entered our region. on stormtracker 6 live double scan we have that battle going on with snow to the north and east of philadelphia and that blue, the mix of snow and freezing rain taking over much of the area at this time. there you can see the blue, a mixture of sleet and some freezing rain up near route 1 move ago way from philadelphia in parts of philadelphia. the snow is not lasting all that long and then the sleet starts to accumulate, especially on the secondary roads and the overpasses and sidewalks and parking lots, and wrightstown and somerville seeing the snow but soon the sleet will take over. we have winter weather advisories in affect until can basically for the entire viewing area for the mixture as it slowly transitions over to plain

old rain, numbers are generally at or below freezing especially to the north and east of philadelphia, into the 20s, the timing of when it flips to main old rain from philadelphia to i-95 a few more hours of that sleet and freezing rain and the lehigh valley not until 10:00 in the morning. this is the beginning of a long duration storm. cecily tynan has more about the battle to the north and the warmth to the south. >> temperatures are rising overnight, right now in philadelphia it's 30 degrees, cincinnati 44 degrees, atlanta 53 and memphis 58 degrees we'll be tapping out more warm air however there is arctic air across the northern plains than is moving in wednesday night into thursday and that will bring us that potential for significant snow storms future tracker showing tomorrow morning, temperatures above freezing across the board we are looking at light rain south

of philadelphia and tomorrow it will be on and off rain through 4:30, generally south of philadelphia, however at the same time, the arctic air is beginning to move in across the mississippi valley and another wave of low pressure develop as long the cold front and that wave brings in the moisture as the cold air moves non-future tracker showing by 7:00 on thursday morning, we are looking at the potential for heavy snow in most of our viewing area, future snowfall showing the heavy snow band in the dark blue looks to set up across the region and still a little bit a question how far to the north it will reach and how far to the south the national weather service has issued a winter storm watch for the entire viewing area, we'll talk about more of what to expect in the full accuweather forecast. >> penndot crews are out and about treating the roads and staying ahead of the storm and it's only the first of what will

be a busy couple of days for them. chad pradelli is live in king of prussia, where he continues team coverage this afternoon. chad? >> hey alicia pretty ugly out here, we see the sleet coming down and not a lot sticking on the roadways but still a little slick, there was a salt truck here that just got loaded up penndot tells me that 300 trucks will be on the roadway here for this storm. that includes the state fleet and the contractors over there the weapon of choice for this storm. salt. >> you check your hoses and lines and make sure nothing is leaking. penndot driver eric lawrence is doing his walk through checking his plow but mother nature's most recent blow is more of a spreading event than a plowing one. it's a long night another one of these storms and it keeps changing on you. >> i expect we'll have excess of

300 trucks on the highway salting as the snow moves into the region. >> it's a long day fort drivers but this has been a long winter. penndot says there are 20 weather events since the beginning of the year, roughly three a week, the message is stay off the roads if possible. >> definitely give us room to operate and stay back, give us room to get the job done. you know slow the speeds down. >> some good advice there we have not seen a ton of snowfall we have all of these little events and according to penndot more than 140,000 tons of salt have been used the second most in the past 30 years. >> thank you chad. >> even before any snowfall some neighborhoods are still dealing with all the snow and ice that is already on the ground. that is especially true in the city, where anyone parallel

parking has to deal with a slippery obstacle course. sara bloomquist has more in south philadelphia. >> reporter: we have the briefest burst of snow and it didn't last long and then some sleet and then light rain but it's cold and uncomfortable. what is making this storm worse is there is so much snow and ice on side streets and sidewalks like here in south philadelphia there is now more of this stuff on the way. >> in northeast philadelphia mountain road, driveways are still snow covered and so are the sidewalks, a similar scene in south philadelphia, streets are covered with packed down snow and ice and sidewalks are slick in spots. joseph gallow was trying to clear his step as head of this storm. >> i'm shoveling it off and when it melts it comes on the pavement and freezes overnight.

