broadcast center in philadelphia. this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news" this morning. well it is back to court for bill cosby this morning. his defense team and the prosecution argue over evidence that the comedian doesn't want at his trial. a tanker truck overturns on the atlantic city expressway spilling thousands of gallons every fuel and forcing a detour. meisha tells fuss commuters will get the all letter in time for rush hour. >> president trump's choice for the supreme court comes up for a vote before the senate judiciary committee. find out which senators from your state plan to filibuster the vote comes up in the full senate. today is monday april 3. good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. let's get your week start wad check on weather and traffic with katie and meisha. >> here we go, back at monday

morning. >> i know, you know, talking about it last week, so funny, doesn't matter if you are working during the weekends, it doesn't matter what you are doing. >> so just talking about the a.c. expressway, great to bring up that. that will be impact full to many of thus morning. >> at least the weather quiet for now. gorgeous day yet. did you guys get out at all yesterday? >> yes. >> yes, so nice, right? you can already start to see the clouds billing, how much. i don't think you are talking about any wet weather initially here. the daylight hours look fine, but the clouds beginning to build back in. so throughout the course of the day see more limited sunshine. but actually still quite mild. pat american general, actually looks pretty mild to me here in the next couple every days. do have series every systems that will work their way through, the first comes through tonight, leading into tomorrow. showers, very likely spring like thunderstorms rumbling in with the next system. we'll get it later in the broadcast, for now out the door, low four's, even upper 30s handful of spots, mid

four's up and down good portion of i-95, outlying suburbs off to the north where you had enough of clear sky through the overnight, you are seeing the temperatures drop down into the 30's here. like into quakertown for example. as the day goes on, do expect clouds will continue to thicken with time. any wet weather likely will hold off however, until tonight, so for now, you don't need the umbrellas, walking out the door if you are planning the daylight hours, and actually still kind of mild. 66 degrees here in the sit, not bad, meisha. >> not bad at all. in fact this morning felt pretty good walking into the studio. thank you so much. so rahel just talking about this up at the desk, we'll piggyback on that, talk about what we have. so, little bit later this morning we'll show you video. this is picture of the overturned tanker truck we were talking about that fell thousand -- spilled thousands of gallons of gasoline on the roadways yesterday after 1:00 p.m. so, right now, what's the update? a.c. expressway eastbound, before route 54 hammonton, the entrance ramps are closed but this is where it is going to start to affect you, all of the lanes blocked, opened up,

now this is what is affected, starting at 8:00 a.m. this morning they are going to start doing repairs, what's going to happen they'll be closing two of the four lanes. you close two of the four lanes at 8:00 a.m. it will really slow you down, impact you. heads up moving out the door this morning, you will want to know that because it is going to slow us down starting 8:00 a.m. then probably throughout the morning until the repairs are completed. quick look at the 95 south at cottman, coming around the s curve looking good on this monday morning, we know it will be busy, certainly will start to heat up. also construction schuylkill westbound ramp from university ave., left lane block between 7:00 a.m. again, 7:00 a.m., right at the top of that rush, until 3:00 p.m. rahel, jim, back to you. >> meisha, thank you. bill cosby is expected in the montgomery county courtroom today for another pretrial hearing. >> prosecutors will ask the judge to allow evidence which they say should not be over looked. "eyewitness news" reporter trang do, liver in norristown where the comedian is scheduled to appear, trang? >> reporter: good morning, jim, rahel, this is

essentially hearing over what evidence will be allowed in court. prosecutors want permission to use cosby's own words against him even from decades ago. they include a deposition from 2,005, also excerpts from his 1991 book, childhood. bill cosby charged with drugging and sexually assaulting former temple university employee andrea constand at his montgomery county home in 20,004. in a court fueling thursday, prosecutors ask the judge to allow the jury to see sealed document where cosby admitted giving to constand and other women quaaludes. that will dock septa deposition he gave in 2,005 after constand sued him for defamation and sexual battery. the suit eventually settled out of court. the prosecution would also like to show excerpts from cosby's book childhood, where he talks about using a drug called spanish fly as a boy to get girls interested in him. on the other hand cosby's lawyers no mention every quaaludes, spanish fly or his

