igarette tax would be passed by the house during special session monday thursday afternoon republicans canceled that i'm nowed disappointed and frustrated. >> said big cuts will have to be made by august 15th, as faces $81 million budget deficit. he wouldn't be specific, but has said in the past that over 1,000 employees coul be let go. >> whether or not we open schools remains on the table if we show it in the school year. >> this comes after 300 support staff were laid off thursday, and has nothing to do with the cigarette tax but is indicative of school district already reeling from budget cuts. >> it will not and school district. will not be a functioning school. means we will be literally we're helping children. >> some republican law makers have argued that the philadelphia school district shouldn't receive special treatment, they say other district around the state forced to raise property tax toss make up their deficits, tax that affect far more people than just smokers. and late in the day republican lawmakers did ask governor corbett in a letter to advance money to the school

district. school officials say that means it would get funding it was supposed to receive late another school year a bit earlier. while it might help open schools on time it would do nothing to address the $81 million deficit the earliest legislators could now vote on $2 a pack cigarette tax would be september 15th, 6 days after school was supposed to start. live in the sat center, matt rivers cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> matt, thank you very much. two men working for penndot have been charged now with stealing millions of taxpayer dollars. the scheme according to authorities, also put the lives of drivers at risk. "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabeo live along city avenue with details of this alleged theft. >> reporter: chris, according to this presentment released today, a penndot contractor and a penndot consulting inspector work together to steel millions of taxpayer dollars that were meant to fund maintenance on state roads and state bridges and according to prosecutors, most aggregious forms of corruption

happened right here, in philadelphia, where this contractor was paid to work he never did. sixty-two year old ton wen penndot contractor, 54 year old robert slay-mans, state inspector arrived to court with no comment thursday morning. wen's attorney proclaimed his innocence. >> stunned by tees accusation. >> has received close to $26 million in contracts from penndot since 2009. the contracts include landscaping, bridge cleaning tunnel maintenance and more. now accused of stealing at least 3.6 million, by allegedly double billing contracts, billing for hours not actually worked, being paid for work not performed and billing for equipment and materials not purchased. >> that money, it is generate large sums of -- >> according to court documents, he owns v tech services and utility line clearance in folcroft, delaware county. prosecutors say for example in philadelphia, he was paid for graffiti removal and street

sweeping he never did. they say slayman supposed to be inspecting the work, was actually falsifying penndot records to help him carry out his scheme and allegedly took a $5,000 bribe. >> vehemently denies bribing anybody. he steadfastly maintains that for every day that he had this contract, he did the work. >> but prosecutors warn, these are just the latest arrest that is ongoing investigation. >> a lot of times we say there may be additional arrests and in this case, i guarantee there will be additional arrests. >> meanwhile, penndot issued this statement, in part, reading, we take these issues verycooperating with investigators, and have been aggressively doing follow up action. wen and slayman facing number of charges this evening including bribery theft camper with public records corrupt organizations and criminal conspiracy. they are both free on bail this evening. reporting live in philadelphia, jan carabeo cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> than thank you. camden woman shot days after

moving into her new home with her young son. this happened at 729 teal street. neighbors say the victim shot in the neck after some sort of argument. she moved to the liberty park townhomes last week. >> i don't ever see her with no problems or nothing she is just thereby herself with the children, with the little boy he rides his bike up the path. >> reporter: the victim was taken to cooper university hospital. >> shots fired at the arrow street this morning. police say worker, 59 year old man, had just been demoted at work when he shot the company's ceo steven la have i, la have i in critical condition now. officials say that the food service technology supply company had been downsizing. philadelphia police officers have a new three year contract and arbitration panel awarded officers 3% raise in the first year, and three and quarter percent

raises second and third years. that new contract also gets the police commissioner the right to rotate officers out of the narcotics and internal affairs units. that comes on the heals of the federal indictments of six philadelphia narcotics officers. >> i know that because of what happened yesterday, a lot of people are looking at that time as strictly a disciplinary issue not -- this gives opportunity to other officers, to be able to good hard-working officers to experience working in some of these units. the main concern for our officers monday any their pocket coverage, and this does both. >> says new contract will cost the city $70 million over budget. well, a beat on long beach island is open once again tonight. "eyewitness news" at the 25th street beach on the bay in barn gate light. the department of environmental protection had closed that beach on tuesday after its water tested for high left of of bacteria. told the problem has since

