Measurable amounts. This is time laps video from outside the studio showing accumulation im Ukee Washington im jessica dean, the snow has moved out but the roads are still a slow go. Long after the evening commute ended this is what it looked like a couple hours ago. Our mobile weather watcher, driving over the schuylkill expressway, traffic moving but with Live Team Coverage lets start with Natasha Brown who was in the thick of the evening commute. Reporter i certainly was earlier today, ukee and jessica, were seeing right now along the parkway around 18th is traffic moving smoothly at this hour, that is certainly a welcomed sight right now was not the case just few hours ago. Pretty much from the city to the suburbs, were he saw grid lock as far as the eye could see. Ive been out here the last six hours. Reporter mike wilson is a private contractor i couldnt get around the city. He had to cancel several appointments because of the grid lock he met during the height of the snowfall seeming the at every turn i was on 95. I was on 76. It was it was as bad as ive ever seen it. Reporter a nightmarish commute from the city to the suburbs as the heaviest snow began to fall as drive thes were getting on the roads. A sea of brake lights along 76 friday as drivers inched along at a snails pace took it about an hour and a half just to get up to city line avenue was another hour and a half. Reporter cherry hills trek home spinout lots of is slow traffic. It was crazy, like bumper to bumper, you had to take your time, my hazard lights on i got to get home. Reporter the inoperable tra center city around 15th to 17th 16th and the parkway, snarled Police Officers helped to keep the flow of traffic moving as smoothly aspossible. Its been a long day. Reporter we can certainly echo that sentiment. It has been a long day, comte fr many folks driving around between about 3 00 and 6 00 this e. Right now, here along the parkway, as we said traffic is moving, a little bit slower, jh last hour or so weve seen the drivers, because theres still a lot of slush on the roads and of course, it is very, very cold out here. So that could be tricky driving arnd you want to be careful. Natasha brown, news the concern is refreezing, its still very cold the a a slush could turn to ice, meteorologist kate bilo is tracking the latest as you guy mentionedno more. Heres what itooht on schedule 1 00 this afternoon then as natasha said the worst of it was rom about 3 00 to 6 00. Philadelphia. Down the shore quick hitting system but hit at exactly the wrong time, even though weve seen certainly heavier snows than this here in philadelphia. When you get two, three inches of snow at rush hour right when the schools are letting out on friday, it will be mayhem and certainly that was. There are a few snow showers across central pennsylvania most of these are fizzling and will fizzle before they get here. Cant rule out a stray flurry moving in overnight, but most are not seeing much more. Its anything in the way of snow. And we do have Better Weather on the way. Lets recap some of our snowfall totals. 3. 6 inches is the current snow total in brick township, thats what they got. Levittown at 3. 2. Wynnewood 2. 6. Philadelphia at the airport, 2. 2 inches and newark delaware, two inches of snow. Most ours fell between that one and three inch range from the city down through south jersey and even in portions of montgomery, chester and bucks county. Allentown setting at 20, mount pocono at 15, millville 15 degrees, these are not feels like temperatures. This is the temperatures, natasha mentioned all of that slush on the roads, that will be dangerous tonight, any slush will refreeze especially unless travel thorough fares on the main highways probably ok. But some of this black ice is difficult to see. Use extreme caution if youll be out there on the roads tonight or early tomorrow morning, but i mentioned some Better Weather weather, heading to the visits, ill tell you when that gets here coming up. Ukee see you then. Fire forced the evacuation of a Retirement Community in Newtown Square over dunwoody village over west chester pike a short time ago. Were told the fire is under control. Officials evacuated the village because of smoky conditions. So far, wham we do not know of fire. A grand jury issued a scathing response. In response to the alcohol noodle death timothy piazza. Stassi parks announced it today. Back in may, the g jcommded cri after piazza fell and died inside the house, reportizedhe s are not overseen by the university but by students. What did we learn . The ifc self regulation was a joke and a catastrophe. The grand jury frankly was appalled to the extent of the boldness of the hazing that happened penn state permanently banned the fraternity. It continues efforts to change culture. Investigation is underway after a sanitation was caught on camera appearing to steal someone and package. After her neighbor asked about a package he was expecting. This happened on the 2100 block of oakdale street in kensington. It showed the sanitation worker taking a package off someones stoop, throwing it into the garbage truck but before it could be crushed. The driver appears to remove it. The city is investigating the incident. Temple police have a person of interest after several racist flyers were posted around the schools campus. The flyer seen here appeared to blame africanamericans for Bernie Sanders not winning the presidency. A racial slur was written in large letters. Police released surveillance photos showing the person they suspect of posting the flyers. Theyre asking anyone with helpful information to come forward. Delaware officials agreed to pay more than 7. 5 million to settle a lawsuit over a prison standoff that left a guard inm firstdegree murder at the James T Vaughn Correctional Center isnt smyrna in february. 