The department of justice is appealing the judges decision now to temporarily halt the travel ban. As we sort out all of the days developments our coverage begins with Alexandra Hoff live in the cbs3 sat center with more on the vicepresident s trip here to philadelphia. Alex. For protesters in the city the overriding focus was once again immigration. For vicepresident pence it was advocating for president Trumps Supreme Court pick neil gorsuch who he said today will join the highest court one way or anoth another. Protests in opposition of President Trump pops specifically as immigration efforts continue throughout center city. But around Independence Mall demonstrators gave equal attention to the second in command. Mike pence go away we will fight you every day protests did not prohibit earlier than anticipated arrival to old city by vicepresident mike peps who used the additional time to pay a visit to the liberty bell the trip he said he was unable to make when in town for the gop retreat in philadelphia late last month. At noon the vicepresident was welcomed by the federalist society. Conservative and libertarian Legal Organization where he advocated for president Trumps Supreme Court pick neil gorsuch. Several announced their opposition within minutes of his nomination, and now theyre even threatening to use the filibuster procedure in the senate to stop him. Reporter report an act the vicepresident called unprecedented and unwise. Never before in the history of our country has an associate Justice Nominee to the Supreme Court face add successful filibuster. And judge neil h. Gorsuch should not be the first. Reporter back outside, Market Street was temporarily shut down as protesters peacefully marched midday traffic coupled with the movement of the price vicepresident s motorcade. One theme both pence and his adversaries shared appreciation for our nations founding principle that is force here in physical. Love, not hate, this is why america is great anybody can be anybody because of a system of liberty that we have inshrined in the constitution and the founding documents of this nation. Reporter on that Supreme Court pick at least one democratic senator has pledged to block the president s nomination. Pence today gorsuch is already met with 12 senators from both sides of the aisle and seeks to meet with all 100. Reporting live in the sat center Alexandra Hoff cbs3 Eyewitness News. Alex, thank you so much. Now to the very latest on the travel ban visas holders from the seven majority muslim countries affected by the ban are hurrying now to board u. S. Bound flights. Their hoping to arrive before time potentially runs out. I find that the court should and will grant the temporary restraining order. The department of justice filed notice of intent to appeal that retraining order that blocked President Trump ands travel ban of people from seven predominantly muslim countries. Right now the state Department Says 60,000 foreigners whose visas were electronically canceled can now travel to the us and many are rush to go airports before the window potentially closes. The decision by the federal judge who was appointed by president george w. Bush drew the scorn of the chapter in chief on twitter. Mr. Trump wrote saturday because the ban was lifted by a judge many very bad and dangerous people may be pouring into our country. A terrible decision what is our country coming to when a judge can hold Homeland Security travel ban and anyone even with bad intention which is come into u. S. If the Justice Department appeal is successful and happens quickly, travelers to International Airports in the us could find themselves in a similar situation at last weekend when many were left in limbo. On saturday, protests over the travel ban spread across the country including in washington, d. C. , Los Angeles International airport, march largo florida where mr. Trump is spending the weekend. Meantime iranian baby caught in the travel ban will now get the surgery she so desperately needs to survive in the united states. A race against time right now for four month old baby. The infant has two holes in her heart and doctors in her home country are unable to perform the critical surgery. Now she and her family have received an all clear to come to a hospital in portland, oregon. From what we know about her condition, we anticipate a very good result a surgery that will provide her a very active and full life and were excited to get to meet her and her family. Fat tim ma was set to have the procedure in the us but trumps exec seive order shut the door four her. The girl and her family are expected to arrive in just a few days. Now stay with us as we track developments in the travel ban. You can always get the latest on our website cbsphilly. Com. In other news now, police in Gloucester County are investigate a case of vandalism. Someone spray painted racist graffiti on a house in wenonah last night. This happened on jefferson avenue. Theres no word on why this house was targeted by the