good morning, we have an important warning for homeowners, conn artists are trying to steel your money, scam they are pulling and simple steps you can take to avoid becoming the next victim. talk about this, a fabulous forecast today, looking at the another beautiful afternoon, katie, will tell you how long these may-like temperatures will last. live look the a the art museum. beautiful right new but just wait, when we will taste the real day of spring. >> hearing those bird. first thing i think office spring and you don't to have wear a jacket i didn't even wear one. >> are you serious. >> no. >> very impressive. >> absolutely. if you are like me and wimp and have to wear a jacket when you walk out the door, it is

not the worst idea. we don't have a win. it is not as chilly as it was. it does feel comfortable but throughout the course of the day here you will be able to put on a pair of shorts or get rid of that extra layer walking home from work or back to the school bus or something like that. take a look outside right now nice quiet start to the morning as we just showed you live, every day gets longer and longer and tonight our sunset happens at 7:18. by april 15th, 7:40 p.m. and then just shy of 8:00 p.m. come may 1st. so with every passing day we are gaining two and a half minutes of daylight which again never feels like it but you will really add up quickly. storm scan is very quiet and calm and collect right now. the basically clear skies. there are included out there but reason for that is because we have a front nearby. i say nearby in that it is a couple states away. primarily a cross canadian board are where we are seeing snow, where temperatures are cold enough for that. off in the distance far off,

right now pushing into indian, we have got or i should say illinois is your next cold front crossing through overnight, tomorrow morning so we will get a whole day in, and nice warm air in place of what is going to take place tomorrow. 50 degrees temperature at airport. forty-nine in atlantic city. nice mild start today. we will keep it going. we will rebound in the 60's by noon time. come 3:00 p.m. warm breeze 72 degrees but shooting for 73 today and harmless flirtation with record territory that high. >> looks to be so. >> wow, 70's, awesome. good morning everyone. happy thursday our gateway to the weekend now. things are looking good. 202 southbound at route 30 bypass yesterday we saw significant slow downs right around this area but that was more toward our rush hour. just make note you may want to give yourself a couple minutes in and around this area falls bridge a cool shot here falls bridge is closed until after fifth, you still testify use that alternate, boulevard or

city avenue bridge is your best bet, just wanted to give thaw reminder of the falls brick. construction 422 westbound at troop are road is still out there. it is trying to clear out and further are more you can see flashing lights letting you drop down, and left lane, and right lane is around that area this is where we have an accident, in delaware, police and fire are on the the scene here college avenue southbound at route 40, or pulaski highway. all lanes are block. you still to have use this alternate, glass co avenue or sunset lake or it will be your best bet. make note a lot of cars trying to get through here. you cannot get through. all lanes block. erika, back to you. are you thinking of hiring a driveway paver for your home, if so, listen up. is there a new scam warning that authorities are warning residents about where fake contractors show up at homes, take the money, but then do not the do the job. "eyewitness news" reporter david spunt spoke to one woman who fell victim to the scam. >> reporter: beautiful spring night outside her wilmington home but kimberly inman cannot

even enjoy the weather. >> i feel like i want to trust people and this gentlemen who came to the house i trusted him. >> reporter: she is still focused on getting her money back if it is even possible after shelling out 210 bucks to a man that she thought would pave her driveway. he claimed to have extra materials from a previous job. she says he seemed professional. >> he was out measuring my driveway, he even told me he could asphalt all the way up to my back deck. asked me to show him where he could put some, dump some dirt if they had to tear some dirt. he was very elaborate. >> reporter: minutes later he was gone and never came back. unfortunately kimberly's story is a common one here in delaware, the state department of transportation, put out, this notice, to let homeowners know that paving scammers are out, in big numbers. dell dot has a few important things you should know. first, very few legitimate paving contractors will cell

door to door. second, don't pay until the work is done. third, it is rare that contractors will have extra materials. number four, check to make sure that the company is legitimate. finally if you think you are a victim, get as much information as possible, and call someone. all things kimberly inman says could have saved her money but more importantly the stress and vulnerability. >> i could have very well called dell dot the to see if this was legitimate and i didn't do that. >> reporter: reporting from wilmington delaware, david spunt for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". 5:35n business news this morning the best companies in the u.s. also, the reason stocks dropped again yesterday. money watch's jill wagner joins us from the new york stock exchange with those stories and more, good morning. >> reporter: good morning,er contact so far global stock markets seem to be holding steady after tuesday's terror attacks in brussels. stocks fell yesterdayly mostly because of falling oil prices.

