. from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia. this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news". and today is friday, september 5th, good morning, i'm ukee washington. >> i'm erika von tiehl. stories we're following today, she made fun of celebrities on the red carpet. but more often she made fun of herself. this morning, we remember the joy of laughter that joan rivers shared with all of us. also, developing, right now, an amber alert for this missing boy in florida gets attention in pennsylvania. we will tell you about the person of interest who has ties to our area. >> and this was not the picture you were supposed to see, social network glitch leads to apology from the governor of delaware. now the woman in that photo, too. >> those stories and more coming up. let's talk about your forecast, headed to the big eagles game, a lot of things happening.

>> can't believe we're talking seven's this weekend, kate? >> i see you have your eagles green on, all ready for the green. >> we bleed green. you. >> don't have to prove it to us on the set. we'll take your word for it, yes. we have big changes in the weather headed our way today. today another hot, humid day, tomorrow, same story, then feels like we go from summer to fall, not calendar wise, but weather wise, starting sunday, we've got some nice comfortable conditions returning to the area. i'll break it down with your seven day forecast coming up in just a few minutes, erika, ukee, back to you. >> thank you, entertainment world just reeling from the news that joan rivers has passed. >> the 81 year old comedy legends passed yesterday one week after she went into cardiac arrest during throat surgery. "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabeo in our satellite center with more on how she is being remembered, jan, good morning. >> good morning, joan rivers spent a lifetime making people laugh. she has said that she wanted to work until her death. she did just that. even so, in her 81 years, it

seems, her fans couldn't get enough. as soon as news broke about the comedian's death her fans start today gather at her star on the walk of fame in hollywood. they laid a wreath there thursday afternoon, the our pouring of memories and support of her family tens today. eighty-one year old comedian, tv star, is being remembered as a grounds breaker and hilarious lady, got her start on the tonight show with johnny carson, even becoming carson's regular lay host, and she re vented herself time and again, poking fun at celebrities, later began reality tv star with her daughter but everything was done with a goal of make being people laugh. david letterman paid tribute to rivers, and her talent, on last night's late show. >> and talk about guts. she would come out here and sit in this chair, and say some things that were unbelievable. >> yes. >> just you would have to swallow pretty hard and twice but it was hilarious.

>> now, while there is no indication of any wrong-doing, the new york state department of health is investigating that clinic where rivers was undergoing a routine procedure when she went into cardiac arrest. her funeral is on sunday. reporting live in the sat center, jan carabeo. >> and we invite to you share your thoughts on the life and career of joan rivers, commit with us on the cbs philly facebook page or tweet us at cbs philly. >> right now, 4:33, a lot of folks finally happy to make it to friday. >> little sticky out there. i know you felt it as were you outside this morning, i felt it, it is steamy but not as bad as it could be, we're not dealing with heavy rain today, not dealing with temperatures in the upper nine's, just warm steamy summer day. see the trim he will sweep, not showing hot lot of anything at all, pretty quiet out, there even zooming out, things looking a-okay. we have front back across portions of the great lakes, we'll eventually get here, but locally everything is quiet

this morning, just few high clouds will drift through. tracking the threat for pop up thunderstorms this afternoon, and one thing to take into account, as steamy as we are, see temperatures early this morning, still in the 70s, very warm, steamy 73 at the airport, 73 in atlantic city, when you have this much moisture in the atmosphere, pop up afternoon storms, can become locally heavy specially heavy ran, brief downpour that hits you, can't rule it out even though storms will be widely scattered this afternoon. again, let's look at the handy little bar graph here, showing us, just how warm it has been this week, average high of 82, notice, we've been no where close to that, you do the quick mental meat it, looks like we're averaging out somewhere around 87, 88 degrees her this week, which is a solid five plus degrees above normal. and we're going to stay hot right into saturday, but then, some changes. let's take you around the region this friday. some sun, hot, humid in the city, 88 degrees, can't rule out afternoon shower, some spots don't get anything at all, other spots may get

downpour. down the shore mostly sunny, beautiful beach day, 84 degrees, in the poconos some sun, but that chance for afternoon thunderstorm at 82. i'll have the full seven day forecast and "shorecast" coming up in just a couple every minutes to let you know when fall returns to the delaware valley, or arrives in the delaware valley, victoria? >> thank you, kate. good morning, everyone. definitely foggy out there, so will cause low visibility on the roadways, construction zones will set you back currently, in the too much, just something to be mindful of on your either right or left hand side. soap, as we take a look at 95 there is very foggy shot here, notice, few cones that we have blocking the left hand lane, approaching the area of the philadelphia international airport. no delays at the philadelphia international airport, as well, so really pretty smooth in the stretch, just again, something to be minds full of. practice extra caution. another foggy shot would be the ben franklin bridge, difficult to see, but headlights here, your westbound side, making their way down into philadelphia, we do have construction taking out who of the right hand lanes, westbound side of the ben, eastbound moving just

