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breaking news, police are investigating a murder in the logan section, this happened just about an hour ago. new video back from the scene, we'll tell you what authority know about the case at this early hour. septa subway brawl. authorities are searching for six of people believed to be involved that brutal beating underground. we'll tell you how the fight began. >> and sunny start to spring, katie says, we're in for roller coaster ride of temperatures this week which may include highs, get this, in the 60s. sounds good to me. today is monday march 20th, good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. checking weather and traffic with katie and meisha. >> today is the first day every spring. >> thought the day would never come. >> right when i heard 60s, i thought help me, i can't even stands it any more. good morning, everyone, looking outside right now, lot of construction, i want to
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talk about what's coming. >> looks like beautiful start to the day. much closer to seasonable, bright, sunny, light winds, all looking really pleasant out there today. storm scan is empty it, will stay that way all day today. let's talk beam tours, still march after all. don't walk out the door thinking you'll get away with shorts and flip flops all day long. starting off in the 30's here, so there is chill in the air. what's good though it is a very light winds. it is a very tranquil day. high pressure on your side. all that means is looking ahead to real nice day overall. now, again, with more seasonable temperatures, talking more like 50's as opposed to 40's or worse yet 30's like we saw last week. still nice quiet beginningment all tranquil here for this first day of spring. we'll actually see the vernal equinox take place at 29:00. we'll actually be on the air as it is taking place. meanwhile nice clear skies throughout the course of the day, i expect to peak between the hours every 2:00 and 5:00. will hit about 52.
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normal high 54. so we're at least closer to that, and again, with light wind, good snow melting, continue to take place here. so we'll have this chance to again start to see some grass. meanwhile, looking forwards to the rest of the day, again, talking temperatures at best hit low or mid 50's, right where we should be, meisha, over to you. >> sounds good to us, good morning to all of you , hop i monday. >> right lane compromised, an area that is very busy, as we know. give yourself couple every extra minute, depending when the crews move out of the way. fifty-nine at cottman, still quiet. boulevard, same story here, southbound direction, some of your neighbors out there already, but overall looking good. downed traffic signal, accident here, willingboro, new jersey, route 130, exit for street. all southbound lanes right now blocked between northbound lanes also blocked, you will have to use alternate, 295,
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jersey turnpike, your best bet. around there, then also construction abington, 611 old york road talking about this last week, wheat chief lane and hamilton avenue, one lane blocked there. heads up, tweets about this already, this morning we have some construction at the concrete repairs here, mid-county toll plaza easy pass express lanes are closed. so this is actually going to be closed until april 10th. so heads up on this, guys, more construction to talk about when we come back in about ten minute. over to you. >> breaking news this morning, police investigating murder in philadelphia's logan section. happened here at old york road and russ comb street. on the scene after 3:00 a.m. they found the victim on the sidewalk with gunshot wounds to the back of his head. at this point police have not identified the victim or motive. detective however did find several surveillance cameras in the area, and hope that it can provide more answer. >> just about mile from there, another fatal shooting about 7:30 last night, on the 1900 block every roberts avenue.
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man shot once in the chest and once in the stomach. they rushed the victim to temple university hospital where he later died. anyone with information is asked to call police. more breaking news this morning, emergency crews returned to the scene of deadly car crash in wynnefield heights. a car sped out of control, the 4400 block of overbrook avenue, striking either a tree or utility pole. officials are calling trying to figure out what caused this fatal accident. >> septa police are following several leads after brawl at septa subway station caught on camera. this happened thursday at the subway's station, police say it all started after a snowball fight. others from south philadelphia declined to be interviewed, a daughter killed in the head. photos with those believed to be in the brawl at this point too early to label suspect, no one was seriously hurt. happening today the house
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intelligence committee begins committees on cyber breaches targeting the national committee. fbi director james tommy is scheduled to testify. intelligence officials say moscow behind the theft of some dnc emails last summer in an effort to interfere the presidential election, the panel may also question tommy about president trump's unsubstantiated is about wiretapping. >> senate begins heist cents. thirteen month after the death of justice antonin scalia. today, gorsuch and judiciary committee will gift, and tomorrow and wednesday, outside witnesses will testify thursday. >> man said he had a bomb, police identify him as john egan of roanoke, virginia. investigators say he approached the check point saturday night, saying a bomb was in his truck or his trunk, searched turned up nothing.
