the building, they tried to keep the fire contained to that first floor. >> the whole wing of the apartment is going to be affected because the fire did breach walls in the hallway so the fire companies had to do overhaul to make sure that the fire didn't spread to the other apartments. so we're talking about eight apartments. >> reporter: eight apartments are uninhabitable. restoration crews are already out here trying to repair and patch some of the broken doors and windows that were damaged during the firefighting effort. no cause known at this time. half a dozen people are out of homes because of the fire so red cross is assisting them with housing tonight. reporting live in northeast philadelphia, katy zachry, nbc 10 news. in atlantic county, the longport police department is mourning the loss of one of their officers that died in a motorcycle crash. police say sergeant charles adams' motorcycle collided with an suv yesterday afternoon near route 40 in harding highway. he died at the hospital. the 21-year veteran of the force was off-duty at the time. happening today, prosecutors will continue laying out their case against christina regusters charged with kidnapping and raping a 5-year-old girl. jesse gary joins us now from the criminal justice center. during day one of the trial, there was graphic accounting of the alleged crime. >> reporter: that's right. i spoke with defense attorney fred harrison before a gag order was imposed in this trial. he told me he believes there's a cultural bias against the defendant charged with a crime against a child. he asked jurors to keep an open mind. this as the prosecution continues presenting their case. let's look at our video. yesterday prosecutors said that after 21-year-old christina regusters put a burqa on and took the victim out of her west philadelphia elementary school last year she carried the 5 year old in a laundry bag and blindfolded the girl and put her under a bed, naked and terrified and sexually assaulted her with an unknown object that left wounds requiring surgery. attorney tom klein represents the child in a civil lawsuit and he's not bound by the gag order. >> she had the most brutal, horrible assault on her that you could imagine. and it is something that is unthinkable and it is something that needs to be punished. >> reporter: prosecutors say regusters is a day care worker and knew the child and planned the kidnapping. they plan to put the girl who is now 7 years old on the stand. the testimony resumes later this morning here at the cjc. live in center city, jesse gary, nbc 10 news. a man accused of a crash that killed a philadelphia girl has pleaded guilty. according to court documents, mhe admitt eted to being drunk whene crash occurred. an 11-year-old girl was killed. three people hospitalized. video of that crash scene here. he plead guilty to charges that include assault and driving under the influence. happening today, an announcement by the philadelphia police department. they're trying to convince residents and businesses to join the city's safe cam program. more than 4,300 surveillance cameras in the city are registered with safe cam. police have access to about half of those camera feeds. they use them to investigate crimes. the department is encouraging more businesses to install cameras in an effort to make neighborhoods safe. police are looking for the gunman that forced an amish horse and buggy off the road in lancaster county and then robbed them. a white minivan forced it to stop. police say a masked man got out, demanded money, took their wallets and drove off. no one was hurt. a philadelphia newspaper caption controversy has cost one worker his job. the publisher of the philadelphia public record says he fired the editor responsible for this caption. it used racial slurs referring to asian americans in place of real names. the publisher tells us he's apologized to anyone offended by the picture. he says the editor did not follow procedure procedures. >> he comes from a background where these are cute things. >> it doesn't address the issue of making sure that people have the right sensitivity. >> the former head of the philadelphia human rights commission says caption is disrespectful and the paper waited too long to release an online procedure. from fender-benders to serious crashes, philadelphia is on a brand new list of the worst driving cities. you'll learn where the city of brotherly love ranks behind the wheel. also -- a change of tune at musik fest. how officials plan to address violence for next year's festival. clear skies this morning. looks very much like yesterday. there are some changes ahead. right now, 69 degrees here at nbc 10. a nice clear start this morning and a warmer start than yesterday by a few degrees in some areas. right now we're looking for sunshine through the day today. there are, however, a few spots of fog to start with. that will disappear as temperatures warm. this is part of a warming trend that will have us close to the 90-degree mark for the first time in a month tomorrow. along with a rip tide risk along the coast because cristobal is heading offshore. close enough that we'll get good waves along the coastline. doylestown, 63 degrees. clear skies. low 60s in cape may. we'll see plenty of sunshine when it comes up in philadelphia. 70 degrees currently. a few scattered clouds. this is view from center city this morning. we'll see no rainfall today. we are getting a bit of fog. blue bell now half mile visibility. similar to what we started with yesterday. hazelton has seen some very light fog. nowhere near as thick as yesterday morning. a little bit of light fog is going to be it' not an issue for delaware and south jersey at all this morning. satellite otherwise is clear. no sign of any clouds for us today. you'll need sunglasses and you'll be able to watch those temperatures quickly climb. warmer than yesterday. 88 degrees for reading this afternoon. quakertown, 86. 82 for mount pocono. if you are looking for relief, you'll find it for the delaware beaches and jersey shore. 77 today for atlantic city. vineland and dover warm into the middle 80s. it's upper 80s for westchester. the seven-day forecast with a look toward the weekend when i come back. >> at 20 minutes until 6:00, let's see if there's anything you may need to detour around as you had head to work this morning. >> jillian mele has the headlines going on right now. >> good morning. here's what's happening. bridges are clear of any delays. an accident in delaware and now we have two accidents in montgomery county. this is a new accident. this is route 309 southbound side. it's causing just a little slowdown in that area. no big delay on 309. slow as drivers pass the accident scene. it appears this vehicle is involved. unclear if any other vehicles are involved. we'll continue to watch this and keep you updated. still have an accident in colmar southbound bethlehem pike and 309 southbound lanes still closed in that area. northbound is okay. you can take county line road as your alternate. heading to delaware, a lot of activity right in this area. this is route 1 northbound. the flyover ramp to 95 northbound. it's still blocked off because of an accident involving an overturned vehicle. use caution in that area. no other accidents to report on the majors in delaware and as i mentioned area bridges looking good. this is ben franklin bridge. we had construction on westbound side earlier this morning. that's since cleared. chris? changes could be coming to a popular music festival in the lehigh valley after several violent incidents at this year's event. ♪ >> nbc 10 was at musik fest earlier this month. they will meet with organizers to discuss how public safety is handled. three shootings and an assault were reported at or near this year's festival. several changes are now being considered including shortening festival hours on main street and installing brighter lights. philadelphia has a lot of things to brag about, right, except when it comes to safe driving. a new list of the nation's worst driving cities was just released and buckle up. philadelphia does not fare too well on that list. hundreds of gallons gone. used cooking oil vanished from more than a dozen new york restaurants. trading-in or selling your car, truck or suv? webuyanycar.com takes the hassle out of selling in just 3 easy steps. one, get your free online valuation. two, book an appointment. and ree, pick up a check at your nearest buying center. ♪ find out how much your car is worth ♪ ♪ at webuyanycar.com another peaceful night in ferguson, missouri. no arrests reported. people protesting the shooting death of an unarmed teen by police took break on the day of his funeral. more than 4,500 people came together yesterday to pay their respects to michael brown, jr. they called for those to push for change and help end what they call the senseless killings. investigators say brown was unarmed when he was shot and killed by officer darren wilson in ferguson more than two weeks ago. the shooting as you know sparked outrage and dozens of protests across the country. more than 11,000 ferguson students returned to school yesterday after more than a week of missed classes because of the chaos there. classes in that school district were scheduled to begin august 14th five days after brown's shooting death but street protests marred by sometimes violent clashes between police and demonstrators led to several delays. new this morning, a just released report shows that philadelphia has the worst drivers among major u.s. cities. do you believe that? according to the best driver's report, the average driver in philly is involved in car accident every six years. philadelphians are 61% more likely to crash than the average american. that puts philly at number 192 dead last among america's large cities. coming in first in the report, ft. collins, colorado, and dead last among all cities, worcester, massachusetts. new york city, which you think would have worse drivers than philadelphia, isn't even close. it ranks 155. we have new video this morning that is purported to show isis supporters celebrating after militants captured a major military base in syria. dozens of vehicles honked their horns after an air field was taken over. it was home to syrian warplanes, helicopters, tanks and ammunition bunkers. it is the third syrian military base in the area to fall to the extremists since last month. united states surveillance planes are now flying over syria to get intelligence on the militant group isis that could lead to air strikes after isis murdered an american journalist last week and threatened the lives of more u.s. hostages. syria's foreign minister says they're ready to help confront isis but they warn that the u.s. should not carry out air strikes without syria's consent. the foreign minister says uncoordinated attacks would be seen as aggression and air strikes alone are not enough to deal with isis. the crisis in the middle east forced thousands of israelis to evacuate areas bordering the gaza strip. hundreds of families left their homes because of rocket fire from hamas militants. two palestinians were killed and five others were wounded. they launched 40 rockets at southern israel. there were no civilian casualties. japan says it's ready to provide a flu drug as a possible treatment for the ebola outbreak in west africa. officials say that drug should have a similar effect on ebola as it does the flu and could help more than 20,000 patients but they say they are waiting on a decision by the world health organization on the use of untested drugs. a liberian doctor given the last known doses of the experimental ebola drug has died. that's the same drug that two americans took. they both have recovered from the deadly virus although it's unclear at this point whether they were cured by the drug. the department of veterans affairs says investigators have found no proof that delays in care caused any of the deaths at a veterans affairs hospital in phoenix. revelations as many as 40 veterans died while awaiting care from the phoenix va rocked the agency last spring you'll remember. it exposed a system in which veterans waited months for care while va employees falsified records to cover up those delays. a draft of the va inspector general's report says investigators could not conclusively assert that delays in care caused any veterans to die. happening today, water shutoffs resume in detroit today. last month the city declared a 30-day moratorium on cutting off water for dozens of residents. some 25,000 homes had put money toward their bills or signed up for payment plans but that leaves about 50,000 accounts in delinquency and subject to shutoffs. a new york couple pleaded not guilty to stealing used cooking oil from more than a dozen restaurants. police say they caught the pair on sunday taking the oil stored in drums like these and investigators say the couple had 650 gallons of o to recyclers. it's worth about $2,000. >> i would never have thought that old french fry grease would run a lot of money. >> they can make 500 to 1,000 a night stealing the oil. >> the thefts are hitting one new york oil recycler hard saying it's losing tens of thousands of dollars a month because thieves sell stolen oil to other recyclers for half the price. > a russian tourist climbed to the top of the bridge on sunday who said he did it for fun. he's charged with reckless endangerment, trespassing and disorderly conduct. he's in jail ordered to hand over his passport. he reached the top of the bridge tower and took pictures with his smartphone. apparently his battery was just fine. if you have an iphone 5 and can't seem to get it to hold a charge, you can get a new battery for free. it's part of apple's iphone battery replacement program affecting phones purchased between september 2012 and january 2013. if you replaced the battery, you can get a refund. we have an update on a hurricane churning in the pacific right now. hurricane marie weakened to category 2. maria is causie ining big wavesg mexico's coast. people are told to stay out of the water. the hurricane is far southwest of the tip of baja, california. as it gets closer, it could cause dangerous waves along the southern coast of the state. we are inching closer to sunrise this morning just over half an hour away and look at this view from the comcast center. a couple scattered clouds but mainly it's going to be sunshine like yesterday. we're starting at 70 degrees. that's warmer than yesterday in philadelphia. six degrees warmer. the humidity not so bad. 71%. that number will go lower as the day goes on. look at clear skies in the pocono mountains. this is the view from sky top lodge. a gorgeous day in the mountains with nothing but sunshine today in the low 80s. tropics is a different story. we now have hurricane cristobal. a minimal hurricane at 75 miles an hour. the good news is that this storm is going to steer clear of bermuda and the east coast. no problems there. there is a risk of rip currents not only today but right on through the weekend along the coastline which includes the jersey shore and the delaware beaches. a moderate risk for rip currents. so temperatures will be heading in upper 70s tempting to go to the shore especially over the next few days when temperatures will be warmer inland. 82 degrees on wednesday and 80 on thursday. that rip current risk will be with us through the weekend. today, upper 80s this afternoon. future weather showing philadelphia, northeast philly, 88 degrees at 5:00 this afternoon. this evening the numbers drop into the 70s. a nice pleasant evening. we'll start in the 60s and 70s tomorrow morning. but later in the morning closer to the 80-degree mark and here come the 90s tomorrow afternoon. look what else is on the way. chance of showers as we head into the evening hours tomorrow. not today. don't need your rain gear just your sunglasses. sunblock too. bright sunshine with barely a cloud in the sky. upper 80s today and then to the 90-degree mark for one day. tomorrow. then it's back down into middle 80s with less humid air for thursday and friday and then the temperatures go back up this weekend. 88 on saturday. looking for 90 with a chance of showers sunday and monday. eight minutes before 6:00 right now. there's an accident on the northeast extension to tell you about. >> it's one of a couple accidents we've had out there this morning. jillian mele has been keeping us posted on traffic problems because of that. >> we just got word of this accident on the southbound side of the northeast extension past the exit for landsdale as drivers make their way to the toll plaza. we're told that both lanes on northeast extension southbound are blocked in that area. traffic is getting by on the shoulder. expect to see a delay forming that forms quickly when we have both lanes blocked on the northeast extension. you can take 309 as your alternate. if you take 309, issues there. this is 309 southbound at norris town road. one lane blocked as a result of an accident. no big delays but traffic is slow moving by that scene. and then an accident blocking bethlehem pike in colmar. take county line road as your alternate. if you are heading out the door exit southbound right at landsdale from northeast extension and then take 309. that would be your best bet there. 95 looking good. average speeds right now southbound heading into center city about 46 miles per hour. use caution in that area if you are heading out because we're just starting to see a little tap of brakes. no slowdowns there. northbound route 1 at the flyover to 95 northbound we still have some activity out here. an accident involving an overturned vehicle is blocking that ramp. chris? smartphones could be the key to keeping students safe on campus. ahead in our next hour, how an app is connecting local students to emergency contacts and services. and toasting it taney philadelphia style. we know the route for tomorrow's parade through philly. to prove a point about internet speeds, we slowed down an up escalator this is crazy like i don't get it, this one is working ladies, shouldn't up be as fast as down? yeah. shouldn't internet speeds match as well? yes. do your socks match? my socks match. do your eyeballs match? yes. cable does not match the speeds. makes you want to go mad. erggggh. only verizon fios comes with speed match. upload speeds as fast as your download speeds. join now at fiosspeedmatch.com. verizon. >> high school football is back and you can vote for our first high school blitz game of the week. choices are frankford at downingtown east, lasalle at north penn or martin luther king at coatsville. the game with the most votes will be on high school blitz. from our nbc 10 jersey shore bureau despite opposition from environmental groups, a new project is under way off the new jersey coast. the survey is sending sound pulses into the sea floor to measure the potential for tsunamis. the project was stopped earlier this month because of problems with a ship at that tows the sound guns. the ship was repaired. researchers will monitor marine mammals for threat to their well-being. some students in this area have gone back to school. the ben salem bucks county district began classes yesterday with a staggered start. police have an important reminder for drivers in the area. >> drivers have to be aware of school zones and school buses and you have kids running out in front of buses and kids going to school for the first time. >> give yourself more time to get to work this morning. other bucks county schools include bristol township. teaches there are in contract talks working under a 2011 pay freeze. >> a lot of parents scrambling to get school supplies for next week. >> you're watching "nbc 10 news today" at 6:00. following this new from y e overnight, alive but homeless. we're live on the scene with an update. as summer winds down, temperatures are starting to heat up. we'll get your forecast for the holiday weekend. good morning. this is "nbc 10 news today." i'm tracy davidson. >> i'm chris cato. let's start with nbc 10 first alert meteorologist bill henley. for everyone out there trying to enjoy the final week of summer before a lot of people go back to school, they're going to get more summerlike weather today. >> not an issue today at all. there are a couple spots of fog like yesterday north and west but it's light fog right now. and it's going to quickly clear as temperatures warm as we go through the morning hours. look at this nice, sunny soon to be sunny view from cape may. that's a live view. no clouds there. it's going to be a nice, dry day at the shore with temperatures reaching close to the 80-degree mark. inland, right now it's 69 in philadelphia. that's down a degree in the last hour. 50s for pottstown and allentown. philadelphia, upper 80s today. at 7:00, sunshine. 68 degrees. 73 at 9:00. and then 83 by lunchtime. it will go higher this afternoon. i'll show you how warm it will be in your neighborhood when i
first jillian mele has traffic. good morning. >> good morning, bill. it got really busy on the roads. let's start with the biggest problem northeast extension southbound past landsdale with an accident blocking both lanes on the highway. traffic getting by on the shoulder. two vehicles are involved in this accident. easiest alternate route is route 309. we have two problems on 309 in colmar southbound 309 is still blocked because of an accident that happened hours ago. we are told that this accident in the process of clearing. it hasn't cleared just yet. and then 309 southbound at norristown road, an accident blocking one lane. traffic is getting by. not causing a big delay. heads-up about other issues we see out there. a new accident into the system. this is 95 southbound right near route 320. you can see we have multiple lanes blocked off due to this accident that just happened. one lane of traffic on 95 southbound. this is creating a big delay out there and on northeast extension a delay of two miles in that area so big delay on northeast extension. big delay now on 95. for drivers in delaware, we also still have an accident very tough to see in this camera. route 1 northbound flyover ramp to 95 northbound is closed because of a crash. we'll keep you updated on all of these problems. >> a lot to watch. thank you. new from overnight, fire burns an apartment building in north philadelphia forcing people to flee their homes. katy zachry is live on grant avenue. those people may never have had a chance to flee if it hasndn't before for firefighters. >> reporter: thanks to firefighters that arrived here just after 11:30 fire had broken out in this building behind me in grant meadows apartment complex off grant avenue and when firefighters arrived, they did not hear smoke alarms going off so they sprang into action calling for backup while some firefighters went up and down the halls of this building knocking on people's doors making sure they got up and out to safety. flames and smoke were coming from the first floor and it's believed that's where the fire started. there were no injuries throughout this whole process. unfortunately eight units are considered uninhabitable. some people who live here had an extra moment of panic because they were on their way home and saw the smoke from a distance. >> we could literally see and smell the smoke on grant avenue so once we went to make the u-turn, we could see fire trucks. we could see cops, ambulances, the whole nine. >> you see some people congregating outside of the building that caught on fire. fortunately these people are not out of homes. their apartments did not sustain any damage. they are still just out here talking about what happened because as you saw from the video, it's quite a scene. you may hear the restoration crew that's been out here for the last few hours repairing the doors and windows that firefighters had to damage and break through during the firefighting process. about five people are without homes. they're being assisted by the red cross. >> we apologize for that. we'll get that fixed for her next hit. police questioned a person of interest who lived with the two women who were found murdered inside their northeast philadelphia home. 67-year-old dolly evans and 57-year-old ruby thomas were shot in the head execution style at their home on vista street saturday night. investigators say thomas may have been strangled as well. police say the person of interest was scene leaving after the gunshots were heard. so far no one has been arrested. new from overnight, israeli air strikes killed some on monday. you see video of that there. israel says the targeted sites were linked to hamas. we should learn more today about a new jersey man studying overseas in israel who may have been kidnapped. 23-year-old aaron sofer from lakewood has been missing since friday. later this morning lakewood's mayor will brief the community on effort to find aaron. sofer is from lakewood, ocean county, disappeared as he was hiking with a friend in the jerusalem forest. israeli authorities launched a massive search and rescue operation. thousands of volunteers looking for him. so far no sign of sofer and that's fuelling a lot of fears he may have been kidnapped. in june you may remember this story, a teenager from lakewood was kidnapped and killed in the west bank. the 16 year old and two friends disappeared while hiking home. their bodies were found two weeks later. hamas militants claimed responsibility for murdering them. president obama has given the green light for surveillance planes to fly over syria to get intelligence on islamic state in syria also known as isis. this could lead to u.s. air strikes. it comes after isis announced last week it murdered an american journalist and threatened the lives of more u.s. hostages. syria's foreign minister is ready to help confront isis but warns the u.s. should not carry out air strikes without their consent. the foreign minister says uncoordinated attacks could be seen as aggression and he said air strikes alone are not enough to deal with isis. a stray bullet came within inches of hitting a sleeping toddler. now police in delaware county are trying to track down the shooter. look at this photo provided by darby police. see that bullet hole in the wall there just above the crib where a 3-year-old boy was sleeping. gunfire erupted at 6th and walnut sunday night bullets spreading down much of the block. thankfully no one was hit. this is the second shooting in that area over the past ten days. >> that was my great grandson. if he had stood up, he might not be here today. >> there's something going on in that area that we need to look into. it's very serious. >> police went door to door last night asking neighbors if they might have any private security video that would show the shooter. so far they only have a vague description of two men seen running away. verizon will give the camden county police department a $10,000 check for new police dogs and the department says it will name one of the dogs fios. support from local businesses helps them keep the community safe. clear skies this morning. we'll see sunshine. not everybody is in the clear. we are spotting some areas of fog as temperatures warm with sunshine. we'll see the fog disappear. it's part of a warming trend which will have us near the 90-degree mark for the first time in a month tomorrow. right now 54 degrees in mt. pocono. clear skies. also clear in trenton and dover with readings in the low 60s. not all of the mountains are clear this morning. this is the view which has fog rolling back into parts of the mountains again this morning. not quite as thick for most areas yesterday but blue bell now seeing half a mile visibility like yesterday and it's down to 2.35 miles in hazelton. at one point yesterday we saw zero visibility in hazelton. this fog will disappear. some light fog right now in mount holly and wrightsdown but n not an issue for most of south jersey. sunshine will warm temperatures quickly. 82 for pocono mountains. once the fog clears, nothing but sunshine. 88 at reading. quakertown, 86 degrees. plenty of sunshine. look at temperatures for doylestown, northeast philadelphia, mount holly, upper 80s. and cooler at the shore but still in the 80s for cape may. vineland warms to 85. wilmington will see 88 degrees this afternoon along with philadelphia. and plenty of sunshine for chester and westchester. wet weather in our future. seven-day forecast when i come back. >> thanks. 6:08 right now. when something serious happens on the roads, we launch sky force. >> sky force is in the air on the way to an accident. nbc 10 first alert traffic reporter jillian mele will let us know what's haas happeniis h. >> they are headed to this accident on the northeast extension. the southbound side just past the exit for lansdale. on the northeast extension both lanes are blocked. traffic getting by on the shoulder. at least two vehicles involved in this crash. i tell you to take route 309 as an alternate. we're dealing with issues on 309. an update here. still have this accident southbound 309 blocked there. a small portion of 309 is blocked in that area. we're waiting for that to clear. in the meantime, county line road is a good alternate and then 309 southbound at norristown road an accident taking out one lane. that's cleared to the shoulder. that's good news update there. this is 95. what a mess we have out here. look at all of this activity. this is 95 southbound as you approach route 320. we have this accident. we have one lane of traffic right there getting by. a really big delay forming on 95 southbound. this is 95 southbound as drivers make their way from the airport to the blue route as you approach the exit for blue route. as you can see, a big backup happening on 95 southbound. as soon as sky force gets to the accident on the northeast extension, we'll let you know. 6:10 right now. burglar nabbed. the capture of a suspect had nothing to do with detective work but with what the crook couldn't stop himself from doing while in the house. we'll explain that story. >> ferguson, missouri, america, where do we go from here? moving from violent protests to finding solutions. it's a discussion about race, culture and community after the deadly shooting of an unarmed teen michael brown in ferguson. we are following breaking news on the northeast extension. sky force 10 arrived at the scene and what we are seeing right now is exactly what we've been talking about. southbound side of the northeast extension just beyond the exit for lansdale. all lanes blocked there. matt delucia is live in sky force 10. >> we just got here over the scene a few moments ago. let's give you a look here. you can see the one vehicle that's involved right there. that black car. very badly damaged. and one lane is getting by but it's on the shoulder of the southbound northeast extension. this is at morris road. as we pull back a little bit, you can see that street sweeper that is down here on the left corner of your screen. that's the other vehicle that is said to be involved in this accident. and so right now police are tending to the scene at the moment and fortunately one lane is getting by although that's the shoulder. two main lanes of southbound northeast extension by morris road. they are blocked off but police are diverting that traffic and from up in sky force 10 we can see this backup extend for at least a couple of miles. i see headlights from out the window here as far as i can see so this is a pretty major backup. a good idea to take an alternate route if at all possible. and so we're going to keep an eye out here. you can see that traffic just backed up here. just very slow going as people are starting to head out to work or wherever they need to go on this tuesday morning. so again northeast extension southbound right by this morris road is the overpass where this is happening and that street sweeper against a car. we're waiting to hear if there are injuries involved with this. we'll stay on top of this out here. bad situation on the northeast extension. live in sky force 10, i'm matt delucia, nbc 10 news. another peaceful night in ferguson, missouri. no arrests reported. people protesting the shooting death of an unarmed team by police took a break on the day of that teen's funeral. ♪ more than 4,500 people turned out yesterday to pay their final respects to michael brown, jr. they called for people to push for change and end the senseless killings. investigators say brown was unarmed when he was shot and killed by officer darren wilson in ferguson more than two weeks ago. that shooting sparked outrage and dozens of protests across the country. >> to missouri leaders, black and white, my question is to you. when are you going to say enough is enough? >> hundreds of people are now focused on finding solutions after the deadly shooting of brown. local and national activists partnered with the missouri history museum to host a town hall meeting last night as part of a national discussion taking place right now about race, culture and community in the aftermath of that situation in ferguson. former fbi director louie freeh is recovering. the 64 year old drove his suv off the road hitting a mailbox and a row of shrubs before coming to a stop. he's a former federal judge. you might remember he was hired by penn state to examine the handling of the child sex abuse complaint involving former assistant football coach jerry sandusky. now from our south jersey shore reporter, the bureau there, cape may county mosquito control helicopter crashes just feet away from homes. sky force 10 was over south boyd street and cape may courthouse yesterday morning. the pilot and the county employee onboard were not seriously hurt. federal investigators are looking into what caused that accident. a man accused of a crash that killed a philadelphia girl has pleaded guilty. according to court documents he admitted he was under the influence when his car slammed into an suv two years ago. that suv then plowed into a group of people walking along eighth and washington in south philadelphia. an 11-year-old girl was killed. three people injured. he pleaded guilty to charges including assault and driving under the influence. it's 6:18, new information about a deadly crash in montgomery county that we first brought you as breaking news yesterday morning. police now say the car was going more than 80 miles an hour just before it slammed into a telephone pole and the impact of the crash split the car into three pieces. authorities say the 21-year-old driver lost control on north broad street and died at the scene. his passenger was critically hurt. hatfield police and the d.a. are investigating. now to some news from our delaware bureau. police dog took down a burglary suspect who picked a strange time to take a nap at a home one of the residents found him asleep on the floor of a bedroom. they called police. police sent in the canine and the dog found the suspect hiding behind the bed. they say he had several pieces of the victim's jewelry on him when he was arrested. we continue to follow that huge backup in the accident on the northeast extension. >> jillian mele has an update for us now. >> it's incredible how quickly we see a huge backup form on the northeast extension whenever we have a problem because this is in the midst of that long-term construction zone. normally only two lanes get by. northeast extension southbound about three miles south of that lansdale interchange. all lanes on the highway are blocked. as i've been reporting throughout the morning, that traffic is getting by on the shoulder. we have a delay of about three to four miles in this area. on the northeast extension southbound and sky force 10 zooms out a little bit and you can see how far that delay is going to go. a huge backup out there for drivers on the northeast extension. again, it's just about three miles south of that landdale interchange. back to the maps right now. 309 is alternate if you need to get around. we do have problems on 309 as well. southbound 309 blocked off because of an accident just a small portion of 309 there is blocked off. you can take county line road as an alternate and 309 at norristown road blocking one lane with an accident but we're not reporting any delays there. the other problem is this on 95 southbound right near route 320. i'll let you know where the delay on 95 is starting because of this accident. here comes the sun just three minutes away from sunrise this morning. the stage is set for another warm day. the winds will shift more southerly which will lead to a warmer afternoon. we're getting a warmer start. it's six degrees warmer now. 69 degrees in philadelphia. and it's going to be really nice day at the shore. there is a risk of rip tides over the next several days. hurricane cristobal passes way offshore. satellite shows no clouds around. to the west and northwest is a line of clouds. that's a cold front that will come into play tomorrow. not a lot of showers with it just yet. there's a possibility we'll see some scattered showers later tomorrow afternoon. in fact, future weather shows this afternoon 5:00 we'll be in upper 80s. no sign of wet weather today. clear skies. plenty this evening. we'll drop down into the 70s by 10:00 this evening. 75 in philadelphia. and starting in the 70s tomorrow. later in the morning, low 80s on the way to 90s tomorrow and then later in the afternoon showers will be moving in north and west and possibility for philadelphia during the evening hours. so warm today. upper 80s. 90 degrees first time in a month we've hit 90 degrees for tomorrow. and then the temperatures come right back down with humidity dropping thursday and friday. the numbers, the temperatures, right back up this weekend. 