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vehicle and police vehicle struck that female. >> rushed here to temple university hospital in the back of a police cruiser. >> the manhunt, end. tip from mcdonald's worker lead police to the alleged facebook killer. >> basically just told him it would be a minute for his fries which it wasn't really. we were trying to make sure she got in contact with the state police. >> it is totally a few things, i was sitting in the room, i'm left eye brow up, right eye brow down, shove your face, and, suck the chrome off the fender of a car. >> tips on how he does his president trump impression from alex baldwin. >> it is funnier to see him without the wardrobe. but katie talking about potential rain showers here. >> sure. >> anytime we hear rain, how bad is it. >> isolated. >> we try to to our best trump
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impression. everybody has an impression of the president, it doesn't matter who it is,. >> some better than others. alex baldwin is kind of at the top. >> indeed. lets talk about the rain chances, overall would i say don't worry about taking an umbrella along guys. everything we see in the wake of the shower activity today is incredibly isolated. especially later on we will see best chance for. that we are cool outside right now. we have generally clear skies overhead but as you will see, there is a veil of cloud cover trying to work its way in from the west right now. generally speaking again i call it partly cloudy at the moment but you will see some sunshine to start the day off and that sunnies coming up, in about, i would say 45 minutes or so from right now. once it does we will be promised pretty colors paint add cross the sky line. looking that the wider zoom, there is something coming our way. granted, there is. i don't think we will have a lot of moisture available to us to trigger more than a spotty shower by the time that reaches us. looking at area temperatures
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we are in the mid to upper 40 's, a few out liars like mount pocono and dover where it is cooler, warmer respectively speaking but it is a morning would i say grabbing a coat is a good idea , even though it is not terribly windy outside and we will end up with seasonal daytime highs in the mid 60's today. that is that time of the year where we are dressed in layers starting off a few extra layers and then able to shed them as day goes on. the cloud do begin to rebuild, definitely not beautiful afternoon that we saw yesterday, but overall, meisha , pretty decent looking day. >> would i tend to agree. sometimes cooler air can feel good if you are mixing with the 70's and 80's. we are looking at video, phase two of the nfl draft, those road restrictions started at midnight. parkway between eakins oval and 20th street those inner lanes are closed and they will remain closed until may second , and by the way, phase three project begins on monday , so a lot of these
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closures ramping up now, this was phase one, they will remain out there through may second, eakins oval, westbound spring garden and, bus route 27, 38, 42, of course, still detoured. head up on that. we have an accident robbins ville, new jersey, new jersey turnpike north bound outer lanes on the 195 that off ramp is block and we have some down wires out there in mays landing, new jersey as well. route 40 closed near jefferson avenue use an alternate route 322 is your best bet and then we will look at walt whitman bridge, what do we have here, installation of the temporary roadway shield. because of that we have closures, overnight, 20 minute intervals at 10:00 p.m. through 4:00 a.m. but you will be reduced to three lanes at 7:00 p.m. this will go on tonight as well. just a head up your alternate ben franklin bridge, commodore barry bridge but head up this can slow you down for my truckers traveling overnight as well. rahel, back over to you.
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all right, meisha, thank you. more on the breaking news we have been following, two families forced from their homes after an early morning fire in pennsauken camden county. fire broke out on the 7400 block of zimmerman avenue. fire chief tells us they had a water supply issue which made fire fight more difficult. one fire fighter did suffered an ankle injury battling the blaze. we will have much more live at 6:00 o'clock. and fbi is assisting with the investigation in the triple murder on tuesday that authorities in california are calling a hate crime. >> three victims killed in fresno why white, suspect is black, here's correspondent reid binion. >> reporter: total of 16 round were fired. es from necessity's chief of police detailing deadly shooting spree that rock the city on tuesday. >> we had three people shot and killed and one person shot at, and less than a two minute time frame in the city of fresno. >> reporter: police say 39 year-old corry mohammad apparently chose his victims at random. shootings taking place within a block and a half of each other in downtown fresno. >> we had an immediate response from our officers.
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one of our officers was traveling east bound and he saw a black mail running southbound on fulton. >> reporter: police say mohammad surrendered to officers admitting to the shootings and yelling god is grade in arabic. >> he yells out, as he was seated in the back seat of the patrol car which obviously prompted some concerns in terms of what his motive may have been. >> reporter: authorities do not believe rampage was terror -related. police instead calling it a hate crime. >> based on the information that we have been provided, in our investigation has shown is that this is solely based on race. >> reporter: three victims killed tuesday were white, suspects black, officials say mohammad expressed on social media a dislike for white people and government officials, and set to face four counts of murder. one from a previous incident where he is accused of killing a security guard outside a fresno hotel earlier this month. reid binion for cbs-3 "eyewitness news".
