soon. people around the world are saddened, about the sudden passing of prince. >> was found unresponsive yesterday, inside of his home, and an autopsy is expected today. cbs correspondent jamie yuccas outside his home where fans have been stopping by to pain their respects. >> jim, brooke, good morning to both you. as were you just mentioning, the world may be mourning prince's death, but no where is the pain deeper, than here, in minute society, a the radio station here has been playing his music non-stop since his death announced. you can see her at his home at pacely park, memorial just continues to grow. all night dance party, is still going strong, even right now. landmarks across the country lit up in purple overnight, the color that came to represent prince's career. >> ♪ >> fans pay tribute to the music icon, by singing his greatest hits on the street. >> ♪

>> some of the loudest voices heard from print's hometown. purple rained earned him an oscar. >> he put minneapolis on the map. it is great we're celebrate his life and not in sorrow. >> here in minneapolis where prince honed he can check particular sound mastering all aspect every his music from production to arrangement. the legendary singer and songwriter won seven grammys and sole more than 100 million records. during his 40 year career, something music critics john brian said he accomplished with little help. >> his outfit, the videos, he did everything. no one else in the history every music has done everything as well at such a high level as did he. >> even leading to up his death, reclusive star had embark on stripped down, piano microphone tour. the 57 year old spent his final moment at his pacely park estate, where mourners

continue to celebrate his life and mourn his sudden passing. >> prince's publicist said the sing her been battling an illness in recent days, no cause every death has been determined just yet. medical examiner will perform autopsy later today. brooke, jim? >> thanks a lot, jamie. stay with "eyewitness news", dee dee tails a meaning in the death of prince. slide pictures, reaction from celebrities on cbsphilly.com. >> turning to weather, weaver some rain on the way. >> katie timing it all out for us. hi, katie. >> absolutely right t appears it will end up being somewhat scattered event in the form of some scattered showers, perhaps a thunderstorm, but, not necessarily a wash-out by any stretch. you know, this is one of those days that it is, again, going to have an impact on us, but if you really want to get away without an umbrella, likelihood that you could try to do that. what you see here some of the moisture beginning to build up in the atmosphere, drawing in the moisture from the south right now. but we do have showers popping up from the allegheny's on

west. that said, anything that does roll through generally comes later on today, and we will have chance to warm up before it gets here, 63 degrees, at philadelphia international airport. we're into the mid 50's, generally the further north you go, further inland, but very warm, across even the pine land areas. low 60s currently being reported in millville, for example. the forecast, you know what, we were able to gave you a b here, not a kind of day. there will be showers around, likely thunderstorm, but generally looks to me like the weather a, heads off until we hit say the tail end of the kids day here, but we will be in the upper 70s by that point, yes, there will be some wet weather to track. the key word meisha, scattered. this wet weather really isn't going to be a widespread wash out by any means. >> you know what katie, b is a decent grade. i'm take it this friday. tgif to you. an accident, eastbound ramp to girard, it is blocked right now. because of that, you can see, how slow moving it is, everyone slowing down to casino every take a peak what's going on here, you can

take montgomery drive to bill month avenue to get back on girard. that will probably help you. because i'll show you backups here, schuylkill eastbound past montgomery. backups leading up to the crash, wherever someone putting on their brakes and looking at what's going on. because as you can see, ambulance out there, a lot of crews out there, a loft flashing lights, so everyone taking a peak at what's going on, slowing you down significantly. like i said you can take montgomery to belmont to circle back to girard it, might help you out just little bit. ninety-five at girard what you are looking at here, plenty of headlight here, we have reached 6:00 hour. we know it will build pushing toward our main hour, that 7:00 hour rush hour. this is where we have overturned vehicle, burlington route 130 at high street. and also, in the world of mass transit, regular trolley services resume, resume around 5:00 a.m. through center city tunnel. these are the routes that were affected now getting back to normal. ten, 11, 13, 34, 36. but you can still expect delays here, also, norristown high-speed line, new schedule

starting monday. back to you. >> sinned lows of student has left wilmington community mourning and in shock. >> the 16 year old girl died shortly after police say she was attack in a school bathroom. >> "eyewitness news" reporter justin finch is live outside howard high school of technology where classes will resume today. justin? >> jim, brooke it, will likely be a very short day for student at staff here at howard high. we are told that grief counselors will be on hand today, the death of 16 year old amy joiner truly rocking this campus, and the surrounding community. the death of 16 year old amy joiner, too shock to go except for many who knew her. >> i would never expect this. like i would never expect this, you know, good grades, good person, very respectful. >> thursday morning about 8:15, as classes began at the howard high school of technology, joiner became embroiled in the fight of her life. in a main floor bathroom, wilmington police say a fight broke out involving joiner in at least two other girls. she was quickly rushed to a.

