Good evening on this snowy thursday night. Im jacqueline london. Im jim rosenfield. As you can see from the campus camera right behind us, snow tapering off a bit now. Means the 10 has you covered across the Delaware Valley. We begin with chief meteorologist glen hurricane schwartz with the latest on the snow. The snow is very light in some places and just sort of light in others. Theres hardly any wind, so the snow is coming pretty much straight down and the visibility tells us how heavy the snow is and we could see fairly well. You can see this band of snow generally west to east across southern pennsylvania into the philadelphia area, little to nothing in the poconos and very little to nothing in southern delaware. The darker blues indicate a little bit heavier snow, some of that now going into bucks and montgomery counties while things are tapering off in northern delaware. As we go through the night tonight, the temperature continues to go down so as the snow gets heavier, those darker colors, it has a better chance of sticking, especially on untreated surfaces. The treated surfaces should be okay because the snow wont be heavy enough. By 4 00 a. M. , its already over with in philadelphia and points to the west. Its just about over at the shore by 4 00 and its certainly over by 6 00. So by 6 00 a. M. , theres no more snow going on. And that is going to be the end of it as we go through the timeline, the snow area is spreading around right now, the peak of the snow midnight to 3 00 a. M. Average accumulations one the t one to two inches and the friday morning rush not snowing at all. Erica martinez is outside where the snow is falling real fast. Reporter were seeing flurries move through. But i want to show you just how fluffy and light the snow is right now. In fact, i dont need the scraper, you can just brush everything off so the good news is, this is a really light fluffy type of snow. We call this a 121 ratio. Very easy to clean off but give yourself extra time in the morning because you will need that. Im already seeing the cars that are covered with snow so conditions will be a little messier for tomorrow morning. Again, give yourself extra time. Heres your hourbyhour forecast starting at 4 30 a. M. Youre noticing band of blues and purples and whites telling us we have more snow on the way. As glen mentioned, everything clearing offshore by approximately 6 00 a. M. Heres the deal, glen is also tracking another system that could bring us heavier snow bands, in fact, by saturday or well have more details coming up in just a bit. Back to you in the studio. The first snowflakes came down in delaware. Take a live look at i95 in wilmington from our camera. The snow started to fall around 7 45 tonight. Storm force 10 is on the move right now in delaware. We are giving you a front row seat at the weather conditions if you have to leave the house this evening. Just so you know, the camera in storm force 10 that youre looking at right now makes it looks like the vehicle is going a lot faster than it actually is. If you live in Chester County, you know that area usually gets hit the hardest. This was the scene about two hours ago in downingtown. Nbc 10s Brandon Hudson joins us live from downingtown tonight. Youve been talking to folks, brandon, how are they dealing with it . Reporter they seem to be just fine. Its snowing for the better part of three hours in downingtown. Were in downtown downingtown and were getting very thick snowflakes that appear to be sticking to the ground. To give you an idea of how much snow we have, lets show you this bench right here. You can wipe off some of the snow, show you how thick it is. We have this car right here but we have some people braving the elements right here not wearing coats, theyve got tshirts on, short sleeve shirts on. So far it appears to be people are loving this first snowfall of the year. On a beautiful snowy night in downtown downingtown we met james and his grandson on their way to picking up dinner. Did you think youd get know . No, but im glad its here. Reporter the first snowfall didnt keep people off the road. Its been a dry winter so far. Its been a long time. Reporter before the storm moved in, we saw this plower pretreating a shopping lot, one of the busier areas in town, he says business has been snow this year and last. We looked back last winter and found our first significant snowfall wasnt until january 12. He hopes this is the start of a profitable season. Last year we had that one big storm and a couple, you know, rinky dink oneones. Reporter the snow started falling moments after he drove away. In the same parking lot, Taylor Christie just finished Grocery Shopping and was heading home with his daughter. Did you know it was going to snow today . No, not until about 4 00 p. M. Have you changed your Shopping List at all or anything. No. I dont go too crazy. We have a lot of food at home, too. Reporter i spoke to a spokes manhatt spokesman from penndot, he