assault. city residents celebrated in the streets after that announcement. she said officers never should have arrested freddie gray in the first place. >> i heard your call for no justice, no peace and your peace is sincerely needed, as i work to deliver justice on behalf of this young man. >> one of those officers, edward nero, spent about ten years as a fire fight inner south jersey. "eyewitness news" reporter steve pather on spoke with his former fire chief later today. >> reporter: bomb shell that change the mood in baltimore changed the national conversation and change the lives of six police officer. criminal charges in the arrest of freddie gray. states attorney marilyn mosby is calling gray's arrest unlawful, his death a homicide cbs-3 "eyewitness news" has learned that one of the officers is a native of south jersey, former washington township fire fighter 29 year-old edward nero. >> he was a member of our department, for approximately ten years, from 2002, until

about 2012. >> reporter: we spoke to nero's former boss washington township fire department chief john hoffman by phone. he says that the current baltimore officer was one of his best guys. >> during his tenure with us he was an outstanding dedicated fire fighter, he had a very clean record, squeaky clean, they were in trouble. he was an all around good guy for us. >> reporter: nero's family lives in this community sewell, new jersey. we knocked and no comment. >> he was here about 20 years. i never had any problems with the the officers around here. they have been stand up people. >> reporter: charles mckaren says if the officers in baltimore did wrong just advertise should be served but it shouldn't be an indictment of his community especially men and women who served here. >> i don't really think it makes that much difference where he was from. you make a mistake regardless of where you are from it doesn't make a difference. >> reporter: each one of of those six baltimore police officers faces their own

individual set of charges. nero faces two counts of second degree assault, two counts have of office misconduct and one count of false imprisonment. reporting from the washington up to ship fire department headquarters i'm steve pather on for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". stay with "eyewitness news" for continuing coverage of the the unrest in baltimore we will have the very latest on air and always, at our web site at cbs philly.com. three former allies of new jersey governor chris christie were charge in connection with the bridge gate scandal today as "eyewitness news", new jersey reporter cleve bryan report, one pled guilty and implicated two others in that scheme. >> of what occurred, that was in 2013. >> reporter: with his lawyer supplying the apology david wildstein pleaded guilty to orchestrate september 2013 traffic jam to punish the mayor of fort lee, new jersey for not endorsing chris christie's reelection. for his cooperation he faces two federal charges while

prosecutors are pursuing nine counts against bridget kelly and bill barron. >> they deliberately waited until monday september 9th which was the first day of school in fort lee to ratchet up injury to residents. >> reporter: authorities say kelly, christie's former deputy chief of staff ed barone appointe to the new york and new jersey worked with wildstein to cover up their plot as a traffic study. they say wildstein's account of what happened isn't true. >> did he not commit any of the acts for which he stand accused. by contrast, no one disputes that david wildstein is a criminal and a liar. >> i am not a liar and i never lied to anyone about the george washington bridge issue. >> reporter: u.s. attorney paul fishman says barron, wildstein and kelly are only people being charged with the conspiracy to create a traffic jam. he would not comment on a connection to the house in governor christie and

governor's office, and and in newark i'm cleve bryan cbs-3 "eyewitness news". state senate president in new jersey steve sweeney weighed in on the indictment today. >> sad. it is, even more outrageous then being the intentionally chose to the beginning of the school, i mean what sick mind does that. >> reporter: bridget kelly and bill barron will make their initial court a appearances in federal court on monday. since sunday, two rental trucks have been reported stolen in philadelphia. >> police have no one to suspect terrorism but with the broad street run this weekend they are extra cautious. "eyewitness news" reporter todd quinones has very latest on this investigation. >> reporter: popularity of the broad street run is a concern for police, right now, to be clear, investigators have no reason to suspect terrorism but with two stolen rental rance missing and a race on sunday they don't want to take any chances the fbi has been notified. >> whenever the home land

