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>> good among day morning to you there is morning, we have our eye on this storm, as wintery mix bears down on the delaware valley. on the upside, still dry, in center sit bye we will see some snow, sleet and rain, by the time the day is over. but at least, roads looking dry right now. >> looking dry right now, enjoy it while we have it. because it will change. >> everything, seems, this storm, absolutely, yes. clock is ticking before we start to finally see some of the snow, then again, eventually some sleet, the rain, everything, the whole mixed bag, nice variety pack for you out there. >> yes, which is awesome talking cereal. >> yes? >> remember the little boxes of variety cereal, so good.
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but that said, when it comes to storms like this, not so much. soap, let me explain. we go on outside one more time, show you storm scan, when we start things off at least. snow at the moment is primarily falling through the delmarva peninsula, southern most tip here. >> did see couple of flow flakes out on the skydeck, but not enough to really even get underway here. brunt of any moisture at this point, pretty much over the delmarva peninsula. kent and sucks he is count it is getting in, but everybody gets in on it at some point. it will be arriving for everyone by 8:00 a.m. throughout the course of the morning, just spreads in from south to north, wintery mix then developing today p.m. rush. talking snow mix withing or changing over to sleet, maybe freezing rain, as milder air starts to nudge in. and as it does so, eventually, starting to see it turn over to plane old rain in from south to north. that does mean icing could become a problem. soap, we jump you to 6:00 p.m. this afternoon, early evening, and that's whether we start to
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see the icing potentially start to accumulate. and that can be very tricky. it doesn't take much, as we all well know with ice to way down power lines for one thing, but specially lead to very slick travel. so, if we get any accumulation, it is primarily through southeastern pennsylvania, as far as our area is concerned, and then it all turns over to rain with the milder air. so, let's put that into motion as well here through the course of the event, especially tomorrow, you are going to get in on some pretty heavy pockets, models picking up might end up with two plus swat of rain, but generally one, say one and half inches, is the expectation, and nice graphic for your president's day holiday. 35 degrees, is the eventual expected high here, we will actually see the temperatures climb through the overnight, so it is a whole mixed bag, like we said, snow eventually to wintery mix, and then eventually some rain. meisha, over to you. >> katie, sounds like so much fun. thank you so much for that. >> yeah, happy monday everyone, happy president's day to you, hitting the roadways, going to work this morning, well, this is casino
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of what you are looking at right now, the a south past allegheny not looking too bad. we push through the half-hour mark. 5:00 then push towards the 6:00ment looking good here, you can see, on the camera lens, little droplet of some sort. we know what's going to be coming around 8:00. some snow will be falling, so if you can head out, if you know you have to go to work anyway, might as well head out early, maybe get out early, avoid the snow, at least for the morning rush hour. montgomeryville 202 headlight moving in the southbound direction at route 30 bypass looking good both directions, kind of back out of the way so you can see all around here, looking good. everyone still traveling at posted speeds, which is what we want to see even around the red cones. ben franklin bridge, moving in the westbound direction, looking good, as well. this is one of the shots that i love to show you in the morning, the dark sky, looking good for those every you coming in from jersey even route four it, also building fire in haverford, just so you know this has been all cleared, i have another one coming up in about 15 minutes, erika, back to you. >> meisha, thank you. search is on this morning for the woman who slashed another woman's throat inside mayfair
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bar. that victim is in critical condition right now. it happened early sunday morning, at fiddler's green tavern on the 7300 block of frankford avenue. "eyewitness news" reporter greg argos shows us neighbors say this bar is nuisance plagued with violence. >> eyewitness cameras capture the moment a 37 year old woman is returned from fiddler's green tavern in mayfair. her throat slashed with shards from broken beer bottle. >> i walk up, there was bottle, when she hit her in the head, the bottle ended up slicing her throat. >> manager, whose brother own the bar was there sunday morning says the brutal attack happened very quickly >> per perfectly honest we're not surprised. >> even planning a town hall meeting this week, to address them. >> there has been just violence stemming constantly, somebody's always getting hurt, constant fights. >> as we spoke with frank, who
