Until 5 00. Coming from south jersey quiet on the 42 freeway but remember anything that did not evaporate or if it looks wet with the temp at 24 there is potential for ice as we roll out for first thing this morning. Karen and thomas, back to you. We will begin with break ing news, in the olney section of the city a crash involving a Police Officer, we know two people were hurt, including an officer lets get out to steve keeley at the scene, steve. Reporter this happened just past midnight at this intersection a pretty big one ogontz and ol knew avenue better known as front of the Central High School as traffic light intersection. Aftermath, in our video showing the Police Officer, had his, white unmark ford side air bags all deployed. It shows Police Officers dont just face every day danger that come with fighting crime, they face every man and woman daily dangers, we all face just driving around and patrol officer, spend the majority of their shift driving with less cars on the road
Let us know. Aim not sure it is a compliment. Talking about prince harry, carson, i dont think it is an insult, hi, it is friday. It is december 15th, car men again, what we do, and is this, no, and giants, so, anytime we have to say the word giants today because that is the eagles on sunday, if you do say the word giants, and any derivation of giant, you have to go outside without a coat on and stand across the street, across the street at the bus stop and then hug someone, and apologize to the city of philadelphia. I didnt agree with that. You werent in the meeting and so, that was the penalty, and by the way we have the worst man nora in the city. Happy hanukkah. Happy hanukkah to everybody celebrating. We add a extra candle. Look at that. It is candle. Those are hand dipped. They dont even fit the holes. A pol guys for that as well. But anyway what did you say. It is going to be snow today. Yes heck of the commute on the way home because everybody will be getting out of the school,
Commuters. Watching the snow rates increasing through the course of the evening hours but you know what, this is a pretty cold storm. Look at these temperatures across the Delaware Valley. Its down into the 20s in many locations. 16 right now in the poconos. Everything thats falling out of the sky sticking to the roads. Sticking to the sidewalks and of course sticking to your drivew driveway. Visibilities of concern with the snow rates increasing. Visibilities are going down. You notice we do have three quarter mile ships visibility here in philadelphia. A lot of spots reporting less than a quarter mile of a mile in parts of new jersey. Take live look at ultimate doppler the turnpike down 295, 70 is a nightmare at this hour. We just talked about Speed Sensors a crawl in many of our roadways. Burlington county down towards winslow township, galloway all dealing with moderate to heavy snows and even into delaware where we do speed restrictions on the delaware Memorial Bridge thats for go
Long after the evening commute ended this is what it looked like a couple hours ago. Our mobile weather watcher, driving over the schuylkill expressway, traffic moving but with Live Team Coverage lets start with Natasha Brown who was in the thick of the evening commute. Reporter i certainly was earlier today, ukee and jessica, were seeing right now along the parkway around 18th is traffic moving smoothly at this hour, that is certainly a welcomed sight right now was not the case just few hours ago. Pretty much from the city to the suburbs, were he saw grid lock as far as the eye could see. Ive been out here the last six hours. Reporter mike wilson is a private contractor i couldnt get around the city. He had to cancel several appointments because of the grid lock he met during the height of the snowfall seeming the at every turn i was on 95. I was on 76. It was it was as bad as ive ever seen it. Reporter a nightmarish commute from the city to the suburbs as the heaviest snow began to f
At 11 00. Snow blanketing our area for the third time in a week snow falling across the area inn clueing here down at the shore covering the boardwalk in wildwood tonight. Driving conditions, well, just a mess. The snow hitting at absolutely the worst time, all during the height of rush hour on a friday night. Delays for some people more than an hour. And tonight the big concern, the freeze. Thanks for joining us. Im dawn timmeney. The snow caused serious headaches for people today. We have Live Team Coverage with brad sattin in cherry hill. Dave kinchen is in Delaware County. Lets start with meteorology mike masco outside our studios in old city where it is bitter cold, mike in bitter cold is right. I mean it is one of those huddle and cuddle kind of nights running from restaurant to restaurant home to home because it is too cold to be out for prolonged period a time. Take look at our graphic. Well show you again this was quick hitting snowfall across the region as most of our snow re