With how you proceed here. Reporter philadelphias d. A. Was slammed last week with the 23 count, indictment alleging bribery and extortion williams has pleaded not guilty. The judge called williams lawyers attempt to back away from the case, unbreast dented , federal prosecutors in court said they had no objection to diamondstein leaving the case. We will work out representation, we will be back here on friday, and we will look forward to seeing you then. Would you say court is frustrated with this situation i have no further comment on this. Reporter leaving court, williams and his lawyer said nothing but were confronted by members of the black lives matter, pennsylvania. Why wont you resign, sir, sir, why wont you resign. Reporter at this point an extremely unusual hearing, that will continue, on friday, with seth williams, essentially guarantied the court that he will, definitely have, new, legal representation on friday, at which point he will tell Michael Diamondstein his attorney who wants off the case that he no longer need his services, of course, stay with Channel Three for very ratees on this developing story. Reporting live, joe holden for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Joe, thank you. We are following a developing story in north philadelphia, where police are on the scene of a barricade situation, this is on north 17th street near west susquehanna avenue. Police responded after a 17 yearold was shot and is in critical condition. Nearby duckry school has been placed on lock down because of the incident. Search continues for shooter who opened fire in philadelphias Northern Liberties neighborhood, yesterday. Authorities continue to investigate in the area around the 500 brook of north front street. Construction workers heard the gun fire and the bullets struck a pickup truck month. Man near that truck may have been the target, of the gunfire. The investigators are saying away from saying this was a snipper situation until they can prove it. I can confirm that there are marks on the window sill of the window, that was facing the scene. Shooting yesterday and the search that follows, led to the shut down of the northbound lanes of the interstate i95 for several hours. Tonight we are hearing from brave, first responders, they rescued several people from a burning home in wildwood, crest. Little is left of the five unit beach home on the 5500 block of park drive. The entire second floor apartment was engulfed in flames and police got that at 6 00 oclock monday night. They helped rescue two children and uncle from the balcony. A resident showed greg air guess how he and the mayor caught one of the children. Only way out was dropping. I just, said drop her right now. And she dropped, and ernie caught her, like this, you know, i jumped in to ernie and officer webb was right underneath us. Human safety net. There was no way anything would happen to that little girl. Officers also rescued an elderly woman, meanwhile Fire Fighters rescued two parents and their child from the first floor, in one was seriously injured, the causes under investigation. Catholic school in havertown was evacuated after lightening struck a cross on the buildings roof. Cardinal john foley Regional Catholic High School who power and communication services, but a message on the schools web site told parents to pick up their students early today. Oakmont fire company says no injuries were reported. Rain did not stop crew from his restoring up to 25 grave stones in the cities wissonoming section, after more than 100 were found toppled and vandalized. According to the Jewish Federation more than 220,000 was donated to support clean up and repairs, at mount carmel cemetery. The restoration efforts are led by grave stone matters cemetery preservation and National Park service. A 74,000 reward is being offered for any information, leading to an arrest. President trump signed a sweeping executive order at Environmental Protection agency today. His administration is going in a different direction when it comes to environmental regulations. Were going to have safety, we will have clean water, we will have clean air but so many are unnecessary and so many are job killing. Were getting rid of the bad won. President trump says today s movies start of the new era in innovation while others say it is a step backward. Eyewitness News Reporter cleve bryan is live in west deptford to show us how this scene order could impact our area, cleve. Reporter from the weather patterns, to toxins in neighborhood like here in west deptford, environmentalist say there could be big consequences, as President Trump tries to cut regulation, and funding, to the Environmental Protection agent cy. With the stroke of his pen President Trump says he is ushering a new era for American Energy production. With todays executive action im taking historic steps to lift restrictions on American Energy to reverse government intrusion, and to cancel, job killing regulations. Reporter by rolling back environmental restrictions support by his predecessor Trump Says Energy sector will create new