construction has all lanes blocked and we will tell you how to get around it. senate passed a tax reform bill overnight but has one additional stop before heading to the president's desk. we will tell you hurdle it need to clear. today is important day for engineer in the 2015 philadelphia amtrak train derailment we will tell you about the next step in brandon bostian's case good morning i'm jim donovan. i'm rahel solomon. katie and meisha are getting us out the door. meisha, there has been a busy morning. >> is there one thing we do not want to hear i-95 being

shut down. it gets busiest the quickest. that is what we are dealing w we will have updates coming up >> that sounds like rough stuff. weather should not pose a major issue today, maybe sun glare later this morning but all and all quiet day, hint of the breeze. let me get you out there and sip through this so meisha can get to that important information. there is not much to take away from the current conditions, that would have any major impact weather-wise but outside palmyra cove nature park there is a quiet view over in center city, deck of cloud cover across the southern half of the area but not a sign of anything yet to come. this is a quiet day with temperatures leveling off. look at how warm it is. we are currently at 49 degrees at the airport. that is going to end up being our official daytime high for the day. we will sort of level off through rest of the day but still in the 50's in dover, atlantic city, so still exceeding is what average at this hour of the morning. looking forward we will end up with some sunshine, high again

officially already having been hit but we will level off in the upper 40's through the afternoon, still cool but when we walk outside man does it feel mild for the standard but we cannot get used to that just yet. >> when i walk out the door i said i don't even need this. it was really nice. good morning, everybody. we are looking outside, live shot for bristol bucks county where 95 closure is. i-95 closed north and southbound between 413 and street road they were working on overhead signs and crane malfunctioned, and then there we have it. completely shut down north and southbound use an alternate, route one or route 13 is your best bet as we were seeing cars pull up to where this was unaware that the construction was taking place, close another was taking place, and whipping u turn in the median. just to avoid that route one, route 13 is your best bet, and we will have more coming up, some live, some live stuff, talking about what sounds like

angry drivers out there construction here schuylkill eastbound closed between vine and south street that just opened one westbound lane has also been opened there. i-95 south, two left lanes are still compromised here just a head up on that and also i-95 south between scudder falls bridge and new hope that right lane is also still closed and we have construction crews out there. we will let you know when they move out. we are start to go clear construction on i-95, our friend i-95 will pose some problems for us. good news these two points of the construction crews moved out, looking good there and we will have more in a little bit , rahel, over to you. not the way you want to start your day, "eyewitness news" reporter frank does live at i-95 in croyden. >> this is a frustrating morning for drivers caught up, what do you see out there. >> yes, absolutely jim and rahel these days have been stuck in traffic for hours now as this work continues, and you can see behind me still

extremely active, again, traffic still shut down in both directions of i-95 between 413 and street road as crews continue to resolve that construction issue that has tied up traffic for hours. this is the situation here. we have two cranes here on the highway and just multiple work trucks, penndot spokesmen tells us crews were working on a sign over i-95 when a crane malfunctioned. crews he again directing drivers to turnaround the grass median to get out of there, second crane was brought into finish the work going than right new removing support frames for that sign they were working on. we did speak to some drivers who shared their frustrations with us and they were stuck in traffic, lets listen. >> we were stuck for over an hour in the jam. traffic got moving. it is a mess, absolute mess. >> terrible, man. i was in the car smoking a cigarette. i thought i seen a shooting car. we were far back. i saw a shooting stars going

in the air but here the sign fell down or they cut it up. i thought it was shooting stars. i was making a bunch of wishes >> reporter: you can see the sign, green sign, on the ground on have the highway that second crane able to get that sign down on the ground but right now crews are working to remove the post that were keeping that sign up so we're hearing from penndot is that this work should be finished within the hour around 5:30 to 6:30 so hopefully that does occur but right now still closed i-95 northbound and southbound in the bristol, and we're live, i'm trang do for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". back to you. quite the colorful reaction out there. when in doubt look at the shooting stars. >> thanks, trang do. president trump could have a new tax bill on his desk later today. >> after senate passed sweeping tax reform bill overnight but before it head to the president it will go back to the house, senate passed the bill with the

majority vote 51-48. house will vote again today. passed an earlier version yesterday but once it got to the senate, three changees were made and mixed emotion from his both side. >> this is a huge tax break to help the wealthiest individual and we will be left with one and a half trillion dollar deficit that your children and grandchildren will to have pay for. >> it means higher growth and higher wages for americans quite honestly this is long overdue. >> president trump says if the house passes measure which it is expect to did there will be a press conference at the white house later today around 1:00 p.m. a 17 year-old is fighting for his life after being shot inside a south philadelphia pick up restaurant. shooting happened last night at a restaurant on the 2700 block of dickinson street. the 17 year-old victim was shot when he and others tried to keep the shooter from entering. >> during that struggle the shooter then fires at lee one

