>> lappy friday to you, mother nature making us work for the weekend. much of the area under flood watch, as rain continues to saturate us. really strong words. >> really is. >> saturate. >> monsoon this morning. >> good morning, everyone, i'm rahel solomon. >> i'm jim donovan. katie and meisha will be here in a moment. first, what you need to start your day in our morning minute. >> trust me, this is no picnic for anyone. it is soggy. it is raw. it is actually going to be a flood threat for us. >> this individual would stalk women. woe terrorize women. >> a teenager is behind bars, accused of attacking women in chester, delaware county. >> he's actually already admitted to raping and assaulting at least nine women, and he told investigators, he's done the same to many more. >> we've been for over two hours, had like is .4 miles to

go. >> dozens of drivers stranded in atlanta after a major highway fire caused the road to collapse. amazingly, no one was injured. lady gaga told rolling stone in a interview that she ever had had a bio pick, she wants to you play her. she play lady gaga. and we'll do a scene. >> i want your love, love, love. i want your love. >> (screams). >> and that was actress marissa tow may on the late show with stephen colbert last night. >> can you imagine if we did the news like that? do you think anyone would notice? >> we actually do it during the commercials. they just don't see it on television. >> we spare from that. right over to kate. katie talking a lot of rain already? >> i think a lot of people would maybe be interested what goes on behind the scenes during the commercial breaks. if you're a fly on the wall, there are some bizarre things that take place. we break out, i mean it, gets

bananas, bananas. we have stuff to talk b let's just go right on out to storm scan. that's where we turn our focus immediately where we do still have soaking rain specific though to eastern new jersey, and now, southern new castle county, actually most of new castle county enveloped in the rain. so one real heavy round over the city already. that's left behind stuff to drain away, which is going to have tough time doing that before the next round get here. you can see that soaking rain already moving in now into western pa, again, through the virginias, this will slide our way. so with time that radar will fill right back in again. what dreary start to the morning though outside in our live neighborhood network, boardwalk plaza in rehoboth. obviously rainy scene. not a lot of shaking going on in the camera. winds isn't horrible. but even though sussex county delaware not included it is worth a mention. coastal flood advisory will take effect late tonight for ocean monmouth county. maybe going to up new york city or something like that for the weekend you will have coastal flood to go worry about up that way too. meanwhile up ahead for the rest of today, just rain.

any time, anywhere, heaviest coming, though, through the afternoon and evening. so, again, the heaviest hasn't even gotten here yet. we already have our fair share of problems to contend with this morning. so, i think in short, meisha, the rule of thumb is to pack your patience, hopefully set the alarm little extra early, you will need that buffer of time. >> yep, yes, absolutely, you will. make no mistake, even on a friday, even though i know it is lighter travel day, like katie said you will need the extra time. i can't stress it enough. even in the 5:00 hour, take a look how busy the vine is already looking, especially moving in the eastbound direction. westbound side actually looking okay. as you head toward the schuylkill, eastbound side you're certainly starting to build levels. you're also building levels take a lock at the boulevard pushing southbound again for a friday at 5:30, you guys, still dark and early. this is one area right now that is going to get very, very busy, if you head toward the schuylkill. once you jump on the schuylkill around the boulevard, and around city avenue, it will be, i mean, you know, it will be -- it will be bonkers zero there.

looking at the schuylkill, eastbound at girard, looking right there, so for those every you headed out the doorway, kind of see the company that you'll be accompanying out there right now. ninety-five headlight moving in the southbound direction at girard, one area, nine # five, moving in the southbound direction, that was a mess, yesterday, not quite sure why, actually the driving conditions actually okay. but it is already heating up now. a lot of people probably thinking that they need to get out there early and they would be correct. a lot more to talk about when we come back in the next ten minute, rahel, jim, back to you. >> thank you. new report shows a rise in the u.s. in the number of pedestrian fatalities. >> trang do looking into what is causing the spike in numbers. she's live in center city this morning. good morning, trang, what can you tell us? >> good morning, jim, rahel. philadelphia was recently named the fourth most walkable city, with more and more cities striving to become more walkable, pedestrian deaths are just souring. 2016 saw the highest number, in 20 years. >> it is a heavy thing to be

alive when your child is dead. >> casey feldman's dreams of becoming a reporter were cut tragically short by a distracted driver in 2009. the 21 year old from springfield, delaware county, was hit and killed in a crosswalk on her way to a waitressing job on the ocean city boardwalk. >> it is incomprehensible to me sometimes to think that other families are going through what we're going through. there are thousands and thousands of families doing that. >> since her death the number of pedestrians dying has sky rocketed, 22% in just the last few years. 2016 the highest number in decade at nearly 6,000. >> people have forgot tone look both ways, they're too busy looking at their phones. >> cbs news recently spoke with jonathan atkins of the governor highway safety association. atkins says the problem not only lies with distracted drivers, but distracted wack walkers, as well. alcohol was also major factor.

