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it is a very fine misty rain not even showing up on storm scan three but you'll find it the on your windshield. we have a wide view here and stormy weather will be heading in to our neck of the woods and that is coming around here tomorrow but for today we are basically looking at these clouds out there with the mist and possibility of picking up some drizzle as well out of this. very cloudy start to the day and you can see clouds taking a look from palmyra cove nature park across the delaware into the philadelphia area a temperature of 38 degrees. wind are very light this morning and with those light wind it is certainly within the realm of possibility we could find fog in spots too. the it is 38 in trenton. allentown. thirty-five in reading. the 40 at the airport in philadelphia and wilmington. thirty-six in the heart of the south jersey and millville. we are looking at temperatures that will be warming up very slowly and in the very far. 48 degrees, another cool day, 48 is our high temperature probably today. if you will remember yesterday
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and i'm sure you do we will have temperatures in the lower 40's. the slightly better. future weather, we have got clouds out there 3:00 o'clock we have got cloud out there. 7:00 p.m. how about more cloud. by 10:00 o'clock a line of showers coming in the picture. tomorrow afternoon we could be dealing with the more stormy weather out of this as it warms up tomorrow. today though damp chilly breezy, showers possible anytime. rainfall maybe as much as a quarter inch but probably less than that and temperatures continue to run well below average. they don't stay below average. we have a warm day coming up tomorrow and we will check that out just ahead vittoria. >> thanks, so much carol. good morning everyone n regard to the weather affecting your commute right now it is not awful but it is slick and it is damp. i would imagine it will get pretty bad once we see rush hour later on but a as of right now it is still pretty quiet. we will make our way into new jersey. you are commuting in southbound direction there are to delays at all.
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that is taillights here. northbound are headlights making your way around creek road. if you are traveling out and about, you won't notice rush hour but you will notice folks are taking it extra easy as a result of the weather. give yourself some more time 567:89:02. we don't see a rush until 6:00, 6:15. vine street expressway quiet. road are sleeping. you are probably sleeping maybe unless you have your coffee and you are watching us right now but it is all good traveling on the majors. fortunately traveling in bucks county we have an accident still closing mechanicsville road at bensalem between street and century lane. vehicle went in the utility pole there as they continue to work on that knights road is your better alternate. today authorities in south carolina could release dash cam video in connection with this deadly police involved shooting. they are hoping video could shed more light on what happened before officer michael slager fatally shot walter scott during a traffic stop over the weekend. cell phone video shows the officer shooting scott running
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away. scott was unarmed. >> i have watched the video and i was sickened by what i saw. >> slager is behind bars charged with murder and he has been fired from the police force. we are also learning this morning that slager grew up in burlington county new jersey, with more on that lets go to "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabao in medford, jan, good morning. >> reporter: ukee, good morning. thinks lenape high school in burlington county. officer slager attended here as a student in the the late 90's and graduated in 2001. this morning he sits behind bars facing a lifetime in prison or worse, as you mention charged with murder. take a look at his picture. "eyewitness news" was able to speak with neighbors as he was growing up here in south jersey. they remember him as a nice young man. this is his 1999 lenape high school picture from his on line year book. now he is making headlines for
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a graphic video. slager is charge with killing walter scott. he was unarmed on at day in north charleston. neighbors here remember slager growing up in mount laurel. he was a friendly young person went to high school and lived in the area before joining the coastguard and eventually the north charleston police department. one neighbor asked not to be identified because he was friend with the slager family. >> he moved here when he was about 12 i guess. he left five years later. he went in the coastguard but he was a nice kid the whole time he lived here. >> reporter: another neighbor tells us that the slager family actually moved out of mount laurel a couple years ago. in the meantime if this officer is convicted he faces 30 years to life in prison, even the death penalty. we are reporting live from burlington county, new jersey jan carabao for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". she's a mother with an american flag waving in front of her north philadelphia home but federal say keonna a a
