>> trees down, power's out, we're not in the clear just yet. brace yourself for freezing and icing tonight. nbc 10's first alert team is here to help you prepare for what's next for your neighborhood in pennsylvania, delaware and new jersey. thank you for joining us. i'm keith jones. >> i'm erin coleman. it's a tale of two weather conditions, people living north and west of philadelphia. they're digging out from the snow, and at the jersey shore the problem is that heavy flooding. drivers had to be rescued from their cars. >> the first alert team has been on the air throughout the day going county by county giving you the weather conditions in your neighborhood. and all new at 5:00, we have live team coverage starting with george spencer live in reading, berks county. >> george, that area got hit the hardest really. >> reporter: yeah, that's absolutely right, erin. the snow actually finally stopped falling here about 90 minutes ago. already we have a city of contrasts. some sidewalks already cleared, like this one, and right next to

on-street parking like this where the snow clearly goes above my ankles. for a lot of people here at reading, there's plenty of digging out to do. outside the arena it took a bobcat and plow to clear the piled snow, but just around the corner we found mike fuller doing it by hand. seven years in reading have taught him not to be surprised by late season storms. >> once we think it's over, february, mid-january and february, you think it's over. march got something for you every time. >> reporter: for drivers here it's been a day of spinouts and digouts. crystal collins enlisted all three of her kids to help. >> i have to shovel out my mom's car in case of emergencies. >> reporter: the storm is having a domino effect on this berks county city. 20 snow plow drivers are working 12-hour shifts tackling the secondary roads through the

afternoon. trash pickups are delayed by a day and for snow loving school kids, like francisco and mariana, classes are canceled for the rest of the week. you're a pretty good older brother. >> i guess so. >> reporter: you're out of breath. >> yes. >> reporter: in reading this mid-march storm packed a snowy punch for anyone required to work. so you have to be out in this? >> yeah. >> reporter: or just trying to stay ahead of the accumulation. and there's really good reason to try to stay ahead of that accumulation for people here. residents are required to dig out fire hydrants and the sidewalks out front of their house 24 hours after the final flake falls. that will be by about 3:30 tomorrow. we'll be keeping track to let you know how the digout goes here in reading. we're live in reading. i'm george spencer, nbc 10 news. >> george, glenn "hurricane" schwartz says more snow is on

the way within the hour. the biggest concern for most of the area, temperatures dropping and then refreezing. >> on the roads, even on the sidewalks like here on broad street, any precipitation could ice over. nbc 10 first alert chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz and tammie souza here with us. >> we start with glenn. what's the situation like now? >> the temperature is above freezing. this is really the best time to try to get rid of the snow, but it's still deceptive because it's not that deep. >> it's heavy. this is heart attack snow. this is the type of snow that you need to use your knees, not your back because this stuff is like wet cement. >> and do it now rather than when it's absolutely frozen. >> you'll have a block of ice later tonight. >> then tomorrow morning, too. so as difficult as it's going to be now, it will be that much harder tomorrow and we're going to be seeing a little bit more. george will be getting this snow shower pretty soon and it's

moving straight to the east just about getting into chester county, east nottingham getting it now, coatesville in a little bit. pottstown will get it soon, too. you can see new london in the path of this. and knocks the visibility down and puts moisture on the roads. it doesn't really accumulate a lot, but it can cause problems. it can cause accidents because there's more moisture on the road as the temperature goes below freezing. there's the center of the big storm. now getting towards maine. and the temperature now down to 28 in reading, lancaster. things are already starting to ice up there. but after sunset, it's going to be way worse. 34 in philadelphia. 36 in wildwood. the wind is out of the northwest. so that direction is blowing off shore. so no more high tide flooding at the shore with this storm. we've got 40-mile-per-hour wind gusts at dover air force base.

