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Transcripts For KYW Eyewitness News At 5 20160220

Meteorologist Justin Drabick. A are popular man this this weekend. I think people will be all smiles this weekend with this forecast. The you would think saturday last week we had temperatures in the mid 20s. Today we will be 35 degrees warmer. The that is huge for february. Were talking about aprillike stuff coming at us today. Tomorrow looks good. Little cooler. We will talk about a little bit of rain as well but things are on the the mild side compared to the past several mornings. Fortythree at the airport. The 39 in allentown. Mount pocono getting a degree below freezing, this hour. So really cant make snow up in the poconos, this weekend. Thirtyseven in quakertown. The that is cold spot. Fortytwo in mount holly, new jersey. The there is storm scan 3a weak disturbance warm front coming through the overnight hours bringing some cloud. There may have been freezing drizzle in the the far northern mountains of pennsylvania, through overnight hours but now we are dry. Those clouds will thin out. We will see sunshine returning today and wind, this is key in the the forecast, they will be out of the the southwest kicking up to ten to 15 miles an hour. That is helping to bring in milder air. Compared to 24 hours ago about 19 to 23 degrees, warmer. So that is a sign of the warming trend. So still some cloud around early this morning. Temperatures in the 40s through 9 00 oclock or so and then by noon time we are well in the 50s in the sunshine and a lot of locations good shot of reaching lower 60s. Sixtyone for philadelphia. Upper 50s at the shore. Poconos the not a bad day coming up at 49 degrees. Talk about some rain for the weekend . I will let you know when that arrives and how long this warmth last in the the full forecast in a few more minutes. Back to you. All things considered, looking good, justin thank you. A philadelphia jewelry stories out of the hundreds of thousands of dollars after a heist in center city. Barski diamond is third store to be targeted in just days. Eyewitness News Reporter anita oh is live, where the owner says the heist could have been prevented, good morning, anita. Reporter good morning, rahel. It is not for lack of security. You can see they have cameras, they have locks like this, and metal gates all designed to keep thieves out. This is part of the metal gates that store owners say they had to replace in november 2014 when thieves broke in the first time, abe that time they say the the steve stole about 200,000 and this time this cannot be cut. They say the thieves hot wired this gate and then pick the locks and walk right in. Check out this Surveillance Video you can see two men calmy walking down samson street around 3 30 in the morning last saturday. One didnt have a mask on an police are hoping they will recognize suspects. The once inside the stores hit about four cases and swiped almost half a milliondollar worth of jewelry. It seems like they knew exactly what they were looking for and police say they have not ruled out possibility it was a inside job. That is always a possibility when you have Something Like this that takes place at a business. We look at inside as well as out. You dont rule anything out, the initial as part the of the investigation. So again, it is something to look into. Reporter bars skis says a problem is lack of Police Patrol here. They say officers used to be here 24 7 and they had a detective assigned specifically to this area but at this hour we have not seen any officers here. This is after hours. It is like that patrols. It is like open season. They say that as crime is going up, so do inside jobs like this one. We have seen several of these for rent signs on this block alone. Store owners say that wouldnt have been the case a few years ago. They say lack of Police Protection is the problem but they also say coming up at 6 00 ill tell you why they say that the solution has to start at city hall. For now live from center city, anita oh for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Anita, thank you. In the meantime take a look at this brush fire in deptford, gloucester county. You can see flames there from chopper three. Fire broke out at 9 00 last night reaching one alarm, before Fire Fighters got a handle on it. About 25 acres of brush, burn near the sunoco eagle point facility on crown point road. No one was injured in the fire and it is unclear what started it. And florence, new jersey five people are rush to the the hospital, after a two alarm fire broke out in a condo complex. It happened, last night at the toll gate condos on Florence Road in burlington county. This morning we are still working to learn more about the condition of those hurt. The Philadelphia District attorney is responding to criticism from the police union. The fop president is upset over the time it is taking to file charges in a nightclub brawl, involving former eagles player lesean mccoy. Seth williams decline to confirm if, or when, any criminal charges are expect, investigators say mccoy and three others were involve in the fight that you can see there that left two offduty officers seriously hurt. Incident happened in olde city nearly two weeks ago. Our job toys get it right. Im sorry some people think it is taking us too long but my job is just to do the right thing. Take a look at the video and charge these folks and move on. If this was a cop beating son like that they would have been arrested the next day good mccoy who was with the the buffalo bills, has been spotted around the city a few times since cell phone video of the fight, surfaced, his Attorney Says that he is innocent. On to campaign 2016 now, president ial candidates are making their final pitch to voters, at todays primary and caucus. The six republicans left in the race are scrambling for last minute