Now, thankfully skies continue to be nice and clear here but generally clear. We do still have a thin veil of clouds. You can see that dissipating with time but down wind of lake erie there is lake effect snow. Because of the wind driving that i do think we can see snow shower, perhaps flurry as the day goes on. It is all about the cold and wind here for next few days. Over the course of the next few afternoons we are likely to stay below freezing the whole time it will never feel what this tell ter reads but it is the air temperature in terms of your travel and whether things will have a chance to maybe melt a little bit. They are not f there is anything left from yesterdays snow which there certainly is and vittoria will be talking about that all morning i think and really for the next few days it will stay slick if it was untreated especially. Here is your air temperature in philadelphia 22 degrees is colder in comparison depending on your location. It could be worse. This is arctic cold that is rolling into chicago, milwaukee, eventually toward us, but our values on the thermometer thankfully are in the spec to be that harsh. It is a hrouda wakening right. 26 degrees in the city. Feeling like the the teens. We will flirt with 30 but not have a chance to get there and with the wind kicking in you have to factor in that it will feel colder. Today it begins, but really later tonight and into tomorrow it will be the worst vittoria so more to come is the story. We will be on the look out for that. We are on the look out for instance dent, being a big result of the traffic conditions that were dealing with because of the weather. It is weather like this which sort of causes a fake out for anyone traveling on the majors. Even though road are not snow covered on the majors they are slick and you will have black ice. That could have been potentially the reason that were seeing an accident on i95 in the northbound direction around allegheny taking out that center lane. It looks like they are moving out of the way which is good news there. It is right here blocking the lefthand lane excuse me. Traveling north bound i95 approaching allegheny who have an accident blocking the lefthand lane. Traffic is maneuvering by but it is causing a backup in this area best thing to do is do not approach the roads lightly. That black ice is out there, slick and dangerous. Traveling on the roosevelt boulevard not seeing too much delay. That is good news there. Area bridges you are speed restricted to 35 miles an hour erika. Well, katie has been saying the the entire tristate area in the middle of the bitter blast. With the coldest air of the season still on its way things could get dangerous if youre in the prepared. Let get out to Eyewitness News reporter Nicole Brewer in pennsauken ways to stay safe and warm. One of them is wooly socks and you have that covered. Reporter yes, good morning,er contact it is key to dress in layers this morning. Ive got hand and hand covered. You mentioned the wooly socks. You cante them so take my word for it. But really comfort is key and you want to keep warm because there is that code blue in effect all morning long here in Camden County it went into effect wednesday night and it will continue through 7 00 oclock this morning. I can tell you it feels every bit of cold out here this morning. We spoke to many people in pennsauken said they are doubling up on the clothes. I have tights between my sweats and two jaquez. Minority face is my go too. It keeps me warm. I always usually wear a scoff. Im a winter person. I still layer up to keep from getting a cold. Reporter that guy is just crazy. Who is a winter person these guys. I guess he is. Anyway we are out here live along route 38 which you can see is clear and traffic is moving along without a problem, of course, looks can be deceiving. So take it slow. Im guessing that the worst part of your commute will be in and around your own neighborhood because many side streets before not touched or treated. Just make sure your are giving yourself that time and be extra careful out there this morning. We are live from Camden CountyNicole Brewer, cbs3 Eyewitness News. For more on how to stay safe and warm we have a cold Survival Guide for you. You can find it on our web site at cbs philly. Com. One of the victims seriously injured in the center city attack is breaking his silence. Samuel sierra spent a week in the hospital after a beating at 12th and a chestnut that nearly cost him his life. Surveillance video shows him walking from his job as a doorman with his manager. Group approached the pair. There was an argument. Suddenly two men broke away from the group and started pummeling sierra causing bleeding in the brain. My ears started to have a ringing sensation and then my head again just has the physical pain. I hope that they are captured certainly. The at the end of the day i hope they would be bets adults but it is up to them to make those decisions for themselves. If you have any information about this attack please contact the philadelphia police. Our time is 5 36. In Business News this morning not many workers took their Vacation Time last year. We will see what is inspiring trade tours sell, sell, sell this week. Money watchs jill wagner joins us from the new york stock exchange, good morning. Reporter good morning. Seasoned investors will stop the sell off. Dow jones fell another 130 points yesterday after mondays 330point drop. The the nasdaq fell 59 points. What is behind it . Mostly it is falling price of crude oil, Energy Companies like exxon mobile and cheveron have taken a hit. There is a Silver Lining to all of this, low gas prices. A gallon of regular could average 2. 