eve, while working in the grocery store she owned. >> she was murdered, my mom was murdered. >> south jersey grandmother and her great granddaughter are missing. >> it was about surviving, but it wasn't about surviving for me. >> forty-six year old karen kline was found at a closed grand canyon national park saturday morning after hiking 27 miles in the cold. >> i just kept thinking i have to do this for my son. i have to do this for my husband. >> they keep patting each other on the butt. embiid, the steel, racing to the lead, and got it done. >> passed embiid. embiid. blocked. embiid. embiid. no good. and the game is over. >> oh, theixers on the road in sacramento, the game didn't end until 1:00 a.m. this

morning. >> really came down to the wire. but the sixers lost, 102-100. >> katie is out on the skydeck with today's forecast. katie, hopefully you have some better news for us? >> well ... depends on how you define good, right? >> you know, i feel like i have is a silver lining type weather to tell but here, you know, if you have got to deal with one thing, at least you have this, and that is you have to deal with bit of breeze, quite noticeable, i'll say, and also couple of showers, eventually working their way through. but the trade off is some serious warmth today. although it doesn't last forever. it never does, right? so, it keeps me in my job, right? we have ever changing conditions, in the weather, and right now, it is a cold front that's crossing through. at the moment, not bringing too much in the way of precipitation, eventually find showers still in the radar. not widespread wash out by any stretch, but it will be something that we track in the next couple of hours, look at some of these wind gusts. as i'm standing here on the skydeck, i can actually see my monitor just inside shaking, my hair flying everywhere, so

i'm glad we're full screen with the graphics. it is 36-mile per hour gusts that we're currently finding at the airport after all. so it is not a sustained wind necessarily at 36. but it is very noticeable, when it is coming out of the southwest at 23 miles per hour, that's sustained winds speed. 59 degrees, guys, already, in atlantic city, and of course still multiple hours before the sun even comes up. and, as the cold front crosses through, eventually the temperatures will fall. but not before we hit 62 degrees, so through this afternoon, skies begin to clear. what's good the wind will start to taper off at least. so it really is at its strongest right now, and through the morning, some scattered showers to go along with it, of course, still celebrating kwanzaa. 62 degrees, as we mention, the anticipated high. so, i mean, just very far cry, by solid 20 degrees or so. from what we would normally expect on this day. again, pat, not going to last forever. i know you like the warmth, and i might even have little snow up my sheaff lane later in the forecast to tell you

about. >> i don't mind the warmth. i will take little snow. i know not everyone wants to hear that, maybe i am a little crazy, probably a.m. yes, this is the schuylkill expressway headed eastbound, toward the city of philadelphia, looking so far so good. really looking so far so good on a lot of the major roadways, no delays here, no delays on the vine street expressway. they did not close it overnight, normally do for construction, they didn't, still looks prep think morning, starting to pick up little bit as you head eastbound. but other than that, really no delays here. there is a little bit of winds, keep an eye on, 42 freeway headed toward 295, toward the city of philadelphia, no delays here either. but again that wind is causing some problems, you see the tractor-trailers swaying just little bit on the roadways. but nothing major. mass transit the checklist, septa buses and trolleys, they are on modified schedule throughout this week. there is fire to tell but in jenkintown, susquehanna road at mill road. there was outdoor leakage fire that has the intersection kind of closed down there in

jenkintown. one more thing to tell but accident, gilbertsville, route 73, to route 100 northbound, injuries reported there. rahel, jim, over to you. >> let's get back now to the story out of south philadelphia this morning. police continue to search for the cold blooded murdered err of 81 year old grandmother. >> so sad. happened christmas eve while she sat in the grocery store that she owned. "eyewitness news" reporter trang do is live at marie's grocery store at sixth and wharton streets, trang? >> reporter: good morning, jim, rahel. investigators say the 81 year old great grandmother was testifily targeted. they don't know who or why. as police serve for her killer, growing memorial outside the grocery store that marie buck ran for more than four decades. >> this police department and this city and this district attorney needs to step up and do whatever they have to do. >> a gut wrenching plea from the family of long time south philadelphia store owner. gunned down behind the counter of the grocery that bore her name for 43 years. >> she was murdered, my mom

