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overnight killing one suspect. but, there is another still out there this morning after a foiled home invasion. "eyewitness news" has been following this breaking news all morning long for you. >> good morning, "eyewitness news" reporter cleve bryan is in the north woods section of northeast philly right now with the latest. cleve? >> reporter: good morning, right now there are many investigators on the scene, currently looking at this car right here, may be related to the two robbery suspects there is happened around 12:45 this morning. police say a couple were ambushed at that's front door by two mask men caring guns, forks the residents inside at gunpoint, and home security significant tell triggered. one of the suspect came to the door pretending to be resident, about as tooth officer asked for proof. he sent the female resident to the door to try too get ridf the cops. she said everything is okay, but gestured otherwise to their face. the officer went inside, which surprised the officers, police say one of them point add gun
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at the officers, and then fired his weapon. >> he sees the officer and the male suspect. the officer, he then turns the gun toward the officer's head. the officer in a defensive mode put his hands up, left hand up, and basically pulled out a gun at the same time suspect we believe discharges about three times, and thank god the officer was not struck. >> reporter: right now the search continues for the one rob here ran out the back door as the shoot-out took place. we understand a k9 unit was brought to the scene a little earlier, didn't turn up anything. fortunately, none of the residents or officers were hurt during this attempted home invasion. live in the northeast, cleve bryan, cbs 3, "eyewitness news". all right, cleve, we will get back to you, thank you. mover breaking news right now, let's look live at the gaza strip where three day cease-fire apparently lasted just couple every hours. gaza officials say at least four palestinians have been killed by israeli tank fire. th least four
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shots humanitarian sees fires since the conflict july 8th. but each has been broken within a few hours. secretary every state john kerry is hoping to broke area trues, meet also take place in cairo. almost 5:33, let's get your traffic and weather together. >> good morning, everybody, as we start things offer here on a friday, we will start off with probably few more clouds than what we've seen in recent mornings. but there also be some sunshine. problem is, that sun ends up being at somewhat after premium throughout the day. in other words, starting to seymour moisture build in, more cloud cover, more wet weather with time. weekend, less than ideal. i know not the best news, to kick off the morning here, especially if you have outdoor plans scheduled. but it won't be a wash out either. eights of let's explain, start it off with storm scan3. at the wider zoom, see the clouds starting to funnel in. obviously wet weather just waiting in the wings across virginia, all headed our way. so matter of time really before we start to see a shower or thunderstorm firing up here today. unless, though, we've got nice
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surplus. it is so much warmer out there, southern new jersey, than it was yesterday. you sort of leveled off at this point to the northwest suburbs where it was a lot coup err -- cooler in recent morning. stands at 72 degrees, winds out of the south-southwest at the airport, 72 as well in atlantic city. little cooper in the poconos as is typical but still comfortable. as the day goes on, i expect mid 80s at best, generally talking high of 83 in the city. but the clouds will continue to build in, that's going to limit the amount of warm that can take place. we will also be dodging as i said a shower perhaps thunderstorm. meantime, looking ahead to the weekends, here's the scenario, strong hi, expands willing out over the atlantic, shoves front our way. we get put into a squeeze play, with tropical moisture being funneled in. so, we are right on the edge right now where the heaviest rain may come in. but there is a very good chance that specially from philly on southeast saturday and maybe even sunday morning's produce some steady rain for us. so, we will keep an eye on it
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for you. bottom line i would be ready to have maybe those weekend plans a little spoiled. >> 5:34, spoiling our commute this morning, especially for those headed to the airport. going outside, live look at late running construction jam on i-95. this is northbound lanes of i-95 all brake lights headed into route 420, than is causing a delay for folks trying to get up to philadelphia international to catch that early flight out. if you are leaving, say, delaware, delaware county, and headed northbound this morning, here's where we jam on the brakes. northbound right before the airport, so if you are headed out this morning, trying to get to the airport, here is a tip. jump off at 420, take 291. that runs parallel to 95. will put new the airport and avoid that mess, and hopefully, you will be able to catch that flight thereon time. northeast philadelphia, fatal accident here along academy road. that's block this morning between grant avenue and morrell. now, ac aid any is right there bordering northeast philly airport. so your best bet, going north
