>> this morning we're tracking showers, storm scan3, shows a system soon to be spinning over the delaware valley. making it a soggy start for anyone headed out the door. >> that rain, though, not enough to dampen our excitement on the parkway, just two days away from the nfl draft. that will means more street closures are in effect. live with what you need to know. >> staring down a government shutdown, 100 day in office approaches. the president's biggest campaign promise hits a wall. i'm hena daniels with more on the budget battle coming up. >> today is tuesday, april 25th, good morning, i'm joe holing in for jim donovan.

>> hi, joe. good to have you. i'm rahel solomon. katie and meisha keeping an eye on things, i apologize, i know being surrounded by us -- >> not a bad thing. >> would you rather be surrounded by us and have one amal large or stay in bed and sleep longer? >> i would rather sleep in bed! >> careful. >> no offense, guys. >> sole my thunder. >> well done, well done. this is the queen every puns. >> i attempt it. i wouldn't say queen. >> princess pun. >> that works for me. >> pull away from the pun lady for a second, looking at the roadways, talking about the nfl draft road restrictions, will linger until may first, we will be getting into all of that coming up. >> so essentially the entire week right now, completely avoid the area unless you are actually going to the event. okay, so along with that, guys, looks like the rain is

really going to be an issue today. and i would say, specially true for the second half of the day. do you already have some showers moving in. some of are you already waking up to damp roadways, rain tapping on your window specially true chester county. but the heavy rain, heaviest rainy should say, still off to the south by couple of states off to the south. so this is what's going to move in. this is finally starting to gain little bit of forward momentum. so going to see it move in, sooner rather than later, but, this is the same batch of heaviest rain, those being spun into the carolinas yesterday. so these poor folks have really been delta very soaking, sock i hand here. meanwhile locally, there are couple of showers, currently moving through. and i have to just say to trang do, we overheard her mike check before she hit the roadways, oh, oh, should i bring my umbrella out? yes, keep it handy my friend. not everyone getting hit by i95 essentially in the bull's eye right now, lower 50's currently, the report along that stretch of highway and throughout the course of the day there will be rain to dodge. i would say, again, it will be most heaviest, most

widespread, second half of the day specially as the kids are about ready to get out of school. certainly meisha timing far less than ideal here today. >> absolutely, it is. all right, thank you, so much. and very good morning to all of you, happy tuesday, so, we're looking at this construction route one headlight moving in the north direction, oxford valley, all lanes blocked both northbound, southbound, now since cleared. so for those of you headed out route one, anywhere around that, looking good. then looking into new jersey, 42 freeway northbound creek road. if i'm not mistaken it looks like very, very wet roadways. forty-two freeway creek road approaching 295, heads up. headed out the door right now, this is area that usually picks up fairly quick. quicker than a lot of other places we look at in the morning. if i were you, i would give yourself couple every extra minutes any time we have wet roadways, that will absolutely slow us down. then add busy morning on top of it, and there you have t kingsessing southwest philly 58th avenue at chester avenue heads up for those of in you that neck of the woods.

won't slow you down so much right now, maybe little gaper delay if anything. then also talking about some construction northeast ex ten shopping, we will be getting more into that in the next ten minutes, joe, over to you. >> meisha, thank you. 2017nfl draft experience touches down in philadelphia in just two days. >> with all of the excitement, also comes frustration, as road closures go into full swing today. >> "eyewitness news" reporter trang do, back live again, at the ben franklin parkway, with those closures, and more, trang, good morning, at this point, you have become our expert on the closures other than meisha of course. >> reporter: oh, yes, i'm sure i will be on this all week long, but we are in full shutdown mode here in the art museum area. take a look, signs all over everywhere, all around me. there is also nfl security, you can see them out here, suffering in the ponchos with this heavy rain coming down, just making sure that these cars don't go past the barricade center here. speaking of barricades, weaver some right in front every us here, at 21st and the parkway. and as meisha mentioned earlier, from 20th, all the

