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KYW Eyewitness News At 5 December 6, 2016

Will fall and when to expect this rain to clear out from philadelphia. Back over to you. Well just days after leading temple owls to their first conference championship in 49 years we have learn that head coach matt rhule is moving on to Baylor University. Sport director don bell joins us now. Is this a big surprise . I think that some were. I think a lot of people were not. It is College Sports you know it is a natural progression of things, right. When you have a precious commodity other people will covet what you have. It is just a fact of life. Over last four years matt rhule has done a masterful job on north broad street and heading to waco, texas. Rhule led owls to 20 wins over last two seasons. Their conference champs for First Time Since 1967 but baylor is in the big 12 which will how rhule to compete at the highest level, heres reaction, there the cherry and white. I love matt rhule. Matt and i are good friend and, you know, i just wanted him to make the right decision for his family and him. I thanked him for all he did for this program. I said i will go get a great football coach. A lot of people are disappointed. He means so much to this program but at the same time, to be in his shoes you want to see him do better. Reporter owls lay wake forest in the military bowl december 27th assistant head coach ed foley will coach that game. Coming up at 6 00 what long time owls basketball coach fran dunphy is saying about the move. Congratulations to matt rhule. He deserves it. Big time job there. It the is a huge job, hes done a great job everything he could there. People were watching and things happen. That is right, don. Obviously a lot of disappointed fans on campus. Our anita oh sent the afternoon on campus live with more on what students are saying about the news, anita. Reporter it has obviously been a whirlwind Athletic Director pat craft saying today that head coach matt rule called him this morning to announce his decision, the Baylor University that is very sudden departure. Sad evening students here. I can tell you that the rain is reflective of the glummy mood here on campus tonight. This was mood of the temple owls saying hello to first hearn athletic conference champion ship win last weekend but on tuesday they have learn they would be saying good bye to the man led them there head coach matt rhule. Many College Football fans are not taking the news well. I dont appreciate that he went to baylor because being a High School Football player myself when you get recruited and brought in the program and then someone leaves, that has to be a scariest feeling in the world. Reporter rhule led owls to back to back ten win seasons for the first time in School History but it is his character off field that rest mates most with freshman Devon Cottman a former intern with the team. Very passionate about what he does, kind person, cares about the players and everybody working. Reporter while many are sad to see him go others understand why. It is smart for him because you will go to the power conference in the big 12, so you will be dealing with better competition. For the school obviously everybody is devastated. Im rooting for him. Im hoping he will do Better Things and hopefully we will see him in the nfl. Reporter will program keep momentum alive without him. If the the players have determination to keep it strong but players want to leave with him. I think whether you like it or in the this program is still on the rise and i think everything will be all right. Reporter no matter who the head coach is Reza Shourd Temple fans will be cheering on owls as they helped to the military bowl on december 27th. Live at Temple University tonight im anita oh for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Cbs philly taste book page is blowing up with comments. Mark weinstein posted just heart breaking i know temple football will find another talented leader for the team but this is an enormous loss. Lawrence posted this is tough to take in. Obviously it is a business but temple finished 23rd in the country not sure why he wouldnt want to stay and improve. Money speaks i suppose. Let us know what you think about coach rhule leaving temple, connect with us on facebook, twitter and our web site we have top five place during rhules tenure at temple if youd like to take a look back at cbs philly. Com sports. Starting to day drivers along the schuylkill might to have take an alternate route, parts of the mlk drive ape Schuylkill River trail will be detoured for repairs. Plan for closures between hours of 9 00 a. M. And 3 00 p. M. During the day. There will be overnight closures for 7 00 p. M. To 5 00. Workers will be fixing a retaining wall along Schuylkill River, part of the wall collapsed this summer leaving the soil unstable. New jersey state the police is in mourning tonight, family, friend, comrades are remembering a trooper kill in the cash while on duty. Eyewitness News Reporter cleve bryan is at State Police Barracks at port norris with more on the investigation, cleve. Reporter ukee, trooper Frankie Williams was stationed here in port norris, new information were getting this afternoon from state police is that he was responding to a call for eradic driver. Now that same vehicle will described by witnesses is the one that police say was involve in the crash that killed trooper williams. The impact of obliterated one cars head on collision monday night that took life of the 61 yearold man from elmer, and new jersey state trooper Frankie Williams. Officials say williams was heading north on route 55 in millville in response to the call for eradic driver. They say it appears that same driver heading south for some reason went through grass median