88 on saturday. back to the 90-degree mark on sunday and monday. smartphone protection. we'll explain how colleges are going high tech to keep students safe. celebrating taney. a huge party for the little leaguers. details on time, routesinging t team. i love the taste. always smooth, never bitter. my cup of coffee is always awesome when i go to dunkin'. man: i see the steam rising off the cup, 'cause you know it's a fresh pot. man: one cup a day for sure. two if need be. and it's usually "need be." dunkin' -- your place for coffee. good morning. it's 6:25. let's get you updated on two big problems. this is 95 southbound approaching route 320. all lanes blocked but one because of an accident as you can see a huge delay out here. this is 95 as you approach the blue route. it starts near 420 crawling along on the southbound side. let's take you to a live look at the northeast extension. another big problem this morning. sky force 10 live over the scene. this is an accident blocking both lanes. traffic gets by on the shoulder southbound three miles south of that lansdale interchange. we'll tell you how long that backup is and an alternate route around. right now a live look outside where the sun is coming out. looks pretty. >> gorgeous shot. that's the view from the comcast building in center city. warmer through the day. we're already starting warmer this morning. philadelphia and northeast philadelphia, wilmington, all six degrees warmer at this hour. currently in philadelphia, it is 69 degrees. >> reporter: i'm jesse gary live in center city this morning. day two in the christina regu r regusters trial. latte or au lait? cozy or cool? exactly the way you want it... until boom, it's bedtime! your mattress is a battleground of thwarted desire. enter the sleep number bed. right now, all beds are on sale. he's the softy. his sleep number setting is 35. you're the rock, at 60. and snoring? sleep number's even got an adjustment for that. you can only find sleep number at a sleep number store. the time is now for the biggest sale of the year. all beds on sale! with 50% off the labor day limited edition bed. know better sleep with sleep number. here's what we're following. day two of testimony in the trial continues in the case of 5-year-old girl abducted from her school and sexually assaulted. a fire destroys several apartments in philadelphia. it wasn't just flames firefighters had to contend with. a massive backup on the northeast extension because of a traffic accident there. we're live with details on how to get around it and also a big problem on i-95. plenty of sunshine on tap for today. that's what we can expect in the delaware valley at 69 degrees right now. we'll get your forecast neighborhood by neighborhood. good morning. welcome to "nbc 10 news today." i'm tracy davidson. >> i'm chris cato. let's start with meteorologist bill henley. we're right about where we've been this time of morning for some cooler temperatures. >> sunshine is nice and bright. that is going to make a difference this morning and this afternoon. the temperatures will be climbing quickly from the cool 60s to start with into the upper 80s this afternoon. look at that sunshine. a live view from center city. we're enjoying sunshine and there are some areas seeing light fog. blue bell among them under two-mile visibility there. hazelton has light fog as well. it's not an issue in doylestown, trenton, jersey shore nice and clear this morning. looking at 50s and 60s. 63 in trenton right now. philadelphia international is 69 degrees. bright sunny skies and 80s by lunchtime today. we may be headed closer to the 90-degree mark this afternoon. neighborhood by neighborhood when i come back. but first, matt delucia is in sky force 10. the traffic trouble this morning. good morning, matt. >> reporter: good morning, bill. if you are heading out onextens uthbound lanes specifically, it's going to be a rough ride at least right now. let's give you a look here. this is about three miles south of the lansdale interchange. you can see right there they have that vehicle there on a tow truck. now, what we understand is that vehicle hit a street sweeper about 5:45 this morning. the backup is about three miles long. and that street sweeper is just under an overpass here at morris street. right now you see one lane is getting by but it is on the shoulder. that has been the case for the past 15, 20 minutes. but because that vehicle is on the tow truck now, we do expect that lane to reopen in the next few minutes. and this is a two-lane highway right now and so we're going to hopefully see that open up shortly. jillian mele is joining us now how can people get around this if they are stuck in this mess? >> tough one to get around. typically the alternate is route 309. that's what we say this morning. i will talk more about 309 in just a second. for now, go back to sky force image, i'm not sure if we can get back to that. southbound side of the northeast extension southbound just past lansdale about three miles south of that interchange is where the accident happened and the backup is roughly about five miles right now. it's as you approach the exit for lansdale where we see the backup start to form. 309 southbound is your alternate route. however, in colmar there is an accident that happened earlier this morning that's still out there blocking the southbound lanes. here's what you can expect. as you can see sky force is still over the scene and this backup with cars just crawling along right now. two lanes in this long-term construction zone merging into one lane so that traffic can get by on the shoulder. that's what we're seeing right now. a line of vehicles crawling along on the southbound side of the northeast extension. here's what's happening. because of that small problem on route 309, we'll let this go as i talk to you about 309 so you can see how big this backup is. if you were to exit northeast extension at quakertown is where you'll run into that problem on 309 i mentioned in colmar. this is exit for quakertown. this is exit for lansdale. that's the problem on 309. stay on the northeast extension or if you know someone out there that can exit at lansdale and take 309 southbound. a mix of problems out there this morning. we'll keep you updated there. that's not our only problem. this is 95 southbound approaching route 320. we have this accident blocking multiple lanes. one lane of traffic getting by there and a huge delay on 95 southbound as drivers make their way from the airport down to route 320 into delaware. two very big problems out there this morning. we'll stay on top of both of them and keep you updated by the minute. an overnight fire in philadelphia led to tense moments for firefighters who had to go door to door warning people about the growing flames. the fire broke out at the grant meadows apartment complex in northeast philadelphia around 11:30 last night and when firefighters got there, they didn't hear smoke alarms so they called for backup and they started waking residents up. >> they went throughout the building knocked on all of the doors and told everybody to get out and they started busting windows out and the fire went through the roof a little bit. >> everyone got out safely. eight apartments in all were damaged. investigators are trying to determine the cause. in atlantic doncounty, the longport police department is mourning the loss of a police officer that died in a crash. charles adams' motorcycle collided with an suv yesterday. he died at the hospital. the 21-year veteran of the force was off-duty at the time. prosecutors will continue laying out their case against christina regusters, the philadelphia woman charged with kidnapping and raping a 5-year-old girl. nbc 10's jesse gary joins us live from the criminal justice center. day one brought startling testimony about how the girl was abducted from her kindergarten classroom. >> reporter: that's right. you're going to hear from that girl coming up in this trial. prosecutors say they'll put the victim, who is now 7 years old, on the stand to give her accounts of what happened but before that more testimony from witnesses as the prosecution continues presenting its case. let's go ahead and look at our video. yesterday the woman assigned to do security at bryant elementary school admitted she never checked the identity of the person who took the victim out of the building last year. prosecutors say that person, 21-year-old day care worker christina regusters who knew the child and planned the kidnapping. she carried her to a nearby row home and then sexually assaulted her with an unknown object that left wounds requiring surgery. tom klein represents the child in a civil lawsuit and is not bound by the court ordered gag order in this case. >> i have never seen a braver, more courageous, more precious little girl in my life. she is an outstanding, wonderful little youngster who has sustained just the most terrible life-long devastating injuries both physical and emotional. >> defense attorney fred harrison is asking jurors to keep an open mind and says the woman who is in that surveillance video is taller and heavier than his client. testimony resumes later this morning. we're live outside the cjc in center city. i'm jesse gary, nbc 10 news. >> you saw the importance of surveillance video in that case. happening today, an announcement by the philadelphia police department trying to encourage more residents and businesses to join the city's safe cam system. more than 4,300 surveillance cameras in the city are registered with the program. police have access to about half of those camera feeds. they can use them in investigations. the department is now encouraging more businesses across the city to install cameras in an effort to make neighborhoods safer. >> we have details of the taney dragon parade through philadelphia. the team is riding the wave of an historic little legal world series run. yesterday morning the team was at the "today" show in new york to talk to matt lauer about their amazing run. the dragon may not have won the series but they won the hearts of fans across the country. taney is the first team from philadelphia to make it to the little league world series so a parade will be held for them tomorrow. it will begin at 20th and market at 2:00 and go east on market to city hall and then down broad to stop at kimmel center and the parade will culminate with rally in fdr park around 4:00. looking for sunshine today. no problem finding it later. there are some areas of fog this morning that are blocking the view of the sun coming up. it will be a sunny day like yesterday. the temperatures will be warmer. we're on a warming trend that will have us close to the 90-degree mark this afternoon. may hit it tomorrow for the first time in a month. 54 right now in mount pocono. there's the fog. this is a view of the golf course, mini golf course, at sky big bear. that fog just like yesterday will clear and it's going to be another nice, sunny day in the mountains but low 80s this afternoon for mount pocono. upper 80s for reading and allentown. high of 87 degrees. plenty of sunshine. no sign of fog for trenton northeast philadelphia. doylestown, 88 degrees this afternoon. 77 for atlantic city. cape may, the very low 80s today with nothing but sunshine and plenty of sunshine to warm temperatures for westchester, wilmington. upper 80s inland and the warming trend continues tomorrow. the seven-day forecast when i come back. >> 20 minutes until 7:00 now. let's update the breaking traffic situation we're following on the northeast extension where an accident earlier had things backed up for miles. >> it is opening up now. sky force 10 is overhead. the backup remains. nbc 10 first alert traffic reporter jillian mele has details. what can you tell us about this? >> just in the last few minutes the vehicles involved were moved away from that accident scene and that has been cleared. so what you're seeing right now is traffic getting by in both directions. both lanes reopened on the southbound side of the northeast extension. again, this happened about three miles south of that lansdale interchange. you can see the backup extends about five miles southbound on the northeast extension. so you can still take 309 to avoid that delay. unfortunately we are still dealing with a slight problem on 309 right in the colmar area. so just keep that in mind. this delay is starting to thin out already right at that scene and it should continue to thin out as the morning progresses. that's what we had there on the northeast extension and more good news for you. 6:40 in the morning. time for good news. this accident just cleared out of 95 southbound as well. it was right here right as drivers approach route 320 for 50 minutes this morning it was blocking two lanes. only one lane of traffic getting by. unfortunately we still have a backup as a result of that accident. this is 95 southbound approaching the blue route. the backup is a few miles in that area. it will take a while for delays to thin out but they are starting to. both accidents right where the scene happened and both accidents just cleared. president obama is traveling to north carolina this morning and taking center stage u.s. national security and talks of expanding military action against the terrorist group isis. and if you think philadelphia has bad drivers, you're right. the list of worst driving cities has just been released and we're high on it. pretty high on it. 6:45. a live picture. sun rising. ben franklin bridge. sunny day today. what will the holiday weekend hold? we'll find out from meteorologist bill henley coming up in just minutes. as students head back to class, local colleges are using smartphone technology to increase campus security. the emergency app is what it's called that helps better protect students on campus and in their surrounding neighborhoods. two local schools are using this app. here's how it works. with one tap of the app, emergency instantly streams live video and gps data to campus police. it also features a virtual escort or safe walk. live two-way texting with campus police and a medical profile with allergy and contact information for first responders. >> students can be protected when they are out and about. they have cell phones in their pockets and use it as a security device. >> anyone, not just students, can download the app if they feel they need help around campus. a free version notifies family and friends in the event offa n emergency. one worker lost his job after he was fired because he was responsible for this caption using racial slurs referring to asian americans in place of real names. the publisher said he apologized to anyone offended by the picture and the editor did not follow proper procedures. >> this from a background where these are cute things. >> it doesn't address the issue of making sure that people have the right sensitivity. >> the former head of the philadelphia human rights commission says that the caption is disrespectful and the paper waited too long to release an online apology. happening today, president obama will head to charlotte to address veterans at the annual american legion convention as the white house considers its next move against the islamic terrorist group isis. president obama has approved surveillance flights over syria that could pave the way for air strikes against isis. the foreign minister says they're readyo confront isis but the u.s. should not carry out air strikes without syriasy cons sent. an air base was home to warplanes, helicopters, tanks and ammo bunkers. this is the third syrian military base in that area to fall to the isis extremists since last month. the department of veterans affairs says investigators have found no proof that delays in care caused any of the deaths at a veterans affairs hospital in phoenix. as many as 40 veterans died while waiting for care from the phoenix va exposed a system in which veterans waited months for care while va employees covered up the delays. a draft of the va inspector general's report says they couldn't assert that delays caused any veterans to die. water shutoffs resume today in detroit. last month the city declared a 30-day moratorium on cutting off water to thousands of residents. 25,000 homes had put money toward their bills or signed up for payment plans. that still leaves about 50,000 accounts still in delinquency or subject to shutoff. new this morning, a new report shows philadelphia has the worst drivers among major u.s. cities. i know that will shock a lot of you. according to all-state america's best drivers report, the average driver in philly is involved in car accident every six years and philadelphians are 61% more likely to crash than the average american. that puts philly at number 192 which is dead last among the major cities. coming in first on the report, ft. collins, colorado, and last, worcester, massachusetts. new york city, which you may think could have worst drivers than philadelphia, isn't even close. it ranks 155. a massachusetts beach was closed for several hours after a police helicopter spotted a great white shark nearby. the shark couldn't be seen from the shore but lifeguards told everyone to stay out of the hour for two hours as a precaution. swimmers wrote a sign on the beach that says "you're going to need a bigger boat." funny. big bite of sunshine this morning. it's nice and clear outside for philadelphia so a live view from comcast center. a warm one today. we're six degrees warmer than yesterday at this time. 69 degrees. the wind is calm. a little bit of fog in the pocono mountains starting to thin out. this is the view from jim thorpe in the mountains. plenty of sunshine today. dramatic view this morning. satellite shows no clouds at all for philadelphia, atlantic city, dover. but look to the north and west. you can see some cloud cover and some storms that are blowing up over iowa. that's part of a system that could give us some showers as early as tomorrow afternoon. there you can see the heavy rainfall just to the east of omaha. tomorrow afternoon, it's going to be a hot one. we'll see temperatures climbing into the upper 80s today. future weather showing at 6:00 this evening warmer than yesterday. a nice cooldown this evening. 76 degrees. humidity is going to stay in check this evening and tomorrow morning we'll drop down into the 60s like we're experiencing this morning. at 6:00 in the morning with more northwesterly wind to start with. a quick warmup tomorrow and look at those showers starting to move in at 3:00 in the afternoon to the pocono mountains. a chance of scattered showers. in the 90s in philadelphia. the showers during the late afternoon and evening hours will cool things down tomorrow evening. and then as we head into the weekend, there's a chance we'll see some showers back into the area. no showers today. nice and warm. 88 degrees. 90 for the first time in a month in philadelphia. sunny and hot with late day showers possible. nice weather. much more comfortable and less humid conditions thursday and friday. a warmup for the weekend. upper 80s saturday. back to the 90-degree mark on sunday and monday. several traffic problems within the past hour. some cleared but now a new accident on 95. >> let's get an update about where that is with nbc 10 first alert traffic reporter jillian mele. >> we can't get it right today so many accidents. one happens and one clears. this accident just happened. 95 northbound approaching the commodore barry bridge. drivers are having to merge into two lanes on 95 northbound. the accident on 95 southbound approaching route 320 cleared in the last few minutes. we still have this heavy delay. this is 95 southbound near blue route and 476 so past the airport. as you can see traffic is crawling along there. that accident as you know if you've been with us cleared off the northeast extension. it was southbound about three miles south of the lansdale interchange. expect a backup near where the accident was. that backup was starting to clear a few minutes ago. an accident in plymouth meeting germantown pike at plymouth road. a busy traffic morning. make sure to use caution and leave yourself extra time. i'm katy zachry live in northeast philadelphia. overnight fire breaks out at this apartment building. coming up, i'll tell you what firefighters had to do in addition it attacking the flames to keep people safe. >> reporter: i'm jesse gary live in center city. day two of the trial of a woman accused of kidnapping a 5-year-old from her school last year. prosecutors say they'll put the young victim on the stand in this case. we'll have more coming up right after the break. new from overnight, a lot of people are thanking philadelphia firefighters after they sprang into action to save people from an apartment fire. nbc 10's katy zachry live in northeast philadelphia where she's been following this story all morning. >> reporter: the fire broke out just after 11:30 when firefighters got on scene they tell me that the building alarm they did not hear going off so they sprang into action ran into the building and started on doors running up and down the hallway alerting people there was a fire and that they needed to get out. that was in addition to fighting the fire. they had to call for backup. an extensive scene out here. battalion chief says when they got here, they found flames and smoke coming from a first floor apartment. they believe that's where the fire started. they got the fire under control. there were no injuries. back out here live you can see this restoration crew that's been out here for the last few hours. now that the sun is up, you can see the extensive damage to this single apartment building. eight apartments in total are uninhabitable. the red cross is assisting five people with new housing because they are out of their apartments. at this time no cause to the overnight fire. reporting live in northeast philadelphia, katy zachry, nbc 10 news. testimony will resume in just a few hours in the trial of a philadelphia woman accused of kidnapping a child from her school and then sexually abusing her. nbc 10's jesse gary is live in center city with more. >> reporter: prosecutors say at some point they'll put the victim in this case who is now 7 years old on the stand to tell her side and what happened in this crime. yesterday prosecutors said that 21-year-old christina regusters took the victim out of her west philadelphia teelementary schoo last year. they blindfolded the girl and put her under a bed naked and sexually assaulted her. the trial resumes today with testimony. the defense is saying that someone else could be involved and that the person you see in that security video is not christina regusters. that's the latest in center city, jesse gary, nbc 10 news. >> as we approach 7:00, another update on 95 accident. northbound approaching the commodore barry bridge. it's still out there but it's on the shoulder and not blocking a lane. we do have a heavy delay 95 northbound approaching because of that accident that was blocking one lane. 95 southbound is clear near the blue route. an accident earlier caused a delay. 9 miles per hour is on 95 near the bridge as a result of that accident that was moved over to the shoulder. 76 westbound near city avenue, 11 miles per hour and 95 southbound near girard. a slow go on a lot of the highways. >> we have sunshine bright through the day at the jersey shore. live view of the beach at cape may. it's going to be an upper 80s inland for philadelphia but look at philadelphia compared to the shore. 78 degrees. there's a threat, however, of rip currents not only today but the next several days. we're watching hurricane cristobal which is 75 miles an hour, minimal hurricane steering clear of any land masses but it will still churn up the ocean pretty good. rip current risk through the weekend at the shore. >> got it. >> "today" show is next. see you back here for more updates in just a few minutes. >> get the latest news and weather at nbc10.com. good morning. clean sweep. >> and the emmy goes to "breaking bad." >> "breaking bad" dominates at the emmys including wins for outstanding drama and for bryan cranston while billy crystal delivers a touching tribute to his friend robin williams. >> it's very hard to talk about him in the past because he was so present in all of our lives. >> al and carson are in los angeles with all the highlights from television's biggest night. ready to launch? reports this morning that the u.s. has begun surveillance flights over syria. could this be the first step to air strikes over isis
down the east coast. while the storm was moving to the north. now it's made that right turn, it's causing waves more to come in from the northeast a little bit. so it has stopped its momentum of building up these big seas. because of that we have the dangerous rip current tonight. tomorrow, conditions will be somewhat better, partly because now the surface winds are now offshore. that helps calm down the ocean as well. we have the storm moving out, offshore winds, conditions will be gradually improving day after day. i will talk more about the holiday weekend and the possibility of storms and heat with the 7-day forecast in a few minutes. >> glenn, speaking of the holiday weekend, organizers putting you the final touches on the stage ahead of this weekend's made in america concert. it's an annual event featuring dozens of performers. it's expected to attract thousands of music fans. with any event of this size, you can expect road closures, heavy traffic, lots of noise as well. nbc 10's doug shimell is joining us live with all the details. and doug, any backup plan, should it rain this weekend? >> reporter: there is and isn't. you can see made in america talent and made in america weather. a wide open venue mother nature thought about messing with in past years. the made in america festival on the parkway this weekend will have tens of thousands wanting the weather to hold out for their favorite act. >> this year, you have everything from pharrell, you know, to kanye west to a ton of deejays like steve ioki. >> reporter: tickets can go as high as several hundred dollars and producers say the weather will be the weather. what is the backup plan for rain? there is none? >> it is a rain or shine event. everybody knows when they buy a ticket, everything -- everything that, you know, you purchase a ticket with or you hear about the event, this is a rain or shine event. i think people know. >> reporter: in essence, it's buyer beware of the skies or at least check the nbc 10 first alert forecast. >> i rely on you guys for that really. >> reporter: down here in made in america, they rely on first alert weather. speaking of cell phones shall at 5:00, remember made in america last year, maybe trying to text or call or send that picture or video, it didn't go through. well, trying to make amends for that year by enhancing the cell system. live at made in america along the parkway, i'm doug shimell, nbc 10 news. >> all right, doug. count on nbc 10 for all the developments on the big labor day weekend concert. logon to nbc10.com for a closer look at the road closures and the complete list of the musical acts for made in america. israeli police say they have now identified a body found in the woods as that of a missing new jersey student. 23-year-old aaron sofer was found dead almost a week after he disappeared. and right now, investigators do not suspect foul play. nbc 10's south jersey reporter, cydney long, has been talking to friends who, of course have been praying for sofer's safe recovery. i know they must be devastated, cydney. >> reporter: renee, they are. this tight-knit community in lakewood is shocked and saddened about aaron sofer's death. one woman says they have been praying for days, to the point that she has not slept, but will finally get some rest tonight and hope the family does the same. an ongoing police investigation will determine sofer's exact cause of death, but all indications now are that he slipped and fell in dangerous terrain, only when search and rescuers expanded their search area were they able to find him. a photograph taken by israeli police captured the wooded terrain where the body of 23-year-old aaron sofer of lakewood was found 3:30 thursday afternoon, jerusalem time. >> there is no reason to believe at this point, from what i've been told, that there was any foul play. >> of course, the sofer family is mourning at this time. a very private family. >> reporter: a private and big family. sofer, one of ten children. they cried out publicly in recent days as search teams canvassed the area where sofer, who had been hiking with a friend, lost his way last friday. >> at that point, the concerns were that he was abducted. >> reporter: his parents in israel identified sofer's body today after fears he could have been abducted due to tensions between israel and hamas. >> the forest actually borders on both the jewish and an arab neighborhood. >> reporter: sofer was not an experienced hiker. >> they actually called his mom and asked her permission, if it was a good idea for him to go out and take a walk in the woods. >> reporter: now an entire community will mourn. in the orthodox jewish faith, one is laid to rest within 24 hours. >> the orthodox religion, we do not do autopsies. >> reporter: now, officials here in lakewood we can tell are you not only working with family members here close to home, but also in israel. they plan to bring an audio hookup of aaron sofer's funeral to the people here of lakewood so that they can share in his pain and the prayer of his passing. live in lakewood, i'm cydney long, nbc 10 news. a fundraising visit today for vice president joe biden. he was in center city, raising money for democratic candidates. he headed to pittsburgh for an event with the democratic national committee. this afternoon, he is taking part in a conference call with the president and members of the national security council. now to the latest on the jersey jam bridge scandal. new jersey lawmakers are trying to get phone records for a top aide to governor chris christie. they subpoenaed at&t for a month of data from last december. that includes text messages sent or received by regina agia. the aide told the lawmakers last month she had texted christie her thoughts on testimony about the lane closures by officials who run the george washington bridge. she says she later deleted the messages. christie says he does not remember her ever sending him a text. actress and comedienne joan rivers is in stable condition right now at a new york hospital. this is video of the 81-year-old on "the tonight show" with jimmy fallon earlier this year. rivers stopped breathing during a minor throat procedure at a manhattan clinic. she was then rushed to a nearby hospital. rivers was scheduled to appear at a new jersey comedy club tomorrow. no official word if that show has been canceled. all new at 4:00, the nfl has changed its policy on domestic violence after the controversial suspension of baltimore ravens lvback, ray rice.timore ravens this incident inside roble casino back in february started it all. it shows ray rice dragging his now-wife out of an elevator. she appears to be unconscious. ray rice entered a diversion program in court and was suspended two games by the nfl. now, many said this punishment should have been more severe and today, nfl commissioner roger goodell announced a first-time domestic violence offender could get a six-game suspension and a repeat offender would get a lifetime ban. in a letter to owners, goodell commented about rice's suspension, saying "i didn't get it right. simply put, we have to do better. "comcast sports net's john clark will have more on today's decision later in this newscast. to this now, new video of the armed robbery at a food distribution center in fishtown. police released this surveillance video this afternoon. it shows two men at the cow wa food distribution center on north delaware avenue. they were pretending to be police and the men forced the owners to open a safe at gunpoint. the robbers got away with more than $87,000. they were both wearing hats with the word police on them. one suspect was wearing a badge around his neck and they took off in a 1990ssome uv. and anyone with information is asked to call police. we want to go to the white house now, where we understand president obama is speaking from the briefing room. let's take that live picture right now. >> the you can in one thing that most americans care about, the economy. this morning, we found out that our economy actually grew at a stronger clip in the second quarter than we originally thought. companies are investing, consumers are spending. over the past 4 1/2 years, businesses created 10 million new jobs, so, reasons to feel good about the direction we're headed. but as everybody knows, there's a lot more that we should be doing to make sure that all americans benefit from the progress that we've made and i'm gonna be pushing congress hard on this one in return next week. second, in iraq, we will address the humanitarian situations on the ground. as commander in chief, i will always do what is necessary to protect the american people and defend against evolving threats to our homeland. because of our strikes, the terrorists of isil are losing arms and equipment. in some areas, iraqi government and kurdish forces have begun to push them back and we continue to be proud and grateful to our extraordinary personnel serving in this mission. now, isil poses an immediate threat to the people of iraq and the people throughout the region and that's why our military action in iraq has to be part of a broader, comprehensive strategy to protect our people and to support our partners who are taking the fight to isil. and that starts with iraq's leaders building on the progress they have made so far and forming an inclusive government that will unite their country and strengthen their security forces to confront isil. any successful strategy though also needs strong regional partners. i'm encouraged so far that countries in the region, countries that don't always agree on many things increasingly recognize the primacy of the threat that isil poses to all of them. and i have asked secretary kerry to travel to the region to continue to build the coalition that's needed to meet this threat. as i've said, rooting out a cancer like isil will not be quick or easy, but i'm confident that we can and we will, working closely with our allies and our partners. for our part, i have directed secretary hagel and our joint chiefs of staff to prepare a range of options. i will be meeting with my national security council again this evening as we continue to develop that strategy. and i've been consulting with members of congress and i will continue to do so in the days ahead. finally, i just spoke with chancellor merkel of germany on the situation in ukraine. we agree, if there was ever any doubt, that russia is responsible for the violence in eastern ukraine. the violence is encouraged by russia. the separatists are trained by russia. they are armed by russia. they are funded by russia. russia has deliberately and repeatedly violated the sovereignty and territorial integrity of ukraine and the new images of russian forces inside ukraine make that plain for the world to see. this comes as ukrainian forces are making progress against the separatists. now, as a result of the actions russia has already taken and the major sanctions we've imposed with our european and international partners, russia is already more isolated than at any time since the end of the cold war. the capital is fleeing, investors are increasingly staying out. his economy is in decline and this ongoing russian incursion into ukraine will only bring more costs and consequences for russia. next week i will be in europe to coordinate with our closest al eyes and partners n estone ya, i will reaffirm the commitment to our allies. the nato summit and united kingdom will focus on the steps we can take to ensure the alliance remains prepared for any challenge. our meeting of the nato/ukraine commission will be another opportunity for our alliance to continue the partnership with ukraine and i like forward to reaffirming the unwavering commitment of the united states to ukraine and its people when i welcome president pore cheng co-to the white house next month w that i'm going to take a few questions and i'm going to start with somebody who i guess is now a big cheese. he has moved on. but i understand this is going to be his last chance to ask me a question in the press room, so i want to congratulate chuck todd and give him first dibs. >> i'm glad you said in the press room. let me start with syria. the decision that you have to make between -- first of all, is it an if or when situation about going after isil in syria? can you defeat isil or isis without going after them? and how do you prioritize? you said that assad has lost legitimacy. defeating isis could help assad keep power. talk about how you prioritize those two pieces of your foreign policy. >> first of all, i want to make sure everybody's clear on what we're doing now, because it is limited. our focus right now is to protect american personnel on the ground in iraq, to protect our embassy, to protect our consulates, to make sure that critical infrastructure that could adversely affect our personnel is protected. where we see an opportunity that allows us with very modest risk to help the humanitarian situation there as we did in sin jar mountain, we will take those opportunities, after having consulted with congress, but our core priority right now is just to make sure that our folks are safe and to do an effective assessment of iraqi and kurdish capabilities. as i said i think in the last press conference, in order for us to be successful, we got to have an iraqi government that is unified and inclusive. so, we are continuing to push them to get that job done. as soon as we have an iraqi government in place, the likelihood of the iraqi security forces being more effective in taking the fight to isil significantly increases and the options that i'm asking for from the joint chiefs focuses primarily on making sure that isil is not overrunning iraq. what is true though is that the violence that's been taking place in syria has obviously given isil a safe haven there in ungoverned spaces and in order for us to degrade isil over the long term, we are going to have to build a regional strategy. we are not going to do that alone. we are going to have to do with that other partners. >> you have been listening to president barack obama coming today from the white house, talking on a number of issues about the economy growing. he says there are positive signs in the economy, of course, more still needs to be done, but also touching on the situation in iraq, saying that as commander in chief, he is going to do whatever is necessary to protect people there on the ground. you heard chuck todd asking, does that mean we are going to go into syria and he said that first and foremost, they are there to protect people who are already positioned. >> talking about that focus being very limited right now in iraq to protect american interests. also talking about another hotspot in the world in ukraine and the pressure, the ongoing pressure on russia to stop its actions, incursions into ukraine, another hotspot that the president is talking about and watching closely. all right. let's go to weather now with glenn. >> well, sure doesn't feel like august out there. it is incredibly comfortable. it's not nearly as hot or as humid as it has been. we continue to see that rip current risk, at least for a little while, and a steamy labor day weekend. pretty hot and humid for labor day. look how blue that sky is. it's incredible for august. generally, we have these air quality problems, but not now. 80 degrees with an 18-mile-an-hour wind, relative humidity only 39% and we are eight degrees cooler than we were at this time yesterday. sounds like it's a good time for football. and guess what? we have it. football weather, 77 at 7:00, 69 at 11:00, the wind will be diminishing as we go through the game. now, it is bone dry out there across the entire area. and it's gonna stay that way for a while. the nearest rain is way west of chicago. so, that's long time. now, here's friday. nothing going on. just a lot of sunshine. just beautiful day on friday. now, saturday, it's still pretty nice. probably the best day, a holiday weekend. but the showers will be getting a little bit closer and then as we go into sunday, clouds increase. way more humid and hotter and the showers get closer, especially into the afternoon and evening. not a total washout for either sunday or monday, but it's not picture perfect. at the shore, it's gonna be pretty close to picture perfect. the rip currents diminishing tomorrow, a beautiful day on saturday. and even on sunday, we will have a decent amount of sunshine with a chance of a thunderstorm late. and in the poconos, kind of cool, especially tonight. might be in the 40s tonight. and then saturday is kind of cool, sunday, thunderstorms with 78 degrees. tonight, it's gonna be clear. it's gonna be significantly cooler than it has been. 59 in philadelphia. 