no, i'm kidding. 100% u.s.-based customer service. here to help, not to sell. we're in for a wednesday warm up, and won't that be a nice change after these days of bitterly cold temperatures. katie's here to tell us when we could see rain though and that unfortunately yeah, even some snow again. >> ugh. >> good morning. i'm rahel solomon. >> i'm jim donovan. katie and meisha will be along in a few minutes but first here's what you need to know to start your day in the morning minute. authorities are trying to figure out what caused this

vehicle to lose control and crash in the pole on the boulevard, southbound outer lanes remain closed. president-elect trump is expect to tea tail plans to sever his business ties when he holds a news conference this morning. >> it comes amid new reports that rush gathered compromising information on mr. trump as part of their plan to interfere in the 2016 election. president obama is back in washington d.c. and he arrived overnight after delivering his farewell address. >> it has been the honor of my life to serve. i won't stop. >> reporter: while noting accomplishments he used speech to encourage support tours engage in the political process. now trump needs to hire a lot of people because unlike previous transitions trump is getting rid of all obama hires immediately, he is even getting rid of the people in charge of the maintaining our nuclear ars that will. yep, they are leaving, our nuclear weapons, home alone. >> i believe we have a cliff.

>> down the hall to the left. >> thanks. >> you have to wonder. >> that was good. >> the whole process. >> you just have to wonder. >> lets get out to katie, it looks like, as we were leaving this morning, it was a monsoon out. what can we expect rest of the day. >> that is a trek quote from our jim donovan it was a monsoon, what is going on out here. that was my jim donovan impression. not very good, obviously. we have had really soaking rain that worked its way through as our lovely anchors were getting out and about this morning. you can see a clearing at this point. that is very helpful for rest of us that are now waking up hitting the road. we will still have wet roadways but they are not icy in most spots. that is very helpful. now i don't want to you get overly confident, guys we can still have trouble traveling with the sheen on the surface and having to flip windshield wipers but please be careful but icing is the not a concern

any shore. tonight another round of wet weather moves in. daylight hours are tine but there will be pockets of steady rain that come with our next warm front, rather that will be lifting in and even though that is tapering by 3:00 a.m. tomorrow we can have another quarter inch of rain, and certainly, some additional wet roadways to contend w here's where we stand a handful of spots in the live neighborhood network, check out pamona 48 current temperature. noticeable wind, noticing it the here too but that is out of the southwest and that will continue for us throughout the rest of the day. breezy, skies clear, lunchtime and ride home for kids, it is so much milder, still jacket worthy obviously but heck of a lot shore comfortable, meisha despite that breeze. >> absolutely i tell difference right away. good morning, thanks for that. good morning. happy wednesday. fifty's on tap for today, 60 tomorrow, needy say more. we had a disable vehicle in the center lane blocking boulevard northbound at ninth street. that has been since clear.

we are looking good. we can see another within pulled off to the southbound side but overall, this is showing you the wet roadways. it will in the slow us down? it is. it will slow us down. give yourself extra time. ben franklin bridge pushing in the westbound treks this is what you are looking at there. looking good. maybe picking up a little bit heeding warning getting an early jump start. not a bad idea. head up, look at this we have three separate accidents in this area route 30 bypass eastbound at chester county airport, one of those is overturn, talking about those slick conditions and wet roadways can it cause problems , yes, and also will it slow us down? yes. this is just an example of more to come. we have an accident gulph mills westmontmont avenue at matsonford road. leaving home early and take it easy. rahel, back to you. president-elect trump has scheduled a morning news conference his first in six months. he will face questions not only on cutting his business ties but also new information alleged russian hacking. several government and

officials tell cbs news that russia gathered potentially compromising personal and financial information about the president-elect but chose not to disclose it touring campaign but russia decided to release e-mails damaged hillary clinton's campaign if this report were true that russian intelligence had truly compromising material, on the president-elect and that there was some cooperation or collusion between his campaign and russian that would be unrest dented in american history. >> and the president-elect blasted the report in an all caps tweet calling it fake news, a total political witch hunt. president obama has taken his last flight on air force one. >> this morning he returns to washington after delivering his farewell address in chicago. as we gentleman jiang reports the president encouraged supporters to keep fighting for issues that they believe in. >> it good to be home. >> reporter: president obama returned to the city that launched his lit california career, delivering his last speech as commander in chief to an audience in chicago.

