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VILLANOVA, Pa. (WPVI) — Villanova University is closed on Thursday after the campus received a threat of violence targeted at an academic building.
The university sent an alert to students around 7:20 a.m. notifying them of the closure.
The FBI is actively investigating, along with Villanova’s Public Safety Department and local law enforcement.
Officials say they are still working to determine the validity of the threat and closed the campus out of an abundance of caution.
Students on campus were advised to stay in their residence halls, but as of 11 a.m., the campus was deemed to be safe, and they were allowed to go outside.
Certain buildings, including the main dining halls, also reopened for residential students, as well as the Connelly Center, Falvey Memorial Library, and the Student Health Center.
Students who do not live on campus, as well as faculty and staff, were told not to come in.
All in-person classes and activities are still canceled, and all academic buildings will remain closed on Thursday.
“At 7:25, we got the NOVA Alert,” said sophomore Sami Waybright. “My roommate actually woke me up because her mom got the call before we did. Thankfully, I wasn’t here for the last one, only the freshmen were. But it’s really sad.”
This isn’t the first time a threat has been sent to campus.
“I was getting ready to leave and getting ready for class, and I heard class is canceled. There might be a small threat,” said senior Jack Clemmons. “I feel bad for the freshmen. They had that at the fall and now this at the start of spring, especially when you’re trying to build a community of people.”
Authorities say they are also aware of similar threats at several other universities, including at NYU in New York City. It is not yet confirmed if these threats are all connected.
They say there will continue to be an increased police presence on campus throughout the day.
In opening remarks, Smith will say Trump “willfully broke the very laws that he took an oath to uphold”
In his opening statement, Smith will defend his investigations into Mr. Trump, and emphasize the importance of the rule of law, according to a copy of his prepared remarks obtained by CBS News.
“President Trump was charged because the evidence established that he willfully broke the very laws that he took an oath to uphold,” Smith is set to tell the House Judiciary Committee, adding that he stands by his decision to bring charges.
“If asked whether to prosecute a former president based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether that president was a Republican or a Democrat,” Smith is expected to say. “No one should be above the law in our country and the law required that he be held to account. So that is what I did. To have done otherwise on the facts of these cases would have been to shirk my duties as a prosecutor and a public servant, which I had no intention of doing.”
Smith is also expected to say that he is “grateful” for the members of his special counsel team who investigated Mr. Trump in the face of public pressure and criticism. Most of the career FBI agents and prosecutors who worked on the cases were fired by the Justice Department in the first months of Mr. Trump’s second term.
“My team exercised independent judgment and acted in the highest traditions of the Justice Department in the face of threats to our safety and unfounded attacks on our character and integrity,” Smith is expected to say. “I am saddened and angered that President Trump has sought revenge against them, and others who worked on cases related to the attack on this Capitol, for simply having worked on these cases, for simply having done their jobs.”
Testimony comes after months of Smith offering to appear publicly
In an October letter from his lawyers to lawmakers, Smith offered to testify before both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees. In December, the Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Jim Jordan of Ohio, subpoenaed him to appear behind closed doors instead.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Panel, said Smith answered every question to “the satisfaction of any reasonable-minded person in that room.”
Following Smith’s testimony, Rep. Daniel Goldman, a Democrat from New York, criticized Jordan for having Smith testify privately first.
“The accusations against him are completely bogus, and the American people should hear that for themselves,” he said.
Following his testimony, Smith’s lawyers again asked for their client to appear publicly, urging Jordan to call him to testify in an “open and public” hearing. Jordan said earlier this month that he had scheduled his public testimony for Jan. 22.
Smith is also under investigation by the Office of Special Counsel, an agency that is unrelated to Smith’s former position as special counsel. His lawyers called the ethics probe by the Office of the Special Counsel “imaginary and unfounded.”
What Smith can talk about, and what he likely can’t
While Smith spoke at length at his deposition about his investigation into Mr. Trump related to the 2020 election, it’s unlikely that he will be able to speak in detail about the classified documents case due to ongoing court proceedings.
For over a year, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who oversaw the initial stages of the documents prosecution, has blocked the release of the second volume of the final report that Smith submitted to then-Attorney General Merrick Garland. Smith left the Justice Department shortly after submitting his reports.