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lives around the corner? >> this has to be stopped. >> quick question. are you the owner smear. >> roxanne was locking up the bar and was able to address some of his concerns. >> we are not going to tolerate it. >> we are aware of fights at the bar. we're just work to go get everything under under control, working with the 15th, added security, we are taking steps to try to fix everything. >> are you going to have a representative at the town hall meet to go address some of the concerns? >> yes, they are, both owners will be present. >> now the tavern here, it is lock, the door are closed, manager says they're not sure when they will reopen. as for the victim at last check, she was in critical condition, northeast detectives have not yet made any arrests, and say they're still continuing their investigation. reporting here in mayfair, greg argos, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". police are loose looking for two men accused of attack ago woman while posing as utility workers. police say the men armed with guns forced their way into a home in point breeze yesterday morning. the woman suffered cut to her forehead, and is in stable
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condition. those suspect left without taking anything from the home. a frankford auto body shop remains covered in ice after a six alarm fire over the weekend. now, this is what joe's auto body shop looks like right now on griscomb street. more than 100 firefighters responded saturday morning. they used a tremendous amount of water, and that coupled with freezing temperatures, turned everything into ice. now, battling fire and ice is not easy there is picture by jose suarez, shows firefighter covered in ice. franky riviera, one of about 150 firefighters who spent most of the day saturday at the scene working to control the blaze. one firefighter was injured, and recovering in stable condition. 5:36 right now. governor tom wofford erred flags in pennsylvania all to fly at half staff n honor of supreme court justice, antonin scalia, outside the court at washington dc also at half staff. justice scalia died of natural
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causes over the weekends at a resort in texas. his death has sent shock waves through the nation's capitol. white house says president obama will nominate a successor once the senate returns from recess. now, senate republicans are already talking about blocking who ever the president nominate. kim hutchinson explains how justin scalia's death his sudden death, sparked battle on the campaign trail. >> while the body of late supreme court justice, antonin scalia, is transported to washington monday, debate over his replacement dominates the campaign trail. >> republican ted cruz criticized his main rival, donald trump, on abc this week. >> anyone that writes checks to chuck schumer and harry reid and jimmy carter and hillary clinton does not care about conservative just is cents on the court. >> trump struck back, by criticizing chief justice robber. >> he voted in favor of obama care. he got there because tote cruz pushed him like wild. >> on cnn state of the union, jeb bush took a more measured
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tone. >> i think president obama is going to smith a nominee, and in all likelihood, this person will be out of the main street and will be rejected by the senate. >> marco rubio dismissed concerns about the supreme court working for months, with only eight justices. >> so let's let the voters way in in november. then we'll have an appointment. courts can function with a justices it, does it all the time. >> candidates on the other side of the aisle accuse o'connell of ignoring the comes tuesday. >> i don't think that mitch mcconnell has it right on this issue. the constitution is pretty clear. that will is it is the job of the president of the united state to appoint, nominate, members to the supreme court and the senate confirms. >> president obama said he would nominate someone to the bench and that is exactly what he should be doing and leader mcconnell should follow the constitutional process. >> kim handcuff inch son, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". new jersey governor, chris christie's making final
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preparations for tomorrow's budget address. he'll unveil plans on the state's 30 billion-dollar budget. christie will also decide how much to pay toward the pension. it is a long simmering issue that resulted in bitter fights with democrats and unions. all right, are you looking for something to do with the kids today? everyone is off from school. why not head to the white house? jan? >> reporter: that's right, erika, ever wonder what it takes to become president? why not learn on president's day? we're coming to you liver inside the national constitution center, in its newest exhibit, called headed to the white house, we'll take you through before the doors open later today. >> jan, thank you of the first, we are testing your knowledge of presidents on this president's day, so, here is a question for you. do you know who was the oldest president ever elected? think about this. we'll have the answer for when you we come back in just two minutes. good morning.
