it is hard to even put, emotions and word together. >> devastating fires are tearing through southern california, right now, we will tell you what is making them especially destructive. back here at home a shooter opens fire outside a philadelphia corner store leaving two people hurt but police not so far. anti american protest erupt in bethlehem in response president to trump's plan to recognize jerusalem as israeli 's capitol we will tell you why critics say it is a bad idea. it is wednesday december 6th good morning i'm jim donovan. aim rahel solomon. plus quick action to save a life on the schuylkill. but first a check of the forecast with katie and road with meisha. >> good morning. >> happy hump day.

so, i am expecting you had a great time. >> i slept. >> you missed us. >> yes, yes, i did. >> we're looking outside just lots of construction no accidents so will it be rainy at all today. >> we are still watching frontal boundary make its exit so it may still be damp but not anticipating any rain at this point. things are clearing out nicely and would i say no long later then 6:00 a.m. that mess through del marva peninsula that will be clearing the coast. so, just give it a few more hours brit is completely out and with time these included should thin out as well for sunshine. looking a little bit more of a localized zoom it is a couple count that is may still need windshield wipers here. salem, cumberland, especially atlantic, cumberland, cape may and down through, sussex in delaware you do still have a widespread batch of very light showers. now looking at the temperature change cold air has not completely caught up just yet. starting to see a deficit.

minor one, off to the north and west but it is milder then even this same time yesterday, if you will recall yesterday morning was really warm. we're still in the 50's, don't get used to that. temperatures will drop off, as the day goes on, meisha and real cold, settles in later in the week. >> all right, good to know, thanks very much, katie. looking outside we have construction out there, of course, schuylkill eastbound is close between vine and south street, one of those areas we will get used to at this point. see cones in the road weighed one westbound lane is blocked, schuylkill eastbound near conshohocken we have debris that cleared but we have this disable vehicle and quick peak at 42 freeway north bound at creek road preaching 295 we are looking at good volume levels there. walt whitman bridge eastbound two lanes are block, we saw that yesterday, we are seeing it again this morning and construction new jersey on 42 and 295 northbound ramp to 295 north that is closed more on this coming up in the next 10 minutes, rahel, back to you. new this morning philadelphia police are investigating a double shooting in the cities

fernrock section. the 5700 block of north camac street just after 12:30 a.m. officers found the man shot three times and rushed him to the hospital. he is in critical but stable condition. short time later another man who was also shot showed up at the hospital. authorities say that second man fits description of the first man gave of his shooter. investigating believe the two men shot each other. another overnight shooting leaves a man dead in kensington this happened in the 700 block ofe madison street. police responded around 1:30 and they found the victim lying on the street, officers are still trying to figure out what motivate that had shooting. search is also on this morning for gunman who opened fire at corner store in kensington critically injuring a man inside. >> several others inside the store including an 11 year-old girl. "eyewitness news" reporter trang do is live with the very latest on this investigation good morning, trang do. >> reporter: good morning, jim and rahel, a 22-year old man is fighting for his life after being shot in his chest. he underwent surgery overnight

at temple hospital, police are continuing to search for the person who shot him and just narrowly missed hitting that 11 year-old girl, but look at the video from the scene last night in kensington, just after 8:00 p.m. police respond todd a shooting at a corner grocery store at amber and bellmore streets. officers arrived to find a 22-year old man with the gunshot wound to the chest. they rushed him to temple hospital where he remains in critical condition. police say gunman fired at least seven shots from outside the store, why the victim was standing near the doorway, bum et cetera flew flew pennsylvania several other customers and employees inside this store. chief inspector scott small says one employee was hurt. >> 22-year old female working behind the register was hit and cut in the neck by broken glass from the gunshots being fired. an 11 year-old is clearly scene, she was standing right at the front counter just feet away from the door where the bullets entered the property.

