The night wears on. Live radar shows the mess covering the entire northeast coast. 29 Million People under a blizzard warning right now. Looking life right now across our area from the shore to philadelphia and down to delaware we are all going to see at least a few inches by the time this storm is over. Thousands of Flight Cancellations and major restrictions on roads from massachusetts to south jersey. Good evening im iain page. Im lucy nolan. A list of the closings scrolling at the bottom of your screen. Chief meteorologist Scott Williams has the track of this storm on your radar. Scott, some folks are looking out their window saying what snow . Absolutely lucy. That is because of location, locate, locate. As we look at ultimate doppler right now, you can see the heavier bands are still mainly offshore and also as you move into southern new england much thats where the brunt of this storm will continue to trend and really thats where the brunt of the storm always was in the forecast to be. But as we take look in between were still seeing some flurries and light snow a cross our area as we move toward the philadelphia area. Theres some snow taking place right now to our south and west toward the nations capitol. That snow is limiting the amount of snow that were seeing right now and also some of the heavier bands slow to move inland across our area. So as we take look at ultimate doppler right now lower merion youre seeing some of light snow snow. Moving into philadelphia prop also around willingboro as you move along 130 in sections of south jersey, cinnaminson looking at some of that snow. Heres where that heavy band of snow is moving inland right now. From long branch moving toward Seaside Heights, surf city and ocean county and then moving down toward bring teen Atlantic City seeing some of the wind blowing some of that snowfall around. So were really trying to wait on some of those bands of heavy snow to move a little farther inland but once again based on the trends that im seeing, its going to be a tough go of it as we take a look at the latest computer model you can see that area of low pressure will continue to intensify but once again, take look at the bulls eye or the jackpot f you will. Its to the north and east even of the new york city area into southern sections of new england england. So thats where were talking feet of snow, but the least snow that will occur across pretty much our entire area once you move to the west of the philadelphia area. So as we take a look, right now scattered snow showers across the area. Well still see heavier snow overnight through early tomorrow morning but its location, location location with those bands and that snow starts to fame taper off as we move toward tomorrow. As we watch the clock still see heavier bands move toward the philadelphia area. But the highest snowfall totals will still be to the east of us especially down the shore. So heres my updateed total map. You can see were talking a sharp cut off as far as the have and have nots with this particular system. As you move around philadelphia, ive downgraded it to four to 8inches so that is a change from earlier six to 10 across our area. Then as you move starter to the north and east, toward trenton eight to 12 likely on the lower end of that and then the higher amounts once you move into ocean and Monmouth County and upwards into sections of long island. So when i come back well talk much more about the timing of this system and other factor that is will play out as well as more chances for snow in that seven day forecast but it aint over yet. Lucy and iain, back to you. Scott a lot of us rather have not than have these days. A live look roads from center city. Theyre only going to get worse from here on out. Scott just told you remember bob kelly has you covered with traffic starting an hour earl err yell tom fox 29 morning starts at 3am. Torments night live crews spread all over the region this storm really starts to pick up from down the shore to the city and the suburbs. Lets begin with Chris Oconnell. Hes in Mercer County and theyre supposed to get most of the snow tonight. Chris . Reporter iain, some of that snow albeit light continues to fall. Its been like this all day but of course, the heavy stuff is forecasted to come in the overnight hours. In fact, less than an hour from now, a travel ban has, s going into effect governor Chris Christie saying Everyone Needs to be off the roads by 11 00 oclock as this area braces for the next noreaster. The second half of a onetwo punch has begun. The weather serves no purpose other than to just kind of throw a monkey reach in my normal plans. Reporter new jersey is officially under a state of emergency with up to 2 feet of snow forecasted in some areas of the state. Most schools are already closed for tomorrow and many businesses have done the same. My Daughters School has already canceled. It seems as if, um, rather than be safe than sorry schools and Companies