, getting those flames out . here's is what happening another chance of snow with some side streets, still snow covered, and we could be seeing some more winter weather this weekend. somebody need to tell mother nature it is st. patrick's day and we are ready for spring. good evening i'm ukee washington. i'm jessica dean. meteorologist lauren casey in for kate bilo live on the sky deck and, lauren, say it ain't so. >> don't do it. >> mother nature is being so cruel, why? >> yes, i feel like we are all grounded. we will get two days of sunshine but over last hour it feels chillier out here on the sky deck because the skies are clouding over and we have who that sunshine, all this moisture building in advance of the next weather system that will be slow moving and bringing us a couple shots of snowfall but on a positive note we have our warmest temperatures we have felt in

about a week time and they are not that impressive but 44 degrees in philadelphia, 46 in ac and 41 degrees in allentown. storm scan three is showing us those cloud are quickly on the increase, moisture up wind and you see green, pink abe are and oh, yes, white all moving this way. winter weather north and west of the city starting at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning to 6:00 a.m. sunday morning. berks county, lehigh valley and poconos what to expect this weekend? slow moving system. we will see moisture building in advance and then lingering moisture and storm system exits off to thee and it will start as wintry mix late tonight, early for tomorrow morning and in the city and then we will see our best chance of snowfall really across the delaware valley coming late saturday night early sunday morning and we will have a chance of some accumulation, it will be minor in most areas, we will talk more about what to expect in the full forecast coming up in just a few. >> thanks, lauren. just yesterday president trump released his budget blueprint that calls for increaseness military spending and cuts in some other areas.

"eyewitness news" reporter greg argos went to chester county to see how those federal counts could affect food banks at the local level >> we have mandarin orange, spinach and fried rice. >> reporter: every day hundreds of meals are prepared at chester county food bank. >> we served over 97,000 meals last year. >> reporter: delivered to senior citizens throughout the county as part of the meals on wheels program which may have funding cut if president trump 's budget approval is a have had proper. >> we have received 35 percent of our budget from government contracts. so, it would be a huge loss if that were to go down. >> reporter: the president's budget blew print for calls for cutting 18 percent of federal funding for department of health and human services, 35 percent for wheels on wheels comes from the older americans act administered by hhs, 21 percent of the department of agricultural

could be slashed. >> absolutely. >> reporter: this director for agency and community partnerships at food bank describes those potential slashes, with two word. >> devastating and instantly. >> reporter: just yesterday all of the food you see here, paid for and delivered by the federal government but with massive cuts proposed to the department of agriculture, those working here at chester county food bank say that all of this food could soon be gone. >> plus that budget passed it will be almost instantly affecting us. we will see within three months, four months, five months, less food being offered through this system. >> reporter: she says all local food assistance programs like meals on wheels would be affected since less food would be arriving and she believes that staff will to have get creative in order to keep these shelves stocked. >> we need to be smart, look for funding, look for grants, looking for foundations, and look for fundraisers so people that like to do. >> reporter: in chester county greg argos for cbs-3 three "eyewitness news".

police officers and fire fighters in atlantic city want to get word out about cuts that they say will jeopardize public safety. they handed out flyers today, at boardwalk to raise aware ness. cuts have been proposed by the state which took over atlantic city is finances. proposal calls for reducing police force from 274 to 250, and the fire department from 225, to 125. >> being the fire department or the police department, if we feel it is unsafe, who else is going to tell you that it is unsafe. it is our duty to let public and the people know who we protected, geese, if these things go through we are not going to be able to protect you the way that you should be protected. >> police union filed a lawsuit wednesday to try to stop the cuts, and a squish you'd a ruling today on a similar lawsuit broad forward by the fire fighters. it says that layoffs cannot go forward but it does allow for salary reductions. a former pennsylvania state trooper is facing

