smith evidence linking frein to that murder, meantime, the defense rather is already raising questions about the legality of the state's case. accused murderer eric frein returns to court where pike county prosecute letters level their case against him before a judge. they are seeking the death penalty. in his hearing we should learn more about the events leading to up avianca his capture back on october 30th. >> he has been stripped of his guns, his bombs, and now, his freedom. >> court documents allege that on the night of his capture frein acknowledged that he shot troopers because he wanted to make a change in government. a statement that reportedly led to additional charge of terrorism. prosecutors note frein's statement was made after he was advised of his constitutional right to stay silent and request a lawyer. now, at issue will frein's confession hold up in court? and was he denied initial access to an attorney? on september 12th, 2014, prosecutors say frein using a high powered rifle opened fire outside state police barracks in pike county, killing corporate brian dixon wounding trooper alex douglas and sparking a multi agency manhunt. >> this attack was an ambush. our troopers were leaving the barracks, and were shot without warning and real had i no chance to defend themselves. >> after seven weeks on the run, police caught up to frein, in a old airport hangar in pocono township. now there is hearing is set to start at 9:00 a.m. this morning, frein is facing 13 charges, and he had enters not guilty plea. live in the sat center, justin finch, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> justin, thank you. also today former philadelphia sportscaster, don tollefson, goes on trial. he is charged with stealing more than $300,000 through various sports charity schemes. last month tollefson withdrew his guilty plea and asked for a trial delay so he could find an attorney to represent him for free. bucks contagia is allowing an attorney to keep tollefson to defend himself. >> all right coming up on 6:03 katie watching the snow, good morning. >> good morning erika yes that's absolutely right. light rounds every snow headed our way for tomorrow, specifically, but we of course had storm that rolled through this weekend brought in mainely just rain for most of us anyway. started off we know with some sleet, some snow through the north and western half of the delaware valley, all long gone, folk, what comes in its wake is the chill, rude winter awakening in is here already. probably hear the microphone blowing or the winds blowing through the microphone, as i stand here on the skydeck and that's what's really going to be that sort of key factor to how you want to prepare as you walk out the door. right now little bit light snow currently falling though across portions of northern poconos, so i would say some of the spots could have few spot, lake enhanced, not the actual system, and as we said we do expect to brighten up here today. currently your actual air temperature, as such, you know, low mid 40's, not bad. that's actually miler than the average daytime high. but here is the thing these temperatures gradually start to decline. what we're looking at here, are the expected 9:00 a.m. temperatures as we go off the air on sister station the "cw philly" later this morning and then through the rest of the day those temperatures just keep on dropping. as i mentioned, few additional clouds perhaps flurry up in the poconos, but everybody else can bank on at least seeing the clouds thin out for some sunshine, looking ahead to tomorrow, here it comes light snow, on the way. how much are we really talking when we say light snow? the answer for you little later in the show, in the meantime, there goes that winds. right on cue. i got to layer on the hair spray little thicker i think jesser. >> time you come back full, it is immediately whoosh, mother nature has it way doesn't it? good morning everybody, 6:04 we go outside and check out how things are doing on 95, and they're doing just okay. south bound lanes over on the right-hand side where the headlights are or taillights are headed toward the walt whitman bridge. everything great real any both directions. now, out in new jersey, starting to build in little bit of volume on the 42 freeway and the northbound lanes, but everything still moving along okay. no incidents thereto report. but northbound toward 295 or the surrounding area bridges to get to philadelphia, currently no problems, but there is a disable vehicle out on the schuylkill expressway, on the westbound lanes on the off ramp to the vine street expressway, that just push over to the showed, use some caution there. and out in upper dublin, building fire, on butler pike, near norristown road. erika, back over to you. >> thank you. developing right now a three week old baby abduct from the her southern california home over the weaken, has been found dead, more than 100 miles away. police discovered aliza delacruz's body found in a dumpster. it followed a shoot that wounded her parent and uncle. >> philadelphia police are looking to make arrest after a limo driver was found shot to death in cobbs creek. officers arrived on the scene of delancey street saturday night to find the victim slumped over in the