we are following breaking news a manhunt is underway in south jersey after a car crashed in the house where we're live with whom police are looking for and what may have led to the accident. the republican health care bill just cleared its first hurdle but fight is far from over, where things stand new with the new plans. and energy milder temperatures today because big changes are on the way, lauren 's tracking two, count them two as well in the forecast. today is thursday, march 9th, good morning i'm jim donovan. i'm rahel solomon. lauren and meisha are keeping an eye on things. what if we want no chances. >> move to florida. >> i'm just messenger. >> mother nature decide and i'm just really her puppet. >> yes. >> we have construction outside this morning, lot of it, which is clearing out of the way. no accidents, today.

>> that is nice quiet start to the day. mild, clear skies, and we will have a big difference this time tomorrow morning, so enjoy, the calm conditions, while they last, 50 degrees in philadelphia we're at 48 in wilmington. 51 degrees in allentown. calling in at 52 degrees in dover. we have breezy conditions, wind speed up around 10, 12, 16 miles an hour and wind speed will kick up once again as we head into midday but for 9:00 o'clock hour looking g mostly sunny, breezy, 51 degrees. sunshine in the lunch hour. fifty-eight, still gusty. as we head in the second half of the day cloud increase as we push toward evening hours, mild though high temperature of 61 degrees but colder air moves in overnight tonight, sets us up for rain/snow transition late overnight tonight into tomorrow morning, and we will likely see all snow coming down across good portion of the delaware valley for our friday morning commute and then colder, even colder air arrives as we head in the upcoming weekend it will stick

around into next week as well with the extended stretch of high temperatures only in the 30's. that system we were watching for sunday, i have high confidence that will stay off to our south. no snowfall for sunday but now we have another system to keep an eye on into next tuesday, meisha. >> we cannot escape it, can we it its coming whether we want it or not. good morning, everyone. happy thursday. little bit ago we were looking at this absolutely gorgeous sky line right there. now it is starting to heat up with that sun starting to peak up, not a bad shot, to two taillights moving in the right direction approaching king of prussia in the a bad problem to have. you might have some sun up, slow down, thick are particularly moving in the eastbound direction. just something to think b also blue route headlights moving in the southbound direction pennsylvania ridge pike. this is what we are looking at both directions on the blue route looking good. we are still, dealing with that down tree in spring house roberts road is blocked at bethlehem pike. use an alternate norristown road is your best bet around that. also still dealing with some construction, so they did change time on this, new

jersey turnpike north bound at route 322 that right lane is block. now they are saying that will linger out there until around noon for those taking new jersey turnpike. it will be out there all morning long and then aramingo avenue ramp to i-95 reopening friday morning, big thumbs up there, jim and rahel, back over to you. we are following breaking news out of salem county where police say a driver slammed a car full of people in the house overnight. >> driver then got out and took off running. "eyewitness news" reporter trang do is live in penns grove where a manhunt is underway, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, rahel and jim. home owner's son tells me this isn't first time that car has plowed through his parent's yard n this case police are still looking for that driver who ran off abandoning his car and four passengers inside that car, thankfully no one inside the house or inside the car was seriously hurt but take a look you can really see the damage caused here now that it is starting to get lighter out, the car plowed through that front fence, went through the side, and then hit the corner of the house here, and this happened just after

1:00 a.m. neare line ande union street in penns grove. police say an officer was attempting to pull over when driver refused to stop. driver who control around a curve, jumped the curve and crashed through two fences and hit the house. he then took off on foot. couple in their 70's lives in the home their son tells thaws they are both okay, and he had a message for the driver, and anyone else who tried to allude police. >> never think in this neighborhood, there is no need to run, just pull over. >> they are lucky they didn't get killed. >> there were four passengers in addition to that driver, they were three women and one man, all but one woman refused treatment. she was taken to salem hospital with minor injuries, and although car was pretty much totaled in this case the house was structurally sound. you see light on there people are able to stay on in there. at this point we are not sure why officers were trying to

