this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news" this morning. >> the community of park planned florida gather to remember the victims of a deadly school shooting. >> this morning we're hearing from the police office here managed to catch the suspected gunman. crime, a selfie and the fb i. bizarre story surrounding this priceless statue in the franklin institute. >> still not done with the rain, storm scan3 shows a lot of it moving through our region, when it moves out and when a chance for snow. today is friday february 16th. good morning, i'm dim john tan >> i'm rahel solomon. let's get a look at the roads with meisha. >> looking outside, yes, very, very wet. not seeing too many problems right now but for a friday i know this wet stuff will slow

us down. >> no matter the day. rain will certainly cause you some problems, lead to the need for the windshield wipers , umbrellas, just get ready for the walk out the door with all of the necessary access accessories you would normally walk out with on a rainy day, even though there are will probably be a bought of rain, looks like good portion of the day. be red at this -- be ready with the umbrella. it is coming down light, moderate in intensity, that will lead to visibility myfoxphilly.com, i also personally even just encountered fog on the drive in. so mild. the wind still light enough. it is allowing that fog to form out there. meantime, the surplus on the thermometer very noticable, very mild morning. yesterday was too. but this morning, even more so , at 64 degrees right now. and 56 even in atlantic city, 52 mound pocono, what's that tell you? some of the snow that the pack on the ski

resorts is definitely going to be melting with that. then in tandem, also rain helping to wash some of the snow away that's up there. they had real good base going, i'm sure they'll be able to recover from it, regardless, here on this friday, it is a very mild and somewhat spring- like day. with highs hitting mid 50's from the shore up to the city and still into the upper 40's, this afternoon in the mountains, meisha. >> all right, katie, thank you yes, like we were just saying up at the desk, the rain coming down, wet roadways, slowing it down even though a friday. good morning, plus of course t gif, 95 north at allegheny see the splatter whipping up on the windshield behind you. so i would say for today you might want to give yourselves extra time than what you would typically done a friday morning, just because it is not necessarily right now it at 4:30 in the morning, not so much going to affect expect us moving in the 5:00 hour particularly when we start moving in the 6:00 hour. led up, 95 south at allegheny looking there, same story, early risers out there, ben franklin bridge, gorgeous shot

here. just see how wet it is out there. you travel on westbound anywhere that you travel basically will be west this morning, wet this morning. walt whitman bridge eastbound two right lanes block until around six: also, construction betsy ross bridge as well. heads up on. >> this right lane both directions compromised still showing all green. jim, gentleman hell, back to you. >> suspect charged with 17 murders and a florida high school has reportedly confessed. >> nicholas cruz being held without bonds, currently on soup side watch. kenneth craig with a look at how the deadly shooting unfolded. >> going to be held without bond. >> nineteen year old nicholas cruz is behind bars. facing 17 counts of premeditated murder. cruz's attorney say he is deeply troubled young man, who fell through the cracks. >> he is fully aware of what is going on. and he's just a broken human ning. >> police say cruz bought his semiautomatic rival at a supply zero store in coral

springs last february, took an uber to the crime scene and started shooting around 2:22 p.m. >> i was in a room, he could have easily walk in and killed me. >> cruz said he ditched his gun and ammunition. >> suspect crossed the field and ran west and tried to mix in with the group that were running away fearing for their lives. >> an officer from a neighboring police department spotted cruz in a residential area and arrested him. >> for a quick moment i thought could this be the person? is this who i need to stop. >> authorities have interviewed more than 2,000 people so far in this investigation. the school is still still a crime scene. >> massive crowd gathered at evening vigil trying to find comfort topping, their candles lighting the way one of several vigils thursday where some student remark this tragedy was preventable.

>> it is an american problem that school shootings are happening. >> a problem that's now rocked another american community reeling with grief. kenneth craig, for cbs-3, " eyewitness news". >> one of the victims of the florida shooting chris hixon school's athletic director originally from easton, pa, graduated from pleasant valley high school monroe count any 1986. remember him as a down to earth person who really made a difference in people's lives. >> he was a real type kid. all right? what do i mean by that that? he was real, nothing fake about him, you recalls dollars him for the way he was, the way he interacted with faculty and staff. >> i was new to the school. he was one of the first people to come to up me, introduce himself, made me feel like part of the team. >> he was 49, married, had two children. >> the tragedy in florida has some local schools reviewing their preparedness plans just in case a similar tragedy should happen here. in delaware county every school has a panic button that

