seeing it fall in your neighborhood. >> it has been snowing since late last night in the poconos. live look. great news for skiers and snow boarders, looking for another day on the slopes. all perspective. >> philly won't get that much snow today. it will be windy and colds. weekend will be even colder. winter has seemed to have returned. >> tgif. keeping an eye on things this morning? >> i promise, when you think about this winter has nice it's been, right? we still got this. looking outside right now, it is looking great, some really good news for a lot of people taking the delaware river bridge. >> wonder what it is? >> i know. >> earlier you can get out the better, because yes, everyone hates me today. >> no, we don't. >> awe, thank you. >> yes we do.

>> we do have winter weather advisory in effect for large portion of the area. it has been extended and expanded by the national weatheweather service now inclus center city philadelphia, runs until 2:00 this afternoon. the snow is starting to move it way in. it has been snowing for several hours in the poconos, snow spreading into the lehigh valley, berks county, returns a little deceiving, not all of this is hitting the surface, some evaporating, but as we continue to moisten up the atmosphere, it will be making it way down to the grounds. flakes flying right now from allentown being back into reading. closer to the city, initially will start as rainfall, and wintery mix, light in intensity, then we quickly change over to all snowfall looking well developed, that is headed eastbound, temperatures, right now, we are at the warmest, it is going to be all day. 43 degrees in philadelphia. we've been dropping off over the last several hours,

steadily allentown now at 34 degrees, in the 20's in the poconos. so throughout the day today temperatures will be in the three's, for the 9:00 hour. snow coming down heavy at times. snow showers until lunchtime. the winds pick up into the afternoon. all good news, meisha, coming out of my mouth. we head into the afternoon, snow showers, evening commute could be impacted as well. >> everyone just has to leave their homes little early, especially seeing snow coming down in their neck of the woods, take it easy out there. jim and talking teddies being, talk about this basically all morning long, let me look, let me get out of the way. delaware river bridge reopened last night 10:30 p.m. wasn't scheduled to open until early to mid april. great news for thousand of our commuters having to take the alternates. those every you taking the delaware river bridge, all goal end, take it today. then looking at the boulevard

here, looks like alarm went off in an apartment building, won't affect traffic at allment look at the boulevard pushing in the southbound direction toward the schuylkill, you can see, just starting to heat up little bit right now. jump on the before, even though friday, a lot of people heeding the warning about that snow coming in little later. won't and a ton of snow, just some snow. it will give you some visibility issues, lever little early. a the love you heeding that warning there. and also, 59 south at girard what we are looking at there, another area back to you. >> snowflakes starting to fall in the lehigh val. >> i let's look at some of the snow, eyewitness just reporter trang do live in allentown, trang, we can see the snow. >> there goes. okay, all right. >> poor training, always to the farthest reaches. >> the wait is over, as you can see. the snow is really coming down, more of a wintery mix, the snowfall, that is coming down, is kind of like in the

middle. not really small so flakes. not really big. but you can actually definitely see them. as i mentioned, kind of a damp snowfall. seeing that on the roadways. take a look over here. you can see it slick, and over offer in the distance that's 222. you can see that things are moving just fine therefore now. just started, just minute ago. and so we're just getting into the beginning of the morning rush here. so, interestingly, we were able to find a school bus driver in the parking lot here at wawa. getting ready for her day. she had some very cool thoughts about this wintery come-back, so take a listen. >> it is is too coal for me. >> not a fan? >> no, i have never been a fan of cold weather. i have a little bit of -- i have fate in my transportation manager that he wouldn't let us go out if it was going to be unsafe.

