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KYW Eyewitness News At 5 March 9, 2017

You can see cloud start to roll role in within the next couple hours between 1 00 and 3 00 a. M. We will see snow over spread our northern most suburbs, poconos and Lehigh Valley, and builds to the south ande, and by 5 00 a. M. We could see snow possibly starting as rain and sleet in the city of philadelphia before this thing really gets underway during mid morning hours. Here are your Winter Weather advisory, montgomery, bucks counties all the way up to the poconos, philadelphia not in the advisory but that does not mean we will not see accumulation. We will show you lates accumulation map and tell you about how cold, blustery it will get behind this storm, nicole. Kate, thank you. To help you get through the snow we will be on the air early. Eyewitness news this morning will begin at 4 00 a. M. We will have the latest forecast and traffic reports with any impact on your morning commute, so tune in starting at 4 00. Crews race to go remove human remains, and coffins from a construction site in olde city, it is a story seen first, told first here on cbs3. Thinks unfolding at 218 arch street a site once home to an old burial ground. Eyewitness News Reporter anita oh is in old city with more, anita . Reporter ukee and jessica this is supposed, or ukee and nicole i should say this should be a 10 story apartment complex but right now construction work is on hold, as crews work to excavate this site. All this after crews found more than 30 remains at this former burial ground, First Baptist church of philadelphia before building up, they had to dig down. But what construction crews found in this former parking lot near second and arch in olde city on thursday brought this apartment complex, project to a halt. We are finding some intact, coffins, and were also finding some remains, coffin, a lot of them are in Poor Condition and deteriorating. Reporter new foundry mains both of children and adults are in addition to first discovered here by pnc Property Group contractor in november 2016. On thursday, chopper three showed cranes lifting more coffins out of the dirt and archaeologists bagging remains keep the integrity of each of these individual coffin and it can be challenging when they are falling apart in your hand. Reporter archaeologist Kimberly Moran say detear racial is natural and not from construction but it will take several months to determine. The age of death, gender of the individual, and any information that we can really glean from the bones. Reporter lenny ryan works across the street from the construction site and given philadelphias history this discovery is not surprising. Im sure if they excavated a lot of the city they would find a lot more. Reporter crews hope that the excavation work will end, by end of the day saturday, and meantime archaeologists believe that the remains had been moved to Mount Mariah Cemetery back in 1860 and discovered today not all had been moved but crews say that the plan toys reinter the new foundry mains there as well, pnc Property Group say they will handle those costs. Live from olde city, im anita oh for cbs3 Eyewitness News employees at Delaware County Memorial Hospital are scheduled to go back to work tomorrow. All 370 nurses and technicians at the hospital in drexel hill , staged a two day strike starting sunday. They cited unfair labor practices. Company that runs the hospital locked out unionized employees on tuesday, it claimed that the temporary replacement staff was required to work for at lee five days. In Bucks County Police are investigating the death of the young boy who was hit by a pickup truck just steps from his home. This happened yesterday afternoon at bellaire trailer park in morrisville. Police say after the fiveyear old was struck people began attack ago this pick up driver that forced driver to leave the scene but he stopped a short distance away to call police. The child was pronounced dead at the hospital. Driver of the pick up is said to be cooperating with the police. Officers in new jersey are still looking for the driver who crashed into this home, it happened at 1 00 in the morning in penns grove. Police say they were pulling over a car when they started to drive away. Suspects car who control at a curve and jumped a curve. It broke a fence before smashing into the corner of that home. Driver ran away on foot but four passengers stayed on the scene. Philadelphia police tonight are searching for two suspects in the series of paint ball attacks, take a good look at this surveillance photo, police say suspects opened fire on people from a white dodge or chrysler minivan. They had five incidents on tuesday, four in roxborough and one in germantown no one was seriously hurt. If you have any information, cat philadelphia police. Repair work continues on the closed Delaware River bridge that connects the pennsylvania and new jersey turnpikes. Some residents who live nearby say that the construction is more than just an inconvenience, eyewitness News Reporter greg argos joins us from bristol to explain more, greg, good evening. Reporter ukee, good evening to you. You can see how close these homes are to this connector bridge and these neighbors living here in bristol have been dealing with this massive construction project, the noise, the trucks, since january 20th. Now we know it will be at lee a few more weeks before this project is complete. On this windy thursday, only a few workers were spotted on the Delaware River connector bridge in bristol but for neighbors living around and under this bridge most days look and sound like this. They