50 north and west. we have got a pretty strong wind now, but it is going to be diminishing toward daybreak. during the day tomorrow, bright sunshine, very low humidity for this time of the year and temperatures may not even get out of the 70s, 79 degrees with sunshine. then, a dry day on saturday. humidity still not too bad, it's up a little bit. sunday, a big jump in the temperature and a big jump in the humidity and a pretty fair jump in the rain chances, too. again, not a washout and some storms lingering into labor day. and then look what happens. it gets even hotter on tuesday. so, we may have another wave here, our longest heat wave this season has only been three days. so, we are ending the summer season pretty hot way. the father of a little girl kidnapped and sexually assaulted takes the stand. today's emotional testimony. plus, the one witness the defense plans to call when it's their turn. all-american. a list ranking cities across the country. the pennsylvania town named one of the most un-american. we can infuse the local economy with about 12 or 13 million dollars. >> plus, the push to buy local. how one community is trying to cash in on christmas shopping months in advance. the personal finance site, wallet hub, finds 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prosecution continues to lay out its case against a philadelphia woman accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl. the trial started monday. it's been filled with emotional testimony and really graphic images. >> well today, that testimony continue with the victim's father around the first person to find her after the attack. nbc 10's christine maddela was in the courtroom for us today. christine? >> reporter: that's exactly right. we heard today from several people who were the first ones to talk to the young girl after her kidnapping. we heard from the man who found her in a park. we listened to his 911 call he placed. and also heard testimony from the paramedic who first treated the girl while she was being tank ton the children's hospital of pennsylvania. we also heard from an svu detective who first interviewed the girl at the hospital. she detailed her questions and answers and the little girl's anticipates are disturbing. >>. >> she was cold, she was shivering, she was hurt and been horribly violated and that is the importance of the testimony that we heard today. >> reporter: attorney tom klein represents the girl and her mom in their civil case and suspect bound by the gag order in the current criminal trial. the svu detective who testified today said she asked the girl if she knew the woman dressed in muslim garb who picked her up from school. the detective said she didn't know the woman. the girl told the detective her private parts hurt because she had been poked with a stick in that area. >> this is a child, a precious little child, who was stolen in her own words, stolen and taken to a place where horrible things were done to her. >> reporter: one of the jurors closed her eyes and shook her head while listening to that testimony. the paramedic who testified today said the girl told him something similar. >> the paramedics specifically asked her if she had been touched and she specifically said yes. that was an important thing for the jury to hear today. >> reporter: christina regusters seemed like she was in her own during the testimony today, always moving, wroig.a yellow legal pad, shuffling papers, twirling a pen in her hand over and over or playing with her hair. regusters kept her head down and only looked up twice to glance at two pictures on a monitor, one of the girl after she was found one of this playground where the passerby heard her yell for help. the girl's family took the stand today. he talked about the panic and his anger after his child went missing. now in the courtroom today, testimony is wrapping up and tomorrow, testimony will only go until 12:30, where they will adjourn for the labor day holiday. reporting live in center city, christine maddela, nbc 10 news. happening now, music and fun, part of the effort to bring peace to the streets of chester. summer finale of the concert series at chester park. power 99 fm has personalities at the show and dance groups. chester wants residents to sign a pledge to bring peace to the streets as the kids head back to school. earlier today a back-to-school rally was held at the same park as the peace rally. the chester upland school district is looking for a calm start to the school year. camden shows its support for protesters in ferguson, missouri. >> our main purpose to make sure that michael brown and his family receive justice. >> the communication workers of america union sponsored this rally at camden city hall. ferguson and camden have a lot in common, both fighting financial problems and police force issues. camden recently disbanded its local police force in favor of a county force. >> i would have to say again, give it time. right now, i three is is outreach, i see them walking around, i see them talking to people and once people, it is going to take time to be comfortable with the whole new police force, so i would say in time that i think it would. i think it would be improvement in relations. >> protesters wanted to say this was not an anti-police rally but a show of support for michael brown's family in their search for justice. police in ferguson are dismanteling their unified command post now after several days of calm there. the st. louis suburb has been the site of violent protests at times and clashes of unarmed teen, michael brown, shot to death with police. the missouri state highway patrol said the tide has turned and the community and law enforcement are now communicating. new numbers when it comes to migrant children placed with families in our area. >> in delaware, most of the children are living in sussex county, according to new figures released this week by the u.s. department of health and human services. a total of 114 minors out of the 144 taken into custody by immigration without a parent or guardian have been placed with sponsors in sussex county. the government only releases information when there are 50 or more children living in a specific county. here's where our other states stand. pennsylvania has placed 456 immigrant children with families. 147 in philadelphia, 58 in montgomery county. and in new jersey, more than 1800 children were placed with sponsors, 73 in camden and 128 in mercer county. the school bus is back in action in west philadelphia today, the first day of school for more than 600 children. the school wants to keep all students and it is suing the philadelphia school reform commission. the src wants to cap enrollment at charter schools and if that were to happen, more than 200 students would have to leave this school. christmas is months away but one local community hopes you will start spending now. still ahead on nbc 10 news at 4:00, the little bit extra organizers say you will get for your money when you shop and dine locally. and tracking trauma. it's a device designed to detect head injuries, the local school using it to protect student athletes. then all new tonight on nbc 10 news at 5:00, scare at the shore. the coast guard comes to the rescue after an emergency on board this yacht right here. the heroics that saved the life of a woman on this pleasure boat. ♪ ♪ i ♪ know i can't deny... ♪ that i got a new feeling ♪ deep inside... ♪ [ female announcer ] with five perfectly sweetened whole grains... you can't help but see the good. high school football season is getting into full swing right now. a new poll shows nearly half of the parents asked say they are uncomfortable letting their child play. the poll involved more than 1,000 adults. preventing concussions before they happen, that's the goal of a panel discussion today in montgomery county. >> students at the shipley school heard from experts about concussions. the day started with a review of the school's athletic policy. the shipley school became the first in the region to ban heading in middle school soccer, just what it sounds like, using your head to hit the soccer ball. athletes will not use that move until high school now and only then after they are trained. >> evidence is pretty obvious, black and white that there's really no upside to teaching kids heards before high school. it is an easy skill to teach in high school. at least 30%, probably more concussions are happening in teenager there is and we know some who retired 11 years old from soccer because they have had too many concussions from headers. >> the all-day program also showed off the sensor that kids will wear while they play sports to track any possible head trauma. next at 4:00, a change in policy at the nfl. >> and it stems from a domestic violence case in our area. john clark? >> yeah, because of the ray rice suspension, major changes to the domestic violence policy for the nfl. coming up, going to tell you how a player could be suspended and banned for life. that's coming up. heat, humidity and a chance for storms. i'm tracking big changes for your labor day weekend. tell you what to expect and when so you can make your holiday plans. all ahead in the nbc 10 first alert 7-day forecast. then, all new tonight on nbc 10 news at 5:00, gaining from garbage. how trash is turning into treasure for one local city and how litter bugs, they are being penalized where it really hurts. here's some to of the stories making headlines on nbc 10 news at 4:00. an ocean county community in mourning after israeli police found the body of a missing hiker. it's believed it's 23-year-old aaron sofer, who slipped and fell while hiking in the israeli forest. he will be laid to rest in the next 24 hours. the risk foreign currents remains high at the jersey shore and the delaware beaches as we head into labor day weekend. hurricane cristobal is stirring up some choppy surf all along the east coast, sending big waves crashing ashore, creating potentially dangerous conditions. final touches being put on the stage ahead of the made in america concert. dozens of performers expected to attract dozens of music fans to the parkway in center city. michael vick returns to philadelphia for the first time since leaving the eagles. he is expected to start for the jets in tonight's final preseason game at the link. it starts at 7:00. the first regular season game is one week from sunday. the eagles will open the season at home against the jaguars. a big announcement from the nfl today about a change to the punishment policy for players who commit domestic violence. this comes after the case involving running back ray rice at an atlantic city casino. comcast sports net's john clark is at lincoln financial field with the details. john? >> reporter: yes, as the eagles warm up behind me and get ready for their final preseason game tonight, major, major changes from the nfl on their domestic violence report. this is pretty incredible. take a look at the video from ray rice. last month, he was suspended only for two games and the nfl commissioner, roger goodell, says i did not get this right. he admitted to the owners he did not get this one right. so, now, sweeping changes, if a player is convicted or reaches a plea agreement in a domestic violence case, he will be suspended for six games. if there is another domestic violence case with that player, he will be banned for life from the nfl. that is a major change from the nfl and they readily admit that they messed up the situation with ray rice. going to have a lot more with the eagles final preseason game coming up and phillies president dave montgomery taking an indefinite leave of absence because of his jaw surgery for cancer and pat gillick will take over his duties for now. we will see you in about an hour with more. i'm john clark live from the link. back to you. >> thanks, john. you get to pick our high school blitz game of the week next friday, september 5th. choices are council rock north at simon grates, south jersey's holy spirit against pennsylvania's malverne prep or upper dar boyne the road against garnet valley. go to nbc10.com or to our facebook page to vote once a day or you can call or text your one-time vote to 6106244111. high school blitz has the best highlights every saturday night at 7:00 right here on nbc 10. if you think the surf's rough off the east coast of the united states, hurricane marie is still churning off next keys pacific coast, bringing some of the biggest swells in years to southern california. the surf is way up malibu. look at that. the lifeguards, though, have had to perform more than 100 rescues and say many surfers aren't accustomed to such big waves. it is amazing what's going on both coasts at the same time. now, for us, it's not as hot as it has been the last couple of days and tomorrow's gonna be even a little bit cooler but that rip current risk, still there, going to go down a bit, but still there, a steamy weekend ahead, humidity and heat are coming back but not until after they play football tonight. great football weather. 80 degrees right now, 18-mile-an-hour wind, humidity is low. it's cooler than it was yesterday. and temperatures in the mid-70s to near 80 degrees. look at that 76 degrees in westchester, pottstown. that's pretty cool. with sunshine for this time of the year, how about at the shore? look at the wind, blowing offshore. so, two things. it's just as warm at the beach as it is inland and the offshore winds calm down the ocean. when you have a northwest wind generally, you don't really get much in the way of waves. for tonight's game, 77, breezy, 7:00, but the wind will really die down by 11 and it was just delightful last night at the phillies game, i tell you that. dry across the entire area and dry for quite a while. so, we are definitely going to be rain free for tomorrow and probably rain free on saturday as well. but the futurecast, the wider view, does show the general increase in moisture, not tomorrow, even saturday not too much. we are in pretty good shape. look at the shore. nothing going on there, other than sunshine. on sunday, yeah, the clouds start to increase. look at the shore again. you're gonna be the last place to get any clouds or showers. there are going to be some around. sunday afternoon and then again on monday. but not a washout either day. and at the shore, the rip currents diminish tomorrow. things a lot calmer on saturday, so, saturday's going to be a graeat day at the shore, sunday morning could be pretty nice at the shore before any chance of thunderstorms and poconos, kind of cool for friday and saturday and then the chance of showers and thunderstorms for sunday. for tonight, there are no showers or thunderstorms around. that's for sure. 59 for the flow philadelphia. 50, north and west. clear and colder. then tomorrow, very low humidity for this time of the year and a lot of folks are not even going to hit the 80-degree mark. with all that sunshine. that's cool air mass. then saturday, still pretty comfortable, no rain. that's pretty good bet for a good weekend day. but sunday, the heat comes back, the humidity comes back, a chance of thunderstorms comes back and on labor day, we got heat, humidity and the some scattered thunderstorms as well. we could end up with another heat wave here just as we end the summer season. kind of hot for labor day weekend. >> all right. but a nice way to sort of end the summer, 'cause it feels like summer. >> been amazingly comfortable summer. >> yes, it has. thanks, glenn. the push to buy local early and often, it is a message one local community wants to get across ahead of the busy holiday shopping season. the many benefits of spending your money in your own backyard. that's next at 4:00. then all new tonight on nbc 10 news at 5:00, a new clue. police released new surveillance video that they hope can help them crack the unsolved hit and run of a pedestrian on a local street. one of the region's mass filings for un-unh employment and other benefits will begin next week after showboat and revel shut down. main casino workers union is starting a resource center at the atlantic city convention center. more than 5,000 people will be out of work when the two casinos close this weekend and trump plaza will add even more when it closes september 16th. summer may be almost over but one shore community hopes you'll fall into the wildwoods. the wildwoods tourism group announced some of its premiere fall events today. they want to remind visitors who even after summer ends, there is plenty to do. the roar to the shore motorcycle rally, hydro fest, power boat race and irish fall festival, just a few of the things still to come this year. you know, it's never too early to get a jump start on your holiday shopping. it is august still, right? ahead of this holiday weekend, a south jersey community is encouraging people though to shop, dine and go local. nbc 10 in historic swedesboro, gloucester county today, where community leaders took a pledge to support their local businesses. >> take the pledge, raise your right hands. >> shop small, shop local. >> business was booming today inside the swedesboro pastry shop, thanks in part to the gloucester county chamber of commerce. its campaign to shop, dine and go local encourages residents to give back to their neighborhood by opening up their wallets. county officials say every dollar spent locally gets reinvested. >> before you go and shop, look to local small businesses. >> we shop here. we dine here. we live here and the vibrancy, the vitality of our communities depends on supporting that. >> county officials say the push to get people spending locally this labor day weekend will help them get ahead of the big brand-name stores on black friday. by the way, that unofficial start to the holiday shopping season, three months from today. so, get started, renee and keith. >> thank you very much, jim. next on nbc 10 news at 5:00, they are called magic window walls. >> and they will give people here a glimpse of something big happening some 3,000 miles away. also, chaos on camera, driver delivers a mom and her kids to their destination but apparently, has other intentions. we will show you what he did that's sparking outrage. brittney? >> changes are coming our way as n holiday weekend. i'm tracking an increase in the heat and humidity and storm chances. i will let you know the best day of the weekend. that's coming up in my exclusive nbc 10 first alert 7-day forecast. and student separation, as one local school falls into ruins, students get their assignments for the new academic year and it will be unlike anything students have experienced in more than 80 years. that's next on nbc 10 news at 5:00. right now at 5:00, a developing story overseas that's having an impact right here at home. >> have confirmed that the body that was found was of a missing student. >> a new jersey student studying in israel has been found dead. as we have been reporting today, aaron sofer disappeared during a hike last friday. >> sofer is from lakewood in ocean county. live at 5:00 in lake wood is nbc 10's south jersey bureau reporter, cydney long. you have been in touch with sofer's loved ones. do they have any indication from israeli investigators about the cause of death? >> reporter: keith and renee, sadly, they are anxiously awaiting that word from forensic investigators with israeli police but so far, there is no definitive cause of death. what we do know is that the family told investigators that they completely trust the young man that aaron was hiking with when he disappeared last friday in the jerusalem forest. and in the orthodox faith, determining the exact cause of death may come without an autopsy. in a remote stretch of jerusalem forest that borders an arab neighborhood is where search and rescuers discovered aaron sofer's body. >> the forensics and the different police units are still in and around the area much the area has been closed off and the investigation is continuing. >> reporter: sofer, who was in israel for religious studies, vanished 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world traveled quickly from his parents who were overseeing the u.s. and israeli government large-scale search effort to his siblings. nine of them here in lakewood. >> very sad, you know, there's a range of siblings from is 0 or 11-year-old to mid-30s. >> reporter: during his visit with the family today, he learned sofer asked his mother if he should take a hike in the forest, given tensions between jews and hamas. it was the same day a cease-fire was issued. >> there was some closure to the fact that this may very well have been an accidental death as opposed to their son being abducted. >> reporter: despite no signs of foul play. >> obviously an investigation taking place at this moment in time to see what the background of the incident was, if the student fell and went missing or if it's a murder case. >> i believe that the barrier will happen in israel. >> reporter: lick ten steen says the sofer family, orthodox jews, will likely not agree to an autopsy. >> the problem with the autopsy is not i'm taking the pictures or the 3r0b is interfering with the body, such as using a knife to cut it, something along those lines. >> i have tweeted with israeli police today, asking if dehydration is a possible cause of death, but so far, have not heard back. we just did get a message from a friend of the family and learned that aaron sofer's funeral will, in fact, be held tomorrow morning, 9:30 a.m., but that is israeli time so that would happen here in new jersey, 2:30 in the morning, because they are seven hours ahead of us. we are told that an audio version of the funeral of that prayer service will be broadcast right here in lakewood. live in lakewood, i'm cydney long, nbc 10 news. >> in the last hour, we received this statement from governor chris christie's office, offering condolences to sofer's family and friends in lakewood. it reads, in part, "together, we can help them deal with this awful tragedy."94p a rip current risk still in effect at the jersey shore, caution is urged for anyone thinking about going out into the ocean, we take a live look at the beach in cape may. >> tens of thousands are hoping for good weather for what, well, tonight's final preseason eagles game at the link. a shot from south philly, the birds hosting the jets, michael vick makes his return to philly, donning a different shade of green. let's check the evening planner and rip current risk at the shore. >> nbc 10 first alert meterologist, brittney shipp is tracking it all in the weather center. brittney? >> nice conditions for the eagles game. i will go over that. start with the high current risk, all do you dew to hurricane cristobal, brewing in the atlantic, as we head into the rest of tonight, we are still seeing big swells, we have the dangerous rip current risk as we had into the rest of this evening, that's going to stay in affect until 11 p.m., but even as we head into tomorrow into saturday, we are still going to see rough surf, so you do want to be careful as you're going swimming, especially a lot of people are going down the shore and our delaware beaches because of the big holiday weekend. a mild evening out, below 80 today. 77 pottstown, 76, atlanta, 66 in the poconos, heading out to the eagles game, see a nice evening ahead, by 7 p.m., 77 degrees, breezy conditions, by 11 p.m., 69 and mild. in my full for cast, talking about a heat wave on its way, plus tracking storms for your labor day weekend. keith? >> all right, brittney, thanks. the concert countdown is on. >> that's right r just two days out now until philadelphia welcomes tens of thousand music fans for made in america festival on ben frankly parkway. center city shows the main stage where the big acts will perform starting on saturday. nbc 10's doug shimell not on on ground there. >> people the same play, same time, making plans so concertgoers don't feel disconnected. >> reporter: exactly. there have been issues going back to last year's made in america concert of people not being able to send or receive texts or make or receive cell phone calls at peak points during the weekend performances. event promoters are say they have taken steps to try to fix that. this many people crammed into a relatively small area means someone's call or text won't go through. the temporary tower is up for made in america 2014 on the parkway that will generate countless cell phone pictures and videos and massive demand for cell service. >> depending where you are, one guy work better than the other, make sure we are covered, the site here is powered by verizon, we have got a big verizon connection coming into the park and spreading that out all over. >> need any barbecue sauce? >> reporter: the event itself generate a lot of dollars in vendor sales and america in america has had to set up its own communications and wifi. >> vendor tents that need internet access to process credit card transactions, sign up people on -- for marketing activation sponsorship, trees get in the way and then the density of people starts to bog it down. >> reporter: there will be free public wifi areas this weekend in case the cell service lets you down and also a simultaneous m.i.a. concert in los angeles and there will be high-tech links you can use. this year, we have got the magic window walls which allows people to walk up to a screen and there's a camera that looks into the los angeles event. while we are standing here, we are looking out at the l.a. event and when they are in l.a., they are standing and looking into our event. >> well, of course, what about getting into this event this weekend and what can you bring into this event this weekend? we will have more on that coming up tonight at 6:00. live at the made in america concert and the setup and the preps on the parkway, i'm doug shimell, nbc 10 news. >> it's a big deal. nbc10.com is your complete resource guide to this week's made in america concert. whether it's a run dune on performers or traffic detours, take us with you if you are headed to the concert to get important information on our nbc 10 news app. we have new information now on the kidnapping of three men and the deaths of two of them. nbc 10 has confirmed the men whose bodies were found in the schuylkill river early yesterday morning were brothers. nbc 10 was there when forensic investigators removed buckets of key evidence from outside a southwest philadelphia home this morning. police say similar buckets were found attached to the bodies of the two brothers discovered in the river. sources also say a bag of evidence recovered will be used in a dna comparison. >> when i'm walking to work, they would be outside, you know, some time but there wasn't no, you know, serious things like, you know, that. >> a 23-year-old man also abducted and stabbed was able to escape and survive. investigators say the three victims are known to police and may have ties to asian gangs. and a driver is shot and killed then his car slammed into a home. tonight, philadelphia police are looking for the shooter. paramedics arrived on the scene on the 1600 block of seibert street in north philly. it happened around midnight. the driver believed to be in his 20s was dead. >> a lot of the crime scene, the tráhp!out 100 yards west. so, the abandoned property is not going to interfere with the ballistic evidence. we found 18 spent shell casings. >> hundreds of bricks fell onto the victim's car. homicide investigators had to call lni to make sure the building was safe before they could figure out what happened. new video now to show you of a police car -- a car rather police believe may have been involved in a hit and run accident in gloucester township, camden county. the crash happened sunday, a person walking was hit in that accident. two vehicles were captured on a video camera from joe canal's liquor store as they drove through the strawberry square shopping center parking lot. one of the vehicles is believed to be a light-colored jeep cher ski. the victim is still in the hospital with several broken bones. decision 2014, a new poll shows democrat tom wolf still has a wide lead over pennsylvania's republican governor, tom corbett. the state-wide telephone survey of 520 voters by a college in lan lancaster shows wolf favored by 49% of registered voters, 24% back corbett and 25% undecided. there was a sampling error margin of plus or minus 4.3 percentage points. there are now just 68 days until the pennsylvania general election, tuesday, november 4th. tonight, nbc 10 is uncovering new information about a federal investigation linked to a local politician. as we reported here yesterday on nbc 10 news at 5:00, a political consultant pleaded guilty to felony campaign finance charges. now, nbc 10's harry hairston confirmed the politician linked to the consultant is congressman chaka fat ta. you talked to the congressman's son today, charged in a separate case. what did he have to say? >> reporter: the congressman's son, chaka fattah, jr., tells me the federal documents appear to make references to his dad but he adds his father has done nothing wrong. i called congressman chaka fat ta's washington and philadelphia offices for comments about comments made boo his top political aide, greg naylor. he pled guilty for his role in attempting to conceal two campaign-finance related schemes from 2007. the feds say the scheme involved about $1 million in both federal and private funds to pay off an illegal debt. >> mr. naylor entered a plea to an information and that's that. any speculation about others who may be involved is really no more than mere speculation. >> defense attorney william benson not involved in the case but he's tried several cases against the feds. >> it's just so dangerous when some individual, in this case, mr. naylor, enters a guilty plea to say, oh, he was connected with the congressman. the congressman must have an issue. not the way we works. >> reporter: documents don't name congressman fattah, but they a refer to someone called elected official a but naylor's plea is far from proving the congressman is guilty of a crime. >> would simply be the word of mr. naylor, i assume other evidence, but it would be the word of mr. naylor added on to whatever evidence the government may have. >> reporter: brennan says that doesn't mean fatah is out of the woods. >> i have dealt with them for decades and very, very methodical in their approach. i'm sure the reason that no one's been named, other than apparently mr. naylor is the result of much thought and deliberation on their parts. >> the feds main tan fatah, jr. received just over $20,000 in illegal funds. fatah, jr. says he did receive money but it was money for when he worked as a consultant. live in the digital operations center, harry hairston, nbc 10 news. >> congressman fattah is married to nbc 10 news anchor, renee chenault-fattah. tonight, a scare on the street for a mom and her kids. >> she was panicking. she kept screaming police, police. >> on the attack. that suspect targets a woman in front of her young children, then takes aim at her kids. also, customer confrontation. a patron at a new jersey restaurant dares to stop an armed robber. tonight, we will tell you what happened when that customer came face to face with a knife-wielding bad guy. and you will have to take a look at this. declared dead, then alive. one man passes away, or so the doctors thought. that is until a family member noticed something unusual at the funeral home. south jersey bureau, video of the coast guard in action saving the life of a choking victim aboard a yacht near cape may harbor. the 61-year-old woman choked while eating lunch yesterday. the coast guard pulled up in a 45-foot response boat and went on board the yacht to treat that woman. meanwhile, hurricane cristobal continues to churn out in the atlantic. >> while the storm isn't a threat to the u.s., it is posing a threat to people taking a dip in the atlantic ocean. the rip current risk is high again today for swimmers. nbc 10 delaware bureau reporter, tim furlong, is live at 5:00 income rehoboth beach. describe the conditions in the surf that you've seen there today. >> reporter: i'll do better than describe it i will show you here. see here rehoboth, rain from the north to the south there is kind of a turning motion, you see. the people out here in the water, not those guys, only in up to their knees, that's good, go further past that, you see a lot of the people that start up at the -- to our northside, doesn't take long before they end up south of us. if you are a surfer, sorry, the waves are getting stronger. if you want to chill, the conditions should be improving are. this week, it has been pretty bad. >> getting there, even if you are up to your niece and feel yourself moving to the left or the right, even if you don't go in all the way. >> reporter: at the indian river inlet beach, the winds are blowing and the yellow rough surf flags are flying. >> been lucky, haven't had too many saves. >> reporter: good news. the guards say the prevention is the best protection. they literally try to talk to swimmers before they go in to let them know they shouldn't be fooled by the warm breezes and the sunny skies. this is a potentially dangerous day to swim. >> on a day like today, we will actually go up and down the beach and just, we will look for people with smaller children and let them know, only let your kids out about shin high, because beyond that i mean, when the rip current does open up, really only takes you getting swept off your feet and it will suck you right on out. >> reporter: if you look out there see older guys the water a little bit deeper, a lot of the little kids here closer to us, you can see they only go out to their knees, shins, a lot have their parents with them. that is a good thing. here is a bad thing, here in rehoboth, the lifeguards are gone for the day. all these people are swimming on unguarded beaches, they say that is a very, very bad idea when the rip currents are like this. hopefully, things are getting better, either way, probably not a great idea to be out here swimming when the lifeguards have gone off the beach. live in rehoboth, tim furlong, nbc 10 news. just like tim was explaining, still going to see that high rip current risk as we head into the rest of tonight that advisory does not expire until 11 p.m., but even as we head into tomorrow r, there won be an advisory out technically, you need to be careful the waters heading into tomorrow. checking for a stormy holiday, let you know which day and the possible of a heat wave is back in your 7-day forecast. live look outside, camel beach mountain water park a lot of people having a good time today. saw below average temperatures for us, 80 in philadelphia now, our humidity only at 35%. it was a only for theable day with the exception of our wind speeds out of the northwest at 13 miles per hour, gusting to 21 miles per hour. and still going to be a breezy early evening and then start to see our wind speeds dying down as we head into the rest of tonight. reading, 77 degrees right now, plenty of sunshine, same thing in philadelphia. temperatures in the 80s in atlantic city at the airport there and we are seeing plenty of sunshine. we head intoant to, mostly clear skies expected for us and our temperatures will actually drop more below average. nice way to end the work week, 76, allentown, 81, millville, low 80s in do every. take a closer look at our beach communities, one thing we want to point out again, the high rip current risk, stay in effect until 11 p.m. current temperatures in avalon, 79 degrees. you can see we are under the influence of a dry, northwesterly wind. that is going to start to shift as we head into the next couple of days. here's what's left of hurricane cristobal. wind speeds have picked up in the last five hours or so, now sustained at 80 miles per hour, but you can see how far it's turning away from our shoreline, which is great. as we head into the next few days, see plenty of sunshine, with changes on the way, quiet for us tonight, though i will show you what happens as we get into the weekend. for tomorrow, it is going to be a mild day i temperatures are going to stay in the high 70s, but as we head into saturday, we are going to see an increase in our humidity so our wind speeds are going to shift, gonna come up from the south and so you aring if to feel increase in the humidity, more sticky by saturday. by sunday, start to deal the with chance of showers, even storms. linger heading into monday and tuesday. temperatures go up as well. if you are closer to the shore, still going to state in 70s, 78 on your friday, saturday, even sunday. big changes on sunday, we have the chance of showers, we head into tonight, we expect to see clear and cooler conditions, dropping down to 50 degrees for suburbs to the north and west. tomorrow, sunny, very low humidity, take at a look at that temperature range between 78 and 81 degrees. your 7-day forecast shows the warming trend. take a look at sunday and monday, actual loin labor day. steamy storms, temperatures at 90, stay into the 90s even into next week. happening now, a peace concert in chester, delaware county. let's take a live look at the summer finale at the peace on the streets concert series this afternoon in chester park. power 99 fm had morning person eighths and dance team at the show. community empowerment groups are taking part as well. a health ask a irfor a wise-cracking comedy legend. >> nbc 10 with the latest on joan rivers and her medical emergency today. also caught on camera, a man takes out violence on a woman and turnsing anner to her little kids. now the hunt is on for the bad guy. and surprise on the shelf, the products you think you're buying without a certain ingredient may not be as advertised. we will tell you what could be hiding in your food. a woman in new york fights off a man who says he was a cab driver and then tried to sexually assault her in front of her three kids. we want to warn you now, the video we are about to show you is disturbing. the 26-year-old woman asked to be taken to a shelter in manhattan but instead of dropping her off, police say he drove to the back of the building and that's where the assault began. as the mother holds on to her 1-year-old, the cab driver tries to grab her. she fights him off. the man then yanks the 3-year-old out of the back seat and tosses the child to the sidewalk. the driver then gets back in his car and drives off. >> she was panicking. she kept screaming police ya, police ya. i ran over here because i thought someone was, like, dying or something. >> the mother and children are going to be okay. police are still looking for that cab driver. then this, a customer confronts a knife-wielding thief in north jersey. looking the at this video. the suspect walks into a restaurant in south brunswick and demands money from the cashier. the customer stands up, tells the suspect to leave. that's when the thief starts swinging that knife at the customer in his right hand. the customer grabs a motorcycle ff. the suspect ran off empty handed. the customer luckily was not hurt. comedian joan rivers is in stable but critical condition tonight at a new york hospital. this is video of the 81-year-old with jimmy fallon on "the tonight show" earlier this year. rivers stopped breathing during a minor throat procedure at a manhattan clinic 2today. she was rushed to a nearby hospital. she was scheduled to appear at a combi cl comedy club tomorrow. louie freeh is under armed guard at a new hampshire hospital. he was seriously injured in a car crash in southern vermont monday. the fbi put the armed protection in place because of his past work on terrorism. freeh headed the bureau from 1993 to 2001. the cause of the crash is still under investigation. tonight, trash becomes treasure. >> one local city is cleaning up the litter and cashing in. we will tell you how the trash translates into millions. also ahead, the girl with the gun. nbc 10 has new information about the case of that 9-year-old from new jersey who misfired an uzi, killing a firearms instructor. and tearful testimony. a dad whose little girl was kidnapped and sexually assaulted takes the stand. nbc 10 is in the courtroom to tell you what he said to the jury. and then all new on nbc 10 news at 6:00, more than 100 animals rescued from a single home where the pets were living and what happens to them now. right now at 5:30, philadelphia jurors heard another day of agonizing testimony in the case against a woman accused of kidnapping and then sexually assaulting a little girl. this is a case that has moved some members of the jury to tears. >> and it's shedding new light on the crime that stunned the region. christina regusters is the woman on trial for the abduction and attack of the little girl. >> live at 5:30 in center city is nbc 10's christine maddela. you were in court today where the man who found the young victim testified. >> reporter: exactly right. he was the first man to testify in the courtroom today and we heard him talk about how he found the 5-year-old girl in the park and we also heard the audio from his 911 call. nelson meyers says he was walking to work when he heard a little girl's voice coming from this playground. >> a passerby heard a little girl cry for help. >> reporter: tom klein represents the girl and her mother in their civil case. he was in the courtroom and walked us through what happened today in the criminal case. >> and when he heard her cry for help, he found her in the park, cold, shivering, dirty, dishevelled, and in need of finding her way home to her mother. >> reporter: that was before sunrise in january. meyers says the 5-year-old girl was wearing nothing but an adult t-shirt. he put she's jacket around the girl. when she said someone was chasing her, he called 911. >> we have a situation where a --erby was able to lend aid, call the 911 and we heard those tapes today. >> reporter: in that audio, we heard the little girl's voice went 911 operator told meyers to ask the girl her name and if she was hurt. the girl said she was hurt and she didn't know where she was and she was scared she wouldn't be able to find her way home. >> she was cold, she was shivering, she was hurt and she had been horribly violated and that is the importance of the testimony that we heard today. >> reporter: the girl's father, terry robinson, testified today he talked about reviewing this surveillance video showing a woman in muss give george w. bush taking his child from the score. the defendant, christine regusters, seemed like she was in her own world today, she sat next to her attorney and didn't pay any attention to any of the witness's testimony. she played with her hair. she twirled a pen around in her hand over and over, shuffled papers, kept her head down, she didn't show any emotion, even during some of the disturbing testimony about the child's abuse. we do expect she will take the stand in her own defense. live in center city, christine maddela, nbc 10 news. >> thanks. to this now, this just in, philadelphia's licenses and inspections department brought in a bulldozer after what they call an extreme case of hoarding. you can see the bulldozer tearing down part of this house at 12th and huntington streets this afternoon. inspectors came to check on the well being of one man and found tons and tons of trash. no word yet on the man's condition. we have a crew at that house. count on new information as we learn more. here are some of the stories making headlines on nbc 10 news at 5:30 today. a 23-year-old ocean county student will be buried tomorrow after his body was found in israel. 