fine. really all of the bridges are moving well, as well as all of our highways and by ways, all over the map. as we take a look, speed censors in the 50's, 50's on the schuylkill, 50's, 476, 55 on 59 -- 95. if you are traveling 95 through the construction zone, again, another place to use extra caution. >> this set me back on my way to work this morning, northbound roosevelt between ninth and red lion until 6:00 a.m., they are doing paving, which is closing the inner drive of the roosevelt rot boulevard. so when i was trying to make that left onto harbison avenue to jump on 95, they have that blocked with police vehicles because of this construction. so i just took it all the way down to the schuylkill expressway. again you will have to do some maneuvering, be mindful again of the few construction zones, but no major delays for mass transit. torrey, thank you. developing right now, an amber alert has police on alert from florida to pennsylvania. police near tampa are looking for a missing boy after four bodies were found near his home. four year old ismail, who has

autism, may be with this man, adam mats, recently moved to florida from the lehigh valley. he may be driving 1991 blue ford f150 pick up tag number 244jjn. sad update to story we first brought you last night. we just learned overnight a child hit by a car in northeast philadelphia has died. the ten year old boy was riding his bike at loretto and longshore avenues in oxford circle when the car hit him around 8:30 last night. the driver did stop at the scene. recent cutbacks in one bucks county school district is raising furious concerns for some parents. this year schools in bristol township will no longer offer bus service for after-school activities. instead, students staying late will have to find their own way home. and that could lead to some tough decisions for their parents in the new school year. >> my daughter in the band. she needed a ride with the buses to get back and forth.

so she won't be able to be in the band. >> you are putting people at danger. you are being children possibly hit by carsment having children possibly abducted. you are possibly putting all of these children at risk. >> now the school district did release a statement saying, quote, we had to take a hard look at what could be cut without compromising student learning, eliminating these under utilized late run activity buses was clearly more responsible option than cutting educational program services or teachers. president obama has scheduled a news conference as nato wraps up its summit in whales. president and prime minister to confront islamic state limb at any time group reaking havoc. also urging regional partners such as jordan and turk toy join the effort, as well. much more to cover here on cbs-3, "eyewitness news", glitch in social network causes an embarrassing moment for the governor of delaware.

>> and as the eagles get ready for the season opener, coach and quarterback talk about the fans great expectations. back in two minutes. good morning.

>> congressman chaka fattah told "eyewitness news" he's done nothing wrong. questions had been swirling around the pennsylvania democrat since former top advisor admitted in federal court that he lied to conceal any legal loan to fattah's 2007 campaign for mayor. >> in all of my years as elect the official, i've never been involved in any legal conduct at all. that's what i can tell you, in seven year investigation, and at some pointy guess we'll all see what happens. >> congressman fattah not charged with any wrong-doing. and, it is not just delaware governor jack markell apologizing for tweeting out provocative picture. the woman whose image was sent to more than 17,000 followers is now also speaking out. now, this is the photo of an education event that the

governor's staffer intends today tweet. however, this is what was sent instead. a picture after model named darja wearing leather collar, flashing peace sign. markell's offers apologized saying the auto generated link was inadvertently altered while the tweet was being edited. model who describes herself as underground visual artist says in a statement dow not personally know in one from the governor's staff. i apologize if any was offended because the image was taken out of contempt. nothing deceptive or secret that transpired, but i feel people may be digging for a deeper story. careful with those links. >> tweeting stuff out. >> oh, yes. >> could have been worse. >> could have, but not much. >> how are we looking? >> we are looking that it could be worse. we are walking in today, said, you know, it is sticky, steamy, doesn't feel like september, but could be whole lot worse. we could be tracking severe storms, heavy rain. we are tracking the risk for

some rain later today. scattered, many places won't see anything at all, but storms that do pop up could be locally heavy, especially with the moisture in the atmosphere, we also are dealing with little fog this morning, across the area, that's also an indication of the warm moist air that is hanging overhead. here is a live look on "skycam 3", atlantic city, all lit up. you can kind of see the fog clinging to the shore line there, just careful, because the fog comes up on you quickly, not everywhere, but it is patchy dense fog this morning, and you could be driving and all the sudden visibility drastically reduced. so be safe out there on the roads, again, atlantic city looking good this morning, it will be a nice beach day. we go from summer to fall at least weather wise, we transition into the weekend. highs upper 80s, there is the warm steamy high flow it, will feel as hot as the mid 90s at times, thanks to the humidity, watch for those afternoon showers, maybe thunderstorm, locally heavy rain with any of them, but tomorrow, certainly, more organized pattern, to the thunderstorm activity, that's

