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KYW Eyewitness News At 7 January 1, 2017

Precipitation. We have to dress with the heavy coat, temperatures in the 40s. Standing outside for a while it will feel chilly. By noon time upper 40s. That brings us to the eagles forecast to finish off the season. Big game there with dallas. Fun time to check that out. Fortynine at kick off. Northwesterly breeze at ten to 15, lot of sunshine throughout the game. New years day forecast looking great, 50 for philadelphia, upper 40s at the shore, Polar Bear Plunge taking place today ocean water in the lower 40s. Poconos good day for skiing and riding at 40 degrees. We will talk about that rain and bitter cold temperatures copping at us in the seven kay in a few more minutes. There is rahels glasses. Umhmm, styling. Looks good. All right, justin, while were you sleeping or partying, hundreds were working through the the night, getting ready for philadelphia tradition were talk about the annual mummers parade. Cherri gregg from kyw news radio is live from south philadelphia, hanging out with the string band this morning. Good morning, cherri, happy new year. Reporter good morning, rahel. Happy new year to you too. Im here with the pence port string band and im in the closet, the suit closet, with all of the bling, all of the feathers, all of the coolness that helped make mummers day parade, the mummers day parade , right. Im here with rich, im here bob, bob and rich, and they are long time members of the pence port string band and for people and rahel we were going back and forth on twitter. So i put it up, to bob, to explain to the world for folks like myself who are transplant dont understand mummers to break it down for us. I will dot best i can. It is a little bit mardi gras, it the is a lot of family, it goes back to colonial times. People used to run around, and shooting off guns, and, it was just fun, and back in the 1900 city organize it in the parade basically to keep people from running other peoples houses. Reporter so this is what they do, big part of it, of course is outfit, the gear, that they wear. Im kind of warm under here. You are the man, assistant man to put together the strut. You have been practicing for months. What makes this year different from years past. We have a different music arranger, music is more different then what were used to playing. It is a little bit more difficult to portray, dancing, movements are more than then were used to doing. Reporter lets look at the shirt, tiki island im very intrigued. It will be like a polynesian but an island theme , where tiki will be coming to life, and we have a lot of natives and a lot of Band Movement and just a lot of continue. We have got the some vices this year. Reporter lots of surprises. I want to point out this band for two years in a row they won money from sugar house casino. They got a thousand dollars. Then they got 2,500, last year. So they are doing some good stuff, and rich has promised to show me and you will jump in here or bob will jump in here and show me the strut before we close this out and dont laugh because i might embarras myself but hey, it is all for love of news, lets do it. Hey im trying. Hey, look, we have a lot more coming up, live from south philadelphia, cherri gregg for kyw news radio for cbs3 Eyewitness News. They are bringing in the music. That is right. Got to get looking good, cherri, all right, thank you. Well, if you are part of the mummers crowd be ready to walk, Market Street is closed from 15th and 16th until the end of the parade. Fifteenth street will be closed from arch to chestnut, jfk boulevard will shut down from 15th to 20th, later, broad street will be closed from city hall down to washington avenue. We have put a complete list of parade parking restrictions, on line at cbs philly. Com. And, at the stroke of midnight city of philadelphia put on a spectacular fire works show. Family friendly new years eve celebration kick off at blue cross river rink. Our alexandria hoff was at penns landing where they put on two fire works show. 2017 is about new experiences. She came from here pakistan to experience new years in the you had for the first time in pakistan you dont get to celebrate new years with a lot of fire works, but it is fun here, and festive mode here is a great difference there what we experience back in the country. This is fun. Reporter as night fell, eyes went up for the earlier of two fire works advertise plays orchestrated from a barge on the delaware river. I love fire works. I love fire works. I cant imagine in the seeing fire works. It is beautiful. Reporter new year will also be about new beginning. We have been together seven years. Reporter prefire works, charlotte got some spark he will of her own. Did you have any idea this was coming new year eve. I had a thought but i didnt think it would be today reporter even higher then glittering display of penns landing are the hopes for 2017 im looking forward to all of the good things that i could possibly experience. Happy new year. Reporter given the crowd police say they will be out in full force, all weekend, reporting from penns landing, alexandria hoff for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Well, an estimated 2 Million People crowded in new york city is times square to bid farewell to 2016 and welcome in the new year. Wendy gilette was also there. Reporter confetti rained done on revel hours rang in 2017 in times square. You brought the a baby up in here. Yes, came all the was from south africa. So we could not let them stay at home. Reporter countrys Biggest Party came up with stepped up security, 7,000 police officers, uniformed, under cover and bomb sniffing dogs patrolled the area. Police are every where. Security is great. The it just seems like it is alling together