h. oh, yeah. no wonder. it was hidden behind all of my free weights. if you're not an expert, peco can help. we have lots of ways to help you save energy and money. peco. the future is on. >> this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> new love is in the air the famous love statue returns home for the first time in more than a year. >> the statue grew a crowned certain spots as it made its way around home. i'm rahel solomon. >> i'm jim donovan. joe holden live at love park where the sculpture is finally back in place just in time for valentine day good afternoon, joe. >> hey jim rahel just on cue for this live report. they just hoisted the love statue it has been gone, for a year, for a very extensive re push project. and the forklift just hoisted

the statue into place. >> used to be a trapezoid pedestal. this is now stainless steel in the process of doing some lag bolting as we speak see it has different color scheme. minor details some color changes and a new primer on it to help it stands up from the co the weather. sense we are in the city of philadelphia parade seems to be the theme let's give you the shot from chopper three, early this started around a joan of arc statue. the art near the artanklin parkway in fact the statue made few people could take selfies with. e re fish recalled, once it made it way to love park, the crowds gathered, t people here of here last thursday, but you agree?

yet another parade, and people thri take a listen. >> one city living. >> did you no about it. >> i knew about it, we happened to talk, wanted to see it in real life. >> they're doing a parade about it. >> yes every parade every day. >> doesn't get old? >> no, no,. >> other falls one. >> and you are looking at all eyes fixed on this lover statue back in it home base here after a year long refurbishing projectment coming up on "eyewitness news" starting at 5:00 the full details and all of the specs on exactly what the statue has seen and the changes that have been made and also, yet parade for the city of philadelphia i'll see you with coverage again starting at 5:00. >> joe holden, "eyewitness news." >> thank you joe lots of sunshine today for the love statue's return, and a taste

of spring just around the corner. kate kate frail i will live in the skydeck with more on the winter warm up, hey katie? >> expecting typical mid february afternoon the wind is incredibly light barely noticed it, so that's helpful. outside still want your winter coat but you won't have to counter include too much after windchill. when you're looking at the thermometer. now looking at storm scan, really just not much to see right now nothing but streak every cloud cover here, there generally just breitbart blue sky, temperatures telling the story only in the 30's in suppose spots of course still few more hours left, and with time see the temperatures rebounds back to the lower four's, 37 currently at the airport, 34 whim owe grover, 34 doylestown you get the idea pretty decent consistency among the map here as the day goes on we hit about 42 degrees, one

agree shy, on this day of the year. but low mid upper 30's at best out through the resort towns shall everybody gets in on the sunshine for the rest of the afternoon. but with time talk about the additional warm up, talking about huge temperature swing of about 20 plusegrees in the next few days, basically two month early for the kind of temperatures we're killing for little later in the show of course i'll let you below it takes place and also cents about the showers that have to commas a trade off with that change all later in the show, guys. >> see you soon thank you. >> drug bust in feltonville that un covered estimated $2.6 million worth of heroin and fent none. >> one dose of this poison right here can kill you. we just took 250,000 of those doses cents off the streets 250,000 potential death sentences averted.

>> the drugs seized sunday evening got home 4300 block of north fourth street. authorities also found a loaded handgun drug bags, mark demolition man six a hundred dollars in cash, and other drug paraphernalia. two suspect charge wad long list of offenses being held on $1.5 million bail. >> philadelphia police on the hunt for three kidnapping suspect accused of setting their victim on fire. the abduction happened late sunday night on ben err street in wissinoming right after the 34 year old plan got off from work it ended early monday wesford road in olney. investigators say the kidnappers drove their victim around for hours, zip tide him demanded ransom of $10,000 from his family, and then set him on fire in his own car. police believe the three suspect new the victim. >> it is pretty horrible. i can tell you it is a horrific crime seems very personal. all three we're hearing were armed with guns, if they use fire as a weapon. seems pretty personal to me. >> the victim has burns over half of his body at lasts

check he remains in critical condition, at temple university hospital. >> reform the immigration system. vote on president trump's proposal could come at the ends of the week, it offers pass to citizenship, for 1.8 million so-called dreamers and in exchange for $25 billion to build a boards err wall with mexico. uphill battle in the senate. >> president trump challenged congress to do something about it to passes a law, as you can see more than five month passed we haven't done that but we have a chance this week to get it right. >> we shouldn't be focused on passing a bill out of the senate should be focused on passing a law something to get the m house and president trump is willing to sign. >> the program which shields undocumented immigrants brought to the u.s. illegally as children expires on march 5th. >> cbs news has learned that a letteraddress today donald trump jr. was postmarked in boston. his wife went to the hospital as a precaution monday after

