we're talking 1400 miles of road throughout camden county. more than 100 trucks. but they still used another resource here, they actually had county prisoners helping to clear some of the streets and also helping to clear some of the areas for the elderly who couldn't do it on their own. those are low level offenders according to camden county. for the conditions we're starting to even see some blades of grass poke through here in camden county. that's the latest from news force 10. >> mitch, you'll continue to drive around too. we'll keep checking in with you. >>> our coverage of the blizzard of 2016 doesn't stop here. right now on the nbc 10 app we have snow totals from your neighborhood and the best photos and videos you sent in. plus, neat couple who got married in the middle of this blizzard. >>> most of us don't like shoveling all that snow in fact, my back still hurts. did you ever think you can get a ticket for not doing it? we'll show you how it's happening to some families in montgomery county, plus, big developments for the future of atlantic city. why l

camden county prosecutor's office had to go through a grand jury to get dj creato indicted. he was indicted but even prosecutor's office admits the the evidence is circumstantial little brendan creato was found dead partially submerged in the water at a park near his home in the morning, on october 13th. the his dad, dj creato walked into a camden county courthouse on tuesday and said nothing before taking his seat. >> the defendant also told police that brendan had never before left his apartment, by himself. he never once left his mother's house by himself. he never once left his grandparents house by himself. >> section chief christine shaw with the camden county prosecutor's office told the judge that dj creato began dating a 17 year-old over the summer who didn't like brendan. shaw say the two exchanged thousands of text messages and at multiple times she said the 17 year-old asked dj to be alone when she came to visit. shaw pointed out to dj told investigators he went to bed october 12th at 10:00 o'clock but was contacting his girlfriend just after 1:30 a few hours bef

bellmawr, camden county, see a family seizing the opportunity and have some fun and go sledding. >> joining us live on the latest conditions in wilmington county. randy. >> i can tell you we're back to ski goggle conditions in delaware. this is crazy. it's been snowing for 24 hours and it's picked up yet again like a blizzard. i'm joined by kathy cahill. you're trying to shovel snow. what are you trying to do to keep safe and measured out in the cold. >> i take my time. when i lift, i lift with my knees bent so i won't strain my back. >> it's almost a losing battle? >> qule, but i'm making a little progress. >> walk over to her yard here. this is incredible, her car on the right side, no snow. the car on the left side is completely covered with snow because the wind has been sweeping it in that direction. we've got, i don't know, a foot and a half, maybe more on the ground right now. it's difficult to tell because of the wind gusts coming in. they do start shoveling to get it out of the way. it will be back out here in a few hours. it is dangerous especially for elderly people who have hear

meanwhile he is behind bars tonight on 750 thousand dollar bails reporting in camden county david spunt3 eyewitness news >> president obama concluded final state of the union address which he used to focus on the future. white house called the speech anna do the to avenue latch of negativity from gop. >> the president of the united states: optimistic president obama told the nation he is looking to the future into into i want to focus on the next five years, next 10 years and beyond e part of that involved looking back at the last seven. the president counted his accomplishment. >> in the middle of longest streak of job in history. >> reporter: the climate change agreement and america's resolve against terrorism. >> when you come after americans we go after you. and it may take times but we have long memories and our reach has no limits e d pretty mentioned strange volitions. >> one of the few regrets the suspicion between the parties have gotten worse instead of better. >> reporter: president obama reminded americans one year from now he'll be right along side them as a private citizen

>> reporter: it took three months but tonight camden county prosecutors say they know who murdered three-year-oldhis father 22-year-old david dj creato was charged with his son's murder and taken to cam county jail. >> i just woke up and he wasn't in my apartment. i don't know if he wandered out or what happened. i don't know where he is. the door was lock. i guess he unlock it and left. >> reporter: it was david himself who called 911 to report his son missing in the early hours of october 13th. it was just hours later when

we're talking about more than 100 trucks more than 1400 miles of road all over camden county. that's a 72-hour continuous cleanup effort for this county. where they had a wide ranging snowfall. from 14 to 20 inches of snow fell depending on where you were in camden county. as you can see, the roads pretty clear here in the city of camden. live in news force 10, mitch blacher, "nbc 10 news." >> speaking of fears of refreezing, freezing rain led to this, pileups on i-78 in berks county this morning. the weather caused 11 accidents in 15 minutes. sky force 10 was above the scene. the crash stretched from tilden to bethel and greenwich townships. the closed access meant drivers were stuck for hours while state police struggled to get to the scene. we can report no one got hurt. >> in pennsylvania now a look at a front-end loader clearing the snow away in king of prussia, 76 westbound near route 202. sky force 10 can give you a view of what areas need help. nbc 10's randy gyllenhaal joins us. how do the roads look there? >> reporter: as you mentioned, some of the side streets are st

