Delaware when fierce flames destroy four homes. And the action cam is live on the developing story this morning. At least one person was killed and dozens of people were injured in a major pileup on the new jersey turnpike. Youre looking at some of the southbound lanes there in Cranbury Middlesex county. This happened last night during that mix of rain, snow flurries and below freezing temperatures and part of that road still shut down right now. The the pileup involved more than 15 vehicles including four tractortrailers, and we know at least one car ended up on fire. Lets get you whether and traffic with david and karen. Good morning. All right, guys, were off to a cold start across the region. Storm tracker 6 live double scan shows us that to the south of philadelphia and parts of delaware and south jersey there is still some lingering sleet and freezing rain highlighted in blue. Cape may county beginning to clear a little bit but more is on the way across the bay and farther north
This will continue into the night and even into the overnight hours. So the National Weather service has posted Winter Weather advisories for entire viewing area for the combination of freezing rain and sleet. The northern suburbs these are in effect until midnight but philadelphia and areas to the south the Winter Weather advisory continues until 6 oclock tomorrow morning. So this could cause some problems for the beginning of the morning commute. The problem the temperatures. Right now temperatures generally below freezing and we will not climb above freezing until midday tomorrow. So, this is what to expect tonight. Some scattered freezing rain and sleet mixed in. A few snow showers could be possible with a quick coating mainly the problem the freezing rain, though. Untreated surfaces will be icy. Be careful with sidewalks and driveways and then after this, its going to be a very busy week weatherwise. Thursday a system brings us snow showers. More snow on saturday and then sunday i
Morning. So standby for an icy situation. The ice is going to be an issue through the day today. Because of temperatures, they are not going to budge. On and off freezing rain at 9 00. By noontime were still threatening more freezing rain in the area. Well go through it hour by hour with the future weather when im back in ten. Now well go to traffic reporter jillian mele. Good morning jillian. Good morning to you, bill. We have freezing rain out there and things could get slippery and dangerous. I want to put the alert out to watch for slippery conditions on area bridges because the bridge surfaces can get very slippery before the road surfaces can. No incidents on the bridges, but watch for the conditions. The pennsylvania turnpike if thats part of your commute this morning, we are starting to get a little bit of volume westbound although your drive times are indicating a delay on the belt of one to two minutes. Westbound route 1 to valley forge, 24 minutes right now. A millersville s
Higher rate of broek broken water main breaks. Reporter the Water Department says with bitter arctic cold coming this week its the season. December through march we have the highest volume of breaks we have crews working 12hour shifts, six days a week. As breaks come in were able to respond as quickly as possible. Reporter he says the plan is to try to get those center southbound lanes open within the next 30 to 40 minutes to get a little traffic flow at rush hour. As far as those center northbound lanes, that is probably going to be closed as they continue the repairs to that water main. They believe it will be through 8 00 tonight before they can get the center northbound lanes open and hope to have everything cleaned up by the morning rush. Doug shimell, nbc10. To the Lehigh Valley and other road problems. Potholes are popping up. The city of allentown is asking people to report any problems to its pothole hot line. They have to give the exact locations of the pothole and name and t
Contact. Its going to be the untreated roads that will be the main concern as we go through tonight. Ice y untreated roads expected. This will be lasting overnight. We have more moisture, on the treated roads, anything falling, rain or drizzle, it will be freezing on your windshield. North and west of the Lehigh Valley allentown, berks county some snow falling here. Dont expect to accumulate to much. In berks county we have reports of heavy sleet falling. What you see in the pink through upper Montgomery County moving into Chester County this is either freezing rain or sleet or could be a combination of both. So were kind of seeing a wintry mix across the area. We zoom into the philadelphia area, major interstates, 76 75 in south philadelphia there is one small area of precipitation falling. This could be a mix of sleet, also freezing rain. Be careful. Anything light on untreated surfaces will be freezing causing problems. In parts of new casting and kent counties were also seeing this