family and the entire city. vernon odom is live outside of energy 64 in long crest, but first chad pradelli is live at the scene of the blaze, you have the details on what happened there this morning. >> reporter: jim, joyce craig-lewis was one of the first firefighters here on scene and she went into the burning building behind me trying to save a life and ended up losing her own. looking from the outside it doesn't appear to be one of the most devastating fires but one of the most tragic in city history. downstairs they encountered heavy smoke and a superior pulled them back and then her brothers in line realized she was still in line. craig-lewis got on her radio and called for help. >> 928 begin evacuation. we are getting emergency evacuation, they say they are

trapped in the basement. >> we understand there was a call and she did call and indicate she was in distress. >> efforts to resuscitate the veteran on scene were unsuccessful. a procession escorted her body to the medical examiner's office which will determine the cause of death. >> she loved her job and was a heavily trained firefighter that served in some of the busiest stations in the city on behalf of our citizen. >> i know she is a great firefighter and i know she gave her life saving and protecting the residents of this city. >> fire commissioner david sawyer says that basement fires are among the most dangerous, it's like walking into a chimney, an investigation is underway to see how she got trapped. everything from the timeline to her equipment will be analyzed.

>> we collected the equipment and part of the investigation is looking at the equipment including her alarm. >> an elderly woman who live as loan here at the home was rescued and the cause of the fire is still under investigation. i'm live in west oak lane, chad pradelli, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. "action news" reporter vernon odom is live at engine 64 where joyce craig-lewis was stationed. needless to stay the death of this fellow firefighter was painful for her firefighters here. >> jim, they are deeply grieving here in the lawn crest section of the city, they are in shock despite the inherrant dangers of their jobs. >> the black bunting over engine 64 says it's the worst of times here. flowers are placed at the locker of joyce craig-lewis, a 11 year

veteran. she died in the row home fire this morning, she was overcome in the smoke and heat and darkness. >> i did know her personally and i know she was a hard worker and a firefighter's firefighter. she started out at engine 9, a pretty decent company and wanted to learn her craft and asked to be transferred to a busier company. >> our thoughts and prayer goes to craig-lewis's family, this brave firefighter gave her life attempting to save the life of an elderly, frail woman this morning. >> 150 women now serve in uniform in the philadelphia fire department. she leaves behind two children. a 16-year-old son and a daughter only 16 months old. >> i knew joyce and she was

beloved in this department. >> the men and women that had the pleasure of working with her are truly honored. everybody in this department is reeling and truly hurting. >> it's true everybody is hurting here in lawn crest, craig-lewis was working overtime overnight out of a separate engine company and her coworkers are barred from speaking on cameras with tv reporters. vernon odom, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you vernon our coverage of the death of joyce craig lewis continues on 6abc.com. we have been updating this story all day with the latest information, can you see video of this morning's procession and the news conference following this deadly blaze there at 6abc.com. if you are waiting for the skies to finally clear, best you be patient. this is the way it looked in atlantic city today. a couple of inches of rain flooding the streets and the

wind gusting to over 50 miles per hour. even though the numbers were less severe in the immediate philadelphia area, the fact is we continue to have light showers through the day tomorrow, could that mean snow for parts of region? nora muchanic is live on long beach island but first meteorologist cecily tynan and melissa magee, what is the latest here. >> stormtracker 6 live double scan showing the heaviest rain associated with the low pressure that is currently off the coast of new jersey, you could say, all the heavy rain is well up to the north, northern new england right now, and upstate new york, if you look here you can see how we are getting the wrap around from the system and this is putting on the breaks and this will bring us on and off showers and snow showers through the night and through the day tomorrow. stormtracker 6 live double scan showing that we have light showers mainly west of philadelphia and some pockets of heavy precipitation and parts of

berks county. temperatures are generally in the 40s, 45 in philadelphia, and 42 in allentown and 40 in reading and in the poconos 35 degrees, but colder air is being pulled down so a winter weather advisory is posted for the poconos where the rain showers will turn to wet snow, 2 to 5 inches expected in the poconos tomorrow. farther down to the south we'll see some snow showers but it shouldn't accumulate. this is a big rain storm for the region, but how much you got depended on your location. lets head over to meteorologist, melissa magee. >> yes, we got a lot of rain in areas of south jersey with this storm system, the nor'easter that moved on through. when you look at the rainfall totals from last night, areas of lakehurst and atlantic city and wildwood. as you move into wildwood and south of allentown, we saw 1 to 1.5 inch of rainfall and less

