of everything this weekend, sue is on it. >> flames burn out of control for the seconds straight night watch we know about this fire that sent at least one person to the hospital. >> south jersey police department is taking action it says that will protect the student, what do you think? why it is not sitting well with some parent harming people there at the school. speaking of the schools, weaver big news to tell but in just zach. good day everybody, it is cents thursday, march the 12,018th. of course we won't forget about the word of the day, we have so much going on this morning, because we are giving away a trip to ireland, as you know. can we give them just little bit after hint? >> just a little bit though, mike. >> that is not the hint, but we will get to the words of the day in just a second. that's the hint, right there. it is blue. it is the country, the flag of

ireland. >> not close. >> thank you captain obvious and everybody else. >> oh, look at you. >> no, that's first just little hint of the word of the day. >> it is a little one. >> let's get back to the other picture, that's lie on and a lamb. now who is winning at 601 on march 1st? what's the phrase? in like a lamb, or in like a lion, out like a lamb? the weather seems lamb-ish now, and yet the forecast is >> the lion is coming. >> ththe lion sleeps tonight. >> ♪ >> a weem a whip. >> is that a weem a whip? >> that's what i thought it was. >> yes, what is it, mike? >> i thought it was weem a wept. >> something you've been listening to your entire life. get the lyrics. okay.

>> bus stoppled buddy has the rain gear commonage, see the rain getting closer bees the big mess that will become our coastal storm, hasn't formed yet. hasn't faced out into the ocean just yet. more on that coming up. 44 degrees in the city right now, sunrise time 6:34. so coming up pretty soon. may see tiny peak of sunshine this morning, but that will be it. we've got heavy rain, some snow on the way, other concerns, damaging winds, especially tomorrow. coastal concerns, as well, detail all of that coming up. but with a rainy ride home for sure, and maybe some showers by lunchtime, high temperature today, 58 degrees. we've give you all of the watches and warnings. >> a weemawah? writing it down? i don't know if that's the way we sung it at the back elbow back in the day, but then again different time. >> south along 202, vehicle

fire, in wayne, delaware county, right near valley road. so they just extinguish the flames here, will cause delay for everybody leaving say king of prussia, headed south on 202. >> you have the staples, the trader joes to gave you a example. schuylkill expressway, the scene after accident. they just now started letting traffic through, all eastbound lanes, have been block at vare avenue. for about a half hour or so. so we are bumper to bumper to bumper from center city headed into vare. leaving the house, trying to use the stretch to get either into south philly, or to the airport, you may want to cross town on the vine and use 95. otherwise, 95 out of the northeast, looking good, and mass transit, running with no reported delays. mike and alex back over to you. >> okay, the actual word from the early 60s, the lion sleeps tonight, they were saying a

weema-weh. >> i thought there was a t in there, weema-wet. thank you for that research mike. >> school news out of gloucester county new jersey two school district are closed right now, due to a threatening e-mail. that they got. >> so the franklin township and delsea regional school district are both closed. the e-mail was sent to the franklin township school district. but the delsea regional school district is closed because of its proximity to franklin township, just precaution, decided to close both. >> we just got this about ten minutes ago, working on the details as soon as we get the details we will bring it to you. >> another fire this morning. >> and this one is out of burlington county where crews have been working to get that one under control this morning. >> jenny joes, where is this one snow delanco? >> we talked to the fire chief in the last 15 minutes, he confirm for us that this structure is in significant danger every collapsing for that reason, firefighters, are putting for the an exterior attack only. the hoses cents are going on

the ground, and in the air, the fire still not under control. the chief tells me they were dispatched here to the 600 block of hickory street. some time between 2:00 and 2:30 a.m. this morning, at that time the home was engulfed in flames. people in the attached homes both made it out safely, two adult were transported to an area hospital. they're going to be okay. the fire chief says at this point they don't know how the fire started. >> it is balloon-style construction, he explains that, little bit more for us. >> no fire walls, basement, straight up, very difficult. once it gets in the walls it will run from one wall all the way up across the attic, to the other wall, all the way back down into the basement. >> and the chief says, both sides of the duplex are likely a total lost, we will check back in with you guys at 6:30,

