crashes like this one this past may. >> live at the post offers with all of the hustle and bustle, to see your mail carrier, maybe give him thank you, shake their hands, they'll be busy. in n day december 21, i'm erika von tiehl. good morning. we check in with katie and meisha, a finally feeling like the holidays, ladies, how about did? >> no kidding. >> little chilly toed. we know it won't last. been talking about it all morning long. good morning, guys. >> katie, all bundled up out there. >> definitely chilly out here, ever so slight breeze, broke out here on the cbs-3 skydeck. definitely feeling like winter but it will not moving forward. >> temperatures pretty quickly still want the winter coat as you hid the road this morning, storm scan3, pretty quai right now. we do have few clouds overhead, we zoom it way out, see some signs of life here

now moving over ohio, and that is a sign every things to come for us, our latest frontal boundary, fizzling as it comes along, may contribute err cull elf showers tonight. temperature missing in mount pocono, definitely chill up that way, as well. forty-four the current temperature at the airport, at 46 degrees in atlantic city and in the the winds direction, out of the southwest comes here not terribly strong but because it is the southwest winds flow, will get us started on daytime highs, spiking into above average territory. so mid up ear's the expectation generally around the board today. couple of sunny breaks along the way, more clouds than anything, and here is a look at your area headlights. temperatures are sky-rocketing. making it another record setting week on couple of days, which we will discuss, but it also means, no white christmas this year, if that's what you have been dreaming of. sorry. may your days be meter i and bright nonetheless, meisha. >> i was not dreaming of that. i've had a loft those. >> not even. >> no, i'm good.

let's just move right past that. good morning, everyone, happy monday. where we have disable truck, the schuylkill eastbound, the off ramp to city avenue pulled all the way out to the shoulder, not going to cause too many slow downs, make note the schuylkill right now as we push into the 6:00 hour, certainly going to start getting busy. it might cause some gaper delay if nothing else. take a look at this, where we have an accident, earlier, 422 eastbound before route 29. this is past route 29, that accident has all since been cleared. i can see something pulled all the way off to the shoulder, no the sure what it is, but look at the stream of vehicles looking very busy around 422, make note that far for those every you headed out to 422 eastbound direction particularly. ninety-five southbound, past this is past cottman, see, moving in both directions plenty of headlights and taillights, but specially moving in the southbound direction, where it will get real busy. this is where we've had accident investigation going on, accident happened midnight, investigation still going on in the town of horsham. keith valley road closed between city line road, davis grove road, use your

alternate, park road. over to you. >> oh, it is a special day here at cbs-3. check it out. hang on. having fun downstairs. "joy of sharing" toy fest is underway. and in just moments, our meisha is headed downstairs drive-thru just opened up. hey, again, love it. we see the truck in there, see all of the boxes, it is ready to be filled with toys. all do you have do is bring new unwrapped toy to our cbs-3 studios, meet the sixers, cheerleaders, everyone out here today. swing by right now if you want positive meet the moss could the. finds out 1555 hamilton street in philadelphia, the toys will be donated to the salvation army, uso, the boys and girls club, meisha will have much more on this very special day coming up in about 15 minutes. we hope you can take part. if you want to drop by, drop toy off, it will be busy delivery day overall for the us postal office. nationally they can anticipate more than 30 million packages,

will be delivered this peak delivery day a loin, 30 million. let's check in with justin, they'll be busy today, good morning. >> busy already as you mentioned, 30 million passages by days ends, some 30 million between thanksgiving and new years eve. take a look herement you can see all of the hard work is paying off. you what may notice here this morning, a lot of boxes, a lot of amazon boxes, proof that on line commerce is really driving this holiday season, we've gotham son, rue lala, ma i i boxes all here being shipped out to nearly 707 different destinations this morning. again, catch up to the man at the post office hired some 30,000 seasonal employees and at times like this, boxes coming and going, you want to make sure your box gets to your home or business on time. bring i in ray from the post office say, ray there is time of year, people are towelly taking boxes, packages, gifts, people's doorsteps?

