Taper off in reading, allentown and the poconos by 2 00 a. M. , 3 00 a. M. 5 00 a. M. , the only place well be seeing snow is towards the shore. By 7 00 a. M. , its dry out there. Because its so cold, and theres so little wind, that snows going to be there, just like this picture. On the side of the roads and on your sidewalk and your driveway and on top of your car. Theres the light snow, 7 00 to 9 00. Peak of the storm 11 00 p. M. To 3 00 a. M. Im expecting three inches on average. Three in some of the Higher Elevations, but it wont be snowing during the friday morning rush hour, which helps things. Philadelphia temperature is border line also. In the suburbs its going to be clearly cold enough to stick on untreated surfaces. Lehigh valley 26 degrees, 7 00 a. M. Just look, its over with. Even some sun peeking out in parts of the area by 7 00 a. M. Well also get into the saturday threat, which has more potential for other parts of the area. Thats in a few minutes. The Streets Department has been busy filling trucks at this salt yard in west philadelphia. The major roads were already brined, the department expects to begin salting around 7 00 tonight. Road crews in newark New Castle County were busy today as well. Theyve been pretreating roads across the entire state doing all they can to make for a smooth commute in the morning. Were not expecting a large amount of snow but it will be the most snow weve seen this winter. If youre rusty on what to do nbc 10 has you covered. Lets continue with our Team Coverage with ted greenburg. People who help clear the roads, theyre getting geared up, too . Reporter theyre getting set to work long hours to keep the roads the sidewalks and parking lots safe. But most are not complaining. at Ultra Equipment in galloway township, an ultra busy day. I love the snow, it makes the world spin. White gold. Reporter the company that serves atlantic and ocean counties readying trucks for plowing and salting. Ahead of whats expected to be the areas first measurable snowfall of the season. These guys have been waiting for it. Thats where we make our money, when it gets forecast and we get out the plow and the repair everything as well. Reporter in little light harbor township a fresh delivery of rock salt is set to hit the roads, as public works crews and their families wait for the flakes to start falling. My wifes a school teacher, she loves it if she gets a day off. But, you know, i mean, just plow through it. We had a great fall. And time for snow. Reporter a longnecto night for the road crews. Now it looks like they might be staying busy into the weekend as well. Im Ted Greenberg nbc 10 news. Im Randy Gyllenhaal at plymouth auto and tile where mechanics are winterizing a number of cars. They say the first thing you should do is check your tire pressure, make sure thats okay. Also, take a look at your windshield wipers, make sure nothings pulling off and those wipers arent streaking. We also stopped by a Hardware Store in wayne where theyre selling a number of shovels ahead of the first blast of winter. They say another popular item with customers today, salt getting ready to salt the sidewalks with ice on the way. Randy gyllenhaal with that reminder. Remember the snow is falling overnight. Give yourself extra time to clean up your car and driveway in the morning. Were bracing for bitter cold temperatures along with the snow. Nbc 10 along main street in newark today. Glenn will be back in a few minutes for more on when temperatures drop into the teens for us. Plus, another chance for snow this weekend. And be sure to count on nbc 10 to bring you the latest Weather Information for your neighborhood. You can get the forecast anytime on the nbc 10 app. The First Alert Weather Team will be giving weather updates through the night. Then tune in to nbc 10 news today starting a half hour early at 4 00 a. M. A northeast philadelphia neighborhood filled with water. Sky force 10 was live over the scene as a broken water main sent water gushing on to the streets and into peoples homes. Nbc 10s Rosemary Connors is live. Since we last saw you, you were able to get into somebodys home and get a closer look at the mess out there. Reporter not a pretty picture, the house i went into is just behind me. You can see the sump pump thats leading towards the basement. Neighbors tell me the water started gushing out of the middle of the block from underneath the metal plate they say is covering a sinkhole thats been a problem for the better part of a year. Like a bang sound. We were in the house and heard like a bang. Reporter and then came the flood. We saw your basement. Yeah, have some water damage to it i would say. Reporter you seem to be taking this in stride. What else can you do . Reporter hes lived here for 40 years with his family believes the water main break and the ongoing problems with the sinkhole in the middle of milbrook road may be connected. The initial sinkhole started may 21stest of last year. We pay tax and they cover a sinkhole with a metal plate. This is what happens, it gets cold and theres water everywhere. Gas and water is turned off. Well go from there. Were going to have a bitter cold night. Correct. Thank god i have family nearby. Well stay with them. Reporter i have good news here. As you can see, Water Department crews are working to pump out that water. At least three feet of it. Ive been in touch with philadelphia Water Department representatives all afternoon trying to find out what the cause of the water main break is. If theres any connection to that sinkhole in the middle of the block. Theyre still working on it. They tell me theyll keep me updated. Reporting live, im Rosemary Connors. Burlington Township Police need your help to find a man they say who beat up a driver. This is a sketch of the man theyre looking for. The victim inadvertently cut off the suspect on