and mercer is another.nd mercer has helped fund this research by arthur robinson, and then promote it. about,cers have talked as you mentioned, trying to make arthur robinson get chosen as the national science advisor. trump, too, has taken this position, calling global warming a hoax. view --tiny minority even in this country, if you look at "the new york times" did a piece is weak about believe in global warming, the population understands this isn't true, this position these people are taking. but because you have huge money behind it, including mercer's, it is being pushed as the policy of the united states. amy: i want to talk to you about steve bannon, continue talking about steve bannon, since he is so important, white house to strategist who some call president bannon, who you write about h his deep ties to the mercers who bankroll breitbart news and bannon's film projects. let's turn to comments bannon made in an interview last month at thehe conservative political action conference. >> i think if

who are the mercer's?enly appeared out of what seems like nowhere and we should know more about them. what is really unusual about them is an particularly rebecca mercer, who, you know, has become the mouthpiece of a far more reclusive billionaire father -- william: who is a hedge fund manager? he made his billions relatively late in life in his 50's. so unlike most of the other mega-political donors, rebecca mercer is essentially a housewife without a big business of her own to run who is in a position to really then get involved in a detailed way in the trump campaign, in the details. then, as we saw, on the trump transition team, you didn't see any of the other trump donors sitting around pushing -- yes -- in that kind of way, but what is really different about the mercer's is not only did they lobby very hard to have their preferred candidate and people they knew very well to then work with him, they actually want to blowup the whole political system. they wanted to blow up the republican establishment

who are the mercers? they've suddenly appeared of what out of seems like nowhere, yet we should know more about them. >> what's really unusual about the mercers, and particularly rebekah mercer who has become the mouthpiece of her far more reclusive billionaire father -- >> cohan: a hedge fund manager. >> former scientist turned hedge fund manager. only made his billions relatively late in life in his '50s. unlike most of the other mega political donors, rebekah mercer is essentially a housewife without a big business of her own to run who is in a position to really get involved if a detailed way -- in a detailed way in the trump campaign, in the details. then, as we saw on the trump transition team -- i mean, you didn't see any of the other trump donors in that kind of way. but what's really different about the mercers is not only did they lobby very hard to have their preferred candidate and people they knew very well to then work with him, they actually want to blow up the system, the whole political s

>> rebecca mercer you just talked about is an heiress, the daughter of bob mercer a hedge fund gazillionaireoth very very far right and they came in and supported trump starting about last august. they are credited with helping pull him over the finish line. rebecca mercer sat on the transition team. she's been calling some shots who trump has hired and now they're running this outside support group. kind of a private propaganda machine run by a couple of multi-multi-millionaires and billionaires. >> the father, mercer, as rel relayed in your article, has some pretty extreme ex sccentri views? >> this is one of the things that fascinated me. there have been stories about the mercers but been very hard to know what did they really believe? who are they? what do they want? i spent a lot of time trying to figure out what they really believe and finally found people who work with bob mercer who said he barely speaks. he'd rather talk to cats than hum humans, he doesn't give interviews but he has very odd views of things like nuclear war. he thinks for instance it was good for the japanese health

this is in hamilton township mercer county so they're forcing everybody off. to kuser road as your alternate. i-195 westbound be shut down. there you see a couple tow trucks, police on the scene right now as chopper stretches back. it's been going on for a little while now. people have gotten the warning. there's the other closure point where they're kind of forcing everybody off. so watch for that, i-195 and westbound blocked right now forcing everybody off. use kuser road there in hamilton township in mercer county so it's just past i130 that you're dealing with this accident scene. it's shut down between 130 and hamilton square road in hamilton township mercer county. this is a live look in south philadelphia. this is the platt bridge by i-95. what a different scene than the past couple days. we've been showing you these shots fogged in rain coming down yesterday we had thunderstorms. nothing like that happening. it's quiet weather-wise so no big problems on the platt bridge there looking good. we have an accident on the boulevard northbound at red lion roa

mercer was allegedly stopped for a belt. after a plea from the chief of police, they arrested 22-year-old derek decure, during the two-week trial, the defense claimed decure had no intention of robbing mercer and was only defending himself. when the defense says the 16-year-old pulled a gun out of the bag law carrying. the jury, during the trial, was shown an undated photograph of mercer with a gun in his lap. and a witness took the stand and clai the bag earlier that night. however, police say at the scene, no gun was found. the jury is now trying to decide whether decure is guilty of second degree murder or manslaughter. he was found guilty of several firearms violations. but not guilty of first-degree murder, the robbery or felony murder, they're trying to decide on the second degree or possibly manslaughter. decure remains locked up while the jury continues deliberations. live outside dc superior court paul wagner fox 5 local news. >>> you may have heard about this. more and more super bugs are becoming resistant to anti

