we will get to that this crazy view of the sideways moving snow in center city philadelphia, keep going there i think march has officially, been coming in like a lion. 33 degrees. northwesterly winds at 32 miles an hour, absent the gusting, and feels like temperature 19 degrees. brutal. we are dealing with the powerful nor'easter that did bomb out our rapidly intensify , very apparent, driving all this moisture in from off the atlantic and now we are dealing with primarily snowfall across the good chunk of the delaware valley. seeing some pockets starting to break in of some dryer air but this morning we started off with rain/snow mix and new all that just heavy, wet snow, heaviest right now in and along i-95 corridor from center city philadelphia, wilmington, northern delaware, those purple returns of snowy sentencely pouring down, also in the poconos, snow, still falling up toward lehigh

thirty-four in atlantic city. 33 degrees right now in philadelphia. thirty-four in allentown. storm scan three is showing us story of the day to day but starting to see dryer air indications of dryer air with some dryer pockets now, prevailing, portions of the poconos, seeing a little bit of drying in upper bucks county but still dealing with heavy persistent snowfall over chester county, down in northern delaware, central delaware, as well, snow coming down at a rate, of intensity of about an inch per hour, at times in and around wilmington area seeing that snow, just pummeling your your use, south jersey, down the shore, snow continues to fall and in the really mixing with rain anymore but it is that heavy wet snow but starting to see drying, on the western edge of the poconos, getting a break from all of that snowfall where totals are pushing now 2 feet in some locations. future weather showing in the next couple of hours still dealing with snow, primarily east of the i-95 corridor still lingering snow showers and mixing with rain as we head in the second half of the evenin

right now we are seeing snow coming down with the few rain drops mixed in center city philadelphia, dealing with precipitation wintry mix for several hours. little more intense over portions of south jersey and this area of precipitation over spreading in the northwestern suburbs seeing light snow, and flurries in the poconos. light snow coming down as we speak. as we head throughout the day the system will only intensify for 9:00 o'clock hour dealing with snow, sleet rain milk in 33 degrees but by second half of the morning and in the afternoon we are dealing with heavy snow, blustery conditions, and then even a few, rumbles of thunder possible because of the intensity of this storm, as far as snowfall totals throughout the day-to-day, forecast looking right on track. we have expanded the totals, higher even totals into portions of south jersey, so in and around 95 to 12 inches of heavy snow and 10 to 14 toward lehigh valley. so this is just getting. >> heavy snow too can be really dangerous. much. we are looking outside and ing an eye on volume, how many vehicles are getting outoadway. fo

philadelphia inn a urn no delaware with rain mix nothing closer to the coast we're seeing primarily rain with snow mixing in. as we head in the second half of the day for most of us, say along along immediate coastline this will transition over to a heavy snowfall by late morning and lunchtime, blustery conditions as well, temperatures generally in the 30's today as we move in the afternoon hours, that is going to be the prime time of this storm especially early afternoon, heavy snow, maybe a few embedded thunderstorms so we could hear thunder snow i'm nerding out about that already forecast snowfall totals looking on track as well. we have slid the higher totals a little bit off east as the track has moved a little bit shifted just a little bit so six to 12 has expanded in to south jersey and still expecting 10 to 14 up toward lehigh valley and poconos in and along i-95 corridor including center city philadelphia, meisha expecting six to 12 inches of snowfall for this evening. >> dangerous. >> yes. >> i will say it, lauren, dangerous. good morning, everyone. when we hear that we kn

we're giving you a look at the skyline in center city, philadelphia. you can actually see it. just a few hours ago, 4:00, even as we're getting into 5:00, visibility was still low. but since the snow has cleared, we're looking much better out here. reporting live outside 30th street station, i'm rosemary conners, nbc 10 news. >> you can see the top of the comcast technology center. the major storm it is some counties harder than others. >> snow totals around the region. >> that's right, guys. some sections getting close to a foot of snow. we've gotten new numbers if from new jersey. and again you have to think about the water content in this snow. an inch and a half of water within that several inches of

city offices, courts will be closed to day, yesterday philadelphia hardware stores were, busy as people stocked up ahead of the storm. >> today has been very crazy, pretty hectic everybody coming in, and storm will hit heart. >> we have to prepare them for the residents. >> philadelphia's code blue is also, in effect, first responders and outreach teams will patrol streets to take home less people to shelters. >>> new jersey governor phil murphy announced state of emergency yesterday from trenton well ahead of the start of the storm. he urged residents not to panic and instead use good judgment to deciding whether to venture out in the storm. governor murphy says snow equipment is ready to go. >> department of transportation stands ready to activate more than 2500 pieces of snow fighting equipment, at its disposableal whether it is plows, spreaders, loaders that can be deployed across the state if necessary. >>> "eyewitness news" was in bellmawr camden county, crews say brine won't help much since rain arrived. delaware has in the declared a state of emerge sue but they are urging drive