36 atlantic city and toms river we did have gusts over 50 miles per hour in parts of the area. temperature dropping down into the low 20s in philadelphia and feeling like 8 by tomorrow morning, and that's not the last of the cold weather. meteorologist tammie souza has more on what to expect. >> oh, it's awfully fierce. it feels like january, right, glenn? nothing at all like march. although i think there's some light at the end of the tunnel by the time we get to the weekend. right now we're dealing with all this snow. glenn's right, you want to get out there and clean it up if you can. if you have time this evening. pace yourself. we are dealing with a half foot or more of snow. take a look across all of the counties. this is what has fallen. malvern picked up 7 inches, royersford picked up 7 1/2 inches, upper darby picked up 6 inches of snow. a substantial amount of snow fairly impressive considering all the sleet that fell and a

little bit of ice mixing in with that. we thought these totals might be a little higher but not to be. here's something that you have to be concerned with, the temperature falling. we've talked about it. but this is the difference from the same time yesterday. so we're 8 degrees colder at the airport in philadelphia. and we're going to continue to see the temperature falling, the wind chill is going to get you because it's going to feel like the single digits at times. you really have to cover all that skin because in as little as 30 minutes you could get frostbite, something quite nasty. >> we all have to bundle up for sure. mitch blacher up in skyforce 10 to give us a bird's-eye view of what's left from the storm. >> you're up over the boulevard. >> reporter: yeah, guy, you want to get a good example of what the meteorologists are talking about as far as the potential for black ice, this snow plow right in front of the proceed you can see they're not pushing snow right now. that's water in front of the plow. one of the main things the city has been talking about is as you're clearing your sidewalks

and the areas around your house, to make sure to clear your drains so that the storm water can go down those drains. you can see all that water just kind of sliding off of that plow right there. the city of philadelphia at the height of this storm had about 400 of these types of trucks full of salt, about 50,000 tons of salt available. and they're deploying it all throughout the city. the roads, as you can see, pretty good shape especially the main corridors like columbus boulevard. guys? >> mitch matcher in skyforce 10 for us tonight. ice forming on trees and branches really causing some headaches for a lot of people all over the region really. >> nbc 10 found these power lines down in mt. laurel. cydney long traveled through burlington and camden county today. she's live in audubon where yet another tree came down. >> reporter: hey, keith, and this one tree behind us, it's a big tree but one of dozens if not hundreds across the region. take a look. it is split in half. it looks like an l right over

here. the side of the tree that fell to the left, that did damage to that home on the left, but the part that fell to the right and into the street, it took down two utility lines, the wires along with it and knocked out power in this area. trees split in half sitting on homes and blocking roadways, ice coated branches snapped. and in the words of residents, it happened left and right. >> people might look out the woind and say, oh, this is not a serious storm. this is a serious storm. >> this is a very serious storm. this is actually more dangerous than if we actually had two feet of snow. >> reporter: and we saw damage almost everywhere. we hit five towns across two counties. gloucester wind and rain made it tough for drivers. >> very windy and all over the place on the road. >> reporter: in laurelton, mount laurel crews are fast to open roadways like route 38 where wires laid across the road and

in shopping center parking lot. this man woke up to trees snapping in his backyard. >> all these branches are laden with a thick coat of ice. and they're snapping all over this neighborhood. we're without power. a lot of this town is without power. >> reporter: until mother nature eases up and trees stop falling down, he's enjoying a wintry game of fetch with his lab riley. residents watched the sparks fly on arcing line. they're anxious for power crews to quickly fix lost electricity sooner rather than later. >> we do have small sections that are without power. they're setting up a warming shelter for those people. >> reporter: as we speak about a thousand residents here in audubon, camden county, are still without power this afternoon as these families are waiting and watching, these crews working here on walnut street. we could see work like this being done over the next 24 hour. we hung up with the camden county oem.

