>> a developing story, police officer dragged by a car during traffic stop. we're live with details on the car that police are searching for right now. and, up all night. senate democrats are once again burning the midnight oil working to delay a vote, trump's cabinet picks. we'll have an update. >> from our cbs-3 studios, waking up with windchills in the teens, katie says it will feel a lot like spring this weekend. today is friday, february 17th, good morning, everyone, i'm jim donovan. >> good morning, jim donovan. ammo ' rahel solomon it is 5:00. we hope on your end you're seeing everything okay. on our ends we have been

having technical issues. >> to say the least. >> yes, so our switch is her down, which controls our cameras, our graphics, our audio, are we on tv? we're not even sure because we can't even see ourselves. so we may be talking to no one so we'll try it anyway. >> normally we have monitors so you can see what we see. right now we can't exactly see that, so hopefully you can see us. good morning to you, thanks for being with us, if you are in fact with us. >> yes, we get a start. >> i kinds of like this, because if i'm having a bad hair day, i don't have -- >> operating in the dark here. >> right. well right now the roadways i got to say are looking pretty good. one accident out of the way. bunch of construction, over all for friday morning, looking okay. >> good to know. the weather actually looks very tame once more, expecting high pressure to actually hook us one great great weather, for the upcoming holiday weekends, so if we consideration i believe we will do a weather hit. we take you out to that. do we have graphics? confirmation? yes, we have graphics. so we are expecting some really nice weather out there

today. it is a little chilly out there, granted, but we're expecting to see a seasonable day unfold across the delaware valley, and am i supposed to continue? continue, okay, supposed to continue. with high pressure in place here, nice clear skies overhead. we're going to expect to see th temperatures currently into the 20's here in our area rebounds with time into more typical territory. twenty-eight the temperature at the airport, 25 in trenton, 30 in wildwood. twenty-six in atlantic city and chilly 19 right now mount pocono. feeling little breeze as well, will make it feel little cooler to you, but into the mid to upper 20's at the mome if quakertown, doylestown, really anywhere you look around the outlying suburbs, walking you you through the friday forecast, mid february, what you should find. 44 degrees, quite typical. it is actually exactly where we should, dead on for the normal nor day of the year. that sun will shine all day, out in the poconos, still tad breezy for you. what did i tell you? coming up

nice moderation, waits in the wings, meisha. we will eventually see those temperatures climb. i'll let you know when coming up. >> wonderful. katie, thank you so much. looking ouon the roadways, one thing we, closed over night between broad and schuylkill, now lifted, just a few moments ago, moving in the westbound direction, looking good, looking quiet on the left seemed you can see the eastbound direction, actually looking very quiet as well. now this is our accident. i want to pull your attention, one, two now, one on the boulevard, roosevelt boulevard northbound, near c street. heads up on that, still traveling around at posted speeds. i would say more importantly, want to pull your attention to this accident here, accident with injuries, mt. laurel, new jersey, turnpike, southbound before route 73, all lanes blocked right there. you will have to use alternate. 295 is going to be your best bet. you can see our tweet from b. it will 34,t in the world is is going on there? now you know, accident with tractor-trailer. >> katie, thank you. >> moving on to the news this morning, philadelphia police are looking for the man who shot and killed a manager of a

bar and then robbed him. investigators say man wearing a hooded sweatshirt walked into the bar at 23rd and indianna. got into a struggle with the manager then shot him. the manager died a short time later, police say, the gunman also took about 150, excuse me, $175 from the bar, then took the victim's car keys, and wallet. >> well, developing now, philadelphia police are trying to track down the driver who dragged an officer 500 feet. >> it happened after the officer pulled him over in east germantown, "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabeo live at the 35th district. good morning, jan. >> late last night they had a helicopter over the scene looking for vehicle and the driver. the vehicle registered to person known to police with arrests in the past. how much, this morning, both the suspected vehicle, and that driver, are still at large. so police do need your help tracking down the person responsible. meantime, as you take a look at the video, fortunately, this morning, the officer who

