>> that's why katie took off. >> yes, it was a warm day yesterday, getting taste of summer for the easter bunny and all of the little baby checks. 87 degrees in philadelphia, high temperature actually 3 degrees shy of the record yesterday. got close to record in ac at 88 degrees, if you were down the shore yesterday, you are loving life. 85 degrees. the high temperature in wildwood yesterday, because of the hot day, it is still extremely mild at this early hour. 65 degrees in philadelphia, 67 in wilmington, we have fallen back to the 50's in the lehigh valley, 56 degrees right now, so little cooler there. storm scan3 showing us mainly quiet conditions, couple of sprinkles trying to work their way into northern delaware, do have more in the way of shower activity across portions of western pennsylvania, so it will start to work its way eastbound, cold front will move through the area today. give us some scatter shower activity, pretty light intensity across most areas as we head into midday. decrease in clouds on the back

side of the frontal boundery second half of the day. by the 5:00 commute, breezy, temperatures today not budging all too much. still very mild, but because we're at this mild start, meisha, we will make it up into the 70s by the 5:00 hour, so really nice to close out a monday. >> not complaining about 70s, no way. all right, lauren, thank you so much. good morning, everyone, happy monday. looking outside this is where we were talking about that disable vehicle, the vine eastbound near broad street. and it is still out there. just moved out to the shoulder, can't see it in this camera shot. heads up. overall looking at the vine, still clearly traveling at posted speeds, and i'm hoping to keep you there until 6:00. see what happens, mondays tends to get busy. vine looking good other than the disable not pulled off to the shoulder. ben franklin bridge, gorgeous shot here, push in the westbound direction from jersey into center city. looking good, everything smooth sailing right now for the moment on the ben franklin bridge, then talking about a lot of construction, delaware route seven, right lane blocked there. just heads up. and also, some more

construction this is actually water main installation, belmont between rock hill road and city avenue. >> this will be closed between nine a.m. and 3:00 p.m. starting at 9:00 a.m. you will have to use alternate route 23, going to be your best bet around there. and some more construction, pocopson, you will have to take lenape road your best alternate around that, jim, rahel, back to you. >> thank you shall meisha. violent weekend in the city continues right into this morning, just hours ago, gunfire claimed a life in southwest philadelphia. >> "eyewitness news" reporter trang do live near the scene with the details, good mornin morning, trang. >> reporter: good morning, numbers this weekend just staggering there is weekends into monday, 18 people shot, three of them fatally, let's take a look at the scene here, this is the latest shooting at 62nd and woodland avenue outside of the bar here, you see lounge 62. so very active scene. police have the intersection currently closed off to traffic. they found the victim lying on the sidewalk, of woodland avenue here. some three hours ago.

but, let's take a look at the scene from earlier this morning. just after 2:00 a.m. police say officers about a block away when you heard single gunshot fired. officer then rushed here, found large crowd surrounding a 27 year old hispanic man, who had been shot in the torso. paramedics pronounced him dead on the scene. though there were a lot of people out here, police have not been able to gather much information from witnesses. they do believe the man was a customer inside the lounge 62 bar at some point in the evening. but, earlier this morning, police also responded to another shooting, just before 2:00 a.m., near the intersection of b and whitaker and juniata park. three people, 21 year old man, 24 year old man, and 22 year old woman all shot in the leg and taken by private car to temple hospital. they are all in stage condition. investigators believe that shooting may have stemmed from some kind of argument, and police say increased violence in the city usually co-incites with warmer weather. >> we've had numerous shootings over the weekend. you know, summertime,

summertime is coming, warm weather today. you know, we get peaks and valleys during the warm weather. certainly anyone who witnessed a smoothing or any shooting for that matter to contact the police, contact our homicide unit. >> and back out here at 62nd and woodland, police are still looking for shooters in both of these incidents from overnight as you see here, very busy stretch with lot of businesses, investigators are hoping that some surveillance cameras captured what happened, and would be able to identify some kind after shooter. for now live in southwest philadelphia, trang do, cbs-3, "eyewitness news," back to you. >> trang, thank you for up that date. police in abington township searching for uber driver who disappeared almost week ago after dropping passengers off in philadelphia. kristin live was working tuesday night, she was driving her 2,003 olive green subaru legacy to pick up and drove off passengers, last fair along 2700 block of axe

