>> breaking news this morning, battling fire and ice in brutally cold conditions, we're live with how a firefighter and three people were hurt overnight in burlington county. this is is the worse fire we've seen in than a century. >> fire in the bronx rips through apartment building, the latest developments. and the bitter cold continues, and that coat, mittens and scar lincoln financial field get quite the work out over the next few days, we're looking at frigid start to 2018. >> today is friday, december 29th, good morning,

i'm jan carabeo, jim donovan is off today. >> i'm rahel solomon, let's get a check on today's forecast and the roads with pat. >> good to see you. >> it is friday, yes, what is it, 4:30 a.m.? >> counting down the hours. >> two and a half hours, buddy , let's do it. >> roadways looking okay at 4:30. >> all-in-all very quiet for now, actually little disturbance trying to cross through, lock at the large wires, on storm scan, it just doesn't look that impressive. but you can see little lake enhanced snow still coming down across parts of the mitten there, in michigan, so lower michigan, also parts of ohio even getting in on the, but the little batch trying to move into pa. see it is fizzling, falling apart. perhaps you see snowflake. do not bank on seeing anything really have the opportunity to stick or let alone accumulate here today. but, it is freezing cold outside. here is what it currently

feels like, not much better, than the same time yesterday. although, lancaster, reading, with the wind easing up, a lot less harsh, but still down into dangerous territory if you have to be out in this for extended period of time. more like single digits, the most harsh air still up in the mountains, currently four on the thermometer, feeling about ten plus degrees colder than that, pat. so it is obviously still freezing, and just not going to ease up any time soon. >> you can see the wind behind me, whipping on this camera, this is a look at 95 northbound, there is an accident out there, right now, the right two lanes and the shoulder are blocked. this is right before columbus boulevard, as you can see, traffic is sneaking by, on those two lanes to the left. this is out there. so if you are taking 95 northbound, again, right before columbus boulevard, the right two lanes are blocked. as we move little further north to the city, no delays on the vine street expressway. between 95 and the schuylkill expressway. so we are looking good there. and looking good on the ben franklin bridge as well.

my favorite camera. it looks beautiful this morning, no one coming from camden into philly just yet. looks like people are taking off. i would like to take off on a friday, guys, back over to you >> pat, thank if you. we begin this morning with breaking news, four people including firefighter were hurt after two alarm fire ripped through a home in delanco burlington county overnight. >> right out to trang do live at the scene this morning, trang, what's the latest? >> reporter: well, jan, rahel, paramedics rushed three people to the hospital, a family, a father, mother and daughter, they had non-life threatening injuries, after firefighters and police officers rescued them from the roof of their home. firefighter was also taken to the hospital with a knee injury. take a look here at the scene, at this point, right now, the fire is out. but again, firefighters are still putting out hot spots. you can see all of the water dripping through the home. under some very cold icy conditions here. but here is video of the fire overnight. now, it started around 1:15

a.m. this morning, two story house on 600 block of union avenue in delanco township burlington county. they arrived to find heavy smoke engulfing the howls. family members on the roof. all three people who were home at the time were rescued. delanco fire chief todd johnson says ice on the ground was a billing hazard for firefighters, as well as the construction of the home, which axe sell rated the fire. take a listen. >> talking about almost two hours to get it under control. construction, which means there are no fire walls inbetween, it took us away while, and chasing fire in the walls itself. >> very dramatic rescues here on scene as multiple people were rescued from the roof of this home. coming up at 5:00 we will talk to neighbor who actually witnessed those rescues, and assisted in giving a ladder over here. but for now, live from delanco township, burlington county, back to you. >> see you at 5:00, thank you.

