katie and meisha are keeping an eye on things. >> good morning, jan so great to be here. >> gateway to the weekend. we're so close. we have a couple things on the roadways but overall right now things are looking okay. >> there are a couple showers that will trip folks up. nothing major. flick the windshield wipers here and there. if you don't want to take an umbrella, don't worry, you will be fine. you can obviously see looking here more regional picture on storm scan three that there are a couple showers around off to the north of the city. this batch right here just northwest of the maryland that looks like it may start to fizzle but there is a possibility that we will end up with maybe a brief, locally heavy downpour before that little pocket gets out of here rest of the day features generally some cloud, at lee some sunshine looking at current temperatures regional wide we're talking mid 50's, milder by comparison in atlantic city and wildwood. this is still quite mild for standard and we will keep that theme going for end of the workweek here. forty-eight in mount pocono. that is a good solid 10 degrees milder then what we saw yesterday. looking at hour by hour come 8:00 a.m. still in the 50's but we will begin that warming trend here already hitting what is typical by noon time. sixty-five. we have a few hours to warm things up. there will be limited sunshine , temperatures in the 70's, that ace above average and in terms of what we can expect beyond this point it is an unsettled pattern. we will walk through is there any dry weather opportunities to get here after the plan but cool down does come our way by week even, meisha. >> thanks very much. very good morning to you, looking outside at beautiful ben franklin bridge as we push in the westbound direction, do you see, great levels right now is what we can expect around the entire 5:00 o'clock hour. i want to keep you at, schuylkill eastbound into center city looking really nice this morning. still dark, still early but i have a feeling it is a good driving day. we are looking at route one southbound at oxford valley because all those lanes were block moving in the southbound direction. that construction good news has been since clear. we have an accident in blue bell, butler pike at stenton avenue just a head up. not causing too many slow downs but that area could a little later for those in and around that particular area. and then we have a truck fire burlington new jersey, you can expect these closures for next four to five hours, that is going to run us through the bulk of our morning, rush, main rush hour, closed, richard run between dult y lane and john galt way, route 130 is your best bet. new this morning police are on the scene of the stabbing on broad street. investigators are working to piece together exactly what happened but one person was stabbed and second person was assaulted this happened around 2:30 between allegheny avenue and clear field street in glenwood. both are in stable condition, police have made one arrest. opening statements will be heard today in the tragic case of the three-year old brandon creato his father dj is accused of murdering a young boy in 2015. >> "eyewitness news" reporter trang do joins us live from the courthouse in camden, good morning, trang do. >> reporter: good morning, jan and jim. lawyers for both side have been in court since tuesday for jury selection. now that wrapped up this trial can begin. it is expected to take 15 days , over the next five weeks after nearly a year and a half , since his arrest 23 year-old dj creato's trial date has finally arrived. creato is facing murder and child endangerment charges in the death of his three-year old son brandon. haddon township man reported his son missing in october of 2015. here's audio from that 911 call. >> 911, is what your emergency >> i just woke up my three-year oldies missing. >> reporter: after a brief search little boys body was found a half mile from his father's apartment in the wooded area by cooper river. months later in january of 2016, police arrested creato and charged him with first degree murder. >> pivotal issue in the case. >> reporter: prosecution is arguing that creato killed his son to try to stop his teenage girlfriend from leaving him but prosecutors have quite challenge in front of them. case is based on circumstantial evidence, no witnesses or dna evidence, in an autopsy on brandon was inconclusive about the cause of his death. just last week, creato's attorney told "eyewitness news" he is confident his client's name will be cleared. >> we're ready, we're optimistic, we have a very strong sense of what the evidence will show and i believe at the end of the day mr. creato will preveil. >> reporter: trial is set for 9:00 a.m. in judge john kelly 's courtroom and expected to go on through the end of may. we are outside camden county courthouse i'm trang do for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". jan and jim, back to you. well, convicted killer eric frein will be fighting for his life today when penalty phase of the trial begins at pike county