vandals. Police tell Eyewitness News no arrests have been made just yet. Also, Philadelphia Police are investigating the robbery of a girl scout in center city this afternoon. The young victim says she was selling cookies at 16th and pine when a man stole about 50 from her just before 5 00 oclock. She was not injured. Investigators tell Eyewitness News the suspect was wearing a gray sweat jacket. Very vague description at this point. Anyone with information is asked to Contact Police right away. And some new details are emerging in the investigation into the deadly prison standoff at james t. Vaughn Correctional Center in smyrna. Delaware state police say they have wrapped up their investigation in building c. Thats the location of the inmate uprising and it has been turned over now to the Delaware Department of corrections. Lieutenant steven floyd died in this standoff. He was one of four prison Staff Members taken hostage by inmat inmates. Surviving hostage Joshua Wilkerson spoke at emotional vigil tended by floyds family last night. [ inaudible ] its okay. Its okay. Thank god for your life. Police say the investigation into the uprising and 20 hour hostage standoff is expect the to be quiet length thee. Police investigating whether alcohol was a factor in deadly crash in west oak lane. Investigators say a speeding Ford Explorer lost control and slammed into a hyundai. A 30yearold passenger in the explorer died after he was eje ejected. The driver was also ejected. Shes in critical condition. Two people in the hyundai suffered minor injuries. Now the pennsylvania gaming control board slap casino with 25,000 fine for serving a gambler 27 drinks in a nine hour period. Officials say the incident happened at mt. Airy casino resort in Monroe County back in october. The customer was playing table top slot machines at the bar when he was being served. Investigators found the customer was showing signs of intoxication after nine drinks. The casino has now fired the three bartenders who served that man. Now the first half of our weekend was pretty cold but a winter warmup is in store for us. Meteorologist lauren casey is tracking the rising temperatures fours. Hey, lauren. Nanatasha, temperatures warmg up to 10 degrees warmer than today as we head into sunday. Well talk about that and 50s in store. We wont be able to enjoy too much because it comes with wind and wet weather. Ill have your full forecast coming up. Plus, meet a teacher who does a special hand shake with each and everyone of her students. How many hand shakes she knows and how in the world does she remember them all. Well tell you tonight who will be in the hall of fame. Brian dawkins, Terrell Owens or both . Leslie tells fuss either of them made it. The famous rapper runs on to the stage and falls into a hole. All of it was captured on camera. Well show you what happened next t when Eyewitness News continues. Welcome back everyone. How many different types of hand shakes do you know . [ laughter ] all right. Teacher in wichita kansas can do a hundred believe it or not. One for each of her students. It all started when she asked students to give her a high five at the end of the class. And that led to each student having their own hand shake which became a tradition. She says its not that hard to remember which student likes which hand shake because she says she just looks at their face and she just knows. And take a look here free fall leads to free show at drake concert in london travis scott fell off stage and into a giant hole where a prop was concealed. It happened as the rapper ran on stage to perform goose bumps. Drake helped scott from the hole and did he not appear to be hurt. Now when scott fell into that hole he damaged a massive globe that is supposed to rise during the concert. So as a result drake offered fans a free show. Nice gesture. New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons on the eve of what could ultimately be the biggest game in history for both of these franchises. As dawn champion reports now from houston, texas, both teams hope to make mark in super bowl li. Reporter nrg stadium now a field of opportunity for the patriots and falcons. Patriots fans call this super bowl an opportunity for redemption in the wake of the teams deflategate scandal. I really think the penalty. Quarterback tom brady could cement his place in history with a record tim super bowl win. It would also be the franchises fifth championship since 2001. I want to win it because i want to within. And you know our team has put a lot into it and we want something to show for it. As much as to brady and the patriots want to cement their place in history falcons want to make history the team has never won super bowl. The team lost its only appearance in 1999. That loss still haunt you . Yeah. Because i remember the place. Bob whitfield was on the falcons squad that year and admits off field drama led to the loss in miami. The stuff that we had to manage that week and the amount of guy that is you had to