i. dupont children's hospital, where she would die. >> some of the kids may need some counselling, that's something that they'll have with their staff. >> police questioned the student in the girls areas bathroom, have spoke win witnesses. though for many, there will never be a good enough explanation. >> it is nonsense. this is nonsense. >> after the fight, class was called off. investigators were called in. >> thursday evening concerned community leaned on each other. >> the community came together, we are talking about coming together as one and trying to prevent this from happening again. >> blocking live at the remnants that far vigil, teddy bears and candles still lit from overnight. now, at this time, this story is trending on line with the hashtag rip amy. lot of speculation about what may have triggered that fight. and of course, joiner's death, how much, at this time police are being tight-lipped and not saying much. only that they have questioned the two student in that bathroom and other witnesses.

also, saying, no weapons were recovered. again, classes are set to resume. but there will be grief counselors here on campus today. live here in wilmington, justin finch, cbs-3, "eyewitness news", jim, brooke, back over to you. >> thank up, justin. new eyewitness cam just in as huge flames race through a row home in camden. shot this video few moments ago before firefighters got to the 800 block of haddon avenue. we just learned, six people in the home were taken to the hospital with smoke inhalation and some other injuries. the good news is they are all expected to be okay. >> a man suspected of driving under the influence in this overnight accident in hunting park that left a pedestrian in critical condition. the man's vehicle went out of chrome, striking a parked car, which then flipped on top of the victim. he and three other people are in the hospital. >> motorcycle rider killed when his bike collided with a car in the juniata section. eyewitness cents say the motorcycle went through a red

light. police have not completed their investigation. the victim's name has not been released, the driver of the car was not hurt. >> now to campaign 2016, the democratic candidates are in our region today campaigning in full force before tuesday's primary. bernie sanders will be in philadelphia this morning, at 59th and christian street for a closed event. yesterday, sanders was in oaks montgomery county. one of the topics he discussed was the issue every equal pay. >> women are telling me they are tired of working for 79 cents on the dollar. they want the whole damn dollar and they're right. >> earlier in the day sanders rallied supporters in reading berks county. >> meanwhile, frontrunner hillary clinton is taking her campaign to montgomery county today. the former secretary of state, will head to jenkintown around 11:15, for a closed discussion on the economic barriers facing working women.

later this evening, she will make a stop in scranton, at dunmore high school, that event is open to the public. on the republican side, day is pushing for votes in delaware today. he'll be in harrington at noon, last night the frontrunner energized supporters in harrisburg. there were insist against other candidates and protesters who also touched on topics including pennsylvania's economy, and he mentioned his time in philadelphia. >> and if you could survive on cobbs creek, you could practically survive anywhere. so we love philadelphia. let me tell you, for example, we love it, we love it. i learned, i learned a lot. i learned a lot in pennsylvania. >> current polls put trump 40 to 50% here in pennsylvania, more than pen points ahead of ted cruz. ohio governor john kasich was in king of prussia last night for the chester county gop dinner. the event was held at the valley forge casino resort, and in his remarks he talked about trump voters.

>> we know many of these people hop are voting for trump are people who are worried about their jobs, they're worried about their wages. they say, you know, i put my monday nay bank. and used get interest and now i don't get squat. and by the way my kids went to school and they're still living at home. and these are legitimate fears. >> texas senator ted cruz now focus ago lot of ends offer indianna primary there is tuesday may third. >> still ahead, paid maternity leave. not option for all families. new trend gaining in popularity with moms to be. finds out how they're raising money to stay home with their babies. >> plus, record rowers. they're the youngest americans to ever make the journey across the atlantic ocean, it was also a very good reason. meet the local man behind the mission coming up. >> ♪

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♪ welcome back everyone, it is 6:13 on this friday morning. and new images from nasa give us a stunning view in space. >> take a look at this.