64 a year, that is well below 2014 average of 3. 34 according to gas buddy. Com. Tech companies have promised to diversify their work force. Well, now intel is putting its money where its mouth is. The company will spend 300 milliondollar on engineering scholarships at historically africanamerican schools and increase number of women black, hispanic employees by 14 percent. And nearly local half of americans didnt take even one vacation day last year. This is according to a new survey by travel firm skipped. Many fulltime workers get at least two weeks vacation but survey found only 13 percent of the people say they can take all of their days. Men are more likely then women to use their Vacation Time. Ukee and erika. You got that right. Half didnt take anytime. I cant believe that. Im trying get a couple extra days ande if i can golf with somebody. No im just playing. They are transferable. Thanks jill. New jersey lawmakers may investigate governor christies free tickets and travel expense toes cowboys games. Democratic semmably man John Wisnieski have have discussed whether the governor, ethics rules. Governors office says he ace allowed to accept gifts from friend and that the governor has fully complied with state rules. Jerry jones paid for the private flight to dallas and box seats. The jones say christie is part of the cowboys m o. J. O and he wants him at sundays game in green bay. Vicepresident joe biden steals the show as newly elect senators take their oath of office. Now, repeat after me, do you solemnly swear. Lets do it again. No, no. For two hours the vicepresident shook hand, cracked jokes and kissed his way through yesterdays swearing in. His colorful comments, vicepresident unleash a classic during one photo on on when he declared i like kid better than people. Vicepresident biden delawares own my man. He is he so known for those off the cuff comments. Flu out brakees getting worse, growing number of illnesses in our area. Fists fly at the end of the High School Basketball game. See what sparked that wild brawl. Plus. Unaudible. Shes armed with a machete and in the afraid to use it. Hear her message to the intruder that she chahased out of her home. We are updating latest condition on this mornings bitter blast as we do traffic and weather together on the threes and live look from our mobile weather lab. It looks like something coming down there we will check with katie for your forecast too. We will be right back. Whats happened to snacking . How did it become absentmindedly eating one after the next, after the next . So predictable and so unsatisfying . What about pulling up a chair, a stool, a beanbag and actually tasting our food. We are a creamy cheese that Still Believes in the beauty of a knife in the elegant swipe of a. Swipe. Of course, that doesnt mean you cant dunk us or scoop us up. Enjoy every single solitary bite. The laughing cow. Reinvent snacking. A live picture at abby view and davisville road in willow grove, right here where a man has barricaded himself in the home. Resident are told to shelter in place for now. We will update you as soon as we get more information. Frozen hoses and lack of hydrants made it tough to fight through this house fire on curly mill road and new britain township there were no injuries but that home is destroyed. In word so far on the cause. A driver faces charges after his car hit an eight yearold boy getting off his school bus in lakewood ocean county. Boy was dragged some 80 feet and suffered serious injuries. He is in the hospital this morning. Choosing new carpet for your home is a big decision one you will live with for a while n this weeks angies list report jim donovan lease at some things you hud consider before buying new carpet. Reporter flooring expert harry says carpet cannulas ten years with proper maintenance so people dont buy it very often but he ace when they do, they often make simple mistakes. One of the things that on people do is they will take it the outside in the Natural Light and they will try to get true color. The issue is you dont live outside so carpet will not have the same appearance outside as it will inside. Your best betties to lay it down in the room you will be having the the carpet install. Look at it from a distance like you are walking in the room. Be hure to look at different lighting, look at it tonight when lights overhead are on and during the the day when sunnies shining in. Reporter once you have pick your new carpet dont overlook importance of padding. The padding is least expensive component of the carpet purchase so to move from you know basic rate pad up to one step up or slightly more dense cushion is very minimal dollars and everyone should consider it or at least get option to buy better cushion. Reporter dont forget the to ask for fees for hauling away old carpeting or moving furniture. For more advice from angie for buying carpet visit cbs philly. Com angies list. Im jim donovan. Lets check with katie and our weather watchers good morning. Weather watchers are up and early, but we are certainly reading in on some very cold air, across the delaware valley, most of these readings in the teens but there are a few that are out liars. We will show you those. 