conduct with other women during the trial, also want to exclude information with constand's civil settlement from this criminal case. >> the hearing set for 9:30 this morning before a judge steven o'neil. judge o'neil most recently ruled of the dozens of women who have come forward with similar accusations, only one other of cosby's accusers will be allowed to testify at this june trial. but for now, liver outside the montgomery county courthouse, trang do, cbs 3, "eyewitness news," jim, rahel, back to you. >> trang, thank if you. in other news close to year after a fatal beating three high school student lent go on trial. on april 21 of last year, amy joyner francis was attacked in a bathroom in howard high school of technology in wilmington. classmates will go on trial in family court charged with third agree criminal conspiracy. one every them 17 year old girl also charged with crimini neglect homicide. >> police in philadelphia juniata section are investigating after a 13 year old girl is reportedly sexually assaulted by three teen boys. the attack happened in this abandoned row home on the 1300

block every west butler street. police say the victim was walking down the street shortly before 5:00 p.m. when the group pulled her inside the boarded up home. >> you got a group of young kids, i don't know where most of them probably don't even live around here, but they're constantly in that building, instead of being in school. this is a during the day situation. >> and residents say they have complains before about the boarded up property. so far, no arrest haves been made. >> well, philadelphia police continue to search for the person who killed a man in his dog. officers returned to the 1800 block of north taney street after report of gunfire around 5:00 last night. by the time they got there the dog was dead and the man died of multiple gunshot wounds about an hour later. meanwhile, philadelphia police also have no suspect after someone ambushed and shot a man to death on roosevelt boulevard. police say the victim was at red light at somerdale and the boulevard sunday morning when driver in a white cadillac pulled up alongside the car, fired several shots, and then

drove away. >> the senate judiciary committee plans to vote today whether to approve judge gorsuch to the supreme court. mitch mcconnell says the vote will happen on friday, right before congress leaves for two week recess. only three democrats plan to vote to back the gorsuch, but democrats plan to filibuster the nomination including bob casey, cory booker and testimony tom carper. >> president trump's son-in-law and senior advisor jared kushner is in iraq traveling with the middle east in the middle east with chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general joseph dunn per, senior trump administration officials says kushner wants to see the situation in iraq for himself and shows the for the back. playing key role matters in the trump administration. >> traffic is moving along again on the atlantic city expressway, crews continue clean up job that closed part of the highway yesterday afternoon tanker truck overturned on the expressway, closing all eastbound lanes of

the farley service plaza, the spill spilled at least 7,000 gallons every fuel. >> new jersey community is mourning a teenage boy who died while riding a atv with his friends. it happened saturday afternoon along west patty bo kerr road in southampton township. fourteen year old nicholas cunning man, and passenger, lost control of their atv and collided when another atv being driven by another teen. two of the teens injured in the collision, nicholas died at the scene, and none were wearing helmets. >> when found out i was with two other kids, we were heart broken. i just realized i will never see him again. and in school, tomorrow, it will be so different. he was the funniest kid. >> "eyewitness news" has learned that the two injured teens are expected to survive. spreading fire investigators are trying to pinpoint what sparked a three alarm fire at abandoned warehouse. crews responded to the 200 block every south 11 street around 9:30 sunday morning, fire burned for several hours before crews were able to put out the flames at this point

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>> runners can rest east think morning after lacing up for a good cause over the weekends. more than 10,000 people gathered at the art museum for the 22nd annual donor dash yesterday morning. the event, which ranges from a 3k walk to 10k run, raises awareness about organ donations, chance for many to celebrate new life. >> when i got my heart at 50, i actually became an athlete. started going to the u.s. games, and the world games. since then i've earned 40

medals, 14 gold, 13 silver, 13 bronze. >> wow. according to the gift of life donors program organized the event more than 5,000 people are waiting for organ transplants in our region. and over the bridge in new jersey, a lawmaker wants to row ward organ donors. one bill would give new jersey taxpayers $1,000 in income tax credits for donating organs. another bill would give a 100-dollar gross income tax credit for taxpayers to donate blood, platelets, plasma, 19 other state also provide credit or deductions for organ donors. >> country music rocks las vegas, academy every country music awards aired last night here on cbs-3. florida georgia line took home the acm single record of the year award, for holy. mayor morris won the new female vocalist of the year, carrie underwood, miranda lambert, keith urban, lady and the bell up. lambert went home with a couple of a warts. >> -- awards.