support in South Carolina a new poll shows Donald Trumps lead is narrowing in the primary, on the democratic side, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are squaring off in nevada, polls show clinton out front but sanders does have momentum. Supreme court has become a major issue on the campaign trail, Todays Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will be laid to rest. The as cbs the as weijia jiang reports, thousands traveled to the Supreme Court on friday to pay their respects. Reporter president obama and first lady arrived at the Supreme Court friday a afternoon, to pay their respects to the late justice, Antonin Scalia. Scalias body arrived hours before, in a flag draped casket, his former law clerks lining the steps as he entered the building one last time. Inside scalias side, father paul scalia led a short service. Our father who art in heaven hallow be thigh name. Reporter denise and Kevin Odonnell traveled from philadelphia for the public viewing. Despite all of the rangor going on with the politics going on it was nice to be able to just see something done with a lot of respect and a lot of honor. He was a man of faith and he lived it and practiced it. Reporter line to get the in the Supreme Court wrapped around the block, twice. The visitors are here from across the country, many say they didnt agree with scalias views but still admired hid work. A lawyer, so i really respect the justices and the offices that he held. I thought he did a lot for bringing the people into the court. Reporter his fellow justices will remember scalia as more than just a conservative. Liberal Justice Ginsburg called him her best buddy. Weijia jiang for cbs3 Eyewitness News. President obama will not attend the Funeral Services on saturday morning. The the white house is sending vicepresident biden to represent the administration, because he had the personal relationship with the scalia family. Coming up next, a look back at the life of the one of americas most famous adored authors, harper lees life and career. Plus, back in the race, Virgin Galactic unrails a spacecraft it says will blast them into commercial travel. Hollywood heavyweight on hand for the big one of americas most famous authors has died, harper lee was 89 years old and writer of the classic novel to kill a mockingbird. Her publisher says lee passed away peacefully and described shore as a extraordinary woman of great joyfulness. Kenneth craig looks back. Reporter when to kill a mockingbird hit book shelves harper lees first envelope was an instant success that went on to become a american classic. For decade story of racial in equality and social in justice has been standard readings in schools across america. The it was based on lees life growing up in the deep south. She was born in 1926 and raised in monday ohioville, alabama where he she became close friend with true man capot e. She moved to new york in 1949 where she published to kill a mockingbird, it won Pulitzer Prize and became an oscar winning move which gregory peck starring as atticus finch. There are some things you are not old enough to understand just yet. Reporter in 2007 president bush presented a very frail lee the medal of freedom. That same year, lee suffered a stroke and return permanently to monroeville where she lived a reclusive life. Last year she was thrust back into the spotlight with the publication of her second novel which was actually written before mockingbird. Lees attorney claimed to have discover the manuscript of go set a watchman in the safe deposit box. It was published with enormous fanfare despite questions about whether lee had ever intended to release it and concerns over her health and mental competence. Some readers were shocked at the novels racist over tones but the book set a within day sales record for adult fiction. Lee died at the age of 89. Leaving behind a treasured literary legacy that began with one of the most influential novels in american history. Kenneth craig for cbs3, Eyewitness News. We first showed you the chilling video of the tour helicopter crashing near pearl harbor memorial in hawaii yesterday. A salvage team pulled the helicopter out of the water so ntsb can investigate. We want to show you the moment it fell out of the sky, hard to watch, and then flipped over and sank. Five people were on board for a sight seeing tour. Bystanders jumped in the what the tore pull victims to shore, at least four people were hurt, one critically. Virgin galactic is back in the race to be the first major private company to blast into commercial space travel. Founder Sir Richard Branson unveil the new spacecraft american a year after the fatal crash destroyed the original model and killed one of the test pilots. The terry okita has more from the facility in the mohave desert. Reporter Sir Richard Branson rolled out Virgin Galactic new spaceship two. When i saw it first time last night the was a lum in my throat and tears in my eyes. Reporter this latest model, which is with the help of bransons one year old granddaughter and her milk bottle could be first to fly tourist into space. What we aim to do is something that has never been done before we are opening space to people from all walks of life. Reporter the unity looks nearly identical to Virgin Galactics original spacecraft the that crashed in october 2014 during a test flight in the desert killing one of the pilots. Branson questioned if they can carry on but the team stood firm in its resolve. They picked themselves up at the end of 2014. They redoubled their efforts. Reporter and the spacecraft has new Safety Measures in place including a device to prevent pilots from braking too early one of the causes of the 2014 crash. It seats six passengers and can fly 62 miles above earth. Virgin galactic says 700 people are already on a wait list for a trip in space at the a cost of 250,000 each. Bransons friend Harrison Ford was there to support the project. It is a wonderful thing about old invention, the incredible achievement all of our lives forward in ways we could never anticipated. Reporter there is no timetable set for the first commercial space flight nmohave, california, terry okita for cbs3 Eyewitness News. And justin is joining us now, already 43 degrees which is warmer then it was, total last sat the day. Exactly. 