. >> penn introduced their new coach today steve donahue a local guy , delaware county native donahueant at penn from 1990 to 2,000. he spent a next decade at cornell and four year run at, boston college but this job is different are. >> i have been very fortunate in my career to meet a lot of people and intive rent situations. i have neff been more nervous and excited then i was today. >> get those brackets ready and get ready to washing basketball. here's thursday's schedule. notre dame and northeastern start at noon, butler verse texas at 2:30. cincinnati takes on purdue at 7:30. at 9:30 undefeated kentucky verse winner of tonight's game between hampton and manhattan. >>> we will prepare you for march madness tomorrow night at 7:30 with our march to indianapolis. it is a sports special right here on cbs-3, i'll host a panel of experts and leslie van arsdal will be in pittsburgh with villanova. >>> don't forget to fill out that bracket you can win a $5,000 gift card, to cbs bracket challenge. go to cbs philly.com/sports. sign up. >>> phillies pitchers are dropping like flies. right-

has all to do with what this place is all about. >> 10 years at penn, 10 year at cornell, donahue tookig red to the sweet 16 in 2010. he was born in springfield township. then played college ball at you're sinus. he held a number of local jobs and even serve assistant to herb magee at philadelphia university. all right. get ready to watch basketball here's thursday's schedule on cbs3cbs3. notre dame and northeastern at noon. butler versus texas at 2:30. cincinnati takes on pursue at 7:30 then at 9:30 it's undefeated kentucky versus the hampton pirates. we'll prepare you for march madness tomorrow night at 7:30 with our march to indianapolis a sports special right here on cbs3. i'll host panel of experts and lesley will of course be in pittsburgh with villanova. flyer on the road in vancouver name late start for this game still scoreless in the second period. meantime, the phillies pitchers are dropping like flies. right hander jerome williams scratched from today's start he tweak a hamstring running sprints last sunday. yesterday cliff lee was placed on the 60 day disable list that hea

. >>> penn's new basketball coach call its surreal to be back in the building donahue spent a decadee system and was a head coach at boston college and says he is ready to get to work. >> we are not where we want to be, we need to get back on top of where we belong. i will roll up my sleeves and work as hard as i can. to make sure that that happens. >>> the flyers who are nading fast are in vancouver to face the canucks, and the phanatic is in a st. patrick's mood. he breaks the tie with his second home run of the game. the phils fall 5-3. >>> she is only 13 but mo'ne davis has a lot to tell. her memoir remember my name is out in stores today. she is the first female pitcher to win a game in the little league world series and has a shoe line but the profits benefit underprivileged girls. >>> a know i misheard you you said we were going to get snow on friday? >> snow for the first day of spring. yes. >> you are serious. >> yes i don't kid when it comes to weather, it was nice earlier, stormtracker 6 live double scan showing there is no snow or rain falling from the sky right now we ha

donahue was an assistant at penn from 1990 to 2,000. he spent the next decade at cornell and a four year run at boston college but he says this job is special. >> obviously i have been very fortunate in my career to be in great situations. i have never been more nervous excited then i was to day. >> we will prepare you for march madness tomorrow night at 7:30 with our march to indianapolis, sports special, right here on cbs-3. i'll host a panel of experts and leslie van arsdal will be in pittsburgh with villanova. >>> phillies pitchers and catchers are well, pitchers are dropping like flies. jerome williams was scratched from today's start. he tweaked a hamstring running sprints last sunday. how fast was he running like a five-two. yesterday cliff lee was placed on the 60 day disable list. that leaves cole hamels and dave buchanan as only healthy starters. >> well, they better keep them healthy. >> they are not known for hard work down there in spring training. >> they run striders he strided too wide. >> apparently. >> yes. >> that is

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steve donahue is interviewed as the replacement.has been head coach at cornell and boston college. spending a decade as a penn assistant in the 90's surreal to be back in the building. >> i would never have dreamed i could be a big five head coach. there are only five of us and to i am major -- that i am one of them sin -- is incredible. >>> our apology it is you are still holding out hope for the playoffs, the flyers are playing out the spring. and an excellent chance but it hits the post. and then the second period and they are getting physical. and scoring the flyers lead 1-0 in the second period. >>> the phillies not in regular-season normal yet, still three more weeks before the opener. the finesse game is already where it needs to be. is that the river dance or an irish jig? i am not sure. the phills and rays. and forsyth with two hits both are home runs. the phillies lose 5-3. that's sports. >> thank you. >>> and finally a redhead made famous on broadway returned to philadelphia. ♪♪ >> "annie" taking the stage, the musical fi