our jen fred, she's out there in mercer county, new jersey actual any lawrence villa long route one, good morning to you >> it is coming down, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. good morning. we are north of trenton i can tell thaw we are feeling a little bit of the sleet as he described it. it is mostly snowing however and as you can see road are relatively clear if you are dealing with the winter storm. we have seen plenty of snowplows, coming up and down, route one here, again north of trenton in lawrenceville, mercer county and i can tell thaw even the cars that don't appear to be suv or four-wheel drive they have been able to get by. so far in this area the news is relatively good. we will be right back. >>> just waking up, good morning to you. happening right now we are tracking the storm. you see it all lit up, nasty nor'easter bearing down on the tri-state area. >> we will lot the map and see different colors that means we are getting different

this is mercer county, new jersey.'t know if you can hear it but it seems to be even though it might look like snow more wet, then it is, heavier snow. >> oh, absolutely it does look like wet snow, thank you very much. we do appreciate that. >>> that is scene from new jersey where we are seeing wet snow coming down, maybe we're getting thinning of the snow just for this short period. get something banding. we will check with sue in just a moment. but lets check with sports, lots going on, sean bell. >>> coming up in sports in a ming also making moves in free agency they who one of their defensive starters but gained a valuable backup see who went where next up in sports. >>> flyers playoff hopes are falling by the day, they have who three out of four games going in to last night and they continue to struggle, against the blue jackets. in the third period tied at three, the wheels are falling off, on the power play blue jackets, gets the goal, flyers lose five-three. their third straight loss. yesterday villanova left f

about the father first, robert mercer.ere did he come from and where did he get all his money? >> well, he made his money on wall street in a -- he's a hedge fund manager of a company called renaissance technologies that's considered one of the most secretive and successful hedge funds in the world. and he is a computer scientist and something of a math genius. but he's also really reclusive. he has said he'd be happy to go through his life speaking to no one and he'd rather talk to cats and spend his time with cats than people. so he's an unusual character to be so important in our country, because most people have no idea who he is. >> he and his daughter, rebecca, incredibly influential over donald trump. are the people behind them hiring steve bannon and kellyanne conway, big funders of breitbart. but his own personal views, you write about his racial views the following. merser for his part has argued that the civil rights act in 1964 was a major mistake. he also said that the problem of racism in america is exaggerat

of the jury was shown a photograph of mercer with a gun in his lap. and a witness took the stand and claimed there had been a gun in the back earlier that night. however, police say at the scene, no gun was found. the jury is now trying to decide whether decure is guilty of second degree murder or manslaughter. decure is still locked up, he is still waiting for that jury's decision to come back. but what the jury did find him guilty of is several firearms violations. carrying a pistol without a license and two other firearms violations, but they found a not guilty of all the other charges. so the jury said they were dead lock odd the second degree, manslaughter charges but the judge asked them to go back and try again. so when we know something further, we'll let you know, live at dc superior court, paul wagner fox 5 local news. >>> millions get sick in the u.s. every year. >>> a local problem is getting national attention tonight. after social media calls out the district for the recent up tick in missing teenagers. what's being done to fight this ep

this is in mercer county, new jersey, it is the westbound side of i195 right near route 130. now, it is tough to make out exactly. skyfox, zoom in little bit there if you can. again, it is the westbound side of 195 right at route 130. anyone between the turnpike and route 130 looks like the roadway totally closed at least on the westbound side this morning. police, emergency crews, are taking pictures of the scene, which is never real a good sign, especially at this hour, and specially when they have this many emergency vehicles on the scene, and the roadway closed. so, it is more than just a fender ben err at this point. going to the maps. give you location. again, the westbound side of i195 coming out of mercer county headed over toward hamilton square for folks trying to get over towards trenton. again, the westbound lanes are blocked at route 130 and we will keep you up-to-date once we get more info on the scene that far accident. the roosevelt boulevard, northbound, accident at red lion road. watch for delays there. northeast philadelphia, here is a live look at the 30 b

we have had 12 lightning strikes on this view alone mercer county to bucks, lehigh county and berks countyme of the storms even coming with very small pea sized hail. that shows the dynamics in the atmosphere. these are sliding east 25 miles per hour. we have another batch of showers and thunderstorms south of philadelphia as well. not as intense but they are rolling along the i-95 corridor. the main showers will arrive during the overnight hours. future tracker showing tomorrow morning, 7:30, it is rain, start it is light to moderate but intensifies to the afternoon and evening hours when we get heavy downpours, freezing rain in the poconos. both commutes tomorrow will be affected. allow extra time. the big concern is the evening commute with heavy downpour and ponding on roads. totals are going up as far as rainfall amount. we'll talk about when we clear in the full forecast. >> we have a developing story from atlantis where a massive fire caused a part of the interstate highway to collapse. troopers told drivers to turn around because they were worried about the integrity of the bridge.

