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And roofing materials. Investigators with the Prosecutors Office were charged with investigating how the death happened and osha started collecting information to see if all Safety Standards were being followed this was permitted. They had all of the permits. They had insurance, bonding and those types of things. For the company doing the work. It was, an authority. You can see from the area, it was a big building and this was last piece of it coming down. Authorities say that there will be an autopsy tomorrow for the victim and as far as the person that had the chest pains that was taken to kennedy hospital in cherry hill no word on his current condition. We are live, im cleve bryan, cbs3 Eyewitness News. All right cleve, thanks very much. Well, we will turn our attention to the weather now and we are enjoying a great start to the weekend as we ares set to officially usher in summer. Lets take a live look down the shore at ocean city, it looks beautiful, on a beautiful night, and can we keep this gorgeous weather going . Meteorologist kathy orr is with us now in the weather center, kathy. They dont want to leave, chris. Do you blame them. No. It is a beautiful evening across the delaware valley, High Temperature so far in philadelphia on this last day of spring, 82, believe it or not that is below average. The normal is 84. The record is one hub degrees set on this date. Temperatures are still pretty mild and this evening. They will stay that way. 7 00 p. M. Temperatures 77. We will have partly cloudy skies at 9 00 p. M. And 69 degrees at 11 00. Very good sleeping weather, indeed. On storm scan three all is clear, clouds move in late and then showers, tomorrow not a lot of rain but we will be seeing the clouds rolling in during the late night hours and by tomorrow morning, a few showers, moving our way. We will talk about the better time to be outside with that weekend forecast dodging the rain, plus sunny stretch that is coming up in the seven day, i think youll like this one for the first week of summer, coming up later in the broadcast. Well, they have lured in customers with promises of low, and competitive electricity rates. But then, this winter saw some of their bills increase by 300 percent. Three on your side consumer reporter jim donovan has been following this since the beginning and youve got some new information. Reporter indeed, Pennsylvania Attorney Generals Office and office of consumer advocate filed joint complaint against five out of state electricity suppliers claiming that the Companies Engaged in deceptive marketing. Jamie davidson was shocked to see his mothers electric bill, jump more than 500 in a month. It was so high compared to what she had been previously charged for services. Reporter rate charged by her electric supplier, pennsylvania gas and electric, went from, 11 cents per kilowatt hour in december to over 28 cents in january. Their response was that it was, because of the high demand and the cold, winter, so far. I was hoping a mistake had been made. Reporter rate at whiz janet and adam johnson were billed at tripled too. The rate their supplies ib t Energy Charge jumped from 6 cents to 17 cents a kilowatt hour over the course of the month. Everything was good at first because of the two years and then we got this bill. Reporter thousands of pennsylvania residents who received their electricity through Third Party Suppliers saw big rate spikes this winter. Now the Pennsylvania Attorney general and office of consumer advocate is seeking to suspend or revoke the licenses of pennsylvania gas and electric, idt energy, respond power, hyco power and blue pilot energy. State alleged that the Companies Engaged in violations of Consumer Protection law and of the public utility code and prices charged werent reflective to the price served to cost electricity needs. The Attorney Generals Office received 42,000, phone calls, about high electricity bills, and over 7500 people filed complaints. State wants the company to pay Civil Penalties and provide appropriate restitution, including any necessary refunds. We will continue to follow them. Eye opening bills. Exactly. Now to a tragedy on the ac expressway. Two people killed, four others injured, thrown from their pick up when it flips over on the expressway. This accident happened this morning near exit number 22 in hamilton township. Investigators say that three people were in the cab of the truck, three people in the bed of the truck when it overturned. Thirtyfive yearold james dennis, and the four yearold girl died in that crash. Of those injured one is in critical condition, three others are in serious condition. The actor Tracie Morgan is out of the hospital, tonight, and at a rehab facility. His publicist says morgan is expected to remain there for the the next few weeks. He was critically injured in the multi vehicle crash the on the new jersey turnpike that killed his close friend, james mcnair. Well, police have identified the man hit and