Are both off. Lets check forecast with katie and traffic with pat in for meisha, good morning. Heres a traffic you, get in the car turn onat and dont getut for eight hours just stay in there. My gosh it is so brutally cold outside. That image of the franklin fountain bless my mind im not shock by it at a but it is pretty impressive, i guess is the word. Look at these temperatures. This is the value you want to go buy. It is brutal outside like single digits, almost every where but sub zero in wilmington for example more like 14 below zero near mount pocono. Thlly cold conditions obviously and do you need to make sure you bundle up adequately as you door. Wind chill advisory several hours until noon time. Youve got to account for th it is not terribly strong wind but enough that you have toabsolutely net is it. So tha it m you could feel, in as cold as 20 below zero. Storm scan quiet for now and it will stay that way for yet another day, in the sunshine but were not breaking out of the
Lefthand lanes. Havent seen updates and it does not look like its slowing down the carpool lanes. Hopefully it means its all clear. Not all clear if youre trying to get out of tracy. Westbound 580 into dublin, 54 minutes. No delay, southbound 680, and northbound 85, you still look good at 15 minutes. Ill update that crash we have in san jose in less than ten. Okay, here at the live desk, we continue tracking Hurricane Irma. The storm cutting a path of destruction across the caribbean. At least ten people are now dead. The tiny island of barbuda is the worst hit so far. This is an aerial view of the destruction. Officials say 95 of the buildings are damaged. Also want to show you the storm right now. This is a live picture of the Dominican Republic. We have been watching this all night and all morning, and if you can believe it, this is actually much less windy than it was just a few hours ago. Evacuations under way in florida ahead of the storm. Officials there saying this morning key
President trump says hes optimistic a deal will get done. I think we are going to get at least over the line. We will see what happens. Well give ourselves a little bit more time. Thats what we wanted to. This would be a Great Health Care at a reasonable cost. True into he says there is a big surprise coming in the package of health care. President trump travel ban goes into effect today. The administration laid out guidelines to ensure a smooth rollout. No laptop against a reporter. What you need to know if youre headed out of the country soon. Sense of strength for americas Financial Service with all the largest banks planning their largest payout to shareholders than yours. That means dividends are coming, higher dividends in particular. Little appetite for blue reprints initial Public Offering. Ten dollars apiece valuation now lowered 2 billion well below the initial x dictations. Practice this morning with futures indicated a higher open for the Dow Jones Industrial average of 12
But, it was a different story indeed for the department stores. And now many are closing. Here is jericka duncan. Reporter with Holiday Shopping over, the Retail Store Closing season has begun. With macys leading the charge. The nations Largest Department store announced it will close 100 stores, about 14 of its entire fleet and shed 10,000 jobs. One reason, a failure to adapt to the cultural shift in consumer shopping. Retail strategist melissa gonzalez. Theyre not as nimble. Cant change. Not Technology First companies. So theyre starting to reevaluate and restrk chur and some going out of business, but they need to deliver Something Different to consumers now. Sears holdings shuttering 100 k mart and sears stores. Office depot, 450 stores. And a dozen more like aeropostale, American Eagle and childrens place announced more than 100 stores will close by end of 2017. Traditional retailers stumbled despite a strong year for the Retail Industry overall. It saw nearly 3 increase in sales
Advisory from lower bucks, and points out south include New Castle County in delaware. And, until 6 00 oclock tomorrow morning and our current snow happen, coat to go 2 inches for points north and west. Could see two or 3 inches in central new jersey, south jersey and northern delaware where it intense ties just a bit. General 2 inches, plus or minus an inch or so is what we can expect from this. That could lead to some slick spots, for your friday morning commute. Coming up we will tell but another chance for snow for some this weekend. For now, back to you. Kate, thank you. Road crews have been doing their best to make tomorrow mornings commute go smooth thely as possible. Eyewitness News Reporter greg argos is live with that part of the coverage, greg. Reporter jessica, last night and this afternoon we saw roadways where those trucks brining the roadways raring them for snow. Here this is boro of bellmawr thinks the scene. These they plows are ready to go out this is roadways. Other