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KYW Eyewitness News At 7 October 18, 2015

Will warm up again. Good morning, everyone it is sunday october 18th im diana rocco. Lets get the to meteorologist kyla grogan with this mornings forecast. I had had to wear a coat, ugg, gloves, we had to break out the winter parallel. Think of the winter fashion you are getting to try out this weekend. You will not want to wear that wednesday and thursday next week because temperatures will be in the 70s. Well, good that is something to look forward to. Shes okay with that. Im okay with that too. We are waking up chilly for mount pocono in the the 20s to many spots in the 30s and here in philadelphia we are in the lower 40s. The sunnies rising. That will help. Taking a live look at kutztown in the Neighborhood Network beautiful sunrise but my goodness the the temperature, just 34 degrees. So, today is going to be a cool day, some morning sun, afternoon, we could have some clouds and a few sprinkles in there but overnight low sunday into monday, 33 degrees, afternoon high, is 53 degrees. It is going to be chilly. It is already chilly. Mount pocono 5 degrees. Thirtynine in philadelphia we have ticked down a degree there we will be at the the 40. Thirtytwo in a Atlantic City. No matter how we slice it, we are all feeling a chill. We are under a frost advisory and for good reason as those temperatures are so low. Take a look to the west, looking at the left side of the screen, we will see some snow falling, those are snow flurries in western pennsylvania. We are not expecting any of that to make it towards us but it will be cool, breezy and we could see sprinkles around five to 7 00 p. M. Time frame. As we get the in to machine more lower 50s with sunshine but there is relief coming on tuesday, everybody when we will finally make it up to a 66degree high. Hang in there, we will talk more about the 70s coming up in the seven day forecast, diana. Thank you. Happening today thousands are expect to gather a at Philadelphia Art Museum this morning, but the the the 29th annual aid walk philly is set to kick off there in a little will more than an hour. Cherri greg from our sister station kyw news radio 1060 is live at the the art museum this morning with more, good morning. Reporter good morning, diane a yes, it the is cold out here but folks are keeping themselves warm by moving around. As you can see the the setup for the aids walk philly has already begun. Folks are starting to show up, registration is going on and folks will gear up to begin the run portion at about 7 30. A major part of this effort includes exhibits and sort of the show the impact of the hiv and aid epidemic and one of those exhibits is 1981, until it is over, the time line of the aids epidemic, over the past 30 years. All of this is set up by aids fund the the Major Organizers of todays event. I will bring in ken burns kevin burns, how are you doing. Im good thank you, how are you, good morning. Im wound full. Lets talk about this exhibit. There is a lot to discuss over the past 30 years of this epidemic. The lets talk about some major points and we will get out of the way so andy can sort of show this. Sure. Reporter tell me major points. From the 1981, we didnt even have the the the name for a disease that was affecting gay men all across the country and major met the tro pol tan area. From there we went to 1982 where we had a name for the disease where we knew it was aids, and it was a term, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, sorry, it is early. Then the next beg point was 1985 when rock hudson came out as having aids. We got a a lot of publicity around hiv and really raised a awareness for people in this country. Yes. So this time line is incredible. It is a wonderful way to document the disease and the aids fund makes this exhibit available for community events, colleges and a traveling exhibit that really tries to raise awareness for people. One of the biggest struggles we have is people hiv positive and do not know their status because longer they wait to get in treatment more difficult it is. Yes. Reporter yes. So that is one of the big struggles to day in the epidemic is people getting tested and to know their status and then to get into treatment. Reporter i know action aids is here. You guys have a big crowd, that will be here today with a 10,000 people that are expected to participate. Tell me about how many people you have, and what you expect to do today. We have over a 120 people walking from action aids from our volunteer Buddy Program and our staff and our donors and we have raised over 20,000 just to support services at action aids. So were very excited. Beautiful day. It is chilly. We will get walking. We will wake up. It will be all good. Reporter while aid, hiv epidemic began in 1981, it continues today, 60 percent of the new cases of hiv and aids are among youth, and so part of today toys get out that a awareness, get people tested, all that will be going on here when the run portion of the aid walk philly kicks off at 7 30 this morning. Live at the art museum, cherri greg for kyw news raid were for cbs3 Eyewitness News. A a lot of good information there and what a wonderful event. Thanks, cheri. Philadelphia police are investigating a reported Sexual Assault in the citys fox chase section. Police responded to the 500 block of kendricks street just after 4 00 a. M. Details are still few but we are told that the special victims unit is on the scene investigating. Were working on getting more information and we will bring it the to you when we get it. Also new this morning, Philadelphia Police are investigating a shooting in the fernrock section of the city. Police responded around 11 30 to reports of the the person fired at the the intersection of lindley and north camac streets. A 30 yearold man was taken to Einstein Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. There is no suspect in custody at this time. Dhs now has custody of the twoyear old boy who was found wandering alone and barefoot around philadelphias love park