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 female resident go to

the door to get rid of police. >> officers ask her is everything okay, yes verbally, but winks that not all is okay. so the officer being as alert as he was enters the foyer. >> when the officer went inside male suspect made a belt for the for the door. was surprised to ends up face-to-face with the officer. he then pointed his gun at the officer ' head and fired. >> we believe discharge about three times toward the officer. thank god the officer was not struck. >> officer himself fired from his gun multiple times, did he strike the male suspect. >> the one robber was pronounced dead at the scene, but the second one ran out the back door during the shoot-out. >> police still looking for the other suspect, right now don't have meche after deaths script sean, and the god news in all of this is that nobody was injured whether in the police department or the residence here, we understand the police officer as per the

procedures will be placed on desk duty while this officer shoved shooting is looked into. live in northeast, cleve bryan, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> morning rush little easier on i-95, crews sparly reopened. southbound lanes back in business about month earlier than expected, close in the june after officials noticed span with columns were tilting. officials have said the bridge was damaged by the weight of huge dirt mounds, that was dumped next to it, by a contractor. >> lighter before they opened. so i got off at 4:00. so i didn't see the difference, but i will next week. >> what's it going to do for you? >> it makes everybody commute much easier. >> that it does. i459 northbound lanes by the way are expected to reopen by labor day. >> good morning, ukee, out on

the cbs-3 skydeck, i look straight up, see little blue sky. look behind me, we face south, and it is basically all just gray skies. that's because we've got moisture, and clouds, and a potential for some wet weather, all headed our way, coming straight up broad street, basically, go ahead, we start things off with a look at storm scan3, you can see that, by following the movement of the clouds. the moisture, the clouds, beginning to creep our way, so, while we start off dry, it is definitely more humid out here this morning, i can tell that you much, also milder, but ends up with some showers. looking at the rainfall comparisons among the models here, generally expectation is around philadelphia, specific to philadelphia, we may end one close to an inch worth of rain by the time the weekends is all said and done. going to see heavy rain, it will be out toward the shore, especially going to be for the morning, of saturday, sunday, for now, we're calm, but starting to gather up that moisture, 72 at the airport, little cooler through the outlying suburbs obviously, and the days a a whole features temperatures that are held back because of the

clouds and because of the wet weather moving in. it should be more of a scattered nature, showers, perhaps thunderstorm, but dow think everybody's got good shot to see that, meanwhile, again, heaviest rain, when it does move in hereby tomorrow, is either out to sea or it will be clipping the jersey edge. >> friday morning, already comings here in the track center, going outside, live look, right now, northeast philadelphia looking liver, accident investigation, academy road closed, right alongside of northeast philly airport. that early morning crash, that turned fatal, police on the scene here this morning, and that investigation will continue for at least the beginning of our morning rush hour. this is the vehicle that was involved, and looking live there, at academy road, going to the maps with that stretch, academy road closed between grant and morrell. the roosevelt boulevard would be your best bet. maybe knights road, frandford avenue, as you work your way through northeast philadelphia this morning. another crash in chester

county, just outside of kennett square, route one northbound, right at route 41, otherwise, we're in good shape. light volume so far on the blue route. no problems on the schuylkill, 95, starting to see little volume at girard avenue, but that's typical for this hour. and good news, for motorists headed south through wilmington, specially for the weekend, southbound lanes every 459, are open, however, northbound, still remains closed, and you'll have to use that i95 as the alternate. mass transit running with no delays. erika, back over to you. >> bob, thank you. we have breaking news from the middle east right now, we want to give you live look here at the gaza strip. about two hours into a cease-fire, officials in gaza say israeli tank fire has killed at least four palestinians. now, israel and hamas militants had agreed to stop fighting for 72 hours. as susan macinnis reports, diplomats now working for permanent trues. >> smoke bill owed into the sky in gaza hours into what was supposed to be a temporary humanitarian cease-fire.

under the deal, brokered by the united nations and secretary of state, john kerrey, both side agreed put down their weapons for three days and attempt to forge a pass to peace. in comments thursday, secretary kerrey remained cautiously optimistic. >> a moment of opportunity, not an end. it is not a solution. it is the opportunity to find the solution. sees fired was designed to help palestinians receive urgent humanitarian relief like toed and supplies and time to care for their injured and bury the deadment even under the deal israeli forces say they would press on with main megs destroying hamas built tunnels leading to the jewish state. in weeks of fighting, more than 1400 palestinians have been killed. gaza psychologist, sammy, expressed concern about how the shellshock and depress will cope.