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>> we asked before the break, who was the oldest president ever elected? the answer, ronald reagan. he was 69 years old when he was elected in 1980. now, if bernie sanders wins the election this year, woe break that record because he's
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75 years old. on the republican side, donald trump is the oldest candidate. he turns 707 in june. looking for something to do with the kids, why not try the national constitution center president's day exhibit will give the young one great understanding of current events, namely the presidential campaign. >> constitution center preview of the exhibit, they always do such a great job there, good morning. >> good reason, no reason to miss out on this exhibit on president's day because it is free admission, can't ask for anything better than that, standing in the new exhibit called headed to the white house, sarah kind of headed up this entire thing. this is her baby, standing right inside the main doors right now, in the primary and convention hall area, explain what we're seeing behind us. >> yes, we in this part of the exhibit talking about the process of how the primaries work, how the caucuses work which is so important, that just start happening in the last week or so, then we take
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you right up to the convention, obviously a loft excitement around that here in philadelphia this summer. so if you want to learn about the history of the process you can come right here and see. >> couldn't be better time to open this exhibit. being president's day, having all of this happen in our city, now, there is a loft inter active things happening here, as well. go through some of the highlights. >> measure own campaign ad, practice making a campaign speech, make campaign buttons here, stickers to wear, you can vote for your favorite president every all time and participate in our election at the ends, so inter active, so fun for kids, family, people of all ages. >> philadelphia has so much history. and we see a lot of different artifact, going through, as well. where are some of your favorite ones? >> campaign buttons from pretty much every election of the last hundred years or so, we also have two soft drink cans, from the 1964 election, for gold water, and johnson juice. so the two candidates who could vote by choosing favorite soft drink in that
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election, and we have log cabinets ski booth philadelphia 1840 election actually made here if philadelphia. very much tide to the campaign. >> so a loft things for the adults they would like, a lot of things for the kids, too. mention inter active you know, stomp speeches i hear, you know, advertisement, that they can do, kind of get them hands on. >> yes, i mean, you can practice either giving your best kennedy impression or reagan impression, giving stump steve. try president a.m. image -- i am and, take your photograph in a cut out of presidential faces, practice shaking presidential handshake, very simple inter-active, kids love it, literally walk up and shake couple of hands, kiss a baby, but the kids love all of those activities. >> do you think a highlight will be at the very end as well, a special piece there? >> yes, at the sends after you win the election awe celebrate inauguration, you get to go into the white house and sit in the oval office, take your photo sitting behind the desk, as commander in chief.
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>> yes today would be great day. what's a one liner to give to parents as they watch this this morning, and say maybe avenue little time. what comes out to this new sex inch submit. >> open through election day, so you can come in one visit and come through the campaign trail, to the oval office, all in one visit, learn about it, have a loft fun, celebrate the election. >> thank you, czar, a so much. erika, coming up in the next era, i'll finds new desk, near the ends of the exhibit l we'll somehow it to you at 6:30. >> good look, can't wait to see it, jan, thanks so much. >> well, going to be snowy president ' day, but at least getting break from the extreme cold. check out this picture, this is neat, from the international space station it, shows the polar vortex, that caused our temperatures really just to plunge over the weekends. astro not scott kelly tweeted out the picture wrote the polar vortex even looks colds from here. brr. katie doing some snow but at least warm up little later? >> that's the thing, we are going to see variety pack of different wintery weather,
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plane old rain, as temperatures spike tomorrow. i do want to start things offer by checking in with our eyewitness weather watcher network. starting at this point to see little hint of activity on storm scan3, we'll get to that in a second. but check around the region as a whole, i start off delaware, jason is the furthest south report that we've got thus far this morning. so far, now, he did sends us within the last half hour, but so far, just finding clouds. he's in middle town delaware, southeast wind flow, just 7 miles per hour, but enough that he said it feels more like 11 degrees when the factor the wind in. matter of time if he isn't already that he starts to see some flakes flying. fran, 15 degrees for him, he did report that he's got couple of flurries out there. and actually said at this point he has dusting on his driveway already. so getting underway here, further north you go, though, nothing so far at least here, peter reports just a lot of clouds in lawrenceville, new jersey. back out to storm scan3, where again this moves in from south to north, the further north you are, the later starts obviously. but ♪ already getting underway, across portions
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every delaware, basically just entire delmarva peninsula, even southern new jersey getting in on the action at this point, but all lift in with time, and with time, it bridges in mild air, as well. not the most organized storm we've ever seen, in fact, actually will be severe weather down along this line points south of this, but for us eventually what will happen is this batch of snow lift north, we start to eventually then see cold front develop. that will be crossing through tomorrow. so, in a nutshell, because we will be sitting in the warm sector after storm later on today, into tonight, temperatures rise. initially, though, with winter weather advisory in effect general one to 3 inches, light fluffy snow, lighter blue shaded area, might over achieve, get up to the far northwest, coating to one maybe up to 2 inches, now that you have a winter weather advisory that's actually just been added, to southern new jersey, and timing everything out, this morning, intermittent light snow. this afternoon, starts to turn over to wintery mix. and that wintery mix tonight turns over to rain. seems counter intuitive, that's the way it will go