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>> well happening today jury selection begins in the trial of former penn state president gram spaniard. prosecutors say spaniard's response to the jerry sandusky child sex abuse scandal put children at risk two. others enters guilty pleas in the case corks testify against spaniard, charged with endangering the welfare of children and conspiracy, and denies any wrong-doing. new rocket engine test. communist countries leader kim jong un watched as it tested type of high thrust engine to pro fell its rockets, called it break through for the north korea space program. meanwhile to prepare itself for possible north korea missile strike, the japanese city of ogu held an evacuation exercise. the government held the drill at a school afterward the government officials thanked the student and promised japanese armed forces will do all they can to stop nor korea missiles, earlier this month north korea successfully fired
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four missiles in a single day. three landed in the sea, less than 200 miles from the coastal city. and back here at home, police are searching for driver after a hit-and-run in southwest philadelphia entered , crash happened before 2:00 p.m. the two year old hit was brought to the children's hospital and at last check the child was stable. police have not released description of the vehicle. >> and new jersey, fire investigators are trying to determine what sparked a fire that damaged this house. the flames led to two alarm call yesterday here on front street in florence township. it took hours to get the fire under control. no one was hurt. >> tennessee authorities are fishing foreman suspected every kidnapping one of its student. says it is extremely concerned about the well-being of 15 year old elizabeth thomas. she went missing last monday and is believed to be with her former school teacher, the news has shocked the man's wife as well as his nab ores. >> no matter how far you have
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gone -- >> all of this is a complete out of character of the sad comments, as far as i'm concerned, he is a top notch guy. >> state-wide amber alert, he was fired after the alert was issued. >> flooding has left dozens dead this morning. >> up next we'll tell you the new problem facing residents in peru. also this morning residents in colorado are forcing wild fires, new update on firefighters efforts to gain grounds, plus, tell you what authorities believe may be to blame for the fire. and we'll show you more after rescue of a deer who fell through the ice in a frozen new jersey pond. we'll be right back. stay with us.
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>> sunshine canyon, firefighters contained half of the flames. evacuation orders for 400 homes. so far no buildings damaged. fire fight are monitoring the blaze, and hope to have the fire fully contained today. >> and torren sean role caused flooding in northern peru, bringing the death toll this year to 75. >> overflowing rivers continue to reek havoc. flooding street and destroying homes. warm willing waters in the pacific ocean are said to be what's caused the intense rainfall. armed forces are helping police in over 800 cities that has declared an emergency. meanwhile, in peru's capitol of leap, a residents lining up for fresh drinking water. many without food, water and shelter. authorities say close to 12,000 homes have been affected by the floods. the storms are expected to continue for another two weeks. >> well, back at home, ice from last week's storm created dangerous situation for one unlucky deer. >> rescue crews had to step in after the anal got stuck at a frozen ponds in new jersey, trapped yesterday morning in
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rock berry township. first responders were able to reach it, bring it safely to shore. officials say the deer was taken to wildlife sanctuary, and is expected to be okay. >> that's good news. >> more good news, time 4:42. >> katie? >> guys, i can bear some nice weather news for a change. yes, last monday remember we were looking ahead to major nor'easter, one day away, so not this time. couple every disturbance toss track here, more than anything, looking at some warmth that will take place. we have seen late season chill for sure, departure of average from december, january, and february, was towelly above average. february ended up being the warmest on record for the city of philadelphia, and many of the cities. by march, though, you know, we start to take a tumble here, thermometer readings, last week, we had several days in the 3's, so far for the month as a local 2.6 degrees below the seasonable average.
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so, little level off yet to do here if we want to evening out a typical month of march in terms every temperature. meanwhile looking at storm scan locally all calm. obviously had little disturbance off to the north and west, hit bark is worse than the bite, talking couple of scattered showers do, come under the cover of darkness, talking late tonight. so far north pocono region specifically, maybe just cold enough that you see little bit of icing mix in, but primarily i think it is kind after non-event more than anything, for now, you have got sunshine, more seasonable conditions, high hit 52 degrees, normal high 54. we're within reach. then couple of showers work their way in tonight. chance some of you don't see drop of rainout of this, it will be that scattered in nature. drop down to 40 in the city. strictly just couple every rain showers as they roll through. looking forward though we promise you a day in the 60s, comes saturday, always a price to pay when you have that kind of warm up. there is warmfront lifting in for chance of showers to return friday very likely rain by sunday, as women.