and slammed head on into williams. Lloyd of elmer was pronounced dead at the scene, medics flew williams to cooper hospital where he died. Collogues solute had as his body was transported from the hospital. He was doing what he loved to do. Reporter several neighbors in Egg Harbor Township flew fallen officer memorial flags. Williams graduated State Police Academy in yan and commended for saving a dog lock in the hot car, state Police Released a statement saying trooper williams was highly respected by his peers establishing himself very early in his career as an outstanding trooper able to think of his feet and make sound deiss. He performed his duty more like a six year veteran then a six month rookie. The neighbors say williams was hard working and passionate. He was so excited to be a state trooper. He had been working at lowes. He went to rutgers, got his degree and this is what he wanted to do. Reporter Officials Say not only was williams new to the state troopers ranks but he also got married. No information on what caused the driver to go across median, and strike his vehicle. Reporting live from port norris, cleve bryan, cbs3 Eyewitness News. Thank you, cleve. Philadelphia police make an arrest in the murder of the Northeast High School student. Iand willse was fatally shot at graft avenue in mayfair last monday night. He was walking to the corner store with the friend for snacks at the time. Police say a 19 yearold man wanted in connection with the teens murder surrendered this afternoon and charges are pend ago begins that man. A baby is dropped into the waiting arms of rescuers as a fire tears through a frankford apartment building. The fire broke out around 4 00 f frankford avenue and sellers street. Several people, baby dropped from the third story window. And, and, he suffered Second Degree burns, to his face, and hand. I got to the hospital, and everything was burning, except for my lips. We just lost everything, christmas stuff, or nothing. Nine people were hurt in that fire including four children, and all of them are expect to be okay, we know red cross, and. And, Officials Say some victims trapped in the inferno managed to text loved ones good bye, and i love you before they died. Now the search for bodies is nearly complete. Crews have searched most of the the warehouse that was the the site of the deadly fire friday night. One small section still needs to be secured, before workers can finish combing through the the rest of the building. Were going to continue the process until absolutely every piece of debris is removed, from this building, every area has been search. Reporter manager of the warehouse called the ghost ship, derek almena was spotted at the site Tuesday Morning apologizing for the tragedy. Artists say he charge them rent to live in the unpermitted space. They dont expect to find more victims in the the ruble. A criminal investigation of the fire is underway. The it is unclear how the ferocious fire started but they do know that the cluttered living space, helped fuel the flames. Record show numerous complaints in Violations Including illegal interior building structure and a ton of garbage piling up, a makeshift memorial nearby continues to grow. This is the first time coming back to this little area, just real upsetting for a lot of us, like it is just so upsetting. Reporter now grieving community is trying to come to terms with the loss. The city officials a they are receiving an overwhelming outpouring of support, they have raised more than 700,000 in donations on you caring. Com. As we continue tonight, it is expensive but necessary, Health Insurance can take a bite out of your bank account. In the next half an hour we will tell you about a new quick, easy way to save money on health coverage, just a quick way and it is free. Missing even just a little sleep can make you a danger behind the wheel, Surprising New information about the effects of Drowsy Driving and, what you can do about it after a short break, tori. Reporter in the spots are bunch of letters all addressed to santa. They have not reach the north pole yet because they have reached the post office and here to operation santa a few deserving families are going to have a very merry christmas. To have a very merry christmas. That story to have a very merry chriafoot and lighthearted thati take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. The east and the west are mine. The north and the south are mine. All seems beautiful to me. The man accused of shooting and killing former nfl player joe mcknight during an apparent road rage incident is under arrest, again. Today authorities charged Ronald Gasser with manslaughter in jefferson paris, louisiana. Sheriff faced criticize many for releasing gasser while they investigated. He says release was part of the strategy to get more interviews, and make a better case. The mayor of los angeles say residents should not let a Terror Threat begins metro system stop them from riding. Today swat team mens stood guard as passengers came and went at red line Universal City station. The fbi reported on monday it received a tip, terrorist might have a plan to attack the station, on tuesday. L. A. Hair eric garseti rhea howard the city that the station is safe and he boarded the train himself. This is a very safe place to be today and i wanted to show that personally. Im not asking people to to something im not doing myself. Fbi says it is unknown what country the tip was called in from but person that reported it did speak english. Alarm statistics about not if thing enough sleep before you hit the road. Triple a says one in five involves Drowsy Driving. As our rahel solomon explains enemiesing a little sleep can put you at risk of nodding off behind the wheel. Reporter a tired driver can dose off quickly