Investigators say woodward picked him up and eventually drove him to a park. But the exact time and place of his murder is still unclear. Woodwards mother had this to say. I would like it very much if everyone could respect our privacy and the privacy of the bernstein family. This is a time of great suffering, and we would ask that you would respect that suffering. Thank you very much. Reporter in a newly released statement, bernsteins grieving parents said there is still much to be done. And if it is determined this was a hate crime, well cry out not only for our son but for lgbtq people everywhere that live in fear who have been victims of hate crime. Woodward is set to appear in a california courtroom later today to face a judge for the first time. The charges against him could carry 26 years to life in prison. The beginning of medical marijuana in pennsylvania began today. New at 5 00, steven fish takes us inside the first dispensary facility that opened its doors in bethlehem. Reporter it was a packed house inside keystone canna dispensary. Medical marijuana is an important tool in our medical toolbox. Reporter Rachel Levine says medical marijuana can help patients suffering from a host of conditions. For many of these patients, medical marijuana may be really the only medicine that can help them find relief. Reporter that relief is now here in bethlehem. Dosages will be offered in vaporization, pills and licks. There will be safe and effective access to a new medicine that patients need. Reporter Jeff Sessions threw a curveball this month that kept federal agents from cracking down on sales. They are not worried about a potential change. Im going to move forward as if if we stop now, its just going to hurt patients in a few months from now. Reporter among those advocating is former Philadelphia Flyer ryan coatze. Hes choosing medical marijuana over opioids. I spent a good portion of my life fighting and playing hockey. The grind of both of those led to multiple surgeries and retiring at 8. It helped me manage, get through that and manage my pain sustainably. Reporter a dispensary will hold educational workshops and in midfebruary, it will start accepting patients. Steven fisher, nbc 10 news. Philadelphia Water Department is turning to socialia to try to help customers faster. Were told crews are working 24 7 to fix water main breaks. The Water Departments help line has an average wait time of about two hours, sometimes more. So to help with the influx of calls, theyre taking Customer Service requests on twitter and facebook pages. A lot of those breaks happening of the cold weather this morning. People across pennsylvania woke up to a snowcovered front yard. Heres a look at what they found in ardmore. A light dusting there. Storm force 10 saw snow fall and melting as soon as it hit the pavement on rockland road. Live look from our nbc 10 camera in allentown where a little more than three inches of snow fell overnight there. Chief meteorologist tam mmy sousa joining us now. Its going to be icy out there. Everything will refreeze because were below freezing. Thats something to be concerned about if youre out and about driving about. Some places had ponding from several days ago. Watch out for that. Temperatures are going to be quite chilly in the teens for your overnight low. Beautiful sunset out there. The sun came out. Peeks of the sunshine came out late today. 40 the high in philadelphia. That was the wee hours of the morning the temperature continued to fall after that. Only 0. 2 inch of snow at philadelphia international. Chestnut hill, about a half inch. And the numbers went up as you went northward and westward into the suburbs and into the Lehigh Valley. Pocono summit, one of the big winners. 8 inches of snow. Hamburg at 6 inches. Allentown, 3. 3. Springtown, 4 inches. Then we head into delaware. 1. 2 for newark. Mt. Holly, 1. 3. Over in new jersey, phoenixville, collegeville 2 and the airport only 0. 2. So pretty much as we expected. The heavier totals were going to be further west and a little further to the north. Doppler radar shows that snow is pretty much out of here unless youre down here in the tippy corner, the southeast corner of delaware. Thats where theres snow left. And when i come back in a few minutes, ill talk about the big thaw. Look at that 50 in denver. Thats nothing compared to what were going to see this weekend. Ill be back in just a little bit. Well see you then, tammie. Former white house chief strategist steve bannon will meet with Robert Muellers investigators. Thats according to a person familiar with the decision. Bannon is expected to be interviewed by prosecutors instead of testifying before a grand jury. It is unclear when that interview will happen. Yesterday bannon avoided a series of questions during an appearance before a house intelligence committee. Bannons attorney relayed questions in realtime to the white house during the daylong interview. He was told by the White House Counsels Office not to discuss his work on the transition or in the white house. Police arrested demonstrators during a protest on capitol hill today. The peaceful prowas over daca. The program which protects immigrants brought to the u. S. Illegally as is at the center of a potential Government Shutdown on friday. Some democrats say they will not vote on a spending bill unless theres a fix for daca. Block funding for our military with a friday deadline over unrelated issues just makes no sense to me. Its wrong. Congress is now moving toward a shortterm spending deal with hopes of aing a shutdown. The Northampton CountyDistrict Attorney is getting involved in the daca gede bait. Morganelli wrote a letter to President Trump with the hopes of getting a daca act approved. Morganelli says its the right thing to do with Daca Recipients with no criminal history. Its just plain wrong to penalize hundreds of thousands of folks who did nothing wrong. Lawmakers have to make a decision on the daca program by march when its set to expire. City of philadelphia is trying to address the Opioid Epidemic by going straight to the source. Today the city filed a lawsuit against pharmaceutical companies that make and market addictive prescription drugs. Leaders accuse the companies of deceptive marketing that doesnt explain how dangerous the drugs could be. Doctors were systematically given the false information about this. The is seeking millions to repay the costs soerktsed with addressing the epidemic. Its believed 1200 people died of overdoses in philadelphia alone last year. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf wants to expand overtime to salaried workers. The threshold is around 23,000 but wolf wants to raise that to 48,000. Its part of his jobs but pay initiative. He made the announcement to update the overtime rules. Nearly 500,000 people will finally get paid for the amount of time theyre putting in at work. Were doing this because this is common sense. This is something to be fair to workers but its also really good for employers to who are treating their employees fairly. It will take three or four years to put in place. Ahead at 5 00 over the edge. A man drove his car into an icy river and left his girlfriend to die. New video of the to save her. All new at 5 00 traveling to puerto rico. How local missionaries are making lifesaving contributions on the. We all know the eagles fight song but do any of us know where it came from or why nobody sang it until the mid90s . Im tim furlong getting everything you need to know about fly eagles fly. They came out of nowhere, sir how many of em . We dont know. Dozens. All right lets teach these freaks some manners good luck out there, captain thanks but i dont need luck, i have skills. I dont have my keys. on intercom all hands. We are looking for the captains keys again. They are on a silver carabiner. Oh, this is bad. As long as people misplace their keys, you can count on geico saving folks money. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. Hi. Can you help me save on my energy bill . Old appliances. Like a hot water heater . Its around here somewhere. Nope. Nope. What is this thing . Sir, have you looked in the basement . Huh. Oh, yeah. No wonder. It was hidden behind all of my free weights. If youre not an expert, peco can help. We have lots of ways to help you save energy and money. Peco. The future is on. And watch our eagles fly all across our area, people young and old and in between proudly belting out the eagles fight song. This from grove preschool 5s in west chester. Were all chanting fly, eagles fly but how did that become the anthem for the Philadelphia Eagles . Furlong has a little History Lesson for all of us. Reporter even on game days you can almost hear it inside the linc. The eagles fight song. Its not a feeling like it. Its the most authentic, energetic thing you can do. Reporter many viewers singing it. The philadelphia orchplays a nice version, too. But where did his greatest hit song come from . It was born long before bobby. A couple of guys in the 50s wrote a song for the eagles. Part of an album of team songs. Very long, very collegiate and didnt have words. The eagles victory song had words but nobody sang them. A big brass band played a version on the field and it went away until the mid90s when they reworked it on the keyboard, tweaked the words and asked if they could play it. The guys in the band new then they had to make this song catch on. One of the guys in the pep band, skull, he would make copies. Thousands upon thousands of copies. Wed go out to tail gates, hand them out everywhere. We werent leaving until they sang that song. We all learned it and hopefully fans will be singing it real soon in minneapolis. Coming off the airplane singing the song. Youll be walking in to the most northern part of philadelphia. 1500 miles away. Reporter tim furlong, nbc 10 news. We love seeing your spin on the song, too. We want to hear that in minneapolis, too. And share some of our favorite versions with all of us. Efly eagles fly on the road to victory thats the team from plumbing, heating and electrical supplies. They spelled their support for the birds complete with those giant letters. Fly eagles fly one, two, three eagles fever is spreading. These young fans belted out the fight song in south florida. Thats what im talking about. We want to see your take on the eagles fight song. Send it to us on nbc 10 or through the app. Also tag us nbcphiladelphia with the flyeaglesfly. Well hear from eagles head coach Doug Pederson on how he rose above his critics to get this far. Turning to your first alert weather. The shoveling started pretty early this morning in allentown. Found people clearing sidewalks and crews clearing the roads as well. The snow moved in to North Carolina this morning followed by cold temperatures. The National Weather service issued winter storm warnings and Winter Weather advisories for almost the entire state. Snow is always a welcome sight here at Camelback Mountain in the poconos. Skiers and snowboarders were enjoying the fresh powder. Nearly eight inches fell across much of the pocono range. Thats incredible. They needed that snow and got it. An inch at my house. Im in lower montgomery county. That was manageable. No heavy lifting for you n the family. No, im winter weary. Enjoy, lets take a look at what you can expect. A whole bunch of good news. We have one hiccup to get past. Gorgeous sunset out there. A refreeze on the way. Any ice that thawed, water that melted, its going to be on the roadways. Be aware of that. Everything will be below freezing. Then well being at a 25 to 30degree warmup into the 50s. Into the mid50s, if not higher for the weekend and monday. Its going to be a spectacular weekend, too. Well not bring any nasty rain or snow to you. Thats monday. Monday you get the rain. For the weekend, it should be dry. The big thaw headed our way. Temperatures across the plains where typically theyre well below zero. Its 50 in denver. 