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KYW Eyewitness News At 7 July 31, 2016

Believe how humid it was, it wasnt raining but felt wet, the air just felt wet. And feels nasty out there. Rough for football practice today for the eagles, so, it will be tough out there. Humidity sticks around, next couple of days, and we do bring more showers and Storm Chances in our forecast. Little bit cooler than last week. Little cooler, yes, dont have any nines for the next few days, get a break this that. Depends where you are, dealing with more rain this morning, and again, later this afternoon and tonight. Central southern bucks county, north end of philadelphia, looks like that heavier shower, starting to mover out, still part of south jersey, Cumberland County seeing slow moving heavy shower, roll on through, and then ocean county headed toward long beach island, watch out for some heavy rain. And do the slow moving showers, flood advisory has been issued, philadelphia, parts of southern bucks county, into part of western mercer county, new jersey, and Burlington County, as well. That goes until 7 15, just the slow moving share, smaller streams could be on the rise, woman out for little urban flooding. Seventysix at the airport, 74 up in allentown, some temperatures pretty much uniform all across the region, humidity running very high, it will be muggy for at least the next 48 hours, some sunshine today, warm, humid, watch out for shower, thunderstorms, really at any time. And those showers could contain heavy rainfall just due to the moisture content in the air. Eightyeight for the high in philadelphia, mid eights at the shore, sevens up in the poconos, ill let you know when we finally dray things out checking out the seven day coming up in a few minutes. Thank you, and clean up is on at jen did a this this morning, mercer couldnt which one of the areas hit hardest by yesterdays flashflooding. Our tran dough shows us the damage in west windsor township. Heavy rainfall, flashflooding across mercer county, levers drivers stranded. Once i realize it was the water, i just pulled off the road, try to get this. And kept First Responders and tow Truck Drivers busy. Just. Police call, were just pulling people out of the water, getting them to high ground. Andrew griffin, into their own hands, and feet, wait wading through as much as 2 feet of water through ahmad and err road. Stuck on the Princeton Junction train station surrounded by water, as seen in this cell phone video. The water was coming from the east side of the station underneath and all the way down through the parking lot down vaughn road to alexander here. Since then ive been trying to figure out a way to connect with my wife. We vented up as you saw caring her suitcase through this at err here, the couple did have a boat at hand. I thought about hitching the boat and see if i could sale it down the street here. Some took chances driving through the flood waters, and ended up full of regret. Crazy, dont drivethru water, just silly, i think too many bad things happen. Pay attention to the road cones and the saw who is cents, they put them up for a reason, you know, they dont do it because theyre board. They do it because it is dangerous. Princeton university is about 2 miles from here, and also, reported heavy flooding, in fact, the wawa on campus was closed for all afternoon, and most of the evening. In west windsor township, tran dough, cbs3, Eyewitness News. And the rain caused plenty of problems here in philadelphia, as well, including an unusual picture from south street. Check it out. A tree came out of the rain softened grounds, and landed right on this suv. It happened between tenth and 11th street late last night. Fortunately, no injuries. New this morning, not clear if the weather played a role in a serious accident on the boulevard near fox street. Four people taken to several different hospitals, and were told that two of the victims at einstein got into a fight. No word what started that fight and investigators are still trying to figure out what caused the accident. Developing story now, police in austin, texas, say suspect began firing into a crowd, killing one woman, and injuring at least four other people early this morning. This is cell phone video from austin, investigators say the shooting took place, in the citys entertainment district. Police searching for a suspect, but theyve not ruled out the chance that the suspect might actually be one of those people who works at the hospital. A hot air balloon caring 16 passengers crashes into central texas, Authorities Say the balloon caught fire and crashed in a pasture. Cbs news correspondent Omar Villafranca has the story now. Investigators surveyed a gruesome scene saturday morning. What was left after a hot air balloon, loaded with passengers, caught fire and plunged to the earth. A woman who lives nearby saw the aftermath, from her front porch. I heard one pop before i stepped out the door. Then i heard another pop. And i am looking around to see who is shooting because it sounded like a gun going off. And then i looked off over there, and the next thing i knew, you saw big fireball go up. Margaret while i said