right now at 6:00 septa regional rail comes to a halt, as hundreds of engineers and electrical workers walk off the job. now, governor corbett is going to the white house, in hopes of ending the strike. good evening, everyone, i'm todd quinones, natasha has the evening off. union workers wentz on strike at 12:0; after needed contract

talks failed. out to jan live at philadelphia's overbrook station, jan? >> todd, the only trains that have been coming through this section have been amtrak trains this evening. otherwise, the rales have been silent, not even other people in the area here tonight, even if the president does stands in to ends the strike temporarily, septa says when the workers return, it will take eight to ten hours to return the service to normal. so the regional rail lines will not open at least tonight. >> rail workers not manning the trains, but pact g at many stations instead, 12:0; septa's regional rail lines screeched to a halt, after more than 400 workers and two unions walked offer the job. >> i have not had any contact with septa today to schedule any additional meetings. >> but the strike may be short lived. pennsylvania governor tom corbett has asked president owe bam a to intervene, requesting presidential emergency board mediate the dispute between the transit

agencies and engineers and electricians union, in a statement released saturday afternoon, corbett states, the people of philadelphia and the surrounding region expect and de is her after safe and efficient rail system to get them to work, medical appointments, school and recreation, i call on both parties to work together, finds common grounds, and place the writers at the forefront of mind in their discussion. if the president acts, union members would have to get back to work immediately. >> we will certainly comply with the mandates of the law, and we will be given the opportunity to present our best case to the presidential emergency board. >> the main sticking points, they say, raises, retroactive wage increase, pension benefits two, unions have been working without a contract for four and five years. meanwhile, septa subways, buses and trolleys will continue to run. >> look at our website. we have a service interruption plan that will tell you how to use alternate services.

>> employees not required to return to work until l presidential board is put into place, effectively at least for 240 days, but members every both parties say quite possibly could ends up in this scenario. meantime to take a look at septa's plans while this strike is happening, just take a look at cbsphilly.com. reporting live in philadelphia, jan, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> jan, thank you. again, here is a look at what's impacted during the strike. all 13 regional rail lines have been suspended, also, the route 78 bus from cornwells heights is temporarily not running. all other mass transit is up and running, that includes the norristown high-speed line, buses, broad street line, market frankford line, and trolleys, septa says, its increasing vericose help commuters get to where they need to go. of course, our coverage continues on line. for more information on this strike, and septa's service interruption plan just go to our website at cbsphilly.com. four year old boy is returned to cooper university

hospital after being struck by a car in camden. the incident happened on the 1600 block of pine street, at around 1:00 this afternoon authorities say the driver of the car that struck the child remained at the scene, no word on the child's condition. bright beautiful skies out there today, more in store for us. "eyewitness news" in old city outside the betsy ross house, where special flag day festivities were going on. justin drabek live on the skydeck, joins us live with a look at the wetter. >> hi, todd, that's right, can't complain about the weather for the past several weekends across the delaware vale, pleasant, low humidity, temperatures actually little below average today. now do have few clouds around right now about no threat of any rainfall. check out the high temperatures. we should be in the lower 80s, only made it to 76 officially at the philadelphia international airport, 62 in mount pocono, 80 inland at the atlantic city airport. here is where we are, six 60s in the suburbs, low 70s,

across philadelphia, and areas to the south and new jersey, and in delaware. so it will be somewhat of a keel night. looking at 50's, returning to the forecast, so you can open up the windows, enjoy the fresh air. few clouds moving on through right now on storm scan3, they'll dissipate as we lose the heating from the day. now the fathers day forecast, looks great, through the morning, very comfortable, sunshine in the 60s, will make it back to the low 80s, by the afternoon hours. but the heat and humidity do make return in the seven day forecast, we will break it down for now few more minutes, todd? >> justin, looking forward to t the spca says they've busted up a major cockfighting ring in kensington. the raid happened 2900 block of e street this morning. authorities say a group of men was surrounding a ring and watching roosters fight when they broke into the home. they escaped through back door, homeowner though was arrested. eighteen roosters were confiscated. >> the fighting birds, they will be held as evidence, and until this goes to court. and typically it is hard to

rehabilitate a fighting birds, usually they're euthanized. >> home owner is facing animal cruelty charges tonight. lawmakers discussing the pros and cons of legalizing marijuana in pennsylvania at the university of pennsylvania today, talked about how tax revenues, and crime, could go up, if marijuana is league a.m.ized. philadelphia city council is considering legislation, to lessen the penalties for marijuana possession. >> new information in the crisis in iraq. battleships are moving to the persian gulf in case the us decides to take military action against islamic militants who are threatening to capture more cities. cbs news correspondent wendy gillette has the detail. >> the aircraft carrier uss george h.w. bush and two other warships are making their way to the persian gulf, the north arabian sea.

