still not exactly clear where bittle has been these past seven months. that still remains a mystery. but the one thing that is clear tonight he's locked up on $50,000 bail. roaring from the sat center, todd quinones cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> more to come on that incredible story, todd, thank you very much. >>> prostitutes posting posting provocative photos online to sell sex. it's not uncommon and police have target the women behind the ads but in philadelphia, now more than ever, law enforcement cracking down on the men who answer the ads. never before have news cameras been allowed to catch what you're about to seem it's an i-team exclusive. investigator tiff reporter charlotte huffman taking you inside a sting operation. >> reporter: you're undercover with the i-team inside a northeast philly hotel. it's where men think they're meeting a prostitute but have no idea we're watching them from across the hallway. and so are police. >> he's in. >> reporter: to provoke the vice squad officers we can't show you their faces. they're the ones who post provoca

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bittle eventually simply vanished in july near the seventh avenue jetty in longport. the coast guard state police frantic witnesses they searched for hours thinking he had fallen off pontoon boat. no word what kind of legal troubles he's faceing. talk about bold but not very smart. upper darby police bust an alleged crack house set up directly across the street from police headquarters. police say five people were arrested last night after a three-week long investigation into what they say was a busy crack house. investigators say they found as many as 25 bags of heroin crack cocaine pills and other paraphernalia. detectives say it was only a matter of time before the suspects were going to get caught. >> the thing that's amazing is that they had the guts to go across the street from a police station and think they're not going to get caught. that makes no sense whatsoever. >> all five were arraigned on drug charges and remain in jail this evening after failing to post bail. >>> a sigh of relief tonight for the family of a missing teen mom and her infant daughters the

the judge beganned bail and reportedly bittle posted it. >>> new surveillance video shows the momentsight before a young boy was hit and killed by a septa trolley. it is devastating to watch. and for those on that packed trolley overwhelming. fox 29's shawnette wilson live tonight at the scene. shawnette? >> reporter: iain, you mentioned it is devastating. it is also heartbreaking. i'm going to step out of the way so you can see behind me where a memorial has been started here late tonight. this is the tragedy that has touched most everyone who heard what happened. >> a little love loss. a strong love loss. something two yours old. >> reporter: hours after two-year-old was hit and killed by a trolley on lancaster avenue near 51 is the and west philadelphia. memorial of stuffed animals grew nearby. >> as far as the child being unsupervised coming down this street right here. you be very careful. >> reporter: this man who didn't want to show his face dropped off something at the memorial. and was highly emotional over what happened. surveillance video from a business across the street c

the bittle colder temperatures making the main pond in new york's central park walkable.inter has been unrelending for new england, and this latest storm does not help. boston has had no chance to get out from under the snow. >> i think record is 105 inches in a winter. so i think we should try to set the record. >> reporter: the city has seen around 95 inches so the likelihood of surpeszing that record this winter is pretty high. more than 2200 flights canceled tony at last check. >> wicked cold. erica, appreciate it. are we talking about some of the coldest of the season so far. >> yeah we started out mild and the temperatures plummeted in the northeast. >> yeah. >> when we look at today's lows they were still -- we look at records, they were below zero. >> wait a minute. wait a minute. wait a minute. we got a snow storm coming right? >> we do. we have snow pushing into washington, d.c. right now, and parts of baltimore d.c. are talking about 5 to 9 inches of snow. so ice now across the tennessee valley and atlantic further north we're getting more snow. but the for cas

." >> the baby was taken to safety, and detective bittle and his partner entered the house. >> as wet down the hallway, we looked this the bedroom to the left-hand side, and the daughter who was in the first grade was still in bed and had a "star wars" blanket pulled up around her neck. she was stabbed ten times. you could see the stab wounds through the blanket. we went further to the master bedroom, and the youngest child was laying there on her back. her throat had been cut. almost decapitated, and on the right-hand side, facing the bed was the mother. the bra was up around her neck. her panties had been cut off of her, and she had 14 stab wounds. >> the victims were katy eastburn, age 32, kara, age 5, and erin age 3. >> but so long after that homicide, i could close my eyes at night and i could see those children. >> katie's husband, gary, was an air force captain. he rushed back from training in alabama. >> it's hard to explain. you just stop. the world stops. >> when you looked into his eyes, there was a void there. it tears your heart out. but you have to gather yourself, beca