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humid we may not have reached summer but thermometer doesn't lie mercury into the 90's now and thinks just the beginning of what may be a heat wave. well, good evening i'm chris may. i'm jessica dean. we will send it out to meteorologist kathy orr live from ocean city tonight. kathy, people are going how hot will it get. >> well, temperatures will continue to sore over the next couple of days and yes we are going for a heat wave, widespread 90's across the delaware veil, down at our shore points a different story catching a break here. we are on the boardwalk in ocean city and you can see behind me the beautiful view from the ocean city music pier. the board are busy because weather is hot at home. everyone is flocking to the shore. today in philadelphia we have had a high of 29 degrees. the record 95 setback in 1986 and we will challenge another record tomorrow. take a look at the numbers, in the region, philadelphia right now we are at 91. allentown 88. trenton 90.
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in atlantic city at the a airport it is 88 degrees. here is a look at our first forecast by 7:00 o'clock temperatures falling in the 80's. by 9:00 a chance of the shower or storm northeast specially in berks and lehigh. temperature 83. and then by 11:00 o'clock we are down to 80 degrees which is balmy for this time of the year. a heat advisory goes into effect for tomorrow, more heat more humidity, and friday, this is a widespread advisory, it will feel like it is 90 degrees or greater across the delaware valley so please take it easy, we are in for the hottest stretch of the entire spring season. back here live, i did mention that the boards are very busy. we have a lot of people here and we are hosting our own alex's lemonade stand right here at ninth street where we're teaming up with rita's for eighth year. in the region, stop by and make a donation. i will be back with the forecast for weekend from the city to the shore coming up. >> looking great thanks very much. now to an "eyewitness news" tv exclusive a local
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actor's life changed this week after he became victim of the hit and run. "eyewitness news" reporter diana rock other is live at jefferson hospital. you spoke with this man about moving forward and finding the the person who did this. >> reporter: that is right michael toner remains in the icu at jefferson university hospital. tonight he tells me that he is still very much in shock but not angry at the person who hit him he would only urge them to dot right thing and turn themselves in. >> i'm not going to surround them and say my life is over. >> reporter: bruised, still shaken 68 year-old michael toner is upbeat, but talking about the hit and run accident that took his left leg and nearly claimed his life early tuesday morning from his hospital room. >> i remember walking up 11th street to go through a train station and that is it. after that i just woke up and it was like, two days later
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and i'm's in the hospital looking at people. i had no idea what had happened and i had no idea what happened to my leg. >> reporter: toner, an anchor with the theater company scheduled to perform at the walnut street theater next year, had left for to stop to see friend. he was on his way home from the rain when he was hit crossing the street at 11th and mark. >> i feel traumatized. you know, i can kid around and joke and stuff but it is winning over me a little. >> reporter: toner has no memory and police have november leads. for the last two days he was in a medically induced coma. >> am i angry or hateful to them? i don't think so, no. i mean it was wrong what they did. >> reporter: vietnam vet stage actor and play write was currently working with a company comprised of people with disabilities. >> when i woke up, i thought of that, isn't this so ironic
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that here i am a disable person now. >> reporter: police were not able to find any witnesses or recover any evidence from the scene, toner still has a very long road to recovery ahead. he says he hopes to act again one day about if he can't he will write. live outside jefferson university hospital in center city i'm diana rocco for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> what an incredible spirit he has thanks very much. chopper three over the 2900 block of alabama road in camden today where a teenager was hit this afternoon by a school bus. the 13 year-old was playing with his sister when he reportedly ran into the street and was hit by that bus. he was alert and conscious at the scene and has been taken to cooper university medical center. developing right now prosecutors call it an abuse of trust a south jersey fire chief is accused of viewing and sharing child pornography on his firehouse computer. "eyewitness news" new jersey reporter cleve bryan is live in audubon park camden county
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with the details cleve. >> reporter: jessica, new jersey's attorney general won't say how long they believe the chief has been sharing child pornography out of the firehouse but they say more than a thousand files don't accumulate overnight. what they describe inside was a digital den for illegal pictures and video. >> reporter: authorities say 44 year-old john had more than fighting fires on his a gend, they say chief of the audubon park volunteer fire company used computers at the station to distribute child pornography. >> this was something that the chief of the fire department was doing inside of the firehouse. >> reporter: several agencies investigated teruso after noticing internet activity on the firehouse on the popular child porno fender web site. wednesday night they arrested the chief here and seized computers and storage devices containing more than a thousand pornographic files. >> john need help and john need to pay a rise for what he has done. >> reporter: larry penincome says in one knew what wassing on. >> how do you think he got a waste with doing this here.
