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I just feel bad it all happened. Reporter now the suspects family in this case has long maintained his innocence they say he was with them at the time of the last years shooting, coming up at 6 00 oclock a hear from the suspects fat shore says that his son did not deserve to die. We are live outside Police Headquarters matt rivers for cbs3 Eyewitness News. We will will see you shortly, thanks very much. Stay with Eyewitness News for continuing coverage of the Deadly Police shooting. We will have latest updates on air and on our web site at cbs philly. Com. Idea ace recalling 27 million dressers after deaths of two children last year including a twoyear old west chester boy. Recall effects 7 million chests and 20 million other ikea dressers but instead of having customers return the furniture ikea will provide a wall anchor repairing kit. The the parents of the child filed wrongful death seat. A six drawer chest fill and opinion him begins a bed inside of his west chester home. Ikea released this statement, it read in part quote at ikea we are committed to helping raise at wearness of this serious home safety issue, and to continue to provide the consumers with the tools and knowledge that they need to prevent these accidents. For more information about this recall, you can go over to our web site at cbs philly. Com, weve got information about which ikea products are part of this program. Turning now to the weather, after days of stifling heat, it has been a gorgeous afternoon and morning, here in philadelphia and surrounding area meteorologist kate bilo is on the sky deck and kate, please, please, tell us this nice weather will hang around for a while, um. Unfortunately no, im kidding, it will hang around for quite sometime. Through the end of the week and weekend if you liked today youll like tomorrow and friday as well. In the had market for some rain or intense humidity, well, you are out of luck until the start of next week. Things are looking great. It is a sunny stretch right into the weekend. The lets look at storm scan three. It is beautiful. Feels completely different out here on the sky deck then dit this time yesterday. A all cross the northeast nothing going on. We have High Pressure in control. Wind around the the eastern side the from the north and west, very comfortable seasonal day not chilly, but this morning a cool breeze outside made it feel great and you can see any showers or cloud well out to sea missing us to the south as High Pressure anchored overhead. This is our dew point change, in the past 24 hours dew point is 13 degrees lower now in the city then it was at this time yesterday. 16degree dew point drop in trenton. That means air is dryer and feel it overhead. Temperatures after days in the 90s, only in the low to mid 80s right now. Coming up, weve got more where this day came from, ill have your full forecast when i join you inside. Back over to you. See you shortly thank you. Newly released dash cam video connect to the womans death in a texas jail is raising questions about her arrest. But there are new questions about the video itself. Conn done champion has very latest from texas. Reporter the the video shows how a routine traffic stop quickly turned ugly. I am. Reporter texas trooper brian insina pulled his stun gun and after she refused to put out her cigarette and get out of the car. He threatened to use the weapon on her. Get out of the car. I will pull you out. Get out now. Reporter trooper handcuffs bland as she is heard off camera. You where to break my wrist, can you stop. Reporter in an affidavit she claims that bland began swinging her elbows at me and then kicked my right leg and chin. Twentyfive minutes in the video images jumped several times, a tow truck operator walks off camera and seconds later he rhea peers to more times. State Officials Say that the video was not evident but there may have been some problems when it was up loaded. Bland was found dead in her cell three days after being arrested Authorities Say she hanged herself with a plastic garbage bag. It is a little bit of depression and p tsd. Reporter in march bland admitted to battling depression but her family does not think that she killed herself. At a memorial blands mother said she believes her daughter was murdered. The fbi is investigating. Don champion for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Philadelphia police and federal investigators are trying to track down the people who blew up an atm in hunting park. Officers responded to the corner of sixth and west luzerne just before 9 30 last night. When they got there the at in m was in pieces on the sidewalk. Investigators believe someone set a device. Now bomb squad is trying to determine who may have put it there. Tonights commute, on 295 in Camden County is different then earlier today. Chopper three over barrington, new jersey just after 9 00 this morning that is where a multi vehicle accident backed up traffic for miles on i295. State police say several vehicles crashed in the southbound