Rain, flakes in the Early Morning hours. Live radar shows the system hitting the area with what could be winters last blast. You never know. Snow falling from delaware to south jersey and here in olde city. A live look at market street. This could make your drive a mess in the morning. Good evening, im lucy nolan. Iain is off tonight. Lets get over to kathy orr whos been tracking for awhile if you lived in the north and west of philadelphia youre saying what snow . The air is too dry and storm is farther east offshore. Will you not be impacted by this. You see the platt bridge shaking a bit. Temperatures are falling but above freezing in many location, thats why were seeing wet snow not sticking to much more than grass. Were seeing the heavier snow interior south jersey. This will be the focal point through south jersey during the Early Morning hours. Philadelphia seeing patchy wet snow moving through and i do not anticipate it sticking to the grassy surface, pretty much melting on contact. Areas of burlington county, camden pushing towards ocean you have the best chance of seeing cuting snow. Winter weather advisory through the Morning Hours and looking at a light accumulation of snow. The accumulation in the advisory area mainly on the grassy surfaces. Once again, light snow to about 7 00 a. M. , stick to branches and wire, i do anticipate anything in the way of power outages. The snow is not heavy enough. Temperatures above freezing with northerly wind. You can see the snow moving offshore quickly focussed in the south jersey area, by 4 00 a. M. Its out. By 7 00 a. M. West wind. North and west below freezing and you can see in millville below freezing as well. Icy patches will be a concern come the Morning Hours. Best chance of seeing a coating to a couple of inches will be interior south jersey for rest of us, a few west snow showers, thats about it. Coming up were talking about a major warmup in our weather. Early morning temperatures pretty much around freezing or below. Well go from snow to 70s just like that. More on that coming up with the sevenday later in the broadcast. On that note, make sure youre ready to walk out the door tomorrow with our fox 29 weather and Traffic Authority for any problems on the roads to the newest forecast watch bob kelly and sue serio starting at 4 00 a. M. Its been a very snow with area in some places. In philadelphia, included but as you head into new jersey, its a bit of a different story. Fox 29 brad sattin is in new jersey to tell us more about what hes seeing. Brad. You got snow there. I see it. Reporter im starting to look little bit like a snow man. I thought we were through with this. Not quite. Weve seen snow a few hours, its coming at the heaviest right now seeing thick wet flurries. Steady snow sticking a little bit as kathy method to the grass not too bad. There are signs of bet weather. Summer camp registration under way in gloucester county. There was an Easter Egg Hunt as you see this was yesterday but this is what we are dealing with today. Roads that are getting a little wet. Minor flooding, a bit of a dioecese community morning. Just when we thought driving through this stuff was over for awhile. Its back. At least for the moment. Not much slipping and sliding quite yet. But snow falling wet roads and the possibility of a slushy morning commute. Snow plows in place. Its the first day of spring and were giving would a free water ice to everybody that stops by. Reporter 3,000 free withes at reat that point trying to get folks in the spring spirit. Despite temps in the low 40s there were line a little cold for this today a little cold. Its worth it delicious. Reporter whats left of winter is short lived. Speaking of shorts this is nothing new. One more day. Well be back to spring in throw days . I think Mother Nature needs to really get it together. She teases with that 80 degree weather and now its snowing. Its raining. Its gloomny. Ugly. Reporter search for spring a wild goose chase. Dont seem to mind. They dont care they like the cold weather. They prefer it because theyre hunting dogs. Reporter the rest will continue to hunt for signs of spring you might get dust. It doesnt look like it but it will be gone by tomorrow. Be careful on those roads in the morning. Reporter in fact a few minutes ago we saw a snowplow. Good news, lots of kids are on spring break this week. If lucy you can call this spring. Its officially spring. At least on it calendar. Thank you so much. Breaking news in kensington a Philadelphia Police officer was hurt chasing after a robbery suspect on frankford avenue. 24 and district officer was rushed to the hospital by his partner expected to be treated and released. Over officers were able to track down the suspect and make an arrest. Developing tonight three people died after shooting at a pennsylvania turnpike toll plaza, joyce evans joins us in newsroom with surprising details about the suspect. Joyce . Reporter lucy this was tragic morning. After two employees were gunned down. It happened just before 7 00 a. M. At the Fort Littleton exchange. Thats in South Central pa. State police say the suspect Clarence Briggs a retired state trooper tried to rob a toll booth. Briggs tried to tie up two workers inside a building but one of them fault back. Briggs ran off. The trooper says he ran into a security guard. Ronald heist in one of the employees we tried to tie up. Officials say he shot and killed them both and then they say, briggs took off in the vehicle that goes around and collects the fare money. State troopers arrived minutes later while briggs tried to get the money into his car. He was killed in a gun battle. Well extend whatever records we need to make sure that we find