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crash will have on the morning commute. tonight's the night. novanation has been waiting for. the wildcats prepare for the national championship game in houston, and coach jay wright has a message for his team. and all aboard the weather roller coaster. there is a freeze warning in effect, and katie is timing out a chance of rain, and, oh, snow. >> i don't want to hear it, kate. >> i today is monday, april 4th, good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm brooke thomas. katie and meisha are here, too, keeping an ions things this morning as always. what's going on? >> yes, good morning, everyone, happy monday. roads are looking good. now we're starting to heat up. monday tends to be one of the busier travel days and couple every accident out there and of course amtrak updates. >> still a lot of delays left over from that. >> i would say, too, brooke, very likely going to see delays into the typical evening drive, as women, just because we have this wet weather moving through. so yes, a lot of moving pieces with the trafficking, so let's gave you a sense of what's going on out here. storm scan3, first and for
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most, more of localized zoom, wet weather tracking currently here, most notable across the lehigh valley, northwest suburbs generally speaking here. you can see obviously there is a lot of pretty colors showing up out there. we do have very light snowfall at this point, up toward the poconos, i saw couple of observation places like light snow up in northampton county. pretty far north was if you there. you can understand why you're seeing little snow. obviously coal enough to support it. at mount pocono, a relatively warm grounds, though, still in place here, so not going to see much accumulation though, did you see little bit of it that said up in the mountains over the course of the weekend. as we go forward in the forecast, though, that storm system is set to push through bringing with it generally scattered variety of showers, thunder store, brief, locally heavy downpour, the wind also going to pick up, expect that that breeze at minimum, breeze, or windy conditions, it will be running theme all week long. really? but, later tonight, first storm retreats, the colder air
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settles in, so freeze warning going to take effect. at this point, how much, what we expect throughout the course of the day, those temperatures should be little lower, we are reading them, the expectations at least, only to about 60 degrees at best here today, that said, behind this system, it does get a lot colder. meisha, over to you. >> we do not want to talk about that, right, katy? that cold, that in and out, the 60s, to the 40's, back to the 70s, 40's, oh, man, it will throw stuff at us. good news, right now, roadways just waking up with us, good morning by the way, roadways nice and dry. for now. so, let's enjoy that while we have it. this is where we had overturned vehicle, northbound boulevard, outer drive, approaching ninth street. that was completely closed down outer drive lanes because of the accident. that's now since been cleared. all good there. forty-two freeway northbound creek road. go there. you can see what you're working with as you approach 29a looking pretty good. still traveling 55 miles per hour, make note of it, volume levels starting to increase, in fact, seeing them do so
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just even over the past 15 minutes or so. in the world of mass transit, make note of this, because of yesterday, delays on amtrak between philadelphia and wilmington, wilmington newark 30 minute delays, septa amtrak sharing two tracks, and out bound trains are running express, 30th, university city, to marcus hook, all be tweeting this all out, check your schedules on line. back to you. >> back to work this morning for investigators trying to solve yesterday's deadly amtrak crash. >> yes, the national transportation safety board wants to know what caused the collision of a train and back hoe. "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabeo is live in chester to bring us up-to-date. jan? >> reporter: brooke, jim, good morning, you can see that the trains are running here in chester, delaware county this morning. this investigation is now well underway, as well, and bit of progress. investigators have now recovered the data recorder as well as both the outward and inward facing cameras on this train. now, the nfsb is leading up this investigation, they're going to be looking at all of the possible causes, including
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mechanical, operational track issues, human error, big question of course this morning what were these workers doing on a track that was in use? take a look at this video. what the scene look like here in chester delaware county where amtrak train 89 crashed into that piece of construction equipment. autopsies are scheduled for those two amtrak workers today. their names have not been released but lawmakers briefed on the accident satisfy they're veteran employees, 140 years, the word 20 years of experience and they were the back hoe operator and supervise on yesterday. from new york to valve and a georgia, three dozens had to be taken to the hospital, for the lip, though, the the passengers only suffered minor injuries, those who weren't injured were taken back to 30th street station, very shaken up. take a listen. >> next thing you know our train hit the back hoe, then that caused our left engine to catch on fire. so being in the third car, i
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saw the flames coming toward me. i dipped down to try, you know, worried about the windows breaking, what have you. so the young lady in the seat next to me hysterical. so i had to calm her down. then they even told us to move further to the back of the train. >> now, at last check, all of those passengers spend for three had been released from the hospital. coming up in our next half hour, a call to action by local lawmakers, because of this latest accident there is comes just about a year after another deadly train derailment and amtrak accident, that one in port richmond, as you remember, killing eight people, injuring more than 200, we will stay up-to-date on this story, for now, liver in chester, delaware county, jan carabeo, cbs-3, "eyewitness news", jim, brooke, back to you. >> thanks, speaking of previous accidents, you know, been almost 30 years since another accident involving amtrak train happened in chester. on january 29th, 1988, a train with a 130 people on board hit a maintenance vehicle.
