Weather and traffic with katie and meisha. Good morning, happy gateway to the weekend. Yesterday we were waking up to wet roadways and started to slow us down, it was really busy. Now they are dry but we have accidents out there. It could shape up to be another busy morning. Cold start as well. Exactly, yes. There is something about that tail wind you brought with you. Yes. It will be a lot cold tore day. Were ten to 15 to 20 degrees colder. So yeah, this same time yesterday. The get you out there and show you first and foremost what is happening on storm scan which isnt a lot locally but the possibility of snow is coming in for us, come tonight. Looking at storm scan three at local zoom and all clear right now. We are expect to go see, eventually though this disturbance move its way from the west. Look at the temperature difference. That is the immediate weather variable you will notice. It is heck of a lot colder in philadelphia and every where else. Take this mental image and lets transpose the actual temperatures here in the area. So this isnt all that any a typical, 31 degrees in philadelphia is, pretty standard for january standard at this time of the morning. Thirty millville. Thirty in ac. Were not talking about anything super harsh but just by comparison to yesterday. At best today were expect to go hit mid to upper 30s, so, we will not even hit what the typical daytime high which would be right around 40 degrees but with time, eventually snow is a concern, and were talking about how much, when it gets here, who is most pope to it the all later on, meisha a. We were joking about me going on, it doesnt feel that cold. Today felt cold. We need some sleet. It is always sunny in my world. It is always sunny and world in my world. Good morning, everybody. One thing, we Pay Attention to is already this morning weve got a disable vehicle and a accident. We will talk about the accident in a little bit. First disabled vehicle will schuylkill westbound pulled off to the shoulder. It the is still dark. Still very early. This isnt going to slow you down just yet but if this doesnt get moved out of the way it willie would say in the the 5 00 oclock hour. Then the vine closed in the west and eastbound direction on the vine, ben franklin bridge looking good, quiet, as it does as we push in the westbound direction. But you could see early risers , neighbors already and this is where we have that accident, and still smaller road, at colebrookdale road, head up because what we have yesterday, we could have a very busy commute, jim and rahel, back to you. Well, a man is shot in the head sitting on a front porch in the cities fair hill neighborhood. This Morning Police are trying to figure out if he was caught in cross fire. Eyewitness News Reporter trang do is live with the latest on the investigation good morning, trang, what to we know. Reporter rahel and jim, right now police are not the sure if the man was intended target or innocent bystander because of the distance of the shots. Investigators believe they may be looking for more than one shooter because they found two different caliber shell casing s on the scene. Look the at video of the the scene last night, this shooting happened just were 9 00 p. M. On east indiana avenue knew near a street in fair hill. Officers arrived to find a 45 yearold man what the gunshot wound to the head, they rushed him to temple hospital. Police say that the man and a female relative were sitting on the porch of a family members home, when the shots rang out. They both duck for cover but man was hit. Across the street in hope park up investigators found 16 spent shell casings from two large caliber, semiautomatic weapons. Due on the fact that the ballistic evident is about 200 t porch where the victim was where he was shot, we do not know whether or not this victim was an intended target or just an innocent bystander, struck by stray gunfire. Reporter at last check that man remains in extremely Critical Condition at temple hospital. Right new police do not have a great description of the suspect, but they are hoping to review surveillance cameras from all around, hope park. But for now we are live from Police Headquarters im trang do, cbs3 Eyewitness News. Jim and rahel, back to you. New this morning officers are at the scene of the Homicide Investigation in strawberry mansion. Police say a 26 yearold man was shot the once in the head on the 2900 block of oakdale street. This is just after 1 00 a. M. He died minutes later. Police believe at least two guns were involved, detective are interviewing witnesses and checking nearby surveillance footage. Also new this morning no one was hurt after a fire at the this home in philadelphia s frankford section. Fire fighters were here on the 1,000 block of wakeling street after midnight. They did have have to extend cherry picker to the second floor where we can see minor damage to the home, the fire was placed under control before 1 00 this morning. A war have of word erupts between philadelphias top prosecutor and the head of the police union over a fight between a teenager and a Police Officer. Incident was captured on camera and a posted to social media. Authorities say that the 16 yearold girl admitted to slapping the female Police Officer in the face, but the teen was not charged. Well, in a letter fraternal order of Police President john mcnesby wrote once again, District Attorney in philadelphia has chosen to disregard his responsibility and look the other way when a