Some of us, south will begin as rain. We should all see that turn over to snow as the cold air continues to plummet across the area. Lets talk about the current temperatures. Theyre very important as to what were going to see as we move forward here. Right below freezing in mount poconos, the snow has been falling a while. Now dropping to 30s in philadelphia. Thats enough for us to start seeing snow make it to the ground because the snow is going to cool the air as it continues to fall. 40s in philadelphia. That will be dropping this morning. Dress in layers. Youre going to need it. Snow for the Northern Edge from now through we just saw 5 00 a. M. Hour. Now going to start extending through to the suburbs. 57 00 a. M. 79 thats when it starts to make its way to philadelphia. 810 snow into new jersey and southern delaware. This is not when it ends at 10 00 a. M. Going to continue to snow skboo the early part of your afternoon. Track that out hour by hour. Neighborhood by neighborhood. Talk about temperatures coming up in a minute. Right now go to traffic with francesca ruscio. Now before i get to vine street expressway, i have an update. We were looking at disabled vehicle on the westbound side. It has cleared. Always good news. Traffic resuming. Over in center city still were watching traffic on the vine street expressway. Camera at eighth street. Look at travel conditions. Travel speeds in 50s and 60s. Roadways dont look slick yet. Doing okay in terms of travel conditions with the weather. Again, we are problem free on the vine street expressway. Take a look at 95. Southbound traveling woodhaven towards vine street expressway. Take you 13 minutes. Good to go in green northbound as well. Not seeing any of that typical southbound delay for 95 and Delaware River bridge. Reopened ahead of schedule. Connecting the new jersey turnpike as well as the pennsylvania turnpike. Going to see happy commuters this morning. Another update within the next 10 minutes. As we just heard from crystal, the timing of the snow could be a real problem for the morning rush. Our Team Coverage of the snow continues. Nbc 10 Pamela Osborne in storm 4 getting a firsthand look at road conditioning approaching quakertown. Reporter we just crossed over the line. Now in bucks county. Going to switch things around so you can see whats going on in front of us right now. Not seeing any snow at the moment. We know conditions the going to change the further we get north. Heading towards allentown to give you a look at conditions. Good news if youre living in this area or heading out this morning, now is a good time to get out to where you need to go because conditions, as i said, are dry and traffic is moving along just smoothly here. Back to you guys. Stay with nbc 10 and the nbc 10 app was arizona we crack todays snow. Watching the skies and the roads. Were constantly updating our School Delays or late openings. You can check with the nbc 10 app on your phone to find out if your children eets schos schoo affected. Completed ahead of schedule. Just in time firefighter snor s Delaware River turnpike bridge open again following weeks of repairs. Katy zachry live for us. Read for morning rush hour. Vai and rosemary. Cant deny the bridge has reopened. Clearly hear the sound of trucks and cars going over it. For the last six plus weeks no sound like that because this bridge was under some serious repairs. Now late last night crews finished the final repairs ahead of a planned april reopening, but you know the fact they opened four weeks or so early, that is the delight of tens the of thousands of commuters this morning. We learn that the repair crew worked around the clock literally. Worked 7 days a week here on the Delaware River turnpike bridge to reopen it weeks earlier than they originally thought. A crack was found back in january in westbound lane. From that point on, the bridge was off limits to over 40,000 drivers who used it day will toy get back and forth from pennsylvania and new jersey. Sky force 10 last night was over it as the first of tv drivers made their way across the bridge. To ensure the safety of the bridge after the repairs, crews ran a test by having trucks carrying 40 tons drive over it. As far as the investigation into what caused the crack, that is underway right now, but crews are looking into whether trucks carrying heavy loads or high winds played a factor in that. As soon as we get the answer, well share with you. Reporting live. 5 05. Friday. Today in bucks county, sara packer is scheduled to be arraigned instead court. Shes accused of murdering adopted daughter. Hunters found 14yearold grace packer dead in the woods in pennsylvania in october. Mother reported her missing months earlier. Police cesar ra packer and her boyfriend raped and killed grace then dumped remains. Investigator believe the couple planned the murder for more than a year. Today in Chester County, jury selection continue in trial of eric frein, deadly ambush including strait troopers. Frein is charged with shootding and illing Corporal Brian Dickson and wounding alex douglas in the poconos in 2014. Captured frein after a 48 day manhunt. Jurors are being chosen in Chester County due to widespread Media Coverage in the poconos. And were still tracking the snow this morning. We are under that first alert because. Not because this is a major storm. Because this is a nuisance snow that hits right during your morning commute. You may see some accumulation. Otherwise looking at low amounts. Well get to that in a while. Lets look now at where the snow is. Fallen other the poconos. Started to move into Lehigh Valley burks