new england patriots. lesley van arsdale joining us with you? they're prepping they just want to get there. the eagles held their final practice. tomorrow they'll board the plain to minnesota. they spent almost 90 minutes on the field getting ready for next week's super bowl. they're just eight days away from playing. >> get an opportunity to do something that you've always dreamed of doing and really just show your talents, represent your hometown, this organization, this city and i mean, you know all eyes are on you. >> it's exciting. it's definitely, you know, when you first think about it, it's a little surreal because you've worked so long and you've talked about this so much over the last year that now we're finally here, um, but then that light switch is on like well, yeah, we earned the right to be here and so it's not really a surprise and

we're looking forward to capitalizing on the moment, being -- enjoying the moment and obviously preparing to get the championship. >> what does tom brady think about the eagles. we'll hear from the greatest of all time, the so-called g.o.a.t. a little bit later in sports. >> lesley than you so much. eagles players are meeting and greeting fans before heading to minneapolis. they cheered safety rodney mccleod in mayfair this afternoon. that's where rolls auto sales hosted a pep rally. the fans sent the team off in real philly style. >> no better feeling right now than to come out here and see all these fans that supported us to help us get to where we are right now. take some time out before we head on this road and before we bring this trophy back to the city. >> mccleod says the defense will be trying to play mistake free football on super bowl sunday. and other members of the defense were also out and

about in the community today. linebacker mychal kendricks and cornerback ronald darby and patrick robinson were in bucks county. "eyewitness news" at the oxford valley mall. the fan favorites signed eagles gear. they appreciate the sendoffs they're getting from eagles nation. >> to meet the fans especially during game day of course but they took time out today to come out here to see us so it's like it's a great feeling. >> and fans chanted the eagles fight song many, many times during their meet and greet. trey burton and linebacker donell ellerbe spent the afternoon signing autographs in havertown. the line wrapped around the store as fans flocked to see some of their favorite football heroes up close and personal. in minneapolis they are trying to keep folks safe. there are tons of law enforcement officers already in place to help make that happen. humvees are parked at every

intersection of the nicolette outdoor mall. that's where the super bowl live fan experience activities are currently taking placement now authorities are using those humvees to block traffic so pedestrians can safely walk around. and they're also using concrete barriers as well. and calling all eagles super fans out there, the philadelphia orchestra needs one lucky fan to conduct the musicians while they play the eagles victory song. all you have to do is submit is quick video of yourself explaining why you think you should win. make sure you include that famous eagles chant and then head to the orchestra's facebook twitter or instagram page for instructions on how to post your video. the winner will conduct the victory song the day before the super bowl during the orchestra's 8:00 p.m. performance. we want to see just how you are supporting the birds so please get decked out in your best eagles gear and then snap a photo. just use #cbs3 on facebook twit or instagram and you may see your fan moments right

here on the air on cbs3. we'll bring you all the excitement from the super bowl with live coverage starting tomorrow night. sports director don bell will be live in minneapolis on "eyewitness news" after the grammy awards. and we'll be with the birds every step of the way as they go for one more win. when we're not on tv you can find us at cbsphilly.com. everything eagles all the time. in other news now philadelphia police are investigating an overnight fire in northeast philadelphia that sent a teenager to the hospital. investigators now say the fire does appear to be suspicious. firefighters responded to the reports of flames shooting out of the home on the 1300 block of rhawn street in frankford about 11:30 friday night. family members tell "eyewitness news" that the 17-year-old injured in that blaze is recovering now at saint christopher's hospital. an uber driver in the area says he called 911. then shot cell phone video of the flames. >> it looked like it started from the porch maybe.

that's where the fire was coming and then all of a sudden just the whole house started on fire and so i'm just praying to god that whoever was in the house got out. >> firefighters did finally get the blaze under control just before midnight. the cause is still under investigation at this hour. and president trump meantime is condemning a car bombing attack in kabul afghanistan that killed 95 people today. authorities say a suicide bomber drove an ambulance filled with explosives past a police checkpoint and into a secure zone. the target is believed to have been an interior ministry building but many people were hit while walking. at least 158 people were wounded in this explosion. and president trump is back at the white house this weekend. he has returned home from his overseas trip to protests. this comes as new details emerge in the russia investigation. cbs news correspondent hannah doba has more. >> this is what democracy looks like. >> reporter: hundreds of protesters hit the streets of washington saturday. many demanding the the

impeachment of president trump. the march took place a day after the president returned to the white house from his trip to the world economic forum in davos switzerland. >> i think it was a very very successful trip. >> reporter: mr. trump did not address the new york times report that said he ordered the firing of special counsel robert mueller last summer. cbs news has learned the president expressed anger at mueller's investigation and raised concerns about potential conflicts of interests. advisers including white house lawyer don mcgahn said firing him would be politically catastrophic. the president changed his mind. >> fake news, folk, fake news. >> what's your message. >> typical new york times fake stories. >> reporter: in davos mr. trump denied he wanted to fire mueller but he's since been silent on the issue neither tweeting or speaking about it. >> he's not giving reporters updates. he's keeping his cards close to the vest.