been cleaned up. i bet that beach might just be within the eyesight of our kathy orr right now who is at the barnegat lighthouse state park in ocean county, beautiful day down the shore kathy, but tracking some showers in other parts of the area. what's going on? >> yes, few showers out there here and there nothing in the immediate philadelphia area. we're at barn gate light or at the shore takes us here, in the lighthouse better known as old barney, and you can even see we are in the lantern room. now it is a light in the modern day. but we are looking at beautiful day here on long be mostly everywhere, but take a look at storm scan3 as you mentioned we do have few showers scattered through the lehigh valley, one also in berks county, and to the north and the west. there is threat every isolated shower into the evening period. but other than that, it will gorgeous evening. take a look at the numbers. in philadelphia, it is 85, 83 degrees in wilmington, 78 and comfortable in allentown and millville it is 82 degrees. down the shore barnegat, at

the bay it is 84, 79 in ocean sit, stone harbor, cape may and rehoboth beach delaware, sitting at 78. your first forecast this evening, partly sunny the temperature at 7:00 p.m. will be 80. we will fall through the 70s during the evening with some clouds perhaps an isolated sprinkle, and temperatures at about 73 degrees by 11:00 at night. back here live looking across the bay. you can see island beach state park, we will have the forecast from the city to the shore for the weekend. coming up a little bit later in the broadcast. we send it back to you. >> kathy, thanks. well the crowd is building on the beach in atlantic city. look at all of those people right there. this is picture from down the shore, fans gear up for tonight's concert on the beach featuring country superstar blake shelton. "eyewitness news" reporter todd quinones is live on the boardwalk where all of the action is, todd? >> certainly finance a.m. problems the casinos have been well documented. tonight the free concert sponsored by the casinos, as they try and market atlantic

city here as being more than just a gaming destination. >> beach has been packed with excited fans, free blake shelton concert tonight drawn a crowd of 06,000 people. many showed up 10:00 this morning. >> bridges a lot of revenue the board walk stores, making a loft money on over priced things but it is fun. >> atlantic city made headlines recently with number every casinos that are looking at the possibility of having to shut down at the end of the season. thousands of casino employees are facing the possibility of also losing their jobs. but the marketing arm of the casinos here, which help promote this concert indicates the financial woes aren't that bad. >> honestly, i think one of the major obstacles we have is the fact that the media has portrayed atlantic city as dying. and in reality as you can see, we are 95% occupied. our boardwalk is full. our beach is full. our entertainment is on.

>> reporter: and country music superstar blake shelton is set to take the stage here, just before 7:00 this evening, the stage is located just north here of the piers at ceasar's. todd quinones, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> the place to be tonight atlantic city and the board walk, blake shelton, todd, thank you very much. still to come on "eyewitness news" at 5:00 a picture that you have to see to believe. an axe flies off a truck and smashes into a drivers windshield. the passenger of that car narrowly escaped with her life. >> for the first time baltimore ravens player, ray rice, breaks his silence about his two game suspension for assaulting his wife. >> and thousands of americans die from overdosing on painkillers every year. our health reporter stephanie stahl is here, and on your side with what you need to know about a brand new consumer report study. that's next.

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>> we're tracking a few showers, down the shore things

like great. >> kathy orr is live in the barnegat lighthouse state park for or at the shore. kate bilo here in our studios. we'll start with kathy. >> reporter: we had a long walk today you guys, up 217 stairs to the top of the barnegat lighthouse, better known, or more affectionately known as old barney. and what a view. we're in the lantern room, which is what we call the tip i top. where you can see the gorgeous view of the bay, long beach island, and of course across the bay, you can even see island beach state park. we'll have more about the lighthouse in just a minute. first let's talk about the forecast. to give you idea where we, are if you haven't been to this part of lbi let's look at storm scan3. we do have a few scattered showers, especially in berks county, and points to the north and west of that. we would run the risk of isolated shower, especially north and west of the sit later this evening. as we zoom in to barnegat light, barnegat itself, it is beautiful. 84 degrees, plenty of sunshine, just gorgeous day to be outside. elsewhere inhiladelphia,

