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KYW Eyewitness News At 11 February 19, 2016

Stayed out of political talk but tonight that mixture of religion and politics is dominating the conversation. The pope is being told drum is that not a nice person, okay. Donald trump is a very nice. On his way back from mexico pope francis ordered a reporters question about donald trump and his stance on immigration. The pope responded in part quote a person who thinks only about building walls wherever they may be and not building bridges is not a christian. That is not in the gospel few hours later, trump fired back. For religious leader to question a persons faith is disgraceful. Im proud to be a christian and as president i will not allow christianity to be consistently attacked and weakened unlike what is happening now with our current president. Report trump went on to say the Mexican Government continues to feed propaganda to the pope. Its a charge the vatican deni denies. On wednesday, pope francis celebrated mass with thousands on the us border per happen sparking the debate. Trump is no stranger to mixing religion and politics. He recently tweeted about ted cruz asking how the texas senator can be an ooh januar januaryville will he cal christian when he quote lies so much and is so dishonest coned quote. White house declined to comment on the trump pope issue but press secretary josh earnest had to say about trumps previous attacks on president obamas faith. I will however, though extend to mr. Trump the courtesy that he is not extended to the president and not use this opportunity to call in question the kind of private personal conversations hes having with his gut. In a brand new cbs news poll, trump leads his closest rival nearly two135 to senator ted cruzs 18 . I want to important out i did reach out to the archdiocese in philadelphia for comment about pope francis remarks. Officials there declined to get involve on this specific issue. Reporting live in the sat sent tonight, david spunt cbs3 Eyewitness News. Thank you, david. Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton who campaigned in las vegas will get a big endorse many tomorrow from South Carolina congressman jim klieburn. One of the top africanamerican leaders on capitol ill h emotional moment on the campaign trail at a town hall in clemson South Carolina Ohio Governor john kasich hugged a 21yearold supporter as he broke down. It happened as he recounted a recent string of hard ships in his life. It takes just second to be distracted. Police say three suspects youve the opportunity to commit two robberies just 45 minutes apart. And tonight were learning its not the first time. Natasha brown is live in plymouth township with the video police want you to see to help them crack the case. Natasha. Reporter well police are telling us that the crime that happened here at the Plymouth Meeting mall back in january is just one stop along a crime spree for the suspects that spans up and down the east coa coast. Police in several states are on the hunt for three men involved in an organized retail theft ring. Police say the group originated in the washington, d. C. Maryland area and this Surveillance Video shows their crime spree entering upper gwynned township Montgomery County on januar january 19t 19th. Theyre targeting high end electronic, small High End Electronics from Cell Phone Stores and like. Reporter Surveillance Video from the at t store in the 1500 block of valley forge road shows all three suspects entering the store separately. Eventually one of the men makes his way via a store full of customers into a storage room where he grabs i phones and i pads. At our store they took six cell phones and 2i pads. I guess it could happen anywhere. Really i really it must have been random thing. I dont think its a high crime area. Im surprised to hear that happen in this area. Reporter little did police know 45 minutes earlier, the men had already hit this sprint store inside Plymouth Meeting mall. Swiping a phone from the displ display. Police have e tide 22yearold Delonte Davis of bowie, maryland as one of the men in the video. Police believe theyve been targeting stores all along the east coast from North Carolina to new jersey. We put information bulletins out to the stores that are in our areas and were fairly certain that the Stores Within their chains and respective businesses share the information amongst themselves. Reporter well police here in Montgomery County are now working with authorities in other states trying to track down all three these suspects. Arrest warn has been issued for the one suspect who is known to police. Were live in Plymouth Meeting to night. Natasha brown cbs3 Eyewitness News. Natasha, thank you for that. Police are searching for suspects in the burglary of a sent City Department store. Thieves broke into the century 21 store on Market Street around 4 45 this morning. They stole about 2,000 worth of chroming, accessories and happened bags. On tuesday, suspects stole jeans from the Bloomingdales Outlet at liberty place. Right now its unclear if the two incidents are connected. Well tonight search is on for the cause of a fire that gutted part of a warehouse in northeast philly. Bright orange flames and thick smoke consumed warehouse on the 7700 block of he had monday street in holmesburg. Chopper thirty four over the scene around 6 00 oclock. The warehouse sits next to septa tracks and the fire fight caused delays on the trenton Regional Rail line. Schedules are back to normal tonight. Police in camden want residents to be on guard against scam artists. Robinson was one of the victims. He got a call saying someone in his family was badly hurt in a car accident. The caller then took it further telling him he needed to pay up because his daughter was the one who caused the crash. Wanted me to meet him at the walgreens in pennsauken to give him 500 in cash. Robinson got suspicious, hung up and then