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the crews out there still working in camden county. on the ramp from 295 southbound to 42 and they're on 295 southbound near 42 as well. meanwhile the accident we had on the turnpike northbound is clear so all lanes there are opened, tam. >> okay, thank you, karen. >>> three people are dead and a child remains unaccounted for after a house explosion in northeast ohio. the explosion ripped through the home in northfield center township last night. emergency responders arrived to flames shooting up out of the home. fire crews found the bodies of a plan a woman an young girl on the first floor of the home. investigators say the family's other daughter is still missing. the cause of the explosion remains under investigation. >> note tour russ drug king pin el chapo guzman is back in the same prison he escaped from last summer this time in a different cell. helmet camly video of the raid that captured him in mexico was released depicting an intense fire fight. [gunfire] >>> it took mexican marines about 15 minutes to battle through guzman's

meanwhile he is behind bars tonight on 750 thousand dollar bails reporting in camden county david spuntness news >> president obama concluded final state of the union address which he used to focus on the future. white house called the speech anna do the to avenue latch of negativity from gop. >> the president of the united states: optimistic president obama told the nation he is looking to the future into into i want to focus on the next five years, next 10 years and beyond e part of that involved looking back at the last seven. the president counted his accomplishment. >> in the middle of longest streak of job in history. >> reporter: the climate change agreement and america's resolve against terrorism. >> when you come after americans we go after you. and it may take times but we have long memories and our reach has no limits e d pretty mentioned strange volitions. >> one of the few regrets the suspicion between the parties have gotten worse instead of better. >> reporter: president obama reminded americans one year from now he'll be right along side them as a private citizen. follow

. >>> developing story out of camden county right now. a judge has arraigned dj creato the father charged of hurting his three-year-old son. he reported little brendan missing in october. police dog found the child's body three hours later. >> today we're hearing about a possible motive behind it all we want to warn you some of the details could be hard to listen to. fox 29's chris o'connell is live in camden tonight. chris, the motive that prosecutors are laying out troubling. >> reporter: yeah, iain, horrible details. were learned today that three-year-old brendan creato was a victim of smothering or strangulation at the hands of his own father. camden county prosecutors laying out the case today against 22-year-old david dj creato as he sits in camden county jail on $750,000 bail. >> as such the cause of death in this case is most appropriately homicide al violence. >> reporter: homicide al violence that's how investigators say three-year-old brendan creato died. wearing shackles and a blue jail jumpsuit his father 22-year-old david dj

got traffic troubles to tell you about right now in camden coun county. after a crash involving a dump truck. take look at this picture from new jersey state police. they tell us dump truck overturned on an overpass coming to rest on route 42 in bellmawr. crews are checking the bridge for any damage. right now two southbound lanes are shut down. the driver was taken to the hospital. no word yet on the extent of his injuries. >>> happening right now, new era has begun at philadelphia police department. the city's new mayor swore in richard ross as police commissioner this morning. the ceremony was at his alma mater central high school. ross the former deputy commissioner says one of his main focuses will be building better relationships between communities and the department. >> what i do want to emphasize is we do get a lot of -- i don't want that to be unnoticed because a lot of times it's under sold. but we work very hard with all neighborhoods. some we have to do some more work. that's what we'll be doing going forward. >> ross replaces charles ramsay

live over camden county, randy gyllenhaal, "nbc 10 news." >> thank you. that guy did look like he was on his roof. our coverage continues in the nbc 10 app. see galleries of the top viewer photos and read the stories of a man who carried his dog on his shoulders to escape flood waters. >> the sky force 10 now over the scene after garbage truck explosion in mercer county. you can see the charred remains of the truck on fitsrandolph avenue. we're told it runs on natural gas. the battery caught fire, causing one of the gas tanks to blow up. the blast damaged two nearby homes and police evacuated homes as a precaution. no one was hurt. >>> new jersey governor chris christie call forward a state takeover of atlantic city. the governor and senate president steve sweeney announced that a takeover bill already introduced in the state legislature will be amended. it will include elements after financial assistance package that governor christie had previously vetoed. the state takeover would last five years instead of 15 as originally planned. atlantic city mayor

