around the delaware valley for santa claus. >> i know. towed put on his big santa poncho, katie. still raining out there? >> it is in fact still raining out there. i'm sure he's already finished his work out, there but we're not completely done with the storm just yet. we just showed you on storm scan, still affecting a few other people as well in a few other neighborhoods. so let's start things offer by taking you outside here. we start it off from a view from our cambell's field camera across the delaware river. appears there is still a few left over raindrops here on the camera lens, but hey, at least we could actually see across the river, yesterday, the day before, the fog was sock us in. and creating some very poor visibility. but that was as we were stuck with more moisture, more warmth, and even though it is still warm outside, starting to seat wind kick in. and that's the factor that you really need in terms of weather ingredients, to help scour cloud cover away. we still have clouds, but higher in the atmosphere, rain out there looking at storm scan3, more localized here, we continue to find some steadier rounds of rain rolling through portions every new castle

county, across the bay into salem, cumberland counties, cape may, atlantic counties, not where in the clear just yet, most every just fact still have rain falling at this hour. put things into motion, but that said, i would say, by the time we are going off the air on our sister station the "cw philly" after the morning news, about 9:00 a.m., we are all in the clear and starting to see skies clear. 55 degrees, 55 degrees, your current temperature right now at the airport, slightly cooler going even into the poconos. but you can see, a very sharp contrast setting up here, where the front has already cleared into columbus, atlanta, temperatures have gun to take a hit here, and we'll finally start to see the same thing happen once the front actually clears. current winds speeds, sustained winds speeds, from ten to almost 20 miles per hour, or more than that, up in the poconos, so it will be a blustery day and noticeably windy day, across the board. across the board, however, once this rain gets out of here, i promise you that skies will start clearing here. the temperatures that we're looking at, those are generally representing 9:00 a.m. temperatures, and the temperatures will as a

result of the cooler air moving in start to gradually fall, as the day progresses, the last spots to see the wet weather will be down the shore, as we're watching this move from west to east, but again, everybody clears out, on this christmas day, but everybody still has to deal with the winds, too. erika, back over to you. >> thank you, on this christmas day, thousands of philadelphians and the fateful will come together to celebrate the birth of jesus. "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabeo joins us right now, liver at the pennsylvania largest catholic church, basilica for saint peter and paul in philadelphia. jan, merry christmas. >> reporter: erika, merry christmas to you. the next christmas mass here basilica is followed by other at 10:00, 12:00 and first one at 9:00 a.m. huge tradition, midnight mass, no different here in center city earlier this morning. >> ♪ >> from the music to the message, the basilica of saint peter and paul in center city

philadelphia is filled with the christmas spirit. packing the pews, philadelphians looking forwards not to what's under the christmas tree but who is around it. >> i just moved back into the area. i'm glad i can be with my family and be here in the holiday season. >> nice to relax with family and friends. >> time for family and celebration. >> of course family is always the theme on this holiday, but specially so when archbishop charles chaput's mess thank year, with world meeting of families just around the corner, and papal visit on the horizon, family will remain the focus in 2015. >> we went to jesuit college, we went to holy cross in massachusetts, so we just think that the jesuits are crazy and fun, and ya, we love the jesuit pope. pretty pumped he will be here. >> something to be excited about not only for these devoted but for the entire city of brotherly love. >> i think it will definitely boost the more all, just to be able to see the pope in

person. >> i think he's been, you know, great breath of fresh air. >> and, of course there is will be the first visit by the pope to the u.s. the archdioces has already kick up preparation into high gear from buying and storing, more than million mass booklet, to also figuring outhouse g and transportation to more than a million visitors. reporting live in center city this morning, jan carabeo, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". show more empathy toward family and friends. that was pope francis' message last night at christmas eve mass at saint peters bags ilkka. later in his homily, the pontiff said the world needed more tenderness and more warmth. thousands of christians from around the world are in saint peters square this year to hear pope francis deliver his christmas mess thank about an hour. >> partial building collapse sent two people to the hospital and left 11 other homeless on christmas eve. it happened around 9:00 last night at this home on the 100 block of west roosevelt