us defense secretary chuck hagel ordered the move to give president obama additional military options, as islamic extremists continue to seize towns and territory in northwestern iraq. baghdad appears to be the next target for the sunni militants, who are from an al quaida splinter group called the islamic state of iraq and the laugh and the. on saturday, thousands of men answered a call from iraq's most influencial shiite letter took pick up arms and defends the country against the insurgentsy. but the militants momentum seem to slow as the weekend began. still, baghdad is under tight security with troops, manning checkpoints. if newspapers warn residents after humanitarian crisis if the insurgents are not brought under control. >> nothing but political solution to. >> this obviously there needs to be security operations, to deal with the terrorist threat, that's inevitable. >> as the us decides if it will provide any military assistance, cbs news has learned that iran has sent

troops to iraq to help restore stability in the region. wendy gillette, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> polls are now close in the afghanistan after mostly peaceful event, estimating the turn out about 60%. the candidates are a former foreign minister and an ex world bank official. today the white house praised the afghan people and called the election a major step forward on the country's democratic path. still ahead on "eyewitness news", outrage on board a flight from new york to boston. what one mother says happened to her daughter, that she calls humiliating. plus the power after paint brush. how one young man turned the violence in his life into artwork, that has captured the attention after very prestigious university. justin? >> and we have another pleasant weekend across the delaware valley. things start to change in the seven day forecast, once again, i'll show

massachusetts mother is demanding happen old he political gentlemen from jet blue, refused to let her three year old use the bathroom. on a flight this week from new york to boston, the plane was delayed on the tarmac for about 30 minutes, that's when her daughter needed to use the bathroom. the flight attendants demanded they stay in their seats. >> wasn't about bad customer

service, at that point, just about bad human decency, she was sitting in a pool of urine, i couldn't do anything about it. and as a mom, it just broke my heart. the pilot announced he was taking back to the gate, but offer duty pilot sitting in front of devereaux convinced the crew to let her stay. high school artist is heading to an ivy league school this fall with a big scholarship. expect college to be difficult, but this young man has already put in a lot of hard work, to overcome violence in his life. cbs news correspondent brendan scott has the story. >> these are the hauntingly hopeful faces of inner city new orleans. and this is leonard, the 18 year old high school artist, who painted them. >> personally, i feel he's conveyed the message. >> this 3d painting was featured recently in the new orleans contemporary art center, shows a gun on the ground, and young man turning his back.

>> this this city, most of the homicides, and shootings, and stuff like that, are because of the young african-american males. so i just wanted to do sort of turning back on that. >> the piece is personal to leonard. he grew up in the project everyone of new orleans infamous high-crime, low-income neighborhoods. he was born when his mom was just 13. his dad was a drug dealer, murdered in broad daylight. >> could you have fallen into that same trap in terms of violence? >> i think so. i think i was really luck. >> i as a kid, he loved art. and his mom encouraged him to draw. keeping him away from the drugs and violence. >> teachers recognized leonard's talent and pushed him to apply for college. not only did he get accepted to yale, he earned a prestigious scholarship to help cover the cost. >> what do you think of your accomplishments?

do you ever sit back and take it all in? >> when i do i start freaking out a little bit. you know, i still have to go to school annex sell, so this will be difficult. >> leonard paint brush helped change the course of his live. he'll use it to create the next chapter. brandon scott, cbs news, new orleans. >> hundreds every british soldiers nards central london to mark the official birthday of queen elizabeth the second. the queen actually turned 88 on april 21st, but the monarch traditionally celebrates the occasion publicly in june. elizabeth's family also took part in the ceremony. the parade which is called trooping the color has taken place in london since 1820. we suffered through a lot of storms this week. >> pay off comes. week sends here.

>> looking good again tomorrow. we heat things up for next week. let's enjoy fathers day weekends, a lot of happy people at the shore right now, and in ocean sit, new jersey, taking advantage of the pleasant conditions, dry weather, some sunshine, nice breeze, temperatures in the 70s right along the coastline. now, something about the weaken here over the past couple of weeks, it's been great. we go to two weeks ago, temperatures were in the upper 70s, right near average, with low humidity, last week, same deal, little bit warmer than average, but still very comfortable, low humidity. here we go again this weekend. 76 degrees with a high today, tomorrow should break to the low 80s, still the humidity level is on the low side. storm scan3, just showing batch of clouds moving in from the north, eventually will dissipate, as we lose the heating from the sun, clear skies to the west, nice area of high pressure, will dominate our weather through the rest of the weekends, into next week, keeping things nice and dry. look at that. for the middle of june, low 70s? tough to beat. seventy-two in philadelphia, and millville, 73 atlantic

