katie and meisha keeping an eye on things this morning. good morning, ladies. >> they are tumbling, they are >> i would love to know what frigid means in philadelphia, what does that feel like. >> it is in the 30's, yes. >> okay. all right. looking outside right now we have lots of construction but we have an accident that popped up in egg harbor one with injuries, more serious, we will talk about that coming up. >> in terms of the question would i say at lee probably anything below freezing is usually what will feel colder for philadelphians in general. but you're right, it is almost 50 degrees in philadelphia so don't get used to that is message because it is about to get colder. >> yes, exactly. >> so dramatically said, yes, those temperatures will continue to tumble. reason is a cold front. we have an upside down day here, milder now but with tell temperatures continue to drop off. then they will level off in the mid to upper 30's through the rest of the day and we

will only crack maybe 40 degrees at best through daylight hours. it is a lot milder right now. we can see a hint of moisture through southern most counties , mostly not hitting the ground, generally we have a clear sky or tumble of cloud but look at these temperatures in the 50's in dover. so it is deceptive. walk outside door this this isn't so bad. it will not stay this way. again have your heavy winter coat ready to go we will be very grateful. we have it with time as wind kick up despite full sunshine it will not get milder then this. very cold day up in the mountains at best mid 20's but back here in philadelphia at the shore, it is 15 degrees colder then average with these values at best in the low to mid 40's. meisha. >> thank you very much. good morning everyone. we are looking outside we were looking atwood haven road earlier, that has been since cleared. that construction for those maybe wondering, and schuylkill taillights eastbound past gird are girard at i-95 both are looking g

just crack in the 5:00 o'clock hour. those will change. thinks accident i was discussing at the desk a little bit. it is a little bit more serious this has injuries. this is in egg harbor. ac expressway westbound before route 50 egg harbor left lane is block right now, we will start to see, some, sometime to slow down. i would say a little bit, maybe coming up in the next 30 minutes if this does not get cleared out of the way. why? we will get gaper delays. not congestion, no bumper to bumper but we will get gaper delays, brake lights. we have construction in new jersey 295 north between route 47 and 42, one and two lanes are blocked and that will hold out until 6:00 a.m. jim, over to you. well, authorities are trying to figure out what sparked a house fire in west philadelphia, earlier this morning. fire fighters were called to the 5,000 block of haverford avenue, just after 1:00 a.m. they battled blaze for 30 minutes, before bringing it under control, and in one was injured, but as you can see the house took on quite a bit of damage. more on our top story,

philadelphia's district attorney seth williams indicted. he faces two dozen corruption charges. >> one of the charged the cities top prosecutors stole from his own relative. "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabao is live from the federal courthouse in center citied where williams will be charged later today, good morning, what dawn tell us. >> reporter: rahel and jim, good morning. prosecutors are calling, seth williams behavior, brazen and wide ranging. d.a. seth williams expected to be here in the federal courthouse to be arraigned on a number of charges around 2:00 this afternoon. he is facing a 23 count indictment, on charges including bribery and extortion. take a look at the video, this is one of the last times we saw d.a. williams as he announced he wouldn't run for a third term following ethics violations. this time williams is back in the spotlight facing federal charges. he is accused of taking tens of thousands of dollars worth of the concealed bribes from two business owners in exchange for his agreement to perform official acts. in the 50 page indictment,

prosecutor say that this pattern of activity stretched on for years, for example they say williams had multiple dealings with an associate listed in the indictment as business owner number one beginning in 2010. according to the indictment for access to his office, williams accepted a $4,800 paid trip to punta cana and less than $1,600 in airline tickets. williams allegedly wrote in the text message to business owner number one quote i am merely a thankful beggar and don't want to over step my bound in asking but we will gladly go. perhaps most troubling allegation has to do with defrauding a nursing home, prosecutors say williams put $10,000 in his own account that was supposed to go to the relative's nursing expenses, they say he took the entire 10 grand for personal use, "eyewitness news" caught up with former philadelphia d.a. lynn abraham for her thoughts. >> i think that is for got of the office he should tender his resignation, immediately, the office can try to heel itself. >> mr. williams simply took