factory road in northeast philadelphia, her mom right now pleading for help in finding her missing daughter. >> i don't care if she is 45 years old. she could be a hundred and 45 years old and every mother in the world does the same thing, she is still mine. >> detective have cleared the last person live dropped off. no reason to believe at this point foul play is involved in her disappearance. >> developers looking for what started a fire in montgomery county in a house that put one person in the hospital. firefighters returned to the 2700 block every vester lane in upper moreland township around 6:00 yesterday evening. they had it under control short time later. one person went to the hospital after suffering from cardiac arrest. >> another house fire this one in bucks county also under investigation. the flames spread to several homes in the 100 block of park avenue in morrisville. police and firefighters were on scene for hours trying to get the flames under control. authorities believe the fire started in a kitchen. >> we had three dwellings, go

down to the ground by fire, the fire started in occupied dwelling, and spread to two unoccupied dwellings. >> now, one woman managed to escape the burning home without injuries. >> police in berks county still looking for man accused of shooting 13 year old, this happened on stauffer road in washington township friday night. investigators say the teen was in his home with two friends when a car pulled into the driveway. man then walk up to the house and punched through screen window while shouting obscenities, shot the victim in the neck and torso, victim in critical condition. police identified the suspect as 19 year old matthew hail, if you plan to charge him with attempted murder burr not yet in custody. >> there is poe potential break in the facebook murder case, they confirm they have tracked the suspect's cell phone to erie pennsylvania, meantime cleveland police continue their manhunt for steven stevens. the facebook video reportedly shows him shooting and killing a man. also claimed to have commit other murders, police have not verified. that will stevens works at

beach brooke, behavioral health agency in ohio. >> he was a good man. i hate he's gone, you know what i mean? i don't know what i'm going to do. >> and police say stevens is driving a white ford fuelings, they consider him armed and dangerous, fbi is assisting cleveland police in the search for him. >> police in warminster township looking for suspect in a attempted armed robbery case there is happened at the walgreens on ten york road yesterday becomes 2:30 in the morning, investigators say the suspect pictured here enters the store with a gun, and demanded narcotics from the pharmacy. the man left without getting anything. and, fortunately, no one was hurt. >> well, you have a little extra time to file your income tax returns, tomorrow is the deadline. but if you owe the irs private debt collectors may come after you. irs says it will begin sending out letters this month to affected taxpayers, will only contact people with long standing tax debt going back several years. the initial contact will not

be by phone. in your case ends upgoing to collection firm it, will provide you with its name and contact information. president trump took to twitter to denounce protesters demands that he release his tax returns, yesterday, he tweeted: i did what was in almost an impossible thing to do for republican easily won the electoral college. now, tax returns were brought up again. someone should look into who paid for small organized rallies yesterday. the election is over. protesters say that the president owes the country the highest level of transparency. >> well, coming up: tough took from the vice president, declares america's pain wednesday north korea is over. we will tell you how the us plans to pressure the communist country into dropping its nuclear weapons program. >> free tuition, new york state is offering it, but will it work elsewhere. >> ♪ >> ♪

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♪ >> this morning the vice president visited the demilitarized zone, declaring the pain sense over with the north. hen a daniels with the latest. >> the era of strategic pain sense over. >> vice president pence visited the demilitarized zone between north and south korea this morning vowing to protect the south, and pressure the north to abandon it nuclear weapons program. >> we hope to achieve this objective through peaceable means, but all options are on the table. >> vice president warning came a mid rise zero rising tensions on the korean peninsula, sunday north korea

launched with us believed was medium range balistic missile from its submarine base. it failed. explode being five seconds after it left the grounds. just the day before the country paraded its military arsenal through the street. >> this problem is coming to a head. >> president trump's national security advisor, lieutenant general h. r. mcmaster mcmaster says the us now working with its allies and china to respond to the threat. >> i think there is an international concensus now including the chinese, and the chinese leadership, that this is a situation that just can't continue. >> lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are on board. >> china is the key. the partnership with casino and the countries in that region is what we have got to focus on. >> the campaign trail, president trump promised to label china a currency manipulator. over the weekends, to reverse, tweeting, why would i call china a currency manipulate when he they are working with us on the north korean problem? >> hena daniels, cbs-3,