Shut down. Reporter ominous prediction had many filling up their tanks and rushing for groceries. We got bread and milk and eggs. Just like clock work . Thats right. Absolutely. Reporter 8 00 oclock tonight new Jersey Transit was shut down. The entire system trains, buses and light rail grounded until at least wednesday. Maybe longer. Hopefully work is closed and ill hang out do whatever play video games hang out. Reporter for many tomorrow means a day off of work and staying inside to watch what could be a doozy of a storm. Might stay home tomorrow. Reporter what do you have planned to do. Nothing. Stay in bed under the covers. Its a nice little vacation. I dont look forward to shoveling tomorrow. But, you know, its a small price to pay. Reporter a lot of people are heeding that warning staying off the roads. Roads are really not too bad right now. Now under new jerseys travel band everyone must stay off the roads after 11 00 oclock tonight. Thats with the exception of some exemptions and Emergency Personnel people clearing the highways. Albeit news media also exempt from that. So well be out here. The governor says he will reexamine those travel bans starting tomorrow morning as conditions warrant. Of course well bring you back here throughout the night as conditions starting to deteriorate here in Mercer County. Lucy iain. Talk to you soon, chris. In Atlantic City officials preparing for the worst hoping for the best. You know how that goes. Theyre working hard to make sure its business as usual in ac. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser is live on the boardwalk. It looks like the snow is flying there dave. Reporter lucy, the rain changed over to snow here about 40 minutes ago. Ill step out of the way you can see the boardwalk here in front of caesars starting to be covered right now. The mayor tells us hes heard accumulations from two to 6inches all the way up to 15inches but his advice for folks at the jersey shore tonight baton down the hatches. If it slows down well get walloped. Reporter jersey shore braces for the first big snowstorm of 2015, the plows and salt trucks were at the ready along the Atlantic City expressway. Boardwalk i was deserted as the city prepared for a heavy snowfall. Pretty much were going to be expecting worse. I think well get like 3 feet of snow. I love the snow. Reporter while some snow drifts on the board the waves were already pounding the inlet at the north end of the city which got hammered in hurricane sandy. City officials are preparing for high tide in the back bays around 1 00 a. M. Were expecting around 7foot tonight like around 2 00 in the morning in the back bays. Im expecting the city to salt the streets and plow some snow. Reporter residents in those areas will asked to move their cars to Higher Ground here at the new wave parking garage. The mayor is also opened several city buildings to keep residents warm if they need shelter. Well be declaring a code blue so that anyone thats on the streets will be able to get transportation to some place warm to sleep and to eat tonight tonight. Reporter along the bay in margate winds whipped up the waves the same was true in longport along this sea wall. Back in Atlantic City the boardwalk was wet and empty. The mayor hopes the gaming halls can stay open through the storm. Weve got conventions in town. Theyre expected to continue. Well make sure that the entrances to Convention Hall and boardwalk hall are kept cleared. My suggestion to everyone is to baton down the hatches. Reporter take a look at the snow blowing off the shops peer shops here at caesars. Coming off with heavy winds whipping off the owing at this point. Again, the mayor warns everybody in those low lying areas if youll move your car, you should move it right now. Well have another report coming up in about 40 minutes. Lucy, back to you. Well check back in with you then dave. One area that could use a pressure coat of snow, pocono mountains of course. Live look right now from Blue Mountain and it look like some snow is flying there as well. Penndot plows are on the roads trying to get an upper hand before the storm gets underway. Brad sattin has been all over Montgomery County and joins us live in norristown tonight. Brad, what are things looking like there . Reporter iain as lucy just said the snow was flying but right now its kind of quiet. What is also interesting very quite on the roads. People clearly heeding the warning to stay off the roads. They are not so bad right now. What is kind of interesting here then penndot tells us this time last year in the five county area around philadelphia, they had used about 100,000 tons of salt. So far leading up to this storm they used about one third of that. So Mother Nature now is clearly playing some catch up. The first thing we noticed tonight is the lack of traffic for a monday night here on 202 south of king of prussia. Not too bad now. Especially theres no cars on the road. Reporter people clearly heeding penndots warning to stay off the roads. High winds can cause severe drifting, white out conditions which could make travel hazardous throughout the five county regions. Reporter some like joe headed in to work as a volunteer firefighter dont have the luxury of staying home. Generally roads like this when the speeds are down most of your accidents are, you know, fender benders stuff like that. Reporter penndot hoping to keep accidents to a minimum. Will have more trucks out tonight than all winter. 