charges in the 2014 shooting death, of a wife. joseph miller was arraigned on two counts of the involuntary manslaughter. he is now free, on $100,000 unsecured bail. investigators say miller fatal ly shot his wife joanna in the family east nor itton home in march 2014. woman and her baby died at the hospital. authorities say miller told them his gun discharged, as he prepared to clean it. police are looking for a man accused of exposing himself in the chester county library in exton on wednesday. west whiteland township officers say woman reported that the man performed a lewd act while inside of the facility. officers say that the man they are looking for was captured on this surveillance video as he was leaving. anyone with any information is asked to cat police. well, fire officials are examining cause behind a fire that damaged two bay front home in avalon. chopper over the scene, investigators say three people in one home on segal drive escaped without injury. fire quickly spread to an

unoccupied vacation home next door, one neighbor say that she's heart broken for the affected homeowners. >> just helping me tear down, it is terrible. they have all their memories who. i mean i'm cry because i'm too sensitive. so i'll say prayers for them. >> we are told water issues hampered fire fighting effort but fire was placed under control in about an hour. helping veterans and active members of the military cope with mental health issues , a big problem that is not always easy to talk about. >> health reporter stephanie stahl has more on a new private center offering free help, for those in need. >> that is right, it often goes with the territory, being in the military can trigger a variety of mental health issues like depression, anxiety, and there is help at va and new is there also a private center at penn that is providing free, behavioral health care to veterans and their family members. >> sometimes... >> reporter: she adores her two-year old son but his birth triggered a serious bought of

post partum depression. >> dark thoughts, sometimes i have violent thought. would i sit in my room, and in the dark and i would have thoughts of suicide, i would have thoughts of harming other people. >> reporter: former weapons instructor had difficulty getting through her sessions with the national guard. >> this is a very stressful job being in the military especially when you are in the national guard because you have to be a civilian and a solder. >> reporter: three months ago she came to the cohen military family clinic penn medicine. >> you took therapy and owned it. >> reporter: where she received medications and cognitive behavioral therapy. >> once you she could identify distortion is it gave her an opportunity to view situation ness a different way, which changed how she felt, and it change the way that she responded to those structures in they are life. >> reporter: military personnel especially those in combat situations often suffer with a variety of mental health problems. >> veterans that come in with pose traumatic stress disorder

, depression, and anxiety, and i would say those are the biggest, three biggest concerns. >> reporter: yes. >> now that i have a way to cope and now i'm more educated i can deal with anything copping my way. >> reporter: she's 27 and says that the therapy has turned her life around. >> i am feeling great. >> reporter: she says that she now wants to help other members of the military struggling with mental health issues. cohen clinic at penn offers free counseling to vets and their family members, which included therapy for children and couples. we have more information, on this including some links for you at cbs philly.com, click on health. >> it is wonderful for her to share her story because we never know who is watching and it may be connect to go someone. >> she is still able to smile. >> yes. many people across the region are making st. patrick 's day to day a special event. >> "eyewitness news" what the annual st. patrick's day ceremony at irish memorial on penns landing. members of the philadelphia's irish community gathered there to celebrate their ancestry,

and commemorate those who left ireland during the very difficult time. >> story of the irish in america and particularly philadelphia was initially one of the hardship and tragedy. 1840's our ancestors were starved out of their home land and we owe to it our ancestors that came here so that their children, grandchildren and great grandchildren and so on, could experience prosperity and to do better and to experience freedom of religion >> irish dance, topped off the occasion, children's step dance and sing. still ahead on "eyewitness news" tonight history of st. patrick's day in this city. >> it is a philadelphia holiday holder then the you had i'm david spunt and i'll tell but an early st. patty's day celebration with a famous founding father. closing their doors, dozens of jc pennies will be closing down. we will show you locationness our area affect. villanova faces wisconsin tomorrow, a very dangerous

team, we will hear from the players and coach

well, more than 100jc penny stores are closing or relocating, impacting 5,000 people, who are employed by the company nationwide. four stores are impacted locally, including the locations at king of prussia mall, willow grove park and philadelphia mills in pennsylvania. and a location at the rio grande plaza shopping center in new jersey. now the company says that most of the employees will be impacted beginning in june, but liquidation process will begin as early as april 17th.