>> reporter: it took three months but tonight camden county prosecutors say they know who murdered three-year-old brendon creato. this afternoon his father 22-year-old david dj creato was charged with his son's murder and taken to cam county jail. >> i just woke up and he wasn't in my apartment. i don't know if he wandered out or what happened. i don't know where he is. the door was lock. i guess he unlock it and left. >> reporter: it was david himself who called 911 to report his son missing in the early hours of october 13th. it was just hours later when police k9 units discovered brendan's lifeless body near the cooper river not far from his family's home. the case went cold for months. a community grieved. then a grand jury convened and handed down today's indictment. it is still not clear on how little brendon died. now cree yacht tow is set for his first court appearance tomorrow. until then he remains in the camden county jail. iain? >> all right, chris, thank you. >>> our coverage continues online at fox29.com. just log on to our home page for the latest on this breaking news story. >> we

creato will be arraigned in a camden county courtroom tomorrow afternoon at 1:30. i'm told the details of exactly what happened and how this little boy's death played out will be revealed before the judge tomorrow, and, of course, we will be there. i'm told his bail will be set at $1 million. live in haddon township, cydney long, nbc 10 news. >> all right, cydney. we remember as the community came together to search for brendan after he disappeared. >> neighbors demanded answers from police as they waited for an arrest. >> deanna durante continuing our live team coverage in haddon township tonight. deanna? >> reporter: the home where brendan creato was last seen and his grandparents only a few blocks away, many homes here still have blue ribbons on the outside, including that of his grandparents here. we stopped at neighbors homes, many of them did not want to talk to us and some said they still have a lot of questions, they want to know what happened to that 3-year-old little boy. neighborhood was helping look for him. >> of course. i can't believe it was him eith

detectives with the camden county prosecutor's office have been digging into the case ever since. a grand jury indicted creato this morning, the same grand jury that his sister, the little boy's aunt sarah, answered to in november about a college documentary that she made featuring brendan as a little boy who disappeared and was later found dead. clearly, we still don't know why or how little brendan was killed, after three months of this case essentially being unsolved, police processed creato in just under an hour behind these doors. he's already left to be transported to jail. creato will be arraigned and have his first chance to speak before the judge tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 in the camden county justice complex. we did reach out to his attorney based in philadelphia this afternoon by phone, and e-mail, but we have yet to hear back. i'm told his bail will be set at a million dollars. live in haddon township, i'm cydney long, nbc 10 news. >> thank you. nbc 10 has team coverage from haddon township. deanna durante joins us now live at a memorial for the young boy. what have yo

police have said they think his death was a tragic accident. >>> meet the new faces of camden county. this afternoon, the county held its 172nd reorganization meeting where all the freeholders took the office. this is video of one being worn into office. she's the first asian-american ever to be elected to the freeholder board. >>> is it patriots or promoting religion? "god bless america" is the phrase causing a debate at a local elementary school. hear from both sides coming up. >>> also, lost and found. the story of how social media helped reunite a woman with her missing diamond ring. >>> plus, saving money at the gas pump. why even better deals could be just around the corner. >>> the bitter cold isn't over, but a warmup is on the way. i'll tell you when it's going to arrive in my exclusive nbc 10 first alert forecast. the republicans in harrisburg were fighting each other over the state budget. that's right. each other. the republican state senate passed a responsible budget that "begins" to fund education but the republican house of representatives has insisted on a budget that

reporting in camden county, david spunt, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >>> and we have some breaking news overseas. this is just in to us there is new individual woe was just broadcast from turkey where explosion has rocked a popular tourist spot in east tam bull. government officials say at least ten people are dead, more than dozen others are hurt. while they say it is still too soon to noah cause, investigators believe this may be the work of a suicide bomber. we will stay on top of the story and update you as soon as we get more information. >>> some big news this morning, concerning the philadelphia inquirer, the philadelphia daily news, and philly.com. in a surprise move, their owner has donated them to a non-profit. "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabeo joining us with more on. >> this a surprise on the move. >> interesting move. jerry holding press conference later this morning to explain his decision, now, else the owner of the philadelphia media network, which includes the inquirer, daily news, and philly.com. he says he's making this donation to preserve and develop public ser

reporting live from camden county tonight, david spunt cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> david, thank you. >>> other news tonight. lawyers for bill cosby want to have the criminal charge in his montgomery county case thrown out. cosby accused of of sexually assaulting a former temple university employee in his home more than a decade ago. cosby's lawyers say the criminal charges he now faces violate a prosecutor's pledge that he would never be charged over the 2,004 encounter. its it's unclear if cosby's preliminary hearing set for next month will be delayed due to the legal filing. >>> first flakes we're expecting a little snow our first of the season. how much? meteorologist lauren casey is keeping an eye on what's ahead. what can we expect. >> what transition from yesterday record warmth and thunderstorms and then today, that cold air has returned with a vengeance and temperatures you are chilly. 29 degrees right now in philadelphia. 21 down the shore. low teens in the poconos. but we're getting a nice break from those blustery winds so wind chill impacts not being fell at least at this h

reporting live from camden county tonight, david spunt cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> david, thank you. >>> other news tonight. lawyers for bill cosby want to have the criminal charge in his montgomery county case thrown out. cosby accused of of sexually assaulting a former temple university employee in his home more than a decade ago. cosby's lawyers say the criminal charges he now faces violate a prosecutor's pledge that he would never be charged over the 2,004 encounter. its it's unclear if cosby's preliminary hearing set for next month will be delayed due to the legal filing. >>> first flakes we're expecting a little snow our first of the season. how much? meteorologist lauren casey is keeping an eye on what's ahead. what can we expect. >> what transition from yesterday record warmth and thunderstorms and then today, that cold air has returned with a vengeance and temperatures you are chilly. 29 degrees right now in philadelphia. 21 down the shore. low teens in the poconos. but we're getting a nice break from those blustery winds so wind chill impacts not being fell at least at this h

