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good morning, today of today is tuesday, october 21st, i'm in for ukee on a casino. >> this morning. i'm erika von tiehl. possible break in the search for accused killer eric frein. we'll bring you up-to-date where pennsylvania state police are folk you go their search. >> she wasn't breathing, i tried cpr. >> a hit-and-run on south jersey road a woman left to die. now the victim's mother pleads for the woman behind the wheel to surrender to police. those stories and much more. first, our forecasts with katie. watching some showers this morning. >> little bit. yes, but less chill think morning than yesterday morning. >> exactly, yes, definitely milder morning. i would suggest having some
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rain gear perhaps at the ready for couple of days. area of low pressure that's developing here, in the next few days will be basically featuring clouds and showers. so, it will be something that we have to dodge here, but not necessarily any casino of widespread wash out for our region, but his is area of low pressure actually going to be packing a punch for neighbors in new england, so right on the outskirts of that, that does mean we get the effects as is a result. so we will be talking about that, also, despite the warm up for today it, does not last forever, my friends, we are going to see another cool down, which we'll talk about in the next few minutes. guys, we send it back to you. katie, thank you. new this morning, police are looking for two gunmen involved in a overnight shooting in philadelphia's fairhill section. "eyewitness news" at the scene on the 300 block of east indianna avenue. investigators say that two hispanic males wearing dark hoodies fired shots before 3:00 this morning, suspect last zink running on b street toward cambria. one person was hospitalized, in a unknown condition. also, an overnight fire in
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philadelphia's frankford section, leaves a family homeless. firefighters arrived to heavy fire on the second floor of this row home, along the 2,000 block of grant it street. told the family inside was cents able to escape the flames without injury. firefighters placed it under control in about ten minutes. still no word on a cause. >> student will remain inside classrooms today in northeastern pennsylvania school district. this >> this as authorities hope to finally get a break-in their search for accused killer eric frein. state police tell "eyewitness news", a law enforcement officer reported the possible siting near a post office in swift water yesterday afternoon. that is not far from pocono mountain east high school, that's where another potential siting was reported on friday. authorities say he shot two state troopers, one fatally, on september 12th. the parent after victim killed in the hit-and-run are pleading for that driver to turn himself in to police. chelsey burns was struck twice on alloway and east lake roads
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in pilesgrove township friday night. the second car stopped, but it was too late. investigators determined the 25 year old died after she was struck by that first car. , with no information to go on, parents ask the person responsible to dot right thing. >> i'm not really mad at who ever did this. i wish they have enough heart to turn themselves in. >> anyone with information is asked to contact new jersey state police. right now 4:33. let's get a check on the forecast. some rain, katy? >> at least some showers here through the course of the next couple of days, i wouldn't necessarily say looking at any wash out in the next few days, but it will be talking several days worth of somewhat dreary conditions, but let's walk you through all of t "skycam 3" at the moment pretty quiet, but little wet weather waiting in the wings here, looming off to the west, you'll see next going to storm scan3. so the loop over the last
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three hours, call it pretty steady rain. one little pocket. see how it sort is fizz link with time. yes, you might have to flick the windshield wipers once, twice, but it won't and deal breaker, not going to be the kind of morning that produces cents any casino of serious weather concerns. but, again, may be few showers out and becomes you might see damp road traveling out and b see the showers sort of rotating through all part of a much larger picture which is that we've got a developing area of low pressure that's going to just mess with us for couple of days. now the 24 difference in the temperature, man, when you walked out the door yesterday it was chilly outside. now it is definitely a lot warmer. you have eaked out surplus hereof anything from 12 to 18 degrees, at least of this range of observation. so general ten to 20 degrees difference from one morning to the next, big deal, notice that, it just simply doesn't feel as chilly. 54 degrees the current temperature with calm winds at this at the airport, operate at mount pocono. not bad. 48 degrees for the moment. probably knock another agree
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or two or three off before the sunrises. don't expect to see too much of the sunshine here today. there will be few peaks of sunshine, still mild as we at least flirt with 70. with the clouds and the showers, general theme for the next few days, just little dreary through the middle part of the week. jet, good morning. >> good morning, katie, good morning to anyone, just get being up and almost going to head out the door. we go outside, relatively quiet morning so far on our roads, and the ben franklin bridge from the jersey side, so actually just beyond the toll plaza headed westbound into the city. losing two right hand lanes due to construction, everything moving nicely there so far. and the same story pretty much on the schuylkill expressway, just between spring garden and girard, eastbound moving along great. westbound moving along toward king of prussia, just great, as well. some overnight work on the burlington bristol bridge, closed until 5:00 a.m. so if you had to head out the door in the next half hour or so take the talcony palmyra bridge instead. roosevelt boulevard overnight work there, southbound, at cottman avenue, to whitaker avenue a lot of the majors