said they have 66 trucks on the road in Chester County alone. A lot will be working around the clock as drivers are working 12hour shifts. Live here in downingtown Chester County, Brandon Hudson, nbc 10 news. Brandon, thank you. If you live in montgomery county, you can track snowplows as they move throughout the county. Its part of upper mariontownships web site. It shows where the plows are and its up dated every 15 minutes. You can use the map for road closures and street cleanings. Go to nbc10. Com for the link. Lets take a live look at the blue cross river rink at penns landing. Its a pretty tight sotonight. An hour ago this rink was packed with people as the snow started to fall. Heres a look on the Road Conditions on i95 near the stadium complex. Traffic moving along okay there. The salt trucks pretreated the major roads ahead of the snow. Steve jones has been checking the reeoads around philly. What are the conditions youre seeing in south philadelphia. Reporter were not too far from the stadium. The snow has been coming down for the last three hours. Its tapered off and if you look at the roadways, yeah, not sticking just yet. However, as it begins to stick these guys will get busier and busier, theyre working around this salt dome right now. We found philly residents, however, embracing the snow thats fallen. Latefall over frozen football in south philly. Look at that reporter aaron wright did his best to bundle up. Thats my man thats a touchdown. You have to have your head warm, ears need to be covered. The gloves, my hands, if they shut down, game over. Reporter you have shorts on, though. You have thermal underwear. Im warm, im prepared. Reporter but some retreated indoors and twirling beans and rim cafe. Meet owner renee cobietre, business is good, company is better. Perfect remedy for our first sizable snowfall of the year. Its the best time for to make hot chocolate right now. Reporter as soon as it snows . Yes, i think the snow comes in, i start seeing outside and im thinking maybe one more hour. Reporter but city workers have to be on the roads. We cant take a rain check. Its here. Reporter pen dondots peter cherotti says there are 146,000 tons of salt available. Well hit the overpasses, bridges, stuff like that, keep an eye on things. Reporter those will be the roads that freeze first. This is whats going on at salt zones all over philadelphia. 106,000 tons of salt, some of it here behind us, you can see the plow get loaded up here as i continue to talk. Now if the snow keeps coming down, these guys will continue to hit the roads with some saumt so really its a sitandwait situation but they want to make sure theyre ready for anything as the snow falls to make sure theyre ready for the morning commute. For now, live in south philadelphia, keith jones, nbc 10 news. All right, keith. Look at the conditions in parts of bucks county. This is neshaminy. You see some people leaving after getting a bite to eat. Heavy flurries out there. The weather may be to blame for an accident on a bridge in camden county. Nbc 10s drew smith live with more on that tonight. Drew . Reporter ed carver road behind me has reopened but i want to show you the grassy area where you see the accumulation of snow and then the difference between that and the pavement. But its a lot different story when you get up on the overpasses and there is a bridge over some Railroad Tracks just up the street from us and we have vid owed from when we arrived in the past 40 minutes. Police and fire trying to pull a heavily damaged pickup truck that has skidded off the overpass off into the woods and then flipped over. Luckily for that driver, were told there was only a major injury there, but another reminder that the overpasses are different than the roads. Back live, we can tell you that the snowplows have come back since that accident and police reopened the road in the past 15 minutes. They put more salt up there, were hoping drivers are careful when they head over those bridges tonight. Were live, drew smith, nbc 10 news. Drew. We are keeping an eye out for any problems on the roads. We brought in our traffic reporter tonight to show you whats happening out there. Jessica joins us now with more on that. Jacqueline and jim, in the sky as well as on the roads, looking at this live shot of the boulevard. The pennsylvania turnpike, you can visibly see the headlights of these vehicles as well as the street lights reflecting upon those wet Road Conditions so be very mineful of any slick surfaces. Also, too, look at these grassy surfaces, were seeing snow already accumulating. I did get a couple reports of hazardous Road Conditions in areas of pottstown so be very mindful of that and jacqueline and jim its crucial for anyone taking a latenight drive to just use caution and drive very slow. Ill send it back to you guys. Great advice. Our team will be tracking the snow overnight, of course. Remember to keep the nbc 10 app handy to keep a close eye on any