back to you. >> 6:06. >> two weeks after one of the deadliest mass shootings in american history, marjorie stoneman douglas students went back to class, they were under heavy police guard, as we showed you yesterday morning. student returned, for a half day. which began with fourth period, so that the nearly 3300 student could be with the people they were with during the shooting. >> yes, i still think i'm in a nightmare, so i'll wake up one day, and i'll be like everything will be normal. >> very energy, very hollow, you know, but throughout the day i felt better. >> called me back. it feels amazing, a lot bette better. >> the heavy police presence will remain throughout the school year. >> really month after month. >> 6:06. >> south jersey town hiring armed guards for schools. úhas police protection, butady now, evesham township police are looking for officers to patrol the elementary and

middle schools. they would ideally hire law enforcement offs ers under six a, over sham officials plan on training about eight officers at a time. the decision has some parent a little concerned. >> i think having armed officers, walking up and down, the hallways are going to make people think something is bad. something is bad going to happen at any minute. >> police officers with guns in the school, would you be concerned about that? >> no, no, no. my husband and i would have an explanation with them about it. so i think it would be fine. >> evesham township police say they're already flooded with applications. >> all right, alex holley. are you ready for this? we have some nasty weather coming, so this is what we do whether we have nasty weather. steve keeley starts up in a fairly, like around atlantic city, then works his way down the shore, because we may have some shore errosion, and all sort of weird weather, so he's

been where? he started ocean city. then he went to sea isle city. then he's been in the wildwoods, and where are you now, as you make your way down to cape may? >> steve? >> we are now in west wildwood, mike, that means, we've covered two of the four wildwoods, as our competition tries to catch up to us, they never can. by the way, mike, wildwood being the third, can you guess the fourth wildwood? >> you got your wildwood crest. >> my precious time. >> very good. awesome. >> boom. >> thank to you who ever yelled that in mike's ear. >> i got that on my own. >> thank you. >> all right, very good. i'm sorry, but not really. >> what station just went by? p>> only .3 square miles, so, if you don't get over this bridge, by the way, the cross street there, no coincidence that it is venice avenue. because it is always under water. look, they have to elevate their air-conditioning units. that's what's behind that wood. because they expect water to

get that hi, which is a regular thing here. so, you can see, they're putting out the warning here in breitbart neon. wind gusts cents it says, 50 to 60 miles an hour, so high wind watch, right above the west wildwood sign. you'll see they're warning you how high the winds will blow. so bob kelly, telling everybody, grab the good umbrella it, will instantly be the bad umbrella if you try to hole up the bad umbrella at 50 to 60 miles per hour wind tomorrow. just advice from us. >> take stop in the you can bella company. >> that's right. 6:09 now. >> well, a major shake-up again at the white house. one of the president's, well, i guess trusted advisors, suddenly steps down after giving all of that testimony the day before. why hope hicks resignation caught the administration by surprise. the president learned about it yesterday.

>> 6:11, update on kevin smith, home from the hospital after suffering that heart attack, inbetween stand-up comedy shows. >> so, he's reassuring fans on twitter, feeling better dark i can cage care every him s saying home again home again jigety-jig. home is somewhere the heart is and the heart is feeling good. it's actually getting more blood flow and oxygen than it has in a long time. >> he signed it from

vegetarian kev, day two. >> cutting out the meat, alex hole. >> i probably little more necessary for him. probably necessary for me, too. >> not just for lent. >> 6:12. >> well, it is all about the chemistry. but maintaining it won't be easy. hoe i roseman opens but his plans to maintain the eagles roster this off season. >> he looks like a skier at the olympics in a interview, doesn't he? >> he it does. >> do you think he skis? >> i bet he does. i bet he can do it all. how i is the man. look at this big storm

