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KYW Eyewitness News At 6 August 14, 2014

National embarrassment. Reporter as decision looms at headquarters whether schools even have the funds to open safely on september 8th, state senator Vincent Hughes called on his colleagues in harrisburg to get back to work. We need to take care of the cigarette tax and take that done but we need a fair funding formula. It is a formula that ties needs of Different School district the funding. Reporter together he and gubernatorial candidate tom wolf faulted a lack of leadership but spokesperson for governor tom corbett says basic education funning commission was just create todd explore what would constitute the a fair formula. In the meantime parents feel caught in the middle. This whole school open on time. Reporter just last week governor corbett did advance millions in state fund as schools could open but jill yam hite says that shifts new money feign new money isnt found wow have to layoff 1300 employees. Now that proposed and now stalled 2 per pack cigarette tax was supposed to plug this 81 milliondollar budget gap but lawmakers arent scheduled to return to harrisburg until september and it is clune clear if they will act on that. So i big day at School Budget headquarters here in spring garden, tomorrow again. Superintendent william hite scheduled to make an announcement about the budget and beginning of the school year and any possible layoffs. Reporting live, jane carabao, for cbs3 Eyewitness News. That will be a closely watch event tomorrow, jane, thanks very much. Stay with Eyewitness News we will have continuing coverage for you of the philadelphia School Budget crisis, we will stream tomorrows src news conference, live on cbs philly. Com, and tune in for that at 10 00 a. M. Well, less than one hour from now people will gather in philadelphia to remember an unarmed teenager who was shot and killed by police in missouri. Shooting of 18 yearold mike brown in the town of ferguson has spark several days of unrest. Last night, the struggle between protesters and police, ended in tear gas and arrests and more anger. Eyewitness News Reporter diana rocco is live at love park with more on what will happen here tonight, diana . Reporter chris, as you mentioned this event is scheduled to get underway just about an hour from now. We have already seen a number of people showing up, organizers stress this is not a rally or a protest but a moment of cile tones remember 18 yearold mike brown and, of course, he is teenager who was killed in ferguson on saturday, shot by police, the suburbs of st. Louis. There have been days of unrest there, Community Members are demanding answers, and today states governor is announcing a Highway Patrol will be taking over and replacing the towns police force and police chief. National moment of silence is also on to honor other who tied at the hand of police and stand with those in ferguson who have been seeing four days of rallies, riots and protest. Tonight president obama asked for peace. When Something Like this happens, the local authorities have a spent to be opened and transparent about how they are investigating that death and how they are protecting the people in their communities. There is never an excuse for violence against police. There is also no excuse for police to use Excessive Force begins peaceful protests. Reporter again this moment of silence will be observed nationwide. There will be no designated speakers just signs, and names of those being honored. Again this event gets underway in about an hour. Live from love park tonight im diana rocco for cbs3 Eyewitness News. The cbs evening news with scott pelley will have have a report from ferguson, missouri, that is coming up next right here after Eyewitness News at 6 00. New tonight at 6 00 chaka fattah junior says he will be vindicated, he pleaded not guilty to financial fraud charges. But it is Eyewitness News reporter walt hunter tells us the previously out spoken son of the pennsylvania congressman chaka fattah was much more quiet following his Second Court Appearance today. Mr. Fattah you have been on talk shows, you have spoken extensively to us why arent you able to talk to us today . Reporter chaka fattah had much less to say at his second appearance in federal court where he pleaded not guilty to charges he defrauded the Philadelphia School district, banks and irs out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. In the past you have spoken to us at length and spoken on the radio and print you are not talking to day. I stand by what i said. Reporter following his indictment nine days ago fattah junior had spoken at length with reporters claiming his prosecution was part of the vendetta aimed at his father congressman chaka fattah a claim he reiterated as he left court. You really feel like this prosecution is driven by some kind of vengeance in your father. No doubt bit. Reporter since his first Court Appearance here august 5th when he was indicted, fattah juniors legal situation has become much more complicated. Specifically his former roommate has now pleaded guilty on federal fraud charges, agreeing to cooperate with the government and even testify against him. Are you concerned at all with the decision by your roommate to plead guilty to charges at all. Despite his quiet key meaner fattah junior did make a very clear prediction about the outcome of his upcoming trial. I will be completely vindicated. Reporter he remains free, on bail, at the u. S. Courthouse, walt hunter, cbs3 Eyewitness News. Search is on tonight the for person who killed a man at a concert, that was ironically, promoting peace. It happened outside Dell Music Center in fairmount park, a man in his 20s was