from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia. this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news". and today's monday, december 29th, good morning i'm ukee washington. >> i'm erika von tiehl. stories we're following today the investigation continues this morning into a tragic accident in gloucester county, new jersey, a child is struck and killed, by a police car. we're live in franklin township with the very latest. >> also, fire erupts at a home in north philadelphia, sending two police officers to the hospital. we will have an update on their condition. and where is air asia flight 8501? the latest on the search for the missing plane that vanished without a trace sunday morning. >> we'll get to all of those stories in just a moment, first, we start with a forecast on your monday, i guess late december, mild weather is still here. >> we'll take it just like

we'll take you coming back. >> hope everyone had a good holiday. what's up. how are you doing? >> good morning guys, yes so we had nice mild weekend you probably noticed how warm it was every time you walked out the door this weekend. not bad for december certainly. that's all changing, my friends, we are seeing not just cold front cross through here, but certainly some colder air take its place. at the moment, things are pretty tranquil, all things considered, even despite the passage of cold front we are actually not dealing with any kind of poor visibility at this point in atlantic city or in most locations. so, it is a pretty tranquil start to the day. this is actually a sign of things to come. we are in for nice break my friends, in the wet weather. but it does come with a price and a trade offer. we'll tell you what that is coming up. guys, back over to you. >> thanks so much. >> well, a ten year old boy was fatally struck by a franklin township police cruiser last night. >> witnesses say that boy was hit while crossing the street with friends. "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabeo joins us from the

scene, in franklin township with more on that investigation, jan good morning. >> reporter: erika, ukee good morning, the autopsy on the ten year old victim happen today. meantime investigators still try to figure out exactly what happened here, sunday evening if you take a look at the video, you can see the scene this deadly accident happened after 7:00 p.m. here on delsea drive near paul street, franklin township. police say ten year old boy and two of his friends were heading to slumber party at the time. one of his friends had made it across the street safely. but as the ten year old start today cross police say he was struck by a franklin township police cruiser and died. investigators say the officer was responding to a call when the accident happened. and was the only officer in the cruiser that officer was taken to the hospital for evaluation and no other children were hurt. >> the gloucester county prosecutors' office, investigating a deadly motor vehicle accident that happened in franklin township. victim was ten year old boy.

the driver of the vehicle was a franklin township police officer. the matter is currently under investigation. we will release more details as we receive them. we would like to offer our deepest condolances to the family of the child. >> now, the franklin township has released this statement -- this statement reading in part, first and for most, our thoughts and prayers go out to the family that tragically lost their son while this is very difficult time for the young boy's family it is also very difficult for that police officer involved. it is our under stands that the officer was responding to an urgent call when this accident happened. we support the officer who was involved in this. he is very shaken up. again, full investigation is now underway. that being conducted by the gloucester county prosecutor's office. reporting live in franklin township this morning, jan carabeo, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> jan, thank you. right now 4:33, we want to get back to katie with more about our forecast. >> happy monday, headed back

to work maybe for short week ahead, pretty quiet weather regardless what your plans are have in store here for the week ahead things are tranquil, certainly are now even despite the fact we had wet weather rolling on through. front that came through which we show now second here was relatively weak in terms of moisture, we take a look over the ben franklin bridge from the campbell's field camera, all is calm at this point generally speaking winds pretty light. do still have little bit of risidual moisture, as we take you there next, tri-state sweep, south of philadelphia, where you are finding any additional wet weather at this point. and it is all just really really light showers the lighter shades of green you find, the lighter rainfall intensity you tend to that, that's what we found out there right now certainly what we will finds for the rest of the day. now, eventually, all of this will just drift to the south. we should actually brighten up for at least little sun won't be the brightest most sunny day like what we had on saturday for example. we are going to certainly see things dry out clear out with time here, although that

front does want to sort of hang close for couple of days. generally speaking it is trans will but with front nearby you won't have that bright brilliant sunshine for the next two days, temperatures as they stand right now 42 degrees not too bad out at philadelphia international. that's our normal daytime high. could be doing a lot worse but the colder air will start catching up to us, we won't see too much movement on the thermometer as the day goes on, 38 degrees in pottstown at the moment, into the 30's, as well up through willow grove. as the day progresses there you have it. call it partly sunny day for you, whether you seymour clouds or more sun at any given time, it will be a mix of sun and clouds, and temperatures are ever so slightly above average but they are definitely colder, than they were this weekend. jess good morning. >> good morning, katie 4:35, we go outside check out something we love to see which is empty roadways on the ben franklin bridge. philly side, so headed westbound into the city no problems. if you are having little trip there into new jersey, from philadelphia, you should have no problems there as well.

