longview lane and cherry lane. tons of slippery spots reported.orts of icy conditions here as well. route 222 around grim road. also watching the schuylkill, check for any slow drive times. a little bit. seeing red on the maps here. 26 minutes. pretty much the same drive time in both directions. watching eastbound from the blue route to vine. moving towards center city where you'll see slowdowns. watching out in cherry hill around route 70. still watching for these intersections where the traffic lights are not working. police are directing traffic in both directions. >>> just issued a first alert based on jessica's reports of all the icing happening in the lehigh valley, berks, and the pennsylvania suburbs. this is until 9:00 this this morning. temperatures still cooling downright now. even though the rain has ended. the ground is still frozen. leading to icy spots and slippery conditions. might be deceiving. if you're looking at the temperature in your car shows 40s. everybody in the suburbs, chester county, montgomery reporting temperatures abo

. >>> normally we don't report on high school basketball out of longview, washington, but a kid named jared strong did something remarkable last night. he made a basket. >> jared strong! >> reporter: jared has cerebral palsy, and it has kept him on the sidelines most of his life, but not last night. >> it means the world to me, like i have always wanted to be on the court. >> reporter: jared suited up for the long high school lumberjacks, a dream come true. after the opening tip, the lumberjacks handed off the ball to our buddy jay strong. he shoots, and he scores. >> it's been the greatest feeling of my fe screamed or both, but it was great. it's awesome. >> seeing his face is absolutely priceless. >> the kids see how hard he works, and he goes and takes lessons and goes to a work out place on the side, and they see him fall down and get back up. >> don't let anything stop you from doing what you want to do. just go for it. >> reporter: and words to live by, and one shining moment number 15 will remember forever. >> that's the happy chills, right? jared may not get in the game the re

and what was worse, we had an office in longview and some people are required to go get a documentation from the i.r.s. in order to do what they need whether it's with insurance with their employer, and they couldn't get into the i.r.s. office and the i.r.s. office closed in longview making it more difficult for americans in east texas to get the customer service they needed. well, this article from from "the "washington times" points out that the i.r.s. has made it much more painful for taxpayers than it should have been and that's according to the i.r.s.'s inspector general, that was in a report on thursday that accused the agency for cutting money for customer service and ignoring phone calls while moving the money to keep obamacare and other administration priorities on track. what that means is that the i.r.s. would be there to bully people who had concerns about problems with obamacare which certainly would not help their health at all. but one reporter had told me that previously they were told by the i.r.s. that i.r.s. cuss funding and that's why customer service was cut. and ye