your alternate stenton avenue is your best bet, theme all morning long and because of that lets get anpdate on new jersey dot's efforts to keep up with this storm. so, dan is on the phone, good morning. >> good morning, meisha. >> i'm curious to know because we knew this was coming but we didn't necessity how would it roll out what were you doing to prepare for this last night and again all morning this morning so far. >> well, what we did is we just had over spreaders and plows, preparing for this event. we were closely monitoring things, the change in the weather, just what the track was, something that we try to keep abreast of, we know that conditions can change at any moment we had an average of 1500 spreaders and plows that were put on alert now and they are out there and work to go keep the interstate and state highways clear in south, central new jersey along the shore where a lot more accumulation has begun. as you mentioned we are just advising drivers to slow down give our crews plenty of room to work and use caution on the road because conditions can change quickly. >> no d

stenton avenue will be your best bet, and lots of these accidents where we have spin outs or vehicles that went in the ditch like this one in media route one media bypass southbound this one vehicle in the ditch and this one has reported injuries, as well. speed restrictionness play, ben, betsy ross commodore barry bridge, walt whitman you are down to 25 miles an hour. we have speed restrictions, would i say go slower then what is posted, also 495, 55 miles an hour, take it slower then. that new jersey turnpike, garden state parkway, a. c expressway, down to 45 or 35 e s. then quick peak out of the delaware county slick conditions, lots of snow out there and speaking of that snow that will wreak havoc not only traveling by gun but by flight as well, cancellations are piling up at airport so lets check with diana jarvis from philadelphia international airport. good morning, diana. >> good morning meisha, how are you. >> i'm doing good. >> we're hearing there is more than 100 reported cancellations, is that right. >> yes, that is correct. actually the airlines as early as yesterday star

water is back on tonight for folks in the stenton section of philadelphia.s lost water after an 8-inch main broke. it happened on the 1100 block of up sal street this morning around 8:00. >>> crews were on the scene through the evening making repairs and good news that everything has been fixed. >>> a small bakery in pittsburgh has a new year's resolution. where bakers are trying to send record number of cookies to troops overseas. fox's michelle chavez has the story. >> nancy b wanted to help out the troops. >> i always had have asport soft spot for the boys over there. >> she and her son are reaching their 20th anniversary sending cookies to service members over seas. >> you would think they're giving them a million dollars and it's just cookies. my son i work together real good. >> reporter: bakery says they expect to send at least 200 dozen cookies to military personnel over seas this year. that's more than triple the am they sent in 2017. this box is going on a three-week journey to afghanistan. >> afghanistan seems so far and everything but it came out

"eyewitness news" was on hand for kick off event at stenton school in south philadelphia. superintendent doctor bill hit e was among those on hand, kindergarten registration period runs through, may 31st, they look great. >>> still to come on "eyewitness news" cold and flu season means you may give your children cough medicine but health officials are warning against one type of medication that could do more harm then good. health reporter stephanie stahl has information that you may need. >>> and nasa's planning a major space mission, a look at the new mars rover and what scientists hope you'll learn from the red planet, kate? >>> and checking in on the weekend and much better news another warm up is heading our way we are talking highs around the 50-degree mark, approaching 50 on saturday and then for eagles game on sunday it looks like we will be in the 50's, and nice mild weather for those heading to the game or those tailgating and sunshine both days. >>> and take a look at patrick murphy sporting his retro eagles hat today. we want to see how you are showing off your

on the waze app i found l hayes talking about this broken traffic light on stenton avenue in the cityup saul street. look at these temperatures. it's only 9 degrees in quakertown and pottstown, 13 degrees in center city. it's another frigid start to the day. 11 in hammonton, 12 in dover. feels like minus three in the city so a cold start to the day even though we'll have a high of 26 it won't feel that warm quote/unquote tam. >> thank you, karen. new this morning, a computer outage left air travelers coast to coast waiting for hours. u.s. customs and border protection says its processing systems at airports went out for two hours. international travelers had to be processed in a different way than normal so that caused a backlog. the outage is over and it was not malicious. security databases were available the whole time. >> investigators with the u.s. national transportation safety board are joining the investigation into the tourist plane crash in costa rica. 10 americans were killed including families with ties to our area. university of pennsylvania student william steinberg died

math latourneau's at 11:00 in the chestnut hill neighborhood at the oxford presbyterian church on stenton avenue. what a sad coincidence and those pictures, and a lot of the fire fighters i'm talking to are intend to go somehow go to both funerals at the same time and, wow that really hits you in the gut. we always, seem to be burying fire fighters, more than one at a time, often they will get killed in bunches like the eight people killed at the refinery fire or to see the meridian fire since i have been here a fire fighters, you know, fire in his house, two fire fighters killed there, two fire fighters killed in kensington when wall collapsed on them and even though they weren't working together still they did work together at that firehouse, two fire fighters being buried, the same time again. i wanted to bring that up and pay tribute to retired lieutenant claude smith hoe was so well loved, all these wonderful store business him. even people after he retired would come back to the firehouse and mentor people like cristina skylshore was first to tell me this i can hear bagpipers playin