rush to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. Now to a Wild Police Chase through philadelphias manayunk neighborhood that ended with a crash. Chopper three over the scene near flat rock road this morning. That driver ran away after the crash and police arent sure if the driver ran deeper in to the brush or just into the schuylkill river. There is in word on what prompt that had chase. New information now on that big casino heist at caesars Atlantic City. Today we have over first look at five of the eight suspects in this case. Investigators believe it was an inside job. State police tell us they believe that isaiah plumber and aaron evans entered the casino through a side door and then robbed it of 180,000. Caesars had fired plumber just a few weeks earlier from his job as a security guard. During the robbery they pointed a gun at one of the employees as Money Exchange was taking place and they left with proceeds of approximately 180,000 through that side door. Investigators say they have recovered about 150,000 worth of cash property and drugs. The also of note the a delaware state trooper was shot during manhunt for two of these suspects that he was not seriously injured. Democratic National Convention Site Committee is now off to phoenix but city of philadelphia hopes they will be back to throw a big party here in 2015. Moments ago a farewell reception for commit thee members was held at the art museum. The 18 member group spent their final day in philadelphia answering questions about logistics and security and how city plans to raise as much as 80 milliondollar. City leaders are confident that philadelphia will win this convention. It is all about the ds, it is but the delegates, it is about the donors, it business the democratic nominee and it is about details. I think they understand this Site Committee understands that we have all of those bases covered. In addition to philadelphia, and phoenix, the other contenders are brooklyn, birmingham, and columbus, ohio. Philadelphias taney dragons has certainly proven that they are a full of surprises. After about the four or four pitches i was like wow. Even star players could not believe his yeast. Hear from mone davis parents. Also find out how they are feeling before their big game in Williams Port tomorrow, kate. Today turned out to be a Beautiful Day feeling like september instead of august we are tracking a couple showers just spotty ones across the region. We will have the full forecast and let you know how long this nice weather last, kathy is live in ocean city, hi kathy. Kate, it would never rain on the ocean city baby parade, parade ended, they are judging right now, beach is still crowded, Beautiful Day, getting windy with the sea breeze this afternoon but plenty of blue skies we will let you know how long it will last as Eyewitness News, continues. Hi beasley. Final walk through for eagles ahead of tomorrow nights preseason fame in new england. Nick foles looking to make better decisions with the football like decisions he made all last season. We will hear from the eagles quarterback coming up in sports. yawn ding toaster strudel more fruit in the filling, ya . Mmm ya warm, flaky, gooey, toaster strudel now, with more fruit dont wait for awesome. Totinos pizza rolls. Gets you there in just 60 seconds. Have you seen tom corbetts ads attacking me. Get real. Its tom corbett whos been sticking it to the middle class on taxes. Corbett cut a billion dollars from education. Now almost 80 of School Districts plan to raise property taxes. Meanwhile, were the only state that doesnt charge oil and Gas Companies an extraction tax. But corbett raised your gas taxes through the roof. Im tom wolf, ill be a governor who stands up for the middle class for a change. More details emerge about Robin Williams is there a warning for anyone logging on line to learn more. Our jim donovan will show us how scam artists are taking advantage of the tragedy leaving you a victim, that is tonight on cbs3 Eyewitness News at 11 00. Well, philadelphias own taney dragons will take the field tomorrow at Little League world series. They are first Philadelphia Team to ever make it to the series. Eyewitness News Reporter matt rivers is with the the team and their nervous parents in williamsport. Reporter Beautiful Day for some baseball and batting practice. Phillies favorite Little Leaguers were locked in at the the cages. The heres hoping they are match balls like this during fridays game. They take own south east regional champs 3 59. Im excited but nervous. I want them to show everybody how great they are and perform well and have fun and enjoy the experience. Reporter while the kids swung, their parents looked on, a few made their way up to williamsport on thursday and rest will follow on friday, including the parents of the star pitcher mone davis. Sacrifice that he is come with with her playing sports was a lot of driving, putting off a lot of, everything, vacations. Reporter when they do arrive they will see a town that lives and breathes Little League baseball. Likely drive right past williamsport if you dont know it was here a sleepy town that comes live when kids show up. Were here. Were at the big show. So, sucking it in, slowly, it is still surreal but it is a good time. Reporter after practice it was just rest for taney dragons. They didnt even talk to reporters just getting close to game time. While they say goal, it is to have fun these Kids Really Want to win too. It has been one tournament have after another for these kids, all summer long or even staying in separate house nothing williamsport, so for some parents who are arriving here tomorrow, the first time they will be seeing their kids in the few taste will be as they are