bitter cold. temperatures are only on the teens right now. an underground fire and explosion forces evacuations and right now power is still out. classes are cancelled today. the campus is working to get back to normal after nearly 200 students and staff got sick. let's get right to meteorologist with his first forecast and talk about these temperatures. >> they have plummeted. it is much colder than

yesterday. much of the area down by five to ten degrees. six degrees colder than yesterday. 18 degrees with the wind out of the west it feels like seven degrees. so it feels similar to yesterday, but the temperatures are lower. it's 15 in wilmington. plenty of cold to go around this morning. we'll see sunshine to start with, but it's not going to last wt 18 degrees at 6:00. here come the clouds as we head into the afternoon. it will be a bit warmer this afternoon, but it should stay below freezing. 27 degrees at noon time. we'll go through the forecast in ten minutes. now we have a look at your friday commute in we are watching the expressway. we have some construction there with a lane lost. you can see we are still open. these are cameras around 24th street on the overpass. a few vehicles pulled over to

the shoulder, but that's definitely something to watch out for, but that's on the vine street expressway. the vine is okay. we do mention that underground fire on walnut street. that is closed between 19th street and 22th. follow the details. because of the fires it did effect us this morning. you will be okay heading out of the day. >> let's talk more about that. crews have been working in the bitter cold to clean up a mess in center city. a fire caused evacuations near 21th and walnut. what's happening now? >> reporter: not a good morning for us because it is so cold those workers all wearing heavy gear here at the corner of 22th and walnut street. they're still working where the flames eruptd.

power is still coming back. we've seen some lights start to turn on, but the outages are around 100 about a quarter of where they were last night. you can hear that blast, a fire forcing evacuations for all the people living here last night. some stood out for hours before finding a new place to stay. they watched it from the sidewalk. we checked this morning right now damaged underground cable that appears to have failed here and those lines led to a transformer. we've seen the workers down near that manhole over there. they have been getting into their trucks to try to take some breaks and warm up. it's only gotten colder since we've been out here. we're told they're rushing to try to get this road open because it is a busy one for the morning commute, but again they still have to make sure it's safe for cars to drive down here again. it's 4:03 and 17 degrees.

ursinus has closed today. a stomach virus has spread across campus. many students are going home for the weekend to get away from the germs. it's being spread person to person. >> when something occurs with a particular pattern that this one has, it's probably a virus and the most leading cause is a virus. >> a lot of people are getting sick and both my roommates are sick and i think they're going home this weekend. >> the college reopened the dining hall after the health department completed its inspection and gave its approval. regular classes will resume on monday. the investigation into the nightclub fight is now centered around this video. take a look.

influencer.com shot this video on wednesday night. it quoted him as saying i made a mistake, but his lawyer said his words were actually i will make a statement. tmz release in the this video of the broul inside the nightclub in center city. they subpoenaed any video they might have of the fight. he's success pepd of throwing purchases. no charges have been filed. this morning the police are looking for a woman who left her 3-year-old daughter behind after getting arrested for shoplifting. security officers at the store handcuffed the woman around 6:15 last night. she tried to steal about $1,400 worth of merchandise. she got ouft of the handcuffs and ran off. dhs now has custody of the child

she left behind. now that he's dropped out of the presidential race, governor chris christie is asking the federal government to help new jersey to pay for last month's winter storm. he says it cost $82 million to clean up. he asked for for relief for the counties. the call came after he made these controversial comments when asked why he wasn't home helping with clean up efforts. >> what do you want me to do, go down there with a mop? the fact -- >> governor christie made that remark while campaigning for president in new hampshire last month. a philadelphia judge has ruled that a group can move forward with their lawsuit to block the pipeline project. the gas company wants to build a pipe lane that would take the

gas. the couple is at does put whether they can use emnenlt domain to run line through private properties. they plan to appeal the ruling. today is the last day that you can get into the lottery to take part in the run. if is the country's largest ten mile race. 40,000 runners will get to take the ten mile trek down broad street. those who register by today will find out on tuesday if they won a chance to run. the race happened sunday the first. we'll broadcast the race from start to finish. now first alert weather. >> 7 minutes after 4:00. a bitter kould morning, but this weekend it turns to dangerous cold, much colder readings.

