meisha is here with the traffic. the katie has your forecast. >> yes, good morning, happy thursday n accidents to report as of yet,. >> fantastic. the weather is still cooperating for now wet weather more on the way later on today so would i say of the two typical rush hour communities guys it looks like p.m. ride will get affixed. storm scan is quiet. although we zoom in and we can see wet weather waiting in the wings here heading your way through buck eye state at the moment and it will bring in showers to our area. so for now the only sort of impact that we have from the weather is a frost advisory still posted in northampton county, very similar to yesterday until 8:00 this morning and specific in northampton county. temperatures meantime are pretty close to where we saw them hovering yesterday, a little will will cooler, upper and lower 40's around these more outlining suburbs. fifty is where we're holding tough at philly international. meanwhile today is another cool day, isn't it interesting 60 degrees will st

jim, over to you. >> thank you, so much, meisha. well, the moment a lot of people have eagerly been awaiting for has arrived in new york city. >> and it smells. i love the story, though. a corpse flower in bloom this morning at the new york bo pan call gardens, how long it will stay open for grave visitors to sniff. stay with us. who do you talk to? i'm hillary clinton and i approved this message. well, i watch the shows. i mean i really see a lot of great - you know, when you watch your show and all of the other shows... while donald trump watched tv, as secretary of state, hillary clinton negotiated a cease fire in gaza. a reduction in nuclear weapons... took on vladimir putin... and stood up against the trafficking of human beings. a steady leader in an unsteady world. >> the time now 4:50. time as always for check on business news. >> money watch's jill wagner joins us live this morning, from the new york stock exchange, good morning, jill. now, we hear chipotle cooking up something new. what can you tell us? >> reporter: okay,

meisha here with traffic, katie here with your forecast, good morning. >> good morning, tgif. little slick out there. >> i know, but we already have a spin out crash. i'll get to that in just a moment. >> obviously wet weather to dodge. radar doesn't look all that impressive, but definitely some rain out there, coming through very scattered, off and on throughout the course of the day here today. yes, doesn't look like much, right? but definitely damp roads to work with, meisha will have all of your traffic cameras coming up. at the moment looks can be deceiving. what i would tell you is this. it will be one of those days where it is off and on with light rain, and/or drizzle, it is cloudy, it is not necessarily super windy out, there but it is damp and chilly. so, 46 degrees currently at the airport, in the a terribly far cry from where we stood yesterday with the temperatures at the same time. but once more, like we saw yesterday, you are not going to see heck of a lot of movement on the thermometer readings here today at best we will get new the mid 50's around the better p

meisha? >> katie, i'm so happy for all of our early morning commuters waking up this morning, and you have dry roadways, good morning and happy monday to you, a look at the schuylkill, taillights moving in the eastbound direction, both moving in the eastbound and westbound side of the schuylkill looking actually pretty good, i've been looking at this since 4:00 in the morning and holding steady. northbound direction approaching route one, what you are looking at, moving in the northbound side, headlight moving in the southbound direction, you can see it looking great, blue route all morning long looking really good, dairy say it, it looks almost like ghosttown on the blue routement looking real nice there. headlight moving in the eastbound direction past oaks, what you are looking at here. a loft early risers, but overall still traveling 55 miles per hour where i want to keep you as long as i can. construction here because of repaving of kelly drive all lanes are still blocked, and the furthe

february, meisha, talking highs only in the 20's with the winds. it will feel a lot colder. >> oh, 28, yikes, so glad we get these next few days, but rain can really slow us down. happy monday. we will do this together. we have construction 95 south between cottman and bridge street. right lane still compromised. i want to pull your attention, look how much rain is on the roadways, that rain going to slow you down this morning? you bet it is. absolutely give yourself extra time. and with all of that much rain, rain up on your windshield, that can really cause some problems, exactly what we're seeing this morning already. three accidents, couple cleared, then another pop up. then another one clears, accident, 332, newtown richboro road closed between fir drive and rocky way. another one, route 42 north bound at 295 pulled off to the shoulder. but make note. even when pulled off to the shoulder it can slow you down and start to get gaper delays even at this early hour. accident a.c. expressway eastbound, just past route 42, that one also pulled all t

jim, over to you. >> thanks so much, meisha a well, still ahead this morning, meisha, a pay attention, treat for coffee lovers. where you will soon be able to buy cuban coffee. >> sweet solution for making healthier candy. we'll show you what researchers at local university found, and it may actually reduce fat in chocolate. this is double dose. coffee and chocolate. >>> plans to spruce up broad street ahead of the democratic national convention next month. finds disturbing trends in how some physicians are prescribing medicine, and how a chip is helping make yoga more comfortable in class. check in two, three, four times a day on "kyw news radio" 1060 on your a.m. dial. >> researchers at temple university could be onto something. using electrical tricks to make lower fat chocolate. researchers say, they were able to reduce the fat by about 10% just by running liquid chocolate through an electric field. it makes the chocolate flow more easily, means it needs less fat to make your favorite treats n words on as or when it will be used in main stream chocolate. what do you think about th

