when those two cruisers slammed into each or. one officer suffered a concussion, all three are expected to recover. and new this morning a man is pistol whipped and shot during a robbery in fernrock. the 44 year-old victim was held up by three men in the courtyard of the regency apartments at olney and ogontz just after 1:00 a.m. they took a hundred dollars in cash from him and then shot him once in the abdomen a. we are told that victim is in stable condition. police are reviewing surveillance camera in hopes of getting a better look at the that suspect. our breaking news this morning comes from berkley, missouri where police say an officer shot and killed a man who pointed a gun at him at a gas station. now demonstrators have gathered there, there was some vandalism and looting. berkley is 2 miles from ferguson where august shooting of the black teen by a white the police officer triggered nationwide protest. we are expect to go hear from berkley authorities in the next few minutes as they have released surveillance video of the circumstances surrounding

last night's deadly shooting, again, we will bring you that video as soon as we have able to. more breaking news for you though isis militants claim they have shot down a jordan anwar plane and captured its pilot. the the group released these still pictures. this marks the the first time that a plane has been shot down in the u.s. led coalition. well, right now a hit and run day before christmas eve leaves a with man dead in the north east, "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabao is live with the description of that car, jan? >> reporter: nicole and erika, a at least authorities have a pretty good idea of the vehicle they are looking for that they believe is responsible to they're deadly hit and run in holmesberg yesterday. police are still on the look out this morning for a black tow truck with a missing headlight, lets take a look. it is evidence of a deadly hit and run in holmesberg a headlight smash, ripped from the black tow truck and left at the scene with a woman was hit. linda alfonse was there as hit and run unfolded in front of

her. >> i saw her walk up to the center line and then she was gone, and then her, her cell phone and purse hit my car. >> reporter: accident happened here in the 8100 block of state road in holmesberg 5:15 tuesday evening. investigators say the three three-year old victim was not in the crosswalk as she was hit. a as tow truck traveled north, eyewitnesses say the driver didn't even slow down. >> it hit so hard, they had to know they hit something and would have at least stopped. >> reporter: police are searching for the truck and its drive, hoping surveillance video in the area will help better identify both. >> when somebody strikes a human being and then intentionally flees the scene, involved in the hit and run, well then that is just a horrific tragedy. >> reporter: it is a scene other drivers on state road that night won't soon forget and reaction by a driver they say they will never understand. >> by the time i realized it was a personally stopped my car just to see if i could help her.

>> you knew he hit someone. you heard him, whoever the driver was, knew that they hit her. she could, you heard the impact. >> reporter: police have not yet identified this three three-year old victim. as far as the driver that is driver will face vehicle hard homicide. reporting live, outside accident investigation division jane carabao on "eyewitness news" at cw philly. former president george hw bushies waking up in a houston hospital this morning. he was rush there last night after experiencing shortness of breath. family spokesmen says that the trip to the happies just a precaution, mr. bushies now 90 years old. the forty-first president spent time in the the same hospital last year with bronchitis. right now 8:03. let check that rain, katie coming down. >> still out there and with us anytime today, this is going to be one of those days where we don't catch a break in between.

there is a break that happening but fresh rain on the horizon waiting in the wings here and it is just a matter of time before they overtake the delaware valley. we will see them coming through waves as the day goes on. outside this middle school we go we have a fresh drop of rain drops on the camera lens skewing the visibility. we will find that on the roadways as well, not to mention, still a little will hint of low lying cloud cover. it isn't quite as bad as it was but it is still a problem, and it already hazlet to some delays at the airport and we are finding some patches in a place like wilmington or lancaster or especially in mount pocono where it is worse then it is in other places. the today is the the worst day it has when it comes to the weather. if you have last minute errand or traveling today it will slow you down. we are looking at rain and some wind, no icing, no snow this time around and by christmas daze win is still an

issue but it will be clearing out for some sunshine, vittoria, over to you. >> the with the weather today it definitely makes me feel a little anxious, because even that sheen of just delicate wittness on the roads can cause major problems and that is compactly what happened on the vine street expressway. fuzz are trying to use westbound side of the vine i would advise to you just avoid it at all cost because it is close add approaching the schuylkill, erika. >> thanks very much, variety tore y we want to get back to breaking news, we have been following all morning, police shoot and killed a 18 year-old man in the gas station in the the st. louis suburb near ferguson, missouri sparking new protest. >> police will be releasing surveillance video. lets listen in right new live as authorities hold a news conference. >> i would like to offer my condolences of family of the deceased.

