up too. don't put away winter weather gear just yet you will need those boots. i understand this weekend. good evening i'm ukee washington. i'm jessica keen. you heard correctly, the weather team is tracking a spring snowstorm but just how much will we get and will it stick? >> meteorologist lauren casey is in for kate bilo. she's in the weather center with a first look at the that forecast. >> we will all be sad when we are pulling out those snow boots out from the back of the closet because we certainly haven't needed them over the last week and a half. temperatures have been so warm, we have been dealing with rainfall but 63 degrees right now, more sunshine starting to break out approaching sunset across center city philadelphia a. northwest wind at 18 miles per hour, little bit of the breeze today but certainly feeling like spring, 61 degrees, down the shore, breezy as well, chillier up toward poconos, temperatures right now in the middle 40's. storm scan three is showing us a couple of sprinkles, light showers, rain showers up toward the poconos, patchy, low cloud we are seeing more

sunshine break go through as we are losing heating of the day. we will see decreasing cloud in the evening hours and those showers off to the the north and west will come to an end after sunset and then colder air, it is going to be arriving as we head into the day tomorrow and that will set us up for this spring snowfall events on sunday. we will have cold air in place and moisture settling in, precipitation types, mainly snow, through this event on sunday and sun take night. philadelphia points north and west. we will see rain mixing in across parts of the southern new jersey and down the shore that will limit our snowfall totals but most of us will see some accumulation and talk about how much to expect in your full forecast coming up, guys. >> thank you, lauren. after today's earlier basketball games we can understand why it is called march madness. happiness for one local team, heart break for another. >> sports director don bellies here, that temple game though. >> yes. >> really. >> we're all up in the the news room banging on tables, so frustrating, tough way to

go out for cherry a and white. march madness turns into march sadness, tell the tenth see, way number seven. owls suffering loss that players and coaches never, ever forget. to brooklyn we will go final seconds of the the regulation, temple by three, quenton decosey, fouls and he will go the two line for three. the senior from union, new jersey, nails all three free throws that is clutch, led all with 26. so we have overtime. and tied at 70. hawk eyes, toss it up, air ball but adam woodbury is 7-foot one, okay. he uses that height, right there, to get the bucket, it is heart break for temple owls, in brooklyn. seventy-two-70. literally losing at the buzzer. >> you know, they beat us to the ball. we didn't ghetto fence ivory bound at the tip in. >> i'm just proud of our guys, for the non-quit factor in us. obviously i'm disappointed we

will not have a chance to play on sunday but again very proud of our guys and give credit to iowa. >> great game. >> fran dunphy is a class act. he has had rough losses in the tournament. >> this has got to be as bad as it gets. >> no question. >> you were right there. >> right there. >> push off underneath basket but it is hard to call those types of playness that situation. >> they never gave up. >> yeah. >> all right. >> we will check with you later. >> thanks, buddy, appreciate it. temple fans were hoping for a different outcome today. >> "eyewitness news" reporter, tran jo is hot on the campus but proud of the effort. >> i'm stole this hat from my niece at watch party. sort of very frustrating loss for fans. it was so close right down to the wire but still, lots of, proud people on this campus as many people were thrilled that the owls made it to the big dance. passionate crowd of 100

students and alumni, called for this on campus watch party, at times jumping out of that are seats in the second half. temple fans started the game with optimism and owls did not disappoint, keeping game close from beginning to end, but ultimately, iowa just played a better game. >> i'm proud of them, for making it this far. little upset about that missed free throw but that is -- a lot of upset about that free throw at the end but we will get there and win. >> we're the under dog. i was hoping this would be our year but maybe next year we will get further. >> reporter: so for fans they are taking it pretty well but a small consolation is they will be able to cheer on their big five rivals villanova a on sunday. still overall a very good season for temple sports and how well fat the ball team also did this year. lots of pride on this campus. i'll send it back to you in the studio. >> thanks very much, and welcome young lady to the cbs-3 family.

welcome back home. >> so glad to have you, trang. >> definitely. >> cbs three is your station for march madness. don will be back with villanova highlights and look at st. joes match up in sports in 15 minutes. investigators in one bucks county community need your help tracking down a crafty crook who was caught on camera stealing heating oil. our walt hunter has the exclusive video police want you to see. >> reporter: police say the driver of this truck carefully being positioned over the fill pipe to an underground heating oil tank, at the middle school isn't an oil delivery man, he is a thief, about to siphon 1,000 gallons of oil out of the tank. >> this is new into itself i think. it is not something i have ever seen in 29 years. >> reporter: police believe this truck actually has a removable floor and a pump to pull the oil into a 1,000-gallon storage tank on board it. but, they say that because it

looks like a delivery van, no one notices anything unusual, until the school discovered that the oil is missing. >> he wind up sitting there for two hours and just as nice as you please, he drives off. >> reporter: the buckingham township isn't only one police say they are also looking into oil being removed in quakertown, and allentown, all of the victims so far have been school advertise tricks. police suspect heating oil purchased a at $2.50 a gallon by the school district is a hot commodity for retail. >> you are still looking at a theft have $2,500 which, of course, translates into taxpayer dollars. >> reporter: while investigators hope someone will recognize the truck, they do grudgingly give this one of a kind, school fuel thief an a for criminal creativity. >> you know, we talk about it, we try to stay a away from the

