talking about today. good morning, it is tuesday, february 16th, i'm erika von tiehl. as we mentioned earlier, the roads are wet t could slow down your morning commute. also, there are a few school delays at the bottom of your screen. we want to check in with katie and meisha, a keeping our eye on things for morning. going to be a mess you. >> said t it is looking very wet, very slick out there, and already, seeing some accident in the cameras, we've had two already this morning. what's in store? we know the temps rupp. what's it mean for the roadways. >> anything throughout has a chance to moment. but we're in the transition right now where you can't count on it, that it will be warm enough as you travel around. county by county they may have salt dollars differently or not at all, some of the side street, just depends, and also as you're traveling, depending how far your travels take you and where you are going you will see the thermometer readings on the car thermometers ever changing. so watch for. that let's take you outside, start things off with a look at storm scan3, at the moment, hey, there is at least nice little lull going on essentially region wide. far north and west most

suburbs, still finding hint of precipitation, see how it is starting to turn over to green. so, that tells you that the warmth is surging in, look at some of the values, i mean, you really are all over the place. at freezing in norristown, with virtually in wind whatsoever, but the wind has since turned out of the south, over the southeast, across cinnaminson, wayne, mays landing, allowed the temperatures to go on real nice uphill climb. see the values changing right before your very eyes, live observations, after all. meanwhile today lull, as far as precipitation is concerned. but, late morning, we will start to see basically a wall of water. start to move in here. a really just heavy batch of rain, wind driven no less, moving through, with the actual cold front, that crosses through with this storm. so right now, we're sitting in the warm sector after storm system. and that is why these temperatures are climbing as swiftly as they are. meanwhile, hey, freezing rain advisory, it just went out of effect. that's good news, we move it on forward, day plan nerve place for us here, mild air,

for our region, we expect that heavy rain however to pick up again, really toward the tail end of the typical morning rush from west to east. and then we are talking about surging warmth here, upper 50's, the expectation, as we go through the afternoon. you are really not going to see a heck of a lot of sunshine to help that along. giving awe sense how strong this system; how warm the air is involved with it. >> no one wants rain, but everyone want the 50's, so gave you give and take. thank you so much for. that will happy tuesday, i can let you know i'll just echo what katie said, looking very wet, very wet this morning, but not only are we just seeing the wetness on the roadways, but we have a lot of slush as well. that will can give you some grip problems this morning, hydroplaning could be an issue, and then we know it will be busy everyone coming back from the holiday. so starting you off, second accident of the morning, 309 north approaching paper mill road. it is pulled all the way off to the shoulder as you can see, driving by it okay. tapping our brakes little built as we get by. we only know the more vehicles that hop on the roadway pushing in this 5:00 hour,

that can cause some problems out there, if that doesn't get cleared out of the way. forty-two freeway northbound for those of in you jersey around creek road, looking good approaching 295, although it is starting to heat up just little bit. we saw this happen yesterday. it tapered off because the holiday. we will not see it taper off today. it will just get busier and busier, then you add the fact it is slick conditions, that can cause some problems. ninety-five south at cottman, coming around the s curve looking government everyone traveling at posted speeds as they should. you can see the sheen on the roadways, we do have speed restrictions in play all of the majors down to 45 miles per hour right now because of how slick it is, we have snow, we've got ice and some conditions and then we've got wet roadways, construction 422 westbound between route 100 stowe. it is closed nightly, until friday. so it is closed from 9:00 p.m. until 4:00 a.m. make note that far for those every in you and around the area. also more construction here 95 southbound ramp to delaware avenue closed until february 24th, that's reminder, now more of that coming up in about 15 minutes, erika, back to you. >> thank you, as katie mentioned mother nature

turning up that thermostat. for now do you have to watch your step in center city philadelphia and make sure to watch your speed in manayunk. "eyewitness news" reporter justin finch joining us now, he has the latest on conditions out in the mobile weather lab. good morning. >> good morning, inside the mobile weather lab york road downtown hat bore o clear shot here. i will show you this right now. so far lots of blacktop, ice kind of moved off to the side for street traffic here. we make a right here show you how quickly the conditions can be a different site. see slush and ice on this road. this is something to be careful of, making your way outside to go to work and school this morning. that's a road and the conditions will be changeable. you will find your major roadways, going to be clear, the secondary at the shower streets, not so clear, the good news is we have seen clouds, and salting going on throughout the morning. and i mean from very early this morning, up until now, we

