field the eagles are hearing cheers from the fans. good evening, i'm jessica dean i'm nicole brewer in for ukee washington. eagles fever still running high but despite fun bird are getting ready for business. >> as we have mentioned count down is on. we have 11 days until kick off biggest game in 13 years. the field is taking shape in minnesota, this is u.s.a. stadium in minneapolis and see crews hard at work getting things ready for super bowl lii. officials say preparations have been underway there since after the vikings beat the saints in the divisional round , they have been at this for a while. >> new stage. >> sports director don bell joining us now. >> we're not talking about vikings or anything but the patriots. >> we are talking about the patriots and more specifically we're talking about tom brady, that is how they say tonight new england and boston. leslie van arsdal is at know of care complex where dean of quarterbacks, has pneumonia a hot topic. >> reporter: of course, dealing with tom brady, he is

talk of the town. i will tell you nick foles when talking about playing patriots, chance to make history just one win away and you'll have his teammates are so confident in his play, and you know what let's show you, there is good reason to be confident because nick has a great time to have the best game of his career this sunday against the vikings. foles completed 26 of 33 for 352-yard, three touchdowns and yes, now they have to get past patriots and tom brady. let me talk about brady, he is a player foles has been watching since he was 12 years old and has so much respect for. >> he is always been a guy i watch. any young quarterback, any quarterback has watched tom brady. he has done an amazing job. probably greatest quarterback to play the game. he approaches it the right way knows thousand eliminate distractions, necessary how to prepare and take care of his

body and make plays at high speed and make players better. i think as a any quarterback you can look at that and respect that. >> reporter: listen, i know tom brady is tom brady, could be greatest player of all time but if nick can play like he did last sunday, anything is possible, am i right, guys? come on. >> no doubt bit. in fact would i say that brady -like the way that he played last week or should i say carson-like. >> yes, right. >> perfect. >> thanks, leslie. all right. so, we're in the done with you yet. >> no, no, there is more to come. by the way fletcher cox during super bowl sunday will be doing a first, and it is not just playing in the super bowl we will tell but that in sports. >> see you later don. lucky eagles fans beat the odd and they are proud owners of the hottest tickets in town >> all day long eagles season ticket holders stopped by the linc to pick up their super bowl tickets this he were select at random through a

lottery drawing conducted by the team. fans tell "eyewitness news" getting chance to see bird playing in the big game is a dream come true. >> thirty-seven years i have been a season ticket holder, and now i'm finally going to the super bowl. can't believe it. >> my boyfriend said leaving the game sunday i think you will win lottery. i said whatever. next morning congratulations you have won the lottery. >> all of those lucky lottery winners have until 8:00 tomorrow night to pick you have their tickets. another big win for home team, over the nfl's under dog shirts we first told but last night. league will donate all sales of the shirts to philadelphia schools that move didn't go un notice by eagles fans or the school district superintendent , joe joe holden live outside school district headquarters in spring garden with the new developments, joe >> reporter: nicole and jessica, good evening. in the city full of sports fanatics and great role models , tonight two more emerging in the form of lane johnson and chris long. the superintendent hearsays that there is, of course, the

possibility that the school district could see a lot of cash but it is what these two men have done that has caught, their attention. sacked, nfl play call to compete with philly's under dog t-shirt madness fell to pieces after a blistering social media campaign. league was blasted for profits first attitude while eagles lane johnson and chris long had been selling shirts of their own, the proceeding to go philadelphia schools. parents like carla weaver are pleased that the nfl reversed course. >> it goodies to have our city and our sports teams actually give back to the community, aside from saying it, to actually doing it real time. >> reporter: up the doctor william hite what's lated day after we broke the news, the nfl would stand down. >> just does my heart well to think that we have two young men who are players in the nfl who are pushing the league to also support other young people. >> reporter: both johnson and long tweeted nfl on monday

