around the tri-state. but first the latest from accuweather. meteorologist cecily tynan starts us off at the big board. hey, cecily. >> hi, rick. storm tracker6 live double scan slowing we have four types of precipitation right now. we have snow in the white, we have sleet and freezing rain in the blue and we've got just plane rain in the green and that transition is happening from southeast to the northwest. so, zooming in on storm tracker we have that transition over to sleet, it's actually just a little bit north of that blueline. it's just right now south of philadelphia, woodbury, glassboro, berlin, medford lakes, you are getting that combination of the sleet and the freezing rain. what happens, there's warm air moving in and it's higher in the atmosphere. the atmosphere works from the top down. you don't get that changeover to the surface for a few hours but there has happened right now along the garden state parkway through tuckahoe fortescue approaching route 49 and we will see this line of rain moving up to the northwest, gradually as we head through the evening hours but it's just a slow process.

so, this is what we can expect. as far as accumulating snow, this will only be in the northwest suburbs from now and we're not looking at much. we're looking at about a coating to an inch of snow. the problem tonight, though, untreated surfaces are going to be slick with that warm air moving in the upper atmosphere, that change first happens to sleet and then freezing rain so that ice is my big concern as we head through the evening hours. the biggest concern for this will be where the cold air holds in the longest and this will be all areas really north and west of the pennsylvania turnpike, through the lehigh valley and the poconos. this is where we could get a pretty light glaze of ice, about .10 of an inch to .5 but that could cause more problems with the icing. it's about the temperatures. for details and the time line let's head to adam. >> cecily southern areas along the shore temperatures are already bouncing into the upper 30's, atlantic city airport at 36 degrees, wildwood 37 degrees but millville dover flirting with that freezing point and even

though you see your temperature bump to, say, 33, 34 degrees, you can still have some freezing rain because it's going the take extra time this go round to warm throws surfaces because of that extreme arctic air we had the last few days and in fact it's still in the 20's wilmington, philadelphia, up through the lehigh valley. but we'll see that rise be quicker and quicker as we go through the late evening and overnight hours. in fact, we start to really jump it up between 10 o'clock and 1 o'clock in philadelphia. 35 to 40 degrees and then by 7 o'clock in the morning, our temperatures up to 45 so we're expecting a 15-degree rise in temperature overnight tonight with that southerly wind and that change to rain, the timing central parts of delaware and southern new jersey it's happening now along the shore and continues to work to the north at 7:00 p.m. for wilmington, philadelphia, up through trenton between about 7:00 and 10 o'clock tonight and then those far northwestern suburbs near the lehigh valley, northern bucks county, parts of red and the poconos, 10:00 p.m. to around 1 o'clock in the morning. future tracker will show by

1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, though, as low pressure rides to our north and west, we will see a very heavy area of rain passing through the region. about a two-hour window of heavy rain tomorrow, about a half inch to an inch and that could lead to some flooding on the roadways and smaller streams. rick, when meteorologist cecily tynan comes back she'll time this exactly for you on future tracker in that full accuweather forecast. >> all right adam we'll check back with you a little bit later. our coverage continues tonight with "action news" reporter christie ileto live at independence mall with how people are dealing with this latest mess of wintry weather. hi, christie. >> reporter: hey, there, rick, yeah the snow has tapered off for the most. the snowfall earlier has left some very snow packed and slippery sidewalks and then you take a look at market and sixth and it's kind of slushy here out on the roads and many of the people that we spoke to have really saying they're trying to make the best of what mother nature has dumped.

>> wearing hats and wearing gloves. >> we've been going around to different museums. we had lunch in the area and it really -- it's been wonderful. >> reporter: for some monday's snow showers are an added bonus to the holiday. >> it's fun. >> it's cold but still cool. >> reporter: do you feel like you wish it happened on a school day instead of a holiday. >> yes. >> yes. >> definitely on tuesday. >> reporter: action cam was across the city as flakes cloaked the campus of temple university and along main street in manic. while a steady stream of snow blanketed olde city streets and left the roads slushy along the schuylkill expressway: any challenges you've had behind the wheel so far. >> just minor ones but no big deal. >> reporter: you said it was slippery. >> it's slushy. it's not real snowy. it's more ice. >> i like the snow but i don't really like it 'cause it's too cold. i'm ready for spring. >> reporter: i think a lot of people probably feel the way claire does and are ready for some warmer temperatures out here after all of the snow

