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are taking a closer look at what caused sinkholes. and she was an inspiration to hills where we're taking a look back at legendary life, career of mary tyler moore and how woman in turn with the world on with her smile is being remembered this morning. it is thursday, january 26th, good morning i'm jim donovan. i'm jan carabao. katie and meisha are keeping a big look. big day with the arrival of the president trump. >> it will start earlier then when the road closures go in effect. they have perimeters in place, even affecting sidewalks, for pedestrians. it will affect a lot of us. >> if you can stay away, i'm getting, the advice is to do it. >> it is not a day to take a stroll. >> at least not in center city >> do not do that weather-wise we have a very mild day. lets look at where we end up here in the next couple days. cold front coming through will send us a nose dive, toll accounts. we will see temperatures dropping off with pretty much
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every passing take. we will level off in the lower 40's and even colder then that looking ahead to hon. the that is a preview for you. lets look at the local zoom of storm scan three which at the moment, it is, yep, starting to fill in here. we have been getting reports already of our eyewitness weather watchers, thanks, for send nothing reports of the lighttories will, like carding ton, delaware county, chester county and cape may county. some of this is beginning to verify at ground level but light round of showers working its way up i-95 as we seek. that will continue to fill this throughout the course of the morning but then out of here by lunchtime at the latest. fifty in atlantic city. test site cloud, wet weather moving in it is 50 degrees on january 26th, at 6:01 in the morning. the that is not bad. new as day progresses we will see cooler air moving in here. we will still top off technically for the history books here in the 50's, but, the cold air will catch up, and you will notice a breast which meisha will make it feel chillier too.
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>> for sure but i have to say, 56, i mean i will take it too. i don't care what they brought me i will take 56. good morning. happy thursday. right now we are looking at ben franklin bridge and looking good, it is looking as it should, sort of, i would say it is looking busier then what we normally see cracking in the 6:00 o'clock hour on a thursday. that is going to give us an eye tea that it will get a little bit busy out there to take. why? well, one of the reasons is president trump coming to town take a look we have road closures beginning at 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. but it will get busier before. that 13th street to chestnut and mark. market from 11th and juniper and 12th street from chestnut to arch. we have a tweet there our mother ship, cbs philly tweet ing major delays with the the road closures. why am i showing you this? i'm letting you though we are debuting our brand new real time traffic system which we are having so much fun bringing to you because it benefits you. but also, i want to hear from you. if you have a good tweet,
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tweet me and i will pull it up and we will talk but to not, to not tweet me while you are, jim, fill in the blanks. >> trying. >> while you are trying. you nailed it. over to you. row testers are out and about in center city anticipating president trump's arrival. >> the president will meet with g.o.p. leaders today at least hotel. "eyewitness news" reporter trang to is live in center city where police will be trying to keep the peace, good morning, trang. >> reporter: good morning. yes a few row testers out here this morning but even more than that many police officers already here, stationed outside the of the loews hotel we will see philadelphia police, secret service and home land security. they are all here to protect president trump as well as british rhyme minister teresa may who is expect to make an appearance here. also expect to be out here thousands of row test tears. row test kick off last night on the first day of the republican congressional caucus, and members of the lb
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gtq community organized an opposition dance party, and it all happened on market street outside of the help tell rooms of the hundreds of republican lawmakers, in town, for this annual policy retreat. with president trump in town to take temptations are expect throughout the day. police commissioner ross says that his officers are well prepared. >> people have a general idea of how we deploy and in terms of the bike officers, and foot patrols. you will see a number of both out there and then again we will be there to make sure people are safe to protect the dignitaries, people walking about center city as well as protesters and we're very hopeful people demonstrating will do so peacefully. >> reporter: in addition to road closures secret service is limiting pedestrian traffic around the loews hotel. 1100, 1200 blocks of mark streit, 12th between chestnut and filbert and 13th between chestnut and market will all be closed off to pedestrian traffic. >> if you are driving around the city around midday, it
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will be very, very difficult to to that. you might want to take public transportation. >> reporter: those sidewalk closures are expect to start around 6:00 a.m. but they have in the the happened yet. they are still preparing for that. but yeah, definitely try to avoid this area if at all possible. president trump is supposed to appear at the loews hotel around noon. for now we are live, i'm frank do for cbs-3 "eyewitness news" keep us updated, thanks, trang. after president trump signed a executive order to build a wall, we are hearing natalie mexican president enrique pena might cancel his visit to washington next week. construction could begin in months. president trump plans to use federal money to pay for it and then of mexico reimburse the u.s. a nation without borders is not a nation. beginning today, the united states of america gets back control of its borders. gets back its borders.
