well, their vacation could impact your vacation, a computer glitch approves time off for too many pilots for one major airline and now thousands of flights are up in the air this holiday season. more details of inappropriate sexual behavior against long time nbc host matt lurie merged i'm hanna do ba in new york with the very latest. jared kushner questioned new information we have learned about the president's son in law and his time spent with special counsel robert mueller. it is thursdayovember 30th, good morning i'm jim donovan. i'm rahel solomon. katie and meisha keeping an eye on things this thursday morning. >> good morning, gateway to our weekend. it is so close.

looking good. lots of construction. nice dry roadway. we have that. it it has been helping us out. >> we even had a cold front and didn't bring one drop of rain. it can still bring about change and we have seen those temperatures dropping off. what is interesting is yes, temperature has dropped off a little bit but not terribly harsh. so what you'll find here is a mixture of this what you are finding on storm scan, some sun, cloud and day is still dry at lee through the daylight hours, not until later tonight wet weather will move in and we will talk about the timing later on but just to get you out the door right now you need to break out winter coat again, take a look temperature change in the last 24 hours is noticeable not super substantial in a couple spots like lancaster, allentown only seeing a deaf set of a couple degrees but you do note that is change at the shore, resort towns of the poconos, so expect that it is going to feel a lot cooler to you. in the meantime thinks how it translates to the thermometer

readings, it is 36 degrees in atlantic city. thirty-eight in philadelphia, just 25 in mount pocono so yes , there is a chill in the air we will take a look at forecast for the day as a whole not too bad but normal high, 50 on this date of the year so yes, not as warm but still above average. we will take that. fifty-eight in atlantic city, not shabby. we will see some sun. not until late tonight wet weather would arrive, meisha. >> it does not feel like we are creeping up in december, it is just so nice out. good morning everybody. we are looking outside right now gorgeous shot of the ben franklin bridge there berk in the westbound direction toward center city. really good company anyway you are driving. we were looking at this area with overnight construction around south street schuylkill westbound around south street, waiting for overnight construction crews to move out and they have had traffic completely stopped for a moment moving cones and you see the flights, moving now all that tension that was building up behind them that will start to ease. we are looking good there.

activity here i-95 north off ramp to betsy ross you can see flag there, arrow letting you know to be driving so you can see cones, and brake lights but there is not a lot of volume. just wanted to call it to your tension quickly pennsylvania turnpike westbound between neshaminy and westbound between delaware river bridge and neshaminy falls left lane compromised there. jim and rahel, back over to you. hundreds of the american airline pilots are taking vacation this is holiday season but you may not be after a computer glitch has left 15,000 flights, without pilots. >> "eyewitness news" reporter trang do is live at philadelphia international airport with more on the scheduling snafu that caused this mess, hi there, trang do. >> reporter: hi, rahel and jim this airport is a hub for american airlines and this is terminal, c that we are in so you can see here just how much of an influence american has here and how many potential passengers this pilot shortage could potentially affect come busy christmas travel season.

the world's biggest airline has a big problem, a scheduling glitch allowed too many american airlines pilots to schedule time off at even of the year which could ground thousands of flights for people heading home for the holidays. >> real bad, the holidays coming, we have new years coming, christmas coming so a lot of people will be upset. >> reporter: allied pilots association says more than 50,000 flights are at risk of cancellation from december 17th, to the 31st. >> i want the story of the grin that much stole christmas at american airlines. >> reporter: captain dennis taser is spokesmen for pilots union. >> we will to have get creative and require a partnership in figuring out how we get those over 15,000 flights, and then manned with captains and first officers, it is a heavy lift. >> reporter: american airlines said in a statement it plans to use reserve pilots and offer time and a half to pilots who volunteer to change their plans, adding quote, we are working diligently to address the issue and spoke avoid cancellation this is holiday season.

