maybe not. maybe, you could trust the world would be just as happy without them. (screaming) or, you could just trust duracell. ♪ it's beginning to look a lot like christmas ♪ our areas waking up to a bitter blast, snow on the ground after a clipper system blew overnight almost looking like a winter wonderland. mobile three out live checking on the road, in roxborough, the region is under a winter weather advisory, until 10:00 o'clock this morning. meisha has update on the conditions and we will talk to penndot about the highways. and holy cow, it is snow bull, this was the scene on i-95 in parts of the center city overnight, is there a cow , on the loose, we will

tell you when it managed to free itself from. it is thursday december 14th good morning i'm jim donovan. i'm rahel solomon. lets get to the latest on the forecast and katie, has the week been busy enough for you. >> quite busy for those poor folks trying to round up the cow on i-95. i was in my car. i always turn on kyw news radio to hear traffic on my way in because you just never know and i hear pete say cow on i-95. there is no way i heard that right. there is no way i heard that right. crazy stuff. we have other issues when it comes tour commute. twenty-six is current value outside whitefield elementary school. let me show you snow accumulating on the playground , by comparison the road is a lot clearer, however , you could easily still even count's accumulation on the actual roadway especially side streets and what not where it has not been plowed or cleared away. this is a clipper. but it is still produce ago digsal snow showers. i'm calling on the eyewitness

weather watch tours let me know what you are seeing not just on the ground but still falling from the sky potentially in the north and western suburbs but this will continue to dwindle and fist alloway with time. here's how it currently feels. wind is light. these feels like values are very close to what the actual air temperature read. isn't that nice change but regardless it is still cold outside and with time as this clipper makes its departure the sun will shine through and reflect off snow, keep that in mind but you could still encounter slow travel and this goes not just this morning but right through afternoon and evening until it is all cleared out and melted away which will take sometime, and, and and for the weekend, and, and, a tough morning, some extra time, take it really easy. we have an accident on i-95 south that one cleared. what we are looking at 309 southbound pennsylvania

norristown road pulled off to the right here and these guys coming around this s curve putting on the breaks, so you can see where light is hitting the pavement and we have a sheen on the roadway, it is hard to tell if that is wet or black ice so always just air on the side of the caution and black ice and take it easy. you will be traveling less than posted speed because we have restrictions out there condition trucks here blue route southbound off ramp to schuylkill right lane compromised crews might be, starting to wrap up and move out of our way with the on and off ramps, these bridges, bridge decks, side streets, all that will be very, very slippery. take it easy. still on 422 eastbound that left lane compromised. talking about restrictions coming up in 10 minutes, jim and rahel back to you. just waking up we are keeping an eye on the road. >> overnight our region was hit with a blast have snow that could make your commute to work or school tricky. "eyewitness news" reporter

anita oh is live from south philadelphia. how sit looking out there. >> we are starting to see a little bit more activity, a few more cars and pedestrian is here we are here by miracle on 13th street which is in south philadelphia and on a typical evening, this entire street is lit up with bright christmas lights and decorations, right now, lot of these homes turned their lights off for the evening but sidewalk, still coated with snow, cars still coated with snow and do i want to show you , if you are walking around this morning you can see icy patches and very slick. my photographer and i are taking it easy as we are trying to walk around here because, there are a lot of icy, slick spots that might not be easy to see. but overnight the snow is falling at art museum as you can see in this video beautiful shot of the art museum. we have also cameras out across the bridge in new jersey, in collinswood, and cherry hill and oaklynn.

we spoke to people walking around this morning and here's what they said about the conditions out there. >> i woke up and there was snow. >> i love the snow. my favorite season. >> i thought it was a snow shower just basically salt, but it came down good. >> we are seeing sprinkle coming down here as well, and, side streets, some have not but cleared there is coating on some of the area that are not the main road or, main highways. on my drive-in, the schuylkill expressway, looking good rain driving around in the smaller streets you will want to be cautious. live, i'm anita oh for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". check out this unusual sight in the big city, it is a cow spotted wandering around southbound i-95 at 2:00 in the morning. his name is stormy, a cow who

felt like taking a stroll in the snow. officers, walked the cow down exit ramp. stormy escaped from the live nativity scene in olde city. cow does not seem to be injured maybe a little adventurous and mischievous. two adults and four children and family two dogs are okay but moorestown home has been destroyed by fire. flames swept through their home on the 600 block of lenola road about 12:20 this morning. we are told fire fighters controlled the blaze in about an hour and there were no injuries and the causes under investigation. st. joes university student remains in critical condition this morning after she was struck by a driver whom police believe was under the influence. the accident happened around 6:30 last night in wynfield the 20 year-old was crossing city avenue at lapsely lane when she was hit. police found what appeared to be marijuana in the car.