opening the envelope sent to her mother's home in new york sit, mr. i say the powder was not considered dangerous they say the letter included threats of a political nature. the president's son tweeted truely disgusting, that certain individuals choose to express their opposing views with such disturbing behavior. >> as flu season rages on, federal health officials warn we probably haven't seen the worse of it yet. the center for disease control say more than 17,000 people in the u.s. have been hospitalized for flu related illnesses cents since october. one out of every ten deaths in this country is currently due to the flu or pneumonia and one in 13 doctors visit last week was for flu symptoms. in order to protect yourself, health experts say you should wash your hands with soap and water, rather than using hands sanitizer. it is a rare move for amazon but the on line retailers err slashing jobs, majority layoffs at seattlequarters no word at this point how many employees will be affected. the news comes at a time when amazon is publicly searching

for location to build its secretary headquarters, philadelphia one of 20 final cities under consideration. >> coming up: they draw a crowd where ever they go, on cbs-3 "eyewitness news" at noon prince harry and meghan markle takes scotland by storm they raise awareness of a cause that's near and dear to both of them. >> plus: they thought he was lost forever. imagine the shock one family received when their beloved pet was found safe and sound? how this pup was discovered three years after he went missing. when we come back.

>> feast your eyes on philadelphia tradition these creation by haegele bakery in mayfair, employees have been working ahese special donuts in celebration of fat tuesday, you can only get the hands made treat once a year before lent begins. they are gwind did little to chill the entheusiasm of people welcoming prince harry markle to it edenboro. >> first official joined visit to scotlic he had end berg castle. next stop considered late last social bites founder said he hosedalty before but not actual royalty.e to come and visit social bites. >> the cafe has attracted the attention of celebrities like george clooney and leonardo, because of its admission employ the homeless, battling homelessness is a issue the royal couple holds dear to their hearts. >> while most of the al pine athletes competing in the

olympics pyeongchang these are skiing with ease, 18 parities paints in what's being called the first ever robot ski competition. they design their ski booths to avoid red willing and blue, the colors of the flag polls dotting the slopes, well, in the end the team called tie quan v walked away with the $10,000 prize. >> oh. well it can be hard enough to spot an object from across the room so imagine looking at something that's more than a billion miles a. >> i. >> i would need really good glasses cents that's how far away this object is, coming up : what it is and who took this historic picture. meisha? >> well, there is no doubt that our animal friends are a big part of our family. and whether something happens to them, a piece of our heart is missing specially when we don't know what happened and we don't know if we'll ever see them again. something remarkable happened to one grieving their lry coming up. katie? >> meisha, getting closer day by day-by-day to upcoming weekends promises to be pretty fair weather all-in-all chilly by this point, even though we are

expecting a spring like mid to late week. we are back to reality by the weekends with highs in the upper 30s saturday, and still only in the four's come sunday possibly even with a shower by then. stay there. we'll have the rest of your forecast right aft

>> back on "eyewitness news" with a out of this world picture there is one for the records books. you're looking at an object in a field of stars taken by nasa 's new horizons spacecraft back in december. >> what makes this so spectacular, these images were taken at record distance, snapped 3.79 billion miles from earth smashing previous 27 year recovered. >> i guess i couldn't take that with my cell phone the picture?

>> guess not. >> getting so advanced, never know. >> but i feel like you can't even do the span of the ben franklin parkway with a iphone my gosh, that's amazing. >> pretty clear picture day today. >> yes, if you have the opportunity to go out -- >> were you running after the love statue. >> yes i finally got myself ear on a parade route in the city this week, yes go check it out. nice breitbart sunny afternoon unfolding for the area, we are going to see very substantial temperature climb but today we don't break out the low 40 's so your par for the course afternoon. mid february usually you're finding yourselves into the low 40's, mid 40's at best by the end of the month. that's where we ends up today. the rest of the forecast, isn't really close to that, so go on outside now now real just nice clear sky here, this is a shot from place amount, yes, so breitbart that the sky almost looks white on the monitors there in the studio, but yes actually being taken from again plymouth meeting

