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>> doctors confirmed the worse of the star quarterback out for the year. >> local convenience store now crime scene after man shot several times, what led to the violence, and the key piece of evidence that could help track the suspect. >> goods morning, i'm jim donovan. i'm rahel solomon. keith i and meisha keeping an eye on things. i thought it already moved? >> i know you were talking about tomorrow will be worse. good news for our commute
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headed out the dorra loft construction, no accidents so far so good. is there any rain any too many soon? >> i detective this will have major impact on the roadway, because it comes through around philly so light, so spotty. i didn't bring my umbrella, so if you don't want to take yours -- >> i know. >> rebel with a cause. let's take a look outside. jim, you stinker. >> here's a look, the front that's coming through, it is actually a larger system, but the bulk of the energy far to the north. look at all of the snow falling. i mean, most of us see vermont , new york, new hampshire, engulfed in snow. we also have seeing snow i08 on north, but you will find modest accumulation in those areas, poconos specially could stand to see maybe one, 2 inches every snow before the day is said and done, some apparently coming down. see right on the tail end here , right along the pa turnpike essentially, you start to see that change- overtake place. where the temperature even before the sun has come up, it
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is still well into the 40's, especially atlantic sit, at least at these observations. so you are in the territory where the snow will fall, pocono region, but here in philly, at 43 degrees, just too warm for it to be anything other than couple of spotty rain showers, and that, too, is important to note. we're not talking about drenching wash out of any casino here. let alone even up in the mountains seeing some snow. it is relatively modest accumulation over the span of the day. our high, flirts with 50, down the shore here today. and you will see couple of rain showers there, as well. the bigger story, though, meisha, that's all about the cold that settles in. by tomorrow, we are going to be talking about frigid air. not the refrigerator, frigid air. frigid air. >> i got it. >> so i'll let you know how cold it gets. >> all right, katie, thank you so much. yes, talking about temperatures like that, katie, we'll have more, that could be very dangerous. just heads up. thanks, katie, stay tuned for that. looking outside for the morning commute this morning, it is really just construction that we are looking at. gorgeous shot here of the ben franklin bridge.
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just want, get this, looking good, quiet, as it should, now that we are just cracking into the 5:00 hour. headed out there any time soon , traveling westbound, from jersey, across the bridge into center city look being real nice. we are no good. no longer waiting for this to open. schuylkill eastbound between vine and south street, completely closed, this is now just opened. so, looking great here. and we were just going to see some pile up there, now as they move those cones, gates out of the way, looking real nice. that's cleared. ninety-five north, the off ramp to betsy is cleared. blue route here off ramp schuylkill, right lane blocked , that has now since been cleared. the schuylkill eastbound between blue route and gladwynn, left lane still compromised, where crews are still, eastbound near street road, that's also still blocked. jim, rahel, back to you. >> thank you shall meisha. devastating blow to eagles nation this morning. >> star quarterback carson wentz is officially for the season with a torn acl.
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trang do live at dilworth park now collecting well wishes for wentz. good morning, trang. >> reporter: good morning, rahel, jim. yes, coach doug pederson confirmed the fans worth feeling that carson wentz's season is overdue to torn acl. and since that news came out, number 11 has received a flood of support, from fellow athletes, as well as fans, and so we here at cbs philly wanted to join in on those well wishes. we want to take you over here, as you can see, we have this banner here at dilworth park. we're encouraging fans to come out and share their messages of support for him. you can see, there is a few signature on there already. so come on out. and in the meantime, went himself as well as coach peterson and fans are weighing in. >> what's up, everybody. >> eagles franchise quarterback carson wentz is down but not out. in a video posted to his social media account monday evening, he thanked friends and fans for their outpouring of support a mid news every his season ending injury. >> the th text
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messages, the emails, the tweets, everything, from everybody out there, just means the world to me. so humbling to know how many people are praying for me, and lifting me up. >> went at sunday's game quarter, after being crushed between two defenders as he dove for the goal line on a touchdown attempt. despite tearing his left acl, wentz continued to play until throwing a 3-yard touchdown to allophone jri later. coach doug pederson confirmed the grim diagnosis at news conference afternoon. >> obviously i hate it forecaster on went. i hate it for the career or the seasoning. but at the same time it has been the next man up men al at this. and that's how we approach it this week. >> so many fans had dreams of eagles superbowl on wents' back are sad but hopeful that back up nick foles and the gang continues the momentum of this winning season. >> i was broken hearted to see wentz get injured, i'm sad for
