. >> awaiting the arraignment of live from the special victims unit with the very latest. >> smoke and flames rip through west philly commercial building and firefighters say they had a harder time than normal putting out this fire. new cases of hepatitis emerge in a new jersey community, now prompting health officials to issue more warnings for people who may be at risk. all those stories and more coming up. we start with the forecast as we head into the weekend? katie, watching the first big storm of the year. >> yes there is storm does appear as though it will bring

at least chance for us to see some wintery precipitation. timing has sped up a little bit. because of that, we think that we do have at least a shot to end up here with maybe a little bit of light snow. now, accumulations, it will be tough to accumulate much of anything out there with this significance tell. simply because warm air is going to be surging in. that's why initially we thought this would be just strictly a rainstorm but may end up being cold enough that we end up with a little snow. we will talk about that possibility, who gets it, what what we are dealing with here. meanwhile again, spec to go see surge on the thermometer here. you can see what it will do to our temperature readings in the next couple of days, so again, whole lot more on this coming up in the next few guys, we send it back to you for now. >> see now little bit, in the news and developing right now man behind bars this morning awaiting arraignment for the rape of a woman in philadelphia's spring garden neighborhood. >> now the attack happened inside parking garage in broad daylight. "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabeo joins us now outside the special victims unit with more on that, jan good

morning. >> reporter: erika ukee, good morning, police sources tell "eyewitness news" they now have a 32 year old man from pit burying in custody for yesterday's sexual assault. but we're told he'll not be identified until he is formally arraigned. now, take a look at the video this alleged assault happened yesterday, new years morning in broad daylight, here this parking garage at 17th and callowhill street in spring garden for hours yesterday police combed the scene for clues, and reviewed surveillance video. police say a manna tack and sexually assault add 33 year old woman at 11:00 a.m. on the second floor of the four story garage, the victim suffered multiple injuries, and was taken to hahnemann hospital. now the garage primarily serves residents of the one franklin town ants, but also open to the public. police say the suspect somehow evaded security there a shock to those who regularly use the garage and say the garage is secure. >> i'm very surprised due to what happened, because i know that my building has 24 hour

security both inside the building and in the parking garage. i know both of the rovers who walk up and down the aisles, two that my building hired and i know that they do a real diligent job ensuring the safety of myself and the people that live in my apartment building. and monthly renters to this parking garage. >> now sources tell us that this suspect will face rape, robbery, and attempted murder charges, and will be formally identified again once he is formally arraigned but police could still use your help. if you know anything about this sexual assault that happened yesterday in broad daylight in spring garden, give police a call. reporting outside of the special victims unit this morning, jan carabeo cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> jan, thank you. 4:33, we want to get back to katie, good morning. >> happy friday to you. pretty quiet end to the week, if maybe this is a work week for you as it is for the news team here, we are ending this work week on very tranquil note. certainly still ushering in the new year on some quiet

weather here with atlantic city still completely visible and in with clear skies here today expect another very just quiet day trans will, sunny and little breezy, but that's real at this. seasonable too things are about to change, though, let's take a look, storm scan3 very quiet. not more than handful of clouds. that's generally what we've been finding the last few mornings, little clearer yesterday. still dry, i think that's the key, even still little lake enhanced snow falling but that's well off to the north. it will stay that way here today. but there is a storm looming for the weekend. we will be talking much more about that as the show progresses out the door here, at 30 degrees at philadelphia international, freezing mark in trenton generally upper 20's from reading allentown up to mount pocono, upper 30s even still being report in the wildwood. that he been relatively by comparison mild spot across the board. but as i said, there may still may be few more clouds out there, but generally nice bright day still with sunshine just few more clouds than what what you saw

yesterday, you can expect again to feel the chill. it is seasonable, though, temperatures into the low 40's here later this afternoon and still just smidge breezy, but you know what, we've enjoyed quiet weather and really is continuing today. vittoria, good morning. >> good morning everyone, traveling out and about no delays this morning, it is a beautiful ride. i think a lot of folks i would imagine are going to stay home today. i'm sure they were having good time at the mummers parade yesterday. but if you are traveling right now, the ben franklin bridge, all of the bridges in the clear, as you will notice, head in the new jersey or maybe headed in the opposite direction to philadelphia, it is wide open for you. no delays, no problems. it is not only the ben the commodore barry, the tack, so on so for the 95, the rest of the payment oranges, also the same story. just beautiful. let's just skip along shall we? moving to the wide, speed censors high up in the 50's, 55 your average on 95, the schuylkill schuylkill further and looking at jersey average