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>> we all know how technology is. it is easy to hide stuff. you can hide whatever you want. there was a trust level extended on him as a fire chief working on computers. >> reporter: locals tell us he was at the fire hall all the time almost like he lived here. vehicle park next to the station the mayor says he drove, and what appeared to be a pornographic video in plane view. >> i think he is a scum bag. >> reporter: people say the fire company has a proud tradition. walt ashu says it is creepy thinking chief was so close to his grand kids who are often outside in their swimsuits. >> i'm glad they caught the guy, that is one thing. i feel more at ease thaw found out who it was and what he was doing. >> authorities do not believe at this time that the fire chief had any contact that was inappropriate with children around here. they also think that he was only person at the fire station involved with child pornography and being held in camden county jail on full 150 you this dollars cash bond. at audubon park cleve bryan
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cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> cleve, thank you. police are investigating whether there are more victims of the teacher accused of a sexual relationship with an under age student. police say 31 year-old matthew scavitto taught and coached the 17 year-old victim at the phelps school in malvern. they alleged he showed the boy pornography and sexually boost hemmed throughout the 2013/14 school year. he is now behind bars and police are asking for any other potential victims to come forward. philadelphia's so-called black madam was sentenced to between ten and 20 years in prison for performing illegal buttocks enhancement procedures that killed a british woman and seriously injured another. page winslow faced up to 07 years behind bars after a jury quick her in march of third degree murder, ago rated assault and weapons charge related to the use of the needle. today a relative of winslow told eye bitterness news she was satisfied with the sentence. >> the crime didn't fit the
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woman and media made her out to be somebody who is a monster and she's not. >> she has learned a lot i think she is remorseful heart and hopefully she will live a better life. >> at least for the next ten years she will not be killing any girls in the streets of philadelphia. >> well, with time served winslow could be eligible for parole in seven years. mare michael nutter and archbishop charles chaput announced today they are heading back to rome to make final preparations for pope francis visit to philadelphia this is video from last years visit, the two and a delegation will spend june 22nd through 25th in various meetings, discussing september's world meeting of families and papal visit. in word yet if they will meet with the pope. i will be in rome as the philadelphia delegation meets with vatican officials. our live reports begin january between the second on cbs-3 "eyewitness news". don't forget our coverage continues on line, for more information, go to cbs
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philly.com/papal visit. still to come we will take etan for hope in the effort stretches all the way down the shore, kathy? yes, chris we have alex's lemonade stan at ninth and the boardwalk teaming up with alex and also rita's water ice. thanks, girls for your donation. we are asking folks to stop down and make a donation and we will be here right throughout evening. also i will have the forecast from the city to the poconos to the shore for your weekend coming up. and our volunteers are working hard, they are taking your calls and donations on this ninth annual alex scott a stand for hope tell-a-thon. is there the number, just call them 1.844.977.cbs3 and any amount can help change the life of the child. we will be right
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every day, 720 children diagnosed with cancer worldwide. and alex lemonade stand foundation wants to change that by helping to find a cure, health reporter stephanie stahl hires with break through research funded by alex, this is as close to the miracle as you can get stephanie. >> reporter: first, number to call is 1.844.977.cbs3, to join the fight against
