Coming up well take a close look and let you know when this activity comes to an end but a clipper system arrives tuesday. Ill let you know who will be affected by that with the full and exclusive accuweather forecast. Sharrie. Melissa thank you. Remember 6abc. Com weather is your weather resource 24 hours a day. Youll find updated hourly forecasts and storm tracker6 live radar scans and remember to follow each of our meteorologist on twitter and facebook for updates as well. Now to president Donald Trumps sweeping immigration order new backlash from around the world and from lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle. Today the president is continuing to defend his policy calling it a necessary plan to make america safe again. Now President Trump is insisting that his travel ban will keep potential terrorists out while critics say it will do just the opposite. Although all of the people detained at u. S. Airports over the weekend have been released the president s order did spark
Growing numbers of republican lawmakers who have expressed concerns about trumps executive order on immigration. Among them pennsylvania senator pat toomey. Toomey released a statement this morning saying that while he supports increased vetting, unfortunately the initial executive order was flawed. It was too broad and poorly explained. Lehigh valley republican congressman charlie dent told the Washington Post he understands trumps intention but the order appears to have been rushed through without full consideration. And democratic lawmakers continue to speak out against trumps executive order today. All called the policy unsafe. In fact its not enhancing our national security. In fact, it might be strengthening the recruiting for isis. The executive order is unamerican, i think it ultimately makes us unsafe and it should be modified and hopefully we wont go there again. More than ever this is a time that we should be doubling down on American Values and understand that doing sole ma
Right now weve got lighter snow and this is pushing in from the west. It looks like areas to the south of philadelphia and a few areas out to the west just some light showers right now. It is snow and were below freezing across the region so be careful out there if you get caught beneath some of this. It looks like south jersey along the bay, central delaware and areas to the west of philadelphia right now seeing a little bit of that. Theres also a fair amount of cloud cover around this morning while i do think its possible wel well see some pes of sunshine today, additional snow showers pop into our northern and Western Areas later in the day and in through the evening hours. 27 degrees in philadelphia is your current temperature sits tt is cold on the way out the door. 24 degrees in allentown reading, 25 trenton and 30 degrees in cape may. Winds are light this morning. Heres how its going to go today. 28 degrees under the clouds by 7 oclock. A few snow showers around this morning. An
City and Annie Mccormick headed to the scene right now and watching for this. Market street remains blocked at this point so thats blocked near Second Street in olde city because of this highrise fire. You have to stick to race or arch, chestnut or walnut to get around the closure there. Outside live we go on i95 thats southbound traffic headed towards center city moving nicely so far at cottman. Dry right here looking pretty good right now on i95. All lanes opened. On the big picture speeds reflecting that still moving at about 55 miles an hour on i95. Kensington boston street remains closed with that big sinkhole. Construction out here route 23 over 422 and right now were looking at the crews on both 23 and 422 have cleared. The lanes are back opened. Again you just want to watch for a slick spot or two when you head out but no major issues yet, tam. Thank you, karen. Lets go to some breaking news right now coming to us from olde city. Were taking a look at a multi alarm fire that br
The snow showers and then skies will slowly clear with temperatures falling through the 30s and the 40s into the 20s overnight tonight. So its ba tock that much colder air we have another clipper coming tomorrow morning and a colder pattern in the seven day forecast. Well be back with that with your seven day in just a few minutes. All right, kathy. Thanks. Remember you can always get up to the minute weather and live looks at ultimate doppler head to fox29. Com. Happening right now, a mothers pain. A young woman and a young girl both killed by a hitandrun driver and tonight a suspected drunk driver arrested but of course nothing will bring back the lives lost in this crash. A 19yearold mother of two and her 10yearold sister both died and their mother is now speaking out. As fox 29s bruce gordon reports she wants her story to save you from her pain. Reporter a Family Members gathered to mourn fouryearold hakeem and threeyearold at a jay seemed blissfully unaware that their mom was the