over last several hours precipitation has been constant and visability reduced in center city philadelphia can't see sky line 33 is our current temperature hanging out right here near freezing, nort at 12, breeze picking up a bit but we are dealing with reduced visability where we are seeing snow coming down and wintry mix to a half mile visibility, in mount pocono, 3 miles in philadelphia so future weath we head in the morning dealing with primarily rain, down the shore that wintry mix across south jersey, primarily snow, north and west of i-95 and main event, takes place late morning, midday, into mid afternoon, when we will deal with the bulk of the lift from this system, we will be dealing with heavier snow throughout the afternoon hour, snowfall rates one to 2 inches per hour and then this quickly moves out as we head in the evening hearst but for today dealing with the wintry mix over to heavy snow fall, meisha blustery conditions so things will only get much, much worse as we head in the second half of the day. >> um-hmm, it sure will, when momma meisha comes out to be very very, ca

and taking a closer look at center city philadelphia, stretching out into burlington county that is indicating heavy intensity snowfall we saw that heavy snow come through chester county that moved up into berks county the lehigh valley and the poconos. snow still coming down at a moderate to up tense clip so now until this afternoon mix to snow increasing in intensity storm peaking as we head throughout the afternoon hours. and then after the 7:00 o'clock hour, this really wrapping up very quickly we're not going to see lost lingering snow on the back side of this system but it's going to pack a punch over the next couple of hours. snowfall six to 12-inches as i mentioned in chester county we're already at that six to 12-inch mark along the i-95 corridor. possibly ten to 14-inches up towards the lehigh valley and poconos. lesser amounts but we still do have a period of all snowfall that is possible in along the coast. we can see quick accumulations as we head into this afternoon of course we'll talk more about all of this snowfall and what you expect as we head into the evening hours coming u

the dog you saw up on two legs got me some shoes and this is the situation in center city philadelphia and the roads are clear for the most part and folks doing their best to shovel and enjoying it now that the worst is behind us. >> that is good part we can say we survived it. that will do it for "action news" at 4:00. i'm sharrie williams join me along with brian and ducis rogers tonight and every night for a full hour of "action news" at 10:00 on phl 17. "action news" at 5:00 coming up next. >>> "action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with jaime apody, meteorologist, cecily tynan, rick williams and monica malpass. >>> it didn't look like much this morning but that all changed as the hours passed. as accuweather predicted the latest march nor'easter brought the heavy wet snow and treacherous driving conditions to the region. >> here is a look at center city philadelphia and cape may new jersey, right now where you live determined what type of precipitation you had. and how much you got today. folks at the shore mostly got a wintry mix and most of our regions to the nort

. >>> the city of philadelphia also preparing for significant snowfall. transforming into plow truck, we'll tell you when a is snow emergency goes into effect >>> here ap look at the storm as it pushes into the region, right now, it's a mixture of rain and snow. but the snow will become more widespread as we move into the night. good evening everything r everybody i'm jessica dean, i'm ukhi seb nor'easter in less than a week. all philadelphia public and archdiocese schools are closed tomorrow. there's also other schools to bottom of your screen. >> we have life team 5 coverage. alexandria hoff and greg argos are monitoring programs but well start with kate bilo >> looks like the storm is getting off to quite the start as we got heavy rain and now heavy snow blanketing much of the area let's take you out to stormscan 3, and you can see what's happening rain shower. take a look at that band of heavy snow that developed over pourings of central delaware. it's now started to spread north into new castle count and portions of delaware and chester counties, in

