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Rain, winds, even some hail. These storms did mean business. We talked about it, there were people shoveling about an inch deep of hail in the poconos, roofs blown off some buildings, north of the sit my the Lehigh Valley. It brought a big change, we feel it already. Back to typical february stuff. We were spoiled by the warm weather, if you liked. That will we have a shot at 70 degrees once again this week before we see another shift in our pattern. But today, kind of typical for the end of february temperatures back down to the 40s. Little cold though this morning. At least compared to what it has been. Thirtyeight at the airport in philadelphia, we have the northwest wind at 16 so win chill values, 29 degrees, wild, talk about windchills for this time of year. Thirtyfive the actual temperature in the Lehigh Valley, 26 mount pocono, thats good news for the ski resorts, start cranking out some snow the next couple of nights, fill up the base again, mid 30s in the suburbs, quakertown, willow grove. We have some gusts up to around 30 Miles Per Hour with the west northwest winds. That will be the trends today, stays on the windy side with gusts to near 30 through the morning into the afternoon. Again the windchills this morning headed out the next few mornings, feels cold, mid 20s, 14 mount pocono, little rough for the morning work out or run if you are headed outside. But at least dry on storm scan3. We do have some clouds over us, snow showers, really across the mountains of central and western pennsylvania, so well see mixture of sun and clouds today. Temperatures seasonable, 48 degrees, mid 30s, 30s in the poconos, run at 07 degrees later this week. Ill let you know coming up in the seven day in a few minutes. Back to you. Meantime this morning, people in Luzerne County are getting a look he after meat of Severe Weather. Possible tornado touched down saturday afternoon. Take a look at this, this is video that appears to show funnel cloud near dupont outside of scranton, right now the red cross sheltering several counties damaged. Eyewitness News Reporter alexandria hoff shows us what people are waking up to this morning. 110 miles northwest of philadelphia, images like this, followed the storm, a car crushed, and a home brought to its base, as result of high winds. Downed trees littered neighborhoods throughout Luzerne County and blocked already swamped roadways. Emergency personnel attempt topped close flooded routes that some drivers pressed on despite dangers. People fly into it, dont realize it, if you dont have good tires, your car will die. Paralyzed by the flood waters. This driver hit such heavy rain and winds on the road that her windshield wiper flew off. Well, here it is. So crazy wetter. For those who lost far more, it was a devastating blow. While residents in luzerne and lackawanna counties are warned of the dangerous possibility, the National Weather service will have to examine the path of this damage to determine if a tornado touched down. Following this storm, the red cross was assisting at least six families in Luzerne County. Reporting from the sat center, alexandria hoff, cbs3, Eyewitness News. We also saw the Severe Weather move through our area. This is video from Eyewitness News photographer, will ken worthy, he shot it in perkioman, Montgomery County yesterday afternoon. You can see the storm brought rain, winds, and lightning with it. That storm moved through philadelphia as well, this is time lapse video from our studios, in spring garden. You can see the moment the sky turns dark and gray and then the rain begins. We didnt see much of the sun after that. And, remember when were not on air, you can track the Severe Weather any time at the palm your hands, just download the free cbs weather app available on itunes and google play. One person in the hospital right now after gunfire erupts at strip club in south philadelphia. The shooting happened at club on innings on south Christopher Columbus boulevard, just before 4 00. Rescuers say one person was shot in the leg. The person was taken to jefferson hospital. No word on that persons condition this morning. The shooting happened after an argument there. New Orleans Police have suspect in custody after a car plowed into a crowd watching a Mardi Gras Parade there. Twentyeight people were hurt watching the parade. In the mid city saturday afternoon, five victims are in guarded condition. Police say it looks like a case of driving while intoxicated. President trump says he will not be attending the white house Correspondence Dinner this year. He made that announcement in a tweet saturday, and wished everyone a great evening on april 29th. The black tie event is an annual tradition for president s, reporters, and washington insiders. Trumps decision follows increasingly tense relations between the white house and the media. Several news outlets have also pulled out of the event to protest President Trumps treatment of the press. Meantime, the Democratic Party has new leader, tom perez, labor secretary un president owe bamm, a was elected chairman of the Democratic National committee at their meeting in atlanta. The new chairmans top task is turning around a party, that suffered devastating loses this pace election. A great american, mr. Tom perez. Members of the Democratic National Committee Picked new National Chairman saturday. Who they hope