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we just learned that their names are brian, jr. oh or lj he was 11 and his younger brother parker was only six. flames and the wind was blowing and you can see below through the house. it was something. never seen anything like it. >> reporter: neighbors react after learning early morning house fire on submit avenue in schwenksville has claim the lives of two little boys. >> unfortunately, there were two juveniles males that were located on the second floor deceased. >> reporter: fire started around 5:00 a.m. state police say a woman, man and little girl were found outside the home. the father and daughter were airlifted from the scene and the mother was rushed to lehigh valley hospital. all are expected to survive. "eyewitness news" has since learned that the man who lives in the house is a montgomery county sheriff's deputy. >> it's really hard. i can't -- i can't imagine what they're going through. really awful. >> reporter: again, fire crews

remaining on scene here. just trying to figure out the exact cause of this fire. live in schwenksville, i'm chante lans, cbs3 "eyewitness news". thank you chante. well dangerous weather hassled across the area. arctic blast has temperatures plunging and the wind, well, it's only making things worse. meteorologist katie fehlinger is track track the temperatures from the weather center. katie what's the latest. >> it hasn't got much better. the worse of this chill was this morning before the sun came up at this type of the year the sun angle is so low it's not doing much to help that along. and the wind is still in fact whipping out there. so we'll get you right to the values that you want to use when you're considering how you'd want to dress when you leave the house today. these are your wind chill valu values. feels like values. still only feels like the teens in any given location. safe for mount pocono at least you're not in negative territo territory. have you been obviously the coldest spot so far today, and it will stay that way through the rest of the day.

meanwhile, a quick peek at the actual air temperatures. basically knocking anywhere from ten to 15 degrees off for feels like value currently. that wind is still pretty potent out of the west northwest anywhere from 16 to as many 28 miles per hour and again that sustain wind speeds with gusts even as high as 30 let alone 40 miles per hour in some spots. so really really blustery day and storm scan is at least quiet. that is not going to stay that way, however, even as early as later ton night which we'll get to later in the show but do expect you are going to see some for the rest of the day as soon as the sun goes down however there's new little batch of light snow that will be moving in places like broad headsville in life neighborhood network are scheduled to get in on some of that snow. later on we'll talk about when it gets here, how long it sticks around and more importantly how much snow we'll in fact fall our area. guys. >> thank you katie. philadelphia police are trying to find a driver and his female passenger who fled the scene of a fatal crash this morning. >> "eyewitness news" reporter

alicia nieves spoke to a resident too lives near the crash scene who happened to stumble upon that man and woman. >> reporter: a hit-and-run crash in tacony has police searching for two people a man and a woman who authorities say were in this gray toy it to may have caused this crash and fled the scene. >> i heard a bank and then i seen a guy and a girl coming around the block andly its girl's face was filled with blood all over. angelo so you spoke to the man and women police are looking f for. they were running past his home about block away from torresdale avenue where the fatal crash happened. >> she was telling i guess her boyfriend or whatever that like she wasn't feeling good. she don't think she can walk and like she didn't feel right. >> reporter: what did he say to her. >> he just said come on, we got to go. it seemed like she didn't know what was going on. kept telling her let's go, let's go, let's go. >> reporter: the man and woman both in their early 20's, both caucasian the man had dirty bland or light brown hair and

wearing blue basketball shorts. the woman had dark hair about 5-foot two. at the time he didn't know they were involved in the crash and that they may have have been responsible for smashing into this red it to toy. one man was ejected from that car. and later died in the hospital. >> that's a shame, man. somebody has got to go to funeral, you know, around christmastime. >> reporter: authorities tell us they have been able to run the license plate of that dark gray toyota haven't been able to get an address fort owner. they are now working to track down that owner and hopefully further identify the man and woman who fled from this fatal hit-and-run crash. in tacony section of philadelphia, alicia nieves cbs3 "eyewitness news". it was a stunning upset in alabama republican senate candidate roy moore had was plagued bisexual abuse allegations lost last night to democrat doug jones. but as cbs correspondent reports moore has yet to concede. ♪ >> reporter: alabama elected the state's first democratic senator in 25 years. >> i think that i have been

waiting all my life and now i just don't know what the they will say. >> reporter: doug jones squeaked to victory by about one and a half% republican roy moore blames his defeat on allegations of sexual misconduct with teenaged girls. >> part of the problem with this campaign is we've been painted in an unfavorable and unfaithful light. >> reporter: moore has so far refused to concede on the hopes of a recount. >> alabama secretary of state says he'll certify this election sometime between december 27th and january 3rd. that gives republicans back in washington time to pass tax reform before doug jones takes his seat. president trump won alabama by nearly 30 points but his endorsement failed to give moore the boost he needed and even the state's other republican senator with hell his support. >> i'll tell you, didn't vote for him. >> reporter: tennessee republican bob corker said he's proud of alabama's voters. >> i know i'm supposed to only cheer for peep people on my side

