web site at cbs philly.com. >> we have team three coverage , katie and lauren are working on the forecast and meisha watching the road plus eyewitness news reporter fanned out across the region. >> we will begin with the timing of the storm with katie in our studios. you have been tracking this for a couple days and it is fast approaching. >> it is already here, there are still a couple spots where we have not seen first rain drops falling but even cape may county filling in here nicely on the radar. basically up and down i-95 where split is still currently taking place but as cold air is working its way in look at heavy banding that is beginning to take place here. we did get reports up around poconos of an inch per hour of snow tall rates. this will pile up quickly. we check with reporters that are further off to the north here then in philadelphia you will see exactly what that has meant for area roadways and rest of the region here. it is a heavy rain through delaware and southern most new jersey but give it time as storm rotates cold air in

those temperatures will begin to crash more and you will see what is a chilly rain turn over to snow. i know there has been skepticism how the heck can you go from 66 degrees yesterday which did break reeve just record of 63 degrees by a couple degrees , to this? that should say high. sorry about that. typo. totally high bad. i will fix it. the lets look at temperatures now. we have dropped a lot of degrees. right before your very eyes, temperature turns in wilmington where it is 39. thirty-three in allentown. twenty-four this hunt pocono. when we have dark shade of purple on the contour map closer eventually it will take over and you will see these temperatures drop quickly. quite the gradient, willow grove is at 34. quakertown checks in at 32. we have winter storm warnings as you mentioned at anchor desk here, regional wide lasting us this will 4:00 o'clock, and hey go out

of effect sooner but we have a wind advisory at noon, and, and high of 50 miles an hour. >> that can be dangerous. >> all right, thanks very much and looking outside right now, we are definitely seeing the snow coming town in chalfont, 202 at bristol road. accumulating not only on the grass surfaces but also on the roadways and when you look at light hitting the snow, you know it will pose major visibility issues as well. leave early. we are seeing extent out there , one of which accident i-95 south past washington avenue that left lane is block this is just now went in the 5:00 o'clock hour. this accident on i-95 south that will start to slow you down. we have another accident pennsylvania turnpike morgan town one lane is blocked in this area. you can see seed are slowing down. we have a third extent, easton county line road at sunnyside road and then a fourth accident here in new jersey right thousand, bridgeton,

marlboro road near columbia highway. this is good evidence that all ready so early, so very dark rain is turning to snow in areas, that this is absolutely not only going to slow you town now but slow you town now in the 5:00 o'clock hour you can only hemorrhage what it will to in the 6:00 or 7:00 or 9:00 o'clock hour and beyond. we were talking to penndot saying leave your homes an hour or more earlier then that septa subways will be your best options, patco, 5:00ah to two, new jersey transit system wide cross honoring. head up, i will tweet this information out as well. back over to you. >> well, we will check this now to see area seeing most snow so far and that is rehigh valley. >> lets get to "eyewitness news" reporter trang do where trang despite the snow you have quite the shine on your face, good morning. >> it has been hide the pain,

rahel. meisha mentioned, visibility issues, just standing out here and take a look as katie mentioned this snow is coming town quickly here, as we mentioned earlier we were trying up here as snow began falling so that was two hours ago and you can see, still a lot of snow already on the ground here and also advising ly, a lot of people on the road here this morning, still having to go to work, although schools are closed here still a lot of people that still needs to go to work in this area. what we are seeing is a lot of snow hows, we saw pen to the plows because we are right off of 476 north so they are going on there to treat those roads as we mentioned. they were not able to treat them ahead of time because this event to start out as rain but i'm telling you guys, great snow day for kid here as long as you don't have to be out. at this gas station. somebody pulling in and telling us stay off road it is not worth it unless you have to go toe work.