>> you can see the precipitation that is really coming down, of course, here, in this area, they're pretty much very prepared on the way up here on the northeast extension, we saw number of salt plows on the side of the road just waiting for this actual snowfall to come. seen so many private come through of course getting their morning coffee where they head on over to the business here, plenty of salt here in this parking lot. but for now live in allentown, trang do, cbs-3, "eyewitness news," jim and rahel, back to you. >> jimmy toll you that the snowfall would fine me and it did. >> ever the intrepid reporter that you are. >> we all got up early started the show early and nothing happening but finally it has arrived. thank you, trang. >> well, you can keep track of the weather by checking out our website. check lauren answer to up date forecast, traffic and: closings or delays and watch our live coverage on line. >> and other news this morning, pennsylvania mother charged in the disturbing murder of her teenage daughter appear in a bucks county court

later today. forty-one year old sarah packer facing slew of charges after investigators say she and her boyfriends, 44 jerold jacob sullivan, conspired and killed her 14 year old daughter grace pack nerve july. describe the gruesome murder as thick fantasy thought up by the two. could face the death penalty if convicted. >> jury slicks continues in the eric frein murder trial. he appeared at chester county court yesterday. frein is of course accused of killing one pennsylvania state trooper and wounding another at the bloom inning grove barracks in pike count any 2014. the case received media coverage and the jurors being picked from chester county. >> police investigating paint ball attacks that left two victims injured in northwest philadelphia. five incidents were reported in less than 24 hours tuesday and wednesday. four people were shot in roxborough, another in germantown. a teenage boy was shot in the stomach and one man needed six stitches to his eye. resident called "eyewitness news," the neighborhood on

edge. >> can leave a gigantic bruce on you specially hit in the eye or face. >> people don't understand it is your neighborhood and your community. >> i agree, if i got hit by one of those, i got hit once, they hurt. they saw they saw males 15 to two years old fire from this white dodge christ lower, tinted windows. if you recognize this vehicle, please call philadelphia police. >> i thought you meant on the street, jim, the image there. newly rediscovered graves has stopped construction project in old city philadelphia. forensic crews from rutgers university preserving the remains, working on an apartment milled g, more than 100 graves and coffins under a former parking lot thought of the buffer yore grail established in 1707. supposed to be moved to another cemetery by 1806. >> we want to keep the inch telling are the i -- integrity it, can be challenging when they're fall apart in your hands.

>> the property group con instructing the new apartment building making sure the remains are laid to rest at mount morae a cemetery. hoping to find any living descents ends if that's possible. >> president trump continues to push republican law makers to support the gop plane to repeal and repair the affordable care act. it comes as the administration faces a looming court challenge over its new travel ban. >> mr. trump meets today with house committee chairs to discuss advance in the gop healthcare bill. vice president mike pence will meet with abortion right opponents to make it clear the bill would de fund planned parenthood. >> in the last few years, hard enough for hard-working americans and small businesses to get ahead many frankly obamacare has only made it more difficult. >> today's push by the president and vice president comes after two fresh and substantial legislative victories in the house, innocence and ways and means committees both passed portions of the bill along party lines on thursday, to the shagrin of democrats. >> it doesn't lower costs.

it doesn't improve benefits. and it doesn't expand access. >> the gop proposal eliminates the controversial individual mandate, employer mandate, and most taxes. the legislation keeps portions of the affordable care act including protection for those with pre-existing conditions and dependent coverage until age 26. it also waits until 2020 to rollback obamacare's medicaid expansion. roxanna, cbs-3, "eyewitness news." overseas now and developing now, south korea acting head of state is begging for calm after the constitutional rule to remove the country's president from office. opponent and supporters of ousted president park guen-hye rallies that killed two people. held impeach. against park who has long been caught in a corruption scandal. >> still ahead on "eyewitness news" this morning, dozen every student and teachers forced to sleep at school, some for two straight nights. we'll tell you the reason for the impromptu slumber party.

>> watch this as four year old girl is grown off her feet by high winds. see what her mom had to say about the moment she went flying. plus this. >> i'm pat gallen here, st. joe's university with the father of bracketology, getting ready for march in madness, i'm ready, are you? we should be, too you should know what goes into bracketology next. >> a lot of words. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> we're on "grateful dead" kick this morning, the philadelphia flower show opens this weekend. our jan carabeo is there live. >> and will join us coming up in the next half hour. >> ♪ (players, spectators shouting) theyat the finish.its

