And i realized, yeah, this house is on fire. A husband and wife each play holiday heroes at the same time miles apart. What they did to save christmas for two groups of total strangers. A good tuesday morning, everyone. Im diane macedo. And im gio benitez in for kendis gibson. You know, Winter Weather is delaying travel for millions of americans trying to head home after the holiday. Yes, it was a White Christmas for millions, and that is expected to continue into the new year. One area east of the great lakes is bracing for up to 50 inches of snow while many other areas are preparing for icy conditions and dangerous below zero windchills. Abcs Elizabeth Hur is here with the latest on that. Good morning, elizabeth. Reporter well, diane and gio, good morning to you. Theres more snow on the way but already weve seen plenty of snow, ice and rain, and so as you can imagine, trying to get anywhere for so many, it wasnt just messy, it got downright dangerous. Whiteout conditions from upstate
Back to you. Please come back inside. People are coping with this bitter blast as best as they can, Eyewitness News cameras in center city where those out and aut, of course , bundled up. Temperatures in the 20s and chil wind left many longing for warmer days ahead. Among those braving the chill, some visitors, from australia. Probably coldest it has ever been, painfully cold but refreshing. Makes you feel alive. It is, bloody cold to be mpletely honest. It is freezing. My feet are freezing. My nose is frozen. Everything is frozen but it is so much fun. Welcome to philadelphia everyone we talk with said layers were key in the effort to try to keep warm. Par under a snow emergency. The area was blanketed with a record, 53 inches of snow, in less than 36 hours. The emergency declation will allow officials to bring in more resources, the stormost 3 w on Christmas Day alone and another 2 feet have snow fell yesterday and forecasters say more is on the way. Officialare urging residents to s
Been below freezing for say a couple hours now. And by tomorrow morning single digit feels like temperatures for virtually the entire area. Yet again back to that harsh bitter winter reality that we did not experience yesterday. 30 what it sits at in blue bell 27 in coatesville and 35 in philadelphia. When i came in this morning we were at 58. Thats the kind of change we have already experienced. And on top of that look at this. Wind gusts between 30 and 40 Miles Per Hour. 38 both philly and wilmington. These strong gusts are making it feel much colder than it actually is. And insult to injury here we still have just a little bit more shower action on the board. So looking at Doppler Radar throughout the area you see Little Pockets of moisture. Ive been checking ground reports, a few flakes north and west and a little bit of rain southern most edge. Well talk about when this clears out and your eagles game day forecast coming up. Thank you, krystal. We are following the eagles road to
Room then that. Yes. So, we will need it for next weekend. We will. And and, watch our eagles fly, where do you go up. So it feels like five, out there, sunrise time, is it is 7 21. So, there is next weather system coming our way we will talk about our clipper coming, tomorrow, and, tomorrow night into wednesday, really, and, and, it is a cold one for the holiday but hopefully ill get a lot done today bob kelly because it is our day. My know started to run like it is on saturday outside in the game. Yes. And, good morning to everybody, 7 02, live look at the schuylkill expressway. And everybody head on out to the Community Service event , today, we will start to see some jams, no problems at all coming from new jersey, septa kicked in a new timetable over the weekend so make sure you have the new schedule for all of the Regional Rail lines and wilmington line in services, to the church mans station, this morning, and the rest of the region rail lines you pick and cheese from a modified
Until 9 00 a. M. Simple luck or does he know something we dont . One birds fan perfectly perfectly predicts the games score and message depends the falcons who he said will prove victorious tonight. The trowed victory, thats. When i that i mean we want another win you had to show me in there freezing with no hat on . Ive he been given grief all week. The temperature will be a lot better. Its finally here. Its finally here. Today is the day, less than 12 hours away might i add so let the countdown begin what do we got . The linc is ready to go. Spiffed up. We got the dogs on stick, i had no idea it would be in such demand we can meet the demand, weve been cutting all through the weekend, we have more dog masks. Show up here and well give you one. We have face painters out there already. I think its early 12 hours to go, but you put that on be dont wash. It will last. So excited they cant sleep anyway. Come on down. I certainly could. Here is sue, what is the temperature going to be . It