you should stay home, i would have to agree. for now we are live this white hall township trang do for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> it will get worse. thanks, trang. lets check east where rain is turning to snow. >> "eyewitness news" reporter joe holden is live in montgomery county now, good morning, joe how sit looking in blue bell. >> jim and rahel, the changeover has happened as you can tell when we were talking last time we were searching for any sort of sleet or snow. it happened in the last 15 minutes. as you can see it was intense and this is what we have been warning you about, that this snow is going to come fast. it is going go to accumulate quickly. right now grass surfacees are covered, of course and driveway here in to the blue bell wawa, full slush. some main road are okay. we know that pen to the was saying earlier that they really could not brine the

road, that gives them a the snow starts to stick on the road surfaces. we also have have out here at the this wawa, see lots of crews, in particular, some private plowing contractors, who will have a very long day ahead of them. but right now the snow, it is a wind whipped snow, and in the last half an hour again it was just kind of pouring out here, and that heavy rain went now to all snow, and the temperature has noticeably dropped, it was 41 degrees when i left my house this morning it is now hovering this is mid to low 30's, so, full snow here in blue bell. live this morning i'm gentlemen holden for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> i will point out joeys an

investigative reporter and skeptical at everything so he was thinking it will not snow and katie said yesterday the change over 5:00 a.m. what time was the changeover, joe holden. >> reporter: five bells, my trend, she was right on the money. you pointed it out on twitter that she predicted this one and she had it on the honey. >> i'm telling you i walk out of my house and said this is too warm it will not snow but i trust katie. >> umbrella in hand, skip in your step, good day so you thought. >> thanks, joe. there is other news this morning, including new tea tails about monday's bizarre incident in rittenhouse square >> we will tell you what we have learned about the the suspect and stole a cab right recklessly drive through the snow, path the path. >> we are live in northeast philadelphia just across the street from the franklin mills mall where sales are hot the but weather is not. change over is happening we will tell you what is going on when we come back.

>> ♪ >> you know, jim, those days if you can't take it easy you want to take it easy, because it is only 5:08. we are on storm watch this morning, cbs photo journalist jim spearing is checking road, so thanks for that shot. >> stay with us our coverage continues after this break.

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♪ live look at least high val friday high atop, hotel bethlehem, katie, lauren, meisha will be here in three minutes with more on the morning's snow. pat gallen is on the snow beat we sent him to the far northeast. >> he is at knights and woodhaven roads not far from philadelphia mills and it is raining. >> reporter: actually, the rain is changing over it is now a frozen precipitation, and starting to get slick as we had mentioned, a lot of the roads are untreated because of the salt would have just washed away, same holds true for sidewalk and starting to get slick. we are across from franklin millions hall in northeast

philadelphia. good thing because i needed to go to banana republic they have great sales. so i will hang around. >> never buy anything at banana republic unless it is on sale, 50 percent off. it is always 50 percent off there, pat. >> reporter: jim donovan said. change over is happening, wind is whipping, very cold out here but we are still waiting for snow. i put feelers out and asked some people, what should we to this morning once the snow starts to accumulate? people say play football. we have to wait a little while to to that because there is no snow here, in white hall township trang do is up there and joe hold men montgomery county, he is starting to get snow. we should get that in just a couple minutes it would appear a lot of people said, well, they hit liquor store, they got wine, they are gearing up, that is what we do when it gets cold a snow i but also, coming up in the next half an hour little bit of the tease, guys i did a little pat verse

tori, vittoria woodill and we cooked gravy or sauce and this is perfect weather for gravy or sauce. so we went head to head, got our moms involved cooked gravy and sauce and that just thinking about it warms me up because out here is 36 degrees , freezing, and you guys are nice and warm in the studio, this is how it goes. >> short stick. >> you can tell you are from the north east because you call it franklin millions still. >> philadelphia mills. >> yes, whatever the formal name is but sauce and gravy thing. >> i don't understand what that is, are we talking about gravy for turkey or sauce for spaghetti. >> yes, it is a big debate around this place. >> oh, okay. >> i call it sauce. >> learning so much, learning banana republic is 50 percent. >> or macy's without a coupon what are you crazy. >> that is right. >> i will take you shopping. we will go to katie, starting to change over.

