Transcripts For WTXF Good Day Philadelphia At 7A 20170314

Seeing some heavy accumulation it is not boring. You have a little bit of everything. We have been calling it the variety pack of precipitation, because you are getting any changes back and forth, sleet to all snow back to sleet again, rain mixes in and for those who are asking on social media it is different temperatures in different layers of the atmosphere because, we have got cloud up here and it is goes through different layers. It changes as it comes down. It didnt stay as cold as we thought it would, so some warmer air over running, and we can go into much more detail if you wish. It is so unpredictable sometimes. Either way, good day it is tuesday march 14th, 2014. I necessity what you are thinking whenever we have snow shows like this we think of mike because he is known for wearing his sweaters during snowstorms. He sent us this picture. He said he cant wait to come back soon and said it is bummer he is missing out but he is wearing this sweater. He is smiling. He is getting out with dealing with weather in the cold. Getting out early. We have a plan here. Okay. He doesnt to have miss. He have weve got him right here. He didnt getaway with it after all. So. We can do something with that. He said i was the one with the big head. Look at this, seriously. We will figure out what to name this guy. Mike on the stick. Big head mike. Mike pop. So then, you have to have some arms with it too. This is hard part. So you have this one. If you have been to the station there is a picture and we make fun of him all the time. Awkwardly posing like this. If we have mike on the stick you have to have awkward hand. Then there is another one where we are trying to figure out how this goes, who does their hand like that, like what is that. Like scare crow in wizard of oz. Yes, then he will give thaw look. This could also be when he is trying to push away his coffee that the boss doesnt like to have in the shot. That is true. He is. Pushing it this way. We will do something with mike and we will reveal in a bit. Is that why he sent me a little gift a week ago and he knew weather was coming with a little note. We will figure out what this is. In the meantime give us an update. Well listen i dont care what you are getting it is a one out of 10. We have a got snow, sleet, wind, we have bus stop buddy even though he has no school today. He is dreaming of making a snow man and some of us, will be able to do that. Heres a look at the variety of precipitation, to the north , as predicted, it is snow, in between the heavy rain in south jersey and southern delaware we have that mixture of sleet and snow, and rain, and all of it is a big mess. Look at temperatures right at freezing in philadelphia and wilmington that is at surface. Then we have, 20s to the north of us, upper 30s and 40 s, 40s at the shore in Atlantic City and in wildwood, so significant snow north and west, we still have someplaces that will get double digit accumulations. The wind is a huge factor in the storm, as well, 40 to 60 mile an hour wind gusts, so our forecast, snowfall for today, huge accumulations to the north of us and a lot less as you go further and further south. Here to explain this a little bit more Scott Williams, who is outside in the pelting sleet this morning, how does it feel. Hi there sue, sleet just continues to pound my face here, in olde city. Right on the sidewalk we have an accumulation of sleet. It started out this morning as snow. We have one to 2 inches of that snow, on top of it, we have that icy sleet. So right now you can take a live look at Market Street and you can see that were watching a few cars go by, septa busts have been going by but it is just a slushy mess right now on Market Street here in olde city. Those temperatures have been hovering right around freezing but Road Conditions, vary across the area, bob kelly, you have details on that. Scottie, good morning. 7 05. Folks looking outside front door it is not that bad, not that deep and they think they will venture out but we have a little bit of everything. Road are either wet, snow covered, as we just showed you the sleet, ice and handful of accidents. This is a live look at i95 right here near academy road where this fellow went off roadway and down in the grass median. That is what ace head live look at 42 freeway, wet, grass is snow covered and it is slush on the on and off ramps. We have a fire at 15th and chestnut, and heres a pick sent to us here it is flint stone mobile. Get it, from either side and the feet up the middle there. And Regional Rail lines, no service on the cynwyd line, and patco, new Jersey Transit trains, running on a modified schedule. No new Jersey Transit buses, dart buses are running with delays, 102 suspended and there are 55 bus routes all together on the septa system, on a detour because of the weather conditions all details there on septas web site at septa. Org. Alex and thomas back to you. Our crews have the area covered. Lauren johnson in Delaware County, jen fred in lawrence ville, new jersey. Karen hepp is outside, on the streets checking out roadways but first we will go to steve keeley in bethlehem where they could see quite a bit of snow. Special get this morning, hey there steve. Reporter normally we have sunrise but with this zero visibility storm it still looks like night fall. We have kevin here who happens to have the cleanest car in this blizzard, he just drove a couple miles. It looks like he pulled out of the garage he had in the carport all night. They think everybody is not working. You are saying business as usual at your office. We have special meetings, we closed the building for production and stuff to keep employees safe. Reporter you had to have these meetings. We have some meetings, yeah , we will be fine. Reporter when you left here you filled up with gas, getting coffee did you think there was a chance this sheetz , wawa up here wouldnt be opened or did you think this will not stay closed during a blizzard. I thought they would be closed. Everything else was closed, but when i came by lights were on i figured i would take my chances and get it. Reporter you have an suv. It looks clean. How was the drive so far. Drive has been good, actually. I went up to the building and they are plowing the lot for us, so i came back down and grabbed coffee, but yeah, drive has been good, they are been doing their job. Reporter tough guy, no gloves, no hat pumping gas, sneakers, no boots but you have a scarves. Yes. Have a safe drive, i hope that meeting is real important because who has meetings in the blizzard but important won kevin, thanks for your time. Appreciate it. Look at how clean that carries he was surprised this place was open. Place we wanted to go live this morning all closed. This diner that weathers every storm 24 hours, city view diner shut down. Look at the American Flag blowing and again we have ice, and you can see in the light, the snow, so snowflakes are still tiny. Were expecting huge snowflakes. They were saying we could get three or 4 inches an hour and that is how we will get 2 feet National Weather Service Updated their forecast and said hey, instead of 2 feet now just 22 inches. So we are at half foot in the Lehigh Valley and we will not get any mix. We are getting straight snowfall and that is why it is getting deep. Where im walking right now has been plowed twice and look at what they are doing. And i guess, when you get those big tires and big tread and spinning out he is filling out. He will not fit in the gas pumps. Somebody has to be opened, to gas all these plows. Good thing they are opened, but boy it is starting to kick up. Im facing wind. As lauren says when this hits you in the face you feel extra stupid for standing out here. Sue serio you are good being very generous. I remember arithmetic. Would i give this minus four. Not even a one. You are too kind to bad weather blizzards. Shes changing it right now , shes trying to make a negative sign. Im trying to turn mean it is impossible. Look at you. Where are you going. Going to get a snow cone. He is determined to make snow cones. Lets check with karen hepp, shes riding around in the sit in the northeast section, still karen. I am, im willing go through streets up here. There is a lot of people i see on the big thoroughfares but then give you some neighborhood. There is someone cleaning a car off. We have everyone over here they have put windshield wipers up so they dont get frozen to the windows. That is such a problem when that happens. We are seeing that. You can see definite snow covered streets here. Even though they have made some passes and clearly made a pass on this road, we are not getting much in the city. We know that but it is still a mess and still icy, still snowy and it is still, you know, it is passable but not something you want to do quickly and fast. Lets come up to this major road to give you a shot what it looks like. There is someone getting ready with their pickup truck. A lot of folks staying home but people still had work. Heres castor avenue. Take a quick look and see what it looks