we do have ongoing construction south on 422 east and westbound between stowe and route 100 that's going to be one lane until early january. which is coming up pretty soon. otherwise, the rest of the majors still clear, 422 eastbound from 202 into oaks, 18 minutes on the blue route from 95 into the schuylkill. headed northbound no problems on 202 northbound from 30 into the schuylkill expressway. that's going to be only about 12 minute trip. currently great alternate this morning, for mass transit. no problems for septa, carpet new jersey transit or the patco speed line, currently no delays at the philadelphia international airport. ukee, back over to you. >> thank you new this morning investigators work to go find the cause of overnight garage fire in frankford. authority say two police officers were injured after a car inside the garage caught fire and exploded sending metal fragments everywhere. two people living in the apartment above managed to escape without injury. police say the flames broke out on the 1100 block of arrott street just before 1:30 this morning.

well, developing right now, australian planes assisting in the search for a missing air asia jetliner have reportedly spotted objects in the sea where the plane is believed to have crashed. >> flight 8501 vanished from traveling from indonesia to singapore sunday. 182 people were on board. while relatives of the missing head out hope at the airport officials are saying that plane is likely at the bottom of the java sea. >> very, very difficult time. >> the plane dis a periods from radar just minute after the pilot asked if he could change course to avoid bad weather. >> stay with "eyewitness news" as the search continues for air asia flight 8501. updates for you on tv and on line at cbsphilly.com. >> the bucks county toddler who inspired the signing of hanna's law has passed

awayment last night a large crowd gathered for candlelight vigil to remember hanna diagnosissed when a rare disorder known when she was just four months old. hand a's mother pushed screening tests for newborns into law. pennsylvania governor tom corbett signed hanna's law in october. >> the awareness hanna could have been walking right now and not sitting in a morgue. she would be here with us. she wasn't tested. >> hanna pass away sunday morning, few weeks before her second birthday. her parents say they are comforted knowing her name will live on through hanna's law. student at a charter school in northern lib earth ritz scrambling to find another school. the walter d palmer leadership learning partner charter school is shutting down on wednesday. in may the pennsylvania supreme court ruled the school had to pay back one and a half million dollars to the philadelphia school district. in october palmer high was

shut down and a lottery cut hundreds of children from palmer charter. >> it hurt me a lot. like a great deal. like what am i supposed to do now? everything is closed. holiday season still. what's the next step? >> the closing affect nearly 700 student from kindergarten through eighth grade. the philadelphia school district says it is ready to help student move to other schools. well, the eagles season is officially over now. and the birds got out of the season with a win knocking off the giants on the road, mark sanchez had touchdown passes to wide out jordan matthews, tight ends jordan six, the season comes to a close. sanchez finished 23 for 36, for 292 yards and couple of scores along with one tick. the eagles special teams came through again, third quarter james casey blocks the giants, burton would eventually get the ball, he would score right there nate allen with big interception toward the ends to help seal it. another ten and six season, no post-season, 34-26 eagles over

the giants. >> i think this team played extremely hard. i this i they played with great effort. obviously in a couple of games the ball didn't bounce our way. we all felt this week important to get to double digit wins. i was proud of those guys. >> turnovers, injuries to the offensive line, quarterback nick foles defense i have damico ryan, all it count the most that being the playoffs. more on that coming up in just a little bit in sport. straight ahead this morning on "eyewitness news", the latest in ferry fire already claimed at least one life. >> we'll have the latest on the desperate rescue effort. we're back in two minutes.

a ship with 49 survivors of the greek ferry fire has reached lands. >> passenger shot this video of the fire from the inside, more than 200 passengers and crew are still trapped aboard the vessel in rough seas between italy anal brain ya.

