at orners garden center on eagle road in havertown, landscaping crews are stopping in to pick up salt, bags and bags of salt. >> they come in to buy it for tonight. >> the sun came out this afternoon, and melted some of the snow and ice away. lancaster avenue in ardmore is fairly dry by late afternoon, except around the edges sidewalks that are salts are wet as well. they too can turn slick once the temperatures drop tonight. >> yes, black ice. >> black ice. >> right. >> you guys have all the salt you need? >> yes that is the plan. >> the rest of us are not crazy about this plan, but it's good for you guys. >> perfect we love it. >> ruben wynn waited until late afternoon until he set out to get the snow off his car. >> was sitting around waiting for it to be a little warmer i guess. >> it's not so bad now i guess. >> yes sun helps. >> the sunshine and warmer temperatures helped to dry out the area's main highways but still penndot stayed at it to help with problems that could arise once the sunsets. >> we are pushing back the snow and getting it off the roadways and getting the roads

out of havertown.now, it's been a little hectic with the cars coming back and forth, you know. jetting behind your truck. not even, you know, you can't really see them. but it's actually, you know, just been a little cold, you know, just pushing around snow. >> reporter: pushing around snow. talk about how much snow is out here in terms of inches because it fell quickly. >> about 3-inches a little over 3-inches here today probably. >> reporter: in terms of the amount of work you've had to do like this this season we haven't had whole lot of snow. >> no. there's been enough. making money, you know what i mean. you have two big snows so far. >> reporter: y. >> probably got around -- with the two snows probably about 10 hours, 11 hours. >> reporter: this what he's been doing all day. are you going to feel like this when you go home today. there's snow at home watch did you tell him. >> i have my 18-year-old son do it. (laughter). >> i'll be out all night plowing. he can do the house. >> reporter: all righ

the man wear a lot of hats, he is from havertown take us with you on the go with the free 6 abc newse you guys at 4:00. >> i always do. >>> in other news musicians are keeping a tradition alive dating back hundreds of years to eastern europe. tamala edwards has their story in today's art of aging. >> you may not be familiar with the name klessner but if you have been to a jewish wedding you recognize the sound. elaine has been playing klessner since she was a little girl. >> my father taught it to me and he brought it over from russia. >> we call it the hoffman family repertoire, it's to be an ambassador for our lineage and our heritage. >> elaine was the first female purcushionist to attend, and she was awarded a fellowship from the national endowment of the arts. >> i can't do anything else, i condition do math i can't cook, and i enjoy it and have a great time playing. >> she is inspiring, as long as you are alive you live. >> seniors are passing on their heritage to the younger generation in so many ways, our organization can connect you to those that do just that. >>> david is h

preschoolers at trinity lutheran church in havertown did not let yesterday's snow day stop them fromebrating fat tuesday, they held their party today on wednesday. they had a party and dance with new orleans jazz. abc world news tonight with david muir is next on channel 6 and "action news" continues at 10:00 on phl 17 with brian taff, shirleen allicot adam joseph and ducis rogers. and then join us for a special health check report at 11:00 here on channel 6. drugs that treat a host of medical problems may sabotage your sex life, we'll tell you about a new resource of finding which drugs do or do not cause problems. for the entire "action news" team i'm jim gardner, we hope you'll join us at 11:00. >>> on this wednesday night, when will it end? record-shattering temperatures tonight. even colder from the midwest to the northeast, all the way to the south. the accidents, highways covered in sheets of ice. roofs collapsing. the rescues. the young people the dog, pulled from the ice. >>> also breaking tonight, the explosion at an american oil refinery. neighbors describeing what felt li

nbc 10 on the scene about ninety minutes ago near west chester pike in havertown. they evaluated the victim for injuries and we're working to find out the extent of how badly hurt the person is. the driver stayed at the scene. >>> about a hundred homes without water after an eight inch main broke this morning in port richmond. ten homes on the 3,000 block of the street had property damage. they are working to make repairs and expect things to be back to normal some time tonight. >>> six families out of their homes after a fire in an apartment complex in camden county. and nbc 10 monique braxton reports, firefighters face additional obstacles due to the weather. >> we had a lot of banging. my daughter heard the alarms going off outside. >> the commotion sent antoinette and 23 others into the arctic air in their pajamas. they watched the fire race their apartments. and her top priority was rescuing her 36-year-old daughter who has cerebral palsy. >> i panicked. and i was like oh my god my daughter but the police officers calmed me down and they got her out safely. >>