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meisha? >> all right, thank you, katie. good morning, everyone, happy monday. looking outside, starting off here, schuylkill eastbound at gulph mills, right lane is compromised by the way southbound side is going begin at midnight. construction project right now schuylkill eastbound at gulph mills, westbound side will be starting at midnight. then look at 42, take a look at this, very, very quiet, 42 freeway northbound, what we like to see, not even in the 5:00 hour yet. we know will pick up as we bush through the 5:00 hour. enjoy the roadways on 42, right now if one of our early birds. vine not closed for construction, looking good. we do have accident here with downed traffic scene. willingboro, new jersey, route 130, at cooper street. all southbound lanes blocked. two northbound lanes blocked. then you will have 95 or new jersey turnpike will be your best bet. then we've got construction going on abington, 611 old york road between wheat chief lane and hamilton avenue. actually talking about this
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construction project last week, as well. so heads up. it is back on the roadways again this morning, then also we have been talking about this, too, concrete repairs in this area. mid-county toll plaza, e-zpass express lanes, they are closed. they're closed and they're going to be until around april n this, sounds like we're getting slow especially during the more peak hours, very slow around here, so heads up on. that will but overall this morning, everything looking good. it is just a lot of the construction we're contending with, none of which will bother us more on the 5:00 hour. more of that when this moves out of your way. back to you. >> if you shop at one major retailer, some of your personal information may have been leaked. we'll have the late necessarily report from wall street. >> also, more bad news for uber. up next we will tell how is leaving the company, after just few month on the job. we will be right back.
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>> "kyw news radio 1060", stay updated. >> voters in pennsylvania's 197 house district, go to the polls today, to pick a state representative. philadelphia's largest cinco de mayo celebration has been canceled this year. nfl alumni team up to teach kids some life skills and cook some tasty meals. check in two, three, four times a day, on "kyw news radio" 1060 on your a.m. dial. >> after just six months on the job, uber's president is calling it quits. ride sharing service says jeff jones is leaving the company, second in command after travis, jones decided to leave after uber announced it would hire achieve operating officer. uber as you might recall has been hit by string of controversies recently, including new york times report on a toll the company to deceive authorities in sit that's either banned or limited uber's operations. >> time 4:48. time for check on business news. >> money watch's jill wagner joins us live this important from the new york stock
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exchange, good morning, we hear the latest retailer to safe data breach. not good. >> yes, in this case it was customer e-mail addresses and phone numbers that were visible on the sach's website. tens every thousands of customers were impacted, hudson bay, canadian company that owns sach's, says it is inning quickly to resolve the situation, and no payment information was exposed. jim, rahel. >> jill i think a lot of people will like. >> this bing watching shows on netflix, just got a little less time consuming? >> that's right. netflix is testing an intro button, lets you skip the opening credits on some tv shows. this is reportedly a top customer request, because netflix users tends to bing watch shows and would prefer not to watch the same opening over and over. >> i have to say -- >> tells you how much time we're spending wing watching. >> i'm guilty of that, i do like that option. >> i think we all are, jill,
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remember -- >> before netflix. >> good old days. >> yes. >> thanks, jill. we red books. >> that's what it was. >> those paper things, right, with the words on them? >> we'll check in with you on the next hour. >> allegedly. >> exactly. >> today the first day of spring. that means free water ice. >> i'm so excited about this. rita's celebrating the season for the 25th straight year. twenty-five years. all real a -- rita's locations will be giving away a free italian ice limited edition first day of spring cup. rita's also welcoming back the spring time favorite, last year more than a million water ice lovers visited rita's on the first day of spring, you know there is i tends to get three, four, no kidding jill at i's. >> during the snowstorm you went to rita's. >> there is a program for that. we'll help you get over that. >> katie has this forecast for this first day of spring coming up after the break. >> showcasing allebach a -- al pacca's, who won in this
