news right now. rescue crews have recovered several bodies, believed to be passengers, from missing airasia flight 8501. the discovery came after pieces of red, white and black debris were spotted this morning, in the java sea near bornio island. airasia flights are red and white. rescue officials say they've taken six bod toys a navy ship. none had life jackets on. the plane with 162 people on board vanished from radar two days ago while traveling from indonesia to sing a poor. -- singapore. >> back home philadelphia police are finding clues into what caused a fatal crash in nicetown. "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabeo on the scene for to you tell you more. jan? >> reporter: ukee, police still investigate the cause of this crash. but they do tell us they do believe that alcohol and speed may have been factors in the deadly accident. definitely was a terrible scene here in nicetown, over night, this accident has left one person dead and three others in the hospital, including a pregnant woman

and that's where the car ended up this morning, after coming off the roberts avenue ramp. it is authorities see right now, but the car went down a 20-foot embankment. if you take a look at the video, you can she it looked like last night. that horn still sounding after the car was crushed. now, police responded to the one car accident just after 10:30 monday night. they say this car was traveling north on route one. took the northbound robert avenue exit, then struck and broke a telephone pole, and kept going until the car dropped off that 20-foot embankment. a 23 year old woman was killed. police say she was driving. a 24 year old man in the front passenger seat was severely injured, and taken to einstein in critical condition. meantime, a man and woman both 24 years old, in the back seat, were taken to temple in stable condition, and they're expected to be okay. police remained on scene for hours, collecting evidence and say they do have an idea whatever caused this crashment take a listen. >> they did finds some alcohol in the vehicle. so they do believe that speed

and alcohol possibly contributed to this accident. >> now the 24 year old woman who was in the back seat was also pregnant. but she, again was taken to temple in stable condition expected to be okay. she was actually outside of the car and walking around, when medics arrived again full investigation is now underway into the cause. these roads around this area now have completely reopened. reporting live in nicetown, jan carabeo cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> jan, thank you. police are trying to track down a serial robber whose targeted seven hotels in southwest philadelphia, and tinicum township. surveillance video shows he doesn't just rob the register. police say he also takes cash and valuables from employees and customers. although he recovers his face, that robber has been spotted more than once in a bright yellow vest with the letters pwd on it. coming up on 5:33, our traffic and weather together. >> good morning, erika today will be another pretty quiet day all things considered, we

still are tracking what's left of a frontal boundary that crossed through yesterday, if you recall, and helped to bring in some clouds, even few residual showers through the southern tear tear of our area, but continues to make its retreat, and weakening even though over my shoulders you're going to still find moisturement don't worry about this verifying precipitation here on the ground, guys, even though we do have upper level moisture, haven't been able to find one observation point where there has been anything but overcast sky. so, no worries in terms of precipitation here today even though it looks otherwise on storm scan meanwhile we do obviously have cloud cover around. it looks as though that will eventually thin out for more sunshine. meanwhile, one thing that's always important to remember, it could always be worse right? we've certainly seen a drop on the thermometer. here's thousand actually feels outside when you factor in little bit of modest northerly wind. so it feels more like the 20's right now. that's what you want to dress for. look how much worse it is. as you go into the central canadian prairie, this is brutal stuff. they call it winter peg for a reason. it feels like it is 38 below

zero right now across portions of canada. even north dakota feeling pretty brutal right now too. so, you know, sign of things to come. while this won't be the kind of brutal cold we saw last winter necessarily, it is a change of pace for us. currently at 33, technically on the thermometer, with the modest northerly component to the wind flow, as the day progresses, because it is cooler air mass, singing in behind cold front have hard time even hitting 40 degrees today in most spots. the trade off; and there always is one we ends up with some sunshine before it is all said and done. jess, this is pattern that looks like it will stick for couple of more days, too. >> which is a good thing. we always need our hair done and have our to done for now years, perfect timing, like the good news, 5:34, good morning, we go outside, and i'll give you more good news not whole lot going on the roosevelt boulevard. southbound lanes on the bottom there. so headlights headed towards the schuylkill expressway, currently no problems really in either direction there. and actually over on the schuylkill expressway, no problems here, as well, around