>> for your families killed -- >> delegations including hamas are due to travel to cairo to discuss long-term solution. >> susan macinnis. philadelphia mike nutter very angry pennsylvania law makers have delayed a vote on the cigarette sales tax. >> supposed to help fund the city schools. house was supposed to vote on the tax monday. superintendent doctor bill hite has said repeatedly if the district did not get that money layoff notices would go out august 15th and schools might not open on time. harrisburg is failing philadelphia's children. it is an absolute disgrace waist going on here, no other county, no other school district, would ever be subjected to this casino of nonsense, and irresponsibility, as we're now experiencing today.

>> to help close the gap, the governor's office said it is looking at all options, meet will legislative leaders next week. by the way the superintendent doctor bill hite will join just our studios at about 6:45. 6:08. a look at some of the things happening today. mitchell, philadelphia mosque leader, due in court. mitchell charged with trying to cut off a worshipper's hands with a michetti he accuse that worshipper of stealing. abington township montgomery county becomes the first suburban community to institute red light cameras. there are three locations. you will get a warning until october, but then, that is 100-dollar ticket. and three atlantic city casinos could close this fall. but work versa chance to land a new job at today's job fair. the fair is sponsored by the maryland live casino. it is at the ac sheridan, from 8:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. bring your resume, always dress to impress. well, incredible video of a gas explosion rocking a

neighborhood. the exact moment of the blasts caught on camera. see the amazing video, and first look at the aftermath in the daylight when we come back. >> also ahead, plane crashes in a parking lot, explodes into a fireball. now hearing from good samaritan who rescued that pilot. >> at least one american infected with ebol a on her way to the united states. and that's triggering fears of hollywood outbreak scenarios. find o out what is being done to contain the potentially deadly have i russ on the other side. >> ♪ >> will showers ruin your weekend? just how wet will it be? kate has your forecast coming up next, we'll be right back.

>> killed at least 25 people, injured nearly 270 others. four firefighters are among the dead, three people still missing. daylight reveals the damage, hurled concrete, cars through the air. blasted long drain hence into the streets. series of five explosions struck densely populated district where several petrochemical companies operate pipelines along the sure system in the city. new this morning, the senate passes resolution to

re-name philadelphia's 30th street station, in honor of late philadelphia congressman, william h gray the third. congressman gray served in congress until 1991. during his tenure, he secured millions of dollars for the rail hub. the bill was sponsored by congressman chaka fattah, who succeeded gray. now awaits the president's signature. >> starting to go downhill with time here. you can see what's going on. the writing is on the proverbial radar wall here, we've got rain already starting to creep across portions of virginia and just matter of time before it strikes us there is will be a plume of moisture that keeps on coming with time, these pieces of energy will move along stalled frontal boundary, nudging in, so, what i want to point out first, for most, we will look at here is model. it is not gospel, but it is good guidance, at least. so, as we go forward in time, we look at friday, maybe tenth of ain't or so worth of

rain, scattered variety of showers. tomorrow morning, into the ea especially near the shore points, you could pick up serious rainout of this, so it is likely to be a pretty just bad beach day. then looking to sunday, if that rain continues, to just hug the coast, you could end up with if it is right over 4 inches every rain in rehoboth. now, that may and little over done. we're not going to lie there. but certainly the potential is therefore an inch or two plus of rain, at the shore, all depends on where the bulk of the moisture sets up. but everybody gets in on at least showers, both saturday, sunday, we flirt with 80, by monday sun, still shower around, but starting to dry out, also heat up as we basically just flirt with 90 degrees by tuesday. bob? >> good morning, everybody, 6:45, live look at 422, the saint gabrielle's curve, not bad, light volume, we typically see on a friday morning, always usually lighter than the other four days of the work week. live look at 95 northeast philadelphia waking up and headed to work here southbound head in the toward girard

