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Transcripts For KYW Eyewitness News At 5 20180209

Reporter though there is still plenty of evidence of the parade left behind. The cleaning operation continues, we are detailing around the eakins oval area where there was a large majority of the crowd. Reporter friday afternoon mayor and city officials gave details of the event there were two total arrests one for assaulting a police officer. No real injuries to speak of. Reporter two people were stabbed one near art museum both are expect to be okay. There were five citations for disorderly conduct. To be able to have that type of an event with those numbers and to have as the mayor said, some small hiccups , you know, it is remarkable in myes nation. Reporter so what were the numbers . One crowd safety estimates 700,000 people attended, the head of the Cities Office of Emergency Management though believes, it is much higher. Based on our experience with other large events on the parkway, we feel that it was well above 700, certainly below some of the higher numbers we have seen circulated through social media. Reporter the Mayors Office not releasing any number about how many people, they believe, actually attended. There is another number folks are talking about this afternoon and that is how much this costs the city . Right now city officials not giving that number but coming up tonight at 6 00 here on cbs3 Eyewitness News i will tell but how much the eagles, themselves spent for the parade. That is very latest live near the Art Museum Steps im greg argos for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Very interesting, greg, thank you. Eagles Center Jason Kelce s speech was sure memorable and so was his costume. Many people asking where did he get it . Eyewitness News Reporter alycia nieves is live in havertown with that answer, alycia, what can you tell us. Reporter i have been standing out here with diehard eagles fans awaiting jason kelce to live here and get some autographs, from him and a few other players, and, there air lot of these people who were at that parade and they are wondering how did jason kelce get his hands on that mummers costume and get it so quickly . Well, i do have the answer and that answer is he got hook up through his hair stylist, heres the back story. Reporter it is the speech. I want to take a second to talk to you about underdogs. Reporter and outfit being talk about around the country today. Heres the question did he have that outfit in in his closet or did he just start filling it in sunday night. Reporter it is an outfit from the avalon string band a suit they used in the on eight sum mummers parade. Jason kelce borrowed it for eagles super bowl celebration in fill at first ever parade of champions. It is stroke of genius abs light certainty. Reporter jason kelces hair stylist is person who got him this now iconic outfit. He called me tuesday night at 8 00 and said i need a suit i said my husband was at avalon string band having practice and he called me up and i called bob a said we need a suit for jason. He said you got it. Rest is history. Reporter according to her Eagles Center wanted us to leave tradition to be the center of the attention during the parade. Such a talent and tradition and they love their mummers and they love their new years so idea he would do that and just, you know, pay homage to the city, i knew wow steel some hearts with that would be reporter he sure did rock ing this outfit even if it may have confused, the rest of the world. So confusion has been entertaining to watch over social Media Outlets and other news, why is he a genie. Either way we are champions. They can think whatever they want. Reporter were told avalon string band had to go back a decade to find a suit for jason kelce because first they had to find one that was clean and find one that would fit eagles football center. That was no easy feat. They certainly did it and they pick the perfect one. Live from havertown alycia nieves for cbs3 Eyewitness News. He pulled it off, alycia, he definitely did. Thank you. Kelce generating reaction on twitter, eagles dubbed him i love this philadelphia spirit animal. And also check this out, two champions from the phillies 2008 world series win were actually at the parade that is ryan howard he tweeted celebrating the eagles parade with my man Hollywood Cole hamels. Super bowl celebration continues today at macys center city, eagles defensive end vinny curry stopped by the Department Store this afternoon. First 150 fans that made a purchase by lids inside got the chance to meet curry and got an autograph. Image that symbolized joy felt at end of the World War Two has been recreate todd commemorate eagles super bowl victory. Take a look yesterday during the parade of champions, Shamus Clancy and ashley south er recreated the iconic kissing sailor photo. Pair who were complete strangers before the lip will be met up after tweeting about the opportunity, to recreate, the picture. I always thought it was an iconic picture, so it is something that pretty much everyone ace wear of to some degree and then kind of to be sort of, you know, part have the lure of the eagles parade, a mythical day and our city was pretty surreal as well too nicely done. Photo has been retweeted and like thousands of times since social media yesterday. You can watch our coverage of the eagles parade of champions from start to finish , we are rebroadcasting time at 2 00 p. M. On our sister station cw philly. Join us again. Tom bradys breaking his silence on the loss to the eagles. He posted on his official Facebook Page this morning. It included a shout out to the eagles which read in part learning turns everything into a positive and number one feeling i have had the past four daises gratitude, gratitude to the Philadelphia Eagles team and organization, for bringing out the best in us, and then being gracious winners as well as congratulations on winning the championship. All right. Despite a bit