Another big accident. Today in the bays bob redell is live there with whats going on. Bob, certainly a scary scene out there for a lot of those drivers. Reporter good morning to you, marcus and laura. The big rig itself was removed by some wrecking crews a wrecker crew within the past three to four minutes behind me. You can see the head lights, those are heading northbound on 101 in palo alto just before the University Avenue accident. The accident with the big rig took police in front of us here where that k rail is and we see those caltrans vehicles are. I did speak with chp within the past 15 minutes and they expect this to be reopened within the hour. Right now three of the four lanes in the northbound direction are shut down. Its just the number one lane thats open. The reason why its taking so long is that when this big rig crashed it spilled some fuel on the road and also knocked one of the k rails this is a Construction Zone, it pushed one of the k rails into the lanes of traf
Large in size and very explosive in intensity, so its only going to get stronger as it approaches. The entire area is under the first alert. We do have that blizzard warning for the jersey shore. A rare blizzard warning and also south delaware. Thats where youre going to see the highest winds. Youre also going to see the highest snowfall totals. At this point it looks like thats where the biggest impact will be on all of this. 9 00 tonight through 7 00 tomorrow evening. That is how long well be looking at this first alert and that is how long well be looking at these blizzard conditions around the rest of the area, we are looking at winter storm warnings. So its just still as severe. The winds wont be quite as high in philadelphia. What were looking at is heavy snow. Potentially you could see up to a foot in some places along the jersey shore. In philadelphia, some places could exceed half a foot. Were looking at high winds. Were looking at what could be a very dangerous morning commut
There. Also, philadelphia public and archdiocesan schools are closed today. Suburban delays and closings will be scrolling across the bottom of the screen. You can see it there right now. Good news we have Team Coverage this morning of all the conditions out there weve got john rawlins back there in south jersey, Jeanette Reyes in philadelphia telling you what things are like, good morning. It is 4 30 a. M. , january 5th, im Tamala Edwards along with matt odonnell. Lets head over to david and karen to get the latest in accuweather and traffic. Reporter we both said poor john rawlins. I feel so bad he is in the cold. Reporter there was a point yesterday with jennette you couldnt see her. Reporter the visibility is better than yesterday. Reporter and we have the willful to worry about. Windchill advisory they will be severe below zero. Up in the poconos even worse in case youre going skiing this weekend. You want to bundle up and cover up your skin. Satelle and radar shows you the storm
And proving to a challenge for people that took public transit. People are being patient and wonderful about it. Christie aleto is live now at 30th street station. What is the situation now . Reporter slowly but surely the lines are moving. You are looking at live pictures of septa Regional Rail line, the last hour the lines for the airport has gone down significantly. This line for the wilmington line is very, very long and spans two blocks and turns over to market street. And also i want to show you back here in the distance that is the line for the paoli line it curves around 30 and street station and dumps on to jfk in the direction of 20th street. A lot of people have mixed emotions about waiting in the line. Some people say this have been here 45 minutes to an hour. Others are simply frustrated with how slow everything is moving. They didnt account for the number of travellers going home. Coming to we had tickets it was good and going home they didnt do so much. Septa Regional Ra
Daryatreaded the bay bridge and looking at an hour 15 minutes Something Like that. One of the other bridges just pack on another 15 to 20 minutes for your commute this morning. George and at a shot. Darya the shot behind us pullout all the traffic at least the status slowly moving now but definitely not encouraging if your home taking a look at that you dont want to take this like. With him across today is evident that it would be so bad but all the approaches are completely backed up thats what this really causing the big delays of the bay bridge. Those darya saw the car fire echoed be a decent place but because that happened after this accident. They can get to the fire than those on fire for a while. Fast track planes fasttrack is usually get even at this hour but they were finding their way through this fasttrack plans to adjust to that car fire. Darya they back up to talk about rwanda this news alert to. Is set in fremont whos telling us about an hour the on ramp to north on a 80