lanes, two people were taken to the nearby hospital with minor injuries. Fire fighters are gaining the upper hand on this warehouse fire in north brunswick, new jersey. Fire is almost under control now but flames, lots of smoke poured from the roof earlier this morning. Officials say that they are now concentrating their efforts on flames, in part of the building that houses a plastics business. The the Environmental Protection agency is monitoring air quality because of the smokey conditions. And this is a look at the the warehouse from just a few hours ago, one fire fighter suffered a hand injury battling the blaze. Authorities say about 75 peoples vac waited from nearby apartments buildings remained in the shelter as a precaution. Once the fire is out officials can begin their investigation into a cause. Is there a possibility that ben franklin bridge may close to vehicle traffic during pope francis visit in september. And today, new jersey Public Safety officials unveiled some details of their papal visit plan, the question, of course, what will happen to the bridge and what will that mean for traffic . Eyewitness News Reporter Todd Quinones was at todays meeting and he is now on the ben franklin. Todd, what have you learned. Reporter jessica, as one official put it anyone planning to see the pope should make sure they wear comfortable shoes. There is at least a chance, vehicle traffic here on the Benjamin Franklin bridge could be shut down while the pope is in town. If that is the the case, anyone planning on heading over ben franklin bridge will have to walk it. This event is being described as a pilgrimage which means expect to walk. Reporter john hanson is ceo of the Delaware River port authority, he says he does in the know if the ben franklin bridge will be closed off to vehicle traffic when pope francis visits. That is ultimately the call of the secret service and questions remains in the roads and streets on the philadelphia side of the span will be shut down. Were in the right now thinking about closing the bridge for any particular reason, but were waiting to see, you know, what the plans are. Reporter mass transit patco will provide none in stop services to center city westbound from its lindenwald, wood crest ferry avenue and broadway stations. All other stations will be closed on the weekend of september 26th parking will be limited. Annmarie mcmullins is part of the group of ten planning to use patco to see the pope. Any ballpark about how early you think you might to have get here. Probably very early like four or 5 00 in the morning and were ready to to that. Reporter no kidding. Yes, we are were determined were going. Reporter advanced ticket are on sale and riders will be able to buy tickets that weekend. Patco is capable of moving about 10,000 people an hour, and that is still might not be enough to avoid long delays. I just feel like amount of people that will be showing up here will be pretty crazy so i will just stay away from it all. Reporter so, the secret service will have the final say when it comes to the bridge here but that decision may not be clear for another couple of weeks. Reporting live tonight on the ben franklin bridge, Todd Quinones for cbs3 Eyewitness News. More to come on this, todd, thanks very much. When it comes to the popes visit you can now say is there an app for that. Organizers Just Launched the go philadelphia mobile app that offers visitors an easy way to keep up with the festivities and visitors that are looking for something to to around the the city if they want to check out the sites it connects you to that information. Right around the corner. It is. Coming up, donald trump is not backing down. See what the billion air president ial candidate said today about the controversy surrounding his recent comments of fellow republicans. Seniors are falling victim to scams to on line dating web sites, consumer reporter jim donovan shows us how one woman wound up losing hundreds of thuses of dollars to a conn artist, we will tell you how to protect yourself. Blank more than 6400 americans say they were scammed after visiting on line dating sites in the second half of last year and the fbi says fraud costs users more than 80 milliondollar. Wow. Many of those targeted are Senior Citizens who are getting back into the dating game. Our consumer reporter jim donovan joins with us more details on this. Reporter that is right jessica and ukee. Looking for companion on line doesnt always work out but one woman lost her life savings after her search turned into a scam. When janet cook went looking for love on line, 17 years after losing her husband she found a match on the very first day. I liked him because he was, he said sweet things, he was, he was very charming. Reporter after four months of exchanging emails and phone calls but never meeting in person, the man claimed to be living in virginia, was suddenly in africa needing a kidney transplant. According to the story he became very ill and he was in the hospital. Reporter janet wanted to help pay his medical bills and sent him