driver site side of the car. he was identified as ramirez driver for the la premier car and limo service. $20,000 reward is being offered in that case. authority want to know if you have seen this woman? the woman disappeared after leaving temple at cottman avenue and shisler street in rhawnhurst, we're toll she has altzheimers, and does not speak english. if you see her contact the police. twenty-one year old sean montgomery's death has been ruled an accident. that's according to his family. divers pulled shane's body from the schuylkill river saturday after searching nearly 40 days. he vanished early thanksgiving morning after leaving kill dare's irish pub in manayunk. on facebook shane's family thanks supporters and asks for their continued prayers. the viewing for shane will be held at the manayunk church where search teams gathered. saint john the baptist thursday night from five until 9:00 and again friday morning before the funeral mass at 10:00 a.m. donations in his name may be sent to the garden state underwater recovery aoun knit milford, new jersey, or the friends of saint john the baptist. 6:07 right now. a philadelphia police officer is recovering after a dog attack ends with the death of that animal. neighbors at 30th and girard say a dog was trying to get into a gate where another dog was being held. officers reportedly tried tasering the aggressive animal fearing nearby residents and officers were in danger. the dog bit an officer in the arm, and then the dog was shot and killed. one man heard this happen. >> i heard shots saw -- i thought the guy over, there i think they shot the dog. so he came up here, then show me the picture there was a dog dead on the street. >> animal control officers took that, another dog from that scene. one of new york's finest and some from the philadelphia area say guy good-bye to one of their own. >> (taps). >> new york police detective wenjian liu was burried after more than 10,000 mourners attended his funeral. he and his partner detective rafael ramos shot to death in their police cruiser on december 20th. dozens of philadelphia police officers showed support for the officer's family. so it is important as part of our responsibility, duty, to sustain someone's memory, to sustain our fallen officer's memory, so the sacrifice won't be forgotten. >> once again, hundreds of officers turned their backs on new york mayor bill de blasio. the police union says the mayor supported protesters, following police killings of two african-american men. grand jurist did not indict the officers in either case. local residents showed their support for the men and women in blue. they gathered with signs in west chester cheering on police officers. a line of support also stretched from blocks down baltimore pike in delaware county. a direct show of appreciation on the same day a nypd officer was laid to rest. >> every law enforcement agency is represented here. because we all work together. >> people put their lives on the line, it is very important to come out and show your support. >> t-shirts which red all lives matter were also sold at yesterday's pro officer rallies. money raised will be sent to the families of two officers assassinate in the new york. >> 6:09. she survived plane crash that killed her family. then walk a mile through the cold dark woods to alert police. remarkable seven year old girl may not be done helping authorities. that's coming up. >> also, this is not how you're supposed to see fireworks go off. november err knock off his feet when the fireworks factory exploded. >> and the consumer electronics show kicks off this week in las vegas we'll take a look at some of the hottest gadgets expected to go on display this year. >> ♪ ♪ >> first week, with a no national holiday inn t back to school back to work for a loft folks out there. thank you for joining thus morning. katie is tracking some snow. details on that coming up. >> ♪ ♪ >> look new video in charlotte, rivera, and his family, escaped without getting hurt, but pretty shaken up. rivera spent five seasons in philadelphia coaching the eagles line beaglers just won big playoff game, too. divers near the site of the crash of airasia flight 8501 will try again to recover victims and wreckage. so far teams recovered 34 bodies from the java sea. crash killed 162 people, more than a week ago. with the weather starting to clear up a bit now, divers will try again to find large objects on the ocean floor reached to be the plane's fuselage. >> the lone survivor every kentucky plane crash that killed her family is now out of the hospital. version hope the seven year old girl will help them discover what caused t sailor gusler freed herself from the wreckage, walled nearly three quarters after mile for help. her parent, sister, cousin all died in that crash. >> caught on camera, a fireworks factory explodes in columbia. now, the knock that far force the force that far blast rather knocked a photographer right off his feet. the he can motion happened near boeing that. crews are searching fear by build togs see if anyone was injured, but really, i mean, such big blast you see his feet in the video even, popping up, wow. all right just past 63 we want to get our traffic and weather together and check in with kate. >> i good morning, happy monday everybody, back to work, back to school for many of us. welcome back. we will give you nice rude winter awake to get the week started. you know what, as long as you're ready you'll be just fine. little lake enhanced snow right now none affecting us, few flurries in the poconos but the reason i show this wide zoom because of this. it is not really that big after system, but it is the clipper originating in canada. >> coating, one to 2 inches, the more accumulation up north. could easily slow you down. generally daylight hours expected. 