and today it is wednesday february the 11th, good morning, i'm ukee wash ton. i'm quarter von heel. here are stories we are following today developing right now a manhunt is than way for a new jersey father accused of taking his two young sons and fleeing the state. septa is taking action after a rash of a attacks and increase in commuters, falling on to the track, find out how they are working to make sure everyone stays safe, those stories and much more coming up. right new let talk about the forecast nice so far. >> nice and quiet, katie. just put your feet up. >> i will twit will will my thumbs all morning. i can't do that. it is forecasting down the road we are looking at interesting changes in this pattern. the it is winter after all and

eventually we will end up with not just a couple more round of snow, but arctic air will make a serious come back in a very big way. so today, it is calm, collected, we will enjoy it while we can but yeah, just you wait folks it will get cold in time for valentines weekend. we will have details straight ahead, back to you. september is launching a blitz to highlight dangers of kiss track commuting. >> "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabao joins us from the market frankford line somerset station in what riders can expect, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. septa is stepping up those patrols here, calling it a safety blitz aimed at distract driving. a distract commuting rather. they are reminding riders not to be so engrossed in reading, social media, phones that they cross yellow line and step off a platform and on to the the track. the this is called stay back from the edge.

police officers and safety officers will be out here at somerset station which serves septa's market frank for line reminding folks to be aware of their surroundings. meantime septa a a police stepped up patrols in light of the violence during peak hour when students flood the system septa doubled number of office are on patrol hoping to prevent brawls like this one recently caught on a cell phone. >> we have about an extra hundred officers on duty throughout our is tell and various locations. usually where we have a lot of schools feeding into the system that is where those officers will be. >> reporter: police are still searching for this man who sexually a assaulted a physically assaulted a a woman at septa's jefferson station monday avenue. anyone with information is asked to call police. a as for safety blitz that happened here between 7:30 and 9:30 this morning. we are reporting live in keeping ton jan carabao for cbs-3 "eyewitness news".

>> thank you. coming up a at 43:00 36789 lets get back to katie. today is quiet the but watch out later this week. >> we will see two separate clipper systems moving in and they will just come through as they are designed to to do light snow but very cold air with them. for now all is calm and collect and quiet here on storm scan three. it will stay that way all day to day. it will be a decent day. chilly but we will get the more sun than cloud. a few clouds as the the day goes on and limitedded breeze. notice breeze but it is not terrible. outside to the live neighborhood network a clear shot looking across the the delaware river here from palmyra cove nature park. twenty-seven there but here in philadelphia, we are fining these temperatures still flirting at the the freezing mark but everybody is basically underneathing, but thankfully the worst of that black ice that we had yesterday had has had a chance to dry out. there in may still be a few slick spots. but overall this looks like a pretty easy go for you weather-wise. we can expect to see that unis

shining brightly all day long. temperatures climb in the upper 30's but we are still a couple degrees below average. lets just take a a quick look what is ahead here. thursday snow showers saturday snow showers and by sunday as these cold air reenforcement coming in it may even up being the coldest weather we have had, since winter began. we will have more details on what that means temperature wise later in the show for now, good morning. >> good morning everyone. you know traffic wise we are very calm, very serene it is 4:34 and no problems on any of the majors. i-95 traveling around the area of cottman avenue in and out of the northeast and center city philadelphia delaware county, good news just keeps on coming. hopefully it stays that way for quite sometime but in regard to your majors every single will one is nice and clear. this is taking a look at 476 around mid county tolls and around this a area, even schuylkill i-95, we have good news. the right now majors aren't

too much of the concern, in regard to any sort of rush hour. we're waiting in the wings for that. traveling around downingtown area we have a accident involving an overturn tractor trailer closing the the westbound side of route 30, between 340 and reeseville road. your best alternate toys use business route 30 to get by. watch out for an accident at eagleville road including a down pole. germantown pike is your best bet. no delays for mass transit, erika. developing in sussex county, new jersey police say this father has taken his two young sons and a manhunt is underway. police have not issued an amber alert, but, authorities say christopher dohm violated a custody agreement. police think he left in the gray nissan pathfinder with the license plate f17-ckv they are in the sure where he is headed. any within with information is asked to call new jersey state police. an investigation is underway in a fatal accident in bucks county. it happened around 8:00 on

