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WPVI Action News 5PM January 27, 2015

Understand that the bricks fell right down on to the roof of lululemon athletic and the debris fell on to several people. Three women were transferred to the hospital with minor injuries and we have lni and other officials on the scene we have not spoken with them yet and we are looking to learn more. Reporting live here in center city Kenneth Moton channel 6 action news. Thank you. Now, to the aftermath of the noreaster the storm hit hard in new england dumping several feet of snow but did not pack a powerful punch in our region the cleanup happened here in bucks county a few inches of snow enough to shovel and the owner of the hair salon decided to use a snow blower after the storm, it was the easiest way to get business back up and running today. And the plow scooped up snow and took it away, there was not a lot of folks at the trenton train center but the buses were up and running. All right we have Team Coverage of the aftermath tonight walter perez is live in Seaside Heights but first cecily tynan at the big board with the details of the storm and what to expect this evening. Reporter hi rick and monica this storm system is still bringing heavy snow to parts of new england and it is stalled off the coast of cape cod and parts of massachusetts and eastern long island 30 inches of snow and its still coming down, in the meantime we were in the rip off zone when it came to the snow and that is because of the shift in track we knew there were a lot of uncertainties with the forecast why didnt we see the snow we were expecting with that little bit a shift in the track, you get what is called a substance zone, and the air sinks, it drys and it warms and tough to produce snow when have you sinking air and 60 miles to the east, that is where we have the rising air and that is where parts of new england and eastern long island, looking at the snowfall rate of 2 inches perfect hour and that went on for about 12 hours, we really escaped the brunt of that storm system. Brick township did get 10 inches and toms river 5 inches and florence 3. 8 inches and Washington Township 2. 2 philadelphia a measly 1. 2, and king of prussia 3. 3 and windward recording 2 inches of snow. We had a light nuisance snow event and now what is on the way is still extremely cold air, 33 in philadelphia but syracuse its 12 and burlington 8 degrees with winds out of the north and windchills will be dropping near 0 tonight and well talk about the chill and the possibility of light snow later this week coming up in the accuweather forecast. Cecily well check back with you. Walter perez is live in Seaside Heights with the latest there. Good evening. Reporter hey rick, in the final analysis this area got about 5 inches of snow and no reports of flooding and only a few reports of outages as well. When you break it all down that is a good thing. There is on old song that goes california dreaming on such a winters day. We found two people doing that. Brent is moving to the Delaware Valley from los angeles and he is really second guessing his decision. I was looking for palm trees. You went to the wrong place. Know i was headed down the highway and ended up down here. While mark visiting from california has more of a positive outlook. Think its great i like it a lot. I grew up in the Mountain Community so snow is not odd for me. I just think its very nice. And both men expressed relief that the brunt of the storm did not reach the jersey shore but a few towns reported beach erosion from the rough surf and people here in ortely beach thought the snow would pound its way through the dunes. We all feel vulnerable here and last night was frightening and i kept looking to see if the ocean would breach. It did not. We have emergency coordinator bill, and was there flooding . No flooding at all in town and all the streets are passable. It could be worse they have over 2 feet of snow, like everyone is saying we dodged a bullet. All right once again back out live as i mentioned before, 5 inches of snow fell here in Seaside Heights and all schools, services and businesses shut down today are expecting to open tomorrow. Walter perez channel 6 action news. Thank you. Air travel was hit hard, here is a look at Philadelphia International airport the airport did remain open and most of todays flights were canceled. Crews are working to clear the runways so the airlines work can get back on track tonight and tomorrow, activity at the airport did pick up and more than 8,000 flights were canceled in the u. S. Monday through wednesday leaving folks stranded and that brought out mixed emotions from flyers. Horrible would be the way to describe the last couple of days, terrible yeah. A nightmare. Its frustrating but you never know it could hit hard and if there were no preparations people would be upset because they were stuck on runways with no preparations. Phl expects to resume normal operations by tomorrow afternoon. People are digging out from the hardest hit areas up north blizzard conditions from long to new england, in massachusetts, 30 inches of snow fell while boston got covered with 18 inches, and new york state snowfall amounts were 8 inches by the afternoon and two deaths are blamed on the blizzard tonight and no matter what the weather brings you stay with 6abc. Com Storm Tracker radar is there for you and check our list of School Closings and delays. A parts of Chester County felt the ground shake over the weekend and a small earthquake hit and folks wonder how it could have happened. Katherine scott has the story from westchester. Reporter it felt like a stampede of elephants. A downtown diner explained he was at Regal Cinemas off corey road and felt shaking and it only lasted five seconds. Everybody got up in the middle of the movie and it was like what is going on . They reported a 2. 