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here, and to protect them have after the second arrest of a student for allegedly dealing lsd this past weekend. in that incident police say they confiscated the drug, as many as 3800 potential doses of it, and another student, they say, was sickened in the incident, that led to that drug discovery. it began saturday night on the villanova campus, officials say, a student, reported missing, after taking lsd. >> a student reported that his roommate had gone to valley forge park and had unfortunately taken lsd while there, he had a bad reaction. >> reporter: acting quickly, campus officials helped fine the student who was treated at a local hospital, and then they say, they found this, a safe with a vial of lsd in other student's room. a along with more than 3800 tabs. each is infused with the drug, could hold a single dose. >> that is a scary amount of
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lsd, for sure, to have 3800 tabs that could have been, could have been made active, and distributed on our campus. >> obviously they were prepared to distribute it a among villanova students and probably other areas. >> reporter: radnor police, jon viser a student of drug dealing. back on january 15th, another student also arrested. an additional lsd found in his, dorm room. >> we are hoping it is not a trend or something that will continue. >> reporter: radnor sergeant joe pinto whose identity we are concealing because he is under cover led the narcotic's team seizing the lsd. his concerns about the dangerous hallucinogen drug, shared by campus officials. >> we're not leaving any stone unturned to try to deal with this. >> reporter: villanova, associate vice-president, liz kennedy-walsh saying that the university has now e mailed an alert about lsd and other drugs to all faculty, students, and their parents along with information honorary sources to deal with
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drug issues. >> we have a zero tolerance for anyone who deals, in illegal substance on campus. and, they will no longer be on campus. >> reporter: finally regarding saturday night's incident here involving the lsd, campus officials are crediting other students with helping provide vital information in those hours that led to this being resolved without anyone being seriously hurt. they say they hope that communication will continue to ease the the threat of lsd and other drugs that may be on campus at anytime. live from the villanova campus i'm walt hunter for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". a high school hockey rivalry gets ugly off the ice when a brawl breaks out and rink employee is hurt. friday night was flyers cup division a championship game between springfield high school and west chester rushton. a fight broke out after the game at ice line rink in west goshen. while trying to break up the scuffle involving more than a
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dozen students a 19 year-old rink employee was seriously injured. he is one in the black shirt on the ground, police say that they are looking at one or two springfield fans who lost the game as the likely instigators. >> these were not players, these were peers, fellow students of the respective teams. it is a shame. it has taken a away from a great sport and great game. >> reporter: police say they plan to make more arrests this week. surveillance video now of a robbery in fishtown. two suspects broke in the philadelphia brotherhood mission on east girard avenue sunday morning. the one suspect used a baseball bat to break the the glass door and then chased the victim on to the street and hit him with the bat. the suspect even used the victim's own kane against him before lighting a plastic bag on fire and then throwing it at the victim. the victim was hospitalized for his injuries. turning now to weather, another cloudy day across the area the question is, what does tomorrow bring? meteorologist kate bilo is
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live on the cbs-3 sky deck with an answer, kate. >> i'll tell what you a difference an hour makes, out here an hour ago i was excited about a tiny bit of blue skies in center city. now most of the sky is blue. the it is looking nice. sun has broken through in time for a nice finish to this tuesday evening. tomorrow, probably looking more like this, then like the first half of day. so that is good news as well. taking a quick look at storm scan three you can see showers and clouds have moved on out, clouds are gradually clearing the area as we go through this evening and temperatures steady or actually possibly rising a degree or two through the next couple of hours. up to 55 in reading. fifty-five in wilmington. fifty-three in philadelphia lets look at your seven day spoiler, a day to look forward to and a day to look out for. look forward to your wednesday, looking out for sunday, coming up when i join you inside i'll tell you why those days are in my radar right now. i will tell you when we can hit 07, plan for showers and a few snow flakes in the extended forecast. i said snow flakes.