>> reporter: again, that 11 year-old was not hurt. the shooter was wearing a dark jack wet white lettering on it , dark pants and white, sneakers, there were several surveillance cameras in the area that captured the shooting and police hope they will provide more clues but for now we are live outside police headquarters i'm trang do for cbs-3 "eyewitness news" , jim and rahel back to you. thanks to three strangers a woman from north philadelphia ace live this morning after crashing her car in the schuylkill river this happened near 2300 block of ml k drive and the strawberry mansion bridge, police say 61 year-old woman reversed her car in the river around 5:30 last night, when two rowers and coach from the penn athletic club rowing association noticed the car in the water. >> one of the three on that boat jumped in one of the rowers he saw a female in the driver's side of the vehicle, attempted to get her out, was unable to, came backup, went back down and they were able

to get her out and take her down to the pad site where they started cpr. >> medics arrived on the scene and revived would the man. she's now in stable condition. police say it is unclear how long she was in the water with you they believe she may have intentionally driven in the river. philadelphia police are investigating a hit and run that injured a teenager, chopper three over the scene at 63rd and market in cobbs creek shortly after the accident last night. the 14 year-old victim was taken to children's hospital and at last check she was listed in stable condition. out west wall of flames this morning asthmas i have wild fire rips through southern california, more than 150,000 people have fled their homes in the los angeles area. here's cbs news correspondent chris martinez with the very latest. >> it is hard to even putty motions and word together. >> reporter: tracie bird, could do little more than record video of her ventura home of 13 years burning down before her eyes. it is one of at least 150 structures lost in the devastating wild fire in

ventura county. >> ours looks like it would be saved and then this just happened and it is just, it is almost like an out of body experience. >> reporter: nearby dylann chapel was among tens of thousands of people forced to evacuate in a hurry, when he came back his home was burning down to the stud. fire fighters managed to pull out the family's christmas tree. >> i'm in shock, i think, i'm emotional but i'm like wow, it is all so surreal at the moment. >> reporter: devastation is as a result of the santa ana wind gust was extremely dry weather >> in rain came in september, october, november in southern california. so we have incredibly dry fuel s. >> reporter: unpredictable winds are fueling several other fires, 50 miles east in philmar at lee 30 homes lost with many more threatened, the foot hill area is also home to ranches and just north in santa claire, another fast growing fire is taxing already thinning resources.

>> we have who structures, we have not lost lives. do not wait, leave your homes. >> reporter: officials are pleading people to heed evacuation order to shelters like this where volunteers are ready to offer some comfort. chris martinez for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". president trump is expect to keep a campaign prom toys day when's announces he will recognize jerusalem as capitol of israel and relocate u.s. embassy from tell a vee. demonstrators took to the streets ahead of the announcement, state department is warning u.s. diplomates to avoid jerusalem's olde city over fear of violence. critics of the president's plan says move will up end decade of american policy and derail any chance of mid east peace. former pennsylvania governor tom ridge is out of the hospital this morning after suffering a heart attack last month. ridge had a heart attack attending a convention in texas over two weeks ago. he underwent an emergency heart procedure. ridge's recovering at a rehab facility in texas.

doctors told his family there is a long road ahead for ridge newly elect upper perkiomen school board members vote to halt construction on a controversial new middle school. the cities located on montgomery avenue in pennsburg so far taxpayers have spent 10 million-dollar on the project. the new majority on the board made the decision after being sworn in on monday night. this project has split the community, some say the school is needed to ease overcrowding but others want to reinvest money in to academics. >> we thought they were solving the wrong problems and we think we can solve the right problems. >> we will be spending, 20, 30 , 40, million-dollar for a big hole in the ground. >> melanie cunningham and three other school board members ran on a platform on stopping the school construction. well, you can now learn more about the life of the civil rights leader at philadelphia history museum. >> they paid tribute to octavius catto during the exhibit's opening. catto was a african-american

activist, scholar and military officer during the civil war. he was murdered in 1871 when he and other african americans attempted to vote following pennsylvania's approval of the 15th amendment. >> it is really important that we recognize catto and recognize all of the people who lived in philadelphia and contributed to what the city has become. sad to say, and i think, i know it was done intentionally the deeds of those brave, educated and very prosperous people who lived in the city during this period of the time were ignored. >> the exhibit runs through march 31st at the philadelphia history museum. well, coming up strong winds blow through new orleans when suddenly. >> it was just a crashing of metal. >> man in his car when scaffolding fell right on top of his roof. and take a look at this a woman in new jersey drove for miles, with a traffic sign sticking out of her son roof. this morning police have a