of the aisle but i thought people of alabama, um, did a great thing for our country last night. >> reporter: the alabama results bring the senate's republican majority to a razor thin 51-49 going into next year's mid term elections. that will make it even harder for president trump to push his agenda through congress. meanwhile minnesota governor mark dayton has appointed his lieutenant governor tina smith as the state's next senator. she will fill the soon to be vacated seat of democrat al franken for the neck ten months. smith also says shell run for the seat in a special election in november. franken resigned last week after several women accused of him of sexual misconduct. the man facing terrorism charges for the attack on new york subway system will face judge today from his hospital bed. ullah remains hospitalized with burns from the pipe bomb he had strapped under his clothes. it exploded monday morning as he walked through a crowded underground passageway near

times square. authorities say five other people suffered minor injuries. ullah told investigators he was inspired by isis. fifth largest wildfire in california's history burning for a fifthth day and still growing. thomas fire is scorching ventura and santa barbara counties. grew by 2500 acres overnight and still only 25% contained. the santa ana winds have died down but they're expected to pick back up again in a few da days. so far more than 860 structures have been destroyed. well still to come on cbs3 "eyewitness news", nearly four months after hurricane harvey made landfall in texas, scientists pinpoint what helped trigger the massive storm. the best time for to you get glimpse of this light show streaking across the sky. when "eyewitness news" cont

welcome back. new r of research finds global warming helped intense hurricane harvey's impact on texas. climb change increased deadly storm's rainfall by at least 15%. studies show a warmer wetter climate across the world tripled the likelihood of such a storm. findings were presented today new orleans at the american geo physical union meeting. >> celestial event as arrived. gee mid meteor shower will be tonight and tomorrow night. you can see up to 120 meteors per hour shoot across the night sky. geminid originates from an asteroid. >> what's the name of it. >> geminid. i never heard of these things.

i used to fall asleep in the planetarium in college. don't ask me. bon jovi giving music a good name. >> tis the season to feel cheery, right? well it's a nice not of one feels that away round the holidays for some it's a stressful time. today's love it one organization is doing what they can to make sure their neighbors in their community feel cared about and making an impact. katie? >> meisha, as we look ahead to upcoming weekend the chill is still going to be in place where we are likely to not be breaking out of the 30s even by saturday. now, it's a different story on sunday. we shall get back to dose of reality here mid 40s. however, there could be a couple of rain showers that move in by sunday the weekend is looking relatively quiet by compare sons to this weekend past. we'll have the rest of that forecast coming up.

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back on "eyewitness news" reminder that our toy fest is in full swing if you'd like to take part just drop off a new unwrapped toy at our studios at 1555 hamilton street in philadelphia. the toys will be given to children in our area that are in need. visit cbsphilly.com/toy fest for complete list of toy drop off locations and upcoming toy fest events around the area. one of those events is actually tomorrow night at the wells fargo center at the flyers game. flyers are facing the buffalo sabres the game starts at seven. we hope you can join in on the fun and participate in helping deserving children. >> probably going to be warmer on the ice than it is outside today. >> how about that. >> seriously it is so so outsi

outside. there's so many leaves that are blowing down the street and people are hugging their winter coats extra tight. >> horrible. >> it's brutal stuff, and speaking of things blowing around, i got something you don't see every day for you take look at this video. a snow nado look at that. hiker in poland captured this on his cell phone. a snow nado this one formed when massive cold air passed over a warmer surface and variable wind speeds and the directions caused the rising air to spin and pick up loose snow. >> really cool. >> snow nado. geminids. we got everything today fun words for jim to pronounce much it's interesting i've actually seen leaves do this very same thing. even in recent weeks where you see that little small vortex develop and anything really can get whipped up in that that's how tornado forms. what you're seeing with that funnel cloud is more than anything debris and dirt and

dust and that's what allowing to you see the tornado all of that debris it's interesting stuff f you're snow nado makes you think of the possibility of white christmas let's talk probabilities here. you know, typically we wouldn't have a very decent shot at seeing any snow on the ground let alone falling from the sky here in philadelphia especially points southeast since we're close to the ocean, in an urban area. the further north it's a different story. the probabilities really do start to go up. however, we have got very cold air in place. so i'm not tollly discounting the opportunity right now but with time we'll eventually rebound on the thermometer. get to much more typical territory maybe even little bit of above that. above the average into the seven day which we'll get to for now it is just cold and cold air being reinforced. the next clipper working across the great lakes. light snow bands working their way through ohio lower michigan going to be reaching us by later on tonight. we'll time that out in second.

