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ng a live look at the atlantic city expression people are returned to stay off u absolutely have fheeather meteorologists adam josephhe storm perform we thought for the inland locations and overperformed at the immediate shore. >> heavier bands of snow. >> this is one part of the storm. >> and the snow is moving out but the bitter cold windchill and the record cold the second and third part of the storms moving back in. >> lets look at weather center torm is situationed to the east and south over nantucket over eastern parts of massachusetts that is are getting feet of snow. and we are on the back edge and drying up in philadelphia and . and the jersey shore w still s snowflakesof the accumulating snow is over. taking a closer lostormtrackeouble scan gray spots in ntch westphia. justat accumulate anymio this point. s
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start to m in. we look at some here for the inland snow. a moderatetorm for inland locations. philadelph chadds ford 4.3 and w andeland 6 inches of snow but whe t hammert overperformed quite a bit here. cape ma 17inches margate city 16 inches a atlantic city 12.7 andville orked a foo. and a 10 mile radius at the shore. wind is a major concern with blowing and dri snow. peak wind inle entown and 55 at the atlanta airport. and 57 in cape may. the wins continue to howl here for the next 24 to 36 hours ushering in arctic air and we have more on that with meteorologist cecily nan. >> the winds are pulling dow the coldest air mass of the o so the next .he storm systeonti deepen we are looking at the windchill in philadelphia. not thatbarees dropping as we next two days and what this
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will do is pull down arctic air air masshe season and record over the windchill advisories are posted and windchill warnings from 1:00 friday morning until noon day. that really the heart of theextr these are pretty remarkable numbers. windchills tomorrow be below zero if the far north and west coun the poconos and the norther rehive and 1 20 degrees zero.earby north and west suburbs 10 to 15 buy low ro. delaware 5es below i w limit your time outdoors dress in layers andover un are s res to d levels. record low forec can a low of low of and elsewhere a tying records a atlantic city airport that record that will be broken was set back if climb deep freeze in the fu. hartmanardit are you live at sompoint.>> rey
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ned upw g down and still experiencing some pretty wind gusts inint.s blowing theund and alo m bou traffic is moving alo along the main road but a lot of the side streets here are still covered. police in somers point say they have not had too in incidents and for the most part drivers are staying off the roads and that is what they want people to do good tires were spinning in ocean city new jersey as bill jackson battled the snow drifts a foot high. >> you see i'm stuck and trying to get free so get ready for work tly he had neighbors with shovels and patience to help them getout.s the thing ocean cit >> the were quiet except for snow removal and police, and somerave shovellers w getting a jump start while the snow was falling. >> how a sta warm?>> i'm not. it's light and fluffy and i want to done before the cold weather coxs in tonight.
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and they were snow covered and businesses were colds along with schools and city offices, snow drifts and wind made walking >> we did not find anyone using s their advantage. >> just cru hills. >> officials are encouraging the roa the snow remws work anouy starting tonight because of the frigid temperatures expected. trish hartman, channelon news." >> all right thank you. here is what it looked like in manayunk ark were braving the s winds and the snow to get a start on their shoveling. the streets were still pretty covered then. sara bloomquist is live in manayunk where drivers had an especially difficult time today. >> reporter: hi that is the truth. we are here at ridge and manayunk and it is looking better now after the salt trucks came through.
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just clushy at the moment. you see the buses are running here again. this was snow covered until 3:00 this afternoon.es cou hill. some people had to get offl and walk all the way up. >> it's insane. insane ine word for the ion thhet avenuek avenue mid-day today.he dee tractor two septa buses and t to m of the hill and hoof it up. >> the bus doesn't come up the hill because i guess thetuck and they dropped me off at the bottom o and i'm walking home. >> they decided no the to mess this hill. simple as that. we had to get off terminal. >> are you dressed for it? >> no i'm not that is the problem. >> they questioned if they with make it to the top and finally this septa driver got free. >> what happened? >> i was stuck. >> how long hav >> about two hours.
