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this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news". good morning, i'm rahel solomon. >> i'm jim donovan. katie and meisha will be along in just an employment. first what you need to know to start your day in the morning minute. today is tuesday, february 20th. >> this wasn't the person that we new. >> the cup hole took in the alleged florida school shooter says he showed no warning signs he was about to harm himself or others. >> everybody seems to know we didn't know. >> collapsed concerns continue in old city. >> take a look, this corner every third and chestnut remains roped off. >> we are told that the fifth floor has actual actually already caved in. >> we do have some dense fog already starting to develop here. specially true for southeastern pennsylvania. >> a little bit every drizzle
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out there, too. >> the new map of congressional district in pennsylvania could help democrats pick up house seats this year. >> bringing it here at the olympics. >> today's morning minute is made possible by pen medicine. for many people, every other minute is, too. >> brother sister team from the us taking home the bronze and the ice dancing event. >> we send it out to katie. no ice out there right now, but definitely some fog. >> gentlemen, very damp out here on the cbs-3 skydeck. finest hint every drizzle out here. just little damp on the actual ground, as well. so, you know, i don't think you need an umbrella here today. don't be shocked if you come out the door and do you have maybe flick the windshield wipers once or twice, visibility clearly very poor behind me. center city skyline that's totally shrouded right now, in that low cloud deck. so, let's look at the current
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visibility, they're not great. take a look here. you're under half mile. lancaster, red willing, philly international. that could be a problem even at the airport for arrivals and departures, although first flight just starting to get underway right now, under half mile in allentown, too, also, important to note, these are observation site. does not mean the entire city of philadelphia is at .3 visibility. you could be worse. you could be better. in any of these given locations, so i definitely would call on our eyewitness weather watch ers, let us know what you are seeing. radar and satellite picture is very deceptive. the fog is tough to find on saturday light picture as it is, and then, even though we do have hint of drizzle, that is also not showing up. this is just a clear issue of just moisture that is building in our atmosphere, very limited wind flow, so that's what's allowing the fog to form. you'll get slowed down by this i guarantee it, but expect that. but later this morning, specially into the afternoon the sun does its part to scour out the cloud cover.
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we are soaring on that thermometer. all the way to about 26 degrees above what's average. yes, 71 degrees is the call today. that would be a new record. the record to beat is 70. so, regardless of records, and , you know, for the history books, putting that aside here , meisha, we will be very mild no matter what happens. >> we sure are. just think, 1 degrees and we break the record, that's awesome. good morning, happy tuesday. so weird camera shot here. see the droplet on the lens letting us know not only is the fog but we have hazy kind of drizzle coming down on the roadways, we will disable vehicle here, the vine eastbound ramp from 95 that has since been cleared, but you can see how many headlights are out there right now. >> this will be a morning that we have to give ourselves a couple of extra minute just because you probably will be traveling in a lot of spots little bit less than posted speeds. we do actually have speed restrictions in play on three of the bridges. the ben franklin, betsy ross, walt whitman bridge, you're down to 25 miles per hour, then we have a couple of
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problem spots out there, accident in new jersey, cherry hill, so route 38 eastbound, at chapel avenue traveling little less than 40 miles per hour at this point. accident investigation, willow grove, involving a pedestrian. it happened around 3:00 a.m. reported injuries involved. and by the way, there is no access to the pa turnpike southbound. so 611 easton road southbound closed, between mill road and pa turnpike. alternates, blair mill road, york road, your best bet. rahel, back over to you. >> meisha, thank you. student who survive the deadly shooting are now traveling to the state capitol to demand tougher gun chrome. investigators are also learning more about the alleged shooter, nicholas cruz document reveal in 2016 an investigator with the state department of children and family visited the cruz house and the investigator noted that cruz had depression, adhd , autism and had plans to buy a gun. the cup hole took the boy in after his mother's death in november sat down with news. >> before he moved in the
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stipulation was he had to get a gun safe. we got gun safe on the way back from moving his stuff to our house. >> president trump plans to hold listening session with high school student and teachers at the white house tomorrow. the white house says the president is open to the possibility of supporting bipartisan legislation to strengthen the federal background check system. >> in new jersey, family with ties to park land florida is doing their part to help the shooting victims. michael lawson and his son spent the president's day holiday selling lemonade at ringwood bergen county. he said he used to live just miles from the shooting scene and his distant relative was one of the 17 victims. >> it is fairly personal issue for me, because i grew up five minute from the school. we all have a role in change. and if we all do our role, whatever that is, whatever that definition is, whatever our belief system is, as long as we do it, change will happen. >> the family rales dollars little over $350, the money will be contributed to the official go fund me page for the shooting victims. >> and the youth baseball team in missouri getting national
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attention for traveling a ar15 to raise money. the same type of weapon was used by the accused florida high school shooter. officials say the ravel was organized before the shooting, and while the time something unfortunate, officials say, gun raffles are not uncommon in southwest missouri. >> well, philadelphia officials say that a fire that had left an old city building imminently dangerous, will have to come down. >> the city however does hope to keep the facade of 239 chestnut street. the building caught fire early sunday morning and lai says the property appeared to be a total cents lost. crews can't even get all the way inside the building. there are feels the builds willing clams. one even let his cat and art studio. >> it has been awful. it has been very hard to think about it, deal with it, think it through. i basically a.m. going from minute to minute. and i know my neighbors are having a very hard time. >> there is no wore yet on what caused the fire, everyone did get out okay.