way up to the art museum, parkway, now shutdown, including the outer lanes, which were open yesterday morning. also, up, this is new attraction here, that we've seen this morning, the entrance gate that people will have to go to. this is just before 21st street. but if you are planning to come down here, you definitely do not want to drive that goes without saying, right? there are road closures about everywhere you turn, here is a few of the major once, mlk drive closes at sweet briar. it will open for the morning commute thursday and friday. kelly drive also will be closed from the art museum, to fairmount. now here is a good rule of thumb. if it boarders the art museum, or leads up to the art museum it is most likely closed. the nfl is not only taking over the city streets, but also, the skyline, the serous sent letter play big roll during the draft. take a listen. >> here is the big one. that will change with the team that's on the clock, solo go will be up there, throughout this site, have everything changing with the colors on the clock, so you will know if you look up that philly is on the clock by all of the green

around the site. >> so, other changes coming to the parkway, the iconic flag ship, never, ever been done, nfl will be taking those down and putting up some nfl flags up along the parkway. so they're pretty much taking over. this is nfl town for now. but for now, live on the ben franklin parkway, i'm trang do, cbs-3, "eyewitness news," rahel, joe, good morning. >> good morning, trang, very curious at some of those rival flags will survive the weekend? >> oh, i'm going to take the cowboys flag down, i'm personally going to take it down. >> thank you, trang, for that favor. >> appreciate that. >> and our coverage of the draft continues in our next half hour. coming up at 5:30, pat gallen tells us about the nfl experience on the parkway, what's expected to be the biggest attraction. >> well, crews are assessing the damage after a fire sweeps through a chemical plant in conshohocken. firefighters responded to fine grinding corporation just before 10:30 last night. this is located on elm and ash

streets. the blaze eventually grew to two alarms, we're toll nobody was hurt, and there is no word yet on how the fire started. >> in delaware, the state fire marshall is investigating a house fire that left an elderly man in critical condition. chopper three over 21 belmont drive in mill creek, new castle county last night, the flames broke out just after 10:00. firefighters pulled the 87 year old man from the home. the fire was under control before 11:00. >> a west philadelphia elderly couple is attack and robbed, and now police hope you can help them track down the culprits. take a look, surveillance video shows the man investigators say tracked william ralph now as he ran errands last wednesday. after he bought lottery tickets police say the man harassed him for money, followed him, then attacked him and his wife in their home. >> he pushed me down -- started punching. >> first of all it is a 86 year old man on a cane, co-have taken himself -- to punch him in the face, then

strangle his wife, just unacceptable behavior, stuff that individuals need to be off the streets. >> if you have any information about the suspect philadelphia police do want to hear from you. the number 215-686-tips. do you not have to give your name. >> a philadelphia man accused of shooting and killing his aunt has a preliminary hearing today. police say 26 year old andrew was robbing his aunt on february 24th. officers found the woman in her port richmond home. he faces several charges including murder. his girlfriends also charged with burglary. >> president trump is ready to take funding for the mexican border wall off the negotiating table. the decision makes it more likely congress will agree on funding the government, and avoid a shutdown. as hena daniels reports, the deadline coincides with the president's 100 day in offers. >> we will build the wall 100%. >> it is one of the core campaign promise that is president trump ran on. but the reality of the budget

process is making it a hard one to keep. >> how high will it be? how much will it cost? >> the president had demanded congress include funding for the mexican border wall in the spending bill. that's dubai midnight, on friday. but a midback lash from democrats, and some republicans, senior administration officials tell cbs news the white house is prepared to put funding for the wall on hold. until fiscal 2018 negotiations, they say mr. trump now plans to pivot to a message every general satisfaction on border security. >> money for our military, and our border security and wall, those are the president's priority headed in with respect to keeping the government open. >> he cut a trip to hawaii short to be part of the negotiations. >> i'm headed back to capitol him. there is a spending bill that's being considered as we speak. >> democrats have said they would be comfortable with some additional funding for border security, and surveillance. if no deal is reached, lawmakers likely to pass a temporary resolution that would fund the government for

at least another week. hena danielle, for cbs-3, "eyewitness news." the state department no longer features president trump's florida resort on its website. it has removed a page that called mar-a-lago the winter white house. the blog was criticized for promoting one of the president's businesses. president trump has been spending weekends at the private resort club, where initiation fees have doubled since he took offers. >> white house today expected to name new secret service director, according to sources randall tex alles is going to be conditioned, customs and border protection, retired marine two star general. appointed by the president, and does not require senate confirmation. >> fires erupt during protests where thousands of demonstrate verse packed the streets everyone country, we will tell you what they're upset about. >> also this morning, emergency officials are assessing the damage in chile avert quake there, we will tell you the moment the earth

