atlantic into our neck of the wood and we're dealing with that rain snow mix earlier in the day and now thinks primarily, snowfall a wet snowfall, but it is we have any intensity especially where we see, possible returns, and great in some area but that cannot be said, tough slow down i-95 from center city philadelphia down into wilmington, dover, the snow, pummeling part of the delaware right now in the northern, central portions and poconos we are getting a little bit of lull in the activity but that hasn't been the case all throughout the day, snow totals here, nearing 2 feet, in locations, and, and, down the shore seeing snow coming down, heavily in and around atlantic city, toby hanna in the poconos, 20 inches of snowfall, so far, albrights ville five and a half inches. doyletown two and a half inches. philadelphia county at 2 inches of snow and slush. hammington an inch of snowfall we have snow to add insult to your injury, we have intense

wind on top of that. numerous reports of down and even up rooted trees, down wires, streetlights out, winds gusting 51 miles an hour in philadelphia, 52 in wilmington , close to 50 in allentown, high wind warning does remain in effect until 6:00 o'clock tomorrow morning as we will continue, to deal with these strong, intense wind gusts especially over next couple of hours, the snow will start to taper off in the city by eight or 9:00 this evening but maintain those wind gusts to 50 miles an hour potentially throughout overnight period and we could continue to see power outages, peco reporting a quarter million people just in pennsylvania without power, right now and hazardous travel conditions, and we have the mobile weather watcher out checking out the scene, the roadways, mobile weather watcher is monitoring these road conditions as the storm continues to hit our area. this is a live picture on the ben franklin parkway where conditions are, extremely slick. we are dealing with slushy accumulation on the road, reduced visibility as that snow continues to fall heavy

in intensity across the area of course we will have much more on this nor'easter this bombsigh clean and your full forecast coming up in a few minutes, nicole. >> lauren, thank you. there are big delays at 30th street station tonight as a rough commute home for riders, amtrak has cancelled amtrak services on the northeast corridor and keystone line, this until tomorrow due to hazardous conditions. there are also significant delays for septa, and services are suspended until furthest regional rail lines, three other lines are experiencing, delays, up to one hour. new jerseyransit, is experiencing delays of up to 20 minutes on the rails. as the airport tonight american airlines has suspended all flights out of philly international for remainder of the day. hundreds of other flights inbound and outbound have been grounded. many travelers at the airport this morning, only to learn their flight had been cancelled, others, felt really lucky that they arrived before the storm got worse. >> i was really nervous, like,

mid flight, honestly the turbulence was so bad looking outside the window andeople next to me were looking around , i was kind of scared. >> airport officials urged passengers to check flight status before arriving. and in the poconos the snow has been steadily falling across the lehigh valley, since this morning, this has been a live look at jack frost big boulder, some communities may be spending much of saturday digging out from that accumulation, "eyewitness news" reporter alycia nieves is live tonight where conditions, alycia are dangerous. conditions that are causing it to be really dangerous to drive around here. taking a look at the roadway we were at route 248, notice despite non-stop snowfall all day we are in the seeing accumulation the road. we are seeing slush, so that slush, in conjunction with the high winds that we have been experiencing, and in conjunction with the white out conditions as we have seen,

out of no where that is where danger lies in driving in this nor'easter around here. as a nor'easter slammed theregia is dealing with a dangerous, combination, of conditions. non-stop snowfall, and high winds. in allentown the area north of wind gust where is nearly 50 miles an hour. >> it is incredible i have never seen wind like this. >> reporter: doug bend inner nazareth was awoke even by wrath of the windness this nor'easter. >> i heard a big boom and a big leaf fell out of the neighbor's tree in the street. >> it was in big dealy went back inside heard a bigger boom and whole tree in front of my house uprooted. >> reporter: combination of the wind and snow fall not only downing trees and causing power outages but causing crashes, all day licensing. >> i just came dunn route 33, would i estimate there is a 20 car pile up north of here. >> reporter: john zigler one of many who did not think that this storm would be this pur

full here. >> not at all. that is why i'm out getting gas for emergency generator now. i never thought it within like this. >> i was hoping it wouldn't get this bad but i get this ended up the way that they said it was going to end up.

