this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news" this morning. a one-two punch, the area is blanketed in snow, and now the setting in. temperatures are dangerously low. and, from the city, to the shore. this is a live look at cape may, one of the hardest hit areas, you can see the street lights swaying. much. roads still covered in snow. the cbs-3 mobile weather watcher is out checking the roads this morning. this is a live picture, and you can see, plenty of roads are still treacherous today. today is friday, january 5th, 2018. good morning, i'm jan carabeo in for jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon for second straight day, all philadelphia public and archdioces schools are closed, more school schools and delays scrolling at the bottom of your screen.

>> let's get right over to meteorologist, katie fehlinger on the latest on this bitter blast. >> you said it, now that the storms gone, guys, at least the sun will come out. but doesn't do anything to help warm you up. jet stream so far south, the cold has just sunk in here, from the depths of the arctic, that's going to keep things incredibly harsh outside. so, here's what is left of the nor'easter, still, making its fresh across parts of atlantic canada. clearly the snow and, you know , any kind of precipitation done for us, and we going to see some sun through the day. now, just got to talk about the windchill. we've warnings posted, up towardhe pocono region, if that's where you are waking up this morning, it is incredibly harsh up that way, with windchills as low as the 20's below zero, then advisories everywhere else. these actually last us, through tomorrow, but just today, gives you idea of how it will feel. throughout the course of the entire day, it could feel no better than 15 below zero in the mountains. that is incredibly harsh.

here in the city, it will probably feel no better than if you're lucky 0 degrees, but more likely you're stuck in sub-zero, five below, ten below zero territory the entire day. so, even if the sun is up, part of the afternoon, won't feel better than there is usually talking about the values for the early morning when it is at the most harsh, the best you get here today. fifteen the current temperature at this airport, 12 in ac, the winds flow turning more westerly, but still strong enough that it is really going to feel harsh. technically, i expect that we will hit about 17, 18 degrees or so on the thermometer. that's the best you get in terms of that. but again, you can't really go , meisha, by that thermometer. you have to do the math in your head and knock good 15, 20 degrees off. >> you better believe it, that windchill is nothing to mess around with, and you're right, katie, always go by what it feels like specially for the little ones, especially our animal friends. looking outside, our morning commute will be not as bad as it was yesterday. but still going to be bad, and

the reason why i say that, still dealing with some of the snow, and some of the frozen ice on the road surfaces, even the roads treated, you might have some black ice, especially when you move off off the lines and the shoulder areas. so, this still looking at some of the snow. see kind of sheen on the roadway surface, route 73 a.c. expressway, and i would say around this area, really where we're seeing the bulk of it, now, when we get more toward, say, 95, some of our majors, that's where you can see how treated the road surfaces are, again, though, you just take your eye off the road, just even for a second, go over to the line, go over by the shoulder areas, that's where it gets real slick. a look at 95 at woodhaven, actually starting to see some volume pick up on 95 now. speed restrictions, still in play from yesterday, ben, walt whitman bridge, betsy ross, come door barry, 25, 30 miles per hour, but that's not it. also caring over a.c. expressway, new jersey turnpike, garden state parkway , 495, 35 restrictions, 50, and, a, a and you will have to follow those guidelines, more coming up in

a little bit. jan, coming up. >> do expect tough travel conditions on your way to work today. sidewalks are slippery and snow still covering many streets and roads throughout our area as you can see right here. >> "eyewitness news" reporter trang do live on chalfont drive near academy road northeast philly. trang, good morning, you're likely one of the first to head out on the roads this morning. how much snow and ice are you seeing? >> reporter: rahel, jan, seeing both. it is whatever you want. we've got many inches of snow here that fell. we got about 4 inches of snow here in philadelphia, and it is all still here. we want to sea ice, it is definitely here on the roadways, the secondary road as you mentioned, chalfont drive leading to up academy road, and it is an absolute mess. and we've been driving up and down academy road this morning , and just seeing all of the side street pretty much look just like this. so again, officials really urging people to stay off the roads today if they can. that's why they've closed school for today. but those are taking septa, they also have a lot of