it is coming in full force, looks like, meisha. >> yes, sounds that way. all right, katie, thank you so much. tgif. good morning, everybody, construction here just clearing out of the way, schuylkill eastbound at the blue route, right lane, let me just back out of the way. there they are. they are just moving out of the way now. so right lane was compromised for quite some time on the schuylkill eastbound at the blue route, moving out of the way. new jersey our first look into new jersey this morning, 42 freeway northbound at creek road. you can see moving to 295, what you are looking at, looking good, nice and steady, and the schuylkill headlights moving in the eastbound direction at spring garden, looking good, beautiful sky out there, jim, over to you. >> thank you so much, meisha a headed out the door stay updated when katie's forecast on sister station "kyw news radio" 1060. also, the budget battle is heating up in city council. the school reform commission denies charter schools renewal, and controversy surrounding google's latest doodle. check in tw

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back to you. >> meisha, thank you. president obama starting new year focusing his attention on gun control. today he meets with attorney general, lore eight lynch, to discuss options for regulating guns. at brian web report, the president is already getting reaction from the candidates who want to succeed him. >> democratic frontrunner hillary clinton is praising president obama for executive actions he intends to unveil this week, that would strengthen backgrounds checks on gun purchases. >> if congress won't act we have to do something about the fact that 33,000 people a year die from guns. >> bernie sanders, who is trailing clinton in the polls, also backed the president's mover. on sunday the vermont senator criticized republicans for failing to work with democrats on the issue. >> i would prefer that we could have bipartisan support, but the truth is, republicans are not interested in doing anything about gun safety. >> republican presidential couldn't ted ers are already threatening to undo any of the president's

as always with katie and meisha a good morning. >> yes, good morning, everyone, i can tell you, there are changes to amtrak, septa, i'll be updating zero g you on those. no accidents, dry roadways. will it linker? >> dry weather not so much. looks like we have yet another system on the way. we take you right on out to storm scan already in fact a little activity to track off to the north and west every us. we put things into motion on storm storm scan3, three hour loop, cold you have no have produced some snow ex folks, now it will have difficult time accumulating, how much, you go up toward the i80 interchange in the poconos in general, we are tracking some light stuff. we mentioned the freeze, as well, this is the next warming -- warning will take effect, later tonight, generally overnight, starting 1:00 a.m. into tomorrow. so, for now, yes, it is cold outside. but it is not cold enough to prompt any freeze warnings, again it, doesn't go knee effect overnight tonight into tomorrow. for now i would still grab the winter coat on the way out the door. below freezing in mount pocono at

meisha, what's going on? >> roads are looking good. a loft construction, casino of like the theme lately. yes, other than that, looking good. no problems in the weather department, love it, steve our weather producer taking a nap, just nothing to do. >> just kidding. he's always busy. but a beautiful day in store. we've been on this sunday i stretch it, will continue through the day today, through the upcoming weekend, you know i'm just kidding, steve. you're always working hard back there. i put him on assignment to make a meteor graph inning, he is definitely working hard, 42 degrees in center city, little bit of dawn in the scene there, getting live look at center city philadelphia. winds are calm right now, so with the chilly temperature at least don't have windchill impact. do have frost advisory in effect for the next cup old of hours, expires at 8:00 this morning, don't be too surprised if you wake to up frosty windshield this morning, temperatures are conducive to some of the frost formation. 35 degrees, in

katie and meisha will be along. first, here's what you need to know to start your morning minute. >> police are investigating a triple shooting in philadelphia's hunting park section. three victims were riding their bikes near fifth and erie when the shot rang out. >> while police chase ends with a crash in philadelphia's port richmond section. >> police tell us this lady is lucky she didn't kill herself and other police officers last night. as she took them on a chase, a 2-mile chase, in a stolen car. >> overnight north korea says it conducted it fifth nuclear test, president obama says any provocative actions by north

meisha? >>> well, it is in the raining outside but we are at circus having some fun at the wells fargo center. we have met clowns. we have more cool people coming up in a little bit stay right where you are, cbs-3 "eyewitness news" will be right back. >>> ♪ >> looking live outside side right the now earlier this week kanye west went public with his money troubles saying he was 53 million-dollar in debt, well new someone set up a go fund me page for him find out who want to help kanye and why. >>> sign that spring is around the corner, pitchers and catchers start their official work out at spring training. there air lot of new faces in the clubhouse too at the this early stage of spring. even the phillies gm is new, matt klentak is youngest gm in franchise history. phillies are in the rebuilding mode so this season should be interesting. >>> and, we have one of the phillies live in our next half an hour, pitcher, or rather catcher cameron rupp joins us right here on cbs-3. extra early down t