. >>> some youngsters in havertown spend the morning celebrating mardi gras. the children here at trinity lutheran church dressed up and danced and some wore masks and others had beaded necklaces and other activities like a spatula relay and a coin toss. >> and wine doesn't have to go in your glass but it can also go in your face. melissa magee has an fyi for you on a spa treatment that promises to slow the aging process. >> it's called vino therapy and medical aesthetician monica fowler says it protects your skin including from the self in inflicted ones but with a little tlc can you get some of your bounce back. >> we want to treat it with kitten gloves but what better way to do that but with vino, the wine is mixed with extract and honey and other food oils. >> it sounds delicious. >> it is others are the vino peel and the vino lift. >> others are like i want to look my best and don't want the surgery or down time. >> they combine it with radio frequency to make it tighter. >> you'll feel heat. >> who knew a little wine could do the trick? >> think we can d

havertown, 3. nars -- nazareth north of 22. 6.5. in allentown the temperature has dipped below 30 degrees. this will be the pattern with the cold air coming in this afternoon you can the temperatures will be driving them down and we could have a refreeze of the moisture on roads right now. i'll talk more about that and show you future tracker 6 looking at how the temperatures will drop later this evening when i come back with the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast. >> thank you, now let's switch live to "action news" reporter, annie mccormick live in king of prussia with more on conditions there annie. >> reporter: and sarah just in the past few minutes we started to get an icy mix that's falling again. there was a brief pause for a couple of hours we didn't get anything but this morning there were heavy rains. since this road was pretreated the morning commute was okay. take a look down here, all the extra snow that was left down here, this is what the back roads looked like. that's what affected a lot of morning commute. ton

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but just this week the the note showed up in the mailbox of their grandson's home in havertown. more than 07 years after it was written it was fund by a stranger during an estate sale in missouri. today the kenny's had a chance to thank the man who return it during a face time conversation. >> we just wanted to give a group thank you from everybody. thank you so much. >> thank you. what a great story. the kenny family told "action news" that receiving that letter brought their grandparents back to life if only for a little while. that they say was something that felt better then winning the lottery. >>> much more to come on "action news" who need coffee when you can do this. we will show you folks who had serious fun with intestinal fortitude as they jumped in the coal water there. >>> story of strength and hope we will introduce to you a young power lift shore has overcome a whole lot have of obstacles on his road to success, when a "action news" comes right back. >>> several hundred people went full pinger penguin by taking a dip in the icy cold atlantic. this ways sea isle ci

"action news" reporter eva pilgrim has that story in havertown. >> november 7, 1942 u.s.s. oregon. my dearest darling here i am writing to you again because i haven't anything else to document eric kenny got this letter in the mail yesterday. a love letter written in 1942 from his grandfather to his grandmother. >> it turned out to be a letter that my father had written to my mother before they were even married while he was in the service. >> it was like winning the lottery. you know, you hear about letters like this but until you see something it just brings you back and reminds you of the two of them and the love that they had for 64 years. >> totally surprised. have no idea how they found this letter but it was addressed to my mother at the house that she was raised inism the letter was mailed from missouri with this post it note. hello found thiss in an estate i purchased and thought you might want it back. they discovered it after discovering the obituary. the family says they can't thank the sender enough for getting them this note. >> it's a great gift. >> reporter: jim and

havertown native is officially in charge of the secret service.resident obama removed interim tag for joseph clancy making him secret service director. clancy took over on a temporary basis last fall after several embarrassing scandals brought down the last boss. archbishop carol and villanova graduate spent 27 years with the secret service including stint of the head of the president's security detail. >>> happening today, six candidates for mayor in philadelphia are expect to speak at their first forum together. it is at the philadelphia business and technology center at park side avenue. that starts at 8:30 this morning. the forum is opened to the public. receiptors head to the poles in the primary for over three months in may 19th. >>> meanwhile a broken water pipe forcedded philadelphia city council to move today's session to the sixth floor of city hall. the roomies still a mess after a pipe burst early tuesday morning, soak ago this room trying to clean it up. recent cold weather most likely cause that had pipe to crack. crews have been usi

kevin wilson in havertown sitting at freezing right now. generally right around freezing in williams williamstown by peter. 32 in reading that is hour. buena vista new jersey also at freeing you get the picture hovering around 32 degrees. we may drop another degree or two and we do have a few areas picking up snow already up in sailorsville keith checks in with an inch and a half so far out in burnville. 1 inch officially by lieutenant alan matthews. gilbertsville a quarter of an inch. one hundredths of an inch in norwood, pennsylvania. take you outside. looking at the ben franklin bridge. visible has dropped the snow is starting to pick up. so just keep that naped through the overnight hours. slow travel for the early morning commute. difference in temperature compared to this too many yesterday. so we're starting to get rid of some of that arctic air. where 11 to 16 degrees warmer than 24 hour ago. still arctic air is stubborn. it lingers around north of the city so extended period of snow and certainly poe then shall for freezing rain in