well, the suspects are facing pressure to cooperate even after authorities say cosmo dinardo admitted to shooting and burying the men. original agreement with prosecutors said that dinardo would avoid the death penalty if he admitted guilt. now they have filed notice of aggravated circumstance that he is still gives them death penalty option. dinardo's attorney said his client will not enter a guilty plea today. >> we were well aware of the fact that the death penalty would only be something bargained with and taken off the table, in exchange for a guilty plea. so we're not at that point just yet. >> perry says he is working with dinardo to reach a plea, his cousin sean kratz is facing charges but not represented by perry but will also be in court today. montgomery county community is devastated following a house fire that killed two young boys, teddy bears, notes, flowers all sit in front of the house in schwanksville which belongs to sheriff deputy brian lukens. flames broke out early yesterday morning, lukens with his wife and daughter all survived their injuries but

his 11 and six year-old sons died after being trapped inside the home. >> we know brian absolutely, as, you know, not only as a loving, caring father but as a police officer he did everything he could to get those kid out of the house. go fund me page has raised more than 125 you this dollars for the families, authorities are still trying to investigate what cause that had fire. republican lawmakers facing sex assault allegation ness kentucky has died, asiana parent suicide. law enforcement officials say representative dan johnson shot himself on the side of a road in mount washington, kentucky yesterday. the 57 year-old republican spent the day before denying claims that he molested a teenager four years ago. johnson also, wrote in his disturbing facebook powe saying heaven is his home. it was a closing, and, clear winner in alabama, and, and he is not on board. the republican date is refusing to concede defeat, an

official, returned to show, that democrat doug jones, and, 20,000 votes, three times margin needed to avoid an automatic redown. >> we have not received the final count to include military and provisional ballots. it has been a close raza waiting certification, and,. >> time we heel and get together. it has been tough on him. but it is at the same time, it is time to move on. >> alabamaes. >> and, and, november 27th,. >> senator john mccain is in the hospital after experiencing, side effect from cancer therapy. mccain was diagnosed with a aggressive brain tumor in july the arizona republican has been receiving treatment, spokesperson for the senator said mccain is dealing with typical side effects and the staff member went on to say that mccain is looking forward to returning to work as soon as possible. well, happening today a possible compromise over city

council woman's plan to remove safety glass from philadelphia restaurants. dozens of spoken out for and against at plan and asian american license beverage association will announce their compromise proposal, window ban is a bill designed to regulate so-called stop and go business that's recollect bullet proof glass as a precaution. city council could vote later today. carson wentz has a special message for fans as he under goes surgery on his torn acl. also ahead why this years geminid meteor shower is dazzling in the sky. we will take you for a festive warm weather celebration out west, it is a holiday boat parade. ♪ folks are waking up to see

mobile three live in the roxborough area, we are all over the place to show you manayunk, anita oh in south philadelphia, we have you covered. katie's here with more on the snow and bitter blast of cold air we are feeling when we come right back. mii'm alive and have a second chance. james: i'm thankful for the help and the opportunity that i received.

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later bitter blast, storm scan three is showing us the clip their brought snow our way. katie will be along with the forecast. they returned after 139 days in space. russian soy us spacecraft made its journey back overnight landing in the area just after 3:30. three others remain at the space station and replacement crew will begin its trip back to space on sunday. thinks the geminid meteor shower in new zealand. this light show continues tonight, the show is extra

special because the crescent moon will not spoil the show. good news for eagles fans, carson wentz is on the road to recovery checking in after his knee surgery. here's a message wentz tweeted from his hospital bed. surgery, check. come back officially begins now. lord blessed me with this beautiful young laid toy walk by my zoo side and support me through all of this #come back , #grateful. i think they are college sweethearts. they repaired acl yesterday. wentz tore ligament during sundayes game with the rams and as we have been reporting unfortunately wentz is out for rest of the season and playoff , nick foles will start sunday. check this out last week eagles were third on the nfl power rankings list according to the score, so, where do they stand right now? well, yesterday they dropped off off the map all the way to 11th. eagles quarterback jaylen mills tweeted to the score, y'all, philly.

