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 8:00 a.m. and they

last us right through to tomorrow morning at this point no specific defined, expiration point on that, but we are still likely to be left with lingering rain in the morning tomorrow. seventy-four currently at the airport. we have 66 in mount pocono. look at that day planner through rest of the day to day, or around the region as a whole. we are still warm and muggy and we will call it flat out, hot in philadelphia we have enough sunshine helping to heat things up to 90 degrees today and that heating can only help trigger more instability. we are still worried about more severe storms today, bob, over to you. good morning, everybody. 6:01 on this thursday morning. but for a lot of folks it will feel like a friday. we will see unusual traffic path attorneys day with folks moving out early and going every which way but loose here for fourth of july holiday. live look at i-95 southbound. heading through this stretch over the holiday weekend maybe going to i barbecue, picnic or coming in for fire works keep

in mind new traffic patterns set up on 95 from the betsy ross bridge into downtown. live lot from the airport camera platt bridge in the background, i-95 looking good in the stadium area. with today feeling like a friday folks heading down for who will take weekend expressway parkway 47 okay at the the moment but remember since today is almost like that friday, crunch time between 12 and 2:00 heading to the new jersey beach. accident eastbound on the schuylkill expressway right here near gulph mills millions interchange causing delays and in mount laurel, new jersey traffic lights out at bridge road and marne highway. mass transit looking good. back over to you. developing right now rescue teams are resuming their search for a lost boater in the delaware river. >> he was one of five people on the ale sale boat last night when it capsized. "eyewitness news" reporter jen bernstein joins us from holmesberg to bring us up to date good morning. >> reporter: search crews said they would be out here at first light and just a few minutes ago i did see a coastguard helicopter flying over the area where we are

right now. as of this morning there is still no sign of this missing 66 year-old who we're told fridays bucks county. we have talked with his friend off cameras last night and they said he is an incredibly good swimmer and they are hoping he is still alive. last night's search crews immediately began looking for a 66 year-old man, whose last seen in the delaware river around 8:00p m. manpower from philadelphia, new jersey state police, and the coastguard using boats, chopper and under water tracking devices. police said five people were on board a 24-foot sail boat watching a race when a storm quickly moved in. officials say the group dropped their sails and moved over the yacht club. but the sail both capsized. >> it filled with water and, according to the individuals that were on the boat it sunk almost immediately. >> reporter: four people were able to swim back to the river bank by the philadelphia fire they told police they last saw this 66 year-old, using a

cooler as a floattation device in the river. >> while they were getting on the banks of the delaware river saving themselves they looked back and they saw the cooler floating and they no longer saw the 66 year-old male holding on. >> reporter: this morning the river is much calmer then it was last night and in all fairness police did say it was very hard to see the surface of the water because of the rain and the roughness from the wind. now police did find the cooler and it turned up on the new jersey side of the river. police say it does ant peer that any kind of foul play was involved or any alcohol was involved, and it looks like they said it was because of the storm. a source tells us that the chopper last night dide what they thought was the sail both but too dangerous to put a boat out there in the dark. again, that search is going to resume this morning for 24566 year-old and we did see that coastguard helicopter already up looking for him. that is very latest from the northeast, jen bernstein for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". storms were reeking havoc as lightening may have sparked

several fires across the region like this scene, in schuylkill township chester county. flames, shot from the roof as fire fighters extended ladders to reach the top of that home. we're told that it sustain $100,000 worth of damage, a fire fighter was treated for heat exhaustion but no one else was injured. lets get right out to "eyewitness news" reporter nicole brewer live from voorhees camden county where residents say that lightening sparked an apartment fire there, nicole, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to both of you. as you both know fire can really happen in the flash and here in voorhees, new jersey we're told by neighbors that just less than ten minutes for this complex to be completely engulfed in flames after neighbors say that lightening struck it. again, a similar scene to what we saw in montgomery county. this cell phone video shows us a fast moving fire on raven hallow drive-in montgomery county. one neighbor say it started with the flash of lightening around 7:30 wednesday night.

