followed by snow. >> and fire breathing sun goes all wrong at a philadelphia tattoo convention next on "action news." >> tonight the temperature is zipping to bone chilling levels.

we're talking about the potential for record-breaking overnight lows and just when the temperature begins to rebound a bit, we'll be getting ready for another several inches of snow. surprised night the big story on "action news" is nasty blast of bitter cold weather. >> tonight temperatures could reach record lows talking about single digits wind chills in the negative numbers faen that's not enough keep shovels handy. we're watching a system that could bring some accumulating snow. >> there we go team coverage tonight. "action news" reporter sken live open the ben franklin parkway and we begin with meteorologist melissa magee with the latest on what what we can expect. melissa. >> walter, sarah it's been brutal the second half of the weekend. blustery winds and all of today making wind chills feel like subzero. check out temperatures currently this hour most shots in low teen if not single digits below zero up in the poconos and 7 below zero in poconos. current temperature allentown 3 5 reading and lancaster and that

hour. it will get even cold were this arctic air and arctic high pressure overhead for the rest of tonight clear with less whipped on the way. new records dropping down to 40 being be lee zero in allentown and 9 for the overnight low in cape may ay. >> stormtracker 6 live double scan radar showing you the next storm system on the move. p monday night into tuesday a little piece of energy coming out of four corners disk south and east. you can see the moisture breaking out ahead of the storm system here. snow across the nation's heartland. mixed precipitation setting up for oklahoma, arkansas,

tennessee that's high school and rain to the south of that. this will work way southwest to northeast direction early as monday night to tuesday. as a result we have winter storm watch already posted for philadelphia areas south and east. the exception lancaster berks lehigh, north am top counties and up through poconos. coming up a closer look at the reported and expected cold on the way early tomorrow morning, sarah, followed by expected snowfall monday night to tuesday with the accuweather 7-day. >> okay. melissa. thank you. >> let's switch live to "action news" reporter kenneth moton along the ben franklin parkway on a bitterly cold night. kenneth. sarah while melissa was saying it i was feeling it. this scene behind me and flags on ben franklin parkway tells this brutally cold story. it was a lazy sunday indoors for a lot of people. we found those brave enough to venture out. subzero whipped chills. single digits temperatures and you can feel every bit of it across the region sunday night

and it's getting cold were expected record breaking temps as we move to monday morning. >> i'm hopefully going to be in a car tomorrow. so i mean the weather will not stop me. but i'll be in a car. >> not walking somewhere. >> not walking. >> in the city the brutal conditions kept the homeless off the streets code blue. foot traffic was low and there was few remaining love birds after the valentine's weekend. >> we ran up the rocky steps to stay warm. we explored neighborhoods. >> i see your cheeks rosy red. >> yeah, i like it that way. >> the wind definitely gets you at the end. but it's not that terrible. it's definitely cold. >> on penn campus it was busier. layers were key. >> that looks warm can i borrow it. >> i think it means we need winter to end soon. i want 80 degrees days not negative 10. >> anyone out and about was

trying to make the best of trij id night. >> what's under there. >> chicken ribs, sauce annuals,burgers. >> doug cooper was open for business and selling barbeque on corner of girard and lancaster south philadelphia. >> how are you feeling now. >> cold as heck. >> is the grill keeping you warm. >> absolutely not. >> any more questions? nah, ha, ha. >> of course the good news is the record cold comes on president's day. a lot of students are out of school and maybe, maybe a lot of people can make lazy sunday into lazy monday walter. we're reporting live on ben franklin parkway, kenneth moton "channel 6 action news." >> thank you kenneth. the severe cold will mean a day off for some students at the philadelphia archdioceses. school officials announced tonightal parish and regional elementary schools in the city of philadelphia will be closed tomorrow. archdiocesan high school students had a day off for teacher development. >> those high winds that hit us overnight nearly ended in

