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snow threat. this major winter storm is dropping heavy snow in its wake and it could have you slipping and sliding in the morning and there are brand new details just in about rising snow totals for our area. good evening i'm jessica dean. >> i'm chris may. meteorologist kathy orr is tracking what the storm means for us. kathy. >> this storm is keeping up the eastern seaboard a lot of cold air in place and national weather service is expanding its advisories take look at storm scan3. you can see the snow heavy snow over the mid atlantic right now through raleigh. it's moving toward virginia and it will be here very soon. as you take a closer look you can see the areas being heavily impacted and as it sneaks towards the north and east and right now the storm is only 260 miles to the south southwest of philadelphia. at that speed it will be here just in time for the morning commute. so here's a look at our headlines. we are looking at some rising accumulations across the region. new information is coming in as we speak. it's a fast-moving storm and it will have a significant impact on the morning rush.
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now, we are talking about winter weather advisories that have been expanded to the north and to the west to include all of south jersey and the entire state of delaware and right now in delaware sussex county we have a winter storm warning in effect for hire accumulations of snow. here's what you should expect. tomorrow morning snow covered roads especially in and advisory area but also includes philadelphia. reduced visibility down to half mile. it will be slow to go for the morning rush and there will be some slick spots as the storm moves toward the region during the morning rush you'll see some snow heavy at times. it will be moving out toward the noon hour and then the advisory will expire at about 1:00 o'clock. coming up we'll have those updated snow accumulations and we'll time the storm out hour by hour to show was to expect and when it will be moving in to your neighborhood. that's the very latest from weather sent. chris, i'll be back later on in the broadcast. >> kathy, thank you we'll track the snow throughout the night school delays and cancellations are a possibility. so wake up with "eyewitness news". the latest information our love coverage begin at 4:30 on cbs3.
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breaking to night a bucks county business goes up in flames. thick smoke poured into the air above a well-known landscaping business in hulmeville just outside of bensalem. david spunt is live tonight with brand new information. david? >> reporter: jessica, chris, crews left the scene about 10 minutes ago but they were here for about four hours fighting this fire. we want to show you some great video we got from chopper three. you can see it happened after 7:00 o'clock tonight. we are told this happened at spencer's landscaping company. we are told by the owner of the business i spoke to him he says that a man working inside spencer's was working on some machinery. some sparks happened. that caught on fire. and the entire building engulfed. the building is destroyed right now. luckily nobody was hurt. i also asked if there were any dangerous chemicals inside. the owner told me that was not the case. i spoke to him just about an hour ago. >> it's just buildings. so i'm happy -- i'm happy of
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that but i can't be really happy because, you know, i've owned this for over -- almost 30 years now and i've never had an incident and it scares me. >> reporter: joe says tomorrow is the talk of insurance to see who has insurance, who doesn't have insurance. but tonight he says he's just lucky nobody was hurt. we are live tonight in hulmeville david spunt cbs3 oy witness news. >> david, thank you very much. a crack in a gas main caused the explosion that blew a house to pieces in stafford township new jersey yesterday. investigators discovered that crack in a 2-inch main that runs under oak avenue. they say gas traveled into the basement of that home and then ignited thanks to an open flame in utility room. a couple of gas workers who were most seriously seriously hurt err still in the hospital tonight. developing now two men with ties to our area are facing charges for trying to join isis. we've learned tonight the suspects owned and operated a shopping mall kiosk here in
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philadelphia. "eyewitness news" reporter matt rivers is live in the cbs3 sat center with new information. matt? >> reporter: jessica the arrest affidavit in this case is extremely detailed. we have read through it. here's what we can tell you so far we know according to investigators that all three suspects in this case were at least in part radicalized online through their contact with members of isis and as you mentioned we know that two of the three suspects have direct ties to our area. the first suspect 19-year-old was about to board a flight to turkey allegedly on his way to fight for isis. he was arrested at jfk wednesday morning as another suspect a 24-year-old man was arrested in brooklyn. both were arraigned in a new york courtroom. >> this is real. this is the concern about the loan wolf inspired to act without ever going to the mideast. >> reporter: third suspect was arrested in florida. it's he who links back to philadelphia. he owned a company i don't care
