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>> hi good evening i'm ukee washington. aim nicole brewer. >> and, hi everyone i'm jessica dean, coming to you live, from minneapolis, where we are going to welcome all of those, eagles fans, come on, i want to see more green. so put it on, get here, lets get ready for this weekend, we have got you covered, we have been for days and festivities, practice, everything that is leading up to sunday to the big game. we have got pat gallen here, he is at radio row talking to some former players. we have also got sports director don bell, he is here, as well, he talk to the bird today and don, this is last time they will talk to the media before the big game. >> yes, it is time to dial in and get focused and that is something they have been able to do all season long. listen there is a whole lot of love for doug. when you talk about the eagles and what they have been able to accomplish peterson gets most of the coaching credit but there is a man behind the
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man who deserves a whole lot of attention. >> we're grown men in the room things stay in the room, stay in the room. i'm pretty sure you know what i mean by that. that is about it. >> reporter: running backs coach duce staley is brilliance behind the three headed running backs. >> he is one of the best coaches, i have had in my entire career. >> i be real with them, i share with them, my passion about this game, tell them how i live through them. >> reporter: staley has been a member of the coaching staff since 2011 and before that he wore midnight green as a player from 97 through 2003 when he was a teammate of head coach doug pederson. >> he has been really able to shape them, mold them and get them to buy into what we're doing offensively, their rolls , each one has a role and he does a great job with that. >> reporter: duce's rare for a coach, he is fun, frank and
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family. >> crazy, sometimes he is just got emotion, passion for this game. >> i start our meetings off, i just don't pick up remote and turn tv on and say here's 52, 53. i get personal in our meetings you spend so much time with these guys. i think you have to have a open forum and you have to say , and i tell them all the time anything you want to bring to the square let's talk bit. we have got these running backs. most important thing is i under stan choice. >> that was don belfor us with some eagles today. their last media meeting until the big game. so we are counting down. we are getting there now. notice we're inside. a lot of these nights we have been outside but it is very cold here. we are doing like the people of minneapolis do. we have come inside to this sky ways, and what that is, it is about 8 miles worth of walkways, that connect all of the different buildings in
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downtown minneapolis. so you see you can go all the way through downtown and never walk outside. there is restaurants, cleaners , banks, it is really quite clever when you are living in a place where it is 5 degrees during the day. so people can come to work and get real comfortable. we didn't even have to go outside once we parked. it was pretty amazing. we thought we would share a slice of minneapolis flavor with all of you guys. we want to go back now to philadelphia where i heard they are turning one particular philadelphia building green for the first time in over a century, iron our greg argos has more on that, greg. >> reporter: west side and east side has individual controls. >> yes. >> some in stories in the air. >> brand new led technology. >> reporter: proudly sits a tribute to the philadelphia eagles. >> this is it. >> you are on top of the roof. >> reporter: historic
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philadelphia saving fund society building now lowes hotel is shining eagles green. putting a stop of sorts on it's conn i can red for only the second time, ever, in its 87 year history. >> when we converted we pulled all of the neon tubes out of the channels and replaced it with the led drivers. >> reporter: that conversion happened in 2016. >> we had to match color as close to the red as possible to make sure for city of philadelphia we stayed with the historical look. >> reporter: danny smith, director of engineering for the building says everything is controlled through these two electronic panels. >> we can add multiple colors or uniform. >> reporter: to convert lights cost 250 you this dollars, as for letters themselves, these guys can be seen some 20 miles away, and, get this, they are 27 feet tall. >> since the building opened in 1932 the lights have been its own original color of red. >> reporter: scott, the hotel managing director says decision to change history was an easy one.
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>> vibrancy of the city right now, everybody is feeling great about the eagles. we want to support the city. >> reporter: even its staff thrilled for sunday. >> e-a-g-l-e-s, eagles. >> go bird. >> reporter: and everyone proud to have been tradition, in order to support the bird. >> when eagles win we will definitely keep this sign green for a few more days and then convert back to the original red. >> reporter: on top of the psfs building, greg argos for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". guys, real quickly guess who we found eagles fans, wow. >> go bird. >> where are you from. >> fort washington originally from south philadelphia. los angeles but living in philly now. >> outstanding. >> you are here in town ready to go. >> ready to go. >> what are you looking forward to. >> with the eagles win we have our tickets in hand we are ready to goy love your jacket. turnaround lets see the back, through go, guys, looking g the bird fans are showing up, things are happening here. good to see you guys.
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>> go bird. >> ukee and nicole back to you >> eagles nation travels well, always has. >> i love it. >> you wanted to see more green, you got it. >> thanks, jessica we will get back to you soon. and tomorrow we are celebrating the bird and the fans as we get ready for sunday's big game, join us for a big one more win line upstarting with the special addition of "eyewitness news" at 4:00, that is followed by "eyewitness news" at 5:00 and 6:00 ape special one more win fan fest addition of "eyewitness news" at 7:00. then it is going down on super sunday the second the game end we will be live on the air right here on cbs-3 bringing you live post game comments from the coach, of course, coach pederson and players and we will have a front row seat as fans react at locations all throughout philadelphia and the entire region, once again it is eagles and "eyewitness news", sunday night, bundle up, lets get this done, bring it home, yeah. >> huddle up, cuddle up here at home we are keeping an eye on another dose of winter weather.
