>>in hart man. >> 1.2 million-dollar in the ronald mcdonald house charities tell-a-thon. thunder. more from kevin hart and final tally that jim just gave away there. >> i didn't realize we were doing it later. >> but for now lets get out to katie. we have rain lately but we are in for a sunny, wednesday. >> we are indeed, yes. yesterday, we could not see the sun even if we wanted it all they we had plenty of sunshine in our hearts with a wonderful success of the ronald mcdonald's house charity tell-a-thon. i didn't realize that was donation kevin hart made. he does so much for the communit to pi es here in the city. so a nice, quiet pattern at weather never does maintain't one pattern, does it. but skies are clear. we see how this break from the cloud cover. as i look overhead at cbs-3 sky deck is there a thin veil of cloud cover it is tough to detect at t thin. starting to clear out nicely,

in the wake of that, messy disturbance that brought all of that rain and thunderstorms yesterday. see you later, storm system, it is long gone at this point. we will clear out. forty-nine is current temperature at airport. chill in the air certainly but that is still in the bad, it is about 10 plus degree milder then we would be bottoming out on at this day of the year but d to upper 40's. more northwesterly wind flow. note that is wind direction on the arrow there, that is going to be more of the chilly wind that picks up with the course of time here today, sobrietier , granted but breezy high hits 62. fifty-nine at the shore. cloud are breaking for sunshine across the board. it is brighter, also a really nice thursday coming, problem i, that is where it all end because we have yet another storm system. not so much usher into april but i should say to round out the month of march,fau march, promises, meisha to go out like a lion just the way the month began, yes. >> so see u march,

bye. good bye. good morning, everyone. all right. schuylkill near spring garden, we can see brake lights there, startingo little bit. i will put out warning since monday and tuesday we had all n today we will have a little residual pattern, in terms of the con hean up today. people hitting the roadways, a little bit earlier today, again just because of what they experienced monday and tuesday. not add bay idea, just a head up to maybe dot same. we have an accident out there hamilton township, new jersey, 195 westbound is closed between route 130 and hamilton square road. head upstart go to slow down. if thinks in youro give yourself a couple extra minutes here. your alternate is route 130 there. then we are talking about congestion that will affect you schuylkill westbound between vine and girard that left lan after our main hours of the rush. this will start afternoon time , 3:00 p.m. lifting right before our evening commute, getting. so that is good news.

but construction also, bridge inspections here vine westbound ramp to the schuylkillou at 9:00 a.m. that will hold out there until 11:00 a.m. this is another area that will slow us down, even after, our peak times, just gettingo here. another head up, vine, schuylkill rest bound ramp starts at 9:00 a.m. more construction, it is season, 95 north, ramp to broad street. now this will be closed between 9:00 a.m. after our morning rusho 3:00 p.m. as we sw down in the morning rush that is when it will start and just before our evening rush when it will end, rahel and jim, back over to you. >> good to know, thank you. enwill hold a joint news conference with the update on the committee's investigation in russian meddling in the 2016 election. >> house intelligence committee's probe continues to come under scrutiny, cbs news correspondent hanna daniels has more on the investigation. fun.body ever told me that

>> reporter: president trump hosted senators and their spouses at white house on tuesday night, as lawmakers in the senate intelligence committee u witnesses, into its russia probe. >> my hope is that sally yates will be like to talk to. >> yates, former acting attorney general fired by mr. sy on tuesday before the house panel, investigating possible links between trump's administration and russia. in a letter obtained by cbs news her attorney was warned by the trump justice department last week, that her testimony.it to what she yates followed up with the white house on the matter on friday. the same day republican committee chair devon nunez cancelled the hearing. >> we have no problem with her testifying. to suggest in anyway, shape or form that we stood in the way of that is 100 percent false. >> reporter: controversy a meetn

white house ground last week only added to democratic belief that is nunez cannot lead an impartial investigation. >> this is what cover up behavior looks like. >> reporter: still, nunez insist he won't step down. >> are you going to stay as chairman and run this investigation? >> why would i not? >> reporter: house speaker paul ryan istandg by nunez at least one republican, north carolina representative walter jones is demanding he recues himself, jones is calling for an independente russian interfen the u.s. election. hanna daniels for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". well, more than 100,000 people have signed a petition urging first ladyo the white hor at very lead flip bill for security cost to trump tower. change.org petition was started after a senior white house aid indicated president 's wife and son baron will remain in new york until school yeae estimates it cost $146,000, every single day to protect first lady at trump tower.

