That, as well. Lets take you out, there here we go, pocono camera, snowing very heavily, at this hour, looks like that big heavy wet snow variety up in carbon county, jack frost, big boulder, we go next to storm scan3, show you the zoom one more time. Notice all of the different colors going on on this map. Heavy rain, some pinks, indicating mixing taking place as well as obviously what we just showed you, some snow right on the tail end of the loop as the coldest air is wrapping in very well right now. A loft moisture with this. Thats why were concerned about not just, you know, the potential for snow, but also, some flooding issues, winter storm warnings in effect until tomorrow morning, up through carbon, monroe counties, Winter Weather advisories posted going little further southeast, where you whoever close enough to freezing to warrant freezing rain or sleet. Maybe few snowflakes, but also a mix with rain. And then around philadelphia, it is mainly just heavy rain. All point to the south and east. So, we are under flood watch here. We are going to be dealing with some very gusty winds with this. Looking at the area temperatures, you know, not just here but in your car. Pay attention to what those thermometer readings say. If youre hovering near 32, slow down. Thats pretty much the bottom line. Thats when it obviously could turn little slick out there, jess, over to you. Good advice, thanks, katie. Definitely use some caution. Give yourself extra time, when headed out the door so far this morning. We see how things are going. Out on 95, having relatively early start, for to see such back up here on 95, these are the southbound lanes, at cottman avenue. So, southbound approaching the center city area, you can see, also, losing out the right hand shoulder there, but really starting to gather in some serious volume there. Northbound lanes, northeast philadelphia, moving along great though so far. Now, disable vehicle out on 309. See Police Activity on the scene, currently, at welsh rd. That is northbound lanes, some brake lights, moving along little slowly, in the southbound lanes, possibly, some gaper delay there, as well. Now, over in the Lehigh Valley reports of icy and slippery conditions there. So we just want you to use some caution. Give yourselves extra time. Cant stress it enough. Northeast ex it n sean, 78, route 22, where you want to be careful. Ukee, erika, over to you. As katie has been telling us all morning long, coastal flooding expected for many communities down the shore, not good news for folks still recovering from super storm saint i rain and wind are battering more than just the board. Good morning, erika, ukee there is noreaster just not giving un. You can see the wind whipping across my face this morning take a look up to the light, see the rain, the winds at times there is rain being pushed sideways. It is just pouring here, were expecting 3 inches along the shore. Expecting 45mile per hour wind gusts up to 50mile per hour wind gusts, katie has been saying it, not good day to be outside, not good day to be on the roads. Take a look at the boardwalk there. Just see rainsoaked boardwalks. Coming to you live outside of ceasars this morning, but his isnt the only place weve hit up already this morning. Coming down, the Atlantic City expressway, we pulled over, we wanted to show you the bad travel conditions out there this morning. The flags, just whipping in the wind, a lot of ponding already on the roadway there, not only obviously in the parking lots, but along the expressway, and weve made our way around the Atlantic City and the roads down by the shore, a lot of ponding there. So you want to make sure to take it slow this morning, keep an eye out for. That will we also made our way down along the beach, where you can see the surf just being churned up by the win, the win just throwing the waves into the sand of course, can expect little bit errosion, as well, folks here just bracing for yet another storm. This noreaster expect to go bring tidal flooding, as well, and also specially so at the high tide. High tied here in Atlantic City right around 9 00 this morning, just few minute before. So back out here live on the board walk, you can see, not a whole lot of people out here with me this morning, braving the storm, ive only seen just couple of workers who obviously have to be out here with me, as well, if you dont have to be out here, you might as well just stay safe, warm, dry inside. For now reporting here, in Atlantic City, jan carabeo, cbs3, Eyewitness News. Jan, thank you. We would love to see our storm pictures, send them to hashtag cbs3 storm. Up load them to the cbs philly weather app. You may seem them right here on cbs3. Well, traffics being slowed to stand still in berkley, california. Last night after hundreds of protesters marched onto interstate 80. The group faced off against police, in riot gear, working to disperse the crowd. Remained peaceful. It was the third night berkley has joined in on a national protest, following two grand jury decisions. Chopper three overhead as more than 100 student from several main line colleges stage add march and die in. They laid on the gown silently for four minute, representing the four and a half hours the ferguson teenagers body remained on the treatment student told Eyewitness News why