this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news". good morning, today is expected to be the busiest shipping day of the year for us postal service, we'll tell you when you need to mail those packages for your friends to get them in time for christmas. a look at last night's lost against the cardinals for the eagles, what it will take for the eagles to make the playoffs. certainly felt like the holiday season this past weekend finally, right? but get ready for another warm up. katie look at the incredibly warm temperatures we'll see this christmas week. good morning, it is monday, december 21, i'm erika von tiehl. we check in with katie and meisha a finally felt like the holidays this weekend? >> kind of crazy coming into work. actually felt little cold. did i not hear the birds this morning that we've been

talking about. so are they going to return to us? >> i think we will probably hear them chirping this week. we came off what felt like normal wintery weekends, right? that's actually going to starting to by the wayside again, specking not another just warm up but incredible warm up as we expect to actually flirt with or even get into the 70s, the 70s, in some spots, looking forward. now, "skycam 3", all calm and quiet, nice and quiet conditions, ben franklin bridge overlooking campbell's field, no problems there. see across the river, center city skyline, all a-okay there as well, and talking temperatures, right now we stand as we are into the 21st day of december, the winter solsus, by the way, 10.6 degrees above the seasonable average. we had shot to be below average this past weekends it, didn't happen. but the coolest weekend we've had yet. but every single day this month has been warmer than typical. every single day. so we've got really good shot to make this not just in the

top five, of the warmest december on record, but we might end up with the warmest december we've ever reported. storm scan3 at this point pretty much quiet. clouds out there. but it is tran will. more than anything just clouds overhead today. we are watching series every fronts cross through the area in the next couple of days. that will bring us few additional wet weather chances, when i say wet weather talking strictly rain folks, no chance for ice or snow this time, not talking temperatures like we will be. currently 37 degrees at philadelphia international airport, yes, chilly, perception is everything, you know it feels so much colder by comparison, to recent days here, certainly the weekend quite cold. but before that you know what i am talking b it has been so mild when you step out the door. 33 degrees current temperature in willow grove as well as palmyra. we take you for the in the forecast with your outlook today. few sunny breaks along the way, generally it is going to be cloudier day, you can expect temperatures to actually be little warmer than they were this past weekends, mid and upper 50's, the general expectation here in

the city down toward the shore points, back to you. >> i'll take it, thank you, sounds good to me and the roadways nice and dry this morning, good morning, happy monday to you. taking a peak outside, the vine where you are so close, overnight construction both eastbound and westbound right now, you can see, looking very quiet, all shutdown between the schuylkill and broad. we can expect that to lift sometime around the 5:00 hour westbound typically opens little sooner. we'll see what happens today. looking at the boulevard before the schuylkill, looking good, few early risers, early travelers throughout this morning, getting an early jump to the work day, don't blame them. looking at the bryn bridge, those every you moving westbound from jersey over the bridge looking good, not going to have any problems at this hour in the morning. now, this is where we do have accident, lower merion township remington road at lancaster avenue. accident there. for those every just hopping on the roadways around here, just be minds full that far in case we do have flashing lights out there. construction aramingo after ramp to 95 south is closed this is in effect until september of 2016. so this will be in effect for awhile, the alternate that you

will want to start using, girard avenue onramp, to piggyback on that as we have been talking about girard avenue ramp to northbound also closed this is closed until june of 2017. yikes. you want to use the at far, castor avenue onramp. >> are you specking package? if so, you are not alone. us postal service is gearing up for its busiest delivery day today. "eyewitness news" reporter justin finch joins us at the depford post office with more on the quiet for now, for now, justin. >> for now indeed, erika, good morning, yes, we are live from the depford post office here. pretty soon these trucks here will be loaded up with christmas cashing e by some counts, 40% of christmas shopping happens after december 15th. so that means a lot of last minute deliveries are coming your way. as you mentioned, today is a peak day, 30 p.m. packages, to be delivered, by days end, and making this the busiest delivery day for the us post office, now, overall, the usps

