nbc 10's doug shimell is live at camelback ski resort. they've got their work cut out for them. >> reporter: exactly. and even though they had the new water park to kind of bridge some revenue, six weeks of lost ski money is six weeks of lost ski money, but they think they can make a lot of that back. mark hinkle refused to give up on winter. >> i just been trying to find some snow. i came here because it has the most trails. >> reporter: camelback mountain resort finally has snow. >> today it's all smiles, you know, not just from the guests, the staff, too. we're able to put people back to work and the skiers and borders are really happy on the hill. >> reporter: opening in early january is better than early february. >> we were hoping to come christmas break, but the weather was far too warm and they weren't making any snow here. >> reporter: the challenge for camelback was to keep the hundreds of seasonal and college workers from taking jobs elsewhere. >> our management has done a great job. they were able to retain just ability everybo

i'm doug shimell. >>> there should be answers about the death of a 5-year-old boy. jayll vega bautista was found dead yesterday afternoon. he ran away from a new year's eve party sparking a frantic search. the child has autism. he was carrying a tablet a volunteer spotted yesterday. that's when divers discovered his body. the autopsy will determine how and when he died. police call his death a tragic accident. >>> from our delaware bureau, more than a thousand dupont workers will find out tomorrow if they get to keep their jobs in 2016. the pink slips go out tomorrow. the layoffs begin in february. 1700 workers will lose their jobs because of the down merger and the cuts impact ten locations throughout delaware including the headquarters. dow and dupont plan to merge and split in three companies. the smallest of which will be based in delaware. >>> tomorrow philadelphia gets a new mayor. we sat down with him with what a plan on what he plans to do in office. >>> a good time to buy a lottery ticket. no one claimed last night's powerball ticket. you get a chance to wi

doug shimell tracking counties. >> live in lehigh county. doug, how are things looking out there now? >> the sun is going down, now the wind and snow are completely obscuring visibility. you can see snow blowing through the toll plaza here, northeast extension intersects with route 22. of course turnpike authority plow crews have been trying their best to keep the northeast extension clear but the snow just seems to stay ahead of any public works department, falling faster than they can clear it away. this is a big stabling area, of course they are not here now, for tow trucks. they have been pulling in and out of here as they get calls for cars stuck on on ramps. calls on the scanner, oddities, a man on foot disoriented and lost in whiteout conditions using gps and the phone died. a short while ago medics called to a house where a woman was delivering a baby in the middle of a snowstorm. live in south whitehall township, i'm doug shimell, nbc 10 news. >>> members of temples women's gymnastics team are among those left stranded in storms on t

never one to shy away from covering the elements, doug shimell tracking the snow showers all afternoon. >> joins us from milford township tonight. doug? >> reporter: well, you know, penndot says they believe they have a solution that just debuted this week for people who have no choice but to drive in snow events or snowstorms. penndot has brined, salted or plowed was a guessing game unless you happened to get behind them. but this week penndot started its 511pa.com website and app that tells you where the plow and salt crews have been, where they haven't, and where they are going. >> maybe some snow on that road or ice that hasn't been treated, so you go slower, or if it was just treated, they know i should go because i know the road has been treated. >> reporter: the rare sighting of snow triggered the reflex of what we should have been doing if this wasn't a warm winter. normally george would have bought the salt spreaders weeks ago. >> one day putting your boots on, next pushing asphalt around, next couple days later you're pushing snow around. >> reporter: the snow means albright'

doug shimell to tell us more about it. >> reporter: anywhere there are power lines and trees, remotely close together, utility companies are taking no chances. >> power goes out, probably almost every storm. it depends how bad the storm is. >> reporter: when crews from ppl appeared on shady lane, marisa knew why they pick west rock hill township. >> we can be out just that day, we could be out to seven days. we tend to be one of the last to be turned on. >> reporter: many power companies have been stepping up their regular tree trimming to try to minimize branches falling on electric lines during saturday's storm. >> track the areas where we have the largest number of outages and prioritize those earlier in the year. >> reporter: storms sometimes find their way past all the best intentions. >> recommend people charge their electronic devices. charge your phones. charge your ipad. make sure you've got power. >> reporter: utilities say, if you happen to lose power, use fully charged devices to call them or reach online to report an outage. don't assume somebody else has. doug shimell, nb

nbc 10's doug shimell live at the ski resort at camelback. hey, doug. >> reporter: you know, how are you doing? this has been a season for holding on for winter. holding on may finally be over in the poconos. >>> this is nbc 10 news. >> taking a live look over the city of philadelphia, you see that flag blowing there. tonight we are feeling the coldest temperatures of the season so far, and it feels even worse with all that wind. >> nbc 10 chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz is tracking the winter blast. it actually feels worse because of the contrast. we had such a warm december. >> yeah, and we calculated that december basically felt like a typical month of december in savannah, georgia. so just imagine we've moved from savannah, georgia, to philadelphia. that's why it feels so cold. the flag showing just how strong the wind is blowing, and it's blowing pretty hard, gusting over 30 miles an hour in parts of the area, and these are the air temperatures. it's not including the effect of the wind. 23 in chester springs and kennett sq