. >> and, of course a former assistant at penn steve donahue will be named head coach at penn replacing jerome allen. that is sports. dave: the effect that standardized testing is having on our students is already coming through, it's already showing, and they haven't even taken the test yet. my first-grader came home the other day and cried, because he couldn't - he didn't feel like going to karate practice. after he was done with his work, he said, "mom, i'm just tired," and started to cry. in first grade. what are we doing? what are we doing to our kids? >>> one last check of breaking news we've been following on nbc10. skyforce10 live over 676 at the scene of this serious crash right here involving two tractor-trailers and another car. all near the walt whitman bridge. at least two people were hurt but their injuries are minor. this scene still being cleaned up right now, though. and also southbound lanes of the walt whitman bridge are closed at the moment. look for updates on the nbc10 app. >> cars were starting to get by. >>> for all of us here at nbc10, thanks for watching. >> th

quite interesting, members of the council are starting to look at this now, leon and tomorrow kevin donahue, mayor bowser's des designate will be going before the council for public hearings on his nomination and certainly, these will be among the issues that will come up. another incident involving the ambulances being delayed. >> all i know is they locked him up. sam: while this man in a wheelchair laments yesterday's arrest of his friend one chased his friend. while engine 12 provided quickly for care no ambulance showed for 12 minutes. they put their colleague in a cruiser and drove him to the hospital. is there a shortage of ambulances? an internal memo obtained by abc 7 news shows there's growing concern over response times saying in part our department should immediately consider service expansion options prior to the summer months. >> it appeared that the city does not have enough. sam: some of his colleagues question that need. in the past 10 days we've seen police struggleing with a stabbing victim's worried family during a 28 minute wait for an ambulance in southeast, a motorcycl

he is steve donahue. a local guy who at one time was an assistant at penn.on to become head coach at cornell and boston university where he did a very good job on the both places he replaces jerome allen. the phillies in spring training have had their share of injuries. obviously the biggest cliff lee. today they change things up. what they did for st. patrick's day they wore the green uniform. now this guy won't be wearing a phillies uniform for long in the major leagues because he's terrible. phillipe pee gives up homeruns. he gave up one today. he got help in the field from defense starting short stop is freddie galvis with the good catch phillies lose it today to tampa in clearwater and off season the eagles are bored. here we are bow allen defensive player connor barwin on top. these guys want to show how strong they are. connor barwin and jays see kelce kelce. 264-pounds. see if i was there i would have done that, too. i wasn't in the locker room. >> you weren't there. >> happy st. patrick's day to everybody. >> that's right. we're all wearing green. e

one of our cities, six teams is introducing a new mens basketball coach penn's new boss is steve donahue a delaware county native. he was a penn assistants for ten years spent time at cornell and boston college. good luck with the quakers. >>> we will prepare you for march madness tonight at 7:30 with march to indianapolis special right here on cbs, sports director beasley reese host a panel of experts and leslie van arsdal is in pitberg with nova. >>> the flyers are on the road playing late on the west coast, but unable to have solve the the canucks. vancouver paid tribute to the late pat quinn before the the game. he coached the flyers before leading vancouver to their only stanley cup finals appearance. in the game canucks alexander baros scored two goals, 17 seconds apart and the canucks win four-one. flyers in calgary tomorrow night. >>> erika. >> thanks, diana. >>> still ahead on "eyewitness news" a major health insurance company is latest victim of a sign's tack. jill wagner has details in the money watch repeport but first here's what is coming up tonight on cbs-3. >>> a hundred

