this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news". if you feel like you sit in traffic for most of your day, you might not be that far off. philadelphia has been named one of the worse traffic cities in the u.s. how much time the average driver spends in their car and how it compares to other cities across the country more on that coming up in just a moment. good morning everyone, keeping an eye on our weather also snow for certain parts of the region today. >> certain parts. >> certain parts. >> not everywhere. >> let's chill out little bit now, it will be okay. here's katie good morning. >> take a deep breath, hang on let's explain. yes, there is a disturbance that's rolling on through and yes, you know, we talked about this yesterday. it is still the time of year where if it comes in with the appropriate timing, if it comes in when we just had cool pool of thayer was sent our bay, yes, could you still find some snow. so it is not the most unheard of thing. but let me be clear. philadelphia you do not have to worry about snowflakes

today. nor does the shore, southern new jersey, nor does delaware. it is really unless go into the far north and west suburbs, lehigh valley, and as you perhaps are traveling that pa turnpike westbound, out toward central pa or the poconos, that you have got any shot to see snow. but you can see right now this disturbance already creeping in to western pa, that there is a little hint of wintery weather with it. but it is early in the morning for those guys. so by the time this reaches us, your going to need some cold air. i mean, talking about this arriving by the afternoon so, the coldest spots for that, again, all of those places i mentioned moment ago. but up toward the poconos primarily a snow event. so you have got the possibility to pick up up to 2 inches out of this, hence winter weather advisories posted take effect at noon today. 40 degrees currently in nil. even if we had wet weather right in you it would come in as rain. further north you go, it is cold enough. so region by region, we go, talking little bit after variety pack of weather-related issues today but for everybody, the precipitation does come this afternoon, and it will linger into this evening.

jess, we stent over to you. >> just happy we're dry right now. 5:31, we start things outright on the vine street expressway. where currently dealing with no problems. either way. so headlights are eastbound this is just approaching broad street. no problems as well if you are headed westbound. everything moving along just fine currently on the ben franklin bridge, from the jersey side, this is actually from the toll plaza westbound lanes right here headed into the city. you can see no problems there. and not real a lot of traffic or volume trying to head into jersey at this time. we're still dealing with building fire, house fire actually, that's under control out in conshohocken west first avenue, though still closed between maple and for cents. take elm street to get on by. some ongoing road work due to sinkhole on plymouth road, still closed between the blue route and but the her pike for the sinkhole repair. take germantown pike to get on by that scene. as for mass transit everything running on time no delays. dealing with shuttle bussing for septa's route 36 trolley. currently no delays at the philadelphia international airport, as well. ukee, back to you.

>> if your part of the morning rush, you know it is more like a crawl a lot of times. >> depending when you take o. new study says philadelphia is among the worse cities for traffic. "eyewitness news" reporter justin finch joins us now overlooking the schuylkill expressway everyone's favorite, one of the best place toss see just how bad traffic can get. oh and it gets bad out there. justin, good morning. >> it does, erika ukee, good morning. gps maker tom has monday order traffic data from the year 2014 they've found we are the 20th most congested metro in the u.s. that means if you have a half hour commute each year, you're spends being 70 hours in traffic not going anywhere. of course the longer your commute, the worse and the more time you are spending behind the wheel. take a look at the 76, so far so good. we know it gets a lot worse though. let's take to you video of course the highlights and low lights of this study. the study finds your heaviest traffic days in the morning are going to be thursdays

folds by wednesdays, as for your evening commute, also thursday, a rough day leaving work, and friday, followed right hine. your easiest days are going to be monday mornings, no surprise followed by friday evenings. now, the average commute again, 30 minutes that means you're spends being 18 minutes in delays. and in the philadelphia metro area. perhaps your trickiest commute day, 2014, was january 20th. perhaps that rings a bell for you. now, do your short cut. actually may it, may not. turns out your highways are less congested than your non-highways. and, of course, no surprise, drivers are bringing their road rage and frustrations into work. take a listen. >> the productivity goes down, people already exhausted from white knuckle commuting into work or they're late. nobody's happy about that. and everyone's less productive. >> traffic around here is definitely ridiculous. even for a living. driving around, picking up stuff, for the restaurant i work at, being in center city, and you can't move, what