dow jones dropped 79. nasdaq 52. futures are pointing to a lower opened today. the americans are buying new homes but not every where. overall sales of new hems rose 2 percent in february. the increase came from the west, where sales jumped 39 percent. in the northeast they have plunged 24 percent. american airlines is making record profits, and company executives now say they want to spread the wealth. american will share 5 percent of the pretax earnings, from 2016, with workers, except top management. united, delta and southwest already have a profit sharing plan. one way to make workers happy, forbes is out with its ranking of the nation 500 best companies. the it is based on how likely workers for recommend their employers to someone else. number one is marathon gap, followed by google and then costco, a atlantic health, vanguard, penn medicine and ikea all finish in the top 100. erika. >> marathon gap, busting google out of the top spot

there. >> it is pretty surprising, yep. >> absolutely. >> is there mounting evidence this morning that the same isis cell is behind both attacks in paris and in brussels. dna evidence and investigators say suspect bomb maker in the paris attacks was one of the two suicide bomber who died in the airport blast. the massive manhunt continues for surviving brussels bomber. security officials have told the associated press that isis has trained at least 400 attackers and sent them to europe for terror attacks. numerous americans were injured, and remain missing. among the missing is a 21 year-old man who was scheduled to board a a flight to georgia to see his girlfriend. >> these last two days have been something i never thought i would feel. it has been worst days of my life. i guess i didn't know how much one person can love another

until you just don't know where they are at. >> emily says her boyfriend, bart, was texting her on the way to the airport. he was supposed to send her a picture of his boarding pass but never did. researchers here in the u.s. have developed a new device and has powerful homemade explosions like the one used in brussels. terrorist like the concoction because it is made with common household chemicals like nail polish remover. chris van cleve has the details. >> three, two, one... >> doctor jimmy, is the director of university of rhode island's center of explosive detection. the university has been given a million-dollar grant by department of home land security to come up with a sensor for highly volatile explosive tat thep. >> you do not need pound to cause catastrophic failure. >> reporter: it took a tenth of the pound to rip apart this

car door. tuesday night, belgium police seized 33-pound of the explosive. tatp is made with peroxide and as tone, items easily purchase at a drugstore. for years we relied on bomb sniffing dogs to detect tatp but they have their limits. >> thinks digital dog. >> reporter: from this campus add otto gregory designed the sensor that detects tata. >> electronic trace detection system that can do and compete with a dog but it doesn't need a break. so it detects 24/7. >> reporter: gregory says in closed spaces like airports sensor can detect amounts as one part per billion. it will enter real world testing later this year. goal, to get it down to the size of the smart phone to be installed on the turn style or worn by a police officer. chris van cleve, cbs news, new york. the political battle between donald trump and ted cruz now involves their wife's. on tuesday, trump issued a vague threat on twitter to disclose something about heidi

cruz. the it was in response to an ad that featured trump's wife melania when she was a model before they were married. trump misidentified the cruz campaign as source of the ad. now heidi cruz says there is nothing to spill the beans about. >> we will not stoop to the level of donald trump, this campaign is about a positive, optimistic agenda for this country. as you may know by now there are a lot of things donald trump and his campaign say has no base is in reality. >> mrs. cruz is in wisconsin where g.o.p. holds its next primary april 5th. happening today president obama is wrapping up a visit the to argentina he plans to visit remembrance park in buenos aires on the the 40th anniversary of the 1976 military coupe that the u.s. initially supported. anti american protesters will return to buenos aires. yesterday they burned american flags outside u.s. embassy.

during a state dinner last night at buenos aires a a pair of tango dancers asked president obama and mrs. obama to join them on the dance floor. at first he said no, but then gave in. they both took the dance floor. by the time music had stopped, the president and first lady had the steps down, looking good. >> dating app tinder wants to match you up in a new way with a presidential candidate. >> a new swipe the vote feature launch yesterday. app asked those still undecided what they think about same sex marriage, death penalty and much more. it will then tell users which can get most closely matches up with their views. tinder is hoping to track millennials as they helped toward the voting booth. it seems like sixers just can't catch a break this year, way they lost last night may be one of the toughest of the season. >> despite being normal, this is who we are, nothing new. >> a trip for coffee turns into something much more special, defining moment those workers shared with a customer