roughly 300,000, before she realized that she was being swindled. These are people who have worked so hard for their savings and now they are giving it all away to the romance scammers. Reporter aarp say seniors are a prime target for on line dating scams. The scammer found janet on match. Com. In a statement, the company says it requires users to pledge never to send money or share Financial Information with other match users. And to report anyone who asks for money or Financial Information. To spot on line dating scammers look for those who make frequent spelling errors, use fake photos, claim to be working overseas and especially those asking for money. Despite being duped janet hasnt given up her search for a companion on line, shes just a lot more savvy. I wouldnt trust anyone on it without doing some kind of a background check and making sure that they are legitimate. Reporter interesting side note aarp tells thaws men have been found to succumb to on line scams more often then women but women also tend to report those scams when they are occurring. This is an important conversation that people need to have if they have, Senior Citizen parents that are single that may be getting into this because you need to check and make sure if they are on these sites. They are in the used to this. This is a whole new experience. Yes, my heart goes out to her. My god. Jim appreciate it. Still ahead on Eyewitness News world cup hero carli lloyd honored today and she shows our Pat Ciarrocchi to one of the secrets to the success on the field. Berks countys own taylor swift finds herself in the twitter beef with another pop star. Find out why shes feuding with nicki minaj when we come well, tonight in marlton there are dozens of young girls with stars in their eyes after meeting their hometown soccer hero carli lloyd. That is right carli went to the same court where she trained to receive a very special honor. The path sir was there with all of the fans. What a day. Reporter really very special. The girls in their soccer uniforms were nearly breathless. They loved carli not just for what she accomplish at the world cup but for who she is as an athlete and a woman and carli loved them right back. World cup hero carli lloyd. Reporter the cheers were nearly deafening the Training Court that felt the sweat of an inspired athlete now bears her name. Welcome to carli lloyd place. Reporter carli lloyd the delaware native, world cup mvp, returned to evesham township rec center to inspire kid in summer camp to work hard and to dream big. I look at the difficult times that i have gone through and those are the times that have actually helped shape me. Lloyd score. Reporter grit and hard play shaped her too in the sport where the world is finally taking notice. I want to be role model and inspiration to them and i want to teach them hard work pays off and you just have to keep grind ago way. Reporter soccer teams came across evesham to hear her word posed for pictures and absorbed the the inspiration that might carry them to big victories. Not just on the soccer field but in life too. We go for it, not a great big risk and made a Half Court Shot she went for it. Shes bright, kind, nice to everyone that she meets. She is always happy and smiling. My hearties just jumping. Im shaking. It is a nation. Reporter over 12 years carli trained amid shifting sand of self doubt. She told me her mental and physical preparation helped her overcome obstacles. I want to continue to do this, i set the bar high and i got to keep grinding away because there is a lot of room for improvement. Reporter i asked the champion for a little coaching, how did you kick the goal from mid field . It is all in the place. Of the foot. Which is really fun. I love what this young woman is b she is very gracious when i told her that the World Cup Final was the only soccer match that i had ever seen. Now carli has a very busy couple weeks. Her houston team is playing rochester on saturday and then World Cup Champion Team will go on a ten Day Celebration tour. Ten game celebration tour. My ankle started swelling. If i hit it just right can i get a goal. She said you have to practice. You have to practice, it is the key. Yes. Did you see those kid eyes. So great. Thanks, pat that was wonderful. Great day to be outside. Can we just move out there today. Gorgeous today. We should take the show outside. Beautiful outside on the sky deck. Beautiful across the region. It is ham [natural sound] mock day so if you are looking for a reason to get outside well, there you go. Today National Hammock day. Plenty of people taking advantage at spruce street harbor park and, so many people were out today enjoying the hammock no place better then to be, between two trees in the shade on a beautiful summer day. What kind of lunch break is that . Beautiful to get outside and have an hour to yourself but just, dont fall asleep in the hammock and then youll have to maybe miss an hour or two of work taking a snooze day. One woman taking a nap there at spruce street harbor park. I could use a hammock right