steve? >> reporter: good morning, ukee, erika, we just got updated numbers from the red cross, we're told now five families, ten people, assisted after this fast moving fire rips through the apartment complex behind mement all of them as you mention very thankful to be alive this morning, because of the quick actions of the fire department that got on scene here very fast. so i want to show you video now of the flames, that once reached 20 feet in the air. this is from eyewitness viewer, philip felix, about 2:00 a.m. this morning, firefighters got on scene here to the woods apartment complex, the second floor unit, of one of these buildings, engulfed in flames. man from that unit was in the balcony of that apartment. the only person to be injured in this fire, non-life threatening injuries, was rescued by firefighters after some screaming. but, there are about, again, about ten different people from five families, eight different units a neglected in the fire being assisted by the red cross. we spoke to two of those

people, dad and his daughter, who say they were happy to be rescued this morning, by the door being kicked in, those flames intense. listen to what they had to say. >> it was a blessing, i mean, blessing we're alive. blessing that the police responded fast enough to get us out. because, i mean, i didn't smell the smoke. i mean, nobody got here, nobody called anybody. i would have burned to death. >> not a lot more to say than i'm just really thankful that we got outg by that fire. again, quickly moving, two alarm fire that firefighters got under control. they say in about a half hour, now, getting some reports, you know, the firefighters had to come and kick in ther. because there were reports that the fire alarms, in the unit, and in the hallway, were not working. that will is something we're learning this morning, as we speak to residents, but again, only one person injured in that injury non-life threatening this morning, it is the latest from upper

dublin, steve patterson, cbs-3 "eyewitness news", back to you. steve, thank you. new this morning, police in south jersey are investigating the cause of this two car crash in washington here. delsea drive remains closed at this hour while the accident is looked into. >> targets across gaza, this follows gaza aiming rocket fire as israel. iron dome defense system, defensive system intercepted several rockets, the new round every fighting came after three day trues expired in the last few hours. and talks on new border deal for gaza hit a deadline. >> so far, no air strikes in iraq. president obama has given the option. could target millitant group isis. isis swept through northern iraq, seizing military hardware and over running cities. 40,000 members of an ethnic

group on mountain, us dropped food and water there for them. president obama has attrites dollars the air strikes if isis fighters advance on the mountain. >> innocent people facing the prospect of violence on a horrific scale, when we have a mandate to help in this case request from the iraqi government, and when we have the unique capabilities to help after area massacre, then i believe the united states of america cannot turn a blind eye. >> the president promised in the to send any american troops back on the grounds in iraq. >> iselle downgraded to tropical storm as it bears down on hawaii. heavy rains, high wind, still expected to pound the island chain and power has already been knocked out in some areas. residents and tourist are urged to stay indoors. it is the first major storm to hit the islands in 22 years. live to hawaii in the next half hour to give you the very latest. right now checking traffic and weather together.

katie tracking iselle and your week end. >> very rare event to see storm system like this coming from the direction it is and having this impact. full screen view of the satellite. when we put things into motion, we actually did see this storm again get downgraded now to tropical storm how far still hurricane warnings, and surrounding shore and open water. so, you know there is will be regardless of classification, significant impact on the island, not only are we tracking a cell, but also tracking julio, currently, a major hurricane at at category three, even still pretty warm water, it is expected to weaken, as storms would typically do, as they roll into central pacific, and thankfully julio expected to bypass the islands, off to the north, may maintain hurricane strength. we'll keep you posted. meanwhile, storm scan3 back here at home, complete opposite. no tropical activity expected in the atlantic basin at all for the next two days, and we have high pressure on your

side. so quiet forecast, beautiful sunrise, starting to take over here, as we basically face east, in cape may, courthouse here. >> 60 degrees, little cool, even for august standards here, but it is nice outside. feels like early fall, really comfortable, over the course of the next couple of hours, really into the afternoon, expect nothing but sunshine, so, you will need those sunglasses, and it will be a lovely day, bob, over. >> sound good. 6:00 # five, this early friday morning. >> look at the northbound lanes of 476 in conshohocken between the schuylkill expressway, coming around the curve headed up toward the mid-county interchange. this tractor-trailer, hugging the guards rail, notice that whole front end is all bashed in. here is the other tractor trail their was involved. >> two lanes open up the middle between the schuylkill