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i will break that down and tell what you that means when i come back inside. back to you. more fall out the from the porn e-mail scandal, another pennsylvania supreme court justice is stepping down. michael eakin is second member of the state's high court to quit over offensive e-mails he and others exchanged with friend and lawyers n2014, attorney general kathleen kane, began releasing the e-mails to the media and ethics watch dog agencies. justice mccarry retired after being suspended by the court in his role in the scandal. new jersey governor chris christie is coming under fire once again. hundreds showed up to honor a new jersey state troop her died in the line of duty. but the governor was a no show. eye witt the necessary news reporter cleve bryan tells you the governor is responding to the criticism. >> i looks silly. >> reporter: the duo of trump and christie drawing criticism because christie was on stage with donald trump monday when he should have been attending funeral for state troop are sean cullen who died in the line of duty. >> always time to campaign but
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that is someone's death, that you should honor. >> you are governor of new jersey. you should have gone to show respect, even if you didn't know the man, he is still a state trooper. >> reporter: even head of the state troop are's union called the decision selfish. today christie responded. >> last week, well before i even was invited, to come on monday, and campaign with donald trump, lieutenant governor and i decide that had she would attend the funeral on monday. so even if i decided to remain in the state i would not have a attended the funeral, lieutenant governor would have. i signed a executive order, honoring trooper cullen's service, and lowering flags, yesterday on the day of his funeral, recognized his sacrifice and sacrifice of his family. >> reporter: while many disagree with his choice, some say bigger issue is after ending his own bid for president, he is still spending so much time on national politics. >> after statements he made about not being, you know, tied into campaigning for donald trump and here he is, what campaigning for donald trump. >> i don't think it vice cool
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of him. i just think he is more concerned about his career and then people of the state of new jersey. >> if i have been in the state yesterday, michael, i was planning to go to a ground breaking event ines innings county. >> reporter: governors do not always attend funerals for police office their die in the line of duty. governor christie did attend a trooper funeral before starting his presidential campaign. the since then he has missed two. in mount laurel, cleve bryan, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". five states are holding critical primary is today in the race for the white the house. voters will cast ballots in florida, illinois, north caroline, missouri and ohio. bernie sanders is hoping to pull off another upset win in the midwest against democratic rival hillary clinton. she already has a significant delegate lead with more than half of the total needed to win the nomination. on the republican side, donald trump continues to be the front runner. john kasich needs to win his home state of ohio to get the winner take all delegates to
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stay in the race. he says he is visiting our area tomorrow afternoon for a town hall meeting at villanova university. deadline to register to vote in local primaries is fast approaching. voters in pennsylvania has until march 28th, last day to register in delaware is april 2nd, and in new jersey it is may 17th. all of the area primaries are on a tuesday, the general election, of course, always on a tuesday and that brings up a good question. why do we vote on tuesday? it is tonight's good question, submitted by viewers michael rook and david millhousing, nicole brewer has the answer tonight at 11:00. authorities are investigating a cause of the fire that destroyed a delaware county diner, two alarm fire ripped through grape leaves diner on edgemont avenue in chester just before 3:00 a.m. the diner is attached to the days inn. hotel had to be evacuated while most guests were a asleep. >> i felt like somebody was coming through my door they were banging so hard but we got out, as long as i got my baby out, i don't care about
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nothing else. >> reporter: guests have been a allowed back in, no one was injured in the fire. new at 6:00 tonight new protests against a proposed stadium for temple university in north philadelphia "eyewitness news" on the temple campus where students in north philadelphia residents and others, south the to make their voices heard. they held signs and a banner that read no new stadium. >> i don't think anyone wants a foot the ball stadium. it will bring lots of traffic, light, trash, lots of drunk people in the middle will of the night when families are trying to live their lives. >> protests happened at the same time today as a board of trustees meeting. still to come on "eyewitness news" tonight swimming for american medals or award, health reporter stephanie stahl shows us the reason this temple student is jumping in the pool and using her sister as encouragement. plus curiosity of some montgomery students leads to a special visitor the guest who visited a perfect sham elementary school and the amazing story she shared with
