1-800-phl-gate. and now, looking live into center city sky6hd the fog. you can see the raindrops hitting our camera there as well. and let's head down to the shore and look at conditions. in atlantic city, more fog there. mostly rain along the shore. there was a brief minutes or so of snow when the system first pulled in. that quickly turned to rain. that's mostly what they have seen in that area. taking a look live look in wilmington delaware, sky6hd. you can see white stuff there along the ground. mostly rain in that area as well now. we have team coverage for you this morning. meteorologist chris sowers is tracking the latest from accuweather and remnants of the nor'easter and "action news" reporter john rawlins is out and about in bucks county and we begin with chris and the accuweather forecast, chris. >> eva, good morning you to, stormtracker 6 double scan showing for the most part a clean slate. we have patchy drizzle around the city and patchy freezing drizzle in the lehigh valley. steady precipitation heavier

snow and rain we saw earlier this morning is long gone. it's all the way up into new england now. some of my twitter followers continue to send me pictures. this is jeff in forks township township. he picked up 8" of snow from the system in the overnight hours and jen bucks county telford this is jay. he had 3 to 4" of snow and on top of that a coating of ice nice little glaze. it was not the snow. roads for the most part is clear. icing is taking place now and creating some treacherous conditions out there. snowfall totals for the most part they were in line with what we h some areas saw more as we got a thumping in the lehigh valley. northampton county there, forks township 8". bethlehem 7". perk 5.5" and ewing 5" and philadelphia 1". martins creek 7", fleetwood 6" florence 3" lakehurst 2.2" and

haddon heights new jersey, 1.5". there's this morning's rain and snow he event pulling away. when it pulls through it will produce rain and snow. we're not expecting additional accumulations out of this. it could be enough to maybe create slick spots out there once again. what to expect the remainder of the afternoon. cloudy skies. killly out there temperatures in mid 30s. rain showers leftover. snow mixing in at times. again no additional accumulation. when i come back in a few minute we'll talk more about storm system number two that arrives sunday night to monday and once again potential for accumulating snow. eva. thanks, chris. let's head out to john rawlins who's joins us live from quakertown, bucks county, how are conditions where are you john? >> not too bad. eva, since the last time we talked we moved into the central part of quakertown. it's a light miss the still

falling almost a drizzle but sort of a mist. we're in the center of town. it's a picturesque scene no doubt about it. as i move to the right we'll move to west broad the main drag of quakertown. it's wet with a little slush. not much traffic on. it as you go across the street people shoveled walks. overall quiet on this snowy sunday morning. >> estimated 4 to 6" fell in and around quakertown overnight. great conditions for making and then posing with a new winter friend. at times though the snow gave way to icy sleet and rain. road crews moved quickly. this is west broad street at about 4 a.m. and again at about 8:00. most main roads like 663 clear by day break and conditions were generally gd and icy patches could make for trouble. >> i have all wheel drive it's

not a struggle for us. some accumulation here and nothing down. it's rough in certain spots. in town it's not bad. they did a good job salting but i had somebody stop on me quick and i slipped and slid and got rough. >> apologize we got a day ahead of ourself. it's saturday morning. it feels like sunday morning we've been out since 3:30 this morning. things are getting better here no doubt about it. still even though the roads are clear and crews are busy as you hear there's still slick spots out. there be very, very careful if you get out on to the roads today. live in quakertown, john rawlins, "channel 6 action news," back to you eva. >> good advice. a number of ast tests were cancelled and we have those and other closings at the bottom of your screen. you can see the snow on the ground, buses pulled into the situation for those waiting to catch a ride.

