All of those stories and much more straight ahead. We begin tonight with developing story. New jersey state trooper struck by a car along interstate 295. Good evening, im ukee washington. Im nicole brewer. Jessica dean has the night off. Now were told that trooper is seriously hurt after being struck while standing outside his patrol car attending to a car fire in the southbound lanes in west deptford. The driver remained on scene. No one else was hurt. All southbound lanes and northbound have been closed for more than two hours tonight and still remain closed at this ho hour. Also developing right now, a woman and two young girls are seriously injured and they were hit by a tow truck. A Good Samaritan then rush the children to the hospital. Eyewitness News Reporter greg argos is at Temple University hospital right now where the injured woman is being treated. Greg . Reporter ukee, good evening. Right now police say that 24yearold woman was the most seriously injured. She was rushed here to Temple University hospital unconscious and in Critical Condition after police say she crossed against the light with two Young Children all three struck by a tow truck. Chopper three over the scene at b street and ontario. Where a woman and two young girls struck while crossing the road. Upon police rifle, they found a 24yearold female who was laying on the highway. She was suffering from head trauma. She completely unconscious. Medics were working on her. Medics transported her to temple hospital where shes presently in Critical Condition. Reporter chief inspector scott small says a person nearby a Good Samaritan was able to rush the two children to saint christophers hospital. About two blocks from the scene. Both girls suffering from city head injuries. The fouryearold child is in Critical Condition with severe head trauma. The oneyearold has some bruises to the head and neck but that oneyearold female is in stable condition. Reporter police say the driver of this tow truck hit the three victims. But remain on the scene cooperating with investigators. And police say it does not appear the driver of the tow truck is responsible. It appears that the driver of the tow truck did have the green light. Reporter police say the driver of that tow truck is a 53yearold man and investigat investigators say impairment does not app per to be a factor in this case. Were live here at Temple University hospital in north philly, im greg argos, cbs3 eyewitness news. Okay, greg, thank you. In sports news now the eagles are cleaning house and tonight the birds make two major trades as new head coach Doug Pederson continues to make his own mark. Lesley van arsdall is in our sat center with who is going where. Lessly. Thats right. Eagles making some monster trades. They continue this large scale Spring Cleaning project. Ridding the roster of failed chip kelly moves cbs3 has confirmed eagles have traded Demarco Murray to the tennessee titans. Murray comes to the titans with four years remaining on that fiveyear, 40 Million Contract he signed with the eagles last off season. The trade cannot be announced officially until wednesday at 4 00 oclock. Its unclear what theyre going to get in return but they will create some cap space. Cbs3 has also confirmed eagles will be trading byron mack well and key company alonso to the dolphins in return for multiple draft picks. Of course, all of these moves are what fans are talk bowing night. Hope does he better than did he on the eagles. A lot better than did he on the eagles. Ill an eagles man dont get me wrong. Its not the kind of running back we needed. Chip kelly all over again. A hal so trade, too, and maxwell. I mean i think its pretty clear its a rebuilding season. What a day. Coming up later in sports, well have much more on the eagles Spring Cleaning and it appears that all these off season moves the eagles made were following that trade of lesean mccoy all of them completely undone. All right. Lesley, thanks so much. Meantime, new video of lesean mccoy surface todays showing him out and about in los angeles. This comes just one month after an old city bar brawl that injured two officers. When tmz caught and with the former eagles running back he was still deflecting questions about that fight when investigators say two off duty philadelphia cops were severely beaten. Still no charges have been fil filed. Eyewitness news spoke to the attorney for one of those officers who is still recoveri recovering. Hes the same, very significant physical injuries in this case some of which would ultimately be permanent it look like. Were confident that the District Attorneys Office will prosecute anyone who was involved in this situation regardless of had they are or where theyre standing in life. Spokesperson for the District Attorney says they are still investigating and theres still no timeline on when or if charges could be filed. Verdict has been reached in erin andrews lawsuit over secr secretly filmed nude video during hotel stay. Sports reporter was awarded 55 million in damages. The suit name the owner of the national marriott, the group that manages the Hotel Michael barrett the man who filmed andrews by tampering with the peep hole. Video that was recorded was released oh and line in 2009. A little girl is just inches from disaster as gunfire goes flying through home while shes watching tv. The man had fired the shots the same man whose out on bail charged with sexually her two months ago. Eyewitness News Reporter david superintendent spoke with the girls father about that ordeal. Reporter six bullet holes in this broken glass window will always remain this downton dad