>> recognized not only as a sharp legal mind, but someone who bridges to his work a spirit of decency, modesty, integrity, even hand necessary, excellence. >> the president's pick, president obama introduced

federal appeals court judge merik garland, for his pick, to replace antonin scalia. >> now the president's choice is not without controversy. correspondent craig boswell explains why the nomination is sure to lead to big fight in the senate. >> president obama introduced his supreme court nominee, in the white house rose garden. >> after completing this exhaustive process, i've made my decision nominating to supreme court. >> sixty-three year old meiit became chief judge on the us court of appeals in washington dc in 2013. he's respected liberal born in chicago, he graduated from harvard law school. >> the president in selecting merrick garland has gone with the safest possible pick, he has long record of highly regarded by conservatives, and liberals across the spectrum. >> if confirmed, the new justice will replace

conservative antonin scalia who died last month k change the ideological ball of the court for years to come. >> he'll be facing bitter opposition in congress. >> after the next president is sworn in. >> we'll reiterate the american people will have a voice. >> in pushing forwards with his nominee, president obama says he's fulfilling constitutional duty called on senators to do their jobs. craig boswell, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". all right, want to recap right now little bit about supreme court nominee, merrick garland, six year old, married with two daughters, garlands is from chicago, graduate of harvard law. he serves as the chief justice or rather judge on the us court of appeals for the district of columbia, before

becoming judge he held both private and public sector jobs, more recently prosecutors in the department of justice criminals division where he supervised investigations cents into the 1995 oklahoma city bombing and the unabomber ted kazinssi. we'll also have more on garland on our website cbsphilly.com. hillary clinton scored bill victories in four of five states, holding primaries yesterday. she now holds more than two thirds of the delegates needed to secure the democratic nomination. >> we can't be small. we can't lose what made america great in the first place. and this isn't just about done add trump. all of just to do our part. we can't just talk about economic inequality, we have to take on all forms of inequality and discrimination. >> donald trump pick up three wins, in north carolina, illinois, and florida,

knocking marco rubio out of the race. trump has more than half the delegates needed for the republican nomination. >> anybody we do business with beats us, we don't win a trade, we'll win a trade. we'll make our country rich again. we'll make our country great again. and we need the rich in order to make the great. i'm sorry to tell you. >> no winners in missouri yet where races in both president a.m. primaries are still just too close to call. campaign 2016 is in our area today. with the winner of last night's ohio republican primary visiting villanova right now. john kasich will be hosting a town hall meeting on the villanova campus. kasich's win in home state last night his first victory in the republican presidential campaign. he says that win has given his campaign momentum. he adds that his win has dealt serious blow to the campaigns of donald trump and ted cruz. stay with "eyewitness news" for continuing coverage of campaign 2016. you can get the very latest on tv and always on website

cbsphilly.com. the former cfo of visit philadelphia is accused of ripping off the tourism organization she worked for allegedly stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars for her own enjoyment. "eyewitness news" reporter walt hunter joining us live right now in the cbs-3 satellite center on the details of the investigation, walt? >> reporter: erika, the grand jury report didn't mince any words blaming negligence and lack of oversight at visit philadelphia for allowing joyce former cfo of that organization to em asbestos he will $200,000 over more than six years. joyce levick, former chief financial officer for visit philadelphia, now faces criminal charges of embezzling $200,000 from the regional non-profit tour promotion agency is. >> visit philadelphia let joyce levit watch the ledger books and $200,000 of the agency's money charged out the door. >> levit, according to grand jury findings, allegedly spent

19,470 of the agency's money at high-end restaurant, more than 18,000 at bj's and cosco, 4100 at a skin care facility, and more than 1500 at a new york furrier. >> between june of 2007 through april of 2011 levit wrote 20 checks totaling $83,632 to cover her personal expenses made payable to visa with a signature stamp. >> levit, quoted in a 2014 inquirer article, saying she had paid back all of the money, surrendered this morning. meanwhile, seeking tighter control over hotel tax money which funds visit philadelphia, the d.a. says he's discussed those financial coals with mayor kenney. >> i spoke with mayor kenney. this week to update him about today's announcement. and he looks forward to cooperating and ensuring that

the board of directors of visit philadelphia is in compliance and that the taxpayers money is protected moving forward. >> now, as levit awaits arraignment her attorney has emailed cbs-3 in response to our inquiries saying this was basically an employee-employer dispute, and four years ago levit returned all the money so the taxpayers basically have not suffered anything from her alleged theft. meanwhile, visit philadelphia is also promising a us a statement. we haven't received it yet, but will include it with all of our follow up coverage on this developing story. live from the sat center, walt hunter, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> walt, thank you, meeting with parent will be held tonight at north philadelphia high school after a ninth grader dice from bacterial meningitis. grief counselors are spending the day at george washington carver high school of engineering and science. school officials say a 15 year old student died yesterday. that meeting will address parents concerns about the illness and their own children. that meeting start at