>> a day. hillary clinton is no speakingeping a low profile circuit urging woman to take action. former secretary of state spoke out to the sold out crowd in san francisco, at the professional business women of california organization. critict leaders on everything from health care to a shortage of woman in top positions. clinton never mentioned president trump by name but did manage to work in a dig. >> where some see aark, vision of carnage, i see a light shining on creative and opportunity. >> clinton made one thing clear she's told crowd she is not going anywhere and will work to help americans find common ground. well, time is 5:36. in business news formal beginning of the addition tour facebook page, money watch's jill wagner joins us live from the new york stock exchange. good morning again, jill. >> reporter: good morning, futures right now pointinpen. dow jones snapped, the losing

streak climbing 150, nasdaq gained 34. britain makes its brexit official, prime minister teresa may makes the request to leave the eu, triggering, two years of negotiations between the two side. it will shake future of britain's $2.6 trillion economy. the house voted to scrap fcc rules meant to give americans more control of their on line privacy. those regulations prevented internetcomcast and verizon from selling, info about users browsing habits without their permission. facebook starting to look like snap chat as it tries to go after younger users. facebook adding a camera icon to the top left corner of the app and users can up load pictures and videos,ac story fes that lets users post pictures and videos, that disappear after 24 hours. okay. >> sound familiar. >> oh, come on everybody is doing what everybody else is doing. >> yes. >> copycats.

>> yeah, i mean, every social media platform is losingunue id. >> it is like if every morning i wore what rahel was wearing, right? the next day i started to just , copy rahel. >> would you look beautiful too, jill. good answer, wasn't it. >> thanks, jill. >> lou beautiful all time, but i got her sitting next to me here. thanks, jill. we will check with you tomorrow. >> i do appreciate that compliment. >> very welcome. >> well, u.s. social services new program can give you a sneak peak at your mail, before it arrives at your house. they say postal service scans, it takes digital pictures of the front of the letters to help with the sorting process but sign up for, informed delivery, get those images set to your e-mail. informed delivery program, not yet available in our area just yet. well, authorities in tennessee are asking mexican authorities to be on the look out as they continue their week long search for a teenage

girl and her former teacher. >> fifty year-old tad cummings is accused of abducting, 15 year-old elizabeth thomas back on since then there have been no signs of the two prompting authorities to believe the pair may longer be in the states. >> twenty-four hours, so, american enough time to get to the border and to get across before the alarm was sounded. >> now authorities say if the two are in mexico they may be disguised as missionaries which could help them blend n cummings is facing charges for aggravated kidnapping and sexual contact with a minor. if you watched, ncis last night on cbs you saw a show featuring organizations sending veterans on the trip of the lifetime free of cost. >> it is something, um. >> yeah. >> wait for this a long time. >> it is called, honor flight, non-profit dedicated to providing vets with honor and closure.

now one of the local heroes to benefit from honor flight is henry marini drafted in 1943 at the age of 22. the nine five-year old and his brother both served in world war two. the two vets were given a trip veteranhe world war two memorials in washington d.c. >> i never expected to go a lot of them went on their own, but this is a special, place and it wouldn't be the same place if i wen myself. >> just a good feeling, for them, that somebody, that somebody cares, and somebody shows, you know, that theyally e fellows went through. >> what a great idea. >> indeed. >> honor flight, helped transport more than 80,000 veterans to d.c. since 2011. >> they have a waiting list of more than 27,000, if you want to donate, go to honor flight .org. well, close your ears, kid , school on saturdays, still ahead why one pennsylvania school is having their students attend class on the weekend. oh, boy. also this morning a north