41 degrees the current temperature meanwhile in atlantic sit. forty-two in philadelphia. don't expect that it will warm up from here, my friends. this temperature of 37, and keeps declining through the day with a breeze. light snow tomorrow, coating to an inch maybe up to two cold gets re inch respected for wednesday and thursday. >> 15:00. losing out the right-hand lane due to ongoing construction on 95. but southbound, headed toward the center city area see starting to be a little bit of a jam up. 202, see little brake lights just up ahead there, no problems really, in the westbound lanes but starting to build in some volume there. now, we have electrical fire here, tree fell on some wires around lower providence, sunny side at haley road where you see most of the problems, disable vehicle on the schuylkill expressway, that's westbound, on the off ramp to the vine street expressway. erika, back over to you. >> the fight over the revel heads back to court today. will decide if a develop fresh florida should get $8 million discount on the property. straub lost the original auction with his $95 million bid. but the first buyer backed out. now straub says the auction wasn't run fairly. and the price should be cut. >> people force from the their homes from a fire in north philadelphia i on north lee street, no injuries, and the cause is still being looked into. >> also hearing today for eric frein the man prosecutors say ambushed two pennsylvania state trooper in september. one trooper corporal brian dixon was killed. frein was captured after 48 days on the run. >> also in our headlines jury selection begins today in the trial of dzhokhar tsarnaev, manna cured in deadly marathon bombing. three people killed. the process could take several weeks. we'll be right back. trading-in or 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flyers have lost two in a row. things going from bad to worse right now. flyers have been fined undisclosed amount for vie lighting the bargaining agreement. fly guys flew to nashville during the team's christmas break, which is not allowed. got to fly the day of the game they say. >> cowboys moving on in the playoffs despite argument over huge call in yesterday's game. referees played huge role. pick up a flag, one rev saw it one way another rev called it all off. cowboys scored on their next possession, to take a lead, they were down by ten at the half. dallas wins it, 24 to 20. they'll play the packers this coming weekend. >> new jersey governor chris christie is taking heat again for rooting on the cowboys social media folks after the government after he shared awkward hug with the cowboys owner jerry jones. after the cowboys win in his lucky sweater, i gets, christy has watched every cowboys game with jones since dallas played the eagles last month. the beat goes on. and the governor areas brother ma have ignited my fewer by taking a shot at eagles nation on facebook nation writing quote the gov has been cowboys fan for his entire life, all every would you sit with the owner of your favorite team in a heartbeat if given the chance. i'm a giants fan. we are sitting home for the fourth straight year. eagles fans possibly you should worry more about the fact that your sorry blank team has never won a superbowl in less about who is rooting for which team. end quote. have to wait and see if the governor goes to this week's game in greenbay. bye stay tuned let us know what you think. hit us up on facebook or twitter. that's how the ball bounces how the flag flies, or doesn't fly, or gets pick up again. we move on. >> 6:21, up next here taking you inside the consumer electronic show in last vague including this year's hottest tech gent. >> the flu has been hit being earl ann hard this scenes. can you tell the difference between a cold and the flu? what's upwhat's 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we expect general coating to inch locally up to 2 inches, so watch for slick travel today and it is going to start to get coldment at least we can expect some sunshine, jess, over to you. >> game of thrones fan, i didn't know this. i didn't know we learn little something every day about each other. 