security unit, all of our investigations, are always here, and they are always interested, we always make sure that we never let an opportunity pass by where we could have connect the dots. >> reporter: chief inspector joe sullivan head up philadelphia police department's home land security division and hoping that the public can track down the the two stolen rental trucks, on sunday police say this man was one of three who stole a ford cargo van similar to this one from this u-haul at 101 west hunting park avenue. suspects conned a homeless man into opening up a bank account and they gave him just enough money to get a debit card to rent the u-haul. >> i was just directed to return, and they said that there was they would need us later to return the van and at whiz time he would be paid, needless to say he was never contacted again. >> reporter: on tuesday this penske rental location at 12th and w in south philadelphia was also targeted as a larger cargo truck like this one that was stolen.

police are worried about a possible connection to terrorism and they believe a more common criminal motivation is likely. >> most likely scenario is just that, they are transporting materials on whether legal or illegal and they don't want to be connect back to the van. >> reporter: u-haul van has a air zone license plate number of ag30928. penske has a indian plate number of 224-5222. at this point police right now don't know if these two cases are connected or just a coincidence. reporting a along broad street, in south philadelphia, todd quinones for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". taking a look at our weather we had a cooler day to day but it will warm up for weekend. welcome news there meteorologist kathy orr is live on the sky deck with a first look at the forecast, the kathy. >> wind have died down, jessica. pretty comfortable. cloudy, cool but good evening to be outdoors, go for a run jog or walk and won't break a

sweat. that will change. look at storm scan three, we will have cloud and watching that low pressure the the coastal low continues to spin and keeping showers around the the coastal planes that will move away and lose its grip on that region and those skies will be clearing as early as tomorrow. now this afternoon temperatures warmed up in the 60's we're still sitting at 61 in philadelphia. sixty-three in allentown. fifty-nine in temperatures falling through 50's with partly to mostly cloudy skies through the evening, by 9:00 o'clock 56. fifty-three by 11:00 p.m. jet stream lifts to the north over weekend and temperatures will be climbing in the 80's, and once they get there they will stick around for a while. we will talk more about that coming up with the seven day forecast when i join you inside. >> kathy thanks. two bomb threats at a bucks county high school forced an evacuation and early dismissal. chopper three over the the scene at harry tru school in levittown. school district says police swept ground and determined

there were no bombs. they are looking for whom ever made those threats. surveillance video unearthed a brazen crime as a thief steals shrubbery in broad daylight this happened in bustleton. man basically ripped this bush right out of the ground. you see him struggle for a while but then finishes the job. home owner captured this on surveillance video and up loathed it on line, hoping that the on line community could help, identify this thief. >> it is a bush, he cannot even replant it because he broke roots it will die. i have no word to explain. >> reporter: well, it is just a bush but it cost several hundred dollars. michelle says entire situation is unnerving. police are looking for that man tonight her son by the way put that video on facebook. pretty awful. stay right here on "eyewitness news" we have a iteam follow-up. this former travel agent suggest was due in court after stealing tens of thousands of

dollars from his client, up next charlotte hoffman shows us new legal trouble that he now find himself in, beasley. here at nova a care complex the the eagles introduced their first round draft pick nelson agholor an impressive young man man we will talk bit coming up in sports

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he is helping to find heroes lost at sea. we will see a moment that it happened, and the the clue that led them to solve the the mystery, of these mia a's, that is tonight on cbs-3 "eyewitness news" at 11:00 o'clock. time is now up for a former travel agent who is on the run from justice. today a judge ordered a warrant for his arrest. >> cbs-3 i team has been investigating new jersey man who stole tens of thousands of dollars from clients. charlotte hoffman has more on the iteam follow-up. >> jackie myers and her sisters are still looking for justice four years after they were ripped off. >> it is the judicial system that is really, really making me feel, unloved.

