♪ right now at 11:00 o'clock, lesean mccoy spotted leaving a philadelphia gym and only "eyewitness news" cameras were there. what the former eagle said when asked about his alleged involve in many an old city nightclub brawl. >> it's friday and it's lent. so many catholics said no meat tonight at dinner. >> but why do they give up meat on friday? a good question and nicole brewer goes searching for the answer. >> and snow squalls coupled with dangerous cold. bummed up this weekend it's

going to be down right brutal outside. gusty winds are going to make it feel even colder. good evening, i'm ukee washington. >> i'm jessica dean. let's get right over to meteorologist kate bilo. she has more now on the dangerous cold gripping the region. kate. >> jessica and ukee, we have a few more hours before those winds really start to pick up. so if you go outside now the winds not all that bad. they're coming in as a result of this next arctic cold front which is bringing snow showers and snow squalls really to the entire northeastern united states. we saw that little bit earlier tonight right around 6:30, 6:00 o'clock tonight. we had snow showers move through philadelphia. those are now offshore. you can see a few showers right around the d.c. area at the moment and a few more snow squalls cannot be rule out through the overnight hours tonight. but as we head through the weekend, the winds pick up and the temperatures continue to drop. 23 right now in philadelphia. 20 in allentown. 20 in millville. winds again not as strong as they're going to be the squalls come through during tomorrow morning then they will phase out we'll see sunshine tomorrow but watch what happens to the winds.

you wake up tomorrow morning at 7am winds are already gusting over 30 miles an hour and through the day this will be the case we could see winds gust perhaps isolated spots over 45 or even 50 miles an hour making our highs in the 20s feel not much better than near zero coming up i'll tell when you the worst of the wind chills will hit and about a storm that will bring snow and rain after the cold outbreak that's coming up in a few minutes. jessica. >> kate, thanks so much. a cbs3 "eyewitness news" exclusive. only our cameras are there tonight to get reaction from former eagle lesean mccoy. we asked mccoy about brawl he was allegedly involved in that left two off duty police officers injured. >> what do you want to say about the fight at the club, man? >> shady, you want to say something, sir. >> a lot of fans, dude. want to hear from you. >> i just want to ask you, dude, you don't want to talk. >> pop the trunk. >> our greg argos talk with

mccoy where he was playing basketball outside the bellevue. did he not want to talk about the fight. his attorney says a decision will be made next week over possible charges. he is one of four people under investigation in a fight sunday at an old city nightclub over a bottle of champagne. that fight was caught on camera. philadelphia police say two off duty officers were kicked and punched leaving one with a broken nose and broken ribs. and the other with a possible skull fracture. also exclusive tonight two police officers hailed as heroes. they were at the right place at the right time to save the life of a woman who collapsed outside a montgomery county convenience store. natasha brown has more details now from lower merion township. >> reporter: fresh off a refresher course in cpr officers jeff sullivan and rob witt set out to start their day. little did they know they would have to put their renewed skills to the test so quick. >> soon discovered there was a young lady that was laying on the ground and she was in

distress. at the time she really wasn't showing any signs of life. >> reporter: officer sullivan radioed in for help grabbin graa portable defibrillator from his car while his partner began the life-saving process of cpr. >> immediately as soon as the shock was applied she began to show some improvement. >> you kind of caught up in the moment. your training kicks in and you do what you got to do. what any of us would have done. >> reporter: the woman began showing signs of life and was immediatelimmediately whisked an ambulance. this as unsuspecting customers filed in and out of this wawa on montgomery avenue. >> always good to like sully said to do some good in the neighborhood like that. >> reporter: four merion police officers jeff sullivan and rob witt a day that began like any other turned into an extraordinary act of bravery and heroism. >> i followed opine saw her mother. i got a little emotional at first, because at that moment it hit me i might have made a difference in somebody's life today. and as a police officer i've

been doing this for 21 years. you don't get too many moments like that. >> reporter: the officers were so concerned about the victim's health they followed the ambulance to the hospital just to make sure she was okay. leaving that hospital with a renewed sense of the term protecting, serving and often saving lives in their community. in lower merion, natasha brown, cbs3 "eyewitness news". a warning tonight from the pennsylvania spca for pet owners about an up tick in cases where people are posing as spca officers. the scammers threaten pet owners with animal cruelty charge if's they do not hand over their pets. a wissonoming woman was tour get add after she post add photo appearing to so her dog hanging from a wire the picture was misinterpreted. spca officials say in some cases the scammers are flashing fake badges or dressing the part in all black uniforms. tonight small business own are in in south jersey doing what he can to help tackle the drug problem in his community. >> and he's doing it with a pizza box. "eyewitness news" reporter david spunt shows us how.