encouraging the league to donate to charity. real rub was the fact that these two eagles came up with the under dog idea and it was received, the nfl ripped it off but league e mailed me at 5:00 p.m. yesterday saying proceed would go to the district. >> let's put this in perspective. they have hundreds, i'm sure thousands of things to be thinking about and the fact that they are thinking about pushing the nfl to also make contributions from the under dog t-shirt to the school district of philadelphia is extraordinary. >> reporter: lane johnson's manager told me yesterday that they believe it is about $70,000 right now, proceed from their team shirts sales, and they are making new won for the super bowl. it is expected that this could really be a wind fall of cash for the school district and a win for the students, now looking up to two super bowl models. live outside district headquarters joe holden for cbs-3 "eyewitness news".

>> they certainly are, joe, thank you. there was a lot of trash talking between the eagles and vikings fans during the nfc champion ship. >> now former opponents are put ago this behind them and teaming up for charity. "eyewitness news" reporterral sand contract movies live in center city to show us who they are helping, alex. >> reporter: all i can say is what a difference just a few days makes and it is all because two cities, want to make a difference in the lives of others. at philadelphia erupted in celebration sunday, visiting vikings fans mourned, a loss made war for some who reportedly becoming target for disrespectful behavior. from loss comes a win for mike simmer foundation a charity that benefits minnesota communities, according to the foundation as of wednesday morning, more than $7,000 has been donated a majority of those donations coming from

philadelphia residents with notes of apology for treatment of vikings fans in philadelphia. >> philadelphia is a city filled with love and i'm just glad we are showing what we really meant. >> i will donate myself and my attention because i thought bit, i plan to now. >> reporter: it is brotherly love coming full circle. >> it just keeps growing, and how awesome is that. >> reporter: that is minute so the resident and vikings fan jessica, she and her husband started a go fund me page s brotherly love so far it has raised over 11 you this dollars for the eagles foundation. >> it seems like a good opportunity to just do something kind, and to kind of say all right, you guys beat us, but. >> reporter: letting the past be the past and earning some unlikely support in the process. >> i'm officially going to be cheering for you guys on the

fourth. >> so for super bowl we may not have home field advantage but to have support of the hometown, will not hurt. reporting live from center city alexandria hoff for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". we continue to see fans, showing off their eagles pride >> look at this little fan. mentally of photos and plenty to smile about when the bird are super bowl bound. check out chase and rose car hen big brother and sister , showing off their love of the bird there all deck out in their eagles gear. show us how you are supporting bird, with more one more win use #cbs-3 on facebook, instagram, twitter, you may see photos right here on "eyewitness news". chill returns despite a dose of warm weather, it is still winter out there meteorologist kate bilo is outside on the cbs-3 sky deck and kate, a little bit chillier out there tonight. >> of course, nicole, step outside right now and you can feel winter return. it is feeling more like

january, it is supposed to feel. we have been spoiled over pennsylvania few days in the anymore there is a brisk wind tonight making it feel again about five to 10 degrees colder then what you see on the thermometer. here's a look outside, storm scan three showing a few snow showers moving through central pennsylvania. those are moving to the south. most will miss our area we cannot rule out a stray flurry in the far western suburbs, tonight, mainly berks county, lancaster county, rest of us dealing with cloud right now and temperatures has dropped about 15 degrees in the past 24 hours. add to that that brisk wind and it feels colder then. that it feels like temperature drop 20 or 30 degrees outside right now what to expect tomorrow? morning wind chills will be in the upper teens when we walk outside the door but sunshine, seasonal afternoon and that brisk breeze does continue but coming up we will talk about more 50's, ahead and another taste of spring perhaps in the forecast, illinois's tell but the next chance for rain and looking in the long range arctic air perhaps in our

