Comfortably mild beginning to the morning. But, still jacket weather at it finest as i like to say, going throughout the day, also , going to start to notice specially eastern half of our area notice mount pocono winds speeds, winds starts to kick up little bit more. Because weve got that dry air mass in place, combined with the breeze, thats going to elevate the fire risk at least little bit. Be smart, but for now, just more of the same. Temperatures back to the low and mid 70s from the shore up to the city and fog but walltowall sun continuing all the way up to the mountains. 66 degrees, for you there. But nice fall day regardless. Now, as we move forward in the forecast, that stretch of sun will continue with temperatures trending around if not more than 10 degrees above average. Right through the weekends. But, this pattern as i mentioned, pat, comes to screaching halt, ill let you know when a little later. Just soak it in while we can. Got to love it. Goes down nice. I like. That will good work, katie. Thank you. This is not so good. We start off with a map, 295 southbound, between route 168 and route 42, weve got two lanes block there, due to construction causing major back up in this area so pack the patience over in new jersey morning also, river road between upper ferry road and 29 in new jersey the road closed this use 95 as the alternate. This should be clearing out hopefully in the next few minutes. Looking at the wide map, pretty good across most of pa. But as i said head over into new jersey, some problems there. We look 95 southbound, one of those problem spots, the minor delays as you head toward girard avenue. And your normal slow down spot , right around amezega. Jim, rahel, back over to you. Pat, thank you. Back to breaking news now this morning out of northeast philadelphia, where shots were fired at police earlier this morning. This happened on bustleton avenue and robbins street in mayfair. Police say responding to nearby robbery when they stopped the suspect. Thats when they say the man started shooting at them before running to hide in a alley. Caught up to the suspect and arrested him. No one was hurt. Racist Text Messages, spark a school fight calling for Police Officers at Washington Township high. Eyewitness News Reporter trang do live outside the school now in Washington Township, where, trang, both parent and student say theyre concerned. Yes, thats right, rahel. They spoke last night at meeting head here at the high school. To address their concerns. Meanwhile, student are taking action on their own, to show that hate speech will not be tolerated here. Most people, with this issue going on for a long time. Washington township student , parent, administrators gathered at the High School Thursday night, for candid discussion on Race Relations and district response to an alarming incidents involving student this week. I dont want my child or anybody to come here and feel threatened or intimidated or anything. Tuesday night, a private group text conversation among several student was shared to social media. The text relates to profanity and racial slurs including the n word. On wednesday, when other student confronted those involved in the group text, it prompted a fight at the high school. Seen here in a cell phone video, also posted to social media. A mid growing tensions, and unfounded rumors of more violence, additional Police Officers were on hand at the school thursday. While some parent rush to pull their children out of class. Kind of speaking out about it, i had like little mental breakdown in lunchtime today. I was crying, all of my friends trying to make sure i was okay. I think it is a disgrace. Think think should be punished i dont think that that word is appropriate to be used. And i think they should be held accountable for their actions. Dozens every students who chose to stay in school stage a sit in in the lobby against the racist messages. We all came together. We decided to protest it, because the issue was so much bigger than just our school. The superintendent applauded student for speaking out, and hope confronting the issues will bring about positive change in the community. The hope would be that in addition to there being significant punishment, for these kinds of aggressions, that we obviously do what we can to make something positive out whatever appears to be something so negative. And were told all of the student involved in sending those Text Messages and the resulting fight have been suspended for ten days. Meanwhile, School Administrators also met with local leaders of the naacp to discuss Solutions Moving forwards. Live from Washington Township high school. Im trang do, cbs3, Eyewitness News, rahel, jim, back to you. All right, trang, thank you in other news this morning, philadelphia says it is in the running to lands amazons second headquarters, more than 100us cities are bidding to be the tech companys newest home the Barnes Foundation hosed a thank you event yesterday for everyone who works on phillys pitch. The city put together an extensive Video Campaign for its proposal to amazon. Mayor jim kenney said amazons presence would have huge impact for philadelphia residents. All those young kids, real ly have an opportunity to step in to the amazon space, the right resources and the right time and effort give tone them. Well, mayor got all choke up there. Well, philadelphia has three sites ready for amazon. They include schuylkill yards near 30th street station, University City square, which is near drexel, and the navy yards. Amazon will decide on a location at some point next year. Wilmington is another local city trying to lands amazons new headquarters, and in new jersey, Princeton University is backing its own state sales pitch to the tech company. By the way, amazon ceo is a princeton alum. Larger cities like st. Louis are