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KYW Eyewitness News At 6am April 12, 2015

It is gorgeous out there already this morning. The it is still dark but still beautiful. Ben franklin bridge from campbells feel camera, you can see blue skies there. Look at the sunrise starting to come up at the shore just a magnificent looking day, starting already now. We will head out to the palmyra cove nature parkas we so often do on our neighborhood weathernet work and you can see the city on have philadelphia we have a temperature of 38 degrees n some locations we may be picking up frost. The just a word to the wise for that early growing season. Storm scan three nothing going on and you can see there is not much going on and we love this look on the weekend. Really all over the northeastern United States. The it is nice to see weather quieting down. Temperature 40 degrees in philadelphia but notice allentown is 31. Millville is 35. Atlantic city is 30. That is why as we head through our outlying areas you may encounter some frost. The just watch out for that and you may find some on our windshield. Forty in philadelphia. Wind are coming out of the northwest if they are in the calm they are out of the northwest and in the strong, one of the reasons these temperatures were allowed to drop with those calm kind. Where we fine winds that is where youll not find frost. Our temperatures today getting all the way to 68 degrees with sunshine, all day long, beautiful forecast, and it is not the the only one on the seven day. I will will show thaw coming up nicole. All right thank you. New this morning dui charges in an overnight car crash, this was the scene in queen village, columbus boulevard and christian street. Two cars collided just before 2 30 a. M. Police say a male driver was under the influence and two women were inside the other car. An arrest warrant is issued for a philadelphia woman accused of abandoning her disabled son. Police say the the 21 yearold victim was left in the woods and had been living there for five taste. Cherry greg from our sister station kyw news radio joins us live this morning with more on that story cherry. Reporter good morning, nicole. A tragic story. Police are planning to charge 41 yearold nila parlor for abandoning her 21 year old quadriplegic son in the wooded area of cobbs creek. They will charge parlor with aggravated assault Reckless Endangerment and other crimes. The as you can see from the video parlor left her son this this park on monday. The the young man has cerebral palsy, nonverbal and wheelchair bound his entire life. Luckily on friday night someone walking in this section found the 21 yearold lying in the pile of leaves. His wheelchair besides him. The his only tools for defense is a blanket and a bible. Authorities rushed the young man to chop where he is stable. His injuries include a deep cut on the back dehydration and malnutrition issues. As a result of being outside for five days without food and water. His mother was in maryland where she went to be with the boyfriend. She lied to officials at the the boys school telling him he was safe with her in mar land. This kiddies obviously a fighter. It is inn believable how we found him out there laying there. Just heart break to go see another human especially your mother can treat someone like that when you had all of the opportunity in the world to turn that kid over to the family members that wanted to care for him. There was in reason to do what she did with this particular child. Were fortunate here today this kiddies surviving and doing very well. Reporter police say the young man is currently stable here at chop with family members at his side. He will be transferred to an adult facility. As for his mother, police say maryland authorities are in contact with her and they expect to get her in custody and back in pennsylvania by monday. Now police say that this is a multi part investigation. The the first parties getting the young man stable, second parties getting mother behind bars. Third parties figuring out how and why this could have happened. Live outside childrens hospital, cherry greg kyw news radio for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Police make an arrest in the abduction and a assault that happened in the jewelers row section of the city. The sources confirmed to Eyewitness News thaws 31 yearold khiry gay was arrested last night in South Carolina last saturday three men snatched a five threeyear old woman from a parking garage, drag her in the burgundy van and beat, robbed and used a taser on her for hours. She was eventually found in the Darby Township cemetery and hospitalized. The the u. S. Capitol is open once again the the building went into lock down after a man shot and killed himself outside the building. Cbs news correspondent mark albert report now from capitol hill. Reporter capitol will police and witnesses say man still unidentified walk up to the front of the u. S. Capitol with the suitcase and gun, Robert Bishop stood with his bicycle will a few feet away. I was talking to somebody. She looked over and said he had has a gun. I turnaround and saw the guy with the sign. He had just shot himself. Reporter bishop said the man collapsed after one shot. Woman was crying and started to duck down and wanting to run. Another girl was crying she was looking over my shoulder. She saw him shoot himself. Reporter the the capitol was put in lock down. Police block off the area and bomb squad technicians inspect the scene. Jeff harrison is from Northern Virginia and heard a pop. What did you think it was. I thought it was a fire cracker. And then what did you see. We saw a lot of Police Vehicles gather around the capitol. Reporter inside tourist were told they could leave. Elizabeth heyes is visiting from pittsburgh and stuck in the Capitol Visitors Center for more than two hours along with 100 other tourist. You are sitting