23-year-old aaron sofer disappeared last friday while hiking in the israeli forest. his family feared he may have been kidnapped and pleaded for his safe return. initial reports suggest sofer slipped and fell. and the final touches are being done on the stage ahead of this weekend's made in america concert. it's an annual event featuring dozens of performers, expected to attract tens of thousands of music fans to the parkway in center city. beautiful weather to celebrate the start of classes the local college campus around the area. nbc 10 at welcome week for har cam college in bryn mawr, montgomery county. dozens of people gathered for this picnic. so, what does tonight hold in store? >> let's get the answer from nbc 10 first alert meterologist, brittney shipp. >> going to see comfortable conditions. maybe you are heading out to the eagles game right now, temperatures are mainly in the 80s for philadelphia, 81, millville, 66 in the poconos, 60 in pottstown, if you're closer to the shore, at 79 in avalon, 77 in lewis i still point out the high rip current risk going to stay in effect until at least tonight at 11 p.m. but we are still dealing with rough surf as we head into tomorrow. by 6 p.m., we are going to see temperatures at 78, breezy conditions will stick with us the next few hours, by 8 p.m., mild, 71, as we head into this evening, 69 degrees. clear skies expected for us as we head into the rest of tonight and we are still going to see below average day heading into your friday. coming up, we are talking about the stormy holiday and i'm also tracking a late summer heat wave. that's all coming up in my first alert 7-day forecast. >> looking forward to that, brittney. meantime, new information on the death of a firearms instructor at an arizona shooting range. the coroner said charles vacca died of a single gunshot wound to the head when he was showing a 9-year-old girl how to operate an uzi machine gun. yesterday, prosecutors said they would not file charges against the girl. they said vacca was probably the most criminally negligent for allowing the new jersey girl to hold the gun without training. no suspects or a motive in a deadly shooting in philadelphia's frankfurt section. nbc 10 on the 4300 block of penn street at 1:00 this morning. that's where police found a 34-year-old man shot in the head. police drove the man to the hospital but he died a short time later. and northeast philly, police are on the hunt for two men who stole dozens of car batteries from a walmart store, roosevelt boulevard and bluegrass road. the suspects backed a truck into the storage area and cut the locks. they made off with about 90 batteries worth $6,000. and heading south, new castle county police are looking for this man. they say he burglarized a home in the 200 block of pennsylvania avenue on friday. this is a surveillance picture, the man actually inside the home. police say he took several things from the home. from our trenton bureau, the school year for students at trenton central high school will begin with some sacrifices. the school building students have called home is now closed and about to undergo major renovations. as a result, students will be split up and sent to four different locations for classes. construction on the new school is expected to be completed in four years. and next year, the old school will be demolished. people's trash is becoming philadelphia's treasure. the city cracking down on litter violators and bringing in big bucks for it. in five years, the city has collected $26 million in litter types, more than 5 million of that was collected in just the last fiscal year. the violations include not properly disposing of garbage refuge, rubbish or any other waste considered a danger to public health. well, some food for thought during the dinner hour. >> we got a question for you, do you really know what's in your food? tonight, something that could be hiding in products you eat every single day and that one ingredient you may be trying to avoid, it might be in your favorite meal. and back from the dead. doctors said this cancer patient didn't make it. he proved them and everyone else wrong. we will tell you how it all unfolded right at the funeral home. ♪ and all new on nbc 10 news tonight at 6:00, the boss is back. bruce springsteen's plans for a new book based on his music. countless americans, including high-profile celebrities have accepted the als ice bucket challenge this summary a and report find it is paying off. the a ls association report it is has received $94.3 million in donations the past month. that's compared to, listen to this 2.7 million during the same time period last year. the donations have come from existing donors as well as more than 2 million new contributors. researchers suggest taking a second look at food labels, claiming they contain no transfats. the new york health department looked at more than 4,000 of the most popular packaged foods. 9% contained partially hydrogenated oils, the source of transfats. 84% had lanes declaring the foods transfat free. you can find out whether food contains transfat by looking at the ingredient list. anything that says partially hydrog hydrogenated oil is a red flag for transfat. government agencies are working to address this issue. speaking of health, the ebola outbreak in west africa shows no signs of slowing down. the world health organization warns the number of owe beale la cases could reach 20,000. doctors in liberia say the killer virus is spreading so quickly, they can't get a handle on t ebola killed more than 1500 people in liberia, guinea, nigeria and sierra leone. liberia has recorded the highest number of case and deaths of any of the four countries. how about this story? a brazilian man giving the thumbs up because he is happy to be alive. why, you ask? well, he was pronounced dead at a hospital on sunday. funeral preparations were even under way when his uncle discovered he was still breathing. the man was diagnosed with cancer three months ago. he is now being treated once again. nbc10.com vince lattanzio with this story. reclaiming philadelphia's past through its wood. steve ebber in runs the city's only lumber mill and he is working hard to give new life to wood from some of the city's ollest homes and factories. visit nbc10.com on our mobile apps right now to hear why, although this is a new trend, reclaiming that wood, it still has its challenges, it is a digital exclusive story from our partners at newsworks.org. read more now on nbc10.com. keith? >> thanks, vince. i can't believe i'm about to say this, help me how the here, renee. >> yeah. >> it is the last unofficial weekend of summer. >> makes you sad, doesn't it, keith? >> terrible. >> well, you know, natural lake, a lot of people because it is the last official holiday of the summer, have a lot riding on this forecast. brittney, no pressure. >> no pressure. none taken. but over the next couple of days, it's going to feel really nice, although i am tracking the heat, the humidity, even a chance of storms, i will tell you how that's going to impact your outdoor plans, all coming up in my exclusive nbc 10 first alert holiday weekend forecast. all new on nbc 10 news at 6:00, revel's closing in a matter of days, why is a new jersey agency still trying to seize a man's house for a redevelopment project in the court battle happening in the shadow of a failed casino. a live look at lincoln financial field in south philadelphia. the birds are taking on the jets a little more than an hour from now the eagles final preseason game a lot of attention tonight will be on the jets' quarterback, michael vick. >> vick will start against his former team and he will do it amid some controversy. comcast sports net's john clark is at lincoln financial field with more for us. hey, john. >> reporter: just a little drama. michael vick this week said he was disappointed that riley cooper hasn't stayed in touch with him. take a look at michael vick on the field within the last hour, catching up with his former eagle teammates and last year, remember last summer, riley cooper took a leave of absence from the eagles after using the n-word at a concert here at the link. well, michael vick was a team leader and he really spoke up for riley cooper and helped ease the situation and helped keep riley cooper on the team. well, this past offseason when riley cooper got his big extension, michael vick says he texted him and riley cooper did not text back and michael vick said that disappointed him. today, michael vick says they spoke and everything is all good now. >> i would never disrespect him. you know exit was a miscommunication. i don't ever want it to be that way. and, you know, i knew when i heard him, when we talked [ inaudible ] [ poor audio ] didn't have to talk about that too long. conversation tried to talk about you know, how we was both doing and what's going on in each other lives. we talked about that briefly and he moved on. >> reporter: michael vick will start tonight for the jets but he is not gonna play long. no starters for the eagles. matt barkley will play the game and we will hear from him coming up at 6:00. for now, i'm john clark, live at the link, back to you. >> get to pick our high school blitz game of the week for next friday, september 5th. here are your choices -- high school blitz has the best highlights every saturday night at 7:00 right here on nbc 10. well, the calendar says august but we are enjoying a brief break from the heat. but don't get used to it the steamy weather will make a return for the holiday weekend. our temperatures today below average, same thing as we head into tomorrow, we are going to turn up the heat, tracking a phoning of of a heat wave as we head into the end of your weekend, into next week. we are also tracking a high rip current risk and stormy holiday for you. go over all the details in your 7-day forecast, live look outside right now, barely a cloud in the sky, nice and mild and comfortable, humidity is low, 35%, 80 degrees with our temperatures in philadelphia. down nine degrees from this time yesterday. the only other thing we are dealing with, breezy conditions right now, once winds gusting 21 miles per hour. fantastic, heading out to the eagles game tonight, 66 in the poconos, 76, allentown, currently. same thing in westchester, 79 in wilmington. along the shore, nice and warm, dry, warm air coming in from the northwest. 80 in atlantic city and 81 currently in dover. so it's going to be a nice and mild evening out. same thing as we head into tomorrow. but take a look at a difference a day makes, down 16 degrees in the poconos, down 12 degrees in allentown, 10 in trenton, 7 in wilmington. our average this time of year is 84 degrees, we head into tomorrow, going to start 79, start to reof coulder heading into saturday saturday is going to be the best day of your entire weekend. a closer look at our high rip current risk, hurricane cristob cristobal, off in the atlantic, pulling well away from our shores, causing big swells on the shore line heading into delaware beaches, we have the dangerous rip current situation staying in effect until 11 p.m. still be cautious as you head into the water tomorrow and into the weekend. for the pocono mountains, tomorrow, temperatures in the low 70s, 70 on your saturday. take a look at sunday. we are tracking a chance of thunderstorms, even for the poconos. stretching down the shore. on your friday, down the shore, 78 degrees, a rip current risk diminishes a bit, as we head into saturday, 78 degrees, plenty of sunshine, temperatures stay nice on sunday, but we are going to see a chance of thunderstorms as well. we head into the rest of tonight, clear conditions, cooler for us, take a look at our temperatures for our suburbs to the north and west, dropping down to 50 degrees tonight, only 59 for our suburbs, philadelphia, head to tomorrow, workweek, hopefully the day off, you can start your holiday, we are going to see low humidity, temperatures range between 78 and 81 degrees, going to be really nice friday, but this is where things get interesting, so our temperatures start to recover on saturday. take a look at what happens on sunday. 92 degrees, teamy, the humidity returns, chance of storms on sunday, labor day, still dealing with a chance of storms, still in the 90s, 90s again on tuesday and even into next week, we are tracking a late summer heat wave. be safe this holiday weekend. >> good advice, brittney. check this out, new aerials of iceland's active volcano shows cracks in a glacier below. scientists believe cracks have formed in the last few days. the region has been hit by several lark, earthquakes. the deep depressions on the glashers a surface could be the sign of an underground eruption. the long holiday weekend already starting for some people. >> there's a double dose of danger out there that could get in the way. waves of worry. the rough surf and the threats they are posing to people on both coasts. on tuesday, we told you about vandalism at two local cement tears. now, we've learned two others have been hit. what the vandals did and how a local community group is stepping in. it's all new on nbc 10 news at 6:00. here's a live look at high waves and choppy surf in malibu, california, as hurricane marie continues to cause dangerous rip currents along the west coast. we are seeing the same dangerous conditions here on the east coast with hurricane cristobal stirring up the atlantic ocean. >> as nbc 10 national correspondent, chris clackum shows, us it has been a tense week along both coasts. >> reporter: with most beachgoers only wanting to watch from a distance -- >> we are here seeing it firsthand at a safe distance, but really pretty cool. >> reporter: forecasters expect the ocean swelled by hurricane marie to continue to bring damaging high surf to portions of the southern california coastline through friday. southern californians a third day thursday of epic waves pounding the pier in malibu. it's been a tense week, residents trying to protect beachfront property from an angry ocean and often failing. >> the water was actually all the way up to here in the room. >> reporter: lifeguard building was lost overnight, swallowed up by waves as high as 20 feet. just as more lifeguards are needed to help with dozens of rescues, now necessary because of dangerous rip currents. >> they become a bit of a hazard as well. every once in a while, wave will come up and sweep people off their feet. >> reporter: it's the same story back east. beachgoers allowed only to the water's edge because hurricane cristobal's still churning in the atlantic. >> the lifeguards the one that came on, first thing, said it's prohibited. we can not let swimmers into the water. it's just too dangerous. >> reporter: too dangerous from maryland to maine, but calmer waters are expected on both coasts by the weekend, the unofficial last weekend of summer. chris clackum, nbc 10 news. coming up next on nbc 10 news at 6:00, breaking news. >> that's right. just minutes ago, police told us a gambling debt may have led to two men being kidnapped, murdered and then thrown into the schuylkill. police also tell us they think they know who might be responsible for the murderers. nbc 10 is at police headquarters right now. we will have more details coming up in a live report in just minutes. and i'm watching for the potential storms during the holiday weekend and the possibility of a labor day heat wave. exclusive nbc 10 first alert forecast is ahead. also new at 6:00, more than 100 animals rescued from a single home, the filthy conditions they were living in and what could happen to the animals now, next on nbc 10 news at 6:00. 20 minutes of non-stop news. first, we want to tell you about this. this is just in, just minutes ago. police revealed that gambling debts could be the motive behind two men being kidnapped, murdered and then thrown into the schuylkill river. officers tell us the victims were given money for drugs and instead, they hit the casino. >> tonight, philadelphia police are telling us they have an idea as well who killed those men. the mystery behind a missing new jersey man also studying in israel appears to be solved. let's go to our top story. monique braxton has the latest. i know you have been working this story for the past few days. what can you tell us about these late-breaking details? >> reporter: renee and jim, just moments ago, i spoke with homicide captain james clark and he told us they know who's responsible for this barbaric murder. as we roll some video showing you what's happened the past couple of days, i will recap for you what he told us. sources say the two men found dead, duct taped, bound and floating in the schuylkill river are brothers who lived at several different addresses outside the city. we have also learned they are in their late 20s. when asked a source about what happened, i was told one brother was given $100,000 to buy drugs. he gambled the money away at a casino in chester. both reached out to a surviving victim, the person who survived this ordeal for help. when he showed up at the southwest philadelphia home where we were this morning on 72nd street, he only had $40,000, not the $100,000 the brothers had hoped for he saw his friends tied up in that home, accord to a source. they were taken to the river and dumped, as you know, the surviving victim played deed. sources also say a woman and five children left the home yesterday in a hurry. they left with the food still cooking on the stove. that's why police were at the house today. now, our cameras were rolling when the forensic unit removed buckets of roofing materials from a backyard on the 2400 block of 72nd street. you may recall both men who w
feeling like -- >> the president's visit was mostly about shining a spotlight on the county police takeover that has in the past two years cut camden's city murder numbers in half. police chief scott thompson showed mr. obama the nerve center of the county pd including street cameras that allow police had he had a off trouble before it turns violent. >> the president seen most impressed by the simplest concept getting cops out of the squad car and on to the streets and into stores to help build relationships with the community they serve. >> it's not just crisis response response. the not after the fact there's a crime there's dead body, there's a shooting and now we'll show up much it's where here all the time and hopefully we can prevent those shootings from happening in the first place. >> reporter: president told an audience filled with that the nation's attitude toward policing must change moving away from mass incarceration incarceration of non violent drug offender. >> s we're spending a whole lot of money on prisons and we don't have enough programs in our schools. we're being counter productive. it's into the good strategy. >> all is not perfect here in camden. not by a long shot. the president acknowledged that violent crime still far too pervasive in the city as a philadelphia inquirer report this weekend pointed out turnover that is retirements and resignations still make it very difficult to get police staffing numbers where they need to be to keep this city safe. iain. >> bruce, thank you. president obama announce dag the government will scale back providing some military style equipment to local police departments. effective immediately the government will no longer offer armored vehicle that is run on attract system instead of wheels alsogun and .5 caliber ammunition and grenade launchers or baio nets on camouflage uniforms. hum >> developing right now communities on the move again. less than being after the deadly amtrak crash in port richmond. the tracks are back open on the nation's busiest commuter corridor as the ntsb devils into exactly why amtrak regional 188 took a 50-mile an hour curve at twice that limit lawsuits are now rolling in. eight people died in the crash more than 200 were injured. fox 29's dave kinchen is at 30th street station and dave, we're learning new information about the train and the locomotive's windshield. >> reporter: that's right. we have breaking news from the ntsb. they just tweeter out not too long ago the nfbi found no evidence of damage to amtrak 188's windshield that could have been caused by a firearm. ntsb says that it has not ruled out the possibility of another object striking that windshield. in the meantime who are at 30th street station the big board shows some delays but no cancellations and everybody just happy the northeastern corridor is back open. amtrak commuters are back on trains to and from new york city today with the northeast corridor back up and running for the first time since last tuesday night's deadly derailment. >> i'm fine taking the train. >> i'm just happy to get on the train basically take me directly to new york as opposed to having to commute to trenton. >> reporter: our cameras were along for the ride as passengers entered the s curve where the crash happened on new rail and with the new automatic train control safety system now in place on the northbound side. >> it's perfectly fine. >> i will be thinking about the families and loved ones and the people that suffered such a terrible tragedy. >> reporter: as the system rebooted attorneys bob montgomery lewis see and tom klein fired lawsuits against amtrak. the safety system should have been in place before all of this this. >> they say spanish retiree nearly lost her arm in the crash and advertising exec dan are a pond suffers from a torn acl and knocked out teeth. >> he stagger out of the train to try to help others and literally when he tried to put weight on his leg collapsed to the ground. >> reporter: they will want engineer brandon bostian to post after he talk to the ntsb he said did not remember the crash. they are still gathering evidence. remember robert sumwalt told fox news sunday he is not drawn any conclusions. >> we're looking at everything at this point. we have not ruled anything out nor have we ruled anything in. >> reporter: more than 200 people were injured in that crash. and there is a movement right now to remove a $200 million cap on damages that would be paid out by amtrak. a u.s. senator from florida is working to get that remove. back to you guys. >> all right. dave, thank you. septa trains that use the same railroad also running to night but there are some delays because of on-going repairs at the frankford junction. septa says trains heading to trenton are not stopping at north philadelphia, bridesburg and tacony stations and trains heading towards philadelphia are passing the north philadelphia station. there are still questions tonight surrounding the reports of projectiles thrown at trains in the area. the night of the crash. septa police chief thomas nestle just held a news conference to discuss the projectiles and the safety and security procedures in these types of events. he says there's one basic message he wants to get across. we don't want anybody in our track area. we want folks to understand the danger of throwing rocks at trains. it's not a fun activity. it can cause injuries. it can cause damage and it can cause injuries to the person throwing the rock. >> the chief says that people throw stuff at trains so often that a lot of it doesn't even get reported to police. some encouraging news about the patient still at temple university hospital after that derailment. doctors are still treating eight people and they say just three remain in critical condition. doctors expect them all to make full recoveries. the crash of course hurt more than 200 people. it has been day filled with tears for three familiar as they say goodbye to those whom they love killed in last week's crash crash. robert gildersleeve family laid him to rest in holmdel new jersey. he's the father whose 13-year-old son was looking for him in center city the day after the crash. the food safety executive was remembered for his humor but more so the love for his family. gildersleeve lived near baltimore but was from new jersey. >> suburban detroit friends and family gathered for the funeral of thirty nine-year-old rachel jacobs much he was a graduate of swarthmore college and ceo of the philadelphia based start up -- she's the daughter of a former michigan center. in queens new york laura fin more's family laid her to rest. she was an executive for a real estate firm. fin more's family says she was generous and funny had an infectious laugh. new information comes in every day on the story. we're putting it all in one place for you myfoxphilly.com. you'll find the latest information, video and pictures right on our home page. >> two people are recovering tonight after being hurt in a schoolbus accident. sky fox over by bury and thornton roads in northeast philadelphia shortly after 6:30 this morning where police say the drivers of a bus and another car involved were taken to the hospital. no children were hurt. the impact sending the bus into a utility pole. the cause is still uninvestigation. a burglar in philadelphia' lows began circle squeezes his way into an office that he ransacked check this out. police say the guy somehow got access to the second floor of a building on the 1900 block of market street around 4:00 a.m. last month. the door to an office was locked so what did dough? police say he forked the bottom of the door open and squirmed his way n once he got in police say he took several things. we just don't know what he reportedly took. >> warm and muggy day. fox 29 weather authority life look at one of my favorite places have it you made it to bush kills fall also. live look from poconos mountain camera. just beautiful. a great day. some in our area have stormy weather in the forecast. chief meteorologist scott williams is in old city tonight with all those details. scott? >> hi there lucy. we saw temperatures soar in philadelphia into the mid and upper 80s. but temperatures are dropping now. we're watching a back door cold front move through the area. also sparking off some scattered showers and storms especially to our west. as we look at ultimate doppler right now, you can see some of that activity firing up around the harrisburg area. also continuing into sections of delaware. we'll zoom in a little closer right now. you can see around middletown, moving into sections of harrington there in kent county still watching some of those showers and downpours and take a look at this. one to 2-inches in spots earlier this afternoon in sections of chester county as well as salem county there in south jersey. take a look just to the west of the dover area. some locations there picking up close to 2-inches of rain. so that back door front is moving through. dropping the temperatures but sparking off some of the showers and storms to our west. tomorrow most of us will be in the pea soup temperatures will climb again into the 80s and we have more chances for storms. but look at the sharp temperature cut off. the 79 in lancaster right now. only 60 degrees in wrightstown with that back door front moving in. we'll talk about how cool it gets tonight as well as those rainfall chances ahead tomorrow and if you're planning ahead, we have you covered for the memorial day weekend holiday forecast. back to you. >> big forecast, talk to you soon. authorities call what happened at this restaurant unprecedented. a gang shootout. kills nine people. injured 18. sent nearly 200 to jail. what set off a historic afternoon of violence. >> and severe weather makes for rough weekend to our west. even blowing a train off its tracks. the other damage you got to see to believe. >> matthew mcconaughey not mincing words while speaking at a recent college graduation scolding he gave that's grabbing headlines. >> you decide. the next democratic candidate for philadelphia mayor all six candidates debated on fox 29 late last month. the winner of tuesday's primary will go on to the mayoral election in november. and we're happening you decide with a half hour special tonight tonight. we'll take close look at each of the six candidates and their views on important issues facing the city and some funny moments during the campaign so far. watch the fox 29 news election special you decide 2015 starting at 11:00 p.m. tonight right after the fox 29 news at te inform. ♪ >> south philadelphia row home is damaged tonight after an overnight fire. firefighters arrive on the 3500 block of jasper street right around 12:30 this morning. they got in quickly. got out quickly. took 15 minutes to beat down that fire and although the home is damage the fire did not spread and no one is hurt. to developing story in texas now. at least nine people are dead. 18 others injured after a biker gang fight there and now a big number of people are facing charges. >> our joyce evans is in the studio with the latest developments. joyce. >> guys, texas authorities are calling the violence here unprecedented. the sunday afternoon shootout has also shut down that waco restaurant where it all went down. a biker gang fight lead to go nearnearly 200 arrests near texas sunday shootout between rival groups killing and injuring several bike carries at a restaurant in waco. no innocent bystanders were hurt in the gunfire. >> we have 170 individuals that we have arrested and are booking or have been booked into the mcclellan county jail. those individuals are being charged with engaging in organized crime. >> reporter: the twin peaks restaurant is located in a busy shopping center about 95 miles south of dallas. authorities say that at least five biker gangs were there to discuss turf and recruitment when a fistfight broke out in the bathroom. knives and guns soon became involved in the conflict move to the parking lot. >> we are in the process of diagramming every piece of evidence, every vehicle every blood spot, every body that was there. >> reporter: police were tipped off to the meeting and were outside when the fighting began. it's still unknown if any of the dead were killed by officers. law enforcement has been the target of threat from biker groups since it happened. now the county sheriff says all of those killed were either members of biker gang's. the ban deet tows were just given the second highest threat level by the texas department of public safety just last year. iain and lucy. >> all right, thank you very much, joyce. new castle county police say they're looking for a copper thief. he's driving that car right there they say. police say they got call about that car in the driveway of a vacant house on the 100 block of rock rose drive in newark when they rolled up the car was gone and so was copper piping from the vacant home. a montgomery county high school is back open aft deadly accident over the weekend. 32-year-old philipe' silva crash a truck through the wall of lower mooreland high school saturday it ended up in the boiler room. he died. police still don't know why he crash. crews fixed the school's water and electrical lines and hole in the wall over the weekend and they're supposed to have the damage in the cafeteria fixed by wednesday. new jersey would have to give parents detailed information on which standardized tests to expect each year under a measure moving through the legislature the state senate is considering three bills that would address how the state administrators those tests. flurry of legislative activity comes in the first year. partnership for assessment of readiness for college and careers or parcc test which some parents protested one bill requires schools to send a note to parents guardians by objection first on which tests would be given. >> the flyers search for new head coach is over. it's done. it's finish. they have got their man but he probably isn't a name flyers fans are familiar with. howard eskin is in the newsroom with more an a man who has never coached in the nhl before. howard? >> it's not a name that i don't think anybody knows. now teams will also say had he got the man they wanted regardless. it's always the case. new head coach never did coach professionally hockey and that includes the minor leagues. his name is dave hack stall. he was the head coach at the university of north dakota. dave hack stall spent 11 year as the head coach at north dakota. went to the ncaa tournament all 11 years. he wept to the final four of hockey seven of those years. but he is not the head coach that i think most flyers fans wanted as their new head coach. the best head coach name was pete babcock of the detroit red wings and i'm sure the gm ron hextall called about babcock but went with his gut. >> i wasn't going to choose the coach that was the people's choice. the popular choice. i was going to pickly coach that i felt like for this franchise from today next year and moving forward he was the right coach. >> i don't have experience at this level. so i'm not going to pretend that i do but i do have great deal of confidence in what we do in what my philosophyies are and in the fact that they'll be successful here. >> the last coach with only college experience to be hired in the nhl as a head coach was bob johnson but that was back in 1982 and that was with the calgary flames. other doctors come from college to the nhl but not without pro experience. and one other note. today in north dakota it was 33 degrees with snow. you think hack stall was glad to get out thereof? i talk to the new head coach about his lack of experience. more coming up later in sports. >> i'd been glad to get out of there. thanks howard. >> click or tick the national highway safe add tee administration kicking off a campaign. how important it is to wear a seat belt. anyone found not doing so will be fined. officials say buckling up saves about 10,000 lives a year. city officials gathering in center city today to kick off national emergency medical services week mayor nutter joining philadelphia fire commissioner derek sawyer inside the municipal services building. ems workers offering free blood pressure screenings and gave a c cpr demonstration. officials say it's more -- the more the public etch kate indicated about life-saving tools the safer we are. >> the more people in our city that we have trained in cpr helps us to have better success rates when we respond to those emergencyies. >> those attending today's kick off also went home with free cpr training kit. >> we thought babcock would come here. >> american troops drop their weapons and run. what is happening that has scared them so badly. >> and a soldier dad knocks it out of the park he's coming home and surprising his kids. how live will change forever after this day at the ballpark. >> you want to shed some pounds you think you're doing everything right watch wagon you eat to exercising. weight not coming off. the head games doctors say you might be playing with yourself. >> we're getting ready for our next step in the fox 29 spring fling on wednesday we're going to media we'll be live starting on good day through the fox 29 news at 5:00 and 6:00. come out and join us and have lot of fun. >> isis ceases control of ramadi zenning iraqi forces out of the city aft days of bloody clashes. islamic state militants killed up to 500 people. civilians in iraqi soldiers it's the biggest victory fort stream mists this year despite months of us led air strikes. video showing iraqi army humvees trucks and other equipment speeding along a main road out of ramadi. about 8,000 ramadi residents left their home fearing more isis attacks. south carolina senator lindsay graham making it clear he's running for the republican presidential nomination. graham says he'll announce officially on june 1st. but in an enter view this morning he used the phrase, i'm running. graham is a fierce critic of president obama's foreign policy and says he believes more american troops will have to die in iraq and syria to prevent terrorists from attacking the u.s. >> graham refused to answer questions about whether it was right to invade iraq back in 2003. he said it's more important to take military action to stabilize the middle east. >> on the heels of a deadly chopper crash in nepal the u.s. ma ren core is now dealing with another deadly crash. this time in hawaii. hard landing killed one marine and injured 21 others yesterday at bellows air force station. i would say that's a hard landing. look at the smoke and flames. military says marines were inside an mv22 osprey. it can take off and land like a helicopter but fly like a plane. no explosion. there was no noise. we didn't hear any sound. we just saw the smoke and that caught our attention. >> the flames were coming up at least 20 feet high and a lot people were rushing in trying to help as much as possible. >> marines are part of the 15th marine sixty three den share units based at camp pendleton california. the marine chopper that crashed in nepal killing six marines and two napal lease soldiers was also based at camp pendleton. three police officers are in serious condition after they say a drunk driver ran them over in detroit. it happened saturday night while police were talking to a 16-year-old boy about a car burglary. officers say a 54-year-old man in a red pick up hit the back of their squad car injured the thee officers and the teen. the boy is in serious condition as well. the driver who police say was drunk is not hurt. all right. got a question for you. are you part of the sandwich generation? >> i don't even know what that mean. in fact you might not even no what it means but it could be having a major affect on your health. we'll explain for you coming up. >> severe weather makes for rough weekend to our west. it blew the trains right off the track. the tough road ahead. scott. >> parts of our area seeing some scattered showers and storms as well as dropping temperatures. details on all of that and a preview as to what to expect for memorial day weekend next. the beast was as long as the boat. for seven hours, we did battle. until i said... you will not beat... meeeeee!!! greg. what should i do with your fish? gary. just put it in the cooler. if you're a fisherman, you tell tales. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance you switch to geico. it's what you do. put the fish in the cooler! >> president obama came to our area today. he landed at philadelphia international airport short particularly 1:00 this afternoon and there he is. waiting for him mayor nutter and other city officials. the president thank them and fir responders for all of their work after the amtrak train crash. marine one then took him to camden where he's looking at ways to improve local policing. we'll have much more on that part of his visit coming up in a live report at 6:00. >> the morning commute back to normal for thousands in our area after the tracks at the scene deadly amtrak crash reopened. both amtrak and septa resuming service early this morning. amtrak says those rails are now safer with an automatic train control safety system now in place. >> no meadery left in sight for parts of the midwest and south after weekend stormy and destructive weather. more than 200 reports of severe weather poured in from across the country yesterday including two dozen reports of tornadoes. >> fox's lauren blanchard shows us what that means for people on the ground. >> reporter: in parts of texas texas, roads look a lot more like rivers. a johnson county family had to be rescued by helicopter after heavy downpours caused the water around their home to rise quick quickly. trapping them inside. and dallas area apartment complex is being partially evacuated after up to 8-inches of water flowed in over the past week. >> kind of looked like a water bed kind of. >> as far as his car his car is totaled. the bed. i'm not sleeping thon any more. >> reporter: emergency crews are dealing with an emergency of their own in oklahoma. strong storms badly damaged this fire station in mirrors and in wagner county storms were so severe they tore up homes and knocked trampolines out of backyards. >> pretty good size covered up with the tarpeian have another one on the east side of the house that is gone. >> in missouri hundreds of people have been forced out of their homes. after rain dumped on the city. crews are working hard to find anyone who may have been stranded. and in kansas, a possible tornado left behind a trail of damage. including this derailed freight train. officials say 34 cars were thrown from the track but fortunately no one was hurt. >> here in iowa reports of damage coming in quickly from across the state. and there there's been one report of a tornado. in nevada iowa lauer rep blanchard, fox news. >> steer storms there are through tennessee this weekend. high winds knocked down trees and power lines damaging homes outside nashville and tree branches also just crushed cars and houses in the town of portland. look at that damage, my goodness goodness. shut down streets. the national weather service is in portland investigating whether a tornado may have touched down. around here it's been hot but also humid. got that sticky feeling. >> yes. especially earlier in the day. high temperatures made it into the mid to upper 80s but right now, if you step outdoors winds of change that back door front is moving through dropping the temperatures. >> he loves back door fronts. >> i love that name by the way. >> it's going to be comfortable and cooler so iain you're probably going to need a jacket if you step out to grab a bite to eat later on. >> thanks fort heads up. >> it will be noticeably cooler out there but also we'll have the threat of some pop-up showers and storms at least through tomorrow. patchy fog could develop in spots overnight especially those that saw some of the downpours this afternoon. a pleasant stretch will begin for the middle of the week and how about this? if you're planning ahead it looks like it will be a nice start to the upcoming memorial day weekend. hard to believe that we are just days away from the unofficial start to summer. as far as conditions right now take a look at this. already down into the low 70s for the philadelphia area. still a little muggy with that humidity but look at the wind direction. out of the east northeast at 16 miles per hour. so it is a little breezy you can see the trees out there and those temperatures are dropping. in fact take a look north and east of philadelphia. it's only in the low 60s for trenton. we have 60 degrees in wrightstown. low 60s right now in atlantic city. but off to the west, it's still a little warmer. we have near 80 degrees right now in lancaster so the wind direction coming in off of the ocean drawing down some of no cooler air across our area. so there's still the threat for few pop up storms especially west but otherwise pretty comfortable if you're stepping outdoors. by 11:00 o'clock 67 degrees with that threat of some patchy fog out there. so as we look at ultimate doppler right now, you can see most of the action still off to the west around the harrisburg area. some of this will try and move toward the pocono mountains and the lehigh valley. earlier this afternoon we saw some downpours around salem county as well as sections of chester county. right now diminishing coverage as we move into sections of delaware right now. but we certainly need the rainfall. take a look at the have and have nots around philadelphia. we didn't see a whole lot of anything but just off to the west around chester county, you can see some locations closing in on 2-inches likewise into sections of salem county as well as sections of new castle county in delaware. so here's what's happening right now on ultimate doppler. we have that back door front moving in from the north and east as opposed to the west that we typically find our front. so that's cooling us down for now. but tomorrow we're going to be in this unstable air mass off to the west. that will bump our temperatures back up and keep those scatter scattered thunderstorm chances in the offing as we roll the clock ahead tonight most of the coverage for storms off to the west. by 11:00 o'clock still watching that pop up activity. to the west mainly of the philadelphia area and then by tomorrow morning, we're cloudy, some patchy fog in spots and we'll have to watch during the heat of the day tomorrow for once again some scattered coverage of those showers and storms across the area but then that front is going to cleanse the atmosphere, giving us a comfortable middle and latter part of the week setting us up for a pretty nice start to the upcoming holiday weekend. so what about the pollen for tomorrow? not that bad in the medium category but by the middle and latter part of the week it moves back into the high category just keep that in mine. for tonight temperatures are going to be pretty comfortable. scattered storms off to the west mainly of the philadelphia area. some patchy fog out there as well. and then as we move ahead to tomorrow we're back into the pea soup temperatures back into the low 80s. partly sunny to mostly cloudy with pop up showers and storms especially during the heat of the day and don't forget about the middle of the week. we'll be out in media delaware county as fox 29 spring fling continues weather looking pretty nice for that so come on out and say h any of the media. otherwise that seven day forecast showing you the cooler trend by the middle and latter part of the week. high temperatures on wednesday only 71. 70 for the high temperature on thursday. and what about friday? 76 degrees. a great get away day. saturday only 70 degrees but warming up by sunday and then on memorial day itself temperatures back into the 80s with the threat of a few pop up showers and storms. >> can't believe we're almost near memorial day. >> i know. >> goodness. >> wow rt hard to believe. scott thank you. >> we know too much salt is bad for you. parents you'll want to hear this. >> why scientists are now saying overload of salt could actually stunt your children and hurt them much later in life. world's first under water bar open. how do you drink underwater? anyhow patrons aren't drinking alcoholic beverages. what people paying top dollar to imbibe instead. >> coming up at 6:00 surveillance video catches a burglary suspect and philly police say this isn't the first time this guy has done something like this. how cops say he's getting in the business at their business. ♪ >> in your health tonight can salt intake affect puberty. new study in the european congress of endocrinology says too much salt can seriously delay puberty. researchers say those who have three or four times the amount of recommended daily salt intake reached puberty much later and this could lead to reduced fertility an higher stress. researchers found however that cutting salt completely from the diet also delayed puberty. the study suggested some salt inn stake is necessary for the onset of puberty. >> you head to the gym several times a week but you're still gaining weight. wretchers say dieter who's work out often going to the gym as justification to binge eat. their study shows who view the gym as fun rather than hard work are more successful at avoiding the temptation to eat manner of things after workout. all right. so we know generation x. went generation y. but have you heard of the sandwich generation? it's people caring for young children and elderly parents at the same time. and many are experiencing health problems of their own because of all of that. the main issues here stress and not getting enough sleep and according to a recent survey by the american psychological association, mothers between the ages of 35 and 44 have it worse than and here's why. on top of all of everything else some women begin menopause early which can make them put on the pounds and impact their sleep. >> giving yourself enough time in bed seven to nine hours is what we recommend and many people don't give themselves that much time in bed. keeping your bedroom dark and cool and maintaining a place in the bedroom that's just for sleep and for sex so no technologies in the bedroom. >> another recommendation make sure you don't exercise right before you go to sleep because it could keep you up. doctors say not getting enough sleep can hurt you physically and emotionally. >> do you want your children to do better on their scams? sorry kids but the answer to improveing those grades may be taken away your smash phones. wretchers found schools banning cell phones are getting better test scores. comparing results of 130,000 students researchers say phones can cause a distraction but this does mean other technology cannot still be used to improve education. matthew morning hahn may not mincing words while speak tag college graduation. the scolding he gave that grabbing headlines. >> a soldier dad knocks it out of the park he's coming home and surprising his kids. how live will change forever after this day at the ballpark. >> howard? >> the flyers finally have gotten themselves a new head coach but i don't think many know him. dave hack stall comes to the flyers out of college with zero experience. i asked the new coach about that adjustment. that will be coming up later in sports. 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why is it spreading? and what can we do about it? >> moving on in the future. >> reporter: as the number of infected birds increases, researchers in iowa are working on a vaccine to help stop the spread. doctors there now asking the government for permission to evaluate the vaccine in the field. >> we already put this type of technology in the birds with flu genes so we know it will work. but we need to show it exactly with this h5 this strain. >> reporter: meantime medical experts say the h5n2 virus poses very little risk to humans. but its impact could still hit hard. >> eat powell poultry products, eat egg products innocent have to worry about that. biggest concern more for the producers that own those animals infected as to what they'll have to do with them. >> bird flu affecting retailers as welch grocery stores are having a hard time keeping eggs on the shelfs and others are raising prices. >> one day your flock is good and you're getting eggs and the next day they come out and say you've been infected so all eggs are cut off. too short a notice for them to have anything set up. >> four states issued emergency declarations which allows them to tap extra funding from the federal government. kelly wright, fox news. blunt and direct address from actor matthew mcconaughey at the university of houston graduation ceremony. >> life is not fair, never was it isn't now and it won't ever be. do not fall into the trap, the entitlement trap. >> good advice. morning hahn may spoke friday to 4300 graduates and urged them to define their own success and enjoy the journey. he is a university of texas grad though his father did attend university of houston. students seemed to have enjoyed the speech though from the academy award winner. >> i love matthew mcconaughey and he really like just said a lot of things that actually matter. >> i loved his passion everything that he said. i think it was very april spying for all the graduates. >> mcconaughey donating $120,000 speaker fee to the just keep living foundation. that's a charity he started to help high school students lead active lives. >> nice stuff. one college graduate trait traded in her cap and gown for a hospital gown. juliet smith was set to graduate from guilford college in north carolina this weekend. but her unborn son had other plans as they so often do. they went into labor friday night and since she couldn't make the commencement you see what's going on. school leaders brought the event to her. professor played pomp and circumstance on the tuba and they gave her her diploma at the hospital. >> surreal. doesn't even come close to describing how it feels. there was no way i was going to make it to graduation after giving birth to this perfect boy boy. >> aww. baby mile low wasn't due for three weeks but he and mom are doing just fine tonight. it's called a medical miracle treatment saving lives. >> for years scientists have been looking for cure for hepatitis c. but is this break through getting to everybody that needs it in time? fox 29's joyce evans here with a look at the story you're working on for tonight at 10. >> i am indeed guys. great news and scary news report about chronic hepatitis c. the virus that used to be considered certain death. infecting the blood and damaging or destroying the liver by the time many patients even find out they have it. now the thrilling news is enough testing has been done on new oral treatments for doctors to declare hepatitis c curable. and the government has ordered testing and treatment of older americanamericans. we'll show you how that's working local. community activists worry a younger hip per segment of our community may be at greater risk for, f an underground activity. >> there's a real fear because there's a lack of information about it. there's a lack of knowledge about it. a lack of research about it and. people engaging in that behavior do not think they're at risk. >> well tonight at 10:00 the effort to spread awareness and to get people tested before new generation of help c patients may cause billions in treatment and loss of lives. iain and lucy. >> all right, joyce thank you. young dragon master stopped by good day this morning. >> and showed us how he's using his love the myth think cal creatures to bring his south philly community together. meet zen-year-old santino he has autism and he expresses himself by drawing dragons on t shirts his mom began posting his art on facebook and she requests from people who wanted to buy his shirts. things took off from there and now hundreds of shirts are on order from all across the country. santino was march at work this morning as mike and alex talked to his mom and therapist. >> how long does it a dragon take lisa. >> usual al minute or two. >> he knows what he's doing. how long has he been drawing dragons. >> since he was three maybe. >> when was he diagnose. >> at five. >> you're the therapy. why would drawing dragons help him? >> i think it's a good way to kind of cope with whatever he might be feeling relaxed calm down. >> is there a certain type he would go and pick up a pen. >> he communicated through dragons for the long time time before we knew he was autistic. >> how long was he quiet. >> he didn't really speak until about 4.5. >> really? >> full sentences he would mimic a lost things but won skull actually speak to us. he was hungry. he was sick. he would do it through dragons. >> make an angry dragon or sad make a sad dragon. >> it's a awesome. santino charges only $5 shirt. that's it. has skyed to donate half the money he earns to the center for autism. people in his neighborhood are helping out by donating shirts and markets to santino. >> a seven-year-old in florida gets a birthday surprise she'll never forget. >> her daughter a returning soldier knocks it out of the park with a special gift just for her. fox's crystal clark was there for the moment. >> reporter: he dressed the part. >> played the role. but this wasn't your ordinary catcher. he's playing for one little girl only. after throwing out the first pitch for the tigers, it happened. >> come on baby! >> happy birthday. >> i ain't seen my little ones in long time. >> staff sergeant tony clark returned from egypt and wanted this homecoming on the day his daughter turned seven to be one she'd never forget. >> it was surprising i guess. (laughter). >> clark family shared many welcome homes and goodbyes over the 19 years sergeant clark has served his country. >> for me it's easy. for them it's tough. ain't no big thing but it's tough for the kids. >> that's the hardest part when he has to leave again. the kids think he's here to stay. then he has to leave. >> this time he's here for good. clark is hoping to remain in the states until he retires one year from now. finally completing the clark family roster. while it may not have been the birthday present she expect -- >> how does your dad compare to elsa? >> well -- >> you still want elsa? huh? >> tamika shows she's leaving the ballpark with a gift that's priceless. >> that's hard to compete with frozen. the reunion is part of a big day at the ballpark celebrating vets and armed service members from all across the tampa bay area. a bar in mexico is redefining the term wet bar. the world's first underwater bar opened this weekend on the mexican island of cos mew sell. patrons at the clear lounge oxygen bar trap on oxygen tanks they take dip as they breathe in mint or citrus flavored oxygen what do you do at the bar when you're down there? >> we played jenn go and it was pretty cool. you feel like you're floating but at the same time -- it's amazing. >> for those who can't get enough of the effects of oxygen no need to fret. the bar is set to also serve oxygen infused smooth these. straight ahead at 6:00 surveillance video philly police say catches a burglar in the act. apparently this isn't the first time this guy has done this. the particular meth police say he's using to break into business after business. ♪ right now at six breaking details in the deadly train derailment. federal investigators just announceed new findings from tuesday's amtrak crash and what might have happened to the locomotive's windshield. >> this as we learn of the first lawsuits filed in connection with that derailment went see something slowly returning to normal. good evening and thanks for joining us. i'm iain page. >> i'm lucy noland. a lot of quick moving developments. fox 29's dave kinchen is at 30th street station. dave, a lot to go over here. >> reporter: that's right. we have those breaking details from the national transportation safety board. they tweeted this out not too long ago. take a look they say the fbi which was called in for this case found no evidence of damage to amtrak 188's windshield that could have been caused by a firearm, ntsb goes on to say it has not ruled out the possibility that another object may have struck the amtrak locomotive windshield and probable cause of the accident will be determined at the conclusion of the ntsb' investigation expected to last up to 12 months. meanwhile, commuters are just happy to be back on the move. >> i'm just happy to get on train that basically take me directly to new york as opposed to having to commute to trenton. >> reporter: sigh of relief from commuters traveling between new york city and philadelphia thrilled amtrak's northeast corridor is back up and running for the first time since last tuesday's deadly derailment. but they travel with the sense of reflection. >> it will be think -- i will be thinking about the families and loved ones and the
rocks a high school down the shore. 20 young people are facing criminal charges for sharing private pictures of students. good evening i'm chris may. >> i'm jessica dean. police seized dozens of cell phones in their investigation. the scandal happened at a high school in lower township, cape may county, and "eyewitness news" reporter diana rocco has more now on the investigation. >> reporter: 19 students and one adult now charged after a sexting scandal rocks lower cape may regional high school. police say the students were sharing naked photos of other female students. >> i'd be devastated. >> it breaks my heart. >> reporter: parent and student involved who didn't want to be on camera and now have an attorney tell "eyewitness news" this started last month when soft more and junior girls sent inappropriate photos of themselves to boy students. the boys then began sharing the photos with friends on social media. police say they were notified when another student told a teacher. 27 cell phones were confiscated and police began a criminal investigation after finding quote numerous nude and partially nude photos of female students. the student involved who we spoke to is a freshman and didn't want to be on camera. he says he was suspended for one day but has since returned to class. the 19 juveniles and one adult have now been charged with third degree invasion of privacy. >> it's just wrong. like, i really hope they get all sorted out as quickly as possible. >> reporter: students say phones are still being confiscated and most of the school either knows who is involved or has seen the photos. >> you shouldn't -- this shouldn't be happening. >> it's sad for them and their families. >> for the boys involved. >> for the boys involved as well it really is. it's a shame. i would like them to get counseling. i think our school should make the parents more aware of how to check the kids phones. >> reporter: cape may county prosecutor call the prevalence of sexting among high school and middle school children concerning. their offering free seminars on the cyber bullying and second ting. in lower township, cape may county i'm diana rocco cbs3 "eyewitness news". this isn't the first sex tipping scandal in our area. back in march it came to light mail students at north penn high school traded photos of female students using drop box that's a file sharing sap. no charges have been filed in that case. and last year, authorities investigated sexting at neshaminy high school. eight students there were issued citations. a penn state fraternity is kicked off campus for three years after posting inappropriate photos on facebook facebook. university investigation found that members of capita delta road did up load photos of nude and semi nude women to private facebook page. the school also uncovered instances of sexual harassment and hazing. at fraternity has immediately been dropped as a campus organization until may of 2018. penn state officials say such behavior will not be tolerated. police are looking to night for a man who pointed a cell phone of a shoppers skirt at a wegmans this happened may nine at the wegmans store on beth had he hem pike in montgomery township. police releaseed this surveillance photo of the suspect. he say he walk out of the store after the woman confronted him and then drove away in a mini van. shoppers we spoke with today called this whole thing disturb disturbing. >> it's a little creepy. a little scary. i would be a little nervous. >> it doesn't surprise me what extremes people go to when they have such down time. >> technology allows peopled to sickening things. i have two young daughters. it's stuff i worry about all the time. >> if you recognize that man you're asked to call the montgomery township police. today was the hottest day of the year and the heat and humidity aren't going anywhere just yet. we're also facing the threat of storms. meteorologist kathy orr is live outside on the cbs3 sky deck with more on what's ahead. kathy? >> it is still balmy out here jess little bit of a breeze but it is muggy and that's going to continue right through the overnight tomorrow a repeat performance of today with a few additional storms. take look at the chem rears note now we're still looking at the 70s through most of the region. 75 in philadelphia. 78 in allentown. it is 70 in the poconos. at the atlantic city airport 69 degrees. but still mild for this time of day and this time of year. temperatures are going to continue to tumble overnight tonight into the 60s. here's a look what you'll wake up to. 69 in philadelphia. 68 in allentown. 65 in the poconos. still well above average for this time of year. we do have hazy, hot and humid weather to look forward to again tomorrow more like summer but that line of showers and thunderstorms will be marching our way. that is a cold front and it is going to provide us the threat of severe weather especially as you head north through the lehigh valley and the poconos in our northwestern suburbs. strong winds heavy downpours even the possibility of hail. so coming up, we'll talk about how long we'll be staying sticky sticky. we'll time out the storms and also talk about drought concerns throughout the region. believe it or not, we are well below rainfall for the particular month of may. and the year for that matter. i'll have more on that with your seven day forecast when i join you inside. >> all right, kathy thank you. there is no end in site for water logged parts of texas and oklahoma where even more rain is on the way. at least 17 people have died as a result of the flooding sips friday. more than a dozen are still unaccounted for tonight houston houston's normally traffic clogged highways are clogged with water. about 11-inches of rain fell overnight in houston in just eight hours. that rain even unearthed a casket. in the tourist town of wimberley the riff record ever it's banks. lauer ran her two young children are among the missing swept away in their vacation home. >> she called me. she said i'm in a house. i'm floating down the river. tell mom and dad i love you and pray. >> so far an estimated 700 homes in the houston area have been damaged by flooding. new at 11:00 o'clock tonight, we're taking a closer look at children's bounce houses after this frightening ordeal on a florida beach. three children were hurt here. they were thrown out of that bounce house after it was lived high into the air reported by a waterspout. it's not the first an accident like this has happened with at least two others in just the last year. tonight "eyewitness news" todd quinones with what you can do to make sure your kids are safe. report. >> totally deflated. this thing how much does this weigh right now. >> probably about 250 pounds. >> reporter: 250 pounds. >> yeah. >> reporter: there's no way i feel like this is going to fly away. >> it's pretty heavy when there's no air in it for sure. >> reporter: that obviously changes once you start pumping air night right. >> once we turn the compressor it blows up. that's when it starts flying around. >> reporter: let's do it. >> they're quick to set up fun and popular. especially during the summer months but as we've seen recently, these bounce houses can also be dangerous at times. dustin woods sets up these attractions for betty's bounce in woodland. >> people aware just about how quickly these things can take off? >> no. generally people just think the bounces are heavy and set in their place. what happened in florida is a bit of anomaly weather wise. even if the winds were like 25, 30 miles an hour that's strong enough to lift one of these? >> absolutely. 15 miles an hour this thing will be flyer hire than this tree right here. >> the weight of an inflateed bounce house gets dispersed making it easier to live. make sure you weigh down the corners. wood uses eight, 50-pound zapped bags but if that's not an option option -- hammering 32-inch stakes at 45-degree angles can do the trick in tethering a bounce house to the ground. >> if i were to straight down i could reach and pull out of the ground. >> you have to pay close attention to surgeon dramatic changes in weather. winds greater than 15 miles an hour mean fun time is over. >> i like to did he disconnect it from the compressor so it makes the air come out of the chutes faster and it will fall down. >> reporter: in woodland, delaware county, todd quinones cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> got to be careful. amtrak is taking more steps to improve safety along the northeast corridor following the deadly train derail in many port richmond. today amtrak announced it will place video cameras in all of its engineer's compartments by the end of the year. the engineer of amtrak 188 brandon bostian told investigators that he remembers nothing about what led his speeding train to crash in philadelphia two week ago. but in the future, everything that happens in the cab will be recorded. >> one more example of what could have been and should have been done but now it's being done you welcome facts that changes are being made. but it's too late for those people who lost their lives and who also were so horribly injured in this derailment. >> attorney tom klein does represent victims. amtrak 188 crash. eight people were killed that night. nearly hundred were injured. a northeast philadelphia man is sentenced after pleading guilty in the murder of his wife. a judge sentenced christopher murray to between 20 to 40 years in prison for strangling his wife connie while she was walk walking in penny park last august. murray cried in court today and apologized to his family. he originally reported reported his wife missing but then admit mitted to the crime four days later. philadelphia police are investigating whether the same suspect is responsible for two different assaults on women. latest attack happened monday in point breeze a woman woke up to a suspect standing over her bed at her home on rosewood street. he demanded money and sexual sexually assaulted her. police believe the same suspect may be responsible for an assault nearby on chadwick street in march. >> the individual may be from win that neighbor. >> this is a composite sketch of that suspect. and both cases police say the suspect wore red or orange gloves. police are also looking for a pair of teenagers in a string of robberies that happened near tim pell university. six different times the suspects approached victims with a handgun and demanded cell phones and other valuables. the two suspects are both described as black teenagers with medium build builds. if you have any information on who they are you're asked to call philadelphia police. inside the mind of a gunman cued in the movie theater massacre. >> tonight we're getting a look at the frightening entries made in a notebook by james holmes before that rampage. what he says he was dedicating his life to. that's coming up. also ahead tonight there's new hope for victims of super storm sandy as they try to rebuild their lives and their home. we'll tell you what is now being done to help some residents who may have missed out on funding. >> kathy? >> it is staying steamy across the delaware valley. we are watching a front approach and that will set off some showers and thunderstorms. we'll time them out coming up with the seven day forecast. >> and keep your skin looking younger with an odd looking mask. it promises no down time and has an affordable price tag but does it work. >> we take a closer look at the results when "eyewitness news" jurors now more about what was going through the mind of the gunman in the colorado movie theater massacre. the jury shown the notebook james holmes mailed to a psychiatric shortly before attack. 12 people were killed in that attack. 70 injured. some of the notebook's excerpts were chilling. holmes wrote quote the obsession to kill since i was a kid with age became more and more realistic. he also said he had to quote decided to dedicate live to killing others so that i can live. holmes has pleaded not guilty by reason of inn san nat. >> two children of the blues legend bb king now claim their father was poisoned. the lavas gay homicide division is looking whether foul play may have been involved in king's death. his daughters karen williams and patti king say that their father's business manager and his personal assistant were the only people around him in the week before his death. and the daughters 11 those two were administering medication. be bb king died nearly two weeks ago in las vegas. >> after super storm sandy some victims of the storm are looking to congress to help. homeowners who took out disaster relief loans from the small business administration right after the storm now find themselves ineligible for government assistance. new jersey congressman tom mcarthur is sponsoring a bill to help those homeowners so you'll have access to government grants. >> you borrowed money you have to repay now you don't get aid you have to repay. 2.5 years after the storm real people's lives are still being ruined by this. and i will fight my dam defendant to get this passed through the house. >> macarthur wants that legislation retro act pitch to january of 2012 it could help 32,000 people he plans to introduce that bill on monday. on the cbs3 health watch tonight, a new study finds motherhood may permanently alter a woman's brain. canadian researchers look at the impact of estrogen on the brains of wrath. they found therapy was less effective in rats that had given births. it could help describe which women should be described certain types hormones. on the health watch tonight saving face a a new high trek treatment for younger looking skin available at home. health reporter stephanie stahl has more on the device that used to require a trip to the doctor's office. >> reporter: diana credits this scary looking mask with her new younger look. >> i used to have lines around my eyes. this was much deeper. >> it's helped her skip look and feel softer and smoother the device is called illu mask. >> it's the world's first light mary mask. >> it's as easy to put on a pair of glasses. >> led's are placed inside the mask. >> they saw a tremendous difference in the quality of the skin. >> doctors have been used light therapy. this version is worn for 15 minutes a day at home. >> i can tell the difference in the texture of your skin. >> plastic surgeon paul, took part in the clinical trial and was impressed with the results. >> patient boss not want to give up their mask when the trial was over. >> reporter: dermatologist jodi levine agrees there could be a benefit. >> it can cause no harm. and if there's a little bit of validity then it's worth trying. >> reporter: the maker of the mask says there are studies that show it can help increase cell turnover and stimulate the production of cola gin. the mask costs around $30 and consider ordered online. i'm stephanie stahl cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> interesting. >> very interesting. >> certainly no shortage of light out there right now. it's feeling a lot more like july than it is, you know, the end of may kathy. >> 89 degrees today in philadelphia. >> 89. >> some spots makeing it to 90. >> wow! >> tomorrow a repeat performance but not without a few thunderstorms and there will be a slight risk of severe weather for some of us. let's take a look outside at a beautiful sunset across philadelphia. this is view of course from campbell's field. across the bridge to center city city. it was fantastic. temperatures peeking in the 80s and 90's this evening. we are in the 70s. right now temperatures are falling with partly cloudy sky. you're looking leifel now at the ben franklin bridge. right now in philadelphia, it's 75. 74 in trenton. 69 in millville. ac airport 69. you can see little bit cooler down the shore. avalon we have that sea breeze at 64 degrees. the same in ocean city. cape may at 72 but look at that ocean water temperature. 57 degrees. the water is going to stay cold right through the end of the week. now, right now we're looking at dry conditions a few clouds. but this is a cold front and it's going to get little closer each day. as it does it will push up warm humid air up the coastal plane and we will be feeling it during the day tomorrow. now, during the heat of the day we'll see some showers and a few thunderstorms pop up. especially north and west of the city. the risk of severe weather the best chance of severe weather will be in the lehigh val and the poconos by about five, 6:00 o'clock in the afternoon we'll see the storms firing up. they'll move through the suburbs through philadelphia and then by the late night hours they will will be gone. once again on thursday, during the afternoon a few showers imbedded thunderstorms popping up. the front is finally through and then we dry it out by friday. now, as far as what to expect tomorrow some scattered showers and storms mainly in the afternoon and evening. some with locally heavy downpours. the possibility of hail and even some gusty winds. so please be aware of that. otherwise we're looking at really dry conditions for the month of may. and you can see normally dry in yellow in southeastern pennsylvania central and northern new jersey and where you see the tan color through reading, berks county lehigh valley and the poconos that's moderate drought conditions. that means we could be seeing some voluntary water restrictions soon if this dry weather continues and we're at least 2.5-inches below normal in rainfall just for the month of may alone. overnight low temperatures will be in the upper 60s with warm humid conditions. during the day tomorrow, hazy, hot and humid the high 88 degrees. the normal high is 78. so 10 degrees above normal. hour by hour starting off at 8:00 o'clock. it's 74. by noon, 87. pretty sticky at lunch time. 5:00 p.m. 86. and in the evening activities keep your eye on the sky the temperature 78. on the exclusive "eyewitness weather" seven day forecast and shore cast, we heat it up wednesday and thursday. still warm friday and saturday. sunday the last day of may, 81 at home. 75 down the shore. and june begins on monday. it will feel like it. back to normal with temperatures in the 70s. a chance of a shower. >> there you have it. >> it has been quite a warm into end to may. >> kathy thanks. >> it is open mouth insert foot for a phillies sports exec. >> yeah, ruben amaro backtracking after he said that the phillies fans didn't really understand the game. >> not a good idea. >> no. >> phillies trailing by three against the mets a huge p come back. could they hold on for the >> game to have phillies against the mets. mets tough at home and if the i'll can't seem to beat them anywhere. mets with a six-one record again the fightings so far this season season. phillies trailing three-zero going into the eighth the bats came alive. ben revere with a line drive into the gap in right centerfield. next up freddie galvis singles one through center. revert scored and all of a sudden just like the game tied up. still in the eighth, rookie franco pulled the ball through the hole at shore. galvis scores. fightings take four-three lead. the mets tie the game in the tenth inning wilmer flores delivers the walk off single. phillies drop their third straight game five-four the final. now before the game phillies gm ruben amaro whose not the most popular guy in town apologized for some comments that he said in cs inform philly article that philly fans don't understand the game and complain because we don't have plan. he made the comment when asked about fast tracking last year's number one pick aaron nola up to the majors. he said, i'm a fan myself. i understand the passion and the knowledge that our fans have for our game for the other major sports. all the other sports in philly. the comments weren't meant to did he say par ratch our fans by any stretch of the imagination. i probably used my words incorrectly or poorly. i want to apologize for that. the eagles started their first ota' today's at the move have a care complex. everyone attended by guard evan mathis. he wants a new deal or a new location. chip kelly said there are no takers. these are voluntary work out so mathis will not be fined for skipping them. nba playoffs game four between cleveland and atlanta. the cavs irving returning to action. he scored 16 points. lebron james led the way 23 points cleveland will make its second appearance in the nba finals they swept the hawks 118-88 and this will be lebron's fifth straight trip to the finals. game six between rangers and lightening must win for new york they came out early. they took that early lead. four minutes into the game derrick blizzard scored to give them the one-nothing lead. they beat seven-three to force a game seven friday night at maddon square garden. music: etta james "at last" 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one adult now charged after a sexting scandal rocks lower cape may regional high school. police say the students were sharing naked photos of other female students. >> i'd be devastated. >> it breaks my heart. >> reporter: parent and student involved who didn't want to be on camera and now have an attorney tell "eyewitness news" this started last month when soft more and junior girls sent inappropriate photos of themselves to boy students. the boys then began sharing the photos with friends on social media. police say they were notified when another student told a teacher. 