Tracking retreat of disturbance, so little wet weather to talk becomes but ive got some nice weather for to you talk about as well, coming up in the next few days we will of course have all of the details you need to know just in the next couple of minutes. Back to you. As we mentioned earlier death toll continues to rise this morning in february al, after 7. 8 magnitude earthquake hit the country over the weekend. More than 3600 people have died and 6500 are reported injured. And those numbers are only expected to rise. Survivors of the devastating earthquake in nepal are sleeping out on the streets not because they lost their homes, but because theyre too afraid to go inside. Megan butler and Australian Teacher caught up in the panic . It took everyone by surprise, people flooded out of the shop. The street was filled. People were grabbing each other. And then everyone sort of waited for it to finish, once it finished, there was just floods of people just running to open spaces. The world is responding to this tragedy un spokeswoman says 14 International Medical teams including one from the us theyre on their way along with search and rescue teams and cargo. So far many rescue teams have had trouble reaching devastated villages outside katmandu. Four student from Muhlenberg College allentown are studding in nepal this semester, school confirmed theyre safe, and reading in part, we urge members of the Muhlenberg Community to remember in their thoughts and prayers the many who perish, were injured or suffered other losts in this disaster, and suggest that we support relief efforts when they are announced. New this morning child being treated for smoke inhalation after a fire starts in one home and threads to two others. 2600 block of north 18th street. , fire crews had to deal with heavy smoke before finding the source of the fire. The child inside one of those homes was transport today st. Christophers, no word right now on their condition. Philadelphia police may charge mother who allegedly lock her four children in the basement. One of those children called 911 from their home on east atlantic street in kensington, Eyewitness News reporter jan carabeo joins us outside the special victims unit with the latest information on this story. Jan . Reporter erika, and ukee, police have yet to identify the mother involved. Police here at the special victims aoun rid handling this case they say she lock her four kids in the basement this past weekend without food, water or a bathroom, as punishment. Take a look at the video. Police were called to the home here on the 1900 block of east atlantic street kensington around 1 30, sunday afternoon. One of the children had cell phone that could only dial 911. Thats how these children got help. Investigators say the kids had been locked in that basement since 11 00 p. M. Saturday night. When police arrived, they couldnt get in so they had to get help from the Fire Department firefighters got inside by a second floor window. When crews got to the basement, they found a 13 year old boy and his three little sister ages 12, ten and nine. They didnt have food or water or a bathroom. Now, police say the children didnt have visible injuries, but were taken to the hospital for examination and then here to neighbors we spoke to say the mother is working single mom, and theyve never known her to do anything like this in the past. It is so not like this lady. I have known her for about two years. She is very, very nice, treats everybody very, very nice. When she socialize z shes just a kind of lady. Very disciplined mom. And really, honestly, were all really shocked. Now, this mother will face number of charges including four counts every endangering the welfare after child. We will continue to follow this story. For now we are reporting live outside of the special victims unit. Jan carabeo cbs3 Eyewitness News. Right now just past 4 33, you got some good news for us, katy . I do, coming up eventually here actually even today not looking terrible. If you want to leave the umbrella in the closet you can get a which that. We start things off with quick look at skycam 3, still dry her in ocean city, cape may county, dry boards for you here, still off to little bit of cool start as we rounds out the month of april. But, seasonably so generally speaking here, we normally bottom out 48 degrees or so, around my hit see 47 is the current temperature at least coming into our own station headquarters at our own weather station. Meanwhile, storm scan3 still empty. We take you on wider zoom. What you will find is a few more clouds starting to get funneled in. See the very isolated speckles of green. Thats about all we will really see on the radar later today because we are still watching the retreat of an area of low pressure, and the advance of high pressure. So inbetween youre still going to find still couple of isolated scattered showers spotty, whatever you want to call them, hit and miss, thats why i would say you can bag the umbrella today. Shouldnt be too bad. Meanwhile 49 degrees at Philadelphia International airport, not bad 39 degrees in ac, depending on more remote suburbs all starting off on bit of cooler note, definitely the story in pottstown, mt. Holly. As the day progresses for your monday, only get you to the low 60s that temperature is about six below the seasonable average, stray