Donald trump is person of the year, called the nbc today show said it was a great honor, but didnt like the sub headline that says hes the president of the divided states of america. Well, i think. Putting it divided is darky. From trump has spoken to owe became an about the Trump Administration cabinet picks. I take his recommendations very seriously, and there are some people i will be appointed and have appointed where he thought highly of that person. President elect trump continues to evaluate candidates to fill out his administration, made cup old of decision that is will be important voices on National Security matters. Cbs news confirms Iowa Governor terry brandssad, china referred to as old friend will be the next Us Ambassador to decline a and marine corps general, john kelly, will be the homeland securityntviewed with president elect trump in his office last week. Hes now join the Trump Administration. News night mr. Trump formally introduced general james mattis as his pick toefen. Kenneth craig, for cbs3, Eyewitness News. Vicpresident joe biden surprised reporters earlier this week when he told them he was going to run for president in 202 he only kiddin . Tried to get answers when the Vice President appeared on last nights late show. Vice president joe biden, again, fielding questions, over whether he will run for president ,hing hes sure of, to take out the 2016 president ial race, following the death of hi year. I know i made the right decision for my family. I kw right decision, im not sure i would have been able to put my whole heart into it. But what regret the circumstances that led me not to be able to run. Viceinioon why he believes Hillary Clinton lost the election. The fact is the press is only covered this sort of outrageous assertions that have b made. And there was no discussion about things supposed to be about, river ren dumb of ideas, whether we we will do about education or jobs or foreign policy. Biden told colbert, not running hadntende positive consequences. I learned, you want to become most popular guy in america, announce youre not moves, you know, in the direction . And hes not completely ruling out ride that popularity wave to the white house im a great respecter of faith. I am not plannay you know what is going to happen in fours years i just think is i thats the sound after door creaking nn. E that in four years he will be 77, he joked that he will still be turn 74 in 2020. Han we are wait to go learn more information and details about a possible funeral or Memorial Service for the new jersey state trooper killed in a car crash this week in cumberland county. The crash happened monday night, on route 55, in millville. Trooper Franky Williams was responding to call when another driver identify i as lloyd crossed the grass median, crashed into williams car. Ruddilys car mashed eyewitness descriptions of a vehicle being driven irradically in the area. Ruddily pronounced dead at the scene. Trooper williams died at cooper hospital. Williams was on year. A new Jersey Transit train struck a car this morning, on camdens the morning rush hour. The accident took place near Federal Street and river avenue. The train struck the driver side door of the vehicle causing extensive damage it the cars front ends, flatbed had to remove the vehicle from the tracks. Was injured. Normal service has now resumed. Mix of sun and clouds are in store for us this afternoon, with temperatures in apparently an arctic blast is waiting in the wings. Meteorologist, lauren c the cbsh a closer look at the temperatures. Rahel, the rain has finally ceased after soggy go over the last 24 hours, picking up rainfall, even sleet and snow in part of the area with storm sy but we did pick up much needed rainfall. Check out our der last 48 hours, showing, most areas across the Delaware Valley picking up about a half inch to inch plus of much needed rainfall, and of course we are did have wintery mix in some locations north and west of the city. We are starting to dry, swing uo rainfall left over, after few showers this morning, clouds breaking for some sunshine as we, and temperatures wont be all too chill, winds will remain changed. So by the 5 00 hour pulling back to the middle 40s, by the enjoy the 40s, 50s, while we have them. Because as we head into the upcoming weekend, an arctic blast is in store, with High Temperatures running about 10 degrees below average. And ill let you know when highs wont get out of the 30s, in your full forecast, coming up in just a couple of minutes. Okay, lauren, thank you very much. Police are looking for a man who robbed a woman in a strip mall parking lot. Watch here, as the robbers stalk the 46 year old woman victim in the parking lot at 330 oregon avenue. He goes into her car, steels her purse, then fleece to his car. Well, after realizing what happened, the victims chased the man down, held the car door before falling off as the car pulled away. The incident took place on november 27th. Police want people to be on the lookout for this late model toyota highlander. More Surveillance Video to show you. Philadelphia police need your help t suspected serial burglary. Police say the man seen in these Surveillance Videos is responsible for the burglaries of nine businesses in port richmond. Five of the crimes happened november 19th, along the 2400 block of aramingo avenue. All of the crimes happened in the Early Morning hours. And, thisus in cherry hill, where police are hoping the public can help them identify this suspect in a brazen atm robbery. The man accused of robbing a woman, using atm at the Navy Federal Credit union, route 38sm was able to fight off the suspect. He managed to grab some her money. If you recognize this man please call police. Coming up on cbs3 Eyewitness News. With sparks flying, this is high speed chase that ends with a surprise. See who stopped the fleeing driver. And solemn remembrance todahe 75th anniversary of japans assault on pearl harbor. Ahead this survivors veterans family members who are gathering on this day. Driver wanted for dii led Los Angeles Police for hour overnight. Watch, rear wheel of the spike, the bicyclist did not appear to be hurt. Sparks flew after the cars rear wheel came apart. Now the chase ended when the driver hit a pick up, watch, the driver not letting him get bye. Police then took that suspect into custody. Power failures and heavy rain are hampering efforts to find survivors of this mornings earthquake in indonesia. The magnitude 2. 