they got 1500 911 calls for downed power lines and trees. that was as of 3:00 this afternoon. on average camden county responds to about 180 fire calls a day. today they got 486. so this work we're going to continue to see this probably over the next day or so. live in audubon tonight, cydney long, nbc 10 news. working hard tonight. delaware is also having power problems. the thick ice is really taking its toll on tree branches there as well. nbc 10 viewer liz sent us this shot from new york. still a problem when driver after driver gets stuck and has to be rescued. drew smith joins us from ocean city. >> reporter: the sun has been trying to peek out but the rain

remains intense. that's why i'm hanging on as i stand up here. the big impact from the storm and that's the white caps out on the ocean. flooding came earlier than expected to atlantic city. >> my house is flooded. i live on connecticut. it's flooded. >> reporter: also 1 1/2 hours before high tide streets in margate began to fill up. drivers spent a lot of time in reverse as they try to find a way around the submerged spots. others stopped to get a better look. >> some people enjoy the excitement of this type of weather, like myself. >> reporter: even after the floodwater starts to recede, you can see all the debris that's left right out in the middle of the street all the way down. >> it was a little worse than we anticipated. we were looking for 6, 6 1/2 feet above low mean water and it came closer to 9 feet. >> reporter: in north wildwood, the ocean pounded the beach.

homeowners came down to check out the erosion. and back up in atlantic city, some drivers who did not heed the warnings to move their cars will likely deal with saltwater damage from this storm. >> i've heard stories of them having to put money back into their vehicles in flooding repairs. >> reporter: and ocean city is one of the spots that put a lot of emergency sand here to try to blunt the impact of that erosion, but this is the high water mark coming all the way up here to that beach fencing. if you look where the ocean is, it's quite a bit of distance. we're live in ocean city. i'm drew smith, nbc 10 news. >> see those waves out there, wow. nbc 10's coverage of this major storm far from over. >> lauren mayk is in chestnut hill where people are digging out. >> reporter: digging out and clearing away all of this snow. just ahead we'll take you to a neighborhood nearby where digging out just got a little bit easier. >> i'm randy gyllenhaal in

bethlehem where it's going to take a couple days to clean up. people begin to dig out. plus we continue to get viewer video from the delaware valley. a large tree fell on top of these cars in newark, delaware. stay with us.

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you're watching continuing winter storm coverage on nbc 10. count on it. sending us pictures and video from across the area. an nbc 10 viewer that i know pretty well -- my dad -- sent this in. it was coming down there. great for the kiddos to get out. >> i'm sure your two kids loved that. >> oh, yeah. >> now they're going to have to deal with some ice potentially out there. we've just gotten word that the allentown school district is closed tomorrow. you want to make sure that you keep updated on closings and delays any time. you can do so by consulting our free nbc 10 app. the woman on your right, lauren mayk, joins us live from chestnut hill. >> a lot of folks digging out there like they are all over the region. >> reporter: erin and keith, we're at the corner of germantown avenue and graber. take a look at this.

this is the main drag here in chestnut hill. no trouble getting through here. look over here when you turn on to the smaller streets, what you have to trudge through, a lot of snow still left on these roads. here in chestnut hill where there are hills, take a look down there. you can see how tough it is to get around in some of these areas. but let me take you to a neighborhood a few blocks from here where digging out just got a lot easier. on mead street in chestnut hill, the home of the snow blower is a welcome change for neighbors who make a habit of helping each other when there's a big snowstorm. >> two years ago we had a huge snow, and the whole neighborhood was out. we have a lot of older residents that we helped shovel out. we were out for hours and decided after our backs were killing us that it was time to get a snow blower. >> reporter: they pitched in to buy it and were all smiles as they gathered to watch its maiden voyage down the block. do you feel like you're

investment is paying off? >> absolutely. 100%. my back does, too. >> reporter: there's still shoveling to get the cars out, but with heavy snow like this, it makes a big difference. this is tim woods' car. he's new to the neighborhood. >> pretty cool way to meet your neighbors. >> reporter: now getting the benefit of neighborly help and friendsh friendship. he said he picked the right place to move to. >> this is philly, it really is. >> reporter: any help you can get is good with this kind of stuff because this is not that nice fluffy snow. it is really the wet, heavy stuff. just take a look at this. it's hard to even sort of paw through it here. it's just solid. imagine lifting that. it is no fun. that snow blower definitely coming in handy. live in chestnut hill, lauren mayk. >> thank you so much. if you have to leave the house, how are roads across the region

