pop up showers and thunderstorms. meteorologist kate bilo is tracking storm chance and bigger threat later in the week, right kate. >> this pattern continues every couple days we have got another storm to worry about. this one really, packed its punch last night but we are under influence of the low pressure and see still a few scattered showers and possibly a thunderstorm here or there it is most act i have cross central new york state, don't really have much in the way of thunder or lightening popping on storm scan three but a few scattered showers here and there they can come up quickly sun has been trying to come out this afternoon. you could be driving, sun shining and then few minutes later you are driving through a shower, perhaps an intense downpour. we have a couple over burlington county into ocean county right now. just a few sprinkles around the city. nothing major just yet and it looks like threat will diminish as we head toward, sundown tonight. in the meantime temperatures have really surged now that the sun has peaked out for between the cloud here this afternoon. seventy-two in philadelphia.

seventy-six in millville. seventy-six in dover as well. seventy-two if you are up in allentown. temperatures will stay mild, as we head through tonight. lets take a quick look at future weather. you can see threat for a few pop up showers and storms through six or 7:00, possibly later in the poconos but then we will clear it out overnight and start tomorrow with the good deal of sunshine. this evening, stray shower, clearing overnight and then for your wednesday a break between the storms, and that is right that means another storm is on the radar, it comes in thursday, and then this could produce threat for severe weather. we will have more in the full forecast in just a bit, jessica. >> see you then. $70,000 reward is offered for any information leading to an arrest in the quadruple shooting in north philadelphia the three men were killed in yesterday's violence. "eyewitness news" reporter alycia nieves is live in north fail with what we have learn about this so far, alycia. >> reporter: jessica, police say men they were shot were well men to authorities, each had lengthy criminal record

for drugs and other charges. still authorities say they are committed to finding the suspected shooters, and now, killer, and justice and two to prevent another reckless shoot ing from happening here. four people were shot, three of them now dead, two suspects , still on the loose, and philadelphia police are asking, anyone who saw what happened here, to talk. >> $60,000 reward, for anyone with any information leading to at rest and conviction of these individual. >> reporter: authorities putting up a substantial reward, $50,000 from the philadelphia police department , another $10,000 now from the cities housing authority. officials hoping that it helped catch the two shooters whose actions are being called bold, brazen, more importantly , reckless. >> broad daylight you have 25 round that were fired. that could have hit innocent kid, innocent person. >> reporter: broad daylight shooting happened just after 3:30 across the street from saint maliki's catholic school , there were no children

hurt but many of them were scared though. >> we were in the school and all you heard was gunshots, multiple gunshots. >> reporter: police presencees was heavy, patrol cars, circled the school, most of the day. police warning that the publish it is in their best i don't help authorities, find the two shooters who shot four people, and then killed three of them here. >> we're always worried about retaliation, we're worried about them coming back and shooting or injuring more individual in that area we really need whatever help we can get to get these individual off the street. >> reporter: police say suspect shooters may have fled this area in a small gray suv, they have acquired survival are surveillance video in the direction of where they fled and they are hoping to get a photo of the suspects shooter. reporting live from north philadelphia, alycia nieves for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". twenty-nine year-old lawrence mitchell appeared in a camden county courtroom today. he is suspect shooter police believe is responsible for last weeks snipper situation

in northern liberties. from the fifth floor of an unfinished apartment mitchell allegedly shot at a car more than a football field away, woman associated with delilah 's gentlemen's club was getting in the car, and the bullets, missed by just a few inches. trial of the eric frein, man accused of murdering a pennsylvania state trooper, got underway today. trial is taking place in milford, pike county but jury is from chester county. frein's charge in the 2014ury ambush death of corporal brian dickson and wounding of trooper alex douglass. judge is allowing prosecutors to use a videotaped confession by frein, if convicted he could face the death penalty. frein has pleaded not guilty. a new jersey woman is facing potential hate crime charges after police say she attack a massachusetts man with the hammer. the alleged incident left the man face bloody, investigators say angela jones of newark approached him at a gas station off i-95 in virginia and began yelling as he fueled up his porsche. man says she bashed his boat and porsche with that hammer

