even that wasn't good enough for david platt who is out as the cavaliers head coach. david griffin deciding this team not good enough to win an nba title with david platt as its head coach. we signs a three-year deal and this is a long-term commitment to the cavaliers. brendan haywood saying this is a move that essentially should have been made a while ago.>> when it was in film the coach was intimidated at first to correct lebron and when lewis stepped in the given extra rotation. guys started respecting him because they saw he wasn't scared to challenge him. >> tall task ahead of them. content match up against the chicago bulls, you can see here on news channel 5. >>> some numbers, a closer look at the differences between david blatt and lou. david blatt played at princeton. he led russia's in the 2012 olympics. blue sent 11 seasons in the nba as a player and was an assistant coach for the boston celtics and la clippers. analyst say in his praying for it will go a long way to maintain the respect of the cavaliers players. >> the cavaliers have three head coaches on

>> even thoughat they are number one in the east mike fratello will join us live to explain why david platt was like on how it is expected to change they came cheers to john is coming to an end sunday the two orhn posted this about tell marking me the out of snow along the sidewalk. >> not everybody in the heavy snow in the nation's capital. this is playing in the snow outside the white house yesterday. they have a lot of snow to play and it jumped nearly 2 feet of snow in our nation's capital.ow >> twelve minutes after 8:00 o'clock is your time right now. we want to check in with scott to see what is happening weather wise. >> southern ohio had eight to 10 inches of snow pretty close. right now we are seeing high clouds coming into the picture currently. all area brunswick medina in the 20s currently here is the next load up into michigan with the wind shifting coming out of the southwest it will be a quick warm-up today and early tomorrow more than likely a rain producer` with light snow on the back and 40 degrees high today any showers will be primarily into late evening especially in to

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you're taking a live look there, looking good if you're trying to get up own and the platt bridge, 6:13, 33 degrees, david said it's going to be chilly and blustery today getting up to 43. >>> matt what are you seeing on the roads right now. >> reporter: time to make the donuts. people are getting out and time to get to work. a gathering crowd near cottman, not a whole lot is happening southbound delay beginning to form as you head toward bridge street. we're panning around and see if anything is going on, i don't see anything except volume on i-95 southbound. speeds are not too bad on the schuylkill expressway in the 50s for the most part. we had a broken down vehicle in bala cynwyd. it cleared out quickly at presidential monument near my eye doctor. we have construction ford road monument road that's long term work. crash at church wood gardens at becker road. in perkisie a wreck north 5th street highland drive near upper bucks community college. we have a jacker knifed trailer southbound -- jackknifed tractor-trailer on new new jersy turn pike. >>> we have construction on 70 the cuthbert boulevard in c

outfront" now, the national co-chair for ted cruz's presidential campaign, bob vander platte and jeffrey lord and davidergen. ted cruz has been brushing the citizenship issue off. he tweeted "trump, trump the shark" and then took it a bit more seriously. does he need to do a better job of responding to this question? >> i don't think he has to at all. i think it is a settled issue, as ted cruz has said, it's a settled issue. everybody here in iowa knows that ted cruz is eligible to be president of the united states. i think what it is -- and i respect donald trump a lot -- but donald trump sees ted cruz with a lead here in iowa growing momentum in iowa, uniting around him in iowa and he knows if he loses iowa, that puts a puncture in his balloon that he's going to win wherever he goes. so i think ted cruz is a real threat but ted cruz is going to stay on message and that's what is going to unite iowans around his campaign. >> jeff, is it a settled issue? >> i don't think it's a settled issue in this sense. legally -- and i'm not a lawyer. i've heard a lot of people say it's a settled issue. the problem

[applause] if you agree with me, if awe agree with david barden, bob vander platts and steve king andnn beck, that the stakes have never been higher, that it is now or never, we're at the edge of a precipice staring down and if we continue going another four or eight more years in this current direction, we may lose the greatest country in the world. if you agree with me, i want to ask each and everyone much you to do two things. number one, join us right now, come together and commit nine days from now, i will stand and caucus and speak out and we will speak and stand united. [applause] in these next nine days, the iowa caucus will be decided. as the iowa caucus goes, the republican nomination could well go and fate of the country could well go. and so i want to ask each of you not only that a week from monday you show up and stand and speak out, but that you reach out to your friends and family and neighbors and everyone else and say, come, join us join us as well. i want to ask everyone here to vote for me nine times. [laughter] now look, we're not democrats. i'm not suggesting vot

platt did @a great job. @i'm em barred for our league @that -- em barszed for our @league. @david blatt is going to be a @sought after coach. @brandon haywood with the cast @last year saying they were @hesitant to challenge lebron @being a rookie head coach last @year. @they gave him special treatment @want correct him. @blatt and lost the team. @tyronn lue the new head coach. @fourth head coaching change @since 2010. @he's been the associate coach @since 2014. @highest paid consistent in the @-- as at that particular time @in the lead. @he saved david blattt calling @the time-out. @i tell you now, the cavs @players love him. @he's 38 years old, first head @coaching job. @he's a former player first- @round pick with denver traded @with the lakers, won which @wereships with the lakers and @coached -- won championships @with the lakers. @ping it up in the second. @wild cath stover strong -- @wildcat stover strong. @daniel chambers taking it @strong. @bringing the eagles within two. @this game would go to double @overtime. @russ there you have it. @>> you know it's a big game @when h

platt bridge. looks good, but how it feels is a different story. let's go over to davidp, but it's not helping much. storm tracker 6 live double scan not a lot of activity. there's a burst of snow that popped up over salem and cumberland county pushing into the industry of the delaware bay. temperatures are chilly, 30 degrees in philadelphia. the windchill making it feel like the low 20 across the region. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast shows daytime high of 31 degrees around noon. we're back in the 20s after that. windchills this afternoon in the teens by tomorrow morning windchills in the single digits and another high of 31 so two cold days, tam, before we start to recover. >>> now, jim kenny will take the oath of office becoming the 99th mayor of philadelphia. kenny served on city council for more than two decades and elected overwhelmingly in november. he succeeds michael nutter who leaves office after two terms. >>> it's time to find out who is the mystery host on "g.m.a." we'll send you back and see you in 30. >>> good morning, america. it's 8:00 a.m.

saturday's game was lo the first for the cavaliers with the new head coach following the firing of david platt on friday. cavs falling to the gold 96 /ld 83. so sad. >>> 11:20 a.m. and still ahead, people on the east coast are not letting blizzard conditions keepo them down. up next we will show you howem some are actually enjoying the winter weather. >>> a live look now at our nations capitalow there in washington dc. what a difference today makes. yesterday we could barely see the. buildings. it was just unbelievable the conditions out there now to see sunshine but the cleanup continues.. cold weather and snow may have you feeling the winter blues but some pro baseball players in new york are not letting the 2016 blizzard stop them from playing. you had to be young who says you have to be young to play in theoun snow? this video on twitter shows the guys batting with snowballs instead of baseballs and then he belly flops into the snow.. they captioned it was snow can't stop baseball #-number-sign if you are015 thinking baseball? it's only 207 days away soa that's all. do you think you're hav