were on 95 earlier, that looked pretty good. we were also on -- >> sore bye, that we lost our justin finch out watching those roads for you. we'll check in, but good reminder today is a great time to get your cbs philly app on your phone, check the radar, updated forecast any time you like. you can download it on itunes and google play. >> if you went to bed early last night and missed grammys here on cbs-3, don't worry, we've got you covered. show filled with explosive performance cents emotional tributes to music legends. hip hop phenom, kendrick lamar walked away with the most gram its, taylor swift pick up few of her own. terry okita joins just los angeles, with all of those highlights, terry, good morning. >> good morning, sure did get a few. taylor swift is the first woman ever to win two albumn of the year award. she shared the big night with big wins with her musical

collaborators and friends, ed sheeran, kendrick lamar. >> pop queen taylor swift ruled the show wing the top prize. swift's 1989 earned the singer her second career grammy for albumn of the year. she urged young women to not let nay sayers get in their way. >> you just focus on the work, and you don't let those people side track you. >> mark ronson and bruno mars uptown funk won record of the year. >> you can't read brail. >> stevie wonder materials dollars nominees before announcing ed sheeran's thinking out loud the winnerment and best new artist megan treanor couldn't hold back tears as she thanked her family. >> and my mom and dad for always believing in me. >> this year's grammy stirred up a lot of emotion. with her form answers that paid tribute to some of music's biggest icons. others used the mike to make a statement. >> kendrick lamar sent a powerful message about racism

with his rap that won him five grammys. >> the audience was brought to its feet by tributes that honored earth, wind and fire maurice white, eagles co-founder glenn fry and blues legends bb king. >> lady gaga brought the late david's bowie back to life. >> ♪ >> that was a great performance. also a loft buzz about adele prior to tonight's grammys. well, adele tweeted out tonight that when she was performing, the piano mike's actually fell on to the piano strings making the performance sound out of tune, and then she followed up with a tweet that said that because of that, she is going to treat herself to some in and out burger. reporting live from downtown los angeles, terry owe keith, a erika, back to you.

>> oh, very familiar with that in and out burger. any excuse you need. any other mishaps behind the scenes maybe we didn't see on tv? >> actually, yes. there was some pretty interesting things. rihanna was actually scheduled to perform. she canceled today because she is reportedly suffering from bronchitis. so she didn't come today. and also the academy said that lauryn hill was supposed to do a duet with the weekend, but she came too late. showed up too late. so the show went on without her. the weekends went on alone. for her part, lauryn hill says that she never confirmed that she was going to perform. >> okay, women, we'll get to the bottom of that. terry for us in los angeles, thank you so much. much more coverage of the grammys coming up this morning including the winners on the red carpet. once again, that's coming up in the next half hour. >> right now, though, it is 5:08. developing right now, a search is on for a gunman who nearly killed a man during attempted

robbery right in the heart of center city. "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabeo joins us now at the scene, jan, good morning. >> reporter: err cape, good morning, police say this morning that this is a very unusual spot for something like this to happen. as you well know, 15th and locust street is a very busy area. there are a lot of restaurants in this area. shopping, and other businesses. but, police do find themselves searching for a mask man this morning, who they say shot and robbed, tried to rob, someone here over night. here's how it all went down. ninth district police called to the 1500 block of locust street around 1:00 a.m. for a shooting f here they followed a trail of blood to broad and sam some. that's where they found 38 year old man, victim shot in the arm. he was taken to hahnemann hospital in critical condition where we are told he lost a lot of blood. police are interviewing number of witnesses, they tell investigate that's the victim was walking with a friends, when a mask manna period and tried to rob them. police say the victim immediately took off running, and that's when he was shot in the arm.

