philadelphia, and the surrounding area, enduring a bitter blast of winter this morning, with temperatures, well below freezing. prompting concerns about the safety of many people in the area. the highways are clear, but some of the back road around our area are a different story. our mobile weather lobbies giving you a live look at the streets right now. vittoria has latest on the driving conditions in just a few minutes. today is wednesday january 7th, hi, good morning i'm ukee washington. i'm's quarter von tiehl. here are some of the stories we are following today. large bucks county home gutted guy fire. fire fighters said they had more to battle than just the the flames to save what is left of that house. an eight year old would i is in the hospital this morning after he was hit and

pinned under a vehicle just seconds after getting off a a school bus. the the driver who hit him is now facing some serious charges. lets begin with our weather conditions and boy it is like a flash back from last season. >> hate thinking about that katie but it really feels like it. >> absolutely true guys. this will be a memory trigger for you, back to what we saw, last winter with that pol will air vortex that buzz word that people are probably just done with. no one wants to hear it the at this point but luckily it is coming back, with you it is only coming back here for a couple of days. currently our wind speed are pretty light. but that is definitely changing. we will talk about wind chill advisory down the road here. of course we will talk about the temperatures as well and much more details on all of it in a next few minutes. now we are dealing with the bitter blast of frigid temperatures. >> as katie said they will stick around for a while too. "eyewitness news" reporter nicole brewer joins us from pennsauken camden county where

a code blue advisory remains in effect. nicole, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. that code blue went into effect monday night and will continue through 7:00 o'clock this morning. i can tell you it feels every bit as cold out here this morning. of course that warning issued when it dips below 20 degrees in wind chill or in temperatures. obviously your best bet to stay warm on a day like today is to not come outside but for a lot of us that is not possible. you just want to dress in layers. you want your hat keep your hand covered obviously, got wool socks put them on. you cannot tell will but i'm following every bit of that advice here this morning. the most of the folks i spoke to at the wawa in pennsauken gree it is all a crest nothing layers. >> i have tights underneath my sweats, two jackets. >> minority face is my good to. i usually wear scarves.

>> i'm a winter person. i enjoyed the cold but i still layer up to keep from getting a cold. >> reporter: of course, the the cold air isn't the only thing left behind on this clipper system. as you can tell in our video and katie mentioned just a few minutes ago we have anywhere around 2 inches of snow depending on where you live and that is definitely going to still be a problem out the here this morning in the streets closest to your home those back roads will be slick and maybe even snow covered at this point. if you come back out here live though as we mentioned we're in pennsauken camden county right here near route 38 and 70. the those main road are clear this morning but definitely proceed with caution definitely take it slow and give yourself extra time and extra room to get out and about, where you are going. that is very latest from camden county nicole brewer, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". 4:33. let get back to katie and hear more about this bitter blast.

>> it is on the way. it has already begun out there wind no, sir the not begun to kick in yet. as we heard from nicole is is already cold outside and it will only get colder from here. sky cam three is looking g it is quiet at this point. the snow is long gone but you know we still have what has been left on the road surface here. so fit was a road especially was untreated it will absolutely have slick end over that much more here this morning. watch for slick spot. definitely they are out there vittoria will be talking about it all morning. storm scan three this is quieting down. it is cloudy but when we zoom it out, you can see lake effect snow kicking in here. we will see some sun but some of this might be win driven enough that it survives for a change and it crosses over allegheny and it will will see at least a few flurries in a few spots but i can see a straight up snow shower. it will not accumulate but it will add to the wintry atmosphere f there was any doubt winter is here. wind chills this week at best

in the teens for a good chunk of the next five days, thursday's brutal stuff here. dangerously cold air, especially on thursday. the as a result wind chills are set the to take effect this evening across the board. here's where we stan right now, right new because wind isn't that strong you only to have knock five or seven or 8 degrees off for feels like value but that will change. the it will again feel as the the day progresses and we get you in the mid 20's here in better than lower teens across most of the board. as we mentionedded the wind will kick in the cold is obviously here. es specially further north and west you go more likely you for perhaps see a snow shower or flurry. vittoria, good morning. >> good morning, everyone. as nicole was saying traveling in new jersey she was right around 38, in haddonfield, if you are traveling around that area we are not seeing too many problems. i would say problems that will be occurring this morning are not so much on the major aors. not only in new jersey and pennsylvania, but with the exception of the black ice.

