deadly tornados touchdown in texas killing 11 people and injuring more. officials believe that number could rise. the powerful twister ripped through home, reducing them to rubble. a disaster has been declared in four dallas area counties, and this morning, survivors are picking through what's left of their homes. assessing damage, look to go rebuild, live in texas with the latest, omar, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, erika. we're her, and some of the devestation that we're seeing

is pretty intense, and widespread. this used to be somebody's home. under there, that used to be somebody's car. that's a nissan. i'll step over here. you can see, it is just a mixture of trees, little bit of the roof, and the background far background that's somebody's second story a lot of rubble in this area. no pair is on, tornado knocked out the pear to the area t could be days until these folks have power. ill pause for a second, see if you can hear t there is some beeping in the background, and it is all around this neighborhood. people's either smoke alarms or fire alarms going offer because it just got ripped apart by the tornado, very erie sound, erika. >> and always a tragedy when you hear about these lives lost, but you often hear these great stories every neighbors racing in to help each other. have you heard any of these stories? >> we have the the second the tornado blew through here, it was quick, a lot of people were coming out to see who was okay, who needed help there. were people checking not only

on their neighbors, people in cars. minds you there is hit just before 7:00 local time. so there is a lot of people out on the street, either going to eat, coming home from eating, visiting family t caught a lot of people off guard. another thing we've heard, this is kind after lakeside community, rowlette here in north texas, a lot of people bring their pets up here. heard after lot of people helping neighbors fine pets, and the silver lining they found a loft pets also that have been missing. but, there is a loft destruction around here, it is going to take possibly weeks to clean it up. >> a loft prayers going out. thank you so much. >> well, speaking of the huge system, katie, saying that's going to move our way. >> slutly. >> quick moving? >> very much so, yes. >> severe weather so far often, it is here it, gone. thankfully not dealing with that kind of severe weather but certainly going to see the storm affect our area, in a significant way. looks like the first batch of wintery weather coming our

way. >> we to had to happen. >> at some point, yes, you have to go into the northern counties for there is phillie not going to see it, strictly rain for us hooker in the city most of the rest of the region but i do want to take you out and show you the storm we were just talking about, yes, very nasty looking storm nasty because so well organized with that a loft power, a lot of strength to it, and again, eventually it will be headed our way. at the moment, though, no problems. we really just have couple of clouds overhead, scat nerds nature at this point generally what the hole dray bridges, but later tonight at 7:00 p.m. tonight, in fact, winter weather advisory will tai evening fit berks, carbon monroe counties for our area, and then everywhere else off to the west and north of. that will so philadelphia, clearly not included there. neither are even the outlying suburbs, just surrounding the city but not only in the poconos but again lehigh valley region, watch for this to start off, you know, with some snow and sleet. generally though it looks like it is late tonight that the bulk of the moisture gets here. as temperatures fall below freezing, going to likely run

into icy spots, it will slow you down certainly, have to use caution, traveling that i80 interchange for example, we look forward in the nor cast just for at least for now, things are staying pretty quiet. staying somewhat steady on the thermometer err mid 40's generally for the shore points, in philadelphia, at best for daytime highs. it is a lot colder by comparison, how much, and high meisha, there you are, like i dream of gently for second,. >> going to stick with the clouds but eventually as we said we'll see the wet weather build in everywhere, little icy we think the further north you go. >> thanks, yes, just thinking, that because we are getting so much colder now, the rain moves, in recall i morning commutes will be affected the. roadways are nice and dry, but i will stay for monday morning it is looking pretty busy. a lot of people headed back to work today for sure. this is where we had an accident, all clear, south philly, schuylkill eastbound

before passyunk, pulled all the way out blocking part of the right lane, that shoulder, police activity there. now as you can see it is all clear. but still moving in the eastbound direction on the schuylkill. you're looking pretty busy this morning, we have disable vehicle here pulled to the right shoulder 95 south at cottman, now it is pulled all the way off to the right shoulder blocking slightly part of the right lane, not causing too many slow downs, but specially here, 59 south at cottman, certainly will. when you look at this see just the steady flow of vehicles already. so it is getting busy there, 59 southbound at cottman we know it will be. the boulevard also moving in the southbound direction,. >> so early travelers out there morning, worlds of mass transit, media elwin line boarding from the inbound platforms between 49th street and second cane from 9:05 until 2:30 because every some wire work. made note of that. check your schedules on line. >> 5:35, in business news this morning, traders are headed back to work today for another