now. Lets look the at down the shore. Wind turbines are going going, going town the shore in atlantic city. It is breezy beautiful outside today n problems down the shore. No problems in the city. That breeze keeping it cool and comfortable. The temperatures in the 80s but good side of the 80s. We can be in the upper 80s and feels very steamy about thaw breeze out of the northwest it a has been feeling great from start to finish to day. The good news if you like today youll like tomorrow and we have more where that came from. Right now no problems on storm scan three High Pressure anchored overhead. Showers to the north around the northern flange of the high and few showers toward tennessee and georgia we have High Pressure anchored over the northeast and it will stick around for days and days. The temperatures feeling great, 84 at the airport. Ol in allentown. Eightytwo wilmington. Cool comfortable 73 in mount poconos. No problems down the shore. Ocean water temperature reading cooler today over the past couple days but we have been talking about you dew point all week long. Right now though, the dew point in philadelphia is 53 degrees. You know where that puts us right between awesome and pleasant, and it is close to pleasant but depending where you are a across the northeast, really no humidity a to speak of. Dew point in scranton is 48. New york is 49. When we get 40degree dew point in july that is almost unheard of. How wonderful it is with the dry air in place. Fiftythree is dew point here in philadelphia. So what to look forward to as we go through next few days. Practically perfect. Much like today. Here is our check mark sunny skies, warm temperatures, low humidity. Nice comfortable breeze. Cant get much better then this. Today, a top ten weather day of the year. Tomorrow might give it a run for its money. If we can award one day to the top ten, well, tomorrow looks sunny and fantastic with highs in the mid 80s and no humidity. Friday same store which High Pressure overhead. High moves further east saturday. Saturday is nice, warmer and humidity ramps up on sunday when we get back in the southeasterly flow. Overnight mainly clear comfortable. Sixtysix in the city. Fiftys possible in the far north and west suburbs. Eightyfive for tomorrow. Sunny skies. It is a beauty. Youre witness weather three day forecast also beautiful. Look at this stretch. Eightyfive for thursday. Eightysix on saturday. On saturday, 88, sunny nice and warm and fantastic start to the summer weekend. Ill have your full seven day coming up in the next half an hour. For new stay tuned, we will be right back. Iran keeps their nuclear facilities. Military sites can go uninspected. Restrictions end after 10 years. Then iran could build a Nuclear Weapon in two months. Iran has violated 20 International Agreements and is the leading state sponsor of terrorism. A clear view between taylor swift and nicki minaj has been a hot topic for last 24 hours. Got that right. It started after nicki gave mtv a twitter tongue lashing for snubbing anaconda for video of the year. Louie ageari joins us from l. A. Louie, my man. Ukee and jessica this got messy, kathy and point was totally missed, right . Heres the question were asking were nickis digs directed at taylor swift. Taylor cannot shake it off so tonight we will go inside nicki and taylors bad blood. I have done everything i have, every fiber of my being to give people quality. Reporter twitter fire storm as nicki minajs disappointment that women were not celebrated, turned ugly. If i was a different kind of artist anaconda would be nominated for best chorography a and video of the year. Im not always confident just tire. Black woman influence pop culture so much but are rarely rewarded for it. If your individual yes celebrates women with very slim bodies, you will be nominated for v id of the year. This ways a below the belt punch forte lor swift whose video bad blood was jammed pack of slim body ladies. She tweeted back, i have done nothing but love and support you. Unlike to you pit woman against each other. Maybe one of the men took your slot. While nicki denied throwing jabs at taylor and expressed her love for swift anaconda did have most video views in 24 hours but three of the five video have the year nominees are artists of color including beyonce. Molly mallshine says nickis passionate thoughts about prejudices may have been lost. Now it has turned into this huge mess because she decided to take nickis criticism of the Music Industry personally. Taylor swift fans are saying nicki clearly was talking about taylor so why shouldnt she get involved. Reporter now taylor has unfollowed nicki on twitter the fans are getting involved, it is a swiftys verse an conned a over 50,000 tweets on this whole taylor verse nicki feud. Come on guys, cant we all get along. You took the word right out of my mouth. I was going to say the same thing cant we all get along. So much drama a. So much drama mtv vmas is there always drama. That there is. We have to wait for it. It is expect. Thanks, buddy. You can catch louie