bowl weekend we will have several chances to see rain and possibly some snow i'll break down when some snow could fall and it may be while watching eagles play "eyewitness news" at 6:00 starts right now. >> i look back at all of the days and nights when the job came first, and i chose public service over my family and friends. >> deciding it is time to put family first congressman bob braid a announced he will end his deck raid long fun at pennsylvania politics. good evening i'm ukee washington. i'm nicole brewer. we will check in a few minutes >> it was an emotional announce. for, long time u.s. representative. >> grandchildren, and never took to school, and daughter single parent could use some help, i would like to me my, grand child to school.

i have another grandchild on the way. and i just think that i choose them. >> "eyewitness news" reporter greg argos joins us now from spring garden with more on brady's decision and what it means for local politics. >> reporter: good evening, and , has held his congressional seat since, 1998 , there is no denying it, he is a stapel here in philadelphia politics and members of the both side, both democrats and republicans say, his decision to not seek re election,. >> i made a decision it would be best for me, and not to, you know, run for reelection. >> reporter: with that announcement congressman bob brady, a 10 term member of the u.s. house of representatives, change philadelphia politics as we know it. >> today i'm just choosing, you know, family over service. >> reporter: brady has been chairman of the philadelphia democratic party since 1986 and held his congressional

seat since 1998. a former carpenter union boss himself brady helped broker many union contracts, his ability to mediate most recently used to end 2016 transit workers union strike in philadelphia. >> would i say bob brady helped us, six, eight, 10 times over labor disputes. >> reporter: former governor ed rendell says as mayor of philadelphia from 1992, through 2,000, brady was instrumental in settling issues within the city. >> bob brady's one of those guys you think he will be there forever. he was an enormous help to this city. >> i brought back 15.5 billion , with a b, billion dollars to this city of philadelphia and this region. with the sunoco with the jobs. >> reporter: now there is concern even from members of the opposing party on what brady's departure means for our region. >> we thought we for the one day a year and that was general election day because we both had interests of

philadelphia and the city, and the citizens in our hearts. i fear with this retirement that philadelphia will be challenged very much so. >> reporter: report last year fbi announced they written investigating brady's 2012 campaign. asked today, brady says his decision to seek in the re election had nothing to do with that investigation. he told us that at this point he does not believe he will be charged in connection with that investigation. live along spring garden, greg argos for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> greg, thank you for that. pennsylvania congressman brian fitzpatrick was among dozens of g.o.p. lawmakers on a chartered amtrak train that crashed into i trash truck in virginia this morning. what it house says in of them were seriously hurt but one person on the truck was killed crash happened outside charlottesville virginia as republican lawmakers headed from washington d.c. to a policy retreat in west

virginia, stay tuned for "cbs evening news" at 6:30 for more on this train crash. lincoln high school is still on will be down after a fight lead to a shooting in the schools parking lot late this afternoon. chopper three over the schools northeast philadelphia campus, authorities say that a three two-year old man was shot twice in the leg and rushed to the hospital in extremely critical condition. a basketball game was going on inside the school when gunfire erupted outside. >> i was chillin watching the basketball game in the gym and then all of a sudden people coming in saying there is a gun, they are shooting. >> the kid came running in telling everybody to get down hit the deck we have everybody off the court. >> another eyewitness tells us stray bullets shattered school windows, and at lee one car in the parking lot. so far no arrests have been made. it is now american four days until bird battle new england in super bowl lii.

>> we have you covered from minnesota once again where anticipation is greg for this big game. our jessica dean is live from super bowl way in minneapolis with more on today's events, hi there, jen. >> hi guys we are here in the middle on the pulse of what is happening of all of the activities and festivities leading up to this super bowl lii right here in minneapolis. we're along nicolet mall, a main thoroughfare through downtown minneapolis. it has been closed off to traffic. you see all of the fans taking in, taking a look around at fun things that are happening. everything kind of spread out, they are calling it the bold north across three different cities here. our pat gallen is in blooming ton at mall of america which is an incredible place. we will check with him in a little bit. he will take us on a tour. also at mall of america but in a tote difficult live dent parties where the team hotel is and eagles talk to the

media today and there was a special birthday. >> yes, there was a special birthday in fact doug pederson celebrating their 50th birthday. he hopes he can celebrate more with a win. today was significant for another reason because they are starting to switch gears to the actual business of playing football. they have practiced, for the first time, since they arrived here in minnesota on sunday. now, literally about five minutes ago one of the buses just came back here to the team hotel, carrying quite a few players but these were the guys hoff been injured all season long so we are looking at jason peters, carson wentz getting off the bus with darren sproles and other guys but they have practiced at the university of minnesota today which business 20 minutes away nick foles, when talking to us the media he talk about how important or how big this win would be for the city of philadelphia. >> we have to earn that right. we have to prepare, we have to play this game, the game

