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i spoke to two maintenance workers who actually made the discovery. they said from the appearance of that heavy duty belt with wires protruding from it they were absolutely compelled to call police. that call went out to 911 just after 9:00 o'clock this morning. now as a result, temple school of engineering building at 12th and norris was evacuated, and about a dozen classes were halted. police shut down the area while they investigated to determine exactly what they were dealing with. the bomb squad did detonate that belt and ran tests that determined no trace of explosi explosives. >> it's a thick, very thick belt of commercial grade possibly military style had some wires coming out of it. so definitely suspicious. we then evacuated the building. cordoned off the area, philadelphia police came the many bomb squad came as well. >> odds are it might have been a project left over from last semester much they all kind of

look like they have wires coming out and mechanical things and whatnot. >> reporter: some members of the faculty actually applauded those the two maintenance workers say they did everything they should when they find something that they believe looks suspicious. now, police did sweep the building here at the school of engineering, and it is now reopened for classes. that is the latest life on temple university's campus in north philadelphia, joe holden, cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> joe, some relief there. thank you. signs banning sitting on the walls of popular philadelphia park are gone just days after the mayor openly criticized the posted warnings on twitter. natasha brown is live in rittenhouse square where a lunch time wall sit on celebration is planned. natasha? >> reporter: the plan sit in is taking place as we speak here behind me. you can just look over my shoulder here in the middle of the park. this sit in was supposed to be in protest it's now turning into a planned celebration. all of it was sparked by a sign that is now been taken down. let's take look here at some video of what started it all.

these no sitting on wall signs went up last week here in rittenhouse square in the park. they caused quite a bit of uproar until mayor kenney got involved with a simple tweet on saturday night. the tweet said simply, "sit where you want" he called the decision actually by the parks department to endorse the signs poor communication that he says he would not have approved had he been involved in this decision-making process. so, again, the sit-in is happening here behind me at rittenhouse square. a short lived controversy if you will. the mayor hoping to make the park more inviting to all. he says this is a public park. that is the very latest for now. right here in rittenhouse square, natasha brown cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> thanks so much, natasha. meanwhile in other news this noon president-elect donald trump takes over the white house in just three days. cbs correspondent kenneth craig reports that mr. trump will assume power with an approval rating lower than any other recent president. >> reporter: president-elect

donald trump's inauguration is just three days away and it it's shaping up to be one of the most controversy al in recent memory. so more than 35 house democrats pledged to boycott mr. trump's speech after his attacks on iconic civil rights leader and georgia congressman john lewis. who cast doubt on the legitimacy of mr. trump's presidency. mr. trump's advice kellyanne conway defend thed president-elect isn't like being the wal walking wounded. everybody is always begunking for us we're supposed to look the other way. >> reporter: congressman lewis chose not to react to the president election's words while celebrating the martin luther king hold say. >> as dr. martin luther king, jr., said hate is too heavy a burden to bear. >> reporter: nearly a million people are expected to attend the swearing in and hundreds of organizations plan to protest. >> all of the controversy and all of the scepticism that continues from the campaign in a typically american way will vanish in that moment of power

transferring from partisan to partisan. >> reporter: and today, russian president vladimir putin accused of the out-going obama administration of attempting to undermine mr. trump's presiden presidency. he said those who spread fake allegations are quote worse than prostitutes. putin is referring to dozier of unverified claims against mr mr. trump during a past visit to moscow. kenneth craig cbs news, new yo york. well "eyewitness news" will complete coverage of the inauguration of president trump our jessica dean will report from the nation's capitol thursday and friday. you can follow us online at cbsphilly.com and on the cbs local app. rally is planned for this friday afternoon to welcome vice-president joe biden and his wife jill back to delaware after eight years. biden represented the first state and the senate since nope 73. the welcome home rally will be at the chase center on the wilmington riverfront. the bidens are expected to attend friday's inauguration and then return to delaware, of course, by train.

the event is open to the public. and moments ago delaware's newest governor john carney delivered address during his inauguration ceremony in dover. >> dover, the next four years you will see me working every day in legislative hall, in our schools, in our prisons, in board rooms, in neighborhoods with our business leaders, our workers, our farmers, with democrats and with republicans. we're going to work together and think in new ways about our future. >> governor carney previously served two terms as delaware's lieutenant governor. beth thee long will now serve in that position. and in pennsylvania, pennsylvania welcoming its new top law enforcement officer swearing in ceremony underway in harrisburg right now for josh shapiro as attorney general. he previously served as chairman of montgomery county commissioners. in new jersey kim guadagno launched her campaigning to the garden state' next governor.

