Here and knock you off your feet. Looking at radar, the rain is here, its not all that steady, but we have pockets of darker shades of green. Looks like Chester County has yellow, theres more of that to come off and on as we go into the afternoon with the heavier bands of rain on the way. Big story is the wind, 40mile an hour gust in philadelphia. Even in allentown, 37 Miles Per Hour. From the i95 corridor and south in particular, we have reports of down trees, i just heard something snapped behind me, i think a tree branch came off an evergreen tree behind me. 48 gusts in millville and 49 in cape may. Weve had gusts up to 65 or more. Thats budget debris on the roads putting debris on the roads. Ocean city has reported a 58mile an hour gust. Lewis delaware 56. Forget taking the cape maylewis ferry. Bensalem, 50 in northeast. Wind advisory and warnings are up across the region. Advisory in the no reason and western suburbs until 4 00 p. M. In the immediate region. Farther north toward the poconos and Hunterdon County it might last later. The warning is extended past the i95 corridor where we are expecting gusts over 50 Miles Per Hour. 60 at the shore. Most of this expires at 4 00 p. M. The farther north you creep along the coast to lakehurst to long island until 9 00 p. M. Coastal flooding is an issue extended by the National Weather service not only this evening, but through the high tides, you see the oceanfront high tides on the screen. Delaware bay after these times. Moderate flooding expected, not just the minor stuff. When i come inside well talk the train, and better times ahead. For now, be careful walk be and driving walking and driving around, i would avoid roads with a a lot of trees. Bob brooks in cape may county, the jersey shore bearing the brunt of the northeaster, how are things looking at this hour. Reporter 42, 52, 60mile an hour windy gusts thats what were feeling and seeing down here, you mix in the rain, its cold and whips into your face, its nasty down here, behind me you can see what kind of sales the winds created when the high tide comes up later tonight. Officials say be prepared for that to cause flooding. Youre not going to find too many people out and about today down the shore. What we have seen in ocean city are garbage canals scattered across the streets and downed cans scattered across the street and downed power lines. Its miserable. Reporter right now the city has a flood advisory set until 9 00 p. M. You can see the storm is churning up rough seas where the next high tide is set for 5 00 p. M. Officials say be prepared for thrugd to flooding to happen. Its not just the winds thats intense, but its the whipping rain. Its a cold rain. I was out there working, temperatures were warm, but the windchill was intense. Reporter when you mix both together some are thinking twice about driving at all today. Im wet and i have to head to cape may, im worried driving on the parkway. Thats lee, she said when you you want to live at the shore you have to expect storms like this. Im tired of the wind, this is coastal storm in ocean city. You have to get through it. Reporter her friend says as long as this keeps up, shell be doing one thing, thats staying inside. Hunker down. Reporter a live look here at the boardwalk, boyds a few people we have besides a few people we have a crew worker and other people braving the winds. But it is empty thats not a surprise. Most people are choosing to stay inside. I cant say i blame them. Bob brooks, channel 6 action news back to you. Thank you. A miewrlg miewrlg mural in center city has been damaged by high winds at the had Hahnemann University hospital. Some of the mural would be seen flapping in the wind. No word on the total extent of damage to the vehicles. Peco is reporting more than 67,000 people in the dark, more than 4300 in delaware county. 1400 in Chester County. Pse g 1,000 without power. Ppl has 556 people without electricity. Atlantic City Electric 1747 in the dark at this hour. Delmarva says more than 1300 are without power this afternoon. As the noreaster pushes through, the power of Storm Tracker 6 live double scan radar is just a tap, swipe or mass click away. Its among a host of recourses available 24 hours, 7 days a week at 6abc. Com weather. Dont forget you can follow our meteorologists on facebook and twitter to keep up with the latest storm updates. Drivers failed their first morning faced their first morning commute without the turnpike connector bridge. The span remains closed because of a fractured beam. It is expected to be shut down for a while. An engineer inspecting the bridge on friday found the fractured steel truss. It will take two weeks to determine the stenlt of the extent of the problem and how to fix it. We use it all the time, it puts such a burden on us. Starting this morning im leaving two hours early to get to work in order to not get stuck in the gridlock. The 1. 