boulevard in olney. we're told five adults inside at the time made it out okay. two people went to to the hospital with minor injuries. "eyewitness news" spoke with the woman who says she lives inside. >> i was just hanging inside. i heard allowed boom. that's it. and then i just look out the window and we came down, i came down, and that's when we couldn't come back to the house. >> l & i is investigating what may have calls that collapse. the red cross is assisting six displaced families. nick snow. >> erika, investigators are looking through surveillance video for leads on the driver who hit and killed a woman in northeast philadelphia, and just kept ongoing. police say 33 year old theresa pozzi crossing state road in holmesburg, hit by a truck tuesday night. her family has a message for the person who hit her and the people who tried to help her. >> these women, these men, who ever were there, to not leave her alone, thank you, for the

person who knew they clearly hit her. you are heartless. you are cruel and god will make his way to you who ever you are. >> police say they are looking for a late 80s or early 90's, dark colored pick up or tow truck that's miss ago headlight. >> happening today, just a great tradition here. the annual re-enactment of washington crossing the delaware. costume reenactors will listen to the inspiring words from general washington and then board those boats and re-live the daring and dangerous crossing from christmas night 1776. the festivities begin at noon at washington crossing state park in bucks county. all right, it is 5:06 right now. and more unrest in missouri after the latest police shooting. we have new video from the overnight protest. >> also, it the movie hackers did not want you to see, but the interview is in theatres

today. where you can catch the controversial comedy in our area. plus you don't expect an old house like this to be lost. >> a grin every strikes right before christmas, stealing a family's presents. and they aren't the only victims in the normally quiet neighborhood. and street are still little sog fry last night's rain. katie is up dating your christmas forecast. first though here is special performance from the philadelphia boys choir and chorale. >> ♪ >> ♪

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>> merry christmas to my amazing daughter in cherry hill, new jersey. miss you and lover you very much. >> the interview, the movie now available through on line streaming services, and it is in some independent movie theatres today. the pen cinema riverfront in wilmington is the only theater showing it here in our area. the interview centers on plot to assassinate north korea's leader. president obama applauded

sony's decision to show the movie after the studio originally pulled it after threats from hackers, believed to originate in north korea. >> it became really not a good move for sony to look as if they were trampling on the first amount. >> the phone ridging offer the hook. either people want to buy tickets or want to know if we're showing the move. >> i us intelligence officials say an investigation showed north korea responsible for the sony hack in allegation north korea denies. 5:13, waking to up warm and windy christmas. >> absolutely, very, very mild start to the day for us out there, erika. and merry christmas, everybody. and we can expect to see skies start to clear as the day goes on, so brightening sky, for your christmas festivities for sure. but, we know no white christmas this year. it is simply too warm. uma see it reflected in the temperatures very, very evidently. let's take you out, there show you the storm in its entirety first, the eastern two thirds of the united states, still seeing signs of life on the

radar, whether it is snow up across the can add yan border, great lakes region, or retreat now thankfully of severe weather potential that sort of just funnels through the deep south here. we, i have to say, even though this is a prolonged storm, we're delta very glancing blow this storm, it ended up being just light to moderate rain for the better part of the day obviously yesterday, and still out there now, and the winds is going to kick up for us, but that was really it. we've certainly seen far worse in terms of large storms like this around this time of year. this was much more of a spring-like storm actually, but as the rain starts to pull away, i would say about 8:00 a.m., 9:00 a.m., when we see the last drain drops fall, winds kicks in, see the temperatures gradually decline. still off to real mild start, won't stay that way, every passing hour, cooler air will start to funnel in. and knock these temperatures back, not going to be big drop on the thermometer initially, rather, pretty gradual, but again notice the breeze. friday, looks lovely, still up to 50 degrees, still above average, with high pressure in

place for yet another day even on saturday. we have two beautiful days coming up. then you can see off in the west here, there is a new front that's going to be at least approaching by sunday, so, as the day progresses, temperatures fall, the winds kicks in, and we look ahead to the next couple every days here, sunday is the next chance for shower, with a new cold front, which knocks our temperatures back, but doesn't have a loft moisture, just looking for a shower out of it, guys, back to you. >> katie, thanks. thrilling finish to college football game. you have to see the wild last play after epic come-back. >> also, a new ebola scare. this time it is at the cdc. the lab mistake that may have expose add workers to that virus. first, though, here's a christmas carol from the mount st. joseph academy choir. >> ♪

