hours. we see mostly rain in the lehigh valley. we have rain wilmington, delaware and across the rivera long the atlantic city expressway as well. so the showers linger this morning. then the clouds linger this afternoon. and we still should make it into the lower 50s by end of day. that's your planner wednesday and we'll talk about best weather day of the week coming up. bob kelly. >> thank you, bob will have the traffic in a moment. time now 4:02 we want to get to developing story, patco is helping for a smoother commute this morning after equipment problems stalled passengers much of tuesday. our steve keelly joining us from camden. what are we he seeing this morning, steve. >> we'll be coming to you and i'll toss to bob all morning because the lead traffic story is this story and traffic usually cars and buses and trains and frequently mentio mentioning patco problems especially this week again after last week. last week it was weather related. they said the snow caused equipment problems lemd. for some reason snow affects trains. whale we only have rain today. what was affect yesterday. come back to the live picture and get out of the video for a second. i want to show conditions out here if we can. you see the patco sign there and beyond that a couple of police cars standing on duty here at the fairy avenue station where the rain is falling and so far, this early at least no complaints. mrepttive complaints yesterday for the second straight week delaware port authorities patco high speed line made riders tlit work and home for dinner. and many tweeted pictures of trains and many riders hoping to get to center city philly were forced to get off the train close to where we are center city, camden. to switch from broken down train to second pack standing-room-only very disgruntled rider train. many said the patco tweeted 15 to 20 minute delays were nor near the hour plus late their trains were really running in reality. the general manager of patco port authority train company, put out a statement late yesterday and apology saying our number one goal is to provide safe, convene and timely service we are sorry for our recent level of service we'll find out if they got it fixed today. nobody is counting on. it as you always say leave you yourself extra time. we should say for patco riders expect who knows what to expect these days on patco. >> steve t. was as i crazy day yesterday and patco riders had to up to here as we'll say with some of the delays. yesterday it all started when five trains were taken out of service during morning rush hour. it happened 7:31, 7:40 and then three trains in that 8:00 hour. and you're right ur you mentioned it patco may say there's 15 minute delays that does not tell the picture of 15 minute delays because they take a train out of service the domino affect of all those other trains being stacked and packed passioning the passengers on the platforms. i would not be surprised if this morning, obviously everybody will be on their best behavior but if commuter has a car, if it was me, i would probably drive to work today, because i was late yesterday getting work. i was late getting home and the boss may not be as lenient two days in a row as he was yesterday. now, septa ream nal rails this morning getting out of the gate no problems. what makes matters worth with patco, yesterday we had a little drizzle in the morning. we normally always have weather delays when we have a weather issue. so, you're almost banking we'll have delays to begin with and of course that will be on top of the issues yesterday. we're dealing with fog. here's eye live look at route 202 in chester country. so a little bit of everything this morning. we have rain, we have drizzle. we have fog. and for the folks up in conshohocken here route 3 ball doe you ming owe road north and west of city north of allentown up towards the pocono area we're fweting freezing rain and that's going to leave us with black ice. depending where you begin and end trip this morning it's going to be a rough one. karen, over to you. >> police are hunting for a gunman that shot a 16-year-old boy from germantown and stole his iphone all happened befor before:30 yesterday east wiingter street. the boy was at a bus stop when a gunman came up and demand he give everything he had. the teen was shot once in the hip and his iphone was stolen and there was a neighborhood too afraided to show her face she was saddened by this violence. >> i know the mother is probably hurting and knowing her for something that only cost, $100-$200 anymore. >> that teen is at sign stein hospital. >> essential williams will have to pay $62,000. he was charged with failing to report gifts. the fine is largest imposed by the board in ten-year history and in a statement williams pollizeed and vowed to earn back trust of residents of philadelphia. >> it's official lieutenant governor announced her bid for governor. she'll be the fourth candidate in the race for republican nomination and pennsylvania has a new attorney general. shapiro will fill kathleen kan kane's position. he is oning a new chapter as top