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>> president trump also signed an order to strip funding from sanctuary cities. philadelphia mayor jim kenney responded to the news. >> there are methods that we have our congressional folks, we have courts, we have lots of protections. this is not a dictator ship, this is a democracy. at far as i know it is. we will take avail of every opportunity that we have to protect our citizens. >> now philadelphia is one of about 300 sanctuary cities all across the country. in these cities undocumented immigrants arrested for non- violent crimes are not reported to federal officials, several other u.s. mayors have openly supported their un documented immigrant communities. in other news, flames ravage a home in montgomery county, several fire fighters expended to the 600 block of orland mills road in orland around 1:00 this morning. when fire fighters arrived everyone inside the home including a family dog had made it already safely out of that house. officials tell thaws the rear of the home took on heavy damage, in word on what spark
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that fire. police believe natalie man shown here, robbed a wawa in springfield township delaware county. take a look hand walk in the wawa on the street just after 1:30 in the morning on tuesday while the clerk was making him a sandwich sus he can began throwing cigarette cartons in the pillowcase. when the clerk confronted him the suspect pulled out a box cutter, fortunately the clerk was in the hurt. on the edge of disaster a massive sinkhole opened up between two homes in the glenside area of cheltenham township montgomery county. you're looking live at a picture of the sinkhole on the 700 block of brooke road. amazingly in one was hurt when it opened up yesterday morning , but one home was evacuated. another nearby home was already vacant. the large sinkhole swallowed up sidewalks, trent yard and a large tree, crews were able to save a white truck, teetering close to the edge, neighbors say they are stunned. >> probably been going on for a while and then ground came
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out there under. >> thousand water service is slowly being restored for handful of homes in that area. aqua pennsylvania is asking residents in the area to boil all water or use bottled water until further notice. coming up next half an hour derek pits from the franklin institute will join us us to talk about the science behind sinkholeses. remembering a tv ledge toned day. actress marry tyler shore tied wednesday surrounded by family and friend. >> moore cemented her place in history with her role in the dick van dyke show and her star shined brightest touring mary tyler moore show. roxana saberi reports from new york. >> reporter: in minneapolis home to the mary tyler moore sitcom fans paid tribute to the star that they say entertain and inspired them. >> notion of the single professional woman making her way in the world is a great thing to. >> reporter: report similar tributes were made in new york where actress was born 80 years ago. >> she always seemed like she was in charge of her own ballgame. >> reporter: in hollywood
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where she shot to fame. >> she was kind of the woman i wanted to be. >> oh, all right. >> reporter: kind of the woman moore portrayed on the dick van dyke show in the early 60 's chipping away at stereotype of the traditional stay at home mom. >> ♪ the you can turn the world on with your smile ♪ >> reporter: in the zero seven 's when she played a journalist, living on her own. >> originally, they wanted to have me divorced, from somebody and cbs said no, no you can this is to that they will think she's divorced from dick van dyke and they were right that would have been bad >> reporter: avenues of her death on wednesday celebrities responded on twitter. dick van dyke said there are no word she was the best, we always said we changed each others lives for the better. others remembered moore as a role model for woman. oprah tweeted this picture of the two together and wrote in part even now looking at this picture i want to cry. we will love her forever. rocks san a saberi for cbs news, new york. tune in tonight for a one hour cbs news special honoring life and legacy of mary tyler
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moore. gayle king will host mary tyler moore, love is all around right here at 9:00 o'clock right here on cbs-3. we will have more on the passing of marry mary tyler moore coming up at 6:30. >> interesting to hear how much of a role model she was. >> i've got my 1974, saturday evening post, cover, a lot of people don't realize is require to the harry tyler more show there were very few broads in broadcasting, bosses said that in the news room. new we have managers in all levels of execute i i have. our news director is a woman. head of communications. the it is great to see things have changed but it took 40 years. >> we have to remember that. >> yes. >> still ahead on "eyewitness news" this morning a woman who survived six days, with no lungs. >> i have to tune in for that one. tough fire tight this one, kept fire fighters busy all night long, find out what is burning and where. and turning a chore into a good time, meet the kid who is
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♪ this house is vacant n word what sparked the flames. is there tam age done to the vacant home. huge flames blazed over in washington, that is 15 miles north of seattle. two fire fighters were hurt, fortunately those injuries are not life threatening. two neighboring buildings were evacuated because of the heat exposure. red cross sheltering 150 residents, crews staying on the scene on fire watch, they have been working to put out fire since 10:00 o'clock last