this is a family that right any regardless of the decisions with this individual made are without a family member at this christmas season. this is also a tragedy for the police officer, you know, you will carry the weight of this for the rest of his life, certainly the rest of his career. there are in winners here. there are nothing but losers. and i think this is really underscores the task that our police officers a across the nation to have deal with day in and day out as they answer those calls for our community at 11:15 yesterday evening a berkley officer, who is a a six-year veteran of the berkley police department, in a mark car and full uniform responded for a call for a larceny, a stealing, in the 6800 block offhandly road in the city of berkley. the officer encountered two individuals at the time on the south side of the mobil run in the 6800 block. one of those individuals, is,

we're going to determine later was armed with a pistol but at the time the officer didn't know that. he had a flashlight in his left hand. he called one of the individuals over, who toward the grill of the officer police car. the other individual came over toward the driver side of the police car. the officer was talking to both of them. the individual that will have the firearm, he backed away, and to the east, just for a few steps, and turned bark around and officer started engaging him in conversation again and then the individual produced a pistol, and with his arms straight out, pointed at the officer from across the hood of the police car. at that point the the officer, produced his service weapon and fired what we think at this point is three shots. he did this, if you watched video and you will get a chance to see this. the officer when encountered with the pistol he begins to

very, very quickly wrappedly move backwards. he loses his balance and falls backwards, throws his flashlight, loses that and then does get three round off. we feel like and i don't know everything yet, you need to understand that, medical examiner is still conducting their investigation but we feel like one shot struck the suspect, one suspect struck the tire of the police car and we cannot account for the third round. it appears that the three round were fired from the officer's weapon, but it could turnout to be more than three shots that were shot but that is what we think at the time. we do not believe that there was any shots fired from the suspect . the suspect was armed with a 9-millimeter high point, with a defaced serial number, five round in the chamber and one round in the magazine. the officer retreated to the west, behind some gas pull president. he waited for an assist car to arrive before he approached

the suspect again. berkley e ms respondedded to the scene, and they were able to examine the suspect, and the 18 year-old male was in fact pronounced by the e ms crew there. chief mccall i'm being apprised of the situation made a notification to st. louis county communications, crimes begins persons to investigate this. they got the call at about 11:45 last night. they arrived about approximately 12:15 in the morning and they began to conduct their investigation. we were able to partition this young man's body off so nobody would see it while we were working the the scene and we were able to transport him 1:30, 1:40 hours this morning. it should be noted we did seized video from the mobile on the run station.

they have several cameras there. i have still footage and i will show you here in a minute some of that video. you will be sent. that we also have at least two witnesses say that they saw this incident happened too. i talk a little bit about the fact that the individual, the descendent had another individual with him. that is a person of ninth our case that we want to talk to. there is some video footage of him that i would like you guys to show if you could in your immediate use, to see if we could identify this person i think he will be important to talk to there are to second other witnesses at the parking lot at time that we have to talk to i spoke with mr. mccall at 3:30... >> listening live to a press conference happening outside ferguson where there was another shooting involving police office are shooting and killing a man outside a gas station. that man we're told first pulled a pistol on those officers, right now for first

time we are seeing surveillance video from that incident. >> all right. we will have more on that story coming up on "eyewitness news". they did mention two witnesses and just talked about what a tragedy this is in the only for that victim but for police officers. >> today on talk fill a at noon and also on cbs philly.com. in other news rainy weather causing some problems for us here at home, arriving flights are averaging one hour delays a at philadelphia international. look at those lines. but more than a dozen flights have been canceled so far this morning so if you are heading out of town or picking up someone from the airport check out that flight status before you head out, find that by calling 800-phl gator go to cbs philly.com. man missing since last week has been found and police say he is in good condition. dana brown was last seen in his home on wallace street in mantua last friday. friend and loved ones say brown required medication and they are glad he is back home now. authorities say brown will be reunited with his family.