Police Officer is assaulted. He also wrote first there was the mccoy debacle in which williams turned against police and now this. He was referring to former Eagles Lesean Mccoy who was accused of assaulting two Police Officer. Mcnesby is out of state. Eyewitness news spoke to the fop vicepresident about the letter. It left a bitter taste in our mouth. Anytime something luke that goes on we will defend our officers. A spokesmen for District AttorneySeth Williams released a, statement saying District Attorney williams will never apologize for relying on high investigative and prosectorial standard, before decide to go take away someones freedom. And it is stunning anyone much less a member of the the law enforcement, would ever believe anything else. Well, in other news, retail giant macys is shutting down 68 Stores Across the country. Among them, four in our area. Those four Stores Including the one at Plymouth Meeting mall, one at neshaminy mall, in new jersey, macys at voorhees town center, and Moorestown Mall are also closing. The macys is facing increased competition from on line retailers, Company Officials say they are looking to grow the stores on line presence, estimated 10,000 jobs nationwide are being eliminat ed, 350 of them are in our region. Closures will happen between now and the end of the year. Happening today family and friend will say good bye to a Pennsylvania State trooper kill in the line of of duty. City officials and fellow officers paid their respects yesterday at a public viewing inside of the Blair County Convention center in altoona to trooper london weavers funeral starts at 11 00 oclock at the convention center. The 23 yearold was shot and killed friday while responding to a domestic disturbance. State the police shot and kill the suspect. Pennsylvania state police are investigating at toms see if they are stolen goods. Police carried boxes from the Capitol Cash Exchange shops in berks county, and, west pottsgrove, montgomery county. Now it is all part of the ongoing state the police investigation, they say items at the shops may have been stolen from target, lowes and home depot stores. Philadelphia police and fbi hope you can help them identify this man robbed a bank in northeast philadelphia up investigators say the man in these surveillance pictures showed a gun as he demanded money at bb and t bank on knights road at 3 00 yesterday he got the away with an undisclosed amount of cash. If you recognize this suspect please call the police. Well, beginning today police in North Wildwood will be wearing body cameras while on patrol. Cameras also function as dvrs to collect video and audio evidence. The cameras will document events, actions, conditions, statements made touring traffic stops, interviews and arrests. Cameras will also increase transparency, when Police Activity is called into question. North Wildwood Police cars also have dash cams. A program being funded by philadelphia new soda taxis underway. Thousands of children started school yesterday as part of the phl prek initiative, a sugary drink tax helped pay for the Initiative Went into effect new years day and many are not happy about it. One soda retailer says it will think twice before opening up another shop this philadelphia we were going to go to the rittenhouse area, possible University City but most likely we will go bucks county or somewhere else. Were a pretty small business. Were doing all of the Large Company it is going to affect us. No doubt about it. And the tax adds a cents and a half for every ounce hiking price of 3liter soda bottle will by a 1. 50. Coming up, freezing water, two teenagers have to be rescued when ice under their feet gives way. 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In addition to making disparaging remarks about president elect trump and using racially charged language. Victim who was not a chicago resident, is currently recovering from the incident. Two teenagers are recovering have after they were pulled from freezing the water from ice rescue teams this washington state. Two, 15 years old were crossing lake serene when they fell through. One boy made to it shore, other spent 30 minutes in the the water after ice beneath him broke. Officials say both boys had hypotheria. I have a floating surf board and proper equipment and it it was still a challenge but i was able to break through close enough to get to him. Victim was, exhausted, by the time i got, he was having a hard time staying at the surface. Emergency crews were wearing protective suit. They needed them. One rescuer fell through the ice during the rescue. Snowstorm in colorado forced hundreds of flight delays and cancellations. Denver could see anywhere from six to 12 inches of snow. Airport Officials Say both airlines are offering refund or waving a flight change fee for those affected by the weather. They are advising all people heading to or from colorado area to go on line and check their flight status. You know, i used to live in colorado, working for cbs, we got a lot of snow. Good thing is sun comes out, so strong and it melts so quickly. It melts everything away. What is interesting about colorado you tend to see snow out there in the off seasons, you know, and the transitional seasons when you can get right atmosphere conditions to get that snow in the front range of the rockies. The it is interesting how climate patterns can work. Learning so much about weather. Yes. We have our own batch of snow, not the talking a foot but a couple