i'm merely a thankful bellinger and don't want to over step my bound in asking but will gladly go. >> federal prosecutors, accused philadelphia's top prosecutor, of asking for and taking free trips to the caribbean, from business owners. the charges, district attorney seth williams will face, when he faces a judge today. this time, at the accused. a fire breaks out overnight in west philadelphia where it all happened and how long it took fire fighters to get it under control. you won't find two letter bottles of pepsi on philadelphia store shelves soon, other products that will be disappearing as a fight over philadelphia's sugary drink tax, continues. today is wednesday march 22nd, good morning i'm jim donovan. i'm rahel solomon.

that you will plus strange results of the special election in the north philadelphia district but first lets check forecast with katie and road with meisha, good morning. >> happy wednesday, we are getting over hump together. i can tell you just a lot of construction. >> construction. >> that is the theme of my life. that is what we're talking about today but from what i can see so far, roadways, and camera shots it is not any wet weather today. >> we expect clear skies as well. we will look at storm scan the looks are deceiving on the tail end of the loop it looks like there is rain moving through. would i definitely call on our southern most based eye witt necessary weather watchers up and watching let me know what you are finding there i don't think this is a problem. more than anything, it is just because of the cold front rolling through here we are find ago digsal left over cloud and perhaps, this stray of showers. skies are nice, clear, sunny today but do not get used to these temperatures. they are not going up, rather they will be dropping with time, so right now, it is the mildest you can hope for,

folks. lets look at what waits off to the wings, dark shade already showing up in northeast pennsylvania, central pennsylvania, very cold air back toward cleveland, chicago and certainly in the twin cities, some of that is what will head our way. in addition this wind which is relatively light for most of you, that will also start to pick up. out of the northwest in the wake of the cold front we are still in the bit of the transition mode right now so these are your afternoon highs we are already above that level right now but we are looking ahead to the afternoon with those values at best, only cracking 40 degrees through the afternoon and factor in that chilly northwest wind it will feel much colder, meisha. >> that will feel chilly. katie, thanks very much for that. and we will look outside right now, yeah, we are talking roadways but lots of construction. we are looking at crews woodhaven roade bound at nights road that left lane is block in the eastbound direction and they are out there right now, still dark and early. not something we have to worry about right now but this is one of those areas that will

get busy progressing through the morning. we will let you know when crew s are out or stop construction. but just a head upright now, be mindful and careful of them we have more construction in new jersey 295 northbound between 47 and route 42, one to two lanes block this will hold until 6:00 a.m. and more construction in cherry hill on route 70. now this one i see if i want get there route zero seven between springdale road and new jersey turnpike in both directions one lane blocked in the 6:00 a.m. rahel, over to you. it is story everyone is talking about philadelphia's top prosecutor, find himself on the wrong side of the law. >> district attorney seth williams is expected to surround tore day to face nearly two dozen corruption charges. lets get details from "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabao live from the federal courthouse in center city, good morning, jan. >> reporter: jim and rahel, good morning. seth williams is scheduled for his arraignment here in the federal courthouse around 2:00 a 23 count indictment, on a number of charges, including

bribery, and extortion. lets take a look at the video, last time we saw the d.a. seth williams, announcing he wouldn't run for a third term following ethics violations. this time williams is back in the spotlight facing federal charges. he is accused of taking tens of thousands of dollars worth of concealed bribes from two business owners, in exchange for his agreement to perform official acts. in the 50 page indictment, prosecutors say that this pattern of activity stretched on for years, they say williams had multiple dealings with an associate, listed in the indictment, that has business owner number one beginning in 2010. according to the indictment for access to his office, williams accepted a $4,800 paid trip to punta cana and less than $1,600 in airline tickets, williams allegedly wrote in the text message to business owner number one quote i'm merely a thankful beggar and don't want to over step my bound in asking but we will gladly go but perhaps most troubling allegation has to do with defrauding a

