. today is monday, august 11, good morning i'm ukee washington. >> i'm erica von tiehl. stories we're following today funeral today for 46 year old connie mcclane murray, day after her husband confessed to strangling her at pennypack park. we're live with the details. >> still no word on whether criminal charges will be filed against race car driver, tony stewart, stewart struck and killed another driver after that driver got out of his car, to confront him this weekend. >> and, for the first time ever, philadelphia sends a little league time to the world series. the taney dragons won on national tv last night clinching a spot in williamsport, we're soaks cited for them. >> that was a great double

play. too bad somebody had to lose, congrats to all of the teams we'll talk more about it in just a bit. right now we'll start with our forecast. >> actually still does feel very comfortable it, will start to change, yes steamy factor starts to return, starts to feel a lot more like august, more like the dog days of summer for us out there as we go throughout the day today. but this will be sort of your last shot before our next system gets here to enjoy the quiet weather pattern but we've had nice long stretch here, so we are going to be talking about the return appearance of some rain, storms to the forecast, all of the details for you plus we'll get a check on the temperatures in a minute, as well. back to you. >> funeral scheduled this morning for connie mcclane murray murdered last week. >> her husband now behind bars charged with her killing. "eyewitness news" reporter syma chowdhry at police headquarters right now to tell you more. syma? >> reporter: that's right, police say the person who confess today connie mcclane murray's murder was someone who they say was a person of interest since the investigation began. police say connie mcclane

murray's killer was her own husband, christopher murray. police brought him in for questioning saturday night after failing a lie detector test, he confessed to murdering his wife. police say the couple was arguing monday night after connie went for a jog in pennypack park. her body was discovered tuesday morning. now, murray called police three hours after the attack, to report her missing. but he never called her friends or family. >> there are certain parts of his story that just didn't add up. didn't seem, a story about his wife was missing but contacted nobody, no friends no family, to find out if she was with them instead immediately went to hospitals, and went to the police stations, seemed almost a show, the concerned husband show. >> and connie mcclane murray leaves behind two teenage daughters. her funeral will be held later today. live at police headquarters, syma chowdhry, cbs-3

"eyewitness news". >> thank you right now coming up on 4:33, we want our forecast katie saying some changes are coming our way. >> they certainly are. how about this? >> stop manning us. >> i was waiting for somebody to make that excellent job. bob's plaid he didn't come up with it first. i give you the super moon. it looks a lot bigger on the full screen, doesn't it? but yes you still got nice moonlit sky obviously out there right now look real closely, it is actually moving through the screen, of course making it as its orbit. i said before we went on the air, they will have to rearrange this camera, it will be moving out of the shot any second. to storm scan three, quiet clear as a bell, despite little ground clutter still showing up in the radar sites a-okay, so if you still want to catch the view of the moon do you have right now. nice clear sky basically across the northeastern us. box you can see some signs of life off to the west, beginnings right now of the next series of fronts, that

comes courtesy of the next sort every mid latitude cyclone, will bring in charm front, cold by cold front those two features mean damp, well damp is probably a little of an understatement, soggy middle part of the week frankly, looks like specially tomorrow through the p.m. hours. we start to see heavy rain move in. then the sun looks like it will return for us for the tail ends of the week. those are major headlines. right now still flirting with seven in the sit cooler by comparison through the outlying suburbs, in the 60s atlantic is he, 60 mt. holly. day goes on, spec to see sunshine, nice and warm, couple every clouds along the way, but nice warm very august-like day. bob? >> sounds good katie. morning, 4:34 on monday, looking live at the ben franklin bridge, where there is speed restriction down to 25 in one lefts lane here coming into philadelphia, all a result of the weekend construction here on the ben franklin bridge. so anyone coming back from the shore this morning be ready for little bit of slow down