tragedy for a family in delaware county. a huge tree look at that fell on top of a home newtown square narrowly missing a young boy asleep in his bed. justin quickly said the tree nroomd his home before 2:00 this morning it sliced through the roof and into his son's room. >> he was crying and for five, ten seconds i thought he was gone. it looks like a tre trunk came crashing down on him. >> as you heard right there quigly says for a few terrifying moments he thought his son was dead. in the end though, he, his wife and two young children escaped unharnld. but the home is all built destroyed. it will takes days for contractors to remove the giant oak from where it fell. >> high wind and drifting snow were to blame for a crash in langhorne bucks county near the intersection of bridge town pike and langhorne yardley road. someone inside the car was rushed to a local hospital. no word on the victim's identity

or extent of injuriesch the road was shut down for a little while because of the snow drifts and those icy conditions. >> as the temperatures dropped be sure to stick with 6abc.com/warm. there you'll find hourly and 7 day forecast so you can be prepared no matter what old man winter throws our way. >> and be sure to tune into "action news" starting at 4:30 toem morning. david, family, matt and karen will bring you the latest on bitter cold plus traffic and transit conditions. >> and meantime the snow moved out from new england but blizzard force winds and subzero temperatures are still gripping the boston area. the city is digging out from under a total of 7 feet of snow over the past month. and beaten town received a fresh foot of snow just last night and some suburban towns got socked with two feet. officials there are urging everyone to stay home and as you can see, these empty streets indicate plenty of people headed that request. along the coast meanwhile people there experienced lightning and thunder along with strong surech

on top of snow and wind. >> and talk about high powered snow blower this was the scene as plow trains on boston commuter rails cleared the tracks this afternoon. the rail and bus system was shut down in the wake of the most recent blizzard. transit officials plan to offer limited services tomorrowch the system knoll normally carried approximately 106,000 commuters each and every day. >> meanwhile more than two dozen vehicles collided on route 128 in massachusetts in the midst of blizzard. snow blowing off the cambridge reservoir and snow squall may have combined to create whiteout conditions being ablamed for pileup. fortunately all the injuries in the crash were minor. many drivers ended up trapped in their cars for more than an hour. >> a 5-year-old delaware county man is now charged with vehicular homicide in connection with the crash in exton last night that killed a toon age brother and sister. thomas muir of media was allegedly under the influence and speed when his pickup truck

slammed into a mini van on route 100 and ship road. despite seat belts charlotte and miles handy began of downingtown were thrown from the vehicle and killed and the teen's passenger remain in intensive care. >> a 28-year-old man is hospitalized -- woman that is is hospitalized after she was stabbed in the neck inside her home. it happened around 6:00 this evening in the parkside section of philadelphia. police discovered the victim in her bedroom. she was taken to the hospital of the university of pennsylvania in critical condition. so far no made. >> a breathing fire set himself on fire. an action news viewer captured the scene as it happened. he was able to quickly get the situation under control for himself. but not before the flames jumped to the cur taps. we're told the damage and

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independence blue cross was helping local residents navigate the process today. many told us they intended to sign up earlier and waited until the last minute. and the obama administration wants at least 9 million people signed up and paying premiums for 0 15. >> and there was a very special surprise today for well known former local mayor. >> happy day . >> as you can see there dozens turned out at the tenth street bamtist church in camden to wish former mayor quend lynn a happy 90th birthday she looks terrific for 90. she served two and a half terms and is knot now retired from politics and is active from church and local community organizations. still to come tonight on "action news" a reporter in boston hangs on for dear life as she covers another around of wind and snow in that region. >> and of course we're watching our own weather as well. meteorologist melissa magee has

the exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast when "action news" comes right back

>> check this out reportner boston nearly got carried away while covering a blizzard. antoineet had to hold on for dear life. cher photographer endedp upcoming over to help her into the truck. >> melissa here with a check of accuweather. not bad here.