avenue. light volume again so far this morning, going to the northeast, academy road still closed between grant and morrell. accident investigation, use the roosevelt boulevard or maybe knights road, or frankford avenue, until that investigation wraps up. going to be a busy weekends, not only do we have the weekend summertime folks headed to the poconos, nascar coming to the pocono speedway. the pocono 400 taking place saturday, sunday, so we'll see a lot of extra volume headed north up toward the speedway. then on sunday, the second street festival comes to town, closing second street from girard over to spring garden, that's an all day deal there, on sunday, and of course today ac friday, headed to the beach, crunch time starts between 12:00 and 2:00 headed to the shore, back over to you. >> a dramatic rescue in san diego caught on cell phone camera. it was taken after a small plane crash landed in a parking lot yesterday. now, the plane, burst into flames, and good samaar tis returned in to help. they pulled out the 52 year old pilot to safety.

the plane was circling back after bouncing the landing at the nearby airport. the pilot could not regain altitude. i was talking to her through the window. and i said we got to get you out of this plane, it is on fire. she said my leg is broken, broken real bad, i'm pinned in here. i said okay, but we got to get you out of here. i look hine her, right then the whole back seat just erupt in the flames. how scary. well the 78 year old passenger died in that crash. federal investigators are now investigating. your time 6:16. breaking news, leads this look at today's headlines on cbs-3. northeast philadelphia homeowner, gestures, to police, at her front door, that a home invasion is underway. one suspect fired at officers, police returned fire, shooting and killing the suspect. another suspect got away. >> also, a cease-fire in gaza broken in less than two hours by rockets from israel. palestinians say four people were killed. the war between israel and hamas is in its fourth week.

the southbound lanes of new castle county's i495 bridge are open today. the bridge was close in the june, because of tilting support. the northbound lanes could reopen by labor day. welcome back. we'll be right back.

good morning, everyone, at least one american aid worker infected with ebola will be flown bake to the u.s.

>> house in the hospital in atlanta. >> more now on the evacuation effort. >> right now, there are two american missionaries, isolated in liberia, and diagnosed with ebola. they are doctor kent brantly every texas, and nancy rightbold of north carolina they're in grave condition. but, said to be stable. and an experimental serum was available, doctor brantly asked that it be given to nancy. there was only enough for one patient. >> we don't really know how effective the serum will be in this instance of e bowl a, because it really hasn't been done very frequently before, if at all. doctor brantly given unit of blood from one of his patients who recovered from ebola. emory university hospital in atlanta now says an infected american will be brought there in the next several days. and placed inside a high security ward isolated from others. the identity of that american is unknown. the cdc has issued the highest possible warning, a level three, and advising americans to avoid innocent-essential travel to liberia, guinea,

sierra leone, where some 1300 people have become ill with ebola, more than 700 have died. right now, there are 20 quarantine centers in the u.s. most at airports ready to isolate travelers who show symptoms of ebola. it is 62:00; new revelations of former president billion had the chance to kill osama bin laden before nine/is one, the reason why he did not orders the kill when we come back. >> in sports, phillies let trade deadline pass without making a move. details coming up next.

