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>> right now at 11:00 incredible blast of dangerous cold. temperatures plumetting to near record lows and fierce wind chills reaching levels we haven't seen in years. good evening i'm chris may. >> i'm jessica don't. closings and delays at the bottom of your screen right now and there's late word tonight all public schools in the state of delaware will be closed tomorrow. we begin our team coverage of the dangerous cold tonight with meteorologist kathy orr in the
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mobile weather lab on the ben franklin parkway. kathy? report roar jessica this the kind of cold that when the wind hits your face it actually hurts. you can see behind me here on the parkway these flags are whipping in the winds. winds are gusting to over 30 miles an hour and temperatures are falling into the single digits when you have that kind of cold you're talking about dangerous wind chills mobile weather lab our temperature 9.5 degrees and we're going for record of one. that record set back in 1979. we are talking about the coldest morning tomorrow that we have seen in about 20 years. take a look at the wind chills across the delaware valley right now. right now in philadelphia it feels like it's between five and 10 below. as you go toward the poconos it foles even colder like it's more than 20 degrees below zero. we do have that wind chill advisory in effect through tomorrow morning at 11am. one chills between 10 and 25 degrees below zero. tomorrow morning you can see in the poconos it's cold as 35 below.
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even in philadelphia, possibly as cold as 25 below. 10 to 20 below through interior south jersey and delaware and even down the shore. wind chills well below zero. we have many record that is we are going to be challenging tomorrow in allentown it's possible we could beat that record temperature of two below. in philadelphia we're going tour the record as well. trenton it will be challenged and arctic outbreak is upon us and in philadelphia, when we make it to that forecast low of 1 degree, it will be the coldest morning in over 20 years. so coming up we'll talk more about that brutal cold and also a weekend storm the air cold enough to produce accumulateing snow more on that coming up when i join you back in the studio but back here live, you can see a few cars out but nobody walking in the streets. it is dangerous to be outside. live from center city philadelphia, i'm meteorologist kathy orr. we'll zen it back to you in the studio. >> just some incredible numbers kathy. thank you so much. the cold is more than just dangerous. it can be deadly. there have been eight deaths
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reported in the area over the past few weeks. five in moment county, two in lehigh county and one in berks county. officials say it is important to check on those who are most vulnerable during extreme cold weather like this. tonight todd quinones spends the evening with crews trying to keep people warm at home. todd? >> reporter: jessica tonight there are sections of the schuylkill river here that are completely frozen. it's an example of not only how cold it is tonight but these past couple of days. when it gets this cold people to unexpectedly lose heat. it's a ritual that is being repeated and now sped up over and over oil tanks going empty. >> deliveryman kevin thomas says the inside temperatures of homes can drop to 35 degrees in just hours. subfreezing temperatures outside mean people are using more heat and sometimes they quickly lose track of fuel levels.