was injured is rovering, taken to einstein hospital after police say he was dragged about 500 feet. frightening scenario unfolded at 20th and spencer street, east germantown, around 10:30 last night. two uniform officers with the 35th district pug over car f erratic drivers, the driver rolled down the window, police smelled and saw what appeared to be marijuana. ordered the driver to pull over the vehicle, take out the keeps, police say the suspect refused. when the officer reached inside to take the keys himself that's when the driver took off dragging the officer 500 feet, at the intersection of 20th and god free. >> while dragging the police office here was hanging onto the open door window of the vehicle, the suspect started swerving the vehicle, left and right, in order to shake the officer off of the vehicle. >> now, police are still

searching for that car this morning. it is described as a silver 2005 pontiac grand prix, opinions license plates jlx-9786. the car is registered to a home 2 miles from where it all happened. when the driver is caught, he'll face number of serious charges, including aggravated assault, resisting arrest, and wreckless endanger: as for the officer, he's 28 years old, a three year veteran of the police force, he had number of scrapes and bruises to his head. his hands and his knees. fortunately he was walking and talking at the scene and in stable condition this morning. we're going to continue to follow this story. for now, we're live outside the 35th police district, jan carabeo, cbs-3, "eyewitness news," jim, rahel, back into you. >> jan, thank you. the ends of era greatest show onsetter coming to a close, ringling brothers and barnum bailey circus kick off final philly tour last night. animal activists held up signs, as protesters voiced their opposition to the show. eleven performances are scheduled for the city of

brotherly love. and will continue through monday. actually when i first saw it on the news, i drove by here, how many hundreds of hours have spent here, you know, educating people. >> any animal should never be used for entertainment. it is not necessary. not in today's world. >> circus has been touring for 146 years entertaining about 10 million people each year. the circus' final curtain will fall in may. >> this morning, police are searching for two people who tried to lure a young girl into their car in bucks county. take a look at this picture. they say this is vehicle they are looking for, gold sedan, missing a rear hubcap and has kentucky placement now the girl told policeman and woman asked her to get in the car on providence court wednesday afternoon. she was on her way home at the time from council rock wrightstown elementary school. she walked away and toll her parents? uber driver under arrest for burglary charges in delaware. they say saddam of frankford, delaware, took passengers to

the boetsch spot, he then went back to their vacant home to burglarize them. the 26 year old was arrested in tennessee following six of month long investigation of multiple burglaries in sussex county, delaware. >> upper darby police continue to search for two suspect who stole laptop computers from an or the doesn't i can office. watch this surveillance video. you can see the two suspect entering the office in search behind a desk, this happened on valentine day at rich or the doesn't innings on long lane, just before 7:00 a.m. if you recognize the suspect, please contact police. >> we are just -- facing felony charges after alleged fight last weekends, say rivas got into fight with a man reporting him walking down the street. investigators say rivas tossed the phone in the street, punched a man and his friends knocking both unconscious. rivas said he feared for his life. >> well, it is another all nighter on capitol hill. let's see now if we can take a look inside the chambers where democrats are seek to go delay

to the environmental protection agency, epa. claim the oklahoma attorney general in contrast to protect human health and the environment. >> and justice department says president trump will replace immigration and travel ban, the order which was only in effect for a week, banned refugees and people from seven mostly muslim nations from entering the us. federal appeals court in san francisco refuse to reinstate the ban last week after temporarily halted by a washington judge. >> coming up: some scary moments at an airport. >> yes, up next we will tell you what happene after two planes clipped wings. then authorities foil a target terror plot, what one man was planning to do along the east coast, wait until you hear his motive for the plan. plus this. >> also, hear more of that man's incredible story of surviving after the road he was driving on buckled and

collapsed. technical difficulties in all. we will be right back. stay with us,

it was a close call in phoenix arizona as two planes clipped wings. front ear jet on it way to denver, was pushing back from the gate whether it collide wad southwest airlines jet that had just lands add few moments ago. it happened on the tarmac around 8:00 last night. the crash caused a fuel leak in one of the planes, but fortunately, no one was hurt. well the feds have foiled a plot to bomb target stores

along the east coast. investigators say mark arnet paid a man $10,000 to put bombs on shelves in several target stores from north, there go, from new york to florida. the man tipped authorities instead, agents believe barnett wanted company stock to tumble then would buy it after it dropped and cash it in after the price went back up. >> i think his motive was financial. the fact that he wanted to go to that extreme raised our attention. using thos devices in that manner could have potentially been very catostrophic. >> if convicted barnett could get ten years in prison. he was already on probation as a convicted sex offender. well, a man survives after his car dice, nose first, into creek in washington state, richard ledgerwood driving to work in the pitch black yesterday morning, and as he passed this section of the road, it collapsed beneath him, his car plowed into the water. he was able to climb to safety through the driver side window.

