>> stormstorm scan3 shows rain moving through the area, and a wet trip for santa claus. >> little santa claus poncho going. >> certainly did not need the heavy coat. >> good thing for rudolph last night. >> i know, all the fog. >> we send it right over to katie see if we're done with all this. >> always make me harken back to rudolph, then one foggy christmas eve. >> santa came through. >> yes, we'll sing during the commercial break. no one wants to hear that now. >> but yes, we do have still some wet weather to talk about this morning, and merry christmas, everybody. let's take you out there, we will show you one more time, storm scan3, still active. we continue to see our storm sort of just spiral away here with the coldest air well into canada, so, even though it is still a large storm, and it is still going to knock the temperatures back, we zoom it in one more time for you here, still wet weather to deal with. we are going to eventually see the wind kick in with it. in fact, it is already starting to. it is allowing our feels like values to get knock backhand

full of degrees. feels more like the 30's mount pocono, more like the four's in the lehigh valley out toward the reading area and more like the low 50's, still wet above average, for philadelphia, and the rest of our region, but, that said, what you see is very close to what you get, in fact, in philadelphia, we are at 53 degrees right now, and going to see these temperatures just gradually fall as time goes on. fifty-three, as well, in atlantic city, even in the last hour, seen pretty dramatic drop off on the thermometer, so as we are standing at 53 currently, that's about the you can hope for here. it will gradually just start to get cooler and cooler with time. at least it brightens up, gets brighter and brighter as the day goes on, too. 42 degrees out in the poconos, also going to be dry day for you there. but blustery conditions for your christmas holiday, beautiful weather coming up, then as high pressure set unless for few days for friday, saturday, but looking ahead to next week it, does start to turn colder. we will tell you exactly when the colder air is set later in the show. for now again it is a transition day for us, but

we're not dealing with a all day rain event like we had yesterday. skies are actually going to start brightening up, as early as later this morning, nicole, back to you. >> thanks, it is christmas day, people from all around the worlds are ringing in the holiday inn some very special ways. "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabeo is doing that, somewhere along the way. we can't find her. >> there she is. >> live at the cathedral of saints peter and paul in center city. sore bye that, jan, merry christmas. >> reporter: merry christmas, nicole. celebrations are already underway, all across center city, of course, here at the basilica of saints peter and paul. there will be mass at 8:00, 10:00, and 12:00. but big tradition for many catholics, midnight mass, no different in center city earlier this morning. >> ♪ >> from the music to the message, basilica of saints peter and paul in center city philadelphia is filled with christmas spirit. and packing the pews,

philadelphians looking forward not to what's under the christmas tree, but who is around it. >> and i just moved back into the area. so i'm glad i can within my family this evening, and this holiday season. >> family, friends. >> in time for family and celebration. >> of covers, family is always the theme on this holiday. but specially so when archbishop charles chaput's message this year with worlds meeting of families just around the corner, and papal visit on the horizon, family remain the focus in 2015. >> we went to jesuit college, so big, big pope francis fans, went to holy cross in massachusetts. so we just think that the jesuits are crazy and fun. >> and the jesuit pope. >> we're pretty pumped he'll be here. >> something to be excited about, not only for these devoted but for the entire city of brotherly love. >> i think it was, you know, it is definitely going to boost the more all, you know, just to be able to see the pope in person. >> i think he's been, you

know, a great breath of fresh air. >> this will be the pope's first visit to the united state. meanwhile the archdioces has stepped up planning from buying and storing more than a million mass booklet, to also figuring outhouse g and transportation, for more than a million visitors. live in center city this morning, jan carabeo, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> jan, thank you. happening right now, a crowd packs the vatican where pope francis is celebrating christmas day mass. looking live right now, at saint peters square. thousands of catholics have gathered celebrate the birth of jesus christ, and the pope is delivering his christmas day message to the world, again, looking live right now. >> well, unfortunately, not all the news this christmas is joyful. philadelphia officials are investigating what caused part of a two-family home to collapse in olney. it happened on the 100 block of roosevelt boulevard. police say five adult were inside at the time. two people went to the hospital. "eyewitness news" spoke with a woman who says she lives inside. >> that was just hanging inside, and 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. >> the american red cross helped 11 people finds a place to stay. >> police are searching for the driver responsible for a deadly hit-and-run in northeast philadelphia. investigators say that theresa pozzi hit by a truck tuesday night as she tried to cross state road in holmesburg. her family has this message for the person who hit 393 year old and the people who helped her. >> these women were meant, 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. >> investigators are reviewing surveillance video for leads on the truck. police describe it as late 80s