the big question when will the president at a you can to robert mueller or will he back out. >> reporter: earlier this week he said he looked forward to being interviewed by mueller and hoped it would happen soon. >> steve wynn has resigned as finance chairman of the republican national committee amid allegations of sexual misconduct. wynn has been a prolific republican donor and yesterday the "wall street journal" reported a number of women said they were harassed or assaulted by wynn. he's share man and ceo of wynn resorts. wynn says he took the rnc job at the request of president trump. >> he ought to encourage the republican national committee to return every penny that wynn has given. >> wynn has denied the allegations and calls them preposterous. >> michigan's attorney general launching a full scale investigation into the u.s. gymnastics sexual abuse scandal. this week dr. larry nassar was

sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison. he sexually abused young girls and women under the appearance of medical treatment. he was a gymnastics doctor for the u.s. olympics team and a michigan state university employee. >> my department in this investigation will find out who knew what and when, who took action, who failed to take action, what did or did not happen and what should have happened. >> michigan state's

♪ welcome back everyone. we're less than 24 hours away now from music's biggest night and rehearsals are well underway at madison square garden. biggest names in music are gearing up for the grammy awards on cbs3 tomorrow night. cbs news correspondent nicky batist has the latest on all the excitement. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ >> two years ago khaled was in high school. now he's going to the grammys. thanks to his location and young dumb and broke. >> people ask me how did you do what did you so fast? i'm like, i don't know. >> reporter: 19-year-old up for five awards including best new artist.

also in that category, 24-year-old julia michaels who scored with the song issued. ♪ ♪ ♪ my manager crept into my room and was like, i'm sorry, i don't want to freak you out we just got nominated for two grammys and jumped on me and started crying. i'm like wait, what just started ♪ >> reporter: leads this year's nominees with record and album of the year. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> reporter: lamar is next with seven nods he's also one of the performers. >> always delivers. he's thoughtful. he's bright he's controversial. he cares. and those are the kind of artists we like to see on our show. >> reporter: rehearsals couldn't here at madison square garden for sunday night pog's big show stars are back stage to check out the gift lounge. from jewelry to skin care

products to sunglasses. >> over the years ricky martin and alycia keys and mary j. blige worn the glasses they pick up in the lounge on the grammy red carpet. >> reporter: even nominees who failed to win still won't go home empty hasn'ted. nicky batist, cbs news new york. don't miss single moment of the must see grammy performances tomorrow night we've got you covered right here on cbs3. james core din hosts the 66 and annual grammy awards which kick off at 7:30 promptly. the new music from prince meantime could be released soon. that is according to an add 55 for the estate of the late legendary mew zig. vet reports that the music is coming soon. but so far no exact release da date. prince had a vault of unreleased music in his paisley park counsel outside minneapolis. that collection was moved to a climate controlled storage facility in los angeles after it was discovered that some of the tapes had deteriorated. prom season right around the corner now and teens are already looking for bargains on

beautiful dresses. prom kloss zest new jersey hosted its fourth annual prom fashion shopping experience in voorhees. local high school students in need purchase gently used designer prom dresses and accessories at a fraction of the original cost. >> what we do, we offer the gowns for the girls price ten to $50 all donated from individuals as well local retailers, and we have vendors here showing their talent with makeup, hair, jewelry, shoes, purchases. >> eastern high school host the big event. also today was opening day at the philadelphia auto show. "eyewitness news" at the pennsylvania convention center. this year more than 700 concept classic luxury and exotic vehicles are on display. and the best part a shrek number will be available to test drive. auto runs that was super bowl sunday and another mission is free for children ages six and under. while the temperature climbs out of frigid item tower here at