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doll great. ninety-five southbound woodhaven into the vine st. expressway, 13 minute trip, seven minutes on 422 if you're headed eastbound from oaks into 202, nicole, erika, back to you. >> thank you, jess. pennsylvania supreme court has suspended justice seamus mccaffrey for his involvement in the state's porn e-mail scandal. chief justice ron cast tile disclosed mccaffrey center received 234 emails with sexually explicit content. mccaffrey apologized calling it a laps in judgement. the judicial conduct board will now review the matter before joining the high court, mccaffrey was a municipal court judge in philadelphia, and served on superior court. victory for philadelphia school teachers, a judge has blocked the school reform commission from cancelling the districts' contract with its teachers union. the members of the philadelphia federation of teachers protested last week, following the src's initial announcement. by cancelling the contract src
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can force teachers to pay a portion of their healthcare premiums works said district $44 million this year, and $50 million early yearly after that. pft president jerry jordan released statement reading in part the decision is a testament to the notion that thee kind of contract changes should be decided at the bargaining table. philadelphia schools will appeal the ruling says in a statement: the school district expects to ultimately prevail in the court, will pursue this matter forcefully for the cause is urgent and the children of philadelphia cannot continue waiting. hang today, young girl who almost lost her life promoting girls he had also except the liberty medal in philadelphia. malala yousafzai will attend tonight's ceremony at the national constitution center. in 2012, taliban gunman shot her, while she was returning from school, because of her vocal support for gender equality, malala yousafzai also cents this year's winner of the nobel peace prize. right now, 4:37. there is much more to cover
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just what health professionals wanted, stricter procedures for healthcare workers treating ebola patients. cdc now says caregivers should make sure they don't expose skin while wearing protective gear. trained monitor, supervise workers putting their equipment on and taking it off. >> putting on, make sure do you it properly so every square inch is covered. as you take the equipment off, making sure you don't come in contact f there is some sort of fluid on the front that far gown and you take it off and come in contact with it, well that could be a very deadly mistake. >> healthcare workers are also required to rigorously practice getting in and out of the their gear.
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pot brownies are still legal in colorado. state lawmakers backing off proposed ban of many forms of edible marijuana. officials suggested a ban on pot mixed when foods like brownies and cookies and then pulled it off the table after outrage from the marijuana industry. colorado's 2012 marijuana legislation measure says retail pot is formal in all forms. >> oscar delaurenta died. for more than four decades he dressed. the. he said his hispanic roots had work their way into his designs. he died at his home in connecticut. he was 82 years old. we do have breaking news right now, oscar pistorius learns his punishment. this is a live picture, inside the courtroom there in pit tore ya, where south africa judge sense tested zero olympic runner to five years prison sentence, that means jail time for the blade runner, earlier found guilty of culpable homicide in the
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shooting death of had i have girlfriend, reeva steenkamp. prosecutors wanted at least ten years in prison for the double a.m. pew teeth athlete. judge could have handed down suspended sentence but instead said non-custodian sentence would send the wrong message to the community. once again, oscar pistorius sentenced to five years in prison for the culpable homicide of his girlfriend reeva steenkamp. big news there. coming up on 4:43, katie, saying earlier, just find the umbrella and hang onto it? >> yes. you will not get drenched, but the next couple of days dodging showers off and on any time almost. already little bit of wet weather out there. >> little mini umbrella? >> exactly, yes. one of those very, very tiny, exactly, the word for it. and i would definitely say keep it at the ready for couple of days. reason being this area of low pressure developing will definately take its time to get out of here. it is cents a developing area of low pressure it, continues to sort of gather its strength. it looks like we will still stay on basically the
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outskirts of where the main action is happening. let's explain. so, you have couple of showers out there right now, right? zoom it outment you can see these rounds and sort of bands of showers that keep rotating through pennsylvania. that's kind of just going to be our story through the better part of the day. not a wash out. have more clouds than anything, there will be showers around to dodge. even a wider zoom, we take it out, shows you there is little more of circulation. so what's going to happen here, this will basically sort of take its time, rotate through the northeast, gather up some atlantic moisture, build some strength, then become more of a story for new england, if for us, sitting on the outskirts of this, just ends up with some showers, more than anything at least for the next few days. that said, i could definitely still see some steady rainout of this, primarily tomorrow, primarily through new jersey, so that will be a spot where you really want to keep the umbrella on hand. everybody else expect nothing more than mainly showers and little bit after cool down that takes effect with the next couple of days. so today still relatively mild. we will see the temperatures just take little bit after nose dive, no better than the
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50's come thursday. so watching for some showers here and there today. it is still mild. take that and run with it, right? 51 degrees our expected low with scattered showers, still around, and over the course of the next few days, at best, we get into the upper 50's, so struggling even to hit 60 on thursday. then second half of the forecast looks much nicer than the first, high pressure starts to set many back n as high pressure does, that we get fair weather. exactly what we're forecasting, pleasant weekends expect the right now, pretty seasonable temperatures to go along with it overall. nicole, back to you. >> thanks, katie n sports this morning, the flyers will try to add onto their first win of the season tonight in chicago. the blackhawks are three-zero and one on the season so far. flyers hoping to have defenseman braiden coburn back on the ice. he's missed four games with lower body injury. well, the sixers in brooklyn last night playing pre-season game with the nets at brooklyn's barkley centerment tony and henry simms led the sixers with 13 points apiece, but the nets won it 99 to 88.