killed in the hit and run in bensalem but they need your help to find the driver. Crime scene tape was wrapped around the the property a few blocks from where Vincent Perry was killed last night. No one inside of the home was arrested and investigators are remaining tightlipped about what led them to that residence. Business owns long 4100 block of bristol pike where the accident happened say they did what they could to help the police. The police came by, they checked out our surveillance cameras that we do have here and they looked over, hoping to find the culprit and i hope they do find him. Well, police say vehicle involved in this crash likely has front end damage and a broken windshield. Anyone with any information, is urged to contact the the police. New at 6 00 another bridge in Montgomery County is closed after failing an inspection. Graterford road bridge was one of the more than two dozen in the area. It was given a new weight restriction last summer. That bridge carries graterford road over Perkiomen Creek. Eyewitness News Reporter jane carabao shows us the problem in pennsylvania is bigger than just one bridge. Pennsylvania leads the nation, in the number of structurally deficient bridges, this is one of them, this Spring Garden street bridge. Now a multi milliondollar project is about to get underway here to repair this bridge, but as one bridge in pennsylvania is repaired, yet another falls into disrepair. It is just latest casualty in pennsylvanias crumbling infrastructure graterford road bridge over Perkiomen Creek closed to the nearly 3,000 drivers, who use it every day. It doesnt seem to be any warnings that this would happen. Frustrating surprise to not only those behind the wheel but to businesses nearby. They use this road every day, half of my customers basis from this way. Penndot closed the 60 yearold bridge in the perkiomen township after inspectors noticed exposed steel beams, deck detear racial and 2 feet deep hole but thinks one example of the close to 500 structurally deficient bridges in the southeast philadelphia region. Average age is anywhere between 50 to 70 years old. Again, they have lived past their useful life. Reporter graterford will remain closed until planned repair or replacement is developed. Our designs now we are looking at hundred year bridges, building bridges that will last a hundred years so we will not run into this problem down the road. Reporter penndot says that just about 300 bridges are newly deemed structurally deficient each and every year throughout the state. Work here on the Spring Garden bridge which is funded by that new transportation money will be joined by about 30 other projects throughout Southeast Pennsylvania region starting this summer and this fall. Reporting from center city, jane carabao, cbs3 Eyewitness News. Revel casino is running out of time and in need of the life line, another bankruptcy for the multi billion dollar casino and its lawyer is not mixing words. We will tell you what is next for the struggling resort. Why summer can take a toll on your sleep schedule what you can do to ensure you are getting enough rest, kathy . We are looking at a beautiful evening but clouds are creeping in, next the rain we will update your weekend forecast coming up, hi, beasley. Birds get a final break before Training Camp and sixers draft turned upside down. Plus phillies are looking for five straight wins on the road, more on the the phillies coming up in sports. A water main break leads to flooded streets in south philadelphia. This happened at organ avenue between second and third today. 12inch main that ruptured there. Philly soft pretzel factory had some water in the basement and water had to be pumped out of the basement of a home, Water Department crews were on the scene and they brought the situation under control. The Revel Casino Hotel has again, filed for bankruptcy. Revels lawyer appeared before a bankruptcy judge today and described the casino as a quote melting ice cube. Revel says it needs help selling off the property so debtors cannery coupe as much money as possible. They are reportedly losing milliondollar a week a tan up to 400 milliondollar. Owners say they want to auction it off to the highest bidder but if the sale is not secured, some 3100 employees would be laid off as early as august. On the cbs3 healthwatch, tomorrow is the longest day of the year. Extra time to enjoy that summer sun. But doctors are warning that it could cause trouble for the millions of people who suffer with sleep problems, Health Reporter Stephanie Stahl is live from the the sat Center Tonight to explain, steph niece. Reporter that is right, jessica, extra daylight that comes with tomorrows summer solstice can mean trouble for people sleep challenged. Tiffany rittenhouse works at jefferson sleep center and ironically suffers with insomnia herself. I never felt rested and just felt miserable all day. Reporter for millions, like tiffany who need as much darkness to sleep, saturday summer solstice, longest day of the