the sweet spot for the heaviest snowfall totals for this event. s getting for example, no mixing of any kind, simply too cold for. that will depending on where you have the most intense snowfall rates, could you still end up with over half foot. that's going to go to the southern most counties. but as we just mentioned three, 4 inches already on the ground here at least in center city so we may tack on bit more to the totals before it is said and done, four to 6 inches the further south you travel south-central new jersey picking up on. that will but you're essentially getting gipped out of the heaviest snow the further north you g but still enough to create nuisance for everyone, i would say so safe travels, folks. be careful out there. now through the next hour or two, light to moderate steady snow will continue to fall, and then, as we wrap up your typical morning commute snow will be tapering, from west to east, it may be wrapping up little sooner, little later just depending on location, bus basically the closer to the shore the later will be ending for you. here's how it feels outside. cold right? basically not finding a terrible wind out there. but, we are essentially seeing i would say five to 10 degrees getting knocked off for your feels like values here based on what the actual air temperature s so still cold. isn't it bizarre that 28 degrees is actually easing up for us. yesterday was so much more harsh, but we are also thankfully going to see that snow ease up on us, so by the afternoon, yes we'll have clean to up do. it does appear as though we will have a chance to get rid of the snow. it will not re accumulate for you. that said, justin, live for us all morning long in the cbs-3 mobile weather lab on i95. how are the employs doing out on the a -- 95, justin? >> plows are out here certainly on 95, new castle county delaware near christianna, they're having hard timekeeping up with the snow. that's the problem. so roads have been consistently snow covered. there is no breaks. there is no bear spots. you have to go slow. delay morning commute if you k the problem is, it is so cold, 13 degrees, so we talk about those high snow ratios, which means, it takes less moisture to get more snow. this stuff just piles up quick. there is a lot of air. the snow's not coming down that heavy. but the plows are having tough timekeeping up. it is sticking instantly with no problems with these temperatures well below freezing. so good comfortable speed here on 9a we're going about 30, 35 but some people going little bit more than that. trying tories technically there, few cars spun off on the side of the road, looks like little activity up ahead could be just some salt crews out here. but you can see good crushed up half inch to 1 inch of snow out on height ways, this is like we've seen this everywhere all the way from pennsylvania through delaware. so if this this bad on the highways, you know side streets are bad. so keeping in here is maybe give yourself few extra hours this morning wait for the storm toned, then head outside when you can. that's the latest here in the cbs-3 mobile weather lab, we send it back in to you and jessica for a look at the traffic. >> definitely slow down is the word of the day. so 5:03, we go outside check out how things are doing out on the ben franklin bridge. >> this one is real important for us to show you so far. see roadways completely covered. as first-hand account as i actually came over the ben franklin bridge myself this morning, it is a mess, and it is slippery. so, 25 miles per hour if you can go slower than that i actually was going slower than 25 so we can see flashing speeds here, of 25 miles per hour, and all of the rest of the area bridges pretty much the same story so head in the or out of philadelphia, from new jersey, the betsy the watt, the ben the commodore barry, down to 25 miles per hour over in new jersey things looking okay. you can see roadways there completely snow covered as well. some volume in the northbound lanes, but all just crawling, and moving along slowly, that's he can actually what we want to see. just past that camera, though on the 42 freeway southbound, those are the lanes actually right-hand side with the least amount of volume just past route 55 actually an accident, pushed over into the shoulder and out in lansdale water main break greenwood between highland and frederick, take lansdale to get on by. back to you. >> new jersey state offices are opening at 11:00 a.m. this morning, because of the winter storm that's blanketing our area with snow. officials say that delay will give crews enough time to clear the roadways, parking lots and sidewalks. our team coverage continues right now with "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabeo over in clementon cam down county. good morning. >> reporter: erika, good morning, i was able to speak to someone who drove for 1 mile, pulled over to get a cup of coffee, and decided you know what, i'm if the going to work today. he has the luxury of not going to work. he turned right around and went back home. that's because it is snowing so steadily here in clementon camden county. this is what the ground will look like, we've got about two, possibly 3 inches of light fluffy snow right here. so fun for the kids, but not fun for the parents, and the adult, that have to go out in. >> this that's what the roads look like. this is the 400 block of south white horse pike, here in clementon. completely snow covered. and we haven't seen any plows out here for, i would say becomes 30 minutes. so the snow accumulating again on the roads. thankfully the cars are taking it easy. that's what you will need to do even on the highways. they don't look much better. some cars had their flashing lights on, very slow going new jersey do. it is out on the roads though, and plowing, so they are getting the work done it, cents just still coming down so quickly that they can't really keep up at this point. so of course you are going to have to pull