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pediatric cancer. you know researchers have made tremendous stride in finding better treatments, for children. they are changing lives and saving lives. i met one family, that is living proof zach is a nine year-old doing chores on the farms with chickens and in the garden. >> that is awesome. >> i mean, it is just incredible. >> reporter: considering that four years ago zach seemed fine. but he wasn't. >> one of my favorite favorite all time pictures of him. >> reporter: days later they felt a lump under zach's arm he was diagnosed with a rare lymphoma. >> you just think it can't happen to you. >> is this really happening to us? my kid has cancer. wow. it is just shocking. >> reporter: next shocker chemotherapy, that made zach really sick and it didn't work, the cancer came bank. >> one night when i'm putting him to bed he said am i going
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to die from him foam a. i said, zachary, god knows and we don't know, but, you know, we are just going to walk by our faith. >> can you tell us what it was like when were you sick. >> it was not fun. >> reporter: not fun. what was it like. >> tiring and miserable. >> reporter: doctors said the last hope was an experimental drug that showed promise with lung cancer but it hadn't been tested on children with lymphoma. you had to make the decision to allow your son to be a begin i pig for this drug. >> it was scary giving him a drug we knew nothing about that wasn't tested. >> you are in a position where you realize you are running out of options. >> reporter: the drug, attacks cancer in a whole new way. >> it is a really smart pill and really new wave of how we're thinking now about treating cancers. >> reporter: doctor moses of children's hospital of philadelphia says it targets a gene that fools several
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cancers. >> rather than having a drug that is developed to kill all rapidly deriding cells in the body this thug is only taken up by tissues in the body where this genies ab normally turn on and causing growth of cancer cells. so it has really little side effects on all of the normal tissues which is where standard chemotherapy causes patients to be sick. >> reporter: testing has been funded in part by the alex lemonade stand foundation started by alex scott who died of neuroblastoma. >> getting the kind of fund ago this we got from alex lemonade stand foundation is really key for us in the laboratory. >> reporter: within days of getting the drug zach had a remarkable turnaround, scans showed the cancer that had been concentrated in the limb have have nodes in his neck were clear. >> he went from being bid redden to fevers to be up and riding his bicycle. >> reporter: and now zach has fallen in love with baseball and is on a championship team.
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>> i play short stop. that is my favorite. >> we're baseball mom and dad now. you just can't stop him. he is a go getter. it is amazing. >> reporter: wow. right. so it is unclear if this drug is masking the cancer or fit is gone, because at this point, zach has no evidence of cancer and tonight right now he is at another championship baseball game. chris? good wow stephanie an amazing story. we have so many childhood cancer heroes. i'm joined by my favorite, this is mario carpino, his mom ana his brother from woolwich township. great to see you guys, as always. mario you have been struggling with a brain tumor since were you how old. >> three. >> how old are you now. >> eleven. >> he is 11 years old and still going strong. i know you go in for regular checkups, what is that like, each time you go in waiting to hear the news about how things are going now.
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>> it is a little anxiety for our whole family, every four months when he gets scanned to make sure his tumors are stable. it is nervous. but we're just praying and hoping that everything is stable. >> it is you are so resilient. i know you got involved earl which alex lemonade stand. you hold probably one of the biggest lemonade stand around the town what do you guys do. >> we have dunk tanks, we have people, we have a moon bounce we have bracelets. >> each year where do you have it. >> the firehouse. >> the fire house in woolwich township because mario is an honorary firemen there in woolwich, correct. >> yes. >> you love those guys. >> so last year you also staged a campaign and we are looking at video of your lemonade stan. last year you staged a campaign to try and get someone special to come visit your lemonade stan, who was that. >> john bon jovi. >> one of the biggest rock stars in the world.