carolina restaurant is facing backlash after they banned little kid. hear from the manager. and these two yale university students believe they found a cure for the hang over, apparently, a big pharmaceutical company agrees, we will hear from them on the other side. >> they may become very

well, i got to tell you this story is hilarious, woman is in jail in england because of ed sheeran's hit shade of you. this woman played the song, so loud and so often, that her landlord had to get a court order for her to stop. okay. so a judge gave her a six week sentence in jail but when she got out, went back to her old ways and now serving eight week sentence. being asked by judge to quote, be a responsible, adult, and, much really love the song. i get it. it is a good song. >> yes, it is. >> very catchy. >> i got to tell you lot of people stepped up, donated to the cbs-3/cw eighth annual tell-a-thon for ronald mc donald house charities in the philadelphia region. fourteen hour tell-a-thon aired on the cbs-3 and cw philly yesterday,

you have good stuff there. >> happiest place on earth in the weather center on days like this. let me take you outside, we have high pressure now, starting to build back in. when you hear me say high pressure you can expect fair weather. generally, not all the time but typically. today is typically one of those days. it will be breezy as one system departs and high pressure takes its place but nothing terribly harsh. overall we are looking ahead to the nice day. live look for you outside hotel bethlehem, dry roadways, left behind, notice though there is no snow patch, left at all. everything is either been melted or washed away even on the side of the roadway there. that was one spot in bethlehem where we had at lee a couple mound left over as snow. looking at our eyewitness weather watcher we have mid up toker 40's here. i did get a picture from ed this morning, a really good reminder, you might have to flip windshield wipers hitting the road here today.

still just enough left over moisture out there it is forming due on the area windshield so just a head up there but no major deal. we will go to a handful of these reports here. 45 degrees this morning from john carroll, he has had a clear sky in mullica, his wind is out of the south, that will be turning more northwesterly with time. lets go to another one in new jersey 47 this morning from peter, who actually has a few lingering cloud, many do. we will see those thin with time and to one more we will go, go out to the 46-degree reading from eileen and i like her comment, she said got to be spring, the bird woke her up this morning. let's switch back over and look at a wider zoom on storm scan and your eye gets drawn to this bad boy, major storm system erupting across the central plains that will head east and become our friday issue. we will need to break umbrellas out again because it looks like this is not only a sluggish storm but it will have a lot of moisture to work w friday looks like a very wet day, again but in the meantime , at least we will have a two day stretch of quiet weather. here we go today and tomorrow

bringing back sunshine. tomorrow my personal favorite even though it is cooler, low humidity, light wind. in short, tomorrow our hair will look absolutely beautiful >> yes, i have been thinking bit all week. all right, thank you so much. good morning, everybody. happy wednesday to you, so i'm loving that we will have the sunshine, but i'll warn you that pack those sunglasses and today will be slow, just like monday and tuesday that fog and all of the rain pushing everybody out a little bit early or late and you left earlier on tuesday, so aloft people will be heading out there earlier, again today. that is very smart. but that is word of caution you might want to do the same. boulevard taillights in the northbound direction this is what we are looking at, at the boulevard, we are looking okay would i say overall, starting to heat up, as levels push toward 6:00 o'clock hour we can expect. that we have an accident in hamilton township new jersey 95 west is closed between route 130 and hamilton square road use an alternate route 130, and it is your best bet.

head up on this, this has been out there a little bit and we are slowing down, as you maneuver around. that is in the our only accident. another one here roosevelt boulevard northbound at red lion road a car went into a pole, and that is slowing you down as well. more coming up in the next 10 minutes. jim and rahel, over to you. class in session on a saturday for some pennsylvania high school students and they have the snow to thank for it. after seven snow days, administrators at schenn dough a valley school district out in schuylkill county were task ed with revising the school calendar in an effort to keep the senior graduation date the same. that result seniors have to come into schools on two saturdays, one of those days will be the day of graduation. >> we utilized some of the days from our spring break, we have added some days for the under class man, to the end of the school year, we have moved some 80 days around. like other districts we are trying to be creative, and, make up. >> and saturday's school will not apply to students in kindergarten through 11th grade, and instead, they will have an extended school year,

