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become a bear snack we're okay witt, you know, just concerning for him because there is, you know, so many cars and a lot of people around. i think they will get it under control. >> reporter: wild life officials are urging anyone who sees the bear to cat police right away. they are also saying that they are trying to tranquilize the bear and get it back to its natural habitat safely. along the wissohickon creek in upper roxborough, natasha brown, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". we are finally meeting win others have the 429.6 million-dollar, power ball jackpot, in new jersey. seventy year-old pearlie may smith and her seven adult children claimed the big prize from lawrenceville. the mother purchased the ticket at a 7-eleven in trenton and credits divine intervention as helping her pick the winning numbers. her daughter rally with valerie spoke for the family and said it was her sister who heard the big news. >> you are thinking, wishing it was me right now, right. marcia called me on the phone and said guess who won the power ball.
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i said who. she said we did. i said, well, stop, april fooling me and get off of my phone. she said it is true, we won the power ball. >> big congratulations to that family and most of the family members say they will not quit their jobs but they are heading on vacation. former treasurer of aston athletic association is facing charges. she's accused of stealing tens of thousands of dollars. the since the suspect james porter, he a allegedly made hundreds of purchases, and cash withdraws using an unauthorized debit card, tied to the association's account. police said he swiped the card more than 250 times, stealing more than 50 grand. porter did repair 45,000 of it but refused to stop coaching, so police were called in. he is now free, on bond. a judge in allentown hears testimony on whether former professional wrestler superstar jimmy super fly
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snuka is mentally competent to stand trial. psychologist testified that snuka suffers from dimension and is mentally inn exit tenth. snuka who lives in camden county is charged with murder and involuntary manslaughter in the 1983 death of his girlfriend 23 year-old nancy argentino. snuka pleaded not guilty. country's largest collegiate rowing regot ace wrapping up to day along the schuylkill are river. dad vail regot ace in the seventh eighth year. anita oh is live along boat house row as rowers will hit the water in a couple hours, good morning, anita. >> reporter: good morning, rahel. the this is most important competition for thousands of athletes from over 100 colleges across the u.s. and canada. joining us is organizing president, jim hen a, thanks for being with us this morning. i understand there are some changes because of the weather. >> reporter: good morning. >> good morning. one of the visions is to make sure every rower gets a chance to participate in the regatta
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but because of late afternoon river conditions we flipped regatta very big races earlier in the day. there is a big one the at the very end of the day but everyone should come down to the regot, it is free, it is important to the 3,000 rowers, that come to this regatta because it is big dad a, the dad vail regatta but these kids have been planning on winning a dod veil gold medal their entire college career. nice thing about dad vail it has certainty. in this world today kid know it is a rules based competition and there is consequences, for not following the rules. they love coming. they know there is a great deal of predict built. winning a gold medal at dad vail is everything. last night we had 50th anniversary crew from marietta ohio, come back they swept the regatta when we say crew not just one boat, it was varsity, jv and freshman crew that won the regatta last night we
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conduct our customary recognition reception where we award gold jackets those volunteers who served more than ten years. a gold cuff links for those who served 30 years and, of course, pins for every five-year increment. >> reporter: so we're expecting a a big crowd today as well. can you talk about what the competition has come to mean for athletes. >> yeah, for athletes the competition is quite keen. they know that this regatta is a very fair regatta, very interesting challenge because this course has a turn in it at strawberry mansion bridge. it is like the regatta in england where we have two crews rowing in the time and immediatee limb nation for the crew that does not win. in the dad vail we have something where if a crew does not win in their first heat they have a chance to cycle back in and maybe reenter the final race and in case there was an anomaly that occurred during the course of their
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initial competition. so, kids, they eat, sleep, and dream about winning a dad vail gold medal but you meet america's finest. if you come to the regatta plan to walk through rowers village. wide opened. regatta there is no admission it is free but see america's finest. these kid have a 3.5q. they are in excellent condition. everything about dad vail, it is all good and you can say that about everything good but everything is all good. we thank the city of philadelphia for staging this, letting us stage this event here and in fairmount park too. >> thank you very much, jim for all that information. very good information. this is free and races will kick off this morning at 7:00. live from boat house row i'm anita a oh, back to you. >> thanks, it looks like fun. if you happened to miss "eyewitness news" at the 11:00 n
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you missed a national champion live in our cbs-3 studios. daniel ochefu, star of the villanova wildcats was there as our guest sports anchor. fresh off championship win and graduation day, he sat next to ukee, jessica and hear is what next for chef. recap is coming up later this morning so you do not want to miss it. also coming up on "eyewitness news" this morning, instead of being at the controls a frantic conductor runs down middle aisle of the train. yes is being hailed a hero coming up next. and we will also have this... >> department of home land security releases a new plan to speed up security lines at the airport but will it work? i'm craig boswell at reagan national airport with the details, coming up. i get to spend one more day with my children. i get to spend one more day with my family. >> imagine being told you have just months to live, but for one man he decided it would not be a death sentence, how a hat and a precious time to his life, coming up next.