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♪ >> footage from chile, during a earthquake yesterday. the quake struck with magnitude of 6.9. so far emergency service haves reported no major damage. the quake's epi-center was left in 25 miles off the country's west coast. this is located on the so-called pacific ring of fire. chile has history of deadly quakes including the 2010 quake that triggered a tsunami. >> at least two people are dead following nationwide

unrest in beanies all a. thousands shut down the main highway yesterday in the capitol, they were protesting the administration of president nicholas madruro. pro government rallies, as well, now the team was mostly peaceful, but some demonstrating through stones at police. two shot, and protests elsewhere in the country 23 people in total have died there, in protests since march. >> out in arizona, firefighters from multiple agencies continue to battle wild fire that's south of tuscon quickly gaining grounds. >> since it began, saturday, that fire has nearly doubled in size, scorching more than 7,000 acres of land. at last check crews had that blaze about 7% contained. officials say the fire is being fueled by dry weather. >> we're seeing a lot more flashing fuels, the grasses, the fine grasses, low humidity, the winds does dry it out, not only the heat, seeing that with increased winds. >> so far no structures have burned but 35 homes are on pre evacuation notice.

>> well, all the rain moving into our area today really hit the south hard. >> folks in berks county north carolina woke to up this yesterday morning, 2 feet of water surrounding their trailer homes. many were spared, and the water didn't actually make it into their home, several cars left stranded. in just two days that region had seen more rain than they normally get a month. >> how about it? >> incredible, wading in the watt their. >> see that radar, loop, the image, it spins, it seems it is coming up from the carolinas, katie that's headed our way? >> absolutely. now, i don't think we have to deal with this for as long a the folks in the carolinas did. if you remember yesterday, about the same time, that swat of rain was still over the carolinas. down into south carolina, too, since moved at least little further north. but there is still real soaking rain coming through north carolina even as we speak. thankfully that storm will start to move out of the region, but i think they'll still unfortunately have to deal with additional accumulating rain before completely out of the woods here, but that's headed our way. we start things offer looking

center city, cloud deck definitely low, wind will begin to pick up though. that's one thing that you would require, light winds, if this fog were to actually hang out and stick around. and as the wind picks up, not going to have. that will so these clouds will lift. still going to be very dreary. have cloud deck, just won't be as low to the grounds, this isn't necessarily going to skew the skyline all day long, but the rain certainly will. here it is, looking at the larger picture on storm scan, still really heavy rain moving in, even now, into southwestern virginia, that's all headed north. but the good news is again only going to be dealing with this later on today, the heaviest rain anyway, later on today, through i would say maybe 8:00 at night or so before left with the lingering shower. pretty soaking rain, thin line, that line of rain, unfortunately, came right through, poor trang do doing letter live shot on the ben franklin parkway for the draft. yes, there is some pretty soaking rain. if you are in the wrong place at the wrong time, you will need umbrella or to be

flicking the windshield wipers and slowing down, take a look, rain certainly moved in across the board walk plaza in rehoboth. can't see the sun, not going to any time soon, because it will stay cloudy. but once the light of day comes up better pictures around the region. we walk you through future weather very quickly, this is the swat of rain that needs to move in before we're all going to be ending one that really widespread rounds of rain. so it, will take couple of hours, i wouldn't say that even though there are some showers, and pretty heavy at this point, this is actually the better of the two commutes. because look what happens. as the steady rains moves in this morning, it is with us for the rest of the day. so come 3:00, 4:00. kids getting out of school, it is soggy, make sure you send them out the door with the raincoat, with their goal oh, second half of the day they'll need them. and lingering shower even still going to be present into the early part of tomorrow. but, the general gist is that wednesdays transition day, start to pull away from the storm, or the storm pulls away from us, ends upstart to go warm up too. hive of only 59. winds definitely more noticeable here today specially at the shore, later tonight, dropping to only 55,