7 magnitude quake at 6 25 sunday evening, there were no reports of damage or injuries and clara daniel didnt feel it. Here at Westchester University they installed a seismologist last summer and it did pick up the earthquake. The doctor of westchesters Geology Department says they can pick up sizes of earthquakes all over the world and the epee center was in east bradford township and would be considered small. The movement of the earth was well under a millimeter. The epicenter was a mile from this quarry, and they say there was no working going on at this time. The quake could be completely unrelated and there are natural explanations for it. We are not active but there are zones of weakness in the rock that are inherited from what is going on millions and millions of years ago. The quake may not have been large and you may not have felt it but it was interesting for students. Uniqueness is what make its interesting. Because it is so rare and unusual. In westchester, Katherine Scott channel 6 action news. A buck County School volunteer is behind bars tonight charged with soliciting teenagers online to meet him for sex. 54yearold curt grumhoets was arrested for a sting operation, he requested to meet a 14yearold boy and his 14yearold friend but what he didnt know was he was talking to a Police Officer online and when he tried to meet the teenagers he was arrested. Time for a check of our action news traffic report. Mat pellman is in the Traffic Center has not a bad forecast for us as far as the commute home. That is right its not snowing and no earthquake in downingtown, well the traffic is also moving well along the 30 bypass by business 30 and no delays. In Chester County a crash along borden way at glen road and the partial Building Collapse in center city, the lululemon store on walnut street. 15th and 16th remains blocked. Go to spruce and that means detours on five of the different septa routes. No major issues on the schuylkill or 95 and an overturned fracture in newcastle has cleared and we have Police Activity in wilmington blocking off 17th near locust and on the mass transit front septa is on a saturday schedule that means they are not running as frequently than means your train is going to be packed for your ride home. Cynwyd is not running and the trolley is on a normal weekday schedule. Thank you. Much more ahead on action news at 5 00. Three men in ski masks ram an suv into a mousse automatic in San Francisco and they take off with quite a haul. We have the latest on the search for the thieves. Plus coming up in health check, we take a look at concerns about the overuse of ct scans. Why they may be responsible for causing cancer. Hey, cal. Snap out of it buddy. Sorry. Just day dreaming. About a classic truck with flames . Yeah custom chrome. Right and one more to complete the collection. laughing alright. Howd you know . 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Ct stans could be responsible for future cancers in the United States resulting in 15,000 death a year. Just one ct scan can expose you to as much radiation as 200 chest exrays but only one in six patients were warned by the doctor of the risk of radial imaging. Most of them are done by doctors that own their own ct equipment, they order more cts than doctors that dont. Patients should also ask if a ct is necessary and ask for a mirror ultrasound, and they can be just as affective. Get a copy of it so you dont undergo repeat testing when you go to a new doctor or specialist. Consumer reports urges people to avoid the entire body scans that are touted as ways to detect scans early and expose you to more radiation and followup tests. The issue of medical marijuana is back in harrisburg two senators today unveiled a new bill that would legalize it and they are expanding the list of medical lists it can be used for, the bill would okay more ways to deliver the pot, and the Senate Overwhelmingly approved the bail and governor corbett opposed it and but Governor Tom Wolf said he will sign the new bill if it is passed. Thank you sharrie. Action news at 5 00 continues next. Introducing longhorns bold flavors, bold price for 12. 99. The fire grilled triple bacon sirloin. Or the garlic provolone sirloin. Longhorn steakhouse. You cant fake steak. Now, more and more americans are discovering that. Shred after shred. Dish after dish. Day after delicious day. Shredding galbani mozzarella yourself inspires meals, and moments, that are simply better. Mmm, galbani sfx kiss . Italys favorite cheese brand. Now, americas number one block mozzarella. Weaker sales have pushed home prices down a bit, the case shiller index of home prices shows a 4. 