center, kathy. >> we're talking about the cold and rain, pretty raw out there in philadelphia. but moving to the north and west where we have cold are air in place we have change over to sleet and now snow in many locations. right now in philadelphia a 41 degrees. thirty-eight in trenton. thirty-six in allentown. as we go farther north and west we will get into close to freezing temperatures and that is where we are seeing the snow. here's what to expect this evening. mainly rain showers in philadelphia, possibly briefly ending as some wet snow during the early morning hours, sleet and snow in the north and west we're talking about a grass coating to the north and west and left over icy patches, anywhere we are seeing precipitation. best chance of eag that grass coating is north and west of the city and heading toward allentown, reading, berks county, poconos seeing a half inch to an inch of snow and then that means we are starting winter just a little bit early. so that is a look at the forecast from here. our kate bilo is live with the

mobil weather lab in the snow, kate, i have to say i'm a little bit excited about this. >> you know kathy, it is fun to see these first flakes because most of them are not sticking to the roads so it doesn't mean real treacherous travel a across the area but sets that winter scene. we are here in what claims to be world's largest general store country junction on route 209 between lehighton and heading up toward mount pocono area. you can see snow is falling heavily. you can see that car behind me. they have been sitting there a while and that carries completely covered in snow. we have been here a while as well. cbs-3 mobil weather lab covered with a coating of snow at 11/12. little early for that but it is really pretty out here. temperatures have dropped very close to freezing. it took a while for to us see flakes. rain changed to snow as we made it up towards poconos and you can see here on the mobile weather lab it is currently 32.9 degrees, just hovering above freezing but cold enough in the upper levels of the

atmosphere to cause this snow to fall and fall it is, look at these flakes, as they hit, the jacket, they melt very, very quickly. the roads should be okay. we are seeing a grassy coating here in the pocono area. as temperatures drop below freezing as the kathy mentioned some ice spots are possible but it looks like this is just a picturesque snowfall here in mid-november to set the scene for this cold out break. reporting live from the pocono region i'm meteorologist kate bilo for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> i know you are loving every minute of it out there, thanks very much. you can check any forecast anytime you like if you have cbs philly weather app available for you now in itunes and from google play. a septa police officer is okay after a violent even count tore day his bike was hit by a car and then dragged in the olney transportation center. investigators say the officer stopped a car in the bus lanes this afternoon, when he got off the bike and asked the driver for i did the, the

driver took off and ran over the bike. the officer was not injured. police are searching for the the driver and three passengers that ditched that car near conlin street. another close call here this for some trenton police officers, bullets came through windshield of their suv today. officers returned fire on wilson street, killing a suspect. "eyewitness news" reporter david spunt is live for news trenton with more on what happened, david. >> reporter: i just left police headquarters there was a news conference that suspect is darnell stafford, 31 year-old he is dead, the officers robert, and marlon parrot both 13 and four year veterans with the department. >> bullets in the squad car windshield tell a violent story. >> you never come to work hoping to be involved in this type of an incident but it is, a threat that is always there. >> reporter: trenton police director ernest perry says emotions were high when officers found out two of

their own were involved in the shooting on wilson street, just after 7:00 o'clock this morning. perry says that two officers got a tip about a man walking around with a gun. they pulled up on the scene and he says the suspect began firing. >> they were heavy gunshots this he they weren't like 22's or anything like. that i know gunfire because i have heard it so many time. >> reporter: maureen turner is no strange tore violence. she has lived here 40 years and said her grandson 18 year-old james was gun down a few hundred feet from this officer involved shooting. >> i want the world to stop with the guns. >> reporter: both officers made it out of the car, suspect the shot on the scene. he later tied at a trenton hospital. the officers also taken to the hospital for evaluation, but they are expect to make a full recovery. >> they put their lives on the line day in and day out. >> i asked director perry if his officers would be suspended with pay, he said absolutely not. he was adamant that the shooting was justified and

