berks county, lehigh county as that heavier snow showers working its way through. cold arctic air pittsburgh 16, 17 in cleveland. that cold air is heading our way with gusty wind. so again snow showers through early evening 8:00 o'clock maybe city sees a few flakes by midnight we are looking good, clear skies, back to sunshine, on wednesday, and thursday, some clouds, start to roll role in. that is just a sign of milder air returning to the forecast. here comes wind with the arctic front they will gust to 30 to 40 miles an hour overnight and still windy especially on wednesday morning and then wind relax a bit. wind chill values overnight tonight single digits and teens, tomorrow morning we could feel like eight in the city, doesn't get much better in the afternoon. forecast, snow showers early, overnight and then clearing, windy and 22. tomorrow 31, with the sunshine, stays windy. here's that extended forecast, gets warmer by end of the week, friday not bad 49, watch out for showers on saturday, and then martin luther king day highs in the 30's. >> appreciate it,

berks county reading right now seeing some heavy snow. moving through the area.educing that visibility and a quick check of ultimate doppler we put a tracker on this. you can see it will be moving toward the philadelphia area within the next hour or so as well. so be on the look out for reduced visibility. it will look lick a blizzard but it will move through. >> okay. be careful out there. that does it for us. >> see you at 10:00. hey gus! good to see you again! the usual? veggie burger with the works. see ya. sounds good matt! thanks! gus, the second most famous groundhog in pennsylvania! that's me. and this is for you! gus bucks ! the new instant game from the pennsylvania lottery- with top prizes of a hundred grand. it's the best game yet. 'cause you're on it? well... keep on scratchin'! >>> crash course. >> i'm freaking out. >> a plane just landed on the freeway. >> the lingerie model learning how to fly when this happened. >> mayday, mayday. >> a little panic. >> and inside the raid to capture el chapo. and is sean penn a dead man walking. >> should sean pe

a huge mess on interstate 78 in berks county. several accidents have led to major backups on the highway. right now 78 is closed in both directions between exit 40 and exit 35. definitely an area you want to avoid this morning if you can. nbc 10 first alert traffic reporter jessica boyington will have an update on this just ahead. >>> this just in, north wildwood mayor patrick rosanelo tells us new jersey governor chris christie called him this morning to apologize. here's why. while christie was on the campaign, a student asked him why he wasn't in his state after helping out from the blizzard. here's how the government responded. >> i don't know what you expect me to do. do you want me to go down there with a mop? you know, the fact is that we had all the roads cleared. we had new jersey transit back up. and for the people who did sustain some flooding, we had folks on the ground to evacuate them if they needed to be evacuated. no one needed to be evacuated. >> nbc 10 did in fact show some rescue and evacuations during the bliz

it's carbon monroe lehigh berks and northampton counties. of drizzle but it moved through and creates icy roads. let's go on outside because of course we already have icy roads because of all the melting yesterday and the refreezing overnight as we look live on sky6 you see cloudy skies up above and in fact on satellite6 and action radar you can really see how the clouds have moved right in. and here's that area of freezing drizzle that broke out. you can see it's not a very wide area. we're not talking about a long period of this but nonetheless north and west of the city we're watching for this to impact us. let's time out with future tracker and this model suggesting it really falls apart but even at 8:30 you might see some freezing drizzle near lancaster and reading and up near mount pocono so watching that carefully. for the rest of us we really stay dry until the afternoon when a few showers come through. so we look at this through 3:30 in the afternoon and a few showers begin to move through when we're above freezing and then a steadi

coming into southern berks county at the moment. the visibility tells us if it's snowing and how hard. it's not snowing in philadelphia or millville, atlantic city yet, but the visibility is now dropped to one mile in wildwood, that's significant snow, and in dover and georgetown, delaware, that's some fairly heavy snow, especially for the beginning of the storm. and as we go through the evening, more of that heavier snow is going to be moving up from the southwest. by 7:00, some heavy snow, even heavier than what we're seeing now in southern delaware and that moves up through the entire area and you can see it. there's no rain/snow line anywhere, it is just all snow, all night, until tomorrow morning where you finally see a little bit of a rain/snow line. it does not make it all the way to philadelphia. looks like all snow here. the other issue is the wind, we could be seeing winds close to hurricane force along the coastline, creating major coastal flooding. more on that coming up a little bit later. as far as how much snow is goi

