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 saw them on the

roads. >> it's still pretty bad out here. so i think thank god i live right around the corner. >> reporter: benjamin farar said he would have shopped before the storm and not after. susan spent the night at a center city hospital where she worked. coming through conshohocken she said the road work done so far is clear, but it doesn't always mean you're in the free and clear. >> the roads are not great. i would never venture out. you think they're okay, then all of a sudden somebody spins out. >> the roads really are bad, yeah. even when they plow, the sleet just covers them. >> reporter: those we talked to all day say they were not out for fun but they had to get to work. >> wouldn't be out in this if i didn't have to be. >> reporter: we found icy roads in king of prussia. many still have ice and snow and water building up. and for those whose job it has been to clear the roads -- >> it's a mess. >> reporter: sometimes they get

stuck, too. >> a lot of people out there that shouldn't be driving. >> reporter: and again if you're heading out tonight, crews have been working to clear the roads. we can tell you right now police are on the scene of four separate accidents. they just left here to clear this parking lot and you can see the ice is building up and it will be slippery as it getting darker. deanna durante. >> the lehigh valley heavy snow fell at times dumping between 12 and 14 inches. plows tried to keep things clear and not even 18-wheelers could handle the snow and slush and these guys got a workout pushing their car. >> people in reading are also busy digging out tonight, some using their bobcats, others going that classic shovel route. brandon hudson is live in reading tonight.

driving there won't be easy any time soon. >> reporter: no, it won't be, jacqueline and jim, especially fot with this thick packed snow. you can see it comes well past my ankle. i want to take you across the street. you can see some of these cars are still buried in the show. it's going to take a while for some of these cars and some of these people to get these cars out of there. we're on north sixth street out here in reading. the crews are working on these side streets this evening. we just got a few more flakes in the last half hour, but i can tell you around lunchtime today we were a little hesitant to drive down these streets. with so many cars buried in snow, we saw a few guys getting around on two wheels. how it is driving this in snow? >> bad. it goes everywhere. >> reporter: he rode his motor bike just as the final flakes hit the ground. the winter storm dumped enough snow to keep neighbors busy shoveling sidewalks and cars.

>> it's cold, but you know, i got to do it. >> reporter: if you think this is a lot of snow, their work is far from over. people who live in this apartment have to go back down this alleyway and behind this building and dig out at least a foot plus more of snow. >> it leads back here. so that has to be cleared also. >> reporter: reading's mayor and public works director told me 20 crews are out now and 20 more will be out later. they're working 12-hour shifts. they say trucks plow eed each rd at least once. which made it easy for this woman to walk to a meeting this afternoon. >> both of our vehicles are down. we don't have cash on us right now at the moment. >> reporter: here's the deal. the city says that people who have about 24 hours after this snow stops to dig out their sidewalks and the space around their fire hydrants or they'll be fined. the mayor says that they will continue to work through the night until they get all these

streets cleared. another thing to note, the kids, they don't have school for the rest of the week because of this snowstorm. brandon hudson, nbc 10 news. >> keep going there, brandon, doing your part. take a look at these sparks. heavy snow and the ice taking a toll on trees and power lines, knocked them down and left neighbors in the dark. take a look at what's happening in audubon. emergency officials say thngfully the winds have died down but the ice coated trees, we're not out of the woods yet. >> just never know with the wind picking up just as it is right now. we're standing under large trees. if you start hearing that snapping, get to shelter or the center of your house or if you feel you're house is in danger get out of your house. >> camden county responded to 1500 911 calls for downed trees and lines today and more than double the number of fire calls. oh, yeah, you heard it, a common sound in neighborhoods today. snow blowers out in full force

in delaware county. neighbors in ridley park clearing snow from the sidewalks is and the driveways. if you haven't done this yet, do it now before all this freezes tonight.night. the winds this evening will make it feel like the single digits by the time you wake up tomorrow. glenn "hurricane" schwartz is tracking that temperature plunge. >> and that makes it even harder to be shoveling snow. it takes more energy to do that and with the weight of the snow that adds to the problem. so you got to take it a little piece by piece and not try to fill up the entire shovel. now, at least have the snow showers weakening that came through reading and coming in through chester county, east nottingham, new london, about to get flurries in coatesville, but that's not going to add too much. the center of the storm still going up over new england and, of course, it's a big storm.

