One of the more impressive numbers. Yes indeed, sunshine today, temperatures warming into the mid upper 40s, a lot of the snow will be a thing of the past. Let me take you right now to a live look at bethlehem. There are the wet roads, we have some slush on the side. There could be some slick spots. Temperatures north and west of philadelphia are below freezing right now in some spot. So just be minds full of that. Then taking live look at spring garden, just dealing with the wet roads here in the city. So a not too much in the way of slick spot, expected across the city, but just be minds full and take the extra time this morning. Let me take you right now to live look at storm scan3. You can see the snow has moved on out. This is following up in places like boston, not even going to last there too much longer as we see increasing sunshine throughout the day. 35 degrees right now in philadelphia. It is 34 in trenton, but see the areas north and west, reading is right around 32, 32 all
Hot spots, also, all around the area of olde city road is still remain closed, every where including portions of market street, Chestnut Street tonight. Fire officials are still investigating the cause, luckily no one was injured. Just after 3 00 a. M. Four alarm blaze broke out at third and chestnut, the flames and thick smoke forced 160 people out of their apartments at 239 chestnut and guests at best western hotel. The Philadelphia Fire Department responded with 150 Fire Fighters and medics, and at this point residents believe that the fire started on the top floor of the apartment building, officials are still assessing the total damage to build goes on the block, the museum of the American Revolution was not damaged and will reopen monday the owner, little lion said shes still waiting to find out the extent of damage to his building, he has a staff of 80 people that just closed for the night before the fire erupted. We have about 80 employees. Eighty people depending on little lio
County, Lehigh Valley. Up to 8 inches of snow. 7 inches 7 1 2 and easton just over 6 inches. The totals that were seeing from last nights system. A bit of snow. Now the roadways themselves been cleaned up overnight. You may have to do shoveling as you wake up this morning. Temperatures are sustained. Theyre around freezing. Allentown, bluebell, coatsville. Philly, dover, millville, all at 35 degrees. These are zones where there wasnt much snow that felony wa felony we go from 35 to 38 at 4 00 a. M. Lunchtime, 42 degrees. Look at this, sunshine today. It will be a pretty nice sunday before serious warmth hits the workweek. Well talk more about the temperatures coming up. Kiz krystal, we have new information. Dozens of people forced out of their apartments and out of a hotel in old city. We just got an update from philadelphia fire commissioner. Randy gyllenhaal is live on the scene for us with incredible video and an update on where that fire now stands. Good morning, randy. Reporter go
All snow north and west of the city, ally allentown picking up 8. 3, hamburg 7inches, green lane and hainesport 2. 2 and in philadelphia 1 inch of fresh snow. Storm scan3 showing us the trend of this moisture scooting out, still lingering light rain showers right now down the shore but most of that energy and moisture is exiting off to the east so still couple of drips coming down in and around Atlantic City up into coastal ocean county. We still have a couple of flakes flying up towards the poconos. Secondary snow, little snow band working through carbon and Monroe County will that continue to move off to the east but for the most part this event is over. Future precipitation showing us a few lingering snow showers towards the poconos, maybe Lehigh Valley for the next couple hours. Into early tomorrow morning and the overnight period no wet weather in storm or snowy weather and were scaling back the winter storm warnings, the Winter Weather advisories. The National Weather service has
This thing, firefighters have gotten this under control. This is at 3rd and Chestnut Streets. Theyre still working to get rid of every single extinguish all the flames. As of 6 48 a. M. , they do not expect it to spread anymore. You can see the heavy black smoke consuming this block of Chestnut Street for the past four hours. Theyre going to expect a lot of smoke damage. The building affected will have severe fire damage in all of those apartments. This is at third and chestnut across from the museum of the american revolution. It has a number of bars, hotels, shopping districts and apartments. A number of people in the apartments of the affected buildings were evacuated. Nearby buildings also evacuated. Some 60 people were just evacuated in the past hour because they were in a nearby building and were told to get out. At this point, we can report no injuries according to fire officials. They are going to continue investigating. They got to get their crews inside the building to survey