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 conditions for a

change, and couple of ups and downs for sure. so don't hate me. but we are going to be talking about couple of days that feel more like january, but it doesn't last long. that is good. let me take you outside first and for most, storm scan3, nice and quiet. totally clear. temperatures have gun pretty chilly territory here. thirty's almost everywhere, even colder in the mountains being make sure you're walking out the door still with a heavy coat. even though it is spring, not quite at the point where you can be running around in short and flip flops all day long, maybe later in the day those every you really hearty, you know, out, maybe running at kelly drive, know you will see people in short, quiet day unfolding but still chilly at the onset here. only at 28 after all, and pottstown, doylestown, the colder spot at 27. as the day progress cents here, back to sunshine. like we said, sunny start to spring. normal high on this day is 54 degrees. so at least close to. that will low 50's expected at the shore point, and my quiet day un fowl withing sunshine as women. up in the mountains we top off low 40's, now i mention the

roller coaster ride we're spec here. couple every fronts moving through. that's where that is coming from. but there is also a stretch of sunshine in this forecast. so overall, not only is the quiet start to spring, it is also a quiet week in general. but there are couple of chances for rain that i do have to tell you about. so little later in the show, i'll let you know to expect those. meisha? >> katie, thank you so much for that. good morning, everyone, happy monday. my eyes right now are at the blue route, mid-county, camera shot. so what's going on here? concrete repairs are happening around here mid-county toll plaza, e-zpass cross lanes, they're closed right now, and they are going to be closed until april 10. so this is going to be one of those areas that really are going to start to pose problems for us, especially for those that maybe do not know what's going on, then we show up at around 63:00, 7:00, really getting busy, and going to be very slow. so just factor that into your plans this morning, may want to give yourself couple every extra minute, deeper in the 6:00 and 7:00 you getty would

be factoring in an extra half hour at minimum. again blue route mid-county, mid-county toll plaza, e pass express lanes closed for repairs. construction going on here, see single actually lane start to build right now, even at this early -- early hour. right lane is, looks like, actually, yes, right lane compromised, looks like starting to get little busy around here already. just cracking in the 5:00 hour. then tonight, it is going to be the westbound side, that start at midnight. just heads up again, moving in the eastbound side, eastbound direction, right lane compromised, down to one lane there. and it is already starting to get busy. quick peak at 95 south at academy, looking good, southbound direction looking just as it should, jim, over to you. >> thank you shall meisha. breaking news this morning, police are investigating two separate fatal shootings in philadelphia's logan section. the most recent happened here at old york road and ruscomb streets. medics found the victim on the sidewalk early this morning with a gunshot wound to the back of his head. police have not yet identified

the victim or a motive. detective do say that there are several surveillance cameras in the area, and they're hoping that will help provide them with more answers. just 1 mile from there, another deadly shooting just eight hours earlier. police say a man was shot twice around 7:30 last night, in the 1900 block every robert avenue. police returned the victim to the hospital where he was pronounced dead, so far no arrest haves been made, if you have any information please call philadelphia police. and more breaking news this morning, a fatal car crash in wynnefield height after a driver loses control and strikes a utility pole. rushed to the 4400 block of overbrook avenue around 3:00 a.m. authorities still trying to figure out what caused the accident. >> and septa police want to question several people after this fight caught on camera. >> victim's mother shot this video on thursday at the subway station, reportedly all started with a snowball night on the screen and escalated on

the -- underground. there are photos released of people involved in the brawl, but still too early to label any as suspect. >> fire investigators in new jersey are working to determine what caused a house fire in florence township. the flames broke out at 30 east front street last night at about 6:30. that's right rice next to the delaware riverfront. the fire went to up two alarm, took crews several hours to get the fire under chrome. no one was hurt. >> a man is in stable condition this morning after being shot nine times in trenton, new jersey. officers responded to the shooting here on the 800 block around 6:00 last night, police are activity investigating what led to the shooting and expected to release more information later today. >> two wilmington men wanted in a series of burglaries in new castle county are under arrest. police say harvey and reason stole cartons of cigarettes from gas stations, news stands, and tobacco shops within the last month and a half. total price tag on the stolen goods, $23,000.