that includes berks county, lancaster county, allentown, but farther north eight to 12 inches and near the poconos four to eight inches there. south jersey we see the higher amount there, 12 to 17 inches in the blue and eight to 12 closer to atlantic city, but along the immediate shore, that's where we expect to see possibly that changeover to rain or rain/snow line moving in, which would drop totals down to four to eight inches. either way for south jersey and delaware, these are the areas we expect the highest potential for heavy, wet snow, along with wind gusts near 60 miles an hour, so power outages are likely. that's going to be combined with the coastal flooding we expect, too, with high tide and full moon and strong onshore wind. blizzard conditions as we go overnight and into tomorrow. coming up, glenn will talk about that and specific snow totals, too, that's straight ahead. >> all right, sheena. the most snow is coming down right now at the jersey shore, sticking on the roads in cape may. >> aundrea cline-thomas is join ing us live. what's changed in the past 30 minutes? look

we have a number of school delays particularly in berks county.ng at the bottom of your screen. and they're also available on 6abc.com. >> new this morning, troopers in delaware are trying to figure out if a driver who slammed into a building was fleeing police. this happened in cranston heights late last night. the front end of the vehicle damaged the siding and part of the gutter on a home along the 1700 block of newport gap pike. there's no word on injuries or possible charges in the incident. >> 5:57. still ahead on "action news," president obama defends his record and looks to the future in his final state of the union address. >> later we spill the beans on starbucks secret valentine's day menu. "action news" will continue. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> "action news." delaware valley's leading news program. with matt o'donnell, tamala edwards, karen rogers and meteorologist, david murphy. >> ♪ >> good morning everyone, it's 6 o'clock on this wednesday january 13th and here's what's happening. >> slick roads out there. watch your step and slow down as you mak

there is that edge of heavier snow showers coming out across northwestern part of the berks county. up toward, hamburg about to get some snow right there. that will extend in the lehigh valley as well as southern poconos. here in the city, maybe if this holds 7:00 or 8:00 o'clock could see flakes a across the region. we should 56.8 inches of snow in philadelphia, and zero this season. not even a trace. maybe we will get that later this evening. big story will be the cold air that comes in tonight, our second shot of arctic air of this week, temperatures tomorrow, running a good five to 10 degrees below average and reason thinks clipper system bringing snow showers in here. reenforceing cold air. wind will kick up. temperatures tomorrow lower 30's. when you factor in the wind it will feel like single digits in the morning and teens in the afternoon. good news if you don't like the cold wait until thursday. starts to lift out, upper 30's to around 40 degrees. we will be well in the 40's on friday, nice mild day and heading in the weekend we will talk about some showers. so now we are

this is nothing like what our neighbors in berks received last night.re were near whiteout conditions on 422 as the season's first snow of the season came in with a gust. >> looks like blizzard weather. for me it looked like it was dusty at first but now it looks like it's more of like blizzard. i could hardly see. >> love the winter. don't really think that it's been winter until now. >> reporter: and this is all we got right here in wynnefield heights but i will take it hoping for some more snow that's at least what i would like. but right here you'll see more city of philadelphia salt trucks coming through certain areas before the morning commute does pick up. of course as more people do hit the roadways, it is going to be easier to travel. you can see he there passing through. there will be a little more traction on the roadways. if you're heading towards the bus stop like the one behind me, you want to layer up because it's definitely cold out here as well. reporting live from wynnefield heights annie mccormick channel6 "action news." matt. >> actu

back of the edge moving through berks county and chester county couple leftover showers extreme northernelaware. give it five, 5:30 from west to east. that dry weather returns so improving conditions through the mid morning. still some problems as far as the fog goes north and west into the lehigh valley berks county visibility down to about a mile and a half in allentown. .30 of a mile up in mount poco pocono. there are the temperatures. mid and upper 30s north of the city. then you go from philadelphia on southward in the mid 40s and we should see a little bit of sunshine today with some spots getting up to near 50 degrees much winds right now pretty much calcalmed to about 10 miles per hour. they'll kick up later this morning into the afternoon and become gusty at times as drier air returns but check it out. 9:00 o'clock temperatures in the low 40s and some sunshine returns by noontime in the upper 40s. we should make it up to about 51 degrees for the afternoon high for philadelphia. near 50 at the shore. looks like those clouds hold off longer in the poconos temperatures struggle to

