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Crash involving a train and a car but first lets start with your fox 29 Winter Weather authority. Live look at ocean city, new jersey, tonight. Many of the shore communities that took the brunt today are still dealing with all of this. Kathy orr is now tracking the latest on the storm. Kathy . Well, lucy, we are saying goodbye to the storm and as it continues to move toward the northeast and bomb out off the coast of new england, were seeing all right wind shifting to more northwesterly direction and the snow really ending just a few light snow showers left in philadelphia it is just cold and windy. Were talking about blowing snow now and some brutally cold wind chills lets talk about those snow accumulations. Cape may courthouse 17inches of snow. Thats a new high total for the area. Atlantic city nearly 13. Vineland six. Mt. Holly five. Chadds ford four. New castle, delaware, nearly 3inches of snow. Atlantic city 12. 7. Dennisville 12. 5. Toms river ten. Philadelphia range was four to six and there you go. 4inches of snow in philly. Langhorne 3. 8 and jenkintown 3. Lets talk about the winds. Still gusting to 44 miles an hour in wilmington. Gusting to 35 in philadelphia. Gusting to 44 in the poconos and just to relate that to tropical systems thats a Tropical Storm force gust. Outside right now, its 25 degrees it feels like its 11. Off wind out of the northwest at 18 miles an hour. Your feel like readings range from seven below in the poconos to 12 in trenton. But most of those wind chills will go below zero overnight tonight. Heres look at the overnight low temperatures. Philadelphia ten. Six in allentown. Three below in the poconos. And in pottstown it will be 5 degrees. So what is it like there now, . Last time i check, Scott Williams, those streets were still a mess. I know things are going to be slow in old city tonight. Reporter absolutely. Right here outside our studios, kathy, we are looking at Market Street. You can see very few cars are out and about. Its really just a slushy mess from todays snowfall across the area. Those temperatures are dropping and folks are bundle the up. Of course, the snow has come to an end, but the bigger story in the days to come will be the bitterly cold air mass that will move in for friday and the upcoming weekend and also when i come indoors, well talk about those frigid wind chills. Back to you. All right. Thank you very much, scott. Safe to say a rough day down the shore with all of that snow and all that win. Fox 29s dave kinchen live in margate. 16inches of snow, dave. Reporter whew, youre not kidding absolutely. If you can see it in the camera theres a little bit still coming down right now. We have not seen a stop to the snowfall since weve been here in margate. And you can see whats falling already on the ground and how high it goes up these sidewalks not even touched right here. And how far it goes up all the way to the doors and make our way very carefully you can see down the alley just one little pathway there but as we make our way over to these banks on the side you can see cars like this one here stuck not going anywhere. No chance of getting this vehicle out likely for awhile. Although the roads are certainly passible, cars like that suv take their time as they make their way down the road going very very slow. A state of emergency in effect including atlantic county, Cape May County as well. We also know that theres a travel advisory or travel restriction in place for places like atlantic county. Nonessential personnel not allowed to travel the roads kept clear for police and fire and other emergency vehicles as well. Take look at that big vehicle right there by the way. The authorities here have military style vehicles to get supplies in and out of this area. And around they bring those out. They keep them at the fire department. They bring them out from time to time so theyre keeping folks safe here but i can tell the snow is still falling. I was going to ask you. It look like its still falling there. And the streets pretty much are dead exempt for that one suv that drove past you, dave. Reporter yeah, definitely. I think a lot of that certainly the off season here. Theres few people who live down here year round. Thats part of it but also i think a lot of people staying inside because they were watching fox 29 and they knew this was coming. Exactly. Its still happening. All right. Thank you very much, dave kinchen there in margate. Problems for some drivers even before the snow started falling. The problem what youre seeing right there. Tickets. Along broad street in philadelphia for cars park along the snow emergency route. Now, the snow emergency took effect at midnight as we were telling you. Cars still on those routes at 4 00 a. M. Tomorrow may get towed. At the height of the storm this morning, a deadly crash it involved a septa Regional Rail train an car in montgomery county. Fox 29s dawn timmeney is live in lower mooreland township, dawn. Well, lucy it happened on this hill right behind me. Conditions were treacherous. A car coming down the hill snow was falling hard sliding on the hill just as a septa train is coming by. It was a grim scene just before 9 30 this morning along red lion road near philmont avenue in lower mooreland township. Two women on their way to work coming down this hill by the Railroad Crossing unable to stop on the snow covered road. You can see the marks in the snow where the suv slid down the steep incline breaking through the gate and slamming into an oncoming septa train. The