for loyal shoppers we spoke with the news, it is surprising. >> we're like what will take its place, if anything? then we will see big vacant areas in these malls, and it just makes it feel like it is start of like a down fall almost. >> the company hopes by closing some of their stores they will be able to preserve their long term profitability. st. patrick's day is a big day not only around country but especially right here in philadelphia tonight as "eyewitness news" reporter david spunt shows us, the celebration started before the you had, even existed. >> ♪ >> reporter: st. patrick's day parade is a stapel in philadelphia after research we found out it all started with a small dinner, and ben franklin was on the get list. >> so this is invitation, sent to franklin, this is ben franklin's paper we have here. >> reporter: inside this build ago cross the street from independent hall we met patrick, head librarian at american philosophical society he took us inside a vault and

shows us this invitation for ben franklin to join irish citizens for a celebration at city tavern. half past 3:00 o'clock march 17th, 1787, exactly 230 years ago today. >> 230 years ago they were celebrating st. pat's at city tavern and you can still do that today. >> reporter: one small sample of exciting st. patrick's history in the city, celebrations here began in 1771, five years before the declaration of the independent was even signed, inside this independent hall room. >> in 1771, a group of irish men called friendly sons of the st. patrick, they started a dinner and basically started st. patrick's parade in celebration of the you had. >> reporter: mikayla maria is a local historian specializing in the irish experience in philadelphia. and she says that it is a rich history. >> george washington was not irish himself but he was invited to join friendly sons of the st. patrick after and during the war, one winter he gave his troops st. patrick's

day off to celebrate because he knew so many were irish. >> reporter: those old days may be long gone but history of the irish experience in philadelphia, lives on, today, at the irish memorial, here in society hill. st. patrick's day and philadelphia, an important relationship almost 300 years old, and it is just getting started. >> william penn pen's root go back too ireland, penn's family had property in ireland and do irish well. >> david spunt for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". happy st. patty's day. >> yes. >> yes, indeed. we saw snow, still out there, yes. >> starting off a little boy day. >> but sunshine will help things out, nice st. patty's day, nicest day of the week, what do you think. >> i will say, yes. >> we have a low bar now, but not frozen. >> yes. >> it is not frozen. >> it is upcoming weekend, the conditions will be okay, although, we have a chance, several chances of a shot at snow but right now seeing high

cloud in the scene right now getting a live look on neighborhood network camera, kutztown 33 degrees, wind not too bad, not too much wind chill impact only 6 miles an hour. we did get a break from the blustery conditions, still breezy at times, west wind around 13 miles an hour, you can see we had blue skies, now we have turned over, overcast conditions, as cloud cover filtering out our sunshine 44 degrees, feeling more like 38 degrees when you factor in those wind and temperatures they are cool but really at highest level they have been all week long, 41 allentown, 44 wilmington. 46 degrees in dover. there is a warm front just to the south, we would like to pull up that. fifty-two in richmond. it is not going to clear the delaware valley as we head in the next couple of days, but good news, we have got a break from the windy conditions, we have several windy days, wind were still whipping, today, not too bad, wind on the relatively milder side. storm scan three showing us high level cloud deck increasing in advance of the moisture.

we have to saturate atmosphere we are seeing returns across southern delaware. but overnight tonight, it will a light wintry mix developing late, it is well past midnight 33 degrees and then a brief wintry mix early tomorrow morning and then transition go to period of the rain, high temperature of 46 degrees, tomorrow looking like a good movie day. future weather shows as you we head in the evening hours mainly quiet and then well after midnight we will see precipitation band building in at 6:00 in the morning so all snow north and west, i-95 around philadelphia will start as light wintry mix, all rainfall for you as we head throughout the day we are dealing with all rainfall mainly philadelphia, south jersey and shore but then this is saturday night transition ing back over to snow, potentially in philadelphia and south jersey, we will see chance of snowfall along the coast, best chance will be late saturday night, early sunday morning and then things taper off as we head in the second half of our day on sunday. but as far as accumulation we will see most through this prolong kind of an event, one,

two, 3 inches in the lehigh valley, 4 inches in mount pocono, i-95 a coat to go an inch at best and could pick up a coating through this down the shore. snowfall estimates, these are four different models for center city philadelphia call than see there nothing too scary on the high end, through saturday and sunday picking up less than 2 inches from gps but as we head into the weekend watch for that chance of snow late saturday night early sunday morning. even if we get dusting it it makes things tricky on the roadways. as we head into monday, mostly sunny, 52 degrees, nice start to the season but then cooler by wednesday and thursday with highs in the 40's. >> you mention aid good movie day, this is from the cast of the beauty and the beast. >> so nice. >> thank you. >> i'm the bell of the ball. >> powerful move by you. >> yes. >> yes. >> i got one for you too. >> okay. >> for to you give somebody.