School Delays and closings if they happen. Nbc 10 has you covered for the morning rush, nbc 10 today will start a half hour earlier as 4 00 a. M. To update the snow totals in your neighborhood and to have live reports on the Road Conditions. Tonights only round one of some folks for the snow, especially on the jersey shore. Ill have the timing plus preliminary amounts as were continuing with tonights snow. Also ahead, what can you expect for the morning rush . We are tracking the roads in storm force 10. A soda tax mistake . Tonight a local Grocery Store admits it overcharged customers on products that should not have been taxed. Homes flooded, a big water main break leaving quite a mess. Nbc 10 goes inside the basement to see the damage firsthand. Snowing right there at the airport. Planes already deicing. Crews are ready to clear the runways. The airport, as always, says check your flight status before you leave your house. And we have neighborhood weather for just this reason. Right now its not showing down the shore in cape may county. People may see a little tonight but this weekend is when the shore may get the most snow. One place where it is snowing right now, thats Chester County. Brandon hudson is there. Brandon . Reporter well, jim, to give you an idea of how quickly the snow is accumulating, we cleared this off two minutes ago, now youve got snow back here. Roads are slippery so we have 66 penndot trucks at midnight contractors will start using their trucks as well. Live in downingtown, Brandon Hudson, nbc 10 news. All right, brandon. How much snow are you going to get in your neighborhood . Nbc 10 first alert chief meteorologist glen hurricane schwartz back now. Hes been tracking the hurricane for days. Glenn . Most folks are only going to get an inch to two inches out of this one but some folks are going to get more out of the system coming on saturday so stay tuned for that. Right now, the visibility in philadelphia is not too bad if we can see some of the tops of the buildings, the visibility is decent. Now you can see this area of snow generally in southern pennsylvania, up toward the poconos, theres not much at all. We have a little heavier band coming through philadelphia right now and also Lancaster County going into Berkshire Hathaway burkes county and Chester County. You can see the heavier cell over center city right now. A little bit bigger flake there is. Now the visibility tells us how heavy the snow is falling. In coatesville, we have the heaviest snow now. Three quarters of a mile visibility. Thats accumulating snow. The two miles in pottstown, three miles in doylestown, thats pretty light. Allentown is very light. Northeast philly, one and a half miles, thats significant but mt. Holly and philadelphia, their visibility has gone up as drier air is coming in in wilmington, dover, millville, Atlantic City are all in good shape. If we have 10 mile visibility, its not doing much of anything. 30 degrees now in philadelphia. 27 in coatesville, 28 degrees in allentown. Temperatures will continue to go down just a little bit as we head toward morning. As we go through the next few hours we find the snow getting heavier, especially by about 2 00 a. M. , thats when the best accumulation will occur. By 4 00 a. M. Its over in most of the area and by 6 00 a. M. Its over everywhere. So its will not be snowing for the morning rush and the temperatures will be below freezing. The latest snowfall totals generally one to two inches of snow. Less up to the north. Nothing, really, in allentown and very little in dover and down toward cape may. But take a look at these temperatures, close to freezing. No precipitation 5 00 a. M. In philly. A little bit in a couple of spots but nothing by 7 00 at all. See a little bit in new jersey, the jersey shore. At 5 00 a. M. , again, nothing at 7 00. That means the rest of the day is dry. Not a bad day on friday. Now heres the problem. Saturday morning this is a real storm here, a lot of moisture with it, as you can see. And were on the Northern Edge of this. And all it takes is a little bit of a shift to the north and you go from practically no snow to really significant or heavy snow and some of the computer models tonight have, indeed, shifted a little bit to the north, bringing heavier snow into the jersey shore and even bringing some snow into the philadelphia area. So heres our preliminary snowfall totals and some of these are pretty significant. Im talking about six inches plus right near the shore. New jersey and the delaware beaches. Four to six inches and possibly a good bit more. Just inland dropping down to close to about an inch in the philadelphia area. Of course, bill hanley will update that in the morn with the new data. The european model is not in yet, it comes in in a couple hours. But the cold air, yeah, thats in. Bitter cold over the weekend. This is the way its going to feel saturday night, near 10, then it gets colder. Sunday morning close to zero and even