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right word. >> they are definitely interesting. >> my face will tell everyone. >> katie think i brought cold weather, which i did, she's right, but i didn't bring negative 20 wind chill or the ice on the roads or the snow. >> it the is good we do not have any of that. >> we are however looking ahead to possibility of some snow for some of you here come weeks end, not today. today is quote unquote mild day but there is also some other weather related issues we are contending with namely the wind and it is at least milder then average but that wind can counter balance that. we will look at storm scan we have had a lot of wet weather the last couple of days, i'm this is saying we don't need it but nice to see clouds break for some sunshine today, but with that we are tracking a cold front passage and that will allow these kind of temperatures, to basically be about 20 degrees colder this same time tomorrow. so, much, much child year air is about ready to invite. we are at 44 degrees at philly international and millville
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and lower 40's is story around the board hearsay for mount pocono at 35 degrees. as we walk forward here in the eye witt the necessary weather , day lander, you will find temperatures back in the mid 50's here today. would i say about 9:00 in the morning or so, we will start to note that is wind picking up, it is not damaging but it will be enough that you notice it and gusting in the zero's or 30 miles an hour, at some point today. now, come friday a little teaser for you light morning snow is a strong possibility, we could see an inch or two, best chance south east half of our area and i will go into much more details into that possibility, just a later on, meisha. >> thanks very much. and good morning, everyone just waking up, i just want to say we are so happy you are here. also good news vine westbound side you are just opening an eastbound side you usually follow suit fairly quickly. westbound side we are looking good, we will see flashing lights here, crews on the way eastbound side we are waiting a little bit so heads up for those jumping on the vine. you should be okay leaving now
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ben franklin bridge, looking good pushing in the westbound direction in center city. one thing i will call your eye to is wet red ways from the rain we are having yesterday as katie pointed out. head up on that, this will slow you down, even though it is not raining right now, wet roadways, and, give yourself a couple extra minutes, and, westbound between fort washington and valley forge, that right lane blocked in that area and we have a traffic light malfunction that is still out there, franklin new jersey route 47 northbound at route 40. heads up as well debris in the roadway in new jersey as well 295 southbound before root 32 two. on the left shoulder will that slow you down? neigh a little bit if we don't get that cleaned out of the way deeper in the 5:00 o'clock hour, jim, over to you. a quick update on this huge three alarm greenhouse fire in lower milford township , lehigh county. fire fighters are still trying to bring this blaze, under control burning for almost nine hours. thinks the can shanz farm and greenhouse on spinners town road. the fire broke out about 8:30
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last night. there are no reported injuries , and no word just yet on a cause. meanwhile a deadly shooting is under investigation in the holmes berg section of the city >> man was found shot in the head inside his home last night. eye witt the necessary news reporter trang do is live at 8,000 block of erdick street, tran, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. rahel and jim. detectives have a mystery on their hand here. they found a man shot in the head but no gun and no suicide note and other suspicious circumstances, but take a look , it happened in this house here, yellow house you see here, with several apartments, we're told it happened in a rear apartment, on the first floor. now, take a look at this video from the scene overnight, police responded to the 8,000 block of erdick street just after 10:00 p.m. for a man shot inside an apartment. officers found a 37 year-old man with the gunshot wound to the head and paramedics pronounced him dead on scene. victim's live in girl trend said she came home around ten and found her boyfriend bleeding heavily on their bedroom floor. police say someone rifle
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through drawers in the second bedroom and there was fresh damage to a closet door. now there were no signs of forced entry but chief inspector scott small says the front door may have been unlocked. >> definitely appears one of the rooms, was ransacked, and fact that this victim was shot in the head, it is suspicious enough for this to be investigated as a homicide at this time. >> reporter: at this point police do not know if anything was taken. they also told a red camaro from the scene earlier this morning. now, detectives are speaking with the victim's girlfriend as well as several friend who showed up to the scene last night. for now we are live from holmesberg i'm trang do for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". back to you. >> thanks for that report. murder suspect jeremiah monell is due in court after evading police for two weeks in south jersey. monell was arrested monday afternoon in the wooded area in folsom. he had been on the run since his estranged wife was found murdered in their commercial township home last month.
