. right now at 11:00. happiness cut short. tourists are left stranded after the hour goes off at the disney theme park. a sleep over mystery. what police are saying after a little girl is found dead. brutal cold grips the region. a flowing fixture of the philadelphia park is transformed into a giants ice kel.

people out enjoying the scenery are doing what it takes. i'm jessica dean, ukee washington has the night off. we're in the midst of a deep freeze and windchills are making it more unbearable out there. we have live team three coverage of this bitter blast. alexandria hoff is out in the cold to find out how people are staying warm. with start with meteorologist chelseain gram >> these are the actual air temperature, 19 degrees in philadelphia. 16 in allentown. right around 5 in mount pocono p15 in reading, 15 in lancaster. we're dealing with a little bit in the way of winds, it takes a little bit to make it feel uncomfortable. feels like the single digits. like 8 in philadelphia, five in wilmington, feeling like 11 degrees below zero in mount pocono. it's only going to get worse as we head into the overnight hours

tonight. here's your forecast low temperatures for forecasting low temps in the single digits and teens region-wide, forecasting low right around 14 in philadelphia, but when you factor in the winds, it will feel colder. we're talking windchills near 0 as we approach tomorrow when you're waking up. we have more sub freezing temperatures, that equals out to a bitter cooled start. details coming up. this frigid weather during the holiday week is leaving people with a little bit of cabin fever. alexandria hoff is live in frankford square where she caught up with people who decided to brave the cold and get out of the house. alex? >> reporter: one woman put it to me, it was getting out of the house and out of the hold high bumper nation. she and many people came out to franklin square and get a look at the very frozen fountains.

it can stop a person in the tracks or prompt the body to keep moving. >> keep moving >> it's comfort dressing in lawyers, boy scouts. >> reporter: at franklin square, the electric cal current of ben franklin's kite wasn't enough to keep it from freezing. the water must stay on for the sake of the park. these ladies allowed me to warm up besides them. >> reporter: i might have have to turn occasionally. the lingering holiday spirit drew most of these people into the cold but for ella marcus and her mom from florida, this is her first venture outside since traveling for surgery at the children's hospital of philadelphia >> inside a hospital we figure why not. >> reporter: theories still a lot to see and do in the city

but if you do venture out, remember mom's advice >> layers, layers and double socks. >> reporter: when it's this cold and the temperatures are this low, your body is working hard to make sure that your core is warm, that's why your extremist bite. do it like that guy's mom said you have layers and have hands feet and ears covered. alexandria hoff cbs3 "eyewitness news." >> thank you. nearly 60 inches of snow already, people in erie pennsylvania are bracing for more, a record 53 inches fell in less than 36 hours and it keeps coming, a snow emergency remains in effect. some people are taking it all in stride >> we haven't had a winter like this since we were kids. we haven't got to our backyard

yet. >> for other, that snow has created travel nightmares, officials are urging residents to stay home. we have breaking news now, "eyewitness news" in philadelphia's germantown neighborhood where a philadelphia police officer has shot a suspect be. we're told that suspect is in critical condition. before the shooting several blocks away at 16th and ned dray. police say the suspect ran down a different police cruiser. the officer is hospitalized. it started when police pulled over the vehicle. we're told it was in connection with a homicide. we'll continue to follow the story. new, firefighters in princeton dealt with the bitter cold as they dealt with a fire around 9:00 at the complex. it took crews about an hour to bring it under control. no word on injuries or a cause.

police in phoenixville are investigating a shooting that sent a 9th grader to the hospital at a parking lot of the duncan donuts around 7:00 tonight. that victim was rushed to phoenixville hospital and is in serious condition. officials say the school will be open tomorrow as a place for students and staff to come together. an autopsy will be done on an 11-year-old girl who died at a sleep ovein northeast philadelphia. police say aightmare found the unresponsive girl this morning in the home of the 9200 blockf angus place, transported to are re-torresdale where she was pronounced dead. police tell "eyewitness news" the girl was sleeping at a friend's house two doors down from her home >> it was a concern right away. we're taking all the investigative steps. you'll see the crime scene units be we just had a k9, to not

eliminate any possibility and we're looking to find out what happened. >> that being said, police say there is no occasion of foul play. a new lead in the search for a hit-and-run driver who police say killed a pedestrian in wynnfield last night. this morning, police recovered what appeared to be the vehicle that struck 58-year-old anthony rogers, this alexis was found on 19th in logan seconds of the city, police say someone tried to set the car on fire. "eyewitness news" spoke to the couple who called 911 last night. >> i just proceeded to pray over him and pray for his spirit and pray that it's god's will if he leaves here tonight that jesus receive this. >> this is surveillance video. police say rogers had just exited a septa bus at 54th and was attempting cross city avenue. if you have information, you are asked to call police. president trump surfaces at a photo opt in florida.