6:25, good morning everybody really starting starting to pack in little volume on the boulevard, southbound towards the schuylkill expressway, camera also kind of freezing and running again so you can kind of see just little bit there. some volume, northbound lanes moving just fine. over on the schuylkill expressway, we love to see here, on around city avenue, westbound, toward the king of prussia king of prussia area, moving along just fine, though no real problems, now the lansdale doylestown regional rail line for septa suspended, due to overhead problems. >> show gets underway tomorrow in last vague correspondent carter evans has preview for you. >> every year, ces provides glimpse into the future. this year, what's new is old. but, improved. more usable, more affordable, like high-tech wearables cnet.com editor in chief lindsey. >> so we will see lot of smart bands, and fitness devices but also going to see some interesting wearable embedded in things like shirts, or hats. >> you what won't see is the much hyped apple watch. the company does its own unveiling, but turn time says the competition will return to c. for an edge. >> if any can be will beat apple to the punch it, will have to happen here. >> you can take technology with you or sit and stare at it. like the 4k ultra hd tv. with last year's high price tag, few booth one. if you did there were hardly any 4k shows available. that's about to change. >> i think we'll hear more and more announcements at the show about 4k couldn't tent, which is good, because we also see a lot of 4k television come in at much lower price point. >> controlling that tv, and everything else in your home, is also getting easier. >> we're going to see products from garage doorman ooh fact tour ers from lighting companies, from watering companies, security companies pretty much you can imagine a function in your home, we will probably see an announcement of some casino here about that. >> it is just another reminder of how technology drives our lives. carter evans cbs news, los angeles. >> always so neat to see what they come out with. it seems so bizarre initially then years later just a part of your life. >> just an every day thing you got that right. coming up in the next half hour of "eyewitness news" only living suspect in the deadly marathon bombings, today dzhokhar tsarnaev stands trial. live from boston what to expect from it. >> plus the vacation is over for president obama back to work today one day before the new gop controlled congress reconvenes for the year. >> and jessica and katie returnrn with your traffic and weather together. we do it on the three's back at the bottom of the hour. good deciding 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every choosing jurors from a pole of more than a thousand people could take weeks. the trial that will follow will certainly open old wounds for bombing survivor including heather abbott. >> certainly will bring up a lot of what happened, obviously two, years ago, a lot of emotion. >> two pressure cookers packed with nails anibal bearings exploded near the marathon finish line in the april 2013 attack killing three people, and injuring 206 others. prosecutors allege 21 year old dzhokhar tsarnaev and his brother, tamerlan, planned and carried out the twin bombing in retaliation for muslim action in us countries. >> defense attorneys for dzhokhar had tried to delay and move the case from boston claiming their client could not get a fair trial here. they'll now focus their defense on the relationship between the brothers. >> what this defense wants to show is whether or not there was yuck man who was influenced and under the influence of his older brother, who was the mastermind. >> tsarnaev could face the death penalty. during the trial jurors are expected to see videos, showing him place the bombs next to the attack's youngest victim. just to gave you a idea how complex this trial; there is about 700 potential witnesses listed in the case, as we mentioned earlier, security already very high, in and around the federal courthouse, here, in south boston. the media is even being kept about a block away there is morning, ukee, erika back to you. >> thanks so much. we'll check with you later this morning thank you. happening today this man eric frein will face a pike county judge for preliminary hearing. he is accused of shooting two pennsylvania state police troopers outside their pocono area barracks, last september. corporate brian dixon was killed trooper alex douglas seriously wounded. police captured frein following 48-day manhunt. >> our time 6:33, here's your traffic and weather together. katy? >> we can report storm scan3 has emptied out, in the clear from a storm that brought us the dreary weather all weekends long. it made for a real good excuse to get those indoor chores done didn't it? but now that it is swept away, and in its wake, winter is making a return. so let's take you out there. storm scan3 again quiet. we put the satelite coverage over top of this, as well, put things into motion, zoom it out. see light lake enhanced snow falling here, generally the leading edge of it, starts to die out as it crosses over the alleghenies, highlands, but might still finds flurry or two or three around the poconos here today. this is what it feels like in our area. generally our temperatures are from philadelphia down to wilmington and up to trenton on south into the low four's, upper 30's, the further northwest you go, obviously turns colder. up in is again where it is starting to feel like the 20's, and the teens. could be worse. look at the feels like values. look up there near the hudson bay. feels like it is 58 below zero, rough stuff, that same cold eventually headed our way, it won't be as brutal but coming from the same air mass, so you think today's