lisa donahue, founder of the watershed communications. lisa's a national branding expert who brought some long-term advice for extending the brand. >> so i know you're looking at a partnership with lick ice cream. >> right. >> and so maybe thinking about bundt cakes, three layer chocolate cakes, really doing a whole a la mode concept to bring people in to the shop. >> cake and ice cream. >> cake and ice cream, yeah. >> with a short-term plan in place, and a long-term growth plan to think about, it's time to get ready for the big fat cupcake tasting party. and the event planners arrive. >> hi i'm kathleen. >> i'm heather. so nice to meet you. >> so nice to meet you. >> kimball musk of the kitchen introduced kathleen. >> i'd like to introduce you to kathleen. kathleen owns big fat cupcake in cherry creek. >> kathleen offered up the samples. >> these were all baked this morning and i'll cut them up. but you know i eat cupcakes right out of my hand. i say just go for it. >> the event planners sampled the samples. >> really does taste like ore

ushering in a new era with jerome -- he is a head coach at boston college and cornell, before that donahuesistant and is thrilled to be back. >> i would never dream i would be a big five head coach there is only five of us and imagine that i am one of them is just incredibly overwhelming. >> to baseball now -- we are inside of three weeks until the regular season opener while the phillies may not be in regular season form yet the phanatic is. logan forsyth has two hits and both are home runs. that is a look at sports monica back over to you. >> thanks ducis bag pipes and pretzels are hoping to heal in the hospital on st. patrick's day. >>> david cohen thanked them for sending over shamrock shaped pretzels for patients and staff at the hospital. i know grandma's house isn't the most exciting, but it's only for a few hours. look what i've got. when you get verizon fios, you get beautiful hd picture quality, super fast internet, and america's most reliable network. so you won't miss a second of that movie that game they love, or those moments with family. can we sleep over? please! come on! s

richard donahue says big shout out to those conosha lincoln middle school students who walked out theaid, officer mike meyers said stand up for your friends. athletes who defended the cheerleaders taught lessons learned. great job lincoln middle school. on her last home game, they were chanting who's house? should have dee's house. >> that's my house. >>> coming up on the kron 4 morning house -- paul calls me d. you can call me daria. whatever you want. even hotter tomorrow honey. let's take a look at the san mateo bridge. just a little bit of a slow down on friday morning. everybody's gotta get to work and school this early. san jose 52 degrees. 75 for today, and much hotter for the weekend. for those who appreciate quality and precision, here's grounds for celebration. experience exceptional coffee and espresso in one essential machine and delivered to you with a push of a button. the nespresso vertuoline. swiss-designed precision brought to your kitchen. celebrate one year of vertuoline with $100 dollars off. it's the best price we've ever engineered. ♪ ♪ bulldog: oooh! mattress di

. >> i will be like phil donahue with the mic here. yes, sir. >> i am mel cline. will preface this by saying i am a lifelong democrat, but i do not march in lockstep. is tehran munich? is obama, chamberlain? are the centrifuges, czechoslovakia? is it inviting defeat to job job with the adversary -- isn't appeasement anticipatory surrender? >> my answer is to say, no. as i suggested earlier in the talk, munich 1938 is munich, 1938. this does not mean, however, that the threat with respect with tehran and nuclear weapons is not real. it does not mean that barack obama is wise to pursue negotiations with the irani and government. i happen to think it is the right policy for him to take at this time. of course, it mandates and requires that he and his advisers be very rigorous in those negotiations clear-sighted in what they wish to achieve. that i don't think the threat that tehran represents can be equated with the threat that hitler presented to the u.s. and its allies in the 1930's. it doesn't rise to that level. >> you had mentioned that a lot of times, we need t

. >> i miss harry donahue at "kyw news radio", all philadelphia public and parochial schools, and woese for a second and you would be like open? closed? they're closed! >> good morning, to harry he's in retirement enjoying his coffee and his donuts out there. live look here, this is route 202, where again the snow starting to stick to the road surface, at least the sidewalks, and remember the problem we have now penndot, they were not able to brine last night. so they weren't able to put down that salt brine solution because of the rain. so we have the wet roads spray coming up off the cars, and trucks in front of you here, and now the road conditions starting to change, and they'll change quick. modified schedule on amtrak, the asela the corridor, and all of the keystone lanes keystone trains today. new jersey transit they're cross honoring tickets system-wide. started cancelling yesterday in advance of the storm and keep in mind, this is just not a phillies storm. as sue showed you on the radar there, this stretches from texas, all the way up into our neck of the woods. check with t