because the next cold front arrives, will sweep in from the north and west, out ahead of the fronts. front, we get to 90, another hot, humid day, watch for the storms to come through in the afternoon and evening. then we clear that out, clearing, cooler, sunshine returning, highs in the 70s sunday, but we have to watch this front. it will stall off to the south. another little wave may track along it, may actually back in, as we head into early next week. it is trying to spoil my week down the shore next week, so hopefully we'll keep the showers on out. watch for better chance for shower activity as we get into next week. the eagles take a look at this forecast, doesn't get much better, 77 degrees at kick off sunday, winds out of the north at ten, it will be mostly sunny, so beautiful weather, feeling more football like certainly than it will today. today's high, 89, scattered afternoon showers, maybe thunderstorm, tonight partly cloudy, mild, muggy, at 726789 your eyewitness weather seven day forecast, "shorecast", hot and humid through tomorrow. then cooler sunday, but notice, tuesday, wednesday, the chance for a couple of showers. ukee, we send it back to you.

the first regular season eagles game of the year kicks off sunday afternoon as kate mentioned at link con financial field. the game right here on cbs-3. the birds face jacksonville sunday at 1:00. they've been working on the game plan over at the nova care complex, have the voice of the eagles in sister station sports radio 94wip, with us live in the 6:00 hour. mr. merrill reese, big things are expected of the birds this time around. >> they've waited since the team last year to be here, so we're excited to have home opener, to be in philadelphia, so i can't wait. i'm real excited to see how the crowd is, and just get them excited, get them riled up. >> here, too, we had a bunch of guys around us, we've been around them, so you feel like you're a little bit closer in terms of what we are trying to get accomplished, but excited to get going here, they're for real, it counts. >> eagles nation is ready to go. we'll get you ready for the season opener sunday on cbs-3. sports director beasley reese and leslie van arsdale will be

live at lincoln financial field for toyota sunday kick offer at 11:30 sunday morning, the nfl today is at noon followed by all the action of eagles football, eagles, jacksonville, sunday at 1:00 right here on cbs-3. >> let's talk baseball now. phillies open three game series tonight in washington against the first place nationals, and the nats have the best record in the national league. tonight ben revere will resume his quest for the batting tight until more than a century. at the top hitting 314. the last fill toy win it, hall of hall of fame i richie around burn, beat out willie mays to do it at the time. >> still ahead on "eyewitness news" this morning, another car maker plans to roll out pretty cool technology to help you avoid a crash. >> first though here's what's coming upton on cbs-3.

>> hollywood is mourning the death of comedian joan rivers, went into cardiac more than a week ago at a manhattan's doctors office. she was returned to mount sinai hospital. she never regained consciousness, and died yesterday at the age of 81. amber alert is in effect, authorities say, florida four year old ismail is missing and believed to be in the company of adam matos, from the lehigh valley, a person of interest. a ten year old boy has died after he was hit by a car in oxford circle. that will boy was riding a bicycle near loretto, longshore avenues, when he was hit. >> this happened around 8:30 last night. the driver stopped at the scene, but the boy died early this morning. your time now 4:49. let's get a check on business. >> money watch's jill wagner joins us from the new york stock exchange, apple stock has been tanking after the whole lenny nude picture scandal, now rolling out new

security measures? >> that's right. good morning, apple taking steps to keep hackers out of i cloud accounts. apple tim cook told the wall street journal starting in two weeks, will alert users via email, if someone troys to change a password, move i cloud data to new device, or when someone logs into an account from an unknown device, cook, though, he says the celebrity accounts, they were likely accessed when hackers figured out celebrity passwords by answering their security questions. ukee, erika. >> jill, it is known that auto makers are in a race to make cars as safe as possible, these days, now, toyota, i understand, using new technology to help cars avoid crashes? >> yes, that's right. toyota wants to design cars so they actually won't let drivers get into accidents. the car makers promise to install collision prevention technology, in its us cars, by 2017, the camry will likely be one of the first ones to have it, now the technology lets cars towelly steer themselves

out of danger, and stay in the center of a lane, pretty incredible. >> ukee, erika? >> that is amazing. >> how about that? >> thanks, jill, appreciate t. coming upp after a short break, traffic and weather break, traffic and weather together we do it on the 3 hi. i'm shawn johnson of the 2008 u.s. gymnastics team. i'm here with our friends from "veggie tales" to say... all: be a player. get up and play an hour a day. besides gymnastics, how do you stay in great shape, shawn? i love to dance and rollerblade. cool. cool. you don't have to be an olympian to be a player. just do the things you already love to do, like jump rope, ride a bike, or even play freeze tag. now, that's something to flip for. well done. for fun ways to get healthy, visit www.smallstep.gov.