had literally had oil well drills over here, smashing rebar into the ground reporter doctor bj moment ary has lived in the shadow of the bridge for more than three decade. That was just shooting up in the air. I said hey list fin hit oil we want a piece of that. Reporter backup two months january 16th, momentary heard a loud crack. I hear this, boom, and the whole house shook. Reporter pennsylvania Turnpike Commission closed it january 20th and been working to repair a cracked beam ever since, which means neighbors backyard have become construction sites. Trump could land his 747 on this street, the lights were sobriety. Reporter she even snapped this explosion, coming from a concrete support beam. All the while tractor trailers are placing cars, filling radcliff road. Biggest problem is tractor trailers coming down here and turning around in peoples driveway. All these problems are because of the noise and shaking. Yes, oh, boy. Reporter Turnpike Commission held a meeting tuesday for residents telling them the bridge should be repaired soon but even when it reopens you wont find the doctor driving over it. You dont trust it. No. Reporter would you not drive on that bridge. Never again go over that bridge. I will go over burlington bristol bridge in the 50ton truck bring go over that bridge. Reporter original plan was to reopen this connector bridge by midapril but i just got off the phone with the official from the turnpike authority, and she tells me that this project has sped up and they could open up the bridge sooner but definite date has not yet been set. Were live there bristol pennsylvania, im greg argos for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Thank you for that. Today is First Official day of free agency in the National Football league. That means teams across the league are making big changes to their roster. Eagles nor different they have made additions and also some subtractions. Cbs3 sports director don bellies here to break it down. Officially a new year for nfl starting to day at 4 00 p. M. Guys. Lets do it. Money to burn, this is day when nfl teams typically spend and spend and spend some more. Today eagles addressed one of their biggest concerns. The bird signed former bears wide out Alshon Jeffery to a one year 14 milliondollar deal. This is a massive upgrade. Jeffery is big, strong and deep threat but heres the catch, the reason a guy with his skills only gets a one Year Contract is because you know, he has some baggage. Last year he missed four games after testing positive for ban ned substance. But good gamble by bird. Before the eagles signed jeffery they added wide out torey smith, he has no baggage to speak of, super bowl champ but his numbers have declined since 2014. Eagles quarterback carson wentz taken to twitter as guys often do these days, it is 2017 you know how they role. Welcome to the squad torey smith, lets go, bro. E maine gis are key. In order for eagles to make these moves they had to dump some salary. That is why they cut veteran linebacker defensive end connor barwin. Move saves the team 8 million but it is aing about loss because barwin was one of the most liked people, hear me, people on the team, he was huge in the community. Now, once barwin got the news he hopped on social media and thanked the fans, jeffery luri e and Eagles Organization and city of philadelphia. He also highlighted his work, with his foundation. Going to miss that guy. Oh, yeah. One of the best in the community, lives in the city, going to miss connor barwin. And captured philly sky line. No doubt. All right, buddy, good upgrade. Coming up on Eyewitness News he is accused of killing a Pennsylvania State trooper and then running from the law for a week in northeastern pennsylvania. Now jury selection is underway for trial of the eric frein. What lawyers are asking potential jurors and why, the jury is being picked in our area. More and more people are falling victim to socalled imposter scams, scammers sound official but they just want your money, what you should be on the look out for. Stape until cold and flu season but doctors are warning there is something about hand sanitizers that could make them dangerous for children. And some of us are dreaming of summer but winter is just not going to go away. Heres a live look at Parkway Central Library camera, a couple chances of snow in the forecast, kate has everything you need to know in about seven minutes, stick it is called an imposter scam when someone i am person nates trust worthy people Like Police Officers or governmental officials. Three on your side jim donovan explains the conn artists behind the scams can be very convincing, and, you need to be on the look out. Reporter Richard Tanner says call took him by surprise i literally was about to hang up when they said, are you at this address. Reporter man on the other end of the line said he was Sergeant Wade marshall with the Sheriffs Department, and that tanner owed fines of 1,600 for failing to appear for jury duty. Were calling as a courtesy , you have several outstanding citations. Reporter tanner told him he had served jury duty but sergeant gave him a case and citation numbers with what sounded like Police Scanners in the background. He instructed tanner to head immediately to the stations Sheriffs Department, to pay up, or face a warrant for his arrest. The only form of the payment accepted cash or a prepaid card called greendot. The call went on for nearly 40 minutes on his land line before tanner used his cell phone to call the local Sheriffs Department. First thing i said was is there a Sergeant Wade marshall and i barely got word out when the real