Stay on top of the pop air lung and two chances of snow in the forecast by down loading the free cbs philly weather app available on i tunes and google play. It the is first day of phl prek, locally funded prek initiative. 2,000 tuition free seats have been created thanks to the the cities you this drink tax. Eyewitness news was at the northeast where students were getting ready for their first day of school. Philadelphias chief education officer, was also there as well. Meantime, some say that they are experiencing, sticker shock, thanks to that new tax. Our joe holden is live in center city with more on that part of the story, joe. Reporter jessica, sticker shock is very clear when you hit the stores. City rebehind us intent of this law was to tax the distributors, of sugary drinks , however, we have found that is being passed on to the customer, and in some instances, the costs, related to this tax, it is higher then the soda itself. It makes he want to cry. Reporter she was about to bite bullet shelling out 50 cents more for these soft trainings but fine rent. This says 51 cents each. Reporter 1. 50 total in cost because of philadelphias sugary drink tax. I love it. I love it. So, i cannot afford it. Reporter there was more confusion in aisle 13. It ties high. Reporter Allison Scott king balked the at sharp increase, and city is using added revenue to fund prek and improvements to parks and libraries. I would have me some pepsi soda. Reporter but not today. On day four of the tax, the city has imposed on sugar drinks distributors there is widespread finger pointing on exactly who should end up picking up the tab. Maurice waxman is it the is revenue commissioner. A little bit of the confusion were eag even though the law does not require this, some retailers are opt go to pass along some or all of the cost of the tax. Reporter we have found that mostly all cases this new tax on distributors was being passed on to the cuss her. Anthony campisi represents the American Beverage Association locally. Everybody testifies before city council that this tax would be passed on. Reporter campisi defended Beverage Industry passing on tax saying Profit Margins are too small and taxis too high. The city says it hopes that businesses are not passing on that added cost and that they are doing so transparently. For jeff brown, own other have this shop rite location, he says he thinks the industry will reshape how it packages products. Universally everybody likes the idea of prek, but when they look at their register receipt and saw that they spent, you know, ten dollars in tax, that they didnt before, they are very upset. Reporter and, in the meantime, the Beverage Industry on appeal in Commonwealth Court working to overturn this sugar drink tack reporting live from center city, joe holden for cbs3 Eyewitness News. In other news Bensalem Police say a tip from an alert Eyewitness News viewer led them to a hit and run driver who seriously injured a bicyclist on new years day. Only Eyewitness News was there when the alleged driver, james hatcher, turned himself into police this morning. The Authorities Say he was behind the wheel of the red chevy pickup truck in this surveillance video, that struck, 56 yearold lenny gulen. Greg argos spoke to the victim s family. He will have a live report on 6 00 oclock. Jeremiah monell appeared before a Cumberland County judge for his first court appearance. Three twoyear old ace accused of killing his estranged wife, tara oshay watson last month and then going on the run. Police arrested him in folsom Delaware County on monday after a two week manhunt. He faces murder and weapons offences. Two septa trolleys collide in West Philadelphia earlier today end ising, dozens of passengers to the hospital. Chopper three over the scene as medics tended to the injured there. That crash, happened on 38th and lancaster just before 1 00. Were told, 46 riders went to the hospital, none of the injuries are life threatening. And, one passenger described the impact while it ising inside of one of those trolleys. Just sitting there and next thing i know, bam. I had no hat on, no glasses. It hit he this is back of the neck. Trolley services in that area was diverted for a couple hours while authorities cleared the accident, and the cause remains under investigation. A Long Island Railroad commuter train crashes in new york leaving more than 100 people injured there. Eyewitnesses say it just did not stop, and kept going. The train hit a bumping block at the end of the track in Atlantic Terminal in brooklyn during the morning rush, and ntsb investigators are now on the scene. More than 100 people were injured after a Long Island Railroad commuter train, jumped the tracks this morning as it pulled into a station in brooklyn. The fdny says none of the injuries is life threatening. Tracie brown, was on the train i dont know what happened, all i know is that it is a big like, like a big noise. It was total chaos. There the was smoke in the train. We were just sitting there in shock. Reporter video and photos from social media show shattered glass, and broken seats inside one of the train cars. The fdny says that the front two cars suffered the most damage. The train crashed through a barrier and a small room at the