>> rush is on, holiday travelers headed to the airport, they say this is expected to be rod holiday holiday season, a look at how things are moving at philadelphia international airport. >> whether you're flying, taking the train, or driving, holiday travelers have the weather on their side. clear conditions for now. but chelsea is tracking some changes for christmas. >> and if you were planning to take horse and carriage ride in philadelphia over the holidays, there will be fewer options. why one company is forced to close, and even turn over their horses cents. >> today is friday december 22 , good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. katie and meisha are both off. chelsey and pat are here to get us out the door. >> i feel like every year they say it is a records travel year, right? >> ya. >> i don't know who comes one that. >> someone sitting there with

a clicker. >> local roadways, though, pretty clear. >> oh,. >> most importantly. >> yes, dry start to the day. so today, good day for holiday travel. not the same scenario headed into tomorrow. you guys, temperatures right now, on the chilly side of things, but not dealing with the winds. so, it is okay, right? 36 degrees, not bad, right? thirty-six in wilmington, 32 millville, now in the lower 30 's down the shore, 31 degrees in wildwood. it is 32 in atlantic city. today we will see the temperatures on the rise, 46 by noon, 52 by 3:00. the clouds are going to be dominating the forecast throughout the day today and across the region, looking at 54 degrees down the shore, not as cold, and then we could have couple of showers up in the poconos, in the form after wintery mix, too, couple of rain showers later on today, as temperatures rise to around 37 degrees. so, here's what you need to keep in mind if you're traveling for the holidays or if you know someone that is going to be traveling for the holidays, mainly dry today, you got the green light. mild rainy saturday. not the best travel weather. sunday christmas eve looking

just fine. now, sunday night into monday morning we will be tracking another system, that could bring wintery mix to the area. maybe even close snowflake on christmas morning. i'll have details coming up in your full forecast, pat, we send it over to you. >> is it too much to ask for, you know, a whitt christmas around here? because that's really what i am ' lookinger. >> you're asking for a l but it might look beautiful headed into monday. i'll talk about that coming up >> we will take that, all right. so going to the really wide zoom. santa will be traveling quite a bit on christmas morning. here's some stats. santa will travel 175 million miles at about 5.6 million miles per hour. now i think the normal speed that you can go on the roadways, about six a miles per hour well above the speed limit. i wouldn't go that, would you guys? you wouldn't travel that fast, would you, jim, rahel? >> jim driving like 50 in a 55 , i've seen it. >> it is true. >> it is true, isn't it? all right, we move on to the vine street expressway, where we are having some issues this morning, and i'm having some issues with my clicker.

here is a wide-wide. it doesn't look that bad throughout the area in our normal travel spots where we have some issues, that's the boulevard headed towards the schuylkill expressway, not too bad, seeing mostly some pretty decent, and mays landing route 40 eastbound closed near old egg harbor road until about midnight. you'll want to use route 322 instead to get around it. more traffic if about ten minute, jim, rahel, over to you. >> thank you, pat. we need to ask santa for a new clicker. >> darn clicker. >> and chelsey, she said hers is not working. >> maybe someone took the batteries out for toys? well, you know how the saying goes, no place like home for the holidays. >> triple a estimates more than 1.2 million philadelphia area resident will travel 50 miles or more for the year end holidays corks set new record even though pat gallen little skip call. trang do live at philadelphia international airport. this morning, with a travel outlook. good morning, trang. >> well, good morning, rahel, jim. you can't tell it now, but earlier this morning, this airport was just absolutely packed, the security line,

snaking through the terminal, take a look here though, tsa doing excellent job every get that line down, right now, guys, if you are traveling, later this morning, now is the time to get here, because this is the shortest that we've seen this security line this morning. and as you mentioned, triple a project this will be record year for holiday travel, with more than 107 million people traveling to see family and friend for the holidays. now again here in the in the philadelphia area more than 1.2 million people leaving town. vast majority about 90% will be driving to their destinations cents, but train and air travel also up this year. some 80,000 people will be flying out of our area, during the ends of the year holiday travel rush. then we caught up with some flyers early this morning. now, here's what they had to say about traveling for the holidays. >> it is crazy. if you have a flight, get here early. >> we prepare to get here three hours before our flight. so we new we were going to experience lines like this, so that's why we came early.