438 across the poof county row john covering about 11,000 lane miles. Loading up and delivering tons of salt. Some crews even coming in from western pennsylvania working 12hour shifts to keep as many trucks on the road as possible. Still the roads will not remain snow and ice free. Pennsylvania turnpike already putting out the warning that the speed limit may be reduced to 45 miles an hour if conditions worsen. Theyre slippery. Reporter really starting to get slick out there . Yeah, really slippery. Reporter which is why Meredith Mcgonagle decideed to walk half mile rather than drive as she puts it its wet its cold, its january. Reporter take a look. It is wet, it is cold, it is january. And the trucks are out. They are they are headed back on to the roads. Penndot gearing up for the long hall theyll be out probably through most of wednesday at this point based on the amount of snowfall we get. A couple important web sites to keep in mind if youll be on the pennsylvania turnpike they suggest you go on to pa turnpike turnpike. Com and for delays and real time Road Conditions and speeds as well, theres another website that covers about 40,000 roadway miles around pennsylvania that website is 511pa. Com. Guys, back to you. All right, thank you very much, brad. And weve got news comeing as we ache a live look at Philadelphia International airport. The philadelphia public and archdiocese schools are closed tomorrow. If youve got kids going to either of those areas they are closed tomorrow. They got the day off. Crews are work through the night to keep the airport open. Theyll most flights tomorrow are canceled. Spokesperson says they just want to make sure the airport is ready when flights finally resume, and inside the airport tonight it looks deserted but we did find a few stranded travelers tough place to be stuck. Tell was. Hand port workers are setting up cots for people had have to spent the night. We have got you covered all night long and into the wee hours of the morning. Live reports fox 29 morning news also starting an hour earlier sue serio will have your newest weather details and bob kelly got you cover on the roads starting at 3am. Look at your screen. We see a lot of Surveillance Video but this one really caught our eye. Take look at that gun. Just what these guys got away with. Escaped prisoner sets his sights on a home where a father is playing with his daughter. Big mistake. That dad is not backing down. Daddy yelled shut lock the door, lock the door that little girl dad may have saved the day life look at the roads right now getting worse as the night goes on much this is route 37. Tough to see right there in Seaside Heights, new jersey. Man, it is blowing and going. What is it going to be like outside your window . Storm starting to bring the snow weve been talk bowing for days much this is a live look right now at Mercer County where residents also have to worry about possible, you know, issues with high winds and these other things and just a few hours. In olney tonight people are bundled up waiting for the bus right now the sidewalks are still okay. The buses are still rolling. That is expected to change. Philadelphia Officials Say they are ready for the snow. Hundreds of plows on stand by when the storm does hit. Our Shawnette Wilson is live in pennsylvania landing to night with that. Shawnette . Reporter iain and lucy, city Officials Say the first round of plow trucks will hit the streets here in the city at midnight. The second round will be in at noon tomorrow and in the meantime salting has been happening all day as all of us brace for the worst to come. Its a ghost town right now. Reporter anticipation of major snow made for quiet and still night around a usually busy center city. I guess everybody got the warning. Reporter thats exactly what city officials urged people to do. Go home and stay home. Non search City Employees got off early. Schools closed early too. We got out at 3 00 and they weve been sitting, where is the snow . Reporter most say they arent convinced significant snow will actually happen. They promised us a winter wonderland. Yes. All we got was little sprinkles. Experts say this has been a tough forecast to track. Number one issue which is always Public Safety no matter how the forecasts keep change throughout the course of the day. Reporter still city officials spent all day getting ready for whatever will come. Including the clearing snow emergency at 6 00 this evening. Cars