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good morning i'm rahel solomon. i'm jim donovan. katie and meisha will be along in a moment but here's what you need to know to start your day on this wednesday, december 6th. bullets fly inside a corner store full of customers >> a 22-year old man is fighting for his life after being shot in the chest. a dramatic rescue from the schuylkill river. >> we are told that the driver is in stable condition. >> we're thankful to the row hours went in the water rescued this individual. >> wild fires are still burning out of control in southern california forcing more than 150,000 evacuations.
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students in the west philadelphia high school a very unique size. >> don't forget the juan ornament. >> and, where are you from. >> my name is jack from morris county my wife renee. >> we live in paris. >> you guys are about to win the biggest pry of the night. today's morning minute sponsored by penn abram some cancer center in the region. yes, imagine thaw win a trip the two place where you live. >> wawa. >> if you live in philadelphia one thing for sure better be prepared for the cold. you have been warning us. >> yes, starting to feel chilly with every passing hour we have already long since our daytime high come and get. it happened at stroke of midnight, interestingly, 57 degrees where we were on
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the thermometer at that point. that is not going to continue for us with cold air just basically catching up to us as day goes on. wet weather associated with the front that crossed through last night basically moving out to sea. you will notice very light, left overs, and just crossing through southern new jersey and delaware. i would say by 6:00 a.m. this is gone and included will have the opportunity to start lifting. as they do you'll start to see minuses on the map, it is still 7 degrees warmer compared to this same time yesterday and yesterday was really warm this same time. it is very, very mild outside, but that is not going to last. hours are going away before the chill begins to settle in. we are currently reporting the 50-degree temperature at the airport with the wind out of the west northwest you can see here on the sky deck it is not particularly strong but enough to notice it. you will feel it. keep in mind that last night, of course with all that wet weather that came through
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leaves mathed down, winds bring them off the trees. there may be slick travel even if the rain is not technically falling but things will dry out with every passing hour, meisha. >> good, thank you very much. very good morning to you. yes, we are dealing with damp roadways. we can see sheen on the roadway here ben franklin bridge traveling westbound. i would like to add that for being 5:30 in the morning we are seeing more volume on the ben franklin bridge then what we typically do see at 5:33. head up on that gorgeous shot here still traveling around posted speed. ninety-five at allegheny headlights moving in the southbound direction, still traveling around at posted speed on this stretch as well, but you can see how many headlights are starting to get out there on i-95 as well. we have construction crews in new jersey, 42 north ramp to 295 north is closed, 2925 north ramp to 76 is closed and this is closed until 8:00 a.m. , rahel, over to you.
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major announcement is expected from president trump that will alter decade of american foreign policy in the middlee in a controversial move president will recognize jerusalem as capitol of israel and signal his intention toss move u.s. embassy from tel aviv. "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabao is live with more on what this could mean for u.s. diplomates and their families, good morning, jan. >> reporter: this is a move that could have deep repercussions all across that region, some critics say this could trigger violence so u.s. government is warning its diplomates and tourist to stay away from parts of the jerusalem. palestinian protesters, gathered late tuesday in bethlehem to voice their anger at president trump. the president plans to recognize jerusalem as israel 's capitol later today and wants to begin process of moving the american embassy from tel aviv to the holy city >> we will not accept the move to from tel aviv to jerusalem. jerusalem is the palestinian
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capitol. >> reporter: jerusalem is sacred city that plays a major role in christianity, islam and judaism and both palestinians and israelis have long considered jerusalem their capitol. critics say it will derail any chance of achieving peace in the middlee and could trigger violence in the region. >> changing status from jerusalem would be a stab in the back of the peace process. >> reporter: but it is a promise president trump made on the campaign trail in 2016. >> we will move the american embassy to the eternal capitol of the jewish people jerusalem >> reporter: palestinian president mahmoud abbass is asking world leaders and pope to disa vow president trump's plan to remove the embassy threatening grave consequences if he does, meantime u.s. government is warning its employees and american tourist to stay away from the olde city and west bank, while the state department is urging embassies around the world to tighten security.
