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>> this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> taken at gunpoint. the terrifying moment that led to up a former philadelphia eagles getting kidnapped. >> and a busy weaken for campaign 2016. super saturday contest and five states with some victories being claimed over the frontrunner. >> today is sunday, march 6. good morning to you. i'm rahel solomon. let's start your sunday off with a check of weather. justin checking us out with a check on wetter. >> little cool. >> this could be when last pushes of winter we'll be seeing, maybe flu think morning, then once we start tomorrow, it is big time warm up. >> time to say good-bye? >> that's right. see if that's the trend. still early march. anything could happen. here you go.
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one final disturbance moving through, several came through over the past several days, moving through right now this morning, we have clouds across center sit which threat for maybe passing flurry. live look, overcast skies over the city current temperature right now 36 degrees, winds are calm. so that's a good thing. so the win chill value what the actual air temperature s there is storm scan3, this stuff little deceiving on radar, spotty snow showers, flowery, mainly in northern delaware, near wilmington, could you get flurry at the moment. up toward lehigh valley that's about it, again, isolated flurry or snow shower for the next couple of hours, then we will see more sunshine for the afternoon. temperatures not too bad. compared to yesterday at this time, warmer, freezing in allentown, 36 in philadelphia, 32 wilmington, again, if any of the snow showers are actually falling, they are just not falling hard enough to be able to accumulate on the roads. good thing. so no worries there. we're around 30 degrees in doylestown and mt. holly, new jersey, so through the morning, again, 9:00 still mostly cloudy skies, lunchtime the clouds start to break up,
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into the afternoon, call it partly sunny, high temperature still on the cool side, getting closer to average, get to up about 48 degrees for philadelphia, mid four's at the shore, and 40 degrees even up in the mountains. then talking about near record warmth for the upcoming work week. we will breakdown that for you when i show you full forecast coming back in a few minutes, rahel, back to you. >> excited to here it, thanks, justin. we want to turn to breaking news, an accident in west philadelphia it sends two police officers and another driver to the hospital. pulled off remind or injuries. police say suv ran into the back after police wagon at 52nd and chestnut just before 5:00 this morning, investigators tell "eyewitness news" that police found drugs in the suv. they add the driver faces did the ui charges. >> a former eagles defensive back who now plays for the jacksonville jaguires is reportedly doing well after he was kidnapped. police say earl will being was leaving friends' home in fayetteville, north carolina february 23rd, when gunmen
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forced him into a vehicle. investigators say the men held him for short time, did you not hurt him. police have charged one man. wolf played with the eagles for two season before moving to jacksonville last year. a suspect asks facing charges after an unmarked police car was struck by gunfire in frankford. the incident happened on the 5300 block of hedge street friday night. police say 21 year old malik smith fired several shots that hit the car's bumper and pierced arrayed ate or. office her two suspects from narcotic arrest in the rear of the unmarked cart at the time. police initially arrested two men, second man was cleared during the investigation. off to campaign 2016. after super saturday, just about every candidate can claim some sort of victory. republican ted cruz is the winner in kansas and maine, his gop rival donald trump won kentucky and louisianna, also good night for democrat bernie sand heres won kansas and nebraska. hillary clinton has won
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louisianna. as craig boswell reports, the attention now shifts to four more primaries on tuesday. ted cruz kick off soup earn saturday with big wins in kansas and maine. >> super tuesday last week was a phenominal night where we won victories all over the country and today on super saturday we're doing the very same thing. >> donald trump took louisianna and kentucky. >> i want to thank the people of louise answer a, the people of kentucky, i want to congratulate ted on maine and on kansas and he should do well in maine because it is very close to canada. >> but even in the states cruz lost, he came in close second. >> what we're seeing is is republicans coeless g around our campaign. >> senator marco rubio is looking ahead to march 15th when his home state of florida vote. >> we're going to win florida. and you will find out on march 15th how confident we are. >> democrat dollars vote in the three states, with bernie sanders and hillary clinton splitting the vote.
