half the day is actually really nice, the other half starting to get colder. talking temperatures today. meantime, not bad. full detail for you coming up. jess? >> happy tuesday everyone, just 5:00 a.m. no problems out on the schuylkill expressway, check it out so east, westbound whatever you're doing around spring garden, you will do just fine, we do have few accidents, and couple of patches of construction, i'll tell you about all where they are in just a second. >> back to the developing story right now, two temple university football players are temporarily off the team. >> both booked on number of charges this morning included aggravated assault in connection with off campus incident. "eyewitness news" reporter justin finch is live on the temple campus this morning, to tell us more about it, good morning, justin. >> reporter: good morning those student dion dawkins and hasson reddick positioned bonds every $10,000, facing several charges which include simple and aggravated assault as well as wreckless endangerment, criminal conspiracy. dawkins junior offensive

lineman, reddick red shirt sophomore linebacker, accused of assaulting a temple student at off campus farther back on january 17th. the university says it is aware of the case and investigating snake short that they have and will continue to fully cooperate with the police investigation, and will take a prepare row at action outlined in the student conduct code. they go on to say the student have been suspended from football team activities, pending further investigation. and back out live, their first day in court is march 31, at 8:00 a.m. and we are live on temple as campus justin finch "eyewitness news". >> thank you also, right now look at new video of passenger being subdued on a flight from washington d.c. to denver. the united airlines flight was heading to denver last night when it had to turn around and return to dullos airport after the passenger failed to listen to the crew's instructions. here's what the pilot told air traffic control. >> we had passenger becoming violent, no weapon involved.

he's restrained by other passengers now though. we don't know his mental condition. but sound like he's restrained for now. we just need to get on the ground. >> police took the passenger off the plane after it landed. the rest of the passengers will fly to denver this morning. >> new this morning, a man is shot five times in juniata park. it happened shortly before 2:00 in the 4600 block of ella street. investigators say he was shot in the chest and head. his condition is unknown at this time. that shooting is under investigation. >> also, new this morning, a homicide is under investigation in the cobbs creek neighborhood. investigators tell us 19 year old man was shot twice in the head. that shooting happened in the 6,000 block of irving street just before 10:00 last night. the victim died at a hospital. there is no word right now on the suspect. diana? >> erika, philadelphia fire investigators are trying this morning to determine how two firefighters were shocked by a power line. both men helped fight the flames on the second floor of

this rowhouse, on the 2400 block every west norris street. it was out within minutes as they were removing a 35-foot aluminum ladder t hit a powerline. fight fighter burn was burned, colter suffered minor injuries. >> very frightening close call. i talked to both members. and they say exactly the same thing, routine fire, taking down a ladder which they do on a daily basis and they both were shocked. >> taylor has third agree burns to his feet. colter was treated and released from temple hospital. >> it is 5:03, time for traffic and weather together. katie, good morning. >> good morning diane a happy saint patrick's day everyone, this is one of those days where you start off real quiet very pleasant, actually pretty mild, in fact, it doesn't stay that way. we are eventually going to end up with the wind kicking in and colder air taking back the lead, so we're really just going to get back little dose of winter for the middle part of the week specially in toward friday. storm scan three prom ills you

little dash of green for saint patrick's day on the radar t won't mess with you all that much. you won't need an umbrella in most spots. i would say the best zest puckett ends up with possibility of steadier showers would be the poconos. see there is steadier little batch right now just north of the i80 corridor. so that's really where you likely will ends up with the most showers here today. even then, it is not going to be all that bad. because the bulk and the gist and the thrust of the moisture is basically off to the north. but look where our temperatures stand. they are not bad. i mean, granted still into the 30's allentown, mount pocono, but that's not terrible to start things off. currently at 45 degrees in philadelphia, 47 in atlantic city, we zoom it out a smidge here, see out in cleveland temperatures are also starting to take a little bit after hit. and there is real nice little surge every moisture, or rather mild air i should say out toward pittsburgh. already flirting with 60 out toward steel city. so event lip we're actually going to warm up nicely, too. we expect to hit 62 degrees here, guys by the time we hit about lunchtime but the

