Will do harm levels flirtation with 60 degrees. Are you kidding me . Im all in. When you have the stretch of the coal like we in recent days here, i think it is nice lick break, like you said. Little sprinkle here and, there through the western counties, not really big deal, i dont think youll have any major problems with this, this will be fizzling, clearing out as the day goes on for more and more sunshine. Off to milder start. Currently 43 at the airport, 45 in palmyra. And out in quakertown, a measley 37. So, yes, there is still a chill in the air. But not as harsh of a chill. No where near as harsh as you would formally find. Look at the highs, yes, above average in a big way here. Fiftyeight is the call for philly today. With increasing amounts every sunday shine, it looks like a very nice day allinall. So, if you do have outdoor plans, maybe lit to the party to go cut down your tree or maybe to put out your holiday decorations you have perfect excuse for that here today and with time, you know, eventually some wet weather does return to the forecast, today really is nice one and we will talk more about the upcoming precipitation chance coming up a little later, guys see you soon, thank you. Lets look at the roads, construction on i76 between the vine street expressway, and south street. All eastbound lanes are closed in one westbound lane is blocked. More construction to tell but, i76 eastbound between the pa turnpike and i476 the blue route, we can see the right lane blocked there. And the talcony palmyra bridge scheduled to open around 4 45 a. M. So, just about 20 minutes for a ship crossing, you can use the betsy ross bridge as an alternate. Breaking news overnight, federal investigators have just revealed that the amtrak train that derailed in Washington State yesterday morning was speed whg it crashed. According to investigators the train was traveling more than twice the speed limit when it jumped the tracks, killing three people. Cbs news correspondent Chris Martinez near the crash scene in dew point with the latest on the investigation. Work at the site itself will remain all evening. At least three people were killed, monday, when amtrak train number 501 derailed outside dupont washington. Thirteen of its 14 cars, left the tracks, with some flying off an overpass, and down onto busy interstate five. Fortunately, no motorists were killed. Something like this, where train cars are precariously dangling over a freeway, thats something that we do table tops on. And everybody comes in, usually going oh, thats not going to happen. Well, here we are. The train left seattle bound for portland, oregon. Track 501, emergency, were on the grounds. Radio calls from the crew captured the moments, following the derailment. Is everybody okay . Im still figuring that out we got cars everywhere. And down on to the highway. Five crew members were aboard the train, along with 80 passengers. I didnt realize i was standing on another train car making the inch august all run of new express line. Local officials voiced concerned whether the tracks could handle commuters trains going 08 miles an hour. I just grabbed on to the chair in front of me for dear life. My laptop went flying, phone went flying. Investigators from the National Transportation safety board are on the scene collecting evidence it could be weeks even months for them to say what caused the derail ment. Chris martinez, cbs news. The images of the Train Derailment in Washington State bring to mind the derailment that happened in philadelphia back in 2015, that derailment happened in port richmond. The National Transportation safety board said the train was going too fast, and since then technology called positive train control was installed on all amtrak lines along the northeast corridor. It can slow down or stop a train, if it senses imminent danger. Amtrak says washington train lines do not have the technology yet but in the sure if it would make a difference. It is too earl to tell if positive train control could have prevented it derailment because we dont know what caused the derailment. Now, eight people died and more than 200 were hurt in that 2015 derail until the port richmond. Stay with Eyewitness News for continuing coverage of the amtrak Train Derailment in Washington State. When were not on air you can always finds our coverage on line at cbsphilly. Com and the cbs local app. Philadelphia police are searching for a killer after a man is shot to death inside of a Strawberry Mansion home. Happened on the 6,000 block of west Oxford Street just after 8 30 last night. Off the ers found the victim in the home, also his bedroom, were told the 27 year old was shot moment recall times. A south philadelphia woman says she is distraught after thieves stole her holiday decorations for third time, each crime caught on camera. Josephine michetti decorates her home on the 1100 block every fitzgerald street for every holiday. 