However, in December, after Smith’s testimony, Cannon granted attorneys for Mr. Trump a 60-day window to challenge whether the report should continue to be under seal as separate legal proceedings in the case continue. On Tuesday, Mr. Trump’s legal team asked Cannon to grant an order blocking “current, former and future” DOJ officials from ever releasing the report.
When pressed on whether he could talk about the second volume of the report, Smith told lawmakers that he did “not want to do anything to violate that injunction or that order,” and said he has not reviewed his report since it was submitted to Garland in early 2025. Smith told lawmakers that unless something related to the handling of the case was in a public filing, he could not address it.
Smith defended his probes at deposition, said he had not made “final decisions” on charging co-conspirators
Behind closed doors in December, Smith defended himself from accusations from committee staff and Republican lawmakers that his investigations into Mr. Trump were intended to stop his presidential campaign.
“All of that is false,” Smith said, adding that “the evidence here made clear that President Trump was by a large measure the most culpable and most responsible person in this conspiracy. These crimes were committed for his benefit. The attack that happened at the Capitol, part of this case, does not happen without him. The other co-conspirators were doing this for his benefit. So in terms of why we would pursue a case against him, I entirely disagree with any characterization that our work was in any way meant to hamper him in the presidential election.”
Smith revealed that he and his team determined they had evidence to charge some of Mr. Trump’s co-conspirators in the election-related case, but said that by the time the cases were dismissed, he had not yet made final decisions on whether to do so.
One of those co-conspirators was Rudy Giuliani, Smith said, before later saying that it’s possible the former mayor of New York could have testified against Mr. Trump. Giuliani, Smith said, “disavowed a number of the claims” that he made repeatedly about the integrity of the 2020 election in an interview with the special counsel’s office.
There were six unnamed co-conspirators in the indictment against Mr. Trump. Based on details and Smith’s testimony, they appeared to be Giuliani, Sidney Powell, John Eastman, Kenneth Chesebro, Boris Epshteyn and Jeffrey Clark, who was a high-ranking Justice Department official at the time.
Republican lawmakers are poised to grill former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith on Thursday at a congressional hearing that’s expected to focus fresh attention on two criminal investigations that shadowed Donald Trump during his 2024 presidential campaign.
Smith testified behind closed doors last month but returns to the House Judiciary Committee for a public hearing likely to divide along starkly partisan lines between Republican lawmakers looking to undermine the former Justice Department official and Democrats hoping to elicit new and damaging testimony about Trump’s conduct.
Smith will tell lawmakers that he stands behind his decision as special counsel to bring charges against Trump in separate cases accusing the Republican of conspiring to overturn the 2020 presidential election after he lost to Democrat Joe Biden and hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.
“Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in criminal activity,” Smith will say, according to a copy of his opening statement obtained by The Associated Press. “If asked whether to prosecute a former president based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether that president was a Republican or a Democrat.”
“No one should be above the law in our country, and the law required that he be held to account. So that is what I did,” Smith will say.
The hearing is unfolding against the backdrop of an ongoing Trump administration retribution campaign targeting the investigators who scrutinized the Republican president. The Justice Department has fired lawyers and other employees who worked with Smith, and an independent watchdog agency responsible for enforcing a law against partisan political activity by federal employees said last summer that it had opened an investigation into him.
“In my opinion, these people are the best of public servants, our country owes them a debt of gratitude, and we are all less safe because many of these experienced and dedicated law enforcement professionals have been fired,” Smith said of the terminated members of his team.
Smith was appointed in 2022 by Biden’s Justice Department to oversee investigations into Trump. Both investigations produced indictments against Trump, but the cases were abandoned by Smith and his team after Trump won back the White House because of longstanding Justice Department legal opinions that say sitting presidents cannot be indicted.
The hearing will be led by Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, the Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, who told reporters on Wednesday that he regards Smith’s investigations as the “culmination of that whole effort to stop President Trump from getting to the White House.”
“Tomorrow he’ll be there in a public setting so the country can see that this was no different than all the other lawfare weaponization of government going after President Trump,” Jordan said, advancing a frequent talking point from Trump, who pleaded not guilty in both cases and denied wrongdoing.
At the private deposition last month, Smith vigorously rejected Republican suggestions that his investigation was motivated by politics or was meant to derail Trump’s presidential candidacy. He said the evidence placed Trump’s actions squarely at the heart of a criminal conspiracy to undo the election he lost to Biden as well as the Jan. 6, 2021, riot by a mob of his supporters at the U.S. Capitol.