>> four more years. >> i can't do that. >> reporter: president spoke for 50 minutes thanking the american people. >> every day i have learned there you, you made me a better president and you made he a better man. >> reporter: mr. obama recounted his ago establishments the in the white house. >> if i have told you eight years ago, that america would reverse the great recession, take out the has ter mind of 9 /11, marriage equality and secure health insurance, you height have said, our sights were set a little bit too high >> reporter: he spoke of disappointment,. >> race remains a potent, often tea vice i have course in our society. >> reporter: he used his speech to encourage supporters to engage in the political process and to keep fighting for the the issues that they believe in. but he also had a cautionary tail of the current political

climate. >> if we don't create opportunity for all people, the disaffection, the division , that has stalled our progress will only sharpen. >> reporter: the president saved his most heartfelt thanks for the first lady, their daughters and biden family who joined him on stage to say good bye. >> weijia jiang for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". president obama's younger daughter sascha was noticeably absent, from the farewell speech. >> white house officials tell cbs news she stayed this washington because she has a exam this morning. >> good priorities these parents. 5:37. in business news this morning how you can save money from valentines day. >> what you won't need when you hit, one atm. money watch's jill wagner joins us from the the insuring stock exchange with those answers, good morning, jill. >> reporter: good morning. to you jones continues to retreat there that 20,000 milestone, yesterday, the dow jones fell 31 points, nasdaq finished 20-point higher, to notch its fourth record high,

in a row. volkswagen could agree to the settlement with u.s. prosecutors over emissions cheating scandal as early as today. under the proposal they will plead guilty to criminal wrongdoing and pay $4.3 billion in fines. volkswagen submitted that it equipped diesel cars with software that cheated on pollution test. wells fargo say they will be able to take out cash from atm's without any card. customers log in the smart phone app and get an eight digit access code, they would use that and their regular atm code to start a transaction. and, if you are planning to take away your valentine for a trip next , best time to book is right now. the travel search engine, sky scanner says buyers can save 15 percent on flights, booked this week. jim and rahel. >> thanks, jill. we will check with you tomorrow. meanwhile on cbs-3 healthwatch a new study looks at kids meals at chain restaurant. harvard researchers say those

restaurants are not making heels healthier, of the change taking part this is program to i am roof menu researchers found calories, saturated fat and sodium levels are about the same. they say sugary drinks make up 80 percent of the drink options. and, u.s. and british researchers say millions of lives could be saved if governments exchanged policies to reduce salt consumption by 10 percent over ten years. it shows salt reductions policies will save health care money. we have been hearing about self driving cars for years and auto make are say they will have autonomous vehicles in the the next few years but as chris van cleve report governments are still working to create rules for the road. >> at north hearn interest that the auto show, car companies are unveiling more vehicles, that eventually won't need a driver. the volkswagen id buzz is a future nod to the classic vw bus, built to drive all by itself. the buzz is just a concept but this chrysler pacifica from the google company waymo is

road ready and will begin testing later this month. vice-president joe biden got a look at awe ton house version of the ford fusion with new sensors and more computing power. next tech cade will be defined by automation of the vehicle. >> reporter: mark fields believes it is coming soon. >> our intent is to have a fully autonomous level four vehicle which can that have gate in a predefined air contract in 2021 and we are on track to do that. >> nearly every auto maker and tech companies are developing autonomous vehicles but there will be speed bum tops get over before self driving cars become an every day reality. >> manufacturers are, certainly adding new features and increasing the time sent you can drive with your hand off wheel and all these different safety features. right now government and regulators have yet to pass laws allowing drivers to completely let go of the wheel >> many countries. >> reporter: nissan ceo says that is next challenge. >> in my opinion, the biggest unknown, is at what seed we will be able to introduce the

