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KYW Eyewitness News At 6 August 19, 2016

Issues, but because that sun continues, to come up at different times, we are losing about two and a half minute of daylight with every passing day. So, you know, that time of year, right . But regardless some beautiful light of day currently popping over the horizon here in the distance, kutztown area middle school, all visibility totally free and clear, barely noticeable winds at all, in fact, goose egg 0mile per hour at kutztown, over the last few hours, we mention storm scan empty, showers, long since retreated out to sea, today generally looks like hot sunny day, not too humid. But it is a tad muggy, so good excuse to go hit the pool, right . Other than that isolated sprinkle i mention, and again, just i mention, i dont think you will have to schedule any outdoor plans around this, we really do end up with nothing but sunshine, so looks like great day. Heating up efficiently, too, by 9 00 in the morning should be in the 80s, key will keep the thing going, pushing to the upper 80s by 1 00, say 3 00 p. M. Or so hit the daytime high. Targeting it to be about 9 degrees, later on today, so, it is a little warmer than average, meisha, a but it is summertime, and the hits keep rolling. Absolutely, i have no complaint from me whatsoever shall specially looking onto next week, but first we talk about this morning drive. On a friday always hoping we walk out the last minute, because it is friday, not develop people on the roadways, overturned vehicle, schuylkill eastbound near Spring Garden, all lanes were blocked, now, it looks like, one lane is opening. One lane getting by. This happened about five minute ago, then they stopped it again, block all lanes again, so kind of hit or miss, if you are the lucky handful of vehicles that get by before they close it off again, and get this remedy for you. Now looking at the back upshot montgomery drive. Yikes. A lot of the vehicles are getting off on mlk drive right now. Backups are extending all the way back to the boulevard. Just look at this, guys. I just feel so terrible for our morning commuters who get up on a friday van to sit in this. If you are past mlk drive exit you cant get off. So make note of that, heads up ill let you know, tweeting it out, as well, then take a look at this, interstate 95 your partners on interstate 95 at cottman, looking good, looking beautiful, so, that accident in glasco, delaware, im going get to that really quickly, route 896 at route 40 for those every you, glasco delaware, i am section closed as well 40 westbound at 72. So if you can avoid the area altogether, take route 72, you will want to, jim, over to you. Thanks so much, meisha a2 american swimmers detained in brazil are headed back home, and another one could be returning to the u. S. Today. Thats right. James feigens attorney said he reached a settlement to pay 10,000 to leave brazil today. Jamie yuccas reports, police in rio say their reports after robbery are not true. American swimmer jimmy feigen testified before a brazilian judge in rio overnight. As teammates, gunnar bentz, and jack conger, made their way back to the u. S. Under cloud of suspicion. Bentz and conger were detained wednesday as part of ongoing investigation, into claims they allegedly with feigen and ryan lochte were round at gunpoint in the city last sunday. They pulled out their guns, they told us to get down on the ground. Reporter brazilian Officials Say this Surveillance Video proves it is not true. They say it shows the swimmers being confronted by Armed Security after vandalizing a gas station. A statement by the Us Olympic Committee thursday appeared to agree with the brazilian account. Saying, security, quote, demanded the athletes provide a monetary payment. And once paid, they were allowed to leave. Lochte former coach says the swimmers could now face serious sanctions that could hurt their carreers. United state swimming always takes a pretty strict stand if allegations like this are true. So i would suspect that there would be some kind of suspension involved. Reporter lochte, already back in the u. S. , so far sticking to his story. Us swimming officials are investigating the matter and will decide if there will be any consequences for the athlete. In rio de janeiro, jamie yuccas, cbs3, Eyewitness News. And it is still possible police in rio could charge the men for falsely reporting a crime. Thats right, Eyewitness News spoke with a philadelphia attorney, and former federal prosecutor, who specializes in International Law and extra addition. When you deal with criminal authority, particularly criminal authorities in other countries, and you escalate it, you are not going to win, it will just not go well for you. We check out a swim club in cherry hill where some of the young swimmers say they are no longer fans of ryan lochte. They dont like that he lied. In other news, new this morning, two men were shot in south philadelphia. It happened right outside a chain east takeout restaurant. Eyewitness News Reporter jan carabeo live outside south detective with the latest on the investigation, good morning, jan, what can you tell us . Reporter brooke, jim, good morning, those two men are now in the hospital, recovering today, after they were shot in the stomach, here in south philadelphia overnight. Fortunately, they are expected to be okay. In the meantime, mr. Is are now searching for the shooter, and fortunately for investigators, they found Surveillance Video with a description of the suspects. More on that in just a minute. First take a look at this, this is where the shooting happened around 11 30 last night, on the corner every 23rd and mifflin street. Police say they got whole bunch of calls after the shooter unloaded a sim automatic weapon. Investigators found 