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. >> cracking the case of daring abduction. police release new surveillance video, they try to fine the people who kidnapped a jeweler on jewelers row. we are live with more on that critical surveillance video, also the latest clues in this case. >> good morning everyone, after picture perfect start to the week, the weather is about to get a little nasty. storm scan3 shows the rain headed our way today. let's start with traffic and weather together with katie and justin, good morning. >> good morning, ukee, you said it, you know, we do keep the warmth at least for yet another day. but there is a chill that's about to set in. also going to be dodging wet weather. not just today but for several
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days. so i'm going to breakdown all of the details for that you you need to know. have certainly details on these fluctuating temperatures, that's going to be i think more than anything, justin, one of the biggest noticeable changes that we have coming up here. >> right. so typical for early april. you saw on storm scan3 showers trying to pick up limb bit t had may slow down the morning ride. ninety-five at girard, still looking okay right now volume picking up little bit. but an accident, closing down parts every stern ton avenue, we're going to talk about that coming up in just a few more minutes. we send it back over to you. >> all right, thank you so much. the gray feet i covered van you may help find these. >> the victim beaten, robbed, then just dumped in a cemetery. "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabeo joins us from police headquarters to give you the very latest, jan good morning. >> ukee, erika good morning this newly-released surveillance video shows the suspects movement. both before and after police say they kidnapped a 53 year old jewelers row employee,
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they're hoping that this video helps track down these suspects. so take a very good look. this is the vehicle police say the suspect used to abduct that jewelers row employee, over the weekends, it is a maroon van white markings. you can see in the surveillance video the van arrives at the garage, along jewelers row around 1:00 p.m. saturday, hours later the woman identified as the sick particular walks to her in the garage basement. that's when police say she was kidnapped. you can see the van pulling away, just minutes later. police say the woman is then bound, beaten, shot with a taser, seven times the suspects demanding store keys, and safe codes, finally, a hour later she was dumped at darby township cemetery, about 10 miles away. >> i never felt safe walking there because of the close indoor thing. no like kind of security or anything like that. thank god thank god she is alive and she is recuperating and just keep her in your prayers. >> and police even say that
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after she was dumped the first time these suspect went back, kidnapped her again, bound, beat her again demanding her atm info. that info could proof vital in this case, as well, of course, if they use that information we have that video the newly-released surveillance video on the website cbsphilly.com. if you want to take another look, police say they need your help. in one with information should call police. reporting outside of the philadelphia police headquarters, jan carabeo "eyewitness news". >> jan, thank you. 5:33, right over to katie with the latest on this rain moving in. >> yes real gig to be one of those forecasts erika today and really for the next few days, we have to mention wet weather. but no day is a wash out. so, i would keep your umbrella ready to go for the next few days, but you may actually get lung i, not have much more than handful of raindrops to dodge at any point. it will be one of those patterns, look at radar see something dotting the map. not everyone is getting hit. that's what's happening for us right now. as we start things off with a live look here, storm scan3
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sort of snapshot view. there is definitely steadier pocket of rain, rolling into the northern delmarva peninsula. generally just south of 95, right now. and that's kind of the story here. throughout the course of the day. there will be some pockets every steady rain, kind of again at any time, but you will have these pockets of showers, light rain, light drizzle, little breeze kicks in with time, as well, and you notice that this is a running theme, for pretty much the entire northeast even down to the mid-atlantic at this point. now outside we go to palmyra cove nature park, clouds have settled in. not low enough to mess with your visibility, thank goodness but certainly low enough you can see them being sort of reflected off from the city light here. 58 degrees the current temperature at palmyra coach it nature park, nice mild start to the day philadelphia international airport, 59 degrees. notice the winds flow at the airport and in atlantic city, still southerly. keeping the warmth. but up in mount pocono, bit of a sign of things to come here, wind flow starting to shift just a little bit. so even though today is still
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mild pretty much everybody pair of five's in the poconos six an at the shore 69 degrees even in philadelphia eventually, the cooler air is going to work its way in from the north and east that will certainly knock our temperatures back and keep things on the chillier side by tomorrow. so yes, a little unsettled here today. at least we continue to keep the warmth. >> i'm starting to miss yesterday's weather already. the sunshine, mid 70s oh, good stuff. >> can only hang onto. that will. >> still mild today. we'll enjoy t showers are pick up little bit t may impact your commute. make sure wiper blades are working goodment accident to show in you west oaklane, this is taking out stenton avenue. this is a car that ran into a pole that is crunched up pretty good. downed pole, and wires right now, so utility crews are on the scene making repairs that's why stenton avenue is shutdown. we will take you to the maps. show you this. and again, it is at rittenhouse, that's where we have the closure at stenton avenue again alternate is limekiln pike to get around that accident scene. we bring you back to 95.
