reporting one death. officials say it is very important to check for those most vulnerable during extremely cold weather like this. lets get outside to "eyewitness news" meteorologist kathy orr on the sky deck with the very latest on the bitter coal, kathy. >> chris, that wind chill advisory begins in an hour but it already feels brutal out here. sun has gone down. we have been feeling chill as temperatures plunge and wind gust. wind gusting to 30 to 40 miles an hour across the delaware valley. gusting to 36 in the city. twenty-eight in wilmington. thirty-three in reading. those gusts will continue in the late night hours. it feels like two below on the sky deck. feels like two below in allentown. it feels like 15 degrees below in the poconos. that wind chill advisory initial to effect at 7:00 o'clock and we will be feeling wind whipping and those wind chills or feels like numbers, down to ten, as much as 25 degrees below zero come tomorrow morning. it will be dangerous to be outside.

here are the record to beat they are in yep difficult allentown two below. the atlantic city zero. philadelphia one. wilmington five. trenton seven. i to expect to beat most of those record come tomorrow morning. coming up when i join you inside we will talk about a weekend storm that will bring snow ice, and rain, to the delaware valley. a lot of activity weather to talk about in the next 48 hours. i'll see you later in the the broadcast. >> kathy, thank you. these cold temperatures freezing up a lot of things including the delaware river and coast gar cutter capstan was on the delaware river today. our kate bilo got the a chance to ride with the coastguard crew as they made their way from philadelphia to trenton and back. for the past few weeks it has made the six hour round trip nearly every day in an effort to make the delaware river passable for merchant ships. dangerous cold has cars, frozen solid and business at triple will a red hot. our team coverage continues now with carol erickson live from center city with the cbs-3 mobile weather lab

carol. >> well, last thing you want after a long day at work to come out and find your car and find it is not starting. find that same problem anyplace, including at home we're with the weather lap right now and we have a temperature of 15 degrees this week, record setting cold, and record setting numbers for the triple a mid-atlantic. they saw thousands of drivers in the delaware rally whose car would not start and half of those thousands of calls because of dead path wrist. what is under that black cover, the battery, the key, to starting your car, will it be go, or no. >> no crank, or you have a slow cranking or sometimes you just have nothing. >> reporter: nothing but a car with a dead battery but the record number of them this week for triple a mid-atlantic does not have to be your ride. some tips. >> when you park it for the night you should cut the heat off. if you have wiper blades on cut those off and cut the radio off. >> reporter: accessories off

before turning on leads more voltage to start the car. get battery check for power. batteries last about three years needing jumps indicates a battery business to totally call it quits. triple a says a new battery cost around $130 price to pay to avoid the other price turning into an ice sickle while you and your car wait for help maybe far from home. now triple a says they are offering free battery checks good thing to do if you don't know how old your battery is if you are having to get jumps on your car. remember close doors, don't have the dome light on. that is another problem. another big thing they are seeing tire pressure. you are losing a lot of tire pressure every time those temperatures drop. check those or that warning light will come on in your car. this is cold that we have to take seriously. people pets, pipes and our vehicles. go back inside to the studio, it is cold in center city and we have really cold temperatures, we will be

talking about that coming up. >> nobody wants a dead battery. track the forecast by down loading the weather app, free available right now on itunes angling will play. well, developing right the now, healthwatch investigation has uncovered a philadelphia link to a deadly super bug out break in l.a. this was the same kind of out break here at a philadelphia hospital just recently. our health reporter stephanie stahl explains the connection. >> reporter: there was an out break of the deadly super bug linked to endoscopes at an unnamed philadelphia hospital last year according to health department documents obtained by cbs-3. eight people were infected two underlying conditions died. >> these types of out breaks are happening all over the country. >> reporter: lawrence, a philadelphia based infectious disease consultant says the problem business a certain kind of end owe scope called er cp used for procedures on the pancreas and liver. even when properly cleaned between patients the scope still appears to be transmitting the dangerous

infections. >> relatively unprecedented, and so we're all a kind of wondering what actions need to be taken. >> reporter: latest outs break is at ucla medical center in los angeles. the the happies being named there but not in philadelphia. the health department has refused to say which hospital had the out break. >> i find it concerning that no one is telling us anything. we're in the able to compare the the quality and as a result hospitals can cut corners, not necessarily consciously but they can cut corners because they know they may not be held accountable. >> reporter: pennsylvania state health department tells cbs-3 it does not track the infections linked to the out break so hospitals don't to have reveal the information. now ivory petely asked the philadelphia health department for more information to explain why it is not naming the hospital. they won't say. but we will keep asking. we want to also make this clear that the end owe copes involved in this super bowl out break are only used for certain procedures, not for things like colonoscopies. we will make sure to keep you

updated on all of this at cbs philly.com, click on health. >> i know you will be following and asking and asking again. >> right. >> stephanie thanks. well investigators now say that yesterday's deadly work place stabbing at jbs meat packing plant in franconia was in retaliation for a frank. pete'stim is charge with the murder of danny vasquez tonight. the prosecutors say that on tuesday, vasquez tried to pull a chair out from under atem who then told the man he was going to get him for that. the the next morning according to an eyewitness the two started fighting and a atem stabbed vasquez. police say they found atem hiding in the this shed with stab wound. the search is on tonight for a hit and run driver who hit a car belong to go a philadelphia police captain. that crash happened this morning on northbound i-95 near allegheny avenue. the captain suffered minor injuries and is now recovering, that accident remains under investigation. the search is also on for a suspect who shot and killed

inside a laundromat this happened at south 53rd street and springfield avenue in southwest philadelphia police say the 25 year-old man was shot three times. they are looking at surveillance video and they believe the victim was the intended target. well fbi is renewing its efforts to solve a cold case in philadelphia the disappearance of richard petrone and danielle imbo. that couple vanished ten years ago today after leaving a baron south street. officials now say that they have developed some promising leads ovulate and they have now formed a task force that has been committed to solving the case. >> we feel this was an orchestrated act, again, 3,000-pound truck and two people do not go missing. >> the citizens crime commission is offering a $50,000 reward, for anyone who has any information that will help solve the case. well, call them a hit man's secret former mob enforcer is talking about his life of crime and violence. and then a philadelphia television exclusive he tells his story to our investigative

reporter walt hunter. >> reporter: how many times did you shoot. >> i shot 37 guys. >> beaten with pipes or baseball bats. >> well over a hundred. >> reporter: murdered. >> i said i believe i was involved in about 15, charged with six. >> reporter: hit man john awright told me about murders and beatings that propelled him to top enforcer with the notorious gotti family. >> welshing he is in the middle of the conversation i shot him two or three times in the head. i don't know which one. i spit on him. >> reporter: stories like that inspired a new book about his life in the mob. is it like what you see in the movies in tonight on "eyewitness news" at 11:00, he opens up about that and, reveals the the plot once proposed to him about a hit, honorary putted philadelphia mob boss joey merlino. now, alight was very candid with me talking about the mob hits and merlino and everyone else but you might fine his matter of fact descriptions of a day in his crime filled life in

philadelphia and south jersey pretty shocking. you'll see for yourself in our interview at 11:00. live from the news center i'm walt hunter cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> walt, we will see you then thank you. philadelphia 76ers making major moves today. they have trade one of their stars, michael carter williams. >> leslie van arsdal is following developments from clearwater florida, leslie. >> reporter: that is right sixers making some major moves, some shocking moves they have trade add way their star guard michael carter williams, we will break down the whole trade for you, coming up later in sports. plus area high cool students had a day you could say was out of this world. "eyewitness news" was there as students made a call to the international space station and talk to astronauts. the kathy? >> very cool indeed. but not as cool as this we're talking about record breaking cold come tomorrow morning and wind chills below zero as far south as atlanta and charlotte? yes. this is one for the record

books. we will talk more about that and a week even storm coming up as "eyewitness news" continues.