jobs but critics say comes at expense of our health and our planet. I think big problem is just , we will make Climate Change worse. It will not get better, it will get worse and it will continue happening and sticking our head in the stand will not fix it. Reporter clean water action groups say president s executive order will increase pollution and accelerate Global Warming they are worried about severe budget cuts he proposed to Environmental Protection agency. Cutting epas budget by 31 percent is just nuts. Reporter what will it mean locally. Crushed battery casing have been partially removed from the west deptford neighborhood as part of the federal super fund site, a dozen Properties Still need to be cleaned up at a cost of 10 milliondollar. But, slashes to the epa could meaningless work cleaning up new jerseys 114 superfund sites. We depend on the epa. We look for their support, because we dont have the financial wherewithal. Reporter Wayne Hoffman in west deptford say clean up completed next door gives neighborhood hope but worried that the rest of the work wont get done if they cleaned it up, my neighbors there dont they deserve that. On site coordinator tells me by end of april they hope to have a plan in place to prevent public from further clean ups but actually doing work, of course, depend on what Congress Puts in the epa budget. Live from west deptford, cleve bryan, cbs3 Eyewitness News he is counted on as future of the franchise but today eagles quarterback carson wentz talked to teenagers about their future. They got to talk football too. Don bell joins with us a special surprise for these kid it is cool to see, the face of the franchise, right in front of you, right. Face of the franchise was greet wide 20 smiling teens. Carson in the community today, wentz was at the columbia north ymca on broad street. He teamed up with jc penny and top prospect desean watson. They talk to the kid about looking and feeling their best , all of the teams were trading Gift Certificates for suits. Eagles added a couple new receivers and wentz weighed in on the moves this off season has been real exciting, you know, for the whole team and for all of the eagles fans, there is a lot of excitement. We started off last year, we ended up, not where we wanted it to be but we all believed that we were heading in the right direction and new we are getting more pieces. We have the draft coming up here which is super awesome here in philadelphia. That will be a whole other level of excitement. Definitely excited for the season. Quality tie. Carson was mingling eagles signed two more players, one is a super bowl champion. We will tell but their moves later in sports. Oh, really. Okay. Yes. Thanks, buddy. Well, wet day around the region but improvement is on the way. Kate . Not soon enough, it has been a glummy stretch, we have rain today but still cloud and showers this evening to deal with but sun finally returns ill tell you how long it sticks around and if we will see it this weekend. Also this adorable little girl has overcome quite a lot in her young life, when we come back ill show you how her road to recovery went right through our area, that is our Ronald McdonaldHouse Charities phone bank continues its league night . saved money on motorcycle insurance with geico goin up the country. Bowl without me. Frank. im going to get nachos. Snack bars closed. Gah ah, ah ah. Im goin up the country, baby dont you wanna go . Im goin up the country, baby dont you wanna go . Geico motorcycle, great rates for great rides. Ahh, welcome back, family eighth annual Ronald McdonaldHouse Charities tellathon continues. We have a fine group of people waiting to hear, from you, please call us, please call us , we are here until 8 00 raising money for four houses in our area they will provide a loving place to stay for families with children in the hospital, please call and make a donation, the number, 844, you see it there, 977 cbs3. 8449772273. While we are looking at everyone waiting for their phones to ringlet me tell but a young lady born in jamaica but one for one little girl the house in wilmington has been her home for most of her life. Toddler is on her way to recovery thanks to a team of doctors, Ronald Mcdonald staff and mother who helped save her daughters life. Get ready to do it. It wasnt that long ago that one yearold rebecca could not push herself around in her walker like mess little won her age. Lets go look for this. And her mom tracie ann could not have this play time with her baby like mess numbers. Come back here, you runaway , come back here. Reporter not long after birth rebecca was diagnosed with biliary problems, a life threatening disease of the liver. By the time she was seven months old the little girl was very sick and needed a liver transplant. Gift of life coming from her own mother. Went to the doctor, and i was a match. I decided would i give her 20 percent of my liver. Reporter life saving transplant surgeries performed by doctors at ai du pont hospital for children. Just across the street making life so much easier for the family from