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KYW Eyewitness News At 11 January 7, 2015

16 degrees in allentown. The poconos it is 10. But colder air to the north and west. In chicago nine. Right now in cleveland its 12. It feels much colder. When that reinforcing shot moves in overnight and into tomorrow, we are going to be feeling the effects with some brutal winds. Overnight temperatures will range between 10 and 20 degrees those roads will refreeze even anything that is melted due to treatment will be very icy overnight tonight. Theyll be slick spots icy patches come tomorrow morning so please take it easy and use caution. The big part of the story is going to be the wind when you combine the wind with the temperatures, youre talking about an arctic blast. Temperatures will be 15 to 20 degrees below average combined that with whipping winds gusting to 30 even 40 miles an hour over the next couple of days. And take a look the what it will be feeling like. Tonight reading in the teens. Tomorrow morning it will feel like 13 in philadelphia. Two below in the poconos. But by tomorrow night, 8 00 p. M. , it will feel like 22 below in the poconos and it will get even colder than this by thursday. Coming up well talk about whats to come when it gets even colder snow showers in the forecast again possibly as early as tomorrow and wind chills going below zero. More on that coming up later in the broadcast. For now well zen it back to you. Thats enough for now. Well take it. Kathy, thanks very much. Well you can stay on top of the Winter Weather by downloading the cbs philly weather app. It will give you the latest forecast from our team of meteorologists. You can download it for free on google play and i tunes. With the snow now behind us we turn our attention to the impact dangerously cold air could have. Eyewitness News Reporter diana rocco is live in center city tonight. Diana . Reporter jessica remnants of this storm still remain on some cars and on the streets and on sidewalks tonight but now the attention has turned to the dropping temperatures and icy roads causing problems. The snow may have stopped but whats left over has become the big concern. Messy side streets and freezing temperatures creating a sheet of ice and making roads a very slippery surface. It started coming down early tuesday making for slow travel and leaving commuters slipping and sliding. Spin outs and accidents caused traffic backups throughout the morning commute. In cherry hill one person was killed in a fivecar accident before 10am on haddonfieldberlin road. 24th and walnut icy conditions force add car into storefront in center city philadelphia. Tow trucks were busy and so was aaa. Fielding a high number of calls when cars wouldnt start. What many motorists dont realize the he can treatment cold temperatures especially what weve seen today and what well concern the rest of the week are extremely harsh on a car battery. Reporter in this freezing cold, triple a says keeping that emergency kit in your car could be live saving. Home Heating Companies were also receiving a high volume of calls calls. Wanted to prepare knowing it was going to get cold, this wasnt kicking in. Reporter bill roth heat was touch and go with three kids they didnt want to risk spending the night in the cold. Not wanting to wake up having three kids not wanting them to have to worry about anything. So, yes, especially with it this cold. Reporter heating technician doug says this time of year is when heaters start breaking and he make it a priority to get to calls quickly. The temperature only has to get to the low of 33 and a pipe can freeze and cause all kinds of problems. Reporter and as we head into the overnight hours black ice is a major concern on roadways throughout the area, in fact the state police have called in extra tow Truck Drivers to be on hand in case of accidents come morning. Were live in center city tonight, im diana rocco cbs3 Eyewitness News. Diana thank you. Officials are concerned about the wellbeing of the areas homeless with these temperatures dropping. Code blue alerts are in effect across the region. Some people in money county are being accept to this Salvation Army location in norristown. Its just one shelter available to help people get out of the cold. We also have some tips for dealing with this dangerous cold on cbsphilly. Com. This cold weather usually comes at a cost for homeowners who use heating oil. Brown is one of them but this year hes getting a lot more for a lot less. Falling fuel prices mean hes paying 2. 59 a gallon about a dollar less compared to last year. Home Heating Oil Delivery companies are making more because people are putting more in their tanks. Todays Winter Weather made for some very pretty pictures in Delaware County moose the lab enjoying a snowy boothwyn backyard. We love seeing your photos. They help us tell the Winter Weather story. You can share them with us nouse use hash tag cbs3 storm. You can always get the very latest on this bitter blast right when you wake up tomorrow. The Eyewitness News team gets started at 4 30 right here on cbs3. New at 11 00 oclock tonight Philadelphia Police are searching for suspect in a violent Home Invasion in mantua. Officers say that a man walked into a home in the 3900 block of brown street, pistol whipped a woman had was and side and then ran off. The woman was taken to a hospital with cuts and bruises. If you have any information on what happened there youre asked to call police. Developing at 11 00 oclock tonight, a violent attack in a texas veterans clinic. One person was killed when a gunman opened fire inside that clinic on for bliss in el paso. The gunman is also dead tonight. Its unclear whether he was shot by officers or took his own life. The fbi is leading that investigation right now the motive for the violence is not clear. Paramedic meet a Southwest Airlines jet at the gate at Philadelphia International airport tonight. Southwest Airlines Flight 4817 from nashville to philadelphia hit some turbulent in the air and a Flight Attendant was injured. The pilot called ahead asked for paramedic to meet them at the gate and the Flight Attendant was taken to the hospital. 