you all are in a very good position right now. but we also have something to offer you. >> breaking news out of smyrna delaware where two staff members are still being held hostage right now as a standoff enters its 18th hour. and, out west a night of rioting on the campus of uc berkley how people take time protests turned this to a nighttime of violence. in today's ground hog take we will tell you how today's weather may play a role this pups taun i phil's prediction. we are all hoping for a early spring. it is thursday, february 2nd good morning i'm where i am donovan. i'm rahel solomon. katie and meisha checking the forecast and roads. >> good morning, gateway to the weekend. friday is right around the corner. we are excited about that a lot of construction.

to accidents. always construction it seems, right. >> yes, at least like you mentioned roads are dry, it is a quiet day. blustery, seasonable, it is early february after all so we are he can go, you know, chill to be this is air this time have the year. we are looking at storm scan. the not too much going on out there. it looks like we have a system moving in. don't worry about that, mostly not hitting the ground. more than anything we will see sunshine here to take. a to cloud remaining overhead across especially delaware and southern new jersey. but as the day goes on we are basically looking at a sunny day, 38 degrees right now in philadelphia. thirty-five in trenton. pretty chilly up toward allentown and mount poke though. the just looked at wind speed they are very calm, for right now but they will once again, begin to pick up once the sun comes up here. looking at our thursday forecast, you know, we will call it blustery day, with sunshine regional wide but more typical of what average for this time of the the year. 45 degrees. even still a few degrees above average but not flurry with 50

type variety pack that we saw yesterday and other than that we will probably not even hit treeing hashing but it is season just like it is with construction for you, right. >> yeah, i have to tell you even in the winter construction crews are out there. >> they keep going. >> they just keep willing. thanks very much, katie. the vine street expressway is closed moving in the east and westbound direction we are closed between schuylkill and broad. just a heads up on that as it will hopefully i would say lift around 5:00. it usually does. hopefully earlier then that but just heading out of the door, early risers, it is right you this closed. we have construction on 422 east apees bound direction at route 23. one lane is blocked each direction, this is one of those areas that did clear i would say around 5:00 o'clock. the head up on that just heading out there. it will not slow you down. you have drivable lanes. we have an accident in warminster county line road and madison avenue damage pole as well. we are looking at sensors, we are looking all green, everyone still traveling clearly at posted speed.

another accident new jersey turnpike, on ramp to route 206 , head up we have a couple things coming up on to our maps. jim, back over to you. well, we are following breaking news this morning as authorities in new castle county's james t vaughn correctional center continue to negotiate release of hostages held by inmates. >> "eyewitness news" reporter trang do is live in smyrna where situation is still happening right now, trang, good morning, what can you tell us. >> reporter: good morning, yes , very tense here as inmates have two prison staff members hostage, they released two correctional officers yesterday, overnight 14 inmates were also released from that building and they are being held, elsewhere on this facility. but look at this video we shot yesterday over this scene here this all started just after 10:30 a.m. when inmates took four prison staff members hostage this building c in the james t vaughn correctional center in smyrna. two correctional officers were released and treated at the hospital for non-life threatening injuries.

governor john carney was here last night and state the police negotiators have been in contact with inmates via radio. on phone calls to a local paper the news journal inmates demanded education and rehabilitation rams and more humane treatment. meanwhile delaware secretary of the home land security says officials are not making any promises, until all of the hostages are released. >> once this matter is resolved, safely then that will be the time to talk. inmates want to talk about conditions, privileges, those types of things, yes, that die looking can take place but none of that starts until we have safe return of our staff. >> we are told 82 inmates remain inside building c, it is in the clear whether they are there voluntarily or being held begins their will. also overnight we have learned that a number of groups are planning to hold a rally here outside the the prison in support of the inmates, that is going on at 10:00 a.m. some people are coming as far away as baltimore to attend this.