>> unfortunate that the technology that creates a lot of good opportunities also creates opportunities for nefarious minded people, known as sports pirates, come to take things off your porch. the easiest thing you can do enlist the help after neighbor, if neighbor is home ask the neighbor to look out for items a lot of the packages are coming with visibility, so you can track it every step of the way. you know it will get to your house. other thing you can do go to usps. com sign up for package redirect, have your packages sent to different alternate shipping address or you can have it hold for pick up. so there are some things you can do to prevent the porch snatchers. >> if you're going to mail anything today, use priority mail, which will get it there one, two, three days, depending when it is going, if you go beyond today to the next day or the 23rd then you will have to use priority mail express mail which is overnight service. >> of course 24th christmas eve by that point just too

late. so erika don't be caught in that crunch. twenty-first and 23rd, today and wednesday, to get your packages, delivered by christmas day. back over to you. >> i mailed mine days ago, justin, thanks so much. >> oh, good. >> right now 6:06. the philadelphia eagles playoff hope now hinges on the last two games of the season. this morning eagles probably looking at last night's shoot-out by the cardinals, arizona dominated entire game. rookie running back david johnson plowed his way 47 yards for this touchdown. scenes like this played out throughout the game. in the end, the cardinals put up nearly 500 total yards against the eagles, final score, cardinals 40, eagles 17. after the game, coach chip kelly gave his fast critique of his team's performance. >> the biggest disappoint. we just didn't tackle well. and that is really where i look at it, defensively, didn't tackle, offensively turned the ball over. those are two things. but every game counts, there are no asterisks you can say

hey we had guys hurt. everybody has guys hurt this time of year. >> hearing from the fans coming up at 6:30. and don't forget the biggest game of the season for the the eagles right here on cbs-3 saturday night. birds host washington in a battle for first place, sports team will get you ready for action at 7:00 saturday edition of kick offer. game follows at 8:25. riding the rales, has become safer for amtrak passengers along the busy northeast corridor. amtrak activated positive train control. it can automatically slow or stop a speeding train. transportation experts have said the braking system would have prevented the fatal derailment in port richmond earlier this year. >> new this morning respect suspect in custody for deadly shooting in east mount air. police tell us that four men were watching the football game when one pulled out a gun, and started shooting. one man died at the scene. two others were rushed to the hospital. this happened in the 8300 block of gilbert street shortly after midnight. one victim is in critical

condition. the other is stable. developing right now, investigators are trying to figure out what led a female driver to run into dozens of pedestrians on the las vegas strip. one person was killed, and dozen more injured. mauriceio with the latest. >> part of the same vaguest strip blocked off as authorities began piecing together what led a female driver in her 20's to mow down 37 pedestrians near the harrah's casino. >> we have determined this is intentional act. that will means our homicide section will be handling the investigation. >> witnesses were left in shock as woman took off all while a toddler sat in the back seat. >> it looked like she wasn't even trying stop the car. she had both her hands on the wheel, looking straightforward. >> antonio one of several people who tried to stop the vehicle as it drove on the sidewalk possibly three times. >> i was running down the middle of the street there. was two other guys running

with me yelling like move, get out of the way, stop. and then there was three guys that were trying to punch out the window. >> authorities also plan to look for surveillance video in the area. they are also questioning the driver to see if alcohol or drugs made a factor. >> we have a drug recognition officer that would check to see if the driver that far vehicle was under the influence of drugs or come, and also take either blood or breath in regard to see if they were intoxicated. >> officials say several people remain hospitalized, thdriver of the car, along with the toddler, were not hurt. cbs news, las vegas, nevada. >> happening today, the man accused of purchasing two assault rivals used in the san bernardino terror attacks will be in court. mark quest expected to appear in court this morning for bail and re den sean hearing. marquez, neighborhood friend of czar ad farook, stand accused of conspiring, as well

as immigration fraud. federal prosecutors want to keep him in jail saying he would be a flight risk. >> threat forces schools to close today in new hampshire. police say the threats specifically directed at two high schools came in an e-mail. the closure affect 17 public schools in the districts with more than 11,000 student. >> still ahead this morning, here on "eyewitness news", it was the mistake heard around the world. >> columbia. >> as quickly as miss columbia was crowned, she lost the title because it was never really hers. coming up a little bit later steve harvey talks about why he red the wrong name. oh, he feels so bad for that girl. also imagine this? a smart phone on sale for dollar. yes, but there is a catch. isn't there always? we have details coming up. >> ♪ >> we are spread i lots of joy

to families in need this morning, our drive-thru toy drop off day. our "joy of sharing" toy fest oh, it has kick off right now to help with the sixers, the franklin, cheerleaders and guys, thanks so much for joining us, here until 8:00 p.m. we have more on this coming up after the break. >> ♪