2013 couple caught stealing her decorations and arrested in on the of 2014 couple snatched her halloween decor. This year on the december 9 , around 5 00 a. M. , Police Say Two men took her three trees and a tone area she designed with ornament, they told us she now done with decorating outside. I do for every holiday, i decorate every holiday. No more outside, no. Cant blame her. She brought a snowman out of storage to go with whats left of her original display, she hoping the unique part of her zebra decorations will catch someones attention and police can catch the thieves. Well, Pennsylvania State senator accused of Sexual Misconduct makes his first Public Statement and i he announces hes taking step back for campaigning for congress. Accusations against Democratic State senator lynch who represents parts of montgomery and delaware counties appeared in the philadelphia inquirer. After the story was made public, Governor Tom Wolf called for the senator to resign. I dont care whether youre republican or democrat. I think leach has done fine job as a senator, but i think we do need to make a statement about what kind of commonwealth we are. Leach release add statement reading in part, it is heart break to go me that i have put someone in a position that made them feel un comfortable, or disrespecting. In the future i will take more care in my words and my actions and i will make it my top priority to protect those who speak up to help change. Governor wolf vetoed bill passed by the republican led legislature. The bill would have limited abortion long as to the first 20 weeks of pregnancy. The Current Limited is 24 weeks, the governor signed the veto paperwork at city hall in philadelphia yesterday, he was joined by mayor jim kenney, and Womens Health advocates. The house is getting ready to vote on the gop final draft of the tax reform plan today, if it passes, the measure will then go on to the senate. And if both the house and Senate Approve the bill, President Trump could sign massive tax cuts into law. Heres the Trump Administration could ends the year with a major victory. It will be the biggest tax cut and tax reform in the history of our country. The Republican Party is on track to pass a 1. 5 trillion tax overhaul within the next few days. The house is expected to vote first, with a senate vote shortly afterward. I write to express my support for the conference agreement on the tax cut and job act. The first Major Overhaul of our tax code since 1986. The measure does not have bipartisan backing. Only 26 of america a proves of this bill. This is the roy moore of tax plan. This is a sham wrapped inside after travesty. The gop says americans will notice a boost in income. The 401ks will tell them their assets are going up and their paystubs will tell them they got pay increase because the Government Cut their tax. All democrats are voted against it. This economic philosophy stinks. It doesnt work. It hammers working class people. Republican senator john mccain is recovering from cancer treatments, and will not take part in the vote. Despite mccains absence, Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell says he will have enough votes to pass the measure. That is partly because gop senators marco rubio and bob corker, who previously said they had reservations about the bill, now say they support it. Im john loyer ends reporting. President trump reveals his National Security plan which focuses on four main pillars, they are promoting american prosperity, advancing american influence, demonstrating peace through strength, and protecting the homeland. He unveiled the plan last night in washington. This strategy recognizes that we cannot secure our nation if we do not secure our boarders. So for the first time ever, american strategy now includes a serious plan to defends our homelands. The president also mentioned the uscs cooperation from its allies to stop terrorism. He also discussed his administrations move to remove Nuclear Weapons in north korea. Coming up violent brawl inside a brawl. In the middle of it child in a stroller. Coming up, well tell you where this unfolded. And our joy of sharing toyfest is a rap. Well remember some of the most from our drive when Eyewitness News this morning continues. Welcome back, airlines oing in and out of Atlanta International airport are expected to resume normal operations today. Thats after a massive black out caused chaos, prom ming this apology from the utility top executive. We apologize for the disruption in peoples lives. We take our responsibility very seriously. And make sure that we have Reliable Service at the airport. More than 1,000 flights were grounded at hearts fields jackson Atlanta International sunday as a result that far outage. Paul because, president of georgia power, says the outage was the result of an equipment failure that caused a fire. The company is now investigating to make sure Something Like that never happens again. Well, facebook video of a fight inside of a floored mall has gone viral al, caught in the middle of it, a small child. Crazy stuff. During the fight, a woman pushing a young child in the stroller can be seen kicking a woman in the face, a fight broke out on sunday at a mall in fort myers, while the mall was filled with holiday shoppers. No one really intervened. No one tried to break it up. The girl was down, and she pulled the baby over, and kick her in her face, and took off