2mile bridge over the Delaware River carries 42,000 vehicles per day. Classes at conquered high school were canceled because of the sudden pass of a teacher. He had been with the Brandywine School district for the past 20 years. Students will return to class tomorrow. Today marks day 3 of President Donald Trump presidency his first day in office. He promised executive action on immigration, trailed and tax cuts. Lana zack has more. Reporter President Trump will make big promise also what he would do when he got into office, we saw him withdrawing from the ttp and symbolic action on abortion and stop all federal hiring with the exception of the military. Good morning everybody. Reporter the first order of business in President Trumps first workweek is business. The regulations of going to be cut massively and taxes are going to be cut way down. Reporter the president met with executives from ford an Lockheed Martin and imposing tariffs on businesses moving overseas. He sienldz executive orders signed executive orders on trade. Massive diplomatic work a waits with rex tillerson, the president s pick for secretary of state. The senate is expected to vote on the nomination of tillerson and mike pompeo the new head of the cia. The president visiterred visited the cia and standings in fronts of the wall of heros, he blamed the media for the russian hack. He made it sounds like i had a feud with the intelligence community. I want to tell you, the number one stop is the opposite. Reporter this comment by white house secretary of state by sean spicer. This photograph evidence and eyewitness reports indicate that statement is not true, leading many to wonder why the white house would choose to make that public statement. You know fundamentally, the size of the crowds on Inauguration Day doesnt matter to most americans, what does matter about all this is a commitment to the facts so we expect spirals will be asked about that today. Reporting from the capitol, back to you. President trump is expected to visit philadelphia on thursday. He will attend the republican congressional leadership retreat at the lowes hotel. British Prime Minister teresa may is expected to attends the meeting. She is expected to expand trade with the u. S. As the uk leaves the european union. Two vehicles are swallowed by a sinkhole in new york city. Well take you inside a restaurant in philadelphia where every meal is made from the heart and it comes with dessert. Rick will like that. Well be right back. You know how painful heartburn can be. For fastacting, longlasting relief, try doctor recommended gaviscon. It quickly neutralizes stomach acid and helps keep acid down for hours. Relieve heartburn with fast acting, longlasting gaviscon. And helps keep acid down for hours. Large zenning sinkhole that opened up in new york city. It measured 20 by 30 feet over 6 feet deep. It was removed by a tow truck. The owner of one of the vehicles had no idea what was happening until he saw his vehicle being pulled out of the sinkhole. Three hunters are lucky to be alive after being thrown from their boat this weekend. These are pictures of suffix county reese e rescuers come to their rescue. They were duck hunting when the boat capsized. All three suffered hyperthermia and shaken up and expected to be okay. Major League Baseball fans are mourning the deaths of two players, the Kansas City Royals and its fans are coming to terms to the loss of the pitcher. He was killed in a crash in his native discipline can a republican. He doeinister can. Former Major League Player andy martae was killed this weekend. He had played for several teams including the braves, indians and diamondbacks. Still ahead on action news, 1 30, another check of the forecast. Stenning live outside, meteorologist david murphy has an update on the noreaster from accuweather when action news comes right back. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. So we created internet that doesnt make you wait. Introducing fios instant internet. It means you can download a video just like that. Or upload your photos like this. Or this. Or that. Its the only 750 meg internet available to millions, with uploads as instant as downloads. We took Internet Speed and completely reinvented it, introducing fios instant internet. Internet the way it should be. Information to pass on this afternoon, theres a grounds stoppage for flights arriving at Philadelphia International airport. Thats due to the high winds. Stay with action news for details when the grounds stoppage will be lifted. In the meantime, david murphy is here with more on the blustery conditions. Reporter it could be several hours before things gradually ease down and we have the rain to worry about. Lets start with the rain on Storm Tracker 6 live double scan, most of us are getting wet. If i go in tighter theres the rain. We see shades of grown and bands of yellow piling in from the south. Part of the problem theres so much winds blowing around its winds swept rain and making it uncomfortable and rising visibility behind the wheel. Its cloudy and wet theres penns landing what we can see of it on sky 6 between the rain drops and the gray. The rain is heavier in the afternoon, but for now, its pelting you sideways with the winds. 40 degrees is the current temperature. The winds right now running at 24 Miles Per Hour, remember thats a sustained wind, thats pretty much whats constantly blowing through. The gusts have the tendency to snap tree branches and bring down trees, weve seen them in the 40s and 50s in and around the i95 correspond corridor and the 60 down the shore. Rain until 3 00 p. M. , were in and out of the steadier rain drops, not that there couldnt be a break every now and then. Youll see the bands of the heavier stuff coming through. Notice how up north were looking at freezing rain and ice up in the poconos for a while later on tote today and tonight. By 11 00 p. M. , the model runs are suggesting its fairly wet, the winds will die down, but well have 15 to 30mile an hour winds later on tonight. In the poconos we have a Winter Weather advisory, if youre driving out of the Lehigh Valley county and North Hampton county, and points farther north to the poconos not only tonight and tomorrow morning, its going to be cold enough for sleet, freezing rain and snow up there. Winds gusts impressive 40 Miles Per Hour in philadelphia. 