out the shovels and brushes this morning, dig yourself out, hey, guys, good morning, dig yourselves out brush off your car build in a loft extra time if you do have it get on the road and go to work. live in clementon, jan carabeo, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> jan, thanks so much. we switch things over to justin finch over in manayunk to see how people are handling the hills there with snow. can't quite see you justin, oh, we lost him. we'll try to get back to him as soon as possible. whether you are traveling on the roads or in the skies today, it will be a good idea, like january said, give yourself some extra time. so far this morning right now, there are 126 flights canceled, at philly international, another ten flights have been delayed. that was long night as you might imagine for some travelers had who to spend the night at the airport. delays and concellations expected along the east coast today as the storm moves through. go ahead and call in advance before you head to the airport. >> course when you're way from your television keep your eye on the storm with the cbs philly weather app. get the updated forecast and share your pictures of the snow download the app now on itunes, and on google play. >> well, we are keeping our eye on the storm for you as the snow continues to fall this morning. >> yep, slow down, if you are getting ready to hit the roads. there are speed restriction on the highways and bridges. it is definitely going to take awe lot longer to get where you are going this morning. no doubt about that. >> and tracking all of the trouble spots, we do traffic and weather together on the 3's. we'll be right back. compromise? middle ground? does it really look like we're holding anything back? longhorn's dinner for two for $29.99. choose two of 7 entrees. like the grilled portabella sirloin or the parmesan crusted chicken. plus two sides, two salads & a shared appetizer or a dessert. it's a deal without a 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and all of the major roads are snow covered. there are any number every crews out but not able to keep up with the roads because the snow still coming down and conditions are slippery. watch out for the other guy trying to leave some spares. so we're doing about 30 miles an hour on route 42 right now. and i wonder if i should be going that fast. >> i hear you. speaking of which i had a couple of people passing me on the road about two hours ago coming in. that big bus going by you right now? >> yes i'm doing 30 right now, that was a bus that just blew by me on 42, and you can see, some other cars coming by too so people, they want to go faster than it is safe. but you can feel the trucks start to fishtail when you go any faster than like 30, 35. >> that's true. i did see one spin out. buddy slow your roll. we'll check back with you throughout the morning. thank you my friends. >> you're welcome. >> mike denardo "kyw news radio 1060". >> when you can send us your pictures on facebook, twitter or instagram. here's kate. >> i good morning as mike said, you need to slow down out there. because, unfortunately even though the plows are doing their best to keep one this, it is hard to keep one this casino of snow, when it is just re accumulating on you so lou one road, go back over it later. that snow continues to fall for one thing but falling and falling very efficiently. so, accumulates just that much more rapidly. now, just snow for everyone, as you know, simply too cold for anything but snow this time. storm scan3, hey at least there is back edge to there is very discontinuing back edge. stowe all starts to rotate away for us, we will likely see this wrapping up toward the tail end of the typical morning rush. now, that timing is less than ideal. but at least the second half of the day will have a chance to clean it up, get you back out for the second half of the day for the evening rush without anywhere near the casino every issues that we're currently fining it burr to ready to hit the road. still some pretty good snow falling, pretty decent rate. generally from i95 on south and east, even though the snow is falling that snow is lighting up, easing up what on the back edge with a little bit of drier air trying to get in here on the back edge, meanwhile still winter alerts to tell you about included here winter weather advisories posted for western chester, montgomery, upper bucks, across the border here in central new jersey, everyone else to the south all winter storm warning for you. how much are we talking here? you could even pick up to 9 inches through the southern most extreme southern most portion of new jersey and delaware more like three-6 inches further you get up toward 95. here's by 7:00 a.m. this morning, you may be done with it through the lehigh valley and west most suburbs then even new jersey done with it by nine and a.m. absolutely no later than lunchtime still finding maybe few lingering flurries here. but here's our exclusive eyewitness weather snowfall map. already hit three, four fins philly, might have to up these totals cents it is still snowing. through the course of the next few days, return to the arctic freeze coming courtesy of another front tomorrow. that will bring in some additional flurries or snow showers, but thankfully, jess, i don't think we have to worry about maybe any additional accumulation out of that. >> definitely, you for the teen pair of the morning definitely dealing speed restrictions going to the airport, however cents mass transit problems definitely starting off, listing things off for you right now just turning 5:14 actually the blue route right around ridge, south wound lanes, an accident, right up ahead into the right hand shoulder right there. you can see, some slow going even by that scene. roadways completely snow covered. warnings right here about speed restrictions, slowing down just in general all across the board. over on 95 right around cottman avenue surprisingly a lot of cars out so far for it being so early. maybe everybody's gettingly bit of a head start. definitely good thing still give yourselves extra time and space in front of the car in front of you. so headed southbound, you can see, already completely slow going toward the center city area. we do already have an accident out in new jersey on the 42 freeway southbound, just past route 55 that's pushed over into the shoulder. and, out for mass transit the septa buses are all on detour, pretty much. you can see the list of them right here. definitely check to see if europe @ expected by. that will new jersey transit running on time. currently on normal schedule with no problems. patco speed line currently running on snow schedule. stay there we're back with more news on cbs-3. ♪turn around!