will turn opposition against President Trump into election victories. It took hundreds of state Party Leaders and activists two rounds of voting to pick tom perez as chair. Perez served as labor secretary under president obama. I know we can win the battles ahead. I know we will win the battles ahead when we put our values forward, when we lead together. President trump had hundred watch Florida Governor rick scott in Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker at the white house, following his speech friday to the conservative Political Action conference. A few days ago i called the fake news, the enemy of the people, and they are. They are the enemy of the people. The white house later blocked several news outlets from attending a off camera press briefing. New York Congress woman, caroline maloney, says the exclusions outraged her. She spoke outside the New York Times building saturday. We find it alarming and that it violates the First Amendment which protects press freedom. The president focused on black History Month in his weekly address, saying hell bring johns back to the africanamerican community. This week i met with manufacturing ceos. Were going to be working to bring back those jobs. And i mean really good paying jobs. The president says hell speak more about the issue when he addresses Congress Tuesday night. Wendy gillette, for cbs3, Eyewitness News. And richmond, virginia now, senator tim kaine rallies to support the current healthcare program. The tasks the number of private jobs in the country have grown between ten and 15 million. So it has been a dramatic period of increase in private sector jobs since it passed. Tim kaine returned to the u. S. Senate after serving as the Vice President ial nominee. In Chicago Group of Healthcare Professionals gathered outside after government building positive express outrage over attempt tops repeal obamacare they stay that happens millions will be without health calf cough rage including hundreds cents of their patients. Philadelphia is among protesters took to the street to protest against trumps plan. Cleve bryan spoke with protestors in center city. Reporter the movement to stop President Trump agenda focused on preserving the Affordable Care act saturday. Hundreds rallied at thomas plane plaza in center city at event organized by the womens march of pennsylvania. We have to keep holding these event and giving people opportunities to have their voices heard. The crowd included doctors and nurses cents. Healthcare providers feel that everyone should just have access to care independent of income level. Reporter for some protecting president obamas Healthcare Plan that mandates everyone has healthcare my brother got held care under the Affordable Care act. Those concerns republicans promise t to repeal and replace would negatively impact the elderly and poor. In 2012 they found a hole in my lung. Denise majors said she didnt have several Health Insurance coverage. I was making too much money to qualify, but because of the expansion i was able to get coverage and get my issues addressed. Included speeches. Trying to apply pleasure to their gop colleagues that control the house and senate. One more demonstration that people know that this means life or death to them. Cleve bryan, cbs3, Eyewitness News. Still to come right here on cbs3 Eyewitness News, up in smoke. One teens iphone becomes too hot to handle. Her reaction and what may have caused t. And parent every long hair kids know styling can sure be tough. How one dads invention is helping to de friz and de tangle. Justin . Good sunday morning, everyone, waking to up temperatures good 20 degrees colder, so it is back to reality today. Wont last though. Another warm up coming this week. Well many of us sleep with our phones charged next to us. Another reason why thats not a good idea. Take a look at this, thats the new iphone seven going up in smoke. This happened on wednesday in tuscon. Brianna had her phone charging on her bed, her boyfriend woke up and decided to unplug it for no good reason, then walked away. Moments later began making a strange buzzing noise. From the corner of the eye he saw the eye phone smoking. I always sleep with my phone right next to me. . Wouldnt have moved that, like this could have been a wheel lot worse. Phone repairs expert say this sometimes happens when phones are sitting on beds or under pillows. So phone cant event air out. Stowe starts it heat up. A. M. Sell now investigating that incident. It is also replacing the phone and the phone case that melted. Too hot to handle, justin, no longer warm in our area, though, unfortunately. No, we hit 70 degrees yesterday, not record, but nice little treat. If you dont like the cold. But back to typical february stuff today. We do have another warm upcoming at us, another run at 70 degreesment little price though, talking about some rain though coming with those warm temperatures. But this morning, big difference, if youre about to step outside. The winds has kick up, out of the west and northwest, behind that strong cold front which brought the severe storms to the region. Looking live at bet him right now from the Hotel Bethlehem main street northampton county, got hit pretty hard, lehigh county, a lot of storm reports with hail, roof damage to a lot of building up into the Lehigh Valley with the strong winds gusting over 60 Miles Per Hour yesterday. But today, whole