joe holden is lifer in havertown. what are the conditions there right now, joe. >> good afternoon. i'll tell you right now the temperature is dropping. the snow has really picked up. and i believe we have a nor'easter on our hands here. right now the township still trying to rebound from friday's storm. there are still power outages. last number i got from township officials 360 peco customers still without power. i am told the crews from out of state still trying to energize those homes as long as it remains safe for them to do so. now, win the last hour, it has really started to snow. these roads were clear an hour ago. now, beginning to get snow covered all over again. we spoke to township police chief john viola about 20 minutes ago. take a listen to what he had to say. >> very concerned about that with the tree that is are weakened already. from the past storm heavy winds and rain and snow from friday's storm and now with this wet snow on top of it what tree hasn't come down we're very concerned what could happen with the additional weight and the winds are supposed to come in

joe holden joins us live from the courthouse in norristown with the argument, so far today. good afternoon, joe. >> attorneys have made headway on witnesses, these are witnesses that the prosecution wants to introduce as part of this trial to test against bill cosby. bows sides wrapped up arguments to steven o'neil just about 15 minutes ago, let's go ahead and take you live up to the second floor of the montgomery county courthouse, that's judge steven o'neil's courtroom where issues continue to play out as we near the trial for bill cosby. >> fireworks outside the courtroom as bill cosby is confronted his retrial expected to be off the ground in less than four weeks. judge steven o'neil is hearing arguments, on whether 19 women will be allowed to testify. prosecutors intend to call the accusers to establish a four decade long pattern of alleged drug facilitated sexual assault. defense counselor hit back saying the claims by those 19 women, have not been proven or charged. and that there are ancient accusations pattern. attorney becky james told the court, quote, their cases

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holden is live in havertown where he has been reporting all day, joe. >> reporter: jessica and ukee we are still recovering here in havertown, the good news, it haze stopped, snowing. there is a slight of a breeze, but the power just continues to be a primary concern, and, the number of outages, has, ticked upwards. we spoke to a man who lost power right at the same time the wawa here, did as well, and how about a listen to how things were going for his day. >> this morning i woke up, everything was cool, just started snowing and then like 2:00 o'clock we lost power and it has been ever since. >> reporter: all over again. >> yeah. >> reporter: you who power on friday, got it back on sunday. >> yes. >> reporter: mentally, it is a challenge. >> it is just annoying, i just want to play x box. >> reporter: everybody is playing tonight. >> yes. >> reporter: as far as roads are concerned secondary roads a kate was saying still snow covered, the main road is here , darby, eagle roads, are slushy. i see school district workers over there, they are shoveling , haverford township, of course,

outside the courthouse in norristown, joe holden for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> kate joins us right now to e on the forecast. >> yes. >> yes, i know. >> well, here it comes. we have got snow beg is going to be, not a storm where it just hits and snows heavily. it be a gradual pace when the snow might, falls lightly, maryland rately and intensifies tomorrow during the day. long duratio this, but heaviest during day tomorrow between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. wt that doesn't mean we will not see some overnight either. lets look outside. we had anice day across the area for most of the day lots of sunshine, temperatures slightly on the mild side, you can see clouds have now moved in, and that is, kind of the look at things to come as approaches the area cloud increasing, dry for now but overcast, sky as we look live at plymouth meeting montgomery county. camera mount add top place one apartments. taking a look at our almanaclightly below average, day time high. morning low was 29. seasonal day all things considered for the month of march and certainly were no strangers to snow in march e