>> we ran over to the neighbors hoist, she came running out of the side door, already on the phone, calling the the fire tenth. >> reporter: eyewitnesses say they first saw lightening and then smoke, fire, it was only minutes before that roof went up in flames. >> we had extensive damage in the roof area, most of the roofies gone, the second floor had extensive damage but the first floor with the exception of the water from the fire fighting operation is pretty well intact. >> reporter: in voorhees, new jersey a similar story. >> scary, very scary. >> reporter: fire displaced 17 units this complex on the 2500 block of berwyn court. >> i heard an explosion-like noise and then i saw embers flying and so i believe it was lightening. >> reporter: no serious injuries were reported but one fire fighter was taken to virtua hospital for evaluation. once again we are talking about the kind of damage that displaced 17 units here in

voorhees and displaced a family of four, from that home in montgomery county. we are live from camden county, nicole brewer, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". okay, nicole thanks. we have some breaking news fire fighters forced to get out of the pennsauken home because of dangerous conditions. this fire broke out around 4:30 this morning, it is along the 2200 block of 39th street. there are no reported injuries and investigators are new searching for a cause. we will keep you updated throughout the morning right here on cbs-3 and after 7:00 o'clock on our sister station the cw philly. still ahead on "eyewitness news" this morning a local coach is arrested accused of sexually abuse a teenage girl and police say social media played a big role. plus we are tracking arthur the first hurricane of the season is barreling up the east coast threatening to blow fourth of july plans for thousands of people out of the water. we are live with an update coming up next. >> ♪

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hurricane warnings are in effect as first named hurricane of the season makes its way northward. >> arthur is threatening in the only east coast but holiday weekend festivities for a number of people. cbs news correspondent craig boswell joins us from nags head north carolina with how things are there, craig good

morning. >> reporter: good morning . hot and humid morning as sun begins to rise in nags head, north carolina i don't think we will be seeing direct sunshine as clouds are beginning to build up here in advance of the hurricane arthur plotting it way towards our area in nags head. it is expected to skirt along these outer bank area, and, that is enough to give us, we're expecting heavy winds and a lot of we have i rain. that is why mandatory evacuation on hat race island. that went in effect an hour ago because those roads washed out so quickly in four or 5 inches on have rain, and it is very dangerous, since they cannot get off that island once this storm will begin to roll role in. those people were advised, there is an voluntary

evacuationness order. but interesting things with the dynamic begin to change with hurricane warning issued we were in the restaurant talking to the restaurant owner, that is when people planned these vacations a year in advance and were getting dinner began to ask do we want to say and see our first hurricane. many with small children decided no, it is probably not a good idea to check out our first hurricane with our family here. these people began to stream out of the outer banks area. it could not come at a worst time for business. july, the the month is the hottest month for them economic delay but fourth of july week is when we make a lot of money. we're talking about 110 million-dollar for the month of july. they will take a economic hit, expect to move out of here quickly and that is what they are hoping when worst of these conditions get in here tonight and tomorrow, that it rolls out of here quickly. the governor advised everyone to take this seriously. don't get injured before or

after the storms when most injuries occur, guys. >> do you know if the long time residents there will try to stick this thing out, and ride this thing out. >> reporter: resident know what to do they were in hardware stores, yesterday. i talked to several people on the beach that are going back to their beach house. they are not leaving until they are absolutely made to leave. they have their supplies. they have done this before. there are people out on the balconies of the hotel now watching us, watching the surf as surf begins to build here in nags head. >> how with that. >> you and crew be safe, we will talk to you soon. >> craig boswell in north caroline, thank you. lets check with katie for how arthur will impact possibly our area. >> yes, guys, it looks like it will mainly be an indirect impact on us, but we are drawing on the moisture from arthur with a well defined

circulation but it need stronger wind speed, lower central pressure to qualify as anything, but just shy, southwest of cape fear in north carolina as we speak. we have a cold front that has to get through. it is slow to retreat. it is barely even crossing right now. we will have another day that features potential for severe weather. lets track arthur, currently sustain win speeds just meet ago this category one criteria but if you are hitting the new jersey shoreline and delaware beaches dangerous rip concern are a threat, higher surface as well and surfers and a lot have of or people, love that kind of stuff but heed the warnings. we cannot stress that enough. don't be stupid. north carolina governor said don't put your stupid hat on.