out whats happened. Make sure our system is secure. That our employees are protected. Reporter danny crouse, the turnpike employee who was shot and killed had only been on it job three months. And this was not the suspects first runin with the law. Investigators say in 2014, briggs was arrested for simple assault but the charges were dropped. He had served more than two decades on the Pennsylvania State police force before he retired honorably about four years ago. Thank you very much, joyce. A 17yearold boy is recovering after a shooting near a northeast philadelphia school. Teen told police he was hanging outside with friend behind archbishop ryan late last night. Two other teens he doesnt know asked him about buying drugs. Things escalated. He told police those teens called someone he dont showed up with a gun. 17yearold ended upshot in the leg. Police are looking for the three guys who ran away. Archbishop Ryan High School says person put injured is not one of our students. At this time we have no indication that any students from earplug archbishop was involved. The school is cooperating with police and plans to hold an alibi stormy to address what happened. A fire has ripped through a row home and spread for the home next door. Now a brewerytown family picking up the pieces from two decades of memories. Sabina kuriakose spoke with the victims. Sabina, the family is counting its blessings. Reporter incredibly, they are. Lucy, clark family tells me church has also been their sanctuary and never more so than today. We were in church. Its palm sunday and we got called while we were at the church to say that the house next door was on fire. Reporter by the time clark family left service and rushed to their brewerytown home on the 1400 block of north 30th street, this is all that was left. Fire had destroyed the house next door. Spread to their own. Firefighters working to put out the last of the flames. I graduated from college the home his mother bought him before she is passed two years ago. 20 years of memories gone up in smoke and flame. On this christian holiday, marking the start of the holy week, clarks are finding peace through faith. In fact, theyre giving thanks. Were grateful to god nobody was home when it happened. The biggest thing no within was hurt, and were blessed. Reporter firefighters say the flames ignite around 2 00 in the afternoon in this vacant homes brought under control in less than an hour. Homes on either side damaged. As night fell, neighbors took in the aftermath and cleanup began. It was burning. It was really burning. A lot of memories. Im very sad today, but were sure well be able to put it back together. Reporter despite the new found hardship, tracy clark said got has a plan usually for a husband stays home from church, today, he went. Property is property. Lives are different. Were all ok. Reporter they are all ok. Tonight the clark family is trying to savage what they can of the last two decades, they tell us mom, dad and daughter are safe and they have a place to stay. Lucy thank you very much. That is a good thing. Third time in six weeks someone has destroyed a black lives matter sign at a church in new jersey. Its meant to invite the community to join in the conversation about race. But someone shredded it just four weeks ago, we told about someone destroying a similar sign and church says this will in the stop. It from continuing its mission to hold public forums. March madness is in full swing in villanovas campus, students packed end of the school Conley Center this afternoon hoping to watch their team win and head the sweet 16. Howard live in the newsroom tonight with the wildcats big game. Howard . Its a happen day on the mainline old villanova campus for the First Time Since 2009. This senior class at villanova the first time they moved on to the sweet 16. No upsets this time around. Nova took care of the games, they were supposed to and they moved re move on. Both games this weekend were over by half time. Lets go to brooklyn. Today, villanova, against iowa, and in the first half when they won the game, nice pass right there. Puts villanova up by 17. Now, towards the end of the first half you see seconds left, the turn over by iowa, villanova scores josh heart up by 2554, 29 at the half. Up and win the game 8768. Not making out of the first week something to catch up been hearing all season we were either going to win this game and it was going to go away or lose and theyre going to have to deal with it. Thats life. Maybe that did help us. They werent afraid, they definitely were not afraid of the failure. Nobody was afraid of playing this game, great iowa team, we now we could have lost this game. No one was afraid of that outcome. I love jay wright. They were good at parts during the season. Nonetheless, villanova moves on and play real tough miami team next week. Well get to that. Coming up shortly on sports sunday hear more from jay wright and his team and talk a little baseball. Season about to begin for the phillies, we talked to joe. A flight over the ocean turns scary when one passengers phone burst in flame. Started and i thought we were going down, i was my god, theres fire on the plane what one student was doing on her phone when it caught fire and all this guy wanted to do was pay his bill, instead, he got called a racial slur and went downhill from there. And ,. Stars taking the stage. In the passion. Got very emotional. What broughtler to tears in rehearsal. Attempts Early Morning standoff in indiana left a shot in a Mobile Home Park around 12 30 about 60 miles north of indianapolis. Two deputies were trying to serve an arrest warrant and the suspect died. We thank you for the time to be able to tell the public about carl and that carl will be missed and we appreciate any prayers and support that anyone out there can give us right now because we really need the prayers. The other injured deputy is in stable condition. He leaves behind a wife and threeyearold child. 