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KYW Eyewitness News At 8 July 31, 2016

Again hit and miss stuff. So just keep your eyes to the sky. It will warm up pretty rapidly today. 77 degrees currently, calm winds, does feel like 78. So humidity running high. Current showers right now, twohour loop. Starting to diminish. The exception is central ocean county south of toms river, still dealing with slow moving shower, very heavy rainfall over 3 inches of rain, from that little system right there, but showers beginning to move out of bucks county, and south jersey looking whole lot better, too, over the past hour, flashflood warning stays in effect because of the heavy rain over central ocean county, that continues to about 11 00 this morning, still some flood advisories in effect for bucks county, part of northeast philadelphia, extending into northern Burlington County into trenton, from earlier showers. So there could be little bit of urban flooding going on being some of the smaller streams or creeks on the rights. Mid and upper 70s for the air temperatures, dew point very high in the mid 70s, as well, so tropical feel to the air mass out there. Very warm and humid today. That will help fuel more scattered showers and maybe thunderstorm, so heavy rain still pots and any shower, 88 for the high for philadelphia, mid 80s at the shore, 70s in the poconos, does cool down, humidity drops for the work week, ill let you know when that arrives in a few minutes. Rahel, back to you. This morning, we are following developing story out every austin, texas, the chaos caught on sell phone video, one woman killed, four people injured, in gunfire. The search continues this morning for suspect, but police say that the suspect may be among the people taken to the hospital with injuries. Of course we will continue to follow that. Also, in texas, hot air balloon caring 16 passengers crashes on saturday, and it appears everyone on board is dead. Authority say the balloon caught fire went down in a pasture, cbs news correspondent Omar Villafranca reports. Investigators surveyed 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. 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 said she off tens sees hot air balloons flying in the area, and that the same Company Involved in the accident identified as heart of texas hot air balloon rides had what she called close call in a neighbors field about a year and a half ago. She said it was foggy early in the morning, but that 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. The way it went up i dont think any had any idea what was going on. Team out of the ntsb will try to determine what went wrong, will treat this area like a crime scene. You only get one chance at it, we want to make sure we do everything correctly. Governor greg and booth said in a statement he is asking all of texas to join in prayer for the loss. Omar villafranca, for cbs3 Eyewitness News. New this morning, police are investigating a serious accident on roosevelt boulevard southbound, near fox street, there are reports of four people injured and several rushed to the hospital. Were told a fight actually broke out between two of the victims once they got to the hospital. No word on the cause of the fire or the extent of injuries in the accident. An investigation is underway into a shooting involving two new jersey state troopers. The troopers responded to 911 calls on the 300 block every center ton road in upper deerfield township late friday night. Police say a man, fired shot at them, and troopers returned fire. Man in critical but stable condition. One of the troopers was grazed by either gunfire or shattered glass. Police questioning person of interest in connection with phony traffic stop in orland, montgomery county. And investigators say road rage may have spark the stop. Eyewitnesses say that this white van had flashing red and blue police style light when the driver pulled over another vehicle near church and brent roads last tuesday. Springfield Township Police traced the van registration to Charles Grossman of whitemarsh township, police are looking for anyone with more information on the incident to come forward. A south jersey man is under arrest, facing arson charges after a fire at the mays landing bulkhead in Atlantic County. Twentyone year old william held at the Atlantic County justice facility right now. Police say they supported him after fire broke out on vessel near the bulkhead just before midnight last night. Eyewitness news provided description, police say he fit that description. So far investigators have no motive for the alleged arson. It should be fun afternoon in south philly as the 11th annual car show and street festival takes over the East Passyunk neighborhood. Cherri gregg from sister station kyw news radio live there as organizers get ready for busy day, good morning. Reporter good morning, rahel. 