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Those are also available on our web site 6abc. Com. Live to Philadelphia City hall where officials are expected to give an update on snow preparations. Were streaming this for you on our web site 6abc. Com as soon as it gets under way. In the meantime we have Live Team Coverage tonight from the suburbs to the shore and the impact this noreaster will have on our region but first lets get the latest from accuweather. Meteorologist cecily tynan at the big board tonight. Cecily. Hi, rick and double scan live showing a major snowstorm that is beginning to gel, to come together. Weve got a few pieces that will Work Together to create this storm. Weve got low pressure surface low over the gulf of mexico. What in will do is head over to the carolinas. At the same time this piece of energy from the Northern Branch of the jet stream will dive down, they come together, they fade, they bomb out intensify and then that storm system will hug the east coast as it moves up to the north and that will pull in a lot of moisture and some cold air. Now, the a blizzard warning has been posted to are areas north and west of philadelphia. All the counties in orange. These areas can expect 35 miles an hour winds reducing visibility to less than a quarter mile for three consecutive hours so its not just the snow piling up, its the snow blowing down creating near whiteout conditions. Most of our viewing area in the pink under the winter storm warnings. Those go in effect 8 oclock until 6 oclock tuesday but really the snow should be holding back until about 10 oclock and 1 oclock moving in from the southwest to the northeast. It will start light but its in the middle of the night its cold out there, it will be sticking on untreated roads immediately. The height of the storm between 3 oclock in the morning and noon. This is when were looking at the heaviest precipitation, the strongest wind. When that storm system is really intensifying and closest to us. By mid to Late Afternoon it will be ending as light snow, winding down and what you get is all based on your location. North and west of philadelphia, this is going to be a snow event. Near philadelphia and areas to the south and east, snow changing over to a bit of mix ending as snow and southern delaware extreme southern new jersey this is just mainly rain but the precipitation isnt the only concern. For more details on that lets head over to adam joseph. Adam. Exactly cecily. A lot of snow to the north and west and a lot of rain along the shore and in addition to that coastal flood warnings going into effect mainly for high tide tomorrow morning between 9 00 and 10 oclock in the morning on average for moderate coastal flooding, breakers of six to 9 feet along the coastline. This also goes into the delaware bay and major erosion is also expected. Winds, thats another powerful part of a noreaster. Right along the shore 50 to 60 miles an hour. You have no friction meaning that wind comes directly off of the water, has nothing to stop it but once it hits land it hits that friction and it slows down so 45 to 50 miles an hour from philadelphia through trenton and dover and then 40 to 45 miles an hour to the north and west where that that wind will combine with the snow creating blizzard conditions. The biggest concerns with this particular storm will be that heavy wet snow, the consistency of it weighing down on everything. Well see rates of one to 3 inches per hour especially philadelphia to the north and west creating low visibility, snow packed roads. You do not want to venture out in the height of the storm tomorrow morning. Also with the weight of that snow, do prepare for possible Power Outages first thing tomorrow morning throughout the afternoon. Also when you take a look at our latest snowfall map theres going to be a sharp cutoff where theres snow versus no snow for between roxborough and millville, this is an example, theres going to be a 12inch difference over just 45 miles. Its all about location and where this is exactly going to set up. Well throw numbers on this for you in that full accuweather forecast coming up in just a little bit, guys. Thank you so much adam. System headed our way has already left a wintry mess here across the midwest. This is video from rochester, minnesota. Areas in the region and got between six and 9inches of snow making for slick conditions on highways and side streets. Well, now cities across the east coast are preparing for whats next. From the d. C. Area all the way up to boston, everyone getting ready for what could be the worst taste of winter theyve gotten all season long. Of course preparations are well under way in our philadelphia area. Action News Reporter john rawlins continues our Team Coverage in norristown where penndot officials just gave an upday. Hi, john. Reporter hi there. Well, yes, we did have a briefing here a short time ago. I think its safe to say that penndot is pretty concerned about