"eyewitness news." >> happening today, runners will take to the streets through the boston marathon. the city expect more than 30,000 people to run in the race. the marathon remains under tile security since two bombs planted near the finish line exploded on april 15th of 2013. three spectators killed, and more than 26 off others were injured, boston mayor marty walsh says there are no credible threats to this year's marathon. >> well, higher education experts are weighing in on new york's first in the nation idea of free tuition at colleges. but some are saying, it is too good to be true. some experts say the plan offers the lisa cyst tans to the most needy students whose tuition can be covered by other aid. the model covers tuition at public colleges, for student whose families are earn less than $125,000 a year, critics say this doesn't take into account costs beyond tuition, like room and board. >> speaking of new york, i was in new york this weekend. it was so nice. everybody was at the park, walking all of the dogs, beautiful.

>> beautiful weekends, my dogs were very happy with the sunshine, they got their tan on, there was little water action with the ball, the whole thing. >> okay. >> glorious. >> little crazy, little crazy? >> we got little crazy. they look to swim, even though they're small dogs, you know, they ' hardy little guys. so we're out there in the beautiful conditions yesterday. everyone enjoying a taste of summer for our easter holiday. we're still very mild, don't need that jacket this morning. 65 degrees, winds out of the west light at around 3 miles per hour, dew points in the middle 50's right now, so you notice hint every mugginess in the air. but all is quiet as we get live look at center city philadelphia. but you might want to pack the umbrella long at the huge big one, little pocket umbrella headed into the first half of the day. scattered showers, couple every sprinkles trying to make their way into northern delaware, but not having successful time at doing that. we do have this area of precipitation, right now, upper wind, association with cold front. >> this will continue to move due east. so we will see some showers moving through, especially for the first half of the day.

specially in philadelphia and point southward. i think the best chance of rain is going to be along the coast, maybe as we head into the second half of the morning with a little bit of heating of the day. temperatures right now, we are mild, 66 atlantic city, 66 in dover. 63 degrees right now in reading. so, we are on the warm side of the frontal boundery right now. the back side of the cold front. still across portions of far western pennsylvania, there is the northerly wind flow, back side of the frontal boundery, colder air will be building in as we head into the overnight period. for today we get up to 74 degrees, scattered showers for the first half of the day, gradual clearing we head into the afternoon and evening, then for tonight, mostly clear, but again, little chilly. 49 degrees after upper 80s, yesterday. it will feel a little chilly us to, clear skies conditions, we'll get good view of the meteor shower, runs this week into next week, average of 20 meteors per hour, and they're known for bright tails lasting for several seconds. so, check that out if you are you're up late tonight. headed into the day tomorrow,

64 degrees, sunshine, average, cooler but pleasant, pleasant week altogether, showers into thursday, with high temperatures in the middle seven's, we warm things up, cooler kick off next weekend, meisha. looks like we start off in the upper 50's. >> laura are you staying to up watch that? >> absolutely. >> nope, not me. take some pictures for me. happen mine day. look being outside at the vine. we had disabling vehicle around broad street, little earlier, now since cleared out of the way. look at the vine head toward the schuylkill, moving in the westbound direction, you can see, brake lights going off. overall still traveling just as they should. eastbound side certainly starting to heat up. see plenty of headlight out there, only kind of sneak peak of things to come. very busy. birdseye view 95 south at cottman, come around the s curve, working there, as well. overall looking at pretty typical congestion levels building in the 5:00 hour, overall things looking good with that being said. now, i want to move right ahead to construction water

main, between rock hill road and city avenue. closed between nine a.m. and 3:00 p.m. so you will have to use alternate. route 23, probably going to be your best bet. just heads up though, doesn't start until 9:00 a.m. clearly then clears out of there by 3:00 p.m. then also dealing with more construction here in pocopso. closed between there and creek road, use alternate, lenape road will be your best bet. lots more to talk about when we come back in the next ten minutes. rahel, back to you. meisha, thank you. and now for look at newspaper headlines from across our region. >> in the mercury area firefighters did not get much after chance to sit down for easter dinner this year. two fires, one in birdsboro, one pottstown, kept them busy until the sun went down. two alarm birdsboro fire was on cynder street in the pottstown fire which folds it on east fifth street. >> from the intelligence err quakertown school officials have yet to agree on cuts to close $4.7 million deficit in the budget. district considering cuts to its music, arts, and sport

programs. >> in the press of atlantic sill if you grew up or lived in the inlet section, people involved with absecon lighthouse want to hear your stories inspired by personal account, will for the first time feature four theme ac inlet story panels in its museum each week from june 21 through september 10th. photos and other memorabilia can be submitted along with your story. what a great idea. >> and that's a look at the newspaper headlines from around the delaware val. >> i stay with us here on "eyewitness news" this morning. >> pat gallen here with sports, good morning, pat. >> good morning, guys, not such good sunday for the phillies as they try to ends their dc road trip with a win over the nationals, one of the best in baseball stood in the way. we've got that next in sports.