>> shows giant bubble, this celebrates the space's telescope 26th anniversary which is april 24th. you're looking at image 8,000 light years away. >> that's amazing, doesn't even look real. fascinating stuff. >> science. >> it is science, ya, i love it. that's really cool stuff. thanks, guys. today is earth day. and if you are going to be out and about, maybe doing some kind of earth day activities, actually the most unsettled day we've seen in a while, but when i say it is the most unsettled, you know, it wouldn't take much to become the most unsettled day, because we had such dry weather. we are however dodging couple of showers, thunderstorms throughout the course of the day, you can see the moisture already being drawn in from the south here, leading edge of this latest cold front that's moving in. so there are showers to dodge. basically down the spine of the appalachians, at this point there is coming our way later on today, look like the

timing may have shifted by couple of hours it gets here, most numerous fashion on the radar. later on today and tonight. but here is the back edge of the front. it will take for this whole thing to cross through before we can say okay, we wipe our hands clean and we're done. we need little time. generally speaking later today, tonight, showers and any thunderstorms will be firing up, but they look like they'll come through in scatter fashion, rainfall amounts out of this, yes, brief and locally down purr but not enough it will lead to any flashflooding more than anything, nuisance day for us, of any wet weather and all of the four top computer models that we trust for some of our forecasting pegging this, couple of tents every an inch and nothing more. union back at home here tomorrow taking, looks as though skies are nice and clear, granted little breezy, bit of cool breeze out of the northwest, but 68 degrees under sunshine saturday at 4:00 p.m. not bad at allment looking ahead for the second half of the weekend looks pretty fantastic, 68 and i, we spike upped is shubin,

pair of seven's for the high, barrel g up easily, but held back to about 70 on tuesday. we take it, couple of showers and thunderstorms start to fire up again by then, meisha. >> katie, thank you so many. good morning everyone, happy friday. what you are seeing behind me right here is a accident, schuylkill eastbound the ram top girard block, right lane also block as you can see by the firetruck. but make note of this, as well. gaper delays. so, i'm going to show you the back up camera at the schuylkill eastbound approaching montgomery. take a lock at this. i mean, this is very, very slow moving. alternate, montgomery, circle around girard, probably your best bet. if you can stay away interest this you certainly want to avoid there is very slow, the more vehicles that get out there just going to be even more slow moving there. haddon avenue closed near spruce street. use alternate. mount over ram avenue will be

your best bet. again, that's in a dwelling, so probably an apartment probably my best guess accident overturned vehicle route 130 and high street, jim, brooke, back to you. >> crowd funding is the hot new way to help pay for everything from honeymoons to business ideas to bills. some turning to it. one mom forced to take maternity leave early to avoid premature delivery. on top of that, going through divorce, has two other young women, and don't get a paid maternity leave. her co-workers convinced her to start a go fun me page. >> you have to take maternity leave. you have bills that still keep coming. they don't put our bills on maternity leave. >> i think it is a good option specially if you get people to donate to you. some site there aren't goals

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>> weather watch err friday. in the house today we are fran, one of our banner eyewitness weather watchers. we will introduce you to him little later in the show, also, talk about the rain that's out there right now, and also, the weekend forecast. the all-important forecast, right, fran. all coming up. stick around.

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>> debate, bucks county, for the eighth congressional district. >> in the times of trenton, the city closing the stokes early childhood center as a result every budget cuts. the city's preschool programs will instead be run out of three schools next year, as they try to make up $5.9 million budget shortfall. >> from the intelligence err, burlington county's very own alice paul will be one of five prominent women in history who will be featured on the back of the 10-dollar bill, beginning in 2020. paul was key advocate in women's sufferage movement. and founded the national women's party. >> and that's a look at some of the newspaper headlines. from around the delaware valley. >> well, coming up until the next half hour of "eyewitness news", remembering music legend. >> ♪

>> news every prince's sudden ath shocked the world. up next, how celebrities are reacting to the lost. >> hey, if you have ever kayak or road a boat, you know how physically demanding it can be. how about doing it for two month straight? a local man had two great reasons to do it. and i'll tell you why that's what congressman for wsestak did.ceos - sestak was one of only eight democrats to join republicans to allow ceos of bailed out banks to pay themselves unlimited bonuses using bailout money. an "outrage," according to newspapers. katie mcginty- tough on wall street ceos,

