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Surveillance cameras, pointing at the street. That is a city camera. Police are hoping that is their ticket to finding a killer. Tonight police are looking for a killer after two men were stabbed multiple times in front of the che on stenton street in east mt. Airy just after 2 00 in the morning. We know there were people there that saw this. We have a general description but we know that there were people that know who they are and we need them to contact the homicide unit and give them a name. Reporter Philadelphia Police homicide captain james clark told Eyewitness News that 29 yearold jeff on picket died after someone drove him to Einstein Medical Center a stage hand for nicki minaj. Also in the car a 27 yearold minaj is identifying as eric. He too, one of her stage hand. Clark says that while several witnessed, the suspect acted alone. One of those males pulled out a knife and stabbed both of them multiple times. Reporter are minaj responded on on her twitter account. She tweeted two members of my team were stabbed last night in philly. One was kill. They had only been there for two days rehearsing for the tour, end quote. Minaj and her boyfriend meek mill are scheduled to be in a a show in philadelphia next month. We will do everything that we can to bring this killer to justice as we do all of them. Reporter police say picket is from new york. The eric is from philadelphia. He is in critical condition. I did speak to the manager of che a little while ago and says the the company has no comment about what happened. Police are offering a 20,000 reward. We are live david spunt for cbs3 Eyewitness News. David, thank you. Well, snow showers are expected to arrive in the region, real soon and while were not expecting much in terms of the accumulation they will bring another round of dangerous cold. The meteorologist kathy orr is on the cbs3 sky deck tracking the latest for us, wind picking up out there, kathy. You noticed a gust of wind just blew through we are talking about a front making its way through the Delaware Valley, wind kicking up and i can feel the cold change moving in. Temperatures around the region have fallen but not too badly so far. Take a look at numbers across the Delaware Valley. Right new in philadelphia we are at 29 but wind is making it feel colder. Twentyeight in allentown. Nineteen in the poconos. The this is coming our way an arctic front, squall line of snow showers moving through State College and is moving fairly quickly rather. Another line moving through baltimore and washington at this point. It will be here rather soon between 8 00 p. M. And 11 00 it will move through the region and midnight be off shore. Time line thinks evening once again, we expect snow showers some heavy, coat to go an inch in spots, reduced visibility when these heavier band move through and definite the liz slick spots overnight. That wind behind this front is brutal, look at what it will feel like tomorrow morning. Three below in philadelphia a trenton. Allentown, 4b low. You can see in the poconos it will feel like it is 13 degrees below zero, come tomorrow morning. Coming up we will have whipping wind and then we will talk about record cold, a weekend storm, and a one day warm up, we have not had many of those around here, we will talk more about that when i crown you inside with the seven day. Kathy, thanks very much. Stay ahead of the Weather Forecast by down loading the cbs philly weather app. Check live radar get storm alerts and a whole lot more. Find that app on itunes and google play. We are waiting for the the demolition of this West Philadelphia Doctors Office coated from top to bottom in ice. The department of licenses and inspections was at the scene earlier at 52nd and locust and that building has been deemed unsafe. Lets look live at that building, fire broke out there monday morning, the the water used by fire fighters, quickly froze and his remains that way. We will continue to monitor the the situation there and bring you new developments as they happen. Big clean up is underway at philadelphias city hall where a burst pipe sent water in Council Chambers. Eyewitness News Reporter matt rivers is live in chambers and officials are blaming this mess on the weather, matt. That is correct, yes, sir contact cold weather is to blame. Were told by officials that if you you hear that humming that is coming from the dozens or so fans city workers are moving around there to air this place out after that pipe burst overnight monday into tuesday. With that said city council and city hall are not the only ones dealing with burst pipes in our area. Well to days episode of home owner had headaches takes to us this crawl space in the basement of the haverford home. The culprit this pipe which burst somewhere in the walls. We could not see the the hole but we did see the the small leak through a light socket in the garage. We have had more consecutive days in a row with really cold temperatures and that is when you see it happening. Reporter an issue people at charles bgans have dealt with this winter. It started, end of last week when temperatures dropped and it a has been constant since then. Reporter another call of frozen pipes had in the burst yesterday rj and brian were able to melt freeze quickly Problem Solved but how do you avoid it in the first place. Leave a faucet running or dripping so you constantly get a flow and prevent that. Reporter do that the coldest days and use a space heat inner draft i piping area insulate your waterlines. With the cold temperatures it just prays on, you know, weak pipes. Reporter preventive measures might have stop the leak in city hall. Cold weather caused a ninth floor pipe to burst that flooded Council Chambers overnight monday. Back at the first home we showed you it would have helped too. Instead it took a blow torch and a valve to isolate the the line and there will be more work required down the road. There is certainly more work required here at city hall. You can see those workers still continuing to air this place out, we are told that the city Council Chambers wont be opening again for business until early next week. Live from inside city hall, matt rivers for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Students at this Elementary School in wilmington delaware were evacuated due to a gas leak. Approximately 395 students were relocated to ps du pont Elementary School. Fire officials a a that leak originated in the basement of the school