>> torrey, how are we looking on the roads? >> so far so good. a loft construction zones to be minds full of if you are traveling, low visibility as result of the fog. so to really give you two in one here, taking you to 995, where we have construction and that heavy fog around the philadelphia international airport. so, this would be the southbound side, that left lane being compromised now folks traveling on by without a problem, but still something to use a little bit of extra caution, not the only spot you'll have construction, talk about that in just a second. but now to 476, northbound, southbound moving well. not only around this area here of the mid-county teleplays, but the schuylkill and nine at and really all of the majors looking beautiful in the green. speed censors high into the

50's, schuylkill, 476, northeast text sean, pa turnpike, good news, if you are traveling the turnpike, overnight construction affecting both directions at willow grove. traveling the roosevelt boulevard there is set me back this morning, northbound between ninth and red lion, inner drive closed because they are doing some paving until 6:00 a.m. so, if you are trying to get to 95, commuting in the southbound direction of the boulevard, probably just better identify tee maneuver around the neighborhood or even jump on the schuylkill expressway, but more importantly, i'm worried about the weather for the eagles game. >> yes, well you know what? i think you'll love it actually, it will be comfortable, you can actually dress for not fall, but you don't need to sweat it out, say, in the stands at lincoln financial field on sunday, nice weather out thereby then, but for now, it is hot, humid, it will be interesting to see actually later today if the traffic is a lot different than it has been every friday this summer now that most folks are back to work, back to school. if your honor headed down the shore, well it will be beautiful beach day. right now 73 atlantic city, 73 at the airport, 69 in milville

and 69 degrees in allentown, torrey mentioned the fog out there. take a look at some of the visibilities, down in dover, visibility of .3 of a mile, down to half mile, at the philadelphia international airport. you can see some other spots, though, looking at full 10-mile visibility range. so this fog comes up on you quickly, pockets of fog seeing throughout this morning, a lot of it around the city so be safe out on the roads as you head out. give yourselves extra time, extra space. take a look at the warm up on day planner here, 74 degrees at 9:00 a.m. warm, muggy, hot and humid at noon, up to 83 already, then to up 89 which will be our high today. we hit that around 3:00, 4:00. but watch for couple of thunderstorms this afternoon. we time it out. 5:00 a.m., again, no problems, most of the day dry, just some fog, some high clouds, look what happens by about 4:00. showers, storms, generate across the region, and some of these will be locally strong, they won't be everywhere, but watch right through the evening commute. that could snarl things a little bit. with some locally heavy thunderstorms, coming up i will tell with you more storms

for the weekends. >> here is a look at stories our sister station "kyw news radio" 1006 will be following for you today. corporations and community groups helping fill the budget gap for philadelphia public schools. if you usually travel over the ben franklin bridge, probably wondering when will the lane closures end? and new study on how your diet could reduce the risk after stroke. check in two, three, four times a day on "kyw news radio" 1060 on your a.m. dial. erika? >> still ahead, our coverage of the death of joan rivers continues here on "eyewitness news", up next at 5:00 how david letterman is remembering the comedian. also, ahead, new trouble for college basketball program. all because after phonecall that taney dragons pitcher mo'ne davis. >> then, the major threat moving toward homes in one of the worlds' most exotic locations. that and more when we come back at the top of the hour. happy friday, be right back.

tom wolf. he'd be a different kind of governor. he served in the peace corps in india. and then got a phd from mit. and as a businessman he gives between 20 and 30 percent of his profits back to his employees. when he served as pennsylvania's secretary of revenue. he turned down the perks. and donated his government salary to charity he refused take a state car, he drove his old jeep instead. can't argue with that. tom wolf. he'd bring a fresh start to pennsylvania.

>> brash, brass i, brutally honest, as funny as she was frustrating, joan rivers was one after kinds. >> she would come out here and sit in this chair and say some things that were unbelievable. david letterman joins countless other comics, in paying tribute to rivers. we'll have reaction from the entertainment world. today's friday, september 5th, good morning, everyone, i'm ukee washington. >> i'm erika von tiehl. also this morning, developing story for you, amber alert in florida has ties our area. we have the latest on the search for this missing boy, and the gruesome discovery near his home. kate? >> and, erika, it is a warm and muggy start to our friday

morning, we are dealing with patchy, dense fog across the area. and the heat continues into the weekend, then some changes by sunday, i'll have all your full forecast coming up. >> good morning, everyone, so far so good. speed censors reflecting real nice morning. fifty-five on 95, 50 on the schuylkill, 54 on 476. we do have little bit of fog out there. also some construction and we'll talk about that in a little bit in my report, ukee? >> in the news, joan rivers has passed but her comedy will never be forgotten. she was a trailblazer who paved the way for today's comedian. >> "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabeo joins us now in the sat center some of her career highlights. jen, good morning. >> good morning, jones rivers spent lifetime making people laugh. she had wanted to work her entire life. and she did just that, working until her death. but her fans, it seems, couldn't get enough, even in her 81 years. now, as soon as they heard about her death, they turned out to her star on the hollywood