the back bays in ventnor city is an icy scene. and they are looking at the probability of 4 to 7 inches of snow by the time it's over and the snow totals lessen the further inland you go. and storm warning for cape may ocean coinses at 9:00 tonight. and the city officials say they hope for the best and prepare for the worst. >> a nuisance storm to us really hope it doesn't get better and goes east more and we don't get nothing. but we are hoping. >> the concern is the wicked cold and strong winds expected to accompany the storm. reporting from ventnor, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. with snow coming for parts of the area during tomorrow morning's commute. "action news" is starting early we are tracking the snowfallt 4:00 a.m. >> a section of route 70 in cherry hill was shut down as crews dealt with a break overnight, and they brought in heavy equipment to deal with the problem and that work continues right now. >> crews are working to repair a 30 inch water main break in west conshohocken yesterday and several towns were i

let's bring you back out here live as you see ventnor right now the ice covered bay. storm surge with those high winds and a near full moon high tide here in ventnor tomorrow at 9:00 o'clock in the morning again at 9:00 o'clock at night so that storm surge anything of that flooding nature in some of these streets most likely will be frozen. we'll bring you back here at 6:00 o'clock as cape may county and the rest of new jersey prepares for what could be a blizzard starting tonight. back to you, lucy. >> we'll check back in. thank you chris. meanwhile in pennsylvania, penndot crews are working very hard to make sure the roads are ready for the snow. skyfox over penndot truck heading toward norristown treating route 202 near the king of prussia mall this morning. penndot says it has about three hu50 trucks on hand ready to go. >> the timing of the storm is certainly a concern for us, it is expected to start as early as i said midnight or early hours of tomorrow morning, um, and continue on through the am rush hour which could pose a bit of a challenge for us. >> penndot

we've been out here on the bay in ventnor. take look behind me. i know it's very dark out here but there's a stunning site. something you don't see very often, and that is, a frozen back bay. in the distance you see atlantic city. but boaters take a look at video down here. some say in parts of the bay ice was more than 6-inches thick. this is something that does not happen very often, and that is on top of it a blizzard coming. forecasted to stay -- start sometime late tonight. take a look at the delaware bay. this near the mouth of the cape may canal near the cape may lewes ferry. that cape may lewes ferry has been suspended tonight, and through tomorrow because of the ice and the storm conditions tomorrow. now, concern for emergency managers here in cape may county, what could be 50-mile an hour tropical storm force winds. >> because we're going to -- they're expecting high winds that means a lot of drifting snow and that it's going freeze over, and the fact that we're going to go from like the mid 20s to night to sometime -- somewhere around 1

atlantic city schools are closed today and margate and ventnor are or delays.or more at 6abc.com in philadelphia, juniata park academy is closed today. frozen pipes are impacting the heating system. school staff are expected to report to the local school instead. >> firefighters had to pull three civilians from the water christiana river. firefighters crawled on the ice and reunited the dog with his owner. the lieutenant explained why it was a difficult mission. >> you ever the hazards of ice slipping and the hazard of being cold and wet and a person approaching them, it's an extremely difficult rescue. >> the three people who were rescued refused treatment. the dog appears doing well. >> he'll like a treat and be all good. >> reporter: he'll be back on the ice tomorrow. >> he better not. speaking of ice we'll be getting that tonight. >> reporter: speaking of the morning commute, sky6 live hd showing you the pretty picture on the river, there's ice on the river. it's cold out in and breezy, later today we get the wintry mix. 19 degrees in philadelphia. wind 9 m

, ventnor height is what the locals call it here, and you can see, the bay front is shutdown by ice. we are looking across the ice, and there is harrah's marina and the borgota, the atlantic city skyline, very calm winds here. we are expecting a lot worse, 24 hours from now, maybe even less, and to the right here, everybody knows, the acme, this acme has been busy, they're shutdown until 6:00 to stock up from the run they had last night. and then the video here, at the acme, that everybody knows near the bay in ocean city. here is what chris o'connell and his crew found last night, people buying all of those pre-snowstorm frenzy essentials, like just taking everything, but firewood, batteries were big sellers, because people always fear losing power, because they had those storms not too long ago, when everybody a as' memory, they didn't have power for seven days in places like wildwood. that was the worse of it. everybody can dig out after half a foot of snow, but it is when the winds start knocking down the power lines down here, and you don't have any power on your house, you can'