about the sometime he almost lost his little birl. I heard one shot. Next thing i know there was a pause and then boom boom boom boom boom. Five more shots. Reporter it happened early sunday morning. When police say 63yearold Douglas Cohen unloaded a revolver into their home. The little girl was sitting on the couch inches away from the bullet trajectory. Her sister was also home. Dad called 911. Got something out of his car. He bent over and went like this, and he walk towards the trailer and i was lookin looking out wee window in the kitchen. Peeping through the blinds. History between the next door neighbors. Back in january cohen was arrested and charged with sexually as abusing this man daughter. Shes under the age of 10 and hes asked us not to use his name or her exact age. Authorities say cohen had a Court Appearance related to his sexual abuse charges this week. That is a tremendous act of violence. Really designed to frighten the day lights out of that child. Bullets went through the home and into the home next door. But no one was hurt. After firing the shots police say cohen fled in hess car he was later found with the car flipped over. Detectives found 36 rounds of ammunition inside. But for the grace of god and dumb luck, wed be looking at a child murdered today. Reporter both sisters are stave with another family memb member. While their dad anxiously waits for them to come home. I hope he dies in jail and rots in jail for the who knows if he did this before to anyone else. Cohen is facing charges from his arrest in january. Authorities here in west chester have added witness intimidation and attempted murder to those charges. Hes behind wars bars on a Million Dollar bail. Report in west Chester David spunt cbs3 eyewitness news. The Haddon Township man accused of of killing his threeyearold son appeared in court in camden today for a brief status hearing. Lawyers for david creato, jr. Say they are preparing for trial. Prosecutors say the 22yearold killed his son brendon last october to stop his teenage girlfriend who dislike children from leaving him. The childs body was found in the woods hours after he reported him missing. His next Court Appearance is april 18th toddler safe and sound after being left home alone on the mainline. 2. 5 years old boy found by police at the Regency Apartments in rad for. Police say he was living in filthy conditions and that the stove was on for heat. The boys father Stanley Hampton and his female companion Brittany Mcfadden are facing charges to night. Radnor police got a tip the boy might be home alone after a Neighboring Police department stopped hampton on a drug char charge. Former first Lady Nancy Reagan will be laid to rest this friday during a private funeral in california. Flowers and cards pay tribute to nancy reagan outside the Ronald Reagan president ial library and museum. Former first lady will lie in repose on wednesday and thursday. Shell be married next to her husband of 52 years. Dignitaries from across the cun are expected to attend. We remember the life and legacy of the former fir lady on television and online at cbsphilly. Com. Tonight the public got look at septas plans to expand in montgomery county. Eyewitness news in king of prussia where septa plans to expand its norristown high speed line. The rail service would also go to upper merion township the route would include five stops and park and ride lot for commuters at henderson road. Septa calls this route the locally received alternative. Two more peteings are set for march 9th and 15th in norristown and king of prussia. From yard sales to missing pets occasionally adds for local services were used to seeing hodgepodge of signs on utility poles. But have you ever noticed there are yellow grids on many of the poles you pass on the street. It prompted viewers like frank burns and Anthony Ricci to write. They asked what are those yellow grids nailed to utility polls in our area . Its a good question, guys, so take a look at the yellow grids right here and as you think of your answer, what are these things, heres a look at some folks taking a shot in the dark. Listen. Maybe its some type of like location device that will like i dont know. Will tell where you the poll which part of the poll which part of town the poll is in. Theyre marked to take them down. Bandaid or not for the invisible to keep rodents from climbing the poles. I have no idea. Thats what i think it is. What. I dont know what it is. Dude, we didnt know either. Right . So we called peco and according to the Utility Company the grids are actually reflectors installed in 2007 to enhance safety. They used to actual be gray acrylic lenses now youll find these yellow grids on poles win 15 feet of the roadway. So mystery solved. Reflectors. Okay. There you have it. So whats your good question . Log on to cbsphilly. Com good question to submit your question or tweet us using the hash tag cbs3 good question. We cannot wait to hear from you. Some very interesting responses. I was leaning toward the rodents. Yeah. Maybe its a dual purpose. Who knows . It could be. Beautiful day sunny skies, temperatures around the 60s. Certainly was. The perfect day really to frolic outside just like our Vittoria Woodill take a look. Hello, Franklin Square laughter . Jeez. See what happens when tori takes over one of the most popular parks in the city. Shes always fun to watch. Kate. She absolutely is. You see she had light jacket on. May not need that tomorrow or wednesday or thursday because its going to feel like late may in early marcuming up ill tell you how warm those temperatures get. We may break two records. Kate, speaking of spring the reason experts say allergies could be a doozy this year for allergy sufferers. Utoh. Plus naming ceremony for the history books. How one canadian zoo is marking a first for the country. Those little guys are so darn cute. More on the other side. Well be right back. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signed an executive order today raising the minimum wage for state workers and contractors. The rate now increase to 10. 15 an hour. Its been 7. 25. Its all part of the governors jobs that pay initiative. The governor also called on lawmakers to increase the minimum wage statewide. Our march warmup may you forgetting about the snow and thinking of spring and allergies that come with it. Some people are already suffering. Experts say this years allergy season could be especially bad and that its starting earlier than normal. The Asthma Center which measures pollen contessas balmy temperatures around the globe will lead to an explosion of pollen in the coming weeks. Its estimated 50 million americans suffer from seasonal allergies. Allergies are nothing to look forward to, this taste of spring has people anxious to get outside. That of course includes our Vittoria Woodill shes life at the art museum. You were basking in the spring like sun earlier today, werent you . Reporter bark in it doesnt even begin to describe how much fun i had. You know, i take my outdoor missions pretty seriously as youve seen in my snow day coverage. So today when they told me tori go ahead, gosh outside and attack spring and see what you can find. That mission led me to Franklin Square a take a look. What a terrific day to be in philadelphia. With the sunlight pouring over our city, the 60degree temperature had me saying goodbye to the news van and im opting for other means of transportation. Push mike pedals to the concrete the wind in my face and sun in my shades there was no better place to go than to the park. This is how cbs3 does spring. Hello, Franklin Square. With the mist coming off the center fountains Franklin Square plays the Perfect Place to cool off your spring fever and have fun and guess what, its celebrating its tenth birthday. This park for many years totally abandoned and neglected. And over the years, residents around here came to the park when it was nothing to see. People appreciated it. Playground is free. It has all kinds of fun things to do from swings to things to climb, carousel is great. Classic ferrated difficulties and children. A classic that tends to play favorites. Why did you bring your son to Franklin Square. This is one of his Favorite Places to come. Why is that. He likes to ride the carous carousel. Maybe all of us can ride the carousel. That would be good. Right . Cool. Family outing. I think im going to pick this beautiful one right here. Like mary poppins. While theres much more to do like play a full holes of mini golf from jersey to philadelphia,. laughter . Give me two. Franklin square is the location where Benjamin Franklin performed his famed electricity experiment of the kite and key and that just so happened to give me another idea. I need to find the wind. Nope, that wasnt it. There it is. Hand off, hand off. Hands down what great day in our city. bell tolls . I honestly felt leak i was living in the movie mary poppins much you had the carousel, it was lets go fly a kite, it was everything. It was beautiful weather. I mean really our amazing city has so many great things to offer, and Franklin Square is one of those places, and i mean, im from philadelphia. Ive lived here my whole life i didnt know that it was fable that that was the area that Benjamin Franklin did that experiment and if you look across the street right at the ben franklin bridge, youll see the kite and key sculpture. I mean, it was like i was discovering the city all over again. See what you can do in the spring . Wow. They start telling those milk shakes over there yet. Oh yeah. Those things are ridiculous. Im glad you brought this up. Square burger thats right, so it wasnt open when we were there. You know i would have been all up in that. So im waiting until like i think its march 16th they open. And it is rumored that we may be having a few more items on the menu so youll just have to check it out and see. We will do that. All right, tori, thanks so much. That was fun. Thanks. Family outing. Yeah. Shes so fun to watch. Im upset about one thing today. Good what . Found one of those stink bugs on my screen oh the screen. Were one on my kitchen ceiling yesterday. The good with the bad. Trade off. Got is definitely good. Stink bugs or no. Really nice forecast headed our way. You know what, cant complain about a few stink bugs when you got 70s in march. Hello. Last march we only had three days in the 66. Zero days in the 70s. Weve already had three days in the 60s this march. And 70s are on the way. Lets take look what happened today. Well take to you a live look at storm scan3. You can see not much going on everything looking pretty quiet out there right now. It is a quiet evening and it was quiet day. Time lapsed video of how the day shook out. Few people out walking on the boardwalk enjoying a nice stroll in what feels almost like summer temperatures. Maybe not summer but at least late spring like memorial day weekend temperature outside through the next few days. Storm scan3 shows whats happening. Warm front draped right about here. Some showers with it. Thesing from progressing to the north and should miss our area but a few more clouds overnight to tomorrow morning you may wake up not to full sunshine and blue skies like today. Some sun through the afternoon and it will turn out mostly sunny through the afternoon hours as well. Our high today in philadelphia got to 61 degrees. Making it the third day in the 60s this month. 