here on the benny coming into downtown, once in center city, good to go, no problems at all on the vine st. expressway between i95 and the schuylkill, we do have accident on the roosevelt boulevard, southbound roosevelt boulevard right at seventh street. it is an overturned vehicle that's blocking the outer drive so south down toward broad, your best bet stay to the inner drive be ready to hit the brakes as you slow on down. coming in toward philadelphia on the 42 freeway always going to see a lot of extra volume on monday in the summertime, a lot of folks like to stay down the shore an extra evening, and come right from the beach right into the city, but so far so good this morning. and if you are leaving the shore right now good shape along the atlantic city expressway parkway and no problems up and down 295. erika, back to you. >> thank you developing right now, public outrage on the streets of a st. louis suburb after unarmed teen is shot and killed by police. some new video into "eyewitness news" shows people rioting and looting overnight in ferguson, missouri, i believe this is the video

authorities say 18 year old michael brown assaulted an officer before shot saturday night. but some say he was already surrounded ends erring when the officer fired his gun. the officer involved had been placed on administrative leave. >> two row homes in the strawberry mansion section fire. 2700 block of north 24th street. firefighters quickly got the blaze under control. one person suffered minor injury. the red cross is assisting two people who were left homeless. well, just nasty roll-over crash this morning on the boulevard, sends two people to the hospital. "eyewitness news" in the hunting park section where police tell us, one car t bone the other at wyoming avenue. two men were taken to the hospital in stable condition. no word yet on their specific injuries. also, new this morning police are investigating an attempted robbery in northeast philadelphia. "eyewitness news" on the scene of the 1700 block of gill forward street. investigators say, two men tried to rob someone at

gunpoint around 11:30 last night. one of the suspects, though, did not get very far. police say he shot himself in the leg while running away. police are still searching for the second suspect. tragedy strikes the world of nascar after a deadly crash in up-state new york. tony stewart was competing in a sprint race saturday, a sprint car race there is was saturday night at motorsports park. now, during the race he caused another driver, kevin wards to spin out. ward got out of his car right there in the middle of the track. that's when he was struck by stewart's car. the incident being investigated by authorities. >> as we speak at this time, there is no evidence in hand or no facts that would support a criminal charge or support criminal intent. >> stewart was also supposed to race in a competition yesterday; how much, he

withdrew following saturday night's accident. >> us and britain continue to drop food and water to tens of thousands of curds trapped on mountain in northern iraq by islamic militants. us military attack more millitant targets in a fourth round of air strikes on sunday, but president obama and some democrats say the us military campaign is not a solution. >> we have to begin at the funds mental core, which is leadership in baghdad. iraqi leadership, which will work together in a unified way to defends and protect their country and to sissies. >> in a surprise speech last night, iran's prime minister saidel file legal complaint against the country's new president, for violating iraq's constitution. also overseas, another attempt to stop the fighting between israel and hamas. this as a 72 here cease-fire that went into effect at midnight. it hopes lasting agreement will be reached within that time frame but prior attempts to curb the violence have repeatedly failed. 1900 people have been killed,

and 10,000 others injured in this latest round of fighting. this week, members of the democratic national committee will be in philadelphia to review the city as possible host for the 2016 convention, city leaders are hoping philadelphia's rich history will give them an edge. the city has hosed the political gatherings before, most recently, the republican national convention in 2,000. other cities an in contention, birmingham, new york city, columbus phoenix. well local little leaguers do battle on national television. philadelphia's own taney dragons defeated the newark national to earn a trip to the little league world series in williamsport pennsylvania. let's go newark, "eyewitness news", as timothy's of newark for watch party national the mid-atlantic champs last year. sunday they took on taney in the regional final. everyone is talking about those dragons right now. "eyewitness news" at watch party, as well, in center

city. the crowd just went wild when taney won this game. monet davis on fire, pitched complete shut out. highlights coming up in sports. once again both of the organizations in the community is great for our area. >> sorry one team had to lose there, great local teams, but nicely done. represent well, indeed. also ahead day at the park goes downhill quickly. when some folks get stuck on a roller coaster. >> also we have the latest on the ebola scare more american missionaries return from west africa. we're back in two minutes.

the jokers jinx, six flags america in maryland, when the coaster suddenly stopped off the gown. at least not inverted. firefighters used tower bucket to rescue the 24 riders of the the whole thing took a few hours. thankfully, no one was hurt.