shower in the forecast, as well, down the shore, up in the poconos anyone fair game. The kiki word is scattered for day like this. Good morning good monday morning, good news, key word scattered, that will be again key. No threat of any rain this morning, sofas you saw on storm scan3 so looking good on 95 right now both directions, no problems right around cottman, headlight headed north bound volume i can picking up, cruising at good speedsment take you to the schuylkill again eastbound are the headlight right at montgomery here, see disable tractortrailer looks like it is over on the shoulder, getting by with no problems on the schuylkill eastbound both out bound, as well. Now, we have Chemical Spill in trevose, street road at reading avenue from earlier tractortrailer accident. Just keep that in mind if you are traveling in that vicinity. Now we do have construction up in valley forge route 23, valley forge road is closed, this is over the pickering creek, between more hall drive and motorcycle effi lane. Alternate route 29 or valley forge park. Also area speeds again no problems right now, at the speed limit on 95, through northeast philadelphia, south philly look being good. Blue route coming in at 556789 also looking good 295, 42 freeway, the new jersey turnpike, mass transit and also airport looking okay this morning, ukee, we send it back to you. Thank you. Later this morning Funeral Services will be held in baltimore for freddie gray. Gray is the 25 year old black man who died after being in custody. The Baltimore Police department. Yesterday, mourners stood in line to pay their respects at a viewing for gray. His death has intensified the national debate, about Police Agencies and their treatment self africanamericans. Police arrested 34 people following saturdays rallies some stores were looting at least one car set on fire. Demonstrators demanding city file charges against the Police Officers involved in the death of freddie gray. After nearly three years Death Penalty trial begins for shooter james homes. Prosecutors say home holmes slipped into night showing opened fire, killing 12 and injuring 70 more. The theater massacre is now known as the worse mass shooting in us history. James holmes is pleading not guilty by reason of insanity. The defense will begin presenting its witnesses today, in the sentencing phase of the Boston Marathon bombers trial. Twentyone year old Tsarnaev Dzhokhar was convicted of 30 federal charges in the twine bomb that is killed three people, counseled dollars more than 260 others in april 2013. This phase of the trial would determine if tsarnaev will be executed or spends the rest of his life behind bars. A solemn dedication for the overbrook man who was murdered while out walking his dog. The African Episcopal Church of saint thomas plane dollars a new tree on its grounds, at the ceremony stillmans family and friends joined to remember his life try to make sense of the tragic circumstances. I do know that many young people left a caring adult in their lives. These are not excuses simply ex planation cents t does not make it right t just makes it real. Stillman was shot and killed last month, three teenage verse been charged in his death. Police say 15 year old hamilton pulled the trigger after stillman begged for his life. 4 39 right now. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments this week on whether same sex couples have a constitutional right to marry or if states can define marriage as between a man and a woman. Just two years ago the nations highest court struck down part of the federal antigay marriage law that denied arrange of government benefits to legally married same sex couples. The decision did not address the validity of state marriage bans. However, courts across the country have used its logic to invalidate them. Still ahead this morning after overcoming the odds, a young manhattan with Cerebral Palsy fulfilled his lifelong dream. Journey toward becoming a eagle scout. Why he works so hard to achieve the organizations highest honors. And after chillier than normal april we are warming up again. Katie has more on just how warm it is going to get this week. Fingers crossed for learn more about it judge no words on five, coast guard reports it found two bodies. Both in. Airplanes searching for the others. Texas is getting smashed with some Severe Weather. Thunderstorms in the area have produced hail, wind, gusts and reported tornados. This is video from last night. Severe weather is expected to continue today. Boy, thats a nasty system down there. Absolutely. In fact, will it affect us at all, katy . I dont think so. It looks like it will stay off to the south. That is their time. They got off to slow start to Severe Weather season in the deep south. Looking at more and more chances in the next couple of weeks, at least for us doesnt look like we will be too much affected by it, good news, yes, summertime usually when ourself ear weather season ramps up. Already had some frisky storms. Frisky, yes, we have. Good word, right . Nice and calm . Decent. Overall looking good. Do have storm system nearby thats retreating. So lingering wrap around from that the upper level of moisture will still come with, that and the instability is probably going to trigger couple of scattered showers but this isnt the kind after day where i would say you