this weekend. The boys homeless parents are now in some serious trouble. Eyewitness News Reporter greg argos has more. Reporter it is a picture making headlines across the city, twoyear old toddler clinging to the septa Police Officer after a cop found him in love park a few minutes before midnight on from it. My daughter was sleeping here. My son sleeps here. My wife sleeps here and i sleep here. Reporter Michael Jones is that young boys father. We dont have money to pay rent. Reporter he and his family are home less and while they were sleeping in this makeshift shelter a cold night under some stairs at the park. That was the the best way we can, we had in wind blowing, blocked it off. Reporter michael and his wife angelic said her son heard skateboarders nearby. He is in love with skateboarding. Reporter somehow slipped out to check out the noise. He pushed the the box open, and barefoot walked through these roxanne went all the way around. Reporter michael woke up, noticed his twoyear old gone. We walk over yelling and i ran over to dhs. They said they dont know nothing. We called the cops. Reporter by that time this cop safely had michaels son and michael says he is nothing but grateful. I dont care if dhs takes the kids or not but as long as my kid ace alive. God works in mysterious ways. Maybe this will benefit us in the long way. Reporter fortunately, they tell me they wont to have stay here at love park tonight, they have a friends house they are spending the night with. As for their Court Hearing for their children that is set for this monday. Reporting here at love park im greg argos for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Residents in Haddon Township are decorating their hems with ribbons in memory of threeyear old brand an creato. His body was found in a wooded area shortly a after he disappeared from his fathers home on tuesday. Haddonfield floral is making royal blue and black ribbons they sell for 10, 2 from each sale will go to help the family, with funeral expenses. Police are investigating the circumstances, of brendans death so far, no charges, have been filed. Frightening moments outside a walmart, when a man fired a rifle, sat the day afternoon, Pennsylvania State police, say 31 yearold scott lee sergeant, shanon dough a striking opened fire at several cars. He shot the police whens arrived but officers returned fire and then he was then hit. He is new in the hospital and facing multiple charges, including a attempted homicide of a Law Enforcement officer. Police in florida are investigating a shooting at the a some bye convention that killed one person air four others. The shooting took place in north former president fort myers at zombie con that draws 20,000 fans each year. Police still do not the know what sparked the shooting but there is no suspect in custody at the this time. Overseas more bloodshed in the middle east as palestinian and Israeli Forces clash in the streets. The at least four palestinians were killed questioned after attempted knife attacks on israelis, that is a according to the israeli military. Cbs news, correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti has the very latest on the violence. Israeli troops, stepped up patrols after a new wave of Violent Attacks in the west bank, an attempted knife attacks a on israeli civilians and police left several palestinians dead. The the the latest point of unrest is city of hebron where a few hundred jewish settlers live in close proximity to tens of thousands of palestinians. Scenes like this playing out on the streets of hebron have november been uncommon. We have seen palestinian, throwing stones, but they are a little match for israeli army. Unaudible. Reporter violence began more than a month ago and has been fueled by rumors that israel was planning to restrict palestinian access to the reveered mosque, israel denied allegations. Hundreds of pro palestinian supporters protested outside Israeli Embassy in london in a sign of unity jews and arabs march through streets of jerusalem calling for an end to the bloodshed. Funeral for the the attackers have further insighted the violence and israeli troops, struggled to stop the attacks, without insighting more anger. Jonathan vigliotti for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Mexican authorities nearly recapture escaped drug kingpin Joaquin Guzman better known as he will chop owe. Officials say guzman barely got away, injuring his leg and face in the process. He broke out of prison in july a and has been on the run ever since, the the u. S. Is offering a reward of up to five in Million Dollars for information leading to el chapos arrest. Mexico is offering, nearly 4 million. Still to cop this morning, Eyewitness News, crews are trying to dig out, dozens of vehicles in california that were caught in devastating mud slide there, up next, see terrifying video shot, inside of a car. As it was being swept away. And if you are heading outside the door, jacket is necessary, today, it is cold outside this morning meteorologist kyla grogan let us know how long this cold snap will stick around. Ok the girl scout meeting. For the soccer team. For the girl scout meeting. How many meetings are you having . giant just dropped prices on thousands more items. Which makes the checkout lane, victory lane. My giant. Welcome back. We are seeing the first images of damage from the typhoon that slammed in the philippines this morning. Typhoon kop p. O. Blew assure with fierce wind in the northern philippines sunday. It toppled trees and knocked out power and communications. About 10,000 people have have been forced to evacuate. There were no immediate reports of the casualties there, many in small villages are under threat of floods orland slides as this storm, moves to the west. Parts of the calorie main under a Flash Flood Watch this morning and more rain is threatening disaster area of cure ran county. River of mud buried hundreds of vehicles and damage homes earlier this last week. One woman captured incredible video of her terrifying ordeal, the the moment that her