technology, at what seed the regulators will accept it. >> reporter: last year legislation allowing autonomous vehicles was interest tuesdayed in 20 state , almost all of those bills are still, pending. chris van cleve, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". after a weekend of chaos at fort lauderdale airport a little girl has been reunited with her beloved teddy bear roofus. >> courtney, was forced to leave roofus behind when a gunman of course opened fire at the airport this past friday, killing five people and then wounding six others. well, she was unable to sleep without her bear, her mother reached out for help. >> there was something on the news last night, and then read about it in the paper today. i walk in the warehouse this morning just to check in and i saw roofus sitting on the table. i said that is most famous bear this is area. we need to get him home. >> roofus was given to courtney ten years ago when her grandfather was dying. her mom said they have been inseparable ever since. good to see a nice home coming there. >> good story there. up next, i will tell you how you can be the opening act

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i got to tell you nominations are out for producers award. llla land ace monk ten films nominated. others include fences, hacksaw ridge, lion and manchester by the sea. the produce's ward are handed out january 28th and strong indication for oscars best picture. and star wars tans will love this, george lucas is planning a new billion dollar museum for los angeles. it will be call the lucas museum of narrative art and showcase his art collectons and movie memorabilia that includes the original mask, expected to open in 2020, los angeles was competing with san francisco for the project. and hey, jim, katie, hi meisha, can you guys play an instrument. >> i can. >> we can try out for bon jovi 's opening act what do you think. >> i'm this. >> totally. >> wait for it. >> coming your way. the bandies coming to philadelphia in march and they are holding a contest for band or singers to open up for their upcoming tour. could it be us?

it may be. >> artists, all you have to to is up load videos of yourself performing original music, concert pro hotter live nation will select ten finalists and bon jovi will pick winners to perform 20 minute sets. >> i posted this on facebook and twitter. i played the accordion. i don't know if that will match up with the bon jovi style. >> i play recorder. >> lawrence welk. >> a little bit, little bit. >> i like you're key of getting our house band to to this. >> i tweeted it out. hopefully they will respond. >> yes, will we compete against them. >> we can be backup tansers. >> i'm so in with this, not like that though. we will get coordination here, and put a little band together, exactly. >> exactly? we have some nice warmth to go with this forecast. we will switch gears. do take a look i don't want to you get overly confident. hear me say this all morning. these road are still wet, they are not thankfully icy. hint of the breeze. you can see that with the flag

in the foreground here outside hotel bethlehem in bethlehem where we are, again, saw some pretty decent rain last night. and we have icing issues as well but now temperatures have listen thighsly enough, that certainly any snow has had a chance to melt away, but also, you will see any icing potential really go by wayside that is very helpful. with that said these are mornings that we rely on our eyewitness weather watcher network because they give us a good idea is what happening in the neighborhoods. we have so many observation sites to pull from but this really gives us a better idea and view of how things are shaking out across the region. we have a handful of rainfall amounts that came in, john jenkins reported, over .3 of an inch, that came in from perkasie, delran, alan reporting same thing and similar situation from jenny as well out in cherry hill, lynn in cherry hill reporting over .2 of an inch but it wasn't a major soaking, flooding kind of a rain, certainly but did come through with some gust toe to say the least. meanwhile i will switch it back over here, we will look at what is happening with the

temperatures as they stand. the currently we are finding 30's, upper 30's and 40's around the region. what we are looking at here is what the difference is from the the last 24 hours. this is absolutely, astound to go me. it is 44 degrees warmer then it was this same time yesterday, at the atlantic city airport. that is incredible. i have, i don't think i have ever seen that, since in my entire five plus years here at cbs-3. so just unbelievably milder, and boy, you will note that is difference. good news here too is that we will sea breeze pick up and that is helpful because it helps to dry things out. we are going to see sunshine, you can see back edge of the cloud here from that front all of the rain moving out to sea, not the best though, is there a new system working in, bringing in snow across minnesota, portions of wisconsin but that is lift nothing. we will see this area fill in with more wet weather later today as it lift north east and it does, mean more rain for our area. as early as, possibly, 6:00 this evening, but it would be, just rain, and it