future in time for super bowl weekend. more when i join you inside, kate, back over to you. >> national school choice week and supporters are celebrating in philadelphia. >> parents, students, teachers , from different schools all gathered in archbishop ryan high school today and they were revved up. they even took time to sing fly eagles fly. school choice week is celebrated every january, the goal to shine positive light on education options for children. still to come on "eyewitness news" showing eagles pride with more than just a jersey, chelsea? >> reporter: that is right we are live with the mobile weather watcher in hammington, new jersey you won't believe what you will see coming up next. going green in a very different way where the phillies fanatic showed up today to put smiles on the faces of some philadelphia kid

where do you want to go. >> super bowl. >> to the super bowl but we have to go to school. >> we hear you, buddy this little guy so used to hearing we aring together super bowl, he really wants to go. it is all wearing right outfit but he has to go to school. thank erin for send nothing that video. hopefully he can still watch super bowl. >> those people that didn't get tickets, they feel just like that. >> plenty of people are hoping bird can bring home a win, and the city hall think they included prayers for the team. >> thank you for the brotherly love we have seen from our team the philadelphia eagles. thank you for everything that we have seen them represent. >> the services was dubbed a prayer for the city. they prayed for success forbidder in the super bowl as well as for city leaders, neighborhood confronting opioid epidemic. many who took part in the city hall courtyard were in their eagles gear. all across region eagles

pride is on full display. meteorologist chelsea ingram with the cbs-3 mobil weather watch inner hammington with a house that is getting a lot of attention, right, chelsea. >> it is getting so much attention. it is unbelievable, you guys, it is a nice evening in hammington, right around 39 degrees with a last check with the mobile weather watcher. really nice evening for coming out, checking out very festive eagles lights. this is totally tops. i have the family here that put this all together, right. so this is the paulus family we have bill, linda. you guys must be some of the biggest eagles fans i have ever met. >> yes. >> for a long time. >> what about you, linda. >> oh, yes since i was a kid. >> you grew up in south philadelphia. so this display is in particular very special to you >> actually my mom did, she grew up in south philly and most of my relatives are from the philadelphia area, which are massive fans.

>> lets talk about how long it took to you put this together. i mean have you had this up all season all football season >> it has been up, i start with halloween, i started tonight september putting it up. it takes about two weeks to put initial parts up and just adapts overtime through different seasons between christmas and halloween you will put different things up within the display for christmastime, added things during halloween but it work all fat ball season how great is that. >> it is awesome. it takes a lot of time. >> is what your favorite part of the display and what was most complicated part of it to put together. >> this year the pixel tree is new and that was probably the most hard thing to get up, getting everything spaced right and make sure it wasn't turning on me and stuff like that, that was a challenge. >> reporter: do you have get traffic. >> we get a lot time-to-time. it comes in spurts as you can see right now. >> people honking showing their eagles pride checking on

it you the. >> you sitting in the couch and you will hear kid out here sanging and that makes it all worth while. >> right after the big win were people coming by honking your horn. >> oh, yeah, the town, fire works and all that. it has been great. >> reporter: thank you so much , thanks for letting us come out, check this out, if this doesn't get you in the mood for super bowl, you guys, i don't know what will but nice toning come down and check out this fantastic display. >> very nice. >> we love it. my whole family went to the game. my mom said her house will be green and white. >> i'm still waiting, mom there is a challenge right there. >> yes. >> weather is cold. i was out there on the sky deck in the past hour it feels like it got colder. sun has gone down, you definitely need full gear. we have not needed full heavy winter coats in a while. we started with temperatures

in the 50's, over weekend in the 50's: we have been getting spoiled. we are forgetting it is still actually january. still coldest month of the year but it feels more seasonal out there tonight. here's a look outside in center city where it is quiet. cloudy skies, looking merky, but otherwise pretty quiet night. couple snow showers off to the west that should miss us. out and about in the city, you will need coat but not snow boots, or anything like that this evening. but, mess of those umbrellas too far away you will need them perhaps by part two of the weekend. here's storm scan showing snow showers, starting to fizzle. they run into dryer air here and not making tonight our region. hoping to see flakes tonight luckily not going to happen. they are diving to the south. a few flurries over toward the far western part of our viewing area. and they are just looking cloudy tonight. temperatures right now 39 in the city. thirty-seven in wilmington. thirty-four in reading. you can see winds out of the