detectives have now processed the scene. they found one spent shell casings from sim automatic weapon. and they are now searching for surveillance video. at this time it is unknown what the suspect got away with if anything. fortunately, though, police say the 38 year old is expected to survive. but this could have ended much worse. take a listen. >> any time someone approaches you with a gun, or a knife, or any weapons, the best thing do is just cooperate. because it is not worth getting shot or stabbed or hurt over money or cell phone or any of your possessions. >> now, unfortunately, police do not have a good description of the suspect, again, he was wearing a mask, they say, he is about 5 feet 10 inches tall to 6 feet tall. he was last seen running south on 15th street. they are hoping that witnesses and surveillance cameras can help in this case. if you have any information, you are asked to call police. we're reporting live in center

city this morning, jan carabeo, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> jan, thank you for that. >> happening today, new jersey governor chris christie is ready to unveil his spending plan. his second to last budget as governor is around $30 billion. christie will have to decide how much to pay toward the state pension. which has resulted in fights with democrats and unions. also expected to deal with the transportation trust funds. >> aren't the only ones dealing with wild weather today. homes are levels when severe storms blew through the south. we'll show you more of the damage left behind as that same system now heads our way. also, a drug scandal rocks a local college campus. the strange behavior that tipped off police. >> plus, it is an unexpected side effect every wintery weather. how many the nasty wet kerr melt away your savings if you aren't careful. >> ♪

>> no need to get stressed out about the wet roads. meisha will help up with the roads, and katie's forecast when we come right back this tuesday morning. >> ♪

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part of the south are cleaning up after powerful round of severe weather including tornados, move through the area on monday. don champion shows thaws same store is dumping snow and ice on the northeast. not even this fire station in alabama could escape the wrath of a storm. apparent tornado plowed through the town of johnson ville monday, tossing debris everywhere. in florida, dash cam video from the car of the sheriff's deputy shows another twister on the ground. across the south monday, at least 16 tornados were reported, in alabama, bo bradley road out the storm in the hallway of his home. >> we got in the home, covered up, we heard all of the rumble, and then just like that it was all gone. >> in mississippi the storm damaged the roof of this school, terrifying student. >> we could hear the water coming in the roof into the hallway. >> the same massive storm system covered roads, and streets, from the carolinas,

to new york, in snow and ice, making travel tricky. >> cars off the road everywhere. the car wrapped around telephone pole right up there. >> in baltimore this ambulance flipped responding to a call, everyone inside survived. warm temperatures are now on tap for the northeast, raising concerns over possible flooding. >> don champion, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> meanwhile storm system more rain on us, not raining though, little break? >> absolutely, nice little lull for us here for at least the morning drive. so it won't amplify the problems we do have out there. meisha will walk you through all of. that will as the weather really really goes hand-in-hand with traffic here today. because of the fact that we're seeing the surge on the thermometer underway right now t actually feels balmy out here on the skydeck. very light wind. but that's going to change. let me show that storm we just saw of the damage that left behind across the deep south from don champion's report there. see that now being swept

through southern florida, and also some very heavy rain across the carolinas, we are since still sitting technically in the warm sector of the storm warning thermometer readings really spike and as a result, any signs of pink from freezing rain, starting to diminishment frankly anything that fell to the grounds is going to have a chance very readily here to be thawing out. now i don't want you with a too comfortable with the fact. still finding at this hour some temperature readings that are a lot colder in the most outlying suburbs, most notably. so keep an eye on the car thermometer now through 10:00 a.m., anything we see roll through will be light and scattered. but there will be very heavy rain that eventually rolls through here, between about ten to 2:00 p.m. it is generally midday, and that will likely lead to at least some minor flooding, lingering showers, then, later on today, then we basically dry out as wrapping up the typical evening rush. great news there. but lunchtime, gets little dicey folks. watch for that slow travel out there. future rain amounts, pretty

impressive, north and west of the city here. we mariesly ends up with a inch plus, especially up toward again the north and west most suburbs, in the city of philadelphia there is particular model picking up on couple of tents after inch. regardless when the rain comes through, one fell swoop, it will be heavy and dealing it again right around the lunchtime frame. give or take an hour or two depending on location, it moves in from west to east by the way. looking ahead the eyewitness weather seven day forecast, real dow go on roller coaster here, but no significant cold any time soon. thursday is the chilliest day of the pack. but even then looking at sunshine, so front loaded forecast, as i like to say, granted exceptional warmth by the time we spike to 57 degrees, that's well above average. but it comes with a price of heavy rain, wind driven rain probably few rumbled of thunder along the way, skies that do gradually begin to clear for couple of days. by the time we hit the weekends starting to warm up once more. we send it into you. >> so much to look forward to, thank you so much, katie. good morning everyone, and