the weekend we could see record temperatures. the first chance of snow will come this evening. right now 12 degrees in reading, 18 in philadelphia. everybody is colder than yesterday. we will see sunshine to start with. once it's up, it will be bright, clouds will be moving in during the day and that will lead to the chance of some snowshowers tonight. this morning you have to deal with the cold. bundle up. there's a little bit of wind blowing. it's enough to make a few locations feel like they're below zero, it feels like 8 degrees in northeast philadelphia, six in wilmington. it's a buttleds up kind of morning and you'll have to keep layering up over the weekend. this morning completely dry. doesn't look like we'll see a repeat of the snowshowers this morning, but this afternoon it's a different story. we'll see some snowshowers blowing into the area this evening and into tonight. during the day today you're neighborhood by neighborhood forecast calling for a warm up,

but not a huge one. 25 this afternoon, 28 in fleetwood. a little bit of a breeze blowing as clouds move in. temperatures in the upper 20s right along the jersey coast line. cape may, 29 degrees. it's 30 in millville this afternoon. delaware aware, upper 20s. and 28 in melbourne. look at a chance for snow later today when i come back. thanks. it's nine minutes past 4:00. first we begin on the 309. jessica. >> reporter: we don't have a lot of volume really on any of our major roads right now. we're starting off with a quiet friday. on the pa turnpike, no problems, cars moving along nicely and the rest of the drive times are okay. heading into center city no problems there. we'll still in the green speeds.

same goes for the blue route. 14 minute trip there if you are headed southbound. this is near the bridge. no problems heading into delaware aware or back into new jersey. no scheduled openings at least for right now on the burlgton, but the walt whitman and the ben are doing okay. >> ten after 4:00. a professor says police handcuffed her because she's black. next hear police officers explain to her their reason for arresting here. also next. >> reporter: i'm live at the national constitution center. is it election season and all of the headed to the white house. we're going to live you an inside look at what the presidency road looks like next.

13 minutes past 4:00. there's a new push to resume testing of balloons that were grounded after this blimp broke free last year from a maryland base. they were grounded after this incident. it floated across pennsylvania ripping downpour lines. now they want to restart testing balloons the base where this broke free. defense secretary ash carter has signed off on the plan to resume testing. racial harassment, that's what a professor is claiming after police handcuffed her during a traffic stop. that's the voice of princeton

university professor on dash cam video. police pulled her over for speeding. a quick check found an outstanding warrant for unpaid tickets in philadelphia and that led to this. >> you're understood arrest because of a warrant. >> she posted that the way she was treated had do with her race. she wrote it's another example of the problems with policing in our society. police released her after she paid her fine. it's 4:14 and 17 degrees. now to decision 2016. the two democrats running for the white house made president obama the focus of the debate. how did hillary clinton and bernie sanders play the obama card. >> both candidates know their safe when they express their support for president obama, but it was hillary clinton who kept going back to that theme all night long.

the debate in milwaukee covered sanders strong points such as campaign refinance and it dwefd into clinton's policy reform, but the two clashed when it came to the degree of support for president obama's accomplishments. >> senator sandersled president obama failed the presidential leadership test. >> madam secretary, that is a low blow. last i heard a unit states senator has the right to disagree with the president including a president who has done such an extraordinary job. >> clinton is trying to regain momentum in the race after her land slide loss to sanders in the new hampshire primary. the republican white house candidates are in south carolina ahead of next week's primary. they're gearing up for a debate tomorrow night and right now polling shows donald trump with a sizeable lead in south carolina. the next round of voting comes

one week tomorrow in south carolina for the republicans and nevada for the democrats. >> thanks. ahead in our next half hour donald trump questions the pope. here why. as the candidates continue to battle it out you can take an interactive trip along the road to the white house. a new exhibit opens today at the constitution center. we're live with a sneak peak there. matt. >> reporter: this is a great opportunity for you folks at home because are the medicina parters of the headed to the white house. it opens today at the national constitution center and this is really going to give us an inside look at the ready to the presidency so we're going to give you a look right now, i'll let my photographer in. this is what the exhibit looks like. you can see everything from the history of the presidency from going all the way back to george washington up to president obama today. it gives you an idea of what

it's like to run for president. you have all thecampaigns. these items that mark what it's like to be president, run for president, what the campaigns are like and really all about the political parties and some very nice historical perspective. you have facts along the wall. look at some video from yesterday, the ribbon cutting happened and we saw children and vips come in and get the first experience of this exhibit. this is very important of course because we're talking about the political convention and i'll have more on that coming up in the next hour and we have a big one, the democratic convention coming to philadelphia in july. as we come back out live, one of the big things you can do here, you can give a stump speech. so over here i'll have my photographer come and take a look at this and you can either be kennedy or regan.