nursing home. prosecutors say williams put $10,000 in his own account that was supposed to go to the relative's nursing home expenses. authorities say williams took the entire 10 grand for personal use. >> mr. williams simply took money that did not belong to him and then lied bit. president williams diverted his relatives pension and social security payments to his self to pay for his own personal expenses. >> reporter: you see there, new jersey authorities are prosecuting the case, and u.s. attorney in philadelphia says he reaccused his office from the investigation, to avoid any perception of a conflict of interest with williams who is, of course, philadelphia's top prosecutor. coming up in our next half an hour, hear from a former philadelphia d.a. about what seth williams should do right now. as for williams an attorney for him says he is innocent of these charges and he will fight them in court. we are reporting live, outside the federal courthouse jan

carabao for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". jim and rahel, back to you. several candidates running to be the next philadelphia district attorney shared their thoughts on the criminal charges against williams. some democrats and one republican, are running to be the next chief law enforcement officer for the city. the alleged corruption under current d.a. williams tainted the role which has created the challenge for the next d.a. "eyewitness news" caught up with a few of those running hoping to rebuild the public's trust. >> a few big surprises. i expected some of the bribery and pay to play and corruption stuff but stuff about the nursing home fraud was disturbing. >> when we have a one party system it really lead to sadly to complacently and corruption , and the fact that it is found, found its way in the district attorney's office is just truly shock to go me. >> this is very sad for this city in light of what has happened with our attorney general and now with our district attorney hoist now under indictment, by a federal grand jury. it is time for city to have new leadership. i call on seth williams to resign immediately. >> philadelphia's mayor jim

kenney also weighing in on the charges against williams saying it is deeply shameful that the city's chief law enforcement officer has been implicated in such a flagrant violation of the law at a time when citizens trust in government is at an all time low disheart evening to see another official give the public a reason not to trust us. stay with "eyewitness news" for continuing corruption charges offset williams in the next hour we will tell you why williams is being prosecuted by new jersey authorities and our coverage always on line cbs philly.com and cbs local app. this morning we still don't know winner of the north philadelphia special election that election was held to philadelphian empty pennsylvania house of representatives seat but there was only one name on the ballot. republican lucinda little received 7 percent of the vote s but write in candidates received 93 percent. we won't know who won the election for a while because it takes, longer to count write in results, and 85 percent of the voters in

pennsylvania's 197th district are registered democrats. the president is giving g.o.p. lawmakers an ultimatum support a bill to repeal obama care or lose your seats. president trump warned the group they will lose their majorities in congress if they don't pass the health care bill. mr. trump spoke to g.o.p. leaders at a private meeting on capitol hill yesterday. he warned many currently holding seats would lose their spots, if this effort fails. >> these are the conservative solutions, we campaigned on. we are keeping our promise. >> stand with our president, and vote to end this obama care nightmare once and for all. >> some conservative is still were not completely sold on the idea, president reportedly singled outlaw makers who opposed the bill. mr. trump told a representative from north carolina quote i'm going to come after you. now for first of the kind lawsuit in pennsylvania a local high school student, is suing his school district, saying his privacy rights were violated by sharing a locker

room with a transgender student. the 11th grader at boyer town area high school said he felt sexually harassed when he and other male students were forced to start sharing a locker room with a girl who identifies as a boy. the school district refused to comment on his locker room policy. no one was injured after flames ripped through this home overnight in west philadelphia it happened on the 5,000 block of haverford avenue just after 1:00 this morning. fire fighters battled the blaze for about 30 minutes before bringing it under control. the cause of the fire remains under investigation. police in burlington county, new jersey investigating gunfire that left one man dead. chopper three over the scene in pemberton just before 9:00 last night. at this time it is unclear how that vehicle you see there was involved in the incident. so far no arrests have been made. well, pepsi says it will no longer sell certain products in philadelphia because of the cities tax on sweet drinks. that includes 2-liter bottles and 12 packs of pepsi, mountain due, gator raid and

