Lehigh valley to the poconos and temperatures drop below freezing and the untreated surfaces get slick. The computer models, are a good consensus a coating to less than an inch. Not a big storm. Im tracking the potential for a more significant snow event sunday night through monday, ill talk about that in the full accuweather forecast. All right cecily thank you. Whenever wintry weather hits keep an eye on the Storm Tracker 6 radars at 6abc. Com weather, we have the hourly and sevenday forecasts along with the latest call from the team of meteorologists here at action news. Action news has learned that Pennsylvania State treasurer rod mccord is the subject of an investigation, they are looking into alleged theft of campaign and other funds meantime he announced he was resigning affect february 12th despite there was two years left in his term. The democrat lost the gubernatorial primary to tom wolf and he will appoint a new treasurer to finish out the two years of his term. A doctor an
Traffic is forced off at woodhaven road and there is still some vehicles trapped north of street road and north of woodhaven south of the accident and north of woodhaven. What is the traffic out there northbound . Horrendous, a dead stop people were getting out and walking around. On the highway. From street road to woodhaven road. Long time . Yes absolutely. Cleaning that mess up. Police are telling us that it could be 6 00 before i95 northbound reopens, they have to call accident investigators to the scene and clean up all the wreckage including the scrap metal out on the road, we know that one person died in this collision and its unclear who that person was and which vehicle they were riding in and we are working to collect more information, again i95 northbound is diverted at woodhaven and creating a mess on the streets of bensalem. Im sara bloomquist, channel 6 action news. Sara, thank you. Because of that mess well check in with matt pellman shortly for more of the traffic impac
A thousand miles. So, this is going to cause a lot of travel problems for the first half of the weekend. Now, the arrival time, that moisture will be moving up from the south to the north so it will be overtaking southern delaware, central delaware and the far southern end of new jersey between now and about 8 oclock. It will be moving into philadelphia primarily in the form of snow between 8 00 and up across the northern Lehigh Valley and the poconos between 10 00 and midnight. What you get from the system depends on your location. For details on that lets head over to meteorologist adam joseph. Yeah, it will make three stops. It will first go to the north and west where well see most of the snow and a period of icing as well. So it begins as snow overnight tonight and an extended period of snow into the wee hours of saturday morning but there will also be a transition zone as it tries to fliptory to rain anywhere between Downingtown Pottstown Quakertown to allentown as far north as e
In the meantime fire investigators remain here on the scene. We can tell you they are examining the rear of the structure, believing preliminarily that the fire began in the rear near a trash dumpster. Now firefighters took about 6 1 2 hours to totally extinguish the flames. Close to two dozen people are now homeless. The hallway was just pitch black with smoke and as soon as you took a breath of air, your lungs filled with fire it felt like. Reporter thats when he realized he couldnt escape the raging inferno without the assistance of firefighters. One of the First Responders captured this video of steves rescue from the fourth floor amidst billowing smoke. Credit goes to the firefighters who brave the elements and the tenuous situation of everything. And im just happy to be here. Reporter steve was one of three people treated for minor injuries. A firefighter cut his hand. But one person lost his life during the multialarm blaze that gutted the back of this Apartment Building. Steve
Indeed i did this, im sorry im going to plead guilty to this charges, that will happen in a couple of weeks in harrisburg. A lot of people are wondering what the sentencing will be like under the hobbs act. Its a federal charge. The most recent damage the trial in florida he got two years hell be out earlier than that. What can we expect in terms of sentencing for rob mccord, whats facing . I think he will wind up like the virginia situation where the recommended guidelines are harsh er. It will be what the judge decides he wants to do with rob mccord. I think he gets the benefit of having not leveraged his office. He has given that up, hes admitted he was wrong. Theres a significant amount of money, but not annual overwhelming amount of money, if you you assume weve seen everything there is, he comes away with a moderate sentence. Do you think its a fine or Community Service or a sentence . I think they will impose a sentence. For him to say i salute crossed the line, thfers this was