“The evidence here made clear that President Trump was by a large measure the most culpable and most responsible person in this conspiracy,” Smith said. “These crimes were committed for his benefit. The attack that happened at the Capitol, part of this case, does not happen without him. The other co-conspirators were doing this for his benefit.”
Smith is also expected to face questions about his team’s analysis of phone records belonging to more than half a dozen Republican members of Congress who were in touch with the president on the afternoon of Jan. 6, 2021. The records contained data about the participants on the calls and how long they lasted but not their contents.
It is unlikely that Smith will share new information Thursday about his classified documents investigation. A report his team prepared on its findings remains sealed by order of a Trump-appointed judge in Florida, Aileen Cannon, and Trump’s lawyers this week asked the court to permanently block its release.
Eric Tucker, Mary Clare Jalonick, Lisa Mascaro and Alanna Durkin Richer | The Associated Press
CAPE MAY, N.J. (WPVI) — Police in Cape May have arrested a man accused of causing significant damage to an iconic statue at a Jersey Shore miniature golf course.
Authorities say 29-year-old Blane Dongas of Dallas, Pa., is accused of ripping down and discarding the Humpty Dumpty statue at the Ocean Putt Miniature Golf Course during an incident in September.
The Federal Communications Commission warned TV broadcasters Wednesday that daytime talk shows and late-night programs must give equal time to opposing political candidates.
The move addressed a genre of TV that President Trump has long argued is politically biased, leading to calls from the president to revoke broadcasters’ FCC licenses.
The announcement hinges on a decades-old federal law requiring any FCC-licensed broadcaster that lets a political candidate appear on its airwaves to also offer “equal opportunities” to all other candidates running for the same office. The law exempts “bona fide newscasts” and news interviews from the equal time rule.
In 2006, the FCC said the news exemption applied to an interview on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” meaning the late-night comedy show could feature then-California gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger on-air without also inviting his Democratic opponent.
But in a four-page notice on Wednesday, the FCC said it is “not the case” that all late-night and daytime entertainment shows are exempt. The regulator said it decides whether the exemption applies on a case-by-case basis, and it “has not been presented with any evidence” that interviews on those shows qualify for the news exemption.
FCC Chair Brendan Carr, a Trump ally, wrote on X: “For years, legacy TV networks assumed that their late night & daytime talk shows qualify as ‘bona fide news’ programs – even when motivated by purely partisan political purposes. Today, the FCC reminded them of their obligation to provide all candidates with equal opportunities.”
The FCC did not call out any specific shows by name. But Mr. Trump reposted a news headline on Truth Social that said the FCC is taking “aim” at two ABC shows that have long drawn the president’s ire — “The View” and “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Carr shared a screenshot of Mr. Trump’s post on X.
ABC did not respond to a request for comment from CBS News on the FCC’s notice. NBC and CBS, which also air late-night shows criticized by Mr. Trump, declined to comment.
Democratic FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez sharply criticized the FCC’s announcement, calling it “an escalation in this FCC’s ongoing campaign to censor and control speech.” She also argued the notice was “misleading” since the FCC hasn’t formally changed any of its rules, a process that typically involves a public comment period and a vote by the commissioners.
“Broadcasters should not feel pressured to water down, sanitize, or avoid critical coverage out of fear of regulatory retaliation,” Gomez said in a statement. “Broadcast stations have a constitutional right to carry newsworthy content, even when that content is critical of those in power. That does not change today, it will not change tomorrow, and it will not change simply because of this Administration’s desire to silence its critics.”
Mr. Trump has feuded with critical talk show hosts for years. He celebrated CBS parent company Paramount’s decision to end “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” last summer, and he hailed ABC’s decision in September to temporarily preempt “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” following comments Kimmel made about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. And he’s publicly called on NBC to fire late-night hosts Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers.
“They give me only bad publicity or press,” Mr. Trump told reporters in September. “I mean, they’re getting a license. I would think maybe their license should be taken away. It will be up to Brendan Carr.”
The issue has drawn the attention of Carr, who has regularly pointed to laws requiring broadcasters to operate in the “public interest.”
Hours before ABC temporarily took Kimmel off the air, Carr publicly urged the Disney-owned TV network to “take action” in response to the comedian’s remarks on Kirk, saying in a podcast interview that “there are avenues here for the FCC.”