driver of the vehicle was able to exit the vehicle before the crash. The passenger remain in the vehicle and was later found outside the vehicle along the tracks. Reporter the police chief says the driver realized she was in trouble and told the passenger they had to get out. The driver jumping for her life. Sadly, her coworker could not get out in time. I just think thats obviously there was some snow and very bad weather at the time of accident. Reporter the badly mangled gm terrain suv towed from the scene. Septa says it hit between the third and fourth train car on its west trenton line. The train operator stopped at the next station after realize wagon happened. The some 50 passengers were taken off the train and shuttled to their destinations. The west trenton line back up and running around 1 30 this afternoon after being suspended for some four hours. The driver of the suv treated and released from the hospital. She has answered questions and helped with the investigation, been very helpf helpful. Reporter now, workers who are nearby say they are so saddened by this news. I did speak to a guy who works for Heating Company and he said he was coming down this hill this morning and it was extrem extremely slick. He heard a loud bang and then a scream. Police say they are not yet releasing the names of the two women involved until family is notified, lucy. Obviously heartbreaking. It absolutely is, dawn. All right. Thank you much. With snow blanketing the streets of philadelphia piling up on the roads and sidewalks its obvious al challenge for drivers and even people trying to walk. Look at that. This is live shot right now and you can see that wind bouncing our camera around. Now, the city says right now it has about 305 trucks tackling the snow. The Streets Department wants you to be obviously cautious behind the wheel. Were asking folks if you see assault truck or plow truck, please keep your distance behind them so that way your vehicles are not pelted by the salt. Were also asking folks not to push or purchase or shovel snow into the street. The Streets Department says its hoping to have the primary and secondary streets clear by tomorrow morning. We shall see. Sin the snow has stopped, people are hitting the roads not necessarily the best thing to do if you dont have to. In Delaware County this dam cash video shows drivers taking a nice and slow on the roads in springfield. Now, in the thick of it all in New Castle County, our jeff cole life now in wilmington. Jeff. Reporter lucy, weve got about 2. 3, 3inches on the ground here in wilmington. Weve got actually a very nice evening. Its been weve seen the sunset, the sky turn pink but i want to tell you something, it is absolutely bitterly cold out here. Its forcing people obvious toll bundle up and some simply to run for cover. 95 north in pennsylvania on the border of delaware and a tractor trailer has lost it. Stretched across the median with its cab pointing backwards motorists rubbernecking as they head for the delaware line. Troopers are here while traffic has slowed moving in 2inches of cut up snow coating the interstate. On a wilmington side street theres a moment of winter piece as wind chimes are tossled in the stiff biting breeze. Joe is getting a jump on moving the snow in front of his home but says it takes time for the city plows to pass by. Usually take little while. They hit the main streets first and they usually hit us, you know, usually when the snow stops for the most part theyll come by here late at night, um, and dig us out. Reporter delaware has 400 pieces of equipment on the streets says deldot at 500 workers on the job. Wilmington clears its own streets and public works plow could be seen working 12th street in the Business District where Andrew Charlton was badly the punishing winds awaiting the 12 bus. This is insane out here. I mean were all Perfect Place actually the winds are coming straight in from the northwest right to where were standing much its sane but got to get to work. Got to keep on moving and livi living. Reporter Miguel Morales used the gas heaters in front of a bar and grill to heat his hasnts. He had been hired to clear snow. He started 2 00 in the morning he was nearly 12 hours in when we found him. With the winds and the gusts it keeps piling up keep going back and hitting it over and over again much its a mess. Its been a mess out here. Reporter hes right. It was mess out here earlier. Here on naamans road, i want to tell you that deldot has done really pretty good job bought roads are clear and theyre moving clearly but further to the south in Sussex County governor here in delaware has declared really a snow emergency, and that snow emergency means that really non official vehicles are asked to stay off the road. Theyve been hit with large amounts of snow there to the south and they are working hard to clear it up. But so far right here in wilmington, delaware, were doing okay in terms of the road. Its just really cold. Im jeff cole in wilmington and i am cold, lucy back to you. Jury jeff cold. Youre only going to get colder. Yes. Thank you much. Live look at old city. The snow moving out but wicked weather isnt over. Well check back in with roar f ,000 in america last year. We need to stand up and say enough. The only way this problem is going to be solved is if we raise our voices. Choose help over helplessness, hope over hopelessness. Make sure that the lives weve lost will not have been lost in vain. Addiction is a disease. When you ask for help, help is there for you. Iand i like these awardwinning cheddar puffs. First place. Both events . Booyah were an awards family. Youll like them both but love our price. Awardwinning organic cheddar puffs from aldi. Simply smarter shopping. Live look down the shore. Wildwood slammed by todays storm. You can tell how windy it still is outside. Its going to take awhile for folks to clean up after all the winds and snow once it does eventually end with so many schools out for the day, for many around our area, the storm was a family affair. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser is live in moorestown, new jersey, with how folks are handling it there. Dave . Reporter lucy, the snow has stopped but the high winds have not. We were up and down the route 38 corridor through Burlington County today from mt. Holly to hainesport, lumberton, mt. Laurel and moorestown. All over the place. Folks were just simply digging out. It was a father son Snow Shoveling Team hard at work on rancocas avenue in hainesport thursday afternoon Marshall Lawrence and his son nathan scooping up the snow as fast as it fell. Its not bad. No, not bad. Pretty light. Pitt see easy shoveling not heavy. Good stuff. Easy. Working on it. Report roar downtown mt. Holly looked like a ghost town except for a single shoveler at the robins nest on washington street. Snow crews were also hard at work along main street in moorestown thats where we found thomas mount and his coworker grinding it out. Bad. Push it and its covered right back up. Its bad. Stay home. Stay off the roads. Thats wailed do. Its cold and its very windy. The roads are slippery. But i like driving in the snow. So report meanwhile John Wisnewski and his family from westampton piled into the pick up for a quick trip to the super market in lumberton. The kids were off from school and celebrating john, jr. , so muchth birthday you got to have food for that. The roads are bad. So better safe than sorry. Reporter whats the best part, youre off from school . It look like maybe tomorrow, too. Yup. Reporter we also found carol or ren deck pushing a cart full of gross row across the snowy parking lot at this shop rite. She has lots of mouths to feed i got five kids so home off school today and looking forward to eating. Reporter probably off tomorrow it sounds like. Theyre hoping. Reporter for all the forecasts this time around carol gave everybody a thumbs up. Pretty accurate. Only they did pretty good this time. Reporter yeah, pretty good this time. The roads the main roads heres route 38 you can see down to the blacktop here. Cars moving fairly well. Walk around here, how much did we get . Well this is 8foot pile of snow about 20 of those here in the home goods parking lot my guesstimate for Burlington County five to 6inches. Lucy. Thank you much dave. Another round of water mape break this one massive in the northeast section of the city and 70 homes now dont have water. Crews got the call this morning. Castor avenue in rhawn street the scene. Spokesperson with the philadelphia water Department Says at left two properties have water in their basement and with the spate of breaks the Water Department has a key piece of advice here. Unfortunately, all around the ski were having water main breaks right now. Customers should at least, you know, get some bottled water, always have bottled water in the house in case of an emergency. Certainly right now with water main breaks happening at the rate that they are, um, everyone should have at least a case or so of bottled water so if there is a water main break they can get through the day Drinking Water and cooking and things like that. Words of wisdom much the depth says it expects to get service back up and running some time this evening. Now, a big part of the problem heading into the weekend is the bitter cold. Lets take live look right now, of course, thats the ben franklin parkway. The city of philadelphia Just Announced the snow emergency is going to be gone as of 8 00 tonight the city is lifting it by 8 00 tonight but because of the he can treatment cold, all City Government offices are closed tomorrow. So all City Government offices closed tomorrow. Now kathy, we could break some records this weekend. Not the type of records we want to break either. No. Were talking about record cold and you can see these temperatures, lucy, go farther north and it just gets colder and colder and thats where the air obviously will be coming from. Right now in philadelphia its 25. Not far from where we were last night. But look at international falls. Six below marquette michigan at three and milwaukee its ten and to the north and west 48 below zero in southeastern nan today 22 below. 13 below. We wont get that cold. But this air is going to be moving down toward the delaware valley. So by saturday morning, were talking about challenging record cold. Saturday morning in Atlantic City the record is four. The same in philadelphia. Wilmington seven. Trenton five. Georgetown six. We are going to be very close to breaking these records if not breaking them all. Also, another record cold day come sunday morning. Well talk more about that and the brutal wind chills with a wind chill advisory going into effect tomorrow. Thats coming up later in the broadcast. All right. Thank you much, kathy. Seaside heights strong winds have been blowing the snow around making it very difficult to see. It got slammed with blizzard that assaulted the shore. Host you can still see people driving. Its not just us. This storm battering the entire east coast. Foxs Lauren Blanchard shows us impact from Atlantic City, new jersey. Reporter rapid