overlooking far in the distance so very pleasant looking, as whole. next to one of the live neighborhood network cameras similar scene i show this one specifically to show you how light the wind is. this is one of those cameras that without fail if the wind is noticeable or and also notice specially watching just hd looks like there is a pond almost in the middle of the playgrounds, still saturation, with the recent rain, and we've got more rain on the way which we'll get to. now the temperature, in the last 24 hours not terribly substantial, but it is chillier into the early afternoon than it was this same time yesterday. about 5 degrees difference,. >> still need your coat. nice clear sky overhead it, will stay that way through even tonightespite clouds starting to build in, but we

do at least stay dry. that actually holds right through tomorrow. there is not too much else to really track yet. few little batches of moisture beginning to bubble up on the radar going east. >> eventually see two front come where the next round every rain comes from. specifically wednesday late night early thursday next rounds every rain, despite the overnight stomping not specking anything other than rain showers just looks too warm. >> it should not be near as drenching, most specifically, and this is actually something that will stick around for us, headed into friday, as well. but, look at the temperature difference this year. go from the 60s thursday afternoon, the average normally mid 40's here, we will be far exceed that for daytime highs, heck even

overnight low exceeds that. tuesday mardi gras fastnacht day whatever you want to call it, looking like pretty good afternoon up to 42 degrees this afternoon in the sunshine, then looking ahead in the seven day warmest day of the bunch comes thursday again just watch for shower that morning warmfront will keep us in the clouds, friday still just as warm, even despite the passage every cold front but cold air of course will eventually catch up. as it does, by saturday you're held back to just 39 degrees, it should and pretty clear day sunday could trigger a shower, actually got just a chance right now but we will leave that in the icon at least from now. but the daytime high does rebounds to the upper 40's, so just all over the place. >> definitely. >> with these temperatures. >> thanks katie. boston wasn't found family gets unexpected news about beloved pet. >> meisha here with today's love it. meisha? >> our animal friends are our best friends. no doubt. and whether we lose one it can be crushing. for a family in arkansas, that's he can actually what happened. until something remarkable occurred. take a look. >> oh, my god. it is him.

hey! >> meredith didn't think she would ever see her dog colonel again. that is because he had been missing for more than three years. >> on wednesday i got a call from the jonesboro humane society that they had a dog turned in, and when they scanned his chip it showed that he was registered to us. so she drove more than 300 miles to reunite with her long love dog. the 11 year old terrier ran away from home in november of 2014. >> he was kind of a he is escape artist, had gotten out couple of times before we had him chipped he had gotten out then the animal shelter encouraged to get him chipped. thankfully they did that before the last time that he got out. >> meredith says the family searched for colonel consistently for a month and then on and off again for the next year, thinking of course, that they would never see him again. >> really sad. >> first doggy ever had. >> well understandably so. and 11 year old terrier runs away from home and missing for

a years yes pleural most of us would probably lose little hope. in fact, hank says in the time colonel was missing her family had moved had another baby and even gotten another dog in the years of his absence she says now they're beyond thrilled to have their entire family back together again. something they never actually thought would happen. so glad colonel is back home. who would have thought three years later. >> can you imagine the stories he has cents to tell? >> so funny you said, that i was thinking, why can't they speak english and tell us where they've been. can you imagine, three years? >> i had this cat named peanut and my mom said whatever happened to peanut because i found your john he will praying every night that little peanut would come back, this little orange tab that i would sit on me like a little monkey and he ran away but he never came back. so peanut, if you're still out there, come back! >> how old would he be, 106? >> oh, woe have been like a parent at that age.

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>> coming up later today on eyewitness flues at 5:00 have your chocolate and eat it, too why the valentine can't i you get tomorrow could be good for your help. i wanted to see this one. that's today at 5:00. >> say no more, jim donovan. >> group of birds is in the spotlight today. not eagles, they're penguins.

>> these african penguins chick made their appearance today at the aquarium. two males named carson and nick you got it, honored carson wentz and nick foles. taco and shelly are the names of the female hatchlings aquarium now has more african penguins than ever before. >> super cute. also getting a do-able look inside giant panda. >> curious cubs, with their hand less, set up in their classroom. just some of the more than 40 born at the panda research center over the past year, just like would you expect, lunchtime was a big hit for the little ones. >> oh, i knew we going to hear >> i went to prendy, our mascot was panda's lunchtime was very special time for us, too. >> like animal planet. this could have been an on animal planet you could just watch this for the rest of the afternoon. that's it for all of us here at "eyewitness news" at noon. >> i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. thanks for watching. >> "eyewitness news" continues at 5:00. >> and we're always on line at cbsphilly.com.

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