46 in rapid city. The colder air over the eastern u. S. 12 in pittsburgh. 18 in cincinnati. Philadelphia right now at 26 degrees. Boston at 33. D. C. At 26. Lets go in and check out the neighborhoods. 21 in coatesville. 21 in dover. Vineland 24. 223 28 in Atlantic City. Mount holly at 25 degrees. Chilly out there. Were going to be in the teens tonight. 19 in philadelphia. 18 in wilmington. 17 in trenton and 18 in Atlantic City. Coatesville, down to 15 degrees under clear skies. So youll need that big heavy coat for at least one more night before we start this rather ambitious warmup. Should be around 40 degrees this time of year. Well be well above that for the weekend. The snow is gone, other than just this little southeastern corner of delaware. Thats where there is still some snow passing by. Were clearing out rapidly. Lets look further to the west. Nothing out there. I call it severe clear. Have plenty of sunshine. And this is something i dont typically show. This is water vapor imagery. The blues denote all the moisture in the air. The dark black is where its dry. Look at that dry line of air making its way toward philadelphia. Thats moving in for tonight. And thats going to make it extra cold. That atmosphere will be dry. Anith will radiate out. Well be in the teens tonight. The winds still out of the northwest. Clouds are out of here for tomorrow. Plent of sunshine. The winds start to turn. Mid and upper 30s. Look what happens on friday. Windserly, but a little bit of a bump from the southwest. Well make it into the 40s. And on saturday, they turn to the southwest. The same for sunday and, bam, here come the 50s. Lets take a look at the vikings and eagles kickoff. 50 at 6 40 in the evening. Well see some clouds out there starting to build in on sunday evening. Southwest winds to 10 miles an hour. 48 at halftime. And 46 during the fourth quarter. It will be unseasonably warm and pleasant. Youll not need the parkas for this game. Yes a sweatshirt or light jacket, but not the parkas. 38 for tomorrow. A little on the breezy side with sunshine. 45 on friday. 55 on saturday. And on sunday. 53 monday. Rain moves in both monday and tuesday. But look ahead. Do you see anything freezing . Uhuh. Well have a nice stretch of weather. Sounds good, tammy. New at 5 00, its been three months Hurricane Maria devastated puerto rico. A group of local missions is working to bring aid to the region. Jesse Alejandro Cruz leads a group called mothers mission. Theyve been working with addicts in kensington. Their goal is to bring up homes nearly destroyed in small towns of puerto rico. Today jessie and her husband sent out a message to never forget about those still dealing with marias devastation. Why is it still happening in puerto rico . Why are people still going through this . It was a time that now, after three months, four months, we are still without so far theyve sent out 600 water purifiers and have been able to rescue several people stuck in their homes. There is still time to get involved ahead of the saturdays womens march in philadelphia. They are hosting a sign making Party Tonight on north fifth. 13,000 people have already signed on to attend. The march is saturday from 10 30 to 3 00 on the ben franklin parkway. Ahead at 5 00, a potential breakthrough in skin cancer research. A new treatment target for melanoma. How its helping to determine which women have a vival advantage. Shame on msu, usag and the Olympic Committee for this gross inexcusable negligence. Next at 5 00 facing his victims. What one gymnastics coach says to dr. Larry nassar in court today that got everyones attention. Please stay out of to your lag doesnt get us all killed, ben. Whats so good about fios anyway . Uh. Whats so great about a 100 fiberoptic network that makes your gaming system actually work awesomely . Hey. Did you take out the trash . Haha, garbage boy dad, i already took out ben. Its not funny. Gaming is best on a 100 fiberoptic network. So get fios. Now, just 79. 99 per month with a 2year price guarantee with a 2year agreement. This is nbc 10 news. For the record, go to hell. An unexpected outburst in a michigan courtroom for former usa gymnastics dr. Nassar. Thomas brennan said he sent more than 100 girls to nassar for. He didnt only deceive these girls which is, honest to god, thats the worst of the worst, what he did to these girls. So they have the voice. But what you did to everybody else who trusted you and sent girls your way is disgusting. Brennan was in court to support one of his former athletes as she read her tearful testimony. Brennan stared at nassar with disgust. Brennan said he never knew what nassar was doing to the women. Maroney will not have a pay a 100,000 fine for describing her abuse by nassar. Usa gymnastics had threatened to fine her for a post on twitter last year in which maroney talked about the mollestation. That tweet violated a nondisclosure agreement she signed after receiving a 1 million settlement in 2016. She is not attending nassars sentencing. Protesters turned out for a hearing for cop killer mumia abujamal. Nbc 10 near the criminal Justice Center this morning. Demonstrators calling on the new District Attorney to release documents about ronald castiles involvement in abujamals case. He was a senior prosecutor when abujamal was convicted and also a Supreme Court justice during his appeals process. Recent Supreme Court decision a year ago said you cannot have a judge sitting in judgment over a case where he had been the prosecutor in the case. Thats a violation of due process and a right to a fair and unbiased tribunal. The d. A. s office is asking for more time for the new administration to review the case. There will be a hearing coming up in days. Next at 5 00 tragedy in south jersey. Left to die in the icy and frigid delaware river. Neighbors are speaking out tonight about the young woman who lost her life here and what should happen to the man who drove his car over the edg