2016 protesters hit the streets across the country this weekend against donald trump. On the left that, us group in new york city demonstrated outside trump tower in manhattan. Police say they had to use pepper spray and arizona protesters tried to block a road leading to a trump rally while candidates on both sides of the aisle prepared for another big day of primaries. Foxs dan springer breaks it down on the campaign trail. Donald trump speaking at the gop lincoln dinner in florida but this event was down right tame after saturday clouds coming to blows with Trump Holding a large lead over his rival. He wants to unite parties john is a nice guy and ted is a nice guy. Its important we come together. Reporter ted cruz is making his way through arizona aand turning his sights on trump donald trump has been supporting liberal politicians 40 years. Reporter ohio john kasich getting a few jabs in on sunday morning talk shows i point other at times when i thought his language was inappropriate like if i wont get nominated theres going to be a riot. What kind of talk is that. Reporter Hillary Clinton took the weekend off but had her husband on the trail we are in position for the First Time Since i left office to restore an era of broadly shared prosperity and to create the most Inclusive Society weve ever had. Reporter Bernie Sanders cam is sweeping through washington we say to Corporate America to wall street, no, this crow is not going to become an, we are a knock increase. Reporter the focus turns to western states as arizona utah and idaho casts votes on tuesday, too soon arizona, Dan Springer Fox news. President obama is spending night in cuba with the first family the first president to visit 88 year, air force one roofed earlier today, as the Obama Administration continues to normalize the. U. S. Severed diplomatic ties in exhibit 1. The fbi is confirms its investigating a threatening letter sent to Donald Trumps sister in philadelphia. In a statement, the agency says its working closely with the United States secret service and Marshal Service as it is an ongoing matter. In further details are available. Marianne trump is a federal Appeals Court judge in philadelphia. Trump berry received the letter friday. One day after Donald Trumps son eric also received a threatening letter. Smoke billowed out of this throw story apartment complex early this morning in chester. Broke out just before 1 30. Took 50 firefighters about an hour to get it under control. One victim was taken to the hospital. The fire destroyed three apartments. Prepare to defend yourself in any situation. From knowing your surroundings to being able to just, fox 29 Jennifer Joyce got in on it action at todays selfdefense class in northern liberties. Go. Get down. Reporter student believes these moves could save her life i feel pretty secure that i be able for the attack you want to create distance. Knife attack defense is the focus of his class, instructor smith owner of Tactical Defense in the Spring Garden section of the city. Very good. Reporter its a special session. Free. And open to the public in light of recent stabbings in the city. In one case, few weeks ago, police say a woman was stabbed way kitchen knife inside of an elevated at the huntingdon septa stop on the market frankford line. Smith reflect other the recent violence and wants to help whos next . A lot of people say we can rally. Protest. We can have a fundraiser to help the victims. But we need to help the Community Stay safe, we have to give selfdefense too. Reporter no matter your sex or size. You see how the difference of the size looks. Who would think that you can actually defend. Reporter anyone can protect themselves with the right training. Even me with my five foot nothing training. I want you to kick i gave it a shot. Try to kick. Nice. Reporter it certainly an adrenaline rush. Very good. Push it to that side. Reporter after few more tries, my kicks became more powerful. I felt more in control of the situation. A new found confidence that students say they gained through this training. Everybody should be able to know what to do in lifethreatening situation. Thats it. Reporter center city, Jennifer Joyce, fox 29 news. A church targeted by vandals windows smashed holes in the walls. Real shock, as of the accused vandals and one brave child and were fighting for another one. One girls final move that saved her baby sisters life. Investigators have began to examine the black boxes from the deadly plane crash in russia. Crashed and exploded upon landing, flown in from dubai. All 62 people on board died. Several planes had trouble landing at the time of the crash. High wind reported. Cause is not officially determined as of yet. A test of mothers in jail. She put her 2yearold daughter in the oven. She was arrested thursday after sheriffs deputy received a call. Witnesses. The child had to be flown to dallas burn center. She was bail was set at 300,000. Absolutely heartbreaking. A flight from washington to hawaii took a scary turn over the ocean when a woman saw an erupted into flames. Take a look. This is whats left on her i phone. She was watching a movie on the flown when flames started shooting out of it. Flames are right on my phone. And flames were getting higher. The airline says they were able to put the fire out quickly. No one hurt. The flight continued on to hawaii. The airline and faa are investigating what happened. All this guy wanted