word that was in-genius but frankly, it is creative for sure. >> reporter: in buckingham township bucks county, walt hunter, for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". the discovery of a man's body touches a off a police pursuit from new castle county delaware to chester county, pennsylvania. this all started around 8:30 this morning when a woman called police after finding her 69 year-old father dead, and his car missing. police tracked the gray old mobile to the drummond hill community and persued a suspect for about six months at landenberg chester county. that person was then taken in custody. a new start for two north philadelphia high rises, philadelphia housing authority has announced building in the norman bloomberg development will be imploded tomorrow morning at 75:00 a.m. the evacuation effects about 500 families, the evacuation zone is between the second street to 24th street, from charswood to oxford and from 21st to 25th, turn tore master

street. >> this is a terrific culmination of over two years of planning this development goes up in about 18 months. but it will take only ten seconds tomorrow morning to see it come down. >> this will make room for more than 1200 new units and will be both for sale and for rent. the philadelphia thousandsing authority said they will use, 260-pound of dynamite for the implosion. still ahead on "eyewitness news" at 6:00, a new resident at philadelphia zoo this beautiful guy made his debut living in the zoo's big cat falls, he is here for an important job, we will explain. lauren. we will be dealing with the winter storm for the first day of spring, i'll let you know when wintry weather moves in and how much snowfall accumulation we could see by monday morning in your full forecast, coming up. this is phil martelli, next up, we will show you, and everybody back watching on

cbs, at the hotel where hawks are staying at. march madness tonight right here in spokane washington. >> you, you and you. >> love the style. >> go ahead martelli men. >> yeah good catch up with him when we come right back.

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vittoria woodill goes one on one with the hawk, st. joes storied mascot. the tradition, honor and non-stop flapping. how the bird keeping feathers flying from the start of the game until final buzzer sound. the hawk is the official st. joes mascot, cbs three is official station of march madness and we are only station on the road to spokane with the hawks. >> but is there another guy, who goes to every single game and is not only the team's biggest fan but the coach's sat dough. meet little phil. >> my name is phil martelli, i'm six and a half years old and this is my, my best friend. we will show you around the whole stadium of washington. this is the cow. that is the sofa. this is a waterfall. this is the final four sign.

that is the gift shop room. i have never been in before but i want to go in there. >> hey, how are you doing. >> by the way up there is the exercise room. okay, let's exercise first. i feel better already. >> he has to be. his team has to be done by now. >> i need something a little bit bad in my bracket. i number one verse number eight. plus, i put kansas to win the

championship. this is phil martelli, signing off from cbs channel three, go hawks. >> he has background music, theme song, he is sweaty already. >> he is having no fun there. >> do you like how his friend is like where are we going now. >> one more time, more air time. >> excellent behind the scenes look, and maybe future broadcaster in our air. >> good stuff, i wouldn't doubt it. in memory of camden's k-9 officer zero the police department has received a generous donation to keep his leg ace a live. eye witt the necessary news at camden county police department and received a $10,000 check from verizon. that money will train zero's heir k-9 officer. the fail a zoo held a welcome party for new big cat. >> john mcdevitt from our sister station kyw news radio tells just a tiger's move to

philly is an important one. >> reporter: the outdoor exhibit was opened and the eight year-old amore tiger made his debut, sniffing, walking around taking a like to go his welcome sign. >> i think he is looking for something to eat. he must be hungry. >> reporter: he comes on the species survival plan or sfp, recommendation where he will mate with one of two tigers with the zoo. this is the zoo's coo, and says program looks to maintain, genetic and with focus on animals endangered in the we will. >> in this case, gram coming from colorado is a great match for both female tigers, and so, after they go through a period of introduction, we will decide if it appears to be a good time to try an opportunity for them to be together. >> reporter: grammys getting used to surroundings. zoo keeper will slowly introduce them to the trail system known as zoo 360 where he can walk around the zoo even a above our heads. tiger keeper jennifer robert

son say striped animal act as ambassador educating visitors about conservation. >> these guys, they are endangered. is there only 540 left in the wild. he is one of six species of tigers as a whole, of 200 in the entire planet. >> reporter: philadelphia zoo has five a amore tigers. john mcdevitt for kyw news radio for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". good looking animal right there. >> yes. mid-march is going out like a lion. >> it is going out, a little lion action in the upcoming weekend. so, we have to get outdoor plans, pack in there with temperatures that have been mile. we have been dealing with precipitation, a rainy week we will have more precipitation but won't be rainy kind as we head into sunday. we will start off with sunshine this morning, transition go to low clouds as we go through afternoon but those are starting to dissipate and giving us a a nice looking evening. a live look from sky scan three in center city philadelphia a lot of blue

there. we have nice friday evening in store if you don't mind a breeze but temperatures, sunshine returning before sunset, that is nice for a friday evening, close out workweek, 62 degrees is the current temperature in philadelphia, upper 50's in the the lehigh valley. still hanging on to 60 degrees in atlantic city. chillier in the poconos. temperatures in the mid 408's right the now but that breeze is impacting everyone, gusty wind throughout the day, pulling out of the west, wind will shift out of the north overnight tonight and usual inner that colder a air that sets us up for upcoming weekend, wind gusts, they are already starting to wayne. we had wind gusts up to 40 miles an hour throughout the day-to-day and some areas particularly up toward higher elevations of the poconos but now gusting to 26 miles an hour again. as the wind will really start to scale back. we have, breezes out of the north at 10 miles an hour, over the west. 37 degrees. a few clouds, heading out the on the town, when that winter coat with you and all throughout the day tomorrow, as we have errand to run.

