from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia, this is cbs3 "eyewitness news" a police officer ambushed on the job leads to an emergency meeting in the neighborhood where he was nearly killed. local muslims say after the shooting suspect told police he was acting in the name of islam. >> get ready for a nice little weekend of warmup. looking outside right now, live picture. nice day. >> but it does come with a catch. >> focus on today and 52 degrees. nice way to start your weekend. >> exactly for january. >> that's the thing. 12 full degrees above average. i say we take it and enjoy it. comes with the price of a storm coming but it comes with, i

would say the best timing possible. late tonight. basically gone by tomorrow morning. out partying the night away. >> that's where i'll be. >> really looks as though this couldn't be so much worse than it's going to be. the other thing it's january and we're only talking about rain. that's kind of cool too. let's start things off again. we'll show you first and foremost a view of the live neighborhood network but little cloudy but you can see the city's sky escape at palmyra cove nature park, let's go next to stormscan 3 which is empty at this point. a few higher clouds beginning to build in but the storm is long away way away. blossoming through the deep south, we got time to kill. i believe you're going to start off with sunshine, eventually rebound to low 50's courtesy of a warm front but with time, more clouds lifting in and eventually a sign of things to come, rain starts to build in, by 7:00, looks like we're still dry, we

should get you through that typical morning drive without a hitch. rain then comes later on tonight. it's still out there tomorrow morning, then starts to clear out. this isn't a bad weekend forecast. we still flirt with 50 tomorrow and we're still actually going to be in the re 30's sunday. that's a colder day obviously, but typical one at that. normal high again is 40, we'll hit 39 out there and then come sunday again there will be a few more clouds move in. but even colder weather in time as we head to early next week. enjoy the break while you got it. it's going to be, call meisha a pretty nice day all things considered. >> sounds like it 49, 50, 49 tomorrow, we'll take it. take a look outside. here's a representative shot from mobile three. 202 northbound. kind of past the schuylkill you can see moving right alonging what i love about this shot giving you a live picture number one, love that. also, the roadways, you can see they're just nice and dry after

a week like we've had, very cold, we were dealing with, some black ice out there that really caused problems for us earlier on in the week, we go outside and look at these dry roadways. know it's going to be 50. that is a great start to our friday. i feel like i was driving just there. accident 202 northbound off-ramp to the accident. good news is, you got a lot of flashing lights, the ramp closed, one lane of traffic is open. you are being able to scoot by. as a looking at this over the past hour or so, slowly volume levels starting to build kind of around this area if you tap your brakes, overall as long as that gets out of our way moving closer to 6:00, not going to pose too much of an issue. this is a look at the boulevard both directs. looking pretty good. looking nice and quiet. moving into the 6:00. also we have another accident in hunting park. fifth street closed, hunting park avenue you want to use an alternate. luzerne will be it for now. back over to you. >> thanks one week after the ambush of a philadelphia police officer

neighbors hold a community meeting in cobbs creek. >> eyewitness reporter david spunt was there ctonight is about terrorism unfortunately. that's what this is about. >> reporter: more than 200 angry and concerned west philadelphia neighbors packed the brian school to talk about what happened one week ago just a few blocks away. >> i'm shot, i'm bleeding heavily. >> jesse hartnett was ambushed and shot several times and authorities are confident edward archer pulled the trigger, not once or wise, but more than a dozen times. hartnett took three shots to the arm, archer confessed to the shooting in the name of isis and islam. >> i've been in this city as a muslim 40 years. it does not reflect the characteristics of the muslims here. >> reporter: he was just one of dozens of proud muslims who came out to show support for