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night, and now building was a new apartment complex that was under construction so it it was vacant when that fire began. a wisconsin teen has gone viral thanks to his own creation that makes shoveling snow, fun, at least, fun for him. tanner chere using his hoverboard to take shoveling know to the next level. video using his so-called whoever plow was attracting a whole lot of attention. he has gotten its from snow shovelers around the world, he says his hoverboard is good for more than just fooling around. >> it is waterproof, i could bring it outside, it is an inch or two, that is when it works the best. >> so tanner's mommies so concerned about that hoverboard's fire has air, tan ner says she won't let that hoverboard inside of the house keep it the in the snow. >> you know what though hey i give that kid credit. i was first one when snow would stop i was in front of your house knocking saying hello, how much will you pay me if i shovel your walk.
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>> goodbyes man there. >> that is right. >> we have no snow. >> kid won't have any money to day on the hoverboard because this is a seven day that is devoid of any snow, at this point. so, some of you are rejoycing and some are wishing that we had maybe just one really awesome snow before the winter 's over. right now at least in the short term, it is not happening. but we will certainly keep our eyes peeled for what happens in the month of february. can you believe it is almost february? storm scan three is showing signs of life? latest frontal boundary working its way here. it toss bring in some showers, very, very light right now. we can see back edge is distinct and on the back edge hint of clearing beginning to take place across virginia and ohio border. this isn't, by comparison at least i lackluster storm system with this moisture content but will live up to its name a cold trent once it crosses through. let me walk you through future weather. there will be a heavier batch through southern most counties later this morning.
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this is the most storm scan will be filled in eight or nine or 10:00, but this swiftly pushes out. light rain in the morning. lunchtime we should clear out for sunshine easily across the board here. we will let this run right through try we will stay clear , even into the upcoming at take we will look ahead to quiet weather. chillier, granted. savior this. 56 degrees. 16 degrees above average for the afternoon but still watching for showers and included to break and breeze to pick up. colder tonight, dropping town to 33. moving for the in the seven day this is a dose have reality nothing all that a typical coldest take comes hon but i don'te any major storms this sight anytime soon , meisha. >> we are liking this forecast , especially today 56 degrees, thanks very much. good morning, happy thursday to you. what are we looking at here is this we are looking at a couple things. we are looking at two layses. one in particular is heating up, schuylkill at spring garden pushing in the eastbound treks toward center city. it is starting to get backup.
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couple reasons which we will talk about in a second. but we are take buying our brand new real time traffic system to take. we are able to show you things a, yes in real time but also you can see things more clearly, more opt close in 3-d and 2d and pull two cameras on one graphic map which i'm loving. we are looking at up here? this is schuylkill near syringe garden. we are looking at i-95 north they are betsy ross bridge. schuylkill slowing town east and westbound once you jump off boulevard, moving this is the west wound direction around city avenue we are seeing slow downs. the then looking at i-95 near betsy ross bridge we are starting to slow down. we know i-95 will get busy and already starting to. heed that warning. leave your homes a little bit earlier. then we are looking at 422 headlights moving this is westbound treks route 29 this collegeville head up, slow down there plus we have an accident on 422. we will talk about this coming up in the next ten minutes or so. but first take a quick break stay right where you are, cbs-3 "eyewitness news" will be r
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creating additional chaos. in the times herald bridgeport boro council voted to support a conshohocken based company application to build a medical marijuana growing and processing fat it is. owners of the 5-acre lot on west road hope to develop greenhouses on the property with offices and packaging areas. from the garnett valley press a chester county man is protecting 25 acres of wild life in honor of his life wave james miller entered into an agreement with the national land trust to protect property off lenny road, in perpetuity. that is a look at some newspaper headlines from around the delaware valley. well, philadelphia auto show starts this saturday. mayor jim kenney made a special entrance to help kick off the event. >> take a look, mayor drove into the pennsylvania convention center in a customized jeep wrangler unlimited, more than 700 vehicles will be on display. show runs through february 5th , get a sneak peak , tomorrow, meisha, jim, will be doing live reports from the auto show from 4:30 a.m. until 7:00 o'clock.