some unclear why that ride stopped in the first place. latest on ebola outbreak, missionaries returning to the u.s. after infected patients will be put in quarantine and monitored. missionaries are with the same north carolina aid group as nancy, at emory university hospital in atlanta. this after contracting ebola in liberia. the north carolina department of health and human services says the quarantine will last at least three weeks. and, it looks like a hawaii is dodge ago hurricane, this is the damage left behind by tropical storm iselle. hit the big islands friday knocking out power, toppling trees, now it seems that hurricane julio is going to steer clear of the island altogether. it is moving away right now has been downgraded to category one hurricane. took a whallop for hawaii, damage there, the flooding. >> absolutely, obviously very mountain us islands too so they can get flooding and mudslides and just terrible

damage there yes. we're glad that second system is bypassing them, glancing blow there. >> beautiful weaken here at home. >> we sure did. oh, just keeps ongoing yes. little bit steamier out there today. i'll give that you. it will definitely heat up out there. good pool day for sure, will stay totally dry again just little bit more humid for you summer. this is what we've been think. weht of days. so gone are the daisy think by later on tonight at least you will be able to get away with sleeping with the window open at least if you are like me, don't sleep all that comfortable if it is a little bit humid. it will be that way as the day progresses here, going on uphill climb. now, also the west obviously travi, combination at least of the next system, nothing looks terribly organized just yet. but this is going to be the system, that moves in with the next rounds of rain and thunderstorms. and it starts as early as tomorrow morning. but specially throughout the second half of the day tomorrow, looks like some of the heaviest area, thankfully, at the point where we don't really have as much in the way

of any kind of severe weather threat. currently we stand at 69 in philadelphia, want to quickly jump ahead to your eyewitness weather seven day forecast quick check there again tuesday, wednesday looks like the sog yes, sir days of the pack thursday clearing out looks lovely. ukee back to you. >> thanks, katie n sports, phillies continue their four game series with the mets this afternoon in south philly. first pitch 1:05. yesterday, the phils trailed six to five, in the ninth inning. marilyn bird pinch hitting singles up the middle. codey ashley scores, phils tide at the game. nice slide. the mets walked chase utley who had three hits to face ryan howard who had none. the big piece with the walk-off single. that will was his third game winning hit of the week. and the phillies beat the mets final score was seven to six. well the eagles return to the nova care complex this morning, camp continues after today, though, they head to massachusetts, for three days every joint practices with the new england patriots, before playing them friday night. yesterday, a return to their roots.

thousands of fans packed historic franklin field for the final open practice. it was the team's first work out since the pre-season lost to chicago friday night. by the way the birds won their last championship at franklin field in 1960. defeating the greenbay packers. oh, check out monet davis doing her thing on national tv. through complete game shut out. the taney dragons beat the national team eight to nothing. leaded to williamsport. they become the first team from the philadelphia to make it that far. and we will hear from the girl they call mo coming up at 5:00 a.m. congrats to all. rain soaked final rounds at the pga championship. check it out heavy rain delayed the start for two hours. but the soggy conditions could not stop that guy. that's roy mcelroy. he trailed by three strokes going into the back nine, but rallied to beat phil mickelson by one stroke. wins his fourth career major

that's three straight for rory after the open championship and the bridge society invitational. that young man is on fire, on fire. >> having a great old time at the golf course. >> great season at the tournament. no doubt about it. >> first what's coming up tonight on cbs-3.

one more look at this morning's headlines. police say the husband of 46 year old connie mcclane murray has confessed to her murder. christopher murray is under arrest accused of strangling his wife last week at pennypack park. >> looting and riots after un armed missouri teen is killed by police. authorities say 18 year old michael brown assaulted an officer before he was shot dead saturday night. some eyewitnesses say he was surrendering to police when he was shot. and, no news yet on nascar driver towniest stewart. co-face criminal charges for

hitting and killing another driver this weekend. stoop art was racing in new york and his car collided with the carve kevin ward, jr. ward climbed from his vehicle and was struck by stewart while attempt to go approach him. >> our time 4:50. let's get check on business. >> money watch's jill wagner is joins us from the stock exchange. amazon.com in another fight with another big media company. this time disney, right? >> reporter: yes, that's right. good morning, ukee erika. if you are look to go pre-order any disney favorites, like captain america, the winter soldier muppets most wanted, million dollars arm, you better not head to amazon.com. on line retail is her now blocking disney pre-orders on dvd's. the site is just part of amazon's efforts to demand better terms from its vendors the company is in a similar dispute with the book publisher, and only recently resolves another with warner brothers, the move expected to hurt disney profits. ukee erika? >> jill, what's the big news for buzz feed?