route 309 near rich hill road in richland township. one person was kill. the accident involved at least two vehicles. the as soon as we get more information we will update this story. happening today, a a pretrial conference for christopher murray, he is charged with murdering his wife connie, last year. police say the 29 got in an argument as she jogged in penny pack park on august 4th. investigators say that murray was strangled. a pennsylvania state police corporal is charged with misdemeanor in the accidental shooting death of the fellow trooper. the family of the victim is pushing for justice. >> richard schroder was charged with five count of reckless endangerment in the shooting. schroder failed to make sure his gun was unloaded during a trigger demonstration at a training facility. gun discharge striking 26 year-old trooper david kedra, four other troopers were also in the room. >> to not charge him with involuntary manslaughter if

he was a civilian like you me i'm sure we would be facing involuntary manslaughter charges right now. >> reporter: corporal schroder's attorney released this statement that read corporal schroder is racked with remorse over the loss of the fellow trooper. he regrets that his actions intentionally caused trooper's death. south jersey man is charge with theft by deception. dan sheehan targeted homeowners who were threaten with foreclosure. he reportedly convinced nine people to give him their mortgage payment claiming he would then enroll them in a loan modification program. we spoke with one of his allege victims. >> i just could not believe that somebody took all that money for me. i worked a lot of overtime to get caught up. >> he's praying on people having hard times paying their mortgages and he is victimizing them further making a bad situation worse. >> the woman we spoke with was able to save her home.

sheehan remains behind ball on $50,000 bail. allegations of cheating at little league world series. team from chicago that knocked out philadelphia's taney dragons and went on to be the u.s. champion is under investigation. jackie robin on west is a accused of bringing in suburban players outside the teams geographic area. officials deny any wrong doing. well, u.s. is taking action against isis one day after vowing retaliation for the the death of aid worker kayla jean muhler. >> today the president will ask congress to authorize a three-year military plan raising the possibility of u. ground troops. yesterday the pentagon said muhler died in isis hand not in the jordanian air strike. the 26 year-old's parents say isis e mailed them a picture of their daughter's body over the weekend. muhler, an arizona native, was capture after traveling to syria for humanitarian work. nbc has suspended knightley news anchor brian

williams for six months without pay. williams a apologized for falsely claiming he was in a hell cooperate their came under enemy fire while covering the iraq war in 2003. his suspension is effective immediately. nbc is still conducting an internal investigation into williams past reporting. comedian jon stewart is leaving the daily show. he told a shock audience during yesterday's taping he will relinquish the desk later this year. stewart hosted the bailey show since 1999. it is not clear what he will do next or who will take his spot. tonight's power ball drawing gets closer the jackpot goes higher. it has reached 485 million-dollar the fifth largest prize in u.s. history but it is only a chance to dream. odds of actually winning a power ball jackpot are one in 75 million but you have to play to win and if you play good luck to you. good luck to you. it really is. >> we will see. somebody has got the to win

it. >> hopefully somebody in the area. >> hopefully me. >> no, just kidding. right now it is 4:40. coming up on "eyewitness news" a sportscaster shot outside of his own home. >> find out where and how he is doing now and what police believe led to the shooting. we are back in two minutes.

welshing developing right now man suspect of shooting a sportscaster in san diego is now behind bars. >> fifty-four year-old mike monday tan gave himself up after an hours long standoff with police shortly before 10:00p m local time. earlier in the day police say he shot and woundedded 48 year-old child krasca

for the cbs a filth in san diego. he was sitting in his car outside his home when montana opened fire. police add montana painted his house and two had a dispute. he is hospitalized and now out of surgery. videotape confession was played for jury members in the trial for pedro hernandez, he is man accused of killing etan patz in 1979. it showed a a three hour taped interview where hernandez said he grabbed that six year-old boy and choke him to death. the his attorney however says hernandez is mentally unstable. trial resumes next thursday. right now 4:43. a little break from all of the crazy weather. >> yes, all of the crazy weather. the it is a nice well will deserved break. we will not have any stand out weather related issues. wind is not terribly strong. not terribly cold. we will see a nice quiet sunny winter day. >> bring it. >> but it doesn't last very long. so, if you are not a big snow fan, big fan of the cold air it is coming in time for valentines day weekend which is a perfect time to be snuggling up but it will get cold outside. lets take you out there.