hasn't been played just yet. we have a lot of work. any what it means. there has been a lot of hard work and years waiting for this opportunity but we are going against a great opponent we have a lot of work to compete on sunday and i look forward to that but i know philadelphia is behind us, they will be here cheering loud and i'm exited to see them in the stand and bringing home the energy for us. >> i'm sure where you are right now you are probably running into a whole bunch of vikings fans. they can forgive the eagles for the win. one thing they may not forgive is the eagles fans. philly fans. coming up later on in sports we will talk exactly about that little situation, that little, the friction on that exists between the two fan bases, that you do not want to miss, back to you. >> if i told you how many times we had that exact conversation with people randomly stopping us on the

street, they are fine with the win, they have something to say about the fans. we have heard it all. i'm interested to see wharf to say bit as well. we will see you later in the broadcast. all right. also we have got pat gallen at mall of america. pat, you went inside the mall to showcase all of the different things thaw can find there and i hear you have a new shirt. >> i do have a new shirt, jessica. obviously we are here in minneapolis for super bowl lii , let's not lose sight of that. we are here to celebrate eagles and of course the patriots and hopefully eagles can bring back that lombardi trophy to philadelphia that eludes us that lombardi trophy but before all that who says we cannot have fun. so we took a tour of the mall of america and what is behind me and what you have seen as the backdrop behind me all week is the nickelodeon universe theme park and we took a trip through today.

there are five rollercoasters, is there the largest sip line, largest sip line in north america, so many ride, so much fun. we have background too from sarah, who works at the mall of america. >> when you walk in here you are seeing this enormous ferris wheel, ride that go upside down, you are seeing sip lining over you and this is truly the heart of the mall of america. >> reporter: so that roller coaster that you see behind me i did it twice and if you'd like to see merry would post them on my facebook page, back on tv and see some more on cbs philly.com, and i made it, and then did log flum and that is why, jessica i'm wearing a brand new shirt because i was soaked and the shirt underneath is ruined, so i decided to be bold, go north and look kind of like paul

bunion, paul bunion-esk and here i am with this shirt what do you think. >> i think it looks great. i love thaw are embracing it. take it back to philly and make it a thing, pat weeks believe in you. >> that is what it is all about embracing the cold, it is cold there. >> pat gallen at mall of america, thanks very much, pat as i said we were here on nicolet mall, my gosh, it was monday and everything is happening but there are far more people here. you can tell, ukee, nicole, kate people are starting to show up, and excitement continues to go up a notch every day. >> wow. >> things are heating up. >> i wish it was temperature but things are heating up, super bowl hype wise. >> no. >> jessica is like nope, nope, no. >> thanks. this friday, we are celebrating the bird and fans and getting ready for sunday's big game. join us for a line upstarting with the special addition of

"eyewitness news" at 4:00 followed by "eyewitness news" at 5:00, 6:00 and very special one more win, fan festival, it is in addition for "eyewitness news" at 7:00. >> we are all over it. >> sunday second game end we will be live on the air right here on cbs-3 bringing us that live powe game comments from coach pederson players and we will have a front row seat as fans react to locations all throughout philadelphia and the entire region, once again it is eagles and "eyewitness news" sunday night, don't miss it. >> thank you at home. we are tracking snow for super bowl sunday, katie. >> we have got a chance for a little snow this weekend but before we get there we have a system bringing snow in time for your friday morning i'll tell but our snow chance is a head in the full forecast. plus a lovely connection between philadelphia and minneapolis, and it all has to do with indiana we will explain the linc between our

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back with a split decision , they have been drafted, into a super bowl battle. you see his dad, dj sent this photo of james rocking a wony but dad's teams the mom stephanie teams the patriots. >> this is just too good. >> on the bottom i'm the tie breaker. now the couple from gala what i said they have argued over their kid rooting interests for years but this will be truly the tie breaker. >> i love that. lets check back with our jessica teen in minneapolis where that big game will be played, wow, four days away, jessica. >> guys, we will not need a tie breaker on that team. i feel how it will go. i have a good feeling about this here's why. we have an interesting linc between minneapolis and philadelphia while we were there. i want to show you this video.

take a look does it look familiar. yes, yes it does, it is because it is a love statue at minneapolis sculpture garden by robert indiana who is same sculptor behind the philadelphia love statue. minneapolis sculptor garden features more than 40 works of art from the walker art center collection. if that is not destiny the two love statues, i don't know what is. >> they shouldn't even play the game now. >> well, let's still play the game. we are supposed to be here right now. >> exactly. exactly. >> that is a good look, interesting, thanks, we will get back to you. kate joining us now, with the forecast. >> yes it is cold in minneapolis. >> starting to drop. >> and that cold is heading our way for friday and saturday. so it is same front, interesting we can see what weather we're getting and what we are in for for a preview. >> modified sense as we head

toward super bell weekend, a lot colder behind that front there then here bye lets talk about what that front will do and another look in time for super bowl sunday. we will start off with a look outside where traffic, taillights, and vine street expressway as we look live from our parkway central library camera out toward rush hour traffic in and out of center city tonight. traffic moving fine. weather has been okay today. nice and dry. good deal of sunshine. but it was cold, still hovering below freezing mark. storm scan three shows us the setup. we have a warm front lifting through new england. cold front back here that is what will be coming through for us tomorrow night could end up as a brief period of snow but behind that front all that cold air moving into minneapolis and they may get light snow here in the next couple of minutes and temperatures, plumet there for tomorrow we will plumet here by friday. it is cold. thirty-one in the city. twenty-nine in millville, atlantic city.