62 miles per hour. if you are traveling lancaster avenue, however, we do have fire location between 40th and 41st. haverford avenue or 42nd street would be your best alternate at this time. and also, fire location at madison street right around frankford avenue. so traveling in this section not too far away from the northeast, best alternate is westmoreland street. no delays for mass transit. ukee? >> firefighters encounter difficult pisses in this business overnight. happened 2:00 a.m., 4,000 block of lancaster avenue. firefighters had very hard time getting to the flames quickly because the building was boarded up. no one was hurt, but we have just learned fire flared back up, so we have a crew headed back out to that scene. >> two new cases of help tight a have emerge in the hamilton township, new jersey. both patients ate at rosa's restaurant and catering on south broad street. a worker there was infected back in november. one of the newly diagnosed people works at the hair port

salon on south broad street. the other works as a part time fitness instructor at hamilton area ymca's jkr branch on white horse mercerville road. health officials say if you have been to any of those three businesses you should contact your doctor or the health department. help tight a is a contagious liver disease that in rare cases can cause death. >> the ten year old boy who was hit and killed by a franklin township police officer sunday night will be laid to rest today. matthew mccloskey was on his way to his friends' house when he was hit. last night friends and family gathered to support his grieving mother. they lit candles at the township sports complex in franklinville. >> he is funny. he is smart. he is always like ready to go places and stuff. >> we're coming together to, you know, to celebrate matthew's life. >> comforting my sister and comforting us, and just still

concerned, and making sure we have everything we need. and doing so much for us, it is unbelievable. >> police officers came to pay their respects as well. the officer who drove the crews is her on leave while authorities investigate. well, quick thinking by camden county police officers save a mother and two children from a burning home. on wednesday, a christmas tree caught fire on the 800 block of atlantic avenue in camden. neighbors flagged two officers on patrol. now, linking arms with other officers, they caught the mother her four year old son and seven year old daughter, all three jumped out the window. >> you know, inch sting just kicked in. you know, any incident you have in children, you just want to go in there and do whatever you can to help out. >> the mother and children are in critical condition. an officer treated for smoke inhalation is now out of the hospital. >> ♪ ♪ >> well, the mum verse put away their colorful outfits for another year.

notable changes to yesterday's parade was a reverse and shorter route. it started at city hall headed down broad street and ended at washington avenue. not everyone is happy about the changes. >> it belongs to south philly. we support them. we do everything we can for them. and they took it away from us. it doesn't belong in center city t belongs back here. >> after the parade the clean upstart dollars crews took down bleachers and swept the city streets front end loaders also cleared away trash left behind by revelers, as the mummers prepare for next year. >> right now it is 4:39. coming up this morning on "eyewitness news", we have some new development in the recovery effort for airasia flight 8501. >> nail biters blowout unbelievable blaze. look at all of the new years bowl action and look ahead to the national championship game. we're back in a couple of

>> as the recovery effort for airasia flight 8501 continues one victim has already been

laid to rest. >> ten bodies have been recovered so far. weather continues to hamper search teams with worse conditions forecast for the weekend. more ships and aircraft are joining the effort to find the downed plane's black box that could hold the clues about why it crashed. flight 8501 went down into the java sea sunday with 162 people on board. former new york governor mario cuomo has passed away. cuomo had recent already been hospitalized to treat a heart condition. but his son chris says the 82 year old died last night at home. cuomo served three terms as governor from 1982 to 1995. his other son andrew, is the current governor of new york. new jersey governor chris christie issued a statement reading in part: our country and our region lost a giant today with the passing of governor cuomo. he was a strong, eloquent lead here loved new york and it people. mary pat and i sent our deepest condolances to matilda, andrew governor cuomo

and the entire cuomo family. coming up on 4:43, wow, we have big storm coming up this weekend? >> it is a big storm but thankfully not a crippling storm. it will an affect a lot of people. everybody here certainly gets the impact out of it. this will be one that bridges in a serious surge on the thermometer. so we get little taste of may on one day in the forecast and then back to winter. >> did you say something like 06 the other day possibly? >> insane. we actually upped our daytime high for sunday. that will be the warm day but yes, there is a trade off. it will be a dreary day with rain pretty much any time. so lots to cover here. so we want to get right to it obviously, starting things off with how things look right now, nod bad, we take you out there knock more than handful of clouds. quiet day but see how the storm is shaping up. it start today form yesterday. already the moisture moving across the mississippi river. so starting to creep up on us, still essentially another 24 hour window plus before we start to really see any of the moisture making its way closer to us.

