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fire fighters battling a a fire in the bucks county homemade a difficulties conferry after putting out flames, home owner is found dead inside. we are live with the obstacle that is slowed down fire fighters battling those flames. good morning, it is hot new trend for teens want to look like kylie jenner, now the reality tv star respond to the dangerous stunt that could permanently, damage someone's mouth. that is coming up. but first let's check traffic and weather together on the three's, katie, good morning. >> good morning everyone. today marks the the a arrival of yet another frontal boundary this was a cold front. it will live up to its name sending our temperatures to 10 degrees below average by tomorrow. as it crosses through some gusty thunderstorms come with it. we will time those out and give you all of the impact you need to know, coming up, vittoria. welshing traveling out and about right now it is not so
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much of a milk bag. it is still quiet and serene for the most part. the it is 5:30. take a look the a the cue kill expressway around 202. it is great. throughout your western suburbs and downtown philadelphia however when the rush comes in, things will change as we wait the in the wings for that. new back to the desk, erika and ukee. fire tears through that home in bucks county. >> one man is dead, now the at tension focuses on what complicated fighting those flames. "eyewitness news" reporter j a an carabao joins us from plumstead township to tell us more about it, jan good morning. >> reporter: ukee and erika, good morning. fire officials confirmed that one man died in the huge house fire here in plumstead. they are not providing any identification, they only say he is 58 years old and lived a alone. no one else at home or injured. this 58 year-old man however is dead, the scene is cleared but the the the investigation continues. this is chopper three video over the the scene last night as fire burned out of control. the the the flames broke out
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here in the 6600 block of point pleasant pike in plumstead around 7:45 last night. when crew is a arrived they found heavy fire in the back of the home and a partial collapse back there eventually. it took dozens of fire fighters an hour to income down the the flames and took all night to extinguish the fire and clean out the scene. one man 58 did not make it out. fire fighters found the rick tim as they sifted through the ruble overnight. he was found on the first floor. fire officials say house was cluttered which made fighting the the fire even more difficult. >> the 911 calls came in and said that there was at least one person inside, the gentlemen's car was out front and they said car was out there he was inside. there was a lot of material up side the house he had a lot of things in the house, i don't know if it was hording but it was close. there was a lot of stuff lot of things in the house. >> reporter: so this house went up quickly and gave fire
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fighters a challenge to catch up with those flames. it took a very long time to extinguish a fire. at this .1 man, 58 years old, dead, no id and too early to determine a cause. this investigation is ongoing. live from plumstead jan carabao for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". a robbery victim risk her life to stop a state police office shore stole her purse. surveillance showed a man running away with the bag after he flashed a badge at fifth second and cedar in west philadelphia she hospital in the window as it sped away before letting go down the the block. police say that carries a newer model dark colored nissan ultimate altima. lets get to katie, good morning. >> good morning everyone. new cold front yep another one is slate todd arrive and clear the delaware valley today and right now it would appear it is bringing in wet weather but we are in the finding anything just yet at the local level. we will start off by taking
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you outside and showing you more regional zoom on storm scan as we track this latest frontal boundary. bulk of moisture confine just down wind of lakes erie and then as well as that back toward north of the ohio river. so ohio indiana getting in on. that here locally it would appear we have a sprinkle here and there most of it is not hitting the ground w that said as we go outside just one view, live neighborhood network at boardwalk plaza in rehoboth, dry board for now that is key phrase, for now because eventually we will to have deal were not just showers but gusty thunderstorms. currently the wind is also pretty tame, that will change with time. our temperatures are for the in most part in the low to mid 40's but at a the a airport we are winning out with the mildest air that we have got right now at 50. as morning progresses we will start off with some sunshine. it looks like a nice beginning to the morning which we cannot have said for the last two days, but by noon time probably right have after lunchtime, that coal front will start to roll role on in. we have showers and gusty then are storms n other word, heavy downpours embedded therein and