now, here is a look at the shore pa temperature, 83 degrees. then on saturday, look for some rain, some showers not great beach day 78, sunday, mostly cloudy, with few see temperature of 77 degrees. now, back here live, we're at barn gate light lighthouse, it is beautiful, its beacon began shining back in 1959s and it is a spectacular view. here is a look at old barney, from the outside looking up. 172 feet above see level. 217 steps to the top observation deck, and we are up even higher, in a area called the lantern room. back here live, it is not a lantern any more we're back in the 21st century with the light. the purpose still the same. i'm joined by cynthia, park superintendent, anacine thee a what a great job you have. you're the keeper of this historic location. the location that you're in today is very historic, a major change in navigation,

location along the coast ships would come in from across the atlantic, and they would come to this location, toward this inlet head north to new york harbor or head south. the area was very showy. they had a lot of shipwrecks out in the shows, so they put a lighthouse up here, with only about 40 feet high. went into the inlet again built another one in the late 1800s, like you said, this was designed and built. >> which is terrific. >> now we have barnegat lighthouse. >> now we have t and they even do night amazing, go to cbsphilly.com. get more information about this wonderful ynthia.en yoot. but i even saw a lot of little kids doing this. so it is great for the whole family. >> that's awesome, kathy. good work out as like in one. sounds great. yes. you look great after 217 stems, unbelievable. here is another shot down the shore, if you're down the

shore today as kathy told us, enjoying beautiful day live o this yeag uff upquick lookwh h can expect. moving forward, first we take a look back, take a look at tempeen below normal just about every day. in fact, on tuesday we didn't break out of the 70s yesterday just 80, today we got little bit closer to normal at 86. tomorrow, back in the low 80s we're below average all week long. temperatures will rise above average by next week, not before we get through another couple of cool days, and some rain in the forecast unfortunately for the weekends. wet pattern. system moving in from the north and west, cool front coming through tomorrow, could spark a stray shower or thunderstorm in the afternoon. but the best chance for rain comes in late tomorrow night into saturday. it is a bit of a squeeze play, warmfront moves in from off shore. and really the moisture has no where to go t creates in corridor of moisture, it will be lifting up from the south. we will be dodging rain, showers all day saturday, another threat for rain specially from the city on south, during the day on sunday. so let's time it out here. see the rain lifting up

tomorrow afternoon, watch for showers, thunderstorms, sprout across the region, then stead jest bands of rain starts to come in saturday morning. there may be some breaks in the action here saturday afternoon, but if you are out and about again dodging showers all day same story sunday. i do have to tell you the computer models we look at are very split as far as the weekend forecast, some say we will get rained on all weekend long, like this model which brings over inch every rain n european model saturday morning then dries us out. if you don't want wet weather go 20.29 inches, which would be a lot better just showers on and off through the weekends. tonight mostly cloudy isolated shower at 68. tomorrow, 83 with clouds and sun. pocono speedway again dodging showers again all day on sunday with threat for heavier weather, watch for the morning rain specially saturday, then showers, showers linger for sunday, but better news with the seven day, i'll have that coming up in just a bit. breaking news right now

chopper three live over havertown, where a pedestrian was hit and killed by a norristown high-speed line train. this is happening near the penfield station. we're told shuttle buses are now operating between 69th street and wynnewood road. passengers should expect delays. we'll of course have you dates for you as they become available. we'll have more news, too right after the break.

>> the trade deadline has come and gone phillies roster remains unchanged. cole hamels, cliff lee, marlon byrd, all rumored to be available, but apparently the phils didn't feel they were offered enough to make a deal. so with no one on the move, cliff leon the hill tonight in

d.c. against the nationals fishes pitch 70:00, a we'll hear from rubin amaro coming up at 6:00. >> another day on the feel, practice continued, trying to fine tune their game as the season approaches. believe it or not the first pre-season game is a week from tomorrow in chicago. yesterday, nick foles talked about the back shoulder throw today it was jeremy maclin. >> another wept ton have in your arsenal. not necessarily what we're looking for just something that we'll have in the back of flakes we can pull out. probably the single hardest in football. so it will be good to kind of practice that just so tough down. >> to hockey now big honor for three of the biggest names in flyers history, eric lindros, john leclair eric dejardin will be inducted into the flyers hall of fame this coming season, lindrose, leclair, will enter together november the 20th, dejardin

will follow. well de severed. all right, beasley thanks very much. still to come in the next half hour images that give new meaning to the word accident. a couple survives a brush with death, when an axe flies through their windshield. an ebola emergency. more americans expose today that disease coming up extreme measures country and aids groups are take to go control this largest outbreak in history. >> and new at 6:00 tonight, red light camera are moving into the philadelphia suburbs. we'll tell you where police will soon keep an eye on drivers 24 hours a day.