inches, is likely and i think tomorrow morning we will have our handful here just trying to get out and about on the road. I will put it out there now make mental note to set alarm ten or 15 minutes early because we have to wipe off your windshield, we will have slower travel because of this, it is a relatively weak disturbance moving along pretty swiftly here but it is cold enough as at this point to support some snow ape most of us are expecting coating to upward of 2 inches of of this by the time we wake up really come tomorrow. So it looks like this is speeding up pretty nicely so anywhere from eight to 11 00 oclock tonight we will start to see that light snow developing from west to east and then into the Early Morning hours of tomorrow, really right around this time, that light to moderate snow will be continuing but drawing to a close. And then it the just tapers off to flurries after that point. So i guarantee all of the people will be out doing their things, to get ready for this but you always need to account for what could be a slow commute and that comes tomorrow. For now it is just cold, we neat heeder but it is dry, partly sunny skies but much, much colder by comparison. This is much more like reality , for standard or the time of the year. With the light snow arriving tonight we will have our handful tomorrow morning but we are not talking about any major shoveling expedition here. It is a coat to go 2 inches in the Morning Hours and then clearing but staying offfully chilly right the through the weekend, meisha. Good to know. Good morning everybody. Happy thursday. We have a couple things out there i want to call your tension to first disabled vehicle skew will westbound before conshohocken pulled off to the right shoulder. Will it the slow you down . No, probably not. Still dark. Still very early f this hinges these flashing lights they certainly can but it looks lake they might be just moving right new which is great news for those jumping on the schuylkill will have in problems right now. Vine closed overnight westbound, eastbound still closed down, hopefully by 5 00 p westbound side usually does. Also accident here in smaller road mantaun i drive at coal brooke dane road, head up on this, maybe, just a sneak peak into things to come. We have some construction out there. Northeast extension, this is just now being cleared. Good news on that. Also the new jersey turnpike, that has also been cleared. We are dealing with construction. Also dealing with an accident. We have disabled vehicle out there couple things just a head up. We necessity how busy it got yesterday. You just never know what you will be dealing w overall hopefully it is in the like we were dealing with yesterday and i necessity we had wet roth weighed and that slowed us down. It is cold. Chilly. We will switch gears, i had some crazy video to show you. Have you ever been, driving down a truck, and a big spool. Always thought just what if that fell off. We have all had that. Well, guess what it happened near pittsburgh. Take a look, do you see it on the left. The giant wire fell off the truck. This will pass, a few cars as it roles down route 40. It the eventually slams in the guardrail and crosses back over two lanes, hits media, almost stops and rolls in the guardrail again. That is when it finally stops. Can you imagine if you are a driver taking a look at this coming at your vehicle. Can you imagine how scary that would be. You would make fun of me because anytime there is a truck with construction or hardware or lumber i go around it because im afraid of a shift. You dont want to be anywhere near it. Look at it, slamming. It just keeps going. It is looking for its next victim. You see that come and like is this happening. It is a miracle in one was hurt. Yes. It goes to show how dangerous that can be, out on the roadways. Yes, i though. Something else to think about, today is last day many owners of the Samsung Galaxy seven note will be able to use their device. We will explain in money watch. Sure, you could sit around all night waiting for a pizza to be delivered. But wouldnt making it yourself be a lot more fun . Its baking season. Warm up with pillsbury. Protein. Protein proteiny protein. Proteiny protein . Protein proteiny protein. At least 14 grams of protein. 100 calories. New greek 100 protein. From yoplait. Time for a check of business news. Jill wagner joins us live this morning from the new york stock exchange, jill, good morning. Today is apparently last take many owners of the galaxy note seven smart phone can use the device, why is that . Reporter verizon and at t are rolling out Software Update that prevents the phone from recharging or connect to go cell networks. The phone was under a worldwide recall, several over heated and caused fires, as you know, same time samsungs president , spoke at the Consumer Electronics show this vegas and said samsung is still investigating how this all happened, jim a rahel. I understand amazon is trying to tap in on that big leisure trend. That is right, amazon is developing its own line of work out clothes, kind of, yoga pants, running tights. This is according to the web site repowed. That new lynn will be amazons ninth private clothing label and that is really important for these Big Companies that lets amazon under cut competitors because they can sell similar quality items and they dont have have to spend money on marketing. Well, i can always use a few extra yoga pants, so i mean, these are the things that