. >>> the city of philadelphia also preparing for significant snowfall. transforming into plow truck, we'll tell you when a is snow emergency goes into effect >>> here ap look at the storm as it pushes into the region, right now, it's a mixture of rain and snow. but the snow will become more widespread as we move into the night. good evening everything r everybody i'm jessica dean, i'm ukee washington, it is the seb nor'easter in less than a week. all philadelphia public and archdiocese schools are closed tomorrow. there's also other schools to bottom of your screen. >> we have life team 5 coverage. alexandria hoff and greg argos are monitoring programs but well start with kate bilo >> looks like the storm is getting off to quite the start as we got heavy rain and now heavy snow blanketing much of the area let's take you out to stormscan 3, and you can see what's happening rain shower. take a look at that band of heavy snow that developed over pourings of central delaware. it's now started to spread north into new castle count and portions of delaware and

lets get the full story from center city philadelphia. sara bloomquist is live at 12th and market street. >> hi jim, the snow tapers off here a couple of hours now, now we are dealing with the slushy wet situation. here in center city philadelphia. look along the side of market street. all the slush that it has build up. that will be problematic if it freezes over tonight and looking out on market street we are down to the pavement and the plow trains are coming through and not a lot to do anything more on the main streets and the side streets could be snow covered. all in all a difficult day to get around. >> this morning the nor'easter got into a slow start with the wintry mix of snow and sleet and mid-afternoon the flakes were flying and big heavy snowflakes coating everything and coating streets in slush and making sidewalks slick. >> dangerous i think. i literally have to buy new boots and the traction i had were not good and slipping and sliding. >> you come from macy's with new boots i had too. >> big chunks of heavy snow fell from

the delaware like we got cape city, and center city philadelphia. it was a gorgeous sunset this evening. we got to get to the main part there. is. beautiful very nice all across the region. if you're able to enjoy it and we certainly deserved it after all we endured yesterday with that nor'easter but the clouds in place, they made for that beautiful sunset. mid level clouds hovering over the delaware valley right now on storm scan3 but no precipitation. yes, we like that. but these clouds are a product of our old friend, the nor'easter still out over the atlantic, actually retrograding or moving southbound which you don't typically see. otherwise, though, we are quiet save for a few clouds and the windy conditions staying with us. elevated wind speeds up around 14 17, 26 miles per hour and then we have those higher gusts. made for a chilly day today but with that sunshine and the lack of those damaging winds certainly made for a pleasant start to the weekend. 43 our high temperature in allentown. topped at 46 in philadelphia. few degrees below avera

still dealing with snow, in center city philadelphia, down i-95 corridor and wilmington down into dover as well where we are seeing purple returns. in and around chester area, chester county seeing heavy intensity snow fall. snowfall rates potentially at an inch per hour, south jersey still dealing with the snowfall, maryland rate in intensity. up toward poconos finally starting to get a little bit of the break after a significant snow event throughout the afternoon, and also getting a break in the lehigh valley but future weather is showing us as we head in the evening hours, things start to go wind down, especially eight or 9:00 o'clock we will see lingering snow showers especiallye of i-95 and then by midnight mess of that moisture will start to wayne, with dryer air, building in across the area but we could pick up an additional coat to go 2 inches in some locations of this snow, slush, and two to 4 inches up toward poconos over the next several hours, where we still do have a winter stormect until 4:00 o'clock in the morning, tomorrow morning, so for carbon and monroe counties but

this is southbound traffic heading towards center city philadelphia. your drive times are reflecting the problem out there. it's about a 25 minute drive. we are seeing speeds slow to the mid-30s right now, which is typical for this time of the morning because we see an up tick in traffic because of the morning rush. it's getting pretty dicy out there, and this is a shot of the wet roads. this is cherry hill route 38, light traffic here. so that's the good news. throughout the -- across our region you're really going to have to be tapping your brakes. and we are going to be finding some crashes. we don't know if it's a result of the bad weather, but one can only guess. this is new castle county right before you hit the 495 split. >>> all this week we have been focusing on medical debt that has been putting families everywhere in financial strain. >> what you can do to avoid falling behind when medical bills start coming. >>> plus our live team coverage on a major storm moving through continues. we'll have that straight ahead. hello, peco. hi. can you he

looking live at center city philadelphia dealing with light rainfall, winness check, east wind at 10 miles an hour, stay in check throughout the overnight period and different case as we head in the day tomorrow and temperatures are fairly mild, 50 in philadelphia. fifty-two in allentown. on the back side of the area of low pressure some cold air, not frigid, cold enough to support some snowfall tomorrow , in some areas in the mid level of the atmosphere. here's center of the system right now center of circulation all this moisture will movie, again this system will move off shore where it will stall out and even move southbound which is atypical for area have low pressure. rains developing tonight, continuing through the day tomorrow and tomorrow night. we will see widespread damaging winds and quite a few power outages likely so do plan for. that also a snow threat is looking likely for poconos lehigh valley, but in question in other areas. philadelphia, new jersey and the shore, tomorrow and tomorrow night we could potentially see period of all snow during afternoon and evening ho