like here. Plows, snowplows, gone by and they have changed trash trucks over. Brian, do you want to Say Something to me . There is more plows. Take a look at these guys over here. They have a plow train that is going by. So they are doing they are best to keep up but we have a whole bun to much go with this storm. This is sort of the latest Vantage Point up here, police, i saw a couple Police Officers , over at our local, i think it was mayfair diner. We had three cars there my goodness. That was loud. All right, that is latest from here back inside to you. Overall not too bad, side streets dont seem so bad as well, karen. Karens focusing on figur ing this out. Peace out. Lauren johnson is keeping track of conditions in the Delaware County. Shes in follow come with the latest, sleet still coming down, lauren. It is a very slushy, gross little mixture here. In the frozen though. So, probably will be because they keep, plowing over in this area. I wave this guy down and say, come on over, what do you think of the Road Conditions. It is terrible. I just took out a sign with my truck. You hit something. What happened. Hydroplaned, it is pretty bad out there. Reporter standing here since i guess we got here at 3 00 and we have seen plows go up and down. Where were you busy road or side street. Franklin avenue, a few blocks from macdade avenue. Reporter dit scare you. No. Reporter what do you have on there. A snow blower. Reporter where are you heading. To aston. Reporter to do what. More snow blowing. Reporter what did you stop at wawa for. Gas for snow blower. Reporter be careful. Yeah, be careful out there, brand new truck all that damage now. I just bought you the on saturday. Reporter so or toy hear that. Were okay that is what matters. It is road are still bad. Reporter thinks most people we have seen. We have thought people would stay inside. People are thinking it is not as much snow so they are coming out. They look out and see an inch or two but they dont realize it is freezing. Yes. Reporter thank you, good luck to you. We have in the been out to venture, and he hit a sign in his brad new truck. So, be very, very careful. Yes. You can see that then. Reporter so many people thinking it is not that bad, but it is still, you have to be careful. Inn it doesnt take much, with a slushy stuff, and if you are heading out prime example. Jennifer fredrick, is checking conditions in lawrenceville, Mercer County. Jen. Hi guys, i guess the question is where the heck are you going . A lot of things are still closed, because of all of the warnings and all of storm warnings. This is lawrenceville, new jersey, we are about a little bit north of trenton, an hour from you guys. The road are now, a little bit more snow covered, just 35 minutes ago, it was completely , black type, because of a combination of fact that it had been a lot of sleet. Tons of plows have been through here. And believe it or not within the hour we have seen a salting operation. That is how little, i should say, and route one, Mercer County in mercerville, new jersey. But, like sue said, we will see all kind of conditions, and now we are seeing a little bit more in terms of the white stuff, covering, but as you walk around. It still feels sleety. Whatever this precipitation is , it is bouncing off of you, hurts your face, very windy. It is, cold outside. So again, the question is, if you have to be out somewhere, you should have already been there for now. Venturing. And, and thinks the war of it. We were talking about this it will start to get bad, around 8 00 oclock look at what time it is. As you can see even the road are still snow covered here in new jersey. Some people still need their morning cup of coffee. Yes, do you have a coffee maker. Yes, it is broken. It is broken. Yes. We have three tea bags in there. Hang in there. It is only just beginning. We have been seeing some of the conditions, here, in new jersey. So now were checking in Atlantic City. Different type of weather. We have been talking about how coastal area, getting a lot of rain and coastal flooding there. So joining us now by phonies steve shapiro, communication director from new Jersey Department of transportation. Good morning to you. Good morning. We are taking a look at Atlantic City right now. We are seeing rain. Camera shaking, a lot of wind, we are seeing there in the coastal area. Coastal areas are getting more rain there, and it is going to get more wind as the storm progresses. It looks like the forecasters have, moved that rain up a little further are north then they originally expected. So south jersey, getting more rain and snow, but central, new jersey, north jersey where it is snowing it is coming down hard and the road are passable but starting to get snow coverage in north and central new jersey. That is what most of the crew are at this morning. So what are the pennsylvania 24 hours been like and is what ahead for next 12 hours here. Well, we have been preparing for this storm, since, the weekend, and our crews, activated overnight and it is working throughout the night. We have more than 2600 salt spreaders and plows, statewide , all over the road, working to keep road passable, and, throughout the day and even after the snow stops, they continue to work and push back, that snow, from the shoulders and ramps, and, turning to salt and make sure that the road are safe, and clear and get everything down to blacktop. Earlier the guy came up and he ran to the sign so it is still kind of slippery out there. It is something that people need to be careful of. You know, were add veiing people if you dont need to be out stay at home. Road conditions are going to be challenging today with the wind blowing, snow can blow back on to the road, and the mixture of weather, can make for a very slick, with low temperatures and rain for that snow coming down. So really best betties to stay home, if you can, if you have to be outside on the roads you will want to slow down, give some space between you and other vehicles, and stay back from the spreaders and plow trains and let them do the job to get the road clear for everyone. Real quick any restrictions we should know about quickly here. We do have speed restrictions continuing on the turnpike and delaware Memorial Bridge up to 8a, 35 miles an hour, so from 8a up to George Washington bridgette is 45 miles an hour. On the parkway reverse, from cape may up up to brick, 45 miles an hour speed restriction and brick north to the new york border it is 35 miles an hour. All right. Steve shapiro with nj dot, my gosh you know what im saying. We know, we got it thanks, steve. Thank you, please be safe out there. Sue, i will get ready to get outside because mike has got to enjoy this weather. Get a taste. People are send nothing names. Current name two people sent this in mike jerrickstick. I like it. And, we will be measuring, we will be measuring not only snow but ice accumulation, the way things are going with this mix of sleet, and snow that has been falling in many places, long the infamous i95 corridor and blue coming south and then coming further north, it has become very changeable. We started talking about variety pack of precipitation at 3 30. It is still the rain we are seeing down to the south is very, very heavy and snow as predict is increasing in intensity to the north of us because we are now getting to the period of time where whatever kind of precipitation you are getting is becoming more intense. Around concord you see that dark blue there. Just snow or sleet and snow it is falling heavier there. Little later in pottstown but around schuylkill and norristown it is getting heavier. It depend where you are, very heavy rain where it is raining , particularly at new jersey shore right now. This situation continues, with this intensity, through the next couple of hours, and then it looks like by noon it is for the most part steady pre sip will be out of here and we will see wrap around moisture but it will be colder , so, Scott Williams is outside. We have been talking about this too. Whatever we have now we will finish up i think every where, with all snow, because this storm will draw in that colder eras it exits from to the north east. Absolutely sue those temperatures have been critical not only at surface but aloft because right now we still have that sleet mixture, across the olde city and philadelphia area but take a look at the snow clinging to this particular tree. It isized over and hardened because of the sleet that we have. Look who we have we have alex holley who decided to come outside. It is not me, it is mike. We have mike, outside. What is mike doing. Well, since he could not be here we want to make sure he is part of the show and he gets to enjoy this lovely weather like you. He loves snow. Originally plan was to have him to see how high snow comes up. But we are getting mixture and things are different. We will see what happens. So i will see him stay. I will stick this in here. Hopefully stay up and we will keep checking on him. We need to get him some clothes. I will work on that. Take care of him now i know it is windy. Find