Because of moisture. On storm scan, it is tough to pinpoint fog, on a satellite just because of how low it is to the ground but it is out there. You have to trust us on that one. Look outside your window that will work too. Fortynine is the temperature. Meanwhile very mild beginning to the day at philly international. Nice calm wind, a key ingredient to get fog to form and it has. As we go through rest of the day by mid to late morning that fog should lift thighsly as sun will come up, and help scour it away but real taste of spring here 71 in the city. Not as warm in the poconos but 60 in the mountains on february 23rd that is warm, meisha. Thighs to have that, all right, katie, thanks so much. Good morning. Speaking of that fog, a few camera shots here to see what it is looking like out there you can see that haze from that over hanging street lamp right there schuylkill at boulevard, what we are looking at there 95 at betsy ross, you can see that fog like a blanket the over roadways and i95 here. Fog is out there and as we said we are talking about speed restriction this is play one of the area we are seeing is new jersey turnpike between delaware Memorial Bridge and route 73, usually 55 miles an hour they have you drop down to 50 miles an her there and garden state parkway between 109 and cape may and toms river, usually 65 miles an her there as well you will drop down to 45 miles an hour. So you will be moving slower there. We have a moving crew here on 295 northbound between route 45, head up on that, like we have been talking about it will be very hard, very difficult to see some of these , not only the vehicles outside but certainly if we have any personnel outside of their vehicles Walking Around the roadways this early morning. Jim and rahel, back over to you. New this Morning Police are trying to figure out bizarre details of the triple shooting in east mt. Airy. Two men were woken up as they were shot, Police Believe that the third shooting victim jumped out of the second story window on the 2400 block of seventh Seventh Avenue between limekiln pike and ogontz avenue. Two men were shot the in the leg just before two, third man was found behind the house shot in the arm. Police are treating him as a suspect. A man is fighting for his life this morning after police say he was show the in the the face in the cities Strawberry Mansion section. It happened on the 2400 block of north patton street just before 11 00 last night. Eyewitnesses tell police after victim was shot the they saw a hand dragging him down the street. We did, find a blood trail, starting, on the steps of the private residence on patton street and there was a large amount of blood on the sidewalk and you could clearly see that the body was dragged. Police followed that blood trail 80 feet where they found victim. So far no arrests have been made. We are almost two months in and philadelphia is still bubbling over its controversial sweetened beverage tax. Business owner says it is costing people their jobs while supermarkets like shop rite claim it the is cutting soda sales in half. Jan carabao is live at city hall where leaders are standing by the tax, good morning, jan. Reporter well, rahel and jim, good morning, city is expect to go bring in 90 milliondollar a year through this beverage tax, you break that down that comes out to just about seven milliondollar a month. Well, later on this morning we are expect to go learn just how much this beverage tax made in the first month in january. Take a look at the video recently city officials released projections for january, city is expecting the tax to bring in just over two milliondollar, that is over 30 percent of that seven milliondollar bench mark but officials have said that collection will likely ramp up over first few months as compliance grows this year philadelphia became first major u. S. City with the sugar drink tax. Revenue is supposed to support prek, Community Schools and Recreation Centers but fears of layoffs in the Beverage Industry are now growing as this one point a five cents per ounce tax takes hold. Supermarket and distributors are reportedly considering layoffs. Sources tell Eyewitness News that layoffs are quote imminent, saying some workers have seen their take home pay drop 50 to 70 percent because they are halving less rod you can. Mayor jim kenney says that is not true. They have been misleading the public through the entire fight, beverage tax fight in council, they spent 10. 6 milliondollar misleading people about this whole issue. They buy a 3liter this is shop right for 1. 39. The taxis 1. 