well taken care of. I feel great. Reporter police also watched from the skies, to make sure that the massive crowd welcomed the new year without incident as many as 2 Million People packed into times square and some waiting for 12, almost 24 hours, to watch the ball tropical. Those waiting for midnight were caroled in pence without access to bathroom facility. It took a lot of endurance. It did. It really to. Reporter how did you handle not having bathrooms. I didnt eat or drink. Reporter for many ringing in the new year in times square was a once in a lifetime screens. It was on my bucket list. Reporter just minutes in the new year a army of new york city sanitation workers descended on times square to clean up tons of confetti and trash that the partyers left behind. Wendy gel let for cbs3 Eyewitness News. In turkey year began with the deadly attack on a nightclub in istanbul. A gunman dressed as santa claus walk in the club during new years celebration and opened fire. At least 39 people are dead, and 70 others are wounded, and they call the shooting a terror attack but in one has claimed responsibility. Police are investigating a Fatal Shooting in philadelphia authorities responded to richmond and east venango streets. Victim was pronounced dead at the scene. There is in word of a suspect. And just about 30 minutes later after 3 00 Police Responded to a Fatal Shooting in north philadelphia man was shot in the chest in the 1900 block of west willard street, in word on a suspect. Authorities are also investigating a stabbing in philadelphia, Police Responded to the scene just after 11 30, on the 3900 block of roosevelt boulevard, and one woman was stabbed in the chest and other had minor injuries, police say that the suspect is men, to the victims. And new this morning, it is a deadly start to the new year in philadelphia as we have been saying police are investigating a fatal accident in the fernrock section of the city, police say a 71 yearold man was struck and killed by a white sedan, around 1 40 this morning in the 1200 block of west chew avenue, that is near marvine street. The victim died at the scene. Investigators say the driver of that sedan was found three blocks away where he crashed into a fence, the driver a 25 yearold man was taken to the hospital, in stable condition, and, police say he will be charged with leaving the scene of the fatal accident. Also new this Morning Police say a person was struck and killed by a trenton Regional Rail train near the holmesberg junction this happened around 1 55 this morning on the tracks near state road and ashburner street. Unidentified victim tied at the scene. Accident forced septa to cancel a special late night trains for new years eve. And there is much more to come on Eyewitness News, a Power Company find malwear on a computer, where investigators think it came from and whether they think the the company was a target. And some unusual, advice from president elect trump for people who are extra security conscious. And 2017, gets off to a mild start, Justin Drabick is giving us his forecast just minutes Recovery Efforts are supposed to begin for a small plane that vanished off of lake erie. Twin engine plane carrying six people disappeared shortly after take off thursday night from lake shore airport. On friday coastguard suspended its search for plane after finding nothing. Two small planes collided midair near mckenney, texas killing three people this collision happened saturday engineer arrow County Airport about 35 miles north of downtown dallas. Faa says that both aircraft were flying under visual flight rules and not in contact with air Traffic Control at the time of the crash. Several states are asking Cyber Security experts to reexamine state and utility networks, this follows a discovery of malwear allegedly tied to Russian Hackers on a vermont Power Companys lap top computer but as rose gomez reports, the power grid wasnt compromised. Reporter over 20,000 vermonters received power from the Burlington Electric department and Officials Say that none of their customers data was compromised after a malice a software was discover on a employees lap top. Something that we take extremely seriously and, our utility, were largest, in the u. S. , takes Cyber Security very seriously. We will continue to do that. Ultimately we want to ensure reliability of our grid and protection of our customer data. Reporter he says that a company lap top was found with the type of mal wear that the u. S. Department of home land security has associated with Russian Hackers. They disconnected it from the network and alerted authorities. This computer, was in the connected to the grid control system. The it was not breached or penetrated. We have no indication, of compromise of our electric grid systems or any customer information. Reporter governor elect bill scott release aid statement saying that the the utility is working closely with federal officials to trace this malwear and state Public Safety officials will continue to coordinate with our federal partners. He says that the lap top was used by one employee for business purposes, although it is still under investigation that they believe the malwear came there a web site the employee visited. Burlington electric does in the the know what the intent of the malwear was but they do know they werent the only ones affect. They say authorities tell them there is no indication that Burlington Electric was specifically targeted. Cyber security is an issue that effect as lot of industries, it effects health care, obviously it is a tech ing the utilities industry here and also commerce, but my sense of things here this burlington is that the leaders in the Utility Community here this burlington have this well under control. Reporter Burlington Electric Officials Say federal officials