Saturday. Thanks for being with us. Goor good morning. This is nbc10 news today. Im rosemary connors. Its 5 30 and we are tracking snow and that deep freeze for your saturday. Weve issued a first alert so that youre prepared for the changes to our weather. Meteorologist steve sosna is keeping an eye on the timing of the snow. Steve. Thats right, rosemary. Snow beginning in our western suburbs already in Chester County, its snowing up in the poconos, were seeing the light snow. And, look, visibility has come down. I showed this to you a half hour ago. You can see a little further. The curtain of snow is lowering across the area. Thats camelback. Lets look at other spots in our area right now. This is a live look from the loews hotel. You can s wind here, not a lot of wind at the moment but show you the radar because we are watching snow moving in from west to east across the area. Heres a look at the radar over the last couple of hours. You can see its a solid line of snow all the way u
I95 in wilmington. Fia isrst alracking the conditis in your neighborhood. Again, steve, were not going to get swamped by this snow. Right. But it really doesnt factor in well with the cold temperatures weve had all week long. Yeah, normally this would be deal. Ettable snow, a coating to but the problem with this one is weve had such cold ground temperatures. So anything that falls will immediately stick if not treated. And even the treated surfaces when you get below 20 degrees, the chemicals dont work as effectively. So really your tires need some kind of traction especially when the snow compacts and turns into ice. This is a live look at i95 in south philadelphia where it is snowing if you look closely in the street lights there. Snow now falling in philadelphia. Here is your first alert. We have the entire viewing area in it. And its through tuesday. You may ask why its not going to snow through tuesday. Round one is the snow for today. Round two is the bitter cold that comes in he
Of the fire. While the firefighter was taken to temple hospital and was unfortunately pronounced dead here. Outside this hospital tonight it is very quiet, a very different scene than what it was like just a few hours ago as firefighters and Emergency Responders from over the city filed in and at the time were hoping for a very different news. The emergency room at temple hospital in north philadelphia filled this afternoon with heavy hearted firefighters and Emergency Responders. Some of the bravest men and women in our city heartbroken over the loss of one of their own, philadelphia firefighter and lieutenant, matthew letourneau. At 11 07 this morning it was declared dead. And we are without words. Reporter Fire Department commissioner adam thiel choked back emotions outside of the hospital as he explained. His lieutenant was fighting this Early Morning two alarm fire along north colorado street in north philadelphia. At some point while he was inside the smoke filled row home, it wa
Speaking of american favorites to win medals, did you catch what happened with Mikaela Shiffrin today . Won six of her last seven races including a giant slalom this morning seen on nbc sn in slovenia. Shes 3 of 3 in the calendar year and looking for another tomorrow in slalom 6 00 a. M. Eastern time on nbc sn. The victory, her 39th world cup race victory that is exactly halfway to Lindsey Vonns 78. No female alpine skier has won more than lindsey vonn, so vonn and schiffry two of the big names along with nathan chen well look for in 33 days when the olympics begin. Shiffrin with a big performance looking to continue that tomorrow on nbc sn. Well see you right there in a couple of hours as the prudential u. S. Figure skating championships continue tonight at 8 00 eastern 5 00 pacific live across the country with the mens free skate. Reminder relive all the action from the u. S. Figure skating championships at icenetwork. Com. From Northern California we go to southern ask game. Footbal
Joanne . Reporter good evening, dawn, joyce. Good evening everyone. We are at the the scene of the fire and tonight there are very heavy hearts in the Philadelphia Fire Department and here in this neighborhood. Lets get right to the video of this deadly fire on colorado street in north philadelphia. This is where the fire broke out at a row home on this oneway street before 9 00 this morning. And this is where lieutenant matt la turneau was trapped and died from his injuries after a structural collapse inside the building. The photo credit of lieutenant will he torn know from facebook. The fire went to a second alarm and firefighters did their very best in this frigid cold weather to try to put out the fire and keep it from spreading to neighboring homes. Before we start, i just want to say if anyone still doesnt have fios, please stay out of the way so your lag the resident of the home also doesnt get us all killed, ben. Died and two others were rushed whats so good about fios anyway