>> definitely good advice, because it is not going to look like this throughout the day. another good tip, that the airport folks were telling me, was that they really are urging people to not wrap their gift before bringing them to the airport. because tsa may have to inspect them, and take off that beautiful wrapping that you spent so much time on. so that's another tip. also, i do want to say for the records, jim, rahel, dow not particularly need a white christmas like patrick. i'm totally fine if it doesn't snow. >> trang, i'm with you, okay, we're fine. >> i'm flying out christmas day, i don't need any bad weather for flights. >> thank you, trang. >> "eyewitness news" has learned a second person has died from injuries sustained in last week's fatal hit-and-run accident in northeast philadelphia, we first told but this story on december 13. the 33 year old plan ejected and killed, and in a early morning crash, dis stant street and torresdale avenue in talcony. also confirmed the driver of the car has turned herself in, facing charges in the now double fatal crash. >> four men who police say returned to help a family

member are hospitalized after they were shot during a fight in southwest philadelphia. this happened around 9:30 last night on the 6600 block every did your he will street. police say that a woman was fighting with her boyfriends in the street and then called family members for help. when they arrived, a brawl broke out. the boyfriend then opened fire , shooting the four men, the victims were returned to the hospital where they are in critical condition. police are searching for the shooter. staying in southwest philadelphia, police are also on the hunt for a kill here they say fatally shot a man outside after store. this happened at 6:30 p.m. last night 200 book block every woodland avenue. police say the shooter shot the victim in the chest. officers returned the victim to the hospital where he died. police are trying it anything out a motive for the shooting. >> shutting down popular horse-drawn carriage rides, orders filed yesterday explains legal agreement between the philadelphia carriage company and the city of philadelphia. the company will seize operations cents january 1st, and they'll forfeit ownership of the horses to the city.

city officials say some of the horses faced abuse, back in june they classified 13th street stables as inhumane. >> looks romantic, but when you find out what's behind the scenes it is horrible. i didn't realize where they lived. and i was shocked. it is so horendous. newark lawyer for the owner did not return a request for comment, but long time employee, kyle hoffman, told " eyewitness news," quote, we truely love these animals, the other horse-drawn carriage company will remain open, but philadelphia carriage company's horses are now headed for a sanctuary. >> government shutdown has been averted after lawmakers on capitol hill approved short-term solution to government funding. as hena doba explains, the temporary solution leaves a lot of work to do in the new year. >> these are the last votes expected in the house for the day, the week, the month, and the year. >> (cheers). >> before fleeing dc for the holidays thursday, lawmakers and the house and senate approved a stopgap measure to funds the government for the

next four weeks. narrowly avert ago government shutdown. >> the bill serves as a short-term extention to the children's health insurance program, or chip, and provides funding for a veterans healthcare provision. >> it also sends $7.4 billion to the department of defense, development came days after republicans cast their sweeping tax plan. some lawmakers expressed concerns about the recent pason capitol hill. >> i've seen people of good will of both parties try mightily and so far consistently fail to get us back to regular order, and to ends this process of moving crisis to crisis. >> the house also passed a separate 81 billion-dollar disaster relief bill to help puerto rico and states like texas, florida, and california , recently impacted by hurricanes and wild fires. the senate, though, vote today delay the measure, until the new year. >> the emergency response is over but recovery and

rebuilding effort go on. >> president trump is expected to sign both the funding bill and the new tax overhaul bill as soon as today. hen a doba, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". if you use pse&g to heat your home you will probably be happy to hear. >> this your bill should be lower this winter. the utility companies says it will provide bill credit for january and february, typical customers should saved about $50 over the two month, company said it is passing along the savings because it is paying less for natural gas >> well, coming up a little later this morning, how the wells fargo center trying to accommodate new mothers, it is a first for any professional sports arena in pennsylvania. >> plus, iphone use remembers now trying to take a bite out of apple. the company now facing its first class action lawsuit, after confirming it does, in fact, slow down old iphones on purpose. pat? >> i knew they were to up something. the iphone is so slow. you know what we're to up on christmas night? the philadelphia eagles take on the oakland raiders, coming up next, we will talk to the one and only merrill reese.

he'll get us ready for big match up. christmas night, i can't wait. that's coming up. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> oh, we certainly do hope you have a holly jolly christmas. >> oh, a little michael buble starting us off this morning. >> you're flying away on christmas? >> and you will be working. >> you don't have to truck in. >> we'll be back. we'll keep on discussing this. and we will be right back. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪

>> santa claus is coming to town in just a few days, now new way to track jolly old saint nick. yes, and on his little elves that have helped him create all of the toys, norad is checking santa tracker, and now alexa can see when old saint nick will be bringing the gift to your home. chelsey, i know you said earlier, were you on the good list, the nice list, so? >> i am, yes. santa told me, i'm on the good list. >> jim and i are probably not. >> hope you're as lucky as i am. >> talk to for yourself, i'm always on the good list, i follow rules. >> i bet do. today weather not too bad. in fact, good day for holiday travel. temperatures as we start out this morning, are in the 30's, and we're not dealing with much in the way of winds, so, doesn't feel as chilly that is did yesterday morning.

we've got dry scan on storm scan3, do have some clouds, clouds will really be the dominating factor throughout the day today. we will deal with mostly cloudy skies specially as we head into the afternoon. high temperature on very mild note. right around 52 degrees, and with winds out of the south around five to ten. tracking two systems throughout the holiday weekends. here is system one, it will be bringing us some rain as we led into saturday, so saturday not the best travel day. we get brief break as we head into sunday christmas eve looking dry. and then have to mourn tore coastal area of low pressure headed into sunday night and monday, could get enough cold air seeping on in, and enough moisture kinds of spewing into the cold air, to tap into wintery mix, as we head into the we hours every monday morning, maybe even couple of wet snowflakes, as we start out christmas morning, and then it is all going to drown out, clear out by the afternoon, mainly quiet christmas eve. we will have to watch for potential for light morning snow, as we head into christmas day, so you got the green light today as far as

holiday travel is concerned. rain saturday, cooler sunday, then light morning, mix or snow shower, as we head into christmas day. looking good for game day for the eagles as well. but it will be cold. keep in mind, windchills are going to be in the 20's headed out to the gamement then big cool-down as we head into the middle of next week. pat? >> fingers crossed, i need the white christmas. i guess i should go further north then, still time. still time to get on the roadways, too, before the rush really hits. so far so good this is 95 southbound at girard avenue. there had been disable vehicle on that ramp, or on that off ramp. that has since been cleared. it is not causing any problems it wasn't then, not now. so good look at 95 you're jump willing out on the roadways at 6:15 this morning. >> this has been problem all morning, will continue to be, 22nd street ramp to the vine street expressway. there is a tractor-trailer disable, blocking that ramp. so do you have use either spring garden or broad street entrance as well, wide look at the vine street expressway, not looking too bad on the

vine itself. but again, that tractor-trailer you can see the flashing lights there that of course major problem. here is a look at the 42 freeway in new jersey, normally around 6:17 a.m. in the morning, bit of problem. not so right now. and we will look at the wide, as well, because the wide is showing us that throughout the delaware vale, we are staying at posted speeds, lots of green out there, and that's what we want, also, i was going to say, santa claus, he's going to travel all over the world, 526 million kids under the age of 14, he'll go 22 million kids per hour. >> wait. do you have to be under the age of 14? because i was specking -- >> well, i did the math. >> she wants that meghan markle dress. >> real complicated. rahel, doses not count, sorry, doesn't counted for you. >> well, no gift for me, but gift for eagles fans, game on christmas. >> yes, special guest? >> i do have a special guest, not santa claus, but it is close. >> close. >> so on christmas night the eagles battle the raiders. we will hear all of the action , on 94wip. from the one and only merrill

reese, who joins us this morning. hello, merle. >> hi, pat. >> so, merle, let's first discuss the eagles defense, which obviously struggled against the giants last week, eli manning through for 434 yards, they allowed 29 points, are you concerned? >> no, i'm not. i really am not concerned. they're a lot better than. that we know last couple of weeks, going back to seattle game, really haven't played like they can play. but, i think against the raiders, they realize that there is time to turn it on. they're home. undefeated at home. and this, pretty mediocre oakland off tens. >> now, let's flip it over to the offensive side for the birds. and nick foles, who looked fantastic on sunday, he threw for four touchdowns against the giants. how confident are you in nick being able to get the eagles this deep into the playoffs? >> well, i'm very confident in nick. because nick is very confident he knows what he is doing out there. he uses his weapons well. and there are a lot of weapons and he's not somebody who goes

out there and the eyes grow wide. he's very experienced back up. when you look at nfl teams, really only as good as your back up quarterback, because it is not an unusual circumstance for a quarterback that goes down. look, in this case, it is pretty tough. because you lose the mvp of the league for the rest of the season. but fortunately you have a very, very good quarterback in whom you can depend. >> merrill, i'll put you on the spot. one christmas gift for you. what could it be? >> win number 13. and with win number 13 comes home field advantage throughout the playoffs. they would end up as the number one seed in the nfc. and you know what, pat, that's interesting? if you told me earlier in the year that the eagles will win 12 games, i would say listen, this is a good team, they're going to win ten games, ten of six and have a shot it win the nfc east. then if you told me they would win the nfc east and at this point have 12 wins, without jordan hicks, without darren sproles, without jason peters,

