reporting live from germantown i'm steve paterson for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> steve, thanks very much. >>> well, tonight state police are investigating a three vehicle crash that left one person dead. chopper three over the scene of the northbound lanes have of i-95, at bartram avenue and tinicum township. you can see one vehicle overturn on the roadway there. there are no reports of any additional injuries tonight. the cause of the crash remains under investigation. >>> well, this septa transit officer is accused of performing a lewd act on the subway. septa says someone posted a video of it on line and the transit police captain, identified the suspect as 44 year-old kevin font. he was reportedly off-duty at the time. font is a 12 year member of the septa transit police and

our steve paterson is live along the parkway with more on that, steve, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, nicole. it is philadelphia mar then race weekend, there is a lot going on including as you mentionedded an 8k this morning. you can see volunteers setting up. there is a whole lot to do. you know what though it is cold this morning, nicole. we are looking at the setup. we have found a tent over here. we said might as well go into that. we have a little caught up on our cable there there we go, we got it. we will go inside, it is supposed to be an okay day for running. we are in the running. we might as well come in and check this out. this is a guest tents, one of the many places you can go and relax if you are a runner or special guest. come in here. you can see heat. guys working this. some nice chairs. might as well figure we will sit down and talk to you this morning about the big race. there is a lot going on including as you mentioned the 8k and then kids run that is this morning. but i want to show you years previous. you have to look at how many people come out and pa

"eyewitness news" reporter, steve paterson is live where we are hearing from the suspect's uncle, is that right steve. >> reporter: last night police identified the suspect who committed two armed robberies within a span of 15 minutes. his uncle tells cb. this this is a a man battle drug use and had prior run ins with the law. police say 41 year old william mcnulty was shot and killed by a delaware state trooper shortly after 4:00 yesterday afternoon. police were pursuing mcnulty after they connected him to an armed robbery in the atm and one at a 7-eleven early yesterday morning. he was spotted and chased at several point throughout the take, fleeing at a high rate of speed in the toyota corolla. finally after being cornered and given several commands to stop police say mcnulty hopped a curve and drove in the patch of trees. that suspect then put the car in reverse and accelerated towards the troopers and that is when police say they opened fire. we spoke with mcnulty's uncle by phone and says family is surprised by the violent crime spree. >> never owned a weapon before, not that i

"eyewitness news" reporter steve paterson is live where we're hearing from that suspect's uncle, right steve. >> reporter: that is right. we spoke to that uncle by phone last night, drug use and prior run ins with the law are both thingsed he mentioned about his nephew but he surprised surprise about his capacity for violent crime. police say he was forced to contain a dangerous situation and was rapidly getting out offhanded. >> trying to grasp and we were going to deal witt the best we can. >> reporter: family member of the man police say committed two armed robberies in the span of 15 minutes say he never thought of his nephew as real event. police sent 41 year-old william mcnulty was shot and killed by a delaware state trooper shortly after 4:00 yesterday afternoon. police were pursuing mcnulty after they connect him to the armed robbery at an atm and one at a 7-eleven early yesterday morning. he was spotted and chased at several points throughout the day, fleeing at a high rate of speed and in a toyota cover role a finally after being cornered and given several commands to stop po

"eyewitness news" reporter steve paterson talk with that woman's family and steve joins us live. >> we have been speaking to the family throughout the day on this also speaking to police on this, their investigation, continues but as you mentioned the best tool they have in this investigation, high above, surveillance video, capturing the whole incident. they release that had video today they hope it leads to the break in the case quickly but they need help. nearly 20 hours from the kidnapping a family haunted, seeing the abduction in motion. >> destroyed right now that is how i want my daughter to come back home. just send her back home safe. >> reporter: monday afternoon police releasing video showing 22-year old carlesha gaither being taken. it is, surveillance from the 100 block of west coulder street at collette 40 sunday night. man pulls up, approaches would the man, drags her nearly a block fighting back to his car and appears to take off with the victim. >> she knows the person that it was. it wasn't just a random act. >> reporter: members of the gaither's family now telling cb