was murdered. >> just before 99:00 a.m. christmas eve, a gunman opened fire on marie buck as she stood behind the counter of her store at the corner. sixth and tight on. as investigators combed the store for clues monday, family members gathered at buck's home, just two doors away, remembering the joy the 81 year old wife, mother, and grandmother would bring playing santa claus this time of year. >> she made a big joke about giving everybody pot poor i, poo-pori this year, she just wanted to joke around. >> but the laughter quickly turned to sadness and frustration. knowing, their loved ones' killer is still out there. >> had words at one time or another, or was this somebody on drugs and completely out of it? who would walk in, just shoot somebody like that? >> and police are scouring the neighborhood for surveillance video, asking anyone with

information to come forward to help this family around the holidays. now, a sad thing going on here, and marie buck will be laid to rest on friday. but for now, live from south philadelphia, i'm trang do, cbs-3, "eyewitness news", jim, rahel, back to you. >> thank you so much, trang. >> so sad. still so many questions. trang, thank you. >> the search continues this morning for a missing grandmother and her great grand daughter from south jersey. barbara, and five year old lamyra left mays landing saturday, driving to see family in north carolina, relatives say barbara called them at 5:30 saturday, saying they stopped for gas, outside richmond, virginia, gas station clerk one of the last people to see them. >> she said i'm off. -- i'm lost. i was hoping they made it safe. now i hear the story. >> and the store clerk said she did help fix her gps, no one has heard from her since. >> well, the time now 5:36.

in business news this morning, starbucks puts on tuxedos for the new year. >> okay, i'm intriguedment and back to work on wall street. money watch's jill wagner joins us liver from the new york stock exchange, jill, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, jim, rahel. the market open after the holiday weekends, likely another day of light trading. dow inning closer to the 20,000 mark. rose 14 points friday, the nasdaq gained 15, looking like it will be a little bit of lower open today. snap chat snapping upstart up that specializes in august meant dollars reality. snap reportedly paid 30 to $40 million for an israeli start up called imagine, first furniture showroom which left customers place room place couch or table in a home to see how it looks, before they actually buy it. >> the nba, the wnba, offering security app for players to play overseas in the off-season. about 60wnba players played for teams in russia, china, to

offset their off season to supplement their salaries, app would let players directly with league, security officials, and starbucks ringing in the new year, in style. three new drinks are called the tuxedo collection, all three, the tuxedo mocha, tux seed owe hot chocolate, only available through january 1st, as long as we don't have to actually wear tuxedos, to get them. jim, rahel? >> i would actually try that. >> do you have to pay like tuxedo prices in if that's the case i'll just take the suit. >> that's good question. i think as always, they are a little expensive. >> a little? >> as always, jill. thank you. >> well, in other economic news, the highest gas tax in the country is rising in the new year. pennsylvania's gas tax will increase by another 8 cents per gallon on sunday. this is after the latest hike, 78 cents, from every gallon, will go to taxes, that mine

pays for road construction, and across the keystone state. a look at the latest prices at the pump. paying about two hadn't 45 for gallon every regular in pennsylvania, new jersey, 2.33, delaware, the cheapest prices in our region at 2.25 a gallon. >> well, a story of survival, and mother's undying love. easton family is stranded, during a severe winter storm in an arizona forest when a mom saved the dayment take a look. forty-six year old karen kline of eastern pennsylvania. she was found exhausted at a closed grand canyon national park saturday morning after hiking 27 miles. her family was on vacation, when their rental car got stuck at snowy forest thursday. kline a try athlete, and so her family agreed that she was in the best shape to go get help. >> it was about surviving, but it wasn't about surviving for me. i just kept thinking i have to do this for my son. i have to do this for my husband. i have to help them.

i have to save them. >> and rescuers found kline's husband and ten year old son late friday, the super mom said she ate twigs and drank her own urine in order to survive. she is being treated at an utah hospital. >> and you can watch more of the interview karen kline and her husband and this remarkable story of survival, today, on cbs this morning, starting at 7:00. of course that airs right after "eyewitness news". >> happening today, the prime minister of japan becomes the first japanese government officials to visit pearl harbor. prime minister arrived in hawaii yesterday. he meet with president obama today. the two will pay their respects to the uss arizona memorial. prime minister placed wreath at hawaii national cemetery yesterday. japan's attack on pearl harbor in 1941 drew the us into world war ii. >> a lot of people talking about. that coming up: oops they've done it again. hoax targets britney spears watch they said and where they said it. >> the good thing cats have nine lives. how this kitty may have used

up one of them, that's when "eyewitness news" continues. stay with us, everyone.