>> there words of the day will lead to you free trip to ireland. >> doses it have to do with coca-cola. >> is that what that is? >> what's that sign say? >> the choice is yours. oh, it is one of those cool coca-cola freestyle machines, they have like 300 drinks in one it, mixes, you just press the flavors. do you know what i am talking about? >> no, i have no idea. so it could be anywhere n front after convenience store? >> yes, really could be. >> restaurant? >> you need to try one of these out. literally. any flavor you want, you can get it mixed when lemonade, soda, it puts it together, and it comes in a machine. >> i think they have that in the taco place in my apartment

building. >> oh, really? >> that buono own owe -- >> oh, yes, they do, they do. you never messed with it? >> i saw people fiddling with it, i thought it was vending, like, a atm. >> no! >> anyway, that's your hint. not much of one. >> has anyone guessed this we're check to go see if anyone is guess willing, looks like people don't know yet. we'll keep giving hint. knew. >> okay, i want to thank our director pj for reminding us that red sky at morning sailors warning. yes, calm conditions right now, but as you heard undoubtedly perhaps even adnauseum there is coastal storm on the way. the thing is it just hasn't formed yet. here is all of the rain that will become the coastal storm, have some phasing, we call it, and as it moves off shore, and turns into that nor'easter. so, for tomorrow, it will be cold enough, at least after we get cranking tomorrow, for four to 7 inches of heavy wet snow in the pocono mountains, winter storm watch in effect there. high wind watch for all of us,

for tomorrow, power outages are possible, with those 50 to 60-mile per hour wind gusts, flood watch in effect tonight, through tomorrow night. a coastal flood watch in effect with moderate to major flooding at times of high tide. we have full moon tonight. and that's going to make things even worse, along the shore for those back bays, inch or more rain, beach errosion with the winds, 50, 60 miles per hour undottedly few power outages, looking at the foot future cast, when we begin, looks like maybe little delay in the rain, but i would say, any time after lunchtime, start looking for the rain t get very heavy overnight. and then rains through the with us in the afternoon, and look what happens, the colder air gets drawn into the storm, and we could finish off with a couple of snowflakes, as the storm exits on friday night. so, i know, a lot of information there. but just expect a messy friday

in many respects, with the wind and the rain and maybe even some snow, clears up saturday, eventually, and still windy, especially in the morning on saturday, sunday, good day of the weekends, we got seasonable temperatures through the middle of next week, and we've got the flower show starting this weekends. so, so far so good for headed down to the convention center you got it, sue. updating breaking news at 6:18 there is accident on the schuylkill expressway had to put sands down and the oil spill, but traffic starting to move again right here eastbound right at vare avenue. >> traffic moving, there still back up from center city all the way into vare. that's causing a domino effect here, on the vine street expressway folks trying to work, vehicle fire here on 202, this is a live look, at

route 202 southbound, right at the gateway shopping center, which is right there, in the background, so we had vehicle fire, extinguished, but all of the police and fire crews on the scene, leaving king of prussia, and headed south on 202, you're down to one lane, coming in from south jersey some delays here the headlight working your way, from the expressway into the walt whitman bridge. >> still gathering information, two school district closed because every threatening e-mail. >> the franklin township and delsea regional school district are both closed, the e-mail, how much, was sent to the franklin township school district, but the delsea regional school district decided to close because of its proximity to franklin township. >> still working on more details, we get it to you as soon as we can, in fact, jenny headed there, should be there in about ten minutes. >> 6:19. >> a bombshell in washington, white house communications director, hope hicks, has resigned. she is stepping down after the

panel is investigate the russia probe, interviewed her for nine hours. she told a house intelligence panel, that she has occasionally told white lies for president trump. the president has issued a statement saying he'll miss having hicks by his side. but sure they'll wok together again. >> can you really call it a bombshell, if you're the fourth communications cents director, to leave in a year? i don't know what, bombshell in no. >> maybe -- >> m08? >> that she would be there. >> fire cracker? >> look at you. >> something like that? >> okay. the comment that have some thinking that nick foles should be traded to the arizona cardinals. hum. would we actually do that with carson still injured? >> well, at least he is staying in the birds family. >> well, you are the most positive person. at least he's still a bird.

