bearing some good weather news. eventually another cool down. we are timing it all out for you coming up. >> smooth sailing out on the ben franklin bridge, all lanes open, so headed from new jersey, westbound, into the city, you should have no problem. otherwise, out in new jersey we have couple of incidents to talk becomes i'll cover those in the next couple of minutes. good morning. >> good morning, happening today, leadership from the philadelphia's transit workers union holding news conference to discuss its ongoing negotiations cents with septa. >> last night its members vote today authorize strike that could side line thousands of bus, drop i -- trolley, subway operators. jan carabeo joins us now at frankford transportation center reaction from riders. jan? >> reporter: well, union leadership now has the power to strike but members told us they were told to report to work. this is bargaining chip as two sides continue to negotiate. >> despite vote to go give union leadership the ought raise to strike, emergency of the transport workers local

234 say they expect to be on the job this week, meaning septa buses, trains, trolleys will continue running at least for now. >> nobody wants to go on strike f we have to go on strike we will go on strike. members of the largest union approved the strike sunday. union leadership can call a strike if they deem it necessary, members tell us they don't want a strike. >> we're on the front line. we're the ones that operate the trains, the buses, mechanics, if you don't take care of us, this stuff won't be out here operating properly. >> 5,000 bus drivers, subway, trolley operators, maintenance workers, have been without a contract since march, sticking points, they say, continue to be pension benefit increases and pay raises. >> the company repeatedly wants to take away, and, you know, the union won't settle for. that will we gave up enough through the years. >> now, septa officials tell us, they've been given no

indication a work stoppage imminent, both sides they'll continue to negotiate again. >> members tell us they are report to go work if work stoppage, strike were to happen it, would affect philadelphia, busses, trains, and trollies. reporting live in frankford, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> thank you. also cents new this morning, shooting in southwest philly under investigation, police tell us a 18 year old man shot in the ankle. it happened over at 66 and woodland shortly after 1:30, that person was rush to the hospital, where he is list in the stable condition, at the moment, no word on suspect or motive for the shooting. overnight, we learned one of four teens wound in the washington state high school shooting has died. >> hospital officials say that 14 year old gee a succombed to her injuries last night. another girl was killed friday, when police say freshman student jay lynn friberg opened fire inside the cafeteria at the seattle high school. later turned the gun on

himself. three other student remain hospitalized in including two of the shooters cousins. 5:03, let's get your traffic and weather together. >> ukee, going on serious surge on the thermometer here, really just in general, roll over coaster ride for the area and the days ahead, comes courtesy of couple of disturbances moving through, and right now high pressure in place. so let's take you on tour of what is happening with time as we go forward in the forecast. our average hi, and you know average, it is something that you have to sort of think of as is a disclaimer here, average just average, taking all of the value out that you ever see during the month of october, and any given day the average just that, add them all up and divide. but we are regardless going to be swinging either well above average or well below it with the day ahead, so sort of classic end to october, pattern that we have got going. storm scan3, quiet as can be, high pressure yet again in place for us here, but because of the nice clear sky, allows

temperatures to drop off readily. so easily ten to 15 plus degrees cooler in most spots, than we were this same time yesterday. and i can tell you this much, i came out here thinking oh, probably will be able to get away without my scarf. i would rather put it back on. it is chilly outside. forty-eight right now, even since last check dropped couple of degrees, 41 right now up at mount pocono, and chilly in atlantic city, too. so around the region, you can't escape the chill this morning. but it is going to be a beautiful day bright, sunny, mid 60s at the shore, and certainly in philadelphia, as you go up toward the mountains, talking mostly sunny skies there, and highs into the upper 50's, so just quiet, calm, sunny day, and overall pretty typical for late october standards, jess, we send it into you. >> i know i left the house this morning without my jacket, turned around, went back in and put it on. little after 5:00 a.m. we go outside, show you not much in the way of volume. this is the ben franklin