end of the track. A rail actually pierced the bottom of the train. It the is fortunate we didnt have more severe injuries. Reporter accident happened the Atlantic Terminal in downtown brooklyn. It is a very busy terminal will where thousands of commuters transfer to subways every day. Ambulances, took 11 passengers to hospitals, some with minor injuries, had to wait for a ride. The most significant injuries are possible broken leg. Reporter Officials Say about 600 passengers were on the train and that most were not injured. Investigators also say that many passengers were standing, as they prepared to get off of the train, the cause remains under investigation. Also investigators continue their search for the cause of last nights fire at a greenhouse in lehigh county. Eyewitness viewer sent thus video after a huge blaze broke out 80 00 last night. It took Fire Fighters more than eight hours to contain the flames at the dan shantz farm and greenhouse on spinners town road in the milford township. Chopper three over what is left of the greenhouse, after that fire, as you can see, crews were still on the scene today, as smoke continues to bilo from beneath the debris. There are no reports of any injuries. Renovations are on the way , for the delaware memorial bridge. The Delaware RiverBay Authority has adopted its the 017 Capital Improvement program and it will budget 460 milliondollar for renovations through 2021. Now some of that money is going to the the bridge, over the next five years, crews will perform several projects on the span, including installing a dehumidifier system to extend the life span of cables on the bridge. Suspender ropes and connection brackets, that were found to show corrosion, will also be replaced. Camden county is experiencing, a huge boost in economic development, to the tune of more than three and a half billion dollars. Eyewitness news at the Camden CountyRegional Chamber of commerce lunch today. County officials highlighted redevelopment projects that will bring new jobs to that area. Were told camden it the i is benefiting the most from the surge in new investment. Less than two weeks tens of thousands of people from across the philadelphia region will take part in the annual Martin Luther king day of service. Cherri gregg from our sister station kyw news radio was at Girard College where details of this years big Service Event were revealed. Reporter it the began with a call to action, and one for unity from the next generation. Reporter organizers are now announcing the theme for this years king day of service which is educational justice, children from several area schools, expressed their visual interpretation and a new mural inspired by a zero seven yearold quote by doctor king which says intelligence is not enough, intelligence plus character, that is the goal, of true education. That character education, we would have no manners, no one would be willing to Work Together and no one would be accepting of each other. Reporter found are todd bern stein says this years day of service toys cloud divide through action following one of the most divisive elections in a generation. Doctor kings legacy, speaks to bringing people, of all background, together, and to turn concerns into citizen action. Reporter this place, where doctor king once stood 52 years ago will be the center of it all. Just 12 days once again this campus will be transformed into king day of service, headquarters, boosting more than 100 projects and 5,000 volunteers. Like in years past, day of service will break record with 145,000 volunteers, participating in 1800 Service Projects across the region. The king holiday is a call to action but as a springboard , on that day to make an ongoing commitment, to be involved in the community. Not just a day on but lifetime of action, at Girard College, cherri gregg, for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Action inn teed. 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You may have seen ads on tv including here on cbs3 for minnesota based my pillow. It turns out that the Better Business bureau not a fan of the companys advertising. Three on your side jim donovan explains why the bbb lowered the companys rating from a a plus to an f. Reporter you have likely seen ads for my pillow. My pillow absolutely free. Reporter well, they sold 25 million pillows, the Better Business bureau this week rated them with an f. The problem happened when my pillow started to advertise buy one get one free and didnt stop. So it became a continuous offer. Reporter that violates the bbbs code of advertising, that says, that the free offer should be temporary. Otherwise, consumers may view it as a continuous combination offer, no part of which is free. Michael lendel the inventor and ceo of my pill i expressed disappoint the. In the f raiding. I can see a b, or a c. Reporter they approached my pillow in august about the violation. They wanted it off by january 1st, wanted to us change it up. So, we missed the date. We like to change it up but this was so successful we ran it longer then we would normally run. Reporter now my pillows b bb accreditation has been revoke. There is two reasons that this is important, one, the consumer need to know what they are saving and number