for now we are live in smyrna, delaware i'm trang do for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". jim and rahel, back to you. inmates inside of the vaughn correctional center made contact with the outside world, even as hostage situation unfolded. >> inn hates were patched through news journal newspaper in wilmington. the here's part of one of the call. inmates called for prisoner education and rehabilitation as trang just mentioned the call you just heard and other calls, were turned over to police. the vaughn correctional center is largest facility for men in the the state of delaware. it opened up in 1971 and house s 2500 inn hates from minimum to maximum security. including the state's death row. in 2004 an inmate raped a counselor and held her hostage for almost seven hours, that standoff ended when a sharp

shooter killed the inmate. stay with "eyewitness news" as we continue to follow these breaking news out of smyrna, we will have updates throughout the morning and we will keep you updated on air and on line the at cbs philly .com and on the cps local app. decade of sexual abuse allegations have come to light to go a grand jury report on solebury school in bucks county. report reveals that staff were not disciplined for having known sexual relationships with their students for generations, and report alleged that at least seven students were sexually assaulted by faculty at new hope school from the 1950's through 2005. oldest known alleged victim is now 77. >> it was culturally accepted at this school, that if you were employed there, it it was okay if you wanted to have sexual relation was your students. there were no lines have of authorities. >> according to school administrators it was the school that ordered the grand jury investigation, only one allegation has not exceeded

the statute of limitations that victim declined to prosecute saying the memories are too painful to relive. meantime new details are surfacing as delaware county teacher is investigated for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a female student. authorities say 28 year-old nina scott the met the teenager at the village school in radnor township and contrary toy initial beliefs police are saying that some of the alleged incidents, did occur, on school property. we're told relationship lasted from february until october of last year. scott now faces a slew of charges including institutional sexual assault of a minor. and investigators do not believe that tuesday's fatal house fire in bensalem was suspicious. tire fighters battled these massive flames at the a home in the 2200 block of byberry road. nine two-year old julia, died after being rescued from a first floor bedroom. a man who was able to escape the the house is in critical condition. large piles of the belongings inside the home complicated fire fighting efforts, the causes not yet known. well, classes will go on

as scheduled after a night of rioting at the university of california/berkley. milo, editor of the right winning news outlet breitbart was supposed to speak yesterday. hundreds peacefully protested the event during the day, but at night, protesters started throwing fire works and rocks at police and smashing cam pun windows. >> sad irony of the fact that tonight, someone's free speech got shut down. it might have been controversy speech. >> things are scary. this is not the exact right approach but the idea behind it is correct. >> police put campus on lock down due to ongoing protests, the university is blaming 150 masked agitators for the violence. reportedly tense call, between president trump and australia prime minister malcolm turnbull resulted in twitter fire from the the command inner chief. the last night president tweet ed do you believe it? the obama administration agreed to take thousands of

illegal immigrants from australia? why, i will stud think drum deal. drama unfolded after australian leader pressed the president to honor the agreement. turnbull refused to comment on the particulars of the conversation but says the deal is still on. >> i will only say as i have said before that i received the assurance that i did from the president himself that assurance was confirmed by the president's spokesmen this is briefing room of the white house. >> the deal will allow hosely muslim refugees rejected by australia to resettle in the united states. at noon in center city philadelphia mayor jim kenney will address members of the local business community as a greater philadelphia chamber of commerce annual hail lunch. more than 1400 people will be attendance as mayor kenney reflects on the highs and lows of his first year in office, outline his top priority and goals in the first year. it will be held at

philadelphia mar why the downtown starting at noon. well, relations between u.s. and mexico are reportedly tense right the now. that is threat president trump allegedly made to mexico's president during a recent phone call. today we will also find out if syringe will come early how this morning's weather may determine if punxsutawney phil sees his shadow. >> we will be right back, stay with and with the billion pointme!!! giveaway,

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time right now 4:42. an update, a standoff continues at vaughn correctional center in new castle county. prisoners there took several hostage there is yesterday afternoon and while some have been released inmates are still holding two staff members, one released hostage has been taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. coming up in 15 minutes we will hear radio transmissions as negotiations continue. president trump is considering making changes to a government program that fights violent streamism, it will go from targeting all

violent only to focusing on islamic extremism. right now the program target groups like white supremacist responsible for shootings and bombings the in the u.s. but with the change it will no longer do so and focus on islamic extremism. opponents say it will make working with muslim groups harder. okay. moving right along, to mexico both u.s. and mexico are denying reports of the tense discussion between two countries leaders. president trump and his mexican counterpart enrique pena nieto spoke on the the phone friday. president trump told nieto, you will handle the bad hombre 's do not. in other news, it is ground hog take which means we will soon see if winter will last six more weeks or if spring will come early. >> it all comes down to what pennsylvania's favorite groundhog has to say when i comes out in punxsutawney at

