instead, and that is just part of the problem. ocean city, haven street covered in water as tidal flooding, spills on to the roads there, but it wasn't just the shore, from the first day to the city to the suburbs , everyone in our area got a little taste of this winter weather and we are not done just yet. good evening, i'm ukee washington. i'm jessica dean. the snow is on its way out but biting cold is back, and the wind is still whipping. >> we want to let you know philadelphia public and archdiocese schools will be closed tomorrow. you can see other closures and delays at the bottom of your screen. weteam three coverage with reporters spread all over the area we will check with them throughout our broadcast. >> but first our team of meteorologists is tracking had latest, chelsea ingrammys in the cbs-3 mobile weather watcher. we will begin with kate billow , kate, how are things shaping up for tonight. >> things are getting a little better as far as falling snow is concerned. most of the snow has pushed out although is there one batch over portions of south jersey which i'll show you but

we have more problems then just. that the wind is blowing this snow around, blowing and drifting leading to very low visability on the road. we will check with chelsea in a moment and she will tell us just what she's seeing in south jersey but road will ice over tonight. temperatures plumet down in the teens, down around 10 degrees, single digits in some spots and that means everything that is untreated will be a sheet of ice, tonight into tomorrow morning. this storm is still looking very potent as it moves toward portions of northern maine and heavy snow around back edge of the storm. we are in the last gasp of it, final throws of the storm, as you can see we had one batch over south jersey and intensify a bit, still seeing pretty robust snow here light to moderate over organization, burlington counties and camden , gloucester counties some slow downs along atlantic city expressway with intensification but it is dying down, right now and just a few flurries through the rest of this evening. heavier snow is over with but blizzani remain, you can still see winter storm warning to the north but most

of the watches and alerts for philadelphia, area and north and western suburbs have been cd early. that blizzard warning because of the blowing snowbility does n place down the shore and into southern delaware. these are areas you will want to avoid travel if at all possible. winds again picking up that light fluffy snow blowing it around near white out conditions in a few spots with wind over 40 miles an hour, millville, 37 miles an hour in philadelphia, 43 miles an hour gustness mount pocono and visability getting better but still down around a mile in wynnewood, wildwood, and mount pocono visibility near zero. recapping just some snow totals king of prussia were four and a half. chad forward 4.3. lanning horde at 3.8. but big winner with this system or, loser depending how you look at it was the shore. cape may courthouse 17 inches. margate city 16. over performers here. seaville at 9 inches. mount holly 5.36789 millville

at four. at delaware we had, 9 inches in stockily. in harrington, delaware 5.3 inches. just under three in dover. in the city of philadelphia, 4 n today bringing our, season's total to just over a foot, 12.6 inches, fallen since december 1st. so lets check in with meteorologist chelsea ingram joining us live from the mobile weather watcher with a look at the road along the atlantic city expressway tonight, chelsea? >> hi there kate good evening to you. very interesting to go see the roads, progressively got worse , as we made ourthe shore, earls afternoon. some of the main thorghlookg okc ci expressway, well, it is not all that ideal l me show you here. you can see portions of the covn thoue been out erkingave seen them, doing their jobs, throughout the afternoon and throug evening, and we're going to be dealing with the very difficult situation

though as we head in the overnight hours tonight. so i'l youvel forecast to let you know what you can expect regionalid red le head in the overnight hours tonight. we will be dealing with blowing,ri slippery, windy conditions and bl was tel temperatures will dr, i the single digits and teens regional wide and as we head into tomorrow morning the situation will not get much better, we will deal with slick spots, gusts to 40 miles an hour easily a possibility. take a look at road conditions once again you can see there are parts of thed, parts aresnoy making our way wesou are the city, weo we g c city and location of course where we didn't get a foot of snow like what we saw in portions of our shore points whene earlier today we do expect the er and we makessively get

