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years starting with christopher's chocolates in newtown named after his first son. >> this is what it began with a chocolate rover. we were chocolate for year and i'm originally from buffalo new york. my sane patrick's day in philadelphia people are coming asking for irish potatoes and i'm going what. i don't know what you're talking about many during the year we started talking to different people and we came up with our own process for doing the irish potatoes. our own formula. >> in that same year luck struck twice giving their irish potato its name after the birth of his second son. >> they're named after my son ryan. >> oh, it gets better. now ryan's son jacob is helping his grandpa continue the family tradition and great ideas. >> give him one and he'll get chocolate all over you. >> great. >> did i mention you can also get your i rush potato chip in chocolate.
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>> happy st. patrick's day! >> happy st. patrick's day! >> all right. vittoria left us some and they smell yummy. i can smell the cinnamon. i rush potatoes only made in january, february and march on a 130-year-old cut role machine. >> by the way there's no potato in them. they've been a philadelphia tradition for more than is century. tell tori about your favorite place and send her a message on facebook. isn't you think i can crush peanuts and called them owe-ukee's. >> a new thing. >> we'll tuck these away. >> lauren is here now. >> i've never tried one before. >> you never had one. they're delicious. >> i'll take the whole thing just in case. >> you hang on to those. >> they're delicious indeed. >> tell us what we got coming and now. >> it's been a crazy day. >> little taste of everything. spring season of transition, official spring on sunday,. >> official but. >> not going to be flowery or rainy.
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talking some snow. the nice thing about march snowstorm is it gets out of here quickly. dope really have to break out the shovel. temperatures will warm up. it will be no problem. nothing to worry about at all. we are tracking the potential for accumulating snow and it could be significant in isn't areas on sunday for today starting off with sunshine transition over to clouds. we had showers and even one severe thunderstorm but now all is quiet across the region, and as we head into tomorrow, fairly quiet day although the winds are going to be kind of gusty as we head through the second half of the day. winds gusting up to 30, 35 miles per hour across the delaware valley. still mild temperatures running above average. then as we head into the upcoming weekend we'll get a little bit chillier temperatures falling back into the 40s for high temperatures which we haven't had 40s in over week and a half. so it will be taste of a chill little taste of winter as we head into the spring season. first day of spring is on sunday but we're tracking a winter storm that will ride up the coast but for right now live look at center city
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philadelphia. the skyline looking a little festive for st. patrick's day temperatures still mild, 56 degrees. little bit of northwesterly wind picking up around 15 miles per hour and temperatures chilly to the north and west of the city. we're down into the 40s in the lehigh valley but up into the 50's down the shore. 56 degrees right to you in dov dover. but up wind across portions of the midwest and upper midwest much chillier air in association with canadian high pressure that will start to move in as we head into the upcoming weekend and bring us that colder air mass but storm scan3 right now showing us a few sprinkles up toward the poconos. a few clouds down the shore. otherwise clearing skies across philadelphia and the surrounding counties after that cloudy kind of end to our day today. current wind speeds breezy up and down i-95 corridor calmer winds down the shore. as we head into the day tomorrow, though, it will feature windy conditions, overnight tonight a cool breeze, 44 degrees. under a mostly clear sky. we'll see good bit of sunshine for friday but late day clouds building in in advance of our weekend system. windy conditions with west winds
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up around 15 to 25 miles per hour. with those higher gusts 57 degrees though our average high temperature about 54 degrees so it will be above that. but checking in on our snow stats for philadelphia, our average for a season is just over 22-inches so far this winter we've exceeded that 25-inches so just by a few inches. our march average snowfall is about 3-inches. so we do on average see some snowfall in the month of march. what to expect as we head into the upcoming weekend. saturday night late saturday night we'll see light snow developing likely on sunday periods of snow and a wintry mix and that then into sunday nigh nightly all snowfall and this is the potential for right now chance of 3-inches or greater. looking high north and west of the city up into the lehigh valley and higher elevations up towards the poconos looking lowest of course down the shore and along the coast philadelphia and surrounding counties having moderate chance of 3-inches or greater as we look ahead towards sunday through the day and into sunday night but then even as we head into monday high
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temperatures climbing well above freezing. that will knock out a lot of that snowfall does fall i think it could fall hard and fast quickly moving on ought because tuesday we'll have sunshine. near 50-degree high temperatur temperatures. little chilly in the morning but then up into the 60s by midweek next week. snow on sunday but it ain't going to linger. >> like to hear that. >> that's the important take away. >> we're talking hoops. no surprise l less than 24 hours away from philly trifecta, nova, temple and scene jeez i'm sitting next to an arkansas native and on this night it was team from little rock that served up one of the biggest upsets of the day. sports coming
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the game itself is ancient history but it's also in the history books. last time st. jeez played in spokane, washington, they suffer the worst loss in school history back in 2014 gonzaga beat the hawks by 52 points. st. joe's can expect a better
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showing friday night when they take on cincinnati and their top ranked defense. the hawks practice dag. they're trying to stay hot. they shot 64% from the field. but for bembry it's a two-way street. >> our defense is our big thing on the team. they were number one defensive team in our league and we're going try to slow those guys down. we feel like they have to guard us too. we're looking forward it to. >> the fro is so strong. meanwhile villanova have a temple are in brook hin practicing for them games tomorrow. the wildcats play usc ashville. nova are trying to turn the page after an extremely early skit from the tournament last season. >> just to completely let it go. if we try to focus on last year completely different team. we've been a whole different team this year and try to tacket one game at a time, one day at a time. >> here's what happened today. providence road oy land fifth
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seed baylor versus the number 12 yale. bulldogs up two with six seconds left. baylor looking to force overti overtime. no can do. yale' first tournament appearance since 1962. their first ever tournament win. it wasn't the only upset of the day. perdue and arkansas little rock. josh, the half court prayer to tie it up they go into double overtime that kid had 31 points by the way. arkansas little rock over coming a 13-point deficit the shock per die. arkansas native jessica dean your thoughts. >> 10 new players on this team. that coach the first d1 coaching job he's ever had. can you imagine. >> the scouting report on this woman is ridiculous. >> i'm hear for you don. >> jd is the best. for the guys who play to get paid. sixers and wizards from south philadelphia. 47 seconds left. hollis thompson the clutch three, drano. it was good before and then they try to get another one from isaia cannon and no good and the
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sixers lose by five. >> how are those brackets looking everybody. >> not too badly after tonight. >> i made a come back. >> this guy was in full blown depression earlier today. >> i was. >> after the first session. >> that sets the big dance. >> i'm back. >> the story behind the laughing fox when we
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this just in. we may finally know what the fox says. (laughter). >> archer the pet arctic fox from michigan now an internet sensation. this has gone viral with more than 35 million views in three days. turns out archer can laugh on command at the sound of a human's laugh he mimic the laugh immediately and then you see rolls around like he even gets the whole like hilarious. (laughter). >> all right. we'll be right back.