prosecutor. >> meanwhile, delaware democrat john kareny was sworn in as the state's 74th governor. kareny and lieutenant governor hall long took an oath of office on the steps of legislative hall. he was. >> one of the last acts in office, president obama has commuted the federal sentence of army whistle blower chelsey manning by 30 years. she leaked classified documents to wikileaks. she is transgender and known as bradley manning at the time of her arrest. her sentence will expire in may after serving 7 years in provideson. during that time she had two suicide attempts and hunger strike for sex surgery. >> doing something because of gender differences or gepder wishes doesn't make any sense. look, we have laws. >> the nation's trust as it is placed in military personnel, is something not to be driveled with. >> you just heard both sides of that argument and as a whistle blower edward snowden weighing in tweeting in five months you will be free thank you nor what you did for everyone stay strong a while longer. >> and president obama is giving hundreds of fell yopz a second chance. 1209 commutetation s and 64 pardons yesterday and he commuted more than 100 life sentences for numerous crimes including major drug offenses nine people were pardoned from pennsylvania three from philadelphia, three were pardo pardoned from new jersey and one from delaware recovery offers second chances for those that paid debts to society. >> a positive thing giving people an opportunity that have made a mistake behind drugs and alcohol, giving them that opportunity to free them you know from prison. >> president obama has granted more commutetations than any other president in u.s. histor history. >> a tough day on the hill for one of president-elect trump cabinet nominees. >> i share president-elect trump's view that it's time to shift the defwrait what the system thinks is best for kids, to what moms and dads want, expect and deserve. >> the pick for education secretary billionaire betsy devou says many are upset. she has a champion of vouchers in expanding charter schools and is willing to stand up against teacher unions a position some ed kailters believe will dismantle public education. >> pick for interior secretary rejected mr. trump's claim that climate change is a hoax. during the confirmation hearing he admitted climate is changing and real debate moving forward should be how we can influence a change. with just two days until inauguration president-elect trump is facing defamation lawsuit armed with attorney gloryalred former apprentice contestant is accusing trump of damaging her reputation. she claims mr. trump touched and kissed her without consent and she filed the lawsuit after he called her a liar and refused to retract his statement. there's been no response from mr. trump. we, of course, will have complete coverage of the trump inauguration. lucy know land will have reports from d.c. starting with festivities thursday night and she'll join us friday on "good day philadelphia" and watch the events here streaming it online or on your mobile device. >> snrats we're number one at something and don't want to be number one at. >> a lot of people saying what about new york city. >> coming up on "good day philadelphia" we have more rats and mice here than any other big city yeah we're number one as karen mentioned why we're ram bant rodent. >> i need that foam finger like at the ball games. we're going for a ride, wet ride this morning as you come in on the schuylkill. let's take a peek outside we go to the benjamin franklin parkway. fog as well. and we'll check the jam cam and the hump day forecast when we and we'll check the jam cam and the hump day forecast when we come back >> all right. we'll start with a look at radar. there's a lot on it. a lot of the rain we saw move in yesterday during this time has not left yet. so let's zoom in to our area and show you a few pocket of rain north of us. we're seeing a little bit of rain around allentown. we had reports earlier about 2bg in the morning of freezing rain up in the mount pocono area. so there could be some slippery spots and fwlaiz maybe over drive ways, et cetera, here in philly we have rain. parts of south jersey and camden and glass stor story and around brigatine leftover as well. we'll see more showers through 5, 6:00. by 7:00 the sun will try to break through these clouds. we'll see what happens. i think we'll see quite a few clouds today. hopefully, a little bit of sunshine as well. and by 9:00, there's still rain up in the northern part of our area. you may see a stray shower or two. but, again the sun will try to break through later on and by tomorrow morning we'll have a few temperatures close to freezing again up to the north of us, lehigh valley, pocono mountain. so, tomorrow morning we could see issues with black ice and during the day looks good thursday. reduced visibility in dover and wildwood and millville and in lancaster and reading and we're down to six miles of philly international. it's not bad there up in the mountains it's foggy and icy as well. 4 degrees is temperature here. you see it's only 3 in mount pocono. 