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back with video of the train conn ducker running through the cars warning pass evening tours brake for impact. they did and it saved them there getting hurt. this is video from that train in poland, going 07 miles an hour when it hit a truck on the tracks. investigators say conductors quick reaction is the reason that no one was hurt. well, major backup in one airport only adds to the latest list of problems for
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the tsa. long lines of security checkpoints are leading thousands of people to miss their flights but tsa is working on ways to get people moving faster. craig boswell. >> reporter: report luggage is once again moving at the airport in phoenix. thousands of bags could not be screened on thursday because of a computer glitch and passengers had to take off without them. it is the latest problem for tsa which is under fire for longer lines at security checkpoints a cross the country travelers are often waiting for more than an hour. >> two or three times i missed my plane and i was here 45 to an hour before my flight. ridiculous. >> reporter: reduced weight times but leaders at department of home land security and tsa say changes are coming before the busy summer season. >> we have developed a ten-point plan that will keep passengers moving. >> reporter: the plan including hiring more than 700 new tsa officers, using additional k-9 teams to screen passengers and encouraging more people to sign up for tsa
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precheck which allows pass evening tours half move through security faster. they reduce number of carry on bags. many bringing them through security to avoid baggage fees. >> it is a crisis. >> reporter: john mika says new plan is too little, too late. >> i wish them well but i'm not overly optimistic. >> reporter: airports are also watching closely. several major airports including those in the new york area are looking at the possibility of replacing the tsa with private security, if conditions do not improve. craig boswell for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". justin joining us now. justin, probably not a bad time to go to the vacation and hit the airport. it will be chilly again. >> especially tomorrow. if you like warm temperatures you'll like today. you will a's complain about that humidity and the air. >> i always get complaints for that. >> but, tomorrow that humidity will be gone, you'll feel like early april. wild weather to talk about this morning. in the so bad.
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we will go outside getting ready for a great sunrise all across the delaware valley. the exception is some areas to the north may have some fog that could inhibit that sunshine but late they're morning we will see mostly sunny skies, and then as we head in the afternoon we will talk about some showers, and potential thunder storm. here we go our headlines are a warm start to the weekend. highs today will be above average. should reach the mid 70's and we're talking about more rain showers in the forecast and then spending half of the weekend, we will cool things down, we will struggle, to get to around 60 degrees for tomorrow afternoon. waking up this morning pretty mild 55 in atlantic city. sixty-one rehoboth beach. newark delaware is at 53. fifty-two in voorhees. heading to the north and west, cooler, 46 in quakertown. allentown 50. this areas of bucks, in the the lehigh valley, good shot at seeing fog with the cooler temperatures around. keep that in mind if you are traveling. we are dry, storm scan three, cloud free skies right now, clouds across western pennsylvania and there is cold
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front draping down from the great lakes with it, some showers and potential thunderstorms this afternoon as this front runs into that warmer more humid air mass over the delaware valley. we're talking about rain, why not. may 1st? how about that, two and three-quarters inch of philadelphia, only two total dry days so far this month. we will not see that today. tomorrow though is looking dry as how about two days in a row. we have not had that in a while. lets time things out. through the morning no problems. sunny skies. later this afternoon we will bring the front through here bringing shower chances a and tomorrow back to some sunshine and clouds. just noticeably colder and more windy as well, kicking off workweek it looks good on monday as well. severe storm threat today, it is late just a little bit. marginal risk for severe thunderstorms later this afternoon and early evening hours for the entire delaware will valley. just keep that in mind. let's zoom in closer to time things out. noon time we are g mostly sunny skies. cloud thicken up early in the
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afternoon. we will take to you 4:00 o'clock. we are seeing showers moving from the west. they come from west to east today. they will cross eastern, new jersey. we have more time to enjoy the outdoors and five or 6:00 o'clock a line of showers and storms starts to come through philadelphia and head into south jersey. from eight or 9:00 o'clock we will be under the gun for a chance for a few showers and maybe a thunderstorm but by ten or 11:00 that front moves through. we are drying out. wind will kick up tonight. starts to clear us out and tomorrow partly sunny skies. we are talking about a big cool down for this time of the year with the strong cold front that moves through. so tomorrow we will return to well below average temperatures, that sticks around into early next week. look at today's high well in the mid 07's but then front comes through, temperatures just drop tonight down to the 40's tomorrow morning, and lower 40's in some the coldest suburbs. tomorrow we will struggle to get back to the upper 50's to near 60. today morning sunshine, late afternoon showers, perhaps, some thunderstorms 75 degrees.