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>> drive the jeep into the convention center because there is no way that could fit in the normal parking spot in center city. it sound impossible but up next meet a woman who survived six days with no lungs. her story is incredible. find out why doctors removed her lungs in the first place and her diagnosis for future, when we come back in just two welcome to your health with joan lunden presented by the centers for disease control and prevention. >> hi. i'm joan lunden. believe it or not more than one in three people in the u.s. have prediabetes. even scarier a whopping 90% don't know it. thankfully cdc has created
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welcome back everyone. we're looking forward to the upcoming weekend. we're expecting a tranquil stretch not just including weekend but sunshine and chill in the air here in philadelphia nothing better than lower 40's but a taste of reality, guys. >> thanks, katie. president george hw bush is getting better and may get out of the hospital by the weekend. according to his spokesperson the nine two-year old former president who has been hospitalized for pneumonia still has a lingering cough but his lungs are clearing up and he is working with physical therapists to build up his strength. you can call it the a medical miracle, but it the looks like death for canadian woman suffering from cystic fibrosis became first of its kind experiment to keep her alive. melissa was near hours from death when both lungs failed and that is when there is decided, to to something
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drastic they removed both infected lungs so her body could stabilize i am planting her with a machine for six days. >> prognosis, i don't think anybody those i'm first in the world they have tried this on. i will be first in the world to see how long we live. >> wow. >> she received a double lung transplant once her body was strong enough and she will continue to suffer with cystic fibrosis as she recovers. >> modern medicine. >> incredible. >> coming up on "eyewitness news" we are starting the day with record numbers on wall street. president trump comes to philadelphia today, trang. >> reporter: that is right, we are seeing road closures and parking restrictions here in center city, i'm trang do and i will tell what you commuters need to know. president trump is coming to town. because of that we will see slow downs in and around center city. i will have road closures and places to avoid when we come right back. but first we will take a quick break
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good morning, i'm jim donovan. i'm jan carabao. it is 6:30. here's what you need to know today in your morning minute. hundreds of protesters are expected to pack streets as president donald trum april lives in philadelphia. >> i don't know if you can hear but people are starting to gather outside the hotel here. >> thinks not a dictator ship. this is a democracy. >> many u.s. mayors say they will tea file the executive order to defund sanctuary cities. a boil water advisory is in effect after a large sinkhole opened up in the glenside area of montgomery county. >> reporter: fire fighters in washington state of been working overnight to get a massive building fire under control. >> it was a new apartment complex under construction.
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>> ♪ >> hollywood mourning loss of tv icon mary tyler moore. >> i've got my 1974 saturday evening post, cover. >> so long, see you tomorrow. >> well, mary tyler moore has touched many lives including many of us here this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news" room. >> absolutely. we will have more reaction to her death including from her co stars. turning now to weather, katie's out there on the cbs-3 sky deck. i hear other shoe is about to tropical, say it ain't so, katie. >> cold air is moving in and we will dodge wet weather. i was out here just in the last break, out here again. i feel a couple of rain drops. don't need umbrella just yet but there are showers working their way in region. we will see that filling in on storm scan. such light precipitation. it comes up as bad timing. anytime we deal with rain on the road during the height of the rush hour it is never fun
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but we are not talking about widespread wash out here, it is with us throughout the morning. we will start to clear out no later then lunchtime. here's area travel here in terms of how weather will impact it. we will not worry about anything more than just caution lights, throughout the rest of the morning, wet road to go with the take afternoon included start to break, evening looks breezy, clear ape as i say that i'm starting to feel bigger, father rain drops out here. temperature change is pretty insignificant but reason i show you is i am starting to turn negative where we have included, rain. it is positive where we are seeing that surge of warm coming in advance of the cold front. as day progresses we will see mid 50's here yet again, it is not take like we saw yesterday we will see sun start to break as afternoon progresses but starting to get windy. we will have gusts around 30 miles an hour as cold trent crosses through and eventually meisha that cold air will catch up at some point.
