recall german officials say he had originally injured germany seeking asylum, but rejected, authorities had also said that there was possible terror threat and had him under surveillance in september. months ago, amri put on the us no fly list. now, we turn to katie now for a check of the holiday weekends, that's good news. >> yes, and at the moment at least we are looking at very tranquil weather guys. we can expect to see temperatures rebounds to slightly above their average, four, 5 degrees above the seasonable average what we can expect for the afternoon highs. nice, quiet. because we don't really have a blanket of cloud cover overhead, to act as a natural blanket, temperatures have had a chance to drop off as you might expect. put things into motion, tri-state sweep, throw the satelite coverage on top of this, also not picking up on much, just nice clear calm, crisp start to the morning, requiring the heavy winter coat. but not necessarily as harsh as recent mornings have been.

>> actually seen surplus on the thermometer, virtually no change at all, but drastically cooler like places like millville, 11 degrees cooler than this same time yesterday t reflect on thermometer readings there is isn't terribly harsh, for late december, we can handle this. 34 degrees, modest winds, generally out of the west, northwest, and you're going to find that shell sticking around into the early morning, but by the time we hit the afternoon, we expect the high to hit upper 40's, great weather for travelers, and there will be a loft us hitting the rales, roads, the air. so it looks like it will at least cooperate in that regard. but justin, some rain on the way. we will tike it out just little later in the show. >> yes, snow lovers, not liking this pattern, looks like temperatures will stay mild finishing offer the rest of this year. to new jersey, 42 freeway clear both southbound, northbound, no issues, headed in jersey at this point. schuylkill expressway at spring garden, headlights

eastbound, good speeds here, all across the region. no problems yet. still have construction zones to deal with. we do have accident near the willow glove mall, center avenue, just heads up there. again, 95, this is supposed to be lift the at 5:00. three lanes blocked on the north, right around the 295 split, but you can get back over to 95, just due to heavy construction, valley forge road closed between morris road and sumneytown pike. alternate broad street. abbottsford road closed between wissahickon, until late february there. is your speeds, no problems, in and around the city. vine street expressway, 95, northeast, good, hopefully the speeds stay. now with the construction zone being lifted also the blue route looking good, as well. that's checking your ride this morning, jan, we send it back over to you. >> justin, thank you. breaking news this morning, apartment fire in montgomery county leaves one person dead, and nearly two dozen displaced. just after 1:00 a.m., fire crews responded to apartment fire in the 400 block of high street, in pottstown. the victim was found on the

second floor. meantime, "eyewitness news", is told about 20 people are now out of their homes, no word on the cause of that fire. >> just two days until christmas, stormy weather dampens some people's effort to make it home for the holidays. >> hundreds every flights have been delayed or canceled, leaving passengers with no where to go, trang do live at philadelphia international airport where it looks like all systems there are a go, at least for now, trang? >> reporter: right, jim, yes. none of the issues here this morning, things are pretty much moving like clock work, all of the early flight scheduled to leave on time at this point. and people really breezing through the tsa security line here. talk to me more about what people can expect for their holiday travels, dana syd well from triple a. good morning, thanks so much for joining us. >> good morning. >> expecting record number of holiday travelers? >> yes, triple a predicting record travel volume for the year end holidays, that periods starts today, goes through january 2nd. >> so were you telling me really good reason for that,

that we are all enjoying with these two weekends, back-to-back, tell me about that. >> we are going to see two back-to-back three-day weekends, that affords people the opportunity to travel, in addition, seen lower gas prices this year see rebounds in the economy, all of the factors definitely contribute to the record travel volume. >> we can't complain about that, with those cheap gas prices most people you said are going to be traveling by car, right? >> 90% of those traveling in our region will go by car. that's over 1 million, philadelphia area residents, will travel 50 miles from who are by car, it is easy, convenient, you can stop and start, and it is cost effective, especially if you're traveling with family. >> awesome. thank you so much. really insight full. and yes, this is just the time of year that usually very busy, but right now, i'm telling you, time for people to be at the airport, just breezing by here, and had the opportunity to talk to some of them, lot of people going to florida so hear from them coming up at 5:30. for now live from the