she often sees hot air balloons flying in the area, and that the same Company Involved in the accident, identified heart of texas hot air balloon ride had what she called a close call in neighbors field about a year and a half ago. Foggy early in the morning but the haze had mostly cleared. She believes the popping noises she heard were the balloon hitting high voltage power lines, located just above the crash scene. Team of investigators National Transportation safe i boards will try to determine what went wrong, it will treat this area like a crime screen. Only one chance at it, make sure we do everything correctly. Governor greg abbott said he is asking all to join in prayers for the loss. Omar villafranca, cbs3, Eyewitness News. And an investigation is underway, into a shooting involving two new jersey state troopers, the troopers responded to 911 calls in the 300 block every center ton road, upper deerfield township, late friday night. Police say a man, fired shots at them, and troopers returned fire. That man in critical but stable condition. One of the troopers was grazed by either gunfire or shattered glass. And police say road rage may have triggered a phony traffic stop in montgomery county. Police say that this white van, flashed blue and red police style light and the driver pulled over vehicle near church and brent roads in orland tuesday. The license plate was registered to Charles Grossman of whitemarsh township and grossman being called a person of interest in this case. Five delaware teenagers, for allegedly breaking into Sporting Goods store and stealing 27 handguns. Teens smashed their way into outfitters on kenneth pike and greenville july 22. Investigators linked those guns to a shooting in wilmington east lawn park that entered injured a 17 year old day later, while Police Arrest that same teenager and four other teenagers. Right now, not clear if police have recovered all of the stolen handguns. A 55 year old woman in stable condition at temple hospital after hit by stray bullet inside of her own home. Police say the bullet ricocheted off a wall, and grazed her in the head yesterday afternoon. Eyewitness on the 700 block every east willard street kensington say the bullet came through heroin dough, from a house across the street. Police at this point have made no arrests. A child is recovering from minor injuries, after a fire in the fair hills section of north philadelphia. Flames broke out on the 2800 block of pail thorpe street around 3 15 saturday morning, police say the child is between three and four years old. The fire was contained to a third floor kitchen, not exactly clear hoe how it started. No one else was hurt. Well, happening today, eagles fans of all age will be checking out their beloved birds, at an open practice today. Eagles opened Training Camp last week and todays open practice is being called his to, young fans will participate in organizing the teams work out, practice starts at 10 00 this morning at the linc. Hope you have good season. And still to come this morning, on Eyewitness News, some lucky person struck it rich. Billion dollars winning Powerball Ticket was sold. And Florida Health officials go doortodoor to alert people about zika. While england has a strong warning for women thinking about visiting the sunshine state. 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They do say we may see small outbreaks like the one in miami. And theyre advising those plan to visit south florida not to change their travel plans. Marlie hall, cbs news, new york. Flames continue to burn out of control, near californias big sur threatening nearly 2,000 homes. The massive wild fire has been burning for more than a week. The fire burning in carmel valley, scorched more than 51 squares miles and destroyed 57 homes. Officials did lift the evacuation for people in the carmel highland neighborhood, but many people returned only to find ashes where their homes once stood. Fick up one every our Oldest Community members, took him to his house. He said i want you to find out from me, and i know you need to see it. Winds have kept the fire from moving north into more heavily populated areas, but the south ends of the fire real a struggle for firefighters there, dealing with high temperatures, and extremely low humidity. And justin joining us now on the east coast, dealing with almost the opposite, heavy rain, flashflooding, certainly not low humidity. They could use some of the humidity, starting to really feel insufferable, you can sweat it out today headed outside, shore, good shape right now, seeing little bit of sunshine braking out through the clouds, few people on the beach, in ocean sit, this hour. So calm start to our sunday. Couldnt get a stray shower or two coming in later this morning into the afternoon for it. South jersey, but Central Jersey specially long beach island, get ready to see heavy rain for awhile. Check it out on storm scan3. Just have some slow moving showers over the past couple of hours, this is two hour loop. Not moving too far eastward over the past couple of hours, so you can basically see eastern pennsylvania, down to southern new jersey, on eastward, toward the coastline. We are