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twenty-four people were hurt, non-seriously, the ntsb determine that time an amtrak power otto failed to switch the train to unoccupied track. >> meanwhile it, has been less than year since the deadly a.m. train derailment in philadelphia. on may 12th, 2015, a train flipped offer the tracks while rounding a corner in port richmond. eight people died, more than 200 were injured. investigators say, that the train driven by the engineer was traveling more than 100 miles per hour, when the accident happened. >> stay with "eyewitness news" as we continue to cover the deadly amtrak crash, the latest development on tv and on line at cbsphilly.com. tonight is the night, villanova takes on north carolina for shot at the first national tight until more than 30 years. >> "eyewitness news" reporter pat gallen is live at villanova university. were more on the excitement at the main line, good morning, pat. >> jim, brooke, good morning, happy to be with you guys, but also, you know, i kind of feel
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bad for people who went to oak home, a oklahoma alumni, like our own brooke thomas, that was absolute beat-down on saturday, villanova beating oklahoma by 44 points, so i wanted to throw that one in there. but let's also talk about some of the nay sayers. because there weren't many people outside of the villanova campus this year, that thought the wildcats could get to the national championship, but a lot of people here at villanova did believe that, here they are, in the national championship. how did they get there? bald effort on saturday against oklahoma, it was complete effort. josh heart, ryan arcidiacono, wildcats shooting 71% of the game. buddy, in his tracks, just nine points, just the second time this year he scored in a single digits. the ends result, that 44-point thrashing, the largest margin of victory in final four history. head coach jay wright was named the national "coach of
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the year" yesterday, our own leslie van arsdale caught up with him. >> it hasn't sunken in. i kind of don't want it tonight we're just thinking about we're playing north carolina we're not thinking about what is at steak or anything, we love playing, we lover getting ready to play, preparing, just fired up we get to play in the big game, like these guys are focused, man, not getting caught up in it. and as a coach, that's what you really love. so i've been inspired by them. >> tonight see if villanova can bring national champion hip to lancaster avenue and the campus, they have to get past very good north carolina team, led by marcus page, bryce johnson, they are two of the names you will have to know. they beat syracuse saturday night 83 to 66. but tonight, jim and brooke, it is a 9:19 tip-off. 9:19. who will stay up that late? i know definitely not me. definitely not you guys. you guys will have been in bed for a long time by 9:19.
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so -- >> i got in bed at 3:30. >> i got in bed at 3:30, pat gallen, it was craze. >> i she was making sure she didn't oversleep. >> i can sleep through any annoying text messages to you about the blow out the other night. that's what i was doing, planning ahead. >> thanks, pat. >> i feel bad. >> i feel bad. >> all right, pat, our leslie van arsdale is with the wildcats, in houston, so look for her live reports from the championship game later today on cbs-3, "eyewitness news", tip-off is at 9:19 p.m. >> meanwhile, coming up: presidential candidates making final push for wisconsin, ahead of tomorrow's primary. coming up the latest pole numbers and the candidate coming to philly necessary week. >> plus, you have probably seen this viral video after police officer playing hopscotch with a little girl. now hearing from the officer and his reason for playing on the job. it is a story i think you're going to love. meisha lovers it.