year could be especially troublesome. It is, im up. Reporter sunrise saturday will be at 5 32 in the philadelphia region and 15 hours later, the sun will set at 8 33. It is a lot of daylight which reduces production of the harmone melatonin that regulates sleep. Light antagonizees melatonin. Reporter doctor karl degrand, directors of the jefferson sleep center, say stress and other things can interfere with sleep but extra dose of sunlight that comes with the solstice can make insomnia even worse. Because of that we dont sleep as well. Melatonin is important for sleep but not see created until later in the night. Reporter he says shutting out as much light as possible will help and might sound strange but he also recommend wearing sunglasses in the early evening, until it gets really dark that will help stimulate melatonin. Already were sleepy because we are not sleeping enough because of work and other demand and now because of the light in the environment we are sleeping even less, building up more daytime sleepiness. Reporter experts say generally because of the extra daylight, people will sleepless in the summer. We have more information, including ways to help fightin some knee, cbs philly. Com, click on health. Im Stephanie Stahl, cbs3 Eyewitness News. Well, public pools, in the city of philadelphia, are officially opened. Eyewitness news at kick off event at the Cruz Recreation Center at sixth and master. You can imagine these kid just could not wait to jump into the water and stay there. Nothing like it. Great day for it. Summer starts tomorrow and it is all coming together here kathy. Summer, pools are opened the heat is on and it will stay that way. Tomorrow night quite as warm, wait until you see that seven day forecast. Down the shore people have been on the beach all day still on the beach, but really getting busy on the boards. It is dinner time. Some pizza, ice cream, some curly fries, crab fries, they have got it all down there. Umhmm. Thinking about it, it is worth the the trip. On storm scan three we have some clouds rolling in from the west but it will be a beautiful evening. These showers will not arrive, until tomorrow, midday or the of afternoon. Not a lot of rain. The dont cancel any outdoor plans but more of the hit or miss variety. Summer does officially begin tomorrow, and 15 hours and 38 seconds of daylight, longest day of the year, and it is going to be a fairly decent day. Sunday is going to be the beauty. Right now in philadelphia, 81. 79 degrees in allentown. Seventy in the poconos. Eighty in dover. Whole eastern half of the nation really enjoying some pleasant weather. Little bit cooler to the north. Future weather shows us clear skies, this evening, cloud rolling in as evening progresses, by late tonight those clouds thicken and by tomorrow morning we have seen showers rolling n they will be spotty over the course of the the day and we will see most of them from philadelphia to the south and to the west, area of low pressure passes to the south and then once we hit evening period, the skies will be clearing from north to south. That area of low pressure quick mover, we will be seeing spotty showers, just during the day, and then, temperatures will be improving, 70s for saturday, High Pressure pushes that low south. Sunday back in the 80s. Plenty of sunshine and low humidity again. Machine another gorgeous day, tuesday, the the humidity will make a come back. Clouds on the increase. It will be comfortably cool, the low temperatures, 63. During date saturday . More clouds and sun. Stray shower, High Temperature 78. We have a lot going on this weekend. We have the the fire fly festival in dover, taking the family, ive gotten word from one of my friend forecasting down there says it is a great family event, the great music. The chance of a shower or two on saturday. Sunday nothing but sunshine. 80 degrees. Poconos looking great as well. Deep blue sky, further to the north, we dont have any rain chance on saturday. Clouds giving way to sun, sunday looks great, 76. Monday mostly cloudy and high of 79. On the exclusive eyewitness weather seven day forecast and shore cast sundays High Temperature 83. Monday, 84. Tuesday, humidity returns, the high of 85. And then by wednesday, temperatures will be still in the mid 80s with the chance of a shower or thunderstorm in the afternoon, thursday, 88. Friday, 87. Look at the shore temperatures, they stay in the upper 70s to around 80 degrees. When we have numbers like that pack the sunshine we have reflectivity from the sun, and the sand, and the the water, and burn quickly. How about the the water, were you down there yesterday, you said high 60s at the shore. Atlantic city the the water is 69 buzz cape may is at 73 degrees. Moving in the right direction. Kathy, thanks. Good evening, everyone. Im shaking my head because kathy just mentioned cape may and chris just said moving in the right direction. Ill tell you one thing both directions of the cape may bridge, which is the main bridge heading in to cape may