first breaking news, violence erupts in ferguson, missouri overnight after demonstrators learn there would be no criminal indictment against city police officer who shot an unarmed teenager. >> and that unrest continues this morning, as more fires burn all across ferguson. >> this auto repair shop just one of more than dozen business police businesses police say were vandalized, and looted by angry protesters overnight. >> officials in the st. louis suburb all the way up to the white house are plead for calm. police officers are reportedly hit with rocks, bottles, and batteries. groups of people swarmed around the police car, you can see the video right there. authority use tear gas, to help disperse those crowds, without force, we're told. >> danielle nottingham joins just ferguson where the national guard has boot on the ground in order to curb the

violence. good to see you. >> good morning. >> matter of minutes, peaceful protests gave way to violence, and so far, police have made at least 29 arrests. protesters marched into the early hours, demonstrations, spiraled out of control, and turned violent. at least dozen buildings were set on fire. biggs cents looted, windows broken, hundreds of gunshots heard. >> what i've seen tonight is probably much worse than the worse night we ever had in august. >> police hurled tear gas into crowds. some demonstrators taunted authorities and set fires to police cars. >> police brought it on themselves. they have aggressive stands. >> so the rioting quickly spread here, where protesters set businesses on fire topping

the decision, released document released by 12 jurors, including images, and testimony, to officer wilson. wilson said he shot series of rounds during the august 9 confrontation, which began while he was still in his squad car. wilson said his hands were inside on me, he enters my vehicle with his hands, arms, and his head, assaulting me police continue to urge protestors to demonstrate peacefully. >> not due to destruction of our community. >> brown's mother broke down among protesters following the decision. even in her anger, she urged protesters, not to combat violence, with violence. st. louis police chief says he feels they've done all they could do, protesters last night, wanted to cause destruction. live in ferguson, danielle nottingham, now back to you. >> thank you so much for. that will now there is exclusive "eyewitness news" video shows philadelphia police arresting two

protesters last night, say demonstrations remain peaceful throughout the city. jan carabeo live report for you on more planned protests today, that's coming up in just a few minutes. right now, let's get our traffic and weather together. katy? >> loco looking at quiet day, clouds over the skydeck, but starting to see some bringing in the cloud cover, going through the day you will seymour sunshine, but it is also little cooler than yesterday was temperatures stay level. of course we have storm system to track. so get you through all of it, start things offer with quick look at storm scan3, where you are seeing some break in that cloud cover. moisture off shore. frontal boundery will be stalling off shore. what it will do almost act as a railroad for the storm to move in, track up the coast. temperatures at the moment, pretty mild, 58 degrees at the airport, starting to see some

cooler air nudge in, though, up in the mount pocono area, 41 degrees, talking travel here guys. if you are planning to do any travel for the holidays, today would be your best bet. obviously, not everyone can get away with that, if you can't adjust your travel plans, and you got to go tomorrow, if you can, leave as early as possible. maybe beat the storm. i would say up until 10:00 a.m. that would be your best shot to see the least of the impact from the storm itself. but, you might be battling a lot of traffic. meanwhile, as we look ahead at today's forecast, again, very quiet, 57 degrees, down the shore, with more clouds, we've got some clouds here, in philadelphia, too. but it is a pretty pleasant day that said. so again, if you can adjust those travel plans, we advise that do you so by tomorrow. looking at major travel nightmare. vittoria? >> definitely not looking forward to that. good morning, everyone, you will not be looking forward to commuting on some of our majors, 951 of them, and the schuylkill the other. other majors traveling 422, 476, in the yellow, not in the

red. so, it could be worse. ninety-five however in particular, if you are traveling southbound, out of the northeast, all the way down through to the vine, even far northeast, ac aid any down through to the vine, will look a lot like. >> this northbound 95 also seeing delays as you make your way out through to about cottman avenue. i would say. traveling on 476, here's a shot where things aren't too bad. if you are traveling in either direction, this shot here, not too far away from the area of route one, southbound northbound commuting again little bit slow. but not in the red. you are in the red on the schuylkill. seventy-six westbound jammed approaching the roosevelt boulevard, moving throughout the area, toward conshohocken, 9 miles per hour your average. ten is your average traveling on 95, 25 is your average on 476. if you are commuting westbound side of the pa turnpike you have delays out of bucks county, down the mid-county, if you are traveling on 422, we also have eastbound delays out of the area of oaks down toward 202. but it is not really thick. it is just slow. we also have an accident, if you are traveling in montgomery county at millionaire hill road at butler pike, try to avoid that

