who investigators say was allowed on the tracks, just before the deadly collision. thanks for joining us, i'm brooke thomas. >> i'm jim donovan. also, checking weather and traffic together in just a minute. >> first, here's what you need to know to start your day. it is the morning minute. >> rebounds, he scores. >> after that, it all fell apart for the orange and black. >> wind up, blast and score. tries again. scores. >> he is a dangerous individual, we're very happy to get him off the streets. >> suspect accused in the shooting after philadelphia police officer set for

arraignment later this morning. >> i watch our police and our firemen down at 7-eleven, down at the world trade center right after it came down. >> an unfortunate slip of the tongue, trump mistakenly mentioned the name after convenience store chain instead of 9/11. >> there is a way that -- >> okay, i want you to show me. >> i will try. first, use a fork. >> always good to use a fork. >> you got a forkment then just take a little bit off the top right here. >> okay. >> then just use as much as you want. >> (laughing). >> that is actually exactly how you eat cheese cake. >> i do. i'm wondered what kind of cheese cake, if it is new york it has to be junior's i would assume. that's the big one in new york. >> i know about your favorite? >> depends. >> okay. >> any cheese cake. just like the weather, i'll take it as long as it is nice. >> oh, i see. >> always a caveat of some kind. yes, you know what though? i'm kind of with.

>> i am on this one, as long as the weather is nice, i'll take it, looks like we can definitely see more of the same today in the way of some pretty nice weather. couple of changes that come along with what we saw yesterday. see, just few more clouds, it is going to be little bit breezier, also, not as warm. mid 70s at best here today, this afternoon, but we've also got very dry weather, and with that breeze, it will elevate the fire risk. let's go ahead, talk about what this system or what we are dealing with with the weather pattern really. again, nothing more than couple every clouds currently on storm scan3, looking at the temperature difference from the same time yesterday, excuse me, we've already seen these temperatures warm up just by hands full of degrees from the same time yesterday. you're 10 degrees warmer even by comparison in trenton, and as that translates to the thermometer, it is still cool enough that i would suggest an extra layer. but it is mild for the standards. mid 50's, even from mount pocono, down through the suburbs here, and in philadelphia, itself a pair of five's, current temperature reading. so the grade is pretty good today, guys, we gave you a.

us a l yesterday, understandably, solid a for the day with mild morning, eventually temperatures into the mid 70s later this afternoon, under partly sunny sky, granted little breezy but still nice spring day. so again while it is not as warm, keep the sunshine, looks like it will linger even for couple of additional days, but eventually rain does have to return to the forecast, and looks like few thunderstorms will do the same. coming up later in the show, i'll tell you when you do need to dust that umbrella off. meisha? >> katie, i guess, if we have beautiful weather like this we can't complain about the rain coming. we will take it, today will be gorgeous, blue route taillights moving in the northbound direction, before the schuylkill, you can see, moving in both the northbound and southbound side. looking good. i would say that overall generally speaking right around 5:30, especially, any time between monday, tuesday, wednesday, even thursday, we know that around 5:30 whether we will start to heat up. seeing that evidence on the schuylkill, headlights moving in the eastbound direction, at the girard, basically what you are looking at, westbound side, no problem. it is the eastbound side of the schuylkill that we're kind of keeping our eye on right now.

construction here, 422 eastbound between trooper and route 23. that left lane is compromised, see the flashing lights, looks like they're just maybe starting to move some stuff out of your way right now. but, just know, as you head out the door right now, if you are head the out onto 422 eastbound between trooper or right around trooper it is still out there right now. take a look at this. this is where we have some sewer repairs, moral laurel, in urge new jersey, hartford road closed between sixth avenue and union mill vote. you will have to use alternate right there out there briggs road larchmont boulevard or arc road your best bet. sounds like the closure might be in place until around noon at the earliest. so it, could even go beyond that, jim, over to you. >> thank you very much shall meisha a this morning, learning more about the deadly amtrak crash in chester. >> the crash earlier this month killed two workers and hurt several passengers. "eyewitness news" reporter, justin finch, is live in the cbs-3 sat center breaking down new report. good morning, justin. >> reporter: good morning, brooke, jim. many factors are under investigation this morning, the ntsb presumed some details will change as it continues.