i would say, you know, chris maragos is out, they lost their kicker, sturgis, it is impossible. and then you tell me they wouldn't have carson wentz, i'd say season over. but here we are on the cusp of locking down hold fields advantage throughout the playoffs and that's huge. >> the great merrill reese hear his crime mass night between the eagles and the raiders, thank up, merrill. merry christmasses. >> and have a great holiday. >> there he is, the one and only, merrill reels, we look forward to having him on monday night. >> on the cusp of greatness. so close. so close. >> it is happening, it is happening. >> well, sad news to report this morning, legendary sports cast or dick enberg died at the age of 82. >> found dead inside of his san diego home, went to check offer him after he didn't show up on his flight to boston, earned his fame with ucla basketball went onto cover superbowl bowls, olympics,

last year he retired after seven sears ons with the padres team. >> up next, might be the ultimate teacher gift for the holidays. write this one down for next year. >> plus travels for the holidays can be stressful. these therapy dogs are comforting passengers in our region, finds out how long they'll be there when we come

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>> we're keeping close eye on the all-important holiday weekend, tracking two systems, the first every which will bring us some rain to the region as we led into saturday so, today looks like good travel day, tomorrow not completely the best, it will be rainy, it will be wet. we'll have rain at times. and then as we head into sunday, mainly dry throughout the day on christmas eve. but yet another system is going to head our way. sunday night, into monday morning, and that could bring us anything from a combination every rain, to wintery mix, and maybe even some wet snowflakes, as we wake up on christmas day, i'll have more

coming up in your full forecast, for now, sending it over to you. >> all right, chelsey, thank up. now for look at newspaper headlines from across our region. >> in the reading eagle, ten people died of apparent drug overdoses in lancaster county last week, streak of fatalities that may be unprecedented, since the opioid crisis began to escalate. the county coroner says the vast majority of the ten deaths appear to have been caused by opioid drugs. >> from the delaware county daily times, community members and elected officials met face-to-face with pennsylvania governor tom wolf this week, as they increase pressure to halt construction of the sunoco h2 pipeline. they want new safety assess ment to be performed on the controversial project. >> from the times herald, police motorcycles filled gilbertsville, the area police department made a special delivery to the fallen officer family brad fox. part of meals on wheels program where christmas dinners are delivered to the families of fallen law enforcement officer ers.

>> that's a look at headlines from around the delaware wear val. >> i a lot of people are talking and laughing. >> teachers one ohio elementary school getting amusing if not brutally honest christmas gift from parent. bottle of wine with a picture of their child. the label also contains a special message it, reads, our child might be the reason you drink so. enjoy this bottle on us. the students' older brother say the gift was well received >> my brother is just that kid , you know what i mean? it was more after thank you, because i know i can't spend six hours in the room with my little brother. and they've been doing that every day for however longest 's been in school. so they got a kick out of it, too. >> we all know that kid, right the family describes the student on the label as a school clown. >> that's really good idea. >> seems like he got a sense of how many floor his parents. >> i do like. that will coming up in the next half hour, live at philadelphia international airport, where travelers are already headed to their holiday destinations. >> plus the california wild fires could finally be out in the next few weeks, but the governor said his state needs something before they can start to recover. find out what he's request whg

we come back. jan? >> and come the start of the new year, you might not see quite as many of those horse-drawn carriages on the streets as old city philadelphia. i'm jan carabeo. reporting live, coming up: why this company that's been around 40 years is decide to go call it quits. >> and the local roadways not looking too bad this morning, we do have one trouble spot to get you caught up on, and we'll do that coming up after the after this break, stay tuned, more cbs-3 "eyewitness news" when we come back.

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from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia this is cbs3 "eyewitness news". good morning everyone i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. it's 6:30 and here's what you need to know to start your day in the morning. december 22nd, 2017. ♪ >> heading home for the holidays, today is one of the busiest travel days of the year. >> some 80,000 people will be

flying out of our area. many of them through this major airport the philadelphia international airport. >> come the start of next year there will be one less horse drawn tour company in the city of philadelphia. >> the city inspector classified their stables on 13th street as inhumane. >> when you find out what's behind the scenes it's horrible. >> no more papa in poppa john' thes the founder of the chain will step down weeks after he criticized nfl about his handling of the national anthem protest. >> crisis averted. >> these are the last votes. >> congress approved temporarily spending bill to keep the government running through the new year. >> we could see the chance for a couple of snowflakes as we head into christmas day. >> love snow on christmas. who doesn't.