called his daughter who was safe at work. Camden police have received about 15 similar reports and they want people to be on alert. South Jersey Police officer saves of life of two month old boy after he suddenly stops breathing. Officer kevin injury again son was on call when he got a call about unresponsive infant at home. The boys mother began cpr and the officer took over when he got there. His department had just gone through updated cpr training. I did turn the baby over and applied several thrusts to his back. I turned him over and began compressions on his chest. He open his eyes so quick like this im like did he just open his eyes . I couldnt believe it. I was dumb founded. Were thankful we had the out come that we did. It could have gone a lot of different ways. Baby brian is now recovering at saint christophers hospital. It is a fixture of the philadelphia skyline that watches over our city. Were talking about the william penn statue perched a top city hall. It may look it but the statue isnt small. How did they get it up there all those years ago . Thats a good question about philly history. Thinker brewer joins us with the answer. Really it sounds like a tall task for today. For sure. Imagine this back in the 18 90s completely different situation. So you have this humongous statue. Suspend some tie hundred feet into the air and place a top a clock tower. So how did they get william penn on top of city hall . Its a good question. Lets fine out. You see william penn. Yes. How did they get him on top of city hall. They hoisted him up. No, it wasnt a latter. Lifting system. Helicopter. How did he get up there. Good question. How did they get pillly penn to the top . Well that a really interesting question lee arnold represents the Historical Society of pennsylvania. He says the equipment options were limited in 1894. A lot of may have been told the oldfashioned way with ropes and pullies an lot of very strong men. Very strong. 37 feet tall, 27 tons, the bronze william penn remains the tallest statue on any building in the world. Its larger than life as they say. His of historians tell us the artist created the skull help out of clay in the basement of city hall it was then transported to tacony iron metal work where it was bronzed. You think they got him up there in one piece. I dont think so. They probably built him up there. I dont know. That sounds stupid. Created in 47 sections it was later assembled to include fewer parts from four to 14 depending on you talk to. Im going with five. His hands went up separately. A couple legs here. Couple arms. That brought the up one piece at a time to reassemble it. How long do you think it took . Two years. Longer . Five years . Were assuming probably about a month. A month . What . A lot o sore muscles. How did they peace p it together. Strong glue. Soldering iron. Dont ask me. Unknown male stayed on top to bolt it down. Others may have helped. The space on the inside was too narrow for a big crew. Its hollow on the outside cosmetically it would look all one piece. 122 years later, were still admiring the work of those who built it and the life of the man it i mortal lies. Amazing. They did a great job. Yes, they did. Now billy penn gets all of the attention but its only one of 250 sculptures created by calder the artist in around city hall and apparently that artistic talent ran in the family his son Alexander Calder designed the swan Memorial Fountain in logans circle and his grandson cupped several pieces near the art museum and i believe he also invented the mobile so kind of interesting. Today hits historians call the caulder mile from city hall to the art museum. Three generations. Thats incredible. Of amazing artistic talent. You know what else is incredible how big that statue actually is. Its huge. When you see calder next to the head, i mean it really does give you perspective f word to the wise dont put a flyers jersey or phillies cap on him. That didnt work out too well back in the day. Noted. Thanks nicole appreciate it whats your good question . We werent to know. Log on to cbs phillys com good question to submit your question or tweet us using the hash tag cbs3 good question. Nicole will be here every night with the answer on cbs3 Eyewitness News at 11 00. Cant wait to hear from you. Our region has no shortage of a italian bakeries. Theres one shop in Montgomery County thats beyond ordinary. Were more than a bakery. Theres a lot going on here. Taste with tori heads to collegeville and shows you how one familys love of food is reinventing the classics. And kanye west says hes got some money problems much the physical Police Department says it can help. What it posted on twitter thats now gone viral. Kate . And its quiet for now but we have a storm in the forecast. Here it is. Two different scenarios coming up ill tell was are the chances of each of these scenarios happening and what they mean for us as far as rain or snow. Ill have more on that coming up. Im don bell with the phillies in clearwater, florida. Heres a question the phillies have a lot of improving to do. But whats the number one focus for their manager potty mackan mackanin . Ill tell you about it later on in this is cbs3 Eyewitness News with ukee washington, jessica dean, kate bilo and don bell. Beyonce is in hot water with some Law Enforcement over her super bowl half time perform man. This is one of the images now making the rounds on social media. It says back the blue boycott beyonce. The fraternal order of police in miami has voted to boycott working security when her formation tour kicks off in miami in april. Beyonce super bowl performance was tribute to the black panthers and has been criticized by some as anti police. No word tonight from beyonce about the potential boycott. Meanwhile the philadelphia Police Department has a solution to the money problems of kanye west and its gone viral. The Department Tweet add picture with kanye photo shopped in Police