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>> the snow day was not bad for everyone. matthew turner was thrilled when he saw oaction news" that his school was closed. >> i channel 6 every day. heard your school was canceledt was your as soon as i heard i jumped outside and started dancing.eack live here now we see thedifferences manayunue a car coming w covered. it's going to b in the hours ahead as the temperatures drop we'll have to see what happeneds to all of these surfaces that are slushynow but there could definitely be a freeze. >> problems all over the place thank you. this storm proved to be deadly for a passenger in a car that struck a train in eastern montgomery county. police say that at 9:00 this way to worknot stop at a railroad crossing at red lion road route 63. the car struck the side of the philadelphia septa train
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on the west trent the driver jumped out before the impact and the passenger could not get out. throw from the collision. >> they were c downhill a downhilln road. and we are trying to dmine how much of a factor tha addition to the weather conditions. >> lower policre withholding names until family membntacted. and a huge mess on tons of area roadways and through the commute. we have a person to help us.t pellman is "action news" traffic center. >> good afternoon we'll do what we can. i thought things would look better on the area roadways but a tough go because the snow aclear theoadways a lot of snow. struggling to keep up a their best and working hard and we do still have a number of issues, this is 309 in fort washington southbound lanes towards t turnpike watching a crash can you see taking out the right lane and police and penndot are ne and slow go away
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ambler.nd a bun422 eastd was closed by oaks and just got it reorussia at ghe o n was osed during the andd after 2:00 afternoon. . this is the vine reet . theine is me youget on the side streets like the es the lanes are partially covered and still work to do in the city to city streets. live lund side we aeefg g aee state and a crash452 involving the u-haul truck. trying to get g g and the lefte see more of the garden state parkway than we sawe this morning. it was completely snow covered. this afternoon we can kind of see the two lanes heading southbound to somers point. if you try to get into sea isle city that is not the easiest situation the bridge as well as see isle boulevard i closed. now t app along 13 dupont parkway crash there stay on 1 tund
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it. we'heck it again in the next half hour. >> all right, to delawarnow, high winds blew snow back on to roads as fast a roads couldnd mosrivers things were manageable you could slow down and take your time. in hockessin slick roads were for a crash that saw an suv take out a and d ran on a schedule i an-weather when a truck got stuck in an underpass. >> and "action news" will be ontomorrow be suroin matt, david, tam and karen at 4:00 a.m. >> get constant updates on the winter storm on the phone or tablet. and travel delays and liv 6 abc app is a free download for your mobil >> our coverage of t impacting thet coast "news." >> first mobile 6 giving us a live view this is the scene in sea is jersey shore. t from lon comi products... ...help main and it's the only toothpaste with the ada seal of acceptance for protection against acid erosion.
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as bs its with around hey are getting socked with snow. new york's long island is getting especially hard hit. nowhere than more shore than the northern shore. that is where we find elizabethis is an intense storm as people navigate their way around you today. how do you d conditions there today? >> reporter: i have to tell you that gentlemen is way under dressed.cold and been snowing all day and if that is not bad enough it's windy all day long. as far as how windy it has been we are told we are dealing with hurricane force winds i canu. there has been snow drifts ighthat it is just ankle and forecasters t united sta 9 inches of snow that is not a true reflection of how how much we have en.tleararking lots of snow just quickly as you remo your areawell.