and, that said, because we are actually speeding up the timing on this, a little bit it isn't without question that let's draw a line basically from northern and western chester into montgomery and upper bucks counties and all ports northwest. could you see this start with some snow or sleet maybe rain that freezes on contact. but, the rain is going to take over, because this is a very warm air mass that is moving in strictly because it is cold enough when it gets here that it might start off with a little of snow. don't expect it to accumulate much if anything at all. meanwhile looking at the amounts of rain that we ends up here, basically two-day event. the whole weekend is going to feature some rain out there. we could be picking up over an inch in some locations as a result. but, for now, it is quiet. mostly sunny seasonable chill, high of 42, still breezy, but nice day overall partly cloudy and cold again tonight. all bets are off by tomorrow. check this out. 43 degrees for tomorrow. 20 degrees spike on sunday and then we drop, more than 20 degrees, in the matter of 24 hours so the front gets

swept out to sea whole system leaves, skies clear the wind kicks in, the chill sets in, so we are all over the place. then a clipper comes along tuesday, and that, my friends could bring couple of snow showers. so we have a lot going on in the next few days, ukee. back over to you. >> boy, that we do. in sports, the combat ants are decided for the college football championship game in the first year of the post system. ohio buckeyes are thereafter sugar bowl upset over top ranked alabama. jones through and third quarter touchdown, put ohio state in front to stay. elliot ran for 230 yards. ohio state over number one alabama 42 to 35. >> hey chip kelly's olds squad, the oregon ducks, will be playing for the titlement ducks marcus through for 338 yards and couple of touchdowns and the ducks beat up the florida state seminals and their start quarterback in the rose bowl. also ran for a touchdown.

the ducks scored on three turnovers, ended the 29 game winning streak, oregon blows out florida state 59 to 20. the ducks versus buckeyes for the national championship. >> to more bowl action on new years day wisconsin and auburn in the out back bowl. comes down to the final second. tied the game on field goal. in over time, auburn had a chance but their clutch kick hits, oink yes badgers beat the tigers 34 to 31. >> to michigan state and bail or in the good year cotton bowl classic bail or could wrap up the win with a field goal, but the kick is oh, blocked. spartans get the ball with a w about a minute on the clock and they deliver on a do-or-die third in goal, and beat bail or with a wild come back. your final 42 to 41. great game. erika, back to you. >> thank you still ahead this morning, on "eyewitness news"

brbreak fast staple could be getting more expensive. first, what's coming up the ton on cbs-3.

>> sass all the in spring garden took place at parking garage at 17th and callowhill. suspect is expect the to be arraigned this morning. the victim, we're told, is in stable condition at hahnemann hospital. >> investigators are searching for the cause after fire on the 4,000 block of lancaster avenue in west philadelphia. firefighters are handling hot spots right now after that fire flared up once again. there were no injuries. >> and the two latest people diagnosed with contagious help tight a in hamilton township, mercer county, they ate at rosa's restaurant and catering last november. a kitchen work their was ill from the virus at the time. we should learn more from a health department press conference later this afternoon. >> your time now 4:49.

let's get a check on business news. >> mine watch's jill wagner joins us from the new york stock exchange jill, workers back at work. what are they watching today? >> well, good morning ukee, erika. it is the first trading day of 2015. the dow will be opening below the 18,000 mark, after falling earlier this week. still, the dow finished up more than 7% from the beginning of the year. the nasdaq was up over 13% for the year. for 2015, the big question will be whether the us economy and stock market can keep improving, even though the rest of the world especially europe, and russia, have a lot of uncertainties. so we will definitely be keeping an eye on that. ukee erika. >> hey jill, word is that egg sandwich or omlet could cost more in 2015. what's behind the rise in the egg prices in. >> yes, all thanks to new california law it requires farmers, house hens, and cages with enough space for them to move around and stretch. but, it is estimated that

revamping hen houses will cost millions of dollars that's a cost that will likely be passed onto customers farmers, and other states, like ohio, will have to follow those same requirements if they want to sell in california. so we could all be dealing with higher egg prices. >> here we go. >> i do not like the sounds that far. >> really. but dow like the idea of chickens getting to stretch a little bit. >> a little breathing room. >> apparently they like being closer together, so this could be a law that perhaps we see reversed. >> chickens like being together, all right, well, thanks jill. >> they're very social. >> that's a trip. all right thanks, jill, coming up after a short break traffic and weather together. we'll do it on the 3's. we'll be right back.