5 earthquake killed nearly 100 people, collapsed buildings and damaged roads, more than 200 people are injured. So far, four people have been pulled from the rubble alive. Authority have also identified ten locations where they believe more survivors could be trapped. The quakes epicenter was in the sea bed off the indonesian coast. Today marks 75th anniversary of japans attack on pearl harbor. Survives ores are attending ceremonies for those who died. From the battle ship arizona, family members gathered to remember. Few hundred yards from the arizona, a small group gathered at sunset to remember the men who served on the uss utah. The rusting wreckage of the utah remains in the exact spot in pearl harbor where it went down hit by two japanese torpedos, 75 years ago, this morning. Fiftyeight died, but more than 400 crew members survived. Ninetythree, one of only six still living. How did you make it off the ship . I swam. See, i was sleeping down in the star board side here, the torpedos hit the port. Were you asleep when the torpedos hit . Yes, i stayed up all night. I had that watch. The ceremony here honors not just those killed on the utah, but many of the survivors who in death chose to be with their shipmates. Ei wreckage. It the veterans returning for this 75th anniversary are now mostly in their 90s. Their numbers dwindling, some call it, the last reunion. Welcome these gentlemen back. For those serving today, the aging veterans serve as ann. When i walk up to them in my uniform, as a three star general, they immediately try to stand up, or salute me. And i have to tell them, please, you know, im honoring you. The honor december to meet president obama here, but a spokesman for the Prime Minister made it clearests coming to pay respects to the dead, and not to apologize for what happened here 75 years ago. John black stone, cbs news, pearl harbor. Eihi honored this noon for his bravery on the job. Officer Jesse Hartnett received a departments Sergeant Robert wilson valor award. Hartnett was shot several times last january inis patrol r city. And despite the fact he was shot officer hartnett managed to shoot the suspect. It is very nice to be appreciated, and to receive an award for Something Like this, especially a lot of officers go unrecognized for a job they do every d. And dozen more officers recognized for their bravery and heroism at this mornings ceremony, much more on the ceremony tonight starting at 5 00. Getting ready for chilling scene ahead. Ilnews. It is a view that most of us dont want to see. But we will show you the effect of the arctic blast thats currently sweeping the country. Lauren . And wereprecipitation wise e delaware vale. Well prepare for our own arctic blast. Ill let you know when High Temperatures struggle to make it to 40, and which day will be the most windy in your full forecast coming up just after this. We can do it without biblowing our budget. S. Oh yeah, this is great everything for the holidays. Thats my giant. My cmine too hange is super competitive. Everything for the holidays. Thats my giant. Winter may not officially begin until december 21st, but arctic blast is coming across the country. Snow blanketing part of the midwest. Forecasters say more snow on the way. Omar villafranca in bismarck, northon the early freeze. Blinding snow, blanketed boulder, colorado fogging clause cents roads, causing crashes, forcing emergency crews to help out. North dakota is norsh winter we. Although it is technically still fall. Nearly all of i94 stretching across the state is closed. Leaving the normally busy highway, early silent. Whiteout conditions in nearby grand quarts made driving nearly impossible. This stop sign marked the only spot of color in the sea of white. In the east, in douglas county, minute society, a heavy winds whipped snow across the road. Bismarck, capitol of north tko of powder. People braved single digit temperatures to try and clear their doorways and dig out driveways. Blizzard conditions made driving even harder. How was the visibility in. Visibility in certain areas down to zero. Right now in bng weve got, you know, structures, trees, it is not so bad. But when you get out in the open it is really reduced. This is 3foot snow drift, weve seen 7foot snow drift in this part of the state. Snow plow Truck Drivers have been staying very busy, but still, there are more than 450 miles of north dakota interstates that are still shut down. Omar villafranca, cbs news, bismarck, north dakota. What a mess. Just look, fun . Just the sound of the wind, my fink remembers cold. I can just sense that on a live shot dealing with that in just a few weeks. Or sooner . We have our own precipitation mess yesterday, little bit of snow, nothing like that, mostly rain for part of the area. We will quiet things down, but get ready for some cold, yes, well need the big winter coat, not to protect us from snow, but to protect us from arctic blast that is going to be moving in toward weeks end. But right now temperatures, not too bad. Given the season, getting check of r neighborhood network, you can see on the roofs there, that is a little bit of snow still lingering. 