Like it is in the cold. Im such a wimp because it is freezing outside. You are acclimated. You are a philly girl now. Yes. So true. Next couple days, it is easing into it, but man it will get really brutal in the next couple of days. Teens at best. Yes. I know. So factor in the wind, double trouble. So, we might even flirt with a couple records, record lows that is. The lets go start off by taking a look what is happening from storm scan, not a heck of a lot but as we zoom it out here, even though High Pressure is what will be in control we have enough west to north west wind flow that even a few flakes are flying through central pennsylvania. Some of this is all lake enhanced but it could survive as it traveling further south and east so watch for that. I wouldnt be shock. Nothing will stick or accumulate. Outside in the live Neighborhood Network wind isnt that strong. It is coming up to 11 miles an hour in these choice locations in the the live Neighborhood Network. The current temperatures though, those are brutal in the 20s at best right now in most locations and factoring in even what is a modest breeze i have been on the sky deck. I can tell you it feels colder. So factor that in, our area feels like values as they stand right now sub zero, in mount pocono, 11 degrees in allentown. Eleven in millville. This is feels like value. This is better gauge as opposed to what the thermometer read when you walk out the door be dressing for teens and single digit. As day progresses we expect to at least flirt with the 30degree mark. The get in on some sunshine but with the plus to territory wind it will make it feel that much colder. Again this is just the beginning. I made the mistake difficult not warm up my vehicle and i paid for it the whole ride in. It was freezing cold. Good morning everyone. The it is chilly indeed. Roadways are looking good. Heres a look at the schuylkill westbound past vine approaching 30th street beautiful shot here. We are seeing levels build ever so slight thely on the schuylkill, one of the places that we do in the morning. Ninetyfive south at academy is heating up, both directions looking busy here at academy especially 95 moving in the southbound direction. We know that will heat up. Vine westbound eastbound a same story here. As we are pushing toward half an hour mark at 5 30 moving toward the 6 00 we will start to see that heat up a little bit. I want to call your attention to this accident, very serious accident here in bristol route 13 bristol pike at the otter street all lanes block here, all of them, you will in the get by so use an alternate state road to new rodgers road will be your best bet. I will update you on this. Very serious accident. Developing right now a philadelphia cabdriver has a bandaged hand after a encounter with a robber earlier this morning. Driver pick up his fare on fourth and south street. At fourth and Catherine Police say a man pulled out a knife, slit the drivers throat and demanded his money. Robber got away with 07, the cab rode to the er at the Jefferson University hospital. I thank god, you know, just thank god that everything is fine, you know, money is no big deal. Doctors treated the cabby for cuts to his hand. Police are looking for a man about 25 years old, 6foot tall, and clean shave even wearing a blue hooded sweat shirt. A local college is trying to track down the source of the fast moving out break that has sickened at least a hundred students. Eyewitness News Reporter jan carabao joins us live at Ursinus College in collegeville and were here the dining hall is closed and last thing you want is a bunch of hungry college students. I hope they are feeding them somehow. Reporter that is right, erika, good morning. Dining halls are close today so Health Department can get in there and figure out the cause of the out break. The in the meantime student still to have eat, so happening here right behind me at 7 30 this morning here at the let i can center on campus, wawa and wegmans will be feeding students breakfast. The rest of the campus is still opened after all and classes will go on as asked ruled. Campus here at Ursinus College unusually empty after an out break of stomach illness made a hundred students sick. Dozens showed up at the hospital and urgent care. First student was taken to the emergency room at 2 00 a. M. Wednesday. Started to come in more and more, 2 00 oclock, 3 00 oclock, 4 00 oclock. By the time i got to the health center, the waiting room was full with students afflicted with what appears to be a stomach virus. Reporter the college is voluntarily shut down its dining halls to make way for an investigation by the Montgomery CountyHealth Department. Crews are also cleaning and sanitizing everything inside. Weve also spent special attention in residential areas and high traffic areas on campus for cleaning purposes as well. Reporter at this time it is unclear if the causes food born or transmitted by person to person contact. But the systems are the same, vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal pain. A few more people in their rooms and in the in common areas. They are keeping to themselves more, washing their hand, staying away from everything. Reporter so again because the dining halls are closed right now breakfast will be served here at the Atlantic Center starting at 7 30. A number of business is will team up to serve lunch at 11 30. Meantime the school says it could be up