car started floating, down the highway. Reporter ray eckland says she was on her way home from mohave, california when the the rain started pouring down. Oh, my god. Reporter soon enough the car that she was a passenger in, went off the ground. Oh, my god, it will hit us. Oh, my god. Were floating. Reporter unsure of what would happen next, as cars turned into boats. Oh, my god if we stay here we will never get out. We were inside the cars. I was not sure whether we were going to make it out of there. It looks like cars were going to float over the the wall, it was really horrifying. He is going to go over the the edge. Reporter once rain came to the stop, eckland and two with men crawled through the windows. It was awful, walking out of there was really bad, because we were in mud up to our knees. Reporter they finally made it to safety, as for the car. We ended up on the back of the semi, the the car looks like it is ready to be had hauled away. There were hundreds of cars. The once we got through the the mud, and started to walk up the highway, once we got to high ground and out of the mud, you know, that is when we encounters all of the other cars just sitting there on the freeway. That was our Natasha Brown reporting. She said people were helping one eras they walk hours down the the highway offering each other blankets, clothing and shoes. Were in the dealing with mud slide but we have our own weather issues, here. Yes, we do. It is all about the chill in the air this morning, diana but look at this. A gorgeous sunrise as we look live in our Neighborhood Network. This is in middletown ship high school in cape may courthouse but just 35 degrees as sun comes up. If there is any saving grace that wind is in the bad, northwest at 5 miles an hour but we here in philadelphia are under a frost advisory until 9 00 a. M. This morning. Areas of blue from trenton down to dover, even spots down the the shore, all dealing with those chilly temperatures. You might wonder is this early for this this . Well, it is for philadelphia we will generally see our first frost late october. Up in the the poconos they are ones that see it in early october. Patchy frost certainly going to be out there as we sit at 39 degrees in philadelphia mount pocono just 26 degrees. All of the 30s on the map including millville coming in at 30 degrees. The as we zoom in down the shore you can see a few 40s. Ocean city, barnegat light, ocean beach, you are topping out at 40. You are one of the lucky ones. It will be chilly, breezy, well below average and we will see 30s again overnight tonight. So that is something to look out for. Live look at storm scan three shows us that were nice and clear in the skies right now but we have cloud that are rolling in and check out the snow flurries that are happening in western pennsylvania pennsylvania. We dont have to worry about that but that moisture will try to make it toward us and give us a few sprinkles lakely in the afternoon. But sunshine as we start, work our way in the lower 50s. The those cloud rolling in this afternoon and it will be just a chilly one, everybody. Future weather shows you that in moisture trying to make its way toward us but in the 5 00 oclock hour a few of us will see models showing up near lancaster and west and south of philadelphia, maybe through wilmington a few sprinkles and then it is out of here. We will get clear skies in for monday and then we will try to warm it up as we get the to tuesday but overnight the tonight we will be under a freeze warning starting at midnight through 9 00 a. M. And all of the area in purple. Every where from mount pocono, right on down to Atlantic City, certainly including philadelphia, in that. Now to the the poconos, they have been seeing chilly temperatures. I want to show them good news first. The that is your sunday is chilly, high of 41. Your monday, some sunshine and high of 46. There it is, warm up on tuesday, a high of 60 degrees. Now most of us here in philadelphia, were normally about 66 degrees this time of the year and well because low that today and tomorrow. We will hit it right on the nose but wednesday and thursday were talking 70s everybody. We do hang in there for another 36, 48 hours and then we will be looking good. Today a high of 52 looking out for cooler, breezy conditions, a as we get into tonight. That is when we will watch out under that freeze warning at a low of 33 expect. Watch out for that patchy frost as well, afternoon sprinkle today is possible. Warm up, on tuesday, here it comes, few clouds and then look at that, beautiful 73 and sunshine on wednesday, i like the look at that and wye hold those 70s for thursday as well, head in the weekend in the 60s. Deep let were hanging on, to tuesday will be here soon. After this chilly morning who doesnt like that, thank you. It is time to see how traffic is moving on the road. The heres ann evans in the cbs3 traffic center. Good morning, ann. We are looking at ben franklin parkway, set for the aid walk philly and preparations are underway for the aid walk philly. The the 5k run of the aid walk begins at around 7 30 this morning, walk begins, promptly at 9 00 a. M. But right the now preparations are underway and ben franklin parkway is shut down to the Art Museum Circle and Spring Garden street along with Martin Luther king drive between ben franklin parkway and montgomery drive. We will move traffic cam from the ben franklin parkway to i95. I95 at girard moving along fine, volume building on i95 through philadelphia and its suburbs but no access to tell you about. No construction. The most importantly no delays. Moving the traffic cam one more time to the ben franklin bridge, ben franklin bridge is in good shape but eastbound into new jersey we have construction, the the entire length of the bridge right lane is closed, thinks a long term construction project into november. So far not causing any delay further up admiral wilson boulevard looks good, so does 676, 42 and 55 looking g since were on the subject of the bridges, bur

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