Advisories along the i95 corridor really all areas to the south and east from 5 oclock tomorrow morning until 4 oclock in the afternoon for light snow but the problem is that this snow is arriving right in time as bitter cold air so anything that falls will be sticking to the untreated surfaces pretty much immediately. Right now philadelphia 31. Allentown 26. Millville 31, trenton and wilmington 29 degrees. Lard to believe yesterday temperatures in some areas were in the 60s. Future tracker showing tomorrow morning at 7 30 when the snow is moving in temperatures acrosstheboard in the 20s and we will stay below freezing through the day tomorrow and actually for the next several days. Snow arriving between 6 oclock and 8 oclock in the morning, right in time for the morning commute. It will be tapering offer in the afternoon and move completely out of here between 2 oclock and 4 oclock and were looking at 1 to 2 inches of snow across our area. That will be the biggest snow for philadelphi
Ebola vaccine from br the outbreak happened and now they are moving forward in the process. We are pushing thing as long as quickly as possible. Joseph kim is president of anovia pharmaceuticals, they have developed a vaccine to protect against the deadly ebola virus, it was tested on animals showing it was safe. It can protect 100 from death and sickness, unlike other vaccines this does not use the virus. What folks have to do is get ahold of the ebola virus and use different parts to make it. They use a computer and take a genetic code of the virus and make a synthetic vaccine, kim says to manufacture it they use a fermentation process like beer. It could take about a month. To test the vaccine on humans they will not give them ebola, if it gets good results, kim says its possible the government will speed up the approval process. All bets are off in an outbreak situation, other companies are testing similar vaccines but kim says that they can cover more strains of the ebola virus, a
For philadelphia, south jersey all of delaware as we are tracking a light snowfall any time between 5 00 a. M. Wrapping up at 4 oclock on tuesday. So heres what we can expect. Start time six to eight clock in the Morning Light snow, general 1 to 2 inches across the region. This will call for slick roads and slow travel blustery and cold conditions tuesday and details coming up in the accuweather forecast. Shirleen. Thank you melissa. Lets continue our live team cover Ridgeway David Henry live on the schuylkill expressway with more on how road crews are getting ready. Hi david. Reporter timing of that storm has potential of turning rush hour into a real mess tomorrow morning so penndot is doing everything it can to stay ahead of the storm pretreating roadways all day today. This penndot truck was putting down a brine mixture on Montgomery County today. Trucks were doing the same in bucks chester and delaware counties as well. Highways through philadelphia until after 6 00 tonight and th
The transit workers are backing tom wolf for governor and this strike could suppress the democratic vote depriving the numbers that wolf needs in philadelphia to carry the state. They are talking facetoface all afternoon and Union Sources say that a strike is looking more likely if they dont make progress soon. Union members prepare picket signs at union hall and are distributed to members throughout the city. Members are preparing contingency plans. I have to drive or catch the regional train. It will cost much more plus you have to park, so it will be hard. A lot of issues for commuters to deal with. Both sides will be back here talking again tomorrow and well know by the end of the day tomorrow if the union will strike or not. David henry, channel 6 action news. Thank you david. Philadelphia city council was back in session today for the First Time Since killing the proposed sale of the philadelphia gas works, pgw workers applauded Council Members as they entered the claimber this m
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