news", why the store owner says they're not getting the protection they deserve. good evening, i'm ukee washington. >> i'm jessica dean. over the weekends thieves hit barski's diamonds on the 700 block of sam some street. police have just released surveillance video of that incident, and tonight, the owners tell "eyewitness news" reporter anita oh this burglary could have been prevented. >> a brazen burglary ought caught on surveillance cameras. >> a bunch of trays of diamond earrings down here, and they took them you. >> when the store closes, so does the security gate. >> it supposed to guard, but early saturday morning, thieves hot wired it open. >> once that gate was up, the thieves had to get through this store. but the glass had been treated, so the burglaries had to jimmy these locks. >> once inside, you can see, the burglaries breaking into at least four cases, and swiping nearly half a million dollars in jewels. it was bold, police say, and

strategic. >> you can see these individuals new exactly what they were looking for and went to some specific items. >> but it is not the first time this store, a fixture of jewelry row, for more than 100 years, has been hit by a heist. >> it is violating. >> barski says back in november 2014 crooks cut through the security gate stole about $200,000 worth of jewelry. but more than the cash, he says, the thieves are stealing a sense of security. >> it is just after hours, it is like there is no -- >> no patrols. it is like open season. >> that's unacceptable, the family says, when the shop shells out tens of thousands of dollars a year in taxes. >> the business privilege tax that we have here, for what, we have no protection, we get robbed. what's the privilege? >> jeffrey barski says if crime goes up, so do the for rent signs and it is bringing business down. >> this is the problem. we don't have police protection. customers don't feel safe. and it is a spiral. >> in center city, anita oh,

cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> philadelphia's district attorney responds to criticism from the police union over the time it is taking to file, investigation, involving four eagles running back lesean mccoy, speaking publicly for the first time today, seth williams confirm if or when any criminal charges are expect the, mccoy and three others under investigation in connection to bar brawl that left two off duty officers seriously hurt, the incident happened at an after-hours club in old city 12 days ago. >> i'm sorry some people think it is taking us too long, but then again my job is just to dot right thing. >> take a look at the video. charges these folks, then move on. >> if this was a cop beaten somebody like, that they would have been arrested the next day. >> mccoy has been spotted around the city a few times since cell phone video of the fight surfaced, his attorney told buffalo newspaper wednesday the running back is innocent. >> two bridgeton men,

disposing after body -- after body. >> take a look, they are charge canned conspiracy, desecration of human remains, endangering the welfare after victim. police say last month the two dumped the bodies in the woods along woodstown alloway road in alloway township. police say minerva was 19 from atco died while at the home of one of the suspects. >> tire tracks, everywhere, police are searching for vandals who used a large truck to turn a high school garden field into a mud pit. the damage was done at lankenau environmental science magnet high school in roxborough. student events made cultivating the grounds their project, and they hold classes on the fields. they are hoping to raise money to fix the damage by spring. as part of black history month, students at willow grove he elementary school learning about what makes someone a hero. well, today at special assembly, they surprised someone who they believe has

all of the necessary qualities. here's "eyewitness news" reporter alexandria hoff. >> there is a hero in these hauls. a doctor, a teacher, a judge and someone who reminds thaws heroes honored during african-american history month don't always have names we know. >> takes great pride, ac part of doing something like this. >> percy has been the head custodian at thomas fitzwater he will meant rip for over two decades, he thinks we're here to cover a black history month school event. >> what's it take to get ready for an event, or a month like this? >> not too much. >> he even showed us around, to, you know, get footage. >> but what he doesn't know is that this day, and this story, is actually about him. >> so we started this assembly under the guides of paw's assembly, our positive behavior system, something that we do monthly anyway. so that there is no suspicion. >> the truth, well, the

assembly is to surprise him with a title of black history month hero. >> whatever he is outs, it is mr. hurter, oh, all day long, they love him. as soon as you talk about here you can feel his presence. >> he knows every student by name. he remembers their birthdays. >> he acknowledges every person in this building. >> and his quiet way, he has changed the lives of so many people. >> not one for the spotlight. >> i can't believe that you actually got on the interview. this room had to keep the secret until ... (cheers) >> every day we have a hero in our midst, and not to say the people on the wall aren't phenominal, and they have impacted our world, but he impacts our community, day in and day out. >> in willow grove, alexandria hoff, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". a hero among us.