lot quieter, just have to deal with gusty wind to up 30 Miles Per Hour, so here are the headlines, today, seasonable, temperatures back down into the 40s, maybe upper 40s for the warmest spots, highest temperature 40 degrees. Like i said we warm it up each day this week. Looks like wednesday the warmest day, and by the end of the week we get another drop in temperatures. So Little Something for everybody. Couple of rain chances to talk about for the middle of the week, as well, with the warmer air arriving. Look at the change in the temperatures, outside yesterday at this time, we were well to the 50s, now in the mid 30s, millville, 37 degrees, and the capitol city of delaware, around philadelphia, similar numbers. So breeze this morning, kind of mixing up the air little bit. So we dont have any real cold spots. So everybody kind of hanging out in the low to mid 30s, thats to the north and west. Quakertown 34 degrees, mount pocono checking in at 26 after some spring skiing conditions over the past several days. So back from winter up in the poconos, can start making some snow again. This is what it really feels like, this is key. Outside feels like 20s in some locations, 25 allentown, 28 wilmington, delaware, may need the gloves, and going for the bike ride or just walking the dog outside this morning, big difference. Look at the flow coming in off the wells. Havent seen that in a while, thats some snow showers breaking out in the mountains of western pennsylvania coming off the lakes and upstate new york. Clear skies over eastern new jersey right now, some clouds will move in, the morning into the afternoon with the cold air aloft in the atmosphere, but we will be dry, generally mix every sunday and clouds, High Pressure dominating our weather. So that blocks any big storms from developing in near future. Eventually that high drift off shore. You notice clouds building monday, sign of milder air returning in the upper atmosphere, moves down to the surface, when it arrives we will see the next storm system, as women, couple of showers possible on tuesday. Not big deal. Wont be all day wash out at all. Here comes the next warmfront, pushes through later tuesday into wednesday. Wednesday is the day we can make another run at 70 degrees. So, temps today, we struggle to get back to the mid, i think we hit upper fours in some spots, especially with the westerly winds. So comes down off the mountains, when that happens, air actually heats up little bit more. So the mild usually doesnt pick it up. May have to add couple of degrees. Tonight it does get cold by 8 00 outside feel the difference. Thirtys returning to the region tomorrow. Chilly, i think a lot of suburbs are down by the freezing mark, been a while since we hit that. Then tomorrow look at that, back to the 50s, running almost 10 degrees back above average. So, today, windy, colder, 48 degrees. Tonight, chilly night. Mostly clear. Mid 30s r, for the city, colder in the suburbs. Extended forecast, showers around tuesday, better chance wednesday high near 70. By the end of the week we cool back down again, saturdays high near 40. On this cbs3 health watch now, new product to help tame frizzy hair invented by a frustrated dad. Health reporter Stephanie Stahl explains. Reporter for people with frizzy hair, humidity is the enemy. Every morning we would have to brush it through, and it was pain. Thirteen year old aldan clarks hair used to look a lot different. It was like a rats nest every morning. Every morning was a struggle for aldan, and her single dad, who is a doctor. I would see the humidity go up and the hair would get bigger. I would think as scientist why is this . Whats happening with this . We tried over the counter products to no avail. I looked into the care, straightening treatments, i wasnt comfortable with the formaldehyde in them. He decided to study up on the morphology of hair. He followed up with personal care companies, went to work. They sent me samples to work in in my lab, which was my kitchen, with a kitchen aid mixer. And we started making formulas. Every night we would have to rewash my hair seven times, so we would have to wash it, see what the result was, wash it out, do it again, do it again, do it again. Finally after few months . We had break through. My dad got many phonecalls from my principals and my teachers what did you do to her care . It is called lubricity won him 200,000 grant at pitch contest, now the labs llc puts out 1600 bottles a day, with growing number of online orders, venture that started with a fathers love. Having clients that would stop me on the street, i use your products, i was spending two hours every morning to do my hair, now i spend eight minutes, it is very fulfilling. He said he used recent advances in protein science and polymer chemistry to modify the proteins of damaged hair. And caused it become water repelling. He says that locks in the natural moisture, and locks out the friz. Tim Stephanie Stahl, cbs3, Eyewitness News. Kudos to dad. Well, were saying happy birthday times three in old city this morning, to a very unique set of triplets. Betty wolf, met a passman, joseph hockey all born on february 27th, 1927. Which means, theyll be 90 years old on monday. A party was held for them at the pens view hotel. Joe says their arrival was complete surprise to their parent and there doctor. But he said whats real surprising is that they all, three of them, are