tv Eyewitness News at 5 CBS February 8, 2018 5:00am-5:27am EST
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life look where in just a few hours people will watch philadelphia eagles in the parade of champions. eager fans are wasting no time as we just saw to find a good spot to watch the parade. people have been camping out all night at eakin oval. forecast is clear but chilly for the parade live look from our parkway central library. we will tell you how cold it will feel outside as parade kicks off. it is thursday february 8th, good morning i'm jim donovan. i'm rahel solomon. we have complete coverage. trang do live in south philadelphia where celebration will begin. jan carabao is where the
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parade will end at the art museum. >> but first lets check the forecast with chelsea ingram in for kate think morning. good morning. >> good morning, to you, good morning to you at home. people don't care about the cold. they have eagles spirit keeping them warm, looking live at our live neighborhood network camera, it is just glowing, green with excitement this morning. we have a couple cloud, but by die break we will see these cloud moving off shore and we will break out with plenty of sunshine this afternoon, 28 in philadelphia. people are already out braving the cold, it feels even colder when we factor in the wind chill and as we track wind chills throughout the day here's what you can expect by 8:00 a.m. feeling like teens in philadelphia. heading in the start of the parade feeling like letter 20 's in center city, 20 degrees in wilmington. teens in reading. we will head in the ceremony where it will feel like mid 20 's. not all that much better and we will stick with the wind chills for the rest of the day and also this evening.
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here's what you can expect, 34 n philadelphia, sunny, cold, breezy. plenty of sunshine down the shore. cold and breeze which a high of 34. very chilly in the poconos with a high of 23 let's send it over to meisha with a very busy job today. >> it is very busy and we all know why so good morning. what we were just looking at was a live shot at spring garden street around art museum area we all know route, we will start off, start in south philadelphia and move up broad street and over to the art museum down ben franklin parkway. broad and pattison is going to be very, very busy, all ready we are starting to see a whole host of people starting to form, i would say even at certain transportation centers that we wouldn't really expect at this morning. already at 4:45 in the morning so lets talk about patco for a second. patco all ticket are sold out, already, only select stations
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will be opened, inbound, only at 6:00 a.m. before 6:00 a.m. it is inbound and outbound, and then outbound only after the parade , new jersey transit, ac rail line tickets they are all completely sold out so just a head up. we are talking about patco, new jersey transit southbound. stadium area to the art museum is route broad street all the way up and down parkway to the art museum. roads are closed until 9:00 p.m. and parking is not going to be kind to you. if you try to park somewhere you cannot be parking you will be towed, just a heads up and speaking of parking so no parking on the parade route until 6:00 p.m. no parking at stadium, fdr park. free parking at ikea in south philly, that will fill up fast , jim, back over to you. e-a-g-l-e-s eagles.
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>> just meisha said the celebration will span a large part of the city, again, stepping off at broad and pattison in south philadelphia at 11:00 head up broad street up city hall, go around city hall and up parkway toward the art new seem. there is eagles excitement along the parkway as we see now eagles victory parade steps off but we are seeing people lining the parade route where "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabao is live near art museum. >> millions of fans are expected to be there today so they got an early start i can see. >> reporter: jim and rahel, good morning. very early start. some people waking up around 2:00 to get here by 3:30. i want to show you home people are on the parkway at this hour at 5:00 in the morning. once these trash trucks get through here. i'm talking about hundreds of people in front of the art museum and filling in eakins oval. i will look at that as trucks
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go through. lets talk to these early morning risers. we have got stephen, stephan, perry all from south jersey and one with a very long trip, but how was trip in when did you get up. >> got up around 2:00. i haven't slept. i came right from work second shift. >> reporter: long day, i'm already, pumped up, i have been ready to go. >> reporter: you have a pretty good seat, i say seat you will be standing. >> yes. >> reporter: totally worthy. >> 100 percent worth it. i have been waiting for this day for 23 years. >> reporter: we have been waiting a long time. some drove a very long distance to get here. where did it come from why does it come and what does it feel like this morning. >> i drove from missouri, an 18 her trip stationed out there from south jersey watch my first play last week even, and, had to watch with the family. >> originally from south jersey in the military now. >> yes. >> reporter: thank you for your service. what does it feel like, it is cold. >> but it is nice, fun i have been waiting for this even
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longer then these guys have been around. i started watching in 1972, and it has been a long time coming. >> reporter: what do you think you will feel like when you see that parade coming around eakins oval. >> jubilation so much fun to see these guys, it was worth it. >> reporter: there have been so many fans out here, vocal fans are you vocal. >> yes. >> are you ready we will give you the e-a-g-l-e-s. >> let's do it. >> e-a-g-l-e-s, eagles. >> we the champs. let's go. >> reporter: thank you so much i will let you head across and get in there. if we can shoot right through here we can see what we're talking about. we have these trash trucks kind of in the way as the city gets things in the right spot but there are hundreds of people over there in the dark lined up early, some in this area of the sidewalk where parade will come through. others want to fill in eakins
