As well. Today is tuesday, december 5th , good morning, im joe holden. Jim is off. Im rahel solomon. Katie and meisha keeping an eye on things this morning, getting us out the door. Good morning. Looking outside, joe, welcome again on this tuesday. Looking, just broken record here, just lots of construction, no accidents to report, looking good so far. Exactly the the pm drive ends up with the short straw on this one today. Okay for the most part. There could likely be couple of showers. Maybe the need to flick those windshield wipers once or twice this morning. But it is really whats off to the west thats going to be the main game changer here today. Not only going to be what brings us the wettest conditions, but also, what bridges about some substantial change here in the area, come tomorrow, but even throughout the day today that wind starts to pick up little bit. Certainly the rain is the issue. But were very warm before it crosses. From now, though, the radar, localized level still pretty quiet. Definitely a lot of clouds out there, allowing more of blanket to settle in to keep us from dropping off all that much. But do you have surge of milder air, creeping in here, in advance of this cold front passage. So, a lot of different ingredient playing into this. But 53 and 54 degrees from Atlantic City to wildwood respectfully. Right now, so really warm weather for you there therefore whats average. Fortynine, thats your actually above your normal daytime high this day in philadelphia. Fortyseven in palmyra. So, a warm start for the standards anyway. That does mean, rain is the only issue. No ice, no snow out of this cold front passage. However, by the weekend, there is some snow potential which well get to little later on, meisha. Okay, say it isnt so, katie. Looking outside right now, mystro roadway. This will help thus tuesday morning, but, like kate pointed out, rain starts to show up this morning, thats really going slow us down. Yesterday dealing with the fog today, we might be during the morning commute dealing with a little bit of rain. We will see what happens. But looking outside right now, looking at some construction, schuylkill east, crews now, in case you missed it, have moved out of the way. So on the schuylkill looking good, one westbound lane was also closed, again, thats moved out of the way. So, 95, got very busy, pushing in the southbound direction all the way into Center City Yesterday morning. Particularly, well, always busy but particularly because that far fog. So, if we do have rainy would head out there little earlier today, right now things actually looking good. Hopefully we can keep you looking like there is at least little deep near the 5 00 hour , and then the walt whitman bridge, eastbound, is also going to get very busy, two lanes, right now, block for some construction crews, just heads up on this, as one of those areas that is still looking all green right now, but it will start to slow down pushing more into the 5 00. Joe, back to you. More on bra i can breaking news, powerful winds, fast moving brush fire out in Southern California. The fire being blamed for at least one death. Has forced the evacuation of more than 7500 homes. Eyewitness News Reporter trang do joins us live from the sat center with the very latest. Good morning, trang. Reporter good morning, rahel, joe, seeing incredible video coming out of Southern California of whats ever changing situation. The latest count has the fire at more than 25,000 acres and strong winds are blowing it toward ventura, a sit of 100,000 people. A fastmoving wild fire in Southern California has forced thousands out of their homes and left even more without power. Fire Officials Say the thomas fire started just east of santa paula, at about 50 acres , but in the span after few hours grew to more than 10,000. The pros peck for con table ment are not good. Really Mother Nature decide when we have the ability to put it out. Because it is pushing hard with the wind. The rapid spread is being blamed on high winds, with gusts cents of up to 70 miles per hour. The fire also struck some key transmission lines, knocking out power to a quarter after million customers, in santa barbara, and ventura counties. People who live in santa paula , about 70 miles northwest every los angeles, say they got reverse 911 calls ordering them to leave their homes. Im not going to wait around for somebody to have to come rescue me. So im out of here. The Ventura CountyFire Department says one person died in a car accident being blamed on the fire. While the Sheriffs Office reports two buildings have burned so far. Weve been here almost 30 years, and weve gone through fires, you know, but it is just the wind. You just dont know where it will go. And adding to the difficulty of fighting this fire, the National Weather service is predicting high winds, and low humidity, for the rest of this week. In the meantime, the Ventura County sheriffs offers has set up