septa officials updated us. passengers on the warminster and west trenton lines may experience delays of up to 207 minutes due to signal problems. the action cam was out and about in bensalem bucks county while it was still snowing. this is street road at route 13. salt trucks were busy treating roads to keep them from becoming a slippery mess. >> hat feed, montgomery county few people convenient toured out in early morning hours and light flurry snow covered the walks trees and powers line near work and moreland street. theres with a similar scene northeast philadelphia. action cam was at a wawa tie on avenue and roosevelt overnight. it didn't keep drives from running errand. if you are out and about take it slow. you heard john say thx the roads could still be slick. >> now, storms moved through. make sure to download the stormtracker 6 app it has the latest accuweather and access to live radar plus use the report your weather feature to let us know what is happening where you

are and to send us your photos of the weather you are seeing. and overnight nor'easter could not stop some parents in bucks county dedicated to education of their children they were lined up at the school lane charter school in bensalem hoping to register their children for 2015-20 16 school year. registration continues until 11:00 this morning. >> and new this morning a double shooting in philadelphia hunting park section left one man dead and another critically hurt. it happened along the 400 block of you to son street 4:30 a.m. police arrived to find suv engine still running. the 34-year-old driver was shot multiple times. lost control of a vehicle and hit a fence. he died at the scene. a second man was shot in the chest. he is in critical condition. there are no arrests so far. >> and happening today a private memorial for three of the family members killed in a shooting rampage. police say bradley stone murdered 6 former family members in a day long rampage across

montgomery county on december 15. today's service will remember 39-year-old a.j. flick and 36-year-old wife trisha and 14-year-old daughter nina. the loan surviving victim 17-year-old anthony flick was treated at the hospital and released. go fund me page has been set up for him. a former volunteer firefighter in glenolden was taken from jail to court in media where he was arraigned on charges of sexually abusing 14 children. according to court documents 21-year-old john cochran's alleged victims were between 8 and 14. abuse began in december of 2012 and investigators fear there could be more victims of sexual abuse. >> it's heart wrenching and it's just so shocking to see that one individual one child predator can cause so much disinstruction. >> quark van already serving

time forsetting three abandoned buildings on fire before then arriving on the scene to help fight those blazes. authorities have shut down a boarding house in north philadelphia. officials say the home on the 3000 block of north 22 had illegal electrical hookup and the building was scene of a deadly fire on november 7. 20 people were displaced. and are using dobbins high school as a temporary shelter. police are wing a resident in connection with that 7-alarm blaze that ripped through the main business district street of a pittsburgh suburb. the fire burned five buildings in holmstead and spread to apartment building where six had to escape the flames. it appeared the fire started in packs preparation office that recently opened in one of the buildings. >> and much more to come on "action news" this afternoon morning. president obama is heading to the middle east. and we'll explain why he's cutting his trip to india. and plus the philadelphia auto show is just one week away.

we'll have a preview of what you can expect this year chris. >> thank you for coming in weather storm system number one pulling away and round two later this afternoon with rain and snow showers and then storm system number two that arrives sunday night into monday morning and that brings another round of snow. details from accuweather when we come

>> you can see the snow there on the ground. that was a brief glimpse into the city there the point is the rain moved in and some of that snow is starting to melt a little as the sun is coming up. things are looking better. >> temperatures starting to warm. mongt locations are above 32 which is good sign. and actually, taking a look at the storm as a whole, things worked out nicely. most of it occurred while we were sound asleep and really the only thing it messed up was friday night if you had late-night plans. the good news is live at the philadelphia international airport we have low ceilings causing delays at the airport right now of up to 30 minutes and we're seeing improving situation here. stormtracker 6 double scan not much going on right now just a little patchy leftover drizzle south and east and patchy freezing drizzle north and west. it's very, very light so light in fact the radar is having a dive call time picking it up. wider view as we set it in

motion we have this round here iping withing through during the afternoon hours not expecting additional accumulation and rain showers and few snowflakes mixed in. maybe northwestern, lehigh valley snow and some raindrops mixed in. this is nothing as we saw earlier as the huge storm pulls awe. we have a winter storm warning in effect for lehigh valley for combination of snow, sleet and ice. a lot of this has come to an end. there's a little bit of misting and freezing drizzle taking place up there right now. final snowfall totals in lehigh valley ranged from 4 to 8" and patchy freezing drizzle over next several hours sleet occurs south of interstate 80 and be on the lookout for slushy roads and sidewalks and again continuing to show you some of the pictures sent in by my twitter followers. i'm having a hard time. there it is there. that looks like a good 5 6" that accumulated on her bench on the railing there.