i love to hear. Reporter i dont know if yoga pant were made for the way you want to wear them. Do you think i could do yoga. I got kick out of a yoga class for laughing. Give it another chance, jim , it goodies for the mind. Thanks, jill, we will check in next hour. We will want to put on layers this morning to day we will feel much colder then yesterday. A lot of yoga pants. A lot of yoga pants today. Katie will tell us about the difference. We are talking about ten to 15, flirting with 20degree difference from this same time yesterday, that is a big drop off. You will notice. In addition, snow is on the way, sooner then you think, ill let you know how much we are expecting and which co that sound so good. Well i think you sound great. Move over. Easy booger man. Take mucinex dm. Itll take care of your cough. Fine ill text you in 4 hours when your cough returns. One pill lasts 12 hours, so. Looks like im good all night ah david, please, listen. Still not coughing. Not fair you guys waffles are my favorite ah some cough medicines only last 4 hours. But just one mucinex lasts 12 hours. Start the relief. Ditch the misery. Lets end this. Clear start to the morning with beautiful reflection from these gorgeous lights on boat house row. This is rahels favorite vista on this sea scape. You remember things. Of course. You make these mental nets about your collogues, right. But why wouldnt it be, such a beautiful view this morning, although, it can be deceiving sometimes. It is awfully chilly outside, my friend. We are down in the 20s and 30 s, not the like this, it is terribly atypical. Last couple days we were in the 50s, 40s, even Early Morning. That is not normal for early january. Now we are getting a dose of reality and eventually a hint of snow. This streaking system moving its way through southern, missouri, cross the ohio river valley, that is heading our way and it is moving a little bit the more swiftly then anticipated. So as early as tonight eight to 11 00 p. M. At the latest snow will get underway but it is streaking through so quickly that it will not dump too much. One to 2 inches, max especially through southern new jersey and northern delaware, current wind speed are noticeable, we are out of the northwest so chill in the air and that cold is in place to support the arriving snow, later tonight the in to tomorrow morning. So meisha, you and i, my friend, will have have our handful, very chilly couple days but the main highlight come tomorrow morning with that snow on the the way. At least it is friday, lesser traveled day of the entire workweek. That helps a little bit but it will still be busy. The katie, thanks very much. Looking outside at the boulevard, roadways are looking a little bit better then yesterday morning at this exact same time. We are looking dry which will help a lot. So far, so good. Boulevard heading toward schuylkill we are looking nice , both directions. Ninetyfive in the southbound direction you can see what you are looking at, nice dry roadways, and it looks like it is lighter out there as we push toward that 5 00 oclock hour. Interesting to go see if we have anything like congestion levels like we saw yesterday. Fortytwo freeway north bound at creek road looking good approaching 295, jim and rahel , back over to you. In the next hour of cbs3 Eyewitness News congress will be briefed about russias alleged interference in the a election, plus what president elect trump is thinking of doing to one intelligence agency. We will be right back. We will be right back. Stay with start the car start the ikea winter sale. Wooooooo get up to 50 off select items. Now through january 10th. Ikea that sound. Like nails on a chalkboard. But listen to this family talking thats a different kind of sound. The sound of the weekend. Its baking season. Warm up with pillsbury. Protein. Protein proteiny protein. Proteiny protein . Protein proteiny protein. At least 14 grams of protein. 100 calories. New greek 100 protein. From yoplait. Start the car start the car the ikea winter sale. Wooooooo get up to 50 off select items. Now through january 10th. Ikea from sun to snow we are about to sianni feel big changes around here. Storm scan three showing the system that will be bringing some snow this time tomorrow morning but before then it the is bitter cold that will have you bundled up. A man is shot on the front porch of his home and now police are investigating whens was a target or caught in the cross fire. We will have a live report, plus this. President elect donald trump is considering restructuring top u. S. Spy agency. Intelligence officials face questions dominated by russian hacking. Im hena daniels and we will have more what is happening on capitol hill coming up. It is thursday, january 5th, im jim donovan. Im rahel solomon. Katie and meisha keeping an eye on things and getting us out the door. Good morning, happy gate the way, so far, so good, we did start with an accident. Those are clearing out of the way. Lots of construction. Main thing thighs dry roadways but we know it might change. That will change later tonight this same time tomorrow we will talk about snow removal, and, getting out the brushes for windshield and all that good stuff. Arent you so excited. Yes. Meisha is like what did you do. We cannot blame meisha or people for the arrival of snow so that goes for me too. Dont blame me either. Luckily were only talking about a modest coat to go 2 inches and frankly were due snowfall this season has tallied. 3 of an