8 00 just passed, and the cars just began to roll in, as you can see, hine me, a number of antique and very show cars just rolled in, lining up here, along East Passyunk avenue. And i got to bring in pat. Pat, common in. Introduce yourself to our crowd. Come on over here. From the northeast car club. Wonderful. Good morning. Good morning. This is an exciting day for you guys. Yes, it is, this is our 11th year running the car showdown here on East Passyunk avenue. Wonderful. And so tell me, the hundred 40 plus cars are going to be here today . Yes, over 140 cars, last year was about 144, so were expecting about the same this year. Ill move out of the way, so showing you all of the cars, different vehicles just roll up. But lets talk about this, you are here from the very beginning. Tell me, you had a cute story about how this all began, 11 plus years ago . Yes, 11 years ago, i was contacted by a person named al, from rose lena restaurant, just up the block here. He has an antique car himself. And said it would really and great idea to put some cars in front of his restaurant. Well, that conversation turned into having a full blown car show, and that very same year we had our first car showdown here East Passyunk avenue. We had about 90 cars that first year. Yes, and it has since grown, grown, grown. Literally like hundreds, thousands of folks, flocked to this area, it check out the restaurant, check out all of the businesses, they go shopping, there is a kids area, all sorts of things, if you have any inkling every thought that this would be happening when you put the one car out all those years ago . No idea we new it would blossom into this. Everybody is asking me about this every year, when is it, when is it, very popular, all of the people in the surrounding neighborhoods, just love to come to this event. Yes, and so let me tell you where it will be. It goes from broad all the way back to dickinson, from 11 00 to 4 00 today. There will be a dj, live music at every single block. There will be drink specials, and a number of restaurant along this area as well as discount, and shopping, and of course pat youll be here. Yes, i will be here. Come on down, look at all of the old cars. We have variety of cars anywhere from example here 1906, up until present 2016. Yes, and i saw them rolling in. Could you hear the engines humming, lot of fun, great for kids, again, 11 00 to 4 00 today here in south philadelphia. Live in south philadelphia, cherri gregg, kyw news radio for cbs3, Eyewitness News. 1906. All right, looks like fun. Well the giant Powerball Jackpot will not be rolling over. Coming up next, last nights numbers, and here where the Winning Ticket was sold. Remember, it was all the rage two summers ago, now seeing the result. Our Stephanie Stahl shows us how the money from that ice bucket challenge is now being put to good use. Incredible images to the south of our area, where flashflooding destroyed a city street and even flipped over some cars. Justin . Good morning, still seeing some heavy rain through parts of the area this morning, but more showers on the way. It stays unsettled as we head into the work week. Ill let you know when the sun finally comes out in full in the that block is block off until police get the tree cleared, fortunately, no one hurt thereon south street. Tree not the only thing damaged by last nights serious storm. Trang do, flooding in mercer county, where some drivers were stranded inside their cars. Heavy rainfall, and flashflooding, across mercer county, left drivers stranded. But once i realized it was the water, i just pull off the rolled, trying to be safe. And kept first responders, and tow truck drivers, busy. Just like one after another. Were on a police call, so were just pulling people out of the water, getting them to high ground. Andrew griffin and his wife jody took matters into their own hands, and feet, wading through as much as 2 feet of water on alexander road. One of dozens stuck on the platform of the Princeton Junction train station, surrounded by water as seen in the cell phone video. And 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 eventually ended up as you saw caring her suitcase through this water here. The couple did have a boat. Did you have to take that boat over to rescue your husband . I was seeing 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 horses, they put them up for a reason, you know, they dont do it because theyre bored, 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, trang do, cbs3, Eyewitness News. Flashflooding in maryland caused even more damage, state officials now declaring a state of emergency. Ellicott caught with flashflooding, with homes, businesses, even cars washed up against storefront in the historic business district. Homes evacuated, power knocked out for miles around, and some people who were caught in the storm say it was a frightening scene. Insane, flashflood, i literally came here, thought i would have i err, within five minute it was panic, someone pulling someone out of there. Never seen anything like it. The water got upright where we are standing here it, would have been about waist high on me right here. Emergency responders say they did make numerous water rescues, resident were being asked to stay away, while, crews start to clean up. Tough images there, justin, you said it yesterday, very localized, but depends where you were, making it really harder. Maybe not so much . And could you feel the humidity, now helping to bring the heavy rain, just