>> lauren johnson, good morning. >> reporter: hello, guys, i'm in bucks county. ing sideways. it is coming dot out here, no mixture, more coming up after the break. >> looking good, lauren, 4:27. we've got some flooding as a result every high tide coming offer the delaware river. this is a live look at columbus boulevard. right near the ben franklin bridge. let's go to allentown, checking in this morning, we've got cameras everywhere. sue has got your forecast. but first we will check the lottery numbers a quick break and we'll be right back. [a5df] >> it is a good morning to snuggle in, looking at doylestown, that's the storm over our heads, we do have some states of emergency declared for so many of our states, and areas, and cities, and communities, and whole number of school closings that are running at the bottom of your screen. moles of the schools made the call yesterday. >> yes, pennsylvanian new jersey under states of emergency, there and see on the bottom of your screen the concellations and delays are still coming in at this hour.

lauren johnson is in norristown with the preview, good morning to you, lauren. >> reporter: good morning. there were two big issues on the table yesterday, first was the date of the alleged sexual encounter by andrea constand. the defense attorneys started to pull out phone record, travel schedules to prove to the judge that this did not happen when they say it d reason why that is important because of the statute of the limitations, defense attorneys were hoping that would help advance their motion to dismiss charges all together. judge stephen o'neill rejected that motion and said issue should be taken up at april 2nd trial and jury should decide. that other issue up for discussion is testimony from 19 other women who said they were drugged and attack by america's most famous father. prosecutors brief their testimony will bolster credibility of the andrea conn stan. only woman whose charges were logged begins cosby in december 2015. they want to paint picture of cosby as a predator with a method of assaulting woman. the judge only allowed one other woman to testify, and it is reported

jenn fred in month co- >> with our lovely six box, yes, thomas in gloucester county, lauren johnson in upper bucks county and steve is in northampton county. >> well why don't we start with all of the folks out there who haven't had power since friday, near havertown. delco, probably one the hardest hit areas, so far, as power, hi, karen. >> hi, i got the snow making my face. come on over here, join us this morning, one of the busiest wawa's around. good morning to you. >> good morning, high. >> how was your driver around? >> real slippery. very slippery. >> where are you coming from and where are you going to? >> ardmore, just grabbing coffee, and going back in the house. >> now, what's it like for people that are out there driving around? how would you describe the conditions? >> i would say be very cautious, drive slowly, and if you don't have to go out, don't. >> good advice. thank you so much. get your coffee. >> thank you. >> this guy here, very charming, good looking young man, but he did leave his car when he ran into watt with a with the keys in it, don't do that because peopl

lauren johnson there in up err bucks county quakertown area, good morning. >> good morning, karen, we saw this utility truck. just informed, that was blinking yellow. now it appears to be repaired. but let's hope that this worked. man, you know what i am ' going to say, the storm is coming later, sue and mike have been talking about it, so hopefully the snow doesn't pound down here, knock this power out to this intersection again. right now actually it has tapered off little bit. when i checked in with you guys the first time around 4:00 it was coming down pretty hard. but they still have nice coating here, on the grassy areas. not really on the roads. the roads are kind of slushy. so we've been here for about 90 minutes. chris and i head out, see how the roads are doing. we've been at this wawa here, 663, i think we have video to show you, a lot of the plow trucks have come through here to fuel up this morning, in fact, i met up with a guy few minutes ago, tried to get him on camera. i said where are you leaded? he said to work. i said of course you are. i asked him have the radios b

montgomery county bill cosby will be back in court today, day two of the pretrial hearing lets get to lauren johnsonlauren. >> reporter: hey, karen good morning to you. remember first jury dead lock and as soon as it was over prosecutors announce we will go after bill cosby again but before they do they want to make changes and that is why we are having this pretrial hearing that started yesterday and continue today. they want to change how things go this time around. they are asking the same judge to allow more women to share their tails hoping to show bill cosby was a predator, 80 year-old says he is not guilty of sexual assault begins those with men or only woman to file charges andre constand he says encounter between those two was consensual. his new and revamped defense says her dates on when she assaulted was off and falls out side the statue of limitations and her client should not be facing theme charges anyway. judge said he will leave that the to the jury refuse ago this motion. jury selection is slated to begin march 29th. even before the hearing that judge, knocked cosby's team for atta