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sanders picked up wins in the nebraska and kansas caucuses, but clinton won the louisianna primary which has more delegates. setting sites on tuesday's primary in michigan. >> i'm grateful to everyone who turned out to support us, but now all eyes turn to michigan. >> we are going to win here in michigan. >> clinton and sanders will square off in a debate in flint michigan sunday night. craig boswell, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> stay with "eyewitness news" as we keep following the candidates, campaign 2016. our coverage continues on line at cbsphilly.com. two groups of protesters separated by six street in center city philadelphia had dueling demonstrations cents. >> opponents every federally owned lands, demonstrated outside the federal building as part of nationwide protest. they are calling for the release of organizers of armed anti-government stand office in oregon and nevada.
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across the street anti-violence protesters had a counter demonstration, both protests were peaceful. >> and, talks will continue tomorrow to avoid new jersey transit's first strike in over 30 years. a mediator held talks with both labor and management friday. union official called the day long procession productive, main sticking point healthcare costs, strike deadline is set for next weekend. >> and underground fire forces the evacuation of a point breeze neighborhood for a short time saturday morning. it happened on the 1400 block of point breeze avenue. firefighters returned to the scene and put out the flames in two hours. fortunately, no one was hurt. and underground service electric line was damaged, it is unclear how long it will take to get fixed. coming up next on "eyewitness news", the annual iodid rod dog shred race gets off to slow start. how the weather in alaska is
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causing problems for the annual event. >> who says you can't teach an old dog new interest tricks, see what this dog is doing. >> we take you inside the philadelphia flour show know open to the public. look inside as spring is in full bloom inside the philadelphia convention center. justin? >> there is a cool finish to the weekend. we do have nice stretch of spring weather returning to the forecast. i'll let you know when it might feel like the month of may coming up in e
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outside the capitol last april? investigators say he came too close to a plane near war washington. douglas hughes seconds away from potentially colliding with a delta flight which had just taken off from reagan national airport. he was in protected air space when judge sentences cents cents him on april 13. co-get ten months in prison. a small plane caring a father and daughter crash lands in hopehog new york saturday. went down in grassy area. only minor injuries. two were returning from a visit to college in rhode island at the time. the faa is investigating. >> and, one dog has apparently learned a new trick, how to drive a semi truck. customers at minnesota gas station sold golden labrador retriever at the wheel of big rig just before it crashedment the tree hit a park car, luckily the dog wasn't hurt neither were any people. the driver had left the unoccupied truck running in a nearby parking lot. it is not clear how much how
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it wind up in gear. and, dogs in alaska are gearing to up lead sleds in the annual identify rod race. weather causing some problems in anchorage h to short earn the first leg of the race. it is too warm, in the nearly snowy enough. >> rookie race for her. >> the ceremonial start of the identify rod everything would you expect from a sled dog race except the snow on the gown. didn't come from a sky above anchorage. it came on a train from further north. tim sole van with is with the alaska railroad. >> we've had some snowfall. the sun keeps melting it away. >> so far anchorage only received half of its annual snowfall. as of friday just 29 inches had fallen. sixty-one since normal. and the city has been storing what it plowed from local streets for, according to race coordinator. >> they've been harvesting every flake of snow since
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november, and hiding it for us to make this happen. >> but it still wasn't enough. the 350 cubic yards of back up snow will only cover 3 miles of the anchorage track, instead of of the usual 11 mile. >> we didn't want to shot end the race but our only other option to take it away from the city of anchorage, that's not what we wanted. bee wanted the spectacle here for our fans here. >> it happened last year, as well, when there was even less snow it, may and trend. over the last 60 years, winter temperatures in alaska have risen by 6 degrees, rate twice as fast as the rest of the country, and while less snow may and good thing in other places, here in anchorage, where it is the biggest tourist event of the year. there is no businesslike snow business. carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. >> he makes an interesting point. some of us always complain about the snow. but there are a lot of activities and events surrounded by it. >> i hear.