well, take a look at the weather now. we are in for weekends warm up, also a storm in the forecast, meteorologist, kate bilo is out on the cbs-3 skydeck, kate? >> jest, a i hate when you talk to me after the tee jerker stories. all tiered up after that story. pretty quiet night out here, pretty cold night, as well, temperatures have not yet risen, to that little spring preview we've been talking about for the weekends. but it is coming, and tomorrow, will feel whole lot different than today. first take a look at storm scan3, could have few sprinkles moving through tonight mainly off to the north and west, if we pick up a stray shower even in the poconos, where temperatures are below freezing there may be few icy spots all thanks to the big warmfront lifting through the northeast and as that warmfront progresses north and eastward, we get southwest winds to really start raising those temperatures. but, meantime, another cold evening. thirty-six in philadelphia right now. thirty-three in wilmington, and 35 degrees in atlantic sit. but take a look, just off to the west, near 06 in pittsburgh right now, 54 in cleveland, so coming up just how warm will it get this

weekend? and potential system on sunday night. could some of us see snow? i'll have more on that coming up. back over to you. >> kate, see you then, thank up. delaware county high school teacher facing institutional sexual assault charges tonight. long time ridley high school physics teacher gregory stanza allegedly sexually assaults dollars a 18 year old female student in 2014. stanza, who had been teacher for more than 30 years, was also the track and field coach of the victim. the pennsylvania legislative black caucus introduces house resolution on behalf of residents affected by a lead water crisis in flint, michigan. today's being recognized as the national day of action. calls on lawmakers clean drinking water a basic right. working toward temporary solution. >> one of the positive's that emerged, is that we are currently working with a large and reputable manufacturer of home filtration systems to

direct charitable contribution toss toward the purchase of home filtration systems for the residents of flint. >> the michigan house passed a bill yesterday, that would help pay a portion of water bills for flint residents. >> a local high school is keeping up with technology. and having little fun at the same time. new jersey reporter cleve bryan tells us why some cherry hill student aren't choosing a sport for their after-school activities. >> what began six years ago is two students working on science project has grown into one of cherry hill east high schools most popular student activities. robotics club. with 80 members, the club bigger than just about every sports team and crushes the competition. this sunday they'll host state championship for the vex robots, look to compete for the championships. >> there are very few rules that we have. so all of the robots that you see here are not like made from a kit. they are all made from our imagination and what we think will best compete against other teams. >> this year's competition is

about shooting foam balls into 3-foot net t can take more than 100 hours to build a robot. >> the robot has three basic sub systems, drive, pro polls it along the field, intake able to intake the balls. and the launcher shoots the balls. >> whether everything is rid the competition goes something like this. >> each one every these robots is controlled by a team of students, and then they work together as a larger team to achieve an objective. this is called nothing but net. so you have got your perimeter shooters like basketball, then your power forward here, rebounding, and putting in the lay up. >> you may have heard the buzz word or the ac chronic i am stem, stands for science technology engineering and mathematics. that's the epitomy of education. row bolt innings has components every all of those. >> says it is easy for schools to launch their own robotics club and the benefits could be life changing. >> after learning how to build and operate them, you know, it has set me up for what i want

to do in my life. i decided i want to go to school for engineering. >> first hitting nothing but net this weekend n cherry hill, cleve bryan, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> nothing but success for them. still ahead, getting better night's sleep. >> what medical experts say could help you get more shut eye, no medication required. kate? >> warming up for the weekends. take a look at this, sunday night into monday morning, is that snow? i'll tell you which areas could get snow, which areas could get rain, if the snow could stick, talk about the next storm in the forecast next week, as well. hey, don? >> reporter: i'm don bell with the phillies in clearwater, florida we are three days into spring training. already we have significant injury. coming up later in sports, i'm tell you which top gun for the fighting phils will be spending some time on the shelf.