pull this car over in the first place. for now we are live in penns grove, salem county i'm trang do for cbs-3 "eyewitness news" , jim and rahel back to you. >> trang, thank you. bucks county police are investigating a tragic accident a boy struck and killed by a pickup truck. this happened yesterday afternoon at the bellaire trailer park in morrisville. police say after the five-year old was struck people began attacking the pick up driver. that forced the driver to leave the scene but he stopped a short distance away to call for help. that driver is cooperating win investigators. this just in a missing elderly man from montgomery county has been found. it is unclear where roy camp meyer was located. the 84 year-old left his montgomery township home yesterday. last night someone spotted his car near hershey park. we are awaiting more information from police and when we get it, we will pass it to you. a philadelphia police officer is forced to shoot and killed a dog while responding to a call. now this happened last night on the 6500 block of buse avenue in southwest philadelphia police say the

officer and dhs, security were em trying to remove two children from the home when a german shepherd attacked the on ther. the officer has been treated from the hospital and released police are investigate the shooting in frankford that sent one man to the hospital in critical condition. chopper three over 29,000 block of bridge street, just before 8:45 last night. the 20 year-old victim was shot in the head, shoulder, and then back, and robbed of $100. police are checking surveillance cameras in the neighborhood for an image of the gunman. chopper three also over a deadly shooting in north philadelphia. a man was shot four times in the head on a 300 block of west westmoreland street, this happened just before 7:00 last night. he was pronounced dead at the scene. police have not made any arrest in this case. anger and frustration at peco customers go into another day without power, following that large fire in a north philadelphia substation. nearly 1,000 homes and businesses, remain in the dark , at this hour, making matters worse, some who have had power restored have who it again. peco hopes to have all of the power restored sometime this

morning, 36,000 customers were left without power, after flames ravaged that substation on the 2600 block of west owe west moreland street tuesday afternoon. no word what sparked that blaze. developing overnight a house panel proves bill to replace the affordable care act, another panel is still debating the legislation, president trump praised health care plan but as hena daniels reports he has not spoken to reporters since this weekend when he accused president obama of wiretapping. >> we are here to legislate, when are we go to go get down to business. >> reporter: battle over republican plan to repeal and replace obama care, spilled into the early hours. >> we don't necessity how much it will cost. >> reporter: house democrats offered dozens of amendments to slow down the process. >> this is disgraceful. if you have got better ideas put them forward. >> reporter: despite push back from conservative republicans and major hospital and senior groups, g.o.p. leaders are putting the legislation on the fast track. >> i have no doubt we will

pass this because we will keep our promises. >> reporter: house debate comes as white house continues to field tough questions from the press, over president trump's wiretap claims. republican senator lindsey graham and democratic senator whitehouse sent a letter to the fbi asking for any information that would have warrant that had active. hena daniels for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". it is almost time for annual easter egg roll role at the whites house. >> president trump and first lady melania announced details for this day of fun this years activities will take place monday april 17th the day after easter on the south lawn families with kid 13 and younger are invited to attend, 139th year event, this is 139th year of the event and first one took place in 1878. >> 1878. >> good time had by all. well, this sunday we will spring, forward and you can take a toll on your health. >> it can. coming up doctor jen's here with the do's and don't's to

help adjust. scary moments when a plane skid off a runway and college team headed to the bige tournament was on board we will hear from their coach. and dash cam video that shows what it is like to be on the front lines of the fast moving wild fire next. >> ♪ big changes in the air tonight, lauren has your forecast and chance of snow, snow, snow, rahel. >> oh, boy. >> coming up next. >> don't rub it in, i heard you the first time.

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welcome back, we're getting a scary firsthand view of the fast moving wild fire in central kansas. >> take a closer look this dramatic dash cam video was taken from a kansas highway patrol car, trooper todd heilman was helping to divert traffic on the interstate monday when the fire jumped the road through the smoke and flames he still however managed to rescue driver of the sem that i got stuck in the interstate's median. university of michigan's mens basketball team had a frightening start to their run at big 10 tournament their plane tried to take off in high wind but pilots aborted take off and plane slid off runway. plane was heavily damaged but there were no serious injuries wolverines coach says that his team was calm, during the