>> today's morning minute sponsored by penn medicine abramson cancer center. >> i don't mind snowflakes as long as they don't affect my flight schedule because i'm flying out on christmas day. >> very exotic trip planned. >> they better not screw up my vacation. >> kell seek i know you'll talk more about christmas in just a moment. for people just heading out the door what can they expect today. >> it will be dry day but i was going to say jim i think you'll just be fine as we head into christmas afternoon we're going to be dealing with partly cloudy skies. >> good. >> that system clears out just in time. yes, today we're cloudy out here. but we are dry. so it's a great day to get head start on your holiday travel. 36 degrees right now in philadelphia. 36 in wilmington. 34 in dover. we are now on the low 30s down the shore right around 32 degrees in atlantic city. throughout the day we turn mild. 46 by noon. 52 by 3:00 o'clock. very mild afternoon especially for this time of year kind of wild especially now that it actually is winter. the not going to feel all that much like winter later on this afternoon. look at 54 degrees down the

shore. 37 in the poconos. a couple of showers in the form of wintry mix and then that will transition to some rain as warmer air works n if you are going to be traveling or if you know someone that's going to be traveling, here's what you need to keep in mine locally. mainly dry today. you got the green light. we're going to be mild and rainy as we head into saturday so we're talking wet roads tomorrow. generally dry on christmas eve. it is going to be chilly though. and then we're tracking another system that's going to bring us a chance for wintery mix or maybe even a few wet snowflakes as we head into christmas morning. of course, i'll have a lot more coming up in your full forecast. zen iting over to you. >> thank you chelsea let's take look at our local roadways and the majors not too bad. but we do have this problem which is over one of the majors much this is 22nd street in center city. it is over the vine street expressway and there's a disable tractor trailer it's been out here now for about an hour trying to make that left hand turn on to the ramp to the vine street expressway. got stuck. the tow truck is out there trying to move this thing out of

the way. hopefully they can do that very soon because it's causing some problems on the smaller streets the numbered streets here but the 59 vet expressway as we look wide looking good this morning. you can see right here the fla flashing lights trying to get this thing out of the way use either spring garden behind the art museum or broad street oh get on the vine street expressway. ben franklin bridge if we had snowflakes this would look like a postcard and i would take a photo because it's beautiful. there was a disabled vehicle in the right lane but that has since cleared out of the way on the web side. ben franklin looking beautiful. also, this is old gulph road closed between pots lane and morris avenue in lower merion. downed wires. they'll be out there for little while until about 9am. jim and rahel, over to you. >> thanks patrick traveling for the holidays this is a live picture from philadelphia international airport with thousands of travelers are expected to be on the move today and uptime tick in holiday travel is expected this year people in the philadelphia region visiting loved ones or heading out on vacation. there were long lines earlier

this morning at the airport. things are quieting down a little bit for now. >> um-hmm. >> it is crazy. if off flight get here early. >> i travel for christmas all the time. this is the worst i ever seen it. >> triple mid atlantic estimates more than 1.2 million philadelphia area residents will travel 50 miles or more for the christmas and new year's holidays. >> i like this idea. furry friends answer the the call has holiday travel reaches its peak. therapy dogs are visiting new jersey newark liberty international to help destress frazzled airline passenger. united paws program back for the fourth year at that airport. passengers are welcome to spend some time witness dogs to help them relax. >> a little fur therapy. i love it. pretty soon you won't be seeing horse drawn carriages on the streets of philadelphia. >> the city says some of the horses faced inhumane boarding conditions now officials are shutting down operations on one of them. our jan carabeo is live at independence hall this morning with the story. goodman, jan. >> jim ran hell, good morning. these horse-drawn coverages have

been a familiar sight here in old city for 40 years now providing tourists with what seems to be acquaint sightseeing around this historic area as you mentioned come the start of the new year there will be one less horse-drawn tour company operating out of the city of philadelphia. >> smoke keen his friends will soon head to greener pastures. on thursday, the philadelphia carriage company agreed to cease operations at the end of the year and turn its horses over to the city. >> quaint and romantic when you find out what's behind the scenes it's horrible. >> i didn't realize where they lived and i was shocked. it's so more horrendous. >> reporter: the steve physical has attempted to gain control of these horses since june when city inspectors classified their stables on 13th street as inhumane. an attorney for the owner did not return a request for comme comment. but off camera one long-time employee spoke to "eyewitness