expressway in t back gown and the mid-county interchange. speaking of the schuylkill, looking good, live look here, right near spring garden street where the crews finish that paving on the overnight, so you have three lanes, nice smooth surface, coming all the way in, but go right here to exit at 30th street, where you will feel that speed bump. it will be back next week to pave the off-ramps. thes up if you use patco over weekend take your schedule, throw it out window. open got new one for you here. every 30 minutes, through early monday morning, and a crash on the delsea drive, int reopened, at hurfville delaware county. police say christina bellajonas murdered by her husband keith bellajonas inside the drexel hill apartment they shared with their two young sons, he fled to new york with the children, a ban dong them at cvs pharmacy before taking his own life. our natasha brown spoke with one of the victims' former classmates who chose not to be

identified. >> community from 2005, class of 2005, will be praying for her every day, and we will be getting through this together as a family, as community. >> police say the children were not physically harmed. we're told christina bellajoan's father work to go bring them home from new york. and police return to the scene, where a northeast philadelphia mother was strangled. investigators combed through an area near pennypack park where connie mcclane murray's body was found tuesday morning. >> removed evidence but still looking for her cell phone. the investigation has generated very little leads so far. they took this homeless man in for questioning, who was found in the woods. there is a $35,000 reward for information. here is a look at some of the news event underway in the murder trial of oscar pistorius in south africa. the olympian and double amputee is charged in the death of his girlfriends last

year, pistorius says he thought reason a steve camp was intruder in his apartment. >> also, sentencing day for ernest marks. prosecutors say marks ran down 69 year old richard parter son in upper darby in january, just kept ongoing. that accident also killed patterson's dog. and jeffrey chandler will be in court charged in a pair of armed robberies outside philadelphia gun ranges. police say chandler also shot a man in one of the robberies. time right now 6:08. we have some new developments this morning, in the epidemic. the latest steps being taken to stop that outbreak from spreading. >> also, a scare down the shore to tell you about. a man ends up with a arrow in his leg. it is a case that eveven shock prosecutors. >> stupid and something i don't want to repeat. >> a pop july ill i can, but now singing different tune after the repeat offender was caught yet again. tell you what she did.

>> wow. wow. >> ♪ >> sun is coming up. go on, have some fun outside today, it will be gorgeous day. yes, this is a beautiful sunrise over the in philadelphia. kately let you know if the perfect weather sticks around for the weekends, we have that, your traffic, so glad you're with us on this friday. good morning, family, see you in a bit. >> ♪

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necessary history for about 50% death rate. the who says it will require an extraordinary response to stop its spread. the current outbreak began in begin any march, and killed at least 932 >> cockfighting ring on farm in berks county, one of the 50 to 60 roosters here, that they found on the farm. they haven't said where that farm; but investigators did arrest one person. they also found cockfighting tools and rescued a goat, horse, and four dogs. >> definitely looking ahead to beautiful weather today. looks like it will stick with us through the weekend, my friend. right now, it is sort of the battle between high pressure, and low pressure, off to the southwest, and we lock at storm scan3, all is calm today. no problems beautiful day. here is the system i mentioned, expected to slide

east, and it will come really close to maybe messing with some of you, but i do think right now, high pressure will take the lead, it will win out, and that means we end up with much more of a winning forecast, more sunshine than anything. looking at the temperature change in the last 24 hours, it was a little bit more pronounced in some spots in the last say hour or so. but look, mount poc tu were vere four's, but everybody else had much clear sky last night. so it did have chance to cool down more readily. right now finding temperatures generally into the mid, lower 60s, many 60s up to the north and west most suburbs toward the lehigh valley. speaking off anoth music fest. >> lots of sunshine for you, much like what we will find around the rest of the board. so, our friday forecast, is fantastic, as we go forward in time here, though, we keep high pressure generally on our side. there may and shower, sunday, more than anything, few more clouds turns so many year into next week. bob, we send it into you.