spring garden, westbound toward king of prussia, no problems getting to the city either if you're headed eastbound. we do have road closure so far this morning out in rich land. so route 309 in both directions is closed between toll gate road and station road due to earlier accident. your alternate for the time being, take old bethlehem pike. police activity out in shore sham. jasper drive near lower state road. otherwise, 95 northbound from the blue route into the vine street expressway, still pretty clear, 16 minutes, 12 minutes 202 route 30 to the schuylkill. >> three's on your side with a scam alert from the philadelphia parking authority. the ppa says several people have complains about receiving emails, asking for money for unpaid tickets. now, if you get the e-mail, please do not sends any money because it is a scam the ppa only asks for payment on out standing tickets through regular mail. erika? >> 5:35 right now. in business news this morning which movies top the list of most pirated films of the year? >> and what analysts are looking at as they plot

today's moves in the market. money watch's jill wagner joins us up at the stock exchange in new york, morning jill. >> reporter: good morning, ukee erika investors watching for new data on housing prices, the dow snapped its seven day wing streak yesterday following 15 points, the nasdaq was flat. can i get an ipo with those fries? the new york based burger chain filed for initial public offering, hoping to raise up to $100 million. the company plans to use the cash to open more restaurants and also renovate its 63 existing stores. ups and fed ex, delivered 98% of packages on time for the holiday. that's according to the tracking company ship matrix. it is a sharp increase from last year, when a surge of last minute shopping and winter storms slowed delivery. the shipping companies added a lot more staff this year, and also, some better weather helped. >> and the wolf of wall street sparking lots of illegal

activity of its own. the bee owe nard owe dicaprio film the most pirated of the year. disney's block buster hit frozen was a close second, each title download dollars 30 million times. frozen, little flick. not sure if you guys have heard of it. >> what's it again? >> i never saw wolf of wall street. >> i did. >> i hear that bad boy like three hours long or something like that? >> it is a committment. you got to really settle in. >> i guess do you. >> save it for a rainy day. >> you got t thanks, jill. appreciate it. meanwhile preparations are underway to ring in -- ♪ ♪ -- >> oh, the big bands are out! >> they brought the house band in for this one. i like t preparations are underway to ring in 2015 in philadelphia. at the navy yard, crews loaded explosives onto barges. the fireworks show, there is one at 6:00 and the other at midnight tomorrow. they'll use more than 4,000 devices.

you can view them live of course at penn's landing or wiggins park in camden, or if you're watching anywhere else, hear the sounds track on our sister station, "kyw news radio 1060". >> you can just show up and see the fireworks for free, or you can get a ticket and go ice skating and see the fireworks at the same time. and of course, you can go inside this year with winter fest, there is a lodge warming tent, arcade games fire side smors. it is a real magical place. >> sounds fantastic. now, if you're not going in person, you want to stay home and watch the fireworks, you can watch them here on cbs-3. we'll broadcast live from penn's landing to bring you the fireworks show at midnight. you can be a part of our special by sending us your new years wishes, just go to cbsphilly.com or use the hashtag cbs-3 nye. >> hard to believe they're already coming up tomorrow. >> here we go. >> practice makes perfect at new york time square. cast of al lad and on broadway, throwing confetti for new years eve from the new amsterdam theater.

every year pieces of confetti from the new years eve wishing wall, mix in the with 3,000 pounds of confetti. they're dropped over times square, when the crystal ball drops at midnight. >> that looks like fun! >> they had to practice throwing confetti. make sure we get this right gang. our time 5:39. president obama said he's sorriment find out how his golf game nearly ruined one couple's big day. >> police, guards g the guard. why britain's famous royal guards are getting some extra protection. and it pace to use your -- and it pays to use your smart phone. the app that will pay you for tapping aw

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>> breaking news in the airasia flight 8501, debris and bodies have been found, in the java cbsphilly.com near where the plane was in contact with authorities. no sign of survivors. also, a deadly accident in nicetown early this morning. a 23 year old woman was killed, in that crash near wissahickon, and roberts avenues in nicetown. twenty-four year old man is now in critical condition. two other people were also injured. >> and a car crash on route 309 near toll gate road closed the highway in rich lands township bucks county earlier this morning. there is no word on injuries right now, and route 309 by the way is still closed, we understand, in both directions. soldiers, standing guard outside britain's royal palaces are now behind metal fences, because of fears of a

terror attack. the guards are a popular tourist attraction, because of their ceremonial uniforms, but now separate from the public with armed police providing additional protection. a phonecall from the president disrupts one couple's wedding day. natalie and edward were supposed to be married at the 16th t and military golf course in hawaii over the weekends. it is lea minute they found out they had to move their ceremony because it conflicted with the president's tee time. they did. when the president found out what happened, he called the couple to apologize for playing through and for the inconvenience. >> nice of him to call. >> indeed. >> can you imagine, oh the president needs the place on your wedding day. >> can we play with him? we can play with him. he can come to the reception. everything worked out. time coming up on 5:43. >> certainly not feeling like hawaii out here, that's for sure. we check in with weather watcher forecast here, the observations that we're finding coming in from you the