>> pop superstar britney spears is alive, her account

was hacked, with tweets claiming she had died. the false tweets have been deleted. spears' rep quick to tell cnn the pop star was in fact alive and doing quite well. >> and this little kitten is also apparently alive after a 600-mile journey in the engine after pick-up truck. the driver found this feline friend after stopping at a gas station in virginia yesterday. he suddenly realized it was the same cat he had seen earlier in, the cat may not have had the most comfortable ride. >> he was just sitting down here, around the air box area, just on top of the -- the brake reservoir. rest for minute, then get her into a cardboard box, we brought her here to the emergency vet. >> oh, incredibly the kitten was little dehydrated and had few nixon her, but fortunately one of the relatives decided to make the cat a part of their family.

>> awe. >> a stow-away! >> i think we should all paws to be grateful. >> that takes nine lives to wheel new level. >> boom. >> got to bring them out once in a while. those are the easy ones to do, the animal ones, right? we have a lot of weather to talk about, too, again, just quickly switch gears. we get right to t let's take you right on out to storm scan. two separate cold front of note this week. that's where we see the crazy roller coaster ride get underway. first cold front currently make it arrival or approach at the moment. bringing with it handful of showers there is doesn't have ton of moisture as far as we are concerned. and we've been toeing you go a lot over the last couple every days about blizzard conditions, severe weather threat, mid section of the s, kind of what is left of it. brought so much energy to -- energy to that region at this point the bulk of the energy, bypassing us to the north, just left with lingering showers of rain, at this point. there is new storm system that we're eventually going to be talking becomes we will get to that in a second.

dow want to take you out to the eyewitness weather watchers, many still sleeping in on holiday week here, but regardless do have some very warm observations coming in from the folks that are up and adam. thanks guys for sending these in. you have 57 from david out in clementon, 51 from fran, nottingham, and very mild conditions, elsewhere, pete is her in lawrenceville at 56, the list goes on, no one has bottom out below 50 so far from the eyewitness weather watchers this morning. and, that is kind of the norm across the better part of the region. let's go back to storm scan. now at wider zoom here. okay, but here is front number one. quiet for now, across the mid section of the us. system two, beginning to get it act together with snow currently in the northern rockies, what century moves in as our next reinforcing blast every cold air, that's what's going to allow us to bottom out into at best upper 30's for daytime highs from later this week. so enjoy the 60s that are on tap here today while you have them. they come with trade off, again some showers, through the better part of the morning, scattered in nature,

but clearing out, come, say, lunchtime and beyond. end up with some sunshine, now, we look ahead to the next few days, we are expecting to see a high pressure take place here, and there is storm system or front, more specifically, that comes along on thursday, to bring with it some snow, possibly, for the northern counties, as well as some rain. happy new year, guys, jump all the way to the next weekend, midnight 2017, ushering in the year at 37 degrees, just few clouds, all looking good right now for your new yee festivities. at least a modest rebound, for sunday, and monday, pat, over to you. >> thank you, katie. appreciate it. this is been rather annoying. this is columbus boulevard, something we told but for about a week or so. two right lanes closed still, hopefully penndot gets on this today, been out there for far too long. as you can see that car going by just the left lane getting by here. as that water main break, needs to be a pain in the butt. this is the 42 freeway, headed toward 295. the volume, starting to

increase, as we head toward 6:00 a.m. but again, with a loft people off this week, it is not the same as it would be on a regular tuesday morning. if you are headed toward philadelphia on this road still, so far, so good. there is a disable vehicle, 95, looking southbound, somewhere in that mess. there is a disable vehicle, off, blocking the right lane, so it will be a little bit after slow go here. ninety-five southbound, that's what you are seeing right here. there is an accident in tullytown bucks county, levittown parkway, near route 13. no reported injuries or any slow-downs as of yet. and an accident, still out there, in chester, too, second street between wilson street and mill street. there was an injury reported here. construction in wilmington to tell you about, i95 the southbound onramp from jackson street and at this street closed, 7:00 a.m. today. make note of that out there. rahel, jim, over to you. >> good to know, pat, thank you. the seek a virus dominated health news since 2015. >> did not he sewn controlled widespread infections, most of what happened in south and central america, but there