is prepping to pass out some 15.5 billion with a b billion packages, cards, letters, other parcels this holiday. that tall task did lead them to higher an additional 30,000 seasonal workers, as you mentioned, we do have deadlines for to you remember as you get ready to ship your parcels out on this big day, that big day being december 25th, december 21 is your last day for priority mail, december 23rd is your last day for priority mail express, you still can't cut it controls, but not too close. if you do, you will miss that christmas window. coming up at 5:00 we'll take you inside the post office and show you what this busy day looks like here in depford. erika, back over to you. >> justin, thank you. new this morning, police have a suspect in custody for a deadly shooting in east mt. airy. investigators tell us four men were watching the football game, one pulled out gun and started shooting. one man died at the scene, two

others were returned to the hospital. it happened in the 8300 block of gilbert street shortly after midnight. one victim is in critical condition, the other is stable. >> the philadelphia eagles now hold their own fate in their hands, the entire season now hinges on the last two games of the season. this morning, the eagles probably putting last night's shoot-out by the cardinals in the rear-view mirror. dominant plays by arizona, running back, david johnson here, just too much for the eagles defense to handle. in the end, the cardinals put up nearly 500 total yards against the eagles, final scored, cardinals 40, eagles, 17. after the game, chip kelly spoke with the media. >> the biggest disappointment we didn't tackle woman. that's where i look at it, defensively we didn't tackle, offense we turned the ball over. every game counts. there are no asterisks, everybody has guys hurt at this time of year.

>> a loft eagles fans waking up tired and disappointed. "eyewitness news" caught up with some of the fans after the game ended. >> tonight's game was a heart break. but we're not out of t i want to let the guys know we have to play hard. >> i'm struggling with chip kelly. they have demarco on the bench, very difficult for me to watch as an eagles fan. >> i am a little disappoint in the chip. i thought chip was going to dramatically change, what he was doing this year i was with it at first it, didn't quite pan out. >> and the biggest game of the season for the eagles right here on cb. three saturday night, the birds host washington in a battle for first place. don bell, leslie van arsdale, pat gallen get you ready for the action at 7:00 with special edition of saturday kick off, then the game follows at 8:25. right now, it is 4:37. belgium authorities may reveal more about search that may be linked to the paris attacks. police search house in brussels and detained person for questioning. authorities say investigators

are still trying to establish what connection they may have to last month's deadly attack in the french capitol. the november 13th attacks claimed 130 lives. officials are calling a bomb square that forced an air france flight to make an emergency landing in kenya a hoax. a passenger noticed the device which turned out to just be cardboard and paper with a timer. the boeing 777 was caring 459 passengers, 14 view members, exited by emergency slide. officials say while it was just a hoax, it still raises serious security concerns. air france says at least three other flights have received threats since last month's paris attacks. a special delivery for the son after fallen philadelphia police sergeant, robert wilson iii. "eyewitness news" was there yesterday as members of collingdale fire company's one and two delivered this, a special toy chevy silver add owe power wheels to robert wilson the fourth. that truck was personalized with his late father's photo

on the hood, several other decals to honor his sacrifice. emotional night for officer wilson's family. >> i know he is going to be very excited. every time he sees his father's picture he just smiles, and that's a good thing, he's going play with that a lot. he will know his father is with him. >> toys were list delivered to young robert's brother and sister and mother, and also to ten other local families. it is all part of collingdale fire's annual christmas for the community fundraiser. still ahead this morning, here on "eyewitness news", huge problem at the miss universe pageant last night, the controversial and embarrassing mistake made during the competition. also, feeling a lot more like christmas this past weekend, but it is not going to stay that i way, get ready for christmas warm up. katie has the details coming up after the bre

authorities in nevada are

trying to figure out what led female driver to run into dozens of pedestrians along the las vegas strip. it happened in front of the parish hotel and casino and "planet hollywood". officials say one person is dead and dozens others injured including a child. that driver was taken into police custody and tested for alcohol and drugs. well there is was just a huge flaw at the miss universe pageant last night in las vegas. >> columbia. >> i have to apologize. the first runner up is columbia.

>> oh, you just cringe. can you imagine? host steve harvey accidentally said the wrong woman's name as the winner of the competition. miss philippine, that young woman, was actually the winner. it caused a lot of confusion on stage. harvey immediately tried to take control of the situation and explain what happened. >> this is exactly what is on the card. i will take responsibility for this. it was my mistake. it was on the card. horrible mistake. but the right thing i can show it to you right here. the first runner up is columbia. it is my mistake. >> oh, he is owning up to it. can you imagine, though? my gosh, miss columbia, realized it on his own, he made a mistake, he said he has not spoke win miss columbia a but you see her on her knees, taking the crown off. >> oh, my gosh.

