>> reporter: jessica, caught in traffic like the the expressway drivers, behind me here, who of us have not throughout of that opening lane, shoulder and maybe using it. if you do it now you'll get a ticket but in the future penndot says shoulders might be opened and we check out drivers on the expressway to see what they throughout about that idea. >> it is a pain in the neck, all the time to get there no matter what time of the day it is. >> reporter: we all hate schuylkill expressway jams but what if that tempting opened shoulder lane, where it is now illegal to drive, became a available, an oasis in the traffic desert. >> i think it would be great. >> if it works, well, it was consistently there, it is always a good thing. >> reporter: take heart suffering drivers, penndot is now studying permitting to us ride on the schuylkill expressway shoulders, between routes one and 202, for at least part of each day. >> it would be pretty nice.

the there is always a lot of traffic, and cleared things up a lot. >> reporter: don't try driving on those shoulders and winding up with a ticket for it, just yet, penndot says that the shoulders would need widening from eight to 10 feet to 12 feet, a big challenge since much of the schuylkill is tightly squeezed, between rock walls, and the river. >> for now if i'm talk in traffic i will just look longingly at that opened lane. >> that is right, i mean it is not for use right at this present time. >> reporter: so we will just to have wait, until we see if we can ride this schuylkill's shoulders, but then, waiting is nothing new for all of us, who brave the the expressway, every day. >> if we can expand that road in any possible way, it would be a good thing for the city. >> reporter: now in addition to possibly being able to ride on the shoulders here penndot also says that variable speed limits and high tech traffic monitoring are all part of the

study, when it will happen, sometime, in the future, but it is all intended to ease congestion. dare to dream. live from the schuylkill i'm walt hunter, for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> walt, thank you. we are following breaking news right now in the frankford section of northeast philadelphia a chopper three is live over a building collapse on the 2100 block of orthodox street. we are told second floor of the three story home partially collapsed. no injuries have been reported to us. it is unclear if the home was occupied, we will have more at cbs philly.com. it is warm by yan standard but soon it will be wet. meteorologists are tracking rain tonight. lauren casey in for kate outside on the sky deck what do you think those umbrellas coming in handy soon. >> thank goodness for warmer temperatures or we would be dealing with something other than rain but yes, a very mild winter day, temperatures helping in the 50's in philadelphia and still keeping it very mild, that cloud deck in place keeping temperatures stabilized. 50 degrees in philadelphia light southeasterly breeze,

near 50 down the the shore and at 36 in the poconos, but storm scan three is showing us what is on its way in and that is widespread rain and heavier rain at that in some areas, starting to push in now closer to the delaware beaches and as we head in the next couple of hours we will deal with that rain, moving on in so we will talk about the timing of that in the city and what we can expect rest of the overnight a few flakes possible as we head into sunday and then another bitter blast as we head into next week and we will have details and all this craziness coming up in a couple minutes. >> lauren, thank you. track rain with our meteorologists, you just need cbs philly weather app and down load it for freon itunes and google play. vice-president joe biden hopes that the country can once again accomplish something extraordinary. today in philadelphia a he launched a mission to find a cure to cancer. health reporter stephanie stahl is live at the university of pennsylvania, where he talked with cancer researchers, stephanie.

>> hi, yes, sir contact the the vice-president is running late. he is still upstairs, chatting, and shaking hand. he talk about how cancer has impact his family, and that he wants to speed up research, to space other families. the vice-president launched his moon shot mission to cure cancer with the tour through one of the research labs at penn's abramson cancer center and then round table discussion with doctors and researchers. >> the goal, whatever break throughs we can make in ten years my goal to make sure we can do tonight five years. my goal, it is that we have find absolute cures but for some cancers we get to the point where we can manage and they become chronic diseases. >> penn is one of the cutting edge places in the the country doing work on new cancer treatment. >> reporter: breast cans are patient ann backeract was part of the clinical trial at penn testing new clinical trial drugs. >> it work enormously well in