is closed due to Police Activity. Of course, it is a friday night everyone is heading down the shore, your best alternate, only alternate to take is West Cape May bridge. Once again cape may bridge, the main bridge that heads into cape may is closed due to Police Activity but we will follow this story for sure and always keep tabs on this story, and well, all of your news on cbs philly. Com. But lets talk more about your shore community. Traveling on the 42 freeway commuting in southbound direction, we are jammed, from i would say really approaching the walt whitman bridge and not really that is what it is approaching walt whitman bridge up and over bridge and down 42 beyond creek we are seeing this volume pile even as we approach ac expressway. Good news once you get to the Atlantic City expressway it does pick up just a bit. Lets take a look where else we are seeing volume. Obviously southbound 42 as we have seen there but southbound on 47, traveling delsea drive. Speaking of on the northbound side of 47, at green tree road, we are dealing with the gas main break and because of this it is closed, and 322 would be your best alternate. As we take a look at your wide, Speed Sensors on this friday night are not great, 12 is your average on the schuylkill and look at the pennsylvania turnpike, if you are maybe having plans to head on the northbound side of the extension to spend a weekend at the poconos we are finding lots of volume on the eastbound pennsylvania turnpike between valley forge and mid county toll plaza. And then continuing on the north bound side of the extension. Blue route is picking up but still watch out for i95 going to and from the schuylkill towards that bridge, chris and jessica. Classic friday night, thanks very much, vittoria. Well, cbs evening news is just a couple minutes away. Sharon alfonse is in for scott pelley tonight and joins with us a look ahead, sharon. Hi chris and guess contact surge of Illegal Immigrants at the border, we will tell you what the administration plans to do bit. Plus we will take awe cross the board tore show you where the journey begins. On the road with the man who turns strangers into fast friends, that is just ahead on your phillies aring for five straight road wins, they are four games back in the nl east. Phillies beat cardinals four one last night behind three rbi effort from ryan howard. They will play three more in st. Louis this weekend. Tonights fame kicks off at 8 15. Eagles are done with ota work outs. They will take a month off before returning for summer Training Camp. Every single bird decided to take part in the voluntary activities. That is hundred percent participation rate. It looks like chip kellys team is all in for 204. I feel like i cannot play any positions very well, so i mean. Meantime Connor Barwin is hosting a benefit concert tonight at union transfer. Birds linebacker is raising money to make improvements to ralph brooks park in south philadelphia. Local acts like curt vial and the district will perform along with houston band, the the tontons. All right. Sixers draft turmoil who will take the injured jell embid. Kansas center has a foot fracture and that has turn the draft upside down. It means cavilers and bucks will take Andrew Wiggins and jabberi parker at one and two. That leaves the sixers with a decision to make at pick number three. The nba draft is thursday night. World cup action, french beat down, they hammered their neighbors switzerland, fivetwo. France has now scored eight goals in their first two games. They have been one of the early surprises of the tournament. A stunning upset, costa rica beat italy one to nothing. That means they advance to the next round, england is eliminated from the tournament and italy will play our way to move forward. North america have won four of their six games in the world from color. To the remote. To flat screens. Now its taking a quantum leap. Introducing fios quantum tv. Record up to 12 shows at the same time. Store up to 200 hours of entertainment in hd. Plus watch live tv anytime with the fios mobile app. Redefining what tv can be. Thats powerful. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v a shooting in logan sends two people to the hospital. Chopper three over tenth and ruscomb street just moments ago. A 14 yearold would i and 27 yearold man were each shot in the leg both in stable condition and you can see police are on the scene conducting interviews there so far no arrests but we will continue to update you. And thanks for watching Eyewitness News at 6 00 we will return at ten on the cw philly and back here on cbs3 at 11 00. Stay tuned for the cbs evening news, sharon alfonse is in tonight for scott pelley. Alfonsi tonight, crisis at the border. A surge of Illegal Immigrants. Anna werner on whats behind it and what the administration plans to do about it. Manual bojorquez takes to us where their journey begins. Reporter Border Control along the river is practically nonexistent. 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