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>> schools are closed for another day in north dakota. >> hard to picture there, the snow drift 8 feet in one community near the canadian border, not easy to clear off your carps, you might imagine, especially when you have to dust un the net. power was knocked out, so families spent the last two months in where parents were witching in to keep the kids warm in this school. >> high win almost blew little madison gardner away. look at this. home security cameras caught madison's flight on the door handle.

madison's mom, brittany, said it was frightening. >> i had to un latch her from the handle, took her inside. she was scared. and, you know, kind of embarrass that we were laughing at her, then we started the video, and she was laughing at it, too. >> she didn't drop her phone though. see, look? whatever she has in her hands? fortunately lit madison was not injured during her flight. mom said she is saving the video to show madison when she is older. >> hold on to your tech gadgets. >> but glad the mom thought it was funny because i was laughing and then i thought maybe i shouldn't be laughing. >> tough little girl there. >> whatever do you, do not drop the iphone. >> whatever you do. >> never get it repaired. >> so lauren, windy today? snowy today? what do we got coming our way. >> snowy first, then winds think afternoon, and our visibilities are tell us a story of the snowfall inch ten tis right now across part of the area. visibility dropped in allentown over the last hour, now that the snowfall has pick up down to a mile, visibility

reduce in the reading still looking good across the i95 corridor, starting to see some returns, the snow coming down in the poconos, lehigh valley, berks county, right now. continuing to saturate the atmosphere, some of the returns a bit deceiving. some evaluate g before hitting the surface, back into reading, also some returns over philadelphia, green, right now, this happens with the radar it, shoots out on an angle. from the face of the radar. sometimes picture of the mid levels of the atmosphere, not the surface, so do have moisture coming in, and soon it will be falling in center city philadelphia, could briefly start as rain, but a lot of snow up wind. it will quickly change over, a lot of the moisture, moving its way eastbound from central pennsylvania, so on the road, it will be a tough day for your morning commute. wintery mix, trains action over to snow, the earlier you can lever the better, lunchtime still lingering snow showers, then as we head into the second half of the day, scattered snow squawls to impact our afternoon commute. headed into the 7:00 hour,

that snowfall getting going along i-95. spreading it way southeast bound headed into the 8:00 hour, by 9:00 pushing into south jersey, by the 11:00 hour, snow pushing itself into our shore points, and by the late morning we could see some snowfall heavy at times in philadelphia. south jersey, and our shore point, and as we head into the afternoon, that uniform precipitation will tail off, but then have the scattered snow squawls come in, late day, will start to kind of dissipate as we head after sunset, but it is going to be tough did i waiter wise for all of us across the delaware vale of the as far as snowfall accumulations, three to 6 inches every snowfall up toward the lehigh valley and poconos, across much of the area picking up about one to 3 . south jersey and our shore points, picking up coating to inch of snowfall through the day today. all right, lauren, thank you so much. we know that snow is on the way, we will have to leave little early. a lot of you doing so, roadways for friday morning actually looking pretty busy. i want to pull your attention to this gorgeous live chopper

shot. if you haven't heard about me talking about this, so excited for commuters, delaware river bridge reopened last night at 10:30. wasn't scheduled to do so until early to mid april. so the delaware river bridge, it is back open because of the crews got out there. they worked together. as it was a great team that they are, and they got this done for you way earlier than anticipated. so enjoy that. the snow will come down, go get very busy, will not be forced to use the alternates. forty-two freeway northbound creek road approaching 295, what you are working, with it is getting very busy there. still traveling at posted speeds. but you won't be for very much longer. then we look at the blue route headlights northbound no problems on the blue route. all right, jim, rahel, back to you. >> thank you. ready for little march madness. tournament is less than a week away. >> the man who has made brackets cool, pat gallen, our own pat gallen. >> i would rang christmas, thanksgiving, march madness, my three favorite holidays. >> okay? >> very big. >> big time of year for you? >> yes, it is that time of year again. you'll ends up filling out a