have to have an umbrella i like to give that you gauge, to get sense every just how bad we will be, you know, having to deal with this wet weather. Today just not one of those days. Starting off dry. Actually, storm scan3 as i will show it to you in a second, also nice and dry. Everything dry on the roadways as a result here. Current temperatures are right around 49 degrees, at Philadelphia International airport. Very modest northwest breeze and humidity is overall pretty low at this point too. So here go. Your disturbance continuing to make its retreat. See the clown err clockwise spin coming in with that handful of clouds have come with. That will still be just enough left over moisture to trigger scattered shower or two or three. I think generally speaking though, many of you will probably not see much of anything at all today. Just that wimpy in nature, meanwhile, we take you offer to the deep south here, the storms were just you can talking about still nasser thunderstorms rumbling near the houston between dallas and hughes tan, we had hundreds every lightning strikes in the area yesterday. As we just reported obviously a lot of Severe Weather too. Meanwhile a look at the pollen report. Levels gradually declining with time t does appear as though the wind will do the same. When you dont have that wind to blow the pollen around, it can really at least ease things up for you. If you do see stray shower here today it, should help wash at least some of the pollen away. Wont be widespread wash out obviously, 262 at best for the high cooler than average at least we surpass the 06 degrees mark, 48 degrees for nighttime low. Where we should be. Over the course of the next couple of days, tuesday and specially wednesday, looking beautiful. Then we do have new storm developing nearby. That could bring us our next round every rain, as early as thursday. Ukee, back over to you. Thanks so much. Well the phillies are in st. Louis tonight for game one of a ten game road trip. The phils take two out of three from the braves going out. First inning, against the braves Citizens Bank park, phils already down twonothing, but ryan howard takes care of that. Three run shot to give the phillies a lead. All the sudden big piece is swing ago hot bat. Third homer in five games. Laters phils take advantage of sloppy play by the braves. Phils win this 15 to four. Ya, good to see the big piece getting his swing down. Now it is just trying to hit it trying to get food pitches, not trying do too much. Today felt good. Yesterday felt good. Felt good the day before. That will just now continue to try to do that. Keep it up big fellow. Cole hamels goes for the phils tonight against the cardinals still looking for first win of the season. Erika, back to you. This is neat. King of prussia teen overcomes tremendous odds to achieve one of the scoutings highest honors. Christian is wheelchair bound with the most severe form of Cerebral Palsy there is. Now, he didnt let that stop him. He achieved the rang of eagle scout in his local troop. Both his father and his two brothers before him have ability player that goal. His parents say despite his physical limitation it is a dream hes had since he was six years old. Despite his physical limitations he expressed the desire and his goal came true. Troop leaders say that he asked for no special treatment. They say he attended every meeting and went on every camping trip. He is the 89th eagle scout of troops 481. His family is he proud of him the whole troop, too. Big hugs from all of us indeed. Nicely done. My brother is a eagle scout. Thats great. Still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning, bad news for drivers, gas price haves start today creep back up. Can we expect them to go down again soon . Jill wagner has details in money watch. First whats coming up tonight on cbs3. A developing story right now, rescue teams are scrambling to find survivors every at that time as huge earthquake in nepal. Get toll at least 3600 with hundreds more injured. Many of the survivors are afraid to even go inside buildings in the capitol city of katmandu. Also, kensington mother could face charges after four children spent saturday night locked in a basement. Police rescued those children yesterday afternoon. The kids were checked out at st. Christophers hospital. Were told theyre physically okay. Opening statements are expected today in the trial of james holmes for the colorado movie massacre. Twelve people were killed, 707 injured in the shooting spree. Holmes is pleading guilty of by reason of insanity. Time 4 50. Some bad news at the gas pump. Prices are now the highest theyve been since december. Money watchs jill wagner joins us from the new york torque stock exchange, talk more about whats behind this increase jill, good morning. Reporter good morning, ukee erika triple a says the National Average now 2. 