>> reporter: in a special iteam report we told but alice the former travel agent who stole more than $67,000 from 20 people who hired hester to book. >> a once in a lifetime vacation. >> reporter: he pled guilty and avoided prison sentence when he promised to fully repay his victims. began making payments but stopped a year ago still owing more than $40,000. the iteam set out to get some answers. he has been running from the iteam. is there a reason you why stole those people money. running for just advertise too. gloucester county judge christine allen jackson ordered him to list his gibbstown hound ace sell his mare saides to sell his victims back but he has not. today he was due back in court. when he didn't show. >> i will issue a bench warrant for mr. hester. >> i'm tired of. the let's go get him. where is our justice. we are law abiding citizens.

>> victims are saying enough is enough what do you say to them. >> i agree they were ranked. they have suffered enough. and this man has not perform as he should have while on probation. you have been given chances. >> reporter: chances, in a system these victims say is broken. >> what are you teaching the kids, go out there and do anything you feel like doing because all you got to do is play the game, and nothing happens to you. that is what you are teaching them. >> reporter: now the the warrant for hester's arrest requires he be held without bail until he is brought back in front of the judge allen jackson. for the iteam i'm charlotte hoffman for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> we can understand frustration there. on this first day of may low wage work are make their voices heard as they call for an increase in the minimum wage. >> unaudible. >> a demonstrators marched from the mcdonald's on 40th and walnut to clark park in west philadelphia.

rallying, to let pennsylvania lawmakers know that they want the minimum wage boosted from $7.25 an hour to $15 per hour. proposal by state senator daylen leach seeks to to just that. >> the problem with the wage is you work full-time hard back breaking work and live in poverty. that is what the minimum wage was designed to do. with the greatest income in equality in hundred years it is not an appropriate way to be. >> leach is seeking co sponsors for that bill and hopes to have hearings in the coming weeks. today, freedom fighters commemorated start of the 1965 demonstration that is ultimately lead to the desegregation of girard college. those demonstrations led by cecil b more, the then, president of the philadelphia branch of the naacp lasted nearly eight months. mayor nutter thank the original freedom fighters, some of whom were in attendance, and thank them for

their perseverance. >> all of you, that so many of us, have to give thanks and a appreciation. every time that there was a fight, you were there. >> after the ceremony marchers walk 1.3 miles around the college walls. welshing seminole events in this cities history no doubt. new at 6:00 a generous donation in memory of the philadelphia police officer and philadelphia fire fighters, both of whom were killed in the line of duty. >> geno's steaks presented $10,000 check to the fire lieutenant joyce craig and another $10,000 check to the robert wilson. their names were also added to the memorial plaque outside of the restaurant. >> it makes me feel good, as a philadelphian, that i can give light and hope for families to make it easier. >> reporter: lieutenant craig died while fighting a fire last september and wilson was killed during an attempted robbery in march.

well, it will be a great weekend, to maybe get out sit outside at geno's or great eateries around our city. >> um-hmm. >> soak up the sun. >> go outside enjoy, don't work out too hardest specially on sunday. >> okay, i won't no problem. >> no war fridays chris. i'm kidding. weather-wise we're talking about you chris it will feel much more like summer. i like to tease him. take a look outside a beautiful view of the river and beyond it our beautiful sky line, center city philadelphia looking nice and on the horizon. you can see skies beginning to clear from west to east as a storm system pull as way. we will like that. weather is only going to get better. storm scan three you can see breaks in the cloud. we did have a few sprinkles earlier to see that northerly wind flow through reading berks county, lancaster but that is it. skies clearing, and we are going to be seeing a really nice weekend. something to look forward to. sixty-one. same in wilmington.

reading is 59. fifty-nine in millville. lets go down the shore because we have a significant ocean influence that north/northeasterly wind keeping it cool, avalon 51. 10 degrees cooler from philadelphia. cape may at 52, rehoboth beach delaware 50. fifty-two in oc. barnegat lights at 50 degrees. ocean water temperature still chilly. it will be warming up heading down for the day or weekend. saturday look for northerly wind a at 65. wind is southerly on sunday temperature 72. feeling really nicetown there we will watch as our storm pulls from the coast. temperatures in the 70's. the increasing sunshine for saturday. that would be the quieter day of the weekend. summer sizzle moves in for sunday. high temperatures around 80 degrees. high pressure to the south. southeasterly flow make sure you put on spf35 or 50 because this is a a strong may sunshine. during the day monday staying in the 80's with mostly sunny skies, this is when we have a