if i get it away from the house -- it will be lrtd. >> snow is one thing but we have experience with ice this past sunday and nobody wants to deal with that again. >> we moved on sunday and it was slick slick. >> brian rides his bike no matter the reason. if it stays cold, the ice stays on the streets, it's hard with bicycles because of the icy patches. that is dangerous. >> not everybody minds snow and ice piling up yet again, some say that is what winter is all about. >> i love the cold and all the ice and snow that comes with it. my favorite season. >> i think the truth is most of us are ready for this winter season to be over. live in south philadelphia i'm

sara bloomquist, channel 6 "action news." >> sign me up if you can find the petition. >> mobile 6 is out there watching the roads it's on market street making its way up to city hall and dillworth park, we can make our way around city hall it's sleeting in center city philadelphia making for a bit of a slow go mostly wet out there right now and you can see our wipers are working well, but a word of caution, take it slow and be aware there is ice on the roadways, if you are heading home early. with that lets get a check of the "action news" traffic report. matt pellman is monitoring the accumulation. >> the biggest accumulation is that of salt, there is so much salts on the roads that is helping to keep the conditions just wet but with the sleet coming down we can expect slippery conditions. we are live along the conshohocken and the blue route

southbound side approaching the schuylkill expressway, if there is one thing you hope for is that your vehicle doesn't break down, sorry to this poor guy in his broken down van causing slowing south of ridge pike bus that one lane is blocked and plenty of slowing here in center city and the sleet is falling and jammed traffic in both directions on the vine street expressway. this is the schuylkill expressway you can see no one is getting anywhere quickly. this is the scene in king of prussia of an overturned tractor trailer, valley forge 76 to the westbound lanes of the pennsylvania turnpike, this is westbound traffic heading towards downingtown and traffic is squeezing by it but you have to watch it on the ramps and conditions are slippery and this guy overturned earlier today. here is the roosevelt boulevard in east falls we are jammed in both directions, southbound heavy towards the schuylkill and eastbound side a normal backup

where the penndot truck heading towards broad street. here in chester county, a crash on the northbound side of 202 by 322, that is off to the side. plenty of wetness and slipperiness out there. lets grab the ipad and do this commuter report on this tuesday afternoon a crash from the waze app in allegheny and richmond. we'll check it again coming up in the next half hour. >> thank you matt, we have more coverage ahead throughout the evening here, walter perez nora muchanic and david henry will have live reports and we'll check in with adam, cecily and matt for weather and traffic. when you see breaking news or severe weather, we want you to join the action email your pictures and videos to join the action@6abc.com. or use the #~ 6 abc action on social media it's how you can

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from time to time. >> it's time now for your messy accuweather forecast. >> adam joseph does not miss when it comes to the forecast. >> this evening we are starting the storm with a mixture of snow sleet and freedsing rain and this storm will not leave us completely until thursday evening. as we look at double scan live behind me the white which is the snow and the blue that is the sleet and freezing rain and even green some rain in fact we close into double scan closer norristown and pottstown has flipped to the freezing rain, the sleet falling on the major roadways there is so much salt, they are fearing the sidewalks and sidewalks and the bridges and overpasses and parking lots that are accumulating some of this sleet and that sleet is little ice pellets, and it can turn hard, that is what we are watching and then it flips over to snow as you head to the east and north of the northeast

extension and further to the south we deal with some rain trying to mix in cape may to seea isle city and a big wall of blue as the cold air is trying to struggle and win over that warm air. we see that battle right now, we notice temperatures are generally below freezing across the area so untreated surfaces with the sleet falling eventually it gets freezing rain in there will coat the ground with ice before we can warm the temperatures enough to melt that ice and flip the precipitation just to plain rain. southerly winds are taking over now and it's the southerly wind that will move the temperatures into the upper 30s overnight and even at 7:00, we are still below freezing north and west with the mix, south and east we are going above freezing by 7:00 and by 11:00, everyone is above the freedsing point all the way to the lehigh valley and on

wednesday morning, temperatures in the 40s so no ice issues for the morning rush just wet damp roads and tomorrow evening's rush temperatures in the mid to upper 40s dealing with light rain showers future tracker 6 showing some light rain showers at midnight and thursday morning at 6:00 a.m. we are watch that flip to snow as the colder air moves in and that is the same thing through thursday afternoon, dealing with that snow especially in southern areas in the afternoon. expected snowfall total 4 to 8 inches for late wednesday night into the day on thursday for the lehigh valley to the poconos much less 2 to 4 inches. it depends where that stalls if we have to move this map to the north and south. and again tonight at 11:00 p.m. as you look at your four day at 4:00 damp and dreary and 45 degrees and rain changes to snow and temperatures only at 30 and

a cold end to the week, 20s for highs again with full sunshine and we quickly turn up the heat here. a lot to iron out a complex system guys. >> thank you adam. pennsylvania taxpayers are once again using their refunds for an important cause they gave $100,000 this year to fund breast cancer research at drexel, to scientists accepted the grant and that came from taxpayers that donated their refund to the breast cancer coalition. >> tuesday afternoon the stock market took cues from our dreary weather, the dow dropping 85 points and the nasdaq off 28 to fall back below 5,000 and the s&p is down 9.5 on the day. auto sales were up in february but not for everyone and not as much as industry experts were hoping general

motors and fiat chrysler reported increases and ford says that sales dropped off and february is a big month for the auto industry with huge sales events around president's day and analysts say that snowy and cold weather made for slower business in showrooms across the country. the eagles make a surprise move on cut ties with one of their most controversial players. >> and the city of philadelphia and the philadelphia school district are selling everything from paper towels to school buses, we'll explain the unusual auction. >> and curt shilling taking to cyber bullying because of his daughter.

