>> well now at noon people out and about at philadelphia christmas village are all bunt dollars up. but, we're in the midst of a warming trend. there are above average temperatures, for much of the region, good afternoon, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm january carabao >> ii think it will be looking ahead to the holiday weekend, may bump some folks out. so many of us dream of white

christmas this time of year, but simply not going to happen. and typically our chances are pretty low, that said, generally 20% or under, it is actually official white christmas in the city of philadelphia, even the immediate vicinity here. with that said, hey, this is good trade off. let's look at storm scan. actually had some warm air push in early this morning, actually helps bring in a very light scatter batch of some precipitation early this morning, actually sleet g very briefly as i was out here for one of my morning weather hits on the skydeck, that's all long gone, take a look, ac. not bad over achieving at the a.c. airport, at the immediate shore, little bit cooler, but currently at 50 there, and 47 in philadelphia, and the afternoon is obviously still pretty young. so we've got few more hours, with that lower sun angle at this time of the year. to actually evening out few more degrees, again, at the immediate shore not as mild as your finding in atlantic city at the airport, specifically, little further inland, but here in the city, i think

we've got shot to do harmless flirtation with the 50 degrees mark today. >> obviously had snow here and north earlier today. >> skies continue to clear out nicely. gradual warming trend, really is one of the overriding themes of the forecast. but coming up, we do have to worry about a little bit of wet weather that may put damper on your holiday weekend, and we will talk much more about timing on that, a little later on, guys. >> katie, thank you. >> well, fans will be dealing with some relatively chilly temperatures out there tonight. as they flock to south philadelphia, to see the eagles host the giants. the birds are hoping to help spoil new york playoff chances. the giants stand at ten and four, and a win would clinch post-season spot for the g-men, birds hope to delay the celebration for at least a week. so far, only the cowboys and seahawks have clinched playoff spots in the nfc.

and, all lanes are back open on i-95 southbound, near the walt whitman bridge. after a crash this morning ended with one of the vehicles bursting into flames. chopper three over the scene, as fire crews responded. now, one person was taken to the hospital, but is stable, the accident is now under investigation. >> your commute or i am 95 hopefully just got little easier. part of big construction project that tied up traffic for four years along that area of road has officially wrapped up. chopper three over the stretch now, this is i-95 between cottman and bridge street. where all four lanes are now open. commuters are re juicing. >> it is great. not so bad for me in the morning time. >> this time in the morning it is not that crowded but on the way home it is terrible. >> i'm relieved it is over. it is a little bit of inconvenience in the morning actually, sometimes, now that i think about it. little them cleaning up overnight. i would hit some of that and if i'm late for work it does

affect me. i'm glad it is done and over with. >> penndot began construction back in the stretch in 2012 in order to expands i95 at cottman avenue interchange. >> trail of construction in wynnefield, police say driver smashed into five parked cars, along the 4,000 block of ford road about 2:30 this morning, one eyewitness says the driver grabbed his license plate off the ground before running away. another resident tells cbs-3 the crashes could be heard all over the neighborhood. >> it was loud. it sounded like the big crash, huge crash, had no idea what it was. >> hit the side, car hit the pole, her entire driver side is messed up. >> police have the vehicle identification number of the car involved in the crashes and currently work to go track down the owner. >> president-elect donald trump is engaging foreign policy matters before taking office, issuing statement this morning before a united nations vote.

this afternoon. trump also named kelly ann conway as counselor to the president. for the latest we go to craig boswell in washington, d.c. >> president-elect donald trump is calling on the obama administration to veto united nations resolution that would demands halt to israeli settlement. the president-elect issued statement thursday morning, saying, peace between israel and the palestinians can only come through direct negotiations, and that the motion weakens negotiating position. mr. trump's statement came hours after israili prime minister benjamin netanyahu tweeted he wants an us veto. >> egypt con dense the un. >> one thing i can say about vice president netanyahu, he's bulls been candid with us. >> president obama and mr. netanyahu have not always seen eye to eye, and the administration has not yet said how the us plans to vote. president-elect trump, has

conway as senior advisor. >> west wing to continue my service to president-elect donald trump. >> will help shape mr. trump's administration, thursday morning, she defended the president-elect and call for tighter immigration policies. >> donald trump has made it very clear that we need better vetting policies in these countries that train, harbor, export terrorist. >> wednesday afternoon mr. trump said the terror attacks overseas proof his call for a stricter immigration policy is the right approach. craig boswell, for cbs 3, "eyewitness news". well the death toll in this week's fireworks explosion in mexico has now risen to 33, and now, mexico's attorney general has opened an investigation into the incident. investigation will focus on whether or not safety measures were followed, authorities now say there were six separate blasts, and eyewitnesses say the explosions went on for more than ten minutes. now, this is a third incident at the same market, since 2005. twelve people are still