when he tried to ignore her and then attacked him with the hammer. jones, who is black, is accused of using racial slurs during that attack. >> she had word with my wife, he called her a white bleep and then you fancy white women , spit in your face, whatever she saw in us she got mad at us and decide that had she would teach me a lesson i guess. >> massachusetts man and his wife were returning home from florida, as authorities planned to extradite jones back to virginia. a new jersey teenager is facing up to 15 years in prison after authorities say that he plotted to kill, pope frances, during his trip trip trip to philadelphia in 2015. prosecutors say that the 17 year-old from lindenwald pleaded guilty as an adult to attempting to provide material support for terrorist. according to authorities plot involved using a snipper to shoot the pope during a mass as well as explosive devices. the plot was foiled when authorities said the teen tried to recruit an fbi

employee as a snipper. meantime police arrested a 17 year-old in connection with the string of armed robberies in west philadelphia that took place over pennsylvania two weeks. investigators believed stewart is responsible for at least six robberies on market street corridor between 60th and 62nd street. investigators say stewart may also be connected to a homicide at 59th and larchwood march 26th, that is where 17 year-old was shot and killed. police arrested stewart, at 51st and park side, he is being charged as an adult. a bridge down the shore is closed for emergency repairs and it could remain off limits for a while. chopper three over towns end inlet bridge earlier to day it connects sea isle city and avalon and cape may county. monday engineers found a crack 30 feet below water in one of the peers that supports the bridge. they hope to have it fixed by memorial day. people in philadelphia are commemorating at as nation of the reverend doctor martin luther king, junior. he was assassinated in memphis

tennessee, 49 years ago today. a group walk across ben franklin bridge to commemorate doctor king's a as nation this morning. reverend david brown says it is also a day to promote peace throughout city. >> good time to connect with other people, all of the neighbors in philadelphia, and some of the volatile and polarizing times in which we live it gives us an opportunity to renew our commitment to work for peace in our neighborhood. >> annual bridge walk for peace is the longest, running commemoration of the assassination of doctor king. today marks the 50th anniversary of doctor kick's famous speech, beyond vietnam where he denounced america's presence in vietnam. a local school nurse is being hailed a hero after spotting the symptoms of a life threatening disease in a kindergartener. "eyewitness news" reporter cleve bryan has more from the children's hospital of philadelphia. >> reporter: six year-old nathan campbell is showing leukemia hoist boss. cancer is in remission and thanks to intuitive staff at his elementary school his

family expects nathan to make a full recovery. collinswood kindergarten teacher kathy keller suspected something was wrong last september. >> he stood alongside and he said his legs hurt and he didn't wanting to out and play >> reporter: kelly said nathan 's skin color was pale and didn't have much energy. she talk to patty butler, at the elementary school who immediately thought nathan's condition was beyond a cold or allergies. she implored nathan's mom to call to see a doctor right now >> his skin was translucent and that is when i said, nicole, it is nurse patty, please, i want to you see someone, i haven't seen someone in this color in 25 years prove me wrong. >> reporter: soon nathan was diagnosed with leukemia and began treatment at children's hospital of philadelphia while he has not been able to go back to school because his immune system is compromised he has a place in keller's class. other students sent him letters and video message toss thank nurse butler, they nominate heard for a contest

of america's greatest school nurse. >> you need that for a care coordination you need to have somebody that will do that and i love my students. so i'm very blessed. >> reporter: coming up on "eyewitness news" at 6:00 hear from nathan's mom and voting for america's greatest school nurse, closes on april the 16th, so make sure you vote for nurse patty. at chop i'm cleve bryan, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". mayor jim kenney is recognizing volunteers for their services and praising the impact their work has on the community. this is the fifth annual day of service recognition, and day that honors the work of none monday profit and national service groups. scrabble coach john green was one of the many volunteers honored who received the first ever full hero award. green has worked for nine years as amen for and coach for 15 different scrabble clubs, teaching young people how to play the game. hero award given to a philadelphia resident who makes a unique service contributions to the city. >> very well done. coming up on "eyewitness

news" horror in seer, yeah video coming out of syria is very disturbing and what authorities say caused widespread death and destruction is being condemned around the world with some calling it a war crime. full report at 5:30. incredible story about a group of local high school students who are giving people in need an actual helping hand how their creating hand and changing peoples lives, leslie two philadelphia sports stars playing for two different teams and they went to high school together. i'm give you a hint. >> i'm one of them. >> that story coming up. a look at our jack frost big boulder camera, we can see storms popping up here and there tonight, kate's full forecast on the other

