♪ right now at 11:00, nova nation is ready to go. fans are houston bound to cheer on their wildcats in the final four. sports director don bell tells us how the flares are preparing for tomorrow's big game. a wild weekend of weather beginning from summer like 80 today to wind chills in the 20s and even a few snowflake. i'll tell you about a high wind

watch as well that goes into effect tomorrow. but first, the mother of a seven week old baby abducted from the king of prussia mall speaks out. her message to the woman accused of stealing her baby. good friday evening. i'm jessica dean. ukee washington has the night off. tonight we are learning more about the suspect in this case and what she's telling police. "eyewitness news" reporter david spunt is live in the sat center with new details. david. >> reporter: jessica little ahsir simmons is home safe with his family in philadelphia. his mother told me she's afraid to take him out in public. in the meantime the alleged kidnapper is behind bars on half a million dollars bail. she told authorities cherie gets the whole thing. for almost five hours seven we're old simmons was a stranger one who that's right, sir say took him from his mother inside king of prussia mall. >> i'm just blessed and i'm just lucky to be holding my son right now. to be holding him in my arms after what happened yesterday is a blessing. >> reporter: malika hunter is

paranoid about losing her son again. police say the woman in this surveillance video is cherie amoore. she appeared before a judge on friday and faces several charg charges. >> she has told our investigators that she did not go to the mall with the intention to steal baby. >> reporter: but malika hunt says that's what happened. so a moore's intentions don't really matter. hunter told "eyewitness news" that amoore started a friendly conversation in the mall. hunter says she became distrac distracted tendon to go another child and amoore told ahsir out of his stroller and made the escape. >> she told investigators she gave birth to a bobby bay on february 11th which died a few hours later. we have not been able to confirm any of that story. my sister suffered the loss just as well as did you but you don't see her running around tabling people's children much that's no excuse. it's no excuse to do what you did. >> reporter: police arrested amoore in wayne late thursday night. authorities say she voluntarily gave the back to his family.

according to court documents amoore told authorities she had out of body experience and was overwhelmed by the feeling of holding an inter fan again. amoore's public defender had no comment when asked if his client was ever pregnant and if she lost a child. >> i don't even want to take my children nowhere. i don't even want them out in public. i just want to stay where i'm at. i'm with family y want to be out. >> reporter: amoore is the daughter of pennsylvania republican party leader ren nay amoore the family is not commenting on camera but did release a statement. it reads "the amoore family appreciates all who have reached out with prayers and all the positive messages in this difficult time. our focus is on our daughter's health and wellness. we would that you would respect our privacy and we have no further comments at this time ". the younger amoore will be in court on april 15th. reporting live in the sat center tonight david spunt cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> all right, david, thank you. stay with "eyewitness news" as new details emerge in this story. when we're not here on tv you

can fine the latest at cbsphilly.com. turning now to cbs3 exclusive. philadelphia police are gearing up to battle the growing crisis of human trafficking which is destroying the lives of children lured into the sex trade. a landmark new task force in our area is among the first of its kind in the country. and "eyewitness news" reporter walt hunter tells us the new initiative is targeting predators and bringing new hope for victims. >> reporter: he's a human trafficker prosecutors say charged with patting his pockets with cash earned by a 16-year-old girl he supplied with drugs as he pushed her ever deeper into prostitution. >> so many people are victimized by this. it's absolutely scary. >> these two women accuse accusf pros to us at a mainline massage parlor suspected victims of traffickers police say but shockingly as adults, they're the exception. for most, the horror starts between the ages of 12 to 15.

>> you hear 12 years old. my god. it's just something that's absolutely astounding. >> they have been stripped of everything that a child normally would possess. >> reporter: judge due mass says the children she sees in her special human trafficking court almost all carry the same emotional scars. 90% sexually abused as children, run aways with no families. perfect targets for predators. luring them into the sex trade. >> they are looking for love in all the wrong places. and that's exactly how they become so vulnerable to the predators. >> the kid who wants to model. the kid that wants to be a singer or background dances find themselves victimized. they're selling young girls on the internet every day. >> reporter: human trafficking so profitable here that some drug dealers now are abandoning narcotics selling women instead. a hidden crime that unlike drug

dealing rarely leads to investigations or anyone being arrested. >> you can sell a drug one time. you can sell a victim over and over and over again. >> reporter: but now for the first time, philadelphia police are in effect declaring war on human traffickers. a special task force among the first of its kind in the country with a single mission, saving victims and putting predators behind bars. >> it's a new thing. it's something we have not done. >> reporter: it's a huge challenge because police say in human trafficking, unlike most crimes, before you can act rest suspects, you must first find the victims who almost always hide from police as well. >> they've been brain washed into believing that everyone is against them except the trafficker. >> no one is standing up, you know, i'm a victim of human trafficking. pick me, pick me. >> even before they fine the first victim arrest the first suspect this land mark task