and cold weather we've been dealing with. reporting live at independence mall, christie ileto channel6 "action news." rick and monica. >> thank you christie. today's snow as you can imagine caused some traffic troubles in delaware as well. the action cam in wilmington where cars and trucks were struggling to navigate the slippery hill on maryland avenue. and the jersey shore also got a dusting of snow today. this was the pretty scene in cape may along the washington street mall. nora muchanic will have more from the garden state for us coming up tonight at 5:30. >> now taking a live look at the roadways, rider now right nw mobile6 driving on broad street, city hall to the right. as you can see traffic is moving at a pretty steady clip and looks like the roads have been plowed and seem to be passable. but visibility could be a problem as the snow starts to turn over so you do want to be careful as you head out and about but again, penndot and much of the city has been taking care of the roads throughout the area. a hundred thousand tons of rock salt to keep roads free of ice and slush tonight.

we're keeping an eye on the highways and by ways for you. right now matt pelman is keeping an eye on the highways as well and he's live in the "action news" traffic center with more. >> hi, matt. >> good evening, monica and rick. yes, indeed i think if you head out this evening you're going to be okay. you're not going get snuck a snow drift or anything like that but you most likely will pass some sort of issue because we've seen a lot of minor fender-benders out there and we're seeing plenty of slowing here on 422 westbound lanes hard to get into too much of a problem when you're going this slowly but there's a lot of volume, a lot of people creeping along in the westbound lanes from 23 on out to past oaks. this is 95. looks a little bit more just wet here, a little bit of slush. travel times are basically what they are mos most afternoo. people are slowing down because of the inclement weather. visibilities are down as rick just said. this is the scene in center city along the vine street expressway. eastbound drivers tapping their brakes headed toward 95. mostly just wet in the main

lanes of 42 here in bellmawr camden county but really watch it on the ramps. we've had a number of ramp accidents in new jersey this afternoon. we'll check it again, rick and monica, in the next half hour. >> thank you sir. and of course you can watch double scan radar as that snow turns to rain without ever leaving your couch much head to 6abc.com/weather. we're posting any evening cancellations as they come in. you can find those on our home page. >> in other news tonight, two college freshmen are facing charges in connection with a drug bust at villanova university. and it all comes after a man apparently high on lsd assaulted a woman and campus police. "action news" reporter sar sarah bloomquist live on villanova's campus with all the details. >> reporter: rick, that's right, two villanova freshmen are facing charges. one charged with dealing the lsd, the other accused of taking the powerful hallucinogen and then assaulting a female and public safety officer. in all, three young people who were on the campus were

transported to local hospitals this weekend. the university and police said lsd use is unheard of. they have not had an incident involving the drug in many, many years. 18-year-old justin yim a freshman at villanova from douglaston new york is being held on $50,000 bail. radnor township police say they found 37 doses of lsd in his dorm room located on the south campus of the main line university. 33 say they also discovered marijuana and close to $9,000 in cash in his dorm room. police believe yim supplied the lsd that sent three young people to the hospital early saturday morning. it was just after midnight when public safety responded because a male freshman, yim's roommate was out of control. >> actually assaulted a female public safety immediately converged on him attempted to make contact where he began assaulting the public safety officers. >> reporter: he was rushed to the hospital and charged with aggravated assault. a short time later, public safety responded again and found another freshman male

and a juvenile girl vis sitting campus also under the influence of lsd. >> found people to be in a -- some type of drug induced state. also alcohol was mixed on board with some of the other people. all of those parties were transported to the hospital. >> reporter: the investigation led police to yim and when he returned to campus sunday evening, he was arrested. both radnor police and villanova officials said lsd was thought to be a drug of the past. students we talked to were shocked to hear students used it here. >> lsd use on the campus is really unheard of in my eight years there. i've never had an lsd case on the campus. >> eye opening because you're not really -- that's not something that happens that often at all and kind of freaks you out a little bit. >> reporter: all of the students are now out of the hospital. yim faces expulsion and this investigation continues tonight. live in radnor township, i'm sarah bloomquist, channel6 "action news." monica.