scare. >> the student athletes, the students, the staff, conducted themselves, it was incredible. >> we were off that plane, going down those shoots, up on the wings, getting out of there. in a minute. it seemed like everybody got off that plane. >> wolverines play illinois in the big 10 tournament today at noon in washington d.c. let's send it over to lauren. at lee jim does not rub it in. she talks about snow but she does not rub it in like you do , just adding insult to injure. >> well, i don't rub in the snow. >> you don't, you just say what it is, but jim likes to like, emphasize it. >> that is right, i keep it real, you know, that is what i do around here. conditions are nice, no snow, and check this out, we're so close to sunrise. a beautiful picture of the roof cam at 50 degrees. southeasterly wind at 10 miles an hour. that southerly component is keeping mild air mass in place but conversely as we head into tonight, wind will shift out of the north and that means

colder air being driven in but high temperatures yesterday, just such a nice day. we started off with showers, sprinkles. sunshine broke out. we topped at 64 in the philadelphia. sixty as in the lehigh veil, berks county, down the shore. heading in the weekend those 60's will be long gone history storm scan three is showing us quiet conditions right now. nice clear skies. we will have another round of sunshine in store, mostly sunny, breezy backup in the 60 's today and then tonight temperatures dropping like a rock. 36 degrees. areas of rain and snow developing, and we will see all snow, through a good portion of our friday morning commute, so no problems, this evening, increasing cloud, and after midnight we will see precipitation developing north and west of the city, first, so rain mix nothing on initial , when the initial precipitation comes down, and then transitioning over to snow, lehigh valley, poconos and that snow ban will move south as we head in the early morning hours on friday, continuing to move south, throughout the morning commute , you do notice a lot of white, purpose until there

indicating this will be a snow event for most of us as we head throughout the morning hours. it will be brief, that main area of precipitation moving out, but we could see snow squallness to our friday afternoon, as far as snow fall accumulation, three to six in the poconos, up toward lehigh valley, two to 3 inches closer to the i-95 corridor, one to 2 f the south jersey could pick up a coat to go an inch of snowfall during march and upcoming weekend, meisha we will dry things out but boy, it will be a cold within with highs only near freezing on saturday. >> it looks that way, all right, thanks very much. good morning. we are looking outside, look at how busy, i-95 south at girard, head up tack on a extra 15 minutes, heading out there on i95 moving in the southbound direction. we have this accident, 309 north, pennsylvania the turnpike, you could see how travelers are going pennsylvania this accident, not many. in the slowing you down. just make note they are pulled off to the shoulder and maybe a little far right lane that we will start to force

everyone to use far left lane, however, like i said not slowing you down there. also we have another accident in pottstown shoemaker road at route 100, another area that will start to slow you down overall we are looking okay, wanted to bring it to your attention. then we have construction on township line road between greenwood avenue and washington lane is closed between 8:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. this is out there until may 26th. your alternate is church road. we have more coming up in the next 10 to 15 minutes, rahel and jim, back over to you. this weekend we will change clocks to mark daylight savings time. >> many look forward to springing ahead and gaining that extra sunlight lose ago this extra hour of sleep is not always a welcomed change. family physician doctor jen cuddle is here with how to preparing our body clark. >> good morning, guys. >> we have this conversation every year. does the change affect your internal clock. >> it disrupts our rhythms just for a little bit. of course, it is not permanent

but pushing, springing forward meaning we are losing an hour of sleep and when we wake up, it is darker. it is light her at end of the day which means it is hard to wind down. temporary but it happens. >> can you prepare for adjustment just go to bed early. >> great idea, back to schooltime when you tell kid, parents to get their kid in bed earl tore get ready. we should do the same thing springing forward. you will start tonight, we have thursday night, friday night, saturday, get to bed 20 minutes earlier each nice to get ready for our springing forward. >> go to bed at 3:00 in the afternoon at this rate. >> trying to reset your sleep schedule if this is a good time to do it. >> there is people that want to get more sleep, or committing to have their sleep habits and this sometimes can be a good time of the year to say we have daylight savings time coming up lets pick this time of the year to get our habits in checked. >> regardless of the daylight

savings time what advice can you give to people who want a better night's sleep. >> no matter what time of the year. here's a few things we can do biggest thing is to make sure their roomies conducive to getting a good night sleep, keeping your room cool. making sure it is not too hot. making sure you are not eating heavy meals or drinking caffeine, alcohol or exercising too close to bed. turning off electronic, keeping lap top, tv and bright lights from ifence and things like that minimize ago this is very important. >> we have been talking about daylight savings time all week but i'm eternal optimist o other hand do you think staying brighter later gives you more energy. >> i think in the morning it is harder because it is darker but toward end of the day, what i love about this time of the year, spring's coming and summer will be here. it is motivate nothing that respects. we get excited. >> yes. >> are you ready. >> yeah, um-hmm.