emergency shelters, at local high school, in the county fairgrounds. But for now live in the sat center. Im trang do, cbs3 Eyewitness News. Joe and rahel, back to you. Trang, thank you. Delaware state police label the death of two men in a Wilmington Motel suspicious. Someone found their bodies in room at the Day One Motel on governor prince boulevard yesterday afternoon. Investigators are now waiting for an autopsy to determine the cause of death. Hotel employees say nan ma wheelchair was staring in the room and investigators are calling the room a crime scene we want to make sure that we do a proper, thorough investigation. Investigators are not calling it a murdersuicide, but they also say the public is not in danger, and there are no suspect. Two teens beating a man to death in mayfair, and say they may have been involved in other crimes. Seventeen year old emanuel harris, 16 year old malik page , and 14 year old brandon conrad, are being charged as adults. Police say the teens attack and robbed 57 year old kevin cullen along the 4200 block of luring street last sunday. Investigators believe the teens may be connected to other assaults. They dont have prior contact, but certainly looking at them in conjunction with other assaults that have been reported. There is one other assault where a teen is under arrest, and they are all part of the same group. Neighbors in the Mayfair Community have been adding to a memorial set up for the victim, kevin cullen, and neighbors we talk to say he was a quiet man who didnt bother anyone. There are renewed calls for the judge who sentenced philadelphia Rapper Meek Mill to step a side from the case. The calls came after that judge denied bail request. Meek mill serving twofour year sentence for violating his probation. His lawyers says the conduct of the judge, denise brinkly, being investigated by the f. B. I. Brinkly says meek mill is a flight risk with a history of continued drug use. Former Philadelphia District attorney, set william ; now in a prison in Oklahoma City williams serving Year Prison Sentence on bribe bring charges re relocated to a philadelphia jail cell. His lawyers say they expect williams to be transferred to morgantown, west virginia, before the end every his sentence. Williams is set for release in november 2021. Well, campaign for the u. S. Senate in alabama gaining traction. Republican National Committee resuming Financial Support following president trumps endorsement. In mid november the rnc severed ties with the Moore Campaign after multiple women accused him of sexual misconduct. Moore has vehemently denied the allegations cents. He is challenging democrat, doug jones, in next weeks special election. And, there is a late word this morning that congressman john conyers wont seek reelection. The New York Times quotes the relative who plans to run for conyers seat next year. The michigan democrat is under pressure to resign a mid accusations of sexual harrassment by several women. Conyers news is the longer he is serving member of the house of representatives. He maintains his innocence. Well, it is never too soon to think about summer. Coming up the hard work going on now that hopes to make the shore season better at one jersey town. Also ahead, house explosion under investigation, in maryland. What one of the resident says they heard before the blast. Plus this then i heard a boom. And i look up. And the canopy was falling. Winds were Strong Enough to topple over part of a gas station. Rocking around the Christmas Tree fun fact, joe holden, this song is my favorite scene in the home alone movie. Do you remember that scene . I agree with you on. That will i loved that scene. So much in common. Kevin, kevin setting up the silhouette dancing with the tree. Beautiful. No one is rocking around the Christmas Tree at city hall. But still a scenic shot. Katie, also hard at work on her forecast, more when we come back. Rocking around the Christmas Tree two brothers who rent a home say they were watching it v, they heard a first blast. Then a second blast injuring one of the brothers. Here, shear shock, really, to see something, to see a house be destroyed like that specially toward the holiday season, cant imagine what thats doing to the family. Alert, talking, before taken to the hospital. The home will likely be torn down because of the extent of damage. Talk about close call. Woman nearly crushed by falling canopy at gas station near chicago chick. Esther welsh was inside that car when the stations awning collapsed last night, incredibly it came to rest just before crushing her car. Close call for sure. You can see it there, teetering on the roof. Welsh made it out unscathed. Heavy winds are believed to have played a role in this collapse. Construction continues, workers busy replace willing the boardwalk between tenth and 12 street. See them there drilling in the pilings, from yesterday. This stretch of the board should find earn by march plenty