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judge dropped charges against the former, wwe star, ruling that he is not competent to stand trial in the 1983 death of his girlfriend nancy argentino. her body was found in the white hall township help tell room. last month snuka's attorney says his client has been in hospice and only has a few months to go. investigative reporter and author irving has been following her death for over three decade. >> justice delayed is justice denied, and unfortunately, the family of nancy argentino is not getting the closure that they deserve. >> there is no question in my mind, from the interviews we have conduct, and the investigation that we did, there is absolutely zero, zero doubt in my mind, that this was an unfortunate accident. >> a spokesperson for lehigh county district attorney's office says it will decide what to do at a later date. well, tomorrow a former radnor official will answer to charges of indecent assault, on a 100 and three-year old
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woman. william spangler is due in court thursday accused of inappropriately touching the elderly woman at a nursing home in wayne. witnesses say it happened three times on three separate occasions, spangler is the former radnor township commissioner. he is out on bail, and, authorities say, they have more evidence that they want the district attorney to review. well, both president obama and vice-president elect mike pence, head to capitol hill today. the president will try to save the affordable health care act , pence plans to talk to g.o.p. leaders on how to reverse it. the repealing the law has been focus of the incoming republican dominated congress and president-elect trump. well, u.s. intelligence agencies deny that they have delayed plans to brief president-elect trump on alleged russian interference and presidential election. mr. trump sent a tweet claiming that the briefing was delayed. he suggested the that the intelligence community needed more time to build its case, and the president-elect has been skeptical of their conclusion that moscow helped him win. and the president-elect is making plans for his first
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news conference, since the november election, it is next week, only nine days before his inauguration. and just several months since mr. trump held a formal news conference but he has answered questions from reporters, as recently as last week. well, a philadelphia police officer is off the streets after a video of a physical confrontation with a teenage girl, surfaces on social media. charges have been dropped against the teen and now the officer is under investigation for misconduct. eyewitnesses captured chaos on new years day when police responded to a brawl involving 30 to 40 people on south 54th street in west philadelphia. the female officer is scenery petely punching the girl, teenage girl initially add hit ted fault in the statement but is now denying that she ever heat hit the officer what she could have did was like at least tell me to backup first, but what she did was put her hand on me and told me to backup, and it went there there. >> she was refusing commands of the police officer, the female police officer out there and kept trying to
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person her back to get out of harms way and to move back and clearly she wasn't trying to arrest her because she would have just done that. >> police internal affairs is investigating this incident. investigation into another similar incident this one is in north carolina is also making headlines. we will have more on this coming up 59:30. dylann roof has been back to court in south caroline a for penalty phase face of this trial. jurors will decide if roof should be put to death for june 2015 rampage that left nine people dead, roofies representing himself this this phase. he report thely plans to deliver an opening statement today, and he will not aloud to approach the jury, witness stand or the bench. prison officials say convicted mass murderer charles manson is alive but they are not the releasing any other details on his condition los angeles times reports manson was moved from prison to a hospital and seriously ill. eight two-year old is serving nine life sentences for 1969 manson family cult murders. new this morning turkey is detaining five suspects who may be link to the night club
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attack in istanbul. isis has claimed responsibility for the new years eva tack that killed 39 people. that is 70 others that were wounded including local note i have jake raak, who is back home this delaware. the gun man is still on the run. we have confirmed that the vice-president joe biden's future includes work at the university of pennsylvania. >> biden spoke to white house plans were confirmed with the help of an opened microphone, don't you love open microphones? the vice-president presided over the mock swearing in ceremony for senators and their families yesterday on capitol hill. mike was hot, when vice-president biden told a guest he will work on foreign policy issues at penn and continue his famous cancer moon shot research initiative, through the biden trust. a new mayor and city council are in charge in wilmington. mike, was sworn in as mayor of the grand opera house yesterday. the businessman succeeds dennis williams lost november election after one term, 12 city council members were sworn in, seven of those are newly elect members. well, up next, what authorities say caused a big
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kind of like this look. i'm calling it the "name your price tool" phase. whatever. these next two stories serve as a remind ter slow town, we have ice and snow on the roads. now, this video fridays just outside denver, colorado where a truck driver rolled over his big rig during a snowstorm. police say speeding when he lost control and missed off ramp, even though he took out a pickup truck and another