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now, and turning to freezing rain and to plain rain later on and we have not heard of any delays at this point but it's a messy scene and another check of the forecast and we'll continue our team coverage coming up in less than five minutes. police say that the weather is to blame after three cars collided this morning in montgomery county sending one in tacony creek it happened in cheltenham police say that three people went to the hospital. everybody is expected to be okay. >> eagles made a surprise move on cut ties with yet another veteran, they released cornerback kerry williams, a relationship what was rocky at times and he was out spoken and even publically criticized coach, chip kelly we'll have much more coming up on sports at

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adam joseph shirleen allicot, and brian taff. hello again, it's 4:30 and "action news" continues, with the class giving new meaning to the term protective parent why one woman wants to teach moms how to carry a baby and a gun at the same time. >> and how a pitcher is playing hard ball with cyber bullies. >> i never uttered the words they have posted. >> and it's a shot out a disney move yirk a baby weasel riding on a woodpecker, it was not as friendly as it seemed. what is going on in that now viral photo. >> here we go again the calendar may say march but mother nature is saying january. our region once again under a

winter weather advisory courtesy of the image on 6abc.com. it starts as snow but is changing to sleetd and freezing rain adam joseph is tracking it all with double scan technology. >> we don't like the colors on double scan live. this winter it's ice with every storm we have the big area of blue across much of the area, that is the sleet and freezing rain even outside of our studios here i can hear folks scraping the ice off their cars as the first shift is leaving, as we look north and east we are dealing with snow north of trenton and the sleet and freezing rain is coating everything from norristown to pottstown and wilmington to glassboro and hammonton and the warm air is trying to win out and what is happening in the atmosphere, we have the warm air it is light and buoyant and at 5,000 feet up we have the

warm air pushing in at first it's all snow, the cold column of air but as the warm air starts to eat away from the 5,000 foot to the surface it changes to sleet and the cold air is much shallower and just a layer of cold air at the surface and above our heads is all warm, the precipitation begins at rain, falls as rain and adheres on all the surfaces as ice and it's until the surface can warm enough to create the whole layer in the warmth in the air that we'll see rain. now the driveways and parking lots all a sheet of ice but tonight everybody raises up enough to turn this to rain. when i come back we'll talk about the tail end of the storm that is the most robust in the form of snow coming up in the full accuweather forecast. >> thank you adam.

you mentioned the ice and snow moving in just in time for the evening rush, new jersey correspondent, nora muchanic is talking to the winter weary in the garden state today. she joins us live from trenton with reaction from there. >> reporter: hi there brian, i'm smiling but they are not. the sleet and snow started at 3:00 but it's not really sticking and that is good, we are outside of the transit center, and buses and trains and light rail is all moving this is turning into another miserable day of weather and people have had enough. the latest river line train is arriving in trenton and along with it more bad weather. >> i'm tired of it everybody is waiting for spring. it's not bad but the sleet and freezing rain you can't do anything in it. >> i am done with this weather. >> people are plain old tired of

this snow and ice and sleet. the malverns arrived home after a trip to d.c. >> i have had enough how about you? >> i have totally had enough. >> i came from washington it was ice. walking. >> is that right? >> at least here they clean up in washington they don't do a good job. >> it's not a good winter, i have been through this before and we'll get through again. >> the sidewalks have been treated too. >> we are ready we have four pallets, 150 pound bags of rock salt, mixed with calcium chloride and magnesium, we'll be here during the duration. >> i am on one plane change today i figured transportation is disrupted enough. >> i enjoy the snow but i am not out in it. >> especially with a cup of tea and a good book. >> that sounds good.

