walt hunter is in media where hundreds are expected to show up, to get their hand off a piece of history, walt. >> well, jessica why would there be crowds at a closed restaurant? it is not for the meals? it is for the memories. this weekend, the at an auction like none other in the history of delaware county, right here at the town house restaurant we got a sneak peak at the the things that people who dine here for generations, hepp to be taking with them for memories. what would that be? >> it is actually the pedal car, a child's pedal car but in the form of the airplane. >> reporter: veterans auctioneer john turner told me he often asked himself what is that as he went room to room for an entire month, trying somehow you to catalogue and comprehend the the thousands of items that filled the the now closed, town house restaurant, in media. >> a lot of signs, a lot of pictures, a lot of, you know, lighting, signs, phones,

lamps, stop light, you know, bar opened, bar closed. >> spent too much time at the bar. >> yeah, time has expired. >> reporter: he and his wife started the town hawes in the town house in 1951, as big grew, surprise diners, decade after decade looked at their menus to see more a and more things. >> it took on a life of its own, that is for sure. >> reporter: yes, that is a a real donkey at the bar, but the the other pictures, hundreds of them, explain why this restaurant did more than just feed the stomachs of customers. it nourished their hearts. >> in high school, class of 67, media high, class of 41. >> reporter: they have always had room to hang another picture of a reunion, wedding, special moment, precious memories that make the town house a precious place. >> it is a living museum. well, not living anymore.

>> reporter: kitchen's silent now, bar covered with tagged pieces ready to be auctioned off but long before that gavel bangs down this weekend, many who smiled and celebrated here of have already asked in every way that they could to save a little piece of this special place for themselves. >> just look at this stuff, that he gathered over the years. there is something here for everybody. you were one of the best you ever had. >> and tim, told me that the great thing about the town house with all those items overhead if the conversation ever lagged you would just look up abe say what is that? suddenly everybody would be with talking again. live from the the town house i'm walt hunter, cws3 "eyewitness news". >> precious memories for sure, walt, thank you. turning to weather another mild winter day leaving our witter start to the week in the rear-view mirror. meteorologist kate bilo is in the the weather center with i a check of the forecast. >> twenty years ago today big memories were created weather-wise here in

philadelphia we will talk about that more in ten minutes with our full forecast. the lets start off with is what happening right now here at home? what happened 20 years ago today. storm scan three shows no weather history made here tonight, it is a seasonal, thursday night, across the area for relevant i january but this system, will bring some changes as we head into the the weekend, for now we are seeing cloud cover, actually temperatures rising. we have hit our daytime high of 45 degrees in philadelphia a43 wilmington. thirty-nine in allentown. 44 degrees in millville, it is 36 in lancaster. the pretty comfortable, clouds keeping us milder, then previous nights certainly. cold monday night, tuesday night and we just have been climbing all week long. high no better then freezing. yesterday we hit 40. today 45. we are sitting there right new. tomorrow in the upper 40's again and then headed for 50's and even 60 degrees over the weekend but before you break out flip-flops and start making plans to have barbecue in the backyard temperatures do sore for weekend and make

some indoor plans maybe check out a movie, i will tell you why that is and when heavier rain will impact our area with the full forecast. the jessica, back over to you. tonight police are investigating a case of vandalism a at a camden county church. "eyewitness news" reporter cleve bryan is in lindenwald with the look at the damage. >> terrible thing to wreck a house of god. >> reporter: lindenwald police are looking for a person who lashed out in the sanctuary of st. lawrence church on wednesday. he or she smashed half dozen stained glass windows with prayer candles, knocked down papal flag and easter candle and took the the cross off the alter and threw it to the ground. >> for someone or for whoever to do this to this parish, is there no words to describe. >> revenge maybe on the church or somebody in the church. >> reporter: police say nothing was stolen and they have to consider the the possibility of the hate crime. based on when a parishioner discovered the destruction authorities believe the vandalism happened between