bridge, from the new jersey side, so from the toll plaza headed westbound in the city thankfully all lanes are reopened. we have had a long standing construction project on the bridge. all lanes open into the sit, should have no problem headed on into philadelphia from new jersey moving great, still headed towards the city still early, everything moving great headed southbound toward the city out in new jersey, a loft accidents, new jersey turnpike southbound at route 168, on 295, in new jersey, northbound, an accident pulled over into the shoulder, at route 561. elsewhere in blackwood, new jersey, another accident, two lanes, pulled over to the right hand showed. masses transit looking great. septa, new jersey transit and dart all running great. no delays. back to you. >> thank you, as doctors fight against the spreads of ebola here in the u.s., issue of containment is becoming more complicated. >> cbs news correspondent brian web joins us live in newark, new jersey this

morning, to explain changes to the protocol. brian, good morning. >> reporter: ukee, erika, new york's governor soft ends his stance on quarantines over the weekend but new jersey governor did not. that means nurse casey hickox still in isolation in newark promising legal battle to get her out. >> after a weekend of fears opposition from the white house and some medical experts, new york governor andrew cuomo updated his state's mandatory 21 day quarantine protocols. following screening at the airport, cuomo says anyone who shows no symptoms of ebola can now quarantine themselves at home. >> during knows 21 days, healthcare workers would check on them twice a day, through monitor their temperature and condition. >> nurse casey hicksobjection, first healthcare worker isolated under the new protocols in new jersey, now being held in a isolation tent at university hospital in newark after arriving from sierra leone where she treated

patients with ebola. she calls her treatment inhumane, the isolation tent has portable toilet but no shower. she has hired a team of civil lawyers to help get her out. >> she knows how to treat and deal with ebola; unfortunately, governor christie apparently does not. >> new jersey governor chris christie is standing by his state's protocol. >> i don't believe when you are dealing with something as serious as this that we can count on a voluntary system. >> federal officials warn the quarantine will prevent other healthcare workers from traveling to the region. >> best way to help americans, to stop the empidemic after a we node those healthcare workers to do that. >> new jersey's quarantine policy will face first legal test this week, as hickox plans to file federal lawsuit within days. >> so the cdc says they're coming one new guidelines. meantime, governors from eight states, including new jersey, florida, illinois, are sticking with the plan to

quarantine healthcare workers who have recently treated ebola patients. live in newark, brian web, back to you. >> all right, brian, thank you for. that will also this morning, foundation has been formed in honor of four year oley lie waller, he died from enterovirus d68. for den dollar donation, families could have halloween poor track taken at the photography studios in hamilton, new jersey, eli's father said yesterday's event one of tomorrow come for fonts heading special education students. future events by visiting the linc on our website cbsphilly.com. police in philadelphia are looking for kill they are morning, investigators say someone shot a 28 year old man four times in the head and once in the back last night on the 7,000 block of forest avenue. police respond today reports of shooting around 9:20, pronounced the man dead at the scene. they believe the shoot sera tall african-american man wearing black and gray sweatshirt at the time. he was last seen running west

through an alley on forest avenue. >> now to dramatic ocean rescue in atlantic city. two bystanders jumped into the water at the end of pacific avenue to pull out woman and infant. it is cents is believed the woman through the child into the water and then jumped in herself. both were transported to the hospital. that infant was said to be responsive at the time. no word on the condition of the woman or her relationship to that child. now, to the state of arizona, where the eagles lost a heart breaker in the dessert yesterday against the cardinals. pick it up, fourth quarter, birds picked up field goal, snagged a pass from carson palmer, goes 75 yards for the score. last play of the game, foles to jordan matthews, great catch, but out of bound. twenty-four to 20 your final. coming up in sports, we'll hear from chip. boy, that was a tough one to take yesterday. we're asking who is to blame for the eagles lost? so many things to point tonight use the hashtag cbs-3 eagles, and hit us up on

twitter. boy, this team should be seven and zero. but if it were all candy and nuts, we would all have a merry christmas as is someone said years ago. >> i know that phrase. >> coming up on "eyewitness news", philadelphia police cracking down on dirt bikers riding through city streets. how they're trying to g get these bikes off the road before somebody gets hurt. >> also major milestone for the us and afghan stand. what the handing over of military base meets for the plans to draw down military presence there. details coming up.