abbreviated week on wall street. money watch's jill wagner joins us up in new york with your business headlines for you. good morning. >> thursday lost 50-point, nasdaq up two. gift for the holidays at the gas pump. triple a says the national average now 1995-gallon. that is the lowest for the year and holidays since 2008. verizon and sprint custom verse until december 31, thursday, to claim refunds related to settlement with the fcc over cramming. both carriers agreed pay $158 million to settle claims that they were billing customers millions of dollars for things like horoscopes and sports scores, without their permission. because christmas is over, doesn't mean retailers want you to stop shopping. in fact the week you might finds the biggest discount up to 60% off specially for winter gear, because an unusually warm november and

december had fewer people in the mood to buy jackets and heavy sweater. >> good time to buy a coat, thanks, so much. 5:37. angry denial after al jazeer documentary claims some pro athlete used performance enhancing drugs. one of those athletes who is on the defensive right now phillies slugger ryan howard. "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabeo joins us now, at citizens bank park where howard has played his entire career, jan, good morning. >> taught rage to describe how the athletes are feeling this morning, as you mention, phillies first baseman ryan howard implicate in the this al jazeer report in response this morning vehemently denying allegations. take a look at this video. last night the phillies released this statement, in response to the al jazeer report reading in part ryan has spent his whole career with the phillies. and during that entire time has been extremely well contributor to our community.

we willfully cooperate with any investigation conducted by major league baseball. the report alleges that howard received performance enhancing drugs. the first baseman is mentioned right around the 35 minute mark. and the talk surroundings how alleged ped use impacted some of howard's top homerun producer seasons with the phillies. the issue though is that one of the key sources in this dock documentary, former pharmacist, charlie sly, has recanted his entire story. he's backtracked saying that his claims about supplying drugs to athletes were false and incorrect. other high profile athletes were named, as well, including denver broncos quarterback peyton manning. he had this to say. >> absolutely not, absolutely not, sick, discusting, makes me want to, you know, just -- can't said -- can't say it on tv emails me sick, makes me nurse. there are in shortcuts in the nfl. i have done it the long way,

the hard way, to insinuate anything otherwise is a complete and total joke, defemation, really ticks me off. >> reporter: back out here live at citizens bank park, again, howard also denying these allegations this morning, al-jazeera, however, standing by its reporting. live outside citizens bank park, in south philadelphia, jan carabeo, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> a loft questions still, thank you. >> fun trip to the playgrounds turns very frightening, a tree comes crashing down, nearly hitting a young girl, see how her father risks his life to protect her. >> and, there is no stopping the force of star wars. we have the word on the two new records, the box office hit, just smashed. >> ♪ >> former eagle coach is dancing after his team just made the playoffs. you have t see his lockerroom performance that caused his players to erupt in cheers, coming up.

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>> a train fire, third train fire in three months is now being investigated by authorities. the latest inches depth yesterday afternoon at the capetown rail station, at least five cars caught fire. no one inside the cars at the time, there were no injuries. a freight train caring more than 52,000 gallons of sulfuric acid derails in australia over the weekend. police say there are some minor leakage.

highly corrosive acid as well as december ill fuel. officials declared an emergency. no word on what cause that derailment. but there has been flooding in the area. >> and a massive wild fire in southern california is now about 75% contained. the flames ignited on christmas, strong winds blew down power line north of los angeles. nearly 100 people who were evacuated are now starting to return to their homes. authorities say the new concern is a landslide if rain decides to pound the strong hills. strong winds bring down huge tree at playground, young father had only second to react. he is in the hospital recovering this morning after throwing himself in front every his daughter to protect her from a tumbling tree. random -- brandon lewis has that story. >> crews spent more than two hours working to remove this tree that fell on a man at big rock park, witnesses say his five year old daughter was playing, near the slide, when it gave way. >> it was really quiet and really fast. so, that was the one thing