theyre supporting this cause. The fact that so many incidents like this have happened, one after the other, people starting to recognize it is not an anomaly being something happening on regular basis, that enough is enough. Something just has to be done. We learn about all of this is things in classes, theory based process. We talk about as though it is something in the past, but we have seen, it is still happening. It is a very present thing. So i think an application in the real world is so important. A vigil at Bryn Mawr College wrapped up the evening event. And the nba biggest star makes a statement before last nights cavaliersnet game at the Barclay Center in brooklyn. Labron james and Kevin Garnett were among several players who wore tshirts with the words i cant breathe during pregame warm ups. Just outside of the arlene, a protesters rallied there, they held a diein, as well. Security tight, the socalled torture report. Outlines cia interrogation methods after 9 11. Republicans had been fighting the release saying the contents could trigger threats. Cbs news has learned the Senate Report found the cia routinely went wrong league at limit. Techniques like water boarding, were note tech tiff in getting information t also reportedly fawn that the cia systematically lied about the effectiveness of this program. Well, coming up next live with update on breaking news, firefighter killed in the line of duty this morning. Also, a woman dice tryingng to protect her Young Children after a plane crashes into their home and burst into flames. Now, were learning, she has ties to our area. And, if you drink a bottle of water or eat anything out african like tuna or soup, youre putting your health at risk. New concerns coming up in the knelt watch. Our justin is out there in the mobile weather lab checking out the road conditions, you see the windshield wipe earth, theyve been working since 4 00 a. M. Working over time, no doubt. It is coming down. Checking in with him, getting updated forecast from katie, thats coming up. Well be right back. Deciding between buying food and health care is something else. Healthy pa is now here to help, with namebrand Health Insurance that costs as little as a few basic groceries. If youre uninsured, call or apply online today. A philadelphia firefighter can killed while battling row home fire in west owe lake. Reporter joining us from Einstein Medical Center, waiting for mayor nutter to arrive, as women. Jim, what more can you tell us . Ukee, the Fire Department got the call for this fire, a little before 3 00 a. M. It was on middleton street, west oaklane, near rodney street. They setwall challenging, started in the balesment. Home being and spreaded to the first and second floors. Now, we got word a fire fight her been injured, and taken to einstein medical sent, but it wasnt until about an hour later that officials confirm that firefighter had died. However, theyre not releasing any details of how the firefighter was killed, and also, this time, ukee, we do not have the firefighters identity as we yet how long it will be until we get this update. Im sure probably speaking to the family and many other. Jim, we will get back to you. If you have any more information, please get back to us. Thank you. Absolutely. 6 12, right now, woman killed along with two of her children after a private jet crashed into their maryland home has ties to our area. Thirtysix year old marie is originally from brick township, new jersey, police say they found marie shielding her three year old and one month old inside the burning home. Three people on board that jet also died. An eyewitness described what she heard. Big explosion so like boom. By then the flames were so high, then big mushroom effect of smoke. It just bus into flames. Maries daughter and husband were not home at the time of the crash. The ntsb has recovered the flight recorders, and investigators are now analyzing that data. Coming up on 6 13, we want to get our traffic and weather together. This storm, katie, man, came on early and keeps ongoing. It continues, certainly. Yes, heaviest of the rain has continued to fall generally through most of new jersey, here, where you can see some of the brightest shades on storm scan, indicating just doppler 101. Radar intensity is higher, where you have the brightest colors, also mixing taking place very marginal temperatures all across basically lancaster, berks, Lehigh Valley region then point northwest here. So you are going to find changeable conditions, if thats where your travels are taking you, if you are going west on the pa turnpike, watch for maybe slick spots, although road crews are excellent at making insurance things are as safe as possible. Really just need to you slow down. Seeing too much mixing with the rain right now. So the salt, if there is any out, there may not really have much of an effect right now. Mix over to rain, what we anticipate, though, once the sun comes up, temperatures will have a chance to climb little bit here through northwest most Chester County and all the way basically white shaded area up to the Lehigh Valleyment then talking few inches of snow out of the storm system, up through the pocono region, where you have got winter storm warnings in effect, Winter Weather advisories, basically the whole sliver of yellow. A