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KYW Eyewitness News At 5 August 8, 2017

Protective custody. Police arrested her next day they believe she was trying to take her son to the Child Program at the base and when she found out he was not eligible she abandoned him. It is sick, really. Is there so much in the community that can be offered to you, i just cant believe it. I cant believe she would do that. Reporter barbara todd was boys teacher aid in kindergarten and first grade and she gave us insight in her and her sons relationship. Adores him. He was her life. I just, i just cant believe it. She got him involved in anything that she could, and also, all services are available to him, and her. Reporter does it feel like they were taking advantage of the services. Yes, and i cannot even talk im still so shocked. Reporter state Police Say Boy is still in a temporary home. Now wisler is charged with child endangerment and has to peer in Burlington County court there noise date for that hearing. Live from millville, cleve bryan, cbs3 Eyewitness News developing right now a stern warning from President Trump after reports of north korea has developed the capability, to build a Nuclear War Head small enough to fit in a missle. Those revelations comes days after u. N. Slapped economic sanctions on the country, to curb its nuclear ambitions. This afternoon President Trump said if provoked, the u. S. Will be ready. North korea best not make anymore threats to the united states, they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. We will have more on the president s comments coming up in our next half an hour, meantime cbs news poll out this morning suggested Many Americans are not confidence in President Trumps ability to handle the situation with north korea 61 percent of people polled said they are quote uneasy and that is compared to 35 percent of americans who said they were confident, in the president s ability. The president also, took on the nations growing opioid up demotic day we will have more on that coming up at 5 30. Several suspects are in custody after an alert neighbor notifies police bay possible crime in a Montgomery County neighborhood. It prompted an hours long standoff with police on Cambridge Road in plymouth township. Eyewitness news reports leash a nieves joins us with how it all came to an end, alycia . Reporter ukee, standoff ended with the best possible outcome, no one was hurt after the burglars caught in the act , finally surrendered. A startling start to the morning for some in this usually quiet neighborhood in plymouth township, people told to shelter in place, as the home was surrounded by swat teams. It is very military like. Something you see on tv. One of the most safe places to live. Reporter just before 9 00 a. M. Authorities got tipped off tie broad day lie burglary by a 19 is call from this woman. My husband and write watching television. I was staring at the window and i look out periodically. All of a sudden, i saw this black truck coming up. Reporter carroll birdman watched these four men get out of the truck, knock on her neighbors door appearing to check if he was home. When he didnt answer they climbed in his front window. Very scary because, you know, we have lived here for 50 years, never, ever had a problem. Never. Reporter at alleged, bold broad daylight burglars didnt planned for her to notice them and didnt expect police to arrive on the scene within three minutes. As first set arrived two of the men ran from the home before quickly apprehending, the other two barricaded inside, but by noon time they have surrendered. Ending this barricade situation, and the ordeal for the home owner who was inside. The victim stated that the actors couldnt fronted him in the front home of the house, hit him in the head and stuck a gun in his mouth and threatened to kill him. People are being knowy, at this time, this gentlemen can thank his neighbor for calling the police. Reporter all four men are being charged with Home Invasion, burglary and other weapons charges. Authorities actually believe they may be responsible for other burglaries in the area over the pennsylvania couple weeks. Reporting live from plymouth township alycia nieves for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Federal officials and philadelphia authorities are investigating an arson fire in kensington. It happened just before 11 00 in the building on the 1800 block of ease clementine street. Authorities say that one fire fighter put the flames out they discovered the body of the 28 yearold man on the second floor. His identity has yet to be released. Second person to escape the flames went to the area hospital for minor injuries. Meanwhile a philadelphia man accused of killing his innocent son was in court today. Thirtyone yearold omar cooper had a preliminary hearing more than two months after six week old boy was found unresponsive a the a home on willows avenue in southwest philadelphia investigators say birth had multiple traumatic injuries, and cooper has been charged with murder. His arraignment is scheduled for august 29th. Haddon Township Police are searching for a man who reportedly tried to lure a young girl into his car. Investigators released this sketch of the suspect. Victim told officers she was riding her bike on sunday on the 200 block of addison avenue, she says that is when the man pulled up saying her parents asked him to pick her up and take him home. Girl rode away. Based on Surveillance Video police think suspect was driving a 2003, four die un days land that gls gold or tan in color. Car stolen from a airport, Car Rental Company last week has been recover. Police confirmed that the four cars that were taken from avis early friday morning were found late their