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oval to be closer to the stage i want to show you one guy has been out here for at least an hour now on the corner here in a red coat and a black hoodie does not want to show his face because he is a giants fan, you guys. he is only out here for his son, for his son, they are eagles fans and he doesn't want to show his face, and i can understand why. that is okay. doing a good thing for his family and kudos to him for that. back inside to you guys. >> i see some people are out there in the tent in front of the art museum across the way there. >> there is a couple tents out here, people have been here all night long, there is a ten t i don't know if you can see in the other side of eakins oval. >> yes. >> reporter: also as we swing all the way around to the left tile you can see on our side of the sidewalk as well, there is a tent right there i have been waiting later in the
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morning to go knock on it, income on the tent because clearly that person thought ahead and got their spot early >> their sleep schedule. >> personal wake up call, thanks, jan. parade will kick off in south philadelphia. >> that is where we will fine "eyewitness news" reporter trang do with a different theme at broad and pad son, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, guys. people in south philadelphia decided to sleep in, and come to the parade a little bit later, get in place later but i do want to show you this. this made me happy here. our lone eagles fan has a buddy. there they are, they are talking, they are mega fans, they are bundled up, and that is what the officials are telling to you do. we will talk about safety, security tips they before giving parade goers. they tell to you dress warmly wear comfortable shoes bring food, drink as many places that may be close tore place that he is are opened we will have plenty of lines. be patient, but there will be
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many long lines fighting for those bathrooms along the way. for those with kids the police commissioner urges to you dress small children in colors other than green and take a photo before the parade. keep a hand on them while watching the parade because they can easily getaway. find an officer if you lose someone in your party and come up with a plan with a lex to reunite should someone get lost. >> if you should see something suspicious please give us a call. it doesn't have to be a package if you think that doesn't feel right to you trust your instincts give us a call, an idea of compactly where you are and we will make every effort to respond to that. >> reporter: another thing that the police were saying really if you carry a bag with you keep that on you. they get so many calls about unintended bags and they have to take all of those extremely seriously. also heading dunn to the parade today make sure you are signed up for text alerts text ready eagles within word to
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888777 but for now we are live , i'm frank did for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> thanks very much, trang do. while some fans camped out others are heading there now. >> reporter jim melworth from kyw naus radio 1060 joins us on the phone from septa's regional rail station in lansdale, montgomery county. jim, i check your twitter page there are big crowd there is almost an hour ago what is going on now. >> reporter: amazing, the line here is incredible, two lines actually, september says each train will carry 930 people, the first train is boarding right now scheduled to leave in five minutes. first people to get on that train got out here at 3:00 in the morning. it feels like it is 20 degrees out here. they have been out here for two hours and 15 minutes to get on the train to go down and stand outside for a little bit longer but with 930 people getting on this train, there will be people who will to
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have wait for the next train which isn't leaving until 64:00 from lansdale just an incredible amount of people out here. >> fans will be leaving periodically but it seems like all have the trains we can assume will be very crowd today, jim. >> yes, exactly and there are, doyletown train could stop here if it has room but you have to figure this is the scene at regional rail station as cross the area, so it is not a good chance these other trains are going to stop so again, just an incredible amount of people. don't expect to show up at a station and get right on the train. this might be a little mean, sadistic but watching people turn corner arriving now and, see their faces when they see how long the line is, it is kind of funny, i know that is horrible but it is funny. >> reporter: what about parking if people are coming there expect to go leave from there do you think there will be enough park to go
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accommodate these folks. >> great pint here in lansdale we have the garage but here a lot have these place was hundred or so spots it will be a mess trying to get around there and i'm kind of at the station i haven't seen what it looks like i'm trying to see if i can see down the street and see what the traffic situation looks like. it doesn't look terrible. i see a lot of brake lights. i envisioned it being worse. that is a problem too. >> jim melworth, hopefully you are trying to stay warm but we appreciate the report live from lansdale. if you were banking on patco to get you to the parade and you don't already have a ticket you are out of luck. they are sold out as well. patco is running modified scheduled with trains stoping at four stations in new jersey lindenwald, wood crest, ferry avenue and broadway. in philadelphia ninth, tenth, locust will be the only stop. well, mass transit isn't your only option to get to the parade. >> uber wants to give you a ride to the festivities we will tell you special code you can use on your trip.
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millero l a help fans get to and from the parade by offering discou r fans have a safe reliable transportation option for today's parad philly parade into the uber app fordits for oe the ride to and from the parade. they can be 9:00 to 4:00 p.m. if you cannot make it to the parade or just don't want it to then cbs-3. coverage at 9:00 a.m. parade begins at coverage live on cbs philly .com and cbs philly facebook page you can wat showem
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10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., all of the regular cbs program cam n meisha and i will be heading out to the parade at 11:00 to join u restf the gang,, chelsea. >> yes. >> we will be bundled up, i ide. >> very, very good idea indeed we will be dealing with wind chills throuy in t teens and 20o everyone need to make sure that they today. let me show you live at center city at nation sky line glowing and green. en at 28. feels more like 18 when you factor in the northwest at 12. millville. wilmington, we down the shore we are checking in the 30's this morning. right aildwoo thirty-two atlantic city. twenty-six allentown.
