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you're going to be out and about ringer and today, whatever it is, do you want to prepare, maybe different way, and you can't just walk out the door. dry, don't need anything walking out the door, not so, for examplement you can see the lead egg edge of the precipitation starting to lift in here trying to nudge into kent county even at this point, too, matter of time before we get into the thick every things here with the weather pushing in from south to north. now as we go north, it will be leading edge of pre sim taste runs into some colder air. eventually by the time had it say northampton county up to the poconos it, will likely start off with little bit of wintery mix or some snow, winter weather advisory takes effect early this afternoon, for those areas. meanwhile, outside we go to

palmyra cove nature park, nothing is really happening quote, calm and quiet beginning of the morning, will change as time as things start to go downhill. taking you through the hour by hour forecast, specking mid 40's, height of the afternoon so it is chillier by comparison, but, it is still too warm for anything but rain. and once the rain is here, it doesn't really let up. now not talking buckets of dousing rain. but it is a light to moderate rainfall. that will last basically any time today. and that said, i would take your umbrella portions of the lehigh valley, wednesday, though, bridges with it the heaviest round every rain, also probably strongest winds, as we wait the arrival and passage of what is going to be the more pot effort two systems, and in total, by the time we get rid of this on thursday, we are talking maybe upward of 2 inches, now, coming up, little later in the show, what i'm going to do is break down the details of the flood situation, where you might end up with the worse

conditions, where you might end up with the highest totals every rain, certainly what the flood projection looks like, and time it all out coming up. >> busy couple every days, thanks, good morning, everyone, happy tuesday to you, yes, the rain is slowly moving n right now, in new jersey, 42 freeway, northbound, at creek road, looking good. southbound side we did have traffic stop, now since cleared. not that i am too worried about the southbound side usually anyway at this time. typically northbound, where we see the bulk of the traffic, what we are seeing, take it 295 you what looking at. still traveling at posted speeds we know you are going to slow down quite a bit. specially when that rain does move into our streets here, especially around the center city area right now, in delaware, sounds like it is just starting moving from the south to the north. but right now, things are looking good. give yourself couple of extra minute, pack the umbrella like kate had i pointed out. vine moving in the westbound direction before the schuylkill looking good. the schuylkill near 22. headlights moving in the eastbound direction, westbound starting to heat up certainly you can see that, what i am keeping my eye on, seems to be just heating up right now, and

in the world of mass transit route 36 trolley bussing between eastwick loop and 73rd and elmwood because of disable vehicle. >> cherry hill construction all cleared, back over to you. >> meisha, a thank you. the tends staff off between apple and the fbi will be felt closer to whom today. protests supporting the tech giant will be held across the country including some apple stores in our area. jan carabeo joins us outside the store in center city. quiet now, jan, good morning. >> erika, good morning, quiet now, but that will all change this evening. that's right. demonstrations are planned, apple's all over the country today. the one here at walnut st. will hand 5:30 this evening. all of the demonstrations being organized by a group fight for your future. they doesn't want to see the government hack into an iphone. apple wants congress to step in now, as the company drafts it appeal.

>> this letter to employee, tim cook writes, we have no tolerance or sympathy for terrorists, but he continues, at steak is the data security of hundreds of millions of law abiding people. apple pick up spot from former cia, michael hayden, who spoke to cbs this morning. >> fbi director james comb i weighed in on sunday, he wrote frank post on line saying we could not look to survivors in the eye if we did not follow this lead. meantime, some survivors of the san bernardino attacks will now reportedly file a legal briefing in court, appealing to apple to unlock the phone of shooter sigh add farook, and the battle could soon move from the courtroom to capitol hill. both apple's ceo and the fbi director invited to testify before lawmakers. apple's ceo want congress or the government to create a commission to review the issue of civil liberties in the

digital age. bill gates says privacy versus protection is a good debate. >> i'm hopeful that government safeguards in various countries the country will be enough that people feel like this can work and so we have grade public debate about that. >> former dhs assistant allen cone says this fight could affect everyone with a smart phone. >> could very well be a signal case with respect to privacy and digital communication >> new pole found more people are actually in support of the justice department than for apple, 51% of those survey say apple should unlock the iphone. 38% disagree, 11% don't know. now the demonstration in support of apple happen right around 5:30 this evening, that includes this location here on walnut st., there is also another protest planned, across the delaware river, in cherry hill, at the apple

store there. we're reporting live in center city this morning. jan carabeo, cbs-3, "eyewitness news", back to you. >> jan, thank you so much. right now 5:37. in business news this morning, how far americans drove last year and where the financial markets going now. money watch's jill wagner joins us from the new york stock exchange, she has that and more for us. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, erika, oil prices continue to climb so that is sending stocks higher, yesterday the dow jumped 228 points, nasdaq finished 66 points higher. fit bit shares need to shape up. plunged 15% in after ours trading, fit bit had huge holiday season selling more than 8 million activity trackers, invest remembers concerned the company can't continue it incredible gross pay as more companies roll out their own activity trackers. facebook wants to bring your happy birthday messages to life with the launch of birthday video cam t lets you record 152nd videos for your friends, will appear in your friends' profiles, also add birthday theme frame.