>> happening today, jury selection begins for the trial of the former president every penn state university. prosecutors say gram spaniard's response to the jerry sandusky scandal puts children at risk, now in prison on child charles, and endangering children, single charge of conspiracy. finds several violations. thirty of their patient became sick. state and local officials went to the osteo release institute in wall township monday. patients in had contracted various bacterial infections from injections to their knees, monmouth county health officer said the clinic voluntarily closed march 7. alleged russian hacking, on capitol hill today. director james comey will testify. intelligence officials say russia was behind cyber security breaches, targeting the democratic national committee. including the theft of emails, and in a attempt to interfere in the presidential election. the panel may also question

comey about president trump's claims that president obama wiretapped trump tower during the campaign. >> supreme court nominee kneel gorsuch could begin what are several days every questioning, confirmation hearings begin today. gorsuch is trump's pick to replace the late antonin scalia. has degrees from harvard, oxford, still expected to portray him as qualified but unfit. >> just because the president nominated him, and the senate confirmed him, might have thought about it as a political father, doesn't mean him or herself has to behave in a political way. >> the full senate expected to vote on gorsuch's nomination next month. organizers of the philadelphia flower show say this year's show was blooming with success, reese -- despite the recent snowstorm, visited the 2017 flasher, number down slightly from the past two years. this year's theme was holland

flowering the world. celebration of flowers and designs, and plans have already started for next year's show, titled the wonders of water, attributed. i think i told you my family and i went to the flower show. very nice. >> i met friends over there the other day, packed, packed. >> it was. >> also the flower show may be over but philly wine week is now underway. >> now we are talking, the city fourth annual wine week started yesterday, organizers say seasoned wine lovers and novices alike. the week of events ranges from talks and tastings and more than 70 local restaurants are involved. go to philly wine week.org for more information. >> well, ice from last week's snowstorm made for serious situation for a deer in bucks count. >> i the poor thing got trapped in a frozen ponds up in solebury township. did spot the man mal in trouble and able to pull it to safety. >> thousands of runners take on the street of los angeles. >> annual los angeles marathon took it from downtown to the

santa monica shore line. we will tell you how fast the winner would pull it off. >> you're practicing for a marathon, aren't you? >> have i toll that you. >> yes, you have. >> what the department of justice is ask g for, th

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police in california are investigating after man kills his daughter before taking his own life happened near santa cruz. the suspect's wife called police saying her husband was going to commit suicide and was with their child. found 36 year old man and his eight year old daughter dead in a park car near a mall in monica bay. >> tragic event for the family of course, and in our entire community, so we offer our thoughts to the family. these are difficult investigatioinvestigations. >> police have not released the names of the father and daughter. well the federal judge who halted president trump's revised travel ban is now saying no to the justice department. the department asked us district judge jared watson if his ruling applies only to travelers from six muslim majority countries or if it also affect part of the ban to prevent all refugees from coming to the u.s. says the distinction was not originally made. so nothing to clarify.

judges in maryland also put the travel ban on hold. >> the street of los angeles were shutdown yesterday for the annual la marathon. >> close to 24,000 runners showed up from all over the world. started the journey at dodgers stadium, finished at santa monica. fifty state, 63 countries, pounded the pavement for 63 miles, each with their own personal reasons to challenge themselves. >> raising funds for pancreatic cancer in honor every my dad who passed away. >> turn 40 this year, you only live once, so you just got to go for it. >> and the winners for both the men's and women's division from kenya, crossed the finish line time of just two hours 11 minute, 51 seconds, to take the men's trophy, helen, top spot for the women's competition two hour 34 minutes 222nd. >> two hours 34 minutes and