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in a philadelphia mall. and although investigators won't reveal which mall it was they do say he worked there in late 2014. all three are charged with provideing material support to terrorists. >> to think that this problem will stay contained in the middle east is a mistake. >> reporter: edward turzanski a counter terrorism expert. he says while these men planned their moves in brooklyn it would be nieve to think it couldn't happen here. >> this fits into a pattern of jihad dee activity we've seen and there's likely more of it to come. >> reporter: it will develop he says on social media. these three suspects were at least in part radicalized online online. the message similar to other isis appeals. >> you will find a life of meaning here fighting for our so-called caliphate. if you can come, kill somebody where you are report roar it's something authorities say these suspects would do as well. if they couldn't make it to syria their plan was to kill police officers here in the us. according to the fbi, there are
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home grown terrorism investigations on going right now in all 50 states. in the past year about 20 people have been arrested for a iteming to travel to the mideast to attempt to fight alongside groups like isis. we're live in the sat center matt rivers, cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> all right matt, thank you. we have new information about what killed the wife of cooper health system president and ceo john sheridan. investigators revealed today that joyce sheridan died from a stab wound to her chest. she and her husband were found unresponsive during a fire at their montgomery township, new jersey, home in september. that fire was ruled an arson. the cause of john sheridan's death remains unknown tonight. it is a story you saw first on three. a toddler returns home to delaware after she was allegedly abducted by her father. "eyewitness news" spoke to 384 old eleanor trotta and her mother dawn in new castle today. they were reunited in massachusetts last night.
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the girl and her father michael trotta were the subject of an am per alert on monday after authorities say trotta assaulted bark cuss and kidnapped eleanor. >> she's glad to be home and that's all she cep saying since i found her last night. since i was reunited with her she kept asking when are we going home? when are we going home? >> the girl's father was arrestedarrested without incident and made his first court appearance in massachusetts today and is awaiting taxi addition. >> a question that has a family baffled. how could a flickering light lead to an $8,000 row pair bill g consumer reporter jim donovan goes searching for answers. >> it was a flickering light that prompted jack and jim due wolf's none-year-old mother to call an electrician to her pennsylvania home. jack lives in wisconsin. jim in massachusetts. and their mother's safety is a big concern. >> if there's an electrical problem this far away we weren't to make sure there's no danger. >> when they learned thomas edison electric had charged $8,000 for that visit, they were
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shock. the company replaced her entire electrical panel claiming it was malfunctioning. experts say it's a $2,000 job at most. among her charges, $4,900 for a panel that retails for around 200. there's even a fee to access the panel. >> there's $200 up charge for inn accessibility of the panel which is about as accessible as panel i've had he ever to deal with. >> and that flickering light get a loafed this. it's still flickering. >> he never really addressed the issue. even it's elder abuse quite frankly because if i had been here this would have never happened. >> thomas edison electric is operated by this man joseph weiss. >> i promise we'll treat your family and property with respect and get the job done right the first time. >> but wayne gable of tech text disagrees. >> things that were done by thomas edison electric were incorrect. >> the company was hired to row pair electrical issues in his 91-year-old father's brookhaven home. >> my understanding was that
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everything was going to be fixed fixed. >> after this father she would out more than $30,000 gable found problems each time he visited. >> they told me things like don't run the air-condition and vacuum. don't turn on the microwave while the air-condition air-conditioning is rung those were the kind of fixes that i was told from thomas edison. >> and independent inspection found multiple code violations. eventually gable's father paid an additional $9,000 to another company to get things up and running. just before he died. >> i would be worried about people that might be put in the same situation. >> their website says thomas edison electric serves 22 counties but good luke fining them the address on their invoices leads to this vacant storefront we check the state's home improvement contractor registry it's located in this strip mall. all we can find they have a mailbox here at the ups store we