11 plain views including Six Department of correction employees and relatives will share that money. After a day of armed twisting it looks like the gop is on the brink of passing president trumps tax reform plan. Today, two potential holdouts singled they intend to vote for the bill. Marco rubio was won over to increase the refundable Child Tax Credit to 1400. Bob corker is voting yes also. Democrats continue their platform that the tax cuts largelily benefit the rich. Final vote is expected next week. The president lashed out again at the februabi. He said the reply talks is in taters. He vowed to rebuild the bureau. President trump seized on this weeks revelation and fbi agent involved in the Russian Investigation sent is Text Messages disparaging then candidate trump. That agent was fired by special counsel robert mueller. Everybody what theyve been witnessing the left of anger is very sad. Democrats accused of president of trying to shutdown moores investigation. Efforts to keep Health Insurance for thousands of pennsylvania children could be fruitless if congress does not act. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf was at the Childrens Hospital of philadelphia today. He resigned the childrens Health Insurance program or chip. However, federal funding for the program ran out in september after congress failed to reauthorize it. Governor wolf is willing to work with congress to keep the program alive. Nearly 82 toyota tune dras rumbled through philadelphia to deliver meals to the hungry. The food drive received its largest donation ever, 170 tons of food. Its the 11th year of the tristate Toyota Dealer Association haul away Hunger Program and campaign. All of this food enough to feed 350,000 hungry philadelphians at the headquarters we started out with five trucks and a couple of dealers getting involved doing the best we can the problem is its big, the response from people like toyota and the partners here is getting bigger. They say the hunger problem is growing and any help is welcome. Cbs3 is a proud partner of this food drive. Last minute deals for last minute shoppers a little more than a week left to buy the gifts. Online retailers are pulling outlet the stops to make sales. How does Free Shipping sound . What you should know before you click buy. Whos getting three cheers . Highlighting man known for his music and his jen. The snow moved out but it is, of course, cold and ice, theres concern meteorologist kate bilo will have more on that, also when well start to feel a warmup. 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Reporter as long as they can deliver with free and fast shipping a growing trend, retailers should be careful about setting unrealistic consumer expectations. Since no one wants to hear their item is delayed or worse out of stock they can introduce a lot of additional problems for the retailer on the back end. Bottom line here, you want to be smart about it. Do your homework, comparison shop because youre not getting a bargain if the same item is available for a low enough to price to compensate elsewhere and if youre adding the impulse buys like so many of us do to reach a minimum, you may be better off paying to have it delivered. Im guilty as charged in that category. I hear you. Strategize. Nicole, thanks. May 19th, 2018 when prince harry and his fiance Meghan Markle will get married they will exchange vowels in front of 800 of their closest friends and relatives. They took the world by storm when they announced engagement after meeting on a blind date a year ago. The rock and roll hall of fame announced its newestin duck teas, john bon joe vee. It took decades of hard work and this week we saw the passion and perseverance pay off. We give John Bon Jovi three cheers. Its easy to see John Bon Jovi, loves what he does, now hell go down in history, one of the very best in rock and roll thanks for inducting us in the rock and roll hall of fame. Long time coming but its here its been years in the making for the rocker and his band, 31 years. Over 2600 concerts, over 120 million album sold. It is difficult to stay relevant in the Music Industry for few years much less decades, but its the bands leader John Bon Jovi always had passion, driving him to create and reinvent. That passion carried over to helping those in need, especially here in philadelphia, and his native new jersey. The John Bon Jovi Soul Foundation funds and supports several endeavors in the area including jvj, soul homes and the kitchen. Soon fans here and across the world will celebrate his most recent accomplishment ill see you guys in cleveland. Thanks for all the memories and all the history we continue to mistake together. And thank you for showing us all passion can light the way, leading to professional and personal greatness. For that, we give John Bon Jovi three cheers. So you know, he has a 2018 rock and roll haul of fame induction will officially take place april 14th in cleveland big day. Such a nice man. Hes done a lot kate joins us with your forecast and the snow moved out but its december the cold is here its accepted in. Some below average cold even for december but with the fresh snow pack, tomorrow will be a very Cold Saturday earlier, the weather added to a little bit of a holiday spirit in Christmas City bethlehem, of course, i was there earlier for holidayfest, took forever to get there, once we got there. The snow added another layer of beauty. Its a gorgeous downtown and city a Christmas Village with the little markets wooden huts where you can buy hand made things, beautiful spot. I suggest you get there before christmas, a great time to be in bethlehem and snow came down through the afternoon lets take a look at the time laps. Starting this morning, you can see they had a little snow left on the ground from thursday morning snow or wednesday night snow, today starts off quiet the kids coming to school. They leave in the afternoon then all of a sudden, really starts to pick up and you can see just how quickly that parking lot got blanketed with snow, about two inches in that general area. Stormscan 3 shows our system has moved off the coast now, skies are clearing. The snow showers scattered snow showers you see back here over South Central pennsylvania likely going to fizzle before they get here and we got quieter weather on the way as we head to the weekend. But of course, today was a mess. Timing wise, that was the biggest problem this hit just at the time of that afternoon commute. And at the time the school buss were leaving to bring kids home from school as well. Today, 2. 