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dozen of the dirt bikes and atv's. comes less than week after hundreds every riders took to the streets performing tricks, and keeping other drivers on edge. >> well, they're very wreckless, riding on sidewalks, cutting vehicles over, it is definitely a public safety hazard. while it is illegal to ride dirt bikes and tv's, and we're seize ago loft these vehicles. >> they have confiscated nearly 100 kind of these vehicles in north philadelphia just this year. right now, 5:13. traffic and weather together. good morning. >> good morning, we can expect to see pretty pleasant day out there overall. smidge above average. it is bright and sunny. it is not as breezy or windy as yesterday was. it is just going to be nice fall day for you. but tomorrow we start to surge on the thermometer, let's show you (we start things off with a look at storm scan3, it is clear asbell here locally. even when we zoom it out, what we do here is go on little tour, and what i want to show when you we zoom it way out, we do have high pressure

ridging into the region, entire basically eastern seaboard totally quiet. but just off to the northwest, that's where the combination of the next storm system are getting their act together. now, i say storm system, technically you have the core of the storm, warm and cold front, so it is actual center of circulation, true to form cyclone of sorts but will come through weak in terms of precipitation, because its originating in canada where it is really not much of moisture source to work with here. so what does this all breakdown to? quickly check the pollen report. extremely low levels of ragweed over the next couple of days, despite full sunshine, high pressure in place, 66 degrees, beautiful, enjoy it, tonight we drop down to 50, won't be quite as chilly as is this morning; meanwhile we look forward to the forecast, warmest day, my favorite of the forecast, so pleasant and comfortable, too, at 75 degrees, wednesday, though, marks the arrival and passage of the next cold front, we discussed, really not expecting more than shower out that far, but man does it knock the temperatures back, solid 10 degrees, gets shaved

off the daytime high by thursday, and then another reinforcement comes in to cool us down even more, leading into the weekend, so we kick off the month of november, and we've also got some cool air here in place for halloween, barely hitting low 50's for saturday, and sunday, jess, over to you. >> i can't believe it is almost halloween. time flies. 5:15, not much in the way of volume, a cents cross the board, majors real clear, outside to new jersey first though, the route 42 freeway at creek road, headed northbound, still early, where it normally starts to pack up, everything moving great. headed northbound to 295 interchange, possibly philadelphia, and the surrounding area, bridges, on the schuylkill expressway at the blue route see most of the volume headed eastbound, toward the city area, but the westbound lanes moving great, there as well. few accidents out in new jersey, the new jersey turnpike southbound route 168 an accident pulled over to the shoulder there, and one taking out 295 northbound, at route

561, also pulled over into the shoulder. some overnight work, should be out there, about 6:00 a.m., northeast extension northbound, just around quakertown. currently no problems on mass transit. everything moving great there so far. septa new jersey transit and dart on time, no delays at the philadelphia international airport, back to you. >> thank you, jess, a look at today's headlines on cbs 3, union representing thousands of septa workers will hold a news conference this afternoon, after voting to authorize a strike. bus drivers, subway operators, and other workers have, been without a contract since march. >> a new jersey nurse has hired an attorney to get her out of her quarantine at a newark hospital. casey hickox just returned from treating ebola patients in syria leone and tested negative for ebola. new guidelines for returning workers are expected in the next few days. and the death toll is now three, in friday's school shooting in washington state. a 14 year old girl died from her injuries last night. the shooter, jay lynn friberg

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>> 5:23, time for traffic and weather together. nice start to the week, kate. >> i it really will be. another beautiful day on tap, just not as breezy as yesterday was. as a result of that, expect to, you know, have a great excuse if you have outdoor plans, or if you want to just head outside and you're looking for a nice long dog walk or something like. that will really looks as though the wet letter cooperate for you. let's take to you storm scan3, it is cents quiet, it is clear, it is going to stay that way, high pressure keeps control here, basically through tomorrow, we will continue to keep that sky clear for you. as we take a lock at the area temperatures, 48 degrees currently at philadelphia international, 47 allentown, 41 in mount pocono, pair of four's for both lancaster and reading, chilly start to the morning, generally ten to 15 plus degrees cooler by