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take a look at his plan for yourself. tom wolf. a fresh start for pennsylvania. >> breaking news of the southbound 495 bridge have reopened to traffic. completed repairs on that section, the northbound lanes are expected to open in a few weeks after additional repairs. the pennsylvania house cancels vote on proposed cigarette tax that was supposed to help funds philadelphia's schools. superintendent william hite says big cuts will have to be made by august 15th, as the district now face as $81 million budget deficit. two contractors for penndot now charged with

conspiring to steel more than $3.6 million in taxpayer money. authorities say the men phosphide work reports putting drivers lives at risk. kate? >> and jest, a it has been pretty nice day across most of the region. seeing couple every isolated showers pop up. we have our quadruple sweep going. take a look, showers mainly light, spotty, allentown into portions of eastern berks county at the moment. along 100, not big deal, most of the area is dry tonight. we have more chances for wet weather, as we head into the weekends, more on that coming up with the seven day forecast. chris? >> all right, kate, thank you. the centers for disease control and prevention warning travelers not to go to the west african nations affected by the growing outbreak of ebola. marla hall tells us from new york, the virus has claimed more than 700 lives. >> cdc issued warning to avoid all non-essential travel to liberia, sierra leone guinea, as those countries deal with an ebola outbreak that experts

say will only get worse. >> this virus will be a slow epiderm glike world held organization announced launching $100 million response plan, which includes sending more medical personnel to the reasonable old, will send additional 50 experts to help deal with the crisis. the largest ebola outbreak on record, more than 1300 cases spread across four nations in west africa. 729 people have died, including one american, who was working in liberia. two other americans volunteering in liberia doctor kent brantly and nancy rightbowl, in serious condition. the missionary group nancy belongs to says she's trying an experimental treatment as her condition gets worse. >> ebola spread through direct contact with bodily fluids. the current outbreak has a fatality rate of about 60%. marlie hall, cbs-3 "eyewitness news".

piece corpse is pulling all 340 of its volunteers from the region after two of them may have been expose today ebola. >> united nations accusing both hamas and israel of war crimes. the official says hamas guilty of stashing objects in gaza schools and hospitals. anise ray sell guilty of striking those civilian targets. israel's military pounds the hamas targets for the 24th straight day. is ray rail's government says it won't stop until it wipes out out of hamas tunnels. israel called up 16,000 more reservist toss finish the job which they say could take a few more days. >> well, new jersey governor chris christie makes his case for bail reform to lawmakers today. governor christie addressed a special legislative session on the issue in trenton this afternoon. the governor urged law makers to pass a pair of bills that would allow judges to keep suspects who were considered dangerous in jail as they await trial and release

low-level suspects without requiring them to pose bail. >> we are failing, when we have a system that works against the very people in our society who need us to fight for the fairness they often cannot fight for themselves. >> well, the legislature has until monday to decide on that -- on those bail reform measures. baltimore ravens running back, ray rice, breaks his silence. publicly apologizing to his family and teammates for the alleged assault that earned him two-game suspension from the nfl. today the former rutgers star, answered questions about that alleged assault the 27 year old was arrested in february, accused of assaulting his then fiancee attelet lan particular city revel hotel and casino. he called that his lowest low. >> ii made a huge mistake and i want to own it, i want to tell you in front of my teammates i made a huge mistake. these two games will hurt t hurts because i can't go out there and play football, but hurts that i have to be a

father and explain what happened to my caughter. >> he said when the time is right, he and his wife want to help other couples affected by domestic abuse. >> women in massachusetts is lucky to be alive after an axe crashed through the windshield of the car in which she was riding yesterday. >> this happened on i-95 in top field. police there say that an elderly couple was behind a truck being driven by a landscaper who had just left a job without securing that hatchet. the tool flew out of the vehicle, smashed through the couple's windshield, and burried itself in the dashboard right in front of that female passenger. >> if this axe had penetrated through further hit her she would have been injured or killed. >> well, shaken, but unharmed, the couple pulled over safely. the truck driver also stopped and admitted his mistake. he earned a $200 ticket for not securing that hatchet. >> ribbon cutting today innocent children's services