32 now in philadelphia. we've already dropped a couple. about wilmington's down to 30, 28 in pottstown, allentown and reading. this is just beginning. the sun hasn't even set yet. a little after 7:00 now. remember, we changed the clocks. the northwest wind still gusting to 48 miles an hour inned aingtain aing -- adington and wilmington. i'll tell you more about when it will be warming up. that will take a while. >> we'll wait for that, glenn. storm force 10 tracking road condition for us at this hour. malvern where as glenn mentioned there have been flurries. let's go to mitch blacher who is nighing high in skyforce 10 for us over center city. how is it looking? >> hey, jim, you're taking a look at 15th and jfk. looks pretty good. those major roads like jfk and

market, they're complete clear in the city. the streets department says they're taking their second and third passes on the secondary roads. on one of philadelphia's smallest streets -- >> stay in the house all day, no good. >> reporter: marcos and his kids are doing what the philly street crews haven't gotten to yet. >> try to enjoy the storm. >> reporter: through the storm more than 450 plows and trucks fought the snow and ice. caravans of plows kept emergency routes cleared. >> it's a back breaker today. >> reporter: walt nelson kept the sidewalk clean at city hall. the emergency operations say there were no major problems during the storm and 911 calls never spiked. the hardest part was for those from places like argentina. >> for us this is something new. >> reporter: and those just trying to get to the office once winter storm stella let up. >> pretty tough walking around. the rain makes the snow pretty

heavy. get a little workout, i'm sweating under here. >> reporter: again the major roads are clear. there are still some sidewalk and street clearing to do and those secondary and other roads, they will need a little bit more clearing and some more salting, but for the most part philadelphia streets are passable if you are coming into or leaving the city it looks pretty good. skyforce 10, mitch blacher, nbc 10 news. meteorologist tammie souza is tracking the snowfall totals. >> we knew there were a lot of factors. the sleet and the freezing rain cut down on those totals. >> when we said 6 to 10 inches in philadelphia, we did pick up 6 inches on the nose at the airport. that's what's going down in the history books officially coming down this afternoon. earlier we had the noontime totals, but they updated all of these. center city at the office of emergency management, 6.8 inches in bustleton, 6 inches. across philadelphia we had

anywhere from 4 to 6 inches of snow out there. now, around the area, let's take a look at this. mt. pocono, the winner with 24 inches. spinnerstown with 9.3. lehigh valley 14.5 and berks in the 13 range. cape may only 2.8. penn wynne 5, readington 8.7, wilmington 2 and mt. holly 5.3. still significant snow with all this other mess going on as well. >> and a programming note. we'll be on the air early tomorrow morning to help you stay safe as you head back to work. join us starting at 4:00 a.m. for nbc news today. if you're not sure if your child's school is starting on time tomorrow, check out the nbc 10 app and sign up for alerts pushed right to your phone. once the sleet and the freezing rain were gone from northern delaware, the sledders came out, all the fun and the storm cleanup, we'll talk about it straight ahead. from fun to flooding.

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sun is about 45 minutes away from setting on a wild weather day at the jersey shore. you're looking live at cape may where conditions are drying out now after hours of heavy rain. and a morning high tide flooded some shore communities with water, stranded some drivers who tried to drive through it. >> drew smith has been out in cape may county all day for us. the wind and waves the concern there, not so much the snow flakes. >> that's right. and the wind now is doing something opposite of what it was doing this morning. take a look right now. that is blowing off shore, which is very good news for the back bay. so those aren't going to flood up tonight when we reach high tide. come over here, i want to show you the oceans which are still ferocious. those waves really crashing into the ocean. but over there on land it's time to dli out from what was not a snow day here but a flood day at the shore. from the beach to the back streets, northeast winds from this storm pushed water into the

bays at the worst possible time. >> don't go out. stay in the house. >> reporter: streets began filling up well before high tide this morning coming in several feet higher than expected. that brought out the big trucks for high water rescues like the one captured in this fire department photo. >> the fire department's always ready with boats. so if they need to get to you. >> reporter: the vagabond tap room served as a place to relax and dry out. >> everybody is coming out now that the water's receded. >> reporter: hours of flooding left debris in the street. we saw these mattresses a. ocean city closed several streets and water lingered in the center of the island until it had a chance to drain. but the impacts of this storm aren't done yet. >> but now it's just battening down the hatch and realizing

northeastern the winds will be with us for the next couple of days. >> reporter: and the storm certainly has churned up the ocean here. but if we pan over towards the shore, you can see the water is heading toward land and that means we're getting close to high tide. but again that west wind is really going to help us out tonight. we're not expecting the flooding again when we hit that high tide like we saw this morning. live in ocean city, i'm drew smith, nbc 10 news. >> fortunate change in direction there. in delaware, check out this scene. this tree came crashing down on a home in stanton new castle county. it crashed a pickup truck that's under it right there. good news, no one was hurt. tonight delaware bureau reporter tim furlong. >> there a snow day means a sled day. >> reporter: the impact here today at this point is fun. you can take a look at the sledders here, possibly they might be getting their last runs in of the the season. it wasn't all fun and games in northern delaware today. today northern delaware was a

lot of this and a lot of this, too. >> i thought there would be a lot more snow, not so much ice. >> reporter: trees the and branches came koun in bad spots like on this house in north wilmington and on the front steps of this restaurant. thousands of homes lost power and the roads not really busy except for the few that ventured out, those who shouldn't have ventured out and those pushing the slush around. >> it's passable, but you just got to take it easy. there is a layer of ice down on the road. >> reporter: but on the bright side once you scraped off your car and you shoveled out or even shoveled someone else's walk like thomas did. so you are helping your neighborses? >> yes. >> reporter: so you're a nice cowboys fan. >> i'm a nice cowboys fan, yes. >> reporter: once you did all that work, there's still time for fun. >> actually the snow is perfect, nice and dense. >> reporter: it turned into a decent afternoon for sledding and two kids duke it out wwe style. this girl here brought out the