had to be out of snow energy routes for plows to get through or risk getting towed. Some tried to stay out as late as possible fearing tomorrow they may be snowed in. I think well get tons of snow. Every time they hype it up it never happens. I doubt it. Reporter and back here live youre taking a look down market street. One of the snow emergency routes we took a drive down earlier and found that most people had heeded to that warning again that means the snow emergency no cars allowed on these routes you will be ticketed and towed. Light snow come down right now but again wind gusting thats the biggest thing war feeling in center city right now. Iain. Ill take it shawnette. Several inches of snowfall len in new york city and its not letting up. All bridges and tunnels in the city are closing at 11 00 tonight. Less than an hour. Foxs joel waldman joins live from the city. That clock is tucking. Reporter lucy, it is. About 43 minutes from now all buses subways and trains here in new york city will be suspend suspended as this Winter Weather emergency is in effect. It was a messy commute for drivers crawling along on the long island expressway a blizzard beginning to make its way into the new york city area. The roads are already very very dangerous. Theyre going to be very hard to clear at the rate of snowfall we expect with the wind gusts we expect. Reporter the slick new york city streets catching some tourists off guard. We werent expecting this so we had to buy boots this morning. Reporter in connecticut more than 600 trucks ready to help clear the snow and National Guard out helping First Responders and state police. Make no mistake this storm has the potential to be extreme extremely powerful and dangerous. So do not take this storm lightly. We are not. Reporter at Philadelphia International airport delays and cancellations keep rolling in. Pennsylvanias governor signing an emergency disaster proclamation asking drivers to stay off the roads. This is not time to get excited or panicky. Just want everybody to know were really doing everything we should be to make sure that were safe. Reporter in massachusetts even the governor says he wont be heading home tonight planning to stay with a friend nearby. Bottom line the will be the kind of night where the best thing anybody can do is to stay and side. Reporter and it is not just the snow officials are overly concerned about. The wind as well. With gusts upwards of 75 Miles Per Hour visibility could drop to near zero. Lucy . Joel waldman thank you very much. Take live look at this radar. You can see the intensity of the storm up and down the coast. Chief meteorologist Scott Williams is looking at the latest track hell have updated snow totals in your neighborhood and around about 10 minutes. Scary Armed Robbery is all caught on video in north philadelphia. Take look at this. Two masked men held up the clearfield food market just before 9 00 last thursday night. Stores on the 2400 block of clearfield street. As you can see one of them had rival. Investigators say they got away with 500. If youve got any information please call the police. Chemistry experiment gone wrong sent a dozen students and five teachers in Gloucester County to the hospital. Emergency crews were on the scene at kings way Regional High School this morning after a a routine chemistry experiment started emitting smoke and potentially toxic fumes. The entire school was evacuated and students and teachers who came in close contact were sent to the hospital. Everyone has since been released and officials are now looking into what went wrong. You can see the snow coming down there. Have you ever seen anything like this before plane plumetting towards the ocean and has a parachute. Singlessingles start turning to craig list during a snowstorm. How many are using the winter blast to get a date . This winter blast really ramping up tonight. Heres a live look at the radar showing how big this storm really is covering the entire northeast. Scott is tracking snow totals for in you just a few minutes. Right here right now amazing video off the coast of hawaii. A plane is in trouble pilot has to make an emergency landing. No worries his plane has got a parachute. The whole plane does. This unfolded yesterday when the pilot realized he was low on fuel. He called for help. Deployed the planes parachute then landed in the water. He ditched that plane and waited in a live raft until the coast guard arrived just to amazing stuff. Major developments in the disappearance of a georgia couple. Investigators find their car in a lake and not too far away two bodies. Remains have not been identified identified. The runyans were last seen friday on their way to meet someone selling classic cars. 28yearold ronnie towns turn himself in today police say he was the last person to contact the couple. Hes now facing charges of giving false statements and criminal attempt to commit theft by deception. He has not been formally