Now thousands in our area are without power. Good evening to you, im jessica dean. It has been another summer night of Severe Weather alerts includeing a Tornado Warning. We have team thee coverage of these damaging storms and we start with meteorologist kate bilo with a look whats happening right now. Kate. Jessica the best news that the storms have moved on out and the Severe Threat has ended in fact just in the past minute or so i got word Flash Flood Warning that had been in effect for the city of philadelphia portions of montgomery, bucks counties and Burlington County has also expired or been canceled. So the worst is now gone. You can see the storms are now out to sea but this was at least six hours of Severe Weather that ripped from west to east all across the area. Leaving damage in its wake, and a lot of damage at that. Lets take look. This is a sixhour loop first you can see the storms pushing that was berks county right about here. Thats the storm that could have caused the damage to that school. Then the storms moved through philadelphia slowly pushing into new jersey where we Tornado Warning in Burlington County still no word if tornado that touched down or not. It was a doppler indicated tornado. Few showers to the west you can see this hook that came through just north of reading. In fact i want to show you a couple of more those photos the school that was damaged in portions of berks county. This is near till don am hamburg just north and west of reading. You can see this school is almost completely demolish. I tried to look for tornado signature could have been a little bit of rotation detected with that still remains to be seen whether this was a tornado that moved through berks county or better wet water actually Straight Line winds or micro burst winds much you can see the extent of that devastation that school completely leveled there in till don berks county. Back to storm scan3 as we move through the rest of tonight things are quiting down. I want to show you how much rain has fallen. Many spots checked in with over 2inches of rain and while some wind damage reports as well in berks county roof damage reported five homes in downingtown trees and wires down down. Partial collapse of three buildings in new castle delaware Norristown Pa large tree branches reported down and in wood side, delaware, a large number of trees down as well. So you can see as the rain spread through the region right around philadelphia, southern bucks county into Burlington County very heavy rain on the order of two plus inches but the good news is despite a stray shower lingering to night well clear thing out. Tomorrow starts with sunshine and the afternoon looks great. As we begin a friday it looks like a pretty nice summer weekend. Much better way on the way as we head through our weekend much jessica, back over to you. Kay thanks so much. Tonights storms did some damage here in the city. Eyewitness News Reporter david spunt is live in Washington Square west where a large tree has blocked a street. David . Reporter jessica you expect to see these things in wide open areas but not the city especially Washington Square with these buildings. Take look at this tree it looks very healthy from the ground up but obviously the root structure underneath just could not hold this tree from the win i want to back out of the way so you can see this. Were at the 1100 block of rodman street much this tree just completely collapsed over from this wind and hit this home home. Now we want to she you some Surveillance Video that we got from somebody that lives on this street. It actually shows you the moment that the tree fell down. The winds started to pick up and thats when that tree literally slammed into the building. The good news nobody was hurt. I had chance to speak to that person that lives in that building. She was home and believe it or not she says that she didnt even hear it hit the house. Take a listen. During the storm, i was putting my son to bed and i got a text from neighbor saying are you okay . I said yeah, were fine. And then 20 minutes later she rank our doorbell and said are you sure youre fine and i said, yeah. Then she said why dont you look out the win dome dont you know a tree wept against your house and i had no idea. We were completely shocked. Reporter no power lines hit at all but peco crews are expected to come out here just to take look to make sure that there is no serious damage again its just amazing how quickly this happened and especially with a tree this old. I talk to neighbor thats been here 20 years he tells me a lot of these trees are old and it really doesnt take that much wind to knock these over but the good news jessica nobody was hurt tonight because after all this could have been a lot worse. Were live in Washington Square tonight, david spunt cbs3 Eyewitness News. That is the good news, david thanks so much. These storms led to Power Outages across the region. Peco is reporting 7,129 homes and businesses without power. Dell ma march have a nearly 4900. Pse g over 3800. Ac electric reporting 1,176. And med he had 912. There were Power Outages earlier today following a fire and explosion after a manhole erupted in the heart of old city city. Eyewitness news cameras were the only ones rolling as dark smoke billowed out of the ground ground. Now this force the evacuations in parts of old city and street closures blocks from historic landmarks there. Authorities say a blown transformer caused the