Emerges off the virginias and to the northeast and heavy snow north and west of that storm and this is a great track if you want to see a lot of snow. A winter storm warning is posted for most of our area and south jersey and delaware under a Winter Weather advisory. And the warning is the threat for heavy accumulating snow. We are fine tonight and snow is arriving after midnight around 1 00 in the morning and areas northwest and 4 00 in the morning at the coast and philadelphia areas south and east it starts as rain and then the system pulls in cold air and heavy snow by 5 00 and the rain changes to snow along the coast by 9 00 and this is a quick hitting storm no blocking high to keep it here and ending between 10 00 and 1 00 and the height of the storm between 5 00 and 9 00, this is when you get the most vertical motion, lift. 1 to 2 inches per hour and whiteout conditions and the possibility of thundersnow, a day after it felt like april. For more on that lets head to adam joseph. Record highs fell across the area and how it will feel, near 70 today and by friday morning near 5 degrees, there is a huge drop coming here and 61 was the record in allentown and 70 off better in wilmington and dover and the Atlantic City airport. Future tracker at midnight the cold air started to push in from the northern and 40 in philadelphia and 44 in millville and as we get into the morning rush, 7 00 a. M. , temperatures are plummeting into the 20s all wait south as wilmington and philadelphia as well as trenton still hugging on to the 40s along the store and it stays rain there the longest and in addition to the temperatures going way down, the wins go way down with this storm. Winds gusting between 30 and 40 Miles Per Hour, kind of blow that snow around creating the whiteout conditions and harsh windchills staying in the teens tomorrow and then dropping into the Single Digits as we get into thursday night. Meteorologist cecily tynan comes back shell look at the expected snowfall map and numbers are bumped up in the area. Philadelphia Streets Department is stocked with tons of salt and they will start to salt primary and secondary roads overnight and trucks will be dispatched to keep road as clear as possible and because the snow could be wet and heavy, they will have extra crews standing by to respond to power problems, action News Reporters gray hall is live at the penndot yard in norristown. Reporter well, jim you know that the crews have been out in advance of this system making sure they are ready. This time around they were not able to pretreat because the rain would wash away all the brine but when the snow starts to fall they will start to lay down the salt. The familiar sight and and sounds of snow preparation has arrived and spring like temperatures will disappear and making way for snow. Its a wet snow that could be a positive its easier to treat but the negative side to that its a heavy snow and rain beforehand the branches of the trees will be wet and could stick and potential trees down. And penndot has tons of salt stockpiled and crews deploy 360 state and contractor trucks across the state and workers plow state highways and keep them passable in the five county philadelphia region. The average penndot route covers 20 to 30 miles and it takes our trucks two to two and a half hours to sickle around to get back to the same part they started. Workers are reminding drivers to make sure their vehicles are ready and check your battery and tire pressure and pack the emergency kit tonight and use caution when you come to the plow trucks on the road and give our plows room to work and stay back six car lengths from them and do not try to pass them. So back out live of course a bit concerned with this system is it will likely be intense around rush hour and if you do not have to go out dont and if you do use extreme caution. Gray hall, channel 6 action news. Thank you. Camden county occed say they are prepared to help drivers navigate the morning commute at the public works complex in lyndonwald more than 100 pieces of equipment are at the ready and they will go out and clear the roads. And del dot workers loaded trucks in christiana this afternoon and crews are ready to hit the roaded when the storm arrives. And del dot did not pretreat roads because there is forecasted rain to start. And please join us begin agent 4 00 a. M. For the light of track of the storm and Road Conditions and any School Closings or delays. After five months fighting it out in court, lawyers for victims in the Center City Building collapse came came to a settlement, 227 million believed to be the biggest settlement in state court history. Sara bloomquist has the full story. The 227 million will be divided between the seven families of people that died and the 12 others injured in the Building Collapse. The jury heard evidence in the damage phase of this trial. And then last night all parties reached a settlement. This afternoon lawyers for the plaintiffs announced the 227 million settlement for the Building Collapse at the Salvation Army thrift store. The largest personal Injury Settlement in state history. Even a settlement of this magnitude cannot rephrase the tragedy and horror of what happened in our city on june 5th, 2013. A building owned by contractor richard barbon, killing seven and injuring 12 including maria who lost both legs. She spoke way translator. She wants to say thank you for supporting her and following her story. And she will try to do the best she can with all that happened. Rosily of sierra leone was shopping when the wall came down killing her. The money is not