steve paterson is live with the late breaking development, steve. >> reporter: jessica and chris, there are now suspect images from both philadelphia and suspect images from maryland, connected to this case n some ways family says it has renewed a sense of hope in them, and in other ways they are worried that the abductor may be someone from gaither's past. >> you out there you see this, please baby just fight. >> reporter: powerful word, mother pleading to her daughter, just don't give up. >> calm down and fight. get out. >> reporter: it is day two in the search for 22-year old carlesha gaither, tuesday police announcing fresh lead renewing some hope. >> carlesha's atm car was used at a stand alone bank in aberdeen maryland. >> reporter: police confirm gaither's atm card used in the bank in maryland. surveillance images just released by police showing a man in dark colored clothing at 6:00 this morning. >> it shows a male using an atm card, her atm card. >> reporter: aberdeen business two hours away from california, maryland. today carlesha's grandmother anna mallero said the 23 year-o

tonight "eyewitness news" reporter steve paterson has more on a family and community praying for her safe return. >> reporter: high above this small community an ominous sight. >> i saw helicopter and my hard fell praying that it wasn't, any bad news. >> there are a lot of people praying for three three-year old jessica paget, community darling, newlywed mother of three, missing since friday. >> she was a very giving, loving person, very hard worker and very dedicated. >> reporter: co-workers at duck, duck, goose child care say jessica was acting perfectly normal friday afternoon when she went on a lunch break. >> just a regular day. we did not expect something like this to happen. >> reporter: police say she took that break around 1:00 saying she was going to run errands but she never came back. they discovered her suv in this dollar general store parking lot a half a mile away. her cell phone inside the vehicle, in trace of guess contact. >> i just want my sister found, that is all we ask at time. >> reporter: this afternoon we spoke to the northampton county district attorney and

. >>> "eyewitness news" reporter steve paterson was with the protesters as they marched up broad street and he has that part of the coverage. >> mike brown. >> reporter: 2 miles of north broad street doused in emotion. hundreds, protesters chanting, screaming, marching, all fists in bloody faces frustrated with justice, angry with the world. >> of course people are still angry because we feel like do our lives matter. >> reporter: members of the multi cultural march questioning a lot taking action by showing force. >> i'm out here, and sitting behind a desk we value life so much that allows somebody who obviously murdered an innocent kid in cold blood to walk. >> reporter: with no incident they marched from city hall to temple's campus, joined by police and onlookers. >> this is a show of solidarity and thinks us showing that we don't agree what is happening in this world right now. >> reporter: 2 miles later most here now know nothing has change. >> we will do something good for our country and we want to be heard and that is why we are here. >> reporter: at very least they are demandi

steve paterson has that story. >> reporter: birthday party unlike any other. south philadelphia celebration of sem per fi. >> i knew the marine core hyme which i was in the womb. >> reporter: this tribute and military tailgate has been held here outside cookies tavern. but on this monday the core's 239th birthday, something even more special happened. >> d dave. >> it was one of the worst battles marine core ever had. >> reporter: world war two vet ray maylen fink a battle of the one of the most bloody bat unless american history featuring 7,000 you american deaths came to shake hand with fellow vets here for the first time. he is one of the last surviving members of the invasion's fifth division, and then special turned miraculous >> i was the only survivor. >> reporter: out of no where lewis, a member of the fifth division's 28th regimen the one raising the flag in one of the most iconic war images ever captured, also showed up. and for the first time in 70 years, two of the wars oldest veterans in one of of the most heroic bat were also together again shaki

"eyewitness news" reporter steve paterson is live for news camden with more now, steve. >> reporter: chris, witnesses tell us the attacker was on top of that social worker and would not stop stabbing until a co-worker managed to pull her off, we just spoke to the chief moments ago and said the suspect has a history of mental illness an violence. >> pulled out a 9-inch stake knife and began to immediately start stabbing a caseworker. >> reporter: it is a building that houses an agency that has the word protection in the title. >> thinks the last place would i think something like this would happen. this is a safe place. thinks the state building. >> reporter: camden county police responding shortly after 1:00 tuesday afternoon to the child protection and permanency agent i in the 100 block of haddon. >> the attack was sudden and swept. >> reporter: camden county police chief scott thompson say a female casework are in her 30's was stab all over her body by a client in her 30's. the victim transported to cooper university hospital in severe, critical condition. the suspect, in custody,

