We got the whole team following
the storm for us this morning.
Tracy is in for Anthony,
tracking how long it's
going to be sticking around.
Monica of course,
keeping our eye to the roads.
We've got Alex fees.
He's live at Modot
headquarters in Chesterfield.
For us, he's going to help you all
out with your morning commute and
then Ryan Henson is there at
the popular Street bridge,
whereas he can see behind him.
There's a semi that drove off of the
bridge a lot to get to this morning.
But first we want to start
with you Tracy 'cause that
snow is starting to come down.
It most certainly is,
so let me go ahead and show you
where the radar is and what we're
looking at right now so this snow
is continuing to track through.
It's taking its time.
This is slow moving.
So while the snowfall will
not be that impressive,
it's going to accumulate a little bit,
and we're not going to see much snow.
Hardly shovelable.
In my opinion, 27 degrees.
It feels like 17 winds are out
of the north at just under 15
mph through the rest of our day.
This snow will wrap up by about lunchtime.
Some other spots if you're
further to our North and West,
you will see that snow end more by
midmorning temperatures today are
going to make it into the low 30s,
so we're not going to see
a whole lot of melting,
and we're going to definitely see
icing tomorrow as temperatures dropped
out and overnight into the teens
alright. Tracy does 503,
and if you are heading out this morning,
we can't tell you this enough.
24 hours ago we told you to try to
leave a little early this morning.
Maybe work from home.
You do have a couple of
stalled vehicles right now,
but this is definitely changed.
As that snow is moving in in
the last hour a lot more yellow
and red popping up on the map,
which is a good thing means
you're keeping your speed down.
We have had some issues right now.
55 northbound drivers as
you travel near Arsenal.
There is an issue in the
right lane and also on 70.
We had an earlier problem around Madison.
The big story however is the issue for
those at the Poplar Street Bridge.
An accident alert there, Modot
working to tow away an 18 Wheeler
that flipped off the ramp to the
Poplar Street Bridge.
Our Ryan Henson is live at
the crash scene with what
happened good morning Ryan.
Good morning, Monica.
So this all happened just after
about 3:00 o'clock this morning,
and the ramp itself has actually cleared.
There's trucks that have been
going up onto the bridge,
so that's been opened up.
But obviously there's still
more work to be done down here.
So police tell us that this truck was
actually getting on the Poplar Street
bridge heading towards Illinois from
downtown when it flipped over the side.
You can see how it landed right there,
such a scary accident to happen,
so this is actually,
strangely enough is a fairly common accident.
According to police.
It happened both several times in the past.
Couple of months that some
calls for concern right there,
especially when the weather gets like this.
There was two people inside
of the vehicle at the time.
They were conscious when they
were taken to the hospital.
There's more from police.
It's very fortunate as you,
as you can see that both occupants
at this point are still alive.
We're very thankful for that,
and especially with the
the weather coming in.
We encourage people to
slow down and drive safe.
Very important warning right
there and this accident still
under investigation right now,
but a couple more dark groups still
here on scene as this truck sits here
and you can see just Jack knife like
this right off the side of the exit.
We'll get you an update from those two
people inside the vehicle when we get them.
I'm Ryan Henson.
I'll send it back to the studio for now.
Alright, thank you Ryan.
Now we've been anticipating today's
weather all week long and that gave Rd
crews plenty of time for to prepare.
Moda crews started their around
the clock operations last night.
To help you stay safe during
this morning's commute hour,
Alex Fizes monitoring the road conditions
and joins us now live from Chesterfield.
Alex, what have you seen so far?
While running as you can see,
the snow has begun to fall here
on West Saint Louis County.
I will step out of the way and give you
a live look at road conditions on I-64.
Here in Chesterfield.
They can best be described at this
point as wet Modot crews have been
out and about for quite some time.
They will be fully staffed
through late this evening.
Their plan?
They began pre treatment over the past
couple days before the snow fell.
They're asking motorists to slow down.
Be cautious and give them plenty of room.
Now. In the meantime,
Webster Groves is among the communities.
That began the pretreating process
yesterday and the day before.
Public works director Todd Ray
told me yesterday that Webster
had two crews working 12 hour
shifts that began at 3:00 o'clock
this morning. Meanwhile, Webster treated 200
lane miles of pavement with salt
brine over the past couple days that
salt brine is a special mix with
its water with 23% salt content,
which apparently is the most effective.
So pretreatment the brine,
we put that down yesterday,
and today we're still putting it down today
on the side streets and the dead ends.
We did all the mains yesterday,
and what that does is it keeps the the
snow from bonding with the pavement.
So that's all it does and makes it easier
for us to get it off off the streets.
And Modot district maintenance engineer
Bob Becker said in a statement
yesterday that the pavement temperatures
have been above freezing recently.
However, there are likely to be
some slick spots this morning,
so caution is certainly in order.
Modot has a briefing at 6:00 o'clock.
We will bring it to you live in Chesterfield.
Alex fees 5 on your side.
Alright Alex thank you.
And on the other side of the river IDOT.
Crews are also working to clear the roads.
They were on standby through the
night and got a 2 hour heads up
before heading out to salt the roads.
The number of I dot trucks.
That you see out this morning just
depends on how much snow ends up falling.
Now the storm doesn't seem to be interfering
too bad with air travel at this point.
At last check, only two departures
were canceled out of Lambert,
and there's just one delay.
Remember, you can stay up to date
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