>> ♪♪ >> good morning, it's 4:00 a.m. on this tuesday february 17th. "action news" is on early to bring you the latest on the winter storm. here's what's happening. >> it's a messy winter one hitting parts of the tri-state area right now. hack sweater tracking the latest. >> mobile6 is out there as well on the move. we have live team coverage of what could be a rough commute. >> as of now philadelphia public and archdiocesan schools are opening on time. that could change. we will let you know. look like the phillies are down in spring training right now. wouldn't that be nice for us. >> i know. >> dozens of schools are reporting delays and closings. they are running at the bottom of your screen also available at 6abc.com. >> it would be nice to be down in florida but we're here dave murphy. give us the latest from accuweather and karen rogers is watching what could be a busy traffic morning. good morning.

>> almost certainly will be. storm tracker 6 live double scan right now on the big board shows that you those heavy bands of snow that we were expecting overnight did arrive and we're still dealing with some of it. the snow is thinning out out to the west of us and we may find the bulk of this does get over towards the east of philadelphia fairly quickly this morning but the beginning of the rush hour you'll still have snow and this is coming down at a pretty good clip. it's light fluffy snow but it is piling up. as we take a wide view of course as expected the center of this storm system is well to our south and we're just getting clipped with the upper reaches of it but it is enough of that snow to be able to pile up. we have been going for about 3 to 6 inches across the central portion of the region and looks like we'll wind up with something along that line. we have that winter weather advisory from philadelphia and delaware county and trenton up to the north and west in the immediate suburbs for accumulating snow this morning and of course it's still a warning down south where we're still expecting a little bit more significant snowfall so

you're going to have problems driving around in these counties highlighted in the advisory area in the lavender. expect delays during the morning rush hour. we have had some heavy snow overnight. it's still coming down at a pretty good clip as you just saw in those bright bands of light still over most of the region. heaviest snow is south and east of 95, several inches already on the ground just about everywhere. as we take a look at temperatures it's uncomfortable out there, 14 degrees in philadelphia. of course with these low temperatures it helps that snowfall in that light fluffy variety versus the heavy wet snow. wind chills are also an issue once again today. not as bad as yesterday but seals like it's 4 degrees out there. as we roll through the day it stays cool. 26 degrees by noon and by 3 o'clock we'll be at 30. that's your high. the bulk of the snow during the morning rush hour but it should be tapering off pretty quickly after about 8 or 9 o'clock and the last of it

done no later than midday. karen rogers what are roads looking like early as if i have to ask? >> yeah, it's really difficult to be out there on the roads. i think the main roads are really just as slippery as the secondary roads at this point and let's take a live look and we have a number of problems even at this early hour if you're heading out. looking live in south philadelphia, i-95 past the walt whitman bridge northbound traffic right here you see the flares set up and the flashing lights. we've got a jackknifed tractor-trailer only one lane getting by here in south philadelphia on i-95 northbound past the walt whitman bridge. we're going to switch our camera view and take a live look here in northeast philadelphia. this is i-95 approaching cottman. southbound traffic. you can see right here it's moving very slowly. we have speed restrictions of 45 miles an hour on most of your interstates in pennsylvania because of this. we're seeing speed restrictions in new jersey as well on the main roads. we're looking at very slow moving traffic because the roads are snow covered at this point. switching your camera view here to conshohocken and the ramp we always tell you the

ramps and overpasses more problems and that's what we're seeing in conshohocken. the ramp from the blue route northbound to the schuylkill westbound is shut down. yet another jackknifed tractor-trailer. the cause of the problem here. stick to the ramp to ridge pike instead. looking up in berks county, i176 southbound closed between 23 and route 10. yet another accident so app handful of accidents in there already. problems on the main roads as well as secondary roads. if you do head out give yourself a lot of extra time and expect to slip and slide matt and tam. >> thanks karen. areas to the south are expecting more snow. let's head down to one of those areas. john rawlins is live for us in new castle delaware. good morning john. >> reporter: good morning, matt. we've had quite a bit of snow down here, i'm going to say 2 to 3 inches on the ground. it's the light fluffy stuff not very good for making snowballs. behind me is route 13 aka north dupont highway to sort of situate ourselves to behind us would be minquedale and the road would run on to wilmington here.

