both ways between ben salem and valley forge. still an accident blocking all lanes on route 22 eastbound at 15th street. for drivers in the lehigh valley, the westbound side of 22 is okay. take that but just eastbound is affected. you can take tilghman street or 78 to get around that. new overnight, lincoln drive in philadelphia opened a half hour ago. police blocked it off near gypsy lane because of a water main break, but trucks spread salt to clear the ice. and upthe frigid conditions for firefighters battling a fire at a vacant home on mount vernon street. no one was hurt. well, driving in winter conditions can be made a lot easier if your car has four-wheel drive. but experts say this safety feature can cause damage to your car and you may not know it. katy zachry is live in south whitehall township to explain. katy? reporter: hi tracy. some vehicles have the feature to turn four-wheel drive on and off, bunt it s important to remember there s a time and place to us
near gypsy lane overnigtht because of a water main break. watch out for icy patches out there. and almost all of you with waking up to conditions well, first, look at this house fire in camden from overnight. firefighters battling frigid conditions. it s a vacant home where nobody was hurt but firefighters don t know what caused the fire. and back to the conditions outside this morning. witness the wind with the windchill, it feels like the single digits. we are seeing the snow behind you, but icy conditions are also a possibility, right? reporter: yes. this is an example of a surface not treated or quite frankly had snow in the rain mixture. we were freezing overnight because of the drop in temperature. when i say that here is an example of what was fluffy, white snow over the last few days. listen to how hard that is because of the rain we had yesterday and the freezing overnight. this snow bank here is hard as can be. as we take a look here off route 22 in south wh
hurt this morning after a driver crashed into his cruiser. we re live on the scene where investigators say a sign that happened before this accident may have caused it. and a deadly plane crash unfolding in taiwan this morning. this video shows the aircraft going down. more than a dozen people are dead and we have a live picture out of tapei and the scene where crews are working to find survivors on the plane hours after the crash. there s a lot going on this morning. good morning this is nbc 10 news today. i m tracy davidson. i m chris cato. those stories just ahead, but first the news to get behind, a warm up on the way for wednesday. a brief one, but let s enjoy it. meteorologist bill henley is standing by with the first alert forecast. bill, it s still cold right now. you ll feel the difference this afternoon, but this morning it s cold enough for snow. guess what i m tracking? a little bit of snow moving in from the west. not in center city yet, but some scattere
chain-reaction crash happened. we ll help you get around the mess this morning. and new from overnight, look at this picture. a plane from philly to texas made a crash landing. this morning we re hearing what went wrong and what passengers had to say about the scary arrival. good morning it s 4:31. i m tracy davidson. i m chris cato. nbc 10 is helping you get ready for an icy commute and morning. 14 schools are on delay this morning as you will see scrolling across the bottom of the screen. and we are updating our nbc 10 weather app. and bill henley is here with the first-alert forecast. bill? most areas have ice on the ground if it hasn t been treated. and there s still some precipitation. snow and freezing rain that we re tracking right now. not in philadelphia however. that s boathouse row which has clouds overhead. no, it s delaware and into extreme south jersey that is seeing the wet weather this morning. first the freezing rain that is falling in central and sou
so a cold icy start this morning. watch out for slippery spots. we will see temperatures climb after the morning commute. by 9:00 we ll still be below freezing in philadelphia with cloudy skies. but then breaks in the clouds 35 degrees and climbing at noon. we ll go through it neighborhood by neighborhood, hour by hour with the future weather when i m back in ten. all right, bill. the first alert traffic now, we are following the aftermath of the deadly pileup on the new jersey turnpike last night. this is video of one of the people shotwho was stuck in the traffic jam last night. one person was killed in the chain-reaction crash and dozens injured after the tractor-trailer jackknifed near exit 8. you re looking at cell phone video taken there. this is video from a new camera at the scene. police say more than 20 vehicles were involved 7 trucks, a fully loaded bus and 15 cars. and yes, investigators say icy conditions on the road may have played a part in that accident. the