running, left the baby. According to the police report, six suspect assaulted two women in the fight, the state Child Protective Service is also investigating. Well, time now 4 43, katie here with another check on the forecast. Hard to believe it is december, but talking about maybe going into the high 50s today. And i think there is a day here that we will actually rebounds to 60 degrees. Wow. Yes. No complaints here. I know, im cool with that, except a lot of people are really dreaming after White Christmas, but keep in mind that we do typically have pretty low average chance anyway. For the probability after White Christmas here locally, and i think having the bought of snow that we had in recent weeks, our hopes are starting to get really hi, just not looking at this point as though that is going to be alikely hood. Because it is just going to be too warm in the days ahead, when you look at the current snow cover locally, you got nothing. Through south jersey, through the entire delmarva peninsula, if you are lucky, couple of mounds every snow on the parking lot where they had to shovel away or plow away whats left there. Here is the stat that were going by, for christmas, the record to beat, back in 2015, how warm it was, 68 degrees, thats tied the records from 1964. We wont be that warm. I do think youre looking at more seasonable christmas high of 44 degrees, but it is what leads up to that point that gets so warm in advance every all of this to melt away any snow thats left, and also just arent any major chances for us to see snow in the days ahead here at least not in the next view. Now, at the moment, you actually have few sprinkles out there. Dont worry about any icing. It is just too warm, even at this early hour for that to take place. So, those showers, those sprinkles, will thin out. Nice wide zoom shows not too much taking place. Eventually will be a lot of activity breaking out across the eastern two thirds of the United States here. Leading to up christmas, which with so many people traveling in those days leading up to the holiday, that will be something you want to pay very close attention to, if you have got a not or bus if you are taking somewhere or a train. Meanwhile, outside whitfield elementary school, there is the one loan mounds every snow thats left on the side of the parking lot here. So things are really melting away. It is 45 degrees, even long before the sun comes up here, so everything will continue to melt. Meantime today, you can expect more sunshine, but all the way up to 58 degrees, for a high, and heres that all important forecast. The winter solsus marked on thursday with pretty much the coolest day well see, so little below seasonable, too, but in the sunshine, then another rapid rebound all the way up to 60, guys, by saturday, tradeoff is that well have some rain to deal with. Back to you. Thank you, katie. Meisha is under the weather today. So we will be handling the traffic. First of all, there is cents a construction on i76, between the vine street expressway, and south street, all eastbound lanes are closed, and one westbound lane, here, block so be aware of. That will there is an accident with overturned vehicle on rose valley road, school lane, the road closed but you can use route 252 providence road as your alternate there. And there are reports of an accident on the pennsylvania turnpike, northeast extension, southbound, just past quakertown. We will get an update when we get more information on that. Meanwhile, our joy of sharing toyfest is a wrap. Part nerds with the Salvation Army, the uso, to collect toys for children in need. Because of this Holiday Season will be brighter for families all across our area. Nicole brewer has the big moment from the big day. Early this morning. Just starting things off, rahel, and here is the truck. And well into the evening. How did you collect all of these toys . Our 29th annual toyfest, came to a close, complete with a daylong tie drop off. We got coloring books, we have trucks. New unwrapped toys, that would make their way to the Salvation Army headquarters to get stacked, sorted, and sent to children in need. It was an Assembly Line made possible by so many of you. Max, wait for for the camera. Say hi to your mom. Hundreds turned out to donate some with specific interests in mind. Were all college athlete. We thought it would be important to bring sports oriented gifts. After month of collecting. A whole van load of toys. Well, so far weve had 21,000 raised, and thats going to be dispersed for gifts among 78 families, i believe. As the hours passed, the trucks filled up. This is my man ryan working with the valuation army. Ryan, how is it going so far . It is going, we have a lot of people bringing in toys. We call it the joy of sharing. I think that a gift that involves slippers, body wash, and lotion, and body mist. And while we wont see all of the smiles christmas morning, today it was enough to know we helped deliver them on behalf of the boys and girls clubs of camden county, and the Salvation Army, thank you, cbs3 and philadelphia. God bless you, happy holidays. Take care and thanks. Bye, everybody. Merry christmas. Nicole