good morning, school buses are ready to go and class is back in session in los angeles after a threat shut down the entire school district yesterday. but for a a lot of people they are questioning why the schools were enclosed and one teacher in particular is really taking some heat on line, for her response to classes being canceled. we will tell what you she did. you know it had to end a at some point. we are looking live, we have a christmas tree outside after four straight days of record warmth, the streak ends today. today will be a shock to the system. >> i know with the red ways, they love it. when mother nature goodies to us. we are looking good. the nice and dry. >> that is the running theme for rest of the the day, very quiet start to the forecast here. we have high pressure in place. that means sunshine, today. really calm, collected out there. but we are going to see things change here with time and that is very visible on storm scan when you move it out. now at the local level no problems whatsoever, we have a

thin veil of cloud cover but that is it. that cloud cover is helping to limit the cooling that is taking place early this morning. storm scan, still in the terrible. we have high pressure in place but by tomorrow, rain does start to over spread the delaware valley courtesy of over next approaching and more potent cold front. for now it is still warm outside. our wind flow is out of the north and in where near as breezy or windy as yesterday was but we are finding that northerly component to make that 51-degree value feel cooler. forty-seven in ac. north west breeze at 5 miles an hour and nice and calm at mount pocono the with the wind flow. 39 degrees, yeah, in the 30's but that is still poconos in the bad at all. we will keep it into that sunshine today. than though it is cooler by comparison to yesterday we did hit that record high of 69 degrees, by the way, long before, the sun came up. it was an interesting day but we are still warmer or cooler then we were yesterday.

56 degrees is the expected high in the airport. mid 50's down the shore and sun will shine up in the poconos as well. quick check, quiet in the mid week but rain arrives again tomorrow but as a result are of the front bringing that rain it turns out to be a much cooler weekend, meisha, over to you. >> i got to say we have to live in the moment and stay right here because we know rain might be moving in tomorrow so right now things are looking good. nice and dry. it is still early. things are looking good right now. the boulevard, taillights moving in the southbound direction at wissohickon, you can see looking nice. you have early travelers. this will start to change toward that 6:00 o'clock hour. we are seeing levels build ever so slightly. this is for those in new jersey taking that the ben franklin bridge looking good moving in the westbound direction but, it starts to heat up in the late 5:00 he clock hour. 309 taillights manager in the north bound direction at turnpike looking nice and quiet still. for those taking that area you are in good company.

overturn vehicle at sanatoga fire department is on the scene here 422 eastbound past evergreen road, this has been moved to the shoulder blocking at lane. in the causing too many slow downs but it is there. down pole in a audubon, south park avenue closed between eagleville road and ridge pike so use an alternate such as eagle view road. ramp from i-95 to the blue route northbound is closed. this goes into effect 9:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. as they are installing overhead signs. it might cause a few headaches. back to you. it is back to school for students in los angeles. threats of the large scale attack shut down the entire school district yesterday but fbi says it was all a hoax. cbs news correspondent chris martinez reports. >> reporter: more than 640,000 students in the los angeles school district will hit the books again wednesday. >> we believe that our schools are safe and we can re-open

schools in los angeles june forward school district tomorrow morning. >> we are closing all district campus test day due to a threat that has come. >> calls like this one went out to parents in los angeles on tuesday morning, the superintendent, closed down the entire district over a threatening e-mail sent to school board members monday night. police say it targeted all schools, in the system. >> the a applied threat was explosive devices, the the spec threat was a attack with the assault rifles and machine pistols. >> reporter: new york authorities say they received the same e-mail but called it a hoax. los angeles officials did say that the superintendent's decision to close schools and say they took precaution based honoraries enter or attack in san bernardino and overseas. >> our first job is to ensure people are safe in the city. >> reporter: superintendent ordered authorities to inspect every school by the end of the day. >> 2700 law enforcement officers searched and cleared more than 1500 locations. chris martinez for cbs news,