two treatments. >> reporter: she was able to attend her son's wedding bald from the experimental chemo but on the road to recovery. >> treatment has gotten much easier to tolerate and much more effective. >> reporter: labs at penn abramson cancer center are working on a variety of treatments including immuno therapy where cancer is killed by patient's reengineered immune system. >> we are beginning to see a few patients hoff been treated with such therapies really walking away from their cancer with durable remissions. >> reporter: vice-president's moon shot mission is aiming for more of that, and it follows death of his son beau present brain cancer. in announcing he wouldn't run for president joe biden said instead wow lead effort to cure cancer. >> cancer has a very personal impact on millions of americans, including the vice-president. >> reporter: it is estimated 1.7 million americans will be diagnosed with cancer this year and while survival rates are improving, the vice-president says that owe wants to ramp it up.

reporting live from penn, i'm stephanie stahl, for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> thank you for that. two alarm fire badly damages a home this lower gwynedd montgomery county. chopper three over wood view and canfor lanes with fire fighters on the scene. fire broke out just before 1:30, crews were able to contain the flames in about an hour. no one was hurt. no word on what caused the fire at this moment. twenty residents in burlington city, new jersey are displaced after a large fire ripped through a section of the row homes. three people, including two children suffered minor injuries. authorities say four homes were damage after the fire broke out at 5:30 this morning on the 300 block of st. mary's street. red cross is on the scene and helping the families no word as of yet on the the cause. elderly woman is hurt after her neighbor's car smashes through her home, this happened on colfax court in wilmington delaware this morning. police say 60 year-old driver bank in the garage the on the same block before plowing in another home, pinning a seven

three-year old woman under the car. victim was trapped for about a half an hour and may have broken two ankles. her neighbor was cited for reckless driving but police continue to inn rest gate that crash. philadelphia police need your help identifying the man in this sketch. this suspect is wanted for robbing and shooting an elderly woman in the face as she walk near the 7100 block of erdick street in tacony new years eve. the suspect was driving a white nissan maxima, and it was last seen, getting on i-95 headed toward bucks county. a $6,000 reward is now offered for information leading to an arrest. a philadelphia man has been ordered into a pretrial intervention program for hitting the dog, a pit bull mix named ruby with a baseball bat. forty-one year-old andrew wallace will participate in anger management and complete community services. he is also been ordered to pay $2,500 toward the dog's medical care. there are new developments in the border explosion at philadelphia elementary school

this week that critically injured a maintenance workers. schoolworkers part of the service employees international the union protested today at philadelphia a cool district headquarters. the union says the incident which injured one of their members is an example of unsafe conditions in schools, because of the deteriorating infrastructure. mayor kenney met with the union and district officials tonight, and, announced a task force that will be going around to look at school boilers and heaters. >> i think this is an opportunity, an example of how the city, school district, state, labor everyone can work together to address the problem that is clearly there. >> the maintenance workers was injured wednesday when he attempted to ignite a backup boiler at edmond elementary. it exploded igniting the man in flames. an appeals court in philadelphia a has sided with billion air karl icon in his demand to end taj mahal workers benefit this was last major obstacle before the billion air took over at the casino this ruling is in favor of the casino's parent

company, trump entertainment resorts which ended health insurance and pension benefits in october 2014 as part of the bankruptcy filing. the union argued, had argued the why did not have the authority to cancel their benefits. and pennsylvania, casinos are reporting record revenue in 2015 after it had been down for two years. officials say the state's 12 contact seenes brought in 3.17 billion in gross revenue, 3 percent increase from 2014, this revenue increase is in line with both region and the the nation. a license awarded in 2014 to a casino project in philadelphia is currently being challenge in court. as we continue tonight a major accomplishment for the entire senior class in an area high school. >> we have that story coming up, also living out his dream, area students give back to the community as they honor doctor martin luther king's vision of serving others. plus it is ben franklin's 310th birthday. and we are see how city celebrated and whole lot more

coming up.