money that did not belong to him and then lied bit. >> now an attorney for d.a. seth williams says that williams is innocent of these charges and they will fight them in court. of course we will continue to follow this story but for now we are live outside federal courthouse, jan carabao for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". jim and rahel, back to you. mayor jim kenney released a statement about the charges against williams saying it is deeply shameful that the cities chief law enforcement officer has been implicated in a flagrant violation of the law. at a time when our citizens trust in government is at an all time low, it is disheart evening to see yet eerie elected official give the public another reason not to trust us. that this comes at head of our justice system is even more troubling, we must greatly raise bart for our behavior and show citizens of philadelphia, that we are capable of carrying out our most basic responsibilities, as elected officials, up holding the law. stay with "eyewitness

news" for complete coverage of the arraignment of the seth williams today. coming up at 5:30 we will hear from the candidates hoping to replace williams as philadelphia's district attorney. the clock is ticking for president trump to gather support for revised g.o.p. plan to to overhaul obama care it is set to be taken up by house committee for fourth and final time before house leaders bring it to the floor for passage tomorrow. but as hena daniels tolls us democrats and at lee 24 house republicans remain opposed to the plan. >> it is really a crucial vote for the republican party. >> reporter: president trump mounted a full court press on tuesday trying to get the republican replacement for obama care, passed. >> the house bill end the obama care nightmare and gives health care decisions back to the american people. >> reporter: remarks before republican donors in washington. >> i think we will get the vote on thursday. >> reporter: came on the same day mr. trump met with house members behind closed doors warning them to vote yes on the bill on thursday, or face

political consequences. north carolina representative mart meadows is among conservative whose remains un convinced. >> the bill that we're currently considering does not lower premiums for vast majority of the americans. >> reporter: over next 48 hours, democrats intend to wage war against the republican plan in a memo issued late last night house minority leader nancy pelosi urged fellow democrats to use all available time to speak out against the republican bill, on the house floor today >> my personal views have nothing to do with my job as a judge. >> reporter: as a health care battle continues to unfold, president trump's supreme court nominee neil gorsuch is trying to stake out his independence from the command inner chief. >> when anyone criticizes honesty, integrity or motives of a federal judge i find that demoralizing. >> reporter: gorsuch did not mention the president by name

in his testimony. he set to field more tough questions from democrats on capitol hill today. henna daniels for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". in other news, britain joins the united states in a new security measure banning electronic devices in the cabin of certain overseas flights. restrictions effects flights from eight middle earn, and north african countries, passengers on those flights must check all electronics bigger than a cell phone that includes lap tops and tablets. new rules went into effect tuesday and airlines have until friday to comply. it is first of its kind lawsuit in pennsylvania a local high school student is suing his school district, he said that his privacy rights were violated after he was forced to share a locker room with the transgender student. the 11th grader at boyer town area high school said he felt sexually harassed when he and other male students had to start sharing a locker room with a girl who identifies as a boy. the school district refused to comment on its locker room

policy. up next, remembering a gong show hoe chuck baris. we will tell but his connection to our area. how is your march madness bracket doing? we will tell you unique way these were put together which will be probably better than the way jim picked. >> i agree. in china the yellow river is moving so fast it is making powerful waterfalls, we will tell you what added to this raging river. >> ♪ don't go chasing waterfalls ♪ on a area wednesday, it is becoming a tourist destination , we will explain it for you, we will be right back.

kind of like this look. i'm calling it the "name your price tool" phase. whatever. ♪ >> fans are mourning the death of philadelphia native and game show pioneer chuck baris. he was brains, you may recall behind the cookie 70's tv hit the gong show and, famous hits like the dating game and the newlywed game. he wrote the hit 60's song,

passing park and several books including one in which he claimed to be a cia agent. baris graduated from drexel university and recently joked his tomb stone would read gong ed at last, chuck baris was 87 years old. you were so kind to me not cause i was also from philadelphia, but cause our paths crossed happily over the years. rest in peace. overseas north korea's latest missle launch peers to have ended in failure according to south korean defense officials who are working to analyze what type of missle that it was. earlier this month north korea fired four ballistics missiles and landed in waters off japan triggering strong protest from tokyo and south korea. and in china tourist are flock to go see a magnificent heterfall >> take a look at this drone video of the, waterfall, was taken on sunday, and it captured torrential waters rise and ice meltsm withe