♪ live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 11:00. >>> right now at 11:00 update on that winter storm. the rain has moved in as we take look at rehoboth beach, delawa delaware. that's how this storm system is beginning. for most of us it won't stay that way. rain already changing over to snow in delaware county. you can tell from that video it will be wet, heavy stuff. parts of our area could see a lot of it. well we just got to say it. this is one nasty nor'easter we'll be dealing with. thanks for joining us tonight at 11:00. i'm iain page. the storm is quickly changing. kathy just updated the snow totals and up is the word. details and new information coming into the fox 29 newsroom now by the minute. here's what we can tell you right now. we've got hundreds of school closings. scrolling scrolling at the bottom of your screen of philadelphia public schools and arch die is that so schools closed tomorrow. snow emergency goes into effect in philadelphia tomorrow morning and across the area. other cities and counties remainder states of emergency. philadelphia says it

philadelphia, atlantic city, and everything is going to quiet down for just a bit. then off to the west, we actually have our next system that is going to be kind of moving into the area. between now and then, we see some flurries still associated with this one. so you can see the back edge of this one. here are the flurries. the light snow showers because the main body, the body of the storm system in the upper atmosphere is still rotating past this. it's going to bring the flurries and snow showers through here the next couple of days. we'll walk through it. this is what is going to happen. temperatures are going to drop down below freezing. we're going see that happen later tonight. the storm sought of here. there is going to be a lot of refreezing on the road waist. a lot of icing. we get down around 29, 30 degrees in philadelphia in the outlying areas. a little warmer along the jersey shore. any place you've got a lot of snow, it's going to be colder air mass overhead. tomorrow we make it above freezing. we'll see some melting. but that is not going to be until

the storm is disrupting travel to and from major cities like boston, philadelphia, new york city and baltimore. airlines are waiving rebooking fees. they try to cancel the storms ahead of the storms. keeps flyers and their planes from getting stuck at arpts during the storm. they want to do that because it makes it easier to reset for the next day. so once the snow passes, they're going to start begin restarting service. they want to ramp up so tomorrow is a somewhat normal day. conditions in the new york area, not so bad right now. that's going to deteriorate and that's when authorities are asking people to stay off the roads and stay home and enjoy the snow. >> or go out sledding. >> or make snowmen. there's a wide variety of things available to you in the snow. we're trying to look on the blight side. not on a bright side, flooding. warnings and advisories are posted along the mid-atlantic coast. more will go into effect later this morning. more than one of 300 towns in massachusetts could be destroyed. some homeowners are getting ready to evacuate. demarco, good morning. >> repor

more than 3,200 flights are canceled today, most to and from new york city, philadelphia, and boston. most airlines are offering travel waivers. amtrak is offering a modified schedule. with wind gusts of up to 60 miles per hour possible, widespread power outages are expected. four nor'easters in three weeks is unusual but not unheard of. >> i think everyone's ready for spring and ready for the snow to melt and to be outside. >> and that may take a day or two, anne-marie. it's hard to predict snowfall accumulations with the warm air and surfaces, but still, anne-marie, it seems like a mid-winter storm. back you do. >> indeed. eric fisher of our boston station wbz is following the severe weather on both coasts. >> whell, it is the first full day of spring, but it is a mess out there stretching from the southern atlantic. this is going to bring a thump of heavy know along the 95 corridor throughout the day to early thursday morning before it moves out. it looks like the full brunt will be felt in western maryland to around new york city. a mixture of ice last night and snow moving in tod

half mile millville, near quarter of a mile in center city philadelphia and below a mile in wilmington and allentown. temperatures are hovering near freezing, into philadelphia, millville, trenton, and wilmington, so that is why we're seeing that snow, on the roadways, and these temperatures, they are going to stay pretty low as we go in the overnight hours so we will deal with, some icing, as we get into the overnight hours tonight and wind, not as bad as the last storm as expected but there is wind out there and that is creating wind chills right now, only in the 20's area wide. the warmest spot, go figure in the poconos, at 31 degrees, while philadelphia is coldest spot at 21 degrees. so, snow, it is exiting the coast by 7:00 o'clock, it is already ending in those western suburbs, so we will continue to see that work and eat its way in the city of philadelphia over the next hour or two but temperatures will drop below freezing, overnight tonight, so good idea, is to remove the snow, before you head to bed here this evening. you don't want to deal with a basically slush going over to