. >>> doug shimell talking to crews what they're doing to prevent power outages. at 5:00, cydney long in camden with more on a new system to alert neighbors about weather threats. >>> breaking news from skyforce 10, the house fire, approaching the fire, lower moreland, montgomery county, smoke rising into the air above trees. one firefighter hurt. we don't know how bad thosees a. the fire ladder poking up out of trees as well. a house fire, lower moreland, montgomery county. we'll continue to gather information and bring you new information as soon as we get it a firefighter is hurt. >>> breaking news. man wanted for allegedly threatening to shoot police officers in philadelphia and new york now in custody. anonymous tip today put both departments on alert. nbc 10's lauren mayk with breaking details. >> reporter: i just spoke with police commissioner ross and confirmed they got this information today. it was anonymous, indicated that a man wanted to inflict harm on police officers in new york and possibly here in philadelphia. here's how he told me that this infor

doug shimell live at camelback mountain resort where the runs are open for the first time today. doug, snow behind you finally. >> reporter: the marketing folks here were convinced that there was a lot of pent-up demand for skiing, and they weren't kidding. a giant ski team went by, said they've had no place to practice all winter, now they do. >> up until now, this winter has not looked like the way it's supposed to look. >> reporter: it was almost to the point of having to find another winter hobby. >> been so warm, i was starting to lose the mental edge for the ski season. >> depressing, gets you anxious, gets you excited. it just makes you want to come out sooner, quicker, and do more stuff. >> reporter: but the celebration was on at camelback resort after finally enough cold to make snow and open. >> winter always gets here, always does, and we're just really happy to kind of kick off our season with such a gorgeous day. >> students have more time to practice. >> reporter: snowboard instructors could finally instruct. >> i was praying for snow all the time. 24/7 until it happ

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live in spring mountain, doug shimell, nbc 10 news. >> all right, doug.ere are some of the other stories making headlines on nbc 10 news at 4:00. >> i'm rosemary connors at philadelphia police headquarters, where earlier today investigators named a suspect in the double shooting over the weekend at a homeless shelter in north philly. john brock is accused of murder and attempted murder of two employees at that shelter. police consider him armed and dangerous and right now they are searching the city streets for him. >>> i'm cydney long in bridgeton, cumberland county. take a look where an excavator is knocking down what little remains of this historic building. the hillcrest tavern caught fire early this morning and firefighters were able to put out the fire, but as you can see, they were not able to save it. now the question, what happens next right here? >>> i'm john boruk of comcast sportsnet. the philadelphia eagles have officially announced doug pederson as their next head coach. pederson flew into philadelphia this morning, met with staffers and emp

doug shimell, nbc 10 news. >>> no outside dining in center city today. surprise, surprise.d. nbc 10, commuters put on extra layers to help keep warm. sheena parveen looking ahead to another night of be low freezing temperatures. how cold will it get. >> areas north and west of lehigh valley code evidence spots around 11, 12 degrees. it is going to be cold. temperatures are going to drop off quickly. many spots in the teens tonight. right now in the mid-30s for allen town and redding. 38 philadelphia. 28 millville. now wildwood dropped down to 28 degrees. 35 in atlantic city currently. so it is still cold outside. but again, going to get colder as we go through the overnight hours. low temperatures for allen town, around 11 degrees. millville in south jersey, you can see around 11. 16 pottstown. 12 redding. 25 dober, 16 mt. holly. coldest spots areas north and west of philadelphia, lehigh valley flirting with 10 degree mark tonight. areas like bethlehem around 11 degrees. quaker town, middle teens. pottstown, 15. these numbers hitting around sunrise tomorrow. make sure you b

