syma chowdhry is live with more on that story, syma? >> reporter: that is right nicole. family of shane montgomery is getting the closure that they need, after confirming that a body found in the schuylkill river is of shane montgomery. now the body was found by a group of volunteer divers just before noon time in about 4 feet of water in a river bank behind the manayunk brewery company a along main street. that is less than half mile from kildares irish pub, last place the 21 year-old was last seen early thanksgiving morning. surveillance video shows shane walking across the bridge spanning manayunk canal toward a parking lot next to the schuylkill river. shane's keys were found in that same area shortly before christmas. family spoke out to the media yesterday. >> today we have done what we have promised. we have found and we have brought shane home. we wanted to thank the garden state under water recovery unit, the philadelphia marine unit, north west detectives, the philadelphia police department, and saint john the baptist, mike rhodes and the brew pub and their emp

hamilton disappeared two weeks ago from her smyrna home, eye witt the necessary news reporter syma chowdhry is live from cheswold delaware this morning with the details good morning syma. >> reporter: good morning, diana. volunteers have started showing up at the chest walled fire company. lots of people going in to that banquet hall right there inside is at least 100 people. now it has only been a few weeks since anyone has ever heard from keisha hamilton this morning family members and volunteers are planning to look for her. the search parties meeting here at 8:00 and they will take off from there. hamilton disappeared on january 9th with 2 of her four children. soon after the disappearance. keisha's husband cortez hamilton was found in indiana with their two children both found safe but keisha was in where to be found. cortez hamilton was charged with endangering the welfare of her children and assault and, back to delaware, friday where he remains in jail. he has in the been charged with any crime in connection with keisha's disappearance but family members, need answers, they say. >>

our syma chowdhry has been live there all morning long in manayunk with more on that story, syma? >> reporter: good morning, nicole. shane montgomery's family has confirmed that the body that was pulled from the schuylkill river is that of the missing 21 year-old student. they spoke with the media just yesterday. >> to take we have done what we have promised. we have found and we have brought shane home. >> reporter: family of shane montgomery begins to get the closure that they need after confirming a a body pulled from the schuylkill river saturday, is the missing west chester university student. the body was fund by a group of volunteer divers just before noon time in 4 feet of water in a river bank behind the manayunk brewery a along main street, that is less than half mile from where the the 21 year-old difficulties a appeared after leaving kildares irish pub early thanksgiving day morning. shane's parents made at announcement at day that their son had been found nearly 40 days after his disappearance. the discovery of shane's body end more than five week search which include

"eyewitness news" reporter syma chowdhry is live in delaware this morning with where volunteers will join the search later this morning beginning at 8:00 o'clock. good morning syma? >> reporter: good are good morning, diane a it has been a good weeks since anyone seen or heard from keisha hamilton this morning family members and volunteers plan to look for her. the search party will meet here at the delaware fire company this morning. hamilton disappeared january 9th with 2 of her four children. soon after the the disappearance, her helps band cortez hamilton was found in indiana with two children both found safe. keisha was no where to be found. cortez hamilton was charge with endangering the welfare of his children and assault and was extradited back to delaware on friday, where he remains in jail. now he has not been charged with any crime, in connection to keisha's difficulties a appearance. but keisha's family says that he has not cooperated fully with police. >> we all miss her terribly. it is horrible to think that she's just out there, she's been hurt. >> reporter: state polic

our syma chowdhry is live in manayunk now with that story, syma. >> reporter: nicole, a body was pull from the schuylkill river right behind the manayunk brewery company and shane montgomery's family has confirmed that this body is of shane. >> today we have done what we have promised, we have found and we have brought shane home. >> reporter: family of shane montgomery begins to get the the closure that they need after confirming a body pulled from the schuykill river saturday, is the missing west chester university student. the body was found by a group of volunteer divers just before noon time, in about 4 feet of water in a river bank behind the manayunk brewery along main street. it is less than half mile from where the 21 year-old disappeared after leaving kildares irish pub early thanksgiving morning. shane's parents made the announcement saturday that their son had been found near liz 40 days after his difficulties a appearance. the discovery of shane's body end a more than five week search which included efforts from local dive teams, philadelphia police the fbi, and thousands