courthouse. prosecutors say that they will seek the death penalty, jurors brought in from chester county quick the self proclaimed survival list in the 2014 ambush murder of the state police corporal. three three-year old frein was apprehended after a 43 day man mount in the poconos. victim of the lawncrest shooting is not cooperating with their investigation. twenty-nine year-old was shot in the leg along 5500 block of hill creek court just after midnight. medics rushed him to the hospital, so far police have no description of the shooter and no motive for the violence well, authorities say an organized crime ring helped people avoid paying tolls and parking tickets providing state pennsylvania license plate. according to the state attorney general's office, the ring rented the fraudulent plates to people for $400 a month. ring is also accused of providing fake insurance policies and drivers licenses, costing taxpayers millions of dollars. >> we believe it is possible that these schemes are happening at current time in other states. >> authorities say that the alleged ring leader was a new yorker rafael levy, he and his associates with more than a dozen businesses now face charges. police are looking for suspects after a man is fatal ly shot in the fair hill section of the north philadelphia. this happened, on the 400 block of west clear field street just before 6:00 last night, officers found a 36 year-old man with multiple gunshot wound to his arms and chest he was sitting in the driver's seat of his parked suv, police believe he was shot at close range. >> based on ballistics evidence we know that multiple shots were fired from the semiautomatic weapon from very close proximity because we have found numerous shell casings just inches and some feet away from the driver door , of the vehicle. >> now victim died shortly after being brought to the hospital last night and this point police have no motive or suspects for that shooting. officials are trying to piece together events that led to the deadly police involved shooting in wilmington delaware. this is where it ended around 2:00 when police fatally shot a suspect on the ground of the saint helena roman catholic church. suspect led them on a chase on north market street that pursuit ended with a crash. suspect then got out, took off running down philadelphia pike and washington street extension. >> suspects fled on foot and officers gave chase and attempt to apprehend him. a confrontation ensued resulting in the suspect being shot and killed by police. >> we're told the officers involved in the shooting were taken to the hospital to get check out. a vicious attack is caught on video and this morning police need your help finding men responsible. this video was taken around 12:30 saturday afternoon at b and tioga in kensington. suspects attacked a man who just left a restaurant. victim was savagely kick, punched until unconscious. suspects made off with the vick tells cell phone and wallet. >> former member of the eagles facing gun charges in new jersey could avoid jail time in the case, josh huff was released two days after his a reason gun and gun charges last november now police found a handgun and marijuana during a traffic stop on the walt whitman bridge. huff was licensed to car that i gun in texas but not in new jersey, authorities say that huff will stay out of jail if he successfully completes a six month pretrial program. vice-president mike pence continues his asian trip today with the stop in indonesia. pence is meeting with the country's president with trade issues on the agenda their talks will focus on disputes raised by u.s. companies, indonesia is south east asia's largest economy and also a muslim majority nation and vice-president visit will include a stop at largest months income south east asia. well, philadelphia fire fighters make an unusual discovery battling a blaze in tacony this called animal control and they found an alligator. foot long reptile was found in the house on toll up street and unruh avenue. it is illegal to own an alligator in the sit. at first owner was reluctant to give up the pet but eventually surrendered the animal to authorities. new security went in place in the nation's capitol that will impact you if you plan on visiting. >> well have details, coming up, plus this. caution you are about to enter the in spin zone. >> "fox news" moves on without popular hoe bill o'reilly, see how the network addressed his dismissal on last night's show dramatic end to a police chase in california, see frantic efforts to help an necessary event father and son caught in that crash. ♪ >> thousands of people are expected to gather on san francisco's hill today to celebrate guess what? >> marijuana. >> yes, could it be. >> we will tell you how city is planning to keep them safe. so now i'm not being perky, telling you that drivers that switch to progressive save an average of $548! whoo! i mean, whoo. that was a high speed chase in california. l.a. police stormed the man driving the white acura who was a suspect car thief. now father was in the other car with his young son, you can