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to south here in the neighborhood, and another accident montgomery county clump road and whites mill road. good news for motorists traveling south this morning and through the weekend. the southbound lanes of 495 have been reopened, that's good news for everyone headed down toward the delaware beaches. however, just keep in mind, the northbound lanes still remain closed, with that reconstruction of the bridge, and that alternate will remain 95, rolling up through wilmington. mass transit at the moment, looking good. erika, back over to you. >> bob, thank you. right now 5:35, in business news this morning, how facebook is hoping to get the internet to developing countries. >> what could help the markets rebound from down day? money watch's wendy gillette joins us now from new york from the stock exchange, hi, wendy. >> reporter: good morning, ukee, erika, all eyes on wall street will be focused on the unemployment report that the labor department will release later this morning. the july jobs numbers could help determine if the market will begin to recover from
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yesterday's big dip. the worse one day drop since february. dow jones lost 317 points, nasdaq tumbled 93. analysts say there are a number every reasons for yesterday's drop. including weak corporate earnings, the approaching end of the federal reserve's massive bonds buying program, and fears that the markets were sailing up too high. if you like soda, you will not like this proposal. a connecticut canning women sweet act would institute national 1 cents tax on every teaspoon of caloric sweetner in soda like sugar or high fructose corn syrup. money would be used to help fight obesity and diabetes. more people in zambia will be going on line. now, that facebook's project called internet.org has launched app there. the app allows subscribers of air tell cell service to receive basic inlet net seats like wick a pediatric ya, accuweather, one for job searching, of course facebook, and its messenger service. many people in developing nations can't afford to pay
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these services to get on line. ukee, erika? >> thank you, wendy. talk to you a little later. also this morning, in the news, day before the terror attacks on 9/11, former president bill clinton told group of businessmen in australia that he could have killed osama bin laden. here is a listen to the tape. >> i could have killed him, but i would have had to destroy a little town called cans a hear in afghanistan, and killed 300 innocent women and children, then i would have been no better than him. and so i didn't do it. >> the recording became public on wednesday. the 9/11 commission report canceled the proposed 1998 strike on couldn't march, noting the couldn't jeeves of staff advised the former president against the attack. a sudanese woman who faced death for refuse to go announce her christianity now on american soil. made a stop in philadelphia before arriving at her new hometown of manchester, new hampshire. a crowd gave her a warm welcome at philadelphia international airport.
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mayor michael nutter was there is there, welcomed her and gave her a liberty bell. >> i talked about william penn, and the founding of philadelphia, and pennsylvania city, founded on the tenants of row lidge us freedom. and tolerance and openess and the ability to practice your fate, both of them smiled. >> reporter: the mayor invited her to next year's world meeting of families in philadelphia. the woman who for years refused to sell her atlantic city home to casino developers finally cashed out. vera's home sold at auction for $530,000 yesterday. it sits on columbia place in the shadow of trump plaza. donald trump said he offered as much as $4 million for the property in the 1990's. the 91 year old now lives in san francisco. well, after the auction, trump got in one last dig, tweeting vera made big mistake in atlantic city by turning down many millions of dollars years ago for property that
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just sold for $530,000. vera saved much owe money by turning down my offer. thanks vera. >> turning the knife there. common. trump? >> atlantic city casino industry is rolling the dice hoping free concert series will draw tourism. so far it is working. more than 60,000 people packed the shore last night for a free concert performed by country superstar blake shelton. atlantic city mayor says historic town has more to offer than just gambling. >> atlantic city, for 106 years, keeps on re-inventing it self. >> honestly i think one of the major obstacles we have is the fact the media has portrayed atlantic city as dying. >> not last nightment check out the creed. beach was certainly alive. tourism officials now discussing making beachfront concerts a regular summer event. and i have one request. >> yes? >> can you please have them on a friday or saturday night?
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so we can go. >> i know. by the way, if you were at the show last night, hit us up on facebook or twitter. looks like it, indeed. we at any time to start your day off with a free cup of coffee? there is a catch, though. >> all right, let you nor where you can picick up that free drink. >> is facebook changing the way you look at the news? well you may only be getting one side of the story. katie? >> ukee, looking ahead to what may end up being a little bit of a spoiler for your weekend. specifically if you have outdoor plans. we will be talking about wet weather headed your way. tropical storm in the atlantic. we will gave you a sense every what's going on with bertha on the other side, as well. trivia is coming up, too. >> tonight on cbs-3 "eyewitness news" at 11, when war erupt in the his home country he out his -- he put his life on the line. as photographer for cbs news he dodged bullets and bombs, but when his brother was murdered, everything changed.
