jan carabao is live at city hall where leaders are standing by the tax, good morning, jan. >> reporter: well, rahel and jim, good morning, city is expect to go bring in 90 million-dollar a year through this beverage tax, you break that down that comes out to just about seven million-dollar a month. well, later on this morning we are expect to go learn just how much this beverage tax made in the first month in january. take a look at the video recently city officials released projections for january, city is expecting the tax to bring in just over two million-dollar, that is over 30 percent of that seven million-dollar bench mark but officials have said that collection will likely ramp up over first few months as compliance grows this year philadelphia became first major u.s. city with the sugar drink tax. revenue is supposed to support prek, community schools and recreation centers but fears of layoffs in the beverage industry are now growing as this one point a five cents per ounce tax takes hold. supermarket and distributors are reportedly considering layoffs. sources tell "eyewitnes

for now we are live outside the 69th street terminal jan carabao for cbs-3 "eyewitness news", rahel and jim, back to you. >>> thanks, jan. >>> fire put out in minutes in north philadelphia. fire fighters were called out to the 1700 block of north crosskey street just shortly before 3:00. they had a fire under control a short time later flu were no injuries reported. >>> investigators are warning parents to watch what their kid are doing on line. >> this follows sexual assault s on two, teenage boys in the bucks county park. both attacks happened at the pennsylvania lindsey park this solebury township. both victims are just 13. paul barsonnies charged with sexually assaulting a boy this month. fisher is charged with sexual ly a salting a boy in january. police do not see a link but both men did use apps to lure children and they believe there are moore victims. >> these children can access any application on their cell phones through their tablets, lap tops and gaming consoles where predators or offenders can reach out to them. >> but solebury township police say parents should know thei

"eyewitness news" reporter jan carabao is live from the cbs-3 news center. we understand many conversation was police have been reported. >> reporter: that is right, you will hear some of the conversation, had yesterday, between the negotiators. radio transmission obtained by "eyewitness news" and they captured a delicate time during those negotiations just before and during release of some of those hostages. >> everything has been processed, but good part about it is this, i am your bridge to the higher ups. the the voice of the hostage negotiators speaking to a price they are inside james t vaughn correctional center in smyrna, delaware. negotiators ago acknowledgees that talks have been ongoing for some time and then asks what hostages including a injured corrections employee will be released. >> i thought you were going to send him out for he, man had happened. >> we have to regroup. >> reporter: negotiators say officials didn't understand the terms of the release, wrist they are responds. >> all right. that sound like a plan. let's do this. >> okay. >>

that suspect is live but seriously wounded, good afternoon i'm jan carabao. >> i'm jim donovan. terry okita is following latest developments and she joins us live now from london, terry. the. >> reporter: jim and jan, good afternoon. investigators are still determining who this man is, his nationality, background, and they will question him when they are able to, they do believe, he was acting alone. hundreds of tourist poured out of the louvre as french police in riot the gear secured iconic paris museum. just before lunchtime a hand armed with two machetes and two backpacks tried to enter the museum's underground shopping hall. shoulders patrolling the area tried to stop him and say he lunged at them with the knife. shouting god is great this arabic. this shows the suspect on the ground after a solder shot him at least five times. authorities checked his backpacks and they found no explosives. but french president frances holland says there is no doubt natalie man wanted to commit a terrorist attack. close to a thousand people were inside of the louvre at the time, a group of s

plug in hybrid came out on top but two other brand had shortcomings, "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabao is live this morning with the closer look, good morning, jan >> jim and rahel, good morning insurance institute for highway safety tested four cars made by toyota, chevy, tesla and bmw. here's how they faired. the four vehicles crash tested by insurance institute for highway safety, and only the toyota prius prime and chevy volt earn 2017 safety plus a war. both are plug in hybrid with front crash prevention systems with the the prius standard on every car. >> nice thing about toyota prius rhyme you can get top safety pick plus safety performance without having to choose any options. >> reporter: all electric tesla model s raised some concerns in the front crash test. >> it moved too far forward in the air bag and head hit steering wheel through the air bag. >> reporter: experts did not test it for trent crash prevention because they are upgrading its software. >>> bmw i3 fell short because its seats and head restraint got a lower ranking. >> one of the consequences on have the trent

