Chance for some in the area to see accumulating snow next week. Ill tell you when in just a few minutes. Back over to you. Kate, thank you. Winter weather also blasting midwest tonight, investigators say slick road and white out conditis deadly p, involving dozens of vehicles in michigan. Three people died, and several accidents on ies many more are injured. No word on how serious. Investigators say at least 40 cars and trucks began slamming into each other, emergency crews work for se people, trapped inside of their vehicles. In north dakota vehicles are struggle to get through a blizzard drivers are dealing with ice covered windshields, snowdrifts, several feet the high, buried, some bismarck residents inside of their homes. One woman opened up her front door to find a wall of snow she had to climb over it to reach the trent yard. Denver, also eag some heavy snow and pitter cold10 det denver interest that the airport this morning. The drivers saw the snow on the road because sheets of ice, leadi accidents, denver is experiencing, it coldest stretch in almost two years. John glenn, the First American the earth has passed away. The nine fiveyear old suffered from several health complications,. John glenn. Reporter john glenn traveled into space and return, an american hero. Three, two, one, lift off. D lift off. He became First American to orbit the earth. Operating, underway, and, in the middle of the cold war. Soviet union had already, sent two cosmonauts in orbit, glenns mission helped United States to catch up in the space race. That view is tremendous. Reporter flight transformed him into a National Hero complete with a ticket tape parade. After his career as an astronaut he ran for is that the in the home state of of ohio winning on his third try. During his four terms in the senate, glenn, a democrat, shared powerful Governmental Affairs committee. Tea clairey for president of the United States. Reporter he ran for the Nations Highest Office this 1984 but his bid never pick up steam. His political career took another hit in the late 80s when he got caught up in the savings and loan scandal, he was one of the five senators accused of corruption for accepting a 200,000 campaign contributions, from financesser charles keithing. Glenn was eventually cleared of think wrongdoing, but as Senate Commission found he used quote poor judgment. After retiring from capitol hill, glenn made history oldestn ever to go in space at the age of the the Space Shuttle discovery, to research process. We have older people here on earth, with some of the trailties of old age. That is the purpose of why im here. Reporter glenns other great love besides says was annd sweetheart were married for more than 60 years and had two children. And, today president obama paid tribute saying glenn reminded us that with courage, and spirit of discovery there is no limit to the heights we can reach together. Well, two Philadelphia Police officers are speaking only to Eyewitness News about the children. Children were among 12 peop resm a raging fire, that heroic officer shared their exclusive store which our trang do. It was screaming,m were bloo, already from i guess the glass breaking inside, trying to come through the window. Reporter cries on havetressd officer ward to an intense Apartment Fire in frankford tuesday morning. He made the first call for help. Had you ever seen anything like that present, just all of the panic, all of the people that needed help. Haever seen. Reporter ward looked up to see a woman dangling a girl son the he had no time to think about what to to next. It was just, arms out, a dowh the two arms from her two arms, like that, her. Reporter once her child was safe, the motherpe window, g officer wards knee. She lost her footing t when he did so she fell kindffell iny leg went back. Reporter that hehe beginning, the Apartment Building was engulfed in flames and full of families with no wayut radio call, officer thomas willmor and his partner were next on the scene. Glasses bursting from the flames, dark smoke is out th a gentlemen, on the platform right below the third floor window and there was a family trapped in that window. Reporter ward, will more and three other officers pulled their strength to move a dumpster blocking the way out. That is when his College Football skills kicked in. Saving, this time from even greater heights. My adrenaline was pumping, all, my whole focus was, just to get the child off the platform and get him down, get the child to safety. I was talking to the gentlemen, and when he dropped the child, i just, you know, smashed it out of here. Reporter for these two friend, officers and dads, it was just another day on the job keeping people safe. It was just a credit to the, you know, the police department, the fire department, the medics, and, you know, everybody working as a team because we were all out there doing the same thing trying to