problem is it won't last all afternoon. might get hour or two, low 60s, temperatures decline, wind kicks in, really much different second half of the day, jess, than what we are starting off with, which is nice and quiet for now. >> definitely nice and quai set good thing especially for therapy in the morning. no one wants to wake to up that. happy tuesday. good morning everybody 5:05, it will be pretty nice out so far. so get up. we got to get our day started. we start things off on the schuylkill expressway, right around spring garden, you can see, everything moving along nicely. if you are headed in or out of the city, east or westbound there is currently no problems there. out on the blue route, you are looking at pretty much the same story there. right around mid-county, you can see in the southbound lanes, not even car to drive by. but out in plymouth meeting we do have emergency sinkhole repair plymouth road closed between the blue route and butler pike, take germantown pike to get on by. over on the pa turnpike, on the -- excuse me, blue route northbound ramp to germantown

pike, there is an accident there. pa turnpike what i was talking about northeast extension southbound right before the pa turnpike there is a disable vehicle there blocking out the left-hand lane. also out in cheltenham, willow avenue at old york road. there is actually a car that's been pushed into a pole there. we can expect some clean up therefore quite some time. mass transit no problems this morning, diana, back over to you. >> thank up, disturbing twist in the disappearance of missing new jersey woman. the mother after man charged with her murder is now accused of trying to help her son cover up this crime. "eyewitness news" reporter david spunt has details. report. >> i really want to nine my sister. >> reporter: the pain of not knowing what happened to her older sister is waiving heavily on jenia crippin. >> every day i wake up wondering where my sister; glare believe 26 year older kay crippin dead. they insist her husband kyle crosby killed her. the problem is they can't find a boyde. crosby is behind bars charged with murder, and now police say his mother, 67 year old joe crosby, helped her son

cover it up. >> we already new she had toking do with it. >> police arrested the 67 year old at her sicklerville home. she tam perth with evidence, quote, played major role in helping her son kyle, conceal the crime of murder. >> this is a bad thing really bad thing. >> debra lives across the street and says she's closely followed the crippin case. we spoke to her just moments after she learned about the arrest. >> i feel sorry for the family. i really do. it is not a good thing at all to be going through. >> we knock on the crosby's door to get her side of the story. no answer. family members say the last time they heard from erika crippin was on december 30th just before she went to dinner with her husband, keim, at this pj wheelihan's in cherry hill. >> it's been too long, i don't think god can see our family any more hurt than we already are. >> they believe the arrest is a step in the right decks. >> i want my family to finally

rest, if i can bury my sister and this can be over, i'm tired of this. >> reporting in burlington county, david spunt cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> happening today the polls are open in israel where prime minister benjamin netanyahu is seeking a fourth term. yesterday netanyahu ruled out a palestinian state. he promised to keep building settlements in east jerusalem. netanyahu has governed israel for the past six years. the latest pole shows that his party lagging behind the moderate opposition. diana? >> erika, the villanova wildcats leave for pit burying this morning the wildcats are number one seed in the ncaa men's basketball tournament. novanation is feeling good. the excitement on campus is translating to cold hard cash. the villanova stores on line emergency sales tripled over the weekends, game one pits nova against another team from pennsylvania, 16th seed lafayette from easton,

northampton county. wildcats take on the leopards thursday night. >> okay, bracketologists, get busy. put your brackets to the test and could you win a $5,000 gift card in the challenge. go to cbs philly. com/sports to sign up. good luck. >> right now, it is 5:09. local teacher arrested. what he is accused of secretly doing to some unsuspecting student. >> and he's the millionaire charged with murder, the new trouble for real estate air robert durst after his apparent confession on tv. and, get r ready for a dramatic drop in the temperatures. katie is tracking some big changes when we do traffic and weather together on the 3's. happy saint patrick's day. we'll be right back. thank you, cable

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>> notorious real estate heir, confession happened in the rest rom while still wearing his microphone. jan carabeo joins us with the latest details on the story. jan? >> reporter: robert durst being held without bail this morning awaiting extradition to los angeles to face first degree murder charges. yesterday he was charged with killing his friends susan berman, in december of 2,000. now, for more than 14 years investigators hadn't been able to gather enough evidence to charge him. that all changed after robert durst reached out to film maker to tell his life story. in the cable series finale of the jinx, sunday night apparently durst is heard over a microphone saying kill them all of course. he said on cbs this morning that his crew didn't realize what they had recorded in the l -- until the editing process. >> obviously for us a shot, many months since we had sat down with him. >> durst didn't kill susan berman. he is ready to end all of the