philadelphia police officers, many who were on stage. >> islam itself is peace if you will. it's certain people within islam that can make it hard for others. >> reporter: the fbi is the lead on the case's the bureau's director james comey spend time with officer hartnett in the hospital before briefing local authorities. >> we, to fbi leveling through our joint terrorism task force are investigating that attack as a terrorist attack. >> reporter: comey skipped specifics but he said he doesn't believe archer is part of a larger cell. he's still cautious. philadelphia police commissioner richard ross on the job just over a week, spent time with officer hartnett in the morning. >> every day he's getting a logical better but he's got a lot of recovery ahead of him. >> reporter: according to fbi, archer traveled to egypt and saudi arabia within the last five years, something authorities and neighbors want to learn more about. >>. >> this guy does not represent us. >> reporter: archer is behind bars this morning, he has a

preliminary hearing scheduled for van 25th. last night at that community meeting, dozens of people continued to wish officer hartnett a speedy recovery. reporting at police headquarters. david spunt cbs3 "eyewitness news" authorities arrest three people in connection with yesterday's deadly terror attack in ja/k/a rta and discover avar isis flag, they say two of the them served time on terror charges, at least two people were killed, 20 others hurt when militants attacked a star bucks and a police booth. joe biden is headed to philadelphia as part of his new role in speeding up the fight against cancer. this afternoon he's be at the university school of medicineful during tuesday state of the union address, president obama so-called for moon shot battle to fight the disease. >> because he's going to the mat for all of us on so many issues over the past 40 year, i'm

putting joe in charge of mission control. for the loved ones we've all lost. for families that we can still save let's make america the country that cures cancer once and for all. >> the fight against cancer is, of course, personal for the vice president. last year he lost his son, former delaware attorney general beau by end to brain cancer. 5:37. checking on business news. brace yourself, we're talking about a chocolate shortage. we need more information. it's been a rough week. money watch jill wagner joins us live from the new york stock exchange. you're just full of bad news, jill. >> i know. >> i'm so sorry --. >> don't shoot the messenger. yes, chinese stocks in a bear market now. the shanghai composite fell again today, down 20 percent from recent highs. worry about china's economy that sent u.s. markets into a free

fall. but there was a rebound, dow jumped 227, nasdaq up 89. on to that bad news theme we're going with, futures are pointing to a much lower open today. we'll see what today brings. goldman sacks has agreed to pay $5 billion to settle claims to stem from morgan back security that led to the housing bubble and financial crisis. amazon lowering the price of it's prime service from $99 a year to $73 for new members. the promotion is to celebrate it's two wins for mozart in the jungle at the 73rd annual golden globe. this is what you guys were just mentioning. not so sweet news. world could be headed for a chocolate shortage. demand is up. especially in asia. coke company growers are struggling to meet it. down because of factors like rough weather and a deceased

crop. prices have jumped nearly 40 percent in three years. this one hurts. >> that's unacceptable, jill. the waiting game continues for the three big winners of the record setting power ball jackpot. california accepted a $1 million check for selling one of that he is winning tickets. the other two were sold in florida and tennessee. all three winners will split the $1.5 billion jackpot. three stores if pennsylvania sold million dollar tickets matching all five fobs a ticket sold at a wawa in new jersey also matched all five but that person's win chose to double the prize, so the $1 million becomes $2 million because they added that multiplier. >> there you go. it's talk of town here in philadelphia. reports that the eagles have found their new headcoach, former eagles quarterback doug pederson will take over for chip

kelly. they can't announce the deal until the kansas chiefs finish. the voice of the eagles merle reese pederson including his experience. >> during his 11 game winning streak by the chief he's been the principal play caller for the chiefs. he's a quality guy and should be well qualified for this job. now, you never really know on when a man makes a position change. when he transitions from being a coordinator or in andy reid's case from a quarterback coach to a headcoach, you don't really know how it's going to work out. you hope it works out well. a lot will depend on the staff that he brings. >> as you can imagine, a lot of people talking about the eagles plans to hire doug pederson former quarterback donovan mcnabb who was team mates with pederson in 99. congrats for becoming the headcoach of the eagles. welcome back, doug and good