vice-president biden plans to a ten saturday funeral of rafael ramos and arrangement for lou when lou have in the been set. despite the the plea to wait until after the funerals. hundreds attempted to shut down the fifth avenue knew shopping district yesterday protesting police violence and racism in the justice system. well, lights at times square went dim for five minutes last night in honor of the murdered officers. six eye congress buildings took part in the tribute in addition to the tree at rock are feller center. landmarks were dark from 9:00 until 9:05. just in time for the holiday co-workers get together to help make it a merry christmas for a woman who was homeless, it is a story that will warm your heart. if you didn't send your holiday card don't worry we have recommendations for digital holiday greetings.

>> ♪ yeah, it may be rainy and it is still christmas, in our hearts. not going to be a white christmas katie will have details on our forecast in a bit stay safe out there and happy holidays everyone. we will be right back.

let's check in on that rain, katie. >> it is out there still, it will be with us all day and at any point today you will likely find spray coming off of the vehicles, the the clouds are out there, or, rain is actually falling. so even though we will see wet weather coming through in waves it will come through at anytime today and you will not

have too much window of an opportunity to get your traveling in without it. just expect it will be there as we head in the early afternoon pockets and waves of steady rain come through here as we will see the the additional round of moisture leading up to this. it looks like it is all done, right? in the so fast. we have the cold front. it does appear embedded thunderstorms within that. luckily they are not severe. 1:00 a.m. about the time santa ace making his round, he will need rodolph's nest extra bright here. early tomorrow morning one of the early risers you're ripping presents open at 6:00 a a.m. we might have have few left over showers but skies clearing. win speeds are still pretty light, but as the day goes on they will pick up with time that will scour out low clouds but it also means wind swept rain and you'll have to account for sure as you travel. variety tore y that rain we have, that sprinkling, if you will, on the roads has just caused major problems for anyone traveling the vine

street expressway, because one can definitely assume that it aided an accident in the eastbound 76 ramp, copping from the westbound vine street expressway. owe what we're dealing with now still closure of the vine approaching the parkway, traffic being diverted on to the parkway what you're looking at here is a nice overhead shot of the vine street, vine street local on the out identify and vine specifically through center here all of the brake lights hit approaching broad street and delay just continues to grow. traveling in this area your best alternate heading on the westbound side of the vine street expressway exit at broad and flip around on the eastbound side and then access 95. heading to the airport don't even use vine street expressway stay on i-95 if you can. media line is suspended as septa and patco running on special scheduled for the holiday. first family is spending christmas in had hawi. president obama went for a hike with his daughter mallea on a trail in hawaii.

reporters and photographers watched from a distance but they had quite the crowd with them. wondering who those people are. president spent sometime at the gym. way to get your work out in at a marine core base and played a few round of golf with a few friend. if you run out of time to send those traditional holiday cards there are digital ones. kara suboy has a look the a the best e greeting sites looking for a traditional style holiday card, check out offering from smile box.com. to begin you must down load design software on your computer and choose from hundreds of preholiday cards or pay more for premium styles. they range from simple one photo message toes animated slide shows of music. whatever you choose your e-mail card is sure to stand out from the paper competitors. just winning is a web service and app that allows to you create digital greetings. pick a card style, add a photo or not and send your free creation to friend via e-mail

