibilities down below a half mile from toms river all the way down to dover, delaware. that should burn off after sunrise and then we transition to partly sunny skies through most of the day. starting out warm. 73 degrees in philadelphia. just 62 in allentown. some of our northern suburbs not so bad. 73 in cape may. and the dewpoints have crept back up especially right in the i-95 corridor from about philadelphia up through trenton, these darker shades of green indicate that. a 72-degree dewpoint reading in cape may and 70 in dover, all of those 70's oppressive humidity and you'll really feel it ones the sun comes up. as we go through the next 12 hour

beautiful day from accuweather delivered by dave murphy. >> cool and comfortable right now matt. take a look. we're at 66 degrees in philadelphia. some suburbs like allentown and reading still in the 50's at this hour. and this afternoon we're looking at lots of sun, a good looking day just like yesterday. 82 is your high. it won't be as breezy as it was on monday but we'll still have very low humidity. tomorrow a little warmer 87 but still sunny with not all that humid. and then 89 degrees on thursday, partly sunny skies and getting a bit humid on thursday afternoon but still not bad. by friday, though, heat and humidity combine to make it a much more uncomfortable day. we'll see a high of 94 with relatively high humidity. and there is the chance of an afternoon or evening spotty thunderstorm as a cold front rolls through. behind that front we'll still manage 93 on saturday but not as humid. pretty decent flight for union soccer at talon energy stadium. partly sunny and very warm on sunday 89. the next oppressively humid day looks to be monday, matt. >> thank you david. a rolle

. >> like bam. >> bam. let's go on over to karen rogers. she's in for dave murphy. she's got more on your steamy forecast. map happen as your traffic. good morning. >> someone had too much coffee today i think. storm tracker6 live double scan showing we start off this morning with a couple showers going through the area. i want to go in a little closer to this. if you're in atlantic city you have some showers. we're not looking at any lightning strikes, no current storms through the area but that's something we're watch for later. in atlantic city millville hammonton cape may medford lakes a little bit of a strong cell in seaside heights currently moving off the coastline. we have a slight risk for severe weather today. so we're watching for that that especially later this afternoon. we could see a shower or a thunderstorm any one of which could produce some heavy downpours but also strong gusty to possibly damaging winds and even some hail with some of these storms. let's look right now at the dewpoints. 72-degree dewpoints, 75 in millville, it's oppressive. today the dewpoints high

. >> dairy queen and your sunny skis for your promo. >> hi everybody, dave murphy here with an update from accuweather. we have nothing showing on storm tracker6 live double scanly there were a couple showers and thunderstorms out there to the north and west of us. coup owers but those appear to be off the board. as we take a look outside we have sky6. look at all the sunshine out there. absolutely colors conditions across the region right now visually but of course when you look at the humidity levels, they're still a little bit on the high side. hot and less humid today, 92 degrees is going to be your forecast high. and more humid down the shore. n. harvoni is proven to cure up to 99% of patients... n. ...who've had no prior treatment. it transformed treatment as the first cure that's... ...one pill, once a day for 12 weeks. certain patients... ...can be cured with just 8 weeks of harvoni. harvoni is a simple treatment regimen that's been prescribed to more than a quarter of a million patients. tell your doctor if you've had a liver transplant, other liver or kidney problems, hiv, o

when is it going to get here? dave is tracking? so where what's going on? >>dave: since last night, not much has changed. it's slowed down the whole process a little bit. i still think this is headed to the west coast of florida, north of tampa, right in the big bend area with thursday being the day that it makes its way onshore so thursday will be the day when we have the biggest impact felt in our area. i show you the viper radar right now because we have the showers pouring in from the southeast and we will continue to get those fast moving showers from east to west across the state similar to yesterday. 60% to 70% rain chances mainly in the afternoon. winds are tropical depression nine are still at 35 miles an hour, though the hurricane center confident it should become a tropical storm later today. notice how it starts to increase the intensity by wednesday afternoon and then by thursday morning, it's still well offshore. by friday morning it's in the jacksonville area. it's making levy county. that path would give us two, maybe three things to be concerned about. number one,

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... there's another named storm in the atlantic this where will ?gaston, go... dave has the latest track, on several brewing storms. ((walter)) its now 5:?? thanks for joining us. i'm walter allen((vanessa)) and i'm vanessa ruffes, in for jen epstein. let's start off with a check of the forecast, with dave. partly cloudy and hot, with a few pm storms. high temps in the lower 90s, with rain chance around 30%. tonight will be warm and sultry; lows around 79. hot and humid with a 40% chance of storms on tap for wednesday, with high temps in the lower 90s. no closed ca available for traffic. it looks like children will have to keep dreaming about sugarplums... health cut back on the sweets. ((walter fox-13's shayla reaves is live in our break room this morning... shayla... how much added sugar is too much? thanks, shayla. (vanessa) deputies in pasco and hillsborough counties... are searching for some professional thieves this morning... authorities say: trucks, parked in certain places... and they know just how to get in... and steal your stuff. ((vanessa thieves burglarized eight trucks sun

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tropics. go straight to lindsay milbourne in for dave. good morning. >>lindsay: good morning. yes, late august, early september, the peak of season so no questions why we're watching a system to the south. it is weak, looking horrible this morning which could be good news for the local forecast early next week. we have to get through tomorrow. sunday a little better rain chance. this morning no rain but i think a really nice sunrise. upper 70s out the door. brooksville at 74. it is 79 in sarasota and clearwater this morning and we do have an east wind today. the east wind hangs on all weekend so notice showers near cape canaveral. midday a few polk county. by late day, a 40% chance of those building on the west coast. high pressure is in control to the north. the south and this low, there's a chance that the center, if it exists, is over mountainous east cuba. so where you see the most convection is south of the mountainous island so a ragged mess. some wind shear, too. because of that, a 30% chance of development the next two days which is low but still a 60% chance this will develop w

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