but first, jen, what is up. >> reporter: we're in mercer county new jersey.you can see blacktop behind us , on most of the road. it is plow efforts or mixing conditions? sue has our update. >> she does, thanks, jen, lauren. good morning. we can say good morning even though it is snowing outside. great to have you here on this tuesday. nasty nor'easter but tricky one. >> well, it is we have talked about this yesterday about the mixing with the sleet and snow and now that will affect snow fall totals and it looks like it is going to. >> we have pictures, we love when do you. that we will use #fox 29 snow, this is what it looks like outside our window and your window right now. we can see the amount. >> doggie poopie path complete >> dogs have to go out, in the snow this morning. >> nice shot as well, matt, wind picking up,. >> this is good this helps us with our forecast. >> one last one, south philadelphia on morris street but it is a snow day. snow day is a snow day. great day for those kid out there. school cancellations on the bottom we should just do schoo

like the mercer brides, the men took up a collection and then mercer chartered a ship and the women had free passage. usually in order to have a successful program than men need to pay the way for the women. look atay, if you modern mail order marriage, the men typically are paying, not only paying for the women to come over but there are certain financial requirements. they need to have a certain amount of income under u.s. law before they are allowed to sponsor a mail-order bride. so, to make sure that, you know, they need to protect the women. thatve a lot of laws currently protect mail-order bride's, one of which is to make sure that they are marrying someone who has a decent financial situation. but, yes, there were a lot of italian mail-order bride's. what year would this have been? oh, a really long time ago. ok, because i was going to say, italians were also caught up in these quota acts, so a lot of them could not come over because italians, eastern european, they were all limited to their, like, census numbers from 1880. yours came over really really. and it worked, right? >>

we certainly have already seen that as evidence with the last cell rumbling through mercer county.o eventually clear things out. at least start to clear things out through the overnight. now, here is the thing. i actually ended up bringing us back to 64 degrees at best today. the reason, east wind. that's on shore wind flow. that's going to bring more clouds in. that's going to keep that cooler air in place. so i think that's going toned up limiting us. sixty-four, still above average, though, but scattered showers, thunderstorms, still out there, as we mention, that will be the story even into tonight. then we look forward to some quiet weather for couple of days, high pressure allows us to brighten up tomorrow. mid 50's, beautiful day, but new storm already here on friday. meisha? >> yikes. so we cannot forget our umbrella, ever. good morning, everyone, hey, what are we looking at here? take a look, we are talking visibilities. so jim and rahel, we are pushing in the westbound direction. what am i drawing? center city. this is what road are you traveling on, westbound direction,

. >> jennifer fredrick, is checking conditions in lawrenceville, mercer county. jen. >> hi guys, i guess the question is where the heck are you going? a lot of things are still closed, because of all of the warnings and all of storm warnings. this is lawrenceville, new jersey, we are about a little bit north of trenton, an hour from you guys. the road are now, a little bit more snow covered, just 35 minutes ago, it was completely , black type, because of a combination of fact that it had been a lot of sleet. tons of plows have been through here. and believe it or not within the hour we have seen a salting operation. that is how little, i should say, and route one, mercer county in mercerville, new jersey. but, like sue said, we will see all kind of conditions, and now we are seeing a little bit more in terms of the white stuff, covering, but as you walk around. it still feels sleety. whatever this precipitation is , it is bouncing off of you, hurts your face, very windy. it is, cold outside. so again, the question is, if you have to be out somewhere, you should h

bucks, montgomery county, lehigh valley and mercer county as well where a few flakes may make their way in. wreps you see a slightly deeper purple color on the map. still none of this is heavy snow and it won't be as we go through the rest of today. here's a look at faefl over the next several hours. 39 right now and lloyd. winds are light. notice the arrows they indicate the winds are coming from the east. that keeps things cool. we won't see much of a warm up only 40, 11:00 a.m. with rain. >>> we are following breaking news from overseas. a shooting at the airport in paris. a man they described as a suspect was shot dead at one of the terminals. they say he was trying to take a weapon from a soldier on patrol. they added it's unclear whether the attacker acted alone. police evacuated the terminal, tweeting a warning to visitors to avoid the airport while they investigate it. the shooting follows a similar incident last month at the louvre moum in which a suspect was wounded. france remains under a state of emergency. >>> take a look at this video from the jersey shore where a fire lef

