this evening and things are not moving so well, just north of the walt whitman bridge to point at tasker and girard. the good news is the tanker truck accident is gone but the delay is not the jam spilled back on to the vine street expressway in both directions eastbound the length from the ben franklin parkway out to 76. we are watching a bunch of suburban accidents one along jared avenue and one near 113 and one near burgee road and in cinnamon son tomlinson road and one near the ford dealership and a collection of them in pottstown some on high street and oak street and the ramp from 223 westbound. lots of things to steer around this evening. >> thank you matt. >>> still ahead on "action news" a pennsylvania middle school is under fire after several students got their hand on a racy crossword puzzle. >> and rick by the end of the week windchills are 5 below in philadelphia on friday morning, but that is balmy compared to the second half of the weekend we'll talk about the big drop in temperatures. >>> wednesday's prime time lineup is about row mansionmanceromance. (vo) at jennie-o, we

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due to the tasker fire that happened yesterday afternoon. route 90 eastbound at route 130 on and off ramps closed. take union avenue and be diverted in that direction. a water main break on the schuylkill eastbound. on ramp blocked from penrose avenue. additionally look at speeds here, nothing going on. 95 to vine to north haven a clear trip, 422 no problems 202 to oaks if you head westbound. eric a. back to you. >> commuters who drive to pen sawk republican waiting for a ramp to open after yesterday's tanker fire. neighbors are worried about gasoline fumes the tanker over turned eastbound route 90 to northbound route 130 11:00 yesterday morning. aft explosion people could see smoke for miles. authorities evacuated about 30 homes near the scene. firefighters skivrping wished those flames in a half hour. >> when i looked out the window only things i saw was tires way up in the air on fire and they were coming to my yard. >> now, the driver and firefighter did stop for minor injuries. the company that opens the truck is tk transport incorporat

he shovels snow as a professional tasker for task rabbit. >> i've done about -- i don't know how many hours, probably around a hundred hours worth of shoveling and other tasks in the last three to four weeks. >> reporter: and as costs mount as winter marches on, many analysts say we actually may be in better shape than we were last year. that was when, lester, you may recall the polar vortex settled in over a much larger portion of the nation. and that wound up costing the economy some $15 billion. lester. >> kevin tibbles in chicago tonight. thanks. in most cities across the eastern half of the country 42 degrees would be a dream right now, but this morning was downright frigid for folks used to the heat in miami. al roker is in miami beach with a look at what all of us can expect as we head into the weekend. al, what's the word? >> reporter: lester, good evening. here in florida, southern florida, miami, temperatures got up into the low 60s. elsewhere around the state 40s and 50s. but overnight lows dropped well below freezing. that gave a lot of concern to citrus growers and will a

alternate here, is to use 73, and if you're traveling in the northeast, we have water main break at tasker and rhawn. there are lane restrictions. you can maneuver around it, however, bustleton avenue or sally would be your best bet. traveling amtrak, running on modified schedule because of the temperatures, erika? >> vittoria, thank you. these frigid temperatures are being blamed for eight weather-related deaths since the new year. two of them have been reported just in the last 48 hours. they were in montgomery, lehigh, and berks counties, and all of the victims were over 60. "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabeo joins us now in blackwood, camden county with more on how people are managing this dangerous cold as katie was saying, 3 degrees now, but yes the windchill it is absolutely freezing out there, jan good morning. >>> erika, good morning frigid is the right word. hovering right around 3 degrees, here in blackwood new jersey, this morning. i tell you, i do not envy all of the people that have to work outdoors, like the gas attendance here at the wawa, people have been running insid