>> 6:23, how are the showers looking, kaley? >> not here yet, which is good. but we can start to notice the humidity, the cloud cover, really beginning to roll in for us, all courtesy of the plume of moisture headed our

way. you can see very evidently through new jersey, or i should say, down to virginia later towed, rumble every thunder, but lost like the brunt of the activity where you end up with potential for steady rain, southeast of philadelphia, both saturday and sunday morning. regardless dealing with clouds and showers. >> 6:24. accident involving motorcycle, here, on the westbound pennsylvania turnpike, they're telling me it is west of the valley forge interchange, so between valley forge, over to the route 29 slip ramp, and it is concert craziness, this weekend. most sport events, not sporting events, five concerts, for actually concert for the next five days. tonight, jason al dean and the florida georgia line taken over citizens bank park, that same stage, will be used for billy joel tomorrow night, at the ballpark, and miley cyrus, you remember back, she got six, canceled her concert,

rescheduled it for tomorrow night, across the street from billy joel. talk about concert jammo tomorrow. and then, monday, tuesday, back-to-back, katie perry rolls into town. so, sports guys had their weekend off. and it is concert crazy necessary in south philly. ukee, back over to you. >> phils made no moves at yesterday's trait ted line, pitching rotation will look different for the rest of the season. cliff lee is on the disable list. lee through third inning pitch last night, against the nationals, and re-injured the elbow that landed him on the d l-2 months ago. lee said likely done for the season, but i but he will see hs doctors very soon. in the game, the phils exploded for 17 hits, and ten runs, and feed the nationals, that was good to see, beat the nationals ten to four. the two teams play again tonight in d.c. gm rubin amaro, jr., said surprise the phils couldn't pull off deadline day trade. >> not disappointed, i think more surprise, that there wasn't more aggressive, i

guess, action, could you call it, from the other end. i mean, that's pretty good baseball players here. and, you know, our goal all along try to improve the club. really wasn't deal to be made that would help us do that. hey, nicole and the eagles back on practice field over at nova care. birds are missing desean jackson, everybody knows, that so nick will be relying on jeremy maclin, rival i cooper and rookie jordan matthews in scrimmages, matthews is turning a lot of heads, i understand, eagles first gamings comes week from tonight in chicago against the bears. bring it on. i'm ready. three former flyers greats will be honored this season with spots in the flyers hall of fame. former line mater i can lindrose, john leclair, will enter the hall together on november 20th, and defenseman eric dejardin indict dollars on february 19th. legion of doom back together again. flyers fro season schedule gets underway september 22nd, against the mapleleafs, in london, ontario.

congratulations. they were a great group together. i'm telling you. >> can't wait. >> yes indeed. >> right now 6:26. coming up in the next half hour, liver on the scene of breaking news. cleve? >> live northeast philadelphia, where police were able to foil attempted home invasion. police officers actually killed one of the suspect, police say he fired first, we'll have all of the details coming up right after the break. >> more breaking news in the middle east, when violence breaks out, just two hours after cease-fire was declared. >> and bob and katie return. they've got your traffic and weather together together on the 3's, looking liver at centeritl it be a wet weekend, will it ruin your weekend plans? katie has the answers. we'll be right back.

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>> updating breaking news right now, philadelphia police shoot and kill a suspect following a home invasion in the northeast. >> "eyewitness news" reporter cleve bryan, in the north woods section right now, to tell you more, cleve? >> good morning, well, credit very alert officer with stopping an armed robbery involving two men, that ambush the couple, getting into their house, just up the block here on wakling street in the north woods section of northeast philadelphia. all of this happened about 12:45 this morning, police say that the couple were coming home, two mask men jumped out with guns, forced the couple inside their home, at which

point alarm system triggered. police officers arrived, actually one of the robbers who answered the door pretending to be a resident. police officer smartly asked for id, at which point, the robber went back inside, forced female resident to answer the door. she said everything was okay. but gestured with her face that something was going on. the officer then went inside and surprised the robbers, one every which pointed a gun at the officer's head and fired. >> at the same time the suspect we believe discharges about three times toward the officer. thank god the officer was not struck, the officer himself he fired from his gun multiple times, and he did strike the male suspect. >> now, last half hour, so the police have killed back their presence on the street, but we understand, the search does continue for the one robber who ran out the back door, while that shoot-out was taking place. we'll continue to update you as we get more information. live in the northeast, cleve