some gloves, scarves, sweater, Something Like that. That is alex holley, and of course, mike jerrick here. Look at the top of the trash can here you can see once again we have one to 2 inches of snow and then on top of that we have that sleet. So expecting the sleet for a few more hours and then it should change back over to that snow as that system starts to pull away, thomas, back inside to you. We are trying to think warm thoughts here certainly not case a lot of people couple days go aheading out of town we will check back in a bit but lets go to the airport, and i know several airlines cancelled all flights today, best to check with your provider before you head out there. You can see why looking live at the airport barely see it we will be right back. Great price on this boneless chicken yeah. We love low prices. No bones about it. [ laughter ] great everyday prices and thousands of bonus buy savings. My giant. Hersheys miniatures. We pour em we pass em we pick em delicious fun for everyone. Hersheys miniatures are mine, yours, our chocolate. Allentown is seeing snow here at 7 25. Six or 7 inches, snow will continue to fall throughout the day, further north but sue will have the forecast. Thinks exiter township in berks county, there is a lot of snow out there. This parking lot there. Then Philadelphia International airport where we saw flights were cancelled. You can hardly see the airport with the weather, it is windy, so we will take a lot how storms are impacting flights at Philadelphia International airport. While a lot of flights were cancelled yesterday, we are still seeing some that didnt have a decision quite yet. What i want to know mary flanerie, is there any flights today to florida . Im not sure about florida. Exactly. What are latest conditions out there. Well, freezing rain is really coming down hard. Delta was scheduled to fly this morning but most of the others cancelled their morning operations, and some like american and they are scheduled to resume this afternoon. Delta was scheduled to fly, several departures this morning but they have been held at because of the freezing rain. Does that mean people in the airport, just constant delays or they have cancelled it. No, no no, they are not cancelled. They are trying to get them out. Runways are opened, and plowing, and, putting the chemical down. I saw several airlines pulling their flights, we had a lot of cancellations, off lot of cancellations out there yes, certainly we do. British air, and lufthansa both cans told day, qatar cans told day and southwest, cancelled everything for day. And what is disturbing us right now is the freezing rain we have flights scheduled for this morning, and they should call airline and check. Yes, you have to check with your airline, and each Airlines Make its own decision for the routes. What about crews out there, employees of the airport. We have fully staff, we have more than 400 people out this morning, and we will bring in see the runways opened. Salting, roadways, so you do have flights that can get in. We will check back in with you later, thanks very much. Sound good, thank you. Byebye. So we will take another look at the radar, here and we will give you more updates what were expecting when it comes to the storms. Folks are getting that itch, looking around saying it doesnt look that bad, maybe we can give it a try. Thinks ramp from 476 to i95. Look at this guy across the lanes, spun around, and it looks like a pole down as well , this is in Delaware County, where were at best, you do see some, asphalt or some blacktop, is there slush, and icy conditions, and laying , on top of that. Heres a live look at ben franklin bridge. They have 25 miles an hour speed restrictions, in playing saying look good on the schuylkill, we have the snow and is what stilling there is ized over from the ice and freezing rain we have been seeing all morning long. Westbound accident on the schuylkill, that involved two separate spin outs. That is right here near city line avenue. So again we dont that have deep snow, so i think folks get that false sense of of volume, so therefore, speed are a little higher then they should be and we have accident all over the place. Northbound on the new jersey turnpike, a crash in mount holly, saturday schedule in effect for septas Regional Rail lines, no service on the cynwyd line, route 102 suspended, septa has about 55 bus routes that are on weather detour, get all of the detours at septas web site septa. Org. If you must head out there your best betties the two septa work horses market frankford and the broad street subway, both have been running trains around the clock, eight to 10 minutes. Sueby is what latest. We have a variety of precipitation. What happened is it was very cold ever since weekend. We started off with snow and then we have seen ice piling up on top. We have one out of 10. I dont care what you are getting, it is treacherous. Bus stop buddy is hoping he can make a snow man but definitely in school. You see how bundled up he is. You have to shield yourself against elements in this area here where we are seeing the sleet mixing in with the snow and rain. This is the dividing line. It is a little bit of everything. Snow is increasing in intensity, darker to the north and with the orange and red here to the south, it is mixture of rain and wind driven rain. We have 32 degrees in the city right now, 20s north of us,s to the south. We are right in between. Different layers of the atmosphere different temperatures. It is snow, wind, and the intensity of whatever you are getting will be increasing over the next couple of hours. So we have mostly rain to the south and we will continue to adjust these accumulations but remember alex and thomas this storm is not over just yet and we could still see much more snow, between now and say lunchtime, noon. We will have a dictionary by the end of this program, new word, it is so important. Thanks, sue. Certainly. Lets check with mike, because outside, with the sleet and the wind it is interesting to see how he is holding up. The stick broke and is flapping in the wind there. Someone said we should call it mike frost because of all that stuff. He is hanging in there. Poor mike. We want to see what happens to him throughout the storm. Keep the names coming in as we see, nice to see what the weather instead of the wind chime just have mike blowing in the wind there. Freezing rain, ill tell you. Lets check out what is happening with steve keeley and the conditions in bethlehem, good morning, steve reporter we have got a chevy sedan right here. We thought nobody would in their right mind would drivein this weather. We are in the Lehigh Valley where they will get up to 2 feet of snow and people are like just another day in the life of the Lehigh Valley. So we are on the main drag here. Here comes an suv. I know this isnt morning rush hour but i didnt think, look at how fast this guy is going. Here comes another regular car not even a regular car in the suv. We had a guy coming by and didnt even put on his headlights. Im surprised to see all these vehicles out there. There is an ambulance. That is something you should see because they probably have to be out here. But heres a tiny little car here. Im hoping like i said i give these people benefit of the doubt. Hopefully they are First Responder or nursing to the hospital but if i had a car that size i wouldnt be driving it in this weather, even if i had to work i would find another way, i wouldnt trust that the road would be cleared. We have seen so many plow trucks those folks are doing a wonderful job. Sue said it is not even over. We keep getting told seven to 3 00 is war and we expect high gusty wind. Sure, flags are blowing and flags above mike, behind him i i can hear flags. Mike, spin around and give them a shot of the flags above you and you can hear the flags , sound like a liberty bell. There is steady wind but they are not gusty blow you over wind standing here. So, the plows are making another thing this pile of snow here, look at this guy driving like that in the gas station. Who does that. Anyhow they are piling snow up and if they will get all this snow in the next eight hours. If it will snow here until 5 00 which greg is giving me constant updates where is this snow all put. You can only pile it so high. This pile is 4 feet high in this parking lot. They are clearing gas station good. Even area underneath that cover over the georgia pumps because it is windy that is getting a few inches every hour as well. They have to constantly clear that area. But you have to wonder when you have all that snow even if it melts later we will have the melting and refreezing on all of the road because is there just no where to put 2 feet of snow, but here we go , look plenty of traffic at this intersection to give you a idea some people are going out and ignoring warnings from triple a, bob kelly, sue serio , you name i had. They are like we have to drive and we will not let a blizzard change our scheduley always get nervous, standing there when cars do the turn. I feel like that is dangerous part to turn in this kind of weather. They made it okay. Why would you be concerned with steve keeley being so close to the road. Nothing has ever happened before. Not something we have to play every time it snows. Im sure we will play it. Heres more pictures, it says lego weather. This is so cute. Snow in hopewell, new jersey. Jesse says heavy snow and sleet inthe hills of the boyer town that it is a cool picture. View outside my window in fair less hills, pennsylvania i love it when we see un touched snow. Soon kid will be getting up, playing, they will mess it all up. We would love to see what you are seeing, use fox 29 snow, so we can share those pictures here on good day. This winter you have the power to heal. Because your purchase of vaseline® intensive care lotion supports the vaseline® healing project. 