city, 56 degrees already in mount pocono. so that's that. dry canadian aromas, continues to build in, keep the windows open, save some money on the electric bill, shut the air-conditioning off. seventy-one right now in pittsburgh, so you see, no big warmth to the west. dew point temperatures, which tells us how much humidity the moisture is in the air, much lower. we were at 70, just 24 hours ago, now, we're in the 40's, that just indicates how dry this air mass s and that's compliments of the winds. coming out of the northwest, and notice the arrows, northwesterly breeze, that keeps us nice and comfortable, temperatures below average, now, tomorrow we start to break back to the low 80s, near average, there is the area of high pressure, starts to build off shore for monday, now we see little bit more after south winds, the heat and humidity starts to return, later monday into tuesday, and looks like we will make a run at 90 degrees, this will be the first time we hit 09 for many spots this year, across the delaware valley, at humidity also rises. nothing happening for fathers

day, it looks great. enjoy the day. plenty of sunshine, comfortable temperatures, same deal on monday, maybe few clouds, start to build in, tuesday, you'll feel the difference, with the heat and humidity, and there is a slight chance of an isolated shower, thunderstorm, coming in later during the day, on tuesday. but, back to typical summer like weather. temperatures tomorrow, after waking up in the 50's, some spots, will rebounds nicely, into the upper 70s, to lower 80s, and really starts to warm up on monday, inland spots, well into the mid to even upper 80s, so the forecast overnight, nice, comfortable skies mostly clear, 58%, center city, so you know the suburbs cooler than. that will warmer day sunday, mostly sunny skies, we get up to 83 degrees, for high temperatures, still that winds out of the northwest, keeps the humidity levels low. another great looking day at the jersey shore, delaware beaches. air temperatures in the upper 60s, water temperature right now 68 degrees. the a lot of sunshine tomorrow. uv index very high, nine out of ten, so the burn time about

ten, 15 minutes, without any sun block on. so make sure you do have the sun block around. extended forecast, 83 with sunshine, for sunday, 88, monday, mostly sunny, then we hit string of 90s, looks like tuesday, wednesday could be scattered showers, thunderstorms, coming in later on wednesday, thursday, and friday, so again storm chances that doesn't look like we will see anything like last week. and then by next weekend looks like we clear things back to the mid 80s, temperatures down at the shore, actually start to warm up. looks like we will make a run at 08-degree high temperatures, again, ocean water temperature still chilly, upper 60s to around 706789 but nice weekends, then we heat things up again for next week. >> thanks, justin. now we join now with a look at sports. rob. >> big day today. jimmy rollins, phillies all time hits record, this afternoon, the phillies holes dollars the cubs, in one of the series yesterday, went to the cubs, phillies look to go get even. but jimmy was the big storiment we pick this up, runners in, ben revere

delivers, little bloop, take it, that will score carlos ruiz, four-two lead, then the big moment of the day, watch jim i rollins rips one right there to right field. that will do it. >> he surpass cents mike schmidt, 2,235 hits. great touch here. mike schmidt on hand at the game, goes out, gives jimmy the congratulations, awesome, awesome moment right there for the phillies. and good stuff continues later, dom brown crushes three run shot after mike schmidt had given him a tip on batting, believe it or not, fifth of the season, phillies go onto win seven-four. >> for series that went five games, sure did have share of drama concluded after 94 minutes of hockey, two over times, los angeles kings knocking offer new york rangers winning the second cup in three seasons. >> game five of the nba final tomorrow night, spurs, close out the heat on home court. game two, san antonio, south

beach, crushing miami, in game 34, wins tomorrow. >> us open, martin issued leader, this was second shot from rough, fifth hole, puts it, he's been doing this all tournament. nothing strange here. currently has five stroke lead. >> day three of worlds cup, slate, schedule yet, early match up, greece versus columbia, a all columbia, this one second half, nice goal off corner kick, columbia up two-nothing, at that point. little icing on the cake here. rodriguez finds fate inside the box. he beats the keeper, from 16 yards out. columbia a winner three to nothing. this afternoon, coast if a rica, huge underdog, they went down one-nil in the first half, came back, out of half

on fire, scoring two goals, quick success, tack on another late goal, pull off crazy, crazy upset, final three-one over costa rica. all right, last night, even bigger upset. it was final, netherlands put a beat-down on spain. dutch, they brought their a game. sure d they were down a goal. but put it altogether. they hammered spain five to one, take early advantage in group b. >> great stuff there. >> awesome day today. >> great stuff. thanks, rob. we'll be right back.

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