Can you smell what is in the oven. We are so close. Speaking of traveling and an expected 530,000 travelers will be hitting the roadways. I will be at the airport today bracing myself. Yes. So, looking outside right new we have lots of construction out there but just brace yourself it will be a busy travel day. It always is, one of the biggest nights to go out. Everybody gets home, meet up with your college buddies, right. Yes. Yes. And, im asleep by 7 30 if im lucky. Very busy day for lot of people for a lot of reasons. Forecast is looking pretty good for the most part but this is a location, location, location kind of forecast. You have drenching rain along the shore points but elsewhere , totally dry. I didnt encounter one drop of rain on my drivein but traveling garden state parkway for example you are clocked with drenching rain. This is clearing out, very, very quickly. This is that outer band of the system that is primarily bypassing us so for the most part, we will end up with quiet weather today and already quiet autopsy cross north and western suburbs. Also chillier. Look at this, again almost split in half, to i95 to the north or i95 to the south. Interesting just the way this parent is setting up. We will start off on a mild note which means it is strictly rainfall across southeastern counties but do you to have contend with that so expect it. But starts to move out quickly even as early as 9 00 a. M. , i think that wet weather is long gone, rest of us have the opportunity to clear out nicely and for the most part looking like a generally seasonable day, meisha. Looks nice, thanks very much. We are looking outside right new to, of course, our construction, our buddies are working hard. Looking at schuylkill westbound between south street and 30th street. That right lane compromised. Calm in the roadway. You can see how many vehicles are out there as well. At 4 32 we dont usually see this kind have movement but who knows what will happen, maybe it will steady itself. Schuylkill west bun between montgomery drive and city avenue but construction is still in place with the left lane. Left lane still blocked, that is westbound. Quick peak at 95 southbound at cottman looking good, really good at this Early Morning, we do however have an overturn vehicle. This is involving injuries in tinicum township hog island road and tinicum island road if thinks your neck of the wood maybe heading out of the door factor in a couple extra minutes. Construction in new jersey we will talk about coming up in the next 10 minutes, jim, back over to you. Well, nearly 51 Million People are expected to take to the rails, roads and skies for thanksgiving holiday. At lax airport in los angeles travel rush started to pick up last night. Look at those lines there. Yes. It looks like it but i dont know. From the runways to the railways, trains will be a popular way to travel this week. Our trang do is live at 30th street station talking to travelers looking to beat the rush, good morning, trang do. Reporter good morning rahel and jim. Fortunately we do not have crazy lines like at lax still early here just very sleepy, you can see a few travelers, here early, waiting, kind of dosing off before their trains but more people actually are expected to travel this year for thanksgiving then last year and in years pennsylvania and that does include trains but take a look at video from last years travel rush. 120 trains per day goes through 30th street here and starting yesterday and going through monday after thanksgiving amtraks busiest time of the year. Tuesday and wednesday, being today the busiest of those days, nationwide amtrak is expected to move, threequarters of the Million People during this time period now, if you are using amtrak to get to your Holiday Travels , they are adding extra trains and seats to accommodate this big rush but first trains, again dont leave for like another half an hour so hang out here this morning and catch up with these passengers before their trains, we are also going to talk tie representative from amtrak to get those Holiday Travel tips if you are planning to take the train, but for now we are live from 30th street im trang do for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Jim and rahel, back to you. And drivers, can make up majority of the all of the Holiday Travelers looking at highest gas price necessary three years. Meantime those looking to fly to their holiday destination are paying cheapest airfare since 2013. Coming up at 5 00 Eyewitness News reporter jan carabao is heading to Philadelphia International airport where it is expected to be a very busy day. She will have a live report in 30 minutes. Navy said aircraft with 11 people than board has crashed in the pacific ocean. Right now search and rescue operation is underway, crash happened overnight, southeast of japans islands. And we have learn it is a propeller powered transport plane, called a c2 greyhound like one you see here. It carries people, mail and or cargo. Japan says eight of the 11 have been found but we do not know if they were found alive. The cause of this crash is not yet clear. Fire fighters made quick work of the overnight fire in West Philadelphia the call went out