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that will we only had as much snow alaska. >> really from the one storm. >> pretty much just one storm, so we pretty much hit where we should be for this year. we could be done. there is no signs every winter coming up the next few weeks, but it is still march, changes happen. maybe couple of flu thinks morning, then that's about it, off to the races as far as temperatures go. this morning sunrise at about 15, 20 minutes, not going to see the sun early this morning, because of the cloud cover. the weak disturbance passing over us right now. again, couple of passing flurries are cents possible over the next couple of hours. then we should see some sunshine for the afternoon. headlines today, again, cool finish to the weekend. morning snow shower chance. then talking about this late winter warm up, starting tomorrow, so pretty much the entire work week, then we have shot at the first 70 degrees day of the year. but if you look back, we did hit the 70s back in december, the last day we hit that was christmas eve. so it hasn't been too long since 70 degrees, but, i think you spring weather fans will
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take it this week. here's what's left of this weak disturbance. a lot of the moisture just breaking up. maybe snow shower up across the lehigh valley, and again into new castle county, delaware, northern kent county dover, look out, could have flurry or two over the next hour or so. still clouds out across western and central pennsylvania, built in for the afternoon, see partly sunny skies. still little cool, some spots, outside the city, interior south jersey, upper 20's, millville, wildwood at this hour, freezing in newark, delaware, around the city 36 at the airport, 29 in mullica hill. so we do have areas with below freezing temperatures, but the snow, if it is falling, if it does reach the grounds, just so light. really doesn't have a chance to accumulate. so no worries on the roads. first day of spring, officially arrives in two weeks, 12:30 in the morning, sunday march 20th, where we have just over 12 hours ten minute every daylight. but it will already start feeling like spring for several days this week, here's the reason, it is the jet stream, it is on the move. right now, just to the south of us, so that's what's
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allowing temperatures to be on the colds side this weekend, then move northward, highs ten to 20 degrees above average by the middle of the week. we start to feel that warm up tomorrow. so, this afternoon, the disturbance will bring few flu thinks morning moves off shore. we are replaced by high pressure it, sits just off the mid-atlantic coast for several days, then the flow behind the high out of the southwest, that's warm flow. you add some sunshine this time of year, we're going it easily hit temperatures in the 60s, potentially low 70s, monday looks good. tuesday once again, plenty of sunshine, and that sun continues into the middle of the week. so we time things out. through about 8:00, 9:00 this morning, maybe a flurry, noontime we start to break the clouds up. should see peaks of clouds for the afternoon, may take little longer along the shore points, then tomorrow morning waking up dry conditions for the morning drive. maybe some clouds, but by the afternoon skies do go mostly sunny. temperatures responding nicely to the sky cover. today, still on the cool side. mid upper 40's for the afternoon temperatures, tonight right around freezing most locations, then tomorrow
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look at that, well into the 50's, getting close to 60 degrees, the further you are from the water. berks county, lehigh valley, good chance at reaching 60 with the southwest winds flow. so today morning snow shower, then clearing, 48 degrees for the high temperature, tonight, chilly, partly cloudy, 34. and here is that seven day forecast, really warming things up tomorrow look at that 58 degrees close to 70 on tuesday, wednesday, we are getting near record warmth, 73 is the record high for the day. next chance for some showers, roll in on thursday, still mild with highs in the 60s, then back to the 50's by the weekend, rahel, so coolest temperatures in the next seven days pretty much eat's. >> not bad at all. justin, thank you. even if the temperature is around freezing right now, you can get preview of spring at the philadelphia flower show. it is underway at the pennsylvania convention center. this year's theme is the national park service. "eyewitness news" reporter, anita oh, gives us a tour from sea to shining sea. >> from california, to maine, even to hawaii.
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>> in the wintertime is here, and we're in the dead of the weather and the cold, i come here, and this is my solis. >> the philadelphia flower show is exploring america. >> it looks like the best year i've seen yet. >> this year's theme celebrates 100 years of the national park service. >> oh, i love it. it is all about america. specially being an election year. >> theme means more to susan dolan been with the national park service for almost 20 years. she says she want those who attend the flower show to remember the importance of national park preservation. >> the national parks are for them. they are their national parks, and we are their servants, and stewards of national parks. >> not every national park could be represented at the flower show, but many of the intrinsic colorful designs still sprawled across the pennsylvania convention center. more than 50 main exhibit here at the philadelphia flower show. you can really see how much time and detail has gone into creating each one of these exhibit.
