Need more security windows to prevent this disaster. Reporter he says his heart goes out to the single father who is believed to be a penn grad student. I feel very sorry for them. I dont know what happened. Reporter special victims detectives tried to figure that out they say it is not an easy case to investigate. Words cannot explain, it is just a tragic incident. We have an eight yearold child, an 11 yearold sibling who hears her and sees it and a young father who clearly is caring for his two kids the best way he can and it meets this end. Reporter police say window structure appears to be safe so they dont believe anybody is culpable but they also say that they still have a lot of work to do. We are live from West Philadelphia Noel Mcclaren for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Terribly sad incident there noel, thanks very much. Were learning new details about the suspects wanted in the brutal attack on a same sex couple in Center City Philadelphia. Police are now closer to making an arrest a
The governor made the declaration in fran San Francisco. The governor is calling for cuts in the water use. The governor got to point immediately. Were facing perhaps the worse drought that california has ever seen since records began being kept. And declaring a drought emergency he called on everyone to voluntary cut water usage by 20 . With no rain in sight conservation could become mandatory. Lots of water. Not so much water. Were there. This comes after three years of below normal rainfall. Weve seen in half moon bay, this week, and now in los angeles county, were seeing fires burning like they would burn in july. Californias largest reservoirs are at record low, the emergency electric areaation declaration aims to help farmers. The governor is seeking funds and cooperation the reroute existing water supplies. Theres not a Government Program that can totally compensate for the lack of rain. Hopefully it will rain eventually but we have to the our part. Officials say a sustained dro
And pick them. David seven son stevenson. Mark is here with to look at how we got to this point. Weve been locked in the static weather pattern, storms in the pacific but the track is way north. Look at the storm falling apart and a good portion of the west coast dry and clear and warm. We know december was very dry. One day of significant rainfall, that was december 6, in january a weak system last weekend, produce a few showers, you can see what happened a dry weather forecast, the forecast is not optimistic. These numbers are very low, look at of averages percent of averages, you can see the total toward eureka, under 6 inches. San diego over 2 inches. That coupled with a low snow back, the numbers for the sierra, around eight to 22 , that was the camera looking toward royal gorge, the dry weather pattern not changing much. We have a few changes for the overnight. Areas of low 30s and the coolest weekend day. Were supposed to conserve. A new program to help people save water and tom
And good morning, everyone. Welcome to mornings on 2. Its saturday january 1st. Im mike. And im in for claudine wong. Reporter good morning to you. Were going to be dry through the mlk weekend and for today mostly clear, cold start a lot like yesterday as we step outside. Some of us have sunk into the 30s once again. For the afternoon temperatures will come down just a few degrees and today is the spare the air day. Have well well have a look at the air quality coming up. Theyre looking at a small fire. And it started 9 20 last night and it was along the fair faction ridge line. Theyre calling it suspicious, it has burned about one acre and is 50 contained. They expect full containment by the end of the day. No clue on what started the fire at this point. It started after dark and its in an unusual spot. It includes marin county fire and cal fire. They say because of the conditions this fire has the potential to grow to 75 or 100 acres. Firefighters in the bay area and across the state
Im james fletcher. And im anny hong were not saying anything on Storm Tracker 4. Rain that is falling is the to much. You will probably encounter righwhat roadways. Satellite and radar shows that we had pretty impressive amounts. Fairfield saw up to 12 in. Of rain. Here is a look at future cast 4. By 5 00 p. M. Just cloud cover and we may see a few scattered out sprinkles. Into the afternoon we are talking drier conditions and the leader not sunshine. As we highlight some of the rainfall totals over the past five days we received almost 9 in. Of rain. Over 6 in. For santa rosa. San francisco received 3 in. Some spots receive more rain. It is definitely a drop in the bucket in terms of the drops status. Here is a look picture 7 day around the bay it looks like the showers are going to move out of here. Partly cloudy conditions will carry us into the next couple of days as some of calls by thursday and ran to the north on friday. Saturday and sunday looks to be a little unsettled but not