stay safe. we put these warnings out for a reason. 74 degrees outside whitefield elementary school. we have got that moisture to work with and not a very strong win, visability are not ideal. but they are not perfect right now. you may run into a haze. eyewitness weather seven day forecast showing that heat building for one more take and then we are still left with lingering showerses specially tomorrow morning, but gradually skies should clear as arthur and this front start to bypass us, get out of the way and we will have nice weather it looks like for the weekend, bob, over to you. >> 6:15. live look at the the schuylkill expressway, roads are damp and wet overnight soaking we received. light volume so far here i am bound, heading in towards philadelphia, slow at an earlier crash at gulph mills and traffic down here near city avenue. live look at i-95 down towards airport, traveling out of town, where you are coming in and out of philadelphia for fire works, just ab wear, i-95 is hot mess with construction.

so much construction zone and as you can see here lane shifts of what used to be the shoulder is now far right travel lanes and just pay attention to the newly painted lines as you head out and about, over this holiday weekend. otherwise blue route looking good, schuylkill looking good no problems there busy weekend tomorrow we have the parade at 10:00 o'clock which will take us through center city, filled by party on the parkway and concert and fire works tomorrow night on the parkway, ukee, back to you. here is other news events happening today. malvern music teacher anton fauxman will be in court to face sex abuse charges. the 44 year-old is accused of abusing several students. georgia man whose son died in the hot car asked a judge for bail. justin harris says he accidentally left the boy in the car. two active duty members of the u.s. air force and wounded warrior will signal the start of the camden's four day waterfront festival on board battleship new jersey, big j, it features patriotic and fun

activities for the entire family. we will take a short break sports coming up, be

a volunteer youth hockey coach is accused of sexually abusing a 16 year-old girl. police say 42 year-old michael dougherty of levittown, bucks county prayed on that girl using the on line app whisper. she told investigators that he abused her at lincoln motel and then recorded the attack with his cell phone. >> she thought that he was

going to help her runaway and, of course, she showed the typical signs of the teenage inner trouble and he took advantage of that and manipulated her, got her in the hotel room and then assaulted her. >> the senators youth hockey team says they dismissed dougherty immediately after getting word of his arrest. philadelphia may soon slap a cigarette tax on smoke tours help fund the the cities cash strapped public school system. pennsylvania house has approved a 2-dollar tax on every pack of cigarettes sold in the city. without the the money the the school district says schools will not be fit to opened this fall. philadelphia mayor michael nutter says he was in the sure if the tax would pass. >> well, we all win tonight and last 24 hours, spectacular turn around, possibly one of the greatest turnaroundness legislative recent history. >> cigarette tax will fill a hole in the school budget deficit. buildings to the state senate which approved a similar version earlier this week. right now 6:20. it is not often that a south

dakota real estate listing attracts flint buyers as far away from china and australia but this is in ordinary piece of property, we will tell you how it is special coming up. flyers captain claude giroux arrested find out what he is accused of doing to a police officers next in sports.

