Case. Police are still offering that 10,000 reward for any information leading to the driver that could possibly increase now that this twoyear old child has died. We will have have much more for on the show but we are live outside Philadelphia Police headquarters jan carabao for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Well there are more questions than answers this morning after a 61 yearold postal worker landed a gyro copper on the lawn of the you had capitol. He flew the aircraft in the heart of the government, without being detect. Cbs news correspondent Edward Lawrence joins us from the capitol to tell us more bit, good morning. Reporter good morning. On the 80mile trip from gettysburg pennsylvania in radar ever pick up gyro copper. U. S. Military is looking into why this morning. Police surrounded and arrested douglass mark hughes shortly after he landed his gyro copper on the lawn of the u. S. Capitol wednesday. Sixtyone yearold mailman is expect to make his first appearance in court today. The questions that will shake up this town is how was he able to get into some of the most restrict air space in the you had without being seen. Reporter witnesses say they saw hughes take off from the gettysburg airport in pennsylvania. Crazy. Reporter hughes was able to fly past white house and Washington Monument before landing on capitol hill. Even if authority spotted hughes they may not have taken him down before he landed. I dont think use of of the force would have been warranted. Anything to take that out of the sky might have created more problems then what it solved. Reporter hughes had been planning his tonight here to the u. S. Capitol for more than two years. Many are asking why Law Enforcement didnt stop him before he took off. Secret service interviewed hughes about his plans in 2013. Hughes talked about it with friend and he even made this video for tampa bay times. I will violate the the no fly zone unviolently and nobody will get hurt and im going to land on the capitol mall. Reporter hughes was delivering 535 letters to congress urging them to take up Campaign Finance reform. Members of the congress have not received those letters just yet, all of the letters have the proper postage. Reporting live from washington Edward Lawrence back to you good hard to believe on so many levels edward thanks very much. 5 33. Lets get traffic and weather together. Heres katie. Good morning everyone. The the hits just keep on coming. With hiccups along the way we will tracking a a larger storm heading in to next week but rest of this week and especially the weekend in the looking bad at all. Lets take you out there we will start off with the quick check of the tristate sweep of storm scan three which is just empty and tranquil. We have thrown satellite coverage on top and zoom it out, we have activity over virginias, back to now in the yes river valley and down to the carolinas. Eventually this moisture will work its way in for us. We will be dealing with some showers, cloudy skies scattered showers but this is tomorrow. Today is quiet. We want to give you a head up if you have plans to be outside tomorrow still mild even they despite the fact that this will be a front moving through we will not see too much on the thermometer. With that said temperatures as they stan right now we are off to a cooler start. We will eventually rebound back in the up are 60s later today, we will talk le to mid 30s, and in the more remet suburbs. I advise dress nothing layers. We will get you in the upper 60s as a whole. 60 degrees the spectation at the shore and poconos. Have been gets in on a mixed bag of sun and cloud with the light breeze. The just a nice spring day vittoria, over to you. Good morning, everyone. Right now your road are nothing to complain about traveling the majors because it is a breeze. Take a big sigh of relief watching us live because 476 rain in and around mid county toll plaza which is where we are here in and around the area of the schuylkill expressway i95 it is all good. It looks great right now. 5 35. We usually dont see too much of the rush until 6 00 oclock, six will 15, i95 traveling around cottman have avenue one of the culprits. It is not awful at all and that volleys in the yet building. Give it a half an hour we will talk about something completely different. We have an accident still closing, closing durham road, traveling throughout buckingham Spring Meadow road and Lower Mountain road and take swamp road. There are no delays for mass transit. Erika. Investigators are trying to determine id of the man found dead inside a burning car in southwest philadelphia a. Fire fighters made the gruesome discovery yesterday afternoon near hog island and fort mifflin road near the Philadelphia International airport. Honda two door coupe is barely recognizable there. Tag though