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KYW Eyewitness News At 5 June 28, 2017

Post. Reporter employees took cover. He was behind the bar. The guy was whacked out of his mind. He was on some, something. Owe crawled out from the van. Police transported the driver to the hospital, where he is currently in custody. Incredibly close call this afternoon, for those on the street, and especially those patrons inside of the brewing company. Im sitting here in south philadelphia homeowners are dialing with a crime graffiti spray painted on their houses. Police are investigating, and, hateful messages. Greg argos is in south philadelphia right now with more on this investigation, greg good afternoon. And ukee good afternoon most of the, fortunately have been removed but you can still see behind me on this one wall , what remains here neighbors in this neighborhood say, they are concerned about what happened, all the while Philadelphia Police, combing over, hours of Surveillance Video, hoping to catch a suspect. Concern in south philadelphia. It is, richs house which he has called home for zero seven years spared, his neighbors though, not as lucky. That is my mother in laws house that was tagged, right there. And then, a neighbor, and then , next neighbor. Reporter those that lived on this closely knit block said they noticed vandalism 5 30 wednesday morning. Most of the damage done in the form of this, area right to re bell adorned with the molotov cocktail which charlie inverseo considered a threat. It is a simple for firebombing which has got me concern. What are they doing is that a warning. Reporter this wall tagged with this anti police message. Kill a cop, save a life. Like, what are you thinking . Reporter city sparing no time taking it all down, Power Washing and painting over the damage. The only possible evidence left in digital form. Investigators from the south Detective Division taking hard drive of the neighbors business surveillance system. I cant say for sure. Reporter hoping it captured the culprits. In all of these years somebody will do this, it is crazy. It really is. Reporter back here live you can see that spray paint can top left behind by one of the suspects, once again Philadelphia Police reviewing that Surveillance Video hoping to capture whoever is responsible. If you know anything, of course, contact the Philadelphia Police. We are live from south philadelphia im greg argos for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Greg, thank you so much. Only Eyewitness News spoke with the mother of the 16 yearold girl shot while staying with the group of teenagers in southwest philadelphia gunfire erupted just after midnight on 59th and springfield, police say, no one else was hurt, they rushed the teen to penn Presbyterian Hospital with multiple gunshot wound to her arms, leg and chest. Police dont have a description of the shooter just yet but they are hoping Surveillance Video in that answer, will offer some clues. Day seven in the federal corruption trial of Philadelphia District attorney Seth Williams. His alleged, misuse of campaign finances, for the focus of testimony today. Our joe holden was in the courtroom all day long and he joins us live outside the federal courthouse in center city with todays developments joe, good evening. Reporter good evening. All day long focus was on, the friend offset williams and whether the money from that, campaign, Action Committee was being used, for legitimate Campaign Expenses, or was it, Seth Williams using that money personally . Well, one witness on the stand said when it came to the spending of money, there was a lot of gray area. This photo of the lean Seth Williams flick order cross courtroom monitors, jurors cracked smiles. D. A. Lawyers thousandsness gym expenses including, massage, facials furthered his campaign saying at one point trimming down and getting in shape, benefits the candidate. It is about the use of the photo do you think it whats effective. Yes, do i. Is that a legitimate Campaign Expense in your mind. Yes. Reporter is there more when asked about the pumped up photo in a courtroom hallway Seth Williams with a smile said he had who 50pound. But the d. A. Is now sifting through baggage of having charged all of those expenses to his political Action Committee, gone sol hose froze when i asked her for comment was executive director for friend offset williams. She told court she felt uncomfortable with some of williams spending habits and that included a 2,600 Birthday Party at union league in april 2014 for his girlfriend. Gonzales testified that she told williams we have to be careful how much were spending at union league. We dont have that much left. She said for pack paying phone bill some months was a challenge. Williams is accused of bribery , extortion, fraud a conviction could land him in jail. Most of the action in Court Wednesday focused on campaign finance. Williams attorney tom berk asserted use of Campaign Money at union league and the gym was a broader element of campaigning, where williams met influential and affluent donors. And testimony has wrapped up for today but starting tomorrow morning, continuing testimony from a lawyer with the cities ethics board. You will recall Seth Williams settled with the city over gifts he obtained from friend, for 60,000. It is not part of the charge in this case, but it business to be, and, jury will hear all about it, and that is latest live, joe holden, cbs3 Eyewitness News. Thank you so much. Amtrak train struck and killed two freight trains conductors in washington d. C. It happened near Union Station , just before midnight, investigators say conductors got out of their