lots of weather to update, katie? >> we have quite a bit, for one thing we have our first name hurricane of the season, name arthur south of the carolinas right now and expected to bring moisture to our area lets start it off, here locally, right on the tail end, of the three hour loop, you can see then are storms have since ignited back through chester and montgomery county. just this pocket, otherwise everybody is still quiet and

really humid right now. here is a general synopsis of the next few days having in store. starting with sun today but hot, humid and eventually we will be dealing with heavy thunderstorms. we will see them fire up here off to the west of the city. flash flood watches in effect in the next say 90 minutes and they linger until tomorrow, where eventually we will start to clear out. our cold front will be passing through and eventually the weekend looks really nice but we have got two days of active weather to get through. >> 6:24. live look downtown philadelphia loads are damp from that rain we had last myth but light volume in and out of the center city philadelphia lets go out to route one bucks county roads damp and wet. we have neshaminy mall in the background and ramps for pennsylvania turnpike. looking good here for the gang. rolling through delaware keep in mind watch for volume along i-95 through wilmington as folks try to avoid that 495 closure. route one down through kenneth square looking good.

fender-bender east bound on the schuylkill at gulph mills millions interchange and that rain last night has us flooded out bristol oxford valley roadblock at trenton road this morning. ukee, back over to you. in sports flyers captain claude giroux is not expected to face criminal charges after reportedly spending a night in the canadian jail. ottawa sun newspaper said giroux was arrested in the city for repeatedly grabbing a police officers buttocks. newspaper says it happened outside a bar and alcohol could have been involved. giroux lives in ottawa in the off season. flyers general manager ron hextall released this statement, we are aware of the reports surrounding girl right. until we have more information we will withhold making any further comment. all-star vote willing ends at 11:59 tonight and phillies chase utley hold a big league over national league second base man. phillies play marlins late are tonight. first pitch at 6:05. rough night last night the for cole hamels. marlins got to king cole for

three runs and phillies offense was shut out for the 11th time, time this season. phillies lose five to nothing. lin sanity could be spreading to south philadelphia. there are reports that sixers general manager sam hinkie is talking to the houston rock bets a trade for jeremy lin. houston's after carmelo anthony or lebron james and lynn has a year left on his contract worth almost 15 million-dollar and sixers have salary cap space. what do you think? tweet us, facebook us, what do you think. stay tune. many years ago, we used to call philly center fielder gary maddux the secretary of defense. reggie white as well for the philadelphia eagles. >> it looks like another secretary of defense. did you mare this. someone changed wikipedia entry for chuck hagel to tim howard, the goalie on the u.s. soccer team. howard made a world cup record 16 saves in the losing cause tuesday against belgium. great game, so many saves

there. second hagel called to say hello and office tweeted from one secretary of tea fence to the other. >> isn't that great. >> i thought of something, gary was the minister of defense. but both of them bad boys. >> that is your sports. >> come on, ukee. >> my bad. >> it is early. >> coming up in the next half an hour of "eyewitness news" jen bernstein is live with the search for missing boater, jen. >> crews have resumed searching for this 66 year-old from bucks county i'll have latest on those search efforts coming up. plus tighter security in nation's airports and internationally, all this has to do with a new terror threat. bob and katie return with your traffic and weather together we will do it on the three's we are back at bottom of the hour good morning.

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dangerous conditions forced fire fighters fight the flames from outside. this broke out at 4:30 along 2200 block of 39th street. there were no reported injuries. investigators are right now searching for the cause. developing right now, a storm capsizes a sail boat on the delaware river. five people on board, four of them made it back to land. search resumes for that one missing boater. "eyewitness news" reporter jen bernstein joins us from holmesberg with the very

latest on the search, good morning. >> reporter: that search was stopped last night because it was too dark to see anything and too dangerous for crews out here but upon first light we did sea coast guard helicopter flying over the area where we are, as it patrols ape looks over the river, looking for this missing 66 year-old man. we're told from bucks county, as of this morning he still has in the been found. he was last seen at 8:00 p.m. in the delaware river apparently clinging to a cooler as a floattation device. search clues used boats, chopper, under the water tracking devices to look for him. they had 45 minutes of day late before it got dark. five people were on board a 24-foot sail boat when a storm moved in. officials say group, dropped sales and used a motor to head back to the yacht club but thunderstorm caused the sail boat to capsize. four of the five swam bank to the river bank but the 66 year-old was not with them. >> they said that he is an