>> please go down. >> what time do you get to bed >> 5:00. >> god bless you. >> i don't know how you do it. >> i'm like a nursing home, a cup of apple sauce and ready to go. >> appreciate it. >> good to sigh. >> good to see you as well. >> still ahead a warning about hand sanitizer and how it is putting thousands of children at risk. plus meditating with pat croce former sixers owner shows our pat gallen how to be a z en

welcome back. but big changes in store for upcoming weekend, remember last weekend when it was so cold? we will have a repeat arctic air taking over highs only in the 30's for both saturday and sunday. we have just talk about daylight savingsime, spring, forward so we will lose an her of sleep. as we head into the night we

were watching that storm system. it looks like it will stay off to the south leaving with us a snow free sunday across the delaware valley but we are tracking snow for overnight tonight and tomorrow and then potentially another system for next tuesday, meisha we will have more coming up. all right, lauren, thank you. now for a look at newspaper headlines across our region. >> from the delaware county daily time honoring memory of the slain teacher. last july robert payne a english teacher was fatally shot in the crime that remains unsolved. now friend and alumni of the strat haven high are raising money for a college scholarship in his memory. known as haven unite, one haven unite they are hosting a three on three basketball tournament at the high school march 18th. and trentonian hamilton massage parlor raided for suspected prostitution has been shut down for violating the township's new bod therapy regulations. the division of the health

inspected the rub down establish. on nottingham way in mercerville and found significant violations. from the times herald norristown police department is hosting a citizen police academy. ten week program begins april 19th and expand citizens knowledge, understanding of the law, and explore police procedures. and that is a look at newspaper headlines from around the delaware valley. we have had them on our show and now they are coming from the liacouras center. >> harlem globetrotters have a game at temple. two of the friend, sues and philadelphia native bria swish young visited lego land discovery center at plymouth meeting mall. they had some competition to create the best globetrotter theme lego creation. >> speaking of lego how about this, it is spectacular finally of last years march madness tournament in lego. villanova wildcats, of course, win it all, last second shot and what does coach wright say , bam, long time to set up, so we had to have it on time

lapse. dad built it because he and his new born daughter bonded watching march madness last year this sunday is selection sunday for this years tournament at 5:30 on cbs-3. >> that is great. >> bam. coming up next on "eyewitness news" hillary clinton reemerges on the national stage. >> would member are agents of change, makers of peace and drivers of progress. >> hear more of the former second of state's message to woman during her speech on international women's day, trang do? a driver plows in the house in salem county new jersey i'm live with what led up to this and how homeowners are doing it this morning. we are looking outside, nice dry out there but we have three accidents, down tree and lots of construction to talk about but first we will take a quick break, stay where your a

welcome to your health with joan lunden presented by the centers for disease control and prevention. >> hi. i'm joan lunden. we are here to talk about prediabetes. believe it or not, more than one in three people in the u.s. have prediabetes and even scarier, a whopping 90% of them don't even know it. we are joined by dr. ann albright to tell us what is prediabetes and what we need to know to prevent it. it's nice to have you here. >> thank you. >> what is prediabetes? >> prediabetes is a condition where your blood sugar is higher than normal but not high enough to be type ii diabetes. >> this can be very alarming when you think about how many people have it if it goes unchecked. >> yes. if it goes unchecked, it can lead to type ii diabetes and it can also lead to heart attack