45 in wilmington, 50 in millville and cape may. Were seeing these numbers bounce up higher. 51 at the airport in Atlantic City when we took that snap shot. Temperatures the rest of the way are going to hold on or about 40 degrees, winds swept off and on rain through 4 00 p. M. Through 6 00 p. M. The winds start to die down in through here, but it will be blustery and somewhat wet tonight. Tomorrow morning, 5 00 a. M. , were on the air and radar is working for you. Well have livismage live images, and lingering showers. In the afternoon well rotate additional showers through and dry out tomorrow night. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, the worst. Rain and wind is today up until 4 00 p. M. , 5 00 p. M. , and 6 00 p. M. Wind dieing down later in the evening, but theres a threat of tree branch also snapping. Tomorrow, the rain ends, 45. Wednesday is a payoff, sunny and beautiful, high of 53. Clouds increase thursday, high of 52 lateday shower north and west of philadelphia. Friday, easing back to reality. A shower 43. Saturday an sunday, dry in the upper 30s. If youre looking for a homey feel when you go out to dinner look no further than mr. Joes cafe in southwest philadelphia. The restaurant has been run for an italian family that sounds familiar, you will not regret dropping by. Alicia vitarelli has the details including dessert. Reporter the name term ny brothers is not only known in south philadelphia, you may not across the street they have a family restaurant. Right across the street terneny brothers theres a cafe called mr. Joes. His father was nicknamed mr. Joe one of two italian immigrant brothers who founded the restaurant in this very spot. We expanded across the street in 1938. That was when vince was born. When he opened mr. Joes cafe a dozen years ago he put grandmas recipes on the men you. The grapes are made and rolled in cheese. Reporter everything here is made in the old fashion way. So little pillows and yours are made with racotta. Thin steak and sauteed and cooked in sauce. Meals come with glass of wine and salad and desert from across the street. When i come in its like sitting in my grandmothers kitchen. Its like a family meal every time. The restaurant is decorated with old family photos and artifacts from his fathers days in the kitchen. Is this original right here . Vince worked all his life there taking it over from his father and passing it on to his sons. People taste history. It was when he retired from the bakery and opened mr. Joes. He runs the restaurant 11 00 a. M. To 5 00 p. M. , tuesday to thursday, 6 friday and saturday. Most of our customers like the schedule its the european schedule where they have the main meal in the early afternoon. At age 78 he has no plans to stop. Another 95 years. You can camp fyi philly saturday you can catch fyi philly saturday at 7 30. That was delicious, thank you alicia. The force is going strong with rogue one, a wars story. It has star wars hit 1 billion worldwide. Four movies released in 2016 have reached the bill dollar mark. Rowing rogue one zootopia. Disney is the parent of 6abc. David with the final check of the accuweather forecast. Reporter a lot going on today, lets start you with the rain. Were seeing the heavier bands down south of dover, you see the yellow. Look for the heavier rain to move in. The wind warning has been extended past philadelphia to the advisory farther north. Wind gusts 40 to 60mile an hour. Look for debris on roads and broken tree branches and downed trees, were seeing that. Coastal flooding this has been extended into tomorrow mornings high tide. Moderate flooding later today, 4 45 p. M. To 5 45 p. M. And tomorrow morning between 5 00 a. M. And 6 00 a. M. And well be on the air tomorrow morning to get you through that. A look at stories coming up on action news at 4 00 p. M. Looking live at the waves crashing along the beach in Atlantic City. Strong winds and rain batter the shore, action news has a team of reporters spread out across the area covering the weather and damage associated with it. Live Team Coverage continues this afternoon at 4 00 p. M. That will do it for us, on action news at 12 30, dont forget to join us for action news at 4 00 p. M. , 5 00 p. M. And 6 00 p. M. For rick williams, and david murphy, and the entire action news team, im sarah bloomquist. Have a great afternoon. Be careful out there. Announcer today, if you go crazy for capellini and get riled up for rigatoni, youre in the right place. Because were throwing the perfect pasta party. Marios making the ultimate stuffed sensation with our special guest cohost, gmas ginger zee. Carlas showing you how to up your sauce game. And michaels got a quick and easy dish perfect for those midnight cravings. Things are about to get very fusilly in here, right now, on the chew. 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