experienced boater, specifically sail boats. he is in good shape for his age. so we're hoping that, we find him and we're able to rescue him. >> reporter: a chopper may have locate that had sail boat in the water last night with you too dark and dangerous to send that boat back out. we have had the chopper flying over us now two times, as it looks for this missing boater and any sign of that sail boat. again rescuers trying to find him, this missing 66 year-old we're told from bucks county. that is latest from the northeast, jen bernstein for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". one of the thousands of lightening strikes could have sparked a house fire in montgomery county. let's he show you montgomery township last night. the house sustain severe damage to the roof. neighbor heard a big boom when he ran over to help out he saw

the home owner running out of the house with her dog. >> it turned out to run over the neighbor's house, started knocking on the door. she came running out the side door already on the phone, calling the fire department. >> reporter: neighbors say flames cape through the roof and spread across the the second floor and in one was hurt. fire rips through a camden county apartment complex leaving dozens of residents without a place to stay. "eyewitness news" at the club at main street in voorhees. we are told 17 unit in the 2500 building were affect but none-- no one was seriously hurt. officials are investigating whether a lightening strike is the culprit in this disaster as well. >> katie. >> today will end up being a stormy day for us, it is not an all day wash out. if you look out the window we are seeing sunshine right now but we will see these storms coming through in waves. you will get a break, sunshine, heat up more and then more storms fire up. you can see on the tail end of

the the loop, looking at the p in philadelphia there. do you see those storms fire right up in the last say hour and a half or so. and off to the west we are still waiting for our cold front to cross. we are still in the unstable and warm sector of this storm system and of course now we are awaiting arthur to bypass us before we can say we are in the clear here. currently outside the neighborhood network we have cloud cover, granted but sunshine helping to heat things up. 72 degrees. we are in the severe weather threat zone with downpours, flash flooding and damaging wind our primary issue a smaller impact in the way of hail and we have a slim chance for isolated tornadoes. it is possible it is a slim chance. something worth mentioning. expected that it is a hot, sticky day. daytime high to hit 90 around 4:00 p.m. otherwise sunshine, high humidity, building heat and eventually you may need that umbrella would i suggest taking it along. anything that falls from the sky could produce a downpours

so don't get caught. >> we have tips that we are getting downpours in chester count a long 30 bypass we just showed you on storm scan three. lets look outside, to the cars rolling through the puddles here. we are getting drenched along route 30 bypass as you come out of downingtown chester county heading in towards the king of prussia interchange. depending upon where you begin and end your trip this morning things could be a little slower than normal. we will of course have the wipers working here, closer towards say the schuylkill as we look live here near belmont avenue no rain whatsoever. owe again, it is hit and miss depending upon where you step outside the front door. here's a live look at the schuylkill at bell monday. pockets of volume are starting to heat inbound towards center city philadelphia water main break here, we have had one every day this week. this is in lower merion, wynnewood avenue at windsor avenue. watch for local detours there. an accident eastbound on the schuylkill, just a minor one off to the shoulder at gulph mills millions and keep in mind with the rush to the delaware beaches and everybody is gone all over the place this holiday weekend that 495,

still closed here through wilmington, so that puts a lot of is there volume and extra time needed for yourself, if you you are rolling up and down that i-95 corridor through the holiday weekend, erika, back over to you. new ter are fears have authorities boosting security at airports with direct international flights to the u.s. this move comes over concernsal cade ace developing bombs that can go undetect through airport security. intelligence officials say airports in the middle east and europe will see extra security in the coming days. the tsa has made an unusual discovery at boston's logan international airport. they discovered this sammeri sword in the airport no sword, knives, guns or other weapons air loudon carry on bags. a leak in the powe pain tank set off a food truck explosion in the philadelphia's feltonville neighborhood. tuesday's blast injured 13 people. force of the explosion sent a ball of fire right across the