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>> my family, and my kids, i think, more important -- >> hoping to make better life for his family, his extraordinary john toy america and to cbs-3 tonight on "eyewitness news" at 11:00.
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the drinks every friday this month. how about that? right now just past 5:43, we want to get our weather hot enough for nice cup of cough me? >> warm day but not quite as warm as we typically find. we'll talk about in a second. my friend, trivia time. looking at the question for the day. all right, everybody, two states in the united states have never had a hundred degree day. they would be alaska and? is it a, maine, b, florida, c, minute society, a or d, hawaiiment bob, you are pulling up the rear big time, so we'll let you go first. >> thank you, sister katie. i'm going to go with maine. >> all right. letter a. >> sorry, buddy. erika, you get to go next. >> i go with minnesota. >> oh, no! >> oh, no. all right, ukee? fifty-50, what do you think? >> ♪ >> the man, i don't know how do you it.
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>> i'm back. >> back? you never left. >> that's true. >> well done. >> thank you very much. >> we'll update the standings for the next rounds, like crickets in here. >> well done, ukee. >> quick check on the weather forecast for you though, here we are still tracking wet werth. you can already see it is beginning to move on in. steady rain beginning to creep north. that's going to eventually arrive here later today. so we will be dodging some showers, meantime, we have a new tropical storm guys, bertha has since formed, in the open waters of the atlantic, it is making essentially bee line toward the lesser antilles, win ward island, and eventually once it crosses over, late tonight into tomorrow, it is also we think going to crawl right through between the dominican republic and puerto rico. so if you have any travel interests down that way, maybe even down to the bahamas, this will be a system that affect you and potentially affect your travel. meantime should not be any direct impact to the united stay, but we have our own set, moisture moving in helping to bring in showers at minimum,
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both weekend days, but good possibility that specially toward the jersey shore some steady rain will move in too. bob, over to you. >> good morning, everybody, 5:46. live look at i-95 here. good news for motorists heading northbound up toward the airport. all of the construction cones have been pick up and we are back to normal here heading northbound up toward philly international. here is our first live look from chopper three hd. over this accident i told you about in northeast philadelphia, we're looking live at academy road. this is academy road right at philly, northeast philly airport, academy road between grant and morrell. what we're hearing from police is that a vehicle lost control, clipped this telephone, this sign pole here, and struck a pedestrian, killing the pedestrian this morning. the driver in police custody, but looking right now at the investigation as it is underway here, this is that stretch of academy road, again, that goes from grant
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avenue up toward morrell. there is obviously the vehicle that was involved in this crash here this morning. so with the investigation being add any road closed as i mention between grant and morrell. we could go back to the maps, your best bet this morning is going to be the roosevelt boulevard. here is the stretch right here. that's a busy stretch, too, right near the airport. so there will be a lot of motorists looking for the alternate. you want to use the boulevard instead. blue route not bad between 95 headed up toward conshohocken, the schuylkill expressway looking good coming into downtown, it is the septa trolley tunnel blitz begins this weekend, tonight, all the way through august 18th. all of the subway surface trolleys will not be using the tunnels, septa making some repairs, and upgrades to all of the stations along the way. so traffic, commuters, will be forced off at fourth and market. from there the market frankford line will take you to and from end is her sitment don't forget throughout the weekend stay to up date with all of the traffic tie ups and
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backups. you can download the app for the android and iphone devices going going to cbsphilly.com/your drive. >> breaking news leaves this look on cbs-3. philadelphia police officers respond to a break-in on wakling street in northwood, came face-to-face with suspect mo who allegedly pointed gun at them. officers shot and killed that suspect but another managed to escape. >> also, philadelphia mayor, michael nutter, says philadelphia schools will not open on time unless they get financial help. but, he says, lawmakers left harrisburg without vote to go fund the district with a cigarette tax. district superintendent, william hite, joins us live in our studio coming up in the next hour to discuss. >> the cease-fire between israel and hamas in gaza lasted less than two hours. officials say israeli tank fire killed four people and injured 15. the war has gone on for more than three weeks now. speaking of that war in gaza, really dominate ago lot of people's facebook feeds out there. >> people on both sides have strong opinions about who is