15% of faith al pedestrian accidents involved a drunk driver. while 34% involved someone walking drunk. >> really good job, encouraging people not to drink and drive. but we don't see messaging but no drinking and walking. >> these accidents often happen in a instant. the woman in this video is lucky she survived. but one too many grieving families, like casey's, are left behind. >> she was beginning her life. she was about to become that reporter, and it was all taken away in just a seconds. >> and the study found that most of these fatal incidents happened at night, and more rural and suburban areas. but for now live in center ci, cbs-3, "eyewitness news." jim, rahel, back to you. >> trang, thank youment. >> the time 5:36. in business news, ford is set to hire hundreds of engineers. putting at&t in charge after big project. money watch's jill wagner joins us live from the stock he can changes with details. go good rning, jim, rahel. futures pointing to bit of

points, theesterday though nasdaq climbed 16 to new record high. at to build public safety network for first responders. the idea has been around for more than a decade actually since nine/# one. let first responders share critical info between agencies andit a 50 states. ford is hiring 400 engineers to meet the demand for more connected cars, 100 of those jobs will be based in the u.s. the other 300 will go to canada. whlanng a new research and engineering center. and facebook is getting into the fundraising game. social media company will let users raise money for themselves or charity, casino every like go fund me page. facebook will take a cut though. nearly 7% transaction fees, plus 30 cents per donation, facebook says it is to cover security and fraud protection. jim, rahel. >> 7%? >> a lot of monday. >> i yes, i don't know about that. >> seems like a lot of monday. >> i i feel like every day talking about one of the

social media site using something that another site does. dog eat dog world out there, man. >> facebook is just taking all of the other ideas. >> exactly. >> really what it is. >> the power grab. >> thank you, jim have, a great weekends, tea safe, see you on monday. >> well, in other news this morning, investigators in delaware county hope you can help them solve a cold case murder. >> there is now a $5,000 reward for information in the death of marquis a benson, secane woman found beat tone death inside her apartment. now, police believe the killer new benson and scrolled messages on the wall before leaving her in a bathtub of scalding water. >> a drexel university professor tweet stirring up controversy on and off campus. tweeted sunday morning some guy gave up his first class seat for a uniformed soldier. people are thanking him. i'll trying not to vomit or yell about mozul. came on the heals every us strike that recordly killed 200 civilians in mozul. student we spoke with had this re -- missioned reaction about the post.

>> i mean, did it on his personal time. he the right to say them, it is america. first amendment. so he can tweet whatever he wants to tweet. >> that means outside of work that's how you probably act. and inside of work it is a different story. so i don't think we need those types of people around student. >> well, drexel university has responded with a statement which reads in part: the recent social media comment by george were made outside the classroom. are his opinion, done not represent the university's views. now, if his name sound familiar probably because he made national headlines in december when he tweeted all i want for christmas is white genocide. >> honesty the best policy, ask a septa worker who gets to keep 15 grand he found in the middle of a road. tells you how bob tracey stumbled on the $15,000 on state road in drexel hill. while headed home from work. he turned the money over to police. good man there. but after no one claimed the cash for a year, a judge says tracey get to keep the

windfall. >> ya, hey, good for him. albumn featuring a rare photograph of harriet tubman sells for whopping $161,000. >> wow. it was expected to fetch only about 20 to 30,000. now, according to swan galleries, new york city auction house, the portrait seen here dates back to around the 80s. the image along with the albumn sold yesterday in central new york at auction of printed materials and photos from the slavery and abolition era. well up next, host of sunday night acm awards about unique combinations of perp formers you'll see here on cbs-3,. >> plus, pat gallen is showing us around a new store in plymouth meeting. patrick? >> hey, giles, you know leggos, they look like there is but you have never seen leggos like you will see here at leggo land discovery center philadelphia. this place is insane. there is so much happening. so many bricks used. and there is a slide. ahh h when we come back, we

will see the city of philadelphia in leggo form.