and then moving forward, just in time for the draft, it is like mother nature new, we had social security big going on here in the city. so could use some nice sunshine, june-like weather for the next few days, yes. hooking us up here, maybe spotty, shower or storm, but otherwise looking good here for the big event. >> yes, she has sense of humor, doesn't she, katie? >> i have to tell. >> happy tuesday. so we're looking at live shotment take a look, guys, water main break in kingsessing, southwest fill that i happened around 3:00 a.m. you can see that water just kind of bursting out, kind of standing out of the shot here 58th avenue. close the right now chester avenue. your alternates will be 56 or 60. yikes. take a look at that. route 13 trolley, suspended between yeadon and darby loop. you can see why. so for those every in you this neck of the woods or in this neighborhood i would avoid that area completely. fifty-eighth avenue closed at chester avenue right now. your alternates, 56th or 60 he. then also looking at eakin's oval by the art museum. see the flashing lights,

letting us know art museum more off to the left. see the flashing lights. yes, we will be talking about it all morning long. those road restrictions phase four of the nfl draft closures, they started at midnight. so we will be going into more little bit more detail coming up in a little bit. first construction northeast extension northbound between mid-county quakertown intermittent lane closures there. northeast extension southbound between lansdale, mid-county, left lane blocked there. lots going on today, rahel, joe, back to you. >> busy morning. >> all right, meisha, thank up. now for look at newspaper headlines from across our region. >> philadelphia inquirer, detailing the new court filing against the so-called straw hat bandit. prosecutors allege their suspects, 57 year old richard boil, used cash stolen from nearly a dozen bank robberies to pay for every day necessities. that includes everything from debts to dentist, car, anti-eggs payment for his daughter. >> the bucks county courier times reports several council rock school board members hope

to make decision on closing wrightstown or rolling hills elementary school by june 13th, the last day of school in the district. board members are being urged to decide so the school can move forward with the budget planning. >> press of atlantic city, egg harbor township new wal-mart will hire 300 employees, pro peck spiff employees can visit hiring center from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. monday through saturday. set to open later in the summer. >> that's a look add some of the newspaper headlines from around the delaware valley. >> and up next, see the newest resident of the zoo, a baby slot. >> a baby slot. plus we will tell you the back story behind this photo of exotic bird, riding shotgun in a police patrol car. that's straight ahead. >> so many questions, joe, so many quest

>> a magics is thanking for saving his pet from a tree. >> his cock that too were inacceptable, until left him in a tree, while playing soccer. fairfax police officer mike compton, has zero training, zero, when it comes to animals, heard the call for pet bird in a tree and checked it out. >> walked up to the birds, started -- started talking to it, to my surprise, flew out of the tree, actually walk up to me. >> how about this? apparently seemed to enjoy his time in the police cruiser, you see him there sitting on officer thompson's work bag, checking out the computer watcher do you think he is thinking about? >> looking at the call that saved his life apparently.

>> was returned to edger with all of his paperwork and i hear they even ended up book ago shot. >> and severe of course. >> of course. >> also, we are getting our first look at the newest residents of the zoo. >> this little one is getting plenty of tlc. this is lou a, two-towed sloth who was born last saint patrick's day, his mom has solt health issues, so naturally, lou now being hands raised until she is ready for her public debut. >> how cute is she? >> adorable. >> she gets bottle every two hours around the clock. >> and we'll give this guy a ten in the flour exercise competition. >> it is mang man-g at the panda breeding center in southwest china. >> oh, my gosh. >> what do you call that, a stumble in. >> there goes. >> that's a somersault. >> impressive energy, most

pandas her age are just eating and sleeping. china's panda center has helped lift panda's off the international endangered list, and of corpse, we can see why, they're just so cute. >> adorable. i think she has career in the olympics coming, coming soon. >> coming up in the next half hour of "eyewitness news," tell you the changes j.c. penney is changing. >> two more inmate are put to death in arkansas overnight. hear from family members of one of the victims, tell you why the state is moving so quickly with the executions, pat? >> good morning, guys, live here, on the ben franklin parkway, getting ready for the nnl draft. just two days away. behind me, is where it all takes part. but that giant stage set up behind me, so coming up we will tell but how fans can get involved here on the parkway with the nfl draft experience. katie, give me the goods on the weather. it is colds out here. >> it is cold out there. i actually come bearing much, much better weather news though pat. just in time for not just the

draft but the weekends too, even though i think could see a shower come sunday. the warmth sticks around all weekend long, i think we still have some sunshine that we will have up our sleeves here for that last day of the draft. let alone the pen re lays, so overall mother nature looking like she will be on our side this time around. stick ostriches don't really stick their heads in the sand. a peanut is not a nut.

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