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>> we have spectacular video this morning. >> mexican volcano, the moment of erruption. look at the giant slash, then you can see lava spilling down the mountainside. now, this is mexico, a don goal volcano, which is shot its gases about 40 times over the last 24 hours. >> yes, and look at this, thousands of jellyfish, washing ashore on florida beach. they're called blue sailors, they don't sting, so that's good stuff, expert say they're so light, though, carried ashore by gusts of wind. >> geez. >> wind yesterday, even my hair moved, katie, and that's kind of difficult. >> i know? the man has the best nare television, all of philadelphia right there, my friend, yes, it was so blustery outside, i, too, actually felt like i would blow away. but at this point, at least, we are starting to see that
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wind, or actually, already has wound down, calmed down, doesn't last forever, under fortunately, we take you out to live neighborhood in the work, blue mountain, school buses go through the shot, love that, but a spot where we've actually seen precipitation through the early part of the morning. gee to storm scan, see what we are talking about, even couple of spots reporting very light snow. bark a little worse than the bite granted on this, but regardless, i feel like it is april 4th, nobody ever wants to see snow showing up on a pennsylvania radar. there you have it. maybe perhaps traveling i80 headed eastbound toward new york city if that's where your travels take you, might run into couple up wimpy flakes out there. snowflakes, that is. let's take to you central pa. where we have little squawl line setting one heavy rain pushing east. that eventually crosses through in the form of few pockets of brief but heavy downpours, maybe couple every thunderstorms, too, generally midday for the area. priest warnings behind this storm, taking effect, notice, doesn't start until 1:00 a.m., overnight tonight, into tomorrow. but that's telling you essentially that the temperatures are going to
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bottom out from beneath us here later tonight. while it is technically very typical day unfolding scattered showers, thunderstorm, winds picking up, 06 degrees, exactly where we should be really. later tonight, nosedive time, skies begin to clear, brisk, it is very cold, that wind out of the north, it will feel a lot colder than even thermometer reads, even though it is already pretty brutal 46 degrees under sunshine, with that breeze, ya, it feels more like february, guys, we sort of go on the roller coaster over the course of the next seven days, even if we get a chance to moderate up, we will get stuck back in the 40's again. >> forty's? no! >> i think everybody is -- >> but speaking of stuck, anybody stuck on the road right now. >> roads are looking okay, starting to heat up little bit. we had couple every accident, and we also had some overnight construction also since cleared. things are looking pretty good there. i think what we are looking at right now we do have live chopper three, interstate 95.
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one of the interstate i like to look at first because it is pretty good indicator what we are dealing with in the mornings. this is right around the cottman area. you can see looking pretty darn good. i would say looks like everyone is still traveling as they should at the posted speeds, or the speed limit. so overall things are looking pretty good at this shot. we know right around i would say the cottman curve, and also, girard, that's where we are usually the busiest, actually looking okay, the schuylkill headlight eastbound direction at the boulevard, what you are looking at, i would say you're dropping slightly below what you should be traveling right now. but that's okay. putting on your brakes little bit. we can expect. that will overall, though there is will continue through the 6:00 hour. and the 7:00 hour, make note of that. bridge inspections today 95 south ramp to jirds adder is closed between 12 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. jim and brooke, back to you. >> now for morning newspaper headlines from across our region, cumberland county daily gent reports on fire that destroyed 100 year old church in millville. the mt. pleasant united