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this is at girard. looking pretty good. moving in both direct cents, southbound, is the taillights, volume is starting to pick up little bit. still an accident scene in bristol, edgley road at mill creek road. that's still going on. but area speeds still looking pretty good this morning, at the speed limit on 95, northeast philadelphia, and south philly on the schuylkill looking good, also at 55 miles per hour, and 34 coming in to the boulevard. no reported delays on mass transit. that's a look at your ride. ukee, back to you. >> jd, thank you. update on story that broke yesterday morning on "eyewitness news" the family after young man shot at a dance party in camden county, hopes the public will help find hits killer. eighteen year old tiemere bright killed sunday night crescent boulevard hat on township. he was shot in the parking lot of former car dealership where apparent night club exists on the second floor. party had been peaceful until the crowd of mostly teenagers started to leave around 11:30. >> it was a nice night. they said it was security. it would be security, so, you
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know we let him go. >> please contact the police. the prosecutor's offers, anybody. just tell what you you know, please. >> tiemere was high school senior who was to become a father in september. he wasn't the only victim. seventeen year old girl was also shot. but she expected to recover. a 16 year old girl was grazed by a bullet. >> the west philadelphia basketball coach accused of firing a gun during a basketball game has turned himself into police. police say maurice fired a shot inside the christy recreation center, saturday afternoon, after a rival coach tried to intervene in a argument he was having with a spectator. his attorney says his client fired into the air in self-defense, fearing the crowd was going to attack him. >> your time right now 5:37. in business news this morning what's powering the market gains. money watch's jill wagner joins us from the new york stock exchange with that and more for us, good morning. >> surging oil prices are
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sending energy stocks higher, as the dow jumps 117 monday, nasdaq up 30. starbucks is doubling its college tuition program for employees. coffee chain will pay eligible workers to get a four year on-line agree at arizona state university instead of just two years. the goal is to help at least 25,000 employees graduate by 2025. it will cost starbucks about $250 million. >> well, some consumer groups say youtube new kids app filled with deceptive advertising. they are asking the fcc to investigate. now, one example of this is a short video of disney ' frozen it, shows the characters inside after toy motorcycle done al's, eating ice cream and drinking sprite. youtube says it is always looking for feedback. >> and social media snafu or brilliant marketing? hostess celebrated baseball's opening day with this tweet. it shows two cupcakes with the words touchdown. well users quickly chimed in
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asking why it didn't read the more baseball appropriate homerun. hostess is claiming the touchdown line was intentional. saying it was aimed at young audiences, who are in on a running joke, which was the goal. i don't know. what that joke is. erika? >> it worked. >> we're talking about it. >> exactly. have a good one thank you. right now 5:39. three members of the delaware family are hospitalized after getting poisoned while traveling to saint john. steve esmond the head of the tatnel school in wilmington is in serious but stable condition. his wife doctor theresa devine; out of the hospital. however, their two teenage sons remain in critical condition. it is expected that terminix fume gated nearby villa using met old bromide, chemical that can cause central nervous system and respiratory failure. >> it is really hard for anybody to predict right now
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what kind of recovery either the father or the sons will have. >> it is ill league tool use met ill pro mid other than highly restricted agricultural settings. a man in his seven children were found dead in their maryland home. they were poisoned by carbon monday, identify from generator they were using after the power company cut off their electricity. officers respond today a call yesterday from a concerned co-worker of the man who lives there. when no one answered the door, the landlord opened the house up. that's when they found the bodies. >> well, some popular ice cream has been pulled off store shelves. we'll let you know why some grocery stores have stopped selling it. >> also ahead risky rescue after a climber survives a 50-foot fall down a cliff. now we're hearing from the rescuers who helped pull him to self safety. >> firefighters battling a fire, end up fighting flames, in their own trucks. we'll show you more of the massive fire that ignited those trucks on the other side. be right back.