of course meisha here with traffic, katie has your forecast. >> good morning. happy monday everyone. >> vine open this morning, that's clutch for me, yes, another day where the wet letter stay dry, stay tranquil, looks like warm summer like day out there, at the moment, not terribly chilly either, storm scan, hey, that's empty, so all good things to report on a monday morning. definitely makes getting up little easier, but looking at this wider zoom, you can see limb wet weather just over the new york state border there, that is a warmfront, lifting through, so temperatures are really going to have chance to spike once again today. see couple of clouds, really that's t here's where we stand right now, 51 at the airport, not too bad. cooler through all of the other outlying observation that is we've got on the map for you right here. forty-one in quakertown, 46 palmyra, in mt. holly the oddball out here at 39 degrees. so where you have the clearest sky, re remote suburbs, have chance to cool off more readily here this morning, take a peak, this looks awesome, mo

. >> break it out, meisha. >> come on, meisha. >> okay? >> ready? >> very nice. >> bump off the elbow. >> well done meisha. >> okay? >> here we go. >> you got this, girl. >> first thing you do, i will give it to you. you go around your back. >> okay. >> around your back. two times. >> one through your legs, okay? you're going to hit it over. >> okay, around the back, katie. >> i think i can do that. do i have to do the hip things? >> there go. >> you agree? it is all right, it is all right. >> keep us on our toast. >> less hips. >> oh, man. >> fire fly? >> there you go. >> under the snelling. >> under the leg. >> there it is! okay? >> up high. >> just like this. >> i can do that. >> easy! >> there you go. >> there is it, guys. >> thank you, katie! >> ready? >> all right. >> here we go. >> bamm. >> oh, awe. >> thank you so much. what a ball we're having. all right, guys, thank you so much. harlem globetrotters, tour dates, absolutely check them out. great family fun this week. check it out cbsphilly.com. we will be right back. i want to try the behin

jim and natasha back over to you. >>> thanks, meisha. >>> we will have sports. lots going on. >> always, jim. >> including ryan lochte getting slapped finance his antics in rio. carson wentz and his early wake up call and national anthem kneeling that never happen. fios is not cable. we're wired differently. which means we can fix things differently. thanks for calling fios, this is ryan. you can't tell me this cord isn't in, i know it's in, it's in but it's not working. i'm sending you a link to the my fios app that's going to let me see what you're seeing. really? yes...mr. mcenroe. see that cord? just plug it into the connector on the right. so you can clearly see what's in and what's out? oh, absolutely. i like that. get fios with virtual tech support for $69.99 a month. big oil polluters. they have a friend in pennsylvania. millionaire pat toomey. toomey voted to protect their special tax breaks. saving oil companies twenty-four billion dollars. and big oil polluters have given toomey seven hundred thousand dollars in campaign contributions. tax breaks for

>> no, unfortunately, you know, i didn't get in line early enough. >> meisha did. meisha got ten! >> she bought ten, because she does lots of cardio, she needs to burn that off. >> she needs the carbs. yes, jill, we'll check in with you in the next hour. >> it has been pretty dry in the delaware valley. lawyer len tell us which day lawyer len tell us which day this weekend that may introducing longhorn's great american steak dinner for $12.99. perfectly seasoned sirloin with your choice of side. plus an appetizer or a dessert. only at longhorn steakhouse. you can't fake steak. fourteen americans killed in a san bernardino mass shooting... but after this tragedy - when pat toomey had the chance to ban suspected terrorists from buying guns - he voted against closing this loophole for terrorists - and with the gun lobby. katie: we have to do everything in our power to keep guns away from terrorists who threaten our way of life. i'm katie mcginty and i approve this message because we can't risk our families' safety on a loophole. >> welcome back this friday morning, your time 4:54. te

as meisha mentioned, minor flooding out, there as well. i show this version of storm scan, snapshot, get idea where the heaviest rain is currently falling, delaware beaches getting clocked right now along kent and sussex county, northwestern burlington county, portions of gloucester, camden, where you are finding the heaviest but obviously almost everybody is in this now. and this is going to be with us all morning long. now, we mention the flooding, coastal flood warning currently in effect, it will linger until 1:00 a.m. saturday, so it is the