>> it goes miranda lambert. >> thank you for letting me sharing it with me, thanks to my daddy, rick lambert, who is here tonight for this beautiful title. >> now, miranda lambert also took home female vocalist of the year, other winners include as i mentioned lady and the bell up which won vocal group of the year, thomas, won male, and jason al dean took home the final award of the night for entertainer of the year. >> good for them. time now 4:43. >> another check on the forecast with katie. did you see carrie underwood? she looks amazing. >> she always looks amazing, i feel like she can do no wrong. i heard a rumor that she actually does her own make up. that makes me love her even more. >> i know. >> seriously, like mom of the year, i mean, my gosh. we have such crushes on her. she is just perfect. all right, let's take a look at storm scan3, all calm at the moment here locally, clouds beginning to build, but that, folks, is a sign every things to come.

later on tonight we will start to see this storm system move in. it is producing some incredibly heavy thunderstorms right now across the buoy, out toward alabama, mississippi. this part of the puzzle will not impact us so much in the way of any severe threat. we definitely get soaked again with some rain and very likely some thunderstorms. this storm gets its act together and the heaviest moisture starts to build to the northeast. soap, what yo you will find here on future weather is a very big blob of rain overnight into early tomorrow morning. but it looks like it may ends up being removed from our region. come 3:00 p.m., nothing to track yet, then few speckles begin to slow up on the radar later tonight. you should get through the evening without any hitches. looks like rain will hold off until later tonight. notice that very heavy rounds every rain will move in. by the time actually this is starting to wake up for the morning ahead here, 1:00, 2:00, very heff moving through. bulk of it looks like to the northeast. we get dealt certainly a blow, but glancing blow, there will be heavy rain, bombing on

roadways for the morning rush. then second round every showers, thunderstorms, crumbles in here, the cells could have embedded heavier thunderstorms with them here. that looks like it gets in here through the afternoon. meanwhile, come the next few days, we're going to see little bit of back and forth pattern here. it is very mild. through the rest of the week. but we'll see another system move in thursday, additional showers, storms, and likely be left over shower around on friday for the phillies home opener. meisha, definately have seen worse forecasts than there is i think cooler granted but not bad on friday. >> not bad at all. thank you so much, katie for. that will good morning, everyone, happy monday watch are we looking at? looking at video from overturned tanker truck. actually happened yesterday afternoon about 1:00 p.m. that spilled thousands of gallons of fuel on the roadways, you can see crews out there, that's in the so much the case right now. so what you are looking at this morning, the update, a.c. expressway eastbound before route 54 hammonton, the entrance ramps right now closed before all lanes clearly blocked. now it is just entrance ramps

are closed. that being said, 8:00 a.m. repairs are going to starting done and they're closing two of the four lanes. so starting at 8:00 a.m., closing two of the four lanes on the a.c. expressway you bet it will slow you down little bit specially for those every you moving in the eastbound direction. just heads up on that, that's quick picture of the overturned tanker truck, yikes. not good at all. so again, two of the four lanes closing at 8:00 a.m. for repairs, just heads up on. that plus construction out there we will be talking about a lot of construction, 95 north between woodhaven road and route one, one lane block between ten a.m. and 2:00 p.m. jim, over to you. >> thank you, meisha. still ahead on "eyewitness news" this morning, find out what's behind the recall of an epi pen. that's in this morning's money watch. >> some of the phillies skyscrapers turn blue for the night. the special message they're send whg "eyewitness news" continues