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>> many people think you might be losing out on a good night's sleep. health reporter stephanie stahl is here now with some surprising news, though, on this subject. >> how about this one? pets in bed. it is a tradition for millions of americans. and many think our four legged family members interfere with getting a good night's sleep. but, a recent study from may owe clinic is challenging that conventional wisdom.

>> nightly ritual, all tuck in, and with a quick leap, so is your pet right there beside you. max owner roberto sullivan all for it, even though? >> he snores. but he doesn't keep us up at night. actually we sleep better with him. >> mia gives her dog an assist. >> we made other steps to kind of make it bigger so it is as wide as the bed to help him get up and down. >> once thought to be disruptive to person's sleep, recent mayo clinic survey found 40% of sleep patients who share their pets with their bed final it beneficial. >> if having a pet nearby helps them feel relaxed, and gives them a sense of security, which permit them to fall asleep with less difficulties then i think that's something that does deserve a ten job 20% every respondents said their pets interrupted their sleep. katie how is happy to have pumpkin in the bed but -- >> my husband is not always happy about that. >> so how do our pets feel about sharing the bed? >> their way to say i like you in most of the cases is just

by staying near you, especially if they want to fall asleep. >> doctor carlos, a behavior specialist at the university of pennsylvania veterinary school, says it is possible we can bother our sleeping pets. >> when they are on the bed they want to sleep. so saying it is true for us is true for them. >> and as a pet owner himself, doctor finds sleeping with his cats beneficial. >> cool, i like it, i think it is very relaxing. >> that cat's sleeping. >> some vets say cats wander more at night, while most dogs tends to cuddle up in bed and stay put. this stud did i not look at whether different types of pets or different species were more disruptive than others. the other obvious thing is the size of the dog and the bed will matter about, you know, a great dane in a twin bed. >> would be little uncomfortable. >> oh, we have it.

>> menajarie. >> every night, snore. >> snowing dogs. >> she will be so upset i shared that. >> i know. >> all right, stephanie, thanks. >> right now, old and young, came together to kick off the delaware valley engineer's week. "eyewitness news" in center city where local student between middle school and college shared their projects. they got lots of feedback from industry professionals. old and new faces, reminder of the important of engineers in our world. >> we want to make sure that everyone in society recognizes what engineers are doing for them. and this is a chance for us to just make awareness, make people aware, about what happens in engineering, how it helps their world. >> such a wide variety of things that they are doing, like electrical engineering, computer engineers, making al or gisms. we made a robot. >> check jay out dressed to impress, my man. delaware valley engineers week honors approximately 100,000 local engineers. >> all right, kate bilo joining us now, and for people

looking ahead to the weekends, they have something to look forward to. >> something indeed to look forward to. it will feel like a little taste of spring outside this weekend. and, you know what, none too soon after the weather we've been dealing with this past week, we had of course the extreme arctic cold last weekends, snow monday, ice monday night, rain and wind on tuesday. we have got to 60 tuesday. you couldn't get outside and enjoy it. tomorrow completely different kind of 60 with more sunshine in your forecast, let's look what's going on storm scan3, nothing locally. we just have some clouds around. clouds in place should help things stay little warmer over night tonight, certainly, than they did last night, and also we start to see the southwest winds pick up as we go through the overnight hours and into tomorrow morning. as this warmfront gets out of the way. i mentioned earlier, there could be stray string he will in a couple of spots, doesn't look all that impress i have to me on the radar picture, maybe pick up lingering spring fell this little area you see developing here over portions every new york, if that dips down toward the lehigh valley or poconos could pick up stray shower tonight, most every us should be dry and clouds will