those officers will undergo counseling and will be back to work as soon as possible. we are live from trenton, david spunt for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". tonight breaking news charged with terrorism, new charges filed begins suspect trooper killer eric frein. prosecutors added those two terrorism charges after frein told him he wanted to quote wake people up. authorities say a thumb drive blank to go frein contained a letter that spoke of the revolution. frein is accused of killing a pennsylvania state trooper and wounding another in september. "eyewitness news" has learned that the fbi's elite behavioral analysis unit will create a criminal profile of accused kidnapper delvin barnes. investigators are hoping to determine if he has attack other women. meanwhile city council honored citizens and detectives credited with helping save the victim. "eyewitness news" reporter walt hunter was there. >> raise the roof for the philadelphia police department and their hard work.

>> reporter: there was a standing ovation for police officers and civilians who rescued 22-year old carlesha gaither from her accused kidnapper delvin barnes charged with dragging her off a germantown street and holding her captive for three agonizing days, accommodation and hand a shakes for dwayne fletcher whose call to police may have helped save her life. >> my daughter's hero, my hero. if it wasn't for him my daughter wouldn't be here right now. >> it was a beautiful ending. >> reporter: student cheering for detective james sloan and fellow philadelphia investigators whose non-stop pursuit, brought barnes to justice. >> thank god, thank the citizens, thank everybody that everything just clicked. >> reporter: sources tell cbs-3 a criminal profile of barnes is now being created by the fbi's elite behavioral analysis unit, which specializes in determining if suspects could be serial offenders, responsible for still more crime.

>> i'm glad they caught him and hopefully this time he will remain behind bars for the rest of his life. >> reporter: gaither's grandfather and father now crediting carlesha's physical, and mental strength with playing a major role in helping her survive she hit himmed in head with the hammer. >> i give all praise to my daughter, the hero. >> barnes has been indict by a federal grand jury, a hearing tomorrow afternoon will determine if he will be held behind bars on pretrial detention, to await his trial. live from the sat center, walt hunter, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> walt, thank you. new at 6:00 injury a wards 45 million-dollar in damages to tamara breedon one of the mentally challenge victims in the basement of horrors case. she and others were imprison in the tacony basement and subjected to years of abuse. they will were rescued in 2011. default judgment was entered a

gend linda ann weston and other defendants who failed to respond to the lawsuit. new at 6:00 tonight five people are out of that are homes after a fire in king sessing spread and destroyed two others. neighbors tell "eyewitness news" they have complained about the abandoned property several times. our justin finch picks up the story live at city hall where he went in search of answers to day, justin. >> reporter: chris, we have found out l and i had three complaint about this house this year alone and planning to respond as soon as this week. this fire coming the same day as l and i installs 30 new inn expecters now charged with keeping city structures safe. >> reporter: safe on her brother's stoop, shirley watches with glee as her brothers bring back what little was spared from her burnout home. she lived next door to 5426 florence avenue, the vacant king sessing house that caught fire overnight taking her house too, and leaving a third

damage, as for what, or who spark that fire, she claims va grants. >> when they burned it the first time it didn't catch but second time, my house is going to be burn. >> cbs-3 reached out to the office of licenses and inspection toss see if they had noted complaints about 5426 florence, they tell us that they have, three calls this year, one as recent as last tuesday. l and i was set to seal the door days before the fire. >> we see all of the right things, but you have to call l and i, you have to call the police and we have been doing this for many years. >> reporter: now that city hall l and i was filling it ranks swearing in 30 new inspectors. >> congratulations to all. >> reporter: mayor nut's announced that the new hires are part of the agency wide overhaul set in motion after that june 2013 building collapse at 22nd and market that left six dead and 14 injured. >> our job is to clean and mitigate the situation, people continuously break in, that is

a challenge and if anyone sees that, they report it to the police and then us. >> reporter: commissioner says his agency responded to some 1900 structures a year, as for those inspectors they start work very soon after some training, as for the fire, the cause remains under investigation. we are live at city hall, i'm justin finch for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". so what does a future hold for ride server known as. ber, big decision in harrisburg over whether drivers can operate in pennsylvania and in philadelphia. we will tell you what it means for riders. plus parts of the region seeing very first snow flakes of the season, cbs-3 mobil weather lobbies out and about in carbon county where the snow is really coming down, kathy? and that is where we like to see the snow right, near the poconos. we will see it becoming further they to the south and east toward philadelphia, already changing over to snow in reading and lancaster. i'll show what you to expect coming up, hi carol.