charged in the runyans disappearance. Not the out come we had hoped for. But, um, obviously its the one we have to deal with. The bodies were not submerged in water. Only the automobile was in the water. Investigators believe towns was trying to rob the couple. Another security scare at the white house. This time around 2foot drone crashed on to the grounds overnight. White house went on lock down for hours. That is how long it took the secret service to make sure the drone was not threat. The president and first lady were not home. They are in india but their two daughters and grandmother were inside. The secret service says a man came forward saying he was just flying the drone for fun. Had no intentions of it landing at the first familys home. Our Scott Williams hard at work looking at new information for how much snow youll see. Scott . Thats right, iain. Very difficult forecast. Were watching some of those heavier bands pinwheel in from the coast but just how far will they make it into your backyard . We have the details next. Chris . Reporter scott, some of that snow beginning to fall here in trenton as well as those gusty winds. Hear what the state is doing to keep the residents safe coming up after the break. Kfc doing it again with a twist. What the restaurant chain is testing right now thats already buzzing on social media. Road crews march at work tonight trying to stay ahead of that snow. Heres a live look from norristown. Remember, if you dont have to go out on the road, dont. Just stay unside. Right now at 10 30 major winter storm bearing down from the shore to philadelphia the suburbs up to north jersey we could see from four to 16inches of snow. It is all from this monster covering our live radar tonight. This is the beginning. The snow is only going to get heavier one of the areas expected to bear the brunt of the storm Mercer County. Thats where fox 29s Chris Oconnell is tonight. Chris you said the snow was just starting to fall a little bit ago. Reporter yeah, one of those bands comeing through and as you see you see right behind me a snowplow salting the streets here in trenton. You see going right past me. If you live in new jersey, you must listen to what im about to say. Because at 11 00 oclock about 29 minutes from now a travel ban goes into effect and will not be allowed on area roads. Police will stop you and tell you to go home. Governor christie ordering that earlier today for any nonsearch personnel state workers that means Public Safety, it means news media people clearing snow f youre not one of those people you must go inside at 11 00 oclock. They will revisit that travel ban tomorrow as conditions warrant. But here in trenton we said some of those banned starting to come. Weve seen the winds pick up also up here in Central New Jersey so its definitely going to be a long night. One more thing before i let you go this is my an mom meter wind speed this is real time weather. 24 degrees, wind chill right now but those winds are kicking up literally minute by minute. So for more conditions, further south of us lets go to my colleague Shawnette Wilson live at penns landing. Shawnette . Reporter chrises chris you mentioned the win. In a matter of minutes the snow flurries have stopped where we are at pennsylvania lapping in center city. But take a look down market street. Theres still plenty of traffic out here. The one thing weve noticed though is that the parked cars are gone. That was an order once the city declared a snow emergency at 6 00 oclock this evening. All parked cars had to be out of snow emergency routes on certain roads or face being ticketed and towed. For the most part over the past half hour weve been seeing businesses out throwing down salt just in anticipation of this weather to come. Were told by city officials that the first plow trucks will be at midnight the next round will come in probable ale round noon tomorrow of course that could change depending quickly and how much snow we see. Thats the latest from center city. Iain, back to you. Shawnette, thank you. Delaware on the low end of this storm. Heres life look from route 1 near Christiana Mall tonight. Deldot says crews are out in force to stay ahead of note most of the state expected to see between four and 6inches of snow. Your fox 29 winter wet authority hard at work as you well know. Scott williams what you got on tap right now . Right now lucy were analyzing ultimate doppler. Heaviest bands of snow still setting up shop down the shore and also offshore but were watching them try and peak their way a little farther inland and that will be the case overnight tonight with the progression of this storm. Also, note offshore you can see some of that lightning so it will be intensifying and that could mean some of those heavier bands will make their way a little farther inland. But right now as we look at ultimate doppler the heaviest of the snow is in monmouth as well as ocean county. It continues to try and pinwheel a