dozen bold face business names are out here this morning including sixers ceo scott o'neil, and chris gaffney, president with toll brothers, he's up already, and also, they're all joining covenant house to sleep in the parking lot, as thousands do in our city each night. >> homeless kids don't get to choose their weather, and it is a reminder that we shouldn't get to choose our weather either. hopeless kids have to endure so much. they've got to endure rain, sleet, snow, cold, they have to endure fear, they have to endure the perils of the street, the traffickers, the pumps, the preditors who exploit them. sleeping out is a way of showing a solidarity, as a way of us having a glimpse of what they go through, a glimpse. >> and again, just a glimpse, he's saying, of the sheridan their can be faced for a young person out in the street, sleeping, and here and alone, about $250,000 raised already this morning. and we are told 16 other across the us and canada also doing the same thing here. live in germantown, justin finch, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> such important cause, justin, thanks. >>> pol

>> absolutely, we've got scott o'neil, from the sixers, laura price, from the sixers, chris gaffney, whole contingent from toll mothers, america luxury home builder out here tonight. we have got folks who have come together to show solidarity with these young people. >> you are saying, too, no one out here begrudgingly, all want to be out here, out here in these conditions to raise monday. >> i absolutely level of commitment that's inspiring, it is inspiring, these people will say i'm going to give up my safe warm bed, and i'm going stay outside in the cold, in the rain, in the wet soy i can -- so i can help these homeless kids. >> i have to ask you there is overnight, it was okay, crisp now, but what that is it like to be out here in the sleeping bags and boxes all night? >> you c't imagine that there are teenagers, who have tone do your this every night. because we can get up, go out to our beds, but kids out on the street who endure the noise, the sound, the fear, right, not knowing, where they are going to sleep the next night, what's going to happen to them. it is inspiring. >>

now, one of the people out here, who spent the night, and raised for this cause, chris gaffney, with toll brothers. chris, i want to ask you, being out here overnight, why was this something that thousand dollars do? >> this is, you know, something, the kids that we serve are helpless. and when we can do something as simple as this, sleeping out in the streets for one night, it makes the world of difference to these kids. >> this is your fifth time doing this. what keeps you coming back? >> it is the kids. they are truely my kids. whatever i can do to help them, i do. and i am so lucky to be in that my entire team is here. there were 20 of us here tonight. everybody's just they want to keep coming back. they want to help these kids. because it is special to them. >> for anyone watching at home, who want to get involved, do what you guys are doing here, what should they do? >> you know, call us here at covenant house pennsylvania, we desperately need people to help. we need people to want to help these kids. you know, as you said, the need in the philadelphia area is tremendous. and, y