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no place like home especially this time of the year and speaking of that concept a mother a and her two children are celebrating inside of their new home. >> up until last week she was homeless as andrea banford tells us her co-worker banded together to make sure she knew the joy of sharing. >> reporter: with the smile on her face sharrie carter to work serving customers at chick-fil-a in downtown rally with i durham. >> i don't think they knew i was homeless because i just didn't show it. >> reporter: the 37 year-old mother of two had no choice, after losing both of her parents and father of her children she lived in shelters and tell prepares i housing working hard to land this job and provide for her nine

year-old twilay and 15 year-old cortez. >> it wasn't easy but i made it a good situation for them by showing them love. >> carry her story and how hard she has work to provide for her family. there was right efforts to join our team. >> reporter: when sharrie moved perfect family in the apartment of her own last week her new boss, serena mccollough and other co-workers wanted to help buying her new furniture, dishes, even presents for kids to open up christmas morning. >> seeing my kids faces, how happy they are. >> reporter: sharrie called us wanting to show her co-workers how grateful she was for their generosity. >> i'm overwhelmed with everything basically this was my only way to think of for thanking them. >> reporter: they weren't finished knowing there is still something up sharrie will need for her new home. >> she has a need for washer and trier. we have saved up. so we saved up some extra cash and we wanted to make sure to give that to you today.

merry chris mass. we love you. >> that brings a tear to your eye. >> beautiful good that is what holidays are about, being a good neighbor about. >> that is news you want to see. >> exactly. >> heart warming story. >> that was andrea banford reporting. >> we will be right back.

good morning i'm nicole brewer. three philadelphia police officers are on the mend after involved in the crash late last night. the it happened at # 1:30 at 22nd and montgomery in north philadelphia authorities say officers were responding to a report of the shooting when two cruisers collided. one officer suffered a concussion but all three are expect to recover. now lets get a check of the forecast with katie, seeing a lot of green in the weather center. >> we are and it is in the necessarily green from the christmas tree but rather on the radar. lets take you outside to storm scan three full screen right off the bat where it is in the even rain we have brighter colors indicating we have steady rain falling across southern and central portion oz have new jersey. this is just generally what the radar will look like

anytime today but because we are sky rocketing to the lower 60's and dose of april here, it is strictly rain. don't worry about icing and no snow, this time for white christmas, dreamers out there, and it is regardless going to be an active day of weather. windy conditions later tonight and then likely a thunderstorm for santa's flight but all clearing out of here in time for christmas day. temperatures take a hit but we will stay well above average with temperatures right through sunday, vittoria. >> thanks katie, good morning everyone. with the weather that we do have, upon us, this christmas eve, well, it the is in the looking great on the vine street expressway and i believe there is also associated with an accident that occurred that closed actually the westbound side of the vine and we are still dealing with that close aura approaching eastbound 76 off ramp. if you are trying to access the schuylkill right new using westbound side of the vine you cannot. best alternate toys exit at broad, flip around on the eastbound side and jump on i-95. watch for hour delays at the

airport doing holiday traveling, nicole. our next update 8:55. up next on this morning, music ledgend sting. more local news weather and traffic on the cw 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!

looking live at storm scan three and look at all of that rain, will it impact your holiday travel? katie will let you know how long it sticks around coming up. >> traffic showing vine street expressway vittoria joins with us a check of the roads when

we do traffic and weather together in just a few minutes, all those brake lights already, um-hmm. also following some breaking news this morning demonstrators faced off with police, this is throughout the night in the st. louis suburb of berkley where police shot and killed a man they say pointed a gun at an officer. police released this surveillance video of that confrontation. berkley is just 2 miles from ferguson where a white police officer shot an up armed black teenager last august. new this morning three officers are lucky to be live after this head on crash in north philadelphia it happened late last night at 22nd andmont moment. police say officers were responding to a reported shooting when that he cruisers collided at the intersection. the impact sent one car flying on the sidewalk and through a fence. >> this could have been worse, both of the police vehicles sustain serious damage, seat belt and air bags did help the officers, to ensure that they