11:30 and noon. so far surrounding businesses on the white horse pike has not produced surveillance video of the suspect but there is one clue. >> we did manage to grab a couple of laden fingerprints from the scene which will be forwarded to the state the police lab. >> reporter: father joseph capela says regardless of why a person did that he would like to pray with him or here. >> to see what is going on and is what bothering them because obviously they are angry and they are in pain. so we feel badly for them. >> reporter: stained glass windows date back to the 1950 ease and the the father a says they will be expensive and difficult to replace but already some parishioners are coming forward wanting to donate money. in lindenwald, cleve bryan for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". authorities hope new surveillance video will help them track down a gunman who shot a 57 year-old woman in the face on new years eve. gunman was driving a silver and white nissan maxima in tacony. officers say that the suspect who took the woman's handbag and then shot her as she walk home with her groceries, on er

dick street. the mother is recovering and not holding back when describing the suspect as actions. >> cowardly, i would say. in broad daylight, this is something that hopefully this guy is off of the streets and it doesn't have to happen to anybody else. >> anyone with any information about this suspect is asked to cat philadelphia a police. it is a rough start to the new year on wall street, markets closed after a third day of triple digit declients. ongoing turmoil within the chinese market is, fueling the volatility, and there is concern about a down turn in china's economy and whether that weekness could have a domino effect. dow jones closed down 392 points closing at 16,514. nasdaq was down almost 150 points and s and p dropped 47 points. the power ball jackpot

though has now grown to 700 million-dollar, and it could grow even more by the the next drawing on the saturday. >> nobody won 524 million-dollar jackpot last night, however, in new jersey, seven, third prize winning tickets were sold that matched four white balls and the power ball, two of those tickets worth $50,000 were sold in our area one in burlington township, the other in williamstown. just in case you have got one here's another chance to check those tickets. the the winning number in last night's drawing are two, 11, 47, 62, 63, and the power ball number was 17. only two players got the in the baseball hall of fame this year and one is from phoenixville. >> don bellies here now with more on a bit a local who made it big, big, big. >> local pride for sure. 365 votes and it is official, mike piazza is now a baseball hall of famer. twelve time all-star got his start right there in our area,

he was a first base man at phoenixville high school before going on to have an incredible career with the dodgers and mets. he is universally considered the greatest hitting catcher in baseball history, 427 home runs, phoenixville's current coach and piazza's former coach both say his best quality is his work ethic. >> lowest draft pick ever to make the hall of fame is an unbelievable feat and once you know mike it understands that it the takes that work it particular put you over the top. >> whatever it took he got it done, decision making for him, both on and off the field were easy for him because, he had a goal, in mind and values that he placed on what he wanted to achieve is what makes him so remarkable. >> so cool, piazza will go in the the hall as a dodge error mets? we will hear from mike plus latest on the eagles coaching search later in sports. you heard coach he was lowest

draft pick to make tonight hall. 1,390 player selected in 1988. they don't have that many round anymore. >> how about that. >> that is incredible. >> true that hard work is tried and true, in this case, it can pay off. >> good stuff. >> thanks, buddy, appreciate it. speaking of baseball stars lucky students had a great tart to the new year with a phillies, fantastic surprise, that is where "eyewitness news" was at st. francis xavier elementary school as the team kick off their be a fanatic about reading program. more than 10,000 local students took part in the program which encourages them to read for at least 15 minutes a day. he is the the best. >> yes. >> where is the beef? still to come on "eyewitness news" the the cheese stake that is missing a key ingredient, in cooking things up in philly. we will have it the for you. sight is a and sound of

the slopes, we will look at the poconos, popular resort that is finally covered in snow, kate. but will it be snow covered for long? we have a warm up on the way as we head in the weekend and this system will bring us some rain, we will tell you how long warmth will last and when cold returns in time to make more snow for poconos coming up with the seven day when we come right back.