>> 6:45, dealing with little bit of slow down here along the blue route. 476, northbound, a lot of activity on both the left and right sides of the roadwayment tractor-trailer accident, kissing guardrail on the left side of the roadway. other tractor-trailer and tow trucks on the ride side. slow go up the middle, northbound lanes of 476 between the schuylkill and the mid-county interchange. live look, 422, not bad at all. light volume takes you in toward king of prussia, the mall there in the back gown, patco riders heads up. new schedule begins this morning running trains every ofourse havethrough early lighter ridership over the weekend, but for the rush hour, 30 minute trains, through 5:00 a.m., on monday. crash out here, moppet gum are you countylu for the schuylkill expressway. otherwise mass transit looking good. back over to you.

>> warning you might finds disturbing, keep in mind it is okay and recovering. >> thirty-five year old angle sirano with the arrow lodge in the his leg. involved in some sort of confrontation in his wildwood apartment and hobbed outside after he was injured. shop owners saw him and called 911 very impressive. he was walking without saying nothing. >> he didn't say help or something like that, just walking. >> the landlord of the complex where sirano lives said he just moved in with his girlfriend, never caused any trouble. police arrested one person for tampering with evidence, but are still looking for the actual shooter and for a motive. >> breaking news stories, eyewitness video shows fire at montgomery county apartment complex earlier this morning, one person suffered minor injuries, and more than two dozen people were forced from

their homes. >> also breaking news here, israel hamas militants have rescued cross border attacks in gaza. the renewed fighting comes dead. whipping hawaii big islands, winds of more than 70 miles per hour, and another storm headed toward the island chain as well. we'll take short break. sports on the other

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season. game time 8:00 p.m. and the good doctor will be in tonight in south philly. roy halladay comes back to town to toss out tonight's first pitch and leadoff phillies alumni weaken, a lot of great stuff going on this weekend including skipper charlie manuel getting induct dollars into the wall of fame tomorrow night. that should and great time. last night sean o'sullivan filled in as an emergency starter and served up couple every homeruns to the visiting astros, but, it turned out okay. because ryan howard came up in the eighth inning. boom. beast cents loaded, erase the deaf significance, 13th grand-slam of his career made the fighting phils six to five winners. the phils swept the astros this week, with eight runs batted in from the big piece. hey by the way o'sullivan started the game bales phils pitcher hernando taped dollars before the game. goes to the dodgers for two players to be named later. he is set to start for los angeles later tonight in

milwaukee. well, philadelphia's own taney dragons play in the little league regionals this morning in bristol, connecticut. if the dragons win today and tomorrow will go to williamsport for the williamsport little league tournament. good luck to all of our locals. that's great. erika, back to you. >> thank you, right now 62:00; prince william has new job, get this, it is a first for the royal family. we'll tell you what he will be doing. also, wedding wish comes true for local couple. we're therefore the special celebration, and hear their inspirational message in

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here. >> nice early start to what will end up being beautiful dayment weekend overall in the looking bad either. union will be playing at home here against montrealt, 78 degrees, at kick off. down in chester, ppl park, under sunshine, and like i mentioned, throughout the morning here it, does lock like we are going to see system nearby. but high pressure will win the battle. so while we may end one few more clouds, maybe a good. >> live look at accident scene, blue route, 476 northbound, slow going, between the schuylkill expressway, headed up through conshohocken on the way tore on. casino of slow going straight up the middle there. crash along easton road at sick moore avenue, just outside of the willow grove interchange of the pennsylvania turnpike, but otherwise light volume so far 476, no problems on the schuylkill, little volume pop south at 95 at girard. back to you.

>> woman jailed wednesday for sneaking onto a southwest plane in san jose and flying to los angeles was arrested again. marilyn hartman taken into custody yesterday after police spotted her scouting out several terminals at los angeles international airport. she violated her probation by visiting lax. hartman had promised she would never try to breach airport security again. >> prince william has new job, and first for the royal family. starting next spring, will serve as air ambulance helicopter piolet for days a week, the first direct air to the thrown to work for civilian company. william was search and rescue pilot during his time in the air force, told he is going to donate his $67,000 salary to charity. >> very nice. >> and thank goodness he is still working. i always kind of wonder what dot royals do? >> doing his thing. coming up in the next half hour of "eyewitness news", following several breaking stories including a overnigight apartment fire. >> also, double trouble in

paradise. not one but two strong storms take aim at ha-ha we owe, we're there live with a look at the conditions as is it prepares to make landfall. >> bob and kately one with your traffic and weather together together on the 3's, back in just a couple every minute, at the bottom of the hour. good morning, family, see you in a