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tonight, evening showers clearing and breezy low of 57. for the city, cooler north and west. here's that extended forecast. we will go to 61. that is it for the high on sunday. keeping tonight mountain mid 60's on monday. cloud return for middle of next week for tuesday and rain chances on wednesday, finally next week by end of the week we will warm back to the 70's. >> we will look forward to that. >> thanks, justin. on the cbs-3 healthwatch, new polls for patient was a deadly kind of brain cancer. a treatment that uses electrodes attached to the patient's head. health reporter stephanie stahl explains how the therapy is saving lives. >> reporter: for rick and his family every day is a a blessing. he was diagnosis with glioblastoma an aggressive usually deadly form of brain cancer. mri revealed a baseball sized tumor, doctors tried to remove it but were only able to get about 60 percent of it. >> he could not take the rest of it the because it was wrapped around a crucial part
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of the brain. >> reporter: rick was told he had two to 15 months to live. >> it is devastating. you don't think of yourself at that point. you are thinking of your kid. >> reporter: he decided to try a new treatment called optune that work with waves like electric fields. the device is powered by batteries in the backpack and uses 36 electrode attached to the patient's head. they generate electrical impulses designed to kill dividing cancer cells in the the brain without harming healthy cells. >> you can have a a potential for the cell to be realizing that there is too much damage and they die. >> reporter: treatment seems to be working. >> overall everything looks fantastic. >> reporter: scans show rick's tumor is there but isn't growing. >> it means i get to spend one more day with my children. i get to spend one more day with my family. >> reporter: electrical field therapy is used after patients have had surgeries and radiation, one study showed that when used with
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chemotherapy survival rates extended five months, might not sound like a lot but for patients like rick, every extra day with his family is precious. i'm stephanie stahl, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". a new device is taking bathroom scale to the next level, 3-d fitness tracker claims to calculate and track, weight, body fat but also get measurements and posture. the tracker which will be available next year looks like a scale with a mirror attach and will cost $999. well, it is an event that is all about hair, the fourth annual philadelphia natural hair show, is happening today, in university city. the show is expected to have more than 1,000 people. experts from the hair care industry will share information on how to maintain naturally healthy hair. >> it is about learning how to take care of your hair and doing it better, finding alternative products that are healthier for your hair.