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>> i'm kristen rodgers, the eagles already scouting for next year, but the biggest

concern for the birds finding birds that fit their cute your. >> one of the reasons we had success because of the chemistry of our group. we had amazing lockerroom. amazing chemistry within that team. judge villanova seton hall this one went to over time, wildcat getting it over to mikhail bridges in the corner. knock down the three, villanova, escapes in a wild one on the road. sixty-nine-68. >> temple uconn owls down one, but tyler pauley, knocks down the three, for the huskies, owls just couldn't get over the hump last night, temple falls 72-66. lasalle dayton, first half, johnny schuller gets the steel. takes it up the court. he's going to get it down low to bj johnson for the slam. explorers, take down the flyers, 71 to 53. >> that's sport in a minute. i'm kristen rodgers. >> see, now, why wasn't i born with a bj john son? >> come on, that's a name. >> well, you're mj.

>> that's true. >> true, mj nothing like bj. all right, coming up on 6:25. all right. yesterday, on sports talk radio, this was the talk of the town. people really talking about trading nick foles. >> i mean, that's been the question really since the super bowl happened though. >> but this is real serious talk now. >> well, one team that's emerged as potential suture is the arizona cardinals, yes, the cards help coach steve wilkes said the team will be very as degrees i have, in this off season, also cents speculative, though. but one thing to keep in mind, the eagles are short on draft picks, while the eagles have first, second, and two, third round he is, foles also plays college ball at the university of california, familiar with arizona, maybe wants to go back, relive his college days. but, you know, there is also like you mention, mike, carson wentz, is he really ready? don't we need a good back up that we know is good just in case? you know he says he'll be ready week one, he says. >> what you can do, sue, just hang with nick at the beginning of the season, maybe the whole season if it is

going well, then carson comes back, fit as aphid. >> but don't get as much for nick, if you wait, the longer you wait, oh, here, we will take him. >> there is cents that. those cardinals have four draft picks in the first three rounds. >> oh, boy. >> we got one. well, 32, because we won the super bowl. >> in the first round. >> well, and there is the emotional factor, too, because we just love. >> i know, we will name a street after him. >> okay, well, we were -- we will give you the number of the day. and a five out of ten. and it is because we've got a coastal storm on the way. a lot of concerns about back bay flooding specially, because steve keeley, not only do we have the storm coming, it is a full moon tonight. >> yes, and that always means tides are higher than normal. look, we came on the ocean front, not much of sunrise to show you, sue, but look, that much of a beach left from the last storm. so what's going to happen when this beach and this do you know gets pounded again? as it is getting pounded already, before the storm even

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>> flooding rain, even snow, details on the wild weather to start your weekend. >> another fire, flames burn out of control in burlington county there is big house here, the second straight night. this happens to be in delanco. what we now know about this

fire, somebody is injured, and is in the hospital on this one. >> a cautionary tail for uber riders everywhere. how a new jersey man's night out ended in a 1,600-dollar uber trip. what? >> $1,600. gloucester county new jersey two, school district are closed right now, because after threatening e-mail. >> the e-mail however was sent to franklin township school district, but delsea regional school district, because they're so close, the franklin township, decided to choice, as well. >> so again, jen is he almost there. she will have live report coming up the good day everybody it is thursday march the first, yes, it is march the first. >> it is. >> 2018. >> now people some people starting to guess our word of the day today. and, one of the guesses i received is irish soda bread.& >> oh,. >> so thank you, betty, for guess that one. >> well, that would be two words of the day, like soda or bread. >> so wait a second. so that's a drive-thru, right?

>> it is a drive-thru. >> i feel like this is a big clue. >> oh, you can see what it is, was it wendty? >> mcdonald? >> no, you can just keep guessing on air, they're supposed to get -- guess, not you. >> so stick around, find out what the words of the day; and - >> ash i's. >> no. >> something nobody it will rain before the day is through, so specially out all day. have the rain gear with you, even though it is not raining right now. and, radar shows us, that the rain is still on the way. this is the storm that's going to become the coastal storm, as soon as it moves off shore. sort of phasing in with the one up to the north and all of

that energy, really going to pacca whallop tomorrow. but today, 44 degrees to start. sunrise time, just about to happen, at 6:34, so coming up we will tell you more about the heavy rain and some snow, that some of lust get before the storm is out of here. damaging winds, will have big impact, of course many coastal concerns with this nor'easter. it will be a rainy ride home for sure. could you see some showers around, lunchtime. and mild day, for this time of year, for march the first, with 58 degrees. we will tell you what the chilly temperatures will do, and who has snow in the forecast, coming up in just a few minutes. bob kelly, how is it going? >> who has snow in the forecast? 6:32, morning, just talk to norristown police. and they said heads up. traffic lights are out on the northern side of norristown. all along dekalb street here, it would be airy, chestnut, market, marshall, excuse me, as you come across the bridge and head into norristown. so be careful four way stops until they can get it all figured out there in norristown. accident in south philly.

