Bus and light rate operations have been suspended. Service is suspended for now. Some septa buses could be detoured today because of snow. Regional rails are operating on a saturday schedule and all philadelphia public and parochial schools are closed today. Were still watching for what other schools in this region will do. We have a team of reporters. Nbc 10 reporters and photographers scattered across the area to show you whats happening in your studio and in our studio we have our First Alert Weather Team watching the roads so you know exactly what to expect throughout the day. Lets begin with meteorologist bill henley and his forecast. Bill, the snow is coming down across much of the area now. Yeah, weve been watching it spread inland over the night as we expected but were not going to see the intensity it looked like we were going to see over a couple of days. Thats happening in new england. Thats going to have a major impact on travel in our area. Were getting snow now, south phi
5 00 this morning. Now light snow is being reported, not only in maryland but its moving into delaware. Leonard just tweeted me from newark delaware. Here is the view of the Traffic Camera shows some light snow in newark. The hourbyhour forecast showing snow spreading into the area by midmorning and most of the area will see light snowfall and spreading through the area even into the afternoon hours but looking less impressive later today and just some scattered showers later tonight. 22 plenty cold this morning in philadelphia and it will stay cold through the day. So this one will only be snowfall making for a light, fluffy snow. Jillian mele is watching the snow on the Traffic Cameras this morning from the First Alert Traffic Center. Good morning, jillian. Good morning to you, bill. Lets start you off in delaware with live look in townsend. Route 13 at pine tree road. Slow down and take your time. We know this has started and drivers in new jersey 206 is closed as a result of an acc
Sedgley avenue. You can see those, seven cars, including an engine were all involved in this wreck just a mangled mess, in all, 243 people object board that amtrak train number 188 coming from washington d. C. , heading to new york city. It apparently jumped tracks at frankford junction, the area where this crash occur. There is a large curve involved here. It sent 65 people to area hospitals. Six of them in Critical Condition, at this hour once again, five people have been confirmed dead, as you can imagine, it was an all hand on deck kind of a scene late last night as local state and federal authorities all came together here. The at one point we are told by mayor Michael Nutter that 200 Police Officers were here at the scene including Philadelphia Police commissioner charles ramsey, and also joined by Deputy Commissioner of the philadelphia fire department, jesse wilson. We have slightly more than 200 officers that have responded to the scene once this occurred and we realized the m
All of a sudden it started to shake and we were in the front seat and this huge red suitcase just came flying at me. Up credible stories of survival this morning amtrak train derails in the Port Richmond neighborhood killing five people dozens are injured, six critically. We have been covering this story all night long since it happened around 9 30 and of course, all morning too. Five people again confirmed dead, more than 100 of those 243 passengers and crew on board were taken to area hospitals. There will be no Amtrak Services between new york and philadelphia this morning. Federal investigators are expect on that scene within the next few hours so far the big get is we dont know what caused this crash. We are expecting an update from the city later this morning. So many questions to be answered. We have Live Team Coverage with reporters covering every angle at the crash and aftermath. We will check with justin finch at hand map hospital and jan carabao is monitoring impact on morni
Brought in a few minutes ago. Also happening very soon investigators want Start Talking to the trains crew as well as passenger. Take a look at a video taken by ntsb on the scene at the crash site. This is a very, very developing investigation right now. What we know at this point is just how fast this train was traveling before the accident. It was actually speeding down these tracks at more than twice the limit. Ntsb says train was traveling at 106 miles an hour coming in a sharp curve in the track. The the trains engineer did apply thee mergecy brake but just moments before, not enough time to slow down this train. Limit there is just 70 miles an hour. Trains black box and front mounted camera have been recovered and they but the Big Questions remain, what was this engineer doing and why was he going so fast. We plan to interest right the train crew and other personnel. We would like to interview the passengers of the train. We will be conducting a site distance test. We will be tes