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thenow keeps coming dow and back into the cleaned area. unfortunately the damage is we are just waiting for this pass througha stand ieaded upngland but aflooding > yound way batorms in upstate nothing compared to that. >> the sight y typically don't see up in the northeast. nnessee, the day todayic e on a froze pondn a myhome. incredibleigohtsee inme in the new england area and you don't hear thatfreeze over and the y. especially d f behaving ithe house. takeeather center here live on sky 6 hd over p the major roadwayskingd at least 95 from this sky 6 hdl cam. you see the side streets some slush there but overall fairing good in and around the city. as we look at sto live double scan here, as w for you, just a few flurries in the lehigh valley and bucks county south jersey seeing light snow showers but this is not really
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accumulating anymore, just kind g the air at this point. speaking of drie have bit of drifting going because of the strong wind blowing the snow around and some parts of your yard you may see grass and other parts you have a drift up to or three feet. and speaking of drifting a atlantic ci can call this a blizzard in that is critel a storm a blizzard it's three consecutive hours of 35 miles per hour gusting on top of visibility less than a quarter mile. it was not just three was seven straight hours with treacherous conditions and drifting snow up to 3 feet with just over a foot of snow in atlantic city. it did overperform right along the shore but inlandionsect with t p philadel gusting to 4nd 40 in the pocon and the winds are notease going intthe hours an because r of 8 if in readi millville and 5 below in the
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satellite 6 along with action created an eyeintense as it is slamming eastern a on the western fringes the clouds begin to break apart in pennsy and clear and crash this evening with air temperatures in for most of us. wins from the northwesterly directionue long, 6:00 p.m. tonight to 6:00 a.m. sustained in the 20s with gusto mil that send w arheean wide.nt to 1ng and 16 below in allentown a below in the poconos. if if the afternoon not so much. friday 3:00 p.m. and millville 8 belt is just the start of a long stretch ofos really a dangerous part of this storm as it departs pulling down the r. the four day at 4:00 dangerous windchills 17 tomorrow and dangerous windchills te day on saturdayolder record lows on sunday morning and bitterl with a high of just 19 on sunday and less wind and then there will be a messy ig with the next storm
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the frozen food. >> if i get hungy i'll build a campfire and we'll eat today. >> he was joking but he said he would make his deliv scheduled. >> yes warm smiles and snowy scenes from across the d alley. "action news" vie u #6abcaction and a lot of you using f car. from thepusorry buddy when you got to go you got to go. do not blame mother nature or old man winter. blame is a snowuih the costume. a the silly contingency. today nor are birthing all about instagram. an seche city. the question which way tospring? the winter barely and we are over it most of us. this dog going for a walk that couldn't feel good. and fi that we loved today. enjoying her retirement.
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cheers to you nora we are she knew the hashtag,action. >> and 9:00 a.m.at day at home. >> still aheads around the region as we deal with the aftermath of this nornd you'l one he down the shore in blizzard conditions why this important and he may be my brother from another mother. tell y,000 deathsar. the only way this problem is going
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to be solved is if we raise our voices. choose help over helplessness, hope over hopelessness. make sure that the lives we've lost will not h addiction is a disease.p, help is there for you. "action news" continues, with meteorologist, adam joseph sharrie williams and brian taff. hello again 30 now and we continue with the accuweather alert for the nor'easter that hit our region hard today. the snow fell fast and the winds were whipping causing whiteout conditions at times and vehicles got stuck on almost every major road and there was so much snow to sho apher was there to help. >> mobilehowing you route 9 in cape may courthouse
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knowledge most roads are passable but very slick. if you have to get out there you should go very slowly the best homd watchaction news." the nor'easten but we'll see the snow for days. mel brorres well below freezing and windchills that will be slong tomorrow.hia public archdiocese s for a second day. and we have team coverage on the aftermath of the storm. ellman istandin by wit and chad pradelli isy were hardit today. but first adam joseph with accuweather. on t point leaving 16 to 17 inches at the shore. big difference from west to we look at stormtracker 6 live double scan you do see a couple of flurry still north and west of the philadelphia and overall they are not accumulating and it's drifting through the air ccumulating snow has remains off for the rest of tonight. as we take a now look right to theern cker 6 live double scan, there you see glassboro and
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hammonton and atlantic city dealing with snow showers and flurries again don't worky it won't accume here. just kind of passing through a we dry out the atmosphere and ripping this storm apart at least for the. but what is setting in is dangerous cold. windchill advisory will go into effect after midnight tonight and last through noon on saturday minimum. warnings are up in the poconos there and everyone is the harsh windchill fac ast 36 hours or so. it starts to turn bitter this evening and bitter is how it feels like tomorrow morning, 10 below steer and tomorrow afternoon 5 below saturday morning still 10 bee row and saturday afternoon feeling 5 below zero. the numbers for wilmington and philadelphia and colder than those numbers especially up toward the lehigh valley. and there is a thaw on the way. thawewhere and we'll chat about it coming up in just a bit.