live at 6:00 o'clock tonight syma chowdhry is at philadelphia city hall syma. >> reporter: well, chris, the city a has been quiet all day to day not your typical tuesday, and that is because many people decided to stay home because of the snow. but you know that lack of foot traffic can hurt many businesses in the city. >> forecast is, busts, if you call that it do happen. >> reporter: many businesses have been hurt by this missed forecast. mayor nutter made decision monday to shut down the city and school district called it a snowpday. >> rather be prepared and subsequently disappointed with inconvenience then under prepared and surprised with an any kind of a tragedy. >> reporter: but businesses like this newspaper stand rely on the foot traffic and with city hall closed it is like a ghost town here. >> it is like a holiday, like a saturday or holiday because many people did not come down today. >> small business that is rely on a day to day type of a business, catering to office workers. >> reporter: economist steven mullens say there are clear winners and losers in the storm. the t

in center city syma chowdhry for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> what do you think about that due gree?at cbs philly use the hash tag at cbs-3 chat. >> speaking of fill institutions happy birthday to ben franklin. anniversary of the the the founding fathers birthday is, saturday and the national historic district kick off a weekend of activities in his honor at the historic philadelphia center. >>> showing us numbers in the 30's, close to seasonal but not quite there today. don is reporting in a temperature of 32 degrees, and wind that are relatively light but that will change as wind begin to kick up in the wake of the clipper overnight tonight. steven says clear, in robbinsville new jersey temperature 29, not much win, barometric pressure falling, clear, cold and starry night. lets go to the first state of delaware where temperatures are freezing. jason says not much win right now. middletown relative humidity 50 percent and pressure 29.80 and steady. look at this bought full delaware sunset pretty end to the day with cloud rolling in. if you would like to be a weather watcher join th

to upkeep and maintain infrastructure. >> reporter: that will help down the road n warminster syma chowdhry for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> still to come on "eyewitness news" ringing in the new year with a bottle of joy we will look at first babies born in our area in 2015 carol. >>> the the best sight in the animal shelter a dog getting a new home, we will have that story coming up. in weather we are talking about another storm moving our way, once again, we will stay on the warm side of this we will talk about the the cold temperatures, when the rain moves in and how warm it is going to get that is in the seven day, beasley? >>> winter classic kicks off in washington why the flyers even the year on the low note, plus college bowl games today including rose bowl underway right now in pass dean, all a head in sports. >>> new borns will have a story to tell today. >> sophia graceland dawson was born at 3:04 this morning at temple university hospital. mom, dad and daughter are all doing just fine right now. no feed for resolutions, they have all of the happy, they can handle. >>> and meet ma

"eyewitness news" reporter syma chowdhry spoke with the victim and their mother about this terrible ordeal. >> he just hit me in the face. i just started crying. >> this 17 year-old daughter shea are hoping this cell phone video will help catch the man who attack the honor roll student. it happened on the number 15 trolley while shea was on the the way to cool wednesday morning. >> i'm in pain, emotionally physically. >> to know that a man hit her it was like really. she's a kid. >> reporter: shea says trolley was crowded and her backpack accidentally bumped the man in the video. he responded with choice word and then punched the high school student in the face. >> i sat down and blood was falling from my nose and my eye was tingling. >> reporter: she was treated for a broken nose and black eye. >> i took her to the emergency room. i see it every day. last day i ever want to see is on my child. >> reporter: shea say man who hit her jumped off at seventh and girard. shea and her mother both wished on one stopped him. >> i'm pretty sure there was some other adult that could have stepped in y

syma chowdhry spoke with today with the young victim. >> reporter: it took a few second but emotional damage will last a life time for 17 year-old shea, high school student was taken, on the trolley on her way to will cool wednesday morning. shea says it was very crowded and her backpack, accidentally bumped a man in the video. here he responded with choice word and knock her hat off her head. >> when i went to go turnaround, to get my hat i saw his fist was rolled up as if he was ready to hit me. he said he would hit me. >> reporter: honor roll student suffered a broken nose and black eye leaving her with blurry vision. >> i am a nurse in the the emergency room. i see it every day. last day i see it is in my child. >> reporter: shea's mother cannot believe a man would attack her daughter after being bumped from a backpack. >> seeing that video of him hitting her several time and to see the result of it, it just angers me. >> reporter: shea says man who hit her jumped off at seventh and girard and ran off. >> he gave me the i am precious it wasn't his first time hitting a female and h

