5 00, Mother Nature will drop snow and rain on the area on the final weekend of winter. This as folks are still digging out from the ice blocks left behind by the storm earlier this week. Folks will be out and about celebrating st. Patricks day. Its going to feel a lot colder as we get into the evening hours. Good evening im rosemary connors. Im jim rosenfield. How many layers do you need if youre going on . Tammie souza has the answer, shes in the weather center. How late are you going to stay out . That will determine how many layers you need. Through the early evening well be looking at the clouds. Temperatures not too horrible. Were falling from the low 40s and into the 30s. As we take a look at our radar. You can see everything is quiet here in philly. But not the case if you head off just a little bit further to the west. Heres the clipper coming straight out of canada. Its elongated as it moves through the western part of the state. Its got a rain snow mix associated with it. That will be starting at 3 00, 4 00 in the morning. Lingering on and off throughout the weekend, especially for tomorrow night. Lets take a look at maybe what some of these snowfall totals look like . Because thats probably what you care about, especially if youve got any Outdoor Activities with the kids tomorrow or any other plans. If youre up in allentown, you might pick up a couple of inches of snow. And thats because i dont think that youll change over to rain. The rest of the area where you see all these one inch marks well go back and forth between rain and snow and rain and snow. When i come back, ill break it down neighborhood by neighborhood so you can see whats going on. Back over to you. People in Montgomery County getting ready for round two of old man winter as we continue to dig out from mondays storm. Deanna durante is live in plymouth township where crews are gearing up for another all nighter. Reporter crews will be out there fighting piles of snow like this, melting snow, freezing on the road as well as still cleaning up some of those side streets. I made the mistake of leaving it the night of the snow. And i came out the next day and it was completely iced in like i was in a block of concrete. Reporter mickey has learned his lesson, waiting for the snow to melt, just got his minivan iced in. Ive been out here for two hours trying to do this. Got three cars we have to do. Reporter some have been digging out little by little for days, others have never stopped. Ive been plowing for 35 years. And this ranked up in the top ten. Reporter days after stella dumped snow and ice in the area, township crews are still fighting the cold. Crews are getting ready this weekend filling salt trucks before they can go home. Theyll be on call. Were still digging out. Reporter in springfield township crews are using heavy equipment and shovels to tackle the sidewalks. Left untouched for days while crews cleared the streets to get people moving. And in norris town the heavy equipment is on the road but sometimes theres no tool to grab it. You got to pick up the snow with your hands . Sometimes its easier to do it that way, yeah. Its really heavy and wet. It comes out in big chunks. Reporter the high volume areas like here, Germantown Pike where the turnpike and 476 merge are priority according to crews. Dont get frustrated this weekend if you have a dusting or ice on your streets. Theyll get to it after they clear roadways like this one. Reporting live in prelimpath townsh plymouth township. A pair of multimillion dollar bay front homes in avalon went up in flames. Crews tell us everybody, including a seven week old baby made it out safely. A neighbor was there to help out while firefighters had their hands full. Put the mother and the baby and put her in my work truck to keep her warm for a little while. Investigators say it appears the fire started near Power Equipment just outside one of the homes and spread to the house next door. The one that caught fire, the second one, thats a seasonal home so nobody was inside. Right now one mans in custody after a bank robbery and this car chase in northeast philadelphia. The chase ended in fishtown, but started this morning at the Prudential Bank near frankfurt avenue. The robber walked into the bank, passed a note and took off with the cash. Officers were able to chase him down. Were learning a student at Lafayette College was killed in a car accident yesterday. Amanda minor was a junior. She was home in new york on spring break. Minor was thrown from the back seat of a car that lost control. The driver, an nypd traffic agent who has been arrested on charges, including vehicular homicide. Her mother says her daughter was studying social work and big dreams. When she was little she was about helping people, standing up for the little guy. For everyone. She would have changed this world. She changed mine. But now ill never see how far she could have gone. Lafayette College Plans to hold a vigil for minor tuesday afternoon in the schools chapel. Police have arrested a Montgomery County man for a deadly hit and run in potts town. According to investigators, the pedestrian was hit by a pickup truck. They allegedly tried to sell the pickup truck he was driving a day later. Hes been charged with leaving the scene, tampering with evidence and other related offenses. In washington today, President Trump hosted german chancellor angela merkel. But the diplomatic talks were mixed with questions over the president s claims that he was wire tapped by president obama. President trump pointed to german chancellor merkel who actually was wire tapped by u. S. Surveillance under president obama. As far as wire tapping, i guess, by, you