At times. Its doing so right now. I showed you a shot a minute ago and police hadnt arrived on the accident scene yet. They were kind of stuck in the traffic there in the backlog but we can see now police, several police officers, emergency workers all responding to the scene. It looks to be at least three vehicles as i look at this. A few vehicles here and im not sure if thats one or two cause its kind of dark right there. We can see theyre currently blocking all lanes on the schuylkill westbound as emergency workers come to the scene to deal with this. This is westbound schuylkill at University Avenue. Our breaking news. A big accident involving several vehicles blocking all lanes and now we see emergency workers at the scene, some of them still in the backlog here trying to get there. Looks like we have an ambulance here as well trying to deal with this scene blocking all lanes on the schuylkill westbound at university. Traffic at a standstill. Were seeing speeds crawl along on the
And the alert we have in place really the focal point is tonight and in through wednesday morning. Lets go ahead and take you to the Weather Center and theres a Winter Weather advisory in effect today, gradually going into effect in the poconos and then down toward the far northern suburbs and then later this afternoon starting to kick in in these counties closer to philadelphia, northern and western Chester County and the northern halves of Montgomery County and bucks county. This is where most of our snow is going to arrive. It will be a light snow but travel conditions in these areas later today and tonight as it starts to build in will be the worst that well see across the region. 30 degrees currently in philadelphia, not nearly as cold this morning. 27 degrees in trenton. 28 in allentown, 29 in reading and millville and 27 in cape may. And theres a little bit of a wind out there but not a big wind. So, were talking a wind chill in philadelphia, 22 degrees. Winds down overnight fro
We have a big accident at university avenue. I showed you this shot earlier. We had westbound completely blocked, eastbound almost completely blocked with this accident. Its a different scene now. We can see theyve pushed most of the vehicles off to the side. It was a multivehicle accident as chopper pans back you see what a tough morning commute it is. This delay stretches for miles and youre not expecting this kind of delay westbound headed towards University City coming off of the walt whitman bridge. Traffic is barely moving because of that accident. The good news is the accident that was blocking all lanes for awhile is off to the side now and eastbound traffic is also getting by so youre stuck in the traffic now but theres light at the end of the tunnel there because theyre allowing it to move at the scene. Lets switch to our Traffic Cameras and you get a different sense of whats happening here. So, heres that jammed traffic on the schuylkill westbound at university. Emergency wo
The super bowl of course. Action news is soaking it in. Tailgating is already beginning. Our jeff chirico is live in mayfair and Jeff Skversky is also on the birds beat. Nick foles and the eagles looking to get back to the super bowl for the first time in 12 years. Well have reaction from the players as they get set for the first game of the season. The nfc championship game against the vyingings later tonight. We have breaking news from i95 in south philadelphia. The action cam is at the scene with southbound lanes near the broad street exit. One person, a man in his 30s was killed in one of the vehicles. Two others were taken to the hospital. One is in critical condition. The other is stable. Police right now stick with action news for updates on this breaking news. And now the accweather fraustd for the nfc championship. A live look at the ben franklin bridge. It is going to be an exciting day. We have good temperatures. It is nick foles birthday weekend. What a difference a week ma
Of hagel circle and police right now still on the scene. Se melanie is there in lortonn loro with the latest. Mel. Reporter steve and allison, this is the terrace townhomes of gunston community. Were on route one just south of fort belvoir, about 10 30 100 last night when Fairfax Countyoy police say they got the 911 the9 call from neighbors who firstho described hearing a series off loud deep booms that they thought perhaps was thunder but then they didnt see any flash so they realized it wasy i gun shots. When police and medical crews arrived here on the scene, sce that is when they found theou t body of a young man laying as they said on the sidewalk. Idewa. Its sort of in a culdesacc area where a cluster of o townhomes are circled around. Now, neighbors tell us that the man appeared to have been tn laying on his side, perhaps to them it looked like he hadedhe been shot in the neck. In the ne. They tell me that hes a young man from the neighborhood butoob police have not put out any