>> thank you, sarah. it was the ultimate president's day sale in south jersey congress hotel sold off guest room furniture this afternoon to make way for a multi-million dollar renovation. things like this. it's known as the summer white house. the hotel hosted five sitting presidents benjamin harrison grant franklin pierce chester arthur and james buchanan. anyone who bought an entire room of furniture got a free night's stay as well. >> okay. much more still to come on "action news" at 5:00 tonight. a supreme battle is shaping on capitol hill after the death of justice antonin school y coming up at 5:30 the showdown between democrats and republicans over the now empty seat on the high court. >> a war of words on the campaign trail. the new attacks from donald trump after rival ted cruz questioned his credentials. >> looking live outside "action news" is tracking a wintry mess moving through the area and this is penn's landing believe it or not take our word for it. it is completely iced over out

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>> time for accuweather. meteorologist cecily tynan halls the latest on that wintry mix out there but the good news is there's a light at the end of the tunnel. >> that's right. everything will eventually be changing over to all rain as temperatures warm in the overnight hours. but double scan live showing

that we are having a messy evening commute. hopefully the roads aren't quite as busy since it is a holiday but that sleet, freezing rain line has now pushed through the i-95 corridor and it's heading towards jenkintown so the schuylkill expressway, the blue route right now, intersection at media i-95, route 30, the new jersey turnpike this all experiencing the sleet and the freezing rain. the good news is we've already had snow pack so actually freezing rain on top of snow, the snow can provide a little bit of traction. it's better than just getting that freezing rain over the pavement. as we zoom in across south jersey, you can see there we still have that rain line just kind of hanging around the garden state parkway but as the warm front lifts up to the north we will get this push of very warm air. we'll see that line advancing to the northwest as we head through the overnight hours. as far as snowfall amounts, pretty light to moderate event. dover reporting 1.8, bear delaware 1.5, lindenwold in camden county 1.5, cape may

courthouse 2.1-inches of snow this morning and drexel hill reporting 1 inch of snow. temps really tell the story inform wildwood it's 39 degrees. we've got winds really off the ocean generally out of the east-southeast. 40 in beach haven. philadelphia still holding below freezing at 28 degrees and the northwest suburbs 21 in allentown and reading. the poconos 16 degrees so that colds air will be holding on the longest in the northwest suburbs and that's why that area will get the most significant icing. now satellite6 along with action radar showing what we're dealing with right now. again, it's a warm front that's lifting through our region. so we have that warm air overriding the cold air at the surface so that's why we get that changeover to sleet and freezing rain before the complete changeover all to rain and a wider view showing the next part of this storm system that low pressure is near jackson and this has a cold front that has been provide something severe weather with severe thunderstorms and even tornado watches and warnings and that

cold front will be pushing through here during the day and that will bring us a round of some heavy rain. so future tracker showing around 7 o'clock tonight still have that icing around the i-95 corridor. all rain across south jersey and southern delaware. by 11 o'clock, the icing concerns still across parts of the lehigh valley and berks county and then it will all change over to rain and then look at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. temperatures in the upper 40's and the 50's, a break in the action with just some drizzle and then around midday is when we get that heavy band of rain but then it moves out very quickly by the evening commute. so, the heavy hit of rain, maybe a thunderstorm but look at the high tomorrow. 59 degrees. yesterday's high only 20. and then on wednesday it will be breezy with some sunshine, 46 degrees. thursday we cool off, mostly sunny skies with a high of 40. friday 45 and look at the weekend. what a difference a week makes. 58 degrees, lots of clouds, perhaps a shower. adam will let you know if we keep that mild air for the second half of the weekend coming up in the full accuweather forecast. guys.

>> 40-degree change in the weather, wow. >> big change. >> thank you cecily. >> thanks cecily. >> let's take a break and be right back with more. stick around.

>> "action news" continues with meteorologist adam joseph, jaime apody, rick williams and monica malpass.

>> ♪ >> hello again. here's what's happening on "action news" monday night. a mixed bag of precipitation scattered across the area is making for a messy president's day. we have live team coverage coming up. also a mystery in lehigh county when a woman's body was found in a dumpster. what police are saying. and the death of supreme court justice antonin scalia and the nomination for his replacement has sparked a battle between democrats and republicans. where it stands tonight. >> we are continuing to track the latest winter storm for you moving through our area right now. as you can see through our live mobile6 camera at the schuylkill expressway westbound roads are slick making for a bit of a slow go, slower than normal anyway. there is a 45 miles an hour speed restriction right now on all major roadways tonight. >> snow has been falling steadily since about mid morning. well, not much is on the ground still creating slippery conditions for drivers and pedestrians at this hour. >> the system isn't only packing snow. we're also seeing ice and rain, quite a mix is happening