bryan, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". and also, breaking right now, suspect the drunk driver is accused every killing a man walking on a sidewalk in northeast philly. chopper three over the scene, on academy road and avalon street, right near the northeast airport. police tell us the driver lost control of her suv, jumped the curve and hitman before crashing into a pole. the man was pronounced dead at the scene, and police are holding the driver on suspected drunk driving charges. bob's going to have any detours in that area for you coming up in just a few minutes. deadly shoot-out in nicetown. "eyewitness news", at bristol and hick street last night. three people were shot, one was killed, the victims are at temple university hospital, where one was stable and the other in critical condition. police have not made any arrests. the winslow police department is offering $3,000 for information leading to arrest in the case of a girl shot in her bedroom. that shooting happened on july 7th, after a gun fight involving at least two people, this was near haywood drive

and sicklerville, new jersey. a stray bullet went through the wall, hit a girl, and another woman. chopper three over deadly accident involving a septa train yesterday. a pedestrian was struck and killed by a norrihighstownpeed n havertown, near the penfield station. it happened just before 4:00. there is no word on the victim's identity. it is 6:33, here's your traffic and weather together. >> happy friday, everybody, good morning, you know, we are at least starting off with little sunshut y b can probably tell where i'm going with that. eventually the clouds start to build in. do start to see the pattern going downhill. not a wash out necessarily, but you know not as gorgeous acylate weekends -- last weekends was. we had beautiful friday. weekend wasn't half bad either. but this is going to be pattern that progressively just starts to go downhill with time. you can already see, why, i mean, some of the wet weather clearly visible, off across virginia, right now, though, we have more clouds than anything. and eventually we're going to be dealing with this sort of plume of moisture getting pushed in fm the south

because almost like squeeze play thing that's going on here with the pattern. essentially, little trough tries it move in from the northwest, more than anything, it is a stalled front, being nudged back, so with that, these piece of moisture move along it, ends up likely mainly showers, but will also be potential for some of you specially at the shore points to get soaked by tomorrow. maybe even on sunday. now, as it stands right now, we're flirting with 70 at the moment, outside lower merion high school. you can tell there are clouds out there. sort of an overcast start. but little glimmer of sunlight out there. friday hits 83, we start with, again, shower or storm around throughout the day. tomorrow, sunday, though, look like our weather days of the next three. mainly in the morning. and again, it is still just chance right now that we ends up with heavy rain. bob more than anything, you just have to watch out for clouds and showers. >> i am my umbrella hat ready for the billy joe concert. >> best image ever. >> yes, billy joel, 6:34, good morning, everybody, rough go already this morning, busy in the traffic center. going for a ride.

chopper 31st, i'm going to give you the good news, all of the southbound lanes of the 495 bridge reopened, breaker one-nine, tractor-trailer rolls on the sound bound side of the bridge. del dot reopened this stretch yesterday around 5:00 o'clock. so this is great news for anyone heading south for the weekend, especially down to the delaware beaches. grab coke and a smile as you head southbound on that bridge. now, the northbound side, they say maybe couple more weeks. this should certainly ease congestion through wilmington. to the live camera here, the schuylkill expressway, ramps from the boulevard to the schuylkill. they just pushed an accident out of the way there. and that's causing an early back up on the boulevard here, from broad street all the way down through the schuylkill expressway. i told but an accident on the turnpike involving a motorcycle. turns out the motorcyclist was just asleep on the side of the roadway. no accident. but a lot of police activity responded to this situation. i'm sure he's going to leave

with a ticket. but westbound on the turnpike, west of valley forge, just watch for some slow downs. otherwise, mass transit looking good with no delays. erika, back over to you. >> bob, thank you. updating breaking news now in the middle east, three day cease-fire between israel and hamas did not last long. say israeli tank fire has killed four palestinians hours into the cease-fire. it started at 1:00 this morning our time. now you are getting live look at the gaza strip. earlier, secretary of state, john kerrey, called for a cease-fire. he called it a chance for both sides to come together. this will last for 72 hours, three days, precious time. it is a lull of opportunity. >> now, there is still negotiations for trues in the gaza war now in its fourth week. the day before the terror attacks on 9/11, former president bill clinton revealed that he could have killed osama bin late end to a group of businessmen in australia. take a listen now to the tape. >> i could have killed him.