♪ ♪every now and then i get a little bit hungry♪ ♪ and there's nothing really good around♪ ♪turn around!♪ ♪ every now and then i get a little bit tired of living off the taste of the air.♪ ♪turn around barry!♪ ♪ i finally found the right snack!♪ now try fiber one protein bars with the great new taste of cookies and crème. >> all right, good morning everyone, out here live in the cbs-3 mobile weather lab. and we're in delaware right now, new castle county just on route one south past glasco delaware, headed toward the canal, saint george's bridge. you can see snow covered roads here on route one, plows have been through, kind of pack down, good coating to half inch here. this is probably one of the better roads i've seen this morning, after leaving philadelphia, pretty terrible, delaware county, through new castle county 495. but still slow go here, very slick, speed couple of speed less than 40 miles per hour, you can see the truck passing us pretty good. keeping here is take it slow, allow extra drive time. 12 degrees right now so this snow is accumulating quickly even though the salt trucks and plows so use extra caution this morning, we send it back to the studio with erika. >> thank you, from justin drabick to just xfinity. out in manayunk, we want to check in and see how people are handling the snow covered hills. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, erika, as you can see here, much of manayunk appears to be still asleep at this hour. perhaps we got the go ahead schools opening later in the area, or working from home or not going to work at all today. take a look at the streets down below here. plows came through here about an hour or so ago. now, as you can see, it is snot taking much time for the streets to fill back up with snow. just shows you how the steady snow is deceive inningly picking up, re accumulating in the area. the buses now out this morning, people starting to start their day here. and they are doing so at much slower pace than perhaps usual here. you will want to wear your boots this morning the snow is pretty much ankle high up here. you want to take it slow if you are walking or driving because these conditions can be quite dangerous, all it takes is one slip or fall to perhaps end it all for this morning. we will send it right back to the studio now live here in manayunk, justin finch cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> justin, we'll get back to you. see you in a bit. stunning video when a train full of oil tankers erupt in a fireball. >> look at that, seymour of the fiery aftermath and why people who live nearby are still worried? also talk about cheap shot. villanova player sell bode in the face while he's on the ground. new this morning both players are weighing in on the ugly scene that marred big win for the wildcats. >> hate to see. that will and the roads covered in snow and the flakes are still falling right now. when should it let up? kately let you know, we'll have traffic and weather together on the 3's coming up after the break. release a devastating avalanche of taste on your tongue. bury yourself in the flavor full of sweet icing and filling. call off the hounds! rescue is unnecessary. pillsbury 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(humming) they're magically delicious. ha! very funny, kyle. thank you, cable for the slower internet upload speeds. for making me wait longer to share my photo albums. thank you cable, because if we never had you... ...we wouldn't know the incredible difference verizon fios makes. in customer satisfaction studies, fios is rated #1 in internet speed and reliability - 8 years running. plus, fios has the fastest wi-fi available from any provider. for a limited time, get a fios triple play online at an amazing $79.99 a month guaranteed for two years. plus, a $400 bonus with a two-year agreement hurry, deal ends february 21st. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 800.974.6006 tty/v >> let's get an update on penndot efforts. >> joining us on the phone penndot's charlie metzger. is it hard to keep up with all of this snow? >> we have 430 trucks out on the roadways, with the overnight hours as the snow has been coming down, we've been putting material down in addition to the snow, fighting extremely cold temperatures. so, we have been, you know, putting the material down. we have been starting the to plow after inch and a half has been on the gown, so now in our plowing operations, as you'll -- as the viewers will see the snow is, you know, still on the -- sticking on the roadways, but making progress, you do see some tire tracks, so we just are reminding people that the speed restrictions on the major highways are in place. so to take your time, leave your house a little earlier if you have to get out and travel, the snow seems to be moving out little quicker than was originally forecast. so that will give our guys enough time to help clear the roads as to move along during the morning rush. >> chair, where are your trouble spots? i know i came past the airport very early on 95, northbound and i couldn't see the white lines at that time. still early in the process but where are your trouble spots right now? >> we've had reports of about dozen crashes