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methodist church burned to the ground early sunday morning, officials say, overnight thunderstorm and high winds caused tree to collapse on top of an electrical wire, sparking the blaze. >> the burlington county times reports off initials westhampton will vote today on whether to eliminate the fire and emergency service chief post. the outcome could jeopardize 372,000-dollar federal grant, funding three firefighters positions for two years. now, that grant requires staff levels be the same as when the grant was awarded. >> and runners in atlantic city had their work cut out for them. press of atlantic city reporting wind gusts there as high as 50, 06 miles per hour for the april fools half marathon yesterday, over 1200 runners participated in the event. >> the april fools half marathon. >> yes. >> i like that. coming up: a police officer caught playing hopscotch on the job explains his reasons why, and you're going to love it. >> and want more cash in your wallet? i thought that might get your attention, the easy thing you can do the next time you're
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every duty. capturing the views and the heart of millions. and now we're hearing from the officer involved. >> so when officers price heard the story about a homeless mother living in a van with her young daughter, he didn't just listen, and conduct business as usual, no. he took it a step further. taking time to build trust, with the little girl, and what a better way to do that than offer to playoff scotch with her? >> scary looking me and be comfortable. >> good thing, if it takes me looking like an oath playing hopscotch, trying to shine positive light on law enforcement, all my brothers and sisters, all over the nation, then i'll take the heat. >> so cute, tender gesture. not only leaving lasting impression on both mom and daughter, perhaps even changing their lives, but also, demonstrating for all of us, that we, too, can make a
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ream difference. oh, man, way to go, officer price, i love it. just love it. isn't that awesome. you can see why it goes viral, absolutely. >> i haven't played hopscotch in years. >> and know what, i bet you he hasn't either. >> good for him. >> fun game. >> meisha while, still ahead, soccer ledge hone just got busted for dui, over the weekend. >> plus, i'm from oklahoma, bus festival of families is he my home now. so, jim took me on tour, and i even met some famous people along the way. >> and warm weather, cold werth, rain, snow there is weather forecast is all over the place, katie. >> i know, mother nature just cannot make up her mind, very temperamental these days. we'll wack you through everything, a loft ups and downs going on with precipitation, temperature, we'll get you through each and every day on the other side.
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for both parties on the democratic side, polls show bernie sanders leading clinton 49 to 47, sanders spoke to crowd of civil role thousand at the university of wisconsin madison, meanwhile, hillary clinton stomped in brooklyn ahead of april 19th primary there. >> him hill is coming here next week, will be campaigning right in philadelphia as well as pittsburgh, wednesday. >> now, no details have been announced yesterday about when and where those events will be, the presidential primary in pennsylvania, is april 26th. >> and still ahead this morning, investigators are remain at the scene of a deadly a.m. train track crash this morning, jan? >> reporter: brooke, they're here on the scene to determine the cause that far crash. and coming up: what local lawmakers now want to see done, to keep passengers safe in the future. >> and, an easy way to save money, the trick a lot of people don't know that will get you the best price possible, as some of your favorite stores. meisha? >> well, we've got repairs, construction closures today, all you need to know in the
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>> getting little bit of everything this week, starting with spring like temps, april showers, then snow. what? >> katie time it all out for us, good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm brooke thomas. it is 6:30, here's what you need to know today in your morning minute. >> amtrak train crashed, autopsies scheduled for the two amtrak workers today, the two who were killed. >> we new something was going on, so i had to call some of my church members and ask them to pray. >> excitement heating up for
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today's ncaa championship game is it who is ready to party like it is 198 a? >> most candidates are stomping for votes in wisconsin. ahead of tomorrow's primary. >> nominating donald is a gift wrapped present to hillary clinton and the democrats. >> i have to tell you, dolly parton still has it. >> ♪ >> maybe he was making a run for the border? >> yes, police in california found themselves chasing a chihuahua. >> meanwhile, katie is chasing the weather forecast, and it doesn't like that great. >> it isn't as cute as little puppy dog. well, we are at least looking ahead here to somewhat of an unsettled day, folks. even though i did not require the umbrella at the moment, we will eventually need some rain gear later today. as we are tracking, we saw storm scan3, moment ago, new storm system. yep, another one. it is like the hits keep coming every other day, almost on the every other day plan right now. another system that wait in