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him. but i have faith in foles. >> i think it will make him play better. they have aso it will make theme aggress i have. everybody has cents to step up >> and step up the fans are doing. you guys just missed an few people just actually added their names to the banner, andue throughout the morning show as well as the collecting these signatures forecaster on so, jim, rahel, i'm going to nd the studio. >> thank, trang you, much of the city supporting carson wentz now,h " eyewitness news" as we follow the eagles season and the carson wentz injury. our coverage continues onin at cbsphilly.com. and in other news this morning, philadelphia police are on the huntor at a gas station in the city logan section. >> "eyewitness news" reporter alicia live on with more and when may have sparked the gunfire. so alicia, what have you learned?, we know that police have spoken to several people already who actually witness
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they've also may soon have an image of the suspected shoot lee believe led up to it all. they say the shooting happ steen argument inside the sunoco a-plus mini mar argument spilled into the parking lot area just few feet away from the gaspps, a , where the actual shooting happened. it occre night,ly arrived on scene here to the corner of broadey found r old man, unresponsive, bleeding on thehed groo nearby hospital. authorities say the that he was shot four times. twice the head. now, while four bullet hit the victim, police believe the shtevictim a dozen times, all in close proximity. now the shooter managed to flea the scene before police arrived. now they are looking for him, along with a woman they believe that he was with. they're combing right now through surveillance video from the gas station id those t.
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>> now, fortunately, inside that mini market, we did find numerous cameras. and it does show and did record the victim inside of the mini market,lieve it also re shooter who was inside the mini market with the victim when there was an altercation. >> and again, the victim is a 31 year old that he only lived a few blocks from here. his injuries, are so severe, authorities are worried that he may not pull through. and because that far, they've notified the homicide unit of this city telling the unit to be prepared to take overhireporn section of philadelphia, alicia, cbs-3, "eyewitnessthan , alicia. >> to new york now, the suspect until pipe bomb explosion in the new york, subway system ss to to retaliate. investigators are not sure 27 year old set off the pipe bomb or if it
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malfunctioned. explosion happened during the morning rush, but the suspect was and ie are injuries are in e life threatening. left president trump to to overe immigration system in favor of more re vection. >> and the attack in new york put philadelphia law after the pipencies on high bomb explosion, officers were mapping out their response in happened here. police increased their press fence center city and at travel hubs. authorities arectic the be someg safe policy, no tip is too iay e back of your neck stands up, or when you look at something twice and go hum, that doesn't look right, we want to know. >> some people we spoke with believe the new york pipe bomb is a isolated incident, and say they do not think that americans should live in fear. >> well, the pspca is investigating after several animals who are willing a living in poor conditions have gone missing. resident in juniata park were outraged that three dogs,
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several ran its, were living in a enclosed porchver a f year. they say they've knocked on the homeowner door, but never got an answer. after protests throughout the situation on friday, resident say most of the animals were gone by monday. they say since 2016, they've been taking turns feeding the >> i literally drove by. i saw dogs panting in 09 degrees weather. and when i finally pull over and stopped, you know, i can't just drive by and see that, they were literally drinking their own pee, trying to just pspca says monday the dogs were reported stolen. they would tell us that they'll continue to investigate. >> well, the campaigning is over now, it is election day, voters in alabama get the last word on heated senate race between republican moore and jones. we'll tell how is helping each can't dade in the final hours of the campaign. >> and the midwest deals with snow while much the country including here in philly deals with bitter cold. how many layers today? katie's forecast is just minutes away.
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>> alabama will clot a new senator to fill the old seat of jeff sessions. sexual misconduct allegations against him, and jones the first democratic from senator in alabama 25 years.