right now? >> francesca ruscio tracking those road conditions. >> a lot of people had off today because of the snow. now tomorrow morning that's going to be a different story. take a look at these road conditions. a lot of them are mostly wet as of right now. the blue route is pretty shiny because of the wetness at baltimore pike. but the main concern is the ice. once those temperatures start to drop and we start to see that icy conditions really starting to kick in for tomorrow morning, it's going to create hazardous road conditions for tomorrow. route 73 at 38 in maple shade, new jersey, very light cars right now. if you have to be out and about, take it slow and use caution. back to you guys at the desk. >> that's really one of the biggest concerns tonight, the wet roads freezing again, causing those dangerous conditions out there because the temperatures are really going to plummet on us. >> let's get an update on what we can expect from glenn "hurricane" schwartz. we're looking at single digit

temperatures at some point, too? >> feels like temperatures, yeah, and even close to zero. we're in the middle of march. it's not supposed to get this cold. the average high for the day is 52. tomorrow we may not hit 30. here we are in south philly, i-95. you can see the sun glistening off the highway and travel is okay, but look at the sky in the distance. it is pitch black. that's toward the west. those are those snow showers that i was telling you about and i'm about to show you, too. north and west with all the snow that fell, the snow and ice refreezing solid. even some snow blowers may have some trouble with this stuff. the i-95 corridor, snow, slush, ice, refreezing rock hard, as you just saw, and at the shore the winds are blowing off shore. you don't have to worry about coastal flooding anymore. 34 philadelphia now, with some sunshine. at least for a while.

some of the western suburbs the clouds have come back. 28 degrees and near freezing elsewhere. so it's already pretty cold. let's take a look in new jersey. and we can see princeton at 31, hopewell township, 30, robbinsville 31. lumberton, florence at 32, mt. laurel 31, medford 33 and they're going down. nothing to stop it. and it actually gets colder when you have a snow cover and clearing skies. here we go. feeling like close to zero, keith, pottstown, westchester, allentown. and that's just by 11:30. it gets now even colder by tomorrow morning. we get up and you're trying to shovel that snow, and it's hard and look how cold it's going to feel. it's better to do it with this last sunshine of the day than

tomorrow morning. here we go in the afternoon. it's only feeling like 7 or 8 north and west where you got all that snow. and by thursday morning the same story. only 5, 6 degrees. so this is more than just 24 hours of cold. so we're dry in philly now, got the sun out. but look what's coming. we got a little bit of snow just about to hit reading and new morgan, farther to the south it's coming into chester county, about to hit west chester, newark, middletown, flurries as well while the main storm is still off in new england. we have 29 for the high tomorrow with some snow showers thursday and friday, it's barely a little bit warmer, remember, the average high 52. 37 is the warmest it's going to be the rest of the week in the suburbs. lehigh valley, the warmest is 34. now the weekend won't be quite

as cold, but we don't have any warm weather coming any time soon. >> all right. glenn, at 5:00 we're checking the roads. driving along westchester pike in chester county. this is a live look. our coverage of the storm's aftermath continues. also ahead in our next half hour, what do you do if a tree falls on your house or car? well, if a contractor gets in touch with you first, it could be a scam. nbc 10 responds has the information you need to know.