celebrating together. We will be celebrating our 100, you know, in just ten more years. So just stick around, well stick around, if you stick around. Now in total the triplets have nine children, 19 grandchildren, 11 great grandchildren, and dozens of cousins. Very happy birthday to all three once again. Still ahead here on cbs3 Eyewitness News awards weekend in hollywood. The movie that won big at the independence spirit awards, one actress recreates a classic character in her acceptance speech. Plus, how the stars are getting ready for oscar night. Im Chris Martinez in hollywood, from the gowns to the jewels. Ill show you what goes into putting together the perfect red carpet look. Coming up. And one nominee wont be there if she does win an award. Why natalie portman, well be. Get the president ial avo treatment. Y. With a special tradein offer. February sixteenth through the twentyeighth. And let enterprise car sales. Flip your thinking about buying your next vehicle. Kind of like this look. Im calling it the name your price tool phase. Whatever. Back now on Eyewitness News, hollywood getting ready for its biggest night, Academy Awards already handed out tonight, last night, though, the stars gathered for the independent spirit awards. And one movie swept the competition. Moonlight moonlight won five awards including best feature, jenkins wounders best director the one of the most memorable speeches came from molly shannon. Promise me one more thing, really truly in this moment feel like a superstar. And you can probably remember that pose comes from shannon in her character marry kate rink gallagher. Won supporting actress award and best actor award, went to casey after electric, and isabell opower. As for the Academy Award tonight two biggest questions today who will win and who are you wearing . Months every planning goes into picking out the right like for the ultimate close up on the red carpet. Chris martinez shows us how the stars are getting ready. It is crunch time. Entertainment tonight nancy odel knows what it takes to pull off a perfect red carpet look. I do think this is the opportunity to wear from david web jewels to the gown design by mark. Things about my figure, i have hymns. Then also the material is different on camera and under the lights. Well make this smaller. Really fit is everything. Has dressed countless celebrities for the Academy Awards, from his Beverly Hills buy teen. Whats the big trend this year . The big trends this year is prints, right now, presents are huge. Definitely starts with the red carpet. And then infiltrate everybodys life. For many celebrities the dress is just part of the equation. Big oscar bling is just as important. Thirty karats total, about 2 million. And when it comes to these precious rocks, kristin with forever mark diamonds, says more is better. Statement necklace also one of the biggest trends that weve seen all red carpet season. And another big trend that were seeing is lots of stacked rings, not just wearing one or two rings, but wearing lots of rings on multiple fingers. All of this is on loan . Yes, exactly, just like cinderella the next morning, they have to give the jewels back. Even the most rare gems cant compare with oscar gold. Chris martinez, for cbs3, Eyewitness News. More jewels the merrier, thats what i always say. One of the big names up for oscar wont be there tonight. Natalie portman will miss the awards ceremony because of her pregnancy. Portman is nominated for best actress, for her portrayal of Jacqueline Kennedy onassis in the film jacky. Her third nomination, won back in 2010 in the movie black swan. Still ahead here on cbs3 Eyewitness News, a look at some of the damage in pennsylvania, caused by severe thunderstorms, and justin has a look ahead at your sunday forecast. A much different story today. The phillies ball girl search is on. Rahel solomon gives it a try. See if she has what it takes coming up. First cherri gregg, live at the convention center. Good morning, cherri gregg. Reporter good morning, jan, yes, hundreds of gymnasts will be flipping for a good cause, in just a couple of hours. Ill tell you why theyll be flipping, and the nonprofit this is cbs3 Eyewitness News this morning. Good morning, everyone, im jan carabeo. Meteorologist, justin drabick, out there on the cbs3 skydeck this morning with eyewitness weather. Justin, what a difference a day makes. Pretty chilly morning, isnt it . It is, i feel bad if you werent able to get out yesterday and enjoy the nice weather. Today different story. Typical for the end every fen. Still not that bad though. This is what were dealing with for the second half of the winter. Not bad. Temperatures in the fours, little chilly with the wind, though, but big drop in the numbers, compared to this time yesterday. Almost 20 degrees colder in philadelphia, 26 in allentown, so you get the picture, back to reality, what were saying compared to the past couple of days with high temperatures well into the 70s, hit 73 yesterday. Not a record though before those storms came in. Those storms meant business, and they really are bringing in the colder air. Thirtyfive the current temperature in the Lehigh Valley, 26 in mount pocono. Upper 30s around philadelphia, suburbs, kind of in the same situation right now, mid 30s, quakertown, willow grove. Really no cold spots just because we have a breeze, which is mixing up the air little bit. Those