look at the area wind gusts were specking, strongest understandably down near the shore point, could peak as high as 50mile per hour with the gusts, absolutely potential for us to see coastal flooding, coastal flood warnings up and down every jersey shore point. Meanwhile, we expect it see these temperatures stay pretty marginal, with 40 degrees here, as we look forward into tomorrow and thursday, as well. And, along with that, some additional snow showers to track with that, too. Meanwhile, we want to send things back out to meteorologist, justin drabek, battling the elements out there for us in the weather lab this morning. Right now hes in Lehigh County watch are you finding, justin . Good mornings katie a lot of rain this morning, thats what were dealing w varying with heavy rain, picking up again here, we are in South Whitehall township right now outside of allentown, tillman street, headed west. If youre familiar with the area, by the allentown wegmans, see still the rain continues to fall here. Now the temperatures right at 32 degrees, so again, there could be some slick spots, untreated surfaces, some of the sidewalks, driver whales. So just keep that in mind. Looks like road crews did put something down on the roads. Some sort of salt treatment. Little bit little traction we can see. Certainly thats good intoed, we break it down for you. Heres what to expect this morning or today. Heavy rain, mainly during the morning hours, and flood watch in effect one to 3 inches every rain possible. Ponding on the roads, already seeing that, for sure. So, i need to slow it down, wind obviously gusty, 30 to 40 Miles Per Hour, just nasty winds driven rain, tough to be outside in this, temperatures eventually slowly climbing up through the threes, but, youll be battling some rough conditions on your morning commute. You can see the rain continues to fall here, in South Whitehall township Lehigh County. We continue to do so this morning. Thats the latest here. Up in Lehigh County from the cbs3 mobile weather lab, we send it back over to the studio with jess with a check on the traffic. Good morning, justin, certainly going to be uphill battle. So far for the commute this morning, things starting to pack in, little bit of a punch kind of all across the board, starting to see volume. Definitely a loft weatherrelated incident all across the board, over on the vine street expressway, see some shiny roadways here, as they head westbound toward the schuylkill expressway, everybody casino of starting to slowly gather together here. Over on 202, at 29, you can see actually disable vehicle over in the righthand lane there. Which is the southbound lanes, northbound moving just fine. But we can see some ponding. Possibly some reduced visibility due to the storm. Now, travel times, 95 southbound, pretty slow, starting to accumulate little bit of volume there, pretty early for this time of morning. From woodhaven road into the vine street expressway. That will take but 19 minutes. Now, currently no problems on the schuylkill expressway eastbound. That doesnt mean we dont want you to leave just little bit early from the blue route into the vine about 15 minute, but give yourself little extra time. Stay there. Eyewitness news will be right back. 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Looking right now at the vine street expressway, in center city, just damp roads out there. Katie updating the forecast when we do traffic and weather r together on the 3s, thats coming up in just a couple every minutes. Ukee . In sports, flyers wrap up their five game western swing, with a game tonight against the blue jackets in columbus. Now, the blue jack vets won three straight. Former flyer, scotty hartnel, and goalie, surge i, are on the blue jacket. Philly, dick allen corks get another shot at the Baseball Hall of fame in three years. Allen fell one vote short of cooperstown yesterday. Voting for players from the socalled golden era, between 1947 and 1972. Allen was National League rookie of the year in 64 with the phillies and American League mvp in 72, with the white sox. Profootball last night. Aaron rogers and the greenbay packers build up big league, had to hang onto beat the falcons 43 to 37 at lambeau. Rogers through three touchdowns, lazy caught touch done pass, ran for another. The packers now ten and four. Hey, quick reminder wing bowl coming up next month. Sport radio 94wips wing bowl number 23, is set for friday, january 30th at the wells fargo center. Tickets go on sale at 9 00 this morning. And you can get more details at cbsphilly. Com. That baby gets bigger and bigger every year. Oh, and the wing eating, just every year, breaking records. Gets crazier and crazier, indeed. 