viewers. we will take you around the board here starting things off little further north up toward the pocono region, sending in 25 years from sailors berg. pretty modest winds flow, coming out of the north wells for him. generally some clouds out there, this morning. let's take you little further south, to 31 degrees, meant by matthew, actually in conshohocken, 31 as we mention, just few clouds, generally that's what you are finding, just few clouds in most locations. we'll show you one more, take it as far inland as we can find the observations this morning, michael sending in from mount gretna 28 degrees, he too had some clouds, and his comment man i'm with you cold cloudy, dreaming about summer. i'm so with you. because now holidays are almost over. all you have got is a few months of cold until the warmth arrives right? ahh. dreaming about it. let's take you out next to see in terms whatever we found so far with the snow cover, it is really not been heck of a lot. what we will show you here is the actual amount of snow that we found, so far for the month of december. and what is typical.

now, these blue contours, show you where we do have little hint of snow cover over top of the ground surface. but, generally speaking, we are just below average. almost across the board here for the northern tier of the us. even in greenbay, wisconsin only three and a half inches so far. normally they would have over a foot on the grounds at this point. boston normally 9 inches. only had .3 of an inch. so the list goes on, where it is just been too mild frankly for any storms to bring much in the way of snow. because we certainly had storms, but all been rainmakers for the most part. storm scan3 also showing too, what we call disturbances, little hint of lake effect snow, not messing with us, also what's left of the strung out frontal boundery not messing with us, other than to sandwich us in with some cloud cover. eventually that's going to break though. we ends with some sun the chill is here, obviously here to stay. not one day of the next three climbs out of the 30's, we do start to see modest rebound on the thermometer by the weekends, but along with that i always say there is a trade off. new storm comes in as early as

p.m. hours of saturday, see rain once again jess, over to you. >> 5:44, we start things off outside now on 95, around girard, everything moving along great. the north and southbound lanes, in or out of the city you should have no problem doing so so far for this morning. now, out in new jersey, on the 42 freeway, the northbound lanes here, this is where we tends to see some volume little later in our morning commute. you can see right now everything moving along great. headed toward philadelphia, possibly headed toward the 295 interchange. no problem in the southbound lanes, as well. do have road closures in rich lands, 309 in both directions, between toll gate road and station road, for the time being, take old bethlehem pike to get on by. we do have police activity on jasper drive near lower state road. just watch out for. that will use some caution when traveling on through. otherwise out on the schuylkill expressway, no problems westbound from the vine street expressway into the blue route about 14 minute trip. 202 from route 30 into the schuylkill northbound no problems there either. that's pretty clear with about 12 minutes. we do not want you to forget because when you're on the

road you can get updated information about traffic backups, with new your drive app. download by going to cbs fill it. com/yourdrive. erika? >> thank you, jessica it seems like always connect today our smart phones. soap, why not use it to make a little money. >> cbs news correspondent allison harmilan shows you how to turn some apps into cash. >> reporter: augusta snapping photos of sunscreen display sending them to the manufacturer. it is a one time job he got through an employment app called gigwalk. gigwalk sends users small jobs like this one companies find out what their products like look in the store. and he makes few bucks when he is with his wife at the mall. >> i check the phones, knock them out while she is spending money i'm earning monday. >> i victoria jones also uses her tone to make couple of bucks. her favorite app, surveys on the go. >> you get paid to do different surveys, could be about radio, entertainment movies products. did i a movie one where it asked you like how many movies you have been to in the last

year. >> they are now dozen every pay apps available users can make money for everything from being a mystery hopper to watching certain videos. surveys on the go ceo chris saint hillair said more corporations willing to pay for this type of market research making the apps more popular than ever. >> we average between one and 2,000 new downloads a day. that's people who create accounts. >> jones and other users aren't getting rich with the apps. >> i think i've probably averaged around $5 a week. >> but she says making that extra cash only takes a few minutes of her time. allison harmilan for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". i'm told many of those apps will pay extra if you are willing to share your location. some will ask you specific questions when you are in certain restaurant, or certain stores. erika? >> ukee, it was christmas gone wrong for one california woman. sandra ortiz thought she found the perfect gift for her boyfriend. she bought a play station four from target. but, then christmas morning when it was unwrapped here's

the surprise. there wasn't a gaming console inside. instead? two bibles. the rest of the family laughed and they thought it was just a big joke. >> i felt embarrased. i felt like, you know, i just ruined christmas for him and everybody else. >> he said he didn't want the bynes unless they were an autograph by jesus himself. >> well, sandra said target did give her a real ps4 when she went back. she recommends checking the box when making an expensive purchase. and that's just good advice, i can see that. >> yes, and that's a good book always a good gift. >> can you imagine the surprise on her face and everyone's face christmas morning? what? >> before you walk out the door, katie is updating the new years eve forecast for you. we do traffic and weather together. when do we do it? together. >> and on the 3's. first though, here's what's coming up tonight on cbs-3.