but the school will be opened during normal hours tomorrow. We have some breaking news now a suspect case of measles at princeton university. Additional tests are now underway, and in a statement princeton says that the student has recovered and is no longer contagious. The university is contacting those who may have been in the same area as that student with the suspect measles. Well, fight break out between two workers in Montgomery County and it end with one dead, that worker was stabbed to death, the the other worker believed to be the suspect was injured. It all happened at a meat packing plant in franconia township. Eyewitness News Reporter Noel Mcclaren is live at the scene with more now, noel. Reporter chris, it is business as usual a at jbs meat packing plant. We have been watching trucks still going in and out of this factory. People are still at work as if Nothing Happened just a few hours ago, which it did, and it is tough to believe that employees were involved in a fatal stabbing here right outside the factory. Police recovered one knife in connection to the double stabbing here at jbs meat packing plant known to many as the moyer packing plant. It is a factory that has seen its fair share of blood processing animal byproducts but this morning was different. Investigators say two employees got in an altercation outside factory which led to a double stabbing. One is deceased the other is in the the hospital right now. Reporter montco First Assistant District Attorney says the surviving employee is their suspect. He remains in custody as he is treated for his injuries. Danny vasquez was identified as the victim in the second employee who was killed. Investigators are still working to figure out what exactly cause that had altercation which led up to the stabbing. As for what started that no again, this is early. Early in our investigation. Were working through a number of things, talking to witnesses, so, we will have that at some point. Reporter in the the montco Coroners Office is scheduled to conduct an autopsy on vasquezs body tomorrow. We are live, tonight Noel Mcclaren for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Thank you very much. Man charged with shooting his co work tore death at a north philadelphia bus stop has been held for trial. This is Randolph Sanders accused of shooting 56 user old kim jones to death while kim waited for a bus at the 12th and jefferson back on january 13th. Philadelphias District Attorney is challenging Governor Tom Wolf suspension of the Death Penalty in pennsylvania. D. A. Seth williams filed a lawsuit with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court today. He claimed the decision that the governor made last week is unconstitutional and says that the power to place a moratorium belongs to the legislature, courts and pardons board. The governor says Death Penalty more tore yum will stay in place until he reviews a full report on capitol punishment in the state. We know it is cold outside but the the heat is still rising. That is right, still ahead at 6 00 Eyewitness News gets rarely granted access inside the steam plant, how it is keeping the city warm this winter kathy. We are looking at snow showers that will be moving across the Delaware Valley tonight the but cold behind it is noteworthy. We are talking about back to back record cold days, that is coming up with the seven day. Plus another reason to cut back on soda, brand new research about a certain ingredient that may lead to major health issues, beasley. Pitchers and catchers reported to clear water today first practice tomorrow, full squad takes the field on tuesday with ryan howard still at first base and hoping for a come back. The manager talked about the big fellow ahead coming up on Eyewitness News at 11 00 this woman had her home ransack hundreds of dollars of expensive items disappeared. I was very angry. I felt violated. Police track down a suspect this less than 30 minutes using power of facebook, and tonight ill show you these Police Techniques that can help keep your neighborhood and family safe. It is a story for tonight on Eyewitness News at 11 00. Christians are observing Ash Wednesday the beginning of the lent season. Here in philadelphia archbishop chaput celebrated mass at cathedral basilica of saints peter and paul in center city. The the archbishop distributed ash toes congress grants. It is a beginning of the 40 day period in preparation for the celebration of easter was fasting, and celebration. On tonights, healthwatch we have her the the warnings about drinking soda and weight gain. Tonight, brand new research suggest drinking just one can a day, could pose a cancer risk. Culprit here is a chemical called four mel, found in some types of carmel color. Artificial ingredient used in cola and other soft drinks. There is no federal limit for the amount of substance in food or beverages. On butler cold days when you walk through Center City Philadelphia you can sometimes see tall pipes emitting steam from street corners. These are evidence of, steam the Third Largest utility in all of philadelphia. New at 6 00 oclock our Pat Ciarrocchi got rare access to the steam where its mission is to keep the most vulnerable warm in the winter. Reporter deep inside this sprawling complex where brick stacks of one generation rise next to the gleaming steel of another, viola general manager mike smedley thinks of one thing when he hears steam being generated. Efficiency, warmth. Reporter on brutally cold days 90 trained and licenses workers are looking the at every pipe, every valve every gauge, to make sure that philadelphias steam utility pumps out its life line to 500 buildings. The universities, the hospitals, the commercial buildings, the majority of our steamies used for heating but it also has other purposes such as sterilizees for the the hospitals humidity control for museums, domestic hot the water. Reporter smedley walk me across what felt like steel catwalks to get a good look at towering generators, boilers turbines, now housed in the plant, first built in the 1900s, when philadelphia was finding it industrial footing. Im standing in between two boil their were built in the 1920s originally they were coal fired and then converted to oil, ultimately they were taken off line for higher technology, in the mid 70s. The in the 90s the plant became a co generators both steam and electricity. The water is gaining heat and ultimately becomes steam. Reporter at 450 degrees pressurized to push through a 41mile