toward. >> and democrats stage another marathon floor debate, as attorney general nominee jeff sessions. >> i'm surprised natalie word of coretta scott king are not suitable for debate. >> reporter: massachusetts senator elizabeth warren was asked to take her seat for delivering a see much about the alabama senator. senate confirmed education secretary betsy devos, and republicans clearly nothing is shore important then getting the right leader for the department of education, which to take, they introduced a bill to eliminate. >> congratulations, betsy you are the new pilot of the hindenburg you got a light. he does it again, 5:30. lets get out to katie. >> hey, guys we are, of course , tracking a you this batch of snow for the area and may end up being one of the most significant snowfalls we will get for the entire season how much are we talking? well, lets get you out the

door first, let's back things up, because this is a pretty big head line day and the fact that it is so mild outside. lets look at storm scan which is starting to clear out. you can see back edge of the clouds and wind has begun to pick up but any left overs showers have moved out and we will only clear out with time here to take. here's winter storm warnings, it was a wash last night and upgraded to a warning. entire hot pink area here in new york city, traveling that way, here in philadelphia, and vast majority of our region say for southern most counties of cumberland, atlantic, cape may and kent and sussex counties in delaware we have a winter weather advisory since it will be a coat to go 2 inches down that way. but this storm, will be bringing drastic, changes. we will go from the 60's today to the the 30's in a hatter of hours, rain will quickly turn to a heavy, wet the snow into tomorrow morning and getting overnight, and significant accumulation is expect. again we will have much more

on how much and who gets it, as we progress through the show but for now 60 degrees. it teams really nice outside, say for that breeze which, just making to it tiehl cooler but it is this isable. it is cooler by comparison working your way up to the counties. definitely a changing forecast for us here. as afternoon progresses between 12 and three we should hit the our high of 63. we have been in the lower 60's not a ton of movement in the hours ahead here but 60 is, it will feel like mid-april for one beautiful shining home, so enjoy it while you have it, by tomorrow we are waking up to quite a bit of snow, meisha. >> i promise you, i will enjoy every moment today, what it will change tomorrow. right now only thing we are dealing with aside from the gorgeous 60's we are dealing with wet roadways. yeah, really will. here's our first look at new jersey 42 tree way northbound at creek road a roaching 295, i would say this is tearily typical for around 5:30 in the

morning on a wednesday. head up, starting to fill a bubble but we are traveling at posted seed there. then we are looking at blue route taillights moving this is southbound direction at ridge pike and also the boulevard, fox street headlights moving in the southbound direction both areas in which they are fairly typical but you can see in the boulevard shot we are looking at slick roadways, and that will slow you town, enough water to throw up water on your back windshield. it will not be out there too long but it is just a heads up pennsylvania turnpike ben salem and willow grove we have construction, two lanes are block, slowing you down more in the 6:00 o'clock hour and patco is running a special schedule today eastbound there 9:30 a.m. to 1:44ah so check those schedules on line. so rahel, back over to you. philadelphia police say a suspect in the robbery spree are getting more bold in their attempt to hold up local businesses. john, foot back when his store on 62nd and spruce was robbed on yan 29th. he had a gun and shot one of the suspects who later showed

up at the hospital where he was arrested. the other robber got away and police say he found a new partner in crime. police say these robberies are more brazen because they are happening in front of the customers. >> they see, them entering these businesses and they have guns out people in the store shopping, and mess of these owners thousand do carry guns in their businesses so it can getting youly real quick. >> police are urging anyone who recognizes the suspect to call police. caught on camera a brawl at a charity basketball game leaves one man injured and police are looking for two suspects. tight broke out on january 28th, at international christian high school in ol think. cameras rolled as the player, sitting on the bench was punched by a suspect while he was being treated for injuries and he was punched again by another suspect and that blow knocked him out. that game was opened to the community we're told victim and suspect are not affiliated with the school. newly released surveillance captures the crooks wanted for stealing kobe bryant memorabilia from lower merion high school. the advertise trick officials

