Transcripts For KYW Eyewitness News At 11 20150305 : compare

Transcripts For KYW Eyewitness News At 11 20150305

Jessica. Just taking a look at them right now with our producer steve. We are changing things slightly with some heavy precipitation moving in overnight and continuing for tomorrow morning right through the noon hour tapering off in the afternoon. Now take look at storm scan3. You see the yellows and oranges that is heavy rain. A transition zone that is some sleet and then some snow. You can see transition beginning through allentown the Lehigh Valley, reading berks county and through lancaster the poconos beginning to see some snow mixing in but this encompasses about 20 states so its a huge part of the country being impacted by the storm. As the colder air builds in, we are going to be seeing that changeover overnight. Visibility an issue now with this warm moist air very cold snow pack. Visibility down to three tenths of a mile in wilmington. Eight tenths of a mile in atlantic city. And as we take zoom in its improved through our suburbs but earlier mt. Holly just down to half mile. That winter storm warning is officially in effect right now across the Delaware Valley and our suburbs and advisories force the Lehigh Valleyly and the poconos where we expect a lesser accumulation of snow. Poconos changing to snow as we speak. Through the Lehigh Valley through 1am youll see the transition. Between 1am and 3am the transition in philadelphia will start off as a wet heavy snow. Not accumulating at first but it will for tomorrow mornings rush and coastal new jersey and south delaware three to 5am for the transition. Those lighter accumulations the Lehigh Valley and reading berks county two to 4inches. For to six northern and western suburbs but i did expand the six to 8inch range because i do think this is going to be very close to philadelphia and wilmington right on that 6inch line as we will be seeing very heavy snow between about 7am threw at least the noon hour thats when most of this will fall. It will be a light snow, it will be a fluffy snow but it will be accumulating fast. This is very latest from the weather center. Theres a little more information coming if i have to make any final tweaks i will have them later in the broadcast broadcast. But this is an evolving storm and a lot will have to do with how fast that snow a come lates and how quickly we change over to snow overnight tonight. That is one of the wild cards chris. Okay, kathy well be seeing in you just a minute. Thanks so much Eyewitness News team fanned out across the region with road crews preparing to take on the storm. Our Team Coverage continues with Eyewitness News reporter david superintendent live in allentown one of the first areas that could see that change over. David . Reporter chris, thats right. Right now we are just seeing rain thats been the story the rain has been off and on all night pick up a few hours ago but crews here in the Lehigh Valley are getting ready to hit the roads and saul those roads within the hour. Its been a long night for penndot crews and the snow hasnt even started falling. Fatigue sets in. Long tedious process. Reporter joe pickard spent most his night filling truck to the brim at penndots salt truck in norristown. Well load them from here and remote stockpiles where we load them to keep all montgomery county. Reporter penndot crews will start salting as the first flakes come down. Music drivers ears. They put the brine down its all good. Hunker down. They actually keep on top of this year no major problems. Reporter this winter penndot officials have spent 31 million just for salt. But they only budgeted for 26 million. So what gives . Theres some things where we can shift money. We can reduce row overtime or we can cut back maybe some of our Vegetation Management program programs. Reporter if its needed penndot can get even more salt. But joe pickard hopes that wont be his fate. Getting ready for april springtime. Spend some time i was from here. Reporter penndot folks down in norristown say there will be 400 trucks public and private trucks out in the philadelphia area over night the reason those crews are waiting until that rain stops and the snow comes down so the rain doesnt melt or disturb that salt on the road to keep people safe. Were live in allentown tonight, david spunt cbs3 Eyewitness News. David, thanks for that. So far penndot says its used about 149,000 tons of salt this winter. That just about equals the combined weight of 331747s. Or you can think of this way. That amount of salt is close to the weight of about 74,500 average sized cars. Wow deldot says its in good shape when it comes to the saul supply. Mechanics in newark were hard at work repairing plows and equipment making sure its all ready. Theyve been going nonstop with all these storms. A state of emergency is in effect tonight in new jersey ahead of the snow and this was the scene earlier in linden woman. Camden county crews say theyre ready. Theyll be putting down plenty of salt on streets as that snow starts to fall. Our Team Coverage continues now from camden county. Our diana rocco is live in cherry hill and diana that township already making a big decision about school tomorrow. Reporter thats right jessica. Cherry hill Public Schools will be closed for tomorrow. It has been raining on and off here throughout the evening. Melting a lot of that snow and create something pretty wet roadways. But come morning, that is all likely to change. Its march and with another snowstorm on the way this went just keeps oncoming. Its been brutal. I dont think its worse than last winter but still a now answer is. Reporter across south jersey from cherry hill to washington township, many were out making last minute preparations. Were trying to find some salt. We went to wegmans and Christmas Tree shop, cvs and home depot theyre completely out. Everything. They sold 10 pallets in two hours of