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couldn't even find anyone a business owner joseph white's home. maybe they're out respond to another call for a flickering light. >> joseph white declined on camera interview by e-mail he said customers are pro voided written quotes are welcome to shop around. after the work is done, customers sign the invoice saying they're satisfied. in the case of the flickering light after the family complained and we started asking questions, $1,423 was refunded. part senior citizen discount an gesture of goodwill. >> question becomes how are these prices determined? >> white says that the company charges by the job not by the time or the materials. electrician who did the work in both of these cases tells me that he's one of thomas edison's subcontractors. but there doesn't seem to be any costly overhead. in fact other than the website we can't find any physical trace of this company. >> all right. jim, thank you very much. >> continue to follow it. well a drug rink with ties to columbia is busted in moment county. police make 32 arrests and seize
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crystal meth cocaine guns, cars and cash. a family member of a drug addiction helped crack that case. he contacted the montgomery county da risa ferman desperate to get help for his sister who was addicted to meth. >> call to me was just a last ditch random hope that something could happen. >> investigators believe the suspects primarily trafficked around norristown but also throughout the region. drama video here as a purse snatcher targets a woman at a gas station but she doesn't give up without a fight. then -- >> episode with air and i can believe did you that. or why didn't you go this or choose this. it doesn't work way. >> how does it work? >> we sit down with a local contestant on the amazing race and get the inside scoop about what doesn't always make it into the show. >> kathy? >> we will feel the full impact of this winter storm coming for
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the morning commute. we'll take look at how much snow to expect and when it will be moving into your neighborhood coming up. and maybe you've seen these women on the streets of south philadelphia. but it's their annex on tv's mob wives that are causing a real stir. tonight they speak exclusively with "eyewitness news" when we come back in 60 seconds.
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♪ a building collapse injures construction worker -- a construction worker in new york today. this happened on 57th street between 11th and 12th 12th of a avenues. workers there one there demolishing the structure at the time. officials say the worker who was hurt on was scaffolding when the collapse happened. rubble did damage a schoolbus that was parked down on the street. new jersey governor chris christie pitched his plan for pension reform in moorestown today. the governor met with residents during his first town hall meeting of this year. the governor wants to freeze existing pension plans and replace them with what's called a cash balance plan.
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he also would turn open pension fund management to the unions. >> it makes sure that the pensions that have been promised to people will be paid to people but for new folks they have to have a plan that's competitive like the private sector. some type of cash balance fear 01k type plan. we can't any longer afford to find benefit pension systems. >> the new jersey education association has signed on to what the governor describes as a road map for further benefit reform. well tomorrow will be a big day in the future of the internet. fcc will vote on net neutrality. the government wants greater authority to treat internet service like a public utility. they say that that means your broadcast provider won't be able to block or slow down your access to the internet. it also means that broad band companies can't charge other companies like netflix and an added fee to a fast lane that moves their content more quickly quickly. well tonight robin thick's number one hit blurred lines at
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the heart of a federal lawsuit in la. >> the family of late marvin gay says that it's a rip off of his 1977 hit got to gift up. you can listen to it and compare the two. first here's marvin gay . ♪ >> you decide there. in the meantime thick testified today that trial over these tunes expected to last two weeks weeks. drama new video from houston tonight. a woman fights back against a thief trying to steal her purse out of her car at a gas station. she jumped across the seat fell out the passenger side door and went after this guy. she then latched on to this car struggling to hang on she grabbed her wallet back and just before pulling away that suspect just through her cell phone back at her. she did suffer some minor bumps and bruises.