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i'll tell you when, just a little bit later on. >> thank you very much. good morning, everyone. we are excited in the traffic department because we are debuting our brand new real time traffic system that ruse great. it is all, for you. so good morning. right new we are looking at the vine, foulke moving in the west and eastbound direction. vine street expressway will get very busy today? why? president trump is in town, and because of that we are seeing closures out there. head up just heading out to the vine you height want to give yourself a couple extra minutes starting over the next 30 minutes or so because we are starting to low down in the westbound side and eastbound side i guess following suit as well. so speaking of president trump coming to town, here we go road closures at 8:00 a.m. it will get backed up prior to 8:00 a.m. and carry through 6:00 p.m. and will be backup after 6:00 p.m. hour as well. factor that in your plans. thirteenth street from chestnut to market, market street from 11th and juniper and 12th street from chestnut to arch. head up on this we have a tweet from cbs philly letting
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you though you can tweet us with our brand new system here look at this 3-d shot of the center city. you can see everything looking good, primarily looking green. maybe dropping down to the yellow but you know tapping on your brakes, traveling less than posted speeds. vine is starting to slow down a little bit. schuylkill around vine is slowing down. as i was saying you can tweet me as long as you are in the driving i'll pull it up there for you. just a heads up, as well, pag and pedestrian restriction starting at 6:00ah. we have got sidewalks blocked off around loews. demonstrations between 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. jim, back over to you. some protesters are lining up this center sit the any anticipation of the president 's a early look. >> the president is attending the annual g.o.p. retreat. "eyewitness news" reporter trang do live outside loews hotel right now where police are on stand by, good morning, trang. >> reporter: good morning. it is pretty quiet here right thousand but things will soon
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change. we saw barricade as well as police officers stationed all around loews hotel here. it is all in anticipation of the president's visit. he is expected to address the crowd here at noon time inside the republican congressional caucus. and as well, british rhyme minister, may is expected to make an appearance. they are all expect to be greeted by thousands of protesters here on the out side. protests kick off last night on the first day of the republican congressional caucus. the members of the lb gt q community organized an opposition dance party. it all happened on market street outside of the hotel rooms of hundreds of republican lawmakers, in town for this annual policy retreat with president trum in town today demonstrations are expect throughout the day. commissioner ross says his officers are well prepared. >> people have a general idea of how we deploy in terms of the bike officers and foot patrols. you will see a number of both out there.
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again we will be there to make sure people are safe, protect dignitaries, people walking about center city as well as protesters and very hopeful that people who are demonstrating will do so peacefully. >> reporter: meanwhile in a tition to road closures the secret service is limiting pedestrian traffic around the loews hotel. the 111200 blocks of market street, 12th between chestnut and filbert and 13th between chestnut and market will all be closed off to pedestrian traffic. >> driving around city around midday, it will be are very, very difficult to do that. you might want to take public transportation. >> reporter: at this point people are still able to pretty much walk freely around this hotel area for the time being but again this area will be closed off to pedestrians pretty soon. just were you guys came to us we saw a caravan of p pa towing trucks head ing down 12th. that parking enforcement has already begun. for now we are live, in center city, i'm trang do for cbs-3 "eyewitness news".