good morning, following breaking news this morning, a fire i montgomery county apartment building sends one person to the hospital. >> firefighters helped others get out just in time, too. "eyewitness news" reporter steve patterson joins you now, in upper dublin township with the latest thon story. steve? >> guys, good morning, eight units affected, five families, ten people displaced, one person injured. bu hrd about here, that are definitely credited with saving lives. i want to show you the scene behind me. take a look, you see the tape is out, the building gutted on this second floor fm a fire that was very intense, described as very intense from neighbors this morning, want to show you video of t firefighn scene here, the woods apartment complex, that second floor unit, engulfed in flames, when they arrived to that second alarm fire. a man, from that unit, non-life threatening injuries. but again, the updated numbers from the red cross, five families out of their homes, about ten different people, getting assistance. we spoke to two of those

people, a father, and his young teenage daughter, who say they were rescued just in the nick of time, woken up by the sound of the door being kicked in by police, and firefighters, you have to hear their story. >> a blessing, blessing we're alive. blessing that the police responded fast enough to get us out. because, i mean, i didn't smell the smoke. i mean, nobody got here, nobody called anybody. i would have burned to death. >> not a lot more to say than i'm just really thankful that we got out alive. >> and back live now, see the mess behind me, as firefighters work to clean up that. they say they have the fire under control in about a half hour, the flames completely out, in their entirety, in un an hour, incredibly fast response, as neighbors say they also were saving lives during all of this from a volunteer firefighter force. meanwhile, still wait to go learn what the status is of the person taken to the

hospital. all we do know those were non-life threat edge injuries. good news when you look at the extent of the damage. reporting live in upper dublin, steve patterson, cbs-3, "eyewitness news", back to you guys. >> steve, thank you. we have breaking news for you right now from the middle east t did not take long for the rocket fire to resume between israel and hamas. after three day cease-fire ended, israeli military says gaza militants fired at least ten rockets at southern israel. israel intercepted one rocket, the others hit open areas. meantime talks for more permanent trues are dead-locked in cairo. >> president obama has authorized targeted air strikes if necessary, against islamic extremists in northern iraq. the millitant group isis is threatening to kill thousands of iraqi religious minorities, stranded on mountain top, unless they convert to islam. they are already in danger every dying of starvation and thirst. however, the us military has started air drops of both food and water.

ukee. >> philadelphia's making its push for the 2016 democratic national convene shopping now the city among five finalists including brooklyn, phoenix, columbus, ohio, birmingham, alabama. you may remember it holes dollars the 2,000 republican convention when the gop nominated george w. bush. >> they are going to see one of the most incredible cities in the united states of america, one of the most incredible facilities in the united states of america. they're going to see sites you can't see anywhere else in the united states, but in philadelphia. >> they being the democratic convention committee, they're scheduled to visit philadelphia next week. it is 6:33, here is your traffic and weather together. looks like nice day. we can expect to see full sunshine, low humidity, definitely comfortable warmth, as women. so, we will stay ever so slightly later on today. below our seasonable averages, with daytime highs, which we'll talk b real quick check on storm scan3, you may notice right on the tail end of the loop, blips of green showing

up on the radar, don't worry about them. high pressure on our side today, guys, still dominated by the nice comfortable air mass which will keep skies pretty much clear all day today. so you will be hard press today find much more than couple every puffy white clouds. temperature in millville, only 56 degrees in atlantic city, and you throw in ever the slightest breeze, coming in from the water, and yes, it will feel casino every chilly to youment even still at this hour flirting with the 40's, in mount pocono. so definately cool day. in part due to the fact that the skies are so clear outside. allows any heat we manage to build up in the atmosphere yesterday, go whoop up to the atmosphere. so as a result we cool down more easily, down the shore, in the poconos, in philadelphia, everything looks lovely today. right now it does appear as though this area of high pressure will hook us up with even nicer weather here into the upcoming weaken, so it is hi, and low pressure, doing battle, and it looks like high pressure will win out that bodes well for our forecast in the next couple of days.