sam really did it speaking of sam, the man that plays the flanderring husband, he is a native of havertown being on screen for murder, he is a producer and director for "scandal" he is the triple threat for thursday night tv and he sat down with alicia vitarelli and showed how he gets it all done in a days work, they also tweet with viewers on thursday night and he says that is a special key to their success. >> at home, any person on a thursday night tweeting with kerry washington. >> it is you wrote a letter and hoped you got a signed autograph picture back, it's incredible the access you can have. >> can you see the interview on "action news" at 11:00 following the two hour season finale on "how to get away with murder" join in on the fun on twitter, the stars tweet and tom will be tweeting and viola davis are tweeting live, use the #~ 6 abc and #~ how to get away wa murder. i know grandma's house isn't the most exciting, but it's only for a few hours. look what i've got. when you get verizon fios, you get beautiful hd picture quality, super fast internet, and america's most reliable ne

. >>> havertown native, joseph clancy is named the head of the secret service, clancy was named the interim director in october after several high-profile security breaches. he served on the secret service for 20 years and a graduate of villanova university, clancy retired in 2011 for a job at comcast, some lawmakers spoke out against the decision, after they said the president should hire a director from outside of the agency. >>> police in atlantic city paid tribute to one of their own today. >> the department honored officer kevin wilkins on the first anniversary of his death, it's intersection at baltimore and north carolina after news was renamed wilkins way, he was killed in an accidental shooting in 2010. >>> now jaime apody is live in the "action news" sports center with more on the phillies. >> i'm great and the day has come and the sunshine and the palm trees and phillies catchers and pitchers have arrived in clearwater florida. jeff, is that a jacket? where is the tank top. you have 25 degrees on us that is it? 25 degrees. >> i need mittens and maybe a scarf, only in the 50s here

. >>> it was looking a bit like the french quarter in havertown today. ♪♪ ♪♪ traditional folk music and some of them wore masks and showed off their beads and mardi gras day was organized by the teachers including jill dennis the wife of matt dennis our executive producer here at 4:00. >> still ahead from eye shadow to foundation, alicia puts drug store and designer makeup products to the test, and a new hollywood mom is laying down the law don't touch my baby unless you have done this. details of kristin bell's ultimatum coming up. >>> and this video was not a fluke it was biden being biden. >> sounds like a hashtag. >> and adam joseph has the full accuweather forecast. >>> a california man's attempt to get out of jail left him with to black eyes. he claimed that police beat him up after he was charged on sex abuse charges. and then when they checked the video, they saw him punch himself repeatedly in the face. and he is now charged with filing a false report and coercion. >>> a duo from suburban washington is being called a pair of crime fighters after the take down of an intruder. jo

. >> the havertown native is a thursday night triple threat this is our white house floorplans directing and producing "scandal" by day and starring in murder by nitd. >> the days get quite full. >> i bet. >> he get its done because both shows share the same lot. >> this floor is "scandal" and below us is "how to get away with murder" and the sound stages are right across from one another. >> but sometimes multitasking means showing up for "scandal" meeting in his murder makeup. >> people come up and say do you feel okay, you look a little peeked. >> while he is a powerhouse, he has been acting since his younger days growing up in delaware county. >> to be able to flex my acting muscles again is terrific and the fact that the show takes place in philadelphia makes me proud. >> and he still roots for the home team. >> i'm a die hard flyers fans, eagles sixers and phillies all of them. this is my home town. >> coming up on "action news" at 11:00, find out which philadelphia sports team came to visit verica on the set. this is after the two hour season finale of "how to get away with murder

nbc10 in havertown as they brave the bitter conditions to get the job done. especially earlier today, it was cold. it was down to 3 degrees in allentown. zero in the poconos. it will not be anywhere near that tonight. clouds keeping the temperature up. a southwest wind bringing in warmer air. that's keeping the temperatures up too. that's also going to help warm up the weekend. we're tracking some rain and a wintry mix but not during the daytime hours of this weekend. looks like it's going to be dry. and it's dry right now. we have a mix of sun and clouds. it's 32 degrees. the wind out of the southwest at 14. we're not seeing the wind gusts. it feels like it's 22. it's 3 degrees warmer than it was at this time yesterday. we're 27 in allentown. 29 in pottstown. other areas, at least 30 degrees. some places above the freezing mark. and that's quite a jump compared to what we saw earlier this morning. you can see the wind direction coming out of the southwest. not many wind gusts any more. a couple spots near 20 miles an hour. so, it's not that windy. the wind i