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child, the current situation is a disaster for you. >> cbo report should be a knockout blow for republicans in congress. they should heed the warning, turn back from their plan that will be a disaster for our dear country. >> the house budget committee is scheduled to review the healthcare plan thursday. >> you won't have to watch reruns of snl this summer to get your fill of weekend update. >> j. lo and a-rod go by the cool celebrity couple name of, you guessed it, alennefex lodripez. >> it will air this summer while the rest of the show is on a break. you can catch the episodes on thursday starting august 10th. our coverage of the winter storm continues now. >> next at 5:30, ice concerns. people had to scrape the ice off of their cars. next a look at the refreeze that

is coming tonight. nbc 10 has crews across the delaware valley checking conditions. this is just up route 70 in d r cherry hill.

new at 5:30, digging out from a foot of snow shoveled, yes, that's a baking sheet to lift the snow from under this car in reading. but man, this car isn't going

anywhere. it is surrounded covered in snow. >> story of my life this afternoon. high tide by the way left behind flooded streets at the jersey shore this morning, whipping winds, heavy rains left several inches of water on some streets at the ocean. some drivers took their chances driving through the water. some became stranded, however. and farther down the shore, take a look at the waves crashing into the beach in wildwood. the high tide was taking chunks away from the beach. by the way, this is brand-new parts -- a brand-new part of the beach, i should say, that was already washing away. mitch blacher is high up in skyforce 10. >> you are over manayunk in one of the steepest hills in the city. what does it look like there? >> not all bad with the digout. these kids are enjoying one of the steepest parts of the hills. one of the things we wanted to look at was lepering street.

this is notoriously one of the steepest streets in the city of philadelphia. you can see it's plowed pretty well. we have seen cars going up it. so there seems to be able to pass at a pretty decent jump. we've seen a couple of people having to dig their cars out from when the plows back piling up the snow on the outside of the parked cars. >> live for us high above manayunk, trouble spots there, but looks like crews have done well there. the snow, the rain, the ice we got. the next danger is the freeze. chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz is tracking the chilly temperatures for us. >> yeah, the temperatures already close to freezing, in some places below freezing. of course, it will go even lower. then we're going to add moisture to the roads, as if we needed any, to make for more ice later on. here are the snow showers that we've been tracking coming into

chester county, just about on to coatesville. it's snowing at a pretty good clip in east nottingham now. and that will be going toward east marlboro, eventually westchester. boston is right on that rain/snow line. that rain/snow line produced a lot less snow in new york than they were expecting as well. 34 degrees if philadelphia, down to 28 in reading and lancaster already. and we have wind making it feel even colder, gusting 30 to 40 miles per hour. 40 at dover air force base. 65 miles per hour at seaside heights, new jersey. here goes the philadelphia. this is in philadelphia, into the 20s. it will be in the teens in the suburbs feeling like single digits. that means everything is frozen solid.

here's meteorologist tammie souza with more on the snow totals. >> talk about freezing solid, take a look at this. this is i-95. earlier this morning this poor little tree down here was coated with ice. it was standing a little bit taller, it's bending over at this point. still has ice on it. that will be a problem as we head through the evening hours. talk about snow totals. we just got the newest ones in. the totals that we've had up until now were through about the noon hour or 1:00. some of these have bumped up. yes, we pretty much projected that we get between 6 and 10 in philadelphia. now officially at the airport 6 inches of snow will go down in the record books as the total for philadelphia. mt. pocono takes the prize at 24 inches. the lehigh valley, 14.5. berks 13.3. again, philadelphia looking at 6 inches out there. cape may, believe it or not, 2.8 inches fell though some of that

is sleet being measured as well. in penn wynne 5 inches. wilmington 2 and mt. holly 5.3. not too shabby although a little bit less. only a few inches because of that sleet and that freezing rain. over to you. >> that's the lehigh valley we're finding a parking spot right now, can be tricky. >> nbc 10 found friends helping friends push a car in allentown. randy gyllenhaal joins us live in bethlehem. >> reporter: and that 13.7 inches officially recorded at lehigh valley airport it's enough to -- this just in -- cancel school once again for public school students in allentown. they're working the shovels and the plows, a lot of snow falling today across the lehigh valley. with almost no tread on the tires, these guys aren't going anywhere. >> really bad. stay inside, stay inside.

