for now we're live in downtown allentown. i'm trang dough cbs3 "eyewitness news". back to you guys. >> well deserved trang you have been on air since 4:00 a.m. so, yes, go back kick your feet up have something warm to eat. >> allentown correspondent. >> thank you trang. >>> if you have any snow photos or videos you'd like to share with us use the hash tag cbs3 on facebook or twitter you may seem them right here on "eyewitness news". >>> our storm coverage continues here on cbs3. >> live look now at philadelphia from our rooftop camera not quite white out conditions but not looking great out there. we'll go live to bucks county and check on conditions in south jersey. "eyewitness news". reminder you can fine the latest developments on our website cbsphilly.com and our twitter and facebook pages at cbs phil >>> at this point not everyone has been seeing snow from the nor'easter in new jersey along the shore this a live look at very soggy ocean city. rain is coming down steadily there. you can see it over in our camera but reaching over to -- switching over to snow. t

we are at a ppl center in downtown allentown on hamilton street.t is slushy with the accumulation totals. several inches, not so bad, panning up to the road here. cars have listened to penndot pretty much stayed off the road for the most part. we have seen lots and lots of plows coming through the sidewalks, crystal clear, now earlier i spoke with a pizza delivery driver, he said that he was looking forward, to this storm. >> i'm very much a snow advocate so i was looking forward to it, so, you know, i was hoping for one big one before it was done for the year, but you know, i will take what i can get. i like it. i like it falling. it is nice, peaceful. mother nature. how can you be mad at mother nature? >> reporter: toshay how can you be mad at mother nature. she spared us this time in allentown. no reports of any outages or lots of them out here but penndot again wants to you stay off the road because whale it is slushy, the snow could freeze over and continue to be dangerous so just let crews continue to be on the road and get their jobs done. v

. >> would i like a mimosa please, if would you send it here downtown allentown but you guys, i think it was putting on the hat that rahel mentioned, i had to rep eagles hold on to this before it gets too warm to wear this i put on the hat and it is indeed snowing in allentown. take a lie don't know if you can show where you can see it, it is still very fine, light but definitely snow, throughout the morning we are were like is that what is that rain wintry mix? this is definitely small little perfect snow flakes. and because it is just starting to happen right now you know conditions are pretty great right here in allentown peopling about their business getting their coffee over there with no, issues at all but as lauren mentioned this is going to ramp up, as we get closer and closer to the morning rush. starting around nine or 10:00 o'clock but exciting news here in allentown. we are seeing snow here. this is why schools are closed forecasters are predicting anywhere upward of a foot of snow here. so people don't be fooled because it is so light prett will need to be prepared for th

taking a live look at downtown allentown as you see right there the snow has let up. it is still coming down. you see that on the sidewalks and on the rooftops there as well. >> our live team coverage continues with nbc 10's steven fisher. he is in northampton county. >> we've seen the progression all afternoon from roads that had to close with the heavy snow coming down. it is still coming down where you are. >> reporter: yeah, it's till still coming down. we spend most of the morning in bucks county and moved out to northampton. behind me is the eastern town square. everywhere we drove or went today, it was like this. it was constant snow coming down. now some people we saw, they're going to wait until this thing is over to get that snow blower out. others say they're going to tackle it little by little with the shovel. business owners like big har in quakertown face the obligation of running a business and clearing off his snow-covered sidewalk. >> it's good snowballs. making snow, yeah. it pushes pretty easy. >> reporter: dressed in his short, bill came outside to

still allentown schools are closed to day as a precaution but you can still see here this is downtown allentown, our usual, stumping grounds things are good, i know, kind of like wetness on the road is here, but, you know, so far, so good this is the calm before the storm here , so, let's send it back to you guys in the studio. >> okay, trang do looking good but we will check in throughout the morning and see how it progresses, thank you. >>> "eyewitness news" reporter pat gallen is live in chester county. >> he set up in lancaster avenue in paoli what are you seeing there it looks like it is just sleeting. >> reporter: guess what i'm seeing guys, snow? it is snowing in paoli, i am on lancaster avenue and we have seen varying degrees of precipitation, it went from a mixture, to rain and back to snow and now it is thick, gross, snow, as we pan down here and see sidewalk, you can see it starting to accumulate but it is a slushy gross mixture. just up here at route 30 is where thorndale paoli line is for septa stop, so if you are taking that today just know there is a modified schedule, the winter

forecasting this will not ramp up until about nine or 10:00 in the morning but take a look at downtown allentown, my stumping ground, traffic is picking up here, people are pretty muchinging about their daily activities here for the time being, before this nor'easter, hits right here, and what we're forecasting here is, upward of 12 inches, of a foot of snow, but for now, things are pretty good here, we have been seeing , either a light, wintry mix or just complete rain and it has all been extremely light. even our drive up here difference between philadelphia, and allentown, was pretty huge, you know when i got up this morning there was snow flurries on my car, when we got up here it has been just like this where we have seen the roads are wet, you know, light rain has been falling down so we are in the calm before this storm. if anybody need to runner rand s would i say do it right now. so back to you in the studio. >> looking good this that eagles super bowl hat. >> i'm still holding on. >> well, remember, you can head to our web site for more on the winter storm we have latest forecast, trav

so lets look at downtown allentown where this is not sticking right now, we are above freezing here,n telling you all morning, things will rapidly deteriorate as we get closer to that 10:00 o'clock hour and throughout the day, expecting, upper of a foot of snow in the allentown area and because of that the public transit system is in the operate to go day as well as allentown schools are also closed but we will stay out here and machine for conditions right off, now back to you in the studio. >> see you soon, thank you. >>> lets send it over to lauren for a check of the forecast. >> we're dealing with snow coming down across a large portion of the area and heavy in intensity at times getting a live look at center city philadelphia temperature 33 degrees, just about 20 minutes ago heavy snow coming down with big huge flames, and more light to moderate, winds northeast at 14 miles an hour, visibility reduced in many locations and where we have that lower visibility is where we have the heaviest intensity , precipitation, mount pocono down to a half mile visibility, dealing with heavy s

philly all the way up here to allentown and this is it by the time we got here to allentown let me step out of the way, downtown intersections, anything that had fallen here overnight pretty much melted, and so we are seeing puddles in the road , a very, fine, normal, driving conditions, as we were driving up here though we did have difficult visibility here and there but coming into the lehigh valley, it is very clear, so, you know, if there are any night owls who have insomnia and haven't stock up on they're essentials for the nor'easter go do that now because we have clear road conditions. but now back to you in the studio. >> i was at whole food yesterday on callowhill and parkway, busy, stocked. >> they don't buy french toe up there but fresh vegetables. >> yes. >> storm is expected to hit poconos with lots of snow, live look from jack frost big boulder last weeks storm brought white out conditions and left portions of the interstate shut down because of crashes from drivers trapped on the highway and at rest stops. i heard everyone stuck and the next morning we came out and this whole area was tractor tra