and pinkies a winter storm warning that includes city of philadelphia and all points northwest. winter weather advisory in longer watch for areas just to the south ande because is there greater evidence that there may be more mix nothinghese area that could hold totals down below watch or warning levels but here in points northwest a winter storm warning in effec at 7:00. that is when rain and snow will start to spread n between 7:00 p.m. and midnight snow and rain arrives midnight to 10:00 a.m. we have had snow falling steadily to the north and west of i-95, rain south ande and mixture in the city. peak intensity is between 10:00 o' 4:00 tomorrow but morning commute will be impact with falling snow especially in the north and western suburbs and heavy rain across the south and east suburbs. as far as precipitation is concerned this is going to be area that we keep a close eye on right on i-95, it seems like it always happens area to the north and west, lehigh valley and poconos this is a snowstorm. philadelphia points just to the south and east is your zone of where ther mixing

christie aleto is live at philadelphia city hall and walter perez is in the lehigh valley. but first we need to the latest information from accuweather and meteorologist cecily tynan and adam joseph. cecily i know this could be bad but just how bad are we talking about? >> it depends on your location. parts of the viewing area will see more than a foot of snow and other parts getting wind

for the situation in center city philadelphia, we turn to annie mccormick outside city hall. >> jim the city lifted the snow emergency at 9:00 tonight but there is a lot of work to do. the street department is taking care of the sidewalks. everyone is trying to get back to normal. >> the heavy wet snow left a messy clean up for residents. >> snowballs, snow men, not so much for shoveling. >> it's like more water than snow. it's like slush, basically. >> these teenagers from north philadelphia are taking this opportunity to make money off of mother nature shoveling driveways for cash. >> marlee hunt moved here from north carolina so did bubu. it's the yellow lab's first time in the snow. he loves it so far. he's excited. >> philadelphia became a blur of white from city avenue to market street where chunks of snow falling from the hotel blocked the roadway. a tree crushed a car. >> just missed my car. it's my lucky day. >> for some tonight wasn't about cleaning up, it was about getting out of the house after a day cooped up inside. >> it's their first timeout today. >> you have cabin feve

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here's a live look at center city, philadelphia, where drive drivers will be facing a slippery commute this morning for sure. >> and here's a live look in allentown where the brunt of this storm is going to hit the lehigh valley. most likely getting the most snow out of this storm. could get up to a foot. >> and our first alert radar shows this storm. it's sticking around for hours, like 16 hours. >> we have issued a first alert for our entire area this morning. the storm is also causing nearly 650 schools to close so far today. we'll have the full list scrolling at the bottom of your screen. let's get right to meteorologist brittney shipp. >> that's right. most of the area under this first alert until tomorrow morning. we'll still see messy roads for tomorrow morning's commute. you're still going to have to take it easy getting back to work tomorrow as well. we have a nor'easter coming, accumulating heavy, wet snow which will mess up your morning commute and especially evening commute. you combine that with the type of snow, and we're more likely to see even trees going down and snow

inch an a half in atlantic city and 2 and a half inchs in philadelphia and poconos 13.6 renrengted in that particular model. stay tuned to evolving forecast especially if you focused in on the snowfall potential in and around the city, south scrzy and down the shore tomorrow afternoon. we're still windy into saturday and things finally start to quiet down as we head into sunday. 47, mix of sun and cloud. much more preferable than tomorrow. >> thanks a lot. >> don surprise next with sports. >> fun night tonight big one hottest neem hockey nraiz south philadelphia and see if flyers could make it 7 in a row and jojo goes toe to toe with i king and >> did lebron james scout area high schools during the all star break for his case. the answer is no. the king denied it. called speculation disgusting. that doesn't mean joel didn't try to recruit him to philly anyway. sixers visiting cavs. jojo and bronbron having all the laughs. 1st quarter we he go watch lebron. so nice we have to show you twice. behind the bang and in between his teammate's legs and he scores and the foul. 30 points, we ne

here's a live look at center city, philadelphia, where drivers will be facing a dangerous commute. and here's a look at allentown. lehigh valley will likely get the most snow out of this storm. and don't expect it to let up anytime soon. we have you covered with everything you need to know around our area. >> we have issued a first alert for our entire area this morning. the storm is causing -- just checked, exactly 600 schools closed so far today. we'll have a full list scrolling at the bottom of your screen. lets get straight to meteorologist brittney shipp. >> it's great the schools are canceled because this is going to affect your morning commute and evening commute. that's why we are under a first alert all the way until tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. so, again, please be careful inyou plan on leaving the house throughout the entire day. the concern is going to be accumulating snow, which has already started for us, and we're going to factor in our gusty wind speeds which could bring down tree, power lines and power outages. a closer look to what the system is doing now and what it's d

