last night's storms. crews are going back in the river this morning to find them. we are live with the search effort. a lot of activity on storm scan three, we have our eye on hurricane arthur's path. that is right hurricane arthur. also some rain heading our way. lets check with traffic and weather together and start with katie, good morning. >> good morning, that is right, in the last half an hour that storm has been upgraded, it is a category one, making a beeline, to the carolinas. expect to have a impact on us and more direct impact on the delaware valley. we will talk about that and we will have your full forecast, it does get better with time. we have something to look forward to, bob, over to you. 5:30 on this thursday morning and we are dealing with the problem on 476. here's a live look at southbound lanes of the the blue route where vehicle fire tying us up for last half an hour or so. it looks like far right lane is squeezing through but if you are heading south toward the airport you better get a move on. we are stack up for over an

hour. i'll show you how to get around it coming up next. good morning, bob. search is resuming for missing man whose sail boat capsized in the delaware river. >> he was one of five people aboard when he hit the area. "eyewitness news" reporter jen bernstein joins us live, good morning. >> good morning. >> reporter: search is expected to resume this morning and it is finally light out which will help rescuers as they look here at the delaware whichever which you can see is calm this morning. the there is a light win. there is still no sign of this missing 66 year-old we're told from bucks county. last night friend told us off camera he is a strong swimmer and they are hoping he is still alive out here somewhere. he was last seen at 8:00 p.m. last night in the delaware river holding on to a cooler as a floattation device. search crews used chopper and tracking devices to look for him. he had only 45 minutes of daylight before it got dark. police say five people were on board a 24-foot sail both bet

when a storm moved in. the group dropped their sales ape used a met or to head back to the yacht club but sudden thunderstorm caused the sail boat to capsize. four of the five swam back to the river banks but the 66 year-old wasn't with them. >> they said that he is an experienced, boater, and specifically sail boats, he does know how to swim, he doesn't have have any health problems and in good shape for his age. so we're hoping we will find him and able to rescue him. >> reporter: source tells us that the chopper may have locate that had sail both in the water here last night but it was too dark and dangerous to send that boat back out. the rescuers are expect to come back out here once the sunrisees as they look for this missing 66 year-old man. that is very latest from the northeast, jen bernstein cbs-3 "eyewitness news". more than 10,000 lightening strikes lit up the sky during last night's storms. we are waiting to hear if one

of them sparked a house fire in montgomery county. cell phone video shows smoke and flames pouring from raven hallow drive-in montgomery township. fire completely destroyed the whole second floor. fortunately the home owner and her dog got out safely. lightening may have cause an apartment fire in voorhees, new jersey. fire fighters were called out to the club at main street just before 10:00 o'clock last night. the residents from 17 units in the complex were displaced. in serious injuries were reported but one fire fighter was taken to the hospital for evaluation. 5:33. lets get our traffic and weather together on the three's, here's katie. >> this remains a very active pattern. yesterday was about the heat and thunderstorm. today it is almost the same story but storms trumped the heat today. it will still be hot and we are still tracking is what now hurricane arthur, a category one storm. thankfully more indirect impact on us here in the local area. lets start off by taking you out to the shore, hot bed of

activity this weekend of course and a hot bed of active weather. we have quite a bit of included cover left over and you can see that red sky. remember that old saying red sky in the morning, sailors take warning. definitely a true saying i guess you can say here. lets go to storm scan three. we had stormy weather rolling through, might have woken you up, lot have of lightening with. that we have mentioned over 10,000 strikes, approximately, were actually picked up on the radar with storms that went through. the here's one example. can you imagine 10,000 approximately, of this kind of a strike coming through our area. it is amaze ago this we don't have more damage reported right now this one came in from sandy sparks. she tweeted me four separate awesome pings tours of the lightening from last night. thank you for. that we love you're witness frown reports in picture format and hash tag it at cbs-3 storm. 2.2-mile visibility is your current level of how far you can see in front of your face. that is at the airport , lower further inland you go