force has an urgent warning. human traffickers are destroying an ever growing number of young lives here. lives these dedicated police and community members now vow they will protect. >> these young people have never experienced what true love is. unconditional love like we're going to love on you until you get better. >> reporter: walt hunter cbs3 "eyewitness news". 13-year-old boy is in the hospital after he was accidentally hit by a police car. the officer was responding or reportedly responding to an assist in the area when the child was hit at the intersection of broad street and fair montgomery avenue. the boy was taken to hahnemann hospital in stable condition. that officer was not hurt. villanova while cat fans are taking over houston. four bus loads of students left campus today for philadelphia international where they boarded a direct charter flight. the university received 700 student tickets for tomorrow's

final four game. they were distributed through a lottery and those who attended the most regular season games had the best chance to win. and tonight all eyes are on houston we're now less than 24 hours away from villanova's big game against oklahoma and sports director don bell joining us now with more how the team is getting ready. we're at the final countdown now. >> finally we're 24 hours way. we've been saying this all week long. for fans trip to the final four feels like a friday or saturday night. time to relax, chill or maybe get turned. that's turned with two teens. for the wildcats this trip to the final four is more like a monday morning. a time to focus on work. the wildcats with an open practice today. fans got a chance to watch the team prepare for saturday night's matchup with oklahoma. the wildcats have been razor sharp for most of the tourname tournament. jay wright wants to keep it that way. >> keep talking to them about it. we got to take it and remain hungry and humble and i just try to teach them before each event,

you know, how we get going to handle it. >> it's definitely fun. we'll try to be here on a business trip. everything else is fun but once we get out on the court we know the basketball we have to play. >> business trip. >> business. >> wildcats by the way favored by two points over the sooners. >> all right. that crowd at that open practi practice. >> pretty electric. >> right. >> good stuff. >> we'll see in you a bit, don, thanks so much. today is april 1st and like the or not it's traditionally known as the day of pranks and joke but what's the history behind april fool's day? that's good question. and nicole brewer gets the answer. we're in the kidding. >> it's an excuse for pranksters to play practical jokes. we all know that, right. >> but elizabeth swain, tom -- want to know why do we celebrate april fool's day. it's a good question guys especially on april 1st. ♪ >> reporter: from exploding ketchup bottles. to lying doing in the park, a

good prank never gets old. especiallily on april 1st. >> why do we celebrate april fool's day? >> i don't know that one. >> i was going to say something with leap year but that's february. >> to fool people. >> some historians believe it dates back to the 15 hundreds when france switched from the julian to good gore yann calendar and those who didn't know the new year had started became the butt of a joke. and speaking of the back side, in scotland the tradition became a two-day event with a full 24 hours dedicate to do pranks played on people's derriere. >> seriously? (laughter). >> i wouldn't make this stuff up. >> oh, my goodness. no. i'm glad i'm not in scotland. >> today we continue the tradition. some pranks soliciting laughter others anger. (laughter). >> so what do you have planned? >> are you going to prank anybody. >> i don't think it would be appropriate for television. >> it's a off limits. sorry. >> another theory spotlights the connection between april 1st and the vernal equinox or first

day of spring in the northern hemisphere when mother nature often fooled p people with unpredictable weather. send it back to you. >> all right. nicole, thank you what is your good question. log on to cbsphilly.com/good question to submit your question. you can tweet us using the hash tag cbs3 good question. nicole will be here every night with the answer for you on cbs3 "eyewitness news" at 11:00. that this april fool's day was certainly a dale day to celebrate for one philadelphia man. he just turned a hundred so he decided to party with his bowling league. what he says keeps him going strong. >> plus this. >> step in with your jab. >> vittoria woodill gets a lesson in boxing from a guy whose taken a lot of punches in life. how this sport changed his and how she's using it to inspire thes. >> nicole mentioned unpredictable weather. we've got crazy weather this weekend from rain to snow to high winds. even a freeze watch as this

system continues to move through. expect a major drop in the mercury. i'll tell you how cold it will get coming up. and new information about the knife found at oj simpson's old estate. what forensic tests