philadelphia international airport. i'm trang do, cbs-3, "eyewitness news", jim, jan, back to you. >> i've always experience that time of morning is the best time to get out. >> exactly. >> it starts piling up. >> early bird gets the worm. new this morning, police searching for two suspects, after a home invasion in kensington sends woman to the hospital. >> now there is happened on the 500 block every east allegheny avenue, just before midnight. twenty year old woman, answer add knock at the door, when two men forced their way into her apartment. a struggle ensued. when one took out a gun and shot her. >> now, what's interesting about this home invasion shooting, just prior to these two perpetrators forcing their way into the property, and shooting the victim, we were told by the next-door neighbor that these two males knocked on his door and when he came to the door, they were asking for a name that was not familiar to him. soap, he locked his door, and would not let them in. >> the victim is in stable

condition. her 20 year old roommate, and her three year old son were unharmed. well, hatfield township police need the public's help to find two suspect wanted for home invasion in montgomery county. police tell us steven gibson, helen grant, forced their way into home on east broad street hatboro. hat fields borough. excuse me. investigators say they ransacked the house yesterday morning, and stole money. but a woman and newborn child were home at the time of the robbery. fortunately, no one was hurt. if you recognize these suspects, please call police. philadelphia police pursued a car around the art museum around 7:00 p.m. last night. police chased that car around the art museum before it was stopped on spring garden street after heading the wrong way up 19th street. there is no word this morning on any injuries or why police were pursuing that driver. meantime mother of 14 year old girl is in jail after her adopted daughter's body was found. grace packer of abington was reported missing in july. her dismembered body was found by two hunters on october 31,

in luzerne county. the mother, sarah packer, faces charges every endangering the welfare after child and obstruction of justice. police say she did not provide photos of grace until two months after her disappearance. we need the public's help today. we're asking publicly for all of our respective reasons for our citizens, to provide us with any information that could help us solve grace's murder. >> now, grace's mother has not been charged with murder, but she and her boyfriends are considered persons of interest in this case. she's being held at montgomery county prison pending trial. >> well, an isis-inspired group's christmas day terror plot is foiled by police in australia. five men plotting an attack in the country's second largest city were arrested during raids last night. this is the building where they were found. authorities say the group is accused of planning a series every christmas day bomb attacks, on a train station, and cathedral. officials say the suspect's ages range from 21 to 26.

the men have not been identified. >> well, we're almost four weeks today for the president-elect to be sworn into office. cbs news correspondent brook silva bragga has the latest from new york on what mr. trump is doing to prepare. >> hours before the un was set to vote. president-elect donald trump called for the draft resolution to be vetoed. tweeting that it was extremely unfair to all israelis. the measure put for the by egypt called on israel to immediately halt settlement activity in palestinian territory in push to stop the un, sources tell cbs news, israeli officials side-stepped president obama, who appeared ready to allow the resolution, and reached out to mr. trump. trump purport i hadly spoke to egypt's president then egypt delayed the vote. >> i honestly don't know if or when a vote will be rescheduled. what we continue to try to do is work toward being a viable two state solution realize. >> mr. trump also set off concern about nuclear arms race on thursday, after

russian president vladmeere putin proposed russian nuclear expansion, mr. trump tweeted: you ate into -- united state must expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nuke. >> he is putting the worlds on notice that he will do what he thinks he needs to do to keep us safe and secure. >> he is not trying to change a policy through twitter. >> trump campaign named as white house counselor, former rnc spokesman sean splicer will be his press secretary. that will interview with fox news, defended trump's use of social media. >> he has a direct pipeline to the american people to talk to them in a way that no one has done before. >> inauguration day is four weeks away. brook silva bragga for cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> here is some news to get you going this morning, the eagles have won a close game for the first time this year, and kept the giants from clinching a playoff spot. >> the birds turned in great performance rocking lincoln financial field. intercepted eli manning three times including two by nelson

jenkins, one of which he returned for touchdown, and carson wentz through 40-yard touchdown pass to nelson agholor. eagles win 24 to 19. more highlight coming up in sports. >> you have a little jacket you'll pull out later on? >> i do, the eagles suit comes out at 6:00 # #. >> stay tuned from. that will i hear a grown from cathy. >> happening today, celebration of hanukkah at franklin square. >> well tonight's festive tis include dradle games, latke's and crafter, in celebration of the festival of light. fun takes place from 5:30 to 7:30 tonight. the franklin square holiday festival runs through december 31st. well, dash cam video captures the moment a train slammed into a car. sitting on the tracks. >> yes, take a look at this, if you can believe it, no one was hurt by this wreck. the quick action by rescuers that saved a life with only seconds to spare. >> and fighting a deadly virus, the remarkable break through scientists have announced against the ebola

virus responsible for thousands of deaths. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> here is a live look from hotel bethlehem in the lehigh valley this morning. i need to watch this movie. it is always a good holiday move. >> i great classic. >> i have to find it somewhere. it has to be on one of those channels. you're watching eyewitness flues this morning. back in a moment. >> ♪ >> ♪