well, if that doesn't get you in the holiday spirit i've got something here in the city that will, that is coming up. sixers head to the lone star state still searching for first win of the season, mcw and nerlens noel on the court to go at last tonight. plus can eagles running game get back on track with the packers, lesean mccoy answers questions about his performance on the field coming up in sports.

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green giant! back now at 6:00 cbs-3 mobil weather lab capturing first snow flakes of the season. this is a live picture from carbon county, pennsylvania, meteorologist kathy orr has details on what we can expect throughout the night coming up in just a few minutes. also new at 6:00 tonight every where but philadelphia, that is how uber a low cost ride sharing app can operate throughout pennsylvania. state commission ruled uber has to comply with safety guidelines for 30 days and after that, drivers can get a two year experimental license to operate throughout most of the state. the p pa controls city's taxi

industry where uber is not loud. we have new information on the troubled taj mahal hotel and casino in atlantic city. the contact seen he says it will close december 12th if its main union doesn't drop an appeal, of a court ordered cost savings package that is deiron to keep the casino afloat. order does allow trump entertainment to cancel its contract with local 54. the company, says it relieved from health insurance and pension cost is essential if it is to stay opened past the event of the month. well, it is beginning to look a lot like christmas at philadelphia's franklin square tonight, holiday festival is all lit up and ready for visitors. >> there is another new attraction opening up just in time to go with these colder temperatures. carol eric on joins us live with the preview of the holiday attractions, carol. >> well, it is starting already for some people, it is too early, you get in the middle and it is not early enough. it is gorgeous out here.

franklin square second year they have done it. let's turn the lights off take a look at this just before the lights came up, and then they come up and boy are they up. we've got just great shows and they run starting tonight, every half an hour from 4:30 to 8:00 o'clock right through december the 31st, all of the philly pops classic music synchronized todd 50,000 lights with absolutely gorgeous here. people will love this. if this doesn't get you in the mood how about changing the scene and heading over to city hall because in the shadows of city hall what do we have there? we have an ice rink and that ice they are putting are last touches on that, spraying water around, they have chillers, ice melt tips. they have people out eating and finishing painting and it all start tomorrow afternoon. you can be skating around as you head out to city hall. what a great way to do it. i want to come back live to franklin square. that is the kite. we have got the key as well. because we've got ben

franklin. he started this tight with the kite and the key and boy have we run with that invention. so just a terrific time, come on down, at sixth and race and you will love it and instantly be in that holiday spirit. reporting live at franklin square, carol erickson for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". we are certainly in the winter spirit up here in the pocono region in lehighton, carbon county and it is snowing, snowing pretty steadily and big flat flakes. temperatures hovering around the freezing mark, we will get wet snow, thick flakes, we have got that gracy coating we can tell but in the lehigh ton area as you you can see, a half inch in a couple spots here. it has been snowing steadily here for the pass hour of two and as we walk over to the mobile weather lab you can see what i mean. look up in the streetlight and take a look at those flakes, country junction some christmas music playing in the background and it feels like

it is december, between the second inn ted of the middle of november. we drove up here with the mobile weather lab, new roads are fine they are just wet, traffic is moving okay, just a picturesque keen feeling like mid winter as we enjoy first flakes of the season, up here in the poconos and we will send it inside to kathy and you are right, it is exciting and gets you in the winter mood kind of. >> especially because it is not so cold, little bit more comfortable out there. >> that is right. >> thanks very much. >> we are looking at our eyewitness weather watcher reports and they are amazing so thank you to all of our watchers out there first we will start on the new jersey identify where we are seeing rain, kathy says 42 degrees, raining and it is raw out there. lets go over here though to the pennsylvania side where we are seeing some colder conditions. donna is saying it is 36 degrees in kenneth square, just beginning to snow, prewinter weather bundle up. look at this picture she sent here is outdoor patio set snow

on the umbrella and you can evene those snow flakes streak ago cross the screen there. thank you done a very much. we will take a look further to the north and west and paul ising a in glenn more, yes, we have 34 degrees and snow, a light coating of snow on those grass surfaces here, they are about 680 feet in northwest chester county. thanks paul. we want to thank our weather watchers who are so important to us. if you with like to be a weather watcher you can be featured here and help us see what is going on out there. storm scan three is showing us as well. go to cbs philly.com/watchers. in philadelphia it is rain and cold out there maybe during overnight we will see a mix of snow but on storm scan three we can see where our weather watchers are and we are seeing patches of snow in northwestern chester county. we saw report of light snow falling. reading berks county, near new you who will an, lancaster county seeing some light snow sneaking up toward poconos where kate is. all this will sneak towards

south and east as we see colder air work its way in. you can see cold temperatures in allentown, reading, lancaster, poconos, still on the milder side relatively speaking but trenton is getting there at 38 degrees. a as we zoom in you cane in quakertown a mix there. in pottstown, seeing some sleet mixing in with snow at this point. future weather shows that snow progressing in the suburbs and then during overnight philadelphia possibly seeing a little bit of wintry mix before it end. by the time sun comes out the snow will be long gone but we may see ice patch's cross the region. between now and 10:00 snow north and west, philadelphia a chance in the overnight and northern delaware and new jersey suburbs as well before that ends, we could see a few flakes. see accumulation on the grass surfaces to the north and west of the city with the poconos seeing an accumulation. the ever night 34 degrees, during the day tomorrow but cold high of 45 and on the exclusive eyewitness weather seven day forecast take a look at this temperatures will be

quite cold, they are going to stay cold, next week, another arctic blast puts highs only in the 30's, wow. but i guarantee you by thanksgiving it will be milder. we will talk more about that tonight at 11:00. right around the corner. >> kathy, thanks. he will we be righ

it has been a season of ups and downs for eagles offense but despite setbacks and injuries they are seven and two heading to lambeau field on sunday. a lot of focus now shifting back to the rushing game. lesean mccoy put up 19 yards on 12 attempts the the panthers team that was 23rd in the league against the run. today he was asked if he is happy with his performance. >> i mean as an individual i think goals and a achievements

are always second. we're winning games and we're being a successful team. that is all that matters at the end of the day. sure would i like it different, every player with like it different but i mean the main focus and main thing i'm canned the most is to win good with the front line getting healthy center jason kelce a they have to do a better job of opening up some lanes for number 25. >> even when it is hard to run you have to be able to get three or 4-yard carries and still move the chains and we have in the been are effective this year in doing that and box is stacked. >> seeds of the future planted tonight for the the sixers tonight, michael carter williams and nerlens necessity he will will be on the court together for the first time taking on the mavericks in dallas. mcw making his season debut after shoulder surgery. noel coming back from an ankle injury, coach brett brownies staying cautiously optimistic.

>> you know when you put live nba players on a floor, everything changes so i think it will try to happen but i suspect it will be rusty at the start that relationship. >> the sixers still looking for that first win of the season tip off time 8:30. we will be ri i saw a commercial that said you can save $500 by switching to progressive. that was me, mom. [ laugh ] i thought you said, "that was me, mom." [ laughter ]

before we go another live look from the mobile weather lab, how about that our crew in cash object county, pennsylvania where it is snowing tonight. a pretty sight on this november evening. our weather team will bring you updates on tv and on line at cbs philly.com. >> breaking news in major league baseball. >> mike trout local product, mvp of the american league, all of the first place votes. >> well deserved. >> way to go. >> great player. >> thanks so much, for "eyewitness news" at 6:00. >> stay tuned for "cbs evening

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