as seen this dashboard videos like this. In this one, it is the driver drift and rear end another car. For Karen Roberts falling asleep at the wheel ended much worse. All it takes is a second, and then, you just nod off. Reporter in 1988, roberts was a 21 yearold nurse working a double shift on christmas night. On the way home she fell asleep and smashed into another vehicle. Other driver had minor injuries but roberts was in the hospital for two months, with a traumatic brain injury. I had to learn to walk, talk, feed myself, and dress myself, and everything. Reporter new report from triple a says drivers that missed between one to two hours of the recommended seven hours of sleep a night nearly doubled their risk for a crash. Triple as jake nelson says one in three americans admit to driving when they had a hard time keeping their eyes opened. We have earned over four to five hours a sleep in a night, odds of getting in the car crash are the same as driving legal liz drunk due to alcohol. That is why im here today because i want to share my story, so that you guys can learn from mistakes. Reporter roberts still suffers from double vision and headaches, but considers herself lucky, because her mistake, could have been deadly. Triple a suggests taking naps to reduce your risk, they also suggested if you are taking a longer trip to take a break every two hours. Reporting from spring garden, rahel solomon for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Kate bilo has your forecast. We are watching rain and snow from the mountains. Snow in the poconos. In the Lehigh Valley or far northern suburbs we will see sleet and snow. No accumulation but definitely starting to get colder now that the sun has gone down. Yes. We are seeing that purple shading infiltrate. I saw that. Yes. It is purple. Yes, purple, inn keyed. It has been a while since we have seen that much purple on storm scan 36789 letsce take a look, you can see we have got the some big, slow downs really all across the area whether you are seeing purple, mostly seeing green on storm scan three but it is heavy. Heres a live look, up to bethlehem. This is one spot that is close enough to see some snow flakes or even some sleet mixing in, but temperatures are still above freezing in the upper 30s in the Lehigh Valley. You can see roads are wet, heavy rain falling right now, everything is very, very slow, through this evenings commute. Rain arrives pretty much right on schedule a quick time lapse from earlier today in cape may courthouse. Day started with some clouds, even saw filtered son in parts of the area earlier today but by afternoon, watch what happens. The clouds just keep getting darker and more ominous and then we will see rain drops hit the camera lens there as rain arrives this afternoon and it is windy down the shore as well. Cape may courthouse with gusts to 28 miles an hour. Latest storm scan three picture does show that shield of purple is mainly north and west of philadelphia and suburbs. So that is good news. Heading up to the poconos or living in that region watch for slow go. Mainly a grass accumulation but overnight the some roads could get covered as well. Meanwhile we have heaviest rain of the day pushing through philadelphia look at the that red, orange shading, another batch just lifting from eastern maryland into Chester County, so this is not done for us for several hours. It is all purple in the poconos, carbon, Monroe County we can see infiltrating of pink and purple here over northern Lehigh Valley where sleet and snow is trying to mix in. Further south allentown starting to see very heavy rain, in the northeast extension, and toward the city of philadelphia where were seeing heaviest rain we have seen, so far today and more still to come later tonight. Temperatures right now you can see where were dealing with that change over. Thirtyone mount pocono. Definitely cold enough for snow. Thirtyeight in allentown, reading, lancaster but heading up in the atmosphere it is cold enough for snow to fall but not stick. Melt on contact. Fortytwo in philadelphia. Much warmer, 48 degrees in wildwood. Big gradient across the area. Timing it the out for next several hours you can see heavy rain through rest of this evening, heavy snow in the poconos that will taper off overnight the but heres your Winter Weather advisory. Carbon and monroe counties until 6 00 tomorrow morning and many spots could pick up two to 4 inches of wet snow, we are looking at half inch to threequarters of an inch of rain across the majority of the rest of the area. So, periods of rain, heavy tonight, it will, start to taper off, overnight, and then tomorrow is some sun will try to break through the clouds, and then we will dry it out but temperatures begins to plumet. Tomorrow the warmest day of the week at 52. We are down to 42 on friday. The weekend, well, lets just say you will need to swap umbrella for parka. We will show you how chilly next half an hour. Thanks, kate. Still ahead on Eyewitness News if you are a star bucks fans, heads up, we will tell you thousand get flee star bucks for life. For life. And a new feature on the uber app has some riders wondering why they are being trapped, what uber has to say coming up in our next half an hour, don. The phone call of the lifetime how a youth hockey coach from manayunk found his way to the nhl, for a day, a story you do not the want to miss up next in mymy cookie exchangeripled. Is super competitive. Mine too. I want to go really big with my appetizers. We can do it without blowing our budget. Oh yeah, this is great my family really needs to be wowed this year standing rib roast wow. Everything for the holidays. Thats my giant. , thats lovely. So graceful. The corkscrew spin, flawless. 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