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kevin frasier from entertainment tonight takes us behind the scene with the movie that is packed with star power. >> to this week george clune inn and julia roberts are bringing you drama with money monster that has stay power with director jody foster, and oscars, oh, yeah, they have all got them. >> get out right now, leave. stay calm. i'm right here. >> tension only builds from money monster which stars julia roberts as a producer whose tv star talent played by george clooney is threatened live on the air by an irate investor over bad advice which soon reveals an enlarger conspiracy at work in the financial world. >> it is rick. >> the people, who are brought to their breaking point and then what happens, everything falls apart and people get really, you know, put to the test, and it is fun to watch that happen. >> keep talking to him. >> working behind the camera
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with the oscar winning stars is a oscar winner herself, director jody foster who knows how to connect with actors because she's a pretty good one. >> the minute that, you know, jody, asked if i wanted to play the party will be perfectly safe working with jody because she will take care of actors. >> he is a movie star and he is a movie star who quietly is unafraid to look at the darker side of himself. >> you need and deserve to get some answers. >> reporter: for entertainment tonight i'm kevin frazier, back to you in the studio. for the latest news, watch the entertainer i every week night at 7:00 right here on cbs-3. david letterman sighting and other celebrities spotted at last night white house state dinner, coming up next. also ahead rising cost of health care many people aren't even filling their prescriptions anymore, up next, jim donovan shows you
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the largest collegiate rowing event in north america kicks off in just a few hours i'm anita oh on boat house row and coming up newly announced changes in the schedule and how athletes are getting ready for dad vail regatta. and they may have to row extra fast to get in the races before the showers hit as storm scan three shows the rain is not too far away. good morning, to you i'm rahel solomon. we will send it out to justin on the cbs-3 skies deck and justin in rain just yet but you say it is coming. it is coming, yes. it is deceiving. we will wake up and look outside and say a a great start to the weekend and it is, behind me nothing but clear skies. we will have a real nice sunrise all across the region but later this afternoon cloud will roll back in tracking a cold front bringing some showers and maybe even a thunderstorm. temperatures this morning not that bad, cooler, in the
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suburbs, 55 right now at the airport 567892 millville. forty-one mount pocono. there are 40's in the northwestern suburbs. quakertown 46 degrees. forty-nine in pottstown. fifty in doylestown. watch out for some areas of dense fog this morning. the dense fog advisory until 8:00 for areas north of the city, bucks county, lehigh valley and parts of the central new jersey. right now visibility not too bad, down to about 2 miles, in some spots. storm scan three is clear right now. decent sunshine for first half of today and cloud roll in from west to east. we will see late afternoon showers and possible thunderstorms. here's what to expect. during the morning mostly sunny skies. by the afternoon after 3:00 o'clock we will start to see the showers, moving in, maybe a few thunderstorms developing into the early evening hours and then by after eight or 9:00 o'clock we should start to dry things out. kind of a split weekend. we will start off sunshine today, late afternoon showers, high of 75. it is dry tomorrow, but much cooler, temperatures, struggle
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to get to the lower 60's and stays cool as we head in the workweek. we will show you the seven day forecast in a few minutes, rahel. back to you. >> we will check with you then. rowers from across the country are in philadelphia for the final day of the dad vail regatta it is america's largest collegiate rowing competition and "eyewitness news" reporter anita oh is live along kelly drive, hi there, anita. >> reporter: that race kicks off at 7:00 o'clock this morning. more than 100 colleges are taking part in the dad vail regatta one of them is temple university. their mens rowing coach brian perkins joins us this morning. thanks for being with us, brian. >> very good. >> what kind of training has come to your athletes. >> this is our culminating regatta a we start working on this regatta in september and october. we build up to now. this is huge for us. >> reporter: you said today, it might rain and weather is kind of, going to be a factor. i understand there are changes to the schedule just announced
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yesterday. >> they have flipped it upside down. they are moving the varsity premiere events which take place later in the day to the morning just to make sure we get them in. the threat have of weather, i mean, the one thing that trumps the one card that can pull that steps in front of we all want to win is a athlete safety. they will move it in the earlier part of the day. they have to cancel regatta the mens and varsity events will have gone. >> reporter: what kind of conditions have your athletes train in. >> all of the conditions, snow, rain, wind. we have had, weeks, years where we got on the water and had to get back off because the river froze. so the river freezes solid you have to get back indoors which nobody enjoys. we have had all of the conditions. we have seen it all. >> reporter: are there any golden nuggets of wisdom you have given your athletes today. >> today, they are just showing up now so i will meet them here in five minutes. we have to race to win. only thing. semi final this morning and then final in the afternoon. if you want to win you have to practice winning, so try to
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win semi final to win the final. >> reporter: you said this is culminating event. you train hard. what are athletes most looking forward to what do you hear from them as they get ready for this? >> athletes are smarter then they are, they have smart phones, they scout their competition way better when we could. when we got her we looked at heat, finals and jumped right n now these guys can look who is in the boat what country they are from, you know what college they are from, how they did last week against crew b and crew b. so crew ab and c. we might be crew d. so it wind up just being, they think way too much kids today. the just have to focus on the man in front of them and go as hard as they can. >> reporter: we're standing next to what you will be taking out. can you briefly explain what we are looking at. >> these are our racing shells, eight man racing shell h this is cabin white, our head coach and they are about 60 feet long and they only weigh about 220-pound. they have aluminum riggers.