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welshes students in horsham, montgomery county received a special lesson today. >> holocaust survivor, shown here, shared her story on the keith valley middle school. during at semmably she read the the poem she wrote about her experience in auschwitz. the seventh graders had questions about what it was like to live through world war two and the holocaust. on the cbs-3 healthwatch swimming to help people hoff trouble moving because of multiple sclerosis. it is a fundraiser called swim for ms. >> health reporter stephanie stahl is here to introduce you
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to the students got things started at temple. >> reporter: she's quite the inspiration. this is third year for swim for ms, happening at temple university tomorrow afternoon. people swim lap toss help raise money for multiple sclerosis association of america. ann is swimming for her sister cristina was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in her early 30's. >> she lost the ability to walk and she could not talk anymore, she got put on a feeding tube. >> reporter: it happened suddenly one time temple crew member started falling and was quickly diagnosed with ms, disorder of the central nervous system that can be difficult to diagnosis and treat, and there is no cure. >> it was heart breaking. >> reporter: not wanting to feel helpless and who is a senior at temple now, organized the swim for ms event at the university. >> i was just looking for ways to help out people like my sister. >> being able to get in and doing something will physical thinking about people who might not be able to do it, it
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makes you appreciate what you can do. >> reporter: remarkably after therapy cristina is in remission and is able to run marathons. but doctors warned that she could relapse anytime. >> this whole thing is kind of about realizing that a lot of people are really struggling with just basic movements that we kind of do every day. without even thinking bit. >> reporter: now, that swim for ms event happens at temple tomorrow. ann has about 50 people involved and is hoping to raise $2,700. she's hoping more people get involve. we will have more information on cbs philly.com, click on health. i will put it on my facebook and twitter feed. talking about good good work and helping others at the same time. >> everybody can do something, right. >> yes, a long way. >> thanks, stephanie, appreciate it. kate bilo joins us with our forecast, all right, young lady, tell us all bit, come on. >> i don't know about you but i feel my mood improve by 100 percent as soon as that sun breaks through the cloud. it has been so dreary, you
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feel lethargic and then sun comes out and it is beautiful outside. great evening. in problems if you want to get home from work, maybe take kid for a walk, get outside, enjoy that extra hour because if this were last week at this time it would be getting dark, as it stand because of the start of the daylight savings time we have an hour to enjoy daylight. make most of it now that the sunnies shining. the lets look outside and out to the citizens bank park cam, and camera looking out over the field there and see blue skies that has broken out just in time for our evening, looking pretty nice outside. temperatures are comfortable. in fact temperatures are gradually rising this evening. new that the sunnies shining. temperatures should continue to rise for next hour or so and then we will see them dropping off. pretty nice tuesday evening. we deserve it. we have been dealing with three straight days of dreary weather most of today, all of yesterday and sunday was pretty gray, damp. storm scan three shows showers and clouds moving out to sea and everything is really quiet the outside tonight and will
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continue to be that way as we head in the first part of tomorrow but we do have a chance for showers pretty much each day this week. tomorrow, thursday, and then gannon friday unfortunately but you can see to the west not a whole lot going on. we have our next system pushing threw upper midwest and that will drag an area of showers through our region tomorrow, around seven or 8:00 l come in, and tomorrow is not a brilliantly sunny day but probably more sunshine then we have seen in the past few. the that is good news. fifty-three in philadelphia, temperature has listen a degree, we are up to 55 in reading, not too bad there. fifty-seven in dover. fifty-three in allentown. only sun would have broken out a couple hours earlier we would have hit 60 degrees today but we are pretty seasonal will for this time of the year, lower 50's, that is where we should be, on a mid-march day. future weather shows us a few breaks in the clouds throughout the overnight hours and then tomorrow morning at 8:00 a a.m. in the brilliantly sunny. we have cloud hanging around but dry through first half of the day, drew through lunch