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thomas tried to join isis. "eyewitness news" reporter justin finch joins us at the the federal courthouse where thomas is now scheduled for a detention hearing later this afternoon, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, erika, that is right another step in the case against keonna a thomas, unlike other u.s. terror suspects she was in the caught trying to hatch a terror plot but instead her long time desire to travel overseas and join islamic militants that raised red flags. last friday keonna thomas first appeared before a judge saying little more than yes or no. her capture the the result of the fbi's joint terrorism task force and philadelphia police. neighbor gave cbs-3 "eyewitness news" this cell phone video of thomas being cuffed and put in the cruiser. we have obscured face an "s" of the fbi agents. thomas is 30 years old and known as young liones. her tweets caught the high of the feds and date as far
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back as 2013 tweets such as this read if you go we truly knew realities we would be rushing to join our brothers in the the front lines. pray allah except us. thomas has men to make several on line communication was known islamic militants. those live near thomas were surprised to learn that with u.s. flags outside her door is facing charges of plot to go oversees, to sacrifice her life to fight with the islamic state or isil. >> we never necessity who you live next door to. i'm at a a lost for word. >> reporter: prosecutors say she planned to fly to barcelona spain and make her way to journey and join fighters in syria. her lawyers were tight-lipped. >> i don't have any further comment. my office was just appointed. >> we should learn more today. she has been held since last friday. she is only accuse budd if convicted she could face 15 years in prison. we are live outside federal courthouse i'm justin finch for cbs-3 "eyewitness news".
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dzhokhar tsarnaev is quick for his role in the deadly boston marathon bombing two years ago. now the question is will he be sentenced to death? "eyewitness news" reporter nicole brewer joins news our studio with reaction to the the verdict and what comes up next nicole good morning. >> reporter: after finding dzhokhar tsarnaev guilty on all counts that same jury will decide if the 21 year-old terrorist will be executed or sentenced to life without parole. with folded arms tsarnaev fidgeted his way at the verdict looking down at the tea fence table as jury read his fate. after two hours they found him guilty of all 30 counts including conspiracy and deadly use of the weapon of mass destruction. bomb tsarnaev planted with his brother tamerlan claim three lives and injured more than 250 people, nearly two years ago. richard donahue an office shore was injured during a shoot-out that led to dzhokhar's arrest says justice was served. >> it is not a day to celebrate. you can call it a bitter sweet
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victory. i'm in the out there cheering for what happened with you i'm satisfied. >> seventeen of the conviction as begins tsarnaev are capitol charges so he could get the the death penalty but that phase of the trial has yet to be announced. opposition of the death penalty is strong in massachusetts and some polls suggest that the majority of boston residents do not want to see tsarnaev sentenced to death, ukee. nicole, thank you. a delaware man is charged with killing his wife with a ham inner front of their two children. the kent county grand jury has indicted cortez hamilton of smyrna on charge of first degree murder. keisha hamilton vanish january 10th. her remains have never been found. she's still classified as missing. >> we wouldn't have brought the charge if we weren't, you know, assured that we would be able to successfully bring the case to a successful conclusion. it is more challenging then other cases would be. >> keisha hamilton's two children are in the care of her sister.
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philadelphia police have a teenage inner custody after abducting a one year-old in kensington. it started on east clementine street. a 14 year-old took off in her uncle's car. it is believed the teen and child are related. police used the car's on star to track its location. they found it on sidenham street. right now 5:09. another black eye for secret service, latest scandal involving a high ranking official. it looks like a waterfall inside a busy subway station see what cause that had wet mess on the ground. plus trees are toppled after severe storms blow through midwest and one storm chaser had a rough day on the job. another cool cloudy day, car will ol will let you know when it will start feeling like spring once again, back after a short break.