3 price jump in december compared to 2013, down in october, and sharp prices increased early last year and tight credit held back home sales in 2014, experts hope that lower Mortgage Rates will reboubd housing sals this year. And now apple can reclaim the title of biggest seller of smart phones, samsung was leading and sales of apples new bigger screen on iphone 6 and 6 plus have soared. A facedown of instagram was not a cyber attack the outage was the result of a technical change it had made. It was a change affecting configuration systems and not the work of hackers disgruntled users took to twitter. Meteorologist, cecily tynan is here, we may see sunset behind. You we are live taking a look at the pagoda in reading and you can see how the sky is clearing out, a beautiful picture of the twilight over reading what a different scene in massachusetts, this was sent to me by troy on twitter, northboro, massachusetts his aun and cousin, they woke up and looked out the door, that is what they saw, the snow above the handle how do you get out and walk your dog and stuff like that, they are closing in close to 3 feet of snow in parts of massachusetts, its still snowing, worchester reporting 31 inches and boston 21. 5 and in edition to that they have blowing and drifting because they have Hurricane Force winds nantucket 78 Miles Per Hour and chatham a wind gust of 75 Miles Per Hour. It will begin to weaken as we head to the overnight hour. Back at home, the big story is the falling temperatures, currently philadelphia 33 and millville 31 and allentown 27 and trenton 30 and wilmington 32. We have strong winds now out of the northwest 20 Miles Per Hour in philadelphia 18 in dover and 17 in reading and 16 Miles Per Hour winds in trenton and the winds will be with us through the evening hours and through the day tomorrow. Satellite 6 along with action radar showing here is that low pressure that spinning that is starting to weaken and in the meantime there is High Pressure building in from the west, what that High Pressure will do is clear out our skies tonight and that will allow temperatures to really nose dive, it is going to be a cold night clearing skies and breezy and cold and 16 in philadelphia and allentown dropping to 12 and 11 in lancaster and 20 degrees at the boardwalk in Atlantic City. The windchill tonight 12 in philadelphia, at 10 00 and 7 in reading and 11 in trenton and 8 in allentown as we head through the morning, windchills are in the Single Digits you want to bundle up. 8 is the windchill in lancaster and even as we head into the afternoon temperatures struggle to hit 30 windchills will be in the low 20s, it will definitely be a cold day the fiveday at 5 00 showing beautiful blue skies loads of sunshine high of only 30 degrees with windchills in the 20s. On thursday we start the day with sun and the clouds roll in in the afternoon and 35 degrees and a boundary brings us snow showers thursday night into friday morning, a coating to perhaps 2 inches, and on friday an arctic front moves through, the high is 38 degrees and we hit that early in the day and the wins pick up and temperatures drop down into the 20s and saturday the high only 24 degrees, bitter cold despite the sunshine and sunday it clouds up and 38 degrees, we have the possibility of snow and rain on monday and temperatures even colder next week on tuesday adam will talk about that in the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. Its winter and its going to be cold. More to come in our next half our at 5 00, our region may have been spared from the storm but new england was battered. Well look at snow totals. A dover man gets busted for cocaine and you wouldnt believe where the drugs were hidden. And cubas former communist leader has his doubts. Fidel castro has his doubts. Welcome back action news at 5 00 continues now with the latest on the developing story from philadelphia three people were injured in the lululemon store, Kenneth Moton was on the scene moments after it happened. Witnesses told him that bricks from a building next door suddenly fell through the roof and on to the customers inside. The injuries are minor fortunately and now licenses and inspections are checking out the structure integrity of the store. Now the noreaster that brushed our region brought parts of new england to a stand still overnight and into today. The blowing snow and winds brought havoc to rhode island massachusetts and connecticut and snowplows are having trouble keeping up to the foot and a half of snow that has already fall and in boston and other spots are expecting more than to feet and winds were blowing in excess of 70 Miles Per Hour making driving dangerous. And powerful winds caused beach erosion across the massachusetts coast line. Nantucket is entirely without power. Marcy gonzales has more from central park in new york. New york was spared the brunt of this storm. Reporter that is right people here are breathing a sigh of relief this was not the historic blizzard predicted for this area but the storm did hit hard further north. In this flooded frozen town in massachusetts, evidence of the blizzards impact. This morning at high tide, an 80 foot section of the sea wall crumbled here and now ocean street now is a river. Other parts of the state is coping with power out ables some places getting three feet of snow and in boston the effects are being felt. The issue of blowing, and drifts of four, five and six feet in in places. In parts of long island new york they are buried too. We got hammered here and its still coming down for other parts it was nothing like expected. We made a lot of tough decisions to get it right and we didnt once again im sorry. There were precautions in new york city, for the First Time Ever the Mass Transit System was shut down for snow leaving some people stranded. But today subways and buses are running again. Off to work see you later. The bridges, tunnels and roads are back open. We obviously missed the worst of this storm which is a blessing f

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