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standing until the inned ill of one inspired by the redwoods of california. this chandelier tree. >> organizers at the pennsylvania horticultural society say the annual week long event drawers in more than quarter million people every year. one every them is nine year old callina gardner. >> i think it is a really great set up. i really enjoy it. >> she is starting from a young age, william an after i had photographer, said he has been visiting the flower show for years. >> philadelphia's a great city for this casino of stuff. >> in center city, anita oh, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> a hollywood actress is rushed to the hospital. we'll tell you why coming up next. and also ahead: >> my wife has someone that she can love again. we have a great relationship again. >> how this war hero says new research has helped him recover from a devastating injury that he couldn't even see. we're back in a momen
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>> you might know her from the hit series girls. will undergo surgery after experiencing an ovarian cyst rupture. the 29 year old has endometriosis, painful disease that occurs when tissue that normally gross inside the uterus grows outside of it. dunham has been very open about the disease. >> on the cbs-3 health watch, brain injuries. we hear about them a lot with athletes. but they happen every day in all sorts every accidents. they can be difficult to diagnosis and treat. but some of the biggest advances are happening here in philadelphia. health reporter stephanie stahl tells us about a special
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event called minds your brain. >> incredibly powerful blast. >> major ben richards survived this suicide bomber explosion in iraq inside this tank that was charred. >> we all experience these blast concussions and impact concussions. >> the war veteran is calm and matter of fact now, almost decade later, as he still recovers from two, traumatic brain injuries. >> evidence of destruction of tissue is in the brain. >> this is all from the bomb blast? >> yes. >> richard said his injuries were invisible, but caused serious emotional outbursts, too took a toll on his family. >> you just never newspaper when you would explode and become a monster. i was ruining my life's life. >> his life is turned around after several cutting edge therapies, this imaging shows improved blood flow in his brain. >> the brain can have an ability to kind of rewire. >> doctor douglas smith, director every pen's center for brain injury, says research is showing brain recovery isn't limited.
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>> a lot of people are worried that, you know, if they doesn't recover quickly that might be the end of the road. but it turns out could you have recovery years after injury. it may not ever stop. we really don't know the limits. >> doctor smith was part of pen's mind your brain conference, and major richards was the keynote speaker. sharing with other brain injury survivors how recovery can work. >> after seven years, i've come home. and my wife has someone that she can love again. the important message is that there is hope. >> major richards is now working with veterans groups, hoping more vets can benefit from the advanced brain treatments that helped him turn his life around. i'm stephanie stahl, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". center stage wilmington, the models were little girls and their dolls. very cute. this is the american girl fashion show, with proceeds benefitting the ronald mcdonald house of delaware. each little girl dressed up like their favorite american girl character.
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>> well, headed to the move thinks weekend, whiskey tangle fox trot starts upper darby own tina fay. it is based on book about a reporter who abruptly decided to make a major career move. basically with the idea of whatever happens happens. well, that reporter stopped by our studio to help our ukee washington preview the movie. >> i saw comedy. i saw absurd at this. >> darkness? >> now she is shedding some light on her story. >> the network needs reporters on the ground in afghanistan. >> you folks are all of the unmarried personality in this bureau. are you going to be joining? >> this travel or the crime? how many people do you need? >> tina fay stars in a film based on true adventures of war reporter in the making report here won assignment one day said to herself -- >> i think i will ' try to write a dark comic book. >> to get readers to understands what was going on in afghanistan and pakistan. the book titled the taliban shuffle received a glowing
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review in the new york times. >> she describes me as a tina fay, creating a tina fay character in the book. >> you should let me interview you. >> but i do not know you. how can we get to know each other? >> so after that, tina red the review, red the book, and accepted the review and came out, you know, paramount optioned it at heroine cyst tans, pushed this project through. >> this is where the reporters meet. >> all of the names in the film have been fictionalized but big names like billy bob thorton hemmed bring the pages of the book to life. >> this is an extreme environment. >> a lot of the stuff in there people will ask me, wow, were you so close to death, running toward explosions cents, what were you thinking? and i have to say i actually was running away from any explosions cents and i never came that close to one personally. you know, that's hollywood. but i think they did a great job with narrative, staying true to what i feel like my story was over there.
