Be shutdown, and just how much long its going to take you to get to work. And just how much it is thursday tfebruary 25 and, im erika von tiehl, check in with katie and meisha for the calm after the storm. Good morning. Happy thursday, what were seeing right now is a lot of cleanup activity. We do have flooding in jersey, were keeping our eye on right now. But katie snell supposed to linger all day. Were definitely going to be still dealing with wind of however, the brunt of these storms were done with it. Thank goodness, now there is a lot of debris on the roadways and whatnot and cleanup continues. Its the after manual issues that come with it. Youre still going to be contending with. You have to contend with the wind. Lets show you, something is off hereby taking you out to stormscan 3 where we take a live look from the opposite side of our building, this is Spring Garden and broad street, smack dab in the intersection there. A lot of these flood waters have had had a chance to recede. Were not out of the wood yet we have no next to storm scan. Theyre finding very strong thunders rumbling blau new england but weve had our share and at this point youre pretty much left with few speck else on the tristate sweep. There will be a few showers but we did mention the Flood Warnings, philadelphia county, Delaware County, across the river into west Central New Jersey and as well as in our west most suburbs. You got some of the Flood Warnings until 6 15, the time is dwindling for the worst of the flooding to have any kind of major impact. In the meantime, it is mild outside. Youll notice that when you walk out the door. But also very windy and coming up well talk about how strong those wind gusts may still be here todaych. A bit later that was the first thing i noticed how windy but pleasant in terms of temperature. Thank you be katie. A perfect recipe for storm action, which is what we were seeing, good morning. This is what were looking at right now. This is a look at the schuylkill, taillights moving in the eastbound direction at montgomery. Actually looking ok. We are certainly starting to see glare. You can see some of the water that was on the roadway starting to try to dry up and get outlet of our way. Overall, things are looking ok. And on the schuylkill in terms of what ive seen and the camera shot so far. 95 before girard is actually looking really nice. Interstate is looking better thane the schuylkill in terms of how damp or wet most area, nicer before girard rogue good. New jersey 42 freeway northbound is looking good, speaking of new jersey, lets talk about the flooding. Route 42422. If you could avoid any of these areas at least for awhile in terms of letting some of this get dried up that would be good. 130, route 47, all lanes blocked alternate is 295. One lane blocked by the camporee bare bridge. Power companies are busy trying to get the lights on after last nights storms. Here are the most recent numbers. Peco has about 9700 customers in the dark. Pseand g, 2900. Atlantic city 1148 and delmarva more than 100. Neighbors are trying to survey the damage. Cover continues with Eyewitness News justin finch in abington. I understand theres a big tree out there. Is this a downed tree, justin . Reporter good morning. That is the problem here were right across from the abington friends, im on Meeting House road here. It is closed from green street down here to fox chase down there. Thats where that tree is down there. Crews are working this morning, Abington Police report that tree did come down last night and those storm storm conditions and still down at this time. As you can the work is under way to begin cleaning up this so this morning you will see closure that is will extend all the way into your morning commute. Ill show you what else this storm to late last night. We have reports of downed trees and the like all across our area. Lets check out cheltenham where this tree fell on to a house about 9 00 last night. Now, this is near new street and east church road. There are reports that there were two people inside the home. None were injured. As you can see, theres some heavy structural damage. And they will know just how severe much later day today. Lets move on to lawncrest. Strong wind blowing in that area, knocking down a burger king al rising sun avenue. It was a major scare for workers inside who thought that sign was going to slice through the roof. There was a lot of lightening and steady rains and winds in that area. People there at that burger king say theyre just happen that at that night it appears that storm for the most part had passed over. Looking back on the live at the work here going on here. That tree appears to be covering the most of the roadway here, blacktop on Meeting House road. Cant get too close to that scene there but throughout the morning you will be seeing this, we saw lots of debris and tree limbs and branches in the street. When your driving, take it very easily out there. The roads might be a bit messy. Back over to you. Heads up, justin, thank you. The storm also caused major damage in Lancaster County. Check this out. Area of white horse appeared to be hit particularly hardware several barnes and chicken houses had been destroyed. Eyewitness news has learned an am issue school house was also torn down. Residents believe a tornado caused that damage. A lot of wind whipping. We could see gaps from our basement door, and we seen all the power go out, and then ours started flickering on and off. Were, you hear stuff tossing and turning and we heard debris and stuff like that. But i mean, this is just like not even real. There are no reports of any injuries at this time. The National WeatherService Plans to survey if a tornado touched down. What will investigators be looking for . Straight line will cause damage in the same direct, but a tornado tosss debris and a ranger of directions while following a path. The same system caused death and destruction if south. A tornado hit waverly virginia a farming town 50 miles south of richmond, destroyed a mobile home killing three people inside and injures eight others. Four our structures the same damage in that town. Its not clear if last nights Severe Weather played role in a Building Collapse in trenton. Video from the Trenton Facebook page shows the damage in a vacant house on it 800 block of south broad. Firefighters evacuated several surrounding homes as a recaution, there were no injuries and investigators will look for the cause later on today. Its also in the clear what started this boat fire at the men mar marina in Cape May County can. They which if and dennis volunteer company. Eight boats were damaged in dry doc but fortunately there were no injuries. 