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>> it will be very busy, thank you. when president trump meets with lawmakers he is expect to discuss plans for everything from immigration to the repeal of the affordable care act. meeting comes just a day after the president signed two executive orders, one to jump start building a wall, on the u.s./mexico border and another to slash federal money to immigrant protecting sanctuary cities. secret service agent is under investigation after allegedly suggesting on social media she would not deeven if president trump if someone tried to shoot him. you may recall secret service came to trump's aid several times during the presidential campaign, authorities say that senior agent kerry ogrady made now deleted post on her personal facebook page. ogrady posted she supported hillary clinton and would not honor federal law that prevents agents from airing political views. ninety-six year-old would hand is in critical condition at einstein medical center this morning after a terrifying attack by two pit bulls. this happened on the 5800
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block of brush road in germantown yesterday afternoon now woman was mauled by a three-year old and ten year-old pit bull, her husband used a broom to get dogs off his badly injured wife. eyewitnesses saw the whole thing. >> she was laying on the ground, one dog would bite on her arm, other one was biting on the other side of her arm and then they dragged her and one started to bite her, in her head and other one started to bite her in her face. >> police have both of those dogs in custody right now. meantime, we have learn natalie driver who suffered serious injuries, when a dumbbell crashed through the windshield of his s. uv has died. seven five-year old jack decarlo was driving along new jersey turnpike in salem county earlier this month when a 50-pound weight hit him in the head police are trying to figure out where that came from. news room all around the country are mourning loss of the tv icon harry tyler shore. seven time m.a. ward winning
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actress did more than just play dick van dyke's tv wife but inspiration for woman who wanted to be broadcasters. she was one of the first actress necessary prime time to bring work would go man to the small screen in the mary tyler moore show. mary tyler moore was 80 years old. moore's co stars took to social media to remember the legend, long time friend and former co-star dick van dyke tweeted there are in word. she was the best. we always said that we changed each others lives for the better. he included a clip of them in the dick van dyke show. ed asnor remembered moore tweeting a great lady i loved and owed so much too, left us. i will miss her. i will never be able to repay her for blessings she gave me. tune in note for one hour cbs news special honoring life and legacy of mary tyler moore gayle king will host mary tyler moore: love is all around at 9:00 o'clock right here on cbs-3. after flirting with history for two weeks dow jones will open above 20,000
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for the first time ever today. wall street broke through record territory on wednesday, the index was nearly tripled in value, just in the last eight years. dow jones finished up 155 points, close at 20,056. nasdaq also hit a you this record and the s and p500 added 18. well, still ahead on "eyewitness news" this morning the science behind sinkholes. derek pits from the franklin institute will be here to talk about what causes sinkholes like this one in glenside and why some areas are more prone to them. pet allergies are on the rise, find out what is causing the spike in cases and what to do to protect your fury friend , up next. >> ♪
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towns at the shore are getting a bet lear at beach erosion from this weeks nor'easter. >> storm surge and forceful waves eroded sand up and down the coast n north wildwood the drop off is more than 10 feet, and in ortly beach walkways look like sky ways. ventnor's dune system took a major hit. >> we have probably got half of what we had from the this and if you look at dunes they were carved out and scaled more and got deeper in the dune system. in atlantic city beach in front of the former revel went from bad to worse. the good news for at atlantic city and ventnor is that the beach replenishment project is funded and expected to start within months.
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katie, we're not expecting a rough day to day. >> i wouldn't call it rough, unsettled, absolutely. very light rain that is already moving through and i was out there with the best timing over my sky deck hit, rain drops were getting father as i was wrapping up my hit. that was good. if you are heading out and waiting on the train lath form you will wait for a bus or walk to school or work, umbrella not the worst eye tea but more just unsettled then stormy. we will see. the as we look at storm scan in a minute. lets check with the watchers very quickly here. folks in delaware are reporting rain here, for example down we go where 51 degrees at this hour in dover, delaware. this is late january. fifty-one. sun's not up. he did say there is mainly just clouds but very light rain has begun. he sent this in the last 15 minutes. little further off to the north primarily overcast in a lot of the counties just outside philadelphia to the thort. megan, checked with richboro with just clouds 42 degrees and rewarded with another beautiful afternoon, however,
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we are expect to go end up here with again, some showers and at least over next couple of hours. lets switch gears very quickly again at storm scan. what did i just do here? let me see here. nope. >> i didn't break it. i didn't do anything. call upon our wonderful control room to switching to full screen graphic. thank you very much, my friend we have showers work ago way across central pennsylvania. it is very, very light precipitation and some are not seeing it just yet. this is basically licensing gone by 11:00 at absolute latest. you can see well defined back edge, in the clearing out but it has stopped raining. we will see that continue throughout the rest of the day here are your bullet points. morning commute will feature showers, cloud break for sunshine as early as lunchtime but then wind picks up. it is a transitional day, half and half tore cast, gusts up to 30 miles an hour. then we will look forward in the eyewitness weather seven day. don't get too used to these
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temperatures we are stuck where we should be this weekend but sun will return, it is a quiet seven day. >> katie, dashing my dreams i was hoping it would stay there >> you are so dramatic. >> all right, thank you, good morning everyone. we are looking outside and by the way we are happy in the world of travel? why? we are take buying our you this brand new real time traffic system which i get to to all these cool things which benefits you. you, you are our righter. i love to bring this to you. first up we have schuylkill at gladwynn. we are building. both east and westbound we are heating up there. also blue route at route one we are looking okay. anywhere on the blue route i give you thumbs up. still looking okay. we will get wide and see where it slows down schuylkill pushing toward, deeper in to center city we are slowing down there. we have an accident involving injuries here belmont avenue at city avenue intersection is block here. it is involving injuries. when we look over schuylkill you can see we are traveling at 22 miles an hour. you can see you are starting to slow down there.