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vehicle no one was hurt. up in north farming ton maine a truck driver plowed right into a house because he was speeding on icy roads. you don't want to do this. the driver is from florida, where he doesn't have to deal with wintry conditions. they were injured. everybody in the house was okay. story of cautionary tail of a different sort to one was injured here but damage after a young driver, backed the car right into someone's bedroom this happened at an apartment complex in dallas. rescuers arrived to find gold honda parked halfway through the wall. luckily in one was inside that bedroom. park rangers in hawaii say visitors had a close call this holiday weekend. >> group ignored warnings to get a closer look at a lava flow. the five tourist finally listened to them and moved back, minutes before a huge shelf of unstable land collapsed. into the pacific ocean. collapse triggered wave up to four stories high, and the park is now closed while experts machine for more, possibly rowings. this is why you have to
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listen to the experts, i mean granted, our weather is nothing severe, but in the the like this. >> not laugh flows. >> i'm not walking on a engineer a lava flow. >> it the is just common sense , sometimes, right. >> but we did have slick road the last couple days. >> we did, thankfully we weren't trying to get away from lava flow, you know, but we definitely had a fair share of, not what you said just some slick spots and ponding on the roadways. that in itself can be a hazard trying to travel through that. so let's go outside and we will show you first, that system that brought thaws rain , that is retreating. we do have, however another trent that is starting to work it way toward us. the it does president have a lot of moisture, so i'm not that worried about any wet weather from it, rather, we will see wind pick up and eventually we will see much colder canadian air take over in its wake. way, out west we will go to take a look at snows currently falling in central rockies and rain out this california, this is one part of the puzzle, as we see another system
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streaking out in the plains over the next couple of days. that will bring possibility of snow, here, not every where, but in some spots, and especially in the southeastern corner of our region. the let me walk you through pattern. storm number one going away. high pressure in the wake of the front that will cross through here today that will lead to much colder conditions , tomorrow but we are going to see a quiet dau. then we will see the next system, starting to work its way east and this is, going to very likely, just clip us, so especially from philadelphia south east, friday morning, so , about this time, we will be very likely to sees some snow falling. i don't think we're talk ago lot about accumulation, at worst a inch or two. we will fine tune this as we get closer, but friday morning , that is a time frame right now, for us to see a round of snow and even the delaware beaches even into the early evening, we will have have a little hint of light snow falling. thousand, best chance, again, will get to the southeast most counties which isn't all that typical. we will usually be talking lehigh valley, poconos, best
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chance for snow but it is based on where this storm is tracking. everyone will have enough cold air to support snow. it is all about where storm itself is going. i don't like calling it the a storm. it is a disturbance. the outside pleasant valley middle and high school, all nice and calm, and quiet, just chilly, but it is a heck of a lot milder right the now then it will be in the days ahead, just wait until the seven day. windy day on tap. not terrible at the moment but those wind will pick up at 9:00 o'clock. ten to 20 miles an hour sustain winds could peak upward of 25 to 30. clear and very cold tonight. twenty-five the lose and then we cannot even hit treeing mark for three straight days, saturday, sunday and monday, 30 at best, meisha. >> yes, tis the season, all right, katie. thanks very much. thirty's teams cold to you, not he. ahh. >> boulevard moving in the southbound direction, is what we are looking at. we are starting to heat up pushing in the southbound direction. once you jump on the
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schuylkill westbound right around city avenue we are picking up a little bit as well. evidence by headlights would i say give yourself a couple extra minutes as we push through 5:00 o'clock hour and once we get this is 6:00 o'clock hour we will need to do so. ninety-five south at cot hand pushing this is southbound direction, looking pretty darn good. we are looking in the north bound side you can see headlights out there moving this is the northbound direction but southbound side we will keep an eye on. plus we have a construction project, as well you will remember and familiar with, i am as well, when it was blocking far left lane, both moving in the the southbound and northbound side, that far left lane was also block that construction project, has you this been cleared, so look the at this, all four lanes of traffic are now open. that is really going to help us this our morning commute. still will get busy but that will help us out. we will take anything we can get on i-95. vine, closer to that construction, westbound and eastbound side, we are now all cleared, eastbound side you are starting to heat up, as you can see, lot of headlights the out there but still traveling at posted seed and are looking okay. now, bam, first accident of