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welcome back. good morning everyone, happy monday to you and happy spring to you. come 6:29 this morning we'll be on the air as the vernal equinox is underway, direct rays under the equator, means equal parts of day and night, essentially all going to get about 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night fall. but, we will talk more about that in the coming hours here. for now, storm scan nice and quiet. high pressure on our side. disturbance will bypass us primarily off to the south, into tonight, but for now, don't expect anything crazy here today. it is a very quiet start to the week. we do have a very modest breeze right now out of the north or the west depending where you are. you may notice. that will generally speaking just chilly and tranquil start to the day. outside we go here to the live neighborhood network, boardwalk plaza in rehoboth beach where nary person out on the board walk right now. it is completely clear however. you will wake up here to real nice sunrise with time and
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every day, sun coming up earlier and earlier. take a look, all over the place here with the temperature readings in the next couple every days, coldest days obviously in the center of the seven day. when we see cold front, knock us back to the 40's, so little taste of january, especially on wednesday. but, we do pull out that far very quickly, heck even by saturday, already in the 60s, doesn't necessarily last long, couple of fronts going to be working their way through the next of which does come then that weaken here with the temperatures getting knock back to mid 50's, but hey, if it is only one day, meisha, we will take it, i know you're fan of the warmth. >> i feel like waiting a long time for this first day of spring, katie, feels good it is here. good morning, happy monday. so what are we looking at? blue route mid-county, what are we talking about? mid-county toll plaza we have concrete repairs happening here, because that far e-zpass cross lanes are closed right now, you can see the flashing lights, this is going to be little bothersome. it will be burdensome for a lot of people. this actually lingers out there until april 10th. just heads up.
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again, concrete repairs here. this is a look at blue route, mid-county, mid-county toll plaza, e pass lanes closed until april 10. factor that into your plan if you are come eating in that direction this morning. also, some construction here, schuylkill eastbound at gulph mills, right lane compromised and the eastbound lanes will be compromised tonight starting at midnight. construction project is the season here, more and more construction clues out there, dealing with a lot of construction, coming up in the days, weeks, and months ahead. ben franklin bridge moving in the westbound direction. toward center city looking quiet. very quiet on this monday morning: also, dealing with a accident downed traffic signal, in willingboro, new jersey, route 130 at cooper street. all the southbound lanes are blocked. two northbound lanes are blocked, use the alternate 295 or new jersey turnpike, your best bet. then we're talking about some construction, abington, 611 between old york road and
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wheatsheaf avenue. more coming up in about 15 minutes, back to you. >> welcome to quarter million alpaca's in the u.s. show their stuff this weekend in denver. >> flurry cousins of the lama started the annual us alpaca show. now, alpaca's known for their smooth fleece and intelligence, breds in the u.s. since the mid 80s there is weekend the judges evacuated on their looks and personality. >> they all have their different personalities, but very inter-active. they love the interaction with people. they really love young kids. they're curious, but not afraid, if they're not interested they walk away. we can probably learn a lot from alpaca's, actually. >> my hair looks like that without my gel. >> oh, i would pay to see that. >> every 12 to 18 months, and each alpaca can produce ten to 10 pounds every fleece. >> very warm alpaca sweater. >> thanks to these guys. >> runners get an early start to the street of the city of
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angels. >> did you say runners running marathon? >> he will us every day. >> marathon ers were treated to early sunday morning, how quickly the winner was able to finish 26.2 miles. >> oh, i don't think that. wine after running sounds pretty nice. turns out this is a great week to zip wine in philly. the event taking place this week for philly wine week. we will tell you all about it when "eyewitness news"
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far. septa police release pictures as they investigate a big brawl in a subway station. the number of people police want answers from had morning. and the head of the fbi heads to capitol hill to testify. two big things lawmakers will be grilling him about later today. today is monday, march 20th, good morning everyone, i'm jim donovan. >> good morning. >> and i'm rahel solomon. that plus it is philly week, also first day of spring, but first we check the forecast with katie. so many things to be excited about. >> indeed. >> rahel, what's the beige's. >> spring for sure. >> first day of spring, i think that's all the news is. hey, everyone so excited, waiting forever. roads are looking good. a lot of construction, bridges me to this. >> absolutely, been really chilly specially last week, in the three's at best for couple every days, had major nor'easter roll through. who needs that? thankfully none that far down the pike here for us this week. we actually expect more seasonable conditi f
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