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if you are a fan every mild temperatures, santa has early christmas gift, right? >> indeed. yep, just on the horror with sister station "kyw news radio", you said a lot of people will be loving you towards the tail ends of the week here. you agree, if you want add white christmas, you may not like me very much right now. this is just not going to be one the patterns that bridges it to us, rather strictly

rainfall, eastern lower michigan, still too warm for anything but rain. and that's all that we are going to be seeing, eventually, out of this system t looks a lot more robust than it will be by the time it gets here, but this is actually one of several fronts that are crossing through our area in the days ahead. soap, couple of days what we call unsettled weather, but no ice, snow snow, just too warm. already, in fact, offer to a little bit after milder start than previous mornings through the course of the weekend. >> different contours lines, indicates where it will be, all the way, up into portions every middle new england here, so another round for us, of record warmth. some records will be challenged, some will be broken, see that in the seven day, stay tuned for. that will here's where we stand right now. actually been building up that warmth already. we started off in the upper 30's, in philly, already at 44 degrees, more than anything, we think courtesy of southerly component for the wind flow, currently in the

50's, flirting flirt in little , sign of things for us to come. clouds, 56 degrees the expected high i show you a second ago, late tonight, but generally speaking see that wet weather holds off until at least tomorrow, probably some fog with it, as well. >> march, santa will have to break out shorts rather than the big heavy red velvet suit. 71 degrees yes. >> roads are nice and dry, do have disable truck out, there the accidents that have happened this morning have been cleaned out of the way nice and quickly, disabling truck, the schuylkill eastbound off ram top city avenue pulled away off to the right shoulder. no going cause too many slow downs, but you might get some slow downs, be aware, also

another accident that we have. the blue route southbound, right around ridge pike blocking far left lane by the way, as you can see this car right here hit guards rail then just went over the side. you will have the clean up crews here. you can see the law officers there, as well. again, pulled all the way off to the side. block that right lane for those every in you and around the area, can cause slow downs, those every you coming from jersey over the ben franklin bridge, just starting to heat up right now. >> chrysler recalling some of its popular jeep cherokee lines. the company says jeep cherokee from 2015, and 2016 model years, part of the world-wide recall. they say the jeeps prone to water leaks, that could lead to electrical short circuit. the company says no fires or injuries have been reported. does iphone for a dollar sound like good deal? is what best buy is charging,

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have all the fun? that's no fun. unleash the power of dough. give it a pop. very big day here, big drive-thru toy drop off for our "joy of sharing" just kick off. part nerds with the salvation army, the uso and the boys and

girls club to collect toys this holiday season. we put meisha downstairs, where is your coat, girl? we have to get one for you. toys are being dropped off. >> there is way too much minnesota blood here. i don't need a coat out here. guys, we will be collecting toys until 8:00 p.m. that's plenty of hours to get here at 1555 hamilton street in philadelphia. so come say hi, help a child, have a very merry christmas. and if you can't get here today with toy, you can still get involved. make a donation by texting joy to 41444. so, this is very, very exciting, this is of course my first "joy of sharing" toy fest, and let me tell you, the energy outside is so great. right? let's talk a little bit about why what exactly is going on here right now. >> right now collecting toys because of cbs-3 "joy of sharing" toyfest, salvation