street. investigators say 100-pound propane tank was one of two in the trunk and the unused tank had a leak which ignited the grill. >> it was a big boom and i don't wish that upon nobody. it was terrible. terrible, hearing everybody scream. i was screaming myself because of the pain. >> five people including the truck owner and her daughter are in critical condition. well, tonight's show with band sticks and for inner will go on after a fire damage their tour buses. they were in the parking lot at second and callowhill in philadelphia when flames started in the back of one bus and then spread to the other one no one was hurt. sticks and for nearby the the way play tonight at susquehanna bank center over in camden. the government will release the employment report today, a day earlier then usual because of the independent day holiday tomorrow. now this is after a slow start to the year, the the nation's job machine did pick up in the spring. >> here with the preview and her best guest when you can expect a racist cbs news

business analyst jill schlesinger. she's in london, is that correct, jill. >> with her crystal ball it seems. >> what is expect from this report, good morning. >> reporter: economist predict 215,000 position where is created in june. that is close to the inly average we have seen this year. the labor market has improved since that rough winter. here's something interesting, employers are adding jobs at fastest pace in 15 years. , all the way back to 1999. but don't forget part of that drop that we have seen is a lot of disgruntled workers have left the labor force. if the market does improve and some of those folks we start their job searches we might see that rate remain flat or rise in the coming months. >> talking about the long term unemployed, any improvement there. >> four years ago. 6.8 million americans were out of work for six months or

longer. got news is you the number now stand at half that amount. unfortunately while there has been really good progress only 22 percent have of the people who became long term unemployment between may 2008 and june 2009 have returned to full-time work since then. 28 percent working part-time, 14 percent still unemployed and rest have retired or drop out of the labor force. now for the most important question when can americans expect a raise. >> for everyone except ukee because he already makes too much. >> yeah, right. >> the average earnings were up just 2.1 percent from the the year ago. but here's the kicker when we adjust for inflation wages were down by a tenth of a percent. companies think they may be paying some more soon. according to the survey from duke university and cfo magazine, chief financial officers say that salaries and wages will increase by

3 percent over the next 12 months, that is 1 percent ahead of inflation and more in line with the historic averages. we will know all of the data in less than two hours. i'm so exited to experience independence day here in london. i won't rub tonight their noses, promise big cheese burger right in front of them. >> i'm having a fourth of july bake sale tomorrow just to raise money for my golf fees. >> no one is buying it, ukee. >> i'm serious. thanks, jill, be safe. still ahead this morning the real estate listing that is getting global attention. plus terrifying moment for two boaters when something flips their boat over and amazingly the camera footage was in the ruiuined when they went in the water. more images and see what caused him to capsize ahead. are you grilling out for fourth of july weekend we are live with fun ideas if you are looking to serve up something other than, traditional burgers and hot dogs, hot dogs i cannot even talk, we will

grill up some fish. >> i think zucchini. >> some fruit. >> that is chef jack down there we will go talk to him in a bit. >> can you bring snacks backup. >> maybe. >> okay, pretty please. >> all right. >> be right back.

time for traffic and weather together and bad timing with the weather. >> it is, and we are dealing with active weather right now, we had some yesterday and more today, a quick check very quickly here on your pollen

report, low, very, very low levels the next couple of days, grasses are big issues but those levels are low. your allergies shouldn't bother you too much but this weather pattern might. here's now hurricane arthur had was a tropical storm until 5:00 a.m. this morning. it got upgraded. the it had proper criteria. it will be basically making its land fall here late are on tonight into tomorrow across carolinas before it gets swept off to the north east and out to sea thank goodness. we will get indirect results. heavy showers and thunderstorms throughout the day. we are seeing a few fire in the western suburbs but we will get enough sunshine to heat up to 90 another day featuring severe weather. tomorrow lingering rain as arthur is swept out to sea. then we will have beautiful weather in the weekend. eighty-five saturday. eighty-eight unday. both days with sunshine. hey guys we have active wet tore track. get your weather on the go, put you're witness weather team right in your pocket . brand new weather app will do that.