3 reading, 40 lancaster and 44 dover and just about everybody seeing rain and only rain. 40 is our average high. we have been inching above average the past couple days. yesterday's high 45. today we're up to 50 for a high temperature. and if we get enough sunshine. 53 tomorrow. that's the day we're giving it 9 out of 10. it will be nice to be outside with 53 in january. now rest of the 7 day forecast has temperatures in the 50s i'm trade xwrov, bob kelly, we have a few days of rain. >> making a note, tomorrow would would be the best personal day. >> i write it on my head like be kids do for the test answers. 4:17, wet behind the ears on wednesday. here's speedometer readings across the board. slower than normal. expect that this morning as you get out of the gate. we'll zoom to conshohocken and route 23 to ball i domingo road and fog and rain and we have speeds 'cross all of the area bridges including betsy ross bridge as you head to 95. up near the poconos, freezing rain, possibility of black ice out. there and here's a little snapshot of the whole patco scene airo. five trains were taken out of service between 7:30 and 8:30 during the morning rush hour mainly because of braking problems. thursday we had a smoke-filled train at the ferry avenue station. they had to shut down the pour this more and that caused domino delay for rest of morning rush hour and week prior to that we had the smoky train here in philadelphia in the city hall tunnels underneath the station. they were the last three incident we've been dealing with patco remains to be scene how we'll roll out of the gate this morning. wilmington, media, all the regional rails getting out of the gate with no major delays this morning. i think we can factor in a slower than normal commute naturally because of the weather conditions. and here's what it looks likes when you head out front. live look. this is route 202 near the chester brook boulevard interest exchange and we have wet roads and wipers on and dealing with really thick fog in some spots. so, grab an extra pop tart for the ride in thomas, back to yo you. >> bob, thoonk you, time now 4:19 following breaking news out of mexico where four people were killed in a shooting in resort city of cancun. incident happening tuesday at the state prosecutor's office. the shooting comes one day after a shooting in nearby playa dell carmen it's not clear ft. two attacks are linkd more than 100 dead in nigeria a government fighter jet mistakenly bombed a refugee camp. it was on a mission and more than 200 others were hurt. >> we have an update to a story we broke yesterday morning a bouncer is takesing charges of murder of a deadly fight at a bar in east germantown the 28-year-old security guard shot and killed a bar manager with customers feet away at sharon's little spot barron the 5600 block of boyer street. >> the whole ordeal is sad. because now you have another live gone over something that doesn't even really matter you know what i mean? whatever it was about. it's never worth someone losing their life. >> no one else was hurt and police have not said what those men were fighting about. >> time 4:0 students and police at the university of pennsylvania are on high alert this morning after a string of robberies in the area. let's get out to lauren johnson she's in university city near the area of the probryes, what's going on here, lauren. >> good morning to you. the division of public safety at penn put out alert yesterday. our show was off the air at 11:00 they have the notice living in the area and people attending the school. it's just west of penn campus and patrol zone here. it's hear seen on this map between 43 and 47 between spruce and seed area avenue. the alert sent out that philly police is investigating four recent armed robberies and the first happen around 8:30 monday night and robber was busy pre preying on people and until 7: 7:05 tuesday morning police believe it is same suspect involved in all the robberies based on similar description given to investigators. patrols were beefed up in this area as a result of the crimes and because of this people in this area are are signing up for pin guardian app saying it can assist police with helpful information especially emergency fwhvtion your location smu something happen to you. thomas and karen. >> thank you, lauren. >> time now 4:21, new jersey governor chris christie declared opiate epidemic a public melth crisis. executive order creates a new drug abuse task force to work on solutions to fix the problem. governor christie wants to devote his final year in office looking at the crisis. it's up by 2% from the year before. and also your someone not good here, really? there's a local restaurant no longer taking cash after closed for weeks of republican vaitionz, sweet green will reopen and no longer take your cash. restaurant will only take credit and debit or sweet green mobile app. owners say going cashless will discourage robberies and lou forecaster transitions and give employees more time to interact with customers and owners don't think they'll lose any business. >> you see signs cash only and you're like i don't any cash. quick swipe say hello. >> that place has lines out the door and in and out and helm didn't and delicious. >> so cash not the problem for one lucky lottery winner. >> somebody may be holding a ticket worth almost a million from new jersey. that's right. where the lucky ticket was sold that's right. where the lucky ticket was sold later in the show >> good morning i'm shawn bell seems like the flyers hit rock bottom they lost in my opinion out of the 11 last games and it doesn't look like it's getting better. five days in between games. coach talked about trying to get through this rough, rough patch. >> i think the mind-set like i said of this group has been pretty strong it's pretty together group. and that's what you know i think the foundation we have to rely on coming up back here on friday afternoon. and sixers going in the opposite direction. the right direction. they won six out of their last eight games and mood around the team completely skyrocketed. >> they're human beings i see it in support staff and front office. you know, you feel it, that it is just you're getting validated for the things that we've been doing. >> we don't do anything differently. we're starting to get rewarded. >> sports in a minute. i'm shawn bell. >> thank you there, shawn, coming up at 4:30 there's a lot of democrats skipping the inauguration. >> we told about you that yesterday. one local democrat says well he is definitely not going to 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wildcats basketball team will be be againing an honor from our area. but we begin with breaking news right now. former president george h.w. bush is taken to a hospital in houston, texas after falling ill. >> learning this information an hour ago. fox affiliate in houston reporting 92-year-old was not feeling will as we mentioned brought in and said to be alert this morning and doing a lot better. mr. bush who suffer from a form of parkinson's disease will remain at high stone mem diingt for further evaluation over the next several days. we, of course, are following this one and will keep you updated on this helm condition as soon as we learn more. >> "good day", everybody, on this wednesday, january 18, i'm karen hepp along with bob. >> the whole team is here. >> good morning, everybody. >> and we have rain and fog around this morning. so you might want to allow a few extra minutes get where you're going. >> a girl on twitter said i should build an arch, sue. >> right. okay. >> two at a time. two at a time. >> it's not that bad, six out of ten in the weather by you numbers and visibility reduced in many areas. you could be driving through fog and in dover and atlantic city international only has quarter mile viz ability and half mile in poconos and six miles in philadelphia at the airport. we're only 33 in mount pocono and could be a little slippery in higher elevations and here if philly it's 4 degrees and 45 atlantic city and 39 lancaster and 35 dover and there is still rain around and it's very spo spotty and it's out there. and again, where it's colder there could be a little bit of preez freezing rain. be careful there. part of south jersey getting rain. that lipingers throughout the wrist of the morning and we're hoping for sunshine. enough to get us into the 50s by the end of the day. our surprise set time is 5:04 karen. >> let's get to what we were telling you about. patco working to get things back to normal after a lot of disruptions yesterday and headaches and in the meantime passengers are dealing with basically a lot of problems. let's get out to steve keely with -- look a lot of precipitation coming down our your head, steve, good morning. >> we have more bad weather and i don't know if that's going to affect the trains again. last week it was snow that caused problems and maybe this week it was rain. and but one und occasions we're seeing maybe it's not bad indication i'm not train business but along the tracks in prairie avenue we're hearing banging noises and two minutes ago we saw one of the repaired trained going back and forth slowly and hoping everything on the tracks was a-okay. it's still early in the morning. not a lot of commuters yet. you have to wonder if commuters will drive all the way to philadelphia just sick and tired of all the problems for the past two weeks and the head of port authority train compan company, that's acronym, patco, everybody knows it as, it's also run by the delaware river port authority another ab anymore drpa, any jp way, put out a public written apology yesterday after first two days of this week saw same delays breakdowns and angry rider tweets as last week. and whip of the quotes i pulled is in recent weeks we have failed to provide the level of service you expect and deserve and patco gm statement was titled our number one goal provide safe, convene and timely service and convene and timely part of that has not been met the last couple weeks even at his own admission and he said we're sorry as he opened apology with the recent level of service and provided a still picture of the big train