were isolated outbreaks involving around 200 people. and kenneth craig takes a look back at the year in health. >> the first locally trains mitt dollars cases of the seek a virus turned up in south florida crews sprayed insecticides to kill the mosquito that spread the virus. >> been referred to as the cockroach of mosquitos t can bite five people at once. spreads disease rapidly. >> pregnant women were warned to avoid the area, since the virus causes severe birth defect including micro self lee. the number of cases of a mysterious polio like illness in children across the country. afm can cause limb weakness, even paralysis or death. the american academy of pediatrics recommends infant sleep in their parent bedroom for at least the first six months, if not the entire year, to cut the risk every sudden infant death syndrome. >> reading rainbow. >> the aap also relaxed recommendations for screen time, saying parents who want to introduce children 18 to 24

month, to digital media, to choose high quality programming. >> you what really want to make sure you're doing is co-viewing it with them, so you're narrating what's going on. >> and the aap says there is no safe level of lead for kids. calling for stricter government testing of water, soil, and house dust. for the first time, federal health officials recommend the limiting salt in processed foods to help prevent thousands every death every year, from heart disease and stroke. a ten year study of the pain reliever celebrex found patient are not at a greater risk for heart problems than those taking the ibuprofen or nap myfoxphilly.com inch. task force continued to recommend mammograms every other year for women 50 to 74. and said screening can be effective for women this their 40's, but, over diagnosis is a concern. >> benefit are smaller. the the harms need to be carefully viewed. >> a woman underwent the first

uterus transplant in the u.s. but the organ was removed month later after a complication. a cancer survivor also received the first penis transplant in the u.s. the american heart association highlighted the differences between heart attacks in women, and men, saying, some risk factors can be more harmful to women. >> diabetes can be twice a risk factor, high blood pressure the stronger risk factor for heart disease among women. >> new fda regulations went into effect making it illegal to sell e-cigarettes to anybody under 18. kenneth craig, for cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> just think. them as musical house calls. >> still ahead on "eyewitness news", musician bringing his show to ailing fans unable to make it to his life performances watch it means to them to hear him sing. >> ♪

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>> a series of fans all over the country, the goal to lift their spirits through music. matt heads along for this heartwarming tour. >> what i love is my own music ... go with that.

any time it is a ticketed show, people are thereto hear the music. >> ♪ ♪ >> what's great about these shows is, you know, you're really helping somebody forget about their pain. >> nine years ago, i was diagnosed with colon cancer? right now -- >> even before my diagnosis, when i wasn't feeling well, the first thing that goes is the social life. my social life almost always re involves around live music. matt thought about that, wanted to do something for me. >> i'm bringing the show to my friend melissa tonight. >> and gave me a pick me up. >> ♪ >> this was my second time being diagnosed dollars with cancer. and i beat that. and now almost nine years later being back again, but looking forward to beating it

again. so i just request, a charlie cameo. >> really awesome to see the comments, that the guest of honor writes, you know, and how it brightened their day, or how it helped them forget about their pain, or struggle for just a little bit. >> stop looking at the thumb. >> something fun, to get your mine off of what you are going through. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> and an hour just to enjoy the music, enjoy other people, chatting with other people. it really helps a lot. cheers you up. >> i mean, that's what makes it all worth while. so real a awesome thing. >> lots of hearts to melissa. thank you all foray tending. >> hopes to get other new sessions on line to also do weekly dedications for those fans unable to get out to concert. >> and the holiday season continues today with day two of kwanzaa, and day four ofof hanukkah. >> the special ceremony taking place today in rittenhouse square to mark the jewish festival of lights, and the

day create of kwanzaa, stopping by in our area. >> ♪ >> the cause of the crash, what investigators say is to blame for a plane crash that killed 71 people in columbia. including members of a brazilian soccer team. we will be right back.

>> miss being, police want you to keep an eye out for these two. the place that they were last spotted and the license plate information to keep an eye out for. row home fire, the place where overnight fire broke out, just hours ago, how quickly crews got it under control. >> and small mayhem. people panic after a shots are fired in a new jersey mall. but there was no gunfire, what police say is to blame for all of the panic. today is tuesday, december 27. i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. meisha is off today. pitty and pat gallen keeping an eye on things this morning. >> i want to bring some good news, meisha is always so positive. i'm not bringing you coffee, but i'm bring you good news. >> that would get excessive, if we all drank a lot of coffee.