UP TO DATE ON ACCIDENT.
FIRST, WE WILL WANT TO CHECK IN
WITH MICHELLE.
MICHELLE: DETECTORS HOVER AROUND
OR ABOVE FREEZING COMBINED WITH
-- THE TEMPERATURES HOVER AROUND
OR ABOVE FREEZING COMBINED WITH
-- WE HAVE WET SNOW CONTINUING
TO FALL THIS MORNING.
THE RADAR SHOWS IT AS WELL.
ONE THING YOU MAY NOTICE OVER
THE PAST HALF HOUR OR SO, THE
RAIN-SNOW LINE PUSHES.
THEY SHOULD MAKE IT AS FAR NORTH
AS PROVIDENCE.
PRECIPITATION STRETCHES INTO
PENNSYLVANIA, NEW JERSEY, AND
NEW YORK.
A STORM TRACK NEAR NANTUCKET
WILL BRING IN WARM AIR.
IT WILL WORK ITS WAY INLAND BY
MIDDAY.
WE PICK UP A SLUSHY, POSSIBLE
ONE TO THREE INCHES IN MOST
LOCATIONS.
MOSTLY SNOW TO THE NORTH AND
WEST.
WE ARE BETWEEN 30 AND 35 RIGHT
NOW.
EXPECT THE TEMPERATURES TO CLIMB
TO THE MIDDLE 30'S THIS
AFTERNOON.
BY THE TIME THE KIDS ARE HEADING
OFF OF THE BUS, MOST OF THE
SHOWERS -- FUTURE CAST IN A FEW
MINUTES.
WE WILL TAKE A LOOK AT THE
TIMING AND THE RAIN AND SNOW
TRANSITION.
HOW LONG IS THE COMMUTE TAKING
PEOPLE?
MELISSA: A VERY LONG TIME
.
ABOUT TWO AND A HALF HOURS AGO,
A BOX TRUCK HIT OVER -- TUC
RUCK
TIPPED OVER.
IT IS
TAKING YOU OVER OUR FROM
JEFFERSON INTO PROVIDENCE.
IT SHOULD ONLY TAKE YOU 20
MINUTES.
IF YOU DID ALTERNATE ROUTES, IT
DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU ARE HEADING
FROM.
YOU CAN ALWAYS TAKE 290 52 ROUTE
TWO.
-- EN ROUTE -- 295 TO ROUTE 2.
IF YOU TAKE 295 OVER ROUTE
6,
YOU ARE SAVING MINUTES.
NOT LOOKING TOO
BAD,
-- NOT
LOOKING TOO BAD CROSSING IN FROM
THE STATE LINE.
A LOOK AT SOME OF YOUR
CONDITIONS.
YOU WILL NEED EXTRA TIME,
ESPECIALLY MAKING YOUR WAY IN
BETWEEN WARWICK AND PROVIDENCE
THIS MORNING.
I WILL HAVE ANOTHER CHECK OF
YOUR DRIVE TIMES IN 10 MINUTES.
PATRICK: THE FULL WEATHER
COVERAGE CONTINUES.
DANIELLE: BREAKING NEWS?
MICHAELA:
THAT IS RIGHT.
WE ARE ON 195 RIGHT NOW.
WE HAD BEEN
TAKING -- LOOKING AT
THE ROOTS AVOID THE 95 TRAFFIC.
WE WERE ON A BOULEVARD
, THERE
WAS A LITTLE BIT OF A DELAY.
YOU CAN SEE, THE SNOW IS
FALLING.
MOST OF THE MAIN ROADS HAVE BEEN
WET.
IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS AND
SIDESTREETS LOOK MORE SNOW
COVERED.
NO ONE WAS INJURED
, BUT IT
CAUSED QUITE A DELAY.
THE PLOWS AND SALT TRUCKS HAVE
BEEN OUT ALL MORNING.
WE HAVE SEEN THEM THROUGH THE
NIGHT AS WELL.
WE ARE GOING TO GET AN EARLY
START ON IT AND-OR -- AND/OR
FOLLOW IT DURING THE MORNING
COMMUTE.
IF EVERYTHING GOES TO PLAN,
DURING THE MIDDAY AND AFTERNOON,
WE SHOULD EVERYTHING CLEARED BY
THE AFTERNOON COMMUTE.
THE ROAD IS IN
CONDITION, WE
EXPECT.
MICHAELA: THEY ARE ASKING FOR
PEOPLE --
IF YOU COME ACROSS A
PLOT OR SALT TRUCKS, GIVE THEM