that i kept thinking if it had happened, how quickly could you move a which from it, obviously had no time, didn't even hear it happen. >> those who saw the aftermath say he was talking, and alert, until firefighters arrive and quickly removed the tree from him. >> i mean, as a father, you always want to make sure your kids are safe first and for most, for me, had it been my same thing, i would have done the same thing in his situation. >> the man's daughter suffered minor injuries from being pushed out of the way. firefighters describe the man's injuries as mild. the wind was blamed for toppling the tree, blowing at about 20 to 25 miles an hour at the time. but, this was the only tree that fell. >> i think that really is the key thing is in these kind of situations where there is high wind, just to be observe and the as parents, be aware there is potential, these people are fortunate that there wasn't more significant injuries. >> that was brandon lewis reporting. clean up crews did shutdown that playground while they

removed the tree. >> want to talk more about this extreme weather finally feeling cold temperatures today, kate. >> i finally r we will check in with weather watch nervous satisfaction we start things offer with a look at storm scan3, at the moment, very, very quiet. we do have couple every clouds overhead. but it is a cold start to the morning that we have seen recently. so let's go ahead, check in with the watch earls, see how we're doing here, temperatures chilly. right now into the 30's, up across portions of the poconos, up in sailors berg reporting a lot of clouds at this point, and did he say that it is colder for him than it was yesterday, this same time so advising to be stay warm. whether it means grab the heavier coat or staying un the covers, whatever you can get away with go for it here. we go to one further south here, 36 degrees comes into us from john, he, too, seeing nothing more than couple every cloud much like what we saw on the satelite perkasie, take it little further south falling, william powell 41 degrees in

woodbine, and again nothing more than a handful of cloud. we go back to storm scan, that's where we find this really large very substantial storm system. you got all of the pretty colors on the map available here, that so often can mean the storm itself is a monster. and that's basically what we've got. you have got snow. you have got very well defined center of circulation. that's actually going to scoot off to the northeast of us, so we should not have to deal with the actual storm center. but the warmfront lifts in later on today and tonight, and that's what is going toned up bringing our next wet weather chance. moisture being drawn in with this, it means we will also see very heavy rain. now, this is important, notice your time stamp. isn't until midnight tonight. remember this is a model that could start to build in sooner but generally overnight tonight we see wet weather building into our region. notice what happens though. there is very well defined cut off here. you will likely see freezing rain, snow, before it begins to turn over from south to

north to straight up rain. because it is going to just turn too warm for. that but notice how heff think rain s this is 5:00 a.m. tomorrow. about this same time tomorrow storm scan's going to be lit up like christmas tree. looks like very heavy rain to dodge, as women, so this will slow us down. but, of course it, makes the headline the fact that we are going to see our first shot for wet weather or wintery weather i should say as we head into tomorrow. finally for the season, then all out of here come say afternoon evening rush, should be good-bye that point, a.m. drive definitely the most many passion dollars here, temperatures going on uphill climb to 58 degrees tomorrow because again it is a warmfront. but we are going to cool back down and as we ring in the new year friday, 44 degrees, far more seasonable for the standards, should see sunshine as well as we kick off 2016. meisha, over to you. >> katie, sound like we just have to get through tomorrow freezing rain certainly nothing that anyone wants to talk about specially in the traffic department. so tomorrow morning, it is going to be slick, it will be wet, right now, though, on this monday morning, looking busy, good thing the roadways

are nice and dry, this is where we have disable vehicle pulled off all the way out to the right shoulder. fifty-nine southbound at cottman, not cause being too many slow downs, not blocking any majors lanes, but will cause slow downs, gaper delays, all vehicles passing by putting on the breaks, will leave trickle effectment 95 southbound at cottman give yourself extra time. we always say that even if we don't have an incident out there. schuylkill eastbound at montgomery being looking pretty good eastbound and westbound, looking pretty good. things starting to heat up right now. delaware county 95 north at 452, looking good, as you car that i all the way up northbound toward the airport, looking good, looking just like this all the way up there. by the way at the airport no major delays right now which is also looking pretty good there. aramingo avenue to ramp 95 southbound closed until september. girard avenue onramp there, 959 south to onramp, from betsy ross closed also until