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the wings later in the week, for now, what we're dealing with obviously, some snow currently falling across portions of northeastern p a and northern new jersey, let's take you closer after zoom, though, at this point, precipitation pretty light. we have some, granted, isolated pockets here, but off to the west, heavier banding, also heavier thunderstorms picking up across central pennsylvania, that eventually will be pushing through for our area generally around midday. for now we particular nickly, i know seems odd when you see temperatures where they are right now, technically in the storm sector, that said, freezing mount pocono, 42 at the airport, even still holding tough in the 50's in wildwood. so you have quite the variety pack hereof thermometer read, as the day progresses expect to go warm up to actually very seasonable daytime high of 60 degrees. but, there will be scattered showers, and likely again few pocket of steadier rain, very likely also thunderstorm along the way here, then behind this storm, we basically have the bottom taken out from underneath us here, eventually temperatures set to drop. we are again going to be
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bottoming out into 20 later on tonight. however, meisha, eventually we do start to warm being back up. i'll time it all out for you in the minutes ahead. >> sound great. thanks so much, katie. good morning, everyone, happy monday to you. hope you had a wonderful weekends. back at it right now. what you are looking at behind me live chopper three, ram top girard, remind their ramp to girard is closing today, for inspection, between 12:00 and 3:00 p.m. so make note that far for those of how take that exit regularly again, that's not going to affect the morning commuters as it doesn't go into effect until noon today. and again, that will be until 3:00 p.m. moving along, to the boulevard, let's take live look outside. looking very slow. i would say a lot of brake lights going on here. and then same story witness you jump on to the schuylkill westbound direction, at city avenue, exactly what you are looking amount. so if you are just thinking about leaving your homes any time soon, know you will start to get the beginning of the rush hour. that will start at about 7:00 a.m. but already, a the love you traveling less than what i would say the speed limit is
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at this point. kelly drive, repairs and resurfaced starting today. make note of this. between art museum and hurting park avenue. goes into effect 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. overnight. until 6:30 a.m. this is going to go on weekly, from monday through saturday, until late may. so make note of that. this is really going to affect a lot of us, downed pole in medford, new jersey, 70 at 541, jug handle blocked. you will have to use alternate. church road will be your best bet. brooke, jim, back over to you. >> thank you so much. now, investigators are trying to figure out what caused the deadly amtrak crash in delaware count. >> i the train hit piece of heavy equipment killing two workers. "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabeo live, near the scene, in chester, what's going on right now, jan? >> reporter: well, brooke, jim, now that it is little lighter, amtrak has been out here moving heavy pieces of equipment around, on the tracks, so activity is picking up. there are quite a few items on the agenda today. not only the crash, investigation continuing here
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on scene, but also, two autopsies are scheduled today, for those two amtrak workers, who were killed yesterday. now, their names have not yet been released. but some lawmakers who have been briefed on the situation say they're long time employees of amtrak, one was 40 years, the other 20 years of experience, and that they were the back hoe operator, as well as supervisor on scene here yesterday. now, take a look at the video, this is what it look like her in chester delaware county, at the time of the accident. now, there is some progress for investigators, they've now recovered the data recorder will be considering all of the possible causes big question of course this morning what were these workers doing on a a track that was in use. now there is was amtrak train 89 that crashed into the piece of construction equipment sunday morning, train traveling from new york to valve and a georgia with 341 passengers and seven crew members on board. three dozen of them had to be taken to the hospital.