and not ideal really anywhere but not as bad in some spots like the poconos or lehigh valley. regardless a haze over us here today. still enough sunshine to heat it up to 90 degrees and we are in the mid to lower 80's down the shore and poconos. everybody can once again bank on more showers and more potential for severe thunderstorms later on today, bob, over to you. 5:35 on this thursday morning but for a lot of us it is a friday morning as we get ready for that holiday weekend. we will see unusual traffic patterns. one unusual pattern is all brake lights as we are jammo on the blue route, 476, a live look southbound lanes right here near exit number three which is media swarthmore. earlier accident and vehicle fire, here's car that was involved. he is facing opposite direction here. with all of the fire fighting equipment on the scene only the far right lane is getting on through. here's on ramp for media swarthmore to give you an idea here. we are bumper to bumper for well over a mile all coming

southbound. as we go to the maps as we step out front door from say saint david, villanova heading south the trying to get down towards the airport your best bet using route 320 or 252 instead of the blue route to get all those lanes reopened. using mass trans to it day and throughout the weekend, today everybody operating on a normal schedule. tomorrow will be a holiday schedule saturday and sun take working on a weekend schedule and mass transit running with no delays, erika, back to you. that big food truck blast caught on camera in feltonville apparently started with a leak in the propane tank. force of tuesday's blast injured 13 people and ignited a fireball near third and wyoming. philadelphia police say there were two, 100-pound propane tanks in the truck. a leak in one of them ignited the grill. >> i have never seen anything like tonight my life. the truck was still on fire. there was people using fire extinguishers on several fires. >> five people are in critical

condition, including the truck owner and her daughter. l and i says the the truck was licensed to operate at that scene. your time is 5:37. in business news which fast food places are the most popular. >> also what request target officials are asking of the customers. money watch's jill wagner joins us live from the new york stock exchange and she has those stories and more, jill, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, we will see if stocks can end this shortened trading week in record territory again. yesterday the the dow jones finished 20 points higher, just shy of the 17,000 mark which is a psychologically important milestone. the nasdaq finished flat. all eyes will be on the governments jobs report in june that comes out this morning. economists are expecting another solid month have of hiring. yesterday payroll processor adp reported a huge jump in private sector jobs for june. target is asking customers to leave their guns at home, the company says walking in to

a target with the gun creates an environment that is at odds with its family friendly shopping and work experience. a spokesperson says this is a request, not a prohibition. retailer does not sell guns. amazon.com says it will fight the federal trade commission over purchases by children. on line retailers say it is prepared to go to court against the ftc over charges that it hasn't done enough to prevent kid from making millions of dollars of unauthorized purchases. amazon has already refunded money to some parents who complained. fast food customers are looking for quality, not just low costs. that is the result of the new consumer report survey about the fast food industry. it found that mcdonald's was actually on the bottom of the list when it came to burgers. in and out burger ranked as the best hamburger chain. when it comes to mexican food rube ohio's and chipotle is

the top. taco bell was ranked last. kfc ranked last for chickens. i think they might need to rethink a couple things there, ukee and quarter good can you say that one more time which was the best hamburger. >> in and out. >> which one. >> in and out. >> that is what i thought. >> is that one of your favorites. >> it is my absolute favorite. >> what happened to five guys and jake's way back. >> thanks, jill. we will get back to you. other news, new jersey governor chris christie has vetoed a gun control bill that would have reduced legal ammunition capacity from 15 to ten round. governor says the measure will not end mass shootings. supporters say the bill could make mass shootings less deadly by requiring gunman to stop to reload more often. they say would it give police and potential victims more time to react. time right now 5:39. bowe bergdahl is taking steps to return to normal will life, progress he is making in his reconferry.

new research is about to start in the ocean off have of new jersey but not everyone is on board with the controversial plan, also this. i literally thought he was trying to take a bite of the back of the boat. whale watching trip takes an unexpect turn hear from boaters who ended up in the water after a whale got too close for comfort, katie? this is a very active pattern for us here in the delaware valley, cold front, tropical moisture as we track arthur and it all culminate was your weekend forecast for the holiday, i'll have that on the other side. speaking of the holiday katie we want to show you some of the fire works shows happening around town tonight, never too early to start celebrating the fourth. we will be right back. and neil diamond.