home central pennsylvania still thawing out. let you take a look in writes pennsylvania where the susquehanna river was jammed with ice chunks. ice jams caused flooding in places further north. now in france the river sane is overflowing its banks. drone video shows how serious the flooding has become in par paris. exceptionally heavy rain forced evacuations from homes, businesses. also disrupted train travel. experts say rainfall in paris has been twice as high as normal. wow that is quite a scene there. >> yeah. >> we had lovely seen here. >> yeah. beautiful today. sunshine was out. kind of felt like a spring day. felt a little warmth coming from the sun. >> you thought. >> i did. capture it. >> can we hold on to that? >> i have feeling you're about to say ease things are going change. >> we're going on that roller coaster again. tomorrow will be mild but add some wet weather to the mix. today was so nice. 59 degrees. edgar and chi cho were loving

it. >> no sweater. >> no sweaters today for chi chi. she was happy and free walking about the city as most of us were. the city was very a live today with people enjoying this wintertime warmth we got to 59 degrees our normal high temperature 41. even despite that chilly start at 27 degrees this morning and got a live look at center city philadelphia. we're still very much. 56 degrees southerly component to our wind flow you are chering this warmth still breezy right now. wind speeds up around 16 miles per hour. but everyone enjoying this january warmth. 54 degrees right now in trenton. we're at 54 in atlantic city. still up at 56 degrees in wilmington did have a bit of a breeze kick winds gusting about 40 miles an hour at the atlantic city airport winds gusting to about 37 at philadelphia international airport. still be a little bit breezy at times not nearly as gusty but a breeze as we head into the over it in period. with that rain developing low temperature only falling back to 46 degrees. then temperatures not moving around too much tomorrow. but with that mild start a mild day. 54 degrees with periods of rain

especially right in around the city for the first last of day more persistent for south jers jersey, the shore and parts of the delaware. storm scan3 showing us the rape is moving in portions of berks county, lehigh county and poconos, and we do have this area of precipitation upland in association with that cold front. very well developed that will continue to move its way eastbound throughout the overnight period and a good portion of tomorrow as well so in the city and suburbs starting about 2am and then persisting i think into the late morning hours still could see showers around into the early afternoon. the shore this is going to be the longest event for the regi region. steady rain 4am and then possibly into the afternoon and evening hours as well. lehigh valley start off with moderate rain as we're seeing developing right now and kind of lighter rain as we head into the early morning hours eight, 9:00 o'clock that will eventually taper off for you but we do have this one watch in effect for monroe and northampton counties runs through tomorrow afternoon and that is because of those ice jams and then we'll add rain on top of that so flood watch in

effect to be advised. further weather showing us the rain model looking right on time. midnight that moving loot hi lehigh valley berks county spreading east into philadelphia and surrounding suburbs by 2:00 a.m. and spreading into south jersey and the shore the early morning hours as you're waking up most of us will have the rain coming down across parts of the region, ending far northwest of the city. moisture persisting along the coast. it will be re-energized by a area of low pressure moving up a wall in the coast could keep the showers around into tomorrow night even into monday morning and then possibly again we can see some showers redeveloping monday night as far as rainfall accumulations in around the city looking very consistent. we like that. so we'll pick up about half an inch of rainfall through the day tomorrow and then as we head into tuesday periods of light snow models different on type cog start as early as monday night as late as monday afternoon but this does look like a late event with 2-inches looking maximum but, of course, stay tuned to that evolving forecast as we head into

wednesday. chilly and blustery. 34 degrees. we're back in the 40s by friday. groundhog day. we've been discussing the groundhog all night. she's not a fan. >> you've been discussing the groundhog. we like the groundhog. do we like the groundhog. >> we like the groundhog. >> i think he's a fenn knee. he doesn't know what he's talking about. >> that's because -- >> leslie what's going on. >> the birds are headerring out of town. >> talk about competition we got competition tom brady gets back one of his offensive weapons. what does tom feel about the eagles wearing the dog marks. how did eagles deal with that

>> all right. leslie we're downington the days. >> it can come soon enough, can it. >> building the big game the patriots playing in their tenth

super bowl. third for the eagles. we went behind enemy lines today as the patriots prepare for the big game. the eighth super bowl for brady and belicheck, five-two. rob gronkowski returning to practice after suffering a concussion in the afc title game. pats the favorites going into the game and we know how the eagles embrace the role of the underdog. tom brady was asked about what he thought about the eagles wearing masks and paying with chip on their shoulder. >> i just try to focus on what we need to do it's a good deem we're playing. they're great team. they played well all season. they've been the best team, number one team in the nfc. i think that speaks how well they played all year. and, um, they're great football team. >> one of the weapons that tom brady has running back dion lewis drafted by the birds back in 2011. spent two seasons on the bench before chip kelly traded him to cleveland. two years later, he signed with the pats and has blossomed. in the last 13 games averaging