mayor kenney's office says industry has been trending to smaller sizes, well before the tax passed. pepsi blamed the tax for plans to layoff workers at distribution plants. a birthday party in camden 's adventure aquarium. >> buttons is celebrating a milestone, our own pat gallen, do you remember this, got to hang out with buttons and her sister jenny last month right here on "eyewitness news". buttons turns 20. her party includes a special cake and hippo sized birthday card. party continues through this weekend. happy birthday, buttons. >> yes, exactly. i remember that day. if you are in a situation with the subway situation when a man falls in the train tracks. >> i just, you know, one moment he fell in and i was just down there with him. incredible rescue that followed and what happened to the man right before he felon to the track. do you have a favorite dog breed? americans do. their top choice has been named. we will tell you which won came out on top, stay with

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welcome back. north korea launched another missle overnight but appears to have failed. that is according to south korean defense officials who are working to analyze what type of missle it was. earlier this month you may recall north korea fired four ballistic missiles that landed in waters off japan triggering strong protests from tokyo as well as south korea. group of massachusetts college students will likely never forget their st. patrick 's day. man apparently who conscious ness and fell on the tracks at boston's davis street station, dramatic rescue all caught on camera. forty-seven year-old later admitted to being under the influence at the time. one student said he knew one train had just left the station. >> i knew that i had probably a few minutes so i had some confidence, jumping in. i was than the really thinking of a lot. yeah, you know, one moment he fell in and i was just down

there with him. >> he says he could not have rescued the man without his friend. he said victim gave him a thank you fist bump after the rescue. you know, yesterday gave me fist bumps and i didn't realize people still do that. >> get hip, rahel. >> that was eight or nine years ago. >> well, we will be fist bumping your forecast today, katie. >> it depend on which day we are talking about. by the time we hit saturday we will get air high five's, other big thing, these days, but, it is something we have to warm up. today will end up being the coldest day that we will end up with at lee through daylight hours. it is really mild right new but here's the thing you need some sort of a balancing act to take place when we have frontal boundaries passing through and that is what is happening with the moisture we are finding on storm scan three. cold front moving n you see lake enhanced snow showers down wind of the lake ontario and erie because of the wind

flow more than anything but what i want you to watch here is not even necessarily the temperatures watch color contours, this map is about to get a lot darker because colder air is moving. so from 4:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. it turns a darker shade of blue and purple and these are the actual temperatures back in the 30's even by the time we go off the air here at 7:00 o cbs this morning. it will be a very cold day, throughout the time that the sunnies up and shining brightly. you cannot take it at face value. these are temperatures that are expected on the thermometer but then we have to factor in the wind which will be whipping as high as 35 . so even though techniquely it is cold anyway we are expecting gusts up to 35 miles an hour meaning it won't feel much better than 20's for majority of the day. it is deceptive when we walk outside the door but hopefully we will walk out with the heavy winter coat because you will thank yourself later. then look at that warm up. we keep exceeding our

expectations by saturday we will go 70. >> that is awesome, 71, i have it right smack in the weekend, good morning, everyone, happy hump day. we are talking about construction, of course, woodhaven road eastbound at knights road, left lane compromised not slowing you down whatsoever. look at this nice opened roadway anyway you are traveling around this morning. now, of course, we know that will change but for right now know that the crews are still out there. they might be kind of picking up, moving out of our way hopefully because one area that gets busy. i'll let you know when they move out. we have an accident here in egg harbor. this one is involving injuries ac expressway westbound before route 50 egg harbor that left lane is block. whenever we have injuries we know it will be busy around that area. again not slowing you down but if this lingers out there it certainly will. 295 north, between 47 and route 42, one to two lanes is block, one will hold until 6:00 a.m. a lot more construction coming up in some

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addition iphone seven and seven plus, as part of the apple's product red campaign, which benefits global aid charities. >> jim and rahel. >> now that ipad is that smaller, i don't know what size that is. >> i was trying to figure out that too. >> reporter: there is also a mini, it is just revamped and it is less expensive, then the previous model that was out. >> i cannot see the small stuff. >> i think i have the first i pad and it was like back then more than a thousand dollars. they were expensive when they first came out, do you remember. >> i always think about jimmy kimmel did a very funny segment where he showed apple customers, the very iphones as if that was the new one, and they were like i love it, it is great. we just like whatever apple is putting it out. >> we will buy anything. we will check in next hour. you want to layer up today