moves from southwest to northeast. delaware, and southeastern pennsylvania, southern new jersey and points north east of that. looking forward, we have a little home show here on friday. we are going to hit 60 degrees that is meisha's favorite day in the forecast. >> yes. >> we have to deal with another cool down, my friend and might be a little snow rain mix on saturday. please enjoy 60-degree day while you've got it. >> katie, you are such a tease , such a splitter but i like it. you see, i like that. all right. katie. >> yes. >> i like it. >> shirley temple. >> 4:22. headlights moving in the eastbound direction past oaks it is start to go build here we are taking a lot at roadways because they are wet and they are slick and it is causing problems. we will talk about that in a little bit new jersey 42 freeway north bound at creek road looking busy approaching 295, people jumping off early and then should but what will happies people will jump off early and get busier earlier. so might have to leave even

earlier. then, we have got four accidents, in this area, of coatsville. so, head up on this route 30 bypass eastbound at chester county airport we have three separate accidents there. three of them. then, lower gap road at first avenue and plus in these three separate accidents we have an overturned vehicle as well. this will start to slow you down but more than anything, it is a cautionary tail that you certainly, want to take it easy out there you might have icy patches and slick roadways , whatever the case, this is setting off those alarms to let you though it is very, very rough around that area also another accident park road at route 29, or gravel pike, that is going to just be a heads up for those in that neck of the wood. traffic light malfunction at broad street at vine street, that has cleared but one in cherry hill route zero seven at penn avenue is still out there, jim, over to you. vice-president joe biden says he and his wife jill will head back hon into delaware, of course, by train. vp tweeted news yesterday, biden, of course, rode rails between washington and delaware throughout his 44 years in public life, but

vice-president says serving the united states has been the greatest honor of his life. well, when biden tamly moves out of their washington d.c. home mike pence and his family will move in. it is on the ground of the u.s. naval observatory. >> correspondent craig boswell has a sneak peak at vp's new digs. >> reporter: biden's took mike pence and his wife karen on the tour of their new home. >> hope there i they enjoy it as much as jill and i have. >> reporter: joe and jill biden have lived in the 33 room queen ann style home, located on the ground of the that i haval observatory. the observatory's long time public affairs offices, jeff chester showed me one of the telescopes the that the last three vice presidents used to get a glimpse of the final frontier. >> they have been dually i am rested. >> reporter: he is looking forward to showing pence some views that are truly out of this world. there is also a second telescope that scientists used to first spot the two moons of hearts back this 1877, and

chester is quick to point out his great grandfather was superintendent of the observatory and lived in the house. >> so whenever the vice-president comes up i always asked him if he still likes living in my grand grand pop's house. >> reporter: vice-president's lived here since 1974 when congress made it their official residence. >> it is not a fancy house but very livable house. >> reporter: it is home to the atomic clock the most precise time scale in the world, which should helped mr. pence stay on schedule. craig boswell for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". senior citizen jumped in to help victims of the car accident. >> coming up we will tell what you this man used to pull a woman to safety. we will be right back, stay with

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welshing all eyes are on president-elect donald trum this morning he will hold a news conference in just a few hours just as explosive new allegations about russian hacking, come to light. >> it has been honor of my life to serve you. i won't stop, in fact, i will be right there with you, as a sit send, all my remaining days. >> president obama delivers an emotional farewell address, the moment he turned up on stage and what he had to say about the the current political climate. what a difference a few taste make, we are warming up big time but there is another chance of snow, in the the forecast. today is wednesday, january 11th, good morning, i'm jim donovan. i'm rahel solomon. lets get to katie and meisha who are keeping an eye on

things, guys. >> happy wednesday, hump day, i got the to tell you wet road conditions can trip us up, in coatsville, a big shout out there. a lot of problems. not quite sure why you might be able to shed light on that, katie but we have four or five accidents in that area one a overturn vehicle. >> what is goodies these temperatures have had a chance to climb so we are above tree ing, so unless there is one little spot, yes. >> it is possibly, but i will say that is the majority of the region starting to moderate up. we will take a look at overnight totals that we saw with the rain and rain is all gone we will see that, but we ended up with a couple tenths of an this much. bala cynwyd .32. .3 in warrington. the fleet wood just shy of that. it is not an exhaustive list but when we see first loop of this shield of rain rolling around the region. it is long gone. we should be trying out. we are beginning to try out, wind picking up,