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because of mild air, that heavy rain, lingers through the day tomorrow, lead to go a flood threat. so we've got it all on this storm system, guys. thirty-five today, and then surging to 52 degrees tomorrow. so you can understanded, meisha, whys there is a lot of different things going on with the storm. >> absolutely hard not to let your eyes just glaze over the graph inning, go all the way to the weekends, right? >> 50's in the forecast, oh, but we just have to get through today on president's day. so good morning, happy monday to you. what you are looking at, 59 south at the airport looking good. we are starting to see this heat up in fact just ten minutes ago when we pulled out the camera didn't quite look like. >> this plenty of early travelers hitting the roadway this holiday trying to get to work maybe early get off little earlier or avoid some of the morning commute, icky stuff that we know is coming at 8:00. snow is many doing. make no doubt about it. looking nice right now, nice and dry 95 south at the airport, king of prussia also looking dry, the schuylkill headlights in the eastbound direction, near 202, although we are starting to see this certainly start to heat up around the king of prussia
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area. delaware county, 59 north at 452 looking good. sort of looks like caring all the way up to the airport area. so you can see volume almost certainly increasing getting little busy i would say for a holiday. do have fire here in swarthmore, yale avenue between harvard avenue and east rose valley roadment make note that far for those of you in and around that area, you can avoid the area altogether you certainly want to. then we still have accident in princeton i'll touch base on that in about ten minutes. back to you. >> coming up: everything olds is new again. some classic toys we played with as kids are making a big come back. we'll show you how companies are making changes to keep up with the times. >> ♪ >> ♪
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bummer. >> good news, we made it, luckily that prediction ghost busters two turned out to be a bus, also predicts dollars cars would be flying, and we would be eating meals in a cattle form. bit off, 27 years ago, but still fun little flashback there. >> all right, whether it comes to toys, some of the old east are still good east. jamie takes us to the new york toy fair, where many of the most popular toys today have been around for generations. >> might seem hard to compete. but construction toys are seeing double digit growth these past few years. almost a half billion dollars in 2015. >> can you believe we had leggos when i was a child? that's a long time ago. >> really? >> yes, really. >> so there are a lot of toys i played with that my kids are now playing with. >> dad's version of thomas the tank engine little different than his son.
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with many getting a digital upgrade, like this one, from lionel. >> this isn't what i picture when i think train set. i think that far. >> no, that absolutely is what lionel is known for. >> what was wrong with the traditional train set? >> really nothing wrong with it. what we wanted to do is engage younger kids who are really into building systems, they're into speed. >> the technology advancement helps shops like train world in brooklyn, to keep chugging along. >> by slide that up on the application right there, and there it goes. >> hand held remote, and mobile apps, keep the business on track. >> it is important to appeal to the younger generation, to keep the hobby alive, to get them interested. >> adrianna, with the toy association, says the industry is at the top of its game. up almost 7% in 2015. >> kids are still playing with dolls, still playing with leggos, and building blocks, still playing with construction, all of the question, are kids really still playing with toys? they are.
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>> a come-back for simple toys, were fun, never really goes out of style. >> yeah. >> jamie, cbs news, new york. >> oh, that's great. coming up in the next hour of "eyewitness news", we have all of your grammy and president's day fun. also, tracking a nasty wintery mix, expect messy day on the roads, with snow, sleet, and freezing rain. katie is updating your forecast, coming up after the break. good morning.
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>> good morning, and brace yourselves for a messy monday. we are talking about snow, sleet, and freezing rain, katie times it all out for you coming up. >> also, new this morning, freezing conditions making it tough for firefighters bat al fire at this montgomery county row home. we're live on the scene with the latest. and, you can be headed to the white house without going to dc. live inside the brand new exhibit at the national constitution center, just a great thing to did with the kids today since off for school for president's day and the best part here, it is free. you cannot beat the price. good morning, i'm erika von tiehl. president's day today. getting the mixed bag of weather today snow, sleet, freezing rain, something for everyone, ladies, good
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morning. >> good morning, happy monday. roadways looking good. we know we're hole willing our breath, because we know it will change. do you still think around 8:00 a.m.? >> starting to move in across the delmarva peninsula. depending on location, see it later, see it sooner, already gun to see it here even here on the cbs-3 skydeck in the last two hours, nothing actually gotten underway but i have seen couple of isolated snowflakes flying, just sign of things to come. another view of storm scan3, believe it or not, guys, warmfront pretty much all snow, so i know it sounds counter intuitive, warmfront, snow, doesn't make sense. but the cold air currently in place is certainly setting the stage for any precipitation that comes with this, quote, warmfront to bring in the snow as a form of precipitation, but eventually see the start to switch over. initially only found any kind of persistent snow falling across southern delaware, southern

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