>> i ate so much chocolate i to think it went to my brain. we are looking at roadways, it is looking quiet, dark but we have construction out there we will get into that in a moment >> wind is still calm and it will pick up with time. is it caliber of what we haddon wednesday? now i'm doing it. let me back that up, and what are we talking about. on monday we had that real vicious win. today it does start to get breezy again but no where near that caliber. that is what i was trying to say. let me get you out the door. we have cloud cover overhead. two separate disturbances, you can see that, sussex county, basically engulfed in some light rain right now, i to think parts of the southern tip of the new jersey getting in on this this morning. the majority of this it is a dry start, just cloud overhead but there is another disturbance off to the north triggering a snow shower passing snow shower up in the mountains and perhaps a stray shower, or syringe will around the rest of the region in toward i-95 and philadelphia.

here's what it teams like more like 20's in reading, allentown, mount pocono and then more like mid to low 30's across the rest of the region here but keep in mind what you see is a lot closer to what you get the because wind hasn't pick up yet. thirty-four feels like 34. thirty-five feels a lot more like 35 in atlantic city and 29 degrees right now, and, up in the mountains, as we go throughout the rest of the day here, we have partly sunny in philadelphia, guys. maybe a quick shower but nothing that requires umbrella , down the shore we have steady rain, and if it is steady at all. this morning rest of the day looks good. mild. highs in the 50's, chillier in the mountains, meisha. >> katie, thank you very much. good morning. happy wednesday. we are looking outside atwood haven and academy a grape snapshot what it is looking like. looking good, very opened. roadways are nice and opened and dry and looking quiet. we have some activity out

there this morning, however. we have accident investigation in new jersey route 47 this both directions at the shun pike road, all lanes block use alternate route nine as your best bet. we have a down tree in easton route 611 northbound between durham road and syringe hill road, all lanes blocked there. use alternate river road as your best bet there. then we have a down pole route 30 eastbound white horse pike at pamona road right lane blocked there not causing any slow downs yet but this is a area that will as we progress more toward 6:00 o'clock hour, to have that cleared. of course we are talking about construction. boulevard northbound between rhawn street and winchester avenue one lane block there and then we have more construction we will talk about coming up in the the next 10 minutes, jim and rahel , back over to you. at the white house president trump welcomes israeli prime minister benjamin net the net the but over shadowing high profile report a report focus than on ties between russia and members of the the mr. trump's 2016 presidential campaign. >> "eyewitness news" reporter

jan carabao is here to break this all down for us. >> reporter: good morning. according to a report published by the new york times, the trump campaign had many contacts with russian agents around the same time that russia hacked into the democratic national committee e-mails. the bomb shell report, published in the new york times, tuesday, sites four current and former american officials, with direct knowledge of the fbi's classified probe into russia's medicineling in 2016 election. they said federal agents are sifting through a trove of intercepted communications showing members of the president's campaign and other trump associates have repeated contacts with senior russian intelligence officials this is year before the election, monk them paul mana thefort who served as trump's campaign chairman for several months. >> nothing to conclude anything has change with respect to that time period. >> reporter: white house sean spicer denied any preelection contact tuesday amid a barrage of questions over michael

flynn's abrupt resignation as natalie security advisor, former lieutenant general was ousted monday night over conversations with the russian ambassador back in december about u.s. sanctions. >> the white house counsel reviewed, determined that there is not a legal issue but rather a trust issue. >> reporter: that decision came three weeks after the fbi and justice department notified the white house flynn have lied about the interactions. democrats and republicans remain divided over whether the issue calls for a public hearing. >> intelligence committee has been looking at this all along >> if there is any emergency at this moment in the history of this country this is the moment. >> reporter: president is expected to name a new national security advisor by end of the week. >> brendon boyle released this statement saying quote this is outrageous and slap this is face to the american people and the integrity of our electoral process. we deserve nothing less than 100 percent transparency and congress can and should be doing all it can to get an

accurate accounting of exactly had happened here. meantime officials tell insuring times they have not yet seen any evident natalie trump campaign collided with russia to impact the outcome of the election, rahel and jim back to you. government officials keeping a close eye on the spy ship patrolling off the east coast. it is working its way toward connecticut but sent most of yesterday floating off coast of delaware and new jersey. it is used to college intelligence there radar and other bases up the east coast and intelligence analyst ed tour andcy believes that russia is using the ship, to rouse the new administration. >> this is what you consider harassment operations, and it is psychological operations really. here's what the russians are very good at, they are good at mind games, and they play three dimensional chess. so they are three or four steps ahead, always trying to he see where you're going to go and then they counter lay.