day, however, no one in custody. During Robbery Police say that the guard at the front gate was punched in the face by one of four male suspects. They said that the suspect displayed a handgun and also took the guards cell phone. Police in south philadelphia need publics help tracking down a pair of vandals. This surveillance comes from the seven hub block of mifflin street in the 14th of july. Police say it was around 1 30 when a man was caught on camera spray painting a truck, while a female suspect stood guard. If you recognize either of these suspects, please cat police. The sun has return that means we will get to enjoy a dry stretch, for a while, margate can certainly use a break from the rain. Yesterdays storms caused more flooding there, chopper three showing the pools of the standing water right outside the beach front homes. Some margate residents complained that the dune construction project was to blame for the socalled lake margate. How long will we stay dry . Meteorologist lauren caseys live on the sky deck with the answer to that, lauren . Reporter thanks, guess contact beautiful out here, even over the last 30 minutes, more and more sunshine, break ing out, a gorgeous evening is on tap, after that super soggy start to the workweek yesterday. Temperatures right now also feeling great. Were generally in the 70s. 78 degrees in philadelphia. Northwesterly wind ushering in dryer air, dew points dropping off. Seventyeight down the shore. Were at 72 feeling good in the poconos. Comfort index definitely feeling good, we have that damp, balmy day, yesterday, and dew points continue to drop and now we are falling back in the middle 50s as most of the reporting sites, feeling pleasant and will feel almost falllike as we head in the overnight period, and through date tomorrow. Storm scan three showing thaws cloud deck continuing to decrease with full sunshine breaking out in the Lehigh Valley and poconos. As we head in the next couple of hours those cloud will continue to clear on out, so for this evening, a beautiful one, continued clearing, comfortable, temperatures in the middle 70s and we have an absolutely gorgeous, wednesday in store, a pretty nice thursday, and then picture of the upcoming weekend. We will talk about that in your full forecast, coming up. Lauren, thanks. National Weather Service has confirmed a tornado touched down on marylands Eastern Shore yesterday. The upper righthand corner of the Surveillance Video shows strong winds lifting cars off of the ground in salisbury. National Weather Service said today it was an ef1 tornado that caused the damage and as storm passed through winds reached speed of 105 miles an hour. Looking up, it is almost touching the ground, the wind is so strong and then all of a sudden i was like run to the back,. I heard a freight train, and and, you know, the roof. Despite extensive damage to cars, homes, businesses, no injuries were reported, ef1 tornadoes are capable of producing winds of up to 110 miles an hour. Local politicians and Community Activist are calling on the Pennsylvania House to pass a tax on natural gas, extracted from the formation. They gather outside richard Ross Elementary School in the Strawberry Mansion section. They want money from the shale tax to help fund public education. It is time to tax the shale , and time to stop letting big corporations without investing in our community. It is time on say you can no longer take from our Natural Resources without supporting infrastructures there to protect our community from the environmental hazard that are there. Pennsylvania is the second largest natural Gas Producing state in the entire country right behind texas. According to representative bullock 35 states that have natural Gas Production have a shale tax, but not pennsylvania. Governor wolf has long promised to use the tax on drill tours fund public education. Coming up on Eyewitness News, another home condemned, sinkhole is widening after swallowing houses and leaving families homeless. What experts are doing to stop the disaster from expanding. Afternoon tea with a switch, im chare greg in roxborough and ill tell you three ways these are injecting life into this senior community. All of these dishes have something in common, cheat owe s, cheetos restaurant will be popping up, details in the next hour. Live look from our Parkway Central Library camera, some cars in the city but no rain. We will take it. Lauren says were in for a dry stretch. When the rain returns in the seven day forecast, on we have some sad news just in the news room. Singer Glenn Campbell has passed away, according to his publicist campbell died earlier today after a long, courageous battle with alzheimers disease. Campbell was known as the rine stone cowboy, a singer from arkansas. His smooth vocals and down home manner made him a main stay in music and television for decade, Glenn Campbell was 81 years old, he is survived by his wife, kim and eight children. So many of our sound tracks , no doubt bit. Local wendys charged extra for soda today apparently because of the New Philadelphia beverage tax. Fast Food Restaurant in question is in Delaware County , not the city. Cbs3s, Henry Rossoff is live at wendy he is in a ridley park. Henry, what have you found out reporter if you walked in the wendys behind me yesterday, and bought a big soda there was an extra line on your receipt, that line read a surcharge for philadelphia beverage tax, and there was an extra 45 cents added to that receipt. Word of the this happening spread all over social media, all over facebook people wondering what was going on. We checked. The philadelphia beverage tax, works with distributors paying the tax, if they sell to stores, or fast food joints in the city of philadelphia, presumably those