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the way down to the stadium and back and there were nothing but people every where >> historic party and then a massive clean out some conflicting numbers about how many people spilled on to the streets, to celebrate the eagles super bowl win but what official does know that the event was a huge success. good evening, i'm ukee washington. i'm nicole brewer in for jessica dean. we have team three coverage on this day after parade we will check with greg argos in just a moment but first alycia nieves is in delaware county where one of the stars of the celebration if not the star of the celebration is making an appearance, alycia. >> we're out here with hundreds of eagles fans waiting for that star, of course to arrive and we are talking about jason kelce, we know him as eagles center but world right now really knows him as that eagles player who stole the show, that eagles player who gave quite a seat and wore quite the outfit.
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>> reporter: he is eagles sent their was at center of the attention at yesterday's eagles parade of champions. >> want to talk about a hungry door, for 52 years you have been starved for a championship. everybody oners why we're so mean, why philadelphia eagles aren't the nicest fans. if i don't eat breakfast i'm bleep pissed off. >> reporter: between his speech and that outfit jason kelce may have stolen the show when he put symbol of the philadelphia tradition in the national spotlight. >> it was stroke of genius for , absolutely history. >> reporter: jason kelce's hair stylist and person who helped him get his hands on this iconic outfit. >> he called me tuesday night and said live, i need a suit. my husband was at avalon string band having practice. i called bob, i said we need a suit for jason. he said you got it. >> reporter: her husband as a part of the avalon string band had to go back to the mummers suit from a decade ago that was green and could fit a 6-
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foot 300, 295-pound eagles football player. >> you know what under doggies it is a hungry dog, hungry dogs run faster. >> reporter: it is clear he pick the right one for kelce to rock during this historic day for the team and the city. as for what happens with this outfit now, to be determined. >> we shall see where that end s up. it is probably most sought after piece of seek wins you will fine in the city for sure >> reporter: less than 30 seconds ago jason kelce walked in with beau allen, the fans here went crazy. i will tell you this, you missed it, but he was in the wearing outfit. that is fitting. that is outfit i only wear won to make that splash. live from havertown alycia nieves for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> i expect that to be in the glass case in the stadium very soon. >> thanks very much. another player meeting fancying also defensive end
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vinny curry stopped by macy's in center city as super bowl celebration, continues. first 150 fans made a purchase locker room, by lids inside the store got a chance to meet curry and got an autograph and a hug as well. >> the official parade turnout number is still being work out but city officials say it was mostly without incident. officers made two assault relate add rests and handed out five citations for disorderly conduct. we are told four police cars and jumbo tron were damage after people climbed on them. authorities kay they were looking for a better view of the parade or the ceremony. greg argos is live on the parkway and greg, what a big difference, a day makes. >> reporter: that is exactly right there nicole a huge difference, yes, yesterday we were talking about hundreds of thousands of people just in this section loan. you can see not a single soul, there is a lot of mud and a lot of trash.