a north philadelphia high school celebrates a milestone a achievement. 100 percent of their first senior class, has been accepted into a four year college. "eyewitness news" at crystal ray school here on north broad street for the big announcement, many students pick up scholarships to their dream schools and they are very excited about their futures. >> my classmates are outstanding. lining this is something you have to live it up, we have to do our best, so everyone is living it up. we have been exceeding expectations. and, so i'm just so happy. >> wonderful. school's first graduating class consists of 86 seniors who have earned more than 300

acceptance to over 70 colleges and universities. congratulations, to all. well done. well done good hard work there. >> got that right good philadelphia's own ben franklin would have turn 30 years old. >> "eyewitness news" reporter alexandria hoff has more on how public health and vaccinations played a role in the observance of ben's birth the day. >> reporter: careful eyes of ben franklin have been keeping watch over philadelphia a, since he arrived here at the age of 17. >> unaudible. >> reporter: where on january 15th, 1706 the accomplishments of doctor franklin are perhaps the the most diverse of anyone person. yet, he died, in complete, next to his wife, and his son he buried at just four years old a rick tim of small pox. >> long regretted ape bitterly still regret that i have not given him the reaction nation by inoculation. this i mentioned, he says, for

the the sake of other parents. >> the odds are if ben franklin had given his son that vaccine, his life would have been saved. >> reporter: and millions have been because of franklin's pleas to the work of those since. the founders focused on health was at center of the 310th birthday celebration. he helped establish pennsylvania hospital, during a free stint as a vegetarian he brought tofu to america and lived to a once unheard of age of 84. >> he never must trusted the institutional church, but i would like to say we got him in the end. >> reporter: franklin's jovial spirit is woven in the city, firing stairs by children and halloween costumes for a certain news reporter and her friend. never forgetting the lie racials that he was so proud to even eye. ben franklin had this worth, and whims i about him unshared by many of his peers. so to that we say...

>> happy birthday, ben. >> 310 years and counting. >> reporter: reporting from olde city, alexandria hoff for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". today ises the day doctor martin lieutenant are king, junior was born and students across the region are honoring the slain civil rights leaders legacy. springton lake middle school in media held a school wide day of service to day, projects including volleyball tournament with proceeding to go charity. students made sandwiches for the homeless. >> this is a way for to us do it in a way where we had entire student body here and we wanted to have this experience what it feels like to serve and that is really what martin luther king junior would want. >> monies martin luther king junior national holiday and he would have been 87 years old, today. >> as we say money is not a day on, but day on. >> day of service. >> it will be cold. >> it will be a cold one, too. extra points for that, yes good definitely. >> you have to bundle up because cold temperatures are arriving, arctic air blastness by monday, but before that, we will have some more mild eras

we head into our saturday and on is rainfall that will be moving through as soon as over the next couple of hours that rain will start to build in but right now dry conditions, as we get a live look at center city philadelphia. the buildings, twinkling, looking good, temperatures feeling good. 50 degrees right the now. very mild day, light southeasterly wind a at 3 miles per hour, no wind chill impact abe temperatures today yeah, they were up in the 50's and many locations 54 , we will top at 50 in trenton, very mild day in mount pocono. 48 degrees. temperatures right new we have cooled down in the poconos. 36 degrees, still elevated at philadelphia 50 right now. we are at 48 degrees in ac but storm scan three is showing us that the clouds in place but that rain is a erasing to the northeast up the i-95 corridor. soon we will move in over the next hour to the delaware beaches and then as we head in the next few hours it will overtake a delaware valley, parts of the jersey shore, so rain is moving in as we head in the evening hours into the city especially after about