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you watched the exciting season premier of the amazing race right her on cbs3. >> tonight we've got a never before seen look at what we don't get to see on television. todd quinones with a former local contestant who takes us behind the scenes. >> reporter: racing around the world on tv it turns out bring out the toughest critic. >> of course we have to have the race envelope now. >> shelly porter who now lives in media delaware county learned that the hard way. the impact of what winds up on the editing room floor was clear clear. after porter and her daughter were eliminate. >> my mom said, why did you take so long to ask for directions? you always stopped once. >> are you kidding me? we stopped every 10 minutes. >> in looking through memorabilia she collected while on last season's show she discover the amazeing race has super fans. fans who take their pictures and follow them through parts of their journey across the globe. >> it is an entire culture of people who this their job. i think they've been spotted here and then they have the time schedules for all the flights
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and where we could possibly be going next. >> when the cameras stopped rolling a lot of minute link between the contestants was discouraged. off for the sake of drama for the hit cbs series. >> if we're having a heated discussion and no one is around to record it then it didn't happen. >> when the leg of the race was finish contestants slept in hotel rooms with a few exceptions. >> shetland island we slept out on the beach which is very beautiful avoid cheating the camera crew do you meaning each team constantly changed. >> they won't let you have the same crew to keep from you bonding with you to make sure they don't tell you anything. >> they placed sixth out of 11 teams within ago total of $3,500. in need ya delaware county todd quinones cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> they do great job of making trip around the world. it seems like it goes by in an hour. you can imagine how much of a green it is. it's a great, great show. >> it's so much fun to watch. they got to jazz it up a little bit. you can see the amazing race in
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its new time slot friday nights at 8:00 p.m. right her on cbs3. we are tracking tracking a morning snow threat to night g we've been talking about it all night. could spell trouble for the morning commute. kathy orr has the very latest. >> advisories and warnings posted for this. a storm creeping up the eastern seaboard in raleigh moving into virginia and next up washington dc and then of course the delaware valley. right now our "eyewitness weather" watchers are showing us temperatures that are quite cold cold. 29 degrees right now near cheltenham. temperatures are going to stay on the chilly side during the overnight. take you to south jersey and check it out near collingswood where the temperature is 28 degrees. expecting light snow overnight there. some of the heavier snows though, will be down through south jersey in this area near millville around 29 degrees. you're in the advisory area and michael is saying not much wind the temperature is 29 degrees. and it's time for snow. and that is it is. take look outside where we're looking at a very quite owing city but guess what ocean city expecting one to 3-inches of
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snow come tomorrow morning. and that's not the only place we'll be seeing it pile up. right now in philadelphia, the temperature is 29. 18 in the poconos and wildwood it is 30. you can see all the cold air in the deep south where it is snowing and that is moving our way. so everyone expecting a light fluffy snow out of this as the storm moves toward the northeast and off the eastern seaboard we'll see the snow creeping up from the south during the overnight and for the morning rush. by late morning, early afternoon it's out of here and then some breaks in the clouds. some sunshine before sunset. not a lot of snow but enough to impact the morning rush. 5am we'll see the snow in dover. in a line from millville through middletown delaware through ac by about sick am. wilmington and hammonton will see it by seven and philadelphia here by 8:00 a.m. and spread to the north and west during that period as well. it's out of here by 1:00 o'clock 1:00 o'clock. and then once again we'll be drying out. the heaviest snow down through sussex county delaware where we do have a winter storm warning for three to 5-inches of snow. some isolated 6-inch
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accumulations are not out of the question. one to 3-inches of snow even as youd when very close to the i95 corridor with those higher accumulations as you head toward the shore. so that is the expanded amount about one to two for our jersey suburbs with our advisory and then along the i-95 corridor solid one for philadelphia. a coating to an inch as you head to the north and west. this storm continues to track northward. so it is possible we could be seeing an inch push toward our suburbs for the morning rush. not a lot of snow but it's all about the timing with this particular storm. overnight, mostly cloudy the low temperature 19. during the day tomorrow, morning snow with some snow covered roads and visibility poors specially in our advisory area in south jersey overnight. you can see it will be brisk and cold during the day tomorrow. the temperature 26 degrees. so the big problem will be for that morning rush. on the he can clues suv "eyewitness weather" seven day forecast take a look at this. friday 26. saturday 30. sunday some snow possible at