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they weigh next to nothing. the just a carbon fiber shell. these boats, they look like they are solid but it is a thin carbon fiber honey comb. if you poke your finger, too long you will punch a hole in the boat. they are built for speed and not necessarily endurance or to be beaten up too much. >> best of luck today. the races kick off at 7:00 this morning and just so you know for any drivers coming across, kelly drive, there will be detours until 8:00 o'clock tonight. live from boat house row i'm's anita oh for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". a memorial service is scheduled next friday for former temple university president peter liacouras. he died after a long illness at the age of 85. temple expanded under his leadership from 1982 through 2,000. the university honored liacouras in 2,000 when it renamed the forum at the a polo of temple the liacouras center. memorial service will be held
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at temple's performing arts center. kentucky and oregon get attention ahead of next tuesday's primaries. yesterday, former president bill clinton campaigns on behalf of his wife, hillary ahead of the garden state's primary on june 7th. during a rally at the college of new jersey in ewing the former president explained why he thinks his wife is the best candidate for the commander and chief. >> i think she had has got the best ideas that are most likely to help the largest number of people, to raise middle class incomes, restore upper mobility, reduce in equality and launch an explosion of economic activity in this country that will include everybody. second, she's only person left in either part that i has got a record of getting things done with members of the other party. hillary clinton will campaign in kentucky tomorrow and monday. clinton's rival meantime bernie sanders begins two days in kentucky. today he holds a rally in bowling green. last night during a stop in
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bismarck north dakota sanders toll supporters he has a chance to end the democratic nomination process with more pledged delegates then clinton. sanders also said he has best chance to win the general election. presumptive republican presidential nominee donald trump plans a campaign stop in new jersey next thursday. he will be in lawrenceville for a fund raising rally with toy help governor chris christie a erase debt from his own white house bid. several states are pushing back against the obama administration's guidelines that urged public schools across the country to allow transgendered students to use the rest rooms that match their gender identity. a letter went to school districts directing them not to discriminate against transgender students. cbs reporter don champion has more now from dallas. >> reporter: seventeen year-old hunter schaefer says that she considers herself a female despite being born with male anatomy. this raleigh-durham high school student welcomes obama
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administration guidelines that public schools give transgendered students access to rest rooms that correspond with their gender identity. >> we're not predators we're just normal people who need to use the rest room just like you do. >> as a parent i would love for hunter to just be able to focus on going to school. >> reporter: but some parents are concerned about safety and privacy. >> president obama is just pushing, pushing, pushing, they are pushing us further away from any type of values at all. >> reporter: politicians in texas, mississippi and arkansas told their school districts to ignore the government's guidelines. they are not legally binding but in a letter sent to schools the obama administration ties compliance to billions of education dollars. here in texas that amounts to about $10 billion over a two year period. the lieutenant governor here calls threatening to withhold federal fund, quote black mail. >> he is taking money from a
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poorest of the poor, the president of the united states will be ending the free breakfast and free lunch program. >> reporter: analyst predict the issue will end up in the courts. don champion for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". for the first time ever, a woman is heading up a top u.s. war fighting command. air force general lori j robinson took charge of the north american aerospace system or norad or u.s. northern command. it is joint operation that defend skies and seas of both nation. northern command was created after 9/11 to prevent future terror attacks. robinson is one of just two female four star generals in the air force. a celebrity filled state dinner at the white house. during the state dinner president obama a toasted leaders from swede land, ice land, sweden, denmark and norway. david letterman, now sporting a beard was also there will
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ferrell made the list. is wife was born in sweden. i hope we do not do anything wrong. villanova wildcats are ahead to meet president obama may 31st but before they do that we have one in our studio last night. daniel ochefu does sports coming up. also ahead, saving money on prescription and how you can find some popular medications for free. jim donovan has advice ahead in this three on your side report. here at crescent golf course there is no need for clubs, all you need is this. foot golf, it is new craze, we have got details, coming up. rain is on the the way. justin is tracking timing of the showers and what else we can expect when we come right back, stay with us.