you hit a button and it starts with a speech. it's interesting and great for the kids and it opens today and on monday you can get in for free. coming up in the next hour we'll talk about the political conventions and talk with somebody here at the national constitution center about how this is going to be a key resource for us in showing you what it's like on that road to the presidency. live at the national constitution center. >> thanks. it's 4:18 firefighters are at this scene in central jersey. an army of fire crews and water tankers were putting out flames at the scene. thick smoke kept neighbors inside their hopes and shut down parts of the highway. tankers had to shuttle in water to put out the flames. here is how one witness

described how the fire started last night. >> we heard a couple of loud bangs and we looked out and you could see the black smoke in the air and it was just unbelievable. >> the warehouses are federally owned. they store plastic and clothing. boston's historic fenway park never looked like this. it's been transformed into a playground for the snow boarders in the world. it made its debut last night. the 140 tall ramp seemed to be no match for the winners of last night's competition. thee the skiers will give it it a try tonight. they're hosting the tell fast. it is opened to beginners. there's no charge for tomorrow's event, but a valid lift ticket or season pass will be required if you want to participate. no first alert weather.

doing anything outdoors is going to require layering up this morning and this weekend you'll really have to pile on the layers. it's going to get very cold. right now the wind has died down. it's not as windy as yesterday, bult it is colder this morning. 18 degrees currently in philadelphia where the airport is reporting a nine mile an hour wind. it feels like seven degrees below zero. scattered clouds have taken a break this morning. they'll be back this afternoon. with those clouds we could run into some snow this evening. at 4:00 this afternoon, 27 degrees in philadelphia. stay below freezing through the day. we're watching these snowshowers during the late afternoon hours. at 9:00 some light snow moving through allentown and those showers will be on the move. they start to fall apart at 11:00 tonight and then they really fall apart into early

part of tomorrow morning. but first thing tomorrow morning we could see scattered snowshowers and once they pull out the winds bring in the cold. 9:00 tomorrow morning is a degrees. today wind is not that bad, but it is cold. clouds increase. so does the temperatures. winds below ten miles an hour. colder air will impact your weekend. winds gusting to 45 miles an hour on saturday. we could start at 21 degrees during the morning and plummet during the day, by late afternoon 19 degrees and it gets colder on sunday morning. it will drop into the single digits on sunday with the wind blowing sunday morning which is valen tien's day. it will feel like it's 20 degrees below zero. >> that's the coldest we've seen in a long time. >> yes.

best to stay in or be prepared. your ride to work at 41. jessica looking at 42. >> starting off in new jersey right now around route 41, no problems or delays yet. not a lot of cars out. northbound is in the green. a five minute trip 59 miles an hour. there is concrete work in wayne to watch out for. this is going to be until about 5:00 this morning. so watch out for that clean up. as many bridges did check in with us about 15 minutes ago, but we had an update for the burlington. so in the next half an hour we'll see delays there. the walt and betsy are doing okay.

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the fill liz will pack up their gear. the truck will leave at noon today and arrive in clear waet on sunday. we're six days away from the start of filly sprik training. one player is ryan howard. he is one of the best sluggers in the history and he struck out 40 teams. his manager says his position with the team is still in question. >> it's going to be a difficult situation if we have to do in my opinion i have to do what i think is the best for the organization and best for the team and that's where we're at. >> ryan howard is entering his 12th season with them. we'll get you warmed up with spring training with a special series next week. don't forget it is your home for the opener. we've got you covered on monday april 11th.

game time is at 3:00 right here. no your first alert weather. 17 degrees at 4:27. a very cold morning and a colder weekend. we have issued a first alert for the weekend weather. >> we are watching the garden state parkway right now. not a lot of cars out the door yet. we have a pretty quiet friday so far. this is around the cape may toll plaza. we will touch on what's going on in center city when i come back at 4:30. saving lives this video shows a heroin overdose victim being brought back.

on a bitter cold morning like this it helps to think spring. temperatures are in the teens ahead of potentially record breaking cold this weekend. and missing money, the search is on for the thief who stole an atm pack with $18,000 and a winter chill can compete with love in the air. today couples will tie the knot ahead of valentine's day weekend. let's talk more about the bitter temperatures with meteorologist with his first alert forecast. >> temperatures are much colder this morning. we're running up to 10 degrees colder than yesterday. 16 in trenton.