he's known wiggins his entire career. he says the younger wiggins was a handful. >> everything was a fight. and, you know, we wouldn't be standing like this with each other those years. we would be fighting, rolling around on the ground. and it took him a while but i do believe that everybody should be given an opportunity and he told me he said never had an opportunity. so he's getting one now and i think that if he walks the walk because he's talking the talk he'll make it. yeah, i do. >> coming up -- >> why are you picking these programs? >> the program has a lot to offer me. >> paul abdul wiggins pleads his case to a skeptical staff person. >> i promise you i will not help you at all. >> then officers get to the bottom of paul dixon's breakdown. >>> behind the walls of hackensack, new jersey's bergen county jail, paul dixon recently had what appeared to be an emotional breakdown. he just spent time in the mental health unit for a routine evaluation before being released to general population. a short time later he beg

jermaine wiggins is with us. we're also joined by our rachel nichols who watched that news conference along with me. mr. wiggins, let me ask you, one thing that bill belichick said is he had no idea about how these football inflation rules worked no idea until he woke up on monday morning. you played for coach bill belichick. is it really something like that you could not know? this guy is one of the most detail-oriented coaches in sports. >> i think when you look at the number of inflations the 12.5 to 13.5 i think he might have had a little bit of an idea. as a player who played a long time i caught a bunch of footballs, i didn't know about the rule. i didn't know there was a certain limit. i think when you stop to look at this whole deflate-gate i think it's getting funny. bill belichick came out and said he doesnd understand doesn't know what's going on. to me he's saying hey, this is something bigger than what we think here in new england. we don't know about this. we have no understanding. i'm one to put my

i want to bring in jermaine wiggins along with business analyst andrew brandt. jermaine first let's get your initial reaction to everything that has happened today. >> you know what it's funny to me to hear a lot of this stuff. to me i look at it like this. there's no advantage by using a smaller football. then for rachel to come out and say that you know this is something that they have done in the past so it took -- tom brady has 143 career interceptions. what about the 142 interceptions? nobody said anything. nobody noticed anything. when they felt the football. i look at it like this. every team doctors the football. every quarterback doctors the football. they mess around with it they get it to their feel they want it to feel comfortable in their hand. it doesn't give a team an advantage. i have caught footballs that were hard i caught footballs that were soft. to me it's all about the quarterback's preference and that's the biggest thing here. this is a joke and it's the new england patriots it all goes back to spygate, back to the way bell belichick's per

david wiggins and two others face murder robbery and exposure charges. >>> president obama is set to arrive in philadelphia today for an important gathering of his fell democrats. security sweeps were underway at the society hill hotel where a large delegation of democrats are holding their annual caucus. vice president joe biden will be here tomorrow. >> i hope this means we'll get16 national convention. >> reporter: it would be good for the economy. storm tracker 6 live showing the stars above the city and eventually sunshine before the clouds get thicker later in the day. we're cold, 22 in philadelphia. 13 in allentown. 9 in reading. 12 in millville. one single digit on the map so far and we my wind up with a couple before the day is done. we'll see the clouds increase during the day. up in allentown we're looking at a chilly high of 32 degrees and increasing clouds and evening snow. down the shore looks like it's a sun to clouds kind of afternoon ahead with evening rain for the most part. 40 degrees is the high in atlantic city. so a little milder. in philadelphia, we'll go for a

and former patriot tight end and boston radio host jermaine wiggins, who knows brady very well. as a tight end you'll remember he caught a key brady pass in brady's fist super bowl win. mike let me begin with you. to the uninitiated, i'm holding one that's infacilitated at 13.5 and another that's under at 10.5. it's very hard to tell the difference. here at cnn we've been passing the footballs and asking people in a blind test can you tell which one is within the reg? is this a big deal? >> well, be careful when you pass the footballs. come on now, there's a lot of expensive equipment there. i do think it is a big deal because really, you know, it's about the integrity of the game. look, it's not a player safety football-type act that you may get disciplined for, but this is the integrity of the game and while everybody has said the same thing, that two pounds of pressure is hard to recognize, you know the fact is two pounds maybe to a quarterback does have an effect and certainly the aspect of it may be in cold weather. >> how about the officials? >> i think from that standpoin

and the first trip in town nor number one draft pick andre wiggins, tip time 7:00.ice now the flyers and winnipeg jets last night check it out flyers break second period tie by swarming the jets net. defenseman, nick shultz, comes in to pounce on the loose puck and score his first goal in 125 games. that's a drought, but that's all right. glad to have t the flyers add on and beat the jets five to two. their thirds straight win and fourth in their last five games. fly guys in mapleleafs in south philly tomorrow night. >> well, the play of the morning comes from northeast philly where a cyo game ended with a stunner. saint cecelia down one point with a second left, matt gets the inbound pass from jack isdale, hoists long distance shot. and the bank is open. it is open. nicely done, young man. way to use the square if you capture a buzzer beater or an amazing play on tape, hit me up on facebook or twitter maybe we'll show it right here on "eyewitness news", can we get it one more time up and boink, nicely done. erika, back to you. >> and you watch these tapes multiple