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hour as well. if you want to get outside temperatures are warmer. tomorrow warmest day of the week and nicest even though we have more sun to start, as we will show you colder a air to deal with as well. tomorrow evening at this time we will track scattered showers a across the region, that clears out and thursday starts with sunshine, don't get too excited though because cloud will roll back in mid afternoon, we have another chance for a few scattered showers, for your thursday afternoon. big day, people possibly leaving work early, st. patrick's day, start of the big march madness tournament. definitely will be dodging showers but not worst weather we have seen the then through early next week jet stream dives to the south, colder air will start to move in and as that colder air moves in, tracking system very early but this looks to track along the coast late sunday into monday. timing is big, also the track is about i go with this. if this were a month ago we could talk about a major snow. the as it stand it is warm enough to be a cold rain, possibly wet snow, in the sure how well it will a accumulate. it depend on the timing overnight sunday night into
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monday morning. some spots could be looking at grassy a accumulations. too early to tell you. we are watching a storm off the companies. the it is timed well with some very cold air. it will feel like a winter-like start to spring late in the weekend. overnight tonight mainly cloudy, cool at 47 degrees. your wednesday, some sun, milder, near 70 with that late day shower. you're witness weather seven day forecast, we have got clouds and showers tomorrow and thursday. above average. starts to turn cooler on friday. still can't rule out a shower. the saturday dry sunny day but chilly, we will struggle to hit 50 on saturday, sunday's high in the 40's with the chance for rain and possibly mixing with snow, in spots overnight sunday night into monday morning. chilly next week as well so spring will kind of go backwards. >> but it the is coming. >> officially. >> right around the corner. >> yes. >> thanks, kada appreciate it. >> "cbs evening news" is a few minutes away. >> scott pelley joins with us a look ahead, scott. >> hi ukee and jessica, great
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don is here now and flyers have a big game tonight. >> we were talking during the break when was last time they had a significant regular season game. eagles were playing washington back in december. biggest game for flyers in nearly two years. no other way to put it. in an hour they will host red wings, detroit is directly ahead of them by three points in the playoff chase. orange and black at morning skate, last time they played in the game of this magnitude at home was game six against the rangers in the first round of the playoffs, in 204.
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>> probably most important game of the year so far. they are right in front of us in the standings. we want these playoffs. we kind of need this game and it is a playoff atmosphere tonight. >> moving to hoops, if you like pretty jump shots and uncontested dunks this is not the game for you. st. joes will hook up with the ninth seed cincinnati friday night in spokane. bear cats are one of the best defensive teams in the nation. they protect the rim as it is a matter of life or death. >> would i never ever, i don't go to clubs but would i never sneak in clubs where these guys will be the bouncers. they treat the basket like it is a club. unless you have proper id and their cover charge you ain't getting in. >> no id, no entry. before nova, temple, st. joes tip off on friday we will get you ready for action with our preview show march to houston presented by toy yet, then tomorrow night at 7:30.
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also sign up now for our bracket challenge on cbs philly.com, grand prize winner will take home a $5,000 american express gift card, they are also prize for winners of the each round, make your picks now, on cbs philly.com. bird news new noland carol is staying in philadelphia he ultimately decided to resign with the eagles on a one year deal reportedly worth 2 million, he is recovering from a broken ankle suffered in the thanksgiving day loss, to the washington. >> you are in the the on the list. >> no, nothing. >> nothing in the paint for you. >> keep it moving. >> i love that. >> interest ago analogy, isn't it. >> that is a i good match up. >> yes, he drives it home. those guys are really good. it will be fun. >> the hawk will never die. >> there you go. >> we will be right
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thanks for watching "eyewitness news" at 6:00 o'clock. we're back at ten on our sister station wpsg the cw philly a and we're back here on cbs-3 at 11:00. up next, "cbs evening news", tonight it is do or die for rubio and kasich. will they cruz a along or stopped by trump. and who was american citizen who defect from isis, elizabeth palmer has new details on the identity and officers, who arrested him. from new york now, here's scott pelley. >> take care family, we will
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see you tonight. couldn't pick trump out of a lineup. now-- >> trump. >> donald trump. >> pelley: and they have plenty to say about it. >> pelley: history will be made tonight, but will it be seenals the beginning of the end of the nomination process or just the end of the beginning. if front-runners trump
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