our way west so that is something that we will we progr >> chelsea ingram in our mo is, we still have her. we are having technical issues but we are back right now. we have snow garden of new jersey is under a state emergency due to the winter storm. with "eyewitness news" reporter anita oh who checks ou in atlantic and ocean counties and she joins us live in harbor township. how is it looking, anita. >> reporter: ukee and jessi the snow hasap a bit new but n ke mentionedwind and r here ing harbor you can as accumulated to my knees, this eyewitness weather has measured 15, almost 16 inches of snow, but this continuing accumulation was not the only challenge that crews battled today. a snow hammered our region

poor visibility and high wind made driving conditions, even more dangerous. >> there was four or five people who got stuck in the snow. reporte early afternoon atlantic county issued a travel ban on all county and municipal road for non- essential vehicles. meantime governor chris christie declared a state of emergency for atlantic, cape may, monmouth, and ocean counties and later expand that had to the entire state. >> road in avalon were bad. none were plowed and the parkway north was not, you know, plowed. >> reporter: 2300 plow trucks out across the state had to work against the clock as snow accumulated steadily throughout the day. >> i think, hard time keeping up witt because is there so much snow. they plowed my street and two hours later there were inches back already there. >> reporter: right now, 2300 crews and contractors are out, and clearing the roadways, righfficials are still, urging drivers to stay off of the road as possible. for new live fro county

i'm oh cbs-3noise you may haved duringta now to stone harbor, this is 96th street looked like thisideo was eyewitness nice viewer zeke, massive snowdrifts, piled up as they buried street benches on the sidewalks. motorist spent more time spinning their wheels then driving. our camera saw more than a few cars called in a snow and slush. good smart tans helped dig out a few people at one intersecti blow came to help clear the road. delaware also dealing with the winig this was the scene in wilmington. drivers carefully making their way around as pedestrians taking it easy as they made theiway through the snow there. we also fouuth philadelphia, sports complex a short time ago this city of philadelphia announced

lifted at 8:00 o'clock tonight also all philadelphia offices will be closed, tomorrow. walking around center city , icy sidewalks are biggest challenge for pedestrians and slushy streets have cars slipping a little bit, slidi a little bit. septa buses are up and running but they have had train cancellations. get latest traffic information at cbs philly.com. from philadelphia to the rbe was in escaping this blast of winter. >> we will go to delaware county where "eyewitness news" reporter gentlen been out all day and joins us from clifton heights, joe. >> reporter: jessica a u diggino here on baltimore pike, the penndot train just went by, this road is heavily salted, the plows are not down any longer. it is stopped snowing here for about three and a half to four hours now,mate on snow totals here anywhere 6 incs depending on where you live.

a blast of snow, white out conditions all morning, and in media it is some people could not wait to get out and shovel >> winds really rough, roughes part because it is blowing back on everybody. >> reporter: restaurant and this beer distributor were ready for some action but few were in the mood to brave slick road of delco, and what was the driver of this camaro thinking. >> not much traffic in the beer store, um. >> no, not at all. >> reporter: that might change later. >> maybe, if they need something, yes. >> reporter: we found snow blower going and with the snow day first order of business for these young guys was to grab a sled, snow board. >> snow was like really soft, so you really can't snow board or sled. >> it just takes too long to go down you just stop. >> reporter: that proved to be a bad move, better move, head home for a warm drink. >> honestly i will go home and have some hot chocolate. >> reporter: call it a day.

>> call it a day. >> reporter: they called it a day and hot chocolate and other warm drinks will be in high demand, as we are's dealing with this bitterly cold, bitter cold front on the way, and i should note that keeping track of the various school district in delaware county, it looks like many of t now decide to go cancel classes tomorrow, because of these frigid temperatures. there goes another penndot you mr. now. that is very latest reporting yewitness news".lden for cbs-3 >> thanks for that update. we have an update on the deadly crash involving septa's west trent than regional rail line in lower moreland. authorities say snow i rode co slide down a hill smash through crossing gate and hit pa it happened about 9:40 on red lion road. passenger in that c killed but say the driver was able to exit t car before it hit the trains. ome onccident remains under

"eyewitness news", it is not just the snow people are dealing with another water ma flood a localfamily owned bue and who it is being affected tonight. live look at philadelphia from our library camera where you can see snow piled up there, kate billow will be back with an update on conditions all across the region. it would hbethe most excitif his life, but in the anymore la, coming up later in sports.

