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moving into the try state area the lehigh valley and burkes county may get hit the hardest but much of the region will have to cope with a wintry mix. tuesday night the big story on action news tonight the approach of our next bat with old man winter penn dot getting the salt trucks ready for action and action reporter annie mccormick is life in norris town and then the metrologist cecily tynan and accuweather cecily. >> jim this is going to be a brush with some snow, some rain, there are a few things really counting against this storm from being a big snow maker first of all a lot of dry air and if you look at this you can see it breaking up in northern virginia and also running into some relatively warm temperatures, we have temperatures above freezing in most of our viewing area so the moisture has finally started to move east but you will notice near malvern and pottstown it's starting as rain not snow in reading it's been snowing for

hours lightly but even there temperatures are marginal so a lot of that is actually melting as it's hitting the ground. it's 32 in reading marginal for snow allentown 32 lancaster 32, philadelphia though it's pretty warm, it's 38 degrees and in cape may it's 40 degrees so this means as it moves in a lot of it will be rain in philadelphia. so we do have that winter weather advisory, it's now in effect until 7:00 wednesday morning for areas north and west of the pennsylvania turnpike still that winter storm warning in effect for the poconos future tracker timing it out around 2:00 this moisture will be moving into the i-95 corridor but notice it's coming in the form of rain, by 5:00 some snow across the interior south jersey out of here by about 8:30 so the morning commute and north suburbs it will be snowy and philadelphia, new jersey and delaware a few slick spots and i made big changes to the expected snowfall map and have that in the seven-day forecast jim.

>> all right cecily and let's go live to annie mccormick to the penn dot yard in norris towns and the trucks are loaded and have there been deployment to major arteries in the area? >> reporter: jim they already pretreated roadways and they are out around the area, they have such a big area to cover and this time of year when you hear about any type of precipitation during the morning rush hour penn dot wants to be prepared. they will have those trucks patrolling the roadways overnight through the morning. >> we are planning accordingly, we are using all our trucks today, that is 450 trucks. >> reporter: penn dot spent today preparing for the wintry mix expected during the morning rush hour. >> we were able to pretreat the highways starting about midnight and then after the morning rush our guys came back. >> reporter: the 24/7 command center will monitor the nearly 3,000 miles of roadway penn dot is responsible for 40,000 tons of salt is still available. trucks started loading up

midday. >> i'm expecting there is going to be snow tomorrow and i'm getting prepared for it. >> reporter: caught up with people getting ready and some who are all set. >> i was pretty well prepared for the last storm and i'm hoping we don't get too much tomorrow. >> reporter: inside the lows people like karen mataeo are up grading her shovel failed her two weeks ago and the manager here says they are filling the shelves to meet the need. >> we have one but it's not good, it's plastic so it doesn't really pick up anything. >> we do have, in fact, everything out, a lot of shovels and a bunch of extra snow blowers just to prepare for it and see what we can sell. >> reporter: and this district of penn dot covers five counties that is a big area and you heard cecily say even the accumulations could change, there is still a lot of areas they have to cover and for that reason they are urging any commuters in the morning to xhek 511pa which is an app and also go to 511pa.com that way you

know if there are plow trucks this the area and where you should go for your morning commute, for now reporting live in norris town annie mccormick channel six and jim back to you. >> thank you and the drone took flight in afternoon to scan the ice jam on the delaware river next to the bridge and caused flooding yesterday in lower makefield but was flowing today. chopper six followed along as the coast guard ice breaker navigated the delaware river today to try and break up some of those chunks and clear a passage for shipping traffic. the philadelphia streets department plans to have 70 trucks available overnight as the storm comes through with 40,000 tons of salt available, no briming was done and authorities think salting and plowing if necessary will be enough. but many philadelphia residents are complaining about a backlog of trash collection from earlier january snowstorms compounded by another delayed pick up from the holiday yesterday.