and the the insider tonight and every week night at 7 30 right the here on cbs3. Coming up in the next half an hour america deals a blow to al qaeda. Find out how military took out one of the military groups leaders and what it could mean for the war on terror. Fire fighters in Burlington County are training, in vacant homes im Syma Chowdhry with the real Life Experience coming up. And, kobes kid have two local high schools jumping for a pair, philadelphia area rivalry that inspired the nba superstar kobe bryant and his new shoes, we will be right back. Good evening im ukee washington. The heres is what happening. A Philadelphia Police overs is now out of the hospital. He was shot by a suspect he was attempting to arrest in the northeast. Police returned fire and killed that suspect devon gashard. He was wanted in the killing of a pregnant woman last year. Ikea is offering a free fix for dressers after two children died in tip over accidents, and incidents last year, including a west chester toddler. The company will provide customers with wall anchoring kits, free of charge. Camden county today officials discussed preparations for pope francis visit to philadelphia this september. But they declined to say if the ben franklin bridge would be closed over the popes two day visit. Kate . And what a Beautiful Day it has been, we have had no humidity and temperature dropped as heat wave finally comes to an end. There are our past three days with highs in the 90s. Today 85 degrees. Tomorrow looks similar with highs in the mid 80s and low humidity. Coming up with the seven day forecast i will let you know how long it will last. Ill have that in a few minutes. Thanks, katie. President ial candidate donald trump plans to visit the border tomorrow after his provocative comments on immigrants and arizona senator john mccain. As cbs News Reporter craig bos helps well tells us, trump has to be himself. I want to be nice. Im a nice person. Everybody is calling me names. Reporter donald trump insisted he didnt start it when asked on fox news about his ongoing feud with much of the republican establishment. It is not a campaign rally. Reporter in a rally tuesday, republican president ial candidate went so far as to give out senator Lindsey Grahams cell phone numbers after two candidates traded insults back and forth. I did it for fun and everybody had a good time. Reporter trumps antics and remarks about mexican immigrants and john mccains military service may cause a stir but he is still leading the crowded g. O. P. Race in the polls by a large margin. They need to go about business of staying focused. Reporter celebrity businessman, unorthodox ways threaten to over shadow other candidates campaigns includes john kassig who became the 16th republican to enter the race. He has credentials on paper that if this were a Job Interview and not maybe so much of an entertainment show, he would be doing a lot better than donald trump. Reporter trump says he has no intention of changing. Craig boswell for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Wanted al qaeda leader believed to be plot ago tax on the United States and other western countries is now dead. Pentagon says that the suspect was killed in syria in a targeted strike july 8th. This video posted on line, same day shows what is believed to be the fiery aftermath of that strike he had a seven milliondollar bounty on his head from the u. S. Government. Pentagon says,al fadhli had require knowledge of the september 11th attack. Man a accused of killing nine black Church Members in South Carolina is indicted on 33 federal counts, including hate crimes. Attorney general Loretta Lynch announced indictments of the 21 yearold dylann roof today. Roof was arrested following june 17th shootings at emmanuel african methodiste piss pal church in charleston. Prosecutors say roof wanted to start a race war. A new interim police chief takes charge tomorrow in ferguson missouri. Fifty yearold Andre Anderson will spend six months in charge of the department. He heads to ferguson from glendale arizona ferguson erupted after 18 yearold Michael Brown who was black was fatally shot by white Police Officer darren wilson. Justice Department Report cited racial bias and profiling, within the department. I am ready to work with the community and members of this Police Department with a Caring Nature and as well as bringing my experience, in Community Policing and Community Engagement to help us move forward. Anderson, by the way grew up in southwest philadelphia. Were getting a firsthand look at how local Fire Fighters are using soon to be demolished homes as a training ground. Eyewitness News Reporter Syma Chowdhry suited up for a session today and has the store friday Burlington County. Reporter glass shatters as Fire Fighters in Burlington County get a unique opportunity to train in real houses. Several homes in the mount Holly Gardens neighborhood had been acquired by the town and are vacant. Township officials plan to tear the houses down next week. Thinks an entire neighborhood, blighted neighborhood