news" about the treatment of these horses. kyle hoffman says if they were sick, they were taken to a farm in lancaster county for treatment. we truly loved these animals. hoffman believes the city more interesting in obtaining the 13th street property than protecting the horses. come next year, only one horse-drawn carriage company will remain in operation in philadelphia. still, janet white had run the philly organization called carriage horse freedom says there's still work to be done. >> it's a start. it's not an end. it's the beginning. the real solution is a brand on horse-drawn carriages in philadelphia. >> reporter: so the philadelphia carriage company will be allowed to operate those tours through the end of the year then they shut down, turn the horses over to the city and the city says they will then be sent to a certified sanctuary. reporting live in old city this morning, jan carabeo cbs3 "eyewitness news". rahel and jim back in to you. >> thank you very much, jan. >> baby girl is recovering after a terrifying attack her mother says a raccoon attacked her baby

inside their north philadelphia apartment four month old journey black was rush to the hospital with bad facial cuts. it is really graphic. the attack happened wednesday night on the 2100 block of north 22nd street. journey's mother says she spotted the raccoon earlier in the dane called the landlord to remove it. she plans to pursue legal acti action. >> she was was laying on the floor. it dragged her off the bed across the room and she was like real bleeding and crying. >> landlord's responsibility. there's no reason an animal should have got in a house where kids are minors. >> the landlord tells "eyewitness news" everything has been resolved and to contact his lawyer. fires continue to scorch thousands of acres out in california officials are already thinking about the aftermath as john lawrence explains the governor is now asking the white house for help with disaster relief. >> reporter: it seems like it's the beginning of the end of the thomas fire in california. >> we're continuing to decrease the staffing on the fire but maintaining the appropriate

presence. >> reporter: officials say the blaze is roughly 65% contained. the fire which has burped down 273 acres in the ventura county area is expected to be fully contained on january 7th. >> we are working with the northeast winds that we have right now. it's red flag conditions for the area, but it's actually favorable conditions for the firing that is going on up there. >> reporter: thomas fire is the final wildfire that's still raging in california and all of the significant evacuation orders were lifted. california governor jerry brown requested a major disaster declaration from the trump white house. this request would boost state and local officials with cleanup and recovery efforts. it would also provide help to those who are homeless or displaced for a lengthy period of time. the state is awaiting a respon response. brown also issued a statement thanking all of those who battled the blazes and reminding californians that the golden state will recover. >> we are truly fortunate to be standing here and thankful to be

moving into the holiday season embracing each other. >> reporter: state officials say wildfires have scorched more than 1 million acres this year. john lawrence, cbs3 "eyewitness news". well, the wells fargo center is marking a first in the state of pennsylvania. >> not the only professional sports venue to offer a nursing sweet for breast feeding hope. home of the flyers unveil this nursing sweet outside section 116. mobile pod includes a full down table and electrical outlet to plug a breast pump but most importantly a private space for moms on the go. >> we have a number of mothers currently breast feeding whether they have their child in venue or pumping for future use so we wanted to make sure we had nice place for them to do it in the office space. >> the station is completely app control. mothers need to download the app and find the entrance code. up next, phil collins gift the internet with the most magical way to ring in the new year. we'll explain coming up.

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♪ ♪ ♪ >> this is one of phil collins greatest hits in the air tonig tonight. >> there's some excitement in the air after collins gave twitter followers sound advice how to ring in the new year. last night he tweeted, if you play in the air tonight by phil collins on december 31st at exactly 11:56:40 the drum break will play right as the clock strikes midnight. start off your new year right. >> twitter exploded. >> i've seen that after differ songs. i like it. >> instructions and everything there. lottery players won't be dreaming of just white christmas this weekend. they'll also be dreaming of winning the mega millions the jackpot is up to $247 million. >> mega millions tickets are flying out of the machines as stores across our area. the odds of getting your hands on winning ticket are one in more than 300 million.