. >> nbc 10's doug shimell found farmers in our area worried they are going to run out of food for their animals. doug is live in trenton with that story. doug? >> reporter: exactly, the food here is not the only place people are lining up before a snowstorm. >> got to have the hay there for the animals when they need it. don't want nobody to starve. >> reporter: this is the snowstorm panic at the supermarket for farm animals. many bucks county farmers are swamping the farm in milford township with orders for hay. in a fragile farming economy, they cannot afford to lose animals in a snowstorm. >> they want to make sure they have the hay in the barns so they don't run out when the snow comes. big panic, they are always worried about that. >> reporter: this family is also splitting firewood and making corn feed to help their neighbors. >> we have a lot of crop in the barn we put away in the summer to support these farmers that don't have hay and horse farms that need hay to survive. >> reporter: not far away, the milford township public works guys broke out the big stuff. >> getting the ch

and doug shimell is live in jenkintown with the story. ug. >> reporter: if you can imagine these drifts that are still here, they are about chest high spreading out into the parking lot and into the street, well, that is what business owner blake cooper says he was up against this weekend. >> 16 hours of shoveling and plowing, this was not a 10-inch snow. >> reporter: the regular snow plow guys canceled. he and his sons started clearing. >> it was up to the top of the screen door. it had to be 6, 7 feet. so we did the best we could. we had two snow blower and shovels. >> after shoveling sunday and monday a jenkintown police officer wrote him a ticket for not clearing his sidewalks within 10 hours after the snow. >> you're not giving people time. what if the i'm a 90-year-old guy. you're going to give me a ticket. >> the police chief tells nbc 10 they have to enforce the ordinance so people will clear their sidewalks so kids can get to school. blake says even though schools were closed monday he went to the police department and paid the $3

. >>> let's head to bucks county now, doug shimell is live. doug, the snow looked like it was coming down fast, but nothing really stuck. >> reporter: yeah, it really was, and we had just enough snow for a dusting here in milford township, bucks county, and it was just enough snow to finally trigger the winter reflex among drivers and just about everybody else. they are finally selling what they are supposed to be selling during winter at albright's hardware in south whitehall township. >> i have my errands, two state snow blower ready to rock, ready to go, fuelled up. >> reporter: it took a while to get here, but the snow reminded penndot crews and drivers that the warm winter will end when you least expect it. >> we had ice in areas where the winter rain goes up on the roads, because the ground is getting colder, especially at night, so we want people to get in the winter mindset. >> reporter: they were thinking the very same thing at albright's hardware. >> weber grill stuff is out for planting, you know, staying on top of things and getting

live in bucks county, doug shimell, nbc 10 news. >> all right, doug. staying in south philadelphia right now, you can see what drivers are dealing with at this hour. live look from the wells fargo cam at the early stages of the evening rush on i-95. no trouble out there so far. >>> a similar situation down the jersey shore. you're looking live at cape may. not much snowfall to speak of down there. around the region in delaware, a live look at 95 and wilmington, newcastle county. winter is just getting started. there are a lot of ways to prepare. what are the most important ways? downloading the nbc 10 news app. live radar, forecasts, weather alerts and school closings right at your fingertips. >>> now to newly released evidence that prosecutors say proves a haddon township father killed his 3-year-old son. brendan creato died because his brain was deprived of oxygen. as of the motive, d.j. creato killed brendan because his teenaged girlfriend didn't like children. prosecutors say thousands of text messages, social media, and a pair of socks helped prov

nbc 10's doug shimell found a family doing everything they could think of to try to stay warm. is live in lower merion township. hi, doug. >> reporter: if you think this bitter cold has been a shock to your own system, it is even worse for your heating system. >> about two hours, and i realized that the temperature wasn't right. realized that there was something going on. >> reporter: it got cold fast in her house. >> we have to dress, keep socks on, my main source is the heater. i have heaters downstairs, heaters in every bedroom. >> reporter: she knows it's not ideal, but the kitchen stove has also been a prime source of heat for the last four days. it got to the point where she had to call philadelphia's heater hotline to get it fixed. >> what kind of problem you have? >> i don't have any heat. >> reporter: repair tech ron gibbs says the warm winter fooled a lot of people. >> i think people just got a little lax there, because we know it's coming every year, so when it changes like this, that's when the calls come in. >> reporter: it turned out to be a blown fuse in the furn