bracket or two or ten. but the man who helps make it cool, and who let you know your favorite team is in or out, showed me how it is done. >> if you ever filled out bracket during march madness, chances are you have, then you have this man to thank for bracketology. working diligently behind me is the father of bracketology, joe leonard i, color commontator constantly shifting and researchers, getting red. >> i right here in philly in the mid 90s with the blue ribbon year book. how did he keep all of the teams in order in early days? index cards. >> index cards? >> like free ranking. or a piece of paper. >> i like it. >> in preparing for the book leonards i, and hoops, head for philly started a trend. now, over 70 million people fill out a bracket before the tournament starts. and they get help from leonardi, obviously an ace predicting who is in, who is out. >> in a average year, i miss a team. >> if you go back 20 years, i

think i've missed 23 teams in 20 years. >> how is joey's brackets so good? he showed me the insider info. >> the actual committee members, this is what they use. this is what north carolina has done, 50 to 100, it. and this is what villanova has done, one seed, two seed, three seed, four seed. and it is every result comes in from every game that involves those teams, i'm updating their record. their schedule strength, their top 50, it. leonardi may be an ace of picking before everyone else, but choosing a winner is tough to do. re routinely loose z to people and animals alike. >> oh, my gosh. i lose to, well, pets, children, you know, the gal down the hall who like's so-and-so uniform, color or mascot. >> that's what makes it great. >> it is the brain ac won all the time people wouldn't watch.

>> many people say that leonardi actually created the bracket format. that's not the case, but has made living selecting the field before anyone else. well, i was with already adderi several division one coaches calling and wondering where they would be seated or even end up in the tournament at all. that's how in the know joe is. so if you want to play along, go to cbsphilly.com/bracket. it all starts sunday night. really interesting stuff, and it is cool. >> and he has good sense of humor about it, too. >> he does. >> i would be one of those people doing it for the team colors. >> getting stopped in the airport, people taking photos with him. >> thanks, pat. >> meisha takes us on another dream drive. plus the worlds' oldest yoga struck or, pretty incredible poses, coming up her advice how to lead a long healthy life. >> and you don't want to miss our sneak peak at the philadelphia flower show. we're taking you inside before the doors open to the public. that is coming up.

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>> festival of families is 6:25, it is friday, and weekend around the corner, but it will be a cold and wintery feeling, sub freezing for high temperature on saturday, of course it is daylight saving time, so remember just spring forward to set the clocks ahead, if you lose an hour of sleep. i know. but we gain extra hour of sunlight. by sunday evening, it will be a cold, bitter cold start to our sunday morning. with windchill values likely down into the single digits and that's including in the city. of course dealing with wintery type weather with snow over spreading the area, the latest look at storm scan3 coming up. >> for a look at newspaper headlines from across our region. >> from the trentonian, burlington county postal

worker posted he had iq score off the charts, for embezzlement. thirty-five year old amar de patel who worked at the riverside, delran, post offices as temporary supervisor stole over $15,000 in funds that were supposed to have been deposited. >> in the mercury east coventry, will not be voting this spring on whether or not to allow liquor sales in the township. collected so the question on the may ballot the township supervisor has said allowing the sale of beer, wine, liquor, could attract development to the route 724 corridor. >> posted zero six montgomery county research economy figures. eye school and middle school student presented findings at variety of research topics, compete to go win money, and a chance and more competitions. >> and that's a look at some of the newspaper headlines around the delaware valley. >> coming up: the nationwide outage that prevented thousands of people from calling 9911. >> well, it was an

extraordinary event. last thing we want to hear you can't call 911. >> up next, the other numbers you need to know in case you can't dial 911. trang? >> reporter: winter isn't over just yet. i'm trang do, liver in the lehigh valley with how commuters are dealing with this wintery mess. >> trang, looking outside, waking up to not so great news. the snow coming in, but i have some great news about the delaware river bridge. all of the news coming back in just a moment, first a quick break. stay right where you are. cbs-3 "eyewitness news" will

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>> the wait is over as you can see, the snow really coming down. >> as far as snowfall accumulations looking at about three to six in the poconos. >> the delaware river bridge it, actually reopened last night. it reopened at around 10:30. >> ahh. >> we are finding some impact -- intact cough inch. >> construction project in old city is on hold. after crews discovered the remain of people likely burried in the 17 or early 1800s. >> protesters clash with police in soule. >> after south korea's constitutional will formally i am preach president park guen-hye. >> who is coming out snow. >> right here. >> oh. >> no, no. no, this is cool. >> no, i'm good. no, i'm all right. >> oh, no. >> no, no. >> i love these things. >> no, no, no.