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the morning 295 southbound before route 42 in new jersey that left lane is block, we have wet red ways out there i can tell you right now wet red ways despite the fat being that the rain is coming down right now, it will slow us down a little bit. so overall give yourself some extra time, and just make net of that accident out there, rahel, back over to you. all right, meisha, thank you. now for a look at newspaper headlines across our region. >> on the cover of the trenton paper trenton city council witt vote to raise purchasing agent tobacco from 19 to 21. ordinance is approved trent than will be the 22nd municipality in the state to raise the tobacco purchasing age, to 21. from the spirit of delaware county william penn school district is speaking to fill vacancy have a high number of departures there were 17 retirements and 26 resignations across the district, the average is between three and five a year. bucks county courier times , doctors and jewelers are suggesting avoiding the titanium wedding band trend. stronger then gold or silver and less expensive some say
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titanium rings can be dangerous when a ring becomes too tight or injury causes a fink tore swell and cut off blood circulation ring cutters won't to the job but bolt cutters need to be used to remove the ring. >> something to think about. that is a look at newspaper headlines around the delaware valley. well, still ahead, a basketball fan is waking up a lot richer this morning. >> you have to see the incredible shot he made during last night's half time show. plus this... >> ♪ >> this, this is the skit that started car pool karaoke, we will tell you how james corden is remembering his friend singer george michael when we come right back.
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26-point last night you would think they cruised to an easy victory against timber wolves. near blow out became a nail biter that came down to the finish line. joel embiid trying to put sixers on his back, he had 25 points and eight word. that bucket, gave them a little will breathing room putting them up by eight. and hey you have a license for those guns, sir. we are this is done. up by three. they forget all about ricky rubio and he incomes down a triple to tie it with under two seconds to go, i can't believe it, either. all right. we will go to overtime. no, we don't, robert covington off the toss of dario saric and circus catch and finish. they missed eight, three's but knocks down most important shot of the game. sixers hold on 93-91. a lot of games, we just going to have to, go down the stretch, we will have to execute, our plan throughout the game, man. that is what we did throughout this game, man. they made a run. we were able to withstand that
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and we came down toward the end. >> the sixers are back in action friday, against boston celtics. also the flyers host rangers, tonight the at the center, and number one rang villanova put their 20 game winning streak on the line, against 18th ranked butler tonight. that is your sports, i'm pat gallen. have a great the day. hit a sees than high 17, three pointers. >> it seems as though long distance shooting skills rubbed off on one of their fans. >> congratulations. >> you know, no big deal. thirty year-old darryl, hit a half court shot between third and fourth quarters of the game and won, listen to this, $95,000. $95,000. lakers layers love it, he is ivity man to win the big shot jackpot this season and listen to this, he will use those winnings to buy his mom a car. >> good for him. >> ninety-five grand.
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it is usually five you this dollars or something. >> they have more in california; it costs more in california. >> coming up half an hour of "eyewitness news", jersey will top a in the so great list. >> we will tell you what it says about residents in the garden state, also this. disturbing video of separate incidents to show police officers using questionable force against teenage girls, that triggered investigationness two states. i am will's hena daniels in new york and we will she you both clips coming up. and then it is losing weight is one of your goals, we will tell you why you may want to avoid sugar free diet drinks. we will be right back, jim.
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drying out, mobile three out live on those road this morning after two days of soggy weather, katie says it will be windy and mild today but much colder air is heading our way. good morning, i'm rahel solomon. i'm jim donovan. katie and meisha will be along in just a moment but first here's what you need to know to start your day in the morning minute. right now, intense flames continue to burn at this greenhouse this lower milford township and lehigh county. eyewitness sent us this video of the fire last night. detectives definitely have a mystery on their hand here, they found a man shot in the head if you no gun, and no
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suicide note. and a judge drops murder charges against former pro wrestler jimmy snuka, the lehigh county judge, put one time wwe star is not competent to stand trial. you you are invited to come on this show, anytime, i'm sorry, there is nothing in my prompter here, can you go back. i'm sorry. >> am i supposed to be singing right the now. >> okay. we have a great show. >> i have always said help things go wrong here i would like to have backup dancers here. >> you do have backup dancers. >> i do, my angels. >> sometimes things really go off the rails. >> turning now to katie, sometimes weather goes off the
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