meisha, this is not like any coffee you have had. trust me, i will tell you more coming up at about 6:30, i want to try to taste there is a little bit. >> did you taste it? >> it is really good, meisha a you would love it. >> oh, my gosh. jim, jim, we're going. >> function coffee labs, back into you guys. >> justin we have to scrape her off the floor. she is over there right now salivating. and you're just as bad as she is. the two of had you a 30 minute conversation on coffee the other day and i was rolling my eyes. >> fine wine. >> i wish could you have seen meisha. jim poke me. >> really good. >> she was staring! >> that is sweet burn, you guys. >> sweet burn, thank you. awesome. so good. >> lit's talk weather. >> right now dodging little wet weather out there, coming through very scat nerds nature, we've got more clouds than anything, we take you out to view, look at this. >> your welcome. no, just kidding. yes, we do have some very pretty colors starting the day off herement beautiful skyline currently as we face this, being tak

brooke, over to you. >> thanks, meisha. delta airlines struggling to recover from yesterday's computer outage. it canceled about 1,000 flight yesterday. the airline anticipates more concellations and delays today. if you are on a delta flight, check the status at delta. com or the fly delta app. you can re book your flight on the website. happening today, opening statements start in the trial of pennsylvania attorney general, kathleen kane. >> kane is charged with leaking secret grand jury information and lying under oath, conviction could lan her in prison. "eyewitness news" reporter justin finch is live at the courthouse in norristown with more, justin, good morning to you. >> reporter: joe, brooke, good morning, after some nine hours, a jury was chosen here in montgomery county court on monday evening. today, six men, six women, and alternates, will hear opening arguments in the kane perjury trial. she was seen yesterday flanked by her legal team and her twin sister. facing charges of felony perjury for allegedly lying a

meisha, over to you. >> sounds good. happy monday everybody, this is why you're looking at interstate 95, southbound at cottman, you can see coming around the s curve a lot of brake lights starting to off. starting to slow down little bit, maybe get out little earlier than what you were anticipating probably new jersey 42, you can see, a say satisfy of headlights out there, looking pretty, still traveling around 56-mile per hour, blue route tail light moving in the northbound direction media swarthmore, what you are looking at here, taillights, headlights, overall everything kind of holding steady where we are, as we push deeper into the 6:00 hour we start to slow down. overturned vehicle here in new jersey, new jersey turnpike southbound past height town, right lane blocked right now for repairs. give yourself couple of extra minutes, accident here new jersey as well, another investigation from an accident that happened little earlier. route 47 delsea drive closed near port elizabeth cumberland wrote. a lot going on thi

jim, rahel, back to you. >> meisha, a thank you. and now for a look at newspaper headlines from across the our region. >> from the cover of the mercury second time in less than a week daniel boone area school district dealing with the fall out from kinder garth never being left on a bus, you may recall on september 6, the first day every school, a kinder garden student left on locked bus for four hours, while on september 12th another student was not dropped off at the correct location. and road a school bus for two hours. >> and, from the front page of the reading eagle, penndot officials were hit with a bit of sticker shock this week when reviewing contractor bids to reviewing the ben street bridge. lowest bid about $6 million over what's been budgeted and that budget had already been increased 50%, since planning began. >> in the burlington county times, burlington county board of fro holders is considering a double dipping ban, reviewing proposal to prohibit the county government from hiring anyone already collecting a public fu

jim, back over to you. >> thanks, meisha. if you are heading out the door stay updated with katie's forecast on our sister station kyw news radio 106o also a war of word between governor chris christie and state assembly speaker vince preto over future of atlantic city. growing number of health experts are recommending the olympic games not be hold in brazil because of the zika virus. a review of the new film a bigger splash. check in two, three, four times a day on kyw news radio on kyw 1060 on your am dial. >>> coming up next on cbs-3 "eyewitness news" the somer ber way people are remembering the first anniversary of deadly amtrak drain derailment. >>> see what officers did after a chase end that had could get them in trouble. >>> is this the future of travel? incredible technology that could move you at the speed of sound, we are back at the top of the hour, stay with us, ev >>> new this morning a daring escape from a hospital, the crime a man is accuse of committing before he slipped a way from police. >>> i thought he wo

we have lauren in here for katie and meisha. >> good morning, you guys. the road are looking good. just construction. >> construction. >> construction, construction, construction, every single morning. >> yes. >> vine is closed and there is a minor accident out there. >> well, just tons of sunshine in the forecast as we have have the trend last couple of days, beautiful weather today it will be a little bit the more muggy. we see that reflect in the dew points creeping up in the lower 60's, some of our areas across the region. 69 degrees in philadelphia. southeasterly win, southerly component to the wind flow will present i in more moisture. you might note that is difference in the mugginess. sixty-seven in the shore. sixty-three in the poconos. storm scan three showing us a bunch of nothing. try weather continues, few cloud across central pennsylvania but today we will keep it mostly sunny once again for 9:00 o'clock hour. 76 degrees. as we head into lunchtime warming up at 85 and by even of the day to day we will make a run for that 90-degree mark. the as we head into tomorrow su