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mid teens init feels like zero,e poconos. allentown. lik fourteen in reading. seventeen when you factor in that wind chill in wilmington it feels colder i temperatures are below 32. we have some lingeringpots from yesterday and last night's rain, onwaee patchy black ice. so watch out for that as you are driving everou are heading r driving in the city for the parade. there could b good news we will stay dry no rain on the parade heading in the 11:00 o'cy of sunshine in just a couple passing included but it will be abrht day all thh the afternoon, we will deal with mostly clear skies,ght,onin tomorrow we will see increasing cloud, and areas to they, poconos couldriod of light snow.
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super bowl parade temperature rightun we head in the ceremony, 32 degrees but feeling much ler 20 's when you factor in the wind chill. we will have your seven day foreca meisha. >> chelsea, thank you so much, thank you for thear chilly. we have to bundle up. we will be out there with all of you will be bundled up, maybe. question is, jim, they are as a and dress outng you dress? i don't think so. >> you have to meet to us find out. garden street and this is where road closures are going in be plenty of them, and we are looking atlook at movement, theo many people, all ready outroun u guys, everyone, is so excited aut logistics. there is a lot of them in play it will start
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it will get from the stadium, art museum, up over to the art museum. most roadslo some until 9:00 p.m. street,evard, schuylkill west schuylkill west ramp from schuylkill avenue. those will be until 9:00 p.m. otherwise opening up at 6asse sold out. weekly, inly passes will be accepted, onl opened, so just make sure, these updates market frankford line and broad street they are offering free ride but we know that is go busy. everyone will get a free ride but everyone will try to take regional rails inbound only in the a.m., outbound only after the coming up in a little bit, rahel and jim, >>thanks, meisha. now for newspaper headlines across the region. >> pressman h about arrested afr selling a fake seat license for eagles seasonke that 56
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year-old frank, pocketed $9at machine toy game many in atlantic city. legitimate owner hav the right o purchase, season tickets from the eagles every times herald bill cots bye 's lawyers are fight ago tempts to call 19 additional with m upcoming retrial on sex assault charges. cosby's defey of the 19 other as are allowed to testify they plan t postponement. heyelebrateare enjoying their super bowl victory. stable 12 brewery delivered cans of tir under dog lag tore defensive tackle are newspaper headlines from around the delaware and lehigh valley. >> it i basketball games get rain out. >> that that is what happened orleans. we will tell you how long it took crews to clean up the game, all together. we will be right
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welcome back everyone it is hard to believe but there are games going onhill f sports. >> leslie van arsdal has local college basketball sceneorning . >> next time that could make a title run in the city villanova wdc action hosting st. johns. check out they had worst record in the bigdd victory over fourth ranked duke, to the game in the players didn't matter, st. johns led by five at the half. big star of the night, bonds, go to the hoop, and, makes the bucket, and the foul e points. st. johns will knock off ancond than a week villanova loses 79 -75. temple , the owls, were high flying, alley hoop. rose had 23 points. then later austin to rose again going in for the
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w on northm. broad street 90-73 the final. visiting george washington first half bj johnson hits the th explorers an 18-16 lead. johnson with 14 pnt a massive night from utah,rit the. he was, 29 points, gw -69. that is all for sports i'm leslie vanthe parade. here's something you don't see very often, last between ped pacers was rained out or rained in depending on how roof was leaking in the center arena staff tried it and diverting it but nothing worked and after a delay of al houwo the fame was called off and will be made up at a later day. we areles parade of champions. >> jan's live at the art museum where peoplre jan, good .
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>> reporter: that is right, and if you think you are gettina jump start on the crowd, think again there are hundreds of peop parkway, for today's super bowl parade, i'm jan coming up,e will speak to a couple of very excited fans,s. blank. and police release aid details picture of a m vandalizy macy's after eagles won the super bell we willre sho lookinp
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good morning, i'm rahel solomon. aim jim donovan. katie and meisha will be along in a moment. >> chelsea's here. >> i'm sorry, too early folks. but first here's what you need to necessity to start your day in the morning minute. it is thursday, february 8th. >> who cares.. >> earned it as a city. >> parade day is finally here, and the moment eagles fans, have been waiting for, for decade. >> eagles. got to support the eagles. >> i have never seen this many people, up so early and they are all in a good mood: >> it will be a licensing day. >> i will be all right i'm pumped up. >> i drove all the way from missouri, 18 hour trip, watch my birds play. it has been a long time coming >> e-a-g-l-e-s
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