>> ♪ >> "action news." delaware valley's leading news program. with matt o'donnell, tamala edwards, karen rogers and with matt o'donnell, tamala >> ♪ >> good morning. it's 4:00 a.m. on this tuesday, december 9th. >> "action news" is coming on earl to get you ready for some rain and some of us a little snow. >> a nor'easter is moving in. >> sky 6 hd taking a live look at atlantic city. we will have a live report from the jersey shore. >> storm tracker 6 3-d live double scan radar has you covered. let's take a look and you can see all of the yellow, the orange, the green and it's just the start. make sure you have that umbrella and i hope you have a backup because we'll see if it makes it through the storm. >> let's start our coverage with meteorologist, david murphy and matt pelman is filling in for karen.

good morning. >> storm iraq has been working overtime this morning because of that coastal low started down to our south is pushing close to us and you can see what it's doing to the area. we have a decent amount of rain from philadelphia south into the northern and western suburbs. the closer you are to the lehigh valley the better chance you have of mixed precipitation and that could influid freezing rain and maybe wet snow. we are expecting this warm air to come up from the south and change you over to all rain over the next couple hours. for now you still got some issues up there. winter weather advisories are in effect earl today in those northern areas and, see that it's only up until about 7 o'clock in philadelphia's immediate suburbs then you get up into the lehigh valley and we're still looking at an expiration of this at about 7:00 to maybe 10 o'clock and then winter storm warnings are going to be in effect a little bit later on into the day up in the poconos where we think you are going to get a longer prolonged period of snow up there.

wind advisory down the shore as well. gusts could go 40 to 50 miles per hour and this goes well beyond the worst of the rain up until 4 o'clock this afternoon so that's something to keep a mind. we have a coastal flood warning in effect and an advisory at the top of the delaware bay. high tide is between flynn clock and 11 o'clock roughly. some spots might be a little bit before then. but these are generally the hours where you're looking at moderate tidal flooding because of that on shore flow. we have a flood watch in effect. this is pretty much throughout the day. creeks and streams could flood, definitely poor drainage area roads. again we're looking at everything around i-95 corridor down to about atlantic city, the lehigh valley not as much of a concern there us a may not get quite as much rain. in terms of what it feels like today, 38 degrees as you head outside, 33 in allentown. that 38 in philadelphia same thing in wilmington. 42 in millville and a little bit milder over by the shore. notice how we have temperatures closer to freezing up north right now and that's where you've got that mixed precipitation going on. and as we roll through the day 38 degrees currently, 40 by 8 o'clock and then temperatures

not going all that far. 43 by noon. by 3 o'clock, 44 degrees. that will be your high. i could see us sitting on it between 2 o'clock and 3 o'clock. by 6 o'clock not much different 43. most of your heavy rain is likely to be in the morning and early afternoon. and it may taper off a little bit as we go later into the afternoon and evening. but even beyond the heavy stuff you could still have that lingering flooding issue. so, matt pelman it's early but i'm hearing there are already some issues on the roads. >> oh, yeah, we're already seeing vehicles losing their footing you might say as they travel and hit some of these small ponds and lakes that we have right in the middle of the highways. for instance, this one right here, david, it's 95 southbound side right by the exit for the betsy ross bridge. can you make out little lake right there on the left side of the screen? police kind of on the backside of that lake and then up ahead they are tend to go iraq 52 that spun out, hit the lake hydroplaned was facing sideways into the median barrier. already an accident on 95 southbound this morning here by the betsy ross bridge. luckily a tow truck is on the