little farther inland but a battle. Were looking at drier air as you move little farther inland and also we still have some snow on going to our south. So once this snowfall dissipates well see a better idea of how that snow will work itself in a little farther inn land. With that said, light snow right now in trenton also around Philadelphia Moving toward chester and wilmington moving into Burlington County. Some of that snowfall has begun. But the heaviest of the snowfall right now were looking at Seaside Heights, surf city, moving down toward Atlantic City city. So these bands offshore this is what were watching for the overnight and Early Morning time frame so as we look at 1am, you can see were looking at that heavier snow still a little farther to the east of philadelphia. Thats really been the trend throughout this entire event. By 4am were still looking at that snowfall moving a little farther inland toward the philadelphia area. But once again there is going to be that sharp cut off that we talked about. Take a look at the expected snowfall totals. One to 4inches. Once you move to the west of philadelphia. Philadelphia prop itself were looking at four to eight and were still looking at the potential for double digits north and east of philadelphia as well as once you move down the shore. So well zoom in a little closer closer. Doylestown, cherry hill, four to 8inches of snowfall for you and then you can see those amounts really start to decrease once you move toward places like west chester, chadds ford and into Lancaster County where youll likely see about an inch. As we move a little farther into south jersey egg harbor Atlantic City, eight to 12inch 12inches. Move a little farther to the west vineland Buena Millville four to eight and around the delaware bay area, one to 4inches of snow out of this event. Winter storm warnings are still posted pretty much for the entire area. Also moving a little farther to the west, we have those advisories and blizzard warnings still in effect for ocean county winds gusting up to 50 miles an hour. Look at future wind gusts were looking at those winds gusting at times up to 30 Miles Per Hour or a little over. So slick roads reduced visibilityies and once again i cant stress this enough, that sharp cut off between the light snow and the heavy snow weve been talking about this all week. As we focus in on the forecast for tonight temperatures in the teens low 20s blowing and drifting snow. That heavier snow continues to arrive during the overnight time frame and you can see tomorrow temperatures only in the low 30s and get this, we have more chances for some snowfall with clipper systems as we move toward friday and likely again sunday into monday. But this is going to be one of those events where were now casting and thats well continue to have updates throughout the overnight the half hour and once again good day begins at 3 00 a. M. So we have got you covered. Absolutely. Fast moving dynamic situation. Scott, thank for that. Did you feel the ground shake this weekend . It wasnt your match nation. What the experts confirm what down in philly suburbs. Making shore you dont shell out a arm and a leg in all of this snow. Why you could may triple and its legal. Cities are starting to get slammed with snow. This is times square where snow has been falling all evening long. Were heading live to a reporter in a big apple. With the card most accepted in the philadelphia region you have the power to do more. Independence blue cross. Live fearless. The beginning of a monster storm. Live look at the roads in how well, new jersey right now. Foxs joel waldman live in new york. Joel thats correct travel ban is minutes away. People still out and about . Reporter lucy and iain about 21 minutes away right now. 11 00 oclock eastern time subways, buses and trains here in new york city will be suspended and theres a noticeable difference out on the streets of new york city. Not a whole lot of people. It does seem like kind of your proverbial ghost town it seems people are heeding these warnings as they should very seriously. Staying off the streets and inside far away from the danger zone outside. Guys . All right. Thank you very much, joel waldman live in the snow stricken new york city. Wall street by the way so far vowing to stay open tomorrow and in your money uber rates are spiking but apparently theres limit. Dough mapped for the car service is way up in the big apple right now. The rates are rising right along with that demand but uber has promised the cap prices during the state of emergency and the governor declared one at noon today. Under the agreement uber can can still charge nearly triple its normal rates but the company says surge pricing as it calls it gets mr. Drivers on the roads. Just doesnt seem right though, does it n. What about more calories on your plate . Kfc pulls out a food combination youll love oar loathe. The fast food chain introducing the double down dog. Are