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>> chelsea ingram, in the weather center what can we expect and when. >> we will see rain as we head into the rest of the evening hours tonight, overnight a transition to snow we will talk about that, right now temperatures obviously too mild for snow, 45 degrees in philadelphia, 43 in wilmington down the shore in the mid 40's atlantic city. 36 degrees in the poconos, and we have seen some reports of some light snow already this afternoon, early evening up there. we are anywhere from 10 to a full, 17 degrees warmer all depending where you live compared to 24 hours ago, certainly a big difference from yesterday. we have dealt with the cloud. didn't have yesterday's sunshine but at lee with the southwest flow it was milder and new we are tracking some rain. we will get up to our north and west. we have seen reports have the light rain in the lehigh valley, this system well, it is associated with the cold front. that will be swinging on through as we head in the overnight hours tonight. we will start off with that lightening rain through about 8:00 p.m. we will see that over spreading the region.
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rain transition go to snow overnight that will happen after midnight, mainly as late as one or 2:00, minor accumulation expected and there is not a winter weather advisory issues. coat to go 1 inch. that could leave isolated morning slick spots so watching out for that. also keeping an eye on another system arriving for super bowl sunday bringing us both snow and rain. we will have details on that in your full forecast coming up. >> chelsea, thank you. man who shot a philadelphia police officer in the name of ice is has been found guilty. >> jury took two and a half hours to find edward archer guilty of attempted murder and aggravated assault. surveillance captured moments archer ambushed officer jesse hartnett as he sat in his police cruiser in west philadelphia in january 2016. hartnett spoke outside court just moments after the verdict was read. >> it is a lot on my family, it is hard on me, having to go through something like that but your family goes through it with you and there was a
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lot of struggles with that and this is a sigh of relief. >> archer's sentencing has been scheduled for may 14th. still to come on "eyewitness news", much more super bowl coverage from minneapolis. >> that is right we are testing the eagles but in the about football. >> i'm pat gallen from the players to the media see questions that only we are asking and surprising answers that are a
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have been stuck in it since sunday so what do they think of their stay. since sunday eagles players have been attached to the mall of america. they are staying here at radisson blue and few have gotten a chance to rome around >> i haven't been on every floor just yet. >> i think people in minnesota aren't super crazy about mall of america. is there other exciting stuff to check out tourist coming to town, but it is nice to get out, stretch your legs, walk around. >> my first day to get out and walk in the mall. they are excited about the play land. i took them on a tour of that, face time tour. >> you got to prepare for it. >> i did. >> they were really excited. after the height of those ride and zip line and take this, i don't want any part of that. >> are you afraid of heights. >> yes, i am. i still dot ride but i am afraid of heights. do i in the like being high
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and secured by one little bar. >> while here they also had to shop forehead coach doug pederson whose 50th birthday was wednesday but gifts were the same. >> haagen dazs. >> yes, he always say i will make a quick place to get ice cream. he loves vanilla haagen dazs. >> wow not want anything except ice cream. >> well, if i had to pick one would i say, brooks brothers and haagen dazs. >> after spending week here do eagles know all bit. >> first time in minute so the a. >> i mean true, yes. >> 5:20, truce or false, more than 7,000 people, have gotten married at this mall. >> true or false. >> true. >> i say 7,000 people or more have gotten married here.