and also a number of construction companies working through the city of philadelphia. the city warning the construction companies the debris, the fencing and such could go flying. we also caught up with peco. they'll be dealing with those winds on the power lines. they tell us stations will be on standby throughout the city. >> if it's safe our crews are going to go out there and continue to work. it doesn't matter if it's raining our crews will go out and continue to restore service. if it does become a point where the winds become too strong, we will and them for their own safety to hold back until it becomes safer. but our crews will be out there and working to restore service. >> reporter: yeah, it's going it pea one of those days where you're walking to and from work and your umbrella gets turned inside out as the wind gusts start to pick up. if you're working early today, get it done now because those wind gusts will pick up. randy gyllenhaal, nbc 10 news. >> and one of the first parts of our area to experience tropical storm force gusts will be the jersey shore.

. >> we're in rhawnhurst right now it has taken us from center city philadelphia to the great northeast where we are trying to make our way to bucks county and check out road conditions, and for the most part it is not looking too bad, i necessity weather will only intensify and road conditions are going to deteriorate but i suppose the good news, silver lining is if you have to get up early and get out and maybe get back home, at lee traveling conditions right now aren't too bad at all checking with my photographer driving mobile weather watchers and he says in the really that slippery right now. we will see a lot of wet roadways we have seen rain, light snow coming down on our windshield right now, melting on these treated surfaces so that sheen you see on the road that is just wet right now, mobile weather watcher is reporting that the temperature outside is 34 degrees, but of course whenever you see moisture you have to slow it down there can be areas with ponding, we have seen that, of course, we have seen when a car goes by they will, throw up a little bit of slush on your windshi

here's a live look at center city, philadelphia, from the aqua cam in camden. the cloud base has lifted, so that's good news in terms of the heavy rain starting to subside. now we walk you through the second and third changeover. you will see the ponding of water on the roadway, but it really is midday through the afternoon we're concerned about for strong and potentially damaging winds and the changeover to snow. southern montgomery county, so abington, down towards glenside, and springfield you're in the snow with 50 mile per hour winds. that's tropical storm force wind gusts even here in philadelphia and surrounding suburbs. and that continues at 9:00 tonight with potential snow falling. up in the lehigh valley this is where our concern of sticking snow is this morning through this evening. at 7:00 this morning you can see the changeover happening. winds stepping up. as you can see 50 to 60 mile per hour gusts here as well with the snow especially in the higher l elevations. if you're up on one of those higher elevations you'll see the snow. down at the leer

here's a live look at center city, philadelphia, where drivers will be facing a dangerous commute. and here's a look at allentown. lehigh valley will likely get the most snow out of this storm. and don't expect it to let up anytime soon. we have you covered with everything you need to know around our area. >> we have issued a first alert for our entire area this

25 allentown, 28 degrees in atlantic city and 28 this morning, in dover. as we head throughout the day today, yes, get all of those preparations in place. get the groceries, increasing cloud, late day shower, quiet today, 47 degrees, high temperature, then things start to ramp up as we head into tonight. rain developing, changing over to snow and wintery mix, low temperature at 33 degrees, then the timing for this event , nine p.m. to about 2:00 a.m.,, start to see the light precipitation over spreading the area and pick up in intensity headed into the late overnight period for your compute youth tomorrow morning , wintery mix specially east of 95, some could be heavy mainly west of i95. into the 10:00 hour throughout the afternoon hours, tomorrow, heavy snow for most of us, save the coastline there is will be the peak intensity of the system. even possible we could hear thunder snow. check this out. yes, hear lowest totals in along the coast, coating to 2 inches, primarily see rain and mix but closer to i95, expecting six to 12 inches of snowfall speciall