4:53, and we want to get our traffic and weather together. >> good morning, everyone, coming off a holiday on this

friday morning, i would anticipate that we wouldn't have too much to worry about and it seems at least that's the case right now. if you are traveling on 95, here to look not too far away from cottman avenue, southbound commuting really well northbound just the same, not only here around the northeast section of philadelphia, also around center city, in bucks county, in delaware county, i mean, everywhere just wide open, it is clear take a look at the schuylkill, 76 westbound approaching the area of city avenue, it is a breeze, no delays as you continue your way throughout your western suburbs, maybe hey headed down toward the walt whitman bridge you're good. fifty-five, 50 miles an hour is your average not only in pa, it is in delaware, it is in new jersey, take a look, 61 traveling on 295 in the garden state. as we continue, we do have a fire location in west philadelphia on lancaster avenue between 40th and 41st. so traveling in this area, i would try to avoid t haverford avenue or 42nd street would be the best option at this time. also, another fire location,

not too far away from the northeast at madison street near frankford avenue. best alternate westmoreland street. no delays for mass transit. and it seems as though we still have fairly nice day on our hand today. would you say katy? >> absolutely, probably few more clouds than what we did see yesterday vittoria, but overall nice day another quiet, i kind of like to call it a vanilla forecast. it doesn't have anything that's really all that stand out with it, but it is still nice. storm scan3, looking good. you have got few more clouds granted, and we are expecting to stay dry with sunshine today. but, a weekend totally different story. this will mark the arrival of the first large storm of 2015. already here, now it is mainly a rain producer, but when we say brief mixing north and west, we are talking could you see some snow, some sleet maybe freezing rain at the onset of the storm because it looks like it may come in little soonerment temperatures by sunday are spiking into the 60s. so we get little dose of may but then we crash back into the 30's, in one fell swoop.

it doesn't last very long, ukee, back to you. >> thanks for the heads up. here is a look at stories our sister station "kyw news radio" 1060 will be following for you today. larry kane takes a look at our area involvement in the upcoming presidential election. some folks making new years resolution toss get fit but will they stick to them. and a look at the montgomery county ski slopes, which are open a little behind schedule. check in two three, four times a day. "kyw news radio" 1060 on your a.m. dial. erika? >> coming up in the next hour of "eyewitness news" following new overnight development after a woman is brutally attacked in a philadelphia parking garage. >> also the mummers excitement a little too much for this dog. hear about his wild afternoon during the parade. >> and, a decades old mystery is finally solved. you have to hear what this man just found in his arm more than 50 years after he was in a car accident. we're back at

>> manna cured of vicious attack in a philadelphia parking garage is due in courtney time now. we'll tell you what we are learning about the suspect. >> also this morning, a help tight scare spreads in a local community. where the new cases were just confirmed, and who needs to be on alert right now. >> today is friday, january 2nd, 2015. good morning i'm ukee washington. >> i'm erika von tiehl. also this morning, smoke pours out of west philadelphia business after an overnight fire. now, that fire has flared up again. why firefighters had a hard time putting out those flames. first though, katie is out on the skydeck on another cool january morning katy? >> it is certainly chilly start to the day. we will keep that chill around here today erika but it is

quiet, at least we can expect some more sunshine courtesy of high pressure, problem is it is only one more day large storm coming our way for tomorrow. i'll have all of the details straight ahead vittoria? >> thank you good morning everyone, so far so-so good on the majors, i would anticipate that to be the case at 5:00 in the morning. roosevelt boulevard, no delays, no problems, hopefully stays that way but things could chain we'll see if they do coming up. >> in the news, developing right now suspect accused of sexually assaulting a woman in spring garden awaits arraignment this morning. it happened 17th and callowhill street. jan carabeo joins us now with the special victims unit with the latest on this investigation, jan good morning. >> good morning, sources tell "eyewitness news" that police now have a 32 year old man from pit burying in custody they're not yet releasing this man's identity until he is officially remained. but he'll face charges of rape rob