so you're seeing not a lot of traffic at this point in time, very light traffic the roads are snow covered. traction when we were driving which was closer to 3 o'clock, 3:15, traction is spotty out there. you'll be chugging along and it doesn't seem too bad but then you apply the brakes and you'll get abs brake chatter and at some point you could do some sliding so take it easy if you're going to go out early this morning. doesn't look like the road crews have caught up. take it easy, take time and use caution and common sense so you don't end up like what karen was showing us where we have jackknifed trucks and that sort of thing. you can see traffic getting around. we finally see a few vehicles on the road and i do believe that maybe a salt truck that's moving along there with the flashing yellow lights so the road crews are getting out they are getting the job done but it's going to take awhile before things are certainly really in good shape down in this part. so live in new castle, john rawlins, channel6 "action news." back to you all. >> have to admit, john high a

little abs pitter patter, chitted chatter action myself. >> we both did. got to take it slow. thank you so much john. let's take a look at mobile6 which will be with us throughout the morning showing us road conditions out there. this is route 38 we're heading towards the city of philadelphia so we're in camden county. got some people on the left lane going a little bit faster. maybe it's best to stay in the right lane and go a little bit slower which is what mobile6 is doing right now but we're headed to the ben franklin bridge and we'll show you more road conditions throughout the morning. >> and let's get you back out on the streets and go over to "action news" reporter erin o'hearn. she's continuing team coverage in roxborough an area with all of those hills that can be really slippery and sliding out there. let's go on over to erin. warp you seeing? >> reporter: yeah, tam, this is very tricky area and we're on the corner of ridge cinnaminson but i have to tell you every area is really tricky this morning. if you're waking up and looking out your window, you're probably going to look at the snowfall and think well

it's no big deal, it doesn't look like it's coming down that hard but that is deceiving because the roads are very slick whether you're on the side roads or some of the main roads and as you said tam roxborough you can see the roads here are snow covered and there's some ice under there as well because the temperatures have been so cold. so, it's a good idea that if you have to head out early this morning, that you really give yourself some significant time to get to wherever you're going because the conditions are not pleasant and it seems that the snow continues to fall. about a half hour ago we thought it was letting up but it seems to be coming down. we have this "action news" snow totals ruler. it's actually more than we. there was our photographer mark and i were saying about 2-inches but it looks like there's about four on the ground here and we actually did talk to one resident here. he was out getting trod plow and he said the conditions are the worst he's seen this

season. so, again, hopefully this is going to let up in a few hours but again, if you are going out this morning take your time take it easy. you have to be safe. and we'll certainly give you an update on the accumulation in the next half hour and of course the road conditions as these plows try to do their job and get the roads clear for you. for now we're live in roxborough erin o'hearn channel6 "action news." >> thanks erin. if you see someone amid of shelter call the homeless help line. (215)232-1984. >> it's time to turn to dave murphy all of our reporters saying the same thing, some accumulation out there, you've got to be careful. what are you seeing. >> there's snow covered roads and the snow is still actively following and apologies to the director you're going to take that primary computer and you're so good you knew it anyway. here's storm tracker 6 life double scan. the as we take a look at that

two dimensional view and go in tighter unfortunately most of our most heavily traveled roadways are involved with this heavier snow highlighted in brighter shades of white some of this going right through philadelphia and back up through norristown. just to the north of norristown near lansdale you see a little bit of that pink highlighted as well. that's especially heavy snow and we're getting some of that in northeast philadelphia, too. so across the immediate region on your more heavily traveled roads you're looking at that heavy stuff stuff. out in allentown nd reading the snow is begin to thin out a little bit. harrisburg drying out at this point and gettysburg very close to that. it may be a case where very quickly during the rush hour we start to see the intensity slacking a bit. i will go down to the south parts of cape may atlantic county also heavy banding of snow and these are the areas where we thought we were going to get the heaviest accumulations. you have to deal with this stuff out to the west that still has to break through and looks like down the shore

