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yadste schuylkill expressway, chad pradelersey shore and john rawlins is with peco in montgomery county dth yu. t o>> belie witht re rbutustt it's sitting a lif atlantic city and co ldwh air, t changed that r over to a now it'sng to bring inthat low p move to snow that's castle and you ig95 t. si 4 o'clock afternoonllin to h. it's really hard throughgoes up withhest hasut off complete g. an pdate tobyhanna s this20-incsn, resorts are iv lansdale snohovering close to frpitation.oseut toe. >> heavy snow briat'rewas the iceup this evening but slushy snowy roads ce the snow startsrs w clese up a little down so toee a fr e wind and that snow down in philnow is n west, as well we n inmiles anr. may.y. alle62 miles an hourowly dessipate tnd coa 10 he winds ove outages and trees down through midnight and even stillm, over 40 more than as we wake upow morning. meteo tynan will be back to speak of for l right adam joseph,iv westboundlits off to th twiprin fh t ton report winds willst and idefinieto
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straight. the turn around iestb're soof mo just creeping toat r tough time, i kn fwas in this trafficnd 2 to wh itn ok video from this aft inmery un lower merion across the schuylkill going westbound one of which fellbus rte 125bus. 00 p.m.h seoseff pa inju were aon thipite so crashnty no ths d kerls in chester. chool bus aroun w dents . anyone wass that wecause now, bck out pdren tonight, stay in conditions obviously that's not an optpeoplet. eople toak you thisuypressway, channel6 "action news." jim. >> trish thank you so much.heirean from matt pelman andzy afternoon. somto some areas. 50 minute the webthat corner. at one point in time it was 161 minutes so we're making prowestbound schuylkill isit's o really another astbound conshohogetting by but it's still slow on the eastbound side as well. pennsylvaninsalem especially out top forte bloc because of a downed 20 carccent on the extensioll we found
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the traffic hardest hit areas lower montgomery county upper northwest par that's been a reale the drivers, lincoln dr still afternoon. in center city hasn't been as bad but the vine street expressway eastbound stillheav it'sund exoupleon turnpike and eight septa regional rail lines are still not running. other lines have up tolays and a.m. tack all services halted until tomorrow -- amtrak all tomorrow.m not good out there still this eng. "action news" reportern atlantic chad we have been concerned beaat's the> j see thebeen tha rigarohe mnhatyroing the rrenkidear-oldina who is at ather isrtendez ar the poconos w aua >> the, >rt and moved sand t reduthe w time storct w the nextide is going to little bit above the in which we close, we seen west so we'll additional st closings for vening high tide and little over 21,000 customers were itsce area.adpradelli chanleews" reporter john rawlins at peco ig.nificantf powerages and we a >> reportee w firstgut 260,00 custopower. es and
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restorations over the the heavy wet snow arrivedhat 1:0gusty winds driving th snow sideways ddamag earlier. ounty, this large tree fell blocked bridgewater road and pulled down power lines. multiple peco crews swarmed that scene, their goal to restore a 7600-volt line and replace a damaged transformer. peco says it additio mto de outages bful if they venture theyee downedes have damaged. always, always stay awa equipment and asshat they are energized. >> r there to be very, veryere are a lot of downed wires around the region. peco is looking es por as weib 260,000 of its customers without power at this hour. and the storm is not over. live in plymouth meeting, john rawlins channel6 "action news." jim. >> and o region wide. thank you john. and we urge you to visit 6abc.com for breaking details on this storm including multiple live views from storm tracker6. you'll also find updated watches and warnings as the storm moves through. "action news"
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n hello, pec no. save ene >> are least on th t mountain? is this thing inthroes. >> the snow is starting to taper. the problem thng to be with ay us intogo to storm tracker6 live doubl and you can see that areas northwest of allentown the snow is ending. actually west of reading they all. and philadelphia now it's generally light to moderate. north of philadelphia you can see some drier airor ofsnow is beginning farthehof, so one tin
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a littlellentown three and a haln 4-than the tonight. when the snow isese wino bet of the northwest. a lot of trees already down. philadelphia a current wind gust of 5 the poconos 48. wi tdenny a wind gust m es per hous so temperatu in the low 30's but you factor in the winds you got to bundle up.lls teens andperatures will be hoverin a deep freeze. satellite and radar showing the storm system. if you look at the radar here's the center of the storm. it's reached its peak. it's beginning to collapse into itself so we're starting to get diminished returns on the radar as drier air moves in a reallyo peter s. 9 oighteast of ph return of fighting with 40's d 10 o'clockll to 45 miles per mixing t onl 2y peak in tonitely a day you do want to up. the winds will be diminishing on we still have a coastal flood warning posted through saturday night. mng orfo coastal there delaware beaches i rsey shore. tomorrow though, it's expected to kind of peek, modeng high tbout 8:30 9:30 in the morning the about10 o'clock.
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mod theuweather 7-dtery tomorrowgrees. wind chills in the 30' bundle up if you'reopener.wonday we seasonably coeasingcould have stand uesse've gother storm on we could be a bitorm with rain and wet snow, 47 degrees and behind oat 4 the worst of thenow is out of here but still very windy overnight. >> all right, cecily. students at philadelphia's masterman high school in spring garden are experiencing take lead. thes the artballroom and other social op sociajunior their new today in the gym. abc's "world news tonight" with david muir next on channel6. "action news" continues at0:00 phl17 with brian s ws,seph and duc ftion news" at 11:00 here on channel6. for cecily tynan, ducis rodgers, jeff skversky and the entire "action news" team i'm jim gardner. we hos" >> ♪♪
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