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>> a gorgeous sunrise down the shore, grab your umbrella head down the shore. rain is on the way. >> also, chance every thunderstorms, she times it all out for us, looks ahead to what we can expect for the weaken of the good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm brooke thomas. 6:30, time to get you caught

up this friday morning. here's what you need to know in your morning minute. >> ♪ >> ♪ purple rain ♪ >> sea of purple around the worlds, people pay tribute to prince. the legend found unresponsive yesterday inside his minneapolis home. we'll police you prince, you are truly one after kind. >> wilmington high school of technology today, day after teenage student was killed at the school. >> student has been identified as 16 year old amy joiner. and on line her story is gaining traction with the hashtag rip amy. we need your help. stay with us as we fight for the middle class. >> democratic candidate both making stops in our region today. battling for vote ahead of tuesday's primaries. >> on the republican side,

donald trump is rallying for votes in delaware. >> a spectacular site. the philadelphia chinese lantern festival starts today. there are more than 25 displays here, 15,000led's, it runs through the next seven weeks, so you've got to get out here and check it out. >> we head out to the festival. great weather. >> i snuck in the other night, great place. >> yes, jim, i know you said it was gorgeous, generally speaking guys we will see some quiet weather overall. i do have to introduce you to my buddy, fran. he's one of our very and most loyal eyewitness weather watchers. he's from nottingham, pa, chester county, made very long hike to get here, really very important work in our community, teacher, also paramedics. and fran that lullly was part of the reason you got so geeked out about weather? >> yes, it was, when you are out there taking care of people in the snow, the ice, the rain, do you have know what's coming or else it could get really bad really fast. >> he definitely is one of the wonderful observers that we have in the neighborhoods to

give of us a sense every what's on the way, we want to give you a sense what you will walk out to here this morning, kutztown area, you have sunshine, see through the observations there, very modest breeze if any at all. that will will change. see the clouds starting to build here. so jen lip looking at what we call partly sunny sky for now. but as we look at storm scan, actually i zoom it out one time for you, see the moisture starting to build in from west and eventually to east, it will hit us in the form of scattered showers. and likely, a thunderstorm. so looking at temperatures right now, nice mild start. you know, you have got the moisture pushing in from the south, with the coming from the south it can allow the temperatures to rebounds easily, low 60s, in a lot of communities right now. but we are actually expected to spike to 78 degrees today. if you have got any kind of earth day event that you are partake g in, doing little bit of your part to maybe help clean up the screen ourment here today i don't think you will have to cancel anything. do watch for few scattered showers and/or thunderstorm, could dot the raid radar later today. even at this point, meisha, a

feels very mild, you can tell there is something coming. >> yes, even earlier this morning, felt very mild outside. thank you so much. good morning, everyone, happy friday. so, this is right behind what you are looking at where we did have an accident, schuylkill eastbound the ramp to girard was blocked. right lane was block as well causing some significant slow downs. that has now been cleared out of your way. and the residual effect because of that is still there little bit. it is get being lit bit betterment look at the back up camera, the schuylkill eastbound approaching montgomery. and you can see, we do have this disable vehicle put all the way out to the shoulder. when this lens was pulled out little bit, little wider after lens, you can see how bad the slow downs still are. in fact, they are still out there. so just know, that if you are in and around this area, around the schuylkill and girard, it is going to be slow moving, moving in the eastbound directs. then fire in camden, take a look at this, haddon avenue closed near spruce street. alternate, mt. ephraim avenue, going to be your best bet. new jersey bus roads detoured right now, 403, 451, check

schedules on line because of that, an accident here, burlington route 130 at high street, two lanes blocked right now, busy morning for a friday, i have to say, brooke, over to you. >> thank, meisha a wilmington howard high school of technology is open today. but three counselors will meet with student and staff after teenage student was killed inside the school. a vigil last night remembered 16 year old jamie joiner assaulted yesterday morning at the start of the school day, joiner died at a hospital and police interviewed several student but no charges have been filed. an autopsy set late he today on prince, legendary singer died yesterday inside his minneapolis area home. >> prince could shred a guitar in nearly 40 year career, pen songs for artists such as shenade o'connor, several