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good morning, everyone i'm jim donovan. i'm rahel solomon, 6:30 here's what you need to know in your morning minute. police say a driver slammed a car full of people, into a house. >> police are still looking for that man who ran off abandoning his car. a couple in their 70's lives in the home. >> they are lucky they didn't get killed. >> anger and frustration, some peco customers go into another day without power, following that large fire in the north philadelphia substation. battle over the republican plan to repeal and replace obama care spills into the early hours. >> we don't know how much it will cost. >> this is disgraceful if you have got better ideas put them forward. >> able to recognize his mother was suffering from a medical, emergency. >> you saved your mom's life

how does that feel. >> i was excited, i called 911 that was my first time i ever did that. >> ♪ the weekend is coming. >> yes. >> but first we might to have get through some winter weather, do we have to, lauren >> yes. >> did i issue a cuddle alert? >> my goodness. >> i think i need to for the upcoming weekend you are crazy >> story of my life, jim. but right now temperatures are feeling good, it is a bought full morning right now, clear sky conditions, 50 degrees not feeling too bad in philadelphia 51 lehigh valley. temperatures near 50 degrees down the shore and 40's in the poconos. weise head throughout our day to day another nice round of sunshine, windy conditions picking up in to your lunch hour but very nice. we are out and about grabbing that sandwich 58 degrees at 61 by end of the day to day with cloud starting to increase as

we move in the evening hours n advance of the weather system that will bring us a ton of fun as we head late through tonight and tomorrow morning. winter weather advisory for the northwestern suburbs, berks county, lehigh valley and poconos. we have measurable snowfall in store what to expect for tomorrow morning? impact, snowfall, accumulation s? it will be moderate especially north and west of the city. wind will start to pick up as we head into midday and windy avenue is in store for tomorrow. we could see, snow squals in the second half of the day. icing low. brief period of sleet, on set of this event overnight tonight but travel impact, meisha, with this snow coming down during morning commute, the timing is going to be the biggest impact and that will have dramatic effects on our friday morning commute. >> yes, lauren, it sure will. thank you so much for that. so i guess we will to have heed that warning tomorrow morning. now looking at today, enjoy nice dry roadways while we have them, for tomorrow, i will tell you we are not accident free out there, however, disabled tractor

trailer where we have it, 95 south approaching vine pulled off to the right. you can see flashing lights. that will cause a slight gaper delay at this point but overall congestion levels are on this are looking okay, just a head up, like i said pulled off to that right shoulder. then we have an accident 309 northbound pennsylvania pennsylvania turnpike, this one is also pulled off to the shoulder, which is a head up for those passing by. still traveling at posted speed around that area, and we also have another accident in pottstown here shoemaker road at route 100. a lot of these accidents, they are out there, they are not causing significant slow downs , but a head up because they will start to, and then just a couple reminder township line road, between greenwood avenue and washington lane closed between 8:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. your alternate church road. city avenue north and south we have construction between bryn mawr avenue and kings grant drive this one is between 9:00 d that will run you through friday. we have more to talk about coming up in the next 15 minutes. jim, over to you.

update be breaking news police continue their manhunt for driver who rammed his car in the home overnight,'s then got out and ran away. >> "eyewitness news" reporter trang do is live in penns grove where she spoke to the home owner's son and what can you tell us this morning. >> reporter: rahel and jim, this was an attempted traffic stop gone wrong. we have seen police drive around the neighborhood still looking for this driver, who ran off after crashing into this home, he abandoned his car as well as four passengers inside that car, thankfully no one inside, the home or inside that car was seriously hurt but take a look at this damage , you can see it in the date lie here. you can see the portion of the fence is just gone, and strewn about in this yard. you don't see these deep tire tracks as car drove through and straight through that house and you can see the hole on the side of the house now. this happened just after 1:00 neare line ande union street in penns grove. an officer was attempting to pull over a car but driver refused to stop. driver who control around a curve, jump the curve and crashed the two fences and

then hit the house. he then took off on foot. a couple in their 70's riffs in their homes. son tells us they are both okay but he says this isn't the first time something like this has happened. >> my first thing i thought was, they went through the front of the house, and we have had people, rubbing the curve, and then, you know, hit the pole, and missed the cars, but we have had other people just turning, coming to the yard. >> there were four passengers inside, in addition to the driver, three women and one man, all but one woman, refused treatment. she was taken too salem hospital for minor injuries, now although the car was totaled in this situation you can see light on in this house , structurally sound so homeowners are allowed to stay inside there but for now we are live from salem county i'm trang do for cbs-3 "eyewitness news", jim and rahel back to you. >> you know they will catch the guy, they always do. >> yes.