salt. Theres nothing left only traction sand. Reporter some selled for sand while others were leaving empty handed hoping to find salt elsewhere. The ice its not so much the snow accumulation but the ice it makes it treacherous. Reporter lows had snow blowers front and center you may not need them now thursday could be a much different story. Wednesdays rain melted snow and ice leaving water covering parking lots and flooding roadways. But with snow on the way and some of the highest totals expected in south jersey thats all about to change. I had enough of it work wise and just shoveling the sidewalks and im ready for summer. Reporter while the adults may be longing for summer, the kids never mind another snow day day. Come out and play with the kids because theyll be happy they got that day off of school. But nevertheless you are anticipating a snow day tomorrow for the kids . Yes, i am. As long as the weatherman is right this time. Reporter by this time tomorrow there may be several inches here in fact by morning they could be dealing with several inches on the ground for that commute. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has issued a state of emergency and is asking people if you dont have to go out to stay home and off the roads. Were live in cherry hill tonight diana rocco cbs3 Eyewitness News. Thanks diana. Snow always trouble for air travel and Philadelphia International airport about 100 flights were canceled tonight. And some airlines have already canceled nights for tomorrow morning. Well we look at storm scan3 tonight for a sense of how big this storm system is it has been snowing and sleeting all the way from our border with mexico all the way up to through new england. Lets take look at bart tells tellsville oklahoma where the snow was coming down hard earlier today. It didnt take much to close schools there and just make an absolute mess of the morning drive. Major flooding is a concern in kentucky it rained so hard and so fast there that the water nearly left some vehicles submergeed. Make sure Eyewitness News is your source for Winter Weather coverage. Were starting early at 4am to make sure you have the latest information as you need it as soon as you wake up. Our team of meteorologists will be tracking the storms path. And we just learned new jersey state offices will delay opening until 11 a. M. There will be more closings and delays coming overnight. Well have the latest list for you when you wake up and any time you need it at cbsphilly. Com sign up for text alerts. You can also track this latest winter storm with the cbs philly weather app. The got live radar that you can check any time. You can also use it to zen us your storm photos with the hash tag cbs3 snow. The app is available free its on i tunes and google play. Well in other news tonight federal judge denied bail today for suspended Chester County priest who was facing charges of child pornography. Mark haines will stay behind bars as he awaits trial. Since his arrest at saint simon and jude parish in objection three women have come forward to say that haines sexually assaulted them in the 1990s when they were teenagers. One told the investigators she was victimized in a confessing al. Father haines heard her confession. He told her that to be ab solved of her sins she would have to perform the same sex acts on him. Respectfully disagree with the judges decision but obviously well have to live with it. Prosecutors believe that there may be more vick testimony out there. They are encourageing them to come forward. Fighting crime op line is the mig of a special group of f fbi pages working under tight security at fbi headquarters in philadelphia. In a cbs3 exclusive tonight Investigative Reporter walt hunter gets access to this very secret unit and he is introduces us to those who battle the worlds fattest growing and potentially deadliest crime problems by using their key bore bores. Reporter face after face, crime after crime there are now so many cyber criminals going online to break laws, the fbi says its had to create a special top 10 cyber most wanted list just for them. Its a new frontier. Cyber is the new tool. Cyber in the new way those who will do harm for whatever purpose will execute their actions. Reporter for these cyber fugitives, the fbi says crimes from Identity Theft to terrorism espionage and open bank robbery as simple as just logging in anywhere in the world. You can commit essentially 7,000 Bank Robberies in 10 minutes online much its still a rob breach its still theft. Its just done in a new way. Reporter and granted rare access inside the fbis cyber crime squad we saw the new ways agents are dealing with the unprecedented threat. The quiet clicks of computer keyboards replace screaming sirens. The glow of screens instead of flashing red lights. Mark the front lines of this growing deadly serious battle. The picture of cyber criminal historically someone was sitting in a basement behind the keyboard. Thats not it any more. Reporter a sign of how fierce the battle has become against cyber crime the fbi in this region has its own computer for rep sick lab and right here in the office a think tank of computer scientists trying to develop new technology to stay ahead of criminals. For fbi scientists like russ hand dorf the race to keep their technology ahead of the criminals never ends. These two suspects recently arrested for an alleged 50 million Computer Fraud scheme in pakistan. Thanks in part to work by fbi supervisor gerald and his squad. Well continue to see it increase in complexity so its not going to go away any time soon and it will be a constant challenge. Reporter in rooms like this the quiet tapping of skilled hands on keyboard a reassuring sign the fbi says that one of the greatest challenges in Crime Fighting history is being met. At fbi headquarters walt hunter cbs3 Eyewitness News. New tonight who is tracking your email . When you open one