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KYW Eyewitness News At 5 February 9, 2017

Tshirt weather so today i have a sweat shirt and my hat. Reporter city employees, plowed, cleaning and clearing the road of the white stuff, which is less than 24 hours ago, seemed like an impossibility. I thought you guys got it all wrong because it was 60 degrees last night at 6 00. So what are you talking about . But, you know, you got it right. Reporter so this storm, of course brought work for both shoveling drive ways and sidewalks and plows coming through. Coming up at 6 00 ill show you more about the the fun that was had here in bucks county as well, many people, many students off of the school and so, well what they ended up doing in the snow. Live here in bucks county im greg argos for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Thanks very much. Snow came down, fast and furious, during the Early Morning hours in Whitehall Township lehigh county. Municipal trucks were out in force, dumb continuing the salt on the side of the roadway. On the sidewalks, and, spent time clearing a safe path. In philadelphias manayunk neighborhood the road were slush a inn clear that wet heavy snow stuck to tree branches and power lines but fortunately didnt cause any problems there. And, look at that Winter Wonderland in northeast philadelphia. People all bundled up as they walk along frankford avenue during the height of the storm this morning. And, cbs3 photo journalist tom kelly captured this time lapse video of what drivers encountered on the road in norristown, Montgomery County. As dawn see there pretty shoot sailing down main street. On Eyewitness News this morning, we introduced you to an allentown man who didnt seem to bothered by the snowy wet ther. He was wearing shorts. Not a big fan, more of less just because of the safety concerns but, you know, this freshly trooped, it is pretty nice, beautiful out. And, he said he was not cold, despite his choicess distributed it there being from pennsylvania where people come from a heartier stock. Well, reaction, you delivered, we have tons of fabulous snow photos thanks tour twitter posts using our cbs3 snow. Here are a few favorites. Little keith is helping clean up what was left behind this afternoon, that tiny broom was almost, almost bigger then he is. Big thank you for brian for sharing that with us. With a day off from school why wouldnt you go sledding. Our friend and collogue Chris Stigall shared this photo of the action, and it looks lies his area got nice snow but finally luke the dog wishes it looked different outside. Chris connolly shared this photo with us, this afternoon. We want to thank everyone who shared their snow moments with us, share your photos and videos with cbs3 anytime you like, follow us on twitter at cbs philly and like us on facebook, just type cbs philly in the search bar. Now as storms moved through it is windy, cold out there lets check with meteorologist kate bilo and kate, earlier some areas got pummeled, others got off easy but all of us dealing with the cold now. We are, indeed in the wake of the storm, jessica wind are whipping and the cold has moved in, heaviest snow, off in our thorn suburbs, poconos and Lehigh Valley. Meanwhile quick change over, from rain, turning to snow, and took a little bit longer in philadelphia and points south that kept snow totals limited but you can see this storm got going and really turned into a monster noreaster from northern new jersey, new york city right up toward southern new england. Look at the band of snow impacting boston area and over toward cape cod this evening. We have a few scattered snow showers, drifting through lancaster county. Some snow squalls in the wake of that snow and that is being carried in by these cold, northwesterly wind, that were feeling tonight. Recap of some snow totals basically from north to south, mount pocono with the the high amount of 9 inches this morning. Allentown picking up 6. 5. Perkasie bucks county at the 5. Media Delaware County 4. 5. The West Philadelphia 2. 8 inches of snow reported this morning. Take a look at our peak wind gusts though, wind gust ted to 50 miles an hour in lieu is, delaware, bass river at 49. Newtown square had 42mile an hour wind gusts and 41 miles an hour at Philadelphia Airport and dover delaware. We will remain under a wind advisory through next hour or so, that includes philadelphia , and all of south jersey and all of delaware, wind could gust to 50 miles an hour, still. The especially through next hour once the sun goes down the wind will die down at least a bit, but it stays blustery and stays frigid right through overnight hours. Temperatures right now very cold, were only in the 20s, we can see that brisk northwesterly wind, 29 in philadelphia, 26 in reading right now, 30 degrees in wildwood and wind are still very strong. These are not gusts, these are sustain wind right now, 26 miles an hour at the airport, to 22 miles an hour in reading and 29 in at latin i can city making it feel no better than teens and Single Digits. Coming up we will talk about the threat for icy spots through the overnight hours and also talk about the wind chills as we head into tomorrow morning and we will recap a little bit of the storm and talk about why some areas didnt get quite as much snow as we anticipated. For now, back to you. Road could freeze up and youre right on, look at our traffic map on i95 south ramp to route 413 just reopened. That is exit 40. We are told there are icy conditions, on the ramp. Crews