didn't sustain anymore serious injuries. >> the crash left one officer with a concussion, two others were hospitalized with minor injuries. meantime police hope to match a broken headlight with the driver who struck and killed a with hand in the northeast and kept going. >> "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabao joinses at the accident investigation division with the latest on this investigation, good morning. that is right, police are still searching for a black tow truck with the missing headlight. this vehicle is what they believe to be responsible for that deadly hit and run in holmesberg yesterday, still on the search and hunt for this suspect. now if you take a look at this video this is a picture of that ising headlight that police say will be key part in the evidence here. it was collected from the scene last night. this deadly hit and run happened around 5:15 on the 8100 block of state road in holmesberg. this three three-year old woman was crossing the street but not in the crosswalk when

hit. "eyewitness news" was on the scene and said truck hit this woman kept going and didn't even look like they flashed the breaks. stunned they swung into action to save this victim a's life. by the time i realized it wases a personally stopped my car just to see if i could help her. >> you knew he hit someone. you her him whoever the the driver was knew they hit her and she could, you you heard the impact. >> reporter: this three three-year old woman has not been identified by police except for her age. in the meantime investigators will search for surveillance video they hope will track this tow truck driver down as well as help identify this person. the driver faces a charge of vehicular homicide. we're reporting live outside accident investigation division, jane carabao for "eyewitness news" at cw philly. we will get over to katie because this is a a lot of rain. this will be with us all day to day. while we are going to end up

with over an inch of precipitation flooding is not as much of a concern because it is falling over a are long period of time. it is more nuisance storm certainly but because it is falling during a busier travel day we will see it is leading to the problems obviously. the low clouds currently the big story for us here looking at sky cam three damp road out there too. we have current conditions at the airport, 49 degrees, humidity higher then at last check and that east wind, on shore flow modest. we will fine low clouds until the wind kicks up. but we will take another look at storm scan three and we will put things in motion in the last three hour loop and you'll fine steady rain coming through in waves. so one round through the the course of the early morning, another round right on the heels over the d.c. area and that will move our way too. that is just several bans of rain that we will see moving through here as the day goes on. the coastal flooding is a

concern right about now when we are starting to find higher tides coming in and right through next hour or so but that coastal flood advisory is in effect for minor street flooding from the high tides. as day progresses, thinks a warm day. we will hit 62. we are not quite there. gradual increase on the thermometer but significant one and with that rain moving through at anytime wind kick nothing boy, victoria, traffic and weather go together today. >> we are skipping hand and hand today, aren't we. >> that is an image. that create aid nice bright spot in my head. traveling on the vine street expressway it is still close add approaching area of the schuylkill all because of the ramp to the eastbound side of 76, from the westbound vine, we have an a overturn dump truck that has been out there for hours, they are continuing to work on it but while they work on it they have closed the roadway down and diverted traffic off of the parkway. we have a lot of break like traveling on the westbound side of the vine. would i say avoid it if you

can but if that is where you've got to go maybe as you head out you can exit at broad street once you exit at parkway take add numbered street to walnut and then make your way through to university city. that is an alternate. exit at broad street and flipped around eastbound side of the vine and jump on i-95. i do have an update for you. media elwyn line has limited services and septa and patco line are operating on a holiday schedule, erika. >> vittoria, thank you. brighter news following tragedy in montgomery county, anthony flick, soul survivor of bradley stone's killing spree has been released from the hospital. the the 17 year-old suffered cutting wound during a predawn attack on december 15th. authorities say that stone killed his ex-wife nicole and five members of the family. stope was found dead in a wooded area in pens burning. autopsy result concluded stone committed suicide by overdosing on prescription

drugs. now an "eyewitness news" iteam investigation, an exclusive into the killing spree investigative reporter charlotte huffman has been digging through court record and she reveals lack of oversight by the the county may have stopped last weeks killing. >> reporter: years before bradley stone went on a shooting rampage killing his ex-wife and five of her family members, he legally purchased two hand guns like these. a 9-millimeter and 40 caliber, one used in last weeks killing spree. >> but stone should not have had any guns in his possession according to court records he was on probation following a dui last year. as part of his court ordered probation he signed this agreement saying he will not own, use or possess, anytime of look alike firearm, lethal weapon, explosives or ammunition. the the question become why wasn't stone stripped of his guns and as required by his probation, county law enforcement could have check to see if any handguns were