>> breaking news, delaware county new video in from a house fire in havertown. this is 200 block every hill road. that's just off of twp. line road. we are told this fire reached two alarms, mainly roof and second floor. good news, no injuries to report, but again, looking at video of house fire in

havertown, we'll check back a little late he eras firefighters continue to battle flames. rahel? >> jim, thank you. i got to tell you. >> this sunday is the 52nd academy of country music awards, liver from las vegas. it will be hosting dollars by luke drain, dierks bentley, keith urban, reason a motorcycle tire, some of the amazing artists take the stage. also, some pretty special collaboration performances. >> the philly fans are probably excited from the female fans out there for the back street boys. >> oh, ya. >> on the show with georgia line. >> that's huge. huge back street boys fan. >> but would you say, would you say that them being on the show over shadows me in anyway. >> what? no. come on, i'm not crazy. >> no, not at all. but that's pretty good. >> little nervous. >> falls somewhere like i'm here, dierks bentley is here,

they're here. >> no. >> they're up there. >> ya, it will be -- >> it will be a good night. >> they're so crazy, and so great, and i love them. you can catch all of the great performance this is sunday at 8:00 p.m. right here on cbs-3. also, we are giving away two ticket to the 92.5xtu anniversary show, june 3rd, at the bb and c pavilion. stay tuned, coming up at 6:00 we'll tell you how you can win them. >> sounds good to me. >> speak of amazing collaborations did little back street boys is back, all right, did you really? >> i know, right? >> i know. >> amazing. >> yes. >> so nice. >> freestyle with luke bryant and dierks bentley? >> i think i've made it. >> mine blowing. >> i think i made it. >> i mean, i got nothing else to say. >> so the weather today? >> ya, i know, i'll be stuck on that the rest of the morning. but in all seriousness, we have a lot to get to out there today. in short, just really soggy

day. so here you go. we had one heavy rain, heavy rounds i should say, already moved through. it is still out there across the coastal areas, parts of new castle county, but storm scan is going to be lit up like a christmas tree. pretty much all day here today. even though it looks like you have got little bit of lull. we are getting reports from folks that you are still finding some rain out there even if it isn't actually showing up on radar. so there is a flood watch to tell you about that will take effect at noon. so just getting started folks. flood watch doesn't take effect until noon for pockets of heavy rain, locally up to three, possibly, in some spots, even 4 inches every rain, this is all day event, so elevated creeks, streams, and certainly ponding on roads and very very slow travel to watch out for. >> eyewitness weather watch ers reporting this morning quite a bit of consistency going on here when it comes to temperatures reading. we start things off snack dab in the center of the map. chesterfield, ed reporting brief break in the action here. he does have a lull. hoping it lasts, sorry, it does not look like -- actually

most of the day here, actually ending up very, very soggy. so sorry to report that guys. i know not the way you want to rounds out your work week, but at least the work week around the corner. thirty-nine from john with a little rain to report. to one more we go, up in the poconos. it is 35 at keith's house in sailors berg, actually reporting a break, as well, but did say he hasn't seen any ice. that's the other thing we have to mention here, the possibility that specific to the poconos, you see a little freezing rain specially in the highest elevations, but, maybe even a bit of sleet that mixing in with the temperature hovering close to freezing. ski report wraps up today. you can understand why. not applicable at jack frost, cam em back, blue mountain, resorts actually since closed for the season. still have weekends, though, up at big boulder, up to 40-inch base for you there, even despite the rain that's going to be moving through. so if you want to get in the final weekends every skiing at big boulder i think you will be able to do it as skies brighten up. for now just expect really

soggy day, another storm comes along monday night into tuesday. then we might even have more rain by thursday. well, it seems like april is coming in like a lion now, too too, meisha. >> yes, talking about it earlier, they say that april showers bring may flowers, i guess it casino every makes sense. we want it huge. i don't even want to see, the want the flowers so big. morning, everyone, happy friday. all right, so i say happy friday. but, like katie just pointed out, dealing with a lot of rain. that means, slow commute for all of us, not fun at all, leave your homes early. we've been saying it all week long specially on day like today. boulevard northbound past nine street. where we had an accident. now that's since cleared. but i still wanted to show you kind of what you are going to be working with when you go out there. there is wet roadways, ponding, pooling on some of the shoulders, side streets, sidewalks, under the bridges and sides of the bridge deaths. -- decks. heads up on this. because friday's, tends to be one of the days of the week where we can leave little later because it is friday. that is not going to be the case today. then, dealing with another