than an inch into lancaster. and tighter on the areas in south jersey, chads worth and pomona and woodbine finding anywhere from 2 to 3 inches of rainfall. peak wind gusts was another big story, philadelphia 36 miles per hour wind gusts and wildwood 44 miles per hour and tucker ton and harvey cedars during the heart of the storm we saw winds in the lower 50s, we are tracking showers and still a dreary evening on the way and newsroom wednesday, the wrap around moisture, cecily was talking about rain and snow showers are likely but the accumulating snow showers you'll have to move to the north to the poconos, coming up cecily tynan has future tracker 6 standing by to show you when the showers will exit and the sun will make an appearance. lets go live to brant beach and nora muchanic. tough conditions today. what is the situation now? >> the water has receded a lot

in the last hour or so, but many roads on the island are still flooded, long beach boulevard, the main artery running through lbi is closed in sections because all of the water is still sitting in the streets. this is what long beach boulevard looks like. the main drag is shut down by flooding after the nor'easter hammered the shore that pushed water into the streets. >> it's amazing, i walked out of my front door and it's a river, i don't know what way we'll go but that is what you get when you live on an island. >> the rain is torrential and the wind is like nothing we have ever seen, we are only from mount laurel but it's a totally different world. >> traffic is diverted because traffic here is risky in spots. it keeps people like zach busy. >> people will call and say can

you check at my house, can you make sure everything is okay. standard stuff. >> the story is the same in atlantic city, streets are flooded as they usually are in storms like this. >> you get around it and go through it sometimes. i have a big enough truck and it will get through it. >> mayor don guardian went to look at the rough surf pounding the end of atlantic avenue. funding is going out now for a fema project that will stop flooding, they will replace gates that have not been used in decades. >> they had them from the 1910s to the 1940s and prevented flooding. >> we have closures all over coastal towns today and we are still going to be dealing with some of this flooding until we get past tonight's high tide and

the wind here is awful, live in brant beach, i'm nora muchanic, channel 6 "action news." >> can you go to 6abc.com/weather, to track the winter weather, we'll update current conditions and follow the panel of any storms on storm tracker 6 radar. and coming up on "action news," masked men attack a man in chester county and police believe the same men are behind a crime in montgomery county. and the eagles assess sunday's loss and look ahead to the rematch with the dallas cowboys. those stories and more when "action news" continues tonight.

in other news tonight, a fight turned into a stabbing this afternoon at a subway restaurant in mercer county. police responded to the dover park plaza at 1:00, a man st stabbed a woman and then drove off. he later called the police and surrendered. police believe the two men seen holding up in gas station are behind a similar crime in montgomery county last week. this is nut road in schuylkill township. police say that the thieves forc forced the clerk to the back of the store and attacked him and stole his honda from the parking lot. they believe these are the same

men that hit a gas station on butler pike. a man was formerly charged in mount holly. jesus garcia appeared before the judge via video hookup, and the judge granted bail be raised to $200,000. he was charged with disturbing human remains, after his girlfriend was found dead in her car outside of a hotel in maple shade and the m.e. says there is no signs of trauma on the body. the to men arrested for three church arsons in delaware now face burglary charges, deputy fire marshals apprehended the men yesterday and investigators believe they set fire to three churches and felton last tuesday. today delaware state police arrested the pair on burglary

and theft charges. police believe they burglarized the saint james church in fredericka the night before the arsons.