sleet is falling here in trenton and it doesn't appear to be messing up the evening commute, lets hope this stays that way, i'm nora muchanic channel 6 "action news." >> all right thank you very much more nora, are you looking at mobile 6 towards city hall. again, sleet is coming down and the windshield wipers are handling well and the tires are having a different time. be aware if you are headed home early, you'll want to take extra time and use extra caution, mat will have more on the roads and rails coming up in the "action news" traffic report. the 6 abc storm tracker app has you covered as the wintry weather continues along with live radars and automatic alert and watches and warnings it's a free download for your mobile device. >> philadelphia police said an

armed robbery suspect said a deliveryman held up a fern rock pharmacy it showed an employee let the man back into the store on february 25th that is when the suspect pulled a gun and forced the woman into the front. from there he ordered a manager to empty the safe into a trash bag and once he had the store's money he left without hurting anyone, if you have any information on this crime please call philadelphia police. two people were arrested following a short chase through delaware county today. it started when officers stopped a car in chester after 11:00 this morning. instead of pulling over the man behind the wheel drove at an officer and then fled on to i-95. multiple law enforcement agencies joined in the chase and it ended in ridley where a driver and a female passenger were both arrested.

police have not yet released the pair's name orz charges they will be facing. >> a gloucester county jury has cleared a police officer accused of trying to frame a state lawmaker for dui. joseph ventura was charged with filing false records. officer ventura claim that more morety gave him a drunk driving in 2012, it convinced them that the officer was not telling the truth, they found him not guilty on all counts today and his charges were previously dismiss dismissed dismissed. a new surgical technique can change the way doctors do intense exercise or doing sports. monica malpass is here with more. >> the achilles tendon is -- and

they have a new way to repair the tendon and the recovery time is shorter as well. coming up at 5:00, how the new procedure works and how close it is to becoming widely used. also, local students showcase their creativity at a science fair at temple university. and lisa thomas-laury will share their creativity with you tonight. we'll see you then. >> we'll see you soon. today delaware county's best and brightest scares off in one of the oldest quiz competitions garnet high school hosted the delco high q championship. they competed against haverford in the finals and we learned that pen crest won the

competition and they received the trophy and cash for their school furnished by franklin mint federal credit union. >> today is read across america and the philadelphia 67ers are celebrating with style. check it out members of the squad delighted the kids at the william ziegler school, the team is kicking off sixer's reading month and children were treated to a dramatic reading of if i ran the dog show, acted out by their brand new mascot, franklin. one man is proving that winter weather could have an upside. joel carved a 400 foot luge out of the snow in his backyard in kutztown and it took him hundreds of hours over eight weeks but the hard work paid off because dozens of kids already enjoyed the creation including

padding on the surrounding trees preventing bumps and bruises, how is that. >> that is awesome and i want to be invited right now. >> you might get that brian. from toilet paper to school buses we'll take you inside one of the blowout sales we have seen in saving can 6 abc. and former phillies player curt shilling is taking a swing at cyber bullies, how the proud papa took down the internet controls for viciously attacking his teenage daughter. >> it turns out this moment is not as magical as it looks, what the little guy was really doing coming up. >> and keep watching there he is meteorologist, adam joseph checking out the latest on the accuweather forecast. he'll have all the new details coming up.

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phillies pitcher curt shilling is taking a swing at cyber bullies, saying they sent vulgar tweets about his daughter. congrats to gabby shilling who will pitch for the seahawks next year. that set off a firestorm of sexually inappropriate tweets from internet controls aimed at gabby, so offensive we can't show them on tv. he took pictures and posted them on his blog. >> i grew up in a locker room and never in my life have i uttered half of the words that these guys were posting. >> nobody should be able to get away with saying things like that about a girl to her father. >> one is suspended and both on twitter and from brookdale community college, another

reportedly lost his job with the yankees. >> gun toting and baby wearing doesn't go hand in hand but one iowa mom wants to teach a course on how to carry a firearm and a little one at the same time. >>mal ory was working at a gun store and a parenting center at the same time. and realized there were mothers that want to carry protection, and not going it correctly could lead to accidenting. lower is not encouraging women to have weapons but wants the ones that do to do so safely. that class by the way is sold out. and finally it started with this picture courtesy of a man named martin lamay in england, it looks like a baby weasel riding a woodpecker, but that weasel was trying to kill the bird either way the internet

has taken liberties we bring you john travolta nuzzling the woodpecker and dancing saturday night fever style and miley on the woodpecker as she did the wrecking ball and dress blue black-white gold, you know the one and kim jong un also getting in on the action and the llamas wearing the dresses here, as you can see back here on the big board, i'll show it to you joan iing a little bit of this fun. lamay says the woodpecker did live in the story and his one story seen around the world. >> a happy ending there. that story proves the internet can be a great place and as curt shilling's experience proves a terrible place. lets get another check of the roads tonight. matt pellman in the traffic center with an update for us. >> we want to weasel our way out

