Go sleet and after 8 00 oclock we will change to rain from south east to northwest. Coming up we will talk about the snow accumulation that will vary de pending on where you live and i will have that when i join you inside. For many the cold is, more than an inconvenience up but can get in the way of the bottom line for businesses and Vital Services people tea pend on every day. Eye witt the necessary News Reporter Todd Quinones continues our cold weather coverage new live present south street todd. Reporter certainly jessica, it is a challenge to be outside during this cold weather for any length or period of time and that is having an impact on people across our region. They keep churning out meal after meal at manna despite bitter cold their 750 clients who are suffering life threatening illnesses need mannas delivery of medically approved food. We know how much our clients depend on us for food. Reporter people delivering also look at their clients in this weather. A a lot of friend, drivers will call back here and say mrs. Smith or, you may want to reach out to the case manager. Reporter fewer meals are being served here at south street, grill the the restaurant on south street tea pend on foot traffic and these sub freezing temperatures tend to make people shy away from taking a stroll down the famous street. My business is 50 percent off. Everybody has to be hurting with this weather. Reporter roofer jay hogan employs 11 people but only half are working to day when temperatures dipped below 40, it is too cold to do big jobs like installing a new roof small safer maintenance jobs and emergency repairs keeps the business moving. Winter always presents a challenge with the cold and the wind. 15 miles and below an hour we can work, but anything above that you start seeing ladder move back and forth and it is not a good situation. Reporter now certainly with snow in the forecast for tomorrow, as kathy had mentioned there, this challenge weatherwise will continue for area businesses at least for one more day. Reporting live on south street, Todd Quinones for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Todd, thank you. Stay one step ahead of the cold and the snow this weekend by down loading the c bs philly weather april. Check live radar, get weather alerts and more. It is available for freon itunes and google play. Tonight Philadelphia Police say that an arrest is imminent in the stabbing death of a member of singer nicki minajs touring group. Devon picket was killed outside a bar in east mt. Airy wednesday morning. A second member of minajs group was critically wounded. Investigators say they are questioning a person of interest in connection with that attack. They are looking for two other persons of interests that they have identified. Well, tonight a search is on for two suspects who gunned down a limo driver in olney. We have learned that he was shot seven times by amen who then fled the scene. Eyewitness News Reporter Steve Paterson has the very latest on the investigation. Candor taxi Service Manager jose sanchez says he has one question foreman who murder erd his coworker and friend. To do Something Like that to a person. Reporter police say at 9 00 thursday night 44 yearold Car Service Driver jorge Maurice Morales was stop at tabor and mash inner olney when he was approached by two men on foot. We had some type of an altercation with two unidentified males, one pulled out a gun fired several times in the vehicle. Reporter Police Say Six to seven shots were fired into the the car, a single will bullet struck a major artery in his leg, bled to death at the scene. The the unidentified males took off on foot. Robbery is not a motive. He had money and valuables inside, nothing was touch, we dont know what this is all about but it is not robbery. Reporter after that driver was shot police say his car continued on until it strikes this tell even if pole and you can see wreckage that is left over after the the crash. Police do say there is a significant amount have of Surveillance Video in the area, they will be sorting through that as part of their investigation. Sanchez says that thinks the third candor Service Driver to be shot and kill in the last five years. Police say that previous incidents were clear cut robberies, he was offduty. In olney, Steve Paterson for cbs3 Eyewitness News. G ps device helped Philadelphia Police catch a suspect bank robber right outside franklin institute. Only Eyewitness News was there as, Kenyatta Matthews was taken into custody today. He was captured just minutes after, police say he robbed the Susquehanna Bank on Rittenhouse Square. The suspect did not know that the bank had slipped the gps device in the money bag allowing officers to track him down. They are ordering him to get out he did reach for his jacket at one point but he relented and put his hand backup again. Only reason he is not injured right now is due to the restraint of the officer ape Philadelphia Police department. Reporter the fbi is on the case. They want to know if matthews is link to any other Additional Bank robberies. Tonight our healthwatch investigation is uncovering new information on that deadly super bug infection that killed people in l. A. And here in philadelphia. The location of the local out break is still not being released but we have been able to rule out some local hospitals. Health reporter Stephanie Stahl has our new information. Reporter Philadelphia Health department now says that laws prevent it from disclosing the name of the hospital that had a super bug out break last year that infect eight people, two died. It is the same cre infection that is being investigated at ucla. The problem business a specialized end owe scope used mainly honor around the pancreas. A moveable mechanism is difficult to effectively clean between patients. Were very sorry about some of the anxiety and concern that this situation has posed for our patients. Reporter l. A. Happies in the the information front of the investigation, but in philadelphia, there is continuing silence. In pennsylvania, it is up to hospitals whether they disclose cre infections that is another reason that the Health Department says it is not naming names. It doesnt want to discourage reporting of future cases even though that reporting isnt made public. Patients like alycia cole say that is in the right she was infect with the super bug in an unrelated case. I learn after the fact that my hospital had been cited by the the Health Department, for infection controlled deficiencies. There is in way to necessity