if you k no major delays for mans transit. erika? >> thank you, vet tore y developing right now, protesters in city streets across the country right here in philadelphia. >> police arrested two people during the march from city hall columbus boulevard of the we have live team coverage on the local reaction here in philadelphia. let's start with jan carabeo from sit hall. jan? >> reporter: ukee, philadelphia police tell us they anticipate more protests today. they say they're ready should those protests happen. overnight, they say, the protests here in philly remain largely peaceful, this group was respectful, there were only two people taken into custody. and "eyewitness news" has that exclusive video voices, as many as three un he pro protesters felled philadelphia streets overnight after learning missouri grand jury decided not to indict ferguson police officer for the shooting death after un arm teenager.

>> charge against officer wilson. >> no soon her this group listened to the decision it, they denounce it, hundreds walk miles, up and down market street, brought street, south street, eventually ending at columbus boulevard. >> calling the overnight protest respectful. >> it is a night the city of philadelphia has to be prout of. police department can be proud, protesters can be proud. >> two people coming into custody, someone walking onto busy i95, forcing bike cop to step? >> kneel down into the running lane of >> the circumstances that exist in ferguson, and philadelphia, and before we have a mike brown situation here, we need to address it, and try to find better ways to solve our issue here. >> now, again, police say we

can't expect charges to be filed later on this morning, but, again, no reported injuries, and no damage to any private and personal property. jan carabeo. >> and coverage continues with "eyewitness news" reporter david spunt. >> live with reaction from mayor nutter who spark non-violent protests in our city, david? >> good morning to you, ukee, good morning to you. mayor nutter spoke to reporters, twice yesterday once before the grand jury decision came down once after. his demeanor a lot after it came down. weigh vest frank with reporters. he said he was discussed by what happened. and he says that the entire vehicles, entire case in ferguson, was quote botched from start to finish. now, looking at that video, and we've been showing that you video all morning of the protesting and looting and fires going on, in ferguson, we know at least 12 or so buildings completely engulfed right now, and flames at auto

body store brown family asked for no violence, same thing the mayor of philadelphia has done. he said while he disagrees with the entire situation, as i said, he said it was botch. he doesn't want to make sure there is going to be no violence in philadelphia. take a listen. >> any of those want to respond, respect the memory that far young man, respect the wishes of his family exercise your constitutional right to protest. very, very important right here in america, but do not harm another person. >> those are comment from mayor michael nutter shortly after the grand jury decision came down. as far as today, jan carabeo talking about possible protests later today. mayor nutter said he's confident things will go smoothly because the police are trained, the police department, they're expecting anything to happen today. hopefully it is peaceful. live on the parkway, david

spunt, "eyewitness news" on on the "cw" fill. >> i grand jury decision, much more on our website cbsphilly.com. it is 8: 106789 managing diabetes can be tough. but coming up next, some apps that can make it just a bit easier. >> also ahead this morning, in our health watch, the long lasting effect of extreme weather, to hurricanes, what that can do to a child's health. >> and just in time for one of the busiest travel days of the year, yes, bracing for snow. we'll show you how penndot is preparing the road for all of the holiday travelers. >> ♪ >> are you homeward bound? any travel plans? katie's forecast, specking some snow corks make a mess of

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>> basically allowing one truck to cover almost as much as what one truck and a half to two trucks could do. >> they're august lawing you to change your flight without any additional fee to today or even thursday. you may want to see if you can alter your plans. let's find out more about the weather coming in. here's kate. >> i certainly, traveling today, you're a-okay, if you're staying relatively local. don't have much of anything going on, in fact, as we take a look at our area up through the northeast, appalachian spine, obviously something going on. off to the south. right here, here is your frontal boundery already crossing through the area, responsible for knocking temperatures back here today. >> seymour moisture pent off to the south, the combination of it, folks, moisture, source being drawn in from the gulf, see this area of low pressure developing ride up the front