. >> doug shimell is live at spring mountain in montgomery county. ug, this is even better news for the smaller ski resorts. >> reporter: yeah, exactly. the little guys like spring mountain that don't have an indoor water park to bridge them through rough periods of the winter say they don't have a lot of choice but to keep making snow and praying for folks to come out on the weekends, which are their big revenue generators. this was a winter built on faith. >> i actually thought it wasn't going to come, but it actually did. >> when it did finally snow at spring mountain in montgomery county seven weeks after it was supposed to, it had to be manmade. >> i saved up from christmas to go snowboarding, but this year i was thinking of spending it, but now it's worth it. >> reporter: sit back with this ski money and no place to go. >> tons of ways to spend money, but we were excited to get out here and take our son for the first time learning how to ski. >> reporter: ski mountain says it lost a quarter million dollars without crucial holiday ski weather. >>

nbc 10's doug shimell went to campus to see why the trend is gaining popularity. >> my name is kelly and i'm a fourth year sugar baby. >> reporter: the message is pretty clear. >> our mission is to provide a quality edge completely paid for by wealthy benefactors. >> reporter: the las vegas-based seekingarrangement.com says temple university has the fourth largest number of new subscribers to their site. this senior is one of the 155 new sign ups. >> been a couple dates, yeah. never encountered anyone creepy or weird. >> this daddy is offering a monthly allowance of $200. >> reporter: but a lot of students feel an allowance creates expectations. >> people automatically think that it's someone looking for something in return that's more than just friendship or companionship. >> seems a bit weird. >> definitely creepy. >> reporter: but spiraling  college costs keep creating a market. >> i would definitely do it. college is a business now, they are just trying to make money. if you can get money from someone else, why not? >> sometimes it is sexual expectations, but most of the people

. >> doug shimell has more on the hit businesses and workers have taken this summer and how they hope to turn it around. they really took a hit this winter, doug. >> reporter: yeah, this has been the winter of holding on and holding on and holding on some more, but as you can tell, period of fun might be over. this was supposed to be the sound of money weeks ago at camelback mountain resort. >> last year winter started in october, ended in april. waiting, waiting, waiting, and nothing. >> reporter: john cress' parking and security job will finally start this thursday when camelback opens. >> i've been unemployed for a while, then got this opportunity and we were ready to go, kept getting warmer and warmer. >> reporter: there is now actually something to shovel, but the resort says it's resisting temptation. >> we ended up making a strategic decision to hold off another couple days. reason is, we can put our portable snow guns in the middle of runs and really cover them solidly and deep. couldn't do that if we were open today. >> reporter: at the loft ski shop down the hill, they under

live in montgomery county, doug shimell, "nbc 10 news." >> this is what it looks like in washington, d.c. digging out. giant snow blowers removing snow from the interstates. the metro system is up and running after two days shut down. it could take days for everything to get back to normal. the blizzard is blamed for at least 44 deaths on the east coast. some died in car accidents, others from carbon monoxide poisoning and many others from heart attack shoveling snow. at least eight of those who died were in pennsylvania. three were in new jersey, and one in delaware. >> police in delaware looking for a thief they say targeting the elderly offering to shovel snow for them. investigators say these are surveillance pictures of the suspect using a stolen credit card at a convenience store. a 76-year-old victim said the suspect offered twice to shovel her snow. the suspect forced her way in and took credit cards and cash. >> from the south jersey bureau, police hope you can recognize a wanted burglar who had a run-in with a homeowner. they released this sketch. he entered a home on everg

doug shimell live in lower providence township with more for us. doug? >> reporter: you know, for a lot of small boroughs and townships it's a small line between a budget surplus, which many have because we've had no winter, and red ink. >> our town is built on a hill, so it's pretty tough for us. >> reporter: with no winter to show for being late january, spring city knew this year's nonwinter wouldn't last long. >> really lucky, very, very mild compared to most winters and we need a reprieve. >> reporter: two trucks and two workers who have been busy putting hydraulic fluid into the plows that took a beating during last year's endless winter. >> we went through some equipment last year and the year before cutting edges, plow pumps, spreaders. we went through quite a bit of money just with replacing some of the smaller equipment. >> reporter: bur roug manager saw last year's snowstorms put him $12,000 over budget with a town with a limited tax base and know this winter's budget surplus may not last long. >> few times salting, then, of course, watched th

doug shimell has more on that live in montgomery county. g. >> reporter: how are you doing, keith? a lot of these small towns have been dusting off snow fighting equipment that took a beating the last couple of winters but have been sitting idle so far this winter. it's a strange, yet familiar process they have not had to do this winter in pottstown. >> so far it's been a great year for us. some guys aren't very happy, not making money in overtime, but we've been out all year, that's it. >> reporter: the public works department just got a salt delivery today after weeks of doing springtime road repairs in what is supposed to be the dead of winter. >> it would be nice to have a little extra at the end of the year, because, you know, every year for the last few years, as everybody knows, it's been brutal. budget has been taking a serious hit. >> reporter: it's a similar story in much smaller spring city. where street foreman dan bugler and his one employee are patching together the two plow and salt trucks. >> between the salt and wear and tea