for now only available on apple's ios. and americans are hitting the road, in 2015, americans drove record 3.1 trillion miles. that's more than the previous record set before the financial crisis. and it is the equivalent of 337 round trips from earth to polite owe. hopefully people weren't in too much traffic. >> one would hope gas prices so cheap, you can see why people are driving so much, jill. >> absolutely. thanks so much. see you tomorrow. >> today marks a tragic day in philadelphia he history. it is the 25th anniversary of the massive fire at one meridian plaza that killed three firefighters. in a exclusive, walt hunter spoke with fire fight beer just how close more firefighters came, to dying in that touring inferno. >> from inside the worse highrise fire in american history, prior to 9/11, then fire lieutenant mike yeager

remembers hearing the desperate call for help from three lost trapped fire fighters? out of hair, we need help. then there was nothing. >> somehow yeager, his eight member search team, hoping they could find and save captain dave, along with firefighters james, and phyllis. but in the searing heat and smoke, the rescuers now found they, too, were trapped. >> we were trapped in there, had no idea what we were going to do. >> somehow fellow fire captain leading them to the roof where helicopter whisk them from the burning building. >> it was harrowing. >> now back on the grounds, yeager and his team simply strapped on fresh air packs, re enters the inferno, and climbed 30 flights of steps, to continue searching for the loss members who hours later would be found dead on the

28th floor. say a prayer, feel bad for their families and for them. >> twenty-five years later yeager now required still work to go save firefighters lives, raising awareness about suicides, driven by debilitating stress. >> suppose all of the horrific things i saw in my time in the fire department really didn't -- i processed it okay. maybe the guy next to me didn't. >> the chief hoping on this solemn anniversary, we all remember the heroes who died, and the promise firefighters make to be where ever they are needed. >> twenty-five years later chief yeager still trying to save firefighters lives. working to raise consciousness about the problem of firefighters suicides, driven by the stress they encounter. >> tuesday at noon, moment of silence at local 22 fire union headquarters. to commemorate the three firefighters who died on that

terrible day at one meridian. walt hunter, "eyewitness news" >> daring jump to safety. woman broke her leg last night when she jumped from third floor window, of this burning home, on frankford avenue. another woman was also taken to the hospital with smoke inhalation. investigators trying to figure out what sparked that fire. >> watch as the crane collapses in mel born, australia. came crashing to the screen after a fire at the construction site ten stories above ground. amazingly no one was hurt. the collapse though did damage several cars, and now crews will have to dismantle what's left of the crane, everyone's all right. >> coming up next on "eyewitness news", katie tracking today's rain, she let you know when the best and the worse commutes will be during this storm. also, double trouble. identical twin sisters having their own twins. their incredible story coming

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to do it twice. carry and kelly and their husbands now have eight twin babies, altogether, look at that family portrait. some call it a statistical anomaly, but the family calls it a miracle. >> we just feel like these are, you know, a gift from god. >> she has four children, five and under. and i have five children four and under. i had a boy girl first. she had the two girls. and then we flip flopped, and she did the boy girl, andy boy boy. so we've got our bases covered. >> oh, my goodness, look at all of the kids. both families became pregnant through invitro fertilize ailing, families have moved near each other so the twins can grow up together. katie hopefully play with each other so moms can finally get some sleep. can you imagine two, set of twins? >> amazing, i actually have twins in my immediate family. we are ours then my brother and sister-in-law have fraternal boys, and we have eight grand kids all under the age of four. >> wow. >> busy grand par against gram and grand dad love it, though. >> i bet.

>> that's what they say anyway. we head out to the eyewitness weather watcher network. definately chill in the air, but too warm for anything but plane rain. once it arrives, guys. >> weren't up the spring with width end winter weather, damp and chilly, only however looking at rain, so we don't have to worry about any snow at least across her location, the further nor you go, though, things are little different. quick peak list format here, mid three's, upper three's from phil in philadelphia. and we are also seeing that from david dutch in clementon, new jersey and the list goes on here, john antoine he will any philly, 39 degrees. that said jump you taught storm scan3, the first of two separate systems is on the horizon here already starting to bring in little bit of wet weather even right across the kent county border. >> this will lift in from south to north through the

course of the mid-morning. once here doesn't wrap up until later tonight. light to moderate rain off and on. storm two, looks a lot different than it did yesterday. starting to gather not just strength and moisture but also some better organization here that's the next zest tim. did i promise you the flood threat. future rain ability, 9:00 a.m. today, will likely still have well under an inch of precipitation on the ground. hasn't even gotten to most of you. but once we get thinned underway here we storm one, storm two, comes through all the way into thursday morning. and there will be locations that easily end up with over inch of rain. i would say maybe up to 2 inches of rain, in some of the spots where you have the heaviest, stowe lends up being county by county thing, but again, one to 2 inches is not out of the question. across the region, generally as a whole, depending where your heaviest pockets are set up. poor drainage flooding as a result specially p.m. hours every wednesday, when the heaviest rain is coming in, to early thursday morning. so, basically, through the