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>> hope sooner rather than later. s there. >>ght. thanks. the city of philadelphi has a rgency i limiting parking on theutes but for businesses it's a regular workday and septa was running on schedule and despite k lks, workers took the winter's first major storm in. > right now, it le'ike ut as you a good parent oflove b fun. hanging in there. >> some people love the look of the snow as long as the sh -- a little bit of smiles andlaugs -- >> come true no fectin l. ws" fon c elphia get outo get rid of the excess energy. >> you have to ln a day like this and at the end of e day of energot >> dad has a plan. >> because of the biting win they were not outside too long emories to go along w this year's first nor'easter. >> all afternoon new jersey bore the brunt o
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they foundple having a hard time coping with the conditions. chad pradelli is live ine l right now. >> bria the stormoved out and now a lot of traffic is here is main street right here traffic is moving along nicely we have seen cars flying down the road and you have slush and slush is good on the road ways no real icing and go to the wawa parking lot and the same situation, here it was earlier today as we were out andbout around town. the roads have been passable but if you don't have front-wheel nancy,out. >> you don't see wea like this in florida. >> no no it's rare. up in north florida there was a little bit of snow. >> they got stuck on pleasant valley avenue way helping hands from her sons she managed to get moving. >> we moved here six years ago and it's been sometime sincee seen snow. >> and there was a final push to
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get her going. >> don't speed too much. nice and easy. the blizzard conditions had had snow removal a bit tricky. >> it's feeling good. we are is just starting out and letting it progress a little bit. >> unlike the fluffy stuff today's snow is heavy with moisture, james and his crew are working all day. >> you like snow right? >> i do like the snow. >> show me the money. >> and expect to see the snow stick around for a while with the frigid temperatures expected over the next couple of days before we finally thaw out. chad pradelli channel 6 "action news." >> good work muscling the car out there. thank you. >> septa has been working hard to keep the buses running in the storm but it's not an easy task. looking live at sky 6 hd giving us a live look at city hall
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crews continues to work to clear the city streets good job here and septa is working to keep the buses on schedule. and they are worried about the e extreme cold and high winds. ervice reliability and conditions such as we will see tomorrow. has caused us to make a decision to run an enhanced saturday schedule. that is our storm procedure and we are going to that. >> you can find details of septa's plans for saturday on our website at 6abc.com. on that note it's time for a check of the evening commute. the snowy thursday. matt pellman has the update. more on septa in just a second and first to the roads,n the traffic center we lik try p it real keep it real this afternoon. here on the highways i so bad. mostly wet and a little bit of side streets are mostly covered and sara bloomquist is in roxborough where it' rough. in my neighborhood in east fallsds
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were still covered once you got off boulevard. if you can stick to the highwaysf.tapping on it's schuylkill expressway westbound continuing to king of prussia auto c taking out the right lane but the wreck that was closing the eastbound sid afternoon has cleared and it's a rough patch by oaksf accidents there this morning as ll.the schuylkil westelphia a pet carrier in dways in th lanes luckily no pet penndot came along and cleared it ou the highway is slush ucovered.l on 95 ico lanes are oint just aractor trailer we are watching in ass r dela along septa rails, because of the weather, they aremal nd are suspetes running with detopatco a spe e. check it again in the 5:00 hour. whenay because of the snow ones . outsinjoy ait snow are kin sending it all #tion we'air.
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>> get the latest on the aftermath of the storm otablet. the abc app gives you storm it's a free ownload. >> this remr "actill be on ear again tomorrow to help you geto a regular schedule after the snow day ay of you have scho. or delays they will let you know the col mov join matt tam david and karen.ttarted >> ice in the outer banks, a ut the frigid weather and storm off the coast created the icy show in the ocean. >> be outside sky 6 hd giving uhedore bhe warry aar w b brutal tell you meteorologist adam joseph back full accuweatherfocast. how cold will it get.
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well down at the shores storm turned ledged blizzard. this is what is it looked like in wildwood and a drive up to ocean city there was a similar scene. john rawlins gives us a closer look. >> the boardwalk at ocean city. 19 degrees rough surf and high winds and no people. the storm moved in overnight has out paced snowplows within minutes of clearing route 9 at somers point snow returning covering the road. and this man spend the shuttingle medical personnel. >> it's not easy to get around and the side streets are not easy and eventually people will get se streets. >> this was the corrector bridge in ocean city.