garage usually in linden wald where he said so many repairs and replacement parts are right now explaining 21 new motors were replaced since january on trains and each bun he said takes lots of hours. he really went into detail to explain the repairs going on. and he says we're monitoring customer feedback and heard the frustration of passengers and if you're on twitter you're seeing pictures of people in packed trains and you can read their frustrations and one of the things they're angry about is not just the problems on the trains and platforms but the explanations from patco when they do their own tweet saying hey there's a 15 minute delay. these 15 minute delays are more than an hour owe a lot of time times. bob kelly you're an expert on this and you have seen this a lot and who knows -- who knew they needed all new motors suddenly. i don't know if snow burned out the motors last week but there's a whole lot of work going on in lindenwald apparently all weekend. >> if this just happened yesterday i could understand. it but this has been an ongoing situation. again the trains are old. obviously motors are old and you're right, when they put out alert such as yesterday when one of the trains, the smoke from underneath was pulled out of service that created what they called a 15 minute delay. it doesn't really tell the whole story because domino affect of that one train pulled out of service could create hour delays and packed trains for folks standing on platform waiting for the train to come by only to see it when i buy stacked and packed and not able to get on. here's the deal five trains yesterday morning alone in the morning rush hour taken out of it was service. five trains between 7:0 and:0. thursday, we had a smoky train at the ferry avenue station during the morning rush. that forced them to shut down power for over an hour causing a domino delay. so folks were late for work on thursday. and then take you back on monday we had smoke at the train here in philadelphia at the city hall station. that one during the evening rush hour. so fe had it up to here as they say with patco app i would not be surprised as steve mentioned folks will jump in the car and say you know what the boss has had it i cannot be late or work or more importantly coming home being late picking kids up. here's a live look at 95 you see the steady, heavy rain hitting us hard and plus we're dealing with fog out there as well. so a lot going on just take it easy this morning as you step out that front door. karen, thomas back to you. >> 4:36 there's a reward this morning to help catch the group that attacked a soldier on new year's day. philadelphia police and citizens crime commission is offering $7,000 for information that leads to arrest and conviction aix group of men attacked austin third and/or or while leaving mummers parade. the 19-year-old you saw a moment ago there suffered severe facial injuries. >> 4:36 police are investigating a whole stripping of origed robbys in university city. >> students are on high alert after four separate incidences of people robbed at gun point. lauren johnson is on the site where it went down, lauren. >> the division of public safety said we need to send out an alert to everyone in the area. it went out 11 a.m. after the show was on the air. we'll show you the area police are focusing their investigation west of penn campus and patrol zone. it's area seep on map between 43 and 47 between spruce street and cedar avenue. the alert sent out warping the penn community philly police is investigating four recent armed robberies and first happening 8:30 monday night the robber was busy preying on people until 7:00 the following morning police believe the same suspect is involved in all robbyes based on people providing a very similar description to investigators. patrols have been beefed up in this area as a result of crime crimes. penn now ago people to sign up and download the pin guardian app. and it can save people in case of emergency. so police can find out exactly where they're located. thomas, karen. >> absolutely. we have obviously both university of pennsylvania and drexel over there. thank you, lauren. >> time now 4:38 democratic lawmakers maying threatening to boycott don bell's ininauguration but it is not stopping one local democrat. >> that is a tradition he's been doing 76 years and it will continue. >> let's introduce you to b. harold schmidt jr. he start add tending back in 1941 when franklin roosevelt took the both of office and has not missed one yet. he collects souvenirs and most memories are stored in his head. while the presidents may change one thing that's almost certain at every up august ration is cold weather. >> you know i wear long underwear and i wear foot warmers. >> you know how to dress for the event. >> indeed. >> he's our leader i'm 100% for him. if he succeeds our family will succeed, too, smickle lumber. >> we'll be live in washington d.c. beginning thursday. and of course all day friday starting here on "good day philadelphia". you can watch us on air strea streaming online and on your phone. >> from the rain to