ventnor and margate schools are on a two hour delay. you can check in at 6abc.com, check in this afternoon for the early dismissal due to t impending wintry>>> frozen pipd juniata park school. burst pipes are causing problems across the area during the extended deep freeze, jeanette reyes is live along cobbs creek section. >> reporter: good morning, tam, the water department cannot catch a have multiple water main breaks throughout the city. i'm trying to not to slip here because the entire road is iced over. this car is a problem for an elderly woman. if you look at the tires, the tires are glued down to the asphalt in several inches of ice along the 5800 block of hazel street. that water main was gushing throughout the street here. the ice formed and iced her car down, so she is not able to move the car. she is not sure how she'll be able to do that. this is one of five water main breaks across the city. north philadelphia, logan section, cobbs creek. the water department is trying to catch up. i know we've been talking about the warm

but, we showed you the frozen bay, in atlantic city and ventnor. as we move south, where the bay is more moving, you can see, a full moon reflection in the bay, and the moon is above. and they're really pulling the tide. but you can see, how it is icy. now, i have this to demonstrate how it is not solid like it was, jared, show them this, you watch this slush, watch it it doesn't just bounce off, just slushy and breaks up. you can see, not completely solid here yet. because the water is moving, and now, when we show these lights on this side of the pier, those lights out there on the bay front, you can see the water in the foreground, really moving down here, so, the tide is being pulled, and it is not as frozen as we move south. but i'm sure, i know down in cape may, where chris o'connell showed the lewes ferry it, looks like the cape may fer is he going through antartica here, but very, very cold here, but not very, very windy yet. and the wind, probably, more feared by the people who live here year around, than the coming half foot of snow. and

. >> reporter: like at jay ball's boat in ventnor frozen in 6-inches of ice. he's worried about storm surge and coastal flooding. >> ventnor and margate are notorious for flooding. >> reporter: what's this going to look like tomorrow. >> look like winter wonderland like lambeau field. >> reporter: and now is just the beginning. we can tell you that schools in atlantic county and cape may county many of them are closed tomorrow. the atlantic city airport already shut down operations most likely will be closed through tomorrow as well. as the flakes start to fly it looks like it's going to be a long couple of days or nights down here at the shore. lucy? >> all right, thank you very much, chris o'connell. >>> looking live further down the shore in cape maim the coast could get battered by tropical storm force winds. further inland we are expecting snow, too, and wind just not quite as severe. fox 29's shawnette wilson has been out and about talking with people who are stocking up life now in bala cynwyd. all right, shawnette. >> reporter: lucy, i had to take look

. >>> lets go live to "eyewitness news" reporter alycia nieves down the shore in ventnor where sheer amount of snow is challenging road crews there, alycia. >> reporter: well, that is kind of snowfall that has road crewness this area trying to figure out where to put the snow. mostly moving it into mounds like this but in the gusty winds over here they are blowing that right back in the roadway and it really is a challenge to keep roadways clear out here. that is why so many towns around the shore have all their crew is still out and about. the jersey shore, looking far from the sunny summer retreat is known to be. you can easily confuse this bay near margate city for arctic terrain. parts of the water are solid blocks of ice with boats, froze men place. >> i got one of them. >> reporter: margate resident scott morgan not a fan of the bitter blast of cold weather recently and certainly not a fan of the snow that fell here , yesterday. >> the news i thought was going to over hype this but you were on point so i was mad at you at one point. >> reporter: as predict the storm slammed man

mother nature had no mercy for th this mail carrier in ventnor. >>> if you're going to be outside you need to be covered. there's some skiers in camelback tonight where it's only 4 right now. >> a little bit warmer for skaters at penn's landing. they're taking on the cold weather at the river rink where it's 15 degrees out there. i hope they have really warm gear on. first alert meteorologist steve sosna is talking subzero temperatures. >> this is the third and final punch of this. then we'll finally start to get next week. this next 48 hours is the challenge. if you know anybody who has a medical condition, that may be vulnerable to the cold, check in on them. give them a phone call. see how they're doing. this is serious cold. especially if you lose heat in your building you're in real trouble. pipes are vulnerable in this weather as well. we have to deal with this through 8:00 on sunday morning. the dangerous part of this will start to relax just a bit. monday we're looking at a messy mixture. this is our next system on our radar that we will be watching here throughout the weekend

atlantic city city schools are closed while margate and ventnor city schools are opening two hours late. several schools are dismissing early because of a threat of wintry mix this afternoon. you can find a complete list of school closings or delays at 6abc.com. >>> juniata park academy on hunting park avenue is closed because frozen pipes have impacted heating system they have canceled classes andfter school activities. >>> let's go back to something karen mentioned. this is new this morning -- actually we're talking about fire that's breaking now where one person was injured in a fire inside a home in west philadelphia. the fire starting after 3:30 a.m. on the 800 block of north holly street. firefighters found heavy smoke on the first and second floors of the rowhouse. one person was found on the first floor and rushed to the hospital. it took 20 minutes to get the fire under control. we're asking questions about how the fire started. >>> also new this morning, firefighters getting control of another fire that damaged a home in west philadelphia. there were flames coming from the fir