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and a free 30-tablet trial. eagles trying to put seattle behind them and in fact they need to do just that. >> huge challenge awaits 8:30 at the linc on sunday night. has any doubt crept into their minds, they did get manhandles by seattle. jaime apody says they are looking forward. >> the ball comes loose and it's incomplete. >> we got wooped. >> short and simple, jeremy maclin summed up the seahawks. >> i don't doubt our capability or the talent in the room, we got to flush the negative energy and crappy feelings, that is the best part of coming in on tuesday and running around.

a couple of seattle players were talking trash, like defensive end, michael phillips. have the philadelphia police put an apb out mark sanchez is still a crappy quarterback. >> and richard sherman is a tremendous talent. >> but one thing is true, they are missing a deep threat, he had just two completions. so really pat sherman you don't miss desean? >> we have seen big plays down the field, we don't feel that, no we don't. >> carolina panthers, cam newton is expected to spend the night in the hospital after being involved in a car accident this

afternoon. newton suffered to fractures in his back and the two vehicle accident occurred not far from the stadium in charlotte, newton's black pickup truck overturned and a picture shows newton smiling while being attended to. the flyers five game road trip comes to an end in columbus, they only have one win in this road trip and the blue jaekts are riding a three game win street. coach berube knows the guys are facing a challenge. >> we have to be ready at the start of the game, they have to come out hard in this building, they are a good team and an aggressive team and they have to be on their toes early in this game. >> if are you a golfer, you have to keep your cool on the course. this golfer has a good reason

for doing so. >> yeah -- >> don't kick that ball there junior, or it will be a one stroke penalty. i shouldn't laugh and cecily is over therelaughing. >> vice president biden is teaming up with his daughter at a summit in washington, with a historic 100 women entering congress. the women rule summit. they took part in the key note conversation discussing topics like public service and raising daughters.

this moisture is not going away for a while. the heavy, steady rain is out of here. stormtracker 6 live double scan, showing that we have generally most of the moisture in philadelphia and areas north and west and it has now changed over to snow in the poconos, and a winter weather advisory looking at 2 to 5 inches of snow up there, and near reading right now we have a batch of heavier rain and allentown it's light and this is all pinwheeling down from the north, and we'll have additional showers tonight, tomorrow and even some snow showers could linger into thursday. the shore really took a beating,

melissa put this on my facebook page, this is 57th street beach, you can see what happened with all of the beach erosion and we have some pretty significant beach erosion and this is about the same location only two weeks ago, the pounding of the winds and waves on the beach really cause all the problems for the coastal flooding and beach erosion, and we don't have the winds out of the northeast but out of the west. they are still strong at 16 miles per hour and the shore had wind gusts of 50 miles per hour and the wind gusts diminished and are pulling out colder air, it can snow above 32 and allentown 42, and philadelphia 45 and wilmington 44 degrees. satellite 6 along with action radar showing really the steady rain is up to the north and this was a liquid event for the

entire i-95 corridor, you have to get through northern new england to see heavy accumulating snow, future tracker showing snow showers in the poconos early in the morning showers turning to snow in the northern and most of the activity is north of our region but it will be unsettled. expected snowfall is 2 to 5 inches in the poconos, where the ski resorts really like it but farther down to the south, northern chester and northern montgomery and upper bucks and the lehigh valley and berks county, we are looking for the potential for a grassy coating of an inch, the roads are just too warm for that. and the precipitation is on the light side, still unsettled and windy and snow showers, and light snow showers in the far northwestern suburbs, a few of them could make it to

philadelphia. 43 in the cooler suburbs and 36 degrees for center city and the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, tomorrow not all day precipitation but lots of clouds and it will be breezy and cool and the normal high for this time of year, and it's cooler than that with a high of 40 and the best chance of precipitation is north of philadelphia. thursday it gets colder, 39 degrees and lots of clouds and it's breezy with a few snow showers, no accumulation but on thursday temperatures are at or above freezing, anything that does fall on untreated surfaces, there could be icy patches on thursday morning, the clouds break for sunshine and saturday chilly and dry but 44, so dry weather for the eagles game and monday finally we hit 50 degrees and tuesday sunny and 48

degrees, a dry start for hanukkah. >> thank you cecily. finally tonight high school students from around philadelphia gathered in center city over chess boards this afternoon. each of these young men and women took to the tournament hoping to increase their national rating, it could lead to one of them being a world chess contender and they started in philadelphia. world news is next on channel 6 and "action news" continues at 0k on phl 17 with brian taff, shirleen allicot, adam joseph and ducis rogers. and please join us for "action news" at 11:00 here on channel 6. for cecily tynan, ducis rogers, the entire "action news" team i'm jim gardner we hope you'll join us for "action news" at 11:00. (vo) nourished.

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