winds will gust to about 30 Miles Per Hour through the morning, into the afternoon, so thats taken little bit of edge off these temperatures, so it does feel like the 20s on exposed skin, so windchills this morning, generally mid upper 20s, look back to the 30s by the afternoon. But over the past 18 hours, you can see, storms ripped through the region, a lot of damage report, numerous hail reports, roofs blown off, many buildings, especially up into the Lehigh Valley. Now just left with some clouds over us, currently, and then we will see some sunshine this morning, but your temperature breakdown, struggle to get back to the low 40s by late morning, afternoon highs, should make it up into the mid upper 40s at best, for the warmest spot today. Soy we go 48 for philadelphia, 46 at the shore. Upper 30s, in the poconos, good news for those ski resorts, you can crank out the snow if they want the next couple of nights, it will be cold enough. We will make another run at 70 t another chance to see that milder wet they are week, we will talk about when it arrives coming up in the full forecast in just a few more minutes, jan, back to you. Thank you, very good. Clean up underway in Luzerne County, thats after Severe Weather left a trail of destruction yesterday. This is what people near wilkesbarre are dealing with right now. Broken trees are blocking roadways, some roads are impassable, thanks to flood waters. Emergency responders tried to close flooded streets, but some stubborn drivers kept going despite the danger. What we dont realize that if you dont have good, your car will die. The National Weather will be on scene to figure out if it was indeed an actual tornado. Meanwhile the red cross is a significance several families forced from their homes because of the damage. The storms also made an impact to the west, this is look at some of the damage in lancaster county. The area is dealing with broken trees, power lines, a funnel cloud was also spot in the columbia near the susquehanna river, it has not yet been confirmed whether that was actual tornado, wind gusts reportedly reached 60 Miles Per Hour. And in other news this morning, bill cosby is facing a judge again this week. Hell nab Montgomery County courtroom tomorrow morning. Cosbys lawyers are trying to move the trial out of Montgomery County. They are, it will make it difficult for cosby to get a fair trial. Now, judge will decide whether the trial should be moved or if jurors should be brought in from outside the area. Cosby is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at his home back in 2004. Last week a judge decided one other cosby accuser could testify at his trial. Pennsylvania businessman, and philanthropist, al boscov, being remembered at Memorial Service today. The service being held this afternoon in reading. Boscov is credited with building one of the biggest familyowned Department Stores in the us, boscovs. Boscov died at 87 years old back on february 10th. He had revealed that he had pancreatic cancer and there was just no cure, just days before his death. The Memorial Service is at 3 00 at santander performing art center in reading. Well, this morning, hundreds every young gymnasts are taking part in a big competition. But, theyre not doing it just to show off their skills. They will also be fighting breast cancer. Cherri gregg from sister station kyw news radio is at the Pennsylvania Convention center this morning, and thats where the pink invitational begins very soon. Good morning, cherri gregg. Reporter good morning, jan. It is pretty quai net here now but pretty soon there will be a sea of pink leotards and it is all a part of the ninth annual pink invitational. Im here with founder of the pink invitational and also the founder and president , the women behind it all, miss sue wheldon. Good morning. Good morning. Quiet now but it wont be pretty job no, it will not. We have 3300 athlete all weekends, all uniting for our women of philadelphia to help them, you know, get through their side effect and symptoms affected by breast cancer. So we are thrilled to be here again, yes, it will be great event. Im glad you came back, thank you. Yes, weaver some video of what has been going on, because this is three day event. I want people to take a look at whats goes on here. You guys, there are girls from all over the region, all over the country come here . Yes. So we have 11 state that came out this year, 83 gyms, most from pennsylvania, new jersey, maryland, you know, right on the northeastern corridor. But they come every year. You know shall we give them a platform where they can raise funds, and they can unite for the women, everybody has somebody in their life thats affected by breast cancer. So, you know, the coaches, the staff, you know, just so amazing to support us, and my gosh, just rock stars, they run this whole event. And steven louise, just do incredible job year after year. And this for people who dont understand what unite for her does, you guys provide funding, you fill the gaps in areas where the insurance doesnt cover . We do. So, you know, the medical community, we actually fill that gap between the wellness and the medical community. So where our surgeons and doctors are so concentrated on fighting and beat that cancer, we work handinhand to actually restore the woman. And we give them access to acupuncture, yoga, massage therapy, counselling, sexual health, nutrition, so