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very strong wind. i can see gusts as high as 50 miles an hour, for some of you and possibly small sized hail. so they pack a punch, that is for sure. with that said in the wake of the front the the cold air reenforcement return much cooler air arrives and we will be stuck witt, it looks like to round out the the rest of our workweek. we will tell you just how cool it will get, in the minutes ahead, vittoria. >> thanks very much, katie good morning everyone. right the now traveling on the majors we are seeing rush hour pick up ever so slight thely on i-95. we have a very serious accident we will talk to you about in a second in the north east as well. traveling the schuylkill expressway at 76 right around the stretch of 202 headlights coming towards you would be eastbound, taillights would be westbound and you will notice that we have a good amount of space in between the vehicles so it is indicating we are not in rush hour but we are starting to see a few more cars on the roadways. same thing for 42 freeway traveling will north bound when we see these headlights merge together you know rush hour is not the too far away. if you won't be jumping on the
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majors, until about main 30 to 35 minutes, that is when we will have a full blown rush hour so be prepared for. that use extra caution throughout the north east on the roosevelt boulevard very serious accident, compromising both the the southbound and northbound lanes at ryan avenue. it is inner drive that they have been intermittently closing on both side. the accident occurred on the northbound side so if you can stick to the outer drive as you maneuver around it. traveling on the westbound side of the pennsylvania turnpike from willow grove to virginia drive we have construction which is blocking two left lanes be mine full of that. good news, no delays for mass transit, things at the the airport are moving well, erika. right now, it is 5:36. in business news this morning your home office could be in line for a make over. >> and another company getting in the phone business. money watch's jill wagner joins us from the new york stock exchange. hey jill, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, ukee ander contact google will could be launching its own wireless phone service as early as today. according to the wall street journal, customers with pay
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for data a they use to make even if calls or search the internet. guying ol mostly route calls through wifi which will cut down on cost. it is all about corporate earnings on wall street, mcdonald's and coca cola will report today. yesterday the dow jones fell 85 points, nasdaq gained about 20. it isn't just amazon that is delivering packages by drone u.s. postal service has narrowed down the companies bidding to build its new delivery trucks and one company offers a truck that doubles as a drone launcher. it could carry a package weighing up to 10-pound. martha stewart wants to make over your home office. her new office line will be sold exclusively at staples. it includes stationary, storage and organizational products. she says the goal, to create a beautiful, well organized home office space. ukee and erika. >> pretty nice. >> looks nice. >> thanks, jill. engineering will be out in south jersey, rather in the neighborhood there to figure
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out what is causing this huge sink hole . look at how close it comes to the fence. this is threatening two homes in burlington county. it is happening on east front street in florence township. a couple who lives in one of those homes says they have watched landslide develop overtime but erosion really pick up steam over the past few months. >> the rain was just pouring through there and it was just, a steady stream of water down to the river. >> after the most recent round of storms municipal workers found an abandoned storm train leaking accelerating that erosion problem. update to the story first reported on cbs-3 philadelphia police say a child bought what they believe is heroin to a school, new special victims unit is investigating how we got it. it was around lunchtime at william cramp elementary school when a first grader, pulled 14 baggies from his backpack and showed it to his classmates. police suspect bags were filled with her win. two student net filed police
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and a lunchtime aid. >> my son goes there in first grade and what if he would have gotten a chance to get to it, something worse might have happened. >> this letter is a a reminder to please check your child's school bag every day and remove anything that does not belong at a school. happening today, man tried to assassinate president ronald reagan is said to return to the washington courtroom. hearing is scheduled on whether john hinkley can leave a mental hospital. his attorneys are asking that he live full-time with his mother in virginia. hinkley, who is now 59, shot reagan on march 30th, 1981, a jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity. your time 5:39. dangerous virus spreading through poultry, we will tell but drastic steps being taken to stop the the out break. also ahead a pennsylvania neighborhood is littered with toilet paper but neighbors don't think thinks work of the pranksters.
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where they say all of that trash came from, nicole. it is call the kylie jenner challenge and doctors say a it is a dangerous way to plump your pout, coming up hear straight from the lips of youngest kardashian.
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hundreds of people are planning a demonstration in baltimore in reaction to the mysterious death of 25 year-old freddie gray, while in police custody. the just advertise department has launched an investigation to determine if any civil rights were violated. residents in northeastern pennsylvania find white stuff sprinkled all over their front yards and it was not snow. neighbors not far from scranton believes a passing plane, dumped toilet paper and shredded plastic bags on their property overnight. they called the federal aviation administration and an investigation is ongoing now. neighbors who live and work nearby say it is just we say a stinky situation. >> it is nuts. a plane drops stuff out of the sky, on someone's yard.