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this crash comes about a year after the deadly amtrak accident in port richmond, that claimed eight lives, and injured more than 200, and local lawmakers are, again, calling on the transit agency to review it safety procedures >> it has to concern you, something like this, you know, hitting a back hoe on a track, i mean, how could that -- don't they know that trains comes by here, you know, and winds coming by, to be some type of communication failure. >> we will be looking at mechanical operations. >> ntsb is heading up this investigation. we will be checking in with them, as they continue to investigate here at the crash skate today. meantime, as far as conditions for passengers go, now out of the three dozen taken to the hospital at last check, only three remain there this morning. for now, reporting live in
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chester delaware county, jan carabeo, cbs-3, "eyewitness news", brooke, jim, back to you. >> thanks for the update, jan. follow "eyewitness news" as we follow the investigation into the deadly amtrak crash. our coverage of course is always on line at cbsphilly.com. just because i moved to the morning show doesn't mean i still can't save you some money. ask yourself this. when was the last time you asked a store to match the price of their competitors? as we find in today's "3 on your side" report it is easier than you may think. wal-mart, best buy, target, the list goes on. when it comes to matching prices of competitors, big box stores have quietly been upping their game. >> these stores will match not just local competitors prices, that have local stores, they'll also match specific on line only stores. such as amazon. >> dozens of smart phone apps help shoppers compare prices. among them, red lazer, price grabber, even amazon price check. there is only one problem. >> it is estimated that fewer
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than 5% of shoppers take advantage of any casino of price matching policy. >> many are unaware of the policy. >> that would be something i would be interested in. >> i didn't realize that. >> when secret shoppers, consumers checkbook visited dozens of stores to test out price matching. >> actually quite surprised it was really easy and really fast to get them to match a lower price we found elsewhere. >> to get a price match at wal-mart, you don't have to contact a human being. wal-mart saving catcher does it for you. >> they have their own app. lets us scan your receipt once you have checked out, and if it finds, you know, items for less elsewhere according to its price matching policy it will actually give you the difference in a e gift card. >> i didn't know. that's good to know. >> so the moral of the story is you can realize some pretty big savings, just quickly asking, will you match a competitor's price. >> for those that already do that? >> i hadn't had any problems. >> after all -- >> if i can save a dollar, ill. >> in fact, the only problem
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checkbook experienced regard to price matching was at home depo. home deep over says they'll match local competitors, plus beat them by 10%, but the secret shoppers found a manager usually has to be called, even some of the managers didn't know about the extra 10%. >> so are that there a lot of restrictions to the price match policies? >> one common one, they will match amazon price, amazon has to be the seller t can't be third party seller on amazon. you also can't combine offers, you can't go for instance bed bath and john where they have the 20% off coupons and then merge that into the price, you have to do it price to price. >> got it. good stuff. that's what everyone is wanting every morning they want you to save them monday. >> i'll take you shopping. >> every day, you got it? >> i got it. >> she was one of the most recognizeable soccer players in the world. and now, abby is facing du i am charges. it happened early yesterday, in washington state. you know, she retired from soccer last year, won two olympic gold medals and world cup title, amazing career,
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also named the female world player of the year back in 2012. >> and the answer gets his answer today. sixers all time great allen iverson finds out if he is the newest member of the basketball hall of fame class of 2016. he is a finalist for the honor and needs 18 out of possible 24 votes to john the hall. he was a 11 time all-star, he won the all-star mvp twice, was the nbamvp in 2001. also, up foreign shrinement, shaquile o'neil, and bo ryan. >> good stuff. not talking about practice toed. we're talking about the hall of fame. >> exactly, exactly. meanwhile, coming up: >> jim is taking me on tour of philadelphia. see where we went, who we ran into, i'm glad you caught that, kate. >> i novanation is pumped up for tonight's game. pat? >> yes, at the nova campus wipes the sleep out of their eyes this morning, everyone thinking title tonight. first they've got to get past north carolina. it tips at 9:19 tonight.
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but coming up, hear from some of the players and head coach jay wright. that's ahead. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> great music to start your day, here is the to the sunshine, amazing group every guys, kicking sunrise, supposed to be here today. but because of the amtrak coverage, we will be having them here on the set, in just a few days, but great way to start the morning, a peppy beat, here's to the sunrise. >> ♪
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academy of music, shelton grabbed the mike, with buddy, luke brian, double dot of shelton after the duet, then performed his emotional hit, came heretofore get. >> all of the big stars came out for country music party of the year. >> yes, went to jason al dean, after being nominated four time, he finally claimed entertainer of the year. chris stapleton won few trophies, best albumn, song, male vocalist of the year, and miranda lambert not only rocked out on stage with keith urban, billy gibbons, me? snatched female vocalist of the year, than is her seventh year in a row. that's awesome, right in the. >> good for him. >> have you ever gone miranda lambert concert? >> i haven't. but you know, i feel like she so deserves it, too, gone through a heck of a year. so good for her. >> yep, right, good for her. >> not so good to the weather department. why do i have to transition
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from happy store whens i have not so happy weather bran new feature to the eyewitness weather watcher. kerry sense this into us, video observation, something she took yesterday. what you will notice, more than anything, is the breeze really whipping those flags, the flag around here, and also, if you look closely enough you can see the water, the current being shoved across the lake here. >> this again coming to us from carry higgins, out in mt. laurel, new jersey. let's actually take you out to the good old format of the eyewitness weather watchers. this is a slew of observations that's come into us within the last hour or so. we take you out into wilmington, where lisa checks in with 38 degrees. she only has couple of clouds right now in wilmington, mentions it is a nice cool granted but calm morning, just few clouds right now, but, she is packing her umbrella with good reason which we discuss in a second. 42 degrees comes into us, markedly milder by comparison. doesn't feel terrible outside.