. >> in our camden county look at what a view tonight from bethlehem. looks like blizzard conditions outside the shopping center. and live look now at trenton if you're headed out for work or school, stay connected. you can watch from your phone, i pad or computer. plus fox 29 facebook page. >>> a fewer claims the lives of two kids in wilmington delaware yesterday afternoon on the 500 block of north monroe street. investigators say an ambulance passing by noticed a woman and 2-year-old in the doorway. the woman's three-year-old infant daughter died inside,er written mcman in his was walking by and said he tried to save just as firefighters arrived but smoke and flames were too heavy. >> i tried, i couldn't get the two kids in there. killing me. >> go into that much and heat and flames to try to get to a child is a difficult situation. >> the father of the couple's other four children were not home at the time. the mother is in critical but stable condition in the hospital. the cause that fire still new england >>> prosecutors say a camden county man kil

then it will be camden county next and is moving in quickly. faster now. cape may county seeing snow there, salem, cumberland county seeing the snow moving into atlantic county. here's a live look at cape may right now. the snow has not been falling long in cape may, but there you've seen tire tracks in the snow and now the tire tracks are getting covered up again by snow. so you really see the rate of the snow, how cold it is, the surface is able to hold on to the snow, dangerous driving as we go through tomorrow especially. what you can expect in south jersey, salem, cumberland, gloucester, camden, and burlington counties right now. the highest snow totals closer to the i-95 corridor, possibly 17 to 23 inches, the heaviest snow before sunrise through noon tomorrow and the strongest winds closer to the shore would be an onshore wind and that's where we'll be watching for the rain/snow line. closer look at more counties coming up. >>> next up sheena will look at the forecast for the suburbs in montgomery, bucks, and mercer counties. >> more snow starts to f

camden county police say they're aware of the video and detectives are looking into it.eantime people here say it's another blow to the city they call home. made us look even worse. like that's messed up. that's not what all camden -- that's what we about. that's not fair. like keep making us look worse. >> reporter: and if have any information, you are asked to call camden county police. iain? >> sabina, thank you. >>> authorities in atlantic county, new jersey, are trying to figure out how the body of a man wound up on the side of the road. the atlantic city prosecutor's office says galloway township police were called to great creek road earlier this morning where officers found a man's body. police have not released his identity. investigation continues r. >> reporter: philadelphia police are investigating the second homicide of the new year. 33-year-old man died in philly's kensington neighborhood just before 5:00 this morning. police got a call of shots fired on the 2100 block of birch street. officers arrived and found the man with gunshot wounds to the head. they

over cherry hill, camden county, heading to burlington county.ll the counties in the next hour to show you what you're facing on this first day bark to work since the blizzard of 2016. >>> nbc 10 news starts now.

camden county shelters also provide shelter during weather emergencies like these. young mom lauren ott is especially thankful. >> it's a blessing. it really is. i mean, my mom, my dad, my grandfather, everybody, my whole family don't have to worry about is lauren out on the streets again, what is she doing. >> camden's code blue emergency expires tomorrow morning at 7:00. >>> across the river tonight, philadelphia's police department has a new commissioner. one of his top priorities will be improving the public's relationship with his officers. george spencer joins us now with a closer look. what's his plan, george? >> reporter: mayor kenney spoke publicly at the swearing in today, as well, keith, saying that the police department is really the most important department in all of the city, saying it really sets the tone for the entire community and now with a new police commissioner in place, philly's new mayor is saying the police department will see really an evolution in its tone. a warm reception this morning as richard ross jr. was sworn in to lead his departm

he's outside the camden county jail tonight. chris? >> reporter: iain, david dj creato remains here at the camden county jail tonight charged with the first degree murder of his three-year-old son. but just how little brendan creato died still remains a mystery tonight, but the arrest of his father giving relief to many in the haddon heights neighborhood. a single candle burns tonight at the make shift memorial along the banks of the cooper river. it's where three-year-old brendan creato was found on the morning of october 13th. three months after his son's death, david dj creato is charged with his son's murder. >> i just woke up and he wasn't in my apartment. i don't know if he wandered out or what happened. i don't know where he is. the door was locked. eagles he unlocked it and left. >> reporter: it was creato himself who called 911 to report his son's disappearance. police say there was no forced entry and the initial autopsy didn't reveal a cause of death. but a grand jury found enough evidence to arrest the 22-year-old. >> the c