army will be able to use these toys to distribute to children in philadelphia area. we anticipate distributing nearly 20,000 toys this year. >> think about that. this is really going to make some kids in needs, families in need, have very merry christmas, christian what's it mean to you being out here? it is early, it is still dark everyone excited. >> the energy so high, it is very important to the philadelphia 76ers to give back to the community, woe figure we would be the first donate ores to give some basketballs to the salvation army. we brought the crew with us. we have franklin the mascot, sixers dancers and flight squad. so them little something there. we are full of holiday spirit and joy and just happy to be here and giving back. >> maybe it is not the easiest time of the season for some of these families. what it means for you to be here. >> it means to be part of the "joy of "joy of sharing", to be

receiving from the generosity, to help those in own community to help us the most. >> even if you at home have not dropped off a toy, we are here until 8:00 p.m. it is all about planting the seeds for the community, for your own heart, so get here. we will be here all morning long, all day into the afternoon and evening until 8:00 p.m. really make someone's christmas, by the way frank lip, i haven't met you yet, i met the philly phanatic but i have to meet you. >> we have game tomorrow night against the grisslies, why don't you join us? >> oh, we have to do that. >> sound like fun to me. >> let's do it. >> sounds like a date. and i'll see you here later is as well. >> meisha, a thanks so much. a lot of fun down there. still ahead this morning, on "eyewitness news", lamar oath em just took huge step in his recovery. find out what the former nba star did for the first time with no help. >> kate we know you're looking forward to the christmas forecast as are we. i can't believe it,

07 degrees. >> yes, looking ahead, not typo, to day that will hit the 70s. this week. if you can believe it. so talking temperatures, but also couple every wet weather chances along the way too for your travel purposes. we will walk you through everything after the break. stick around. this just in. the final countdown to christmas is here. wait what? gary, is this teleprompter right? sweet molasses! i need to start shopping immediately. save on thousands of last minute deals at target.

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at least 91 people are missing after powerful landslide in chinese city. mud and debris toppled dozens every buildings. drone camera captured the devestation here. that landslide was caused when a pile of construction weights, and residue, grew so steep, it collapsed. so far at least 13 people are in the hospital. rescue crews are still searching for survivors. >> happening today, a private operator trying to get back into the space travel goo game this morning, set to launch falcon nine rocket from cape canaveral, florida the company's space flights have been on hold after one of its rockets exploded back in june. with today's frightening nears will also be trying to safely land a rocket after the flight. >> coming up in the next half hour of "eyewitness news", a boy scout lead is her injured, when he and three scouts are attack by a bear in new jersey. here are the emergency calls for help next.

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>> everyone here so surprised, 07 degrees on christmas eve, katy? >> i'm surprised by it, you just don't see it. you just don't see it. specially this late in the month, it is crazy talk. >> outside, little cool. absolutely, see had chillier weekends, actually felt little more like winter, right? now starting to see the temperatures go on uphill

climb, in part, because they're starting to see more of southerly component tonight wind flow. at this point storm scan showing nothing more than handful of clouds, off to the west see signs of life, the beginning of one of several front, that's going to have impact on our forecast here this week. that particular front should be fizzling with time. we think you might see showers as late tonight. meanwhile couple of choice locations until the live neighborhood network, more outlying suburbs, wayne, generally flirting with 40 or just shy of it out in the cinnaminson, for example, at 35 degrees. notice that wind direction, though, it is a light wind, but it is definitely out of the south, for most of the region, helping us to warm up little bit here. >> fifty-six today. 60s tomorrow and wednesday, christmas eve, these are the records that we need to hit to have at least a tie. but i'll tell this much, guys it, looks like we are not going to only break a lot of these records, we may very well shatter them, in a couple of spots. so, we will be talking temperatures as we mention

moving forward in the forecast, for now all you need to know might see rain as early as late tonight. no wet weather expected for you, we will keep things dry for the better part of the day. meisha, a we send it over to you. >> katie, i cannot believe that weather we will have, that's going to be so awesomement right now roadways just waking up with us, still looking pretty good. things are looking little busy, the accident that we had earlier are starting to get cleared out of the way. this is one their we did have accident, i can't really see it in camera rightow, but make note, what we were looking at is the schuylkill eastbound at spring garden, that left lane was blocked, it looks like that has now since been cleared, good news, and also, we have disable vehicle, the schuylkill eastbound, the off ramp to city avenue pulled all the way off to the shoulder, traffic is flowing around this area, pulled all the way out to the shoulder. but just make note, that can cause you some delays, as we start to get the gaper delay, things are being looking busy on the schuylkill right now. also, an accident that just cleared, the blue route southbound before ridge pike,