the forecast and the direction in which its going in. They have announced theyre going to impose speed limits during the storm on major highways. Theyre going to drop to 45 miles an hour, the speed limits on a you can in of highways including i76, i95, 476, u. S. One, u. S. 30 and 202. As they said here, they are. Expecting two to 3 inches of snow an hour at certain periods in the morning. That plus the wind will make for very poor visibility. They are asking people to avoid unnecessary travel. In other words, sit this one out at least during the morning hours. The way it looks right now during the a. M. Hours, anywhere from 10 to 4 oclock, even even before that, as early as 2 00 a. M. To 3 a. M. Youre looking at two to 3 inches an hour and that can be blinding conditions. Reporter across the region, workers getsing trucks ready to go p mechanics connecting how wide drawing lick lines. Elsewhere other crew members loaded trucks with salt to combat tuesdays predicted noreaster and snow. Steve oversees the citys fleet. It was more of a mild winter so we really didnt exercise the trucks as a typical winter so today were testing the spreaders make sure theyre working the truck scales making sure theyre up to speed and the plows as the day goes on. Reporter the brining of roads was done yesterday and early this morning. The city of philadelphia has more than 2,000 lane miles to clear. Tomorrow it hopes to have about 400 vehicles to salt and plow. Big trucks will be used for the main roads and at least 100 smaller four by four pickups like this one will be ready to use on the narrower residential streets. Thats our goal to make every street in the city passable. May take a little longer on some streets than others because of the tightness of the streets, the way folks are parked but we will make an attempt to get down every street. Reporter back to that briefing by pen do. Theyre asking people to avoid unnecessary travel tomorrow. Should you venture out theyre stressing you should have an emergency kit in your car that are would include food water warm clothes or blankets, a cell phone and charger as well as a shovel. They are expecting a potentially very severe storm to strike this portion of the region. That would be the region of Montgomery County and points north of here. Live in norristown, john rawlins, channel6 action news. Back to you all. John, thank you. The city of philadelphia is not under a blizzard warning but a snow emergency will go into effect at 9 oclock tonight. Septa will have addition additil staffers to monitor conditions. The city will begin ticketing and together cars on snow routes beginning at midnight and tomorrow trash and recycling will not be picked up. Residents with tuesday pickups are asked to hold everything until next week. Philadelphia International Airport has been heavily impacted. More than a thousand flights have been canceled out of phl including all flights out of philadelphia tomorrow on Southwest Airlines. American airlines has canceled all of tomorrows flights through 5 00 p. M. All Major Airlines are offering to waive change fees because of the storm ahead. In new jersey many eyes are on the shore and what might happen to beaches once this winter storm moves in. New jersey correspondent Nora Muchanic is live in ortley beach with more on that tonight. Hi, nora. Hi there rick. The good news is ocean county is no longer under a blizzard warning. The bad news is that theres still lots to worry about. Take a look over there, thats the dune, the erosion problem theyre worried about, high tide heavy surf and wind could cause more serious beach erosion to areas like this and officials are preparing for the big noreaster at the ocean county Road Department yard on Chestnut Street in toms river, crews are loading salt onto trucks and brine trucks filled to treat the roads. We hold about 30,000 tons of salt between our 7 yards. We have about 200 men. And i have about 1600 lane miles of road that we have to take care of to clear. At the county Communications Center extra dispatchers are being called in to deal with the explosion of 911 calls expected. You have Motor Vehicle accidents people on the road that shouldnt be on the road, are you have the wind blown so you have house damages, you have injuries,. Heavy wet type snow so we have concerns for be downed power lines industries. Reporter high water rescue vehicles have been placed in areas known to flood and each sheriff officer has been given extra gear including tow lines to pull out cars that may get stuck in the snow. Loaded up with shovels brushes medical supplies. Well be out on patrols for the entire county supplementing what the local police have. Reporter some residents have piled furniture hoping it wont be blown ay what. Others who live on the bayside have that sand bags on stand by if the streets flood. At the ocean in toms rivers ortley beach section which had its dunes scraped back to the boardwalk during a january storm