. >> "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabao is live at 69th street terminal with more on the investigation, good morning, jan. >> reporter: good morning. ntsb investigators will try to figure out exactly what caused this crash and derailment yesterday at this point though , investigators have released very little will tore about the the moments leading up to the crash. they have not said whether this could have been caused by operator error or some sort of mechanical or equipment failure but you cane live behind me on the the scene this morning that crews are here on the scene and they continue their work. the is there still a couple of cars on the track is here outside of the 69th street terminal. now, all of this starting just after 8:00 yesterday morning, officials say a septa el train plowed into the back of the second train, stopped on the tracks, and then sideswiped a third train here. seven cars in all, derailed, and four people were injured, most serious injury came to the operator of that first train, he was taken to the hospital in chris the california condition. and now this sec

our jan carabao has reaction from a local representative. >>> a russia spy ship is spotted off coastw jersey and delaware we will tell you how it is operating and what experts say about its presence there. >>> live look at center city, katie's watching out for showers and it will be a windy wednesday, it is wednesday, february 15th good morning i'm jim donovan. >>> i'm rahel solomon. katie and meisha keeping an eye on things with this wednesday morning not to be confused with tuesday morning. >> i ate so much chocolate i to think it went to my brain. we are looking at roadways, it is looking quiet, dark but we have construction out there we will get into that in a moment >> wind is still calm and it will pick up with time. is it caliber of what we haddon wednesday? now i'm doing it. let me back that up, and what are we talking about. on monday we had that real vicious win. today it does start to get breezy again but no where near that caliber. that is what i was trying to say. let me get you out the door. we have cloud cover overhead. two separate disturbances, you can see that, suss

we are reporting live, from university city, jan carabao for cbs-3 "eyewitness news", rahel and jim, you. >> thanks, jan. >>> a develop shore wants to reopen former revel casino says he does not need a casino license. >> but casino control commission disagrees. glenn straub says he does not need a license because a different company will be running the renovated revel. he will fight the issue in court. for now he says he is ready to open it up as a hotel february . >>> there was a time when fast food was revolutionary. >> now there is a revolution in fast food, and mcdonald's is showing off their very first burgers dispensing machine, kind of like an atm. hundreds of customers line up to order a big mac, grand mack , or mack junior, from a touch screen and customers were, loving it. >> it is good. it taste just like a regular big mac. it the is good. i always enjoyed, yeah, delicious. >> we do our fries always fresh right the here, we put them this is machine and less than five minutes we have an opportunity to choose a great burger and have the fun to do it the in a different way. >>

i'm jan carabao. lets head straight over to meteorologist justin drabick with eyewitness weather. good sunday morning, justin as i walked out the door i was hit by a couple sprinkles. how much of the umbrella will we need today. >> definitely later this morning in the first half of the afternoon. we still have a couple hours on have mainly dry conditions and a few sprinkles coming at us but that rain will pick up in intensity. we have lehigh valley, poconos that could have treeing rain, also this morning. traveling up north today head up there, it will be flirting with that freezing mark until lehigh valley later this morning in the afternoon. potential for icing there. every where else, mostly will be seeing plane rain from the system. we have had temperatures in the the 50's yesterday around philadelphia, this morning, for the most art we are quiet the right now, dropping off a whole lot through overnight hours, cloud around 41 at the airport, east wind at 13. the it feels like 34 with the wind. see

today is sunday february 19th, good morning, i'm jan carabao.tap today, meteorologist justin drabick is here with the eyewitness weather forecast, happy sunday, justin. >> yes. >> someplace as approached 70 degrees yesterday. >> close to tying a record, and 68 for philadelphia, 69

." >>> good morning, everyone, i'm jan carabao. funeral plans, for the chairman of boscovs department store, albert boscovs died yesterday, as pancreatic cancer. he took reigns of the family business that his father started in reading in 1914 and grew the company to sales in excess of $1 billion. albert boscovs was 87. >>> now to the eyewitness wet ther forecast with meteorologist just continue drabick, hi just continue. >> good saturday morning. we were dealing with milder temperatures today, especially for areas, to get a whole lot of snow from thursday's storm system. up north still got 6 inches of snow on the ground, in northampton county. looking live there our bethlehem camera here hotel bethlehem main street is clear , divisive spots in the sidewalks but the grass still covered there. that will impact temperatures today up until lehigh valley. around philadelphia areas to the the south, to problems, i think we will get to the upper 40's to 50 degrees even lower 50's for interior south jersey , delaware. poconos may get to 40