we will show you storm scan 31st and foremost. quiet between systems. we have a handfull of cloud over central pennsylvania. overall i expect more sun then anything now. there is already a disturbance that is visible. it looks close by. what will happies it will roll through on scheduled tomorrow and then start to reintensify. it does not reintensify over our area we don't to have worry about anything more than modest accumulation but this is a serious train of clippers coming through here because it will reenforce the chill the next few days. i expect generally a modest coating up to an inch through thursday. that would be probably the highest that you would fine. maybe up to 2 inches toward pocono region if that. next clipper comes along on valentines day later in the day we will see snow showers coming in. that is another clipper that will intensify with time but not over our area more than anything we will see cold air and breeze get reenforced here. it will be down right blustery and bitter later in the week.

we are below freezing a little further then just below freezing in mount pocono 16 degrees after all. even they there is a hint on the breeze, it is not too bad and we will have a decent day. tomorrow we have snow showers around midday we will see coming through. friday cold gets reenforced. saturday we will flirt with freezing. by sunday, look at this, 19 degrees. the here's the thing it will not be just very cold on the thermometer but it may not feel with the wind any better than sub zero territory. brutal stuff ukee. >> katie, thank you. in sports, flyers continue their road trip friday night in columbus against the the blue jackets. the last night orange and black were on the road working overtime. fly guys jumped out to a one goal lead on the canadiens on matt read's first goal in 25 game. ray emery standing on his head between the pipes, turn away 39 shots in place of the injured steve mason but allowed the tying goal in the third period and canadiens got the game winner in overtime.

flyers lose this 12-one. self reports on steve mason says he had his knee scoped yesterday but flares are just saying the number one goalie will be out two to three weeks with that lower body injury. he left sunday's games with the caps and had to be helped to the locker room. one report says it is third operation may than has had on the same knee. college hoops and temple owls get revenge on the cincinnati bear cuts who beat owls by 31 earlier in the season. senior will cummings to in the play in the loss but last night he led the owls with 21 points. he wasn't the only one feeling it jesse morgan drained four three pointers. temple blast bear cats 75-59 and the owls play east carolina saturday afternoon at the liacouras center. erika, back to you. thanks ukee. still ahead this morning on "eyewitness news" facebook goes head to head against craigs list. but first here's what is coming up tonight on cws3.

updating a developing story this morning police in north jersey are searching for a father they say unlawfully took his two young sons. authorities say that 36 year-old christopher do hm took the the boys from their home in sussex count a cross state lines and in violation of his custody agreement. this is not an amber alert. police say he is driving a gray nissan pathfinder with new jersey plates septa has up creased pennsylvania patrols. transit authority say they have double the amount have of officers on duty. jackpot stand at 485 million-dollar, for tonight's power ball drawing. the the fifth largest jackpot in history. power ball ticket are available in pennsylvania, new jersey, and delaware and 41 other states. good luck if you play.

our time 4:49. let check business. >> money watch's jill wagner joins us from the new york stock exchange. apple stomach climbed yesterday and new they are in unchartered territory. what are they up to apple made history, its stock climbed 2 percent making it the first u.s. company to be valued at more than $700 billion. put that in perspective it is double the value of microsoft. apple reported rorrer profits thanks to sales of its the new iphones. it just announced it spent 850 million-dollar on a massive solar energy project that will power its new california campus. ukee and erika good what is this about face back taking on craigs list with a tool to help small businesses. >> reporter: the social media site updated its for sale group so members can post pictures of what they are selling with a price and a pick up a and delivery location. facebook says that this feature could help small businesses, that don't have a

a large on line presence. ukee and erika. >> how about that. >> all right, jill, thanks. we will get back to you. coming up traffic and weather together. we will do it the on the