to a week before the the Health Department is able to determine a cause, of this out break. We are reporting live, from collegeville, pennsylvania, jan carabao for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Thanks very much for that. Student at Lehigh University has one of two confirmed cases of the zika virus in pennsylvania. A University Memo states the that the student contracted the virus after traveling abroad. The student has since recovered. Health officials in delaware say that the one case there is mild, and woman who got it when traveling to an area where virus is spreading. Zika virus is spread through mosquitoes but if contracted by pregnant woman it the can cause birth defects. Right now 5 37. In business news, how to identify a big step in your relationship and this is just in time for valentines day too. Lets check with money watchs jill wagner at the new york stock exchange. She has that and more for us, good morning, jill. Reporter good morning, another rough start for stock markets around the globe, asian market are falling over concern about slowing global economy. Dow jones fell 100, nasdaq up 15. Futures are pointing to a much lower open today. Janet yellin will be wrapping up, two days of testimony. She told law make their weakness in the global economy, particularly china could slow the feds plan to raise Interest Rates this year. She pretty much ruled out though cutting rate, again anytime soon. Burger king is adding something unexpected to the menu, hot dogs, the burger king teamed up with oscar meyer to create a 100 percent beef hot dog flamed grilled in the restaurant. The most food chains are going in the other direction adding salad and natural food options. And sharing is caring when it company also to binge watching. The just in time for valentines day new survey from netflix, 51 percent of respondents say sharing a net flick account with their partner is a very big step toward a serious relationship and nearly a third, 27 percent say show compatibility is important for couples. Erika . Show compatibility. Okay. Thanks, very much. Just in time for valentines day. If the ale police union is weighing in on a story we brought you last week. It was about chris emery a special need man who had work for dorney parkas a custodian for 12 years. He was told to reinterview for the position this year. Then dorney park told him he didnt pass. Chriss mom posted about it on facebook. Members of the fraternal order of police saw that story and said they did in the want to hold their picnic at dorney park this year. The at muse. Park says they want chris back but chris and his mom have declined their offer. A local man is fighting for his life after a crippling disease took control. The his Union Health Insurance that he counted on just recently changed. Now he is thanking complete strangers for opening his pockets to help give him another day. Eyewitness News Reporter david spunt has that story. That is life support machine that ventilate are right there you take that off i stop breathing, plan and same many. Reporter life these days isnt easy for 66 yearold joe slider, south jersey father of four and grandfather of 11 spend his days confine the to the chair in the corner of his living room hoping to live another day. I pretty much am stable from the neck up. From the neck down it is what it is. Reporter slider was once an active man a phillies fan since birth he went to spring training in florida within year with the team. The his life changed in 2012, and fast. I go to pick up a pencil and i would drop it. Reporter he rush to meet with doctors. Lou gehrig had it and he died from it. Reporter als is a a rare disease that cripples the body, there is no known cause or cure for the disease. It the effects around 6,000 people a year. The news was devastating for a man loves to build things. Including the room where he now calls home. Carpetry is my love. It is like a project to me. Reporter slider join his union back in 1979 and had full health care when he retire. When he was diagnosed with als he had around the clock nursing care. Slider and his wife donna received another blow last summer when they found out his union was changing policy for retirees and his specific Skilled Nursing need were no longer covered. It is crushing, absolutely crushing. Reporter donna slider has no nursing degree but works ten hours a day and then comes home to care for her husband. Without any nursing care, all this goes a away, without the safety. Reporter sliders took the matter to federal court hoping to keep his plan in place but they lost. The judge ruled that his union did nothing illegal by simply switching health plans. Now the family is counting on a go fund me page not just to help joe slider but to keep him a live. They are complete strangers donating toward this which is humbling. Reporter gentlemen need Skilled Nursing 24 hours a day and adds up to 5,000 a week. The 409 plus thousand dollars from the the go fund me page will keep joe alive until the end of march. It is just not fair to have to deal with the disease and to have this on top of this and we have been dealing with this since last july. Reporter right now joe slider is under a Medicare Supplement plan that doesnt currently meet his nursing need. I reached out to the union that he belongs to and the attorney represented the union but i didnt hear back. Gentlemen says helps his message is just to stay