>> breaking news, manhunt is over. we're learning that suspect, anis, amri killed in a shoot-out in milan. the shoot-out took place about 3:00 in a milan neighborhood during routine police check. the italian news service says amri pulled out gun from his back pack after being asked to show his identity papers. he was killed in a ensuing shoot-out. police officer was also injured. again, italian news service is reporting the various source ins milan and rome have confirmed that the dead man was anis, amri the suspect that killed 12 people in berlin. >> and in other news, world health organization study confirms an experimental ebola vaccine highly obama negative could prevent outbreaks like the one in west africa. given to 5800 people in guinea after they had contact with ebola patient.

showed immediate vaccination prevented infection, results were so promising the study was actually halted so anyone expose today ebola in guinea could get immunized. >> firefighters were forced to flea massive apartment fire in massachusetts as flames spread quickly. responded to the fire in 24 unit apartment building, last night, one firefighter fell to the third floor, into the second floor. it is believed fortunately everyone got out safely though. >> alarms went off my house. burning directly above my apartment. i did all i could, come out the house, everybody got out safely. they fight about it, showed up >> investigators do not know the cause of the fire. >> tracks in california, thankfully, no one was in the car at the time of the crash. firefighters had just pulled out the driver of the car, in sante fe springs. authorities say the driver was

visit ac friend, when she made a wrong turn and got stuck on the train tracks, train service delayed for hours while the scene was cleaned up. >> boy, that's a close call. >> absolutely. >> and we're dodging some bullets as far as weather is concerned. >> yes. eventually, we will be, you know, at least for now, we are expecting some very quiet weather, for any travel plans that do you have here today. full sunshine, temperatures that are a little bit above their seasonable average. we take. that will but there is a chill in the air to go along with it, we also have a storm system. but at least, very fast mover, but it does come with somewhat poor timing because it doesn't come under the cover of darkness later tonight. and into tomorrow morning. so there could be little bit of icing. if that's what you are finding right now, snow, whole mixed bag of rain, ice, snow, all across the mid section of the united states, moving quickly if you recall, watching thus same time yesterday, there was only precipitation to be found back to the four corners at that farther east. really has moved east quickly, now starting to blossom little

more, gather up more moisture that it is into the plane states, but because it is moving along so quickly, we really don't have to worry about this past tomorrow, late morning, and early afternoon. let me time this out for you. bit of wider zoom, sense every how things will sort of move in here, make their arrival. whole day here today looks great. but by the time the sun is setting, we will start to see the clouds building in here. and of course, it is a sign of things to come. later tonight, bee would be talking two, 3:00 in the morning or so, the rain does begin to move it way in here. and notice, up to the lehigh valley pocono region specially could you see this come in as a little bit every icing. that will will be something that needs to be monitored. this should be arrayed after that fills in more wide coverage of rain by the time the sun is actually coming up here. you will be dealing with only couple of hours, up until lunchtime before it is starting to push away. starting to clear west to east. may actually get some breaks in the pattern where we see sun before the sun even sets for hanukkah. that could be some good news,

right? by the time santa's making his rounds, though, it should be all clear. no worries weather wise for the big guy overhead, saturday night, christmas morning looking nice, bright, sunny, actually really nice when it comes to the forecast on christmas day. we will get to that in the seven day. blue mountain looking beautiful, very picturesque this morning, but, they will be making a lot of man-made snow no know in the forecast, pleasant day on tap, high of 47, dropping down to the mid 30's tonight with the clouds building and showers approaching, and here is a look at the seven day. boy is it mild. so late december, anyway, 50's big deal. so, shower again on the way coming tuesday, that's the mildest day of the pack however. it does turn cooler justin, come wednesday. look how quiet it is, for wintertime, usually big storms, not happening. quiet pattern, pretty mild to finish off the year. water main break still issue, columbus boulevard southbound, look like to close it down, supposed to be at 6:00 in the morning, both lanes now taken