53 a gallon, analysts are blaming it on the price of crude has gone up, balls the fighting in yemen. Plus gas price does tends to climb as we get closer to the summer driving season, refinery switched to more expensive summer blend so they do expect prices will keep going up for the next couple every months. Remember, prices still about a dollar less a gallon than this time last year. Ukee erika . Jill, coffee lovers can breathe little easier this morning, starbucks i understand is now back open after computer problems. What went down . Well, starbucks is blaming an outage on an internal computer problem not a breach. So baristas coin ring up transactions, so starbucks across the country closed early friday. But it wasnt before baristas start today give away coffee free of charge. How i missed this, i still dont know. Ukee erika . No kidding. How i missed. A loft money on a friday night. Thanks jill, appreciate it. Coming up after a short break traffic and weather together we do it on the 3s. Just past 4 53 heres tracking. Good morning justin. Good monday morning everyone, like the Twilight Zone with the camera, in the black and white. I like t pretty cool. Vine street expressway, again heading eastbound here, the headlights, moving good both directions so no problems there. Take you into new jersey, 42 freeway, headlights northbound coming toward the city, no problems, volume certainly will be picking up over the next few hours at least the weather is quiet. That will should help the morning drive out just little bit. Now we do have Accident Route 40 headed down toward Atlantic City between 32nd and walmart drive local Power Outages affecting the traffic lights alternate black horse pike route 322 still dealing with the fuel spill in trevose, street road at reading avenue from earlier tractortrailer accident. Supposed to be cleared soon. Then watch out on the new jersey river line, expect 30 Minute Service due to signal problems. No other reported delays on mass transit in the airport looking pretty good. Thats a look at your ride. We take to you skies with kate. I it does appear things are looking pretty good overall in the Weather Department here, too. Yep, we are tracking a little bit after unsettled start to the work week, but it is because of retreating systems. So yes still allowing for spotty shower, especially through the afternoon, and into the early evening. The further southeast you travel but we are generally still expecting to see some sun. Start off with sun. See few more clouds build in. So storm scan3 yes looking pretty calm and collected right now. Dow want to walk you briefly through future weather. There we are 9 00 a. M. Up until the lunch hour, pretty good. By 1 00, 2 00 see the speckles start to fire up out there. Everything should be very scat nerds nature, thats why i would say if you really dont want to cart an umbrella along today, knock yourself out. Should not and problem. By tomorrow, nice change of pace, not only is the sun returning for full day but we warm it up nicely here still breezy wednesday my favorite, nice and warm, 73 degrees, and sunshine. Can you beat that . Nice way to wrap up that three day. Ukee, back to you. Very nice, katie, thank you. A check on some of the stories sister station kyw news radio 1060 will be following for you today. Philadelphia city Council Plans to look at whether some suburban real estate broke remembers avoiding paying city taxes while managing Properties Within city limit. Well, it is more than a year away, but plans for the Democratic National convention are making sure there will be enough hotel rooms for the july 2016 event. And, therapy involving mirrors is helping venues get stroke victims get their lives back. Kyw news radio 1060 on your a. M. Dial. Coming up in the next hour, following new developments overnight as the death toll from nepal earth way gross. New information about the manna cured of shooting a Philadelphia Police officer now that hes out of the hospital. And Pennsylvania Store taking it, t from the cbs Broadcast Center in philadelphia. This is cbs3 Eyewitness News. Scenes of devestation in nepal, as the death toll climbs overnight after that powerful earthquake. Now, were seeing incredible new video of the avalanch on mount evrest triggered by that deadly quake. Also, new this morning, a child rushed to the hospital after an overnight fire. And the child wasnt even in the house when that fire started. And four children rescued after getting lock in their basement without food or water. Find out why police say their mother left them there and the trouble she is in now. It is monday, april 27th, good morning im ukee washington. Im erika von tiehl. Death toll continues to rise in nepal, two days after magnitude 7. 8 earthquake struck that region. New numbers this morning show more than 3600 people died in the quake. More than 6500 others are injured. Rescuers are working around the clock to find people burried in all of that rubble. The us and other nations are responding to the disaster. The pentagon says a plane caring medical personnel search and rescue teams left Dover Air Force base yesterday. And this is truly terrifying. A wall of snow descend interesting all directions, this was shot at the base camp at mount evrest. The quake triggered avalanch burying part of the base camp parked with climbers, at least 18 people including three americans died and dozens more were injured. Stay with Eyewitness News for continuing coverage of the aftermath in nepal, both on television and of course on line at cbsphilly. Com. Back here at home, charges are pending against a mother who allegedly lock her four children in the basement overnight. That home is on the 1900 block of east atlantic street. Police say those children had no food, water or bathroom,
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