>> and there is to indication natalie restens of the ship has anything to to with the resignation of the president trump's national the security advisor michael flynn. new this morning gunfire outside a port richmond nightclub, police collected 15 shell casings from the 3,000 block of castor avenue, eyewitnesses say shooting started at is 11:00 with the l one gunman opening up fire on two hen. the shot hit cars and the walls of the club, but the at parent targets were not injured and the gun man got away. new castle county police continue to investigate the a kidnapping and assault, in brandywine hundred. victim tells police a mask gunman forced her into her car at the top of the hill apartments on tuesday night, and investigators say suspect punched the victim as he trove her to an atm on march road to withdraw some money. the suspect talk out loud to himself during the incident and brought victim back to the apartment, and then left. police are looking for a dark colored suv, anyone with any information is asked to call crime stoppers at 800-tips-

3333. suspect accused of raping, multiple children is due in court today for a preliminary hearing in bucks county. william charles thomas faces 51 charges including five counts of the child rape, 58 year-old is facing charges for child porn found in his morrisville home. also today, minnesota judge will hear oral arguments on whether to dismiss case against office shore shot and kill, orlando castille during a july traffic stop. the officer is charged with manslaughter for death of the three two-year old. yanez lawyer say case should be dismissed claiming castille was reaching for his gun. it was streamed live by on facebook by his girl friend, of castille, authorities say discovered castille was licensed to carry a weapon. man is behind bars after police say he forcibly grabbed a septa female septa officer and body camera captured the incident. >> you want to kiss me. >> yes.

>> no, you will go right now. >> that officer was on routine patrol monday afternoon at 69th street transportation center in upper darby, that is where police say five three-year old man, repeat the ly demanded that she allow him to kiss her. >> it was just one of those things where i was personally aggravated that one of the people that i work with was treated so disrespect there i like it is almost accustomed as a police officer that people are disrespectful but this was just such a personal violation. >> despite the fact natalie suspect was much larger then officer, officials say officer was able to turnaround and make an arrest. he is facing charges including assault and harassment. nearly 20 correctional officers have quit after a deadly hostage siege at james t vaughn correctional center in smyrna, delaware. meantime governor john carney has tapped former justice henry du pont raggedly and judge william chapman to lead investigation in the incident.

correctional officers association believes that a staffing crisis toys blame for the uprising, that led to lieutenant steven floyd's death, prison guard have been calling for improved security since floyd's death 17 guards have quit or filed for retirement. >> how do we keep this facility open if we lose anymore officers. all of the correctional officers are watching very closely because. >> preliminary report on i am loving prison security is expect to be completed, by june 1. well, time lapse video shows that severe weather moving through houston. it spawned two tornadoes see more of the damage left behind next. a suspect lead police on a wild chase we will tell you how his crime spree began the day before. dramatic new video just in the news room showing bicycle will list narrowly avoiding a train as it barrels down on

him. ♪ >> you better believe, that bike will list ran, we will have a close call when we come right back.