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sixers need just one win to avoid finishing the season with the nba's all time worst record, that is record that the team already holds thanks to the 1973 sixers. last night this was rough, sixers lost in epic style here down by two nuggets pass to half court where nuggets emmanuel moodiay, uncorks a three pointer winning the game for them. sixers lose 104-103.

just one point away from a win. they play in portland saturday night. unfortunately, many could not get to the game because of this, a blizzard. the arena was only half full. there were white out conditions which closed denver's airport. it is opened again but conditions in denver area are treacherous. conversely snow is latching in and what a mess, so many people, kate. >> it is, that is same storm that will bring us our next round of precipitation, it knows to know. but there is some on storm scan three nice wide zoom. things have begun to quiet down back toward colorado but here is your storm system. it has more organized look to it, a very squall line through north west louisiana, a saw, we have snow on the back side with that counterclockwise flow drawing cold air in. this is next storm that will be affecting us. when we look at wider zoom because we will get southerly push of air being drawn in

from the south, that is what is sending our temperatures on a uphill climb but to this front will cross through and gets here late tonight into especially tomorrow morning and that will bring us our next round of wet weather. what do you need to expect? scattered showers, maybe some thunder, rain amounts up to a half inch and should basically be out by tomorrow afternoon. that i do want to check with our eyewitness weather watcher network. the basically finding temperatures around the region in the 40's right now. we will zero in. head out to cherry hill where lynn checks with a nice clear sky, 45 degrees and she says she has moon-lit sky to start things off. not too much included cover depending on your location. we will go across the river back here in to philadelphia to the chestnut hill section where clear skies coming in from phil at 48 degrees. looking for another nice, warm afternoon. and definitely the case later today. we will take a look what the eyewitness weather seven day forecast has up his sleeve we will go there next.

switch it back over. 73 degrees. that flirts with record ter there i. the warmest day in the forecast but right now despite showers that come tomorrow morning we will clear out for holiday weekend and, none too soon because by monday, meisha another round of rain is on the way. >> good thing that is not sunday. thanks very much, katie. happy thursday. our gateway this morning. blue route, looking g back out of the way so you can take a peak, looking good. everyone traveling at posted speed. it looks like there is not many travelers in that area the schuylkill eastbound approaching blue route, there was a piece of tire in the road. it looks like that has been since cleared but overall things are looking good there. schuylkill ease bun approaching spring garden air area looking real nice but starting to, slowly heat up a little bit. we can expect this area on the schuylkill and spring garden to heat up quicker then other areas. make net of. that we have this accident in delaware police and fire on the scene college avenue at pulaski highway all lanes block. you alternate glass co avenue

or sunset lake road will be your best bet. make note. for all vehicles trying to get by here you cannot. all lanes are block. make net of. that elkins park area new second street at church road police and e ms are on the scene. reminder that construction route 70 westbound after 295, two lanes shift until 7:00 a.m. erika, back over to you. some customers eating at a sushi restaurant in los angeles had a meal interrupted by a frightening unwelcomed visitor. customer was asked to leave after showing off a small snake he brought with him to the restaurant but he returned a short time later with an enlarger snake, a 13-foot python. according to policeman said an expletive, dropped that python in the middle of the restaurant and then left. >> get this thing out, everyone is like eating, so customers yelling get this out, are you crazy. we asked him three or four times. he said no, he was standing with the customers so we had to call the police.