brownlee boulevard on december 14th. They say the suspect followed the victim to a nearby neighborhood, then punched him on the ground. Breaking several bones in his face. Philadelphia police are looking for the gunman who shot a man while he sat on his front porch. A bullet hit the man in the head around 9 00 last night on east indiana avenue in kensington. Hes in the hospital in critical condition. Investigators found 16 shell casings from two weapons in a park across the street. Police arent sure if the man was the intended target. Philadelphia police say a group of men posing as pgw utility workers forced their way into a mans home and stole more than a thousand dollars. They say four to five men threw the 87yearold homeowner on the couch as they ransacked his house. The attackers got away with 1,200. Family members say the victim is shaken up but not physically hurt. Coming up at 5 30, the signs pgw says you should look for to know when a real technician is at your door. Today attorneys argued whether or not to retry the archdiocese official accused of covering up pedophile priests in philadelphia. This is video of machinier lynn leaving court today. The lawyers argued if his case should be dismissed. His 2012 conviction was overturned. The District Attorneys Office isnt dropping charges. He served 33 months in prison before he was released in august. The Philadelphia SchoolReform Commission held a second set of public hearings today on applications for two new charter schools. It was the second round of reviews for metropolitan charter school. The src plans to vote next month. The public can weigh in for plans on a bridge to connect two sections of trails in philadelphia e. The grays ferry swing bridge. The open house is going on until 7 30 tonight. Officials hope to begin construction sometime in late summer or early fall. Its a story sparking outrage across the country. A man with special needs tortured on facebook live. Now, police have announced charges. And first to macys, now another big retailer is closing doors in our region. What it means for shoppers and their local towns next at 5 00. Plus, we are tracking snow a live look now at the ara mark building. We will have the latest on the timing in your neighborhood. What you need to know for traveling tonight, and especially for tomorrow morning. With the xfinity tv app, anything with a screen is a tv. Stream 130 live channels. Plus 40,000 on demand tv shows and movies, all on the go. You can even download from your x1 dvr and watch it offline. Only xfinity gives you more to stream to any screen. Download the xfinity tv app today. And we continue now with a live look in cape may a small breeze blowing. You can see the flag blowing in the wind. But we are waiting for the snow, it will arrive in just a few hours. Glenn will have your neighborhood forecast in a few minutes. Right now prosecutors in chicago filed hate crime and aggravated kidnapping charges against four black suspects for the beating of a white man streamed live on facebook. We want to warn you, some may consider the video disturbing. The 18yearold victim was gagged, tied up and cut with a knife. Authorities say the attack went on for up to 48 hours. The victim is traumatized, but physically okay. Police Spokesman Says the suspects made quote terrible racist statements during the assault. But that investigators bleechb the victim was targeted because he has special needs, not because of his race. A new jersey family wont be allow today demolish the home where they say an anonymous person stalked them. A Planning Board rejected the proposal. Neighbors in Westfield Union county say the house is magnificent and beautiful and raising it would destroy their block. The homeowners proposed replacing the house with two homes because they said they cannot move into the existing house. Philadelphia District Attorneys Office is under fire for not pressing charges against a teenage girl involved in a fight with an officer. Video went viral earlier this week. Police say the girl slapped the officer in the face and then the officers threw the teen to the ground and punched her. The officer was placed on administrative duty. The teen wasnt charged. The head of the flp said the da is looking the other way. Now a spokesperson for the da responded with this statement saying District Attorney williams will never apologize for relying on high standards before deciding to take away someones freedom. The District Attorney believes that everyone should be treated the same and held to the same standards, regardless of if they are a Police Officer or not. We have new details about yesterdays trolley crash in west philadelphia. The ntsb said today its sending a team to philly to investigate. More than 40 people were hurt when one trolley rear ended another. It happened along lancaster avenue. Septa said the trolleys should have been running ten minutes apart. K mart stores are closing, three of them in our area. Nbc 10 is over the store in pleasa pleasantville. Its part of the their plan to downsize across the country. Macys announces plans to close dozens of its Stores Across the country following a disappointing Holiday Shopping season. Four stores in our area will be affected. The retailer is also shutting down stores in the morris town mall and voorhies town center. Nbc nightly news is looking into what the closures mean for retail as we know it. The future of Department Stores in your neighborhood and whether the future really is all online. Its coming up on nbc nightly news at 6 30. With the new year comes higher gas prices around the region. According to aaa, the average price in the pennsylvania suburbs jumped 0. 