16 spent shell casings at the scene. They also found one of the victims, a 44 year old man, who was taken to Presbyterian Hospital by police. Other victim 39 year old man was discovered short distance away at broad and mckeon. He was taken to jefferson, both are in stable condition. Now, no one else was injured, thankfully, in the hail of gunfire. Two parked cars, and chinese take out restaurant, were hit by stray bullet, though, and in the meantime investigators have some leads in tracking down the shooter, there are number of private cameras in the area. There are also police real time cameras that actually captured the shooter. That footage is now giving police a description of the person they are looking for. He described the male, 6 feet tall, wearing a beard, wearing a light colored hooded sweatshirt, dark pants, possibly jeans, and hes last seen fleeing on foot eason segal street, from 23rd. Now, police will continue to work the scene today, theyre trying to gain access to those private cameras, to see if they provide some valuable footage. There is no motive for the shooting at this time, anyone with information should call police. For now, reporting live in south philadelphia, jan care baio, Eyewitness News, jim, brooke, back into you. In other news hearing exclusively from elderly man who nearly died after being shot in his own home by new jersey state troopers. The shooting happened before midnight july 29th in upper deerfield township. Authorities say two troopers were investigating a 911 hang up call, when they arrived at gerald psychs house by mistake. What happened next remains under investigation. But there was an exchange of gunfire. One trooper suffered a graze wounds, and the 76 year old homeowner was shot three times. I had a collapsed lung, two fractured ribs, ripped diaphragm, destroyed spleen, perforated bowel, and im alive and beginning to feel better. A lot of the pain is subsiding now. At this point authorities have not said who fired first. Well, a former teacher and a School Custodian are among 40 men arrested in a massive crackdown on the addition buying every child pornography in new jersey. Officials dubbed the six month investigation operation statewide. Investigators tracked child porn images on under in a net file to ip addresses, led police to home addresses in each of the states 21 count us. For the first time, the state department is admit interesting was a link between a 400 million cash payment to iran in january, and the same day release of four american hostages. Us officials insist, though, the money i was not ransom. They say it was already opened to iran as part of failed arms deal, 35 years ago. But state Department Officials also say they waited to pay, and tell the americans had left iran january 17th. Donald trump responded to the state department announcement. On the campaign trail in North Carolina, trump accused president obama of lying about the hostage situation. Today trump is scheduled to tour the flooding in louisianna. Hillary clinton is taking a break from the campaign trail and the latest polls show clinton maintaining a lead over trump in the battlegrounds state. Well, coming up at harming reason why twitter just suspended hundreds of thousands of accounts. Plus it is the worse us disaster since hurricane sandy, and we are just starting to see the scope of the damage from flooding in louisianna. Well show you what fema is doing to help. And a warning about over the counter lazer pointers. And why the green ones are specially dangerous to your eyes. 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Take a look at this, parts of the flooded state could be headed for the worse housing crisis since hurricane katrina. At least 13 people have died, more than 40,000 homes have been damaged by the rising water. Water is still high in some areas, and people can only reach their homes by boat. Clean up could be costly, because only about 21 of louisianna homeowners have flood insurance. We actually lost everything in katrina came here, and ten years later lost everything again. Yes, i know it is material things, and you can always get them back. But it crushes you, you feel like youre violated. Oh, absolutely, the Louisianna National Guard has been activated to help with continue search and rescue missions. Meanwhile, officials still trying to determine if a tornado touched down, near the outer banks, in North Carolina, a person captured what looks like a funnel cloud on video, thanks fully, no one was injured. A lot of folks down there from our area right now, still on vacation for the summer, katey . Sure, absolutely, if you are planning to have any kind of outdoor plans here this weekend, even here, there are some thunderstorms that may mess with those plans. So, thats where i come in. We will get awe planner for the upcoming weekends, then of course the seven day forecast, heres what i think they may have been talking about, heavy thunderstorms, off the shores of North Carolina, but were in the influence of High Pressure, so it will keep us generally speaking in pretty pleasant weather here today. Temperatures, easily, topping off to about 90 degrees, many of you staying into the 80s, but in philly forecasting 906789 mostly sunny come tomorrow, for the most part, coy see spotty shower or thunderstorm as the atmosphere warms up. This cold front is what is going to produce next round of locally heavy downpours, some thunderstorms sunday. Some of the most aggressive models bring this in as early as late morning, generally the p. M. Hours. Regardless, saturday is the better who of the days if you are trying to get in your outdoor plans, will regardless also be some heavy showers, storms, that have to rumble on in here before we can get into this really nice pattern. Which, folks, phenominal for the upcoming monday and