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one man arrested under suspicion every driving under the influence after this crash at the stenton avenue and rittenhouse street in west oaklane. pole was knock down in the accident. we're told that man was not seriously injured. rutgers university is banning all fraternity and sorority parties for the rest of the school year. officials blame several alcohol related problems important the decision. right now 5:43, right over to katie and our weather watchers watch are they seeing out there katy? >> warmth, nice mild start to the day here, we start things off here sort of centering in philadelphia around the reasonable, a lot of 50's, handful of 60s we take to you delaware first, we do have 56 degrees sent in to us from john. he is finding a little bit of rain out there in glasco, that's within the last five minutes. and that's kind of the story today. some of you find rain, some of you won't. it is scattered off and on throughout the day. everyone likely sees something. but it isn't going to be a wash out. that's the key here. lynn springer seeing just clouds. there you go. perfect example, out in cherry hill at 60 degrees, though, but also advises to not forget
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your umbrella so yes you never want to get caught off guard. little further off to the north, 55 is the temperature sent in to us from john jenkins, out in perkasie, where currently nothing more than handful of clouds out there. that too again, will be changing. because yes, you have a lot of activity here on storm scan3. this isn't an organized storm system, but definitely active and unsettled. and it is casino of tough to pinpoint. but essentially here is your front, sort of stationary, semi stationary, meandering with time. and we're on the warmer side of it right now off to the south. but eventually with time this is going to sort of drop to the southeast. we get put into more of northeast component to the wind flow watch that will do, is allow the temperatures to take a hit. so each and every day of the next four, we have to keep wet weather in the forecast. mostly cloudy, just straight up cloudy, and chilly, with these rounds of rain rolling on through especially for tomorrow, and thursday, as we only at best hit 50 degrees. then huge surge comes our way on the thermometer on friday,
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and in advance of much more potent cold front that is what is going to finally not only get us out of this dreary pattern, but certainly allow us to warm up at least little bit in advance of its passage. then back to the 60s saturday, sunday generally this weekend actually looking pretty darn nice. we send it on over to you. >> pretty amazing we have the 20 degrees drop coming in the next 24 hours. here we go, not amazing, do have pretty good accident up at west oaklane stenton avenue, you saw that car that did hit a pole pretty good. taking down a pole and lines. so the utility crews on the scene, closing down stenton avenue at rittenhouse. there you g on the maps we go, alternate will be limekiln pike to get around that accident scene. here we go. we take you to the vine street expressway. both directions, moving pretty good this morning. no rain to talk about here in center city yet. it lick pick up just little bit. it will impact your morning ride, as well. bristol still accident scene going on, edgley road at mill creek road. been going on all morning long. now we have disable vehicle on
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30 eastbound. this is at the onramp from route 322, just keep that in mind. bridges in good shape this morning, moving smoothly both eastbound and westbound on the betsy ross and the walt whitman, no reported delays on mass transit looking good, as well as the airport. that's a look at your ride. ukee, we send it back to you. >> this massive fire destroyed roofing company outside washington d.c. but that's not the only damage it caused. two prince george's county firetrucks also ended up getting scorched by the blaze. firefighters captured video of the truck going up in flames. the fire department tweeted all crews are fine. that's a good thing and the trucks, they say can be row placed. erika? >> ukee, rock climb is her recovering after falling several stories on a cliff in bucks county. the accident happened sunday, at ralph stover state park in pipers ville. "eyewitness news" reporter diana rocco spoke with the rescuers who put themselves in danger to save that injured climber. >> the pictures show daring
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and dangerous rescue after climber on the high rock at ralph stover state park falls into the ravine. >> fallen at least about 40 feet. landed on his back on some rocks. he was in a lot of pain. >> the point pleasant volunteer fire company got the call just before 1:00. a 59 year old had a miscommunication with other climbers in his group and slipped. chief scott fleischer says the rescues are difficult and time intensive. but it is something they train for. >> it certainly is a race against time. we're working against a clock to get them to care and that's why we bring helicopt nerve ultimately to evacuate to the hospital. however, you can only go so fast down there, it is very tight terrain not a lot of room. >> 911 caller was able to meet emergency crews right here in the parking lot. then direct them along the path to where the climber fell. >> he was awake we call it conscious alert and/or yen dollars. he remembered the fall. he was in some significant amounts of pain. >> you see firefighters tackling the terrain to form a human chain and sort of zip