underground distribute network and monitored in a control room. A 60 milliondollar upgrade in 2012 transformed the steam to green. Weve affectly taken 430,000 tons of Greenhouse Gas out of the air. Reporter on frigid days the equipment is pushing, the stacks of steam, and a the heat is rising. We are 31 days until spring. Pat ciarrocchi, cbs3 Eyewitness News. I like the the way that pat is thinking, about spring, but as we look through our sky cam three and ben franklin bridge, it is looking cold out there. We will see some snow within the next couple of hours, not so springlike. Right now you can see on storm scan three we have few band of snow this band of snow in baltimore that will be moving into delaware within the next couple hours and another band just passing through State College reduces visibility to a quarter mile. This is moving east toward philadelphia, within the next two to three hours. We have some snow showers that we will be talking b it will not amount to much but we are talking about reduced visibility between 8 00 p. M. And 11 00 oclock across the Delaware Valley. witness weather watchers are showing us cold temperatures. Win beginning to kick in, david reporting a temperature of 26 degrees and to the south, in delaware 27 degrees being reported by walter. He is in newark. Sent in this beautiful picture of a sunset the sun, before the snow. You have to love that. We are looking at a very changeable night, right now, temperature is 21 in philadelphia going down into the teens overnight tonight, and the poconos, it feels like 10 degrees right now but it is only going to get colder as those wind are really beginning to kick in. Right now the wind chill in pittsburgh is five below in buffalo it is two below. We are going to be seeing that in the wake of this an arctic front bringing those snow showers, big story is what is behind it. Wind kick in wind chill below zero thursday morning near zero, most of the day, even though the temperatures will sit at 19. Then friday a repeat performance, brutal willly cold wind chills and record lows, the temperature, only 18 degrees and then by saturday another system moves toward us but temperatures do kick up a bit. We will be back around 30. Lets talk about what it will feel like, in big impact with the win right now but a little bit later on tonight through tomorrow morning, we will be feeling its impact. Tomorrow morning will feel like three in philadelphia a, three below in the poconos. By tomorrow afternoon the same scenario. By friday we are talking about dangerously cold wind chest 27 below in the the poconos, 16 below in the lehigh valley. Even along the i95 corridor toward the shore we are talking about ten to 15 degrees below zero with the wind chills friday morning. This is dangerous cold. Lehigh valley is cold at 25 below. Even in the suburbs it is as cold as 20 below. So friday morning will be the dangerous morning to be outside. After that we will watch two areas of low pressure moving in the region. Cold low to the north, a milder low with some moisture to the south, and we will be seeing precipitation late saturday night starting as snow but warm air will change to rain by sunday as our next storm. Overnight low 14. During the day tomorrow only 19, and it will be very cold as we work our way toward the weekend. Here is the morning record, friday morning a new record of zero, saturday weak go for a new record of five and then you can see that storm over weekend but staying cold next week. Here we go again with the very busy weather pattern. And cold. And cold. Kathy thanks. Were seeing light to maryland rate volume on different part of the schuylkill expressway. This is right around city avenue in the westbound lanes toward king of prussia area. You can see slow go there, brake light, you can see right behind the cameras there that is actually the east bound lanes and moving along fairly well right around that point and headed up to the Center City Area where we will see delay and volume. On i95 northbound okay, even through work zone here southbound this is something we are used to though. Not a complete jam but some slow go. Out in delaware new castle there is an accident airport road at press wick drive and out in West Philadelphia were urging to you use caution around the area of the road closure on fifth Second Street between locust and spruce, that is structural damage from the monday morning building fire and it is additionally detouring septas route 52 bus. Stay there we will be right back with more news homecoming . Its awesome. But with the Citizens Bank education refinance loan it gets even better. You know those people who pay a little extra and get all the legroom in coach . 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To the flyers now back in action tomorrow against sabres, they are six points behind boston but for that final playoff birth. They are nine game point streak came to an end last night when they lost fivetwo to the blue jackets and their top two players in the slump. Claude giroux has not scored in nine games and jake voracek has one goal in the last 15 games. We have to come together, as in the past and were not playing better now. It is not going in. It will start going in it will go in a bunch. We have to just stay with it. Everyone would like to see defenseman Kimmo Timonen back on the ice from serious blood clot problems. Today was his first full contact practice of the season. More news when we come right 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 thanks for watching Eyewitness News at 6 00 we are back at ten on the cw philly and back here at 11 00. Stay tuned for the cbs evening news tonight, see what it takes to become a real american snipper. Plus how jeb bushies break ago away from his familys political legacy. Scott pelley reports tonight from new york. Pelley tonight a new arctic invasion. Records fall, but water doesnt. Jeb bush breaks with his familys political legacy. But im my own man. Pelley the making of an american sniper. Reporter can you tell me how many kills you have . No. Pelley and for some, the way out of poverty began here. I couldnt wait to get to work because i had i had fun. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley eight feet and climbing that is how much snow has piled up in new england this winter, and if its not more than the people can stand, it is more than the roofs can. Today, this one in sutton, massachusetts, gave way. Thats at least 74 fallen roofs in the state this season. Also on the