celebrities take to go social media to express their sadness, madonna tweeted this vintage pick with prince saying, he changed the world, true visionary, what a lost, i'm devestated, this is not a love song. that's a reference though a song she and prince collaborated on. another: truely legend every mine. rip. hashtag prince. prince wrote dion's song with this tear. and prince's former girlfriend, karma electra, posted this pick saying i feel so sad and confused right now, a loft people don't now this but prince actually gave electra her name. >> and we've got just a preview of new yorkers magazine. the next one out on the stand as you can see, pretty simple yet fitting tribute purple rain. >> the flyers of course dedicate in the year's stanley cup playoff run to the memory of team owner ed snider. members of his family

celebrated, his life at the wells fargo center yesterday. our sister station wip, and of course comcast spectacor, and snider died last week after a battle with cancer. >> well, a local man has just completed one of the most challenging undertaking on the face of the earth. >> our own pat gallen is here to tell us about spectacular trans ocean journey. and the reason the delaware county man took to the high seas. >> impress i have. few things physically demanding as rowing a boat t requires stamina, strength and mental fortitude. but what does it take to do it nonstop for two month? well it takes a special person with special reasons. >> row, row, row your boat, gently across the atlantic? >> fifty-eight days, five hours, six minutes. >> that's how long it took media native george to row from the can airy island off the coast of africa, to antigua. why did george embark on the

challenge? >> we raised money for the als association every greater philadelphia. my grandfather died of als in 2003. and he was sort of the reason why i wanted to do this race. >> george's grandfather, walter ben, was a world war ii navy veteran. so to honor him, george and teammate caitlin miller traveled 3,000 miles across the sea. george and caitlin are the youngest americans ever to make the journey across the atlantic ocean, to do it, they needed a sturdy vessel. >> 21 feet long, 6 feet wide at the widest point. self-sufficient boat meaning we have our water maker on board, we have our food on board. all of our electronics, as far as gps. >> what was the toughest part of the two month trek? >> i went in this cabin and my partner caitlin went into that cabin at that time a tropical storm then turned into hurricane alex. then in there for three days straight. >> including a hurricane, he

completed his goal all for great cause. he can't wait for round two,. >> definitely doing it again. i promised my parent i would maybe five years or so. >> pretty impressive stuff. he went to the haverford school, then road at the university of nebraska, consider he met his rowing partner, caitlin. while on the trip george said the best part besides of course the euphoria finishing were the smacks they had from time to time. that included grab old, a cheese its, and even hershey bars. but, their meals were right out of a bag. all three mules each day were freeze dried meals. and this is what it look like so i have cooked this up, freeze cbsphilly.com chilly mack with beef. this is what he ate for 58 straight days. not necessarily chilly mack with beef. so tell me what you think of that. >> ya? >> good for him. >> you're not loving it? i don't understands. >> it is not bad. >> food right out of a bad.

>> college foodment that's the way i look at it, college food. not flashback to college. >> very salty, very salty. >> but i, mean, 58 straight days of this, could you do? >> no. >> i don't think he showered for 58 straight days. >> katy? >> too much information. thank you, patrick. still ahead this friday morning, el pacca's in action. meisha makes some furry friends in berks county, and you can visit them, too, find out where in this morning's dream drive. >> philadelphia chinese lantern festival has taken shape, finally open today. i'm jan carabeo, coming to you live from franklin square this morning, coming up the extraordinary effort it takes to develop one of these displays.

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>> the philadelphia chinese lantern festival officially opens today.

"eyewitness news" reporter jan carabeo live there this morning, to give us a tour. good morning, jan. >> jim, brooke, good morning. we are just hanging out in the beautiful franklin square this morning, the sun is up, take a look around. the philadelphia chinese lantern festival has taken shape here, and it is finally ready to open tonight. you can see, great daylight look. real beautiful in the day. but at night it is absolutely spectacular. and someone is here with us this morning to help put all of this on. this is jesse lee, with the company that has developed all of. >> this and decided to bring it to philadelphia. thanks for being on our show. i appreciate you coming out. >> thank you so much for having me. >> what's it take to put on a display of this scope? there are 25 larger than life displays here. >> yes. we try to fill the square with a a lot of lanterns, weaver almost in total 20 artisans coming since late february. and they started working on this for the whole several

weeks, until we finish. >> one of the biggest displays, if not the biggest, one that took the biggest undertaking, is that giant dragon that we see. what did it take to develop that and bring it to life? >> oh, we have several artisans working on that for several days, including, putting the bodies topping. we use a crane to work the morning, to get the dragon head on top of. that will and also, this is a really big dragon. so this one the very biggest. >> and describe what it takes to develop these lanterns. i understand this is all silk around metal. and then, 15,000led's to bring it to life? >> we have hand made thing, because, you know, like this, and like that beautiful, it can only be made with hands. so that can make it very alive. >> something like this, these lanterns, are common place in