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meisha? >> nice, today, 82, yikes, that's warm. katie, thank you so many. good morning, happy tuesday to you. okay, so, we had very serious tractor-trailer accident yesterday around 3:00 p.m. all night long, lanes closed because of it, now it is all clear, just make mother of it. it just cleared not too long ago. all clear. no lane blockages any longer. bullying tomorrow bristol bridge all lanes both directions block until around 5:00 a.m. talcony palmyra bridge your best alternate for right now, again, another 15 minute expect that to open up. hopefully it does, i'll let you know when it does indeed clear. construction this morning, the blue route northbound, left lane compromised see vehicles out, there overall things looking okay there. construction 995 past the airport, run lane block. we're looking actually okay there. ninety-five north the ramp to the blue route also closed right now, and 95 north between route 320 and the ramp to the blue route, right lane closed. so a lot of construction out there this morning. we know that once things heat up on th

jim, erika, back to you. >> meisha, thank you. earlier we sent them out, wanted first-hand look at the roads meisha is keeping an eye on therefore us. >> we asked justin fin top head south, finds some snow, find anything for us yet, justin? >> reporter: jim, erika, good morning, haven't seen much in the way of heavy falling snow. you have seen some things blow in and out. in downtown wilmington, on north market street, heading toward rodney square here, as you can see, the road is casino of wet in spots. we have some cars that have been here, snow collection on them. not much in the way of any major problems getting south here, we did see some plows, and trucks now park on nine at south, heading down here to delaware, all-in-all, didn't look so bad. south of the airport, we did see some weather kind of get into the mix, precipitation, kind of a wintery mix, but nothing in the way yet that will stop you. as katie mentioned earlier, did see some collections, precipitation of snow, slush, on grassy and untreated surfaces. the roads a

not much better meisha in the upcoming weekend. it gets colder but on at day that breeze will let up but 39 e weekend. >> yeah. >> tis the season, lauren, okay, thank you so much. good morning everybody. happy thursday to you. gateway to the weekend we are looking okay, it is closed between schuylkill and closed. head up for those taking the vine. see westbound direction just maybe starting to open right now, eastbound side usually follows shortly after that. then we have down wires here 295 north and southbound at route 49 or pennsville off ramp right now you they are still closed. i'll let you know when they reopen and more construction on the pennsylvania turnpike eastbound that right lane is block and we have more construction out there on the new jersey turnpike pennsylvania turnpike connection eastbound just before delaware river bridge toll plaza and that left lane is to still blocked, so we will let you know when they pick that up. also, construction, on lincoln drive southbound this is starting to day, it is closed between

katie and meisha will be along in just a moment. first here's what you need to know to start your day in the morning minute. >> an investigation is underway to what started a huge fire in allentown last night. >> this fire was so massive, that firefighters are still here on scene, checking out hot spots. >> a major break in the investigation, into a package explosion in center city. >> police want to talk to this person who they say is key to answering questions surrounding a bombing that injured a 60 year old man. >> mad dog matter. >> president-elect donald trump will nominate retired marine general, james madis for defense secretary. >> the football worlds is mourning the death of a former nfl player killed in a road rage incident in louisianna. joe mcknight played for the new york jet, and the kansas city chiefs. >> five, four, three, two, one. (cheers). >> merry christmas everybody. >> historic moment there as president obama and his family lighting the national tree for the very last time. >> i love this time of year. we had i

i'm sure meisha will be keeping you a breast that far situation throughout the day. you know it gets little crazy down here, outside every city hall anyway, but with the parade, give yourself little extra time trying to get out of the city if you work down here, i know some of the city employees are getting out as early as noon today. some other city employees we're told to stay little later in the day to avoid the traffic. so that of course is always fun. yesterday i got a chance to talk to ryan arcidiacono. he was getting a fresh haircut yesterday, and he was getting himself ready and prepared for this parade. we had nice little sit-down. few of the players were there, with ryan arcidiacono. you'll hear this entire interview coming up around 6:30 this morning, it feels like tonight out here, 6:30 today, he was awesome. he's just so cool, calm, collected, taking it all in, taking in the new found celebrity. you'll be hearing that come up around 6:30, liver outside of city hall, pat gallen for "eyewitness news", jim, brooke, back into you. >> i can't wait to hear tha