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sixers play one more practice game this thursday, against the pistons in detroit. regular season starts a week from tomorrow night at indianna. well the eagles return to the practice field today ahead of sunday's match up with the cardinals, arizona cards knife and one, same as the eagles. inside linebacker mychal kendricks said on his website, he will be out, has been out four games with a ankle injury. not sure if kendricks will be in full for workouts at novocaine. guard evan mathis cleared to practice, he said he will ' get back on the field tomorrow. the injured knee in the first game of the season. mathis is eligible to play again on november 10th, when the eagles take on the carolina panthers. big game. >> my house, we will be watching. >> well rested, they had the bye week, they're ready to go. >> still ahead on "eyewitness news" this morning, guess which retailer is the latest apparent victim off cyber attack? >> first though here's what's coming up tonight on cbs-3.
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i'm aimee belgard and i approve this message. >> just moments ago a judge has sentenced oscar pistorius to five years in prison. the olympian and double amputee convicted in the shooting dealt of of his girlfriend last year, asking for house arrest and community service. >> there are no injuries, in a row home fire near granite and bridge streets in frankford. the fire may have started upstairs in that home, but investigators have not determined the cause. >> manhunt for survivalist eric frein continues in the poconos. student in the pocono mountain school district are not being allowed out of the school buildings today, law enforcement surroundings the area. frein wanted in the deadly ambush at state police barracks last month. he was spot in the monroe county yesterday. >> your time now 4:48. time for check on business news. >> money watch's jill wagner joins us now from the new york
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stock exchange, jill, hearing another retailer could be the victim of sign erray tack. who are we talking about this time? >> yes, good morning, nicole, erika. staples confirms that its investigating a credit and debit card breach of some of its stores specially in the northeast. now, if it does discover an issue, staples says customers won't be responsible for fraudulent charges, but this comes after k-mart and dairy queen recently announced its custom hers credit and debit information stolen. so really, just seems like no information is safe any more. people real dow need to check their credit cards statements. >> makes you want to bring cash everywhere. >> keeps on happening. jim, looks like americans weighed in, and voted on cappuccino potato chips. but not all rave reviews, right? i could have told that you one. >> yes, that's right. there is a winner of the frito lays potato chip new flavor contest, and it is wasabi ginger, beat out three other fine lists which include
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cappuccino, a lot of the one that got the buzz when this first came around. mango sals, a cheddar bacon mac and cheese other flavors. about 1 million people casted votes. and frito lay chief marketing officer said the winning choice really shows americans want food with more ethnic flavor. nicole, erika? >> okay, and like their cappuccino in a cup. >> not in a chip. >> exactly. >> thanks, jill. and coming up after the break, traffic and weather together on the 3's. we'll be r
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appearance on the showment and you can see ukee tomorrow. it is at 2:00 once again right here on cbs-3. ukee, big timing it out in los angeles, i've asked him to bring me back an in a and out burger, we'll see if he delivers. >> he's old pro right now. >> a regular. >> all right, let's get our traffic and weather together. kick things off with jessica, good morning. >> i'll take one of those burgers, as well. good morning, just coming up on 5:00 a.m. relatively quiet start so far. we go outside our cameras here at 95 just around bridge. southbound toward the city moving along great, northbound lanes where the taillights are moving on through. looking great, as well. we head over into new jersey, 42, at creek road, still moving great in both directions, you can see, northbound headed toward the surrounding area bridges, and the philadelphia area, possibly, moving along great where the headlights are coming on through, so right up the majors moving along great as well. schuylkill expressway eastbound from the blue route into the vine st. expressway, about 14 minute trip, 422 still nice and clear, headed eastbound from oaks into 202. if you are going about seven minutes there. roosevelt boulevard some overnight construction, going to be out there until about