west/northwest, feeling a little bit cold out there with the wind, it is feeling colder then 39 degrees. five to 10 degrees colder then that thanks to the wind chill. we are in the fluctuating temperature pattern today, tomorrow chilly air is in place but then we will see this bubble of mild air push back in, starting friday and into the weekend. mild air comes in ahead of our next front copping through sunday and that brings our next chance of rain and also our next chance of a cool down into next week. we are tracking winter rain this weekend. mild era head of the front but we will see rain at times through the day sunday. could be on and off. not a ton of rain but does look like we will not have a ton of time to enjoy those temperatures near 60 on sunday and dropping again next week. overnight mostly cloudy, chilly, 27 is your overnight low. that breeze from the north and west. tomorrow brisk, and cold, sunshine. 39 degrees daytime high. you're witness weather seven day forecast you can see it does warm up, chilly but sunny

tomorrow. tomorrow, friday 46. saturday starts off sunny, cloud increase. saturday nice day to get outside. rain comes in sunday. monday it is cooler, tuesday, cold and then wednesday mixture of sun and included. just a quick look beyond the seven day looking toward end of next week friday before the super bowl look at that arctic air and starts to dive in the region. here's saturday before the super bowl, it looks like the black hole of arctic doom coming in here. >> wow? not i guarantee but it looks like it could get really cold in minneapolis and here for super bowl weekend. >> sound so nicer coming from you. >> yes. >> you like that. >> kate, thank you. don's up next with sports. >> we are talking about a major blow for villanova why latest on the wildcats. astonishing fun fact about fletcher cox, talk about a first next in sports.

we continue to hear from various eagles, in this count down to the super bowl lii and today. >> count down. >> it continues. >> it continues. >> yo, i wish they were playing tomorrow, i will in the lie. >> i think everybody does. >> let's just play. on that note fletcher cox is the highest paid philadelphia eagles pro bowl tackle is at top of his profession. oddly enough, he has never watched a preeminent event in the nfl. >> no, you know i really dent watch football. y'all know that. no. i don't watch sports, you know that. >> have you watched any super bowls. >> i don't watch sports, i tell thaw all the time. >> dude has never watched the

super bowl. maybe he will play in one. that might be better. >> bird are acting like a solar eclipse basically block ing out, all other things in philly sports. tonight sixers host bulls. they have been paying attention to all of the attention that the eagles have been getting. >> i can put on the tv and we want to be in the nba finals. it would be great for us, in this moment but philly fans are really good fans. they support all teams from philly. we have should have a good team against chicago we will celebrate eagles, super bowl. >> love the homey. major blow for villanova phil booth has a fractured bone in his shooting hand and out indefinitely. booth averages 11 points per game and shooting 43 percent from three. baseball hall of fame just

announced their 2018 class and former philly jim thome is in, congrats. in his career he hit 612 home runs, 101 with the phillies. going in with thome is chipper jones, vladamire guerrero and trever hoffman all induct july . >> that is exciting. >> love jim thome, real good dude. >> when we come back going green and it has nothing to do with the eagles. >> where fanatic was putting smiles on faces up

today they were full of excitement when philly fanatic came marching in their assembly this morning as part of the phillies reading program then couraging children to read for at lee, 15 minutes a day. listen, only top participants received a visit from the fanatic these are super readers. >> i love that. thanks so much for watching "eyewitness news" at 6:00 "eyewitness news" returns at 10:00 o'clock on our sister station wpsg the cw philly and we will be back here on cbs-3 at 11:00. up next, "cbs evening news" meet the first cloned primate, jim axle rod has more on the scientific advance, from insuring here is jeff glor.

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