immediately alerts law enforcement to a dangerous intruder or threatening situation. when that button is pushed there is a certain protocol here that our dispatchers follow. it is not just a call to the school. it is an immediate response where law enforcement is sent as best you can describe it, the caffrey is coming. >> meanwhile in philadelphia, philadelphia police work with the city's school police force officers responds to school lock-downs with a massive police presence. they frequently practice their response. some schools in new jersey increased security following the tragedy in florida as student left west orange high school, police and security guards met them. they are more strict about wearing i.d.'s some schools couldn't imagine what they would do in a emergency but police are hoping that their presence would put students at ease and deter copycats. >> i think it was just a big panic. like i don't think the organized drills really work. i think like yesterday everybody would just start running you.

>> never know what's going on inside of somebody's minds, we take the extra steps to show we are there, and we're prepared to respond state law in new jersey mandates that schools hold at least one fire drill at one safety drill each month. they must also have complete four other exercises throughout the year that include shooter lockdown and bomb threat training. >> a candlelight vigil in bucks countly remember the victims of the florida school shooting, starts tonight at 5:00 in front of the playgrounds at the corner of may he will avenue and route 413. after the vigil the peace sent letter host discussion on gun violence at one block away, 102 maple avenue. stay with for continuing coverage in park land florida, nine updates any time on our website cbsphilly.com, and of course on the cbs local app. >> authorities are investigating a crash that killed a little girl in camden , chopper three over the scene on north fifth and state street just before 4:30 yesterday. eighty-four year old man lost

control of his suv, jumped the curve and hit the eight year old while riding her bike. four year old man also struck, in stable condition, police say the community is devastated. >> unfortunately, you have these incidents that happen. the loss of any life, of course, is a poinent one, it is a lost to the community, tune have a child lose a life at such a young age makes you think of the loss of a promise , future. >> the driver of the suv is in the hospital with unspecified injuries. philadelphia police are investigating a deadly shooting in the lawncrest section, man shot in the face just before 8:00 last night, near rising sun avenue, rosa lee street, pronounced dead short time later. so far no arrests here. and police reviewing surveillance video after three teens gunned down in south philadelphia. the gun discharged on 2100 block of educating terrace, one in critical condition with gunshot wound to the back, two other teens shot in the leg. >> delaware man facing charges

this morning after bizarre crime inside the franklin institute. authorities say 24 year old michael are hand a snapped a selfie then purposely snapped the thumb off of a valuable statue. this happened on december 21 while he was attending a ugly christmas sweater party inside the museum. the statue known as the call valerie man part of the terra cotter warriors of the first emperor exhibit: fbi tracked him down at his bear delaware home where they recovered the thumb. we are told that the statue date back to 200bc and is valued at $4.5 million. >> a top advise or for the trump campaign could be close to reaching a plea deal with robert council robert mueller, in negotiations m month. agent, third person known to bes iestigation into russian meddling in election agent trusts cents

teenagers. >> just doesn't feel right to me. it just did not go right. >> hear how she prevented the teens from becomingme. >> and a camden dispatcher is recognized for going above filyn need. kdness tell you her right after the break.

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>> massive train derailment, freight train crashed and burst into flames, engineer and conductor treated for broken bones. investigators still trying to figure out what caused this derailment. >> staying in new york, former teacher and his twin brother facing charges, authorities say the pair tried to make bombs inside their apartment in the bronx. even worse, they are accused of paying student to help them investigators trying to figure out what the former teacher and his brother, tyler, had planned. officials say their apartment was packed with bomb making materials including 30-pound

of chemicals stashed in a closet. staffers at the school where christian used to work helped them make the after. >> the staff at the school did something very important. their work was crucial here, as well, and i want to thank them for their vigilance, and their diligence, and the smart work they did in immediately alerting law enforcement. >> school officials alerted authorities after discovering a book about explosives on the laptop christian returned after he resigned. >> well, authority are crediting quick thinking airline employee from preventing what teens from becoming victims of human trafficking. police say sacramento california airlines agent questioned the ticket presented by two young teenager at the airport, she had a gut feeling something just wasn't right. the girls told her that they met a man on instagram who invited them to new york city for a modeling session. >> like they really weren't sure, and then they were texting someone on the phone. and that person was giving them answers.