of a wintry mess. unfortunately we are stuck in it. stuck in traffic on the 30 bypass, westbound side the whole way from 202 in exton through this point at 322 on past the chester airport, we have slick conditions and they are deteriorating over the last few hours, a decent amount of slush it's very slippery, accidents past 202 and past 340, and past the exit, even on the highways there is so much salt down conditions are slippery at this point. and coming south of the poconos past the lehigh tunnel taking out a lane and a wreck at 611 and swamp road and the new hope fire company and suegan road and valley forge to the pennsylvania turnpike, traffic is squeezing by on the ramp as they continue

to work on the overturned truck. right now it's upright. you can see the busy conditions on the roosevelt boulevard watch out for the slick patches and the schuylkill is jammed to broad street and this is 76 the wet camera lens tells the story and the camera is wet and overall slow this afternoon. we'll check it again at 5:00. >> all right matt we'll see you then. >> meteorologist adam joseph is back with the exclusive accuweather forecast. sometimes, caring for your neighbors means going the extra mile. when our patient, susan, mentioned her dad couldn't make it in to pearle vision to get his eyes checked... we went to him. and we realized, if he had trouble getting new glasses... he probably wasn't the only one. to us, eye care is about living dr. pearles legacy. building a trusting relationship

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meteorologist, adam joseph with the accuweather forecast. most of us dealing with wintry weather and most of it is sleet and freezing rain and then back

to snow. over the next 48 hours a live look at double scan radar a big chunk of region in that blue is the worst color you can see when you deal with winter storms because that is the sleet and the freezing rain, just a little bit of snow left over far to the north and east and allentown flipping over from that snow to some sleet and eventually will go over to freezing rain and still dealing with some snowflakes mixing in north of 611 and flemming ton. 222 and 422 and 329 north and east of hamburg dealing with the ice and that continues from i-95 and philadelphia and the brink of trenton, we are still waiting for the warm air of the surface, it's entering the upper part of the atmosphere first and slowly makes its way down to the surface and it comes in light and from above and that is why

we see it form as rain in the clouds and as it hits the ground with the cold air that is dense and stubborn to break it freezes on contact. 29 in trenton and 29 in wilmington and 27 in reading and slowly these numbers from south to north will jump above the freezing mark. double scan live radar you can sigh the precipitation overtaking even western parts of new england and there you see the rain with the warmer air to the west and the future tracker at 8:00 still on the line of freezing rain and rain from wilmington to philadelphia and definitely still freezing rain to the north and west and notice millville and atlantic city 36 and 37 degrees and by 11:00 we'll be puncturing that mid-30s range into the lehigh valley and we are off to the races as temperatures go tomorrow at 8:00 low to mid-40s even into the upper 40s tomorrow afternoon

and tomorrow evening's rush hour still dealing with plain old rain but notice the temperatures starting to drop into the 30s again and that is the transition from rain back to snow at midnight tomorrow in wilmington, philadelphia and trenton and a mix to the south and then everybody flips over to heavy snow by thursday morning as the snow accumulates in what could be the biggest snow storm of our winter season so far. tomorrow rain the entire day about a quarter to .75 inch, late wednesday night 10:00 11:00, 12:00 that rain changes to snow from north to south and stays to heavy snow throughout the day on thursday this is a pretty easy expected snowfall map, most of the area 4 to 8 inches and 2 to 4 to the north and it's the timing of when the cold air comes in and where does the front set up and will this map stay the same? we'll keep fine tuning it for you but right now a healthy

amount of snow for much of the area on thursday. the exclusive accuweather forecast damp and dreary and 45 degrees, the snow storm is around for the first half of the day on thursday and then a brutally cold day on friday and 29 when the high should be near 49 degrees, and we bounce back to the 40s over the weekend as we turn the clocks ahead and a nice stretch monday and tuesday, i'm just actually in awe seeing all the sunshine on friday and warm temperatures, it has been some time and we need to be rewarded. >> a long two days to get through. >> thank you adam. the "action news" facebook page is the place to find the updated accuweather forecast this afternoon, there goes adam joseph make sure you get all the latest news and weather and fun content, go to facebook.com/action news and click the like button.

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franklin bridge tonight, the timing of the storm the big problem it's hitting during the evening rush and recently speeds along the delaware bridges all of them are reduced to 35 miles per hour, the big story on "action news" another winter storm delivering a mix of snow, ice and rain. >> not everybody will see snow, what you get of course depends on where you live. we have team coverage of this. walter perez and chad pradelli and lets begin with our team of meteorologist. cecily tynan and adam joseph. >> and this storm system is coming in three ways, ice then rain and then snow. we have a lot of blue on the map and it's freezing rain and sleet pellets mixed in to the north. zooming in where you see the darker shades of blue, that is the heavier shades of