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those who were part of the philadelphia sports history, still reeling friday. >> it was freezing but everybody was here to celebrate the eagles. it was fun. >> it was unbelievable just to see everybody, finally get to enjoy something like this. >> reporter: crowd safety experts estimate 700,000 people gathered to witness vince lombardi trophy sparkle down broad street. mayor though thinks it is much higher. >> we carried more than 395,000 customers on market frankford line and broad street line yesterday. >> reporter: septa reports no major issues. social media post popped up friday showing this bus blocking views for some fans near broad and chestnut. philadelphia police say bus was used to transport officers to a call afghans toppled a video board. >> the blame for that one lies on us and i assure you it was unintentional. >> i think it was a epic performance on a epic day. >> reporter: eagles president
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don smolenski says the parade was a success worth every cent 2. to 3 million. >> reporter: fans who spent the day celebrating seemed to gree. >> sit difficult a good job hosting the parade and give it to the players, they brought back lombardi trophy. >> reporter: eagles spent about two to three million-dollar for this parade and as you heard that does in the factor in overtime for police or tonight city associated cost. mayors office say they are compiling those numbers and could have them next week. i'm live from eakins oval, greg argos for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> definitely worth it, thanks eagles road to victory from the playoffs to the parade was good for business, according to data from three philadelphia hospitality agencies philadelphia hotels, sold 12,573 more rooms between january 13th, and february 8th , and compared to the same period last year. that generated an estimated 3.3 million-dollar in incremental hotel room revenue
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birds success translated in to strong hotel occupancy on weekends during the playoffs. it seems that the super bowl ring brought out something special in this city and in its people. >> it may have witnessed or been part of the act of kind ness brought on by something called the eagles effect. our anita oh explains. >> reporter: to be called the city of brotherly love certainly didn't ring more true then at thursday's championship parade. >> everybody helping each another out. >> reporter: one expert doctor argy allen wilson chalks it up to the so-called eagles effect >> it is a thing. do i think philly fans may go down as some of the most passionate fans but just like anything else when you think about someone who is passionate you have a lot of energy. >> reporter: one man witness that had himself when at the parade he saw a man carrying urn have the loved one.
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dustin javier said group across the street sent a police office tore deliver a beer to had man. >> he went and they rated the beer to him and toast him. >> it is beauty of the city that loves its team says eagles president don smolenski and one of the many acts of kindness he has witnessed throughout the season. >> it moves us in a tremendous way. word don't do it justice. you have to look at the pictures because they think a thousand word. >> reporter: anita oh for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". what a day, what a team. relive all of the moments, from this remarkable eagles super bowl run, including the parade of champions on our web site at cbs philly.com. another clear day around the region but we are tracking the return of some rain, meteorologist kate bilo is on the sky deck and kate, what can we expect this weekend. >> we can expect temperatures on the rise, which is good news but it is going to turn
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wet. we have got cloud that built in today and we will start to see that wet weather by late in the day tomorrow. lets take a peak at storm scan three. it is mostly cloudy but dry for new but as we widen out you can see moisture across the plains. we have a system the two north that clipped poconos with the snow showers today but heaviest of the rain is still off to the south and we are seeing showers across the got. it is heading our way. warm eras wins come from the south. temperatures in the dropping much tonight. as we go through next several hours temperatures will hold in the upper 30's this evening heading out and about you don't need the umbrella or the heaviest coat like what we needed last night. but for the weekend it is mild and wet, light drizzle starts tomorrow afternoon but steady rain starts midnight tomorrow night downpours are possible coming up i'll tell you hutch rain to expect and we have
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more rain chances in the seven day forecast as well. more coming up, back to you. kate, thank you. still to come, a frightening event for, local family life. changing, emergency, that, and the reason they are sharing this story. and a little piece or pieces of philadelphia history , here's a way one family who could not be here for the parade is still making a difference. >> reporter: one eagles leave the nest and that called could be just beginning and is what deal with markelle fultz, will we ever see the number one overall pick before the season is over? the sixers president tal
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and while older people are more at risk heart disease can happen to anyone anytime this young montgomery county mom, says that she's lucky to be alive. >> i'm the banker. i will take all your money. >> now are not. >> reporter: amy cavalier can have fun playing monopoly now but year ago she was in a coma on a ventilator. >> i had a spontaneous coronary artery dissection that resulted in a massive heart attack and cardiac arrest. >> reporter: she was 35, healthy fit, busy in royersford with her family. one morning getting kid ready for school her arms started hurting. >> i kept saying to my husband what did i lift yesterday that makes me so sore? but, i just brush it off, kept getting ready for the day. >> reporter: then came crushing pain in her chest trouble breathing her husband insisted on calling 911. drama unfolding in front of the kids. >> they watched their mom have a heart attack and that is
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hard, it is hard. >> reporter: once in the hospital amy had a series of life threatening setbacks. >> scary as anything, even to this day you where i bit, right. >> cardiac icu. >> reporter: documented in a scrap book reminders of the sneaky, dangerous nature of heart disease in young women. >> the face of the heart attack as change, face of heart attack is in longer, you know, someone older, out of shape, that is not the face anymore. i'm face of the heart attack, young, fit would man who could have died, from this. >> amazing. >> reporter: amy says her best friend, her husband saved her life by calling paramedics. she had traditional symptoms but doctors say heart attack in younger woman come with unusual symptoms things like nausea or even back pain. amy said it right she said face of heart disease has changed. >> wow. >> what a story she has.