good news there. bob, over to you. >> what it like to do? >> whoop. >> oh, even the thumb action going on. >> there it is. >> fun on a friday, 6:34, couple of problem spots to run past you here, going outside, live look at the blue route. 476 northbound, they have all of this tractor-trailer crash activity here, off to the right side of the roadway. so, slow going,he clean up from the double tractor-trailer accident. another tractor-trailer accident, this one here, i-95, northbound, at ridley. so you have the tractor-trailer, looks like one of those tandem tractor-trailers, and this vehicle here, pretty messed up off to the shoulder. so, it is an a tracking some attention between ridley and the blue route. so as you head northbound this morning, up toward the airport, there is your delay, already, ahead of you. thaveccident with downed pole along montgomery drive, right at the schuylkill expressway traffic light there. slowing folks down this morning. crash out along easton road,

sick more avenue, just above the willow grove interchange. keep in mind big day to head to the shore, especially with good looking weekend forecast. crunch time this afternoon will occur between 12:00 and 2:00 working your way down toward the shore town. >> now to this week's story every brotherly love. when the philadelphia wedding community heard about a terminally ill man, his love story, just had to help. >> "eyewitness news" anchor jessica dean was there, as the couple exchanged their viewers surrounded by friends, family, and fate. that they will be together for many, many more years to come. >> under bright blue skies, as string quartet played, bride melanie walked into a new life with her groom, pierre freeman. >> come now to be joined. >> the moment is bittersweet. in 2008, pierre's doctors found receny i got three months to a year to live. >> with all of the medical beers, pierre and melanie could not afford a wedding.

so these vendors are giving them a wedding free, through the non-profit wish upon aa cls, photographers. >> they donated their time, their services, their products, without question. >> stratus lounge at hotel monaco opened its doors to the couple for the big day. >> we've had people come in on their days off to help us with this, as well. >> ♪ >> the vendors estimate this wed working have cost 20 to $25,000. >> you have the biggest heart of any man i've ever met. >> philadelphia's chapter of wish upon a wedding has hosed four weddings so far this year, for couples facing terminal illness. >> you may kiss your bride. >> a day for happiness, instead of hospitals. >> they've always been happy together. but this really brought meaning to it. >> i don't feel weak right now, i feel strong, and i'm so happy. >> you saw the people that love you the most. what's that like?

>> complete. >> the bride joke pierre could have moved a little faster. >> he is a slow mover. that's why it took so long. >> but with glad necessary in their hearts, they arrived. there are more couples facing a terminal illness, and wish upon a wedding wants to hear from them. to reach them go to cbsphilly.com. search for brotherly love. jessica dean, "eyewitness news" i love that all of the vendors came together, everyone made that possible. >> great story. >> we rupp dating today's top stories including the latest on overnight apartment fire, that forced dozen every people out of their homes. >> hurricane iselle bridges strong surf and heavy wind to hawaii. the latest on the storm coming up from hilo. >> also, keep your eyes on the sky this weekend, look at your screening, you can see why, it is an extra special super moon, the best one all summer watcher makes this full moon different. details on that coming up.

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>> eight units damaged in upper dublin. shows the flames, one person suffered minor inj cross boards erray tax in gas, a renewed fighting comes as a three day trues expired and peace talks hit a deadlock. >> iselle weakens, approaching the high we and, bracing for the worse. cbs joins us now on the big islands with a look at the conditions, rain, in some

areas, before moving on to the rest of the hoo we and island >> we have vienna sausage, good to go, no wore us. strg surf, as it approaches the big island. >> people filled emergency shelters, thursday night. waiting forest he will to make landfall. bill watson lives block from the ocean, says he is not taking any chances. >> just not danger here >> storm approached. >> on parts of the big island, storm could dum as much as foot of rainfall, could cause landslides. wheelies he will is the first tropical storm to make direct hit on hawaii in 22 years, even stronger storms, hurricane julio, following just behind.