"eyewitness news" reporter steve paterson is live with the very latest on the search tonight, steve. >> reporter: jessica, you said it, this is a three three-year old mother of three, newlywed and neighbors say had no reason to walk away from her life in this tight community, yet police are saying she's vanished since friday with no tips, no leads, and no person of interest. meanwhile police found her car in this parking lot where a new search started today. someone with the strength to speak to a brother pleads for his sister's safe return. >> i just want my cyster found. that is all we ask a at this time. >> reporter: he stands mountain same place where police say three three-year old jessica paget rannish. she went missing friday in broad daylight. co-workers at northampton's duck, duck goose child care say jessica went on a lunch break around 1:00 that afternoon telling co-workers she would run an errand at her father's home. >> thinks a regular day and we did not expect this to happen. >> reporter: instead police found jessica's a. uv in this dollar general store parking lot, he

for now we're live at northwest detectives i'm steve paterson for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> steve, thanks. >>> we're following breaking news in juniata park where a 30 year-old man was shot and killed. crews responded to the 3900 block of i street, where we's told that victim was struck multiple times in the torso and pronounced dead at the scene. right the now no word on a suspect or a motive. >>> well, now to an "eyewitness news" exclusive, a student who is being credited for alerting officials to threats at radnor high school is speaking out. this is as the 17 year-old girl whom police say wrote about killing classmates a teacher and even harming herself under goes a mental evaluation. here's "eyewitness news" reporter walt hunter. >> i have a moral obligation to all of the student here to say, this is something that could happen, take a look at it. >> reporter: seniors zachary taylor knew he had had to act quickly, when after reading class notes shared by a fellow student, he found page after page of alleged threats, to kill fellow students, and the teacher. >> it was really, r

live from germantown, steve paterson for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> steve, thanks. a lot of concern in the community there and across the region obviously. this digital billboard featuring pictures of carlesha is now appearing along interstate 95. authorities hope it will prompt a tip of some kind for anyone who knows anything about carlesha's whereabouts. the reward for information in the case is standing at $47,000 tonight. >>> new at 6:00 o'clock our syma chowdhry is live in maryland, we will check in with her and, of course, you can get latest on this case anytime, including a closer look at the videotape of that person of interest. you can watch it over and over and share witt friends, all you have to do is go to the web site at cbs philly.com. >>> police in the poconos found all kind of gear belonging to eric frein, the suspected trooper killer. search warrant documents list more than a hundred items recovered from the birchwood pocono air park hanger, those include a bolt action rifle, snipper rifle and loaded pistol. police found five magazines and 200 round

"eyewitness news" reporter steve paterson tells us about the big name celebrity drawing attention now to this local memorial. >> the statue is here because of a few and it is going to stay because of a many. >> it is one of the few memorials on tuesday that celebrated two anniversaries. eighty year ago, in 1934, all wars memorial to column offered soldiers and sailors was elected but tuesday's ceremony is all about 1994, because before then hardly anyone knew it existed. keynote speaker philly native and comedy ledgend bill cosby knows how the story goes. >> it was described by within fellow who said he played as a child there. they never looked up. they never looked up. they never knew what the statue was for. >> it was there, out of sight, out of mind. >> reporter: that fellow is marine core veteran marshall houston. he said irony has colored his whole life. >> as a young child in the 50's and early 60's, i played in and around that memorial. i didn't know the significance of it until 40 years later. >> reporter: for 60 years it was part of the scenery in the secluded area of fairmo

at the art museum, steve paterson, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> we give you an a for effort, steve. >>in gloucester, new jersey a different hero's run. "eyewitness news" at corporal mark t memorial run for the fallen. ryan died ten years ago in the roadside bomb in iraq. run raises money for scholarship name in honor of corporal ryan. participant paid tribute to world war two veterans. >>> on the cbs-3 healthwatch new hope for veterans who have higher rates of hepatitis c and millions of others who suffered from the illness. health reporter stephanie stahl has the exclusive story of how one vet's life has been forever changed. >> i was looking for familiar names. >> reporter: joe banco at philadelphia veterans memorial feeling lucky. >> it ised sad when you see names here and you think about what they did to put down their lives to give us freedom, you know what i mean? it is kind of moving. >> reporter: joe received an honorable discharge before being sent to vietnam. years later he was diagnosed with hepatitis c, it has been called a silent epidemic because people don't know they hav

