Pedaling his bike down the road new years day. He was coming from church. Reporter a driver swiped 56 yearold lenny golden on tennis avenue in bensalem and just kept going. I knew runaway was hit and run, and nobody else was there there is cops all around, glass all over and he was laying on the ground. Reporter lenny, a popular bagger at local giant store, rush to the hospital, and his bike okay, but his leg was crushed. It hit his leg all of the damage is on his leg. Reporter besides broken glass all that was left behind was this Surveillance Video for moments after the hit and run. We were able to obtain pictures from Traffic Cameras in the community and we will get that out on our social media apps called crime watch and also through cbs news. Reporter Bensalem Township Police director fred harring says our viewers called in tips which led detectives to the truck, parked in philadelphia, and wednesday morning, the driver, james hatcher, turning himself into police. Channel three certainly had a substantial part in this. Viewers that witnessed and saw the News Coverage were able to phone in and give us information which led to the arrest. Reporter now hatcher is facing misdemeanor careless driving and failure to render aid charges. As he remains in the hospital and is recovering. I thought it was extremely fast, that they found the fellow. I didnt think, that they were going to fine him, period. Reporter now lennys father tells me that he is still in the hospital tonight as you heard, his leg is broken in three places. It will be sometime before he is fully recovered. Were live from bensalem, im greg argos for cbs3 Eyewitness News. A south jersey man charged in the murder of his estranged wife has a day in court. Jeremiah monell appeared before a Cumberland County judge this afternoon for his first court appearance. He is facing murder and weapons charges in the december 18th killing of tara oshay watson. Rick tims cousin had strong word for monell after todays hearing. He has hurt her for way too long and now it is time for him to feel that pain and take away his freedoms, take away his rights to be with family and friend, take away his rights of leaving to go to the store, take away his rights, that is what i want to see. That is what my family wants to see. Reporter now, monell led police on a two week manhunt before being taken into custody. Help found him hiding in the wood monday avenue noon in fall some delaware county. Investigators are trying to pinpoint what caused two septa troll toys collide in West Philadelphia it happened just before 1 00 this afternoon on 38th and lancaster. Fortysix riders had to go to the hospital, with injuries, described as minor. And one passenger told Eyewitness News he felt impact from the front seat of the first trolley. Well, my hat flew flew off, my glasses, the back of the sheet hit me in the back of the head. This is first accident. It just hit the back of the other trolley, that is all i know at this time. It is under investigation. Septa diverted Trolley Service in that area for a short time while crash was being cleaned up. Some residual delays continue tonight. Anonymous phone threat forced a Cherry Hill Middle School into lock down this morning. Cherry hill Police Responded to the middle school on crop well road around 11 00 oclock. Cherry Hill School District tells us that the threat was unfounded and lock down was lifted around 2 00 this afternoon. School was dismissed at the regular time and Police Continue to investigate the source of the threat. A mild day across the region but dont get used to it, a polar plunge is on the the way. The kates outside on the skies deck and pretty comfortable right thousand but not for long, um. In the for long, indeed, weve got some really, bic wind coming up and im feeling a few light drops. It could be a couple scattered sprinkles as that cold air starts to move across the region. Not a whole lot showing up on storm scan three but we are transitions tonight from, winter warmth, into a winter chill. It is going to feel a whole lot colder around here tomorrow and day two of the cool down is worse. That comes in this weekend. Storm scan three does show lake effect snow showers up across the great lakes and a indication of that colder air aloft, that is what is moving in tonight, so temperatures are dropping steadily. We are down to the zeros in lancaster. 40 degrees in reading. 47 degrees in philadelphia. And wind are still strong, as im getting blown away here. Were up six stories here. You can really feel it. The current wind sustained at 24 miles an hour at the airport with gusts up to 30 miles an hour. Through the day tomorrow, most of the day is dry but take a look at what comes in tomorrow night around 11 00 oclock, and our on 11 00 oclock news tomorrow night we will track first bit of snow moving in the region. Come up we will time out that snow event. I will tell you how much will fall where you live and then we will talk about the the cold that follows, it the is going to be a very chilly stretch, heading in to the weekend. For now back inside to you jessica. Kate, thank you. Today is first day of phl prek, the citys locally funded Prek Initiative paid for by the new