4 38. 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The virus linked to a birth defect can be spread by bites from mosquito toes common in florida. We werent only ones seeing damaging storms last night. Still ahead high wind causing a tractortrailer to flip over on a busy trip. Katie tells you how strong the wind will be today. And when the Flood Warning will expire and which day is looking better for your weekend. Call a delicious discovery when a woman find a peril in here say food meal. Guess how much its worth and what back on Eyewitness News with more storm damage in new york, high winds helped flip a tractortrailer on the George Washington bridge. Officials had to shutdown the upper level of that bridge three hours to clean it up. The driver was not hurt. Down pores brought rain quickly in baltimore. Look at this, flood waters drowned cars. They fled the rising waters leaving their vehicles and belongings. Tires became stuck in the mud when drivers tried to pull a uturn on that grease median. Thousands of residents are still without power this morning further south nearlyly a hundred miles an hour winds leveled a dairy farm in north carolina. Its owner said demolished and heavy Farm Equipment from the length of a football field. The good news though, none of the more than 100 could you tell us were hurt. Farms owner is thankful for that and plans to rebuild. A powerful system. There was such a clash in atmosphere with this. Thats where, you know, energy really came from to produce the kind of storms we had. Thankfully. Were really going to start to see things lying down here at a. Its still windy and were still dealing with pretty heavy thunderstorm across new england specifically but as we go forwardch its definitely windy and temperatures are starting to gradually fallly so we have a cold front cross through. Thats where the clash thomas, thats where the squall line came through. Now that it has passed the cooler air can take over. Thats what were deal with at this point. When we look at stormscan 3, a sort of regionwise zoom. Take a look at the beginning. Upper long i did not and connecticut. Look at those nasty thunderstorms rumbling through and zipping through. They are moving along quickly. However, theyre still an issue nor that part of our country. Meanwhile, cross central pennsylvania we still got a couple of hours showers. Its that counter clockwise rotation, and now were going to get some of that colder air drawn in. This has been a well organized storm system and because its so large thats why were we were dealing with so much in the way of impact for millions of people across the united states. Now, thankfully again be were done with the worse but youre still going to be dealing with wind here today. Current wind speed, its all coming in from south and southwest, that means when you walk out youre going to notice it does feel mild but youll al notice you have to hold on to your hat. You got wind speeds a 21 Miles Per Hour at the airport. 17 at the shore. Little lighter up in the poconos. It doesnt mean that you are going to be, you know, devoid of any kind of within. Future wind gusts across the region as a whole easily top off into the 30s through a through the course of the afternoon. Well see flow with it but it is going to be a running scene, at least 20 plus Miles Per Hour gusts along i95 through the course of the day probably get back to the 30s into the evening, then even tomorrow morning, the same time youre going to see similar values on the wind speeds because its is up a big storm and need time to get out of here. Doppler estimates of the kind of rain we saw. Bulls eye. You can see the streak of the rain that came through our area herech we ended up over an inch even up to two inches or more. In some of these spots. These a depler estimations were going to have more totals for you. Regardless you can understand why we had flooding. Lingering showers through the day. Already into the upper 50s but this is your afternoon temperature that will gradually be declining with time. The wind is the story. I would say at this point and cleanup certainly weve got to get under waych 33 tonight. We look forward in the forecast to at least some very pleasant weather. A gorgeous sunday especially as we flirt with 60 under sunshine. We can look forward to that erika thank you. The countdown to the 88th annual Academy Award bee begun. Crews are working and prepping for the star studied event. Vip guests will stroll down the carpet and into the theater sunday night. Usually not a good thing when you bite into your food and find something unexpected; right . But for a woman in Washington State it led to a very interesting discovery. Lindsey hass was eating dinner when she bit in something hard in a clam. Looked like a pearl she took it to a local gem he thought someone was playing a joke on me. It was no joke. This is a rare purple pearl. It could be wonderful 600. She plans to keep it and may make a necklace. Still ahead, self driving cars could be coming to uber. First heres whats coming up tonight on cbs3. Storm damage and todays cleanup top your headlines on cbs3, the severe storms downed trees in northeast philadelphia, abington and cheltenham. Closed roads, detoured traffic and knocked out power to thousands of customers. The National Weather service also plans to send a survey team to eastern Lancaster County today to determine if the tornado touched down. The storms caused Building Collapses tour the roof off various structures and downed power lines. No reported injuries. The death told is now three after a funnel cloud passed through waverly virginia. Dozens of other people were injured and dozens of buildings damaged and destroyed in the counties around richmond. 