53. But the mayor wants us to absorb it. Now the Beverage Industry has taken this tax to court, and it is on appeal and arguments are expect to be heard this is the first week of april, and coming up at 6 00 the city officially release numbers there january, they hey surprise you. For new we are reporting live outside city hall in center city philadelphia, jan carabao for cbs3 Eyewitness News. We will look forward to 6 00 oclock then, thank you. Radnor police are warning residents about luxury car thefts. The thieves strike in the evening and overnight hours and in some case ocean vehicles were left unlocked this driveways with the the keys inside. Other times the criminals broken in to homes, to steel the keys, and then the car. They are taking a lot of time to pick out high end vehicles such as a range rover , high end mercedes, some very High Performance jeeps and these individuals are getting a lot of money for these high end cars. Well, police encourage residents to use alarms and to keep their vehicle locked inside a garage. Half naked man accused of stealing a cab and going on a joy ride through Rittenhouse Square will appear in court today. Police say 51 yearold jonathan gay was intoxicated when he pulled a woman out of the cab at 20th and location thus month. When the driver got out to intervene gay jumped in the cab and then took off. He hit two cars before ultimately crashing. Gay is facing slew of the charges including report robbery and aggravated assault this newly released Surveillance Video gives us a look the at mass gunman wanted for a Home Invasion in juniata park this video was taken inside victims garage on neilson street friday night. You can see one of the suspects is wearing a camouflage jacket. Victim was working on the garage door opener when police say suspects walk in, assaulted victim tied him up and left him for dead. He was found two days later. If you recognize these suspects police want to hear from you. Classes at pen Ridge High School will start as usual this morning, that is after a fire caused smoke and water damage to three classrooms this is bucks county schools. Fire fighters rush to the school will in perkasie around 7 30 last night, a small fire broke out on the the third floor of the building. Sprinkler system did quickly place it under control. Officials say blaze was caused by an electrical malfunction, no injuries reported. President trump is reversing course on obama era guidance issued to publish schools last may that allowed transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms matching their chosen gender identity. The justice and education departments sent a joint letter to School Districts nationwide, education secretary betsy devos says issue is best solved at state and local level. Letter also said that while guidance is being lifted, anti bullying safe guard wont ab affect. Trang do will have philadelphia School Districts response coming up in a live report, in our next half an hour. More than two dozen medical workers have now quit at delawares vaughn correctional center. They follow Correctional Officers who quit after this months deadly inmate uprising. Correctional officer lieutenant steven floyd was killed february 1st, Officials Say 29 nurses, nurse practitioners, clinicians, medical assistants and technicians have quit since then. Correctional officers have also resigned and eight more have filed retirement paperwork. Heres great news writes toll boro will hold a rally with toy celebrate their big win in the contest that supports Small Businesses. Good for them. Cheers erupted at bristol roadside theater they learned they were the winner of the Small Business revolution contest. The it was sponsored by deluxe corporation, and the win means that the boro will get 500 you this dollars for revitalization efforts. Todays celebration rally kicks off at 8 00 oclock this morning at mill street and old route 13, this bristol. We have been covering that story for quite sometime. I voted too. You did. Yes. I cover my people. Yes. Luck was on someones side last night. Power ball Officials Say a Winning Ticket for the 435 milliondollar jackpot it was sold, in indiana. Yeah here are numbers in case you won a smaller price, 10, 13, 28, 52, 61 and power ball was two. Good news a two milliondollar ticket was sold in new jersey, none of us though, for a look the a the numbers head to our web site at cbs philly to the come. A snowstorm was no match for fiery explosions at site of the to cota access pipeline we will tell you how many were arrested during yet another altercation at standing rock. Also ahead terrifying moment for a young girl when four store ace have above the ground by her head we will tell you how good smart tans ring into help her. Residents in california returning home to find damaged left behind from flooding hear advising admission one towns hair is headaching this morning. Two men are called heroes after rescuing that young girl dangling there a fourth story window in china she was spotted hanging off side of the building with her head trapped between two metal bars , yeah, two workers heard her scream, advantage into action, one man climbed over handrail to hold girl up while other man cut the bars with the pair of fires, incredible. Glad shes okay. Hoping shes okay. Protesters