camden county we had construction scheduled to clear on 295 southbound. on route 30 near warwick road. it will block a lane for another hour. live in new jersey, 42, northbound traffic at creek road coming up from deptford, turnersville and blackwood clear and dry and looking good. >>> let's head to the big board, developing this morning there's three winning tickets in time $1.6 billion powerball drawing. large crowds gathered outside chino, california late last night. you would think, let's larry about that first. -- let's hear about that first. you would think the worker of the 7-eleven was the winner himself from that reaction. the crowd chanted and screamed for him. the two other winners were in florida and tennessee. >>> this is the luckiest machine on the planet. make sure everybody come here to play. i'm very, very happy whoever bought the one from here, i'm so thankful to the chino people they supported me all yearlong. >>> be here's another look at the winning numbers again, 4, 8, 19, 27, 34, 10. that's the powerful play, the powerball jackpot i

the first happened in oaklyn, camden county. the second more than a half hour away across county lines on peter hurd way in evesham, burlington. cydney long got the video you saw first on 10. live at evesham police. >> reporter: i can tell you, police believe the same older male driver in the same car approached two groups of boys in two separate towns on the very same afternoon both times using a cliched proposition. but when kids did not bite in oaklyn, he tried again here in evesham. this is a neighbor's home security video of a 10 and 11-year-old boy. minding their own business. >> they were scared. i mean they did a great thing picking the phone. >> reporter: police say, once kids went beyond the trees in evesham, a suspicious, dark volvo approached and backed up. you can see headlighted in the top right corner of your screen. >> which time the driver, the male, asked the children if they would like any candy. >> reporter: it was an immediate red flag for the kids. rebecca thompson is a friend. >> we know the boy. he ran hom

"eyewitness news" reporter david spunt is outside the camden county courthouse with the the shocking details, david. >> reporter: they are shocking and so many people called this case bizarre since the the story broke october 13th. camden county prosecutor's office has not released many details at all about this case but tonight we are learning more. they say their case is stronging but they admit the the evidence is circumstantial. dj creato was quiet the as he walked in the courtroom in camden county but he did take a moment to look at family and friend. he is charged with killing his three-year old son brendan. >> why would someone kill their own child, there must be a reason for someone to do something like that. >> reporter: brendan was found in the wood not even half mile from dj's haddon township home october 13th. the his autopsy and toxicology testing came back inconclusive, section chief christine shaw with the camden county prosecutor's office presented what she called a circumstantial case, for the first time the the public learned that little brendan was discovered parti

camden county's code blue emergency stretches into a second night. >> police officers went door to door to check on the disabled and elderly residents. nbc 10's south jersey bureau reporter cydney long is live tonight. >> reporter: jacqueline, that's right, and the code blue now stretching into its second night, also stretches well beyond camden city limits to include all municipalities in camden county. the goal to prevent the loss of life of people who simply do not have the means to keep warm. over the past two years, blanch last her job, her car, house, and having close contact with her children. >> i got hurt, injured going to work. >> reporter: one thing she hasn't lost is hope. >> as soon as it started getting cold, i had a roof over my head. >> reporter: homeless since september, she found shelter with camden's volunteers of america right before the dramatic cold came over the region. every layer she's wearing today, donated. >> yes, those were donated. >> reporter: coat, everything? >> hat, yeah, everything donated. >> to have a roof over your head and heat in the extreme cold,

police investigate. >>> in camden county police asking for the public's help identifying the suspect breaking into a farmer's market. surveillance video caught the trio burglarizing the haddon farmerrers market. they were able to steal items before taking off. anyone with information call the camden county police. >>> the man cooled of ambushing -- accused of ambushing a philadelphia police officer is facing charge. authorities say edward archer is the man seen in the surveillance picture and he confessed to the crime. now his former defense attorney is speaking out, jeff chirico has the latest. >> reporter: this is the first look of edward archer's mug shot. he was charged with 8 counts, including attempted murder, aggravated assault and assault of a police officer. the charges stem from the ambush of a philadelphia police officer after which archer reportedly confessed saying he did it in the name of islam and pledges allegiance to isis. >>> do you have any sense that he was radicalized in anyway. >>> i knew he was muslim and he was in egypt all through 2012. i don't think he had a