newspaper yards from scrimmage and scored ten touchdowns. >> he's a tough tackle in the hope field. they put people in tough situations by trying to tackle him. he's got enough power to run somebody over believe it or not for being a smaller guy and, you know, everybody knows ooh got a great spin move and he's real illusive. catches the ball out of the back field. all those backs can do a lot of different thing. that's while they're valuable. >> very slippery back. probably one of the most shifty yesterday backs in the league, and um his ability what he's doing in the pass game as well as the run game is unique. >> today in minneapolis the vince rom board trophy arrived. the birds will try to win it for the first time. for the pats the would be their sixth time staying the steeler for most super bowl titles. >> the sixers had the night off at the same time they'll return tomorrow night against the

thunder and monday against the bucks. what game will joel embiid be available for. >> he hasn't be cleared to play in back to play games this season so far. >> hawks will never die. st. joes the quakers up by three. newkirk three pointer from the top of the key is good. the game is tied. he led with 19 points. penn coming back. he drives and hits the jumper. he led the quakers with 13 points. later off the rebound the pass goes to ryan bent until three ball nothing but net. penn beat sane joe's 67-66. >> leslie thank you so much. appreciate that. stay with us everyone. still ahead on "eyewitness news" boy scouts aren't just for the boys any more. a look at the troops that's welcoming in a girl as their newe

♪ welcome back everyone. colorado girl is one of the newest members of the boy scouts

of america. she's very happy about that. let's take look at caroline graham. officially signing up for cub scouts as part of the new family scouting program. the eight-year-old already has her uniform and she's doing a little twirl for us eager to get started on activities more appealing to her than selling cookies. >> what are you move excited about? >> camping. >> i've been saying for years why can't my caught be an eagle scout. >> she does the same work. she does the same activities. she wants to do it why can't she be a part of this that's exactly what we did. >> the scouts decided last year to add girls to their ranks. caroline will be very busy

welcome back everyone. final toll night this has become the month of the underdog almost the year of the dog according to chinese zodiac. celebration of the chinese new year took place today at the penn museum in university city. the family friendly event featured martial arts demonstrations, fruit and vegetable carvings arts and crafts an lot more. we asked one woman what the zodiac has to say about dogs that can be applied to the underdogs.

>> they work very well and with their team. they're honest, loyal and very friendly. >> all right. the chinese new year traditionally celebrated for 16 days culminating a lantern festival. family time is a big part of the celebration. i'm the year of the pig. did we figure this out. >> i'm a rooster. >> she's a rooster. i'm a pig. >> oxford tiger. >> wait a minute. >> you can't be both. good grieve. that's "eyewitness news". >> i'm a tiger. >> we'll go with tiger. i'm natasha brown, for leslie, lauren and everyone here, we'll see you tomorrow. take care haven't a good night. ♪ be like, you know. front of the line. >> supermarket, ten items or less, pull up with 40 items, gold medal. >> that is right. >> that's what i'm talking about. >> i'm going to try it. >> byron allen, coming to you from entertainmentstudios.com.

this is "the american athlete". get ready to hang out with some of the world's greatest superstars. george foreman. >> feel that. >> whew, look at that. see, that's nothing, man. feel mine. feel mine. >> ooh, this man really has a muscle here. >> olympic superstar mia hamm. >> this team never give up, perservered, what an incredible performance by every person. >> gary sheffield. >> you mean to tell me you hit your face on the wall, six stitches, you went back out there? >> yeah. >> ahh. we're hanging with george foreman, how you doing, man? >> good to see you. >> how old were you when you started boxing? >> 1976, 16 years old. >> that right. >> i didn't like it, the idea

somebody could hit me with jabs and hooks and couldn't grab them. the referee wouldn't allow me to wrestle. i quit. went back. got to like it, lost weight and next thing you know, i'm a olympic gold pedalist. >> what year? >> 1968. >> you won the gold. when you quit what did you do? >> i became heavyweight champ of the world in the 70s. i retired then, became a preacher. best sermon, meatloaf sunday. >> meatloaf! >> i worked at the church of lord jesus christ in houston and moonlighted as boxer, how i paid the bills. >> there you go. my first recollection was you fighting ali in the seventh, a different george foreman. why were you so mad? >> when i got into the ring i didn't want to win, i wanted to kill. >> why were you so angry? >> i thought to be heavy weight champ you have to be a bad man. first role model