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two firefighters suffered minor injuries. >> the time now 5:36. in business news this morning, a change to one of the most popular breakfast cereals. >> warren buffet, and the morning markets. diane king hall joins us live from the new york torque stock exchange, good morning, diane. >> reporter: good morning, rahel, jim. well, wall street opened for business after yesterday's holiday hoping to continue last week's rebounds. the dow recovered more than half territory lost earlier in the month on friday. the dow rose 19-point, the nasdaq lost about 17. >> billionaire investor warren buffet releases his annual letter to berkshire hathaway shareholders. his letter is widely anticipated because of his remarkable success. he explains complicated issues and simple terms as he reviews berkshire performance and may discuss other topics. >> albertson's is making a move to buy the rights to rite aid that isn't being sold to walgreens, according to the wall street journal. deal women create can company sales of 83 philadelphia. albert's owns safe way and 19
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other supermarket chains. the deal comes as retailers respond to the rapidly changing consumers landscape with more and more people shopping on line. and news for all of you breakfast cereal fans. a unicorn marshmallow replacing the hour glass in your box of lucky charles. magic call unicorn the first new marshmallow added in a decade. the first ever to be inspired and created by kids. rahel, jim? >> i love lucky charles. if i can eat a whole box every just the marshmellows, that's what i would do. who needs the cereal? >> i had no idea you had an unhealthy habit here, rahel. >> well, i've not had lucky charles in years, diane, but that's because once i have one box -- >> it's okay punk up. >> the things you learn on morning television. >> we all have our vices. >> i see. that's okay. that's not bad vice. >> we'll check in with you again tomorrow, thanks, diane. in other news this morning, one every philadelphia's best known radio dj's facing sexual harrassment lawsuit. >> former on air sidekick said she was demoted and finally
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quit back of long time dj john debella. on wmgk hosting talk and clock jen alleges 30 incident of harrassment over the six years she was the sidekick. >> new development now to story we first told but yesterday morning. friends say missing ride share driver has been found alive. josh is reportedly at a los angeles hospital after vanishing zero over a week ago , the lapd found his nissan albaladejo tim a and towed it, working as a driver for lyft and uber before he disappeared >> the most kind hearted gentle spirited person i ever met. >> always thinking about everybody else before he thinks about himself. he's just that kind of a person. >> friends tell oust sister station he may have been drugged and think he's been at the hospital for at least a few days. >> more developments to come out of there apparently. >> well, athletes around the world compete for olympic gold another battle underway in south korea. >> war of sorts to see who can brew up the best craft beer. here is cbs news correspondent
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dana jacobson. >> north korea's first craft beer can't be found among the imports in the south. but brew pubs might not exist without it. >> if it wasn't for i guess the korean beer compared to north korean beer then maybe it never would have lit the spark that it did. >> that spark came from 2012 magazine article in the economist called fiery food boring beer. praising the suds from the north, while trashing the south. >> they say like the day after that article was published, every brewery in korea got a phonecall from the government saying what are we doing wrong >> magpie says relaxed liquor laws soon followed allowing smaller batch bruce and igniting the south korean craft beer scene. >> what would you say it means to south korea. >> before it was sort of international product that was here. and now people are starting to see it as like oh, this is a locally made product. we can put our own stamp on. it. >> why brew here in korea?
