Well. A live look outside at Camelback Mountain resort. Chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz is here with the forecast. Snow is the talk of the day. Its all related to this same noreaster that we have been following all week. You can track the moisture coming all the way around and right back into our area. You can see that theres some pretty significant bands of snow that have set up. Parts of montgomery and bucks county, near the border. It has been snowing hour after hour. Its getting heavier in northern Burlington County as well. Theres bucks county covered with mostly light snow. But it is a little bit heavier in some points. Its also near the freezing mark. The new area of snow that has been developed from Chester County and New Castle County, delawar delaware, salem county, new jersey, its generally melting. We will be watching this band of snow as we go through the afternoon. Visibility tells us how heavy the snow is. Reading, three miles. Quakertown and doylestown, less than two mile visibility. Eight miles in philly international. Wrights t wrightstown is down a good bit. No restrictions to the south. As we go through the day, we will watch the temperatures. 32 in pottstown now. Its still marginal there. Its in the upper 30s to the south. Still windy, still cold. 20s for windchills throughout the area. As we go through the afternoon, we will be following those snow showers some more. Temperatures leveling off, not going very far. And we get a little burst of snow, the temperature can drop and get things slippery. More detail about what to expect for the rest of the day and the weekend with the sevenday in a few minutes. The icy road to several accidents this morning, including one that injured a Police Officer. Nbc 10 as Randy Gyllenhaal is live with details on what happened. Tell us what happened. Reporter very busy day for First Responders on many roadways doubecause of the icy conditions. The Police Officer was here. He was placing road flares into the road intersection here when another car spun out of control and hit him. According to the police, the officer was thrown to the side of the road. He was rushed to the hospital with multiple internal injuries. Right now, it appears that driver lost control because of ice on the roads. Spinning out, slamming into the officer. For a few hours this more than, the roadways in the area were very slick. We had heavy snowfall that froze on the pavement. The driver in that out of control car did remain on the scene and cooperate with police. This was just one of many accidents in the area blamed on the slick roads. We have been watching road crews putting salt on the road up and down the area. Its still slippery. In this case, police say that officer who was hit is expected to survive. Randy gyllenhaal, nbc 10 news. Thank you. Icy road s led to this accident this morning. Authorities tell us the driver lost control, then crashed into a guardrail. Sky force 10 was over the scene around 6 00 this morning. Another car was also involved. Were told there were some injuries but they were minor. Count on nbc 10 to bring you the latest information on the noreaster. Updates on air and online. Download the nbc 10 weather app at nbc10. Com. A fire destroyed one house in philadelphias kensington section this morning. Sky force 10 hovered over what appeared to be a transformer and power lines exploding. This was about 6 15 this morning. You can see flames coming out of the windows shooting from the roof. Officials say the house was vacant and no one there was hurt. Firefighters in lower marion township nobknocked down a hous fire this morning. Crews had it under control quickly and no one there was hurt. We are learning more about the investigation of the fire that killed joyce craig, the first female firefighter in philadelphia to die in the line of duty. Craig was one of the first firefighters to enter a burning home on tuesday. Nbc 10 news got to listen to fire radio recordings indicating craig pressed her emergency button. A call went out of a firefighter trapped in the basement. The Fire Union President said she was found on the first floor. There will be two viewings for the fallen firefighter tomorrow night and again saturday morning at Bachelor Brothers Funeral Services in north philadelphia. Joyce craigs funeral will follow the saturday following at the same location. Also on pennsylvania pennsylvania governor tom corbett ordered flags to be flown at half staff in her honor. Philadelphia police are vestivest i gating a crash. An owner pistol whipped a driver along north 58th street in the citys overbrook section. He had to be taken to the hospital. The investigation there continues. This morning the fbi is searching the banks of the Schuylkill River and a canal for any clues in the disappearance of shane montgomery. We got this video a few minutes ago showing agents. New video shows shane walking near the canal early thanksgiving morning after he left the bar. His family posted on facebook that authorities are taking their investigation in a new direction, but they did not elaborate on the direction. A pizza Delivery Driver in Delaware County may never walk again after being shot on the job. He was making a delivery at a home near 9th and ward streets late tuesday night. Before she could get out of the car, someone walked up, robbed her and then shot her. The bullet pierced her spinal cord and lung. The daughter was just working parttime to help pay for school. I dont know why they decided to shoot my baby. We just want justice. Shes listed in critical but stable condition this morning. Her mom says doctors told her theres only a 1 chance that she will walk again. The gunman is still on the loose. Police are looking for the man who robbed an employee in the lingerie section of a busy department store. This happened monday night inside macys. A man wearing a mask and gloves pulled out a gun and demanded the clerk empty the register. He got away with nearly 1,200 in cash. Its unfair to those of us who have to work for a living. Its unfair to those of us who come out here and need to feel that sense of security. The employee was not hurt. Police in the mall Security Force are working together to increase patrols. Happening today, a look at the new body cameras philadelphia Police Officers are testing. About 30 officers are wearing the cameras this week in a pilot program. Police say the technology is part of its continued push for transparency and earning community trust. A majority of new jersey voters say no to a president ial bid for chris christie. The poll finds 53 of new jersey voters believe christie would not be a good president. 