9:00 o'clock, continuing overnight the tonight, heavier at times, a rumble of thunder possible and for tomorrow mainly dry day, gradual clearing especially as we head in the afternoon and now behind this rain, we are still going to be mild. 49 degrees, breezy conditions. secondary cold front that will come through late day tomorrow and then take care of that for us. future weather shows us in the next several hours that precipitation shield lifting north in center city and moving up in the lehigh valley as we head after after ten or 11:00 and then widespread rain, heavy pockets of rain overnight tonight, best chance of the heavy rain will be along the coast there and then we will see possibility of a rain/snow mix in mount pocono and higher elevations where temperatures will be right on that border of the freezing mark but by 9:00 o'clock tomorrow morning that rain moving out and then as we head in the second half of the day the cloud deck slowly decreasing with more sunshine for second half of day but rainfall totals it will be fairly significant and especially down the shore where we could see an inch, over an inch of rain possible with those heavier rainfalls,

half to maybe three-quarters of an inch in philadelphia, then we will call light totals but still fairly significant a quarter to a half inch in the lehigh valley through early tomorrow morning, so, for tomorrow, those showers come to than a even. main event is overnight tonight. peaks of sunshine in the lunch hour as we look to noon, breezy conditions taking us in the second half of the day, and then we will start to cool in the evening hours on the back side of that secondary cold front and that will take to us 39 degrees, on sunday, passing snow shower possible, in the evening hours, on sunday, and then as we look ahead toward monday as i was mentioning, cold, cold, cold, 29 degrees, windy as well so those wind chills will be in the teens all throughout the day and then temperatures themselves will be in the teens by tuesday morning, and still blustery and quite chilly highs in the 30's all through next week. >> that wind will make it. >> that is what it does. >> thanks, a lot, appreciate it. "cbs evening news" is a few minutes away. >> scott pelley joins with us

a look ahead, scott. >> hi, great to be with you in philadelphia here's the the "cbs evening news" tonight, another bad day for markets ends in what has become the worst start to a year that wall street has ever seen. plus sean penn talks to charlie rose about his controversial el chapo interview, the the the the actor tells us who he believes, is putting him in danger, and, steve hartman, on the road with a story of love and in the line of duty, all of that just ahead on the "cbs evening news".

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over. chiefs will play patriots tomorrow in a game you can see right here on cbs-3. pederson has work his way up thanks to andy reid, he started here in 2009, and andy hired him as offensive quality control coach, even followed andy to kansas city where he is offensive coordinator. back in 1999 he started nine games as quarterback for the bird and today he spoke to his former teammate hallis thomas. >> he is a cool guy. he was a team guy. when you are thinking of a head coach you want that guy that is looking to make team better and not being selfish. i think he will be a decent lead because he is able to relate to the guys. >> you are talking about somebody who is a phrase we often use is a people person, and doug pederson is a people person. >> well, flyers have the night off and will be back on the ice tomorrow afternoon when rangers wrist it wells fargo center. on good news for flyers rookie

defenseman shane gostisbehere, ghost will be back in the line up after miss two games with the lower body injuries. flyers just two points out of the playoffs and it would be great to beat their long time rival. >> they like to get the puck up the ice really fast. managing pucks is huge. if you don't manage them properly it will turnaround and go up the other way. >> well, guess who hoed up at practice today. this is pretty cool. texas defensive end yj what the. he will go to the game tomorrow. a huge hockey fan. he played hockey until he was 13. can you imagine that man coming at you. that is scary. >> wow. >> sixers back in action tomorrow, they will wrap up the six game home stand, in port land coming to the sent every. last night brett brown's team gave up a a 24-point lead with the bulls and they just could in the top jimmy butler. he scored a career high 53 points as bulls handed inningsers their fourth straight loss, 115-111. >> it will be a little while before we can do the dougie.

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hairs. here now is scott pelley, take care f >> pelley: oil drops below $30 a barrel, sending wall street into a nosedive. also tonight, after he met with el chapo, shawp pen met with charlie rose. >> you have no regrets? >> i have terrible regret. >> pelley: chipotle employees are skipping lunch for a meeting on how to make sure their food is safe. the water crisis in flint, the governor asks for a disaster declaration. and steve hartman with honors for a three-year-old hero. >> i'm here because he did what he did. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: it's wall street's worst start to a new year ever. one market expert put it