had permission to work on the chester area track, the question now, was there a warning? the ntsb reports the crew was assigned to track repairs including the removal of mud spots. the agency finds crews had clearance to do that work between april 1st and april 4th. the morning of sunday, april 3rd, crews were working on track two, which was supposed to be out of service. the ntsb says alert system was set to be in place for remaining tracks, one, three, four. addition patcher with warns oncoming trains to protect the back hoe and crew, but somehow amtrak train 89 struck the back hoe crew working on track three. despite the engineer pulling the emergency brake, the back hoe operator and supervisor were struck and killed. now, amtrak 89 was not speeding going at 106 miles per hour below the max of 110. the train was bound for savannah from new york with 344 people aboard. forty-one were hospitalized. the ntsb reports amtrak's damages are at least

$2.2 million. brooke, jim, back into you. >> thank you very much, justin. >> family, friends, mourn four year old girl shot to death, allegedly, by her father, who police say was playing with a loaded gun. "eyewitness news" was at a prayer vigil on east mayfield street, in kensington. on saturday afternoon, police say maurice phillips shot tear a phillips in the head while playing with a loaded gun. calling for action against gun violence. >> to let people know if you have guns in your home, please, please, tonight, go and put that gun away. get it away from your children. >> her six siblings were in the room but not hurt. phillips' now facing a murder charge. happening today, atlantic city officials are back in court, ask a judge to freeze atlantic city spending until the city hands over millions of dollars it owes to its school system. the state education department is suing the nearly broke city, the city paid half of $8.4 million payment that was due last friday.

well, the time now 5:36. in business news, this morning, a drive-thru drug store. >> and what led to a big boost for wall street. money watch's hena daniels joins us live from the new york stock exchange. good morning, hena. good morning, brooke, good morning, jim. energy companies led a rally here on wall street, the dow jones gained 106 points, finishing up above the 18,000 mark for the first time since last summer. the nasdaq added 21 points. >> americans sense of financial security at its lowest level in 19 months. that's the findings after bang rate. com report. 31% say they're less comfortable with their savings now than a year ago. a bright spot, millennials, report higher levels of job security, savings, and overall financial improvement. target's minimum wage workers will reportedly get a bump in pay soon. started raising employee pay to minimum every $10 an hour. raise comes after competent from wal-mart announced it would pay workers at least $10

an hour. and, next time go to cvs, may not even have to get out of your car. the drug store chain is partnering with mobile app curbside, to offer store pick up, at almost 8,000 of its stores by the end of this year. the pilot program is already in a few markets, including california, north carolina, and georgia. brooke, jim? >> thanks a lot, hena. >> in other news, taliban claiming responsibility for suicide bombing in afghanistan. >> armed militants stage add coordinated assault on key government security agency in kobul. the attack killed at least 28 people and hurt more than 300 others. the bombing appears to have targeted an agency similar to the u.s. secret service providing personal protection for high ranking government officials. >> the us is sending 200 more troops to iraq to help with the fight against isis. this comes during a fight to re-take the key sit of mozul. it bridges the number of us force toss more than 4,000. in a interview with cbs this

morning's charlie roads, president obama says, the american forces will advise iraq units. we're in the doing the fighting ourselves. but when we provide training, when we provide special forces who are backing them up, when we are gaining intelligence, working with the coalition we have, what we've seen is that we can continually tighten the noose. my expectation is that by the end of the year, we will have created the conditions whereby mose you will will eventually fall. >> you can see more of charlie roads' interview with president obama coming up on cbs this morning. it is of course as always right after "eyewitness news", starting at 7:00. well, coming up: major band pulls the plug on a concert just days before coming to philadelphia. >> we'll show you why they refuse to play for fans in north carolina. pat? >> good morning, jim, brooke. we are in east falls, at a new state-of-the-art indoor facility that caters to kids of all shapes, all sizes, all

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>> i love this story. the philadelphia zoo is going to get a little larger this fall. no, it is not a new exhibit. just a new guerrilla. honey the guerrilla is pregnant. the zoo staff actually found out the 21 year old primate is pregnant, by giving her an over the counter pregnancy test. isn't that cool? an ultrasound photo gives us sneak peak at the growing baby, and this is the first time since 1994 that we're going to have a new baby guerrilla born at our zoo. >> oh, my gosh. >> good luck to honey. >> i know. >> how sweet. >> the giant animals are my thing at the zoo. guerillas, giraffes, panda's, my favorite things. >> big into the panda's. >> i am. how can you not be? they're adorable. >> i know. >> if we could watch began videos all day, would be totally happen. >> i me too. dream of mine. >> i'm happen which today's wetter. >> yes, thank you for making the transition. really looking at some real nice weather yet again today. even though there is cold front crossing, still looking really nice outside.

let's go outside. i do want to show you what's happening first, very wide zoom on storm scan, the reason i show you this, because eventually this quiet weather pat learn have to go to the wayside. but what you notice here is at least across up-state new york there is disturbance starting to push south. that's the colds front i mentioned moment ago. you have also got another storm system that continues to brew across the central planes. eventually that is headed our way. how much, for now, things are still nice and quiet w that said, we check in with the eyewitness weather watcher network, we start things offer by going to the map, quick peak, temperatures basically up and down 95 generally in the low 50's, so pretty mild start in these areas. we take you to kim of these spots though. zero in. 48 degrees comes in from fran. he is under nice clear sky, nottingham, out in chester county,ly cooler out in the outlying suburbs, to another one across the delaware river, ed connor, 48 degrees, he, too, seeing nothing more than couple of clouds at the moment, let's take to you one more, we go bit further north, 45, comes in from john

jenkins, clear skies, he washed the car, hours later it was coated again with pollen. very prudent observation because you're still going to have some pretty high pollen levels here today, giles. if you suffer from seasonal allergies, not bad day to get out and enjoy, just be ready with allergy medication n addition to that, we also have elevated fire risk, there will be red flag warning that takes effect at noon today, lasts until 8:00. all the red flag warning means is you have the conditions, dry air, relative humidity, nice and low, breezy conditions, that any casino of fires that spark, could spread easily. so just be really smart about lighting up the fire pit, that kind of thing here this evening. looking forward in the eyewitness weather seven day, little up and down turn here, on the thermometer, we do have that next storm coming along on friday, even as early as thursday overnight maybe couple of showers, but might even be dodging few thunderstorms friday. that looks like the the wettest day, meisha, a certainly the day to dust off the rain gear. >> yes, at least it is a friday, so i'll be happy. because it will be friday, so, but today, it is gorgeous outside, roadways nights and

dry, looking great. ninety-five south at girard, it is i would say creeping on 6:00. and you can see, even brake lights going off. we can expect that as we push toward the 6:00 and specially move into the 6:00 hour. but just note it is certainly starting to heat up little bit on interstate 95. skewing, past 202, look at that gorgeous blue sky. as the sun is just about to rise. oh, it is so pretty. moving in the eastbound, and westbound side, 202, at the schuylkill, looking good there. boulevard headlights moving in the southbound direction, just approaching wissahickon avenue. another just gorgeous shot of that amazing blue sky as we wake up this morning. line painting project, dealing with this yesterday on the blue route. dealing with it again today. take a look at this, it takes place 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. today like i said the blue route both directions the entire lent of the blue route, wednesday, through friday, going to be the schuylkill. friday, going to be the vine street expressway, and you can bet, that that will slow you down little bit. any time you have crews out there dealing with wet paint i want to drive with caution. also, sewer repairs here mouth laurel new jersey take a look,

hartford road closed between sixth avenue and union mill road. you will have to use alternate, briggs road, larchmont boulevard or arc road are your best bet around this right now, that's in place until at least noon today. jim, over to you. >> thank you, so much, meisha a well, sports is an important part of growing up. and today we are getting look at a place where children with learning disabilities have a chance to play the games they love. >> our pat gallen is live in east falls, where any kids are welcome to play. hey, pat? >> reporter: good morning, jim and brooke. i'm here in east falls at kids at play. it is a special place not because there is a ball pit, and because there is archery and because there is the slide that you saw my gangly legs, you know, sliding down, that thing wag fast, by the way, but because of all of the other things that come along with it, and to tell us about it, the direct offer of kids at play, julia singer. so tell us, what makes this place so special? >> we wanted to create a place leer where kids of all, can come together, kids who maybe