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understand the rise of sea levels but critics say the test can be dangerous to sea life. >> over 17,000 sign our position and the federal agencies have thumbed their nose at all of that public outrage and concern and moving full steam ahead and that is just an outrage. >> rutgers responded saying in part we are operate nothing full compliance with the federal marine mommal protection act adhering to strict protocols that ensure marine life is protect to the fullest extent possible. blue whale are the largest animals on earth and the heavier in the history of the world, so when one comes up alongside your boat, you want to look out. photographer and the the boat's pilot were 12 miles off the coast of san diego when a blue whale unexpectly, just sprung out of the water. it capsized the boat, and knock both in the water. >> one hand on the boat, camera up on my shoulder up

like this, other hand is grabbing the camera and i said to myself, dale, just do what you can, keep yourself safe but if you can save that cameras save that camera. >> they are so expensive. now whales were feeding on fish at the time and capsized the boat. blue whales are sometimes 98 feet long and 190 tons. >> my gosh. >> that boat had no chance. >> right now just past 5:43. how about that, katie. >> they will need a much big are boat for something like that, my gosh. all right. let talk tropics here, as we are now dealing with the hurricane, category one hurricane in arthur and it continues to make its slow progress north here, toward the carolinas coastline. numerous warnings in effect here, we have got tropical storm warnings in effect, hurricane warnings right to the eastern coastal communities and barrier island here of north carolina but

hurricane watches in effect as pink shaded areas if you look really closely just behind that tropical storm warning but bottom line here is that tropical impacts to those shorelines but for us it is more indirect impact. we are dealing with certainly stormy wet's long the way here for today but that is not necessarily because of the arthur but it is an incorrect impact. we are drawing on quite/a bit of the tropical moisture. we had very heavy thunderstorms that rumbled through last night. but you can see the progress of the clouds and wet weather moving from south to north. that is where our moisture source is coming from. we have a tropical system off to the south. that is why these downpours will be really heavy and bringing us potential for flash flooding. we have flash flood watches going in to effect across the board at 8:00 a.m. and we are still, believe it or not in a severe weather threat zone for strong to severe weather that could fire up, much later today. eventually friday will clear out as arthur passes you by off shower and saturday look good. it gets better with time.

that is sort of the take away message here. today we will keep stormy. tomorrow especially at the shore points it could stay dicey for better pennsylvania part of the day and you will also have to watch it the if you have any plans to hit the open waves, please be careful bit, with arthur so close by, rip currents, dangerous surf, all a threat for us at least for the next say 48 hours. and hopefully this rain will be holding off for orr at the the shore, sound of the sea gulls, kathy will be heading to cape may this afternoon, don't miss what she has got in store today on "eyewitness news" at 5:00 and 6:00. so suiting, bob, i love it. >> just got to watch out for those sea gulls flying over you. lets look live at the blue route, 476, some good news we are opened for business, come on down, southbound lanes are back opened here at exit number three, media swarthmore. that earlier vehicle fire gone, traffic starting to move again. leaving from say saint david, villanova area maybe a few extra minutes, brake tapping until you get down to this

point. good morning to the bennie franklin live look at toll plaza in problems or delays at the moment. all of the roads are damp and wet from all that rain we dealt with last night, some flood concerns because of that rain up here bristol oxford valley road closed right at trenton road this morning. this is also a down tree along railroad avenue right near camden and wyoming avenue just south of the dover, delaware. then a crash in the neighborhood in jenkintown old york road at washington lane. and throughout the the weekend keep in mind when the big parade tomorrow morning through center city, and then from 12:00 to 7:00 we have the concert all day, fire works from 7:00 to 11:00 rolling through our fourth of july tomorrow, ukee, back of to you. new this morning new orleans police are questioning a man for a deadly shooting on bourbon street this was the scene sunday morning when ten people were shot. one of the victims just died yesterday. man turns himself into police yesterday. so far he is only charged with

shop rifting and traffic violations. prosecutors are expected to layout new details against the georgia father whose son died in the sweltering suv. justin harris will be in court this afternoon to ask the judge for bail. harris says he accidentally left his 22 month-old strapped into his car seat when he was supposed to drop the young boy off at day care. sergeant bowe bergdahl is now allowed off the texas military base where he is receiving care. it is part of his reintegration process into society after five years as a taliban prisoner in afghanistan. the army says sergeant bergdahl is going to a grocery store, restaurants and a library as part of the process of getting comfortable were being out in the public. concerns about new terrorist threats to build bombs that can go undetect through airport security is now prompting the u.s. government to call for tighter security measures at some foreign airports. co im reports from newark, international.

