Who is tracking is snow. The obvious question is what exactly are we expecting . Its a little different depending on what neighborhood. We put the first alert in effect for accumulating snow over parts of the pennsylvania suburbs through the lehigh and burke count. Ill tell you what. The main event really hits in the overnight hours. As long as you dont have a big date night plan, youll probably be fined. If you have plans early on saturday or later in the day on sunday, both look better. 3 to 6 inches of hive wet snow. Temperatures will be marginally not quite cold, so what were looking at is snow. Its not big, fluffy, pretty flakes. Sloppy and slippery travel. Some of it will melt. Some of it will stick. Enough is going to stick that we put it out as a warning for any travel conditions. Radar and satellite, this is a wide view. Were empty on radar until we go all the way out to the southwest of us near wichita to st. Louis, down to memphis and dallas. You see one component of the sto
At 11 00. Princeton class canceled and not for a snow day rather because of something said during lecture. Whole idea was to get students talking. It did that. Good evening and thanks for joining us at 11 00. Im iain page. The class was about free speech but when some racial slurs came up some walked out. Fox 29s dave kinchen talked with some students about what went down. Reporter the phrase hate speech is in the name of this course but still while some say students knew what they were getting into, students say it was just too much. Honestly i think we all felt like that chilling effect. We were taken back and i think that was the professors intention. Reporter it hardly sat well when alexa adams says her Princeton University anthropology instructor Lawrence Rosen dropped the n word in seminar called cultural freedom hate speech, blasphemy and pornography. Whats worse, a white man punching a black man in the face or a white man calling the black man the n word but actually saying the
45 in philadelphia, look at new jersey, 47 degrees. G o mild. And with sunless skies today. The clouds will be with us all day. Not too many showers. In fact, a sprinkle at best for most neighborhoods. 60s for philadelphia and the suburbs. New jersey up to 65 degrees. You might see a brief shower this afternoon. Most of the day mild. Ill break the day down hour by hour and show when showers return this evening when im back in ten minutes. First, Jessica Boyington has your first alert traffic. Thanks. Starting in new castle, delaware, we have a ramp closed. Ro1s northbound ramp to 95 southbound closed this morning with an accident. A vehicle went off the road there. Theyre blocking off the ramp for drivers right now. Theres a disabled vehicle in new hanover on hoffmansville at layfield road. Watch for Police Activity before that moves out of the way. Ill end on route 38. This is moving through cherry hill, new jersey, at cuthbert boulevard. You see not a lot of cars out the door there.
Your first alert traffic. Thanks, bill. Were starting out in new castle, delaware. Route 141, a lot of construction around the area typically. Right now what were watching is an accident northbound ramp to 95 southbound. Right now thats currently closed because of the car that kind of went off the road there. Blocking that ramp the schuylkill expressway dealing with construction on the westbound side. If you look closely, you can see the cones. And a second ago, i saw Police Activity up ahead. Were seeing lanes lost. Not a full closure like we normally do. Eastbound side all open there, as well. 422, not seeing problems. Eastbound to the schuylkill, an eightminute trip. Speeds into the 60s. Thank you. Breaking news out of Delaware County this morning. Fire roars through this twin home in darby and spreads to one other house. This fire started about after 2 00 a. M. On fern street. It is now under control. The neighbors tell us they helped a woman get out of the secondfloor window to a
Melissa magee tracking the storm, melissa. Walter, we have a large area of precipitation that were tracking looking at Storm Tracker six live double scan radar 3d and see that snow press nothing to much of the pennsylvania and Delaware Valley. Little farther south and west through ohio valley we have mixed precipitation. We will go in tighter on street level with storm track er six and we have light snow falling, there in philadelphia, and if you look off to the south we have got some snow across interior sections of south jersey, heavier bands of snow setting up in delaware but milk precipitation farther south. Would i not be surprised in a couple hours from now these areas to the south of philadelphia, mixed over and eventually change over, to rain. As far as the temperatures are concerned, we are getting that column of cold air that is starting to cool right now. It three is two in reading. Same thing in lancaster. Forty in atlantic city. 38 degrees in cape may. Thirtynine in philad