or early 90s, dark colored pick up, or dough truck, they say it is also miss ago headlight. >> happening today, a terrorist christmas day tradition in bucks county. rere-enactment of washington crossing of the delaware beginning with inspiring words from general washington at noon, then the crossing at 1:00. it was on christmas night at 1776 that washington and the continental army controls dollars the delaware then won the battle of trenton. >> 6:06 right now. and new ebola scare, and this time it is at the cdc, may have caused a worker to be exposed to that virus. >> also, more unrest in missouri, latest police shooting there. overnight protest. plus: >> now showing i'm don champion in new york city, coming up after all of the controversy and threats, we'll show you where you can see the movie the interview. >> and the street are still a little soggy from last night's rain katie is updating the

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find options to fit your budget. nah, nah, insurance, nah, nah, nah, discount. my name's flo, you want to go out with me? no. uh-huh-huh! >> merry christmas, everybody. we have active weather, no brain tear start off here, show you what's happening on the mapment in terms of radar, satellite, especially the radar. it is strictly rain right now, but you can see a very discontinuing back edge. this is panning out exactly as we expected it to with the timing, not taking its time, it will eventually zip out of here and by i would say the absolute latest 8:00, nine

armor so, seeing the last of the rain dropping pull out to sea so clearing out for sunshine. that said, you will keep the wind around. wind gusts peaking at 40 miles per hour, technically note's right now, going to gradually see these temperature readings drop off, with time, very gradually it, looks like though as the day goes on. with the winds you will notice that it could send your christmas deck racing flying down the street. make sure everybody is secure, the bottom line there. meanwhile come friday, beautiful. even though it is a little cooler, we still hit 50 degrees, and that's still close to ten above the average. we keep that theme going on saturday for the next two days, looks fantastic, high pressure in place, by sunday, though, see already waiting in the wings new frontal boundary, next round of showers, knock the temperatures back. so nice festive merry christmas graphic. temperature of 53 generally representing the height of what we will fine later this morning, then temperatures again will gradually decline, gradually, that's really the key word here. blustery otherwise, clearing skies. and as we look ahead, we mention friday, saturday look lovely. sunday shower around, by

monday the cold air catches up to us finally, back to seasonable territory for monday, tuesday, chillier for new years eve, nicole, back to you. >> the most talk about move think holiday season is getting a second chance on the big screen. the controversial film the interview hits theatres today as planned, despite hack attack, and threats against the studio that produced it. don champion tells you where you can catch that movie. >> you want us to assassinate the leader of the nor korea? >> yes. >> what? >> across the country, theatres are playing the film the interview. >> i just seeing the trailer and i wanted to see it. >> originally shelved the film when larger theater chains said they would not show it because of terror threats against movie goers with hackers to ties to north korea. in a stunning reversal the company released the film as planned today. saying it chose to stand up to those who tried to suppress free speech. president obama, who criticized sony's original

decision, praised the move from hawaii. >> i'm glad it is being released. >> cinema village here at new york city just one of hundreds of theatres to show the interview, sony also made the film available on line. this group sat down to watch the film in the news room of our cbs station in san francisco. reaction was mixed. >> north korea should lighten up. they should have watched the movie before they did all of the that is that i they did. >> after watching it i can sort of see why sony did not want this movie to be released. >> they hate it because -- >> people can watch it home on variety every video platforms including google play, youtube videos, microsoft xbox video for a fee. don champion, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". pen cinema river front in wilmington the only local theater showing that movie in our area. >> 6:16. three's on your side with an important recall, on some

sweet treats that have already made dozen of people sick. may be un your tree right now. listen to that. >> tweet ago tree? you heard right. how you can keep this christmas tree in new jersey lit, all thanks to twitter. we'll be back.

>> officials say a person may have come in contact with a live ebola virus while working in a lab. not showing symptoms, but will be watched for 21 days. we're on your side right now, if you have any carmel apples? your kitchen, or maybe in a stocking or under the tree, "3 on your side" with an important recall. happy apples is recalling apples because they could be contaminated when listeria a society a.m. develops 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. in sports, all the local pro teams have the christmas day off but will be back at it this weekend, sixers in portland, flyer take on the preditors saturday, eagles of course wrapping up their season on the road against the giants sunday afternoon. take a look at this, wild finish to yesterday's

inaugural pop pie bahama bowl in nassau. came back from 49 to 14 deficit to get within one touchdown, with one second left. a hail marry pass got tossed around until it ended up as a 80-yard touchdown, and all the sudden they were just one point away from a tie, unfortunately, central michigan went for the two-point conversion and the win, but they missed it. western kentucky hangs on to win 49 to 48. that's a tough loss for them. that's got to hurt. we'll be back.