>> make your skin crawl. >> i wouldn't be good at that. >> not mice and rats. no, that wouldn't bother me, no. things with fur, that would bother me. you, lauren, afraid of bugs? >> i'm the total opposite. i'm cool with bears, give me a bear. don't put a bug knee mere -- near me. but today, we are dealing with some snowfall. so no bugs out and about. temperatures are cold. but winter weather advisory is in effect for large portion of the area. it has been extended and expanded by the national weather service, including center city philadelphia, runs until 2:00 this afternoon. and storm scan3 showing us it is getting busy right now. snow falling across the poconos. lehigh valley and berks county, weaver total out of sussex county, new jersey, far northwestern new jersey, already nearly 3 inches of snow. that's just from the last several hours. so this certainly means business. snow coming down across

portions of berks county, you can see that, and along the i9 the a corridor picking up on some returns, some hitting the surface corks briefly start as rainfall as we were expecting but the rain-snow line it is right there. so as we head into the 9:00 hour, snow coming down, heavy at times, 37 degrees. still some snow showers into the lunch hour, winds will be picking up for the second half of the day. and by the 5:00 hour, scattered snowfall working through the area with windy conditions, as far as accumulations through the day today, poconos, remember, it is arrange, forecast, as little as 3 inches potentially as much as 6 inches every snowfall in the lehigh vale, could pick upward of 4 inches, down the shore could get as little as nothing but could get as much as one to 2 inches in some spots. any amount of liquid or snowfall on the roadways makes for tricky travel. >> lauren, thank you so much. right now we're actually looking at the delaware river bridge. we've got live chopper three over this gorgeous shot here. showing you that the delaware river bridge is now open. that's right.

it reopened last night around 10:30 p.m. it wasn't scheduled to actually reopen until mid to i would say early april. the team got together and made this happen for you. thousands of people were impacted by the closure of the delaware river bridge. now that it is opened earl at this will be great, especially day like today when we are having snow. you will have to factor into your plans to leave early. three alternate bridges that you've been having to use for some time will be slow today. not so much any more. enjoy the opening of the delaware river bridge. looking outside right now, the schuylkill at montgomery. see it pushing in both, really the eastbound side, and the vine starting to heat up. keep that into your plans this morning, as well. jim, rahel, back to you. >> thank you shall meisha. the snow has crossed into the lehigh valley as it makes it way further south. >> "eyewitness news" reporter trang do, liver in allentown where trang it is actually starting to fall there? >> yes, definately seeing

wintery mix here in allentown. this is a real wet snow. in fact, so wet, i had to change my gloves. they were absolutely soaked. but take a look, it is actually accumulating on these grassy surfaces here. fortunately, though, as we take a look over on the road here, it is not accumulating on the road, which is very great news. but it does appear to be little like slick over there. but another thing i want to mention, seat visibility little tough right now. kind of a misty, wintery, haze going on. so this is definitely a head light and windshield wiper type of day. out here we were able to talk to a few people out and b see lot of cars out and about. having to go to work this friday morning. really mix bad this wintery come back. take a listen. >> oh, i love snow. i go out and play in it. i have great time with it. my little truck, only two wheel drive. i get to work all right. >> so you don't like this snow right snow. >> not right now. couple of weeks ago maybe it would have been fine, but right now, no, don't like it

at all. >> so were you ready for winter to be over? >> absolutely. wasn't everybody? >> reporter: again lots of people out here. you can see behind me there is plow truck just going about their commute. but penndot is ready, on our way up here, we saw many snow plows on the side of the road filled with salt and just ready to go get to these roads. so that people can get to work. but for now live in allentown, trang do, "eyewitness news." jim, rahel, back to you. >> thank you, trang. put a hat on. >> and don't forget you can track the winter weather as it heads our way download the cbs winter weather map. freon itunes, google play. >> man hundred dollars on for knife wielding robbery suspect in northern liberty. surveillance video shows the man walking into family dollar store, girard avenue. police say he pulled a knife on an employee when she tried to stop him from stealing deodorant. shows the suspect shoving the woman into a shelf and taking off. if you recognize this suspect, please call police.