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>> amazing family. >> thank you. all right. twenty-ninth philadelphia tattoo convention is underway at pennsylvania convention center. >> "eyewitness news" was there for opening day of the show, 2018 marks the show's 20th anniversary. organizers say it is world's largest traveling exhibition of live tattoo art, show by the way runs through sunday. you can get some folks will be getting eagles theme tattoos like this guy he got an image of jason kelce wearing mummer hat inked to his arm. there is a caption that re cannot show you on television but reza shourd it expressed what happened yesterday, and, great time by hall indeed. >> that is classic, isn't it. >> that is fantastic. >> kate has the forecast headed to the weekend. >> we won't be shoveling snow this week zoned we will start with the positive. >> there that is. >> we have that going for us. first half of saturday and tail end on sunday look okay.
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the rest, everything in the middle, not so much. it will be heavy rain, heaviest looks like it comes through overnight now tomorrow night into sunday morning which is good news if it will per down rain let it happen while sleeping but we will wake up to localized flood ago cross portions office area on sunday. lets take a peak at is what going on, storm scan three where we have had cloud in place, not a whole lot moving in, as we look down to the south you can see moisture gathering, rain overral bam, mississippi and snow back across midwest. this will come together as one larger system though has we get into saturday night, sunday, lot of warm air lifting from the south with this system as well. you can see temperatures are not that bad for a february nate. once sun goes down we will see these temperatures plumet but temperatures are holding steady here 38 degrees in philadelphia 35 in wilmington. thirty-four in reading. we are only going to knock off a few degrees from that number
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in the overnight hours. winds south keeping it relatively mild in d.c. richmond where temperatures in the 40's. thirty-two in state college. forty in cleveland as well. but warm up comes at a price, overnight mainly cloudy not as cold, 35 is your low. heading into your saturday lots of cloud and rain will arrive after two or 3:00 o'clock, 53 degrees will be our daytime high for saturday. first half of the day we will time out, first half when you want to get outside there may be sunshine in the morning, a few stray sprinkles pop pup but through one or 2:00 it is dry we will get in the afternoon and light rain begins to move in but heaviest rain with this system will be coming from midnight tomorrow night into noon time on saturday. that is your 12 hour window of rain, along i-95 corridor, south jersey and delaware look at these downpours 6:00 a.m. sunday that keeps coming. 8:00 a.m. sunday keeps on coming and by midday we will
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see heaviest push out and drying things out by sunday night. many pointing out over 2 inches of moisture leading to the risk of localized flooding, creeks, streams, rivers running high. throw 2 inches of rain on top of that and we will have problems. showers develop late tomorrow, heavy rain saturday night into sunday morning especially early in the day and that is in the only chance for rain in the eyewitness weather seven day forecast monday morning showers and clearing but monday night into tuesday, another system arrives, cold enough tuesday morning that it created a mixture of snow but rain in the afternoon, wednesday, valentines day starts with the shower, and then some sunshine and it is mild next week see thursday at 56 degrees, so feeling like a london or seattle kind of forecast, cloudy, rainy but not snowing. >> very true. well, victory is sweeter when you are on the right side of a bet. >> that is for sure and before the super bowl we wagered with
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wbz a case of yuengling if they won and case of sam adams if we won. >> well, look at what arrived at our television station lets just say it wasn't necessarily a hit. >> like tom brady and pats, this reward falls a little short. wow, burn. we had a little fun with this one. check out full video on cbs philly.com. >> folks just left it there. >> they wanted nothing to do with that. >> thanks, anyway, wbz. >> leslie coming up with sports and we are talking baseball. >> that is right, now that the parade is over, we have been talking about the phillies, we will show you what is inside that truck and sixers gives an update on markelle fultz will that truck and sixers gives an update on markelle fultz will be back in the court this small business, internet providers promise you a lot.