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flights throughout the north east are canceled because of the storm an "eyewitness news" reporter syma chowdhry is looking live at philadelphia international airport tonight syma? >> reporter: well, jessica so far today 421 cancellations here at the philadelphia international airport and for tomorrow, more than 620. that is because u.s. airways, united and american airlines have all canceled all of their flights out of philadelphia for tuesday. it looks like these wings are clipped for the time being, hundreds of flights at philadelphia international airport have been canceled a and that number is expected to go up by tuesday. >> it is in the what i expect. my flight was cans told day and tomorrow. >> some travelers in manager to get out before the storm. >> very lucky, yeah. that was the whole thing about my flight catching an earlier flight and glad i set it up that way report report there are a few delays which means folks should pack some patients. >> if your flight is operating, leave yourself some extra time. >> reporter: though seeing the word canceled are seeing red. >> i understand it

in olde city syma chowdhry for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> yum. >> exciting. >> yes. >> can't wait to see it, get a reservation. >>> that is "eyewitness news" at 5:00. >>> now at 6:00 we are tracking snow, kathy. >> it will be a blustery night, cold air moves in tomorrow, expect a light fluffy snow for the morning commute but it could slow us down. we will talk about how much to expect and when it moves out coming up. >>> man charged with killing a pennsylvania state trooper and hiding from police almost seven weeks is in court to daze and there were dramatic moments as eric frein faced a judge. >>> walt? >> violence and crimes are down, way down, in the city of philadelphia, some at record levels. hear what the mayor and police commissioner and community leaders have to say bit, coming up. >>> the flu season is hitting u.s. at full force and it is getting even worse. health reporter stephanie stahl tells us why experts expect the number of cases to spike, in our area, eyewitness news at 6:00 starts right now. >>> tonight, it is back to reality, the reality of cold temperatures, and s

in burlington, syma chowdhry for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> that is "eyewitness news" at 5:00. >>> with killing his wife, the question now is where is her body? we are live. >>> also the cbs-3 i team investigating last weeks death of the little girl at a montgomery county day care center what we found when we dug through the center's inspection reports kathy? >>> a developing store comes close enough to bring some of us light snow, we will talk about who is the best chance of seeing some coming up. smokey ordeal on a washington subway hits home for local commuters. what septa wants its riders to know about safety. it is an "eyewitness news" exclusive next. >>> now at 6:00 o'clock a mount laurel man is in court, charged with murdering his wife, the mother of their three month-old daughter. but the the question remains tonight, where is erika crippen's body. >>> well, good evening i'm chris may. >>> i'm jessica dean. kyle crosby was taken in custody last night and police say they found him driving his missing wife's car. live at 6:00 noel mcclaren is in mount holly where the the susp

syma chowdhry explains. >> ranked it the third best place to visit in the world.avelers rang philly the second best international shopping destination. >> it is wonderful to see everybody appreciating the good things the city has. >> mag seats notes vintage shops, like the ones found on north third street. >> reflection of all of the new shopping that's come up in the city we never had here before. >> in the article, the writer mentions the reading terminal market as one of the best shopping places in the city, but, it is known more for being a foodie destination. >> food has become really a hobby for people now. and i guess that that is probably partially why we were included in the shopping category. >> the reading terminal market gives tourist as local experience. >> we have stores that specialize exclusively in pennsylvania made goods so we are unique spot. >> shoppers are not surprised by all of the hype. >> i kind of believe it, based on how i shop, yes. >> we think philadelphia is the best. first best not second, very shop recall city with at least one of e