every time before the summer beach season starts. Katie fehlinger, goat to imagine, there is a lot of loose change under those boards. All right. Change under there. That march deadline gives them the three month wiggle room they may need, right . Definitely going to be some wet boards out there here as this next front crosses through later today. The bulk of the heavy rain likely to hold off until at least late this afternoon, but specially into the evening, when we will see heaviest rainfall from the front. Meantime, all were doing is building up ample moisture and building up warmth even through the overnight hours before this gets here. Good, back toward the colder states, of the great lakes, this is strictly been a rain producing storm system. As it crosses our area it will be much the same. It is just not cold enough right now to support any ice, any snow. So do not worry about any kind of slick travel courtesy every icing. These certainly will get slowed down by this. This has way more interesting organization than it did this same time yesterday. That will cold front strung all the way back and even the potential of Severe Weather in the next few hours, back through the state. We dont have that threat, but we do have the rain, inch evident bridge coming here as the day goes on. How much are we talking . I dont think it is frankly much more than half inch before said and done. So put it into motion. We get you through the morning with nothing but spotty at best showers really later this afternoon that the heaviest stuff starts to pick up, when the kids are getting out of school in berks and lancaster counties, start to see leading edge. But really, 7 00, 8 00, 9 00 p. M. For the rest of us before the heaviest stuff is set to come in. As it gets worse, you might see almost three quarters after inch, that would be specially true for the northern most counties. Getting the rap we jump you right to the seven day. Take a look, by tomorrow held back to only 49 degrees. Much more like it when it comes to whats average. But by friday night, early saturday, might even be few snow showers, southeast of the city, especially, meisha . About that time we Start Talking about, that all right, katie, thank you so much. And very good morning to all of you. Looking outside. Everything looking really good ment construction crews, overnight project, leaves moving out the way. Looking at fox, headed out there any time soon, what you are working with, nice dry roadways for now. The vine, seeing brake lights, pushing in the westbound direction, vine eastbound, starting to build levels little bit, lots of headlight out there, eastbound side clearly starting to pick up quicker than the westbound side. What were working with, 42 actually looking pretty good. Lot every construction in jersey, rahel, joe, back to you to. Now for a look at newspaper headlines from across our region. Burlington count its times, Florence Police investigating strong arm robberies in in recent weeks occurred within a few blocks of each otherment some cases the victims were assaulted before monday ways taken. Police warn residents to be on alert while they search for three or four suspect. Buttonwood street bridge underwent more than 15 million in repairs yet still have cracks and crumbling pieces of concrete. It carries more than 16,000 vehicles a day making it the most heavily used county on the bridge although there are cracks, the bridge is structurally sound. And in the intelligencer area hospitalization are managing supplies despite the worse shortage of iv fluids theyve ever seen. Short shortage includes all types every fluids including saline, hospitals say patient should not be worried . Thats a look at newspaper headlines from around the delaware valley. Up next, spat here with sports. Good morning, pat. Good morning, guys, full night of sports to catch you up on, including a violent game between the bengals and steelers. Plus, the sixers got sick performance from one of their stars, and the flyers were looking to break an ugly streak. All of that and more next in pat is shear with sports, pat, scary injury during monday night football. About this quote. We need to take kirsch over other. Thats what bengals wide receiver aj green said following violent vicious game between two heated division rivals. Pittsburgh steelers in cincinnati, and andy daulton hit here, bengals up 17 nothing, but the steelers storm back, Fourth Quarter great throw from ben rot rot little berg tow antonio brown. He had eight catches for 101 yards, with no time remaining, chris boss well from 38 yards out, nails t steelers win 2320, now ten and two. Now the game was filled with several illegal hit. But the most frightening, this routine play. Steelers linebacker ryan went down making attack he will on bengals receiver josh malone. He needed ton carted off and was diagnosed with a spinal contusion. Doctors say he does not need surgery at this time. And the hope is that