you ready for this . Its a hotdog but instead of a bun its wrapped in juicy Fried Chicken patti. Thats right you heard that right. It is not available here in the states yet but you can try it if youre in the philippine. The colonel rosss double down bacon, jack cheese and sandwiched between a couple of chicken fillets. I dont even know what to say. Escape prisoner comes i was house, the wrong house. The father was at the ready to protect his family at all costs with an up likely weapon. As we take live look out on Atlantic City tonight find out who is using this winter storm as a way to get dates. Under pressure. Pock know mountains can use a nice fresh winter blast. Heres a live look from our Blue Mountain cameras. You can see actually no there are no skiers out there right now. I cant see any. Theyre smart. Live radar showing whats hitting the east coast right now. Well have live report for you in just a few minutes. From snow to earthquake and this is nothing to do with california. If you felt a rumble it is not your imagination. The Us Geological survey says a minor earthquake hit philadelphias suburbs over the weekend. Magnitude 2. 7 quake struck between downingtown and west chester just before 6 30 last night. Just a small one. No reports of damage or injuries have come in. Daughter of joan rivers files a lawsuit in the her death. Melissa rivers filed malpractice suit against the manhattan clinic where her mother had an endoscopy back in august. According to the papers filed today the suit says doctors were too busy taking pictures of rivers to notice her vital science dropping. The medical examiner found she died from a brain damage because of a lack oxygen. She was 81. Escaped prisoner ran to the wrong house what he found a dad with a bat who wasnt about to let anybody hurt his family. That prisoner had just run away from a New Hampshire hospital where he was getting an xray. He jumped into a plow truck that was running in the hospitals parking lot, took off. 5 miles later he crashed the truck and ended up in mark chet wips yard who was outside building a snowman with his daughter. When he saw that orange jumpsuit he grabbed his daughters tee ball bat and thats when the prisoner tried to jump nap threat wins truck. Then as he was trying to shut it i had it right here so he couldnt he couldnt close it it. Chet win gave the prisoner a couple of wax with the bat as describes it. Which stopped the guy until Police Showed up and put him back in cuffs. It is snowing pretty hard in Atlantic City. But officials are working hard to keep things up running. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser is live on the Atlantic City boardwalk. Dave, war the conditions like in you . Iain it slackened off little bit in the last couple minutes or so. As you can see the snow mounting up on the sea grass here headed out to the owing. Id say about 9 15 changed over from rain to snow. The mayor says hes seen accumulation numbers thrown at him from two to 6inches. All the way up to 15inches. Well swing back around here. You may ask how many people are on the boardwalk right now . Zero. From here in front of caesars some snow accumulating weve had salting and a couple of brush trucks go by. I walked through the gaming floor about an hour ago. Maybe 200 250 people on the gaming floor roulette, blackjack, the slots things like that. But not lot of folk here in Atlantic City but the mayor did tell us there are several conventions here in Atlantic City. He would like to keep the gaming halls open tomorrow through the storm if he can. Theyll pay special attention to that here on the boardwalk to make access in and out. Plausible. Also worried about the back bay areas here where theyll get high tied around 1 00 or 2 00 oclock this morning it may rise as much as 7 feet. Theyre asking folks in the back bay areas to move their cars to Higher Ground. If you havent done that yet you should probably do it right now. You can go to the wave parking garage at fairmount and mississippi second floor and above and put your cars there. Just to be safe. The mayor is also concerned if we get a heavy snow accumulation in the water is in early this morning that it may freeze and have trouble getting back out and that would leave some flooding on the roadways. We also took a trip to ventnor tonight and margate and longport. Same thing along the back bay. The waves were choppy. Wind whipped that kind of situation but no flooding on the streets at this point. Ocean city by the way has told folks to get their cars off west avenue. Thats snow emergency route and they are expecting flooding on the roads in the back bay areas there, too. All right, thank you very much dave. Our roving cameras out on the road tonight showing you the condition as the snow starts to fall. Live look right now from Plymouth Meeting a lot of areas just now starting to see the flakes but its going get a lot heavier over the next few hours. We do have Team Coverage tonight of