drink tax. 2,000 new prek seats have been created by the tax. Money will also go to parks and libraries. Some consumers are now experiencing sticker shock when it comes to buying those beverages though, saying the tax on distributors has been passed on to them. We spoke with the owner of a local shop rite store. Universally everyone likes the idea of prek but when they look at their register receipt and saw that they spent, you know, ten dollars in tax that they didnt before they are very upset. The American Beverage Association says that the taxis being passed along to cuss hers. The city says it hopes if businesses are passing on added costs they are doing so transparently. Atlantic city mayor don guardian delivered an unofficial state of the city address today. Eyewitness news, new jersey reporter, cleve bryan, explains, the remarks come with the state now in control of the city and its troubled finances. Good thing it will be a challenging year. I will tell you that were up to that challenge. Reporter giving his annual state of the sit a dress Atlantic City mayor don guardian said he will seek re election and has one key theme resiliency. What is definition of re sillenscy, it will be Atlantic City. City leaders for the, lost battle last year against the state take over. Governor christies offer reject plan for settling half billion dollars worth of debt. Despite cutting more than a quarter of the Cities Police officers and fire fighters, the city cannot stop the state now there laying off more workers. So far, it hasnt been a clash of the titans yet but we will see what 2017 brings. Reporter mayor guardian expects 2017 to bring a stable casino industry, more large scale events for visitors, a longer boardwalk to gardeners basin and shift in employment opportunities, science and education, as stockton continues to develop the island campus. There has been aloft pain as we make this transition but it is a transition that we must make in order to be better. Reporter while Atlantic City is looking forward to moving forward in 2017 taj mahal casino closed last year will be sitting path. Karl eye can says he does not want to reopen or let anyone else. He is seeking to earned is is erika seen he license here and seek deed restriction so nobody who buys property could reopen it as a casino. Speaking of people, city officials dont want to deal with in the future they are hoping the persons electric to replace christie will even the stay take over. The city need a governor that is walk them not run over them. Reporter in Atlantic City, cleve bryan, cbs3 Eyewitness News. Meantime new jersey Small Businesses received some help from governor christie today. He signed a new law establishing the Small Business bonding readiness assistance program. Eyewitness news at the africanamerican chamber of congress in trenton. Program will help businesses and security bonding so they can bid more easily on state and federal contracts. We want more Diverse Companies to be able to have access to all levels of business in the state. I want businesses that are owned by african americans, by hispanic americans, by americans to be able to feel that they have the exact same opportunity that anyone else if their idea is good and their effort is there. We know it is. Governor christie believes the new ram will lead to the establishment of more Small Businesses, in the garden state. Well, just a short time ago vicepresident joe biden revealed more about his post white house plans, mr. Biden announced he will partner with the university of delaware, on domestic and Economic Policy issues. Yesterday, an opened microphone caught vicepresident saying he will also partner with the university of pennsylvania to continue his cancer moon shot, research initiative, through the biden trust. A federal judge in pennsylvania has ruled death row inmate Mumia Abujamal should be provided expensive new medication to treat his hepatitis c. He is soon to approve health care he was receiving in prison after falling in diabetic shock and then was diagnosed with hepatitis c in 2015. The former black panter has spent 29 years on death row following his convictions in the 1981 murder of Philadelphia Police officer daniel faulkner. Abujamals sentence was reduced to life without parole , in 2011. As we continue tonight, macys is shutting down stores , just ahead on Eyewitness News shoppers in our area will see the effects of the closures. We will show you local stores, that will be shutting their doors. And students, helping students, the the reason these young men from penn state were sending part of their winter break, at a philadelphia school, pat . Jessica, the longest tenured 76er, is gone, we will tell you who was part of the roster shake up, and, b dawkins, talks as he becomes finalist for hall of fame and when he talks, you listen, that is ahead in sports. Well, last august macys announced they would be closing 100 stores in an effort to boost company performance. And late to take they have released details on the closings. Macys announced 68 of the 100 stores due to close or to be sold before the end of the year. Chopper three over the stores in bensalem, and moorestown, new jersey, two of the 68 locations, to