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to build. flood watch goes into effect for mercer county and point northeast of that. so, through northern new jersey, if you are maybe new york commuter, headed up that way, you wake up with us this time in the morning, you may run into problems around this area tomorrow morning, because of heavy rounds of rain that's going to move n now, we get on that rain. but i think the bulk of the moisture removed to the northeast. meantime it is quite mild. so the majority of the forecast cooling back down toward more typical territory, by friday, and the heaviest rounds of rain likely coming again tonight, tomorrow, never looking ahead to thursday with the next system, meisha. >> could be worse, could be worse. not too bad. katie, thank you so much. and a very good morning to you. we're looking at monday morning right now, still dark and early out there, looking at the ben franklin bridge, push in the westbound direction from jersey in center city looking good, looking quiet just as we shouldment also taking quick peak at the vine was in the closed overnight for con truck sean, looks very quiet.

eastbound side, maybe a couple of your neighbors out there. overall looking good basically anywhere we look except we do have a problem here. so this is an overturned tanker truck clearly that's completely turned over, spilling thousands of gallons of fuel by the way. >> this happened actually yesterday at 1:00 p.m., and all of the lanes closed on the a.c. expressway eastbound near route 54 hammonton. right now what's going on, entrance ramps are closed that being said, how it will affect you little later is they're doing repairs starting 8:00 a.m. in the morning. they are closing two lanes, because of it, now, again, this is the eastbound direction. so it will be closed, it will be affecting those every you traveling in the eastbound side. westbound side, you might get little gaper delay, any time they close two lanes out of four starting at 8:00 a.m. it will affect you, talking more about this coming up in a little bit. jim, over to you. >> that will be an america, thank you. headed out the door stay updated on our sister station "kyw news radio" 10606789 also today the first pitch for the phillies season opener just hours away. not everyone is expecting to see them in the world series,

but how excited are the fans? >> for museums along the ben franklin parkway, the upcoming nfl draft is a mixed blessing. non-profit gives a helping hand to help bless fortunate maintain the traditions after religious holiday. check in two, three, four times a day, "kyw news radio" on your a.m. dial. >> philadelphia was basking in blue. >> last night some of the city's landmarks were lit up in blue to observe world autism awareness day. president trump also called on americans to do the same in their homes and to learn more about autism. blue by the way the color for the logo of the add vaux that is i group autism speaks. philadelphia please touch museum hosed children with autism and other with special needs. an event for families with children who require special accommodations. museum is calmer, quieter, fewer people, lower lighting, and less noise. well this week you can travel to japan without leaving town. >> japanese culture week begins today. the colorful and fun events taking place today in center

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bill cosby returns to court today. the key pieces of evidence the jury should not be allowed to see. >> a tanker truck crashed nearly 15 hours ago on the a.c. expressway, and still expected to cause problems this morning. meisha has an update. and storm scan3 shows things are pretty quiet in our area right now.

but that is going change, we will tell when you we could see some thunderstorms. >> well today is monday, april m jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. all of that plus the reason you can expect to pay more at the pump soon. but first, a check on the forecast with katie and the roads with meisha. >> awesome. >> thanks for joining us. >> thank you. funny you said that, my gas light just went on. fill up again. every time. >> meisha just scurried over here. >> yes, i have to tell you, dealing with some problems on the a.c. expressway. that will really affect a lot of people. so talking about all of the details coming up, it happened yesterday, but a lot to talk about this morning. >> rolls over into a monday. at least the weather will be quiet throughout the daylight hours, doesn't stay that way necessarily as you guys just mentioned, there are some thunderstorms but daylight hours are fine, you'll see the clouds already visible on our satellite composite here, but throughout the course of the day there will be some mixture of some sun, some clouds, call it partly sunny to mostly

cloudy throughout the day. but at least dry, and also mild. there is a storm system brewing off to the southwest, that's what is going to bring in the moisture needed for us to see some rain and eventually some thunderstorms, as well. now temperatures as they stands are actually off to pretty mild start. mid four's, pretty up up and down i95 say for trenton, 38 at the a.c. airport de end pelling colder, allentown 38, as well, wind flow beginning to turn more southwest it, will stay generally out of the south, throughout the day, it will help along with is an up tick in the thermometer readings, so throughout the afternoon i expect mid 60s even despite more cloud cover, and mainly cloudy skies all around the resort towns, as well. but, don't get used to that, again, there will be rain that moves in by tonight, we will time it out just a little later on. >> katie, thank you so much for. that will good morning, everyone being happy monday a lot going on. first montgomery county we do have downed pole and wires. so morris road right now