should take five to ten minutes to move around, half hour to 45 minute, 95 always back up, 76 always back up. whether it is construction, accidents, the weather you just can't move in philly. >> looking live though it seems you can move in philly when you leave your house early, to get where you are going. actually traffic in the philadelphia area, is up 3% this year, actually good thing for the jobs we had out there and more people working. no surprise, the most congested city, la. we are live in university sit justin fin. cbs-3, "eyewitness news". la is ridiculous. >> oh, it is, no kidding. i guess the key is just to wake up while it is still dark out, then you're fine. >> smooth sailing. thanks justin. so this morning we are asking how is your commute? where are the trouble spots you always run into? we want to hear from you. tweet us, use the handle at cbs-3 mornings, might read yours on the air. >> we'll try do that, indeed. >> right now to breaking news, a hospital in virginia, on

lock-down at storms, the hallways looking for what they say is an active shooter. somewhere on the hospital grounds there. this is i know the fairfax hospital in falls church virginia. cbs news has learned, the incident began around 3:00 a.m., when a prisoner escaped custody and may have gotten his hands on a gun. we're told shots were fired though at this point, it is not known who fired those shots or if anyone was hurt. but once again, an active shooter situation. this is at a hospital in falls church virginia. stay with "eyewitness news" we will keep on top of the situation and bring you the latest updates as soon as we get them. two temple university football players are supposed to appear for a preliminary hearing today. dion dawkins and hasan reddick are charged with attack ago student at night club on january 18th. charges against dawkins and reddick include aggrivated assault. >> also scheduled for a preliminary hearing, 17 year old ivan charged in the fatal

shooting every his classmate james becker. philadelphia police say he thought the gun he had was empty, when it went off in his kensington home on march 5th. investigators say he found the gun on the street in his neighborhood just few days earlier. your time is now 5:37. in business news this morning amazon wants to be everything to everybody. >> bit ambitious. >> i know. >> also what will power the markets today. money market jill wagner has that and more. >> good morning, ukee, erika. wall streets hoping for another rally today after strong economics reports on consumer spending and housing yesterday the the dow jumped 263 points, nasdaq gained about 56. testify will stocks soared on word of new product. but not what you might expect. ceo elan must being tweeted the company will be unveiling new major new product line next month and it isn't an electric car. so some think it could be a large battery that uses solar

energy to power a home. but we'll have to wait and see. >> america's best savers are not the wealthiest. it is the middle class. according to new bank rate. com report, more than thirds of households making between 50 and $75,000 a year save about 10% of their incomes. that's higher rate than wealthier americans. overall, though, bank rate says one in five americans don't save anything. and, amazon wants to be your one stop shop where you could buy products, then hire people to install them. retailers has launched home services amazon says it has vetted all of the service people, prices are listed up front, and services include everything from tv, wall mountings, to music lessons. so i think you guys said it best. everything to everyone. ukee erika? >> how about that? >> tv mounting the first comes to mind. order your tv being then oh, shoot. >> how about the music lessons

things? i would love to learn to play the piano gene. i started as a six year olan gave up. >> me too and i have always regret philadelphia on. >> me too. >> imagine where we could be now? >> i know, carnegie hall. yeah right. thanks jill. >> the battle over religious freedom builds shifts to arkansas, supposed to vote on the measure today. >> indianna lawmakers now in damage control mode. after a similar law came under criticism, for permitting discrimination against gays and lesbians. >> with the bold statement indianna's largest newspaper newest re freedom religious law. the indianapolis star called for the state to extend protective status to gays and lesbians saying religious freedom and those protections can co-exist. monday night resident every indianapolis cheered as the city council adopted

resolution owe positioning the law. governor signed religious freedom rest restoration act thursday t allows people to conduct business based on their religious belief. but, opponent fear it, will lead to discrimination against gays. >> it is not a true representation of our city as they're welcoming inclusive place. that is bad for local business. it will reduce tourism rev newspaper. >> with public pressure rising governor writing: i and who are discrimination, quote, the law is not a license to discriminate. some state republicans are now work to go add language to the law saying it is being misinterpreted. >> i think we're reacting to an obvious misconception about what the law does. >> supporters say the measure mirrors a federal law signed by president clinton in 1993, the governors of connecticut and washington, have now banned state employees from traveling to indianna, because of the law. mayor says major sit advice also done the same. don champion, cbs-3

"eyewitness news". still ahead this morning new e era for the daily show. more on the man who will succeed john stewart, coming up. >> and late late laughs. david beckham stars in a underwear ad, with new late late host james gordon. >> oh, i didn't know i could love him any more. about there it is. >> hey there is man says all you want to do is make customers smile. coming up next, a new jersey wawa worker and the toy he says got him fired. we'll be right back.