in hunting park syma chowdhry for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> philadelphia police are asking for the public's help to find two suspects who burglarized a home in point breeze. take a look at this surveillance video from december 17th, 1 suspect got into the home on cross street by pushing in a window air conditioning. he then let in the other suspect through the front door. an alarm went off just moments later when both suspects fled and they didn't even take anything. >>> police in gloucester township want to find this man, they say he stole eight baseball gloves from the sports outlet store in glendora. this happened november 29th and those gloves are valued at $1,400. >>> bill cosby's former tv wife is coming to his defense. felicia rashad is quoted now assaying that sexual assault accusation as begins cosby are orchestrated. entertainment web site she business 411 report that they spoke with rashad at a movie lunch and they quote her assaying forget these women what you are seeing is a destruction of the legacy. she said someone is determine to keep bill cosby off tv and it has w

. >>> south jersey catholic school girl prayers may have been answered, i'm syma chowdhry and how the school raised 200 you this dollars in six weeks just to keep their doors opened. >> ♪ >> well, they timed this perfectly. we are talking about the weather and traffic coming up. kate and vittoria have so much to say with snow falling in cape may. that even rimes. that is coming up we will be right back. ring ring!... progresso! it's ok that your soup tastes like my homemade. it's our slow simmered vegetables and tender white meat chicken. apology accepted. i'm watching you soup people. make it progresso or make it yourself you say avocado old el paso says... zesty chicken and avocado tacos in our stand 'n stuff tortillas . (record scratch) you say stand n' stuff tortillas old el paso says... start somewhere fresh >>> we're following breaking news still in collindale delaware county. chopper three is live over the the scene where a police chase just ended. now this is intersection of the chester pike and cherry street. authorities tell "eyewitness news" that police were attempting to p

"eyewitness news" reporter syma chowdhry is live outside the the hotel with all of the details, same,porter: good morning, nicole. it has been a busy morning for the the what the are department here in center city. there was a water main break here last night the so crews were working overnight leaving many without water but as you said nicole, luckily services are back on this happened at 12th and market street just before 7:30 last night. water has since been restored but the 12-inch frame affect the lowes hotel with many other customers. power had to be shut off at the hotel for several hours for safety reasons. there were no evacuations. lowes officials helped make arrangements for their guests to get to other hotels. so far in word on exactly what caused this water main break but again, the the good news is the street is back opened and, of course, the water has been restored. so for guests to continue to stay at the hotel they will be waking up to some water this morning. we are live, syma chowdhry for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> same, thank you. >>> tomorrow marks the somber o

i'm syma chowdhry. what this positive attention could mean for this the sit. pairs. >> first though here's a look at what's coming up later tonight on the "cw philly". ring ring! progresso! it's ok that your soup tastes like my homemade. it's our slow simmered vegetables and tender white meat chicken. apology accepted. i'm watching you soup people. make it progresso or make it yourself. and try progresso chili. slow-simmered, homemade taste. >> philly known for a loft things, cheese steaks, liberty bell rocky of course. >> now add premiere shopping destination to the list. that's for fashion food, pretty much everything else inbetween. our syma chowdhry explains. >> philadelphia's starting offer the year with special attention. last week, the new york times ranked the city the third best place to visit in the world. now, ranking philly the second bassinet national shopping destination. >> it is wonderful to see everybody appreciating the good things the city has. >> the magazine notes the variety of vintage shops like those on north third street. >> reflection