scene. hopefully it's out of there before too long. we had overnight construction. believe it or not they were still out there working along 95 near cottman. that work zone is gone. no accidents on the schuylkill although we know they'll pop up. we have one on washington lane it's a red ambler road in addition to a house fire in west oak lane blocking off middleton street. walnut lane a possible alternate. there was a crash on the northeast extension northbound approaching the lehigh valley, an area in which we're getting reports of icy conditions. that crash cleared but watch out for the slick spots on the northeast extension, 22, 78, 222, anywhere up here in the lehigh valley there's a strong possibility you're going to go slip sliding if you go too fast and then try to brake. we're also expecting -- we got something for everybody this morning. a tacony palmyra bridge opening in a few minutes. looks like traffic is still moving at the moment. i would head to the betsy ross bridge as an alternate. 42 in bellmawr camden county no issues at this point no construction but it's

definitely wet and therefore could be slippery as we kick things off on this tuesday morning. matt and tam. >> all right, matt, thanks so much. the rain is coming down steady, heavy in some spots and somewhat wintry in others. >> and as david just said towns are bracing for potential flooding and dealing with a good deal of win this morning. >> let's head out on mobile6 live on the streets of camden new jersey. mobile6 one of the many tools at our disposal today to help you get an idea of what's going on out there and we got those wipers going pretty fast. looks like the rain is coming down pretty good in camden and looks like, yeah, we're going to use our ez pass. what's that three dollars now, matt for the ben franklin bridge? we are in camden, new jersey. >> five dollars. >> five dollars, yes, it's been awhile since i even paid with an actual bill. there's a mobile6 picture for you. >> also our live reporters for you. katherine scott is live down the jersey shore. she's in atlantic city. what's it looking like there, katherine? >> reporter: well, the rain has been falling steadily here. we're certainly feeling those

winds and it's just going to get even stronger in the next couple of hours. so you really want to buckle up because we're in for quite a morning in atlantic city. as you take a look down the empty atlantic city boardwalk you can see the rain has been coming down in sheets. the boardwalk is glistening in this rain and we saw heavy rain the whole way from philadelphia and you do want to watch out for the ponding and pooling on the road when you head out today because it's certainly already there. then there's the wind. you can see the flags, the korean war memorial whipping around in the winds here. the gusts can get very strong at times and of course across the way from those flags is the water and now it's dark, it's early, it's difficult to see from here. you can just make out the water if you take a look out there and it's just churning. it's very, very rough. coastal flooding is expected especially as we hit high tide later this morning. not that december is particularly famous for its beach days but this one isn't

going to be pretty. bring that rain gear, you're going need it. again the rain has been falling steadily for hours now and it's just going get heavier in the next couple of hours. we're live in atlantic city, katherine scott, channel6 "action news." >> okay, katherine thank. the action cam just sent in video of the admiral wilson boulevard and we saw mobile6 start to get onto it and you can see a little bit of water building up there on the side of the road. and you know that's one of those places that when it starts to flood it really floods. now let's also take a look in waterlogged haddonfield, new jersey. the action cam has been on the move in this nor'easter. and now we're going to go to sky 6 hd taking a live look at philadelphia international airport. one-800-phl-gate is the number you should check for your flights. keep track of the situation at phl and also of how the weather is affecting flights come canning here from elsewhere. >> all right. 6abc.com fits each screen that you use throughout the day.

sometimes you're at your desktop computer, fits that, there's your tablet and also your smartphone. it's the new 6abc.com and we update it throughout the day 24/7. >> let's turn to dave murphy. it's here now, which you know. >> well, looks like the worst of it is probably going to be during the morning hours. there's a chance we get decent improvement during the afternoon but we'll start with storm tracker 6 live double scan. as i mentioned at the top of the half hour we have that blue changeover happening north and west of philadelphia and if i give you that two dimensional view, storm tracker 6 live double scan showing you thousand changeover to blue is indicating areas where we actually do have some of that mixed precipitation with some light freezing rain possible which is probably even worse than snow but there's also some wet snowflakes mixing in here as well and i would be real careful driving around allentown, bethlehem, easton and down toward quakertown, maybe even areas close to doylestown early this morning. we are expecting warm air from the south to start to change this over to rain eventually