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We will check in different conditions throughout the area county now. Lauren johnson good morning to you. Hi there. Good morning. Big smile. So check out my feet, i know, im trying to wear a smile. We are getting deeper. It ace lieutenant of sleet and hail. Not a lot of people. We have another guy who actually knocked his truck into something earlier. I think it is terrible out there i just took out a sign with my truck. Reporter you did, in the front, you hit something what happened. Hydroplaned, it is pretty bad out there. Reporter i have been standing here since i guess i got here at 3 00. We have seen the plow up and down. Where were you on busy road. Franklin avenue two blocks off macdade boulevard. Reporter did it scare you. In. Reporter what do you have on a back there snow blower. Snow blower. Reporter where are you heading. To aston, to do more snow blowing. Reporter what did you stop at wawa for. Gas for snow blower. Reporter be careful. Be careful out there brand new truck, all that damage too it now. I just bought you the on saturday. Im so or toy hear that. Were okay that is all that matters. Just be safe. Road are still bad. Yeah. Reporter alex and thomas, i dont know if you remember from earlier, fromas really slus now freezing over. You can see changing, it was wet earlier, we had know, rain and now everything is freezing back over. Like that guy just told us, the road are pretty dangerous even though we have seen back and forth. Be careful this stuff hurts when it hits you in the face. By the way, lauren, it is not that warm in the studio. Lauren text me five minutes ago. How is it in the nice warm studio. Dont try to guilt me my friend. I have been out there i know how it feels. We love you for it. As a fellow southerner i know it hurts, i know it does. We will check back with you reporter it its cold it is cold. We will take another look at radar, because, we are going to see a lot of Different Things with this storm. We already seeing a lot of Different Things. Few updates, we will get a check of the roadways because we are seeing people out there driving. This. Is. Everything. Honey bunches of oats. Its crispy sweetened flakes, plus crunchy granola clusters, plus a touch of honey. Its like adding up awesome, plus aweyeah. Its the sum of the best of the best in a cereal. Honey bunches of oats. Thats why theres oravet dental hygiene chews. Oravet cleans teeth and gets to the cause bad breath. Ask your vet about oravet chews. Serious oral care made simple we dont after lot of accumulation yet but what we do have is iced over and slippery. Heres an example of this fellow coming southbound on the blue route, 476 right here before i925. Follow the tracks, goes off the roadway, sideways, clipped this overhead light pole, and end upright here. We have police, penndot crews on the scene. We dont after lot of accumulation. He was moving along in what was a roadway that had blacktop but then just enough of that freezing rain, or sleet on top, caused the snow to be slushy and iced over. That is your scenario right there and we have had a dozen of those example so far this morning. South jersey, and we have wipers on, and on and off ramps are slushy and slippery. This is from mary behind the window with a cup of coffee inside her house. Send us pictures is what happening at your house, use , fox 29 snow, so we can pop them up on tv. Septa running on a saturday schedule and in that saturday schedule delays are averaging about 20 minutes, so Chestnut Hill west line running with delays, cynwyd line has been suspended, 102 suspended and there are 55 bus routes that are running on weather detours when will this end. It will get worse before it gets better. Sue has answer in 152nd. Noreaster is continuing north ande. We are increasing, in, and we see darker blue to the north, more intense, heavier precipitation, it is case with the rain, it is case with the rain and snow and then this area in between where we see a mix of sleet and snow. So, even though it is dark blue on the radar here in philadelphia, there could still be some sleet mixing in. It is layers of the atmosphere have different temperatures and we have got a big shift in temperatures. It has been cold but there is warmer air trying to move n around west goshen it is getting heavier and heavier rain continues to soak Cape May County and that is wind driven rain and it is piling up as well. So we will see colder air rolling in as the storm exits, say between 11 and 12 00. So we have a couple more hour of this to go and wrap around moisture not too much, later on in the afternoon. Jumping ahead to the seven day forecast after we are finished with this mess we could have a few light snow showers tomorrow, very cold tonight and tomorrow, and then, starting to gradually get milder by st. Patricks day in the 40s, saturday in the 50 easing, first day of spring on monday with a high of 39. That takes us through powe storm but we are still in the thick of it, in fact Scott Williams is outside and i think we are getting ready to experience the most intense part of this noreaster over the next few hours. Absolutely, sue right now we are dealing with some moderate to heavy sleet here in olde city, temperatures still hovering right around that critical 32degree mark. You can see right now Market Street is a slushy, icy, mess. There have been some folks, venturing out and about, trying to catch the septa buses that have been kind of coming down Market Street sported radically. Snowblowers as well but it is just nasty, stepping outdoors here, in olde city. We want to check in and see what is happening with mike jerrick. He loves the snow, he is here, in spirit. We have got alex holley. What will you put something on him. Some people have been complaining they are saying you can have mike naked on tv. It is cold out here what would make wear on a day like today. A sweater, of course, so we found a way because this is mike on a stick to put this together. Charles was nice enough. Original stick was broken several times. Can we get some snow up here. We put mike at the top here and we dress him. Will this work. How does he look right now. He looks great. Although, you know mike would be complaining about the shininess, all that rain hitting him, he would be concerned. You are right, like little pellets hitting you. So we will get back inside. Mike with a red sweater on. We will check back with mike and check back in thomas with this weather situation coming up. All right, thanks, scott and alex and mike out there. We are braving storm over in new jersey lets get a check with lawrenceville Mercer County our jen fred there all morning long. Reporter im trying to figure out what the weather is , jared, an amazing photographer you know him, love him, we think it is turning from sleet into hard crunchy snow, would you say that. Yeah, that would be accurate, yep, yep. So bottom line is it is not pretty yet, it is is not snow man worthy yet and it is still drivable. I have to say governor Chris Christie must be very concerned about the roads because we have seen dozens of plows over and over again coming up and down route one. Were in Mercer County north of Trenton New Jersey but as you can see if you had to go somewhere you could go somewhere. But the problem is it is freezing cold and i have to say, like it it is a snow ice pellet facial that no one asked for as you walk outside. So the question is why do you have to be out there. I know people that are still around, driving, driving snow plows, they are trying their loved won to work because people do have to go to work. Nicki my friend at home she has strep throat. She cannot even enjoy snow day as much as i wish i was at home im happy i dont have strep throat. Plenty of tea and honey will make a difference. Jen, thanks. We will check back in a bit. Good to see that the plows are out there getting road cleared for you. We want to see what you are seeing as we are waking up , pictures are coming in. Fox 29 snow. No snow rain in south jersey, sue predict that. You will in the see snow down there tom in mullica good morning to you, rain as well, we are seeing that mixture. Looking out window drinking coffee, good morning. Send us more storm pictures and what you are seeing outside, use fox 29 snow cold out