>> animal control officers took that snake. man was arrested on suspicion of making criminal threats. a stop for coffee turns into a random act of kindness in oregon. these coffee shop workers were busy going about their day in vancouver, oregon when a woman came up to the window in distress. she explained that she had just lost her husband. without hesitation, the crew stopped working, and together they prayed over the woman. a photo of them praying went viral. >> anytime you see someone sad or mournful it takes you five minutes to make their week, month or their life. it is a small price to pay. >> we will give thaw love. we will make you feel the joy you felt once before it is still in this world and still surrounds you. >> a customer snapped this picture and posted it on facebook. it has been shared thousands of times with many other people writing about their own stories of their even counters with these thoughtful coffee shop employees and just

tremendous to go that extra mile and human reaction when somebody is in distress. >> when you see that picture, if a picture could say a thousand word i get teary eyed looking at that with those strangers arms wrapped around someone else and such for youer in prayer. i'm he such a believer in that. to see workers stop everybody doing, buy someone coffee today. do them a favor. >> yes. >> buy some coffee. >> okay. >> are you buying. >> i'm going to buy some. >> well, yes. still ahead, he has done stand up and movies and now kevin hart, trying out a new project, is what next that hits close to home. the two of the greatest super heroes of all time do battle in the latest blockbuster, message they hope boys and girls learn from the movie, when we come bac

h artist planning to pen his own memoirs. the ride along star will write a book about his experiencing growing up and earl ill failures as a comedian and what helped fuel his new prolific career. the book will be appropriately titled from the hart, get it, an will be released sometime around fathers day next year. biggest blockbusters of

the year hits theaters tonight, batman verse super man in a explosive battle. kevin frasier from entertainment tonight takes you behind the scenes of the super hero showdown. >> this week two of the greatest super heroes batman and super man face off in the bat allah begins each other as a even greater danger threatens the entire world in batman verse super man: dawn of justin. >> bruce wayne meets clark tenth, i love it. >> when bruce wayne aka batman, meets clark kent, aka super man they don't become best friend. the batman fears super man's power and super man played by henry, thinks batman's methods are unjust. >> you have to question people ask is why are batman verse super man why are they fighting. because everybody thinks we're good guys and in this movie, kind of points out that, you know, two people both consider themselves good guys can find themselves, on opposite end of the conflict. >> get to war. >> you cannot win this war.

>> reporter: as their conflict heat up lex luther plays them against each other to unveil his bigger plan. >> the greatest gladiator match in the history of the world. >> when another hero steps in just in time to help boys settle in, wonder wouldman. >> little girls can sianni be inspired, to know that they can be, strong, independent, and, sophisticated, and just would your full women, when they grow up, and for a little boy, they know they can respect other women. >> is she with you. >> i thought she was with you. >> for entertainment tonight i'm kevin frazier, back to you in the studio. we're celebrating a big part of the philly's culinary heritage, it is national cheese stake day. probably no food more bee loved in the city of brot arely love. if you like onions, american,

provolone, tony luke's, if you have any kid, tony lukes is celebrating by giving away free junior cheese steaks to the first 100 kids in line. >> yes. >> before you get to school. >> i wonder what the age limit is on that because i wouldn't mind getting in line. >> yes. >> if they are twins. >> yes. >> if they are kid. >> they cannot eat cheese stake so mom might to have help. >> yes. >> you had a cheese stake, right. >> i have had a cheese stake both real deal, i have had a bite of that and i have have also had chicken cheese stake. i tend to lean towards chicken. >> provolone and onions. >> perfect. >> love it. >> we would not. >> yes. >> absolutely. coming up next on "eyewitness news" we are live as authorities continue to investigate tuesday's terror attack, this is as another terror attack suspect faces judge today. pope francis preside over holy thursday services. what he plans to do later today. then later doctor jen will

join to us talk about the warning signs and symptoms of colon cancer. we will be right back.

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the clues up investigators are using to track the killer. a disturbing video goes viral showing a teen being beaten, and message police have for people who are now seeing this vicious beating on line. and, the cats are looking to run wild, nova nation is ready for tonight's big match up in the sweet 16, hear from head coach jay wright coming up. good morning, it is thursday march 24th i'm erika von tiehl. lets check with katie, meisha and for once sky deck is not a punishment, good morning, guys. >> good morning. no, we know when it is feeling nice out even though it is feeling good out there. isn't it, katie. >> it does feel like springtime, for sure. not terribly breezy. that helps. thermometer is a situation where what you see is what you get to day, or it will not feel too much chillier because there isn't too much breeze. that will change with time. lets start off by looking at storm scan three which, the at the moment, has just a few clouds, no wet weather to speak of, that will change by this time tomorrow for