>> and they said well i wouldn't let anything happen that i didn't want and well probably wouldn't have a choice in the matter. >> well police say denise miracle lived to up her name when it comes to those two young girls, when authorities tried to contact the man they say he deleted all of his profiles on social media. >> scary there. >> another story of people helping people. 911 dispatcher in camden goes above and beyond to help a mother in need. >> my kids have not -- yesterday. waiting on my food stamps to come, they said 30, 45 days. >> so just that supervisor, overheard that call last month from a desperate mother of four who as we just heard there had no food for her children. thinking twice, she sprung into action, sending officer david hinton to the house with food, and she also dropped off some food. >> just for me to hear that children were hung, hadn't eaten since the day before was very heart breaking for me, it just wasn't going to be tolerated. i was going to get them help

as soon as possible cents. >> above and beyond at last night's county freeholder meeting. was among the officers and dispatchers honored for their actions. >> i always love to hear those stories. katie here with another check on the forecast. >> walking out still raining. what's if store for the rest of the day? >> it still features these showers, dow think may be a break along the way, guys, you still got a lot of precipitation working it way across the keystone state, certainly across most of our area, too, down through delaware, southern jersey getting hit as well with light to moderate rain. still all of this that needs to work it way through. you will be stuck with this for the majority of the day i would absolutely walk out the door with your umbrella, likely be needing it at some point here today. but notice, it is all rain. even up toward the ad a ron dicks, strictly rain, it is too warm everywhere for anything but that. but then, things do start to shift. the winter storm watch takes effect, not this evening, but tomorrow evening. basically for the northwest half of our area here. so, chester, montgomery, bucks

, all point northwest, are included. south jersey, philadelphia county, not included in this watch. but that tells you something. things are about to change for our area. and as early as tomorrow evening we start to see some wet weather moving in. now there is will be a quick hitter. much more consistency as to what will happen this time. the storm track is really starting to show, that's helpful, that's the key, when it comes to system like. >> this the rain-snow line likely little further north than this. philly will be cold enough to see some snow. and probably an inch or two plus worth of it, before it get out of here. this is 11:00 p.m. already starting to see a back edge set up in central pa. we could end up three to 6 inches every snow in the north and western counties before said and done, strictly rain south jersey, southern delaware, then clearing out by 8:00, 9:00, 10:00 a.m. so quick hitter, comes generally overnight, but saturday night it is not looking easy if you had plans to be out at all. now by monday and tuesday, look at the surge of warmth, especially wednesday, my

goodness, 71 degrees, right? but some wet weather out ahead of that here, meisha. >> okay. 71 degrees. that's a very welcome break. thanks so much, katie. looking outside right now, so yes, it is feeling not too bad just very, very wet roadway. ninety-five south at allegheny , keeping an eye you can see how wet it looks out there. we know when it is wet like this you have splatter coming up on the windshield behind you, we know it will be busy, today won't be any different. could be busy morning, the vine, what we are looking out at there push in the westbound direction toward the schuylkill and the eastbound side, see some of your neighbors out there, overall looking tip cam, looking as it normally does. ben franklin bridge for those every you traveling westbound, take it easy, there as well, very wet, especially if is going to accumulate off to the shoulder, side streets, bridges, under the bridge decks, then accident here butler pike at ridge pike, one lane block here. and of course we've got construction crews out there, walt whitman bridge eastbound, two right lanes blocked until around 6:00 a.m.

still showing green on our censor map. and the betsy ross, also some construction on the betsy ross bridge, as well, that's now just been cleared. jim, rahel, back to you. >> coming up. ment big change coming to mcdonald's. >> the surprise menu item no longer happy meals, in our money watch report coming up

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>> welcome back, 4:50, time for check on business news. >> diane king hall joins us from the new york torque stock exchange, good morning, diane. so, the way this week has gone , last week, gyrations cents, almost feel like distant memory. i have to be honest, i don't hear of wall street but wrap up yesterday's trading session for us. >> it has been turbulent from last week to this week, you know, you can just really get whiplash, so wall street really continues to shake off last week's malay, extending its rallies to fifth day. the dow soared 306-point, the nasdaq rallied 112. meanwhile, us bank will pay