have special needs, kids without special needs could come and could grow and learn as they play. >> so that kind of is what makes us a little different, new to the community, so we wanted to bring a community center for all families to come together. >> so what obviously, you know, you have all of this jungle gym, you have the balls. where did this all come from? did you think this up? >> i would like to take credit but i can't. no, we started working early intervention. that's when you work with kids zero to five with delays and disability. we wanted to create a place where they could learn in a natural environment, which means that they're playing, they don't even realize they're learning while they play. >> the best way. >> it is. >> so jungle gym here, the balls, all of these different little areas and aspect of this place, how did you come up with, obviously, this big jungle gym, the archery upstairs, so many little cool nuances to this place. >> we wanted to make sure that he we were doing gross motor activities, kinds, if they

have a speech delay, if they have trouble learning how to walk, we could include them all in everything that they're doing. >> okay. >> so we have our ball pits, we have our cool new toy, which is called i play. >> well, i didn't come all this way to not i play. so can we go play? let's go check it out. this is pretty cool. we got a chance to mess around with this little bit earlier. it is actually a projection screen that comes down from the ceiling, you can play these games here on the floor. so, projection screens up here. and these are -- so you just kind of like step on it, right? >> yes. ten different games. rotates every two minutes. so here we have our mice and cheese game. you got to step on the mike to get rid of them. >> that's it? that's all dow? >> yes. >> and you accumulate points as do you it? >> yes. >> of course. oh, man. that's actually harder than would you imagine. this is actually pretty fun, pretty fun. there are other game you can place on here, too?

>> yes, air hockey, soccer being popping bubbles anything you can imagine, constantly downloading new games. >> well, i'll figure what games we can play in a little bit. i don't know if you saw it in the background, but there is, what would you call that, that big thing in the background there? that i will slide down later in. >> our zip line. >> i can't wait to go on that zip line, guys, it will be a loft fun. >> i don't know about your core nation, patrick. >> he can do it. >> all right, all right. make sure his insurance is paid up. >> thanks, pat. that will looks awesome. coming up: we have three to go, including where you can get flyered up for free today. >> we'll be right back, stay with us.

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>> adorable, too. >> exactly. all right, before you head out the door, who remember three things happening today you need to know, it is three to go. >> two men accused of shooting a philadelphia police officer awaiting to be arraigned this morning, the officer is recovering at home. >> and it is primary day in new york, polls show donald trump and hillary clinton with double digit leads headed into today's vote. >> and you can get all flyers up for the flyers neck playoff game, at the porch at 30th street station, they're giving away free t-shirts starting today at noon. >> meanwhile, coming up in the next hour of cbs-3 "eyewitness news", it is called job hopping, why so many millennials are switching jobs, so often. >> plus the rockets will be here to talk about their cool new show and possibly teach us thousand do those fabulous high kicks. you don't want to miss this. it is coming up. stay with us.

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>> this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news" this morning. two men accused of shooting a philadelphia police officer will be formally arraigned this morning, one of the suspects is no stranger to crime. we're live with what we've learned about his past. >> critical day at the white house. this, a trail leads to pennsylvania, we will tell how will be in our area this week. >> and a red flag warning is in effect, katie will let us

agree that means, and how high the temperature will go today. well, today is tuesday, april the 19th, good morning, aim jim donovan. >> i'm brooke thomas, meisha here with traffic. first a check on the weather katie. good morning. >> yes, the weather definitely still very quiet. red flag warned we mentioned a moment ago, beautiful sunrise underway. handful of clouds at the moment. as we overlook spring garden intersection at broad street. the scene taken from our own station headquarters, a lovely view see the light of day, will come up 17 minutes or so from now, storm scan3, quiet, devoid of any storminess cold front trying to cross through. moving in from the north. it is going to cross through mid 70s, as opposed to low 80s, like yesterday, but off to mild start. fifty-six the temperature at th