but it isn't happening yet as we expect at this early hour. i'll swing down towards reading honeybrook the western edge of chester county there's also mixing going on here as well. the other issue is on the wider view that heavier rain we see plowing through south jersey and fairly close to philadelphia. you can see some drying back by wilmington and dover as we start to go through the morning i think some of that dry air is going to start to push in and this heavier band will probably spin up to the north of us. for now a lot of heavy stuff in philadelphia and down through areas of south jersey and some decent rain with that mixed precip out to the west of philadelphia as well. i'll leave you with that wide view. it's an evolving situation. it will improve as we go later into the morning but for now we've got icy stuff up north and the heavy rain especially on the eastern half of the delaware valley right now. as we take a look outside, we have sky 6 and it is wet out there and the other part of the package today, of course, is the wind and you'll

definitely see our sky 6 cameras bouncing around a bit today as those winds are gusty as we move through the day. right now in philadelphia, 38 degrees is your current temperature. winds out of the northeast at 16 miles per hour. enough to make it feel pretty chilly out there. and we've got a 21 miles per hour sustained wind in wilmington and even stronger winds generally down to the south where you're closer to the center of that coastal storm as it passes by. we'll get wind gusts today that will be a lot higher than those numbers i just showed you so look for a blustery and wind swept rain. here comes the rain and you can see the main batch of it along the eastern half of the region. we've also got that changeover i showed you out to the north and west and generally warm air is going to improve things in terms of changing that blue into greens and reds later on. future tracker between now and about 10 o'clock is showing that we're still pretty wet around here and even after the heaviest rain gets past the given area you're still going to have lingering problems on the roads with ponding and puddling and maybe some

streams and creeks running high. we're looking at the latest runs of the model pretty quickly taking that heaviest stuff off to the north. the afternoon features a lot less rain overall and we'll see that changeover to rain up north by later this afternoon as well. later on tonight there's the possibility of a few more snow showers in the poconos, maybe a couple more rain showers in philadelphia but obviously the worst is this morning out of this. as we roll through the day it stays cool, 40 degrees by 8 o'clock, 42 by 11 o'clock and then 2 o'clock 44 which is your high and 5:00 pretty much the same thing. notice how most of our heaviest rain is in the first part of the day, not so much later on. and how much rain are we expecting? still a lot of disagreement on the models. i do think this 3.82 is a little bit much but 1 to 2 inches generally looks good and then a couple of isolated places when you add everything that's already fallen and what's yet to come could wind up with as much as three. right now looks like that would be in the eastern part of the region. wind gusts actually today are going to be pretty strong. 30 to 40 miles per hour at times in the i-95 corridor and as high as 50 right down at

the shore. so, hold onto your hats today and look out for debris on the roads. a couple issues then today. we are looking at lots of water with heavy rain. that 1 to 2 inches, some areas possibly getting three and then the gusty winds that will help produce some coastal flooding especially at times of high tide between 9:00 and 11 o'clock this morning down along those shore points. your exclusive accuweather seven days, heavy rain at times this morning, windy otherwise, still kind of damp in the afternoon and a high of just 44. and then tomorrow still windy. we might see a couple of wraparound snow showers popping through the region tomorrow. i don't think it will put down too much but it's possible when you get up tomorrow morning you've got a little coating in some areas. 43 is the afternoon high and then thursday we're looking at basically dry conditions, maybe a flurry, a high of 42. up to 44 then on friday and on saturday we improve to 47 and 48 on sunday. the weekend is actually looking pretty seasonable for the middle of december. >> okay. thank you very much, david. 4:12 now and still to come

on "action news" this morning, the big break into the investigation into a trio of church fires in delaware. >> and let's take a look and find out where mobile6 is. it has made its way across the ben franklin bridge and now it's coming up market towards city hall and of course we are that's out there, the wipers just squish, squish, squish and it's going to be that way all morning long. we're tracking this nor'easter moving through our area right now. matt. >> wipers on the fast setting in a lot of spots this morning. good morning, tam, we're live in north wales upper state road along county line road. i guess we're taking the glass half full approach. the good news is it's not snowing but it's raining pretty heavily. we have accidents and we'll run them down after the break. >> british royalty is here. they made a solemn journey. we'll tell you about it when "action news" comes right back. >> ♪