say keep your focus hat on. 80yearold bob witness low played on the very first falcons team and hopes perhaps the numbers are in Atlanta Falcons in their 51st season the team is playing in super 51. I think theyre peaking at the right time. Theyre Getting Better and better. Football fans will fine outfit falcons and patriots take the field sunday night. Don champion for cbs3 Eyewitness News. All right. Should be a good game. More super bowl coverage coming up in sports and look at how astronauts are celebrating the super bowl from space. Nasa has released this video from the International Space station showing astronaut throwing a football. Nasa calls it the longest hail mary pass ever. Iss osh bits earth at 17,500 miles an hour which means that ball traveled 8,800 yards per second. Im thinking that will definitely reach the end zone. [ laughter ] i dont think so. And beyond. Yes. We can surely say that. Lauren, it has been cold tonig tonight. Yes. The warmup is coming. Little bit of a warmup. Tomorrow will feel better a lot of people getting out and about. Going to the store. Get your chips, get your guac. I got mine. It was most important. Important accessory to the big game tomorrow. A lot of people will be heading out and about heading to the super bowl parties and conditions will be milder quiet day in store to end the weekend after a chilly one today. Getting a live look at center city philadelphia. We have high clouds in place and were still dealing with this cold air. 31 degrees right now current temperature in philly south wind around 9 Miles Per Hour making it feel like 23 degrees but that southerly component to our wind flow will usher mild air as we head into the last day of the weekend but certainly not mild today. Temperatures running well below average. 36 degrees in philadelphia. Top the mid 30s in the lehigh valley. Did escape the 20s in the poconos and topped in the middle 30s down the shore. And temperatures right now are falling back again. 24 degrees in allentown. 29 in berks county. Teens in the poconos and were down into the 20s in ac. A little bit of a wind chill element right now. Still bit of a breeze. It feels like 24 degrees in wilmington. Feeling like 21 in dover and feeling like 11 degrees right now mount pocono. Did have nice sunny day today. Clouds on the increase. Mainly high level cloud cover giving us that filtered sky, filter the em of the man. We wont see precipitation from the cloud deck that will hang around throughout the overnight period we did have a nice round of sunshine which has been a rarity since december 1st including today weve only had five sunny days in philadelphia. 36 partly cloudy days and 24, yes, wintry dreary overcast days and overnight tonight mostly cloudy conditions. Cold dropping back to 26 degrees with a bit of a breeze. Tomorrow a little breezy at times kind of brisk but temperatures feeling much better well be about 10 degrees warmer by tomorrow afternoon. Frick. Clouds in the morning and then sunshine in the afternoon. Do have a system to our north and west could drop a few snowflakes towards the poconos. Elsewhere quite as that system ejects off to the north and eve. Sunshine taking news the kickoff. The start of the work week and milder air mass will be building in in association with this warm front that arrives in the day on tuesday. But that is going to bring us some fog, some cloud cover and some periods of light rainfall once this cold front drops in well see it in the form of heavier rainfall and into the first part of the day on wednesday and temperatures take a big tumble on the back side of that system but what to expect on tuesday and wednesday youll need the rain boots, rape slicker maybe not an umbrella well have strong gusty winds especially as we head into tuesday night a slowmoving storm so it gives us periods of rain both tuesday, tuesday night into the first half of the day on wednesday. But with those High Temperatures in the 50s this will be an all rain event could see little bit of a wintry mix onset in the poconos. Elsewhere just going to be all rain for midweek but for tomorrow just a few passing snow showers in the poconos. Clouds start down the shore pretty nice sunday afternoon with increasing sunshine an High Temperature in the upper 40s. As i mentioned monday looks nice and tuesday watching out for periods of rain. Wednesday up to 58 degrees. But that high will be early in the day. On the back side of the cold front temperatures will be dropping with windy conditions wednesday afternoon. We wont be able to enjoy it too much. And thats just that mild air comes in it will move back on out. Thursday a High Temperature 38 degrees. Its shorter lived i see. Thank you so much lauren. Appreciate that. Leslie has lots of sports highlights. Shorthanded sixers trying to cool off miami heat. The flyers had great goaltending was it enough to dethrone the kings tonight the night for Brian Dawkins and to to head to canton into the hall. Matt ryan magical season continues when he takes