>> this should not be a bad event and should not effect pick ups of recycling or trash collection so within the next week we should be back up to schedule. >> reporter: the action news morning team will be getting an early start beginning at 4:00 a.m. to track the snow as it comes through, particularly in that northwestern sector of our region. we will update you on overnight school closings and any possible delays and report on live traffic conditions all for the morning commute that begins at 4:00 a.m. unless you are visiting from another planet you are well acquainted with the fact the philadelphia eagles are playing for the right on sunday to go to the superbowl that has local eagles fans in a heightened state of, well, everything. but local law enforcement officials have to keep their whits about themselves and preparing for problems and reporter dann cuellar is live in frankfort and cotton in may

fair, hello dann. >> how you doing jim? if people know anything about may fair they know the intersection of frankfurt has been the gathering for sports celebration and tonight they are chanting eagles chants and this sunday will be no different and with that in mind they are now making sure that public safety is a top priority. ♪ fly eagles fly on the way to victory ♪ the sports bar in may fair fans already feeling giddy about sunday's game and making plans to watch the game here in what is expected to be a standing room only crowd. >> it's going to be huge the anticipation and the nervousness and the big win we will have on sunday will be huge. >> reporter: if history is any indication it will be wild here on sunday as it was back in 2008 when the phillies were on their memorable quest to clinch the world series and the streets were filled with a sea of humanity. crazy the street and here.

>> reporter: the tavern will have special treats for the game. >> pizza and wings. >> reporter: like the past bars and businesses taking special precautions at the urging of police. >> do not take out bottles or cans 100%. >> reporter: in a letter 15 district police said not to serve in bottles and use only plastic containers and asked businesses to remove anything outside like signs trash cans and flower pots and make sure to have grates locked and secured after closing some businesses were following suit. >> we will close it up on sunday. >> reporter: bringing everything in. >> to make sure nothing happens. >> reporter: so they are gearing up for one big party here on sunday. >> that is exactly right. it's not a matter of if we are going to win the superbowl. my lips to god's ears. eagl

eagles. no parking on frankfurt and cobb until 3:00 p.m. sunday to 3:00 a.m. monday and you can be sure there will be plenty of police on hand to ensure everybody's safety live in may fair dann cuellar channel six action news and jim back to you. >> and again thank you dann. offensive tackle lane johnson is making the best of the eagles under dog status you saw him wear that dog mask last weekend now he started selling new shirts home dogs going to eat with all the proceeds going to the philadelphia school district. the matter no matter what you wear to show pride we invite you to share your photos and videos with #6abc action on instagram or twitter or post them on the action news facebook wall other news a this hour philadelphia police investigating a double shooting tonight where to children were hit. the victims are brothers ages 12 and 15 and visiting the

teenager's girlfriend on 1600ledlow in west philadelphia we have heard no explanation why the pair were shot at 7:45 tonight the boys are in stable condition at children's hospital. four people are hurt after this nasty collision in limerick montgomery county tonight the two cars collided head on gain farm road near mill road investigators are working to figure out why they crashed and who is to blame. he has become a celebrity author with his book fire and fury dominating the political conversation in this country and tonight michael wolf was at the free library in philadelphia to talk about politics and president donald trump. action news reporter christie ileto has the story. >> and i asked to come into the white house to see this and they said yes sort of. >> reporter: the conversation was candid and frank. author michael wolf detailed the bomb shell expose fire and fury

that drew a packed house at the free library of philadelphia. >> great stand up act. >> reporter: why do you say that? >> because of the humor and good insights and a line that is interesting is when he said there wasn't one person in the west wing that could have thought up a plan to make some of these things happen. >> reporter: written with more than 200 interviews the trump and senior staff members the book lifts a curtain what is happening behind the closed doors of 1600 pennsylvania avenue including accounts of in staff fighting and chaos within the administration. >> i think it's interesting to get almost like a fly on the wall viewpoint. >> i'm about a third of the way through it. i'm not surprised. >> reporter: taking to twitter earlier this month the president called wolf a loser who made up stories to sell his boring and untruthful book. >> as an educated person we should always take everything with a grain of salt but i think

it's probably more believable than not. >> i take you inside the west wing. i was sitting on the couch there and i hope readers will find themselves feeling that they are sitting on the couch there too when they read this book. >> reporter: now along with some of the stories in the book some people said they were also intrigued to hear about the unprecedented access to the white house especially at a time when the president is not known for having the best relationship with the media, in center city christie ileto channel six action news. meanwhile president trump is in excellent health and performed exceedingly well on a cognitive screening that trump himself requested. that was the report delivered this afternoon by white house physician dr. ronnie jackson, jackson predicted trump would remain healthy for the duration of his presidency whether that turns out to be another three or seven years, jackson did say he will try to get the president