many things that really are a big factor when youre healing. And we dont want our women to have additional side effect with additional prescriptions. So we teach them, yes, we teach them how to incorporate that eastern type of philosophy, but these complimentary therapies that can really heal, like oncology massage. Yoga, all of those things. So today theyll be all of the young women get the opportunity to be philanthropists, because they worked hard to raise money, and i understand this event raises pretty good amount to help you guys . Yes. So we should hit another 500,000, our largest fundraising event t funds ten of our hospitals, partners here in the philadelphia area. So it is crucial. But our girls from all over, they do their cart wheels, bake sales, and so sweet, and at the come in, weaver this above and beyond club team challenge. Really great. We had our number one fundraiser for the fifth year in a row, gymnastics express out in connecticut. They came back, did it again, incredible. It will be wonderful. So just in a couple of hours we will see the girls in p an hour, out in the hall stretching, getting ready, and just after 8 00 or so theyll get started with todays competition. This is the third day, and so i cant wait to see them compete. This place gets packed with spectators, all sorts of things, so every half hour we will be telling you about just revealing little bit more whatever will be going on here, at the pink invitational. Thank you so much, hear more from her because this is just a wonderful, wonder full event for great cause. Live at the Pennsylvania Convention center, cherri gregg, kyw news radio for cbs3 Eyewitness News. What a great effort, cherri gregg, thank you. We will check back in with you. New miss philadelphia is crowned. Miss philadelphia, 2017 is. Twentytwo year old ni a and druse is a student at west chester university. The 96 miss philadelphia pageant was held at drexel universitys mandel theater. Fifteen contestants vie for the crown. They were judged based on talent, evening gowns, on stage questions, and swimwear. Andrews won 4,000 and a spot to compete for miss pennsylvania this june. Big congratulations to her this morning. And still to come here on cbs3 Eyewitness News, it is called gogo grandparent. And it is helping Senior Citizens regain some of their independence without having to learn some of todays tk follow gentlemen. We will show you how it works coming up next. And a big temperature drop today. But the 70s will make a come back this week. Justin tells us when it will feel spring like again, thats in our seven day forecast coming up. 8faz z12fz y28fay y12fy shake up your routine with a completely new way to clean. New Colgate Total advanced health mouthwash. Shake to activate a powerful cleaning action that removes twenty four times more bacteria. Improve the health of your mouth with new Colgate Total advanced health mouthwash. Shake to clean. Many seniors miss out on helpful smart phone apps. 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This . Charged extra 19 cents a minute during the ride for the service. They pay the total cost of the ride through a credit card on file. I would really be house bound, you know, i think without t i couldnt depend on friends and family all the time to get me here and there. A sense every independence regained, thanks to her grandson. Works out really well. It does. Now, gogo grandparent is available anywhere you can use uber or lyft. And all of the Call Center Employees dubbed professional grandchildren were raised by or have lived with a grandparent. They eventually hope to ad other Services Like grocery delivery. Reporting for 3 on your side, im jim donovan. This morning new jersey churr such showing love for it community by hooking people up with free gas. I like that. Well, Spring Church is giving away free gas in toms river, new jersey, this morning. It is all in an effort to show love and kindness to neighbors to give away happening at the Holiday Service center in the 1100 block every route 37 west, it starts at 9 00 this morning. Turning now to the eyewitness weather forecast, justin, what a difference a day makes. Very chilly this morning. Big time drop. The temps anywhere from 20 to 30 degrees depending where you are, and bit of windchill outside. Feels like mid 20s in coldest spots, now we start to think about wintertime conditions again, maybe want to hit the slopes, certainly spring skiing conditions, you can ski . Slotter leaves. Looking live at big boulder, getting ready for decent day today. Clouds over us, should break out to little bit of sunshine this afternoon, but much colder next couple every nights, cold enough to make snow if they want. Thats good news for skiers and riding extend the season again over the next few weeks. Still base pretty much good shape. Up to 40 inches for jack frost big boulder. Hard to believe with all of the warmth. Camelback, still a lot of trails open right now, crank out snow, should be no problems for the next week or so. Because weather for the most part looking pretty good. Rain chances but doesnt look like any big storms right now. Dramatic drop in the temperature, yesterday hit 73 degrees for the afternoon high. Just before those storms came on through. We had enough sunshine out there, wasnt record though, record high 79. Today, we struggle to get back to the mid maybe upper 40s at best. So huge drop in the