csx train to check out the problem they walked on the track and were struck by amtrak train 175 coming inbound from boston. Amtrak temporarily suspended service between d. C. And philadelphias 30th street station because of this accident. It is supposed to be a 8 45 train back to new haven, but there is said to be delays, they are not sure when it will come in how late it will be. It is leaving me very confused. I look at the board and i see it is cancelled so i am a little flustered right now. Amtrak says full Train Services has now resumed and the accident is still under investigation. You may recall a similar accident like this in chester, Delaware County in april of 2016. Amtrak train struck a back ho killing two workers. Victims were performing maintenance on those tracks. Crews out west continue to battle wild fires, hot, dry, windy conditions are making Fire Fighting efforts more difficult. A wild fire near prescott, arizona about 75 miles north of phoenix has grown to 32 square miles. Authorities say that it is possible several structures have burned but that is, too dangerous to assess the damage fire has forced the evacuations of several small towns. A wild fire in california has destroyed the home of the Big Bang Theory store johnny galleki, the four twoyear old actor was not home when flames swept across his ranch, about 200 miles outside of los angeles n a statement he thanked Fire Fighters as they worked to contain the wild fires. Well, we are enjoying another perfect summer day but word is, dont get too used to it. More heat and humidity are on the way. Meteorologist lauren casey is outside on the sky deck keeping a close watch of the heat return, lauren. Thanks, ukee. Today one of those days that you do not want to go indoors we have the sunshine, comfortable humidity levels and temperatures that are running below, average, all across the delaware valley. Were hanging out in the 70s most everyone. 79 degrees, right now feeling fine in philadelphia. Seventyeight in ac. 78 degrees in allentown. Not even at 70degree mark in mount pocono. As far as that comfort index dew points are generally in the 40s, so we are in that awesome category, feeling nice , comfortable, can leave those windows opened as we head in the evening hours, mostly clear, nice, 77 degrees but we are going to start to heat things up and that warm up begins tomorrow. Humidity increases toward upcoming weekend. Talk about the best storm chance for our Holiday Weekend and get a fourth of july preview, for next tuesday, all that coming up in your full forecast in just a couple of minutes. Lauren, thanks very much. Delaware county meantime is now offering a high tech app to help residents stay informed. Sheriff mary le thaw explained how it works in media today. Residents can down load free app on to a smart phone to receive important alerts and information about events. Residents can submit a tip to the Sheriffs Office and conduct an inmate search. The app is available in the i phone and google play stores, just search Delaware County pennsylvania sheriff. Teachers, administrators in the Philadelphia School district are working to inn prove their scales in the classroom. Eyewitness nice at samuel fels school for reading matters 2017 Early Literacy summer institute. Institute is voluntary week long event where kindergarten through third grade teachers and administrators learned from experts how to better support and help students as they learn, to read. Well, coming up on Eyewitness News some are calling it fake news. President trumps proud display of a Time Magazine cover, featuring his photo, is raising eyebrows, and Time Magazine is calling for him to take it down. Well, summertimes means Vacation Time but many cannot disconnect from work so who checks in most and why after the break. Plus a swarm of bees perched high above times square, how experts got them down, and where they are right square, how experts got them down, and where they are right now that and more when we come well, Time Magazine is asking president trum top remove fake portraits of himself on their cover. They are hanging at four golf course is. Covers feature headlines like apprentice is a television smash and trump is hitting on all front, even tv. It is dated march 1st, 2009 but there was no magazine issued on that date and Time Magazine says this is a fake. There are several signs of the phony cover that give it away. The design is all wrong if you know Time Magazines design you can tell from a bunch of different reasons, the thinness of the border. White house Officials Say they have no comment on the covers. Triple a is predicting travel is predicted for this fourth of july Holiday Weekend will be busiest ever. 44. 2 million americans are expected to go 50 miles or more from home. 84 percent of those getting out of town will be driving, analyst predict record break ing travel is partly because current cost of buying gas is at historic, summer lows. And there are some things that drivers need to keep in mind before hitting the road. Always pack a vehicles mergecy kit, because as i tell people all the time in one ever plans to get stuck, and it might not be your break down out there on the road but you can be stuck in residual traffic, congestion due to somebody else break down or crash. Triple a also recommend drivers check their car tires, batteries and fluid, before making that holiday trip. Summer vacancies on is in full swing now but new study shows that more than half of the americans are turning their vacation into a work vacation. Cbs correspondent nicki batist e explain why for some it is so hard to unplug. Reporter sharon travels from massachusetts to new york