there, you dont have any information. What are those minutes like. They are excruciating. It felt like hours. Reporter police have not revealed shooters motive orr weapons were found. Lock down was lifted after two and a half hours. Mark albert for cbs news, capitol hill. 6 07 right now. The historic meeting in panama. President obama sat down with one on one with cubas president raul castro. The the president returned home late last night. They spoke on saturday afternoon the first time american and cuban leaders have had substantial meet initial american 50 years. Both countries are looking to move past decades of animosity to renew diplomatic ties. The United States will not be imprisoned by the past. Were looking to the future and the pol will cyst that improve the lives of the cuban people and advance the interests of cooperation in the hemisphere. President obama announced in december that he was reopening relations with cuba. U. S. Sanction as begins the the communist country however must be lifted by congress. President castro says he is willing to discuss ongoing issues. Well to day could be the the day for hillary clinton, the former secretary of state and first lady is expect to announce her president ial candidacy via social media this has been rumored for some time now. Clinton ran in 2008 but lost the democratic nomination to president obama. Early polls have shown clinton is favorite to win the parties 2016 many in nation. The day a after clinton is expect to make her candidacy official, florida senator marco rubio is expected to announce his own president ial bid. He will deliver a speech tomorrow in miami, the republican would bypass second term in the senate in order to run for president. In the race for philadelphias next mayor the candidates talk immigration, at the a forum on saturday. Eyewitness news at the German Society auditorium on Spring Garden street. Candidates fielded questions about key immigration issues like education Language Access and government representation. Forum was sponsored by a group called united voices for philadelphia. You can see candidates talk about the issues facing the city on the moving philadelphia forum, maryland rated by our very own ukee washington. It airs this morning at 11 00 on our sister station the cw philly. It is 6 09. Returning to the ruble coming up next on Eyewitness News, residents of the tornado ravaged town survey what is left of their home for the First Time Since thursdays storm and for many have of them there is nothing left. Also ahead there are hundreds of diets to choose from out there but which works the the the best . Coming up, the the the two topping the list for helping people lose the the weight and keep it off. It was a sunny saturday so what can we expect today and also for the workweek ahead . Carol returns with the the eyewitness weather one of the cool perks of this place, is you can eat as much cereal as you want. You can go to any line thats running, and pull a box of cereal. Alrighty. We just like cereal, we make it, eat it love it, live it. laughing back now on Eyewitness News and for the First Time Since deadly tornadoes cut a path of destruction across illinois, some residents were allowed back to survey damage on saturday. The as cbss dean ren are folds reports many were wondering if their homes were even still standing. Reporter fair dale illinois was never much more than a small dot on the map and now it is less than that. About 70 buildings were either destroyed or damaged here on thursday, power remains out for most of the 150 residents and the clean up is just beginning. Thirtysix hours after the the twister hit bright sunshine illuminated the scope of the disaster. We have a lot on the road ahead of us. Reporter tj rigs lost his business and apartment where he lived right above it. My first reaction i cannot say on tv but my second reaction is just, you know, everything is gone, i dont know what to do. Reporter twister that hit fair dale was half mile wide with a trail that ran nearly 30 miles long. Two people died and 22 were injured as the storms tore through Northern Illinois. Along with utility crews fair dales neighbors are picking through the debris and that is all it really is. Two count that is suffered the brunt of the storm have been designated disaster areas by the the governor. Soon, the people of fair dale will have to deciding whether to rebuild where the the tornadoes footprint is now so cruelly visible or leave the painful memories behind and start over someplace, anyplace else. Dean reynolds for cbs news chicago. Tough images to see right there. 6 14 right now. Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter kick off eighth annual philly spring clean up. Mayor nutter join volunteers and local officials at germantown park. Clean up effort is city wide. Tens of thousands Office People combed the streets and park throwing away trash and making sure philly is ready for spring as part of the individual clean up projects. Eyewitness news caught up with mayor nutter after the event. I am so proud of philadelphias all across the city. Dave perry and don carlton over at the streets department, they have done a fantastic job and out done themselves. 600 projects all across the the city of philadelphia. Love to see that in past year spring clean up effort have resulted in millions of pound of trash and recycling being removed from the city of philadelphia. 