folks on the east coast are sitting in front of the fireplaces folks, sitting on the beach. hundreds flock to the park in new port park, and, and, and, and, they are in docks and deck out with thousands oz have lights and inflatables transforming new port bay in the bright lights holiday spectacular. >> i see the boat parade before but in the from this point of the view. >> fun. >> it puts you in the spirit seeing lights, and it just makes you happy. >> you can see the holiday spirit. you can feel it she was excited. >> in addition to the parade there, was food, face painting and top it all off, fire works >> everything that those kid said we just second that. >> yes, we have nothing more to add they were on point. >> what a cool idea. >> i want to decorate my yacht >> i just got to get a yacht this morning. >> we know jim's got that captain's hat already. >> i wear witt my jacket. >> it is double breasted

buttons, the anchor. >> thursday ton howell the third if we cannot have a boat parade we can have some snow to build a modest snow man this morning. we have had decent amounts already, with snow, thus far, take you outside to show you where it is in fact currently snowing at last check, tough to see but looking at the lights there you can see snowflakes coming down 1lone person brave enough to be walking up main street, it looks ginger too, that is wise because it is slippery out there but yeah, with more van college, christmas city looking beautiful right now and many are waking up to similar view at this hour with the snow thus farrah accumulating upward an inch to 2 inches plus in some locations. montgomeryville, malvern, both taking 2 inches. this is so far but this is also a clipper that is making its exit pretty swiftly here so as it goes it is just fizzling with time, too, so

what you have on the ground now is basically what you will have, out of this storm, if you call it a storm but just disturbance moving through. winter weather advisory taking out a couple counties, philadelphia county, delco you are out of the winter weather county confined from bucks to montgomery counties on north and that will last until 10:00 e see this expire sooner, because even though it looks impressive, again this isn't, as time goes on it is a clip their will fist with the time, help kick wind up and re enforce cold but these don't tend to dump more than what we have seen at this point. watching for a few snowflakes, especially, due north and sun breaks out, breezy and then deal with the reflection off that fresh snow off the two north. temperatures will plumet overnight we will dip down to 21. at lee wind is light but we are held back to just above freezing because of this and we do begin to rebound back toward more typical territory on sunday, or even above

average, on monday, and tuesday, meisha. >> nice, not bad hearing about above average, coming our way, thanks very much. looking outside right now yes, it has been a rough morning commute because of the snowfall, that freezing ice on the roadways, they will surface seeing spin outs and speed restrictions out there accident 309 southbound that has been since cleared, we have a spin out that has been since cleared. blue route southbound off ramp to the schuylkill we have construction out there as well crews moved out of the way but we were watching at vehicles were slowly traveling by those on ramp and off ramp take it easy because a lot of times we are seeing that shiny stuff on the roadway we don't know fit is wet or black ice so air on the side of the caution and assume it is black ice. we have an accident 422 eastbound you can see how many beach had this morning. good news or crews are getting out and moving it out of the way. we are looking good here on 422 now but we have restrictionness play on two

bridges we have burlington bristol and tacony palmyra down to 25 miles an hour. right now time to check with our friends at penndot to see how area road are doing. bob ken my budd/the line with me, good morning, bob. >> good morning, meisha how are you doing today. >> i'm doing good. we have been looking at these camera shots and i got to tell you it hasn't been easiest commute. this is first time we are seeing snow, ice on morning commute during workweek so what are you seeing out there? >> we have a lot of what is showing up on the newscast, we pretreat add head of the storm yesterday, so, to kind of get that down to help, you know take care of the initial impact of the snow and as you said, lot of the wet surfaces on the major roadways and good advice you and katie are providing in terms have the clearing snow off their vehicles before they helped out as well as, you know,

taking it slow, allowing extra time, an you know, try to keep safe distance between your car and car in front because as you notice you have that glaze over the blacktop that there could be areas, slick spots and black ice, at this time, and especially in the morning commute you know hit height of the morning commute, you know, it gets to be turned backup a little bit. motorist need to be extra cautious of distractions, and, of course, buckle up you nailed it, great advice, thanks very much for being with us, we cannot appreciate enough all of the work you are doing. keep it up and drive safe out there. >> meisha, thank you. >> all right, over to you rahel. >> newspaper headlines across our region. >> times herald norristown municipal council is proposing a 2018 municipal budge wet a 16 percent property tax increase. tax increase is first time since municipality since 2014. if the proposal passes annual

property tax pavement on the average home will go up by $138. mercury the springford area school district is recognized in the ap district 's honor role. honors districts across u.s. and canada that increased access to advanced placement, all to simultaneously maintain or increasing percentage of the students earning high schools on ap exams. springford school district is one of 43 that made the list. from the trentonian chill was in the air but music, holiday spirit highlighted the annual christmas tree lighting ceremony last night at city hall. not we will be right back.

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katie and meisha will be along in a moment but first here's what you need to necessity to start dare in the morning minute, thursday, december 14th. something you do not see every day on i-95 in philadelphia, police corner a cow, and hall it off the highway. expect that it could be slick because it is still so cold outside and we did and still do have some snow that is coming down out there. i can tell you that the sidewalks here and also the cars are