see looking gd on the blue route anywhere i look at the blue route looking pretty good. this is where we have an accident investigation. the accident happened at about midnight, the investigation is still underway. this is in the town of horsham. keith vale road closed between county line road and davis grove road. use the the until the park road. this will be closed all morning longer, has not reopened i'll let you know when it will open. >> investigators are trying to pinpoint what caused a fiery crash that killed three people in northeast philadelphia. it happened early sunday morning. police say a chevy camaro sped down toward dale avenue, then crashed into a tractor-trailer, park near the holtz berg bridge. firefighters found three vehicles engulfed in flames. neighbors say accidents like this have happened before. >> there has been few accidents, people running in the back of the trucks, people running like hitting the sides of the trucks, because sometimes they have them things sticking out on the sides. >> investigators say the tractor-trailers were parked

illegally. police say all three victims were in the camaro. >> three boy scouts put surviving training to use when their leader scout lead is her attack by a bear in new jersey. >> we have a gentleman in the cave with a bear. he has been injured by the bear. >> this happened yesterday afternoon in a cave in morris county after several hours of searching, emergency crews were able to find the injured leader by the small fires the scout set to signal for help. the nearby neighbor says he doesn't know why someone would go into a cave this time of year. >> you should think twice maybe before going in there. you realize that there could be a bear in, there the last thing i want to do is poke your nose into a cave where there is a bear trying to hibernate. >> the boy scout lead is her expected to be okay. a day before the incident more than 500 bears were killed in its annual bear hunt. 6:34 right now. and to the big mix-up at the miss universe pageant. the contestant from the philippines was declared this

year's winner, but not before some rather confusing and chaotic moments on live tv. cbs news reporter don champion reports. >> the drama place out on live television sunday, repeat win for columbia in the miss universe contest. >> i have to apologize. >> quickly became one jaw dropping gasp for pageant host steve harvey. >> it took about a minute for harvey to correct themselves after a pa parentally reading his note kad with the winner on it wrong. >> this is exactly what is on the card. i will take responsibility for. >> this it was my mistake, it was on the card. >> even the celebrity judges

were shocked, fellow contestant quickly surrounded miss columbia to comfort her back stage miss columbia and philippines showed grace. >> everything happens for a reason, so i'm happy. >> very non-traditional crowning, isn't it? >> yes. very 2015. >> threw it all, the broadcast sends dollars with the crown, being exchange dollars. don champion, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> oh, heart goes out to miss columbia. can you imagine, the crown, not yours one of those things do you have take a moment okay they hands philadelphia with grass. but harvey you feel so bad, because accidents happen. >> absolutely. >> you just have to forgive, know that wasn't intentional. i feel bad for him. contestant, as well. worked so hard for that moment.

but harvey, as well. >> we'll see. 6:36. there is some encouraging signs for lamar odom's recovery, now taking stems without a walker, former nba player's brain function slowly improving. odom fawn runs conscious in october, we're told he may soon leave the hospital for a rehab facility. >> tough outcome for eagles fans last night, the eagles just could not match the visiting arizona cardinals speed and power. arizona took the lead early and never gave it up. final score arizona 40, philadelphia, 17. "eyewitness news" sport reporter greg argos war there to see how the fans were handling the low temp tailgates. >> see fans wearing short sleeves, make sense, and warm weather records were set. what a difference seven days makes. >> beautiful last time. hey, warm enough for us.

>> how are you staying warm? >> i guess just like this, baby, means lots of yelling, because, well, we're in eagles territory, and plenty of of that. that fan from south jersey apparently doesn't even need a shirt to stay warm. but these guys taking more measured approach. >> how do you stay warm? >> sit in front of the heater. who canning it all up. >> even grills taking on double duty providing warmth before cooking those burgers and brats. >> very cold. my feet are pretty cold. everything else is warm, but my feet are cold. but i see you have a nice beverage helping you out. >> yes, sir. >> we found some fans staying warm with a kerosene heater. others, grilling, but these guys right here, old school, just yelling, dancing and having a good time.