48 degrees. our coolest air we have felt in a week and a half time. the clouds increasing. the light wind though that is the nice thing bit. we won't have gusty wind tomorrow afternoon with the northeast wind at 5 miles an hour. storm scan three showing us a few light showers popping up, north and west of the city, for last several hours. both are starting to dissipate and we are seeing clearing trend that will continue into the evening hours, and our next storm system that we have a close eye on. settle well off to the the south and west but gathering moisture, starting to get more organize. all they looking disjointed at this time i odn't toward the gulf of mexico. that will ride up the coast and bring us that snow cover as we head into sunday, starting off saturday night when we are seeing spotty rain showers, milk showers and transitioning over to snow, mainly snow through the day on sunday for much of the area but we will see rain mix nothing south and east of the city. sunday night period of all snow across the delaware valley, we will see a prolonged event. future weather will show us. that this particular model in

the bringing snowfall in or precipitation swath until mid morning on sunday. some models bringing tonight earlier. notice by midday snow, philly north and west. down to the south rainfall and sunday night all know for everyone and clearing out monday morning. but monday morning, early part of the the commute could be a a little dicey but we have limiting factors. that will be warmth. yeah, warm ground temperatures, warm air temperatures, a daytime arrival that will really limit our snowfall totals two to 4-inch's cross the area one to 2 inches for interior southern new jersey and less toward the coast. so snow on sunday but clearing out and temperatures rebounding back to 63 degrees with sunshine by wednesday. we will be right

welcome back, don bell with sports. it is a punch in the the gut, temple owls were one second away from forcing double overtime against iowa, until

this happened. final seconds of the double overtime, session, he toss a fade away jumper but 7-foot one adam woodbury is there for the put back. a crushing loss for temple, 72-70 your final score. she witnessed the thrill of victory with villanova and witnessed agony of defeat with temple just minutes ago, leslie van arsdal has been, one busy lady up in the house there in brooklyn. she joins us now from brooklyn. the leslie, what is the deal. >> reporter: well, don what a difference, this was such a tough, tough loss for temple, this is a team that for the all season long. they for the the on the court today. because it was such a close game it makes the loss that much more painful. >> never had that feeling before, season is over and it hurt and i felt bad for our

seniors. >> in the second half we could have done better. we were down buy a lot but we came back, and we made our free throws. i'm proud of my team for that. >> so there is a reason for the phrase temple tough, these guys showed exactly what that means on the court today. back to you, don. >> that is a rough one. leslie, thank you. before temple and iowa took the court villanova opened 2016 tournament run against unc ashville. this was early game in bk. jay wright and fellas flying to shake off the disappointment from the season ago. ryan arcidiacono fade ago way from three and the wildcats skip in the locker room with a 14-point half time lead. in the second, villanova takes advantage of the under sized bulldogs team, daniel ochefu with 17 points, ten board, cats by 18 at that point. later on chris jenkins finding his shot with the fade away

right there. five wildcats scoring in double figures. nova moves on with the 30-point beat down of unc ashville and will play iowa on sunday. >> iowa is as explosive a as any team in the country offensively a and defensively a a great length. people thought they struggled down the stretch but you get a struggle when you play great teams. they were playing indiana, michigan, and great teams. they were all close games. this was a very, very good team a and to get past temple you have to be really good. >> nova moves on, temple loses and saint guess on tap. hawks band and cheer leading squad getting ready. tip off at 10:00 p.m. in spokane, washington this could be the final game for isaiah miles who won the award as the a-10 most improved player. >> it noise more, winner go on, survivor and advance. we understand that. we're ready to play for. that. >> we were number one defensive team in our league. we're going to try to slow those guys down but we have to

feel like they have to guard us too. we are looking forward to it. >> we are looking forward to it as well. by the way we almost had what we wanted coming in the tournament that match up. >> villanova arrester temple in round of 32. >> st. joes about 10:00 o' apparently, people think i'm too perky. so now i'm not being perky, telling you that drivers that switch to progressive save an average of $548! whoo! i mean, whoo.

thanks for watching "eyewitness news" at 6:00. we are back at ten on the cw philly. we're back here on cbs-3 after the game tonight. >> the "cbs evening news" is coming up next tonight, steve hartman back on the road with an update on high school basketball player no one thought had a shot and inspiring coach who gave him one, here is scott pelley, take care family we will see you tonight after basketball.

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