september. so use this alternate, girard avenue ram top southbound 95. a lot of construction still in place, and it will be lingering with us for quite some time. erika, back over to you. >> thank you. the flyers are fighting for a spot in the playoffs fighting their way through their latest road trip. last night against the ducks, anaheim referees called 40 minutes in penalties in just the first period, 21 of them against the flyers. at one point, five flyers in the penalty box, quite crowd in the there. once the fighting stopped the bucks beat the flyers four-two,. former eagles coach, andy reid, and his kansas city chiefs are he had had dollars to the playoffs, and and is he celebrating in style. >> showing off business dance moving in the lockerroom after the chiefs won their ninth straight game yesterday. that move is apparently called the dab. it was pioneered by labron james, cam newton and some other stars, it was andy ' way

of saying his chiefs are in the dance. >> coming up next, taking a look at some of the biggest stories entertainment in 2015. we'll be right back.

>> looks like no stopping the force every star wars. >> the force awakens dominated the box office for the second straight weekends it, became the fastest movie ever to reach the 1 billion-dollar mark world-wide needing just 12 days in theatres. the movie also smashed jurassic world record for the best ever second weekend by earning more than $153 million. the will ferrell mark wahlberg was dis tanned seconds with nearly $39 billion. joy, sisters, anal vin the chipmunks, road chip rounded out top five. >> the force awakens wasn't the only big story in the entertainment worlds this year, from changing of the guards on late night to adel's smashing records with the simple hello. suzanne mark quest has the word on the year in entertainment. >> olympic athlete turned

reality tv star bruce jenner became kit lynn jener. >> it is about all of us so many one another. >> charlie sheen revealed he has the aids virus. >> i'm here to admit that i am in fact h iv-positive. >> she had say diagnosed four years ago around the time he was fired from the hit cbs citcom, two and a half men, for his err rad i can behavior. more than 50 women came forward with sexual abuse allegations against bill cosby, cosby denies the allegations. ben afleck and jennifer garner broke up after ten years of marriage. stefan i, and gavin called it quit, but rebounded with a romance from blake sheldon who spit from his wife miranda lambert. jennifer aniston, kammerer aniston, sophia, all got married. kim kardashian and kanye west welcomed their second child and sandra bullock adopted her second. jennifer laurence became the

highest paid actress, but criticized hollywood for still paying her mail co-stars more. turn your weapons. she also wrapped up the final installment of the hunger game series. viola davis became the first african-american to win an emmy for best actress in a drama. anibal rena misty copeland became the first female principal dancer with the american ballet theater. the smash hit musical hamilton brought hip hop to broadway, with a multi-racial cast, performing the live of founding father, alexander hamilton. taylor swift took on apple over not paying artists during a three month free trial streaming service and won. and adele's long awaited third albumn 25 became the top selling a.m. bumm of the year in it first week. david letterman sign off after 33 years of late night

television. >> thank you for everything. you have given me everything. stephen colbert took over as host of the late show. and a blast from the past, broke box office records. members of the original cast of star wars reunited for episode seven the force awakens. >> suzanne marquez, for cbs-3, "eyewitness news". busy year. coming up in the next hour of "eyewitness news", we go back to texas for live look at the damage left behind from several deadly tornados. >> then, imagine stepping off an airplane, to this? we'll tell but one major airport's major milestone. >> and live look at center city from the cbs-3 studios, for a big cool down if you like the heat the last couple of days. got bad news for you. katie has winter weather advisory for one area. katie has your forecast when we come right back.

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>> good morning, utter devestation, residents in texas left to pick up the pieces after deadly tornados tear through the south. that's not the only wild weather hitting lone star state either. here in our area, temperatures are tumbling. it will feel a lot more like winter out here. grab the heavy coat. "eyewitness news" cameras out overnight near center city, and city hall.

where people absolutely bundle up. storm scan3 here shows that system moving toward us, part of the area will be under a winter weather advisory, good morning, it is monday, december 28th, i'm erika von tiehl. we check in with katie and meisha a absolutely you needed to bundle up coming into work today? >> so true. >> yes, few leaky could have had hat, mittens, i feel like i just got little spoiled. that's why. >> we all did. for sure. you know, talking 70s, even still, in the month of december, it just doesn't happen. so, yes, you know, the perception that far can lead to you maybe be a little more sensitive when the thermometer actually gets too typical for a change, focus once more what's going on with the storm system as we mentioned, this has been deay batch of severe weather loop here of the radar, tornados have swept through, brought numerous damage reports where we saw