44 degrees the current temperature, clouds in place, winds generally tame, around 5 Miles Per Hour. And getting live look in center city philadelphia, some sunshine, trying to break on through this lowlevel cloud deck, temperatures 46 degrees, bit of breeze out of the northwest 10 Miles Per Hour adding to the windchill, feeling more like 41 degrees, struggling with fog in some locations, visibility in the poconos, way reduced looking toward the Atlantic City airport, along the coast visible down to less than 3 miles right now. So keep that in mine if you have to travel out and about on the roads this afternoon. Storm scan3 showing us precipitation has moved on out, still dealing with some remaining cloud cover. But our area of low pressure slowly exiting off to the north and east. The coolest precipitation over part of new england, we keep it pretty quiet as High Pressure starts to build in, but it is going to be arctic High Pressure, surface, coming in from canada, so thats going to bring in a lot of cold air along with it, future weather showing us as we head into the afternoon, no rainfall to worry about for your wednesday evening commute. We head into tonight, generally, clearing skies, we wake up with some clouds tomorrow morning for our thursday, maybe passing snow shower in the higher elevations, but as we head into the second haft of the day, skies will be starting clear on out with some sunshine revealed, although, it will be chillier day. Nice and quiet we head into thursday evening. With High Pressure building in. And for today, calling in mix of clouds, sunshine, cool, High Temperature up around 50 degrees. As we head into tonight, chilly but right around average, 34 degrees, partly to mostly cloudy conditions, and not too much of a windchill. With wind only around 5 Miles Per Hour. Temperatures righten, starting to warm up. Getting close to 50 degrees in dover. 48 degrees right now, 46 in wilmington. Still chilly in the poconos, down to 37 degrees, and were at 44 allentown, improved atioer over the last 24 hours. Feeling a bit better in certainly looking a bit better as far as precipitation not coming down. 2 degrees warm nerve philadelphia, or about 4 degrees warmer than this time yesterday in dover. But, it is in the going to feel so great as we head into friday, saturday, arctic blast, on route, temperatures runnin average. And windy conditions, as well, particularly on friday, with the winds up around 20 Miles Per Hour. That put windchills in the morning down into the teens across much of the delaware vale, and afternoon windchills, in the 20s, particularly, on friday. But something to look for the to, as we head into next week, something cool to check out, the meteor shower, one of the best of the year. Peaks early wednesday morning, next week, and also con currently going to have the supermoon. All of theambient moon, still cool to see the things combined together as we head into next week, for tomorrow, High Temperatures do struggle bit in the low to mid 40s along the i95 corridor. Definitely chilly day. Then there is your arctic blast on friday. 40 degrees, with the winds will be whipping. So those windchills will likely be in the 20s, through much of friday afternoon. Saturday, a colder day, with High Temperature at 39 degrees. That would be our seasons cold coldest. But the winds wont be as bad sat saturday. So the bottom dropped out is what youre saying. High of 39. Oh, boy. Seems the cost of Christmas Trees goes up every year. But you will never believe what they are going for in new york. How about a thousand dollars . Of course crazy. I know, right . Now the salesmen there blame the price hike on years of dot conditions. Now we should say though that not every tree cost that much. There were some smaller ones selling for about 60. Thats more my price range. Ya, a thousand dollars for a tree . Just saying. Must be like goldplated or something . Ya. Or grenitch village, things just cost more. Just cost more, all right. From high price Christmas Trees to stealing santas . Coming up, want to live longer . There is something you can do starting right this second, that will improve your chances of a long life, and it has nothing to do with diet or exercise. There is a piece for you. Stability a takes to the water for annual event in hungary. Santa claus arrived by boat this morning, to kick off the fish farmers harvest, as santa made his way up stores, children waited anxiously for his arrival. Then handed out gifts to children, and then they learned about some of the hundreds of tons of fish caught on a daily basis. The most popular fish at the table. Very interesting. Well, thats Eyewitness News news at noon, im joe holden. Im rahel solomon. For lauren, all of us here, thanks for watching. Eyewitness continues at 5 00. Always on line at cbsphilly. Com. The young and the restless is next. Jack morning, dad john morning, son. Jack nice to see you waltzing in here for breakfast john oh, hardly waltzing, but all in one piece, thank god. I got to tell you, jackie, i feel wonderful. Jack i got to tell you something else. You look wonderful. [ john chuckles ] john its been such a long time since i felt like this. Ashley well, youd better get used to it, daddy, cause you look right at home in that chair. John i feel right at home. Jack i would like to propose a toast. To dad. Never far from our thoughts, never far from our hearts. Ashley to daddy. Hear, hear. Jack and to my two beautiful sisters, who have no idea how many times ive dreamed of just this, the three of us sitting at this table together. Abby ah, that smells