say natalie two men broke in the schools sunday night and ransacked the difficulties lay , they got away with autographed sneakers, replica jersey and other momentoes there bryant's high school career. if you recognize the suspects you are asked to contact the police. delaware governor john carney says there will be a independent review of the deadly hostage standoff at the vaughn correctional center last week. correctional officer lieutenant steven floyd was killed during that standoff. governor's announcement came hours after delaware coalition of prison reform and just advertise demanded a federal investigation in the standoff, review will come after the criminal investigation into lieutenant floyd's death is complete. department of the corrections is also conducting an internal investigation. time right now 5:35. this business news this morning hughes i can, programmed for you, and the weather, where you live. >> okay. >> and how twitter i should say is stepping autopsy begins hate and abuse. money watch's jill wagner joins us live from the new york stock exchange, good morning, jill. >> good morning, jim and rahel

futures pointing to a higher open, yesterday dow jones rose 37 points, nasdaq rose ten to a you this record high. there are more earnings reports on tap including whole food and time warner. disney released its earnings after the close yesterday, company is being dragged down by sorts network espn which saw higher programming costs, and lower advertising revenue in the last quarter. disney says revenue at parks and resort is way up. general motors says its revenue grew by 9 percent in 2016 compared to the year before. that means gm workers will get profit sharing checks for about 12,000 bucks. twitter is introducing new tools to fight abuse. company will identified serial abusers and stop them from creating new accounts. is there a new face search feature that removes tweets from blocked accounts, from general search results. and for the taste when you are looking for hughes i can, to hatch your mood spotify is teaming up with accu weather on play lists on the weather in your location.

unis i days, of course translate into happier sound ing music, for rainy days , it is, more silent sound n new york it is counting crow s kind of day, it is very rainy and glummy. >> maybe a little john may or, jill. >> what is theme song for tomorrow, theme song for, armageddon. >> hey, listen, tomorrow's rush hour will be a helps. thanks, jill. we will check with you then. pennsylvania governor tom wolf is asking state legislator for new tax revenue to help balance budget. wolf delivered his budget address yesterday in harrisburg. $32.1 billion spending plan calls for a tax on natural gas production to help fill a $3 billion project deficit. budget dedicates more money to fight opioid addiction crisis in the the state. more uncertainty on capitol hill as president trump's travel ban remains in limbo. this comes a day after a

federal appeals court in san francisco heard arguments for and against him. the justice tenth has argued they ban was well within the president's power and it should be able to continue while the courts deliberates. attorneys representing washington state and minnesota maintain that there is no harm in holding off on the policy, until the courts have confirmed, that it is legal. well, after elizabeth the war enis barred from speaking on the senate floor her democratic peers debate overnight. >> but lets take a live look at the senate floor where democrats are fighting the attorney general nomination of jeff sessions. now democrats say natalie republican majority is enforc ing senate rules like the one against senator warren unfairly. cbs news, correspondent read menion has more. >> reporter: steve danes ordering senator war tone sit down during the debate over attorney general nominee jeff sessions. very rare rebuck following testy exchange between warren and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. >> senators impune motives and conduct of our collogue from

alabama. >> reporter: contention began as warren was reading from a 1986 letter by martin luther king junior's widow, coretta scott king opposing sessions nomination for federal judge ship. >> person who has exhibited so much hostility, to the enforcement of those laws. >> reporter: danes, referencing a previous comment by warren. >> you stated that a sitting senator is a disgrace to the department of justice. >> reporter: that comment though was apparently quotation. >> so, quoting senator kennedy calling then a nominee sessions a disgrace is a violation of senate rules? >> reporter: short time later warren was interrupted by majority leader mitch mcconnell. mcconnell determining warren violated a rule against impun ing another senator in this case sessions. warren's appeal was defeated in a party line vote. warren now barred from speaking on the floor for rest

of the sessions debate took to twitter and discussed her objection in an interview with cnn. >> i literally cannot be recognized on the floor of the senate. i have become a non-person. >> reporter: reid menion for c b. "eyewitness news". we will tell you which performers have been added to sunday night's grammy award. also a pennsylvania fire company is raising eyebrows over a bingo game, wait until you hear prizes they are giving away, plus this. screen up the road to my aunt's house. >> and you can say a canadian man is on thin ice, over his sam bony. >> ♪ >> zamboni. sam bony. >> we will tell you why police pulled him over, and what he did when we come right back.