says 250 others have been evacuated. one person was killed, two other injuries. eyewitnesses say they heard explosions, but the cause of the fire has yet to be determined. >> sunny pictures, interview has raked in more than $15 million in on line downloads in less than a week. sony recorded more than 2 million rentals or purchases between wednesday and saturday day. through last night though, scott the interview had expected to growth $2.8 million in the theatres this a limited release. >> right now 4:43, such a nice weekends you almost didn't want to go to the movies? so nice out. yesterday we had a lot more cloud cover, few showers came from the cold front we're still tracking still drifting slowly to the south. it means the nice pleasant, very warm conditions for december standards anyway. >> sure. >> i have i got my nine holes in yesterday. >> avenue feeling a lot of people did that. >> oh, sure. >> this was very a typically mild for us. flirting anyway with

60 degrees on couple of those days. but gone are the days of nearing 60 degrees, as we wrap up the year 2014, my friend. but, i can at least report nice trade off there in that it will be a nice quiet week. the front still tracking to the south, drift that way then just because we're close enough, certainly southern new jersey, kent sussex county in delaware, close enough, you might still find a residual shower out there. that's it. and as this continues to drift to the south likely just start to brighten up, seymour sunshine, we show you little wider zoom here. actually area of low pressure developing on the tail ends, or sort every just in the middle of this front as it stalls, and we're luckily going to steer clear of it, or i should say it, will steer clear of us, we'll ends one high pressure sort of winning that battle and keeping control. so as a result, high pressure in place pretty much all week, that means quiet fair weather, all week long, we'll take it, if it does mean we have to see drop on the thermometer, today already seeing the drop, back to the mid 40's, then won't even

break out of the 30's we don't think tuesday wednesday or new years day. so ya, as we kick off the new year, very chilly, not the most fest i have graphic you've ever seen in your life? as we are in fact bringing in the new year, talking about pretty cold air. 28 degrees, give or take few degrees, if you are below freezing though it obviously means you have to bundle up, if you are hitting the fireworks or something like that. partly sunny coon he will meantime, today we hit 46 degrees, drop down to 31 tonight with the clouds, you will see this sort of coming through in intervals for the next few days with that front stalled nearby. but again, that front should not mess with us otherwise, we ends up with some sunshine along the way and quiet week ahead. no major storms in site at least through friday, maybe by sunday though, some rain returns to our forecast. ukee, back over to you. >> thank you katie n sports, we saw the good, the bad and the ugly during the 2014 eagles season. now it is all over. offense set franchise record for spots scored. kicker codey parky team record

for points passing david akers. but the ugly really really hurt. the birds led the league in turnovers with 36, defense led the league in 20-yard plays allowed, also they allowed 30, 60-yard place. journey maclin and connor barwin had super seasons but they talked about the problems that led to the early ending. >> at the end of the day man doesn't matter what your record is, wins and losses and everything, whatever in that particular game. you turn the football over, you're not going to win. if you don't get enough turnovers, you're not going to win. get a lot of turnovers you're going to win. so it is all about turnovers. >> we have to figure out a way as a whole our biggest casino of -- we all know that, not news to anybody we didn't give those up two years ago this year, that was the big problem for us. >> all right fellows the san francisco 49ers have parted ways can coach jim parlayer.

the team called it mutual decision. rumors swarm harbaugh will return to college football as the next coach of the michigan wolverines, like going home for him he played quarterback, back in the day. >> the economic impact of the disappearance of air asia flight 8501. first though, here's what's coming up tonight on cbs-3.

>> one more like at this morning's headlines. gloucester county officials are investigating an accident in which a franklin township police cruiser struck and killed a ten year old boy. police say the officer was responding to an urgent call sunday night. that boy was walking to a friends' house for a sleep-over when the cruiser hit him. a fire has damaged a double garage in philadelphia's frankford neighborhood two, police officers suffered minor injuries. now the fire happened on the 1100 block of arrott street. >> a possible break in the search for a missing air asia

flight. an indonesia official say australian officials have spotted debris in the search area. it was 162 people on board. time now for check of our business news. >> money watch's jill wagner joins us from the new york torque stock exchange, investors start another short week holiday week. we like this news. >> good morning, ukee, erika s&p and the dow both open at record highs, it is a short trading week, but there is a loft economic data including consumer confidence. but shares of air asia are down sharply after that passenger jet heading for singapore disappeared the outspoken ceo tony fernandez bought the airline more than a decade ago and hemmed air travel in southeast asia. ukee erika. >> jill, we hear the tablet market is getting a little more kid friendly. what's up? >> reporter: yes, move over, ipad. check out the stable.