4 49. Time for a check on your business news, money watch henna daniels joins us from the new york stock exchange. We hear about uber testing self driving car res uber is considering testing self driving cars in your state. Theyre working with Carnegie Melon University to develop this technology. To test tracks under consideration. Theyre expected to make presentation seasons next month were hearing a mu study showing men do make more than women in the same position thats right. Ladies go ask for a raise. One in five human records managers admit women earn less than men within their companies. The survey more than 3,000 workers found men are nearly three times as likely to earn six figures. Erika. Im with you, go ask for the raise. Thanks so much the schuylkill was closed overnight maybe impacted your drive. Meisha has an update. The storm after, katie will have the details on when well start. Good morning, were now starting to see the brunt of our large expectancy and powerful storm system get swept out to new england. You can see over my shoulder. You see that . Pretty heavy thunderstorms rumbling and those were what actually messed with us. At this point, were basically done with precipitation. Youre still going to find a few showers out. Youre currently finding that through berks county as well as lehigh valley. Really through the course of the morning, there are still a handful of Flood Warning that remain in effect. Primarily i95 and the some of the western suburbs. That will last until 6 15. However, that said, the wind is really going to be the bigger story here today. As we watch this storm making its full retreat. Look at these temperatures, you are flirting with 60 right now at Philadelphia International airport. You cant get used to think its not going to last. You got pretty decent wind out there now too but these temperatures gradually start to decline. Feels like a little taste of spring when you walk out the door. Do not expect that its going to stay that way. At best for midday, were talking 55 but notice the arrow pointing down. They will gradually continue to fall to the point we bottom out at 33 tomorrow morning and stuck in chillier air. The wind continues today with gusts easily peak into the 30s with no problem. That happens any time. Will continue tonight and tomorrow. The storm was huge. It need a lot of time for it to completely retreat and for us to get back in a quiet pattern and thankfully that had comes in time for the weekend. A typical late february day saturday. But sunday looks phenomenonal. Its a really nice thing to look ahead to here on a weekend no less. 58 degrees with sunshine. We are just going to keep our sights on that sunday right meisha yes, maam. Absolutely. And youre right, katie that wind is in joke. I felt that when i walked out the door. What were going to keep our eye on is where the places are that are looking most wet on the roadways. We do have flooding. I will get to that. Let me show you a couple camera shots. This is what youre looking at when you go out the door. Flooding was cleared around 3 45. The schuylkill eastbound at girard. 309 so you dider ton. Thats another area were taking a peak in Delaware County 95 at 322. I was looking at that camera seeing if i could see any flooding or pooling on any sides of the road. Basically when i flip to these camera shots. The roadways are looking damp. But were not seeing anything like real pooling that you can actually get in some real serious problems. What we are seeing though is we are seeing pooling under bridge on those side streets, especially in those side areas, those smaller side streets up in the suburb camera shots. Thats where were seeing the bulk. Where we are seeing flooding is new jersey route 130 at route 47 all lanes blocked, use an alternate, 295 and 130 between route 322 one lane is blocked that. Erika stay up to date with katies forecast with kyw news. Late developments a Chester Chester murder case, where his son be charged. A would recall record at me. Well test the resolve of sword swallowers. Why he thinks matt damon will not come home with an award. Check in two, three, four times a day on 1060 on your a. M. Dial. Coming up right here, checking out the damage from last nights storm. Also the latest on the effort to restore power to the area. Also an explosive scene in a gas station. Watch right there. You see that . An from the cbs Broadcast Center in philadelphia, this is cbs3 Eyewitness News good morning, flood roads and downed trees, there is a huge mess left behind after a wild wednesday night filled with strong storms. Problem areas still out there this morning and the effort to restore power to thousands of people. Also a school and several other buildings leveled by the storm in lancaster. Did a tornado cause all this damage . The clues the National Weather service will look for. Much quieter out there this morning but still a flooding threat in certain areas. Katie lets you know one great day. Also this weekend to look forward to. Good morning, thursday, february 25th, im erika von tiehl. Od morning, thursday, a lot of people waking up to a pes in their neighborhoods after last nights strong storms. We have Team Coverage for you of the damage and the problems still out there this morning, check in with katie for a look what we can expect. At least its calm its calmer. Calmer. This storm was huge. Erika. Were going to need time for this to, sort of transition back to were done completely. Thats going to take awhile. Flerms of presip, that, i think you can safely say were basically done with because were going to be lingering shower here and there. So youre not going to be dealing with flooding rain, certainly no more thunderstorms, were starting things off by taking you outside to the live neighborhood network. Im going to go broad headsville. You can actually see it because you got street lamps there overlook Pleasant Valley middle high school but the temperature, 52 degrees up near the poconos right now. It is so mild, start the day off. As were still technically waiting for the cold air to sort of take over. This storm again its ge