cbs3 correspondent has more from the white house. >> president trump made an afternoon visit to the west palm beach fire station where he thanked firefighters and emts for service >> thank you. >> reporter: the event became a year in review for president who touted his tax overhaul. president trump told those gathered his installation set records during his first year in office. >> we have more legislation passed including the record a was harry truman. >> reporter: the president said he holds the record for stopping what he called ridiculous regulations and credits those roll-backs for helping boost the stock market. the president has been tweeting his optimism for american businesses in the new year. he's also predicting republicans and democrats will come together to create a new healthcare plan

but analysts say that is unlikely >> his promises will ring hollow given there isn't a republican coalition that exists that wants to expand health insurance. >> reporter: they will face a number of issues ranging from the budget to immigration. cbs3 "eyewitness news." new jersey's govern chris christie sign executive order for 2018, new jersey residents would like to pay the property taxes before a $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions goes into effect. that provision is part of the tax reform law signed by president trump this month. new jersey has the highest property taxes in the nation five juveniles are under arrest at the cherry hill mail. police arrived on scene and found approximately 700 to 1,000 unaccompanied minors. the five arrests occurred as

police disbursed the crowd. four are from camden, one from cherry hill. they all face charges ranging from disorderly conduct to resisting arrest. >> parents need to monitor what goes and to be honest, there needs to bet home. a lot of these things are representative of what we teach at the home. the melee comes just a week after a warning put out by cherry hill police, practically predicting this would happen. police will increase patrols inside and outside the mall a power outage brings rides to a halt and leaves guests stranded. what caused the lights to go out during one of the busiest dayings of the year and what the park did to control the massive crowds. an eight-hour trip to nowhere why a tokyo bound flight was forced to return to los angeles

and the celebrity who live tweeted the ordeal. crews remove part of a 200-year-old magnolia tree from the white house. >> a live look in bethlehem. a bitterly cold night and the sub freezing temperatures sticking around. more on the it says you apply the blue one ok, letto me. this. here? no. have a little fun together, or a lot.

k-y yours and mine. two sensations that work together, so you can play together. . there's a lot of crying children and unhappy guests >> there was no rides couldn't buy anything. it was all bad.

>> this video shows massive crowds forming single file lines after being escorted off rides. other visitors posted images to social media showing the chaos as families struggled to reach the exit. >> the magic of disney fades a little bit when the power is out >> in a tweet late wednesday, disney officia confirmed the occurred. >> we couldn't find a plates to sit down and have lunch >> a disney land representative said about a dozen attractions came to a halt including the monday rail and it's a small world >> they have little reservations, they can't do it. they can't get computers up and running >> a spokes woman said the issue was traced back to a malfunction with one of the resorts transformers, no guests were hurt. daniel nottingham, cbs3 "eyewitness news." we're learning more about the so-called flight to that had

john legend and his wife crissy teigen on board. the flight from los angeles to tokyo had to turn around four hours and go back to los angeles, two brothers with similar names were allowed to board the plane even though one was booked. teigen live tweeted the ordeal. >> thank you so much for taking me on this awesome vacation >> welcome to los angeles >> in statement, they said the cabin crew became aware one of the passengers boarded the airline security procedure the pilot and command decided to return to the originating airport. a rare and wide ranging interview between a prince an former president aired today on bbc radio. president obama open pud up to prince harry and his first broadcast interview since leaving the white house, he

talked about the responsible use of social media without mentioning president trump by name. the former president admitted one of the nicest things about being out of office is sleeping in >> fact that i can wake up and if i want to spend an extra 45 minutes talking to michelle and take a l breakfast, i can do it. >> the pair also discussed prince harry's upcoming up in what wills. there's a good chance he'll be included. a tree that stood on the white house lawn nearly 200 years was partial removed. the jackson magnolia had a large him cut off. the national park service said it was planted in the 1820's, it's named for andrew jackson who brought it there from tennessee. the tree is rotting so badly white house officials fear it will fall every time the president's helicopter takes off

nearby. >> on the east t o there's a small c shaped section of wood and a little bit of bark, and not much else to support that tree. >> first lady milania trump reviewed recommendations about what to do with the tree and personally signed off on the trimming of the another jackson a magnolia born from the original will be planted. the bitter cold is expected to last threw new year's eve. organizers preparing for record breaking cold while holiday revelers will wat in time square. it is built to withstand extreme weather. "eyewitness news" was at the blue cross river rink where preppings are underway for philadelphia's new year's eve display. gray views of two spectacular shows, one at 6:00 p.m. the other at the stroke of midnight