like train track. now, i want to walk you through future weather, so today, totally a-okay and in the clear. tomorrow morning, make sure to tune in, guys, here we go with the first raindrops moving, in not only intensifying, as it moves northeast, but also, helping generate its own cold air a lot of moisture, and enough cold air to produce heavy snow. i'm getting questions on twitter. how will this stick, or is it even going to stick to the roads? this is going to thump. snow it thumps that heavy snow, for a long periods of time, it will stick anywhere it falls. tan could even bring down some power lines or tree limbs in its wake. bass it is heavy wet slush he variety. see how the heavy snow line shifts south with time here. so that said, you're talking hours worth, of snowfall, and you're going to be dealing with inches worth of

accumulation, for sure. and generally speaking, the further northwest you go in our area, the heavier snow you are looking at here, lehigh valley pocono region, general four to 8 inches expected that will extends as far south as upper becomes, western montgomery chester count it is. for philly and the meade vat advice inch tip, two to 4-inch swab across the river into new jersey, but talking teen yore delaware new jersey, mainly rain, but will be modest coat coating to inch or two, accumulates right on the back edge of this storm. so, that said, winter storm watches are posted, or at least they take effect anyway, for early tomorrow morning. they last through all day and all night. and then, thankfully there is storm gets out of here quickly enough that we can give thanks on thursday without any additional issues here. it is dry but will be chilly, with our happy dancing turkey, 41 degrees at best for your high. vittoria? >> we love that turk. >> i so cute. >> good morning, everyone, right now, if you are traveling on the majors, do you have rush hour delays, going to start first with 422, it doesn't look awful though. that's the thing.

notice we pull up the map in a little bit that we do have a lot more yellow than we do red. so, it is not awful at 8:17. but eastbound 422, some slow going out of the area of oaks down toward the area of 202, traveling on the schuylkill expressway, westbound, this is definitely one area where we are seeing red. we just go right to the maps. give you better idea what your area dealing w red on the schuylkill westbound would be approaching the boulevard, then making your way just past gladwynn. 18 miles per hour is your average there. do you again have lot of yellow follows you throughout your western suburbs, not only westbound, it is also eastbound. twenty-nine is your average on 476, if you are traveling on the westbound pa turnpike, unfortunately, we have slow downs out of bucks county, all the way through to the mid-county toll plaza. traveling on 95, that's another spot, where you are in the red. 13 miles per hour, you do have delays out of the northeast down through to the vine st. expressway. traveling westbound on the vine, expect delays approaching the area of the schuylkill. if you are traveling westbound, on 76, approaching the vine st. expressway, that's another slow spot. incidents pretty low out, there good news, no delays for

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>> penndot crews are make sure their trucks interest in place to hit the roads. this is king every prussia, there are more than 400 snow plow trucks ready to go in the five county philadelphia region. and 100,000 tons of salt. dough don't need all of it. katie in the weather center, good morning. >> it appears as though we'll ends up with substantial snow, but thankfully this wouldn't be anything, you know, record territory. just because of its timing, that it becomes as big after issue as we think it will be. let's look at storm scan3, where you have few speckles evergreen, but, no actual precipitation out there. generally just some clouds at this hour.

and those will eventually break for some sun. but talk about this snow, shall we? it moves in tomorrow early morning, as rain, but eventually the coal air takes over, and this is what we end up with. that heavy wet slushy variety, where in philadelphia from rain over to snow, looking at two-4 inches, four to eight, however, as you head further north and west. and even up in the mountain us terrain it can be more at any that. now, thankfully, whole storm out of here. by turkey day, things look quiet for us, but traveling obviously to your holiday destination is looking to be at least a little dicey. vittoria? >> thank you so much, katie. if you are traveling right now, we do have rush hour delays, but actually starting to loosen up little bit. which is good news. this is 95. traveling southbound, that's the girard avenue exit right there. southbound 95, do you have some stop and go traffic out of the northeast down through the vine st. expressway, so the usual stuff. however, speed censors still in the teens. same thing traveling on the schuylkill expressway westbound, 24 your average traveling on 476, and if you're traveling the media elwin line for regional rails, expect up to 20 minute delays due to disable train.

