well, it is a wet morning some rain is moving through our area right now but you may not see it the by the time you head to work. we will tell you when it is expected to clear out. and developing right now former president george hw bush is hospitalized overnight , the tea tails we know so far about his condition. are you ready to squirm? philly tops a unflattering list reason a pest experts say we have more rats then any other big city and two things to protect yourself. that starts your day off with a bang. it is wednesday, january 18th i'm jim done ran. aim rahel solomon. plus response from the

president-elect. and then a check of the forecast with katie and traffic conditions with meisha >> good morning, i had a pet rat. >> i know. >> i love this thing. >> i love to this thing. i got the to say we have rape coming down making for slick conditions. we have an accident out there, maybe, a premonition of more things to come. katie how long will it linger. >> hopefully not terribly long it is not being every where. but don't bump your head you might get hit by that low ceiling here. you cannote sky scrapers overlooking center city. sky scan three, in the foreground it is easier to see the tops of the construction but liberty place, comcast building they are all back there but you cannot see them. the it looks like they will be with us here. wind is very light, that is part of what you need for those low clouds to settle in. the temperature for the january and it starts here at the 43 degrees. here's storm scan. i'm thinking ac expressway, parts of the parkway those could be impacted by rain still falling out there.

we will put things this motion over last three hour loop but still a lot of cloud but bulk of the rain is beginning to exit. we could have a lingering shower as morning progresses here and look at this we still have a treeing rain advisory that has continued to get extended this one lasting until 7:00 for monroe county, only county involve, rest of us, it ties warm but with that said eel go up to the poconos we will run into slick travel and temperatures tell story why. thirty-three after all in mount poke though but mid 40's as you go into southern new jersey, atlantic city and here this philadelphia so with the rain, for the most part still overtop of this section of our area, you know, that is where we will find the rain but it is not cold enough to pro tuesday freezing. that is helpful. with that said this continues to retreat. so what we will end up with is generally cloudy skies, definitely a mild day for, again, standard of this day of the year. we would normally be at around 40 or so. fifty-three isn't bad but, don't expect to see a heck of a lot of sunshine today. not yet anyway.

back over to you, meisha. we will turn our attention to this accident and like we were just talking bain katie pointed out rain is in this part. this is west conshohocken this accident actually happened last night around 10:30 p.m. there has been a clean up, fuel spill, so stay away there this this area, i would, route 23, it is closed between sweet land road and bullock street. matsonford road is going to be your best bet. head up on that. good news the vine, you are looking good. it is opened this morning. the it was not closed for overnight construction. moving in the westbound and eastbound direction is what you are looking at there. we have speed restrictions on the betsy ross bridge, commodore barry bridge, you are down to 35 miles an hour. the just factor in your morning commute plans, it will be slow, leave your homes early, rahel and jim, back over to you. developing story this morning nine two-year old former president george hw bush is in a houston hospital. the reason president bush was taken to the hospital has not the been released. officials at texas medical

enter say they will have more information later today. they say he is doing fine and expect him to be released in a few days. nation's oldest living president was also hospitalized this maine after falling in 2015. his staff has reeve justly said he would not be attending donald trump's inauguration because of his poor health. speaking of inauguration more than 1 million people are expected to attend this friday , meantime a quarter house democrats have vowed to boycott the event. in a recent interview mr. trump down played the boycott the by saying that is okay because we need seats so badly i hope they give me their tickets. protest stem from mr. trump's weekend twitter remarks with georgia congressman john lewis and civil rights icon. developing in the nation's capitol this is scene outside trump hotel where a man reportedly set himself on fire man suffered third degree burns and 10 percent of his body. he is expect to survive. earlier demonstrators were holding anti trump rally outside of the the hotel. it is unknown if the incident was connected to those