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all right. kate bilo joining us now and we had quite some rain, moved through and we might have more on the way. >> we have been in this pattern wherever three days we have a storm. we have sun and then it gets taken away. sun's coming back but another storm lurks in for the forecast later on in this week this could pre dues heavy rain , and another round of thunderstorms. good news is we have a dry spell to look forward to in the seven day forecast but today started out wet. it turns out nice. take a look, drone watch three over schuylkill river alongside schuylkill expressway there. what a beautiful shot from drone watch three. you can see cloud over philadelphia sky line. that is what it looked like all afternoon. it is self-destructive sunshine. cloud break open you get blue sky and sun but atmosphere is so unstable any sun heat up ground, that particle air rises and we get cloud to develop and it looks ominous outside. that is what drone watch three captured for us there looking the schuylkill river today those dark cloud over the city

sky line. storm scan three shows why we are seeing them. we have some pop up showers. another thing that can happen when you get instability in the atmosphere especially if you get sun, showers like like to form. same process that creates pop up thunderstorms in the summertime. we are seeing scattered showers here and there over bucks, montgomery counties up toward lehigh valley and poconos as well. and thinks all part and parcel of the larger system same one that brought us heavy rain last night which is starting to exit producing snow across portions of maine. then we will shift focus to this guy our next storm system brewing here, the swirl of the cloud, rain, mountain and snow over portions of the deep south. this will be lifting our way by the end of the week and bringing mild air and then risk for reign and thunder. beautiful in cape may courthouse. deep blue sky. 73 degrees. temperatures sky rocketed this afternoon. we will be in the low to mid 70's this evening as well, and can't rule out that stray shower, otherwise, warm with sun peeking through cloud.

overnight skies clear, pretty comfortable. fifty-two your overnight low. lets talk about our next system tomorrow's a break in the action. we have sunshine. beautiful day. temperatures near 70 degrees but then here comes that next storm. worst is between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. thursday. round of the showers and storms. anyone of these could have embedded thunder, wind and heavy rainfall and just on and off intermittent all day, starts to wind down after 6:00 r influence of that low on friday with cloud, showers, and a cool down, even some snow in the western part of the state. so what to expect for your thursday, period of rain on and off all day, locally strong thunderstorms embedded in those waves of rain, heavy downpours, strong wind with any storm and both commutes likely impact on thursday by yet another system. as we head in the end of the week we will keep it chilly for friday for that phillies home opener. tomorrow beautiful 70 degrees, thursday would be warm with you cloud and rain will keep it cooler at 59 and cloud

which just a few stray showers for friday, i'll have your fulfill is home opener forecast coming up, it doesn't look like a wash out but once we hit weekend, we are on a road to improvement. >> okay. >> nicer weather next week, even maybe some 70's return. >> really. >> on the road again. >> thanks, appreciate it. did you know it is hug a news person day. parentally. justin udo from kyw news radio took to the streets to cash in on the day and find out why hug us. don, do you need a hug. >> maybe later. >> a canadian who can't skate and a floridaian who loves ice , one of the most interesting stories you have not heard, up next in

calling it a career but not out of a gentlemen, cowboys quarterback and eagles nemesis tony romo is ending his playing day but coming up at 6:00 the game he already had lined up and why you will still be seeing a lot of him right here on cbs, come football season. excitement in north carolina has tar heels bringing home another national champion ship. >> take a look at this time lapse video from chapel hill moments after the big win over

gonzaga unc fans poured in the streets near campus for celebration. thinks unc's sixth ncaa title, it is their first since 20 on 89. >> how about that. >> just a few students there. >> wow. >> my, my, my. >> don joins us live, talking hoops, hockey. >> that time lapse is something. >> that is pretty cool. >> we are talking about ghost sauce. >> ghost and sauce. >> i got it. >> together. >> they went their separate ways and somehow they ended up in the same place. two local pros finding their way to philadelphia. leslie van arsdal has more. >> one of the most interesting sports stories in philadelphia that you probably haven't heard of, the flyers shayne gostisbehere, and sixers nick stauskus. they were high school roommates. now here you are, both, professional athletes, in philadelphia. >> so crazy especially considering the school we went to is like 150 kid, all boys, who was like in the middle of no where in connecticut and

we're randomly as roommates and now he is playing hockey and i'm playing basketball in the same city. the chances are astronomical. >> i was told he would be a basketball player. they say, that is a little bit different. he is like yeah, i don't even like hockey. i'm from florida. you are from canada and don't like hockey. people look at me like you are canadian. you play basketball. i have never played who can any my life. i have never been on like an ice rink playing hockey. never even tried it are. >> do you have any like, unique nick stories because he is a funny guy. >> he likes to sleep a lot one time we hit him hard with shaving cream. he was not happy bit. he turned on the lights and he was covered in it. >> waking up, i had like shaving cream all over my hand , i had shaving cream all over my face, in my hair, and like as soon as i wake up i started laughing and what not. i just knew right away they got me. >> reporter: from roommate