string every accidents, still out there. camden, 676 northbound route 42, pulled off to the shoulder, we have overturned vehicle in media, route one media bypass southbound at baltimore pike. we have another accident in horsham. horsham road at limekiln pike. good news because we've had drink every accidents all morning long, the good news is that they're moving out of our way or off to the shoulder fairly quickly. that being said, we are seeing string every problems out there. so again, i'm going to sound like broken record here, leave your homes early, even on a friday. jim, rahel, back to you. >> thank you, meisha. toy that's spanned generations, and now the popular building blocks leggos are the center of the new area attraction. >> discovery center philadelphia opens next week. "eyewitness news" reporter pat gallen getting sneak peak at all of the fun plans. he's live in plymouth meeting. pat, you always get all of the cool sneak peaks. >> i do, yes, i'm very lucky. i love when i get to feel like a kid at # 5:45 in the morning. so here at the plymouth

meeting mall, leggo land discovery center philadelphia. guys, the detail in this is incredible. it is ridiculous. 1.5 million leggo blocks were used to build mini land philadelphia, and you see the skyline built right in front of you, all in leggo form. so, come on over here, blaine, from leggo land, hey, how are you? >> good, how are you? >> i feel like a kid in here, man. this is amazing. >> i feel like a kid every day. yes, mini land philadelphia. like you said, it is made from over 1.5 million leggo bricks. the whole process from start to finish takes about six months, for a team of about 20 master model builders. >> this took six plus months to put together. >> absolutely, yes. >> so to gave you a example, liberty place, made from over 17,000 leggo bricks. >> okay. >> and took about 930 hours, 99 people for that. >> thirty hours? >> yes. >> i mean, we have pat's, jean he's, the kimmel center, we

have the city skyline. look at city hall. it the detail of city hall. >> beautiful. >> mind blowing. >> absolutely. >> unreal. unreal. >> okay, so how does this all come together so beautifully? >> well, i mean, again, it is up to the team of those 20 people. their entire job just to create these amazing landmarks. >> are they glued together or are they simply just -- >> they are glued together for safety. >> sure. >> sound good. you can't lever out boathouse row. you can't leave out the art museum. guys, this might be my favorite part of this. look at the detail on here. you get to see rocky, run up the steps of the art museum. are you kidding me? is that intense or what? that's absolutely wonderful. i love it. i feel like a kid. blaine, i'm like my head is spinning here. like the detail here on boathouse row is amazing, we've got the rowers out here. guys, is that not impressive?

>> boathouse row actually the public's choice. we did the public vote on social media. they chose boathouse row. that's one of the most popular landmarks in fill. >> i blaine tell people how they can come out here and see this? >> you can buy tickets on line, single day passes, we open april 6. under week from today we're here at the plymouth meeting mall. >> april 6, plymouth meeting mall, come see -- i'm blown away, guys, blown away. >> not often i'm speechless of all people. >> we have to do road trip. we need to go out there. >> yes, one of your best yet pat. thank you, we'll check in with you a little later. >> see you in the next hour. >> alligator walks into a furniture store. >> sounds like the kind of thing that can only happen in florida, right? >> we'll show you next.

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well, don't leave your house without your rain gear. it is a friday soaker, affecting both the morning and the evening commute. katie will time it all out for us, and let us know about the flood watch that's going into effect later on today. >> and police say this man is a serial rapist who prayed victims in delaware county over the last few years, and there could be more victims. reports that ousted national security advisor michael nunn, russia meddling in the u.s. election, if he gets protection from possible dk with all of the details, coming up. >> well, tgif. it is friday, march 31, alleluhia, good morning everyone, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. are you excited? >> it is the weekends, i can see it in the distance. >> katie and meisha keeping an eye on things this morning, happy friday, guys.

>> i was just thinking, we need those -- oh, crying because it is raining? >> someone please deliver. >> looking outside right now, yes, happy it is friday, out on the roadways right now, not looking pretty. we've had a mess out there. >> yes. >> you know, it definitely is one of those days, like you got to take the good with the bad. even though the weekends is literally around the corner, seeve got a mess going on out very much. but did i want to show you at least one camera, representation, whatever you are finding out there. see the street lamps in the distance, e camera lens outside whitt fields elementary, very, very soggy. what's interesting is when you look at storm scan, it is not even raining. if it is mist, okay, i'll give that you, but not technically raining all that hard across most of the region. so we had one heavy round roll through. much more t more to come, for example, before we can say all said and done with the storm. potent one, intensifying as it cross. thirty-nine the current temperature at the airport, so