134 passengers and four other crew members were on board. But no one else was hurt. Were hearing tonight from one of the victims seriously injured during an attack in center city. Samuel sierra is just out of the hospital. He spent a week after a savage beating at 12th and chestnut nearly could have his his life. Surveillance video from December December 27th shows him walking from his job as a door man at taboo bar along with his manager. Youll see a Group Approach the pair. Words were he can changed two men suddenly broke away from the group and started pump ming see err ya causing bleeding in the brain. Ears start to have a kind of ringing sensation and then my head again just has the physical pain. I hope they are captured certainly. At the end of the day i would hope they would become better adults but its still up to them to make those decisions for themselves. Anyone with information about this attack is asked to call Philadelphia Police. Funeral services for Shane Montgomery have now been set for friday. Tonight were learning more about a special group of volunteer divers who finally found shanes body and brought his family some closure. Our Todd Quinones has an Eyewitness News exclusive. Report. This is called the rescue truck. Reporter 5984 old diver Andy Pasquale who found shanes body at the bottom of the schuylkill river. He was running low on air but decided to look a little longer. Doing a ball zigzag pattern just you know, looking around, and then i came up on shane. It was in a current. So i held on to him. I put my hand on him. So we didnt go away in the current just because i didnt want to lose him. Reporter 21yearold disappeared after leaving a manayunk pub early thanksgiving morning. Bag quality is a volunteer for garden state underwater recover unit theyre based in milford new jersey budget comes struckly from donations. They pick up the searches throughout the region and beyond typically after police and rescue divers have to move on leaving family members no one to turn to to help find their loved one. We have members that are doctors, that are pharmacists. That are plumbers, carpenters search area in the sku little the divers were looking in was about 2,000 feet long. 270 feet wide and water temperature was around 36 degrees. On a good day they could see just about sick feet in front of them. It was tedious time consuming work that was also dangerous. All recoveries are personal. Pasquale knew the anguish montgomerys family was going through in their search for shane. In 1971, my brother had a boating accident and he died and i know what my mom and my dad went through during that time. Reporter montgomery sawed out the garden state underwater Recovery Unit and thanked them for finding shane. They can finely say goodbye. Its closure for them. In milford, new jersey Todd Quinones cbs3 Eyewitness News. Quite a story. New jersey lawmakers are considering looking into governor Chris Christies travel to Dallas Cowboys games. Democratic as system blee man john wiseness sku he and his co chair discussed bobby probing whether the governor may have violated end thick rules by accepting tickets from jerry jones much he is allowed to accept gifts from personal friends and that the governor has fully complied with allstate laws. As Eyewitness News was the first to report, montgomery countys first female prosecutor is not running for reelect. Risa vet free ferman served two terms as district attorney. Instead of being seen behind the podium announceing arrests she hopes to be seen on the bench as a newly elected county judge. So excited about what the future holds and im very excited to tackle a new challenge to climb a new mountain, if you will. But at the same time, i really love this place. I love the community that im a part of both within the courthouse, win the da office and the Law Enforcement community. Ferman told our walt hunter today that createing mig kids montgomery countys First Full Service center for abuseed children is among her proudest accomplishment. New tonight moorestown new jersey swears in the youngest person ever to serve as the townships mayor. 26yearold Council Woman victoria napalitano took the oath of office tonight. Her husband was there to hold the bible during the oath. The Township Council is republican and member of the majority rotate holding the mayors seat. The mayor is in her first term and says it is an honor to serve serve. Very exciting for me. You know, to have more women in politics especially young women is really important to me and something that i hope i can be i hope i can be a role model for other young women who are considering stepping into the political arena. Mayor napal ton know her number one priority is passing a budget that does not increase taxes this year. History was also made on capitol hill as new 114th congress convened. Elyse, became the youngest woman to be sworn in. She launched her campaign at age 29. She won it at 30 years old. This congress is the most Divorce Group in history with a Record Number of minorityies in women. Republicans now control both the house and the senate. Losing control on the court. Caught on camera tonight a basketball game turns into a brawl at a pennsylvania high school. Also tonight unlocking history. Peaces