6 21, in our health news, coming up, new chemical concern about the effect on your health after you drink, say, bottle of water or eat something out african. And the royals sit court side at first ever nba game. The duke and duchess won over the crowd on the big screen and even met the royal couple of rhythm and blues. Well be right back. 6 00, if the latest on the storm with katie. The storm continues to pummel our region right now, erika. Actually dry slot of air nudged in. Most of delaware, in fact, the most start for the whole part, had lull in precipitation, even extended into Delaware County and few other choice counties. But if youre getting hit, youre getting hit hard, especially through new jersey, as you can see, the brunt of this noreaster making its way north, as we go through the morning here. There are numerous coastal flood advisories, as well as coastal flood warnings posted up and down the delaware and jersey shore points. The worst in terms of flooding, though, definitely going to go to new jersey, thats where you continue to see the heaviest of the rain, will continue to p. M. They will area here for at least few more hours looks like. By tomorrow and thursday, still tracking residual rain and or snow showers, but the brunt of the storm, actually, happening as we speak. Jess, over to you. Thank you, katie. Good morning, everybody, 6 24. We go outside where we can see things starting to pick up just a little bit on the blue route, around midcounty. The northbound lanes moving great. Still slow down, give yourself extra time specially headed southbound. Over the on the schuylkill expressway, zoomed in, at south street. So headed eastbound an accident with Police Activity on the scene, little delays squeezed offer to the left. Lehigh vale, getting report of isis and extreme slippery conditions there. We want you to use caution on the northeast extension, 78, and route 22. Out in new jersey, some road flooding on the black horse pike at cologne avenue. Ukee, erika, over to you. Thank you, still, no sign of Shane Montgomery almost two weeks since his disappearance. The reward for information is now 50,000. The West Chester University student vanished thanksgiving morning, after leaving kill dares bar in manayunk. Authority have checked Surveillance Video and fanned out their search. Family and friends are handing out flyers, still no solid leads. The Central Bucks School district is investigating whether a High School Counselor made a post relate to go sundays diein outside the linc. The post was on mary kates page saying quote if my chilled cannot get to the eagles game due to protesters ill personally shoot everyone of them. Youve been warned idiots. A counselor at Central Bucks High School west now on paid leave. She said Something Like that is really surprising. Shes done so much for this school, she helped me so much, she helps everyone with colleges, College Essays and stuff. In a statement, the schools district superintendent says quote we immediately ghana investigation colliding verification of the position, well take appropriate action once we learn all of the facts. In the health watch this morning, something you might fine inside cans and bottles could be raising your blood pressure. Doctors warn parent about the Health Risks Associated with bpa. Manufacturers have used the chemical to line plastic bottles ands cans since the 19 60s. Researchers say bpa can increase blood pressure, raising the risk of heart disease. Coming up this morning, the latest on the breaking news, philadelphia firefighter killed on the job. We also have our eye on the storm. Jan . Reporter we continue to get hammered hard with heavy rain and winds here in Atlantic City. Coming up well show you the roads and the surf ass this noreaster barrels up the coast. And jan, as you know, there are flood warnings in effect, some people might even see some sleet or even snow. Katie has your forecast, jessica checking the roads, we traffic and weather together. We do it at the bottom of the firefighter dice what the bat running a fire here on middleton street. It spread to the first and second floor. That fire was under control in about an hour. Again, a rowhouse fire in west oaklane has killed a philadelphia firefighter. We do have a crew at Einstein Medical Center where mayor nutter has just arrived were told. Stay with us for the very latests this morning continues. Also, just nasty noreaster has arrived. And it is planning to stay for awhile, too. Really just heavy rain blanketing the regionment some people might even see sleet or snow, so you want to be careful on those roads today. Storm scan3, shows the size and intensity of the storm. And we have crews all across the region, depending on where you are, umbrella is either a really good idea or horrible idea, because it will flip inside out. Right, katy . Great way of putting, too. Everybody getting something out of this. Such locationbased forecast for everybody. So true. So many things to get to here. We want to get you right outside. Lets show you the view. Same view storm scan3, in fact, where the heaviest of the rain, notice, actually falling over new jersey. There is a little dry slot that nudged in here, so most of delaware has actually sort of dodged the proverbial bullet here for couple of hours, and now that includes salem county, Delaware County, most of Chester County, so if you have seen that little lull take effect here, you basically have seen the worse of what this storm has to offer up. Now, far from done with it. We zoom in around couple of spots here, you know, what you will find, especially up through the Lehigh Valley, report so far this morning, the mixing, the classic mixing takes place, macungie, for example, youve got the more remote suburbs where it can get colder. As a result, Winter Weather advisories posted now, through this morning, they expire little later as go further northwest, for maybe some