ventnor and margate are on a two hour delay. go to 6abc.com and check back in later this afternoon there might be information coming in about early dismissals because of the impending wintry mix. >>> juniata park academy is closed frozen pipes are closing the school. report to capita park school instead. >>> crews were called to the brandywine river in wilmington, they had to pull three civilians from the water in their attempts to save the dog efforts failed. firefighters crawled on the ice and reunited the dog with the owner. the lieutenant from the wilmington firefighter explained why this was a difficult situation. >> just the hazards of being cold and wet and not knowing where they are at and unknown person approaching them. >> three person refused treatment and the dog is okay, as well. >> a teenager is recovering from a graze wound suffered in the city of chester. police were called to the 1100 block of white street. the 14-year-old suffered an injury to his right foot. he felt the bullet hit him as someone was driving by

this is a look at the various -- we're going to the next sky6 live hd right now and show you this is ventnordown by the jersey shore reminding you that we're seeing different things across the region. the shore expected to get the most snow. you can see compared to other parts of the region, they have quite a bit of accumulation, we'll be right back. excuse me everyone! paul? paul? this is three million dollar mega multiplier the new game ylvania lottery with top prizes of three million dollars! three million dollars! i don't know. i'm so excited about it. this could be a big winner! just had to share. carry on. sometimes the moments be

. >> and that is not to say that ventnor is not preparing for the worse. >> and we were there when officials deployed their own city owns rescue transport vehicles. >> we transport people from the snow wherever they have to go and help out the city. hopefully we don't get much snow but you never know. >> so once again a blizzard warning being posted for much of the jersey shore along way coastal flood advisory. reporting live from margate, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you walter. >>> elsewhere in knowledge, it's all hands on deck at the salt yard in cherry hill. crews make last min repairs to plow trucks and this yard houses 1500 tons of salt and they were expecting a delivery of 500 additional tons today. >> what about philadelphia? "action news" reporter christie aleto is live at the streets department yard in hunting park. what is the situation there tonight? >> well jim, the city is hoping for the best but bracing for the worse. they have over 30,000 tons of salt ready to hit the streets in preparation of the overnight storm. the biggest challenge is mother natu nature's unpredictab

traditional polar plunge, expect the water temperature to be in the mid 40's, has forced ocean sent i and ventnoro cancel their plunges, margate delaying it until next sunday, and brigantine until january 13, if you are headed taught ac today, good luck. >> people out west getting ready for another new years tradition, rose parade, we take you to california where the preparations are underway. we will be right back. my healthy routine helps me feel my best. so i add activia yogurt to my day. with its billions of live and active probiotics, activia may help support my digestive health, so i can take on my day. activia. now in probiotic dailies. here's your receipt. have a nice day! thank you. ♪ ♪ start the car! start the car! start the car! start the car! the ikea winter sale. wooooooo! get up to 50% off select items. now through january 10th. ikea. >> 4:50, time for check on business news, here is this morning's money watch report. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> most americans ring in the new year with a day off. and january 1st is also cents a holiday on wall street. financial markets are closed. on friday, the l

reporting live from ventnor alycia nieves for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> now clearing snow, ice from the streets of the big city like philadelphia is no easy feat. streets department says it gets the job done. "eyewitness news" reporter greg air ghost checks the cities progress on the clean up and joins us from northern liberties with the update, greg, good evening. >> reporter: ukee, good evening to you. this is a massive operation, multi day operation for city streets department and basically primary road, even secondary won like this one right here. this is second street in northern liberties. they look good. they are cleared, they are plowed, salted, it is side streets, residential streets like this one that are more of an issue, just very icy, in the plowed just yet, but city says if you live on a side street simply pick up the phone and call 311. loaded up, and back on the road. >> we have approximately 200, 220 pieces out on the street. >> reporter: those plows saddled with hundreds of pound s of salt are back on the 2500 miles of city streets, the second full day, of snow rem

forecaster expect the weather temperature to be in the mid 40's, that has forced ocean city and ventnor to cans em their plunges, margate is delaying it win to next sunday in sun row sunday and we do have other more serious news to bring this morning, man is behind bars after police say he stabbed two women to death and sent another to the hospital in collingswood. officer rushed to the 100 block every east narberth terrace, around 5:00 saturday night. neighbors called 911 when they heard screaming. police pronounced 48 year old colleen and 41 year old alicia dead at the scene. medics rushed third victim who has not yet been identified to the hospital. forty-four year old mark lysak arrested at the home now facing charges for murder and attempted murder. officials say did he know his victims. at this point it is unclear how he knew his victims. >> well, this morning, new details are emerge being deadly shooting at colorado apartment complex. that left one sheriff deputy dead six other injured. correspondent kim hutchinson has the very latest now. >> a community in mourning, after a dead