20 degrees warmer. Yes. Aprillike numbers this afternoon, some sunshine, not bad, the entire weekend is good. Rain tomorrow. We will get into that. We will let you know who has the best shot. But outside right now we are not bad out for that morning jog in the next few minutes. Temperatures in the the 30s and 40s not bad for middle to the end of february, still some clouds over us right the now, these clouds are trying to break out. You can see that moon light out there but center city nice and quiet. This is what were talking about as far as weather headlines go, spring like warmth today and tomorrow as well, little bit of rain for sunday and then were talking about that larger storm system coming in sometime in the middle of next week. We will talk about that in a little bit but temperatures right now 43 in the the capitol city of delaware, newark. Fortytwo. Fortytwo also in cherry hill. Everybody is warm. South jersey, delaware even around philadelphia. Because we have cloud cover that rolled in last night. It is holding in the warmth and that is clouds acting as a blanket. Thirtyeight chalfont. Thirtyseven malvern. Poconos 31 degrees that is it in mount pocono at this hour. Thirtyseven in quakertown. The heres the reason for the warmth. We had a warm front pushing through and snow in northern new york. We have seen a few snow flakes or light freezing drizzle in the poconos throughout the overnight the hours but now drying out, cloud start to thin out, we will see a few cloud from time to time but a mixture of sun and clouds today and tomorrow. Milder pattern this week and this is a reese on why, the jet stream. The it is leveling out. Call this zonal flow from west to east so it is flat. Cant get any big storms developing. It brings in pacific air. When you are south of the jet this set up this time of the year high temperatures ten, 15, maybe even 20 degrees above average. Today we have a good shot of reaching 60 degrees from the the city southward and we will see enough sunshine to get to us that mark. Tomorrow a few more cloud roll in. There will be a weak storm system out of the southwest, most of the day is dry, it is Late Afternoon and evening we will have a chance to see some rain and then that system is quickly out of here monday morning. Monday morning drive will be good. Temperatures back, closer to average but still warm for this time of the year in the upper 40s. So for today a mixture of sun and clouds, keeping it dry tonight, in problems this evening, temperatures in the as cold they should hold in the 40s, sunday morning in the afternoon, justin creasing clouds, and it is Late Afternoon and evening we will start to see showers moving from the south and west. This is chester county, New Castle County delaware. You will see the rain first and coming in the city. The lesser chance to see the rain further north and west you are. Poconos can see a few snow flakes in the overnight monday and then by three or 4 00 a. M. Monday morning that system is out of here. Today mild sun and clouds, 61 for the high temperature. Not as cold for tonight 45 under partly cloudy skies. Heres that extended forecast aprillike numbers here, 60s and even 50s tomorrow. If the cloud can hold off sunday we have a shot of reaching 60 across the delaware valley. Fortyeight for a high on monday with some sunshine and then tuesday we will watch that storm, now, nothing concrete but now it looks like the storm may take its time to get here so most of tuesday could be dry, rain arrives late tuesday night into wednesday, and possibly linger into thursday, as of now the storm is mainly looking like a rain event. Cant rule out snow in all locations but still details, they are not clear just yet, rahel, it will take another couple days before the storm system forms to get a better idea. Back to you. We know you are track ill, thanks, justin. Biggest event of the the year in the the fight a against Breast Cancer is just around the corner. Komen philadelphia hosted a kick off party for the race for the cure. It was a pack house, on north broad street. The woman of Eyewitness News hosted the event. The 26th annual komen philadelphia race for the cure is mothers day may eighth, cbs3 is a proud sponsor. On the cbs3 healthwatch there are complaints all over the internet about some popular crackers. They apparently taste, and smell, really bad. People venting on twitter have been hashtagging stinky crackers. Health reporter is the he have knee stall tells us if they are dangerous. Reporter graham crackers are a stape until most kitchens across the country but there are concerns of a nasty odor. It smells like paint. Reporter Vanessa Brown was worried when her daughter took a bite and felt sick. When she put it the in her mouth she said taste was horrible, smelled like chemicals. Im thinking my god are they poisonous. Reporter nabisco says the problem with the crackers were they were opened ten months past their best used by date, adding manufacturers put those dates on products to indicate to consumers, the time period in which they can ensure an optimal product experience. Pretty bat. Reporter but stanford welling says he bought his box several months before the best used by date. Definitely think there is a problem with the product. Reporter there are complaints from all over the country on line, nabisco customers have descriptions like hideous smell, tasted

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