but i would have had to destroy a little town called cans hear in afghanistan, killing 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 wednesday. the 9/11 commission report documented the proposed 1998 strike on kandahar, noting joint chiefs of staff advised the former president against the attack. philadelphia police officers have a new three year contract, arbitration panel awarded officers a 3% raise in the first year, and 3.25% raise the second and third year. new contract also gives the police commissioner the right to rotate officers out of the narcotics and internal affairs unit. this follows the federal indictments of six philadelphia narcotics officers. i know that because of what happened yesterday, a lot of people are looking at it as strictly a disciplinary issue, it is not. >> this gives opportunity to other officers to be able to good hard-working officers to

be able to experience working in some of these units. >> main concern for our officers out there is their medical coverage, and monday any their pocket. and i think this delivered both. >> now, the mayor says that the new contract will cost the city $70 million over budget. baltimore ravens running back, ray rice, is issuing public apology for allegedly assaulting his then fiancee, atlantic city elevator. former rutgers star apologized for the alleged assault, giving him two game suspension. he was arrested in february accused in february altercation at the revel hotel and casino. rice says it was his lowest low. >> i made a huge mistake, i want to own it, i want to tell in you front of my teammates i made a huge mistake t hurts because i can't go out there and play if the ball t hurts more that i got to be a father and explain what happened to my caughter. >> rice also said when the time is right, he and his wife want to help other couples affected by domestic abuse. your time coming up on

6:39. this morning, big blow to the philadelphia school district, when lawmakers postpone vote on proposed cigarette tax. >> that's devastating news for the children of philadelphia. the school district every philadelphia and our families. >> up next, superintendent doctoror bill hite joins us live in our studios to talk about growing fears of layoffs and whether philadelphia schools can open on time. >> and just days after the trailer for the next hunger games movies released getting even more details about that film. that's coming up next in the word. >> ♪ happy ♪ >> family, we do it every friday. need some hammy necessary in our lives as the sun is coming up. pennsylvania, new jersey, delaware, where ever you are, we know how we roll. you ready for this? >> we're ready. >> one, two, one, two, three, go. ♪ (clapping) ♪

>> dispute is holds up taping of the hit cbs theory big bang theory. >> apparently putting brakes on the laughter several reports indicate the five main cast members have not reached deal with warner brothers

television. partly because they're asking for big raises. production was set to begin earlier this week. that series is scheduled to begin on september 22nd, right here on cbs-3. >> nice that may satisfy appetite. >> royal simmer will provide first single from the albumn, as well as hand pick the other artists on the sound track. the hunger games mocking j part one hits theatres this november. >> she may play girl on the hbo show girls, but actress allison williams has just signed onto play a boy. the 26 year old has been cast at peter pan, in a live musical performance. actor christopher walk-in, how about this, will play captain hook. how great will that be? >> that will be great. >> peter pan first opened broadway 1954.

>> i want to hear his name, i got a fever. >> that's all i can ever picture, love it. storm scan3, tracking moisture, see it is already moving across mid-atlantic region here, eventually arrive here, generally, scattered format. throughout today, but the whole weekend is looking somewhat dreary here with clouds, moisture, kind of muggy outside and scattered bouts every rain or just showers throughout the weekend here. may not be the best weekend or best for outdoor plans in general, but at least what it will do with wet weather moving in, drop the pollen leafs offer, grasses, chenopod, ned recalls, primary concerns yet again. looking next at your eyewitness weather seven day forecast, going to keep temperatures somewhat moderated here because of all of the clouds, limiting the sunshine to help warm it up. >> again, showers out, there and some of you specially southeast of philly you could end up with some soaking rain here, keep an eye on that radar for you.