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i mean that is just crazy. i have never seen something like that were. >> it doesn't have that much of a smell. >> faa plans to collect samples of debris and take it to the lab with testing. they are also pinpointing which aircraft was in the air space of the houses at the time. neighbors say they saw it falling. lets get traffic and weather together, katie by the weather watchers. >> they are up and adam with us this morning and good morning everyone. we will check in quickly. temperatures are for the most part in the mid 40's but there are a a few out liars like in one of the more remote suburbs in central, new jersey and mark sent in from new jersey 35 degrees, just a couple cloud right new but with these kind of temperatures you are right, the wind will have, some teeth later on. we will take you further inland toward cherry hill where lynn is reporting 46 degrees. very light wind. a few clouds for her. she said don't forget a
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sweater. umbrella a for later today. it is a chilly start. we will dodge some showers and gusty thunderstorms this have afternoon. it depend when you need that umbrella which we will talk b gilbertsville eileen has a handful of cloud. thirty-nine chilly degrees and brings being with that temperature when you wake up and walk out the door this morning. here's where it is coming from. we have our same storm system producing, yes some snow showers up across the great lakes, some cold core with this and here's the latest boundary. secondary front. bulk of moisture over indiana and ohio and that crosses through later today. we will dodge not just gusty thunderstorm that pack wind with gusts as high as 50 miles an hour out of those generally 12 to 5:00 p.m. from west to east but small sized hail. the good news for our phillies, it is all out of here by this evening. perhaps a lingering shower, wind will be out there but bulk end brunt of the frontal boundary will have crossed on through south philadelphia and every where else. that is good news, right?
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it is earth day. if you get outside and partake in the events, ears perked f you hear thunder head inside. you never want to miss around with storms. it is a quiet start to the day. storminess arrives later on. then it cools down, big time vittoria. we have some good news there, thanks, katie. unfortunately i have to follow that up with unfortunate news. traveling throughout the northeast section of philadelphia, we have an accident on the roosevelt boulevard that occurred on the northbound side between ryan avenue and borbeck. we have gotten word that this accident is fatal. we have been dealing with intermittent lane closures as a result of this incident on both the southbound and north bound side, so if you are traveling in and around this area i would stick to the outer drives if you can this incident occurred on the inner drive. we will keep you updated on that. moving to the the vine street expressway in, delays, just yet, heading to the schuylkill heading to i-95, no construction, it is a straight shot in either direction.
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ben franklin bridge looking beautiful, rest of the bridges in problems. however, if you are traveling in parts of the schuylkill and even i-95 i would anticipate, ever so slow down in the spots around city avenue and schuylkill. then on i-95 traveling around cottman avenue and girard. we are still early for a rush hour but give it, 15 or 20 minutes. when you are on the road give updated information about traffic backups with the new cbs philly traffic app and down load the app new on itunes or even google play, ukee. well, farmers in the midwest are struggling to contain the biggest out break of bird flu in the you had in 30 years. now highly infectious h5n2 virus has hit egg and poultry producers in 13 states. so far the largest single out break of the flu has been at a farm in iowa. crews there are starting to out nice 3.8 million hens. current strain can kill a flock of bird in under 48 hours, abe experts say, there is little threat to humans.
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>> you would have to have contact with basically a live poultry market. that is not a concern for someone eating an egg. >> the federal government is working on a possible vaccine to fight the virus. on your cbs-3 healthwatch this morning more evidence that a cup have of joe may protect against breast cancer. new international study shows coffee inhibits growth of tumors. research found patients on tamoxifen had lower risk if they drank at least two cups a day. so drink up. also promising news this morning for parents. new research shows no connection between vaccines, and autism. researchers studied the vaccine that protect is a begins measles mumps and rubela, the study public in the journal of the american medical association included a hundred thousand children. researchers found that the mmr vaccine was not associated with the increased risk even if the child's older siblings have have autism.