with the final day being june 12th. >> i would hope that kindergarteners don't to have come in on saturday. okay. >> but they are little. >> what does that mean anything? so are first and second grader >> a new policy, we will debate this in the commercial. new policy at a north carolina restaurant is generating, a lot of reaction from social media it bans children under five from dining in the restaurant. owners from the italian eatery say they want to create a fine dining experience for their customers. >> sometimes, the children, of course, become rowdy and for other guests, some of other guests made comments it upsets them sometime because the parents always, sometimes don't dot right thing and get him to leave, you know, taking the child out. >> keeping my eye on katie, watching her reaction. >> katie says she sees both side. >> i can totally see it. >> some don't agree but other diners understand what the restaurant is trying to do. >> i don't have children so i

will not say a word. >> or asking what inspired them but two yale university students say they have a cure for hang over. >> finally, they say their cure is on its way to secures. margaret morris and liam mc chin took came up with the concoction in their apartments the molecular development biology majors focused on the root cause of the hang over and then they made the cure, taste good. >> it is an build up, there is vitamin and electrolyte loss, is there a rebound. >> this is, a powder that you take before you start drinking and it helps your liver deal with the stress you put it under when you drink. >> what did they say, there was a what build up. >> i don't know. >> all i know you have to drink it before you drink. remedy called sun up is expected on store shelves next month and retails for five dollars a packet. that ivy league education is being put to good use. i'm curious to see if that works. >> i'm curious why we didn't think of this. >> i have only had one or two

hang overness my entire life. you know me. >> listen, wine coolers are an appropriate adult beverage. >> okay. >> from 1983. giant octopus is going on a diet but first it has got to get weighed. >> no easy task, we will show you up next. also ahead hear from a work shore is act of kindness getting a lack of attention. >> stop bashing my wine coolers, will

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>> ♪ >> well, welcome back to cbs-3 "eyewitness news" this morning somebody get the lights. >> yes, we have video of the world's first fluorescent free frog. i didn't know that was a thing scientistness argentina were researching, pretty cool, poke dot tree frog, normally, dull complex but under uv light they found that the frog fluorescent color is sobriety, you can actually see organs. that is crazy. others have similar qualities but never amphibians before. meanwhile sea life minnesota aquarium at mall of america is, putting its giant, pacific octopus, on a octo diet. handlers loaded octopus on to a basket and weighed her. she tipped the scales, at

about 8-pound. they say her new diet will feature the exact nutrition, and octopus need to be happy, healthy, they will weigh her once a month for the near future to monitor her weight. >> we should just accept her as she is. >> all body types. >> server goes above and beyond to make sure his customers enjoy their dining experience. >> and, photo of his dedication is getting a tension this morning. joeys an ihop serve inner springfield, illinois and pictured here helping a woman eat her food. she has a medical condition that makes it difficult to eat usually her husband stops to help her but this time he stepped in. >> i just stopped, to feed her i said, i ain't doing nothing. why don't i just feed her so he can eat and everybody be happy. my parents taught me to treat people as equal. that is what i try to do all the time. >> person who posted it on line said thomas kind gesture restored her faith in humanity >> bravo, joe. we are giving away two free tickets to the luke brian

concert, just listen for word of the day. plus good news for millions of the people who have eczema, we will tell you about a new drug approved by f.d.a. and why it was put on the fast track. and yes, that is a kangaroo being walked down the street on a leash. where this was caught on camera, coming up next.

wild weather tears through texas tornado was caught on camera and developing this morning, how storm chasers pursuing another twister nearby, were killed, in a horrible car accident. also, it is sentencing day for two former aid to governor christie convicted in the bridge gate trial we are live with just how long they could spend behind bars. you don't see this every day chester county drug raid lead to authorities, to a, stash of marijuana and a monkey. >> cute monkey yes, it is wednesday march 29th good morning i'm jim donovan. i'm rahel solomon. katie and meisha keeping an eye on things. can you believe it is almost end of march. >> i already thought it was thursday. >> i thought it was thursday. i said oh, no. >> it is funny, jim said it, and katie goes does anybody else feel like it has been a long week. it does: >> did you r