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a lot of gunfire. i'm disappointed this evening, i really don't have any hesitation, in telling you, that i didn't see a lot of people protest out there tonight. and i'm disappointed about. that will i'm not saying there weren't folks out there, that were out there for the right reason, i'm not saying that wasn't the case. but i am saying, unfortunately there is spun out of control. >> more than 80 people were arrested, in the mayhem, overnight. >> jan carabeo joins us from city hall, after the grand jury announcement last night. >> hundreds took to the streets calling for justice in ferguson, more prorates cents are called for today, right, jan? >> that's right. philadelphia police tell us they anticipate number of protests happening here in the city today. they say, they're prepared, as far as last night protest goes, though, they say the groups were very respectful, and very peaceful, there were only two people taken into custody. no reports of any injuries. and no damage to any personal or private property. to take a look at the video, you can see some of the action that unfolded last night.

police say out of 300 protesters, only two people had to be taken into custody. protesters spilled into the center city streets overnight after learning about the grand jury decision, protesters started here at city hall, then walked several miles making their way all the way to columbus boulevard along that route, police tell us couple of people tried to hop onto busy i95. that's when bike police were forced to intervene that's when two feel were taken into custody. take a listen. >> i would anticipate one person getting charged, did go into the running lane of i95, created extremely hazardous situation where a female bike officer had to herself enter the bike lanes of i95 and pull the person to safety. >> two people taken into custody. philadelphia police tell us at least one of those people will face charges later on this morning, and again, police are

gearing up for more protests, developing story, we ' stay on top of it, bring the latest to you as soon as we have t reporting live outside of city hall. jan carabeo, "eyewitness news" on the "cw" fill. >> i jan, thank you. we will continue to follow this story and bring you the latest developments on website. you can also find more information by heading over to cbsphilly.com. right now, coming up on 8:33, katie, pretty calm today, right? >> absolutely. from any holiday travel plans for today, you're totally fine, both today and tonight are quiet. we have some clouds out there now. that will break for some sunshine, then see clouds build back in again, that comes because of of course as we've been discussing our next storm system. which is going to be brinking in what look to be some substantial snow to the area. so, it is all good for now. but, as we look ahead to tomorrow, and winter storm watches go into effect, we are going to see pretty significant impact. now, it looks like the worse of the impact comes mainly midday. as not just the storm system is making its closest pass bringing in heaviest more

ties, as it intensifies and moves northeast, but also, because we will start to see the rain-snow line dip further south. more people will start to see the heavy slushy difficult to travel through kind of variety of snow mix in here. about late afternoon into the early evening, so that is sort of your storm impact travel curve i guess could you say here, best to stay put if you can. but obviously, not everyone can do that. meanwhile, right now, you would never know there was storm coming at least not one that would be producing this casino of snow, right? 58 degrees currently at the airport, 59 atlantic city, but when this storm does get here it, will thump hard enough we will definitely see some accumulation out of it. meanwhile expecting temperatures to stay on the mild side. at least according to the seasonable norm. but it is cooler by comparison to yesterday. and we do still have clouds out there, but there will be break, with some sunshine, as we move forward today. bottom line, dry at least. vittoria, over to you. >> thank you so much, katie. and if you are traveling right now, throughout the rush hour, you will notice on the

schuylkill, 95, looks pretty usual. unfortunately, traveling on 76 westbound, approaching city avenue, we now have accident to watch out for. it is compromising not only the shoulder but little bit of the left-hand lane. making a bit of a squeeze. you know how the schuylkill goes, as soon as we see something like this, just snowballs, no pun end tends. traveling on the 95, 95 another slow spot, if you are making your way out of the northeast, down through to the vine street expressway, again, speed censors still going to be in some parts some areas into the teens. that's primarily around cottman avenue, girard avenue, through the construction zones. twelve your average on the schuylkill expressway, volume 76 affecting the roosevelt boulevard southbound. careful of. that will watch out for delays approaching to and from the vine street expressway. traveling the westbound side of the vine expect delays approaching the schuylkill. that was good. we went from 35 to now 40 on 476. definitely improvement there. as you will notice again, rush is starting to taper off just little bit. however, if you are traveling the media elwyn regional rail line, now experiencing up to