6:00 tonight. >> all right, look to go our forecast, finally seeing some sun, but don't get too excited. want to check in with katie out on the skydeck. not sticking around? >> looks like we could see a shower today, but does feel very mild out here on the cbs-3 skydeck, not the brightest, blue he is sky we've ever seen, but definitely sunshine peaking through. that's what's going to help warm things up for us, already pretty mild out here as we sort of hit the lunch hour. quick peak at what's happening on storm scan3, right now, frankly, not heck of a lot. you can see with the satellite coverage brighter spots than others, and all do you have do is zoom it out, so moisture bringing in of the scattered variety of showers back through western pa that's going to lift through eventually bring us our spotty shower chance later today. specially toward night fall. but here is where we stand. specially across the pinelands, little brighter. already at 64 degrees, not bad, 62 at philadelphia international airport, 62 in wilmington, the list goes on,

62 being reported out at palmyra right now. as we move forward in this forecast today, we are still banking on upper 60s, but again, spotty, key word spotty late day shower at worse for us, folks. down along the shore towns likely just stay stuck with sunshine here, nice afternoon, all things considered. looking forward we start to see these temperatures take a dive. so you want to stick with us for the full seven day forecast and just see low we go possibly even the threat of snowflakes. well, we will talk about it coming up, erika. >> if we must, katie, thank you. two of the three philly schools headed to the ncaa march madness basketball tournament leaves this afternoon for brooklyn. wildcats play usc nashville, temple owls take on iowa first round friday. if both local teams win, this is interesting, they'll actually play each other in the second rounds this weekend. meanwhile, the st. joe's hawks are already on the road. the team bus left hawk hill bound for the airport just short time ago. now, they have the longest flight, just about any of the

teams in march madness. the hawks take on the cincinnati bar kates in spokane, washington friday night. long flight. cbs-3 is with the hawks on their trip to washington state. the hawks, wildcats and the owls first round games are all on tru tv. before they play their if i games in the tournament we are getting you ready for march madness tonight. we have special preview show, march to houston presented by toyota. leslie van arsdale in brooklyn with temple and villanova. and we are on the road to spokane with st. joe's, everything you need to know about those games, we'll have it for you tonight at 7:30 right here on cbs-3. coming up on cbs-3 "eyewitness news", an injured horse is being nursed back to health here in our area. the disturbing way authorities say she was abused. >> also, it was called shrek gate, hacker gained access to the private accounts of some celebrities leaking very intimate photos. now, a local connection. details when we come back.

>> animal authorities, a horse hit by more than a hundred paint balls, found abandoned in lancaster county. that will horse found in a auction on monday, when rescue personnel saw the paint ball wound, they immediately took her to chester county new bolton center show, could spend about two weeks in isolation undergoing treatment. experts say she was hit by six different clotter paint balls, they say the horse is in terrible pain.

>> it look like it was done close range. so, she probably wasn't able to move, and that would be excrutiating, beyond immeasureable amounts of pain. >> when you see her, you mind goes to imagining how someone could do something like that. >> oh, handlers say lilly, as she has been nicknamed, also blind, in one eye. authorities are now searching for the owner. a pennsylvania man is arrested in connection to the so-called celebgate scandal. authorities say 36 year old ryan collins every lancaster has agreed plead guilty to hacking into e-mail and on line accounts. many belonging to famous women. no celebrities were identified in the plea deal, but collins was charged as part of the investigation, into who leaked nude photos on line of actress jennifer lauren and model kate upton, federal investigators say there is no link collins to the actual leak. still ahead are you a fan of criminal minds? coming up cbs is giving more

to love spin off premiers tonight. i'm talk to two of the stars of criminal minds beyond boarders next. katy? >> and erika, the first day of spring is right around the corner. but along with that, could we have another s word? yes, snowflakes, at least potential of it, we will talk about that in your full forecast on the other side.

>> so little real estate line location, location, location for your forecast. >> he can actually, right now you have some places where there is still some cloud cover out, there others where you have almost nothing but bright sunshine, so truly is a partly sunny day out there, and, at least that said, it is actually still quite mild across most of the board, will stay that i way, so it looks good, definitely the warmest day of the next seven, that

said, and actually see these temperatures just every couple every days, couple degrees get shaved off to the daytime high, bottom out first day of spring. start things off with a view of the pocono camera if we can. that's where we're definitely finding a lot of cloud cover settling in right now, but notice, the temperatures have been too mild, a lot of the snow, even the man-made stuff, starting to melt away here out at jack frost, big boulder, up in carbon county, by comparison we go next to one of the live network cameras, basically clear as a bell. so it really is, again, depending where you are, you're going to maybe see something little different than what you are finding here on our cameras, 55 degrees the current temperature by the way, out here at middle township high school in cape may courthouse. storm scan3, little wider zoom. you can already see that there have been couple of showers starting to dot the regional radar back through central pennsylvania even few rumble every thunder with that, too, all courtesy of this storm, and the core of that storm will bypass us off to the north, but the warmfront lift