>> reporter: it's friday nigh night. one of the busiest for the crew the romeo's in vineland on this night the talk is about pizza but more importantly the war against drugs. >> stop saying the kids are bad. the kids are not bad. the parents are bad. because they don't want to talk to the kids about drug. >> romo opened the place three years ago and started putting stickers on his pie boxes to encourage parents to talk to kids about the dangers of drug use. >> we have a serious problem the kids are our future. we need to start talking to them em it's very important we spread the word and say, talk to your kids about drug. >> reporter: he started using these stickers thee weeks ago. so far he says he's used about 4,000. he's the first but several other in the vineland area are joining in. the police department is also involved. and customers seem to like it. >> actually i dealt with family members and stuff i think it should be addressed at any time that needs to be addressed. on pizza box, milk carton or

wherever it's at it should be addressed. >> reporter: this man grew up in vineland and says the drug problem in vineland is real. >> i have an old friend on drugs. real sensitive about -- i think drugs are bad. >> as long as he's in business, the stickers will be on his boxes. he believes he owes it to his community. >> the other day i see a parent start talking about it just because he saw the message. he's like, you know what, i need to talk to you about something and i hear they talking about the drugs and the kid was shocked. >> reporter: reporting in vineland, new jersey, david spunt cbs3 "eyewitness news". the war of words is heating up in carolina. ahead tomorrow night's republican presidential debate here on cbs3. tonight front runner donald trump threatened to sue ted cruz over being born in canada. if the texas senator doesn't stop running negative ads against him. most of the candidates spent the day on the campaign trail wooing evangelical voters ahead of the february 20th primary. trump has a commanding lead in

south carolina. and don't forget the republican candidates will debate tomorrow night at 9:00 o'clock and you can watch it right here on cbs3. pope francis in mexico tonight a beginning of a trip that mick the pastoral and political. the pontiff stepped off the plane in mexico city with a welcome with distinct mexican flavor. >> cheering crowds couldn't get enough on the papal plain the pope showed off so many bera to the amusement of those on board. earlier today while in cuba pope francis met with tree tack tee arc the first ever meeting between a pontiff and head of the russian orthodox church. it is lent and friday that means no meat for many catholi catholics. >> it's part of the spiritual tradition for the four days eitherring up to easter. why no meat? that's a good question for our nicole brewer, and she's here now. nicole? >> yes i am. i a have a feeling a lot of catholics will be making it pizza night tonight and friday. if you weren't raised in the religion you might have the same

question of sarah from jenkintown. she wants to know why don't catholic eat meat on fridays during lent it's a good question, sarah, let's fine out. ♪ >> why don't catholics eat meat on fridays during lent? (laughter). >> isn't it penance and getting ready and cleansing yourself. >> do you eat meat on fridays. >> we not. >> you have no idea why. >> i have no idea why. >> from ash wednesday until easter sunday catholics will sip the sirloin in favor of salmon. >> why can you eat fish and not meat. >> you got to eat something. >> it's about meat being substantial food the rich food. >> dr. jonathan sites of drexel university has studied the history catholicism he says lent is a type for catholic to deny themselves worldly indulgences and at one point fish was seen as less nourishing and therefore less of sacrifice than red meat. >> probable the guy whose doing

it was a fisherman. so he figure they're paying a few dollars. you know how people. >> there are there's one theory suggests red meat was banned by medieval pope with ties to the fishing industry but the archdiocese and our religious scholar were quick to sight down. >> this is a really seriously religious phenomenon. didn't need the excuse of economics to make it happen. >> reporter: the doctor did confirm the evolution of the practice app is it a toll lick times it was every friday and only allowed for bread and water. >> that's what they give in you jail. >> it loosen up. you can have eggs and cheese milk those kinds of things either later fish is okay. >> today the catholic church asked that all persons 14 or older abstain from meat on ash wednesday, all fridays of lent begun friday and while other did he nominations may partake -- >> something you might choose to do but not something that is a requirement of the church. >> sacrifice. >> jesus had to sacrifice for us. so we made a small sacrifice.