plunge barometric pressure delivering gusty winds and rough surf all along the east coast. Very cold. I cant feel my nose. Reporter from vehicles stuck in the snow in new jersey what would you say to possible out driving. Stay home. Reporter to male carriers in new england reporting blizzard like conditions slowing them down as they work to make important deliveries like medication. You cant see anything at a all. Its hard to work in this but i mean theyll go out and dry try our best. Reporter all as a brutal winter storm known as a bomb cyclone is now blasting the northeast with heavy snow, high winds and bitter cold. Its too cold. I go to school um up in ithica and this is cold. Reporter the system has already left tens of thousands without power, has canceled thousands of flights, and has claimed lives. This as the south is now dealing with frigid temperatures after the storm first hit their wednesday. Meanwhile with 70mile per hour winds forecast along the new england coast, blizzard warnings have been issued up through maine. Winter weather emergencies have also been declared including in new york city. Whats quite clear is this is a serious serious storm between the very low temperature, the strong winds, the driving snow, everyone should take this one very seriously. Reporter snowplow crews are scrambling to clear the roads and behind the snow the temperatures are plummeting expected to bring with it the potential for damaging ice. In Atlantic City, new jersey, Lauren Blanchard, fox news. All right. Lets head over to cape may. My goodness. You heard kathy, its cold out, right . Its just going to get worse. And remember schools have already begun announcing they are closing tomorrow. You can see them scrolling at the bottom of your screen. Also on our website fox29. Com. Ok, so with the awardwinning geico mobile app, our customers have 24 7 access, digital id cards, they can even pay their bill beep bill has joined the call. Hey bill, were just phone hi guys, bill here. Do we have julia on the line too . k, well well just phone hey sorry. I had you muted. Well yea lets just phone so what i was thinking ok well well phone yeah lets just go ahead phone oh alright the awardwinning geico app. Download it today. Before we start, i just want to say if anyone still doesnt have fios, please stay out of the way so your lag doesnt get us all killed, ben. Whats so good about fios anyway . Uh. Whats so great about a 100 fiberoptic network that makes your gaming system actually work awesomely . Hey. Did you take out the trash . Haha, garbage boy dad, i already took out ben. Its not funny. Gaming is best on a 100 fiberoptic network. So get fios. Now, just 79. 99 per month with a 2year price guarantee with a 2year agreement. Bucks county drivers are taking advantage of lighter snowfall. It doesnt look terribly light right there, does it . My goodness. A lot of the roads have been plowed fairly well with snow still falling in bensalem a lot of folks hit the road anyhow. So septa doing its best to let you know the state of things in light of the storm as of right now all Regional Rail trains are operating on a normal schedule. But lines can experience delays of as long as 60 minutes as well as cancellations. Trollies are also operating on schedule but with delays. Only three bus routes are suspended that would be the 35, 92 and 120. So 35, 92 and 120 are suspended. Market frankford and broad street lines are operating with minimum delays. Heres the thing. Tomorrow major change. All Regional Rail lines will operate on enhanced saturday schedule. Um because of the extreme cold, winds could have overhead wire problems. He went dont want people stranded in too many vehicles or if we get into issues so were trying to limit the number of trains that are out on the system tomorrow. Also tomorrow, buses will operate in place of the bala cynwyd line train. There you go. What a way to ring in the new year. First massive storm of 2018 given folks in maryland visuals that will have most people doing a double take. Palm trees on marylands Eastern Shore showered with snow like everything and everyone else in the storms path. A blizzard slammed much of the marylands Eastern Shore this morning. The heaviest snowfall in maryland and virginia is along the beaches. Not havoc or anything like that but whole lot of fun for some in South Carolina in charleston families have been heading out to enjoy the winter wonderland. Whoo red neck is nice. Snow in the south. This is fun. Okay. So good improvisation here. The kids using a body body as surfboard as a sled right. This is kind of like ski in alaska with pick up pulling him. The National Weather service says the 5inches of snow that has fallen is third snowiest day in the history of charleston. All right live look now at the ben franklin parkway. Here we go. The city is a mess right now much its pretty. Pretty mess at least from that angle. Philadelphia School District and arch diocesan schools announced they are closed tomorrow and by the way, philadelphia just said that all government offices are also closed tomorrow. Tow mark that one up, too. And with this cold it looks like it could be a rough go tomorrow, kathy. It will be. Tomorrow morning is going to be quite cold but not as cold as it will be by saturday and sunday mornings. Well see the live look down the shore cape may the the shore enduring the worst of the storm in our area but it looks like its more calm right now. Jersey shore just took a brutal beating from the snowstorm. A number of towns got slammed with more than a foot of snow. Our dave