change. >> if i could cross the finish, if i crawl across the finish line i will be happen. >> i oh, yes, you're training for a marathon. >> we hadn't heard that. >> you know, i'll need some support, people. >> we are giving you nothing but. we will be standing on the side lines with cronuts and coffee, how is it going, rahel? keep it up. >> something for me to eat once i finish that line. >> you know it. >> great excuse to hit the pavement, take your training outside here, i think you'll see our own mini marathon in the next few days, very pleasant weather to enjoy for the most part. let's get you to it, start thing offer by taking/to the current snow cover, still there, just still have probably an inch or two of snow in in my own backyard, but you will find the heaviest totals still present certainly up in the pocono mountains where you have got still in a lot of spots at least a foot. that needs to melt away. one really important thing to remember with snow cover, is that this is actually going to help give us soil moisture for

the spring planting season, i know a lot of us sort of got ahead of the game, did some planting already, so hopefully your plant had a chance to survive through the last storm system. now that we have got snow to melt it, will produce more moisture for the grounds which is good thing down the road. looking out west, we do have little disturbance, by the time this reaches us, bark a lot worse than the bite, likely only see couple of scattered showers move through. future weather shows it well. clouds begin to build later tonight perhaps little sooner than ten, 11:00 p.m., regardless few scattered showers into the overnight, key word scattered. not everyone even sees drop of rainout of this, and into the day tomorrow, mainly looking at clouds, but this model in particular still trying it bring in extra shower. allow that chance, but overall mainly cloudy skies for your tuesday. meanwhile we talk about spring, today that sun does come up at clock zero four. it is not the longest day of the year, but we are going to see equal parts of day and night essentially, about 12 hours and change of daylight and about 12 hours in and

change every nighttime. so, that's just because the sun's most direct rays over the equator, that's where we get the equinox from. meanwhile by april 20, the sun coming up by 6:45, may 20 only few minutes away from the earliest day we'll see. one and a half minutes extra gaining around that amount of daylight every single day. meanwhile, as the day does progress here, looks like quiet one. tranquil, light wind, normal high five, close to where we should, drop to 40. talk about the showers still come through scat nerds nature. as long as you don't hit the road here earlier than say five or of am i think you're not going to need umbrella certainly tomorrow. but tomorrow is mainly cloudy day. colder conditions do return on wednesday and thursday, only top off in the four's those days, but quick turn around thankfully by the time we hit the weekends, meisha, hitting 60s saturday. >> i was just thinking the same thing, looking great. happy first day every spring, in fact, dave grim one of the engineers, dave, come herelle quick, come here. we got to show you dave grim.

guys, he comes in with a smile every single day. so happy that it is spring. thanks. he was just dying to come in here and talk about it, we new t talk about the blue route. blue route at mid-county looking good. we can see some cones in the roadway. what are we really talking about? welshing concrete repairs in this area. mid-county toll plaza, e paws express lanes, closed. and they're going to be closed until april 10th. so start to pose a problem for us, maybe closer to the 6:00 moving into the 7:00. so again, mid-county toll plaza, e-zpass express lanes closed until april 10. this is going to make it very slow in that area. also, construction here, cleared, schuylkill eastbound at gulf mims. looking at this, actually starting to get a little busy already. just tracking the 5:00 hour. you can only imagine what it will be like into the 6:00 hour. then looking at the schuylkill at the boulevard, guys, what it looks like here. i would say another area, keep my eye on, we know that

mondays are going to get busy. typically are. today will be no different. good news is we are going to be dealing with no snow. no snow whatsoever on first day of spring which is good. route 130, cooper street, deal with a accident downed traffic signal. southbound lanes blocked, two northbound lanes blocked. you will have to use the alternate, 295 or the new jersey turnpike going to be your best bet. rahel, over to you. >> all right, meisha, thank you. and now for look at newspaper headlines, across our region. >> from the press of atlantic city the past three years, what new jersey needed extra protection, explosive detection dog from atlantic city always seem to be there. the ten year old lab had to be euthanized after a tumor diagnosed in his stomach near his heart, in the first eight months conducted almost 700 searches with his handler as part of the new jersey render safe task force, good for him. >> and the news room, rehoboth beach, passed ordinance friday

banning temporary structures like tents, canopies from the beach starting in may. campfires and grills also being balanced banned. >> from the delaware county times, middle school among the student in our region, head today washington, d.c., to participate in the 2017 national spelling bee. forty-three student participated but took the first place, the words she won on mean one that carries a saver. >> learn something new every day. that's look at some of the newspaper headlines from around the delaware valley. well, pat gallen is here with a preview of sport. >> good morning, patrick. >> morning, guys. take a look at the sixers and flyers, both played well, but both get wins. of course march madness on full display. golieth went down, we'll tell you how it happened next in sports. >> please do. >> i will.

