Here and it will expand and blossom and sink toward chicago and pivot through here tomorrow night to at least coat the ground and well chat about the timing of that to follow the cold coming up in the full accuweather forecast. All right thank you. Stay ahead of the weather by visiting 6abc. Com our downloading the 6 abc app. Find the hour by hour forecast and the seven day as well as stormtracker 6 live double scan. A packed septa train slammed into a car and drag tropical disturbance down the tracks today in montgomery county. And the driver was able to get out before the impact all thanks to the help of bystanders. John rawlins is live now near the Railroad Crossing in glen side where the collision happened during the morning rush. Reporter you look at the facts here. It could have ended differently. Crossing accidents often do not go well. 7 00 a. M. This morning on ricers mill road. A busy septa line. A confused driver made a wrong turn and put him into the path of a crowded commu
On the west coat will becoast we this afternoon. Reporter omar jimenez reporting. While the ntsb works to determine this crash it brings back memories of the crash that happened here in that Port Richmond just two years ago. Amtrak train 188 derailed in may 2015. Eight people were killed and more than 200 others were injured in that incident. The train was traveling 106 miles an hour in a 50 Miles Per Hour speed zone. Investigators determined that the engineer was distracted by an incident with a nearby train. In september, a judge dismissed charges against that engineer. You can follow the latest developments of the fatal amtrak derailment on 6abc. Com. You can watch video from the scene in washington state. Pennsylvania state senator day lon leach released a new statement. John rawlins live in Center City Philadelphia this afternoon with the very latest including john some reaction from the governor. Reporter thats correct. Leach is a state senator who has ambitions his goal in 2018
Week. We look at the winter storm warnings and they extend to florida to the carolinas and they dont go far inland just the coastal communities not included philadelphia. If you want a major noreaster you need to see these inland. The mainly along the coast. It begins wednesday night at the shore and then works its way inland thursday morning. Thursday morning is rush hour and despite not a major storm still creating very slick travel on thursday mornings rush hour with the hardest hit area southeastern new jersey and tapers off thursday afternoon. Well show you a closer look with future tracker and how much snow with this storm and the brutal numbers friday and saturday coming up in just a bit. Adam, thank you. All the cold weather is causing a lot of problems with infrastructure in the area. Chopper 6 hd was overhead as the water gusts from the large water main break in conshohocken and flooded nearby businesses and impacting houses in towns. Walter perez is live at the scene this af
Of 5 feet tall against the truck earlier today. That is solid ice there. It is in the a fluffy snow. No snowball fights could be dangerous toy day. Great to have you here on this friday, tgif, as we deal with this cold, sue. We are talking about everything being icy. We all walk like old people. Yes. You just walk gingerly out there this morning, because, it is only a two out of ten. We had a one yesterday because of the snow. This is how you have to walk. Just really, really carefully. Yes. Now we have bus stop buddy, he is outside, but dont want to stay there for long. Wind chills below zero. Many schools are closed to day almost all of them. Our storm has moved away far away from frustrates but still influencing us with the wind. 12 degrees feels like seven below zero. So later on today we will go from 12 to 17, that is it, even with sunshine. Some snow could still blow, and drift, a bit and northwesterly wins could gust up to 40 miles an hour. This isnt going anywhere for next coup
A numbing cleanup in ocean city, new jersey. People across the area digging out from a brutal winter storm and now dealing with an arctic blast. Under all that snow, frozen streets and sidewalks. Be aware of the black ice. In new jersey, state police with their hands full with more than a thousand calls for help yesterday during the height of the storm. Whether you live in the city or at the shore or in the suburb the cold weather is unhe is capable if you think it is miserable out there right now the weekend is going to be absolutely brutal. Thanks for joining us. Im dawn timmeney. Dangerously cold temperatures that will send chills down your spine. This weekend we break records that go back decades. We have team could have ratch for you tonight. Brad sattin is in West Philadelphia talking about some heating problems of all things and meteorologist Scott Williams with more on this dangerous cold. Scott, weve been talking about wind chills below zero. Absolutely. 11 degrees right now i