reportedly missing. >> two americans were among those injured in monday's deadly truck attack, that killed 12 at the berlin christmas market. authorities continue their search for 24 year old tunisian man whose fingerprints were found on the truck. meanwhile market in berlin is open for christmas. correspondent roxannea has more. >> reporter: the christmas market in berlin was back in business thursday but the mood was somber, as many came to pay their respects to the 12 people killed. concrete blocks were placed at the market's entrance for sex interest security. german authorities conducted raids overnight as they search for the suspect, 24 year old anisamri. his brother urged him to turn himself in. >> he doesn't represent us or our family, he says, video on a facebook page attributed to amri1 of the few moving images of the suspect. german officials say he entered the country seeking asylum but rejected, supposed

to be deported in june but it never happened. he was already known to authorities as a possible terror threat, and had been under surveillance until three month before the attack. he was put on us no fly list, five months ago. authorities confirmed amri's fingerprints found in the cab of the truck. one received 25 stitches after the truck came crashing into the crowd. he and his wife were in berlin celebrating their first anniversary. he says he couldn't see anything because of the blood coming from his forehead. two americans were among the 48 injured. cbs news, new york. well, coming up on cbs-3 "eyewitness news", startling scene caught on camera. looks like a normal ride on a bus, but wait until you see what happens to this man on the right. >> and concerns about the queen. the reason many are worried about her health this holiday

frightening scene on bus in fresno, california is caught on tape. and e-cigarette allegedly explosion dollars -- explode in the that man's pocket. he was immediately able to put the fire out. the 53 year old told fire crews he believes the device over heeded to the point of the fire. he suffered burns to his right hand and thigh, and was treated at a local hospital. >> queen elizabeth and her husband prince philip left london by helicopter for christmas vacation, a spokesman says, quote, heavy cold have them traveling by train yesterday as scheduled.

>> correspondent mark phillips outside buckingham palace with more on the couple. >> the royal, the queen's official flag to indicate where she is was still flying over buckingham palace, it shouldn't have been. the royals should have been at their country estate, up in the northeast of glands, where they go every christmas. >> this is them last year, the parade is much as part of the holidays as christmas trees and carols, although the queen now drives. for it to have been delayed this year, for health reasons, is a cause to wore. >> i the queen all she would have wanted to do yesterday was stick to her plans. >> the queen is 09 now. prince fill i am is 95. has had number every health issues over the past years. philip was hospitalized for what was called the bladder infection after the couple stood in the rain for hours during the river pageant two

years ago. he's been rushed to the hospital several times for series of heart problems, and investigative surgery. >> the couple have announced they'll be doing fewer public events, but still determine to do what they can, and when they can't, the world -- the famously robust for their age, in fact, prince philip posted here couple of weeks ago wondering why he hadn't had the flu in 40 years. the doctor responded maybe because that's the prince doesn't ride the subway like everybody else. mark phillips, cbs news, london. >> well did the had a point there. beginning january of 2018 it will become little more complicated for pennsylvanians to board a airplane. >> new identification guidelines from the transportation security administration make pennsylvania licenses invalid under the federal real id act. travelers will be unable to pass through airport checkpoints, next month, pennsylvania i.d.'s will no longer be accepted at federal

agencies and nuclear plants, delaware licenses are already compliant, new jersey has an extension through next october. >> well, still ahead right here on "eyewitness news", see some holiday visitors right here in our area. >> it is not rudolph. but we will show you where you can see these reindeer. but you have to act fast. katie? >> of course, guys, the weekends means christmas is upon us. and we are going to be tracking some showers on christmas eve. i'll have much better timing for in you terms of specifics and when to expect the rain, but sunshine comes along for christmas day and throughout the course of the weekends, also turning milder. we will have all of the details plus the rest of your seve

>> for the 36th year, santa is getting a head start on his world-wide christmas eve trip, thanks to septa employees at ule toy drive. >> staff members across septa have contributed bikes, games, dolls, and all types of toys for deserving children in septa service area. septa elves loaded up the buses with gifts this morning, at its center city headquarters as they prepare to deliver them to various agencies throughout the greater philadelphia. it all comes from our employees, we have toy barrels all over the property, they've filled them to the bryn and more. so this is just a great way that we can give back to the community. >> septa worked with various charities anchor. throughout the city where most of the toys will be handed out. like i said, we are keeping him bus. >> i exactly. >> time for santa almost to hit the road or should i say the sky. >> our pat gallen met up with a few friends in advance of the big day. >> in just a few days, santa clause will travel the world

with help from his friends. so we're here at the north paul, ada -- a/k/a the elmwood park zoo, getting ready with reindeer. this is tray and collar east. they're getting ready to hang with santa. hey, guys. tray and klarice won't be flying with santa this year. >> this is tray, five years old, one of our reindeer, thee is very sweet, just have really impressive set of and the letters here. >> this is clarice, three years old, about 130 pounds, a lot smaller than tray, the size difference does come with rage. >> reindeer can reach impressive 700 pounds, most in the 400 range, while tray and clayice will get large, still be large enough to pull a slay. >> right? i thought so too. good and the letters. >> another interesting fact, reindeer re-grow and the letters very quickly. >> well, what's pretty cool,