no problems up and down 476 for the gang leaving villanova headed through havertown, down toward theport, in good shape. east on the schuylkill, again starting to see some delays, and as we just showed you the sun's popping up. so sun glare coming up around the conshohocken curve any minute. today is the day to fly between today and tomorrow specially with the storm on the way tomorrow. but no delays at philadelphia international airport this morning. looking good but a water main break in upper dublin along valley road near garden road. so traffic through at least the morning rush hour diverted to twining road. mass transit looking good. mike alex, back to you. >> sorry, bob, just talking to -- never mind. pretty scary morning for this cup nel south korea the grounds opened up under their feet. they got off the bus felt a sinkhole in the sidewalk. >> my god. >> two, 39 story buildings are going upright next-door. officials think that's what trying third collapse. firefighters got these two out and only have minor injuries, even though, wow that look like big fall there. >> oh, yes t

clancy from havertown has plenty of experience. almost 30 years with the secret service.resident obama gave the job to clancy after a series of security breaches at the white house cost julia pearson her job. a white house spokesman says clancy already intemented new security merchandise and he stepped up during a difficult time for the agency. >>> tonight two armed men are on the run after robbing a grocery store in philadelphia's east germantown neighborhood. this is surveillance video from inside the grocery store on eastwoodlawn street last thursday. one of the men held up the cashier while the second suspect held up a customer and an employee. they got away with about $350 and a cell phone. >>> it is now easier than ever to get in touch with philadelphia city officials thanks to a new and improved philly 311 system. they beefed up that system. now you can report problems and get information -- any city information by dialing 311 on your phone or downloading the philly 311 mobile app. there's a new neighborhood community portal which lets you connect with your neighbo

moving toward the the city we have 37 degrees thanks to paul boy inner havertown and reporting clearkies just a few clouds here and there. no big deal. 39 degrees just across the river allie temple in merchantville, new jersey. she has a comment. the partly cloudy skies, light wind and beautiful sunset. thebe been today. look at the pictures she sent us from merchantville showing that sunset in action. thanks to allie and all of our eyewitness weather watchers. lets look at what else we have going on outside. because full sunset shot taking a look at skies cam three from the ben franklin bridge or campbell's field from ben franklin field. just a few cloud outside. it is a gorgeous evening. all across the board. but change is in the air, and unfortunate thely it will be a cold change. a as brutal wind from the north and west blast in starting as early as tomorrow afternoon. you can see this clipper moving through great lakes. not a whole lot with it right now but light snow showers and maybe even rain showers will get in here tomorrow afternoon. but in the could be worse file a friend

we start things off going hyper local. 29 degrees kevin wilson last 15 minutes havertown very modestng every ice out there. that's what you got to worry about, folks. precipitation is light even if it is not actually precipitating on you at any given moment it, may already have, and frozen over since then. we take you little further off to the east here, talking 30 degrees there is one meant from sharon conally in gloucester township, just got some clouds for now modest breeze, there as well, but also even though it is just clouds got a thin coating of ice. she lovers snow, but hates ice. you got something there. you can understand what i am talking about, generally the snow off to the north so more than anything, it started with rain, could have frozen over or is currently coming down as freezing rain. but, as we go through the day there is will be a problem any time, into late tonight now, all gone tomorrow thank goodness, winter weather advisories go out of effect come thursday, new round of light snow showers comes in, and then the arctic chill comes in its wake. ninety-five, we

traffic cam out in delaware county on the blue route upper darby havertown exit, no delays or problems on the blue route this morning moving mightily and fine, heard carol's forecast time to get out and do the errands whatever do you sunday morning if it is church or visiting, whatever it is, now is the time before the roadways get slick later on today. we will move the traffic cam again, this is i-95, between allegheny and girard, look at the construction set up in both directions here, so far no delays, but as volume increases there will be delays today on i95 both directions, between allegheny and the vine street expressway. on to the walt whitman bridge mid-span again just nice picture that far even on a cloudy day. the walt whitman bridge along with the other area bridges are all in good shape. no icy patches this morning. no speed reductions on the area bridges. they're good to go. further up, 42, 55, the a.c. expressway, garden state parkway, 676 admiral wilson boulevard, all are in fine shape. we move the traffic cam again to the schuylkill expressway. this is the schuylkill at