>> reporter: forty year-old leon goth traveled through l.a. g to his european vacation but he is in the looking forward to the increasing security he will likely encounter on his way back. >> frustrating to go through these measures every time. there has to be a better way. >> reporter: federal government is taking additional precautions on non-stop international flights heading to the u.s. mostly from europe and middle east. officials say the new measures stem frome loving concerns about a growth number of westerners traveling to syria and iraq to fight. intelligence officials say westerners who are sometimes less scrutinized when traveling can be recruit wide terrorist groups like al qaeda overseas. then they use their own pass forward to smuggle hidden explosives on to planes. home land security secretary jay johnson did not give specifics about what measures travelers would face but said in a statement aviation security includes a number of measures both seen and unseen. some travelers here in the states say they are okay with whatever the measures might be, even if it means more delays. >> it can be upgraded,

everybody will feel safe. >> reporter: enhanced security measures will be implemented in the come days but will not impact domestic flight. co im for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". still ahead, katie has another look at your holiday forecast and also fire works will be wash out when we do traffic and weather on the three's. >> we are update to go day's top stories but first here's a look what is coming up tonight right here on cbs-3. we will be right back.

we have a developing story this morning police will resume their search for a missing boater later today. a 66 year-old man was thrown over board when the boat capsized on the delaware near holmesberg. four other people were rescued. also investigators want to know if lightening strikes caused several house fires in our area there are storms in

our area and katie has details in your full forecast, next. arthur has been upgraded to hurricane status, mandatory evacuation order is in effect along north carolina's outer banks, as or the or twirls nearby. >> let get the latest on arthur and our forecast, good morning. >> we are more than anything looking at indirect impacts from arthur but that storm system is helping to fuel heavy thunderstorms. looking closely you can see that our flow comes in from the south. where arthur is situated right now. so that tropical moisture source is fueling the storms that were eventually going to be seeing later in the day. we have had storms overnight. we will see another round firing up later today and we will in seen our cold front cross. those storms could easily be locally strong or severe, as the the daze goes on. is there arthur off to the south churning away. still expect to bypass, thank goodness. fourth of july is looking cooler as our cold front crosses but there will be lingering rain, bob, over to you.

5:53. good morning. roads are damp and wet from that rain we had last night. we will look live, as we say good morning to the 476 where traffic is back to normal after an earlier accident near media swarthmore. live look downtown. the schuylkill expressway, starting to sees volume coming in the city here at spring garden street. otherwise your speed meter readings south on i-95 if you have in the been o out in a while over your holiday weekend and traveling on i-95 pay attention to the new traffic patterns coming into

we have breaking news right now a fire in pennsauken, camden county. this fire broke out around 4:30 in the three story home on the 2200 block of 39th street. there are reports that fire fighters were forced from the home by dangerous conditions, and had to continue battling that flame, from outside. no word if the fire is under control right now, we will keep you up to date as we learn more about this breaking news we will be right back.

developing right now search crews have just return to the delaware river to look for a both shore disappeared when his boat capsized during last night's storm. some of those storms that rolled through the area were pretty intense, lightening even sparked some house fires, we are live with look at that damage. and now the severe, weather that moved through it is not behind us just yet. >> we are expecting more storms impacting holiday plans for thousands of people, lets get you over to katie for what we can expect, katie, good morning. >> good morning, guys. we have been dealing with certainly our fair share of activity weather as ovulate and today we are in the middle of active weather. we also have a hurricane to track and it does look like that storm is still expected

arthur to stay out to sea, but we can start off here with the localized zoom or a localized shot of our campbell's field camera looking over the ben franklin bridge. you can see higher clouds out there a little bit of sunshine and much like yesterday we will start off with some sun, eventually to have deal with more thunderstorms which could prove locally strong or severe much like yesterday. lets go to storm can three down to carolinas where arthur continues to churn. this is now a category one hurricane and it will be heading northbound but eventually it will get swept out to sea as our next cold front helps that along. we will get hit with heavy rain. you can see thunderstorms firing up here, back through chester and montgomery counties at the moment. you may be running into wet wet they are morning but there is generally a lull that takes place for now and then eventually more widespread showers and storms will erupt. flash flood watches also take effect at