>> yes. >> all right, trang do. surveillance picks up a moment a pickup truck slams in the bucks county landmark that has stood there for more than a century. yardley police say a drunk driver who control and struck the porch of the continental tower on main street tuesday night. security video shows staff, customers running outside to see what happened. impact split a triple two by 12 beam but damage is minor. homeowners say, or owners i should say of the porch said it should be fixed by st. patrick's day. today marks a big day for investors, eighth anniversary of the bull market. >> cbs business analyst jill schlesinger joins us to report on the market's progress and to help you figure out what to do right now if you have been sitting on the sidelines, good morning, jill. >> reporter: good morning. >> let's step back in time. where were we eight years ago today. >> reporter: i need to bring you back to the dark side but march 9th 2009, just this out, dow jones was at 6547, okay,

we're around 21,000 right now. at that time that was lowest level since april of 1997, s and p500, 676, lowest since 1996. nasdaq was at 1268, yeah, 1268 , the lowest since 2002. here we are in the bull, eight years later, it is second longest on record, remember the big bull was during the 90 's, we do have a long way to make it back into first place to eclipse the bull market that ran from december 1987 to march of 2,000, this one, well , we need to make it pennsylvania june 28th of 2021 we are so that is a high bar. >> eight years ago really scary times. what should people do, have maybe been sitting on the sidelines, out of the market or just now starting to invest >> reporter: a lot of people

stay on the sidelines because they are always waiting for a pull back, right. even when market comes back eight or 10 percent it doesn't feel like that much. problem with that thinking it is just a form of market timing it doesn't work. john vogel who founded mutual giant vanguard who famously said after 50 years in the business i don't know anybody who has been able to time the market successfully and more importantly consistently. here's the thing if you are worried about losing a big chunk of money if the market were to drop precipitously you use something called dollar cost averaging an investment strategy where you divide monday a veilable into equal parts and periodically put it to work. you have to stick to that diversified port foal yeah but just do it. if you are starting out making your first ira contributions just remember you are investing for decade in the future. tenth market were to plunge in the near term you have a long time to make up loss and grow your necessity egg. go ahead and do it. >> i remember that day, eight

years ago, my head was on the desk. i thought oh, boy this is not goody will be working until a hundred but it all came back. >> yes. >> thanks, jill. well, hillary clinton is calling on woman young and old to take leadership rolls in the world. >> former first lady is recognized for her own leader ship. mrs. clinton and queen of jordan were honored at vital voices global leadership award former senator and secretary of state and former presidential candidate, encouraged woman to make the world a better place. >> i have never been more confident that we can take the next thing that comes along and move forward with optimism into a better future for women , for men, for all human beings. >> secretary clinton helped found the vital voices organization during her time as first lady. well, if you are like any parents or hype conn dre ago like myself you say you have

bod also offhanded sanitizer every where. >> um-hmm it is doing more harm then good, jim donovan coming up in the healthwatch how hand sanitizer is actually putting thousands of kid at risk. pat? we are live here at west chester university at center for contemplation and stud business this man you know him well, mr. pat croce good morning my friend. >> good morning. >> do some meditation. >> we will start our day off with the meditation great way to start your day. >> roof that. coming up i'll take you inside wonderful world, fantastic world

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well, ed sheeran's hit, continues to top charts and now you can see him, perform in person. >> he just announced a tour that includes a stop of the city of brotherly love at wells fargo center on july 11th, tickets get on sale next friday the 17th at 10:00 a.m. everyone need time to decompress and center themselves amid kay uses of 21st century life. >> yes. >> what better person to show us meditation techniques then our very own pat gallen. pat's live at west chester university with the special get we will all recognize, hi there, pat. >> good morning, friend, yes we are here to find our zen zone at my alma matter west chester university. this man's alma matter as well mr. pat croce. >> good morning. >> great to see you. >> thanks for coming on campus