you have to stay inside. >> reporter: you learned the lesson the hard way. >> yes. >> reporter: lehigh valley roads covered. plow trucks mostly had the roads to themselves, but then there was zach ortman who just got his license learning to navigate snow and ice. >> you got to drive slow and safe. >> reporter: you're a new driver. >> my mom wanted me to get some practice. >> reporter: and in wyoming county a snow slide like a small avalanche covered the roads. in stroudsburg national guard and humvees escorted a 20-month-old boy in need to the hospital in need of a heart transplant. it was all hands on deck in bethlehem no matter the size waking up to cars covered in snow. >> i wasn't hoping for it, but i was expecting it. >> reporter: the seals family says they're reluctantly happy that winter finally arrived. >> hopefully it melts soon. no parking around here. >> reporter: the parking lot here in bethlehem starting to

get clear but as tammy and glenn mentioned this is the problem going forward. all this slushy snow that's slowly beginning to melt and then will refreeze as those temperatures drop. you got to walk like a penguin if you're going outside later tonight. live in bethlehem, randy gyllenhaal, nbc 10 news. >> good advice or just stay inside, whether it's on the roads, whether you go out and take a walk. along with the snow and flooding, a lot of people without power, too. >> linemen across the region are working around the clock to turn the lights back on. here's a look at the outages and where they stand right now. delmarva has 41,000 customers without power, 10,000 who use pse & g are waiting for power to be restored. ac electric 8,000, peco about 1,000. next on nbc 10 news at 5:00, nbc 10 going neighborhood by neighborhood keeping you informed on what's ahead. glenn's ten-day forecast is straight ahead.

you're watching nbc 10 news at 5:00 with keith jones and erin coleman. can we look forward to the dog days of summer already? the dogs enjoying the snow on the ground. viewer jennifer kelly sent this to us of her dog in the backyard in springfield. i can say my charlie runs around frantically. loves the snow. >> having a great time running in circles.

the major winter storm didn't just hit our region but the entire northeast. >> reporters from our sister stations in connecticut and washington, d.c., filed these reports a short time ago. >> we're in frederick county, maryland, about 45 minutes north and west of washington, d.c. it is here that the snow totals and the snow piles were highest in the washington, d.c. region. but this was a bullet dodged for the d.c. area. so much worse to all points north and east across the atlantic coast. >> so we're in torington, krk krr connecticut right now and this snowfall is the lightest we've seen. the wind was so strong. as i'm walking on this sidewalk, there is sidewalk down here. it's very difficult because just so much snow. now, check out the roadways. this is a main artery. you can see it's fairly plowed, but right next to it getting on to route 8 it's very difficult to see the roads.

now, being out here for so long, the snowfall has been coming down about 1 inch, 1 1/2 inches every hour. >> up and down the northeast for sure. coverage of the major winter storm affecting us continues with the best pictures from you our nbc 10 viewers. glenn? >> we have a few more snow showers to go. keep your cameras out. it will feel like winter for several more days. i'm tracking the overnight freeze in my forecast next.

a rough ride not just for cars, this septa bus. >> over in bucks county, the scene quite peaceful in

perkosie. falling lightly there on to the trees making for quite the picturesque scene. >> also mass transit too with delays out there. >> there have been a lot of mass transit modifications due to delays. the train 83 t is running 40 minutes late, bus route 65 and 25 are still suspended. the bus route 1 has resumed service. taking a look at the schuylkill, road ways are still mostly wet, but the concern will be when the overnight lows start to fall to freezing, icy conditions for the commute. take it slow if you have to be out. nbc 10 viewers have been sending their winter weather photos all day long. >> we've seen really good ones. jim rosenfield is here with a look at pictures and videos from