protests. today at 10:00 a.m. former president-elect trump's cab this nominees will sit down for senate confirmation hearings. they include south carolina governor nikki haley who is trump's pick for u.n. ambassador, oklahoma attorney general scott pry it who mr. trump asked to lead epa, georgia congressman tom price, chosen as secretary of the health and hugh hand services and billion air wilbur ross who is up for commerce secretary. more than six nominees will have their hearings after the presidential inauguration. well, stay with "eyewitness news" for complete coverage of the inauguration of the president donald trump, jessica dean will have live report from the nation's capitol tomorrow and friday, you can also follow us on line at cbs philly.com and on our cbs local app. a reward is being offered in the case of the local solder, brutally beaten after mummers parade. nineteen year-old private first class austin freeney suffered multiple injuries including a broken jaw, freeney's mother said several

people attack her son at third and oregon in south philadelphia. she said it started when someone made a negative remark about being in the army. >> i don't understand how in your own country you put down men, women that fight for you. they fight the for your freedom. >> we're outraged by it. we want toe this case brought to justice. >> reporter: citizens crime commission announced a $7,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and convictions. the austin freeney is back at for the for the bening georgia where he continuing to get medical care for his injury. man wanted for murder in kensington is behind bars in virginia. police arrested karl howard yesterday after they found him crawled up in the closet. he has been on the run since september when he shot and killed a hand on the 3100 block of kensington. howard is waiting to come back to philadelphia to face murder charges. sarah packer, mother accused of have brutally murdering her adopted teen daughter is on suicide watch. packer's lawyer says he is not aware of think actual attempt

she has made on her life. forty-one year-old packer and her boyfriend jacob sullivan beat, tied up, raped, poisoned 14 year-old grace packer july 8th before dumping her body in the the luzerne county park. bucks county d.a. may seek the death penalty for the killers. the man is in critical condition after being shot in the abdomen in southwest philadelphia police were called here to the 5600 block of ridgewood street around 8:30 last night. they found a 25 year-old victim in the house on the block, which they believe he ran into after being shot. by coincidence officers were within walking distance of the shooting when it happened. >> they just had made a stabbing arrest unrelated, they heard the gun shots, the gun shot were really loud because it is a large caliber gun and those officers that were just tying up, making these stabbing arrest were able to respond to the scene, because they were only about two blocks away. >> reporter: now no arrests have been made but police hope that an outdoor cam contract from a nearby school may have caught shooter running from the scene.

police are investigating gunfire in west philadelphia that left a man hospitalized, this happened here on the 5100 block of irving street just before 6:30 yesterday where police tell us they have found a 37 year-old victim shot three times, he was, last listed in critical condition he so far police have made no arrests. well, philadelphia district attorney seth williams is hit with a record setting fine from philadelphia 's ethics board. williams was find $62,000 for failing to disclose five sources of income, and 89 gift over a five-year period. williams will also pay the city about $2,800, the value of gifts he received that were prohibited under the cities ethics code. gifts included a new roof, vacations accounts plane tickets, suits, and watches. williams released a statement apologizing to the people of philadelphia, his friends and his family. fill land at the top of the national list but not the something that we want to be proud of, it shows philadelphia areas worst this is country for rodent

infestation. the analysis found one out of five homes this is philadelphia area reported a rodent problem in the past year. that means we dealt with more pests in 2016 then any other major icy. experts say construction is partly to blame. here are tips to avoid unwanted visitors, take out garbage regularly and seal cracks inside and outside your house to deter them from making themselves at home in your home. >> okay. well, frightening sight for neighbors in texas. >> it looks like a barrage of noises happening and then it got louded. the event that took place in the suburb that left two people dead, one of them a police officer. manhunt is over, orlando police capture the person suspect in the shooting death of an officer, symbolic thing they did when arresting the man to honor their tall even

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detective is dead following a standoff with an armed man in the dallas suburb. on tuesday officers were called to the a home this little elm will and found a man armed with the long gun screaming at them there a backyard. when officers backed away from the scene they say the man disappeared and then started firing from a window. forty-eight year-old detective jerry walker was shot in the neck as neighbors watched the violence unfold. >> i didn't know what was going on at first, i opened my door and there was police officers in high driveway, end ising a barrage of noises happening and then it got loud ed. >> detective walker was within of the several officers who had tried to talk to the man before they started shooting. the suspect was found ted inside of the house after a six hour standoff with police. and a suspected cop killer is caught ending a massive manhunt in orlando that lasted more than a week. markeith lloyd is accused of gunning down deborah clayton as she tried to arrest head him. police arrested lloyd with the lieutenant clayton's handcuffs