to testify when he is retried again, lets get out to the courthouse in montgomery county and lauren johnson, good morning, lauren. >> reporter: hey, karen lawyers on both side hoping to get their way ahead of jury selection scheduled to begin march 29th. prosecutors want to allow would the man to testify, defense attorneys say they want to keep it the same way it was in the bill cosby's first trial. as for cosby himself last time we saw him publicly was at le rose jazz club in germantown in january. he had dinner with friends and fans before cracking jokes in front of the small audience. before that cosby was in court back in august with his new defense team. those lawyers trying to convince the same judge who presided over his sexual assault trial to keep the rules the same as it relates to victims. andrea constand testify that she was sexually assaulted in cosby's home in 2004 after she was drug. one more woman was allowed to testify. the prosecutors didn't get that their way in asking for a dozen more to take the stan. today's hearing will determine what happens in this retrial scheduled

. >> so lauren johnson in bucks county, karen hepp this delaware count, thomas drayton in camden county and jenn frederick in montgomery county. but we can't forget steve. he has moved now in bethlehem. lehigh county. >> that's the five box for you, ladies and gentlemen. >> wow, steve. >> by the way our boxes cents are live, we don't just put the promo pictures on there and do tips like other people in our news room. so that's why we can be animated. >> mike, 22 years. april fools day. you can't forget that. because what a prepare row at day for this show to start on other than april fools day. have you seen before i've moved to? moved to the bethlehem diner. that will means we in bethlehem. and look how crowded it is in there. and it looks like bunch of hard-working men, getting a hardy breakfast, because they know what faces them ahead. as we have some big white snowflakes finally, on one side we have tree removal guys, highest branches on the highest power lines, then these trucks with the drills on them. to put new telephone polls, in you can see a lot of mud on those drills, and th

lets get right t johnson, lauren. >> reporter: hi there, good morning, karen. cosby ace moy ss sexual salt retrial and he is pi new defense team they can convince that judge not allow thoseide tt courtroom. prosecutors are hoping to, call about 19 of those women tohe their point that cosby engaged in an almost pattern of drugging and harming women. cosby ace only charge in one former temple employee andrea constand who accused cosby of making ina home in august of 2004. that initial trial, ended durinl only one other accuser was allowed to testi, defense team t same rule to apply this time around. is lawyers argued women claime virtually impossible to defend against so now wee what happens. jury selection in the retrial will begin this month. >>> 4:03. another trial continuing this mn accused of murdering and dis memberrering a tra g forty-four year-old charles sergeant, is charged with the murder of diamond william up. victim's severed body wasnu in york street. suspect is representing himself in court. >>> lets talk about that a lot have people still picking

we'll check it out coming up. >> it's sunday march 4th, i'm bill anderson, lauren johnson,f, staying uren will be back tomorrow much improved there today, bill, believe it or not, the coastal storm brewing in the seven-day forecast. so get a little bit of a about o be brewing later in the week coming up. but the weathernes, sunny and breezy for your sunday, chilly, high temperatures will p. and yes, that headline there, another coastal storm wi possib take a look at the open waters to have the atlantic showing you churning, well out to sea. winds still a little gusty across the and we still have a minor coastal flood concern with the high tide early this morning. down the shore, watching out for a surge of about one to one and a half feet later on this morning with that high tide. more beach erosion, flooded roadways, too, temperature-wise, upper 30's, philadelphia, 40 atlantic city, upper 30's once move north and west towards lehigh valley, 37 degrees. current winds you can see sustained, out of the north anywhere from about ten to 20 miles per hour, you factor in that wind, feels li