pat's steaks offered up a stake of a different sort. >> they were making veggie cheese steaks all for a good cause inside the sandwich, sauteed broccoli robb, led onions, man go, lime juice and egg and cheese. the proceed from the sandwich goes towards ovarian cancer research. the cause chosen by the creator of the sandwich. >> my sister, passed away from ovarian cancer. her name was claire betz brooklyn nine years ago and this was a a cause very special to her heart. >> you'll see more unique sandwiches like this at the pennsylvania path's. every couple week they are inviting a chef to come in and create their own version of the cheese stake. >> very nice, very, very nice. >> delicious looking. >> it is. >> well, a come back, at

cammal back, popular ski resort opened up for business today, finally ready for skiers and snow borders. >> eye witt the necessary news photo journalist adam fox headed for the slopes for sights and sound of winter fun. >> grand relaunch of winter. so we're excited just to have the ability to bring winter to people. you look in the backyard there is no snow and not thinking bit. it has been summer up until a week ago and it is january 9th. >> we like to say amount of snow guns we have we can cover the the brooklyn bridge a foot deep in under 24 hours. >> thirteen of our 34 trails will be opened this weekend. >> well, i see a lot of happy people coming up, on the ski lift, excited to shred some snow. the it is a sad looking out in the mountains and not seeing any snow from any snowstorms. this winter has been beyond

weird, and strange. >> super excited to be here. we're ready to crush the the mountains. >> hoping the winter stays cold, and not strange. it was kind of sad because places are blowing snow and everything was getting melted and new today is our first reopening and i think everybody is super excited because everyone has been lock up in their house and they are ready to play in the snow and have have winter fun and be a kid again. >> wow. >> nice. >> crush the mountain. >> i like that. >> you got crushed about 20 years ago. >> i don't remember that as i was a mere infant at the time. so maybe you cannery mind you. >> why did you laugh? >> try to sell it. >> i tried to sell it. y don't even know what i was. >> i was 13, i was out with my yardstick every hour with my graph paper charting how much

snow. >> yes. >> young weather geek on twitter, i had my graph paper and very happy with my graph paper but 20 years ago today, take a look maybe this will bring back some memories. maybe good memories. maybe not so good memories. we were joking about that starter jacket, that mid 90's right there i had a bills starter jacket. >> a bills. >> can i admit that? you can't get mad of me, blame my dad. i was out there in my starter jacket. we were sledding down the streets in our neighborhood. you could not go anywhere. the streets were completely covered. 30.7 inches of snow. look at these snowdrifts. snow was waist high in spots. the this is still biggest snowstorm in history. we had back to back snowstorms of over 20 inches or near 20 inches in 2009/2010 but this the gold standard of snow for so many people, and take a look at these snow amounts. the blizzard of 96, 20 to 30 inches in that dark blue

band for west virginia and virginia, right into our area. over 30 inches of snow again here in philadelphia a nothing like that so far this year. you cannot rule out this storm with this kind of a pattern. you get enough cold air and get storms that form in the gulf of mexico. you cannot rule it out, however we don't have anything like that in the forecast. 42 degrees at palmyra cove nature park and see how many more clouds are in the skies here tonight and we have been looking at this cameras every day this week. the beautiful sunset, not tonight. it is overcast outside. it is a all thanks to the system, the cloud off shore, that is moving away but as that moves out, this one moves n you can see moisture down in the gulf of mexico and does bring enough warm air that we're in the looking at repeat of the blizzard of 9620 years ago. we are looking at rain for the weekend. right now mild 45 at the a airport. forty-four in millville. thirty-nine in allentown. you can see how that warm air is starting to climb back in, cold earlier this week in the deep south and new we are back in the mid 50's as birmingham out, atlanta, charleston and