there. It is cold out there. But mike has a sweater on now. Shake up your routine with a completely new way to clean. New Colgate Total advanced health mouthwash. Shake to activate a powerful cleaning action that removes twenty four times more bacteria. Improve the health of your mouth with new Colgate Total advanced health mouthwash. Shake to clean. We are looking at allentown, it is hard to see but is there still a car that is moving slowly through this, on the roadways. Were also going to check with the parkway, we are seeing people Walking Around and everything over there. And yeah, there too. We have lots of rain in Atlantic City. That rain is continuing. You said snow. Yes, seeing a lot of it. So looking at radar here, we will go to sue in a bit about what we can expect, and our expectations for this storm is as it continues to move on through. Tell us how you are spending your snow day. Send us picture. One thing i noticed last night , even though i went shopping, i went shopping on saturday but something about when you have a storm, you have to check to see what the store has. And i went to the store last night, and man, the lines, were around, it is one thing in the different aisles but it went out the aisle and out into where produce was. What were people buying. We have a picture to show it. Okay. We dont have it. We will show tonight a bit. Reinact it. Lets all stand in line. But when you have it. Did you pick up toilet paper, we necessity were you concerned. There is the line. Look at that. Do you see aisles way in the front of the picture there then these are people lined up if you didnt to have be there why did you brave that. It wasnt braving, i happened to be out. I said let me stop by and take a look. You picked up candy bar and waited in line. I didnt pick up a candy bar. Lord knows i dont need one. We know it is milk, bread and eggs, but what are you doing then . What are people getting . Is what one thing you got last night through a snowstorm. Tweet us. Use the fox 29 snow. Let me explain what these people are getting. You are doing something. I saw your twitter picture. You got like doritos. Yes. Someone tweet that had to me. I can only drink water. Where is doritos, that cup of coffee in the picture. Someone tweeted what they pick up. So we will show that. Bob picked up the serial. Yes. Got the pops. I learned this morning he loved raisin brand. Raisin brand is good. What is wrong with raisin brand. Do you really love raisin brand. Fruit loops. Last one down the stairs got special k or the all brand yes, nobody wanted all brand. We had one choice growing up. Good choice, it is tuesday, march 14th, 2017. A winter wallup. Food, water. And this storm can where we lived. As soon as we do a pass, it can be mixed. When this noreaster will move out and finally make way for spring. Plus, we want to see how we are spending this day, see how they are using the fox 29 snow. Okay, we have to check back in with mike on a stick, or mike jerrick stick, because we have his sweater on. Look at that, earlier when the wind blows, his sleeves are black in there. He is laid back, very chill sat down and we buried him in the snow, at the beach. Exactly. Or his arms, maybe he wants a hug, give him a hug. The chair is holding up great. Must be great hair spray there. Switching out sweaters. Heres the thing, we know when it comes to snow shows that is the mike thing. How are we go to go keeping thissing. Something has to change. We will see what we can do. Im no mike, but, i thought we will have different colors. I love scarves. Okay. I will be putting on different scarves then, because mikes coming back so when he comes back he can pick up the sweater thing. But in the meantime here we are. We have purple which is my favorite color. We cant go wrong with purple. So sue, yes. Sue contributed. Kitkat kline gave some we have a pile of scarves that we will be going through and see which turns out best. Yes. That is fancy. This is nice. I will be falling asleep over here. Yes. Do you like that one. It is nice. This is one kitkat kline brought in. Which one did you make, that one. Lets get an update on what this weather is doing. It is a mess, no matter what you are getting, it is a mess. It is a one out of 10. We rarely use one but today is worthy. We have got snow, sleet, wind, it is no school for bus stop buddy. He is dreaming of that snow man and plenty of places where you will be able to make one but for many of us we have seen a mix of precipitation and layers of sleet, on top of the snow that originally fell. I will tell you this that what we are getting is increasing and there are indications of a change over back to snow as this storm exits. We will keep watching it along with you. We are at freezing in philadelphia, wilmington but we are below freezing in trenton where they are probably changing back to snow if they had sleet and we are in the 20s in allentown, pottstown, reading and lancaster. To the south of us, in Atlantic City and in wildwood, and the wind are gusting as high as 43 miles an hour in wildwood and 45 miles an hour, in dover, delaware. So the wind is just as much of a factor as the snow, we have different sleet now, snow showers, as this storm exits, by lunchtime and then windy and cold rest of the day with a high of 35 degrees. That gets you ready for the day, Scott Williams is outside , making sure you get the experience of what it is like to be here through him, so generous to do that, scott. Enjoy the heat that is all i can say. Right now temperatures in olde city, hovering right around freezing, were still dealing with that icy mix of sleet, freezing rain right here in olde city, there are several folks venturing out maybe head to work, septa has been going through Market Street, but take a look at Market Street itself. This really paints picture of what we are seeing. It just looks like an icy mess it looks like a slushy if you will. We are looking at that layer of snow, and then on top of that we have the sleet and we also have a little bit of freezing rain right now here in olde city as those temperatures are hovering right around freezing. The wind picking up as well, we are getting gusts in the philadelphia, metro area, right around 30 miles an hour, so that could be an issue a little bit later today, sporadic Power Outages are likely as well but it continues to just, pelt down. We are talking about that sleet. We will see likely transition from sleet back over to some snow as the system intensifies and head up the coast a little later on today. Road conditions icy and dicey. Bob kelly has latest on that. You got it, and on coup at 8 05, penndot plow train just came down blue route 476 heading for i95, but not soon enough because this fellow and again, follow his tire track. Coming down to 476, started to spin right off the roadway and cut that power line, overhead light pole in half and there it sits and we have tow truck backing up but what is on the road surface right now may look like snow, but as you just saw, it is that sleet on top and roadways are icy. We have had spin outs galore in the last hour as the Road Conditions are changing as we go through the morning. Heres a live look at i95. This fellow has it right going slow with the blinkers on here working your way southbound through cottman avenue. There is a viewer pick. This is a great spot. We have sun path yes here, we have fire ready to go, coffee pot on, thanks to Christie Myers for sending us the picture. Just use fox 29 snow. We have a snow emergency here in philadelphia no parking on the snow emergency routes, ppa is not enforcing meters or kiosk and there are select parking garages that will allow to you park for five dollars. Sue mentioned the flower show is opened if you had are coming into philadelphia today but all majors at lee, 45 miles per hour, salt and plow crews are out there so just be careful if you must venture out. Septa Regional Rails running on saturday schedule averaging delays of 20 minutes. Cynwyd line, services suspend there had again today. Alex and thomas back to you. Did you go to the store last night, bob. I didnt but carrie went to the store and somebody stole her ground beef out of the cart. There was in ground beef yet. She looked over. Somebody stole ground beef. Hey, did you see that, Somebody Just stoler meat. Right out of the cart. In the parking lot, no, in the store. Doing her shopping, there was in more ground beef this were out of the ground beef. Where is the beef. It is vicious out there. Desperate times. It was so packed in the store someone said trader joe s this is a line there was a line to get inside store and trader joes aint cheap. These people are really going in. Now since we are talking about this what are people getting. We are seeing lines, what are you buying . One lady said dont people have food . What is it that you have to buy. People are confessing now, he said hubs got guinness i have wine we are prepare. One guy said listen i got junk food we are only stuck for one day. And then, glenn, i have a list of stuff, also junk food, dingdongs, waffles. Comfort food. People are getting comfort