>> you just cringe. >> at least she is first runner up, so great. >> i think they were both very gracious about it, but i think more than anything, i'm sorry, what is happening? >> is that mine? i can't take this home? >> what's happening right now? >> we are wondering the same thing about our forecast right now, finally the holidays, now talking 70s again? >> yes. >> can you believe it? unreal. so what's happening? i'll call this starting with high pressure, see warmfront, cold front, warmfront, high pressure. >> all right? >> it works that way. >> but there is a lot of things, a lot of the moving pieces come along with it, that's the basic gist. a loft different colds fronts, series every fronts that will cross through the area, bring us variety pack of weather over the next couple of days watch it will not bring us, my friends, no ice, no snow, no prolonged cold, not looking like winter any time soon. "skycam 3", all calm, collected, nice and clear for us outside. that's going to change. actually more clouds already starting to build in here we go next to storm scan3.

a lot of clouds currently over spreading pennsylvania really the tri-state area in general. the first of the series every fronts, actually, dissipating as it crawls east. but regardless at the moment that is the one thing that you can see very vividly on the area map off to the west and we will likely see couple of showers build in as early as late tonight generally into tomorrow morning specially. so here it come. that cold front, first of series moving on through. then we look ahead into tuesday, and again, likely rain around specially in the morning. then we are going to see a warmfront lift in. it will bring additional showers on into wednesday. but because it is a warmfront, the temperatures go on nice uphill climb. how are we looking for the rain chances in for now no shot whatsoever. tomorrow primarily morning issue when we see the showers build in. bit of higher chance on wednesday, looks like our weather day of the pack, in times for christmas eve, that threat does go down, likely have some showers maybe even couple of rumbles of thunder along the way. as we look through today, mostly cloudy day, not as bright as the weekend was, it

is milder by comparison, high of 56. we drop down to only 48 tonight. as we said we can't rule out showers late tonight as the winter solsus gets underway, nothing wintery about this forecast. check out christmas eve. 71 degrees. so santa might be able to shed that hat, he won't need it, it will be a little too toasty here in the tri-state area on christmas eve, erika, back to you. >> incredible, kade katie, thank you. >> talking sports, sixers hope to win their second game of the season when they host the grist litz tomorrow night. yesterday the sixers hosed the calf ears with kyree irving, after breaking his kneecap in last year's finals. tony beat the buzzer to put the sixers ahead after the first quarter. brett brown is excited for the moment. cleveland dominated after. that will labron james with a steel, throws to irving, putting cleft lands ahead by three. sixers lose to the cavs 108 to 86. they become the first nba team to start the season one and 28. lesean mccoy fresh off last week's miserable outing

against the identification else, had another one in washington. left early in the second half after hurt hadding his right knee. he has mcl sprain and is day-to-day. bad day for before low. kirk cousins throws desean jackson who goes 77 yards, for a touchdown. washington win 35 to 25. also in the nfc east, giants lost to the panthers, and analysts and fans up in arms over the actions every giants star receiver beckham, jr. beckham was battling all day long with the panthers defense, then this happened. >> embarrassing for odel beckham. embarrassing for the giants. there is a shot. >> beckham delivers hit to panthers at the end of the play, he drove his helmet right into the side of norman's head. norman did stay in the game. panthers went onto win this 138 to 35. >> still ahead this morning, mcdonald's is testing new item for happy meals, details

coming up in your money watch report. first, here's what's ahead tonight on cbs-3.

>> time for a check on your business news, hena daniels joins us from the new york stock he can changes. i know a loft people getting the last minute holiday gift shopping. drones are expected to be pretty popular. any new information on this very hot holiday item? >> reporter: good morning, erika, faa drone registration website opens today. owners must smith their names, home addresses, e-mail address to national data base. registration number is required for drones weighing from half pounds to 55 pounds. if you already own a drone, you have until february 19th to register. if you're getting a drone, you have to register before its first flight. erika? >> all right, hearing there is new mack at mcdonald's, tell us more. >> reporter: that's right, mcdonald's is testing mac and

cheese as option in happy meals. it is going to replace fries, limited test, in cleveland for now. it will also be available for grown up for a dollar 75. erika? >> can't go wrong with mac and cheese, hopefully comes to philly soon. >> not at all. >> well, out of this wormed opening for star wars, they dominated at the box office. i can't wait to see. >> this the force awakens smashed box office records with a estimated 238 million-dollar owning weekends. that's about 30 million more than the previous champ jurassic world. alvin and the chipmunks, totaled 14 million just in second, tina fay amy polar comedy sisters made about 13 million, and rounding out top five, the hunger games and creed. coming up after the break, get a check on your traffic and weather together on this monday morning, we'll be right ba