travelers say they sure hope so. >> unbelievable, i mean you lose time with your family which vice important to a lot of people, that is only time they get to travel. >> reporter: airline says it does believe it will be able to fill these vacancies over next several days but pilots union is not so sure. for now we are live from the philadelphia international airport i'm trang do for cbs-3 "eyewitness news", rahel and jim back to you. there is a hearing for philip ahr man resigned as president of the radnor township board of commissioners after his a reason child pornography charges. according to the criminal complaint ahr sent and received images of children two to four years old and used different screen names to visit related chat rooms. ahr had been president of the radnor commissioners for four and a half. mor allegations of sexual misconduct are emerging good against matt lauer. >> or wondering how big a hit the network will take as a result. here's more from cbs news correspondent hanna doba. >> reporter: as nbc lit rocker

feller christmas tree last night more details were emerging about the most noticeable face not part of the broadcast. earlier in the day today show host matt lauer became latest and arguablably biggest celebrity to lose his job in the wake of the sexual misconduct scandal. variety magazine and new york times reported the incidents with the staffer who came forward and launched an official complaint began after 2014 olympics. they go on to report additional cases of sexual misconduct by lauer including exposing himself and sending explicit text messages. >> i think you can understand why woman felt they could in the come forward without faces republican cushion toss their career. >> reporter: new york times says there are allegations from at least two more women one claims lauer sexually assaulted her inside his nbc office in 2001. >> this is the biggest it gets , biggest scalp in terms of this national reckoning over alleged and some cases, admitted sexual misconduct.

>> reporter: in what seems to be a bit of for shadowing, this is an interview, lauer did with bill o'reilly back when "fox news" host faced sexual allegations. >> you are the guy with the ratings and revenues were built on, you carried that network on your shoulders. >> reporter: lauer had been there for 20 years and was one of the nbc's highest earning personalities pulling in around 20 million-dollar, a year. hanna doba for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". accusation as begins matt lauer come one week after cbs fired charlie rose for allegations of sexual misconduct. we will follow both cases see her reporting on cbs this morning at 7:00 right here after "eyewitness news" this morning right here on cbs-3. update on the murder of the woman in west philadelphia police say she was killed by a man she met on social media police arrested 23 year-old co le swearinger harring who was found tuesday in the pile of leaves in the 200 block of south forty-ninth street.

she had been stabbed more than 50 times and her body set on fire. charges have also been filed in the deadly shooting on drexel's campus, we first told but this yesterday morning. police say 21 year-old marlows mercage and his girlfriend were arguing in the 3500 block of lancaster avenue when another man 24 year-old joseph pawlowski intercede. officers say he fired three shots at mercage killing him, he is in custody charged with murder and related offences. cbs news has learned that special council robert mueller 's office interviewed jared kushner. sources say interview took place this month and lasted about 90 minutes. the talks focused on interaction kushner had with michael flynn. flynn, you may recall was forced to resign as president 's national security advisor. earlier this year. meantime russia is urging the u.s. and south korea to cancel military drills scheduled for december, that is after north korea fired off yet another long range ballistics miss this will one capable of reaching the united

states. russia's u.n. ambassador say exercises will inn flame an explosive situation. united states u.n. ambassador nikki haley is pushing for new sanctions calling on all nation toss cut off all ties, with north korea. happening today hillary clinton is coming to town to pro met her new book. the former presidential candidate is on a national tour and will make a stop in philadelphia at the academy of music tonight. her book what happened tries to explain how she who the election to donald trump. book has received mixed responses ranging from praise to calls for her to gracefully fade from the spotlight. coming up suspect accused of sucker punching a man with cerebral palsy learns his fate >> we will tell you how long he will be behind bars, plus this. it was one of the most active, expensive hurricane seasons on record, i'm courtney padowsky where the end of the 2017 season is being met with cautious relief and it looks like, we will tell you why this section of