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>> true it is true. >> i don't know, that is surprising. people do weird stuff, man. i never really surprised by stuff like that. >> reporter: it is true over 7,000 people have gotten married here at mall of america since 1992. did you know if you spend 10 minutes in every store here at the mall it will take you 86 hearst to get them all. that is a long time. jessica certainly feels like we have been here at lee 86 hours, i think we have. >> i know, but yet i have not gotten to go shopping or bought anything. so we will to have remedy that , pat. >> i agree, i got to take some stuff home. >> all right, get to it, thanks very much. let's get back new to ukee , nicole and chelsea, guys i think maybe eagles might need an ice cream sponsor. >> that is a lot of haagen dazsy got one we will keep a
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local flavor, some briars ice cream. >> indeed. >> yes. >> thanks, jessica we will get back to you. get back to you. chelsea ingram has our forecast. >> maybe you want to eat ice cream but when it turns cold do you want ice cream. >> no, hot chocolate. >> exactly. >> i will take ice cream anytime. >> tomorrow, great night for some hot chocolate as well, temperatures really are going to be falling throughout the day tomorrow and it all starts with rain tonight and that transitions to snow overnight, looking at minor accumulation but right now let me take a look at our live neighborhood network. you can see we are dry, cloudy skies, center city off in the background and that sky line is lit up in eagles green this evening. 45 degrees right new in philadelphia, mild day, especially compared to yesterday and that is courtesy of the flow, you can see on the map coming from the south for a lot of the day, southwest so warmer day compared to yesterday, and in fact most areas from 10 to 20
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degrees warmer compared to 24 hours ago. down the shore in the mid 40's all temperatures above freezing at at this point in time. storm scan three is showing potential for sprinkles in the lehigh valley. not all falling just yet but it is associated with the cold front and that is sweeping on through as we head in the overnight hours tonight. let me show you how that pans out here on our future weather here's what things will look like by 7:00 we will see that rain beginning to over spread the region from northwest to southe, notice temperatures still above freezing on i-95. dealing with rain around 11:00 by one or 2:00 a.m. in the morning we will see that transition over to snow as temperatures drop, that cold air starts to work its way in and that will happen dunn to our shore points as we head in the we hours of the morning, lingering snow shower left over maybe some flurries, early tomorrow morning and that would be following clearing. look at what happens in the afternoon, those temperatures fall in the 20's, but it will
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feel like the teens when you factor in the wind. as far as snowfall accumulation overall it is looking light, minor accumulations anywhere from a coat to go 1 inch can be expect. higher amounts in the poconos but that snow will remain on grass surfaces. road looking more wet then white for morning commute but we still to have hold out there for a couple isolated morning slick spots on the bridges and overpasses. behind that system high pressure moves in saturday, we are looking at sunshine but cold conditions and then our next storm system arrives sunday bringing us morning snow, and that will be followed by a soaking rain, while we're dealing with the rain for super bell here at home, a different story, dangerous cold. we know the game is indoors but outside around the time of the game time 1 degrees. temperature dropping below zero as we head in the post game celebrations. so rain to wet snow overnight,
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30 degrees, heading into tomorrow we will be dropping in the 20's throughout the day so falling temperatures as those skies continue to clear. lets look at you're witness weather seven day forecast because it goes like this 42 degrees on sunday. dealing with snow to start, transition toss a soak rain. traveling anywhere to watch super bowl we will need rain gear for sure gradual clearing for monday, another chance for some rain, maybe couple snowflakes as well as we head in the middle of next week keeping an eye on a lot of things. >> that 1 degree is for us eagles number one. >> i like it. >> lets go back out to sports director don bell in minnesota , db? >> ukee, he used to cheer for them and now he is one of them , what corry clement is saying about possibility of winning it all for the hometown team, sports
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i'm don bell. welcome back to the mall of america. it has been amazing ride for running back corry clement. by now you know about the 23 year-old from glassboro, new jersey grew up 20 minutes away from the linc with the big time fan of the team growing up, led them in rushing touchdowns this season were four and the fact that they are on really doorstep of the winning it all for the first time in franchise history has them feeling in some kind of a way. >> i was placed here for a reason. it will mean that much more to me. i grew up around philly. once i walk down the street and we do this great deed we are about to do sunday night, it feels like the city is behind us. you can really, you put your 100 percent effort in doing
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this great thing. >> new england patriots at practice today, tight-end rod gronkowski is full participant he was dealing with the concussion but said he will play on sunday and his teammates will be a focal point, other than he and tom brady, they have a stable of running back led by damon lewis and today doug pederson talk about the group. >> one thing they do a really good job office just moving them around. i mean these guys motion out of the backfield and they are running different routes out of the backfield. lining up empty, and just they are quick, explosive guys, you got to tackle and get them on the ground. >> this is obviously a big moment huge week for the players and their families and today we caught up with a family of one particular eagle we're talking about linebacker
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naji goode our meisha johnson catching up with his parents, flew in from cleveland and, of course, naji's dad used to play for the bird and here's what he said about the experience. >> a little bit, bigger game more nervous you get work this guy he has been in a lot of big game in west virginia with mountaineer, and three fiesta bowls. he is used to the spotlight. he always plays big in big games and we expect nothing less come this sun sunday. >> ukee and nicole i can't imagine what it must feel like right now to be parent of one of these players, as they go through this spectacular moment for really the world watching their every move i cannot begin to imagine. >> major butterflies. >> the nerves 100 percent, don , thank you. we're in the done from minnesota. >> no we are not we are check ing with jessica dean
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downingtown for showing their eagles spirit there. >> eagles chant with gustto bouncing off the walls, nicely done. there is little signs waving back and forth. >> note downingtown. >> nicely done. that will do it for me and nicole here in the studio let's check back with jessica dean once again to close things out from minneapolis, jessica? >> hi, guys, all right to summit up for thursday, eagles fans are arriving, the team is going in to lock down, they have done their final media preparation, justin timberlake is on go for half time show, just for the record he says, no to an n'synx reunion but i remain skeptical about that answer. that is where we are, tomorrow is friday and exciting things are ahead we are here in downtown minneapolis we will see you at 10 on the cw philly we are back here on cbs-3 at 11:00. up next from new york it is the "cbs evening news" with jeff glor, we will see you later tonight, have a great
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