rumor and speculation and have a trial. >> reporter: prosecute letters decide later if they will seek the death penalty involved in the unsolved 1982 disappearance of his wife kathleen in new york and also for the murder after neighbor in texas but claimed self-defense and was acquitted. >> jan, thank you so much. >> right now a 13:00. we want to get over to katie and get your saint patrick's day forecast, you say half and half forecast? >> that's how i would define it half the day pretty darn nice, and the other half things start to shift. we will be in transition mode as i like to call it by that point. and it all comes courtesy of the latest disturbance system that really is not so much barreling down on our area, but definitely moisture to work with off to the north. still find couple of stray showers, moving on through portions of say the pocono region definitely if you're traveling up toward up-state new york you will run into better possibility. wet weather. meantime though this front is actually more than anything going to send our temperatures

on nosedive later today and kick the wind in, which we'll discuss, but also have to discuss what's looming down the pike here, innocent looking little pocket of rain right now over northern mexico right? but this will eventually turn into a full-fledged storm system over the open plane. as it does so it starts to gather moisture, right now the track and the timing are critical. so, it is still several days away. but friday would be the day where we have the possibility at least for some rain and yes some snow. now, we're settling into a chilly pattern here for the next few days, guys, so again time something everything. few limiting factors will work against us if we're going to see snow accumulation, a lot of ingredient need to come together. we'll see how we do. stick with us. we will have to monitor it. in the meantime later today temperatures start to gradually decline. we hit about 62 greasy would say by lunchtime seeing the temperatures fall from there so we bottom out to 30 overnight. at least the sun comes back despite that chill returning for wednesday thursday, and friday too. jess? >> thanks, katie. good morning everybody 5:14,

starting things offer out on 95. currently no problems on a lot of the majors, and it is still early. we will show you 95 right around cottman avenue. right through the work zone, that's where the taillights are going southbound into the city. everything moving along just fine. northbound lanes doing the same. out on the schuylkill expressway, right around montgomery, everything moving along great there as well. so headed eastbound westbound, into king of prussia, no problems there. out in plymouth meeting though we do have some emergency road work repair therefore a sinkhole on plymouth road. that's closed. so between the blue route and butler pike, you want to take germantown pike to get on by. we do have a disable vehicle though, on the pa turnpike westbound from the ramp to the northeast extension southbound. that's blocking out the right-hand lane. actually one of the e-zpass lanes, as well. out in cheltenham, accident on willow avenue old york road. there is a car into a pole there, so we can expect some police activity on the scene for that clean up. out on the blue route northbound, the ramp to germantown pike, crash over into the shoulder, as well.

erika, back to you. >> we're following developing story this morning, two temple football players facing aggravated assault and other charges. both were arraigned overnight. the university says the men took part in improper conduct and at off campus location in january. prosecutors have released few detail, but the men will be back in court on march 31. >> also, developing this morning, this is new video of a passenger being subdued on a flight from washington d.c. to denver. the united airlines flight had to return to washington when the passenger failed to obey the crew's instructions. >> and, joe crosby is in custody this morning prosecutors say she helped her son conceal the death of her daughter in law her son has been charge in the crippin's death. 5:16. promising young football star suddenly calls it quits. why he's retiring after his first season in the nfl. >> and put up your mitt. former presidential candidate mitt romney takes on new

fight. why he is challenging former heavy weight boxing champ in the ring. more on that when we come right back. >> should be good.

>> individual joe trying to track down the person who stabbed a delivery man on the lasalle university campus. that will delivery man for jack and jill ice cream was attacked yesterday inside bathroom at the blue and gold dining commons. we're told the man was stabbed once in the chest. he is expected to survive. >> this gloucester county teacher accused of secretly taking pictures of female student while they were in school. thirty-seven year old adam mayor teaches english at the gloucester county institute of technology, and police say that he took pictures of several girls private areas. he's lock up on $300,000 bail. police are working to id all of the victims. >> 5:19. another student at montgomery county high school is diagnosed with whooping cough. that bridges the number of cases at souderton area high

school to two. the health department has declared the school to be an outbreak status. officials recommend that any student with a cough not come to school until they have been examined by their doctor, and tested for whooping cough. >> 5:20 right now. still ahead cliff lee's career is in jeopardy. the latest news about his injured arm does not sounds very good. more on that coming up in sports. >> what the phillies will do with their ailing ace. >> we're on pothole patrol. where you might run into delays as crews patch up the big craters on the roads today. we'll be right back.