county. That where pam osborne is he heading. You see the green though. This is because weve got rain mixing with snow thats heading our direction. Temperatures not yet quite cold enough to support snow at the surface. Closer look at where the snow is falling. Starting to make its way to allentown this morning. Hour by hour forecast. Pulled into your neighborhood so you can see. Redding to allentown, 5 00 a. M. Hour. We go to 6 00 a. M. Hour. Starting to extent to upper parts of bucks montgomery county. Chester county. Westchest westchester. Now we see package through philadelphia. Might start to see a little more steady of snow. Not talking extreme snow, but enough that visibility is going to lower and thats where the difficulty in driving comes from. Hence first alert. That snow continues by 10 00 a. M. Extending through south jersey. Rain along the shore in southern delaware. Go along to noon. Mix should turn even in southern points. Snow linger in the afternoon. Line move out. Scatter activity possible. Get to that in a bit. Talk the importance of temperatures. Wind out there. Go to erica martin. Go over a few things including those temperatures. Were going to talk about the fact we do have first alert that has been issued. We are expecting that snow to move in. Even though it will be light, its going to be steady throughout the morning hour. This includes Lehigh Valley. Berks, metro area. 4 00 a. M. To 9 00 a. M. North western region. As far as Lehigh Valley is concerned and northern pa suburbs. Southeast of pa suburbs. Keep in mind that visibility will be poor as the snow continues to be steady and continue its way northwest ward towards the southeast. So of course give yourself extra time. Heres your Winter Weather advisory in effect until noon for the Lehigh Valley. For everybody else starting 5 00 a. M. Until 2 00 p. M. Satellite radar picking up on showers moving across the region here. Notice how quickly were seeing a change over. Why is that . We do have temperatures cold right now. With the snow really cooling down the atmosphere. Hour by hour starting at 5 00 a. M. Pausing at 6 30. Starts to change over quickly. Start to see snow for new castle and kent counties as well. Keep that in mind. Nobody is going to be exempt. Wont be a white out. Have knsnow hinder. 41 for trenton. Seeing northerly and northeasterly winds cooling the atmospheric profile. More snow in the works. Just when you thought you could put that ice scraper away, forget it. People have rit out a little bit later on. Hang on to it. Lets check in with francesca ruscio. Is there a down pole somewhere . Down utility pole on route one. On either direction remains closed and i would just add vievise people sticking to route 202. Lets take a look at 95 monitoring southbound travel speeds. Still in the 50s and 60s. Problem free on 95. Camera at girard. Much lighter traffic on the northbound side. Southbound for the center city area. Pretty good to go. Again, great news for friday. Delaware river bridge reopened. Connecting the new jersey turnpike towards the pennsylvania turnpike and reopened ahead of schedule. Always great news for morning commuters. Vai and rosemary, send it over to you. If you dont have it, down load it now. Talking about the free nbc 10 app. Stay with us online and on air as we track the snow that will be falling during the morning commute. Also this morning, eagles make a move off the field that are getting fans excited for next season. Plus this. Matt delucia, philadelphia woman turns 100 years old. Whats her secret. Involves a ball and pins. Have that story next. Average Life Expectancy is around 81 years. She laughs at that number. Tomorrow she turns 100. Secret to a long life, doing ha she loved for decades. Nbc 10 matt delucia shows what makes heretic after all these years. What does it mean to be a winner. When youve had a century on earth . I dont know. I didnt think i would be. I didnt think i would be here at 100. One of the few to make it to the 3 digit club still maintain as busy schedule. I do my thing. To this day, twice a week, dot has plans. She gets up. Gets going and she just goes. To do something even dots daughter joan cant help, but admire. She gets excited. Reporter to go bowling. An eight pound beauty that keeps dot rolling through life. You remember the first time you picked up a bowling ball. Yes, i was on cottman street when they had cottman lanes there. Reporter from church leagues to senior leagues. Today bowls at thunder bird lane in philadelphia. Shes amazing. Thats the best way to describe dot. Reporter after all these years, shes still got it. Is your dream to one day get a 300 . Not anymore, no. Reporter why not. That was when i was young. Reporter after all, winning a game isnt everything. Its about enjoying your slice of victory 100 years in the making. Matt delucia, nbc 10 news. We wish you a happy birthday dot. Great job. Eagles fans buzzing after the Team Acquired two new weapons. Signed one of the biggest names in the free agent market. Also signed without torre smith. Won a super bowl with battle more. Fan reaction. Theres good moves, but you know, we got to do a couple more things. Sure up the defense. I think anything they did is an upgrade over what we had. I think everything shub all right for them. Wentz could get more weapons. Of course eagles fans are dealing with departure of popular defensive end conner bar wynn. Birds released him yesterday in a salary cap issue. Conner tweet add message to fans thanking them for bottom of heart. Calling philadelphia an amazing city. One of the aide maizing things. He had a car. He rarely drove it. Had