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>> that said, let's go back out to storm scan3, you can see the signs of life obviously, yes, eyes do not die receive there is some light snow currently falling, most notably i80 interchange, traveling eastbound toward new york city. >> you might run into slick travel, bus driver might, but that said, not out of the woods with this yet. this bash needs to move through. that will will happen through the middle part of the day. >> study rain, maybe couple he thunderstorms, where we start things off, 6:00 a.m. this morning, really again maybe little slick travel, generally the day goes on temperatures climb, everything looks pretty scat nerds nature but generally mid to late afternoon that the brunt of this system pushes through. very quick check on the eyewitness weather seven day, get you out the door with what's going to happen over the course of this week, a the love ups and downs, tomorrow windy, very cold day, meisha feels more like february tomorrow.
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>> happy monday to you. weekend goes way too quick, 422 trooper road, a lot of brake lights going off here, moving around, just know it is starting certainly to slow down now, just popping on the roadways now trying to beat rush in the 7:00 hour, not so fast, probably going to get stuck. schuylkill eastbound approaching montgomery very, very low moving here stunning, and driving at posted speeds. speed things up nor me. >> talking little about this mass transit, expect delays between philly and wilmington, amtrak sharing the track, wilmington, newark line, and also, out bound service running express from 30th to university to marcus hook, expect 30 minute delays. >> thank you so much. well, been nba star, rapper, even a sheriff. >> he was a rapper, oh, those days. now, shaquile o'neil can have professional wrestler to his
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resume. shack made surprise appearance during wrestle mania 32 facing offer against dozens of other competitors in a battle royal, as you can see, the wrestlers ganged up on shack, okay, tossing him all over the rope. he fell hard, but kind of dream of mine. i want to wrestle, wrestle mania. do you think we can make that happen? dead serious, kate. >> i your a nuts. >> another big name at the show, my man, duane the rock johnson. the fast and furious star came out with a huge flame throw err. made his way to the ring accompanied by the dallas cowboys cheerleaders, wrestle mania 32 hell inside a at any at stadium in arlington, set several records, more than 101,000 fans were on hand, i used to practice the people's eyebrows. day. i was huge wrestling fan. >> well, it is now 6:49. we've got a lot to catch up. a lot coming up on cbs this morning. >> charlie roads, joins us,
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live from new york with a preview, good morning. >> good morning being brooke and jim, welcome to the morning team. we'll talk with john dickerson whether donald trump's latest gabs will affect which is con somebody primaries. plus this, world leaders tied to one of the largest classified document leaks, how they allegedly hit billions of dollars. and this, how hack remembers using ransom wear to steel files and even hold an entire new jersey town hostage. and finally this, entertainment tonight nancy odel, she was back stage at last night's acm awards. that and more, the news back in the morning, see in you about ten minutes. >> thank you so much, charlie. we will be watching. >> thank you. >> looking forward to it. it is always tough when you move to a new city. there is so much to see, so many to do. specially here, but where do you start? >> in brooke's casey thought she should start learning about her new home of philadelphia, explore few places from the past. we kick things in my
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neighborhood old city. >> ♪ >> alfred's alley, peeping living in these homes since the early 1700s. >> not the same people though? >> not the same, actually. >> i love it. i think it is adorable. there is one, hey, for sale, i could be your neighborrer. >> closet space would never work for you on this one. >> let's move on. >> it was then on to the pot office -- post offers founded by ben franklin. >> welcome to philadelphia. >> i moved here from oklahoma from oklahoma. >> we call that the prairie. i was in charge of the post offers, last time it was profitable. >> i see. >> you probably have seen my picture, right? >> i have seen your picture whether what, on the hundred dollar bill? >> of course. >> do you think that makes me look chubby? >> better in person. >> i wish you all the best of luck. good luck here in philadelphia, enjoy it as much ' we do. >> thank you. >> next up, independence hall.