>> 4:15. good morning. it's really raining out there and it's already causing some problems on the roadways. and it's already causing some to have been a crash related to the fact that we do have some ponding out there already so you want to be careful and you do want to be cautious when you travel this morning. >> that's a rough situation there. 4:16. matt pelman i know you got more. >> yeah, i think we need the drainage crews out there to put a shovel down the drain or something and clean things out because some of the drains are clogged with the wet leaves out there as well complicating matters this morning. so we have this little lake along 95 southbound right here by the exit for the betsy ross bridge. police are kind of guarding the lake as we speak but a vehicle came along southbound going a little too fast hit the lake lost control, was facing sideways up against the median wall. they're in the process of together out that vehicle. that's one of the sets of flashing lights that you see right there and at the moment they temporarily have all southbound lanes of 95 blocked here at betsy ross bridge. so, if you're headed out very early at 4:17 think about

using frankford avenue or the roosevelt boulevard southbound instead of 95 southbound but i had a feeling they're going get traffic moving here before too long. we'll keep watching it though. we're also watching a tacony palmyra bridge opening in the process of occurring right now. stick with the betsy ross bridge instead. no issues, just reduced speeds already this morning on the schuylkill expressway and the roosevelt boulevard. we are watching a house fire in west oak lane its blocking offer middleton street near rodney street. walnut lane would be a possible alternate around that. also watching another crash in abington, a vehicle slid into a pole here so peco crews are on the scene. we're waiting for a tow truck along washington lane at red ambler road an crash just cleared in lower providence along lower egypt at buckwalter road. no huge delays yet this morning on 422. i would certainly hope not at 4:17 but it's going to take longer than normal. one of those mornings when if you have the option of working from home i think i would take that option. some of us aren't so lucky. on the northeast extension

northbound side past lansdale had a broken down truck in the process of getting pushed out of the way. as you get farther north getting reports of very slippery conditions along the northeast extension, 22, 78 up in the lehigh valley already this morning there was a crash northbound by the lehigh valley interchange on the extension. that luckily is out of the way so all lanes are reopened. matt. >> thanks matt. mapping dat senate intelligence committee will release a report which describes the cia use of torture in the years after 9/11. the report details the torture of al-qaeda detainees at secret facilities in europe and asia with methods that included waterboarding and sexual humiliation. embassies and military units are on alert for the possibility of backlash. the cia argues the interrogation was key in finding osama bin laden. police arrest towed men in connection with a string of church arsons in kent county delaware. deputy fire marshals apprehended alex harrington

jr. and 25-year-old joseph skalicheck. the fires were set one week ago. police did not offer a possible motive. >> it's 4:19 now and just ahead on "action news," tracking a nor'easter now striking our area. >> here we are live on mobile6 >> that are their in philadelphia making its way through center city you can see city hall just ahead but more importantly you can see how rain slick those streets are and that is the story of the morning. we will have more when we come right back. >> and for most of us it is just a rainy windy morning if you're up in the lehigh valley you still have some mixed precipitation for another hour or maybe a couple of hours. 38 degrees is your temperature at 6 o'clock on the bus stop in philadelphia. probably up to about 40 by 8 o'clock but bring the rain gear because it's going to be we'll be right back with your day planner forecast.