>> no white christmas but the rain is pulling away i would say by 8:00, 9:00 a.m. by the latest, latest rain dropping fall down the jersey shore, moving in from west to east. here is a view from "skycam 3" of our center city skyline, and from our very own rooftop,

too. 53 degrees the current temperature, way above the normal high for the standards this time of year, ten solid degrees above it, in fact right now, but winds is starting to crank. see it as high as 17 miles per hour, sustained, and there will be higher gusts, too. once the colds front itself actually crosses through. there we have it, storm scan3, still some rain to track, and it is starting to pull away, so it is just matter of time. but, talk about mild air. yesterday, at 8:30 at night, give or take few minutes, we hit 64 degrees, obviously, above average, when you look at the norms. but we are going to start to see these temperatures drop back at least a little bit through the course of the next few days, but not enough that we end up back to seasonable. we keep it above the norm for the next three days. so, today's our transition day. i would say the next three days, the worse forecast we have in store for you. we still have rain, we got winds throughout the day. but tomorrow, saturday, look awesome. low mid 50's, keeping the sunshine, limiting that winds potential, so really looks like very nice weather coming

up if maybe you're coming out and spending brand new gift cards perhaps. back to you. >> putting ideas in our heads, katie. right now 25:00, and the mayor of berkley, missouri calls for calm after a fatal police-involved shooting rye ignites tensions in the st. louis suburb. protesters staged a die-in at the gas station, where 18 year old antonio martin died late tuesday night. he was shot and killed after authorities say martin pointed a loaded gun at a police officer. the mayor says the surveillance video captured that confrontation. >> former president george h.w. bush spending the night in the hospital. spends his second night in the hospital last night after experiencing shortness of breath tuesday. spokesman said bush had good day yesterday, and his prognosis movement so that's some good news. still ahead this morning on "eyewitness news", celebrating christmas in philadelphia. >> jan? >> reporter: christmas celebrations are already underway, all the way throughout the philadelphia region. i'm jan carabeo live outside of the basilica of saints

peter and paul. coming up we'll take you inside for midnight mass, also show you a bit after new message from the archdioces. >> all right, jan. >> you don't expect an old house like this to be robbed. >> also, a grinch strikes right before christmas stealing presents, and they aren't the only victims in the normally quiet neighborhood. >> and have we seen the last of the rain for the day? katiee returns with your holiday forecast, we'll be right back.

>> we are waking to up warm and wet christmas morning, roads still little slick after late night rain and some fog out there, too, but the rain did not slow santa down. but it might slow you down if you are headed out this morning, thankfully they packed the reindeer ponchos last night. >> indeed they did. >> they needed them. >> wet reindeer, doesn't smell good. just saying. >> it does not. >> looking at great weather eventually not for now, still wet weather out there right now, reindeer are all done, santa's back up at the north pole now, trying to shake off all of the wet weather obviously, but still some out here for us right now. storm scan3, showing some signs of life obviously, we continue to see some raindrops falling down, it is relatively

a light rain, at this point, and we're going to eventually see that back, you see now moving into chester county, montgomery, bucks county, and it all slides east, and we start to brighten up. so the sun's not even up yet. once it does come up, we'll notice the winds more than anything cold air catches up to us, but the sin will shine, good news, as high pressure builds in, we have nice weather, for friday, for saturday, with that high in place, we will keep temperatures still above average. now, notice off to the west, by saturday, there is a frontal boundery on the move. our next system moves in, looking ahead specifically to sunday. >> immediate noticeable weather-related factor on christmas day, that combined with the warmth, in at 40 reese degrees at mount pocono, 53 at the airport, and that wind although it says it is calm in atlantic sitly gradually begin to pick up

everywhere. were that in the forecast, you'll ends up seeing couple of trash can lids flying down the street here, maybe christmas packages that have already been opened, some of the wrapping out in the street potentially just because of the winds blowing them along. >> we want to make sure your christmas deck racing are nice. temperatures will gradually decline, throughout the course of the day, and then we ends up with very quiet weather as i mentioned, so looking ahead specifically to friday, saturday, beautiful weather, in the forecast for us, a colder couple of days coming up into next week, though. so we'll have our eye on that, temperatures coming up a bill later in the show. maybe you just got brand new smart phone, tablet for christmas, make sure to download the cbs philly app. always get the updated forecast, go to app for werth. you can download it right now, on itunes and google play. guys, we send it back over to you. >> kate, thank you. today christians around the world are celebrating the