help people. Reporter even before the fire officer war partner were named officers of the month for november in the 15th advertise trick. The his commander called him one of the best. Im trang do for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Other philadelphia officers were honored for their services and special ceremony in northeast fbi, viole Philadelphia Police department for their investigative contributions. The ceremony was held this afternoon at philadelphia fop headquarters, and ward winners. Manhunt for a Police Officers killer is now over, in georgia, after the suspect took his own life. Miguel limbrick had been on the run since he shot two officers, near campus of Georgia Southwestern State University on wednesday. A swat team found the suspect dead of the self inflict gunshot wound inside a nearby house. Police say limbbrick shot nicholas smart and jody smith when responding to a domestic call wednesday morning. A four Year Police Veteran died of his injuries. Our thoughts and prayers continue to be with them, with all of the families that are involved in this tragedy. Ih. Law enforcement agency, and men and women of this community, c go forward with healing. Well, while on the run, he left several video posts. Crimil history record was 32 pages long. Candle light vigil has been set for 7p. Honor deceasedw jersey state trooper frankie williams. The 31 yearold officer was responding to i call in millville by doctor lloyd rud liz crossed the gratz median and struck williams car head on. Both menwilliams of atlantic coy was a member of the 156 state police class which graduated in january of this year. The vigil will take place at leesberg Volunteer Fire Department in Maurice River township. President elect donald trump continues his tour of Battle Ground states that were key to his upset win. Mr. Trump visited columbus, ohio this afternoon. Met with victims and First Responders of the last weeks terror attack at ohio state university. From there the president elect is heading to des moines iowa for the third stop on his thank you tour. The trip follows another cabinet appointment to day tappd fast food ceo andy pudnor to head the labor department. One of the Trumps Campaign promises has philadelphia mayor jim kenney gearing up for a fight. Mr. Trump wanted to remove federal funding from socalled sanctuary cities. Eyewitness News Reporter greg argos explains what that means and what the mayor plans to do if the president elect has his reporter philadelphia is a sanctuary city. That means city officials do not cooperate with federal laws requiring undocumented anost custody for nonviolent crimes and deported on. People like the Second Amendment betteramdment but i th amendment said you cannot be held against your will without waet. Ct donald trump said he with withhold federal funding from cities that dont supply. Do you think federal high way grants and federal fund but mayor jim kenneyyor the fund. All they have to does go over to the federal magistrate get a warrant and we will be ver to them but to expect us to hold people, for 48, 72 hours without charge, to me is unconstitutional. Reporter experts say that fight is going to be a costly one. First are very important here. Reporter which could be for the in both state and federal court. I dont know if it is a losing battle but i do know this a lot have lawyers will be involved a lot of litigation report rot right now no one knows exactly what could be, confident, but a big battle is ahead. Just last week the president elect announcing that Immigration Reform is would be of his top priorities, when he comes into office, and that, of course, means dealing with sanctuary cities. Reporting here from center city, im greg argos for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Help could be on the way for gold star families in new jersey. One lawmakers wants to i am roof amount have of aid provided to families of Fallen Service members. Senate majority leader Lou Greenwald has several co sponsors to do just that. It will create an on line registry of benefits, expand definition of family to include siblings and children and make college savshlable to e fallen. Facing danger when Eyewitness News returns a another just warning a newartese not harmless. Next, who experts say should be staying away there them. And another warning, this time about a product found on playground, serious injuries, Officials Say these slides can cause. That is now leading to a recall. 