That severe storms rolling through. You will see a couple embedded thunderstorms along the way. The isnt ideal but eventually we will get better and get more relief. Lets go out to skies cam three looking live over center city, still quite damp out there, wind is very light at the moment after those gusty storms rumbled through, 84 percent humidity with 73 degrees. Muggy start. Lets go back in time to see how these storms evolved, look at those lightening strikes. They were let up, now, same thing happened here, look at these strikes. My gosh. If you didnt get woken up you are lucky, there were so many lightening strikes and, of course, you cannot have have thunder without lightening but here we are standing at this hour and it is all gone. We are clearing out nicely at this point for time being. Morning rush will look better. I dont necessarily love how this particular future Weather Forecast is initial icing but i like how it plays out later. You you you will see them popping up scattered in nature and then later tonight we will clear out, lose cloud cover and we will even up with a comfortable night. Give it time. Just a matter of time before it all gets out of here. We can get through a day like this. It is a day that wouldnt be your choice kind of day if you want to take the umbrella along. Anything you see would be scattered but it is still steamy, muggy and high reaching 85 later today. So keep in mind, active pattern, always stay on top of the weather by texting us cbs philly weather to 84816 and sign up for text alerts and keep in mind that message and data rights do apply there. At 2 00 the house was rocking with those thunder boomers. With all that out of here all of the roads are still wet. Lets look live, expect puddles and damp roadways, live look at route 309 near the pennsylvania turnpike, you can ian example of the wet roads from the overhead, lights there as the turnpike overpass comes through, the schuylkill expressway, no problems or delays coming in or out of the city but watching on the on and off ramps, they are all still wet from the big soaking we received overnight. Westbound on the schuylkill, we are at a disable tractor trailer kind of of in the middle of the merge there, so just be careful heading westbound this morning. South jersey waking up with in problems on the major roadways, airport, maybe first couple flights could be delays, but as that storm moves off to the coast and moving in new york we could see delays for the first couple flights out of the gate. Regional rails had big problems last night because of the heat. We reset the clock and will restart everything this morning with no delays on the buses, trains or trolleys, natasha, back over to you. New this morning a 23 yearold man was shot four times in the the 3300 block of West Cumberland street in west philadelphia. Police say he was fired at 12 times with the semiautomatic gun. He was struck three times in the arm, once in the face and is now you in stable condition. Police are hoping cameras can help them fine those responsible. Right now it is 5 00 another owe four. What starts as a kidnapping end as a home invasion. Philadelphia police are looking for three men who terrorized a family in the northeast. Eyewitness News ReporterJen Bernstein joins us live to bring us up to date, jen, good morning. Reporter good morning, natasha. Police are still looking for three suspects who kidnaped a 15 yearold and held them for ransom while they tied up and robbed his parents inside their somerton home. At this point in the Investigation Police believe the family was targeted. Christian was shaking yesterday after his family went through a scary ordeal. They have had guns, they pulled us down. Reporter he and his wife were expecting their 15 yearold son home in the afternoon. So when someone knock the door his wife didnt think twice and answered it, standing there were two armed men said they kidnaped their sun as they walk home. He was wearing white color, dark colored pants and they are both wearing purple latex gloves. My son, call us from the guys phone and said give us everything, give them everything, money, jewelry whatever you got. Reporter according to police the 15 yearold was held hostage, parents were tied up and forced on the floor. They complied with the mess, suspects searched the home and awe what they could taking off with the 15 yearold still in the car. I got outside fast, i grabbed my keys, left, followed them, i chased those guys and i almost caught up to them but they got away. Reporter suspects later left the the 15 yearold near 23rd and fairmount. The 15 yearold was home with his family this morning. He suffered some bruising but other than that is okay. Suspects did getaway with 30,000 in cash as well as home Surveillance System and jewelry. As for the family they do own several businesses in the area but they didnt recognize the suspects. That is the latest, Jen Bernstein, cbs3 Eyewitness News. Philadelphia City Council Meets today for last time before its summer break and there is a lot still on the table for council members, they will vote on a bill to reduce penalties if caught with the small amount of marijuana. Instead of being arrested police could give you a five toll air ticket if you have a ounce or less of the drug. Jim kenny tells us he is confident he has enough votes to pass this bill. Also today, funding for philadelphia public schools, council will vote on the 27 milliondollar loan, for district but School Leaders say, they need more money to fill a 216 milliondollar budget hole. One issue not expect to come up is sale of philadelphia gas works. Council members still have to sign off on the mayors plan to sell the utility for almost 2 billion. Also happening the trial will get underway for swiss cheese pervert, Christopher Pagan owe is charged with multiple offenses including stalking, indecent exposure for harassment for different with men. He have is accused of offering to pay women to put swiss cheese on his privates and perform sexual acts. We know what officially caused damage to the i495 bridge forcing closure and traffic jams. The the bridge spans cristina river in wilmington and closure will certainly be felt by tourist this weekend. Eyewitness News Reporter jane carabao has more. Reporter it is shaping up to be a summer have have