that. Reporter we reached out to three of the largest philadelphia hospitals penn medicine say they have not had any issue related to the scopes involve with the super bug out break. Statement from jefferson says in part our epidemiological surveillance has looked for linkagees between endoscopes and infections but we have not identified any definitive connection. Safety of patients is our number one priority and we will remain vigilant about infection control. And we heard back from temple late this afternoon they say that they have not had any cre infections link to the endoscopes causing this out break. Remember endoscopes we were talking about that are used for most procedures, the ones used for most procedures including colonoscopies are not involve with this super bug out break. This is a very limited number of people who would be affect by this. Very specific, yes. Keep that in mind. Yes. Steph, thanks. New at 6 00 oclock tonight some College Students get caught redhanded ordering fake ids on the main line and it the is all thanks to the name mix up. Radnor police say that a unidentified college received a package that was mistakenly deliver to him. The the package was supposed to go to a person named dean. Una aware, the dean opened up the package and found inside, an empty picture frame from china. It was odd that somebody would take time to send him an empty picture frame from china however, he discovered on the bag there were eight fraudulent ids attach. One of them held the name of the students first name, dean. How about that. Police are not saying what school the students attended or their or they are not identifying them apparently they didnt break any laws because they never received those ids. Excitement over pope francis and his upcoming visit to philadelphia has energized a big fun raising efforts. Organizers of the world meeting of the families say they are now 23rd of the way to their 45 milliondollar fun raising goal pope francis is expect to take part in the meeting in philadelphia and celebrate mass on the parkway in september. Thousands of College Students are going to be staying up all night for a good cause. They love it. Eyewitness News Reporter matt rivers is live in State College, matt . 2015 has begun, thon, dancings has begun and i wont stop until sunday night. We are live in State College and we will have details about penn states biggest annual fundraiser. Plus too cool for water ice, in the for these guys why they were lining up on one of the coldest days of winter, kathy . Nothing like a little water ice. Weatherwise were talking about clear skies tonight the but a storm moving our way with accumulating snow, we will talk about how much snow you should expect coming up, hi beasley. Pitchers and catchers continue their work in clear what thes head of tuesdays full squad gathering, we have a report from leslie van arsdal from bright house field. Sam hinge a dressed the media today after trading mcw, the the face of the franchise sports in a few minutes. Homecoming . Its awesome. But with the Citizens Bank education refinance loan it gets even better. You know those people who pay a little extra and get all the legroom in coach . That could be you, if you refinance your Student Loans. I can refinance, even with 4 loans from undergrad . Yes, you could replace your current Student Loans with one new loan at a lower rate and save money on interest. Sounds easy it is easy just call Citizens Bank at 18669990254 or visit lightenyourloan. Com. Our customers who refinance save an average of 145 a month more than 1,700 a year so treat yourself to something from that inflight magazine but why stop there . 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It is in the on the floor because it ties loud to hear ourselves think but we are in one of the support tunnels here. You can see the the the commotion. There are thousands of people getting ready to start this two day event a penn state tradition. We have video to show you. We took on the floor before the the event officially got started not long ago. Preparation for this event have basically been underway since last years thon ended. The entire thing is student run with 15 different committees all working together to put all of the proceed from the entering go to fighting pediatric cancer. The fund raised are nothing short of impressive. Last year alone organizers say they have raised over 13 million. Like any good charity, they hope to raise even more this year. Thousands of hours of work have gone into planning all this but a few students we spoke to said simply put it is all worth it. You know, we are proud of ourselves but we also necessity what were here for. We are doing this for families and kid but that is the truth, things behind this. You just take that one second to look around and you see kid playing, and there is nothing better. It is feeling that it gives you and to know thaw are part of something so much bigger then just yourself. Those sentiments have been echoed by every student we have spoken to here today. Once again this is a two day long event, it will get through to sunday night when they announce their final fund raising goals. Talking to the students here im sure it will be nothing short of spectacular. We are live from State College, matt rivers, cbs3 Eyewitness News. It is for the kid, matt thanks. We will see you later tonight. Hot deal on day on a very cold day. Eyewitness news at Rittenhouse Square where between 9 00 and noon people got free water ice at ritas on spruce street. It was part of the stores grand reopening day. It closed in 2014 due to vandalism. It looks good. It is very cold outside. Yes. There is no bad type of water ice. Taste good. It is sign of things to come, for preparing for summer, spring is around the corner i like that thinking. Spring training just one of those irons. I like that. Flower show coming up is another one of those signs. Lets look at the beautiful even of the day in Center City Philadelphia it is frigid but it has to get better, sooner or later, doesnt it. The let look at storm scan three. We have clear skies but the cloud are rolling in, it is in advance of the storm system. It is going to bring cloud overnight and tomorrow morning and then the snow will be moving in as early as 2 00 oclock in the afternoon. Our eyewitness weather watchers are saying yes, we have the cold, and we are waiting for the snow. Right now we are seeing pretty cold temperatures. It is 11 degrees in eagleville. Lewis reporting no win at this moment. Liking weather watcher