Tuesday night the big story on action news tonight the approach of our next bat with old man winter penn dot getting the salt trucks ready for action and action reporter Annie Mccormick is life in norris town and then the metrologist cecily tynan and accuweather cecily. Jim this is going to be a brush with some snow, some rain, there are a few things really counting against this storm from being a big snow maker first of all a lot of dry air and if you look at this you can see it breaking up in Northern Virginia and also running into some relatively warm temperatures, we have temperatures above freezing in most of our viewing area so the moisture has finally started to move east but you will notice near malvern and pottstown its starting as rain not snow in reading its been snowing for hours lightly but even there temperatures are marginal so a lot of that is actually melting as its hitting the ground. Its 32 in reading marginal for snow allentown 32 lancaster 32, philadelphia though i
Been colder, thats where weve been seeing the snow falling overnight. Ive just added delaware, and new castle and its trending colder and a first alert right now. We will see this one easing off during the afternoon. Overnight, the snow has made a lot of progress. It was stuck way to the north and west yesterday in the lee high valley but is now moving into the south jersey. It first arrived in allentown and reading where its still coming down and accumulate. But look at delaware right now. You can see that little bit where its a little bit colder coming into wilmington to northwestern New Castle County. And wilmington has just dropped down to 32 degrees. Lee high valley is still above freezing in philadelphia and south jersey. There will be some limited accumulation in these neighborhoods. But the worst of it is going to be avoiding philadelphia and south jersey. Well break it down hour by hour with your future cast coming up. But first Jessica Boyington has your first alert traffic.
He is live at the scene. Steven, what have you learned . Reporter so far weve been told the task force was out here this morning serving a search warrant about 6 30, and thats when the u. S. Marshal was shot here on mull berry street. Take a look at the scene. Weve got police all over from a couple different agencies here. Youll of course have mulberry street which is shut down. There are crime scene markers all over the street. You cant see that now that this police car just came in here and kiechb blocked our view. Also investigators, police going in and out of every home here on the block trying to talk to neighbors about this potential suspect. Again, a u. S. Marshal was killed and a York City Police officer also shot during this altercation. But his injuries, the york city detective rather, are considered to be nonlifethreatening. Harrisburg officer was also injured but expected to be okay. The names of the officers involved not released as of now, but we can tell you the public i
Into Chester County and into heading towards Delaware County this morning. Concord, youre about to see that heavier rainfall. Westchester, youre starting to get it. And right along route one, some very heavy rain. These cells are moving quickly, and then it moves out. Because these cells are moving at 40 miles an hour. So its a fast moving system and theres more on the way. So standby for a wet day and a mild day today. 39 degrees in the suburbs. 50s in new jersey and philadelphia into the 40s in delaware with the rain, and lee high valley at 42 degrees. But youll see the temperatures climb to a big warmup in spite of the showers and thunderstorms. Now, its not going to be all day wet weather. Ill show you when you can expect some breaks from using your umbrella when im back in ten minutes. Were starting with a construction project in new jersey between 130 and 295. We have three lanes closed there and also that eastbound ramp headed to 295 closed. That will will be there until 2 00 th
Also, quick check of your philadelphia. And it will really warm up markets. It could add to yesterdays during the day in spite of the games. The markets closed on record showers and thunderstorms. Highs after the senate v youre looking at 50s and 60s end the governmentnd european m this afternoon. Well break it down hour by hour when im back in ten minutes. Ending higher on that news. But first Jessica Boyington with big names like johnson your first alert traffic. Johnson andvezon. 5 25 right no. Good news. The schuylkill expressway on the breaking this morning, shot vine. This is clear. Outside a bus this is the eastbound traffic a teen dies and now the search right here where they were is on for whoever pulled the diverting traffic a second ago. Trigger. And making plans for the westbound, it might be clearing. Minneapolis. It didnt really matter anyway eagles fans are planning to because traffic was getting by shell out some serious cash to the scene. It wasnt a huge delay. See the