massachusetts company specifically for kids. the fable runs on child friendly version every google's android operating system. it is loaded with educational apps it also does not allow for access to the internet. it costs about $129, and it should be on the market in march. ukee erika? >> how about that? >> i wonder how durable that thing is in can you see a kid with a ipad? i just clinch, oh, gosh don't drop it. >> thanks, jill. see you later this morning. coming up after a short break. traffic and weather together we do it on the

>> 4:53, traffic and weather together. good morning, jest kay. >> good morning 4:53, going out, checking how things are doing in new jersey, pretty early, little volume on each side, everything moving great. northbound lanes headed toward

philadelphia or the surrounding area bridges there, possibly 295 looking good no problems in the southbound lanes as well. now, over on 95, approaching the girard point bridge, the northbound lanes, you can see all lanes open, and everybody moving along just great. now, we have a few patches of construction to talk about on the schuylkill westbound the onramp from spring garden closed until further notice. now, on 422, in the eastbound and westbound lanes between route 100, one lane until early january otherwise 422 westbound not really any problems from 202 into observation, only seven minute trip. eighteen minute on the blue route from 95 into the schuylkill. headed northbound, currently no problems on 202 if you are headed northbound, as well, katy? >> all looking good, yes. certainly in the weather department, the weather pattern here, things looking pretty tranquil, too. we are still seeing some signs of life on the radar actually retreat of frontal boundary that's actually going to zip to our south here. sort of stall off to our south. but it isn't necessarily going to be messing with us too much more, other than to bring in

couple of additional clouds along the way. storm scan3 see the residual showers primarily now though the southern couple of counties here in the delaware county got to have that. as we zoom it way out see there is actually an area area of low pressure along the front, why you have some heavier rain bands and pockets, picking up across north carolina and virginia, and this, again all going to stay generally to our south. if you look closely though, kent or sussex county, in delaware, may get clipped by one left over round of showers here. late this this morning before it all again drops to the south. then high pressure regain control. that means we brighten up nicely in the next few days. some clouds along the way 39 degrees currently outside palmyra cove nature park see the center city skyline off in the distance, in visibility problems for us, now really just back to typical late december chill here. today mid 40's, but by tomorrow, and through thursday, as we ring in the new year, obviously little colder, but here's the thing. it stays nice and quiet all week long, nice long break

and frankly, well deserved one. >> you got that right. thank you. here is a look at some of the stories sister station "kyw news radio 1060" will be following for you today. pennsylvania health officials say at least 11 people have died of the flu so far this year. and cases of the virus are on the rise. well, divers come up empty again in the search for missing college student shane montgomery. with christmas over now center city christmas village shops are done until next year. find out why many store owners say this holiday shopping season was particularly good. check in two three, four times a day "kyw news radio" 10:60 a.m. on your dial. >> coming up: check on stop stories, an accident involving a police car in gloucester county leaves a child dead. >> also, a fire rescue inn alabama is caught on camera. we'll show you more of this video when we come back. >> could your smart phone be having a serious effect on your brain? why some say all of the that

from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia. this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news". and new this morning, two police office remembers hurt when a fire breaks out in a frankford garage. the dangerous item inside that sent them to the hospital and how they're doing this morning. >> also, this morning, a tragic crash, a young boy is hit and killed by a police car while crossing the street. we're live with new details about that accident. >> and it is monday, december 29th, good morning m ukee washington. >> i'm erika von tiehl. also developing right now massive search at sea for missing plane. the new clue for rescuers looking for any sign of that plane. katy? >> and erika today is going to be a sign of transition for us, as we go into a pretty quiet pattern. a pattern that will last us a while, but trade off comes with it, i'll tell you what it

is coming up. jess? >> good morning, it is relatively early so far. not whole lot going on. no problems currently on the ben franklin bridge, from the jersey side, so headed westbound into the city all lanes are open and moving along great. i'm going to check in with mass transit in just a couple every minutes erika? >> jess, thank you. new this morning, two philadelphia police officers were hit by flying debris during a overnight garage fire in frankford. that call came in just before 1:30 for a garage fire on the 1100 block of arrott street. the garage was fully engulfed when firefighters arrived on that scene. authorities say that's when they noticed a station wagon inside the garage. >> while extinguishing the fire they heard allowed pop. and then a piece of metal from the rear bumper of the vehicle traveled about 100 feet at high rate of speed striking two police officers in their leg. >> both officers were treated for minor injuries. investigators are now looking into what sparked that fire. >>