fire and explosion but no one was injured injured. In the morning historic change will take place in South Carolina after the governor took action on the Confederate Flag today. The Confederate Flag is coming off the grub of the South Carolina state house. applause . Moments after those remarks republican governor nicky haley signed a bill removing the Confederate Flag from the grounds of the State Capitol in columbia. It will come down tomorrow at 9 00 a. M. Tonight, our diana rocco looked into the flags roots its place in hit recent its removal. Reporter weeks after nine people were gowned down inside a charleston, South Carolina church, by a gun wielding man carrying the couldnt fet rat flag, South Carolinas lawmakers will remove the emblem of the confederate army. Just became part of the culture. Part of what people who grew up, and there was a lot of denial that confederacy had anything to do with slavery. Gregory irwin professor of American Military history at temple youve says the flag carried by the Southern Army during the civil war means Different Things to different people but one thing cannot be denied. Confederacy was founded to protect slave you have row. Theres no denying that. Only slaves states left the union. You cant ignore heritage. You cant do it. Its not fair to the other side. Reporter George Hoffman is the president of the bucks county civil war museum. It hangs original flags of the civil war and the nations early years. Thats original. The stains on it are bloodstains. Reporter hoffman says the flag will always have a place in history but whether it flys on state grounds is for lawmakers to decide. You cant erase the war much the war is going to be there. It was the largest most horrendous war in our history. Did South Carolina get it right here today. I think so. By taking this confederate symbol off the State Capitol grounds, its like South Carolina is finally saying, without any reservation were back in the united states. Reporter so after much debate South Carolinas lawmakers voted over women mingly 9420 to remove the Confederate Flag. One law cake describing it as quote taking a symbol of division off the front yard. In the Satellite Center tonight im diana rocco cbs3 Eyewitness News. Jessica. Diana thanks so much. What do you think about all of this . Wed love to hear you can connect with us on facebook and twitter be sure to use hash tag cbs3chat. Right now a teenager is in custody charged with assault after police say he set a child op fire in west philadelphia. Tonight were hearing from that young victim and his mother who has a message fort suspect. Eyewitness News Reporter matt riffs has this story. Reporter like most 11 year olds glenn spears has bounded back quickly what hes recovering from is bizarre. I was mad and i sad. Len and one of his friends walking down this block wednesday coming back from a Swimming Pool when they saw 17yearold rafik they asked to use his Hand Sanitizer but he started squirting it on me and him. When i was trying to rub it off he lit the lighter. Reporter throwing that lighter on to glenn setting his left side on fire. He was able to get it out and rushed home to his mom. I was appalled. I was appalled that anyone could even do this. He was treated for Second Degree burns and will be just fine thankfully not wearing a shirt when the sap ties sr. Caught fire. With cotton and it and ignition like that it could have been much worse. People were arrest able to arrest the suspect a few hours after it happen. As to why he did what he did hes such a kid who thought it was a joke. Thought it was funny. Didnt realize the repercussions repercussions. Little sympathy from glenns mother. This is my son. You hurt my son. You burnt hill. You put him on fire. Facing felony aggravateed assault and arson and recklessly endangering another person. His bail is set at 100,000. Matt rivers cbs3 Eyewitness News. Philadelphia police have launched an intend investigation after a Youtube Video shows officers beating a suspect during an arrest. Its not known what happened before the cameras started rolling on locust avenue in East Germantown april 3rd. It was a los angeles blog kerr who posted this video yesterday and identified the suspect as 22yearold tyree carol. Officers are seen in the video repeatedly punching and kicking carol whose lying face down. He was malt thely dug with assault and drug offense and. Officers were injured attempt attempting to arrest that suspect. Police toll us as the officers stop the defendant he began to fight witness officers biting one of the officers a total of three times thigh hand and arm. The defendant also bit another officer on the forearm during this arrest. The entire incident is being reviewed now for any developmental violations. Today u. S. Officials revealed millions of people had information stolen in the largest breach of Us Government data ever. The Sensitive Information was stored at the office of personnel management. Hackers stole 19. 7 million Social Security numbers of americans whos underwent federal government background checks. Another 1. 