of chill, the weather held it together for parade of champions but the dry stretch will not last. Meteorologist kate bilo is tracking showers heading straight for us. Kate, when can we expect that rain. We will see wet weather creeping in tomorrow and then we have at least a chance of the rain in the forecast almost every day through next thursday. So an active pattern beginning it has been quite to it day but cloud are in place and we are setting the stage for a wet weekend. Lets look at storm scan three not a whole lot going on just a thick included cover, very gray sky not much sunset tonight, far cry from yesterdays beautiful sunshine and sunset after the parade. System to the north has pretty much stayed to the north a few snow showers in the poconos earl their has lift add cross portions of new york now and moisture loading up to the south though and as our next system approaches it will draw in warm, moist air temperatures on the way up but rain chances rising through weekend as well. Temperatures right now it is chilly, 38 in philadelphia. Thirtysix in reading. 38 degrees in atlantic city. Twentythree in mount pocono. Definitely a cold finish to the afternoon. Out and about this evening, again not too bad, good news is temperatures arent going to drop that quickly as south wind starts to pick up and whoever in the mid up toker 30 s all evening. If you have friday night plans in the city, it will stay dry, you will need a jacket but not umbrella make sure it is close by this weekend light drizzle begins tomorrow steady rain late tomorrow night and then downpours are possible on sunday, some concern for flooding around the area coming up ill tell you when heaviest rain will fall and which will be heaviest and how much rain you can expect and take you into those rain chances next week. For now back inside to you. Stocks staged a late rally ending wildwood mark by dramatic point swings. Bells ringing. Dow jones industrial average gained more than 300 points, earlier in the day it had dropped by 500, up and down trading came within day after market entered its first correction in two years. Latest record highs for u. S. Majors were set just two weeks ago. Closer look at the numbers dow jones finished up 330 points at 24190, nasdaq was up 97 and s and p500 closed up 38 points. The second governmental shut down in three weeks has ended, President Trump signed a bipartisan budget agreement this morning. We will have a full report at 5 30 including a live interview with cbs news chief White House Correspondent Major Garrett. That time of the year, coughs, colds, fevers, coming up, tents set up at a local hospital to deal with flu patients. We have an update from Health Officials about the flu and how bad it is here and across the nation and the news is not good. Eagles parade is over and now first signs that baseball season is right around the corner, trucks are on their way to clearwater for spring training so what does the team pack other than an ice cream machine. It is her night to shine. Find out why she and other young men and women are getting red carpet treatment tonight. We will be right flu season has he severe another lehigh veil, and doctors that have been treating patients suffering from the flu and other viruses in socalled tents for a few weeks now. The last time hospital had to use the tents was in 2013. Well, governmental Health Officials say this flu season continues to intensify and has now reached pandemic levels. Health reporter Stephanie Stahl has lateness tonights Einstein Health care science center. Reporter report this is a nasty flu season, in pennsylvania there have now been 91 deaths related to influenza the southeast part of the state, right here in philadelphia, it is now hardest hit with flu cases. And this flu season is the war , in nearly a decade and it is in the getting any better, according to the new report from the cdc. It looks like were on track to break recent record. Reporter latest Health Reports from the tristate region showed pennsylvania has had 47,752 Lab Confirmed flu cases, in new jersey, 10,418, and, 1900 with influenza in delaware. Latest report from the cdc shows one out of every 13 doctor visits last week was for flulike illnesses, highest rates seen since 2009 when swine flu virus hit the u. S. Flu remains widespread in every state but hawaii and oregon and hospitalizations are increasing. As of this week we have more onvations then we have seen in any recent season, including the severe, 2014 15 season. Reporter pediatric deaths from flu related cause this is season are now 63 and the worst could yet still be come. Governmental Health Officials say we have in the seen peak of the flu season just yet and unclear when that will happen. Were in week 11 of it increased influenza activity some cannulas as long as 20 weeks. Reporter Health Officials say flu vaccine is here obviously did not do a very good job of preventing influenza and if you do get symptoms doctors say it is important to get tamiflu anti viral, as soon as possible when it is most effective and this flu right now especially bad people get sick for weeks. Stephanie, thank you. Kate bilo joins us with our forecast. Yesterday was bright, sunny but it was sandwiched between two ugly days, wednesday and today today has been a dreary kind of day. It is not wet. It is a dry day but we have beautiful sunset shots to show you last night. But we have tonight we dont have much of anything except flat gray sky happening out there and it looks like that will be the normal over next week or so. We have rain chances in the forecast. It is february and were talking rain and not snow but it is looking like seattle type weather for next few days and into next week. Lets look at what is happening south side. Not much sunset shot. From last night we showed you exact same one at same time and it was stunning, but sunnies not anywhere to be seen this evening in plymouth meeting, and it is just completely gray, that gray sky in place and same story