>> you better bundle up for both >> chelsea said we're locked in for awhile >> that is so true. you need to bring your pets inside when temperatures are this cold. take care of yourself and those pets. let me take you to a live look at center city where it's 19 degrees. but when you have the winds and it's coming out of the northwest arraigned nine miles per hour, feel into the single digits. feels more like eight degrees, looks cold. another live pick in rehoboth beach it has been hard to find anybody out or about walking the boards this evening and also into tonight. it's too cold even to the delaware beaches, stormscan 3 painting a quiet picture. dealing with mostly cloudy skies. traveling to humidity destination, maybe you're getting a head start on

traveling to meet up with friends or family f new year's holiday. you got the green light if you're traveling tonight, give your car extra time to warm up if you're traveling locally. bitter sunshine thursday, still the green light at plenty of sunshine out there tomorrow and plenty of clouds friday. arriving ahead of the system that c bring us maybe a little bit of snow. temperatures across the region, you can see when the single digits are ready in the poconos around 15 in reading, 15 lancaster, 18 in wilmington and 19 in dover and only takes a little bit of wind to make the feel extremely uncomfortable out there. a lot of areas and single digits and teens at this hour feels more like five in wilmington, 13 in dover, already feeling like 11 below zero in the poconos. and that is some dangerous cold up in the poconos, that's why

winter weather advisory has b n beenished. you have jim thorpe included as we head to the overnight hours. the windchill values anywhere from ten to a full 20 degrees below zero. here's something to pan out as we move into thursday, notice by tomorrow morning, some windchill readings will be near zero, if not at zero. reading, allentown, right around 3 as you're waking up in philadelphia, it doesn't get much better to the noon hour, windchill around 8 in philly. and we won't get much in the way of improvement in there's. when you have temperatures this cold, any time you get moisture it will fall in the form of snow. we stay dry through friday, then monitoring a system that will bring it to saturday maybe a coating to one or two inches, behind the system even colder cold if you will, new year's eve by midnight, as we're ringing in

the new year at actual air temperature around 13 degrees. overnight here's your forecast, mostly clear and fr temperature right around 14 as we head to tomorrow, bitter cold with sunshine but 24 degrees, golf like the single digits and teens for much of the day on thursday. a quick check of your "eyewitness news" seven-day forecast. it will be a cold game for birds, 24 on sunday. 21 for that high temperature on new year's day, 2018 starting out cold. >> thanks so much, we got cleve bryan >> villanova taking on depaul. the number one seed the eagles sit or start their players against the cowboys on sunday? the

. the villanova wildcats are off to a hot start with a 12 and

zero record but yet to play a game in the big east. they traveled to depaul to get that portion of the schedule. first pass, nova is going to get into a double digit lead. hits the three. led nova with 20 points, second half, villanova will do more damage from long distance. this one is draining to three, he had 17. then we'll watch them get on the assist game here, jalen brunson whipping that down to eric pass kel. slammed home. villanova with their first win in the big east 103-85. penn hosting delaware state at the po less stra. penn has been playing really well. ryan bentley with the bucket. the quakers with the blowout

105-52 is the final. earlier many of you probably circled the eagles cowboys as a can't miss season finally but this could end up being more like a preseason game with the starte only getting a little bit of playing time. when the eagles beat the raid ders, it rendered this game coming up. coach doug pederson if he wants to rest the starters. but the players don't want to sit >> i want to play every game. you know, obviously, this is a game we want, we have the the chance to do something here that hasn't been done and that's my games. i know all the guys wants to do it and be a part of something that special. it's the coach. call. >> the flyers will get back to

work tomorrow in florida, the orange and black. they will be in florida two games before returning home. the sixers on the road taking on portland. we got good news on the markel fultz front. the overall pick is on the trip with the team and will be ramping up his activity in team practices. he's been out since october 24th. we're hoping he can get back from his shoulder injury. i hear that's not fun >> nobody wants that. >> thanks so much the rocky statute

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