he says his flashlight saved his life. he said his flash lied saved his live. they say this is actually part of washington which got almost an inch every rain in 24 hours. it will be three, four weeks before they can fix that road. that's incredible. that's miraculous. >> that's in the just a little pothole. >> not at all. not like what we see here. >> with more rain on the way, residents are preparing themselves for even nor flooding. >> packing up and headed out as water levels continue to rise, the cit city has put together a team responsible forehand link evacuations and rescue. officials are hoping the prep will be placed, in place, will help with upcoming storms. >> we're preparing for evacuations, as security issues that will come about, keeping people off levees, making sure that people have evacuation notices, when applicable, then mandatory evacuations. >> the forecast remembers saying this weekend's storm could be the biggest one to

hit the area this season. >> and, staying in california now, new rept says heavy rains may be to blame for a crater in the main still way at lake orville. it triggered evacuation of hundreds every thousands of people this week. officials identified three areas where errosion showed signs of potential flooding, the report given to rescue crews responding to the emergency. well, time now 5:15. let's get a check of the werth. it is friday, tgif. >> thank goodness. >> mighty say? but looks like it would be a good weekend, we just got to get through today. >> yes, katie. >> oh, my gosh, i think we're all so thrilled right now this friday, because we literally have a technical circus going on, and i feel like it is probably a good thing that wringling is on its farewel tour, we are picking up where the circumstance he is left off here this morning, thank you for sticking with us, and maybe we can see that sometime soon. let's get you on out to storm scan3, what we are finding out at the moment not a heck of a lot. certainly some clouds

billowing in from the northwest, do still have hint after breeze, nothing like what we saw yesterday it, did end up getting pretty blustery throughout the course of the afternoon, if you were outside you ow that well. current winds speeds, generally at this point more so out of the west to northwest, little bit more haphazard, all eventually will turn bit more southerly as the day progresses,ut, with that said, we are expecting a nice warm up as that takes place. so, the timing is good, if you're one of those brave folks headed down to sea isle city for the polar bear plunge coming up this weekends, plenty of sunshine. temperature 6:00 p.m., 51 degrees. out on dry land, it will feel quite comfortable for the standards this time of year. looking forwards in the eyewitness weather seven day forecast, good warm up there. lock at this, low mid 60s all weekends long, long holiday weekend with president's day, it will be little cooler by this point. but notice it is essentially wall-to-wall sunshine right through tuesday. next shot for a shower doesn't even come until next

wednesday, meisha. so if you are a fan of the warmth, it is a good looking forecast. >> yes, looks beautiful. all right, katie, thank you so much. i think that's something that we can all be excited about. looking outside right now, we can be excited about 95, southbound direction, looking good, looking quiet there. one area that's not looking too good, though, is serious accident in mt. laurel with injuries. new jersey turnpike, southbound before route 73, all lanes are blocked right now. you will have to use an alternate. 295 is going to be your best bet. big. it will is tweeting this morning what in the world is going on? there are a lot of flashing lights, a ton of gaper delays and backups here. if you can avoid the area at all costs i would do so. i wouldn't even head in that direction, or use that alternate, if you have to go out there you will have to use that alternate. even that alternate is going to get very slow. so overall you guys, avoid the area. we also have another accident this morning on the boulevard. roosevelt boulevard