down load it right now in the app store. it is free. it is coming soon to the android devices as well. >> it is free, 6:45. >> wow. >> a live look, rain is free today as well along route 202, this is active construction zone, another area you want to look out for if you are traveling through this holiday weekend. if you are going to the barbecue at ukee's where we have been a couple weeks. there could be a traffic pattern shuffle on the way there. city avenue near presidential boulevard. they have finish the paving of city avenue, penndot toothed their horn yesterday but then they set up construction right here near presidential during right after the morning rush hour. so just watch yourself here at presidential and city avenue heading down in towards haverford. if you are going to the shore remember today is almost like a friday with tomorrow's holiday. we will see that crunch time between 12:00 inn 2:00 bringing us volume on the expressway, parkway, route 47, even folks down towards the the delaware beaches. we will see extra volume there as well. flooding on bristol oxford

valley road closed at trenton road from the storms we had last night and a water main break at wynnewood avenue at windsor avenue. so traffic this morning diverted on to penn road. mass transit looking good with no delays, erika, back to you. here's today's headlines on cbs-3 a developing story. crews resumed a search for 66 year-old man who went missing in the delaware river after a boat capsized. four other people were forced, rescued after their 24-foot sail boat went down. also last night's lightening triggered house fires in several communities. thunderstorm and lightening, likely made for rhea experience today so be careful out there if you are heading out. arthur has reached hurricane status in the outer banks in the north carolina as it headed up the atlantic coast. it is not expected to make land fall but high wind, rainy conditions, could impact independent day activities. speaking of the fourth, barbecue plans for holiday weekend but we do have to stick to those traditional

burgers and hot dogs on the grill. ukee is outside with the special guest to talk about fun alternative to serve with this holiday weekend, ukee, can you smell it, does it smell good. >> i was just getting ready to say you should smell what your chef jackies cooking. take a look at this, from vegetables, fruit, to fresh fish there are plenty of foods, perfect for the barbecue and chef jack mcdavid of jack's firehouse in philadelphia is here with some ideas. chef jack good to see you good to see you. >> happy fourth. >> happy fourth. ain't it a great holiday. >> it is. >> let's celebrate by grilling vegetables, delicious. >> it brings out flavor. what i do with vegetables i will use egg plant, zucchini, squash, peppers and grill them together. and then i'll stack them, use fresh basil in between them, tomatoes off the grill, let them set, stick together, comes out like a rattou right

off the grill. >> do you worry about over cooking at all what should people worry about at home. >> vegetables don't need very much cooking. i just put this corn on, turned it. i have a very hot grill. i have it carmelized a bit. coming off, salt and pepper, touch of butter. yeah. >> say it again. >> touch of butter. >> i like that. >> okay. now, we had rough wet they are weekend. i'm cooking burgers which is great. >> you got to have the stapel. >> i love barbecue but this time of the year since it will rainy will do fish. i will do some striped bass. it is great striped bass. >> yes. >> beat full piece of striped bass. we have a few filets. we will cook them up. real simple dressing with some peach. >> peach. >> does that kick it up. >> and southern vinaigrette. >> folks can do this as easily as you do. >> less than ten minutes. >> if they take chimneys, like

a tunnel, they have a bottom in it, going down with newspaper under that, 15 minutes, charcoal hot enough and it will hold 3-pound of charcoal enough to cook for four or five people. >> that is a party. >> that is a celebration. >> this fire is hot i will smell like barbecue all day, man. >> they already followed you down the stairs. >> i got to get the the suit to the cleaners but that looks fantastic. >> we will do more cooking on the cw philly. erika will come down. we will dot fish. we will do the the fruit. we will do vegetables. >> pine apples. >> strawberry. >> yes, those are blue brings. up in lancaster. we have greatest food in the world right here in philadelphia, that is why i chose to live in philadelphia. >> yes. >> big event coming up what is that. >> down in wildwood, new jersey, anglesea fire department, the biggest, best barbecue event on the east coast every year. there will be a 150,000