well, i have to tell you madonna has been given okay to adopt two more children from m alawi, it granted the singer permission to adopt children on tuesday. less than two weeks ago madonna denied a toppings rumors saying they run true. she's mother to two children

from there. son david who she adopted in 2006 and daughter mercy james who she adopted in 2009. just when you thought it could not get better more stars added to the line up for this sunday's grammy award. we have learned 11 time nominee katie perry will be performing during the live ceremony, and, yes, it gets even better, r and b singer john legend a penn graduate has been added to the roster. those two will join a star studded line up that includes it gets even better adele, beyonce and bruno mars. >> wow. >> i know. >> is there only one place you can watch the grammys and that is, of course, right the here on cbs 36789 show hosted by james corden airs sunday night at 8:00. biggest stars you can get the in one place. also some of the biggest stars you can ever hope to meet in one place, right here. >> yes. >> where? >> where are they? >> well, maybe not you, jim. >> jim's working on getting the royal family here.

>> yes. >> you wanted to treated like a star you know that is true. >> i'm a man of the people. >> i wand fur we could will better weather tomorrow. >> i think, the atmosphere has , different things in mind for us, probably shore power then we do, but wouldn't that be thighs. i think a lot of people especially kid watching us right now are just like yes, bring it on. lets take a look what is going on outside. weather today will not be stopping anybody there getting out the door. but this is a live shot from hotel bethlehem where the cloud are, still, pretty low to the ground here. certainly the haze being, hit off of the street lamps there, it does look like it is damp as well. we have had a couple showers working their way through since this morning but vast majority of the rain has pretty much moved out at this point. lets take a look with the eyewitness weather watchers who are recording, some very, very mild eras you might imagine. you do have a 33. keith in sailorsberg at 43 degrees. we will go up to the south where we are flirting with 60

in these sots. the let's zero in. one of the coldest spots we are finding comes from eileen. the she's out in gilbertsville where is there cloud cover and i like this head line, spring today, winter tomorrow, and you want to probably use today to prepare for tomorrow because we have major changes coming our way. lets drop down to the south here where it is 58 this morning from greg. he has nothing more than a couple clouds. things began to clear out. he said his ground is still damp. that brings up a good point, ground is still cold despite the fact that we have temperatures in the 60's. one more for you 58, that comes in this morning from dave bradley, he is off to a mile start with cloudy skies in essington. eveningsing it is quite balmy outside. next we will go to the maps. storm number one, making its exit, no harm, no foul. this is the next guy this will roll east pretty quickly. as it gets to the coastline it will rapidly intensify. as that happens, this moisture will rotated out, and we will end up with a good snow, just as cold air is catching up to

us. so with that said crews are out doing their thing trying to get things ready. i do think roads will respond very well, to the heavy, wet snow. try to get out early tomorrow you may be okay. but, this is heavy wet snow that will cling to branches and power lines and intense know fall rates may cause piling. we are looking at four to 8 inches of accumulating snow. here's our snowfall map heaviest amounts to the thorn half of the region and drastic ally drops off heading to the south. very quickly i am running short on time. i will show you seven day here by friday we are in the clear but it is still cold. of course because we are expecting storm to impact us during pretty much the whole morning rush hour, we will go out extra early tomorrow morning. join the "eyewitness news" team at 4:00 a.m. for latest on the weather, traffic, school closings and delays. meisha, i would be shocked if we don't see a big list of cancellations tomorrow. >> i can't wait for that early start time. we will be needing it, the

sound of that, katie, i got to tell you, it will be very busy tomorrow. so we will have to factor that into our lance all morning long, and what we're looking at right now is it is dealing really warm. we are dealing with wet roadways, that will try, being that it is already, 60 degrees it has been since 4:00 o'clock hour. right now we are looking at a disable vehicle schuylkill westbound past south street, it is on the on ramp from south street if you hold on to that heed yan area. we will get gaper delays. you can see how many vehicles are out there and you will be tapping on your breaks, and still very dark out there with wet roadways just take it easy also patco running a special schedule eastbound, from starting at 9:32 to 1:44 p.m. and also market frankford line just a reminder we are running a modified schedule nearly 100 cars are on service. bus service running during peak hours it will be delayed a little bit and also bus route are also going to be delayed.