right now. >> and we have live team coverage for you this evening. new jersey correspondent nora muchanic is standing by in burlington county. matt pelman is standing by also with conditions on the highways and by ways for us but first let's begin with meteorologist adam joseph at the "action news" big board and the latest from double scan radar. hey, adam. >> yeah, we have a triple layer of colors here on double scan live radar. you have that gray and the white north of the pennsylvania turnpike. that's where we're seeing accumulating light snowfall. the blue area encompassing much of i-95 southern new jersey delaware is the sleet and that dangerous freezing rain and right along the shore plane old rain that continues to try to push to the north but it's making a slow progress. as we widen out on double scan live radar this is a warm front just to our south. it's that warmer air overriding that arctic air squeezing out precipitation and cold air is dense. so, it settles at the surface and takes a little extra time to kind of scour out there cold air where we work live and walk and drive so that's why you're seeing some icing. and then you have low pressure down to the deep south that

will work to our north and west tomorrow and that will swing some heavy rain through here during the midday hours tomorrow. but in and around the philadelphia metro area in wilmington, in trenton, early evening, sleet and that freezing rain eventually will change to rain but that's not until between 7:00 and 10 o'clock tonight where we have winter weather advisories still in place. same thing up in the lehigh valley. winter weather advisories up until close to that midnight hour. we will have that snow transitioning over to some ice and this is where we'll see a little more in the way of some accumulating glaze of that ice anywhere from .2 to .2. that plane rain doesn't happen until 10 o'clock and 1 o'clock in the morning. when we come back we'll take a look at future tracker for tomorrow's heavy round of rain and any sort of flooding concerns in that full accuweather forecast. >> thank you adam. now let's get an update on the road conditions from matt pelman. hi, matt, how is it looking. >> monica on this president's day we've been watching the effects that the weather -- that adam lab talking about has been having on the

roadways and it's creating some slick conditions for sure as you head out here on 202 in chester county, i would grant myself a few extra minutes for your travel especially southbound where you've seen some cars just poking along headed down towards exton with the slick conditions and some volume from time to time. this is the blue route 476 in delco. we've had a couple accidents here in the southbound lanes approaching the route one media bypass so if you're directing your ford or lincoln to the blue route southbound take it especially easy. this is the blue route -- the schuylkill right by the blue route 476 and we're seeing bunch of cars here in both directions going slowly. again conditions are somewhat slippery. it is somewhat slushy. you can see we're moving in each direction but we're doing so pretty slowly as you pass 476. this is woodhaven road in the great northeast. had an accident here by thornton road. you can see the accident is gone but there's still some slush especially as you go to change lanes. you have to watch it or you'll lose control on this monday evening. we'll check it again, rick, coming up in the next half hour. >> matt thank you again. speaking of travel

conditions, let's take a live look at philadelphia international airport through our sky6 cameras tonight. the airport is reporting delays on incoming flights of up to about an hour and a half. as always if you're heading out or expecting a flight to come in you should check with your particular airline. >> here's a live look at conditions along cape may new jersey where rain is currently falling. this area did see some snow for much of the day, not much accumulation but now as we show you it's switched over to rain. >> management correspondent nora muchanic is standing boo any bordentown burlington county tonight. >> reporter: nora many folks had the day off and 33 took advantage of it. absolutely. after being cooped up because of the cold people wanted to get out. whether it was a quick run to the store in the snow or a trip to the water park with the kids folks say they just had to get out of the house. >> we had a long period of time where we weren't getting anything. now all of a sudden here we are and it's wintertime again. >> reporter: and so pretty as you watch the snow falling along farnsworth avenue in bordentown.

much the same along main street in moorestown, quiet and picturesque. >> we didn't go anywhere. >> i was cooped up yesterday. i want to get out for a few minutes go get something to eat. >> reporter: after two days indoors because of bitter cold temperatures it was time to get out and turn in the hats and gloves for swim suits with kids off from school today, parents headed to sahara sam's water pork in west berlin. >> my gosh yesterday my son was bouncing off the walls. i needed to get them out absolutely. >> it was so cold yesterday when we tried to go to philly and he was in tears most of the time and then to come here today as you can see she's all smiles. it's helping save our vacation i have to say. >> reporter: it's not quite the same as surfing at the jersey shore but kids were having a ball on the slow rider where the waves never stopped. >> at first you get nervous but then when you're on it you're like having a rush and you're just like -- just doing