a 59 million-dollar tiehl to sell atlantic city's closed atlantic city casino is officially dead. a short time ago bankruptcy court judge granted revel's request to terminate sale to florida developer glenn straub because he missed a february 9th deadline to purchase the casino. straub says he missed the deadline due to uncertainty over when would be required to honor leasees from business tenants at cat seen owe and straub is now appealing the ruling. well new at 6:00 tonight the a long distance call that was quite literally out of this world. with the fancy an ten at couple signed features and sheer determination students at council rock high school south reached out and touched someone far, far away. pennsylvania pat ciarrocchi has the store friday bucks county. >> reporter: scratchy sound echoed through auditorium at council rock south, this was a day that was months in the making. >> it is just so cool, interesting. >> reporter: at an altitude of 200 miles and at a speed of 17,500 miles an hour italian

astronaut samantha christopherreti on the international space station answered a call from council rock. >> over. >> reporter: science teacher jerry fedder and team have of school collogues came up with an out of this world idea. while the international space station was above pennsylvania one day, why not call an astronaut. a cell signal would not reach so he engage a team of ham radio operators to get the job done. >> we are taking an an ten aiming it toward them, and they have a small antenna on the space station. >> reporter: katie lined up with other student interviewers. >> my question was how does the the 90 minor bit affect how they work. >> not so much because we work on a regular 24 hour clock. we have to find a way to... unaudible. >> when you are talking to someone who is not the currently standing on the planet and then they are in space, it is just fantastic.

>> reporter: that is the reaction fedder was eager to hear. >> students today are so used to using their cell phones and modern technology and to see them get inspired by something that has been used over the decades, it is real encouraging to me. >> reporter: science student tomorrow himman is thinking of giving aerospace a whirl. >> seeing technology of today and years ago produces an organic and cool experience. >> reporter: very cool. pat ciarrocchi, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". wow. that is impressive for young people. well done out there. >> yeah. a philadelphia police officer is giving back all to help kid with autism. >> "eyewitness news" at mixed martial arts on action forward avenue in fox chase. the officer sammy sanchez donated ipad to several schools and those ipad are loaded with an app to help autistic children communicate. sanchez says it helped his son immensely. >> i just wanted to give these

kid the same opportunity i saw in my son, a chance to, i know he could talk, i know it is in there but just needed help. >> reporter: over past several months officer sanchez raised more than $8,000 for ipad through a program he called bowling for ipads. in weather we are getting ready for the arctic chill all ready, wind chills below zero in many locations that wind chill advisory goes into effect in minutes. outside our weather window we are looking at the poconos where it will be icy overnight the tonight, wind chill warning goes into effect for poconos, including jack frost big boulder for wind chills as low as 35 degrees below zero come tomorrow morning. dangerous to be outside, even for a few minutes. on storm scan three you can see whipping wind creating some lake enhanced snow flurries and some clouds. and those wind will slowly ease up overnight. our eyewitness weather watchers are saying burr, cold outside, temperatures in the teens in many locations.

you don't have to go far. even in the city of philadelphia to see these numbers. phil is reporting a temperature of 14 degrees with the pressure rising. 15 degrees in south jersey. this is being reported by bob. he is saying very wind any sicklerville. great photos taken today in the cold. look at this picture from tom with the snow just being blown across the road in doylestown because of those whipping wind. that is going to continue through the late night hours and during the day tomorrow. now lets talk about those feels like readings because right now in philadelphia it feels like two below. feels like 5 degrees below zero in wilmington. lancaster feels like 15 below. and this polar plunge, it is going to be dipping all the way down into florida, where our leslie van arsdal is at spring training. they will be, freezing, come tomorrow morning as well, we will be well will below zero to the north. temperatures overnight tonight will be falling into the single numbers by tomorrow morning in philadelphia one, that will tie the record. you can see as far south as

florida, temperatures in the 30's, wind chills down there in the 20's. for us well below zero and in philadelphia 17 degrees below zero tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. tomorrow in the poconos i mentioned that wind chill warning is as low as 35 below even in philadelphia, it could get as low as 25 below as you head toward lehigh valley. south jersey ten to 20 below and shore point and delaware beaches five to 10 degrees below zero with the wind chill tomorrow morning and that is dangerously cold. wind will slowly ease as high pressure build in the region by late testimony but still frigid and then temperatures warm as a warm front approaches from the southwest on saturday but still cold enough for snow. snow and then some evening sleet, possibly some freezing rain before changing over to rain late sun take night rain will continue into sunday afternoon. so with this system over the weekend we will expect some snow to develop afternoon hour on saturday, one to 3-inches accumulating before wintry mix in the evening and changes

