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KYW Eyewitness News At 11 February 24, 2018

Attendant killed by a hitandrun driver. My connection became stronger with him when he passed because of what he did for others. Tonight the search for the suspect, the clues police are working with, in hopes of solving this case. But first, it is cents a dreary cool friday night, and if youre looking for sunshine this week tends will be hard to find. More rain is headed our way. So what about the chances cents after weekends wash out . Good evening everyone, im ukee washington. Im jessica dean. Not all bad news, warmer temperatures also on tap for the weekend. Meteorologist, jane bilo tracking when the next round every rain arrives. Thanks, guys, unfortunately not the best news for the weekends, temperatures on their way up, but we have a lot of rain still headed our way for the system down in the mississippi vale all lifting to the north and east, heavy rain with it, this will get here specially late in the day tomorrow, and into sunday. You can see the steadiest rain , showers, we saw earlier tonight, have pretty much pushed out of here. Whats hard to pick up on saturday light and radar imagery, mist, drizzle, fog, thats what were dealing with outside tonight. Cant pick up on the tiny particles every mist and drizzle outside but it is cool and it is cents drizzly. Temperatures are slowly rising , actually, been about 43 for the past several hours, just risen to 44 in philadelphia, 44 in wilmington , 46 in dover, warmer air starting to lift in as our next system approaches. Visibility, in some spots, are dropping. Seeing half mile visibility in allentown, trenton and the a. C. Airport, visible has improved a bit since the lasts hour in philadelphia, but we will see patchy dense fog overnight. So out and about tonight, mist and drizzle continues, patchy fog again, temps gradually rising, on our way to milder weekend weeks do stay in the fours overnight. Coming up ill he will you about whether we hit the 60s again, time out the rain for the weekends and tell you when the sun finally returns. For now, ukee, back to you. Thank you. Tonight the search is on for hitandrun driver in mercer county. Police say the person behind the wheel struck and killed, a good samaritan. The story unfolding in lawrenceville. Natasha brown has the latest on the investigation. Candles still burn brightly in memory after quick check employee who lost his life at work. On february 19th, about 1 40 p. M. , 35 year old charles nova, gas attendant here at the quick check in the 300 block of brunswick circumstance nel lawrenceville , new jersey was struck by a Gray Nissan Altima in the stores parking lot. Police say he was attempt to go stop the driver after the nissan hit another car in the lot and then kept going. Charles later died from his injuries, and the suspect seen here in store Surveillance Video remains on the loose. Charles was trying to be a hero that day. Unfortunately, he had to pay with it with his life. Since the tragedy, kimberly has made it her mission to be an ad vaux cat for the victims family, and to get justice in this case. A total stranger who used facebook to coordinate this vigil at quick check on wednesday night. He was just someone i pulled up to the tank and met when i was cents here to get gas, thats it, but my connection became stronger with him when he passed because of what he did for others. The father after young daughter was cents affectionately known as chucky and loved fishing and spending time with family members. His hitandrun death remains unsolved, but folks like kimberly are determined to keep the victims memory alive my mission really was just to get the words out there, that the family needs support, the person still at large, that did this to him, and that he didnt deserve to die like this. We did receive a statement from the ceo of quick check it , reads in part, quote, our deepest sympathy thoughts and prayers go out to charles family and loved ones, he was a valued team member of our quick check family who was without a Second Thought put the needs of someone else above his own. Meantime police are still in search of the suspect who was caught on Surveillance Video inside the store and the Nissan Altima he was driving. If you have any information about this case, please Contact Police right away. In lawrenceville, new jersey, natasha brown, cbs3, eyewitness news. A search is also on tonight for a suspect who groped young girl in a target store. Take a good look at the surveillance photo. This man groped 13 Year Old Girl at target store on rock hill drive in bensalem. It happened wednesday night around 9 00 if you have any information on the mans identity, contact bensalem police. Fire tears through a garage full of school buses in lehigh county. Causing more than 2 million in damage. The fast moving flames broke out around 3 00 a. M. In the park land School District garage in ore field. Sixteen newly purchased buses in the garage were destroyed, about dozen other buses park outside the garage were damaged. The district is working to get borrowed busses for monday. Many of our surrounding School District and neighboring School District offered us surplus buses that is they may have, we feel pretty good that we will have school monday, im pretty optimistic. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Learning more about the demolition process at the site after four alarm fire in old city that started sunday. The department of licenses cents and inspections has determined the remains of the building at 239 Chestnut Street are imminently dangerous. Demolition is expected to begin next week, and will likely take a week to complete there will be road closures during demolition, you can find out more about them on cbsphilly. Com. A security scare leads to lockdown at the white house. Authorities say 35 year old woman intent tently drove van into security barrier outside the white house today, secret service says she is from tennessee, someone theyve had previous encounters with. Now facing numerous charges, the incident happened as President Trump was in the white house, after holding a press conference with australias Prime Minister. The white house on lockdown for about an hour, no one was hurt. Tonight, learning a new details about missed opportunity about the gunman who carried out the park land school shooting. Woman controls to the suspect warned the fbi he had rifles and said quote i know hes going text provide. This is all according to a transcript after tip received january 5th. The fbi admitted they failed to investigate the tip. Rock scott announced new plan to improve safety in the wake of the school shooting. Im calling foreman did a tori Law Enforcement officers in every public school. I want to make it virtually impossible for anyone who has mental issues to use a gun. The plan includes creating a violent threat restraining Order Program that allows the courts to prevent violent or mentally ill people from purchasing guns. It also includes raising the states minimum wage to buy a gun to 21. President trump is blasting the School Resource officer who chose not to confront the gunman. The president leveled the sharp criticism during a speech to conservatives at conference in maryland. He used his speech to discuss his planning to prevent Mass Shootings at the nations polls. One idea he has includes putting guns in the hands every trained teachers and faculty members. I would rather have somebody that loves their student and wants to protect their student than somebody standing outside that doesnt know anybody and doesnt know the student and, frankly, for whatever reason, decided not to go in even though he heard lots of shots. Fired inside. The president held joins press conference with australian Prime Minister this afternoon. The leaders discussed a wide range of topics including gun control, immigration reform, and north korea. Former Trump Campaign official rick gates pleaded guilty to charges part of special Council Robert mueller s investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 election. The charges include conspiracy , and making a false statement. And he will cooperate with the investigation. Also, today, mueller unsealed new indictment against codefendant paul manafort. This includes allegations the former Trump Campaign chairman secretly paid former european politicians toss lobby on behalf of ukraine. In Burlington County thomas , they honored emergency of law enforce. That will got above and beyond the call every duty with act of heroism and bravery. Alexandria hoff was in cinnaminson, awards handed out to some very deserving individuals. When you speak with the first responds err about act of bravery, theyll often say they were just doing their job , but an event like this showcases that is there is such thing as going above and beyond. Hero irk house fire rescues and tragic roadway recoveries. These are stories that we have covered. But that other played a far greater role in. This is the 28th annual valor and Scholarship Award banquet hosted by the 200 club every Burlington County. Awards presented to First Responders for acts that went above and beyond the call of duty. The cap stone of the evening, the honor valor award. To me just thinking of the people that were in the vehicle, just trying to get in there, get them out of the vehicle. Patrolman scott ewan of the Edgewater Park department was one of the honorees. On january 14 of this year he and fellow officers responds today accident that resulted in a vehicle submerged in the icy waters of the Olympia Lakes in willingboro. It wasnt a choice. It was, you know, you hear the call and you go and save somebody. So it wasnt even not an option at that point. Officers on scene took immediate action and plunged into the icy water in attempt to pull the two occupant from the vehicle. Knowing that you have exhausted all options, nothing you can do to save somebody, you know. Robert and Janet Stevens of Burlington Township did not survive the crash. But the memory of that day has not left the minds of the officers who risk their own lives in attempt to save the cup. I we just responded there, so did what anybody would do. Along with the awards the 200 club also donate 10,000 to local First Responders to help offset the cost of college. Reporting from the merion in cinnaminson, alexandria hoff, cbs3, eyewitness news. And as we continue tonight, it was a feel trip that was truly inspirational for one group of student. And it was all made possible because of one persons vision, tonight, we are giving them three cheers. Find out who it is thats coming up. Also ahead tonight, pushing for change. A local teenage athlete who was benched for wearing her religious head scarf is now allowed back on the basketball court. What she is doing now to reverse a long standing policy plus, new numbers are released in this years terrible flu season. And theyre showing a decrease in activity. But Health Officials are still urging caution, when theyre now worried about. Live look at center city on this friday night. Dreary end to the week and it doesnt look much better for the weekend. Kate will have much more we can get and when we will finally dry snows the number of people visit fog r flulike illness is decreasing. How much, Health Officials caution, the season is far from over. Medical facilities around our area say theyre still very busy with flu patients. The dominant virus this season has been h3n2. But expert say theyre seeing more flu d virus. The h32 affect more older folks, very high hospitalization and death rate , does tend to affect those younger. Certainly, there is still a fair amount to go this season, probably until midapril. Health