. >> women in center city philadelphia the girl scouts of eastern pennsylvania recognized four women for making the community a better place and ran take the lead program at the height of the bellevue from start to finish these young girls remerging rz as leaders themselves and a look at the accuweather. >> the snow is going eastward and double scan it's moving quickly and snowing in philadelphia south jersey and getting that evaporative cooling 1-3" at dawn and nor'easter cranks up north and west of philadelphia 10-16" and looks 6-10 along the i-95 corridor and less because of mixing and the wind is certainly going to be a wild ride tomorrow. >> jimmy kimmel is live followed by night line and neil patrick harris and the bachelor and musical guest john party and action news continues early at 4:00 a.m. for the latest on the information and school closers with matt and tamala and karen rogers and dave murphy and for cecily tynan and ducis rodgers and the entire news team i'm jim gardner. >>> tv's number one daily viral video show, "right this minute." a mama dog left in the road tries

that's a live like at center city philadelphia. we'll be right back. >> it is ay morning to say the least. mobile 6 is driving out there right now, so you can see it before you drive out there. taking a live look here, i-95 traffic building, do be aware of the conditions that could deteriorate as the morning rush progresses. >>> community organizers and neighbors in north philadelphia voiced their concerns on temple university proposed football stadium. they met at carver high school at 16th and norris street across from where temple wants to build the stadium. it's part of the temple's continued efforts to gent fie -- gentry -- gentrify their neighborhood. >>> philadelphia flower show kicks off tomorrow and this year's theme is wonders of water. you can get an up-close look of all the wonder of this career's flower show watch the special tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. on 6abc. looking forward to that. >> nice to get a taste of spring. >> 457. now we're tracking a massive nor'easter that's bringing rain right now strong wind and flood

rid now getting live look at center city philadelphia, pretty quiet. still heavy snow falling. we like that, 38 degrees, so little chilly, winds out of the north at 18 miles per hour , so wind speeds still elated feeling like 28 degrees. still gusty winds, not gusting to the 50, zero six, 70-mile per hour range, gusting to the 20's, it will be the case through the overnight periods. some gusty winds. still do have coastal flood warning in effect until 3:00 a.m. wildwood, reporting coastal flooding in that area at high tide. it is lingering and shutting down roads, be aware that far along the coast, winds do start to relax finally to calm levels as we head late day into monday, but then we have the potential for another nor'easter, number two,, inside after week as we head into wednesday. we will talk more about that coming up in your full eyewitness forecast in just a few. >> sounds like fun, lauren, thank you. the storm clean up is also underway from winds and flood damage, all along the east coast. governors in massachusetts, maryland, and virginia, have all declared a state

getting a live look at center city, philadelphia rights now. the ben franklin bridge. we had a beautiful moon as it rose up over philadelphia and this month we actually have a blue moon or two full moons hat will occur in the month of har. . chilly now to chec out the moon. 32 is current temperature northerly wind at 23 miles an hour an winds will just not let up. our feels like temperature 19 degrees. yeah, remember meterological spring began marchike it high 4. one degree shiv normal high temperature starting off at 37 this morning and temperatures are chilly. 3 allentown and down to 23 mount pocono and 33 philadelpa t chill and element single digits in the poconos and teens in the lehigh valley and feeling like low he 20s down the shore and middle 20s across portions of delaware and we still have the winds. hamondpeeds around5, 1 and 20 this coast sknded until theio service and again we could see minor flooding along especially particularly in the back bays where we owe could see local moderate flooding at high tide time 11 a.m. tomorrow morning. do watch for the po

beautiful scene in center city philadelphia. the sun is coming up. chilly 29 degrees. windchill temperatures right now at 24 degrees, storm scan3 , not much going on, at least right now, but 24 hours from now, will be a much different scenario. so here is the apparent area of low pressure spinning in the midwest, will generate another area of low pressure, and all of this energy is going to swing in, as we head through the day tomorrow, and bring us a chance for heavy snowfall across large portion of the area. but for today, increase in clouds, late day shower, high temperature at 47 degrees. and then for tonight, rain, changing over to snow, 33 degrees, our overnight low, so future weather showing us pretty quiet for this evening commute. precipitation swam starts to build in throughout the overnight period. starting at rain in some locations specially south and east every center city philadelphia, then changing over to snow, then tomorrow morning, as we see some mid- level warm air pushing in could see change over back to rain in and around center city , south jersey

what happened in my district is that i represent part of the city of philadelphia and part of the suburbs in montgomery county. , myistrict was split in two new district will be the second district of pennsylvania, entirely in the city of philadelphia where i was born and raised. as we going to november, i believe that six to seven of the 18 congressional districts will be hypercompetitive seats. basically 50-50 seats which is good for democracy. we do not want to have a fixed map where you have 13 overwhelmingly republican districts or frankly 13 overwhelmingly democratic districts and five the other way. is the second one of the hyper competitive -- hypercompetitive district? , if they thought the population which is very largely democratic. a few overwhelmingly democratic and a few overwhelmingly republican districts. the top central and south central parts are overwhelmingly republican. and the two district in philadelphia are going to be overwhelmingly democratic. and the rest of the state's competitive. host: what you take away from the 18th district election? guest: i was an early

