Thats cold but its not nearly as harsh as it has been. But on wednesday, into thursday i am tracking a low pressure that will be developing off the east coast and that has the potential to bring us significant snow depending on the track. Ill have details on that and talk about record cold for the weekend coming up in the full accuweather 7day forecast. Jim. Thank you, cecily. An apartment complex along the 9600 block of ashton road in northeast philadelphia has been without power since overnight. Action News Reporter chad pradelli has more on how residents are coping with the brutally cold weather. Reporter charred underground transformer was dug up around 1 00 this afternoon nearly 12 hours after it blew at Victoria Woods in northeast philadelphia. Mark weaver arrived home shortly after the power went out. It got colder and colder as the night progressed but we had comforters and her jacket and my jacket and everything so we roughed it out. It worked out. Reporter initially others li
Louisiana and florida. It will ride up the east coast and come our way late tonight. The good news, youre not going to see any during the day. We will get sunshine today. Look at the temperatures, we need it, too. Single digits, thats clear skies and much less wind than yesterday. Thats when you get the coldest conditions. Thats what were seeing this morning for the Lehigh Valley, new jersey, for the suburbs, just dropped to 16 degrees in philadelphia. Now down to 12 in delaware. With sunshine, the numbers turn around. Warmest day weve seen in some sometime. 32 in new jersey. 33 in delaware. Low 30s for philadelphia and the suburbs. Ill break it down hour by hour and show when the first snow arrives when i come back in ten minutes. First, Jessica Boyington has your first alert traffic. Thanks. Starting off in center city. The schuylkill expressway, our cameras around the vine street expressway. The construction looks good in both directions. Heading to the vine street expressway, were
Westmoreland avenue. Watching route 70, still seeing volume heading out the door there. Were getting into the beginnings of what is rush hour. We still have the water main break. You can see flashing lights at kings highway. There are some in the intersection, as well. A slow go moving down that eastbound side. Ill end on the p. A. Turnpike. Drive times look good so far east and west, route 1 to valley forge. East and west, speeds into the 60s. Thanks. Now to the first alert coverage and the snow threat ahead. Heres a live picture from cape may along the jersey shore. People are preparing for the brunt of the wintry blast. And katy zachry with more on the preparations underway as we speak. Reporter right now at the jersey shore, you have a lot of preparations underway. A lot of people have Nervous Energy about whats coming in the next 24 hours. It is so cold here, below freezing temperatures. Look at this. Any leftover snow with storms past, it is too cold for snow to melt. Now people
Large in size and very explosive in intensity, so its only going to get stronger as it approaches. The entire area is under the first alert. We do have that blizzard warning for the jersey shore. A rare blizzard warning and also south delaware. Thats where youre going to see the highest winds. Youre also going to see the highest snowfall totals. At this point it looks like thats where the biggest impact will be on all of this. 9 00 tonight through 7 00 tomorrow evening. That is how long well be looking at this first alert and that is how long well be looking at these blizzard conditions around the rest of the area, we are looking at winter storm warnings. So its just still as severe. The winds wont be quite as high in philadelphia. What were looking at is heavy snow. Potentially you could see up to a foot in some places along the jersey shore. In philadelphia, some places could exceed half a foot. Were looking at high winds. Were looking at what could be a very dangerous morning commut
Of disturbing charges. His wife is speaking out overnight, what shes saying about the accusations against him. All that plus, a new apology from youtube star logan paul. Theres a lot of things i should have done differently but i didnt. Should he now be banned for that controversial video he posted . Jawdrop j millions winners overnight. That prize is soaring to 418 million. While is up for grabs in tonights powerball drawing. And fixing to have a baby. The adorable way that hgtv stars Joanna Gaines just revealed their newest project, today, wednesday, january 3rd, 2018. From nbc news, this is today, with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hey, everybody. Welcome to today. And thanks for joining us on this wednesday morning. Leave it to chip and Joanna Gaines to do it just right. I know. Little renovation pr bun in the oven. Were going to get to our top story, that monster storm seto bring snow, ice and frigid winds from florida to the northeast.