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ocean city itself appeared to be a gnd the dizy, faced with deteriorating conditions, the of t restaurant was contemplating opening. >> it's bad and 12 inches of snow in the street and g some places bare.utal. >> two concerns for the emergency management coordinator back by flooding and possible power outages. >> psually equ loss of heat and we have to provide for people to come in warm somewhome people opting to walk-in stead of d man hoofoffee despite a sizy wind. >> you need your coffee? >> yes, got to have wawa. >> it was worth it, eight or nirn nine blocks? >> yes, well worth it. very to have it ever morning so worth it. >> the cou declaration that means travel on local roads is restricted to pers that means walking eight blocks to get a cup of coffee kind of
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makes sense. john rawlins, channel 6 "action news." >> took the words rightf my mouth probably an iced coffee in the end but all good. big talkers, bomb cyclone, that is all we talk about and all we can see. we'll show you the scenes from all over the country. this scenic view of manhattan. yes, they probably won't be using that one if the brochure any time soon. this woman says in the middle of the storm the city that never sleeps sort of disappeared. and massach this t so is netflix and is entertaining herself watching the ice flow down the f t is outside her front door and i imagine she will b staying inside. also, in boston. check out this sheet of ice, this is window -- it is ice and to prove it to you -- it shatters just like glass.ready set
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-- no -- there he goes boom. broken so cold.th carolina. this is hardly a familiar one in outer banks, they went frosunny an fron over. a locate a chef capture iced out banks and we dos the time lapse and show you thew accumulation on the patio furniture. they are getting their shot to do it just like us. finally when you got to plow in pennsylvania and you don't have an actual plow jonathan learin g hisy awn m and a piece of cardboard from amillions of views and in case you want to di that was from a 50 inch tv probably from the holidays. >> creative.u. we have the full accuweather forecast. chilld after penguin migration. trekking a hundred miles inland
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down there not complaining. they like big storms sometimes. >> sky 6 hd cape may down at the they picked up a a hsnowfall. a pretty big snow storm y at the c shore, i joke around saying we have white sand here. we don't today because the wind ped it off ther un to to the obecause of the blowing and snow and difficult to measure that snow because it's movin ecause of the wins gusting 40s in reading ail philadelphia.35 in capemay.es per hour in trenton and take ak at how it teens for the as we press forward into tand early overnight hours and startow to dg on how it feels on exposed skin. right now stormtracker 6 le scan there is still a few spots especially south o the city butr accumulating as point. and just p looking a i somm the air there aers wipp and around especially on those parts of you where you havewalls, kind in and creates a ttle spin. as we look at snow totals oher. pick it out here. 16 inches in margate.
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overperforming at the shore and black bird and parts of delaware. 3.3 inches and yardville in new jersey up in mercer county 3 inches of snow and wynnewood inla not a big storm. when you look at how much snow accumulated away from the shore line. as we go forward here into the accuweather forecast. we see that wins ands orconcern. 9 philadelphind 10 in tre right no below in the poconos and 8 in millville. there is the center of the storm and a beast of storm for eastern and northern new england, starting to fall apart to the t as we rac storm away and turning clear and sub zero windchills setting in and feels like temperatures tomorrow morning 11 below philadelphia and 20 below in and 2:00 tomorrow afternoon. 3 below i going into saturday morn back to philadelphia near 30 below in northern parts of new
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england and then record cold sets in and we'll be off the record but close here saturday morning and by sunday morning forecasting 0 t coldest in 24ars in philadelphia breaking the old record of 4 degree the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast teens is it for highs. and three days with acc alerts, because of dangerous windchills and dangerous lows and 19 on sundas wind and we have to watch for an icy mix on monday and warmer air comes in and as we get into the middle of next week we go back for a couple of days in the 40s to try to melt some of that snow away. nice to see above freezing temperatures next week. >> adam thank you. >> what's the deal is next. before we start, i just want to sayt have of the way so your lag doesn't get us all killed, ben. what's so good about fios anyway?00% fiber-optic network
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a from cape may have new jersey and i-95 in south philadelph showshee of snow today is over but cold es are right behind it. the big on "ac thalat inches of snow and except for the jersey shore and parts of delaware that saw blizzarditions. and it started before day break and c toaroundlear all the roads and highways andy it's a big job ahead. because of today' snow storm and the approaching cold all philadelphia schools and ill be closed again tomorrow.itional closures are running at the bottom of your screen. rouow township. conditions are slick on the roadway best to stay home and let the road crews have the space to clear for tomorrow's commute. >> it fell hard and fast especially at the shore. a blizzard warning was issued to folks could prepare fordsy got.
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