do you want to start with lauren johnson? looks like she has actual flakes in bucks county. lauren? >> reporter: hey, guys, so yes, these flakes are falling much slower than they have been for the last two hours, when we got here around 3:15 a.m. this morning it was pretty steady snow falling, you can see enough to sort of coat the areas that have not been salted out herement the roads are just wet from the rain that fell first. then the snow came down. so there is a light coating on everything. we've made our way over to the quakertown borough. here is the deal, mike and alex. there was a city council meeting scheduled here for 7:30 tonight. you guys know that's not going to happen. right? but there is still single man out here salting the sidewalks right near the front door trying to keep people safe who might show up in this area and then about to show this way, a plow truck coming through, look clearing the area out. so we've been seeing them all morning, at the wawa for about two hours earlier today. and they kept coming through, fueling up, then i asked one of the guys, where

our lauren johnson out doing her job there reporting on the snow, when suddenly, right in the face. let's just say the little ones had a little too much fun. more on this, in 902nd. stay it's cleaning season protection. this spring, take on even the grimiest messes with the power of lysol kitchen and bathroom cleaners. kills 99.9% of germs with 0% bleach. lysol. what it takes to protect. >> after yesterday's adventures, shall we say shall perhaps this is a good time to countdown to spring. at least when spring will technically begin. and you know, underneath all of that snow, are some daphodils wait to go bloom. some of us have had our daphodils start to come up already, 12 days until march the 20th, which will be the vernal equinox of 2018, 12:15 p.m. in the afternoon. let's look at impressive snowfall totals from yesterdayment looks like north jersey, bucks county, got a lot of the brunt of this. princeton township, 17.8 inches. richboro in bucks county got 16 inches. broomall in delco, a foot of snow. bryn mawr, just aunt foot. cherry hill with 8.5. at philadelphia international

>> of course we had to put it in slow motion, once again, lauren johnson got pelted in the face withwball in upper bucks county. all during a snowball fight with a group of kids. happy to be home from school. the video by the way was posted just about everywhere from philly.com to "tmz." >> a lot of fun there, not so much fun in the dark, ahead on good day, the storm knocking out power, to hundreds cents of thousands of people all across the delaware valley. we will tell you how crews are working to get those lights back on. not even a snowstorm can slow down howie roseman. the eagles executive reportedly pulling off a huge trade, as he looks to build another super bowl roster. what the pro-bowler michael bennett means for the birds. "good day" continues, mike and please keep your shoes on! stop messing with your sister! hey! hey! don't make me come back there! so? feels really good.... yeah, i'm gonna buy it. (vo) customer service that goes the extra mile. enterprise makes it easy. >> after that nor'easter dumps more than foot every snow in some areas, i think the highest total 18 e

hoping to stop some of his accusers from testifying during this retrial as many as 19, 20 women, lauren johnson. >> reporter: that is correct, mike and alex. trial is not scheduled until april 2nd but his lawyers new defense team will be in court this morning just as you mentioned trying to keep those accusers from taking the stand so prosecutors will try to convince the same judge scott o'neill who oversaw first trial that he should allow 19 women to testify in the re trial but in a me too world cosby's defense lawyers might not get their way. might be tougher this time around. first trial judge only allowed one other woman to take the stand, andrea constand was focus of that trial and she ledge cosby sexually assaulted her in 2004 at his home. jurors never her from the 60 or so woman who came forward alleged looking inappropriate behavior by the comedian. the only case they did get was from a deposition when cosby admitted to drug would go man he had hoped to have sex w cosby's lawyer say those allegation date back to the 1960's and they are virtually impossible to defend against they would a

>> lauren johnson snowball right to the face live on the air. of that good day tomorrow morning starting at 4:00 if you want to catch lauren again we posted that video on facebook and instagram. enjoy. >> caught on camera suspected drunk driver hit by his own car. police say they tried to pull over 30-year-old isaac bon sue for equipment violation in alexandria virginia just outside of washington. d.c. early sunday. while they were trying to run away from police he gets out of his car for gets to put it in park and that's when it runs in front of -- he runs in front of it and gets hit. police took him into custody unharmed after a brief chase. his charges include driving while inn tock indicate, fell felony hit-and-run and possession of marijuana. >>> stunning video now of attempted car robbery one of the would be thieves just ten years old. police say the ten-year-old stole some car keys from a car dealership in holly hills florida just near daytona when he and his mom were shopping for a car. so when the ten-year-old and adult friend realized