kinchen is live in margate, new jersey, where dave, last we checked in with you it was still snowing but seems maybe its let up. Reporter well, still coming down little bit right n now. I can still feel it hitting me in the face when the wind moves down this way. Guy shoveling clearing a pathway there. Its still coming down this afternoon it was pretty brutal as we go to video we can show you how appointment people were trying to deal with everything coming down here. Hard to drive through the roads because of the onslaught of snow and the wind and all of that. Some areas plowed. Others not at all. 16inches on the ground reportedly here. We can also tell you that theres an advisory out there for people restriction in travel only search vehicles, police fire, things like that otherwise youre told to stay off the road. Open hard to walk around. Its crazy, man. A lot of snow. I lived down here for a couple years im from north jersey im used to big snowstorms. Havent seen Something Like this in the last few years down here. You know a lot of snow. Cant get my car out. Reporter pretty good visual here as i walk through this area you can see from what the plows put up here, this is about half my height and im 6foot two. You can see all the snow even forming snow banks right now. Back to you. Thats amazing. Thats almost like a corn maze you got going but a snow one. Reporter pretty much, yea yeah. Dont get lost in there, day. Which brings us of course to your fox 29 winter wet authori authority. Live look at doylestown. As the snow moves out bonechilling temperatures are about to decent. Kathy and scott breaking all this down in 15 seconds. I you was just saying to lucy about 20 yearsing ate late 90s we, early 2,000s we felt sorry for the kids who live down the shore because they missed out on the gnome not the case this win. Were watching our storm, our noreaster our bomb cyclone continuing to move off the coast of new england heading off the coast of main and thats where the jackpot of snow for this storm is with a couple feet through new england. For us, know, its still significant storm for most. Ultimate doppler showing that snow ending, of course, you saw dave in Atlantic City still seeing some snow showers there. Margate as well. And all of this will be ending with northwesterly winds that are going to be the second part of this weather story. Take look at these totals. Cape may courthouse, 17inches. Atlantic city nearly 13. Vineland six. Mt. Holly five. Chadds ford, four. And new castle, delaware, 2. 6. Other totals bayville, new jersey, 16. Brick township, 12. 5. Pleasantville 10. 5. Pomona, nine. Wildwood crest seven. And king of prussia you were in our four to six range 4inches of snow for you. Take look at these temperatures. In the 20s so obviously that light snow that fell not wet snow with this at all like a packed powder at the ski slopes 14 right now in the poconos. 25 in allentown and 24 in wilmington. Wind chills six below in the poconos. Well go down possible toll about 20 below tonight. In philadelphia the wind chill 11. In wilmington seven. In millville the wind chill only eight above. A wind chill advisory goes into effect early tomorrow morning. And then record cold is possible. Lets take it outside to scott youre feeling it scott, right. Absolutely im feeling every bit of that 11degree wind chill right now, kathy. Outside of our studios, the sidewalks have been treated so they are looking okay. Just a few ice sigh patches but as you head over to Market Street ill have sean my photographer kind of zoom out over there, you can see that it is just a slushy and icy mess right now. Folks have been huddled up waiting for the bus. A bus just came. But certainly they are walking a cold temperatures. Lets talk about the arctic blast that will be moving in in the wake of the storm system rapidly pulling away toward sections of new england. But the temperatures, they are dropping. Right now its 25 degrees. It feels like 11 in philadelphia. But lets talk about that arctic cold. That will be moving in. In particular friday through the weekend. Feels like temperatures around philadelphia the i95 corridor, five to 15 below. But look at the warning in the pocono mountains it could feel as cold as 30 degrees below zero. In fact well go hour by hour and show you how rapidly future feels like temperatures with the wind chill will drop. You can see as we move toward midnight, feeling like ten below in pottstown. Five below Atlantic City but it gets even colder. Take look at mount pocono 31 degrees below zero at 5am. Ten below in philadelphia what it will feel like and 12 below in lance. Not much recovery, kathy, during the day tomorrow. Back to you. Wow. Unbelievable, scott. Ill tell you those numbers are incredible indeed lets take look overnight tonight. What we expect. Those temperatures will be mainly in the teens and single numbers but the pocono air temperature will be three below. So thats how youre going to get to that 20 below, 30 below overnight. During the day tomorrow, well have the sun, temperature near 20 in philadelphia. But with the win it will feel like its below zero. Winds gusting to 40 miles an hour. So that wind will be relentless and potential for some record Cold Saturday and sunday morning with a brutal start sunday. One below unbelievable thats temperature. A chance of rain mixed with wet snow monday afternoon. We may get above freezing. 