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today marks last day of th2017 hurricane season, amen, for many it could not end soon enough. >> cbs news, correspondent courtney dubowsky looks back at six stormy months. >> reporter: 2017 was the most expensive hurricane season on record. and no one knows that better than houston resident amelia guitares. >> i'm broke. i'm broke. >> reporter: guitares like millions of other hurricane victims across the country was displaced both physically and emotionally. >> this is a nightmare that came true for me. >> reporter: nightmare season that brought 17 named storms, 10 of them hurricanes. for the first time ever, it

reached category four status, harvey in texas, irma in florida and maria in puerto rico. reported death toll for 2017 atlantic storms now stands at 438, although actual number may be higher. according to research scientists mark johnson and chuck watson the storms that came a shore cost more than $200 billion. that includes at least 32 billion from maria, 60 billion from hurricane irma and 114 billion from harvey in texas where mayor of houston says federal dollars are in high demand. >> in order not only to put us back where we were prior to harvey, but to put news a better place where we're more resilient. >> reporter: because 2018 season is just six months away >> they say it is a 500 year flood but you never know. >> reporter: and fear is not knowing whether next year, will be even worse. courtney, for cbs-3, "eyewitness news".

well, check out this cool time lapse video from nasa, astronauts randy showed lightening oversee see of japan and cities as seen from the international space station, didn't we see that last night, actually. countries are chine, korea and japan. we saw that bright light across the scene. i didn't physically see it but that is what we were referring to. >> that thing gets around. >> apparently. >> and it is international. >> quite the jet setter. >> we have very quiet weather yet again but your view of the nighttime sky are looking g we are at the moment seeing a little bit of cloud cover rolling in and there is a chill. we had a frontal passage in the bringing any wet weather or cloud cover but dit pick up the breeze and temperatures have in fact taking a hit as a result. let me show you a view, ate very scrum us looking view i might add of the chocolate lab on main street in, bethlehem. doesn't that look so quaint,

yeah. i want to go there, right now. >> yes. >> but it is on main street in historic bethlehem and, there is a lot of, very quaint shops along this stretch. this is definitely a hub of shopping, opportunities, for folks as we hit holiday season here, in the christmas city. we have a very pretty quiet view up this way. pleasant valley middle and high school looking very similar and off in the distance mountaintop is there i have a feeling we will see a beautiful sunrise coming through even if there is a deck of cloud cover it should look good. but i will show you this more than anything for the fact that it is very cold. we are at 26 degrees. win has eased up so you won't notice too much of the wind chill here today but no where near as warm. we ended up over achieving in the city at 64 degrees, and didn't come close to a record but obviously well above average. here's that blanket of cloud cover but frontal boundary we are talking about is still up over the midwest and just moving in the ohio river valley. we still have sometime before this gets here mainly late tonight is when these showers

break out. behind it, it is completely quiet and it will stay that way for many days yet to come. let me jump you to the timing on this you will get through both commutes without any problems, we both drew long straw here for a.m. and p.m. drive but by eight or 9:00 p.m. that band of wet weather will come in strictly as rain showers though and it is not going to be cold enough to support any icing or snow here locally but by the time you wake up early with us hopefully tomorrow morning, skies will already begin to start clearing here so it looks like it dozened up a nice day all and all to start off new in if you can believe we are there we will stay clear in the weekend too. let me jump you to the seven day and she you here what is up. consistency for a change. right to 50's, right into monday with sunshine overall as well but lot at spike, by tuesday, we will hit 60. but we could see rain by then. >> all right. it looks awesome. thanks, katie. ninety-five south at cottman, looking good, oddly enough,

southbound side looks great and northbound side looks busier, then the southbound side. we don't see that typically but that will fade away. it will be southbound side that we will keep our eye on all morning long. boulevard southbound direction , toward the schuylkill, these are levels you are working with looking great, everybody traveling around right at posted speeds as they should, same story here at blue route moving in the southbound direction, taillights near mid county but we do still have construction crews throughout on the pennsylvania turnpike westbound between neshaminy falls and willow grove that right lane is compromised there quick peak at 295 we have a lot of construction here some of which has cleared 295 north and south at route one, one to two lanes are still block there, rahel and jim, back over to you. okay, meisha, thank you. now for a look at newspaper headlines across the region. >> bordentown's acting police chief says people don't have to worry about driving through the township anymore this comes in the wake of the hate crime charges leveled against township's former police chief