you'll be stuck with that heavier snow a little longer. we are evolving towards some improvement. at this point we're still looking at pretty significant snowfall. as we look outside we have sky 6 and we are trying to see the ben franklin bridge. you can kind of pick it up there in the distance but the snow making the visibility from our high camera position here a little difficult. it's cold out there. 14 degrees. nine is your dewpoint so the airfarely close to that temperature, that dewpoint close to the temperature showing the saturation. winds out of the northeast at 7 miles per hour. not all that strong but enough to give you wind chills down in the single digits so do bundle up. overnight snow about 9 o'clock last night we had the light stuff but it was really more like 11 o'clock or midnight that the heavy bands began to fill in and in the overnight hours, we've just maintained that same pattern. of course we are seeing that breakup out to the west right now so things are beginning to get a little bit better. between now and about 7 o'clock it's possible that the heaviest banding is over south jersey and starting to push away from philadelphia. western suburbs might even be

drying out by then. i think the last of any snow showers are probably done about noon and after that we might even see a little bit of sunshine returning later this afternoon t what to expect this morning? well, slippery roads, that's obvious. the snow is going to be light and fluffy and later on if you go out to try and shovel it you'll find that it's fairly easy to shovel if it hasn't been packed down all that much. let the kids know if they're off for school today it's a bad day for is snow men because that light fluffy stuff will be hard to form. this is what we've been talking about in terms of snowfall amounts and i think we're pretty much on track for this sort of thing. about 3 to 6 inches in and around the center portion of the region and more down south. some spots might go well over 6-inches way down south in cape may county and parts of southern delaware. and your temperatures today stay cool. we'll get a high of 30 probably around 3 o'clock. again the snow tapering down pretty quickly this morning. your seven-day from accuweather shows a high this afternoon of 30. we'll hope for the return of some sunshine. morning snow will be tapering off during or hopefully a little after the morning rush

hour. and then tomorrow a snow shower is possible but not nearly as much on the brownd, 32 is the high and then we have another arctic snap. a high of 19 degrees on thursday. we're now looking at an overnight low of one, which is similar to what we've just experienced sunday into monday and then another 19-degree high on friday. a snow shower is possible on saturday and a little bit of rain mixing with snow possible on sunday so winter not over. >> you got that right. thank you david. it is 4:12 right now and we're taking a live look at philadelphia international airport. have about 56 cancellations today. that's about 10 percent of the flights. so, quite a few cancellations because of the snowstorm. let's go to karen. >> looking outside live right here, yet another accident. this is the boulevard approaching ridge avenue. it's blocking the left lane and the right shoulder and you see a vehicle looks like kind of almost in a snowbank off to the side. problems on the schuylkill, problems on i-95, all that of when "action news" continues. >> ♪♪

>> good morning everyone. it is 4:15 and we're taking a live look at mobile6. we have clearly reached the city of philadelphia where we still have some snow covered streets and roads. going to take some time for plows to come out there and clear things off. we have not heard anything different from philadelphia public and archdiocesan schools. at this point they're opening on time but we could get an update at some point so we will let you know if that changes but a lot of others are closing or on a delay this morning. >> karen as we all came in this morning i think most of us felt that as you come through the curves if you're not being careful you could get what our john rawlins are calling abs chatter. your brakes are skidding, a reminder you have to take it slower this morning. >> you have to slow it down. in fact we have speed restrictions on all your area interstates in pennsylvania at 45 miles an hour so you have to slow it down or else you'll end up like this i think as