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back an "eyewitness news" two teens are recovering after they were shot outside their high school in washington state. it happened yesterday afternoon about an hour from seattle. police say two boys ran toward the school after they were shot. officials say both students suffered critical but none in life threatening injuries. police have one, 17 year-old in custody and they are searching for two more suspects. >> once kid are all off campus we will process the scene and we will continue to work the case to get suspects in custody. >> police are looking for these two suspects and believe they may be driving this green chevy impala, investigators say it is possible that the shooting was gang related but victim's parents are adamant their sons were not involved in gangs. police in new orleans believe strong wind caused scaffold to go fall on to a busy street. fire fighters say eight levels of the scaffolding fell to the ground last night during rush hour and it covered a third of

the block in new orleans. one eyewitness was sitting in his car when it came down on top of him. >> the slow motion right down on top of me, ducked down landed on top of my car and i climbed out the door. >> not even 30 days oldies my new car but my husband's okay and that is all that matters. >> amazingly in one was hurt in the incident, scaffolding also crashed on street car wires requiring some lines to be temporarily shut down during the rush her there. police in north jersey have a miss friday on their hand. >> person involved cannot help them. five two-year old woman was driving for about 8 miles, in south hackensack saturday with a traffic sign sticking out of her son roof. police say maria vasquez was drunk and said she doesn't know how it got there. >> i have never seen anything like it. when i pointed it out she said i didn't even know that was there. there was glass on the inside of the car and top of the car. >> what?

yeah. police say woman failed a breathalizer and two field sobriety tests. >> in surprise there. fortunately no one was hurt. she doesn't remember how a sign got in there. goodness knows. >> she has bigger problems now >> that would have been a way bigger issue a little bit left >> i'm confuse by all of that. how does that happen, drunk aside that is a problem too but how does that happen. how does it come through the sun roof? >> we have a lot of questions. >> anyway, give south answers with the weather. >> yes, you know, we're still dealing with the left overs of the front that came flaw yesterday still making its exit out to sea. we expected this early morning rain, pretty light rain at this point across southern new jersey and delaware especially but, with time there is a back edge to all this. we will see sun break through and it will end up being, certainly very brisk day but much brighter one. we could not find any sunlight if we tried through the majority of the day but we had

such a tough time because of system moving in. the sun returns but so does the chills. we have hit our daytime high. it happened right at turn of the midnight, we were at 57 degrees, we are still warm but these temperatures will drop off more and then just level off throughout the day. while you might be off to a mild start, you can't think it will stay this way. we are only in the 50's. the breeze is something else that you will be noticing as day goes on here. would i say your gusts could peak as high as the 30's but as day progresses more like 25 . so that is enough to send your unsecured christmas decorations flying or even just your trash can lid in the street. keep that in mind too. you may have a debris to dodge heading out and about but we're still, flirting with 60 at rehoboth. just crazy. looking forward in the eyewitness weather seven day the temperature does drop off in the next few days here, come saturday, and sunday

coldest days of the pack here by sunday we will be lucky to hit 40 and we might see a few snowflakes southe of the city friday night into saturday and then gannon sunday, meisha. the snow might be coming, thanks very much. good morning to all of you, happy hump day looking outside construction on the schuylkill eastbound it is still closed between vine and south street, one westbound lane is also block, head up on that, crews will be moving out around 5:00 i will let you know as soon as they do right new schuylkill eastbound is still closed between vine and south street. schuylkill eastbound near conshohocken we had debris in the roadway that has been since cleared but we do have this disabled vehicle pulled off to the shoulder. although volume still very light through that area we have an accident this morning in abington, so fitzwater town road at susquehanna road just a head up not slowing you down too much just bringing it to your attention in case it lingering out there longer. construction on the walt whitman bridge eastbound, so we were dealing with this yesterday, we are dealing with