numbers. Average high this time of year is 47 degrees. Like it warm, wait few more days, tomorrow back to the 50s, above average, by wednesday, approaching that 70. And then by the end of the week, back down possibly even below average by friday into the upcoming weekend. So typical for march. Temperatures will be up and down. Thats probably going to be the pattern for at least the first half of march. I think we will start to see some colder days from time to time. Look at the winds flow, ushering in colder air, mid upper threes for temperatures right now, cold air, up into southern canada, great lakes region, in the 20s at this hour, buffalo and state college. Not supporting snow showers, havent seen that for awhile, with all of the recent warm temperatures, so lake effect snow western pennsylvania, ohio, new york, maybe stray flurries in the poconos into the afternoon. Everybody else mixture every sunday shine and clouds. Here is the set up. High pressure pretty much dominating our region for the rest every today into monday. So dry. Going to see more sunshine for the start every monday, then clouds start to move in for monday afternoon actually warmer air returning, maybe couple every rain showers on tuesday, not a big deal, most of the day does stay dry. Maybe even few peaks every sunday shine, warmfront pushes through later tuesday into wednesday. Wednesday going to be the warmest day, still threat for some showers around, yes, talking zero seven, but does come at a little price may have to dodge some rain at times. Temps today, lower 40s up into the Lehigh Valley by mid afternoon, mid upper fours from the sit on south. And east, we have the westerly breeze, that enables us to heat up little bit across the land, chilly tomorrow morning. Waking to up 30, a maybe even near freeze nag lot of the suburb, but then we return to the 50s tomorrow afternoon maybe upper 50s if we see enough sunshine early in the day. Today your average, 48 degrees, little windy, winds gusting 30 Miles Per Hour, makes it feel little colder at times. Chilly night tonight, mostly clear, 34 for the city. Maybe below freezing in some of the coldest spots. Tomorrow, back up to 58 degrees. Couple shafts tuesday, up to 70 wednesday, some showers, and by the end of the week we get cooler again, mid 40s friday, shower, maybe even snow shower in some spots. And then goes back below average for the next weekend, Little Something for everybody on the seven day. Making everybody happy, thank you, justin. Now 6 47. Time to check the roads. Lets go over to Amanda Mueller at the cbs3 traffic center. Hi, amanda. High, well, roadways looking pretty good but did have one accident on the pa turnpike eastbound, between malvern and valley forge exits, that had lane closure there looks to be all clear now, shouldnt have any problems as well as majors cbs traffic center, Amanda Mueller, back to you. Thank you so much. Still to come, doctor cbs3 Eyewitness News the phillies looking for few new ball girls. We decided to sends out rahel solomon. Well let you know what you can do to apply. And the sixers go for their second straight win. The game came down to the so now im not being perky, telling you that drivers that switch to progressive save an average of 548 whoo i mean, whoo. Many players grew up playing out door hockey. So last night was a trip back to their child hood. This cents the flyers play the penguins, at the stadium series, over 67,000 fans watch the flyers play first out game in their rivalry. No score if the first, pass to sydney crosby, scoring 36 career goal against the flyers, and defending champs take the lead. Second periods the flyers down twonothing, jake bore check, goes, scores, flyers down two to one. Third period, the flyers down two goals. While the power play shane scores, his first goal, since the 25th, three months ago, they trail three to two. Later off the faceoff, pittsburgh will score again. To beat the flyers four to two. Theyre five points out of the final wildcard spot with 21 games left in the season. The dust settles for the sixers after the trade deadline, last night took on the nicks at Madison Square garden where theyve not won in over three years, and to tracey morgan, checking out the action, court side, Fourth Quarter sixers down four, dario, with pass to dj mcconnell, the three is good. Sixers cut the lead to one. Next possession, the nicks responds, carmello anthony, hits the jumper. And the next take threepoint lead. Okay, weaver under 15 seconds left. The sixers, down a point. Jahlil okafor drives into the paint, hit the jumper, the sixers take the lead nine seconds left, 28 points, nicks get the ball, and carmello strikes again. Jumper hits nothing but the bottom of the net with. 3 second left. Sixers lose a heart breaker, 110109 the final. To college hoops, winning the biggies, regular season title nothing new for the villanova wildcat. Cats have now won three in a row, they went to their fourth straight title against creighton. It was senior day on the main line. Dale reynolds, josh hawk, chris jenkins, all honored, never lost consecutive games in their entire career. Second half, cats up by a point, finds jenkins all along in the corner, his three pointer good. Cats take control from there. Later nova up by eight on the fast break. Dante, drivers to the basket, misses the lay up. Josh scored 16. Still in the second half, heart misses the jumper but err sick there, that