the issue here, if it prevents other lives, to save other innocent lives. In the verdict last week it took four hours to reach they found the Salvation Army most responsible for ignoring warnings in the weeks before the collapse. This case sending a clear message to the Philadelphia Business community. That safety is a number one priority. Reporter in brief statements released today the Salvation Army says its sympathy remains with the victims and families and an attorney for richard barbon they are happy the case is resolved and its believed that the Salvation Army will pay out the bulk of this settlement but it was not disclosed. Law enforcement officers swarmed the east falls section of philadelphia in search of a fugitive. S. W. A. T. Team all converged on the apartments but the search for Rasheed Barnes came up empty. Wants for a car theft and shooting and parole violation. If you have information you are urged to call u. S. Har shalls. The home that broke out in st. Georges this afternoon was an accident. Firefighters responded to the 100 block of port side court and investigators say that the fire started in a trash bin and spread through the home. One person inside was able to escape safely. Coming up a Montgomery CountyHigh School Honors a student athlete who died after a weekend hockey game. And caught in the act. Newly released Surveillance Video shows the suspect wanted for swiping kobe bryant memorabilia at lower merion high school. And there are blizzard warnings for parts of long island and cape cod and i have details on what to expect here with the storm including a timeline and snowfall amounts. Sixers are back home and will joel embiid play tonight . Ducis rogers has the story when action news continues. New year, time to get rid of stuff. Simplify, declutter, unplug, purge, or even quit cold turkey. I raise turkeys without growthpromoting antibiotics, hormones, or steroids. If youre looking for little ways to simplify life, feeling good about what your family eats is a Pretty Simple place to start. My name is tammy plumlee, and i raise honest, simple turkey for shady brook farms. Last night we told you about the death of a local High School Hockey player. And now we learn more about nick bond. John rawlins has the story. Lacrosse sticks and helmets and written messages inside of the high school. A memorial for nick bond a senior that died on monday. He was a leader in the building, he was an individual who was selfless in terms of Student Government and could give you the shirt off his back. The well liked student athlete was playing hockey at the Wissahickon Skating Club complained of a headache left the ice and collapsed. He was rushed to the hospital and he died the next day. The me says that the cause was blunt impact trauma and nobody recalls him taking a hard hit on sunday. In springfield he was the captain the Lacrosse Team and played football and at 52 he was a standout says fellow lacrosse player. He made the big hit and not necessarily the best play but the right play. An assist or ground ball anything he did to help the team win. Small for an athlete or a Football Player or a lacrosse player and he played big. And he played tough and he was tenacious. He was described as well wounded and always up beat and passionate about the sports he played and his fivity was lacrosse and hoped to play it next year in college. In springfield township Montgomery County, john rawlins. Channel 6 action news. Newly released video showed sunday nights theft of kobe bryant memorabilia from his alma mater lower merion high school. Here is the theft you see it as its happening, the two thieves forcibly opening the display case and took his jersey and Everything Else they could reach on the shelves. Both suspects hid their faces but police hope that someone will recognize them and turn them in. That has more ski mountains to choose from than any other in the country. And thats not the only thing you can only find in new york state. You can find it all, only in new york. New york. Its all here. Its only here. Plan your winter getaway at iloveny. Com sixers come back home with lots of questions, joel Embiids Health is there going to be a trade. Will they win . The sixers have their hands full with the spurs, one of their centers are injured and the other is the subject of major trade rumors. Jeff skversky has updates. Joel embiid is in a familiar spot sitting down. Watching them play san antonio he is ruled out for the next two games and will miss eight straight with a knee injury. We have other guys that have to step up. We have to play the best way we can and make the chemistry click. With embiid out against the spurs, Jahlil Okafor is expected to take his spot assuming he is still here, he is the subject of trade rumors involving new orleans and chicago. I dont let it affect my every day routine and i work hard and whatever happens, happens. I have dealt with harder times. With embiid out and okafor in the sixers have struggled to win and with their best month the sixers are winless in february. Back to what we are doing. That was our conversation, knowing how good we can be and how good we have been. That is a tall task tonight against the Second Best Team in the nba and the sixers lost 11 straight to san antonio. The nfls offseason doesnt really begin until players start to get cut and today they release the otis mckelvin. With him gone the resolving door for the eagles secondary continues. And the phillies will be in clearwater on monwith the first workout for the pitchers and catchers set for tuesday. You cant play baseball without gear, today