>> of course, every time i get out here such a great time. now we get to breathe, relax. lets go back to your days as 76ers owner. what do you remember most, and what stand out to you, as some of the best moments of being an owner of a team that people loved so much. >> i think first and foremost was the entire thrill and enthusiasm of the fans of philadelphia getting involved. i was there from 96 through 2001. war to first. they were with me and team the entire way. ai was a sensational rookie but we all, rested on his shoulders. he carried a big burden. when he stepped over liu in game within of the finals. >> yes. >> that was exciting. that demonstrate that had we had arrived. >> i bring up your time with the sixers because you were known as someone with such passion, such exuberance. you still have that, but you have been able to hone it in with mindfulness and

meditation, talk about how you found that in your life. >> i was lucky, i was struck by lightening about the of grace, over two years ago and started to be exposed to meditation and i was never one for meditation, i was never one for sitting still, i didn't know that stillness meant your thought and mine. for 60 years i never did anything for my mind. it is the best thing i ever did in my entire life maybe he side marrying my wife. tonight you will speak here at west chester university. >> at center for contemplation and studies at psyched hall opened from 6:00 to 8:00. q and a. good time. we will talk everything from a soul full journey, secrets to peace, joy, and success. >> i need a little bit of that i will try to make it out here >> we would love alumni back on campus but everyone is welcomed to come. >> can we have a taste. >> love to bring it to you. >> we will go through it, with

don mccone here, don, let me sit down, get settled here. let me get relaxed. >> sit up straight. >> all right. >> relax, hand on your thighs. imagine a string is pulling a crown up to the sky, new relax , breathe, guide us through. >> take us please, thank you. >> pull through. >> guys. >> back to you. >> right here. >> thanks, pat. >> and we have to wait a little bit longer, and, cherry blossoms in washington d.c., peak blooming was here initially expected between march 14th and 17th but national park surface announc ed that they are pushing those dates back slightly to between march 19th and 22nd, colder then average temperatures, forecast for this weekend, are to blame. >> i was so calm, centered and

then start talking about colder weather. >> there goes my sanity. >> hi, lauren. >> i'm responsible for destroying everybody's chi. >> yes, pretty much. >> i'm really sorry. colder temperatures in store in the upcoming weekend but this morning our weather watchers, are very centered, very happy, with a bought full thursday morning, all across the delaware valley. temperatures generally in the 40's and 50's. we will head down into delaware where we are on the cooler snide newark, 43 degrees at delores house but she has nice bright sunshine and she says wow warm start to this morning, another warm, nice day i hope and indeed high temperatures will be climbing up in to the 60's. we will have into pennsylvania where it is 48 at eileen's house in gilbertsville and she has nice sunshine compared to the last couple of the windy days, my wind chimes are whispering this morning, they will start making noise as we head in the second half of the morgue as gusty wind will pick up once again. we will do one more, 44

degrees at andrew's house right now, he's cloud around in medford but an adorable profile with his little girls there. as we head throughout the day high temperatures will top in the 60's. mostly sunny. breeze kicking up especially by midday and this afternoon and then tonight, rain, snow showers, developing a low of 36 degrees and what should we expect for tomorrow? rain, snow and sleet, likely during early morning hours talking about four or five or 6:00 a.m. and we will see all snowfall across the region. certainly in philadelphia we will pick up quick snowfall accumulations, north and west of the city especially but on i-95 we could see up to an inch and heading in the afternoon we could see small amounts with afternoon snowfall, in store so tomorrow is looking like a great day, could see potentially up to 6 inches in the poconos, two to three in berks county lehigh valley, 1 inch on i-95 corridor. just about a coating of snow. dry for upcoming weekend but

bitter cold springing forward with highs in the 30's. >> so we will have to energy nice dry roadways that we have today, we have some sun and sun glare but overall we can handle that. what we have not seen is a couple accidents. this 1422e pennsylvania oaks pulled off to the far left shoulder, you can see we have driver and passengers here, walk around and this will slow you down, gaper delay and that can be a dangerous situation as well, because we are seeing , those drivable lanes as well as shoulder as well. when we have people outside, head up, just drive very, very slow. disabled tractor trailer here i-95 south pulled off to the far right shoulder. gaper delay here, getting busy around this area we have another accident, in wilmington delaware i-95 north , that left lane is block there, starting to slow, less than posted speed in that area we have another accident 309 north bound at pennsylvania turnpike this one is pulled off to the shoulder and accident pottstown shoemaker road still out there as well.