meisha is in the cbs-3 great hall with them right now, hey, meisha? >> hey, guys, i'm so grateful to be standing next to these guys. they're our power troopers, it is our fourth of july, celebrating today, and let me tell you, this is army's premiere four member acoustic band, and it is an honor, such an honor, to have you guys this morning. so, first of all, i have to ask how does this group bet put together? >> going into the va homes it was so much easier with these instruments, we can walk in, play bedside, listen to somebody's story, we can also sing the anthem at a ballgame, we can gained of go anywhere, very modular. >> i know, absolutely is. >> we love your show. >> you can. you know what, it is our bless that you're hereby the way. hey, so i hear that you guys played for philadelphia yesterday? >> sure did. >> so where else do you guys go in do you travel all over? >> we do. we travel all over the country, and as my boss here, said, we one day will be in a veterans home playing bedside for vet that's not fortunate enough to come out to a beau

katie and meisha are here. keeping an eye on things. good morning. >> hey tuesday, roads looking okay, we do have overnight construction, and jackknife tractor-trailer not moving out of the way. causing some slow downs now. >> we can understands that, definitely wet weather will be an issue for us, as women. definitely, have your umbrella ready to go, especially for the first half of the day. so we go outside right now, overlook center city, normally our shot, where you can see the city skyline, really bright and clear. it is a little hazy right now, so it is moisture to work with here in the delaware valley definitely a lot of rain on the way. you can see that starting to bubble up already, some of you already getting hit by the rain, steadier pocket of it, up toward monroe county specially, but this will be rolling through over the next couple of hours, i would say the wettest window of time really happens for the tail end of our typical morning rush. late morning, but at this point we're in it, you know, don't be shocked if you see t

katie and meisha are here as well keeping an eye on things this morning begin deed, good morning. >> welcome back. >> welcome back, katie. it is friday, and also looking good, guys, but we have accident on 95 right now that's causing some major slow-downs, we'll goat that in just a moment. >> we're like that on a friday, and i have nothing but heat to talk about basically, i mean, for days here. so there it is, excessive heat watch, going into effect tomorrow morning, but today will be pretty toasty day, make no mistake, talking excessive heat starting again tomorrow, where we see the worse of the heat peaking, but, for now, it is already off to pretty muggy and certainly very mild start, so no problem hitting mid 90s later today. so storm scan3, quiet at least for now, later today there is going to be frontal boundery that passes through, especially the northern counties, most effective, see locally stronger thunderstorms, should be pretty isolated but they'll be out there. low mid 70s, currently finding up and down i95, point south and east, again as i mentioned somewhat humid out

nicole, over to you. >> meisha, thank you. group of special needs teens are hoping that bruno mars shows up at their prom. >> fantastic friends, even created prom postal to the beat of his hit song, uptown funk. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> bruno mars actually says the uptown funk singer will either sends a video to play at tonight's prom or he may show up in person. >> what? >> fantastic, the prom tonight in voorhees, new jersey at 7:00. just may have to wait and see. >> oh, i hope he does. coming up in the next hour, live down the shore at one of the top attractions, to check out this summer. >> also, another reason to get up and get active. the big boost exercise can give your brain. we'll be right back. camden wasn't an easy place to grow up. but teachers like mr. elliot saw something in me. made a connection with me. now i'm a teacher myself, right here in camden. i'm just passing it along to my own students and making those same connections my teachers made with me. now that's some beautiful music. i'm jamal dickerson, and i'm proud

we get your day started with weather and traffic with lauren and meisha, in for katie this morning. >> good morning, all right. wet commute, we know what that will entail, very busy, we are seeing speed restrictionness places, we have a couple accidents and a lot have construction leave you home this morning. >> yeah, just a beautiful day to day. >> yes. >> just kidding. >> we do need rain but it will impact our commute. we are seeing flash flood watches and warnings issues for part of the delaware that have been dealing with the most rainfall over last 24 to 36 hours. storm scan three is showing us heaviest rainfall concentrated over parts of the delaware right now and embedded thunderstorm with lightening strikes, over the del marva peninsula over last several hours, maybe waking you up early. we are dealing with the area of widespread rainfall in center city philadelphia and parts of the southern new jersey. main concern is across delaware where we have a flash flood watch in effect and also some flash flood warnings in effect for parts of the southern delaware to the coastline and

jim, over to you. >> thank you so much, meisha a time now 6:50. a lot many coming up on cbs this morning. >> nora o'donnell joins us live from new york with a preview. good morning, nora. >> hey, good morning to you, brooke, jim. saying good-bye to the greatest. scott pelle leads our coverage from louisville where thousands are expected to pay their respects to muhammad ali. also, we will talk with his long time friends kareem abdul-jabbar. plus look into the world president obama will play on the campaign trail. and if donald trump can compete when it comes to fundraising. and a parrot might be the key witness in a murder mystery. we talk with harvard researchers to find out if the birds' memory should old up in court. the news is back in the morning, we'll see in you just about ten minutes. >> thank you, nor a definitely we will be watching. >> we will. it is friday, time for another dream drive. >> meisha, a where are you taking us this week? >> well, where am i going to take you? i ventured off into spring fields township new jersey, well, a t