mega millions draws tonight at 11:00 and if you're feeling really lucky, powerball is drawing on saturday for $300 million jackpot. >> i always feel lucky. never that lucky. >> yeah. what would you buy, chelsea, if you wouldn't? >> i mean we've been talking about that dress that meghan markle has been wearing all morning. >> 75,000. >> i would buy it for rahel. >> oh. >> see this is why you're on the nice list. >> merry christmas. that's right santa put me on the nice list. i've been a good girl this year. [ laughter ] >> our weather watchers have been checking in all morning. showing me temperatures in the 30s much especially over the last hour. we have a lot of 30s out there. let me show you this one observation. this is lisa. she was in wilmington, delaware. right around 34 degrees where she lives at this hour. and this what she says about the morning. it's cloudy, calm and cold this morning. but happy friday to everyone. happy friday to you, guys. great way to start out the day and we're not dealing with much wind out there. so that's really making it feel a little bit better at least than it did yesterday.

right? we do have 29 that's for john he lives in tabernacle, new jersey. david in new jersey says it's 33 in his backyard. couple other observations. mainly in the upper 20s and the low 30s. so you notice that theme, right. i'll show you numbers across the entire region. we have 34 degrees in trenton. down the shore we're in the upper 20s and low 30s. been there pretty much all morning. delaware we're in the theirs. 34 in dover. 36 in wilmington also in the mid 30s as you head towards reading and lancaster right around 35 degrees. notice we're dry on storm scan3. we are going to stay that way throughout the day today. you can look for high temperature definitely on the mild side of thing. right around 52 degrees. mild with plenty of clouds out there. things are going to change little bit as we head into the upcoming holiday weekend. first area of low pressure that's going to bring us rain as we head into saturday. brief break on sunday. sunday looks like a good travel day. then sunday night no monday we're going to be monitoring a coastal area of low pressure, and the cold air and the moisture meet up just at the right time to bring us that chance for a little bit of a mix, maybe even some wet

snowflakes as we head into christmas morning. not enough to amount to a white christmas as per the definition but enough to make it look, you know, kind of pretty out there. but you can notice our models are principling out really not much snow at all for us right here in philadelphia. holiday travel green light today talking yellow light as we head into saturday and also christmas day especially in the morning. pat, over to you. >> thank you chelsea. here's a look at the schuylkill expressway and we've got a mess on our hands right now. looks like someone is out actually on the roadway. you shouldn't do that. but there was an accident. it was in the left lane and it has since been cleared off to the shoulder but there are going to be delays again schuylkill right near conshohocken going westbound. also this is still out there as well. this is a disable tract trailer westbound ramp from 22nd street is closed. they're trying to get this thing out of here. they've been trying now for about the last 90 minutes. there's an accident in hammonton route 54 at chew road. that's causing some slow downs in that area. also lower merion downed wires and poles old gulph road closed

between pots lane and morris avenue. you can use montgomery avenue instead. also, we go wide. way wide. planet earth santa stats. how about 526 million kids under the age of 14 will get their presents, thank you santa claus. thank you jim and rahel. real we'll throw it to you. >> dropping knowledge on us this morning. >> i'm trying. >> thank you. >> on the heels of ad app pedestrian admitting to slowing down olderrism phones to manage battery wear the tech giant is hit with lawsuit. >> it alleges that apple purposely slows down i phones when newer models come out and that information is not disclosed to customers. apple on the other hand revealed that they do slow down older models but not to push sales but to manage unexpected shut downs. except ticks not buying it. >> of course, businesses want to get as much revenue as they can. so they'll do thing like that to force people to upgrade. >> worry looking at this apple's newest creation an i fraud on the consumer and it's something that be trace the trust of people who love their products.

>> aft older battery struggle to keep up withism phone 6s. company released an update and offered limited battery replacement. that's the update that slowed the phones down. a lot more to come particular that one. >> i don't believe them either. i like that i fraud idea. on the health watch, holiday time means party time for many. but for pebble who struggle with social anxiety, festive days and get togethers can be very difficult. >> social anxiety disorder affects more than 15 million adults in the us. health reporter stephanie stahl has more on that ways to cope. >> reporter: dreading holiday invitations? for people with social anxiety, all the festive get togethers this time of year can be more stressful and upsetting than fun filled. experts say it helps to keep events in perspective. >> if you think about them as i have to go, it's critically important, and i have to perform and people have to like me, it puts so much pressure on you makes the anxiety worse. >> doctors say people with social anxiety over estimate their likelihood of being reje rejected and frequently fear

they'll act in way that will be embarrassing and humiliating. it's unclear what causes it but there's some evidence that people with a family history may be at higher risk. other studies say the disorder may be triggered by over activity in part of the brain that regulates the fear response. doctors say just because you have social anxiety doesn't mean you should exclude yourself from being a part of social events. the key is learning to manage your anxiety, not masting it or completely avoiding it. >> if you can take somebody with you who sort of a support person, someone who understands your issues, someone who sympathetic, someone who will be there with you it's easier than when you walk into a place alone walking in with somebody. >> reporter: relaxation techniques even deep breathing can help overcome social anxie anxiety. people are usually diagnosed with social anxiety if symptoms last for six months or more. but one study found that 36% of people with the disorder live with it for ten years before seeking professional help. i'm stephanie stahl, cbs3