“We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr said at the time.
Those comments drew bipartisan criticism, with Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas arguing Carr overstepped and could set a bad precedent the next time there’s a Democratic president.
“I gotta say, that’s right out of ‘Goodfellas.’ That’s right out of a mafioso coming into a bar, going, ‘nice bar you have here, it’d be a shame if something happened to it,’” Cruz said of Carr’s remarks on Kimmel, mimicking a mob boss’s accent.
Logan Triangle, an area of North Philadelphia that has been vacant since the 1980s due to environmental contamination, could soon become a place where people’s new homes are manufactured.
On Wednesday, Jan. 21, Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker announced a proposal to have modular housing factories take up the 30 acres of empty lots that make up Logan Triangle.
“Everything Philadelphia needs to become the hub as a manufacturer of housing in our region is right here,” Parker said. “What you see today here in this Logan community, yes, it is vacant land. But as Mayor of Philadelphia, I want you to know that I see possibilities.”
“So, on this day, I have instructed our Department of Planning and Development to issue a Request for Information to guide the development of modular housing factories right here in the City of Philadelphia. It’s formal, it’s official and it’s live,” Parker added.
Parker said that the factories would not only bring jobs to Philadelphia but would also allow the city to build new homes at scale as part of the Parker administration’s H.O.M.E. initiative, which is looking to create and preserve 30,000 units of new and existing housing throughout Philadelphia.
A formal Request for Information was issued at the event on Wednesday giving potential partners the opportunity to submit proposals to the city.
“We are seeking innovative proposals that address site requirements, operations, workforce capacity and financial models to ensure Philadelphia leads in modular housing production,” Jessie Lawrence, the director of the Department of Planning and Development, said.
“This is our roadmap forward,” Parker added. “We will use every tool available to redevelop long-vacant land, deliver housing at scale and ensure Philadelphians can afford to stay in our city.”
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Police are asking the public’s help to find a missing and endangered 10-year-old boy from Philadelphia.
Muhammad Sakho was dropped off by his father at Penrose Elementary School, on the 2500 block of South 78th Street in Southwest Philadelphia, at 8:06 a.m.
According to police, school surveillance video showed Sakho going into the cafeteria two minutes later. He then left the cafeteria at 8:20 a.m., police said.
His whereabouts after that are unknown.
Police say there is heightened cause for concern due to his young age and the extremely cold weather conditions.
“He’s 10 years old, he’s not where he should be, which is home with his family. And it’s extremely cold outside, so that’s our main concern – just getting him home safely,” said Captain Joseph Busa, Commanding Officer of Southwest Detectives.
Sakho is a 4th-grade student at Penrose. Principal Carol Casciato said school officials are cooperating with law enforcement as the search for the child continues.
“Our hearts and prayers are with the family and friends of our student, whom we hope will be found and safely returned to their family,” Casciato said in a statement.
She went on to say that there may be an increased police presence in the community.
Sakho is 5’2″ and 100 lbs. with black hair and brown eyes. He was wearing a black hoodie with a light green jacket, blue jeans, and a blue backpack.
If you know where Muhammad Sakho is, you’re urged to call 911 or contact Philadelphia Police at 215-686-3183.
Washington — The House Oversight Committee is voting Wednesday on holding former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in criminal contempt after the pair refused to appear before the Republican-led panel, which is investigating the Justice Department’s handling of the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
The committee began meeting shortly after 10 a.m. to consider the matter.
If the committee votes to recommend holding them in criminal contempt of Congress, the issue would advance to the full House for a vote on whether to find them in contempt and refer the matter to the Justice Department. The decision to prosecute would be up to the Justice Department, which would have to seek an indictment from a grand jury.
On Tuesday, House Oversight Republicans said the Clintons’ attorneys “made an untenable offer” for the GOP chairman and top Democrat on the committee to travel to New York to speak with Bill Clinton. The proposal allowed each lawmaker to bring two staff members and the meeting would not be transcribed, according to the committee. Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the committee’s chairman, rejected the offer.
“The Clintons’ latest demands make clear they believe their last name entitles them to special treatment,” Comer said in a statement.
A Clinton spokesperson denied the transcript stipulation, saying “interviews are on the record and under oath.”