few flakes right now in mercer county and bucks county. montgomery county a change over.t's the pink. a little mixture there at the arraignment. through the morning that's what we'll continue to see. afternoon hours more scattered rain than snow because temperatures start to boost up. overnight, those that snow line that will be hanging north in the afternoon will start to drop south even passing through philly and into sunday morning. that snow/rain line will move offshore. coming up we'll track that up hour by hour and talk temperatures as we extend through the ten day forecast. >>> villanova students are counting the minutes until today's game between defending national champs and wisconsin. they play this afternoon in round two of the ncaa tournament. nbc 10's randy gyllenhaal is live on villanova's campus with a look ahead to today's big match-up. a lot of excitement stretching here to western new york. >> reporter: many students made that six hour drive to see the second round match-up. for students on campus there's a watch party here at the conly center on villano

but there is still a dv in mercer county. at 195 at 130 coming out of trenton heading to robbinsville, speeds of 21 because the left lane is blocked. in middletown delaware, a crash on 13 southbound at boyds corner road. we'll check it again in the anext half hour. >> still ahead here it took 24 hours of debate but president trump's health care plan made more progress on capitol hill. >> and rewarding disbeadance we'll explain how a top u.s. university is giving out a big scholarship to someone who breaks the rules. >>> to politics this thursday, president trump said in a tweet that health care is coming along great because after more than 28 hours of debate. two house committees approved broad legislation to undo the affordable care act it would change the way americans pay for medical care and abolish the tax penalty on those that do not purchase insurance. and house speaker paul ryan used a powerpoint to show how the gop bill is moving through the house. president trump's revised travel band is facing legal challenges from

but where you see that yellow, mercer county moving into burlington county that's still where we haveome of that moderate rain. so once again a little bit of a lull for some if you're stepping out over the next hour or so. but we're not done with the as we expand the view, you can see that bit of a break right now off to our west. but several more rounds of wet weather to go before we finally start to dry out. we'll talk about the best day of the weekend coming up. guys, back over to you. >> all right, scott, thanks. >>> your fox 29 weather authority is with you 24/7 on the web. get live forecasts for your neighborhood and a look at live ultimate doppler radar any time you want. it is all on fox29.com. >>> philadelphia district attorney seth williams giving up his law license temporarily. but he is not stepping down for from office. the district attorney left federal court this afternoon with his new attorney. in his bribery and extortion case. his former colleague thomas burke plans to represent him. his previous attorney asked to be taken off the case. williams is accused of taking

the mercer es own all their data.outside group, they weren't in the end, it blew up in her face, she could have caused a wedge between what she wanted to push, her agenda and the presidents. >> nick. >> the question, i covered the mercers for a couple years, the mystery is what do they really believe? most donors, their policy passions are evident. fewer taxes, smaller government. what did you learn about their core beliefs? >> they are obviously extremely far right. you can't neatly tie them up. you know, first of all, socially, they don't fit in. i have an anecdote where bob mercer is in and he says listen, i don't care who you know, i don't want to know. they supported candidates and told people they wou rather have a democrat in place of susan collins. the first time they could test their money, they backed a doctor who, you know, collected viles and viles and viles of urine in the belief it elongates life. the candidate they ran against, john mccain held a town hall to discuss chem trails. it's citizens united. t

again, we're in mercer county and i heard sue say the blizzard warning has been lifted.wow, it still is really, really windy. it's bitter cold out here. and i don't know if you can hear it but the sleet is bouncing on my jacket. i want to show you this. this is a live look an this has been on since 23 aex, this is just idea of how icy it is. if the snow can coat up on super warm live truck you know how it can be on cars sitting there. you know in terms of like jersey, central jersey, areas around mercer county, when people come out to the car one of the biggest things they have to do quite frankly forget about the snow they have to hack through layers and layers of sleet and ice and that kind of thing. and that's probably something they did got really expect because they were think about all the big inches. i can tell you this out on the roads that's route 1 main road and snowplows come through and you see now they're starting to plow. both lanes of traffic they were here 10 minutes ago. you can see a little coating back on and i know you can probably hear and see it as