she's currently serving as lieutenant governor under chris christie. she's also new jersey's 33rd secretary of state. republican tweeted she's entering the gubernatorial race to help create better new jers jersey. well, bail has been denied for suspected fort lauderdale airport shooter esteban santia santiago. he was in federal court this morning for bail hearing. santiago you may recall is accused of fatally shooting five people earlier this month including two people with ties to our area while they were inside the airport's baggage claim area. six others were wounded. santiago will be back in court for an arraignment on january 30th. he has yet to enter a plea. meanwhile a court hearing today in oakland, california will outline the clamps against a widow of orlando gunman omar mateen. noor salman was arrested yesterday on obstruction of justice and other charges. prosecutors say salman aided an betted her husband' as tempt to support the islamic state group. the june attack killed 49 people, omar mateen was killed in a shootout with police.

police are investigate a deadly shooting in east germantown. a bar manager allegedly shot and killed by security guard working at that same bar. police say it happened after an argument between the manager and the armed uniform guard at sherri's little spot on boyer street and eastwood lawn avenue. the security guard is in cut did he but so far no charges have been filed. there were no reported injuries in the house fire early this morning in conshohocken, montgomery county. this is the three hadn't dread block of east elm street. now this fire broke out about 5:00 this morning. fire crews had the situation under control in less than 20 minutes. the cause of this blaze is under investigation. well if you're heading outside today, you may need your umbrella. >> katie tracking some rain. >> indeed i am, yeah, the rain is actually obviously right over my shoulder. likely to stick with us for the majority of day here but once we get passed the rain, another warming trend. how long this stretch of mild weather is going to last on the other side. >> thanks, katie. also ahead arc three year search for a missing airliner has ended. why investigators say they were looking for the wreckage in the

wrong place. that's when "eyewitness news" at noon

well the search is over for the malaysian airliner that vanished nearly three years ago much the plane took off in mar march 2014 from kuala lumpur bound for beijing and was never seen again. correspondent chris van cleve has more on this new heartbreak for the families of the missing. >> unfortunately, we are up able to find the plane.

>> reporter: facing reporters in kuala lump per this morning malaysian transport hipster cop firmed what mh370 families had feared for weeks. >> we are going to suspend the search until further credible evidence. >> in joint statement the chinese australian and malaysian authorities said the decision to suspend the underwater search has not been taken lightly or without sadness. >> mh370 lost contact with controls at 2:40am this morning. >> reporter: on march 8, 2014 malaysian airlines flight 370 vanish off radar on its way to bay jipping from kuala lumpur. the plane lot of contact somewhere over the gulf of thailand and according to military radar made a sharp turn west then eventually south. >> mh370 ended in a sudden

indian ocean. >> reporter: nearly a year and a half later, investigators confirmed the discovery of a wing flap from mh370 off the coast of madagascar thousands of miles away. >> but for families of the 239 on board, the end of this search offers little comfort. >> this is not an acceptable situation. how can they allow something like this to happen and just leave it unresolved? >> reporter: voice 370 support group for next of kin said in a statement, commercial planes cannot just be allowed to disappear without a trace. stopping at this stage is nothing short of irresponsible. investigators believe the plane did crash somewhere in the indian ocean but finding it has been compared to looking for a needle in a field of haystacks. and while some debris from the boeing 777 has been found the block box which is could explain what happened are still missing. chris van cleve, cbs news, washington. a pendant discover on the

form of nazi death cramp may be connected to ann frank. israel holocaust memorial has determined that this pendant belonged to caroline cohen she was a 14-year-old jewish girl who died. the only similar penn dan known to exist belonged to frank so that led research stories believe the two may have known each other or even shared a family connect. susan g. komen philadelphia bringing together network of hospitals to help better serve those who have metastatic breast cancer. "eyewitness news" in center city this morning forly inaugural meeting of the organization's new hospital coalition. komen is taking steps toward unifying local hospitals in order to give people battling metastatic breast cancer equal footing in the breast cancer community. pennsylvania is losing its rules on selling beer. new law went into effect today it allows beer distributor tousle single beers, 32-ounce bottles and sick packs. the old law restricted sales to cases and kegs and most recently 12 packs. the new law also let's bars start to sell alcohol at 9:00 o'clock on sunday mornings without also having to serve

food. starring next month, wal*mart is set to add 10,000 new retail jobs nationwide. it will build 59 new locations and expand some existing wal*mart and sam clubs stores part of $6.8 billion capital investment in the u.s. just last week rival amazon announce it would add 100,000 new jobs over the next 18 months. good news there on the job front. >> um-hmm. still ahead on "eyewitness news", crazy weather caught on video. >> where the wind was so wild it was blowing debris everywhere. katie? we are dealing with pretty large storm system heading our way right now, guys, we're actually going see the temperatures above their average and this will be theme even looking ahead to the weekend. more clouds than sunshine is the expectation right now or saturday and sunday and also shower chance along the way, too, but the key headline here is above average and again that's a theme for us. we'll walk you through that full seven day right after the break. ♪