cold. will only get colder from here. just the fact that it is certainly the first time we've seen this casino of a knock on the temperatures, over the course after few days, it is going to feel little bit more brutal to you. we are also tracking some snow that heads our way tomorrow, so more details on who gets what, how much are we talking here, whether does it get here, all of those finer details we recover in the next hit which is less than ten minutes away. jess, over to you. >> i can't get over under 58 -- how do you even -- >> crazy. can't pros test. >> can't see the amount of coat. where would you start there? man, thanks, katie. mind blown by that. 6:35. we start things outside on 95, where disable vehicle is tying things up here around cottman avenue. so, this is actually the northbound lanes they pretty much have disable vehicle under control, kind of taking out the shoulder there. but you can see everything kind of really slow going right by there in the northbound lanes southbound lanes, doing just little bitter. over on the ben franklin bridge, from the philly side all lanes open fortunately, so headed into jersey in problems there. the westbound lanes, you can see, starting to gather little bit, but still moving along great, headed on into the city. now, the lansdale-downs toil regional rail line on septa suspended due to some overhead problems, so just plan your trip accordingly if you're taking that, over to the schuylkill eastbound blue route to the vine, about 19 minute trip little slow. 202 currently no problems, if you are headed northbound from route 30 into the schuylkill expressway, only about a 12 minute trip. but we do have an electrical fire out in upper dublin, so on butler pike near norristown road expect some fire police activity on the scene there. out in pottstown accident at apple street evans street. so just use caution when traveling on through. back to you. >> thank you, president obama back at the white house after a holiday vacation in hawaii. tomorrow congress returns to capitol hill. michael bert reports the president and fellow democrats will have to deal with the largest republican majority since the great depression. >> president obama returned to the nation's capitol sunday, trading in the warmth of hawaii for the partisan chill of washington. his agenda for the final two years in office will largely be shaped by how much or how little he and the new gop controlled congress can work together. the president has already drawn a line in the sand on key issues. >> if they seek to take healthcare away from people who just got it, they'll meet stiff resistance from me. >> republicans bolstered by largest house majority since the late 1920's, say they plan quick action on the keystone xl pipeline. immigration, and repealing or reforming the affordable care act. >> we need to do everything we can to try to rain in the regulatory onslaught, which is the principal reason that we haven't had the kind of bounce-back after the 2008 recession. >> this week, the president will go on offense beginning wednesday he'll travel to michigan arizona and tennessee to propose new policies on home ownership college education and jobs. ahead of it, state of the union address january 20th. some republican lawmakers on sunday held out an olive branch on issues like tax reform, job creation, and trade agreement. you always enter new congress with high hopes. >> congress returns on tuesday. in washington, michael bert for cbs-3, "eyewitness news". if you are driving the pennsylvania turnpike to work maybe today your ride just got a little bit more expensive. tolls on the turnpike increased by 5% yesterday. the rate hike is the same whether you pay with cash or e-zpass. the extra mondayly help pay for road construction projects. this move comes just days after the state's gas tax also jumped by 10 cents per gallon. okay, do you still have the christmas tree up? i don't. tike it down this week end. >> mine's still up. >> katie's still up. >> starting today you can recycle it in the city of philadelphia. the sitly take your tree at four different locations then the recycled trees will be used as compose in sit parks and landscapes. tree rye cycling program runs through january 17th. we're about the g all of the drop off location on our website cbs philly. com. >> we all know of course taking down the tree not nearly as exciting as putting up all of your decorations but now that the holidays are over this is the perfect time to get organized nor next christmas. >> one of the things just having the right storage being strategic how you put it away. >> tomorrow morning, we'll have 5e tips to follow in putting away your favorite keepsakes to make christmas 2015 a breeze. because it is so daunt whg you pull the rats tail of light out of the box christmas vacation broken ornament no one wants to deal with. that so we'll get you prepared disbelief dear friends who keep their tree up in march in virginia. >> what every floats your march, dead tree, but -- >> needles all over the place. hey still ahead this morning the reality tv star head today prison today. >> brand new jeep cherokee with only 50 mileles on t look what happens t goes up in flames. here from the owner who watched helplessly as her brand new