mixing of icy precipitation. Down the shore, it is all about the coastal flood that were worried about here with the heavy rain that continues to fall, in rehoboth, then point north, general high tide time comes in i would say give the window between 9 00 and will the 30 give or take a couple of minutes, then see the tidal flooding take place here. Ending up to 3 inches plus of rainfall. Gusts could peak as high as 45 Miles Per Hour at the coast, not even to up 50 in few choice spots. We said tidal flood ago concern, and then it is just snow that were worried about going up to the poconos, and everything inbetween, through philadelphia, and the immediate vicinity. In philly, this is sort of the projected temperature profile. Not too Much Movement on the thermometer obviously, but will generally stay warm enough in the city, that it is just rain and wind out of this storm. But we also cant minimize that message, rain and win out of this storm, going to lead you to some very slow travel. And it may get little slicker headed out of the city to the north and wigs for sure. Jess, over to you. We cant stress it enough. We just want you to leave little bit earlier today. Give yourself some extra time. I go out, show you what youre dealing w we show you first, cameras on 95, as katie mentioned, we know windy conditions out, there see the camera shaking just little bit. Some raindrops, and water accumulating on our camera lens, and you can see the roadways are shiny here, as well. You can see some ponding, as everyone kind of driving through, see bursts of rain really popping up out behind the vehicles as they drive on by. So 95, allegheny, not really too much in the way of volume yet. You can see it starting to accumulate here in the southbound lanes headed toward center city northbound lanes moving just fine. Now over on the schuylkill expressway, early for this here, headed westbound, at city avenue, toward the king every prussia area really starting to pack in producing significant punch already setback little bit more than normal, for your among column youth this morning. Now, out in the Lehigh Valley, report of icy and slippery conditions. So just be careful. Northeast extension, 78, and route 22, erika, ukee, back over to you. Thank you, this powerful noreaster expected to bring the trifecta of winds, rain down the shore. Jan carabeo braving it for us in Atlantic City with the conditions there. Jan, goods morning. Reporter erika, ukee, good motorcycle, not trifecta i want to fine myself in the middle of, here we are at the Atlantic City shore line here, right on the board walk, you can see, it is a rain soak boardwalk, this morning. And it just keeps oncoming, this noreaster really hitting us hard here along the jersey shore. If you take a look at the lights, you can see, that the rain is kind of just swirling, because the winds is so rough out here this morning. We can see gusts to up 45 Miles Per Hour, gusts up to 50 Miles Per Hour, as katie has been saying all morning long, and i do have one friend here on the board walk with me this morning, take a look, one seagull trying to find shelter. Just as i am. Right along the wall here, trying to get under that overhang, and out of the rain. Ever so slightly there he goes. So, it is very quiet out here, this morning, guys, ive seen literally two other people beside workers, and they quickly declined interviews. I wonder why. And returned into the casino to get out of the rain. Take a look at the video, you can again see how rough the win s the flags, whipping in the wind, as we made our way down the Atlantic City expressway, ponding on the road all over the place, only going to get worse as the rain continues to fall. So you want to make sure to just take it very easy on the road this morning, of course, get all of your rain gear out. If you are coming down the shore, i wouldnt really suggest the umbrella. I think it would just flip it inside outment back out here live this morning, we have much more from the shore line we have taken look at the surf this morning, it was hi, it was really beating the beach. Of course we might see some errosion here, some people here expecting tidal flooding when high tide hits around 9 00 in the morning. Live in Atlantic City, january car bathroom owe. I said it earlier, i still stand by it, jan, and your photographer, got the golds star this morning, thank you, jan. You can get updated forecast any time with the cbs philly weather app. Check live radar, Severe Weather alert, chair your storm pictures with us, download the app by going to google play and itunes. Right now, 6 36. 