reminder, only 6 inches of fast moving water to move a person in about a foot to actually move a car. So dangerous stuff, if you encounter any wet roadways, dont drivethru it. That motto you always hear, turn around, dont drown. And seeing flooded areas shall specially in new jersey, but in delaware, it is actually pretty nice start to the day. We have some sunshine, Rehoboth Beach. And it looks like most of extreme southern new jersey, delaware, will get through today on the dry side. So, not a bad beach day overall. Just keep in mind, you may run into a scattered shower, perhaps thunderstorm later this afternoon, but boardwalk being looking pretty busy, Rehoboth Beach people hitting the beach already early this morning, but check out storm scan3, you can see the renmant of the showers, over parts of eastern new jersey right now, Burlington County, still, just off toms river, pounded by heavy rainfall for the past couple of hours, already seeing up to 5 inches every rain, in berkeley township, rain finally moving out of philadelphia, breaking up the clouds. Seeing sunshine. We get a break, south and west, so i think we will be good through the rest of the morning around philadelphia. Take some time to get these showers to move out. But in the afternoon, again, we could run the risk for more scattered showers even few thunderstorms, over the past 24 hours, a lot every rainfall estimated on doppler radar. Not so much around philadelphia, but you get into areas to the south, northern delaware, see a lot of yellow, orange, two, 3 inches every rain, then, there is west windsor, just north of trenton, four, 5 inches every rain, then just south of toms river, look at that, this is over the past two, three hours, did prompt flashflood warning remains in effect. Dew point running hi, 73 degrees, that indicate a lot of moisture, humidity in the air, so it feels oppressive, that will be the trends through the rest of today, even into tonight, dew point stay into the low 70s, probably need the airconditioning running for sure with this tropicallike air mass, same deal monday. Humidity going no where. Get used to it, rough start to the work week. At least the High Temperatures little cooler, so not dealing with heat indexes up around 100 degrees. So, here we go. Today, eight a degrees, and camera keeps moving on me little bit. At the shore, eight a, humid, with some showers on monday afternoon, as well, tuesday, little bit less humid, mix of sun and clouds, 83 degrees, for the afternoon high. So, forecast model shows those showers diminish little bit into the afternoon, see little more sun, but even Late Afternoon into tonight, we run the risk for heavy showers maybe few thunderstorms, good news these storms should not become severe. Then tomorrow, little drier, less coverage in the rain. But still cant rule out a shower or storm. So today, up to 88 degrees, very humid, and then tonight, still muggy, 75 for the low temperature, still some rain around, and then tomorrow, i think we start off dry, really the afternoon, the only chance for scattered shower or storm 88 degrees, then we cool it down, drop the humidity tuesday and wednesday, feels pretty good for early august. Humidity and heat return the end of the week, friday, saturday, talking lower 90s, so not going away. Amp them back up. Justin, thank youment time 8 17. Lets go pack and check with ann evans at the cbs3 traffic center. I know you were watching ascent earlier. That is cleared. Both cleared, good news. Schuylkill i am boxer it accident have cleared, flooding here, that was here before, has receded, and were good to go now on the schuylkill, we do have one problem spot though. Well keep you posted. Moving the traffic cam to the midcounty tolls of the pa turnpike, no delays here at the midcounty tolls from the pa turnpike westbound, we have an accident, between bensalem philadelphia and willow grove. With possible lane closures, plus, it is unable to dispense fuel all over services are working. We will move the traffic cam one more time, and this is to i95, at the walt whitman bridge. I95 looks good through philadelphia and suburbs with no major delays or problems. And the walt whitman bridge looks all right, too. No problems up ahead, 55, the a. C. Expressway looks all right, so does the garden state parkway. One note for you here, if you are traveling in lower merion township, montgomery avenue shutdown between conshohocken state road and levering mill road due to a fallen tree. And thats the latest from the cbs3 traffic center. Im inch evans, rahel, back to you. Ann, thank you. There was just one winner of last nights 487 milliondollar Powerball Jackpot. How would that be . The single Winning Ticket was reportedly sold in new hampshire, so if you have any family there maybe give them a call today. Back here in our area, maybe you won a smaller prize so check your numbers. Winning numbers eleven, 17, 21, 23, 32, lucky powerball number is five. Well, some harry potter fans might have stayed up all night reading the latest installment of the famous and popular book series. Take a look. How about this line at the barnes and noble in Rittenhouse Square . 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