Uniform letting him know that the department is hiring. The tweet has been viewed more than 1 million times sense had you it was posted this morning. Sergeant eric executed the twitter post and hes working hard to get people to join the department. He said he needs 23 million. I did the math real quick with our starring sal receive 47,920, only 1,026 years he could pay off that death. No response from west. Weve got some items joining us. Popular local bakery goes beyond pastries and theyre taking decadent to whole new level. Tonights taste with tori heads to collegeville, mop county. Reporter the trip out to the collegeville italian bakery fell like a visit to my familys house on a sunday. Very good. Very good. Reporter smiles of family and friends of seat, glasses raised and where food is on the table and youre happily force fed to try. Absolute i mean you come in we want everybody to feel welcomed. Were a family. Local staple was opened in 1994 as a small deli and backare boy a northern italian couple giovanni and lena. Small and mom and pop shop. Deli, bakery everything is homemade. Its ran by another husband and wife team their daughter and husband steve. Shes the eyes and ears of the collegeville bakery hands down people can say what they want without her the colleg collegeville bakery doesnt run. And together this team has turn this bakery into anything but just a bakery. When they hear collegeville bakery they think rolls and pastries, were peas is that correct dining, all the above, everything. Its not just warmth from the wood burning pizza oven that makes this place a hot spot. They literally have everything including nutella not just in jar nutella bar with fresh hot crepes. Wow all right. Thats perfect. Now its time for the good stuff. Well fold it up like a little slice of pizza. 10 times better. Are you kidding me . Or how about nutella sky pie thats wood fired with nutella and gooey marshmallows. Name after their daughter. I had to see this for myself. Oh, my gosh. Its like a present. I wasnt the only one mesmerized. Tori you want to do the honor witness powdered sugar. Thats the snow we like to see. Tori, we have something to wash it down with nutella milkshake. This is the happiest place on earth. Thank you. Thank you. Were more than a bakery. Youre more than bakery. Hmm. I know. Did you lose your mind yet . Did you lose your mind . I did. Nutella bar really . Did you see me in heaven have. Yeah. I see you now. Were in heaven. We are in heaven. Jess, ukee, kate this is what heaven looks like. Nutella milkshake, nutella crepes much this like nutella calzone. I dont know what is in there but nutella all over it. I cant i just cant, i can need to wash it down. I just cant deal with the any more. Talk about decadent. From the collegeville tie tal yann bake row. Looks lick a garden hose. Thats what you need. Thats when you know its good. You know what, i would sip nutella out of garden hose. If anyone out there can set that up which im newer sure the collegeville bakery can i will sip nutella through a garden hose. Thanks for that idea. Were looking forward to that. Excellent. Some for us all. This is not just for me. Cool. Thank you. Amazing. I didnt even you see you sneaky they brought it to me over there. Kate, was it good, oh, plea please. Its delicious. Its delicious. You know what, it has been little too cold for frozen stuff this weekend. Not so much. It will be nice and warm this weekend. Leave this here for safekeeping. Lets talk about what the weather is doing outside. A cold night tonight. Cold frosty milkshake. Cold frosty thursday night. Take you out to our roof cam looking out over center city. Skies are clear. Winds are dying down. Thats a recipe for cold. We know that. Temperatures are plunging through the 20s and even into the teens in some spots tonight. Beautiful day turn out to be. Take quick look at time lapped video. Starting off with clouds at the palmyra nature park the sun came out, beautiful blue sky all day as far as the eye could see. And then gorgeous sunset as well but again as you can see the skies are clear. With the winds dying down as the earth surface cools all that radiation is escapes into space and temperatures really really start to drop and it is cold outside. Subfreezing in the city right now. And even worse in the pine barrens interior south jersey and certainly to our north and west. Heres our neck weather maker a system moving in from the west warm front drapes through the great lakes and its got a few rain and snow showers with it. Notice how far north they are. Most of these will miss us to the north but in the poconos Lehigh Valley tomorrow evening donting shock were rain or snow shower rolls through. 20s across our map except mount pocono even worse at 15. 25 in reading. 29 in philadelphia right now. Got a pair of twos in millville and keep in mind only 11 20 hit our lows early tomorrow morning probably right around 6am. Feeling colder than the thermometer indicates thanks to brisk wind outside. Fels like three in mount pocono. 20 in the city. Feels like 19 in wilmington generally feels about 10 degrees colder than you the temperatur temperatures. Were climbing up from 37 degrees todays high. 20 Degrees Higher by saturday. Well get to 57. Theres a chance we can go for 60 depends how strong the winds are. Southwest flow this weekend. So for your friday more clouds in place. That warm front moving through transitional day we go from the cold today to the warmth on saturday we need one day in the middle and thats friday. More clouds and again chilly highs in the low 40s. But well above average saturday. Now as we head into the weekend youll start to feel the winds pick up much thats what i want to you notice much youll be outside saturday afternoon its a nice day. But its blustery day. Winds 15 to 20 miles an hour sustain. Gusts to about 30 on saturday of the afternoon. Lets jump top what we

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