>> katie, how cold do you think it will feel walking out the door this morning. >> when you walk outside the door, this morning it will feel mildest as it will feel today. as the day goes on it gets colder. we will walk you through what seems like a backward day despite the sunshine it will get chillier. stay there we will be right back with your f

welcome back, showing you a shot right now outside hotel bethlehem and the thing where i will immediately get drawn to take a lot these flags, that is a very, very important part of the forecast today, the fact that we have got that wind, that is already picking up nicely, obviously out there in bethlehem and poconos, it hasn't begun to pick up so much in the city just yet but give it time that is all i can say. when we walk outside the door there is something we will likely notice, it is not that harsh, just yet that will change. i want to you arm yourself with the nice heavy winter coat because by the time we

are back out there whether for lunch, coming back home, notice how much colder it is. see lake enhanced snow showers , currently down wind of lake erie, ontario and that tells you wind is coming from the chilly are in west but we had a cold front passage. today features a couple things turns colder with time. wind chills through midday are nothing better than 20's, blustery northwest wind picks up, gusts to 35 and we will call it deceptive sunshine. looking outside window it looks gorgeous but when you step outside it will feel a heck of a lot colder. real taste of january today. we have a rebound all over the place, yet again from january- like conditions to more like april, come saturday and we will continue to up expectations, even that 70- degree high, meisha might be low, so we will see how we do as we get closer but much closer. >> wonderful. >> thanks very much. >> it is funny, i'm already thinking about that wednesday my eye went right to saturday. again, katie thanks very much. looking outside right new we were talking about construction woodhaven road we will talk about in a second.

first vine, quick peak looking great both moving in the west and eastbound direction not closed for that construction. still looking good. thinks where crews are out there woodhaven road eastbound , knights road left lane was compromised on the eastbound side. then we saw them move to the westbound side. it looks like they have kind of cleared out of our way. i hope they are completely cleared. i think they are. either way we will have no slow down. nevertheless as a couple crews are still out there moving around. they are moving out of our way now. we have an accident in egg harbor with injuries, ac expressway westbound before route 50 that left lane is blocked right now we will have more coming up, in a little bit, jim, over to you. well, coming up next on cbs-3 "eyewitness news" we have learned that check baris has passed away, we will tell but his deep roots right here in philadelphia. we are live at federal court as philadelphia district attorney faces corruption charges today. plus target's new swim wear line is making a splash find out why these ads are different then most.

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philadelphia's top prosecutor today will find himself on the other side of the courtroom embattled district attorney seth williams head to federal court to enter plea on corruption charges. we are live with more, including reaction from the candidate hoping to replace him. president trump is rallying republican votes ahead of the make or break vote tomorrow, find out why the measure may be on shaky ground. and a live look at center sit friday our cbs-3 studios, temperatures are tumbling, katie has a frigid forecast, today is wednesday, march between the second, good morning, i'm jim donovan. i'm rahel solomon. katie and meisha keeping an

eye on things this morning. good morning, ladies. >> they are tumbling, they are >> i would love to know what frigid means in philadelphia, what does that feel like. >> it is in the 30's, yes. >> okay. all right. looking outside right now we have lots of construction but we have an accident that popped up in egg harbor one with injuries, more serious, we will talk about that coming up. >> in terms of the question would i say at lee probably anything below freezing is usually what will feel colder for philadelphians in general. but you're right, it is almost 50 degrees in philadelphia so don't get used to that is message because it is about to get colder. >> yes, exactly. >> so dramatically said, yes, those temperatures will continue to tumble. reason is a cold front. we have an upside down day here, milder now but with tell temperatures continue to drop off. then they will level off in the mid to upper 30's through