. >> reporter: good afternoon sharrie. at today's hearings lawyers from both sides sparred with each other over who will be allowed to testify at the retrial next month and making allegations of bad faith by the lawyers on both sides of the celebrated case and the main argument who will be allowed to testify at next month's retrial of bill cosby. bill cosby returned to the norristown courthouse for a new round of pretrial hearings on the drugging and sexual assault charges against him. lodged by former temple university employee andrea constand who says the now disgraced show biz legend drugged her with blue pills and then sexually assaulted her at his cheltenham mansion back in 04, the first trial ended with a hung jury. cosby's new defense team has signaled their aggressive strategy at today's hearing they moved to have the charges dismissed on grounds the statute of limitations has passed. constand as testified that assault occurred in january of 04 but cosby's lawyers say they'll produce phone records showing she made

hi, annie. >> reporter: hi, sharrie. crews just wrapped up for the day.entire day in the backyard of this home behind me where a new sinkhole did pop up. the state senator for this area says he's going to try to get an emergency stop order until they try to figure out exactly what happened. chopper6 hd over a new sinkhole that appeared in the 400 block of drive on sain thhome. neighbors say the residents insitoew doors down, a sinkhoe, now the size of a swimming pool, is in tj allen's backyard. the ground began opening here in november. what is your biggest concern right now. >> that my house is going to fall into the ground. this west whiteland township neighborhood is part of the sunoco pipeline project. one pipeline is active the other under construction. that line will carry propane and butane. >> while they were doing this 24 hour dig they created a second sinkhole right next to my existing sinkhole. we didn't know it until the next day. it also created a sinkhole up here. >> reporter: allen feels there is little transparency on the project. sunoco s

for sharrie williams and alicia vitarelli and adam joseph i'm brian taff. join me along with sharrie tonight and every night for an hour of "action news" at 10:00 on ph almost 17. >>> "action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with jaime apody, meteorologist, cecily tynan, and rick williams and monica malpass. >>> tuesday night and the big story on "action news" an ac warren alert as we continue to monitor another nor'easter headed our way. city and state agencies are already making the necessary moves to be in place when the storm hits. >> pennsylvania and new jersey declared states of emergency. we see a mixture of rain and heavy wet snow and wind starting tonight and all day tomorrow. because of the expected conditions, all philadelphia public and parochial schools are closed tomorrow. we are also running additional school closings on the bottom of your screen and online at 6abc.com. >>> of course the timing of the storm could not be worse. power crews are still trying to restore service to tens of thousands of customers in delaware and montgo

embark on the first commute of march and that is being dashed by the weather conditions brian and sharrie. you know how wet commutes usually go. not so well. going slowly on the schuylkill expressway you see a couple of drops on the camera lens by the conshohocken curve and the roadway is starting to get damp and not too wet. eastbound the brake lights lighting up toward belmont and a disabled vehicle is now gone and the westbound side is normal volume but still 7 miles per hour as you travel westbound by city avenue. speeds are beginning to slow on 95, 28 miles per hour on the southbound side by allegheny avenue. and a broken down vehicle in camden 676 southbound. that is cleared out of the way as is a broken down truck on the pennsylvania turnpike. and bellefonte, delaware look for a crash on marsh road. and galloway township, we are watching a vehicle fire westbound lanes of the white horse pike is blocked. you can use the ac expressway instead. lets check the waze app back to delaware near stanton a crash near stanton christiana road near ogle town stanton road. we'll check it again i

and "action news" continues at 10:00 on phl 17 with brian taff, sharrie williams and ducis rogers.ase join us for "action news" at 11:00 here on channel 6. for the entire "action news" team i'm jim gardner we hope you'll join us at 11:00. >>> tonight, the nor'easter hitting in just hours. slamming the east coast, up to two feet of snow expected in some places. schools in philadelphia already closed. bracing from philly to new york city to boston tonight. nearly 200,000 without power, without heat already because of the last storm, and now this. >>> also breaking at this hour yet another major departure at the white house tonight. just as the president declares everyone wants to work in the white house. >>> and the emergency evacuations tonight. the train slamming into a truck hauling hydrochloric acid. a dangerous chemical cloud above the crash site. families rushed to safety. >>> former dr. larry nassar. first, more than 260 women coming forward. now, the first male gymnast breaking his silence. what he says the doctor did to him. >>> was

"action news" continues at 10:00 on phl17 with brian taff, sharrie williams adam joseph and ducis rodgersse join us for "action news" at 11:00 here on channel6. for cecily tynan, ducis rodgers and the entire "action news" team, i'm jim gardner. we hope you'll join us for "action news" at 11:00. >> ♪ >>> tonight, the former trump campaign adviser going rogue. testify before the grand jury in the russia inveig cooperate with robert mueller. going on live tv today, but then making bold suggestions about then-candidate donald trump, about what he allegedly knew and when. tonight, the white house responding. >>> also tonight, another nor'easter. bracing for round two at this hour, set to slam into much of the east coast after the deadly storm already left hundreds of thousands without power. many still without power, without heat tonight. and now, this nor'easter set to hit again. >>> the images just in tonight, the domestic figlight, the passenger who allegedly tried to open the aircraft door in mid flight. what they had to do. >>> the middle schoolteacher removed from class, accused of leadi

i'm sharrie williams join me along with brian and ducis rogers tonight and every night for a full hour of "action news" at 10:00 on phl 17. "action news" at 5:00 coming up next. >>> "action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with jaime apody, meteorologist, cecily tynan, rick williams and monica malpass. >>> it didn't look like much this morning but that all changed as the hours passed. as accuweather predicted the latest march nor'easter brought the heavy wet snow and treacherous driving conditions to the region. >> here is a look at center city philadelphia and cape may new jersey, right now where you live determined what type of precipitation you had. and how much you got today. folks at the shore mostly got a wintry mix and most of our regions to the north got socked with snow. and continuing coverage of the march nor'easter and the precipitation started to fall late last night and the roads are covered in snow. >> barely passable in regions. and folks are asked to stay home if they don't have to go out. >> and little by little was the way to tackle this heavy snow. all

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good afternoon once again brian and sharrie.ow you this because i've never seen a travel time this high on the schuylkill expressway. 16 minutes, two hours 40 minutes. that should be about 15 minutes to come westbound and that's even a little bit misleading because up ahead around gladwyne you're not getting through at all. that's where that tree came down across the westbound lanes of the schuylkill. so, this is the scene at belmont avenue, the exit for man young and some people exiting here going across the green lane bridge.just parked. these people have been parked here for a long time this afternoon. and what's happening is because people can't use the westboundhu thinking well where can i go instead? all o secondary routes that are alare jammed as well. river drives, henry avenue, ridge avenue, route 23, all a mess. let's check out city avenue. check out all the red along city avenue. people are absolutely parked here waiting for the traffic light by 23 conshohocken avenue but these northbound drivers trying to get up towa