>> so that answers part of the question. but why fridays? according to the catholic church, it's in commemoration of christ's death on good friday and up until 1966, parishioners were expected to object stain from meat every friday throughout the year not just during lent you're getting off easy. >> that's right. >> how about that? >> good stuff. >> my catholic school education really came in happy. i want to give a big thank to you father dennis gill from the cathedral basilica he helped me out a lot. >> there you go. >> helpful information there. >> thanks nicole. appreciate it. >> you're welcome. >> what's your good question. log on to cbsphilly.com/good question to submit your question and tweet us using the hash tag cbs3 good question. nicole will be here every night with the answer on cbs3 "eyewitness news" at 11:00 and we can't wait to hear from you. it's sounds like an you unlikely maggio began beer. >> but that combo may just be the perfect pairing for this valentine's weekend. vittoria woodill shows you how

yogis are same cheers all in the same place. plus the boss is back in town. "eyewitness news" is there as bruce springsteen brings his river tour to south philadelphia. kate? >> and the dangerous colder is moving in for the weekend. the been cold for the past two days but really getting bad as the winds pick up heading into your saturday i'll tell when you the worse of the wind chills hit then we're tracking snow and rain early next week. a lot going on in the seven day forecast. i'll have it for you coming up. also tonight, the surprise homecoming that took center stage at one local elementary school. the heart warming story when "eyewitness news" comes right back. ♪

school assembly in south jersey ends up being the back drop for soldiers welcome home. >> "eyewitness news" at b bernice young in burlington township. joseph adams first held up a sign that conclude everyone into what was going on then he was surprised by his dad also named joseph. who has been deployed to south core for the past year and for mom the homecoming was very emotional. >> in the beginning it's the hardest and towards the end it's still hard and anticipation gets worse. but i'm glad he's home again it's amazing. it's probably one of the most memorable experiences i can imagine. >> just a great day specialist adams served in iraq in 2009 and 2010. new tonight the boss is in charge in south philadelphia. >> ♪

>> bruce springsteen rocked the sold out wells fargo center tonight. philadelphia is the latest stop on his nine-week tour. the boss and e street band played songs from their 1980 double album the river. valentine's day of course is this weekend and eight married senior couples celebrated their enduring love with a vow renewal ceremony today. "eyewitness news" at the spring hills assisted living community in cherry hill lots of love was in the air. the ceremony was efficiented by the mayor. one couple toll us the key to long happy marriage is simple. never forget to smile. we can all use that advice. no doubt about it. a local studio is offering a monthly yoga class that comes with a twist in the form of a twist off cap. >> on this valentine's weekend this class is made for the guys as well as the women. vittoria woodill takes her yoga mat to an unusual pairing of balance and brewskis. >> reporter: what if i told

you there was a place you can go to top off your workout? >> after you stretched your body you get to bend your elbow. >> take your hands to your heart and let's do that again on the other side. >> reporter: it's a happy hour pairing in perfect harmony. >> you want to get lots of stretch. >> yoga and beer. i think i had the wrong idea. >> i wonder sips we get beer after this if during class we'll do maybe the can opener pose. this is called the beer pong pose. this one is call the beer bott bottle. take one more inhale breath. >> reporter: it's whole lot more than that at yoga on the rich. >> yoga is a community thing and really beer is a real community builder because we're tasting it, we're sharing beer, we're talking we're not pounding, you know, getting tanked. we're actually enjoying each other's company and learning something as well. so it just seemed to make a

perfect pairin pairing. >> pull the bell until, relax the top of your shoulder. >> reporter: there's a husband and wife pair leading the cens census. theresa conroy builds your poses. >> shift your awareness to something subtle and in the background. >> greeting everybody. >> reporter: her husband don russell a peer expert by the name of joe six pack guides you through the flavors that build in a few craft beers. >> what do we think of this? too much? a girly beer or what? >> yeah, okay. >> beers to night are going to be sort of heavy duty so they're a hire in alcohol. so you should get a little bit nor click buzz out of them. we got chocolate beer, too, because it's valentine's day. >> what make eight perfect pairing. >> it's about relaxation and sharing with your friends. >> you don't have to convince me. >> definitely one way to get me to work out. now i should mention that this yoga class is appropriate for all levels of yoga experience and admission to the beer

tasting portion of the session is totally free. but do you have to pre register for the yoga class in advance. for more information head to cbsphilly.com. >> you were getting crafty with those poses. >> i was getting crafty with my poses and my craft beers and they were excellent and no offense but i did not want to return to the desk you guys. i was having way too much fun. >> way too much fun. >> yes. >> thanks, tori. >> kate joins us now and we're watching this cold weather move in here so fast. >> um-hmm. >> this weekend will be something. >> this weekend is going to be something. when you wake up tomorrow morning there's time when the wind will hit like a brick wall tomorrow morning. you'll feel it. we are really going see those winds accelerate as we head through the early morning hours and once they pick up, they're not going anywhere pretty much all day long temperatures not feeling much better than five. that's the best we can hope for wind chill wise tomorrow. that's the warmest. it will feel colder than that by tomorrow night. let's take look outside. take you out to the poconos. poconos one stop will be hit hard by really brutal wind chills.