luck. another one from brian westbrook who played for the birds when pederson was an assistant coach added on twitter. happy for doug, very good guy. as for the fans the veterans day is still out. not so sure about that. willie said doug pederson sure doug pederson surely he can't make as bad decisions as chip kelly. another one, honestly, you can say i'm excited about doug pederson being hired. i'm a happy camper. positive one. that's good news. one more i got faith in pederson just give us a franchise qb. join the conversation, let us know what you think about the new coach, you don't say the #cbs3. didn't take chip a long to find a new job. kelly landed on his feet as the san francisco 49ers new headcoach. have to wait a year but kelly and the 49ers are scheduled to

philadelphia in the 2017 season. of course, that homecoming will be interesting. erika. >> whole lot of changes still ahead the national zoo newest panda makes it's first public appearance, it is bei bei's debut, we'll show you how he's getting ready. >> i see all these muscle cars but i don't see no muscles. >> philly's own kevin heart goes for another ride along this weekend. hear what he says about the chemistry he has with his co-star. ♪ . news for janet jackson fanss. the singer is heading back on road after a health scare. let's listen to a little more janet during the break.

we've got good news, panda cub bei bei make his debut. he'll head outside tomorrow with the rest of his panda family. the national zoo newest giant panda, looks pretty big. bei bei been inside since his berth but he has been keeping busy.

>> sleep, little bit of play, wandering around chasing his mother and eating. that's pretty much what he's doing. >> that little ball of fur taken dc by storm. bei bei hey, it's pretty strong, about five and a half million views so far on the 24 panda cam. panda watch is doing well. >> social game is doing strong. he's a popular guy. >> he's too cute for words. >> talking about a hurricane still, katie. >> this is what's so bizarre. we have a hurricane in the open waters of the atlantic in january. this does not happen that often. it has happened in years past, but very, very rarely. let's go ahead and that i can what's going on with this. it is now the first name system of the year. hurricane alex still currently a category one hurricane and with sustained wind speeds of 75 miles per hour, meets that threshold to qualify to be a hurricane. eventually, it will run into

colder water and maybe take a left-hand turn, let's see if this becomes an jib, however, it is out there and that is the bigger story more than anything. this is, again, such a rarity to find a storm system in the tropics, developed like. it is the first hurricane to form in january since 1938 but also the first to occur in the month since alice of 1955. alice formed in december of 1954 and then continued into new year, but again, a rarity obviously since you're talking a one in 60 year event or so. meanwhile stormscan 3 has activity of it's own to report. a lot of moisture currently lifting in from deep south. for now, we're nice and quiet at home. we'll check in with our eyewitness weather watchers, a lot of reports coming in to us from the watcher, you're finding temperature values into the 20's. cary checks from in from mt. laurel at 26, barbara willow

grove 26. 32 from bath pa, it's actually a little bit milder oddly enough and 32 in clementon. you see the list goes on. you got generally 20's, low 30's to report. let's quickly check in with our eyewitness weather watcher, weather seven-day forecast, piled day, rain tonight and early tomorrow morning. then we're back into the deep freeze next week. meisha? >> look at this, it's almost like we are playing a video game. no it's not. but i'm going to show you what i mean by that coming up in a little bit. what i'm going to show you we have an accident out there 202 northbound. the off-ramp to the schuylkill one lane open. now, that ramp was closed. one lane is now open. totally workable. as you can see all these flashing lights behind me, a good indicator to it is going to slow down in our 6:00 hour if we don't get that out of our way. what we can see are travelers getting by pretty much without any major hick ups yet. we could see that change coming

up soon. 95 south past allegheny avenue looking good. still traveling at posted speedsful we just have a lot of headlights out there. we do have an accident investigating involving a pedestrian. this is something i want to pull your attention to because 5th street is closed right now at hunting park avenue. you're going to have to use an alternate in this area, luzerne avenue is probably what i would say is probably going to be your best bet right now. also an accident involving a, route 309 southbound at route 563, west rock hill. whenever we have, we know we're going to have a lot of flashing lights. erika back over to you. >> thank you. janet jackson getting ready to hit the road after a health scare. she'll be in philly at the wells fargo center seven months on august 24th. the 49-year-old singer i was forced to postpone her north american tour last month after she had an unexpected surgery last month. phillies own kevin heart is