64 in allentown was the high and got to 65 in reading. And 65 in lancaster and you can see all this warmth down to the south. 70s lurking just off to the south and west that gets here tomorrow. Sunny and beautiful in the afternoon looks like well hit 70 degrees. Nice warm down sloping wind from the west. Realing going to help temperatures sky rock. On wednesday were talking about record breaking warmth headed for the mid 70s on wednesday around 75 degrees. Again that feels more like late may or early june. Than it does early march and record tying warmth on thursday. 76 degrees on thursday. You can see where this frontal boundary is. Notice the cooler air locked off to the north but in our area things looking great. Boston may get hit with the cooler air. But it does look as though the warmth sticks around for us. It builds tomorrow into wednesday. Thursday may be the warmest day. On friday the cool air drives to dive back in new england it might be slightly cooler with a few more clouds friday looking good as well the records we challenge. Wednesdays record 73 from 2000 sand. Break that. Thursdays record 76 from 10 years ago. We will at least tie that. Looking at a high of 76 degrees on thursday. Overnight patchy clouds not as cold as recent nights certainly 46. You dont need the heavy coat tomorrow morning and its mostly sunny and gorgeous for tomorrow at 70 degrees. 75 on wednesday. 76 thursday. Were near 70 again friday. We can hit it friday. Over the weekend a few more clouds maybe a shower here or there. But still were in the low 60s. Even though that looks cool compared to the 70s its still about 10 plus degrees above average. Loving it. Thanks kate. Next tonight lesley is here with sports. Yes. Hi lesley. Will what will the eagles look like. The eagles continue to knock down what chip kelly tried to build. Huge at the time for the flyers as they continue to fight for a play off spot. As they continue to fight for a play off spot. Can had he ive been a turkey farmer my whole life. And i raise turkey for shady brook farms®. We dont use growthpromoting antibiotics, thats just the way things should be done. Thats important to me. My name is glenn, and im an independent turkey farmer. female announcer shady brook farms®. No growthpromoting antibiotics, just honest, simple turkey. Cbs flee has confirmed that running back Demarco Murray traded to the titans. Doesnt exactly come as shock. He wasnt too happy with the eagles apparently eagles were not happy with him. What is surprising they got deal done. Murray only rushed for 702 yards and six touchdowns. A year after leading the nfl in rushing with the cowboys. Yell err in the day the Eagles Byron Maxwell and kiki an low so to the daal tons for draft picks. Theyre listening to offers for matthews and sanchez all players chip kelly brought in. The flyers fighting for that play off spot it wasnt going to be easy to beat the Tampa Bay Lightning streak. Lightning get on the scoreboard first. Rookie Shane Gostisbehere bets right in there. That will tie it up at one. He will tie the franchise record for goals set by a rookie defenseman. In the third gostisbehere again. He owns that record by the way now for goals by rookie defenseman. Giroux to schenn right there the flyers within this one, beating the First Place Team in the eastern conference convincingly fourtwo. Phillies visiting the pirates and braid town valez quiz on the mound for the final spot in the row teague. He had a solid day. He went three innings, gave up three hits and struck out three. To the seventh inning we go the phillies offense they would need rib bow single up the middle for blank company. Phillies win against the pirates one to nothing. Drexel university announcing Bruiser Flint is out after 15 season as head coach of the helps basketball team. The dragons finish six25 reco record. Bruiser had one year left on his deal. Peyton manning stoic unflappable for almost two decades struggling to compose himself today as he said goodbye to the game that he loved so much. He holds mountain of records including alltime leader in passing yards and touchdowns. And a 39 he became the oldest quarterback in super bowl history to lead his team to the big win. He said after 18 years, its time. When someone thoroughly exhaustings an experience, they cant help but revere it. Revere football. I love the game. So you dont have to wonder if ill miss it. Absolutely. Absolutely i will. Went out on top. First ballot hall of famer. Very emotional. When we come back a first for canada how two pan at a canada feeling a whole lot of panda love tonight. Names revealed today for two panda cubs born in objection the first panda cubs ever born in canada. Their names are japan pan which means canadian hope and yea uhuh means canadian joy. The new Prime Minister helped revealed the names and got up close and personal with the pandas. So cute. Well be right back. Our morning team back tomorrow from 4 30 to 7 00 a. M. For kate, lesley everyone here im ukee washington. Im nicole brewer. The late show with Steven Colbert is next. Good night, family and sleep well. Announcer the following is a paid advertisement for m r real estate. Have you ever wanted to flip houses like the pros you see on tv . Are you tired of working endless hours for little pay . Are you stressed out over car notes, mortgage payments, and creditcard debt . Well, heres your opportunity to break free. 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