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If you have got multiple retirement accounts, you dont have to take a distribution out of each one, you can take one kiss distribution from any of your retirement accounts, based on your age, the total value of the accounts. For more yearend requirement strategies go to jill on money. Com. Im finding and saving you money for the holidays season. And on our birthday, too. Hey birthday, young lady, happy birthday. And many, many more. Thanks, jill. Take care. Well take a short break. Youre watching Eyewitness News on cbs3. All morning long were tracking this noreaster. A live look at the ben franklin bridge, katie is updating the forecast, we do traffic and weather together coming up on the threes. Britains future king and queen royals of a different sort, you might say, in new york city last night. Prince william and his wife kate capped a whirlwind kay with a night out. Don champion more now from new york. The duke and duchess of cambridge held court, court side, monday nights Brooklyn Nets and Cleveland Cavaliers game. The royal couple was on hands to celebrate their new partnership with the nba to highlight wildlife conservation. Fans couldnt be more excited. We just lover the whole family, theyre great kids. Wearing tiaras, been royal watchers since they were children. And we just wanted to see them in person. It is sort of like a onceinalifetime. Music royalty also turns out to meet british royalty, beyonce, and jayz, mingled with will and kate. And so did basketball royalty, labron james presented the couples with jerseys. Bridges the royals here to lower manhattan, will visit the memorial and museum. Sixtyseven british citizens among those killed on 9 11, this evening the royals attend black tie fundraiser for their alma moth err the university of saint andrew. They just ooze nice ness, both of them. Where ever they go, adoring fans are sure to follow. Don champion, cbs3, Eyewitness News. Katie will get to you in just a moment. Right now once again our braking news, firefighter has been killed in the line every duty this morning. We understand that mayor nutter is just arrived on the scene at the hospital. Once again that firefighter passed we understand this morning overnight battling a fire in west oaklane. We do have our jill from k were. Yw on that scene. Lets see if we can listen in. We suffered a tragic lost here this morning. We have limited information. I can confirm that we have suffered the loss of a female philadelphia firefighter. We have not yet been able to notify nearby next of kin so im not going to make specific identification. Im going to ask to the extent that you can from the media stands point your sensitivity, and understanding, that we are still trying to notify next of kin. There was a house fire this morning, officers responded, very quickly, mr. Saw err will walk you through the nature of the fire some of those details again this is still obviously under investigation, just some details that we dont have, or information that is complete. Were not going to speculate, but our thoughts and prays go out to family of this firefighter, who made the ultimate sacrifice fighting a fire to all of our philadelphia firefighters, their family, our family, has suffered a lost, to the citizens of the city please know that this firefighter was doing her job to the best of her around, but died in this fire. With that, ill ask fire commissioner soar to give you little more details of this particular blaze. Commissioner . Im going to say two families suffered this morning, the firefighter family, and the person that lost their life, their families. So two families suffering a lost. I want you to make sure you remember that, two families. We received a call this morning, approximately 2 49, for a dwelling fire initially dispatched, two engines, two ladders, two chiefs, upon arrival, they didnt have anything showing, so they investigated the cause of the alarm, they find out that they had a basement fire. Upon arrival of the first, battalion two, he upgraded the assignment to full assignment, additional two engines, and two ladders. During the process of fighting this fire, based on the fires, very challenging because by nature because of their location, they encounter sole challenge during the fire fight. So the first chief withdrew the company, and in order to reassess the nature of the conditions, and put another company. During the process, we lost one of our firefighters, the firefighter was transported to the hospital. Upon arrival to the hospital, the hospital did information their power, information their power, to resuscitate this individual. The first Fire Fighters to die, so two families that suffered a great lost, two families. If i can. In you can go into more detail about some of the problems that your firefighters First Encounter they got whenever you have basement fire, challenging, because youre running down into a chimney effect. Because of heavy heat and smoke conditions, decided to switch tactics, have the Second Company come in from the rear, which is proper technique and procedure. And the process of those members withdrawing from the basement, one of our members became trapped. Firefighter one of the first three who went into the base . Correct. Correct. Im sorry, a chimney . No, what i said, what happens in a basement fire, you have chimney effect. So the fire in the basement, a chimney effect. So if the fire is in the basement, youre running down into the basement to put the fire out, heat and smoke is coming up those steps. So youre running down into a chimney for the most part. Thats going to make the conditions challenging, as opposed to regular fire when you just run in, then you can event up from top down. How many years has she been part of the department . Eleven years, 11 years. She just recently assigned to engine 64 in the past two years. I know you cant reveal cher name, she 36 years old . I dont know the age. Were still get that information. Were not releasing any are any details