are treating the roadway right now there was an accident in that area as well, so please, slow your roll if you are going out, expect slow going. Storm impact Philadelphia International airport right now flights air arriving up to and hour late, according to the faa, and many departing flights were cancelled this afternoon and this morning, but according to the airports web site the majority of the departing flights scheduled for this evening, are on time. If you have scheduled a flight check its status before heading out. And a new wrinkle in ongoing battle over controversial condo project along jewelers row. The latest fight is over the design of the two faced building. Some want the developers to go back to the drawing board on this one. Eyewitness News Reporter anita oh is live on jewelers road to tell us why, anita. Reporter good evening, jessica. It has been a long process, and countrys oldest diamond district could be getting a face lift but for some Business Owners here, that is not a good thing. As you can see from the hand made signs here some of them are scrambling now to save jewelers row. For Frank Schaefer cutting gems is an art form. Only diamond cutter in the five state area. Reporter if toll cutters prepared planned to build a tower on jewelers removes forward schaefer may be forced to cut his losses instead. Oh, absolutely, sure. 100 percent. Reporter schaefers store, is one of the several rots the in the 700 block of sansom street the that would likely be demolish under the proposal jewelers row will stop to exist absolutely. Reporter toll botchers pitched a 16 Story Building but their new proposal features 29 store business two faces, one on jewelers road and other overlooking Washington Square west. It is a stupid idea. That is my opinion. It has always been. It is only benefiting several people. Reporter in an effort to halt project, Preservation Alliance of greater fail nominated three affected properties to the cities register of Historic Places and Philadelphia Historic Commission could make its decision on friday. Executive director paul stan key says apartment complex would change character of the street. We dont oppose Development Like this in general but we object to is destruction of the occupied successful tax paying buildings especially on a iconic real is least tail street like jewelers row just to build another condominium tower. Reporter in a statement, the toll brothers, spokesmen wrote in part quote, many of the current land and Business Owners, located on sansom street and Jewelers Row Association are pleased with the preserving and rejuvenating the street and new least tail space that will create. We have also identified nearby commercial space for any tenants who may be difficulties laced. Now, this isnt all set in stone. Cities licenses and inspections department, did approve a demolition permit, and one for the original 16 Story Building, they are still considering the one, for the 29 story, tower. We are live here on jewelers row tonight im anita oh for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Coming up on Eyewitness News, murder that has gone un solved for decade, and now two women have come forward to say they know who killed the beloved nun, the the shocking crime, that they say she was about to expose, right before she was killed. That story is coming up 59 30. Mystery in the skies, passenger plane is diverted and makes an Emergency Landing for a security check. And a fire works store goes up in flames, hear what police say happened right before this blaze. And a live look now at our jack frost big boulder, camera , few people there, on the slopes, the poconos got a good deal of snow out of this system, kate has the outlook for the weekend right after this will and an Early Morning flight out of ohio, is forced to make an Emergency Landing, American Airlines flight 534 was headed from columbus, ohio to phoenix, arizona but was divert todd st. Louis airport for a cure check shortly after 8 00 this morning. 113 passengers and crew members had to be removed as bomb sniffing dogs, searched the plane, and no word on what prompt that had diversion. New york city looks like a Winter Wonderland tonight. Take a look at this video earlier from the big apple, where snow was really coming down hard. Traffic slowed to a crawl, and it was tough going for pedestrians, who needed all of the winter gear that they could muster to deal with the chill. New york city is schools closed for the storm and airports came to a halt. Snow totals saw the city and surrounding areas receiving anywhere from six to 8 inches. Right now the storm is tapering off in parts of the boston area. More than a foot has been talk about for that area. Reporter Cristina Hager from our sister station wbz is live in massachusetts with the look at conditions there, hi there, cristina this. Reporter hi there, well, it it wasly coming down hard earlier and all day, really fast, fat snow coming down very quakily. It is slowing down dramatically but what we have now is the wind blowing around , the snow that came down earlier. The problem here today really was with the driving. Once we get 10 or 15 feet downey think you will be all right. Reporter car stuck on one of the woosters signature steep hills. This time trying to turnaround and went flying around the corner there. Reporter sadly they are trying to get to a funeral which is happening, in spite of the storm. Pump the brakes. Pump the brakes. There we go. Hit the brakes. Nice and slow. Everybody out there, take it slow, you