>> this is cbs3 "eyewitness news" with ukee washington, jessica dean, kate bilo and don bell. ♪ update tonight on the knife allegedly found at oj simpson's former home in brentwood, california. investigators say it was not the weapon used to kill simpson's ex-wife and her friend in 1994. simpson was acquitted in that case. a retired lapd officer claimed a construction worker gave him the 95 years ago but he they have turn in it because he thought the case was closed. simpson is serving a prison sentence for 2007 robbery

convict. the fbi won't reveal who helped them unlock an iphone used by one of the san bernardino shooters. but signs are pointing toward an israeli company. according to cnn it was an elite group of engineers at a company that has a history of everybody the fbi on the date they announced they unlock his phone they signed a contract with the company which make the device that can download a phone's memory to a flash drive in seconds. a party in ardmore tonight mark a very special occasion. "eyewitness news" at the wynnewood bowling lanes where sylvan bran manziel broughted his 100th birthday. he bowls three times a week. everybody at the lanes got together to sing happy birthday. he says the friendship is what it's all about. >> friends i've been bowling with for 40 years. and you can't beat that.

>> he bowls 137 average. pretty good. we watched him bowl a spare then walk back and give the high five. happy birthday. >> after starting a boxing career at 15 a local boxer learned how to really fight when life started jabbing at him. he through a couple punches back and he's inspiring other today today's. our vittoria woodill gets a lesson in boxing and more from guy whose had some hard knocks. ♪ come on, man. we got to keep moving. >> reporter: there's reason why it's said if you want something bad enough, you have to fight for it. >> you had a bad day, tomorrow you get another chance to do it all over again. unscrew the jab always. >> reporter: joe manayunk born boxing champ and owner of jolts and jabs nose about taking advantage of the chance that is walk into tomorrow. >> i walked into amateur bocking place at 14th had my amateur

bout at seniors old. >> you would think it's boxing career stemmed into succession from were there but it didn't. eventual fool adulthood boxing was what joey did in between his day job of making bread deliveries. >> a good job. no one wants to leave that job. >> right. >> but, you know, i always felt that inside of me i wasn't happy. >> reporter: what did he do? >> i turned pro. at 38. i won and then i fought another month later. wouldn't again. i kept winning. i finish six-two with four knock outside. >> that's even when life through him another jab. >> i lost my best friend at that time, my mother. boxing in general just helped me. it was my balance it saved my life. >> you feel like it can do the same for a lot of other people. >> absolutely. mentally and physically. >> all starts right here, baby. up in that head of yours. >> potty motivation, power and a class that packs a punch is what you'll find with joey in one hour. >> i know where you're at. i know how you feel. sit down on that.

keep moving. >> feeling that bag when you hit it, it's great. it's a full body workout. it's something like i never experienced before. >> what's the punch side of his lesson plan? when life takes a couple jabs at you and gets you down -- >> you all right. >> good. >> get back up. >> don't worry about your day. it's over with. you're here now. let it out. tomorrow you get a fresh start. >> vittoria woodill cbs3 "eyewitness news". ♪ looking good, tori. kate is here. wee got a little up and down in all around headed our direct. >> we've got a little bit of everything headed our way this week and of the one thing we don't have a nice warm spring day unfortunately but we've got everything else if you're looking for some snow, we may have a little bit of that. if you're looking for strong winds we've got plenty of those and also have some rain as we head into your saturday morning. so let's get to it. lots to talk about. start off with time lance video showing you what crazy day this was. started off with rain you can see it clears out mid afternoon, blue skies, nice and warm it gets beautiful, and then a line of strong thunderstorms rolled

through. not a whole lot happening outside right now just some scattered showers and storms here and there, but the actual brunt of our neck system arctic cold front that's the system you see moving through the great lakes at the moment. and that will move through tomorrow. that's what's going to bring the whipped and eventually that drastic drop in temperatures. right now we just have few scattered showers outside nothing strong. no severe thunderstorms anything like that. mainly some showers over portions of south jersey and delaware it is still very warm outside. 72 in dover. 67 right now in philadelphia. and 65 degrees in allentown. but here's a look at what's ahead as we go through the weekend it will be an arctic and active pattern. this starts as early as tomorrow and continues into next week. item temperatures really plunging here a very pronounced pattern in the atmosphere that will bring us some changes in the weather. highly changeable weather for the next week or so. snow shower possible saturday night as the arctic front comes through that's also going to produce very strong potentially damaging winds early sunday morning. on sunday your wind chills in the 20's and 30's.

