Storm was on new england as anticipated, boston, one of the spots that got the worst of it with more than a foot the of snow on the ground so far, and it continues to snow there. When it comes to our area, the heaviest snow was to the east. Meteorologist Justin Drabick is live with the cbs3 mobile weather lab in toms river ocean county justin . Reporter good evening, chris. The that is right ocean county was one of the hardest hit area in Central New Jersey and for our area you can see decent amount have of snow its ground. I have a ruler here. This isnt the best way to measure snow he but unfortunately everything is clear. There has been a lot have of blowing, drifting going on right now but we will take a measurement right here. Couple spots in the grass to make sure everything is good. That is about five and a half inches. That does make sense but it depend where do you your measuring because of the blowing, drifting here. Storm did track farther east keeping most of the heavy snow
Building inspectors are still trying to figure out exactly what happened. Lets take look at this google street street which shows us the lulu lemon store at 5712 wall net street. Bricks from the top of this building fell on to the top of this roof and those caused the problem. Force of those bricks as you can see in this picture put holes in the roof of the store. As we said, put people in the hospital. Eyewitness News Reporter david spunt is live tonight with new developments in this story. David . Reporter chris, three women went to the hospital with minor injuries. I was in touch with the l andism commissioner tonight. His crews will be out here on site early tomorrow morning. Moon while on top of the roof where this all happened, the building investigators and construction workers were up there to try to stabilize the building to make sure no more bricks fall down. Orange warning sign greets people walking by the lulu lemon store on walnut street in center city. Three women left on
We hope to get more information from him very soon. In the meantime folks displaced continue, to walk out of this building, to find a safe, warm place to stay while the fire investigators investigate a cause. I was able to speak with the family including a mom and her five and eight year old daughters who live on the second floor apartment here. They woke up to alarms and thick smoke mom was able to get her girls into jackets and realizing there was no other option they jumped from a second floor apartment to safety. This is what the fire looked like at the the washington Tower Apartments on the 400 block of bethlehem with fire crew is arriving just before 1 00 in the morning they found some shooting from the second story apartment. Officials tell thaws fire crews had to rescue at least one person from the balcony. As i mentioned other people had to jump. One person was taken to the hospital fortunately only with minor injuries. Four Story Building was evacuated by fire crews but some
Philadelphia. 28 at 7 00. By lunchtime close to the 40degree mark. Thats where the winds start to kick in and a few scattered clouds will be moving along with those. Well go through this hour by hour for you. When i come back in the ten minutes with the future weather, but first lets go to jillman mele. Good morning. We have an accident out of new jersey with a tractortrailer on the turnpike northbound approaching 168. The left lane is blocked off. And headed to pilesgrove we have route 40 closed near kings highway. This accident happened around midnight to bring down a pole, so a lot of activity. Stick to auburn road as your all thor gnat. And delaware county, a live look at the blue route near macdade boulevard. We are following breaking news in the logan section of philadelphia. It was a rude and scary awakening for a family after an suv crashed into a house. Police are still looking for the driver who ran away after the crash. Monique braxton is live at the scene there in logan. Wh
Mountains. Its cold without the wind. 8 degrees right now for mount pocono. Trenton is 17. And 19 in wilmington. Factor in the wind and it feels like 7 degrees now in philadelphia. 3 degrees for pottsstown. And for redding 3 degrees right now. So bundle up if youre heading out the door. It is going to be a cold blustery start to the day. 23 degrees by 9 00. The good news brilliant sunshine and as the wind eases this afternoon, thats when the temperatures will pop just above freezing in philadelphia. 33 degrees with less wind at 3 00 today. Ill go through it neighborhood by neighborhood to show you which areas are going to be stuck in the 20s this afternoon. Thats when im back in ten. Right now check in with first alert traffic reporter jillian mele. Good morning. Good morning to you. We have our first accident of the morning on a local highway. This is happening in new jersey. The shot is not that great but you can see a lot of official activity out here 295. This accident is southboun