>> any time brand new cbs weather weep, you can check the live radar, get severe weather alerts and share your storm textures with us, download now on itunes and free and will be coming soon to android. bob? >> morning, 6:45, live look at the schuylkill expressway, westbound, just west of 476. this fellow looks like he had a flat tire here. casino of off to the left shoulder. a tracking little bit of attention as you head out west toward king of prussia the ben franklin bridge, not bad at all, light volume so far. g into downtown philly. accident in the neighborhood, cheltenham avenue right at mountain avenue. starting to see delays south on 95 into girard, little bit of squeeze here, the boulevard south heavy on the schuylkill. caused quick back up, gentlemen, start your engines, nascar, coming to the pocono raceway here, the pocono 400 being held both saturday, sunday. that will leave a lot of extra volume headed north up the

extension, add that to the already crowd that heads to the poconos during this summer weekend. >> breaking news tops today's headlines on cbs-3, home invasion suspect shot by police, after a homeowner tips off officers to the crime. responding to burglar alarm, and homeowner gestured that home invasion was underway. suspect shot at officers shot and killed after that. another suspect got away from breaking right now, suspect the drunk driver in custody after deadly accident on academy road behind northeast airport. police say that a woman lost control of her car, hit a pedestrian, then power pole. >> columns were tilting and was closed, northbound lanes could open by labor day, southbound lanes have reopened. be right bac

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>> when war erupt in the his home country. he put his live on the line so the world could see the truth. as a photographer for cbs news bodge dollars bullets and bombs, but when his brother

was murdered, everything changed. >> my family, and my -- i think -- i think they are more important than nigel. now come to pennsylvania hoping to make better life for his family. his extraordinary journey to america, and to cbs-3, tonight, on "eyewitness news" at 11:00. >> amazing story. >> great guy. >> there are plenty every animals involved in sports, like the eagles, the bears, even river sharks. >> but wait until you she was on the field last night in iowa. possom, look to go play baseball instead. little fellow wanted closer look at the minor league game between the quad river city bandits, and the lumber kings, looks like he is running the bases there. players caught the possom, okay, by throwing trash cannon it, told he was taken to a cheryle. >> he's okay. >> look at him go. i've never seen a possom that fast. usually creeping through the bushes at night. >> i saw one on the beverly

hillbillies move like that. >> yes? as a pet or eating? >> no, ya, right. all right, let's get our traffic and weather together. katie is standing by. >> we could watch that all day, right? >> looks kind of cute. >> well, he was casino of cute. >> for a possom. >> for a possom. that is barometer. >> cuter animals. all right, now, >> things becoming more clear how things shake out. we explain, start it off by taking you outside to a lovely view here, you have got that sunlight, yep, ocean city looks lovely, but you can tell that there are some cloud cover to work with here, and we are starting to feel that humidity creeping in too. moisture to wronger with still to the south but will get here in time, from south to north, brinking in not just some

rain, but definitely clouds, more humidity. meanwhile, where is this all coming from? why are we going to be dealing with more weather this weekend? area of high pressure, oddly enough, the culprit, not overhead. it is out over the atlantic, so as this builds becomes stronger annex pants it, basically forces a front, back toward us, and then pieces of energy move along it brinking in more and more moisture. now, at this point, it does look as though the bulk of heavy rain would be confined to southeast new jersey and delaware or out to sea. meanwhile speaking every out to sea actually got tropical storm bertha we're tracking if you have travel interests in the win ward islands, perhaps up toward puerto rico, the dominican, even the bahamas, tropical storm, that may affect your travels. so we want to give you the nice big heads up, be sure to pay attention to it, not expected to be us threat. visibility pretty okay right now, around the city but notice back through reading and lancaster little less than ideal. if you have travel plans perhaps head further into central pa, out toward schuylkill county points west,