across our region. >> those pictures started pouring in to the newsroom as soon as the first flakes started falling. our gallery is still growing. one shot from bucks county. check out this scene. this the scene along the chamonix creek. ice has been the story, snow and ice here along the creek. to the shore now where flooding has been a concern. this came to us from ocean city. someone walked out the door to find a river where there's usually a road right here. and now to a little guy having some fun in the snow. he went for a swim here. lincoln made a michael phelps side kick and took a few laps. be sure to check them out and leave your own there, too, and you might see them on television. >> jim rosenfield reporting for us doing the back stroke right there. >> the snow, the wet roads, they could freeze as the temperatures drop overnight. >> chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz is here with a look at how low the

temperatures are going to go. >> a lot of our area especially the areas that got snowfall it's going down into the teens. that's a hard freeze. and there's some wind on top of that just to make it more uncomfortable. we were showing you sunshine a little while ago. now the clouds are back as well as snow showers in the western sky and the temperature is about to go down. there's nothing to stop it. there's colder air coming in on northwest winds and we're about to get into nightfall. remember the sun sets a little later. you got a little bit extra time to clear that snow and ice before it gets dark. at the shore we finally have a land breeze. the west wind. so no more coastal flooding. the ocean is 41, and boy did they get wind, up to 65-mile-an-hour wind gusts seaside heights, 60 at lewis, delaware. this one right into reading. just like i told george a little

while ago, not a real heavy one, but it's snowing. coming into coatesville past east nottingham about to go into newark, delaware. that's the big storm. now maine with a lot of snow. tomorrow we've got wind, 20 to 30, gusts to 40 plus and look at these temperatures. not even reaching 30 with the wind on top of it. it's the middle of march, huh? 28 melwin, got that in sh wangsville. 25 degrees after a low of 15. 27 in robbinsville. might actually get to 30 at the jersey shore tomorrow. dover at 31 degrees, newark at 32. the next three days we've got temperatures way below normal. the average high is 52.

p.a. suburbs only 37 by friday and that's the warmest day for the rest of the week. so everything's going to melt a little bit during the day and refreeze at night. and this weekend all right gets a little bit milder but we still don't get to normal. we have a chance of some rain or snow showers on saturday, a fairly weak system there, and the ten-day forecast shows these below normal temperatures all the way through the weekend. a windy day on sunday and then as we head into next week, where's the 52 and higher? we've got to wait until day ten before we get there. now meteorologist tammie souza has more on the snow. >> we've been around a lot of neighborhoods. i don't want to leave all of you out in south jersey. let's go there right now. not a lot of snow. berlin 2.8, not a lot of snow

falling there, but it made for a mess all day today. a moderate impact below freezing temperatures tonight, icy roads, treacherous travel, breezy winds, branches still falling down and the wind chill from 5 to 15 is what it feels like. today or at least this week is a pretty big anniversary, the anniversary of the blizzard of '88, 1888, were you there, glenn, for that one? >> i was just a little kid back then. i don't remember too well. i do remember the earliest big snowstorm i remember was 1960. so that beats all of you. so i've seen some big snows and just a month after i started here channel 10 was the blizzard of '96 where we had 30 inches of snow. >> what a time to earn your chops. >> now, when i was a kid, the snow was way up there. >> that's what i remember of the

blizzard of '96. no question. >> but day ten is when we get to 50s finally? >> hey, maybe. >> maybe, there we go, right? >> i remember it all too well. glenn, thank you so much. straight ahead at 5:00, don't get ripped off if you have damage to your home. >> harry hairston has information for you to know if you have a contractor coming to your house to clean up the damage from today's storm. >> your neighborhood weather in every forecast. only on nbc 10. count on it.