"eyewitness news" reporter syma chowdhry is live with more on this name game, syma a? >> reporter: well, jessica imagine you are going to register your domain name only to find out it has already been taken. that is exactly what happened to kenyatta johnson, except the person who took it happens to be a political, challenger. but he said he does not think this will hurt his campaign. >> this election will not come down to domain names. >> reporter: if you are looking to learn more about kenyatta johnson you won't find it on kenyatta johnson.com, that is because johnson's democratic primary challenger orifybush bought domain names representing the councilman. when you type in kenyatta.com,.net or organize you will be redirect to his campaign page. councilman johnson's page says he didn't bothered by political tactic. the his campaign web site is citizens for kenyatta johnson.com. >> i run a clean campaign. this is about issues that matter to the voters. the that is not the the type of campaign we operate. >> reporter: e we went to feibush campaign office. this is real e

tonight "eyewitness news" reporter syma chowdhry takes a closer look at one of the highest gas taxes in the country. a new year, a new gas tax increase. a wholesale tax on gas has gone up nearly 10 cents a gallon in pennsylvania. even though oil producing companies are the ones facing the hike it will likely trickle down to consumers something drivers are not happy to hear. >> i'm hoping they don't go ahead and put that 10 cents on the consume tore try to make up for what they are losing. >> this is second step out of three, that will be instituted over next couple years. >> reporter: charles metzger is penndot spokesperson and said first gas hike happened last year and it brought in enough money to fix many roadways like street road in warminster. >> we were able to provide 800 million-dollar in extra paving and bridge and construction projects to improve pennsylvania's infrastructure. >> reporter: although drivers are enjoying low gas prices right now they say any gas tax increase will hurt their wallets. >> if those three or 4 cents affecting everybody, in the just low income fami

"eyewitness news" reporter syma chowdhry was there at today's demonstration to hear their message ofce, and social justice. >> reporter: protesters were singing as they made their way on locust walked up to the university of pennsylvania pennsylvania. dozens of students gathered calling this a movement, to reclaim martin luther king junior day. >> we want to talk about the civil rights movement and the work that has been done, we have to realize work that still need to be done. >> reporter: two organizations called and in defense of black bodies marched from university city to center city to join thousands in the larger protest. organizers say that mlk day should not be a abe day of service but a day to recognize injustice in light of recent ongoing events, the on slaught of violence begins black bodies in this country. >> reporter: philadelphia drawn hand to make sure the the rallies stay peaceful. >> our job is to just make sure that they are saffian everyone around them are safe. >> reporter: student are demanding to bring attention tomorrow social issues including police brutalit

in olde city syma chowdhry for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> i like he admits to it. >> yes. >> we havee other, that is the thing. >> sure. >>> that is "eyewitness news" at 5:00. >> by this time tomorrow it will be snowing, kathy? >> we're talking about snow moving in the delaware valley tomorrow afternoon, we will talk about how much to expect with this clipper coming up. >> a silver car shoot underneath the trailer and roof cut off. >> a police officer sees a horrific crash that killed two people sunday on the icy blue route. tonight he tells us how he saved a wife and baby still alive in one of those crashed cars. >>> and a local daddies arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting two, ten year-old girls during a sleep over, there could be more victims. >>> pennsylvania has a new governor tonight tom wolf was sworn in today, we will take you to his inauguration "eyewitness news" at 6:00 starts right now. >>> the delaware river frozen this view from chopper three shows us the wintry scene and by this time tomorrow we will add snow to the mix. >> crews have already been outside on the r

"eyewitness news" reporter syma chowdhry is live in south philadelphia with more syma. >> reporter: thatreally helping out a lot of residents who rely on to it warm their homes. we have followed an oil company today that was making delivery to very happy homeowners here in south fit. >>> i'm shocked it is some so cheap. >> reporter: heywood brown warms his home using oil. so far this season has been good to him with mild temperatures but more importantly the low price of heating oil. in fact oil prices have hit a six year low. >> get more oil now. >> reporter: brown pays $2.59 a gallon and that is about a dollar less a gallon compared to last year. >> last year you may have had a struggle to keep the house warm. i got five kid in the house. it was a struggle. >> reporter: while he enjoys forking over less money companies like oil patch enjoys getting more business. >> instead of getting 50 gallons or hundred gallons they are filling their tanks. before they could only get a little oil. >> reporter: standard home tank hold 275 gallons of oil. now customers can get more for less. >> people