los angeles. one high school teacher did not let yesterday's threat stop her from a assigning a final exams to the students. the english teacher at los angeles roosevelt high school toll her class to complete a rough draft of the final essay and submit it from home. of course, some students didn't like that and blast to ted her on social media. >> one of the, you know, rights of humanity is to get an education and i really believe in that and i think nothing should stop that. >> mcgreath said she's shock at her student responses but she's really looking forward to seeing them back in class today. 5:35 right now. group of the neighbors are hailed as heroes this morning for helping a a police officer injured in the hit and run. this is a suspect police are looking for 26 year-old maurice take already of the 1500 block of ellsworth street. police say taylor jump into

his car and tried to flee, striking the officer and throwing him on the car windshield. it happened near 27th and sears street in grays ferry monday night. neighbors jumped in to help the the officer. >> we put pressure to his head so he wouldn't keep on bleeding. so when officers came and pick him up off the street i said y'all got to be careful because he was telling me about his leg. >> the the officer remains in the hospital suffering from a broken leg, shattered kneecap and head injuries. check out your screen, philadelphia police released this surveillance video of the suspect wanted for a pair of random stabbings in center city. investigators say that the suspect was walking on north 21st street after he stabbed his first victim in the hand and stomach near 23rd and walnut. it happened around 5:30 yesterday morning. the investigators say minutes late their suspect cut a second victim on his face near 21st and arch. if you recognize that suspect you you are asked to call

police. eight people are injured after a southwest airlines jet went off a taxiway a at nashville international airport. flight 31 from houston's airport just landed when that plane went off the taxiway this happened last night. there were 133 passengers and five crew members on board, all were evacuated safely and bused to the terminal. we are now hearing from some passengers. >> we landed and then next thing we were getting off the road and looking at the wing and it looks like we are about to topple over. then we stopped in the ditch. fun part at least i got to slide down the the little slide. >> you wonder what happened? did we hit somebody? did we hit a plane, truck, what did we do. >> glad they are all right. faa is investigating what went wrong. 5:37. in your business news fed gets ready for a decision on interest rates. will they go up. jill wagner joins us from the new york stock exchange and that she has that and more for

us. >> it is decision day for federal reserve this afternoon, fed is expect to announce it is raising short term interest rates for the first time since 2008. fed lower rates to near zero, to help stimulate the the economy, bank stocks are higher ahead of the decision, dow jones 156-point yesterday, nasdaq was up 42. record number of people are expected to travel from west december 23rd to january 3rd, triple a estimates 100.5 million americans will take a a trip that is 1.4 percent more than that is last year. one reason is the drop in the price of the gas. one on percent of the people will be traveling by car. uber could be replacing stars with smiles. the company is testing emojis like thumbs um, thumbs down, smilelies, bad face toes give feedback on driver instead of the five star rating system. the driver have complained if their rating fell below a certain number of stars they

would be deactivated, erika. the teenage boy who fist captured hearts around the world when he a sang for pope francises taking stage at kimmel center. philadelphia's a own bobby hill sang holiday classic and our todd quinones was there for his performance. >> ♪ >> reporter: kiss continuingtive beautiful voice of the bobby hill brought people to their feet inside of the kimmel center. you have taken this town by storm do you feel that. >> it is a little bit at times when people notice me, it is great. good to know i'm having that effect on people. >> ♪ >> reporter: the 14 year-old from the keystone state business choir grabbed the world a's attention first with the surprising spontaneous performance in front of the pope francis in september and tuesday night he was back in front of the crowd that was ready for him as conductor knew he could handle it.