out, headed south queen street columbus boulevard. ben franklin bridge, looking good. looking at new jersey headed into the city and out of the city. no problems this morning, nice and dry, with clear skies, like you saw. now, we do have construction zone, pennsylvania turnpike westbound before downingtown, right lane block, turnpike probably going to be heavily traveled over the next 24 hours. another construction zone, between ft. washington and norristown two, lanes also blocked. and just heads up, we have the accident still near the willow grove mall. center avenue at easton road. that's a look at your ride this morning, jim and jan, we send it back to you. >> now, for look at the newspaper headlines, from across our region. >> on the cover of the trentonian, two women arrested in connection with death after woman shot during a robbery gone a rye last month. >> denise richter of hamilton and katie of morrisville, charged as accomplices in the death of amber dudley. dudley shot in the chest while

being driven by man providing tran takes through the ride sharing service lyft. >> mother and her 23 month olds son, recovering from injuries suffered at they fell off a roof while alluding armed rob earls. this happened during a home invasion wednesday night, on the 300 block of hog avenue. the woman told police, she took the child, and climbed out after third story window, in an attempt to hide from the robbers, but lost her footing and fell with a child in her arm. >> from the front page of the mercury, another sign of the holiday season, dressed as angel, saint theresa of calcutta sang from family members during their christmas activity in limerick this week. >> that's a look at some of the newspaper headlines from around the delaware valley. >> well the eagles pull off an upset at the linc. >> hear what the players think their win against the new york giants says about the team. that's coming up in sports. >> hi, i'm sergeant theresa thomas, from ambler, pennsylvania, in kuwait. i would like to say happy holidays to my mom, my brother, sean, john and

>> eagles five game losing streak is over. >> birds kept the giant from clinching playoff spot in eagles territory. the eagles were already up seven-nothing, when malcolm jenkins made the first of interceptions, and returned it all the way to the end zone eagles picked off three, eli manning passes in total, and beat the giants, get this, 24 to 19. the birds were naturally feeling pretty good after their win against the giants. >> that the lip, lesley van arsdall has their reaction. >> well the object of this game was to get a win, not just come close. they got that win. and they snapped, five game losing streak. >> for us a chance to win a division game, one, and erased sort of the negative feeling we've had these last couple of

weeks. >> been in so many close games, to finally finish one like there is we new we could do it all along, just struggling, obviously, but to finally finish one, it is a good, good taste in our mouth for sure. >> obviously good for moving forward. you know, we have pretty young team obviously young quarterback, so we've been so close for a lot of these games this year. you know, few plays, different each game, the outcome a lot different throughout the whole season. >> regardless of our record, regardless of what's going on throughout the game, we will fight to the end, and that guys don't stop. guys don't quit, regardless what's going on, that's the best quality that we have in this lockerroom. >> it shows that we got the fight, have pride, than we will go out and play, you know, no matter what the circumstances are in the game. >> at the end of the day, fourth quarter, it will be a tight game. we just got a finds to make the one or two plays that puts us out in front. today we found those plays. >> next up for the eagles, the cowboys here at home new years day.

reporting from the link, lesley van arsdall, eyewitness sports. >> well, santa making special early delivery for several lucky children. >> we will take it, south philadelphia, where state law maker is helping santa out in giving away free bikes. the important reason behind it. >> plus, an overnight two alarm fire leaves one person dead, and more than dozen out in the cold. the place where this all unfolded, over the last several hours, katy? >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪

>> the holidays are almost here, looking at shady brooke farms, bucks county. our photographer is there, going through the light tunnel. i was there last year. gorgeous, jim. >> this year's display features more than 3 million

lights holiday lights show runs through january 8th. >> i'm jan carabeo. >> i'm jim donovan. here's what you need to start your day in the morning minute. >> apartment fire leaves one dead nearly two dozen displaced. >> we've got sunshine in store, there is, how much, system that's going to be streaking across the us brink withing it some wet weather to our area for christmas eve. >> and italian news agency says a man killed in milan is the berlin christmas market suspect. with a was missing person's case has evolved into a homicide investigation. >> authorities nailed the mother of 14 year old girl as person of interest after her daughter's body was found. >> at a point where we are coming to the public, coming to you all in the media and asking for your help. somebody sees her getting on a plus or plane, we would love to know about it. >> man something back again. he steps