we did spot some workers it appears there was no heavy lifting happening. >> we wouldn't be, asking, for these kind of precautions, if, if it wasn't really a serious situation. and construction crew does not follow, l and i's orders they could issue fines, they just want to keep people safe. reporting live tonight from center city david spunt for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> david, thank you. keep track of the storm right from your phone when we are

not on the air go on the cbs philly weather app down load it at app store and google play. still ahead keeping the lights on has been a huge task for peco energy crews. >> where power is still a problem for people in our area and why it is taking so long for crews to resolve the issues, don. dave hakstol doesn't need any sympathy, flyers head coach with an honest, and straightforward assessment, after last night's loss. that is later in sports.

our weather coverage, continues, tonight, as this nor'easter barrels down, on us , cbs-3 mobile weather watcher is carefully rolling down ben franklin parkway right new a reminder to anyone braving the roads tonight take it slow and watch out for other drivers. in a mix of snow, sleet, ice, rain since this morning power has been a problem for people all over our area.

>> down trees are part of the issue because of the wind crew s have had a hard time making necessary repairs, "eyewitness news" reporter greg argos is live outside peak he call center in center city with more on that, hi there, greg. >> hi there, guys, that call center is basically the first step in getting your power restored. if you are a customer without power you call in there and that is where peco will send a crew out to your location. it is all because of this massive wind, i want to give you an idea how strong this is we're talking about signs like this just toppled over, that thing was being held up by about eight of these bags, these are 25-pounds each or so-so you can get an idea of what this wind, will do to power lines, and trees in our area with these whipping winds slapping our area a powerful nor'easter means plenty of down electric lines, and thousands without power. >> we are at emergency operations center. >> reporter: peco spokesperson alexandria, says the center was activated on thursday as

storm approach, and the power company had a so-called, code black. >> which is the highest level. >> reporter: now managers monitoring the winds and dispatching crews to areas where mother nature has the upper hand. >> we are at highest level and taki precaution trying to make sure we have necessary amount of crews on the street. >> reporter: this location in west philadelphia, without electricity, the wind so strong, peco employees could only turn the power off to the damaged lines but they are not able to raise buckets on their truck and fix the wire. >> you see it is all utmost importance answer for people, safety of the customer and safety of our crews. >> reporter: but a few blocks away a near miss this tree toppling over in the wind, and then this neighbor taking the time, albeit begrudgingly to clear it out of the roadway. >> it is an saw. today is my birthday. this is what i get. >> reporter: all of the while some neighbors already making plans if their hems stay in the dark. >> tonight, probably, hotel,

or, a lot of blankets and candles, we will see. >> reporter: of course, the wind is still a major factor right now, at last check more than a quarter million peco customers are without power, it is going to take sometime to restore it, crews expect to work throughout the night. i'm live here from center city , greg air guess for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> greg, thanks. as we settle in the wind continues to be a problem for people on the road and also at home. >> we certainly saw that with greg's live shot there but this tree toppled into the treat in barclay's farm in cherry hill. branches have the entire street blocked. we want to thank chris parsons for send ago this in tonight. meteorologist lauren casey's monitoring conditions in the weather center and that wind is just so fierce out there. >> it is still so fierce. we can see that a little bit as we look live at our spring garden camera you can see that snow moving sideways, street lamp lighting that, bobbling around as we are still dealing with these wind gusts upward

of 50 miles per hour and that will continue, as we head into the evening hours and we will continue to see this heavy wet snow but it will taper off as we head in the second half of the evening. we will get over to the weather computer, where the scene is looking just as miserable on our roof cam, you can see it shaking around there, reduced visability hard to see sky scrapers where the snow is continuing to fall, temperatures at 33, northwesterly winds at 35 miles an hour. that is just a constant wind not even wind gusts and feels like temperatures feels like 18 degrees, even though meteorological spring began yesterday. temperatures hovering around freezing marks, 34 in allentown. thirty-four in atlantic city. thirty-three in millville. we have these brutal wind chill temperatures because we have, so much wind, and feeling like 19 in wilmington. feeling like single digits in the poconos. feels like 19 degrees in atlantic city. it is a great night to stay inside. storm scan three is showing us moisture still moving on shore , from that nor'easter off shore right new, moisture