over to rain but evening will be hazardous, traveling so ab wear of that if you are going out the saturday afternoon or night. overnight going to tie that record of one setback in 1979 tomorrow blustery with a high of 16. on the exclusive eyewitness weather seven day forecast saturday a chance of getting close to another morning record but by the afternoon we will see snow good news is sunday rain end in the afternoon, mild to start, early high 45, so at least around average and then turning colder again next week, february will be a month, to remember. >> be careful out there. >> nothing looks great out there, thanks very much. at 6:19. we're going outside to check out the schuylkill expressway which we can always count on volume there these are westbound lanes just after the vine street expressway how you can see a disable vehicle in the right-hand shoulder. the not really in any of the lanes but you can see slow go by that. that is a combination of

typical volume and going by that incident scene as well. over on i-95 around cottman avenue something we can become used to count on southbound toward center city we can see slow go in that direction north bound lanes are doing just a little bit better n southwest philadelphia still an accident on eighty-second street at bartram avenue. so just use caution traveling through that area there. pennsylvania turnpike westbound approaching mid county a crash taking out right-hand shoulder stay there

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and we are here in chilly clearwater florida. the first official work out for pitchers and catchers. we will get to that in a moment but we have to talk about the sixers making three deals, at the trade deadline. we will start with the biggest, and to many, shocking move, by the sixers they

traded michael carter williams, sent to milwaukee for lakers number one pick this spring. mcw is the reigning rook of the year teams second leading scorer, fifth player in nba history to win rookie of the year and traded the next. the team two-22 without mcw in the line up. after that trade he sent out this tweet. i cannot the lie, i'm shocked. i loved this city. thank you for everything. i cannonsly say i gave it my all. i wish philly nothing but the best. and sam hinkie was not finish, he sent rookie forward ky mcdaniels to houston for isaiah cannon and a second round pick. earlier in the day, the sixth's inquired center j aveil magee from denver with oklahoma city's first round draft pick. he does have another year left on his contract, that is where it is worth 12 million. something he may do is buy him out. back here live in clearwater at spring water,

cliff lee brought a very interesting prop with him today in clearwater. >> i brought this to answer my hard questions. >> reporter: it may not be a crystal ball but for cliff lee a toy magic eight ball close enough. when asked whether the team can contend. >> hold on a second... most likely. >> what about if he want to be traded. >> let me see, that is another tough one. i don't know if i want to answer that. very doubt full. >> but seriously. >> if you could tell me right now you have an opportunity to play on the world another is championship team i absolutely want to do that. >> cole hamels has made it clear he want ton traded. gm ruben amaro says he gets it. >> it is totally understandable. he wants cole wants to win. everybody is on the same page. we all want to win. >> we will have more with

ruben, coming up t tonight at ten and 11:00 but he did say he thinks this group of guys is going to surprise a lot of people. reporting live from clearwater leslie van arsdal you tell us what you want to pay and we help 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!

longest running on sitcom business to wrap the last episode of two and a half men airs tonight at 9:00 on cbs 36789 then on "eyewitness news" at 11:00 hear from the stars, john cryer and ashton kutcher open up about the show and also about former cast member charlie sheen, ukee washington has that story for you tonight on "eyewitness news" at 11:00. thanks for watching "eyewitness news" at 6:00 back at ten on cw philly and back here on cbs-3 at 11:00. should u.s. troops head in the battle against isis. is there a new cbs news poll out tonight and scott pelley will have that next on the

"cbs evening news". >> pelley: tonight, siberia in america. temperature records fall from chicago to the carolinas. an antibiotic-resistant superbug is suspected of killing two people. many more may be at risk. what you like on facebook may determine whether an employer likes you. and he survived one of the bloodiest battles of world war ii. >> they lost 750 in one five-hour stretch. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: more than 130 million americans are in need of a night time cold remedy tonight. advisories are up for dangerously low wind chills. this is indianapolis, where it feels like it's minus