>> clearly a remarkable voice. i mean i think personally you will be interviewing him one day that extraordinary of april industry. >> reporter: choir was singing as part of the local who will kay program and as great as his solo performance was but it was when rest of the choir join him oh, holy night that the crowd had its strongest reaction. >> to be able to sing all together and have it work was great. >> reporter: just in time for the holidays hill released a single, it is his version of oh, holy night available for freon his web site. reporting from center city todd quinones for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". what a voice. still ahead, a new list is out of the most googled items of the the year and there are some rather interesting searches in our area. also this is all too

familiar, a another charred hoverboard hear about the family's very close call as they charged the hot holiday toy. and lebron james makes a young fans night when they share a special moment, see why the the basketball star pick that teen out of the crowd and stand in his shoes. >> ♪ >> that neighborhood looks ready for santa looking live at haddon avenue knew in collinswood. it doesn't feel like santa is on his way yet. kate will let you know when cooler wet are returns. we will be right back.

an suv crashes at area torresdale frankford hospital, and that driver was rushing a shooting victim to the hospital at that time. another shooting victim actually ran the to the hospital. nine presidential republican candidates took the stage in las vegas last night the for their last debate of the year. it focused almost exclusively on foreign policy. jeb bush criticized donald trump for his plan to ban

muslims from entering the the u.s. first reviews are good for new star wars films, critics say new character in the force awakens helps bring the series back to the glory days. the it comes to the theater near you tomorrow night. right now classic example of the good idea that took a bad turn, texas man's unusual marriage proposal netted him in court and left drivers furious. check it the out, man stopped his car in the middle of the busy freeway in houston drops to one knee and popped the question. driver's behind him, behind the couple they weren't too happy, understandably. proposal caused a major backup. that man is facing charges for obstructing the highway. >> of course, i just wanted to apologize if i caused any problems. that wasn't my even are intention from the beginning. i just wanted to do something different. >> i just want to say i'm sorry to everyone, out there that it wasn't his intention to make people mad. >> wow. >> he faces a fine to even six

months in jail if convicted. stop what you are doing and watch this extremely close call for a bicyclist in poland. he collided with a speeding train at a crossing. we will try to get that. we don't have video yet. >> i feel like i was a part... >> having some technical problems there. >> you know, weather watchers are on the ball. >> yes, they are. magic of live television, right. lets look at what we are finding in terms of what the weather watchers are reporting, still very warm air generally speaking from mid december, we are nine days away from the holiday, is it nine days and counting? nine days? and currently we are finding temperatures in the 50's. i mean, come on upper 40's in spots too. these are values still well above average for many of us. we will take a glance of these in more details. forty-seven for jason in middletown delaware with some clouds. he did feel like we are

getting temperatures closer to average. it does feel a hint cooler, little will bit more crisper on it side but we are not down to seasonal conditions just yet. we will go across the border here in to sandra's observation. she has a clear sky. we will go one more take ate cross the river to another 48 degrees thermometer reading where bash contract in willow grove is report something cloud cover. she sent that in the last minute or two. so nice fresh observation there. storm scan three the at the moment nice and quiet here. we can thank high pressure for. that brief visit of high pressure but it will keep things nice and quiet. here is your storm system very well defined and trailing cold front. that is what will be crossing our area by tomorrow. it is all the way out in the plains but moving along at a quick clip so we will see that rain picking up, nine to 11:00 e window that the rain starts to get underway but future rain amount indicate a fine mist or light drizzle beginning to pick up as early as this time

tomorrow. bulk of the rain coming through mid to late afternoon. p.m. drive gets impact but rain totals in the the that much, even the heaviest rainfall might be over a half inch in a couple choice locations this wouldn't be a flooding concern but a big fat nuisance. >> we will take you outside to palmyra cove nature park, 48 degrees in that location in the the live neighborhood network. we will move forward in the seven day forecast, it is a gradual decline, coolest day comes saturday, first below average forecasted day so far this month. meisha, back over to you. i never knew if i would enjoy a christmas that wasn't a white one as much. >> you are used to thosey can tell you, i change my mind. i love it. love it. ninety-five southbound coming around that s curve starting to get busy but looking good all things considered. 422 headlights moving in the eastbound direction near