another snow shower monday or monday night then it's cold and windy again on tuesday. here's wait looks like. some rain early tomorrow morning. looks like it's mainly south and east of philadelphia. so that's good news. it's shifting further east. there will be some showers aroundly we have the hot chocolate 5k and 15k in the city if you're running. that one and the rain doesn't look like it will be that big of a deal. just some showers. it clears the coast. we get sun saturday afternoon here's our big weather maker this blast through late saturday night into sunday does have few snow showers associated with it sunday morning. then the winds really pick up the pace then we've got to wash our next potential clipper system through the day monday that could bring another round of rain and snow showers. here's your high wind watch it's the vast majority of our region gusts 50 to 60 miles per hour wind advice add advisory sorry first time to the west. these winds are capable of causing damage here, guys. saturday night into sunday morning, again, gusts 50 to 60 downed branches and wires and

power outages look what it will feel like sunday morning. teens and 20s those are our wind chills not feeling much better than the mid 30s all day. we already have a freeze watch for chester and western montgomery counties. cover up the plants if you have any outdoors. it will go below freezing. showers developing overnight tomorrow morning rain especially south and east. the winds increase. we will see clearing in the afternoon. but it's a very very wild seven day forecast. back to fours on sunday. feeling like 30s monday more showers even some snow showers and cold again tuesday. i don't really see one day i like there in that seven day forecast. >> unfortunately, guys -- >> sorry. >> enjoy your weekend. >> at least it's the weakened. >> by the way we're both sitting here like thanks for nothing, kate. >> don is back. he's got sports. >> yeah. we're talking some football kind of sort of donovan mcnabb nose or two thing or two about the final four. hear what the former bird has to say about the basketball's promise land. the sixers are number one sort

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>> welcome back. less than 24 hours away from tip off. villanova against oklahoma. north carolina against syracuse. a lot of people thought the orange should have never been in the tournament to begin with. but one alum in particular is loving life. former eagles quarterback donovan mcnabb is fired up to see syracuse in the final four. mcnabb played for the orange basketball team when they lost to kentucky in the national championship in '96.

mack five on the magnitude of the final four. >> as a college kid that's what you dream about. you know, you being out in the gym or you're out in the driveway you're talking about five seconding a going through your legs pull up jump shot for the national championship. now it's about come true. >> you didn't know he played football or basketball for that matter. i know. sixers lose games at an alarming rate. that's not breaking news tonight they had chance at being best at being the worst. a loss against the hornets officially locks up last place in the nba. this is not good people. here the owners of the hornets michael jordan the greatest of all time. sixers down double digits. get up and throw the down. sixers trailed by 11. later down to four. then cardiac kim ba heats up. kim ba walker three of his 27 points. sixers lose 100 might have 91. they'll have the worse roar in the nba that's official now of

now and most ping-pong balls in the draft lottery like stepping foot in your house after long vacation it's time to get reacclimated after long off season the phillies back on the field at citizens bank park. now the phils hosting baltimore fourth inning we go phils down six-one and maikel franco swinging to cruel up tensions goes upper tank. ridiculous. ninth jack of the spring. next batter, the big fella ryan howard going opposite on the people. off left hander. off a left hander. really? back to back shots for the fightings but they lose eight-seven your final score. now to hockey red wings hosting the detroit with one goal lead. riley sheehan knocks home the rebound as the red wings beat minnesota three-two now they are tied with the flyers for the final playoff spot. night guys hosting ottawa tomorrow at the center. jump on the see saw this is back and forth between detroit and philadelphia flyers. >> we'll see how that turn out.

donovan mcnabb what an athlete. >> that's right. >> how about that. >> football, basketball. >> he can do it all. >> a pro. >> art on the opt

art lovers were in for a treat in one south philadelphia community "eyewitness news" at saint marin church hall for the fifth annual passyunk square art auction. guests check out free creations from more than 40 local artists unthe sound track of a live ba band. proceeds benefit the passyunk

square civic association and our jim donovan was there with the new morning show crew anchor brook thomas. speaking of, you ready for something new in the morning? starting monday, wake up with the official team team for morning. jim and brook will be joined by katie fehlinger and meisha johnson to start your day off with just the right mix of information you need and stories that will make you smile and feel great about living here in our area. watch the new "eyewitness news" this morning starting monday at 4:30. ♪

our morning team is back tomorrow morning from 5:00 to 7:00. for kate, don and everyone here i'm jessica dean much we're always on for you at cbsphilly.com. late show with stephen colbert is next. from our entire team, thanks for watching, have a good night an great weekend. ♪ >> announcer: the following is a paid presentation for the nick vertucci real estate academy's "fortunes in flipping" system. if you're looking to make money while taking control of your financial future, then listen up. nick vertucci, self-made millionaire, has a life-changing opportunity for you. as the host of l.a.'s number-one real-estate radio show, author, and one of tv's most trusted real-estate investment experts, nick is hosting a unique, free

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