. >> reporter: ventnor and margate are notorious for flooding what is this going to look like tomorrow. >> it's going look like a wint wonderland. looking like lambeau feel. >> reporter: as we bringing back out here live, there's a little bit of the winter wonderland some people out on the boardwalk making their way outside the casinos and having a little fun on the boardwalk. now emergency managers say the plows the salt trucks, they are already out on area roads in atlantic and cape may counties. we can also tell you many schools in atlantic, burlington, cape may counties are also closed. also want to make clarification. the atlantic city airport i said last hour it was closed. it is not closed. but many flights tonight have been canceled. it is open tomorrow but check with your airlines and flights either way, it's going to be a messy day anywhere you are tomorrow. iain? >> you said it chris. all right. thank you. >>> philadelphia water department crews were hard at work today tearing up the streets to fix a bunch of water main breaks that happened when those temperatures dipped the

recovery began to attack not currency sabotage of all industry electrical industry permanent effort ventnor stabilization recovery of the old price and the sanction signed by the government of donald trump the former crude located at the noble workers' country of venezuela. the reuters news agency says it's seeing documents showing that pakistan is planning to seize control of charities and assets linked to hafiz saeed a man does ignited a terrorist by many countries co-founded the group lashkar e tayyiba which the u.s. and india blame for the two thousand and eight mumbai attacks that killed one hundred sixty six people he denies any involvement last year a pakistani court found there wasn't enough evidence to convict him. pakistan's government is increasing fuel prices blaming the state of the international markets it's a move that's expected to particularly affect the poor and us camel hide away poor say could lead to bigger problems for the country's economy. the people are too large are already calling it a new game from the government of pakistan to its people and it's making headline

those who a their shovels today are battling blowing snow digging out in ventnor biting cold. >> the breeze keeps blowing all the snow back over where we just >> i did all this yesterday and my front d again. there's nowhere in eporter: the jerse would more thanith more than a foot of snow. some drifts are several feet high. flying snow and slick streets making mail delivery agarrison. wh you're dealing with? >> the ice underneath the snow. >> reporter: in atlantic city a clear out justonecar. >> myfreezing some ofk towards the car. it's the effort. multiple effort. >> reporter: this water main break on albany avenue, one of a dozencity. an unprecedentedday. r hazard. >> we're seeing additional streets shut down. >> reporter: and that water is freezing adding more ice to streets that are already in rough shape.ur bc 10 news. in t own is not possible. a group calledd christian came to help in southwest philadelphia. they helped elderly and disabled homeowners dig out their sidewalks and cars. they do it all forfree. >> it's gratifying just to the notion to be an angel on earth for sen

grabbing up e food in case they have to spend most of thursday, of the bitter coldeley we sent e went to ventnormargate, somers point, he hopped over ocean cit camera the full time, and now, on the shor they say, in sea isle city. hi, steve. >> good times beautiful sunrise. how about that, sue serio? does any prettier than that? so here we are, in january, the only peopleeach, and i'm overjoyed. of course i never get to come here. of the jet skiing, go to all of the cook out, so clear, if you looke're all the way here in cape may county. now, i used to live in ocean inc city, that was cents 30 minute drive. so we'rerobably 15 minute drive from atlantic city but so clear along the coa monster u can see, the atlantic city casinos from here. that is. so, super calm. the sand is rock hard. the beach come plealy frozen, showing you the frozen bay, if there, look like that is solid, too so the beach snow covered. so it will lock like white sand tomorrow. but that sky is orange, purple, red, it is every color of the rainbow right now. beautiful. irk still see stars from the night falls is that full moo