sunday afternoon in the Single Digits in parts of the area. So heres the weekend forecast. Friday, pretty decent day. Saturday, i now have snow in delaware, jersey shore, south jersey, and even a little bit in philadelphia. And then just brutally cold sunday. All right, well check back with you in a few minutes, glenn. To this now new at 11 00. If you went to shop rite, you may have paid too much. The reason . It seems stores are confused by philadelphias new soda tax. As a result, some items at Shop Rite Stores were mislabelled. The spokesperson says some items were taxed that should not have been like marinade and mineral water. Other items that should have been taxed werent. Customers can bring their receipts back to the store for a refund. Crews with the Philadelphia Water Department are still on the scene of a water main break in northeast philadelphia. Seven homes flooded here when that main broke just after 3 00 this afternoon on mill brooke road. The water is now off but the damage has been done. Neighbors believe the break may be connected to an ongoing problem with the sinkhole in the middle of the street. We pay taxes and they cover a sinkhole with a metal plate. So this is what happens, it gets cold and now theres water everywhere. Crews still pumping water out of the homes tonight and the Winter Weather isnt helping matters much. Our coverage of the first snow of 2017 continues next. Its a snowy thursday night and well have updates throughout the night. Stay with us. Did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back . Say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. Comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet thats 10 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. Say hello to internet speeds up to 150 mbps. And add phone and tv for only 34. 90 more a month. Call today. Comcast business. Built for business. There are new developments tonight well tell you about that in a moment, first lets look at i76 and vine street. Some snow still coming down but no apparent traffic problems. Now new developments tonight about russias alleged hacking of the election. A senior u. S. Election official tells nbc news senior russian officials celebrated president elect trumps win. That information is contained in an Intelligence Report delivered to president obama today. That official says the u. S. Has identified russian actors who turned over stolen democratic materials to wikileaks. A followup to a story we first told you about last night. Prosecutors have filed hate crime charges against four people accused of torture ago man and showing it on facebook live. Prosecutors say the four black suspects can be heard on the video using profanities against white people and president elect trump. The victim, who is white, was found disoriented walking along a street following the assault which police say went on for hours. Investigators say the victim is a former classmate of one of the attackers. Our coverage of tonights snow continues straight ahead. As you can see from storm force 10 at interstate 76 Near University city, no problems here. We can tell you the roads have been pretreated. Well be right back. Its one of the mostanticipated events of the year at the waverley Heights Community retirement center. The mummers community was in full swing. The full string band performed in full costume as residents danced along. There was also a south philly inspired buffet. Local youth hockey players spent quality time on the ice with Philadelphia Flyers in wilmington. Team captain Claude Giroux joined former flyers to run drills, have a little fun as part of the flyers 50th anniversary celebration this season. Back to the snow. We have received some viewer video from around the Delaware Valley tonight. This is from art gammareno at a septa station. You can see the train moving along. We want to see your snow pictures. 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Its the one on saturday that im more concerned about, especially towards the shore which has the potential for heavy snowfall. Its going to feel like it is a n the teens at best and near zero on sunday morning watch out for that snow on saturday. Bill henley and the gang will be in in the morning with an updated look at that storm which is what well be focusing on once we get past this thing that will end at 4 00 or 5 00 in the morning. And then the rain comes in when the snow comes down creating freezing conditions . The temperature is going to be very, very low so anything that sticks on the snow on saturday and it will be the fluffy type that erika was talking about earlier and that you can brush off. But if you get enough of it, its a lot of brushing that has to be done. So the people around the shore need to pay attention. And very cold even in the afternoon on sunday. Brutal. The morning team here will be here early at 4 00 a. M. To keep you posted. Thanks for watching. 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