out to be cab ella, big beacon of retail space out there on 78. you may be running into some fog issues this morning, so watch for. that will we start off with a little sun as we just showed you, eventually the clouds thicken it, limits the heat tack will take place, the high hitting just 83, in the city little cooler through resort towns. there will be shower or storm to dodge at day progress, nothing of severe variety, going forward in time here, the weekends, again, it is not a wash out, but a lot less than ideal for sure. we ends one more clouds than anything. certainly some showers, both days, but as i said, depending on where the bumm being of the moisture rolled past us, for think through shore towns, especially saturday, maybe even sunday mornings, this end we start to heat up although thankfully the pattern looks like it will quiet down into next mid weekment bob, over to you. >> 6:53. live look at the blue route, 476 through delaware county not bad. light volume. roads dry. we kick off our friday morning. ninety-five southbound, looking good, little bit of

volume starting to build though at girard avenue. so far so good here, on the schuylkill expressway, that accident, still with us, northeast philly, academy road blocked between grant and morrell. use the boulevard busy concert crazy weekend, no sports at the sports complex, all concerts tonight, jason al dean, sold out here at citizen benning park, tomorrow, billy joel, same deal, and then across the street, is miley cyrus at the wells fargo. so two big concerts tomorrow night at the same time, and then monday, tuesday, katie perry comes in. keep in mind tonight with the big concert, shore traffic has cents to roll through that same area, as well. so pack your patience, as you head to the concert, to the shore. >> this weekend also begins the trolley tunnel blitz, septa will be diverting all of the subway surface trolleys at 40th and market, so they can make some repairs to the rales and to the stations for the next couple of weeks there. so add extra time. and, this weekend, also, begins music fest, up in the bethlehem area.

we misspelled that. it means bethlehem, not bensalem. have to have another coffee and i'll correct that. back over to you. >> i played that not too long ago with the philadelphia funk an authority. >> place is rock. good time. indeed. hey the nation's top christmas tree farmers met on farm in michigan to choose the -- choose the perfect christmas tree. >> honor has one of their trees standing in the blew room of the white house. pennsylvania farm won the who are honor every being the national christmas tree. crystal tree tree farm in lehighton judged to have the bristro in the competition. just saying. the owner is thrilled. >> you cared for all of those years, that tree that's going to be your national christmas tree. and, you know, millions of people will see it. it gives you chills. >> the judges take hours, all of them, to judge all of the different trees. trees rated on shape, consistency, even smell. >> got to have the smell. >> i can see that.

uh-huh. dig your nose right in there. officials from the white house will come to the farm to choose their tree this fall. that's how i pick my tree out. >> put your nose right in there? in. >> move the branches. >> don't you put an air fresher? >> i do. >> wonder if they put the white bag underneath to collect the bristles? >> at the white house? yep. >> look at this. august 1st, talking about christmas. >> christmas. >> be here before you know. >> it will. coming up in just a couple every minutes, we'll bring you more local news weather traffic and sports on our sister station the "cw philly". up next live on the scene after home invasion foiled in a suspect dead this morning. >> also, philadelphia public schools superintendent doctor william height high has just arrived in our studios lawmakers talk about on the "cw". >> reminder finds the "cw philly" on comcast, xfinity, channel 13, or hd811, also, on verizon fios, channel 16 or hd516 or don't forget on rcn

channell 17, or hd1017. >> next on cbs this morning, mick jaggar, hollywood producer, brian granger, they talk about their new james brown movie get on up. comes out i believe today. >> awesome. >> indeed. >> to continue follow your local news weather traffic and sports, we're coning it live, keeping it local on your "cw philly" station. looking live in our control room, good morning, family, glad you're with us, happy friday. we hope to see you in a bit.

it is friday, august 1st, 2014. welcome to "cbs this morning." the ebola virus is coming to america as the u.s. government works to ease fears about the deadliest outbreak ever. shattered. the 72-hour cease-fire in gaza broken this morning after less than two hours. >> plus our conversation with mick jagger, his new movie, and what happened when he met "the godfather" of soul for the first time. but we begin this morning with a look at today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> the federal jet headed for liberia to transport two americans infected by the ebola virus. >> they work to bring home two