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>> ♪ >> welcome back. mobile6 is live. you can see the christmas tree there near city hall. boy is it getting a good watering this morning as is are all of those trees out there. you can see just how much rain is coming down, everything looking absolutely damp out there. it is now 4:22, 38 degrees out there. >> it would be so much more festive if this was white stuff. >> so glad it's not. >> hush. >> i'm glad it's not. >> anyway, let's head outside, check out the wet stuff we're dealing with here along 95. got some little lakes in the roadway leading to some accidents. had one on the southbound side by the exit for the betsy ross bridge. they just started letting traffic kind of squeeze by in one lane from time to time but still even at 4:22 you're looking at backup as you travel south on 95 and past the betsy ross bridge. better on 95 in delco. still very wet but no accidents. you're moving along okay between the delaware state

line and philadelphia international airport and we're on time so far this morning on mass transit. but this time of year when you get the wet tracks and then the wet leaves on the tracks, leads to very slippery conditions, delays are definitely possible on those regional rails this morning. david. >> all right, matt, on the big board storm tracker 6 live double scan shows us how the precipitation has been passing through overnight and now the heaviest band is kind of pushing up through philadelphia and over through south jersey. this is coming up from the south and we expect this band here over parts of south jersey to hang there for awhile. but notice how we are starting to get some dry air in past wilmington and philadelphia and it won't be too much longer before the intensity of the rain actually has a chance of easing back a little bit in the city. our biggest concern right now is in those northern and western suburbs where you see a lot of blue. this is the mixed precipitation with a mix of light freezing rain and perhaps wet snow so if you're in the lehigh valley northern bucks, northern tip of montgomery county and back in through northern chester county or beyond up into berks county, you want to be real

careful for the next couple of hours while we're waiting for that changeover to rain. that will happen. it's going to be kind of await and see situation and it might be into the rush hour before we actually see that change. again a many winter weather advisory is in effect early today. it expires at 7 o'clock in the immediate counties bordering philadelphia. it technically goes until 10 o'clock up in the lehigh valley. we're hoping for a changeover before then but you have to be careful with icy stuff up until then and of course if you're traveling up into the poconos are it's a winter storm warning where you're look tag lot more precipitation up that way an lot more snow. 34 degrees is your temperature in pottstown right now, 34 in saint davids it's up in quakertown and fleetwood with numbers closing to the freezing mark. those areas we want you to be careful on the roads. much milder 40's over much of south jersey and delaware. as we roll through the afternoon if you're running errands you might want to wait until the afternoon because most of our heaviest rain across the region is going to be in the first part of the day. the afternoon overall looks drier. matt. >> thanks, david. new this morning here a woman drove into a cemetery in

maine and helped herself to some christmas wreaths. and someone who had a wreath stolen decided to hide a surveillance camera in the cemetery and it didn't take long for the camera to capture the thief. police believe the woman has stolen nearly 20 wreaths. investigators are hoping someone somehow recognizes her from the video and gives them a call. >> it's 4:25. coming up dave murphy and the "action news" team keeping you up to date on that nor'easter now drenching our area. >> will and kate's excellent adventure continues. they're doing today next. >> ♪

>> today is the final dave prince william and duchess kate's visit to new york city. they'll visit the 9/11 memorial and attend a gala at the metropolitan museum of art. the royal couple were at a different court you can say last night the one held by nba players in brooklyn. they watched the nets play the cleveland cavaliers. in the third quarter they got together with a famous american couple can.

you see them there meeting with jay-z and beyoncé. they also took pictures with the cavs lebron james who some would call royalty. they do call him king james. more in the next half hour. >> when we come back we'll tell you how the roads are doing. we'll be right back. >> ♪

>> rains are already causing ponding on the roads can which led to an early accident on i-95. hello, it's four:30. let's go right to dave murphy for accuweather and matt pelman is filling in for karen with traffic. >> storm tracker 6 shows us a little bit of change. we're drawing that line of changeover, that line of blue where you're looking at some freezing rain, maybe a few wet snowflakes down into parts of bucks county and areas close to trenton and i would be real careful this morning if you're in northern bucks, the northern montgomery county or even the northern half of chester county for some icy road conditions because we are seeing some reports of freezing rain and the radar now drawing that line a little farther south. and that, of course, goes for allentown, bethlehem, reading, easton, all of those areas to the north. for now anyway the air is cold enough up to the north where you are seeing some of that freezing rain and freezing