big return flow. we could have humidity as well, we will watch this cold front heading our way by tuesday, that could set off a stray shower or a thunderstorm. this weekend we have a lot going on. we have science carnival saturday 10:00 a.m. temperature 58. by 2:00 p.m. 69 degrees and of course, we have the broad street run on sunday. 8: warmer at 76 degrees. we will have to take a few water breaks. during overnight mainly clear and cool, low of 47. during the day tomorrow high of 73, as we sees into the heat. hour by hour cooling in the morning, get in the walk or run. by noon 66. seventy by 3:00 p.m. 5:00 o'clock temperatures 71. on the exclusive seven day forecast sunday 80. monday 83. tuesday 82 with a shower or storm. keeping an eye on the front that could linger around the region, wednesday warm, thursday and friday, staying hot the with high temperatures in the lower 80's and that is

10 degrees above normal for a change. >> i like it. >> we swing wildly. >> we're crazy. >> yes. there's over two hundred thousand students in philadelphia. jim kenney and tony williams are fighting over public schools versus charters.

i think they're both wrong...it's making sure they all get a good education. teachers should have their contracts respected. they also should be held accountable. and it's wrong philadelphia gets less school funding than other parts of pennsylvania. i'll work with harrisburg to change that. but if they refuse i'll take them to federal court. as mayor i'll do what's right for them.

another big night for eagles fans day two of the craft in chicago. >> today in south philadelphia eagles introduced their new addition and sport director beasley easies at novacare complex where that introduction took place what did you think, beasley. >> i was very impressed with nelson quick smart answers good looking athlete chip kelly was sitting over to the side, beaming, as he watched his new wide receiver, field all of the questions from the philadelphia media. very impressive young man, so impressive that they voted him the captain the at u.s.c., that is a a big time program here's nelson on being named

captain. >> i think i was chosen, to be captain because of the every day operations. those guys felt like, you know, every day i try to hold myself to a high standard and i held them to the same thing. i appreciate what they did. putting me in that position and like i said for somebody big enough for to you do that, it is truly special. >> so tonight, there is more business to take care of they will draft second and third rounds tonight in the nfl draft. eagles picking 52nd and eighty-fourth, their need are still offensive line defensive back and safety. hopefully they can take care of some business. chris and jessica this is an impressive young man. i have listened to these draft choices take microphone, this guy was sharp and he is a communications major. hopefully he plays a long time and does in the take my job. i'm beasley reese new back to you good we hope to see this guy in the end zone for many

years to come, beasley thanks very much. we have breaking news into "eyewitness news". we have heard from st. joseph's university they have canceled remainder of the season for women's softball team thereafter completing an internal investigation into hazing allegation as monk players. >> the university says that there were violations of campus commune standard among the team, we will stay on top and have very latest on "eyewitness news" at ten

thanks for watching "eyewitness news" at 6:00, "eyewitness news" returns at ten on our sister station wpsg the cw philly and as always we are back here on cbs-3 at 11:00. "cbs evening news" comes your way next. they will have new information tonight out of the baltimore reaction to the charges in the freddie gray case there plus new details on all six officers were involved. plus the price of protests as the baltimore businesses are now feeling the pinch. the scott pelley reports the "cbs evening news" from new york.

>> pelley: six baltimore cops are arrested in the death of freddie gray. >> officer caesar goodson is being charged with second-degree depraved heart murder. >> pelley: we'll have reaction on the street of baltimore reaction from the police union and we'll talk to the prosecutor who brought the charges. the earthquake toll rises as the search moves beyond nepal's capital. and steve hartman with a man who set out to rid the world of a playing. >> reporter: you got the last one? >> there aren't any left. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: today, the baltimore prosecutor said arrest of freddie gray was illegal and what happened to him in police custody was murder. six officers are under arrest toni