is still visible. Our time is 5 35. In business news, target and master card hammer out the a settlement over a data breach. Healthy earnings helped move the market upward. The lets check with money watchs jill wagner at the new york stock exchange, good morning. Reporter stronger than expect earnings reports, and also a rise in oil prices are pushing market higher. Dow jones jumped 75 points yesterday, nasdaq gained 33. Target and master card reached a 19 milliondollar settlement, over targets massive data breach back in 203. That money will get to banks and Credit Unions to cover cost of reissuing credit and debit cards and any fraudulent charges connect to the breach. Target did sell a Class Action Lawsuit with individual card holders for ten milliondollar last Movement Twitter is flying high with a new home page features a stream of top tweetness real time, there is News Entertainment and other content. Goal to get more people to head to the site whether or not members. Twitters old home page required thaw sign in if you wanted to read tweets. For everyone getting ready for work feel free to keep your pjs on, today is National Wear your pajamas to work day. Unofficial holiday was deironed to celebrate and let go of stress have after tax day. Here comes the the bunny slippers ukee and erika. If you could see us from the waste down pajamas, slippers yep . All one piece. I knew it, underneath the the dress and the the suit. Dont go there. Thanks, jill. 5 37. Former new England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez is waking up in a maximum security prison. They quick him of first degree murder in the 2013 shooting death of odin lloyd. Hernandez will serve life sentence verdict left hernandez mother and fiance and in tears. Lloyds mother was also there she gave a statement in the courtroom. I forgive the hand of the people who had a hand in my ons murder. Either before or after. I pray and hope some day everyone out there will forgive them also. Hernandez still facing murder charges in a double shooting in boston that happened a year before, lloyd was killed. Right now 5 38. Still ahead this morning a star shares big news on instagram, shes getting married. We have the word on who got engaged ande the big bling on her finger. Also governor christie learns eagles fans are not so willing to for give and for get on the cheering on the cowboys. We will see how they share brotherly love with the governor. Swept out to sea we will show you the the rescue after a tourist is knocked over by a batch have of waves. We wil the word this morning is surprise rapper nicki minaj fools engagement rumors on social media. Super base rapper has a super size ring. Check out the rock. Another justly. Look at how big that thing is. Philly rapper meek meek mill gave her the 15 carol yellow heart shaped diamond encrusted ring. Wow. It is apparently estimated at half milliondollar. Half milliondollar. How much dit the cost to do those nails. Somewhat close to that. They have been dating for a couple of months. Followers started tweeting both wrappers congratulating them on their engagement well conn. Country musics biggest stars will be honored sunday night at the 50th annual country muse ache ward on cbs3. It is largest live award show ever stage. Heres a closer look at Florida Georgia Line. Florida georgia line i think is a no hater if you are going to hate but it is what we do and we will have fun. When 2014 started everyone wanted to know what they were going to do next. Could they deliver a second album that had as many hits on it and made people really want to see them. Were country to the core but we like to incorporate our influence and have have a good time, keep it fresh. That is who we are. I think the whole am bum as a whole came together in a way where there is something for everybody. Every song istive rent. It shows different side of who we are. It showed another sign of Florida Georgia Line that they needed to put out there. They had an amazing 2013 an amazing 2014 and it made people who might not be country fans think maybe i do like country music. In 2015 the sky is the limit and they will reach as far as they can. See who takes home award for entertainer of the year at ac m sunday night at 8 00 right the here on cbs3. We will role down your window today, katie. Baby your song, make me want to roll role my windows down. The lets cruise. What a good couple days to do that. Tomorrow looks wet but we have some nice spring weather for you. I have been able to open up the sun roof. I have been seeing people out in convertible. Those first couple days you can finally to that it feels so nice. Lets check with our weather watchers. Maybe in sun roofs. Doesnt look cool outside. Later today it will look great. Keith baros sent in clear skies, 41 degrees for him within the last hour in