transferred in his name but you did they. we asked those questions to numerous county officials responsible for overseeing stone's probation and they all declined to comment. researcher and director of penn center on family violence doctor, susan soreson says it is basically an honor system. >> having an orr system relying on it is naive. >> reporter: she points out unlike pennsylvania, a few states have have procedures forgetting a gun out of the hand of someone who already owns one but later becomes prohibited from having one. >> some places have asked people to relinquish their weapons and provide evidence of that. whether they have given it to sold the gun, have tonight their pawn shop, but they are supposed to provide evidence of that to the court. >> reporter: judge william far ber junior released a statement saying stone did not have a record of violence and he showed no violent tendency in the program. >> none of us are

sophisticated enough to predict for a specific case but we do believe it is important to reduce the risk, and that steps can be taken to reduce risk of something like this happening. >> reporter: montgomery county district attorney's office released new information this evening saying that they searched stone's house for guns numerous times but never found any. while under state law stone was allowed to have guns we know that under the terms of his probation with the county he was expressly prohibited from having them. for the i-team i'm charlotte huffman. a montgomery county community help a police officer and family after an arsonist sets their home on fire. texas road house steak house in royersford held a fun raise are for police detective ernie morris and his family. the stuff and management donated 10 percent of the entire night's revenue to the morris family. >> it is a bless ago this came out of all this to be honest with you. >> the entire community has been so generous and the

support has pneumonia overwhelming. >> police have have charge the morris's next door neighbor pennsylvania state police say donna krupp blamed detective for her son's incarceration on unrelated charges. it is 8:39. much of the area waking up to rain and fog but we are not alone. >> the holiday darbies on i'm don champion with the travel vote including some people heading home for the holiday. did you know today is national eggnog day? >> no. >> now you do. what is the stapel of the season and is what in it, we will tell all bit. >> i have always wand their. >> now we will know.

there is snow in the midwest and in the northeast we have rain. don champion has a look at conditions nationwide. >> reporter: across the country travelers are making

their way for loved wonderful for christmas holiday. roxanne owen got a head start yesterday as one of the estimated 89 million americans taking advantage of the lower gas prices by taking a road trip. >> a lot cheaper than flights, yes, for family of five. >> $1.99. >> reporter: dallas taxi driver gerald, says he was able to spend more money on holiday gifts because of what he faced at the pump. >> i was given two extra gifts to my five grandchildren for christmas. >> reporter: close to 6 million others are braving crowds at airports nationwide to travel by air. >> smiling and waving, we have time to spare. >> reporter: holiday cheer is leading to travel woes, people flying through new york city area airports are already seeing delays as a strong storm system that sparked deadly tornadoes from the south, brings rain to the region. all this rain spreads up the east coast and will be disruptive and then we have snow on the back edge. >> reporter: forecasters predicting heavy snow, in the midwest which could disrupt

flights in chicago and create hazardous conditions for travel elsewhere by the time we get to christmas day. don champion for "eyewitness news" on the cw philly. a 8:43. lets send it to katie and all that, green, katie. >> quite a bit lighting up our radar here not just locally but well off to the south here comes next round of rain, guys. we have one round beginning the trend early this morning you can see how that started to pull away but there is more waiting in the wings and don's story there. there it is going to be an all day enter. lot at scope of the storm. it is a huge storm, spanning the entire eastern seaboard and then we have other weather-related factors that feature more dangerous weather in the form of severe storms. we have had a tornado watch from this squall line, a across southern georgia, right now, so this could be a a lot worse for us. what we even up with is certainly a big headache in terms of travel but no severe weather, although, as we watched the warm front lift