slated for redevelopment. Reporter west hampton township fire chief jason carty wanted to get in the homes to practice fire fighter techniques they normally dont get to do in a practice facility. At the fire academy we train in over again it is same floor plan, building make up same elevation where these are homes that people reside in and provides different opportunities. Reporter to get a real experience i geared up and rode along as if we were responding to a fire call. We got the call opened, called the fire hose in and turned it on. Information legal safety reasons they cannot light homes on fire but they can do everything else. A actually breaking the glass, and clearing out the window frame of the windows. Reporter Fire Fighters say this type of training will help them save lives for example, these guys behind me here they are break go through the ceiling looking for pockets of fire. It enables us to improve our skill set which at the end of the day helps resident we serve. Reporter a lot of respect for these guys. A lot of equipment. A lot of energy it takes. Definitely got a new respect for Fire Fighters. In mount holly Syma Chowdhry for cbs3 Eyewitness News. A Community Movement in chester is aiming to revitalize the the city through arts and culture. Eyewitness news cameras were there at the Chester City Council meeting with members of the chester put on a theater performance. They unveiled their Cultural Assets marking points across the city that local citizens described as chester made. The value of chester showing how its community and people feel about arts and culture, the ultimate goal, it is to show how arts and culture can make a difference in economic development. The information on the cultural asset map will be integrated in City Projects and land use planning. Still to come on Eyewitness News hackers show you just how easy it is to take over your car while youre driving. See how they are doing it and how many cars could be vulnerable to these same attacks, kate. And, in weather we have been enjoying just a gorgeous day outside it the will last through the rest of the week. We will take a peak in your weekend as well and ill let you know next chance for thunderstorm all coming up when we come right back. Well disturbing new video shows two computer hackers command during the vehicle of a leading auto maker. They took control of the radio, air conditioning and brakes. So scary video got at tension of congress and cbs news correspondent Chris Van Cleve has more on how lawmakers pushing for berth sign he protection for drivers. Taking the engine. Reporter this video grabbed at tension of the automotive world and congress, Cyber Security experts Charlie Miller and chris veilsack showed they can hack this jeep driven by a recorder from wires who produced this video and posted it on their web site tuesday. You were able to access the Jeep Cherokee over its 3g connection. Reporter pair, who worked asset california hackers were miles away using the internet to get inside the jeeps info system and controlling radio and nav system. Picture of charlie and chris, in the track that appeared on the dashboard. Reporter video shows hackers disabling jeeps brakes leading to it slide in the ditch. Jeep is had made by chrysler and hackers estimate 471,000 of the companys vehicles could be vulnerable through auto makers you connect system. How concerned are you that hackers may go after our cars. Unfortunately i think we have to anticipate that they will. Reporter massachusetts senator ed marky is requiring Cyber Security and Privacy Protection be applied to cars. We have to begin to build the protections in now give the warnings now to american families. We will turn the fan on them. Reporter hackers told Fiat Chrysler what they d they released a Software Update that offers customers improved vehicles electric tronic security and systems enhancement. Chris van cleve cbs3 Eyewitness News. Wow. I mean, oh, okay. Cant drive. Very scary. Still to come on Eyewitness News new research shedding new light on what veterans cope with after returning from the battle field. Find out what doctors say thousands may be going undiagnosed with, crippling emotion at disorder. Thinks summer. Thinks a glorious day. Beautiful walk up the front nine this morning. I bet you did. Yes indeed. Great morning for that. Great morning to go out and maybe go for a run do some exercise, even this evening it is not too hot a lot of times in july people want to stay inside in the air conditioning. We have seen that, this evening looks fantastic. Lets take a look outside right now. Look at the that, perfect outside, a few of those fair weather puff i cumulus clouds drifting by, cotton candy cloud my son calls them and blue skies outside right now all across the region. Humidity is low. Temperatures are comfortable for the time of the year. It is, a top ten weather day for sure, although, tomorrow may try to unseat this day. We dont want to give away too many, we gave them last week. Tomorrow could end up being nicer then today. Im not sure how would you beat today, maybe fewer cloud around the afternoon but clouds are nice to look at. Lets look at our weather watchers and see what they have to say this afternoon. Eightys across the board. Lower 80s. Steve schwartz in bensalem at 82 degrees. He is a the a glorious summer day, bright sunshine, cool breeze, you cannot ask for anything else. You certainly cannot. 