on wednesday night "eyewitness news" first told but nationwide outage that prevented at&t wireless customers from calling 911. now the fcc is investigating, delaware, chester, montgomery counties were getting just busy signal or lines kept drinking -- ringing. it started about 7:30 and wasn't fixed until about 10:30. non-emergency numbers in the county, alternate numbers should be able to work around the problem. >> the last thing we want is anybody to be delayed getting help. so if you can't get through to the service, get a neighbor, get a friend to make them aware. >> at this point at&t has not said what caused the 911 outage. >> healthcare moves front and center when president trump meets with key house committee chairs today. yesterday the republican planned to repeal and replace the affordable care act, cleared two committees, but conservatives are slow to back it, and democrats oppose it. the house expected to vote the week of march 20th.

>> julia assange said he's too long share information on what he calls tax cia materials to tech companies so those companies can fix security holes. earlier this week wikileaks publish thousands of pages of what it says was cia files about its hacking methods. reportedly show how the agency is hacking into phones and televisions to spy on people. the cia won't confirm. >> for centuries the ancient practice every yoga has helped people stay young and health. >> i certainly holds true for 98 year old lynch, yoga struck or from new york, despite hip re place. , still holds seven class as week, on top of all of that also ballroom dances competing with her 25 year old partner who says age is just a number. >> coming into the studio, i don't think about her age, i just her smile and her eyes that she -- >> the energy, it moves in your body.

>> says yoga teaches to you breathe correctly, and credits that with helping her live a long, healthy life. the yoga instructor also doesn't smoke and tries to eat in moderation. >> good for her. >> she looks good. >> well, up next. meisha takes us on another dream drive. >> and these little pieces every metal makes the world go around. meisha shows us where we can see our area's most important exports coming up next. >> plus this is a bit of a scary site. hundreds of geathers sung themselvesment find out why they all gather in this one spot. jan? >> it is a trip to holland, and you don't even need to leave the delaware valley. i'm jan carabeo, reporting live from the philadelphia flower show, this morning. it doesn't open to the public until tomorrow. we are taking you inside toda

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>> i believe that's allentown where trang do is. >> it is one of the best spots to go gator watching, and it is not hard to see why. a deep hole is a 134-foot deep sinkhole locate in the wilderness park. now, geathers congregate to the area because it is the only deep water left during the dry season. good source of food, park officials say you can see up to 200 geathers on typical day. >> okay, women, let's not get too comfortable with the thought offing in florida, because we're here in pennsylvania, new jersey, delaware, where it is likely going to snow. >> not a blizzards. >> where trang; allentown, already starting to snow, but remember she started her day in quakertown, and moving further north? >> lauren, when will we see it

here? i have to go out for my coffee after the showment am i going to get doused? >> can't get wet. >> protective coating. >> you won't get doused. definitely have the clouds in place. we do have some returns overhead on radar and center city philadelphia. so expect to see some kind of sprinkle level wintery mix in center city philadelphia. if you're headed outside any time in the near future, we will check in with weather watcher reports see what's going on with them right now. 36 degrees as we head to the north and west of the city. snow coming down, 36 degrees in pennsylvania, eileen says large flakes falling about 6:30, bundle up, getting colder, plus 4 degrees in a half hour. that's why we're seeing the transition over to all snow, very quickly because temperatures are plummeting. that's going to be the trends through the day today. we head up into chesterfield, 42 degrees, at ed's house, remember, that will be your most mild temperature of the day. cloudy conditions for now, temperature down few degrees in the last three hours, humidity rises, making it feel