we are reporting live outside city hall in center city philadelphia, jan carabao for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> thanks very much, jan. >>> police are piecing together a triple shooting in east mt. airy after two men are shot in their sleep this happened on the 2400 block of seventh seventh avenue between limekiln pike and ogontz avenue. they say two men were shot the this is legs just before 2:00. thirty lease believe a their shooting victim may have jumped out of the second story window. >> victim we have found third victim we have found out side in the rear driveway, it appears that this third victim may have jumped out of the second floor window, where the shooting took place. we found them in the rear of the property about a block away. >> now police tell us they are treat ago this man as a suspect all three shooting victims are in stable condition. >>> more gunfire overnight this time in the cities strawberry mansion section. "eyewitness news" at 2400 block of north patton street where police say a man was shot in the face just before is 11:00 last night. eyewitnesses told police

. >> "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabaos is live at ninth and federal in south philadelphia where local businesses will be impacted by this protest, good morning, jan. >> reporter: rahel and jim, good morning this day is meant to protest president trump's immigration policies, and we're told close to 20 businesses in this area have of south philadelphia alone plan on taking part. these are stores and restaurants but this day of protest goes beyond this type of business, it also could impact construction sites and schools, some school kid who may in the the go to class either. >> we are very happy that our communities no longer ace frayed, our communities are ready to flight. >> reporter: olivia vasquez works here in philadelphia a hispanic outreach group. she and her collogues are ready to make sure their voice s are heard during the nationwide day without immigrants. >> this is just a demonstration of what will happen to the city, and every where else in the country, as this continues to happen. >> reporter: social media campaign is gaining steam across the country from californi

. >>> today is sat the day february 11th, good morning everyone i'm jan carabao. lets get over to meteorologist justin drabick with eyewitness weather, good sat the day morning, justin. >> good morning. >> today will be better of the two weekend days to get out for those outdoor activities. >> it will be warmer, and dry tomorrow, we will bring back some rain to the picture but we will get near 50, i think around philadelphia. >> nice. >> delaware and new jersey. >> areas that have snow will be staying colder and in the 40's but still not bad for this time of the year. >> not at all. >> a lot of melting. that rain will wash away snow tomorrow. that is a good thing right there if you don't like to see that snow on the the ground but still in the heart of the winter here so we can expect to see that. noticeably milder, we are getting warmer air pushing in. still cold. temperatures are below freezing at this hour here in the city. we are sitting at 32 at the airport east breeze at 3 miles an hour, not much wind chill right now here for philadelphia, and temperatures t

. >>> today is sunday, february 12th, good morning everyone i'm jan carabao. lets get over to meteorologist justin drabick with eyewitness weather, good sunday morning, justin. i hear rain and wind is in our forecast. >> that is right, kind of a helps i day to finish off weekend, glummy, good day to get chores down, maybe do some laundry. >> good idea. >> rain coat will be needed later this morning in the afternoon. little bit of ice in the northern viewing area and windy tonight, gusting to 50, 60 miles an hour into tomorrow we will dry out for workweek and forecast next to days looks quiet. we have to get through today with the storm system approaching from the west. the not much happening right now here in philadelphia. we have cloudy skies few syringe also. light rain and freezing rain in the mountains. now some of those temperatures may tropical more into lehigh valley, northampton county near freezing, so there is potential, for ice into the lehigh valley region late this morning in the afternoon. >> so today rain at times, steady early this this afterno

. >>> today is sunday, february 19th, good morning everyone i'm jan carabao. another absolutely gorgeous day ahead for us, lets get over to meteorologist justin drabick with the eyewitness weather forecast. the justin we just can't talk about this forecast enough. >> i'm everybody's best friend right now, except if you are a snow lover. >> travel, a little bit further. >> yes, it the is pretty tar north because it its warm every where. yesterday was crazy, 29 in the morning and got to 68. >> exactly. >> shy off the record. >> today we should november problems, getting close and break in it, upper 60's, we see in problem even with the clouds over us, they should thin out over next few hours. late morning, by afternoon, skies should be mostly sunny. we are seeing sunshine to the north to the lehigh valley and poconos with the nice sunrise but still mostly cloudy over center city but mild, big difference compared to yesterday, temperatures in the morning, we are down into the mid to even lower 20's in the warm spots, and of course my graphic system wants to lock