>> all right. >> well done, pass the roses. >> we are talking sports, time to regroup but villanova wildcats are saying about their match up against wisconsin hopefully they come up roses. >> what up with those seniors,

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well, chris jenkins does it that it three at buzzers wildcats don't celebrate their first title in three decade. it is wig smooth doesn't play better right now they don't have a chance at a repeat, tomorrow villanova plays wisconsin in wound two of the tournament. leslie van arsdal joins us live, from buffalo with more, leslie. >> reporter: hi there, don. chris jenkins has been struggling but don't tell him that, and do not use the word, slump. villanova beat mount st. mary 76-56 last night but score very deceiving. defending national champions only up by one at half. chris jenkins missed his first

10 shots. >> i don't know, sometimes the balls fall, sometimes they don't. we play defense and we rebound here so we always have a chance to win. >> just keep shooting. >> you know, with him, he is a shooter. that is what he is. so, you know, you will not tell him don't shoot this one, you know, you are in a slump. that is like tell brett favre don't throw the ball. >> wisconsin is a big team with a ton of tournament experience. they necessity that they will have to step up their game. >> if you get off to a bad start, you could be in trouble and not be able to recover. that was i thought was great about what we did in the second half but you will not do that, again and certainly not going to do that against wisconsin because of their style of play too. they are going to grind you. they get a lead, they will grind you and not a team you want to get behind on. >> and let's hepp big smooth can find that shot tomorrow, against wisconsin because it sound like they are really going to need him, don, back

to you. >> whatever you do don't use the word, slump. >> thanks, leslie, appreciate it. no, no, no. tonight's schedule on cbs-3 madness continues, wichita stay and dayton and northern kentucky and kentucky , at 9:30. switching to the guys that get paid to play, nick stauskus says it will be weird seeing him in a different uniform, nerlens noel says he is excited to be back. tonight noel makes his return as a member of the dallas mavericks, highlight after college hoops tonight. down in clearwater phillies helps continuing the blue jays, fightins rocking green jerseys on st. patty's day why not. green means go. phillies down one to nothing in the third, two on for howie kendrick, giving back to the people, three run shot, his first of the spring but, the phillies fall, seven-five to the blue jays. >> they looked sharp. >> i like that. >> tradition. >> standing o tonight for nerlens. >> no doubt bit, can't wait.

>> well, going in a different direction a new twist on the classic game. >> stay tuned for the new season you will be seeing on the monopoly

it is the end of an era or beginning of something new and exciting. fans around the world, have spoken and today, monopoly is

celebrating their new game pieces. >> the new trex rubber duck and penguin pieces will replace the thimble, boot and wheel barrel in the future hasbro board games. >> old toke wrens voted out during madness vote in january fans from 100 countries pick the new tokens from a list. you may be happy to necessity that the scottie dog and the top hat are still, some of the most popular pieces, in the game. >> that is reassuring. thanks for watching "eyewitness news" at 6:00 we are back at 10 on the cw philly and back here on cbs-3 after march madness. >> up next, "cbs evening news" , tonight a secret service agent's lap top goes missing, latest blemish for an agency supposed to be protecting highly restrict information. could sensitive material wind unin the wrong hand. they will explain n for scott pelley is anthony mason from new york. take care family we will see you tonight.

>> mason: the president and the chancellor. >> at least we have something in common, perhaps. >> the president suggests he and angela merkel were wiretapped by president obama. also tonight, more embarrassing security breaches for the secret service. a missing laptop with sensitive information. and why did it take 15 minutes to catch a white house fence jumper? the trump budget -- >> we can't spend money on programs just because they sound good. meals on wheels sounds great. >> excuse me? i see these people waiting for their food to come every day. it works. >> mason: and steve hartman with a young boy on a mission. >> thank you, man.