. >>> police are looking for the thieves who stole a classic car from a berks county storage facility. >>> we'll be live in philadelphia where thousands will donate there time to help others on this day of service. >>> i'm proud of the people of philadelphia, but especially on this day when people come out to do service. matt o'donnell is off, erin o'hern is here, let's go over to dave for traffic we had snow come in. >> reporter: the snow made the roads wet, the problem is it did freeze up overnight, so we could have problems where streets didn't get treatment. we could have a flurry today, but overall we'll have a mix of clouds and sun. we're down to 30 in the city. 27 in wilmington, 28 in trenton. mid to low 20s in allentown and reading and below freezing everywhere except places down the shore. the wind is blowing feels like the teens a windchill of 17 in philadelphia and 11 in allentown. bundle up and cover up as you head out this morning. on the bus stop, most of you don't have school, if you are getting on one that has been rented to take you to the volunteer activities, 26 deg

thieves swiped a classic car from a berks county storage facility. they used the 1974 gold volkswagen beetle to haul away other items in fleetwood. police believe they are connected to other heists in the area. >>> the nation honors the legacy of martin luther king. the day of service brings together thousands of volunteers across the community. katherine scott is live in north philadelphia where the city kicks off it's signature event. it's an exciting day, katherine. >> reporter: every year at girard college there are so many people and so many projects, they work side by side on the floor, it's empty now, but it will not be for long. i see a booth for habitat for humanity. another table with boxings of clothing to sort. not only do they accomplish a lot, but there's a big educational component of all this. let's go to video and show you what to expect on this day of service. whether it's writing cards to veterans or a book drive, the important thing is getting involved and celebrating the birthday of martin luther king. back in 1965, dr. king stoo

could be a problem in the lehigh valley and berks county.hundershoweshowers a looking impressive. a warmer afternoon. a nice breeze developing out of the southwest. we'll help with the melting process. later on, showers just rain this time around. the temperatures will be too warm for anything else. cape may, welcome at that, 43 degrees and climbing. we're seeing the temperatures climb in philadelphia, too. 28 degrees. the temperatures will be warming in reading, 17 degrees right now. that's cold enough for some ice. though it's dry right now for the pocono mountains of the lehigh valley and reading, the showers are not far away. they've been moving through central pennsylvania. they're falling into dry air. most of the rain drops evaporating before they hit the ground. though there's a chance of light freezing rain, probably the bigger threat is the ice that's already on the ground and the refreezing from yesterday's melting. this afternoon, another round of showers developing. but look at those temperatures. low 40s for allentown, quakerto

overnight last night berks county montgomery county actually saw snow.st like blizzard-like conditions. at least some kids were able to have some fun. back out here live you can see here in this condition -- now we want to take a look at the road way. you can see the slick roadways here looking wet. you don't know if it is black ice or if it is ice. that's why we're telling you just to take your time. again in certain areas the salt is really working, it is treated, you're getting traction as you're heading out but like we said, go slow, take your time and if you're walking definitely layer up. reporting live in win fields heights annie mccormick channel6 "action news." >> you can find the seven-day forecast and a live look at storm tracker6 double scan radar any time at 6abc.com/weather. >> fire investigators spent much of the night trying to figure out how a deadly blaze got started in a wilmington home a37-year-old mother and her three small children were in that home on the 500 block of north monroe street late yesterday when the fire broke out. inve

here you see it just outside of berks and lancaster counties, but it is getting closer, should be near the allentown area by about 6:30 and through the philadelphia area by about 7:30. and this band of snow could be lowering visibility for a while, too, as it moves through. aside from that as we go through the rest of tonight and early tomorrow morning, we have a wind advisory. winds gusting near 50 miles an hour expected, this will start overnight tonight and that's going to bring down really cold air for tomorrow. temperatures right now in allentown 33 degrees. once that band of snow moves in i showed you, should be dropping the temperature in allentown below freezing, so some of the snow could be sticking, definitely going to stick in the poconos, where trcemperatures a 24 degrees. reading should be dropping, 36 there, but the philadelphia area and northeast philly, down to wilmington, right now still in the mid to low 40s. don't expect it to stick in new jersey and delaware if the line holds together, temperatures there still the mid 40s. here is the area we have to look forward to