birth of jesus. worshippers gather for churches across the region. jan carabeo joins us at the cathedral basilica in center city for the first of three masses first one starts in about an hour and a half at 8:00. jan, merry christmas. >> next christmas mass here at the basilica of saint peter and paul held at 8:00 this morning, then follow up with other services at 10:00 and 12:00. huge tradition for a loft catholics across the worlds is midnight mass. that certainly held true, here in center city overnight. you can see how packed the pews were for midnight mass here, many people we spoke with are looking forward to spending time with family this christmas, and family was main topic of archbishop charles chaput midnight mass. usually is on this holiday, but specially so this year, at as philadelphia peoples world meeting of families for september 2015, along with that of course comes historic visit by pope francis with papal mass on the parkway.

now, the archdioces is already kicked the planning into high gear, tackling issues from buying and storing millions of mass booklets to housing and transportation for more than a million visitors. seems this christmas philadelphians couldn't be more excited. take a listen. >> we went to jesuit college, so big jesuit fans. we just think the jest ooh ritz crazy and fun. >> and the jesuit pope. >> pretty pumped they'll be here. >> of course, this will be pope francis' first visit to the u.s. in the meantime, here in center city, the next christmas mass again behind me it is balance ilkka of saints peter and paul at 8:00 philadelphia by 10:00 and nine noon. some unfortunate news for this morning, two chester county families say they feel violated after thieves broke into their homes, and stole presents from right underneath their tree. investigators say the thieves targeted two homes in in paoli

early yesterday morning. paul and barbara simmer say the christmas grinch, as they're calling them, left boxes with clothes behind, but took the more expensive gifts. their neighbors presents were also stolen along with a bmw. >> for the people that stole them, i would have given the presents to them if they were that desperate. >> they new the jewelry boxes, because even though they were wrapped, they took all the jewelry, the watches, the earrings, that sort of thing. >> that's a shame. now, police say the stolen car is a 2008 black bmw with the pennsylvania plate hrh4478. anyone with information is asked to call police. still ahead this morning, how would you like to control your christmas tree with your small known. >> sure, why not? we'll show you the high tech way this tree in new jersey is getting lit from all around the world. >> also, getting another check on your christmas forecast, if you are getting ready to head outside. first though here is a special performance from the philadelphia boys choir and

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>> beautiful air base, korea, a hopefully it will snow soon. a shout out to my mom, jean, my in law's, fred and kathy, and of course, nan back there in new castle, pennsylvania, i wish you happy holidays, merry christmas, look forward to seeing you soon. >> technology and social media mix with christmas tree, you can operate with hash tags. >> this is crazy. melanie roy from our sister station "kyw news radio" 1006 shows you how the twitter tree works. >> a team of inter-active designers and social media specialists at oxford communications have created a twitter controlled christmas tree and holiday display. >> now, overall idea was about gamefication. susi wants the tree to be green, billy want the tree to be red, they almost have a little war back and forth using social media to determine, you know, what color the tree would be. >> it is all operated through tweets and hash tags. >> so there are eight

channels, eight plugs on this box, which houses a microcomputer. what we have is that is connected to the internet, and it is also connect today twitter. >> the access tree even has it own twitter account. >> we wanted to create fun account that people would want to interact with and have conversations back and forth with as if it was a friend of theirs. >> so, if people write a hashtag, to twitter, in this case we'll use the example comfort, so hashtag comfort the true collects that information and then flips the switch and turns lights to red. >> the tree on display at oxford communications offers, throughout the holiday season. >> you can tweet hashtag brilliant or be a scrooge and tweet hashtag to turn it off. in lambertville, mel now roy, "kyw news radio". >> figure i pudding. >> i like. >> coming up on 7:43, your christmas forecast in just a moment, but first sad news to report here. a christmas eve tornado hit new hanover county north carolina yesterday.

and if you are looking at your tv right now, you can just see the widespread destruction left behind. winds reached 105 miles an hour. the national weather service says that twitter -- twister was on the grounds for only couple every minutes, but left behind plenty of damage. one person suffered minor injuries. hate to see that specially around the holidays. now, katie, no weather like that around here. we do have rain though to talk about? >> certainly. that's yes ' been saying, the course of this storm has been rolling through, we real bring dealt somewhat after glancing blow when it comes to the whole grand scheme of the storm, it real had i a lot of severe weather potential with it, and it certainly delivered on that through the deep south in the last two days really, wasn't even just yesterday, the day before, that we had some severe weather as well meanwhile here is the storm, very large one, here at the core of it, but the extent down to the panhandle of florida will need few more hours before it completely clears. eventually it will do that and even right now, we can see the very back edge of it.