44 for tuesday. Parly sunny wednesday 42. Thursday 46. You know one of those beautiful things that can happen after any type of storm is a sunset. Look at this view from salem county across the delaware. That icy crusty thing, thats the delaware. Of course, by the shore, we are looking at a little bit of icing here but obviously there you see the delaware bay and the Delaware River and there is your gorgeous sunset. So there is hope on horizon. Well be i have type 2 diabetes. Im trying to manage my a1c, then i learn type 2 diabetes puts me at greater risk for heart attack or stroke. Can one medicine help treat both blood sugar and cardiovascular risk . I asked my doctor. 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Tell your doctor your medical history. Gallbladder problems have happened in some people. Tell your doctor right away if you get symptoms. Taking victoza® with a sulfonylurea or insulin may cause low blood sugar. Common side effects are nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, decreased appetite, indigestion, and constipation. Side effects can lead to dehydration, which may cause kidney problems. Change the course of your treatment. Ask your doctor about victoza®. Well have much more on this monster of a storm as we take live look right now at ocean city, new jersey. The storms impact, well, its Pretty Amazing when you can look at that time lapse right there. Wow. All right. So stop what youre doing and look at this. The home goods parking lot in moorestown freshly plowed and mountains and piles about, oh, around about 8 feet high. You can even see some shopping carts stuck in all of that snow. Not too many people out doing their shopping today, though. That parking lots pretty empty. Hard to get in anyhow right. Schools closings are coming in for tomorrow. Philadelphia all government offices are closed because of the extreme cold coming in. You can check our website for all of the latest updates when it comes to School Closings and otherwise. It came down to the luck of the draw in virginia 94th district state delegate race. The story reminder the next time someone tells you theyre vote doesnt matter because it clearly does. Republican incumbent davidyan see now officially the winner after his name drawn from a bo bowl. Thats because he and his opponent democrat Shelly Simons got 11,608 votes. Thats it. They tied. And thanks to a 1705 virginia law on tie breakers 1705, a draw is what decides it. So officials put the candidates names in film canisters inside ceramic bowl then drew a name. Yeah, harkening back to old things. Film canisters when the last time youve sign one of those thing. Live look at berks county right now. Live look at berks county right now. Ka,00in america last year. We need to stand up and say enough. The only way this problem is going to be solved is if we raise our voices. Choose help over helplessness, hope over hopelessness. Make sure that the lives weve lost will not have been lost in vain. Addiction is a disease. When you ask for help, help is there for you. Before we start, i just want to say if anyone still doesnt have fios, please stay out of the way so your lag doesnt get us all killed, ben. Whats so good about fios anyway . Uh. Whats so great about a 100 fiberoptic network that makes your gaming system actually work awesomely . Hey. Did you take out the trash . Haha, garbage boy dad, i already took out ben. Its not funny. Gaming is best on a 100 fiberoptic network. So get fios. Now, just 79. 99 per month with a 2year price guarantee with a 2year agreement. Iand i like these awardwinning cheddar puffs. First place. Both events . Booyah were an awards family. Youll like them both but love our price. Awardwinning organic cheddar puffs from aldi. Simply smarter shopping. Live look at wilmington New Castle County snow behind some bigtime headaches. Its going to stick around on the ground as possibly recordbreaking temperatures move on in. Other news yes, indeed the Trump Administration just issued guidance to federal prosecutors making it easier for them to go after marijuana users and sellers in states where its now legal. Iain page has the details. Reporter attorney general Jeff Sessions has a long history of opposing pot legalization. Today he took a shot at the growing marijuana industry. By reversing an obama era policy allowing marijuana markets to operate in states where its legal, the announce many comes a little more than a month after sessions said that he was taking a hard look at the policy and its legal implications. The, um, use of marijuana is detrimental and we should not give encouragement in any way to it. Reporter new policy drew immediate condemnation from a number of lawmakers including colorados republican senator Corey Gardner who says sessions promised him during his confirmation that marijuana enforcement would not be a priority of the Trump Administration. The conversation we had that was specifically about this issue of states rights in colorado until he lives up to that commitment i will be holding all nominations to the department of justice. Report roar move also comes just four days after california launched the worlds biggest Legal Marijuana market and the new policy could have significant economic impacts. By injecting uncertainty into an industry thats already plenty app pro hence seive about what the do judgment might do when it comes to legal pot. Critics also point out that back in 2016, then candidate donald trump said he believed Marijuana Legalization should be left up to the states. The president s position hasnt changed but he does strongly believe that we have to enforce federal law. Reporter Department Justice officials are telling fox news that with todays actions the aj is