Low as 32 below zero. Good morning to you, im tracy davidson. Im chris cato. Cold is coming and here it is. And delaware Public Schools are closed this morning along with dozens of schools across the area. The list of closings and delays are scrolling along the bottom of the screen and on your nbc 10 app. When weather poses a threat like this, count on nbc 10 to have Live Team Coverage outside to show you exactly what to expect. Right now meteorologist bill henley has the firstalert forecast to start us off, bill . Temperatures are plummeting and the wind makes it feel so much colder this morning. The wind is going to be with us all day long in the pocano mountains where it is the coldest. Mount pocano at 9 degrees below zero. Factor in the wind and it is a first alert weather day for dangerous cold this morning. The bitter winds blowing will be blowing throughout the day. This afternoon windchills will feel like they are below zero. But this morning were seeing windchills of 10 to 15
And we are know just down to 3 degrees in philadelphia. These are the low temperatures we saw on monday morning, but they are still falling at this hour. Pottstown, reading, lancaster, zero. It feels like 19 degrees below zero for reading. 14 below in wildwood. So standby to bundle up strong gusty winds throughout the day. Temperatures will stay in the single digits. 5 degrees at 9 00. At lunch time 13 degrees. Well go through it neighborhood by neighborhood with the hourbyhour weather when im back in ten. Now well go to jillian mele. Good morning to you at home and to you, bill as well. The midcounty toll plaza, not many cars with the blue route clear. The pennsylvania turnpike is looking good along with the northeast extension. 63rd and chestnut we have an accident. Take 62nd to get around it. I will work to get you an alter naught route here and have that in the next update. And septa is storing some subway trains in the tunnels longer. They are expecting tension to be released on t
We should see showers later this morning, right . Yes, and the sun will be coming up and youll need the sunglasses to start with. And youll need to bundle up in the 30s and 40s. Look how nice and clear it is this morning with the view of the moon. Temperatures are still falling, in philadelphia 44. Northeast philadelphia trenton, pottstown, down to 34. 33 in trenton. Dry right now, but you can see the wet weather is starting to move towards western pennsylvania detroit, cleveland, saginaw seaing wet weather this morning. Thats the bulk of the rain with the first showers late this morning. Cold to start with 40 degrees by 7 00. By 9 00 44. 47 degrees with showers at lunchtime. Well go through it hour by hour with the future weather when im back in ten minutes. Ill show you where the rain will arrive first. Now well go to first alert traffic reporter Christine Maddela. Good morning to you, christine. Good morning. The roads are looking pretty good. The pennsylvania turnpike, 295 and all
Now. Matt delucia is live with the latest. Reporter the fire has been out for a little while, but firefighters do remain out here on the scene. You can see all the fire trucks around here behind me. And you can see right behind me there, thats the lights up there right now because investigators are in there trying to figure out what started the fire. Real quickly, im going to go ahead and show you pictures of a witness out here on the scene. You can see the heavy, intense flames out there on the backside of the house on the first and second floor. Again, this was around 2 45 this morning and we do have video we shot for you a short sometime ago on the other side of the house here. This started around 2 45 on first avenue. This is about a block away from fayette street. Several crews came out here because this was very intense as you just saw. Formally, nobody was hurt. Everyone got out safely. And i spoke with a man to live next door he was in his house watching a movie and smelled the
40 at 7 37 out here but all the eastbound traffic is backed up because all the lanes are closed. The westbound traffic is slowing down as well and all the westbound lanes are open but you can see this long line of vehicles here that are taking a look at that accident. Now, heres an update from twitter. Its a multivehicle accident. We also made some calls to a tracker trailer and car involved in this accident on 78. Its actually eastbound. They sent out an update between exits 45 and exit 40 so all lanes are closed out there. Thats just something to be aware of. A little closer to the philadelphia area on the schuylkill expressway well take a look at the drive times here. We are not seeing any major delays except for the incident on interstate 78. 12 minutes is your drive time eastbound from the blue route to the vine. About the same heading on the westbound side. If you are heading out to mass transit, everything is on or close to schedule. 5 31 now. And investigators right now are wor