>> deborah clayton risked her life for this community that she loves so dearly and to put her handcuffs on the bad guy that she was trying to catch when she was killed, it is just significant, it is meaningful, to her family. >> reporter: police found lloyd hiding in a house where full body arm or, they say he had two guns, one had a high capacity drum that holds 100 round. well, time is 4:43. >> kate is here with another check of the forecast, tracking some rain today. >> depending where you are, you may be ton but some spots you may find more wet weather. we will get to storm scan in a second. i wanted to show you sky scan three right now which is a lot of localized fog. this is ocean city. you can see the sheen from the lights on the boardwalk here that we have had some rain, still working its way through these areas. so you may still tuned yourself even if not actually raining, windshield wipers because of the rain that rolled through last night, va

from the vehicles can still get you. another slow morning for travel but we are not tracking any kind of widespread or long lived precipitation in the next couple hours let alone rest of the day. lets go next to the visibility which is ideal as we go down the shore and further inland, reading, mount pocono down to the mile. it is not horrible but not eye tiehl either. up and down not too bad in philadelphia, airport 6 miles visibility, we will take that. the storm itself is pulling away but it will be intensifying over cape cod for example. we will still have that left over wrap around moisture helping to trigger a left over shower, rest of the morning but we're talking cloudy skies rest of today. here comes next guy bringing in heavier rain across eastern texas, louisiana and then another storm, barreling into the west coast. this is an active pattern. we will get impacted by these systems here with time. so there are a couple of gems that those are taste that you want to get outlooking forward to a window of time to even i

wrote sometime outside. today not too bad. we are left with clouds, milder but those left over showers and damp sidewalks to kind of thing are still out there. later tonight dropping down to 36 under a partly cloudy sky, tomorrow would be one of my suggestions for a day to enjoy outdoors, 54, sunshine, we will start with some sun on friday and high still hits 50 but rain moves in especially by evening, but as early as late afternoon. that might be a good night to check out the philly home show as it is wrapping up its last weekend, meisha. >> rain, rain, rain, rain, what toss that mean for us? slow commute. no doubt about it. already we have an accident in west conshohocken. this accident happened last night around 10:30 p.m. and they are cleaning up a fuel spill. you will not be able to go anywhere near this area because it is closed. route 23 is closed between sweetland road and bullock street. your alternate matsonford road is your best bet. crews are still out there. that clean up is still underway.

vine street expressway was not closed so no delays there but we can see how slick it is. give yourself some extra time because that also could be rain coming down and slick roadways. 35 miles an hour speed restrictions on the betsy ross and commodore barry bridge so head up there as well. we are dealing with construction, rainy wednesday, happy hump day just waking up with us. so glad you are here. route 322, at route 40. this is blocked until right around 6:00 a.m. we have another hour or plus. patco speed line running a modified schedule 9:15 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. so make sure to check those schedules on line. we will have more to talk about in the next ten to 15 minutes. >> see you soon, thank you. they have gonna above and beyond call of duty, philadelphia's top cops will be recognized as police department's merit the ceremony later today this is file video from last year. merit award honors officers who made outstanding arrests while also performing valuable act of police service. today more than 80 officers in total will be recognized.