be diminishing overnight as we start to get into more of southwest flow, there is the system moving through the great lakes, cold front kind of all the way back here, warmfront, draping over portions of new england, and we've got the big warm up, in play, over the weekends, temperatures again making a run for 60 tomorrow, and we should only be in the mid 40's this time of the year. we're about 10 degrees below average outside right now. we didn't make it out of the 30's today. we drop to 36, now that the sun's gone down. thirty-six in allentown as well. twenty-seven in mount pocono. and 34 degrees at the moment in wilmington. that's all about to change. warmer weekends, tomorrow breezy day, winds could gust to 25, 30 miles an hour, that's okay, because it is 15 degrees above average. mostly sunny, beautiful day tomorrow. sunday couple of degrees colder, sun and clouds around, through the day. more clouds than saturday, but still dry through the daylight hours, but sunday night, there is a little system, kind of little sneak attack, looked like it would stay to the south. but the latest information shows that storm trying to sneak a little bit north sunday night overnight into monday. mainly while we're sleeping,

but there is the chance of some spots could see rain, or even a little snow by the time we wake up on monday morning. so it is a miler pattern, jet stream lifting well off to the north allowing southwest winds to pick up, deep south, temperatures in the 70s, 80s, bring it eastwards, ten to 15 degrees above average this weekend, what a difference one week makes. last saturday hit high of 24 degrees. >> this saturday, 60 degrees, big jump more than 25 degrees difference in that forecast. future weather again looking really dry through tonight, but here we go. monday 3:00 a.m., we've got little bit of mixing in the city rain to the south and even little wet snow a lot of it will not stick. see grassy accumulations in one, two spots in the lehigh valley, and out of here by monday morning, just recap what we know about this next storm next week, late tuesday into wednesday, could be a secondary low, thursday this looks like mainly rain, but some snow is possible, and we'll have to watch the coast, as well, there could be some gusty winds, some high tides, as well. saturday mostly sunny, mild,

06 degrees, and your eyewitness weather seven day, beautiful weekends, watch for the system sunday night into monday, then next week more seasonable, with that chance for rain and little snow tuesday into wednesday. >> what a difference a week makes. >> thanks, so much. we'll be right back with some new developments about the health of sixers big man, joel embiid. i hope it is good. be right back.

>> we have breaking news on the thirds day every spring training for the fighting phils. >> sport director don bell joins us live from clearwater with more on that. don? >> reporter: guys, here we are in clearwater beach. already bad news for the fighting phils. what are their young studs, 25 year old right-hander jared, is going to miss some time. he has a broken thumb. he suffered the injury eight days ago, before the team even arrived here for spring training. he broke it during a bunting drill. however the team expect him to

be ready for opening day on april 4th in cincinnati. meanwhile, the team is really hoping to get some big time play from peter born, 28 year old centerfielder on his third team so far in his career. now, last year he batted just 200 against for the st. louis cardinals, back in 201 he was really good. he said the key to his development is getting more ab's, more at bats, more playing time. >> the numbers, need to be, that's what happened in 2011. i had 500 at bats, i played pretty well. then in years past, there is one year i was starting every day and i got hurt. i didn't play whole lot. then years i've been blah tuned. , didn't get a loft consistent at bats. >> it is a common theme with this 2016 version of the philadelphia phillies, they pick up some guys and they're really hoping to get quality play, hoping to get some guys having some career years. meanwhile, we have some news

on maybe another young stud. but this one is with the philadelphia 76ers. now, let's go back to philadelphia with leslie van arsdale. leslie, how are you? >> hey there, don. sixers on the road, the big news, all about the health of the big man, embiid, met with the media today, he said he could be healthy enough to travel with the team by the end of the season but do not expect him to play any time soon, as he continues his rehab process. he said he hopes to have embiid on the court for the start of the 2016 season. >> the goal from here is to back up and say let's have -- let's have joel raring to go for next season, for next season, but not for -- not for salt lake and the fifth of july. >> so basically, hoping to see him in the summer. >> moving in the right direction. seven-two, he stopped growing, bring it, big fellow. >> so positive. >> we'll be right b giving people options based on their budget is pretty edgy...

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