you were right can we get a amen and halleluiah. >> a men. >> i believe so. >> yes. >> you know, we go from the sauce, gravy debate to yesterday, of this over jimmy or sprinkles because it was so warm everybody wanted ice cream cones. it was it not gorgeous. i understand there was skepticism. it was mid to late april like yesterday so to have this coming through, it seems crazy but, if the conditions are perfect and they are, you will see, this kind of a set up unfold where temperatures are crashing as of a big storm is wrappedly intensifying and working its way in. let's focus more on storm scan , we will just pause things. this is a snapshot of the current situation. you have obviously that line between rain and snowy sentencely right along i-95. pat if you can still hear he, listening you will eventually high friend start to see that precipitation turning over to straight up snow.

there is heavy banding with this. let's zero into philadelphia county. you still have very heavy rain falling, from our station headquarters on south down toward the stadium and across the delaware river here, right the just north even portions of 76 are starting to see this turn over to a intense snow. precipitation rates are intense here, over a half inch per hour as a bulk pushes through. turn it over to snow and you have to account for snow ratio that comes into play. you could easily be looking at half this much to an inch per hour out of those darker shades of purple. future weather will go hour by hour. even come 6:00 a.m. you will see it turn over to some good heavy thumping snow right over philadelphia county, and it will continue to just rotate around that dark shade of purple rotate through and takes over rest of the region. granted while you are not going to see as much snow in southern new jersey and

delaware you will see some. they are still calling for coat to go 2 inches there. even just shy of lunchtime, this is already well bee fine back edge, rotating away and we are in the clear even with some sunshine before the day is all said and done but keep in mind, guys there will be re treesing because temperatures will crash later on tonight in the teens and i still think we are going to have four to 8 inches of clean up around all of this area shaded this is blue. too much mixing, too limit the totals in lighter shade, two to four from dover out toward toms river, for example off to the north of that, totals get higher. we are looking at eight to 12 inches through portions of the lehigh valley as well as toward thort jersey. if you are a new york city commuter and take 78 regularry you need a backup plan here try to work from home to you are able to. jim, that doesn't include you. you are stuck with us for rest of the the day but my collogue lauren casey is outside on the sky deck and she has been owe

snow watch. what are we seen so tar. >> change over has commenced as were you showing everyone on storm scan three. the sleet is coming down. height be hard to see but it is coming down heavily and there is a bunch of ice pellets town beneath my feet, crunch, crunch, crunch and we will see the sleet change over to snow, which will happen this is next 20 minutes or so but because we have snow north and west of the city coming town heavily at an inch per hour in some areas up toward lehigh valley and poconos, visibility at zero right thousand down to a half hyle in allentown, down to 3 miles with the sleet falling heavily in philadelphia, on the roads, it will be a brutal day, if you can work from home i would do that. morning commute heavy snow, as we head into lunchtime road snow covered, windy conditions and in your p.m. commute with temperatures struggle telling day we will see ice and snow covered roads persisting along

with the windy conditions, temperatures are dropping significantly, we are at 40 degrees in philadelphia, 38 in wilmington. you can see cold arctic air positioned off to the north and west and as wind speeds pick up throughout the day to take and continue into tonight our wind chills overnight tonight and early tomorrow morning are just going to be down right brutal, sub zero in the poconos down to near zero wind chills in the lehigh valley and berks county feeling like five above along i-95 cover for even as early as this evening, tonight and tomorrow morning and feeling like 10 to 15 down the shore. meisha, this storm just keeps on giving a bunch of misery. >> i was going to say you look so comfortable and warm out there. yes. >> you look adorable i have to give it to you being outside because it is no joke. it is no joke here hitting the roadways. it is getting very busy, very slow, and we have a lot of accidents out there, as well.