saylosserberg. He has a nice morning. Echoing what i said. Nice morning but cool for us. We will go off to the south here, we will go and check with this 44degree temperature reading from mike in downingtown with just a handful of cloud right now. We will go to one more 38 sent in from mark in a more remote area. 38 degrees. Chillier there in chats worth. Lets check out what is going on in the map. It is a busy storm scan three. At nationwide level we are under the influence of High Pressure here at home. It the is another nice day. By tomorrow showers move in. You have to look really close bye but we have low pressure working its way across the inter mountain west. That will become our next storm system but it gets hung up over South Central planes. Bode well for us. As we look forward here, were counting down the days until the average high is 70, just over two weeks away from that. Memorial day just under 40 days a away. Average high of 80. Fortyeight days away. Summer officially begins in 66 days. We will continue to keep that count down going for you here coming up here. Still some nice pleasant weather to enjoy. Showers around, scattered in nature but they will be around anytime. Saturday, just beautiful, sun take also looking good, and then monies very, very soggy, vittoria, over to you. Those count down got me all excited. I love it. Im also loving traffic because it is not causing too much of a problem for you. Good for you, good for me. We will look first at vine street expressway there are in delays in either direction. Earlier eastbound construction has been lifted so lanes have been reopen. Vine street expressway looks great. Offer to the roosevelt boulevard we are busy on the southbound side we are in the seeing a full blend rush just yet but do i feel a few more vehicles, hopping on the roadway f you are leaving in about 15 or 20 minutes and then wont get to the roosevelt boulevard for 15 or 20 minutes i would anticipate that usual rush hour delay. Rush her begins around 6 00 and 6 15. Just net that. Generally speaking majors are quiet. In delaware traveling i95 northbound between tolls and 896, you will lanes are block as a result of the accident. Your best alternate toys take pulaski highway eastbound, this accident has been reported as fatal. We have construction on i95 northbound in the same area at route 896 and that ramp will be closed until january 2016 ukee. Heres what is happening a second hit and run in philadelphia is now fatal. A car hit twoyear old david alycia machine evening in mash are treat in kensington. Sadly Eyewitness News has learned he passed early this morning. His mother is now out of the hospital. New this morning a fatal crash in bucks county is under investigation, one person died on route 413 in Lower Mountain road in buckingham township. It appears that car hit a pole and some trees. U. S. Capitol police have detained a man flew his gyro copper on the west lawn. Doug hughes was delivering letters to congress to draw attention to Campaign Finance corruption. Happening today, it is wawa day. Yeah not every day Convenient Store gives out free coffee, right. Company opened up its first store in folsom Delaware County on april 16th 1964. What does this mean for you . Free coffee to day everyone gets a free cup of joe. Wawa anticipates giving out one and a half million cup of free coffee today. Would i say expect a slightly long are line. Just a bit. We are getting our first look at plans to redesign philadelphias old gallery mall. These sketches she what it will look like after 325 milliondollar make over for the the building. The Shopping Center will be known as the the fashion outlets, of philadelphia, at the market east. Yeah. It will feature more than 100 luxury and mid and retailers with food and entertainment options. Renovation is expected to take, two years. Yes. When it first opened it was all the rage, and new. Just you wait. Look out. Atlantic city is i is hoping a new store can bring in the economic boost for the the city. Bass pro shops opened up its doors yesterday the 85,000 square foot shop is stunning beautiful with nature scenes and a 10,000 gala quarter yum. The city Officials Say the stories a significant milestone and drawing none in casino business to the cash strapped town. It is the beginning of the diversification that were talking about that we need so much in Atlantic City over 200 jobs opening up. Expect a million customers copping in per year. Grand Opening Festivities are scheduled throughout the weekend with daily give a aways. Very nice. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie took part in the grand Opening Festivities at the pro shop. Governor was met with boos from eagles fans and wound autopsy peeling to an eagles legend to bail him out but even that didnt go as planned. Ill tell you, brian, where is brian . Get up here, brian. I love brian westbrook. What are you talking about. Hey eagles fans are here, lets give the governor a chance and say it with me, eagles eagles. Thank you everybody thank you new jersey. Thank you eagles fans. Thanks, b west. Governor christie has come under scrutiny when he sat with cowboys owner jerry jones during dallas victory over the bird last season. He is a big cowboys fan. B west bailed him out. Nice man. 5 49. Before you walk out we will get a check on traffic and weather together on the the threes. If you like yesterday, we have more. Heres a look what is coming up right here on cbs3. You tell us what you want to pay and we help find options to fit your budget. Nah, nah, insurance, nah, nah, nah, discount. My names flo, you want to go out with me . No. Uhhuhhuh philadelphia is a sports town. With the sixers and flyers finished for the season there is a new team to root for. You probably didnt know this but there is a professional frisby team in town at philadelphia spinners. They compete in the major league for ultimate frisby starting, this weekend. Absolute one person cannot dominate. There is 17 people working out there together. There is no one way one person can cruel willly dominate the sport. Tomorrow on Eyewitness News this morning, Nicole Brewer introduces you to the spinners and they will teach you how to play ultimate frisby like the pros. That is one fun game, let me tell you, ultimate frisby. Good stuff. I loved tossing frisby, around, on the beach. Yes. That is my favorite pastime out on the beach. It the makes me think of summertime. We love to know what is your favorite summer sport. Let us necessity on twitter. In the meantime nice weather to enjoy today if you have anything going on outside soccer practice storm scan is empty, pollen though we have to talk bit again levels drop off tomorrow. We have showers, and, juniper or alder, so be ready for that. We should flirt with 70 today and tomorrow with the showers moving through saturday is the next few days looks just perfect, vittoria. Just how i like it, perfect. Good morning everyone. Right now i cannot say the same about traffic we are starting to see that rush build on that 42 freeway, busier than southbound side right here creek road and will get busier from here sort of the snowball effect. Looking at the i95 in Delaware County around 452 in major delays here but we are picking up volume on i95 throughout girard as a result of the construction. Watch out for this accident in delaware, stay with us were cbs3 Eyewitness News and we will be right back. Check this out a giant wave hits a tourist standing on the cliff on a irish island and weeps her out to sea. Check out video right there, standing on the left side, having trouble seeing it right here but a apparently the wave hit, the wave hit she shattered her left ankle were told but otherwise she was mostly unarmed. The water cushion my fall owe when i finally fell the impact was in the as great as it could have been. Next to me was a boulder. I held on to it. My goodness. Paramedic who rescued her is being honored way special award for his bravery. But you see how powerful that wave is. Frightening indeed. Coming up next on Eyewitness News we are live with the update on our breaking news. Twoyear old struck with his mother by a hit and run driver has died. Also concerns over the dog flu escalate as hundreds of more cases are reported, now we are learning it is in the just dogs, that are at risk, details coming were following breaking news this morning a two year old boy struck by a hit and run driver in kensington has died. The driver is still out there. Good morning, Eyewitness News reporter jan carabao joins us to tell us more about that story. Police sources said this twoyear old boy was critically injured on monday has died overnight, pronounced dead at 1 30. Now the search intensifies for the driver whom police say hit and willed ten and injured his mother. A heart breaking development overnight for 19 yearold josephine riveria Police Sources say her son david has died more than two days after the the pair was hit the by a car crossing this street in kensington. Family spokesperson addressed reporters yesterday pleading for publics help in tracking dunn driver of the car that fled the scene. Any piece of evidence in matter how small makes a difference to us. Reporter josephine was critically injured trying to save her son desperate thely trying to pull the two year old out of the way before he was hit. Just so tragic and so hard to see a twoyear old injured in such a way. Reporter new police are searching for a white four door acura or infinity that has front end damage. Witness helped with this sketch of the man possibly in the Carbon Monoxide night but as remains, two men this
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