within this general area on this blacktop is where this young person lost his life tonight. tonight, a family is reeling. >> we are not leaving any stone unturned in this investigation. early monday night, a male body found on a playground near a basketball court and gay elementary school in seabrook. he had been stabbed to death. based on witness descriptions, the authorities are confident he was attacked. the investigators are still working to establish motive. we do have strong suspect leads. jay: the crime has this father deeply concerned. reyes fears the victim could be he is 24-year-old son. the family lives only a few blocks away and his son plays basketball here often. >> some people may want to steal something. take his cell phone or something. n, missing since 5:00 p.m., has a disability that prevents them from being able to fend off an attack or fully realize he is in danger. once you see him, you would see he could not defend himself. this hour, the authorities have not released the name of the victim in this case and have not told us if they have made arrests ye

we can see the blacktop. plows just went through this stretch here by allston/brighton. let's get to the maps and see the rest of your ride. north of town we're dealing with lots of problems. watching two jack-knifed tractor if you're heading that way toward the lowell connector only the breakthrough lane getting by right now. expect a slow ride there. a couple of accidents reported along 128 from reading as you travel down toward lexington and toward route 2. we have a few problem spots there. also watching a spinout on 495 by center street and another accident 9 south by route 16. south of town a few problems as well. 24 northbound a crash by route 27. another accident route 3 north by derby street. and a slow ride on the pike. you really want to be careful and let those crews get out there and clean those roads if you don't have to head out right now. trains and buses for now on schedule. erika, antoinette. erika: thanks so much. a mix of snow and sleet making the commute a lot more difficult for many of you this morning. antoinette: the eyeopener's doug meehan is on

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as you can see, lot of reflection off the street here off the blacktop here in allentown, that just shows you how wet these roads are. we have seen ponding on the way up here, on the extension, as well as highways up here in the allentown area. so be careful, especially now that it is still dark outside to make sure you're being careful and taking it easy out here on the road. we do know even though right now there is not so much of ice we're seeing or sleet, just rain, that penndot has been ready, they did spend time in 12-hour shift over the past day or so, brining roads in case it did get hazardous out here. still may see some trucks on the ready along the highways and the roads, just in case, to take care of the street, as they become hazardous. so right now, seeing much more of a heavy and steady rain event out here in allentown. not too many people up and about at this time. but when they do wake up, and hit the street, they will find the roads are pretty slick, pretty wet in part, the cars right now are navigating and so far so well. but as more people wake up, and hit the roads, w

don't use blacktop on your driveway. >> seth: what? >> i know it costs a lot more. but spring for the concrete it's worth it in the long run. >> seth: sorry, you're warning me about driveways? >> my wife fought me on this, hard. she kept saying, " " doesn't matter. asphalt is $5 per square foot, and customized concrete driveways with decorative elements can run $25 per square foot." but six mont later -- >> seth: gorbon, i j jt don't -- >> seth, let me finish. >> seth: fine. >> six months later our asphalt driveway had major cracks in it, and we had to install a concrete driveway anyway. >> seth: that's it? >> y y. oh, no. i hope i did not come off like i was complaining about my wife. i would never want to say anything disparaging about her on tv. >> seth: i think you're fine. >> okay. [ sigh ] i was worried for a second. i love her so much. >>eth: gorbon, unless you have something really important to my show. [ laughter ] >> seth! i have some grave news about the future that was relayed to me by >> seth! "batman vs. superman," looks like it's going to be bad. [ la

ability, in some of these pocket of extreme slickness, and wetness, seeing lot of patches here on the blacktop here, just showing you how wet and saturated dollars these roads are. so as you are making your way throughout our area this morning, nicole, rather, erika, sorry, you do want to be very careful about how you're getting around, what you are seeing on the rolled, as well. live here in allentown, back over to you. >> better safe than sorry, justin, thank you. even though the wintery mix is hit being north of philadelphia this morning, penndot says it is keeping a close eye on the city and the immediate suburbs. "eyewitness news" was at penndot's control center yesterday. penndot tells us, it has new equipment in trucks to better monitor their locations on area roads. also, they can tell just how much salt they have to spread. penndot of course is fully stocked right now with a 120,000 tons of salt. >> and, with weather like this, make sure to have the cbs philly weather app on your phone, you can track the storm and get the updated forecast from our team of meteorologists being download

with the blacktop to any restaurant food industry, what they say as we go to our food producers, and they say yes, we can get there, and five years, not immediately. whether it is no antibodies for , will be ae at all lot of the detail an important in the next couple of years. with a: let me follow up question from the audience , and the question is here, high fructose corn syrup is a serious issue in the united states. be government allows it to labeled natural or artificial. zeke: well, he is the regulator. [laughter] michael: and you're the one who worked in the white house. across asill come radical, but i do not a problem with not allowing that, even if the a is harmful, bad, has no benefit, keep it out of the food. if it is an ingredient in the food, we have to allow it to be in the food. if it is put in, we generally recognize that as safe. if it is not safe because it is causing harm, then it is not safe, and we should not pretend that it is pure this is an example of problems we see in the federal government, which is the non-specification in terms of the use on labels, and

you can see that blacktop. still very, very dangerous. let's go to the maps now. here is that accident doug was just talking about. this is right along 495 northbound, two tractor trailers involved here by route 3 only the breakdown lane getting through. once you get past that a crash a spinout by center street. another accident 128 south by route 35 and then 128 has not been pleasant this morning. overturned car northbound over by route 2. also on the southbound side by route 2a a crash involving a tractor trailer. a ramp accident right there. still watching this crash on 93 south by route 16. accident on the pike east by route 9. as you head south several problems here. truck accident 24 north by route 27 and a crash on route 3 northbound by derby street. we're going to continue to keep you posted and once again again braintree branch moderates delays right now. mike. mike: it depends on where you're at and what kind of precipitation you're getting. this is falling in all forms. there's snow. so the totals in snow have not been real impressive so far this mornin