and slick spots but also it the is going to be in the residential neighborhood. i'm trying to get that out. there we go. traveling throughout the neighborhood will be the biggest problem. i had problems, heading out of my neighborhood as well, it is pretty thick out there. so if you are traveling in and around the neighborhood just give yourself more time. majors are pretty clear, with the exception of the little bit of that slick spot. this is i-95 moving ahead. now we will will go to the 42 freeway. this is 42 around creek road. only a few vehicles out there, not too much to worry about on the majors in regard to speed sensors. it will be in these neighborhood just to be careful of, mass transit not awful, do watch out for delays at the airport, ukee. vittoria, thank you. developing right now major break in the search for missing air asia flight 8501. we just got this video into our news room. indonesia search and rescue chief says divers and unman water vehicles spotted a

section of the plane's tail in the java sea. the find is very important one, for investigators since the plane's voice and data recorders are stored there. so far, 40 bodies have been recovered since the plane went down december 28th with 162 people on board. 4:37. the winter chill and lack of water supply complicates fighting a a fire in bucks county. >> reporter: fire fighters got the the call to the large two story home on curly mill road in new britain township last night. everybody got out okay but the home is a a total loss. fire fighters had two problems a lack of hydrants in the area and below freezing temperatures. >> the hose lines freezing up, and making it hard on the guys working on the fire. the the big thing too there is a lack of water supply here. we had to truck in water. that made it difficult to fight the fire. >> bucks county fire marshall is still trying to determine how that fire started. a driver is facing charges

this morning after police say he hit a child getting off a school bus in lakewood ocean county. police say michael adler disregarded the flashing stop sign while an eight year-old crossed at clifton avenue and kerry street. adler stopped and boy was freed from under the car. emergency crushed rushed him to the hospital where he is recovering from serious injuries. adler has been charged with reckless driving and illegally passing a school bus. search continues this morning in philadelphia for a suspect in the home invasion in mantua. officers say a man walk in the home in the 3900 block of brown street last night around 7:30, piss top whipped a woman and then took off. the victim was taken to the hospital with cuts and bruises. if you have any information you are asked to call police. we are hearing from one of the victims seriously injured during an attack in center city. samuel sierra spent a week in the hospital after a savage beating at 12th and chestnut that nearly cost him his life. surveillance video from december 27th shows sierra

walking from his job as a doorman with his manager a group approached the pair and word were exchanged. two men broke away from the group and started pummeling sierra causing bleeding in the brain. >> my ears start to have a ringing sensation and then my head again just has the physical pain. >> i hope they are captured. i hope they would be bet's adults but it is still up to them to make those decisions for themselves. >> the police are still looking for the people behind the attack. straight ahead on "eyewitness news" a snowmobiler spend more than a day stranded in the freezing wilderness, find out who he credits with saving his life. a deadly shooting at a va clinic texas, we will tell you what is being didn't today in the wake of the attack that left two people dead. we are keeping an eye on icy driving conditions this morning. another live look here courtesy of our mobile weather lab out and about this morning. vittoria has a full check of the road coming up.

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soft. a veterans clinic in el paso texas is closed as investigators try to get to the bottom of the deadly shooting. officials locked down fort bliss for about an hour yesterday until that was cleared. there were reports that the gunman killed a doctor and then turn the gun on himself. federal investigators will interview hundreds of witnesses as they searched for a motive in this case. with the u.s. congress back to work senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is trying to make the keystone xl pipeline his first piece of legislation. >> but the white house says president obama will sleet the owe a bill authorizing its construction should one reach his desk. with control of the both chambers the g.o.p. can push measure through congress but they do not have votes to override a veto. obama administration say state department still has to approve the the project. supporters of the keystone says it will create jobs.

idaho man says he owes his life to five of his friends who found him stranded in the montana wilderness after a snowmobiling accident. barry sadler went out riding on sat the day and got stuck in 7 feet of snow, for more than 30 hours. search teams were outlooking for him the entire time and it was his friend who finally spotted him a after following his tracks for more than 3 miles. sadler said he suffered frostbite but is otherwise, okays. right now 4:43. yesterday was the snow to day is just the cold. >> that is going to affect everybody, you know, you could have stayed inside yesterday and not had to deal with the snow if you were able to but this will be the second you walk outside the door, you will feel it. >> you do. >> the wind is not even starting yet. so this will be rough stuff. >> we got 30 or 40 miles an hour. >> easily. >> these wind gusts will crank because it is a a clipper system.