>> tragedy in new york now, a one year old child and at least 11 other are dead this morning after a fire breaks out in the bronx. this fire started just before 7:00 last night on the third floor after five story apartment building. fire block from the bronx zoo. at least 170 firefighters fought the fire in frigid temperatures. residents there describe the scene as utter chaos saying barely any time to escape the flames. >> the firetrucks weren't here yet when all of the smoke was coming out. the they started to get everybody out, but people were on the fire escape already trying to get down on their own. >> literally screaming. that's how we new there was trouble, because people were screaming fire, help, fire, help. >> at least 15 people are in critical condition. new york's mayor says this is the worse fire tragedy the city has seen in the last 25 years. no word yet on what caused that fire. it is a new years day tradition here in philadelphia , but the city's annual mummers parade may be

getting push back. >> that's because officials even some mummers themselves say they're concerned it may be too cold on monday. >> our camera spotted the polish-american string band practicing in the cold last night, some members say they can handle the low temperatures expected for monday, but others say they are concerned about the safety of performance ers and even spectators. >> i mean, we are at code blue right now, where we are taking people off the street. and if that's still the situation comes new years day, we put a bunch of people on the street, i don't think that's a real good call, just my opinion though. >> officials are set to make a decision tomorrow afternoon. they will decide whether the parade will go on as scheduled for monday or possibly move the event to next saturday january 6. temperatures are expected to be a bit higher. head to the website at cbsphilly.com, find the latest forecast from our eyewitness weather team. also new this morning, section

of route 73 in maple shade burlington county shutdown after a person was struck and killed by a car. >> this happened around 11:30 p.m. on the highway near waverly avenue. police are not saying at this point if the driver stayed on the scene after the deadly crash. the cause is still under investigation. friends are speaking out about a 15 year old boy who was shot to death in phoenixville. the teen, jason ortiz cameron, was gunned down on wednesday night, in a dunkin' donuts parking lot. police say cam on and others had planned to commit a robbery during a marijuana deal, cameron reportedly got into an argument with a driver and passengers in a black car seen on surveillance video, at least two other people were in that car and police believe one of them fired the deadly shot. now, some people who knew cam on were shocked by his death. >> i just had a conversation with him last week. and so like to see like i can't have another conversation with him. >> cameron was a student at phoenixville area high school. the school was open yesterday during the holiday break to

allow students to seek comfort with grief counselors. so investigators are still searching for the suspect. >> meantime, police have ruled that a 11 year old girl died of natural causes in northeast philadelphia. the girl was sleeping over at a neighbor's house tuesday night in the 9200 block of angus place, the neighbor found the child unresponsive wednesday morning, and called 911. investigators say there was no sign of trauma or any indication of foul play. >> we know the identity of the driver fatally shot by a plane clothes philadelphia police officer in germantown. this happened wednesday night in the 1900 block of west nidro avenue. police say two plane clothes officers were trying to pull over a car linked to deadly shooting in kensington last week, when the 25 year old driver, dennis plowed end, took off. an officer and his unmark car were hit before plowed end crashed into two parked cars, another officer then shot plowed end, after police say he made a threatening gesture and ignored repeated commands to show his hands, plowed end died yesterday morning at the

hospital. >> we take this very seriously the use every daily force, we want to show that the investigation is conducted appropriately, very thoroughly , and as we stand now, the d.a.'s office, as normal with these type incidents, the case is under review there. >> the office here was hit is recovering. authorities say plowed end does not appear to be connected to the kensington murder. >> and philadelphia mayor jim kenney released statement yesterday on the shooting, it reads, my prayers are with the family and friends of dennis plowed end. it is always trang took lose someone you love. i'm relieved no serious injuries to the officer or the other passenger in the car. the aoun lit do a full investigation. look forward to them coming to speedy resolution for the sake of mr. plowden, his family, the officers and for philadelphia. >> sad news to report, fans mourning the loss of long time broadway and tv actress rose marie who died at the age of 94. a caretaker found rose marie dead inside of her la home

yesterday. rosemary was best none for her role as sally rogers on the dick vandike show in the 19 60s. shoe was never seen without her signature black hair bo. her career spans nine decades starting as a three year old singing sensation on the radio still ahead on "eyewitness news," apology from apple. >> that's right. after admitting to secretly slowing down older iphones, what the company is now doing to make things better for frustrated customers. >> and two frigid for

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life. after this forecast, bitter cold is even forcing several shore communities to cancel their annual polar after bear plunges, say it will be too cold on new new years dade for swimmers to take the dip, the high expected to be 20 degrees, water temperature likely mid four's, officials have not said if they'll reschedule the plunges, as of right now plunges in brigantine and margate are still on. >> and, take a look at this video from the mount washington observatory. that's in new hampshire. the man you see there releasing a picture of boiling water into the wind. and as we can see it immediately turns to snow. the actual temperature at the time was 31 degrees below zero days high there expected to reach negative 3 degrees. and the low supposed to be plummeting to negative 19 degrees with windchills as low as negative 43. >> oh, my gosh. >> i suppose do you have find something to have a little fun in this weather? but that looks miserable. >> yes. >> speaking of miserable?