happy tuesday to you. yes, roadways they are slick right now, they are very wet, so if you are just thinking about hitting the roadways any time soon that's okay. actually in pretty good company right nowment things are looking pretty good looking at the schuylkill westbound at city avenue. starting to see volume levels pick up little bit. they will certainly pick up moving on into the late 5:00 and into the 6:00 hour, just because, everyone that was off yesterday, will be jumping on the roadways back to work today. so looking busy here the schuylkill westbound at city avenue also where we have an accident kind of back out of your way here and show you this, 309 approaching paper mill road. right here, see all of the flashing lights not causing too many slow downs right now, certainly can, because we know we have slick road conditions out there, that can cause some major problems if we don't get that cleared out of the way. boulevard taillights moving in the southbound direction, at fox street, things are looking pretty good here, both directions, rather, they are looking good but you can see the scene on the roadways letting you know it is wet, whenever it is wet, hydroplaning can become an issue, in some areas, it can be very, very slick, even having some black ice in some areas.

so, just make note that all of the majors are down to 45 miles per hour, speed restrictions are in place, they will be throughout the morning, i'll let you know when those left. even though it is not raining right now the rain is coming, and that's going to cause some more slow downs. for those every how get late jump to the morning. we had another accident here in conshohocken. crawford avenue at front street. that's now since been cleared. great news for those of you in and around that area, and also, construction 422 westbound between route 100 stowe, it is closed nightly until friday, 9:00 p.m. until 4:00 a.m., erika, back over you. >> meisha, thank up. villanova university student faces charges in connection with lsd over doses on campus. justin written accused of selling those drugs from his dorm room. police say three people overdosed but recovered at local hospitals. another student is charged with punching a woman and two security officers. >> this was an incident that the university took very seriously. i can't remember in my time at villanova ever having a case involving lsd.

>> investigators say they also found $9,000 in cash, marijuana, and hypodermic needle in his room. >> montgomery county health officials confirm norovirus sickened students and staff at ursinus college. more than 200 people came down wilt necessary last week, classes were canceled for few days while workers cleaned the school. doctors say norovirus known best for causing outbreaks on cruise ships spreads easily from person to person. >> somebody goes it the bathroom, they don't wash their hands real well, they go touching the doorknob, or touching something else, you can certainly spread it that way. >> it appears the virus is beginning to run it course. school officials say there is a significant drop in the number of cases since the illness was first reported last week. still ahead this morning, one of the country's most famous monument about to get a make over. we'll let you know about the extensive renovations. also. >> hillary clinton turns into an attack dog on the campaign

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>> the most popular monument on the national mall is about to get a make over. us department of the interior will use 18 million-dollar donation to give the lincoln memorial all a facelift over the next four years. they'll fix the marble, clean the memorial, give visitors inside look as to how it was built almost 100 years ago. the monument will stay open during these renovations. pope francis continues his visit in mexico. today he'll visit, celebrate, mass, at town notorious for drug violence. during yesterday's meeting with families, a teenager told the pope about his struggles with muscular dystrophy. pope also gave the homily in three indigenous languages in front of 100,000 person crowd. the pope wraps up his five day visit to mexico tomorrow

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temperatures are on nice upper climb. so it is at least somewhat of a trade off in the fact that we're still dealing with some wet conditions through the course of the day, heavy rain on the way, we'll track it for you coming up. erika? >> thank you, meisha watching the wed roads for you, she has the areas to avoid on your tuesday morning commute. we'll be right back. with heart failure, danger is always on the rise. symptoms worsen because your heart isn't pumping well. (water filling room) about 50 percent of people die (dog whimpering) within 5 years of getting diagnosed. but there's something you can do. talk to your doctor about heart failure treatment options.

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>> good morning, right now getting brief break from the rain. but storm scan3 shows more showers heading our way later on today. so afternoon commute, very different than your morning commute. i know we have some accidents already out there, right, meisha? >> plenty, actually several accidents this morning, so very slip rip out there, very wet. a lot of slush on the roadways, katie, long morning commute. >> at least leak you said we've the lull going for us, but what happened last night, problems coming in here for us, actually, talking serious surge on the thermometer right now. >> what, 57 degrees? >> that's what we're shooting for. already in the 50's in a couple ever spots, too. this is hapni