we have a down pole out here that's blocking the right lane in cherry hill, camden county, 70 westbound past haddonfield road blocking the right lane, but tam and alicia, traffic is squeezing by. >>> thank you, karen. >>> well, vice president joe biden knows the pain of loss to cancer personally, he has been tapped by the president to find cures. annie mccormick is live at the university of pennsylvania where mr. biden will be meeting with researchers, annie there may be no fight that touches the veep like this one. >> reporter: this is a personal fight and the fight begins today. this is part of a major initiative that president obama called for during the state of the union address. he said he wants a decade of advancements done in five years. in president obama's state of the union address he announced a push to cure cancer and wants vice president joe biden at the wheel. >>> tonight i'm announcing a new national effort to get it done, because he has gone to the matt for all of us on so many issues over the past 40 years, i'm putting joe in charge of mission control. for the loved on

face, based on someone's impression on being offended. >> reporter: camden has been known for high crime. that's one reason the county took over in 2013. since then, camden police say overall crime is down 28%. homicides 52%. but also on the decrease, the number of cops. the nbc 10 investigators learned multiple police cadets hired, trained, certified by camden are taking jobs with other departments, some without ever working a beat in camden. is that a safety challenge for the neighborhood? >> well, we haven't hit critically low at that point yet, but it does put an additional demand and burden on the officers. >> reporter: camden's police chief scott thompson says he needs some cops to work double shifts just to cover the city. >> it's extremely frustrating. i mean, we're essentially losing about seven officers a month, which is a high rate. >> reporter: safety is not the only issue, there's a financial problem, as well. this list obtained by the nbc 10 investigators showed 30 other departments where camden-trained officers have gone since may of 2013. the chief tells us the county has lost more than 145,000 dollar

the heaviest band right about here so if crore in gloucester or camden counties right now into portions of salem and into new castle county delaware you're seeing some pretty heavy snow lining up pretty nicely right along 295. some pretty heavy snow at the moment. still steady snow in portions of bucks county, montgomery counties as well just the heaviest has started to shift a little bit further to the east. by 10 o'clock there's that back edge moving through philadelphia and finally by about midnight we start to see it move off the coast and skies there clear. i think we see sun break through the clouds tomorrow. with the blowing snow and the falling snow visibility right now in allentown is a big fat zero. it's a half inch -- half mile i should say in wilmington and trenton. half inch would be a little bit worse than that. mile in philadelphia. .8 in the atlantic city airport region and .8 in lancaster right now. mount pocono cleared out completely. 10-mile visibility so things are ending. it's just a slow process. on the roads tonight snow covered blowing and drifting will continue

it happened on sicklerville road near bry's court in sick alreadyville camden county. alexandria hoff joins us outside in the middle of mullens middle school just blocks from the crash scene, alex. >> reporter: this just happened a couple blocks away from where the the the school is around 8:00 this morning. we're just learning that of the 30 students who were on the bus, 12 of them have been taken to area hospitals. crew where is called to the intersection of sicklerville road and bryce's court after police say a blue suv rear ended the bus with students inside. chopper three overhead as passengers of both vehicles were tended to. gloucester town ship school district tells thaws several students as well as a school bus driver were taken to the hospital, for examination. also, that the driver of the suv, a along with two small children who were inside of the vehicle will at the time have also been taken to the hospital. i'm told that all involved are being cared for between virtua, voorhees and kennedy university hospital, where the superintendent of the schools and tw

first, john rawlins live at the camden county prosecutor's office. john. >> reporter: jim, the prosecutor's office is not saying much beyond that the father was indicted and arrested today. it's not indicating how or where let alone why the alleged murder occurred citing rules of judicial conduct the spokesman said the prosecutor can't say anything outside a courtroom that might be prejudicial to the defendant. david dj creato at the haddon township police today was taken into can custody. authorities say he murdered his three-year-old son brandon last fall. it was 6:00 a.m. on october 13th when the 22-year-old father called 911 saying his little boy was missing from his apartment. >> i just woke up and he wasn't in my apartment. i don't know if he what happened out or what happened. i don't know where he is. the door is locked. i guess he unlocked it and left. >> reporter: that call for help triggered a large scale and at times frantic search by residents and authorities but less than three hours into that search a sad discovery. little brandon's bo

it was our first day of snow this winter in haddon township camden county where we found a man walking his dog? a know squall. >> in the poconos looking like winter has arrived. you can see the snow on the ground there. good news for skiers at camelback mountain resort. >> strong winds snapped a tree in half and is resting on power lines. >> check out the flakes falling in center city just outside city hall. you can see the wind blowing around as well. >> it certainly feels like winter and the biting wind is one of the reasons why. you can see the winds' effect on the flags on top of the airmark building in center city. let's bring in first alert meteorologist sheena parveen for more. sheena? >>> it's getting windy and cold overnight tonight. the snow is gone but the winds have increased. wind gusts 47 miles an hour in philadelphia. 38 miles an hour in millville. the 35 northeast philly. 28 miles an hour wind gusts in allentown so here is what it feels like outside right now when you factor in that wind. in the poconos it feels like one debris below zero. philadelphia feels like 15 deg

