Philadelphia, 300 people murdered in the city this yea year. What police are doing to keep the murder rate from spiking higher. Its been several years since city has seen this many murders. Good evening, im jessica dea dean. Im uky washington. Families impacted by the startling fatics are pleading for change. Greg aring owe is here to stop those numbers from growing. Ukee, jess, the Police Department is not celebrating. As of yesterday theres been 00 murders so far this year thats a 13 increase since 2 2016 with still two weeks left to go in this year and its also the First Time Since 20 12 the city dealt with more than 300 murders. Each of these numbers all 300 means a family is in mourning. Glad youre here. Sorry for the reason youre here. Tiny room filled with mothers and pictures of loved ones lost. Every thursday we have a Grief Support meeting. Victims of violence, murder ird in the city of brotherly love. We come together to share pain and talk about grief. That grief is shared
Area. First. One murder too many. 300, thats ridiculous. A grim milestone in philadelphia, 300 people murdered in the city this yea year. What police are doing to keep the murder rate from spiking higher. Its been several years since city has seen this many murders. Good evening, im jessica dea dean. Im uky washington. Families impacted by the startling fatics are pleading for change. Greg aring owe is here to stop those numbers from growing. Ukee, jess, the Police Department is not celebrating. As of yesterday theres been 00 murders so far this year thats a 13 increase since 2 2016 with still two weeks left to go in this year and its also the First Time Since 20 12 the city dealt with more than 300 murders. Each of these numbers all 300 means a family is in mourning. Glad youre here. Sorry for the reason youre here. Tiny room filled with mothers and pictures of loved ones lost. Every thursday we have a Grief Support meeting. Victims of violence, murder ird in the city of brotherly lov
Outside and our commute actually looking real nice, far cry from what we saw yesterday. Hopefully thats all kind of moving past us little bit. The system that came through long gone, so i think the morning drive will be the easy one, pm drive that may get little dicey. We will be talking about, that and the s word, snow, very possible that you see little modest accumulation out out of this this just to get you out the door right now is how it currently stands. Very, very quiet start to the day. Winds is very calm. You have just little bit of cloud cover overhead. It is chilly, ill give you that, actual air temperatures, in the teens, in many of the outlying suburbs, even trenton is at 19 degrees right now, down toward the beaches and the area shore points. Youre also held back into the 20s at this hour, so it is cold. But again, you dont have to factor in too much after windchill, at least not at the moment. Thats helpful. Meanwhile just to the north of the city finding Single Digits i
Were yesterday, but then you got taken out of that region, but, today, you will stands to see potential for some of the highest totals of snowfall on the way. For now, storm scan is empty. Snow will not be making its arrival here until at least the early afternoon. And when it does it, will accumulate, get much more on the details there, little later in the show, but just to get you out the door, your wind flow pretty light. Current temperatures are pretty cold. Youre down into the teens, through lancaster, reading, allentown, trenton and even Single Digits in a hands full of the most outlying suburbs, so keel cold real cold outside. But for the kids, you know, kids could be coming home on the bus with some snow falling south jersey as far as as philadelphia and delco, thats where end up with the heaviest ability, im tell you exactly how much to expect just a little later on. Okay, thank you. Most definitely. Well, good morning, for your morning commute this morning, overall things are
Road at same time and it is mass chaos. Road were terrible trying to get up here. Is what an her trip for me took me two and a half hours to get to bethlehem and still coming down albeit lightly. Lets look at storm scan three the steady snow has now shifted further south, ande, it is moving in south jersey just in time for second half of the evening commute but we are still seeing snow fall, around philadelphia and you want to look at dark purple areas that shows where heaviest snow is right now. As we zoom down in south jersey heavier snow falling around tabernacle, burlington county, vineland, couple where land county slowing things down im sure on the Atlantic City expressway and problems just a domino as snow lightens up around the sit still major slow downs on the major road. Winter weather advisory remains through this evening, that includes everyone you see in purple there, philadelphia, montgomery, bucks county, all south jersey and delaware and reason why this is so bad is tem