that is tonya in quakertown and tonya from perk withcy where they picked up anywhere from 3 to 4" of snow with the storm system. snowfall totals fell in line with what we predicted. there was more through here as they got a thumping after midnight. there that's why totals elevated more in the lehigh valley. for everybody else it fell in line what we were call. allentown 3 3, philadelphia 34 wildwood 37 degrees. visibility becoming issue once again. wilmington down to a mile. philadelphia two trenton two and trenton 1.7 miles. future tracker 6 for remained he of afternoon cloudy and chilly. again patchy drizzle time to time especially city points south and east. north and west maybe freezing drizzle in the lehigh valley and later this afternoon a second part of the storm. rain showers, maybe snowflakes mixed in and that pushes off the coast by 5 or 6:00 this afternoon and skies go partly

cloudy overnight and temperatures drop off again and there could be areas of black ice developing and sunday, sunday is nice and quiet. sunday to monday, here comes storm system two. this will not have nearly the punch today's storm had. with temperatures colder that time around or next time around it looks like we'll see more accumulating snow in parts of the area. for today cloudy and chillry rain showers, snowflakes mixed in and patchy drizzle. 37. that's forecasted high. where we go everybody else climbing well above freezing. snow melts allentown 6 reading 37 lancaster 6. cape may and dover both showing temperatures in the 40s. 42 cape may and dover about 40. here's the exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast. sunday is quiet. we start out with sunshine. clouds quickly on the increase. sunday night into monday morning that's when the light snow arrives. right now accumulations look like about an inch or two. some areas could see throw out of this in the city and slick roadways and delays monday

morning. allow yourself extra time and that sets up a cold week here and this is a pattern changer monday, tuesday, wednesday stuck in 20s for highs and thursday and friday looks better and that's only a mod rick ahead of the next blast that comes in next weekend with temps in 10s and 20s. >> okay. thanks chris. >> president obama plans to cut three-day trip to india short and fly to saudi arabia in wake of the king's death and then mr. of the king's death and then mr. obama will fly from india to saudi arabia on us to play respects. audi king died yesterday after two decades in power. >> there's a power struggle going on in the office of open records at pennsylvania state capitol. eric aaronson said tom corbett named him executive director of office of open records for six year term he got a letter thursday from governor wolf terminating him immediately. wolf's office said he is at will

employee that can be fired by governor but he continues to go into the office and plans to take the matter to court. >> that's why we get director of office six year term long enough to cross gubernatorial terms we wanted this office is to be not under gun of governor. >> he's in the office because he showed up but he's not taking workt out and not getting paid. >> and pennsylvania officials asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit against penn state and ncaa over penalties related to jerry sandusky jer child abuse case. a letter between pen straight and treasury department calls for university to send the state $ 36 million within ten days of dismissal order and $12 million by july. the monday will fund child abuse prevention efforts. sandusky is currently serving a lengthy prison sentence. more problems for atlantic city

movie investors -- moody investor service lowered to junk territory. they signed increase risk of loan default due in large part to the city's estimated 400 million debt. this week until nming governor chris christie appointed corporate turn around specialist to serve as city's emergency manager which could signal that a bankruptcy filing is imtent for the casino resort town. >> taking a live look for us now, we are looking over the ben franklin bridge. you can see the fog and the rain hitting our camera there. meteorologist chris sowers will continue to update us on the changing weather conditions as we come

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you can see on the side streets there a little bit of snow. more snow in the street than the major interest states and highways. but, still not too bad. just be careful out. there give yourself extra time if you have to head out on the roads today. >> more than 10 or 50,000 people have in common this time of year. love of cars. philadelphia auto show kicks off this weekend. here's adam joseph with a preview. >> over 70 0 cars will turn pennsylvania convention center into ultimate parking lot. >> every car you could see they're on display nine days all in one place under one roof. >> there's something for everyone from sophisticated concept cars like buick habareer and the ones that make this year's competition and you can get a test drive on the convention floor. >> we're going over that. >> product coming in is unbelievable and consumers are looking for collaborator with these vehicles. >> latest in technology will be at your fingertips and how the