two , businesses need to be protected as well. Reporter two for one pillow special still exists and being advertised on my pillows web site. It is important to point out b bb says f rating isnt regarding a product issue, it is an issue with advertising. Reporting for three on your side, im jim donovan. Head foresee see world this santiago. Theme park is saying good bye to one tradition and welcoming another. As park orca show comes to an end on sunday they have announced plans for a new roller coaster called the electric eel. Park officials a new roller coaster will give riders the opportunity, to feel what it is like to move like an eel, as they propel, more than 60 miles an hour along nearly 900 feet of twisted track. Okay. The coaster is expected today buy in a new section of the park, next year. What it feels like to be an eel. You know what. I cant say i have ever thought about that. No, i have have not. But it is expanding my mind now you have a shot at it. Park pass for me. It is not a log flum, kate. Okay. We have got some snow moving in here. We do have some snow. We have not seen much so far this year but as we wake up friday morning we wake up to a pretty coating of snow on the ground. All right. It is not enough to be a huge problem. There could be slick spots in the morning commute the but enough to give everything that nice clean look, and glaze to it. Ugh to give everything that i can work with that. If you are out early friday morning something to watch out for. Slick spots this has set up. It will start late thursday night, and get in here, and almost be out of here by the latter part of the friday morning commute. We will look at how it is timing out here in a second. Starting off with a look outside we will take you down the shore, and you can see lights are on but one thing to note, both in this shot and Neighborhood Network shotty will show new a minis about a month ago, even a couple weeks ago these cameras at the this time of the night were still too dark to show, at this time of the night. Now we are seeing just a little bit more light in the sky, just barely, but it is an indication that the days are slowly, slowly, getting a bit longer, the shore looking a whole lot less foggy then it did last night. Middletown ship high school in cape may courthouse, again, still a little lingering light in the sky as we look in the water. 46 degrees there right now, above average, and wind are pretty strong, out of the northwest at 10 miles an hour. Storm scan three shows clear conditions, all across the region. This problems right now. We have lake effect snow showers. These are mainly coming in on a due west wind so these should stay north of us moving along path new york state border here tonight but what we have to watch out for is this system out over portions of the rockies. One little piece of this, right here is going to break off and really go a ross the country here as we get into tomorrow. That is going to get here on thursday night into friday. Another piece of this will head toward the gulf of mexico and join forces with the developing system that one will head off the coast this weekend, as of right now, it looks like a miss for us, possibly brushing coast on saturday but could be a snow event for portions of the south east. Win gusts are pretty strong. I got blown away outside on the sky deck. 28 miles an hour in philadelphia gusting to about 30 in the poconos. Were going from thrilling to chilling. Temperatures got the in the 50 s in many spots. Tomorrow, almost a full 20 degrees drop in temperatures, and mount pocono , from 40 to only 29 degrees. But, Everyone Wants to know about the snow. The lets time it out. Tomorrow cloud roll n dry day. It is tomorrow night at 11 00 oclock with the first snow flakes of snow, could begin to move in the region. We will see this overnight. It looks like steady of the the snow will be friday night, and or thursday night into friday morning at 2 00 a. M. Friday morning. Continuing through about 4 00 a. M. And then notice by six or 7 00 this is starting to wind down. With you that being said it is cold enough there could ab accumulation and some slick spots on the road. We are looking at a yen coat to go 2 inches, for everyone, and that is 2 inches, some spots may pick up a light dusting. It just depend where snow intensifies briefly. Slick spots for the morning drive, temperatures hovering near that treeing mark on friday morning. And overnight mainly clear, breezy, 27 degrees. Tomorrow colder but seasonal. Again, it is tomorrow night into early friday morning we will see that light coating of snow, and possibly up to an inch or two, and a lot of that could melt by friday afternoon as temperatures do get above freezing, but it the looks, colder, still, for the weekend , high only 30 on saturday. We may have an extended stretch of sub freezing temperatures. Thrilling to chilling. Yes. Here we go. Kate, thanks very much. Still ahead on Eyewitness News do diet drinks help you stay on your diet . We have new information. It is awe new technology, brush that talks to you. It says it can help your hair, that is coming up, pat. For the eagles their path to success hinges on this hand right here, yes, of course, it is carson wentz but according to the gm it wi