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>> 5:23 on your saint patrick's day, how are we looking today? >> one of those days where half the day looks great half the day not necessarily looking terrible but different. start to see transition go into effect here, but off to pretty quiet start as promised, we are seeing little irish green showing up here on the radar for your saint patrick's day. doesn't mess with you all that much. might see sprinkle far and north, about the worse of your worries. but here is perfect example how the month of march is so changeable. we call it march madness for a reason, not just basketball but in weather too because on saint patrick's day in philadelphia you have seen everything from 86 degrees weather to 10 degrees weather to inch plus every rain to almost 5 inches of snow. and that actually happened last year, if you recall. meanwhile, today, it is a transition day for sure. but we're definitely seeing some interesting weather un fowl here. weep hit the low 60s early on, winds kicks in, temperatures start to drop. and talking 20 degrees difference from one day to the next. jess, over to you. >> it will be a shock for sure. thanks katie, a and good

morning, everybody 5:23, starting things off relatively quiet so far this morning. not whole lot in the way of volume, and a lot of majors. we start things off on 95, though, and tell you what i am talking b you can see not a lot of cars right around the airport, the taillights are headed southbound, right toward the airport northbound, doing just fine, as well. over on the vine street expressway, not much to speak of here, as well. that's definitely a good thing, right around 24th street. so westbound into the schuylkill, have no problem getting there. or to 95, if you're headed eastbound, right there on the vine. now out in cherry hill, new jersey, we have some construction sinkhole repair on route 70 eastbound at springdale road. that's blocking out the right hand lane. so only one lane getting by there. out in plymouth, plymouth road is closed between the blue route and but the her pike, for emergency sinkhole repairment take germantown pike to get on by. now, for the rest of the majors, junction like i said pa turnpike no problems headed eastbound from valley forge into bensalem, 23 minute trip. no problems on the schuylkill, eastbound, headed from the vine into 95, no problems on

422, and we can't say it enough. actually we're doing just fine on mass transit. everything running on time there with no reported delays. diana, back over to you. >> thanks, jess. the ncaa men's basketball tournament tips off tonight in dayton. there are games tonight and tomorrow. the number one seed villanova wildcats played thursday against lafayette leopards in pit burying. >> the wildcats were winners of the school record 32 games this season and they won the biggies. coach jay wright says the wildcats are focused on the leopards. >> sunday, we went to cbs2 years in new york, and then we had bus ride home. and our bus broke down on the new jersey turnpike, so the sell breaks was overment we came back, and it was a selection show, and we just started focusing immediately on lafayette. >> little bad luck there. we'll get you ready for march madness tomorrow night at 73:00 p.m. without march -- with our march indianapolis special right here on cbs-3.

sports director beasley reese will join a panel of experts plus leslie van arsdale will be in pittsburgh, with villanova. >> the phillies have placed pitcher cliff leon six day disable list, news, phyllis fans did not want to hear. lee has a strain in his left forearm, it is the same injury that forced him to miss most of last year. experts recommend surgery, but that would effectively ends his season, maybe even his career. the phils and cliff have agreed to rehab the injury, and avoid a trip to the operating room. >> the eagles aren't finished making off season headlines and the latest is tim tebow. birds reportedly had the former heisman trophy winner in for a work out yesterday. espn reports the team's not planning to sign him at least not yet. t bone's been working as tv analyst since he was released by the patriots in 2013. erika? >> people are talking. thanks, diane a the flyers are on the west coast playing the

canucks in vancouver tonight. the flyers are pretty much out of the playoff race. they are about nine points back with 11 games to play. will likely make the playoffs in the western conference. when while sixers on the road again last night against the celtics. check out former sixer evan turner going behind his back for two of his ten last night in boston. the celtics have seven players, in double figures, and they won their fifth straight. avery bradley has 20, tyler has 26, and the celtics win 108 to 89. the sixers play the piston at the wells tomorrow night. coming up in the next half hour every "eyewitness news" we're following new developments after two temple football players are arrested. justin? >> diana, they are off the team this morning coming you live the accusations and temple's response. >> justin, thanks. also starbucks tackling race relations. one cup at a time. how the coffee chain is getting involved with the touchy topic every race issues.

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we're following a developing story this morning. two temple football players are out of jail after facing a judge overnight. we are live on campus with what they are accused of doing, and also the university's response. >> and enjoy the spring-like weather while you can. because katie says that temperature is taking a tumble. >> let's check on weather and traffic with katie and jessica. good morning kate. >> i that's exactly right diane a because eventually we see the cold air start to rush in and funnel in and send these temperatures