. >> doug shimell talked with experts about how to avoid costly repairs. he joins us now, you have everyone's attention. >> reporter: you know, i think a lot of these drivers out here probably found out the hard way over the last couple of days just what exactly ignoring winter really can mean. the red jeep in the back of the garage was one of the early causalities, and owner matt wright has to foot the bill. >> when it got really cold, my radiator broke and all my coolant flooded out of my vehicle and i was stranded on the side of the road in the freezing cold. >> reporter: at the new aaa car care center in south philadelphia, they've gone from zero to 60 in two days. >> we're getting a lot of battery failures, a lot of radiators, coolant issues, cars overheating because people aren't maintaining vehicles properly. >> reporter: jose gonzalez says drivers haven't charged batteries and done other preventive maintenance because the warm weather made them think they didn't have to. >> this battery tested marginal at this time. >> reporter: throw it on a charg

. >> doug shimell joins us live from the store in philadelphia. >> reporter: they're selling more than a million tickets an hour in pennsylvania. we estimate here at brewer's outlet, 60 tickets an hour. the lines continue to extend almost to the door. a lot of first-timers here who were lured off the sidelines by $1.5 billion jackpot. if you win in pennsylvania, in state income tax. of course the feds will get a pretty good chunk. in the winning tickets comes from brewer's outlet or any where ils, the store gets $100,000 commission. >> to the pulse of camden. >> cydney long joins us live from cherry hill with excitement there. people are buying tickets like crazy. >> left and right. good evening. since 3:00, we have seen about 75 to 50 customers coming in here all with those hot dreams of that vacation spot and getting their chance on forever financial freedom. you would think so. we found out from the new jersey lottery commission 7,057 a minute sold in the garden state. in one hour between 4:00 and 5:00, how much new jersey powerball players spent. 2.67 million in one hour between 4:

doug shimell is live in trenton. people are stocking up so they don't have to leave their homes once the snow starts. >> reporter: this is the food bizarre here and it's not just an integral part of south trenton, it's an integral part of the region. many people know it's not close to the storm. who knew cold cuts are snowstorm food? and that hot entrees are the second big seller at the food bizarre on trenton's south side. >> we want to make sure we have the necessities anybody needs, milk, bread, anything you need, you can come here and get. >> don't want to run out of toilet paper, don't want to run out of food. >> reporter: it is the endless stream of canned goods. >> got to have the essentials. >> reporter: and stuff that won't spoil if the power goes out. >> i don't want to be worried about having to come out in the snow and coming to the store and buy something the last minute and maybe there's nothing here we can eat. >> just be prepared that you're going to be in for two, three days, and just be prepared for

doug shimell, nbc 10 news. >> i need some scripts here. >> have you gotten your ticket yet? >> reporter: still haven't got than cash, jim. don't have it on me. >> you have a nice photographer i'm sure who would chip in. >> yes. he's very new. more than happy to fork it over without expectation of being paid back. >> thanks so much. >>> by the way, people in pennsylvania, new jersey, delaware, playing a big part in the powerball frenzy. >> according to research by the group value penguin, our states rank in the top five for most tickets sold per capita. based on sales since the jackpot won november 4th. only rhode island and new hampshire sold more tickets per person. >> count on nbc 10 to bring you winning numbers tonight. we'll have them on nbc 10 news at 11:00. if you have the nbc 10 news app we'll send out an alert as soon as those numbers are pulled. >> not a good day for a water main break. nbc 10 at 9th and hunting park in philadelphia, you can see that water frozen over on the street. crews hard at work. nbc 10 first alert meteorologist sheena parveen joins us now. >>

d doug shimell and his photographer ran into some whiteout conditions. and he spoke to a man who went to a wedding. >> they wouldn't let them cancel the wedding, so i offered my services of driving with a four-wheel drive truck if thib needed a ride from the clurmg to the church to the reception. congratulations to kevin and car then. on one hand it's sad that they weren't able to reschedule it, but on the other hand, they will never forget this. memories that they will never forget. >> wedding in the snowstorm. >> exactly. >> if they he can survive a blizzard, i guess they can survive anything. let's check in with michelle gross thmann grossmann. she's tracking some conditions that may be changing throughout the day because the temperature will rise and then maybe dip back down. >> and that will be a problem later tonight with refreezing and icy spots into honemonday morning. but this morning we're starting out bitterly cold. pretty view, though, from the pocono mountains. the trail looking awesome. it will be cold, but we'll see the winds dissipating.