6 15 right now. Turf say yesterday was pretty nice. You are saying today even better. Even better. Watch what you toss toss it where it should go in the beginning and we went have to have massive clean up days. The such a simple solution and one you can do so easily. We are looking at sun coming up, so beautiful at the shore this morning. It is beautiful. I know in your neighborhood because everybody is getting the same kind of wet they are morning. The bright and gorgeous. This almost looks like a cactus in arizona with the sunrise coming up. This is out in kutztown. This is like the desert at night we get really cold. 28 degrees below freezing in kutztown this morning. One of the reasons our areas are still, this morning looking at that frost advisory for growing season that has just gotten underway. We have a temperature of 31 in allentown and reading, 35 in millville. Thirty in Atlantic City. These are colder temperatures. Warmer by contrast 40 degrees through the philadelphia area. Twentyeight in quakertown. Doylestown 34. The mount holly at that freezing mark. You may fine frost out there and or on your windshield. The wind such as they are and they are not much, fortunately, i hepp they got rid of their angst and blew themselves out because now they are calm and or 3 miles an hour. Not much in the way of wind today at all which makes today even nicer. Storm scan three is showing no problems at all, in fact, we have got no problems all the way from maine, all the way over through chicago and points west of that. This is a nice looking day, but i mentioned the frost and frost advisory until 8 00. You can see it the in the northern suburbs and sections of south jersey as well. So it is for the growing season but obviously if it is that cold make sure your pets are also kept warm because it is cold in some spots this morning but we dont stay that way. This afternoon everybody out at the park if you can. Temperatures will be getting in the 60s today upper 60s we have stopped at 63 right on target yesterday where we should have been what was forecast unlike friday when it never warmed up but anyway we will get and see some of these 70s. We should see them on monday, at least 70 degrees on monday and another day of lots of sunshine. Then this front comes through. Some areas pick up a shower. Temperatures stay in the 60s. It is a cold front but not much going on witt. As far as what we can expect future weather, we will keep it clear here through this afternoon. We will keep it clear through tomorrow. A few high cloud on monday afternoon and then tuesday net that is front goes through. This computer model says a a lot in the morning goes to the north, still wants to bring something through in the middle of the afternoon. We will see whether that happens. Tuesday is a day with the cold front coming through. Otherwise today is day to get out. Sixtyeight philadelphia. Shore 55. Poconos 65. Usually when i show you wind is there a wind gust of 25 to 40 miles an hour. Not today. Wind of 5 miles an hour. These temperatures are great. Fortyfive for our temperature tonight. Then through the the next couple days 65 to 68 degrees today. It will be a nice one. Tomorrow we are in the 70s. The tuesday wednesday thursday we are in the 60s. It looks like a really nice week coming up, nicole. Carol thank you. On the healthwatch where we are taking a look at diet programs with so many of them available today how do you know which ones work . It is a question millions of americans ask all the time and now researchers say they have the answer. Health reporter Stephanie Stahl has the results. Reporter yoga wasnt always so easy for niry the the four threeyear old was recovering from hodgkins lymphoma and was overweight. Today shes 22pound lighter. My lifestyle started to change because of Weight Watchers. Reporter review of 11 commercial weight loss programs find Weight Watchers and jenny craig are most effective for helping people lose weight and keep it off. On average Weight Watchers participant lost 6pound at the two month mark. Jenny craig lost about 15pound at 12 month march. Reporter report although average weight loss is Modest Health benefits are significant. For some people a commercial program might be the right answer for them. It has to be something that physicians consider as part of their arsenal or their toolbox in thinking about weight management. However they are not the necessarily the right answer for all patients. Reporter she says Weight Watchers Smart Phone App that tracks her food and activity had has beenes specially helpful with the meet that is she regularly attends. I interact. I get support. I can raise my hand and talk about things and get advice. Reporter study found and, promising, short term weight loss results but there wasnt enough evidence og whether that program help dieters keep the weight off. Im Stephanie Stahl, cbs3 Eyewitness News. Meantime Stephanie Stahl was on hand for great cause at the rittenhouse hotel. Lingo was fundraiser to help filed muscular dystrophy. The event was organize by cure duchen, the deadliest and most common form of muscular dystrophy. There is no Current Treatment or cure for the condition. 6 20. It is the end of the era a on cbs news, legendary news man Bob Schieffer a announced that he is retiring back where it the all began. Coming up next we will look at his remarkable career plus this. A 21 yearold texan is on top of the leader board in the masters. Im Omar Villafranca with the roman catholics and protestants marked easter last week and today easter orthodox believe followers were resurrect 2,000 years ago. In egypt christians attended Midnight Mass holding candles and praying. Dimitri medicine went and president vladamire putin celebrated at cathedral of christ savior in moscow. This past week we have learn after 50 years with cbs in that Bob Schieffer is hanging up the microphone. He announced he is retiring this summer. Cbs news correspondent Susan Mcginnes has the the story. It has been a great adventure. Reporter schieffer made the announcement at tcu his alma matter at the Journalism School named after him saying he wanted to end it where it began. As a little will boy, as a young reporter, i always wanted to be a journalist. Reporter still in college he landed his first job at a small fort worth Radio Station earning a dollar an hour, his first job at c

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