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and meryl streep with the president, wonderful night. >> katy? >> we want to check in, start things off out toward the jersey shore, where we have beautiful picture, tim mitchell sent in, atlantic city shore line here, beautiful sunrise, but pretty choppy surf. there was little fog earlier in the morning, but it has since moved out. a 2 degrees the last 20, 25 minutes meant from kathy. notice with us all morning, perhaps, we have seen these temperatures gradually decline with time, 51 degrees over the last half hour, sent in by fran. and we are starting to see at least little bit of sunshine out his way. generally, that's what you are going to find. but, you know, even though today is quiet, going next to storm scan3, we are certainly dealing with some major weather activity tomorrow. storm is it self isn't actually formed yet. you might see up here across the great lakes, thinks that's the snow system headed our

way. that's actually just going to help provide some of the cold air needed, for us to see some snow here tomorrow. some decent might tour riding up a along it, where we see our storm form, eventually use that like a train track ride right up it, bring in the moisture by early tomorrow morning. so at that point start to see winter storm watches take effect. does start off as rain in most spots, but notice the mixing even by 8:00 in the morning, will start to take place here. so generally the north and western portion of our region is looking at strictly snow making storm out of this. and then, as the colds air is generated when this intensifying storm, you will see most locations turn over to snow, he can peck takes two to four for philadelphia, and then higher amounts going further north and west, even in toward evening, south and central most new jersey, will very likely see little bit of snow mixing in here, but, because it doesn't have heck of a lot of time, probably looking at only coating to

inch or two. so here is a good sort of synopsis to gave you a idea what you are being looking at hereby region on, how much are you talking? rain to snow in philly, the immediate vicinity, go even to say upper bucks county, you could be talking to up 8 inches. that's how marginal and very sharp this precipitation gradient will be. vet tore crashes over to you. >> good morning, update on the schuylkill expressway, we still have an accident situation, westbound, 76, as you approach the area of city avenue. now, notice, disable truck, tractor-trailer, vehicle up ahead. left lane being come proa promisees dollars, adding to the volume you already have on 76 westbound, approaching city avenue making your way out toward gladwynn. if you are traveling on 476, we've loose ends things up around the area of route one, a lot of good news. notice, through our maps. that we do have a lot more yellow than we do red. seventy-six westbound, around the area of the roost develop boulevard, that is adding

delays on the southbound side of the roosevelt boulevard as well. twelve your average traveling on 95 out of the northeast down through to the vine. we also have volume approaching 76, but jumped up to 47 on the blue route, a lot of good news there, if you are traveling in new jersey, we still have some lingering volume on 42 northbound, as well as 55 northbound, but even that is getting better. however, the media elwyn rail line still experiencing to up 20 minute delays, all balls every disable train, no major delays for the philadelphia international airport. there we go. ukee? >> looking ahead to the possibility of snow, one of the busiest travel days of the year. penndot making sure they're ready to clear the roads t has hundreds of plows, and some 200,000 pounds of salt ready to go. update on breaking news, fire, vandalism, looting in ferguson, missouri in the aftermath of grand injury decision, jury decided not to indict ferguson police officer, darren wilson, in the summer shooting death of 18 year old michael brown.

several large cities staged demonstration after the decision came down if philadelphia, hundreds of people marched through center city. now, police say there were just two arrests, and the demonstrations were largely peaceful. >> did you know your credit cards or debit card may offer benefits that could save you hundreds even thousands of dollars? >> all right, "3 on your side" consumer reporter jim donovan takes a look at potentially priceless perks, just in time, for the shopping season. >> savvy shopper kimberly rose scours the fine print every credit cards to make sure she only applies for the once that offer her money saving benefits. >> other years, i saved thousands of dollars, by using the credit card benefit. >> kimberly remembers when her phone broke, after the manufacturer's warantee had expired. luckily she bought the device with her american express card, which offered an extended warantee. mastercard has a similar policy. it doubles the manufacturer or