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news" this morning with jim donovan, katie fehlinger, and meisha johnson. >> back here at cbs-3 "eyewitness news" this morning. >> pat gallen, talk about morning sports. pat? >> how do your bracket look? >> i have a bone to pick with you. >> why, what did i do? >> what happened? >> we will talk about that off-air. but for now, let's talk a little philadelphia flyers. eleven games remain for those flyers. and they'll need to get red hot at the right time, in the playoffs to be a possible. upcoming four game road trip will likely make or break their season. flyers, carolina, last night, under a minute left. ivan, misses, travis connect, get the deflection to go. we're headed to over tight -- in over time, puts home the

rebounds. there you go. flyers win four-three, they're five-point out of the final wild-card spot to hit the winnipeg tomorrow night. all season the sixers have hung with the celtics, but could not get a win. yesterday in south philly the seconds best team in the east. but without their best player, mvp candidate isiah thomas, sixers took advantage. okafor missed second half of the game with knee soreness. in the fourth. dario, finding robert covington. let's going into the bucket. he had 23 points. the sixers, they erase 13-point deficit to win, 105-99. there is right there, 11 game losing streak, ended to the celtics. on the final day of the opening weekend of the ncaa tournament, a monster upset. final four pick in nearly half of all brackets, were the odds-on favorite to win it all. but they're out. duke with undone by awful

second half. darius, with monster rebounds, puts them up two. twenty-four points. duke would turn it over 18 times. and gives up 65, second half point, a stunning ends, they fall to the 88 to 81. a lot of talk about ucla ball coming in this year's tournament and his dad. woe respond last night against cincinnati. he drops 19 points the bear cats with 95 cysts, and seven rebounds. bruins advance to the sweet 16, 79-67. and march madness will resume thursday here on bs3 with seven seeded michigan taking on three seed oregon in the early game. followed by fourth seeded purdue, battling the top seed in the midwest, kansas, another wild weekend, beginning thursday here on cbs-3. so i'm sorry, i know, villanova went out saturday. a lot of people had them in their final four. wisconsin gets game.

>> bracket right snow. >> a mess. just like everyone else's. >> pat, this is insanity. ludacrous, pre pros trust. >> good basketball fun though. >> thank you, sir. travelers at a california airport are treated to some puppy love. >> puppy love. the puppies are future working dogs, we'll tell you what those dogs will be whether they grow up. and the reason behind the special field trips. >> busy day at capitol hill. what is to expect, lawmakers investigate whether the obama administration wiretaps trump tower during the campaign. katie? >> already looking ahead to the u upcoming weekend. that's where we actually ends up with a day in the 60s. how much, there is a storm system that's going to be approaching at that point. so, we are looking pretty likely to get some rain by sunday. meantime, though, hey, at least it is mild. don't expect snow at this point. stay there, coming

live from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia. this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news" this morning. >> and a good morning to you. and a very happy monday. this is a live look from the art museum. we are in the last hour of winter. bye bye. katie tells us whether it will feel like spring today in the full forecast. >> oh, my. >> good morning, i'm rahel solomon. >> i'm jim donovan. first what you need to know to start your day in our morning

minute. >> what begins as a snow ball fight ends in a snowball scuffle. investigators want to speak to the people in these photos believed to be involved in the brawl. >> armed and dangerous, the nationwide manhunt underway right now, for teachers who allegedly abducted his 15 year old student one week ago. >> dot right thing. turn yourself into the police. bring back home. >> alarm inningly low number of leads. >> headed to the hill. fbi director james comey testifies before congress today. >> as far as wiretapping, i guess, you know, this past administration, at least we have something in common. >> as president trump stands by his claims that he was wiretapped by president obama.