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nothing to do with that accident but it is something you should though. we have another accident in cheltenham lanes block here cheltenham avenue at pen rose avenue another head up on. that by the way take a look at how pretty these graphics are, you guys, we have another accident out there. our third one. skippack pike at cedar hill road for those in and around this area lanes are block, it is also with injuries and we will look over to the northeast extension, where we are looking okay at 58 miles an hour. jim and jan back to you. i know you have been concern but it is over for scarlet gentlemen hanson and her husband row hand. >> they are reportedly divorcing, jim, after two years of marriage. johansen and doriak got harried at a ran inch montana in 2014 after welcoming their daughter rose dorothy. the actress was spotted without her wedding ring at woman's march in washington d.c. last week even. >> hollywood marriages. we will introduce you yesterday to a pair of bi racial twin girls. >> very interesting. this morning we are hearing from their parents for the first time. the twin girls were both born
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last april in quincy, illinois their mother whitney meyer is white, their father thomas dean is black, apart from the difference in skin color the twins also have different personalities. >> she enjoys watching her sister go and act vase i. she will sit there and laugh and watching her. to know that we created them and love them so much, it means a lot. >> now couple says even thorough pediatrician could not believe it, the girls are fraternal twins so they started as separate fertilized egg, genetics tell bbc for bi racial couple expecting twins there is a one this 500 chance natalie twins will have different skin colors. >> beautiful young girls. we have a lot coming up on cbs this morgue. >> charlie rose joins us live from new york with the preview , good morning, charlie >> reporter: good morning, jan and jim. we will talk with former home land security advisor fran
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townsend to talk about the president's border wall. we will take you to the u.s./ mexico border for a look what it will take to build a wall. particular van dyke joins to us talk about his former co-star and friend harry tyler shore. we will will see new ten. thanks very much, charlie. well, start of the new year which means people are looking for new ways to lose weight look no further, new study in the journal obesity find wellness coaching programs by phone, can lead to significant weight loss. researchers say kieser permanent members who voluntarily participated in the program loss an average of 10-pound each. and in health news for your pet your regular walk in the park may be exposing your four legged friend to allergies. environmental allergens, tuesday, pollen can affect people, they canals affect your pets. to you have never heard of this vets are saying it is a lot shore revel length then you may think. >> my gosh, probably 30 or 40 percent of the patients we have seen suffer from some form of the allergy-related
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problem whether it is itchy skin ear infections. >> he snores at night because of the mucus. he breaks out the this a red rash in his chest, his eyes get watery and scratches them quite the a bit. >> i know the feeling. itching is one of the most common signs of the pet allergies and just like in humans you can find out what your pet ace leverage i can too and determine a specific treatment by taking them to a specialist. well, jim, we have been talking about this one, massive sinkhole this cheltenham township have many wondering what causes a sinkhole to form. >> and are there warning signs >> derek pits with the franklin institute joins us this morning in the studio with a look at science behind sinkhole. usually we have you looking up at the stars and now we have you looking at the ground. >> i to everything. >> what causes these things to open up. >> what happens is underground layers of the limestone can advertise solve with underground water and the material on top can drop town in the sinkhole. so when underground water dissolve that limestone we
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have a big cab run. >> we see this and like where did the dirt go but it is limestone. >> it is limestone there but groundwater can dissolve limestone, carry it away and then car a way dirt on top of the limestone. so anything on top goes in the sinkhole and that underground water stream can car that i too. >> are there different types of sinkholes. >> there are different kind of sing hells. there are very large holes, and, you know, that form in tive rent ways. but in this different, we are looking at a sinkhole where these layers, that really easily can dissolve, open up the ground, over its head. so it is of like a cabrun that is underneath in the limestone , that the roof of which dissolved and then dirt falls in. >> we are looking live, right thousand of yesterday's sinkhole. >> it is impressive but are there warning signs, can we tell that this is going to happen? >> it is hard to tell it will happen because you have to know what is going on underneath. if you know, you know what the