china, but very special for us here. is this the first time in the northeast this has been brought? >> yes, the first time. this is a special way to express chinese culture. and we're thinking that with this way that more people could know chinese culture, know china in a different way. that's why we brought it like this. >> jesse, thanks so much for being on our show. it is absolutely beautiful. you guys it, opens today, it runs through june the 12th, and now, franklin square remains open throughout the day. so you can check it out in daylight at 6:00. that's when you have to get your ticket, but you got to see it at night when it is dark. it is absolutely spectacular. jim, brooke, into you. >> expecting rain today i hear. but will this weekend be nice to check out the chinese lantern festival? >> looks pretty phenominal guys, sun setting right now just after 7:45, wouldn't be long even if you showed upright when the doors open before that sun is setting and you can see the real nice light. it is just an awesome view out that way. meanwhile, the eyewitness weather watchers are hard at

work. weep got a lot of reports this last hour, thanks for sending them in. we zero in. let's go little wider than that, we zero in, go on down to new castle county. 61 degrees comes into us this morning from sally, nice and mild here in wilmington, and just this says it all, tgif, right? stealing meisha's line here, tgif. further off to the northeast, 57 comes into us from william. he has partly sunny sky this hour. to one more we go, 61 degrees comes in from jerry aubrey, out in blue bell, also seeing partly sunny sky, saying there is no rain yet, but his bar testimony at the continues to drop and top andiron. what that means we've got low pressure on the move. look at this wide zoom, actual center of circulation far removed way off to the north. how much, it is dragging a cold front back through our area here. and as that continues to move through, what we end up with more than anything a scattered variety of showers and thunderstorms. timing on this looks like it has shifted little bit.

it is mainly later on today, and into tonight, that we see any casino of widespread showers or storms. but even still, looking scattered. now, i bring up the drought monitor. you know, we still have pretty exceptional drought across california, even here at home we've gone pretty decent stretch without much wet weather at all. even portions every montgomery, bucks, become abnormally dry. not in a drought by any stretch but could use some rain at this point, that's all it means. today 78 degrees, before that front crosses, lingering shower at worse early tomorrow morning, generally speaking meisha this looks like great weekend, monday not bad either. >> sunday, monday, look awesome. today asks awesome. it is friday. right? dry roadways right now, we know the rain will be pushing later. right now nice dry roadways, just very busy out there. what we are looking at, vehicle, still there, just beyond this tow truck right there, the schuylkill eastbound approaching montgomery, also had another

accident here, this is the back upshot actually to that. and it was very, very busy. that has casino of eased tension little bit. volume levels still there nonetheless. ninety-five south at cottman, peaking at what's going on here, you can see everyone, just starting to slow down around the s curve little bit. make note of. >> this basically anywhere you go it will be little slow moving as we push toward that, main hour of the rush hour at 7:00. then overturned vehicle here bensalem involving entrapmentment rock hill drive near neshaminy boulevard. downed polls, downed wires. this is an area that you are going to see crews out there, and people out there trying to get this remedy for you. use your best caution here, if you can avoid the area i would suggest doing so, great news emergency work, completed on the delaware memorial bridge, three southbound lanes now open. you're driving 50 miles per hour, brooke, over to you. >> thank, meisha. celebration of science and technology at the franklin institute is coming your way. >> the institute saluted accomplishment of eight global pioneers, prestigious franklin institute award. it comes a the sixth annual science festival kicks off in

philadelphia. it was hosted by our own charlie roads, from cbs this morning. well, charlie it was a pleasure positive to meet you last night. what are you working on for cbs this morning? >> hey, jim, good morning to you and brooke. we are all here remembering the life of prince. anthony mason looks at his influence on music, stevie wonder and famed music producer la read will be with us, and we will talk with the music legends' former drummer and fiancee, all of that as we remember prince this morning. the news is back in the morning. we'll see in you about ten minute. thank you for all of your courtesy last night. it was a pleasure to be in philadelphia. >> thank you so much, charlie. we will be watching this morning. >> thanks a lot. >> it is dream drive time. i saw some segments i cannot wait. cannot wait. >> okay, brooke. so we had so much fun shooting this story, i even got to make some new friends. some friendly, i would say maybe some we would even have to call grumpy. take a look and see what i mean.