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i'm calling it the "name your price tool" phase. whatever. that was a close call watch this there a train in as you veil use, biker crossing track s barely escapes with his life after jumping out of the way of the train. his bike wasn't so lucky though the train was barreling by at 100 miles an hour, and now train drivers is pleading with people to keep a safe distance from the tracks. well, hundreds of thousands of people living near california's damaged oroville dam are back home this morning. officials lifted mandatory evacuation order yesterday saying they are confident that they have retuesdayed lake level behind the oroville damage flood threat has subsided. residents are still being urged to exercise caution. >> they have to be vigilant, they have to pay attention to what is going on and there is ross pecks that we could issue

eerie vac ways order, if the circumstances change and the risk increase. >> the officials are hoping natalie lake level calls a total of 50 teeth before forecasted heavy rain starts this week. at least two tornadoes are responsible for damage in south east texas. >> that is national weather service confirming natalie twisters were part of the powerful line of storms that swept through houston area severe weather caused major damage in the county tuesday morning. oklahoma police officer is in the hospital this morning after he was injured in the police chase here, that you have to see to believe. >> suspects stole a tow truck with the vehiclal attached. police say it was suspects vehicle about to be impounded on hon, suspect smashed his way through a police red block , injuring one officer. >> he could have gone around. he could have gone around either side of the brooke and he did not. he went full speed and some of the speeds were getting were 70 miles an hour.

he hit them at a hard tors. >> mere will california us ually the officer was not seriously injured, the suspect tried to run, but was tackled by officers. the advice do not try to steel the tow truck with your cara attached. >> it is on, yes. >> give it up. >> it is inevitable. >> forecast looks good, and it is looking good, couple ups and down, and more to tell but i still don't see any major storms for next seven days. that is always helpful. we have started off february on above average note. yesterday we did end up, just slightly above the normal, with a plus one, for the average take time high of 44 degrees. only four days so far this year, folks that have been below average, to this year, this month that have been below average but i do expect today, as well as the majority of the seven day to remain above average. see why in a second. we will look at current

pattern over the delaware valley. that is you have got two separate disturbances one well off to the north triggering scattered showers across upstate new york especially and well off to the south. this is more potent of the two this will provide the cold air as these two systems merge a pretty potent system develops over northern new england. you can see heavy thunderstorms that worked across eastern texas, louisiana, arkansas all migrating east at this point making more left-hand turn to join forces with that disturbance to the north, and another big storm system for that folks this northern new england. for us we are glancing blow out of this storm, we will end up with a light rain across southern most counties for mourn drives, cape may county, atlantic county up and down the garden state parkway could be damp and that gets out of here and we are in the clear, southern counties, snow shower , rain shower down near the city, but up toward mountains it could be a snow shower, it is passing, looking

light abe i will say that here in philadelphia i don't think we will need umbrella. it will be a day you do not see a drop of thinking out of this. just because it is a glancing blow but what we do get as a whole is a win. nothing terribly harsh more like the teens as we head toward evening we are talking sustained wind flow out of the west northwest here and that will continue through tomorrow tomorrow is more blustery of the two taste here we will see win gusts as high as 35 to 40 miles an hour still not as harsh as what monday produced but it does ease up on thursday night. we will take you out to shawne where it looks like it is snow right the new but it is good powder out there on the slope despite warming trend coming. further off to the south the atwood field elementary school all calm right now. looking ahead to the weekend, that is where my eye gets drawn, 60 on sunday in the the sunshine and might as well be syringe, enjoy it, but that is a trend that is going to last

into next week, meisha. >> thank you very much. >> we are looking at our friend 42 tree way north bound at creek road, we are all traveling at posted seeds, but we are heating up ever so slightly. those jumping on 42 later on this is five or 6:00, we are seeing more vehicles starting to jump out here right now but we are still will okay still traveling at posted speed. ninety-five south at bartram avenue looking good. all week long i-95 pushing in the southbound direction has looked nice, even on monday and tuesday where we know, it is very busy, early, it hasn't been looking that way so far this weekend, it the looks like wednesday is evidence of that as well. hopefully it stays that way. we have construction out there new jersey turnpike southbound near route 322 that right lane is block, it is blocked until 6:00 a.m. heads up on that. we have construction on the boulevard as well, boulevard northbound between rhawn street and winchester avenue one lane block there. overall condition trucks out there we have more going on too we will talk about in the the next 10 to 15 minutes, rahel, back over to you.