shot that goes through the glass door and strikes the victim in the head. >> no one else was injured. it does not appear that robbery was motive. police are investigating after an elderly man is fund stabbed inside his west philadelphia home, authorities responded to the 5300 block of add sun street around 2:30 yesterday afternoon. police say eight five-year old willie cooper was found unresponsive inside. he had been stabbed multiple times. we are told a relative made a gruesome discovery. now family and friends of the victim are looking for answers >> from my understanding they stabbed him in his back h would do that to this man. >> for someone to go in and literally just kill him like this i really don't, i really am in shock i don't believe it >> so far in word on motive, investigators say there was damage the two back door but unknown if there was forced entry. later philadelphia judge will decide if criminal charges should be reinstated against engineer in the 2015

amtrak derailment here in philadelphia pennsylvania's attorney general ace peeling the decision to dismiss case begins brand than bostian, a eight people died when washington to new york city train rounded curve at twice the 50-mile an hour speed limit and flew off tracks. investigators conclude that had bostian who his bearings. out west it looks like driver distraction and speed may be focus for investigating looking in the deadly amtrak derailment in washington state ntsb officials say employee in training was with the engineer at the time of the crash. they real vealed that the emergency break on the train was activated automatically and in the by the engineer. the train was traveling 80 miles an hour in the 30- mile per her zone when it derail. crash killed three people and injured dozens of others. in other news upper perkiomen school board is allowing controversial construction of the new middle school to continue despite concerns over who is footing the bill. "eyewitness news" at district 's education center in pennsburg last night board members and residents discussed the issue for hours.

recently board voted to stop construction over residents concerns about a possible tax hike, but people were fearful that their taxes with go up to pay for the 55 million-dollar project, well, last night board retracted that decision voting five-four to will you construction to start up again in, word on whether they project will resume. ski resort in central pennsylvania says it hopes to reopen following upgrade to its chair lift system. this comes after a malfunction in the chair lift system where dozens were stranded and five people suffered minor injuries last saturday. the hundred tane blames malfunction on weakened spring pack inside the chair lift grips. entire system is being replaced. they hope to reopen this saturday. things are returning to normal in atlanta's airport. >> now focus reuniting people with their blank goes just how many abandoned bags are sitting there. plus crews finally

demolish the georgia dome after their first attempt failed. >> ♪ >> live look from bethlehem, you are watching "eyewitness news" this morning, and it looks clear out there katie says yesterday was a pretty mild today to day looks like, tides turning but then will get mild again. katie will break it down when we come right back.

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disgraced former archbishop of boss top cardinal bernard law has died at eight have. he resigned after he became a sense rally with figure in the early 2,000's. law was archbishop in 2002 when he and other church leaders failed to stop priests suspected of molesting children and accused of moving guilty clergy from parish to parish without alerting parents or the police. planes are back in the air in atlanta's airport but hundreds of bags are still on the ground. last weekend's massive power outage at busy airport left thousands of people stranded, delta his biggest hub of operations is in atlanta was hardest hit more than a you

this flights there were grounded. they are working to reunite customers with between seven and 800 bags that didn't make it on because of the delays and cancellations. well, massive flames erupt inside of a warehouse in north caroline, fire fighters battled the blaze yesterday morning, crews got it under control only to have it start backup later in the day. blaze first started at 2:00 a.m. but reunited at 5:00 last . fire fighters were on the scene to get the fire under control. officials are trying to figure out what sparked the flames but no one was hurt. well, it took two impression toss finally bring down georgia dome. >> small group of onlookers watched as remaining pieces have the dome came down this morning. this happened just a few hours ago around 1:00 a.m. dome was remembered to come down last month but two sections did not fall. at first you don't succeed try , try again.

>> yes. pick yourself up. >> if you don't succeed. >> oh, they are singing at me again. >> it is a good song. >> rahel and katie, singing. >> yeah. >> that was on my, what i call music number 17, i call that. >> she was the best. >> amazing. >> we're kin dried spirits. >> rock the boat was my favorite, just don't love rock the boat by aalayha? okay. >> we're talking about the weather apparently. >> lets talk some weather, fun thing that we will be doing here for the next week and a half or so at cbs-3 is for every newscast every single day right through holidays we will make sure we are giving you a travel forecast, a lot of you are eat's waiting loved ones arriving in the delaware valley or jet setting yourself we want to make sure you are prepared. lets look at a nice big nationwide map, if you are leaving today or doing any

traveling today whether for the holidays or for business you have got some issue to contend with here, system developing, to our south but system developing right new down across, and, mississippi valley, and nashville, and, fog is an issue at bfw and storm system making its entrance in the rockies right now. and, seatack major hubs are in the experiencing any problems but salt lake city could end up with some snow. lets talk about what comes up this weekend, that is when people will be hitting the road, rails and also the head go into the air here. there is a new storm impacting eastern half of the u.s. into saturday we will end up with rain here locally but further west you get toward great lakes for example, parts of the indian, illinois there will be ice and snow, since it is on the cold side of the storm but just rain here and that could start as late in the day and at night on friday then we will get to sunday a