out, temperatures getting in the 60's and then a cold front slices through and that actually means that we could even see some thunderstorms, embedded, later into tonight and, of course that coincide with santa's flight. so rodolph needs to shine that nose a little brighter. meanwhile we will look forward to thursday, christmas day, merry christmas to you. skies will be clearing out, and it is still blustery the win is a running theme for us, friday and saturday really nice days. we have got high pressure in place. temperatures back in the 50's and we will keep unshine around for you. future weather, lets walk you through that very quickly. round of rain at anytime, coming through steadily and heavily at times, there may be a little break into this evening and then we have to get that cold front through. and by the time it rolls through there may be embedded thunderstorms and clearing out by early thursday morning. we will check with hugh we have already faired thus far with a couple eyewitness weather watchers, some fresh reports coming in a few tenth of an inch so far, we have a long way to go so far and we will expect to pick up an inch of rain in most locations out of this meanwhile current wind

speeds notice more than anything the direction of the arrows here. win is light but it is an on shore flow which means low clouds are still out there and until that wind really cranks in, we will have to deal with the low lying cloud cover. but once wind kicks you have we have wind swept rain. no matter how you slice it poor visibility as a result of the forecast today but it is warm, no white christmas but it is mild. >> that is true, we have something to be great for for. we have christmas eve, family and food. aim he trying to give you good news bring got to get to the bad news behind me. traveling on the vine street expressway i'll rip off the band-aid. traveling westbound on the vine you cannot move beyond the parkway. traffic is still being directed off of the parkway using westbound side of the vine. that is you why see all these brake lights here as a result of the overturn dump truck accident that occurred on the eastbound 76 ramp coming from the westbound side of the vine. a a lot of folks have a good idea exiting at broad street

because even when you make your way around the parkway it gets very, very heavy, once you maneuver through that area if you are maneuvering through to get back to the eastbound side of the schuylkill you can head down odd numbered streets and jump on walnut and that will take you to university. hop on 76 there another alternate exit at broad street and flip around in the eastbound side of the vine and head to 956789 it sound like a lot but i would try to avoid vine if you can. media elwyn line they were suspend ed but they are offering limited services there, septa and patco running on holiday schedules for today as well as for tomorrow and doing any traveling in the airport they are reporting close to hour delays so call a ahead, erika. vittoria, thank you. we are following breaking news demonstrators faced off with police throughout the night in berkley, in is sure i after an officer shot and killed a man. the police released surveillance video of that confrontation within the hour. berkley is 2 miles from ferguson where a police

shooting in august sparked nationwide demonstrations. three police officers suffered minor injuries when two police cars collided in north philadelphia one of the officers has a concussion. cruisers were responding to a call at the time of the crash. police are searching for the driver who hit and killed a three three-year old woman yesterday on state road in who willmentsberg. police say that vehicle was a black tow truck with damage to the headlights. we will be right back.

"eyewitness news" at termini brothers in south philadelphia. these folks were first in line when those famed bakery doors opened their doors at 6:00 this morning. the list were made but no need to check them twice. they waited in the cold and rain for first crack at cannolis and lining up on christmas eve. we saw them out there at 5:00 a.m. waiting. >> vincent termini tells me 12:15 a.m. their first customer. >> yes. >> ♪ >> that is way to rock around a christmas tree. is there steaming coming out of that engine. >> that is a legitimate train set. >> that is our phil, our cbs-3

morning elf rocking around christmas tree on his lionel polar express train. having a great time there. >> we have had such a great time with phil all season long it is not finished. >> we have one more day. we will see elf selfie while they last, post them to twitter, instagram, facebook, whatever social media site you use, just use the hash tag cbs-3 and elf selfie. >> yes. >> that is right. >> folks, the rules seem simple enough here however drinks a quart of eggnog the fastest wins a gift card. >> for a utah man he was up for the challenge but task nearly killed him. >> chug, chug, chug, chug. >> at the office party but he smash the railroaded by ten seconds, however, when he is finish, he knew you something wasn't quite right. >> pretty much, shaking, uncontrollably. i could not control my body, i was shaking so bad, completely