competing, as well. Amazons current headquarters are in seattle. The nations capitol now, the white house chief of staff is defending his boss, general john kelly tried to clarify President Trumps condolence calls to the widow of Sergeant La David Johnson killed in action. In his way tried to express that opinion, a brave man, a fallen hero he knew what was getting into, he didnt have to enlist, he is a brave man, he was where he wanted to be with exactly the people he wanted to be with when his life was taken. That was the message. General kelly, who lost his own son in combat, also criticized Congress Woman fredericka for telling the press about that conversation. I was stunned whether i came to work yesterday morning , and broken hearted, at what i saw a member of congress doing. Lawmakers still investigating exactly what happened to him that led to the death of Sergeant Johnson and three other soldiers. Well, Senate Republicans pass a 4 trilliondollar budget blueprint clearing the way where to debate on overhauling the us tax code. Every democrat and Kentucky Republican rand paul, oppose the legislation. The white house wants tax reform and a simplified tax code by the end of the year. Not surprisingly the president took to twitter. The president tweeted video of the vote and says, quote, great news on the 2018 budget. Senator mcconnell stepped step toward delivering massive tax cuts to the american people. Hashtag tax reform. Meanwhile, 12 republicans and 12 democrats have signed on to the Alexander Murray bill. That is the bill that tries to stabilize the individual healthcare market. The bill reinstates subsidies for Insurance Companies to bring down the cost of coverage for low income americans, for the next two years. President trump isnt clear on his position, but he claims subsidies are a bailout for insurance company. A west california officials are getting a clearer picture of how much damage the devastating wilds fires have really caused. Officials say preliminary estimate shows the fires have cost the state a little over 1 billion, authority also raised number of homes and businesses destroyed in the fires nearly 7,000. These are big numbers, very early, and given a number of the challenges that people are having with getting into areas , and also given the enormous scope of the fires, i would anticipate these numbers will rise significantly. The fires are also being blamed for killing 42 people, making it the deadly he is series of fires in california history. It has been one month since Hurricane Maria slammed into puerto rico as cat for i four storm. Coming up a look at where things stands now, plus see how community 1600 miles away is coming to their aid. A story that will make you think twice before you take another selfie with your friends, the disgusting danger next in the health watch. Pat . Coming up, guys, i go oneonone with a man they call roko and rock, the star of the show Opening Night in washington. It is Robert Covington, and he answers the tough questions next. This is a full circle moment, jim, were you asking who was little bo wow earlier there is was in a bo wow movie playing basketball. I know basketball, i just dont know the musical people. I have to explain this to jim. See in you about three minutes when youre a doubledipping like steve sweeney, its important to maintain a certain. Lifestyle. Thats why sweeney spent over a hundred grand of his Campaign Funds on highpriced meals and other gifts. Were talking fine cigars, fancy watches, pricey restaurants, and expensive wines all to charm the type of folks who helped him raise your taxes 145 times. Too many in south jersey are struggling. But steve sweeneys looking out for himself, not for us. Welcome back. This morning on the cbs health watch, new information on concussions in young athletes. Yes, experts say new concussion laws have significantly reduced the amount of head injuries. According to a study in the american journal of public health, there is a significant decline in traumatic brain injuries, among high school athletes. It has been about two years since the new rules went into effect. Still, about 670 concussions are reported in High School Sports every single day. This one will freak you out we know that kids take selfies with their friends every day. But doctors say the popular activity can also spread head lice. See what i mean . New stud fry Oxford University says kids with smart phones are more prone to getting head lice. Experts say, one common miss misconception is that the bugs can hop from one head to another. Lice dont fly. They dont jump. So really is headtohead contact. Just take a selfie with someone, they could have it, then all the sudden you have it, and you give it to other people. Yes, it is weird. Oh, im scratching right now. Experts say the most people contract lice through headtohead contact. Well, if you dont like the cold, you wont like this, federal forecasters say this winter may be colder and weather in parts of the northern us, while staying warmer and drier much in the south. Yerkes the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , region forecast for above and below average temperatures and precipitation, they say it is because of 55 to six a chance for an la nenna weather pattern, the winters not typically big snow maker. Im still stuck on the lice thing. Can you imagine with all of the hair that we have in this studio this were like the big hair station. It doesnt mean we have lice. I know, but just saying. Put that to bed right now. Just all that stuff . It would take hours. Katie, the thing about this forecast . The forecast it, would be hard to believe it would be cold winter, still so warm, and also november think thinking every changing the subject, no selfies for jim for the rest of the day. Rid. Storm scan3, yes, very, very quiet. We have obviously been very