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tame or swift gives one fan the perfect christmas give, surprise visit. showed up at the 12 year old girl's home in colorado that young fan is battling cancer. swift made the special stop after a social media campaign aimed at connecting the singer one of her biggest fans, grabbed her a fen sean. love to see. that will. >> real housewife theresa will be released, reportedly and be home for christmas. according to her lawyer, she will be re lows from the federal prison on wednesday, and be placed under house arrest until february 5th. she has been in jail since january after pleading guilty to bankruptcy fraud last year.

>> the force awakens smashed box office records with a estimated $238 million opening weekend. that's about 30 million better than the previous champ jurassic worlds, in second, alvin and the chipmunks, tallied $14 million, the tina fay amy polar comedy sisters made about 13 million. rounding out top five, the hunger games and creed. and, star wars fans, turned out in droves in seattle for this, a massive lights saber battle. organizers say more than 1200 light sabres handed out, what was it, captain hook with a line saber? that's great. towered overhead as hundreds every duels paid tribute for the latest fill p.m. that galaxy far, far away. when see they have their jackets out west in seattle, certainly had your jacket this weekend. how are you looking? >> i say still have your heavier coat ready to go this morning, erika, on pace to see very significant warming trends, with every passing day we will be sky-rocketing way past seasonal typical temperatures here, we go ahead, start off with quick check on chill out there with

our eyewitness weather watcher network. 39 degrees came in to us from least, a out in wilmington, delaware, more clouds overhead than anything. said there is light frost on the cars in her neighborhood. modest winds, making it feel like 34. might need the extra minute or two to be thawing out. go ahead check in here at 41 degrees, warmest observation that is we've seen so far this morning, this came to us from lynn, and this is one of the very few people, lynn, who is very bummed it will be so mild. temperatures are rising fast, boo, she wants winter back. depend who you ask. now, clearly just backdrop. not at all what we're going to be seeing out from the art howe see up steps, but it is our winter countdown. >> we are seeing little bit again of warming trend looking forward towards the holidays itself. four days until christmas.

70s in our future. storm scan3 quiet, dissipating boundary crossing through, brinking in some rain it looks like specially tomorrow morning. but maybe as early as overnight. record warmth in the cards for us, christmas eve, we expect it, so santa may be flying around in a bathing suit rather than velvet suit. see what we got here. records highs very likely for us, as we approach that point. 60s by tomorrow. records challenged come wednesday, i think not only break the records on thursday, we will shoot at the at 71 degrees. it is just unheard of, meisha. >> you just reminded me whatnot to put on the list, santa claus please don't drive around in a bathing suit. schuylkill off ramp to city avenue is off kind of in the distance, pulled away off to the shoulder, but you are still getting by on that ramp. then the schuylkill eastbound, you can see just casino of steady flow of travelers right

now. so the schuylkill is certainly heating up. another area that's even more so, 95 southbound at cottman, come around the s curve starting to see all of the though taillights go off. that means traveling listless than posted speeds try it make your way into the city. we can expect it now 6:45, exactly 6:47. the boulevard headed in the southbound direction, another area that's really heating up. then once on to the schuylkill westbound at city avenue, looking pretty slow moving there, as well. and an accident in new jersey woodland township route 72 closed between route 70 and chatsworth road. there is entrapment and injuries reported here. so you want to avoid that area right now, if at all possible. and also, aramingo avenue ramp to 95 south closed until 2016 of september. girard avenue will be your best alternate. back to you. >> popular sleeping pill may help stroke victims. researchers at stanford say mice treated when ambien had better recovery than stroke than mice without ambien.