on the river it is water surge s sending the spray high in the air. >> beautiful shot. >> speaking of ice melting so happy to see it seems most of the ice on philadelphia streets are starting to melt. >> we're back. i will say i'm glad our parking lot is better then it has been. >> the cbs-3 parking lot. >> that was a rough go for three or four days, yeah, snow thankfully for the most part has melted away. there are still mound where we had to plow and shove it all in one place off in the parking lots and other places but regardless, we are definitely looking ahead for the most part, to a milder outlook, and that is not true today, however today. i want to you walk out the day adequately prepared. it is deceptive out there at the moment. we will check that out. lets back that up here as we are winding down, we are winding down the month of march, yesterday, as expected we denned up with an above average day, plus five for

what is average, making it mean we ended up around 59 degrees but overall it is still cooler then average movement now looking forward, it is at lee ride now appearing as though april will be above average for right now , so, it seems like march is an anomaly in regard to what we have seen in recent months. looking at storm scan, nice wide zoom lake effect snow falling right now, perhaps we will see flurry in the poconos we will rely on the eyewitness weather watchers up that way finding a flurry here please let us know but we are expecting a dry day, cold front passes through though bigger impacts will be the feels like values, temperature dropping, the wind picking up, but looking at this, watch what happens here in the temperature, it will just fall , i will tell you right now. it will fall but look at how far it does fall from 5:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. we will go from the mid 30's feels like values to the 20's. it will be a pretty wrapped drop off here and then we're stuck with feels like values at best in the 20's for the rest of the day. 10:00 a.m. right through the afternoon and even early

evening feels no better in the teens in the city very likely so really cold day coming up here and then just continues in the overnight hours and into tomorrow. now thankfully the wind will be easing up but for now it has yet to really pick up, to its strongest intensity. it is out of the northwest at the moment at 15 miles an hour , it will pick up as high as 25 sustained, gusts as high as 35 miles an hour, so, that of course will make it feel colder. with that said, here's a taste of january, for you, even though it is milder, right now , this is your afternoon high, at best, don't go by it though. factor in the wind. that is a better gauge for how you need to be preparing to walk out the door, clear, frigid tonight, dropping 20, still breezy but not as harsh, thankfully, looking forward as we jump in to tomorrow, it is brisk out there and a frigid start to the day but we're wrappedly turning around here up to zero seven on saturday, courtesy of a potent warm front passage, meisha. >> all right, katie, thanks very much. and good morning, everyone so what are we talking about right now? well, the construction out

there. but not here. ninety-five south at cottman this is what we are looking at pushing in the southbound direction. looking g we are seeing brake lights but that is not due to congestion. now, calling your attention right away to video here, you guys, emergency construction in cherry hill route 561 between walt whitman boulevard and cranford road one lane is opened, both ways, both directions, between 7:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. through friday. so you will want to use an alternate, crescent road or white horse pike is probably going to be your best bet, in and around that area just a head up we will talk about that more this morning. then also we have an accident that has been cleared in egg harbor ac expressway westbound before route 50. that has been cleared. we are looking good there. we have more construction to talk about. we will talk about these places all morning long until they clear. cherry hill route 70 between springdale road and new jersey turnpike one lane blocked, this is blocked, until around 6:00 a.m. more coming up in the next 10 minutes. rahel and jim, back over to

you. now for a lot newspaper headlines across our region. >> from the reading eagle more and more berks county municipalities are using electronic signs to slow down drivers, radar speed display signs seem to be popping up every where, west reading, bought two of the signs for $4,000. the police chief says that the signs are excellent calming devices, and cause people to slow down and drive less aggressively. burlington county times, county is moving forward to upgrade its public safety communication system. new radio towers and re structure existing won. it is estimated to cost five million-dollar, the system connects all 911 calls from all 40 municipalities. in the bucks county courier times pennsbury high school retired a air force major as first senior aerospace science instructor who will teach course that is will form backbone of the high school's new air force, junior reserve officer training core program, that will start, next