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line across the ravine. hoisting the injured man strapped to a board 75 feet in the air from one side of the cliff to a waiting helicopter. a rescue they've done dozens every times before. this time, they say the climber was lucky his injuries weren't worse. >> these cliffs are somewhat treacherous, if not respected. >> that climber remains at temple university hospital. he sustained some broken bones and injuries to his back and legs. in ralph stover state park bucks county, diana rocco cbs-3, "eyewitness news". your time coming up on 5:49. most of our college basketball brackets were busted along time ago. but, a young boy is celebrating a near perfect set of picks. >> this is incrediblement find out though why he may have to settle for bragging rights. >> and are you trying to drop a few pounds for a swimsuit season? three's on your side. we'll let you know which diets help you lose the most weight and keep it off. first though, here's a look at
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>> i still don't know what that song is about. i love it, but you know? all right. on the hell watch this morning, new research sheds light on which diet programs work the best. researchers from johns hopkins looked at 11 programs, to compare weight loss, and possible harms. they found only weight watchers, and jenny craig helped people lose weight and keep it off for at least a year. other programs like nutri system had great immediate result however more research needed now to determine the long-term effect. >> and, the key to avoiding early death could be in working up a sweat. researchers in australia followed more than 200,000 people for more than six years. they found the risk every death for those who did vigorous activities, like jogging or ' robe innings, was lower than those who did moderate activities. >> well, some of the largest retailers in the country are pulling blue bell ice cream made at oklahoma plant. wal-mart and sam's club are among the stores making the move after blue bell announced it was temporarily
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closing the facility. dairy company issued recall last month after ice cream contaminated when list tear just was linked to three deaths at a kansas area hospital. right now 5:53, we want though check in with katie on this rain. katy? >> it is on the way, for sure. coming through somewhat scattered, but it will be kind of running theme for us, not just today but for the next four days. if you can believe it. so, you know, we really just need something to shove this stationary front out of here. and that's going to take couple of days for that to really happen. so, as we started off with a lock at storm scan3 this is casino of how our radar will likely look for the next new days but, you know, it is scattered. again, not talking about a wash out here. while you're generally dodging some showers or drizzle there will also be some pockets of steady rain that rolled through. notice, this is today. it is tomorrow. it is thursday. and then, by friday, the temperatures surge, and we'll have one final wet day. that actually comes from stronger cold front to finally help dry things out.
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justin? >> at least mild today. 476, the blue route coming at ridge pike, headlights southbound. volume picking up. we're moving this hour, still good speeds early this morning. no heavy steady rain to talk about around philadelphia right now. there is the accident scene at stenton avenue, closed at rittenhouse, limekiln pike is the alternate there. and we have new accident in collegeville, at main street, at east third avenue. so just stay aware of that. more news when we return.
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>> now that the march madness torn s over we see who won the bracket games across the country. >> yes, but one winner might not be allowed to pick up his prize. twelve year old sam holtz. >> how old? >> twelve. had near perfect bracket in espn bracket challenge. the sixth grader win a $20,000 gift card and trip to hawaii. however, espn's rules say you have to be 18 or older to
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play. espn is investigating, but win or not of course, sam had some breaking rights, hopefully, you know, worth a price to his parent or something so they can invest the money but 12? >> out done by a 12 year old. just saying. all the rest of us? >> the madness. >> are you smarter than a sixth grader? apparently not no, no. >> getting close to 6:00. coming up in the next hour, new surveillance video released in the kidnapping after woman who works on jewelers row we're live with the clues police are hoping will help lead to the suspect. and talk about a jackpot? how airline passengers unknowingly paid the tsa half million dollars last year. we have that story for you coming up at 6:00. we
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news". you might want to grab your umbrella before you leave this morning, and make sure to keep it hand i for the rest of the week it looks like. looking at a lot of rain thereon storm scan3. meteorologist, katie fehlinger on the skydeck this morning, and some damp and dreary days ahead. you finally had to use the umbrella out there. >> indeed i d i look at the pain glass before i opened the door to get out here. oh, there we go. it is raining. ugh. but we do have umbrellas on hand here, so just grab yours as you guys said, that's all you need. we'll be fine here today. we keep the warmth, no heavy winter coats required thank goodness, we take you back in time here actually look forward, in terms of the temperature trend. average hi, 60. we over achieved by 15 degrees yesterday. and hit 75. but we are going on little bit of roller coaster here in the next couple of days, bun thing that does stay constant, not the temperature but this, we will see not just today but tomorrow and then thursday, and friday, as
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