rahel and jim, back over to you. well, on the healthwatch this morning dangers offhanded sanitizers. >> many come in pretty colors and smell like candy which can be tempting for young children new report from the cdc shows 97 percent of young children exposed to alcohol based sanitizer ingested them. ingestion can cause serious healthy affects for young children including alcohol poisoning, and experts say hand sanitizers should only be used with adult supervision. something to think about. new exhibit is set to open this weekend at please touch museum. >> fantastic world of the dan yakreno inspired by work of the children's book author and illustrate or will combine original artwork interactive learning. "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabao is giving us a first look at the new exhibit this morning, good morning, jan. >> reporter: rahel and jim, good morning. if you don't know dan yakreno 's name you will know his work. he has sold more than 1.5 million books worldwide and created characters like nick junior's backyardigans.

here we are this morning where this new exhibit is bringing some of his most popular books to life. this is toddler area, great paw that is find this place in the world. one of the many places for kid to learn and to appreciate art maybe for the first time, to talk more about the exhibit is patricia wellingback, president and ceo of the please touch museum. this is a really special exhibit a first for the museum >> first for this museum. this is our first exhibit we have created here bringing education and exhibits together, realizing dan's amazing art and wonderful stories to create little stories based on some of the stories so kid can learn, discover and play and learn to appreciate his art and his books while playing. >> reporter: as we walk through you can see original art on the wall here, really great and special. >> yes, some mr. yakreno's collection and it will appeal to the adults as well as the

kid. >> it is a way to get kid involved in real works of art maybe for first time that they would see in the art museum. >> children's museum do play a role and it is first time a child is ex-speaksed to the museum and is there data that shows if the child does not have exposure to the museum by eight or nine they may never go to a museum in their life. we play an important rel to make sure we are creating a future art museum goers of the world. >> reporter: hand on things, please touch does that the best. >> this is our light table. we have two of our youngest members of the pollution teach museum, these are two children of one of our employees who got up early. these kid are playing with shapes based on the works of art and they are doing critical thinking and putting colors together and collaborating and it is a wonderful opportunity. >> reporter: this might be one of the fan favorite area here what do we see here. >> this is henry's kitchen, this will be the spot to come

to see. this is based on a book a brother and sister and they have their own home cooking show and they pretend that they are running a home cooking show on tv. you can see kennedy mix ago way getting batter ready for breakfast. they will see themselves on the tv screen and do lots of play, create collaborative critical thinking all of the stuff that makes great adults and great learners. >> reporter: this exhibit opens up tomorrow and runs through may 14th. come out and see it. rahel and jim, back to you. >> thanks, jan. >> we will be right

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here's three to go. >> jury selection begins in chester county in the trial of the eric frein, accused of killing a pennsylvania state troop inner 2014, he has pleaded not guilty. house, weighs and means committee approved its part of the republican bill to replace obama care after an 18 hour session, another committee is debating right now. and defending national champion villanova faces saint john's my alma matter to day and bige tournament, tip off at noon. >> that is three to go. lets get last check of weather and traffic. >> winter weather advisory kicks in later tonight for northwestern suburbs, berks county, lehigh valley and poconos and runs through tomorrow morning, could see

snowfall accumulation as cross the area coat to go an inch, one to three in the lehigh val and northwestern suburbs and six in the poconos. >> we have got a disable tractor trailer here i-95 south approaching vine and it is looking slow. an accident 422 eastbound pennsylvania oaks that is also still out there. and switching gears, tomorrow morning on our dream drive together we have got some very heavy metal. we are not talking music, lets take a look. >> each one of those coils weighs about 4 tons. >> the things made here are distributed all over the world , you may have some on your own, they are some of the most important products made in our area we will see up close look tomorrow morning on dream drive right here at 6:00 " >> meisha rocking those glasses there. >> yes, mixing equipment with her. cbs this morning is next. >> tune in each weekday morning here on cbs-3 starting at 4:30 a.m., have a great day what does this button do.

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