collegeville you can see especially eastbound direction you're looking pretty busy. a lot of headlights starting to flood roadways and i-95 at girard speaks for itself by cottman getting busy here. girard avenue ramp closed and being reroute todd castor avenue. just remember that that project goes into effect today but lingering until june of 2017. it will be out there for a while this accident is completely clear, that is cleared. also down pole in audubon that is also cleared, south park avenue is closed but again that is all since been clear. we are looking good there. construction starting tonight through friday ramp from 95 north to the blue route north is closed, 9:00 p.m. until 5:00 a.m., erika, back over to you. a surprise ago announcement from wisconsin basketball coach beau ryan. chester native decides to retire right after winning a game. ryan broke the news after badgers beat texas a and m. planned to step down at the

end of the season but says his decision has been in the works for months. ryan graduated from chester high school will in 1965. he started hits coaching career at brookhaven junior high and sun valley high school. check out a special moment at last night cavilers/celtics game. lebron james made that fan congratulate is it during a break in the game. sixteen year-old boy was born with severe brain damage. he was honored and james was moved by the moment. >> i saw his story, i felt like i was a part of him, showing my support and gave him my shoes and they were well received by him. >> that meant so much to him. great gesture from lebron. well done. it seems like just been day we go to guying toll look stuff up. now we are seeing exactly what everyone is looking for. real estate web site broke down most popular searches of 205 by each state. we will start with new jersey, people in new jersey were curious about hillary

clinton's e-mail with their governor and republican presidenti candidate chris christie. and here's an interesting one they searched pierre paul hand after football player jason pierre paul blew off part of his hand in the fire works accident. delaware's hottest topic was pope francis vice witt former tone general beau by hen died in may. they searched amtrak a lot. in pennsylvania people wanted to know about the royal baby, new rocky movie creed and this is my favorite they searched john snow dead wonder if he is really gone and super dork who read books and watched the show. >> what do you think about that being the most googled because that surprised me. >> they love game of thrones. >> over football. >> and royal baby. >> and royal babe a. >> we have to move on from that one from that royal baby. >> we will be right back.

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it has happened again another hoverboard burst into flames. >> and thinks is what left of it. family in brentwood, california said they bought the the hoverboard just last week, family member stepped on it while it was charging and it started to pop he dragged it from the living root front door where it seconds later exploded. >> basically she saved our lives, if it wasn't for her quick actions our whole house would probably burn ton. >> there have have been 11 reports of hoverboards catching fire in ten states. many airlines have been out the right ban them on planes, over the possibility of the fire risk. so far there have been no recalls. a mystery donor spend his birthday giving back to others in ohio. the very generous man visited two wal-marts and paid off the store's entire lay away tab. >> wow. >> the a anonymous gift to many totaling more than $106,000, it covers christmas gifts for over 200 people in

northeast, ohio. items ranged from just a pair of socks to 70-inch televisions and tons of toys. >> it is amazing that someone would have this much compassion to be able to help us, to help people that maybe wouldn't have had christmas. >> you know, there are some people out there that care, like santa, like a real santa to me. >> this is not the first time a generous person paid off lay away tabs for the holidays, last year somebody paid off 15 you this dollars in lay aways. you can help maybe somebody's holiday bright by taking part in the joy of sharing toy fess. just buy a new unwrapped toy and bring it to the drop off location. we have put them on our web site the at cbs philly.com toy fess. coming up next on "eyewitness news" a wart warming story about a new jersey family how a little girl with special need rescued a special dog that needed a a home. >> also everybody loves an awkward family photo, on the

the christmas card. we will tell you how these people got one family's attention, coming up.

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and a suv crashes and this all happens outside a hospital. we are live with an update. also times running out for philadelphia public schools. the superintendent warned that without a state budget schools will not be able to keep their doors opened much longer. the embargo is finally lifted, that means first official reviews are in on the the new star wars movie. so does it the live up to all of the hype? find out what critics are saying. we promise no spoilers. we will in the ruin it for you. good morning, it is wednesday, december 16th, i'm erika von tiehl. we will check with katie a and meisha. it the will be even warmer than average today but still feeling cool, good morning, guys starting to cool down. >> it is a all about perception. roadways are nice and dry. traffic volleys low for those joining us. what is on tap today. >> nothing much really. it is a quiet day, still as we just said above average when it comes today time highs but it will trend