experts continue to urge everyone who has not gotten the flu shot to get one a brawl at a Delaware High School basketball game lands a teenager behind bars. Wield scene at Milford High School last night, when a game was interrupted by the fight. Eighteen year old randy rick earth, who place for Cape Henlopen turned himself into police today, office remembers still looking for two other people involved in the fight. The rest of the game had to be canceled. A West Philadelphia High School Basketball player who says she was benched for wearing her religious head scarf is answering back. For years she played for mass master i charter with a jihad on her head, but last week she was forced to sit out because the double a policy requires athletes to get prior approval to wear it. The School District has formally requested a rule change. It was outrageous at any extent. I was upset. The waiver must go. And we will leave no stones un turned to make sure that that happens. She will be allowed to wear it during master i championship game sunday. The they say theyll consider changes to the rules. This week he can we continue to see black panther dominate the box office and conversation. The film led by a predominantly black cast is a game changer. Breaking barriers and records. One local principal new her student needed to see it and she made it her mission, to make sure that happened. And tonight, we give three cheers. The Elementary School principal didnt want anything standing in the way of her student see black panther on the big screen. A lot of our student have financial difficulties. She set up go fund me page raising more than enough to make the trip to the movie a reality for all of her fourth through eighth graders. Black panther is the first superhero movie of it kinds, featuring predominantly black cast. And todays world, children are inundated with images and information. How they see themselves portrayed and forms their own opinion of themselves. And, like any great principal, she wanted them to see the power in their potential. All of these beautiful things that represent africanamerican children, thats what we want to put in front of our children, that idea that they can see themselves in something. Their principal sees them, too, and work over time to make sure they had this experience. Because she new it would matter. And she wanted to give them an extra opportunity to be inspired. For that, we give jamina3 cheers. Bravo. Yes. You know, these teachers and educators, principals they work so hard, then they go on top of that just because you know your kids would get something from t it is amazing memories for a lifetime. Hopefully they were inspired. Oh, im sure they were. Three cheers indeed. Forecast as we head into the weekend. It will be a wet weekend, unfortunately talking about rain for the past few days, hard to believe just couple of days ago it was in the 70s and sunny, almost feels like a memory, distant memory of days gone by. But we have some rain on the way, temperatures on their way up though. Maybe nice little touch of spring as well as we head into next week. Lets take a look whats going on in bethlehem. You can see a lot of fog out there. Everything looking a little bit shroud in the fog and mist and drizzle outside tonight. Certainly seeing the same thing as we look at our live camera here on our Neighborhood Network toward the city, from the palmyra cove nature park. We take you out to that one. You can see the fog shrouding the city skyline. Cant see it as we look across the delaware river, visibility low, will come up on you quickly tonight, take your time when out driving tonight into tomorrow morning. Not a lot of steady rain but a lot of mist, a lot of drizzle, a lot of fog. Here comes the weekend system, lifting in from the south and west, and again you can see one round of rainout ahead of the main push. The actual cold front back leer through portions of oak home, a and texas, does not come through for us until sunday morning. So meantime, as we await the arrival of the front, have few waves of rain to contend with, through the weekend. Fortyfour in philadelphia right now. Temps slowly rising and you can see the warm air, associated with the systemment all of this warmer air starts to flood in over the weekend. So at the very least not cold. It will be another wet day. Look at all of the green here. Only have what seven days so far this month that havent had rain. This day will be turning green as will the 25th, so been very wet month. 5. 29 inches of rain, which is well above the average of 3. 12 month to date. But here is the flip side of that. Only had 1. 4 inches of snow so far this month. The average month to date is 7. 7 inches. So, while weve had a lot of precipitation in the form of rain, and not in the form of snow. I dont know where people fall on. That will i know a lot of people like snow, but rain you dont have to shovel it, you dont have to drive in it as dangerously as do you in the snow. For saturday again we start the day with a couple of showers, steadier showers start to work their way in as the day goes on, 3 00 p. M. , pretty steady downpours moving through, and as we head into saturday night, again, just waves of moisture, plan for it at any time this weekend. Front comes through sunday morning, heres 10 00 a. M. That will clear, through the day sunday, does stay cloudy, does stay a bit damp with scattered showers possible right through the evening. But the good news like we said , temps on their way up. You can see 59 tomorrow. 63 degrees on sunday. Monday, 62. Were still above average through next week. In fact, the entire seven day forecast features temperatures 10 degrees or more above average. We should be in the mid 50s, and weve got few days in the 60s, as we get into next week. But the good news, cle

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