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>> hi, brooke, my name is andrew, i would like to welcome to you philadelphia and independence national historical park, over 4 million visitors come each year to learn about the pounding of/nation. where the declaration every independence was signed and adopted by the continental congress. also where the united states constitution was created. >> thank you, than sex actually wave ' been want to go see. >> our final stop, city hall. where mayor jim kenney talk about the building and billy penn's statue that sits on top. >> this is the largest free standing masonry building in the worlds. it took them 30 years to build, a lot of problems in the construction, and for a quaker city, which is very under stated, this is a very over stated building. which is casino of to the man who sits on top of it. i think if he were alive he wouldn't probably like standing on top that far building. >> one important question brooke just had to ask. >> all right, we turn the cameras off, will you tell me where your favorite cheese steak is?
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>> uh, uh -- >> nobody will say in public. >> and that's because the wrong answer for a politician in this city can cost them votes in a election, but speaking of cheese steaks, coming up tomorrow, brooke and i just scratch the surface of philly food. we tried some of the walk up food spots during our lunch >> yes. l right, stop and think about this. villanova is in the national championship game tonight. after meeting -- after beating oak home al. >> they stopped upped my oklahoma sooners, i'm over that. i'm a philly girl, over that, moving on. >> the cats are taking on north carolina for shot at their first national tight until 30 years. pat gallen live in villanova. hi, pat. >> i don't want to hear it, pat. >> i was just about to make fun of you being brooke, of course. villanova demolishing oklahoma by 44 points saturday. they'll play north carolina tonight, see if they can get
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the first national championship since 1985. let's go back to the game saturday, when they shout down the national player of the year, buddy, just nine points and one, three pointer, that was it, all about balance. jay wright has talk about it all year with the defense. that will lead to the offense, and boy was he right. the sooners shot just 31% from the field. while the nova wildcats shot 71% themselves. they won 95 to 51. the players and the coach are ready to rock. >> what we do, and nothing going to change, we'll go out there, and try to play as hard as we. >> it would mean a lot to the whole program, to everyone, something i'm sure everyone has dreamed about their whole life. see if we have the opportunity to win this game. >> we love playing, love getting ready to play, preparing, and just fired up. we get to play in this big game. >> so north carolina is a very good team. but nova has proven they can
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basically beat anyone in the country. they bead the number one overall seed kansas, beat oak home, a sorry brooke, on saturday. now they have to take care every business against unc tonight. see if they can do it, also, big sport day, 4:10 p.m. the phillies, they kick it off, the 2016 season begins against the cincinnati reds, and 9:19 tonight. while the morning team is fast asleep, it will be villanova against north carolina, we'll see if they can bring that national championship to november a jim and brooke, back into you. >> thanks, pat. our leslie van arsdale is with the wildcats in houston, so look for her live reports from the championship game later today on cbs-3, "eyewitness news", tip-off is at 9:19 p.m. >> we know they're going to win. meantime, we'll be right back. stay with us. >> ♪
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>> autopsies being performed today on two amtrak employees killed when a train struck a back hoe yesterday in chester. >> villanova while cats face north carolina in the championship game tonight at will the 19. >> which is on sin primary, thanks for joining thus morning, cbs this morning is next. have a great day everyone. see you tomorrow. >> have a great day. .
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good morning, it is monday, april 4th, 2016. welcome to "cbs this morning." donald trump goes on an apology tour ahead of wisconsin's primary tomorrow. hillary clinton tries to stop a surging bernie sanders. an unprecedented leak alleges corruption, among other powerful leaders. plus, we go back stage with the winners of the academy award of country music awards. we begin this morning with a look at today's "eye opener." your world in 90 seconds. you shouldn't be littering up the process, because that is what he is doing. it's really a disgrace. >> trump and cruz call for kasich to drop
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