>> this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news." right now at noon, our bitter blast is leading to plenty of problems across the area, including this water main break in conshohocken. one of many across the delaware valley. and no wonder, water mains are bursting all over the place, bone chilling colds is locked in place here, and over much of the country. and if you can believe it, likely to get worse. good afternoon, i'm joe holden

, rahel and jim are out. sun is out, not offering too much warm. still call in the icy grip. meteorologist, katie fehlinger is track the dangerous colds for us, katie, what's the latest right now? >> well, you know, you said it best, worse actually still yet to come, joe, the unfortunate part of. >> this if you thought yesterday was harsh, it gets way worse. not even just worse, way worse , by the end of the week. because we've got the colder reinforcements that just keep coming in. so we don't have the chance to rebound. that's what the atmosphere wants to do. it is trying to do that, even by tomorrow. but then, generating colds air , what keeps us so harsh by week's ends. let me just get you outside. showing you something interesting here, live look outside cape may. what you notice off in the distance, that first glance, it looks casino every like the sun reflecting offer the water that's actually a big chunk of ice. that's in the middle of your screen, looks like white stripe across the ocean, so it is so cold, that there is essentially ice flow crossing

just what couple of yards from the immediate shore line right along that cape may ocean or shore line there. so it really is harsh, not just at the area beaches, but everywhere else, as well. now we look at storm scan, at least that's quiet. but the sun incredibly deceptive. if you have yet to have stepped outside and watching us from nice cozy couch right now, this is what it feels like currently. more like single digits, teens , even sub-zero still, off at mount pocono at high noon. now, you're going to experience sun for the rest of the day, but again, deceptive, misleading. bundle up to be outside in this cold. as i mentioned, nor'easter we are tracking, i'll tell you how much snow we will get out that far in the minute ahead, also, where do we bottom out with all of this, and how harsh it is go to get. >> lots of questions there, thank you so much. well, the frigid temperatures are reaking havoc with pipes all over our area. the water gushing from 32-inch main burst earlier this morning in conshohocken, still proving to be troublesome. "eyewitness news" reporter

chantee lans long as, joins us where crews are trying to fix the problem, shantee, good afternoon. >> good afternoon, joe, you can see crews behind us here, working g to fix that break. now, it is caused more than a thousand people to have less water coming out of the faust et cetera, at near route 76, a 30-inch main failure. says water main break of this size is pretty rare. calls came in from residents complaining of low water pressure around 6:00 this morning. upon investigating, crews found large main break that had ruptured. they're trying to determine the cause. it is a pressure concrete pipe , also explained how crews are trying to fix the problem. >> right now, our guys are sitting tight. we have a crew that's isolating the break. they're working the valves now to get that in place. we're also standing by, peco on site, we have both overhead electric and gas lines in the area of our water main, and

they're working to make that, those two utility tis self before we enter the trench to make the repair. >> and a piece of advice, asking customers to be patient , and also, if you can, use very limited amounts of water. that's the very latest live in montgomery county, chantee lans, cbs-3, "eyewitness news ." >> being that you for the live report. now, some property owners in northeast philadelphia are stuck with a big clean up after a eight-inch water main burst at the intersection of menden and medford roads this in the city's park wood section. the break which happened about 3:00 this morning forced crews to shut water off to about 125 homes. service there still has not been restored. >> schools today at interboro high schools, also the result of pipe bursting, no word yet from officials if the school will reopen tomorrow. and, to williamstown high school we go, gloucester county, reports of water main

break, came in around 10:40 a.m. this morning, fire department determined that a pipe for overhead sprinkler system broke in one room, filling water on the floor. the school briefly evaculated by about 11:30, everything was back to normal. and, in moorestown, new jersey, the department of public works, responded this morning, to yet another water main break, between the pleasant valley apartments, and haines drive. water service in the area has not been affected. but officials are asking drivers to avoid the area due to heavy icing on the street. detours are in effect around a crash involving a dump truck on route 322 in logan township gloucester county. chopper three, over the highway, at bridgeport road. the dump truck and pick-up truck collided around 8:00 this morning, and it is unclear if anyone was hurt. crash investigation, and police have closed the ramp to 322, from i2 the five -- 295 northbound. authorities in montgomery

county are investigating what caused a trash truck to flip on its side, crushing a worker the deadly incident happened just before 10:00 this morning , on johns lane in haague is ville road whitemarsh township, " eyewitness news" reached out to the trash truck company, jp mascara and sons, they declined to comment. bristol high school students in bucks county early dismissal today. school administrators say a boiler malfunctioned last night, which meant parts of the building had no heat. students were dismissed around 11:15 a.m. class also resume as scheduled tomorrow. school is back in session today at whitehall elementary machine row township gloucester county. >> this morning students filed back into the building which was shut down in october, due to a mold infestation. students had been attending class in a section of williamstown middle school, while the clean up was underway, holly glenn elementary another school in the district shutdown because of mold remains closed.