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>> they go to turn on they thermostat boom, there's nothing. >> our oil was at an eighting. >> clifton heights mom donna has been checking her fuel gauge weekly she called in for refill before the heat went out. >> it's freezing. >> thank you for calling 311. >> philadelphia's 311 information call center is being flooded with calls cold weather is adding to their volume. some people inn clouding see your citizens are calling about not having heat and are looking for help in dealing with that are landlord. operators here are helping those without heat to get in contact with the right agencies. >> what we do is say get to a safe place if you have a neighbor family or a shelter that you can get to. >> reporter: and deliveryman kevin thomas says if you want to it void waisting heating fuel make sure you set your thermostats around 68 degrees and set them on automatic. so this way when you're away from home your heater will automatically shut off once it reaches that temperature. reporting live tonight along the
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frigid schuylkill river todd quinn known cbs3 eyewitness nouse. >> all right, todd. thank you. a lot of home heating oil arrives in our area by boat and today we had the icy delaware on boat a coast garr cutter as it broke up the ice to make the river passible. the cutter and her crew have been making sick hour round trips from philadelphia to trenton and back almost every day. update now to story we brought you earlier this week. the heat is once again working at this building on westmont avenue in lower merion much residents were forced to put up with very cold conditions for several days. it's unclear tonight if the owners of the building will face any action from the township. >> we'll be all over this dangerous cold throughout this night. the "eyewitness news" team will be on the air when you wake up in the morning. they go on at 4:30 right here on cbs3. there's breaking news a tragic night in the olney second of philadelphia as a limousine
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driver is shot and killed. "eyewitness news" reporter david spunt is live the seen with new information from police. david? >> reporter: chris jess, police looking for two suspects. this happened before 9:00 o'clock. it is still a very active scene in the olney section. mascher and take bore. police are not releasing the name of the limo door. they say they don't know his name at this time. they are still processing the scene. from what we're told by police, they say the limo driver was shot through the passenger side window four times. he was shot, he died and then his car hit a telephone pole. police say two suspects ran off. they are looking for those two suspects now. as far as an official motive they don't have one but they say robbery is a big possibility. that's definitely a possibility. oftentimes cabdrivers or in this case a limo driver the motive sometimes for them being shot is robbery. >> reporter: police say that the limo driver worked for a company on rising sun avenue a
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couple of his colleagues just came up a few minutes ago. they're very upset. very emotional. saying that they have had issues in this neighborhood before. we will continue to follow this. worry live in olney. david spun cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> david and this is the second limousine driver to be killed in philadelphia this year. rod will he goes ramirez of the la premier car company was shot and kill during a cobbs creek robbery back on january 3rd. authorities charged alonso deli guard with his murder. developing now "eyewitness news" uncovers details about a recent deadly super bug outbreak out of philadelphia hospital. outbreak just like the one at a hospital in la that's got so many people worried. health reporter stephanie stahl has what we know tonight and an important hell watch fifty three gig. >> reporter: documents obtained by cbs3 reveal a super bug outbreak at i wasn't unnamed philadelphia hospital last year. eight people were infected. two with underlying conditions died. it's the same deadly infection
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now being investigated at ucla in los angeles. >> these types of outbreaks are happening all over the country. >> lawrence of philadelphia based infectious disease consult tan says the problem is with a certain kind of endo scope called ercp it's used to diagnose and treat blockages of the pancreatic and bile ducts. >> never before has awry yowsable strum like this every been linked across the country to so many outbreaks. so many injured patients and so many deaths. >> instrument has moveable mechanism called a force elevator that louse doctors to manipulate tiny instruments. fda issued a warning about the elevator mechanism. >> the fda is saying the for september elevator can't be cleaned and yet we aren't necessarily removing it from the market and that's also potential potentially unprecedent. >> in la, 179 patients have been notified they mauve have been exposed to the super bug known as cre linked to the endo scope in philadelphia where there have been more confirmed cases, there is silence.
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>> i find it concerning. >> the philadelphia department of health which released only this document couldn't in thatting the kc. e infections is refuseing to name the local hospital where is presume the hospital was repeatedly used. >> no one is telling us anything. we're not able to compare the quality and as a result hospital hospitals can cut corner not necessarily consciously but they can cut corners because they know they may not be held accountable. >> reporter: now we have row pettedly asked the philadelphia health department for more information. they have not responded. also we want to mack that is clear. endoscopes involved with this super bug outbreak are only used for september procedures. not things like colonscopies. live in the sat center stephanie stahl cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> tough questions from instead of know stall tonight. thank you very much. >> well tonight unside stories from the hit man who used to kill for a living. >> he's in the middle of a conversation i shot him two or three times in the head. i don't know which one and i spit on him. >> our investigative walt hunter
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talks with this former hit man in a philadelphia television exclusive. >> heart stopping scene and one lucky escape as two planes collide at an air show. >> the longest running sitcom on cbs comes to a close. up next, we'll hear from the stars john cry your and ashton kutcher open up about the show and the former cast member charlie sheen. >> winds are gusting over 30 miles an hour making it dangerous to be outside right through tomorrow morning. we'll talk about that plus a weekend storm with accumulating snow when i come back and join you inside. >> and we'll be back in just 60 seconds.
