Back in less than ten minutes with your neighborhood by neighborhood forecast. Now to get you updated on your ride to work early monday morning so far, things have been smooth. I hope i didnt jinx things. Katy zachry is in with a look at the clear and cold roads. Chris, i hope you didnt jinx things either, because for the last hour, things have been looking great on the area roads. Well start off with a live look at 676, vine street expressway right at broad street. The expanse of the vine looks great. 76 looks good as well. For drivers in delaware county, springfield township, providence road between Baltimore Pike and bishop road, there is some construction there for you to be aware of. And as we zoom out and take a look at your average speeds on the area roads, route 1 is in the 50s, 95 south of philadelphia, youre in the mid50s. And the 42 freeway is in the mid50s as well. And we take a live look at the 42 freeway right at creek road. This is in belmar, where you can see by evidenc
With a look at the damage there. Threats get started with meteorologist Melissa Magee over at the big board, melissa. Sarah its second day of november and feels more like december when you factor in the blustery winds and really cold wind chills weve been dealing with throughout much of the day. As we look at peak wind gusts we had gusts of 48 miles an hour gusting as high as 47 in the poconos. Wilmington, dover and Atlantic City clocking in with gusts tvd 45 miles an hour. And heres the cup pretty and reason why it was windy. Stormtracker 6 double scan radar show you this area of low pressure this coastal storm that affected areas of new england and heavy and early season snow. This is lifting on off to the north and east. And we have High Pressure over the ohio valley that works its wayest ward and sandwiched in between so you get the winds funneling in out of the northwestch the northwest chill is stick ago around. Temperatures currently in the 40s. You factor in the wind chill and
And lehigh valleys crushing cars, toppling trees and tearing down power lines. Thousands were left without electricity and tomorrow will be a day of cleanup for many. Sunday night and the big story on action news is a day of damaging winds and cleanup begins in ernest tomorrow as we prepare for another night of cold temperatures. Ab an has a look at damage. But first well go to meteorologist mel bhel more on the winds that whipped across the region today. Melissa. Sarah that was big weather story today. We had blustery winds and highest winds reported earlier this morning. Peak wind gusts in philadelphia as high as 48 miles an hour and gusts today in poconos of 47 miles an hour. Wilmington, dover, atlantic city, clocking in with gusts as high as 45 miles an hour. Heres cup pretty and reason why it was so windy today. Stormtracker 6 double scan radar showing you were tracking coastal storm essentially noreaster for areas in new england that produced heavy snow across maine today exiting
Street down coulter, i heard screaming. Reporter this witness said he had just walked by 22yearold carlesha freelandgaither at 9 40 at the corner of coulter and green. She was screaming help, help. Reporter in the dark of night all he could see was the struggle. I dont know what happened inside the car. The glass came off and thats when i jumped back and all that and he pulled off. Reporter detectives found her cell phone and glasses at the scene along with a knife and a glove. We dont know what happened at all. Carleshas family says shes in this neighborhood frequently to visit friends and her godson. They came to the scene this morning with photos in hand ready to retrace her steps in search for answers. Were going to do the same thing everybody else is doing, search through houses and grass and leaves and any kind of pals you might see, just go through it, kick it. Any kind of things you could find and pick up just to give us a clue as to where she may be at. Reporter her family bel
Gusts brought down trees around our area and check this out. An suv destroyed in west chest chester. Good evening everybody. Im joyce evans. Im karen hepp. Those cold winds came pretty much a shock to anybody stepping outside today. Lets get right over to katelyn roth with a check of what we have now. Its a shock to the system the first time we feel like we are entering a new season and we are actually enter agnew month. November began yesterday. It did come in with a vengeance luckily all the wet weather we saw on saturday long gone. Storm system now wrapped up across portions of Eastern Maine and the canadian maritime. A lot of snow here. This is of course for central and eastern sections of maine far away from us, but on the back side of that storm system, tight Pressure Gradient delivering very gusty winds all day long. Breezy outside right now. Temperatures in the mid 40s here in philadelphia. 43, 39 in pottstown. 39 in allentown. Already at the freezing mark up in mount pocono. W