4:53 right now. let get traffic and weather together. good morning vittoria. >> good morning, everyone. so far a great start to your morning no delays, no problems, it is serene, calm and all good. the it is 4:53. ben franklin bridge is beautiful heading up in to new jersey or down into philadelphia, in delays in either direction. all of our bridges are moving well and so are our majors. looking at schuylkill expressway 76 is a breeze not only around here, montgomery drive, girard avenue area, but traveling around center city and walt whitman bridge in south philadelphia. maybe heading throughout your western suburbs it looks fantastic. as we look at our speed sensors, high up in the 50's all over the map. it is in the just in

pennsylvania, it is jersey it is delaware it is all over. traveling in downingtown we have an accident involving an overturn tractor trailer. this incident is closing westbound side of route 30 between 340 and reeseville road. best alternate toys use business route 30. we will let you know when it opens up. the as we make our way in new jersey not too far from bellmawr we have construction on route 130 on nicholson road and collins avenue until 6:30 a.m. be mine full of the guys and girls in hard hats. the lets see how we are doing weather-wise with katie. >> weather-wise it is chilly but we will end up with a pretty nice day too. we can expect more sun then anything and a chill out there too. it is not the anything that is all that terrible. storm scan three is quiet the and will stay that way with more clear sky out there for you. we have to talk about what is coming our way for next couple days here and yes there is snow coming, bigger story will absolutely be the chill that it send in with it but we have to address the fact that we will see snow and at most

we're talking a coating up to an inch, regional will wide, possibly keyword up to 2 inches through poconos but that is definitely going to be the exception rather than the rule. here's how it feels. temperatures feeling like sipping will digits, up in the poconos more like teens every where else. there is enough brieze thaw will notice it and it does feel colder then it is but you with that said it is still a decent day, 37 with sunshine we will take it. by tomorrow even though we hit upper 30's that next round comes in with that next clipper, one of two on the way and that will reenforce the the chill more than anything. look at the drop there one kay to the next. we are in the lower 20's on friday. bitter blast returns. so does the wind with that. meanwhile as far as timing on thursday expect that snow to start picking up as early as midday and likely last us into the better part of the evening time frame. but it will be very light, ukee back over to you. here's a check of the stories our sister station kyw news radio 1060 is following.

state republicans are keying up on liquor privatization bill despite vocal opposition by democratic governor tom wolf. drexel university will be one of the handfull of schools to train soldiers on cyber security. a new study shed light on possible health benefits for people who drink alcohol over the age of 65. check in two, three, four times a day, kyw news radio 1060 an your am dial, erika. coming up next, septa is taking new steps to protect customers. we are live with that story. also could this deadly crash on the new jersey turnpike have been prevented. we will tell you about steps being taken to help prevent another massive pile up. did you wake up tired this morning? we will show you how just a short nap can give your body a boost. >> what? y like where we are going with this. details coming up. we are back at the top of the hour.

good morning everyone. the right new search is on for this man wanted for attacking a woman in the busy septa station, we're live with septa a's steps and the steps they are taking to keep passengers safe. also this morning water is gone after this massive water main break on the boulevard but there is still more work to be done. how he will steer clear of the road closures happening today. it is wednesday, february 11th, good morning everyone i'm ukee washington. i'm erika avon tiehl. also this morning all it takes is $2 a dream. jumbo jackpot jumps before the big drawing. the katie, are you in on the pool. >> i made sure i got the in on it the because you don't want to be that one person not in the pole, right?

we are catching a break between systems but two more shots of snow and arctic blast heading our way. we have lots of wintry weather to talk about and we will do that in a few, vittoria. >> i am that one person not in the pool will but i'm jumping in on it. as of right now road are very quiet, very serene. it looks nice looking at i-95 around broad street free and clear. we are in the wings of rush hour and things will change. we will have a full report coming up, ukee. developing right new there is a manhunt for this new jersey father wanted for taking his two young sons. it is not an amber alert but police, in sussex county say christopher dohm violated his custody agreement by taking the the boys. police think he left in the gray nissan path finder with a license plate fone, seven-c-k-v but they have in the said where he may have gone. the man suspect of shooting a san diego sportscaster is new behind ba