taking field for fridays game. Were in williamsport the matt rivers cbs3 Eyewitness News. You can get taney merchandise to show your support for hometown team, tshirts are available at three mow dell stores, stores on snyder avenue, oregon avenue and Chestnut Street have gear thaw will need to cheer on the team. Get this 100 percent of the proceeds are donated back to the league. You can cheer on the taney dragons with that gear on from Philadelphia City hall tomorrow afternoon. Pep rally will be held at 2 00 and game will be broadcast on the big screen tv in the city hall courtyard. We know today is the day that kathy orr looks forward to every year, shes been talking about it for weeks now. Shes very excite. We all love this day. Orr at the shore in ocean city for annual baby parade, kathy, we saw great babies. Do we have a winner. We do, we dont know the name yet. Judges havent told us yet because not everything is in but we will have that for you tonight on Eyewitness News at 11 00. Is there all different kind of categories, people prepare for this. The entire year, we will show you some of the parade that just ended moments ago but first we have to talk a little bit about weather. I want to show you behind me because this boardwalk is pack. Beach is busy as well. In one really wants to leave because weather is just so beautiful. It is family fun night on the boards. We have a lot of excitement down the shore and already begun for weekend. Lets look at storm scan three and show you what is going on here. We have had a few showers in montgomery and lancaster counties. Please ab wear of that if it is getting dark in your neighborhood know thaw could see a shower or a heavy shower passing by, fairly quickly. Temperatures around the region looking decent. In philadelphia 79. A little breezy. Wilmington 75. Trenton 76. Down the shore very breezy in barnegat, 76 ocean city 78, stone harbor 77. Cape may 76 degrees. Heres the shores three day nothing but sunshine friday and saturday with highs in the 80s. Chance of the late day shower or thunderstorm on sunday, temperatures still in the 80s. Back here live i will show you down here at music perrer this is they are announcing the winners for baby parade. We have video that we shot a few minutes ago and we have all different kind of little actors and actresses in the baby parade and different categories. Here are the rules. You have to be between infant and also ten years old. We saw a lot of toddlers in it. Is there different categories, fancy category, comic, category and also the best float. Sound a lot like mummers. This parade is a 105 years old, just a few breaks during wartime but it has been a amazing day here at the ocean city baby parade. I hope you even eye those great picks pure we will have more at 11 00. We are looking at a great day, great evening and good looking weekend at least down the shore. For a look what it will be like at home we will send it inside to kate, hi kate. Looks great down the shore, looks great. Heres another Shore Community Atlantic City with the waves rolling in. Sunnies still shining there. I want to show you time lapses though we will start off in berks county this back at Whitefield Elementary School on our neighborhood network. Beautiful day, sunny, pleasant and then dark cloud rowing in and watch the quick downpour hit ago this area it has cleared out and sunny again. That is shower in montgomery county. Also an area that didnt get any showers look at the Rehoboth Beach delaware, all day long you can walk from umbrella to umbrella along the beach it is starting to thin out, 77 degrees there showers have formed pot west and notice tonight we will see showers move on through. Cant rule one out in the city, keep an eye to the sky. They are localized but heavy downpours as we just awe near reading and right now near pottstown f you get stuck outside it could soak you quickly. Feeling like fall or late sum here as we get in the friday with temperatures in the 07s, low from the west, High Pressure stays overhead on saturday bringing us a return flow from the southwest and will help us get back in the 80s. Great start to the weekend. Sunday looking fantastic as well, then watch for showers to roll role in the the afternoon. Majority is dry and pleasant in the city, down the shore and poconos. Here is your forecast sunny and fall like friday friday. 68 degrees. Saturday sunny and nice at 7o on sunday just a chance for shower getting there sooner in the poconos at 74. For mountain high. As far as tonight cool and crisp. We dont see nights in the 50s until mid to late september so enjoy this leave windows open. Dont need air conditioning tonight. Cool start to your friday, may even want a light jacket or sweater early friday morning. We wont need it in the afternoon as we get to 79 degrees, sunny and it will be gorgeous. Here is eyewitness weather seven day forecast, and again if you like nice weather we have it made here next couple days, 79 sunny, september like for friday and we are up to 48 with sunshine on the saturday. Maybe dodging a few afternoon showers on sunday but outdoor plans better on saturday, errands on sunday but pretty nice weekend. Monday looks good the at 85. Another chance for rain coming in on tuesday and then we will try to clear it out next wednesday and thursday. Doesnt look quite as settled next week but again get outside and energy tomorrow if you have. You have a sick day coming tomorrow it might be the day to phone it in. Yes. Good advice kate, thanks. Good evening, everyone, we are still dealing with a mixture of major russias we look at 95, southbound i95 out of the far northeast philadelphia coming to street road to the b

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