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county and super bowl celebration continues, jason kelce arrived, and he is, meeting fans signing autographs at karl's cards and joined by defensive tackle beau allen as well. just a short time ago he talked about the fans and his epic victory speech. >> you know, i i have lived here for seven years, that was my seventh season and for whatever reason i have felt like i have connect well with philadelphia. >> i didn't write anything down but for some reason the night before the parade, i could not sleep, i was really excited, kind of running through your head, you know, the path of getting to the super bowl and it hit me about how much, you know, i had overcome from last season and, then you think about other guys and what they have overcome. >> all right. >> that is great. >> use that motivation speech next year, record it, jason kelce. in the meantime we're talking about basketball. >> there is other teams playing. >> yes. >> sixers host pelicans tonight but joel embiid be in
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the line up he is questionable with the right angle problem. they are two-10 this season without joel. when will we number one overall pick mark cull fultz. he missed 48 games with the shoulder injury. team says he had to relearn how to shoot bass of that injury, and sixers president brian colangelo isn't sure if he will play at all this season. >> it is a licensing recovery. it has taken longer then anyone has helped or imagined and again, he is making progress, headway and i fully anticipate he will be out there, being that he does so well, which is scoring basketball and creating for others and impacting our team in the positive way. hopefully it is in the near future. >> after practice sixers un veiled statue of bobby jones , a key member of the sixers 83 champion ship team. a four time all-star and within of the first nba sixth man. world champion, eagles, he
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lost an assistant and another, and, the vikings hired john de philipo. >> and, quarterback coach, offensive coordinator frank re ich is set to interview for colts head coaching job. championship forever, yesterday's parade was last time these guys will all be together, things change during the off season. we necessity how difficult it can be to build a winning team fifty-eight years since last championship forbidder. today on espn brandon graham had a challenge for the eagles howie roseman. >> i challenge howie to get out there and put this team together again because they will be the same or put another one together to go do this thing again. >> brandon makes within of the biggest plays in the super bowl strip sack of tom brady late in the fourth quarter to help birds bring home the lombardi trophy. this is first time that spring, it is right around corner phillies packing up truck for spring training so what is inside, 2400 baseball,
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2,000 short and licensing sleeves shirts, 1200 bats, the truck is expect to live at spectrum field in clearwater on sunday, pitchers and catchers reports on wednesday and you have to have the hot dog launcher for the fanatic. >> of courts. >> ice cream machine. >> ice cream machine, loaded it all in there. >> one quick thing about bobby generals statue people are wondering why it was sideways. that is how i remember, bobby jones. >> that was his move. >> for lose balls, mr. hustle. >> why is that thing like that >> yes. >> very cool. >> that is a great image. >> we will be right
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well, tonight at 11:00 it is taste with tori that will definitely not have you feeling blue it is sushi spot, that just added a second location. >> don't miss all of the flavors of b2 blue fin tonight on "eyewitness news" at 11:00. tori creeping up, she's funny city of philadelphia is sending a small part of the parade to an eagles fan a hundred miles away. >> a man from wisconsin contacted the independent visitors center and asked if the staff could collect confetti from the parade and mail it to him. today they put tonight an envelope with a few other at else items and sent it on its way. >> that is great. >> open that, throw it all around. >> pretty cool. >> recreate moments again and again. >> that within nice. >> thanks for watching "eyewitness news" at 6:00 "eyewitness news" returns at 10 on our sister station wp sg the c cw and we will be back here at 11:00. up next, "cbs evening
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