jamaica wilmington s Ronald Mcdonald house their home for so many months. It is just going to do social work here and at Ronald Mcdonald house. I feel like a whole bunch of stress just came off my shoulders, you know. Medicine for the heart and soul for a parent of the sick child, so far from home. As soon as you come downstairs, you come downstairs there is something to Say Something to make you smile to make you, make your day feel better, one. Reporter tracie ann is grateful for those days made better by staff and grateful for the kind donation from his people, that make this place, possible. None of us wonder when we will have a sick child in, one knows. So the people at Ronald Mc Donald house is best thing that anyone could ever offer. Reporter those donations make it a happy birthday for rebecca who celebrated her very first birthday right here hi, momma do you want to do this. Donate it. That is her way of saying thank you. Shes in the really talking. Isnt that wonderful. The family will continue to stay at Ronald Mcdonald house while doctors monitor rebecca to see how her liver, it is functioning. Of course we will keep you updated on that. We will throw it over to my collogue don bell work some people doing great big old check. I like to be where money is , always a good idea. We are joined by jim fritz from pj wheelihans and first let me ask you how did you raise money. We have been doing this since the start. They came to us years ago and said could we possibly raise five you this dollars. Bill came to me. We said we will do our best. That year we raised 30,000. He was thrilled. We have the greatest customers in the world. They come through year in and year out. It is not about pjs but our customers. That is where it comes from. I was in your establish. Just a few weeks ago, you guys were doing something for Ronald Mcdonald house and customers really get in to it. I understand you guys have done a pretty good job this year. How about the big reveal. Big reveal ills right here, how about that number. Are you kidding me. Yes. That is massive. We were shocked. We gave it all out to try to make a hundred k and we got there. We are so proud of ourselves and customers. Bill, your reaction to this overwhelmed. Overwhelmed. They have been the most incredible partners we could have asked for. Whenever were in any of their facilities, we just cant believe the way their employees go out to get their customers involved, and as jim said their Customer Support this program so it is phenomenal relationship. Ukee, now you see i love being where money is, this proves it. Now back to you. Show us the money. Thank you all, so much for that 111,000. Fantastic. Lets take a moment. One more time, come on, one more time. Lets take a quick moment to thank our volunteers, lets show them on the screen, pj wheelihans, cosmo cola co, enterprise rent a car, south jersey industries, united scrap metal and, wills eye hospital. We thank you all, especially some not on the board right new we thank you all, all of our volunteers for making this happen for children and their families and Ronald McdonaldHouse Charities. Lets go back in the studio now and check with jessica and kate, ladies. We are make gooding progress, ukee, thanks very much. Kate bilo, joining us now and today not the greatest, it is so wonderful and warm, happy. You were talking about it earlier. It does not look like that outside. It doesnt, it looks like more breaks of sun, temperatures warmer, but that never happened today. Rain was story to day and still story tonight. Lets look outside, storm scan three, large system moving through, it did break up a little bit south ande, and southwest of our area we had sun coming out around d. C. That is where temperatures got to the lower 70s, and it looks like that would happen for us but rain and cloud just stuck overhead and it has been a cool, damp, dreary day, but good news is we are missing Thunderstorm Development that those areas to the south of seen here this morning. You can see a break in the cloud cover as storm begins to slowly exit but especially from the city north still seeing that light rain, allentown, reading, montgomery , bucks counties here. We have a few showers and storms this one right here pushing toward Cape May County cape may point, West Cape May places like thaw could see a stray shower or rumble of thunder moving through in the next half an hour or so. Right now across the region you can see it is chilly. Fiftytwo in philadelphia. Fifty down the shore along the coast, further inland it is milder. Poconos at 45 degrees, again, stuck in the cloud and rain all day long, and that has stabilized atmosphere. Dont think we will see much more in the way of Thunderstorm Development except that stray within to the south. Overnight low is about 12 degrees above average but daytime high just went no where thanks to the cloud and rain we came in 3 degrees below on the day and looks like we will finish out month pretty even, pretty seasonal over next few days as temperatures begin to stabilize. Through tonight we have that light to moderate rainfall to the north and west, slow go out there, there is ponding on the road from the earlier rain that came through and all starting to lift out, that is good news, overnight we will clear it out. Couple spots of patchy fog, so watch out on the road tonight. 