people, oh, man they can play some blues out there. >> yes. >> they have best barbecue in the world, four or five world champions cooking down there see jack's down home barbecue. >> add a touch of butter. >> we use a fork there, okay. >> thanks, ukee good we will see you on the cw philly. new backup stairs to erika. >> can't wait to smell that barbecue suit. lets see is what coming up on cbs this morning, gayle king joins us from new york with the preview, gayle, good morning. >> this must be barbecue day because they are barbecue here at cbs two outside. >> two lucky girls. >> that is what i'm thinking, good day. erika, my best to ukeelee i just her him. the north carolina coast with the latest on hurricane arthur and it could impact travel plans for millions. peter greenburg is here with different travel insurance option was protecting your vacation. u.s. increases security on

some flights into this country, cia insider mike morel l joins us with where the threats are coming from. and the world cup inspires tim howard mania with a capitol mania. we will look at the opportunities for america's hottest athletes. news is back in the morning, we will see new about ten minutes and erika i would like to know is there anybody doesn't love tim hour at this moment. >> not a single person. >> and we will see more beards popping up too, starting a trend. >> i think so too. >> gayle thanks so much. we will see new ten minutes. >> 6:51. small south dakota town is stirring up interest around the globe, the entire town is for sale. businessman lance benson is selling, sweat, that is name of the town, it is two hours hours south of wrapped city. they will own a bar, three trailers, a house, workshop and more than 6 acres of prairie land.

>> hey, i spoke with coldwell banker headquarters this morning and they were telling me this is the the most famous listing in the world right now and it rivals when the home alone home sold and also the versace mansion in miami. >> i want to change the name though, sweat has a population of two, current owner and his wife. you can call it what you want. we will be right back but first here's a check is what coming up tonight

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>>welshing one last check of traffic and weather together and katie, you're watching some storms. >> couple of additional thunderstorms popped up in the last 90 minutes or so west of philadelphia, but where they have popped, they have certainly produced heavy rain as well as lightening bolts here. so not everyone obviously getting hit the by this but if you are stuck in the zone perhaps traveling portion s of 76, or the northeast extension maybe you will be running into this. we will look a head to tomorrow with additional rain in the forecast here, especially early on and it is latest to retreat at the shore points. it will be a cooler day, still so hot at eight, four but not as yet today will prove. eighty-five on saturday, 88 on sunday and only gets better with time but we will get through today and first half of tomorrow before beautiful

weather takes over for the the holiday weekend, bob. >> live look at the schuylkill expressway near belmont avenue coming towards us, folks heading out of town i am bound on the right not bad at all. i-95, live look at the betsy in through girard avenue. speedometer readings around the board, 27 miles an her there on i-95 and blue route looking good from saint david on down, mass transit looking good as well, ukee, back on you. this time of the year people love to go out on the ocean and do some whale watching. >> when there is blue whales, largest animals on earth just remember, watch out. >> yeah. a photographer and boat's pilot were 12 miles off the coast of san diego when a blue whale unexpectly sprung up from the the water. it capsized boat and knocked both of them in the water. >> one hand on the, camera up like this, other hand is

grabbing the the camera and i said to myself, just do what you can, keep yourself safe but if you can save that cameras save the the camera. >> they are so expensive. whales were feeding on crew at the time that the boat capsized. blue whales can get hundred feet long and 190 tons. >> yes. >> whale watching. >> they will be watching them. >> too close for comfort. >> coming up next on cbs this morning why americans gave up a million vacation

good morning. it's thursday, july 3rd, 2014. welcome to "cbs this morning." arthur strengthens into a hurricane overnight. we're tracking the latest path and travel disruptions that could impact millions. a new warning triggers tighter security on flights headed to the u.s. cia insider mike morell on where the threat lies. and you're seeing the hash tag everywhere, things tim howard can save. what will the rock star goalie do with his newfound fame? >> but we begin today's "eye opener" with your world in 90 seconds. >> i decided not to go anywhere. my wife