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>> if i could be honest i would say the beer is not very good. >> part owner of abreu public. >> used to be an old factory. we turned it into a beer brewery. >> the building it self is a old rice wine factory. his beers, the work of an all korean staff, give a nod to the local community. >> whether it is the names or ingredients, it is ranked way of putting rational spin on the beer. >> local ingredients even rice , we actually use that in our beer, as well. >> creating new tradition to share with south korea and perhaps one day the world. dana jacobson, for cbs-3, " eyewitness news." >> up next: wafering is he saying about the criticism of her national anthem performance. >> plus we will show you around the consumer toy fair. see what items are expected to be the years of must have's. >> and we'll show you how natural hair care is changing how the beauty business thinks
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away, some $30,000 in groceries, 50,000 for, tuition , for people all over miami. on instagram he calls it the most important thing he's ever done in his career. >> ♪ >> and the flag was still there ♪ >> apparently we cannot get enough of this sound. fergie now apologize r for her national anthem performance. released a statement to "tmz" last night saying her rendition didn't strike the intended tone. fergie put a jazz spinning on the star spangled banner but didn't exactly go well. social media lit up with comment slamming the star. >> oh, my. you know? >> yesterday during my facebook live at 8:00 some people said they thought it was disrespectful, but then other people said, no, we just think she tried to do something that she shouldn't have. >> i don't think she intended to be disrespectful, and in her comment she said she real did i try her best. so it didn't sound good.
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we do feel for her. >> don't put a spin on the national anthem. just stick with the basics. >> and on key, right. my goodness. actually, there is a come position err musician, i believe base in the california his name nick perez, he put together the sheet music version of fergie sing that song. >> oh,. >> is it a must see. >> i would say, pretty hilarious. >> more hilarious than that note she was trying to hit there? >> that. >> well, the weather lab high note today. >> yes, be singing about there >> i think so. >> now, it is very shall very mild already. but we have the issue of fog. you know, got to deal with the trade off here. and here is your view of that fog. not a great view. you can't even make out what you shouldn't see off in the distance, obviously ben franklin parkway. but just past the art museum, you can't even make out the center city skyline, and that is all lit up. so you can't even see the hint of light coming through from those skyscrapers beyond just what is that maybe a half mile
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down the road. so, that is your perfect example of what you will run into region wise here today. this is a widespread problem. the eyewitness weather watch remembers worth it, as well, seeing a lot of very poor visibility, everywhere. soap, if we can, let's go on out to the touch screen. i want to show you these reports. currently into the mid or low 50's, or, even in some spots, still down into the 40's, one spot even reporting down to the 30's this morning. that is definitely an anomaly compared to the rest of the region but we do have a lot of reports of fog. and that's casino every just the running theme. we go hyper local into cherry hill. lynn is also reporting that. she is at 50 degrees. pea soup. you know, that's how you describe this kind of very dense fog. it is everywhere. again, all of the watchers are reporting it this morning. but at least they've also got that warmth. now, here is actually picture taken by one of the very own eyewitness weather ers, wayne hunter sent this in couple every weeks ago, serves as real good background for what we will see today. fog starts the day off but
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later on really going to be feeling much more like may than anything. our high is projected to hit 71, that would be a new record record to beat is 70 back in 1939. and your average hi, is only 45. so you do the math. i mean you're well into 20, 25 , even 26 degrees today for philly above average with the value. looking at the very wide zoom on storm scan, though, just sitting in the warm sector of the storm system. that's the issue when it comes to the fog and the moisture that's just settling in. so the warmfront, listed through yesterday, now we just need this mess, to cross on through. that will take a while, because very large system. so not until tomorrow night at the earliest, that we really start to see things get underway. future visibility, not great. this takes us through 6:00 a.m., 7:00 a.m., 8:00 a.m., still nearing zero visibility according to this particular model. dense fog advisory expires at 10:00 a.m. for most every you at which point we will start to see the worse of this lift. but this will be a long hall. until that fog lift. and then even tomorrow, we could have the same issue.