industry is working towards aaauto muss driving. >> the cars people are driving are semi-autoonomous right there. >> a healthy market is producing cars and this is your first time to do it. >> it's a combination of economy improvement and consumer confidence improvement. we're moving back to want market instead of need you. >> can see cars of the future being built by students here in philadelphia. >> philadelphia has great schools and colleges and you'll see some of that intelligence put on to the floor through these cars. >> the local school race teams are just one of more than 40 exhibits that will take up more than 650,000 square feet of the pennsylvania convention center starting saturday january 31. >> to see the looks on those face when's they come in saturday morning 9 a.m. and those going aw that kind of thing is a really cool thing. >> that was adam joseph

reporting. adam is joined by karen rogers, melissa magee and ducis rogers for our one-hour special previewing the philadelphia auto show next saturday at 7 p.m. >> and taking a live look now on sky6hd it's a camden there raindrops clouding our camera lens. there but there's fog. meteorologist chris sowers will have the latest on change in conditions when we come

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>> taking a look at the roads this morning. mobile 6 braving conditions there on washington avenue and south philadelphia. you can see what the roads look like like all over this area this morning. you can see there's a little bit

of snow on either side and some slush throughout the roads every now and then. so far pretty good for mobile six this morning. turning to sports, sixers travel to memphis to take on grizzlies after dropping the ball here at home. the sixers started last night's game on high note up against the raptors 16-0 and 4th quarter that leaves windows up and the raptors stormed back and thanks to former villanova standout kyle lowery and they got a lead on free throws. >> and tony wroton has a partially torn acl. his injury will require surgery. there's no timetable for his return and no question they will certainly miss the nearly 17 points per game scoring average. >> and the nfl has finally commented on the so-called deflate-gate involving new england patriots and the league says its investigation is ongoing. and trying to determine how 11 of of the 12 balls patriots

supplied to afc championship game became deflated after clearedly officials. and according to nfl the balls were under inflated first half and were properly inflated for second half. more than 40 people have been interviewed so far. >> and baseball hall of famer erpy banks died. we spent all 17 years of career hitting 512 home runs and he famously coined the phrase let's play two when talking about double headers. erpy banks mr. cubs was 83. >> a familiar face made a trip to super mark net delaware county yes, i former eagles quarter back donovan mcnabb caused quite a stir at the havsher ton giants he signed pictures and balls and happened a fan with a selfie. that's pretty cool. the first 150 people in were guarantee todd walk away with a mcnabb autograft. >> more to come on "action news"

this saturday morning including shelter me. >> i'm alicia vitareli and this is ginger she's one of the pets from rescue pets and the top vote getter in this week's shelter me contest. you can hear their story coming you up later in "action news". >> now taking a live look on sky6hd at spring mountain. pretty empty there. it looks like maybe a few people couple legs happening from the ski lifts. that's where we want to see the snow. we're seeing the snow everywhere this morning. come up meteorologist chris sowers will give us a change of the changing forecast when

>> mobile 6 is out open the roads, icy roads a big concern this morning especially after last weekend and flash freeze that led toe deadly crashes. across most of the tri-state overnight and for some it changed over to rain. you can see mobile 6 now on third street in south philadelphia. sky6hd looking live at the conditions at philadelphia international airport there were a number of cancellations and delays. many with southwest airlines. the airport reporting about 30 plus minute delays and so far if you're flying out on expecting someone to fly in call ahead. you can check 1-800-phl-gate. this is a live look now at peps landing. via sky6hd, snow covered ground

and roads looking clear. let's head down to atlantic city and check out the conditions there. mostly rain. you see the rain spotting our camera lens there and the little wind as camera begins to shake. in the first take a live look at via sky6hd wilmington, delaware you're seeing a little bit of lingering snow. but mostly looks like rain on the roadways there and the roadways look pretty clear. let's check in now with meteorologist chris sowers from the latest from accuweather and we have seen the whole gamut of everything possible this morning. >> everything outside of a thunderstorm we picked up this morning to tell you the truth. it was funny. it was interesting. when i came in this morning there was not much going on, it was raining roads were wet. south jersey near glassboro since hit the base of walt whitman fwrij was like it was snowing for hours and the further north and west you went they picked up more in the way of snow. right now doing okay. little misting going on and