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>> i'm telling you charlie is alive. >> oh, good, they been i don't have to tell you. >> it is a wrap after 12 seasons of laughs tonight was the final episode of two and a half men it did not disappoint.
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a nod to the charlie sheen one of television's most successful sitcoms has come to close. tv shows rarely have this kind of staying power. >> tonight ukee washington shows how this sitcom survived its own soap opera hyped the scenes. >> you were doing the show before theism phone existed. >> i was. >> are you inn say? >> they were the original men hired by creator chuck lori. >> the vision was two men and two ways of approaching the world. >> one decided screw it and just lived live to the fullest. >> well, i would have to say my intentions are good. anybody who knows me would confirm charlie harper has good intentions. >> his actions on the other hand are usually self fish and asinine. >> the other one is trying to be good. two very different men might impact a child. >> lesser show might not have survived this long. >> child star criticized the show as filth and didn't appear for its last few seasons.
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>> ♪ >> it's my life, winning. >> it's building guest star charlie sheen had a public drug fueled melt down in 2011. >> if anybody ever had a co-worker gone through a drug problem that's what it looks this one was am my tide a million fold. >> i was one of those guys just like wow wow this is -- this is happening in public eye and like there's -- nobody is jumping in it's sort of going enough. >> sheen was fired and the show killed off his character. but the laughs never died. >> we got to start over again. >> now is as good a time as any. >> ahh! >> came out of that ashton cut her who made the next four years an absolute blast. >> i got adopted by them and we all had the most amazeing four years of just pure joy every single day comeing to work. >> may take will for this to
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sing in. because this has been part of my life for a good and bad for long time. the idea that it's not going to be here neck week doesn't even make sense to me. >> i'm going to miss all these people a lot. >> after all these years neither john oh nor ashton seemed ready to leave the set. >> what if you and i just kept showing up here making shows for nobody? >> just for ourselves. >> how about it? 262 episodes the longest running cbs sitcom now the show changed its voice over the years but one thing remained the same. its mission laughter. >> i'm ukee washington, cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> well, and another thing to remain the same the audience was massive from start to finish. and that's what powered it's longevity for years and years. >> they'll be talking about it for a long time. >> well new findings from a panel of nutritional experts might have you switching up your breakfast routine. it turns out cup of coffee and an egg at breakfast is a very healthy way to start your day.
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coffee may protect against diabetes and eggs will not raise your risk of heart disease. how about that? overall the panel says americans should eat less red meat and drink less sugary soda. a knife million dollars dole to sell atlantic city's shuttered revel casino is officially dead. today a bankruptcy judge granted revel's request to terminate the sale to florida developer glenn straub because he missed a february 9th deadline to purchase the casson know. well straub says he missed the deadline due to uncertainty over whether he would be required to honor leases from business tenants at the casino. straub is now appealing the ruling. call them a hit man's secrets. a former mob enforcer is talking in dough tal about his life of crime and violence. now in philadelphia tv exclusive he tells his story only to cbs3 investigative reporter walt hunter. >> murder -- yes. >> drug dealer. >> yes. >> thug? >> yes.
