The region is soaked from a noreaster, from the jersey shore to the tristate area, we have high wind. We are facing a chilly and damp weather ahead. Well get the latest from david murphy coming up in a few minutes. First, we are learning about the female firefighter killed in the line of duty overnight. The 11 year veteran died while battling a house fire in the west oak section of the city. The fire commissioner says she became trapped in the basement. John rawlins is live on middleton street. Reporter good afternoon sara, a grim bit of history here, the Department Says this is the first female firefighter to die in the line of dut your here if philadelphia. At first it was hoped it was an injury but a fatality confirmed by the mayor this morning. We suffered a tragic loss her this morning. It was a small but intense basement fire that took the life of a 11 year veteran of the Fire Department. They descended the basement steps to fight the blaze with a hose and it gill owed up, called a chimney affect. You rundown to the basement to put the fire out. As reinforcements arrived it was decided to use a second group out the back door, the sec group was withdrawing when something went wrong. In the process of moving out of the basement. The firefighter was brought to the hospital with no vital signs, her body was later brought to the medical examiner for an autopsy. The mayor said this morning not all the facts were known yet. There are some details we dont have or information that is incomplete and we are not going to speculate. Reporter its unclear what went wrong this morning, the firefighter we are told was a mother of two and had a strong work ethic and asked to be sent to bus fire stations. We are expecting a News Conference from city hall sometime in the next half hour. Thank you. As john mentioned we are awaiting a News Conference at city hall about that firefighters death. Its expected to start any moment now and well listen and bring it live as soon as it happens. The coverage of this firefighters sacrifice continues at 6abc. Com. Well update that story all day long with information and you can see this mornings procession and more on the deadly blaze, all there right now at 6abc. Com. Now to our other big story today. A noreaster that brought us downpours and high winds, we are tracking the storm with Team Coverage and david henry will show us the flooding in ocean city but lets begin with david murphy at the action news big board. Stormtracker 6 live double scan this noon is showing us that things have improved from a rain standpoint, you can see the heavy band of rain that was over cape may and trenton and atlantic city, and now its shooting up to the northeast and more of a problem for long island and parts of new england the rest of the day. Every now and then a steadier cell highlighted in lancaster and reading and blue out to the west of gettysburg. Its pushing up to the northeast and some of you are seeing this nuisance rain and youll see less and less of that as we go through the next couple of hours. The live view on stormtracker 6 live double scan we have a lot of blue earlier and some of that made its way down into montgomery and berks county. That was freezing rain and wet snow, and the warm air is surging up from the south than is pushed well to the north of us and we no longer have an issue with winter precipitation, and to back that up, the Winter Weather advisory has now been lifted and we have a winter storm warning with wet snow in the lehigh valley, this was mainly a rain event for the region, and the National Weather service is focusing on the numbers on the new jersey side. 2 inches in burnside and Wildwood Crest over 2 and lewes, delaware, 2. 5 inches of rain. And david henry will be talking more about that, this is roman my twitter follower from little egg harbor. This is why the coast had winter storm warnings earlier. But that appears to be done or at least receding. When we come back well talk about the wind, its an issue forest of the day. David, thank you lets switch live to david henry he is outside in the elements in ocean city. With the latest there. Reporter the rain has stopped here and the tide is starting to recede. Im in the marion park neighborhood and you can see a trash truck, surrounded by water on all sides, one car did not make it to Higher Ground and the water was up to the windows of that car. People here are familiar with noreasters and know they need to get the cars to Higher Grounds and this acme is filled with cars but nobody is in the store. We talked to the director of Emergency Management a little while ago and he had this assessment of the situation in ocean city. Overall we faired a little better than what the worst of the predictions were. This could have been a half foot higher that would have been a tenyears event. The water came up close to covering 34th street but never made it across. They are calling it a typical noreaster in ocean city, they know the neighbors will flood and nothing compared to sandy and nothing compared to the noreaster of veterans day in 2009, where there was serious flooding here. They fear it will blow the water out of town and they feel like they doned a bullet here today. David henry, channel 6 action news. Thank you. Stay on top of the changing weather situation with 6abc. Com. Visit 6abc. Com weather for Storm Tracker 6 radar, the hourly and sevenday forecast, and the latest video from our action news meteorologist. American embassies and military bases and others are on alert after the release of a report on the cias harsh interrogation techniques. Diane feinstein and others spoke about the report earlier. 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Its starting to improve guys, stormtracker 6 live double scan shows we have rain in the region and in south jersey and much of delaware, it has cleared off to the north of us, but as you take a closer view around philadelphia, some sprinkles and showers around, if i go out wider in the west of philadelphia, in lancaster there are a couple of cells highlighted in yellow and in the process of getting on through. This is enough to make your roads wet but nothing like. Rain over south delaware before. This rain is sort of pinwheeling off the coast around the area of low pressure that is in the process of passing us by, and up by bellmawr and new york its gone and not coming back. Cloudy skies and the action cam was there earlier on the belmont plateau, but im cutting this short because we are about to hear from mayor michael nutter, with more on the firefighter that died this morning. Lets go live to city hall where the News Conference is getting underway right now. They are about to begin to discuss the death of the 11year veteran that died in the house fire. Lets listen in. Good afternoon and thank you for being here and thank you for your patience. We want to share as much information as we can about the tragedy this morning. I am joined by mike resnick, the director of Public Safety and sam phillips, the director of office of Money Management and fire commissioner, derek sawyer, and a number of the leadership members of the philadelphia Fire Department. Councilman marian tasko is here and i appreciate her presence in coming here today. Of course craig lewis, our firefighter lived in her district. George craig lewis, 36 years old, a decorated 11year receipt van with the philadelphia Fire Department, one of 150 women serving in the Fire Department, put on the uniform each and every day and risk their lives serving our city. Those 150 women, some are firefighters and some are paramedics and officers in the fire service. Early this morning, at einstein medical center, i offered condolences and spend some time with joyces family and a number of friends came to the hospital as well. She was a much loved mother, daughter, and sister, i did not know joyce personally, but i have come to know a number of things about her. She loved her job. She was a highly trained firefighter. She served in some of the busiest stations in the city on behalf of our citizens, specifically engine 9 and ladder 21, 6900 german town avenue in the german town section of our city. Engine 25, west york street in philadelphia and engine 64, at rising sun in the rhawnhurst section. And she graduated from dawburn high school and earned her certificate in emt. Our condolences go out to her family, this brave firefighter gave her life attempting to save the life of an elderly, frail woman this morning. The resident was rescued from the home and she is staying with some neighbors. Joyce is survived by her son, mckey dante green, her daughter,malany lewis, and her mother carol craig, father james craig and brother kareem craig and sister payton, and another sister laferris. Family Liaison Officer from the Fire Department as is our protocol, has been assigned and the kids are presently staying with family members. This is a very sad day, for all of us in Public Service and certainly for all of our citizens, the philadelphia Fire Department one of the best in america, the first organized department suffered a great loss and that loss extended to all philadelphians, with that ill ask commissioner sawyer to give some of the details as we best know them from this morning. I want to ask for your understanding, we do not have every possible detail and there is an Ongoing Investigation again, as is our protocol. Well share what we with share based on what we know definitely at the moment. Commissioner . First, i would like to start by offering my condolences to the craig lewis family and also the Fire Department family. The members that had the task of removing her from the dwelling as she gave her life to assure that another member of this city lived their life. Approximately 2 49 this morning we received a call in the Fire Communications for a dwelling fire. Subsequently a local alarm was