meisha, we will see you soon, thank you. time for a look at newspaper headlines across our region. >> from the delaware county daily times buy outs at end of the 2016 took a toll on chester's police department. there are 85 officers on the the force, 2017 budget calls for a full compliment of the 106 officers. the chester's hair hopes department will close the gap by the end of the year. on the trent page of the burlington county times, burlington county public schools reported more incidents of the vandalism during 2015/16 school year but incidents related to violence, weapons and substance use trooped, according to an annual report from the new jersey tenth of education. bank of america is selling one iconic build initial downtown wilmington, great bridge one on north and north front street will be put on the market. bank will retain a third building that will house the company's 200 employees in wilmington. that is a look at newspaper headlines around the

delaware valley. up next path the path's here with your morning sorts. >> good morning, guys. it seemed like a trade was ready to go down but jahlil okafor is returning to the sixers, we will tell you when that happens next in

welcome back, to "eyewitness news" this morning , pat's here with your morning sports. >> there was a trade supposed to go down that has not happened yet. we're in the weird holding pattern. it is big man jahlil okafor is expect to be in uniform when sixers take on celtics this boston and okafor trade seems to be in that holding pattern

right now. okafor did not travel to charlotte for monday night's game, he was not supposed to make trip to boston because of the possibility of that trade. but bulls and pelicans were two teams thought to have interest in the 21 year-old big man but so far no deals have have materialized. maybe red trip will spark offense, over their last four games flyers have have scored just three goals, they return to the ice starting a three game red trip in western can inadequacies, first up calgary with 9:30 start. without a playoff win in nearly a decade eagles decided they can start charge just about anything for tickets. the bird, are raising their season ticket rise these year for first time since 2014. they will go on on average seven bucks a game. eagles finish seven-nine and don't forget the draft is in philadelphia in april. work outs are underway for phillies pitchers and catchers this syringe training. phillies success this year will be tied to those young

arms our leslie van arsdal is in clearwater talking pitching with the phillies. >> reporter: phillies pitchers and catchers first official work out in the books. we have six young starting pitchers and pete mackanin says he likes what he sees. >> we have a good blend of young and old. i shouldn't say old, young and more experienced witchers, and i am real satisfied with what i'm looking at right the thousand. >> reporter: as pitchers and catchers hold their first work out pitching is the team's top priority. aaron nola says his elbow is 100 percent healthy and ready to go. >> i'm all good now. i have been throwing. no pain, no nothing. so i'm good. >> reporter: sack eflin whose season was over mid-august because of leg problems says he too feels great. >> it the has been a very, very long time since i was able to walk on this knee and feel good. aim excited feels good and ready to go. >> reporter: jared eickoff the oldest of the group was a mid season rock and could be poised for a break out season.

>> i treat it the same as i would any other syringe training put ago lot of work in the off season and just trying to get started on a right note, better than last year. >> mackanin did says he has no idea who starting pitcher will be come opening day, don't even ask, reporting from clearwater, i'm leslie van arsdal eyewitness sorts. interesting things happening with the phillies. they have pretty good athletes coming up at 6:00 i will talk to a hand named brandon holiday who has had 10 heart attacks but he has put together athletes with disabilities network where he brings people together, gets them to work out, and gets rid of the deregulars that comes along he lost a limb, it is a crazy story has got the to see at 6:00. >> 6:15. >> looking forward to that, thanks, pat. well, new sports illustrated swimsuit magazine hits news stands today. >> we will show you who is on the the cover just ahead, tran g? scary moments when three men robbed a laundromat at

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we are in for a windy, wednesday, across the area today, but soon it will feel like syringe. katie's here to tell us what temperatures will be going way up. >> good morning i'm rahel solomon. i'm jim donovan. katie and meisha will be along in a minute. here's what you need to know to start your day in the morning minute. terrifying armed robbery, caught on tape, now police need your help tracking down a suspect who held up a lawn try math in east mt. airy. >> police say all three men appear to be, in their late. >> a russian spy ship off the coast of the new jersey and delaware. >> all part of putin being putin testing limits. >> reporter: white house and pentagon are keeping an eye on the ship's movements. >> america has a you this top dog five-year old rumor won best in show at