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>> john, shot, stabbed beat and threatened his way into one of the most feared mob titles in america. top enforcer for the infamous gotti familiar. >> how many guys did you shot. >> i shot about 37 guys. >> beaten with pipes or baseball bats. >> well over a hundred. >> and murdered. >> murdered i said i believe i was involved in about 15. charged with six. >> in this philadelphia television exclusive a light told the i-team he call it rocking them to sleep. making his targets feel comfortable and row lacked before he suddenly attacked. >> while he's in the middle of a conversation, i shot him two or three times in the head. i don't know which one. and i spit on him. it was nothing. it was locate i just played baseball game. i was a big baseball player even had a cheeseburger double cheese i can tell was i had a coke and fries. >> he said he actually enjoyed murders one man so much he wished he could do it again. >> i wake him up and kill him again and i'd like to torture them g among those he was asked
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to kill joey merlino an offer he decline. >> they proved me. had a conversation and as soon as i found out it did a little homework i told them forget the. >> although he work for new york mobsters he lived for a time in south jersey known to be a killer by authorities he was questioned and cleared in the murder of carol neulander. but he was convicted of attacking a contractor he suspected of trying to treat cheat him. >> i bite him up. pistol whipped him. stripped him down naked. probably about 30 degrees at the time. and i made him get in the luck and made him go under the water and played around shooting at him and purpose and missing him. i told him if you come up you'll get struck with bullet. >> beginning with this book gotti's rules and couldn'ting in our interview i was light is out of the shadows showing his face and turning his back on the
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mob he once killed for. >> a light switch went on my head when i was sitting in had cell. you know what, this life is boloney crap and i'd be a lot stronger with those words if we weren't on camera. >> alite how you see the mobs portrayed in movies and tv there's is the biggest fiction at all. >> there's no loyalty. we kill each other. we kill friends. >> he saw it for were it was. he realized it wasn't about honor and loyalty it was treasury and deceit. >> through his website and speaking engagements alite hopes talking honestly about his blood stained past can inspire young people to make right decisions in the future. walking free on the streets he once prowled as a hit man the 52 year old says defiantly he no longer fears the mob he left behind. might now be stalking him. >> no. >> i don't even think about it. if you want to find me, here i
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am. i don't go nowhere. i got a laugh. if i have to worry about the gottis i'll live to 110. >> if you're wonder wondering why he isn't behind bars he has been quit a bit. 14 years in prison most recently released in 2012 aft he served 10 years following a guilty plea to four murders, two attempted murders and on the crimes. that sentence by the way was reduced because he agreed to testify against others. chris and jessica. >> wow. >> still walt he quit the mob. he public publicly cite sized and copped with prosecutors. won at some point you expect him to be in some kind of witness protection program? >> we spoke about. he said he was offered witness protect unthe federal witness protection program but he's turn it down. >> wow! >> what story he has to tell. >> wall, thank you so much. well good evening. i'm back inside from the parkway parkway. had to see it for myself. that polar air is bone chilling. if your outside for more than
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about five minutes, i'll tell you it hurts to be outside. that exposed flesh gets very very cold and almost felt like my face was was freezing. the polar invasion is evident the core of that polar air moving toward the philadelphia area and it's not just us. we are seeing temperatures falling well below freezing as far south as my many me. "eyewitness weather" watchers are talking about the cold and getting ready for the dangerous whipped chills come tomorrow morning. right now the temperature is only 4 degrees in perkasie. the win out of the north at 10 miles an hour. chuck is saying wind chills at 14 below already it is dangerously cold. the temperature a policely 9 degrees being reported in media. with winds rot now out of the north and the west let's go down to the great state of delaware where all public schools are closed tomorrow because of the dangerous cold and wind chills. greg is reporting in a temperature of just 7 degrees with wind chills below sorrow.