raw outside. than is the trend, damp conditions, snow over spreading the area on storm scan3 right now, have indications every kind of wintery mix along the i59 corridor. will soon start hitting the surface, look toward northwestern new jersey, total, sussex county where snowing over the last several hours, nearly 3 inches, so once the snow gets going, it will be heavy in intensity, see the accumulations pile up pretty quickly, most of the accumulations will come through this morning. up toward the northwestern suburbs, snow in allentown, back into reading as well, so for the day today snow heavy at times this morning, then snow squawls this afternoon becoming winnie. 46 degrees, we've already hit that. once we fall in the 30's, stay there all throughout the afternoon. tonight mostly clear, windy, frigid, dropping back to 23 degrees. and in your seven day forecast, cold, cold, and more cold. kicking off the weekend 31 degrees, blustery conditions sunday 33 degrees as we spring forward. temperatures in the 30's, all the way into next weekends,

meisha, walking tuesday for the potential of more march snowfall. yeah. >> ya, just going to say, the irony of spring forward and then having three's, i mean, common. good morning, everyone, tgif. looking at the vine, pushing westbound direction, just spring of brake lights here, jump on to the schuylkill, heating up. a lot of people heeding the warnings, having the snow come n not going to be ton of snow, but little snow as we know in our travel plans, so just heads up push in the northbound direction, starting to she down, and in case you missed big news delaware river bridge reopened, actually reopened last night at 10:30, it wasn't scheduled to reopen until early to mid april. came together. made things happen for you. >> this has been impacting thousands of our morning commuters for about seven weeks. so great news. you can use the delaware river bridge now. we do have minor fire here, route 47 delsea drive closed between coals mill road and macarthur avenue. your alternate, frysmill road probably your best bet. also heads up on this, this

is clear, route one baltimore pike, parkers ville road, and talking about this all morning long, because of earlier tractor-trailer, has downed pole and wires, that's now since been cleared. so looking better over there, jim, over to you. >> thank you, meisha. take a look at this cell phone videoment amtrak train got stuck in a massive snow drift for 13 hours, in north dakota. >> 111 passengers were stranded by the 20-foot high by 200-foot long mound of snow. workers had to use bulldozers between now while coming to grab, told that the train did safely reach its destination. >> well it, may still officially be winter but certainly feel like spring over at the pennsylvania convention center. >> 2,017 philadelphia flower show kicks off saturday, so excited about this, jim, "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabeo live there this morning where the finish touches are underway for that opening weekend. good morning, jan. >> reporter: rahel, jim, good morning, the theme of this year's show, holland flowering the world.

it celebrate that culture, its beauty, its ingenuity, one of the ex observe tours did this to a key, it catches your eye as soon as you walk in the building. this is philly's own bill and chris shaver of shaver designs, thanks for being on our show this morning, guys, a stunning piece here. how did you come up with this? >> well we wanted to do something completely unexpected. and everything light, everything, so we went with the idea went to do something wild, crazy, went with the white white plan of 1950's, 1965 to 1967. >> incredible. how billing is this? how much manpower did it take to create this? >> well, 30 people on site for about 2,000 plus hours, not counting 4,000 man hours prior to even showing up at the convention center incredible. >> 250 bikes in the sculpture. >> wow. >> yes. >> two ooh? >> and over 15,000 stems of

flowers. >> incredible. >> all -- >> are you happy with the outcome? it is stunning. >> absolutely. we're incredibly happy, really proud of all the people that came out to help us. >> you've been here around the clock. right? when did you leave last night? >> about an hour ago just to wash up for you. >> guys, thank you. just for me. do you have any last minute touches or is this it? is this what the public will see? >> this is it, we're ready to go, thank goodness. >> thank goodnessment and you are regulars here, coming back year after year. what bridges you back to the philadelphia flower show? >> great great friendship. more than anything else. and we love educating, and so we bring in a lot of people who get to do things that they would never, ever, ever have the chance to do otherwise. >> and walking around, i know you've been working on your piece specifically, around the clock. but what do you think of the entire show the theme this year celebrating dutch culture? >> great great inspirational thing for florist so we couldn't help be mesmerized by