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night into monday. when we warm it up. and then tuesday it's mild. but snow possible tuesday night and then we warm it up on wednesday. so we do have a few more chances of snow with the main threat tomorrow morning will be poor visible at times some snow covered roads through south jersey and delaware, even in philadelphia it will be a very slow go. >> slow the down out there. kathy, thanks. >> okay. the show is called mob wives it's a reality series that follows the lives of women with alleged connections to the maffia. >> and two of the women featured this season are from philadelphia. only "eyewitness news" reporter diana rocco can take us inside their ferocious feud. ♪ >> reporter: these are the mob wives. >> apologizeing bleep. >> reporter: as you might expect somebody is always stirring things up on this hut show on vh1. >> i know renee' killed natalie. natalie killed renee'. >> in the middle of it all natalie known as nat g and nat d
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natalie did you dinato both from south philly but they're not friends. >> i won't be in the same room with her. honestly she's beneath me. >> there's bad blood here. more thon later. >> first of all you don't have to be married to a mobster to be on mob wives just associated in some way. nat g owns the funeral home on south broad street. reportedly the scene of many mob funerals. this is her second season on the show. >> there's been some confrontations with these other women. what's it like sitting across the table from them just going at it? >> i'm not inn testimony dated by anyone. and i think the bigger the barks are, you know, they're really not going to do anything. >> she has a lot of fans over half a million on twitter and she's a singer. >> ♪ >> my dreams are coming coming true. i'm living the dream and i'll keep going for it. >> reporter: there's nat d new to the show this year she's a
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realtor and a event planner. >> pretty much nothing but love in philly. i mean, on stain gram and social media i get haters and people say outrageous things and i don't respond. >> nat d's connection shushes her cousin was a mobster. that's controversy number one. >> she goes on tv and lies about who she's related to. i don't know. to me i feel like this girl is complete fraud. >> nat d says she was related through marriage. >> family is the blood line. >> controversy number two. >> i believe she's a rat. >> all about nat g talking to law enforcement about trouble with an x boyfriend. >> is a rat about the worst person you could be? >> there's a code on the street you never run your mouth never open your mouth f you'll be on mob wives and you have background to be rat it doesn't make any sense. >> nat g says it involves abusive relationship an restraining order. >> stalking my ex who abuseed me to get information. how low can you go? >> the two nats will go head to head on this season's reunion which was just recorded. >> there was a lot of built up i
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guess anger on both ends. >> definitely going to pop off which mean it will be on another level film let's hope there's no threats about sleeping with the fishes. diana rocco cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> man, that's what reality tv is all about. >> we've not seen drama like that since the sixers trade deadline. >> right. >> crazy. >> that stories play noose tonight they were in milwaukee and that's where michael carter williams is playing his debut tonight and a new philosophy for a young man he's on a we work weekends here. because it works for our patients. here, at cancer treatment centers of america in philadelphia, we give our patients the freedom to
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the sixers in milwaukee tonight. just in time for the debut of michael carter williams in a bucks uniform. former face of the sixers franchise part of that three team trade. before the game mcw seen chatting with joel imbed and his former coach brett brown. mcw came out on fire. his first basket was that dunk. watch him as drives the baseline and hits the floater over nerlins noel. they'll have that to laugh about about. then he forced a turnover and
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went coast to cove on the catch. and slams. the sixers are down nine. mcw with the lob to jarod bail list. high percentage play. michael scored seven points handed out eight assists in 18 minutes much act. sixers lost their 11th straight road game 104-88. >> flyers go for the season sweep when they take on toronto tomorrow. >> steve mason will back up rob september. temple owls must within situation. just three games left in the regular season they've lost two in a row after winning seven straight. tomorrow they play houston the last place team in the conference. the owls were once considered shoe in for the big dance. now they are on the bubble. st. joe's at u mass. second half action take lock at the pass to chris wilson he made a three pointer. the hawks had a five-point lead. a great game by dionne dray bembry scored a career high 33 points and grabbed 14 rebounds.
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organizers confirmed his importance today. the announcement was a bit of a surprise mccartney had been rumored a headliner but he was noticeably absent from the official line up unveiled a few week ago. kings of leon and the killers will also perform at the fire fly music festival. one of best. we'll be right back.
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