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jammies and slippers and shopping on line. >> folks like just luck it seems, more malls offering perks to make busy shopping days like "black friday" more enjoyable. looking at what retailers want you to shop in stores rather than on line. >> "black friday"'s block buster deals may not be enough any more. a survey by bank rate found 28% of shop letters head to brick and mortar store. americans projected to spend record $89 billion on line this holiday season. up 13% over 2013. malls pushed to revamp the in door experience, especially shoppers rely more on their smart phone. virtual consierge allows shoppers to text questions and get answers about gift ideas in real time. not replacing personal touches, but adding options. >> they make sure they have different kind of amenities available from the old stands bust like vallet parking, free gift wrapping, things that far nature. >> it is a new thing, entertainment options, and new ways to calm and see and meet

santa claus, for instance. >> the fashion center at pentagon city in arlington, virginia, will offer perks like extra discounts, survival kit for the earliest thanksgiving night and "black friday" shoppersment many stores are also experimenting same day delivery, to keep shoppers from heading back to their cars with full arms. malls believe they still hold key competitive edge. the mall is a social experience many families like to come and have the whole shopping experience, want to get a good deal. want that time just to be together. >> even if it means braving the crowds, and the parking lots. >> for consumer watch, i'm karen cape a. >> this christmas, tree deemed ugly, for some berks county residents, will stay in its current location after all. francis ordered the removal of this pretzel topped pine after someone said it was ruining their holiday spirit. >> changed his mind, now the 50-foot tree will stay in

downtown reading and how about this, some people are comparing the events today famous animated cartoon, charlie brown christmas. >> hey, parallel story line, just saying. >> just a bit. that's right. >> who, i mean, who so delicate the tree's ruining their holiday spirit? >> i know it. >> it is a tree. >> nice touch. >> that's all about the soul and the spirit like you say. >> i admit some gaps in the branches, but just put more onments in. fill them in. >> it is beautiful. >> easy sololution. >> we'll take a sort break. good morning, we'll be right back.

>> we want to know what you're thankful for, tweet it or post it ton our facebook page. might see your comment and pictures here on "eyewitness news". that time of year. also, time to start talking little more snow, kate. >> i yep, it is that time of year, as well, sometimes these things happen. so, here is a look at our storm time line. all day event tomorrow. as you can see, we're with this all morning, all afternoon, and into the night, as well. starting off as rain, but eventually almost everybody gets in on snow, and some of you could be looking at some of the heavier snow. vittoria? >> thank you so much, katie. good morning, everyone, un for the lip, if you are traveling the broad street line, they're speans yens g some equipment

problems at snyder station, so shuttle bussing lombard to south to paterson. so definitely want to factor that in for your commute today. >> thank you, appreciate t thanks for watching "eyewitness news" on the "cw philly" don't forget poor if nor local news weather traffic and sports always on for you at cbsphilly.com. >> check out talk philly at noon on cbs-3, back in 30 seconds with one more check on your traffic and weather together. we'll be right back.

>> good morning, more protests planned for later today at philadelphia, and large cities across the country, responds to last night's missouri grand jury decision. the jury die seed i had not to indict ferguson police officer for the shooting of un around teenage they are summer b300 people marched through center city, south street, and columbus boulevard, after the verdicts were red last night. authorities say there were only two arrests locally, more than two dozen in ferguson, and demonstrations were mostly peaceful. all right, let's check in with katie. wow, we have calm today. tomorrow watch out if you're traveling. >> absolutely there is will be one of those forecasts that really messes with your entire day tomorrow.

it makes it that much wore worse, the timing way less than ideal, one of the busiest travel days of the year. >> you have some clouds out on storm scan3, real at this, expect to see at least some sun as the day progresses but talking snow amount, shall we? generally we are expect to go see the highest amounts, fall across the northwest half of the delaware valley, it starts off as rain, for almost everyone, but eventually that rain-snow line drops south. so we will see it change over to snow in philly, and right now looking at at least 2 inches, possibly up to four, more like coating, up to inch or two. the further southeast you g i think at the shore probably just looking at some rain and gusty wind. whole thing gone by thursday, we have pretty quiet holiday weekend overall. vittoria? >> thank you so much, katie. good morning, everyone, unfortunately traveling the broad street line will not be easy this morning. they're having some equipment problems at snyder station. they are shuttle bussing between lombard south to paterson. definitely factor that in in morning. also the media elwyn regional rail line experiencing up to

20 minute delays. traveling 95 and the schuylkill, usual rush hour delays. back to you. >> thank you, that's eyewitness fuse for now, talk philly coming up at noon on cbs-3. i'm erika von tiehl. hope you have a great morning. you tell us what you want to pay and we help find options to fit your budget. nah, nah, insurance, nah, nah, nah, discount. my name's flo, you want to go out with me? no. uh-huh-huh!

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