know, if you can stay home, stay home. He went up just to try to turnaround and hill caught him and down he came. Reporter it the is the theme of the day, vehicles slipping, sliding and blocking others like this tractor trailer on the pike, and at homes, residents like this tried to stay ahead of the pile up. This man, wait for his wife who works in the nursing home in one of the few cars, on the road, so she can get in. Snow days, for people in the Health Care Field yes, she will be home in a little while. It the is just hard to get up this hill because she doesnt have all wheel drive. Reporter as bad as this is , not enough to over shadow that game we all watched a few days ago and all this man wanted. I guess that was a good game and no one expect that. We have moved on to the snow storm. You figure you are trying to get to work and snow holding you up a little bit. A little bit, turf find my scrape tore clean off my car. Reporter we got him a brush for his car whiz went to good use so he could get to work, hopefully a better trip, then so many others. Wooster city manager says road crews had a very hard time keeping up with the snow today and now that it is tapering off they can get to the serious work, of really, cleaning this up. In wooster Cristina Hager, now back to you. Thank you so much. You got to take care of there boston snow totals were higher then others. They were. Our area depending on where you were you didnt get as much as originally anticipated there is a few reasons for. That storm came in a lot faster and took a while to change over from rain especially in the city ofo philadelphia we did get high totals off to the north and west. Poconos, Lehigh Valley, upper bucks, Montgomery County but as you head from the city on south, some spots, not seeing much at all, from this system. Heres a look at why that happened . Again, why less snow then we anticipated this morning . Storm arrive a little bit earlier around two or 3 00 a. M. That means only cold air had moved into the least high valley and poconos at that point. It took longer to get into philadelphia and to get into points south. It was slower change over from rain and then storm really ramped up off shore as it was heading toward eight or 9 00 and that is why you saw banding to the north and east over northern new jersey, new york city, and southern new england. We just missed out on the best dynamics and thunder snow with this system. I want to show you a difference. This is time lapse from the city. Thinks 6 00 a. M. Just wet, raining. Very quickly sun comes up and changes to snow but the storm didnt have much left in the tank and it was out pretty quickly and anything that fell , just generally just melted down to 26 right now at leadership academy. Meanwhile broad headville up towards poconos it has been snowing all day long, heavier snow this morning, we had nine , eight, 7 inches depending where were you in carbon, mob row counties and kept coming as they got in the better band off to the north and west and you can see, 45 miles an hour gusts report there had in broad headsville. Heres what fell, six to eight from the Lehigh Valley from the poconos to new york city. Four to six in the far northern bern suburbs, and one to four in the city and coat to go 2inch fess that for south jersey and delaware. Now in the wake of the storm, wind are whipping around the back edge, as this storm is still very strong, off the new england coast and still have a few snow squals outside, this evening, most of us wont see much, couple of flurries or stray snow shower. Do you want to point out this next system . It doesnt look like a big deal. Little clipper that could bring a snow shower to parts of the area tomorrow evening. And in the meantime heres what it feels like outside, right the now, feels like sub zero in mount pocono, mine us three, is your feels like temperature right now. Feels like eight in allentown. Fourteen in philadelphia feels like 15 in millville, it is not going to get the any better by 9 00 oclock tonight feeling like Single Digits across the vast majority of the area. Look at mount pocono, feels like at 9 00 oclock eight below zero and then tomorrow morning we will wake up to those feels like temperatures in the Single Digits and low double digits as well not even in the teens at 8 00 a. M. Kids going back to School Waiting for the bus and they will need all of the layers. Were also talking about icing road. Temperatures plumetting. Any slush on the roads will be freezing up overnight. Heres good news it has been so wind toy day that is not good news but wind tried out the roads so main road looking okay, we just expect patchy black ice concerns and mainly on driveways, sidewalks, and walkways, areas where were not seeing all of the snow cleared and is there lingering slush in spots. So overnight again watch for those icy spots, otherwise, clear, windy and frigid. 19 degrees is your overnight low. Tomorrow starts with sun and then increasing in cloud, still cold, windy 34 degrees for your friday, not feeling any better then mid 20s, it does rebound a bit over the weekend. People not see a ton of sun, there may be sun on saturday but back to 47. Sunday into the 50s we will go so any snow you saw to take will be melting pretty quickly and showers will be around on sunday, there are a couple of chances of systems next week. Not sure if they are for us or further north but we will talk about that next half an hour. See you then. Thanks, kada rebater it. 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