well, it is time to get back to work. the eagles are prepping for their first play-off game a week from saturday, at the linc, but there are some concerns following sunday's lost to the cowboys. eagles coach, doug pederson, is holding his after the game press conference, now, from the nova care complex. let's go ahead, take a listen to what peterson has to say. >> the players, the players want, it is not a punishment thing. it is not coming directly from me, it is what the players want. i listen to my guys. and i think that they understanded, that there is a sense of physicality we have to get back to. not saying, obviously football physical game, but i think there is cents a sense over the course of a few weeks pad level begins to rise, intensity can be minimized so you get back into pads, sort of refocus the guys just little bit. and that's, you know, not like we are going to tackle, and not training camp type

practice, but the fact of just having them on, you know, banking around on one another, still protecting each other, i think, is can be a nice asset for us going into our first game. >> coach peterson talking about this week's practices, as the eagles prepare for their first post-season game. you can watch the rest of the press conference, on line, at cbsphilly.com. we will have more on these words later today on " eyewitness news" starting at 5:00. within the hour, philadelphia's new district attorney controller and host of judges were sworn into office. there was thunderous applause following mentions of campaign 's built on reform and activism. >> solemn already swear. >> larry krasner takes the oath of office administered by his wife, the district attorney's campaign was modelled on the reform of a long broken criminal justice system, a movement was sworn in today. a movement for criminal justice reform, that has swept philadelphia. >> mayor jim kenney welcomed

the crowd of couple hundred, to the kimmel center, where the long running tradition of publicly taking the oath of office, the first day back, to work after the new year. >> dedicated men and women taking the oath of office today has migrate he is respect and gratitude for their commitment to justice in the state's insecurity of the people of philadelphia. >> a slate of judges of the common pleas and municipal courts was sworn in. >> when i decided to run for offers one year ago, my odds of winning were not good. >> and this is day one on the job for rebecca rhynhart, former chief administrative officer for the city of philadelphia, toppled the three-term incumbent controller, and is the first woman to hold the post. she mapped out five-point plan to strengthen the office. >> we need to be using this money in the best way possible >> meanwhile, for krasner, career civil rights attorney has promised to reform the cash bail system, appoint repeatedly mentioned this morning, also, to ends the stop and frisk policies, and she is affirm opponent of the

death penalty. >> and so today woe start the long road toward trading jails and trading death row for schools. >> (applause). >> and larry krasner just made remarks to reporters, he said, in part of the problem in philadelphia with crime is in his words inadequate gun laws, also keeping quiet on key personnel appointments and moves in his office of 600 employees. today is the last day on the job for us senator al franken. last month, the democrats for minnesota announced his lance to resign following strings of sexual misconduct allegations. the former saturday night live comedian served eight years in the senate. his successor, minnesota lieutenant governor smith will be sworn in tomorrow in minneapolis. president trump is back to the white house after spending the holidays in florida. right now the president is preparing for a private lunch with vice president pence, and

labor secretarial ex and err a costa. congressional republican lead letters join president trump with zero at camp david over the weekends, will arrange legislative agenda for the new year. some snow in the forecast, but the biggest concern is what's coming after that snow. katie will join us in a few minutes, details, dangerous weather ahead. >> also, at noon, we will tell you why 2017 was the year to remember, for the airline industry, and for positive reasons. plus: carry underwood has a warning for fans she says she may look a bit different the next time they see her, we'll tell you why, you're watching "eyewitness news" at noon, and we're coming right back. iand i like these award-winning cheddar puffs. first place. both events? booyah!