cooking spray to grease up her sled. they were the fastest. do you prefer butter flavor or regular flavor or doesn't that matter? >> it doesn't matter. >> reporter: i like the baking stuff. i think it works the best. the sledders are wrapping up their tuesday. they wonder about wednesday, if they'll have school tomorrow. the main roads are pretty clear. the side roads are slushy. all the roads are still wet. there will be a refreeze overnight. my answer to all these kids, i don't know. you'll have to wait and see what your principals decide. tim furlong, nbc 10 news. in chester county people are shoveling their cars out. >> now is the time to clear your car and your front steps because if you leave it there overnight, it will be much tougher either tomorrow or after the sun goes down. >> unfortunately the sun goes down after 7:00 since the clocks changed over the weekend. so you got a little extra time to get this done. this is the ben franklin parkway, what a beautiful shot.

you can see all the snow around. and a lot of it's going to stay around for the rest of the week because it's just going toy melting a little bit and refreezing. cloudy skies out there now. you can see the temperatures below freezing already. you got a fair amount of clouds and we've also got a fair amount of wind in the area at the moment. and take a look at delaware and the temperatures in the 20s even in northern delaware where we've got snow, you've got ice, freezing rain and what a mess you are going to have. 29 in claymont and harmony hills and marshallton, newark, reedy point. farther south where there was less snow or hardly any snow, so it doesn't help that the temperature got above freezing there because they don't have the snow to melt. now, it's going to feel cold everywhere as you go through the night, feeling like single digits by midnight. close to zero in pottstown.

and by morning again close the zero. a bunch of 2s here and single digits everywhere across the area. so everything is going to be frozen solid. it will be harder to shovel tomorrow morning. even tomorrow afternoon we've got single digit feels-like temperatures. we have a couple of really cold days. the wind will be a little bit less as we go toward the end of the week. all the snow showers, fortunately, weakening here. this is what the radar looked like at 6:00 this morning. with the rain/snow line we told you about the sleet for days now, that this will be the critical thing and sleet was likely to come up and there it was. it cut down the snow totals somewhat, cut it down in new york, too, cutting it down perhaps in boston as well. now, as we go through the night tonight and into the morning, we are down into the teens, as you can see. watch out for the ice tomorrow morning with temperatures in the

teens and wind on top of that, but we just have a few snow showers during the afternoon with a little bit of wind and it is going to be one cold day. and we've got more cold on thursday and friday, not even reaching 40 degrees in the p.a. suburbs and the lehigh valley places that got a lot of snow during the day today. >> glenn, if you have a lot of shoveling to do, you call in reinforcements, right? this little guy wants to be a big helper cleaning up the snow in norristown. we'll check out more of the best pictures you've sent us today, next. 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 pamela osborne in

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welcome back. take a look. skyforce 10 is over the art museum's steps. these people are taking full advantage of those snow-covered art museum steps. wiping out a little bit. >> got the love those live pictures from skyforce 10. check out some of the best pictures you've sent us throughout the day. we love it when you do this. the lehigh valley, the bethlehem steel stacks as that snow began to fall in the overnight hours. to the jersey shore now where flooding has been the big problem. we've been telling you about this all day. this picture came to us from stone harbor, the combination of the rain and high tide turned some streets into streams. now let's take a look at one guy who had a good time today. a lot of dogs had fun today. i've seen other pictures of these pooches that love being in the show. mom and dad, they don't love the snow, but he does. plenty more pictures on nbc10.com. check them out. you might even see them on tv. our coverage of this major winter storm continues tonight

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welcome back. live pictures from storm force 10, this is radnor, p.a., they've done a good job clearing the roads in radnor, let's give them a round of applause. but people still dealing with stuff they have to clear off their sidewalk and steps. >> a and your driveway. best to get that done within the next hour because everything's going to be frozen solid by morning. then the high tomorrow's only 29. so be a little bit of melting, then refreezing tomorrow night, night after night. and so even through the end of the week. there's still going to be snow around because we don't have any big warm-up like we would normally get in march. >> and shoveling with caution with that heavy, wet snow.

>> absolutely. that's the key word. >> that's our news at 6:00, thanks for watching. up next nightly news. tonight, snow bound. cities paralyzed, highways snarled as a massive storm dumps over two feet of snow. tonight who got hit and who got spared and what's next? 24 fewer americans would be insured under the gop's plan. the white house pushing back. republicans anxious. hot seat. the nation's most powerful marines under fire before congress over a growing scandal. nude photos of female marines posted online. running up the score. the key to getting a mortgage, car loan and credit cards. why credit scores for millions are about to improve. the family that had millions in stitches sharing