will make it four straight. Biggies regular season title for villanova after 16point victory. Temple took on tulane at the liacouras center, fans greeted to bonus basketball. Temple up three in over time, tulane with a chance to tie the game. Morgans threepoint is her good. Sends the game into second over time period. And the owls took over. Slamming home two of his 14 points. Temple head onto beat the green wave 86 to 76. St. Joes on the road against st. Louis, hawks went into the contest with seven game losing streak, over minute left, st. Joes hanging onto twopoint lead. Ball goes to mike crawford, he signings the three. And the bills take the lead. Crawford misses the foul shot. But look. James, major brain cramp here, goes into the lay up instead of shooting the three pointer. So this is painful lost for the hawks lose by a point, 61 to 60. Ivy league action, pen at columbia, a both teams fighting, lumbo was the lead. Minute left. Mike anderson with the step back three. To the lions with that, take fivepoint lead. The quakers with a chance to tie the game. His three pointer, no good. So that will snap the five game winning streak, 7067 the final. To Grapefruit League baseball, phillies home open nerve clearwater against the yankees, bottom of the fourth, game all tied up. With the dish. This pitch is headed into the particular i bar, first homer of the spring, with that decided to take the lead to the six we go. Franco at the plate. Hits line drive no center fields. The ball rolls to the wall padding. Yankees, double, but was denied, so franco scores on inside the park homer. And the phillies will win their first game of the spring. Sixfive, they play toronto this afternoon. Thats all for sports, im leslie van arsdale, have a great day. The phillies are warming up for a new season, and theyre now excepting applications for 2017 ball girls. Rahel solomon found out what it takes to make the squad. In just a few short weeks, the stadium seats will be filled with fans. But before the start of the season, the search is onto select the newest members of the phillies ball girls. We are down the line. We are catching all of the foul balls. We are running jacket from the bullpen to the dugouts. And then when were not on the feel helping out with the 5050 raffles, and our awesome red goes green team. So were doing a lot of stuff. It is very time consuming. When we get these home stands, were here, every day, for every single game, and we do so much more than just sit on the side lines. What they do on the field is only about 10 of the job, thats everybody recognizes them for. We at the phillies try to incorporate them more in the community and theyre community ambassadors, so we have them involved in sponsor events to, you know, some of our phillies events we have here and then also outside community appearances like school visits, hospital visits, doing clinics, things like that. About 50 to 60 young women try out each year to make a team of an around 20. So what does it take to secure a spot . Softball obviously is a muscles. We want to make sure not only they can play but understand baseball as well. The way the ball girls on our field, they sit on the foul lines, about a foot off the foul line, so they need to be into the game and understanded whats going on. It is really important that they are athletic, that they understand softball, that they understand baseball, that way they wont interfere with the game. Time for me to suit up to see if i can make the starting line up. Now, normally, they make you join the team before they give you the jersey. But special occasion. Now, i should warn you, i was really good softball player as a child. So you through with your right and catch with your left. If youre righthanded. Okay, all right. Just warming up. Oh. Nice. Well, now im ready. I wasnt ready before. But now it is on. Lean into it. All right. So kind of like golf . Right . Like a little you play golf . No. So maybe we can try hitting a ball instead. Okay, okay, step aside. My turn to step up to the plate. Ready . Eye on the ball. There you go. Oh, ya. Oh, ya. Listen thank you. So, did my skills hit it out of the park . What do you think of my skills . I mean, im pretty good. Pretty good. If you have more practice, i think you could actually get out there and be on the field with us. Make it to the next round, see what happens after that. There is a an on camera video interview, weve we will see how you do on that. For sure, a for effort, rahel. If youre interested in trying out for the team you have until march 1st to send resume along with two minute video. Demonstrating your softball skills. And explaining why you would make a great phillies ball girl. And you must be at least 18 to try out. For more information, check out the phillies website. Well, thats it for Eyewitness News at 6 00. Heres what we have for you at 7 00. These young horses represent a Lasting Legacy in chester county. Their mother died before they were born. The medical procedure being called incredible. And take some of the guilt out of shopping. I like. That will a new trends that turns your purchases into good deeds. And what a change from yesterday. Justin drabick explains why it is a good day to bundle up today. On Eyewitness News on s jimmy dean delights frittatas. A delicious, savory egg breakfast, without all the bread and carbs. 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