shut down. The company says that most stores will be shuttered by early spring, due to the steady tea kline of sales, at those particular locations. With the closures the Company Hopes to invest more in the most productive locations. In addition to the locationness moorestown and bensalem local stores in voorhees and Plymouth Meeting will also be closed. President obama and vicepresident elect pence kicked off battle over Affordable Care act on capitol hill today. President obama met with congressional democrats, this morning, they are scrambling to protect his signature legislative achievement. The president advised law make tours share success stories. Meantime vicepresident elect pence led his own strategy session with republicans. They are determined to replace and repeal the Health Care Law , saying it is not working. Were here today to warn the American People that the republican plan to cut medicare, medicaid, repeal the aca will make america sick again. Obama care has failed. All of the promises of obama care have been shown to be false and broken promises. Republicans have the votes and support of the president elect donald trump for a complete overhaul of the Affordable Care act, we will have more on the battle coming up on the cbs evening news at 6 30. Penn state students are volunteering a portion of their winter break to mentor and meet with philadelphia students. Eye witt the necessary news at southwest Leadership Academy Charter School in southWest Philadelphia. The partnership is an effort by Charter School to ensure its students go on to college and complete their debris. Penn state students are discussing college life, and talking about how you can stay motivated to achieve your goals. This is an opportunity for them to really get that one on one experience with an under grad, to see how successful they have been what hurdles they need to overcome to get to college. The penn state students meeting with the younger students today are from the delta beta chapter of the fraternity incorporated, nicely done. The nicely done. Great. Kate bilo is joining us now as we prepare for some snow. Yes, some snow. Here it comes. It is happening, guys. Yes, we had a little bit of snow about a month or so ago and it melted quickly within the course of the day this one may stick around longer as temperatures will cool down, at the same time. Bottom will fall out a couple days ago and bang here we go. It the is a two phase, bottom tapping outing. It is already starting tonight , phase within will income down temperatures from today. With that said it got wiggle room because temperatures today were so farrah above average we have got in the 50 s. Tomorrow we will just be back to normal. Phase two comes friday night into the weekend. That will bring us better chill back to the philadelphia area. Right now we are taking you out to bethlehem where you can see it is quiet in Northampton County tonight. Everything is looking good, flags are flying, the wind is up, it is blustery outside tonight but it is press i quite quiet. I did feel a to drops. Not seeing much on storm scan three. Sometimes we get instability syringe also as cold air moves this but most of the snow showers, lake effect snow, missing us to the thort over portions of new york state and also, southern canada. That is good news there actual system that we will be watching tomorrow night into friday is this one. It is one system over the rockies but this little piece of energy do you see it streaking out, it is moving quickly clipping across the plains . That will get here late tomorrow night into friday morning. Then we have to watch another piece of energy from this same system that will break off down to the gulf and this could bring significant snow to the south east, this weekend and that one miss us to the south. We could be talking about carolinas, virginia, getting decent snowfall where we will see whole lot of nothing this weekend. So far only. 3 inches of snow. We are 4 inches below average. That is not a ton. We are not extremely below. We can make up half that deficit the by friday. Future weather shows tomorrow the cloud move in here. The heres 3 00 p. M. Late tomorrow evening that the snow over spreads the region. Generally light snow and mainly coming overnight but temperatures will be below freezing. This could stick to the road. The heres 3 00 a. M. Snow coming down here in a pretty good clip. It briefly intensifies. Moves off the coast. Then clearing out as we go through the rest of your friday morning. The we are looking at a general coat to go 2 inches no matter where you are. There may be a few spots closer to the two mark, a few marks have a dusting but wake up with snow friday morning, again inch or two possible and watch for slick spots for morning commute. Then take a look at saturday this storm ace near miss. Gps keeps it off shore, dry even for the coast, and european model backs it closer , and still not an event for us on saturday, in the city, but could brush the coastal areas and light snow accumulation on saturday, so the shore has two snow chances in the forecast. The city only has one tomorrow night into friday morning. Overnight breezy, clear, 27 degrees. Colder day tomorrow. But 38 is pretty close to where we should be for this time of the year. Real cold comes in over weekend. Start friday morning with snow , we will clear it out, friday afternoon is fine. Weekend in to next week highs in better than 30 degrees, and then by the time next round of precipitation next week it will be warm enough with just rain again. Wow. Interesting. Very much so. Yes. Pats up next with sorts. Big night as flyers battle a major rival and number one villanova puts its 20 game winning streak on the line, we also hear from eagles gm Howie Roseman. What he think of the job Doug Pederson did this year. We will find out next in sorts honey, arent we having friends ovi know [goat noise]e. I stole the other teams mascot for good luck. We need to wash this room. Wash it . Yeah, wash it with febreze. For all the things you cant wash, use febreze fabric refresher wow [inhales] it really smells great in here. Dog barks and try pluggable febreze, with up to 4 times the freshness in one refill. 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Maybe they can find Wide Receivers to catch the ball. A few things are certain however and that is carson wentz being the future of the franchise with Doug Pederson leading him. Gm Howie Roseman addressed the media today and spoke glowing ly of the job pederson did in year number one. Energy he brings, every day , to that Football Team and just hearing our players talk about how much they love playing for him, that is something really promising, were really exited to see what we have in store going forward. He does i great job with our rookie quarterback and rest of our team. Tremendous tribute to him and his character for what he went through this year. How the team played for him. Tonight one of the better rivalriness our city is back in the spotlight as flyers welcome the rangers to town. New york is coming off an ugly fourone loss at home to the sabres while flyers have lost four in a row. Goalie steve mason looks forward to the challenge. It will be a great test, it is always fun playing against rangers coming back from a tough road trip. Sometimes there is a little bit of lay. They are a tough team to come from behind so we want to be the team that dictates the lay it it is a division rival. We love to play. We should a great game. We have come to the end of an era the with the 76ers, longest tenured player on the team, Hollis Thompson as waved today. Last night Robert Covington missed a bit but he hit last shot, covington went one of nine but converted off bass from dario saric to beat timber wolves 9391. They are back friday night against boston. Villanova wildcats put their undefeated record and 20 game winning streak on the line tonight, they will hit the road to take on 18th ranked butler as part of the three ranked opponents four games, tip off at 60 00. If this man is an hall of famer i dont know hoe is, last night Brian Dawkins became one of the 15 finalist for pro football hall of fame, joining a star studded list, that cluster he will owens, tomlinson and curt warner. B dawkins joins reason 94 wip today and saying being a great layer was important but being a great person is even better. It just tells you that the game of football, that people considered me to have been one of the best to have played the game and so, i want to make sure that at the game of life, at the game of entertainment, a game of being a tatter, that is more important then anything else. Smart man. Good man right there. Yes. When we come back a bee loved pet wanders off. When she said her duck went missing and how she thinks you can i want my blood sugarck. To stay in control. I want to trim my a1c. When my schedule changes. I want something that delivers. woman tresiba ready. avo tresiba® is used to control high blood sugar in adults with diabetes. 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Covered by most Health Insurance and medicare plans. woman tresiba ready south jersey woman is asking for your help locating their missing pet as you saw, not the usual dog or cat. Francis tipnaro said they are pet clumsy disappeared last week. He became part of the tamly six weeks ago a gift from the best friend. She raised him from a little duck and now he sleeps in the house. She reached out for help on taste book, two people claimed to see clumsy but no reunion just yet. We do know that the duck was spending time outside when he went missing. This is in south jersey. If you are in that area keep your eye out. Thanks for watching Eyewitness News at 6 00. We are back at ten on the cw philly. Then we are back here on cbs cbs3 at 11 00. In for scott pelley is Josh E Elliott pulling the plug. First order of business is to repeal and replace obamacare. If you are repealing, show us what youll replace it with first. Elliott also tonight, the cyber attack on the d. N. C. The president elect quotes wikileaks on how easy it was. Podesta gave out that his password was the word password. Elliott the big gulp. Shock over a supersized tax on soft drinks. Ridiculous. Ill give you a second one absolutely free. Elliott a wakeup call to consumers about those mypillow ads. And mickey d in the holy s
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