food. Amazing all of the tweets, picked up wine, beer, sitting here at home, they have the day off. They need something to get them through this. Mom and pop need something to chill us out. We are under a snow emergency. People went to the stores too. Since we are dealing with the snow emergency we are taking a live look in olde city. This is on our roof. All of the cars, no parked cars over here because they have to be cleared from emergency routes, trash collection has been suspend today, philadelphia public and parochial schools they are also closed to day, and kid were happen bye yesterday. We have other school closings, how many do we have. Over 300. They are at fox 29. Com to get an updated list of the closed. The city is urging everyone to be prepared for Power Outages for this storm. Christie i love to watch you guys but power is out. Really. Make sure you have the app, watch that and you can charge in your car. Good reminder plug in your phones just in case lose power we see that wet, heavy snow, and Power Outages. Our crews are spread out across the area this morning as this storm continues to move through our region. Karen hepp is looking at conditions in the fail area. Jen fred is in lawrenceville, new jersey and we are also live in the Lehigh Valley where it is expect to be war. Lets start with Lauren Johnson in Delaware County this morning, lauren. Hello guys still getting that sideways sleet, that hits you in the face and back which is why im standing this way trying not to get hit. We have a fresh coating where no one has stepped. I think were up to about 6 inches, by now, i dont know lets see what shes saying, i dont want to fall. Tell me about the road. How are the road. They are not too bad. Take it nice and slow dont go too fast. What did you come to get. Hot chocolate you could not make that at home. When you dont have any you have to get it. Alex talking about a store run you want to avoid it at all cost. Why. Because it was horrible, all of the people in there. It doesnt make any sense. How was wawa. How far is your drive. Be very careful. We had a guy earlier that hit a sign. We seen that. So yeah, everyone saying it is not very, the road are not very good. I thought they were going to be. We saw so many snowplows early on before much of the this started to fall here but everyone saying the same thing so be very careful here at wawa they were keeping the food pretty cleared and must have been called out somewhere else because they have not been plowing parking lot here over the last few hours. They have disappeared us from. It is still bad. Still coming down. Still hurts. That is sleet accumulation, it has been sleeting there all morning. Reporter yes, it has. We will keep checking with you, lauren then. We have to get to this breaking news from center city we have video just in the news room from one of our fresco users. It was a fire at an abandon building at 15th and chestnut. Flames broke out at 5 15 this morning and fire was under control by 6 00. We are happy to report there were no injuries. We will update you as we learn more information about this but there was a fire earlier. So, thank you for sending us this. We will be right back. Hi hey ill take one of those new fast play games. Oh, you ready for a rush . Uh, sure im pretty excited for you right now. Fast play is the new way to play fast and win instantly from the pennsylvania lottery. Pick a game, get your ticket and see if youve won. I won fast play, please fast play. Play fast. Win instantly. We have a different scenario here in center city, south jersey, we are seeing blacktop because we have a change over to rain, or to sleet, on 422. That stretch between, saint gabes curve out to collegeville. Again, still snow covered. In talking to penndot, they have put down the salt, but we have not gotten enough snow in order to plow the roadway and they really dont want to plow the roadway because then the salt, below isnt going to do the job. What is below there is obviously, slippery, and again you have to have that mixing, so that just causes that to mix. It is dangerous. This still isnt, were still far from over here. Heres live look at bennie and a example of the win. We have 25 miles an hour on all bridges. We have asked for your picture s, your snow pictures, this person watching us on line, check this out, from the beach, so send us your picture , fox 29 snow, so we can use them, on tv, down in wildwood watching us down the shore with the rain. We are flooded out on route 47 , right there in rio grande. Here in fill at snow emergency in effect no parking on the snow emergency loose they are offering all day parking. Sue by has the forecast in 152nd. Ill see your tropical picture and raise you a foot of snow. This is macungie and thinks picture from cameron and he estimates that he has about a foot of snow, on his back porch already, of course, macungie in the Lehigh Valley which is where the snow has been piling up since it began. But, remind but the wild card, with this storm, the track of the storm was a little further west ward track, and warmer air moving northward and how much sleet and rain mixed in. That all contributes to what we end up getting as far as snow totals and now we will probably be, telling you soon about accumulations of ice, along with the snow. But there are indications at this point with a couple more hours to go of this storm a change over in places that have had sleet, changing slowly back over to snow as this storm will start to begin its exit toward the northe but still seeing plenty of rain in Atlantic City and in dover, delaware and then that mikes tour on i95 corridor and north of that. We have watches and warnings in effect and our advisory and high wind warning along the shore, and we have coastal concerns as well with the mood are moderate flooding expected at time of high tides between 9 30 and 10 30 this morning. So that is what we have got for you at this point, lots of factors, Scott Williams as we talk about this storm as far as the wind, snow and the sleet and the sleet is really piling up outside here at fourth and market. Here in olde city, it is coming down sideways but we have to factor in those temperatures not only at surface but aloft in the atmosphere, several thousand feet. Were talking about that warm layer of air that is just warm enough to change that snow over to some sleet before it makes its to the ground. It start as snow, it melts, it refreezes through that thicker layer of cold air and then comes to the ground as sleet or even some freezing rain mixing in for a time. Take a look outside our studio , there has been ice that has been falling down from the window and it just smashed here on this barrier. But we have one to 2 inches of slushy mess of ice. We want to check with mine. I think wind knocked him down. Right now. That is how upset we are about this happening. We are just like it stopped. Yes. Yes. He is picking him up. Someone said we should call him flat like like flat stanley that goes every where. Poor mike im sure that sweater is getting wet, cold and everything. Yes. We will check back in with flat mike or mike on a stick. Scott looks so who out there. What do i do. He is about to come behind us, wait for it. Can you see him yet. Hi there, mike. Looking good. Yes. I love it. He is loving his job right now. Thanks, scott. We will go to new jersey now because jen fred, she has been checking out things there in lawrenceville Mercer County , sideways sleet still. Reporter you guys know im a Scott Williams super fan, i love sue, i love kathy orr, but when he says it gets warmer and that means the sleet, i understand that, but there has to be a better word for warmer when you are standing out getting pelted by the sleet, right . Right. Reporter there has to be a better word than warmer. He is out there too, feeling the sleet too. Reporter i know, i know. No, it is just one of these things where it is like every single 30 minutes there is a new condition, new roadway condition and here we have it. We are still here, it is lawrenceville northern north of trenton, Mercer County. As you can see cars are able to get by, why . Look across the street. You can see there are snowplows here. I have to tell if you there is any good news in all of it this is that new jersey has one heck of a plowing team both by the plows, state plows , their ambulances are able to get through. I have seen more plow is today then i have seen in 25 years of covering storms. You can see what happens, road are clear so people can get through. I can tell you this it is slick underneath and sue and scott, bob, been talking about this it is like a layer cake of precipitation, ice, snow, rain, sleet, yuckyness and none of it is fun. And then wind is brutal too , general general. Reporter nothing soaks in. No one has come to visit me. Only thing good i have is jared. Ahh. Jareds great. I love that. You have our love jen does that warm you up at all. Reporter what is that . It doesnt matter. That means know. I said you have our love, it means something. Reporter thank you see she is thankful. You guys are sending us love and picture. Snow pictures from christine, this is from bethlehem, thank you for sending that. I like his name, buddy super fly the storm hasnt even started yet. I miss miami. Dont we all. And conway says it goodies day to stay in with the coffee and warm blanket. Im jealous. It is messy in media. That is your hometown there. That is where she lives. We will check back in. Yes, we need to get some of those together. Messy every where. Looking at radar we will see why, rain, sleet, snow it is a mixture sues updating forecast as it intensifies we will be right back. alarms wheres the car . Itll be here in three. Uh, four minutes. Are you kidding me . No, looks like he took a wrong turn. Dont worry, this guys got like a fourstar rating, were good. His name is randy. Thats like one of the most trustworthy names ordering a getaway car with an app . Are you randy . Thats me awesome surprising. Whats not surprising . How much money erin saved by switching to geico. Everybody comfortable with the air temp . I could go a little cooler. Ok. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. Now were checking in with wilmington. It is a little snow there. So we still see some cars on the roadways. So we will check back in just a little bit. Guess who i have. Now where did you get this. We are not getting this. It is a fresh one from out back. Out back. Yes. It was a little yellow, it is all right. Little yellow will not hurt anybody. Have you ever had a fresh snow cone. With crystal light. It is all they had at store i tried to look for cool aid, strawberry lemonade or lou bring raspberry. Okay. I promise you have to do mine plane. Yes. I cannot do anything. So i will just have a natural flavored one. Look at you. How good does that look. I will get so sick. I think i have a tendollar co pay. Really conn send traded. It is so good. Why are you temptation. I put a little out on, you have to try this this is so good karen hepp, how are the road. Guys, thanks so much. I really appreciate it. Look at this nice manny just found, he has been just watching. Is what your name. All we hear is a wind. Mike in the wind, it is not working. He said it is like murder, it is so strong. Go ahead, stay safe. Watch. That is how difficult it is , the wind it is murder, he has crampons on and we have another person here walking along. What are crampons. Crampons are what you put on if you are mountain climbing, you put on with ice hooks on the bottom so you can walk in difficult, icy conditions. Like spikes on your shoes, right. Yes, they clamp on to the bottom of the shoes. Do you see this person walking over here. Heres big issue. We have heavy snow on the side so people havent been shoveled out because you have until six hours until end of the storm to shovel out. Problem is people walk in the middle of the road and that is danger. We have a lot of issues with that. Then i have another person over here. And then we have a lot of the little plows. Little plow toss do our small streets. That is issue that we have. I see that this storm that has picked up. Sue has been talking bit. It is not that much snow, lot of the ice coming down but what we are seeing right now is that the conditions are deteriorating, and the wind have become brutal. That is latest up here Oxford Circle area, and kick it inside to you. Karen, i wanted to let you know one of our viewers tweet ed she said you passed by mayfair diner and they were waving to you as they passed by. They have been opened all night and they have been pretty busy. Reporter well, difficult see them, i saw three Police Cruisers and whole bunch of people maybe we will swing back down the mayfair diner. I went by holmesberg bakery because bob kelly has good friend over there and they were closed but maybe opened now. Ill will back over there. I love our tweeters. Our viewers are the best. They really are. Keep tweeting us, let us know, so we can keep this conversations going. You are still eating that snow cone. Im surprised how good it isy will try mine. You have to join me. I feel like a little kid. This is natural. Bob kelly. Where is bob kelly at. Come true this. That is all right. Did he say that is already. Sue serio. No one wants your snow cone i should get points for trying though. It it is perfect ice for snow scene. I gave up snow cones for le nt. Scott williams. He is already getting it. Where is mike . He is already getting all of the freezing rain. 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Strayer university. Lets get it, america. Snow, sleet, wind and is there quite a few out there and we will be able to make a snow man once we are finished with all this but still snowing, storm isnt over just yet. But. We have northern lower pressure system just off shore , and, a variety of precipitation as we have been showing you all morning, with rain, to the south, and a mix of sleet, and snow to the north and then all snow further north and we have lots of pictures. Thank you, the snow piling up. Right here on i95 which is why we are seeing changeable precipitation. We have piling up snow to the north with temperatures in the 20s and well above freezing to the south what we have been seeing wind gusts are increasing. Look at this 40 miles an hour wind gusts so that sleet goes sideways and hits you in the face or snow depend where you are, 44mile an hour wind gust ness dover, delaware. Plan on this, mess, continuing , through about lunchtime, and windy and cold rest office day and tonight. We have a lot of freezing going on. Untreated surfaces, with everything. We will have that, over next couple of night. 8 35. Live look at route 202 for route, 30 downingtown, coatsville, one side we have blacktop, we have wet road, other size, partially snow covered, heres a live look at i95, out of northeast philadelphia. Cottman avenue not quite sure what that one was. Heres a pick for the gang near i80 and 309, anywhere near the poconos, so sue had mentioned heres my kind of sign, closed going sledding, from collegeville italian bakery. Saturday schedule on Regional Rail line and averaging delays of 2020 minutes. 102 trolley suspended and septa has bus routes on weather detours. Best bet, market frankford and broad street subway, running around the clock with trains. Thank you so much. Yes. And, and, morning when we have, we have to check with steve keeley. He is bethlehem and lets see how things are going right now i have to tell bob kelly, and, and, special k was just a bigger, version of rice crisp ies, and once you learn that, you can play dumb and act like you are getting. And, loud, snap, crack he will and pop, by the way, and more enjoyable for me as a kid when i got to the last box of variety pack we love. Look at that stop sign closed down there. And, we took out a sign. And, not clearly going to see, completely stop until, they are rolling the sign, fortunately, not bent completely down to the ground, so, possibly, somebody can still see it, and stop before they go out to the main road, but there is a minivan driving just like another day in the life of that minivan driver and mostly plows in the road but visibility is going to get at lee at lot war and snow seems to be picking up and snowflakes, finally, starting to see, to grow out of puberty because they were like real small and now they are bigger and badder, and so is the wind we have a flag blowing. So, that pole is just starting to lean, and im wondering is it leaning, to the point where it will end up, again, getting blown out of the ground like some of the trees. Speaking of the trees, we have a lot of trees that would come down around here but im checking all of the big power co in our area and heres odd thing, south jersey seems to have the mow Power Outages, pushing 7,000. Heres other odd thing not at the shore where we expect all these Hurricane Force wind, but down in the corner around the Commodore Barry bridge like the salem, Gloucester County area, and Atlantic City electric, reports, more than 5,000 outages, and then pse and g closer to philadelphia, just under a thousand outages, and that is the opposite. Up here we had not more than 26, with the maximum so far, and, so, these small snowflakes are not sticking, to the branches and then becoming, coatings of ice and pulling the branches down to the power lines, checking in with us in our hotel was a huge team from central harrisburg area of tree removal guys and so far it doesnt sound like they have a lot of work to do Lehigh Valley airport is the one up here and every place up here was cancelled up here. Alex, you will like this bit of trivia. I was just on with steve ducey one fright is flying out of here at 5 00 5 30. Fox news channel is doing all they can to book me, i will do research on spring break and have a full report on fnc on sunday. I may not be on for rest of the week if he comes through with that assignment. That is odd thing, one flight out of here, on a legionnaire and they are planning to fly to florida at 5 30 when the storm end. They are paying attention to sue, that says five and that will give us half an hour to clear runways and get out of here. I will chip in on