tricks and hoping not to washout. >> kind of cold so i've been hanging out inside. >> reporter: how does it feel to get in this weather. >> g it feels hot so it's good to get in the water. >> perfect day to be here. why be outside when you can be inside 80 degrees. >> reporter: back live i like how that man thinks. it was a lot nicer in there than it is out here but i dressed for the outdoors and so i learned something very important today. you do not wear long johns to a water park. live in bordentown, i'm nora muchanic, channel6 "action news." >> i can imagine. thanthank you nora. remember if weather or breaking news is happening in your neighborhood like it was in hers, just send it to us through facebook or twitter. pretty scene there. lehigh county officials meantime are trying to identify a woman after her body was found in a recycling bin in allentown. it was found yesterday afternoon in a parking lot near the 800 block of east tillman street. police describe the woman as an asian woman between 18 and

30 years old. an autopsy is that scheduled for tomorrow. gun sales have increased over the past couple of years here in delaware and in just the past two months, more than 12,000 backgrounds checks were conducted. according to the fbi data since 2000 circumstances background checks for firearms purchases have more than tripled. gun store owners say people are buying guns for their personal safety. >> now to the latest on the passing of supreme court justice antonin scalia. flags across washington, d.c. includes those outside of the capitol building as well as the white house and supreme court are at half-staff tonight in his honor. this as a private plane believed to be carrying the remains of the 79-year-old supreme court justice arrived at dulles airport early this morning. scalia's family requested that he be brought back to washington as soon as possible. authorities say he died of natural causes and an autopsy was deemed not necessary. so, what's ahead for the remaining eight supreme court justices? well, when they return from recess next

monday, it's business as usual with the high court continuing to decide various cases. however, tie votes will now back real possibility and in cases of a tie, the lower court opinion will stay in place but the high court will issue no binding law for the rest of the country. and that includes major cases involving abortion and contraception as well as the case involving the president's executive action on immigration. of course the death of a supreme court justice during an election year is a rarity and the presidential candidates aren't keeping quiet as to what should be done. president obama has said he will nominate a replacement for judge scalia in due time, perhaps next week. although republican candidates say the next president should nominate his replacement. >> this is for the people to decide. i intend to make 2016 a referendum on the u.s. supreme court. >> in fact senators marco rubio and ted cruz say they will not vote for president

obama's choice whoever it is. meanwhile democrats hillary clinton and bernie sanders say the republicans are blankly ignoring the president's constitutional duty to nominate a replacement. >> president obama said he would nominate someone to the bench and that's exactly what he should be doing and leader mcconnell should follow the constitutional process. >> the senate confirmation process for a supreme court nominee could likely take months. mostly because republicans are vowing to block it. the only thing that both republicans and democrats seem to agree on is that the next supreme court justice could shape the court and the country's future for decades to come. monica. >> thank you, rick. progress is being made on u.s. cuban relations for the first time in more than 50 years an american business is going to build a factory there. the project has already gotten approval by the obama administration and cuban officials. the small company from alabama says they hope to assemble as many as a thousand small

tractors every year for private farmers in cuba. >> and still to come on "action news" monday night, one of the biggest transportation hubs in new york city. we'll explain what happened at grand central station today. >> temple's men's basketball team is coming off its fifth straight win. how about that? we'll talk about to head coach fran dunphy about his team's surge. >> surge of warm air moves in overnight tonight. it is slow this evening as we're seeing temperatures near 40 and below freezing through much of the area creating there icing concern. the latest numbers and also future track. >> we'll have those stories and more when "action news" comes right back.

>> train ride nears new york city got thrown a twist today. the lights went out on the lower level of grand central terminal. trains arrived on the uner level instead while the problem was being worked on. a transit official says a water pipe burst causing the outage. powers gradually coming back on tonight. >> turning to sports temple's men's basketball is red hot right now. jaime apody here with the man behind the success. it got two hot sports teams wow. >> we like when a team is spot here especially when it's cold out.

as depressing as our professional sports teams are our college teams could not be hotter. with march on the horizon that's good news. i caught up with the coach today. owls are 10 and three in sole possession of first place in the aac. in january dunphy became only the fifth coach in division one history to win 200 games at two different schools. nine days ago won his 517th game passing john chain flee for most in big five history and yet he refused to acknowledge what we all know. >> are you finally going to realize how awesome you are. >> no, no, i'm not. i'm going to just take it for waits and i've been around a few years and had two great universities i've had a chance to work for and stayed in philadelphia all those guys that have gone before me who would have crushed that number decided to go other places so i'm very lucky, very lucky to have made my ca career in phill. >> what do you guys got to do.