well because we have problems out there on the roads wherever you look. it really is dangerous travel today because the roads are slippery with the snow covered roads. even on your maind roads. here we are on the boulevard approaching ridge avenue. that's southbound traffic headed towards the schuylkill. we see the accident blocking the left lane and a vehicle off to the side into the snow as well. so you have to be careful as you're traveling through. looks like we have some plows that are coming through this area as well but even areas that have been treated i think are still slippery at this point so problems like the schuylkill out here. let's switch our camera view. this is south philadelphia i-95 past the walt whitman bridge. we've got an accident with a jackknifed tractor-trailer and you can kind of see right there it's in the process of clearing out of there. it's jackknifed tractor-trailer and this is south philadelphia 95 past the walt whitman bridge but just an example of what can happen. we showed that you scene a minute ago so that one cleared but i think you have to be careful about that. remember 45 miles an hour speed restrictions on your area highways. now we're looking at the schuylkill and penndot has got it looking towards the trees

at this point with the snow coming down but be careful in this area nearby on the schuylkill near past gulph mills we have an accident there with traffic just barely getting by. also in conshohocken the ramp from the blue route northbound to the schuylkill westbound is closed and that's because of a jackknifed tractor-trailer. here we had an accident in berks county that cleared but problems wherever you look on the roads. take it slowly. the main roads as well as the side roads matt and tam are snow covered. >> thanks tam. parts of south jersey and the jersey shore could see some of the highest snow totals out of this storm. let's go to "action news" reporter annie mccormick who is in heavy snowfall in mays landing atlantic county, hi, annie. >> reporter: hey matt. around 11 o'clock it started falling here in atlantic county. we're in mays landing specifically and around 11 o'clock, between the hours of 11:00 and 3:00 it was that heavy pretty fluffy snow. now we're getting this kind of wintry mix and it just picked up in the last five minutes. you hear karen talking about road conditions.

the black horse pike, look how many inches are on there. this is just within the past hour. you could see that caravan of trucks including salt trucks and plow trucks coming through trying to lay down that salt. many of these roads already pretreated trying to get some of that traction down for drivers. the black horse pike down here in south jersey, of course, is one of the most heavily traveled roads. now, a lot of the area roadways like the garden state parkway, atlantic city expressway you're seeing some speed restrictions and we're also hearing some of the county offices in atlantic county are going to have their employees come in on a delay. well the snow is beautiful you can take a look at what it looks like on some of the cars, at that toyota car dealership. they're going have a lot of work to do when they get in there today. back out here live it's this glistening pretty snow. i don't know if you can see it. it looks like it's crystallizing. that's something that's at least nice for us to see something pretty if we're going to get this it might as well be something nice to look

at. reporting live in mays landing atlantic county annie mccormick channel6 "action news." >> still ahead on "action news" of course we've got the very latest from your accuweather team giving you the latest in the forecast and as we take a look outside that's king of prussia. somebody out there up and at 'em very early getting those sidewalks shoveled off. we'll continue to give you a look around the region at how much of a snow accumulation we're dealing with. we'll be right back. >> david. >> right now, guys, we do have storm tracker 6 live double scan showing you some heavy bands still over philadelphia all the way to the shore. there is a little bit of a thinning of the snow out to the north and west. when is this going to end? details coming up. >> ♪♪

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south little bit more than that. they could be seeing about a half a foot. annie, we saw her just a moment ago standing out in quite heavy snowfall but right now that is the view from north philadelphia. >> i think the trouble is with the roads, too, is the main roads look very similar to that. i think the main roads are in just as bad shape as the secondary roads. it's slippery. this is one of the accidents we have out here already. this is the roosevelt boulevard approaching ridge avenue. southbound traffic the left lane and the right shoulder are blocked. you're seeing traffic kind of squeeze by on the boulevard with this accident. a number of vehicles and you see emergency vehicles on the scene but you see a car off to the right side as well. i want to go to mass transit because we have problems here. we're seeing septa bus detours, about 20 different routes because of the conditions. we've listed them there but you want to expect delays and they have been telling us that this is the problem with septa buses trying to get through the city. regional rails the first trains will be on time but expect delays as the morning progresses there as well. patco running on a snow schedule today starting at