brewer, cbs3, Eyewitness News. Of course we do joy of sharing every year, hat year, we collected around 6,000 toys and we are expect to go surpass that amount this year. Yes. Good news all around. Well, a toy maker in an Ivy League University are working to develop a robotic cat. Yes, we will tell you how it could help improve the lives of older adults in i love it, all of my favorite holiday songs. Wendy gillette joins us from the new york stock exchange, wendy, good morning. So, youve been seeing quite a streak on wall street. What are the latest milestones yes, good morning, jim, rahel. Stocks rallied to new highs yesterday a mid confidence that republicans will get their tax plan passed this week. The dow is up 5,000 points this year, the first time thats ever happened. The index roared toward the 25,000 mark yesterday, but closed little shy of the milestone, gaining 140point. The nasdaq was up 58 points, and traded above the 7,000 mark for the first time. The tax bill slightly likely to be passed businesses with 14 cut of the Corporate Tax break. Here on wall street banks are also expected to profit, and wells fargo could be at the top of the list. Analysis from Goldman Sachs shows the bank could see a 18 hike in profit. Well have to see what happens so, wendy, in other news, i i understand we could soon see a cat with Artificial Intelligence. Whats this all about . Yes. Maybe some day soon, youll gift an older relative with a cat that could improve their life. Hasbro and Brown University have received a 1 million grant from the National Science foundation, to Research Ways to add Artificial Intelligence to the toy companys robotic cat, which is called joy for all. The pet is aimed at seniors and already purse, meow, licks it pause, rolls over for belly rubs, one day could also help find lost objects and share reminder about doctor appointments. Researchers are aim to go keep the robot costs under several hundred dollars. I think i need one. I was going to say, im letter jibbing to real cats, so i would go for this. Absolutely, and you lose things a lot. I do. I do. Your microphone is over there, your microphone is over there. And where are my car keys . Thank you, wendy, well check in with you in the next hour. Were warming up but the first day of winter is almost here. Tan will feel like, what, summer . Well, last week, it was so weird, last week it felt like winter, katie, now talking about it feeling like spring, all confused. I know, were all over the place here, guys. We have some warmth in place, then cooler air, then warmth again. And rain on the way, i mean, a lot going on. A lot of moving pieces in the forecast. So, stick with us, weve got a break coming up, but well come right back and ill wake with walk you through the details of everything plus your christmas women come back, today looking ahead to day thats well above average, and even though were starting offer a little on to the damp side in a couple of spots, we dont have to worry about any icing this morning, because the showers that are falling from the sky wont have a prayer of icing up on contact. When you look at storm scan, youre not seeing much out there, at all. If you look really closely over lancaster, chester counties, see few little speckles of green. Thats about the worse of it, there is just, again, few rain sprinkles in the western counties right now, that you may find yourself need to go flick the windshield wipers once, but otherwise, thats it , in terms of precipitation today. The big story today how warm it is about to get. Off to mild start already. At 45, after all, in atlantic sit, and 43 in philly. Notice, that wind direction, generally out of the southwest , and as we warm up through the day, once the sun comes up, youre flirting with 60 degrees. You actually hit zero six by saturday. Lot of ups and downs for the beginning every winter, it will be chilly, back to sunshine, by then. Guys . All right, katie, thank you the talcony palmyra bridge now up for ship crossing, we did warn you about this little earlier in the show. Burlington bristol bridge will be opening in about 30 minutes , an accident we want to tell but involving a tractortrailer and car on the northeast extension southbound past quakertown. At this point, there are no reported injuries, or lane blockages, and there is also an accident with an overturned vehicle, on rose valley road at school lane and delaware county. The road is closed but you can use route 252 providence road as an alternate. Well, coming up in the next hour of cbs3 Eyewitness News,y overnight about the deadly amtrak crash in Washington State. Lower Merion High School stand out, who of course became nba legends, basks in the spotlight, as lakers retire not just one but two of his jersies . This cab driver doesnt decorate his house. He puts on a light show on his cab. Were back at the top of the hour. Quite the light show. Running a Small Business is demanding. And thats why Small Business owners need more. Like internet thats up to the challenge. The gigspeed network from comcast business gives you more. With speeds up to 20 times faster than the average. 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