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from this storm in one way or another. >> a lot of sore muscles tomorrow. >> yep. cape may county is digging out from the blizzard as well. >> it brought white out conditions and more. >> "eyewitness news" reporter david spunt joins us from ocean city with the latest on the conditions there including some flooding, is that right, david. >> reporter: ukee there was flooding earlier. that seemed to be receding at this point. it took us two hours and 45 minutes to get here from philadelphia normally a 90 minor so trip. road furthere you get the war they got. here ocean city road are terrible, some main road plowed but those side road very difficult in the wind is story here. right now we have video to show you, cell phone video taken earlier of flooding coming from that back bay, ice chunks, flooding, coming on to the road, really uncontrollably. this happened about three hours ago. good news ukee and jessica that flooding has receded no serious issues here. i checked with authorities here in ocean city. no issues to report, injuries,

people stuck, et cetera, but road here are the problem and wind continues to pick up. as far as the snow as we have been reporting all day that is continuing to move away right now. reporting live from ocean city , david spunt for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> that is some video. david, thank you. more digging out after a water main break caused flooding in several philadelphia businesses and leaves dozens without water tonight. >> "eyewitness news" reporter natasha brown, live in rhawnhurst where one business will be closed for days, what is the very latest there. >> reporter: good evening, to youe and jessica. here you can see crews are working hard, they are trying to fix this 16-inch water main that broke earlier this afternoon. dozens of customers are now affected and without water, a couple businesses are as well and we can tell you a long, nig.

>> it is upsetting but what can i do. >> reporter: rose's small family owned business will to have close for a couple of days after a 16-inch water main ruptured thursday afternoon. sending water flooding into her basement. >> it is wintertime. it is after the holiday it is kind of slow. now it will be even worse. no money coming in. the bills have to be paid. >> reporter: one other business right next door was also affected and at least 70 customers are now without water within a two block radius between castor and rhawn and rhawn and frontnac streets. >> service will be unfortunately not back on until later tonight. it takes about eight hours to make a repair rorrer. >> reporter: consistent sub freezing temperatures are causing mains to break throughout the city according to water department officials. >> once water reaches 37, 38 degrees we see higher frequency of breaks and we are at that point where water temperature is so cold that we do see a substantial number of breaks happening right now. >> reporter: really has been

brutally cold for so long throughout the region. we are seeing more and more, are hovered around a these fire back there that you can see trying to stay as warm as possible. we understand they will be working under 16 hour conditions, just trying to make sure that they get this main repaired as quickly as possible. that is very latest from now live from northeast philadelphia, natasha brown, for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> that is tough, thank you very much. temperatures are dropping. >> they are plumetting, and wind will stay with us. when you couple extreme cold with the winds, youdangerous cos going to continue right into thekend. that is part two this storm delive a 1/2 punch. the snow, that parties ending but now we are dealing with the extreme cold and blowing snow across the area lets look at is what going on outside. city. war of the snow has ended. i pulled obsertions from t cityt looks like they reached

is over three hours of a quarter mile a. those are the requirements for being considered a blizzard. it does look like this was an official blizzard down the shore, mainly between ten and two that was worse of it as those heavier bands moved through. it is relativ quiet, at lee it looks that way but winds we don't see winds on the chat is m tonight and into tomorrow. here's the storm, starting to back into northern necessity, heavy blanketing snow this has not moved much. they could have 2 feet of snow or more in this parof the nation and this part of the portions of canada as well. for us we are seeing the last gasp of this system, just a few light snow showers and flurries now, they are weakening and most of us will not, see anymore accumulating snow from this. end has arrived. we have light snow, flurries temperates areer butor so. they are going to get worse. it is 24 degrees in philadelphia we may in the see