. >> prosecutors want to call as many as 19 women to the witness stand, joe holden live at the montgomery county courthouse with more on today's hearing. good afternoon, joe. >> jim, rahel, good afternoon, of course the elephant in the room is the looming retrial of bill cosby on sexual assault and drug charges dating back to offense in 2004. fourteen years ago. however, the focus of this hearing has been on cosby's defense team attempts to derail the proceedings and have the judge dismiss the case. essentially, this is lawyers battling lawyers. and into two hours into the hearing before, there was even a mention of the big picture that bill cosby will again be fighting, to disprove sexual assault charges of the there he is, arriving at the courthouse. now, the defense is challenging the credibility of andrea constand, they have a witness, by the name of margo jackson, who contends andrea constand confided in her that she would hatch a plan to extort money from cosby. now, the defense claims that rises to the level of prosecutorial misconduct because alleged detectives destroyed notes. no

joe holden got a picture with one tree that completely crushed a car near here. for a lot of people adding to the stress of no, sir power and property damage is the struggle to find a warm place to sleep tonight. >> all the hotels are absolutely booked and the ones like the reasonable hotels are booked and the others prices are so high we're not able to book anything at that price. >> reporter: sleep at your job. >> i'm going to sleep at work. >> reporter: what you're looking at live out here is that woman's home. there is a tree on top of it. the woman said it crushed her bedroom so on top of having no power and this damage she is opting to stay at her work and sleep there tonight. the county did open up warming stations for people still struggling to find a warm place to sleep. those warming stations are mostly at fire houses. there are about a half dozen of them and we have the information on each on our web site at cbsphilly.com. live in havertown, alycia nieves cbs3 "eyewitness news." >> so much widespread damage. thank you alycia. >>> as people in pennsylva

joe holden has been live in havertown all day and he joins us now with an update, joe. >> hi, jessica and ukee. i can tell you right now we have seen the sun, already there is improvement, there goes one of the out of the state power trucks many of them in delaware county still trying to restore power that was lost, on friday. you can see a peeking sun, is coming out of the cloud. silver lining for what has been a long day out here, we do apologize for the somewhat foggy camera, there is so much more moisture with this system the snow, is wet and it is heavy, it is accumulated somewhere in the order of, about 10 inches. hey guys, four wheel drives are out and that will get you around here. this it is a slushy mess on the roadways. we have caught up with haverford township chief john viola earlier today, talking about these back to back storms and how the township, has been dealing with it. >> well, we have 17 cars in the street, between us and radnor we have 906 calls for services for over week friend friday to monday which is a really high number. we were out friday we were non-stop

. >> joe holden was in the courtroom and joins us live from norristown with more on today's arguments, joe.nd ukee y in court. first defense motion to december miss entire case for lack of evidence. judge denied. that next defense motion to dismiss over alleged prosectorial misconduct. also, denied. right now though we are in the middle of a motion for the government, to introduce what is known as prior bad acts witnesses. they say these prior bad acts witnesses would bolster the central witness in the case and allegations that cosby, assaulted her, through the use of drugs. and the ability to contentine sent. those are critical element in display as time wind down to the bill cosby trial part two. monday morning a hearing to flush out lingering issues before march 29th jury selection. prosecutors want to introduce evidence of prior bad acts, that means calling 19 accusers from a span of 40 years from an assistant d.a. says were subjected from the signature of the same purpose traitor. she rattled off a dozen descriptions of how each accuser felt after allegedly taking some pill, and

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eyewitness news" exclusive, member of the philadelphia fire department charged in federal court i'm joe holden, with what her lawyer says about the allegations. >>> it is 6:00 o'clock here's is what happening, preparing for the war, sandbags, plywood are coming out down the shore tonight as locals and businesses, gear up forstrom that could pack quite a punch. >> storm scan three shows the system as it moves in the region bringing in the rain and powerful wind, and that could bring down trees and power lines, good evening, everybody i'm jessica dean. >>> i'm ukee washington. storm watch is on coastal system is brewing at this hour and some cold air is coming behind all of this moisture. we have team three coverage for you as this storm arrives and meteorologist chelsea in glam standing by in atlantic city but we will begin with meteorologist lauren casey in the weather center with what you can expect in the next few hours. lauren. >> reporter: things will be quiet, over next couple hours, thing will start slow and ramp up quickly heading in the late overnight period and early tomorrow m