5:00 a.m. and amtrak's northeast corridor running on a modified schedule, dave. >> karen storm tracker 6 live double scan shows us we still have some white bands of snow across the central portions of the region through philadelphia fairly far up into bucks and montgomery county. few more bands heading to the shore. we're starting to break up by harrisburg reading even getting to the heaviest side of the snow. allentown will thin out probably in the next half hour. i think there's a good chance the heaviest snow is pushing to the east of philadelphia by about 7 or 8 o'clock. now it will take a little while for the plow crews to catch up but i think you'll find that this is a fairly quickly improving situation especially on the main roads once we get through and maybe toward the tail end of the rush hour. if the kids do wind up going to school today you'll want to bundle them up because not only is it snowy this morning but also on the cold side today. we're going for a high of 30 this afternoon we'll probably hit that at about 3 o'clock and there will be a 17 to 14 miles per hour wind. no big delays at the airport

right now fortunately twice. >> thank you david. 4:23 right now. david just mentioned we're seeing the snow push to the east. let's head there to mays landing in atlantic county, new jersey r-it was really coming down pretty good. we'll be right back. >> ♪♪

>> good tuesday morning. it's a tough ride as you try and head out on this tuesday morning. we're live in south philadelphia. at least i want to give you a little bit of good news here on 95 northbound side past the walt whitman bridge. we had that jackknifed tractor-trailer early this morning. all that's left now are a couple of flares that you can pretty easily dodge so all lanes reopened on 95 as you head northbound up towards penn's landing and the vine street expressway. hey, speaking of which if you're wondering how is that vine looking, it is not fine this morning. as we look live in center city here by eighth street, taillights are headed eastbound towards 95 and everybody is kind of just slowly creeping along. that's what you have to do but

you still need to maintain enough momentum to make it up hills and such. you can't go so slowly you'll not going to be able to make it up the hills. you'll end up spinning or something like that. you have to balance the speeds as you head out this morning. no accidents or anything on the vine but it is a very slippery treacherous situation as is the case on all of the highways and the secondary routes this morning. so often we say just stick to the highways, they're just wet they'll be fine. that's not the case this morning. they're mostly snow covered and very slippery as are the bridges so the result not surprisingly are those speed restrictions in effect across-the-board here at our good buddy the ben franklin bridge its just 25 miles per hour at the moment. and already we've had a bunch of accidents as karen has been telling you. there's one here in jackson township along 195 eastbound at jackson mills, a vehicle ran off the road. good news is everything associated with that crash is off to the side. matt and tam. >> thank you matt for the update. let's take you back outside, give you a live look this is king of prussia 202 henderson road you can see the snow is still coming down

we've got that accumulation to the sides of the road and quite a bit there in the roadway itself t "action news" will be right back. >> ♪♪

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early to give you the latest and help you get through it. >> mobile6 is out on the roads showing you the side streets and the highways kind of look the same. they're still snow covered and the plows need to do some work. >> let's get you the latest from your accuweather team as we take a live look. storm tracker 6 still showing that snow is right over us as it moves towards the east and we want to tell you about school closings. >> philadelphia schools archdiocesan and public are opening on time but that could change because it's still kind of early. sometimes they don't make the call until later. we'll let you know if that changes. a lot of suburban schools are on delays or closing. the list is on 6abc.com or scrolling on your screen. >> let's go to the people with the best information. we'll go to david he's got accuweather and karen is taking a look at the roads. good morning. >> good morning and right now at the 4:30 hour it's not great driving-wise out there as we do have some heavy bands of snow right over the central portion of the region extending up into bucks or montgomery county.