there are 64 trucks in total in berks county... and about 20 have the tracking technology. rick stone, berks county penndot equipment manager "we ve equipped some of the trucks with tracking devices so the public can see where some of our trucks are and it also gives an option for a two hour cookie trail that you can see where the truck has been in the last two hours so they could kind of monitor some of our activity."there are two ways to monitor the penndot plows, either online at 511pa.com or by downloading the free 511pa app. to track the plows click traffic map, show legend, and then scroll down until you find the snow plow icon. then viola! the active trucks in your area show up in real time. pawel kuzezel "i would like to test it and see how it works." jill jules-fick "i might use it yeah, i don t live too far from-my i am sure people or truck drivers and stuff like that, i would think would use it a lot." tens of millions of people on the east coast could be affected by the weekend storm system. she s only a college student -- and years away from retiring... but one

lehigh valley, berks, poconos, all points inland, you are. so, do just be careful as you head out today. meantime, i would also say that if anything melted yesterday, it is certainly had a chance to refreeze in some of the colder spots like palmyra here outside of the cove nature park here in the live neighborhood ned work. no problems with visibility this morning. you have got 25 degrees however on that thermometer, and really you're below freezing up and down i95, in all point north and west of that. so, that's where you're likely to see some of the worse of the freezing issues this morning, heck only at 10 degrees this morning in quakertown after all. but through the course of the day, i suspect that you will see at least little bit of sunshine. watch for future shower to also be out there dotting the regional radar come this afternoon. thankfully meisha looks like too warm by that point, it is strictly rain showers for most of us. i would even say they're so light probably can get away without an umbrella today. not terrible. >> good, tha

an investigation is underway in berks county after aa high school there was vandalized. someone painted lude and hateful messages on the exterior walls of berks catholic high school this weekend. and statue of the virgin mary was also des crated and crews spent hours cleaning up the school building and some areas had to be repainted and students return tomorrow. >> a group of armed militia men occupied a national wild life refuge in oregon vowing to remain there indefinitely. prosecution of two ranchars facing prison time for arson. bundy surprise of well known clive bendy is the groups spokesman. they're against the government control over the land. ranchars are set to begin prison stpss tomorrow. >> president obama program to meet tomorrow with loretta lynch to talk about what can be done to reduce gun violence the president arrived home after way to week vacation to strengthen background checks. a bottle will take part in a town hall meeting george mason under arrest virginia. mayor eye lengt jim ken question will take the oling of office at the academy of music aafte

the second band with the cold front itself and the colder air starting to come into berks county already, and just about to get toward the poconos. right outside of reading, near kutztown, not too far from allentown, that could give you a little burst of some snow, you see the darker blue there indicating a little bit heavier. so it gets to easton about 6:45, allentown about 6:30, warminister at 7:30 and philly close to 8:00 at the current speed. so there it is. what's left of it. at 7:00, 8:00 coming through the philadelphia area, again, you can get a little burst of snow, might just last for a few minutes, but then again we haven't seen any of that. then it's gone by 10:00, 11:00, it's offshore. temperatures still way above freezing in most of the area, but has dropped below freezing in allentown, dark now, temperatures dropping, so some of this is going to start sticking, at least the side roads. talk more about the hour by hour and how much colder it's going to get with the seven day in just a few minutes. >> glenn, see you then. never one to shy away from covering the elements, doug

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. >> from berks county, grew up in york county. tell me about your childhood. >> my childhood was very fortunate. my family when i was 5 moved from berks to york county. my father started a new job and he just celebrated his 40th anniversary. he runs the company now. it was a happy childhood growing up in york. and i didn't realize it at the time. i had both parents, never had to worry about basic necessities. education was really important in my house and it was a really great childhood. >> what takes you, then, from central pa all the way to western pa? >> sure. it was kind of an odd, s circuitous route. pennsylvania politics is pfl, fits burg and the big red "t." that was the track i was on but i had different life experiences. a death of a friend and being paired up with a little boy in big brothers and sisters. and i started teaching ged classes to young mothers and fathers in the hill district in the second class of americorps. so that took me off a path which was more of a traditional one and i wanted to use my professional

