Well have all the details in a few minutes. Lets check out the santa cruz mountains. The residents are used to getting clobbered. David louie is finding people who are welcoming, not dreading the rain. Reporter its hard to believe but yes, they do welcome the rain. This area is flown for it but people take it all astride knowing it is good for the vegetation. But theyve also noticed something special. Its something in the air. These umbrellas have been sitting in the windows for three weeks at the drugstore, collecting dust and suffering from neglect. Have you sold any in december . Not yet, no. What about this month . I think weve sold a couple so far. The rain can take credit for that. Boulder creek typically gets Copious Amounts of snowfall. Im thrilled about the rain. Ive noticed people dont pout hats or rain gear. Thats for people who arent used to it. Reporter but there are those who have a special technique for avoiding getting even a single drop on their head. The reservoir is
New year s eve revellers, especially the 10,000 or so expected to descend on the port wmur s Jennifer Crompton joins us live from market square, the epicenter of action for this aj is right. The only people not thrilled about this weather are the ice sculptors. They tell me they wish it was about 25 degrees colder, but we will take it. You can probably hear the street party behind me. Activities indoor and out already getting underway including an Outdoor Dance Party right here that goes until the countdown to midnight. Sculptors got to work early, on nearly six tons of solid ice. They re going to be a lot of kids playing and a dog so its all filled with snow and it s a big wall, its about seventeen feet long, i think it will be highest point. Reporter the Ice Sculpture is a traditional focal point, the north church behind it one of 10 venues around the city hosting Live Entertainment and activities for a Family Friendly Community Celebration that pro porstmouth has been organizing for
Ahead of you. Make sure you have a nice firm grip on the steering while if you are headed across the bay bridge and as we look we have folks waiting to make it across, run crass there interest San Francisco and we have continue meant wait before you get there because the metering lights turned on and high wind advisory for the san mateo bridge and gusty continues and they can move you around. Be careful. Thank you, leyla gulen, we will continue with our storm watch coverage, new video of a large secretary oak tree that fell in napa. This happened at 10 30 last night on vallejo and nursery street. No injuries are reported but there is significant damage to the home. The person living inside said when the tree fell, it felt like another big. Toppled trees are causing problems all across the bay area this morning. Our reporter continues her live storm watch coverage from walnut creek. What is behind you amy . This tree is still here pieces of it, you can see the giant roots at the base of
Tonight and the wind continues. So that creates dangerous conditions. Feels like temperature 10 to 20 below zero even in and around philadelphia. Areas to the north will be closer to 20 to 25 below zero. And you can get frostbite in 30 minutes of exposure. Any part of your body that is exposed to the wind this is later tonight, there is that flag and it is blowing hard right now. It is only 19 degrees. 16 in allentown. 18 in mount holly. And feels even colder than that look at how low these temperatures are, back to the west. So even colder air is coming in. Feels like 1 at the moment. 5 below in reading. 10 below in the poconos. And these temperatures are going way down. Watch what happens as we go through the afternoon, and into tonight. The feels like temperatures going below zero. Not so much by 5 00 but as we go through the evening, look at that even by 9 00 tonight, 6 below in philadelphia. 10 below in doylestown. 6 below in dover. And then we start getting into the 10 to 20 belo
If youre taking mass transit today, new Jersey Transit is operating on a normal schedule. Amtrak northeast corridor is operating on a modified schedule. Thats due to the cold weather conditions. Patco is operating on a normal schedule and so is septa. Chris . Definitely a morning to bundle up at the bus stop. This cold weather, of course is causing concern for parents who worry about their kids waiting out there on the school buses. Nbc 10s matt delucia is live for us in center city. Matt, last half hour you talked about all the things that weve come to do to stay warm like layering up and staying dry. Doctors say theres Something Else people should be doing, right . Reporter yeah, absolutely. Of course, it comes down to wearing the layers and keeping them fed. The kids fed, of course. We spoke with some parents yesterday at the bus stop. And they were waiting for their kids to get on the bus. But days like this one have them thinking about the alternatives. We are expecting the windch