unveiled two-year, $5 million renovation project that will a threw to provide them with permanent supportive housing. we get more from reporter pat lobe of sister station "kyw news radio". >> surrounded by northern officials, 18 year old brittany shappell cut the ribbon on merrick hall where she will soon be living with her three year old son and 11 other small families, like hers. >> i think to myself who would have thought that so much unconditional love and support to my son and i. >> having a baby as a teenager often a sentence to life-long poverty for mother and child but northern ceo tracey says permanent supportive housing can break the cycle. >> we can give their kids an opportunity to start life out in a better place, you will see exactly what i mean when go into that building. it is life changing. they don't necessarily have to experience the things the parents experienced and the parents parents? bright new services such as job training, parenting

classes, says it all helps the moms defy the odds. >> our goal as an organization is to drive a hard wedge in some of those long standing social issues. >> for brittany, it meant graduating high school on time and developing new life skills. >> as for my son he has grown to love and a door you for it, because in his worlds of hate, you have show him that love still exists. for cbs-3, "eyewitness news" pat lobe, "kyw news radio". way to go, brittany, what a story. good afternoon everyone, traveling out and about, dealing with rush hour, and few problem spots. let's start first traveling on 476 this is the northbound side of the blue route as you approach the area of route one, earlier accident, has been moved to the shoulder, still causing quite a delay. and a lingering gaper delay on top of rush hour. so southbound traveling on the blue route expect delays between saint david's and media swarthmore. again, northbound still going have those problems between i would say 95 and route one.

moving on now to the platt bridge. the right lane is being compromised at the eastbound site of the platt due to disable vehicle. it does seem to be that they've moved that as close to the shoulder as possible, but that has still left a little bit after mark, so if you are headed from 95, up and over down into south philadelphia, here you will find a little bit of a delay. now, in regard to delay well, you are going to have rush hour delays on 95, the usual spots, specifically through the construction zones traveling on the schuylkill you're averaging 14 miles per hour high volume on both sides. really doesn't matter where you are going right now, you are going to find rush hour traveling on the schuylkill expressway, but great news for folks in delaware. finally southbound side of 495 has been reopened at the christianna bridge. so i will leave you on that good note there. however, headed down to see blake shelton tonight in atlantic city, expect delays headed down the shore. jessica? >> victoria, thanks so much. still to come: stretch your savings on line and also in the store. three's on your side with the best ways and the best times to find those coupons. >> and, new selfie trends.

one that a company hopes will be the biggest thing since sliced bread. kathy? >> chris beautiful day at the bay. we are live in barnegat bay on the observation deck of old barney, the barnegat bay lighthouse, look at the view of long beach island. it is a picture perfect shore day, but unfortunately it is not going to stay that way. kate and i will have the forecast from the city to the poconos, to the shore coming up as "eyewitness news" at 5:00 conti

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>> today tracking few showers moving through the area, and things are apparently going to get worse un fortunately, as weed into the weekend. >> we have live team three coverage, kathy orr down at the lighthouse down the shore and we start with kate bilo. >> we've been spoiled with stretch of nice weekends this summer, but unfortunately it looks like that streak is about to end. take a look at this shot. atlantic city where the concert is going on tonight blake shelton down there in atlantic city. boy this area has been packed since 11:30 this morning watching this camera, pact rye now, as things get underway, there and they're enjoying a lot of sunshine, kathy will shows us conditions down the shore in just couple every minutes, as well. quick look at storm scan3 showing, a few showers that have popped well off to the north and west, now southern lehigh county. that's about all we're seeing.

south of allentown here, traveling, perhaps on 29 there, or even if you are on 476, turnpike, you may be traveling through a stray shower out there tonight. but that's about it, most of the region is quiet. at least for now. unfortunately, that's going to change. take a look at temperatures, feeling pretty comfortable close to normal for late july day. last day of the month, eight an at the airport, 84 wilmington, little cooler in our north and west suburbs where temperatures are in the upper 70s. dew points have been rising as well. little more moisture content in the air now and through the rest. week, dew points back to the 60s, in some spots. and we'll see dew points in the 60s through the day tomorrow as well as some more moisture starts to move in ahead after wet weekend. see scattered showers not many most of us stay dry clouds start to lift in tomorrow morning, and tomorrow, mostly cloudy, and notice even by 1:00 o'clock we have scattered showers and storms popping up, so, definately a more active day tomorrow with scattered showers, storms, at any time. and then we watch this batch of rain, starting to lift in, this is 3:00 saturday morning and here comes the rain, and