we're ready, i can assure you, on the ball, and ready to respond, in anyway necessary. >> forecasters expect julio to pass just north of the island, sometime on sunday. >> hurricane julio expected to pass just to the north. that storm currently packing wind gusts, of up to 150 miles per hour. >> 150 miles per hour,egat shaban on the big island, be safe, my friend, you and the big crew. let's get our traffic and weather together. erika joining kate. >> i yes, katie tracking cell, and julio, still haven't made owngraded to tropical storm. very close to the threshold, though, still purr full. so we can't minimize that message, hawaiian islds dealt serious blow because of this, remember, too, you've got a lot of mountain us terrain in these island, so the higher up you go in actually still got hurricane warnings posted. >> despite the fact it is technically still tropical

storm. you saw julio off to the east, there and that's still currently a major hurricane, but thankfully expected still at this point to buy pass the islands, and nothing more than indirect impact with strong surf expected for that out that far storm system. >> slow to move if you recall yesterday, still just over missouri, state away, so only made very minimal movement east, since the last 24 hours time frame here. but eventually, it does sort of just clip off to the south here. so right now i think high pressure will win the battle. keep as a result our pollen levels on the higher side, generally medium-high territory here, notice, new one has entered the picture, ragweeds, so i think we'll hear bob sneezing through the eighty-five, 86 degrees, today, tomorrow, still ycourse sunshine, sunday we may see covered. few more clouds, but overall again i think high pressure wins out, we end up with some sunshine, by monday starts to seem up -- steam up. come tuesday maybe shower or

storm. >> morning, 6:45, live look at accident scene, blue route, 476 northbound, slip, right lane blocked, jammed here, from pretty much northbound, headed up toward mid-county. here's a live look, couple of cameras back here, to northbound, look at the motorcycle guy going up the shoulder here. doesn't that drive you crazy? >> yes! >> even more craze when they ride up the center of the center light here. anyhow, northbound, four # six, heavy saint david's villanova headed up toward the mid-county interchange. going to delco, live look, at i95, a lot of activity here off to the shoulder. another tractor-trailer accident, this is northbound right near ridley. now, everything is off to the shoulder, but as you can see, it is cause that old gaper delay headed northbound, up toward the airport. an accident out here in pottstown, 724, and kline avenue. otherwise mass transit looking good with no delays. ukee, back over to you.

>> stunning video from space to show you, see all of the bright white flashes? that, my friends, is lightning, captured from 200 miles above the earth, in the international space station. astronaut reid wiseman shot the video and says mother nature's light show left him speechless. and i can see why, just video, you can imagine from up there? >> looks like still taking pictures at concert, just incredible, that lightning. >> like the olds flash cubes back in the day. >> well, we have our eye on the sky this weekend. this to sunday mark your calendar, remember this, get ready to gaze at the biggest and brightest full moon of the whole year. >> how about that? nasa scientist doctor michelle joins us from the goddard space flight center in green belt, maryland this morning with details of the super moon. doctor, good morning to you. >> morning. >> good morning, great to be here. >> now, this is we did little research of course the second of three super moons this summer watch exactly is a super moon and why will this one be so special? >> well, it is funny, you hear about these three super moons

in a row n my view there can be only one. the largest and full moon of the year. that's what's happening this sunday. and in fact, the full moon last month and the full moon next month, also bit larger than average, bit brighter, but this this is the super moon. that happens. the moon will actually be closer to the earth. moon is sometimes farther we call apagy. and fitter, and if you have a fum moon, little closer to the earth, little bit, 31,000 miles. that's kind of cool. and that actually means it looks largest and brighter. and so you see here, comparison of different full moons of the year. the one this sunday is 14% bigger, which actually makes it as much as 30% brighter than the smaller full moons of the year. >> fantastic. we will be looking forwards to it when we come in work monday morning. but when is the best time to look for that super moon? >> the nice thing about watching the moon and the sky, is any time is nice. i mean my personal favorite is if you go outside and watch it rise, then you can actually see it in comparison to the horizon, that makes it seem

even bigger even more spectacular. so i would be going out close to sunset, looking for, you know, relatively clear horizon, but watch it all weekends long if you can start tonight all the way through sunday, just go find moons, and enjoy how beautiful it is. >> nasa has been watching this for awhile. they had a spacecraft orbiting the mooney understand for five years. what are some of the pretty cool things we've learned from this particular mission? >> that's right, when you look up at the moon this weaken, think about the spacecraft we have up there, orbiting the moon right now called rlo, it is doing things like measuring the temperature of the moon, seeing the coldest temperatures in the solar system, it is looking at craters, actually piecing together the history of the moon. here is a mountain, see this little rock on top of the mountain there. that little rock is actually the size after large football stadium. so there is this spectacular terrain, learning a lot about the history of our solar system. moon 4 billion years ago, when lots of things collided together. and it has remained relatively un changed un like the earth, no atmosphere to erase of the