much above average as of late. If you look real closely at that graphic, though, what you notice is that granted part of northwestern pa, parts of the great lakes, may ends up weather, but our area wasnt necessarily included in that. Of course, location is critical when talking about this kind of stuff, but also important to remember that technically the winter still a long time away. And you can talk all you want about trends, but when it boiles down to the nittygritty, localization of the forecast, that gets way more difficult to predict, the further out it gets. So, as we get closer, we will be issuing winter forecast here from cbs3, but it is a little too soon to have any accuracy on that kind of thing as it pertains to our local area. That is the key here, when talking about meso, micro scale, talk a lot more in generalities the bigger zone youre covering. Dew points, we switch gears completely, talk about the moisture in the air, not much of it, dew points as low as they are, still very lovely hair day. But no lice in the studio. Plus, what we will find is the winds starting to kick up little bit out there. So you may want to still opt for the extra hold hair spray, as the wind begins to pick up, especially eastern half of the region. 20mile per hour gust possible , but still breitbart, sunny, still nice, warm, normal high of 6a do you the math, well above average for yet another day. Dropping down to 52 degrees, all clear, calm, cool, win eases up and looking forwards still in substantially above average even through tuesday. But that is when the pattern comes to screaching halt. The rain picks up it, looks like all day event with some of the rain being locally drenching. Too. How is the monday night game looking . The way it looks with the timing we should be clear. Sounds good. Lots of excited fans for that game against washington. Excited drivers, no. Not here. Not on 95 south. This is at allegheny. There is an accident, that is blocking the right lane, so everyone coming on 95, from the allegheny onramp, being pushed quickly to the left, that means, it is causing some major slow downs as we look even beyond that. This is 95 southbound, at girard. Some delays in this area too. Pretty much used to it if you drive in this area at 6 18 a. M. So a slow go 95 south. The vine st. Expressway, though, looking beautiful this morning. No delays to speak of in this area if you are headed between the city for the schuylkill or the opposite direction toward 95. Also, 42 freeway, picking up little bit. Some minor traffic going toward 295 and toward the city of philadelphia. And then also, 295, between route 168 and 42, the cones have been pick up here. More construction, still major gaper delay in this area. So it is causing a slowdown as you see, 7 miles per hour, pack the patience early this morning, guys. All right. Well, pat, jim, after a tough loss to begin the season, the ers are back in philly ready to play in front of their home crowd. And the saturday down with pat gallen to discuss pretty much everything but baseball. Basketball. Sore. I thats okay. I got baseball on my minds. Thats all right, big game last night, too. But before we get to that let s look at owning night basketball performance. Flies under the radar but shouldnt any more because roc o is becoming huge part of the future of the 76ers. If youre not a Robert Covington fan, time to get on board. The started his career in the d league, he has been a surprise. He dropped a game high 29 points, knocking down seven, threepoint nerves wednesdays Season Opener against the wizards. I sat down with the small forward recently and we talk about important things like spiderman or iron man, and what were eating for dinner. These are going to be actually the hardest questions you probably ever gotten. Are you ready for that . Are you sure . Im positive. All right. We will put 762nd on the clock and get that right. Here we go. The sixers season will be blank. Great. Easy. Who is your favorite Old School Band or artist . Favorite Old School Band or artist . I like the old lil wayne. All right. Karaoke night. Whats your go to song . I believe i can fly. I love it. Scary movie or chick flick . Scary movie. Ya. Better nicaragua name, roco, c ov, rock crocov. If you could tell your ten year old self one thing, what would it be . Life will throw you obstacles it, matters how you bounce back. Is that grande . Sounds like grand i coat. Who would win in a fight . Iron manor spiderman . Is spider began why . Because he is zoe lewes i have. I go iron man. Better accent, embiid, savage, brett brown . Coach brown. Thank you. Were going to Robert Covington house for dinner watch are you cooking up . Im going to give you Old School Soul food dish, have my mom cook some up, dressing, macaroni and cheese, sweet potatoes, green beans, chicken , corn bled, you know, like my favorite meal. Were going to robs house. Last one, scale everyone it ten, how would you rate those questions i just asked you . One. Robert covington, thank you , man appreciate it. Thats not funny. It looks like robert cover inning ton will be sticking around a while. In november hes eligible for a contract extension in the way hes playing, seems like a no brainer. I feel like i learned so much about him there. Right . In just 76 seconds. One out every ten. Thank you, patrick. We will be back. So clearly he looking ahead to gorgeous weekends, temperatures ten to few degrees above average, we expect nothing but sunshine, as well. So, make the most of it, get out while you can. This pattern can only last for so long. Guys . We have been warned. Thank you, katie. Now for a look at newspaper headlines from across our region. In the times heralds, judge has sent 19 year old norristown man to state prison for up to two decades foray tell to go rape a 12 year old girl. Was sentenced to eight to