82 degrees moving north to john, in yardley bucks county. Eightytwo, big difference from this time yesterday. Slight breeze. That is first thing i felt. Opened the door to let the dog out i felt that cool breeze. My kid were eating their cereals. I said outside cereals on the deck this morning. We have to enjoy this day while we have it. We could not be outside past couple of days. Lou in eagleville, 82. Further south here lets head down the shore, 84 as we check with james in ocean city. Full sunshine down the shore. He said if this is your week to vacation in ocean city, you won the lottery. That is bit james. We had hot steamy summer weather earlier in the week and now gorgeous weather down the shore. Lets go outside and see how evening is shaping up on storm scan three. No problems out there. A few patchy clouds, drifting through the the city this evening, there it goes again fair weather cloud no problems, High Pressure in control and High Pressure will have us in its grip for the next several days, really. We dont expect a end to this pattern anytime soon. Any shower or thunderstorm activity is around southern flange. Here is our dome of High Pressure. Here are showers and storms. That is only place deep south, where there is any significant heat and humidity to be found. The rest of the country is looking fantastic. 84 degrees right now at the airport. Great for a late july day. Eightyfour in millville. Eightyfour in dover but cool and comfortable in the poconos at 73. Down the shore lower 80s, land breeze happening right now, as you can see so that keeps shore communities warmer then sea breeze would. It is a stellar stretch heat stays south High Pressure in control. A cool dome of High Pressure, cool air heat pushed in the deep south and take a look at the humidity as well. Heres how it will feel the next few days. Tomorrow it is awesome. Friday pleasant. Saturday, looks good as well. We will slowly start to climb up, by sunday were back in the humid range but nothing like what we felt just a couple of days ago. No oppressive inn sufferable humidity. That sound good to me. Overnight clear comfortable. Sixtysix for your thursday. Sunny skies. Beauty. 85 degrees is our high. Down the shore on thursday, youll love this forecast. 83 degrees. Water temperature 69. Uv index nine. Rip current risk is low. In the poconos things look great. A great stretch to be in the mountains, upper 70s. Sunshine. For the the next three days. It does than the get much better than that in the summertime. Eyewitness weather seven day forecast and shore cast you can seashore temperatures generally staying in the lower 80s in the city, where were mid to upper 80s saturday fantastic. Some day more humid. We will dry it. Better chance for shower or thunderstorm on monday and then look at what happens on tuesday, were back to the 90s. Hot and humid. We will focus on the good stuff first. That is what is here and is what coming tomorrow. We will send it back over to you. On the cbs3 healthwatch a new study shows 40 years after the war ended a quarter million vietnam vets are struggling with post Traumatic Stress disorder. Health reporter Stephanie Stahl has details of that research. Reporter they are struggling. For some the the war never end, as they get older they may be more vulnerable to experiencing ptsd according to the study that was released late today. Philip served four years in the vietnam war as a marine. Ever since he had has been dealing with post Traumatic Stress disorder, Substance Abuse and he has also been homeless. I looked at my life, and yeah, you know something is wrong. Reporter new Research Shows more than 270,000 Vietnam Veterans are currently, still experiencing, significant symptoms of ptsd. The trauma that one under goes is reexperienced and relived, sometimes on a daily or constant basis. Reporter study published in the jama psychology, find onethird of the Vietnam Veterans suffer with depression. For Vietnam Veterans i would say they really did not have have services for ptsd available to them when they came home and if they have not received treatment it is never too late for iraq and afghanistan veterans there were many more treatment option as veilable are the report report philip, 64 now received counseling and medications and says his life has turned around. I dont live in the past. I dont choose to live in the future. I choose to live in the moment now. Reporter a number of studies show ptsd is not just a Mental Health condition. It can also cause physical issues like cardiovascular disease. You know, doctors say vets need to necessity if they need to reach out help is there just like philip found out his life was turnaround. You dont have to wipe it all