crawl. We heard that at 5 00. We will see that more on Eyewitness News, eyewitness weather watchers temperatures and reports at bottom of the screen. So stay tuned for more on that. Tom is reporting a temperature of only 2 degrees in lahaska and will check out southern parts of the viewing area as we head through delaware where the temperature is only 14. Delores says yes, a cold night and we know it will be getting even colder. Eyewitness photo came in this afternoon from klee owe in conshohocken. This is the the frozen schuylkill river. We have seen pictures from the delaware but look at this it just looks like a patch of snow but it is actually ice thank you very much, for that. Future weather shows clouds rolling in tomorrow morning, here is snow at the night at Lehigh Valley. By through philadelphia and it will continue to snow heavy at times throughout the afternoon. By 6 00 we will see pink inching in, that is warmer air riding up and over that colder air. That is sleet in between about six and 9 00 the sleet moves through, our suburbs to the north and west, allentown staying snow and sleet most of the time, and then changing over to rain after 9 00 oclock hour. It all sweeps off shore by sunday morning. Precipitation types snow, poconos Lehigh Valley and red aring. Berks county sleet and snow for rest of us snow changing over to rain but it will be a progression from the south and north and west. The lets talk about how much snow. Our new computer models are in, american model gf. Is is higher nam model lower. We are talking about two to 4 inches expected in philadelphia and right along that i95 corridor with the higher accumulation to the north and west. Of course where we see more rain coat to go 2 inches to the the south and to the east. Overnight tonight the we are challenging that record of six, going down to seven overnight, wind diminish during the day tomorrow afternoon snow change to go ice during dinner hour and rain at night and on the seven day forecast temperatures warming up, that is good news for sunday but then bad news is an arctic front moves through again by late sunday and look at monday blustery. Temperatures will be in the 20s, wind chills in the teens, the same old song and dance for february, tuesday is looking better, better still for wednesday but thursday and friday back in the 20s. Back into it good we will to have break free eventually. Eventually. Eventually. The kathy, thank you. And were stilling having a busy friday commute, we will head outside first and start off on the the blue route approaching the skew you kill expressway. These are southbound lanes. You can see Police Activity on the scene of the accident taking out part of the righthand shoulder and lane and traffic at a complete stan still behind it as everyone is trying to squeeze on by and one lane, gathering by that incident scene. So quite a problem, so far. Outside on i95 right around betsy ross bridge this is mostly volume heading southbound or northbound you can see disable vehicle in the right hand shoulder as well but that is in the causing problems of the volume as it is right now. Over on the roosevelt boulevard, northbound there is an accident at wissohickon avenue right over on the righthand shoulder. In West Philadelphia we are asking to you use caution because is there a road closure on fifth Second Street closed between locust and spruce due to structural damage from a machine morning building fire, it is also affecting route 52 bus for septa, that is detoured around the area stay there we will be right we thought our cable internet was fast. But, our uploads are half the speed of our downloads so our internet is really halffast. So halffast. Someone did a halffast job posting our vacation pics. When i post my slow jams, im a little half fast totally half fast stop living with half fast internet. Only verizon fios comes with speedmatch uploads as fast as downloads. And the fastest wifi available from any provider. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v sixers continue their brand of Team Building by gathering assets, boldes move was yesterdays trade of Michael Carter williams, the reigns rookie of the year and he was their best player and face of the franchise. Now he is in milwaukee. Sixers banked a high pick in the multi team deal from the lakers. General manager sam hinkie explains. Those picks do not move around very much. It is, almost impossiblely hard to get your hand on a pick that at least has a chance to be a high lottery pick. It is very rare that they move. Because of that that made us that made us consider it and in the end made us decide that it was the right thing to move our program forward. Pitchers and catchers Team Building in clear what thes head of tuesdays full squad gathering, our leslie van arsdal is with the team. Phillies closer Jonathan Papelbon met with the media and well aware of the front office plans to rebill the team but he says he is not sold on it. I still think we can compete, is that crazy for me to think that, i dont think anybody will sit there and just lay down. I played with chase on enough, i played with cliff long enough, played with cole ryan and these leaders, in of us will lay down. Reporter papelbon was involve in trade talks this off season and while he thinks this trade can compete. Would i go anywhere that wants me. If philadelphia still wants me and they want me to be a piece of this puzzle and continue to be a leader in this bull pen, i love my chances of staying here and competing. So what is manager Ryne Sandbergs plan with closer ken giles waiting in the wings. If you talk to kenny giles he mentioned how much papelbon helped him last year and some more seasoning with pap, as we dont know what will happen. I dont think that is all a bad thing. Reporter cole hamels made it clear he is ready to move on. We will hear from him tomorrow. Reporting from clearwater, leslie van arsdal, eyewitness sports. Flyers will get help from an 11 year old kid they signed tony campisi of mechanicsberg pa to a one day contract and he work out with his new teammates today and will ride to tomorrows game with jake voracek a make a wish as he battles cancer. Great job by voracek and the flyers. Emmanuel oucho has a date to the wood Grove High School prom, in parcellsville, virginia. He was approached by hanna delmonty on twitter. Deal was if she got 10,000 retreats, she hit the mark in less than three hours. There is a surprise. We will be right back. This is the name your price tool. 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