The committee subpoenaed the Clintons in August, along with former Justice Department officials dating back to George W. Bush’s administration. Since then, only Bill Barr, who served as attorney general during President Trump’s first term, has provided closed-door testimony to the committee, while the panel has accepted written statements from the others.
In letters to the committee last week explaining their decision not to appear, the Clintons and their legal team accused Comer of trying to embarrass and punish Mr. Trump’s political rivals. Their lawyers vowed to fight the subpoenas, calling them “invalid and legally unenforceable” because they did not have a valid legislative purpose.
“No one’s accusing Bill Clinton of any wrongdoing. We just have questions,” Comer told reporters last week.
Photos of Bill Clinton have appeared in the Epstein-related materials released by the Justice Department, along with references to the current president, though neither have been accused of wrongdoing.
The Clintons submitted sworn declarations to the committee last week describing their interactions with Epstein.
In his declaration, Bill Clinton said Epstein offered his private plane to the former president, his staff and his Secret Service detail in support of the Clinton Foundation’s philanthropic work between 2002 and 2003. He denied ever visiting Epstein’s private island in the Virgin Islands, where a number of the late financier’s alleged crimes occurred, and maintained that he had not been in contact with Epstein for more than a decade before his 2019 arrest.
Hillary Clinton, in her declaration, said she did not recall encountering Epstein or any specific interactions with him. She also said she never flew on his plane or visited his private island.
The Clintons also did not recall when they met convicted Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell or their interactions with her, but said she later was in a relationship with a mutual friend of theirs. They did not remember exactly when their last interaction with Maxwell was beyond “many years ago.”
“To be clear, I had no idea of Mr. Epstein’s or Ms. Maxwell’s criminal activities,” their declarations said.
“And, irrespective of any intent either may have ever had, I did not take any action for the purpose of helping them to avoid any type of scrutiny,” Bill Clinton’s declaration added.
Jonathan Shaub, a law professor at the University of Kentucky, said both Clintons have strong arguments for why they should not be compelled to testify, and the potential decision to prosecute puts the Justice Department in a tricky position that could have ramifications for Mr. Trump and officials in his administration if Democrats have control of Congress and the executive branch.
“There are some past Justice Department opinions that suggest, particularly with President Clinton, that a former president is immune from compelled congressional testimony,” Shaub, who worked in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel during the Obama administration, told CBS News.
That argument would not apply to Hillary Clinton, though the committee would have to establish that it has a specific legislative interest in having her testify, Shaub said.
“That’s a harder argument to make given what exists in the public record,” Shaub said, referring to Hillary Clinton’s absence in the Epstein files that have been made public. “She would have stronger arguments in the prosecution to say that they don’t have a legislative interest here.”
In Tuesday’s statement, Comer said the committee is seeking testimony from Hillary Clinton “given her knowledge from her time as Secretary of State of the federal government’s work to counter international sex-tracking rings, her personal knowledge of Ms. Maxwell, and her family’s relationship with Mr. Epstein.”
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South Philly’s Pulitzer-winning playwright James Ijames returns with not one, not two, but three local shows this season – one starting at the Arden this Thursday. We caught up with him to learn about life, love and his strange relationship with The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.
My last name is pronounced … like times without the t.
I grew up in … Bessemer City, North Carolina. Everybody knows each other.
I came to Philly in … 2003 to get my MFA at Temple. I just moved to Manhattan in July, in part because I’m now tenured at Columbia, where I’m the new head of playwriting. But I still have my house at 4th and Wolf, which is where I stay when I’m back in town.
My first theater role was … as Hamlet, when I was a 19-year-old student at Morehouse.
My desire to return to the stage is … zero, zilch. It’s too anxiety-inducing for me to be an actor. And I just don’t enjoy it enough to suffer through that anxiety. Writing and directing is where I belong.
When I’m in Philly, I always go to … as many restaurants as I can. You have to work real hard to find a bad meal in Philadelphia. For quick bites, I regularly do Federal Donuts and P’unk Burger. And I do a lot of shopping at Head House Books. I love that store, and it’s on my walk from my house to the Arden.
My relationship status is … married. My husband is an educator who works for the Philadelphia School District.
When I won the Pulitzer for Drama in 2022 for my play Fat Ham, I celebrated by … having cake and lots of champagne at my house in Philly with my husband and two friends. It was actually quiet. Nice.
The most famous friends in my cell phone are … Cynthia Erivo and Colman Domingo, both of whom were producers of Fat Ham.