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almost half of the america's won't buy their prescriptions because of the rising cost of co pays. since the introduction of the after affordable care ago they offers lower premium but higher deductible. in three on your side consumer report jim donovan shows us how to save money or get popular prescriptions for free. >> thinks for 309 day supply. >> reporter: philip lambert needs his insulin, but when his inly cost hit 18 hundred dollars, he considered, skipping it. >> i thought it was really ridiculous. >> the prograph is $275. then this is about $600 for a
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90 day supply. >> reporter: that was bill young's co pay with private insurance. their anti kidney rejection drugs. >> this is medication i need to live. >> reporter: both men went looking for help. lambert found a federal program called 340b, instead of the $1,800 he now pays $34. young founded discounted card on the drug manufacturer's web site, and his costs dropped from $875 to 15 bucks. >> i was excited. >> reporter: even pharmacy where you pick up your prescriptions can save you money. you can save ten to 30 dollars using walgreens prescription savings club. other stores have similar programs. many also offer common generic medications for under $5. >> we have ten prescription medications most widely prescribed medications our members can get for $3 a month. >> reporter: discount are needed because according to the kieser report, co pays are sky rocketing forcing 41 percent of people to skip filling some prescriptions.
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apps good rx, janet your vine got this card from her doctor which took her, $60 co pay down to 25. >> there are ways to get, you know, your physicians to see if they can help you out with the cost of getting better, a little less. >> reporter: some pharmacy savings programs may establish to you pay a small membership fee. some even cover medications for your pets. also be aware that some federal programs, and manufacturers discounts, are often, income based. the an amount var fridays program to program. reporting for three on your side, i'm jim donovan. all right, volume useful information there. justin joining us now with useful information as well. the don't know that we will like this as much. >> but we have to tell you we have to time out your weekend. it is saturday a lot going on. little will league games this morning looks good ground may still be a little bit yet from yesterday's rainfall but we are in the sunshine. check it out. nice shot from the kutztown area middle school where we are seeing bright sky and that will be the trend throughout
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the morning every where, it is cool in berks county. 46 degrees at this hour with that light wind you can see fog developing along the feel. there is a lot of times you see this in the fall and relevant i spring with the cool temperatures, clear skies, and calm wind. and heads up, north of the city we have a dense fog advisory less than a half mile visibility in allentown, so parts of the lehigh valley, bucks county and central new jersey under that, dense fog advisory until 8:00 o'clock this morning. there you go we are in the mid 50's, in philadelphia, 50 in will allentown. forty in mount pocono. it depend where you are. we will find cool temperature. check out the cold air to the north and west. minneapolis, 36 degrees. forty-two in des moines. yes, that cold air cost get here for the second half of the weekend. so we will get our shot of 70's today and then gone for a while. then reese on is this cold front. strong front copping across, showers and thunderstorms along it. we are still dry in the sunshine. great start to our saturday. even through early to mid afternoon we should be okay.
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after 3:00 o'clock we will see rain chances returning. when to get outside this weekend? this morning through early afternoon, and then like i said, after 3:00 o'clock we will see rain moving from west to east. and then after 8:00 o'clock this evening we should start to dry out. tomorrow looks good. anytime, good time to be outdoors but it will be noticeably colder and winnie as well. let's time it out through 1:00 h inner. i see showers three or four or five. o'clock. we could see a few stronger thunderstorms in the the lines have of showers. not everybody may see the rain. it is more scattered type deal and then through 8:00 o'clock or so we will be under the chance for showers and moving off shore, by 11:00 o'clock, midnight tonight we will start to clear out. tomorrow just windy, clouds, mix of some sunshine and it is cooler. so that that active pattern continues. the past few days we were on the warm side of the jet stream and then it moved to the north. we have a nice push of southerly air. we will get that today. but starting tomorrow, jet stream changes and drops to the south and we will bring in
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colder air from canada and that sticks around for next few days. enjoy mid 70's today before those showers get here. strong front will bring 40-degree temperatures for the lows tonight in locations in the city and then tomorrow we will struggle to get to the upper 50's to about 60 degrees, even with the sunshine. so for today, morning sun, and late afternoon showers, potential thunderstorms, 75 degrees, tonight, evening showers, and then clearing and breezy, 48 for city. heading to the phillies game just heads up early at the start we will see that shower and storm chance, but they will get the game in because we will get these showers out of here and then clearing skies, game time temperature is 65 degrees. extended forecast, 61. that is it for the highs, on sunday, as we head into monday, still on the cool side, with a mixture of sun and clouds, tuesday we will bring back cloud, and here comes our next storm system with the chance of some showers on wednesday, and still cooler then average, and then by next thursday and friday, we are seeing low 70's return which is average for this time of the year but it has been a struggle for month