mountain between morris and tasker, going live, skyfox over the scene of this crash, take a look at this one here. this guy looks like he ran up on to the curb. and crashed into the steps of a row home there. now, looking at the row home, looks like it is a home that's under construction, or under repair there, you got the firefighters dropping down that sand, which will some up the oil. no reports of any injuries. thank goodness. but that's the 500 block of mountain, just off of fifth street there, between tasker and morris, as we come back to the maps, we will check some of the other problems we've been dealing with, the schuylkill expressway, back to normal here rolling in and out of south philadelphia. still little delay on the vine expressway though, as you cross town, trying to get over to 30th street station, and so far so good, on mass transit. mike and alex back over to you. >> i think they got this under control over there. crews have been battling this two family house fire in burlington county. this has been going on since

the middle of the night. the fire still not quite under control we hear, but close. now, officials say the home on the 600 block of hickory street in delanco is in significant damage and is about ready to collapse looks like, two adult were taken to the hospital. they're expected to be okay. but neighbors were also able to make it out of their home that's connected to the one that caught fire originally. >> 6:34. so how are we describing it? march is going to roar like a lion? right? or go out -- went in like a lamb? >> well, a lot of people on twitter saying just one phrase, comes in like a lion, goes out like a lamb, but i thought you had two choices, if it comes in like -- oh, right? >> oh,. >> what's with you? >> oh, mike had a little lamb. mike had a little lamb little lamb ♪ >> my fleece was white as snow. well, that isn't true. >> well. >> so steve, i don't know, you

know everything about everything. what is the term? it comes in -- whatever it comes in as it goes out the opposite, right, march? >> reporter: i can't believe you asked me that, i just played one of my favorite all time saturday night clips to jared. john belucci the meteorologist, he goes in australia it comes in like a kangaroo and goes out like a wildsbeast. >> that's great. >> it does all of the countries around the world, how it comes in and goes out. it is a two minute clip worth watching. but, so, my mind is on a sill john different animals. i don't know because i just watched belucci doing a crazy thing from 1976. >> good to know what you do inbetween hits, steve. >> popping up and down the shore. >> that's right. so look, it is a good surf day. because the weather is still warm, not a lot every winds, but some pretty big swells, as we call it, in the surf world. so, pretty good waves, and look at this, this, this is the beach we were at in october. when it got battered.

well, they never replenished the beach dunes. this is the protective do you know kind of mountain. you can see how high the drop; as bugs bunny would say, watch that step mack, it is cents a doozy. so, you've already got. >> this you can see, even with this tide, already eating away some of the sand, not much of a sunrise at all, even though the sun is up officially 6:31, as sue said. look out piers, so standing in the things, like the sightseers like to do you would be getting wet now. to the left you can see the president may not have got his wall started down on the southern border, but, north wildwood has already started work on it new sea wall not done in time for the storm, but this is why they need a sea wall, because their beaches are getting drilled every time there is a storm. so, the construction equipment is all here. the construction teams will likely be showing up either to do some last minute temporary sand do you know building, or to get their equipment out of here, before it is all under salt water, this time

tomorrow, maybe, and through the weekend. so, a tough weekend coming from tore north philly and north wildwood, all of the points inbetween in our viewing area, but north wildwood big saint patty day weekends two, weekends from now, so not going to lose, that but already the bars down here have opened up, and they don't like losing any of their late winter spring weekends, but you can bet the hardy people will be here no matter what, love to watch the storms come and go. >> well sure. i would think by saturday morning, we mate be in the clear. we mate be okay. so it is just like tonight, tomorrow, tomorrow night. >> i think saturday and sunday will be okay. >> just need to deal with it for little bit. >> all right, steve, thank you. people trying to guess the word of the day, one of my favorite tweets of the day from mary ann. i think it is mc flurry. i don't even know what's happening, i just woke up. >> okay. >> that is great. >> all right, i have no idea what time it is, 6:37. >> philly fans, get ready for