4 00 a. M. Could see cloud continuing to break and then start day with sunshine, depending where you are, gradual clearing through afternoon and ending up with full sun by midday. But that is in the last of it, still unsettled pattern. Next rain chance come in friday. Next storm pushes through amount lot of rain witt and licensing duration storm a slow mover here on friday, and period of the rain all day long, starting about 9 00 a. M. And continuing possibly into saturday morning, and we are track ago this saturday afternoon but this could produce rumbles of thunder as well. Not out of the wood just yet but tomorrow into thursday, that is when we will get Pleasant Spring weather. Overnight gradual clearing tomorrow becoming sunny, breezy, pleasant at 62 degrees and as we head into your seven day forecast we will get temperatures pretty seasonal, we are at 62 degrees tomorrow, 57 on thursday and then friday is a rainy day, im optimistic about saturday. I think we can start off with the morning shower and hopeful that the sun comes out in the a noon and keep you posted to see how quickly this gets out. Sunday and machine looking g so, Mother Nature has an april fools trick up her sleeve. Thanks very much. Dons up next with sports. Busy day, guys, fill business a couple of moves as season draws closer and the eagles made a few free agents signing today would bolster defense, details up next in they are not bad when it comes to sacks eagles are in the middle of the pack. Last season they had 16th out of 32 teams. Today the eagles added some depth up front they signed defensive end chris long to a two year contract. Last season he had four sacks and won super bowl with the patriots. His hall of fame dad howie long played for villanova and his wife went to high school in moorestown. Eagles also signed, patrick, robinson today, he has played for colts, saints, chargers during his seven year career. Former first round pick joined team that has who both starting corners from last season, noland carroll, gone. Leo mckelvin also gone. Like molding clay as we switched gears here phillies sculp their roster. They cut chris, and traded pitcher alex asher for baltimore for a player to be named later. Opening day cincinnati is six days away. Recent history tell you the flyers are due for a down your they crushed pittsburgh sixtwo on sunday but consistency has been a problem orange and black host senators in less than 40 minutes. Fly guys are six games out of the playoffs with seven games to play. The sixers in brooklyn tonight, the nets, stink, they have 16 wins, and how about a little perspective. They are 31 games out of first place and 11 games behind the sixers. Highlights at 11 00. Thinks a champion the 16 yearold set a record by break ing 111 Building Blocks in only 352nd. You see he did it with his head. Wow. Really. The Guinness World record, is people were than hand to make sure it was legitimate. Previous record was 91 blocks. Again, 16 years old, doing it with his head. Yes. Yikes. Still to come on Eyewitness News. Our ron untilled Mcdonald Charities tellathon continues, our live lot our great hall as volunteers take call. Look at smiling faces. Call the number to donate. Stay with us, we will be right back. Phone here we go, were ready were almost out of time. Almost out of time but were not done yet eighth annual Ronald McdonaldHouse Charities tellathon is still going strong and we need you a lot of people may get home from work, just starting to tune in and going wait what are you doing exactly. Exactly. We are raising money for Ronald Mcdonald houses in our area, these are places where Sick Children and their families can get to get away from it all, getting treatment at wonderful hospitals and from all of the wonderful doctors, nurses, and Health Care Professionals all across our area. It is life changing for these families. No question bit. Just call us 1844977cbs3. That is to be a part of is what going on, now to be a part of changing the lives of children and their families. We will be back here with you at 7 00 and in the meantime thanks for watching Eyewitness News at 6 00 oclock tonight, we will be back at 10 on the cw philly and back here on cbs3 with more at 11 00. Up next, cbs evening news with scott pelfrey new york, here from the great hall in Center City Philadelphia the cbs3 studios, im Ukee Washington for jessica dean and everyone here thanks for joining us we will see you for hour of power, at captioning sponsored by cbs pelley u. S. Gymnasts tell horror stories. To the u. S. Congress. He abused me in my hotel room at the sydney olympic games. I trusted you during gymnastic, but i was sexually abused. Pelley also tonight, Climate Change initiatives up in smoke. My administration is putting an end to the war on coal. 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