that ticket you and spring break, dangerous combination. Make it a series too, that way not just one story spend more time down there. Thanks. Well, lets check on mike, who is out there on the snow. He looks cold. He does look cold it looks like his arms are bunching up his sweater, giving himself a little bit. He is hanging in there. Thanks mike. The inlaws have moved in with us. And, our Adult Children are here. So, we save by using tide. Which means we use less. Three generations of clothes cleaned in one wash. Those are moms. Anybody seen my pants . Nothing cleans better. Put those on dad its got to be tide. Thats why theres oravet dental hygiene chews. Oravet cleans teeth and gets to the cause bad breath. Ask your vet about oravet chews. Serious oral care made simple we are dealing with this weather for a while, deborah sent this in. That is so true. That is what we were afraid of , with is this sleet, and freezing rain. It is not snow with you other things we have to worry about when it comes to power lines. Umhmm. And trees and things like. That we will check in and im getting more pictures out of delaware. They are having some things coming down. So use that so we can know what is going on where you are , fox 29 snow. Blizzard warning for new york and several new jersey. Robert moses is in hudson count which a look at conditions there. Good morning to you. Reporter thomas and alex, good morning to you. We are seeing the largest snowflakes that we have seen all day here, in see caucus, just to sit ways you if you are not familiar with this area, were about five to 6 miles away, from new york city, just through the lincoln tunnel. It is a ghost town this parking lot would normally be pretty busy on a week day like today, 24 hour pharmacy, bagel shop, but, much of the store, many of the stores here are closed. Turf say they have done a good job, keeping the main road, clear here. Thinks paterson planning road one of the main arteries up here in seecaucus. Governor christie urging any nonessential employees to stay home and not even give this a go and that is really the best bet, and, ill tell you what, mass transit is a tough go here in new jersey, today as well, because new Jersey Transit is on, a, weekend schedule, that is, trains, and lightunning. I spoke to a guy earlier this into manhattan to his job, and he was waiting for a bus around 3 30 this morning and, the bus never showed up. Because of the service that was suspended he didnt realize. That so getting around is pretty tough. Guys, back to you. All right, look at that, so they pushed it up in the corner piling up there. Thank you for that update, robert. You can certainly hear it. Sleet coming down. Still seeing it here in philadelphia and other parts, south, we are seeing rain in Atlantic City, new jersey getting those pictures, thanks to all of you sending it in. Further north, a foot of snow. As we look at radar is there a mixture of things going on so we will update we will check back with sue. My cancer started as Ovarian Cancer and it kept coming back in different places. We went from everything being fine to everything not being fine. I really needed someone who could think outside the box. We did the Genomic Testing pretty early in christines course. 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Other places north and west of the city as we have been getting great pictures from yall on twit they are morning and on facebook. It has been great. A few updates, first of all as far as blizzard warning is concerned, it has been lifted in half of the montgomery, bucks, and Chester County here and kind of moved up to the north, and Mercer County is out of the blizzard warning but still in the winter storm warning, Winter Weather advisory, high wind warning continues, at our shore delawar. So this storm continues its progress toward the north ande were in the thick of it right now, very intense precipitation and we are seeing as we mentioned earlier , some of the colder air mix nothing and we are getting reports of placek over o snow, because we all started with snow this morning and visibility, very poor out there. Especially where it is snowing heavily mount pocono, reading, Poor Visibility in millville as well as Atlantic City. So no matter what kind of precipitation you are getting it is reducing visibility. 40 miles an hour wind gust in philadelphia as well. We have got the wind, we have got the snow, we have got the rain and sleet, in betwee, guys, it is late will bit of everything but whatever you have it is a mess. It certainly sound like it. It does. We will check out, in this mess, because Lauren Johnson has been outside in it in folsom. Super trooper, good morning again, to you lauren. Reporter hi guys, sorry. But where are you guys unaudible. Reporter going to do some plowing. Yeah. Reporter what streets have been bad. Back road are all bad, i havent been on the yet so we will find out. We just came out and got some gas, coffee. Reporter be careful out there. All right. Reporter they were talking to us when they toss todd say hi and they kept saying, but we are hearing as you can tell now, the wind picking up a little bit and this sleet is coming down a lot harder and hitting you in the face. Thomas, i keep complaining about that. I was going to try to go back over here, i dont want to fall on tv and see in one of these areas how thick it is. Im about ankle deep when i step down. Would i say we have half inch here if im accurate. Sue, scott have more accurate numbers then i do but yeah, im about half inch ankle deep when i step in the fresh snow. That that is how forecasters do it, and they put on the boots. Yes. Pretty much how we do it. One way to measure it. Stay warm. Shes cold out there feel for everyone when they go outside in the elements. As you sit in the comfortable studio. It is freezing. You are nice and warm. Isnt it cold in here. You have a blanket, half covered. They keep it nice and cold. Not that it compares took outside there. Nothing compared to being out there. You guys are doing a great job use fox 29 snow. We are getting interesting pictures. This is north wilmington. Jim morrison sent this in, some down trees and wires, so we are starting to see effects of this weather, since they have been dog with since 3 00 this morning. Thank you for sending this in a. Lets check in on mike and how is he doing . Look at that. He is getting peppered with snow. I feel like i need to be protected here. Change the sweater. Love you mike. Hersheys miniatures. We pour em we pass em we pick em delicious fun for everyone. Hersheys miniatures are mine, yours, our chocolate. Honey bunches of oats. D flakes, yours, plus crunchy granola clusters, plus a touch of honey. Its like adding up awesome, its the sum of the best of the best in a cereal. Honey bunches of oats. Bing, good morning everybody. 8 55. Live look at were kind of shaking with the wind. Again, snow covered, and, what is there on top of that road surface . It is iced over, combination of ice from underneath, maybe a little bit of snow and then dealing with the freezing rain on top. Heres a live look at i95 in northeast philadelphia, it may look wet but we have had a handful of accidents, on and off ramps, it is slushy, that becomes slippery. Heres a live look at new jersey side of the delaware Memorial Bridge, flooded out in wildwood because of the heavy rain and portions of route 47, under water now, and then 101, 102 trolleys, both suspended, three bus services suspended, 55 other bus bus routes on detours if you must head out today, best bet market frankford, broad street subway running trains every eight to 10 minutes. Expect a saturday schedule and delays of 20 to 40 minutes on all of the Regional Rail lines alex and thomas, back over to you . Okay, thanks very much, bob a lot of people are sending in pictures about is what going on in their backyard as we continue to see effects of this storm. We are hoping in a little bit, we cant right now but we will check with the shore, along down the shore, because, they are getting a lot of rain, do you see all that green they have been dealing with. We want to see what you are seeing, see what you are eat ing this morning, what your kid are dock, what your pets are doing, send them in, fox 29 snow. We will be right back. Checking in on that forecast. Test test health mouthwash. Ate total advanced shake to activate a powerful cleaning action that removes twenty four times more bacteria. Improve the health of your mouth with new Colgate Total advanced health mouthwash. Shake to clean. Snow, sleet, wind, we have a little bit of everything this morning. Its the biggest storm weve seen this season. Its been mere here for a little bit. Heres a live look at the ben franklin parkway. Looking snowy there. Good day to you, stus, march, 14, 2017. Well keep checking on him. First, we have these windows here and we love this. Window to the world. We can see whats going on. Unfortunately because we face the cameras. Look how strong it is. Did you see the lady with the umbrella . Sometimes we miss things because were looking this way. Viewers said this shows how