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here is cbs news brook silva bragga. >> reporter: alabama will finally picket next senator today. republican roy moore or democrat roy jones. last night both candidate held big last minute rallies headlined by big names. moore, dogged by accusations cents of sexual misconduct toward teenagers, conservative heavy weight steve ban on, urging residents not to let outsiders dictate the election >> the judge moore is a righteous man. judge more, they tried to destroy judge moore like they o remember, i told you. >> moore once again denied and questioned the timing of the allegations against him and asked voters to judge this former judge on his record. >> if you don't believe in my character, don't vote for me. >> against the backdrop of anti-moore protesters, challenger jones, brought out alabama native and former basketball star, charles barkley. >> if somebody sent you this as a movie strip, you would throw it in the trash.
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there is no way possible this other dude could lead in any polls. >> jones is trying to become the state's first democratic senator in two decades. and insists the race goes beyond is that i shall until red-blue lines. >> it is time that we put our decency, our state, before political party. >> moore has had a slim lead in most polls, but the latest two are split, one pole has more in the lead, the other shows jones wing. the count that matters happens tonight. brook silva bragga, cbs-3 news >> little windier in the windy chicky. chicago got hit with bone chilling cold, 2 inches of heavy wet snow. temperatures were expected to drop into the teens last night , that means, a messy commute for drivers this morning. forecasters say some areas there could get windchill in the single digits. >> and that system also dumped snow on parts of michigan, too
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, winter weather advisory was in effect in lansing until about 1:00 this morning, forecasters say that area could get about 4 inches every snow, driving could be treacherous with icy and slick roads. >> oh, boy. i guess it doesn't take that much to make the roads slick and treacherous. >> no kidding. even place like michigan, at lows they're used to it, but interesting, there are still snow on the ground as far south as georgia, alabama. unreal. actually, i want to take you out first and for most to one of the live network shots. let me take to you a shot outside the cottage school. in is in roswell. you might be scratching your head. where is roswell? this is in georgia. look, there is still snow on the ground in george a now, this is about 30 miles north of atlanta. where they actually in atlanta were into the mid 50's yesterday. so a l tortunity to melt away. but they had so much that it is still out there. so it just is unbelievable the kind of just holding power some of that snow had. it is still out there. again, back through alabama,
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in northern georgia in parts of western north carolina, than you even do in the dakotas. that's crazy. just the way that the latest storm system was able to set up. now, we look at our current snow cover. there is still some out encountr tricky travel because of the snow that's left behind. but these darker shades of blue are starting to dwindle away, as granted going to eventually get pretty cold. but today we do rebound upper four's in many spots, should help get melting going. next storm system it, the one the anchors were just talking about, brought in vicious windchill, to chicago, brought in snow to michigan, bringing in some snow now,, to new england, parts of pennsylvania , as well, including the poconos. likely to pick up that one to 2 inches worth of accumulating snow there from this storm. but, the front dragging through that actually bridges about the biggest change in the most noticable feature of the forecast. here is how it currently feels not that bad. it feels like the low 40's, in millville, atlantic city, but
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we have very persistent southerly wind flow now. take a look at where the colds has gun to really drop in. it feels like it, oh, mere 11 below zero in sue saint marie, milwaukee more like single digits. this is close to what it will feel like here come tomorrow. look at milwaukee, keep in mind that's what it will feel like here come this same time. in fact, looking at some of the windchill values we expect into it, cld feel as cold as zero. at some point of the morning. so if you are one of the folks that works the night shift, make sure that you're absolutely bundle up ac adequately. we've dealt with this in the past. first time so far this season that high of 31 is in the forecast, meisha, again it will feel a heck of a lot cold er. >> yes, that kind of colds, katie, the kind of colds you walk out your front door, it can take your breath away, so cold. thank you so much for the warning. and let's see looking outside right now, just a lot of construction, good news is ever since we went on this morning, we've not had one accident. so, so far, so good. looking at the vine, you can
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see, pushing in the westbound direction, some brake light going off as you jump on the schuylkill eastbound side, starting to heat up little bit we can expect that now. as we push little deep near the 5:00 hour. then, in delaware county, 95 north at 452, we take this all the way up to the airport, basically what you are working with. so actually looking pretty good. then around the airport 95 approaching the airport, taillights moving in the northbound direction, around the airport once you get up there, still actually looking good. but we are starting to see levels change, just a little bit. ever so slightly now. construction crews that are still out there, pa turnpike eastbound near street road, rate line, still compromised, and also still have construction out on 295 in jersey. in fact, we have a lot of connecticut struck sean in jersey. talk more about this coming up in the next ten minute, rahel, jim being back to you. >> all right, mere, thank you. for look at newspaper headlines from across our region. >> press of the atlantic city. buena vista township man found dead after his car crashed into the mullica river. man identified as 31 year old robert ray most, emergency crews were dispatched to the
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4500 block of pleasant mill road following a report of a car in the river. and the intelligencer, falls man sentenced to serve 60 to 120 years in state prison after pleading no contest to allegation that is he raped six girls and sexually abused a seventh. fifty-nine year old william charles thomas will serve the rest of his live behind bars for the abuse that occurred between 1990 and 2017. >> in the news journal, a likely expansion of passenger rail service for the university of delaware is inch closer, that's as the state awards its second contract to reconstruct the newark train station. wilmington based bancroft company won the contract with $7.6 million built. >> that's a look at newspaper headlines from around the delaware vale. pat gallen is here with eyewitness sports. >> and the eagles switch to plan b. >> have no fear, nicky is here nick foles takes over for the injured carson wentz. as the birds take on the giant , this sunday. how are he and the coach reassuring the fans? well, that's coming up when " eyewitness news" comes back.