27 cell phones were confiscated and police began a criminal investigation after finding quote numerous nude and partially nude photos of female students. the student involved who we spoke to is a freshman and didn't want to be on camera. he says he was suspended for one day but has since returned to class. the 19 juveniles and one adult have now been charged with third degree invasion of privacy. >> it's just wrong. like, i really hope they get all sorted out as quickly as possible. >> reporter: students say phones are still being confiscated and most of the school either knows who is involved or has seen the photos. >> you shouldn't -- this shouldn't be happening. >> it's sad for them and their families. >> for the boys involved. >> for the boys involved as well it really is. it's a shame. i would like them to get counseling. i think our school should make the parents more aware of how to check the kids phones. >> reporter: cape may county prosecutor call the prevalence of sexting among high school and middle school children concerning. their offering free seminars on the cyber bullying and second ting. in lower township, cape may county i'm diana rocco cbs3 "eyewitness news". this isn't the first sex tipping scandal in our area. back in march it came to light mail students at north penn high school traded photos of female students using drop box that's a file sharing sap. no charges have been filed in that case. and last year, authorities investigated sexting at neshaminy high school. eight students there were issued citations. a penn state fraternity is kicked off campus for three years after posting inappropriate photos on facebook facebook. university investigation found that members of capita delta road did up load photos of nude and semi nude women to private facebook page. the school also uncovered instances of sexual harassment and hazing. at fraternity has immediately been dropped as a campus organization until may of 2018. penn state officials say such behavior will not be tolerated. police are looking to night for a man who pointed a cell phone of a shoppers skirt at a wegmans this happened may nine at the wegmans store on beth had he hem pike in montgomery township. police releaseed this surveillance photo of the suspect. he say he walk out of the store after the woman confronted him and then drove away in a mini van. shoppers we spoke with today called this whole thing disturb disturbing. >> it's a little creepy. a little scary. i would be a little nervous. >> it doesn't surprise me what extremes people go to when they have such down time. >> technology allows peopled to sickening things. i have two young daughters. it's stuff i worry about all the time. >> if you recognize that man you're asked to call the montgomery township police. today was the hottest day of the year and the heat and humidity aren't going anywhere just yet. we're also facing the threat of storms. meteorologist kathy orr is live outside on the cbs3 sky deck with more on what's ahead. kathy? >> it is still balmy out here jess little bit of a breeze but it is muggy and that's going to continue right through the overnight tomorrow a repeat performance of today with a few additional storms. take look at the chem rears note now we're still looking at the 70s through most of the region. 75 in philadelphia. 78 in allentown. it is 70 in the poconos. at the atlantic city airport 69 degrees. but still mild for this time of day and this time of year. temperatures are going to continue to tumble overnight tonight into the 60s. here's a look what you'll wake up to. 69 in philadelphia. 68 in allentown. 65 in the poconos. still well above average for this time of year. we do have hazy, hot and humid weather to look forward to again tomorrow more like summer but that line of showers and thunderstorms will be marching our way. that is a cold front and it is going to provide us the threat of severe weather especially as you head north through the lehigh valley and the poconos in our northwestern suburbs. strong winds heavy downpours even the possibility of hail. so coming up, we'll talk about how long we'll be staying sticky sticky. we'll time out the storms and also talk about drought concerns throughout the region. believe it or not, we are well below rainfall for the particular month of may. and the year for that matter. i'll have more on that with your seven day forecast when i join you inside. >> all right, kathy thank you. there is no end in site for water logged parts of texas and oklahoma where even more rain is on the way. at least 17 people have died as a result of the flooding sips friday. more than a dozen are still unaccounted for tonight houston houston's normally traffic clogged highways are clogged with water. about 11-inches of rain fell overnight in houston in just eight hours. that rain even unearthed a casket. in the tourist town of wimberley the riff record ever it's banks. lauer ran her two young children are among the missing swept away in their vacation home. >> she called me. she said i'm in a house. i'm floating down the river. tell mom and dad i love you and pray. >> so far an estimated 700 homes in the houston area have been damaged by flooding. new at 11:00 o'clock tonight, we're taking a closer look at children's bounce houses after this frightening ordeal on a florida beach. three children were hurt here. they were thrown out of that bounce house after it was lived high into the air reported by a waterspout. it's not the first an accident like this has happened with at least two others in just the last year. tonight "eyewitness news" todd quinones with what you can do to make sure your kids are safe. report. >> totally deflated. this thing how much does this weigh right now. >> probably about 250 pounds. >> reporter: 250 pounds. >> yeah. >> reporter: there's no way i feel like this is going to fly away. >> it's pretty heavy when there's no air in it for sure. >> reporter: that obviously changes once you start pumping air night right. >> once we turn the compressor it blows up. that's when it starts flying around. >> reporter: let's do it. >> they're quick to set up fun and popular. especially during the summer months but as we've seen recently, these bounce houses can also be dangerous at times. dustin woods sets up these attractions for betty's bounce in woodland. >> people aware just about how quickly these things can take off? >> no. generally people just think the bounces are heavy and set in their place. what happened in florida is a bit of anomaly weather wise. even if the winds were like 25, 30 miles an hour that's strong enough to lift one of these? >> absolutely. 15 miles an hour this thing will be flyer hire than this tree right here. >> the weight of an inflateed bounce house gets dispersed making it easier to live. make sure you weigh down the corners. wood uses eight, 50-pound zapped bags but if that's not an option option -- hammering 32-inch stakes at 45-degree angles can do the trick in tethering a bounce house to the ground. >> if i were to straight down i could reach and pull out of the ground. >> you have to pay close attention to surgeon dramatic changes in weather. winds greater than 15 miles an hour mean fun time is over. >> i like to did he disconnect it from the compressor so it makes the air come out of the chutes faster and it will fall down. >> reporter: in woodland, delaware county, todd quinones cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> got to be careful. amtrak is taking more steps to improve safety along the northeast corridor following the deadly train derail in many port richmond. today amtrak announced it will place video cameras in all of its engineer's compartments by the end of the year. the engineer of amtrak 188 brandon bostian told investigators that he remembers nothing about what led his speeding train to crash in philadelphia two week ago. but in the future, everything that happens in the cab will be recorded. >> one more example of what could have been and should have been done but now it's being done you welcome facts that changes are being made. but it's too late for those people who lost their lives and who also were so horribly injured in this derailment. >> attorney tom klein does represent victims. amtrak 188 crash. eight people were killed that night. nearly hundred were injured. a northeast philadelphia man is sentenced after pleading guilty in the murder of his wife. a judge sentenced christopher murray to between 20 to 40 years in prison for strangling his wife connie while she was walk walking in penny park last august. murray cried in court today and apologized to his family. he originally reported reported his wife missing but then admit mitted to the crime four days later. philadelphia police are investigating whether the same suspect is responsible for two different assaults on women. latest attack happened monday in point breeze a woman woke up to a suspect standing over her bed at her home on rosewood street. he demanded money and sexual sexually assaulted her. police believe the same suspect may be responsible for an assault nearby on chadwick street in march. >> the individual may be from win that neighbor. >> this is a composite sketch of that suspect. and both cases police say the suspect wore red or orange gloves. police are also looking for a pair of teenagers in a string of robberies that happened near tim pell university. six different times the suspects approached victims with a handgun and demanded cell phones and other valuables. the two suspects are both described as black teenagers with medium build builds. if you have any information on who they are you're asked to call philadelphia police. inside the mind of a gunman cued in the movie theater massacre. >> tonight we're getting a look at the frightening entries made in a notebook by james holmes before that rampage. what he says he was dedicating his life to. that's coming up. also ahead tonight there's new hope for victims of super storm sandy as they try to rebuild their lives and their home. we'll tell you what is now being done to help some residents who may have missed out on funding. >> kathy? >> it is staying steamy across the delaware valley. we are watching a front approach and that will set off some showers and thunderstorms. we'll time them out coming up with the seven day forecast. >> and keep your skin looking younger with an odd looking mask. it promises no down time and has an affordable price tag but does it work. >> we take a closer look at the jurors now more about what was going through the mind of the gunman in the colorado movie theater massacre. the jury shown the notebook james holmes mailed to a psychiatric shortly before attack. 12 people were killed in that attack. 70 injured. some of the notebook's excerpts were chilling. holmes wrote quote the obsession to kill since i was a kid with age became more and more realistic. he also said he had to quote decided to dedicate live to killing others so that i can live. holmes has pleaded not guilty by reason of inn san nat. >> two children of the blues legend bb king now claim their father was poisoned. the lavas gay homicide division is looking whether foul play may have been involved in king's death. his daughters karen williams and patti king say that their father's business manager and his personal assistant were the only people around him in the week before his death. and the daughters 11 those two were administering medication. be bb king died nearly two weeks ago in las vegas. >> after super storm sandy some victims of the storm are looking to congress to help. homeowners who took out disaster relief loans from the small business administration right after the storm now find themselves ineligible for government assistance. new jersey congressman tom mcarthur is sponsoring a bill to help those homeowners so you'll have access to government grants. >> you borrowed money you have to repay now you don't get aid you have to repay. 2.5 years after the storm real people's lives are still being ruined by this. and i will fight my dam defendant to get this passed through the house. >> macarthur wants that legislation retro act pitch to january of 2012 it could help 32,000 people he plans to introduce that bill on monday. on the cbs3 health watch tonight, a new study finds motherhood may permanently alter a woman's brain. canadian researchers look at the impact of estrogen on the brains of wrath. they found therapy was less effective in rats that had given births. it could help describe which women should be described certain types hormones. on the health watch tonight saving face a a new high trek treatment for younger looking skin available at home. health reporter stephanie stahl has more on the device that used to require a trip to the doctor's office. >> reporter: diana credits this scary looking mask with her new younger look. >> i used to have lines around my eyes. this was much deeper. >> it's helped her skip look and feel softer and smoother the device is called illu mask. >> it's the world's first light mary mask. >> it's as easy to put on a pair of glasses. >> led's are placed inside the mask. >> they saw a tremendous difference in the quality of the skin. >> doctors have been used light therapy. this version is worn for 15 minutes a day at home. >> i can tell the difference in the texture of your skin. >> plastic surgeon paul, took part in the clinical trial and was impressed with the results. >> patient boss not want to give up their mask when the trial was over. >> reporter: dermatologist jodi levine agrees there could be a benefit. >> it can cause no harm. and if there's a little bit of validity then it's worth trying. >> reporter: the maker of the mask says there are studies that show it can help increase cell turnover and stimulate the production of cola gin. the mask costs around $30 and consider ordered online. i'm stephanie stahl cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> interesting. >> very interesting. >> certainly no shortage of light out there right now. it's feeling a lot more like july than it is, you know, the end of may kathy. >> 89 degrees today in philadelphia. >> 89. >> some spots makeing it to 90. >> wow! >> tomorrow a repeat performance but not without a few thunderstorms and there will be a slight risk of severe weather for some of us. let's take a look outside at a beautiful sunset across philadelphia. this is view of course from campbell's field. across the bridge to center city city. it was fantastic. temperatures peeking in the 80s and 90's this evening. we are in the 70s. right now temperatures are falling with partly cloudy sky. you're looking leifel now at the ben franklin bridge. right now in philadelphia, it's 75. 74 in trenton. 69 in millville. ac airport 69. you can see little bit cooler down the shore. avalon we have that sea breeze at 64 degrees. the same in ocean city. cape may at 72 but look at that ocean water temperature. 57 degrees. the water is going to stay cold right through the end of the week. now, right now we're looking at dry conditions a few clouds. but this is a cold front and it's going to get little closer each day. as it does it will push up warm humid air up the coastal plane and we will be feeling it during the day tomorrow. now, during the heat of the day we'll see some showers and a few thunderstorms pop up. especially north and west of the city. the risk of severe weather the best chance of severe weather will be in the lehigh val and the poconos by about five, 6:00 o'clock in the afternoon we'll see the storms firing up. they'll move through the suburbs through philadelphia and then by the late night hours they will will be gone. once again on thursday, during the afternoon a few showers imbedded thunderstorms popping up. the front is finally through and then we dry it out by friday. now, as far as what to expect tomorrow some scattered showers and storms mainly in the afternoon and evening. some with locally heavy downpours. the possibility of hail and even some gusty winds. so please be aware of that. otherwise we're looking at really dry conditions for the month of may. and you can see normally dry in yellow in southeastern pennsylvania central and northern new jersey and where you see the tan color through reading, berks county lehigh valley and the poconos that's moderate drought conditions. that means we could be seeing some voluntary water restrictions soon if this dry weather continues and we're at least 2.5-inches below normal in rainfall just for the month of may alone. overnight low temperatures will be in the upper 60s with warm humid conditions. during the day tomorrow, hazy, hot and humid the high 88 degrees. the normal high is 78. so 10 degrees above normal. hour by hour starting off at 8:00 o'clock. it's 74. by noon, 87. pretty sticky at lunch time. 5:00 p.m. 86. and in the evening activities keep your eye on the sky the temperature 78. on the exclusive "eyewitness weather" seven day forecast and shore cast, we heat it up wednesday and thursday. still warm friday and saturday. sunday the last day of may, 81 at home. 75 down the shore. and june begins on monday. it will feel like it. back to normal with temperatures in the 70s. a chance of a shower. >> there you have it. >> it has been quite a warm into end to may. >> kathy thanks. >> it is open mouth insert foot for a phillies sports exec. >> yeah, ruben amaro backtracking after he said that the phillies fans didn't really understand the game. >> not a good idea. >> no. >> phillies trailing by three against the mets a huge p come back. could they hold on for >> game to have phillies against the mets. mets tough at home and if the i'll can't seem to beat them anywhere. mets with a six-one record again the fightings so far this season season. phillies trailing three-zero going into the eighth the bats came alive. ben revere with a line drive into the gap in right centerfield. next up freddie galvis singles one through center. revert scored and all of a sudden just like the game tied up. still in the eighth, rookie franco pulled the ball through the hole at shore. galvis scores. fightings take four-three lead. the mets tie the game in the tenth inning wilmer flores delivers the walk off single. phillies drop their third straight game five-four the final. now before the game phillies gm ruben amaro whose not the most popular guy in town apologized for some comments that he said in cs inform philly article that philly fans don't understand the game and complain because we don't have plan. he made the comment when asked about fast tracking last year's number one pick aaron nola up to the majors. he said, i'm a fan myself. i understand the passion and the knowledge that our fans have for our game for the other major sports. all the other sports in philly. the comments weren't meant to did he say par ratch our fans by any stretch of the imagination. i probably used my words incorrectly or poorly. i want to apologize for that. the eagles started their first ota' today's at the move have a care complex. everyone attended by guard evan mathis. he wants a new deal or a new location. chip kelly said there are no takers. these are voluntary work out so mathis will not be fined for skipping them. nba playoffs game four between cleveland and atlanta. the cavs irving returning to action. he scored 16 points. lebron james led the way 23 points cleveland will make its second appearance in the nba finals they swept the hawks 118-88 and this will be lebron's fifth straight trip to the finals. game six between rangers and lightening must win for new york they came out early. they took that early lead. four minutes into the game derrick blizzard scored to give them the one-nothing lead. they beat seven-three to force a game seven friday night at maddon square garde adorable addition to the new york zoo was introduced to the public for the first time today. this baby elephant was born on mother's day at the roseman gifford zoo in syracuse. baby boy not yet name. contest in fact will be held to pick one for the little guy. not exactly little. he's less than a in old. already weighs 300 pounds. like most babies we're told he does sleep a lot. you should see his bounce see chair. >> a big baby. >> sturdy. reinforced. >> the lineup announced for philadelphia's welcome america concert. >> headlining the show this year some hometown favorites including the roots who will serve as the house ban. >> absolutely the best house band any city could have and when the stage lights come up on the parkway they'll be joined by top national and international music stars. >> that will include r and b singer miguel and jennifer nettles from the cun true music super dough woe sugar land. for a list of all festivities go to cbsphilly.com. >> we thank you for watching "eyewitness news" at 11:00 o'clock. we're back in the morning at 4:30 with ukee washington, erika von tiehl and meteorologist katie fehlinger. for lesley, kathy and everyone here at "eyewitness news" i'm chris may. >> i'm jessica dean. we're always on at cbsphilly.com cbsphilly.com. the mentalise is next. have a good night. we'll see you tomorrow. ♪ >> woman: the following is a paid presentation for the nuwave precision induction cooktop, brought to you by the 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continueing to scope the river through air by boat wine land. looking for any survivors. looking for any potential bodies. >> reporter: president obama says he spoke with governor greg abbott to express his condolences and assured the governor he can count on the federal government to help with requests for assistance. >> we will expedite those requests to make sure that both search and rescue operations where necessary but also recovery operations occur as efficiently and as quickly as possible. >> disaster declarations in dozens of texas counties tonight. forecasters are predict morgue wet weather. very hard to pre hen the magnitude of this flooding flooding. it is historic. chief meteorologist scott williams has that part of the story. >> you've lived in texas and i've lived in texas and iain has lived in texas. we would agree this is some of the worst flooding not caused by a tropical storm or a hurricane in recent years. take a look at the video. you can see people are still missing after this deadly flooding moving through sections of austin san marcos as well as the houston area. the water tables have been saturateed for the past several weeks. let's take look at what's been happening on ultimate doppler going back to last week. you can see some of the same areas seeing the develop of those strong thunderstorms producing a lot of rain much this goes back to last thursday. so over and over again some of those same areas have been hit. take a look at some of the doppler radar estimates around some of the hard hit areas. places like houston moving back toward the austin area have seen over a foot of rain in the past several days. so take a look at this particular hydro graph. this is the greens bayou river at houston well above major flood stage. it will crest over the next several hours and then recede but several that scenario has been repeated for the colorado river and austin texas as well. catastrophic damage across that area and the pattern there is a developing el nino that will unfold warming pacific waters and that will continue to kind of lock this pattern in over the next several weeks or potentially for the remainder of the year as we typically see that jet stream to the south increasing the moisture across those areas. that's certainly something we'll have to keep tabs on for the remainder of the year and also a part of that system will impact us as early as tomorrow evening. i'll have the timeline on that as well as developing heat for us coming up. back to you. >> a lot to talk about. do it soon scott. our coverage of the flooding in the southwest continues ahead this hour we'll go live to houston where rescuers have their hands full with people stranded in flooding they haven't seen in more than a decade. in the meantime download our fox 29 news app to get all the breaking details on this and other stories. it's free. you'll find it in the apple or google play stores. police continue their search for the man they say broke into a woman's bedroom and assaulted and robbed her. investigators are looking into whether this incident is relateed to one a couple of months ago. fox 29's dave schratwieser is live in south philadelphia near the scene of that crime and dave a scary morning yesterday for that woman. >> reporter: some frightening moments indeed, iain n fact, investigators now believe they have a pattern here with these two incidents. they have more than half a dozen similarities in that pattern including the fact that the suspect in these cases wore red or orange cloth gloves with the fingers cut out. >> scary. it's frightening. >> reporter: for women living near the 1800 block of rose wood street in south philadelphia, it's a time of deep concern after a woman was sexually assaulted in her own home. >> i'm scared i might -- it might happen to me. >> brazen, bold, and certainly threatening. >> reporter: home invasion and sexual assault happened around 5:00 monday morning. a 35-year-old woman asleep in her bed a woke to find a man standing over her wearing a ski mask. >> puts his hand over her mouth to quiet her. while he demands money. >> reporter: police say the man threaten the woman, took her car keys and some money. then sexually assaulted her and fled. the victim's car turned up a few blocks away. tuesday, police were checking it for fingerprints at the police impact lot and looking for surveillance video. >> there is possibility we may have something the location of the vehicle was recovered and dropped off. >> reporter: this is the second sex assault in the neighborhood recently. back in late march police released this sketch of a man they say entered a woman's home in the 1700 block of south chadwick street, robbed her and tried to sexually assault her after he took her two children to another room. >> just their presence alone using that as a shield or a means to get what you want. it's, you know, something wrong about that folks. >> reporter: police say women in the area should leave lights on, lock their windows and doors, and be careful. >> keep the doors locked. >> this individual is dangerous in that he may be look through the neighborhood. now is the time -- to case the area. >> reporter: now police looking for fingerprints, dna and surveillance video which they hope to release as soon as they get it. coming up at six why investigators believe this guy is capable of anything. lucy? >> all right, dave, hopefully they can find him soon. protesters back on the streets of cleveland three days after a judge acquit add white officer of voluntary manslaughter charges in the shooting deaths of unarmed black couple in 2012. also today the city of cleveland agreed to overhaul its police department which means the city will now work with community leaders to make changes to its police force. a judge still has to approve that plan. among the changes that are proposed training in what's called bias free policing. cell phone snatchers get a away tempt asking go according to plan in north philadelphia. surveillance video from may 17th shows a guy on his bike on jasper street just before the incident. now watch another angle shows him flying around a corner with the robbery victim in hot pursuit he wipes out but manages to get up and fend off the woman's attacks. he took off down jasper street. nobody was hurt but police are still looking for him tonight. more safety up grades from amtrak tonight in the wake of the crash in port richmond that killed eight people and injured more than 200 others. first, it was equipment that will slow a speeding train as it approaches dangerous stretches of track. now a camera designed to keep a closer watch on the person in control of the train. our bruce gordon was among the first on the scene of that crash on may 12th. he's at 30th street station with this latest development. bruce? >> reporter: lucy, amtrak had already been working with the federal railroad administration toward placing inward facing cameras on its northeast corridor trains. in light of recent tragic events amtrak's president has moved up the timetable. investigators probing the deadly amtrak crash in port richmond were able to review footage recorded from a camera facing a head of the northbound train as it accelerated into a curve about 10 minutes out of 30th street station. but there were no inward facing cameras to record the actions of engineer brandon bostian in his cabin as the train gained speed. that's about to change. amtrak says it will install inward facing cameras in most of its northeast corridor trains by the end of this year. the price tag $6 million. attorney tom klein represents a passenger injured in that crash. >> pointing a camera inward at the engineer is a good idea. it should have been done. it could have been done and it wasn't done. it's too late for those who were horribly injured and now have died. >> reporter: the inward facing cameras like the ones facing outward will not show the engineer's actions in real time. instead, the footage would have to be downloaded from the train's so-called black box recorder after the fact. septa buses, for example have lots of cameras facing inside. that passengers and at the bus driver. in the case of this recent accident the footage showed the driver was not wearing a safety belt. fell out of the driver's seat while making a sharp turn. but klein says in general cameras will force operators to change their behavior. >> which means that they are going to do things in a prudent and sensible fashion and they are going to know that every move is being recorded. >> reporter: safety measures were announced as we got an update on the condition of amtrak passenger eli kulp. the 37-year-old celebrateed local chef suffered a severe spinal cord injury in the crash. his restaurant business partner elian yin told fox 29 kulp recently enter add rehabilitation facility. >> i can't say i'm optimistic. i don't know what his prognosis will be or how long it will take. i feel strong because i feel eli, you know, wants us to be strong and so for him we're all being, you know, as positive and strong as possible. >> reporter: the engineer of that amtrak train 188 brandon bostian suffered a head injury in the crash and has told investigators he cannot remember what happened. amtrak's president says he expects push back on these inward facing cameras from the unions but says in essence the technology is there and we're now going to use it to enhance safety. by the way eli kulp's family set up a gofundme page to help cover medical expenses. if you'd like to help out go to myfoxphilly.com we'll link you to the sight. iain. >> all right, bruce, thank you. we are following breaking news for you tonight in montgomery county. skyfox is live over a buckled road along route 422 and oaks. police are telling us this is near exit 29 on the eastbound side of route 422. crews are working to fix this right now but you can see cars are driving around it. we don't know how long it's going to take to get this thing fixed we'll of course continue to monitor it and bring you updates when they become available. >> investigators in southwest philadelphia are looking for clues in a late night deadly shooting. police found a man shot in the chest at 65th and elmwood avenue twice around 10:15 last night. investigators say they also found a small handgun under his body. they aren't sure if it's part of the shooting, though. along with that gun they also found some cash and a phone at the scene. police have yet to release the man's name. so far they have no suspect. a philadelphia man admits he strangled his wife as the two fought over his text to another woman. so christopher murray will now serve 20 to 40 years behind bars. the 49-year-old pleaded guilty to third degree murder. he says he loved his wife connie and wishes he could turn back time. thieves target cars in a local neighborhood. but what they're after is something you don't often hear about. where all of this is playing out. >> pay attention phillies fans. your general manager says you don't understand the game. what he's saying tonight about those comments. >> i'd like to hear that one. will public shaming make your children behave? one woman is betting yes and she's makeing her children hold signs explaining what they've done wrong but is this mom in the right? we'll let you decide. >> it seemed like the perfect prank. funny and memorable but after tens of thousands of lady bugs swarmed a high school authorities weren't laughing. the punishment some say is too harsh. i've got a to-do list and five acres of fresh air. top three tools: hammer, screwdriver, front loader. happiness is a drive-over mower deck. a john deere dealer can teach tractors to anybody. in the right hands, an imatch quick-hitch could probably cure most of the world's problems. that's how we run, and nothing runs like a deere. see your john deere dealer for great green tag savings on the one family sub-compact tractors. ♪ check out this surveillance video. it shows two bold crooks stealing batteries right from several parked cars. this happened back on may 17th at max's auto lot on the 7,000 block of oxford avenue avenue in northeast philly. any anyone with information call the philadelphia police. >> including grown glass in a play area. investigative report jeff cole fracking the fallout. have state officials reactioned rather stunning finding. >> absolutely. they say they have jumped on it. state daycare regulators they in fact jumped all over these providers even before the report by federal inspector general was released but the details of what the feds came across raised serious concerns about the quality of daycare here. the feds found an unsan tower toilet with mold and damaged floor and walls in age bam of a daycare. sharp tree trimming saw stored by a door kids used to enter an outside play area. bleach accessible to children and a pool would no fence to keep kids back. all of this what the inspector general for the department of health and human services found in just 20 pennsylvania daycare centers. 