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>> that was the joe of could co-detective ores john and glenn. and the job for tina was to become an actual reporter. her performance garnered rave reviews from kim. hey, they must be tight now. >> we're if the going foreman i pedi's yet, but always hope. >> first life female driver. hits the road. that sucks. that sucks for women. >> ♪
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about a vaccine that can help prevent shingles. >> good morning, i'm rahel some man. thanks for spending your sunday with us. let's check out with justin drabick. for those headed out you probably still need to bundle up today? >> good call, still need the call, early march, some 30's, some 20's out there. at least it is calm. winds are calm, and most location in the suburbs all i hear are bird chirming. overcast skies right now, you can see behind me, not getting good sunrise. little weak disturbance rolling on through. some areas could see few flurries over the next couple of hours, up in the poconos, where we find the coldest temperature coming in 24 degrees mount pocono, light wind out of the southeast 3 miles per hour, it is above
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freezing in the city at 36, calm winds. and even inland, off the shore points, atlantic city airport checks in at chilly 28 degrees this morning with the calm wind. so, we are little milder than yesterday morning at this time. so that's good news there. but again, weak disturbance rolling through the upper atmosphere right now. kind of doing the split. so you can see one batch of light flurries up across the lehigh valley, southern poconos, then few more flurries across the new castle county, delaware, into kent county. so again, looks like the city missing out on any of these flurry action, and again, if it happens it, would happen over the next couple of hours, not a big deal. not falling hard enough to accumulate on any roads. won't even get a dusting on your car if these are even reaching the ground at all. temperatures, 36 at the airport, freezing in wilmington, 27 in millville, 24 up into the poconos, right around freezing for pottstown, quakertown and willow grove. and a degrees above freezing frg in palmyra, new jersey. here's what to expect this morning, scattered snow shower possible through about 8:00,
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9:00, otherwise overcast skies, temperatures holding in the 30's there is afternoon, still on the cool side. eventually we will see partly sunny skies, but temperatures still running a few degrees below average. mid and upper 40's, so 48 will do it for the high temperature for philadelphia, mid 40's at the shore, and 40 degrees in the poconos, and looks like i don't see any winter like weather coming up in the future in the next week or two, this is about the coldest day out of the next seven. we're really going to crank up the warmth. talk about record temperatures, it will feel more like may. we will walk you through this, let you know how long it lasts when i show you the full forecast if a few minute. back to you. >> justin, thank you. well, super saturday had both democratic and republican voters going to the polls in several states. there were primaries and caucuses in louisianna, kansas, kentucky, maine, nebraska. craig boswell in washington, d.c., with a look at the lateness campaign 2016. >> ted cruz kicked off super saturday with big wins in kansas, and maine.
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>> super tuesday last week was a phenominal night, where we won victories all over the country and today on super saturday we're doing the very same thing. >> donald trump took louisianna and kentucky. >> i want to thank the people of louisianna, the people of kentucky. i want to congratulates ted on maine and on kansas, and he should do well in maine because it is very close to canada. >> but even in the states cruz lost, he came in a close second. >> what we're seeing is republicans coelessing around our campaign. >> senator marco rubio is looking ahead to march 15th, when his home state of florida votes. >> we're going to win florida. and you'll finds out on march 15th how confident we are. >> democrats vote in the three state, louisianna, kansas, nebraska, with bernie sanders and hillary clinton splitting the vote. sanders pick up wins in the nebraska and kansas caucuses cents, but clinton won the louisianna primary which has more del delegates. both set being sites on their primary in michigan.
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>> i'm grateful to everyone who turned out to support us. but now, all eyes turn to michigan. >> we are going to win here in michigan. >> clinton, sands earns, will square off in a debate in flint, michigan sunday night. craig boswell, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> stay with "eyewitness news" as we keep following the candidates of campaign 2016. our coverage continues on line at cbsphilly.com. and, other news this morning, school officials in upper darby are apologizing for this photo, student wearing kkk-type clothe nag classroom. the picture which was taken last school year is now going viral. superintendent richard dunlap sent out letter last friday, calling it a school project that went to rye. said it was a skit designed to highlight otrocity of the kkk from the 1920's. he also said the district is deeply sorry. yale university's menace