so it is starting to see the skies actually clear up little bit back through the mountains here in central pennsylvania, there are obviously still some rain showers to track at this point. but, if you pretty much have seen things wind down, just say you're done with it at this point. i would give you another maybe hour and a half before it is all completely out of here, meantime we look at the difference in the temperatures, very stark contrast from raleigh, back toward nashville, even atlanta here, where you can tell the front already crossed through, skies have cleared in the spots, but the blue contour do not lie. cold air has also gun to set until. meanwhile, future weather, i want to take you through, that really the next two hours, if, that before we're pretty much done with this storm, 8:00 a.m., maybe still showers across new jersey, 9:00 a.m., skies are clearing, may even have some sunshine by that point through berks, lancaster county, up through the lehigh vale. we keep the wind around, skies clearing nicely. i have to hands it to our eye weather watchers, full force, out delivering the updates, the observations for us, we

love you for it, merry christmas, newark delaware, sending sending in ooh degrees, tuckerton nice and mild, 54 from tim mitchell. we continue to see similar scene aeros across the board. skiing today or through the upcoming weaken you have some pretty decent weather overall here specially friday and saturday, looking like fantastic days to hit the slopes here with sunshine, it will certainly be chillier up in the mountains, but milder than average. we take new sunday, still, mild, but that will be marking the arrival happen passage of the next cold front. that's why we have to allow for at least a shower, but temperatures will take a hit. then monday, tuesday, especially, looking far more seasonable in the low 40's at that point, and as we head into wednesday, new years eve, even chillier temperatures back to the 30's, guys, back to you. >> thank you, we will be right back.. >> first, what's coming up tonight on cbs-3.

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>> 6:53 on your christmas morning. >> so festive, we love it. merry christmas, everybody, good morning to you. still dealing with what's left now of our frontal boundery. it is still moving on through with additional showers, but, there is a very discontinuing back edge to this. it is in site right now, pretty much moving through philadelphia as we speak. so i give it another say hour or two, and then we will be in the clear across the entire delaware valley, whether you are spending your holiday morning at the shore, or maybe further inland here across the western suburbs, in places like reading where things have actually already start today quiet down in terms of wet weather. but the wind is out, there and it is out there for everybody to maybe not necessarily enjoy, but to certainly notice. and you'll have it pretty much just cranking out of the west all day here as high as 15 to 20 miles per hour, higher gusts as high as 40 miles per hour. temperature of 53, relative to

about the 9:00 a.m. hour, guysment looks like temperatures will just gradually fall, through the day, and then back to the low to mid 50's for two more days. so as high pressure takes over, we end up with more sunshine, and we actually ends up with very nice weather by tomorrow and saturday. so there is going to be chill in the air for the next few mornings, but, technically, we remain well above average with these temperatures. not bad. erika, back to you. >> speaking of the warm temperatures, of course way too warm to have a white christmas, so we decided to make our own winter wonder land for the holiday. >> ♪ >> katy? >> that's okay. ukee is the lead anchor. >> still, very fun, thank you everyone at jib jab, always entertaining. >> oh, and i just love those

little jackets and hats. >> and the dance moves? >> and rudolph's shiny nose. >> easy does it hey, our christmas morning coverage continues on the "cw philly". we are live outside the basilica in center city where it is christmas and the pope's upcoming visit are on the minds of the faith full. >> also ahead, holiday tradition continues, as we get a look at the white house decorations, plus how the west coast reason help unearth a rare discovery. we'll explain coming up. and a reminder join us this afternoon for a longwood christmas, it is one of the area's most beautiful sites, now you can see right from your own warm home. it is today at 12:0, a right here on cbs-3. next on cbs this morning, keeping the fateful with attendance down in churches across the country, one place of worship believing believers together in a new way. >> yes, to continue following your local news weather and traffic, turn now to sister station the "cw philly" where "eyewitness news" continues. before we go, though, a special thanks to all of the great people here at cbs-3, so

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hey, good morning and merry christmas. it is thursday, december 25th, 2014. welcome to "cbs this morning." one of the nation's most prominent catholic voices comes to studio 57. arches by on joseph kirts on pope francis's holiday message. we look back at amazing stories including amazing technology that could give our troop as leg up. and kennedy center honor reballerina patricia mcbride looks back on an astounding year. but first w