>> yes, so the year we had that when polar vortex became like a buzz phrase, remember that winter, couple of winters ago, i was still working on this shift and in the middle of the morning, we went on the skydeck, and did the very same experiment. if you're going to try it, be really careful, because you take boiling water into the wind. okay? so make sure you're throwing it far enough away from you, and with the winds, so it does not splash back at you. >> good advice. >> that did not thankfully on that me but it is a really important thing to keep in mind because you're messing with your health frankly, if you're not smart about that. so just word to the wise if you decide to try. that will it is definitely still cold out there. but it is not as harsh. here is the next little disturbance. it doesn't look like much frankly. not very much. but that is what could bring in maybe a stray flurry or snow shower. very far north, that's the worse of your worries, most every russ dry today, sun breaking through there is next disturbance what's actually going to come in, bring in the

next appreciable amount of snow. now, this is midnight tomorrow. and after that disturbance comes through, doesn't do a heck of a lot with future snow , i believe how this is initializing, i also like how it will look here tomorrow, too. mid to late morning the snow will start to spread over the region, but his is through the whole day, and the worse you end up here with maybe one to at max couple of inches here, i think most of us can expect about coating of snow out of this disturbance, and it act at lipitor knock the temperatures back in the days ahead. but here is again how it currently feels, you will see me show these values through the morning, this is the beth err guage for what you want to be dressing for as opposed to what the thermometer may read. feels like six at the airport, about on par with what it felt like this same time yesterday. but you don't have as much wind today. so that's helpful. but remember, it could always be worse. take a look at the poor friends out as they call it winter peg understandably so up in winnipeg, feels like 39

below zero, pat. >> no thanks. >> that's gross. that's just terrible. thirty-nine below? that's not normal. >> what does that even mean? >> yes. at some point cold is like really cold. does it even feel a difference between 39 below? >> like ursinus cents freeze up walking out the door. >> that's pretty brutal. >> here is a look at 95 northbound, this accident, still out there, been out there for the last 15, 20 minute or so, it is blocking the right two lanes, plus the shoulder, so you can see, traffic kind of sneaking by around those left two lanes. looking at 95 at girard, no one on the roadways going northbound, southbound, though , traffic, no delays, no volume in this area. the schuylkill, same here at montgomery drive headed to or from the city of philadelphia. no delays to jump on the roadway here at quarter to 5:00. do have this fire that trang do is live at this morning, she will have update coming up at 5:00 a.m. union avenue near laurel street, it is small side streets, offer the main roadways, but just to let you

know that's out there if you are in that area. then fire as well north philly area. >> pat, thank you. checking sports, the sixers playing left on the left coast , joel embiid put in team high 29 points, and the sixers led the trailblazers by 18 points in the thirds quarter. here 15 of 23, and the trailblazers scored 42-point. lehigh star, mccullough, had 34 in the game. portland comes back to win it 114 to 110. sixers lost ten of their last 12, they're in denver tomorrow night. >> heads up eagles fans, pick up your ticket to the birds first playoff game next thirst the eagles will host playoff game on either january 13th or 14th, tickets will be available starting at 10:00 a.m., next thursday, january 4th. you can only buy tickets on line through ticket master, general ticket prices range from 105 to $185, standing room only ticket cost $80 each