a bike and used septa. Broad street line right down to sports complex. Made it easy. You probably did as a proathlete . Right. Youre down to earth guy. I was down in the suburbs. Hard to take septa in. Were going to give the blue route some love. Watching the blue route. Camera at baltimore pike. Were doing just fine. Traffic is in the 60s in terms of travel speeds heading southbound for the Philadelphia International airport or northbound for the boulevard. Youve not going be running into problems or delays in either direction thachlt is also the same situation for the 42 freeway new jersey. Northbound for the philadelphia area. Take a look at this. Cars on the majors as of right now. So far doing pretty good. In terms of travel times. Everything still pretty green right now. Take you eight minutes and hopefully we can keep these travel speeds strong. When i come back, take a look at connector bridge reopening ahead of schedule. Feel like i can say that because im from the flee area. It seems like when we get a little bit of rain or a little bit of snow like well have this morning after great weather, people sort of forget how to drive. Takes everybody a few extra minutes to get in the groove. I dont think thats because you grew up here. I think thats what happens. Is that accurate forecast in the area. Transplant, i can say thats anywhere people forget how to drive after a few nice days. Yesterday 60s. Today were talking snow. Cold weekend ahead of us. Big changes on the board this morning. Do not head out with just a light jacket. Want the winter coat because we have snow to the north. Notice that the snow is kind of looking like its moving from the west to the east. Was the whole line itself is developing the south. Were all going to get this by your afternoon. We see rain now as well. Thats actually reporting near harrisburg and getting near parts of Chester County. That berks to Lehigh Valley and up north mount poconos had snow for a while. Falling and starting to stick. This is what were looking at. 5 00 a. M. Just saw passing through the Lehigh Valley burks to 6 00 a. M. Now in upper suburbs. Westchester and areas like buckingham starting to see snowfall. Start as a light snow even a slushy rain snow mix. Lightly not stick to the ground. Ground still warm from yesterday. Treated services help out a lot as well. Will start to stick on grassy surfaces say your car. Might need snow brush this morning. Continue 730 and pass through philadelphia. Again, notice white pink green. More of a rain snow mix we start with for the morning commute. This is the issue. This is a heavy major snow, but wrapg is falling right during the Morning Hours when youre trying to drive to work or school. Still going to continue to extend 8 30 in the morning. Now south. You now tapping in on some of this snow 8 30 in the morning. Continues to drop. 10 00 a. M. Now across most of the board aside from the shore where its still a rain snow mix. We pull this out and its still lingering through 11 30. Starts to leave philly noon to one. By two mostly off. Kuld see in the afternoon still some squalls or this is when we have a brief period of align of snow pretty steady to heavy pass through. Even in the afternoon. This will move off though as we go into tonight. Heres a look at snow totals we are forecasting. One one to two inches possible. Two to four Lehigh Valley to berks. Around poconos 35 inches for the amount. Well talk more about temperatures and a look at ten day on ten coming up in a bit. Thank you crystal. Digging up history. Ahead in next half hour. Show you philadelphia discovery from colonial times that has heavy Construction Equipment taking a break. And archaeologist working overtime. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. Maybe thats why weve been ranked highest in cutomer satisfaction by jd power 4 years in a row. And now you can love fios too. Get 150 meg internet, tv and phone. All for 79. 99 per month, for the first year with a twoyear agreement. Its the only internet with equal upload and download speeds. 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In addition the roads, the skies, we are also keeping an eye on our cameras. This is a live look from camelback resort. Skiers loving the snow. Commuters not so much. The wintery blast is poised to move into philadelphia just in time for the morning rush. Break down the timing for your neighborhood in the first alert forecast. Plus, fast moves. Update the quick action in washington to push the new Health Care Plan through congress. We buy any car dot com we buy any car dot com we buy any car dot com any any any any did you know trading in your car at a dealer could cost you money . A recent study found consumers who trade in their car pay an average of 990 dollars more. So dont trade in. Sell it. To we buy any car. Learn more and get your free online valuation now at we buy any car dot com find out how much your car is worth at webuyanycar. Com where he tracking know. Weve got you covered with timing and expected totals. Busy bridge shutdown for repairs back in business. Live at the delaware pennsylvania turnpike bridge. Reopened ahead of schedule. Back to work, nurses poised to return to jobs today at hospital in Delaware County following a strike to protest staffing issues. The breaks news, of course, the weather were keeping an eye on this morning. Manging sure you have everything you need before you get out the door. Good morning, nbc 10 today. Im vai sikahema. Warm days winter is rearing its head again today. Tracking the snow for the philadelphia region and beyond meteorologist krystal klei leads team cag