holding its confirmation hearings for the mayor's choice for deputy mayor for public safety kevin donahue and these matters are expected to come up there. reporting live from northeast washington, sam ford, abc 7 news. leon: thank you, sam. this is not the first investigation into the city's emergency response system. the inspector general's office proposed sweeping changes in training and certifications after david rosenbaum's death in 2006. you may recall he was the reporter hit in the head during a robbery outside of his home. police, though thought he was drunk and made him a low priority transport to the hospital. last year, two firefighters were disciplined after cecil mills collapsed and died outside of a city fire station but no one from that station responded to his family's calls for help outside. in that case he took an ambulance 22 minutes to respond to that scene. alison: maryland's department of natural resources plans to close eight shelters and campgrounds along the appalachian trail. that will leave the dogland campground as the only open overnight shelter along that 40 m

we are going to do the phil donahue style. raise your hand and i will come around to you with the microphone. >> if l'enfant quit in the commissioners are still there, whose plan is washington built around? >> l'enfant's plan was laid out in the 1790's, the big streets. not to be able to march armies to control the people. people say did l'enfant design washington after paris? the question is whether paris was designed after l'enfant's plan. the paris we know was not designed until the 1850's. the streets and circles, that was all on the ground, put no money was appropriated to do anything with the public squares for public things other than minimal. when the a.i.a. gets going -- i'm sorry, when the republican party started appropriating money to build washington, all the great photo journal magazines in the united states in the 1870's started publishing these fabulous photographic essays about the new washington. one of those journalists said this is a planned city. there has to be a plan. you don't need a helicopter to see i

. >> steven donahue from mclarty associates. would you talk a little more about how the army is preparing its soldiers in the transition from combat operations to the peace-time army if there is such a thing so that they don't lose their morale, they maintain their proficiency, and just -- and also how we're helping our allies think about that in their own forces. >> great points. and of course you know, we were anticipating obviously a post-war period, right? even just a year ago, a little bit over a year ago. and if you look at what has occurred since that time, we mentioned russia and its actions earlier, i think we see that i think everybody recognizes that it's narcissistic to think if you leave a war it stops, that in fact wars continue even after you leave. if you leave a movie in the middle the movie's still playing. so i think we've seen that dynamic in iraq and we're anticipating a continued contested environment in afghanistan although i think there have been some very promising developments there regionally and with

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fred: i will be like phil donahue with the mic here. yes, sir. >> i am mel cline. i will preface this by saying i am a lifelong democrat, but i do not march in lockstep. is tehran munich? is obama, chamberlain? are the centrifuges, czechoslovakia? is it inviting defeat to talk with the adversary -- isn't appeasement anticipatory surrender? fred: my answer is to say, no. as i suggested earlier in the talk, munich, 1938 is munich 1938. this does not mean, however, that the threat with respect with tehran and nuclear weapons is not real. it does not mean that barack obama is wise to pursue negotiations with the irani and -- irani iranian government. i happen to think it is the right policy for him to take at this time. of course, it mandates and requires that he and his advisers be very rigorous in those negotiations clear-sighted in what they wish to achieve. that i don't think the threat that tehran represents can be equated with the threat that hitler presented to the u.s. and its allies in the 1930's. it doesn't rise to that level. >> you had mentioned that a lot

this accident involving a pedestrian in horsham has shut donahue sean murphy road -- between horsham and some spots down south a little bit milder. this afternoon we're getting it up to 50 but clouds continue to march in during the morning. and late this morning and early this afternoon from west to east we'll be on the lookout for some sprinkles. we could get a period of steadier rain in parts of the region this afternoon. 50 that high. fog developing overnight so tomorrow morning could be a bit foggy. clouds, some sun breezy and milder with a high of 69. at the same time there will be more spotty showers during the day and tomorrow night matt. >> thanks, david. >>> can coming on "action news" at noon the latest on a massive fire that is disrupting life in bethlehem. some residents had to stay indoors because of all that heavy smoke. we will have a live report. >>> taylor swift of berks county of course live on kelly with michael. >>> she's a guest. that's next here on 6abc. i'm matt o'donnell. have a great wednesday. >> ♪♪ announcer: it's "live with kelly and michael." today the in