pranks to the pros these two have come a long way since their high school days. leslie van arsdal, for "eyewitness sports". >> how about that. >> what are the chances. >> ghost and sauce. >> high school roommates. >> back together again. >> appreciate it. coming up next, new word added to dictionary.com, and we will have them for you. also ahead u.s. officials say it could be a war crime in syria, what authorities believe was used in an attack on civilians including woman and children, pat. i'm pat gallen here at holy ghost prep where students are literally giving others, a hand, they are using 3-d print tours build these hand models, for those in need, you got to see this story coming

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debate on whether or not he should be confirmed. currently 60 votes are needed, if democrats vote to block gorsuch republican leaders are threatening to change senate rules so that gorsuch will only need a simple majority, 51 votes to be confirmed. still to come on "eyewitness news", new word added to dictionary.com. can you guess which slang terms are now official. technology is helping students change the lives of people who need prosthetic hand, meet local teens doing amazing work, up next, kate. well, here's your weekend watch, good news is sunshine returning by week end. it will be a soggy finish to the workweek with rain thursday, showers friday but sunny weekend, temperatures on their way up saturday into sunday and all and all a nice spring weekend to get outside we will see temperatures rise from the 50's to the 60's and we can be in line for 70's next week g news for the weekend but we have to get through the end of the week first.

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april showers and storms not only today but later in the week as well, meteorologist kate bilo tells us when threat for strong storms will be, and she will tell us again in a few minutes. a preschool in philadelphia's kensington neighborhood is unveiling new reading nooks in its classrooms. "eyewitness news" is on the hand when light house family school on somerset street also accepted 2,000 new books, and in addition to school received ipad, and a surprise 15 you this dollars grant. it was all given through pnc's grow up great program, pnc employees had book drives, and

volunteers payment and assembled book shelves for reading nooks. you where to meet a student whose school project is getting a big thumbs up. >> bensalem sophomore is using very cool technology to help other people, and he is getting his classmates, involved. our pat gallen has story in our einstein health quarter science center report. >> reporter: in bensalem holy ghost prep student are literally giving others a hand using 3-d printers sophomore jack pinkstone unveiled a prosthetic land using relatively new technology. >> my mom showed me this article on line of people, printing these hand. so it was a fun project, to use my pinter for to help people in need. >> reporter: jack decide take part in doctor craft hand challenge originating from a stem program in south carolina he then brought it to the attention of his teacher michael jacobs. >> it shocked me, he brought

it in, finished hand, that he printed with his own 3-d printer at home which is another unbelievable task, i said jack, i think we really need to open this up. >> reporter: jack spread word to his classmates and 30 students showed up for the first meeting. they get together once a week to build on customizing them. >> we can actually contact the company and tell house we will give hand too. if it is a girl we can print up pink hand or blue hand. >> reporter: while it takes 16 hours to print parts for one hand building it is inexpensive. >> the plastic, depend on what quality plastic you get but on average for this size project it will cost like five or ten dollars in plastic and then the rest of the materials would be about five bucks more >> reporter: needless to say the teachers are proud of what the students are accomplishing with this project. >> one of the things we foster here at the school is unique gifts and talents and these kid have this unique gift and they are really able to take that gift and help the

community, you know, locally and globally with project, like this. >> reporter: so as you can see there is no limit to how students, can help others, in the classroom. from bensalem i'm pat gallen for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". so cool. >> very good. >> very, very brilliant mind there kate joins us with our forecast, driving into work, up i-95, it was 73, sunny. got to the top of the girard point bridge, dark cloud. >> yep, it will be just like that this afternoon. overnight is where heavy rain came through. most of just sleeping. missed most of that. all day it has been unsettled, cloud, sun comes out and just as quickly cloud bubble up again. that is what we are seeing outside as well. we are starting to clear out progressively as we go through evening hours. there are still a few pop up showers and chance for a thunderstorm at lee through next several hours before we start to move out, influence of this area of low pressure. lets look outside right now,