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today supreme court takes over a lawsuit over a church playground it deals with the debate over church and state. in 2012 trinity lutheran church in missouri replied for state grant up to grade the play ground. state says missouri constitution prohibit is a voiding any public fund to a religious organization. legal experts say the ruling in the case could affect another issue, how school vouchers are appropriated. "fox news" noise longer responding to questions about whether bill o'reilly will return to the network after his vacation. according to cnn, fox and o'reilly have been talking about an exit from the network amid accusations of sexual harassment. lawyer for o'reilly says his client has been subjected to character assassination, orchestrated by the far left. o'reilly is due to return from vacation on monday. time is 5:36. in business news how americans are feeling about electric vehicles. >> which co led the way on a down day for wall street. money watch's jill wagner joins us from the new york stock exchange. good morning, again, jill. >> reporter: good morning. futures right now pointing to
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a higher open, yesterday earnings for goldman sachs and johnson and johnson missed expectations, dragged down the market. dow jones fell 113 points, nasdaq dropped seven. shares of the ibm plunged in after hours trading corks reported its 20th consecutive quarter of falling revenue. ibm is trying to move away from older products like computers and focusing on cloud computing and artificial intelligence. ibm is based in west chester county here in new york. lower gas prices have put the brakes on electric powered vehicles, triple a survey found 15 percent of americans are likely to buy an electric vehicle as their next car, roughly same percentage as people who plan to buy a pickup truck. triple a ranked the tesla suv as top green car for 2017. google earth is going 3-d, users can see certain location ness three dimensions getting a drone's eye view of the historical, geographical or architectural sites around the world and it includes
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interactive guided tours. jim and rahel. >> i love that. >> that is interesting. >> i love google earth. now, jill, you know some news publications are doing 360 views of different scenes which is really cool. >> i'm telling you, high tech. >> funny story, one of my friend was in front of the cbs broadcast center here in new york when google must have driven by to take her picture. so they are permanently on google earth. >> nice. >> everybody is watching us, everybody is watching us. thanks, jill we will check with you tomorrow. well, after much anticipation philadelphia's new museum, finally opens today. museum of american revolution will take visitors through our country's journey for independent. >> special events planned throughout the day to mark opening, "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabao is live with the preview, good morning , jan. >> reporter: rahel and jim, good morning. it is a big day, long list of events planned to celebrate opening day for museum of the american revolution starting at 8:00 we have a wreath laying at tomb of the unknown
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solder at washington square park and then we will go to independent mall for patriotic fanfare. then at 10:30 we will end up here at the museum for a ticketed event and ribbon cutting ceremony to talk about how important this day is, vice-president of collections exhibitions and programming here at museum of the american revolution, it has been a long time coming, lieutenant of hard work and some would say this opening day has been 242 years in the making. how so, and why. >> 242 years ago, today. >> yes, today. >> today. >> at this particular moment, the first shots had been fired on lexington green, about 20 american, militia men had been killed, wounded and british were on their march to concord where this action you see behind us here, fighting at old north bridge would happen later on in the morning. this is the day that the revolutionary war began. >> this is our starting point in the museum as well, great way to start but when you step foot here you are immersed. there are 3,000 artifacts here throughout the museum.