if you're closer to atlantic city you're seeing rain, philadelphia seeing more of a wintry mix. allentown the poconos all seeing a steady heavy snowfall at this time and it's really blowing around because our wind speeds are over 40 miles per hour. let's break it down hour by hour for you. at 12:30 we're seeing wind gusts closer to 44 miles per hour, 41 miles per hour. those balloon up to about 55 miles per hour as we push in the early afternoon and for your evening commute. you want to be really careful especially if you're closer to the lehigh valley and the poconos where a lot of this snow is starting to stick to the ground. but if you're closer to parts of philadelphia or pottstown, it looks like right now we'll see the roads just a little too warm for this to accumulate, but regardless still going to be a rough messy commute for you just based on our wind speeds alone. we'll talk more about philadelphia and the shore. >> one of the areas seeing the most impact so far from this storm is in northampton county and that is where steven fisher is live for us. you've been seeing

philadelphia but there are the first of the moisture mo southwest at around 7 miles per hour, and storm scan3, showing us, quiet conditions but already some hints of moisture seeing some returns on the radar over lancaster county not hitting the surface but it is picking up on some of the upper level >> 7:00 p.m. this evening, and runs until late tomorrow night , storm, impacts, this is going to be a heavy snowfall maker. specially in that winter storm warning, area, and looking low at this point, wind threats, not going to be as damaging or as widespread, good news there , as we saw, but we still have fairly high risk of power outages because of the weight of this heavy snow, and already weakened trees and power lines from lags week storm, we head into the evening hours start to see light rain, wintery mix developing we head into the overnight peer precipitation will start get going, rain and mix changing over to some wet snow. low temperature at 28 degrees. so talk about what to expect through the day tomorrow. and where we could indeed see over foot man eastbound foot and a half of s

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school in new york city, philadelphia and d.c. are closed today. already 3,000 flights have been canceled. amtrak is scaling back service on the northeast corridor and some states are banning certain types of trucks from major highways. >>> on. we've got temperatures running in the low to upper 50s in the south bay from los altos hills at 52 and milpitas at -- take a look at this shower. foothill boulevard. we've got san leandro street. all the way up to getting close to holy redeemer college. this is our biggest downpour. over moraga at 4:40. clayton at 4:59. it will skirt alamo and danville also. expect puddles on the roadways around that cell. here's a look at 101 and 880 showing you how wet it is this morning. the commute planner, the roads will be poor today. wet spots, if you're taking mass transit, rainy and breezy today. that's the difference from yesterday. it wasn't breezy yesterday. it's going to be significantly milder today. look at this. temperatures in the mid to upper 60s in most neighborhoods. low 630s in half moon bay, lakeport an

taking a live look right behind us, center city philadelphia, it is snowing and raining in much of the area right now. >> which means if you have to get out and about this morning it could be a little difficult so let's go over to matt pelman who of course has got his eyes peeled for what's going on on your roadways. good morning. >> absolutely. good morning, guys. i would say if you do have to get out and about now is the best time to do that today, if your store is opened you need to get that milk bread and eggs do it now because later on it's going to be substantially tougher. live look in fort washington this is 309 right under the pennsylvania turnpike, 276. at this point the highways and most of the secondary roads are just wet. finding a little snow accumulated on the grassy surfaces and shoulders of the road but for the most part the road surfaces are wet only at this point. and let's head to the burbs. a little bit better news nearby. morris road reopened. had been closed since friday. they just got it reopened this morning but still plenty of other spots where we've got closu

christie aleto is live at philadelphia city hall and walter perez is in the lehigh valley. but first we need to the latest information from accuweather and meteorologist cecily tynan and adam joseph. cecily i know this could be bad but just how bad are we talking about? >> it depends on your location. parts of the viewing area will see more than a foot of snow and other parts getting wind and rain. that is the nature of a march nor'easter. but there is plenty of cold air in the upper atmosphere and this first low the apparent low taps into the cold air and that begins to drive into the ohio valley and notice it looks ragged. and already starting to transfer the energy down to the low pressure moving off the southeast coast than is the system that has the moisture and tapping into the moisture from the gulf of mexico. and pulling in moisture from the atlantic and winter storm warnings are in effect. all of southeastern pennsylvania and mercer county new jersey and areas to the north, these are the areas that deal with the heavy accumulating snow. we v an advisory in interior