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meisha? >> sure, anything is possible, flight. >> she is so giving. we would all have new cars. >> oh, ya. >> so we know it is not america ooh. >> and ponies and retirement homes and everything else, ya. but you know what, guys, i got cool picture to show you. >> this was eyewitness photo sent to us from our very own hug i bear. most people know him as vince. but he is one of the producers, look at this, closely, see the rain bowl? actually take friend our station headquarters, we did just have lil rounds of showers roll through. and then beautiful rainbow emerged. so lovely shot. thank you for running and catch that for us, vince, it was so pretty and fleeting. that will said, still tracking some showers out there right now. most mother bridge as cross the southern half of our area. not everyone will walk out the door to wet weather. but one of the daisy always say casino every your call on the umbrella don't mind little light rain, this isn't where we ned the umbrella. that said, the furthe

meisha? >> and looking outside right now, 42 freeway, looking gorgeous, but we have two accident out there, one in chester, one in limerick, too, plus water main break, all of the updates coming up. first we'll take a quick break, so stay right where you are. cbs-3 " i'm like a sponge for this stuff. i can learn it. get it. sell it. i can do this job in my sleep better than some people can do awake. i just want to make sure this brain stays in hyperdrive. hey we hear you. that's why aarp created staying sharp. it's more than brain games. it's a personalized, 360 approach to brain health. with assessments and tools that can help you keep your brain sharp. if you don't think "this is right for me" when you think aarp, then you don't know "aarp." get to know us at aarp.org/possibilities. ...one of mlife.ieces in my so when my asthma symptoms kept coming back on my long-term control medicine. i talked to my doctor and found a missing piece in my asthma treatment with breo. once-daily breo prevent

katie and meisha keeps an ion things this morning. meisha, busy morning for you out there? >> it started in the had hour, not eased up at all. we have three accidents out there, all of which i can tell you right now are going to slow you down this morning, plus a lot cough being -- coming up in mass transit. >> i should point out, international speak out like a pirate day. >> so batten down the hatches, mate is. that was more irish? >> i was going to say. the irish pirates are taking over. >> there is a storm everyone out there. yes, the grunt in there. take a look at the radar, guys. argh. >> there go. >> oh, i got to work on this one. all right, bear with me, for example, i know, it is monday, not the best news to start the morning off. we want to get you out the door with a smile, though. all of the tools that you need to have a day that's going to be fantastic. i would highly suggest one of the tools is a umbrella because it is soggy out there right now. very heavy rain currently falling. not everyone is getting hit, but we look at this just snapshot basically, of storm

katie and meisha are keeping an eye on things as always but first we will go up and start with meisha, what is going on outside. >> good morning, you guys. things are looking okay you guys as we see morning construction like we always do. welcome. accident 422 westbound on ramp from the schuylkill, and not causing any slow downs right now but certainly will, as we push in the 5:00 o'clock hour. it doesn't get cleared out of the way. we are starting to see a tic of gaper delay but we don't have amount of vehicle tolls sustain that. overall you can see crews are out there trying to get this remedy for you. vine street expressway was closed between the schuylkill and broad, eastbound side, you are still closed, westbound side you have now, been opened. ben franklin bridge, looking as gorgeous as it usually does coming from new jersey into center city just a few early risers out there looking at the boulevard at fox street this is what you are looking at for those in and around this a

meisha already has arms like that. >> there it is, there it it,. >> we will be out here all morning, these guys are warming up, running up and down steps we will get crazy sweat in and get those beach bodies in tack and new that you know we're here everyone will come out and join us until 7:00. jim, that means you. get over here, all right. it went mess hair up. >> if i can do that, can i get his arms. if that is the goal of this thing i will be there. we will check in next hour. >> that is one of the goals. >> meisha is excited she's coming with me. >>> in other news police officer goes above and beyond call of duty unusual way he helped the victims of the car crash. >>> speeding up security lines at the airport how tsa says he can help ease big backu ♪ >>> top ts a a official testifies on capitol hill over, long security lines at the nation's airport. officials hope to get it fixed before the summer travel season. tsa held a special security screening yesterday at philadelphia international airport. they wanted to show how passengers, who prepared properly helped move lines along