in california are sounding off after an offduty Police Officer tired his weapon during a scuffle with teenagers. Protesters filled the streets of anaheim last night and 24 people were arrested. Protest come after a confrontation caught on camera protesters want charges against offduty officer who fired his gun wrestling with teenagers who walked on his lawn. Two teenagers were arrested in that case. Demonstrators at disputed Dakota Access pipeline have been ordered to clear out the but they say they will this is go without the a fight. Ten have been arrested during a confrontation in the longstanding camp outside bismarck, north dakota Officials Say pipeline demonstrators set about 20 fires. North dakotas governor says between 20 and 50 remain at the site. In the clean up it begins as san jose residents return home to assess damage left behind by fast rising flood the waters. 14,000 people were evacuated from their homes as unexpect overflow from a nearby reservoir, quickly overwhelmed , neighborhood. Residents say that with a better warning they could have been able to protect their homes and themselves. You know, the city dropped the ball on making sure that people were notified of the potential impact of this four lanes. And, in the morning. And, san jose admits, and, how quickly the waters rose, and they failed to properly notify. Astronomers are, and quite literally. They found seven earth sized land et cetera orbiting dwarf star called trapist. Three are where lick i rid water and life might exist. Derrick pets the from the Franklin Institute said it will take several years to study new findings. Until we have, a signal of intelligence, or a picture, or a visit it is a long time. Im telling you they have visited us in the past. You have within saying this all along but i thought you were crazy. Scientists say because they are so close, if they dont find what they are looking for on one they will move to the next. What say you, katie fehlinger. It is awesome and i think jim might be on something. There are sections out west that the government will in the let us visit. Yes. I believe that you can both be right, jim can have his life and ra hell can think he is nuts. Yes, simultaneously. Okay, guys. We are looking ahead to a very warm day we have been looking forward to if you are a fan of the warmth, today is actually going to start off, as a string of a couple of days worth 70degree weather. We will take you out to the grim cam, one of our wonderful engineers at cbs3. He set this up on top of our roof, nice wide shot of the city, but do you notice anything kind oftive rent here is this were facing south, from the Spring Garden section of the city. Shouldnt we see sky scrapers is this but the fog is so thick and so low to the ground that it is really skewed that view, so it is not that they didnt pay their electric bill it the is that the fog is blocking the view. Meanwhile, lets take a look at those visability, it is rough, a on i95, wilmington, trenton under a half mile in all three locations and every where in between. Now it will come in patches just on my own drive in i saw it, starting to not only brighten up but thin out in terms office worst of the fog by the time i hit city. Thinks airport observation but just next door through bala cynwyd for example it is really dense. Further north it is a lot better, allentown, mount pocono up to 5 miles visibility. Cloud are there but they are not as thick and low to the ground. Meanwhile storm scan you are not going to find much fog on a satellite. It is tough to detect but it the is calm, otherwise, in the meantime i have got to show you this storm system really getting its act across the center of the rockies and that will be what eventually brings our next shot for a storm, pretty soaking rain that will get the here on saturday. In the meantime rest of the the day just brighten up and warm up. We will see a couple of showers around, scattered in nature, mainly southeastern pennsylvania this morning. Tomorrow, maybe a sprinkle but then that is the storm that comes in on saturday maybe with some showers, early on in scattered fashion but look at that afternoon, that is a good looking storm system right the there i along the cold front we will get the a good line. A few thunderstorms with good timing too late in the day when the warmth will be at its peak across the area. We think we will hit zero seven that day too. Then we will get cooler. You can see the lower zero sevens next three days, wow, my goodness and drop 20 degrees in one fail swoop back to closer where we should be on sunday with sunshine, meisha. Katie, thank you for that. Good morning. Happy thursday. Speaking of that fog, this camera shot is 42 freeway north bound at creek road approaching 295 in the northbound direction. You can see how foggy it is, and because of the fog we are seeing already this morning, were number one will be slow. The visibility will play a factor in your