we have an accident here i-95 south, i have heard reports it is thousand clearing out of your way but it is not without delay because of this, you to have residual delays pushing in the south wound direction. see headlights, visibility will lay a factor this morning you can see already and you can see wind starting to pick up with the cameras shaking around. heads up heading out to i-95 south give yourself extra time even starting right thousand give myself an extra 30 to 40 and with every passing half an hour i will tack on another 10 to five. we have speed restrictions starts to go come into play, pennsylvania turnpike is down from 70 now down to 45 whiles an hour. we have speed restrictionness effect on the the northeast extension and more highways, more interstates and more side roads are starting to see seed restriction this is play so heads up we will let you know when we hear about them we will bring them to you. mass transit, septa subways are best options, patco, special schedule between 5:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.

new jersey transit system wide cross honoring. look at tweet from philadelphia airport majority of the flights are cancelled this morning so just make sure to check your schedules on line it will be a mess, rahel, back over to you. mess indeed. thanks, meisha. now for a look at newspaper headlines. >> on the cover of the delaware county daily times four months after being charge in the hit and run fender-bender former emergency services director edwin truet had his day this court and won , charges were difficulties hissed. from the times herald norristown municipal council honors a hero proclaiming february 7th sanford harling the third day. two year-old boy died last february trying to save his father from the burning home. willingboro township council approved a building of the 10 million-dollar firehouse on charleston road. 34,000-foot structure will house fire department and emergency services. and that is a look at newspaper headlines around the delaware valley. we want to know how are you

sending this snow day. tell us on twitter. >> #, cbs-3 snow. >> yes. >> we have got a team of reporters, throughout the area , trying to help you get through this plus mobile three traveling the roads too photo journalist jim spearing in west chester right now. >> that looks like snow or rain. >> it does look like snow. >> a combination of something. we will be right back. >> it is snow.

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welcome back. man who police say stole a cab and terrorized crowds on rittenhouse square monday afternoon may have been under the influence.

>> he crashed a taxi, eyewitnesses held suspect until police arrived and 51 year-old jonathan gay was taken in custody. authorities say gay pulled a woman out of the taxi and when driver tried to stop him they say gay jumped in the cab and then took off. taxi driver and that woman are okay this morning. 227 million-dollar settlement has been handed down in the deadly june 2013 building collapse at the 22nd and market. money will be paid to 19 victims including loved ones of the seven people who died, settlement which is largeness state history is between a families, building owner richard basciano, his building was being demolished when it crush the salvation army thrift store. president trump presides of the swearing in of attorney general jeff sessions. >> he was confirmed by the senate jed despite democratic opposition over his civil rights record. senator sessions will oversee defense of the president's controversial immigration and travel ban. meanwhile supreme court

nominee, neil gorsuch isn't agreeing with president trump 's attacks on the judiciary system. the president recently called tuesday's appeals court hearing into his travel ban quote, disgraceful. president trump believes the judges involved have a political agenda touring a private meeting with democratic senator richard blumenthal gorsuch called the criticism disheartening and tea moral icing. it is not just our area dealing with the storm. >> coming up on "eyewitness news" we will see if the nation's weather woes are a teching the airport, trang. >> reporter: snow is coming down here in the lehigh valley , i'm trang do with a live look at conditions, lauren. sleet is coming down heavily in center city and starting to accumulate as well as a winter storm warning does remain in effect. i'm meteorologist lauren casey and we will have more what to expect on our snow day coming

from the lehigh valley to center city philadelphia, winter storm warning is in effect for the area we have school closures and delays at bottom of the screen and also on our web site at cbs philly .com. very busy morning. thanks for being with us i'm rahel solomon. aim jim donovan. weather is part of what you need to know to start your day in the morning minute.

rain is as well, and, pretty quickly here, it is very fine these snowflakes. they are not light and fluffy. you can hear them when they hit the surface. >> people try to keep at least one of our two main runways opened. >> the storm's expected to create significant travel headaches. >> but philadelphia top carrier american has cancelled many flights out of philly international. >> any chance to go right away , to end things. >> do you have any robert deniero merchandise? anything with his face on it. >> no, no. >> i'm good. >> two for 14.99 if you don't break another one i'm losing money. >> you are paying for