patchy driz frl time to time and some areas actually seeing freezing sdrizle this sliver right here is far northwestern suburbs and includes places like reading, lap caster, pottstown allentown, quakertown and easton. watch for the glaze accumulating on top of the snow that had fallen from last night and basically anything that has not been traded. power lines tree branches and bridges and overpasses sidewalks and drive ways could be slick even though the snow for the most part is probably been removed from sidewalks and streets in our area and some of the images look like what karen sent me she lives in west chester and you can see they pickedp ape nice coating looks like 2 or 3" there in west chester and we get into mercerville this is inmerer county in new jersey looks like jim and they got about 4" hopefully you can pick that up again heavy wet snow. if you try to remove that snow couple tips pending at the knees. this is not light fluffy stuff

you remove with a broom. it's heavy, wet snow. take time getting that off the walks in streets and drive ways this morning. as we go wooit wider there's not much going on. the first part of the system is long gone and second part is across the mountains. you see how disorganized it s it should hold together long enough to push through western suburbs later on and that could push rain showers with light snow mixing in and we're not expecting additional precipitation. >> cloudy and chilly. rain showers later this afternoon and maybe a few snow showers mixed in and patchy drizzle as well. 37 the forecasted high probably reaching that somewhere between and 4:00 this afternoon. otherwise cloudy and damp out there and dreary. eva i'll have another update storm system two that arrives sunday night and monday coming up in the 7 day in ten minutes. >> this is the scene at springfield square shopping center springfield township delaware county overnight and

the plows were out working to clear up the parking lots for any of those early morning customers. and the action cam was in horsham montgomery documenty overnight. two tractor-trailers got stuck route 611 at broadway. we're trying to drive up the snow covered highway. "action news" reporter john rawlins is braving cold this morning joining us live from quakertown bucks county, hey, john. >> good morning, again, eva. we're in quake are town in central area here. behind me is west broad street. you can see it's the main drag and pretty much clear. hi how are you sir, >> you're live? >> we're live are you enjoying yourself? >> yes, i am. you may want to get out of the street though. >> okay. >> how are you doing guys? >> okay take care, sir. >> live television folks. gentleman across the vitae is shoveling the sidewalk. not a whole lot of people here right now. sidewalks will be ready for when folks do come out and start running their saturday morning errands. estimated 4 to 6" fell in and

around quakertown overnight. great conditions for making and then posing with a new winter frightened. and at times, though the snow gave way to icy sleet and rain and road crews moved quickly. this is west broad at 4 a.m. and again at about 8. and most main roads like 663 were clear by day break and drivers told us conditions were generally good. but icy patches could make for trouble. >> i've got all wheel drive it's not a struggle for us. roads wet. some accumulation up here but nothing down. it's rough in certain spots n town it's not bad. they did a good job salting. but i had somebody stop on me pretty quick and i got nech us and it got rough. >> while the roads are for the most part clear at least the main roads there's still slippery spots. go slow when you're out today. live in quakertown squon rawlins "channel 6 action news," eva. >> thanks, john.

you can keep track of nor'easter with 6abc stromtracker app. get the latest from accuweather and live radar. plus use the report of your weather feature to let us know what's happening where you are and send us photos of the snow. >> police in wilmington delaware are investigating a deadly triple shooting involving three teenagers it happened at second and north wind street last night a 16-year-old boy is dead after hit in the head and 17-year-old boy was shot in chest and shoulder and he is in stable condition. an a third victim a 16-year-old boy is at st. pran sis in stable condition with gunshot wound to elbow. police are serving for the shooter. >> philadelphia police are also investigating a deadly shooting involving a teen. a 17-year-old boy was shot in the chest last night along the 2000 block of north lambert street in north philadelphia. and he later died from his wounds at temple university hospital. police have no suspects for motive in this shooting. >> and a one month old baby

girl is hospitalized after 25% of her face was mauled by the family pet ferret it happened thursday afternoon at the girl's home in darbyboro at least two of three family pet ferrets escaped from a cage as the infant sky isabel sat in her car seat next to them. the baby's mother was upstairs and ran down when she heard sky being attacked. bernie frame woke to his fiancee's screams. >> when i came down she was like right here holding the baby and not moving you know what i mean she was more like hysterical screaming. >> and darby police are investigating. they say the infant underwent life saving surgery after her parents called 911. she's got a lifetime of surgeries ahead. >>. three ferrets were euthanized and authorities call the living conditions in the home de floorable. the infant's four other siblings were placed in the care of family members.

