Slippier commute. This morning its trying to move into the area and really not having much luck. This is very light snowfall. You can see it just coming into western burkes county. But right now dry in reading and allentown. That will be moving in tonight and tomorrow morning. Well be dealing with the snow. Cold . Well, not as cold as yesterday. Were in the 20s and low 30s right now. And we will climb into the low 40s in delaware, upper 40s in philadelphia. The best chance of seeing some snowflakes during the day today will be the suburbs and especially into the lee high valley. Ill break it down hour boy hour in a few minutes. But first Jessica Boyington with your first alert traffic. 78 right here on lee high street, not a lot of cars out the door here. We are paying attention to the schuylkill expressway. We are seeing some delays here on the eastbound side. The westbound side is back open following an earlier rain closure. It was closing traffic off right around the vine street exp
River and its already spent water out onto the streets. What do conditions look like this morning . Reporter take a look behind me. This is what the Delaware River in yardly looks like. The ice is not allowing the river to flow normally so its spilling onto the banks and as we pull out, you can see in some areas specifically along river road in yardly, that means streets have flooded. Theres several barricades up protecting drivers and preventing cars from continuing down this stretch of river road at yardly. Now, i called police here to find out if there are any new flooding concerns this morning. So far were not hearing of any. But as you can see in this daylight video, there are other concerns here. People have been seen walking on the ice chunks into the river. We even saw kids doing that yesterday. Thats an incredibly dangerous practice as these ice chunks can and are moving, i should say. Now, were going to keep an eye on this and continue calling police in this area because as w
7 00 a. M. On wednesday before what started ashore. You can see it is not that far away, riepgt . Which way is it moving . There is the edge. It is not getting any closer. It continues to snow in the northern portions of berks county, well just wait until it gets a little push and eventually it will and starts coming down our way. It may start to rain in the philadelphia area, by the morning rush, it is snowing and temperatures are going down a little bit. That means some accumulation and tammie will tell you about that glenn, you talked about that it was not moving. I think there is a lot of people would say it is fine if it does not want to move. We know better than that. Allentown, redding and up here in berks county and Lehigh Valley and the suburbs into the poconos, thats where we could see the 3 to 6 inches and the light band of pink here, thats 1 to 3 inches. Then you get to the lower suburbs to philadelphia. Just to east side of i95. Thats where we could see 1 to 2 inch of sno
Pain. Said one student, our lives are changed forever. President trump came out to say that the entire nation is praying for the victims and then president said this i want to speak now to americas children. Especially those who feel, lost, alone, confusioned or even scared i want to you know that are you never alone and you never will be. Then said trump, no child, no teacher should ever be in danger in an american school. He went on to say and these are his words, i have heard your prayer and seen your tears, i will heal you. Philadelphia police say they always look to these tragedies as learning opportunities. And they say that School Safety and preparation are Top Priorities for the department. If we get a school on lock down its an immediate large response from the Police Department and the s. W. A. T. Members go to it and k9 and counter terrorism. Its an every day priority to us to keep the schools safe. In fact, there are 80 lockdowns at philadelphia schools just this year. Poli
Action news, delaware valleys leading news program, with meteorologist, medical list a magee, Jeff Skversky and walter perez. Im walter perez the big story on action news at 5 00 s been raining on and off all day long with another round moving our way tonight. Meteorologist Melissa Magee joins with us our first check of the accu weather forecast, melissa. It is one of those weekends damp and dreary across delaware and lehigh valley, heaviest rain has stopped in philadelphia but we are starting to find that wet weather still to our north and west. We will go in tighter on street level Storm Tracker six you can see light rain in pena rgyl, easton, new hope, traveling on route 611 there. In Allentown Lehigh county on route 222, and fleetwood, hamburg and reading. This will continue as we go throughout the rest of the evening. Another round of, precipitation moves through overnight tonight. Despite moisture overhead, temperatures are fairly mild for this time of the year. It is 50 degrees