>> from philly to pottstown, and rural mountain berks county. well, we just got off 422, now headed toward one of pottstown's favorites. i here i'm about to have an amazing sandwich. >> open to grumpy's canned carved sandwiches six years ago. >> the first i asked is the name grumpy. is it true that that came from -- >> him! my son. >> from your son. >> correct. >> we should name it after daddy. and everyone of the kids said what, grumpy? he was a little grumpy being unemployed for 18 months. >> we didn't have a mortgage or rent, we took a gahm job it paid off for the grump pi

behind the grub. >> my favorite is corned beef sandwich. it is the best this side of philadelphia. >> looked on yelp it had really killer reviews. >> oh, that is so good. >> grumpy's hopes pottstown downtown is poised for a come back. >> we have some great investors buying up the builds, they have the money to fix them. >> grumpy, i love how you're putting knee work. this is awesome. >> like a baby's butt. >> all right, am i hired? >> maybe. >> we just entered berks county route ten. we'll go meet some new friends. >> welcome to take 2el pacca's, len smith is the owner. >> we say it is a business that feels like a hobby. we're probably the only el pacca farm that i know that far actually let you in the field and you can walk around. they're short cousin of the lama. reap late today llamas, and to

camels. >> there are 18 he will pack as here including jinx, tricks i, jewel, beginning it, caitlin, cassandra, flirtation, i could go on and on if i had time. >> this one here is very friendly. she will come up, gave you a kiss. >> so sweet. >> time for your kiss. >> this is rising starlet. >> oh, my gosh. are you precious or what? just like these big stuffed animals. >> every spring they're shoring up their fleece. >> it gets made into yarn. then we watching them on the loom over here. >> why is it so awesome out here? berks county? >> you know, nice distance from philadelphia, so you can kind of get away from it all. this is our little slice of heaven. >> oh, you guys, take two he will pack as takes tours on appointment. so much grumpy hand carved

sandwiches, i had such a blast, i know everyone will enjoy visiting. you guys have to go out there and see it. by the way this they get shoring, they have such weird haircuts and all of that steve, that the he will pack as can't recognize each other, can't even, so cute. by the way the whole time i was at this farm, i kept looking at one of them going my gosh, that al pacca looks so familiar. then it hit me. like like jim before he rolls up his hair. >> my hair resting place. am i right guys? >> doesn't it look just like jim? >> and after i wore my al pacca socks for you this morning. >> oh, my gosh. >> well, they can't see it. i'll tweet it out. but i have special socks on. i'll put them on twitter later on. >> i need to go shopping where jim shops. >> anyone who can find al pacca socks. >> we will be right back, three things you need to know before go. >> three to go next.

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>> as up head out the door three things to know for today. >> it is three to go. candidates for president hit the campaign trail again in our region. donald trump is in delaware, hillary clinton will be in jenkintown, bernie sanders is in philadelphia. >> public memorial service will be held for doctor steven mayor. the robinsville school

district superintendant was killed earlier this week by a teenage driver. today's service is at the princeton alliance church at 2:00. >> it is ertz day, celebrations planned all across the area. >> that's three to go. let's get last check on weather and traffic. >> yes, for now, things are still dry out there. we have the live neighborhood network shot. nothing to see in terms. wet weather yet. eventually it is on the way, scattered, key word scattered, meisha, showers and storms today. >> thank you so much. just so you know we have overturned vehicle in bensalem rock hill drive near neshaminy boulevard eastbound, downed pole and wires involving entrapment. very slow moving around that area. >> thank you, meisha. next on cbs this morning more on the passing every musical icon prince the legacy he leaves behind. >> as we leave this morning, another live picture of the chinese lantern festival at philadelphia's franklin square. it starts today, runs you there june 12th, definately something cool to check out. >> have a great day everyone, and wonderful weekend.

pea ♪ captioning funded by cbs good morning, it is friday, april 22nd, 2016. welcome to "cbs this morning." the world honors the musical reign of prince after the iconic musician's sudden death. stevie wonder, former fiancee sheila e., and music producer l.a. reed join us to reflect on prince and the genius behind his music. president obama begins his european tour by dining with queen elizabeth, but the timing of his visit is very controversial. we begin with a look at today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing