County. You can see ground and sidewalks now covered in the white stuff. Snow is expect to continue to fall in parts of the the area throughout tonight. Good evening im chris may. Im jessica dean. School delays and closings are scrolling at the bottom of your screen and we have live weather coverage of the snow. Meteorologist and reporters are all across the region keeping tab on the conditions. Will we will start first with meteorologist, kathy orr, tracking what we can expect throughout the the night kathy. This storm system is moving through quickly. We had our clipper moving across keystone state earl ter day but now storm is redeveloping off the coast focal point is south jersey and delaware. You can see back edge of the precipitation cutting through berks county, Chester County and state of delaware. Heavier snow moving north and east. We will see interior south jersey some of these band of snow those darker purples that is where were seeing heavier snow. So through mulika, estel
This. My personal commute in was in the bad at all the road crew did his a fantastic job, my driveway was slick because we didnt get a chance to get rid of the snow on that but that is what you want to be watching out for those residual places where there may still be spots that are slick. Youre witness take planner eventually brightens up with time. We should get to a ease nal 40degree high. I do want to touch on the head lines. Even though we are seeing a brief break today and tomorrow we are watching coast for saturday. Yep, a new coastal storm is definitely brewing and there will be likely another shot for snow on monday. So winter is Getting Started if you thought it wasnt going to come at all. Lets check on how things are looking right new in the wake of the yesterdays system. For that we will go to meteorologist Carol Erickson with the cbs3 mobil weather lab, hi carol. Well, i thought we could hide out forever and apparently we cant and sunday was i grim remind are of that. We a
45s brakes go out while driving. The its driver pulling the emergency brake to get it stopped and then towed away. Eight hours earlier medic unit from the same firehouse is towed away, unusable after transmission problems, both incidents captured on video and given to Eyewitness News. On may 22nd a philadelphia truck Enforcement Police officer tells officials that this firehouse, one of their engines is unusable. Its tire suspect to blow out at any moment. Sources that told Eyewitness News about those problems say they are merely symptoms of the Department Wide issue. Fire trucks and medic units all in break down too often. Fire Fighter Union president joe shule agrees. The condition of the fleet has never been this bad. Reporter the union provided us with two months of maintenance record from july to september of last year. During that 60 day period individual fire trucks and medic units were placed out of service 56 times due to mechanical problems. Shule says sometimes Fire Fighters
Played out it will end up being the second warmest of all time in philadelphia, so not only a warm month but a very dry month. Lets look at the rain deficits a across the delaware valley, they are significant, now in philadelphia were about 2 inches below average in rainfall but look at allentown nearly three and a half inches in trenton over 3 inches wilmington over an inch below average since may 1st. The lets look at those Drought Conditions where you can see yellow, that is abnormally dry over most of the region but that orange color is where we have a drought watch in effect, lehigh valley, berks county and in the poconos. When we talk about a maryland rate drought this is what we mean potential for crop damage, low water levels, in wells, and reservoirs, possibility of water shortages, and even potential for voluntary restrictions. Now, coming up, we have some storms heading our way from the west, and that moisture in texas is feeding into the system that will be impacting us and
Do start to pick up some chances of these scattered showers, and or thunderstorm. Well talk about maybe better chances that far happening and that could be coming later on this weekend and thats just ahead. Nick snow. Carol, thank you. Lets see 6 01, caught in the crossfire, a teenager critically injured in the city kensington neighborhood, innocent victim to all of the violence, happened just before midnight the 3500 block of southon street. Eyewitness News Reporter alexandria outside Temple University hospital with the latest on they are condition. Al edges, how is she doing . Reporter good morning, nicole. We are told she is still in critical but stable condition right now after police say she suffered a single shot to either her stomach or back, obviously, depending on which way she was facing at the time. The search now on for two suspects, two men that Police Believe caused this life threatening injury. According to investigators, as you said, it was around 11 30 last night when