nashville and all that warm air will be climbing up the eastern seaboard, as that storm moves northward as well. so sun giving way to clouds, watch for a shower tomorrow night, cloudy, damp on saturday. not a total wash out but fog, showers, cloud, drizzle not the best day and saturday night into sunday that the heavier rain will move through. breaking it down timing wide friday night scattered showers. out and about tomorrow night you may need umbrella the a saturday fog, drizzle, be careful on the roads and steady rain saturday night into sunday morning. the gusty wind as well. overnight mainly cloudy, seasonal at 31 degrees. your friday clouds, some sun, shower possible, mainly under the the cover of the darkness overnight friday night into saturday morning. eyewitness weather seven day forecast has got everything in it except for snow, we don't have any snow in the forecast here but we have warm weather, 60 on sunday. full 20 degrees above average but then bottom falls out next week and we will get few reenforcing shots of cold air, we have got temperatures only in the 30's on monday, more

seasonal tuesday, but by thursday yet another blast comes in and high doesn't make it past freezing mark. little bit of everything except warm, sunny and we don't have cold and snowy. most people would pick one of those two things over warm, wet, cold and dry. >> fair enough. >> bills jacket, um. >> i knew you would come back to that. >> i was a glut even for punishment. >> you cannot get mad at a bills fans, we have years and years of heart break. i was 13. >> moving right along. >> thanks, kate. >> "cbs evening news" is just a few minutes away. >> scott pelley joins with us a look ahead. >> hi ukee and jessica. great to be with you in philadelphia here's the "cbs evening news" tonight. we will cover the the stock plunge today and volatile week for market all around the world. plus new government diet guidelines today that have have many people calling foul. and our continuing investigation into how some pharmacies are making millions

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roosevelt boulevard southbound is still closed after a head on crash near ridge avenue exit. police say a man was driving the wrong way when he hit another car. the the man then got out of his vehicle and jumped over a barrier. he is now hospitalized in critical condition, three other women were hurt there in stable condition, and we will take a live look now, that is the the backup, jam goes all the way past broad street, crews are working to get the wreck cleaned up, so the road can re-open, stay with us, we will continue to update you on cbs philly.com. don joins with us sports and eagles still looking for a new man in charge. >> we will talk about this until they get it done around the clock pretty much. hunt for the one continues, eagles have talked to three different guys about replacing chip kelly to day they made it

46789 bird report thely meeting with the giants offensive coordinator ben mcado he has been called into play for new york in two seasons. this season giants were top to in total yards and yard per play. eli manning perform a answer has improved in mcado's offense. but he does have odell beckham junior and that cannot hurt. the competitive sixers hosting the atlanta hawks tonight. they are three-three since trading for point guard ish smith. flyers are in minnesota, and they are looking for back to back wins for the first time in three weeks. mike piazza played 16 years in the business but his name will live on forever. piazza, what's electric in baseball hall of fame yesterday. he hit 427 career home runs, batting 308. he spent seven seasons with the dodgers but decided to go in a as a mets. >> i ended up in new york. i feel like the the fans here brought me into their family. every time i have come back i have been so incredibly

honored from the response, and unfortunately we do have to choose one and for me, i just always sort oven joyed reconnecting here in new york. >> philadelphia union make their first move of 2016, they are adding former new york winger walter, the 27 year-old played in 29 out of 30 games last season, scored three goals and 95 a assist as they went on to win the league. former union ceo nick has a new job, he was announced as commissioner of the national lacrosse league. the philadelphia wings will remember that league until they relocated in connecticut, in 2014. the wild and blue jackets last night scored the fastest two goals in nhl history. they scored to make it three-two. two seconds later, bang, through go, another goal. talk about a buzz kill. you think you are back in the game. and then empty netter. >> oh, my that was so quick.

>> do you remember mike pea as used to have those frosty tips. >> yes. >> he had his press conference with the hall of fame, he has frosty tips. brought them back. >> that would be bold. >> that would be bold. >> put that on his plaque. >> yes. >> forever. >> we will be right back. apparently, people think i'm too perky. so now i'm not being perky, telling you that drivers that switch to progressive save an average of $548! whoo! i mean, whoo. to twhat a good dealing looks like...

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