. >> riding horses, tractor seat >> thanks for posting lauren johnson getting hit in the face with thenally. >> you have to keep your head on the swivel, shout out to her, she took one, that was a direct shot right there. >> and she laughed right afterwards, she's tough. >> she kept going. >> i'm from the south, i could not hand that will. >> we will see you this afternoon. >> thanks, van. >> peace. >> thanks for being with us. this show went quickly today, didn't it. >> sure, after 10 hours we did yesterday. >> that was it. >> yes. >> we will see you tomorrow thanks everybody. new fast play games are out, and break the bank has progressive top prizes. bet i can clear these shelves faster than you can play. ready? go! (objects clattering) (high-pitched giggling) i won. fast play. pay fast. win instantly. i won. the ross spring dress event. it's here. where you'll find the perfect dress at the perfect price. whether you want to stand out from the crowd or dance the night away. from a weekend getaway to that special celebration. if you want to save big on dresses for every occasion, you'

so lauren johnson's in front of the montgomery county courthouse.ting to mill around because he could becoming real soon. >> reporter: that is right. here's the deal, mike and alex there is some talk that cosby may not appear in court and might be just his lawyers but as you mentioned media circus, and ensued, and, and, in the courthouse and in the, and and testify, the defense attorneys wa ty were in the last trial. as for cosby the last time that we saw him, and, and, in friends and fans before cracking a few jokes in front of the small audience there.as t back in august with his new defense team. those lawyersconvince the same t o'neill who presided over his es the same this time around as it relates to the victims in thatandrea constand t she was sexually assaulted at ae was drugged, one more woman was allowed to testify not get their way in asking for a dozen more to take a stan. so this to add six to that original list and make that number 19 to hearing will determine what happens in the retrial and you are right, you might remember, 10 days a

lauren: latest on tariffs. adam johnson. reporter: i'm confused. lauren: go to adam johnson first. you're both dealing with bad weather. thank you for both of you. steel tariffs expected on aluminum on friday and more coming down on china, et cetera, that could raise prices for consumers. then we do have inflationary environment. >> tell you why i'm not concerned, we get this country, one quarter, 25% of our imported steel from canada and mexico and guess what? those two countries have been granted exemptions because of nafta talks. if you net them out, call it 18%, 15% of the total steel in this country will have some sort of tariff associated with it. they're creating carveouts all over the place. lauren, i'm been adamant from the beginning, steel tariff is not about china. only 1 1/2% of china gets here, it was leverage in the nafta negotiations. we've seen that play out. countries lobbying on the behalf of other countries like brazil this is posturing by mr. trump. this is "art of the deal" playing in real time. i'm not concerned about any real terrific to trade. lauren: what d

these new tariffs but with ron johnson even if the bill passed he knows congress would have enough votes to override the veto that would eventually come from the president. lauren: north security adviser h.r. mcmaster heading to the united nations stay for a closed-door briefing on north korea. all of this as the president's decision to meet with kim jong un was not impulsive. cia director mike pompeo and stephen mnuchin say the administration has laid the groundwork with talks for kim by imposing tougher sanctions. the former u.s. ambassador to the u.n., john bolton telling maria bartiromo the leader is afraid the u.s. will use the military option. >> what has kim jong un the tension that has not had his attention or his fathers is the threat that we will use military force to destroy his nuclear weapons program. i think he scared to death a sad and scared death that donald trump means what he says. cheryl: meanwhile, pyongyang has been quiet since the announcement of the historic meeting. no official response regarding the position since it happened during the meeting. lauren: cautiously optimistic here. the white house unveiled a plan to prevent school shoot

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