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basketball team has made it to the ncaa tournament for the first time in over half a century. they won over columbia university 71 to 55. the bulldogs, how much, were without their captain, senior guard, jack. as kenneth craig reports, his departure has embroiled the campus in controversy. >> yale bulldogs senior guard jack, withdrew from the school on february 10th. two weeks later, siting federal privacy laws and school policy. a yale spokesperson would not say why he left, despite campus rumors of a sexual assault accusation. in a new haven register article, this week, the players' father, jim, said his son was expelled. he called it ridiculous, said he has strict orders from his lawyers not to talk. monahue's teammates are also standing behind their captain wearing t-shirts with monahue's nickname at recent game. that move sparked outrage on
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campus and posters demanding the basketball team stop support ago rapist. new haven police say they've no cases involving monahue, and no victim has come forward. we tried to reach monahue and his family but did not get a response. the player has not spoken publicly since he left the university. in a interview last may, with yale all access, monahue said he embraced being a team leader. >> we had a good season this past year, and, you know, nothing too out of hand. >> while yale's administration is being tight-lipped, yale's women's center not. in a lengthy facebook post they wrote: sexual violence is the problem in every campus community. and that yale's actions cents speak much louder than it words. kenneth craig, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". and all over the country high school student looking ahead to college sat down to take the sat's this weekend. >> this year the test is a little different. saturday's sat's have been
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more practical areas of meat, away from obscure vocabulary words, and more relevant words and context, and no more penalties for guessing. administered by the college board, private non-profit that helps streamline the path to higher education. >> and local children are learning a special lesson as they gear up for march madness. dozens of children competed, and in a basketball tournament at the greater plymouth community center sent. the kids learned that everyone has to be the star of the game, and to just go on the court and have fun. the event was organized by the local jack and jill organization. >> and still ahead on "eyewitness news": spring cleaning your finances. consumer reporter jim donovan is on your side, with the eye-opening secrets to getting back on track. he has advice for people at every income level. >> and the pennsylvania judge has luck on his side. the huge powerball jackpot he won, and how he immediately
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breakfast whether he found out he had won. that's pretty nice. after taxes he and the other two jackpot win letters take home about $40 million each. okay, whether was the last time you took a honest look at your finances? as many of us start to tackle some spring cleaning, it may and good time to clean up any money messes, too. "3 on your side" consumer reporter jim donovan has advice for people at every income level. >> just like spring cleaning your home, now can be a good time to tidy up a household budget. with tax day around the corner, money is on the mind of many. specially, those, who have received a refund. >> don't let that influx of cash throw a spending and savings plan off course. instead, if you don't have a budget, make one. and if you do have one, review it to make sure it still fit your needs. credit. com recommends evaluating all income, calculating expenses cents, identifying the places cents where you can cut back, and making sure there is enough left over to stash in a
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emergency fund. america saves a campaign of the consumer federation of america, recommends using a digital tool, like a smart phone, app, or spread sheet, to keep track every spending over the course of a few months, to see exactly where your money is going. then, look for areas that can be trimmed, so you can free up more cash to pay down high interest debt. >> now, while cleaning up a budget for day-to-day expenses, don't forget to make room for longer term financial goals, like retirement, or college funds. and by the way, that suggestion, writing everything down that you spends, even if you do it for just a week or two, i guarantee you, it will be eye-opening. reporting for three on your side, i'm jim donovan. >> here is something cool. scientists discovered new species of octopus, while on a deep sea dive near hawaii. they found this little guy sitting on flat rock at more than 14,000 feet below the ocean surface, no one's ever seen this kind of octopus before. some of his unique features include lack of pigment cells
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giving him a ghost-like appearance. very interesting. >> and probably not beach weather here just yet, but it is getting pretty warm, justin. >> talking about the warm up. we've been seeing some light snow showers overnight. but check this out. looks like it is to snowed on pluto, nasa new horizon, sharing these images showing mountains covered in white. that snow is actually methane ice. scientists say that methane ice may act like water, does in the earth's atmosphere, cone kensing as frost, interesting, the imagery we can get from satellite all the way up at pluto. let's bring you down to earth. satellite showing little clear skies over part of new jersey and delaware along the coast, we can see that right now, looking live on the neighborhood networkment check it out, rehoboth beach. bring more clouds in here as that weak disturbance bridges light snow showers rolls across delaware and part of southern new jersey. so 35 degrees, at the beaches, the new jersey shore, not that bad this morning.