know, this past administration, at least we have something in common perhaps. This was the president s first meeting with chancellor merkel who he frequently criticized. Today the president was more diplomatic to the chancellor. There was an awkward moment where the chancellor asked for a handshake. Take a look. Looks like the president ignored her, but other people who were in the room say it was veryreso declared that obamacare is dead. During the meeting in the oval office the president said hes 100 behind the House Republican healthcare bill. Mr. Trump also said that all 13 conservative lawmakers at the meeting now support the bill. Meanwhile, the president s new Budget Proposal makes massive investments to the military, funds of border wall and makes large cuts to popular social programs. That includes meals on wheels. Which delivers healthy lunches and dinners to elderly residents across the country. Nbc 10 in Lehigh County today where the Program Helps 450 people every day. Meals on wheels says federal funding is large portion of their budget and cuts could lead to fewer seniors getting help. Our older population is growing. So we dont need cuts, we need more funding. It gets to the point where you cant do things for yourself and you have to have a little help. The white house says, theres no evidence programs like meals on wheels actually work. But its up to congress to approve any changes to the budget. The question is will congress approve the budget today . We spoke to chuck todd, moderator of meet the press and asked him if President Trump can get republicans on board to support the budget. I think hes going to find that for now, no republican is going to feel comfortable embracing the budget. Its not a real budget, its more of a statement of principles. It wasnt a complete budget. They still left out all the entitlement aspects of things, any potential tax rates, things like that. It was really more of an attempt to say, hey, congress, these are the president s priorities. Hed like to see an emphasize on spending in these areas, and he would like to see a deemphasize of spending in these areas. The budget director joins meet the press with chuck todd this sunday. Watch it here at 10 30 on nbc 10. The irish flag was raised as the sounds of bagpipes filled the air at the irish memorial at penns landing this morning. After the the singing of the Irish National anthem, philadelphia mayor jim kenny talked about his heritage and the irish immigrant experience. Happening at Cardinal VillageSenior Living community in sewell. Dressed in green, folks had a fun and festive afternoon singing traditional irish songs. Yes, you can eat corned beef and cabbage, even though today is friday. Many of the areas Church Leaders granted catholics a dispensation from not eating meat since st. Patricks day falls on a friday. A friday in lent. Traditionally catholics refrain from eating meat on fridays in lent. Catholics who eat meat today are encouraged to perform some other form of penance. Still ahead, is it a medical life changer . Why doctors say a new treatment may prevent future harks. Well tell you about that. Also crystal postponed. Why Billy Crystal is putting his shows in philadelphia next week on hold. Im keith jones live in buffalo, new york. Where my villanova wildcats are celebrating on their day off. Im going to step out of the way and show you whats going on here. Coming up next, we following the villanova cheerleaders up to a certain spot called niagara falls. How the alumni are spending their day off, next. Fios in the house dave this fios party is da bomb fo shizzle its tv totally ahead of its time. Yo, let me check that. Oh snap. That x1 voice remote is crunk and it lets me search with the sound of my voice. What should i watch . Things have come a long way since you got fios. [nervously laughs] whats fios . Fios has fallen behind. Dont fall with it. Xfinity x1 will change the way you experience tv. This is breaking news we continue to follow i95 northbound. Live picture from sky force 10. The good news . See that the lanes are reopened. In the past few minutes that happened because they moved the van that have been flipped on its side. They uprighted it and took it out of the way. All lanes reopened. Theres been a lot of traffic thats been waiting to move. So its heavy traffic still on i95. We continue to keep an eye on this. A slow commute home for many on this friday evening. The first victory is in the books for villanovas road to remer repeat. Nova nation must have been nervous the first half of the night last night. You had the tough assignment, you had to tag along with the cheerleaders. So tough. Reporter brutal. Rosemary, a little nervous . Holy smokes was i nervous at the first half of the game. Take a look behind me. A lot of people are blowing off some steam. Take a look at the alumni, theyre having fun at the st. Patricks Day Celebration in advance of the game tomorrow. You mentioned i hung out with the cheerleaders, we tagged along with them a half hour north to niagara falls. Listen to what we shot. This is the view from the canadian side of the falls. Nova fans thought it was unbelievable. Just a breath taking sight. For some of the chele, the view of the falls, bett kidding. Really cool. Its ae allowed to talk about i only because he was honored at senior night. In fact, i actually taught brad my broadcast class on campus. Weve got that connection there. Coming up, you see all this blue and white, right . I tagged along with the equipment manager who villanova, particularly to d wi. Its a they worked soyou know i alw show off my disgusting shoes. Just block socks. Thanks so much for that, i appreciate it. Its pretty