seeing pocket of heavy rain depending on where you are. There is the bulls eye right over toms river right now getting pounded with persistent heavy rain. That just prompted flashflood warning for part of far eastern burlington count my central ocean county new jersey. That goes until at least 11 00 this morning, already seeing 3 inches every rain in a short amount of time. This will likely lead to some flashflooding, with that slow moving shower, continuing to move off to the east. Look at the temperatures. Mid 70s, pretty much everywhere. So we have no dropoff in the numbers across the suburbs, but we do find cooler air to the north and west, upper great lakes, 60s chicago, alpena michigan, eventually we will get some cooler, drier air, but do you have wait few more days, likely tuesday and wednesday, thats going to be the best days of the week as far as the humidity levels go and here is the dew point on the rise, now up to 74 degrees, the temperature at which moisture condenses, pretty much right at it, so almost 100 humidity out there. And you can feel it out there. And it is helping to fuel the heavier showers. Does feel insufferable, get used to it, stays that way the rest of the afternoon. Dew point temperatures maybe dropping degree or two through the afternoon, but you wont feel the difference, tonight you will need the ac cranking again, unfortunately, cant save couple of bucks on the electric bill with the airconditioning running, same deal tomorrow. Dew points in the 70s, tropical air mass, feeling very humid, the shore today, 85 degrees, some sunshine, which were seeing right now, cant rule out a shower or storm specially later this afternoon. Tomorrow casino of repeat of today. Mid 80s again. Tuesday looking little better. We start dropping the humidity sunshine and clouds, high 83 degrees. The problem is we just have the slow moving frontal boundery situated over the midatlantic, helping to squeeze out in the form of slow moving showers, few thunderstorms, eventually the front starts to move off shore tomorrow. Less after chance for some rain. But the threat still there. Tuesday, we start to get some drier air moving in from the north from high pressure, that sets the stage for nice couple of days, which i will show you in the seven day forecast. Through early afternoon, again, scattered showers, mainly eastern pennsylvania on toward the shore point. Really any time through the afternoon, we could see another shower or two fire up. It extends into tonight. So overnight, you may be hearing some of that rain pounding your window when you are sleeping, tomorrow morning, though, looking little better for the morning drive. Into the afternoon, maybe a shower or two, but notice the coverage is much less, as far as the rain goes. Upper 80s for the warm spots today for the high temperatures, tonight, still warm, muggy, mid 70s in a lot of spots, tomorrow, same deal, mid upper 80s little sunshine, forecast high again 88 today, scattered showers, storms, tonight muggy, more showers and storms around, extended forecast, tuesday, starts to get better. 84 degrees, low humidity, and we bring back some heat by the ends of next week into next weekends. Rahel, back to you. Justin, thank up. Lets get the the wet weather, ann evans at the traffic center. Good morning, rahel, affecting traffic. Your definitely correct. Looking at the schuylkill expressway, now, the eastbound lanes to the left of your screen just had an accident, that cleared between conshohocken and belmont, but we still have an accident in the westbound lanes, as you can see, this is to the right. The shoulder is blocked between gladwynn and conshohocken, and the area is jammed on and off, right now, traffic is squeezing by, but again, these are weatherrelated accident, so drive carefully. We dont have shot of this, but we do want to tell you the onramp closed on city avenue northbound at the schuylkill, due to flooding conditions. Were going to move the traffic cam to i95 right at ridley park. You can see here there is no rain at all, so, parts of the area, affected by a lot of rain on the highways, and some highways, that arent affected at all. I95, ridley park, looks okay. So far. And there is no delays on i95, through philadelphia, despite the rain. Were going to move the traffic cam to the ben franklin bridge midspan. Again, rain, really not affecting the bridge, fine shape. Further up, 42, 55, the a. C. Expressway, and the garden state parkway all look okay if youre shore bound, keep in mind, taking septa today, those septa regional rails, still using an updated interim weekday schedule because of the ongoing equipment shortage. Thats the latest from the cbs3 traffic center. Im ann evans, rahel, back to you. Thank you, ann. Well, if you have any family in New Hampshire today probably good day to give them a call. Only jackpot winning Powerball Ticket sold there and that win is her getting 478 million. Hard to believe. Look on the bright side though. Maybe you want a smaller prize. So check your numbers. The winning numbers are eleven, 17, 21, 23, 32, the powerball lucky number five. Powerball gets going again in time f

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