check out the rough surf down in atlantic city. high tide is over now. some of that earlier street flooding we saw is receding, but not before a few folks got stuck in their cars, and you can see some surfers out there. >> in south jersey, the salt truck wound through marlton neighborhood in burlington county. that should go a long way toward eliminating any black ice that could form tonight with slick streets. you got to be careful of that. stay off the roadways. new york, by the way, getting hit hard by this storm as well. lester holt joins us now from the nbc 10 studios there. >> he's got a look at what's coming up on "nightly news." >> keith and erin, still flurrying here in midtown manhattan. unraveling the snarl that's left air travelers across the country stranded after the big snowstorm today. also why millions may see their

credit scores rise soon and the family of that hilariously interrupted live tv interview that went viral is sharing the inside story of that day. we'll hear from them when we see you coming up on "nightly news." now back to you in philly. >> can't wait to relive that one with them. thank you so much. back to the weather. not unusual for a storm to leave damage to home and property in its wake. >> and the pennsylvania state attorney general's office warns this is a time when scammers are looking to take advantage of you. nbc 10 responds reporter harry hairston shows what to watch out for. >> reporter: today's storm left ice-coated power lines and snow mounded on rooftops, all things that can damage your property. >> i recently just bought a home. >> reporter: walter brown says since he purchased his home he's been contacted by companies he doesn't know offering deals, but all deals aren't necessarily good deals. now that the storm is over, brown believes he may hear from more contractors. >> yeah, you know, with the

wind, you know, with the siding, some issues sometimes you have to be careful with people just trying to scam you. >> reporter: consumer protection officials say beware of contractors wanting to fix damage to your home after a storm. protect yourself, watch out for contractors you didn't call before coming to your home. if you hire a contractor, get a contract. make sure every detail is spelled out such as cost for materials and labor. also insist on a start and end date. plus don't pay in full until the job is complete. so the bottom line is, folks, you work hard for your money. be careful with who you do business with. don't let a scammer get between you and your money. harry hairston, nbc 10 responds. >> and nbc 10 news at 6:00 is next. >> here are jim rosenfield and jacqueline london. >> up next at 6:00, we're tracking the refreezing threat after all that snow and slush fell in your neighborhood today. >> our team coverage should have everything you need to know.

>> plus we're live at the jersey shore where flooding caused trouble today. stranded cars, water rescues and flooded streets next. and it's going to feel like close to zero degrees when you wake up tomorrow morning. i'm tracking a stretch of unseasonably cold weather sticking around after this storm. next in my first alert forecast. as a major winter storm crosses delaware, new jersey and pennsylvania, stay with nbc 10 first alert weather to track its every move. reporting on conditions in your neighborhood. >> i'm mitch blacher in philadelphia. >> i'm matt delucia in longport. >> i'm pam el will osborne in reading. >> i'm tim furlong fighting through the slush and the ice. >> before, during and after the storm. count on nbc 10 first alert weather.

nbc 10 breaking news. >> pelts you right in the face. it hurts. >> we're trying to help these guys who got their car stuck. ooh, yeah. see, those wheels are spinning out. >> just snowing sideways. >> this is heavy sleet and wind. >> there's a lot of people out there that shouldn't be driving. >> several high water rescues to get people out of their cars. >> there's been a tremendous amount of trees and wires down. >> good evening, i'm jacqueline london. >> i'm jim rosenfield. right now at 6:00, freezing over and icing up. >> the slush and icy mix left behind by today's major winter storm is refreezing, creating dangerous conditions this evening. drastically different wintry scenes depending where you are in our region digging out from heavy snow in allentown and reading, cleebing up in philadelphia and delaware,

clearing trees in moorstown and dealing with flooding in mar gate and up and down the shore. >> the biggest concern for our area tonight is the refreeze that will mean dangerous driving conditions out there, along the jersey shore flooding is the big issue with businesses and homes dealing with the damage at this point. and tonight more than 51,000 customers are still without power after heavy snow and ice knocked down branches and power lines. >> the nbc 10 first alert team has been tracking conditions as they change minute by minute all day long to keep you safe throughout this storm. right now at 6:00, our squad is deep of meteorologists and reporters tracking the threat that you face now as temperatures plummet and conditions ice over. let's begin with deanna durante, tracking the road conditions live in conshohocken. >> reporter: you would think as the day went on, the roads would get better. although they do appear clearer, those who are just hitting the roads for the first time this evening say you better be careful. all day we s