The electrical problems caused gridlock on the ben franklin parkway. Its been horrible. I have been trying to get home for hours. And youre stuck. And your dog is an si too. We have been stuck for four hours. This is on top of the messy snowstorm that hit the tristate area. This school bus got stuck on the ice with kids onboard at 56 and lebanon in wind field. It was ridiculous. Was it . It was really ridiculous. My bus took five minutes. We were coming up from third and market. We were trying to sight see, but it probably wasnt a good day to do that. Tonight, its the calm after what seemed like the perfect storm. The storm long gone. Wouldnt you know it . All of the Traffic Signals are working again. Live in center city, channel6 action news. Thank you, dan. That was the mess on the ground tonight. Lets get the latest from meteorologist adam joseph. It started this morning, 10 30, a few makes on the radar and the system exploded around the lunchtime hour, didnt last long but bad timin
I get it. Delivering this kind of information never really makes people happy. It hurts outside and thats why we eve issued a first alert. The Lehigh Valley and the poconos. But everywhere, you find dress in lairers. The wind and the cold are just downright fafl panful. So no cake walk there. You have to watch in the kind of weather, equipment, you know, infrastructure, it doesnt behave as it usually does. There could be some delays was of the extreme cold conditions. Its two below. 3 above in philadelphia and one below in wilmington, walking you through your day today, sunshine doesnt really do much justice here. Feels like 6 by lunchtime in the subyou aresmented and you are looking at cold weather too p and track mg all of this, its that cold outside. I know. Once you head out the door it might seem a like a a little be bit f shock to you. So you see north and south not seeing any big problems or delays. Youre heading out the door on 935 and moving tru delaware, a tennessee minute tr
Temperature tonight goes above 32 degrees like it is currently in south jersey and delaware, you can still get some icing and thats the concern for the rest of our evening commute. Well talk about what we can expect, like wintry mix on the way ending from the northwest to southeast direction. It clears the coast by midnight. Any untreated surface will be slick, the driveways, the sidewalks and those secondary roads. But some good news is also headed our way. Heres future tracker6. You could see 3 oclock thursday afternoon, milder air rushing back across much of the eastern half of the u. S. By that time, its 45 in the city, 59 degrees in cincinnati and we have a bit of a january thaw on the way by later this week. More details coming up with the accuweather forecast, jim. Thank you melissa. Lets switch live to west chester and action News Reporter walter perez. Walter, whats the story there . Reporter well, jim, i mentioned during my last live shot that i almost fell on my backside get
Sidewalks but as karen mentioned some side streets as well. If youre headed to the bus stop icy sidewalks and icy windshields some folks might be in a rush maybe they dont properly clear off everything, figure the defroster is going to do it and it might make it a little bit harder to see you. 31 degrees by 6 oclock. Still icy by 8 00 a. M. At the freezing mark there. You see satellite winging by. We did have some clearing overnight and well see some sunshine this morning. 29 degrees right now in philadelphia. The number is up 2 degrees over the last half hour so were getting closer to that above freezing mark but still below freezing for now. Winds not all that strong southwest at about 8 Miles Per Hour and there you see where the numbers are still below freezing. Its areas on either side of the Delaware River right along the i95 and 295 corridor and then as we go up into the northern and western suburbs, still icy potentially up there as well. As you move down toward millville and th
Detours, more information. Here is what it looks like over that way. This is our camera right at route 30 just off route 73. So, again, the roads are wet. Were above freezing, so i dont think we have to worry about any that far black ice, but the slush thats caused from the water and the snow melting, that could be just as slippery this morning. And cherry hill, new jersey, accident investigation on route 38, closed right in front of the cherry hill mall. So watch for some local detours this morning, then water main break from last night, route 130 riverton road over in cinnaminson. Karen, thomas, back over to you. Thank you so much, there, bob. We want to get right to. This happening right now. Breaking news, out of gloucester township, people are being told to shelter in place. They have a person who is barricaded inside after home. Lets get right out to jennifer voice with what we are learning right now, jenny . Good morning, karen, we did talk to Gloucester Township Police chief ha