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water flow is like underneath or what the material is like underneath you might be able to say that perhaps at some point something like this could happen but you never really know when i it will happen. >> i know florida has a lot of these things. >> yes, they to. >> does pennsylvania have an active area for this type of thing happening or new jersey or delaware. >> there is limestone in southeastern pennsylvania and around this region maybe not so much in new jersey but certainly here in southeastern pennsylvania. so, the opportunity for this to happen might be widespread but the thing you have to be careful office what kind of limestone is it. some limestone dissolved easily this water. other limestones like exterior of the franklin institute building is built of that doesn't dissolve easily in water. you have to know what kind of limestone it is. >> out there in cheltenham township they started pumping that hole with concrete is that the usually way to repair them. >> that is a good way because what you want to does fill in that cabrun or georgia be with something that is very strong, very stable and won't wash
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away and provide a good found tation for whatever will go on top. if you can pump enough in you may than able to fill all of the exits where any water or dirt the so you get a good fill that blocks it and good stable foundation. >> i want to tell you i took a semester of geology and i learn her in the last two minutes then difficult in that whole semester. >> i'm so glad. >> we appreciate it thank you. >> thank you for coming in. >> we will be right back, three to go is next.
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before you leave us here's three to go. >> president trump comes to philadelphia today. he will a trust congressional g.o.p. retreat at least hotel on mark streit. there are road and sidewalk closures in effect around that area. >> boil water advisory is in effect for glenside area of cheltenham township after that big sinkhole opened up this is 700 block of brooke road yesterday morning. for the first time ever, the dow jones opens up above the 20,000 mark, it broke that mark for the first time yesterday. >> that is three to go. lets get a last check of weather and traffic. >> we are finding showers current liz working their way across the region, very, very light rain showers but enough to trip you up. the here's the front itself, back even to it, would i say by lunchtime we will see sun break through and it is still mild, we should still hit 50's here today but win starts to pick up, it will start to feel
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chillier, meisha. >> look at our new traffic graphics, they are sobriety. but i want to say president trump is coming to town we have road closures between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. it will slow you down. i will tweet this information out as well. valentines day is a few weeks away but today is a good day to say i love to you your spouse. >> that is because today is national spouse's take. the day was create todd remind us that everything that your spouse's do for you and to make your home happy, so pay a compliment or just say heartfelt thank you. organizers say skip gifts just spend quality time with your husband or wife. >> and for those single like i am it is also national green juice day, so have some green juice. >> next up this morning so-called doomsday clock after 70 years. >> remember to join us each weekday morning on cbs-3 at 4:30 a.m. >> have a great day, meisha gets to drink coffee tomorrow. >> yes. >> all right.
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>> yes. ♪ good morning. it is thursday, january 26th, 2017. welcome to "cbs this morning." president trump says the world is a mess. he moves ahead with controversial immigration policies, including building a wall along the mexican border. today he will huddle with congressional republicans. legendary actress mary tyler moore passes away at the age of 80. we remember the television pioneer who inspired generations of women. her friend and co-star dick van dike joins us. plus, we'll look at the 70-year history of the so-called doomsday clock. we'll take you inside the process scientists used to determine if we're any closer to the end of the world. but we begin this morning with a look at today's "eye
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