reporting live outside 69th street terminal, jan carabao for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". back inside to you. >>> in other news fire fighters made quick work putting out a fire in north philadelphia the flames broke out in the 1700 block of north crosskey street shortly before 3:00 a.m. tire was put out a few minutes later. fortunately no one was injured >>> two men are charge with sexually assaulting two teenage boys in the bucks county park in separate incidents. investigators believe there are more victims. both attacks happened at the pennsylvania path livesky park in solebury township. saul barsonnies charge with sexually assaulting a boy earlier this month. nicholas fisher is charged in january. police say they have found no connection between the cases but they do say both men used app toss lure their victims. >> these children can access any application on their cell phones, tablets, lap tops and even gaming consoles where predators or offenders cab reach out to them. >> solebury township police say parents should know their child's pass word and restrict use late

today is sunday february 19th, good morning, i'm jan carabao. another beautiful day, on tap today, meteorologist justin drabick is here with the eyewitness weather forecast, happy sunday, justin. >> yes. >> someplace as approached 70 degrees yesterday. >> close to tying a record, and 68 for philadelphia, 69 was the record. we have cloud this morning but we will get sunshine back out and feeling em press i have. it is cool, if this were september, october, we would be cold but here it is, february. >> yes. >> people will be out in short s today. >> i'm sure. >> get close to 70. more on the way this week too. so this warmer air not going away anytime soon, locked in the mild pattern for next six or seven days. this morning cloud over the city, cold front moving through the region through the day to day not producing any rain and maybe a sprinkle south of the city. just a form of some cloud. there was no true cold air behind it. cooler air does not arrive until tomorrow. it is not that cold. the west wind at 8 miles an hour. that will keep us mile.

only from fios. >>> good morning i'm jan carabao.logist justin drabick is out there on the cbs-3 sky deck this morning with eyewitness weather and justin, i have to say when i stepped outside this morning it wasn't nearly as cold as it was yesterday. >> big difference. we are bringing back temperatures above average today, for areas that don't have thick snow pack so mainly around city southward good shot at reaching 50 degrees, maybe some lower and potentially mid 50's in interior south jersey and central delaware. then we will bring rain back in the picture for second half of the weekend. today is the day if you need to get outside. check outnumbers right the now still cold but we are not dealing with any teens this morning, and harsh wind chills 261 of the coldest spots in the lehigh valley. they have a good snow cover, good six or 7 inches there. thirty-one in philadelphia, 33 in wilmington. lack of snow in south jersey and delaware where it is 40 degrees. twenty-five in quakertown, upper 20's in pottstown and doylestown this mor

. >> we have team three coverage of the prison standoff, "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabao is in the cbs-3 news center with new audio of the the hostage negotiations. >> but lets begin with trang do live in smyrna where there were new developments overnight, trang, good morning >> reporter: good morning, rahel and jim. again, those two prison staff members remain under the inmates hostage rather and at this point they have released two corrections officers overnight but we are told overnight what happened was 14 inn hates were allowed to leave and they are being held in ative rent secure facility here, it is not clear whether the 82 inmates still with the hostages in building c are staying there voluntarily or being held begins their will. lets look at video of chopper three above the scene. this started just after 10:30a h when inmates took four prison staff members his stage at building c at james vaughn correctional center in smyrna. two corrections officers were released and treated for non- life threatening injuries. governor john car carney was here last night and state the

. >> "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabao is here to break this all down for us. >> reporter: good morning. according to a report published by the new york times, the trump campaign had many contacts with russian agents around the same time that russia hacked into the democratic national committee e-mails. the bomb shell report, published in the new york times, tuesday, sites four current and former american officials, with direct knowledge of the fbi's classified probe into russia's medicineling in 2016 election. they said federal agents are sifting through a trove of intercepted communications showing members of the president's campaign and other trump associates have repeated contacts with senior russian intelligence officials this is year before the election, monk them paul mana thefort who served as trump's campaign chairman for several months. >> nothing to conclude anything has change with respect to that time period. >> reporter: white house sean spicer denied any preelection contact tuesday amid a barrage of questions over michael flynn's abrupt resignation as natalie secu