you can see those cloud, dark cloud in the distance as we look live toward spring gander and broad street and eastern side of the things toward river and toward new jersey you can see dark cloud bubbling up, not all of these producing showers but even just a few included could produce a few scattered rain drops, i may need to wipe wipers once or twice out and about this evening into tonight. you can see cumulus cloud build up in the atmosphere, that is how thunderstorms develop and clear indication that there is upward motion. a lot of instability in the atmosphere authentic. here's a look at our weather watcher map. they are showing temperatures on the high side. temperatures surged today. new record in atlantic city today. got to 78 degrees today. john's at 76 in the city. he said dark cloud, beautiful but ominous. it does look am minute news with these cloud, really building, high in the sky. further north even 75 in perkasie as we check with john jenkins reporting sun peeking through cloud. we are near 80 in south jersey

seventy-eight at john carroll 's home in mullica. he's sunshine, very warm outside. once sun broke through temperatures went off to the races today. and greg mccoy in marshallton delaware at 77 degrees. partly cloudy sky there, very warm but muggy this afternoon with am minute news cloud racing by, bright blue between the cloud. very beautiful looking afternoon. he shows us these cloud again building up in the atmosphere and when you get a break in the cloud cover we will get bright blue sky, and cloud just as quickly fill in the gaps there couple more photos from our weather watchers you can see towering q, towering cumulus cloud and see how that cloud is building and once it builds high enough they can pre dues showers and thunderstorms and we are still on the hook for here for rest of this evening thanks to jenny for that pick. lets look at storm scan three, we are sweeping area locally we are not seeing too much of anything just a couple of showers, and we have one cell moving from northampton county

in to north injuries that i is producing heavier downpours as well right now. you can see yellow and red shading right there couple steady downpours not seeing much in the way of lightening, lower bucks, possibly northe picking up a stray shower here or there not that completely active evening outside, out and about you may need windshield wipers until system exits. once sun goes down we get rid of the heating of the day, thunderstorm and showers will diminish. now we have to watch this next storm lifting from the south, pulling in a lot of moisture witt and this hits on thursday with scattered showers and thunderstorms, locally heavier rain all day long. more indications of pop up cloud at kutztown area middle school, dark included but breaks of blue sky and sunshine in between, it is 71 degrees there. very warm in the western suburbs, and 75 in reading. seventy-five wilmington. dover at a warm 78. we are in the 70's in the city as well. what to expect for next couple of days, round of rain,

continue, tomorrow sunshine nice day brief break in the action. thursday though heavy rain, thunderstorms, on and off all day long. and then friday we will stay under influence of the next storm and cloudy, cold with a few scattered showers. here's your thursday system lifts from the south. it will pre dues scattered showers, thunderstorms, heavy rain probably a severe thunderstorm especially off to the south and that comes on the heels of tomorrow which is sunny and mild. we will keep going back and forth but good news once we get in the seven day we will get into a quiet stretch of weather, some more sunshine and temperatures on the rise. for your wednesday that should be wednesday, sunny mild with a pleasant breeze, temperatures right around 70 degrees. thursday big difference rain and thunder on and off all day , war anytime from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. watch for shower on friday and then saturday back to near 60 with sun. sunday looks great. look at monday and tuesday we're in the 70's near 80 on tuesday and both days, we will see sun. ukee and jessica back over to

you. well, most dog owners keeping man's best friend happy and healthy means getting them out for daily dose of exercise this dog gym is certainly helping with that , first of its kind john clark in cairo has exercises designed for dogs. they provide a place to run around and socialize with other k-9's. animal trainers say activity like this can boost confidence in the dogs and some of the owners, they are getting a little exercise too. >> just getting ready to say that we had a husky like. that beautiful. amy schumer and goldie hahn are playing mother and daughter in an upcoming movie. >> they talk bay project and entertainment tonight and nancy odell joins us from los angeles with the details. >> reporter: ukee and jessica while amy and gold he i were shooting their new comedy, goldie's daughter kate hudson was on hand and we got details about their girl side trips. >> who is planning the excursions that would you take when you had time off.