>> fire tears through ho along first avenue in conshohocken, montgomery county p firefighters stay appears it started in the back of the home, but so far investigators have not determined the cause. there were no injuries. charges could be filed as early as this morning, in the shooting death of off duty darby police offer, mark hudson. hudson was shot inside his own home in glenolden delaware county saturday afternoon. >> negotiations continue at this hour, as iran's nuclear talks approach a deadline. us secretary of state john kerry, wants a framework that would ease international sanctions in exchange for limits on iran's nuclear capability. 5:43, traffic and weather together. here's kate. >> i good morning, ukee, everyone, we start things off here with a look at the eyewitness weather watcher

network. a lot off dark and early with us so we will focus on that area here for you. 35 degrees sent in to us from lynn springer, she's in cherry hill. nice clear sky for her. she's got chilly morning again, but at least oh, that's so sweet look what she wrote, at least she gets to see you! >> thank you lynn? >> we art heart you lynn. >> so sweet. i'm telling you man. >> when the man's out of the house, you can't take vacation. okay, moving on. >> oh, lynn! >> he's so touched by. that will so sweet. marge sent in from chadsford clear skies 26 degrees, i'm telling you, flattery get you everywhere, then we take you little further off to the south. actually pretty mild start for us this morning from william powell. 42 degrees sent into us, just at this point got a handful of clouds. so nothing major going on out there yet. but you can see the signs of life off in the distance here. and that's the combination of this next, i don't want to call it storm system, rather, disturbance, and, you know, definitely some moisture to

work with, sipping right along, over the canadian border across from the dakotas yesterday. this thing has definitely got some legs, moving along very speedily, looks like it will be arriving here this afternoon. primarily rain, for philadelphia, the immediate vicinity, new jersey, southern new jersey, and then points into delaware, but if you go far enough west, in toward that say central pa area, amish country on the pa turnpike, lehigh valley, pocono area, that's where you are likely to see some snow mix in, maybe even picking up quick coating out of t by tomorrow it is out of here, london, in fact, later tonight, then nice spike on the thermometer for us to wrap up the week. jess, over to you. >> thank katie. look being forward to. that will good morning, everybody, 5:45, outside on the schuylkill expressway. you can see an accident with police activity on the scene also involving a tractor-trailer. so this is from the eastbound schuylkill to the onramp to the vine street expressway. so little bit of back-up. you can see right behind that as one lane squeezing on by taking out the left hand shoulder part of the next lane

over. so, one lane getting by therefore right now, we'll keep you updated. ninety-five right around cottman avenue, starting to see a little bit of accumulation in the southbound lanes, through the work zone, definitely typically jammed spot. so headed into the center city area we'll keep you updated there as well as it will probably start to pack in a punch next half hour, 45 minutes or so. otherwise check on the jersey majors, everything doing fine, 295, into 42, delaware memorial bridge no problems. southbound no problems on the 42 freeway head the northbound will take but six minutes to get to the walt whitman bridge. on route 55, 322 into 42, only about nine minutes, if you are headed northbound, still dealing with a building fire out in conshohocken, so west first avenue still closed although the fire is under control between maple and forest. take elm street to get on by that clean up scene for right now. back to you. >> he wanted to make customers smile when he pumps their gas. wawa employee said he used all kind of props to make him laugh. >> but christine sloan shows that you one toy got him

fired. >> my little friend. >> wearing a tuxedo and clown nose was part of mark's routine while pumping gas at this wawa gas station on route nine in howell, new jersey. >> whatever i do, i make fun my kids call my fun dad. i created a smile with a icon tact before you came into my area because i came. >> miss props including glasses, with disco balls and trade to deliver receipts made customers laugh at least for two years, but recently a passenger in a van not amused with this toy, that squirts water to simulate urinating. he used to clean the side mirror of the van. >> again, i didn't see her there. the driver was excepting it. and i sincerely apologized for not meaning any harm or disgust or disgrace. >> the passenger whose identity the company will not reveal complained, and he was fired, even though cuz owe said he regularly used the toy. >> i would ask if there were kids in the car it, okay if i use this?