a tractor trailer was loaded up and the phanatic getting out of town ahead of the storm. And he told jaime apody he is ready to play ball its time to go. I cant take it anymore i am going to clearwater i have to get down there and i have the itch and im feeling the same way too. Many players feel that way too, we open the facility right after the first of the year and to their credit a lot of their players have been down there for much of january and into february just getting ready. Last season they were 20 games below 500 well see how they do this year. Coming up on action news we have a storm moving in and cecily tynan has the latest from accuweather. And philadelphia archdiocese schools have said they will close school tomorrow. We have not heard from public schooled yesterday. Come on superintendant, hite. Make a decision. We go from shorts today to shovels tomorrow. A big contrast, double scan live radar showing we have quiet conditions out there. A good amount of sunshine out there today. Double scan live radar is filling up as we head through the overnight hours. And today the warm before the storm, 66 in philadelphia. And smashing the old record of 63 set back in 1925. This is 24 degrees above the normal high for this time of year. Temperatures are typical of late april and temperatures in the 70s across parts of south jersey and delaware. Right now temperatures are gradually beginning to drop. 61 in millville and 67 in millville and philadelphia and 49 in allentown and poconos drop to 37 degrees. Satellite 6 along with action radar showing a good amount of cloud cover and moisture moving from the west and the Actual Center of the storm im tracking is over kentucky, south of it severe weather, with severe thunderstorm watching posted and low pressure moves to the east and it will be intensifying or bomb out. Over the Atlantic South of us, that puts us in the perfect zone for potentially heavy snow. 3 30 in the morning this is where it is snowing in the far north and west counties and rain developing to the south and as the storm system infence if is, it pulls down a lot of cold air and pulls in a lot of moisture, by 7 00 its snowing heavily across our viewing area and temperatures in the philadelphia in the 20s and still rain lingering along the coast and 10 00 its all snow and a bit of mixing along the coast, temperatures in the 20s and 30s, this system is sin tense but it wont last long, by 3 00 everything is winding down but then the winds will be picking up and expected snowfall amounts, this is the exact same map i showed yesterday and most of our viewing area 4 to 8 inches and we added a zone, a jackpot zone to the north and east you could see 8 to 12 inches from trenton north of landsdale through the Lehigh Valley and the poconos ski resorts will love this forecast, this looks to be again the area of heaviest snow and this could change a little bit if we have a little bit of a shift in track. I do want to stress the morning rush is going to be a mess. Major delays expected and not only are snow falling expectedly and School Cancellations expected and stay off the roads until the afternoon. After it intensifies and moves through the region we are looking at wind gusts of 40 Miles Per Hour and overnight windchills drop into the Single Digits, the exclusive accuweather forecast heavy snow in the morning high winds and 32 is the high and friday the high is only 31 degrees and melting this weekend, 47 degrees and sunday up to 55, and periods of rain, and temperatures in the 50s on monday. And then for tuesday, kind of heart warming for valentines day and sunny and seasonable and partly sunny and 47 degrees and we continue to get more information ill have an up update on action news at 11 00 when the snow is knocking on our door. Thank you. Abc world news with david muir is next on channel 6. Action news continues at 10 00. On phl 17 with brian taff, sharrie williams, adam joseph and ducis rogers. And then please join us for action news at 11 00. An investigation into a buck County Cemetery accused one again of misplacing a familys loved one. Investigate of Wendy Saltzman has the story and a preview. This grieving mother says her sons body has been lost. You remember the date you had that baby and you remember the date that baby leaves you. But when the family went to visit his grave she says she was sent to the wrong plot. Like another slap in the face and another stab to the heart. Tonight at 11 00 we confront the cemetery for answers. Dont miss my exclusive investigation another grave error only on action news tonight at 11 00. And for cecily tynan, ducis rogers and the entire Action News Team im jim gardner we hope youll join us for action news at 11 00. Tonight, as we come on the air, what could be the biggest storm of the winter. The midwest and then the east coast bracing for a treacherous commute tomorrow morning. In some places blizzard warnings already in effect. Thousands of flights already canceled coast to coast. The Ripple Effect being felt already. Also just in tonight. President trumps pick for the supreme court. When asked about what the president has said about judges, his nominee, neil gorsuch, reportedly saying those words are quote, demoralizing and disheartening. Our team with new reporting. Taking on nordstrom. President trump takes direct aim at the Department Store after learning they are dropping his daughter, ivankas, brand. Tweeting from the official president ial account. Stocks taking a hit in the moments after. Inside the devastating tornado outbreak tonight. Families who rebuilt after katrina and their new heartache