>> checking your forecast. >> morning, happy monday everybody, in the final days now leading to up christmas, but there is nothing that's going to actually feel wintery about this forecast for us here in the tri-state area any time soon. that's strictly just a backdrop that we're using to illustrate the point here. winter does begin tonight, our winter solsus, 11:48 p.m. the shortest amount of daylight we see. nine hours 19 minutes and 58 seconds to be specific. and then we do start to tack on little bit of time with every passing day, those hours every delay light. days will eventually start to get longer and longerment storm scan3, for now, quiet as can be, we do have dissipating cold front. see the leading edge that far here starting to roll into actually western ohio at this point. it does appear as though that will have chance to dissipate as it does roll in. so, we might see some showers as early as overnight tonight, and specially tomorrow morning, watch for some fog, too, but the bigger story look at these temperatures. not even close to seasonable, and thursday, obviously, the

warmest of the pack, certainly a mild christmas eve expected for us here, 71 degrees the expected high. so record smashing day looks like meisha. >> unreal, 70s, i don't even know what to say any more. good morning, everyone, happy monday, we are back at it, things are looking good, grabbing your first cup of coffee with us, we're so happy you are here. ninety-five southbound at cottman looking good, nice and quiet, joan at this while it lasts, we know that will be changing even as we move into the 5:00 hour. this is where we have overnight construction, schuylkill at the vine, just starting to get cleared out of the way. we'll know it gets completely cleared. east and westbound lanes starting to get pick up. blue route southbound mid-county looking good, nice and quiet, basically any camera being look nice and quiet, where we have an accident investigation, the town of horsham, closed between county line road and davis grove road. use alternate such as park road. erika, over to you. >> meisha, a thank you. very special day here at cbs-3. our drive-thru toy drop off

day for our "joy of sharing" toy fest. all do you have do is bring new unwrapped toy to our cbs-3 studios and drop it off. don't have to get out of your car. we will be here starting 6:00 a.m. you can drop the toys off until 8:00 tonight. location right there on your screen, 555 -- 1555 hamilton street, they'll be donated. >> coming up in the next hour of "eyewitness news", police are investigating reports of a road rage shooting. we have the details. also, we mentioned this earlier on in the newscast, but now hearing from eyewitnesses, after a deadly crash on a las vegas strip. and, we also have the latest on a massive landslide in china drone video here showing the aftermath. more when we come back at the top of the hour. good morning.

good morning, there are just four days left until christmas, and that means workers templet s postal service are going to be extra busy today. we are live on this the busiest day of the year for deliveries. and it looked like she wasn't even trying to stop the car. she had both of her hands on the wheel, was looking straightforward. >> developing right now, a driver intentionally runs down victims on the las vegas strip. we'll hear more from eyewitnesses, also, months after the deadly train derailment, amtrak now using new train safety system, on

their busy northeast corridor. details on. that will. >> good morning, it is monday, december 2; i'm erika von tiehl. let's check in with katie and meisha. finally looking like the holidays. good morning, ladies. >> good morning, guys, happy monday, good to be back with you, feeling chilly but nice to have real nice dry roadways, nothing real toy report much going on in the world of traffic, katie, so what can we expect in the world of weather. >> certainly going to be very mild upcoming week here, yes. you heard it right, mild, again, so after feeling a little more like winter for a change, or little more seasonable, over this past weekends, still chilly now, that's about to go by the wayside once more as yet another warming trend is on the way. we're in the just talking about a typical warming trend. this is a substantial one. so already expecting mid 50's here today coming off of sunday's high of 43. going back into the 60s come tuesday, wednesday, and yes, not typo on christmas eve we expect the 70s, unreal, 43 the average h