welcome back everyone. >> pat's here talking sports, pat, not such great day for the phillies? >> not at all. they had a win and then they didn't. so close, yet so far away. phillies one strike away from victory yesterday in d.c. a series victory, but boys harp we are step to the plate in a big moment. before that the fourth inning president's race, jefferson, washington, lincoln, all going down loving roosevelt for the win. but in steps the easter bunny with a take down. >> how do those heads stay on? to the game. phils jump ahead early with ceasar hernandez homerun to left field. phils then fell behind. then jumps ahead, little see-saw battle. four-three, battles, bryce harper, right down the middle. he tees off his second homerun of the game. the phils cannot close the

deal. harm err walks it off. nats win six-four, the phillies back tomorrow, against the mets in new york. nba playoff where tragedy hit the number one seed in the east over the weekend, celtics star isiah thomas learned his 22 year old sister china was killed in a car accident. extremely emotional before the game, but would still put on a show. would that be enough against the bulls? thomas would fight through it. and he knocks down this deep three pointer putting the celtics ahead early in the first, he would finish with 33 points. but the bulls had all of the answers. you know this guy, been doing it forever, dwyane wade with the mid range jumper. the bulls take game one in boston winning 106-102. moving onto game one of the series between the wizards and the hawks in washington, the hawks filled early lead. that's paul, he had 19 for atlanta. but the wizards storms back. it is john wall, finding marquises morris, it is a lob.

had 21, bradley 22, john wall had 32, and the wizards take game one, 114-107. game two wednesday night in washington. game one between the warriors and trailblazers. second quarter, warriors up three. the trailblazers tj drivers to the lane. lehigh product had 41-point, thirds quarter, and you know this guy, too, seth curry, four-three, that put the warriors up three. and to the fourth, kevin did your and the, after this crazy block by dray, would put the game out of reach. and the warriors with a game one win, 121, 107. -- 109. game two wednesday night. mover playoff action on ice we go, columbus scored ten seconds into the game. they were up three-one, back and forth they go. that's brandon, tying it late in the thirds. so the blue jackets and penguins head to over time. extra session.

sydney crosby, nifty behind the net. finds rookie jake who finishes off a hat trick, penguins win five-four in a wild one, take a three nothing series lead. to the pga, the heritage, right here, on cbs-3, peter, how about this? little hole in one on 17. ya, i wish i could do that. moments later on 18, wesley brian, taps it in for par. he finishes 13 under for the one shot win over luke donald. so crazy sunday, i know it was easter, but so much going on. >> so when you say you wish could you do, that can you not? >> can i not hit a hole in one on a golf course? >> oh, i thought everybody could. >> no. >> i have eye-hand coordination problems. >> coming up in the next half hour, new options to ride septa. how the transit agency is making it easier to enjoy the ride. >> king of the road. new suv's roll off the assembly line and race to keep up with the demand.

lauren? >> all right. well, i know it is a monday, but we're always thinking about that upcoming weekends, and projecting out as we look ahead toward next weekends. looks like we could be little cooler than average as we head into saturday with breezy conditions, mostly sunny conditions, staying dry for the start of the weekends, but then looks like we will see rain chance developing specially head late into the day sunday. but we have some sunshine that will be in store today. >> we have to get through some showers first. we will track those on storm scan3 coming up right after

>> live look at south street after sunny and just beautiful easter. it will be a tough act to follow. >> it is monday, today is monday, april 17. good morning, i'm rahel solomon. >> i'm jim donovan. checking in with weather and traffic. first, what you need to start your day in the morning minute. >> bloody weekend in philadelphia, and that violence continued this morning with a murder on the streets of southwest philadelphia. >> i don't care if she is 45 years old, she's still my babe. >> i abington police are looking for kristin live, and uber driver who vanished without a trace almost a week ago. >> all out manhunt, for