17 of the 20 were found in violation of date state regulators. pennsylvania's department of human services says, it quickly forced all of the providers to shape up fast and has since closed two of them. the two of the 20. dhs says governor wolf added more than 13 million bucks to dhs's budget and they've started to higher more inspectors. still, the federal probe look at just 20 government supported daycare centers and 17 came up with problems again. it raises serious concerns about the safety of kids and child care in the state. one suggestion to pennsylvania from the feds, reduce inspectors case loads so they can actually get to more centers. i'm jeff cole, iain. >> jeff, thank you. 20 people, 19 of them children, are under arrest tonight charged in connection with a sexting investigation. it's centered around lower cape may regional high school and richard m. title man middle school. nude photographs of female students were being sent around all the people have been charged with invasion of privacy. we now know some of the headliners set to rock the stage here in philadelphia on america's birthday. the roots will return home for the philly fourth of july jam. this time as the stars of the show you know them as jimmy fallon house band on the tonight show of course. they've also been a main stay at the wawa welcome america festival every single summer. the newcomers on the ben franklin parkway stage this year are r and b my artist miguel and country singer jennifer nettles those two names even a few music fans here in philadelphia scratching their heads. >> miguel and jennifer nettles. >> no. >> don't know them or don't like them. >> don't know them. >> reporter: miguel and jennifer nettles. fan of either one? >> never heard of them. >> miguel and jennifer nettles. what do you think? >> i have never heard of them. >> reporter: either one? >> no. >> reporter: i guess you're not a big fan? >> probably not. >> he kept trying. >> yeah he did. >> the phillies fourth of july kicks off at 7:00 on the ben franklin parkway final night of the eighth day independence celebration here in the birthplace of america. slow and painful start to the baseball season for phillies fans but the fans aren't angry at what's happening on the field. they're now mad about some comments by their general manager ruben amaro jr. off the field. howard eskin in the newsroom with more about these comments made about you the fans and i know the fans aren't going to like this. no phillies fans are now apathetic about the baseball team itself. but the general manager create add social media fire storm and the world we now live in it was trending on twitter. he made a comment to csn philly.com about the fans wanting the team to bring up pitcher aaron know what and zach from the minor leagues to the major leagues. here are his comments. they don't understand the game. they don't understand the process. there's a process. and then they bitch and complain because we don't have a plan. we can't do what's best for the fan. i was doing the morning show this morning on sports radio 94 wip, and had ruben amaro on and asked about his comments. >> i didn't say they don't understand. i said -- some fans don't understand and it's not all philadelphia fans. that was not the purpose of it. it is some fans who believe who think that bringing the two to the major leagues at this time is the right thing for the organization. it's those fans. >> ruben amaro actually knows what he wanted to say but he didn't say it the right way in what he said the first time. now he's trying to back off. but he's technically right. it's not all fans. but it's still gets fans angry. more from the phillies general manager coming up in sports. lucy iain. >> right. thank you very much, howard. a dream come true in chester for some young soccer fans. philadelphia union welcomed 100 students from philadelphia's our lady of calgary school today. students learned soccer skills directly from union coaches and players. how cool is that? >> right on the field of ppl park. union players said hawaii, we enjoyed all of this as much as the kids did. >> we care about our fans. we care about our community and a loft is about soccer but more than just soccer, too. it's about helping others and helping our community and doing what's best for ourselves and for the fans. >> today's visit a reward from true mark financial the students apparently did outstanding job in getting the word out about the importance of how money works in this world of ours. if you can get enough soccer fox 29 special coverage of the says sill women world cup starts june 7th. >> award ceremony in center city. the first of its kind for the city the philadelphia department of human resources presented 10 a awards for foster parents of the year. one of the honorees has been a foster parent for over 46 years. in that time she has fostered 129 children. officials say it's caring foster parents that can help philadelphia's children succeed. >> we know that these young people do better when they live with supportive families and in fact many studies have shown when young people with live with a family they experience a much shorter stay in placement or are more likely to remain with their siblings and also to be able to stay in their own schools. >> dhs says there's currently about 5,000 children who need a home in philadelphia. a shootout in chicago all on video. amazingly when you see this, no one is hurt. how this violent chain of events finally ended. >> a dog takes a wrong step and goes tumbling 25 feet into a canyon. things didn't look good until help came from a surprising source. >> a puppy dog napped from a pet shop. police say this was a crime of opportunity. how the thief pick the exact right time to strike. ♪ looking at this shootout in chicago it is hard to believe no one is hurt. it happened this weekend right in the middle of the with the cap camera capturing it all. a man firing off five shots at someone with a camera. they go down the block you saw that. and the man then unloads another five shots before getting in the car and driving off. chicago police have yet to make an arrest. shots fired and two people at a wal*mart in north dakota and police just announced the gunman air force airing man killed one person before killing himself at a store in grand forks this morning. police say the shooter entered the store and started firing. a witness recalls hearing popping sounds and authorities hearing folks to a safe section of the store. one other person was hurt. authorities are now waiting to release more dough tails on the shooter and the victim in any possible motive. iranian security court holding its first hearing in the trial of detained washington post reporter jason rays san. he's in prison for more than 10 months and charged with iran is calling espionage for the hostile government of the united states and propaganda against the islamic republic. he's being tried in a closed proceeding in iran's revolutionary court and could be sentenced up to six years in prison if convicted. >> airplanes are flying as scheduled today after a rough day of holiday travel some of our country's busiest airports yesterday. the fbi is still trying to figure out who made threats against at least a half dozen airliners including ones bound for newark, jfk and boston's logan international airport. a number of anonymous phone calls claimed that several aircraft headed for us airports had bombs or chemical weapons on board. federal officials say the threats do not seem credible but authorities swept those planes as a precaution. they say the same person is probably behind all of those threats. some of the most popular fast food restaurants in the country are changing up some of what you eat. >> you may be surprised those ingredients were even on the menu in the first place. and water logged devastation in the southwest. flooding claiming lives at least a dozen people still missing tonight. we're on the ground witnessing it all first happened. scott? >> and iain we need some rainfall across our area. find out how part of that system could bring some gusty storms our way and the latest on heat headed this way. ♪ philadelphia police still on the hunt for a man who broke into a woman's homosexually assaulted her and robbed her. they say it happened on the 1800 block of rosewood street in south philadelphia where the woman a woke to find a man standing over her with a ski mask on. crews are look fog to see if this incident is connected to another assault in march. investigators say in both cases the guy was actually wearing red or orange gloves. amtrak takes another step in the hopes of prevent anything more tragedies. it is installing inward facing cameras on northeast corridor trains. those cameras will watch what goes on inside locomotive cabs where the engineer is in charge of the train. today's announce many comes two weeks after amtrak regional 188 derailed killing eight people and sending more than 200 to local hospitals. to developing story in the southwest now. many parts of texas remain water logged. flooding has killed nearly a dozen people there and in oklahoma 30 remain missing in central texas. fox's hillary willard is live for us in houston tonight. i lived in houston for three years and seeing the pig chess and video talking to friends just devastating. >> reporter: yeah, well if you lived who are you understand this is very much a historical flooding situation we're dealing with. in fact, let me just show i was little glimpse of what's going on much this behind me is not a lake. that is just massive flooding in a nice lyle park area that people usually come running running down instead of it's covered. this is much better than we saw earlier this morning. in fact, if you look to the left as we pan over there start seeing cars actually driving on these roadways. these were completely flooded just hours ago. so the good thing about this area in southwest houston the flooding is recedeing. right now we have a break in the rain but it is likely not going to stay this way. we had over 8-inches just in the past 24 hours. we had 80,000 power outages in the area. several people because of this situation we're expecting more to come according to the fire department. there's so much going on everyone just trying to get past the roadways, get to and from work and try to stay away from the water. right now it look like they have better chance of doing that but again we're expecting more rain this evening. >> hell larry, what's the emergency response been like there? >> reporter: emergency response has been very very active. in fact, houston fire department received 500 emergency rescue calls since yesterday around this time. maybe a couple hours later in the evening that began. and we do know emergency response they just tell us they are trying to keep everyone safe. in fact you can hear the helicopters we know people are surveying the areas. police are trying to block off roadways. so the response has been good just trying to keep as many people save as possible. but now whatever one has to deal with the stalled and broken down cars on the highways and all of the side roadways, too. >> live in southwest houston back to you guys. >> fox's hillary for us in houston. that is the neck thing down there all those cars tran missions are gone and are more rain on the way. our thoughts and prayers with them. >> indeed. we all know that city incredibly well. you and i both worked there for years it's amazing to see this. they haven't had something like this since 2001 and tropical storm allison. >> allison that was a tropical storm. you were pointing that out scott. >> that's what we were talking about. i mean the same areas continue to get hit over and over again. it doesn't really look like the pattern will change a whole lot. you can see right now a little bit of a lull in the action but more storms already erupting toward the north and western part of the state. so we'll continue to see problems with flash flooding in the lone star state but as we take a look at the national radar, you can see a part of that system now continuing to move toward the east. the southern extent that's where the heavy rain was yesterday. that's now impacting the entire state of georgia some very heavy rainfall severe thunderstorm warnings posted here. the northern part of that system that is going to be impacting us as early as tomorrow afternoon and evening. but take a look off to the west. you can see we're looking at some of those showers severe thunderstorm warnings right now in sections of ohio. so as we roll the clock it's dry, it's quiet for tonight. but tomorrow afternoon watch the clock. you're going to see off to the west we'll have to watch the lehigh valley and the pocono mountains for some of those showers and storms to move toward the philadelphia area as well so the main threats will be some gusty winds and potentially some hail once again after about 4:00 o'clock tomorrow continuing through about 10:00 p.m. but we certainly need the rainfall across our area. you can see the lehigh valley, the pocono mountains the latest drought monitor has us in a moderate stage drought so we need the rain. some locations haven't even picked up a tenth of an inch of rain for the month so far of may may. so that rain tomorrow will be welcomed rain. 87 degrees right now. the humidity starting to increase. it currently stands at 41%. winds out of the south southwest at 15 miles per hour. so pumping in more of that low level moisture. the planner for tomorrow, it's going to be pretty mild and muggy to start. by 7am temperatures will be in the low 70s. low 80s by 11:00 o'clock. upper 80s to near 90 degrees by tomorrow afternoon. down the shore it's ban beautiful day. look at the temperatures. upper 60s, low 70s. but head further inland, 88 right now in trenton. 88 in allentown as well as reading and then as we watch future heat index for tomorrow, feels like temperatures by 3:00 in the afternoon into in trenton. 93 in philadelphia. into feels like temperature in wilmington. so that heat will peak tomorrow afternoon before we watch that line of showers and storms. so temperatures tonight mid 60s. 71 degrees in the city. 90 for the high temperature tomorrow. those afternoon and evening gusty showers and storms and temperatures remain above average with pop up storms on thursday and friday. and then for saturday it looks like a dry break from the storms storms. then more rain sunday into early next week but temperatures turn much cooler back into the low 70s by monday and tuesday. >> wow. roller coaster kind of continues. >> it is. >> public shaming make your children behave? what do you think? one woman is betting yup and she's making her children hold signs explaining what they've done wrong. what do you think about what she's doing? we'll let you decide. >> the parents a lot of people thought were wrong. these so-called free range parents got in trouble for letting their kids wander too far from home and they just learned their fate. >> coming up at 6:00 quite a catch at a baseball game it wasn't a player who got lucky and caught the ball. ♪ tornado killed at least 13 people in mexico and injured 300. the twister slammed into a city just across the border from texas. and now people are sifting through the rubble of the hundreds of damageed homes and they're finding bodies. right now covering them with blankets. they can't do much else. rescue teams are in the area trying to find survivors. so a man walks into a south florida pet store over memorial day weekend and walks out with a puppy except that he hasn't paid a cent. surveillance video shows him walking into the store in pembrook pines. an employee told police he asked to see a puppy from the back. she even set him up way little daschund in private penn. when they went to help another customer the guy headed for the door pup knee hand. owners say he took advantage avenue very busy time at the store and they're hoping to get their puppy back. >> we're concerned about puppy's health. they're in a very strict diet eating certain food. we have that coming in every week making sure they're healthy healthy. >> not the first time somebody walk out of that store with a dog. in november the same surveillance video picked up a woman stealing a maltese. >> sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me. one michigan mom is putting that saying to the test by publicly shaming her kids. the mom is taking matter noose her own hands forcing her kids to stand on the corner holding signs spelling out exactly what they are in trouble for. so now the move may sound harsh but it's sparking a debate over whether or not public shaming your children is a helpful way to discipline. >> i was being bad not listen listening. not keeping the room clean. >> i would rather them be embarrassed and straighten up than getting into fights and going jail killing somebody. we live in a hard city. >> this form of discipline works, some experts say public humiliation and humiliateing a child for doing something wrong never works. it may have the opposite effect. a dog takes a wrong step and tumbles 25 feet into a can yank i don't know. things did not look good until help came from a surprising place. >> it seemed like the perfect prank. funny and memorable after but tens of thousands of lady bugs swarmed a high school authorities weren't laughing. the punishment some say is too harsh. howard? >> the phillies are a team where we all know this will not ab good season, but the general manager ruben amaro made some comments that went crazy on social media. i talked to ruben about what got the fans angry. that's coming up in sports. >> sunday avenue hike to remember in oregon when a dog falls off cliff and down about 25 feet into a canyon. >> lucky for that pooch complete stranger risked his own live climbing down a mountain to save that beloved pet. here's kelsey what's with the rest of the story. >> reporter: hazel is happy to be home. the nine month old german shepherd puppy had quite a sunday on mount hood. >> so we were up walk aig round the trails. >> shelly snapped this photo of hazel near the white river canyon about a mile east of timber line lodge. but a few minutes later hazel fell in the canyon off the edge of a cliff and down about 25 feet. >> she was tumbling down we were screaming. we tried for about an hour to get down there to get her and she -- the ground was just crumbling. >> reporter: thomas went back to the lodge for help, a total stranger just happened to be hiking by. >> they said that hazel the dog had fallen off the cliff and since i hiked that canyon a lot i decided to go down and get the dog. >> reporter: but it wasn't easy. this is the photo of him jumping in to help. no ropes just a backpack. >> that terrain is very treacherous and there's boulders the size of huge cars. if you dislodge that and that type of condition it can -- those rocks can roll down on top of you. >> reporter: but an experienced hiker he wasn't worried. still it took almost an hour for him to traverse the ridge with hazel sometimes carrying the dog dog, sometimes sliding with her in his lap. >> she was panicking a lot. >> he had to carry her a lot of the way and he was giving her his own personal water supply, and making sure she was okay. she was pretty tired and i think a little bit hurt. >> reporter: back in portland the humane society was gathering a volunteer rescue team. >> just because timber line lodge is such a row moat place it would have taken them roughly an hour to get up there. >> reporter: team called off thanks to the kindness of a stranger. >> she could have easily walked -- he could have easily walked by and said good luck and cep going on his way and he didn't. just kind of restores our faith in humanity. very good deal deed. >> after that scary fall and tough lesson hazel doing just fine tonight with no serious injuries. >> that's good. maryland couple grabbed national headlines for their free range parenting are getting a bit of a break. washington post reports that danielle and alexander meihivs cleared in one of the child neglect case this face. child protective services is ruling out neglect in a december incident where their six and 10-year-olds walked home from local park. the couple is still under investigation for a similar incident last month. it's that time of year for senior pranks in maryland what some thought was a harmless prank is costing a group of students their graduation. their prank involved more than 70,000 lady bugs. fox's alexander limon shows us. >> please let me walk. it was a harmless prank. >> reporter: that's the message brian has for school administrators. he will not be allowed to walk at chopticon high school graduation because of a student prank. >> i saw one lady bug just passed me and then all of a sudden there was like a thousand thousand. >> reporter: six seniors and one alum broke into the school around thee 30:00 in the morning wednesday and releaseed 72,000 lady bugs. >> i would look at one light and there would be about a thousand just swarming -- like all around it. >> it was just like funny. i wasn't even like mad about it really. lady bugs. they're in my hair but i like they're just lady bugs. >> reporter: now they're facing criminal charges. four minors were charged with fourth degree burglary property destruction and disruption of school activityies. other three will be charged as adults by criminal summons. a spokesperson with the saint mary's sheriff's office explains why. >> they set the burglar alarm off and the police did respond and we arrived there. then it takes it to a different level. we certainly don't want to see anybody get hur. >> respectful to not let them go to the graduation. >> friends are outraged that brian can't walk at his graduation and the class president can't give a speech. especially because they say another one of the students involved was allowed to play in the baseball championship after the prank. which the school won. >> somebody just ordered the bugs on amazon and we decided to do it. i wasn't really much of the plan planning. >> to work four years for something and walk across the stage an little thing like that. >> shouldn't ruin them. i don't think that they should go straight out of high school with these criminal records that's going to help -- it's going to make them not be able to get a job get into college. >> police say the pranksters bought the lady bugs online. no word yet on when they are due back in court. >> taco bell and pizza hurt changing their menus. they're getting rid of artificial colors and flavors. no more -- suppose hut removing artificial flavors and colors bite end of july. taco bell says all that and high fructose corn syrup will be gone bite end of the year. >> powerful story of success. a young man over comes his own challenges to start a successful business but gives others with disabilityies a chance to gain some independence. >> just love this story. fox's greg grew again introduces us to this remarkable young man and his company shredding on the go. >> reporter: it is destruction and creation at the very same time. truly understand that seeming contradiction you must meet a 23-year-old carving out what most would consider a pretty darn compelling career. >> hi, my name is james parker and i own a mobile shredding business called shredding on the go. i do the sledding myself and i really like it. >> reporter: born with the all tra rare neurological disorder known as alan had you had don syndromes james has never walk can't not talk but in this house, renee' parker's house there's always been the faith driven expectation that a beloved son would some day become a productive worker. >> james is going to be employed and we're going to start a business but at that time i had no idea what that business would be. ♪ >> reporter: and so here the focus became far less on what james couldn't do and far more on what he could. >> we were talking about james' strengths and weaknesses and his grandma said, well h he comes to my house he puts paper in my shredder. >> we had no idea how god was going to use that one skill to turn it into a business. >> reporter: and a heck of a business it's become. launching a lone nearly five years ago with a single machine james parker slowly but steadily built his clientele. delivering completely confidential document destruction mobile on site service that's true to his company's name, shredding on the go. >> and he knows that he is doing something meaningful. >> reporter: and it gets better. when a broken arm threatened to side track james' growing business an unexpected blessing doubled the company's work force force. >> i was like i can do that -- i can do that job. ♪ >> reporter: tim farrell is blind. challenged with cerebral palsy and until the day he was hired by james parker had never had the opportunity to earn a dollar he could call his own. >> i just know what everybody needs everybody challenge or no challenge needs to have some type of -- type of work. >> reporter: with no fewer than 10 corporate contracts and a host of satisfied customers remaining solidly loyal james' payroll has since exploded six fold. >> shredding on the go! >> yeah! >> you like it? >> yes. >> reporter: emma has known james since the first grade. a year ago enlisted as a sledding on the go teammate. >> most disable people are willing to work if they're given the chance. >> reporter: koy wyatt at the latest to come aboard and may well be the most deeply grateful grateful. >> something that other people want and needs to be done. >> it's empowering and changes people's lives. >> responsibility with meaning. labor with value. a simple formula for self worth contentment and dignity. how james and his mom have pushed low expectations and backward attitudes into their shredder. ton after ton after ton of paper paper. greg grugen, fox news. what an absolutely inspirational story. >> absolutely. if there's one thing and just one thing we can say about good day's jenn fred and quincy harris they will not turn down a challenge. they repel down buildings. they are fearless. >> we could go-go on. today that meant takeing on. el diablo the newest ad attraction at six flags great adventure roller coaster gains enough speeding to around the loop again and again and again. it gave switched directions and we probably ought to mention the sick glasses great adventure is a sponsor of fox 29 news. do you like coasters. >> i love roller coaster. >> i do, too. i love them. i don't like the tea cups i get nauseous but i like roller coasters. >> the up and down. >> that looks cool. >> you can see more of jenn and quincy at sick flags on our website. all you need to do is go to the good day section of myfoxphilly.com. ♪ straight ahead at six you think you love roller coaster you got nothing on this pennsylvania man and this 82-year-old just took that love to a whole new level. doing something that will make your head spin. and history in the southwest southwest. but not the kind anyone wants. why the flooding is so bad. and the effect this storm system could have on us. ♪ right now at 6:00-a disturbing connection between two attacks on local women. a short time ago philadelphia police confirmed the news the attacker behind a recent sexual assault had hit at least one time before. tonight the manhunt is on. officers are hoping clues can help track the predator down before he attacks again. good evening i'm iain page. >> i'm lucy noland. police are telling women in one part of the city to be on high alert. fox 29's dave schratwieser is live in south philly near the scene of the crime. dave, what are police telling you? >> reporter: lucy, detectives tell us tonight this guy is dangerous and capable of just about anything. there are at least half a dozen similarityies between the two attacks. they're now talking about. they say the suspect could be from the very same neighborhood. >> i think this individual is dangerous. >> reporter: this woman her mother and young son strolled by rose wood street tuesday morning still shaken by the news that another woman had been attacked in her own home over the holiday weekend. >> i'm scared it might happen to me. >> reporter: home invasion and sexual assault happened around 5:00 monday morning in the 1800 block of rosewood. a 35-year-old woman asleep in her bed a woke to find a man standing over her wearing a ski mask and red or orange gloves with the fingers cut out. >> we got pretty dangerous
individual here. it would appear he's capable of anything. >> reporter: police say the man took the woman's car keys and some money and fled. the victim's car turned up a few blocks away. tuesday, police were checking it for fingerprints and looking for surveillance video. >> there is possibility we may have something from the location of the vehicle was recovered. >> reporter: this is the second sexual assault in this neighborhood recently. back in march police released this sketch of a man they say entered a woman's home in the 1700 block of south chadwick street robbed her and tried to sexually assault her after forcing her two children into another room. >> just their presence alone using that as a shield or a means to get what you want something wrong about that folk. >> reporter: police are warning women in the area to take precautions. >> additional lighting is great you know, the doors and windows at the ground level certainly we want you to secure and just be aware. >> keep the doors lock. >> reporter: police believe if the suspect is from the neighborhood he could be casing the area looking for lapses in security. looking for dna fingerprints and surveillance video tonight. they hope to release that video as soon as they get it. lucy? >> all right, thank you very much, dave. the news still breaking in montgomery county. a tricky tuesday commute for drivers. skyfox over 422 and oaks where part of the road has buckled as you can see from that birds eye view. officials say that's right near exit 29 in the eastbound lanes you see the traffic there just crawling by. crews are there as you can see making repairs. how long is it going to take them? don't know yet. but you can expect delays in that area. we're following a developing story this tuesday night. dangerous flooding affecting texas and oklahoma. so far at least 11 people are dead and several more are missing. now recovery teams are working to find those people who may have been swept away in these flood waters in parts of houston underwater tonight after getting hit with 11-inches of rain. drivers have been abandoning cars. overwhelmed bite flooding and water rescues are taking place much president obama says residents can count on the federal government to help with requests for assistance. >> we will expedite those requests to make sure that both search and rescue operations where necessary but also recovery operations occur as efficiently and as quickly as possible. >> dozens of tech text counties have declared disaster zones. could it get worse more wet weather expected for that area. as flooding devastates the southwest big story here in our area is the heat. chief meteorologist scott williams joining us now with a look at where we're headed. i'm guessing up as far as the mercury is concerned. >> the high temperature today was 89 degrees. tomorrow we'll likely hit 90 all because of that system that hit sections of texas out ahead of it winds have been out of the south pumping in some of that humidity as well as increasing the temperatures so we'll continue to warm through tomorrow. that should be the peak of the heat. but look at the high. 89 degrees was the high temperature this afternoon. the normal for this time of year is 77 degrees. it is a little cooler down the shore. temperatures right around 70 for somers point. sea isle city checking in at 67 degrees. but move away from the cooler ocean and you can see temperatures right now 87 philadelphia. 87 degrees in trenton. as well as allentown. so temperatures slow to fall tonight. and then take a look at tomorrow tomorrow. temperatures by 3:00 o'clock, 87 degrees. the high tomorrow 90 and once again we have the threat for some scattered showers and storms by tomorrow afternoon and evening. some of which could produce some downpours as well as maybe some small hail. coming up i'm going to have more on the timing of tomorrow's system as well as when to expect some below average temperatures all with the seven day forecast. guys, back to you. >> all right, thank you very much, scott. red cross is now helping three families forced from their homes following overnight fire. it broke out in a three-story building along the 2900 block of diamond street in north philadelphia just after 3:30 this morning. no one is injured and investigators are now looking into what started that fire. amtrak is trying to ramp up safety in the wake the deadly train crash in port richmond that killed eight passengers earlier this month. first amtrak promised to install a gear designed to slow down speeding trains as they approach dangerous stretches of track and now it is announced its putting in cameras to keep a closer eye on the person in control of the the train. bruce gordon was among the first reporters on the seen the night of the crash. he's at 30th street station with news of this latest upgrade upgrade. bruce? >> reporter: yeah, lucy, many of safety enhancements were already being discussed when amtrak train 188 left the tracks in that fatal crash back on the evening of may 12th. now amtrak's president says he wants to move up the timetable and will install inward facing cameras on most of the amtrak northeast corridor line by the end of this year. investigators may be hard pressed to know exactly what engineer brandon bostian was doing as his train accelerateed to twice the speed limit on a dangerous curve north of 30th street station that fateful night. he can't remember what happened he says and there is no visual evidence what was going on inside his cabin just before the train derailed. that's about to change. amtrak says by year's end, most of its northeast corridor trains will be equipped with video cameras facing into the engineer's compartment to go along with those already pointed out the front of the train. attorney tom klein represents one of the more than 200 passengers injured in the derailment. >> installing a camera is a great idea going forward. it's an idea that's come too late for those who perished and those who are horribly injured. >> reporter: like the outward facing cameras the inward facing gear will not provide real time visuals much the footage would have to be downloaded after the fact. septa, for example has for sometime now equipped its buses with multiple interior cameras. showing passenger areas and the driver. in the case of this recent accident, the footage shows the driver was not wearing a seat belt and fell out of her seat while making a sharp turn. but klein says more often than not, tear your cameras will change operator behavior for the better. >> if you know you're on camera you behave differently than if you're not on camera. >> local celebrity chef and amtrak passenger eli kulp suffered a severe spinal cord injury in that crash. his business partner at fork and high street restaurants says kulp has now enter add rehabilitation facility. >> from what i understand from spinal cord injuries the most important step is the gunnery happen were takes. so it's all very positive. eli is an extremely motivateed guy. he has everything going for him. he's young he's strong. >> reporter: that $6 million camera upgrade will likely not happen without some push back from the unions but amtrak's president told reporters today "the technology is there and i'm using that technology to ensure better safety. in the meantime eli kelp's family but together a gofundme page to help dee pray some of those massive medical costs if you'd like to help out go to myfoxphilly.com we'll link to you the site. iain. >> bruce, thank you. >> investigators in southwest philadelphia looking for clues in a late night deadly shooting. police found a man shot twice in the chest at 65th and elmwood avenue around 10:15 last night. investigators say they also found a small handgun under his body but they're not sure if it's part of the shooting. along with that gun they also found some cash an phone. police have yet to release the man's name and so far they have no suspects. a philadelphia man admits he strangled his wife two fought over his text messages to another woman. so christopher murray will now serve 20 to 40 years in jail. the 49-year-old pleaded guilty to third degree murder. he says he loved his wife connie and wishes he could turn back time. a painful get away for a phone robber in north philadelphia. you can see him hanging out nearly a gain knee avenue and jasper streets on may 17th right there. now, moments later another camera shows him on his bike and what he's going to be doing right there flying around the corner until he wipes out. well the woman who's phone he snatched is in hot p suit gives him a few good wax enough to make him ditch away. he got away and got her phone. police are trying to track him down. >> officials with the school district of philadelphia appearing in city council today requesting more funding to sustain philadelphia schools. council president darrell clark had some tough questions for superintendent of schools william hite. clark thinks the district should ask the state for more money. rather than ask the cash strapped city. the city of philadelphia has already given thee hundred million dollars in additional funding to schools over the last five years. hite is asking for more than $100 million in additional money he says he's lobbying the state as well. >> amazeing catch at a baseball game it wasn't a player who got lucky and didn't catch a ball. pretty crazy video. and this pennsylvania man loves roller coasters i mean loves them. wait until you hear the feat he just pulled off an amass amuse the park people will be talking about for a long time. howard? >> phillies general manager ruben a march wrote biggest target of general managers in philadelphia made comments to set the fans off op social media media. that's a no-no. i talked with ruben and he responded. that's coming up in sports. z test text1 pla ♪ traffic trouble in montgomery county. look at that backup. it stretches and stretches. skyfox live over a buckled road along 422 and okay. that's what's causing that huge headache. this is right near exit 29 eastbound lanes the ones sitting there like a parking lot. crews working to fix the buckled road right now. how long is that going to take? it's an excellent question we don't know how long it takes to fix it i guess. it's definitely creating a mess during this evening rush. so if you can avoid the area. police are looking for three people in the video right here who they say robbed a woman in germantown. at least tried to. the scene on the 100 block of west chelten avenue the day was last thursday. police say the three men walked up to the woman acted like they had a gun demand her phone watch did she do. she took off to nearby rite aid to get help, and that scared off the guys. >> you got to hasn't it to this man he probably made the catch of the night at a baseball game. minor league game from the st. paul saints game last week. a player from the fargo moore head red hawks loses his bat after swinging at a pitch. he catches it in one hasn't. he doesn't spill a beer he has in his hasn't. he gives the back bat to the red hawk. wife says he got a different bat from the team as souvenir. good for him. >> that's pretty cool. >> that was very impressive. >> didn't spill the beer. that's even better. all right. we saw jenn fred and quincy try their luck on a brand new jersey roller coaster but they have got nothing on this adrenalined phanatic from pennsylvania. vick takes his hobby to a new level on sunday the 82-year-old road the jack rabbit in allegheny west mifflin 95 times. 95 times in one day. the reason to celebrate its knifeth anniversary took him more than eight hours to do it. the one ride began rolling in 1920. he started riding it in 1959 and racked up more than 5,000 trips. >> that sounds like a good number and so i'll stop counting after that and but i'll be riding it a lot and we'll see what happens. >> he wrote road the jack rabbit 80 times times for his 90th birthday9,080thbirthday. >> all right. >> a day to remember for young philadelphia soccer fans. union welcoming 100 students from philadelphia's our lady of calgary school today. students learned soccer skills right from union coaches and players. on the field at ppl park. the students enjoyed it but probably not as much as as union players. >> we care about our fans. we care about our community and it's -- a lot of it is about soccer it's more than just soccer, too. it's about helping others and helping our community and doing what's best for ourselves and the fans. >> today's visit a reward from true mark financial the students did a great job in getting the word out about the importance of how money works in this world of ours. can't get enough soccer? fox 29 special coverage of the fifa women's world cup starts sunday june 7th. >> a new jersey elementary got a visit from philly fanatics in marlton this morning. kindergarten class won the fan nat tick about reading competition. each of those students read at least 15 minutes a day between september and march g for them. >> very good for them. they get a visit from the phanatic and we get a visit from a little bit of heat and humidity. >> yes, we do. we knew it was coming. >> glad the phanatic was in the ac instead of outside today. >> absolutely. >> all right. >> it would have been a problem with all the humidity and heat building. the high today made it up to 89 degrees. tomorrow will probably hit 90, and as we take a look at the national perspective you can see showers and storms off to the west. some of this is the same energy that caused all of the flooding in texas and right now you can see back into the lone star state more showers and thunderstorms are developing. so they can't catch a break. take look at the doppler radar estimates around san marcos, austin houston over the past 48 hours some locations have picked up over a foot of rainfall. so devastating flooding there. here's the southern extent of that system that brought the heavy rainfall yesterday to texas right now impacting georgia. the northern extent of that system right now moving through the upper ohio river valley and that system will bring us some scattered showers and some thunderstorms by tomorrow afternoon. so it's dry, quiet and warm for your evening if you're stepping outdoors. tomorrow it's going to be warm and muggy and then you can see by tomorrow afternoon after about three, 4:00 o'clock, we'll watch a line of some scattered showers and thunderstorms. they could produce heavy rainfall as well as some gusty winds in excess of 60 miles an hour so once again, this is tomorrow afternoon. by four you can see moving through lehigh valley moving into sections of berks montgomery county and then approaching the philadelphia i-95 corridor by rush hour tomorrow so we'll keep tabs on that system for the threat of some gusty thunderstorms tomorrow. temperatures still pretty warm right now. 87 degrees. humidity at 43%. winds are out of the south southwest at about 13 miles per hour. as we look at temperatures overall cooler down the shore. 73 degrees right now in wildwood wildwood. 76 for atlantic city. move a little farther inland it's warmer. 87 still philadelphia as well as allentown and trenton. so over the next 24 hours you can see temperatures are going to be warming across our area. feels like temperatures tomorrow afternoon will be in the low 90s. so for tonight it's going to be mild and muggy. 65 in the suburbs. 71 degrees in the city. the high temperature tomorrow 90 degrees and then we'll have to keep an eye north and west for that line of showers and thunderstorms moving in. the seven day forecast showing you, we continue to stay pretty hot and humid thursday, 88 degrees. maybe a pop-up thunderstorm. likewise moving into your friday 86. saturday right now looks dry. but still warm, 85 and then scattered showers sunday cooling us down to 80 and then much cooler only in the low 70s for monday and tuesday of next week. >> almost a 20-degree drop for next monday. >> that roller coaster. >> that's good math iain. >> i estimated. >> give him prop. >> eagles started their organized team activity today's with coaches now permitted to be on the field but one player did not show up. the phillies are a team where we all know this is not going to be a good year but the general manager ruben amaro made some comments and they went social on social media. i talked with ruben about what got the fans angry coming up in sports. ♪ the phillies fans they just know baseball team is a bad team. they're numb to loses any more but the general manager ruben amaro create add social media fire storm. it was trending on twitter and that's important. he made a comment to csn philly.com about fans wanting the team to bring up pitchers aaron noah and zach evelyn to the major leagues. here are ruben' comments. "they don't understand the game. they don't understand the process. there's a process and then they bitch and complain because we don't have a plan. we can't do what's best for the fan ". now i was working the morning show this morning on sports radio 94 wip and had ruben amaro on and asked about his comments. >> it's not all fans. there are just some who feel like okay, let's just bring this guy because he's a young player and it's okay. we just want to see him. what we're doing is ultimately for the fans. we play -- we're in the entertainment business. we trying to entertain our fans and the best way that this organization we feel at this stage of the game that we can do that for our fans is to develop our players properly. >> i don't know if it max any difference with this team right now but we'll get to see those guys later in the season. eagles began their official mini camp today. they are called the ota's and the organized team activities are voluntary. but every player is there except evan mathis who wants a new contract and he chose not to come. to paris the french open. raphael nadel in the new court seven serving -- in these early rounds it's too early. he loves the clay. he wins in straight sets. miami marlins are a bad team with a great player. how about jianne carlos stanton to pittsburgh. he hits homeruns like 500 feet. but he also can play right field a little bit. he made a lot of noise. that's a metal fence in front of the scoreboard. i mean he's a good player all around and he's a terrific person too. he hasn't been poison yet because he hasn't been in the major leagues too long but he can play. >> big contract. >> 325 million. is that big? >> kind of big. >> not bad. >> you with your math. >> making millions. >> that's good one. >> love for to you join us for fox 29 news at 10. started a frenzy when it launched a new line at target and now lillian pulitzer is going viral for a different reason. image found hanging inside the king of prussia headquarters has it dealing with some major set backs. >> what about a final check of our weather quickly. >> the humidity is increasing. temperatures increase and they're also tomorrow afternoon and evening we might have some strong potentially severe thunderstorms. we'll have much more on that tonight at 10:00. >> that does it for us here at 6:00. >> speaking of 10, we'll see you back here at 10:00v a great night. inside edition is up next. historic floods. >> oh, my god. >> how to get out alive if this ever happens to you. >> oh, my god. oh, my god. >> then, duggar family scandal. >> how the molestation accusation was an open secret going back seven years. >> and, the beautiful actress who went from this to this. her husband's desperate plea to save his wife. >> then, the high school cheerleader and the ruthless killer. >> how he lured her to her death pretending to be someone else. >> she had to fight for her life and she lost. >> plus, the bride and the marine who won't look at each other before the wedding. the photo everyone is talking