theres concern about what this noreaster will do. Floyd moreland says theres no dune at all at seventh street. High tide with waves, the waifs are going to com wavesg to come right over here. Hopefully thats no the going to happen. Reporter thats what were all hoping because some of the beaches like this are extremely vulnerable. Well be back with more for you at 6 00. For now were live in ortley beach toms river, im Nora Muchanic. Back to you guys. Thank you nora. Crews in delaware also on stand by. The action cam in christiana where workers were loading up salt trucks and the department of transportation yard. Crews brined most roads yesterday so workers could catch a break today. Deldot says 50,000 tons of salt is at the ready in the event that it is needed. Well, this reminder as the storm approaches stay with 6abc. Com weather. You can watch the weather move in live on storm tracker6 radar and you can connect with our team of meteorologists on facebook and twitter. Also the Action News Morning Team will be up early tracking the impact of the storm on the morning commute. So join matt, tam, karen and david starting at 4 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning. All right. Its coming. Time right now for a check of the action news report right now. I think matt pelman will be there tomorrow morning as well at least if you didnt know that many by now youll be working tomorrow morning. All eight alarms are set. Ill be ready to go. Good evening now to you rick and monica, as were out here live along the schuylkill expressway, belmont salt shed is stocked and ready to go as the eighty two us are out tonight. Be sure to give them plenty of room to do their work. Right now were also stocked with traffic here on the schuylkill eastbound side travel time o is more than 20 minutes more than what it ideally should be. Were watching a crash in Plymouth Meeting on allen wood road at ridge pike. One on city avenue by the bala cynwyd shopping center. Bad one in south philadelphia at penrose and pattison by the sunoco station. Use passyunk oregon. A number of adjustments going into effect on mass transit. Well talk about that, rick and monica, in the next half hour. Okay. Sounds good. It was an unusual discovery made under an olde City Construction site. Hundreds of coffins buried under the ground. Chopper6 overhead as crews moved those coffins aground were learning more about where the remains are being stored and whats next for the findings. Vernon odom is live in olde city tonight with the new details. Vernon. Reporter are good good aften rick and monica. Scientists have now wrapped up their work looking into the treasure trove of activities artifacts and skeletal remains they and found at this olde City Construction site. It has yielded a treasure trove of artifacts and skeletal remains that open up yet another window into philadelphias lifestyle of centuries ago. Late today anthropologists and archaeologists uncovered the remaining few a bodies. This lot is in the 200 block of arch street. It was once the cemetery for Historic First Baptist Church from 1703 to 1859. The experts just keep finding gems in the dirt as a Real Estate Developer clears the way for an Apartment Building. This is one of the handles. This is some coffin hardware and its this sort of artifacts that is associated with a particular individual that we can clean up and it will help give us a date as to when that person was buried. The mountain of skeletal remains are being sorted in the Science Building on the Rutgers Camden university cam pulse for extensive study and research of those old bones and hair. Were going to be doing various analyses of hair and teeth. Theres months and months ahead of us. Reporter today chopper6 spotted some of the coffins and remains being taken from temporary storage in this local Apartment Building basement for separation. The the skeletons to camden the coffins top a secret location for study. These coffins and remains were supposed to be taken to the Mount Moriah Cemetery in what is now cobbs creek which back in the 19th century was a philadelphia suburb. The museum is helping supervise the study of what the professionals consider a jackpot. Its going to open up a lot of knowledge about not just this congregation but how it reflects on the early history of philadelphia. Reporter rick and monica, the Recovery Team was literally racing the accuweather forecast trying to make sure they cleaned out this area of all the artifacts and skeletal remains they were worried that could be destroyed. Some key elements could be destroyed by tomorrows snow forecast. Live in olde city, im vernon odom, channel6 action news. All right, vernon thank you. Right now philadelphia officials are laying out their plans for the winter storm headed our way. Were looking live at city hall right now. Were streaming this for you on our web site at 6abc. Com. If you would like to listen in. 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