in today, where upper 60s will come from, then cold front actually gets dragged through tomorrow, that will bring another round of some showers. now, the jet stream pattern is critical when we start to hear the word snow coming in to play potentially down the road here, we see the jet stream dipping south. ushering in enough cold, into early next week, and specifically sunday night, that we could, key word could, see few snowflakes pick up here, so pieces of the puzzle have to come together. talking sunday p.m., days away, little too far out, for one thing, even track something on radar just yet. but there will be a storm that's brewing, at least off to our south. and there is two ways right now that it could go. it could go completely taught to sea and bypass us, and we get nothing out of it, say for chill in the air, or end up with some precipitation. at this point moist of the guidance trying to keep it off to the south t keeps us on the colder side of the storm, so, if it hangs around long enough, we could end up with a couple of wet snowflakes, generally at worse, across our area, sunday night.

here is nice warm thought for you, phillies home opener 26 days away, there is that happy thought, looking forward in the eyewitness weather seven day this is the warmest, this afternoon, 68 degrees the expected hi, tomorrow for saint patrick's day still mild, mid 60s for you, watching for couple of showers out there for the p.m. hours, especially, sprinkle nothing more on friday, and then we move it into the weaken yes, coldest day of the pack sunday, when that next system comes along. but we are officially ushering in the spring season that day, yes, you know? >> with some nice snow? >> trade off no matter how you lies it here, but eventually will get warmer. >> eventually, thanks, katie. >> all right, well treat for fans of the hit cbs show criminal minds, new spin off, criminal minds beyond boarders premiers tonight. drama follows specialized division of the fbi with solving crimes, rescuing americans in danger while abroad. >> police setting us up for

their office, bad, typhoon off the coast. >> evacuating low-lying provinces cents. >> thirty-six hours, i want to get out there before it is washed away. >> let's head to the station. >> there you have t actors, they joined us to talk more about the new show, and where the story line picks up. >> well, it is a new show, taking original model of criminal minds, just moving to our team, different team completely, but see some of the stars of the original criminal minds pop in and out from time to time. our show travels internationally, so each episode is a different country which is really amazing, so get to experience different cultures, different spiritual issues, different religions, different villains. >> and eventually go on that ride with us, which is really really fun. >> super cool take on the original. >> yes. now, fans of the show criminal minds, what do you think they're going to really like about this new series? >> i think they're going to love that we travel. >> i guess the travel aspect, always kind of real interesting darkness to

criminal minds. they push, push the envelope a bit, definitely doing that. >> and great cast, too, actor gary, also, on the show. what's it been like working together with everyone? >> a dream. i mean, we all came together and had this very genuine feeling, like, wow, these people, like, it is funny, i think i knew him two days, like oh, he's my brother from another mother. like you guys all just met? >> we just generally all became fast friends, garvey a dream, not only so talented and you grew up watching him and his incredible work, but he is kind and funny and wonderful family man. he just becomes a wonderful friends. >> very nice. before we go, i have to ask, you've been in philadelphia, still live here. tell me about your time here. what do you miss? >> yes, oh, i love philly. i miss rittenhouse square. i miss shopping, eating, you guys have great food. it is fun. philly is really, really cool. and the people of philly were just genuinely cool.

i had a really really good time there. >> a long time ago? >> i was like 38, older. yep, this was just couple of years ago. but i loved it. i had my son there, he was a baby. >> that's exciting. >> going around the cobblestone, really fun. >> this does not look 38. >> not at all. >> oh, great speaking, and with the new criminal minds spin off criminal beyond boards ers tonight 10:00 p.m. tonight on cbs-3, we'll be right

>> we saw harrison ford return, and now ford returning to another of his most famous roles. ford is grabbing his whip, hat and satchel one more time to play indianna jones, new adventure, also back, so cool, with director stephen spielberg. they do such great work together. the movie does not have a title yet. we are told it is due in theatres in 2019. so plenty of time to get excited about it. >> totally. >> ford, 77, when the movie comes out, but he just kills it whenever he plays inch andes a jones, all of those classic characters. >> so incredibly excited about this one. huge fan. >> hopefully no aliens this time. last one, not sure. that's "eyewitness news" at noon, i'm cater kay von tiehl. >> we're always on line at cbsphilly.com. the young and the restless is coming up next.

>> marisa: when the lawyer draws up the papers, all you have to do is sign and then everyone can move on. >> luca: i wouldn't think of standing in your way, marisa, if that's what you really want. and if it's really your idea. >> noah: stalling, luca. >> luca: am i? >> noah: yeah, you are. you're just standing there thinking about what's in this divorce for you. >> summer: look, can we just try to be civil about this, you guys? >> luca: no, it's all right, summer. i'm not offended in the least. your question's on point. what is in it for me? what? you and marisa get to be married for better or, let's be honest, for worse, while i'm left with what? >> marisa: well, you could aim for some self-respect. >> luca: oh, i have plenty of that. >> marisa: then how about your new job, the one at jabot? you remember, the one you manipulated your way into? take the paycheck, luca. live your life. and let me live mine.