in the meantime it is so blustery out there. you might see some of your own leaf nados out there. not much snow if any left on the ground at this point. 37 miles per hour wind gusts current until allentown. 45 maxing out here up at mount pocono so it is so blustery up on the slopes. and then this clipper is coming along to just again reinforce all of this. so they call them alberta clippers because they do tendon to originate in canada. we have a couple of key characteristics in that for one thing they do originate in western canada but they reall ry tend to zip across the u.s. they don't have a lot of time to dump much snowfall but they don't have lot of moisture this is a classic. it will reinforce the cold that's the legacy clippers ten to leave behind. it isn't going to bring much in the way accumulation. snow is not even getting here until later on this evening at the earliest 7:00 p.m. but generally eight or 9:00 p.m. for the west and north most suburbs then it sort of over spreads the

region through the overnight. how much are we talking out of this? probably a quick dusting since it will not be here for very long in the city, then it will get out of here quickly with limited moisture we'll send up with sunshine throughout the day i like this particular model's interpretation hatchel face at most coating up and down the i-95 corridor and points south and east. so there easily be tricky travel tomorrow morning. but if you're looking for any kind of actual accumulation, you are going to have to go pretty far north. lehigh valley make see minor delays up in allentown school district because of this 2-inches expected up there on this particular model run. i'd say about one to 2-inches the expectation. meanwhile this is one of the shaky yesterday cameras we have when it comes to really windy conditions outside whitfield elementary school. very happy there aren't any children on the play ground right now because it is brutally cold out there. 26 on the thermometer. feeling much more like the teens in this area and most everywhere else. but we do have sun to enjoy for the rest of the day. it's just really really cold. you've got to be prepared with extra layering us a hit the road

here today. meanwhile later on tonight with those snow showers moving through late night we'll drop down to 25 degrees. nothing more than a quick dusting early tomorrow morning before skies quickly clear. friday maybe there's a snow shower. it really is just a chance it would happen late in the day i think if it happened at all. by sunday we finally start to quote warm up here. 45 that's pretty much where we should be but there could be a late day rain shower at that point. >> after this kind of weather we'll take it. >> no kidding. >> thank you katie. the holidays are the perfect time to spread some goodwill. >> and meisha here with perfect example and in todays love it. >> the christmas spirit is in full swing one neighborhood in the windy city of chicago is thankful and for good reason. nothing says christmas quiet like a christmas tree especially when it's gifted. take look. it's that time of year, time to pick the perfect christmas tree. >> probably this one. >> for chante that opportunity was a gift this year. a donation from a giving organization called by the hand club for kids. >> it's a blessing, because as a

parent of a child it is hard raising them and to make christmas happen it is very difficult and to have program to help us out it's a blessing for us all. >> a total of 90 families in under resourced communities received a christmas tree along with all the lights and ornaments they'd need. >> community, agree up in the community. just to be doing something like this it's all about giving. it's the holiday season. >> the trees were delivered on u.s. coast guard ship that recently docked at navy peer. impressive reenactment of a chicago tradition from the late 800s. >> there we go. >> across town, another chicago tradition took place at the 19th district police station. >> merry christmas! >> hundreds of kids from the chicago area shelter had a chance to meet santa claus himself and receive hats and gloves the oh gifts from the community all in attempt to spread the goodwill cheer. >> um-hmm. >> something as simple as christmas tree can came the entire mood. this organization is inspiring

so many other organizations currently giving back to just keep going because that generosity can literally change lives. one mother pointed out that this kind of giving is especially moving because it allows her to relax not anything of anything negative that hammed yesterday or the day before or she'll be able to afford this or that instead she's able to see the greater good of humanity from this and live in the moment of season enjoying the real meaning of christmas, giving back. love it! >> i've got a little tiny miniature christmas tree you guys because i can't have real one in my building. even that little one it just lights up my entire space. >> to think you can afford it through this very expensive and busy season, to have someone just gift you one. it can change the whole mood. >> thank you meisha. appreciate it. >> of course. up next -- >> new jersey native john bon jovi will now be there for you forever. he rocks and rolls his way to another prestigious honor. we'll explain when we come back.

coming up later today on "eyewitness news" at 5:00 do you hate the hassle of returning gifts. we'll tell was you need to know before you shop. so the gifts you buy don't cause any post holiday headache. the rock and roll hall of

fame has announced its class of 2018. >> one inductee has ties to our region new jersey's own john bon jovi made the list. thanks to the voting committee a video message he posted on his twitter page. he called the honor long time coming. >> the cars, dear straits, the moody blues and the late nina simone gospel pioneer sister rosetta tarp was chosen to receive the award for early influence and the ceremony will take place in april. on that note that's it for all of us here at "eyewitness news" at noon. i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. for meisha, katie and all of us here thanks for watching. >> "eyewitness news" continues at 5:00. >> we're always online at cbsphilly.com. >> stay warm, everyone. the rest and the restless is coming -- the young and the restless is coming up next. ♪

>> previously on "the young and the restless"... >> nick: this park is gonna get stolen out from under us. >> nikki: this has to stop. >> chelsea: seems like you've hit a dead end. maybe it's time to back off. >> nikki: no, no. it's just time to find another way to stop victor. >> lily: thought you would have taken a break from dating after everything that happened with zack. >> abby: it's complicated. >> lily: i mean, in spite of everything, i really miss cane. >> hilary: she'll come around. just give her some time. >> cane: i'm just afraid that it's over and, uh, she doesn't know how to tell me that the divorce is still on. >> j.t.: i vow to honor you and to love you for the rest of my life. >> victoria: i don't want to miss one moment of being husband and wife and parents of our remarkable son. >> j.t.: you're so caught up in your family's drama that you can't even see right from wrong anymore! i don't want my son being raised that way! >> victoria: you can't stand it,