found this type of internet traffic, elsewhere in the country, and that they have in indication that the Utility Industry has been targeted, in anyway. Rose gomez, burlington. Well, despite all of his tweeting president elect trump says he rarely uses email or computers. The last night hosting his new Years Eve Party at his palm beaches state the president elect says if people are really security conscious in certain hatters dont go high tech. If you have something really important, write it the out and have it delivered by courier, the old tags way because ill tell you what, no computer is safe. By the way mr. Trump has been reluctant to accept allegations by u. S. Intelligent agencies that russia tried to influence the president ial election through hacking. Lets get a check of weather and traffic. A lot of people waking up late this morning after last night. That is understandable. Hopefully this weather gives them something to smile about. Get outside, enjoy it, if you want to a lot of outdoor activity, eagles game with the cowboys, always fun to watch that at the link. Maybe just hitting the slopes, great the day for skiing and riding. Temperatures in the poconos getting up to 40 in the afternoon in the sunshine. Groomers are out getting everything ready on big boulder opening up at 8 00 this morning. Were in good shape through all of the major resorts here in pennsylvania, and the not 100 percent capacity since we have not had that big snowstorm but building good base here, toes and boulder up to 40 inches. Thirtysix for cammal back Blue Mountain and decent amount of trails. Twentynine in camelback, 27 in Blue Mountain. Great day for skiing and riding. Things go downhill next couple of days because we are talking about rain but they will be cranking out more snow with that cold arctic air. Little signs, of the spring, if you do not like cold season , the daylight, could start increasing now that we have officially started the winter season, sunset tonight coming at 4 47, later and later by february 1st, it will be setting at 5 20. March 1st 5 53. And before we get the daylight savings time. We are gaining just over 30 seconds of daylight another week or so we will gain a minute of daylight each day as we head toward spring season. Thirtynine in allentown 356789 in reading. Thirtythree mount pocono. Nothing cold, chilly, we are heading outside wear the winter coat but the cold air is still well to the north and west, upper great lakes, northern plains, 24 in minneapolis. Twentys in des moines. That cold air just stays out to the west for next several days and does not get in our region until later on wednesday night and then certainly by the end of the week we will talk bit, nice and dry, storm scan three, a little weak cold front coming through. Not a lot of moisture. Just some cloud rolling through right now, we do have some rain well to the south, tories a couple storm system that will roll northward over the next 48 hours. That puts a couple of round of rain in the forecast, because we could use rain. It has been dry past few months. Monday morning, if you are heading back to work, rain will arrive, probably around day break. Should not be anything too heavy but we have to watch far northwestern suburbs Lehigh Valley and poconos we could have light freezing rain with temperatures right around freezing. Rainfall amounts on monday, maybe a tenth or a quarter inch. Temperatures climbing in the 40s. Another round of rain arrives on tuesday. And so lets time things out, today, lot of sunshine throughout the afternoon, cloud start to move in overnight the tonight, 8 00 oclock tomorrow morning we will see that rain breaking out from the city on south. Notice pink that is that freezing rain berks county, Lehigh Valley, it is rain coming in earlier that freezing rain could be extended further south, and then warmer air starts to move in. Everybody just sees some light rain, off and on through the day on monday. We will get a break monday night and then Tuesday Morning again we will see our next round of rain returning. Temperatures wise, getting close 50, around the city, on south, even on the coast, around 50 degrees, this afternoon. Tonight, it is chilly, we have to watch the suburbs, close to freezing tomorrow morning, and that is why there is potential for freezing drizzle and then in the afternoon, back to the mid 40s. Cooler then today just because of the cloud and showers. Ice amounts again, mainly confined up in the poconos. Less than a tenth of an inch tomorrow. So just beware if you are traveling, if you want to early tomorrow morning there could be slick spots 506789 for the high today, sun and cloud tonight, increasing cloud, chilly, low of 34. Extended forecast, pretty mild , 40s and 50s next few days with rain in the 50s. End of the week it the is coal highs in the 30s. That cold blast lingers until at least monday, back to you. Cant wait, all right, justin, thank you. Time to see how traffic is moving. Lets go to kyle hahn in the cbs3 Traffic Center, good morning, kyle. Good morning, rahel. We have a minor incident in West Conshohocken on than trent street and crawford avenue. Rest of the roadways are looking good including i95, vine, schuylkill expressway, route 42, 55 and ac expressway we will however have multiple road closures in the city starting off on 15th street, between arch street and Chestnut Street and jfk boulevard between fifth the event and 20th street and Market Street between 16th street and 15th street all of which will be closed from 3 00 o the hummers take parade. Mass transit all Regional Rails buses and trolleys are scheduled to run on a modified weekday schedule. Be sure to look at septas when site for more information on. That all service on dart will be suspended, for n

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