Back to you. Please come back inside. People are coping with this bitter blast as best as they can, Eyewitness News cameras in center city where those out and aut, of course , bundled up. Temperatures in the 20s and chil wind left many longing for warmer days ahead. Among those braving the chill, some visitors, from australia. Probably coldest it has ever been, painfully cold but refreshing. Makes you feel alive. It is, bloody cold to be mpletely honest. It is freezing. My feet are freezing. My nose is frozen. Everything is frozen but it is so much fun. Welcome to philadelphia everyone we talk with said layers were key in the effort to try to keep warm. Par under a snow emergency. The area was blanketed with a record, 53 inches of snow, in less than 36 hours. The emergency declation will allow officials to bring in more resources, the stormost 3 w on Christmas Day alone and another 2 feet have snow fell yesterday and forecasters say more is on the way. Officialare urging residents to s
Camera and the camera has been bouncing around. Thats just the beginnings of a wind event thats expected to start on saturday. So right now, calm conditions, clear skies out there. Temperatures today slightly cooler today just by a degree or two and then well be dry and windy for your day tomorrow. Yes, starting saturday, this wind event is going to pick up. There it is. Theres a little speck on your screen that would be that waning Crescent Moon. Then right now temperatures in San Francisco 55 degrees. Livermore in the 40s. Oakland also in the 40s at this hour. And our satelliteradar showing theres really not much cloud cover at all. Just a few clouds trying to reach the coastline. But thats about it. So most of your day today will be clear skies, sunshine, visibilitywise doing okay. Central valley dealing with a lot of fog. So if you are going east, that may impact your drive. Livermore visibility down to eight but not bad and then across the north bay region santa rosa, visibility d
Government has been shut down for about two hours now. Its 2 00 a. M. In washington, and within the last few minutes the Senate Passed a bipartisan budget agreement. Its now up to the house. Lawmakers might have voted earlier, but a lone senator held things up. Reporter just when it looked like a spending bill was going to sail through the senate, Kentucky Republican rand paul held up the vote over spending increases. If you were against president obamas deficits and now youre for the republican deficits, isnt that the very definition of hypocrisy . Reporter the 700 page bill wound fund the government nor would fund the government for six weeks and raise budget caps on federal spending and lifting the debt ceiling. It also allocates 90 billion for Natural Disaster relife like hurricanes and california relief like hurricanes and californias wildfires. What, were not going to rebuild houston or florida . Reporter the bill would also give a boost to defense funding. How do you go to a mil
We didnt let him open it. You should once you get outside because the satellite and radar showing us weve got some good amount of rain moving through the area. You get the sense by looking at this this is a half day events at least. Weve got that cold front thats still well out to the west that needs to push through the area. So, this doesnt wrap up until one, 2 oclock this afternoon. So you intoed that need that umbrella for a long time. Keep it handy pelman. We have rain through the area and this is really the best way to get the view of whats happening in your region. We can see the rain blanketing most of the area right now but i want to go in a little tighter because the cells closer to philadelphia has been stronger. Werey were seeing some heavy downpours. Through media we have some heavy cells that have worked their way north and theyre on the schuylkill expressway and weve seen near willow grove lansdale as well some heavy cells there. A little bit ago i was seeing lightning st
Outnumber republicans in the state by some 800,000. He thinks at this point along with other experts who have looked at this that this is probably going to be a better map for democrats. Now, what will the republicans do . Well, that will be the next shoe to drop. The Republican Leadership says they plan to go federal court and they will challenge this map when it was and issued. They are going to try find a federal judge who will end join it and stop it at this point in time their argument being that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court does not have the authority to draw this kind of map so were only an hour into this. It is going to be a long hard fought political battle in the coming days, weeks and possibly months. We shall see. Live in king of prussia, john rawlins channel6 action news. A lot more voices surely to weigh in. John thank you. Salem county where the woods Town Ambulance Company is reeling from a fire. All ambulances are either damaged or destroyed. No one was injured. Bob