7:30. punxsutawney phil doesn't have a great track record, of course. he has predict six more weeks of winter nearly 80 percent of the time but only right 39 percent. >> awful odds. >> of course, he is never wrong in punxsutawney. >> katie has much better odd then that. >> he is a lot cuter then i am >> a lot of people would disagree with that, katie. >> thank you. >> it is fun to go by legend but this is where it is at when it comes to the real stuff. i will keep it all honest. let's talk about groundhog day , shall we? we mentioned natalie sun will be rising here right around 7:30. >> here comes punxsutawney, i love these graphics. so over the time he has made 119 predictions. he saw his shadow 102 times out of that and no shadow 18. of course, today, will he, or won't he? we are still waiting. the sun does not come up in punxsutawney until 7:25

instant is it rises from east to west, it will be coming up earlier here, but with that said it does look, like most of the keystone state will enjoy some sunshine here today as we look here from storm scan the last couple of hours we have found a few little will very light band of lake enhanced snowfall, all incredibly light. i have a feeling there may be cloud around western pennsylvania at that time. not banking on much in the way of certainly systems coming through but not too much to really skew the sunshine as it is rising over the horizon. in the meantime it is a quiet mess all things considered. heavy rain working its way in to california, by the time we hit weekend we will see things unfold in the way of additional precipitation chance is here and there will be snowfall that we will look ahead to on sunday specifically but for now, right now, win is light but that will be picking up once the sunrisees. 7:08 is our official sunrise in philadelphia and sun with the blustery conditions up to 30 miles an hour, yeah, 45 degrees, make you tiehl no

better than 30's. twenty-four tonight under partly cloudy skies and looking forward, well, it is kind of like movie version of the groundhog day here as we will see sunny skies right through at least the beginning of the sunday, by the second half we will start to see some snow showers, meisha. >> all right, katie, yeah we will have that sunshine. 6:30. you know, it is winter. i'm happy. i'm looking outside right now. the vine street expressway is opening, closed overnight for that construction project we are all so used to at this point. it is opening. good, before 5:00 that is where we are at vine. we have construction on 422 east and westbound directions a the route 23. that construction project as well, that has also been cleared. so you are good on 422. we do however have an accident out there in warminster county line road the madison avenue we have a damage pole as well, just a heads up for both in that neck of the woods. not slowing you down, too early for that. but it the will late fur it does not move out of the the way. we have an overturn tractor trail are on the new jersey turnpike on ramp to route 206,

that on ramp is partially blocked. one of those things not the enough cars to slow you down but it will, it will absolutely do so if it does not get moved out of the the way would i say pushing in the 5:00 o'clock hour. deeper in the 5:00 o'clock hour. we have construction on 295 northbound ramp to 42 is closed, 42 northbound ramp to 295 northbound is closed in new jersey, jim and rahel, back over to you. well, coming up next, major investigation, is there really a nationwide shortage of bacon. >> we will get to the bottom of it, coming up next in our money watch report when we come right back. >> sixty minutes in the morning.

8f8z z12fz y28f8y y12fy time for a check of business news. >> honey watch's jill wagner joins us from the the new york stock exchange. relatively from the the day on wall street. what are investors watching to take. >> reporter: good morning. amazon, chipotle and visa report after the market close is today. the yesterday, investors were

rocking feds decision to leave interest rates as is, for right now. most analyst were expecting natalie fed will wait and see the impact of donald trump's economic policies before they raise rates, again. jim and rahel. now jill, we have mike wallace, morley safer, leslie stall, 60 minutes team do these major investigations and we need to you delve deeply into this, is there a shortage of bacon. >> reporter: this is the stuff that matters, right. >> yes. >> reporter: reports of the bacon shortage are apparently over blown. >> halleluiah. >> here's what happened as bacon anxiety began from the report from the usda which says the pork belly inventory was at lowest level in 50 years. then as a marketing opportunity, the ohio pork council create aid web site bacon shortage.com, one analyst though tells the times there is still lengthy of hogs and there will be plenty of bacon. jim and rahel.