. >> mercer county coming to anenunced it will pla center. te national league. >>> atlanta county legd to atlantic city this brd walk people in the northern california parking lot. look a silver car backs out of the parking barely misses hit s nearl speeds away. clearly angry wh sar >>> 76. >> working on eastd ras. clocked right now with police here. word overturned tractorn detail th detours the on the schuylkill approaching the walt whitmae 20r south from route 30 headed to eds into the high 50s. not worriedthat. hbound just ar lane. right lane and center lane blocked ther 70 oning c throug intersection right now. ro door. again, updates for y schuylkill. more when i come f minutes. 4:46 degrees. yesterday was a to n sporad up and down. little bit forecast. >> yes, before we gth that will be this afternoon. drops that are coming down. ar bad. he 45 degrees. 40 in south lehigh valley it in the suburbs zi lb morning. you have a chance o this morning. chilly. temperatures in low 40s for wilmington, in the 30s at this morning. lo somerton. brin

getting word of a new crash in mercer county where the snow and sleet is still coming down. 195 and eastbound past cox's corner. crash is off to the side but still have to take it slow through there. slow speeds on the turnpike and 295. 35 miles per hour is the max on the new jersey turnpike and it looks like somebody's actually behaving there -- no, just jumped to 45. now they're speeding. matt and tam, back to you. >> slow down. thanks so much matt. >>> some of us are seeing snow, sleet, rain. let's go to "action news" reporter katherine scott in runnemede camden county and see what she is seeing. kathere. >> reporter: matt, we've seen a little bit of everything this morning but really since about 3:30 what we've been seeing here is rain, pouring rain. it is very messy. the wind gusts have also picked up here. if you take a look at black horse pike here in runnemede you can see the road surface looks wet but it's mainly clear. we've seen plows come through here, quite a few of them earlier where there was this slushy mess there. that slushy mess is mainly gone. now, some o

also had a jackknifed truck in mercer county along 195 westbound.cleared as has a disabled vehicle on 295 in mercer county so a bunch of issues have already popped up this morning there in south jersey. have one crash so far this morning down in delaware. it's near glasgow along 40 pulaski highway approaching 896. you need to keep the speeds down here as well and on the mass transit front regional rails are on a saturday schedule today. if you have to get out and ride one, cynwyd line isn't running a the all, norristown high speedline about every and 20 minutes today and of course the market frankford and broad street lines they're a good way to go, they've been running all night and they'll be running all day as well, matt. nk you, matt. i know this is your favorite philadelphia neighborhood to navigate. action cam was in the slippery hills of manayunk. there's green lane right there. lots of snowy scenes across the region but in particular in manayunk it is tough because of those tiny little side streets and also all those parked cars along the si

also sections of bucks county, mercer county, but that activity continues to lift on out.do have, however, through the entire weekend through tomorrow morning, we have a winter weather advisory posted for our north and west, but, county, reading, lehigh value, the pocono mountains for some of the wintry precipitation. temperatures right now 30-degrees blow freezing in allentown and we have 26 p in mount poke no. but area wide most locations upper 30s philadelphia, low 40s right now in parts of south jersey. across the area for today that wintry mix in the lehigh valley. mid 40s for center city and also down the shore. clouds and a few showers. a little time out and talk about the seven day forecast coming up. > sounds good. we're following breaking news from france. a man was shot dead earlier this morning after trying to steel a gun from a guard at paris orly airport. now prosecutors office is confirming thats ' ' anti terrorism section has taken over the investigation. thousands of travelers were evacuated and flights are being diverted to the city's other airport. the s

seuss fans were loving it mercer academy held their reading today. for the man tha books, dr.childrens books including the cat and the hat and all the places you can go. the cat and the hat himself made a surprise appearance. that is hard to say -- >> just read the book. it comes naturally. right now coming up next at 6:00. breaking news from washington where attorney general, jeff sessions just recused himself from the investigation involving russia and the president of the united states and the demonstrators take a stand against hate in the jewish community. and a mobile app could transform how people interact and help the homeless. for jeff skversky and jaime apody and cecily tynan have a great night. >>> "action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with ducis rogers meteorologist cecily tynan, and jim gardner. >>> it is thursday night and the big story on "action news" is breaking news from the nation's capital. the attorney general of the united states jeff sessions has recused himself from any investigation into russian interference with the presidential electio