49 say the u. S. Is not ready for a jersey guy like christie. Those polled say they favor Democrat Hillary Clinton and other possible republican candidates. He could announce a bid for the presidency next year. Lower marion township is paving the way for a complex, but not everyone is on board. Residents spoke out against the redevelopment. A developer wants to build luxury apartments and a parking garage. The township board of commissioners voted to vacate part of the property. Many residents have signed petitions opposing the towers. They fear Small Businesses will suffer. Philadelphia City Councils final session is under way. On the agenda, Council Members will discuss the future of the royal theater. The theater has been vacant for more than 40 years. It hosted musical legends. Now several developers in the neighborhood are talking about turning the royal into rental apartments and retail stores. People we spoke with seem pleased something will be done with the theater. Im hearing theres going to be apartments and some commercial on the bottom floor, which is great for the area. We like the idea that the building is going to be redeveloped. Were not opposed to that. Were not opposed to that. We are concerned about the height of the building. The royal theater is on citys historic register. Just under 13 hours and counting. The steps Congress Need to take today to avoid a government shutdown. California chaos. People in the northern part of the state are getting pounded by one of the windiest and rainiest storms in five years. Huge storms on each coast. More snow showers in parts of our area today. Drier and warmer weather is on the way. I will let you know what to expect for the weekend with my nbc 10 exclusive first alert forecast just ahead. The head of the cia will respond today to the senates report on torture tactics. John brennan is expected to dispute the report on harsh treatment of suspected terrorists. The report concluded no useful intelligence came from waterboarding and other techniques. Brennan acknowledged mistakes were made but said information was vital in preventing attacks. Congress has less than 24 hours to avoid a government shutdown. Tracie potts has the details from capitol hill. Reporter this 1. 1 trillion spending plan cuts millions for protecting the environment, makes School Lunches less healthy, Big Campaign Donors could contribute ten times more and rules to prevent another Big Bank Bailout would go away. This is a lousy way of doing business. Pelosi is pushing to renegotiate. Reporter theres no way she will support a budget soft on wall street. This is about reckless behavior. Its about a give away to the largest Financial Institutions in this country. Its up to us to say no. Reporter republicans need democrats, 60 or 70 to vote yes because the party is expected to lose dozens of their own. Congre conservatives who want to stop the president S Immigration plan. We need to hold funding back for who knows what else he is going to do. Easy to say no around here. Easy to thump your chest. We need to get things done. Reporter its a budget with money for ebola, fighting isis, food safety and a small raise for military. Federal employees are bracing for furloughs if congress cant work this out by midnight. If they dont get it done today, we are told the backup plan is to pass a temporary budget keeping things as they are through the next couple of months. Tra tracy potts. This woman filed a defamation suit against bill cosby. Cosbys lawyer issued a statement that reads cosby has never been charged in connection with any allegations against him. The official start of winter is more than a week away. Some parts of the country have seen a lot of snow this season. Look at this. This is in new york, just outside of syracuse. Bands of snowfall in our area today. A wicked storm slamming the west coast. Residents struggling with downpours, wind and snow. We learned tens of thousands of people are without power in the San Francisco bay area. The super soaker could bring up to three ink inches of rain. Eight inches in the mountains. The storm will continue through today into tomorrow. Many San Francisco schools have canceled classes for today. High water levels have many residents on edge. Be careful. Judge the water. We have grown up here. It can be really dangerous. Its fascinating. Its amazing. But its very, very dangerous. They are telling us waves will be 25 feet. Most of california has little rain. Severe drought have hit the central and southern parts of that state. Rising tides and beach erosion destroyed two homes along the Washington State shoreline. The home owners cleared out monday. Believing theres only a matter of time before the homes collapse into the pacific. Thats what happened. Western washington has been battered by high winds and rain over the past few days and more is expected. Thats a powerful storm on the west coast. We have a powerful coast in the northeast and around that storm were getting bands of snow, even into the philadelphia area, even in delaware and new jersey. This storm is not over yet for us. We do have a dry fairly pleasant weekend ahead. Its not exactly going to be balmy. The visibility not too great. We have some snow showers in the area. 37 degrees in philadelphia with some snow reported at the airport. 22 mile an hour wind gusting to 32 miles an hour. Its five degrees koer s coldert was at this time yesterday. All of this is circulating around that gigantic noreaster, still sitting over in new england. Were getting more of a westerly flow right now . Were actually picking up moisture from the great lakes thats helping to enhance this snowfall that were seeing in eastern pennsylvania. Of course, the temperatures are critical and some places near freezing. Its 30 degrees in doylestown, 32 in quakertown. There may be slick spots, especially on the bridges and overpasses, sidewalks. Snow sticking on cars. Barely above freezing in reading. Well above freezing in philadelphia. Snowing in delaware, barely above freezing there. Keep an eye on the temperatures. Dont think they will drop a lot, but wrightstown, 32, the snow brings enough cold air down to cause the temperature to drop. Nowhere near that in southern portions of the area. A fair amount of snow on the radar. The live picture now just a little bit of light rain toward the jersey shore. This band thats been near the montgomery bucks county border for hours starting to pivot and curve toward trenton. This other band is getting a little bit bigger to the south. You see bucks county has been having snow for a few hours here. The temperatures marginal. There could be slick spots there. Then this other area of snow from lancaster coming into Chester County, New Castle County and delaware, salem county in new jersey. Places that havent seen very much. The hour by hour forecast by 1 00, we have the main band still across northern delaware and parts of south jersey. Briefly heavy. By 2 00, its tilting a little bit more. Still delaware and south jersey, getting much of the action as we go through the afternoon. Later today and tonight, things do quiet down. Then watch what happens. We have some more snow showers coming around. Not as many. And then it may actually be sunshine during the day tomorrow. Not much during the day today. Visibility is down in the last couple of minutes. Snow showers today, temperatures generally below 40. The wind gusting to 30 miles an hour. The sevenday forecast, still cold and breezy on friday. Not too much warmer on saturday. Sunday, for the eagles game, well, its going to be sunny during the day, but a night game, temperatures will be dropping. 42 by the start of the game, 36 by the end of it. And then we start to warm up as we go into early next week. 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