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now it remains unclear just when u.s. embassy would change locations, officials say process would take years because of logistics and security details, they say movies not likely for another three or four years. reporting live this morning, jan carabao for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". donald trump junior is expect to meet with the house intelligence committee today, president's son facing growing questions over meeting at trump to youer with russian operatives after being promised dirt on hillary clinton. house and senate intelligence committees interviewed several people at that meeting. time right new 5:36. the feud between google and amazon, well, it is heating up >> dianne king hall joins us live from the insuring stock exchange with the details but first, a look at the numbers, hi there, dianne. >> good morning, it was a down day on wall street yesterday, dow jones pulled back for monday's record high falling 109 points, nasdaq gave back 13, feud between google and amazon is heating up, google
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pulling you tube video service from amazon fire tv service starting january 1st as a retaliation move. amazon refusing to sell google products including chrome cast streaming device that compete was fire tv and other products just in time for new years resolution, weight watchers is adding 200 at toms eat as much as you want list a machining the zero points are skinless chicken breast, eggs, corn, fish, weight watchers posted revenue of 323 million-dollar, up 43 million from a year ago. facebook is the best place to work, social networking site moves up from number two in glass door ranking of top work places. the consulting firm, bank number twofold by and out burger won number four and google the top five. jim and rahel. >> all types of co represent
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there had. >> thanks. ups say it is behind schedule thanks to last week cyber monday. they say a small percentage of the packages will be delivered a day or two late but delivery schedule will be on track by hopefully the end of today. ups predict is it will deliver 750 million packages between thanksgiving and christmas and they expect those packages to arrive on time. hundreds of the families are losing that are homes to fast moving wild fires in southern california. >> largest fire is in ventura north west of los angeles and has burn 55,000 acres have land since monday. more than 150,000 people have been ordered to leave their homes in the l.a. region, families shared devastation of watching flames consume their home. >> twenty plus years, the grand kid have all spent many years there. >> every time you see flames moving out your heart sinks down, upkeep praying, you keep hoping. >> fire officials say strong
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wind, dry brush and very little rainfall over past three months are fueling the flames. hundreds have wild fire evacuees flock to the red cross shelter in ventura county. neighbors, volunteers dish out food, provided clothing and brought blankets. family pets were given a place to lay their head. mood was a mixture of grief and great dude. >> very sad. >> sad right now but i'm happy because wees scaped. >> one day at a time is about all we can do. >> santa claus also made a special visit to the shelter to give some hugs and spread holiday cheer. back here in our area construction in the controversial new middle school in the upper perkiomen school district is on hold. so far taxpayers spent 10 million-dollar on the project along montgomery avenue in pennsburg. new jotter made the decision monday night. some say the school is needed
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to ease overcrowding, others, however want to reinvest money in to academics. >> we thought they were solving the wrong problems and we think they can solve the right problems. >> we will be spending 20, 30, 40, million-dollar for a big hole in the ground. >> cunningham and three other school board members ran on a platform of stopping school construction. former pennsylvania governor tom ridge is waking up in a texas rehabilitation facility this morning. doctors released him from the hospital yesterday, ridge suffered a heart attack last month attending a convention in texas. he underwent an emergency heart procedure, doctors told the family there is a long road ahead for ridge. we are now learning that the home less veteran who helped stranded motorist in philadelphia bought a home over weekend. >> that is johnny bobbit junior and kate mcclure, florence township with man said bobbit a marine veteran used his last $20 to buy her gas when she became stranded late one night to repay him she create aid go fund me page which has raised nearly
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$400,000. in addition to buying a home beenbit plans to donate some machine toy a grade school student who was helping another homeless veteran. >> nice story. i'll show you design from local students celebrating fill think christmas. then a sign that something may be wrong we will tell but the driver who went for miles way traffic sign, sticking out of her sun roof. man thought he had, took the big one, he felt, he said it felt like a freight train, but it felt like a sea turtle. see how he freed it when we
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spotify released year in music list and top streaming artist brought in impressive numbers. ed sheeran had 6.000000000 streams, shape of you topped list for most song with 1.4 billion. behind sheeran was drake, week nd, kendrick lemar and chain smokers. are you ready for a disaster of a double feature. twenty-one regal cinema will show you the disaster artist with the 2003 film that inspired it, the room, a movie so bad, it became a cult classic. critics are calling it the best, war film to hit the big screen, ticket are on sale at reg movies.com. i got to tell but the workshop, in west philadelphia
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, students are using a lays tore cut famous juan ornament, it is brainchild of the student at school four years ago. beside christmas ornament they are making juan earrings and even a juanora, they are for sale by students who create them, market them and then sell them for extra cash. >> it is so popular that everybody rather have some juan, of course, they love, the snowflakes but juan is special. >> you can learn how to order your own juan ornament at cbs philly.com. that juan is a good idea. >> i enjoy how you said it. >> juan ornament. >> exactly like the way you are emphasizing, it is fun toy me. >> i love that story. >> yes. well done. >> they are cool, classy looking. >> very entrepreneurial, yes. >> absolutely. >> how about the weather. >> it business to get cold. >> it is feeling chilly. we are still above average in