unleashing more prosecutors but stopping short of ordering them to bring more marijuana cases. Lucy . All right, thank you very much, iain. Lets check back in with meteorologist Scott Williams live outside our old city studios. So, scott, snow is pretty over but, man, the wind and the cold. Absolutely, lucy. We had peak wind gusts across the region over 60 Miles Per Hour at the hof this noreaster. In fact, take look at some of those numbers coming in. Lewes, delaware, 61 to 63 Miles Per Hour gusts. Cape may, new jersey, 57, philadelphia 45mile per hour gusts at the height of the storm. As we go hour by hour, well talk little bit about what has happened today and also what will happen but Atlantic City had winds over 35mile per hour or greater for seven straight hours along with that reduced visibility. So that is official for the blizzard conditions. Current wind gusts right now 32 Miles Per Hour Atlantic City. 44 Miles Per Hour in wilmington. 45mile per hour gusts in mount pocono. And the frigid conditions with those wind chills dropping below zero by tomorrow morning area wide. Back in to the studios were its warm. Come on in. The door is just about 6 feet from you. Thank you very much, scott. Weve said it time and again the cold weather is down right dangerous and now volunteers in salem county are doing whatever they can do to make sure their neighbors stay warm and stay safe for Goodness Sake. Heres bill anderson. We have to have a place for the homeless to be able to go when its cold outside. Reporter we also keep hearing about a shortage of places for people to go and questions about why the government cant do m but here in salem conte, they stopped asking for the government to help and just decided to help people themselves. Its not Government Funded Program at all. Everybody that helps us are volunteers. Thats it. Reporter while she showed me the philadelphia facility in Carneys Point bishop brown said salem code blue started with simple desire to help people years ago. Lunch and dinner and breakfast. Reporter and since then while so many complain about a lack of resources, they just moved to act. If you have a heart for this, you understand the need, it can work. Reporter she went to several organizations and churches looking for space and heard no more often than those she likes to admit she met pastor keith holt who not only said yes but was surprised that others didnt. These are neighbors. Theyre people that are hurting, and we have an opportunity to help them were to the going to walk by on the other side of the road and say sorry, leave left for dead, we cant help when you we can help. Reporter as for those who without good reason denied bishop brown and code blue sal salem some people do walk by on the on the side but i dont want to be one of them report roar the facility is warm and clean. The homeless are comfortable leaving their belongings. They get three meals and other resources but heres where we come in. It would break my heart if we had to close our doors because we did not have enough volunteers. Reporter they need volunteers to come in and pray that it wont take what happened to another nearby pastor just to move us to help. He kept asking for volunteers and nobody would help them until someone passed. Until someone died and then people came to the rescue. I dont want that to happen here. Reporter so we asked people to step up. Some say stop waiting on the government. So when they do, will we do our part for Goodness Sake . Im bill. Keeping the roads clear and snow removed during the storm is no easy task. Workers spent countless hours battling the elements to make sure we can get where we need to go. Fox 29 photojournalist bill rohrer met with those hardworking folks in west chester. Reporter in west chester, todays storm made the roads difficult to get around. Most people chose to head out on foot. While plows and snow removal teams worked to clear roads and area businesses. We have like five buildings that were taking care of plus we have another crew doing other buildings across town. Reporter max started his day with snow removal around 2 00 this morning. Wind here is not cooperating. The wind is pttad because as soon as we get it shoveled off, the whippeds blow it right back on were pretty much double timing it. Reporter third time thomas west cleared this parking lot this morning he anticipates being on the clock for another eight hours which means a lot of coffee. Oh yeah ive had four cups already today. Yeah. Keep on going. Got to keep everything open for the customers. Reporter hernandez plowed this dominos parking lot while his wife shoveled the sidewalk. He was unable to get a babysitter so inside the truck his 13 month old son rights with him. Fun. He loves it. Making eight family event. This is my third time. Reporter the salting, shoveling and plowing does come with a price. Mike has been doing snow removal for 14 years. A little sore. A little sore. Dont really feel it until the next day too much after a nice shower, though, but hey, its worth it at the end. Reporter yeah. People are safe. Make some money out of it so its good in the end. Reporter in west chester, bill rohrer, fox 29 news. There you go. Win win. You know its tempting in this cold weather letting your car idle but it is an invitation this cold weather letting your car idle but it is an invitation the great emperor penguin migration. This cold weather letting your car idle but it is an invitation trekking a hundred miles inland to their breeding grounds. Except for these two fellows. This time next year, were gonna be sitting on an egg. I think were getting close make a uturn. Uturn . Recalculating. Man, we are never gonna breed. Just give it a second. You will arrive in 92 days. Nah, nuhuh. Nope, nope, nope. You know who im gonna follow . My instincts. As long as gps can still get you lost, you can count on geico saving folks money. Im breeding, man. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. This is how the ben franklin parkway looke looked throughouts first major snowfall of the season. Winds whipping the snow into frenzy what could be recordbreaking cold about to grip our area. Philadelphia School District closed schools tomorrow. So has the archdiocese and the city closing all governmental offices. You can see a full list of closures on fox29. Com and scrolling on the bottom your screen. Even the Sunshine State not immune from this wint chill although they dont have as bad as we do. Do you see whats going on here. One man woke up to find the pool outside his pensacola home frozen he tried a lot to break through the ice. Couldnt do it his son even bounced a soccer ball off the top of the frozen pool. Earlier this week floridas capital tallahassee saw snow for the first time in three decades. You know when it gets this cold some people, well, some people loses all common sense. For instance warming up your car with the doors unlocked basically youre inviting crooks to steal it. Sorting it all out our hank nine. And so they had left their car running and they ran in real quick to pay and that quickly someone stole their car. Reporter its hank im in lindenwold. Im about to steal your car. You left it running. I know. Its cold out. Shawna still says she doesnt blame you. You were cold. I understand why they do it because its freezing and no one wants to sit in a cold vehicle. Reporter its too late. I got it now. My take is, you should never let your car idle and having it stolen is the key reason but there were other ones as well. Warming up your engine when its cold out but thats not your cold. Its what your dad told you warm up the oil, preserve the engine. Tom says newer cars dont need much of that. Its not like the old days when you had a cash berated the fuel and the air mixing with it. Right. You have to let it run for 15 minutes. But these in you cars you dont have to do that. Reporter all right. That leaves the oth thing. Me stealing a car from somebody like you. Lindenwold Police Tweeted out wednesday its happened a couple of times there recently one source said it was at the wawa on route 30. Ill tell one person who wasnt victimized thelma mcleod. She knows. So if you pulling up and getting ready to go somewhere, turn it off, handle your business, get back in and start it back up. And thats my tip for the day, hank. Thats my take, too. Aaa south jerseys take warming the car up first thing in the morning is fine just do it safely. Doors lock. Easiest thing get a valet key chain so you lock your car when its in front. You come back out you unlock your door. Okay. Remote starters are another option as well because you can start your car from inside your house and your door is still lock. Reporter just be safe. You know where you live and how safe it is so act according physical your car is turned off and lock its not likely to get yanked but if its running and unlocked look out for shifty News Reporters out to make a fast buck much im hank and thats my take. There you government heres the iain page with fox 29 news at 6 00. The snow wreaking havoc across our area most of us seeing a lot of snow and even blizzard conditions down the shore. And were not done with the your fox 29 winter wet authority tracking bitter cold and face numbing winds. Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 6 00. A winter wallop slam you are our area heres life look at ocean city, Cape May County the shore getting hit especially hard with all the snow. Some people seeing over a food foot there doesnt matter where you go the shore, city, or the suburbs you had to deal with this monster of a storm. Thanks for joining us tonight at 6 00 im iain page. Fox 29 is your winter wet authority. Lets take another life look down the shore. This time at wildwood the snow just piled up there. With this cold its probably going stick around for days. Weve got Team Coverage for you tonight. Reporters are spread out across the area. But lets begin with team of meteorologists Scott Williams outside our studios in old city but lets begin with latest on the storm and get more on that from kathy orr. Iain, what a night indeed. The storm is pulling away the snow is ended but the whipping wind is the big story and those brutally cold wind chills will follow as well. When we take look at the snow amounts as the storm continues to pull offshore, were talking about ranges between a couple inches in the poconos to a foot and a half in south jersey and down the jersey shore. Cape may courthouse the highest number i could find 17incinche. Atlantic city 13inches. Amazing. Vineland six. Mt. Holly five. Chadds ford four and New Castle County around 3inches of snow. As we look at those records were talking about numbers that are very very cold come saturday morning for more and on this lets zen it outside to scott. Hey, scott. Hi, kathy. Thats certainly right. The temperatures have gun to drop rapidly and the wind, it is picking up. We had winds gust to 45 Miles Per Hour during the height of the storm in philadelphia. Sections of southern delaware saw winds gust over 60 Miles Per Hour. But the record cold will be settling in for the next several days. In fact,