cherri gregg for kyw news radio for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> ♪ >> all right. >> i'm ready.ember zanzibar blue, let's do it. great. >> i know. >>> people making most of the warmer weather taking every chance we can to get outside. >> it seems we are not alone, is this otter chilling on the stocks in avalon earlier today we want to thank monica amo of avalon for sending thus video. she says she has seen a couple otters on the dock in the past few days just chilling. >> yes. >> warm up. >> umbrella, get a little beverage, kickback. >> they are cute, aren't they. >> yes. all right. kate bilo joining us now. you have been bearer of good news. >> yes, i have more good news to share, which is always a good great place to be. >> it is. >> good news, especially heading in the holiday weekend a lot of folks traveling through end of this week heading to their easter weekend destination or heading back from the spring break trip or heading to the long weekend trip. you'll like forecast for next few days. it does look quiet. another live look at logan circle, looks beautiful. fountains

cherri gregg for kyw news radio for cbs-3 eyewitness news. >>> a wisconsin man who led police on a 10 day manhunt remains behind bars on $30,000 cash bail. three two-year old joseph jakubowski appeared in court this afternoon to face burglary, theft and related charges. he is accused of stealing a cash of weapons from a gun store, prosecutors say that he also, sent threatening anti government manifesto to the white house. police found jakubowski on friday and i was camping on private property when the owners spotted him. >>> a doctor, says that he prescribed oxycodone for prince under an associate's name to protect the rock star 's privacy. prince died april 21st of last year, while an accidental overdose of fentanyl 50 times more powerful than heroin. investigators want to know where the drugs that killed prince came from search warrants phone record and e-mails were all unsealed today. >>> prince harry is opening up about his mother's death, and how he silently struggled for 20 years, after princess diana died in a 1997 car crash. now, this is a break from the royal tradition of sil

in northeast philadelphia, cherri gregg, kyw news radio for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> democrats in the senate now have the 41 votes needed to sustain a filibuster against president trump's supreme court nominee neil gorsuch, looming filibuster set stage for republicans to potentially go nuclear. >> nomination we're going to be reported to the floor. >> reporter: senate judiciary committee moved judge gorsuch one step closer to becoming next supreme court justice but also one step closer to a showdown on the senate floor. >> a partisan party line vote in the committee is sad, but it is a reflection on on a brokenness in the u.s. senate and not any problem with judge gorsuch. >> reporter: senator chris coons became first democrat to say he will filibuster judge gorsuch nomination when it comes up for a vote, this week >> i'm not ready to he end debate on this issue so i will vote. >> reporter: senate is scheduled to take final vote on gorsuch's nomination on friday and republicans insist he will be confirmed, even if they have to invoke the so-called nuclear option. another historic

cherri gregg from our sister station kyw news radio has more on one of the 300 juvenile lifers finally set free. >> reporter: happy day for hey wood red dog fennell. >> hey, is what up. >> what is up. >> reporter: he is a new man, getting his share of hugs, laughs, and questions. >> telephone, you know, where is the shoe shine stand at. >> reporter: reddog was 17 when he took part in the robbery that claimed the life of joseph heyes on this north philadelphia block. he wasn't the killer but yet act resulted in a mandatory life, without parole sentence. >> i was able to like sleep at night because my heart wasn't stressing that i took someone 's life. >> reporter: graterford prison red dog became invaluable saving live of the william covington a corrections officer attacked during a riot in the 1970's. he was also prison fix it man, mentoring inmates across the state. >> me and i fathered relationship was always, you know, 100. >> reporter: heywood carter was two months when his dad went inside. >> he taught me how to shoot pool, how to fight. >> reporter: no his mid 60's red dog credit