they defined greater center city as girard to tasker river to river. homes sold for more money and faster then before. while rental rates also rose. influx of 15,000 people to center city in 2013 hell helped fuel this demand. millennials make up just under half of the population in the core of the city, pine to vine, and is there a big contention of empty nesters moving there. however, the report warns of a problem. a drop in both the 35 to 44 year-old demographic and school aged children. the center city groups are calling on politician toss improve the city's public schools or face a reversal of the cities population gains. >>> still to come on "action news" tonight, the one thing you can start to eat tomorrow that researchers say will help you lose weight. >>> plus that sinking feeling of a plow end up in a precarious spot in new jersey, and seeing red, there is fierce competition for one way ticket to mars. >>> group of men from southwest philadelphia got their shovels out to dig out for seniors and disabled who cannot do the job themselves. i'm no

are minding these delays it's been a rough afternoon rick and monica, we are still locked up from tasker from penn's landing the whole way up to cotman and still a crash from the betsy ross bridge however we are at 35 minutes on the northbound travel time and we started it was over 50 we are making progress but still not so great. here in delco this is 452, can you see the ambulance there and the police officer, we have a crash here under the overpass to watch out for and traffic is squeezing by southbound as you can see. watch for a crash of a vehicle into a building in quakertown along 309 close to 663 and in hatfield a crash near 309 near broad street and another accident in springfield township xpeblt delays at julius town road and in delaware a wreck at philadelphia pike. and in elsmere, don't forget they found the structural deficiencies at the bridge that is closed indefinitely. >> thank you matt. more to come on "action news" wednesday night organizers of the firefly musikfestc festival in delaware answer the question who is the big headliner of this year's event. >> monica, we a

i-95 looking good looking live at south philadelphia in problems at the tasker blue route, 476, near bryn mawr avenue picking it up a notch. folks heading to the airport good to go. it is on and off ramps that you want to look out for. wind kicking up, a construction sign blew into 422 here, at troop are road. if you are leaving that lawyers for or collegeville area, just be aware of the penndot crews going to try to put sandbags on top of that sign there. new jersey transit, they are cross honoring and they are running with 15 or 20 minutes across the board because of the cold weather today. here's an update the from septa because of the police situation atwood land as we heard from steve a few moments ago, septa uses shuttle buses instead of the route 11 trolley. they were using trolleys on elmwood. they change up that. they are using shuttle buses between island and wood land and forty-ninth and wood land. you don't to have walk over to elmwood to get the the route 11 buses will pick you up and travel up an down wood land. as you are traveling on any major roadways you are good to

this is actually our cameras though at tasker and read and these are north bound lanes of i-95 a approaching that accident scene you can see quite a bit of delay. earlier today we had an accident there involving a vehicle and tanker truck a additionally it is still coming from that truck. so clean up and crews they have just cleaned out of the way perhaps five minutes ago but you can see the delay from that scene for the time being. give yourself extra time, this schuylkill expressway also dealing with eastbound delays right around montgomery and headed towards the westbound lanes as of of right now. we have a few accidents, one in quakertown and route 309 at west end boulevard from bauersville road, and another one, west pottsgrove at high street at groves town road, jessica and chris back to you. >>> still ahead new street signs targeting facebookers. >>> what should happen with the statue of joe paterno at penn state? it is a story that has a lot of people talking tonight? we will bring you results of the the new pole beasley. >>> phillies report to spring training next week so i sat down

. >> i have had -- >> information around scale, how many officers are taskerred through the retreat annuallyand information about the evaluation process and how you're able to evaluate the impact of the program from the officers who use it. >> we lost two officers on traffic stop in 2010 were shot and killed, and i had a conversation with one of our employs chaplains, sister an daughter particulars about how i felt that we didn't do enough -- i couldn't do enough for our officers to deal with the trauma that they are exposed to on a daily basis. and she was able to go out to another state that had a type of a first responders retreat and brought it back to tampa. she heads the francisan center in tampa and the officers go there for a week inhouse, and they have to probably most traumatic portion is they give up their cell phones when they walk into the retreat. but it is -- one of the downsides is each group, each week is only six to eight officers that can go through it. and they have a series of group sessions where they get to talk about a traumatic experience that have followed them thro