twenty-nine in allentown. nineteen in mount pocono. as we head there, we will drop down to, 29 and in the much drop because wins are coming from the south and west. that warm front poised to the north of us is helping temperatures stay steady or rise tonight into tomorrow. tomorrow is in the as cold. 47 degrees daytime high, milder but light rain will to develop in the afternoon and evening. as we head through tonight and tomorrow we will start tomorrow with cloud by 3:00 p.m. light rain shower here and there, it is in the much and then overnight tomorrow night more rain developing down the shore this could come to an end overnight as just a brief period of snow , even for city back further then what this is showing light snow shower, early friday morning but really by seven or 8:00 sun comes out and friday looks quiet. another chance for snow though comes in over weekend so few snow showers friday morning and then sunday light snow in the afternoon change to go rain and mix. sunday starts with light snow.

by 9:00 during super bowl we are looking a change over to rain. that will move out monday morning and will end possibly as a brief mix as well. super bowl forecast, in minneapolis look at that kick off at three below zero. it will be nice climate controlled inside the dome but definitely in the kind of day you will want to be running around minneapolis, those ice sculptures will certainly stay frozen. here at home in the quite as cold friday and saturday highs above freezing, mixture of rain and snow sunday and chilly early next week. >> yes. >> oh, man. >> seventy-two in the dome. >> something like that. >> thanks, kate. >> lets check with sports director don bell, don, back to business today, right. >> back to business, guys. as we get closer to game day thousands of fans will descend upon these twin cities, but not all of them are welcomed. no brotherly love in

minneapolis sports coming up

i'm don bell. we are coming to you live from the eagles team hotel. now, with the bird beating the vikings they beat them down by 31 points. vikings fans they can accept that loss but one thing they cannot accept is how philly fans treated their fans. now mayor of minneapolis released a video welcoming fans to hit city and to the twin cities. it was a big hearty welcome and i had an opportunity to catch up with brent celek to watch that video with him, and here's what we saw. >> a big welcome to the new england patriots and philadelphia eagles fans. to the eagles fans don't worry we will grease all of the lamp post so you feel right at home come on out, have a great time , make sure you come back to visit us again.

are we seriously welcoming the eagles fans. >> your thoughts on that. >> they are salty, we beat them. first ever super bowl team, host of the super bowl, with a home team. >> how about that video, yes. just a smidge salty, and here's the catch, the mayor of minneapolis, got his law degree, at villanova. coming to you live from the team hotel, in minnesota i'm don belfor cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> we're feeling a different way about that. >> oh, no they need to get over this. >> you know. >> they need to stop. >> they are bitter. >> let's leave ate loan. >> minnesota bitter not minnesota nice. >> let's just leave it alone. >> don't get me started. >> we will check back with you

we're in the done from minnesota yet a live look at super bowl way. >> we will check back with jessica dean from nicolet mall and super bowl way on the other

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>> e-a-g-l-e-s eagles. >> wow. >> oh, man. >> great. >> how about that. >> bravo. >> that rendition of the eagles fight song that is impressive. i love that, of course, eagles fight song by music school of delaware, suzuki academy violin, piano students. first strings, chants, big thanks to shelley beard for sharing that video with us. >> standing ovation nicely done, nicely done. that will do it for nicole and i in the studio, let's send it back out to jessica dean to wrap things up in minneapolis, jessica. >> all right, you gee, thanks so much. as you can tell the sunsetting on another day here in minneapolis which means we're one day closer to super bowl lii and this game we have been talking and talking and talking b earlier today eagles cheerleaders were busy, they were visiting some local kid and playing with them. this is a lot of fun for these kid. they went over them in the

minneapolis area they had a chance to spend sometime with them today during nfl play 60 events, hundreds of kid experienced the excitement of the super bowl and probably know play 60 designed tone courage kid to get 60 minutes of exercise every day and also learn about healthy living while having fun and that is what we are doing in minneapolis. we are having a good time before we get dunn to business , on sunday, and get ready for this game, we are here along nicolet mall with just a few of our closest friend here in minneapolis. in the meantime we will be back on the cw at 10, and back here on cbs-3 coming up at 11:00, we will check everything out we have got fun stuff in store for you tonight at 10 and 11. tune back in as we keep you up to dayton what is coming up with the eagles. here new from new york it is "cbs evening news" and jeff glor we will see you later

tonight. captioning sponsored by cbs >> glor: a deadly collision. an amtrak train carrying dozens of republican members of congress slams into a truck at a crossing. we are on the scene. >> it seems to have been a horrible, horrible accident. >> glor: also tonight, four days before the super bowl, fears that the catch of the game could be the flu. he was in the spotlight at the state of the union. now a north korean defector tells his story to david martin. a killer whale's dead-on impression. >> hello! >> glor: will an electric hog fly? and just outside d.c., footprints from b.c.. >> reporter: that could be a dinosaur track on there? >> yeah. even from