overnight when the worse will likely happen, which could be worth timing. rising streams and creeks as a result of that, and we say it again, never, ever drive-thru flooded roadway even if you drive that road every day, if it easily floods it, will likely do so again this time around never now, next couple of days stays above average. toward the tail end of the week, plus side here, is that the sun comes back, a loverly side. another good news it, won't turn to ice, too warm for. that will so dealing with rain, no ice, that's great news. okay, snow is a look at 422 eastbound, pa turnpike looking good in both directions, 422, both areas looking really good. you can see plenty of headlights are out there on the roadways, good indicator a lot of people heeding the warning getting out on the roads ways before the rain moves n it will slow you down quite significantly. fifty-nine south approaching girard around the areas of very, very slow yesterday, also heating up already right now, not even in the

6:00 hour. already, starting to see plenty of headlights out there, as well. still traveling at posted speeds minds you, yet know it is going to be busy. blue route headlight moving in the southbound direction at ridge pike looking good. same thing as what we just looked at, starting to heat up now. in the world of mass transit route 36 trolley bussing between eastwick loop and 73rd and elmwood because of disable vehicle, then blocking those rales. make note that far, just make sure to check your schedules on line also construction this morning, in delaware, 495 northbound between 95 and philadelphia pike. that right lane block until 6:00 a.m. erika, back to you. >> thank you, getting free shipping on amazon, just got bit harder for none prime shoppers. amazon raised minimum amount to get free shipping from $35 to $49. that's a 40% increase. it is not clear when amazon made that change. prime members who pay $99 a year for that program are not affected. new way to pay for your purchases. use your face. marry maloney explains how you

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>> carry underwood hits the stage at this wells fargo center, but before she got the party started, she makes one family's night extra special. "eyewitness news" reporter diana rocco takes you back stage for that exciting moment. >> fresh off her grammy performance, in a few shows in to her story teller tour, carrie underwood spoke with "eyewitness news". >> nice earlier in the show, i feel like a lot of times i'm nervous during the entire show. i don't get to enjoy myself. >> back stage at the wells fargo center, warms the hearts of the military families from bucks count. >> i we thought we were just going to a concert. >> carry surprised john and cara martin and their two girls before her concert, also giving them a free trip on carnival crews in the fall where she'll perform in a

private concert for 1,000 military members. courtesy of carnival, and operation homefront. >> i hear the most amazing stories, you know, i've been able to sing songs, like see you again, where people are like, man, my husband just left, or just came back, or whatever, and that song like means a lot. >> john has done three tours every duty overseas, and after ten years, the couple still hasn't taken their honeymoon. >> it bridges tears too my eyes, even though i don't serve any more, the spouses do their part, too. they hold down the for the, they worry about their husbands, they raise their children. >> and for the little girls, it was a night to remember. >> i felt like really excited. and i felt like when i go to school tomorrow i would tell my friends. >> philadelphia is the first of ten stops along carry's tour where she personally might military families and thanks them for their service. outside the wells fargo center, diana rocco, cbs-3,

"eyewitness news". >> what a great idea. well, we finally get to meet kim and kanye's son. check out adorable little fate west right there. kim kardashian west posted this photo of her three month old to her website, in honor of her dad's birthday rob kardashian. she said nothing more in the world than he would have wanted than to meet his grandchildren. as you can see, saint sleeping quite soundsly with with his arms above his head, in the cozy little thermal bunny is. coming up in the next hour of "eyewitness news", katie tracking the rain that's moving n when you can expect the heaviest downpours. >> also the holiday season's most popular gift, receiving more scrutiny. the stunning number of fires now being blamed on hoverboards. >> and how do you wrap up a year in space? we'll show you how astronaut scott kelsey spending his final days in orbit. we're back at the top of the hour. good morning.

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>> before you know it the rain will be here. looking liver at storm scan3, showing that 12 punch headed our way. katie will time it out including which areas could see snow. also, a disturbing crime in a normally quiet community, what the mayor is saying this morning on social media, to calm down neighbors.

>> and, while donald trump hopes to hit the jackpot in today's nevada gop caucus, another candidate making major changes as his campaign. good morning, tuesday, february 23rd, i'm err erika von tiehl. latest on the rape. good morning. >> good morning, happy tuesday, the roads are actually looking pretty good. construction moving out of the way, some of the roads looking dry. but katie of course we know that this will be changing. >> tracking wet weather building in through the course of the morning, already is in fact starting to lift in for some of you at home here, specifically, across delaware, finding some of the rain pushing in as we speak, so let's go ahead and take you outside. show you waist going on. anything yet. but notice, even the early part of the morning here nothing but rain. now, some of you, namely, poconos, and portions of the lehigh valley, are goi