jim, back over to you. well, coming up later this morning it is new episode of the doctors on today's show the doctors examine the role of probiotics, and toddes play in our overall health. >> what is your favorite probiotic food. >> will solid carb guy. >> yes. >> have you got men to it. >> yes. >> and so, here's the reason this is all so important. let me break it town for folks lean people have 70 percent more gut bacteria. >> i recently spoke to doctor trav i can stork and asked him how much digestive health is connected to our general health. >> the connection is inn disputable it is enormous and crazy thing, jim, when i went to medical school we really treated gut health separate from overall health. we didn't know gut bacteria played a role. so one of the big things we're doing this year on the doctors , i even plan on writing a book bit. talking about the gut, the gut

micro bacteria dictate everything from how lean you are, to how healthy you are, to your immune system, tourist being for allergies and asthma , it is remarkable, new research out there. >> what other stories and topics can we look forward to this month. >> i think biggest theme we will go with this month is fix it february. it is all about stories that people at home can relate to. to you ever had a medical problem and tell like you don't have any answers, you have lost hope we are taking some really cool, unique stories this who, and giving people hope, hope where they, thought that there was none. that is the story to me of head and our show, which is, you know, if you don't really understand what is going on never be afraid to get another opinion and just educate yourself. i feel like that is what we try to do on the doctors is educate people through the store that is we share. >> fix it february. there you got it. you can watch the doctors today and every day at 9:00 a.m. right here on cbs-3. >> sound like a good episode. a volunteer fire company

in pennsylvania is tracing eye brows with its fund raising event. hometown fire company in schuylkill county is holding a naughty bingo night. >> oh, high. >> naughty. >> event is for adults only, 160 tickets are sold for $20 each, and this is what the winners get? >> so instead of obtaining individual or cash rices for, you know, winning bingo, you get adult toys. >> okay. >> adult toys will be given out, instead of the cash, the fire company raised several thousand dollars with its first naughty bingo night last year. even drawing in people from out of town. >> hey, you have to give them credit they are trying something new and trying to headache cash. >> creativity. >> hey. >> up next hear from a zamboni driver stopped by police. >> plus we will tell you more adorable tiger cubs making their public debut. we will be right back.

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so hand letters had to remove youngsters from the den. zoo keepers say that is uncommon. they will make public debut this syringe. malaysia tigers are endangered , there are only 500 in the world. so cute. well, canada, february is a winter wonder land right now but snow is making getting through roads tough. >> mandy side todd do his part to clear the snow using his zamboni. take a look zambonis are used to smooth ice rink s surfaces but marco decided to use it to clear the road in british columbia on monday. that is, until he he was pulled over. >> i thought it would be fun to bring out zamboni to see how it works. we wanted to clean up the road to my aunt's house. >> call with the zamboni on the roadway and he didn't know he was trying to make a ice rink or what he was doing. >> police say zamboni did not have insurance and was a traffic hazard but they did the not ticket him, they asked him to just return to his farm >> no good deed goes unpunish

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well, this is definitely the calm, before the storm, and it will feel like spring today, and then temperature, temperature plumets, plumets, 30 degrees. the snow starts to fall. world comes to an end. katie will let us know who will see heaviest snowfall. >> okay. >> in other news manhunt underway for suspecting on a brazen robbery spree. we are live with how one victim for the back, plus this >> a federal appeals court says it will rule this week following yesterday's contentious hearing on president trump's travel and immigration ban, i'm hena daniels in new york with more coming up. fasten your seat belts it is wednesday, february 8th, good morning, i'm jim donovan. i'm rahel solomon. katie and meisha are keeping

an eye on things. we have a bit of the roller coaster. >> are you ready for tomorrow? can we do this? >> yes. >> i have to say we were born ready, this is our challenge, we will get through tomorrow with no problems, aren't we. >> yes. >> here's hoping. >> yes, right now. >> unaudible. >> right new we are looking okay just wet on the roadways. >> yes, that is actually drying out with time here too. skies are clearing nicely. today is again, calm before the storm and very, very mild, we're talking about a snow day for some guys, tomorrow. but lets back it up, get you out the door today, hint of fog still present in the the highest terrain, lehigh valley , finding that fog and finding it in the poconos but regardless, the clouds are thinning, breeze picking up and that will get rid of the fog. so first storm system itself is departing as we speak. we are looking ahead, of course, to tomorrow. look at the wrapped intensification that comes here with this. we're seeking heavy snowfall mo