driving in across the delaware valley. we're primarily seeing snowfall, and remember yesterday we were talking about that possibility we could see a prolong all snow event, and in that case we could see higher snow fall totals and that is what has been playing out through the day today. this ace very wet snow, difficult time accumulating but it is accumulate nothing certain areas and we are seeing that. 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 here in the city, snow coming to an end early, windy conditions, 32 degrees and then for our day tomorrow still windy, some sunshine around but we won't see damaging winds, wind up to 35 or isolated gusts to 40 miles an hour tomorrow but we are not going to have these guys winds gusting to 71 miles an hour in cape may, hurricane force is 74 miles per hour, dover 62 miles an hour, 61 in atlantic city, gusting to 51 in northeast philadelphia and we have wind gusts upward of 55 miles an hour in philadelphia, 52 miles an hour in wilmington that high wind warning remains in effect until 6: omorning we will checks

aren't going to start to wayne until we head in the late overnight period and then through the day tomorrow so dealing with these win gusts tomorrow in the 30 miles per hour range, that will be much more tolerable then what we will deal with over next several hours and into the first part of the overnight period, so, winding down as we head especially in the second half of the weekend, we will do some good clean up, of all of the trees, tree limbs, power lines on sunday when wind are much more relaxed. where you look ahead to monday in this case. >> monday looks good, yeah. >> thanks, lauren. >> don's up next in sports. >> talk about action on the ice tonight minor setback for flyers and a tough outing for, opening day starting aaron nola, scott henry shows off spring training up

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losers were doing it. flyers had their six game winning streak snapped last night, a rare dud in the series of great performances. they trailed carolina three to nothing. they finally scored in the third period, but, the damage was already done. they who four-one. it is their first l in more than three weeks. dave hakstol said they got what they deserved. >> we know, you are not going to win every game. we certainly know that down the stretch, that it is, you know, things are so close and everybody is fighting so hard for something, that you have to be at your very best to have a chance to win, no matter how are playing against and, you know, we were not at our best last night and, we really didn't give ourself a chance to win that game. >> shayne gostisbehere and fly guys head to florida this weekend for games in tampa and sunrise, and that means ghost, goes home. he went to marjory stoneman douglas high school for two years. as you know 17 people were killed there by a shooter. shayne's impressed by members

of the hockey team who won the state championship, and they plan to meet with them, during the road trip. looking forward to that. dwight howard, super man, you remember him, right? tonight he visits south philadelphia with the charlotte hornets sixers could careless. they are looking for their 13th straight win at home. highlights at 11:00. the penn quakers have their opponents right where they want them, if they win their final two games against yale and brown, they will clinch their first ivy league title since 2007. they will also give them the number one seed in the conference tournament. here's head coach steve donahue. >> our goal to win an ivy league championship and look up and see these banners and there hasn't been one for 11 years and new we're this close to getting it done we have to do our job this weekend, on the road, and two, really challenging games for sure, so i don't think it gets any bigger for our kids anus. >> believe me, spring training baseball phil is and rays,

aaron nola on the bump, henry dives, he gave up two runs in three innings of work. in the third, he puts down the glove, picks up the bat and it is a two run shot. the phillies snapping a five game losing streak, in grapefruit league play. nine-two your final score. >> all right. >> thanks, don. >> still ahead how about a little peace and quiet on this crazy weather day get lost in the road of fragrant blooms in the 2018 flower show we have a sneak peak for you up

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back on "eyewitness news" with some rought seas out there. that is the cape may lewis ferry rocking and rolling earlier today. the conditions got so bad ferry suspended operations for remainder of the day. we want to thank "eyewitness news" viewer bill barger for sending that video. >> wow. >> well, finally at 6:00 with all this winter weather what berth time, think spring. >> take a look, philadelphia flower show all ready to go. we have a sneak peak at floral spectacular this years theme is windows of water, and flower show opened to the public tomorrow, and it will run through sunday march 11th. thanks for watching "eyewitness news" at 6:00 we will be back here on cbs-3 at 11:00. we are always on at cbs philly.com. coming up next "cbs evening news" from new york here now

is jeff glor. captioning sponsored by cbs >> glor: a brutal blast of winter. a deadly late-season storm pounds the east coast with hurricane-force winds, taking down trees, knocking out power, flooding streets, grounding planes, stopping trains, and dropping more than a foot of snow. also tonight, two people are shot dead at a michigan college. the hunt is on for the gunman. they're a popular alternative to hospitals, but how safe are surgery centers? the reverend billy graham is laid to rest. >> there's a mistake. >> reporter: beatty and dunaway take two. and steve hartman with students part of and covering the biggest story of their lives. >> that just makes everything so

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