costs get baked in and passed on to consumers. But with this wendys being in Delaware County people who paid extra price yesterday felt it was unfair. It is not about the 45 cents, it is about the principal of the fact that they implement aid new charge and didnt let customers know and i felt everyone had the right to know. Reporter coming up at 6 00 e from this franchise, and why a spokesmen says that this all comes down to a big mistake, biggies understanding and we will tell you what the wendys is doing to make things right. Live from ridley park, Henry Rossoff for cbs3 Eyewitness News. A home near a massive sing home in land lakes florida has been condemned. Officials say it could take months to make area around sinkhole safe, they say at its widest the sinkhole measures 260 feet, larger than wing span of the boeing 747. It swallowed two homes in the tampa suburbs. It appeared suddenly july 14th , and then after it widened again over the weekend more houses were condemned and even more families were displaced. We built this house, 40 years ago and now we dont have anything. It is sad, but it offers closure, not safe to live in. Crews have filled the sinkhole with limestone and dirt over pennsylvania few weeks at a cost of about a milliondollar. Officials may eventually decide it is best not to fill it anymore and just leave it, as is. Heavy rain today brought widespread flood to go parts of the houston, texas. High water swallowed roadways and came up to the windows of stranded vehicles. Authorities say that emergency crew where is dispatched to about two dones what the other rescues. No one was seriously injured but many residents are still on high alert and more rain is on the way. And in utah, flood waters packed with debris raced down the side of the mountain. A family wrapping up their vacation at a nearby lake captured this incredible video you are watching. Drenching downpours are being blamed for washing out part of the highway. Some cars continued to drive, through it, while trying not to get swept away. Wow. We always say. Bad, bad, bad idea. Very bad idea. Dont do it. Meteorologist lauren caseys back inside and things are drying out significantly for us here it is beautiful, when you step outside that sunshine , cloud continue to decrease, feels so much more comfortable and really nice stretch, mini stretch of weather we have in store but i think were sold at this point after all of the rain we had. I yes. Beautiful conditions. Check out that view looking live at center city philadelphia, blue skies, just a nice, friendly looking cumulus cloud, temperatures in the 70s. Were at 78 degrees right now. Northwesterly wind at 10 miles an hour, we have a nice breeze and northerly component to the wind flow is driving in this dryer air and we will continue to see that throughout overnight period with nice low humidity values in store for tomorrow. Storm scan three showing thaws trend for clearing from the northwest to the southe, so still patchy low cloud around, i95, south jersey and shore but those are trend to go move on out, increasing sunshine, up toward berks county, lehigh veil and poconos. High pressure settling in clearing skies all the way from the upper midwest to the lower midwest, midatlantic and northeast and High Pressure will hang on as we head into the next couple days , moving in overhead as we head into thursday. Tonight, tomorrow, thursday, sunshine, a low humidity day and overnight lows dropping back down in the 60s. You can give that air conditioning a big break over the next couple of days, overnight tonight, great sleeping weather, mostly clear , cool running about 5 degrees below average tonight down to 63 degrees. Then for our day tomorrow, perfection. Sunshine, low humidity. 84 degrees. Light wind out of the north transitioning to the southwest for second half of the day. Temperatures right now generally in the 70s but we have popped up to 80 in allentown with that sunshine breaking out. Seventysix in reading. Seventyseven in trenton. 78 degrees in ac. Dew point, tell us about that sticky factor but they have been dropping off with that dryer air settling in across the delaware valley. We will continue to see that dry air in place over next couple days and that is good news for viewing conditions of the persaid meteor shower, it runs through august 24th, 1 of the years best because it can produce up to 60 meteors per hour and it will peak this thursday night and it is also known for numerous bright meteors. At this point we might dodge a couple cloud but viewing conditions looking pretty good for that. Down the shore tomorrow, really nice conditions, sunshine, on the sand, in the middle 70s to near 80 degrees sea breeze will kick in the afternoon hours. Watch out for moderate risk of rip currents as we head throughout the day tomorrow. Check out this stretch of weather in to thursday, still dry, comfortable before we bring back moisture as we head into friday more humid with the chance of the afternoon thunder shower, models are in disagreement as to what will happen this weekend but overall we will be warmer, steamy with better chance of showers and storms on both saturday and sunday, but who cares about that, tomorrow will be so nice. So nice. So nice. Thanks, lauren. Two word cheetos restaurant we will tell but tonight our next half an hour. And legendary late night hoe David Letterman is making a return to tv. When and where, coming up. Eagles making a return to tackle football, who is in and who is on the bubble for thursdays preseason game in for years, fios has been promising fast internet to small businesses. But for many businesses, its out of reach. Why promise something you cant deliver . Comcast business is different. 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