we still have cold and those winds blowing. >> that will be the factor as you wake up tomorrow morningment possible record cold in some locations and then as we get to monday night to tuesday we're tracking storm system and timing increased with this. and track is a little further north as well. which means more accumulating snow possibly monday night. we'll show what you is going on. stoorm tracker 6 live radar showing you it's dry an quiet. overnight non tuesday we have winter storm watches posted for a good chung of region. moderate snowfall is expected for some. we'll talk about that in a moment. in the near term we'll show you the picture outside. the action cam was outside in love park. you can see the fresh snow we have open the ground there because of all of the arctic brownry that moved through yesterday and last night. it was blowing that snow around and definitely watching for icy patches because of the snow that is already on the surfaces there. and wind a factor. and 60 3450eu8z an hour gusts to

tell you about that hour. gusts of 25 miles an hour in philadelphia and gusts as high as 37 in the poconos and and 30 miles an hour. when you factor that in most spots feeling subzero. most of the day. temperatures are filling like we were subzero. not much of a recovery tonight. 40 below in philadelphia, 17en low in poconos 17 degrees below zero as well in allentown and it feels like 9 degrees below zero in atlantic city. which is why, in fact, that wind chill advisory is up through 11 a.m. monday for our region. here's satellite 6 and action radar storm system long gone. boston picked up more than a foot of snow. it's clear and quiet and record lows on the way. overnight tonight and into monday. widen out the picture however what we are tracking as a storm system already getting its act together. you see energy moving out of four corners and moisture breaking out ahead of that. you see the snow moving across

southern ohio valley and region it's ice. ice storm in arkansas, tennessee and eventually carolinas and rain south of that. this moisture will work its way southwest to northeast direction overnight monday and into tuesday. for the start of the day tomorrow extra layers will be needed. it will be all about the cold. sun giving way to increasing clouds as we go throughout the day. monday night you could see it's mostly cloudy. then by 11 p.m. tomorrow night you can see the snow for philadelphia in areas south and east it continues as we get knee tuesday morning. so the commute on tuesday morning will definitely be tough going for the city or south and east even though that snow is all of the delaware and lehigh valley. so expected snowfall in early call from accuweather it does look like first of all this storm system has a lot of moisture to work with and also temperatures at the surface will be well below froozing in advance of the storm system. we're calling for high snowfall ratios. for philadelphia, areas south and east, 4 to 8" of snow and 2 to 4 for areas norm and west,

lancaster, berks lehigh, north am top and up to the poconos. as far as the timeline goes monday night to tuesday the snow breaks out between 9 p.m. at midnight and white and fluffy snow on the way and heaviest occurs during the overnight hours and in time for the commute. tuesday morning the storm system looks to wrap up by noon on tuesday. however, if there's eye shift or deviation in the track and the storm system wants to pull a little further north we may have to adjust the snowfall totals and expect that. the accuweather forecast showing arctic chill sticking around. periods of snow, high of 30. wednesday, cloudy and few flurries and snow showers around 32. another bitter blast moves in thursday. 19. 22 on friday. and another possible storm adds we get into next weekend, guys, a lot going on. david murphy is up next at 4 a.m. he'll have the latest bri then. >> all right melissa thank you. >> chinese new year officially arrived on thursday and it started early today in cherry

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off the post. false on the crease and 2-1 emory with the club save. stops 21 of 22. down two on the penalty kill. never sees it coming. tied at 1. ut oh, 7 and change to go in the third. wrapped around and in. fly rerz now within just five points of final wildcard spot. they beat buffalo 2-1. big win for the boys. how about emoly what a job he's doing filling in for steven. >> i'm a competitive guy. i don't want to seeget hurt. like said we're in a tough battle and need every point we can get. >> big two points tonight. all right, three days that's it until phillies pitchers and catchers report to clearwater.

despite chopping every name on the roster rub ep amaro expects everyone to be there. yes, even cole hamels and jonathan papelbon and ryan howard. phillies fall fast in uniforms and arrive safe and sound. when the players ariver you have to wonder what the mood will be in the club house especially among veterans trade bait and lookly open the season on the roster. on what could be the worst neem baseball. >> look this is not going to be a real good team open the field this year. everyone knows that. if you look at projections on fan graphs and on baseball perspectives proj projections on the field phillies have worst record in baseball and scored fewest runs in baseball. the perception of rebuilding it should have started earlier. >> well that's you get quiteed from for baseball. they're hearing from other teams phils are evaluated players and

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