changes to deal with, because of this weather. buses, trolleys, will run on normal friday schedule, though septa officials say really expect some days, and detours, have to navigate the philadelphia streets that you're seeing here. now, after kinds of delays last night, regional rails will run on modified saturday schedule today, which will be at about 75% of what they normally run on a regular weekday. it is all because they don't want to attack the weakening inch if a structure. >> winds could have overhead wire problems, we don't want people stranded in too many vehicles, for we get into issues, so we're trying to limit the number of trains that are out on the system. >> so we're right here at a bus stop at the intersection of academy and chalfont. and we've seen actually this 20 bus come pretty frequently, won't be the case for all of the lines. in fact, some of the bustlines actually suspended because of

the conditions of the road. you will really want to check, you know, septa website which we have a link to on our website if you do take septa today to head into work. but for now, live from the far northeast, trang do, cbs-3, " eyewitness news," jan, rahel, back to you. >> she makes good point. if the buses aren't canceled, they even be delayed or on modified schedule. >> thank you, trang. the jersey shore, not all the roads are clear yet, some communities dig out of at least a foot of snow. the nor'easter moved north, fierce winds, but look at the flags whipping in the wind. no transportation available, some people walk to work, atlantic county remains under travel ban for all but non- essential vehicles if if if you're not comfortable, don't know how to take it easy , take your time, you probably shouldn't drive. >> many communities at the shore shrouding ocean city also dealt with flooding, " eyewitness news" viewer sent us this video of her street flooding from the bay, the water has since receded. >> and an investigation is underway, into a fire at

atlantic city apartment building. the call came in around 6:00 last night. to a fire at the jeffrey inlet tower on vermont avenue. firefighters went floor to floor to make sure everyone got out safely. no one was hurt. there is no word yet on damage there. tenant were evaculated to the uptown school complex and the inlet tower. >> this bitter blast is keeping the philadelphia water department busy. crews spent much of the day yesterday fixing a 16-inch water main that ruptured in the rhawnhurst section of the city. the break at rhawn and castor left dozens of residents and businesses there without water for hours. italian bakery cost the took the brunt of the hit there. water flooded the basement of the small family-owned business. and this is what the storm look like from space at the satellite image, spinning off the coast, the storm has moved on, but as cbs news correspondent hena doba, today must be the most hazardous. >> a woman in massachusetts being rescued by a front

loader, the first floor of her home flooded, as if the snow and wind brought to the east coast by the so-called bomb cyclone weren't enough, boston and coastal areas nearby also experienced historic flooding. >> the sea wall, going above the telephone polls. >> nearly 500 national guard members called in to assist with flood emergencies in several state. most places, though, are still digging out from the snow. plymouth connecticut got caught off guard by almost a foot and a half. >> we thought we would get about 6 inches. >> the accumulation in maryland so bad in part that east these two snow plows got stuck n new york city the iconic lights and signs of times square were barely visible during the height of the storm. and making a bad traffic situation even worse, this tractor-trailer was left spinning its wheels while blocking an intersection. and while this round of snow has passed, bigger danger may lie ahead. as extreme cold is expected to freeze anything that hasn't

been shoveled away. >> officials all down the coast are asking people to stay off the roads. police officers and typically warm weather state like here in south carolina, are particularly worried about drivers who have never had to deal with icy conditions. >> unless you are driving a zamboni, you won't control the vehicle, especially at higher speeds. >> many of the states hit with snow yesterday may be in for another round early next week. as a system developing in the pacific northwest makes its way east. hena doba, for cbs-3, " eyewitness news." the associated press is reporting president trump directed the white house's top lawyer in march to stop attorney general jeff sessions from recusing himself from the russia probe. person with knowledge of the interaction allegedly told the ap, don magan carried out the order just before sessions stepped aside from the ongoing investigation. the new york times first broke that story yesterday. >> meantime, president trump is also threatening a lawsuit over a book being released today. the book, fire and fury;

highly critical of the president. the white house says the book is full of false statements, c bs news correspondent a mola lenghi has more. >> president trump distanced himself from former chief strategist steve ban end thursday, quoted throughout new book highly critical of the president. >> big picture here is a picture of a white house that is chaotic of the president whose impulses whips the white house of a lot of back stabbing, front stabbing. >> on the russia investigation , banen says donald trump, jr. and crush nerve in treasonous and un patriotic when they met with a lawyer claim to go have dirt on him hill in 2016. >> gives validation to something in the white house has been trying to undermine. >> when news of the trump tower meeting first broke, president trump huddled with advisors on air force one to discuss how to frame the meeting. but that discussion may have cost the president one every his top lawyers.