what everybody would do, i mean, flowers from holland what we are all about. >> some of the dutch i can inch tours, really push ourselves to another level. >> absolutely beautiful, guys. job well done. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. >> all right, and what a treat it is for the 250,000 people who come to the philadelphia flower show, each and every every year. we have windmills. we've got bikes. we have great time, starts tomorrow, open to the public, at 11:00 in the morning. you got to come out and check it out. rahel, jim, back into you. >> thank you, jan, you're going tomorrow? >> my mom annually go tomorrow, yes. good show. once again the philadelphia flower show opens tomorrow and runs through march 19 at the pennsylvania convention center. >> and philadelphia celebrating the 225th anniversary of the us mint. >> see how modern change is made, so meisha, dream drive, check it out. >> you know what? where doesn't we go together,

right? this time we're going a stone throw away from historic buildings right in the nation, right here. so take a look, you guys. >> we are driving through the beautiful historic old city philadelphia. and we're going to somewhere really cool today. a place where we will be talking about money. >> welcome to the united state mit of philadelphia. this is the largest and we make more coins here than any place on earth. >> can watch the frost above, but thanks to tim, we get to see an up close look how coins are turned out every single day. but let's back to up where it really begins. the design. one of the artists who makes the two dimensional picture into tiny three dimensional sculpture working with clay and blaster before touching it up digitally.

>> we get to sculp all of the coins and metals. >> wow that's amazing. >> joseph, metallic artist, too, but his work is all digital. like this reagan presidential dollar. >> my design two dimensional declaring, three dimensional format. >> once the digital design is perfect it is off to the production line to make it into de. >> what's going on behind us? glenn the plant floor. right behind us we're cutting blanks out of long sheet every metal. each one of those coils is weighing about had tons. it only takes one strike and the coins are complete. >> the hard-working and dedicated men and women here at the u.s. mint make about 35 million coins every single day. and we ship them out to banks around the country. >> this is also where decades every commemorative metals and coins come it life giving

people little history on their shelves, and in their pockets. >> it is such a neat place. be prepared to go through a lot of metal detectors, although the general public isn't allowed on the floor, the u.s. mint does see more at cbsphilly.com/dream drive. have you guys been? >> i can walk there within two minute. and i've never gone in there. >> you have to go there. >> i've thought about it. >> i've been there for a fieldtrip like in mel elementary school. >> you nothing mat in elementary school. you have to go as an adult. >> all right, guys, got to get there. >> thanks, meisha, we will be right back with three to go.

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>> this pocono mountain peak brought to you by the pocono mountain visitors bureau, free you, pocono mountain. >> before you hit the road it is three to go. >> philadelphia region under winter weather advisory until 2:00 this afternoon, snow already falling in the lehigh val. >> i philadelphia police investigating series every paint ball attacks in the northwest section, two people seriously hurt. >> philadelphia flower show starts tomorrow at the pennsylvania convention center runs through march 19. that's three to go. >> last check on weather and traffic. >> all right, things are getting going, storm scan3, getting busy of course, we have the snow already falling in the lehigh valley, now seeing reports in chester county, also bucks county, snow coming down, starting to sprinkle here in center city philadelphia soon it will be snow.

snow takes us to the morning hours, and snow squawls this afternoon. forty-six our high temperature, already hit that, we will be in the 30's this afternoon where we will stay for the next week, meisha? >> snow, snow, go away. we've got an accident here with a fuel spill, guys. new jersey route 73 right now closed near egg harbor road. you will have to use an alternate. a.c. expressway route 30 is going to be your best bet. and also, the delaware river bridge, guys, is reopened. yeah. big news. >> thanks, meisha. the greater philadelphia boat show opens today in oaks. >> in addition to the boats, one of philly favorite starts are, there talking about twiggy, the water skiing squirrel. the little star has been in movies like dodgeball, anchorman, even brad pacely music video, it runs through sunday at the expo center. twig he performs several times throughout the weekend, mower tails at the philadelphia both show. com. >> good looking squirrel. >> next, pot for your pets, find out if marijuana products are safe for your animals.

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