the impending storm. Lets go to brad sattin in norristown. Brad . Reporter well lucy western burbs fairing pretty well at this stage. To give you an idea how the roads are doing take look. This obviously unplowed, unsalted here as we take a look to markly street there. The roads seem to be for the most part just fine. They are clearly wet but people seem to be moving without much of a problem. Lets take to you some pictures and tell was penndot has been telling us though over the last few hours. We know that there are 438 penndot contractor trucks and penndot trucks loading up with salt nonstop. Their literally spraying it, refilling and coming back for more. Theyre working on 12hour shifts. They expect to to do that through wednesday. We took a trip down 202. We saw very little traffic. People are heeding the warning to stay off the roads. Want to let and about the pennsylvania turnpike, though. They are monitoring conditions there. Could get a little dicey theyre telling us between harrisburg and philadelphia. If that become the case, theyre going to lower the speed to 45 miles an hour. Penndot obviously urging people to stay off the roads tonight and tomorrow. If you have to drive, theyre saying you want to at least give yourself about six car lengths distance between any other vehicles and especially theyre worried about the wind gusts of 30 to 35 miles an hour. That could create white out conditions. Not just for all of us, but for the drivers the penndot drivers as well. That would force them to the side of the road and kind of postpone their cleanup work. So again what were finding is very light traffic so far but the roads not so bad at this point. Guys, back to you. All right, brad, thanks for that update. Whats a blizzard if you dont have someone to cuddle with . I have a cat. However some people are actually turning to craigslist of all things as we take live look at Trenton New Jersey just take a listen to this. Some folks in middle actually some folks are in the middle of this and are bracing for the worst of it and placing ads looking for someone to cuddle with during the storm. Doesnt look bad right there but theyre still placing the ads. Theyre looking for laughs and good food while others are posts are too hot for tv. And still others others are wagering about nine months we might actually have a mini baby boom. Well see. Never know. Remember weve got you covered all night long and into the wee hours with life reports and fox 29 morning news will start an hour earlier sue serio will have your newest weather details and bob kelly has you cover on the roads starting again at 3 00 a. M. Its cold outside. Icy outside. Im thinking hockey. Why wouldnt you . Why would you go to the lists when i can spend the night with you guys. Perfect night in the house. Shredder is in the house. Were talking cold because the flyers be back from the all star break without zach rinaldo for quite awhile. The nfh will comes down for unnecessary hit. Nfl zeros in on a strong person of interest in deflategate. Is this sports or criminal you used to sleep like a champ. Then boom. What happened . Stress, fun, bad habits kids, now what . Lets build a new, smarter bed using the dualair chambers to sense your movement, heartbeat, breathing. Introducing the sleep number bed with sleepiq™ technology. It tracks your sleep and tells you how to adjust for a good better and an awesome night. The difference . Try adjusting up or down youll know cuz sleep iq™ tells you. Only at a sleep number store where youll find the best buy rated mattress with sleepiq™ technology. Know better sleep with sleep number. Sherlock, dick tracy all combined forces on deflategate tonight. 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Weve got live Team Coverage for you with crews spread ought across the region Chris Oconnell and Dave Schratwieser live in new jersey which is expected to bear the brunt of the storm in our area. Brad sattin in Montgomery CountyShawnette Wilson is live at penns landing. But first on this special edition of fox 29 your forecast scott, what do you have . Well iain and lucy right now were keeping tabs on ultimate doppler you can see that the brunt of this storm is north and east of philly. Were in little bit of a lull across our area but you can see some of those heavier bands right now down the shore trying to rotate a little farther inland. Mullica hill right now looking at light snow. Piles grove and sections of Burlington County but heres where that heavy band of snow has really set up shop in sections of ocean county, Seaside Heights, surf city, moving down to beach haven trying to move toward the Atlantic City area as well but once again theres drier air a little farther inland. So as we take a look at future fox cast you can see where that dark purple and pink color is thats where the most snow will occur the least snow once you move to the west of the philadelphia area. So heres the break down. West of town were looking at