2 inches at the Philadelphia International airport bringing our official total at the airport so far this year to 7. 7 inches within a week. Three systems in one week. Four inches on saturday. An inch and a half or so early thursday, wednesday night, thursday morning, over two inch today, the average 22. 4 inch, temperatures cold outside. Only in the low 20s in the city. Reading, allentown and wilmington, 15 in millville, 15 in mount pocono feels colder than that. But now that the storm has exited. The weekend will be clearing out. Cold with a threat for icing tonight. Temps are on the way up, we rebound into the mid 40s as we head to sunday. Tomorrow morning, 6 00 a. M. Saturday, heres what it will feel like, 4 in the focus, 17 in philadelphia, if you dont have anywhere to go stay snuggle he would under the biggest blanket you have. Still feeling like the 20s at 9 00 a. M. It will not feel much better than freezing all day long despite the fact we hit 40 but better news. Tomorrow still cold but it starts to shift away. The purple is moving up into portions of maritime canada on saturday and sunday and we start to get some of that warmer air chilly it is december, but moderation really the word of the day here for monday, and especially into tuesday of next week. And then staying pretty seasonal late next week. And heres the best news, no more snow in the forecast. Clearing skies overnight. Slick spots possible. 23 is your overnight low. Tomorrow, sunshine but brisk and chilly with a high around 40. Normal highs are in the mid 40s this time of year, sunday is more seasonal with increasing clouds, monday for our joy of sharing toyfest. We had very cold joy of sharing toyfest 47 decrease, 50s on tuesday couple of rain showers and the end of next week quiet. Although now we got the snow out of the way, things getting little better lesley up next with sports the calendar said december but were also talking about the boys and the phillies. And the sixers and thunder in a multiovertime affair. Oklahoma city now won 16 straight against the sixers. Fourth quarter sixers down by seven, joel embiid working makings the basket and is followed you, then anthony jo jo for 34 points, sixers down a basket. Ben simmons and goes in for the dunk. Game was tied 12 points, 11 assists, this game goes into triple overtime, russell westbrook, slam ping it over dar dar dario saric. Thunder beat the sixers, 119117 i had a great atmosphere, i thought the philadelphia crowd, our home crowd was excellent, and you know, well go back and look at it. Theres a lot of minutes to look at. I think in general, a come back the way we fought through stuff, im proud of our guys its hard to believe that phillies pictures and catchers report to clear water in seven weeks they announced trade of their longest tenured players, Freddy Galvis to make room for crawford to take over, the phillies received a minor league picture. They agreed to two threeyear deal worth 60 million with Carlos Santana a switch hitter, a good defensive first base men ands since 2011, he averaged 24 homers. Hopkins which will not likely move to threat of field. The eagles held their final workout before heading to new york. They worked in a bubble at the novacare complex most of the week and moved outside today. The eagles fighting for playoff and sunday will be the first game without carson wentz whos out for rest of the season, but Doug Pederson does not want his players to overdo it i dont want the guys to go above and beyond be they dont want to do anything more than just their job and responsibility. Whatever their role is in the game plan. And that goes for nick, you know, you know, its been awhile since hes been out there playing. That would be awesome so ready for this game. Cant wait. So ready for this game. Cant wait. Kids at not all Fish Oil Supplements provide the same omega3 power. So ready for this game. Cant wait. Kids at megared advanced triple absorption is absorbed three times better. So one softgel has more omega3 power than three standard fish oil pills. Megared advanced triple absorption. Some of the fly guys took a break from the ice to visit the Childrens Hospital of philadelphia they do not arrive empty handed they came armed with holiday goodies for all the kids, played pink go, showed off the arts and crafts. It was a great day for everyone and a great job for the flyers you can take a part in our joy of sharing toy fest, he will be collecting all day long monday starting at 6 00 a. M. Until 8 00 p. M. Stop by to say hi and drop off a. Coming up next its the late show with Stephen Colbert followed by the late late she with james cordon, the morning back tomorrow. For lesley, kate, everyone im Ukee Washington im jessica dean. Were always on at cbs3. Com. Have a great [narrator] the following is a paid presentation for lifelock, a leader in Identity Theft protection. What happens if a thief steals your identity . It happens to millions of americans. We asked people to share their stories of Identity Theft. Someone had opened up five or six credit cards in my name. 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