snowy. In fact, if you want to take a look outside, i dont know if i. Looks like a tundra out on the river. Thats buffalo. Villanova plays wisconsin tomorrow afternoon. Lets turn to baseball and head to florida. Clearwater, phillies hosted their annual st. Patricks day game in florida. The spring training home ring g me today. Pretty muche years. Those are devoted fans. Look at that. This years game, by the way, a sell out, just as it is virtually every st. Patricks day. Looks nice down there. Summer, spring, coming hope. Temperatures in the 70s sounds good right about now. First alert meteorologist tammie souza has the details on this final weekend of winter. Spring is going to start but it wont feel that way this weekend weekend. I like to play the game somebody always has it worse. Were saying the same thing to people in buffalo. Thankfully were not dealing with those frigid temperatures. We have gray skies now. It was a very pretty day out there all in all. We made it into the 40s. That was the good news. At this point, we do not have any snow or rain in the philadelphia area. But you can see its starting to creep into the picture. Were going to be watching the clouds increase overnight and then were going to be watching this long band of snow and rain showers as it komes in our direction. You can see up here to the north, just to the north of minnesota, is where the center of rotation is. And thats going to be driving this whole thing through here for the next 36 hours. Lets go hour by hour. Lets break it down for you. Here we go, we are looking at 4 00 in the morning. If youre going to be out late tonight or early tomorrow morning we shouldnt have rain or snow across the area. Again, this is going to be a mix of everything, rain, snow, a little bit of sleet, maybe a little light freezing rain, especially in the Lehigh Valley. I have to tell you, everybody in the Lehigh Valley, we are looking at a Winter Weather advisory for you from tomorrow morning through sunday morning for several inches of snow and a little bit of sleet. Noth9 00, a mix of south jersey, delaware, and th valley we could see mixing at 2 00 in the afternoon. Everybody looking at a little bit of rain because temperatures will be above freezing. Then it starts to drop off. We go through tomorrow night and into sunday morning. Thats our best chance for any accumulating snow. The whole thing starts to beat it out of here very early on sunday morning. You can see it backs up before it takes off up the are already this is it. Will be day. Once we get up here into the montgomery and bucks county area, thats where we could see maybe two and a half inches, richland, you could be looking at that. Abington maybe an inch. Again, we have to temper that by sunday. Chest and delaware county, maybe up to an inch, inch and a half in some places. Lets go ahead and check out the Lehigh Valley and becks. About two inches that could fall through this area. Get towards points pocono. Four inches. Thats the area we have the winter advisory. South jersey, werethinoo less than an inch. I think itse. 10, s inc in wilmingtonu. Going to happen next week. Be spring does start and things do looking at and talk about whats improve. Looking forward to it. Still ahead on nbc 10 news at 5 00, a new drug prevents harea attacks. But stores. Bridgegate scandal. Th complaint aga the Auction Block exploded overnight. Now police say the residents are missing. Several other homes nearby were damaged in the blast. Gas and utility crews are raking through the rubble to try to determine what happened. J. C. Penney confirmed how many stores it plans to close, 138 of them. Shutting down this summer. In our area that includes king of prussia mall and the j. C. Penney at the Willow Grove Park mall. First on nbc 10. 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Go to getfios. Com i hate to tell you, winters grip not letting go. We are watching snow on the first alert radar thats moving into our region. I mean, more snow . The flakes that fell earlier this week monday into tuesday they still havent melted. Days after the storm we found folks still trying to dig out their cars today. Welcome back and thanks for being with us, im rosemary connors. Im jim rosenfield. What should you expect if youre going out tonight . Nbc 10 first alert meteorologist tammie souza is here to tell us what were in for this evening. If youre going to be out late tonight, then carry your umbrella and your patience. Thats going to be after midnight. Prior to that i think things will be pretty quiet. Every thing is quiet in the philadelphia area. You notice creeping into the scene in the upper atmosphere toward baltimore were looking into moisture making its way into the area. This is part of the rather large winter storm that is a fast moving clipper. Were going to see this taking its time to scoot by tomorrow. With showers of rain, perhaps a little bit of sleet, not like we just saw. Maybe brief freezing rain but not enough to actually make things dangerous. Then well see some snow. We do have a couple things to be worried about. Not so much in the philadelphia area, but take a look at this. We do have a Winter Weather advisory that has been posted. And that is for the Lehigh Valley and the berks. This is for tomorrow morning, about 6 00 in the morning. Lingering through sunday morning at 6 00. The reason is several inches of snow could fall, just a tiny bit of freezing rain. Not so much a lot of rain, but its going to make for a little bit of slippery travel, especially because you already have so much snow and ice on the roads and in that area. Ill come back in a few minutes and well outline your ten day trend on 10. Guys . If youre n