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welcome back. weather investigators will be in texas today to see if it was in fact tornadoes that caused widespread damage across the state yesterday. >> one confirmed tornado damage at least 30 homes. home surveillance cameras captured that storm's destruction near dallas. the storm's packed hail and high winds and tour roofs right off homes. other homes were leveled. more than 30,000 people were without power last night. search part of the country many residents are that wassing out from this icy et mess. incredible pictures in iowa two men survived when their truck crashed into a frozen lake. a layer of ice cover the community of dodge city kansas

bringing coated tree branches to the ground and knocking out power lines it could take utility crews days before they can get power back on for thousands. pretty shot yesterday on cbs evening news they had pretty aerial shot of cap can it looked beautiful but a mess on the road. >> think about the weight of that ice. >> of course it will bring everything down. yes. ice storms to me any way are some of the worst we have to deal with. but certainly not a major ice threat here we did have freezing rain issues actually freezing rain advisory in some parts of the poconos has been extended we'll get to you that information here in second. but we have seen some light rain rolling through our area now for the last couple of hours. the early morning was kind of spotty in nature was really outside of philadelphia to the north and off to the south we epped up with any rain now it's kind of overtaking the radar as we had anticipated. let me take outside first and for most to a couple of different camera shots we'll start things off here outside in ocean city where the boards are wet and the sand is wet not the prettiest beach day obviously

but it is just rain here. just rain in the steve philadelphia too. too much warmth in place at the moment to support anything but rain. but if you go far enough off to the north a different story. so that brings in our next camera shot. there should be a mountain in the background. clearly the fog has settled in low enough it's making for poor visibility. but there was a lot more snow on the ground as of earlier this morning so that's had a chance to not just get washed away but also melt away here outside pleasant valley middle and high school. this is one spot in particular as we take you next to that freezing rain advisory that could still have some icing issues. up until 7:00 o'clock tonight monroe county specifically is going to continue to be included here for that freezing rain advisory please keep that in mind traveling out and about here the rest of the day up that way could still be a little dicey. looking at the localized zoom, a little bit of lull for some of us. we had round that rolled right over our station headquarters in the last hour or two here in philadelphia. and the rain continues to roll in and the scattered fashion this is all warm front related so the temperature will only

continue to climb here. even though technically cold front is going to sweep past us it doesn't knock the temperatures back all that much. now, there is another storm system that's starting to move on shore right now, those poor folks out in the west united states another major storm moving on in. eventually that will cross the country too and bring us another round of rain, but for now this is the big ticket item in terms of any kind of wet weather. and behind the rain that we've got today expect the temperature to rebound nicely despite a left over shower and passage avenue cold front moderate up to 54 degrees and keep the 50s from that point forward. yeah, through the rest of the seven day. friday thursday looks like really nice day. high pressure will yield to another system as we mentioned moving its way in. that lead to additional showers at it looks like later in the day on friday. an interesting statistic. we only gotten obviously 17 days into the year 2017 let alone the month. nine of those 17 days have already had measurable rain. the total isn't all that impressive. it's only just shy of 1.4-inches or so. we do technically still have rainfall deficit.

think it was interesting here we have actually had about half the month so far with measurable rain. two of those days we had to account for snow equivalent to liquid regardless starting the year off on sort of a wet note out there. at least dreary note. current wind speeds are nice and light. don't worry about your umbrella flipping out. you will find again showers lasting us through the rest of the day. keeping the temperatures with a clouds and rain somewhat at bay but we're already above by a few degrees. what's typical for this day of the year. 42, 40, kind of up and down on i-95 and expecting to rebound to about 45 before it is all said and done. now, tomorrow is the mild defendant day at least for the neck several days of the pack here. it does look to me like thursday will be the nicer of the next few days. by friday again that next system moving in bringing in more clouds and eventually some more rain as the home show is getting underway for the second weekend here, but six of the next seven days are at least 10 degrees above average that's what gets me. i mean this warmth just keeping oncoming. >> gift that keeps on giving. >> i love it. [ laughter ]

>> katie, we'll be right back. >> we're still going. >> just kidding. >> all right. oh, jeez. >> if i saw this i'd be running the other way. watch as giant alligator emerges from the bushes at a nature preserve in lakeland florida it was caught on video at the circle b barry serve. visitors come to see the reserve to see wide variety of plants and animals and apparently giant alligators, too. local residents have nicknamed this alligator hump back because of its massive size. those people are crazy. they need to get away from hump back. >> it look like a dinosaur. it looks prehistoric, right. >> hump back he's paying them no mind. just minding his own business much that's what he looks like. >> we'll be right back

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television icon betty white turns 95 today. >> katie and i betty only gets better with age. the multi talented white has spent 75 years in show business as an actress, comedian tv host and commercial spokesperson. she's also a well-known animal rights active visit. she made her tv debut way back in 1949. she says she's most grateful to still be working. >> i didn't realize you two were such big fans. >> we love betty white. happy birthday betty. that's "eyewitness news" today at noon. i'm jim donovan. i'm rahel solomon. for katie and all of us here thanks for watching. >> "eyewitness news" continues at 5:00. we're always online at cbsphilly.com. >> the young and the restless is next. ♪

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