of the past locked away in 1795 are revealed. The items inside and who put them there next. Kathy . A few shots of arctic air will be moving our way over the next couple of days. Combine that with whipping winds and it equals dangerous cold. Well take a look at how close those wind chills will get coming up. And todays snow didnt keep everyone inside. These guys let the good times roll no matter what the weather. All day and all of the night the kinks all day and all of the night the kinks yoplait. With a smooth and creamy taste your whole family loves. It is so good all the time. Hard fought High School Basketball game between bitter rifles ends in a brawl in harrisburg. Just as the buzzer sounded to end the game between york and harrisburg a couple of players under the basket exchanged punches and that led to this full out fight. Parents and police came on to the court. They tried to restore order. As players wrestled and grabbed one another. One player was punched and collapsed on the floor. Theres no word on if any of the players involved in that brawl will be suspended. A pair of suspects facing charge that is night in the shootings of two new york city plane Clothes Police officers. Today the nypd released this Surveillance Video showing one of the suspects firing on those officers. Officials say that the officers were responding to an Armed Robbery last night at a Grocery Store in the bronx when one of the suspects opened fire from inside that restaurant. Both of those officers are expected to be okay. New information tonight about the growing number of people suffering with the flu in our area. There are now more than a thousand confirmed cases in the state of delaware. Last year at this time there were 100 cases. Pennsylvania department of health says there are now nearly 1,000 cases confirmed in just montgomery county, and abington hospital is reportedly in the middle of a hot zone. Now you can get all the information you need on the flu on our website theres an overview a list of symptoms, also risk factors. You can also get some tips on preventing the flu. Just go to cbsphilly. Com click on health, then flu. Nass latest trip to space will have to wait at least a few more days. This morning engineers had to port a space x launch because of a problem with one of the rocks motors. They hope to have everything fixed for their second attempt on friday. The Unmanned Mission will carry supplyies and experiments to the International Space station some of which are from students in new jersey. Well tonight a peek into the past a time capsule from 1795 was opened in boston today. Inside that time capsule were five folded newspapers, a massachusetts commonwealth seal, coins and a silver plate commemorating the 20th anniversary of american independence. Now this was found back in december in a cornerstone of the massachusetts state house. It had been buried there reportedly by paul revere and samuel adams. The unearthed items will now be on display at Bostons Museum of fine are as. It is cold out there. Okay. Bitterly cold night out there. The snow was just kind of the opening act in mother natures weather phenomenon. Kathy orr has been tracking this bitter blast headed our way now. Kathy we better have many layers on. Very cold this afternoon. Turning even colder. Our i wet weather watchers are showing us numbers that are really unbelievable. Not for this time of year, but since its been relatively mild take a lock at a few of these. Right now 10 degrees being roared in Doylestown Irwin says the wind is light. Snowfall today about an inch and a half. Elsewhere pretty cold as well to the north and west of philadelphia. The temperature 14 being roared in willow grove. Skies are clear and the pressure is falling. Another front will reinforce the cold overnight. And it is 17 degrees right now as we head toward Chester County county. John is reporting 17 degrees in downingtown. If you would like to be an eyewitness weather watcher this winter or even come spring you can sign up today. Its very easy. Join the team. Go to cbsphilly. Com watchers. Temperatures have been falling very quickly. And we are seeing the snow guns in full mowing at jack frost big boulder even at this late hour. You can see the chair lift continues to go as they are getting ready for a big week of snow making with these cold temperatures. Temperatures will stay below freezing for the next 62 hours at least. Take look at this. Well start off at the current time through wednesday afternoon, thursday afternoon until friday afternoon we will stay below freezing. And that means when you combine the wind with these temperatures it will feel like it is dangerously cold well below zero. Right now in philadelphia the temperature is 19. It is only seven in millville. It is 10 in the poconos. Reading only 12 degrees. Were watching the core of the cold air you can see through the Northern Plains and also southern canada can in a winnipeg 13 below. Minute list one the winds have impacted this par of the country. It feels like 34 below in International Falls and minneapolis it is feels like 18 below. Wont be quite that cold here but close to philadelphia it will be 18 below and ill show you that in a minute but first tomorrow the cold gets reinforced. Winds gust to 40 miles an hour and wind chills will be in the teens. Thursday this will be the coldest day weve seen since last winter. Wind chills go below zero everywhere. Even the shore. And by friday temperatures rebound to about 30 degrees. Not quite as harsh. During the day tomorrow with that reinforcing shot of cold air a few snow showers are possible. This is 7 00 oclock in the morning. They will be scatt

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