on the big screen with more loafs. kevin fraser from entertainment tonight takes look at new movies that could. >> this week kevin heart and ice cube reunite to bring down the bad guys and bond a little bit more and ride along too, and michael beg brings the recent real life events from libia to the big screen me 13 hours the secret soldiers of benghazi. >> benghazi is under attack. we need immediate assistance. >> secret soldiers of benghazi tells the previously unknown story of the security team on the ground in libia in 2012 that risked everything to do what they could to save 36 american lives. while michael bay brings the action, it's the human part of the story that brought on stars like john. >> this six heros put their lives on the line. to me, what connected me to the movie was it's the true definition of heroism to do right thing at all costs even if that is the most stream. >> none of you have to go. we're the only hope they have. >> the brothers just got to

town. >> say to again i'm going to shoot you in the face. >> kevin heart team up again, this time to take down miami drug dealers, just where they become actual brothers in law. >> dynamic duo you see on screen place out in real life too. >> it's fun, always hilarious, always spontaneous. we got great chemistry, and, you know, a real -- we best friends forever. >> that's not true. >> we best friends for now. we best friends while we doing this promo. >> we best friends. >> you know, you can't -- you cannot not have fun with this dude. >> for entertainment tonight i'm kevin fraser back to you in the studio. >> force of habit. well we all do it. a football player learns an important lesson from first graders. >> see how the worst moment of the player's career brought them

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. great story a young philadelphia girl earned a trip to san francisco for the super bowl all because of her reward winning idea. she's a seamark cookie. >> ciara is an eight grader.

created an ap that tackle health issues. gives points and rewards based on competitions and challenges and her ap was picked venn she do the a huge prize. >> i have $11,000 total if grant money to build the ap and an all expenses paid trip to the super bowl. i really wanted to make kids aware of the need to be healthy and the need to have physical activities. >> she's a future doctor. just something brilliant in her future. before the big game, she'll meet with mentors to help her design the future of her ap. just love to see this. of course, you can see super bowl 50 on our sister station on cbs3 on february 7th. the minnesota vikings kicker who missed a game winning field goal last week is learning a little something from young school children, blare ross signed i was the graphs and posed for pictures. his missed 27-year-old field goal caused the vikings their

game against the seahawks. he fell bad he missed the kick. >> that was the winning game field goal, and would have paid them go into the playoff. >> it's a card very touching to me. you guys are willing to do that, say such nice things. creative, i really appreciate it. >> very nice. the first graders were learninging about empathy, that's what prompted the class to write the letter. coming up the next hour, "eyewitness news", we have new rivals to our region, but they're feel, you might say a little blue. >> penguins are the smallist species ranger in wait from about two to three pounds, 13 to 15 inches. very small >> very small and cute, little blue penguins will be wad link in our area. katie is taking us for a tour in

their little home. >> more on that w after trying brookside chocolate, people talk about it online. love at first taste. i would liquefy it and bathe in it. curse you, brookside! your nefarious plans have succeeded. nefarious? are we still talking about chocolate? brookside. talk about delicious.

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cure cancer. we're going to learn the details of his visit and on you he plans to fight that disease that took the life of his son. eagles choose a new headcoach, a lot of fans we spoke with say they're surprised by the choice. we're talking about doug pederson this morning. we want your opinion, let us know what you think.g. >> it's friday, january 15th. good morning. glowed you're with us i'm erika von tiehl. >> i'm nicole brewer. >> good morning. feels a lot better the roadways are looking fe. we've had a couple accidents. they're getting cleaned. we made it to the end our work week and it's going to be 50's. >> we're going to warm up nicely up there. comes courtesy of a warm front lifting in but you tend to have side effects that come with that. we don't necessarily expect full bright sunshine all day. you're going to start to see clouds eventually building with time, but