volunteers also busy today in camden county.his group spent martin luther king injury today lending a hand at the feud food bank of south jersey in pennsauken. last year the group helped 200,000 south jersey residents with food assistance. >>> prosecutors in camden county need your help finding a missing 29 year old. sean green of somerdale hasn't been seen since january 5th. he lives along the 300 block of north white haas of horse pike. detectives say he was wearing a green jacket and blue jeans. if you've got any information, call police. >>> police in sussex county, delaware have arrest add man for his sixth dui. officers pulled over 51-year-old william terry of bridgeville after police spotted him traveling 78 miles an hour in a 55 zone. police say once they stopped him they found out he was drunk. he's in jail tonight because he can't post bond. >>> one local township is seeing results from a program that tries to put an end to drinking and driving with a touch of a button. the program is called evesham saving lives. and i

hear about a program in camden county that helps those who can't shovel for themselves. >>> it's 4:2444 degrees in philadelphia. today a western portion of the pennsylvania turnpike will close for a salvage operation. starting at 9:00 this morning, an 86-mile stretch of the westbound turnpike will close from breeze wood to new stanton to allow crews to retrieve a tractor-trailer that went over an embankment from the weekend blizzard. this was saturday. hundreds of drivers were stranded. this is the same stretch but the opposite direction. many of those people were stranded for 24 hours. >>> we're getting a look at the new 76ers new training complex. this is what the construction looks like right now along the camden water front. first trust bank is providing the 76ers with a $44 million construction loan. the training facility will be the largest in the nba. here's a rendering of what it will lack like once construction is complete. the facility will have two regulation basketball courts, locker room as well as a state-of-the-art performance, wellness, recovery and hydrotherapy room.

bucks county, burlington county, camden county and cumberland county.e when the conditions are so extreme that they threaten the safety and health of people who are outside specifically those who are homeless. back out live you see frost on the top of this vehicle, it's likely what you will encounter. also bundle up. reporting live, katy zachry, "nbc 10 news." >> reporter: good morning. i'm matt delucia live in langhorne, a neshaminy basketball coach is under fire after a video has gone viral. here is that video. the neshaminy/pennsbury graham. jerry devine was arguing about a foul. bumping the referee who fell to the ground. devine was ejected and in the past hour the district says it has placed the coach on administrative leave for his coaching and teaching position. there will be a thorough review. matt delucia, "nbc 10 news." >> reporter: i'm live in bala cynwyd. power call tickets have been on sale. $450 million is up for grabs. i did checking and found if you win tonight, there's a cash option of $275.4 million before taxes. you could receive the

katherine scott is live outside of the 7-eleven in haddon township camden county.you need to run into get something be ready. those lines will be long, katherine. >> reporter: oh, yes, they absolutely will. it's already the biggest jackpot in history. as you said it could grow before tonight's drawing. we're standing at a 7-eleven here in haddon township and they are expecting a busy day. they turned their computers on about a half hour to start selling tickets. the jackpot is an estimated one and a half billion dollars. that's a number that's getting people very excited. somewhat less thrilling, though, your odds of winning. they're at about one in 292 million. lottery officials expect at least 80 percent of the number combinations to be purchased before the drawing last night. laslast time it was 75 percent f the combinations. what happens if you live in the six states that don't participate in the powerball? well, many are finding a way to get involved anyway. look at this line just inside the california border. it's full of people from nevada who drove across t

county jail. his first appearance before the judge will happen tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 in camden. i also have reached out several times this afternoon to d.j. creato's philadelphia-based attorney both by phone and e-mail, but we have yet to hear back. live in haddon township, cydney long, nbc 10 news. >> and shortly after brendan creato vanished last october, nbc 10 obtained the 911 call of his father talking to dispatchers about the disappearance. here's an edited portion of that call. >> 911, where's your emergency? >> hi, i just woke up and my 3-year-old is missing. >> you didn't hear anything or see anything, nothing like that? >> no, i just woke up and he wasn't in my apartment. i don't know if he wandered out or what happened. i don't know where he is. the door was locked. i guess he unlocked it and left. >> toward the end of that call a woman can be heard yelling "brendan" multiple times. this case shocked the entire neighborhood when brendan creato disappeared, and right now nbc 10's deanna durante is there asking people to react to today's arrest. we'll bring that to you