it will be coming down through much of the weekends with the steadiest down the shore some spots by sunday looking at over inch every rain in the city, not quite that much, but we will be dodging showers all weekends long. for tonight, just isolated shower mostly cloudy otherwise at 68. tomorrow clouds, some sun but scattered showers, at any time from midday on. and in the poconos, watch for scattered storms tomorrow and again on saturday, and unfortunately, again, on sunday, as we will be in the mid 70s. quick look at the eyewitness weather seven day forecast, "shorecast", cloudy weekend morning rain saturday, then showers saturday afternoon and sunday, still shower possible monday. but then, back to sunshine, and warmth into the middle of next week. >> no storms at the shore today. kathy or joins us live from the top of the barnegat lighthouse. amazing view, kathy. us, light wind on part of

the observation deck, but that's not the case everywhere. beautiful view right here of the bay, of course, the atlantic, long beach island, as i step just few steps along this great observation deck, sometimes the wind picks up to about 20, even 30 miles an hour, with gusty winds with the strong southeasterly winds, moving our way. but, a gorgeous day just to be outside. let's talk about the weekends, though. because it is not going to stay that way down the shore. those ocean water temperatures in some spots are actually warming up. that's the good news. but we are going to be seeing some rain. now, right now, atlantic city, ocean water temperature 69, cape may 656789 lewes, delaware, 72. that's improvement. a look at the forecast over the course of the weekend for friday looking at temperature of 83 degrees, but afternoon shower possible, so friday, consider that the weekends, that's the best day, because saturday breezy, showers maybe even few thunderstorms temperature of 78 degrees. now the uv index of course is going to vare, high for your friday saturday, sunday, the

uv only sitting at about five because of the clouds and the rain. so not a terrific looking shore weekends so far. of course, we are live atop the observation deck here at the barnegat lighthouse terrific view, we are 172 feet above sea level above that barnegat lighthouse state park. and i'm joined by cynthia, of course she is the park superintendent, i saw all of the kids here today but you had a proposal here recently. tell us about former superintendent was engaged here years ago, one of our other park friends just arranged last week to come up and propose to his now fiancee. and it happened right here, they happened to have a friend across the inlet taking photographs. >> that's fantastic. i know you have some night climbs, as well? >> we do. the friends of barnegat lighthouse state park have graciously posted these throughout the summer. we have one coming up next

saturday from seven p.m. to 9:00 p.m., august 9th. >> what is the fastest way to get up here? i know running but -- >> yes, fastest way yes, i would say running, and the kids do that all the time. them ' run up, the parents even have caught up with them yet. they run outside next thing you know, they want to pay again to come back up. >> oh, boy. and i bet the moms say no thank you. >> yes. >> cynthia, thank you so much. great way to spends afternoon or evening here at barnegat lime we send it back to the studio. >> are you the kind of shopper always looking for coupon to maximize your savings? >> if you think coupons are random, jim donovan says think again. >> whether you are shopping on line or in stores, the strategy may help when searching for coupons. >> we analyze two years worth of coupons in our data base, to identify the best times to find coupons to save money and

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>> and the beaches rocking tonight. thousands packing the sand in atlantic city waiting for one every country music's biggest stars. and it is not just music that fans are excited about tonight. and speaking of the shore meteorologist, kathy orr is on lbi. kathy? >> orr at the shore travels to barnegat light. beautiful day to be at the shore. will it stay that way? "eyewitness news" at 6:00 starts now. >> forecaster making their way over the sound bound lanes of the interstate 495 bridge in delaware. that will portion of the bridge re-opening about a month ahead every schedule. officials shut the bridge down, in june, because of serious structural concerns. good evening i'm jessica dean. >> i'm chris may. natasha brown traveled to wilmington, joins with us breaking details, this is welcome news for a loft drivers, natasha?

>> oh, most certainly is, chris. this is certainly a welcome site for the 90,000 or so vehicles that normally travel this corridor, every single day, the southbound lanes as you can see here, of the 495 bridge reopened much earlier than expected. >> finally relief for drivers traveling through delaware, via i495 southbound lanes every damaged brink near wilmington reopened 5:00 p.m. thursday, a month ahead of schedule. the north and southbound lanes of the bridge were shutdown on june 2nd, after officials found that a span of the bridge was tilting. del dot officials feared this heavily traveled corridor wouldn't open until labor day. but 24/7 construction to complete the tilting