just before midnight to the 800 block of north holy street. They had the flames under control in less than 20 minutes in, one was hurt and in word on a cause. Investigators say they have foundry mains of the two people missing since a devastating fire at a Senior Living center in west chester. Atf made discoveries yesterday they will continue to look for two other people still missing this morning. Five alarm fire in the Barclay Friends Senior Center late last thursday. Investigators are still trying to figure out a cause. New to another fire a Community Comes together to honor teacher killed in the house fire. Hundreds of people came together last night to remember sheila hawkins, vigil took place in the six hup block of renz street in roxborough that is when she died when her home caught fire she caught the third grade. She worked for the Philadelphia School district for 25 years. I had her as a teacher in third grade. She taught me a lot. Im still feeling like she will still be at School Tomorrow or next week but i know that shes not. Hawkins daughter, son in law and grandson were also in the home at the time of the fire but they were able to escape. Cause of the fire is still under investigation. New allegations against former cbs this morning co host charlie rose, three women at cbs have come forward accusing him of sexual misconduct. His former co host gayle king was on the late show with Stephen Colbert last night to talk about the scandal. It wasnt easy. It is still very painful, still very hurtful, charlie and i have worked together been friends but when you think of the anguish of those women despite the friendship you still to have report the news. When i think of the job we do at cbs, that is what i wanted to cancel because i didnt want to sit here talking about this but when i think about the job we do at cbs and how hard people work i want you to know we are a top notch broadcast operation. Cbs fired rose yesterday following multiple allegations of sexual harassment. Beside co hosting cbs this morning rose was a correspondent for 60 minutes. Both king and co host Nora Odonnell addressed the allegations on yesterdays show before rose was terminated. This is a moment, that demands a frank, honest assessment about where we stand and more generally the safety of women. Let me be very clear, there is no excuse for this alleged behavior. What do you say, when someone that you deeply care about has done something that is so horrible, how do you wrap your brain around that. Washington post published claims from eight women who all worked or wanted to work for rose pbs program, pbs also cut ties with rose. Meanwhile former chair of the Neurology Department at Drexel University is spared jail time after pleading guilty to groping patients. Sir, you are expected to up hold your profession hippocratic oath you have nothing to say. Instead doctor ricardo cruc i ani of wynnewood will serve seven years probation registered as a sex offender and forfeit his medical license. During the hearing some of the doctors victims spoke including sarah hicks. Use the chaperone that they offer, lot of places offer it. I guess i really let my guard down and believe that he wasnt harmful. This is amazing, he is being allowed to travel to argentina for his daughters wedding on a unsecured 100 milliondollar bond. Email of pennsylvania congressman bob brady are under fbi scrutiny this morning as an investigation into campaign payments ramps up. They are looking into accusation that is brady paid a political opponent 90 you this dollars to get him to drop out of the primary race in 2012. Two Political Consultants pleaded not guilty. It is first time brady has been mentioned in the broke. Bradys Attorney Says the congressman is not a target and that they are cooperating with the department of justice pennsylvanias attorney jennies considering a request now to take over prosecution of the Penn State Fraternity hazing case. That is because Center County s next d. A. Reaccused himself yesterday due to a conflict of interest. Twentysix people faced charges in the death of Timothy Piazza who died after a night of heavy drinking at Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House in february. Fans of the certain age are mourning death of one of the zero sevens eighthes teen idol former lead singer of the Partridge Family david cassidy. Cassidy was a teen heart throb after the show premiered in 1970, and had a solo career and appeared on broadway, cassidy later battled alcoholism and dimension, cassidy was recently admitted to a Florida Hospital with organ failure. David cassidy was 67 years old is there much more to cover on cbs3 Eyewitness News including uber admission , Ride Sharing Company revealing a hack attack that may have affected millions of customers when it happened and if you should be worried. White house tradition President Trumps first turkey pardon didnt come without humor how he joke about past president ial pardons when we come back in tw uber is admitting it covered up a yearold hacking attack that stole personal information of the 67 million customers and drivers. Ubers current ceo criticized companys handling of the data theft but says there is no evidence