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time right now is 4:49. time for a check of business news. >> jill wagner joins us live from the new york stock exchange, good morning, jill. deutch bank finalized a major settlement over mortgaged back securities, what can you tell us about that. >> reporter: german bank reached $7.2 billion settlement over sale of the mortgage backed securities prior to the 2008 financial christ i. the attorney general loretta lynch said deutch bank contributed directly to an interest that the financial crisis, this is the highest federal penalty paid so far in the sale of those mortgage securities. jim and rahel. >> still unfolding. well, google maps has a new feature that will help drivers get to their

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a well organized closet. mama, my throat hurts. and a few extra minutes in the morning. you've got ten more minutes. make room for what matters. good morning, everybody. waking up with the wet road surface up here in lehigh county and specifically, in bethlehem, outside hotel bethlehem here, it is thankfully too warm for anything but rain, i don't think you have to worry about icing up this way but in nearby monroe county freezing rain advisory posted for frankly just very isolated showers, but that is one spot that could still freeze, on

contact, everybody else is warming up efficiently for us out there but what you will notice is looking wider zoom of storm scan is left overs this storm continues to intensify as of lease. we have to deal with left over showers, fine drizzle this morning. we will jump to inauguration day and if you are heading down i-95 to the inauguration there is another storm system coming, guys. there are some showers through second half of the day and that will eventually work its way here too. it hits d.c. first and then gets to us late in the day at the earliest but especially that night. that might be good excuse to hit up home show. fifty's are the story, very mild seven day, not one of these days is even close to what is average, normal high is 40, 41 over the span. we are ten above that average with every asking day, the next round of rain coming on friday and then we will look to sunday night especially into monday that will be a larger storm system but even still it is too warm we're expecting primarily just rain,

out of the next subsequent systems here, meisha. >> loving thursday, thursday looks gorgeous overall. >> thanks very much. >> good morning, everybody. we are looking at this accident. this accident happened last night at 10:30 in west conshohocken and crews are cleaning up a fuel spill. route 23 closed between sweet land road and bullock street. matsonford road is your best alternate. i would say just stay away. make your life easy and stay away if at all possible. look the at ben franklin bridge. look at this. so rain, rain, rain. that is the story this morning because it is coming down with slick roadways. we will definitely want to leave your homes earl willer to take, it is what i have been preaching, forever now, just feel like every day, leave your homes early especially so far but you have to do it again because we have wet road conditions. this will slow you town. ben franklin bridge is looking quiet. speed restrictionness play betsy ross bridge is down to 5 . head up on. that we will take you more time.

then also mass transit, speed line running mod night schedule between 9:15 a.m. and 2:15. so check them out on line. we have construction in trenton new jersey 295 southbound ramp to route one southbound is closed and that will be closed, lingering out there until march 15th. we will get used to that project. construction here route 322 at route 401 lane blocked that will be blocked in each direction, until 6:00 a.m. we have another, hour or so and of course i will confirm this list but heads up with the wet roadways we have a lot of construction and that one accident, jim, back to you. well, coming up next on cbs-3 "eyewitness news" we are following a developing story president george hw bush is hospitalized this morning. also why rush is on to remove these giant trees more than 200 years old. keep your cash at home why some local restaurants are going lasting only we are back at the top of the hour.

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a wounded warrior but this solder's injuries didn't come from the battle will field, this morning there is a reward being offered in the case of an army solder beaten in south philadelphia. also this... >> nearly a million people are expect to attend donald trump 's inauguration friday but there is a growing list of lawmakers who tea side todd skip the event. i'm hena daniels in new york and will have more on pre inauguration festivities and controversies coming up. we're following a developing story right the thousand, the nation's forty-first president george h w bush, hospitalized this morning. we will have an update on his health. happy hump day, it is wednesday, january 18th i'm jim donovan.

i'm rahel solomon. katie and meisha keeping an eye on things. good morning, ladies. >> still coming in we will have a wet commute, i would say it is something we are starting to see problems with already. i know we need rain. the grass needs rain. >> yes. >> yes. >> they all need rain. i want them to have it. but i don't want it the for our morning commute. >> yes. >> exactly. >> but, thankfully at least there is not too much more left. >> good. >> at this point. the va from the vehicles will still get you even if it is not the actually raining but looking at storm scan three it is starting to empty out. i want to put things in motion here what you'll notice here, pretty tease event batch of rain that rolls throughout of ocean and monmouth county in the last few hours as well as burlington, ocean, this was just in philadelphia county. things will begin to empty out here. while we will not see a lot o