>> we both kind of did. she bought a boat. >> katie was swimming out and --y was trying to impress her but she was like a mermaid >> like you are snorkeling in front of you, i know, that is not what i look like right now >> these two get along so well would you think they were related, seriously, amy looked as if she could be kate's sister. just listen to goldie play proud momma. >> it was my, me and my two daughters. >> ahh. >> hard to believe they have been friend since production began on their new movie smash they did major bonding on the set, playing what else, a mother/daughter duo whose south american vacation goes horribly wrong when they are kidnaped. >> lets get out of here. >> it is goldie's first comedy in 14 years, her last one was banger sisters co starring her pal susan surroundon and in of

it would happen without a bold move from amy. >> just approached her on a plane. i want you to be in the movie with you. she said okay, honey. we will have much more on tonight's et. ukee and jessica back to you. they seem like a mother and daughter. >> you can get your hollywood news friend tane. tonight and every week night at 7:00 p.m. right here on cbs-3. there is still a lot more ahead tonight. >> i'm justin udo with kyw news radio for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". when we come back i'll tell what you special day to day is

you may not know this but it is national hug a news person day. >> our meisha johnson got

fuzzy hugs from two special gets on "eyewitness news" this morning. >> hug a news person day, right. elmo, come over here real quickly. give me a hug. give me a hug. >> okay. >> okay, get over here. look, grover wants a hug. all right. get over here. >> thank you. >> and he will know, grover, stopped by studios to promote sesame street live at liacouras center starting on thursday. >> man, they are dancing, hugging. >> hug it up. >> now, back to the hugs though. >> coming in today. >> made me day. >> and experts say is there real brain power behind hugs. reporter justin udo from our sister station kyw news radio has more for you. >> reporter: today is national hug a news person day and anyone who knows me knows i'm not much of a hugger but i have been told for years that a hug is good for the heart. i went to psychological and consultation services in philadelphia, to see if there is any truth behind. that hillary katz is clinical

social worker here. she says is there a science behind hugging. >> if you hold a hug, for as little as 102nd, oxytocin is released, it is a hormone from our pet to tar i gland and it gives us that bonding, that good, that kind of good bonding, feelings, sense of security. also, dopamine is released from our brain, and that is another good feeling chemical that is released. >> reporter: sometimes covering news can bring you down a bit so with all this talk about how good hugging is , i decided to maybe i i need a hug or two. i had to practice though. after some practice, i decided to go to rittenhouse square and hug it out. >> we have a hard job, you know, you have to figure out what is right, what is wrong and you have to be able to interpret it. >> you guys are all great. >> hillary says we should have at least one hug a day, so go hug a news person it will both do you some good. justin udo for kyw news radio

for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> hugging, natural there. >> thank you, thank you. >> go to the people and get the hug. >> my man. that is "eyewitness news" at 5:00. now at 6:00. >> reporter: nfl draft work is underway along the parkway. i'm joe holden. we will tell you how tourist are bummed out. and joining a news team but not in the football field, cowboys quarterback tony romo is retiring but he is not going anywhere, where he is headed and what eagles fan think about the long time rival's new gig. caught on camera a robber armed with a cup, the substance the suspect says was in it and what he got away with, kate. temperatures staying mild as we head through tonight and into tomorrow, we're talking about another 70-degree day but then more changes on the way with our next storm, i'll tell you when it gets here. "eyewitness news" at 6:00 starts right now.

it is only thing i wanted to see in philadelphia. >> you can say it is a rocky start for some, tourist kept from seeing the famous art museum steps, in their visit to philadelphia drone watch three is overhead as crews are already tackling big job of preparing for the up copping, national football league draft , but there is still plenty of excitement with the big event more than three weeks away now. good evening, i'm ukee washington. i'm jessica dean. "eyewitness news" reporter joe holden is live at the art museum and been there all day. joe, crews are hard at work and people have plenty to say bit. >> reporter: jessica, ukee, good evening. of course we're talking about the pluses and minuses of the nfl draft. this will be a boom for philadelphia, for business, and for people live here. but one of the things we have heard a lot right here in this area is the steps are off limits, the rocky statue is very busy right new but nobody on the steps, so to speak.

the first to the build up of the 2017 nfl draft in philadelphia, it is fail tourists, who are bumped out. >> only thing we came here for >> reporter: those famous rocky steps are knocked out for next few weeks, ronald st fuss fresh in from holland on the holiday. >> you just want to climb those steps but they told you that is not happening. >> it is not happening. it is because of the tradition of the draft. >> reporter: nfl draft will be big, a star studded event, to be held outside, that whim draw hundreds of thousands office people and tense millions in revenue. on the second pim, leading up, it is traffic. >> it will take over the whole parkway. >> he is right. >> reporter: starting april 19th inner lanes of the parkway will close, and by april 25th, all lanes of the parkway will be restrict. twenty-first to 24th street in this area will shut down. eakins awful off limits as well as martin luther king