here we're watching for a few flurries moving through berks county and heading into parts of northernster and upper montgomery and bucks county. the flurry is going to be more likely farther to the west where they are getting snow showers this morning in central pennsylvania. as far as the temperatures are concerned, at noon time, 30 degrees in philadelphia, 32 degrees in mount holly and millville, the temperatures will peak early this afternoon and as the wind kicks in, the 30s will disappear and look at the 20s at 3:00 and by this evening, 22 degrees in philadelphia. and see the teens in allentown and reading at 7:00 this evening. by 11:00 tonight the temperatures drop in the teens and continue falling through the night tonight making tomorrow the coldest of the season yet. today windy and cold with temperatures in the 30s. and gusty winds. we could see scattered flurries but the flurries are going to be out of here by this evening. and then the colder air arrives for tomorrow morning. look at that, 16 to start with, 34 the high temperature, another cold day tuesday. then the temper

but we are in berks county.eral portions. 78 around exit 10 in bethel township, exit 30 and exit 40. so between that stretch that's where we're having the closure from route 22 at exit 8 to 737 at exit 40 you'll see some delays because of this freezing rain, lauren. >>> all right, jessica. let's go now to first alert meteorologist bill henley for a look at the forecast. >> plenty of clouds. and we're going to see another round of rain this afternoon. the line of freezing rain that jessie was talking about is now over new jersey where the temperatures are warmer. in fact, we're climbing significantly over the morning temperatures. near 50 already in cape may. 41 in philadelphia. sunshine on hold for most of the day, just some filtered sunshine at lunchtime. cloudy at 3:00. and later this afternoon for the evening commute some rain showers. >>> thanks, bill. >>> i'm lauren mayk. we'll have a full hour of news coming up in just about 30 minutes. you can always get the latest news and weather with the nbc 10 app. no

. >>> new information on an icy stretch of i-78 in berks county that caused nearly a dozen crashes. most of the interstate is back open to traffic. but one eastbound lane is still closed at this hour. freezing rain triggered the chain reaction crash involving four tractor-trailers, amazingly no one was hurt. we'll have more on this icy mess coming up at 4:30. >> for a closer look at road condition this is afternoon we go to nbc 10's mitch blacher out in news force 10 in camden county. what's it like there, mitch? >> reporter: hey, denise, we're just outside of cherry hill, we're driving around some of the side streets in cherry hill. this is about as bad as it gets on these side streets, a little bit of icing, a little bit of snow on the roads but for the most part the main road completely clear, looking at about 1400 miles of road that's needing to be plowed over the past 72 hours throughout camden county. they had more than 100 trucks to do that work. this is -- we're talking about 72 hours of continuous plowing here in camden county. as of now they say they are focusing just on c

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close to two in berks county. they are going up from here. they will continue to go up overnight tonight. here is what you can expect if you are in chester and delaware counties. as far as snowfall totals, 17 to 23 inches in chester county and delaware county. this clouds downing town, king of prussia, concord. we will see these areas with some of the highest snowfall totals. there's a chance near west chester that some models are indicating we could see higher amounts near about 28 inches. that's going to be n some of the heaviest areas. all snow is expected. the heaviest will be 3:00 a.m. to noon tomorrow. those heavier bands expected to move in overnight. they will get here before sunrise. you will wake up to heavy snow falling. the winds will pick up. it's not that windy now. but it will get windier as we go into the early morning hours. like i mentioned, most of the snowfall in this area of chester county is expected. your snowfall totals will be some of the highest in the area. we expect. this is along the entire i-95 corridor we have s

afternoon showers and now the national weather service has posted a freezing rain for carbon monroe, berks, lehigh and northampton counties until 10 o'clock in the morning. i want to show you storm tracker6 live double scan right now. you see most of the area is dry. that precipitation really hasn't entered just yet but with double scan we've got the best technology to go in and learn exactly what's happening. let's go in closer. we have a little speck it's faded. i was tracking this when it was out near lancaster and lebanon. you can see it's dissipating now. you may be getting just a touch of freezing drizzle right near reading, near honeybrook as well. be careful if you're heading out in those areas. this isn't the bulk of the precipitation. this is not a lot right now as you're headed out but be careful on 222 and right near the pennsylvania turnpike. in honeybrook be careful on 322 and near coatesville you want to be careful right there on the 30 bypass. so just be careful -- this is what you're seeing here near doylestown lansdowne that's just ground clutter. there's a little more co