detours and delays, a tilting i495 bridge in wilmington is forcing i95 drivers to drive another route. Last friday it took meehan hour and a half to do a 25 minute commute. It will get worse as 70,000 more people head to the fire fly Music Festival in dover. This was traffic last year and all routes were opened. It will be crazy, i will be gone starting on friday, i will be on vacation out of the area. Reporter on site wednesday crews continue to drill down to bedrock, all while authorities name ab official cause of the problem. Federal Highway Administration says that 50,000 you ton dirt pile next to the bridge displaced soil underneath support columns causing them to tilt. Agency also says that the bridge was properly design, construction, inspect and maintained adding that the state could not reasonably done more to prevent failure leaving commuters counting down the days until a fix is complete, estimated at the even of summer. Do things at ultimate times to avoid being stuck in it. We again, reach out to the owner of the dirt pile and he again, refused comment. If you are one of the tens of thousands of people, heading down for fire fly Music Festival dell dot suggest you take i295 town to the delaware memorial bridge. We have a full list of the suggested routes at cbs philly. Com, those gates open up at 5 00 p. M. Thursday evening. Reporting from wilmington jane carabao for cbs3 Eyewitness News. We are keeping an eye on the Supreme Court this morning, hot button issue decided in hours, including one that will have a huge impact on how you w watch tv. Plus crisis in iraq about to affect us, impact the latest round have of fighting is having on gas prices. Is this the end of the controversial redskins name . Deis that is shaking up the nfl this morning and what happens next for them, we will be right b because the more y. At farmers, we make you smarter about auto insurance, cut. Lower. Shave. Chop. 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Cbs and other Major Networks are sugar use for copy right infringement. They stream over the air broadcast. They insist those broadcasts are free, broadcasters say that they should have have to pay same fees that Cable Companies do to retransmit network shows. 5 13. Traffic and weather together on the threes in just a moment but first a massive tornado rips right through the heart have of the south dakota twister destroyed dozens of homes, businesses and farms. About a hundred miles west of there, another tornado touched down in the town of humbolt. Amazingly no people or animals were hurt in either of these storms. We saw wild weather here, i got woken up early. We took a pole, we all did and we have that conversation going on, on twit eras well, let us know what you saw and we are getting lots of pictures from this storm. Shawn sent us in this picture of lightening in norwood, delaware county. They shared multiple lightening strikes in margate that is a crazy picture in atlantic county. We want to see your storm pictures, do so safely but share them on twitter using hash tag cbs3 storm is and we will try to get them on air. Some of these strikes are just incredible and we have been reporting all morning now that the lightening strike did come through and strike a house in chalfont, bucks county. We will start this segment off with the pollen report, levels are very low at worst we are low to medium range, grasses, dock, plantain are the issues here. At least good news is they are out of here. They are not terribly, cranky, if you lost sleep here, we get it. You have to wake up early. Last thing you want to do is get woken up. At least it is out of here now. Morning drive is what it would have been if we had this at radar. Wider zoom shows that we once again have have activity, popping off to the west, a very large complex of rain and embedded thunderstorms heading towards the Pennsylvania State border that will role our way and comes courtesy of the latest cold front. We are not out of the woods but we are not dealing with the severe we saw through the overnight. We will hear rumble have of thunder here and there and definitely not quite as much in the way of severity. We will drop skies out, now were talking, way more typical for standards, 53 with the northerly breeze means it will be comfortable, tomorrow also, more relief on the way, and we will get more sunshine. It will be a nice way. Low 80s this weekend. We have to dodge a shower or thunderstorm on saturday. Sunday has a good shot to stay dry. It is in the the quite as picturesque as last few weekend have been, bob, over to you good 5 15 on this thursday morning. We are wet this morning because of the thunder boomers that rolled through. Work crews worked right through it on 202 pouring new concrete between the two, and route 401 but the the travel lanes will be all wet and damp this morning. Lets go to i95 right below walt whitman bridge here. No problems in or out of south philadelphia, we have an subsequent on the walt whitman bridge coming in towards philadelphia so between 676 and mid span of the witness just watch for police on the scene there. Crash up there in norristown with the disable vehicle on norristown road, and then west on the schuylkill a disable tractor trailer right at lincoln drive off ramp. 495 will remain closed through the weekend, and as we are heading down for dover for big fire fly Music Festival, a lot have extra volume on route one, beginning today, through the weekend, that short cut in and out of wilmington and dover would be 295 down to the delaware memorial, natasha, back over to you. Camden county is taking aim tonight, Eyewitness News was there last night as crews sprayed to kill the the bugs in cherry hill. Tonight they are spraying in camden, pennsauken, haddon township, barrington and oakland. You can also help stop, by making sure that you dont have any standing water in your yard. Right now it is 5 17, another day another bear sighting. We have new video of the animal, and where it was last seen. Attack him. Well, a robber pick the wrong target when he tried to steel from this with man, the unusual weapon that she used to fight good morning nelly woah. Hey have you ever tried honey nut cheerios . Love em. Neat now you on the other hand. You need some help. Why . Look atchya. What is that . You mean my honey