positive. Reporting from the stat center, david spunt for cbs3 Eyewitness News. We have check this morning the sliders go fund me page has raised more than 46,000, so just overnight more money was raised. If you want to help we have a lincoln the home page of the cbs philly. Com. 5 42. Are you thinking of selling your house . Why now could be the best time to put it on the market. And to protect and shovel . Police officers goes above and beyond the call of duty to help a stranger. You can say, blame it on the boss, the clever way that a dad explains his daughters late arrival to school. We will be right back. Welcome back. Are you thinking of selling your home but holding off because you think winter is a terrible time to do so . You might be surprised to learn that this could be, one of the best times to sell. In this week angies list report jim donovan looks at things you should keep in mind if you are thinking of putting your home on the market right now. Reporter combination of the fewer sellers and eager buyers make winter a great time to list your home. Many people think selling home in the winter is not a great idea but if you think about it, there is let competition because there are fewer homes on the market and when there are buyers in the market in the winter theyre more motivated because they are in the just window shopping. Less competition ultimately is the number one reason, to have sellers to list in the winter. Reporter recent red fin report showed winter listed homes are nine more sent more likely to sell and they sell a week faster then homes listed in other seasons. One thing can help making sure your home feels cozy when buyers step inside. What i like to do is make sure that the heat is set at a certain temperature. Maybe that is seven 273 degrees, whatever comfortable for that home so it feels warm and inviting. Reporter fur home is on the market in the winter pay close attention to snow and icy weather conditions. So you can stay on top of sidewalks, walkways, before any showings. Last thing you want is a buyer to love the home and fall on their way out coming down the back stairs. Reporter if you have a fireplace get it swept and have have a fire burning during showing. And clean your windows to let lots of Natural Light in. Especially helpful on overcast days. For more advice from angie on selling your home during the winter, visit cbs philly. Com angies list. Im jim ton van. We have had experience shoveling snow around here so we can relate when somebody says it hurts their back and dit hurt back of 74 yearold phyillhoist lives in wisconsin but she was doing her best when Police Showed up to investigate a break in. When they were finish, officer Jeff Loveland shoveled her driveway for her. He said it the is all in the days work. I made contact with her when she came outside to shovel. I said she could do talking and would i do shoveling. Nobody ever did that before. I was really shock. I was really shocked. Never used a snow blower because he had three sons. Through go. She said she has a new perspective on police now and she wont forget officer lovelands good deed. Love that story. No shoveling this morning. It is just down ride freezing out there. It is, and this is just the beginning too, folks, it will get colder with every passing day especially valentines day. So i guess the timing could be worse. It is a perfect excuse to snug he will up, right. Lets take a look where we stan right now, Eyewitness Weather Watcher Network out and about in full force with temperatures in the low 20s or teens. We will go to 21 degrees, from ed, with a nice clear sky allowing any heat that we have managed to build up here last night to go right backup to the atmosphere. It will be offfully chilly. He had a good point here, if you are outside for more than five minutes have your gloves, okay. This is kind of cold that can be dangerous if you are not smart about it. Bundle up, all right. 20 degrees, copping from bill. He too under a nice clear sky in broomall this morning. And, if you are heading out if you may have outdoor work to do i, you know, collecting trash, postal service, anything like that we are so grateful for you folks to head out in the cold to deliver our mail but it will be brutal here today and beyond. Eighteen from fran, he has seen nothing more than a patchy cloud or two and calling out the groundhog he was dead wrong. You said it, fran. Lets listen to the eyewitness weather watchers instead. Storm scan three is quiet as can be say for the thank we have light lake enhancement in the form have light snow showers. I can see a flurry out of that. You can draw a line and carve out the cold as jet stream dips south here but we had one front yesterday crossing through a system retreating left behind snow, that has set stage for some chilly air to settle in but reenforcing front comes in friday into saturday, maybe leaving a snow shower but by sunday it is coldest air we have experienced this entire season. We have lettered our expectations new for highs here, 19 degrees at best on valentines day. Meisha, when you factor in the wind over course of the next few days it might not even feel zero but sub zero values. That wind will make or break any temperature. Thanks, katie. Like she said, temperatures dropping for valentines day. I like the sound on have that cuddling weather. New jersey route one past ridge avenue looking good, looking nice and quiet just as it