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The National Tsunami center quickly found there was no tsunami threat from that quake, and there were no reports of damage or injuries. California Congress Woman barbara lee led a moment of silence on the the house floor today honoring the 36 victims who died in the oakland warehouse fire. We will continue to support all of our residents during this very difficult time. With any recovery effort, and now i ask the house to observe a moment of silence. All present rise for a moment of silence. Last friday a fire ripped through that warehouse in oakland, california killing 36 people who were trapped inside. Officials continue to investigate the cause of the fire. If you think e cigarettes is a safe alternative to regular cigarettes, think again. New report released to day from the u. S. Surgeon general says that e cigarettes are not harmless, and teenagers should not be using them. Our joe holden has more. This this is a big disposable e cigarette. Reporter the if the first of the kind a comprehensive report is out by Surgeon General warning e cigarettes are dangerously addictive. E cigarettes went from being rare in 2010 to being the most common tobacco product used by our nations youth. Reporter is what behind a surge in use in government and medical experts zeroed in on widespread advertising, easy access, and state clean air laws, that have yet to catch up. The reports show decade of education about the dangers of nicotine addiction, are quickly being eroded by e cigarettes misunderstanding. This represents a staggering development, in the relatively short period of time. It also threatens 50 years of hard for the progress we made curbing tobacco use. I started using e cigarettes three years ago as a high school freshman. Reporter Sarah Nicholas a six yearold from ship rock, new mexico said she was first drought to e cigarettes believing they were safe to cigarette smoking. 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Kate bilo is back inside now and joining with us a look the at the weather and, burr. Yes, burr. It is cold. That about sums it up. You want to be in the nice warm location this weekend if you can, if not make sure you put on a few extra layers, the coats, the whole 9 yards. We know how to deal but boy it will be cold this weekend and it looks like it will get even colder next week. What a difference a year makes, last december warmest december ever, this december, so far, starting out pretty chilly and it is only getting colder as it moves along. This is below average cold for technically it is still even of the fall. Lets look outside right now we will start off in bethlehem where it looks active along main street. We have Christmas Lights up, flags are blowing in the breeze and i look at these flags at host tell bethlehem toe how bad wind is. If you remember last friday they were flapping like crazy. Earlier yesterday, not too bad. Now we have got a little breathes picking up and tomorrow we will see them flapping away again as the wind start to pick up. You can see strong gust right there. Heres the time lapse from today Kutztown Area Middle School we started with beautiful sunrise but you not the a lot of cloud, that moved in. That was our cold front moved across the area. It wasnt too bad until skies began to clear and then cold front passed through. That is when wind picked up. Even though we cleared it up late in the afternoon you can feel that temperature dropping all day licensing as cold air moves in. Again storm scan one showing lake effect storm showers. Due west wind. If you tell where snow is going rig erie, lake on tear yes snow squall bands dumping very narrow but heavy snow band across portions of new york state. No snow for us, temperatures right now are dropping steadily, 43 in philadelphia, 37 in reading. Thirtyeight in allentown. Thirty in mount pocono. Widening out you cane cold permeating in the south east where it is 44 in atlanta. Twentyfour in columbus. Heres core single digit cold in bismarck and shy ann, wrapped city at 13old ai plunges in. Big canadian high. But when you factor in the win it will feel 20 degrees below average, in the weekend it does stay breezy. In the mornings we are feeling like the teens, afternoon, likely feeling no better then the 20s. So your future win gust into tomorrow, wind stay strong, wind gusting to 25 or 30 miles an hour all day long so that will make our temperatures feel about 10 degrees colder then thermometer indicates. Waking up feeling like teens no better than 20s even in the the afternoon. For your friday, windy feels like 20s sat take, mostly sunny, bitter chill and ten sun take dry early but we have a chance for mix of snow and rain across parts of the area late sunday into sunday night, ill have shore details in the next half an hour. Tomorrow, 40 degrees feeling like the 20s. Your three take forecast, at day 29. Friday feels colder to then saturday with the win. We have to watch for that mix on sunday but wait until you see forecast for next week. If you think that is cold you aint seen nothing yet. That is quite a tease, kate. Okay. Thank you. Still ahead on Eyewitness News expectancy in the u. S. , reason the result show something resuchers havent even in more than two decade, leslie. Well, eagles tightened brent celek is making his way on and off t