to do was pay his bill. Instead he got called a racial slur. What happened when he told the manager. Stars take to the stage in tonights Live Performance of the passion. Got very emotional. What brought her to tears in rehearsal. Even she didnt expect. Kathy after the wet snow moves out. Were talking about a warmup. Going to be hard to get rid of that cold air but we will eventually. The 70s will be back in the sevenday. Details coming up. Discover every way to easter at target. Get a 10 target gift card when you spend 50 on groceries. See store for coupon. Look at the ben franklin parkway tonight as rain and wet snow falls across our area, lets take a look at the live radar. It is shows a system sticking around through the Early Morning, kathy is tracking what you need to know. Michigan man was trying to pay his tab when things turned ugly i want to order something else. Just pay your tab. Then i said, can i speak to the mirror . He said i am the manager. Quentin is a former nfl player, he was appalled but able to keep his head. Instead of his name, he was listed as black guy. The Attorney Says the bartender is denying the accusations they said they were going to investigate and make any corrective action, if needed. I dont understand how its if needed. Youre training your employees to identify customers by their race . My bill is the first problem. As mr. Heinz just said the restaurant says it will take whatever corrective measure is necessary. In georgia, teen girl sacrificed her own life to save her baby sister in a river. Family members say 14yearold Elisa Calhoun were playing on a swim noodle. Their dad jumped into the water to try to save them. But he had to be rescued. She was able to lift up her baby sister. Once emergency crews arrived they performed cpr but she died at the hospital and kendall is in the icu. She wont be getting monday morning. Kendall. She doing better but shes got a lot of work yet. Feel for the family. Adding to the pain, the calhoun family was grieving another child lost. Three children under the age of ten accused of making a big mess at a california church. Seven, eight and nine years old, smashed windows sprayed a fire extinguisher. The mother of the 8yearold turned her son into police. She says age is in excuse and hes got to learn. Tonight was act two for fox with second live televiseded musical. Fans tuned in for the passion. An updated story of the last days of jesus. , ,. Fall apart, barely breathing with a broken heart. Thats still beating. End the pain. The passion included modern day music to that included performances from visual sha yearwood. The country star said she got emotional because she had to sing at the foot of the cross. That emotion doesnt normally come up for her in the studio. We got all kinds of emotions when it comes to our weather outside. We certainly do. Wet snow out there right now. Outside our studios here at fifth and market. You can see here we go on 4th street, a little bit of an icy mix out there. That will be the rule in philadelphia. Temperatures are really too warm for this to stick. Sitting at 36 degrees. The high today, 43 degrees. Wind out of the northeast just seven miles an hour. On our radar looking at slow showers getting a little bit heavier. Especially in atlantic county, ocean county, and this is where the advisory area is. Slushy snow mainly on the grass expected in south jersey by tomorrow morning. For the rest of us, its going to be difficult to stick. This is why, 35 that pottstown. 38 degrees in philadelphia. 36. Little bit colder as you make your way toward Atlantic City in millville where were seeing wet snow showers. We widen out we have colder temperatures to the north, new york seeing this storm and also boston but still above freezing there. As we push the storm offshore within the next couple hours, well be seeing dryings conditions for the morning rush. But as temperatures fall, there will be icy spots. Thats something we can deal with in the morning and breezy conditions during the afternoon with temperatures warming up. Wind gusts will not be an issue overnight or tomorrow morning. They will be a problem by the afternoon. Wind gusting out of the northwest about 25 miles an hour in philadelphia. You can see higher in allentown. Gusting to 27 miles an hour. This morning, into the afternoon, temperatures warm, pretty well, the High Temperature today 43. Well go higher monday, tuesday, wednesday, by thursday, the warmth will peak before we cool it down over the holiday weekend. In the city overnight 32. Suburbs 28. Wet snow showers in south jersey, accumulation mainly on the grass expected. Slick spots for the morning. Tomorrows high 50, clouds and sun, wind picks up during the afternoon. As we look ahead on fox 29 sevenday forecast you can see a blustery damon. Tuesday, partly sunny. Gusty but mild for your wednesday. And look at this temperatures on thursday. Its back to the 70s. Little bit cooler with showers on friday. Saturday 56. By Easter Sunday looking nice. A lot of questions about that on facebook and twitter. Sundays High Temperature, 63 degrees. Up and down but the trend is definitely on its way up. Wed like to see that. 70s is gany snow at all. It will be gone quickly. I kind of like it its pretty but i know its not going to stick around. Not much out there thats going to do it for us, for your fox 29 news at 10 00 here in studio 29. Market street in front of us, keep it right here for sports sunda sunday. Tonight on sports sunday baseball opens two weeks, what do we have to look forward to with the phillies . Joe kerrigan will join us and villanova made this weekend look too easy. Highlights and we hear from the team coming up on sports sunday. Occur