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did you ever think it would happen mario. >> yes, i did. >> you did think he would show up. >> did he show up. >> yes. >> what was that like for you to see your hero john bon jovi. >> amazing. >> incredible, right. >> yes. >> how much money were you able to raise last year. >> 75,000. >> $75,000 this young man raised in his lemonade stand. you just had another lemonade stand how much did you raise this year. >> 28,000. >> this is an incredible thing that you guys are doing and it seems to get bigger and better every year. what do you think is the key to your success. >> just telling families or story and spreading the love and everything else, it draws so much attention and people come together and they support us. >> in a big way what would you say to people out there thinking of picking up the phone and calling in donation right now. >> i would say they have a good heart and good soul. >> nobody has a better heart and soul then do you young man. thanks for being with us. great to see you as always. ana, lorenzo thanks very much
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good number for mario and kid just like him is 1.844.977.cbs3, and pick up the phone and call right now. we will have our volunteers standing by until 8:00 o'clock tonight. jessica, back to you in the studio. >> fund raising machine. we're not only trying to raise money here at cbs-3 studios but we are taking our fight against cancer to the shore. that means kathy orr is live in ocean city for this weeks orr at the shore and she has a lemonade stand kathy? >> i certainly do and i have ice girl taking donations right in the bucket, thank you very much. we are raising money to fight childhood cancer 1 dollar at a time. thank you young lady. ice girl is taking donations. we have been on the boardwalk all afternoon. spare change a lot of teenagers here, lot of college students. they have a few extra bucks i think. ice girl and i will walk down the boardwalk. you can see all the people here even eyeing this beautiful day. go get them ice girl. you can give a dollar right
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over here ice girl, lets give the whole five. put it right in the bucket. thank you sir. everybody continues to open up their wallets and heart to help the cause we will do weather. lets go to storm scan three we have a few storms that are popping up, you can see them, they are moving toward lehigh valley and reading berks county pottsville, north of lebanon heading toward lehighton and 476 and northeast extension so please ab wear of that. in philadelphia it is quite warm, warm to the north and west and that is why we are seeing storms, we have a weak front moving through and allentown 88, reading 88. mount pocono 81. eighty-five in millville. down the shore much different story, look at these numbers much cooler in ocean city, only 79, we have quite a breeze. cape may is 80 degrees. tomorrow we will go for near record warmth again forecast high 93. the record 95 setback in 1947.
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now here's a look at our forecast, we are looking at conditions that are going to be changing big time. overnight tonight temperatures will be in the 70's, tomorrow we are going for more near record heat. as we look ahead friday the high temperature going for 93 degrees, down the shore, we will be at 84. will we will be very close to the record. lets look at our forecast here temperatures are going to be pretty warm, friday 93. saturday 90. we will bust the heat saturday with showers and storms and you can see sunday 85. monday pleasant, tuesday and wednesday, warm again by thursday, the temperature is 82 degrees. down the shore we are back in the 70's. back here live we are raising money for alex's lemonade stand here as we have amber amber from wabe and amber you awe this stand and you had to stop. >> that is right great cause and having children of my own we had to stop and donate
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money. >> we appreciate it. here's the bucket guys. go put your money in. amber has friend visiting from france so thank you so much, for your dough nation. >> thank you very much, you can put your money in there. so that is very latest from ocean city, we will be here right through the evening and thank you young man. we appreciate your donation. thank you very much. 20-dollar donation, thank you we will be right about a being with more news after this. wave to the camera, guys.
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million-dollar this season. he is the fifth pro bowler gone from last years roster. eagles are hoping that last seasons number one pick marcus smith can make an impact with the team. he had a hard time getting on the field back and forth between inside and outside linebacker. this season he will play outside and he knows it is time to make a difference. >> i want to get in the game and play and learning process i think is over for me because last year, i got to learn behind great guys, now i just got to step up to the play and take on a roll maybe be that leader. >> it was ring day at roman catholic high school, basketball team received their championship rings they beat martin luther king high school to earn their first ever state championship congratulations we will be right
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welcome back, alex scott stand for hope. jessica and i intruding on a great scott family portrayed here but we are with the family here, and liz scott about 90 more minutes and what stage are we insofar. >> and it is always amaze to go see generosity of people, we are always incredibly grateful and we hope that people have to tell us they have the time to call in the next hour and a half. >> you know people coming home from work say it is time to pink the phone. >> call in and help kids with cancer. alex sort of taught everybody can make a difference and we can all do it. >> that is true. >> lets get to the total $2,762,281. >> we are working our way toward three million-dollar. it is unbelievable. keep it coming. we will be back on the air at 7:00 o'clock tonight stay there, the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley comes your way next and then we are back
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with alex scott a stand for hope, see you then. >> pelley: a judge has found there is enough evidence to charge a rookie cleveland cop with murder in the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old boy. also tonight, a break in the hunt for those escaped killers. police dogs lead searchers to a small town near the new york prison. we expose pharmacies charging tens of thousands of dollars for supplements that are worth a couple of hundred. and a tv star's real-life drama. >> i remember the barbed wire fences, sentry towers and the machine guns pointed at us. expwhrrchlt captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: today, a judge in cleveland said there is enough evidence to bring criminal charges against two police officers in the fa

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