year. and that is a look at newspaper headlines from around the delaware valley. up next, pat's here with sports, good morning, pat. coming up we will go west to see if the flyers can hold on to those slim playoff hopes nfl is coming to philadelphia and they need you , we will tell you thousand get involved when we

welcome back and thanks for wake up with us. >> patrick is here with sports it looks like time is running out for flyers. >> we were hoping for playoff birth but someone, don't think it will be them. it seems like we have been saying this for weeks, flyers continue to hang on to slim hopes of the playoff birth. a win last night would help

but loss with 11 games left would be devastating. to the frozen tundra of winnipeg wayne simmonds, holding, holding, and jordan wheel scoring putting flyers up one to nothing. the jets though they come right back. this is blake wheeler, on the power play, and slapper would beat steve mason, it is one- one. to the third period we will go , wheeler, wheeler, winning, >> scores. >> second of the game flyers lose three-two. they are seven points back of the wild card spot with just 10 to play. tonight at eight sixers continue their five game road trip in oklahoma city where they will deal with mvp candidate russell westbrook. he is looking to be the first player since oscar robert son in 1962 to average a triple double. high school hoops at liacouras center class 3a semi finals dell val charter and newman goretti that is round tree with two hand, he is going to villanova later green

goes coast to coast for lay in green is going to kentucky next year. newman goretti heading to the state finals. they beat dell val 76-47. in the second game it was archbishop ryan facing reading in the 6a semi finals. first half, ryan with the ball , tyrone, going up strong with ryan's fred taylor swats him away. later, lonnie walker of reading with the great follow-up, lay in, reading beats ryan 57-51. in five weeks nfl takes over city of philadelphia when draft sets up shop here in front of the art museum but if you are looking to get involved, the league would like to hear from you. nfl is looking for volunteers, to work at the nfl draft experience fan festival on the ben franklin parkway. now, it will run from april 27th until the 29th, now you have to be at lee 18 years old and willing to volunteer for two shifts but if you want in, we have put the information on our web site, cbs philly.com.

march madness resumes right here on cbs-3 tomorrow and if you your bracket is busted you are not alone but there are very, very young fans, whose brackets are still going strong. a wisconsin child care center has had their one year-old pick teams and fill out brackets. nine of the youngsters still have a team in the sweet 16 and baby marcus has north carolina tar heels winning it all. >> we held up numbers like one verse eight, and there we go, number eight. >> then we had them go through numbers and pick which won they wanted. >> she says that the one year-olds are doing better than teachers and certainly better than our own jim donovan i think. >> fifty-four points. >> you still have your champion. >> no. >> but i still have oregon. >> okay. >> they were going to play in the final. >> randomness of it all.

>> thanks, pat. >> very scientific. coming up next half an hour of "eyewitness news" how one bank is hoping to let customers use atm's without their debit card. and a lawsuit against disney we will have a live report from wall street, trang do. >> reporter: crowded field of candidates is vying to be philadelphia's next district attorney i'm trang do live with their reaction to seth williams indictment. and new photograph surfac ing showing tennessee teacher and his 15 year-old student in the classroom, we will hear from the teen brother as search intensifies to find the pair, katie. rahel, as we head to the weekend we have unsettled weather heading our way with the larger storm about to hit us here but it is, a week end that features a significant temperature swing very warm on saturday we will get for 07 degrees back to more seasonal conditions on sunday but that is best day for rainfall of the weekend. notice i'm in the wearing gloves yet but i will need them later on and i'll explain why in

temperatures tumbling, places like bethlehem, lehigh valley will see frigid lows but relief is on the way, sweet, sweet relief good morning i'm rahel solomon. aim jim donovan.

kate and and meisha will be here in a moment but first here's what you need to know to start your day in the morning minute. >> i think, he should tender his resignation, immediately. >> philadelphia's top prosecutor, facing multiple corruption charges. mr. williams was willing to compromise his position of public trust, in exchange for private, financial gain. it really is a crucial vote for the republican party. president trump mounts a full court press trying to get republican replacement for obama care passed. i'm not leaving until y'all shake hand. >> fist fight end in friendship thanks ton an sung hero. >> mr. ali i want want to thank him a lot. if it wasn't for him it could have gone a different way. >> any super power what would it be. i would like to have this super cool, alien high tech red and green and lantern on