"eyewitness news". well for everyone who puts off holiday shopping until the last minute apparently you're not alone. the national retail federation estimates 126 million americans or half of all consumers will shop this weekend on super saturday that's tomorrow. last saturday before christmas. only 12% of shoppers are finished buying gifts. i'm among them y, you can pat me on the back. most of those early birds check off their lists by december 12 many. you find yourself still needing a last minute gift? how about considering a classic rahel checks them out. new again some retro toys make their way on to this year's holiday wish list. ali is the senior editor with the town insider and here now with look at some new versions of old classic. ali, good to see you. >> to you. >> let's see. let's start here with the old making a come back. >> this is a familiar face. this is teddy ruxpin he's back he was from the '80s he used to read along with cassette tape this bear he's going to hook up to your i-pad via blue tooth he

also has stories built in he'll read along with kids and flip through theism pad story as we well. if you just squeeze his paw there -- ♪ >> you'll see that he has led lights. he has more than 40 expressions that will match up with the story. >> he'll read along with it. his mouth movements will match up with what he's reading. >> cool. >> all right. board games always a classic. >> always classic. you can shake up your game by giving it throw back look. >> he's still talking. >> all your favorite games like life, aggravation, guess who, yachts see and it will -- those will have that retro package and retro look to them. the old school game. >> i play board games but i did just buy twister for holiday party. >> that's a good one. etch a sketch another one. another classic. you draw, you shake it, you start over again, right. this is edge a sketch free style from you want to draw on that screen, it's going to come up as a rainbow. >> cool.

>> it's got the style list you can use, it's got the stamps that you can do clouds and things like that as well. >> if you shake this will it still clear the screen. >> yes. we have favorite arcade game classic. hand game versions. they're all going to have the same game play and noises to them. you have the joy stick as usual. space invaders, frogger all your favorites but they are held hand so kids can play them on the kid. >> if george had this frogger on that episode of seinfeld it would have made his live lot easier. >> yes. [ laughter ] >> rubik's cube i've never been able to do this. >> this is a different version. this is rubik's flip into a stratt game. we'll each take turns flipping the turn. we'll each have eight turns. the first one to get three in the row wins. you have to dry to block me. i have to dry to block you. >> is it as hard as the origin original. >> this is easier. >> plus it's two players. you have that competitive edge to it as well.

>> last kit craft kits are great. they're simple and easy to use. you hook, loop and pull through it comes with the pre cut yard as you need, the hook as well an pattern. so it has picture on there you know what colors to yows. >> you would use this to create that. >> that's beautiful. >> this is the unicorn kit. there's rainbow kit. it has loop so you can hang it up in that's awesome. love it. lots of good options here whether you wanting to old or try something a little bit new. thanks ali. >> thank you. >> we'll be right back. ♪ >> teddy is still talking. >> he's st

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♪ let's get last check on weather and traffic. >> all right. guys, here's what you can expect today. dry conditions. nice weather for holiday travel. we warm up and then the chance for a couple of snowflakes by christmas morning. look how cold it is by the middle of next week. thursday 29. >> what change. >> yeah. >> ugly. also ugly is this the schuylkill expressway westbound right around conshohocken disable vehicle. an accident off to the shoulder. and also we have a pedestrian struck 273 in new castle center point boulevard. no major injuries here though. that's a good thing. >> thanks patrick. cbs this morning is coming up next. >> have a great day. if you are traveling today get to the airport early and pack your patience much it's been a

busy already at phl. from all of us here at cbs3, captioning funded by cbs good morning. it is friday, december 22nd, 2017. welcome to "cbs this morning." stormy weather slows down the christmas travel rush with snow in the rockies. we'll look at the record number of americans traveling this weekend. vice president mike pence surprises american troops in afghanistan, and our margaret brennan was there. she asked him about the war strategy and cooperating with robert mueller's investigation. republicans say most americans will see a tax cut next year. we ask an accountant to crunch the numbers from three families to see who saves. and oprah winfrey