home one of the nfls lesliely 76ers. Thats right. Still out on the road. Game three of the sixers four game road trip taking them to miami. Heat won nine in row. Sixers once again shorthanded. Joel embiid, Robert Covington and Jahlil Okafor out of the lineup with injuries and heat taking advantage of the sixers in the first. White side with the rebound put back. Miami had 15point lead after the first quarter. In the second the sixers start to chip away at that lead. Ilyasova knocking down the triple that lead was cut to five. He letter the sixers with 21 points. Heat pull away in the third quarter. Three ball right there. He scored 21 points. White side 30 and 20 boards. Heat crushed the sixers 125102. The flyers hosting the red hot hla kings down at the center. Check out this textbook hip check by. Larges him into the flyers bench. Steve mason had to watch right there. Today was the Michael Neuvirth show for the flyers. Second period rob dustin brown with the glove. Take look from a different angle. Amazing safe right there. To the third, neuvirth again this time Rob Tanner Pearson 27 saves on the game. This game will head into ot. And former flyer jeff carter sticks it to this old team scores his 27 many goal of the season. Fourth overtime winning goal of the same. The flyers lose one to nothing in overtime. I felt good but got only one point. So, you know, not happy about it. You know its tough, you know, seeing the puck well and its tough when we dont score any goals. College basketball fourth ranked villanova hostin hostingt johns down at the center. Baylor and kansas lost earlier in the day with a win they move back up in the rankings. The while cats took control from the start. Here in the first half josh hart in the at the same time turn around jumper was good. Nova with 18point half time lead. Second half the cats up by 15. Donte knocks down the three. He had a career high 20 points. Nova beats saint johns 9279. Head over to hawk hill st. Joes playing fordham that game into double overtime. Game tied at 83. Five seconds left Antoine Anderson with the three. Goes right to the net buzzer sounded so fordham shocked st. Joes 8683. Tonight the pro football hall of fame class of 2017 was announced. Tomlinson , they all got the call to the hall. Dawkins and to will have to wait much this was b dawks first time on the ballot. Dawk the only defensive player in League History 25 interceptions. Second year owens not make the cut. He ranks among the best receivers to ever play the game. To he had rocky relationship with the media and that could be the reason why hes not going into the hall this year. Tonight to tweeted, hall of fame is a total joke. Honestly doesnt mean anything to me to get in beyond this point. Penn charter matt ryan named nflmvp. Through for 5,000 yards, thought touchdowns and led the leg in pacer rating the first Atlanta Falcon to win this award. Tom brady finished second. Brady and ryan go against each other in the super bowl. Ryan ready to cap off the best season of his career by winning the lombardi trophy. Way i prepare, the flouses i have, allows me to be comfortable in big situations and to just do the things that you prepared yours self to do and i feel like, you know, thats going to help us out on sunday. We work really hard to get to this point and the attention should be on this game and everything is, you know you know, its been a fun week to prepare for a great opponent. It will be a great game. I think it is going to be great game. I think so, too. We are going to do our predictions tomorrow, right. Yeah. Stay tuned. Were never right. Burning calories, you have to run and chew all at the same time. Where this wacky rac welcome back everyone. February is heart Awareness Month and hundreds are gathering tonight at philadelphia heart ball this happening in center city. Proceeds will help support the American Health associations livesaving mission of building healthier lives free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke. 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Today hundreds visited the 25th annual africanamerican Childrens Book fair in Spring Garden actually one of the old defendant and largest single day events for Childrens Books in the entire country. Eyewitness news at the Community College of philadelphia. The fair featured nationally known best selling authors and illustrators. Organizers wander parents and children to know that a book opens up a world of opportunities. And here is a race id like to try it. Only one donut. More than 2500 people competed today in the 13th annual Krispy Kreme Challenge race took place in Raleigh North Carolina and heres how it works. Contestants run 5 miles but they have to eat 12 doughnuts in an hour. You have to run 5 miles in an hour. Okay. But eating a dozen doughnuts at the same time, can we do that . I dont think so. I dont know. Ill take one. One krispy kreme, please. Thats Eyewitness News tonight, im natasha brown. 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