suv burned. >> and keeping your family from getting the flu. doctor rob is in the house with some tips on how to stay healthy as flu season gets off to an early start. he's got his white quote on, too, my blood pressure just went up. >> temperatures will drop a bit. that's the man-made stuff. we'll get some snow in the region coming up. katie has your forecast, jessica looking g at your traffic. no traffic on the slopes, little early. not open yet. >> ♪ ♪ >> california woman's brand new jeep burst into flames and the frightening ordeal all caught on tape. margarita canoe said she smelled something funny after running few quicker around sunday morning but did not think much of t suddenly her 2015 jeep cherokee which only had 50 miles on it started smoking, then burst into flames. her family tried to put it out. >> took garden host, tried to water it, put the fire out real had i in effect. the fire was already -- >> i was actually very afraid for my life, for my family's reach, standing in the window there looking down, flames were just coming toward us. >> now, they only had the car two days before this mishap when the dealer heard about at the brought her a loner car. >> that was nice. what a shame, snow. >> i'm telling you. >> just past 6:43, we want to check in with our weather watchers. >> indeed, up and adam this morning. a lot of fresh reports coming in from you guys a lot of these temperatures generally flirting with 40 degrees, little colder the further north you g that's where we start. lou in norristown, 36 degrees, northwest breast cooking in at 13 miles per hour for him generally what we are finding for the most part across this region. we take new kent county 39 degrees sent in from deidra, and she sent in 39 with clear skies here, down, in smyrna, delaware. and with a nice clear sky in i think for pretty nice sunrise, 14.91 very specific miles per hour coming in straight out of the west for her location. let's go next, though, to another beautiful location here is the sun light of day sorting to pop. 38 degrees in the live neighborhood network. gorgeous start to the day. i'll bring you the sunrise pictures, but by tomorrow, snow's on the way, guys, looking at general coating to inch locally though notice there could be up to 2 inches, your best shot for that, further inland, across central pennsylvania, up toward the poconos, that would be your best shot simply because that's where you will have the best amount of moisture. but his is an i am letter coming through, so it will be moisture starved so more of nuisance snowfall event. but i almost guarantee we will have traffic delays because of t meanwhile today temperatures already on the decline. temperature of 37, what we expect to hit in philly right around 9:00 a.m. and those temperatures just keep dropping through the day cold air gets reinforced by the snow, wednesday and thursday, stuck in the two's jess, over to you. >> all i see is ten and not happy about it. 45:00, and we have disable vehicle, trying to get cleaned up and out of the way tying things up on 95 around cottman. this is the nor bound lanes see it pick up part of the right hand shoulder he can everybody kind of squeezing on by to the left hand side. elsewhere out in new jersey, starting to tie things up just little bit northbound lanes. but still moving along fortunately, headed toward 295 or the surrounding area bridges, you can see everything moving great. but we do have some suspends lines for lansdale-doylestown regional rail lines for septa due to overhead problems. so plan your trip accordingly. it might set you back little bit this morning. on the schuylkill expressway eastbound from the blue route into the vine street expressway that's about 20 minute trip there, little bit slow. no problems currently on 202 from route 30, into the schuylkill expressway if you're headed northbound only 12 minutes there. erika, back over to you. >> thank you. according to the cdc many states are reporting widespread flu activity already this season. and the number of cases could continue to rise in the coming weeks. >> so what is contributing to this early outbreak and are there steps we can take to reduce our risk every getting sick? family fixation doctor rob dan off joins with us more details. good morning happy new year. is this an earl indication every how bad it could be? when typically is the flu season? because this is getting nuts. >> it is. typically it starts in october through may. but really peaked the second and third week of december. it started going up high and it is continuing to increase, back over 6% of all visits, to the offices and to hospitals are related to the flu. so we're concerned that it is really starting to gain momentum. typically in most years it peaks in february, and it seems to be on that up trend right now. >> sure is. >> we know a lot of folks got the flu shot, skill included, still got sing. hearing this flew is not net necessarily the right strain for the shot. should you still get it if you haven't got ten? >> we don't want to talk ukee into not getting it but you raised good point flu vaccine prevent again two type a-plus, one or two type b's unfortunately one of the type a-plus which can call cause a loft illness isn't a match to the flu shot. people say