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the chance of winning is one in 259 million. if you play, we wish you good luck. well, they're not your normal set of twins. not only were they born on different days, and different months, but also, different years. the we'll have their unique birthday story after the break katie? >> that's just makes my eyes cross thinking about it. yes, i can't even get my twins names right most of the time. well, we are looking forward to for this upcoming weekends, plenty of sunshine, however, not so fast. arctic air still in place at best we will be in the teens or 20's, for daytime highs. and factor in pretty harsh win chill specially saturday, still feels very, very brutal out there. but, the worse day, we haven't told you about just yet. i'll let you know which

>> the bottom dropping out? >> it is interesting, i hear the word nor'easter, automatically your minds goes to how much snow are we getting, right? >> in terms of philadelphia, we think 1993 and 96. >> oh, exactly, absolutely, even 2009 to 2010 when we had the the most snows of an entire season, you know, all of those things, olds enough, young enough, relatively speaking, but we remember. granted dow think we have a good shot to see snow out of the next nor oester, the legacy leaving behind more so about the cold, winds, ushering and actually generating on its very own. we start it off by going outside, just looking at specifically the windchill issue. that has been a near nationwide concern. now, as of early this morning, almost the entire eastern two thirds of the us were stuck in a windchill advisory, what you

are currently seeing, is where it is most confined, at this point, even still have one down in across the park of south texas, but anywhere from western pa, out to the central planes, the whole state of missouri, those poor folks, are stuck in this, as is illinois. it is so incredibly harsh in these spots. but, when you look at the feels-like temperatures you can understand why. these are current. it still feels like sub zero essentially everywhere, you run out of colors on the spectrum of the legends to even show it so cold. so just stark white is all you will find up near the hudson bay, and with the core of the current batch of cold that's across the usa which is in those areas where you still have the advisories and warnings posted. now, talking about nor'easter, where is it? it hasn't actually formed yet. that's part of the question mark that remains here. it is going to form off the southeast coastline, i'll show you future weather model, as an idea of when this will get underway. and it, for the most part, at least as far as mid-atlantic is concerned and southeast that matter, it will stay off

shore. but just enough moisture, gets thrown back, and clips the coastline, that's where our snow potential will come from. now, notice, as early as 7:00 a.m. tomorrow, places like northern florida are in the midst of some icing out of this. it is so cold, even that far south they had windchill advisories as of this morning. then you see little batch of snow, that's going to work its way up the carolina coastline, eventually toward the delmar have, and eventually here. so, through the day, even as early as late tomorrow night, especially through the first part of thursday, that is when we likely see the snow come in but notice, it will get out of here relatively quickly: probably see the back edge of this by noontime or just shortly thereafter at least across the delaware, then it certainly is a potent storm. look at this. the bulk of it, it really atlantic canada, and new england concern. so, we will get glancing blow whether it comes to snowfall. what we won't get glancing blow is the chill in it wake, current expectation, i think for the most part looking up to maybe coating, if anything,

frankly, through part of berks county, parts of lehigh county , you may get gipped from this. just the way the storm rotate through. right now, you know, we may need to up the expectation, in southeast new jersey, but the general call is just for couple of inches out at the shore point, then maybe more like coating to 2 inches just to the north and west of that. that would include delco, philadelphia county. winter storm watch has been issued extending up and down the southeast jersey coastline , it had just been across the southern delmarva peninsula, now that's been extended, and we are maybe going to see that get a little bit more expanded before said and done. beautiful scene outside pleasant valley middle and high school. but it is still very cold out that way. eighteen your current temperature, let me show you what is yet to come here. we almost hit freezing tomorrow. not quite. almost. but that's where the pattern was trying to warm itself up. going to screach to halt here with the nor'easter coming in, and behind it, oh, friday, joe , that just looks so incredibly harsh.

i think that our windchill value all day long may not even hit zero. and that's in the city, too. that's not even just the poconos. really harsh. >> wow, katie, thank you. well, how cool is this? newborn twins in california born on different days, and in different years. joaquin born at 1158 december 31, keep track here, just two minutes before the new year. now his twin sister, ittana, 18 minute after her brother, but in the new year. this staff who helped deliver the twins say joaquin was the last baby delivered in the hospital for 2017, and ittana the first baby delivered in 2018. quite a story to tell for the families, they are coming

>> russia armed forces released new year greetings video, melting hearts, brace yourself, video shows oh, the cutest service members, dozen of puppies, seen running through snow covered enclosure playing with soldiers and enjoying, and then licking each other. russia uses about 3,000 dogs to compliment its military. >> and they're having fun. >> awe. >> and warmer there, you know t that's "eyewitness news" at noon, i'm joe holden for katie and all of us here, thank for watching. >> "eyewitness news" continues at 5:00. of course always on line at cbsphilly.com. >> the young and the restless is next. >> ♪ >> ♪

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