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center deck out with images of iconic kitten, creative idea there. right now 6:49. time to see what's coming up on cbs in morning, anthony mason joyce us with the preview. good morning. >> good morning, police trying to figure out why woman intentionally plowed into crowd on the sidewalk. plus, we will talk with democratic presidential candidate bernie saunders about his campaign, and the clinton data breach. on christine campaign buses rolling through noon harshen. and entertainment tonight michelle turner was back stage when the wrong winner was announced at miss universe, and she will join us with the big mix-up. the news is back in the morning, see in you about ten minutes. >> oh, i just felt so bad for miss klume bee a, anthony. >> terrible. >> i know. >> so awkward. >> thanks so much. welshing it is a very big day here at cbs-3. it is our big drive-thru toy drop off for/"joy of sharing" toy fest campaign. cbs philly part nerds with the

salvation army, the. so and the boys and girls clubs to collect toys this holiday season. we sent katie down there. she did get her coat and starve. we know it is chilly out with special gusts, hey, katie? >> yes, good morning, good morning, everybody, as we said, very, very special day for us here at cbs-3 as we partner with all of the great organizations, we want to give you little bit of information, again, our big toy fest drop off day. you can come up until 8:00 p.m. tonight. located at 1555 hamilton street here in philadelphia. come on out. you can help give child a very merry christmas, if you can't get here today with a toy, you can still get involved. make a 10-dollar donation to the salvation army. just by texting the word joy to 41444. it might sound quiet bye i'm joined hereby dozens of people. >> shall out with cell phones,

hey, guys. right next to me is liam. liam, i'll have you know, is a very important guy. because he is the lead, he plays ravi in a christmas story playing at the wall in the street theater. so tell me, budd, you know, a special day. what is it mean to you to be able to help a fellow kid in need? >> kind of giving back it the community something that our community has just done so well. i went to public school. and it is just amazing how well they bring us together just through fundraisers and everything. and i think really just giving a toy a simple way to bring a kid's smile on his face. >> one of my favorite christmas movies. good one, awesome one. but i would love to hear you guys, do a great rendition from the show. okay? so take it away, guys, give us little something of what you got. >> ♪

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more than 30 million packages expected to be delivers nationwide, making this the u.s. postal service busiest delivery day of the year, want to check in with justin finch live at the depford post office already busy there. hey, justin? >> 30 million today, between thanksgiving and new years day, take a look behind me here. it is really starting to pick up. seeing lots of boxes here, from amazon, and other on-line retailers, e commerce driving,

this holiday shipping season, as we are seeing here it morning. we are hearing more than pen% higher in terms of volume this year, versus last year, some 30,000 employees have been broad on across the country, to handle this extra load you have two big deadlines coming up if you want your box delivered by christmas day today the 21 for apply/from, the 23rd, my or at this mail express, getting your package delivered to your post offers will get it thereby christmas day. you have time, but not much left. erika, over to you. >> puerto rican music group rehearsed yesterday for their first ever appearance in the mummers parade. part of the newly created philadelphia division which reflect the city's groping cultural and ethnic diversity. and the wait to see them on new years. checking on traffic and weather together. heck it, could be 07 again for new years. that's all we can talk about

71 degrees on christmas eve. >> absolutely unbelievable the kind of warm we're talking about, take a look at the seven day, couple every chances for wet weather mainly tomorrow, wednesday, thursday, temperatures draw your tai end sean, records will be shattered we think on thursday, meisha. >> oh, wow, awesome of the the schuylkill headlights moving past montgomery looking busy here 95 southbound at girard traveling less than posted speeds there, quick peak at our wide. eighteen on the schuylkill, 53 on high 95, 32 on the vine, erika? >> all right, coming up next on cbs this morning, one-on-one with presidential can dathan new jersey governor chris christie. first we want to get right back downstairs to our parking lot toy fest underway, please stop by. and bring new unwrapped toy to our studios here at 1555 hamilton. right now we want to leave you with the wonderful calls of christmas story, they're going to sing us to break. have a great day. >> ♪

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captioning funded by cbs good morning. it's monday december 21st, 2015. welcome to "cbs this morning." chaos on a las vegas strip when a car plows through a crowded sidewalk injukilling one and injuring dozens. >> chris christie is surging in a key stay. major garrett is on his campaign bus and democrat bernie sanders will be with us why. >> a miss universe meltdown why the crowned winner had her tierra taken away from her live on tv. we begin this morning with a look at today's "eye opener." your world in 90 seconds. some automobile came through, rushing through the sidewalk, mayhem. people down. >> a las vegas