records of this crate egg. here you see animation of these dramatic giant impacts that form the moon. and even today, we still see the occasional crater being formed. so, there is a lot of about the history of the solar system, even the history of our own planet that we learn by studying the moon. >> doctor, we appreciate the insight i'm look forwards to glucowatch it all weekend. >> thank you, doctor, appreciate it. >> if hair starts growing out of my face and i start how long, it is all good. >> oh, good. >> i mean, really growing. careful now. >> we'll watch out for that, wolf man. right now 6:50. katie has one more check on your weekends forecast, and we do traffic and weather together. >> first a look at what's coming up tonight during evening prime time viewing right here on cbs-3. >> werewolf.

6:53. one last check on traffic and weather together. >> real nice couple every days coming up we think here guys. we start things off by taking you t absolutely gorgeous view. we start things off, i mean, does it get better than this? happy friday everybody. as we take a live look here, from talcony here in philadelphia over the river, so quiet, with the boats out there, 2014 bass master contest that's going on right now? yes, so, they're getting ready to to go out on the boats as we speak, nice light waves, so beautiful. would love to stay on this for

the whole hit. but little weather to talk b storm scan3, nice wide zoom, literally sigh pressure settling in here from north to south. front that came through over the last few days, still dropping south. but that little disturbance, out between st. louis and then in toward cincinnati that will be basically just headed east over the course of the weaken. and because it moves pretty much right off to the south, borderline so clues, through the weekend may start to see couple of more clouds. poconos the best place to head looking for full sunshine the next few days, great camping weekend for sure, but little further south specially through delaware start to see couple of clouds specially into sunday. otherwise, though, high pressure will hook us up without a battle here and keep things dry. by machine day, starting to feel steamy, on tuesday, especially, through the p.m. time frame, showers, storms, start to move n bob, over you. >> that was ukee's photo i believe. >> i believe you're right. >> good thing that it is low enough, will not cause any bridge openings today. good news. live look here, oh, this, so you think you're having bads

start to the day, ellie morning crash i95 northbound near ridley getting put up on the tow truck there, right lane taken out. we're jammed solid headed northbound, up toward philly international airport. now, this 476 here, still little slow headed up toward norristown, they clean up from earlier crash there. starting to see the sun pop up. get ready for sun glare. montgomery drive right at the schuylkill ramps, downed pole from overnight crash. our majors like 95 south, starting to see delays from woodhaven in through girard avenue. for the gang coming in from the shore, i should say, coming from the shore in toward philadelphia, light volume so far this morning. but, remember, as that trip to the shore begins later today, crunch time starts at around 12:00 headed to the beaches, ukee, erika, back to you. >> bob, thank you. minnesota couple takes the plunge in a way few other couples would. >> and where they did it is even more unusual. steve, and his bride, took the vows underwater, surrounded by sharks and other marine life. but they weren't in the ocean.

see, these two tied the knot at the mall of america. some 70 people check out the vows, take never 500,000-gallon tank. and you could hear the voice thanks to communication. get this, the second wedding done in the mall's un water habitat. >> they have that in the mall? >> how about that? >> king of prussia? >> king of prussia better ramp it up. >> good enough for me. >> coming up in just a couple every minute, more local news weather traffic and sports on our sister station the "cw philly" including our friday happy clap, as well. you can now find the "cw philly" on comcast xfinity channel 13, or hd811, also, on verizon fios channel 16 or hd516 or rcn channel 17 or hd1071. we're out there for you. >> but wait, there is more. also remember to join us bright and early every morning cbs-3, we start things off at 4:30 in the morning. coming up next on cbs this morning, while weather in

paradise, katie talking about this all morning, fix of two rare storms slamming hawaii. original reporting from the hardest hit areas. >> also, humanitarian crisis in iraq, will president obama take military action against islamic militants there. to continue follow your local news weather traffic and sports keeping it live, keeping it local on your cw philly station as you look live outside. beautiful, star burst sun. good morning, family, have a great day. see ya.

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