20 degrees temperatures sent in over the last ten minutes from ron russell what i love about our weather watchers they like to provide advice. I think that is so cool. 20 degrees granted in riverside, new jersey but ron russell says it feels like 13. Give yourself time to clean off the car if you didnt get a chance to yesterday but warm it up. That chill will make it shaky when you are dealing with this forecast. 5 degrees where eileen is situated in gilbertsville. Modest breeze for now. That is the thing. She also had a little bit of wisdom to pass along, good advice bundle up and be careful as vittoria will be talking all morning that icing is still an issue even they snow is long gone. The lets go next out to what we have got going on satellite and radar coverage here. We have a thin veil of cloud cover but it is thinning out. That is why eileen is bottoming out to 5 degrees already because under that clear sky with light wind that thermometer will drop any heat that we have managed to build up yesterday is long gone, and into the atmosphere, as we move forward here. Expect to go see that lake enhanced snowfall we will see flurry, snow shower but wont accumulate. It add to the wintry at the months fear. Look at thousand these wind chills pan out in the next few days especially tomorrow that is the worst where in the morning it will not feel any better then well below zero. Down the road things will ease up, it will take a while. We have to get through weekend before we flirt with 40 degrees. We will get there. One good piece of information to note here is it could be worse. It could be a longer stretch of cold we certain that last year. In the this case. The in the this time around vittoria. Good morning everyone. We have a very serious accident as our weather watchers were telling you to be careful on the roadways, they are right. Even though we are not seeing snow covered highways and by way, we are dealing with black ice, now currently closing i95 northbound as you approach the area of girard avenue heading out of the gate at allegheny. Notice they are on the scene here. The dent was compromising the lefthand lane. With the emergency teams arriving to that, they are currently blocked every single lane here, so, north bound i95 approaching girard avenue heading out of the allegheny. Notice closure at this point here. Trying to make headway here it is good idea heading out of the center city area. Traveling out toward the the north east travel on delaware a avenue best you can as you can take aramingo and make your way down toward roosevelt boulevard. You will need to give yourself more time and be careful. We have suspended services on the wilmington knew warning Regional Rail for septa between church mans crossing and newark station. Only between that area they are having signal problems. A great tool that would come in handy for days like today within the your drive app. You can down load that app for iphone and android by going to cbs philly. Com your drive and good idea to keep you updated on those backups that will be experiencing in a bit ukee. A player is involved in the huge brawl after a harrisburg High School Basketball game are suspended for one game. Video is very disturbing. It was a close game won by william penn high school. The players from penn and harrisburg just went at it. Two players started fighting and that spark an all a out fight among several players as you can see. Parents and police could in the restore order. One player we were told was knocked unconscious. A would be burglar in tennessee met his match when he encountered home owner wielding a machete. It happened yesterday afternoon in memphis. Cheryl anybody willly said she heard the man break nothing and called police. While she was on the phone she said burglar opened up the window and that was a huge mistake. I chopped the blind up, i chopped him up i chopped the bed up, i said chop him, chop him, chop him. She says she thinks she chopped him at least a couple times and she chasedded him down the street still on the phone with police. In the end man got away but she will be ready if he comes back. She also has a name for her machete, she called her knife roofus. Do not mess with her or roofus. My goodness. On the healthwatch we have new information about the growing number of people suffering with the flu in our area there are now more than a thousand confirmed cases, in the state of delaware. The last year at this time there were only a hundred cases. The Pennsylvania Department of health says that there are now nearly 1,000 confirmed flu cases in just montgomery county. Abington happies reportly in the middle of a hot zone. You can get all of the information you need on the flu on our web site a list of symptoms and risk factors. Get tips on preventing the flu, get to cbs philly. Com and click on health and flu. Connecticut teen will find out if she will be forced to continue with chemotherapy begins her wishes. Seventeen yearold sandra was diagnosed with lymphoma a treatable cans their could be fatal if left untreated. He chose to reject chemo with her mothers support but then court gave the the state control over her medical conditions. Now the the case is going to the state Supreme Court but in the meantime shes forced to go through chemo. That is hard part. We were like to save everybody as life but on the other hand we respect everybody ace individuality. That is what we are balancing her. She will turn 18 in nine months and can really make her own deiss then. A decision from the court is expect to come down on time tomorrow. 