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here's a look outside where we're looking at wind chills that are at nine below in center city philadelphia. this the view, of course of the bridge in the city in the background. right now in the poconos 28 degrees below zero. going as cold as 35 below come tomorrow morning. 10 below in wilmington. dangerous to be outside in millville where a fell like reading of 10 degrees below zero. when i was outside earlier this evening it was almost hard to talk because of the cold air get nothing my throat. arc tuck blast for sure worry talking about 15 hadn't dread miles between the north and new england and the south and miami under wind chill warnings and advisories for tomorrow morning and in philadelphia it will be feeling like it's about 10 to 20 degrees below zero at times especially in the morning but butting see in the lehigh val as cold as 25 degrees below zero. even down the shore. between five and 10 degrees below zero. this doesn't happen this much i was round the philadelphia area. obviously. high pressure settles into the region during tomorrow afternoon
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afternoon. so the winds begin to row lacks but it is still brutally cold and then we'll watch our neck weather maker move up from the tennessee valley it's bringing in milder air. we'll make it into the 30s on saturday. but by lunch time, we'll be seeing some snow. sticking on the grassy surfaces at first and then a come lating. it will change over to sleet and freezing rain during the evening and finally rain at night. then it all sweeps out during the morning hours on sunday. snowfall ranging between one and 3-inches with most of our models but our model come and up high. for the storm on saturday, one to 3-inches of snow expected in philadelphia. changeing to ice and pain and ending as rain on sunday morning. so as we lock ahead overnight the low temperature going for 1 degree that would be the record. and for tomorrow, 16 degrees the wind chill around zero. on the exclusive "eyewitness weather" seven day forecast the weekend storm is saturday into sunday. travel could be dicey especially saturday evening. monday turning much colder. and staying that way through
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next week. it's been very active february. stay inside as much as you can tomorrow. >> that's right. be really careful. kathy, thanks. >> speaking of active a lot of activity at the nba trade deadline today beas. >> the shocker the best player on the team for the 76ers was traded. a team void of stars. there he is. inform cw. you'll hear his response about his sudden movement to milwaukee milwaukee. that's coming up in sports.
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the 76ers traded their most accomplished player today to milwaukee. michael carter williams was the face of the franchise and the reigning nba rookie of the year. surprising move for a team void of stars. but after further review when your team is being built by numbers guy you cannot have the second worse three-point percentage nor the third lowest field goal percentage nor can you appear to be prone to
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injury. the numbers don't add up. michael thought he found a home via twitter he says, i can't lie i'm shocked i loved this city. thank you for everything. i can hahn neverly say i gave it my all. i wish philly nothing but best. so mcw headed to the bucks. sixers zen forward kj mc dan else to houston in return the sixers got guard isaia cannon from the rockets and traded for center jew val ma fee from denver and sam hinkie pocked two protective first round picks from the lakers and thunder and the second round pick from houston. to the phillies no. pitchers and catchers had their first work out today in chilly forecast. lesley is there with the team. >> concentrate season again. (laughter). >> it may not be a crystal ball for cliff lee a toy magic eight ball close enough. when asked whether or not the team can contend. >> hold on second. >> most likely.
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>> what about if he wants to be traded. >> that's another tough one. >> he'll see. i don't know if i want to and that. >> but seriously. >> if you could tell me right now, yeah you have an town to play on the world series championship team absolutely i want to do that. >> cole hamels also made it clear that he wants to be trade traded traded. gm ruben amaro says he gets it. >> it's totally understandable. luke i said, wants -- cole wants to win. everything is on on the same page. we all want to win. >> how does that affect the rest of the team. >> the ash shes the roughs, the reveres are the browns they're expecting to go out there and win. >> and ruben says people are going to be very surprised boy what this team can do this season. reporting in clearwater lesley van arsdall "eyewitness sports". >> thanks lesley. hockey night in south philadelphia. the sabres in town flares looking for a sixth straight win over buffalo. hour we go before the game defensive man eric desjardin
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number was retired not flyers hall of fame. the game would do to shoot out and brian flynn beat ray emery and the flyers lost three-two. college hoops temple facing 21st smu game tied with under three minutes left and the cunningham hit bank shot and owls seven game winning streak came to an end. 67-58 was y
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>> caught on cram two planes collide during an air show in india. >> these planes from the flying bulls stunt team grazed one another with one plane hitting the wing of another. this hammed at the aero india show that's held on the outskirts. both of these planes managed to land safely but look at the damage that was done. just amazing those pilots survived. we'll be right back.

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