8 million were taken from family and friends of those applicants. Cyber brrr security analyst says china is the culprit and the counter Intelligent Risk is enormous. Well have a long time to work on figuring out how to use it for recruitment. How to use it to maybe coerce people with relatives in china. Theyll find a million ways to use this and none of them look good for the us. The government says so far theres no evidence the stolen data has been used for Identity Theft or other financial crimes. Pope francis makes a pitstop at burger king . Well, still ahead on Eyewitness News why the pontiff went into the Fast Food Restaurant right before giving mass. Also, flabby arms. An issue for millions of women and even exercise cant fix them. Health reporter Stephanie Stahl will show i was new slug for women to get armed and fabulous. Kate . And now the storms are moving away and weve just got a few lingering showers in the wake of this evening Severe Weather. Weve got big changes for the better in the wake of these storm as we head towards the weekend. Fbi director comb me revealed authorities thwarted terrorist attacks tied to the july 4th holiday. Ive hundreds of these investigations in every single state and we have disrupted just in the last few weeks very serious efforts to kill people in the united states. Comb me would not give specific details on the plots but he says he believes american lives were saved in the last four week the fbi has arrested more than 10 people who were allegedly inspired by isis online recruiting. Pope francis make an unusual pitstop on his south american tour. Holy father stops at a burger king in bolivia. No he wasnt grabbing a bite to eat. He actually used the restaurant as a dressing room to swap his vestments. Huge crowd gathered they did cheer pope on the way in and the way out. In the meantime we here in philadelphia are just about 80 days away from the popes rifle. You can count on Eyewitness News for continuing coverage of the papal visit to philadelphia on tv and also online cbsphilly. Com. Preparations underway for ticker tape parade honoring the world come champion usa womens soccer team. Near New York City Hall and all around the parade route scaffolding has gone up barricades are in place and rolls and roles of paper are being shredded theyll need a lot of that. In clifton, new jersey, the parade floats that were carry the team have been in the work since tuesday night. Crews are pulling in all nighter to get them just right for the parade which starts tomorrow at 11 a. M. And well take through Eyewitness News will be in new york to bring you all the excitement first hand. You can tune in tomorrow to see the highlights including delrans own carli lloyd. Tonight on the cbs3 health watch armed and fabulous. Summer is the season for going sleeve less but for some women no amount of exercise will help them get those coveted toned arms. But there is help. Health reporter Stephanie Stahl has that story. Its the spot on the arm thats long been a curse for women. Its a very tough area. Please get rid of that flab. As much as i work out i cant firm it you have. 31yearold neat at a says no amount of push ups have slimmed down her arms. When im dancing or moving my arms it does jiggle good now shes trying cosmetic procedure called cool sculpting to tackle her arm flab. First thing were going to do im going to take measurement. Area. This machine going to freeze the fat and its going to destroy those fat cells and encourage the body to gradually em limb 98 those fat cells in a very natural process. Dermatologist susan bart says cool sculpting that costs 1,500 takes two hours to treat both arms and the results will be permanent. You can expect 20 reduction. Norman row says for extreme cases there may be only one solution. All really depends on what the patient wants and how far theyre willing to go to get it. The effect of bringing that arm up and getting rid of all of theres one op shop and that involves surgery. Thomas left a significant amount of weight and was left with a lot of extra skin under her arm. Im looking in the mirror and im looking at my arms and theyre the worst thing in the world to me. Shes taking the drastic surgery to tighten the skin like a tummy tuck for the arm. This is going to make me feel good because this is a struggle for me. Arm surgery that removes fat and skin leaves scars. It could be expensive. There are other procedures to slim down heavy arms including liposuction and laser treatment. The topical creams you see advertisements doctors say they dont do much. Im Stephanie Stahl cbs3 Eyewitness News. All right. Very interesting. Kate bilo is here. Youve had a very busy night with the severe storms that moved through. Now kind of looks like its clearing out but man. There was some damage. It was a rough night and lots of damage left behind in the wake of these storms from berks county into delaware and even into portions of new jersey. Well be watching these storms moving offshore through the overnight hours and then things improving quite a bit as we head through the weekend. I want to start you off here with time lapsed video the storms moving through center city this is from go pro mounted at our studios you can see how dark it got very very quickly the buildings completely blotted out as that heavy rain came through. I was watching from the sky deck trying to broadcast live on per scope and showing people that you couldnt even see the buildings the rain was coming in the door. Got me completely soaked and the winds were just how long in the city with lots of lightning and thunder. Then eventually it did start to die down and start to die out a little bit which of course is good news. Now here the buildings return again as the storms move on out and now things looking a whole more selled as we look live on skycam3 our rooftop cameras much the buil