the camden county father charged with killing his 3-year-old son will be arraigned on murder charges. and state take over. atlantic city's financial woes are far from over. there is talk lawmakers want to take control of the gambling town. good morning. 4:00 a.m., this is nbc 10 news today. i'm tracy davidson. let's get right to meteorologist bill henley with his first alert forecast, talk about those snowflakes. >> we've been seeing a lot of the manmade stuff. the real stuff will fall from the sky during the afternoon including in the mountains. it's certainly cold enough for snow with temperatures in the teens and 20s. 24 in philadelphia, we're running about 10 degrees colder than yesterday at this time. but i'm expecting a big warm-up before the snow showers move in. so we'll see snow falling but accumulation during the day is unlikely. the snow is in central and western pennsylvania. so we'll stay dry this morning. actually see some sunshine, too. 26 to start with, look at the fast warm-up by 9:00 this morning, 33 degrees above freezing at 9:00 with southeasterly winds becoming so

we'll explain why students at a camden county elementary school are no longer supposed to say god bless america after reciting the pledge of allegiance. >>> state financial relief will begin arriving for some today even as pennsylvania's budget battle continues. the state is sending out more than $3 billion to school districts, county government and social service providers. it's the result of a partial budget signed by governor wolf. lawmakers are back at work working to end the 7-month stalemate. >> republican presidential front-runner donald trump is out with his first tv campaign ad. there is controversy about where some of the video came from. >> the politicians can pretend it's something else. donald trump calls it radical islamic terrorism. >> the spot began yesterday in iowa and new hampshire. it reinforces trump's stance on isis and immigration. at one point the ad shows people streaming across what might appear to be the mexican border but a fact checking group determined that it is actually from morocco, but the campaign responded by saying no bleep it's not the mexican borde

that's what one camden county crossing guard says happened to her. she says she got in trouble for trying to get help to move a whole lot of snow. fox 29's chris o'connell is live in runnemede tonight and has been talking with that crossing guard. chris? >> reporter: lucy, she is a 16 year veteran elementary school crossing garter and she's been suspended from her job tonight. the reason she says she simply wanted snow removed outside of bingham elementary school here so kids could get to school. she has a bunch of supporters here tonight. her name gina baum this is what it look like on monday morning snow piled high on every street corner around the school. she claims her superior at the runnemede police department wasn't on duty that day so she texted the mayor of runnemede asking for some assistance in plowing around the school. well apparently that didn't sit well with city leaders. gina got a letter informing hershey's been suspended from her crossing job guard for two days for what the letter called insubordination and not following the chain o

. >> camden county father accused of murdering his three year old son awaits his arraignment today. prosecutors have charged gj createo with first degree murder in the death of his son brendan. his farther reported him missing from haddon township home on october 13th. searches found brandon's body few hours later in cooper river park. create owe's attorney said his client is innocent. >> the thing that strikes me the most, he is do-err. as who are i have being as it gets. >> the autopsy and toxicology reports on brandon creato were inconclusive. >> lawyers for bill cosby want to have the criminal charges in his montgomery county case thrown out. cosby's accused of sexually assaulting a former temple university employee in his cheltenham township home more than a decade ago. cosby's lawyers say the criminal charges he now faces violate a prosecutor's pledge that he would never be charged over the 2004 encounter. not sure if what's set next month will be delayed new to new legal filings. >> 4:35 right now. happening today, president obama gives his final state of the union address. a

one of the honorees is nicole kerber, a counselor at overbrook high school in pine hill, camden county knowing what to expect in your field every day, the job seems sometimes thankless but to get this award and this honor, you realize there are people out there that do support us and realize the work that we're doing. >> a school counselor from arizona was named counselor of the year. four minutes before 5:00. from our delaware bureau, the big barrel country music festival in dover won't return for a second year. promoters pulled the plug on the three-day festival that was scheduled for june. ♪ the festival's organizers red frog events and golden voice also promote the firefly music festival in dover. that festival will be back this summer. organizers did not give a reason for big barrel's cancellation. >>> hundreds of people honor the philadelphia policeç hero just three weeks after he was ambushed in west philadelphia. officer jesse hartnett walked into last night's fund raiser in northeast philadelphia. his message to everyone, i'm thankful. officer hartnett has undergone several s

reporting from camden county, david spunt for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> 5:16 right now.our first snow flakes of the season last night but nothing compared to what they are dealing with in upstate new york. imagine having that this morning. winter wonderland outside of buff le where cities are getting pounded with as much as 2 feet of snow. but hey upstate insuring what can you do. there is more snow today in the forecast. >> remember it could always be worse or better if you love the snow. >> some people are hoping and waiting for that. >> absolutely. >> ski resorts included there. >> we have wind this morning, katie. >> it is really cold outside when you factor that wind in. it is cold enough. our thermometer readings are reading only 31 degrees. we don't even hit freezing mark here today. you have to factor in the persistent west wind. maybe not as harsh. the trust me i was just you the side on the sky deck. it does not feel g bundle up adequately, guys. lets take a look at statistics for you. this is this time of the year, this is what we expect this time of the year.