city for vacation but the teacher has not left work behind. Yes, i do check my emails, first thing do i when i get out of the bed in the morning even on vacation. Reporter new account survey find 54 percent of americans check in with work at lee once or twice a week during vacation. Up from just 41 percent from last year. I would be more tense if i didnt check my emails. Reporter mike steinum, executive director of account temp says 15 percent of workers check in every day. Why cant they put their phones down, ignore their email. You said the keyword, phones. It is so easy to sort of stay in touch, that i think it is a habit, some people just have a hard time break ago way. Reporter he did find some good news. While people are checking in they are doing it a little bit less frequently. At lee it seems they are setting boundaries and understanding the need like listen i got to get away. Completely unplugged. Reporter amy, from orlando has no problem leaving work at home. We have learned that when we go on vacation, were on vacation. Reporter study Found Technology savvy millennials have hardest time unplugging while on vacation but older employees are more likely to ignore work during their time off. Nicki batiste for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Here, here. I totally agree. Yes. Were good. If i go on vacation, camping, im out of cell service. Yes, it is on the now it is true. Nice vacation day if we had one. Yes. It would be beautiful. What a gorgeous day to day. Yesterday was beautiful, today , beautiful. Tomorrow will be nice. Not a ringing endorsement. We will heat things up a bit as we head in the day tomorrow but right now feeling great, 79 degrees on a late june day, we will take it. Ling some cloud, and good bit of sunshine, Beautiful Day, wind southwest at 9 miles an hour and no feels like temperature because that humidity is so, low and comfortable and temperatures across the region 78 in the lehigh valley. Seventynine in reading. Upper 70s along the coast and catching a sea breeze there, south wind in ocean city pulling it down to 72. Eightyone in cape may. Dew points, they are awesome. They are down in the 40s and 50s which means it feels so nice, dry, comfortable. Overnight tonight, once again, a beautiful night ahead, can probably heave those windows open, mostly clear, pleasant with a low of 64 degrees. For the day tomorrow we will start to heat things up this warming trend in the upcoming weekend up to 88 degrees. Mostly sunny, breeze which that humidity ticking up a bit but not oppressive at lee not yet tomorrow. Storm scan three showing us extremely quiet conditions, couple of cloud passing on through High Pressure in control keeping us precipitation free, really all across the region. We will check on your shore cast looking very nice over next couple days, maybe lucky enough to have days off, thursday, tomorrow looking good, sunny, breezy, 82. Warm and breezy by friday. Possibly late day thunderstorm with better chance of storms heading in to saturday night. Future weather waking up tomorrow morning no problems, looking great on your lunch hour commute home for your thursday, no problems there, mostly sunny skies as we head into our friday, again looking very good, sunshine to kick things off on friday, keeping it mostly sunny through most of the day and we will start to see isolated thunderstorms popping up especially west of the city as we head late day into friday but mostly staying dry on the last day of the workweek and as we head in the upcoming Holiday Weekend, humid conditions, we will see fair amount of sunshine especially on saturday but watching out for spotty storms each day but best chance of storms will come overnight on saturday, so, thank you very much, Mother Nature for outdoor plans, monday, sunshine, more comfortable as humidity levels drop off and fourth of july forecast, models really improving it from yesterdays run, and looking better, taking down rain chance to possibly a late day thunderstorm but forecast highs tomorrow, warmer, still in the upper 70s lower 80s in the coast. Upper 80 nets cities and suburbs. 92 degrees. Sunshine that chance of an isolated storm. Best chance of storms as i mentioned over upcoming weekend, saturday, night and then fourth of july, it is looking better, see . Sunshine, maybe late day storm one day at a time. Yes. All right. Week out, change it up. It change is it up. Still ahead on Eyewitness News a preview of baby drivers. This is halloween mask. No, the killer dude from halloween you mean jason. No. Jamie fox lead star studded cast on the high energy ride, ukee gives you first look in our next half an hour, don. Lights imitates art and hopefully the temple owls are ready to knock out competition come fall, up next, a new found inspiration for the cherry and journey into the adirondacks where campers carve through stone. And to the thousand islands, where kids can be kings. If you like big adventure, youll love new york state. Its all here. Its only here. Plan your Summer Getaway at iloveny. Com it effects everyone not a non discriminant and goes after every single person. Ending the addiction stigma one of the philadelphias mess well known cheese stake chefs is on a mission. Coming up at 6 00 how tony luke is using a personal tragedy to try to, help others , a very moving, very important story. Yes. Cant wait for that. Thank you so much. Don bell here with a special story, temple. Talking about training. Yes. One of the things you do to get inspired. All right, all right, im with you, lets do it. They do it all day, every day, even in the rain, and even when it pours.

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