and where you opened it can also all be monitored. Three on your side jim donovan explains how this happens and how you might be able to stop it. New at 11 00 oclock a brutal attack on u. S. Ambassador overseas. Well tell you what happened and how hes doing tonight coming up next. Also we have our eye on this big winter storm. Kathy is tracking the snow and shell have the latest information just in when Eyewitness News returns. The cbs3 mobile weather lap lab is out on the roads tonight and youre looking live now at lancaster avenue in wayne. Certainly wet out there but its not going to stay that way for long. Lets take look now at new video in from allentown. A similar scene there but that change over to rain to snow is coming soon. Kathys full forecast including the latest information on snow totals is coming up in just about five minutes. Well tomorrow philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter will deliver his final budget address and in it he will propose a hefty property tax increase. Our sister station kyw news radio has learn the mayor will propose a 9 property tax hike. The proposed revenues from that would be used to provide the School District with an extra 100 million. City council would have to approve that tax hike. Testimony in the Boston Marathon bombing trial begins with a startling add mig from the defense. In a likely effort to avoid the Death Penalty the attorney for Dzhokar Tsarnaev told jurors in his client admitted to playing roll in the bombings. But he said tsarnaev was influenced by his older brother tamerlan to commit the crimes. He died in the shoot out i didnt police during a citywide manhunt in boston. Dzhokar tsarnaev charged with the shooting death of an mit Police Officer several days aft the bombing. Disturbing images tonight following the attack of Us Ambassador overseas. The ambassador to south korea mark was slash on the face and wrist by a man wielding a weapon with a 10inch blade. This happened at a Performing Arts Center as the ambassador was preparing for his speech. That suspect reportedly screamed during the attack that north and south korea should be united. We know the ambassador has under gone surgery is expected to be okay. The controversy over Hillary Clintons use of personal email accounts secretary of state leads to legal action. House committee looking in the benghazi attack issued subpoenas for clintons emails related to their investigation. Recently it was disclosed clinton relied on a personal email account rather than a government account to conduct business. Four americans died in the 2012 benghazi attack including u. S. Ambassador christopher stevens. They know when youve opened it and where you were when you did. So who is tracking the email in your in box . To three on your side consumer reporter jim donovan has more on programs that do just that and he shows us how they work. Job johnson is looking for a job when he emails a resume he uses tracking software to see if the person he sent it to actually opened it. I know that my resume has gone where i sent it. I know how many times its been opened. If an email has been opened six times, i know there may be some interest and maybe ill get a call. Reporter Many Companies achoo offer email tracking for free for very low cost. Call of years ago only big businesses had access to this. But now anyone can use email tracking today. Email tracking is the next big thing. Reporter some program have users put a code neck to the recipients email address that they cant see. And other companies have users just click a box that says email tracking on. The tracking software puts a code or image in the email and when someone is tracking emails they can find out a lot of information about when you read the email. How long you were reading it. Where you were geo located report hot this tracking is legal in most cases and email centers dont need to disclose theyre doing this so who could be tracking your email . Besides markets anyone can track to see if youve opened an email. This could be a collect agency. An attorney. Your dentist. Your doctor. It could be anyone. Reporter can you avoid having your email track . Experts say read your email in text only mode. So it doesnt automatically download tracker images and attachments. Some email tracking companies charge people according to the amount of emails they want to track. And theyre also apps that allow to you track emails you stepped and get reports sent to your phone. I posted link at cbsphilly. Com and on my facebook and twitter feed. Reporting for three on your side im jim donovan. We have our eye on the storm tonight. Some visibility reduced across the Delaware Valley as we look across the river from camden into center city philadelphia. You can see were not seeing as much as we usual dollar. Usually we can see center city philadelphia. On storm scan3 were seeing a lot of green a lot of rain but you can see through allentown a wintry mix is beginning. Reading a little bit further to the normal and west the poconos seeing some snow already moving into the region. The progression will be moving toward the south and east over the course of the overnight but this storm encompassing some 20 states from maine all the way down through dallas. So were talking about a couple thousand miles here worth of real estate and being impacted by the storm. Right now the main threat is rain in areas of fog as that warm moist air goes over our snow pack once the cold air moves in the fog will go away but poor visible for the morning rush with heavy snow. Eyewitness weather watchers reporting in temperatures above freezing everywhere but ive been impressed with the amount of rain weve seen over the course of the day. Some heavy rain right now in levittown over an inch. Barbara reporting over an inch of rain in willow grove. Steve in robbinsville nearly an inch of rain. Half an

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