, frank knew sayer a junior. big question is whether the black residents are willing to accept this olive branch. and reading eagles pennsylvania auditor general eugene depasquale says there is no guarantee that the commonwealth can keep a child safe. auditor's office release aid report that concluded the child's welfare system was broken. from the mercury reversal in the upper pottsgrove commissioner race, election night tyrone robinson appeared to have won by two votes. following the official vote tap eulogies he has been replaced by renee who now officially won the election by same margin, two votes. that is a newspaper headlines from around the delaware valley. up next, it was a foul night for sixers star ben simmons we will have a night next in sports, plus this. >> ♪ >> just sampling of the festivities leading up to the tree lighting at 30 rock, we will show you dazzling display later in the (vo) dogs have evolved,

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welcome back everyone. we're glad you are with us on cbs-3 "eyewitness news" this morning. >> ben simmons set a franchis record for free throws, here's don bell with your morning's sports. >> one of the craziest games you will ever see, sixers and wizard combining for 101 free throws, ben simmons shot a franchise record 24 in the fourth. down to the center we will go second quarter joel embiid with the block. going the other way. ben simmons being joe joe, he had 25 points and 14 boards, to the fourth quarter wizard, and simmons, on 12 straight

possessions. overall he made 15 out of 29, and he finished with a career high, 30 points and career high, is 18 boards but nail in the coffin for wizard came courtesy of jj reddick nice pass down low by dario saric, bucket and foul, slams the ball, gets a technical foul. sixers win 118-113. >> basketball version of fix ers upper, pennsylvania ville john is being ren neff a so, villanova hosting pen at jake nevin field house. they played there until 1986. penn hanging with villanova early, off the mess, aj brodeur, with the tip in. he led penn with 15, they are up by two. here's nova kicking in the defense, playing tenacious d, spellman with the delay, nova up by five. to the second half, jaylen brownson from distance.

he puts nova up by 21. he had 17. villanova wins 90-62. st. joes hosting bucknell with the hawks, off and running, on the brink, and, bucket and the foul, a little later, he at it again, had a game high 20 points and the hawks win, 83-70. drexel hosting winless lafayette, nice drive to the hoop for isabel. two of his team high 19. then look down load to dammer, slamming it home with two hand s. he had 12. directioneling win 68-67. sixers on the road tonight in boston to take on the celtics who have the best record in the nba. that is all for sports i'm don bell, have a great day. coming up next on "eyewitness news" this morning amazon scored big on black friday. >> we will tell you how much

they sold and what some of the mess popular items were in the live report from wall street. and then traveling like the pontiff we will tell thousand get your hands on this one of the kind holy roller when we come right back and a live look at center city from our cbs-3 studios this morning it will be cooler on this last day of november, katie's here to let us necessity how december will begin when we come back.

good morning i'm rahel solomon. i'm jim donovan. katie and meisha will be along in a moment but first here's what you need to necessity to start your day in the morning minute, thursday, november 30th. >> we don't want the story the grinch that stole christmas at american airlines. >> with the pilot shortage it could result in thousands of upset passengers come this very busy christmas travel season. more details of inappropriate sexual behavior against long time nbc host

matt lauer have emerged, new york times says there are allegation from his at least two more women. imagine driving around in a piece of papal history? >> thinks where pope francis sat. >> one of the fiat used during the pope's trip to philadelphia hits the auction block. >> you will have visit half time show of the super bowl, congratulations. >> yes. >> i remember last time you did it, kind of, yes. >> i remember a few things about that. >> i have learned aloft people watch the super bowl. >> ♪ >> today's morning minute sponsored by penn abramson cancer center number one cancer center in the region.