>> in a statement wawa says, it appreciates his positive energy, but wants everyone to know that, quote we would never make a decision about any associate based on a single isolated incident like this. still, many customers rallying behind cuzo on facebook protesting and threatening to boycott wawa. >> i love that guy. he used to make me laugh would make my morning. >> did that toy offends you? >> you know, i can understand where it came f no, it didn't. i mean, it was still meant as joke. >> do you think you maybe crossed the line with this? >> it is a gray area. listen, i've been a professional all my life. the last thing i want to do is make someone up. >> the a college graduate, working g in the finance industry before going to wawa, he said he's getting job offers. but that he won't be taking this toy with him n brick new jersey christine sloan cbs2 news. >> by the way the facebook page for cuzo has gotten close to 1500 likes and fundraiser also raised more than $200 for

him while he is out of warning. >> a lot of support out there for him. still ahead this morning it takes brave man to stands next to david beckman shortly -- let alone? >> and thihis guy back there in his skivvies. the new take on underwear modeling, when we come right back. >> first though here's what's coming up tonight on the "cw philly". we're on cbs-3, i'm sorry. >> got you all shook up. nicole: we all have different needs for our children and basing all of the childrens' needs on one test

is not the right road to go down. and something's got to change. okaikor: and the ones who are taking the brunt of it are our children. all the other things that make you a great human being is not important anymore. what's more important is: can you answer a-b-c-d? gina: what am i going to learn for my child from this test that my teacher can't tell me right now?

>> trevor noah will succeed,'s a by racial south after can nature i have, does a little bit every everything, comedy,

sapphire, act being produce being -- producing as well. noah joke about his past on the late show with david letterman back in 2013. >> you know, when i speak a language ... it is magic it sounds like chinese new year in your mouth. just pops, you know? >> stewart is expected to step down from the show sometime after this summer. but looks like the show in good hands. >> that's good to see. >> well, seems like anyone who is anyone is modeling underwear right now even newspaper late late show james gordon. >> a great body, and ... >> you're enjoying there is aren't you? >> so fun. >> i obviously a spoof on unaware ad david beckham did not too long ago. soccer star was very good sport striking poses in their fictional line dnj briefs. >> wow. >> there is a man who is proud

of his body. that's all right. good for him. >> beckham being such a good sport about it too. >> good for them both. nice job. >> these ads, you walk by and you see them then hello. >> okay, oh, katie i'm dow. >> i want to see the out take. that must be hilarious. >> how do you keep a straight face next to that. that's so funny. my gosh. yep, that's good stuff. we can watch that on row pete for a lot of reasons, i think. all right let's go ahead take you outside i want to show you storm scan3. little more of region wide zoom. got hint of moisture already firing up out there leading edge after disturbance sipping on through. moves in by this afternoon. so the morning driver not going to be affected by this, but yes looking at future snow amounts don't worry philly, and immediate vicinity you're fine, but you could see coating on unpaved surfaces farther to the north, and yes, even up in mount pocono. little sweet spot there. potential for to up inch or two of snow out of this disturbance. not storm system, just quick hitter.

52 degrees our expected high in the city meanwhile today. so again too mild for anything but rain, then, by tomorrow, the sun is back, we look ahead to thursday, nice spike on the thermometer. and that sun will return, yet again. jess, over to you. >> thanks, katie. good morning everybody taking a check out in new jersey, starting to see just little bit of volume here on the 42 freeway, if you are headed northbound, see starts to gather little ways back, northbound lanes from depford on up. that's a typical jam spot, as well many checking on the rest of everything in new jersey, 295, southbound, 28 minute trip from 42 into elder memorial bridge. just took a look at 42, no peel problems there. fifty-five, no problems headed northbound 322 all the way into the 42 freeway, will only take you nine minutes still pretty clear. dealing with pretty serious accident situation now on the schuylkill expressway, from the schuylkill eastbound to the vine st. expressway ramp you can see some fire engines on the scene there police activity completely blocking off this ram for right now also involviving a tractor-trailer, so we'll definitely keep you updated on that situation. stay there.

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>> calling this active shooter situation, in is in nova fairfax hospital in falls church virginia, cbs news has learn, the incident began around 3:00 this morning. when a prisoner escaped custody and apparently got his hands on a gun. shots were fired but at this point, it is not known who fired the shots or if anyone was hit. once again active shooter situation, northern virginia, close to dc. we'll stay on top of this, bring you any new information as it becomes available to us. good morning everyone, also watching a weather system