>> we need to win as many games as possible. we thought we had done enough last year and we didn't. we needed as it turns out we needed one more win. so, we don't want to leave anything to chance and there's only one thing that we can control to be honest with you and that's how well we play on each given night that we have that opportunity. >> owls face top ranked villanova wednesday. more with dunphy at 6:00. as the owls surge the flyers fade. after knight last night they might be done. five loses in just six games during a stretch run will do that to a team. they're six points back of the final wild card spot. they had two games over the weekend and scored two goals. it's all about the offense which frankly is offensive. >> didn't get enough scoring chances tonight. that being said we had a game, a one goal game going into the third period and we just needed one push and we couldn't get that before they made it a two and three goal game. >> this time of year with temperatures plunging and a snow covered car i'm going

have to dust off in the parking lot. what i need to see is some palm trees. they get my hopes up. later this week we will see palm trees. pitchers and catchers report to clearwater on wednesday. first workout on thursday so it's time to start pondering the pitching rotation. what we know the phillies ace will be aaron nola who is only 22 years old. what we don't know is what the rest of it will look like. jeff skversky sat down with him recently. >> is it simple as aaron nola number one starter going into april when the season opens or are you not there yet. >> i'm not there yet but i know that nola and eickhoff are going to be at the top of the rotation and velasquez. >> that will be one, two, three in your mind. >> i won't say one, two, three butter i'm kind of projecting them to be at the top of the rotation in the event that matt comes up with another deal somehow and gets another guy, we look -- like forward to -- i would be happy to have those three guys at the top of

the rotation where we are right now. >> jeff is heading to clearwater tomorrow and we'll look for his reports all week on "action news." >> we're very jealous. >> i know. >> hundreds of children got a real treat, a chance to play basketball at the palestra in university city. "action news" stopped by police athletic league day. pal and penn team up every president's day to give city children a safe place to play on their day off. >> ♪ i do everything on the internet. but, it's kind of slow. my friends say i should get fios because it's the fastest. i just downloaded 600 photos in 60 seconds. that's seriously better. (husband) we're out of 2%! i wonder what else could be better around here? (husband) i heard that. switching to better internet is now easier than ever. only fios has the fastest internet available, with uploads up to 5x faster than cable. get 100 meg upload and download speeds. plus tv and phone for just $69.99 a month online with no annual contract.

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>> adam is here with accuweather. old man winter pulling a bit of a hat trick. >> a trip well win with the snow, sleet, freezing rain. a mixed bag out there tonight but eventually it goes over to rain for all of us a little later on tonight. as we take a look at double scan live radar there you see the white to the north of the pennsylvania turnpike where we still see a little bit of light snow falling. even in these areas maybe a coating to a half inch more of any type of snowfall but that expanding blue area is where we're seeing the most dangerous type of precipitation which is some of the sleet and freezing rain and then rain all the way down towards the shore. you canny and yoyoublue expandif chester county delaware county and new castle county even though those road surface temperatures are still below freezing, we're seeing that

rain falling mixing with some sleet and that hits the ground and creates some of that freezing rain where the surfaces are not treated and then it's just plane old rain right along the shore but we'll continue to see this rain line puncture north and west as we go deeper into the evening and overnight hours but the good thing even though we're dealing with that dangerous freezing rain at times we're not going to see a lot of precipitation as we go into the overnight hours so it's really a light glaze but that's all it takes to slip, fall or even skid the car. as we take a look at some of the pictures on facebook and twitter that we've been getting in, this one was sent in by jack from the battleship new jersey looking at the forward deck with a little bit of that light snow coating the battleship. as we look at numbers to the north and west we are still in the 20's areawide. so, this is the biggest concern area for about a tenth of an inch to as much as .2 of an inch of ice on top of that coating to 2-inches of snow. in southern parts of delaware,

