The cold has arrived, cold for the entire area all day today. The winds have already topped 30 Miles Per Hour giving us feelslike temperatures of 1wr to 10. And we could see gusts as high as 40 Miles Per Hour possibly beyond in south jersey. A few neighborhoods will get that strong. A steady wind right now. It has increased now. Coatesville at 21 Miles Per Hour. Look at dover, steady at 23 Miles Per Hour. It feels like temperatures have gone even lower. 5 in dover. 4 for reading. 7 for pottstown, northeast philadelphia, and mt. Holly. A cold start this morning. Even without the wind its cold. 21 in new jersey 21 for philadelphia. 18 in the suburbs. The temperatures with bright sunshine will only manage to climb into the upper 30s upper 20s and very low 30s. In fact, new jersey delaware and philadelphia will top out at 31. A degree below freezing this afternoon. Ill break the forecasts down hour by hour to show how well progress during the day when im back in ten minutes. First Jessica
Steady wind in allentown. Its increased to 21 Miles Per Hour. 17 Miles Per Hour for philadelphia and mt. Holly, wilmington at a 13 mileanhour wind. It doesnt take much wind to make it feel good. Weve got a lot of wind this morning. 4 is the windchill in allentown. Feels like 7 in northeast philadelphia and trenton. 9 in wilmington. At the shore, feels like Single Digits to start. Bundle up all day long. Cold weather all day. Without the wind, 18, thats the actual temperature. 21 right now in new jersey and philadelphia. Peaking in the low 30s this afternoon with a few ighborhood later today. Ill break it down hour by hour when i come back in ten minutes and a look at snow, too. Now to Jessica Boyington and first alert traffic. Thanks, in the Lehigh Valley, no problems, but more little earlier this morning. East and west, moving nicely around lehigh street. No problems reported there. Collegeville, a crash at 1st and east main street. Heres the garden state parkway moving through the ca
Straight ahead, the senator is with us for an exclusive live street, around broad street, we have construction and the ramp interview. Bitter blast. Off to the side and some of that bonechilling cold and snow stretches tohe taking aim at 25 Million People side. From the midwest to the disabled vehicle around northeast. Al is on it. That, plus holiday overload. The delays that have millions montgomery drive. Happening says still waiting for their cybermonday packages to arrive. That one of the best meteor a 6yearold using youtube showers of the year will peak to make millions. Thispeak viewing time is between and royal show of force. Princes william and harry attend 7 30 tonight and dawn tomorrow. For the best viewing, get as far the star wars premier and take the red carpet by storm away from city lights as trooper. Possible. Today, wednesday, december 13th, more now on the dangerous 2017. Cold, a code blue is in effect announcer from nbc news, for much of our viewing a including montg
Center, senator john mccain is back home. His office announcing the senator will not be back in washington until at least january and it couldnt have come at a worst time for the president with the long awaited vote on the 1. 5 trillion tax bill expected to take place tomorrow in the house. As Congress Works furiously to fulfill the president s promise to, quote, give americans a tax cut for christmas. And theyll need every republican vote they can with democrats rejecting the bill in mass. Here was the president remarking on his call with mccains wife cindy. I wish her well. I wish john well. Theyre headed back, but i understand hell come if we ever needed his vote which hopefully we wont. But the word is john will come back if we need his vote. And its too bad. Its tough. Hes going through a very tough time. Theres no question about it. So, just how much will this impact that crucial tax vote . For more we go to nbcs Edward Lawrence in washington. Edward, good morning. Reporter good
Electrical system. Right now the impact of the power outage is being felt at philly international. Matt delucia joins us there with whats going on. Matt . Reporter we are also seeing some cancelations for today from philadelphia to atlanta. The majority of them being the earlier flights. Behind me, you see a lot of the other flights are still getting ready to take off here to other destinations. It really is only atlanta that is being affected here. Delta says most of the sclcance flights are for the early morning. Upwards of 300 flights in and out with delta being the largest carrier. The airline is particularly feeling the effects of the power outage. Delta is hoping to get back to a normal schedule this afternoon. If you are connecting or flying to atlanta from philadelphia, this airport here simply says you should keep checking with your airline for the status of your flight. We talked with travelers who have been stuck here overnight. Of course, we are in the busy Holiday Travel s