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responsible for the violence. stacey co-hand joins us from washington, to show you how social network shapes our views of the conflict. stacey, good morning. >> well, good morning, ukee, erika. here is the thing, a loft russ seeing our news now through internet filter. that can be very dangerous when scouted g or look to go learn about a conflict. such as what is happening in the middle east. facebook for example, what they do is they filter your news stories by things that you are most likely to like. that does keep you engaged with your story but only sendings information that degrees with your point of view, or point every view of most of your friends. facebook isn't the only company that does. >> this eli harris, the author of the filter bubble, has warned about the dangers every internet custom is agents. he points through the a google search of country or conflict for example can yield completely different results depending upon what you have searched in the past. yahoo news also personalize z its store toys fit with the company believed is the user's
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perspective. and the danger here is that you're not getting a well-rounded approach to whatever the story may be, but just an approach that supports what you already believe. >> so interesting. i had no idea. >> now, i mean, if you want to break through this internet filter, how can you do that? >> you will have to do leg work, deliberately search the other side's perspective. another tip go for credible journalist stories. a lot of times blog posts get passed around, or people that pose as journalists but perhaps posting opinion and not factment make sure you know what you are read willing and the source. >> thanks so much. great pointnts. time right now 5:00 ooh. coming up: katie has a check on your weekend forecast, let you know if your outdoor plans are ruined. bob is going to the billy joel concert saturday. he's wait withing bathed breath. >> don't let him get on stage, please, that's all i ask. good morning, family, we'll be right back.
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>> arc ailed milled road behind the northeast airport, police say female driver lost control of her car, jumped the curb, then struck male pedestrian. that man was pronounced dead at the scene. as bob has been reporting, academy road closed between morrell and grant avenue. we'll have more throughout the morning. let's get your traffic and weather together. start with kate. >> i hey, ukee, good morning, we start things off with pretty cool view of the sunrise. difficult obviously to make out that sun right now, but a little shade of that beautiful red, sort of pinkish color coming through the cowed cover. we start off with a little bit of sunshine, evident by this view, eventually we are dealing with some clouds and then also shower or two. jump ahead to future weather
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at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow. this is what i'm worried b really close to the edge, where the heaviest rain moves n regardless, all looking at a shower, but it will be somewhat scattered. here you go, bob, 8:00 p.m., billy joel. i think you might be okay. you might get a break. >> thanks goodness, i'm not sure what time he is going to ask me to come up and sing. >> that's critical. >> or move out? >> let's see, what did she say what is that? good morning, everybody, 55:54. the blue route, schuylkill expressway, no problems or delays at all, if you are coming into or out of the city. speaking every billy joel, busy concert weekend. lined up here tonight, at the ballpark, tomorrow night, billy joel and miley cyrus back-to-back across the street. and then katy perry comes in the beginning of the week, all concerts, no sports events in south philly. stay there, we'
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>> william hite will join us live in our studios, how postponing the cigarette tax vote will impact schools. will they open on time? also, our layoffs imminent? we'll get the answers for you, coming up in ou
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>> all morning long here, suspected drunk driving accident killed a pedestrian, in northeast philly. right behind the northeast airport along academy road. police say the female driver lost control of her car, jumped a curb and then struck the male pedestrian before knocking over an utility pole. that man that she struck was pronounced dead at the scene. this of course also impacting your morning rush, bob has the detours in just couple every minutes, once again suspect dollars dui crash, led a
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pedestrian dead in northeast philadelphia. >> good morning, also in the news, philadelphia police shoot and kill home invasion suspect in the northwood section of northeast fill. >> i this happened along the 900 block every wakling street, that's where "eyewitness news" reporter cleve bryan joins us with the latest information, clever, good morning. >> good morning, police presence has been scaled down in the last 15, 20 minutes, removed the crime scene tape, reopen castor avenue. but the investigation still continues into these two robbers attempted home invasion, but stopped by officer, who ultimately killed one of those robbers. nightmare scenario early this morning, as two mask men with guns ambush a couple at their front door. >> when they try to enter the property, the two male suspect came upon them, pointed gun and basically ordered them into the property. >> police say the home security system trick erred prompting officers to stop by the home. at the doors, one the robbers who answered, the officer alertly asked for suspect made the

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