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news. >> money watch's dianne king hall joins us from the new york stock exchange. good morning. senate banking committee did approve president trump's pick to head the federal reserve but there was within very well known hold out, is that right, dianne. >> reporter: that is right, jerome powell did pass with bipartisan support, only no came from massachusetts democrat elizabeth warren. his nomination they now goes to the full senate where it is expected to win approval, meantime it was a dunn day on wall street yesterday, dow jones pulled back, falling 109 , nasdaq gave back 13. rahel and jim. >> i understand a new survey shows a third of workers will leave vacation days on the table, as the year winds down, this is crazy, dianne please explain. >> reporter: i know, that is right. here's a few reasons some people are leaving those vacation days on the table, some are saving time for next year, for some they just feel guilty and for some it is a just they cannot afford that

vacation. the survey is showing that mess people at least will take part of christmas week off but more than half will check in with the office during that time. one-third of employees plan to take last week off entirely but that is because their company is close that had week small fraction on of people plan to work the entire last week of the year, jim and rahel. >> i have no guilt. i was off monday and tuesday and i will be off at the end have the year because if you don't use it, you will lose it >> reporter: you are right, use it, lose it, policy, use it. i mean this is not a roll over plan here. >> you understand people that cannot afford it, it is what it is. >> how can you not afford it you are getting paid for the day off. >> reporter: they cannot afford to take a vacation, so my thing is, i love a vacation stay at home you don't get paid for taking time off. >> well, now that if there is a case you don't get paid. >> then i can understand it.

>> but if you get paid, yes. >> thanks, dianne, we will check in with you next hour. >> all right. we had a nice mild day yesterday but chilly weather is returning. >> katie, it was nice while it lasted but now you're talking about a wintry chill. >> on the way already we are seeing the drop off on the thermometer in the north and western counties as we speak but this is only the beginning , my friends, not only is the dead of winter coming to our area but potential for a little snow, who may see it coming

welcome back, you can tell there is still a little bit of a dampness here on main street outside hotel bethlehem but you can absolutely make out twinkling lights from just the neighborhood off in the distance here overlooking lehigh valley, lehigh university in the distance there certainly no issues or included cover there. things are clearing out very

nicely. we are awaiting the full departure of the frontal system from last night, still helping trigger very light showers, they are moving along to the southe at 35 miles an hour so would i say give it until 6:00 a.m. for the most part and this should be cleared, but you will notice a nice defined back edge to not just rain but also the cloud cover so with time these included will in fact lift and we will have more sunshine. here's my advice you might still run into slick travel because keep in mind we have had breezy conditions picking up and it continues today, that is what is left on the trees to fall and those leaves are getting mathed dunn by traffic, before you. so that could still leave behind some slick road and there are still some showers lingering through south and eastern counties. over the span of the next couple days and entire seven day we will not break out past the 40's. we are back to a dose of reality today and tomorrow. friday night meisha a few snow showers in the southeastern counties. >> will you be happen bye that is what your feeling thank you

so much. good morning to you. happy hump day. construction out there, schuylkill eastbound closed between vine and south street. one westbound lane has been block. we are waiting for crews to move out of the way. also, near conshohocken we have debris in the roadway earlier, that cleared but we have this disabled vehicle pulled off to the shoulder, tapping your brakes ever so slightly traveling by but volleys than the a issue. we have an accident in abington fitzwater town road at susquehanna road, jim, back over to you. coming up next on cbs-3 "eyewitness news" we are live with more on the corner store shooting bullets narrowly missing a young child. second night of worry as tens of thousands of residents' vac wait this wild fire. we are live as fire fighters struggle to contain flames. colin kaepernick is honored by sports illustrated hear from sixers start joel embiid about the award we are back at the top of the hour. ♪ video-game dance music

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you feel like your heart sinks down and you keep praying, and hoping. >> another sleepless night in ventura county, california. in the shadow of the flames those hoff not evacuated are taking a stand using garden hose toss fight the fires. wild fires are still burning out of control in southern california forcing more than 150,000 evacuations. i'm kennett craig in ventura with a look at the destruction they have left behind. bullets fly outside of a corner store, two people hurt but authorities say it could have been even worse we are live with the details. it is wednesday decemr