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once again thanks for staying up late with us. our morning team is back in just a few hours at 4:30 till 7am. for lauren, don, everyone here i'm ukee washington. >> i'm jessica dean. the late show with stephen colbert is next with william h. macy. good night family and sleep
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weather, to a parking accident to dog pee. other cities have tried and failed at public wi-fi, because of a lack of funding. he says new york city will succeed because it will benefit financially from ads on the kiosk sites. >> one of the beauties of this is that it is going to generate ultimately, potentially hundreds of millions of dollars a year for the city that it wouldn't have otherwise. >> reporter: the biggest issue with public wi-fi at this scale is security. >> the main concern for a lot of people, you go on public wi-fi, you're afraid to be hacked. how can they be assured this won't happen? >> we're a public network. everybody has to have their own encryption key, so it makes for a very secure and safe network. >> reporter: meaning every time you go online, the system issues a digital key.
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only your device can use it. but there are ways around encryption. >> the first thing you see is an ad that is a spear phishing attack. >> reporter: we asked this cyber expert to show how easily hackers can set up a fake log-in page that looks like the real thing. >> they think they're connecting to a kiosk but they're connecting to a malicious site and they don't know what they're going to put in their credit card credentials. >> reporter: the best way to be safe is never use public wi-fi for anything that involves personal information, credit cards, or banking. >> we as consumers have to be one step ahead of the next threat. >> reporter: they say they have people monitoring any kind of suspicious online activity 24-7 and do not gather your personal information and sell to a third party. by the way, if you're wondering, if you live within 150 feet of one of these kiosks here, you do
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the smog in london is so bad it's blamed for thousands of deaths each year. now some londoners are fighting back with a tiny new air quality monitor strapped to the back of pigeons. charlie d'agata has the story on britain's pigeon air patrol. >> reporter: these pigeons are nothing special. if anything, they're underachievers. they're raising pigeons currently flying at about 120 feet and the little backpacks weigh less than an ounce. or light as a feather. that is princess, the bird, not the guy. princess and a small flock of friends took flight this morning on a mission to save the world. or mostly to raise awareness about all the air pollution in it. >> the reality is that we are all exposed to really toxic gases in our everyday lives, just by simply going in the
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streets, everywhere. >> reporter: seven birds, all females, took wing in today's sortie, two with pollution monitoring backpacks. one with g.p.s. so scientists can track them. the others are wing men, or wing women. pigeon hander brian woodhouse says his birds prefer to fly in a flock. >> they like to fly together. they do it for security more than anything. that's just like a horse race, you know, the first across the line they'll go off together. >> reporter: the program is partnered with, you guessed it, twitter. to find out how polluted your neighborhood is, you tweet to the birds. the pigeon patrol tweets back with a reading of your area ranging from moderate to extreme. pigeons have a long history of serving on britain's battle fronts. notably in world war ii. >> having been trained as messengers in case of radio failure. a street communication is received and deciphered.
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>> reporter: even a young queen elizabeth supported the air force. today, london faces another threat. an estimated 10,000 people die prematurely in the capital due to air pollution. and the world health organization estimates that globally, air pollution is to claim for the deaths of 7 million people every year. which makes the work of a few good pigeons with cute little backpacks a bit more pressing than just a mere flight of fancy. this morning, we tweeted princess, that pigeon currently on duty, to find out what pollution levels were like here in west london. moments later, we got the response. pollution is currently high in your area. protect yourself. >> that's the "overnight news" for this friday.
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captioning funded by cbs it's friday, march 18th, 2016. this is the "cbs morning news." president obama's pick to fill the supreme court vacancy gets the seal of approval from senate democrats. but the battle to get merrick garland confirmed is just beginning with republicans saying he'll never make it to the high court. taking on trump. forces from conservatives to activists line up to stop donald trump from winning the republican nomination. march magic for the yale bulldogs! >> upsets abound. the first full day of the ncaa tournament delivers thrills

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