>> well, buzz feed the internet start up about to get $50 million in investment after closing a deal with adventure captain list firm. would value the company as $80,050,000,000. now, buzz feed is planning major expansion in the coming years with some focus on more high quality content that includes, more coverage of foreign news. buzz feet will announce details plans later today. but those lists certainly are addicting, aren't they? >> very much so. >> indeed. thanks jill. appreciate t hey coming up after a short break, traffic and weather together on the

>> morning, bob. >> morning, everybody, live look at the 42 freeway usually on monday morning in the summertime, we see a lot of extra volume, folks staying at the shore sunday night coming right back into work as you head in toward 295 and the approach of the walt whitman

bridge, schuylkill looking good here, no problems at all coming into or out every downtown philadelphia, live look here, right near spring garden street. into construction project begin today, one big on the blue route 476 penndot will milan repave the entire stretch of the blue route. from route three all the way to up saint david's villanova. the next couple of weeks on the overnight from about 8:00 p.m. until about 6:00 a.m. so we will see that project kick into gear later on this evening. otherwise, all of the bridges look fine mass transit looking good super moon was out there this morning lighting it up. >> lights things up nicely too almost count it as one of the street lamps out there just lightens everything nicely, nice and bright still if you want to catch that view. but what it also does is mess with the tides t can definitely create higher tides than usual. soap, there is in fact a coastal flood advisory takes effect 8:00 p.m. tonight, for

the jersey shore as well as long island, down in through delaware sussex county, specifically of course the shore line. for the entire county doesn't get included here but again keep that in mind. tides might be little higher than usual. storm scan3 quiet for the moment. still got high pressure hanging on for one last day however, by tomorrow, things do start to change, as early as the morning showers will begin, we start off with clouds, will really limit the amount of warm that can take place, especially as the day progresses, second half of the day into tuesday night early wednesday morning there may be some very heavy rain that falls with this, right now not a major severe weather threat but i think thunderstorms get embedded within the passage of the front, as well, back to you. >> thank you, here is a check on stories our sister station "kyw news radio" will be following for you. critical week for philadelphia public schools. superintendent doctor bill hite may be forced to layoff hundreds of teachers by friday unless the district can close $81 million budget gap. philadelphia gun violence group launches new campaign that it hopes will stop deadly

shootings before they occur. >> check in two three, four times a day, "kyw news radio" 10:60 a.m. on your dial. >> coming up in the next hour, new video on the overnight leading on the streets of saint lou us. >> the ebola virus victim, speaks out about his three days in isolation. >> extremely close call for sleeping toddler see what sparked a fire in his room. we're back at the top of the hour.

from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia.

this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news". and developing this morning, chaos on the streets outside of st. louis a police shooting sparks riots annulet g. now, seeing more video of the devestation left behind. >> also, new this morning frightening wake-up call.s several people out of i'mkee ever. philadelphia sending a team to the little league world series, we are so excited for these guys, yes. great, great group of kids. tell you what, today will be great excuse if you want to be outside at all. maybe hit the pool. it will heat up out there little more humid as well, with all of the details on next approaching storm system helping to bring this about coming up. bob? >> 5:00 o'clock on a monday, leaving northeast philadelphia, not bad at all. light volume working your way through the construction zone. couple of new projects begin today. we'll check in with mass transit coming up next. good morning. >> good morning new this morning, philadelphia fire investigators are trying to pinpoint what started a fire in strawberry mansion. it started on the 2700 block of north 24th street.

the flames damaged three row homes. one person suffered a minor injury. the red cross is helping two people that were displaced by that fire. well, couple of people who were injured following roll-over car accident early this morning, "eyewitness news" on the scene at wyoming and the boulevard in hunting park around 2:00 a.m. two men taken to einstein hospital in stable condition. there is no word at the moment on their injuries. also new this morning police looking for second sus neglect connection to attempted robbery in northeast