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>> welcome back, new toll increase on the pennsylvania turnpike marking the tenth straight year of price hikes. beginning january 7th, tolls will jump another 6%, most common tolls for e-zpass use letters go up from 1.23 to 1.30, while the price for cash payers will increase from 1.95 , to 2.10. commission officials, say, that the increase is needed to improve the 550-mile per hour toll road system. >> sticking with money now, 4:50, time to get a check on business news. >> hena doba joins us from the new york stock exchange, new

report says rent remembers paying record amount of money for housing, good morning, what's the news on that? >> that's right. good morning, ladies, well the website sill owe say renters shelled out more than $485 billion. that's 1% more than last year. the cities where rent roast the most, las vegas, minute a.m. list, charlotte, north carolina, and those cities the total raid spent more than 7% just this year alone. >> getting outrageous. hena, you can buy just about anything on line these days, apparently even a sky scraper? >> that's right. the 37 story, 500-foot building in china, has been listed on a popular auction website owned by chinese tech giant alley baby. the price $85 million. but here is the catch. it hasn't been fully built, with floors piled with construction materials. the buyer also has to finish the building themselves. the sky scrape letter go on the auction block on january

2nd. >> just a little, just a tiny out of my price range, hena. but otherwise, i would have taken a look. >> 85 million? maybe next year, guys. >> save my coins. >> all right, hena, thank if you. see you next hour. >> you may be able to buy it with this, right? you have two chances this weekend to win more than $300 million, tonight's mega millions drawing worth 306 million, and sat saturday powerball jumped to $384 million, this is only the second time in history that both jackpots have climbed above $300 million at the same time. so there you go, rahel. >> all right, got to win that. >> then, just add it to my savings and i'm good to go. stay with us, back with the frigid new years eve forecast. >> when we might see little bit of snow over the weekend. we're back in a moment.

>> look at that snow. literally being went swept through the camera shot, but they're loving this. because there hasn't been a day yet where we've climbed up to or exceeded the freezing mark since the day after christmas, and it is likely that we're not going to do that until almost the entire first week of the new year is behind us. so, it is going to be a while that we're just stuck, below freezing, which means, hey, how about it? make some snow. even though we may not see much in the way of snow in the next couple every days, there is plenty of cold air for them to make their own up that way. there is a very light hint of snow still moving across part of the great lakes, you might see flurry up in the mountains , or snow shower, but that's it. again, untilin on any tomorrow, but when we do, what we will find here is maybe coating to inch or look ahead ho new years day, folks, i mean, it isold air, that's settling in, just getting reinforced actually by the saturday monday, you are

looking at a high right now that only looks like you'll you'll be lucky to hit 20. so that is certainly the coldest day of t st it is also e serious flirtation with being the record for the coldest new ar seen since records began. that goes way back to the 1800s, again, really with. and if you are going to be out , even just in the next pat, youery days, really for have to be smart about how you bundle up in this. but new y coldest days. >> well, it is official, i'm not leaving bed on new least i m ' doing january 1st. good morning, everyone, this is 95 ng you about this, last, maybe half hour or so, but now th,ock it has been pushed just completely off to the shoulder so it i down, 95 north right around columbus boulevard. the vine looking nice, free, opens also, ben franklin bridge looking beautiful, as well. but mass traitwere having some s across the board, chestnut

hill east has wire problems,g wt definitely on modified schedule, buses, regional nmal schedule, new jersey transit, modified, as well. guys, back over to>>at, thank y. later today join us as holiday fest wraps up at winter tour in d point home is all dressed up for the holiday season, vittoriall look at the decorations and more after the game on "eyewitness news" at coming you in the next hour here on cbs-3 "eyewitness news,n south jersey, that sent three resident to the hospital. wry overseas, where this fire has claimed at least 15 lives. what wnoames broke out. >> and dramatic video shows a pick-up truck driving off the end a water y this was no accident. back at the top of the hour. stay with us. th jersey

two, alarm house fire in delanco sends three to the had m from the roof of their burning home, an update on their. >> fire ripped through an apartment building in the bronx killing more than ten, and cther. i'm john in new york, and i'll have that s frigid friday, folks, we've got another morning waking up toth is a liv, along boathouse row, where there every ice starting to form on the water there. katie is here with the new year's be a chilly one to say the least, today is friday, december 29, good morning,jan cr