another playoff run. while you were celebrating the eagles, the flyers have become one of the best teams in hockey. they are ten, how do you do it, mike? >> one hundred and one. >> yes, 1001. >> and yes, i don't know where i am now. >> alex, come over here. >> i can't come over and read the teleprompter at the same time. i can't see the teleprompter when i am walking over. >> we need somebody else then. >> i don't see you doing it. >> well, i can't. >> exactly. >> sit down like we're in the coach parm's lockerroom. you know ryan palmer, big sport fan, grew up in the area, we call him coach parm. man, you look festive today. >> are you guys ready to get flyered up? >> i'm flyered up. a reason i'm wearing a green jersey, too. there were so many connections cents between this flyers team and the eagles team. >> okay? >> and to help our viewers and you guys understand who these guys are, i'm going compare them to these guys who you probably recognize. >> okay. >> you guys are in the stick

zone. >> right. like okay. >> hockey is fast paced game. i'll go through this quick. these guys up here went, peters, sproles, they all got hurt, kicks. they had to overcome that. so if you look at the flyers, brian elliot, michael norbert, most important thing in a hockey team going into a hockey team the goalies. great 12 combo, got hurt within five days of each other few days ago, flyers have to overcome. that will how did the eagles overcome that? nick foles, how are the flyers going to do it this guy, peter, just pick him up from the detroit red wings, career back up just like foles was, goalie. three and zero. win tonight puts them back in first place in the metropolitan dif us. >> okay. >> we move on. nelson agholor, first round draft pick, considered a bus. >> get rid of him. >> he became a key player this year, especially in the super bowl. >> yes. >> so, who do we have here? >> we have travis connectny, nolan patrick, 21st round picks over the last couple of years, brought up as

teenagers. they didn't crib right awayment people thought oh, maybe these guys are a bus, just lying august already, now there is among some of the best players in the league right now. >> yes. >> they are leading the flyers point streaks, scoring, great. next. jason kelce. you guys remember his speech. >> sure. >> coming into the season everybody criticizing him and his teammate. he pointed it out in his speech. >> right. >> it is the whole team. flyers, same way. jake voracek, sean, shane, three guys, flyers relied on in the past. last season, the start of this season, got off to slow start. now you have all of these guys major contributors. voracek leads the league in assists cents, best defensive forward, right here, best defenseman in the league right there. so next, the big ones, carson wentz, best player in the team. leader of the eagles. claude giroux, he's our carson wentz. now, i don't want to jinx it, i hope claude doesn't get hurt.

but has put the team on his back this year. >> yes. >> he could potentially and mvp just like carson wentz. >> kind of look alike. >> both red heads. >> let's go to the final one now. >> final one most obvious one the coaches. doug pederson, dave hacks tall, doug pederson when hired as the head coach of the eagles, can he coach the head coach? hextall hired out of college first two years, okay. this year make or break season, what's he does? he comes out, he leads the flyers to their first ten game losing streak. >> yes. >> in a decade. >> get rid of hip. >> i was at a game i was cents chanting fire hecks al. >> come on, ryan. >> sorry, sorry, sorry. so, now, he's go this team 11-zero n one since the eagles won the super bowl in convention for first place in their division, team every underdogs, just like our eagles, that is who we're watching right now with the flyers. >> i love it. >> we're all underdogs, yes. >> a win again, they're back in first place. >> ready? >> and the flyers are going on the peco power play!