throughout delaware philly, and some in bucks county. >> all right charlie metzger for us, penndot thank so much for your help. >> right, thanks guys. >> and we getting a loft pictures of the wintery weather in your neighborhood. keep the pictures coming. sends them to us on facebook, twitter, and instagram using the hashtag cbs-3 snow. katie, let's update the forecast. >> if you look at the bottom second from the left there yep, yardstick, i know that guy. we did ally bit of our own cbs-3 weather watching this morning, so we decided to go out on the skydeck took our official yardstick with the weather watcher program took a measure. it looks as though we've got generally being finicky as jeff put it, two and a half to three and a half inches. we can say general swat about three, 4 inches has already fall never philadelphia, at least where we are in center city. but at least we take you out to the nice full screen graph of storm scan3, there is discontinuing back edge to this. it will take some time. it is moving along but will take probably the rest of the typical morning rush to completely see this retreat. that said, yes still getting pretty decent small falling through delaware central and southern most new jersey and southeastern pennsylvania. so, it will gradually begin to taper with time. but the sweet spot of that snow definitely goes to these counties. central southern new jersey, all of delaware, and the further south you reside, the more likely it is that you will even pick up at least at least, a half foot of snow out of this storm system. meanwhile, moving things forward in the eyewitness weather seven day forecast, today, actually provide ago relief believe it or not 28 degrees is way better than it was yesterday. but it is still cold enough for it to be strictly snow as we know. so no mixing, no icing this time, but definitely a shovableable event. if shovelable is a word. >> say that three times real fast. >> i can't even say it once. speaking of shoveable we go out, check out how things are on the blue route see lot of snow covered areas on the blue route, southbound around zero around reg creating quite a bit of a problem. we see a lot of accidents things popping up all over the place there is accident taking out part of the right hand lane, right hand shoulder, and not a lot of traffic there in that definitely good thing still going slow. you can see brake lights as they kind of coast on by the area. over on the schuylkill expressway, around montgomery, everything moving along just okay. little bit less volume in the eastbound lanes headed toward the center city area, but westbound you can see really slow going that's exactly what we want to see specially out on the area bridges all having speed restrictions due to slippery conditions down to 25 miles per hour for the bet circumstances the walt, the ben and the commodore barry. ukee, back over to you. >> jess, thanks so much. in sports, the flyers have earned points in nine straight games. and are only five points out after spot for the post-season. scotty hartnel and the columbus blue jackets in town later tonight. college hoop the number six villanova wildcats control their own destiny headed toward the biggies tournament and march madness. last night against seton hall, nova hit 12, three balls darren hilliard led the wildcats with 18 points. let's take to you late in the game right now. villanova guard ryan gets smashed right in the face by the pirates sterling gibbs. oh that's a flagrant foul. gibbs was tossed out of the game. rightly so. nova wins easily eight to 54, and heads to marquette for saturday afternoon action. now, after the game, seton hall's gibb tweeted this: >> man that's not why who i am. i'm sorry to my friend, family, team for being an embarrassment. even more sorry to ary arch 15. emotions sometimes get the best every us, heat of the moment things. we're all good. glass to see they made up. that will was scary incident, but all is good. erika, back to you. >> still ahead this morning on "eyewitness news" our live team coverage of this morning's snow continues. jan? >> reporter: still snowy and snowing harder here in clementon, camden county, new jersey i'm jan carabeo coming up current road conditions, if you do indeed have to get out the door and go to work. justin? >> hey, good morning everyone, out here live in the cbs-3 mobile weather lab in new castle county, where the snow is picking up in intensity, update on the road conditions coming up. >> jessica and katie return with your traffic and weather together. if you look at your screen right now see how sticky the roads r snow still coming down at this hour. everything you need to know before you head out into the snow. we'll be right what's with the suit? oh, i had to go to the bank. if you look legit they give you special treatment. seriously? seriously, yeah. the banker dude set up my checking account so if i make one deposit a month, no monthly maintenance fee. special treatment! citizens bank, right? yep. you know they do that one deposit checking thing for everyone, right? and...you got mustard on your suit. actually, it's your suit. one deposit checking. only from citizens bank. one deposit of any amount each statement period waives the monthly maintenance fee. >> snowy start to the morning, a lot of roads, many roads covered in snow, and storm scan3, showing that system still dumping more snow on the area right now going to keep ongoing for few more hours. katie says that snow will stick around, until later on this morning and already making the roads just a met can't keep up with it. >> you got that right. hundreds of schools already delayed or closed that includes a two-hour delay for philadelphia public and archdioces schools as well. we have team coverage for you team of reporters tracking the conditions in your neighborhood, first we check in with katie in the weather center, good morning. >> yes, good morning guys. this will be one of those mornings, one of those things you just