see them running to safety police took the suspect into custody. >> it is april 20th, also men as 420, national we day. >> that is right. >> some communities are doing what they can to put a damper on pot smoking, one such community is san francisco where 420 parties over years have attracted thousands to the cities golden gate park, this year city has arranged only two entrances to that park and alcohol, unauthorized music and concessions are prohibited. >> our objective are simple and anybody who is coming to this event, with any sense of responsibility would agree with our event objective. >> of course, it is all about safety, making sure that the impact of the park is less and we want to keep beautiful park , beautiful, right. >> the city of san francisco is stopping short of the golden golden state gathering a sanctioned event. by wait is there debate about the origin of the term 420 as a way to refer to marijuana. >> i thought it was a law. >> i thought it was the best time of the day, allegedly. >> ahh, that is how i heard it not that i know much about it. >> i thought it was a law. >> how is the weather today. >> why did i ebb gauge in that conversation. it put myself in these ridiculous positions, more than anything, all right. lets just completely, switch gears. overall it is somewhat of an unsettled pattern for our area we have a series of front moving through and we will see another storm system for upcoming weekend, i'm sure your ears will perk now. lets look at right now to get you out the door. we have a heavy pocket of rain moving through, earlier, in the last couple of hours, since fizzled a bit but back through western pennsylvania that rain was coming down heavily and we may have a brief heavier downpour before it is all said and done. generally showers out there are off to the north and still pretty scattered in nature. looking at much wider picture here another system getting its act together with heavy rain across lower michigan, even up, but this will be dragging a cold front here bringing witt at lee until its passage a nice warming trend and we will cool back down for upcoming weekend. warm front to the north and then cold front passage into tomorrow. very warm before the cold air catches up. we're talking upper 70's. come saturday temperatures start to drop off again and throughout the course of the weekend it is slightly below average here on sunday. better rain chance for next two days come on friday. outside we will go to our live neighborhood network at pleasant valley middle and high school it is generally cloudy but we have in this area seen a few showers rolling on through. we need to flick windshield wipers once or twice. but belter part features cloud , sunshine and also some warming up. we have to deal with wet weather. timing could be a lot worse then it is. 73 degrees the expected high. we will drop down to only 57 but watch out for scattered showers or rumble of thunderer long the way. tomorrow where we peak with the thermometer. we will hit 77 degrees, showers or storm comes through by saturday we will start with sun followed up by cloud as early as afternoon but at night we will see a few showers moving in and damp, dreary with additional rain showers on sunday, meisha. >> katie, thanks very much for that information and good morning to you. happy gateway to the start of our weekend, coming up soon, we don't want to push the ball too fast but i'm excited for friday. ninety-five south, past academy see what you are working with right now heading out the doorway. would i say fairly typical pushing in the 5:00 o'clock hour. hoping to keep you here in the 6:00 o'clock if we keep this until 6:00. that is a good sign. looking at the vine you can see some flashing lights, we're down here. what that was showing you was parkway at 20th that blockage for nfl draft closures. looking at interview heading in the westbound dreader toward schuylkill looking great. eastbound side heating up, slightly more quicker then westbound side but overall we are looking great. new jersey 42 freeway northbound at creek road approaching 295 your neighbors out there right now but again, busy as this looks this is very typical picture of what we see around this time on 42. then we're talking about construction some of which has cleared, pennsylvania turnpike westbound before downingtown town that right lane still blocked there head up on than. that construction on the northeast extension southbound between quakertown and lansdale that right lane is also blocked there, jan, back over to you. thanks, meisha. now for a lot newspaper headlines across our region. >> on the cover of the reading eagle a judge has dismissed criminal charges against a mechanicsberg pastor for failure to report child abuse. two-year old ela gray foster died in november from pneumonia, night before she died her grandfather roland foster, also her pastor anoint ed the sick girl at request of her parents who refused to give her medication based on their religious beliefs. delaware county daily times, it is a deal for nurses at delaware county memorial hospital. unionized