. >> weird week for polar bear plunge with ventnor and ocean city canceling theirs brigantine and margateg theirs. i went in last thursday to see what the fuss was about and i almost croaked. atlantic city didn't make a peep. >> the 2018 atlantic city polar plunge. >> wept swimming. jeff elder got ready in a tent. >> you have to psych yourself the night before. you know it will be cold. >> yeah. >> get yourself ready. >> report roar once the whistle blew at noon it was swim time temps in the mid teens it felt like about 22. two for david black mind over matter and almost religious. >> no turning back but once you go under, and come out it's like you came out an new like the phoenix rising. >> reporter: came and went from behind the marguerita restaurant behind resource for former mayor don guardian starting the plunge was his last formal act as mayor. from michael the plunge is a met for to life. >> exciting. it's been painful. and that's what life is. excite many and pain and embrace it all. >> margate reschedule their plunge for the seventh of january. brigantine is penciled in the 13th

a lot of towns down the shore decided to postpone or cans they will years polar plunge including ventnoran city but in atlantic city these polar plungers just grinned and beared it. >> you have to set yourself up night before, you know it will be cold. get yourself ready. >> there is no turning back but once you go under and come out, it is like you come out the phoenix rising. >> margate rescheduled its polar plunge this sunday. brigantine pushed their backs to saturday, january 13th. >> maybe bucket list item, every year you say i will do it this will be the year. >> you know what i would just write a check to the charity and say thank you. thank you. 4:46. we have some debris on the turnpike at willow grove. it is westbound just west of willow grove, it looks like tire debris flopping around there be careful rolling out on the turnpike this morning. otherwise coming from montgomery count any problems at all 422 looking good, we had no overnight construction to be concerned b that is good news. hello to fishtown live look at i-95 southbound out of the northeast into center city. we are

. >> reporter: at the acme in ventnor this afternoon. so many stocking up that kesha almost had an anxiety attack. >> you don't want to get in there. it took me an hour to get a piece of fried chicken. i got it in my hand. it's unbelievable. >> reporter: atlantic county public works crews filling up their trucks with brine solution to pretreat roads during the day. when the snow begins, they'll spread salt sprayed with magnesium chloride to help combat the cold. >> it only remains active from 15 to 17 degrees and then the magnesium chloride will keep the salt active up to minus 17 degrees. >> reporter: in ocean city, water gushing from a pipe that froze, then burst. a long sheet of ice left on the street expected to soon be covered with several inches of snow. >> that's even more problems. more pipes breaking and more stuff freezing. people should shut their water off more often. >> reporter: ice surrounding fishing boats docked. now a monster storm keeping these crews out of the ocean. >> freezing temperatures, boats icing up, steel bre

the city he ventnor is hoping for the best but preparing for the worst. that includes deappointment of these two huge city owned rescue transport vehicles. >> we transport people from the snow to wherever we have to go and we help out the whole city and hopefully we don't get much snow but you never know. projects have the jersey shore receiving at least 6 inch ofs snow by the time the storm wraps up. officials are concerned but it's nothing they have not seen before. >> a nuisance storm to us really. hope it doesn't get worse and it goes east more and we won't get nothing. we are hoping. >> down in margate the folks at the local hardware store people are preparing for the storm by buying snow shovels and salt. and top severals are anything that keeps the plumbing from freezing. >> we are completely sold out of heaters and pipe installation. and everything is just kind of wiping out off the shelves. >> and the mayor of margate says whatever comes they will be ready. first we need our crews in at midnight and the trucks are all plowed up and ready to go. s

water temperature to be in the mid four's, has forced atlantic city and ventnor to postpone.ar plunge until january 13th. >> and group of tiny bringing in the new year just before nap time. >> "eyewitness news" at philadelphia please touch museum, excited children participate in the countdown of 2018. started at noon, instead of midnight. there was dropping ball, and confetti, and live music, dancing, clearly lot every fun ment looks like they're having a good time. >> and the eagles have wrapped up the regular season with a offense that was colder than the weather. yesterday's performance was not what we were looking for as the birds fly into the post-season, sure wasn't baseball weather, but how about this? angels outfielder millville cumberland county native mike trout enjoying his eagles, quarterback nick foles struggled for the second game in a row. played one quarter and couldn't pleaded four passes cents for 39 yards and one interception, eagles have struggle dollars on third downs with foles under center. converted just one of 20, the game was scoreless until the cowb

i see another 505 bus coming up from ventnor, with this one, going to. so, police now going on the bus, talking to the driver, and seeing if everybody's okay. so, just another one of those situations that we expect to see during a blizzard and that's what you are looking at right now, guys? >> as we talked about the last time we saw you, steve, only so much they can do with the roadways because of the blowing snow. steve, thank you so much. visibility down to nothing in some places. let's get check whatever the conditions are right now, sue will give us big overview whatever people experiencing. >> yes, we've got this snow and something interesting that popped up just in the last couple every minutes. some lightning over long island, parts every connecticut. indicating the possibility of thunder snow. just to make things even more interesting, then they already are, and seeing just heavy snow, really long island getting pounded this morning, and all along the new jersey coast, as well. and we are seeing high snowfall amounts, especially, in southern dela

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