>> fox 29 news in hd brought to you by xfinity the future of awesome. >> right now people terrorized near a local college campus. these guys armed with guns hit six times in a week. they're target temple university students and cops want to get them off the street before someone gets hurt g evening and thanks for joining us. iain page. >> i'm lucy noland. chris o'connell is at temple university tonight. chris, any leads? >> reporter: a couple of big leads tonight and that is video lucy. police believe the same group of men may be responsible for at least six armed robberies near the campus of temple university. all of them involveing students and some of those crimes caught on camera. >> it may be summer break on the campus of temple university but you may not know it by the stepped up police patrols. six armed robberies in six days all of them happening at night. one robbery was caught on video where you see a man robbing three students on north 18th street at gun point. rash of robberies has students at temple talking. >> it's a little scary. >> one of the robberies happened right outside of kelsey interpret's front door. >> don't be on your phone. don't wear your headphones. always look up. be alert. but at the same time you never know if you're just going to be a victim. >> reporter: robberies happened between may 14th and may 20th all of them win blocks of item poll's north philadelphia main campus. police believe the suspects are teenagers getting away with cash smart phones and bookbags. >> it's definitely disappointing. i do think sometimes you need to be a little more aware of your surroundings. you need to be a little smart about what you're doing. >> reporter: faces of the suspect are plaster the all over surveillance videos. police say they look like they could be in college themselves. in one case, you see them running away after a robbery. crime near campus is nothing new here but six incidents in a week has some students staying alert. >> i think it's more like, you know not being street smart you know thinking it's not going to happen to you. >> reporter: now temple police are encourageing even during the summer break to tell students to use the on campus police campus escorts were traveling at night of course f you see or know any of those people in those videos please call philadelphia police. lucy. >> thank you very much chris. developing right now severe and we do mean severe weather in the southwest. parts of texas are still underwater from the lone star state through oklahoma 17 people have died who we know about and dozens of people are right now missing. authorities are worried raging flood waters have swept them away. and the governor declared more than 40 texas counties disaster areas. they have not seen this amount of rain since tropical storm allison in 2001. fox's hillary whitier live in houston tonight. hillary, how are things there in the bayou city? >> reporter: we've been staying on this story obviously since it first started storming yesterday and kind of amazing i can even stand right here in this area in southwest houston but was completely submerged in water hours ago and earlier this morning it wasn't even -- you couldn't even see it. so we are seeing some improvement and we did expect a lot of rain to be coming down right now, and it isn't. so that's good news for everyone here but all of those who died because of these floods you mentioned in texas are four of those here in houston according to police and just take look at these pictures. i mean it's just shocking the more and more you see and a lot of it has receded. however, there's still a lot to be concerned about because there are so many cars on the highways still left unattended. thousands of people were stranded. most of those are okay now. but still some people are trying to figure out just how to put everything back together but again we're hoping things will stay dry and the water will keep receding. we're live in houston, back to you guys. >> all right. hillary, thank you very much. on the your radar a break from the heat and humidity but it will get worse before it gets better. here's a live look in south philadelphia tonight. scott, we'll get even hotter tomorrow? >> that's right. we are going to have temperatures iain and lucy approaching 90 degrees tomorrow and then tomorrow afternoon and evening, we have a chance for some strong and severe storm. take a look what's happening right now. it's raining again in parts of texas. you can see as we zoom in right now, around the dallas fort worth metro metroplex they're seeing more showers and storms. towards sections of georgia to the carolinas to the south of us looking at a shower of storms but off to our west right now you can see the northern part of the system that will bring us the line of showers and storms tomorrow in advance of the heat. so as we roll the clock by 3:00 in the afternoon we're watching north and west. here's 6:00 o'clock the pocono mountains and lehigh valley an approaching philadelphia by eight, 9:00 o'clock we're looking at some heavy rain gusty winds and also some much needed rainfall. take a look at the clock. you can see by tomorrow afternoon and evening, we could close in on a half an inch around philadelphia and perhaps an inch as you move toward sections of the pocono mountains or a little more. so once again, we are looking at that humidity moving in for your wednesday. above average temperatures and also scattered strong afternoon and evening storms. much more on the heat, when to expect a cool down as well as more on the drought for some of us across our area. >> all right scott, thank you. a tricky tuesday commute for drivers in montgomery county. skyfox over 422 and oaks where part of the road just buckled around 4:00 this afternoon. it happened right near exit 29 in the eastbound lanes. penndot says today's hot weather played a role. they have crews on the scene still making repairs tonight. video just into our newsroom tonight after a car barrels into a new york city convenience store. this was in queens right around 7:00 tonight. broken brick and shattered glass strewn across the pavement there. five people are hurt but they're all in stable condition. we do not know what sent that car kareening into the store. now back here in philadelphia a robber's get away is something but smooth but did he get away. surveillance video from the may 17th shows the man on his bike near jasper street and allegheny avenue. moments later another camera catches him doing that, flying around the corner with a woman he just stole a phone from in hot pursuit. he wipes out gets up, she is swinging. he took off down jasper street with her phone and police are still looking for him. alleged sexting scandal in cape may county leads to the arrests of nearly two dozen people. the 20 people, 19 of them juveniles, are accuse of circulating photos of female students from lower cape may regional high school and richard m. title man middle school all the people have been charged with invasion of privacy. a young man is classes clinging to life after a shooting in southwest philadelphia. police found him right around 3:30 this afternoon near the 5700 block of greenway of a someone had shot the 24-year-old twice in the head. once in the stomach. police rushed him in their squad car to presbyterian hospital in extremely crit until condition. they did not find a weapon at the scene and so far they haven't found who shot him. >> amtrak adding safety up grades in the wake of that deadly train derailment in port richmond earlier this month. first, the company promised to utilize technology designed to slow down speeding trains before they reached dangerous stretches of track and today announced plans to install cameras that will keep a closer eye on the person in control of the train. fox 29's bruce gordon was one of the first reporters on the scene back on may 12th ton night he takes a closer look at amtrak's newest upgrade. >> reporter: investigators may be hard pressed to know exactly what engineer brendan bostian was doing as his train accelerateed to twice the speed limit on a dangerous curve north of 30th street station that fateful night. he says he can't remember what happened and there is no visual evidence of what was going on inside his cabin just before the train derailed. that's about to change. amtrak says by year's end most of its northeast corridor trains will be equipped with video cameras facing into the engineer's compartment to go along with those already pointed out the front of the train. attorney tom klein represents one of the more than 200 passengers injured in the derailment. >> installing a camera is a great idea going forward. it's an idea that's come too late for these who perished and those who are horribly injured. >> reporter: like the outward facing cameras the inward facing gear will not provide real time visuals, the footage would have to be downloaded after the fact. septa, for example has for sometime now equipped its buses with multiple interior cameras showing passenger areas and the driver. in the case of this recent accident, the footage shows the driver was not wearing a seat belt. fell out of her seat while making a sharp turn. but klein says more often than not, interior cameras will change operator behavior for the better. >> if you know you're on camera, you behave differently than if you're not on camera. >> local chef eli kulp suffered a severe spinal cord injury in that crash. his business partner at fork and high street restaurants says kulp has now entered a rehabilitation facility. >> from what i understand from spinal cord injuries the most important step is the beginning rehabilitation. so it's all very positive. eli is an extremely motivateed guy. he has everything going for him. he's young. he's strong. >> reporter: $6 million camera upgrade will like likely not happen without some push back from the unions but the amtrak president says... eli kulp's family set up a gofundme page to help cover medical expenses. go to myfoxphilly.com. we'll link you to the site. in the newsroom i'm bruce gordon fox 29 news. >> accused of a drug fast food run. driving in a sheriffs department truck. two young girls in the back seat. what police say she did behind the wheel that tipped them off. something just wasn't right. >> plus new jersey's newest restaurant if you had the munchies would you grab a bite at weed man's joint. >> i'm obviously reaching out to the cannabis consuming community and to use the word like joint in my name directing myself to them. >> what you'll really find when you walk in to this controversial spot. public punishment. seven and eight-year-old boys forced to get really bad haircuts and stand outside with signs while their mom adamant it could save their lives. >> design sparked a nationwide frenzy. women fight in the arrivals of target. now lilly pulitzer accused of fat shaming the pictures spotted inside the local headquarters sparking major backlash. ♪ (music throughout) ♪ sfx: (smash) sfx: (roar) ♪ sfx: (roar) sfx: (engine roars) you wish your dog could fight off fleas and ticks. but since he can't... you rely on frontline plus. because frontline plus unleashes a deadly killing force to kill fleas and ticks, plus flea eggs and larvae, preventing a new infestation. its protection lasts a full 30 days. no wonder frontline plus is the #1 choice of vets for their pets and yours. after all, your dog is a lover not a fighter. frontline plus. the vet's #1 choice. ♪ don't know how many folks carry around tens of thousands of dollars in cash in their cars but a couple of guys did and they got robbed. two men through a rock into a van in philadelphia's heart neighborhood. their victims were busy filling an atm when they struck. >> police in south philadelphia on the hunt for the man they say broke into a woman's home, assaulted her and then robbed her. they say it happen on the 1800 block of rose wood street yesterday. that's where police say a woman woke up to find a man standing over her with a ski mask on. police think this incident may be connected to another assault in pope breeze back in march. cops say people should keep their doors lock. >> we got a pretty dangerous individual here. it would appear that he's capable of anything given the scenario that we have, you know, people inside the residences in the early morning hours of the day, you know, it creates a threat level that we would like to eliminate. investigators say in both cases the guy was wearing red or orange gloves. a philadelphia man admits he strangled his wife as the two fought over text messages to another woman. so christopher murray will now serve 20 to 40 years in jail. the 49-year-old pleaded guilty to third degree murder. he says he loved his wife connie and wishes he could turn back time. a federal probe in low income day cares in pennsylvania found a long list of health and safety violations including broken glass and in a play area. daycare regulators say they jumped all over 20 providers even before the release of the report by a federal inspector general. among many other things the feds found unsanitary toilet with mold and damaged floors and walls and a bathroom avenue daycare. sharp tree trimming saw stored by a door children walk in and out of. bleach accessible to children and a pool with no fence to keep them back. the inspector general found 17 of the 20 were in violation of state regulation. 17 of the 20. now pennsylvania's department of human services says it forced all of the providers to shape up and do it fast. it has since closed two of the 20. dhs says governor wolf has added more than $13 million to its budget so it can among other things begin to higher more inspectors. well he has been a long-time marijuana activist an political hopeful in new jersey. >> but now the guy known as nj weed man is adding another career venture to that list. fox 29's dave kinchen live in trenton tonight. what's weed man kicking up in new jersey's capital city. >> reporter: well, nj weed man will be opening up this restaurant here behind me in a few weeks, but it's the location that's really interesting and it has a lot of people talking as we come over this way you'll see the restaurant is right in front of trenton city hall. part of on-going cannabis campaign you could say. east state street in downtown trenton is getting a slight makeover with the new restaurant promising healthy food. but it's the restaurant's name providing some food for thought. >> it's called nj weed man's joint.y none on the nj weed man himself. >> i'm about out of the cannabis closet as you can get. >> he's known edward fortune. he's even taken his fight to the ballot box but lost a bid for congress. delivering his message in the form of a business with a specific clientele. >> i'm obviously reaching out to the cannabis consumeing community to use a word like joint in my name directing myself to them. >> reporter: he says he will not be selling weed but will allow medical marijuana patients to smoke at his spiritual center next door and the location of his business a block away from the federal courthouse ain't cross the street from trenton city hall no less. and not by accident. >> the fact that this location was available and happened to be right in front of city hall maybe like the second best option. the other better option would have been right in front of the state capitol. >> reporter: nj weed man's joint is around the corner from a church and members were rather blunt in their opposition. >> it's a home where i come here all day my entire life and i wouldn't want to have children kind of grow up in a place like that in the future. >> i think that this is just another, you know obstacle that will put in their way. something else that will discourage them. >> reporter: nj weed man says e infectly within his rights. >> time has change. this is all about peace and love. i'm not hurting anybody. >> reporter: nj we'd man actually thought about opening up his business in front of the state capitol but he says the facilities just weren't adequate there. this location opens on june 15th. iain? >> all right dave, thank you. they have been a part of philadelphia's independence day celebration for years not but this summer the roots are taking center stage as the biggest name in this year's philly fourth of july jam. >> you know them as jimmy fallon's house band on the tonight show. the award winning group will be right here in philly a main stay at wawa welcome america festival every year. the new act on the ben franklin stage this r and b artist miguel and country singer jennifer nettles. the philly fourth of july jam kicks off at 7:00 on the ben franklin parkway. it's final night of the 8-day independence celebration here in the birthplace of america. who would do this? someone swiping american nags from a church and tossed them in a dumpster on memorial day. a group of firefighters steps in tick mate right. the powerful message from that church tonight. >> and a police officer and a grandmother arrested accused of plotting a double murder outside a mcdonald's. why investigators say that grandma admitted she pulled the trigger. >> howard? >> as if the phillies don't have enough problems. the general manager ruben amaro made comments that angered fans and it will up social media. i spoke with amaro about his comments and that will be coming up in sports. >> now with tomorrow's traffic here's bob kelly. >> evening everybody. got some brand new work crews out here along route 202. they'll be with us all night into tomorrow morning between chesterbrook and route 401 and they're shutting down the schuylkill expressway. the westbound lanes coming into philly are closed at 30th street station. they push everybody to the top of the ramp and then right back on that closure will stay into effect until about 5:00 o'clock tomorrow morning. sue has some pop tarts and some pop-up showers. we'll do the weather and traffic when we see you tomorrow at 4:00. ♪ >> federal officials investigate a threat to a plane from taiwan that landed in los angeles. police say eva air flight 12 landed as scheduled this afternoon a threat came by telephone a day after half dozen threats were made to international flights in new york, new jersey and massachusetts. protests in cleveland today. three days after a judge acquitted a white officer of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting deaths of unarmed black couple back in 2012. also today the city of cleveland agreed to overhaul its police department. officials reached an agreement with u.s. department of justice an independent monitor will keep tabs on their police department. a grandmother and her police officer son facing murder charges tonight. >> prosecutors say they plotted to kill his ex to get custody of the children. maryland officer richard conway and his mother caroline are still in jail tonight. police say she confessed to using her son's department issueed gun to kill his ex-wife and her new husband in mcdonald's parking lot. investigators matched she will casings to those used by prince georges county police. >> mr. conway evidence we believe shows that he conspired with his mother ahead of time and assisted her in making the crime succeed. that's first degree murder. conway is on leave without pay while the police department conducts it's own internal investigation. >> lights and sirens blaring for a fast food run. police say the driver was drunk but it wasn't a cop behind the wheel. how police say these women ended up in the drivers seat for a trip to the drive through. scott. >> the high today made the up to 89 degrees. tomorrow even hotter and we have the threat of some strong potentially severe storms. the timing next. >> dog napped a tiny expensive puppy stolen right in front of pet shop employees. how they pick the pefect time to strike. >> right now at 10:30 storms on the way. you can see the system right now on life radar that could impact your day tomorrow. but first this heat and humidity will get a whole lot worse. scott williams has new information in your full forecast in just minutes. memorial day site some firefighters say they will never forget. a handful of american flags dirty and dumped in their trash but they did what any proud american would do they pull the flags from the dumpster and cleaned them up. the flags were originally part of a display outside a church. the man who put them up was heart broken that someone would do that to old glory but thanks to facebook friends were able to connect with him the firefighters who found his flag. >> whoever they are if you're listening you know just keep in mind people have died for that. in fact they died for the right to take them which makes it ironic. we'll move on. >> the man who set up the memorial says the nag represents way more than just colored fabric to him. outrage on the internet a popular clothing line the target some are calling cartoons hanging inside lilly pulitzer king of pressure headquarters an example of fat shaming. our shawnette wilson is outside the headquarters. shawnette, what is this all over and what's the company saying tonight? >> reporter: well lucy take a look behind me. you can see the building here is all lit up tonight but so is social media. loyal customers and regular shoppers outraged over what was found inside. cartoons spotted in new york magazine photo spread on the king of prussia head quarter of high end designer lilly pulitzer have a lot of people offended. they bare images many call fat shaming of women posted in one employee's cubicle. >> it's pretty awful. >> one reads fat white and hideous you should probably just kill yourself. i'm just saying put it down cash face it. >> make me angry to see something like that especially from a company or someone that works win the company that is so loved by women all across the country. it's just a shame. roar report the cartoons cause a flurry of outrage on social media with posts like, looks like i'll be taking clothes back fat shaming is disgraceful disgraceful. gross, thanks for showing us what truly hideous you will actually looks like in a huge contrast someone posterior, am i the only one not bothered? it's clear al joke. people need to lighten up. >> hard to believe in a big company like that somebody had to have seep it, and like i said the employees should be for that. >> reporter: we showed the cartoons to one woman shopping at target where lilly pulitzer came under fire months ago for not selling plus sizes of its low price line inside the stores stores. >> i wouldn't wear it. why not? >> because it's like promoting somebody's inappropriateness. and degrading people. >> kind of puts a bad taste in your mouth. you don't know whether to trust -- the company you're buying from or not is truthful, and supportive of women. >> reporter: the company released a statement it reads these illustrations were the work of one individual and were posted in her personal work area area. while we are an employer that does encourage people to decorate their own space, we are a female dominated company and these images do not reflect our values. we apologize for any harm this may have caused ". back here live we spoke with top workers here in the company earlier this evening. they declined an on camera interview. iain. >> shawnette, thank you. a warm night out there on your radar. maybe a little sticky for late night run. the group run 215 hosting their second night shift phl run tonight with notify project in old city. the group is jogging through town on a mystery run maybe a good idea to get those miles in britt really heats up tomorrow. scott? >> i love mystery runs. >> a little sultry out there for your wednesday. the high today made it up to 89 degrees. tomorrow about 90 but feels like temperatures with the heat index between 90 and 93 degrees. then the best timing for those storms that window of opportunity between 4:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. and the main threats some damaging winds as well as some downpours. we certainly need the rain but we can do without that severe weather threat. temperatures still pretty warm. 77 philadelphia. as well as wilmington. still close to 80 right now as you move toward allentown. so a pair of sevens and look at that humidity at 64%. winds still breezy out of the south at 14 miles per hour. so future heat index what it will actually feel like, you can see by 3:00 tomorrow afternoon 92 is what it's going feel like in trenton. 91 in philadelphia. and 90-degree heat feeling like in the lehigh valley. so remember all of the heavy rainfall around houston. the southern end of that system right now in georgia and the carolinas. the northern part of that system right now moving through sections of the ohio river valley and that part will be moving through tomorrow afternoon and evening. so a dry start but look at the clock here. 4:00 p.m. watching that line of some gusty winds heavy rain move toward the pocono mountains lehigh valley here's 6:00 o'clock still looks west of the philadelphia area and i-95 corridor but by 8:00 o'clock 9:00 o'clock it starts to move in and then it really just kind of fizzles before it makes much into parts of south jersey and then we'll do it again thursday afternoon and evening. more pop-up showers and thunderstorms as we keep that same pattern on going. how much rainfall to expect? it looks like closing in on an inch once you move towards sections of the pocono mountains and lehigh valley. about half an inch around the i-95 corridor once again it doesn't look like that system will make it way into sections of south jersey. temperatures tonight mid 60s in the burbs. low 70's in the city. tomorrow 90 degrees, hot and humid with those afternoon and evening gusty thunderstorms. we'll do it again thursday. high temperature 88 degrees. scattered storm chances linger into friday, 86 for the high. we get a break it looks like on saturday. high temperature 85 degrees. and then a cooler system brings some scattered showers, 80 for the high on sunday and much cooler as we head into early next week. high temperatures only in the low 70s. don't forget do to download the fox 29 weather app and you can track the weather tomorrow afternoon and evening moving in right to your location right along with us. >> sounds good. all right. scott thank you. >> public punishment seven and eight-year-old brothers forced to get really bad haircuts and stand outside with signs. why their mom's adamant it will save their life. >> from the wealthy yesterday areas in the county to cities just making a living can be a struggle. fox's charlie leduff takes us on an eye opening journey through our own backyard. ♪ memorial day dog napping has the attention of police in south florida. you see the guy walk in the pet shop in pembrook pines after asking about a puppy in the back an employee hands over the daschund then even walk them to a private play area but when she turns her back the guy walk out the door with the puppy. owners say he took advantage of a very busy time at the store and they're hoping they'll get the puppy back. in your money major prop for an old city bar. it has made esquire magazine list of best bars in america. the magazine cites the jukebox new orleans style food and beer list. it's one of 15 new bars named esquire list. >> hillary clinton's campaign proving they can have good laugh. online store for the presidential candidate features typical campaign signs and shirts but also these. you can wear one of clinton's famed pants suits on a t-shirt. also selling a pillow embroidered with a woman's place is in the white house. one michigan mom wanted teach her kids a lesson they will not forget. >> she says seven and eight-year-old boys have been misbehaving for months so what did she do? she forced her boys to get bad haircuts. then stand on the corner holding holding signs spelling out exactly while their in trouble. she tried everything else but nothing work. she's hoping -- there's the haircuts. she's hoping to snap them out of their bad behavior and possibly save their lives. >> i was being bad not listen listening. not keeping the room clean. >> i would rather them be embarrassed and straighten up than getting them into fights and going to jail killing somebody. we live in a hard city. >> this is a lot of folks talking. some experts say humiliating the child for doing something wrong never works. in fact they say it may have the opposite effect. accused of a drunk fast food run. driving in the sheriffs department truck. to young girls in the back seat. what police say this woman did behind the wheel that tipped them off that something just wasn't right. >> and from the wealthy yesterday areas of our nation to cities where just making a living can be a struggle for a lot of folks. fox's charlie leduff takes us on an eye opening journey through our own backyard. ♪ this is a joy ride this phoenix mom may want to soon forget. authorities say 41-year-old elizabeth moore made a drunken fast food run in her friend's police vehicle. police say moore app friend were drink brag they got into the sheriff's truck assigned to the women's hub. they got the attention of real officers when they turn on the sirens in the fast food drive through. their two, 12-year-old daughters were found in the back seat. these facing two counts of felony di. >> called the corridor of pain urban belt between washington and wall street. >> in places like baltimore wilmington, philadelphia and newark the american dream still very hard to come by for many. here's fox's charlie leduff and the americans. ♪ >> washington, d.c. and wall street new york city. the towers of american power where money is literally manufactured. there's a business train departing hourly that connects them. two of the wealthiest centers in america along the way the train makes four sort shops. baltimore, maryland, wilmington delaware philadelphia pennsylvania and newark, new jersey. these cities the largest in their respective state used to be rich. now their among the poorest and most violent in the country. the corridor of pain. >> nobody getting off. baltimore. >> and baltimore is on fire. everything is bees full all day until about 20 minutes ago. >> all about respect. you want to film, go down to the corner not up here, okay? why? i mean -- >> because i said so. >> it's a first amend. i can do this. >> okay. >> i'm protecting you sir. >> you get shot, robbed or something, multiple drug calls up here, armed person calls i'm just trying to help you out. >> thank you. >> be careful in this area. >> let me ask you this. these guys i just cleared them out. >> i know -- >> you bring them back here they're all standing right here with you. >> i know. >> let me ask you this. you didn't come from a rich place, do you? >> no. >> you're not a rich man? >> no. >> but you're the guy we pay to keep order? >> exactly. >> right? you guys aren't rich, right? >> no. >> we're in a weird place. there's no money left in this country. they cutting your pensions? >> right. >> you guys got a pension? >> be for warn. i warned you i keep getting assault calls drug calls somebody will go to jail eventually. you understand. >> what's the name of this neighborhood. >> this neighborhood is west baltimore. >> west baltimore. >> all right. >> west baltimore. >> only got four directions, east west, north and south. ♪ >> reporter: newspapers tell us unemployment in america is down to five-point 5%. nobody believes that in wilmington. they used to make real things here like cars and steal those jobs have been replaced by paper push schers and burger flippers. >> there's no such thing as low class no more. either you got it or you don't. >> now you goting to this -- there's no middle class. >> in between washington and new york city there's no middle class? >> none. none. it doesn't exist. it's been that way for while. >> reporter: i've seen these big shiny banks on the other side of town. >> who is working in them. >> reporter: people. >> no black people in them. >> reporter: how is the bottom line today? all right. still moving. doesn't matter. up or down. volatile is our friend. >> put on the deals on the white man. we had something to do with it, too. we had something to do with it, too. we all got to get together and work together and that's it, man man. >> reporter: i'm looking at the ride, the american core of the middle class. ♪ >> reporter: philly taxes suck roads suck. i'm playing freebie for every body also to live here but me. where is my hasn't out man? i'm waiting for mine. i got my hand. i ain't got nothing. i'm the minority. where is mine? >> reporter: you think minorities have their hand out. >> the government is paying for everybody else but you and me, boss. >> reporter: corruption and mismanagement is like that all over america. just four days after we arrived in philly on the very same tracks a commuter train flipped over killing eight. our infrastructure is antiquated and falling apart. you've got to ask where did all the money go? it's no different with the public schools. >> schools told them they're not allowed to bring their books home. they have to have special permission or stay after school or come early in the morning. they're using the same books for my daughter now that they used for my 21-year-old son when he went there seven years ago. >> reporter: if students in philadelphia don't have enough books to take home, then why are there tens of thousands of books rotting away in warehouse. school authorities wouldn't let usie. we saw it any way. >> reporter: next stop, newark. you can literally see the gleaming towers of wall street from here but they might as well be a million miles away. this shopkeeper says things are rough in newark. when he calls the police oftentimes they don't respond for hours. in this corner of america i guess it's dammed if you do and dammed if you don't. >> reporter: something is not right in regular america. no money no jobs, bad schools crumbling infrastructure. so whether you ride first class or coach the bus or a bicycle it's worth remembering as one goes we all go. e pluribus unum. >> howard eskin. in the house. >> i didn't leave. >> all right. eagles began their mini camps today but only one player decided not to show up. with the phillies still having trouble winning games. the general manager ruben amaro got the fans more angry with comments directed at them. i spoke to ruben about his comments and that will be coming up in sports. ♪ the phillies still trying to win their first road series of the season. to do that they had to win tonight and tomorrow. they found another way to lose. let's go to new york and take a look at those phillies. phillies down three to nothing in the eighth inning. two on, ben revere up. gets triple that. will score two runs. so the phillies will close it to three-two in the eighth inning. freddie galvis will tight up at three-three and then miguel franco with two outs. single to left. phillies go up four-three. ken giles blue it in the eighth inning and made it four-four. tenth inning two outs wilmer flores a two out base hit. the mets win it five-four. ryan howard struck out four times tonight. phillies general manager ruben amaro lit up social media today by his comments that offended phillies fans. he made a comment to csn phillies.com about fans wanting to bring up pitchers noah and efron to the major leagues. they don't understand the game. they don't understand the process. there's a process. and then they bitch and complain because we don't have a plan. we can't do what's best for the fan. i was working the morning show this morning and had ruben amaro on 94 wip. asked him about his comments. >> i didn't say they don't understand i'm said sometimes -- some fans don't understand and it's not all philadelphia fans. that was not the purpose of it. it is some fans who believe who think that bringing epp lynn and noah to the major leagues at this time is the right thing for the organization. it's those fans. >> all right. eagles began their ota's that being organized team activities where the coaches are now permitted to coach the players on the practice field. although it's voluntary for players everyone on the team was there except one evan mathis no show. while having problems with his contract, yeah, he wants a new one. what else. ? nba playoffs cleveland no trouble ending the series. that's what they do for fun in cleveland at half time. half time entertainment at a play off game. but they win easeily. atlanta just pack it in. lebron james scores that's just too easy 118-88. they win gone to the inform ba final. tampa bay lightning trying to wrap up their stanley cup and get to the finals. rangers win it seven-three. that series is tied three-three and on to the madison square garden. >> game seven. >> they scored too many goals. they won't have any of that for the neck game. you watch? >> so exciting. >> thanks out ward. >> tmz is up next. we're back here at 4am for your fox 29 morning news and "good day philadelphia". >> sue serio and bob kell vol your weather and traffic covered all morning long. thanks for watching begun night. ♪ the answer to treating your dog's fleas and ticks is staring you right in the face. nexgard, from the makers of frontline® plus. it's the only soft beef-flavored chew that kills both fleas and ticks. vets recommend it. and dogs, well they're begging for it. nexgard is for dogs only. and hasn't been evaluated for use in pregnant, breeding or lactating dogs. reported side effects include vomiting, dry flaky skin diarrhea, lethargy and lack of appetite. use with caution in dogs with a history 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