[inaudible conversations] good evening, everyone. Can everybody hear me okay . No. Its not on. How about now . Thats better. Okay. Thank you for coming. Im laurie gillman, coowner of east city book shop and im really happy to welcome everybody e everyone here tonight. Anyone the crowd who is here for the first time . One person. Welcome. Were very glad youre here. Normally we have at least half the crowd who is here for the first time but this is very much a hometown crowd this evening so i hope everybody buy behaves for you. Were happy to have repeat customers back and some of you we see in here often and i just want to aheartfelt thank you for toe everybody for supporting the book store. Before we get started a few logistics. First, please silence your cellphones. I forget when i forget to do that eye say that i always regret it so please do that. Ill do that, too. Okay. Books are for sale upstairs for anyone who missed that at the cash registers. He you havent purchased a book yet a
Expressway, closed until five or 5 30. Everybody push off here at 30th street and right back on. Live mass transit and bridges looking g karen and thomas back to you. 4 01. Search is on for driver who struck a woman in bucks county and left her in the street with life threatening injuries sky fox over the scene, hit and run happened right in front of the fire department, lets get out to steve keeley hoist working the scene in trevose this morning, steve. Reporter we can tell bob that the police have finished their investigation and heres a Vantage Point you didnt see from the sky fox shot, 45 miles an hour is the speed limit but where this happened, look, that driver was coming at your angle watching from home, and you can see they are coming ought on a curved hill, so, very, little chance to see anybody if they are walking in the middle of the street when you are doing 45 around a curve, coming down a hill which you cannot see over on the other side of the hill and right to the left o
Airport as well. So no one will go basically an affect. If you can stay at home in pajamas and slippers. That sounds delightful. Yeah. My goodness, it is so cold outside. Dealing with snow that is one thing. Looking at snowfall totals so far we are up to 5 inches at stockily delaware and far cry from the end of this storm system just yet. We have had to up our expectations we will have more on that throughout the course of the morning but easily picking up multiple inches, milton, eldora, new jersey has just shy of 3 inches so far. When lou at rehoboth you are starting to get offfully close to white out conditions here pretty tough to make out the foreground sand and down there outside boardwalk plaza. That is plenty of snow starting to pile up in this area alone and every where else you see those darker shade of purple banding. Parts of atlantic county, Cape May County stuck as is southern and southeastern most burlington, ocean county that will potentially overtake the road quicker t
Today, Doug Pedersons birthday. Oh, it is cents. A big birthday for him, too. Yes. He is ooh years old, would have been cooler if he was 52, but well take 50. Still a big birthday. Doug, can you change it to 52 . Weve been talking with the players, today is a big practice day, so hell be working real hard, so maybe he celebrated last night. Sue, can we do a Weather Report . It snowed what about 2 inches in a hour last hour. Guess what . Guess what, guess what . What . Were colder than you are right now. The current temperature in no way. Uhhuh. It is 32 degrees in minneapolis, and it foles like 24. Here in philadelphia, it is 18. What . It is like summer here never. In old city, it feels like six. Sue real quickly. Yes . This was all over the news yesterday, local news in minneapolis. We were out ice fishing, which youll see later. Cant wait. Talking about the warming trends. They were so excited about the warming trends, it might hit 30. And were excited, too. And you have exceeded it
Overall in the traffic department, bus. I sounds like it, yes. And weve got wet weather to deal with this morning, just depends where you are, but lets start a look at the Winter Weather advisory. Lehigh valley, berks county, upper bucks, western Montgomery County you are in the advisory. Thats where youll have problems potentially freezing conditions, where the temperatures are just close enough that it is one of those you Pay Attention to the car thermometer reading on your drive situation. So you will see that break in the rain. Turns over to some freezing rain, even some snow, mirk g in here, i dont expect that you will see much in the way of any accumulation out of this, but certainly just in time for the morning rush, no picnic for you along roads like 72, 78. It could be slick out there. Meanwhile, we have rain elsewhere, you will be flicking the windshield wipers fortyone at the airport, colder north and west you travel, again, it is still pretty cool day. We will eventually re