14 in the last week. South jersey is up six cents. Delaware jumped eight cents. The price of oil and high demand over the Holiday Weekend contributed to price increases. The larger price, jumped in pennsylvania can overall be contributed to the state tax increase that kicked in on the first of the year. All right, everyone, i want you to see this right here. Heavy flakes coming down already in kentucky. This is the same system that will bring snow to our region. Look at those whiteout conditions there. We expect that to arrive later tonight. Were keeping track of bitter cold temperature and another chance for snow this weekend. Glenn hurricane schwartz is here with your forecast. We dont normally get storm threats two days in a row. We also dont normally get the flag not moving when youre going to get snow. What happens is, the snow is just going to fall straight down. Its going to look beautiful. From your window looking out in the middle of the night. Because its coming overnight mostly. 7 a p. M. To 5 00 a. M. The peak is 11 00 p. M. To 3 00 a. M. Average two inches, some of the Higher Elevations in chester upper bucks, upper montgomery, around three. By 7 00 a. M. , its not snowing anymore but the snow that has fallen is still there. Because theres no wind to knock it off. Theres no warm up to melt it. Were getting a little bit more on the radar. Most of this not reaching the ground yet. Low levels of the atmosphere are still dry. Out here, the western half of pennsylvania, west virginia, and now eastern ohio, it is reaching the ground. Thats where the significant snow is. 33 at philadelphia now. Its below freezing in allentown, trenton. The temperatures going down during the evening and theyll go down more once the snow starts falling later tonight. 8 00 its still mostly dry. But the temperatures are below freezing. Here comes the snow. 9 00, 10 00, and a kick burst coming in here by 11 00 and midnight. Temperatures below freezing, so its sticking on untreated surfaces. Its peaking in the middle of the night here, the darker blues indicate heavier snow. And then its already ending by 4 00 a. M. North and west. By 5 00, its over in philadelphia, by 6 00 its over at the jersey shore. And then were dry. For the day tomorrow. So here we go, by 8 30 tonight we got a few snowflakes, trenton, a little. And then by 11 30 tonight its snowing in allentown, trenton, reading, middle of the night its starting to taper off in allen town. Its getting heavier in atlantic city. 6 00 a. M. Its not snowing anywhere except for atlantic city. Look at the temperatures, thats why were not going to see a lot of melting here. Even peeks of sun come out friday morning. How much snow with this first round . Averaging around two, less to the north, less to the south. And again, a little bit more on the Higher Elevations. This is the other issue. This is saturday. This is a pretty big storm thats going to track well south of us. Were going to be on the edge of that one. And some of the computer models suggesting significant snows, especially right near the coast. New jersey and in southern delaware. So theres going to be more snow with the saturday system, toward the shore than the rest of us are going to get with this thing overnight tonight. The other thing were all going to get is freezing cold. Saturday mornings feeling like teens. Saturday afternoon is feeling like teens. And then it gets colder. Now its starting to feel like Single Digits saturday night. Sunday morning its feeling like its close to zero. Sunday afternoon, not much warmer. Even in the middle of the afternoon its feeling like 8 in allentown and doyles town. We have bitter cold coming this weekend. We have that snow on saturday especially at the jersey show and delaware. South jersey also has a chance of some. Maybe a little bit of accumulation, if everything shifts a little bit to the north. Then i may have to add a chance of snow up even to philadelphia. Nobody gets snow on sunday. Everybody gets wind, everybody gets cold. And after 7 00 a. M. Tomorrow, nobody gets snow tomorrow either. Glenn, thank you. If it seems like everyone you know is getting sick, you are probably right. The triple threat thats had doctors working overtime. Thats next at 5 00. By peggy lee playing ] [ goat bleat ] [ crow caws, music continues ] this is gonna be awesome when it comes to buying a house. Trulia knows the house is only half of it. And with 34 map overlays like playgrounds, demographics, schools, and more. You can find the right house and the right neighborhood for you. Trulia. The house is only half of it. Afoot and lighthearted i take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. The east and the west are mine. The north and the south are mine. All seems beautiful to me. We are tracking a triple threat of weather, here is a live look at the art museum in philly. Some light snow is expected to fall in the next few hours. Then bitter cold temperatures move in. We have some more snow on saturday to contend with. Our First Alert Weather Team has you covered. The next forecast in your neighborhood coming up in six minutes. In the meantime were talking about another triple threat keeping doctors and nurses working overtime. Winter colds flu and stomach viruses have local Emergency Rooms packed right now. At last check, 96 people were being treated at abington http , the majority of them are sick with respiratory illness and stomach viruses that can cause severe complications. Hospital Officials Say theyre seeing 300 patients a week. Doctors say if you are sick, stay home to avoid infecting others. There are some folks that should stay home that should sort of sequester themselves away and engage in supportive therapy. Doctors say the best way to keep yourself out of the hospital is prevention. Wash your hands often, take care of yourself by eating healthy and drink plenty of fluids. Local veterans got some much needed Winter Clothes today thanks to the nonprofit davids drive. The organization donated boxes of clothing to the va medical center. They bought th