should. Schuylkill eastbound approaching, love this shot another favorite shot. I love seeing that city. Looking beautiful here. The nice and dry too. It is just very cold. Cant rule out black ice in certain areas especially bridge decks an inside street, side streets, overall, things are looking good here. Plenty of headlights popping up on the schuylkill. We can see that all morning long. Schuylkill heating up, blue route southbound past, the plaza looking good here as well, looking nice, steady, traveling at posted speed, call your attention to this a fatal accident confirmed in bristol route 13 bristol pike at otter street all lanes are block they are you will have to use an alternate. It is going to be state red to new rodgers road make note for those in and around this area i will have details as we progress through the morning but just know that is confirmed fatal accident. Construction i95 south ramp to Delaware Avenue is closed until february 24th. Erika, back over to you. 5 50 right now. What is most you have ever paid for a cup of coffee. Probably no where near 15. We will tell you why one stories charging outrageous price. If you thought you heard last have of harry potter, think again, there is a brand new book coming out, we will tell you when diehard harry potter fans can get their hand on the latest installment, that and more when we come back. Bruce springsteen is in philadelphia tomorrow night and mayor kenney says all of the tickets to his mayors suite sold out. The profits will benefit the school district. Springsteens concerts regularly run three hours. He just played in albany new york and one that wrote a letter to his daughters principal explaining why she was late for school the next day. He said when the boss comes to town youve got to go see him. At least one teacher was also at that show. Harry potter fans, rejoyce, the eighth installment will come out this summer but it is in the a traditional book. The it is a hard book version of the script book for the play, harry potter, and the cursed child. The play co written by jk rowling, opens up july 30th in london. Book will be available the day after on harry potters birthday. Something different there. If you think cost of your Morning Coffee is expensive, how about spending 15, can you imagine . That is what a small cup of cinca coffee cost in San Francisco equator coffee and teas. Why sit the so expensive. It is first harvest from their coffee bean farm in panama. One customer in the sold on the idea. I can get a lot of good coffee, that is cheaper. Even it is most rare coffee. Im skeptical, i dont know. I like coffee but i dont know if i with pay 15. Reporter im with you. Flavor described as smooth the with a tealike character and orange citrus notes. Believe it the or not the shop says it sold out yesterday, they do expect to have more, today. 15. Coming up next on Eyewitness News a strike looming on one of the mass transit systems. We have details. Also the picture of this dog went viral after she was abandoned in a shelter, right before christmas, so sad, and alone and dispond event wearing a festive green sweater. New we have an update on his situation, dont miss that. Also doctor jen will stop by later to talk about family medical history, the information you really do need to get from your loved ones and why it is so important, when we come back at the top of the hour good morning. With Heart Failure, danger is always on the rise. Symptoms worsen because your heart isnt pumping well. water filling room about 50 percent of people die dog whimpering within 5 years of getting diagnosed. But theres something you can do. Talk to your doctor about Heart Failure treatment options. Because the more you know, the more likely you are. dog whimpering to keep it pumping. Right now the Delaware Valley is waking up to an arctic blast. Temperatures are below freezing and will keep on dropping over the next few days. Katie has your forecast. Also, developing right now, a cabdriver speaks on cbs3 after surviving a violent even count they are morning with the knife wielding suspect. And an out break at a local university, Health Officials are trying to figure out what at least caused 100 students to get sick. The it is thursday february 11th im erika von tiehl. And much cold they are morning then it has been before and were expecting around the skies deck for arctic blast, yes. Meisha, at least you are warm in here, good morning. Meisha is warm. Sorry, katie. Yeah, it the is nice and warm, not to rub it in or anything, katie. I know from a couple hours ago it it was freezing. Yes, is it still. Absolutely. These temperatures are hovering in the teens or 20s right the now, guys, so when you factor in the wind you should have heard the squeal i made when wind blew right before we came on here. Anytime wind blows it does make it feel that much colder. The it will chill you to the bone if you are not prepared for it. That is where we come in. We will get you ready to head out the door. I grab extra Winter Weather accessories. You probably want a pair of sunglasses too even though sunnies not up, it will shine through a couple cloud here today. Good storm scan first and foremost not much happening at local level. One zoom shows you lake enhanced very light snow showers, falling, into the lower highland, allegheny and some of that may actually survive crossing over our area. You might see a flurry here and there nothing tere