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of may, to warm things up. >> yes. >> but there are signs by memorial weekend which means we could get warmer air in here that within nice. >> seventy's and 80's. >> that would be good. >> yes. >> good day to golf. >> yes. >> justin, thank you. a lot of people are hitting the golf course and starting to feel more like spring but some are not using golf balls are clubs. "eyewitness news" reporter vittoria woodill explains how golfers are getting a a kick out of a new game: football at crescent golf course they are taking aim at a whole new way to play a round of golf. >> they said all i need is a ball. all right. let's do this. >> forget the clubs, foot golf only requires a soccer ball. >> just to have swing a club but you are kicking a soccer ball. >> reporter: combination of the soccer and golf spotted on tv by joe slader ground keeper at crest hope thought it was so cool. >> why the not the just go and try to start it here. >> reporter: course gave him the go ahead and now you can
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find 18 holes complete with rolling hills and lake side scenery to go through. >> do you want a ride? psyched. these held are big enough to hit your shot the or not. it is size of the pace pie. >> 21 inches. >> reporter: real challenge to get it through this. >> you think you can kick soccer ball far. >> yes you cannot. >> and all of the rules of golf apply including a play where it lies. >> nice shot. >> regardless if you can bend it like beckham or tap, tap, tap tonight like happy. >> take your time and just enjoy being outside. >> it sound like you want everyone kicking it at crescent. >> you better believe it. we want it. that is what we want. >> that is right, they want to you enjoy it. for five bucks, that is possible. i had two bogeys today and going right now for my birdie, and not quite. vittoria woodill for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> still ahead on "eyewitness
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fight up phillies returned home last night after a ten game road trip to face cincinnati. phillies looking for some pay back after the red swept them to start the season. the fourth inning, phillies down two to nothing. tyler goodell at the the plate and hit a line drive in the right field corner. carlos ruiz and tommy joseph scored on the trip toll tie the game. next up, jeremy hellickson and he puts down the sweet safety squeeze and it works. they score to put philadelphia is head and that is how it
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ended. fightins take game within of the weekend series, three-two. >> good job. last night at 11:00 a special surprise, villanova star daniel ochefu was here to guest anchor sports. take a look right off graduation day. daniel went from cap and gown to sports anchor. here he is delivering latest on the the eagles rookie quarterback carson wentz and then he talked to ukee and jessica. >> one day after signing his first professional contract eagles topic carson wentz had his first practice as a bird. eagles start aid three day rookie mini camp at the novacare complex and carson had everyone's attention. number over two pick said he is going to work hard to get his teammates respect. what about dealing with fellow quarterback sam bradford? he has in the heard from him and carson doesn't foresee any problems working with sam, because he is going to work. >> slam dunk it. >> slam dunked it. >> you have a second career here. >> i appreciate it. >> all that work, put in
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before. >> when you were practicing you were really getting good at it. >> improving every time. >> little by little. >> what do you think of practice, what are you doing right now. >> after i grad, go get my difficult problem a tommy will go back to santa a barbara, working out at get nba work outs in the next couple weeks and just take it from here. >> talking about getting your degree, talk about education in sports. how important are the two. >> it is huge. people, young kid get confused because they think, they are talking about if you are not in sports you have to do something, maybe go sit behind a desk, but not necessarily because you can become an agent, coach, there are other things that you can do within the sport and just having a plan b is just always great. >> real quick before we go you dream of being a professional basketball player your whole life a lot of little will kid out there dream it. you will probably get to do it. does that ever sink in. >> i try not to think bit too
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much, so i don't get goose bumps but i'm glad to see my dream come true. i have a lot more work to do but i'm seeing lieutenant more work to do it. >> all right. possibly the start of a new career, he does have a great smile, a nice job all the way around. we were so happy to have him here and wish him all of the
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an update on a scary situation we told but last night. police make an arrest after several cars are left with shattered windows. we will tell you who won't be receiving drivers from the overpass. also ahead, a black bear in the park, the animal seen roaming around a popular site, where exactly it has been spotted and where officials say it has been hanging out there. and the dad vail regatta gets underway for its final day, hundreds of collegiate rowers get ready to put their boats in the what the they are morning. and we will have a live report, on the secrets to success on the schuylkill river. well, today is saturday may 14th good morning, thanks so much for being with us. i'm rahel solomon. let's check with justin drabick who is celebrating not all bad news this morning. we have sun, little warm. >> not a bad day. warm day. little deceiving. i know there is that person that wakes up andse
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