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>> ckdc lab technician is being monday towards after possibly being exposed to the

ebola virus. person may have come into contact with the live virus while working in secure lab in atlanta that worker is not showing any symptoms, but will be monitored for 21 days. if you have any carmel apples? your kitchen, three is on your side with an important recall. happy a.m. sells recalling some apples because they could be contaminated with listeria. so far those apples have been linked to five deaths and at least 29 illnesses. they were sold at stores in pennsylvania, with best buy dates between august 25th and november 23rd. >> well, checking sports now, all the local pro teams have the day off for christmas, the sixers play in portland tomorrow night, flyers are in nashville saturday. eagles wrap up their season sunday afternoon again the giants in north jersey. >> to college football now. yesterday's bowl in nasa. central michigan down by a touchdown. hail mary, off to the ends

zone. central michigan down 44 to 14, came back this close. after three laterals, 80 yarned touchdown pass, and the the other just one point down. unfortunately they went for the two-point conversion instead of extra point, and lost the game 49 to 48. that one hurt, i'm sure, we'll be back.

>> we're left with the back edge of our cold front, still placing its full cross through the delaware valley. as it passes through, obviously still brinking in some rain. but it will gradually begin to fade away, and pull out to sea as the day goes on here. so, that said, we are looking at a breezy day, and certainly, one that's going to start to turn cooler with time. but let's have little fun

here. spread some holiday cheer around the us, shall we? 33 degrees is the hi, comet, north carolina 50 degrees the expected high there. i love this graphic. so much fun. noel, missouri, 49 degrees, christmas, florida checks in at 70 this afternoon, and holly, washington, 39 the expected high today. always little fun when we can take you around the map, show you themed town names. meantime, we start to clear out, the rainy think basically done by 8:00, 9:10 a.m. by the absolute latest. see skies clear, wind is the theme, gusts as high as 40 miles per hourment tomorrow calm winds, bright sunshine, beautiful weather. looks lick it will last us into saturday, too. erika, back to you. >> katie, thank you. former president george h.w. bush spending christmas morning in a houston hospital. the 90 year old spent his second night in the hospital last night, after experiencing a shortness of breath on tuesday. his spokesman says bush had a good day yesterday, and his prognosis is positive.

>> 5:24 right now, coming up in the next half hour of "eyewitness news", celebrating christmas here in philadelphia. jan? >> reporter: catholics all across philadelphia have already started celebrating christmas, with that traditional midnight mass, coming up, we'll take you inside, and also show you part of a new message by the philadelphia archdioces. >> plus, a normally quiet neighborhood on edge after a string of burglaries right before christmas. >> and have we seen the last of the rain for the day? katie returns with your holiday forecast, as you look live at atlantic city. we'll be right back. >> ♪

>> we're waking i am to warm morning, fog is out there, and the rain did not slow down saint, a but could if you're headed out this morning after opening presents. >> it's true, and there are some changes on the way here. let's check in on the christmas forecast with kate. >> i yes, and there you are. >> sneaking up on us. >> christmas surprise. >> yes, we do have a very mild start, what did youy? >> hashtag christmas. >> we'll get that trending this morning. >> love it. >> yes, still do have very mild air in place. wind will start kicking in, it is a running theme all day. storm system isn't totally out of here just yet. so you can see just over my

should their we've still got wet weather to show you on storm scan3, actually start things off by taking you outside here to a view from palmyra cove nature park. do still have visibility of the center city skyline, and it is well off in the distance there, tough to make out the tops of all of the skyscrapers, but they're there, 51 yeast meanwhile, nice mild start, as we take you next to storm scan, yes, still wet weather, strictly rain right now, tan will continue to be strictly rain, just way too warm otherwise. let me take you through future weather, too, move through the rest of the morning, bulk of the moisture will spread into the garden state, back edge is visible, the clearing will start to take place through the west most suburbs, and by noon, we are a you will in the clear. that said, seeing sunshine, what you have to face in terms of the winds already cranking as high as 20 plus miles per hour, straight up westerly wind, so it won't be as quite of harsh chill, and certainly, when dealing with temperatures that are just gradually falling through the 50's, this isn't a bad day. it is very mild for christmas st