Snow. Nbc10s first alert chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz is tracking snow in the area this week. Give us the details. Renee, we do get it once in a while. I know shes terrified of it but weve had less than 2 inches total for the month. Now, we have cloudy skies across much of the area now. There is no threat tonight or tomorrow. That flag is blowing in some cold air and were already down into the 30s in some portions of the area. Mid40s to the south. The wind, pretty strong out of the west. Were gusting up over 30 miles an hour at the moment. And that will diminish as we go through the night tonight. The windy minimumishes tonight and the temperature goes down. We watch to the west and see this next system come in as we go into the middle of the week. Some people getting snow others rain. More on the timing of that with the sevenday in a few minutes. 20 minutes of nonstop news continues with new information about the deadly highway pileups in our area that killed three and
By neighborhood with a forecast when i come back. You might want to grab a fan to keep the breeze blowing across your face during the day. Lets see how the traffic is flowing. First alert traffic reporter Jessica Boyington. Good morning, jessica. Good morning, bill. Were flowing fine on 95 around broad street. Everything moving along perfectly this morning. Dont want to jinks it. 12 minutes from woodhaven road to the vine street expressway. Northbound from the vine street expressway up to woodhaven road pretty much the same thing as you can see in our cameras. No problems or volumes as well. 42 freeway in new jersey still a 5 Minute Travel time headed northbound from 55 towards the walt whitman bridge. No problems southbound. Northbound is where it tends to jam up. Bridges, no problems there as well. All bridges free and in the clear. We are still dealing with ongoing construction on the ben franklin bridge. Not a lot of volume so far. Head westbound into philadelphia were losing one l
The winds will be increasing as we go into the afternoon. Its not just the temperature. Go through it neighborhood by neighborhood with the forecast when i come back in 10 minutes. Lets get a look at the traffic. See how fog may be affecting things in the area. Jessica boyington in the first alert traffic center. Good morning, jessica. Good morning, bill. Fog not affecting a lot of our area because we dont have a lot of volume in the area. Theres not a lot of cars dealing with reduced visibility. Right now on 202 around the schuylkill expressway you can see no problems or delays heading in that direction. In lower marian we have word of an accident on hannaford ave. Out in upper dublin still dealing with the water main break on pine town road east and westbound near barton drive. You can take camp hill road to get through that area. As for mass transit, currently no problems or delays for septa, new Jersey Transit or patco. Breaking news out of nepal. Four people were killed when anoth
Neighborhood by neighborhood with the forecast when i come back. Lets find out if the sun up is leading to a slowdown. Jessica boyington in the first alert traffic center. Good morning, jessica. Good morning, bill. Good news on the schuylkill expressway around Spring Garden street. Earlier debris. We had crews on the scene just a second ago. Lifted that debris up and got it out of the way. All lanes behind on westbound. 11 minutes if youre headed westbound from the vine street expressway up towards the blue route. Area bridges busy on the bridges bridges. Construction losing one lane moving westbound. In the process of closing on the taconypalmyra. You can expect small recity sid duels there. Scheduled for a 6 15 opening. That will create delays on both sides of the bridge. 42 freeway in new jersey currently no problems there. Still 5 minutes if youre headed southbound from the walt whitman bridge up to 55. 4 minutes headed walt whitman bridge. Thats where it tends to back up. Were goi
Stands at 42. The number has been inched up as the hours are passed. This is the third time in the past two and a half weeks that nepal has seen a deadly earthquake. Show you video just into our Digital Operation Center here. When the shaking starts panicked people run into the streets trying to avoid falling debris. Some began using their cell phones to call loved ones. We were able to Reach University of delaware student. Shes been part of a Relief Team Helping Victims recover from last months earthquake when the ground started shaking again. Everything shook quite vigorously. It was a very long very strong earthquake. The earthquake on april 25th was Even Stronger than the one today. That one hard a 7. 8 register and it would kill 8,000 people injured ten of thousands of people. Im going to continue monitoring the video and news feed. Ill have an update at the bottom of the hour. Well see you then. The state fire marshal is looking into a two alarm fire overnight in new castle count