Hospitals in the Philadelphia area had a pretty quiet weekend, but now staff say they’re seeing a growing number of injuries, including many from falls on ice.

Susan Petrucelli was in the emergency department at Virtua Voorhees after falling on ice outside her home in South Jersey. 

“It all looked like snow, but it was all ice, it was all frozen over,” the 61-year-old said. “I  guess I just slipped and I went down and I hit my face on the side of my car.”

Fortunately, imaging showed no broken bones, but she has plenty of bruises.

“You could see the crack in the ice where my head hit,” Petrucelli said.

Dr. Alan Shubert with Virtual Health said injuries like this are common during winter weather. 

“Most of the time it’s wrists and ankles, people falling, and putting their hands out to catch themselves,” Shubert said. “Hip injuries and broken hips, the third most common thing we see.”

Shubert said people should be extra careful with the icy conditions expected to last for a while. 

“Try to have good footwear on, and avoid if you can, I think, the really icy areas and try to stick to the snow areas, that may be less slippery and give you more traction,” Shubert said.

Shoveling is also causing issues, he said. 

Three people in Lehigh County died shoveling during the storm, the coroner said. 

“We get anything as simple as kind of back strains from the shoveling to, unfortunately, as serious as people having heart attacks,” Shubert said.

The doctor said people who aren’t in good shape should not shovel snow, and even those who are in shape often suffer from achy backs, shoulders and legs.

“We recommend resting, using heat, using some ibuprofen or Tylenol,” Shubert said. 

Finally, Shubert said people should be careful with snow blowers, as hand injuries often happen when people try to clear them without turning them off. 

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is guesting on Stephen Colbert‘s The Late Show Monday, and there isn’t anything FCC head Brendan Carr can do about it — or as a result of it.

Last week, the Federal Communications Commission released new guidance that could revoke the exemption to its “equal time” rules that daytime and late-night talk shows have enjoyed since the ’90s. Basically, the equal time policy requires TV stations to provide equivalent amounts of air time to political candidates on both sides of the same election. (The onus is not on the specific show or even the broadcast network — it is the individual stations that must balance the scales. It’s also a bit on the campaigns themselves. When free time is provided to a candidate, a record is placed in the station’s political file. Opposing candidates can then submit an equal opportunities request.) Often the discrepancy is resolved with free commercial time to the candidate who was not booked on television.

The equal time rule has not historically applied to news coverage, and in 1996, Jay Leno’s producers won a carveout for talk shows. The Tonight Show performs “bona fide” news interviews, they argued, and thus should be granted the same exemption as a newscast. The FCC agreed, and late-night shows and daytime programs were no longer beholden to the requirement. (And perhaps not coincidentally, the following year, The View was launched.)

Until now.

“Importantly, the FCC has not been presented with any evidence that the interview portion of any late night or daytime television talk show program on air presently would qualify for the bona fide news exemption,” the FCC wrote on Wednesday, Jan. 21. “Moreover, a program that is motivated by partisan purposes, for example, would not be entitled to an exemption under long-standing FCC precedent.”

The Hollywood Reporter reached out to the FCC on Monday with a request for comment on this story, though we did not immediately receive a response.

Carr is targeting programming that leans left; he is President Donald Trump’s FCC chair, after all. Shapiro is a Democrat, and Colbert is among the most outspoken critics of Trump this side of, well, The View.

Shapiro, the sitting governor of Pennsylvania, but the equal time rule does not apply to politicians — it applies to political candidates. And through Shapiro officially launched his reelection campaign on Jan. 8 with events in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia — here comes the technicality — he is not yet legally a candidate for the office he currently holds. Pennsylvania law will not recognize Shapiro (or anyone else) as a gubernatorial candidate until Feb. 17, which is the first day to circulate and file nomination petitions. Then, Shapiro will need 2,000 signatures of support, a $200 check to file his candidacy, and a statement of financial interest to make the ballot.

Until then, Shapiro is on the trail — though not necessarily (or at least entirely) the campaign trail. The first-term governor is doing the talk show circuit pushing his memoir, Where We Keep the Light. Gov. Shapiro will appear on Tuesday’s episode of The View, and like CBS following tonight’s airing of The Late Show, your local ABC station need not set aside any airtime for Shapiro’s Republican opponent, Pennsylvania State Treasurer Stacy Garrity.

The late night TV hosts are laughing off the latest FCC crackdown. On Thursday, the day after Carr targeted the time slot, Colbert feigned shock.

“What? What? A new crackdown on late night TV? That has enormous implications for me for four more months,” Colbert said. Oh yeah, did we mention his show was canceled?

Colbert added, “So, let’s talk about these new crackdown rules that my lawyer warned me not to talk about. The FCC is announcing plans to enforce long-dormant rules on appearances by political candidates on network talk shows. Oh, no. They’ve awakened the long-dormant rules, not seen since the mind-bending horrors of the pre-Euclidian variety show ‘Cthulhu Tonight!’ This is clearly an attempt to silence me, Jimmy [Kimmel and] Seth [Meyers].”

The same night, Jimmy Kimmel told America, “I might need your help again.” Jimmy Kimmel Live! was suspended this past summer for a few nights after Kimmel made a monologue joke that presumed the political leanings of conservative podcaster Charlie Kirk’s assassin. Though Carr certainly inserted himself into that controversy, it was the local ABC affiliates that really got the ball rolling. Jimmy Kimmel Live! returned to the airwaves after a few nights on ice, helping to cool the national temperature down some.

Southern New England hasn’t even finished digging out of over a foot of snow that dropped Sunday into Monday without talks of a significant storm possible in the coming days.

According to the National Weather Service, periods of light to moderate snow continue behind
low pressure as it pulls offshore Monday.

The surface low is well into the north Atlantic by noon today and the expected dry slot has moved overhead shutting off efficient snow making. So, while lingering wrap around moisture will continue to produce light snow across the region today, lack of moisture and the strong forcing that we saw on Sunday will mean much less in the way of additional snowfall today. Overall, expecting 1-2 inches in inland Southern New England with 2-5 inches more likely as you get closer to the extreme eastern and northeastern MA coastline. This is where NE wind
trajectory off the water together with convergence ahead of a front late in the day will lead to a pickup in snow coverage by the afternoon/evening.

After Monday, abnormally cold and mostly dry air enters with yet another storm possible off the coast next weekend.

Quiet weather then follows our active start to the week as dry, abnormally cold NW flow lingers overhead most of the week. Temperatures remain well below normal each day. Normal
highs/lows for late January are in the mid 30s and low 20s respectively; we are forecasting highs in the teens and 20s with lows in the single digits thanks to an anomalously cold airmass
overhead. A few shortwaves rounding the broader trough could bring some flurries off and on but on the whole, things look dry. The National Weather Service continues to monitor a potential storm off the coast toward next weekend. Can we make it 3 Sunday coastal storms in a row? We`ll see!