5 49. We may be suffering from this bitter cold but it does not seem to be bothering everybody. Dont miss the moment an animal discovers snow for the first time but first heres is what coming up tonight on cb is three. We will be right back. Okay buddy whats your favorite kind of cheerios . Honey nut. But. Chocolate is my other favorite. But Apple Cinnamon is my favorite too. And fruity. Oh yeah, and frosted okay, but. Whats youre most favorite of all . Hmm. The kind i have with you. Me too. Word is fun because plenty of laughs are expected at tonights peoples choice award. You can find that right here on cbs3. Mom co stars Allison Janne and anna ferris will co host tonight. They have been preparing for weeks new but they say they still feel nerve bus taking on the role as host for very first time. We talk with the hosts from last year from two broke girls and then said they said run. We have been working out every day, and trying to get ready. Dont forget catch all a of the fun right here on cbs3 later tonight and it all starts at 9 00 oclock. Two such fun would i man. It will be great. Not such a great forecast. What can do you, it is winter, katie. I know it is winter and this is the first really cold spell that we have had since winter began in meteorological speak here which has been over a month now. We got by pretty well here for a while. But we are paying for it. Outside we will go to palmyra cove nature park where it is 20 degrees. Not terrible in terms of the wind but that will change. Storm scan three is clearing out somewhat but we are expect to go see a light flurry or snow shower fire up. Heres how future weather sees that happening. Generally in the afternoon. That is your best shot. It is lake effect but nothing that will have a chance to accumulate but add to the atmosphere. Leaning forward in the forecast where we will have full sun. We will hit 21. It may in the feel any better than single digit territory. Very cold air coming in. In the looking forward to that. You will not look forward to this mornings commute. Ninetyfive northbound, they have been intermittently closing the northbound side of i95 around girard as a result of serious accident blocking the lefthand lane as well as center lane. It looks like only shoulder gets by this scene. Not too far from girard avenue. With those emergency teams on the the scene they will need to work on this we will be dealing with this delay and more rush hour, is upon us, in a big old way. We will be back with more details, stay with us. Staples has everything you need for an attentiongrabbing presentation. Brochures, business cards and banners all at low prices. Still need to grab your clients attention . [air horn honks] staples has that stuff too. How much . Make onbudget happen. Make presentations happen. Staples. Make more happen. Snow is nice to sianni play around in. Check out bow, bow panda cup here in smithsonian zoo in washington d. C. Oh, my gosh thinks adorable. We are told this is first time that bow, bow has ever even seen snow and you can tell the 16 monthold cub is digging it hanging out with mom there, playing around zoo cooper say they are very much enjoying this wintry weather. Wait until he grows up and has to shovel up. See how much you like it then. So cute. That is a great picture. That will make you like snow for a brief moment. We will be right back. Turn around every now and then i get a little bit hungry and theres nothing really good around turn around every now and then i get a little bit tired of living off the taste of the air turn around, barry finally, i have a manly chocolatey snack and fiber so my wife wont give me any more flack i finally found the right snack deciding which bread to buy can be tough. Deciding between buying bread and health care is much tougher. Healthy pa is now here to help with namebrand Health Insurance for the cost of a few basic groceries. If youre uninsured, call or apply online today. You might consider hitting the Snooze Button and snuggling deeper under the covers because it is down right frigid. Bitter blast tightens its grip on the Area Temperatures are below freezing and will feel worse once that win starts to kick up. Meteorologist Katie Fehlinger is shivering outside on the sky deck. Lets get out there so we can have her come back in. I was outside on the die deck in the last half an hour and i feel like the wind has kicked in a little bit more. It will continue to creep up on us here throughout the day. To the point that wind chill advisories have to be issued. They are not in effect yet but they will by this evening. The lets take a look outside, what do we have going on. We did of course have our snow rolling through yesterday. As we zoomed things out more here what we will find is certainly some more cloud cover. Never mind we will show you some clouds as well as snow showers but clickers will be what they will be. They are cold too. Current wind have begun to kick in a little bit. It is generally out of the west but turning more northwesterly as the day progresses. As i mentioned at