that the stolen information has been misused. Ubers former ceo resigned in june after an investigation conclude that he had built a culture that allowed female workers to be sexually harassed. More than 400 local families will enjoy thanksgiving meal tomorrow thanks to the Philadelphia Police department. Hundreds of officers took part in the fortyseventh annual operation thanksgiving event. They delivered thanksgiving meals to residents in need they include frozen turkies, stuffing, green beans, potatoes and officers say they before thrilled to be on turkey patrol. Wagons lined up from every district, because it is all about giving back. This is a time thanksgiving, a time to be grateful and a time of lessons and to be happy about those that you have, and acknowledge that some people dont share and have those same blessings. Families we spoke with say thanksgiving meals are helping them out in a very big way. Looking for a Brighter Future after being pardoned by President Trump. Annual turkey pardoning took place yesterday at the white house. At the event President Trump joke about the two bird that former president obama pardoned last year. As many of you know i have been very active in overturning a number of executive actions by my predecessor. However, i have been informed by the white house counsels office, that tatter and totss pardon cannot be under any circumstances be revoke so we will not revoke them. Turkies pardoned by President Trump and former president obama will live together, in harmony, in virginia. Isnt that an idea. Katie has another check of the forecast. We all live in harmony on cbs3 Eyewitness News. We attempt to, after we have had our morning coffee, it is probably a better time. , no im kidding. But as we look forward to all of the things we are thankful for here, absolutely, my work family is one of them but we are looking ahead to quiet weather this thanksgiving holiday. That makes me very grateful too. Im sure it does for you. As we start things off here we have a mess on our hand is a cross southeastern most counties. The really heavy rain is just off shore you will get drenched if anybody is sitting out on the boat on the opened water but this rain is definitely picking up in intensity as well accredits cape may, atlantic, now ocean, southeast Burlington County but this is where it is primarily confined. I dont want to rule out a shower in philadelphia that batch off to the west there is what may cross over the city but generally skies will be clearing in the wake of all this and with high pressure, on our side it bode very well for later on today even into early to late morning and most of the Holiday Weekend frankly lets look at the timing. So here we go top of the hour through four and 5 00 a. M. And there may still be a shower around. We are allowing that to take place in Philadelphia County but this is 7 00 a. M. You go an hour or two beyond that and we are clearing for sunshine in philadelphia and that will be the case every where too. By the time we hit five or 6 00 p. M. Staying at work through the typical day and then hit red way this evening, later you wait in the southeast counties better off we will be. We will expect daytime high to hit 55 degrees. We did have a frontal boundary crossing through dropping down to only 30 tonight, quiet, cold, probably going to wake up to a freeze tomorrow but looking forward expect that temperature also stays on the chilly side for turkey day. Fortysix in the sunshine at lee and as we look ahead to black friday it is less harsh if you plan to be out shopping , meisha. That Little Turkey is so cute. Yes. All right. Looking outside just construction but we know it is going to get very busy out there. Schuylkill westbound between south street and 30th street that right lane compromised off ramp to 30th street is closed. We will let you know when that lifts. Our friends and neighbors on the roadway. Schuylkill westbound between montgomery drive and city avenue we have left lane blocked for some construction, still out there, besides the fact you cannot really see it in the camera shot as they are trying to get overnight construction moved out of the way. Ben franklin bridge gorgeous shot for those traveling westbound over bridge and into center city we are in Great Company the bridge is looking really nice this morning. We have this overturned vehicle this is involving injuries in tinicum township hog island road at tinicum island road if this is your neck of the wood heading out the door to avoid the area will want to. If you cant just add a couple extra minutes just in case you have, actual, gaper delay traveling by. Construction in new jersey 295 south, and 42 north at 295 off ramp is closed left lane is also blocked. Jim and rahel, back to you. Still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning move over facebook. Social media site you never heard office worth billions more, ahead in todays money watch, we will be right time for a check on business news. Money watchs dianne king hall joins us from the New York Stock Exchange a lot of talk these days about Net Neutrality and chairman of the fcc plans to release his proposal on the issue today. What do we expect to hear. Reporter