in west philadelphia, cherri gregg for kyw news radio for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> enjoy journey, make us proud. >>> georgetown university hold s a worship services as part of the effort to remember and repent for selling 272 slaves in order to keep the school afloat in 1838. >> ♪ men and women descendent s of the slave attend the services. sandra green thomas spoke about the religious faith of the slave and how faith was passed on to their decedents. green thomas says pain, suffering of slavery is still felt today. >> there was no comparison to be made between the enslaved of the americas and any other group to date or in history. their pain was unparalleled, the pain is still here. >> following the services, two buildings were renamed one in the name of the slave, once owned by the university, and second in the name of a woman who established a school in georgetown for black girls. >>> we wanted to let you know about a story that will be featured on tonight's "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. correspondent vladamire dutier will show us remarkable history from mother bethel a

prosperity in the black community. >> impossible if we stay together. >> reporter: in city hall, cherri greggbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> a rooftop pull at a texas apartment complex has a glass bottom, and it is an optical illusion not fit for those afraid of heights. this video of the swimmer stepping over edge of the building. look at that. wow. >> the pool is 40 store ace above the ground, on the roof of the luxury apartment building in houston's market square tower. >> wow. >> isn't that wild. >> yes. >> if i hear a little, what was that. >> yes. >> what was that. >> no one wants to see a leak. >> oh, my goodness. >> that is something. >> wow. >> okay, lauren joins with us more on this wonderful forecast, i'm driving into work and ferrell's happy came on. >> yes. >> i put that up, i was old school, i had to roll role down the windows, yes, and just play the music. >> kicking up sunshine, everybody happy. pool weather. >> gorgeous. >> taste of summer. we have sunshine around, people enjoying conditions, and lets check in on people at the beach. we were going, we well check out center city p

community effort to drive customers to african-american owned businesses for all of philadelphia cherri greggrom our sister station kyw news radio explains how the new i buy black discount card is supposed to work. >> reporter: north philadelphia's most prominent leaders like music mogul kenney gamble, al lawlor and others have joined forces to keep african-american dollars in the black community. >> we can agree, to buy black. >> reporter: the solution, the eye buy black card, a ten-dollar discount card sold at i buy black.org and in stores that links customers to philadelphia black owned businesses, while providing a 15 percent discount, the goal, grow the businesses. >> ninety to 95 percent of everything that we need to get done will get done in here. >> reporter: jude is owner of the minuteman press at broad and moore, one of the two locations where they provide large scale printing for businesses. >> he is annie buy black participant and says even a small boost can have a rippling effect. >> what i found is if i have an additional $500, every day, over a period, i can hire more people to

reporter cherri gregg from kyw news radio traveled to hightstown and she shows us how students there are hoping to change federal law. >> reporter: thinks hightstown, high school's ap government class, and instead of just learning how the political systems work, these students are part of the process. >> we, as a collective body have been working on this, since the beginning of last year. >> reporter: senior aretha shaw is one of the more than two dozen students who drafted the cold case, record collections, act, to make it easier, to access, government documents, and civil rights cold cases. >> the process is a very long, tedious process. >> it is just a travesty that nothing has been done. >> reporter: stewart connection letter came up with the idea for bill in 2015. he realized the emmitt till act which created the civil rights cold case division had a gap. those trying to solve racially charged murders could only get redak documents leaving families without answers for decade so she is students created a solution. >> create an independent review board that will release those file

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. >> as cherri gregg from our sister station kyw news radio tells you she will be honored next week ina at an event that celebrates diverse culinary cuisine. >> reporter: south philadelphia barbercoa which means south philly barbecue is as colorful as its kitchen, and where cristina martinez and her husband vin miller work seven days a week. >> everything ready to day. >> reporter: they are ready to sell their lamb, pork, betty tacos and more to waiting customers on friday, saturday and sunday. >> every week we have new people, new customers. >> reporter: martinez food is so good, bone appetite named barbercoa1 of the best restaurants in america and she caught the eye of fortune magazine and city council but it it is for her activism she and her husband helped organize days of action, and got city council to pass a resolution, and on may 1st they are taking their cause national this woman has overcome insurmountable add. >> reporter: margaret o'sullivan runs the international services sent shore will honor martinez next week. while many workers live in the shadows she's putting her fac