Time is a musical that explores classism and racism. The question tonight is the n word as scripted necessary telling that story. The Cherry Hill School board made the decision last week to remove the n word from the musical scheduled to debut in march. A large crowd of students and alumni of cherry hill east filled the school bus meeting. Over 1200 others signed a petition to reverse the decision to remove the word is to sanitize history and its lessons, others feel the use glorifies an ugly word i and we dont need to be refreshed on what regional is by the unfettered use of his word in a High School Play or musical let these kids say these worst that are unfortunately the norm and walk off the stage to realize how lucky they are to be where they are and to be able to to accomplish things these characters and people of themes only dreamed of. Thank you. Reporter really powerful arguments. Even if the board want to change one word they have to get approval from the licenser, that can be challenging to do so and if they do not get that the show will not go on. Alexandria hoff cbs3. A warning from police tonight about a fake letter that circulating especially in the pennsauken area asking for donation for the special Education Department in Camden Catholic high school in cherry hill. Police say its a scam. Do not give money and contact authorities. Weather meteorologist kate bilo with more on the noreaster that hit other region, it left behind beach erosion, rough surf ten to 15 drift, street flooding the other big issue. Many issues unpassable. Schools had to open on twohour delays. We live on an island, you have to put up with minor inconveniences. The wind ripped off part of the roof of the Pavilion Motor Lodge in ocean city. The storm left its fingerprints behind. The owners were in their bedroom and scrambled to take over. They got out without a scratch. Re ran out of the bedroom, saw the industry smashing into the bedroom. The entire roof caved in. A Montgomery County family escaped unharmed when a large tree fell on their harm last night. Smashed into the 200 block in upper pottsgrove. The family heard a large crash and quickly ran outside. The storm impacted our area for the better part of 24 hours. Still impacting parts of the area tonight. Finally starting to move out. Take a look at the radar satellite as it moved constitutes the region started late sunday night impacted us through the day. You can see even out there today lingering showers with the system rotating just not want to lea leavely portions of ocean and monmouth county, some spots over two inches of rain. Near an inch in philadelphia. Here are wind gustss from the storm as well. Cape may recorded a gust of 63 Miles Per Hour. Tuckerton 60 and Atlantic City 54 Miles Per Hour. Philadelphia, last night, we had a wind gusts of 51 Miles Per Hour and just another recap of amounts lakewood. With noreaster. Massive amounts of coastal flooding. The coastal flood threateneded. Storm moving out now were talking about a cooldown ill have more with the sevenday. A philadelphia sheriff lieutenant injured on the job is finally home from rehab. Paul owens is in a wheelchair. He left magee rehab after a six monthmonth stay. He was hurt inside the criminal Justice Center. It shot upward and crashed through the shaft roof time to get back to your life. Its hard, but, you know, part of the process. Got a long way to go but i got this far. Just happying to going hope those elevators were not safe lawyers for lieutenant owens sued the firm that manages the criminal Justice Center to an elevator companies. The city says its working on improvements to the elevates. Authorities say one person is in custody in connection with a violent Home Invasion in philadelphias Chestnut Hill section. A stolen Hyundai Elantra was tied to the break in has been located. Philadelphia police say an armed man entered the home before going into the bedroom. He then ordered a male victim to stay in bed as he sexual assaulted a female victim in another room. The person of interest has not been charged. We you no know the identity of the man shot and killed by a Wilmington Police officer last night. Investigators say 60yearold broad street at berger was armed and behavioring erratically in the 1700 block of west 13th. Officerings say they tried to calm him down but he pointed a gun at them. Thats one of the officers fired. Thats when he died at the hospital. The officer who died is on administrative duty why while the Investigation Continues former chaka fattah will be in prison. Hell start serving the tenyear sentence after convicted on corruption charges involving a campaign loan. Fattah has to surrender in western pennsylvania. He is appealing his conviction. A busy night at the white house, President Trump is preparing to make an announcement on Border Security tomorrow. Earlier he signed executive actionss refused to back down from voter fraud claims. The white house is standing by the assertion he lost the popular vote in the president ial election because as many as 4 Million People voted illegally but so far, theres no evidence to support the claim. Ive seen no evidence to that effect. The association that represents the Election Officials told cbs news its not aware of any evidence that supports the voter fraud claims made by President Trump. I would urge the president to knock this off. Im begging the president to share with us information you have about this. Or please stop saying it the president had a busy day at the white house, hes undoing some of former president obama work by signing executive actions to revise the proposalsed keystone and Dakota Access project we will build our own pipeline and pipes demonstrators protested outside the white house. In a meeting tuesday with executives, the president backed to streamline the process from manufacturers. I am to a large extent. Were going to make a short process hes going to address the joint sessions of congress. He asked fbi director james comey to remain in his position, he agreed. Nikki haley is ambassador to the united nations. Confirmation hearings earlier in the day, Democratic Senators battled with health and Human Services tom price. Their concerned over his professional to shift made a payments from the federal government to the state level. The nominee to head the office of management and budget was on capitol along with linda mcman the co founder of w w e. President trump is coming to philadelphia on thursday. Barricades have been put up outside the lows hotel in center city. Speaking at a republican retreat at the hotel which begins tomorrow. There will also be road closures for the president s visit. 13th street from chester to market will be closed starting thursday morning. Along with Market Street from 11 to this juniper and 12th from chester to archs. The road closures are expected to last most of the day on thursday. Some parents with children had in philadelphia Public Schools are concerned about the future of the nations immigration policy. William in any hosted a town hall meeting focused on the finishes facing immigrants and limited English Proficient students and family. Milania trump draws instant outrage what it says that caused so much anger and the apology the paper issued. How long the delaware bridge will remain closed. The nominees are, hollywood reveals its lift of the best and brightest and its all about la la land. How many they received and the connections it has to our region. The system moving out. You can see the last of the clouds starting to exit off awaiting for sun. Ill tell you when it finally returns coming up. Unbelievable Police Dash Cam video shows a train slamming into a fedex truck and slicing the truck in half. It happened on saturday in salt lake city, fortunately the train narrowly avoided hitting the cab where two men sitting. Officials trying to figure out why the arms are of the Railroad Crossing were up and the license bells were off. New information on the closure of a bridge connecting the pennsylvania and new jersey turnpike. The delaware bridge will be closed for at least two weeks. A major crack in a steel beam beneath the road deck led to the closure. 42,000 cars cross the bridge on a typical day. Eyes were on milania trump during the inauguration. A local newspaper headline about the first lady and her style at the inaugural ball. Nicole brewer joins us now. Theres a lot of reaction on this. Certainly is. There was plenty of outrage. Which is why the newspaper responded the way it did. There are also a fair amount of people who thinks this is much a do about nothing. Its the headline making headlines. I dont think it was right. Its an observation. Its a fact. The Philadelphia Inquirer noticed a fashion article titled milania trump sexy first lady im not sure thats how we need to evaluate a first lady i would take it as a complement the story which was in twitter sparked instant outrage then debate. Shes clearly embracing sexy as first lady. Its the same thing its not healthy. Reporter another why do so many take issue with the word sexy its always used to undermine the power position kathleen is a sociology professor at lasalle and director of womens study at the college if someone is a doctor, we talk about who have they helped, saved, if theyre a sexy doctor, then all of a sudden its a halloween excuse me and many points to her super model past why do we have to go back and dig up its important to give anyone in the position the chance to proves themselves we owe her the chance to get involved and to be active and to be a role model she could actually do something in addition to undermining the position of first lady, some say the original headline could be offensive to previous first ladies implying they werent sexy enough or at all or comparing women in general. Its not a great idea. The debate comes on a lot of levels. Come on. Nicole thank you. Oscar nominations are out. And hollywood love story la la land leads the way. Ryan gosling and emma stone a record time 14 nominations including best picture. Its been a hollywood favorite from the start. Has ties to our area including damian shiz el spent. Composer ben patrick of hard more got a double in the best original song category. Several members of the producing team had connections to the delaware valley. Nominated for best picture arrival senses hack star ridge, manchester by the sea and moonlight. Nominee best actress, natalie port man for jackie and the stone for la la stand and merrill streep. Andrew garfield for hacksaw ridge, ryan gosling for la la land. And Denzel Washington for fences. Lets go deep come on. Kate bilo joins us with our forecast. Yes, break it down for us, young lady. The month of january has been less than ideal for the most part. We havent had really great snow for those that are snow lovers, we havent had a lot of sunshine, its been gray, gloomy wet but tomorrow always tomorrow. The sun will come out tomorrow. Thank you. Jessica. It is going to be beautiful. Sun finally returning to the area after a stretch. Gray and gloomy conditions. I want to show anywhere our camera showing the Franklin Institute but we got a beautiful view of the entire city logan circle. We can take you to eakins oval were going to be panning the city every single day. We want to show off the new library cam in the city. For the most part things are clearing out and calming down for tonight. Stormscan 3 shows the system pulling out over portions of canadian and new england, no more showers left for us, it is still breezy. That will be moving out. High pressure builds in and were between systems tomorrow, another system approaching thursday, cold front going to bring significant changes to our area. Meantime one day. 41 in philly. Not too bad, 39 in allentown, 39 in reading, 28 mount pocono. Wind gusts strong. Saw a little shake in the camera. There are still gusts out there tonight, 25 to 30 miles an hour. Nowhere near as windy as last night. Still blustery. Winds will die down tomorrow as that High Pressure moves in. Lets recap january so far. 16 out of the 24 days of this month have had precipitation. Thats what, 2 3 . 3. 03 inches of rain, 4. 9 inches of snow and one sunny day so far the entire month. 24 days in. Heres the good news. Tomorrow, two, sunshine on the way, clearing skieses, beautiful lots of sun and temps above average. Scattered showers early thursday and thursday afternoon could be a stray sprinkle. Well see sun. The wind will pick up and look at the lake effect snow. An indication of the colder air. Winds die down as we head to tomorrow and ramp back up against thursday. We can see gusts as the front comes through. And that will kickoff a pattern change as the air has been locked to the north starts to shift south over the next week and into the start of february. The good news is even though that pattern with that colder air moving in will be more conducive to winter storm formation, theres nothing on the radar for the next week or so at least. Everything looks quiet. Even though were going to cool down it will stay quiet. We get the sun back, got to get the 15 degrees, we can see were the weekend into next week, chilly but well see sun every day. Its a tradeoff ill take the sun lets get through january. Don up next in sport celebrate i want to go villanovas and he knows, a night to forget for the wildcats. The under man sixers try to beat the clippers without jo jo. A surprise. No jahlil okafor, a matchup against the clippers. The sixers, define logic in south philly, jo jo means know lend joel is your starting, sixers down by 11. Homes. 18 points for him. Fast forward to the fourth quarter. Nerlins, 19 points, five assists three blocks, two steels. He did it all. Later on, sova, native kevin hart, we see you. We see you watching them. The sixers over coming 19 point deficit and win by 11. They won six straight at home. All around the set and studio. Number one overall pick ben specimens got good news, a scan of his right foot shows his hes healing well, no time table for his return. He broke his foot the last day of training camp. Januarysth. Jammo wildcats. They shot 65 against mar ket. The rematch in milwaukee. You know what they say about pay backs. Second half, villanova in control, josh hart. Nice lay up right there, cats up by 13, but they couldnt hold it. Just over a minute left. Nova up by three, heres ryan heart tying it up. Now, nova is down by two, final shot. Jalen brunson, nova blowing a 17 point lead and they lose 7472 as they rush the court in milwaukee. St. Joes visiting, they lost four out of six. Kimble with the layup. Hawks up by 15, quiet down crowd you see us balling. But spoke too soon. Saint barnys. Were at 18 point come back and they beat st. Joes 6763. Flyers off tonight but they better turn it on tomorrow, they receive the rangers at the garden where they lost 11 out the last 12. We spoke to the captain claude giroux. Its been a tough couple weeks, but we like our challenges and we last year we were able to at the end of the season, we got the whole Team Together on the same page and trying to do the same thing why not . Get them at the Franklin Institute. Thats a party. Brand new season of science kickoff guests got a chance to revisit the roaring 20s. Gambling, smuggling and propaganda. Adults enjoyed the exhibit at the museum. Kate . Taking you back for a closer look at the weekend saturday and sunday looking seasonal for last weekend in january temperatures right around the 40 degree mark for highs, chilly but thats about where we should be, it does look brighter with mr. 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Before we kick off the show in the new year, i just wanted to come out here and say a few things from the heart. 2016 was rough, but im staying positive about 2017. The year is starting off great, for everyone but mariah carey. You may not have seen, but mariah was performing in times square for new years and had a few technical problems. Nobody knows exactly what happened. I blame russian hackers. Heres the thing, i am on team mariah here. This was not her fault. Mariah, youre welcome to come on my show any time. Im sorry, theres nothing in my prompter here. Jim, can you fix that . Who are you . Mark, what is happening. Is this getting fixed . Okay, im rg