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6:00 a.m. southbound cottman avenue to whitaker avenue. that's going to be out and again until 6:00 a.m. you have a little more time to avoid the area. out in delaware route 13 northbound, i-295, an accident, pulled over into the shoulder there. mass transit, great alternate. septa, new jersey transit and dart all running on time with no reported delays, good morning, kate. >> i good morning, everybody, going to be dealing with little bit of wet weather in the days ahead courtesy area of low pressure which will continue to gather some strength, gather some uhfs h with time. we sit on the outskirts, dodging the proverbial bullet. storm scan3, looking at the local zoom, already had couple of showers rotating through here, that's kind of the norm throughout today, tonight, tomorrow, and even the day beyond, because again, this storm has yet to completely develop, and it is also going to be strengthening, as it does develop over new england specifically. so, that's just basically means we're stuck with some clouds, with some showers along the way, some of could you actually end one steady little pocket of rain here tomorrow at some point. so that's going to be our big
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day for any casino of steady rain, if we see it at all. but you know, again, almost every single day here, at least for the next few days, will feature some showers. now, we take you out to the live neighborhood network temperatures are definitely milder than this same time yesterday. clearly difference between the pennington and dover, for example, so, if you typically live in maine one of the more remote suburbs, typically cooler there, probably cooler for this morning. we do expect those daytime highs to climb little bit more readily today. 68 degrees the expected hi, peaks of sun, but that's about it. expect more clouds than anything, to limit the warming both wednesday, and thursday, and temperatures obviously starting to on little bit after drop here. we're at the point on thursday where we can barely even get to you six off degrees. that said, along the way, showers, every single day of the next three, and with the cooler air in place, it will be somewhat raunchily with not just the kyle air, but also chilly breeze to company this in the next few days. so i have a nice heavy coat ready to go, as well, nicole. back to you. >> thanks, katie. a check of some of the stories
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sister station "kyw news radio" is following. another defendant admits he is part of the so-called preppy drug ring. also, ebola versus the flu. why are doctors saying you should focus on both. group of some of the area's best known rockers and singer songwriters celebrates its latest release paying homage to duo with local roots. check in two, three, four times a day. kyw news radio 1060 on your a.m. dial. coming up in the next hour of "eyewitness news", millions of cars being rececalled after faulty airbags are leng today several deaths. >> and one of rock-and-roll's most iconic bands being sued for plagiarism, the case happening right here in philly. we're back at the top of the hour.
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breaking right now, paralympian oscar pistorius head today bridge. judge in south africa just sentenced him to five years in prison for shooting death of his girlfriend reeva steenkamp. convicted of culpable homicide, similar to manslaughter here in the u.s. and also given suspended sentence for weapons charges. today is tuesday, october 21st, i'm nicole brewer. >> i'm erika von tiehl. also this morning, city council will work to change philadelphia's hate crime laws. this in the wake of the vicious beating after gay couple in center city. another possible siting of eric frein, the man accused of ambushing two state troopers, killing one. where police say they may have spotted him now. katy? >> nicole, expect couple of days straight of some clouds, some showery weather here as
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our latest area of low pressure starts to get its act together. so we'll break down the details there, also talk another cool down in the cards, full details straight ahead. jess? >> katie, the schuylkill expressway, moving along great, 202, westbound looking great, as well. overnight work to tell b i'll tell you all where it is coming up in the next couple of minutes. good morning. >> thanks, jess. happening today attack last month on same sex couple in center city prompts philadelphia city council to propose new legislation, that would strengthen the criminal code for hate crimes. >> "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabeo joins us outside city hall with details on this afternoon's hearing. jan, good morning. >> reporter: nicole, erika, good morning. scheduled to speak during the hearing this afternoon, the philadelphia police department, the commission on human relations, and victims advocates, all in hope that sexual orientation will be added to philadelphia's hate crime law. councilwoman blondel reynolds brown, councilman jim ken
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