authorities say wiggins tried to rob the chester store and fatally shot the employee jason mcclay, he allegedly orchestrated the attempted robbery and jury selection began yesterday. >>> police are looking for to women that unsuccessfully tried to rob a gas station yesterday. it shows the suspect loading the items into a bag when the cashier left the booth to stop the pair, one of women went through his pocket stealing $10 the other suspect rushed into the booth and tried to open the cash register after several failed attempts she gave up. both women ran off without hurting anyone. if you know anything about this crime please call philadelphia police. adam joseph is joining us now tracking the snow, that is heading here late tonight. if are you in delaware you'll miss out on this and -- as we look at double scan live radar it's situated west of buffalo near cleveland the moisture is racing west to east and if you see the snowfall this evening it's not going to last long. double scan live radar we'll show that again the western suburbs, as we close in near lebanon and lancaster on the

joann wiggins saw the chase from her bedroom. >> it was like a if were you in a racetrack. it was so loud. and fast. >> reporter: the driver apparently lost control and plowed into the pizzeria, ruptures the gas line. the teenager escaped unhurt and was arrested. the fire was put out a little after 12:00 noon. vic lee, abc 7 news. >>> developing news out of san jose. police have take tuan drivers into custody following a crash that killed a pa ennsylvania december snishgs pedestrian. they they may have been racing. they don't know if she was associated with the trucks at the scene pap crew is on the scene and we'll brick you a live report on abc 7 news at 5:00. >>> happening on the east coast. the blizzard of 2015 is underway. looking at a live picture of times square. not as busy as normala massive storm slams much of the northeast. live at times square, crossroads of the world, not very busy. snowfall up to three feet expected this evening and into morning. a national weather service issued a blizzard warning for a 20-mile swath of the northeast from washington, d.c. to t

we also have former patriot tight end jermaine wiggins, now an nfl analyst and radio host., i want to start with you. you are also a lawyer among other many things. you have said that the nfl does need to punish the patriots. my question to you is what if they don't ever find any proof as to who took the air out of the footballs if someone did? what if they can't find that smoking gun? is underinflated the same thing as deflated? >> i think they'll have to hand out some kind of punishment because the league wants to be consistent. they want to be measured. they're going to have to do something. i think if you look at the precedent of bounty gate with the new orleans saints -- these are two different things. a lot of people are comparing what the saints did with bounty gate where players were offered cash to hurt other players, that's morally repugnant. this really isn't. this is a different animal. this reminds me of some of the things i would see people do. they would spray silicone on jerseys to people couldn't grab them and use cleats that are longer than normal. everyon

they say kenneth wiggins is not -- that he's wanted or but a registered as a sex offender they're lookingormation on where he might be staying just to keep track of him. if you know where he is, contact police. >>> president obama wants to hike tacks on the wealthy yesterday americans to help the middle class. the critics are already saying it could hurt everyone. fox's joel walled man has more on the president's $320 billion plan in tomorrow's state of the union address. >> reporter: citeing a stronger economy the white house says president obama wants to generate $320 billion in revenue over the next 10 years. by targeting the rich through a series of tax increases. >> the job now is to make sure that every american feels that they're a part of our country's come back. >> reporter: the president plans on putting the bulk of the tax money into series of measures to help the middle class. including giving a credit for families where both spouses work and expanding the child care tax credit up to three grand per child under age five. >> the middle class bailed out the big banks wall street

and former tight end now boston radio host jermaine wiggins who knows brady well as a tight end he caught key brady pass in brady's first super bowl win. mike to the uninitiated you know i'm holding now one that is inflated at 13.5 p srkssi and another under. it's hard to tell the difference. we've been passing the footballs and asking people in a blind test can you tell which one is within the reg. is this a big deal? >> be careful when you pass the football. come on now. there's a lot of exspen stiff equipment there. i do think it is -- i think it's a big deal because really you know it's about the integrity of the game. look it's not a player safety football type act that you may get disciplined for. but this is the integrity of the game. and while everybody has said the same thing that 2 pounds of pressure is hard to recognize, the fact is 2 pounds to a quarterback does have an effect. certainly the aspect may be of it in cold weather. i do think -- >> how about the officials? lou about the officials who -- >> never know. >> why wouldn't the officials have a trained touch that they co

. >> [inaudible] todd wiggins. this'll be for professor barnett. can you speak to the original intent of the phrase "in god we trust" and its usage on our currency etc., and do you feel that it should be updated or should we continue with the tricks? with the tradition? >> well, i think not so much the original intent, but the original meaning is likely that they trusted god, so that would be how i would interpret the meaning of that. [laughter] that's what it seems like it means. unless there's some evidence that's not what it meant, i would sort of go with the obvious meaning of it. but if what you're asking about is whether that's somehow a violation of the establishment prohibition on the federal government i just don't see how that would be. i mean, i think the idea of setting up a national religion, what was called an establishment of religion had certain characteristics. states had establishments of religion. they were in existence at the time of the founding. and what the wage establishment clause is worded it says "congress shall make no l