that's montgomery mercer berks chester and points north. snow has fallen and continuing to fall especially until about 11:00 this morning or maybe midday before it begins diminish and the winds are also picking up so you're going to get blowing drifting snow up there. in the i-95 corridor it's still a winter storm warning. we had snow early. now we're starting to mix in a lot of sleet even freezing rain and the snow totals are not together to be what was going of not going to be what was originally projected. down south light snow getting washed away by a changeover to rain. heavy snow in the northern and western suburbs and this is actually pushing to the east now through berks county and starting to push in through a good deal of chester county. however, at the same time if you go farther south of the i-95 corridor, you have just some lighter precipitation in the form of basically sleet and then it's all rain to the south and i think it's pretty obvious that what's happening here is that the low pressure center is taking a lot of warm air

we have a picture from a viewer here from mercer county. take a look at it. this is in hamilton township. this is asici simple as walkingt the back deck and snapping a picture. we want to see the pictures that you have. send it to us on the nbc10 app. >> spring is not far away. the birds in hatfield have a meal waiting for them. this was sent to us by a viewer who hasn't forgotten her feathered friends during this winter storm. >>> in delaware, all dart buses and delaware statewide pa para transit are operating with delays. >> looking for kids taking advantage of the snow and the snow day, but tim, as you've been saying all morning long, it's not the kind of snow you want to do a snow angel in. >> reporter: i know. i was so bummed. we went to glasgow park which is a great sledding hill and there was nobody out there. i thought with university of delaware closed and the city of newark closed, we could see more people out here too. pretty much all we have is people shoveling and some businesses are closed and some are open. di dia diablo burrito is open. maybe

. >>> mercer county arena football coming to trenton. jersey flight football team announced on facebook live it will play home games at sun national bank center starting next spring. team will be part of a new national arena league. >>> starting a new educational program. minor in financial planning and become certified financial planners after finishing a few classes. >>> group of septa riders want to cut its $1 transfer fee. online petition asked give riders a break. after announced fare hike last week. septa tells nbc 10 they encourage concerned riders to attend one of their hearings on the rate hikes scheduled for next month. a fan got to see a surprise performance by kevin hart. yesterday the standup comic announced he performed at the punch line philly in fish town. tickets sold out in minutes. hart is in town filming the movie untouchable. last week city counsel declared jum 6 as kevin hart day. told us he loves working on new material right here in his hometown. >> i from here and keep getting bigger and better. more important li

that includes mercer county as well.southern delaware along shore point, that's where we're looking at 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. for thunderstorms to pass through. again these thunderstorms in pockets, especially west and south, look to have the best potential for severe storms to pass. the winds nonetheless will be strong in the afternoon. gusts above 40 miles per hour are certainly possibly. with the strongest thunderstorms, gusts of 50 miles per hour are possible. if you put back out the patio furniture, pull it back in on the lunch break because it could certainly get knocked around later today. here are the temperatures right now. 61 in new jersey and 64 for philadelphia. 59 in the lehigh valley. you see the cloudy pictures live. thunderstorms, warming into the mid 70s for philly. the suburbs, even some low 70s possible. for highs today, and i think the camera sees by our afternoon newscast will be much different showing rain and lightning. you said you wanted to feel better about your cereal. general mills big g cereals he

blizzard warning n issued officially for four of the counties.chester, bucks, lehigh, the pocanos, also mercer county in new jersey. now, what constitutes a blizzard ve versus just a big snowstorm in the winds hour. the visibility is a quarter mile or less. and the combination lasts for at least three hours. that's a very hard combination to get in this part of the country. even the blizzard of '96, if you remember that, wtblizzard. we didn't have those technical conditions. they just kind of called it that. nothing on the radar close by, but piece to of moisture back to the west and the gigantic piece down to the south. tremendous amounts of moisture. so it's just about the timing and the precip type. 9:00 to 10:00, the snow starts. 3:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., in general, the heaviest snow. no travel during that period. tuesday afternoon, snow continues. but the snow showers linger wednesday morning. the hour by hour shows the snow coming in at 10:00 to 11:00 tonight and getting heavy very quickly. this dark blue indicates heavy snow. and we're talking potentially up to two to three inches per h

effect for every county north and west of philadelphia, that includes chester, bucks, montgomery, mercer up north to new jersey. what does it take for a blizzard? a 35-mile-an-hour wind. and you don't often get those that far inland. you get them at the coast, but that's what is unusual about this storm. visibility is a quarter mile or less with the heavy snow that happens regularly. but this has to happen for at least three hours straight. this is a strict definition. and i'm kind of a stickler on this. so when we say blizzard, we kind of mean blizzard. winter radar, nothing close by, but boy, that rain is coming fast up from the south. and there's a tremendous amount of moisture with that thing. so it's all about the temperatures and whether it is snow or sleet. so later this evening, the snow starts. the peak of this storm generally 3:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. that's the time to avoid travel. if you do that, you will end up okay. tuesday afternoon, the snow continues, but it's tapering off. and wednesday morning, it is just snow showers. it is not a long-lasting storm. just got to be pati