24 degrees again, that is how much colder these temperatures will get. to 22 in reading. twenty-three inwn. twenty-four in trenton. stepping outside, it feelslikee. look at td chills over the great lakes ts is heading our way. eels like seven below in cleveland. eight below in chicago. eighteen below inialpena and those how long wind as storm departs and high fresh another building in, winds will gust to 40 miles an hour, still through the day tomorrow. starting overnight and continuing into sunday morning a wind chill advisory has been issued for our region. wind chill warning, for the poconos where wind chills could reach as low as 30 below zero. here in philadelphia we may see wind chill values stay below zero, for 60 hours from maybe midnight tonight until noonan sunday, it may feel like zero, or below, that is

very dangerous cold, you don't want to be out in that for any amount of time, if you do not have to b blowing snow here tonight will drop to sub zero wind chill 17 is our high tomorrow with wind s gusting to 40. saturday been chilling dangerous coal, sunday less wind, but still only 21 degrees, we could start with a record tie low for sunday morning and watch for wintry mix monday night into tuesday before a nice little warm up for this time of the year by middle of next week. stay tuned don bell

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torey smith won a super bowl with the ravens and trying to put the opportunity into perspective. >> the biggest take away is obviously this doesn't come along too often. to be in this position, it doesn't happen too often. you have to understand the moment is here and we have to take it. we have to understand you may never be in this position again so that can change your apprch to it, little bitr, deten we have been talking about snow all day now lets talk about the ice. flyers hosting islanders at center tonight, for tyrel burn was recalled to lehighalley and supposed to debut he could not make t trip to philadelphia because of snow. poor kid. last night sixers beat depleted spurs for first time in 13 tries. joel embiid played with the sprained wrist and swollen hand. at 21 points and 11 boards. sixers treat him like he is made of glad so shock to go

see him play. he talked about why. >> it is because, i love my team. i want to be out there on the court with them. >> unaudible. >> joe, joe. >> you got that. >> yes. >> thanks, don.when we come bacs not just young people having fun in the snow. >> where these animals were making the best of the winweath.

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later the football star that decided to tackle taste budd instead of opposing players and he is telling us what made him switch from the field to food, taste with tori takes us to the tap in lansdale to show you how chef there is scoring points with his plate, that is tonight at 11:00 right here on cbs-3. that looks delicious. what snow without a little fun? this was the scene in winslow township camden county. look at these kid, go to the park, battling the chill to go sledding. >> good times. animals at elmwood park zoo in norristown did not mind our winter storm too much. >> a red panda had fun exploring snow covered enclosure and ventured outside , red pandas are nate turf asia, southeast chine and himalayas, they caught up with an elk and american bison today they seemed content with

the snow all around, they are using to this. thanks for watching "eyewitness news" at 6:00 we are back at ten on our cyst store station the cw philly. we are back here at cbs-3 at 11:00. up next, "cbs evening news", live from the cold, snowy central park. here is jeff glor, stay wm, we will see you tonight. captioning sponsored by cbs >> glor: blinded by the white. a blizzard plows up the east coast making driving treacherous, flying nearly impossible, and turning frozen water into projectiles. >> it's the wind. we're barely being able to stand up with it, and this is just beginning. >> glor: also tonight, wall

street is covered in snow, but stocks are red hot. the dow hits 25,000. the justice department cracks down on pot just days after california makes it legal. the major security flaws that could affect nearly every computer in the world, including yours. >> the poor guy is stuck. >> glor: man becomes a moose's best friend. >> wow! >> glor: and the sunbelt enjoys its day in