back in berks county they found a perfect way to get around, we will go live to douglasville to see how folks are making up there. >>> it is supposed to be city that doesn't sleep but today new york city was all but shut down. not much to do in the big apple unless you are this guy, this story is coming up. >>> you have been sending us great photos all day long. we will share some of the best we have got when "action news" comes right back. wow. the internet is crazy fast here. i know, right? it's so nice to have everyone over. hi hey. mmm. i just laid an egg. does anybody want it? joey, you want some gasoline? yes, please. mom, guess what? i married a clown and we're having tiny little clown babies. mhm. i just bought a hammer. with internet fast enough for everyone, your guests might get a bit carried away. get out of the past. get fios. tomorrow at philadelphia international airport, after officials made rare decision to cancel all flights in and out of the airport all day to day. tonight officials tell "action news" that weather permitting, flights will resume on sunday, but many ai

if you live in areas like upper bucks county, you can see 12 to 17 inches, parts of berks county, as well, extending into new jersey. we'll see that extending into parts of delaware, but we're also going to have a sharper cutoff between some of the highest amounts and lowest amounts close to the shore in case we see the rain/snow line moving in which we expect some mixing at some point during the storm but a lot will be heavy, wet snow moving through the area, especially closer to the rain/snow line. that's where we're going to see the better chance of power outages close to the shore, new jersey and delaware and these are going to be the areas where we have the highest chance of the heavy wet snow. for the rest of us, expect that snow accumulating very quickly through tonight and continuing into tomorrow. coming up, glenn will take a closer look at what you can expect with the totals, too, that's straight ahead. >> all right, sheena. a live look at the scene in delaware, this comes from our camera in wilmington, delaware. also people spent the earlier part of the day getting the sup

two people went to the hospital including an off-duty police officer. >>> new tonight, a berks county firefighter is accused of setting numerous fires over the past six months in fleetwood. cody weidner is facing charges in at least three of the fires. the 19-year-old passed a background check and was trained but not yet certified. the volunteer fire company has been busy with arsons almost every week since august. >>> an autopsy is set for later today on a 5-year-old boy with autism found dead in allentown this weekend. police think jalil vega's death was a tragic accident. the case is highlighting the need for better ways to help find children with special needs who go missing and nbc 10's randy gyllenhaal explains. >> reporter: this memorial in allentown has grown tenfold since just last night. the story pulling at heart strings especially for parents with special needs children. looking for clues to prevent a tragedy of their own. despite freezing cold, they cross the freight train tracks in droves to the canal bank where jalil vega's body was found. the wind picked up but not a s

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several crashes on i-78 in berks county caused the interstate to close in both directions and a warning from governor wolf prompted drivers statewide to be careful behind the world. whether or not those concerns continue depends on mother nature. cecily tynan is here with more for our week ahead. >> we have possibility of icing in the northwest suburbs later on tonight but right now temperatures are on the mild side and a good melting happening. currently philadelphia is balmy, 48 degrees, very warm for january standards and atlantic city airport 50 and allentown well above freezing 40 degrees and wilmington 46 and trenton 46 degrees. satellite 6 along with action radar showing we do have a weak front that is moving through right now, it is producing a few light showers and nothing heavy enough to wash the grime off your car unfortunately. we'll get a few showers live double scan live radar zooming in and the constration is over doylestown and this pushes to the east in the overnight hours. as we head through the week, continued melting and temperatures in the 40s and 50s and the coasta

we're zoom into berks county, fleet road and hamburg, this is a broken line of downpours developing. there's cloud to ground lightning strikes reported racing to the east. if you're traveling that way, it's not going to last that long, but when you encounter the showers and downpours, it may cause you to pull over briefly. rainfall totals, at any time, 1.5. doylestown an inch and a quarter. wilmington and philadelphia, above a half inch. for the remainder. afternoon, cloudy, showers, quick-hitting downpour, windy and warmer, 65 degrees is the record high this afternoon. sharply colder overnight tonight and tomorrow. i'll have the details in the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast. guys. >>> that cold is coming back. >>> in case you venture heard powerball -- you haven't heard, 0 powerball fever is heating back up. >>> the powerball is expected to climb to $1.3 billion or more than that. chad perdelli is live in south philadelphia with reaction and people continuing to buy those tickets, chad. >>> hey alicia as you get into the afternoon, more and more people are buying lottery t