wand . [ shouting ] [ splat ] come on. Matter of fact. [ rustling ] shirt. Shoes. Shades. Ah wow now that voice. My voice . [ autotuned ] whats wrong with my voice . Yeah man, bee got swag be happy be healthy thats gotta go too. Hey must be the honey [ sparkle ] sweet. One of the four teens wanted in the knock out attack object homeless man surrendered to police. Eighteen year old trent epps is charged with assault and held on hundred thousand dollars bail. Police say epps and three others videotaped the the attack in the aronimink trolley station last wednesday. Investigators, received dozens of tips, after video was posted on facebook. We will not tolerate this type of behavior, it is not a joke, game but this guy could have gotten killed. Victim could have have gotten killed, fortunately he didnt sustain any serious injuries. Detectives are still searching for the other three suspects. And a 89 yearold northeast philadelphia man is accused of serving as nazi guard, johann briar that is was ordered held without bail, yesterday on a german arrest warrant. Federal marshals arrested briar on tuesday night at his home in the northeast and took him into custody. He is charged with aiding and a betting the killing of over 200,000 jewish men, women and children. German officials want him extradited as soon as possible. Briars hearing is scheduled for august. Happening today wikileaks will release a new batch of documents, Julian Assange says his secret sharing web site will unveil classified documents on international negotiations. Assange has been held up, in the he can dor embassy for two years. He wanted for questioning in sweden on allegations that he sexually assaulted two women. No charges were filed. If you went to bed early, you will miss baseball history. We will that have next in sports. This girl is turning heads on golf course today, not everybody is impressed by this young phenom, including the young competitors. 5 23, time for traffic and weather together, what a storm this is, katie. There were a few clusters of really heavy thunderstorms, lot of lightening, heavy rain that came through, if it had to come through at all it did come through with hardly any people outside on the roadways because it was a mess driving into work. I know that much. Live look at center city you can see a little bit of the break in the cloud cover looking near comcast building there. We will see a little sunshine but problem is we are not all said and done here. Lets go next, quick check there does show we have basically clouds left over but those heavy thunderstorms are out to sea and weakening retreating. We have yet to see our latest cold front cross so we will be still dealing with the shower or thunderstorm anywhere in the just at area shore point. Todays high 79 degrees. Water temperatures cooler because of the storms moving through, uv index is also lower but it is still going to be steamy out there, the in the city of philadelphia, we are up to 85 this afternoon. 5 24. All of the roads are damp and wet, fog and haze out there. Lets go outside to a live look, 422, headlights between collegeville and the king of prussia interchange there but watch for the damp roads, a live look at the blue route, 476 where it takes you up and over the schuylkill expressway. In problems there. Just watch for wet roads, on and off ramps could be slippery, maybe a puddle as you step out to the corn they are morning. An accident outside hatfield, allentown road near banbury drive. Bridges are fine. The mass transit running with no delays, erika, back over to you. Legal proceedings are expected today in the Donald Sterling saga shelley sterling attorney will be seeking protection for her legal team and doctors to declare clippers owner Donald Sterling mentally incapacitated. Lawyers will argue that mr. Sterlings attorney need to stop threatening, harassing and intimidating his wifes legal team and doctors. It seeks protection for witnesses in next month trial to determine if shelley sterling can sell the clippers. History made in los angeles late last night, while were you likely sleeping the dodgers clayton kerrshaw threw a in hitter. Two time cy young award winner struck out a career high 15 rockies including the final out of the game. The only blemish was eventing error. It was kershaw first career know hitter. Dodgers won eight to nothing. L. A. s josh beckett no hit phillies in may. Phillies are winners of the Third Straight game and they take on the cardinals tonight in st. Louis, phillies seven game road trip is off to a good start. Phillies were down fourtwo after first inning yesterday in atlanta but they just kept on scoring, ryan howard with one of five fill business three hits yesterday, season high 18 hits, phillies come back and they beat atlanta tenfive. Coming up, in the next her of eyewewitness news, we are continuing to keep an eye on strong storms overnight and new look at damage left behind. We will check with katie for updated forecast, jen. Reporter three men kidnaped a 15 yearold and holds him for ransom and tied up and robbed his parents in somerton, im outside of police headquarters, with we have some breaking news right now,ew video just in from doylestown where lightening has struck a chimney there it is, lightening strike blew up a part of the chimney on the street ape you can see debring, center blocks, good news we are told there are no injuries reported. This is scene in chalfont bucks county, where a house on summer ridge circle also caught fire, one person was inside, but they did manage to escape safely. Chances are you heard these storms, they woke us up in the studio at 2 00 a. M. Storm scan three shows we are not in the clear yet. Lets get over to katie for latest on this forecast, katie. Those storms at this point are out of here ape it looks lick they will be as strong as they will be at the the rest of the day. Look at lightening we have pictures on twitter, we have been getting reports of the damage being done. Our own bill from wogl says his power went out just as he woke up as well. I think we might be grumpy just because of the looks have sleep, but we can bed well here with the forecast at least the next couple of hours, there is a break in the action but eventually some more showers and storms do pick up for us but nothing anywhere near as severe