who weighs 239 pounds on a diet and exercise regimen. now the latest on the russia probe former white house chief strategist steve bannen appeared before the house intelligence committee today but refused to answer questions about his time working for president trump and that prompted a subpoena from the committee chairman, it's unclear if bannen was then more forthcoming. at the same time bannen was subpoenaed by robert mueller to testify before a grand jury. it looks like republicans are working on plan b a short term stop gap spending bill to keep the government running past the friday deadline but there is no indication the democrats will go along they had tied a funding measure to coming up, with a plan to protect dreamers from deportation. meanwhile the show down continues in washington over contrary claims about what the president did or did not say during that oval office meeting last week on immigration. still to come on action news

tonight the latest on the 13 siblings rescued from shackles and torture in california, criminal charges filed against top navy commanders following two crashes at sea that killed sailers and the effort to save net neutrality and pennsylvania and delaware join the fight cecily. >> showing some snow and rain moving into the western suburbs of philadelphia not all of us will get accumulating snow i'll have an expected snowfall map and a thaw on the seven-day forecast. >> ducis rodgers hears from eagles players as the count down to the championship is on, action news continues in just a moment. this is charlie not coughing because he took delsym. this is charlie not coughing while not to waking zeus. and this is charlie not coughing while getting really into nana's party. nothing lasts longer than delsym for powerful cough relief.

new at 11:00 the navy has filed charges of negligent home side

against five officers involved in two deadly ship collisions last year and includes the commanders total of 17 sailers killed in the crashes investigations determined both incidents were avoidable the u ss fitzgerald struck a commercial ship off the waters of japan last june and uss john mack cane hit an oil tanker off singapore just two months later, update to a story we told you about last night at 11:00, 13 siblings ages 2-29 are safe tonight after being held captive in their california home for years. investigators say a 17-year-old girl escaped through a window and called 911. when officers arrived she showed them pictures of her siblings being held against their will. investigators say the victims were so malnourished the seven adult siblings looked like children 49-year-old turpin and 57-year-old david have been arrested on torture and child

endangerment charges. new information on the multi home inferno at christmas the state file marshal said embers from a charcoal smoker spread on the homes on 300 bay avenue two homes destroyed and two others damaged. the new governor of new jersey promised to make the state a beacon that fights back against donald trump and used the same bible used by jack kennedy president john kennedy in 1961 to take the oath of office to become the 56th governor in new jersey history. his swearing in returns new jersey to full democratic control but murphy sounded the white note in saying his mission isn't politics it's people. >> the work of our administration will be about you, your families and your communities. we will never lose sight that we are one state and one family

with different beliefs but common dreams. >> murphy received a phone call from president trump offering congratulations the white house said trump and murphy promised to work together and seek improvements in the country's infrastructure the wave of lawsuits to stop the fcc from repealing net neutrality has begun pennsylvania and delaware sued to block the change and did mozilla maker of fire fox browser and a handful of other organizations looks like we have scaled down the snow warnings just a bit but could be a very messy commute. >> slick and areas north and west of philadelphia that is the focus of the accumulating snow a nuisance and it's not the amount but the timing of it. tonight pretty mild out there so the action cam checking out soccer players in haverford playing under the lights and it

has been dry and double scan showing moisture is gradually moving our way, a very slow process we have the coastal low but having trouble linking up with the cold front and also if you look across parts of northern virginia there is dry air and fighting a few basically environmental problems, dry air and pretty warm temperatures so the accuweather highlights would show you moisture is slowly moving east, it's running into some warmer air so it's beginning as a mixture of rain and snow the wednesday morning commute will be slick in many places and once we get after this we have an extended thaw heading our way and will really crank up over the weekend double scan live showing finally beginning to see light precipitation breaking out west of philadelphia but again temperatures are very marginal, doylestown it's really starting as rain and a little bit of a mixture of some rain and sleet in malvern and you can see how most of the movement is up to the north so it's really taking

a while moving to the east and the temperature in philadelphia has actually gone up a degree over the past hour and you see this and it's 39 and cape may it's 40 allentown and reading and lancaster and the poconos the only areas right now at or below freezing so future tracker timing it out by 2:00 we should get the moisture over i-95 but again starting as some rain, it fills in a bit by 5:00 into interior south jersey but notice we are getting some drier air working in, that limits accumulation by 9:00, it's out of here by the afternoon we actually see some sunshine so expected snow totals really dropping them down. south jersey most of delaware it's kind of a nonevent, the i-95 corridor calling for a coating perhaps an inch i'm leaning to an inch of grassy coating if you get north of west chester and doyles town and north of quaker town this is where 1-2" will fall and the