then why should i get it? >> still will protect against other type of flu's and may decrease the complications if you get the flu. >> let's talk precautions wash your hands watcher do you think about hands sanitizer how long do the germs last on surface? >> good point. i am a believe nerve hand sanitizer, if you can't finds soap and water to wash your hands. we have to wash our hands properly make sure to get inbetween the finger webs, sing happy birthday to yourself twice ukee, that's the amount of time. however, what can we do? use tissues not hander chefs, can stay on hander chefs for 12 hours flu surface keyboard can little about -- live 24 hours when you shake someone's hand, moisture, cough or sneak and shake someone's hands, lives about five minutes. so real important to protect yourself, high touch areas try to wash down, use sanitizer on there and try not to touch your eyes, your nose, your mouth, we that during a lot. >> without even knowing. >> exactly out of lab. >> i say do you get sick, get the flu. how long are you contagious? how long should you stay home from work not to get other people sick? >> if someone coughs or sneeze taz can spread 6 feet from where they are at f you're exposed to the flew you will know in one to four days. but people are contagious one day before the symptoms appear, one to five after. what i have people do, if someone at home has the flu i say create sick room. that person is confined to that room and people just don't go in and out of there very often. because that will help decrease the spread within the household. >> go ahead, doctor? before we go, almost out of time. major differences between the cold and the flu. >> just comes on suddenly, you can get real a lot of fatigue sore throat, cough muscle aches, body aches, joint aches, the head-on the top -- the hair on your head will hurt. basically any time you move it was going to hurt, some people get nauseous or vomit specially young kids, it is more severe than the cold. and it creates secondary complication. one thing to say even if you have got he end the flu shot, if you get the flu call the doctor. fortunately we have medication that is we can give to you within 48 hours to decrease the severity, and get whatever other immunizations you need to prevent pneumonia, hopping cough, to keep you health fry other diseases. >> good stuff. thank you. always a pleasure, appreciate it. >> 6:50. let's see what's coming up on ybs this morning. >> chair roads joins us up in new york with your preview. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, ukee erika. ahead we're in ken tuck which seven year old girl's long trek through the winds to safety area surviving a plane crash that killed her family. hear from the man who answered her call for help and also what investigators though learn from the little girl. plus, 06 minutes sports taken hardest look yet of the nfl controversy and their settlement over brain injuries. here with preview of the report and the two climbers in yosemite national park attempting a many say is impossible. the news is back in the morning, and we'll see you in about ten minutes. >> charlie, thank you. >> ukee, it is charlie's birthday! >> happy birthday, charlie! happy birthday. >> you guys having a party up there? >> bye, see you at 7:00? >> we are doing this everywhere we go just so everybody knows. >> i'm sure you love it. >> sounds spontaneous but all planned. >> sends presents. >> congrats, my man many more. have a great day. >> poor charlie arms crossed ugh. time is 651:67:89 investigators are searching for the cause after fire that forced nine people out of their homes. that fire swept through a home on north lee street a little after 11:00 last night. there is heavy damage but fortunately, there are no injuries. also eric frein face as hearing today. prosecutors say frein ambushed two pennsylvania state troopers in the poconos in september. one trooper, corporal brian dixon, was killed. frein was captured after 48 days on the run. the trial of sports cast or don tollefson is set for today, charged with stealings of hundreds every thousand cents of dollars by sponsoring fake sports trims. >> first, a look at 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the clouds, so generally just expect to go see skies brighten up. now nice wide zoom. shows very light lake enhanced snowfall, will not affect us other than flurry in the poconos, but out across man tan a comes next clipper. here tomorrow with general coating to inch or two of snow. jess? >> thanks, katie. good morning everybody coming up on 7:00 a.m. i'm not huge fan of this camera. but this is the only angle we had real toy show you on 95 around bridge street. an accident you can see crew there trying to get it cleaned up and out of the way. traffic seems to be moving by flowing by there nicely in the northbound lanes so for the time being we can just avoid that accident there. as we push ourselves over into the shoulder, over on the ben franklin bridge, the westbound lanes actually, from the philly side, so westbound headed into the city, currently no problems, all lanes open. also losing outright hand lane, there see due to construction, but no real problems getting into new 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