. >> eyewitness news reporter jan carabao is live at ninth and federal in south philadelphia where local businesses are also taking part in the the nationwide protest, good morning, jan. >> reporter: rahel and jim, good morning. business owners here in this part of the south philadelphia alone tell us that some 20 stores and restaurants won't open up their doors yesterday meaning close to 800 immigrant workers won't show up to their jobs this day without immigrant won't only impact restaurants and stores across construction sites and some students may not show up to will school either. >> we are very happy that we are no long's frayed. they are going to fight. >> reporter: olivia vasquez, worked in philadelphia, hispanic outreach group, she and her collogues are ready to make sure her is somes are heard during a nationwide day without immigrants. >> this is just a demonstration of what will happen to the city and every where else in the the country as this continues to happen. >> reporter: social media campaign has gained steam across the country from california to the delaware valley, t

"eyewitness news" reporter jan carabao was on the set the this past wednesday and she talk to the cast about its success. >> our show, it is still growing in the seventh year. it the is just a real blessing >> is that it. >> reporter: since 2010 blue bloods has followed the family as they fight crime in new york city and often fight with each other across the dinner table. >> the truth is... >> reporter: cast credits much of the show's success to good characters and attention to authenticity, proven they say, when they get the seal of the approval from the real life nypd. >> the cop goes blue bloods so yeah, it is a big deal. >> when i see a police office are in the the street they will say good job. >> reporter: how will blue bloods top itself after that 150 episode milestone. >> cheers made it to 275. >> oh, my goodness. >> reporter: do you think you have that have many in you. >> my friend topped out at 275 >> reporter: find out if he thinks blue bloods cannulas that long. we will talk philly food with donnie wahlberg who owns wahlbergers in northern liberties and is what on the men

. >>> it is sunday february 12th , good morning, i'm jan carabao.ck with eyewitness weather. good sunday morning, justin as i walked out the door i was hit by a couple sprinkles. how much of the umbrella will we need today. >> definitely later this morning in the first half of the afternoon. we still have a couple hours on have mainly dry conditions and a few sprinkles coming at us but that rain will pick up in intensity. we have lehigh valley,on

. >> "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabao was on the the set this past wednesday and she talked tohe the cast about the show's success. >> our show is still growing in the seventh year. it is just a real blessing. >> is that it. >> reporter: since 2010, blue bloods has followed the reagan family as they fight crime in new york city and often fight with each other across the dinner table. >> the truth is. >> the cast credits much of the show's success to good characters, and attention to authenticity, proven they say when they get seal of approval from the real life nypd. >> cop inside goes blue bloods , so yeah, it is a big deal. >> when i see a police office are in the the street they will say, good job. >> reporter: so how will blue bloods top itself after that 150th episode milestone. >> cheers made to it 275. >> oh, my goodness. >> do you think you will have that many in you. >> my friend got the to 275 episode, war. >> reporter: find out if celek thinks bleigh bloods cannulas that long. we will talk philly food with donnie wahlberg who owns wahlberger's in northern liberties a

unfortunately justin tells us when the rain will move out, when we come right ♪ >>> good morning i'm jan carabaor to meteorologist just continue drabick with the forecast, unfortunately on this sunday, justin is not a great day for us outside. >> not at all, next hour will be dry here in the city and then late in the the take, in between we will see steady rain moving in. little ice though is a problem in the poconos at the this hour maybe lehigh valley, winter weather advisory. soggy finish to our weekend, once this storm passes we will crank up the wind tonight, gusting wind into monday but we have sunshine coming back us from the start of the workweek. the here's what is happening storm scan three waiting on that rain. we have had it, far north western suburbs, light rain, treeing rain in the poconos indicated by pink there, some trying to get down in northern lehigh and northampton county. steady rain moving through lancaster right thousand. give it another hour we will arrive in the city. we have rain at times, steady rain early afternoon but by early evening it is gone. rain tall amounts a

. >> "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabao is live from the cbs-3 news center to break it down. >> reporter: good morning. the report published yesterday and on the front page of today 's new york times is based on findings by american law enforcement and intelligence agencies. according to the report, the trump campaign had repeated contacts with russian agents around the same time that russia hack into the democratic national committee e-mails. the bomb shell report published in the new york times tuesday sites four current and former american officials with direct knowledge of the fbi's classified robe in the russia 's medaling in the 2016 elections. federal agents are sifting through trove of intercepted communications, showing members of the president's campaign and other trump associates have repeated contacts with senior russian intelligence officials this is year before the election. among them paul mana thefort who served as trump's campaign chair hand several months. >> nothing to conclude anything different has change with respect to that time period. >> reporter: white house pre

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