that is right, good morning, rahel and jim, first off, 2015 Net Neutrality rules are expected to be repealed today. Regulation where is designed to assure Internet Service providers treat all on line content equally. It prevented Service Providers like comcast and at t of speeding up websites that pay a fee, fcc chairman and the bell telecom co say they discourage investment to provide better and faster service, jim and rahel. I understand there is a Chinese Company trying to give facebook a run for its money. What is this all about. Reporter that is right chinas social media giant, hurdled over facebook at 522 billion but came back came back for its crown rocket ing higher with the rest of the tech sock for its value stand is above 528 billion. Facebook is still worlds Popular Social Network with 2 billion users. So, it looks like we dont to have log on to another web site just yet. I never heard of ten cents before. Facebook will not be undone facebook because of my Facebook Live each morning at 8 00, that is why i believe it rebounded. Yes. Okay. Happy thanksgiving, you guys. Happy thanksgiving. Coming up we will get another check of weather and traffic. Katies tracking your thanksgiving day forecast, and we will be back in just about two welcome back everyone we are looking ahead to a day that generally clears out nicely with breezy conditions also picking up and returning to much more seasonal conditions as well, again, a day somewhat of transition. We are still finding wet weather out there. Looking at tristate sweep it is drenching rain falling right now, thankfully bulk of it is out to sea but you do have some pretty nasty conditions trying to travel for, example the garden state parkway and parts of the Sussex County as well. It is location based forecast. You can see that pocket of the moisture back toward Chesapeake Bay that will lift north and bring in a quick shower to philadelphia. Do you need an umbrella today . Im not sure at the shore, but you can probably getaway without it. But things are clearing out in the wake have these two pieces of energy frontal boundary and area of low pressure but they dont connect until they move out to sea. What you will end up with through new jersey and delaware there will still be some rainfall and again some of that rain could be steady but it will be wrapping up in the next couple of hours. In philadelphia, we will see that quick shower moving in and then through afternoon skies clear out and breeze also begins to pick up. Further north you go better off you are if you had plans to travel this morning, most likely to stay dry in those areas but this is a cooperative forecast, for the most part, now comes tomorrow, youll wake up to i hard freeze with an Early Morning low of 30 but at lee sun will shine and that will continue through black friday. So all that in terms of the timing is looking good, come saturday, not completely ready to rule out a shore but at this point for the most part we will see cloud building and temperatures rebound to 58 degrees, meisha. Good to know, thank you very much. Today will be very busy travel day, so, with all that in consideration so far, so good. Fortytwo, the off ramp here to creek road is looking good. We are seeing it. It is looking okay right now. Not sure there, what is going on but it is 42 freeway north bound at creek road we are keeping an eye on right now and it is looking G Construction crew is still out there schuylkill west bun between south street and 30th street right lane compromised and off ramp to 30th street is still closed but does look like crews are getting that moved out of your way right now. Schuylkill westbound to montgomery drive and city avenue left lane is also blocked so just a head up you can see off in the distance but in terms of the volume there isnt really any right now. We have an accident overturned vehicle with injuries, that has now been since cleared and we are looking good there and construction in new jersey is still out there, however, 295 south between 150 and 42 right lane and 42 north bound at 295 off ramp is closed and left lane is also blocked, jim, back to you. Coming up in the next hour of cbs3 Eyewitness News is one of the busiest travel days of the year. We have Team Coverage from the roads, rails, airport. North korea facing new accusations, as new video shows one of their soldiers, defect to go south korea we will tell you the injuries he suffered. Sixers forward dario saric , takes over, we are back at the top of the hour. Well, storm scan three is tracking showers around the area today this is a live look showing areas of rain, we will tell you spots most likely to see showers on this busy travel day before thanksgiving from the road to the rails to the airport hundreds of thousands of people in our area are getting ready to take off for their destination and we have team three coverage of what you can expect to encounter. It is wednesday november 22nd good morning im jim donovan. Im rahel solomon. Katie and meisha keeping an eye on things on this thanksgiving eve. Well good morning, you guys we are looking at a crazy, busy travel day and i have been just bracing myself us
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