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>> ♪ >> ♪ >> all right, pat gallen is back, and pat, all anyone can seem to talk about is carson wentz, and what happens next. >> yes, what does happen next? >> positivity. how far can the eagles go with just three games remaining? all against teams below 500. a first round playoff spot is still within reach. but as we found out yesterday, superbowl run, will now be led by nick foles. doug pederson announce that carson wentz is done for the year, so foles will step in, back up qb went six for ten, for 42 yards, after the went
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injury sunday in l.a. back in 2013, foles took over for michael vick and through 27 touchdowns and two interceptions, to lead the birds into the playoffs. now, foles says he's ready to step in yet again starting with sunday's game against the giants. >> i'm absolutely ready. that's jim ' here. so i'm ready to go, prepare every day, work every day, so ready to go. >> he is a veteran player, who has played and he's won a lot of games. not only here, but other places that he's been. and nick's a highly intelligent football player. he's smart. you know, to the point of, you know, he and i are going to continue to lie log like carson and i did during the week. >> two sundays ago two of the best in the nfl went head-to-head as carson wentz took on seahawks quarterback russell win son. after hearing the the acl tear , he offered his best wishes and encouragement. >> just want to say to my guy,
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carson wentz, man, carson, you've been a beast all year man playing, rooting for you man, and what god has for you man, can't no man stop. justin to work hard, bro. you'll be back better than ever. come back, come back stronger, bro. rooting for you, homy. >> the to college basketball, villanova wild carts back on top. now, ten and o, they've jumped to the number one spot in the nation according to the associated press college basketball pole. moving up to the top spot after duke and kansas lost last week. it is the third straight year that nova has reached the number one spot. they'll play temple tomorrow night. >> phillies only all-star representative last season reliever pat neshak reportedly coming back to philadelphia. they shipped the 37 year old to the rockies at the trade deadline after posting 1.12er a and 43 appearances with phils, neshak new deal is worth 16 and a half million dollars over two years. that's a lot of money to be a
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reliever in the major leagues. if i ever have a son, that is the road that i will push him. >> i love the well wishes from coast-to-coast, from seattle, everywhere, everybody just sending their well wishes forecaster on wentz. >> carson is a good guy. everybody likes him. >> where is your tie? >> fell off. >> a different look for you. >> do you like the no tie look >> not sure yet. i don't know, very casual, you know, we a crew here. >> very casual tuesday look. >> i don't know. >> thanks, patrick. >> thanks, guys. >> coming up in the next half hour of "eyewitness news," keeping the fate. carson wentz's message to eagles nation after the injury that has taken him out for the sees on. >> if new jersey government shutdown again, atlantic city casinos may not have to shut down with it, measures to keep gamblers happy coming up at
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>> from the cbs broad broadcast center in philadelphia. this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news ". >> good morning, i'm rahel solomon. >> i'm jim donovan. first, here's what you need to know to start your day in the morning minute. today is tuesday, december 12. >> i will come back stronger than ever. >> a promise to

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