>> i knew i could count on you , jill. these are the things that matters, for someone in the morning. thanks, jill. we will check with you next hour. well, regardless of what the groundhog does today wintry temperatures will be here very soon. >> question is just how soon, katie. >> it is already turning cold tore take by comparison to yesterday but it will continue on this slow decline on the mercury, i'll let you know how low we will will go and also when the next round of snow is scheduled to

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is need for sunglasses, folks. we will see essentially a full day of sunshine here. we will see cloud but patchy white clouds that roll through also a blustery win eventually picking up. now looking at storm scan three things are quiet at the moment here and we do have what has been at least the looks of a few little flakes flying through the poconos, central pennsylvania, all lake enhanced that will in the survive as it rolls our way and fizzles overtime here. looking at the wind it is very light, generally out of the west at this hour but quite calm, so calm in fact that we have word calm overlapping itself, in the location here but regardless it is going to be picking up with time. even though we do hit, typical , more typical daytime high of 45 it will make it feel that much colder anytime win blows. it is what you expect but temperature continues, gradual climb here, pretty tease event drop off there one day to the next. but we are stuck in the mid 30 's through saturday. by sunday we will flirt with 40 but we have a round of

light snow showers that work their way in. i don't expect much of any accumulation out of that. >> that is good. we have to have, sunshine. katie, thanks very much. looking outside right now we are looking at the schuylkill, headlights moving in the eastbound direction at montgomery, we're looking good i was just about to say we are starting to build a little bit but not really. this is fairly typical for a thursday morning, just before 5:00 o'clock, you have a couple neighbors out there. overall we are looking good both directions. ninety-five south at cottman the same story there, we are starting to see early risers out there, pushing in the southbound direction but overall that is exactly how it should look. we have an accident in warminster county line road at madison avenue and damaged poem as well. this is one of those areas that might start to heat up as we progress through the morning, 5:00 o'clock hour but right the now we are still showing, heads up, it is out there overturn tractor trailer new jersey turnpike northbound on ramp from route 206, that is partially blocked right now , also one of those areas

that is out there it will tart to slow you down but not too concerned about it. then we have some construction out there, of course, new jersey turnpike southbound at route 122 that right lane is block and that will be blocked until around noon time. so just heads up on that that will bring us to the noon time hour if it doesn't get cleaned up before that. then we have more construction in new jersey 295 we will talk about that coming up in ten to 15 minutes. jim and rahel. back over to you. coming up in the next hour of cbs-3 "eyewitness news" latest on the prison standoff in delaware. we are live at prison plus hear for yourself negotiations between prisoners and authorities. and discovery that led maryland state police to ground their entire fleet of the choppers, we are back at the top of the hour stay with us. what are you doing up? mom said i could have a midnight snack.

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we continue to follow breaking news this morning, the hostage standoff at a smyrna, delaware prison. hear the phone call natalie hostage takers made to a local newspaper. plus this... >> i thought you were going to send them out for me, what happened. >> we got to regroup, man. >> negotiations between the authorities and a hostage tak er broadcast, on police radio we have team three coverage of the efforts to free two people still in captivity. and we're also following a developing story in california , where protests on the campus of. uc berkley turn violent. we will tell you why students were demonstrating there, in the first lays. well to take is thursday, february 2nd, groundhog day, good morning, everyone i'm jim donovan. i'm rahel solomon. how to we go if he sees his

shadowy get confused but it is never right anyway. >> of course, we will bring in kate and meisha keeping an eye on things this morning. >> that is the question, do you think he will see it. >> i think he will see it. if he sees his shadow, six more weeks of winter. it is counter intuitive, you think he saw his shadow we have sunshine it will be nice. >> meisha sees her shadow that means the rine street expressway is closed. >> that is right. >> we have construction plus an accident and overturn tractor trailer. >> my goodness. >> thankfully weather is cooperative here today, local ly taking you out to storm scan three you will notice a few lake enhanced snow showers flying across central pennsylvania and north central pa where we have terrain, mess of which, is not surviving as it head our way. you might see a couple clouds overhead no snow showers expected here locally it should be fizzling heading our