in lawrence township, mercer county. the ramp from 1 southbound whitehead road is blocked, construction is in the process of clearing. they are getting ready to reopen this. overnight that's been a problem. >>> the drama is building in washington. the house is expected to vote on replacing and repealing the affordable care act. katherine scott is live in the satellite center following the story. >> reporter: matt it's been a bit of a scramble, the president, white house officials and gop leaders have been trying to drum up support to get the votes they need to to get the bill passing the house. trump and vice president mike pence met with supporters last night. they are trying to get enough votes to pass the bill to repeal and replace the affordable care act. they are running into trouble getting the votes they need. conservatives don't believe the plan goes far enough. if 22 republicans join all the democrats in voting no, the bill it would be defeated. here's the latest information about our local republican members of

karl mercer reports.ody that runs the city of london has a motto, which translate as "lord guide us". the local church not going that far today but offering a little comfort for those worried about brexit. because these are the headlines per day at the lastjune's referendum, when the vote to leave seem to catch the city on the hop. this is the aftermath of the june brexit vote, 150 all the way down to 130. since then, the pound has stabilised the concerns in the city haven't. worries about london losing business and jobs to other cities persist but this market watcher believes the city will be able to cope. the scale of the changes that are going to be implemented over the course of the next few years are going to be gradual, as opposed to the systemic shock that we got in 2008. we do know that some city firms have already said they may move some stab out of london to other european cities. hsbc have confirmed 1,000 jobs,jp cities. hsbc have confirmed 1,000 jobs, jp morgan reported up to 4,000 and ubs up

this is in the process of wrapping up in mercer county overnight construction blocking the ramp to route 1 southbound to whitehead road that is cleared out of the way. millville, cumberland county 55 construction southbound near 49. >> reporter: we have clouds sweeping in, if you get early sunshine it will be fading behind the clouds, you can see mixed precipitation developing in northwest pennsylvania. there's a winter weather advisory in the poconos and points north. this kicks in at 8:00 a.m. anne ends at 1:00 p.m. because of light freezing rain possible. surface temperatures maintaining sub freezing conditions in the poconos in early afternoon. we're above freezing in philadelphia, only boy a degree, 33. 33 in a allentown. 29 in trenton. 31 in wilmington. 26 in millville. not a lot of wind out there, we won't bother you with windchills, but you want the winter coat. things improve, 38 by 7:00 a.m. 54 by 3:00 p.m., 55 late in the afternoon by 4:00 p.m. 53 by 7:00 p.m. a couple of showers in through here in the northern suburbs and in the poconos freezing rain. gets warm tomorrow, the

she was shot and killed in her house along mercer street five days ago. >>> the irs has a warning for employers about an e-mail fishing scam targeting public schools and nonprofits. cyber criminals disguise an e-mail to appear as if that information is from an executive. the e-mail is sent to payroll or human resources requesting a w-2 for each employee. >>> chris christie wants to close the bayside satellite facility in ancorra township. last year, arthur buckle escaped from that facility, it sparked a week long manhunt. we asked those who live nearby if they're relieved the facility will close. >> oh, gosh yes. thrilled. but sooner rather than later for everybody's sake. >> god forbid one of the escapees contact one of our residents and commit a crime, none of us want to see that happen. >> the closure will save $5 million a year, no jobs will be lost. >>> funeral services have been scheduled for two delaware officers killed in a crash last weekend. the friday services for rob and jimmy. the two men were offduty when the jeep they were riding in went off the road and slammed into a

. >> reporter: the mercer county prosecutors' office funded these mounted camera systems in 25 vehicles at police departments throughout the county. and it's clear the alpr is getting results many of officers still run plates manually but the automated reader does it in an instant. >> this picks them up a lot faster and you can get a lot more volume than the officer doing it. >> reporter: the officer says it will scan 30 to 40,000 tags. >> this is doing what we do in a year, this is doing it in a day. technology like this is a plus for law enforcement and allows officers to better and more efficiently do their jobs. in hopewell, i'm nora muchanic channel6 "action news". >> pennsylvania governor tom wolf highlighted local job creation at philadelphia ports. the governor and the state's top transportation official toured penn terminal in eddystone delaware county today. one of the company's latest deals added more than 500 jobs to the port. the move is expected to generate $9 million in tax revenue for the state. >>> and pennsylvania's lieutenant governor focused on small business today.