nauseous and my breathing became a pant, like that. >> it turns out ryan nearly drowned on eggnog. >> geese. >> he breathe that had into his lungs and caused an infection and hospitalized for three days. >> my goodness. >> just stick tour cup of eggnog. >> geese, i guess so. >> all right. >> all this talk of eggnog at holiday season but what exactry is inside the the festive drive. >> karen reports on how this concussion became a stapel of the season. >> reporter: it is not the the most intuitive combination, eggs and cream, and alcohol. maybe that is why eggnog gets a bad rap. washington based mix ol goodies derek brown says you have not tried egg nothing until you have tried it made by scratch. the his keys are fresh ingredients, and good spirits. >> one thing that i advise is keep the spirit brown because that adds richness to it and likely is an indication that it has barrel age to it which

adds stuff like vanilla and spicy characteristics. >> reporter: while brandy rum, sherry, bourbon or a combination give eggnog a kick the original will idea of adding alcohol was so the mixture would not spoil. eggnog has british origin a desend event of a drug called pop it. essentially hot milk and liquor. early americans, including george washington, gave it popularity a boost on this side of the atlantic because ingredients were easy to fine. >> they had dairy, they had cows, they had chickens, and eggs, and so this was readily acceptable for them to make and at the a certain point and we came a popular drink in colonial america. >> reporter: colonies preferred spirit was rum. the since then there have been plenty of variations. >> some people add vanilla extract, some people add different spices to it, some put cinnamon on it and nut meg, some people use bourbon, some people will use brandy.

in each case people can have have their own twist and in make something delicious. >> as for its link with the holiday season the creamy drink makes it a special occasion beverage best served when weather is chilly. in washington i'm karen kafa. >> it is so true because middle will of the july no one is thinking i will get nothing. >> do you like it. >> i can't get into it. >> give me a beer name good do you ladies like it. >> do i like it. >> okay. we are sandwich by eggnog lovers. >> well, weather outside is frightful here too today guys although the wintry variety it is certainly strictly just rain and more spring-like quality. some rain we do have is locally heavy leaving us at least an inch of rain in the wake by tomorrow morning. skies are clearing, on christmas morning. >> torey? >> we will wait for vine to clear out all because of a

disable. well now an overturn dump truck turned into disabled that has been closing vine for quite sometime. if you are heading in this area avoid the vine westbound at all cost because it is not good. >> good advice, vittoria thank you. thanks for watching "eyewitness news" at cw philly. more local news weather and traffic we are always on cbs philly.com. >> check out talk fill a at noon on cbs-3. we will be right back with one more check of your traffic and weather together. have have a great morning.

good morning, merry christmas eve i'm erika von tiehl. a hit and run the day before christmas eve leaves a woman dead in the north east. but still unidentified three three-year old was hit the by a black tow truck just after 5:00 last night while crossing the 8100 block of state road in holmesberg. we're told she was pronounced dead at the hospital. glass from the broken headlight and other evident was collected at the scene. police are in the process of reviewing surveillance video in hopes of identifying the driver. i want to get your forecast right now, a lot of folks heading out the door going to grandmother's house how are we looking, katie. >> it is looking active on storm scan three. you can see green shaded areas. lets go full screen with storm scan three whiz will show you we have round of rain moving

through, very limited, lulls that come through with this so especially dealing with periods of rain coming through in waves with the heavier precipitation embedded within that. it is all rain. temperatures way too mild for any kind of mixing with ice or snow so it is all over the springtime storm that we are dealing with here. wind kicks in that will scour out these low lying clouds but you that wind is going to reduce your visibility when dealing with rain. and there will be a few then are storms, embedded within this tonight. clearing out for christmas and friday just looks like a beautiful day for kwanzaa, vittoria. >> thanks, good morning. happy christmas eve. heading out and about i will tell you you have an hour delay at philadelphia international airport but let go to the vine street expressway for a second. vine has been closed for quite sometime as a result of the accident on eastbound ramp to 76 coming from the westbound side of the vine. your best alternate exit at broad street slip around on the vine and jump over to 95.

media elwyn is rug schedules. happy holidays,. that is "eyewitness news" for now talk philly coming up at noon. i'm erika von tiehl. i hope you have a great day. i saw a commercial that said you can save $500 by switching to progressive. that was me, mom. [ laugh ] i thought you said, "that was me, mom." [ laughter ]

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