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tell us about that. >> that is right we have in our core exhibition over 500 artifacts on display, we have got immerse i have battle theaters, we have rooms you walk into you can stand under the liberty tree, board a ship it is like walking through a movie. >> a lot of these things were made specifically for the museum and have been in your collection for obviously hundreds of years now. >> absolutely n this gallery we are seeing a original weapons and clothing, used by american soldiers, and new england soldiers who for the in the first year of the war during siege of boston, items from the southern colonies and piece of the uniform of general george washington. >> that is incredible. speaking of george washington we are seek video of the screen of the other things we cannot see right now what is that big piece that everybody is talking about. >> well, general washington's war 10t, sleeping and office 10t that acted as his field
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headquarters during revolutionary war inn one of the most dramatic experiences in the museum. >> is what feedback we have been getting that people that got sneak peaks to see everything that is inside. >> it has been overwhelmingly positive. best moments when we had a preview of 50, fourth graders from boston who just were singing lyrics from the musical hamilton and running through. just absolutely loving everything they saw. >> reporter: one of the students touched a tree we are about to see right around the corner, tell us about that. >> that is right, re-creation of the boston's liberty tree a large elm tree that stood in boston and gathering place for sons, daughters of liberty. we have embedded into the trunk a piece of wood from the last surviving liberty tree this stood in annapolis, maryland until 1999, so you can actually touch that original wood that was witness to the events of our nation's founding. >> that student came through here and what did he do. >> he looked at tree, gathered his friend and said sam adams touched this, put his hand on
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it and said boom, and then moved on, singing lyrics to one of the songs from hamilton >> reporter: that is what it is all about. >> it is amazing, exciting. someone who grew up during american bicentennial in 1976 and just got interested, ignited about learning about history, watched a career for me. it is very exciting to think we are ready to engage in the next generation. >> reporter: scott stevenson, thanks very much. doors officially opened up at noon today but it is ticketed and all of the tickets have gone through the early morning or early afternoon hours. i think about 4:00 when more tickets become available so check out, to make sure you have availability and get your tickets to come in and see this. rahel and jim, back to you. >> i just had a flash back to the bicentennial i had to dress up as a colonial solder in 1976. >> thanks, jim. >> stop laughing, katie. >> katie's laughing at me. >> our floor director deb went to the museum opening a couple days and said it is really nice. very excited for that.
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another historic spot in the city of philadelphia is getting a tension these days, rocker john bon jovi and his wife visited with the workers in charge of the repairing ben franklin's grave at christ church burial ground. church posted this picture to their facebook page. workers lifted marker off of the grave ahead of more restoration work. bon jovi and his wife donated half of the $10,000 cost of the repairs. >> he is a good citizen. >> very generous. >> exactly. still ahead an anxious statue gets a make over and we will show it to you coming up next. it was one of this years most memorable finishes in the boston marathon. hear from the disable veteran who crossed the finish line carrying his guide runner. prince's purple rain suit goes on display, we will tell you where you can see this piece of music and moving history. immerse i
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kevin space i's new gig, oscar tony winner has been asked to hoe the tone a ward. last years hamilton dominate add ward with the most watched tony's broadcast in 15 years. watch the show june 11th on cbs-3. several tributes are planned to honor life, legacy of prince, friday marks first anniversary of his death, right now, visitors to the minnesota history center can see prince purple rain suit and handwritten lyrics to an unreleased song from 1977, it also includes a selection of memorials that fans left after
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his death along with the photograph collection. hard to believe it has already been a year. time just goes by so fast. >> it feels like it just happened. >> clearly love of his fans still out there. >> absolutely. so, isolated showers, in the forecast for today. >> would i say absolutely yes. most of the day will feature more cloud, and it is not the beauty of yesterday. >> yes. >> but still a decent looking day all and all. seasonal too in the 60's. i think for daytime highs. we will take a look at the moment, there is some light of day to see but you can tell there is definitely cloud cover that is begun to build in. you will not have the most clear sky, for that sunrise, but sometimes that actually makes for prettiest pictures when we have cloud deck that helps sort of throw the light differently to create the pretty colors on the sky line. this view from our station headquarters overlooking broad and spring garden streets facing eastbound you can see light of the day popping up on the horizon, that sun will come up just shy or after 6:15
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or so but minutes are dwindling before we see sun pop up over the horizon here. meanwhile as we go outside to our weather watchers we have generally speaking temperatures in the mid 40's. i wanted to show you a couple pictures. we had a handful of yesterday, beautiful sunset from last night, just absolutely stellar , the picture, and colors on the sky line there are, stunning. meanwhile ed sent this one in beautiful walk in the park and out in chesterfield, new jersey area but he also does this one in this morning, there is dew forming on some of the windshield so you might need to flick them once or twice before you can hit the road here. that is as our atmosphere moistens up. looking at temperatures, in a for math here at mount laurel carrie reports 45 degrees, allen in delran at 44. bill in cardington 46. we are generally fining those values around the region. cool enough to require a jacket walking out the door but as we look at storm scan there is some activity to track.