michael wolf writes that trump campaign lawyer mike corolo resigned because he thought the air force one conversation constituted obstruction of justice. alleged obstruction of justice would fall under special council robert mueller's investigation, wolf also writes that the president has asked associates to help pursue an anti-mueller campaign on his behalf. in a tweet late thursday, the president bashed wolf saying in part i never spoke to him for the book, full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don't exist. mola lenghi, cbs-3, " eyewitness news." new jersey lawmakers mourning the passing of former governor brendan byrne, he died yesterday at his home in essex county. the democrat served two terms as governor from 1974 to 1982. governor chris christie says burn did his job, quote, with inch telling rise at this, flare. brendan byrne was 93. coming up: sears and k-mart are closing even more locations, we'll tell you the

four area stores shutting this spring. >> what we deal with the snow and cold, new zealand is dealing with a different kind of storm. and this morning, it has turned deadly. we will have the details. >> and later this morning, this cruise ship will set sale for more than 100 days. we will tell you where it is going, and how much a ticket costs. that's when we come back. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> definitely want to take your time on your ride this morning. the cbs-3 mobile water being out from the roads right now, photo journalist, sean, behind the wheel. sean, thank you very much. and meisha will have check on your traffic when we come back in just about two and a half minute. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪

>> closing this spring, sears shutting down stores on bustleton avenue in northeast philadelphia, along with stores in wilmington and toms river. k-mart will close its store on aramingo avenue in the northeast. now, most of the stores are going out every business in early april. sears holdings is trying to cut costs as customers spend more time and money shopping on line. well, doesn't a get away sound good right about now? i think so. how about 120-day get away. >> sign me up. viking crews also set sale from los angeles today on it first ever 120-day crews.

the sold-out johnly take guests to five different continents in 27 countries, by the way ticket for this mega cruise started at nearly $50,000. tops out over $125,000. a little out of my reach. >> jan, i don't know that you would get that much time off approved. >> exactly. >> also, powerful storm is devastating new zealand, this morning, it is being blamed for at least one death, this is the scene. big waves crashed on the shore , drenched people nearby. the storm blew over tree, smashing into a car, killing a woman. tens every thousands of people are without power right now. officials are telling many people to leave. and take a look at this incredible video. this is in chinatown ship michigan northeast of detroit. looking at ice in the cold st. claire river, you can see slowly floating along, accumulating where the water meets the lands. people there expecting high in the single digits today. although i don't think we'll be that much better. >> and and an ohio man having some fun with the cold.

take a look at this ice tower, living near clear land he built this in his front yards, by standing water hose up, letting it rink down string a travelled to the hose, it tower stands at whopping 28 feet tall. >> there is something to be said about the cold and snow and how beautiful it can be. but for the people outside and they have to be out there, just down right terrible. >> yes, depends on what you need to do. have absolutely. there are people that absolutely must go out in this we're include in the that. any emergency personnel, they have to be out. the folks that we're relying onto get rid of all of this snow, thank you guys so much for the hard work that you're doing, but it is quite the task. there are places that ended up with record snowfall out of this for the day. atlantic city, was one of them let's start things offer by going out, in fact, to that statistic wide, let's take a look, you ended up for at least a 24 hour stretch with 13.2 inches in atlantic city, officially the storm total was an inch more than that. but the old record for january a

half inches, so you shattered this. it was set way back in 1905. meanwhile, we go outside to different beach town. that's at rehoboth. where the tell tail footprint have gone up the boardwalk here, yes, you leave evidence behind when there is snow on the ground, right? but definitely much calm look here to this camera, the problem is the wind is still an issue. so, here are your current feels like values, feels like sub zero everywhere, will continue to feel that way all day long. it is not much better to the north and west, but it is a little bit more harsh, state college, pittsburgh, cleveland , feels like it is into the teens, below zero, richmond the one and only spot at least this patch of observations that's in positive territory right now. what's nice, is at least storm scan is pretty quiet. don't have a monster storm to track, not now, but looking forward we will potentially see winter mix as early as monday day. i want to reiterate the fact this kind of cold is harsh, frostbite can set in as little