i am wishing you guys well. happy thanksgiving. merry christmas. i'll see you guys soon. all right mom love you. ♪ ♪ and the words this morning is honored. >> the kennedy center honors, air tonight on cbs-3. >> ♪ ♪ >> roll the tape on brunoment kennedy center once again

salutes five icons of the performing arts. this year it is al green patricia mcbride, tom hanks lilly tomlin and sting. >> sort of like a huge, you know, cloud of wonderful images and sounds and feelings. >> watch the 37th annual kennedy center honors, hosted by steven cobair it, airs tonight at 9:00 right here on cbs-3 followed by "eyewitness news" at 11:00. >> got to dvr that. jennifer laurence can add something to her resume, top grossing actor golf 2014. oscar win her two block buster releases pushed her to the top of forbes annual list of hollywood heavy weights. her roles in the hunger games mocking jay part one xmen days of future past, helped her earn $1.4 billion globally. now, chris pratt probably didn't see that one coming, came in close second for his turn in the surprise hit guardians of the galaxy. scott let johanson, mark wahlberg rounds out top four. >> i love the galaxy film.

love that. >> that was fun. >> all right let's get our traffic and weather together. now coming up on 5:53. >> hey shall everybody this will be another pretty quiet day, even despite what you might see over my shoulders yes, we do still have some hint of moisture showing up here on storm scan3. but you do not have to worry about any casino of wet weather issues here today. we're essentially in a squeeze play between two very minor disturbances, front to the south, which is fizz link, and retreating time, and very light mix of light lake effect snow here up across generally up-state new york. now, as we continue to move ever closer to ringing in the new year, at the stroke every midnight, new years eve 27 degrees, is our expected temperature. but here is the thing. because there will be a mod he he is breeze, especially down by the river, it is probably going to feel no better than the teens for the fireworks displays taking place so be sure to be bundled up. at best mid and upper 30s for the next three days, it is winter but it will be chilly way to start off 2015. jess, over to you.

>> thank you good morning shall everybody 5:53. we go outside check out how things are doing on the blue route. as you can see, they are doing okay approaching the pa turnpike here in the southbound lanes, no problems headed northbound as well. ben franklin, all lanes completely open. that's good thing, but headed westbound into the city no problems doing so. no problems headed into new jersey from philadelphia as well. we do have road closure out in rich land 309 in both directions, take old bethlehem pike to get on by. stay there.

>> big breaking news story debris and bodies found from the missing airasia flight 8501 plane. live with the late breaking developments. >> was it an inside job? a security firm's new clues about the sony hacking, what the fbi says about the theory. we'll be back.

>> this is just in, found debris overnight that officials in indonesia is most likely from missing airasia flight 8501. >> good morning, everyone, several bod wrist also pulled from the java sea within miles of the plane's last known location. michael bert joins us now from washington d.c., with the breaking developments on the search and recovery mission good morning. >> good morning to you both. now report that 40 bodies have been recovered that would be almost a quarter of the people on board that plane. we are still waiting for news conference from the president of indonesia and the airline's ceo to confirm those numbers. the other items being recovered including luggage, a possible emergency exit door, were found just about five or 6 miles from the plane's last known location. >> crews searching for airasia flight 8501 are working to recover red, white and black objects, spotted in the waters off bornio islands appears to be live jacket has also been

seen. items most likely debris from the plane search teams say. >> indonesian officials are also reporting they've spotted victims in the water. >> aircraft from several countries are taking part in the aerial search, including australia. >> us a trail yays has sent two to an area as requested by the indonesian authorities. >> in the u.s., now part of the effort, the uss sampson is joining a growing number of ships, planes, and helicopters involved in the mission which has been expanded to cover land. the missing plane with 162 people on board left indonesia sunday morning head today singapore. it vanished shortly after the plane's captain request today fly at higher altitude because of bad weather. request denied because of heavy air traffic. in addition to weather investigators will also look at whether the plane was going too slow. mechanical failure and how the pilots may have reacted to an emergency on board. as the