morning commute and also we have got speed restrictionness play in two different areas i will show you and talk about in a second take a look at 309, taillights moving in the northbound direction, it doesnt matter as i say that you can barely see that at the turnpike. Speaking of visibility issues this morning it will be very, very, very, slow moving, until this fog kind of, moves out of our way. Ben franklin bridge hard to see this shot as well but you can get the the picture. Ben franklin bridge moving westbound into center city still looking very calm. It is hard to navigate around, because of all of that fog. Because speaking on have that speed restriction in play we have got within here new jersey turnpike between delaware Memorial Bridge and route 73 we are down to 65 to 50 miles an hour. One other one garden state parkway between 109 and toms river we are down to 45 miles an her there, rahel, back over to you. On the cover of the Delaware County time two women were arrested in the robbery of the 74 career old new jersey woman in the parking lot of harrahs casino and race track. The two women are charged with robbery, and related offences. The at salt was captured on video surveillance. And Burlington County times the Popular Program that transitions delran students from kind garden to first grade is on the chopping block budgetary constraints. It gives kindergarteners whether or not ready to make jump to first grade an additional year of learning before entering the first grade. From the news journal a student project in Meredith Middle School is sending fat head minute owes to space so they can observe micro gravity on hatch times and bone density. They make up one of 11 teams in the u. S. To have an original experiment chosen for Student Space Flight Experiment Program this year, bravo. Very impressive. That is newspaper headlines from around the delaware valley. Well, up next we will take you to the main line where villanova tried to hang on to a win plus latest sixers trade talks, plus this. Bruno mars one of the many performers at the award, we will have more of the uk version of the grammys later, stay with us tradingin or selling your car, truck or suv . Webuyanycar. Com takes the hassle out of selling in just 3 easy steps. One, get your free online valuation. Two, drive to your local car buying center. And three, walk out with your check in as little as 30 minutes so dont wait. Get your free online valuation now at webuyanycar. Com. Find out how much your car is worth at webuyanycar. Com thanks for waking up with us here on cbs3 Eyewitness News. Villanova wildcats suffered that are first loss of the the season to butler back in january. The last night the they were looking for pay back. The heres don bell with a look at the rematch. Villanova seniors are ultimate upper class hen, they have never lost at the pavilion. Last night, taking on butler, and, it came down to the very end. Time winding down in the first half Jaylen Bronson with the nice drive, going in the lane, next move, boom, right there. Nova up by one in the half. In the second different story, martin, for the bulldogs, he hits a three. Draino. Part of the 18zero butler won they are up 6049. Nova coming back but ball bouncing butlers way. Butler has done it again. Wow. Second time this year, that they have upset villanova, and the wildcats, losing at the pavilion for First Time Since 2013. Seventyfour66, your final score. One last mention nba trade deadline is today at the three , we will have very latest on the sixers at five and six. That is all for sports im don bell, have a great the day. Ahead of that deadline sixers pulled trigger on a deal but wasnt the Jahlil Okafor trade people were expecting. Sixers traded forward irsan ill sofa to the hawks, sixers get center and draft picks as well. Spitter has in the played and last sees than of the contract it will give more minutes to dario saric, sixers host wizard at the well tomorrow night. Coming up in the next half an hour of Eyewitness News, pat gallen is live with how our winter warm up is helping area golf course is, trang do. Change of bathroom rights for transgendered students. Im trang do with how Philadelphia School district is reacting to the news. Also, our Nicole Brewer goes back to school but find out what this says with a persons future success we we come it isnt just about vision, its about care. Nobody cares for eyes more than pearle. It is warm up and we are chasing record highs. Good morning im rahel solomon im jim donovan. Heres what you need to necessity to start your day in the morning minute. A triple shooting overnight in philadelphias east mt. Airy section and Police Believe that one of the injured, is the the actual shooter. We dont want anybody to get hurt. A dangerous heist on the the main line, police say thieves looking for luxury cars are break nothing to homes. We will fight, fight, fight. Protest erupt outside white house moments afterre