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5:48. this is wild. in the latest social media challenge some teenagers are attempting to plump up their lips like reality tv star kylie jenner. videos are now popping up on you tube. "eyewitness news" reporter nicole brewer joins with us this new craze doctors call very dangerous income coal. >> this is a crazy one. thanks to the hash tag kylie jenner challenge the duck face is in longer just a annoying. the doctors say it is down right dangerous. but that has not stopped it from trending on twitter. this is video of teenagers taking part in the pout plumping trend they locate a shot glass or bottle of some kind insert their lips and then they suck. that causes the lips to inflate. in the only does it make you look silly but doctors say it is a risky trick that could result in broken blood vessels, lacerations and even stitches. we wanted to know what the reality tv star let had to say about this disturbing trend.
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we are getting it straight from her lips this morning via twitter. her first tweet saying i want to encourage people young girls like me to be yourself and in the be afraid to experiment with your look. the next one says, i'm not here to try to encourage people, young girls to look like me or to think this is the way they should look. so again she's just kind of voicing her opinion on all this it has becoming a trending top inning on twitter. just that self expression does not involve a physics experiment on your face, you should be fine. if you need proof, just search hash tag kylie jenner challenge gone wrong not pretty. >> all of the reports show it is just not good. >> thanks, nicole. 5:49. before you walk out the door katie update today's stormy forecast when we do, traffic and weather together on the three's. an embarrassment ben afflict apologizes. he attempted to cover up some of his family's history.
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but first here's is what coming up tonight on evening prime time viewing on cbs-3. afflict.
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this is the "name your price" tool. it gives you options based on your budget -- it's a piece of cake. i was told there would be cake. get a free quote at progressive.com. the word is, regret for academy award winner ben afflect. >> the actor admitted in a facebook post that he asked producers of the pbs show finding your routes to he had it out an ancestor who owned slaves. afflect was embarrassed adding he regrets attempts he made to hide it from the public. revelation came to light after e-mails about afflect's shame were published by whistle blower site wikileaks. prince william is officially on paternity leave as he and his wife kada wait
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the birth of their second child any day now. >> he completed his last face of the pilot training early. william is on unpaid leave until the baby is born. had kate gone in the labor while the tubing was at work he would have had a two hour drive back to london. >> momma would not have been happy, i'm sure. >> lets get you at 5:53 and check with katie on a clear morning for us. >> it is a clear morning but it will change as the the day goes on. it is earth day 2015. perhaps we have outdoor plans scheduled. just make sure you are listening up when you head outdoors here this afternoon. we want to take you through statistics and history of earth day and where it comes from why we celebrate it. it was founded by a united states senator gaylord nelson in 1970. it is an annual event to demonstrate environmental protection. a lot of outdoor activities planned today but you have this frontal boundary that continues to roll role east. a as we go to the afternoon
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specifically the window i would say 12:00 to 6:00 p.m. give or take, all crossing through from west to east. thunderstorms will come through with strong gusts as well as the the possibility of small sized hail. my advice as you get ready to walk out the the door this morning secure loose objects patio furniture, your trash can, and an umbrella. not the worst idea if you plan to be out for the of afternoon time frame with localized downpours a concern victoria. unfortunately we have that accident side ways in the north east fatal accident that has been reported. the incident occurred on the northbound side between tyson avenue and ryan. owe right in the mayfair section of philadelphia a as a result of that incident on the boulevard they have been doing intermittent lane blockages as they investigate. stay to the outer drive of the roosevelt boulevard in and around this area, if you can we are starting to see rush hour on i-95 and schuylkill elsewhere so stay with us, we will be right back
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today is earth day. >> there are things you can do to make the world a better place. here is the big blue mash will will, earth day started in 1970 today there is more than 22,000 organizations and a 192 countries cleaning up, planting gardens and trees and doing other good deed today. you can get a list of local activities on the web site at cbs philly.com but katie says if you want to go outside, you have have have to be careful outside this afternoon. we will be right back.
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three, katie has your forecast coming up in just a couple of minutes. also, this is breaking news, looking live right new at a busy stretch of the boulevard, it is shut down in the north east as police investigate a faith willal accident. you can see the car, slammed in the tree there. vittoria has details and the detours coming up in just a moment. but first a house fire in bucks county leaves a man dead. this morning we are learning why it the took hours for fire fighters, to put out those flames. "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabao has that story. we will get to jan in just a moment. here are images from the house fire where we're told a man 58 years old was found dead inside. a big obstacle for fire fighters we're told there was a large amount of debris inside that home and parts of the collapsed

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