comparison to yesterday, this same time. so, yes, chilly morning, 46 in northeast philly, and 48 in mt. holly. the list goes on here, you get the idea. as the day progresses expecting pair of six areas to top off daytime high here with full sunshine, and light wind. so, it is a little bit above average for that daytime high. certainly just beautiful day. meanwhile, mid 70s, expected tomorrow, so a ridiculous surge on the thermometer from one day to the next, don't expect any wet weather, coming courtesy of a warmfront, but it is to isn't going to trigger any wet weather for us, by wednesday, however, call it shower here and thereto dodge, otherwise, some clouds, but still pretty mild at 70 degrees. nice and mild, as we look ahead to the mid week. jess? >> thanks, looking forward to tomorrow. check out the cameras on top of the ben franklin bridge, luckily all lanes open, westbound into the city, looks great over there, you can see from the tall plaza moving on up, actually moving along great so far. we head over to 422 at trooper

road, actually looking great, there as well, on the westbound, and eastbound side, the right-hand side, actually eastbound headed toward the king every prussia accident. few accident, montgomery county route 309 at park drive, pulled over to the showed, few incidents out in new jersey, jersey turnpike southbound at route 168. and, on 295, another crash, pulled over, northbound, at route 561. mass transit looking great. running on time with no reported delays, and currently no delays at the philadelphia international airport. ukee, back over to you. >> eagles drop to five and two, on the season, after falling short against the cardinals in arizona yesterday. the birds had just 19 turnovers, all season last year, but this season they have 17 in less than half of the year. josh huff's temple recovered by the cards that is at 1 yard line, one of the red zone turnovers, nick foles through couple of interceptions on the day, rough one, shot

themselves in the foot. eagles lose the battle of the birds 24 to 20. >> we talk about it all the time. can't turn the football over and specially in a game like there is so close against real good quality opponent, turned it over twice inside the red zone, do you, that you will loose football games. >> turn it over in the red zone, you want to get routes points in the red zone, especially with great kicker. we have a kick tow kinding it through the uprights. yes, we need to correct the turn over situation. but that comes through, you know, working through the week then getting the game plan smarter. >> a loft questionable moments, what do you think who is to blame for the eagles lost in the dose another let us know what you can think. you can see your reason, urinalysis, right here on cbs 3, tweet us with hashtag cbs-3 eagles. baseball now, giants outfielder juan perez hit two run double in the eighth inning to seal a world series game five win, for san francisco, final last night was five-nothing, the giants now one win away from their third world series title in

the last five years. giants ace madison baumgartner through complete game shut out for his second world series victory in a week. game six tomorrow night in kansas sit which hometown rules facing elimination. erika? >> coming up in the next half hour of "eyewitness news", check on top story. septa workers authorize their union to call a strike, as they fight for a contract. we'll have a live report. >> also, dramatic video of marine biologist saving a sea lion. where this happened, and where that rescued animal is now being cared for this morning. and, jess and katie return with your traffic and weather together three's, how is your halloween looking? katie has it is in the seven

>> could septa workers be ready to strike?

authorize than your and to make that move as they battle for contract they've been working without for months now. >> thanks for joining thus morning, i'm erika von tiehl. >> i'm ukee washington. live report for you coming up in just a moment. right now let's get traffic and weather together. katie and jess are in the house. good morning. >> good morning, happen mine day, this will be one of those days you want to bottle up and just set aside for another day. because it is so nice outside. and it is a little chill toy start, i'll give that you, but it is october, that's what we expect. meanwhile, swing on that thermometer. taking place this week, so all of the details, and all coming up, jess? >> thanks, katie. actually good news to talk becomes as well. relatively light start so far this morning, couple of incidents to talk b we go outside and show you the cameras on top of 95 at broad. over left-hand side, your northbound lane, excuse me, your right-hand side is your southbound lane headed toward the city moving great so far. couple of incidents to talk about, out in new jersey, i'm going to cover those, and problems with mass transit coming up in the next couple of minutes, good morning.