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we have showers off to the north. we have pocket of showers starting to develop in the virginias. another system building juste of the rockies. all these features are in some way shape or form will impact us. kind of an impact? well, generally scattered showers along the way, very likely a thunderstorm here and there too. but later this afternoon and tonight there will be most isolated of afternoon sprinkles out there, possibly later tonight and tomorrow late in the day again, round of scatter showers or storms. friday at this point looks like in the morning that showers if not rumble of thunder will move through. timing is there for you, you know, in the p.m. hours or a.m. by friday to see wet weather moving in but overall we will still get a break along the way, to enjoy outside if you have some outdoor plans you want to get in. we will warm up, substantially by friday, up to 80 degrees. half and half weekend, with quiet weather saturday, rain on sunday. >> katie, thanks very much. very good morning, happy hump day, we are looking at schuylkill headlights in the eastbound direction near king
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of prussia, gorgeous, looks good there. ninety-five taillights in the southbound direction near betsy ross bridge we are looking great there. look at that beautiful blue sky. we have an accident robbins ville new jersey that has been since cleared but we have down wires, mays landing, new jersey. route 40 is closed right near now jefferson hospital and use 322 as your best bet. phase two of the road restrictions started, nfl draft, ben franklin parkway between eakins oval and 20th street those inner lanes are closed and they will be closed until may second. jim and rahel, over to you. now one of the most talk about moments from this years boston marathon a veteran who is also an aim pew tea carrying an woman holding an than american flag across the finish line. earl grandville who his loge nine years ago in the afghanistan while in the pennsylvania national gar. veteran alongside his guide runner for nine grueling hours monday and pair are part of the achilles freedom team, a group of wounded warriors who have become marathon runners. >> it was just a spur of the
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moment, just, about 50 feet from the finish line i said let me carry you, i pick her up and we crossed the finish line together and that was that. >> wow. >> it was boston's energy to give him strength, this was the second boston marathon and earl's fourth but both say it was their best race yet. >> egypt trying to revive tourist business and they began by unveiling statue of randy the second. massive 36 feet tall 75-ton granite statue was unveiled at the temple yesterday. statue was discovered between 1958 and 1960, in 57 pieces. it wasn't until november 2016 that restoration process finally began. massive. she calls herself a chatter box up next meet the four year-old girl behind a new charity movement. >> we will tell but this new food hybrid called a taco pizza.
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how appropriate a song by taco for this next story. >> newark, new jersey pizza place is combining two favorites, tacos and pizza. new taco pizza at tony bologne 's in hoboken has buffalo chicken, sirloin stake and three tacos on every slice now that the word is out tony bolognees is scrambling to keep up. >> we have 286 on preorder, last time i checked. we have about 40ish people waiting for whole taco pizza and 30 or 40 waiting for slices. so maybe like 350 pies, by the end of the day. >> so now how about this, they say taco pizza was inspired by late night customers surprise, surprise. >> they were drunk. >> yes. >> it runs ten dollars a slice or $80 for the whole pie. >> again they were drunk. >> you got to like that and willing to -- >> alcohol does a lot of things to people.
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>> and not that i would know anything about that. >> or you. with your wine coolers. >> you have to bash the wine coolers, every chance you get. >> well, coming up young girl in texas is raise being money to buy books. >> but not for her, for police officers. four year-old chloe joyner lives in houston and she wanted to give those books to police so officers could hand them out, get this, to children that they meet. she says it is a way to create friendships. chloe came up with the idea when she saw a officer outside of her window. >> i saw a little girl go out the window and wave. i explained it to her and i came down, turned in and ended up next to the vehicle. while i was waiting for the light to change. i waved to her again. we said hi. when the light changed she drove away. she drew my motorcycle and my long braid going on. >> look at that. >> at first chloe was scared of the officer but her grandmother said she shouldn't be. so chloe drew that picture and raising money as a way to show her appreciation. good for her.
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ally try to help her. get ready more road closures went in effect as philadelphia prepares for nfl draft. meisha will let us know is what blocked and how to get around it. it is wednesday, happy hump day april 19th i'm jim donovan i'm rahel solomon. katie and meisha getting us out the door this morning. >> happy hump erin deed. >> nfl road restrictions, talking about today causing, and we have a big thumbs up. but either way, it is going to slow us down and there is a lot more to talk about. >> it feels like we should avoid ben franklin parkway, in general. >> yes. >> i didn't mean to blow the lead for you but lets take a look, storm scan three, definitely starting to show signs of, included cover but we will see pretty colors out on the eastern sky line but those cloud are a theme of the day. so, with time, you know, sort of the gray day, that is
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