we have meisha in. lauren casey in here with us for the first time with me, in for kate think morning. >> happy to be here. >> glad to work with you. >> very exciting up and early nice start to the day, friday, everyone's excited even though it is a little early still. getting your coffee going. >> how are the roads. >> roads are good, little construction, few accident, some still out, there i'll touch base in just a moment. lauren, at least we know we will get a warm up. >> once the sun comes up, a lot of bright sunshine, light winds will warm us up quickly, chilly start to the day, probably even need the winter coat, 43 degrees your current temperature in center city philadelphia. nice light winds, no windchill impact this morning. but temperatures are down into the 30's, across much of the area. 35 degrees right now, in atlantic city where sub freezing in millville, 38 degrees in allentown, and with these chillier temperatures, and the clear skies, right now, we do have some areas that could see some

lets check weather and traffic with katie and meisha. >> good morning. gate waste to our weekend is here, joe, so great to see you. >> so glad to have you. >> yes. >> we know it is early. >> i have to ask are you sick of the rain? are you tired of the rain. >> i have to plead the fifth on that one. >> katie? >> because we need the rain. >> you right, we do need the rain. >> yes. >> katie just said a happy meteorological winter. >> indeed. >> thanks, guys. >> thanks for remembering. >> we're going to let katie celebrate in just a second, but we're still look very wet out there we have had a couple accidents, letting us know it is both slick out there. >> even though rain has technically pretty much wound down here what we will find is that when all of the rain we had from yesterday we had over 2 inches have rain since tuesday that helped just the rainfall deficit but only slew of problems. we have had a 7-inch deficit just a few days ago. look the at the where we stand now. it is better, folks. it looks like a nice smooth sale, so we can sit, relax at thi

jim, over to you. >>> thanks, meisha. meisha never gets angry but philadelphia has been named the most angry city in america. >> never. >> web site gave us this unwanted honor. reputation of philly sport fans doesn't help either. web site called out flyers fans, remember when they threw those bracelets on the ice during playoffs this year. >> that was kind of tacky. >> you're right. >> but they described philadelphians accent as sound of someone throwing a chain saw into a trash fire, filled with gravel. >> but it is accurate. >> in case, it is a new yorky kind of bostony kind of mixture but anyway, meisha is laughing. she is a day of sunshine n case you are wondering, philly beat out cleveland. i don't understand that and boston with the dubious distinction but i don't think boston people are angry. >> i don't think philly people are angry. >> they tell you like it is. >> i think they are nice. >> i like that, that is why i live here. >> because it is huge. >> huge. >> is that a philly thing or new york thing. >> that is

meisha? >> all right, so, really will affect our morning commute this morning, thanks so much, katie. good morning, everyone, happy tuesday, already, early, not even in the 5:00 hour. already have some problems out on the roadways, accident on the boulevard southbound approaching the schuylkill. see the flares in the roadway, directing you all the way to the left. forcing everyone to get into single file lane. when that happens, we know what's going to be slow, even in the for 4:00 hour, even pushing into the 5:00 hour, this will slow you down, boulevard southbound approaching the schuylkill, two right lanes blocked in that area. also another accident here. take a look at this, 95 south before naman's road two, right lanes blocked here as well. they are blocking lanes intermittently. reports having that some, at some point, all lanes were even block. but you can see how slow moving it is around this area of the volume levels starting to build you creep by here not to mention you will have som

jan, back over to you. >> meisha, thank you. president obama and his family lit the national christmas tree for the final time outside the white house last night. >> three, two, one. >> (cheers). >> the president encouraging americans to care for the sick and the hungry this holiday season. actor angora, and performances >> "eyewitness news" at the philadelphia ronald mcdonald howls for their annual lighting. fralinger spring band performed music, great food, sweet treats for all to enjoy. >> east passyunk 9/11 southwest philadelphia, "eyewitness news" therefore the annual lighting of the sinking fountain tree. student got everyone in the mood with great holiday favorite. >> two, one, happy holidays. >> and that was the scene on philadelphia's rittenhouse square. many including meteorologist, kate bilo, and santa claus himself. took part in a christmas tree lighting ceremony. >> pretty. very pretty. >> very pretty. still ahead this morning on "eyewitness news", you're not the only one trying to find a bargain. >> i guess not. wh

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joe, over to you. >> meisha, thank you. developing at this hour, you are looking live at the delta ticket counter at philadelphia international airport. pretty quiet there. the airline is still working to get up and running after they had to cancel about a thousand flights yesterday because of a computer glitch. so far four delta flights have been canceled this morning. at this early hour, we are seeing a lot of people in line, at times, after they were forced to adjust plans yesterday. delta is offering a free waiver to customers traveling today. you can check your flight status on line at cbsphilly.com. >>> opening statements start in the trial of pennsylvania attorney general kathleen kane. >> after nine hours yesterday, a jury of six men, and six women, were pick for the trial. this is video of kane leaving court last night in norristown. she is charged with leaking secret grand jury information to a philadelphia reporter to embarrass enemies, and then lying about it under oath. she has remained the attorney general des