in the wake we get these persistent north west wind. a lot of times in the wake of one clipper it will be one day and then it is over. problem is we get these additional pulses of energy that come through that don't bring more precipitation but they reenforce what is now out there. that is the cold. you think we're alone here? um-hmm. check this out, wind chill advisories of some kind, watches, warnings basically span half the country. i mean this is cold that is affecting millions of people. i thing is, it is january. we do see this this time of the year. it is just first time that arctic chill has really sunken in and look at how far south it extend all the way into northern florida. that is rough stuff. thankfully citrus crops in central florida won't be too affect by this but everybody else will be. it will be the the kind of cold that is dangerous to be out in for very long especially as we go into tonight when we see wind chill watch advisories take effect here locally. it will be this evening. for now there is still a wind.

you can see movement of the cloud ape movement of the lake effect snow but it is not strong just yet. give it too. look the at what the wind chill values will end up here tomorrow morning. it may feel no better than 20 below zero in the pocono region. not that it is much better around philadelphia but should ease up down here. you're talking below zero freezing levels here for wind chills into tomorrow morning. that is dangerous. it is dangerous across the board here. in one is an exception here. 26 degrees today. nothing accumulating but could see a snow shower wind driven. dangerously cold tonight as we bottom out to eight here in philadelphia here we go again. we will see that cold stick around at the least through sunday. ebb and flow there. next week looks like it will ease up more. ukee back to you. let's start with the action on the ice then. the theme. the flyers work late and come away with the important points in the race for last playoff

spot in the eastern conference. captain claude giroux as back in action at the well, who has been nurse ago this bad cut on his leg. that did not stop him from assisting on wayne simmonds first goal of the game. flyers and senators tied at one. the game went to a long shoot-out, when simmonds comes through again the flyers beat the senators, your final score was two-one in favor of the fly guys. >> we have a lot of work to do in the second half of the season. we have put ourselves behind the ball. it is nice to get the the first one at home. we have to keep going from here. eagles have reportly asked green bay permission to interview packers director of players personnel elliott wolf forbidder vacant general manager position. wolf has been with the packers since 2004 name sound familiar he is son of the former packers gm ron wolf. one time philly is in the the 2015 class for baseball hall of fame. pedro martinez was on the phillies for 2009 world series

run, a three time cy young award winner and led majors in era five times. randy johnson got more than 97 percent. he was a shoe in of yesterday's vote. big unit won cy young award five times. john smoltz is also in, only pitch inner history to get 200 wins and 150 saves. he had game, didn't he? infielder craig biggio what's electric. induction ceremonies they're july and a spring training, a month and a half away erika. counting down already. >> oh, yeah. >> still ahead on "eyewitness news" another triple digit loss on wall street. we will look at what is causing the sell off. but first here's what is coming up tonight on cbs-3.

snow yesterday and bitter cold today. it sound like a philadelphia condition right now. >> here we go. >> center city early this morning early bird trying to

stay warm on the frigid walk to work. temperatures will in the get above freezing. the katie has your forecast coming up 309's. below freezing temperatures was one problem face by fire fighters in new britain township. fire fighters say there was a a shortage of hydrants in the neighborhood around curlry mill road there were no injuries but there is considerable damage. 4:50. lets check business. >> money watch's jill wagner joins us from the new york stock exchange and another day of triple digit losses on wall street, what is behind this sell off. >> reporter: good morning, ukee and erika. it is mostly about oil. the price of crude dropped below $48 a barrel which is lowest since april a of 2009. oil prices have dropped 47 percent over the last three months and energy companies like exxon mobile and cheveron have taken a hit, they are dragging down the market. thinks the worst start to a year for the market since the great recession but there is a silver lining before we get too depressed here low gas