you make wake up in the poconos tomorrow morning feeling like 35 below zero. many of us might not even know what 35 below zero feels like. if you want to know head up to the poconos tomorrow morning. right nouse it's quiet at jack frost big boulder. storm scan3 shows more snow showers from the north and west you can see as it moves on in right now nothing at jackpot big boulder again overnight a few of these snow showers and squalls will move in. it's a secondary arctic front so the first one came through wednesday night into thursday. this is the second push. the first one was. yesterday and today as we know have been pretty brutal but nothing compared to what we'll feel this weekend. so not a whole lot getting in right now a few snow showers earlier this evening. now it's quiet. temperatures around the 20 mark in kennett square, ardmore and bensalem 19 down in hainesport. your wind advisory is for the and tire day tomorrow. sick a.m. to 6:00 p.m. they may extent depend if the winds stay strong after tomorrow evening after nightfall but winds could gust isolated gusts national weather service put this out up

to 55 miles an hour. it's not going to be widespread. most of the gusts will be between 35 and 45 miles an hour. that is still strong enough entire area to bring down tree branches and possibly even isolated power outages that's the last thing we want on day like tomorrow with the cold in place you need heat you need power. so hope until won't be a widespread problem tomorrow but you can see we have wind chill advisories. this will go into effect later tomorrow evening around 6:00 p.m. for philadelphia and surrounding suburbs you're in an advice or. poconos a wind chill warning in effect as we head into sunday morning and here's why. again those wind chills for the poconos 25 to 35 below zero how it will feel early sunday morning. in the lehigh valley berk county lancaster county feeling like 15 to 25 below. in the city and surrounding surgery suburbs minus 10 to minus 15 down the shore feeling like zero to 10 below zero and in the poconos when you're talking about wind chill chills like that 30 below zero that will give you frost bite in 20 minutes if you have planing to

skiing going up to the mountains don't stay outside don not have the skin exposed to this cold sunday morning and frost bite in 40 minutes even around minus 20 it's a dangerous cold. you don't want to be out on this. check on anyone you know who may need help staying warm. bring the pets inside. record cold sunday morning down tonight. the record is two. still a few snow showers overnight. tomorrow a very windy day with a couple of snow showers around. 21 it will feel like five all day. let's jump into next week. system arrives on monday. light snow in the afternoon. could get heavier for time thinking about one to 3-inches could fall before it all changes over to rain and the rain will wash all that out of here quick look at good news. only 36 days until the start of spring. only 58 days until the phillies home opener but this forecast doesn't feel spring like at all. we've got brutal, snow, rain, then it gets quite bite end of next week finally. >> we'll take a little quiet. >> that we will. thank you. >> lesley what's coming up in

next in sports. >> the flyers have big weekend and the phillies giving us some warm thoughts on this very cold weekend. plus allen iverson one step closer to the ultimate honor

>> greatest little man to play in the nba al zen offer son became one step closer to basketball immortality finalist for the basketball hall of fame. number one overall pick in 19 nick for the sixers was a force averaging almost 27 points game

in his 14 year career. the class of 2016 will be announced in april. the ceremony held in september. but today i'm pretty sure the answer didn't unthe question. >> allen, congratulation on the nomination and we may be seeing you later this summer. you never know. >> later -- where? (laughter). >> springfield. >> oh, i hope so. >> allen, we love you, man. >> nba all star weekend underway north of the border in toronto. tonight was the rising star's game featuring the best first and second year players. meryl lense noel sat out with a sore knee but his teammate jahlil okafor score in the game and scored 17 points. usa beat the world team 157-154. the flyers have a big chance to make up some ground in the play off stanings this weekend when they take on the devils and rangers. they will also have defenseman

guy dose available tomorrow against the devils. he will not be suspended for hit on buffalo player last night. the flyers four points out of that final playoff spot. 29 games left. is there enough time to get it done? >> definitely doable. i mean maybe it's not the situation we would want to be, but, there's so many games left and the way we're playing as a team i think we hit a little bump this past week, but after last night's win hopefully we can get on a role here. it's outside but the phillies sending warm thoughts. the equipment truck is packed up and headed to clearwater, florida. pitchers and catchers report for spring training on wednesday. the rest of the team arrives neb 23rd and the equipment should get there by sunday. sports direct don bell will be in clearwater to see sprayers training under pete mackanin his life reports will start wednesday right here on cbs3. >> now, okay. don just got back from california. >> you were thinking it. >> now he's off to florida.

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that's going to do it for us. our morning team is back tomorrow from 5:00 to 7am. for kate everyone i'm ukee washington. >> i'm jessica dean. the late show with stephen colbert is neck with patricia heat ton. >> have great weekend. good night, family and sleep well.

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