new jersey 40 degrees right along the shore but we're still near freezing from bridgeton vineland hammonton and even into central and northern parts of delaware and it will take a few extra degrees above freezing to warm that very cold ground after that arctic air that kind of moved in over the weekend. as we look at satellite and radar, we have low pressure which is going track to our north and west during the day tomorrow and that will bring a heavy round of rain in here right around the midday hours of tuesday, so as we get into future tracker at 8 o'clock tonight with that transition period, you see rain to the south, still near freezing at 8 o'clock along i-95 and that mixed precipitation well below freezing to the north and west. then as we get to 1 o'clock in the morning, rain moves all the way up into the lehigh valley, even on the verge of the poconos with temperatures already near 50 degrees at 1:00 a.m. in southern new jersey and delaware. for the morning rush tomorrow, some spitting showers around. not a lot of heavy rain, no icing concerns with temperatures near 50 plus degrees already tomorrow

morning and then here is that window of heavy rain that comes in around 1 o'clock. it sh only last about two hours but with this heavy rain and temperatures near 60 the ground still frozen, that's going to run off the surfaces and it could lead to some ponding on the roadways and some smaller streams could quickly rise but we're not looking at any widespread flooding for tomorrow. and then by 5 o'clock in the evening rush we starter to see those heavy rains move out and just some spitting showers with temperatures in the 40's. the exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast, tomorrow's high near 60 degrees, rainy, windy, mild at times. we could see winds gusting over 40 to 50 miles an hour with some rain tomorrow and then it's breezy with some sun here, maybe a brief shower wednesday afternoon of 46. beautiful shurs and friday, 40 to 45 degrees, sun and clouds and 50 for the weekend. a bit cloudy on saturday but not bad sunday. and a few rain showers monday at 48 degrees so watch the ice this evening and then watch tomorrow around midday for that heavy rain to come in,

some strong winds there could bring up some water especially on the roadways. >> thank you adam. >> thank you sir. >> this reminder as the snow moves through today keep your devices open to 6abc.com/weather. use street level forecasting from storm tracker6 live to stay ahead of the changeover and follow our team of meteorologists on facebook twitter and other social platforms. >> actor leonardo de dicaprio's revenant won five trophies including best picture best actor for him and best director. we will soon find out if dicaprio will win his first oscar. the academy awards live sunday february 28th. the glitz and glamour starts at 7:00 p.m. >> tonight is a great flight to stay in and park in it front of the tv. two hours of the bachelor and at 10:00 an episode of castle after that "action news" at

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>> habitat for humanity building this home in cinnaminson new jersey. now they have to find a veteran who would like to call it home sweet home. the homeowner must be low income and must help to do some work on construction. but the home comes with no down payment and a 0 percent interest loan. you can call habitat for humanity of burlington county if you're interested. >> right now jim gardner and the "action news" team standing by with these stories and much more coming up next at 6 o'clock. snow slowly but surely changing to a wintry mix before changing again to rain overnight. live team coverage on the conditions all across the region. >> two college freshmen face charges in connection with an lsd bust on the villanova university campus. those stories next at 6:00 for adam joseph cecily tynan jaime apody, the entire action news team, i'm monica malpass.

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or any steakhouse lunch combo starting at $7. >> ♪ >> "action news" o. delaware valley's leading news program. with ducis rodgers, meteorologist cecily tynan and jim gardner. >> ♪ >> the snow continues to fall in the tri-state area and it will stay that way perhaps longer than first expected. but as warm weather moves in, this will turn to rain and you won't believe how warm it will be tomorrow. it is monday night and the big story on "action news" tonight is a wet and white way to start the week and get ready for another shot of precipitation but this time it will be rain and plenty of it. but for the time being, it is all about the snow. "action news" reporter vernon

odom is in delaware. walter perez is in montgomeryville but first let's get the late word from accuweather. adam joseph and cecily tynan. >> and jim, double scan live showing that right now we're getting snow in our far northwest suburbs. we have the sleet and freezing rain along the i-95 corridor and then you get closer to the coast, this is where it's all rain and this whole line, the sleet, the freezing rain and the rain line will continue to push to the north and west as we head through the evening hours. but zooming in, this is a big problem. right along the i-95 corridor really right in time for the evening commute we have sleet and freezing rain so do you want to be careful. anything that's untreated, any roads, this will cause a glaze. sidewalks i've been told very icy. i-95, the schuylkill expressway really the blue route into the new jersey turnpike and then when you get closer to the coast along the garden state parkway this is where we have the pure rain and this rain line will advance to the north and the west, gradually as we pull in warm air