>> well this fly eagles fly, flyers. >> yes. >> but the most important point, where did you get that shirt? >> tom louden. >> oh,. >> and it is a great connection. >> eagles colors. >> orange is the new green. >> orange is the new green. >> exactly right. >> coach parm, thanks. >> final hit then since talking about green, of our word of the day. there you go. i can admit one person has tweeted me, they did guess this right. but have you? hum. >> coach that was great. thank you. you shot and you scored. right now, comcast business is doubling your internet speed so you can download large files faster

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>> 6:45, another accident on the schuylkill expressway, this time at the ramp here, the westbound schuylkill schuylkill, right at south street. and that's causing the delay, again, leaving south philly, heading in toward center city, already back up here from university, again, west on the schuylkill, heading in to south street. king of prussia actually norristown, traffic lights are out, in the whole northern side of norristown, so watch for all of the intersections or four way stops, police on the scene, at all of the different intersections along the northbound side here, of route 202. so, be careful. accident in new jersey, this is a live look, at the northbound side of 295. just north of route 541. everybody all bunched up here, but what would be the left lane. so, police aren't even on the scene there yet. that's going to cause delays. if you are headed northbound,

coming in through center city, not bad, vine expressway, looking good, sue mentioned it earlier, flower show opens up this weekend, that will bring a lot of extra volume in center city. coming in from new jersey looking good here on freeway just volume headed in toward the walt whitman bridge. sue has got the forecast in 15 seconds. >> 6:46. so here is a little preview of coming attractions, as they say, coastal storm tonight, into tomorrow, soaking rain, and one to 2 inches, the heaviest rain will fall tonight into tomorrow, and high win watch in effect, northwesterlies, 25 to 35 miles an hour sustained, gusts cents 50 to 60 miles an hour, that's tropical storm force, folks, change-over to snow for some of us, friday night. that's the wild-card in this whole forecast, so right now,

we see that with a coastal part of the storm hasn't formed yet, but the bulk of the rain starting to move off shore off north carolina will turn into the nor'easter, coastal flood watch in effect tonight into tomorrow night, moderate, major flooding, full moon, making it worse, flood watch in effect, philadelphia, bucks county, montgomery county, and to the north and east of that, we have winter storm watch in effect for the pocono mountains four to 7 inches of snow. heavy wet snow out of this storm. and everybody is under a high wind watch, for those 50 to 60-e could see some power outages, all of that happens tonight and tomorrow. tomorrow's when we get the worse of it, so, late this afternoon we get the rain rolling in, then it casino every cranks up, gets heavy overnight. and then, when we get into the later morning hours, we see change-over to snow, so it starts piling up in the pocono mountains, rain still heavy at times as the storm starts to exit friday evening, and that

colder air gets drawn into the storm, and some of us could see few snowflakes before it is all said and done. but for most of us, it is rainy, windy day tomorrow, high of only 43 degrees, after 58 today. but it does clear up for the weekends, i think we will hang on to the wind little bit saturday. by sunday, it is close to 50 degrees. and then we stay with seasonal temperatures through the middle of next week. >> bagpipes! >> time for the word of the day. on twitter people are guessing. brandy says the words of the day is mcdonald's, which sounds kind of irish, doesn't it? mcdonald's. >> a lot of people are guessing shamrock, guessing why, but ryan the producers says because of the shamrock shake. but they're wrong. >> top of the morning, say that on the awning, top of the morning snow. >> does it. >> it nos the top of the morning. >> someone else guess dollars long john silver. no. >> no, that's it. >> colors are blue for long john silver. >> you. >> don't see these very often but i love them. white castle restaurant, and

it is castle. >> the word of the day is castle, folks. >> don't get it confused, it is not white, it is just cast. >> i yes, we wanted to go a castle so we thought white castle, plus hungry at the time. anyway there it is, so now that you know the words of the day, why don't go to fox29.com/contests and enter by 10:00 a.m. each day for chance to win airfare aboard aer lynngust, the travel and adventure show announce the winner liver here in the saint patrick's day parade have, new word, new finalist every day this week. so be sure to watch for the new word each day. so you can enter for a chance to go to ireland. >> and sit in a field by yourself. >> yes, sounds so peaceful, you can meditate, pick little flowers, and he loves me, he lovers me not. anyway, i'm starting to fantacize, so for complete rules go to fox29.com/contest. >> are you thinking of maybe a shamrock, pick out three leave or four leave for good luck? >> isn't only one every them good luck? >> i think the four leave clover. >> i'm looking over a four

leaf clover like i've never sent something before? >> something like that, yes. >> or you can pick out daisy, he loves me, he loves me not. >> that's more my speed. >> i hear ya. >> how is that going for you? >> it is not. >> it is a not. they're calling it the:00.- snowflake rule. student, at a school, are not allowed to touch the snow. or you get suspended from school. >> if it is snowing, how do you not touch it? >> well ... >> i mean, it falls on you. >> and don't eat the yellow snow of course. >> no. don't touch