syma chowdhry is joining us live on the phone with what road conditions are like in the area, close to that crash scene that we have been looking at all morning long. syma, you are on the schuylkill express was heading west, what can you tell us. >> reporter: i'm on the schuylkill expressway heading west near exit 337, gladwynn exit, we just started inching a little bit right now but for past half an her, we have been in a stand still. now we are starting to inch up a lit built closer toward the exit we have word this traffic was in the related to the 20 car pile up a little ways ahead of bus there was an actual that accident near this exhibit. that is why we are here. we have so many accidents there was when we got on there there was an accident on the left, and a couple pile ups on the the right, at least involving three or four cars. it has been treacherous out here. it looks just rain but it is icy conditions a lot of people are not realizing that another thing turf mention a a lot of people have been trying to drive on the shoulder of the schuylkill expressway, which is, a bad ide

"eyewitness news" reporter syma chowdhry is live outside that hotel with the details syma? >> reporter: good morning, nicole. it has been a busy morning for the water department, crews in the only had to work on the water main break that happened here on 12th and mark street of course, working overnight but they work on the irv is line great that you had just mentioned. water main break happened at 12th and market street just before 7:30, water has since been restored but 12-inch break affect the lowes hotel with many other customers. there is a construction site nearby but water officials have in the been able to confirm if the water break was caused by that. power had to be shut off for several hours, for safety reasons. >> pipe bursas well allowing water into our sub basement which is where our electrical emanates from. as a precaution safety is our priority, so we have alerted guests and brought them downstairs. >> reporter: there were no evacuations but lowestimated arrangement to get guest in other hotels. >> war trying to make it as pleasurable as possible. >> report

. >> "eyewitness news" reporter syma chowdhry is live at philadelphia international the with the very latest syma? >> reporter: well, jessica in surprise that snow can affect air travel and we're here at philadelphia international airport and if you take a look at that board over split shows departures, most of them are on time. right now there are about a dozen delays when it comes to a arrival flights. only a few you for departures and only a couple of cancellations. new airport officials have been preparing for the winter weather since early this morning. crews have been deicing planes and putting a chemical mixture on the runways. snow started coming down around 2:00 p.m. here at the airport and arrival flights are experiencing a delay of about 74 minutes. but for those who are traveling, today here's a tip, your best betties to park your car in the covered garage so you won't return to a snow covered car. >> if you are looking to come and park at the airport you should really check down near the terminal f, because a lot of people want to park under cover owe parking garages are

. >>> a magazine ranks philadelphia one of the best shopping places in the world i'm syma chowdhry what>>> breaking news right now a serious, multi vehicle crash on i-95, leaves one person dead, and more than four hours later a span of the northbound lanes, remain closed. that crash has caused some major rush hour delays, good evening, i'm yes, sir contact dean. >>> i'm chris may. right the now interstate 95 north boundary mains closed between woodhaven and street roads, in bensalem, bucks county. "eyewitness news" reporter matt rivers is live near the scene with the breaking details now, matt. >> reporter: chris and jessica we are coming live from just south of the street road exit here on i-95 and that crash as you mentioned has tied up traffic for hours along this very busy highway. now because it is dark right now we will show you some ground video that we took from this spot just a short time ago. in that video you can see from our vantage point what this all looks like, one of two tractor trailers on its side involved in this crash. we arrived here on the scene shortly before fire

"eyewitness news" reporter syma chowdhry will have a live report on this story coming up in 30 minutes. >>> the search also continues for erika crippen, the mount laurel mom missing since new year eve. her husband kyle crosby is now charged with her murder and endangering the lives of her two children. police have have not yet found her body kyle crosby remains in jail on 1.2 million-dollar bail. if you have any information on the the whereabouts of erika crippen contact the police. >>> just most of us around the region cleared our cars walkways driveways, and all of the other things that we saw impacted by this storm we've got another one heading our way. for most part, we have dodged a bullet yesterday as usual the suburbs got the most snow. in franconia montgomery county snowplow where is busy clearing two to 6 inches but that didn't stop diehards from their morning routine. >> it is warm compared to what it has been has couple weeks. it is in the teens and running it is so much worse. this is fun. it is just slippery, you feel like you are running in sand. >> reporter: she ran 8 mi