away, there are resources. Help out our brothers ace sisters in arms. Thanks stephanie. We have breaking news, chopper three is live over a fire on Burlington County where at least two people have already been injured and rushed to an area hospital. At the moment it is not clear if those injured are First Responders or residents inside of the home. That fire is not under control, you can see the smoke billowing out. We will get more information throughout the afternoon we will bring you more as soon as we know more in our news room. Still ahead on Eyewitness News, it doesnt cost much to buy the the things that can make a new apartment a home. These supplies are going to the formally homeless with the help of a man who once was on the streets himself ill talk to him about his story of gratitude and giving back in this weeks brotherly love, we will be right back. Blank prep trauma unit 5. Whatve we got . Bp 64 40 sterilize sites. Multiple foreign objects in the body. Tweezers. buzz buzz if youre the guy from the operation game, you get operated on. Its what you do. buzz if you want to save fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance you switch to geico. Its what you do. Now to this weeks story of brotherly love. Getting out of hopelessness requires more than just a roof and four walls. It requires little things, i met a veteran who stepped up to help because he knows. Reporter fred silver walks back grateful for his serve your driver at cherry hill diner. Just last year this former Army Sergeant was homeless. I got to the point where i ran out of money. Reporter within minute a nonprofit volunteers of america, voa for short helped him rent this apartment in audubon. He was excited for his first night. I said i will make dinner. I a said my god i got nothing. Reporter he needed cookware, bowls, utensils. Fred scraped up 50 to buy essentials. This is what i need right now to get me through the next couple of weeks. Then the light bulb went off. These small pans right here. Reporter fred met up with Rebecca Fuller of voa who serve 13,000 people, many homeless, each year. Fred showed what it took to get started in the new apartment. I said that is brilliant. We could use that. That is when he said i call it services. Reporter it looks like a lot but only cost 50 bucks. It is everything from pots and pans down to salt and pepper. Reporter things like plates, cups sponges bedding, voa is raising 5,000 to buy 100 apartment starter kits before november 1st. Freddies glad the idea can help others who had the same success that he did. From your lowest lows, to the right now you must be feeling blessed, and thankful. I cannot tell you how thankful i am. Reporter fred used to work in hotels and restaurants. Now he is going to school for his degree in hospitality fitting for making lives of the home lessees year. That is what freddies all about. That is great. Good for him. Indeed. We solute him. That is Eyewitness News 59 00. Now at 6 00 dangers of duty on display in philadelphia today. An officer shot while serving a warrant. The bullet stopped by his vest. Tonight we are Digging Deeper in the suspects past. And ikea pulls a potentially deadly dresser from store shelves, two children killed, one from our area, we will hear from the victims family attorney about the tragedy and the response. In weather after a three take heat wave the heat and humidity gone today it is a beautiful afternoon on the skies deck ill tell you how long this nice weather will last, coming up. Plus a Montgomery County mans inspirational ride from coast to coast makes a stop here in philadelphia, how he over came odds, twice and now is giving back. And in the news tonight bullets fly in northeast philadelphia when the shooting stops and officers were injured and a suspect dead. Tonight, were learning more about that shooting, and the man, police were after. It started as offices tempt todd survey warrant in northeast philadelphia a good evening im ukee washington. Aim jessica dean. We will begin with Eyewitness News reporter matt rivers who is tracking the latest on the investigation from Police Headquarters matt . Reporter ukee and jessica, police have been searching for 27 yearold devon gashard for nearly a year and by 6 45 this morning he was dead. Police raided apartment on woodhaven road just after 6 00 a. M. A swat team looking to arrest devon gashard for murder. They say he met them with a gun. He spun, and fired a round striking the the officer in the stomach and with a 40 caliber semiautomatic weapon. Reporter that officer was wearing body arm or and suffered only a bruce. He was able to shoot back killing the suspect. You looked outside your window and you have kids. It is really scary experience. Reporter police say he fired a shot that killed megan doto and her unborn child last september, a deadly stray bullet. He has been on the run ever since. That is why he ran because he knew he didnt stand a chance. Reporter david brownies gashards father and maintains his sons innocence. He said his son was at home when the shooting happened. A as