dimitry rybolovlev denies he has anything to do with donald trump or mercer, other than the price he paid for that house. but the people of the united states need to know if you have unexplained sources of income, particularly of income that has a foreign or gin. hence the need to know. has he received loans from foreign sources? one of the things you have to declare on your u.s. federal taxes is whether you have paid taxes in foreign countries. does the president have foreign bank accounts? if so, which banks? the more i know about the bank of cyprus, for example, the more i want to know about whether there are other ties, other trump ties to that troubled bank aside from his hand-picked commerce secretary and the guy who inexplicably paid him that money for that house and the newly installed chairman from the bank that holds more of his debt than any financial institution. when the president and his administration moved to fire all of the u.s. attorneys all of a sudden on friday no warning get out, you're done by midnight, the preet bharara firing in new york was of note and partic

the counties include mercer, burlington, camden, gloucester, atlantic and cape may.nnouncement of that grant money follows recent threats against local jewish community centers. three centers in our area were evacuated after receiving threats last month. among more than a dozen other centers threatened across the country. >>> quarter to five right now. looking for a new job? gloucester county hold may gentleman job fair today. 100 companies looking to hire e is national cheese steak day. >> lunch and sandwich shops across the area. >> i like a lot of them. i'm dell sanders in roxborough. >> gino is good. i like gymjim's too. >>> septa making way for more passengers. building 45 new multilevel train cars for region service. second level gives each car 25 additional seats. >>> speaking of mass transit and traffic on the roads. jessica boyington watching it for us. she's got you covered. >> a few things going on already this morning. blue route around cameras at mack dade boulevarddade bouleva the schuylkill expressway westbound ramp to roosevelt boulevard headed northb

in trenton mercer have truck scale.is point only one lane gets by and this is going to last until 6:00 a.m. on i-95 and southbound at the scudder construction may cause a slow go there. construction also kind of roving on route 55 and they'll be out there again until 6:00 blocking a lane on 55 northbound between 641 and 42 and you know how busy it gets when you get closer to 42 so that may cause a little problem. i wouldn't say right now but i think closer to the 6 o'clock hour before they wrap. look at the visibility reports. fog is an issue here. 1.3-mile visibility at philadelphia international airport. and you can see 4-mile visibility in allentown. not as bad south of the city today but we have some areas with fog and some showers at times, even some thunderstorms popping up today so we'll have periods of rain. as you look here, along the i-95 corridor corridor we're dry. this cluster of storms has already moved through but coming down pretty good on route 206 near medford lakes and chats ford, route 72 and along t

. >>> a deadly collision is under investigation in mercer county. it happened before 6:00 this morning and police say one person died in the crash on i-195 west near route 130 in hamilton township. traffic is diverted off the exit ramp at that location for several hours. a violent assault led to a brief lock down, and a man was attacked here on the 2500 block of north 24th street at 8:30 this morning. police ordered a lockdown at the nearby school and it was lifted at 9:30, it's unclear if the police were able to locate the suspect in the assault. >>> students have the day off in havertown because of storm damage. the lightning destroyed the cross on the john foley school on eagle road yesterday. because of ongoing electrical issues school was canceled for today. >>> turning to accuweather the skies have finally cleared up and the sun is making a return as we look live outside. sky 6 hd showing you the ben franklin bridge on a breezy wednesday afternoon, looking nice. meteorologist, david murphy, tracking the latest conditions from the "action news"

however, we have already seen couple of cells withis little bf pea size hail in mercer county very earlys morning, frequent ground to ground lightning out of the thunderstorms that rumble through early pn,tty decent wind gusts, thankfully don't worry abouter threats fore rest of the day. i will say i think that done ins of the initialization on futureoduide how things time out. by the time we hit 4:00 p.m., there will still be some heavy showers or thunderstorms but a lot more spars than what you are currently finding out on the area radar.uch, just better and bert. even start to see the clouds through the rest of the overnight, andsd, that dow think you can see, expect to see, some sunshine. dew points awfully high. remember the lower the air. these are high dew points, so you haveair mass right now, thas the downpours are coming in just like, that very drenching showers that have been noted with all of the wet we fifty-one the current temperature at the airport, at 61 in ac. ere southerly. on shore flow is what's keeping usou'l see much more movement on thehe locations, because of that