northbound, you're c street, still traveling at posted speeds. probably won't be if it lingers out there until the 6:00 hour. heads up on that. friday's tend to be one of the lighter travel days. then also construction talking about this yesterday, blue bell avenue closed over 95 for support beam repairs. letting you know we have safety issues there. you will have to use alternate here, as well. your best alternate chichester avenue and that got actually very slow yterday. jim, rahel, back over to you. >> meisha, thank you. and now for a look at newspaper headlines from across our region. >> in the burlington county times, mercury has been found in the rubberized gym floor at young elementary school in burlington township. the floor is scheduled to be replaced this summer. the district says the gym will be used throughout the remainder of the school year. periodic testing will take place to make sure the mercury levels remain safer. >> from the intelligence ers valley forge tourism and convention center says montgomery county losing out on an estimated $100 million in economic opportunity

because it lacks a dedicated sports complect, calling for the constructioevery sports complex foreign door and outdoor use. >> in the reading eagle more than 70,000 snow bees turning the linc at middle creek in lebanon and lancaster county into sea every white. here is a closer look. the geese on their migration to, well i guess we won't see the closer look, on their way to breeding grounds near the architect circumstance they will weekend by the way may be the best time to see them at their peak. >> hopefully see them out. >> the real thing. >> and that's a look at some of the newspaper headlines from around the delaware valley. >> and next in sports, don be has the latest onset back for sixers star ben simmons. >> one of the biggest parties of the year. show you some of the preparations for the academy of the year governor's ball. >> ♪ >> ♪

>> ♪ >> and speaking of tightrope, the circus is in town. >> i thought you were talking about our show this morning. >> the actual circus is in town this morning has been a little bit after circus but we say we appreciate all of the people behind the scenes this morning, they've been working so hard. >> and we'll get our glitches fixed. >> but you know what? pat gallen. >> he will actually be at the greatest show on earth during his final run here in philadelphia. not just our show, the actual final greatest show on earth, stay with us, we'll be right back. >>

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>> welcome back to "eyewitness news" this morning, checking sports, another late start for the flyers. >> and their first ever game at edmonton roger place arena, struggling flyers fell behind early, never caught up. the oilers, david, goal and two assists to regain the scoring lead. edmonton wins 66-three, the flyers play vancouver tomorrow night. >> speaking about the health of the number one overall pick, ben simmons. >> here's don bell with the details. >> reporter: the moment sixers drafted ben simmons, ticket sales went through the roof. twenty-six games left, fans may never see him hit the court. source tells our good friend, the philadelphia inquirer that the number one pick had his broken foot, three weeks ago, not completely healed. he broke it on the final day of training camp. now, 6ers general manager brian coangelo releasing this statement last night, he says we continue it monitor the recovery of ben's injury and

are employing a conservative d thoughtful approach to his rehabilitative program. based on his return to full basketball activity on the advice and direction of medical professionals. his next ct scan scheduled february 23rd, after which our medical team will thoroughly review and evaluate his status moving forwards. ben's long-term health remains our primary concern. sixers as you know off for the all-star break, also the flyers off tonight, as women. that's all for sports, i'm don bell. have a great day. >> coming up in the next half hour of "eyewitness news," smacks, coming back on one major airline. >> i'm very happy to hear that. popular board monopoly piece going away. more from live report on wall street. trang? >> reporter: two brother dead after gunfire overnight in east mt. airy. i'm trang do with police say is a possible motive. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> also, we'll tell but a

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don't be fooled by today's start, warmer temperatures on their way. good morning, i'm rahel solomon. >> i'm jim donovan. katie and meisha will be along in just a minute. first, here's what you need to know to get your day started in the morning minute. >> developing now, manhunt underway for driver who dragged a philadelphia police officer. it happened during traffic stop in east germantown. >> it is the end after era. the greatest show on earth, rolls into philly, for its final act. >> we're very sad this will be the last

>> ♪ >> ♪ >> it is kind of hard to characterize the press conference. words fail me. how about cnn? >> it was un hinged. >> what do its friends over at fox news say? >> all righty. >> very funny. nice try. very funny. >> okay, what did fox news really say? >> wow. all righty then. >> good stuff from stephen colbert. we should say sore bye the audio glitch. having some technical difficult thinks our studio today but we appreciate you staying with us, continue to watch over the next hour and a half. see what else goes on. this is live tv. >> sounding good, we appreciate that. >> katie is out on the skydeck with a good forecast. >> yes, sounding good and looking good. katie, nice forecast?