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are snow showers to the west and they are light and have a tendency to fall apart in lancaster and berks county, we have not seen too much action out there yet, as we go into the afternoon at 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, there is a better chance of that coming in. 32 is the current temperature and above freezing in allentown, so when it does move in we expect it to be mainly wet roads and not frozen roads and the farther up toward allentown unthe poconos the best chance you have of some of that. the temperatures are in the low 40s in spots and the temperatures are picking up and the windchill is feeling like 35 degrees, where do we go from here, we get up to 44 as a high and that is 4 degrees above average, and temperatures dip below the freezing mark and the snow should be over, we have future tracker showing you how the snow showers arrive. >> thank you. >>> now to lehigh valley correspondent, walter perez, standing by in allentown with the preparations ahead for the the imminent snowfall. >> reporter: this is route 8 in allentown, crews are already up and down putting down brine for snowfall acr

and that is making things feel worse than they should, and we got a little bit of snow, in temple berksounty, and royersford about a half inch, that is not all that much. temperatures now 27 and there is that number in philadelphia, 24 in allentown and 26 in trenton and 27 in sea isle city, when you factor in the wind gusting in the 20s and even 30s at times today, it feels like it's 14 degrees and rick we are not going to get out from under windchills in the teens until late tonight and ermey tomorrow. things get better in the accuweather forecast though, i'll run the details down coming up. >> look forward to that thank you. >>> a broken water line created an icy mess this morning, chopper 6 hd captured dramatic images of water shooting high in the air and freezing on power lines and nearby businesses, it created a massive geyser at washington and cherry streets, workers were able to shut the water off in a half hour and they are chipping away the ice from the power lines above and annie mccormick spoke to a contractor whose business was flooded during the incident and she will have a

." >>> happening today, firefighters in berks county will return to the scene of a fire that seriously injured a 70-year-old man. this all started yesterday at a home in tuckerton road muhlenberg township. the man had burns to his hands neck and face, medics flew him to the hospital. no word on what caused the fire. >>> test have confirmed that a racoon that attacked a 6-year-old north jersey boy had rabies. the animal jumped on the boy wednesday morning as he was walking to school. the bystander got it off that child and beat it to death. the 6-year-old has been released from the hospital and expected to make a full recovery. >>> police officers in delaware county will be the first in the world to carry a new form of the heroin antidote known as narcan it is a nasal spray that makes it easier to administer. delaware county leaders say officers have saved more than 170 lives since they started using the original narcan nasan. >>> the annual black tie gala for the auto show was held last night and a little car made a big splash. >> reporter: a car lovers dream, bentleys and including th

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they can monitor some of our activity. 20 out of the 64 trucks in berks county have the tracking technology. you can find around the clock coverage of the pending winter storm at 6abc.com and we'll provide constant updates at the "action news" facebook page and on twitter. >>> wilmington police officer as fired a rookie officer accused of making terroristic threats. the department dismissed michael on tuesday. >>> nypd is questioning an alleged isis sympathizer who might be a threat to police. an anonymous tipster put in a call to police. they are not taking chances since the ambush on jesse hartnett two weeks ago. detectives say they are erring on the side of caution. it is possible that the tip sterp was a gang -- tipster was a gang rival. >>> a crash happened at belmont and montgomery avenues in fairmont park. two children in the striking vehicle suffered minor injuries they were taken to children's hospital. the officer suffered a minor injury. the driver will be cited for not properly securing a child in a car seat. >>> ice is the issue at the fire scene in center city. large formation

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then six to ten inches in northern portions of berks county and northern part of the lehigh valley with two to six inches toward the poconos and we also have a tremendous gradient here from the 15 to 20 inches in salem county to perhaps a couple inches at the delaware beaches in cape may because of the changeover to rain. now we'll get more specific about who's going to get what and when with the seven day in a few minutes. >> glenn, thanks for that. we want to take you now to delaware county where they are briefing their emergency management plan for the storm so residents know a declaration was signed this morning. >> we're going to patch you in but we've had a little bit of trouble with our shot here so if it starts to freeze we'll jump out. >> what will i need for two or three days if my power goes out? things like batteries, things like water, make sure they have those things. they should use common sense and take a look around your yard and clear things out. take loose objects away, anything underneath the tree, we could have falling limbs or falling trees. >> amtrak's news confer