he can return to pittsburgh later today. Make no mistake, this is tough game, tough business, man. Thoughts and prayers to him. It is scary, sad, emotions running like crazy. So, you know, as one of our leaders, guy calls defense, and things like that, it is a scary situation. His injury nos the result after dirty play. Four had four unnecessary rough necessary calls, multiple players carted off, troy aikman tweeted, quote there is game is hard to watch for a number of reasons. Terrible for the nfl and the game of football overall. The eagles now finds themselves in a tough position , sure, theyre ten and two, but if they lose sunday against the la rams this could slide into the middle of the playoff pack. That would mean a tough road toward gaining the allimportant home field advantage. On sunday night the eagle played their worse game of the season, carson wentz did hit Nelson Agholor on this touchdown, but it wasnt enough, Russell Wilson outstanding all night throwing three touchdown passes, eagles fell 24 to ten, sit behind the vikings in the seconds spot. Head coach Doug Pederson believes the loss would be a benefit in the longrun. Woe we need games where we get hit in the mouth, battle, scratch, and, you know, yesterdays game was one of those games. And you just have to understanded that no substitute for the preparation the guys have to know. That will thats my job to make sure they understand that the birds are in los angeles, actually, Orange County to be specific. Theyre spending the week on the west costes they get ready for the nine and three rams in l. A. Just like zeppelin, were going to california, as well. Sports director don bell will have live reports from so call starting wednesday on Eyewitness News. Tis the season for the flu. The bug is starting to make its rounds and has hit a sixers star player, ben simmons fought through the illness in saturdays win over detroit, and it continue through last nights game against the phoenix suns, simmons mostly bed red end the last few days but showed up big last night, 20 points, eight rebounds, 75 cysts and six steels in 36 minutes. Joel embiid had nice night as well. Twentytwo points, 12 boards, four blocks. But the sixers could not stop sharpshooter devon booker, he drops 70 on the celtics in boston last year, he had 46 for the suns against the sixers last night, sixers lose to one of the worse defensive teams in the nba. 115101. Speaking of losses, the flyers have been doing plenty that far recently. Stuck in the middle of a ten game losing streak, dave text tal changed top line moving jake voracek to line two. Goalie brian elliot faced his former team the flames last night in calgary. Game tide in the Second Period shane launches one from inside the blue line, scott lawton would finish it up. Flyers up twoone here. Twentyfive seconds later, it is voracek on the pretty give and go to michael, his third of the season. They would add two more. But Duane Simmons scoring, and lawton adding a second flyers, and ugly losing streak, five two, we will take, that in edmonton tomorrow night. So crazy night in sports, finally flyers win. Sixers sadly lose. You know what i want . A phillies sweep. I want the flyers, eagles, sixers, to all win, nothing to complain about. Youre asking a lot . Well try it out. See if we can do it. Thank you, pat. Thank you. Coming up in the next half hour every Eyewitness News, facebook a launching Messenger Service for kids. Well have the details in a live report from wall street. Then, the pews are packed, as the obligation gathers not for worship, before a lesson in safety. Hear the Message Police have, to keep them safe. And we continue to follow breaking news out of california. Where the socalled thomas fire continues to burn out of control. It turned deadly overnight, it has knocked out power to several major cities. Well have more just ahead. Stay with us as Eyewitness News continues. Miim alive and have a second chance. James im thankful for the help and the opportunity that i received. Darlene im thankful to be able to help people in crisis. Vanessa im thankful that addiction is treatable, and that help is available. Christie new jersey is experiencing a heroin epidemic fueled by opioid painkillers. But if you or someone you love is struggling with addiction, i want you to know we are here for you. This holiday season, choose help. Call 844 reach nj or visit reachnj. Gov. Katie and meisha will be along in a moment, but what you need to start your day in the morning minute, today, tuesday, december 5th. It quiet here. You dont hear much. Mystery at delaware motel. I hear a knock on the door. It was one of the detectives. Two men found dead in a room, officers say their deaths are suspicious. knock at the door . Sheriffs department. Evacuations are underway in california. A fastmoving brush fire is threatening buildings, northwest of los angeles. Strong winds are blowing toward ventura. It is not up to me or the president