both males and females will grow and the letters and they do drop them every year and grow whole new set. get little larger every year. >> every year, grow whole new set, these are from the past year, usually females drop, males are starting to drop them early december until about now. >> in you want to hang out with my friends, tray and clayice, meet them at the elmwood park zoo, hurry, they go home on january 2nd. >> and little kiss there at the end. how cute are they? that was of course our pat gallen reporting. for more information on how you can see tray and clayrice, go to cbsphilly.com. >> you can get photos up until they head back north. >> you know they're busy. we all learned so much from that our pat gallen. >> national geographic professional there. >> so true, my gosh. so, it looks like santa's flight is going to be totally worry free when it comes to wetter. >> right. >> exactly. >> give the man a break. >> exactly, yes. so i don't think that we have

to worry about rudolph needing that really really polish that nose too badly. not expecting any major fog, not specking any major storms. we do have little bit after fly in the ointment, call it here, for saturday, specifically, in the morning on christmas eve. so, we're going to track in a second, but give you sense what the atmosphere is doing as a whole right now, for that, we go out to our trusty storm scan3, little disturbance pushing through here, brought in decent snow actually across new england since this morning, up-state new york pretty much covered with snow early this morning, that helps usher in, and evening out very comfortable air for the standards every december 22, that's a theme that continues for us, much wider zoom, showing the combination of the next storm system, right now, brewing over southern california, the four corners there is will eventually become our next rounds of rain, and that comes along, again, on saturday morning. now, timing is everything.

this time of year, to allow for icing, talking about freezing rain situation, see if happens, timing does have to work itself out. but his is at least one model, how the timing will shake out as early as 4:00, 5:00 armor so, we begin to see that moisture creeping in. and depending on the temperature, at any given point, when this gets here it, could freeze on contact. so, again, there might be wintery mix in the poconos, but mainly a rain producing system. as much milder air is working its way in, eight, nine, ten in the morning, maybe pockets of steadier rain, by 11:00 a.m. could be good soaking rain coming through portions of new jersey, and then, it is long gone. by the time the sun is setting for hanukkah, we should be starting to clear out nicely. and santa will be making those rounds around midnight and i think it is all clear over the delaware valley. so, again, no worries there. as we take you out to shawnee mountain, beautiful view here. just bright blue skies, things have cleared out nicely, clearly folks are out, enjoying the slopes right now.

there is a chill in the air, but it is technically above average. we go to a different point down to cape may courthouse, still clouds left over here. 47 degrees. not bad. feels a lot more comfortable outside, not short and t-shirts weather. currently not bad, 50 degrees in wilmington, up 40th's still holding here at philadelphia international airport. and low 40's, at worse mount pocono. just outside the city we go to palmyra where it is 49 degrees. forty-six in both willow grove as well as doylestown and 45 the magic number from pottstown to quakertown. rest of the day features sunshine. i do think you will see the breeze or notice the breeze picking up with time. we're not talking major wind gusts out of this, just more noticeable, to up 50 miles per hour, turning more westerly as time goes on, then tonight of course we do have that eagles game that we had been talking about, bit of chill in the air, 39 is not bad at all for again december 22. we will take that. out of the northwest that win will be blowing as high as

15 miles per hour, then we jump to you saturday evening, happy hon kay, a lot of clouds, and i think frankly actually going to see the clouds continue to lift with time. but not terribly cold. down to 45 degrees, at that point. and we can expect those temperatures to continue their climb, into sunday, christmas day looks lovely, if we're not going to see snow, at least we get the trade off of 50 with sunshine, we can handle that, then see more showers looks like into next week. >> sounds good to me. >> no complaints, yes. >> check it out. mario brothers continues to be the gift that keeps on giving for nintendo. >> japanese firm first mobile game app super mario run was downloaded, get this, 40 million times from the apple store, new record over that period of time. not all users paid the nearly $10 fee to unlock all levels, but the game still earned $14 million in just three days.

>> iacoca actually put out a statement that their stores are not meant for sleep-overs. >> this video from the summer showing two guys secretly spending the night at ikea, teens apparently hide out in closets, then come out with the stores close, at least ten incidents have been reported. oh, boy. that's "eyewitness news" at noon, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm jan carabeo, for katie, all of us here, thanks for watching. "eyewitness news" continues at 5:00. always on line at

>> hilary: devon. >> devon: wow. wow, wow. >> hilary: i'm glad you like it. >> devon: like it? >> hilary: well, i just -- i want to make sure that everything is gonna be perfect for our first christmas eve in our brand-new place. >> devon: you keep calling it our place. it doesn't feel like home yet, hon? >> hilary: well, it's gonna take a little getting used to. the move happened so fast. >> devon: yeah, but our suite at the club always felt temporary to me. this is -- this is real, you know? it's permanent. we can start an amazing life here together. >> hilary: yeah, i hope so.