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but both of these days are very, very mild. those record setters before the next front comes along bridges more rain and the cool down, meisha? >> yep. get outside today and tomorrow for sure. thank you, katie. so we just have to get through this morning commute. looking pretty busy because every visibility issues, yes, just wet, damp, all of the good stuff that makes for rough commute. so looking outside right now at police activity right here. route one northbound past oxford valley road. why? we're getting some report of some disable vehicles from a pothole. those darn potholes. i hit one yesterday. or maybe it was the day before really hard. coy almost feel my rim. so i can understanded how they hit big enough one, actually having some disabled vehicles out there, because of it, so anyway, we do have police activity pulled off to the far right. you can see just a string of headlight out there, getting pretty busy around the area, frankford avenue at orthodox
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street, another accident in cherry him, chapel avenue, less than posted speeds, a a dent investigation, 611 easton road, closed between mill road and pa turnpike, alternate blair mill road. york road is your best bet. >> meisha, 30,000 adults that the kids will be asking for in a few months. >> here is natasha with a look at some of the toys that aren't even on shelves yet. >> every birthday party and next christmasses is happening right now. >> kids don't even know they want this yet. >> take a good look at those google eyes. this palm seed likely to be on your child's wish list when it hit shelves in the paul. >> i wrap it around my wrist. >> the more you touch and play with it, the more the pomsies react. >> technology evolves, gets cheaper for toy makers to integrate into products. it keeps the price point down. >> down to $15. both pet play and games, classic trends taking new
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twists this year. money made from games has increased again, thanks to silly moments, you can share, on social media. >> this really feels like game category. double digits two years ago, up last year. >> also on trends, toy toilet humor, molding blasting toilet paper. good luck cleaning that up. less messy, more educational are the teaching toys. >> weird new friends my loopy interactive robot that can be paired with a app. >> say different things, have basic coating concepts built in. so they can drag and drop and learn the early days of zip coding. >> so who decides what goes on the store shelves? 50000 buyers walking the halls >> discover the toys, strike some deals, maybe ask for color change. >> what they fick could be the winners that kids will be begging for, in new york, reporting.
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>> well in other news, more women of color are ditching chemicals to straighten their hair and our showcasing their natural curl. >> research firm mental says nearly 08% of african-americans wore their hair in a natural style last year. major retailers catching on lining their shelves with black hair care products, and lost curl 16 years ago after in the g lack of product for afros, waves, and curls, and today her products are carried nationwide. >> all of the experts or the people in the industry assumed tag going to be a fad but it has been around for all of these years, not a fad. >> research firm says half of black women use at least three , four products in their hair care regimen. >> coming up next, a different type of flour power, we'll show you. >> also ahead ben franklin franklin may have discovered electricity, wait until you hear what a british can generate electricity. you will not believe this
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every clean monday, which is an orthodox christian holiday, marking the beginning of lent. >> well, a british inventor says he's hoping to change the public's perception of dog poop. >> yes, he says it can be used as is a power source. he spent several years developing his street lamps. he modified it so-called bio, and figure out how to channel the emissions to the top of the lamp post. says it has been a learning experience. >> a journey of discovery. because there is so little knowledge about bio digesting dog poo anywhere in the world, so we had to find out from square one how it behaves, what is the best way to bio digest it. >> who is does he even first -- >> i don't know, i don't flow. >> the company now modifying his design and offering it to public parks, which are often looking for low cost environmentally friendly ways to del with dog poop. >> you have to give him credit it is cents a good idea. >> it it works. >> coming up in the next hour of cbs-3 "eyewitness news,"
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well, some morning fog could add some extra time to your commute today. then you can completely ditch the jacket as the temperature soars to 70. how long this spring like weather will last. >> green tree agers, more missed warning signs emerge about the accused gunman. >> and, president turns heads with a tweet about mitt romney what he's now saying about the man he once called the dumbest and worse candidate in history >> on that note today is tuesday, february 20th, good morning, everyone, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. katie and meisha are here, and the warm weather. >> yes, the fog is really posting problems for us, seeing just little bit of everything. not only are we seeing accident out, there seeing troubles at the airport, delays and concellations, at the airport, seeing disabled vehicles, people seeing potholes, a mess. >> that's such a pain, too, at least could you try to
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