the family of smyrna, delaware woman are asking the community to join in-er isp for mother of four. keesha hamilton has been missing since january 10 when she disappeared with 4-year-old and 4-month-old the children were safely found with their father and there's no sign of kiesha and her family believes she was harmed. >> she actually texted me the night before stating if anything was to happen to her that the police should check cortez because she was owe afraid of him the night before her disappearance. cortez hamilton is being held on 400,000 bail for assault, weapons possession and endangering welfare of a child. a search party is meeting tomorrow at 8 a.m. at the whichwood volunteer fire department to look for kiesha. >> the philadelphia mayoral race is heating up. jim kenny will run for office and an official announcement is expected next week.

kenny joins democratic field that already includes lynn abraham. anthony williams and nelson diaz. >> pennsylvania unemployment dropped lowest rate since march of 2008. the jobless rate fell to 4.2348 december that's down two prints to december 2013. pennsylvania's unemployment is lower than the national rate of 5.6%. >> and much more to come on "action news" saturday morning at 9. including shelter me. this week's rescue features small pets with big personalities and "healthcheck" another reason top pour that cup of coffee this morning. taking a live look now through sky6hd at atlantic city. the wind down there. mostly just rain for the shore. meteorologist chris sowers will give us the latest open accuweather when "action news" returns

>> mobile 6 keeping an ion the roads for you this morning. give you a good idea of what you're working with if you have to head out in your car today. right now it's in south philadelphia right there at a stoplight washington avenue. you can see the roads look pretty good there's some snow on the ground. for the most part it's off to the side. not where you actually have to drive. be careful though. interesting things chris we talked about this in commercial break defending where are you is

what you're seeing. >> that's right if you live north and west of city it's snow and ouj and east oh my goodness. and the clipper system swings through sunday night to monday and looks like everybody will see snow out of that and as far as sizable accumulations south jersey and delaware missed out on this one. there's the view now. camden water front. battleship new jersey quiet and foggy out there and patchy mist develops. stormtracker 6 double scan crystal clear other than drizzle in and around the city and patchy freezing drizal cross the lehigh valley. wider view showing this band right here still yet to pull through and will probably come through during the first part of the afternoon after lunchtime and rain showers develop once again and mix in with know snow. they're not expecting additional accumulation out of this.

for western suburbs and lehigh valley for a little bit of snow, sleet and freezing rain over the next couple hours. more like the next hour and about 15 minutes and then that warping should be set to expire. now, within the warning area fine taal snowfall totals 4 to 8". again we continue to see patchy drizzle and sleet south of interest sfait 80 and roadways back road bays could be slushy and sidewalks even though you removed the snow mower than likely a thin glaze developing and there's going to be icy patches on sidewalks. take time out there this morning. final snowfall total 7". springfield 5.4 new tripoli 5.4 and 5" in horsham and 4" of snow. this is heavy wet snow. bend your knees as you try to shovel it. take breaks. if you feel tired stand there for a couple minutes and relax. and make sure you drop salt and sand after you remove the snow. temperatures drop off again overnight tonight and you see

black ice develop. two miles in allentown. 3 miles in philadelphia. 1 wilmington. 2 millville and convenient ton visibility 2 miles. you'll see low visibility throughout the afternoon. temperatures steady in the mid 30s. after 5 6:00 this evening into the tank below freezing. reading at 33 right now. wilmington 3 4 millville 34 and wildwood 37. here's what i was talking about look at this by 10:00 down to the 20s now. again anything up treated if it's wet will freeze. philadelphia to 3 2. wilmington 31 and trn ton 28. here's future tracker as far as precipitation is concerned. lots of clouds out there. patchy fog and drizzle. couple of scattered showers throughout the afternoon. nothing too terribly heavy. clear to partly cloudy. sunday we start out with sunshine and increase clouds and then here we go monday morning a clipper system. now most forecast models showing this light event. once the storm hits the coast there's a couple forecast models