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a lot of spots and eyewitness necessary weather watchers. we are showing you our live neighborhood network cameras outside pleasant valley and middle high schools we are seeing cloud thin a bit but still primarily cloud a cross the region as a whole and we had some rain in the last couple hours working its way still out through, the southern portion of the new jersey and delaware. chill for sure, 36 degrees at pleasant valley. right on coup car goes through there. they have their heater crank up that way. we have eyewitness weather watchers up and adam that way, but looking at just general picture here most spots are still, easily in the 40's. that is above average. so for example 49 for peter. forty-nine for david in clementon. we will zero in on these, 48 from dave bradley in king ton but interestingly he is in one of the milder spots of the pack here, but, the cold is starting to settle in. from this same time yesterday he is finding 12 degrees of
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the drop off since this same time. so there is cold beginning to catch up in these neighborhood thirty-nine by comparison way up toward mountains and that is where keith is, in sailors berg and did he say that the wind is becoming very noticeable. would i echo that sentiment. you will need heavier jacket for most of the day but especially later on when that chill becomes noticeable. let's jet pennsylvania neighborhood network here and take a look at storm scan, which thankfully at this point is beginning to be not much here locally. that rain is still working its way out. if you have anything falling from the sky it vice light and mostly confine toward southeastern counties here. we are just left with cloud and wind becoming noticeable. behind this mess we will peter out for sunshine. we see some moisture, starting up a down portions of texas, lou san, this will eventually turn into a storm, ride northe and its final track is what really makes or breaks, whether we see snow, on friday
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night. i do still think that the closer you are to the shore that friday night you will have best chance to see a snow shower but that is at this point looking like your best chance. army navy playing right here on cbs-3 and on saturday afternoon out at the linc. you will find very cold air. we should see sun break go through but your temperature at kick off is 41. your high only 41 degrees. north westerly breeze may in the be strong but enough to notice it, it will be a cold game. by sunday we are at best hitting 40. you spend mess of the day in the 30's here in, short, know dive just keeps going and we will bottom out over weekend, meisha. >> kate, thanks very much for that. heed that warning damp red ways they are still out there. now not posing too much problem but we are looking at some volume right now. 422 at route 29 headlights in the eastbound direction you can see them out there, starting to slow down as we approach the 6:00 o'clock hour in that area delaware county
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i-95 north at 452, this is bay cally, what you are looking at in the north bound side, southbound side, delaware county area is looking like it is heating up quicker. schuylkill at boulevard headlights in the eastbound direction this is what you will be heading out the door anytime shortly i would say over the next 10 to 15 minutes , whoever this will start to pick up as we crack in the 6:00 o'clock hour. construction 42 north ramp to 295 northbound is closed and 295 north ramp to 76 is closed until right around 8:00 a.m. and then construction in delaware, along with long standing 1141 closed over route 13 so use an alternate route 58 church man's road your best bet and overnight construction as well 422 eastbound between ben franklin highway and route 100 thinks closed 9:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. for all of my truckers, overnight riders, head up, we were talk about it a little
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bit ago and reminder, coming up in the next 10 minutes. jim, back over to you. well, police in south florida are looking for a man caught stealing weapons from a squad car, suspect was seen approaching the cop car earlier yesterday morning, in a city west of fort lauderdale not only did he getaway with a police vest but an assault rifle. one other gun and taser. police believe man is responsible for other car thefts in the same night. brazen armed robbery in new york city is upper east side a gunman stormed in the luxury watch shop and stole more than 700 you this dollars worth of merchandise, in one was hurt but people living and work nearby are nervous. he just walk in alone and was able to getaway with this. >> a lot of stores get hit this time of the year. last year was chanel, then boscovs, so it is constant up here. >> watches at madison avenue boutique retail from 16 you this to more than $500,000.
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north jersey woman has some explaining to do after her a reason drunk driving charges, the five two-year old woman drove around for 8 miles in the town of south hackensack with the traffic sign sticking out of her sun roof. once officers stopped her they asked her how the sign got there. >> i have never seen anything like it. she said wow, i didn't even know that was there but there was glass on the inside of the car and top of the car. >> well, police say with man failed breathalizer and two field is he bright tests. >> i lived in hackensack so that does in the surprise me. people drive crazy up there anyway. we will be light back but as we go to break a reminder our joy of sharing toy fest is in full swing and we invite to you take part. bring a new toy to our studios at 1555 hamilton street, toys will be donated to children in need across our region. visit cbs philly.com/toy if he for complete list of the toy drop off locations and details on upcoming events
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pound and 5 feet long, a line became tangled around its neck and fins and could not free itself so i man jumped in >> one point he reached in and turtle came and just missed him but that would have taken his hand right off. turtle would have died, wrapped around his neck and he probably would have died but he saved him. >> sure did, after 15 minutes turtle was free and swam off, happily. >> 300-pounds a big turtle. >> wow. >> coming up in the next hour of "eyewitness news" children are getting ready for the biggest party of the year. >> party is fun. >> make that even more merry for these children as this weeks story of brotherly love. looking forward to that. also we have been hearing a lot about how bad this flu season is expect to be. doctor will be will be here to talk about why it is expect to be worse than usual, how to protect yourself and stay
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hems were devoured by this massive wild fire. same winds fanning flames are keeping fire fight on the ground. two people are hurt after gunfire erupts outside a corner store we're live with the close call for the little girl inside. >> i'm a heterosexual i have a wife, i love my wife, i don't like men as you might. >> a touching moment between two lawmakers, see what happened before that outburst and consequences he could face for those comments. it is wednesday, december 6th i'm jim donovan. i'm rahel solomon. katie and meisha keeping an eye on things. good morning. welcome back. >> we are looking outside, everything is looking really good, damp roadways, we have been talking about that will slow you down as we are seeing volume increase. only one accident moving out of our way. >> it is going to be the rain making its exit, pleas will dry things out, with time we are in the middle of
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