prices it is putting more money in americans pockets. people would say it is mostly good news because of the gas prices. >> i can work with that. >> mcdonald's is struggling i understand as more people are looking for healthy options now what is mcdonald's doing to give itself a make over, they have got to be doing that. >> the fast food giant is looking to provide lighter meals. mcdonald's recently opened a restaurant in australia called the corner by mid cafe, it serves up healthy food like fresh vegetables and tofu. there are in fries or big macs on the menu. mcdonald's is calling it the a learning lab where it can test new food ideas. mcdonald's is mcdonald's without the burger and fries i don't know. ukee and erika. >> through some string beans in there. >> yes. >> apparently we have change that. >> maybe some collar greens. >> little too much salt in collar greens. >> thanks, jill, appreciate

it. coming up traffic and weather together on the three's. >>

4:53. let's get traffic and weather together. good morning vittoria. >> good morning, everyone. traveling out and about you will notice that you have to watch out for slick spots and that residual snow on the ground. we're out and about in bucks county traveling on the northbound side of route one in the mobile weather lab making your way toward the area of bensalem. a approaching this stretch we are not too far from street road and not too far from the area of the neshaminy mall. the roads look pretty clear. look at the the reflection of the light here. the that is taking up the slickness thaw still have. so traveling out and about specifically on the majors, watch out for black ice and slick spots. however, traveling in the neighborhood you do want to watch out for that thick crunch of snow that you'll have when you exit the driveway. area bridges, they are calling for speed restrictions to 35 miles an hour just because bridges are slick.

the net that this morning. the also traveling in new jersey on 130 southbound approaching king boulevard we have an accident blocking all lanes. your best alternate is old york road. best thing to do is to give yourself more time. we will have obstacle is a head of us for this morning commute and even wind being an obstacle, how about that, katie. >> you know, this cold, it is going to affect you when you walk out the the next couple days especially though tomorrow. tomorrow is definitely where we bottom out with these thermometer readings but it will stay cold throughout the weekend. the lets go out to storm scan three. no more clipper, folks. the it is all win driven snow as those snow flurries and showers will survive over alleghenies and we will see a few additional flakes ourselves but nothing that will add to the accumulation from yesterday. looking at the live neighborhood network, temperatures have taken a hit big time. in magnolia are a at 21. it is still colder in plymouth meeting, drexel hill. i can tell from you my own

experience the thermometer in the car was in the teens the whole drive-in. it was very little change on that as morning progresses. but we are going to get new to mid 20's here at best. the thing is, you just can't go by the the day time highs. really even right through saturday, because it is going to feel colder. there will be a win for the the next four days, it is at its worst tomorrow and then leading into friday. it will make it feel no better than the teens even as we wrap up the week erika, back over to you. coming up next on "eyewitness news" we have the latest on the bitter blast katie was talking about hitting g the region this morning. a new jersey high school rocked by a football hazing scandal. there is new information about what is next for the team after the controversy ended their season early. an unusual legal battle why a teenager with cancer is fight to go stop getting chemotherapy, we are back at the top of the h

caught in a bitter blast we're waking up to temperatures in the 20's in the region and that is leading to slick spots on the roads. we will get latest on the frigid forecast in a minute. also destroyed by fire, is there just a shell left of this bucks county home after this massive fire leaves a family homeless. extreme cold was not the the only big obstacle for fire fighters. also developing a major discovery in the search for remains of air asia flight 8501. we have brand new pictures of the plane's tail under water, how that could unravel mystery of what went wrong on the doomed flight. it is wednesday, january 7th, hi good morning i'm ukee washington. i'm quarter von tiehl. grab that extra layer before you head out this morning

temperatures in the the 20's but feels colder then that right now. we saw people freezing in center city overnight. sidewalks could still be slick from yesterday's snow lets get you over to katie to find out how long this bitter blast will be around, good morning. >> that is true. we don't have too much win just yet but that is absolutely set to change. as days progress that wind will kick in and it will be reenforced by another disturbance that moves in toward the end of the week. thankfully i don't think you're looking at much more in the way of precipitation no major systems coming our way anytime soon but it will be definitely be a memory trigger for you here of what it felt like last winter. storm scan three at this point featuring some cloud but when we look at these areas temperatures which we will in a second you will understand why everything has frozen over from yesterday's snow. wind chills are not in effect yet. they will go in effect this evening across the board and they will last us until tomorrow morning. some of them may last longer