lehigh valley northern burkes 2-4 and poconos expecting 4-6" so it's location and elevation dependent so the seven-day forecast a touch of snow in the morning and sunshine by the afternoon and it's chilly 35 and thursday mostly sunny the high 37 but look how we warm up by friday it's mostly sunny 43, 51 degrees by saturday. 56 on sunday the eagles game with a temperature of about 48 monday your next storm system cuts to the west and brings rain and 54 behind it we cool off a bit and still relatively mild on tuesday with a mixture of clouds and sun 45 degrees and david murphy will be tracking the snow on action news beginning at 4:00 tomorrow nuisance event. >> paid tribute to some heros tonight in delaware county the haverford firefighters awards presented at the community center at the haverford reserve presented by the delaware

through several fire houses through the township for bravery and sacrifice over the past year and 6abc partnered up with local firefighters for operation 6abc save a life. now in its 26th year the event encourages fire safety education and awareness, 6abc president and general manager bernie prazenica and karen rogers spoke at the event and 10,000 smoke alarms distributed to fire departments in new jersey, delaware and pennsylvania. ♪

hockey fans in west chester got a chance for a meet and skate alongside flyers legend eric tonight, aaa partnered with the team to host skate with 88 at the ice line quad rinks the flyers plan to retire his number 88 on thursday night. fans will love that eric lindroff will be there to help

retire that jersey. >> fun night done what else will be a fun night? >> sunday. >> sunday night 6:40 at the link for the players this game will be here before they know it for the rest of us it can't get here soon enough and gearing up for sunday at 6:40 at the link the eagles doing their best to turn the page and saturday's win over atlanta was nice but a bigger challenge than the vikings and bigger price at stake like a trip to the superbowl. >> this is everything that we worked hard for you know from training camp lta and then during the season putting ourselves in this position to be at home for this game. >> you know it's there. this game i've been there twice and i know what it's like when you win it and lose it so i definitely cherish being in this position knowing we worked hard to be here and we have to go out there and do our job i mean it's right there, one thing to talk about it in the beginning of the season it's your goal and now it's right here. >> we will help get you ready for this big game friday at 7:30

action news sports team will bring you a special playoff preview party. like the i'll literation there we will be broadcasting from south philadelphia. still ahead the flyers run into a buzz saw in new york plus phillies spring training is right around the

in four weeks the phillies will be reporting to spring training and we caught up with reese hoskins today and has his mind on baseball and the birds. >> as a fan you know that is what we long for, a winning product and you know the eagles have done a really good job over the last couple years to build what they have and just to kind of see that all culminate into this year and what they have been able to do and over coming injuries it's awesome for the city and like i said the buzz that is around hopefully it's here to stay. >> hoskins is in for an interesting season with the addition of first baseman carlos santana hoskins is headed to the out field. >> it's a new challenge. i think as competitors when we are presented with a new challenge we want to try to be the best that we can at it. so i'm looking forward to it obviously there is going to be a lot of learning a lot of things that not necessarily were not

thrown my way last year because of the timing of everything but i'm looking forward to it and you know i think it's going to be a pretty smooth transition. >> a bad break for the sixers literally the team is now with jj reddick with a crack in his knee with a bone bruise and suffered yesterday with the raptors and no timetable only his return the team said rid dick will be reevaluated in 10-14 days and what happened tonight at madison square garden it does not matter and rick nash behind the flyers defend and elliot game tie and 2-1 rangers in the closing moments of the period and flyers in the power play and paul kerry shorthanded, the flyers are crushed get this 5-1 their four game win streak is snapped. not good. >> not good thank you ducis rodgers and jimmiel live

followed by night line and his guest kristen bell and poler and music from the moon and action news continues a half hour early at 4:00 with pamela edwards, matt o'donnell and metrologist david murphy and karen rogers with traffic and from cecily tynan and ducis rodgers i'm jim gardner. action news brought by your philadelphia tri state cadillac offering the cross over for my cadillac app that