until we have a chance to contact the family. You talked about the two families mourning, yours and then hers. Can you tell us a little bit about her personal family . Who she left behind . Not at this time because we havent contacted anyone. Once we have that information we will re reese release it at later date. Is she a philadelphia nature sniff. As far as i know she is a philadelphia native, 11 years in the Fire Department. Always worked at pretty busy companies. Very, very, very good firefighter. Can you release a little bit more of her work ethnic. Strong work ethic, provided herself working at the engine companies. When she first came into the department she was assigned athen gin nine, and because she wanted to learn her craft, she was transferred to engine 45, which is 26 and york, which is one of the busiest companies in the city. She worked therefore number of years. And later on got transferred to engine 64. Can you speak a little bit about how this affects the employees . Well, affect me personally because one of my goals and visions when i became the fire commissioner is that we would never lose a member on my watch. My ultimate, zero fatalities in the sit. You have to understanded, when i talk about fire is everyones fight, that you not only are saving the citizens, were saving our own members, too. We reduce fires in the city. Would reduce the losing firefighter in the line every duty. It is not just we want to keep the citizens safe, we want to keep our members safe, also. Any other questions . Understanding the sensitivity of this question, nature of injuries, continue to to say anything about that . Not at this time. Chief, i may have missed this, fire fight here perish today the mayor and fire commissioner confirming tragic news for this morning, female firefighter killed in the line every duty, the first female firefighter in the city of philadelphia to be killed in the line of duty, a 11 year veteran. This happened overnight we understand in west oaklane on the 1600 block every middleton street. We understand that this firefighter was with engine 64, we are learning more about her this morning, we will stay with us, bring you more as we get it. We want to stay on top of this storm. The latest flu kate. Good morning. Good morning, erika. We start things off with quick check on the eyewitness weather watcher network. Slew of observations, saying Different Things with rain, with some sleet, with some snow, with a lot of winds. We take you out to one every them. Example, dave sent in 38 degrees, just over the last couple of minute really. Out in reading, and hes got just straight up rain right now. With temperatures that are very marginal, going next to storm scan three what you will find is that you have got a loft mixing going on, also, notice, one dry spot has set up here, so most of delaware has actually seen the worse of the heavy rain, winds down, even up into chester and delaware counties here, as well. So, really, solo case specific. Where you are, may be in complete did i different forecast for youment weather advisories in effect today, at least this morning, for berks, lehigh counties, see mixing changing over to rain. Any Winter Weather advisories down toward Mercer County back to chester those actually going to expire little sooner. But you too, could still see marginal temperatures that lead to some frozen precipitation. Flood watches then posted for the rays, elevated counties we see here with very strong wind gusts throughout the day. Heaviest rain is really though going to be confined up and down the new jersey shore line. Down through delaware, may still be coastal flooding takes place there with the wind gust that could still peak as high as 45 plus Miles Per Hourment today the worse, but because this storm system is slow, slow to retrieve good morning, everybody, 6 53, and a a lot of slippery conditions, incident popping up all over the place. We start thing off here on the schuylkill expressway, where there has been accident here for quite some time. You can see taking out the right hand shoulder Police Activity on the scene. So the schuylkill at south street each lanes where you see these problems here and even some delays on the westbound lanes well be right back. First a look at whats coming up tonight here on cbs3. Good morning. Seeing heaviest rain, and the wind shove the waves on shore right now. Quickly show you live lock in the Neighborhood Network if we k and what you find there, is that the waves are really starting to get very, look at this, you can tell theyre starting to come up close to the for ground of the camera lens. One final check on storm scan3 for you. It is mainly rain. But you have obviously got mixing going on here in the north most counties. So some slick travel definately very good possibility, just slow it down. Thanks, katiement next on cbs this morning, president obama he is interview with steven coal bear. To continue following your local traffic weather and sport were keeping it live, keeping it local on the cw philly. Good morning, family. Hope to see you in a bit. Its holiday time, as our ocean spray cranberries. You can decorate with them, bake with them, even make holiday drinks like our cranberry punch we call the festive sparkler. Mm festive. 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