as 30 minute on exposed skin, so please just if you're doing snow removal or something like that or taking the kids sledding, if something like, that make sure you're doing this in shifts. don't be out in this for too long at a stretch and keep ion your watch. moving forward, we finally crack the freezing mark on monday. but the trade-off is later in the day. meisha? >> all right, katie, thank you so much. yes, today is going to be another tricky commute. not anything like yesterday. but still will be tricky. you have to pack your patience , give yourself couple of extra minute headed out the door today. so looking outside right now. 309 and the pa turnpike, headlight moving in the northbound direction. you can still see all of the snow. you can see the glare, the sheen on the road surfaces, as well. so some of this will be treated. some of it will not be treated and it is really hard to de sieve err which has been, especially if you couldn't see the salt, which hasn't, which stills can just look like pavement, then all the sudden dealing with black ice. just be very, very careful when dealing with cold temperatures like this. specially when we get that

exhaust, it will be melting some stuff, then refreezes over. schuylkill at city avenue tail light moving in the eastbound direction, see overall how much movement on the schuylkill we're already seeing, now that we're cracking into the 5:00 hour. lots of people that stayed home yesterday will be jumping on the roadways today, and getting a early start. and because we still have all of that snow, we will be getting even earlier start. it will get busy out there. speed restrictions fill if play on bridges, ben, walt whitman bridge, betsy ross, commodore barry, 25 or 35 miles per hour. i would highly suggest you follow those specially with the slick conditions we're still dealing with. rahel, jan, back to you. >> all right, meisha, thank you. now for look at newspaper headlines, from across our region. >> he had rag eagle reports on new data showing the opioid crisis is getting worse in berks county. the numbers show that from 2013 to 2017, 261 people died from overdoses involving heroin or fentanyl in the county. nearly 5,000 people died from drug overdoses in pennsylvania

in 2016. >> the press of atlantic city says family of four managed to escape uninjured after their car burst into flames yesterday on new jersey avenue fire chief scott evans say they were stuck in a 2-foot snow drift when the flames broke out. he released hole in the muffly contributed to the fire starting. >> the wilmington news journal profiles work at the iv delaware that could preserve the world's coral reef. 3d printer re agents the plastic and nylon wreaths, two grad students are in final toy see if they can help restore fragile underwater echo system figi. >> nice. >> and that's a look at some of the newspaper headlines from around the delaware valley. >> and yesterday, there was ice inside and out at the well >> we will have flyer highlight next in sports. >> plus this. >> everybody, i'm cameron, coming up, is molly's game a sure bet at the box office? gives us behind the scenes look at the high steaks real life

>> welcome back, thanks for joining us. >> hairy situation on the ice for one hockey star. here is done bell with your morning sports. >> hires hosting the islanders , two way street with new york. they have the third best offense in hoc but they also have the worse defense. >> down to the center we go. second period we go. flyers, with a two-one lead. then they may get three-one, wayne simmons, how do you do? thirteenth of the season, flyers offense rolling. it was huge game for ivan. as we're still in the second, how about the power play? he converts. so it is four-one flyers. he had two goals and assist on the night. a big second period for the fly guys, we mentioned, how about the break away for travis? the flyers win in a shoot-out. not literally a shoot-out. just saying there were a lot of goals scored. win six to four, check this out. joe thorton of the san jose sharks had that legendary beard. look at it flowing. twenty-second into the game. thorton and azim get into a fight. actually pull off piece of

thorton's beard, take a look at the clump on the ice! those aren't bunch every wits kearse. like the whole beard. so the sharks lose thorton for five minute, and he loses his beard. toronto won the final score. hey, tonight the host the pistons at the center. that's all for sport, i'm don bell, have a great day. >> okay, by the way, eagles playoff tickets went on sale yesterday at 10:00 a.m. they were sold out by 10:01. unissued stands bridge so. first pre-season game on january 13th. >> our coverage of the bitter blast continues in the next half hour of "eyewitness news ." we will check back in with our trang do, for a look at the area clean-up. >> cbs-3 mobile weather watch is her out, checking the conditions on the road. our thanks to photo journalist sean for the shots. katie and meisha will have your traffic and weather when "eyewitness news" continues at 5:30.

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>> the shore slammed. south jersey sees significant snowfall from the winter storm >> in the city, the concern shifts to slick commute. >> it depends on where you look. turn the camera onto these side streets. and it is absolutely covered in snow. >> as if the snow and winds brought to the east coast by the so-called bomb cyclone weren't enough, boston and coastal areas nearby also experienced historic flooding. >> extreme cold expected to freeze anything that hasn't been shoveled away. >> the big story today of course, the bomb cyclone. now, let's look ahead at the week's forecast. sunday will bring us -- monday vander sweet, on tuesday, fast and floor just tokyo drift. i know it is dumb. >> today's morning minute ...