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a chester county dj and photographer is facing charges for several sex crimes. police say danielle milowicki sexually assaulted a woman he met after promising a marylandeling job on craigs list. during the investigation detectives found hundreds of pictures of the child pornography on his computer. milowicki worked as a photographer and dj for wedding, parties and school dances. police are looking for any other possible victims. secret service is facing yet another scandal, high ranking supervisor has been placed on administrative leave and his security clearance suspended have a an alleged sexual assault on a collogue. agency spokesmen would not provide more tea tails of the allegations. he says department of home land security is investigating the incident. president obama is in jamaica a on his way to the hotel, president made an impromptu visit during the the bob marley institute in kings ton. president obama is only second
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varietying president. president reagan visited in 1982. mr. obama is in jamaica a for meetings of caribbean and latin american leaders. check this out right here new york city the subway station is soak in a huge water main break. about 500 people were evacuated from this train after the pipe burst sending water just cascading a all over. you can see it popping up on the streets here aboveground. that gushing water flooded streets in the westville age. officials are working to figure out if the morning's commute will be affect. right now 5:13. for us that rain is not going a away, um. >> in, it is a mist but it is still damp out there you may want if you are trying to protect an article of clothing or your hair due a little covering wouldn't hurt. we are looking at wet boards, this is down in the rehoboth beach area you can see that it still has that misty, rainy, this shouldn't be april kind of looking to it but it is april and we will deal
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witt. those may flowers will be gigantic. they better be as a result of the showers we are finding here in april. new storm scan three just cloud over us. you can see clearing way back, into the central pennsylvania. we're also looking at other areas of precipitation and we will be watching for warmer air to come in here. not to day but as we go through tomorrow much warmer air and also potential for some stormy eras well so cold front will be coming through into that warmer air and that can trigger these showers and then are storms throughout the afternoon on friday and friday evening. otherwise this is just kind of a quiet weather pattern, 40 in philadelphia wilmington. 38 degrees in trenton at this point. we are finding temperatures staying in the 40's but as this stationary front comes through a warm front tomorrow we will get to 75 degrees showers, thunderstorms and cold front comes through an hour temperatures to drop. but they are great. they are in the 60's.
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we will get sunshine. finally a dry weekend and not as windy as last week even. our future weather just shows cloud around here through tonight and rain showers, later on tonight our high temperature this afternoon vittoria we will get all the way before we get these storms later on, tomorrow, we will get all the way to 48 degrees. >> yipe, carol. >> holding on by a thread. good morning, right new weather is impacting your commute in regard to making it slick and wet and when that happens it tend to be accident prone. like if you are traveling in bensalem bucks county mechanicsville road closed as a result of the accident between street road and century lane and vehicle in the utility pole at this point. traveling in and around this area knights road or murray avenue is a good alternate but this is a good indication even though we are not seeing too much of the rush hour and things are fairly quiet, it definitely still is a another just situation in regard to
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what could occur in your commute this morning. take it easy. schuylkill expressway we have a disable vehicle right around gulph mills but our majors are quiet. in delays for mass transit. erika. dash cam video could be released by police in south carolina this could shed light on what led up to a deadly shooting over the weekend. is there a local connection to mike ago thomas slager seen here in the 1999 lenape high school year book. slager lived in burlington county back then. the now former police officer faces murder charges in the the shooting death of the unarmed black motorist. exclusive video of keonna thomas arrested last week. thomas faces a federal court a appearance today a accused of trying to join isis. dzhokhar tsarnaev is guilty on all count in the the boston marathon bombing. same injury that i quick tsarnaev will decide his punishment this week. he could be sentenced to death. your time is 5:17. get ready to check your
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happening today the former revel casino in atlantic city is getting it power cut off. a ac r revel energy's partner which is their utility service say cut off will be effective at noon time today. a lawyer for power plant said they tried to reach a interim agreement with the new revel owner glenn straub but was unsuccessful. philadelphia's mayoral candidates meet again tonight the for another forum that starts at 6:00 at the community college of philadelphia's main campus. yesterday several democratic hopeful is a attended a breakfast for um near independent mall. former d.a. lynn abraham was