that have suddenlien tense fewing and if that take place a moderate brand of snow pulls through during the monday morning commute and that could elevate totals a little. cloudy and chilly today. rain showers throughout the afternoon. scattered about. patchy areas of drizzle. 37 is the forecasted high and overnight tonight partly cloudy and breezy. numbers are dropping again. 24 outlying suburbs and 29 center city. here's your exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast, 37 today, tomorrow is nice day, up to 42. little sunshine. that's before the clipper moves in. clipper is a pattern changer and we get to january like weather with highs in the 20s once it passes through. monday high 29. tuesday high 29. wednesday 29 and overnight lows dropping well down into the teens and we get into thursday partly sunny 36, friday clouds and sun 38. but looking at next weekend the highs will struggle just to get into the mid 20s. so, we enjoyed a fairly calm winter up to this point. have not had much snow. looks like the pattern gets more

active and cold once ge get to february. >> pay back. >> exactly. >> thanks chris. >> now it's time to feature this week's winning rescue grum 6abc shelter me contest rescue pets in hamilton new jersey, alicia vitareli has the story. >>reporter: rescue pets was formed in 2006 and since then has found homes for more than 1500 cats and dogs. >> a lot of ones we have are older and disabled and some people won't take we take puppies ready to go usually it's somebody that takes a while. >> rescue operates soley as foster network and they primarily take in smaller animals. >> some groups is have a shelter we have a network of people. >> can couldn't be done without donation and dedicated volunteers. >> the fosters and people that do all the hands on are what make up the group. >> if you're looking for superhero in your life peter parker may be the perfect pup to swing in your heart.

>> peter parker can be a little spiderman he can climb anywhere. >> he's 12 week old jug mix between jack russell tear orand pug. winney would be glaet any home and would be great with the other dogs. >> she's great with kids and friendly and lakes to play. >> marogo is 7 months old. >> she would enjoy active home where she's the only dog. >> she's healthy and good and she enjoys being around people. >> begincy is 10-year-old bishon. >> she's very healthy. someone who is looking for companion someone to be with them. >> and this is ginger she is peek knees between 3 and 5 years old and currently undergoing therapy for some ruptured disks in her spine. once she's done she'll be ready for adoption. if you're interested in ginger or any other pets you've seen go to rescue pets web site. >> you can vote for your favorite shelter or at a rescue group to the list by going to

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>> sky6hd is looking live for us over penn's landing you can see the snow covered the ground and parks area right there. but for roads for the most part are pretty clear and traffic is moving okay this morning. here's a welcome at what is happening in and around the delaware and lehigh valleys this weekend. 30th edition motorsports show will ref up at the greater philadelphia center in oaks montgomery county and there will be more than 200 racing vehicles from all forms of the sport on

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>> i want to say a thank you to mark he's been drive around in mobile 6 all morning checking out the roads for us so we got an idea realtime. he's passyunk in south philadelphia. you can see it looks pretty clear to me. there's a little snow off to the side. but the roads themselves are really looking good.

those road crews did a great job clearing the snow. we saw it start off slushy and it's perfectly clear. >> it's clear right now that's the most important thing. once you remove the snow, drop the salt sanld, temperatures drop off tonight and you'll be stuck with black ice. no one wants top see that. couple more pictures coming to me from twitter followers and this is from fraun emmaus us they picked up 7". this is joe easton, forks township the snow man is almost as tall as her. she's having a good time. again forks township had 6 to 8" of snow. they got thumping. >> how cute is she. >> there we go. there's the pictures we want to say thank you to all my twitter followers for sending pictures. we got a lot of them on the air today and they look fantastic. 37 is forecast and rain and showers later on. 42 tomorrow. tomorrow night to monday you're another around of accumulating snow. >> it's not over. >> can't rest easy yet. >> thanks, chris.

jack hannah countdown is next on channel 6. "action news" continues later tonight and we'll be back tomorrow morning at 6. a warning from the federal government about a phone scam using irs to get your personal information and prod gal son returns to philadelphia and we'll have a preview of philadelphia ballet performance of this particular play. for chris sowers and entire "action news" team i'm eva pilgrim have a great

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