break between systems, however for christmas itself if you are going to visit your grand parents or something like that into monday there is a chance right now we will see a bit of the mixing taking place that day and it is just a chance, something to keep an eye on, colder air will have swept back in. we are all over the place when it comes to temperatures in the next couple days. forty-nine is our current value at philly international. in the 50's in atlantic city, a mailed start the two day but look it only gets warmer from here. chillier to kick start winter tomorrow for winter solstice but on saturday six degrees. thanks very much, katie, very good morning to all of you, so we're looking outside right now at 95. why? because i-95 is closed down right now in croyden. i-95 closed north and south

between route 413 and street road? why? because they were working on overhead signs and crane malfunctioned and through have it. it is closed. route one will be your best bet and you will absolutely to have use those alternates. stay clear if you want to. this area will get busy. not too far away, not too close but we have construction i the five south between shoulder falls bridge and new hope that right lane compromised there. crews are still out there and quick peak as we might as well talk about, i-95 south at cottman, pushing southbound around that s curve we are looking good here, so it is just really where i-95 is closed down that is biggest red flag this morning and like i said just make sure to use alternates. we are also looking at construction out in delaware i-95 south between mlk boulevard and route 141, two right lanes block here and we have construction in new jersey, as well, 295 north and south at route 73 that left

lane compromised there, rahel and jim back over to you. new jersey will use private investigators to spy on atlantic city fire fighters and police officers on medical or sick leave despite complaints from the union that it is a ways of dollars. state contend monitoring has uncovered employees abusing the sick policy which also, cost the city money. times herald police are looking for a armed man robbed a wal-mart on south trooper road in norristown. they loaded a computer and two wireless speakers in the cart and, a employee when he was told he had to pay for the merchandise. for pennsylvania township cities and bureau deadline to deciding whether they want a new mini casino in their backyard is fast approaching. municipalities have until december 31st to pass resolution ifs they opt to ban mini casino from their borders >> that is a local at newspaper headlines around the

delaware valley. pat has a preview of sports. >> good morning, pat. >> sixers built up a 16-point lead against sacramento kings without joel embiid but could they hold honor would it be seven losses in the last eight games, we have got highlights next in

welcome back everyone. >> pat gallen is here with sports and let's talk sixers. >> it has been a rough go for sixers, started so beautifully with this team, embiid, simmons on the court but december has in the been kind, at beginning of the december sixers were 13-nine.

in the third spot in the eastern conference, but as i said this month has in the been kind to them they were once again without joel embiid last night having lost six of their last seven. sixers came in south philadelphia, ben simmons showing off a part of his game we have not seen, that is a jump shot any jump shot. he had 13 points, 12 board, nine assists. this is how you share it. simmons, covington, reddick, that is for three. ld here. reddick with leave with the hamstring injury. sixers built a 16-point lead and blew it that was buddy heels. he had 24 off the bench. sixers fall yet again. they have who seven of eight. kings win 101- >> we have to focus down the stretch. missed a shot. just little things like that where it comes down to focusing and making sure we are committed to defense and owe even if at the same time.

pro bowl rosters have been announced and after theirt th ag several players to orlando january 28th, that is unless they are on their way to minnesota for the super bowl. eighty-eight players got the call, six eagles made nfc squad. bitter sweet day for carson wentz as he was voted in as game with theuarterback, he torn acl but he was chosen bay of his 33 touchdo picks, in 13 s season. five other players representing the eagles for nfc are tackle lane johnson, guard brandon brooks, malcolm jenkins, zach ertz and defensive lineman fletcher cox , by the way, pittsburgh steelers, led the nfl with eight pro bowlers, but overall 12-two, get is players in the pre bell but much rather see them in the super bowl, that following week end, so fingers crossed there. >> great season, but that whole injury thing.

>> thanks, patrick. republican tax reform plan is almost, almost the law of the land. >> jan carabao is in the news center, jan. >> talking taxes just hours ago senate passed g.o.p. tax plan leaving final vote to the house later this morning. coming up we will break down how this bill is expected to impact the average american household. surveillance camera captured violent confrontation between deputies and a lawyer at philadelphia's criminal justice center, now the lawyer is suing, what led to this wh

good morning i'm rahel solomon. aim jim donovan. katie and meisha will join news a moment but first here's what we need to know to start your day in the morning minute today, wednesday december 20th parts of the i-95 is completely shut down, they were working on the overhead sign, crane malfunctioned. >> i-95 is closed north and southbound between route 413 and street road. >> tax cuts and jobs act is passed. >> within step close tore reality senate passed a republican backed tax bill. opponents condemned the g.o.p. tax plan as a give away to corporations and the wealthy. >> it is not tax reform it is

a heist. >> everybody in the family. >> eight five-year old willie cooper found dead, stabbed multiple times. investigators say it appears that the back door of that west philadelphia row home was kick in. >> facebook and your face, new feature that tells if you someone posted a picks door of you that you may not have known about. >> three, two, one... mayor jim kenney always a good sport playing buddy, the elf at franklin square park. >> nice night to be outside but katie, up and down temperatures, roller coaster really continues. >> it does. it is pretty mild but we will not rebound as easily as we did