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>> 6:53. >> talk about costly police take for one gloucester county man. >> karen, this is wild. i do have a story that relate to this afterward. here we go. >> slightly epic. so all frequently will take an uber because you've had one too many cocktails. >> this person had too many, too many, too many. he was obviously drunk, going from west virginia and wanted to stay at a buddy's house instead ended up back in new jersey where he's from, from gloucester count any our area. according to njn.com the

mistake pretty costly, 1600 bucks. so he got the ride, you know, just do little uber after night of partying, thought he was crashing at the buddy's place at west virginia, university, wakes up at home 300 miles away in sewell, new jersey, so then tried to fight the charge but ultimately realized i made a dumb mistake. he paid it. >> so he started in morgantown at a bar. and it ended up in sewell, new jersey, passed out in the back of the uber. >> the good news is he got home to where, you know, eventually, but he probably didn't have his stuff with him. all of his stuff probably in virginia. seems little weird, though, because the uber driver probably noticed he was out of it like haha i'll go to new jersey anyway. that's pretty far. and you don't seem like you're all the way here right now, so - >> i know people that take long uber's though, will take an uber maybe from new york to philadelphia. >> oh, yes. i have uber drivers tell me that all the time. >> isn't that this farther than that? >> sure. >> oh, yes.

>> well, ya. i mean, new york is 99 miles. >> right. >> this is 300. i one time got on amtrak train at 3:45 a.m. in the morning in manhattan, and i woke up as we were leaving philadelphia. and the next stop was in wilmington, i believe it went all the way to newark. >> oh, newark. >> yes. >> didn't go all the way to baltimore. >> yikes. >> so i had to uber it back. >> and how much did that cost you? >> hundreds. hey, they have something called a mullet convention down in australia. it is a little town. the name of the town is casino every funny, too, called curry curry. every year they do this. so, if you have a mullet, you know, business in the front, party in the back, you go there. isn't it something? and people are very proud of these mullets. >> yes, show it off. >> look at that one. now, i have to admit, i did

have one at one point. >> of course you did. >> well, i think every guy did. >> i don't know about every guy. >> that's neil armstrong, i was talking with him, look at my hair! >> wow. >> ya. >> looking good, mike. >> and then look at that one. >> oh, ya. >> you think he'll go back to it? >> no. >> could you grow one if you wanted? just kid going what's that supposed to mean? yes. >> just for that, i'm growing a mullet. >> let's do it, ya! >> and i'm starting now. >> mullet mike. i'm ready for this, sue. >> get ready everybody. >> oh, i can see it, it is happening as we speak. know what else is happening? the formation of a coastal storm, and it will come from here, and come out here, and go up the coast, and make a big mess for us tomorrow. we will have details on the nor'easter, coming up. steve? >> and the biggest mess of all, sue, always on the back bays at the jersey shore. this back bay is so smooth, most of the time, except in

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>> here it comes. a major storm brewing. >> got to have a plan to get off the island and make sure that your car is somewhere safe. >> people at the shore, and across the region, getting ready for a storm expected to

bring rain, wind, flooding, and even some snow, to start the weekends. we break down the timing, and the impact, in your area. >> flames burn out of control in burlington county overnight, this time in delanco watcher we know about this fire that sent at least one person to the hospital. another bombshell exit from the white house. >> she is literally been there, by his side, from the very beginning. >> one of the president's most trusted advisors, suddenly resigns, as communications cents director. why hope hicks is out the door. >> hey, kids. don't touch that snow. a school tells its students, you can't touch the snow. the reason behind the unusual rule that's getting a lot of backlash.