we take to you berks county, where it is 22 degrees, see the clear skies, getting ready for the sunrise, at in about 20 minute or so. west wind, 1 mile per hour, that's it, so calm morning, there will be frost out there, so you will be doing some scraping. freezing at the airport, 24 in allentown, 28 degrees in trenton, millville the mid 20's, quakertown, 23 degrees. 27 degrees in palmyra, new jersey. winds pretty much light. less than 10 miles per hour, so, no brutal windchills this morning. but, certainly need to throw on the heavier coat and gloves if you are headed outside. storm scan3, quiet. this is how it will be all day long, so another big travel day, looks good across the mid-atlantic, northeast, no big storms to talk b so breaking down the temperatures through the morning, 20's, 30's, climbing to the mid 40's by around noontime. afternoon highs will make it into the mid and upper 40's, so above average. forty-seven today for philadelphia, 48 at the shore. thirty-five nor the high in the poconos. now, watch what happens tomorrow. forecast highs in the mid 30's, that's coldest

. >>> the american tourist killed in grenada last week is wife of a doctor who practices in berks county. she died from an extensive skull fracture, authorities charged david benjamin with capital murder. she worked at a children's hospital in atlanta. >>> donald trump is not budging on his promise to boycott the republican debate before the iowa cause of actions. he considers fox news anchor megyn kelly bias. trump's campaign said fox crossed the line. the candidate taped an interview with bill o'riley asking him to reconsider. >>> i think you should be the bigger man and say that's the right thing to do. >> reporter: it's an eye for an eye. >>> trump was upset about megyn kelly's line of questioning in the first debate. >>> hillary clinton attended a fund raishz -- fundraiser here at the philadelphia navel yard last night. bernie sanders got face time with president obama in the oval office. he talked about the fight of islamic extreme extremism. >>> rick williams is heading to des moines, iowa, so look out for his reports on "action news" after 11:00. >>> we have ice. >> reporter: you

(rick stone, berks equipment manager) of the trucks with tracking devices so the public can see where some of our trucks are. tens of million of people from the southeast to new england need to be prepared. in washington, dianne gallagher reporting. still ahead .. why comedian amy schumer says she taking a lie detector test. and a zoo worker's morning takes a dangerous turn when they fall into the day at the zoo... a los angeles zoo employee was injured this morning when they fell into the zoo's gorilla enclosure. from the air .. you could see a search and rescue team lifting the person out of the enclosure. an l-a fire department spokesperson says the employee fell at least 20 feet. the victim's condition is unknown. all animals were secured on scene. thursday los angeles -voscript- . like his wife, jada pinkett smith, will smith will skip the academy awards amid disappointment with a lack of minority nominees. the a-list actor said quote, "diversity is the american superpower. that's why we're great." smith said he didn't know his wife was going to post a facebook video announcing h

. >>> vandal desecrate a berks county high school. more when "action news" comes right back. >>> good morning it is 5:00 a.m., monday, january 4. 2016. we're working on several new and developing stories. >>> a sweet sweeper and new jersey transit bus collide leaving a mangle mess. >>> the city will inaugurate jim kenny as its 99th mayor. we're live with the details on the day's event. >>> it's cold, accuweather is tracking the true arrival of the winter season. >>> and just how cold is it in we've got the man with the answers. david murphy has accuweather and karen rogers has traffic good morning. >> reporter: it seems like we've been waiting forever for this, we knew it was coming and it's here. it won't last too long. next two days look out. we have a cold

we are breaking news this morning in berks county.lert traffic reporter jessica boyington. jessica? >>> with this highway shut down right now in berks county, because of several accidents reported, you want to plan an alternate route right now because 78 at exit 10 in bethel township, 78 at exit 40 in greenwood township and exit 30 in tilden township are some of the accidents reported. this is on the westbound and eastbound side. so it is not limited to the one side. we have delayed in between route 22 at exit 8 and route 737 near exit 40. that's a pretty big stretch. moving to new jersey, watch out for a water main break on route 130 southbound near 195 with the right lane closed. lauren? >>> thank you, jessica. the weather is causing some icy conditions on the roads this morning. let's get the forecast from nbc 10 first alert meteorologist bill henley. >> lauren, that line of icing has moved through the philadelphia area and now heading into new jersey. very light precipitation there. the shaded area was at risk for freezing rain th