Sheriffs Department said no, it is a scam, hang up Law Enforcement would never make a request. Reporter u. S. Marshals Service Assistant said it is a growing problem nationwide. The agency recently warned consumers about these slick scammers. These scammers are extremely well versed in the judicial process, and they have frequently used real judges names, real names of u. S. Marshall service employees. Reporter that is just one type of what experts call imposter scams most common form of fraud duping u. S. Consumers. Federal trade Commission Says in 2016 more than 400,000 people complained about impersonation fraud. The federal trade Commission Points out a couple red flags here, number one Governmental Agency rarely call demanding a payment. They still use regular mail and will send you a letter and they dont take prepaid card or gift card. Reporting for three on your side, im jim donovan. Good head up. Unusually strong wind are causing Power Outages and traffic trouble across midwest and new england. Strong wind caused a small plane to slide off a runway during take off in michigan. That plane was carrying the university of michigans Mens Basketball Team and thankfully no one was injured. In New Hampshire strong wind blew a large tree on the house there it cut the house in half Officials Say that there was in one home at the time. Thank goodness. Mother nature is all over the place right now. New yorkers reported a wind gust of 81 miles an hour and people in rochester area see damage and trees down every where. It is strong gusty wind. We have felt strong wind here but nothing as bad as what they have had up there and now the wind transitioning into Winter Weather. Here it comes. Yes, are you ready. Bring it, lets go, get it in, get it out. I feel differently then he does. In and out. Good news that winter cannot last much longer after this but it does look like we are entering the next five to seven day period one of the most active winter patterns we have been in all year long. Winter has come back with a vengeance here as we head toward midmarch. Lets look outside and start off with a very tranquil look at an area that will look different in about 12 hours, snow will be falling steadily in bet ham northampton county. Right now temperatures in the 60s. Sun shining. Grass green. It looks like a beautiful spring day. Wake up tomorrow and it is winter all over again. Thanks to the storm that does not look too impressive on storm scan three. Weak system streaking out over portions of the great lakes. You can see snow over lake erie around cleveland area and back toward detroit moving right along new york state and pennsylvania border. Right now. It will continue to plunge southward through overnight hours tonight when steady gets in here for us. Heres another look at an area in the Winter Weather advisory reading where we are at 61 degrees. Kid playing soccer. They are wearing shorts, tshirts. My kid went to school in shorts and tshirts enjoying 60s for one last day because big blast of winter is on the way. Lets break down your friday snow. Snow arrives by Early Morning. Could arrive in the poconos as early as one or 2 00 a. M. Likely not until 5 00 a. M. In philadelphia. Could start as rain and sleet in the city points south. Steady snow is four to 9 00 a. M. In philadelphia six to 9 00 a. M. Is crux of the storm that is not a good time frame right in the middle of the morning rush war of it on friday and that will cause major problems and snow squals and windy conditions through the afternoon. Heres what it looks like 3 00 y snow through poconos into the northern, Lehigh Valley and pushing south. By five to 6 00 it moves in the city. Possibly a brief start as rain and transitions back to snow and snowing steadily 20 79 a. M. Here in the city and eventually down the shore as well before it then moves off the coast by 11 00. You can see tomorrow afternoon scattered snow squals and rain showers moving through, could cause problems for the afternoon commute. Heres what we are looking at likely an inch in philadelphia , slushy coating, on grass surfaces. One to three in the north and western suburbs and three to six, for portions of the Lehigh Valley, as much as six in the highest elevations of the poconos. This is giving you for green light for widespread snow and for afternoon commute snow squals could cut down that visibility. Behind this storm temperatures plumet, 4 00 p. M. Today 68 degrees. By 4 00 a. M. Saturday it will be 18 degrees, and may feel like four out there. So a 50degree drop in 36 hours. Rain and then snow overnight, snow through tomorrow morning, and snow squall in the afternoon and then much colder through weekend saturday number should be 32, not 42. That is my fault, in the typo there bye wish it would be 42. Keep that 42 up there. Lets just pretend. It doesnt matter. Thanks, very much. Still ahead j lo has a new beau. High profile sports figure and lets just say trying to figure out a couple nicknamed like it would be tough, hi there don. I have one for him by the way. Villanova is balling in the big apple we will have the latest in the bige tournament. We have seen it over and over again but what are the cats thinking bit, surprising fact that the Wildcats National Championship win, that is next in pennsylvania is getting the law requires many to get their child abuse clearances. Are you one of them . If youre a coach sunday School Teacher a scout leader Camp Counselor many people who work or volunteer with children may need their clearances. Pennsylvania means business when it comes to protecting our children. Thank you p

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