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there one day after she collapsed during a debate at the kimmel center. abraham said she faint because of blue blood pressure and she had not eaten all date. candidates focused on hot butt object issues as city wage tax and primary is may 19th. tonight's forum which will be maryland rated by myself will be airing, on cbs 36789 it airs saturday night at 11:35. catch it at 11:00 sunday morning on our sister station the cw philly. pennsylvania governor tom wolf is visiting a philadelphia school to push his education budget plan. he is heading to kensington health sciences a contacted my this morning. back in february he visited thorndale. mr. wolf wants to raise state taxes on income sales, and natural gas drilling. the machine would i help fun more than $4 billion for education, aid and property tax cuts. welshing golf legend proves he still has it. see him turn back the clock
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a a little misty out there, carol. >> yes playing misty now stop playing misty for me. war lag at a day like yesterday. it will be that same cloudy way too cool for april feel. cloud are out there now. mist is out now as we look at ben franklin bridge from the field camera. it is a glummy start to the day. it is glummy in rehoboth beach and a few areas of reduced visibility because of the fog. expect to find this as we go through the the day and then storm scan three showing some cloud and showers to the south and showers to the west. we will find a stormy pattern
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setting up as we go through the the second half of the day tomorrow even though tomorrow morning we could be starting with some of the quieter precipitation, just drizzle. temperature 40 in philadelphia, and we are on our way this afternoon to a high of 48 degrees, with the drizzle, and mist from time to time. lets check on these roads with vittoria. >> thanks, carol good morning everyone. on the majors we are not dealing with too much but in the neighborhood we have a few things like traveling in bucks county and bensalem we have an accident situation closing mechanicsville road between street road and century lane a vehicle in the utility pole there best alternate knights road or murray avenue. just a good indication to take it extra easy because as carol was talking about with this wet weather it is slick on the majors. taking to you pottstown where we have a fire location closing shoemaker road between route 100 king street. best alternate is glassgo and manantawny road if that is
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where you are headed. we have a disable vehicle on the schuylkill eastbound gulph mills in the blocking any of the lanes, so far, so good without any signs of a rush hour delay just yet and in delays for mass transit. in sports phils and red sox again in south philadelphia with the phillies looking for win number two on the young season. the last night aaron h arang did well. he took a one hitter in the event inning and struck out eight red sox. he was ringing them up. right fielder jeff francoeur hit his first home run since june 2013 a three run shot that put phillies ahead. phillies win four-two. david bee can an gets the start late are tonight. jonathan papelbon came on for 49 out save. he told the boston globe he doesn't feel like a philly and have the game he was asked about these remarks. >> the red sox run deep in me. it is who i became as a pitcher. that will always stick with me in matter what.
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>> pap he will been stand at 107 saves, six more and he will overtake the the phillies all time lead. flyers are back in action tonight at well against carolina hurricanes. there are just two games left, in the flyers season. the sixers and wizard last night, in south philadelphia and wizard led wire to wire bradley beal had his second straight good game a against sixers. he had 21. nerlens noel left the game in the fourth quarter with a sprained ankle. the here's how it happened, take care of that young fellow. they put him in the boot. there are three games left in the sixers season. sixers in chicago saturday night. the masters, he is off today at augusta national. jack nicholas arnold palmer and gary player, the big three, t off at 7:40 this morning. check out jack yesterday at par three competition, this is 130-yard and golden bear shot just beyond the pin. he knows how you to play this hole.
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watch the backspin. you know what it will do because i wouldn't be showing it to you, bang right there a hole in one. seven five-year old six time masters champion can still swing the the club. yeah, everybody knows i'm still looking for my first ace. one of these days. one of these days. check out highlights from the the masters tonight at the 11:35 right here on cbs-3 right after "eyewitness news" at 11:00 ape right after masters highlights it is the the late show with david letterman. erika, back to you. we will take you to a course ukee, you will get a hole in one no time. >> that hurt erika, that hurts. 5:27. coming up in the next half an hour of "eyewitness news" we are learning new details about the deadly police shooting in south carolina jan. it turns out that officer also has deep routes in south jersey i'm jan carabao reporting live outside his former high school and we will speak to his old neighbors. jan, thanks.
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this south carolina former police officer is behind bars locked up on murder charges for shooting an unarmed black man. now we are learning about ties that he had to our area. good morning everyone we're told he lives or live in his old neighborhood where we spoke to somebody who used to know him. it is another damp dreary start to the the day so when will it start to feel like april? monday was so nice. first lets check traffic and weather together. carol, give us an idea. >>
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