nurses who hit the bricks for two days in march in a dispute with the new owner of the hospital announced they have reached a tentative contract agreement. and from the burlington county times riverside maple shade hain burlington city will compete against 200 other communities for $25,000 in pry money, marketing materials and gift certificates as part of the america's main street contest which encourages consumers to shop, locally. that is a look at some newspaper headlines from around the region. up next, pat's here with your morning sports. >> 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valuation now. ♪ find out how much your car's worth ♪ ♪ at webuyanycar.com welcome back, we're glad you are here right here on cbs-3 "eyewitness news" this morning. >> pat's here with sports. phillies were looking good for a while last night what went wrong. >> that is a great question. >> always something, isn't it. >> vince velasquez got all of the tools to be a great pitcher. he hasn't been able to put it all to go. last night with the mets, vinny v was looking for his first win since last july, city field, velasquez was cruising, until the sixth and then jay bruce laid into one, that is a three run home run, mets go up to three-two. still in the sixth, the routine pop up, and it should end the inning, velasquez and miguel franco, come on, it drops. phillies will get out of the inning. velasquez will go six and give up three runs. jay bruce show continues, this time a two run shot that will do it. bruce knocked in all of the runs as phillies lose five- four. they will finish up at 7:00 tonight. look out incoming check it out, florida gators mascot saving a kid from the foul ball but take it in the face, do you see that. then kid, he returns the favor giving him cpr no word on his condition but it looks like they are still intact. there is talent and then elite, best of the best, athlete so good that they win no matter the circumstances. like pregnant i, for instance. yesterday, serena williams announced that she's 20 weeks pregnant and expecting a baby this fall? just 12 weeks ago that the 35 year-old williams won oust strahl yan open while pregnant , that was her 23rd grand slam. tough too do. nfl is releasing 2017 schedule tonight at 8:00, we know who eagles are playing, they will face their division rivals plus teams from the afc west and nfc west, preseason starts with the packers at lambeau field in august. we are now just one week away from the nfl draft here, in philadelphia, tune into cbs-3 "eyewitness news" tonight at 5:00 sports director don bell will go one on one with howie roseman about the eagles draft prospects. super bowl champion patriots visited the white house to celebrate their title yesterday. boston globe reports 34 players were in attendance with 34 skipping out on the festivities, that included quarterback tom braid hoy missed the ceremony due to family matters. tightened rob gronkowski was there, and he offered his help to the white house briefing room. >> i think is there an opportunity, can i just... >> do you need help. >> i think i got this but thank you. maybe. >> all right, thanks man i'll see new a minute. all right, that was cool. >> grone co ski always there to help. he need help sometimes from that podium. >> coming up in the next half an hour of "eyewitness news" manhunt for alleged facebook killer steve stevens is over but pennsylvania state police still need public's help in the case. we will tell what you they are asking for coming up. plus this. >> "fox news" cuts toward with its popular host bill o'reilly after mounting sexual harassment claims i'm hen adan qualifications in the new york with how o'reilly is responding and who is taking over his time slot. meet the new addition to sea world, we will tell what you makes this baby orca whale extra special we will be right but when right-wing politicians to protect our health care. tried to pass a disastrous health care repeal bill that raises costs and cuts coverage, macarthur wouldn't oppose them. macarthur wouldn't protect us from a bill that raises premiums and causes 24 million to lose their insurance. wouldn't oppose a massive "age tax" on people over 50. and isn't fighting to protect coverage for pre-existing conditions. tell tom macarthur - stop trying to repeal our health care. there could be thunderstorms later tonight as we look live at lehigh valley this morning from high atop hotel bethlehem, katie's here with more on our unsettled pattern. good morning, everyone i'm , jan contact bar owe. >> katie and meisha will be along in a moment but first here's what you need to know to start your day in the morning minute. high profile murder case. >> this trial is expected to take about 15 days, dj creato is facing murder and child endangerment charges in the death of his three-year old son. bill o'reilly who hosted this program for 20 years is leaving the "fox news" channel >> cable news star was fired from "fox news". >> fired on the same day that he is photographed shaking hand with the pope. >> a potentially dangerous discovery in tacony, animal control confiscat