warm-up. sue has your could have had. >> from the rain to warm-up. sue has your could have had. your forecast straight ahead. you know your heart loves megared omega-3s... but did you know your eyes, your brain, and your joints really love them too? introducing megared advanced 4in1... just one softgel delivers the omega-3 power of two regular fish oil pills... so give your body mega support with megared advanced 4in1. >> welcome back fol a developing story north of dallas, text where a police officer was shot and killed. detective jerry walk egger was responding to a call about a man with a gun in a residential neighborhood. the man started yelling the officers and ran inside his house and began firing shot. one of the bullets struck walker in the neck. the suspect was killed during a standoff with police. >> accused cop killer is in custody finally after a wee week-long manhunt in orlando. marquise lloyd had a bloody face when officers took him to police headquarters last night and he was arrested at aban zoned home. he was wanted for shooting death of his exgirlfriend when lieutenant debra clayton arochd him last week in walmart parking lot she was shot to death and another died in the car accident during the search for that suspect. >> and the philadelphia area topped a national list. we are number one for rampant rodents. >> it makes your skin recall. >> we have more here than any other big city and we may know the reason remember the old commercial the old carton we had coming up in a couple minutes. >> wednesday, we're halfway lay there. 4:45 put the fog lights on this morning and be ready for days. this is a live look at the schuylkill expressway near gulph mills. again spray kicking up and rain and fog. it will be one of those crazy, slow, yucky morning rush hours as we kickoff there in king of prussia. coming in from south jersey ben franklin bridge. wet behind here. there's no wind here as the nraling on top of toll plaza indicates what's going on there. but, speed restrictions on all of the area bridges because of the rain and the fog that we're dealing with during the morning rush hour. expect weather delays down in philly international and if you fly down in around philly this morning i would check with airline to play it safe and as sue tells us in a moment the further you go off extension there's freezing rain and black ice. mother nature is giving it all to us this morning. septa, no problems at the moment on any regional rail lines. whenever we have rain and soon to follow will be scattered delays and slippery rails and platforms on the steps boarding buses and trains could be a little slippery. here's snapshot for patco. again what happens today remains to be seen. steve is over there fairy avenue station. yesterday we had five trains taken out of service during the morning rush hour because of smoke from under the carriage and on thursday that smoke from the train ferry avenue shut down power during the morning rush hour and then flashback to last monday where we had smok smoke-filled train that shut down the system during the evening rush hour underneath philadelphia's city hall. and so i think todayfy was using patco i know it's not easily for everybody and if you have a vicky think today i would probably be driving to work instead of giving patco a run just to see what happens. but, obviously that's not the answer for everybody. conshohocken route 23 and balladomingo road. sue has the answer of how long balladomingo road. sue has the answer of how long the rain will stick ra round. >> ultimate doppler tells the tale of lots of moisture aroun around. we're not in new eng land where they have snow instead of rain. if you love snow that's disappointing a guess. we have airs of rain moving through including normalen town there. we're seeing light rain. and in fact just about every place the rain is kind of on the light side. we have a heavy downpour or two moving out after cross philadelphia and the river into parts of dmrosster and burlington county and parts of ac expressway getting rain as well. how long will this linger, it's tough. because you're going to see showers probably through 6, 7, 8:00 and they're isolated and clouds that is what will linger throughout the day. but each as late as 10:00 we cocoa still see isolated showers. the sun tries to come out later in the day we'll see if that happens and if so we'll get to 50, 52 and then we head to thursday which looks like best weather day of the week. plenty of sunshine. skies clear out:00 in the the morning and it looks like sun stays with us all day long. and then we start to talk about friday. friday starts out okay with plenty of sunshine and clouds roll in and by noon on friday this is when the inauguration is happening in washington it looks like they will be seeing some rain at least it's pretty likely noon arrives for us later in the day. visibility rights now is not great in a lot of places, atlantic city airport, mil millville, new jersey, dover is foggy right now. so is reading, trenton, up in mount pocono six miles visibility at philly international. we'll keep an eye on that. it's