James Ijames (center) with theater director Saheem Ali (right) at a pre-Tonys party hosted by actor Colman Domingo (left)
The most beautiful space in Philadelphia is … my living room. It’s so maximalist. There’s way too much art on the walls. As soon as people walk in, their shoulders drop. And I love 30th Street Station, a relic of another time. I admire the grandeur.
My current bingeing obsession is …The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. It’s fascinating for me to look at such a, um … homogenous environment. It’s just insane. I can’t justify anything they do or so. I violently disagree with so much of what they do and say. But it all helps me understand something about the world. I only watch garbage TV. When I watch prestige TV, that feels like work, because it’s something I very much want to be writing myself in the near future.
This season, I am … having three plays produced by three different Philly theaters, something I had to leave Philly to have happen. The Arden is doing the regional premiere of Good Bones, the Wilma is doing a revival of The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington from 2014, and Philadelphia Theatre Company is presenting the world premiere of Wilderness Generation.
My parents taught me to be … honest, on time, hardworking, and just.
If you really want to annoy me … approach me with small talk.
If you’re pouring me a cocktail, I’ll take a … Boulevardier, please.
One bad habit I cannot break is … ordering in. They make it way too easy. I need to get back to cooking.
When I want to relax … I walk for hours.
The thing I love most about South Philly is … that if anything is going on in front of my house, my neighbor will let me know about it. Immediately.
Since winning the Pulitzer, my life has become … busier! But the nice thing is that being a writer, you get to hang on to a kind of anonymity. Most people have no idea what you look like.
My current playlist includes … Ariana Grande, Minnie Riperton, Teedra Moses, vintage Toni Braxton, Kehlani, Stevie Wonder, and Aretha. I’m a 45-year-old Black gay man, and everybody you expect to be here is here. I am a cliché.
Published as “One of Us: James Ijames” in the February 2026 issue of Philadelphia magazine.
It looks like the Philadelphia area will get snow for the second weekend in a row.
But, just how much we will see is — both literally and figuratively — up in the air as things could change significantly between Wednesday and Saturday evening when the National Weather Service expects the snowfall to begin.
NBC10’s First Alert Weather team say to expect snow in the region but just how much is unclear because it’s still too early to determine the path of the weekend storm.
NBC10 First Alert Weather meteorologist Bill Henley says Wednesday is the coldest morning that the region has seen this season. And, a frigid weekend is ahead with a snowstorm likely.
But, the National Weather Service expects a “significant storm” to impact the region from Saturday through Sunday night — potentially into Monday — bringing with it “several inches of snowfall.”
This could amount to the region seeing six or more inches of snow this weekend, according to the National Weather Service.
In order to prepare for the potential storm, communities throughout the region were preparing ahead of this weekend.
On Wednesday morning, NBC10’s Neil Fischer was in Plymouth Meeting, in Montgomery County to see how preparations were going.
He found the municipality recently got a new shipment of salt, a much needed resource after a storm over the past weekend brought snow, freezing rain and ice to the region.
PennDOT, however, has plenty of salt and, officials said, they plan on helping support communities once they see how much the potentially storms impact the community this weekend.
MILLVILLE, N.J. (WPVI) — A large police presence was seen in Millville on Tuesday night as authorities cordoned off several streets during an active investigation.
Chopper 6 was overhead around 11 p.m. in the area of 6th and Sassafras streets, where crime tape blocked off multiple nearby roads.
New Jersey State Police confirmed they are handling the investigation and emphasized there is no threat to the public.
Details about what prompted the response have not yet been released.
PHILADELPHIA (WPHL) — Citing extreme cold, the City of Philadelphia Office of Homeless Services (OHS) has elevated the Cold Blue to an Enhanced Code Blue, effective at 9 p.m. Tuesday. OHS originally declared a Cold Blue on Sunday after forecasted freezing temperatures and dangerous wind chills. According to the OHS, an Enhanced Code Blue is […]
A project to widen a four-mile stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Chester County began this week. The work is estimated to take around five years and cost approximately $338 million.
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Mikie Sherrill, the four-term congresswoman and former Navy helicopter pilot who cast her November election in New Jersey as a victory over President Donald Trump’s vision for the country, was inaugurated Tuesday as the state’s 57th governor. Sherrill, 54, is just the second woman to lead the state of nearly 9.5 […]