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here's what's left of this weak disturbance producing few flurries, possibly northern bucks county, in to the lehigh valley and again northern delaware, kent county, delaware, eventually maybe into cumberland county new jersey, salem county, also cape may county in the next hour or two. that's about it, passing flurry at best. won't accumulate. even though temperatures are below freezing, just not falling hard enough. a lot of this not even reaching the ground. 271 of the colder spots in millville. twenty-eight at the atlantic city airport inland, 32 palmyra and in voorhees, new jersey, and also low 30's to the north and west, so little milder than it was yesterday. than at this time this morning. but really the story is we're jumping quickly from winter to spring this week. so really one last push of winter weather for that time being. i don't see any signs over the next week or two. yesterday cooler than average, 42 degrees, should be near 50 this time of year. today still stuck in the 40's, but tomorrow approaching the 06 degrees mark, then it is well to the 60s tuesday, and then 70s potentially on wednesday, we could be breaking some records across
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the region, also more signs every spring, notice, the daylight, lasting little later in the evening, now, sunset coming in at 5:59, tonight, and next sunday, just one webbing he one week away from daylight saving time, sunset just after 7:00 at 7:06. by the end of the month sitting at 7:30, so gaining over two and a half minute every daylight each day now, we head toward the spring equinox. >> let's talk about what's happening next 48, 72 hours, again, right now, little weak disturbance rolling through some clouds through about midday. then the afternoon should break out to some sunshine. tomorrow morning it is dry. still, some clouds around. that's just the sign of the warmer air, starting to work it way in the mid levels of the atmosphere, lowers to the surface during the day monday. so you will feel big difference, in the temperatures, monday afternoon. tuesday, same deal. generally mix every sunday and clouds, very warm afternoon highs. today, though, still cool. forty's, maybe upper 40's at best, tonight we drop to about freeze nag lot of locations cents then tomorrow well to the 50's, getting close to 60, the farther away you are, from
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the coastline. and again, the reason is the jet stream, right now little trough over us. that's why we have the cold pocket of air today. and that's really the last push of cold air. as it lift out of here, monday starts to warm it up. look at the big ridge in the jet stream. that's what you want to see if you like warm weather. so that sticks around, thursday, and friday, maybe brief cool-down, then back at 60 degrees by the weekend. so close to record. wednesday's forecast, 72 degrees, the records is 73. that was setback in 2,000. so for today, little on the cool side. after that morning snow shower, some clearing, up to 48 degrees, this afternoon, we keep it nice, quiet tonight, partly cloudy skies, chilly at 34 degrees. so, 40's today, up ear's, close to 60 monday, more sunshine. close to 70 on tuesday. well into the 70s wednesday. could be setting some records. and then our next storm bridges some showers in here on thursday, still mild, rahel, talking 50's, 60s, by the ends of the week. >> i like it, thank you, justin. right now 6:49. time to check on the roads. lets guess to ann evans at the
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cbs-3 traffic center. good morning, ann. >> good morning, rahel. roadways don't look too bad so far. vine st. expressway at the schuylkill, both of these highways look good. the vine street expressway as you can see, a lot of volume building but it is moving at this point. with no delays or problems, we're going to move the traffic cam to i95 at the platt bridge, right near the stadium area. i95 looks good, so does the platt bridge. again, 95 looks fine through philadelphia and it suburbs, no delays or construction or accidents yet, thankfully. and we will move the traffic cam to the ben franklin bridge mid-span, ben franklin bridge camera is back and it is nice. no delays or problems on the ben franklin bridge or the walt whitman bridge for that mother. taking mass transit we do have note for you. the airport line shuttle service between glennside, jenkintown, melrose park; all bussing due to construction at jenkintown. scheduled every weekend through march, everything else on or close to schedule with mass transit. and that's the latest from are the bs. three traffic center. i'm ann evans, rahel, back to you. >> ann, thank you. >> this past week, the
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pennsylvania ballet premiered don, focused on love story, something the stars of the show know a lot b "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabeo tells us how their true love story transends the stage. >> call the pennsylvania ballet home. the 40 members of the company family. they spend hours together in a classroom. after the last three weeks, at rehearsal, with some final notes from artistic director, they are just about ready for opening night. and lead in the ballet. >> i'm very excited, of course. >> for me it is going way too fast. i wish it was a little slower
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so coy enjoy it more. >> core member, first lead with the ballet. and the first time he and a soloist will star together as on-stage love. the dashing but, and she, the inn keeper's daughter, meant to march amen of means. >> the story is all about them, them trying to run away together, and stay together. >> characters not far removed from the paris real -- pair's real life, after dating for six years, last month, he asked her to marry him. she zade yes. >> i didn't think that. >> that's why i did it. >> but their love story runs deeper. both from cuba, the couple first met in florida after she sought asylum in the united states at 17 years old. >> when get center stage to live with my uncle, my uncle told me he couldn't afford it, so i have to start dancing and start working. >> i toll her i would help her
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to get back to dancing. >> he helped mayara with training, then they traveled the worlds dancing in all of the same companies. each other's source of support. on thursday, before the current and rises, they will take quiet moment before taking the stage. >> and before we go to stage. >> little kiss right before we go on stage and everything is fine. >> a true love story on stage and off. >> premiers tomorrow and runs through the 13th. in center city, jan carabeo, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". still to come this morning, villanova with their final regular season game before the biggies tournament. >> and this was no ordinary job on the treadmill. the world's record this run is her trying to break when we come right back.