at the art museum, steve paterson cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> all right, steve.l, different kind of run in gloucester, new jersey. "eyewitness news" at corporal marks memorial run for the fallen. proceeds go to the scholarship name in corporal ryan's honor. he died ten years ago in a roadside bombing in iraq. participants paid tribute to the gloucester's world war two set veterans. >>> and such a worthy cause. we had so much fun, out at the the plymouth meeting mall yesterday for the eyewitness weather kidcasters. that little will girl, was phenomenal. she's so cute. i was there with members of the cbs-3 weather team. we saw on youngsters show off their forecasting skills and it was so much fun. everybody had a terrific time out there. so, good job, kids. don't even think about coming here right now, okay, i'm here now. our weather watchers are weighing in. what do they say. 27 degrees. that is kind of a chilly temperature out there for gary killian and he says as a cold start to the day, out there, and we've got a very pretty picture. this is down in tuckerton,

we're reporting live from germantown i'm steve paterson for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> thanks very much. >>> close call for authorities trying to evict a couple in north philadelphia a they say booby traps involving guns awaited officers in the 1800 block of west sedgley avenue. bomb squad was called in. they had to deactivate those traps. in the end in one was hurt. we will have much more on this story in a live report coming up a at 5:30 tonight. >>> well, mysterious odor possibly cause by cyanide may have caused two workers to be sick. emergency responders, including a hazmat crew arrived at ab on the point in port richmond this morning. they were rush to the hospital in critical condition. but, what i can is end them, is under investigation tonight. >>> chopper three over a deadly accident on i-95 near bartram avenue in the northbound lanes today, three vehicles involved, one of those cars, overturn, and we know one person was killed, but the exact cause of the crash is unclear. >>> eagles are awaiting the results of the mri for starters nick foles, demeco ryans, todd herremans who

our steve paterson will have a live report coming up at 6:00. >>> hey, for complete race coverage, including a list of events and road closures head to our web site at cbs philly.com. we will break it down for you. >>> right now 5:10. a new threat in upstate insuring this weekend coming up next on "eyewitness news" after the the record snowfall the snow melt is underway and that is raising new fear of flooding. >>> also ahead an incredible story a window washer falls off a top of the building on top of a car and survives. we will have have the incredible story, next. and for many, it's a struggle to keep your a1c down. so imagine, what if there was a new class of medicine that works differently to lower blood sugar? imagine, loving your numbers. introducing once-daily invokana®. it's the first of a new kind of prescription medicine that's used along with diet and exercise to lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. invokana® is a once-daily pill that works around the clock to help lower a1c. here's how: the kidneys allow sugar to be absorbed back into the body. invokana® reduces the

. >> i agree with steve paterson and i let him down the road by saying free labor.se guys have it really good. i'm on the road at seeing different campuses. i see that they go to bed hungry narrative is one of the all-time full narrative that could ever be eventuated in the history of college. if you really parrot on the math -- pare down the math, there is no way, if he is going to bed hungry, that is his own fault. i've spent a week behind the scenes at mississippi state, and let it tell you i gained five pounds being in their building. these guys come off the field and may have shakes specifically made to their flavor taste weight gain, weight loss and they go into the practice facility and there is a snack bar. that headline became a toxic thing. these athletes should be fed, if there's one thing they should never limit it is feeding athletes, it is in of them with medicare. -- it is medical care. those basic rights. those things are changing. it is a great thing for everybody. i do not think you will get anyone around sports to disagree but it is a misuse of wh

. >> i agree with steve paterson, and i led him down the road by saying free labor.ut these guys have it good. i spent 200 days on the road on different campuses. i see that "they go to bed hungry" narrative is one of the all-time false narratives that could ever be eventuated in the history of college. if you look at the math of these guys, there is no way, if he is going to bed hungry, that is his own fault. that is what, coast to coast, people told me. i've spent a week behind the scenes at mississippi state, and let it tell you i gained five pounds being in their building. these guys come off the field and they have shakes specifically made to their flavor taste, weight gain, weight loss and they go into the practice facility. there is a snack bar. some of that is because the rule was changed. the ncaa denied it, but that headline became a toxic thing. i think it is good, by the way. these athletes should be fed, if there's one thing they should never limit it is feeding athletes, taking care of them, medical care, those a sick rights. things are changing. it is