beyond. See that in the seven day. But if you are plans plans take you to the shore, spec sunshine today, nice day on saturday, though, other than spotty thunderstorm, looking good. And sunday is the day that the humidity ramps up. But you will also specially closer to the coast be dealing with primarily p. M. Thunderstorms, and again, mid 80s generally speaking around the region as a whole. Today, we are actually about ready to see the sun come up. It is sunny, hot, at 90 degrees, dropping down to 73, later on tonight, under just couple of clouds, and here is what weve been waiting for, folks, got to wait until monday but regardless, monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, not only are we going to see low to mid 80s, lower humidity, but sunshine all every those days, looks like nice stretch coming up, meisha. Sure does, looks gorgeous, thanks so much, katie. Good morning, everyone, happy friday. We made it to the end of our work week, just waking up with us, looking at the schuylkill eastbound, near Spring Garden, where we had over turn vehicle, that had all lanes blocked, great news for those of you just maybe tuning in, or maybe just headed out the door. All since cleared. So take a look at the back upshot. All that tension has now of course lifted. But you can see, maybe little bit of residual plus, people jumping on the roadways, overall though at Spring Garden even around montgomery drive, looking really good right now. Now i want to pull your attention to this accident in glasco, delaware, involving tractortrailer and vehicle, few people transferred to the hospital here. Route 896, you still want to use an alternate around this area, 896 southbound route 40. I would say that alternate would be route 72, intersection closed as well as 42, still, kind of a mess. Well take quick break, stay right where you are. Cbs3 Eyewitness News will be right back after this. For senate, a clear difference. Katie mcginty for background checks, for banning assault weapons, and banning highcapacity ammunition clips. And pat toomey . Against an assault weapons ban and against banning high capacity ammo clips like those used in the orlando massacre. Listen to pat toomey brag i have had a perfect record with the nra. Pat toomey gets an a from the nra. Hes not for you. Senate majority pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. Scary scene at a Wedding Party in turkey. This happened yesterday, blast went off outside, as everyone was dancing, blood g bride and groom. All rushed out in a panic. Turn i shall government blaming curds i shall separatist group, and two other blasts, as well. What about this . Twitter is amp up its war on terror. The social media sites rep say they suspended 235,000 accounts in the past six months alone, for promoting terrorism. In total, the company has suspended 360,000 accounts, since 2015. Twitter didnt identify the terrorist groups, or specific accounts, but they are likely associated with isis, which has been specially active on twitter and other social networks, to spread propaganda and attract new recruits. Well, zika concerns are growing in our air. There are now four confirmed cases of the zika cyrus in montgomery county. Officials say they were all travelrelated. Meantime in south florida, the number of locally transmitted zika infections there has risen to 35. The Florida Department of health says two new cases were added yesterday in miami dade county, officials in miami beach were quick to dismiss reports that zika had spread to their resort city. On the hell watch, there is a new warning about the danger of over the counter lazer pointers. Researchers in australia tested can be bought in stores or on line. They say, they found out green lazers were the most dangerous, the strongest, can cause catostrophic damage to the eyes. They say, green lazers pose greatest risk because green more easily perceived by the eye, and the beam is visible along the path. Well it, may and annoying habit for some people, but now, a new study finds cracking your knuckles may actually be good for you. Researchers look at ultrasound of 400 knuckles to determine exactly what was going on inside. They say, crack knuckles had greater flexibility. Scientists say the cracking sound is just pressure leaving the joints. Coming up in this weeks dream drive meisha gets out of the car, and onto a boat. Floating taxi is taking her on dream drive to find a market from food from around the world and it is in our backyard. Looking forward to that. Plus weather watcher friday. Katy . Indeed it is, jim. Yes, john jenkins drove in from perkasie to be with us, a lot of our weather watchers have this love of weather thats built in early on. And from their childhood, and he has interesting story, i think brooke will love. You want to stick around for that. Now for a look at newspaper headlines from across our region. From the deli county daily times, man wanted for allegedly robbing two party goers have surrendered to police. Nineteen year old christopher of lansdowne charged with robbery, theft, harrassment, receiving stolen property, as well as simple assault. He is being held on 250,000 bail. In the news journal, city leaders say the head of the Wilmington Department of finance owes 28,000 in federal income tax, and had issues paying her taxes for decades. Told irs notice sheila win fred brown has a lean for unpaid income taxes from 2003 to 2009. Mayor Dennis Williams said he knew about the lean before he hired him. In the cover of the avon grove sun, this week, paying tribute to local olypians, two at lets from southern Chester County returned home from rio, with medals, bringing home gold in swimming, and he is questions tree all fill dutton came back with a bronze. Thats a look at some of the newsp

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