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that's a fact. but this whole "blondes have more fun" thing... ♪ standing by for fun. ♪ >> the flyers back on the ice after shut/season, nothing but the gosh scoring was not a problem. if you want more pizza might want to go to more flyers game. is that the biggest pizza you've ever seen? looks it to me. >> from center ice, go then. this is his first goal of the season. first as a flyer. heist two goals, two assists cents. seconds periods, the flyers offense rolling, in this one, tim began yeah taking this one in, rips it right into the net. that makes it three-nothing.
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102nd later the captain, they go onto win this 16-nothing, after the game, the talk all about the must needed two points they gained on the pen wins. >> we're well aware what the situation s i think we should take care of our own job now, not worry about what the teams ahead of russ doing, but nice to see, gain little bit of ground here, but you put it behind you and you get ready for the the next one. >> can't really have any left downs, keep pushing forward, big win for us, and we got to keep it. >> final regular season game for the villanova wildcats before the biggies tournament taking on georgetown, down at the center. first half for the while cats was big. ryan archer, with the drive, and greatly verse lay up, ryan had 16 points on the day. the hoyas fell behind quickly in this one. nova with solid defense. again, the steel. able to find josh heart for the slam. that would put nova up by 21.
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time winding down in the first half of the game. chris jenkins dropping at the buzzer. duquesne visiting hawk hill, st. joe's, the final tuneup for the hawks before the a10 tournament. duquesne's micah mason, draining the bucket in the corner. he had game high 28-point, duquesne with the upset on this one. seventy-eight-70. the final. >> caa tournament errupting for dress he will, winning the whole thing would be their only way to the big dance. rodney williams, he had 20 points, 11 rebounds, but unfortunately hofstra just too much for the dragons, they lose eight to 67. finish the season six and 25. >> spring training continues down in florida opening day for the phillies, less than month away. it was a rough first inning for aaron nola. first batter of the game. troy, the leadoff homerun for the blue jays, that's going to give them one-nothing lead.
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three batters later, saunders three run homerun to right. nola did settle down, two innings, four runs, walk for no, ma'am a philadelphia east lose nine-six. >> and back-to-back, high school hoops, trinity versus ballard, jake ramsey, goes in, unbelievable, that sends the game into over time. but unfortunately trinity went onto win this game by five. still great shot. that's all for sports, i'm leslie van arsdale. have a great day. >> twelve hours is a long time to do anything without stopping. but imagine running for half day? that's what one woman did and she made have captured new title to go with her sore muscles. reporter holly campbell introduces us to an athlete in it for the longrun. >> challenge, to break the word record for the longest
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run and treadmill in 12 hours. the motivators? her kids. >> my kids really inspired me to go for it. they were casino of my motivator for this. >> going for it means going really far. really, really far. rhinehart is a after i had runner has competed four, 100-mile races, and until today, the furthest she's gone on a treadmill was 30 miles. so, when she went searching for a new challenge, she found it. >> the topic came up with my running friends, and this is guiness book of world records, and i saw this one and thought hey i might be able to do that. >> current rate 58 and a half miles in 12 hours. at the end of the 12 hours ... three, two, one!
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reinhard log 73.3 miles, smashing the previous record. >> i was able to overcome that lack of confidence, you know, i kind of struggled with a lot over my life, in my life, and just i quieted those voices, that told me i can't do it. >> what's next for the newest world record holder? >> fresh, put my feet up, drink couple of beers, relax with my kids, relax, enjoy just hanging out with them on the couch. >> some well deserved rest. all right, that was holly campbell reporting. and it could take guiness three, six months to make the world record official. and that's it for "eyewitness news" at of. here's what we have for you at 7:00. the new way to get organized and de-clutter your life. how one woman's approach is helping thousands of people. >> meisha gets behind the wheel for another dream drive. this time it is all about easter. find out where you can get these chocolate eggs, made by a third generation candy maker. >> and spring is in the air
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