only 33 mount pocono as bob kelly mentioned slippery conditions up there and freezing ice overnight and freezing rain overnight which made for icy conditions and like everybody else we're dealing with rain. 43 is the average high temperature and each day since the weekend we tried to inch above average successfully. we should reach around 50 if we get enough sunshine today and 5 excellent weather day and tomorrow late rain friday and mostly cloudy skies on saturday. chance of showers returning on sunday and into monday and even tuesday but at least temperatures will be mild enough that everybody will only see rain. got is it? >> how do you feel about rats and mice. >> um. >> you said it all right there. >> i like animals. >> not these little buggers here. guess what, philly tomd a national list. >> we're number one. but no bragging rights on this one. according to new census data our region, which includes camden, wilmington and suburbs has highest percentage of homes with rodents. >> you heard it right. main streets of new york city have nothing when it comes to mouse and rat sightings here. more on this rodent problem. >> reporter: 4% of american household have dogs. 3% have cats. in philadelphia, what do 20% have? >> nothing. >> reporter: if only we were so lucky. turns out one in five homes in philly metropolitan area have rats or mice according to american housing survey comparing 25 big cities. >> philadelphia metropolitan area came in highest with 18% of household reporting that they saw signs of rats or mice inside their home in the last fwevl months. >> when i came down the stretch here had -- >> reporter: kathy fisher have northeast is newest member of club spotting mice droppings in garage for the first time. evans pet control to the rescue they know a thing or two about rodents. if you're squirmish look away now they specialize in scaring huge rats out of places they would like to call home. >> the droppings are back here. >> reporter: fortunately for kathy it's not that severe. house traps and bait and foam where the mice got through. charles evans is not that surprised philly leads the nation. he says mice are byproduct of construction booth. >> we're uprooting a lot of animals that have been there since early 1900s and we're working and disturbing their homes they have to go somewher somewhere. >> kathy insist that somewhere won't be here. >> you're afraid to leap at night that's what it feels like they're invading. >> fox new. >> no thank you. >> they won a national championship now one company is brewing up a new way to honor villanova. >> wildcats. how this may excite college students even more than a how this may excite college students even more than a parade. why am i so devastatingly handsome, i'm in a fragrance... ...ad, and my sweethearts gone sayonara. this scarf, all that's left to remember. what! she washed this like a month ago! how's a guy supposed to move on! the long lasting scent of gain flings. >> 4:55 villanova blowing out 175 cappedlees and a local beer company is marking anniversary with a new brew. >> coming from the cape may brewing company they put this picture on their web site honoring alma mater with special beer. it's 1 r5 years of villanova called the demy semi-cept centennial sale. >> they met at villanova in 2001. >> there could be another reason to celebrate this morning. someone out there is holding a winning lotto ticket. cash 5 new jersey tket all five numbers hit and it's worth as 69,000 bought boys pharmacy in bordentown. if you think you may have bought that cash five you want to take a second look. >> that would be so exciting. all eyes on radar and outside. it's wet out there. you know that always creates problems for the commute getting kids to school. sue is tracking your wet wednesday morning forecast and bob has the latest on the wednesday morning forecast and bob has the latest on the roads. >> happening now on "good day philadelphia" chaotic commute after more problems for patco riders yesterday you have to wonder will today be the same. this morning's top officials are weighing in. >> if you live or work in university city we have a warping there's a armed robber on the loose holding people up. >> and in case you missed it, oh, rats, philadelphia now nope for something other than cheesesteaks and it's not a good thing. more on that coming up. >> and another big story going to be developing all morning long is really weather. before you head out the door make sure you grab your umbrella and sue is tracking the rain and how long that will last she has the answer and bob let's is know on the commute in seconds and we begin now with breaking news former president george herbert walker bush was taken to a hospital after fal falling ill in texas. >> our fox affiliate in houston reporting 9-year-old was brought in and said to be doing just fine this morning. mr. bush who suffers from form of parkinson's disease will remain at houston methodist for evaluation over the next few days. he was not feeling well and was brought in and will go through tests the next couple days and we'll keep you updated as soon