looking live from the Neighborhood Network camera at palmyra cove nature park you can see same outline of the city of philadelphia but it is gray, cloudy all across the area this afternoon. Snow showers, dotted the poconos earlier, those have since moved on and dry for now and should be dry through first half of the day tomorrow starting at 3 00 tomorrow afternoon when things will go downhill and they will downhill for the weekend. Storm scan three showing moisture to the south, this starting to lift in as our next system approaches from the west and it will bring mild air. That south wind has already pick up. Temperatures will not drop much overnight. It is relatively mild night for february. We will stay in the mid to upper 30s for the most part overnight. See warm air flooding in all across the north east midatlantic region, 52 in richmond, 44 in d. C. And freezing at state college. Warm air moving in but moisture is accompanying that warmth. Mainly cloudy, not as cold bottoming out at 35 which isnt too far from where we are right now. Lots of cloud for your saturday at 53. Rain will arrive late in the day have 3 00 p. M. And looking like access of heavy rain will be more late saturday into the first half of sunday and it looks like it was yesterday, mainly a sunday event. Now more like midnight to noon saturday night to sunday afternoon is war of it. Showers develop late tomorrow periods of heavy rain saturday night and heavy rain around sunday especially early in the morning. Tonight quiet, just some cloud tomorrow morning 7 00 a. M. Maybe a stray sprinkle but get outside go getter and energy mild morning and get out for a jog, run or heading out to make a bagel run, no umbrella noon is fine. 3 00 p. M. Light rain begins and it will completely pick up overnight, saturday night into sunday morning. Heres midnight pockets of heavy rain stream through it will be pouring all night long 3 00 a. M. Saturday night into sunday. 5 00 a. M. It keeps coming and wake up sunday morning to still heavy rain across the area waves of rain continue through midday and possibly drying out a bit sunday afternoon but not before serious downpours. Many models printing out certainly over an inch but a few as much as 2 inches of rain possible, river, streams, creeks still running high from the snow melt and heavy rain earlier in the week. We will to have watch for localized flooding. Heavy rain starting saturday night into the first half of sunday and then not a very bright forecast moving forward either machine shower in the morning and then some clearing tuesday could start with rain and snow showers, and then rain in the afternoon. Showers, wednesday, chance for a shower early thursday, but notice these temperatures we will hit 60 on sunday and 50s next week not talking about much in the way have snow, that is good news but it is dreary for a little while. Trade off, rain, temperatures, you cant have it all. True, it is still february. Still ahead on Eyewitness News targeting teenagers. M to get kid to eat healthy bets a boost from a major Weight Loss Company we will tell you about it in the next half an hour. One of the first signs of spring we will take you inside truck where boxes of gear are heading to phillies spring training so what do boys of summer pack . Find out next in sports. Eagles effect coming up on Eyewitness News at 6 00 has bird super bowl win change the way philadelphians behave . One officer says, maybe as we have got some examples to prove that the victory could be bigger, then just the game. Interesting. Brotherly love, sisterly affection. There was. It is all fat ball all the time. And now, what is it. Baseball, it is time for some baseball. Phillies are gearing up for spring training. This morning we caught up with the crew and phillies fanatic as they loaded up equipment trucks for clearwater, florida. The First Official work out for phillies pitchers and catchers is less than a week away. We will unload this truck on clearwater sunday morning. Reporter packed to the brim with everything players will need. It is a process that starts off the season. Reporter with help from phillies fanatic thousands of items are load in the 53foot equipment truck. From there the truck will travel more than a thousand miles, passing through eight states, before arriving at spectrum field this weekend. We take everything, we are basically picking up our storage area here in philadelphia, and taking it to clearwater. Reporter so is what on board . 10,000, 12ounce power aid cups, 2400 baseball, 2,000 short and long sleeve shirts, 1,200 bats, and, 600 pairs of pants, just to name a few things. We have 62 players in camp plus coaches, so there is plenty of body to get dressed. Reporter this year the crew is bringing some snacks. This year were bringing an ice cream machine. Nice. There is more, crews also carrying, of course, fanatic hot dog launcher, and six bikes and they need golf club, 12 sets of golf clubs. Yes. Do you know is what wild after the football season we have to wait a couple months before we see that truck. Boom. How about it. Unbelievable. Been a fun user. Right to the fill is. Coming up next, Celebrity Big Brother gets serious. I never got it. Went the two white house with him. Hear what omarosa said about her time in the white house. Night to shine, why wonderful young men and women are getting all dolled up today for a big p9hz z5yz y2p9hy y5yy now at 5 30 latest government shut down is over, it began just after midnight. Coming work in the we hours of the morning to pass a budge tote reopen the government. President trump signed it around 8 30. The 400 billiondollar budget deal includes increased spending for military, Domestic Program and disaster relief. Keeps government funded through march between the their. Most democrats in the house voted against the bill they tried to use it as leverage to get a vote on protections for young undocumented immigrants. The speaker of the house refu

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