$613 million to settle allegations that the bank had koran tie money laundering controls which put it at risk for criminal activities, the bank willfully violated the bank's secrecy acts to fail report. it has restructured it safeguards, rahel, jim? >> diane, i understand changes are underway to mcdonald's happy meal? >> that's right. the burger giant says it is removing cheeseburgers from happy meal menus there is will make some people probably little less happy, plan to do this by 2022, if a customer wants one they have to request it kind of like the special menu for instance at starbucks , the world's biggest fast-food chain also says it is cents aim to go widdle happy meal calorie countdown to 600 calories or less, and of course, as america fights its rise in child obesity rates. >> that makes sense, but why make it four years to do it? it takes four years to take a cheeseburger out after bag? >> people's expectation takes

cents, jim. >> people need to know to prepare. >> wean them off gladly. >> kids will be in college by the time this hams. thanks, diane. appreciate it. >> all right. >> well, weaver chance of snow for the weekend. >> yes, we've had all sort every things happening on this seven day. katie will explain more when we come right more and more student debt is keeping people from doing what they love. (horn sound) ♪ ♪ like buying a home. ♪ ♪ (knocking sound)

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>> welcome back, sheen on the streets as we overlook the main street from hotel bethlehem. you can see what looks like some rain, just puddling down the street. yes, just going to be difficult commute for you here i don't anticipate any major flooding issues, but definately ponding on the roadways, you will need the extra space between the vehicles, visibility far less than ideal, today no picnic for the morning commute but

rain showers any time throughout the dayment let me show you wide zoom. immediately drawn to the rain pushing through now, but take a look back to new mexico. where we've got some showers starting to develop. that is what eventually works it way to our area, and bridges with it the potential for snow into the weekend. so it looks very innocent right now. but that's goes to -- going to blossom as it moves our way. so expected snowfall, impressive considering we were in the 60s yesterday. two-4 inches of snow saturday night into very early sunday, in the sit, we are going to see winter storm watch also take effect for the northwest half of our area, at 7:00 p.m. tomorrow. for three to sick inches to fall in that darker shaded area. it is mainly just rain, though , as we head further into south jersey and delaware , so, again, no snow issues for you. temperatures held in the mid 50's through the day, tonight start to clear out will see a hit, dropping down to 33, so cold set the stage very brief

ly, for the storm to come along, it is cents a quick hitter, i guess the timing could be heck of a lot worse, primarily comes under the cover of darkness, so keep in mind out saturday night, you may have some slow-downs trying to get home. but it should be, again, out of here, and you're back to sunshine already by sunday, look at the warm up that takes place, too, so, even if we get couple every inches, it will melt away real quickly, by the time we hit tuesday, wednesday , are you kidding me? not typos, we flirt with or even exceed 70. >> that's huge. >> that's crazy, katie, do you at this it will stay this way? what do youy? >> one never knows. >> stay tuned. >> i hope so. i mean, such a tease, isn't it >> would wouldn't that be nice >> thank you. go ahead, we have something to look forward tonight today though actually feels pretty good outside. katie was mentioning, just the wet roadways, and they are going to slow us down already 42 freeway northbound at creek road take it toward 295. yes, see how wet it is out there. but you can also see how many headlights are starting to pop out there. a lot of people will heed the

warning, get out there early, because of the wet roadways not bad idea. usually when we have the wet roadways like this people are usually traveling little less than posted speeds, as well, so you will be dropping posted speeds. schuylkill at girard, taillights moving in the eastbound direction, headlight of course moving in the westbound direction, you can see the movement around there. boulevard at wissahickon, taillights lights moving in the southbound direction, still camera shot, but you can sigh by the glare on the roadways ways how wet it is. we do have accident out there. but the her pike, ridge pike, one lane block, conshohocken here, so heads up, moving out the door. plus some construction on the walt whitman bridge, two right lanes blocked until around 6:00 a.m. jim, back over to you. >> coming up in the next hour of cbs-3 "eyewitness news" more information about the deadly school shooting in florida we we know someone with ties into our area is one of the victims. >> also ahead what's bringing puerto rico governor to philadelphia today. >> and it is one of the most anticipated films in recent memory. rahel has got her ticket. we're live with reaction to marvel new movie black panther

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>> in christopher hick son. >> the vigil for the victims every wednesday's deadly scoot shooting and we've learn that one of them has touched our area. >> and i'm laura in park land, florida,, where high school remains closed off crime scene , we'll tell you why authority believe the death toll could have been much higher. here at home off to soggy start, parts of the area also seeing some fog, and you have have to leave yourselves extra time to get where you're going , katie here to tell lust winter storm watch goes into effect. >> and today is friday, february 16th, good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon.