john: he tightened up on that return. you need to use a little topspin when you're tight because that ball will fly on you otherwise. mary: another monster return. this is the kind of player that beats nadal too. somebody who hits so big and so bold they take all your court craft away. bill: another break point. >> fault. john: i wonder what will happen if that was in if they'll give

him the point. because he did touch it but it didn't look to affect his return. it doesn't matter because it was out. bill: just by that margin. john: that's strong, strong play by cilic. bill: and there's the break. so now two sets and a break here in the third. marin cilic is two games away from the final of the u.s. open. . right here. with a control pad that can read your handwriting, a wide-screen multimedia center, and a head-up display for enhanced driver focus. all inside a newly redesigned cabin

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and what about the nerves at this stage? mary: are you nervous? bill: i'm nervous for them. mary: ok. how about you? [laughter] john: that is a huge serve. that's as hard as -- he had one at 132. that was 131. talk about not having time to react. bill: just a perfect serve. right into that corner. 40-15. that was 126. john: that's all five of your

first serves in that game. that's the way to do it. federer never with a chance there. bill: the crowd trying to encourage federer. which ask a big mountain. john: cilic may have to send a monfils.e of thanks to took something out of those legs. roger hasn't been able to deal with how quick things have come to him. he's got to hope that cilic just completely tightens up when he

tries to serve this out. >> fault. john: unlike monfils, who had a couple of match points, that was on roger's serve. cilic is going to be able to serve for it this next game. and roger federer has -- he's broken one time. bill: love game from federer. 12th ace and we'll be back to the u.s. open in just a moment.

bill: well, the moment of truth for roger federer, trying to ontinue. it is on the cilic racket. up two sets and serving at 5-4. john: whoa. boy, what a way to start. bill: 129, his 11th ace.

goran doing a pretty good job with that cilic serve? impression.his best back-to-back aces. john: he's playing faster than federer. bill: serving for the match, 30-0. john: oh, boy. bill: three straight aces. john: unbelievable. bill: now, triple match point. john: four in a row? goran is like, ok. that's the way i planned it.

bill: what a performance from marin cilic. he dismisses roger federer in straight sets. john: that was a beautiful exhibition of power, obviously but he's got more to his game. his groundstrokes are awesome. the return got to federer. and despite the efforts that he had made to get to the semis, he played in some very difficult conditions, his body recovered a lot more quickly than the 33-year-old roger federer.

bill: so we thought it might be novak djokovic and ronald rodge playing for the title -- roger federer playing for the title. instead, those two guys crashed the party. and roger says goodbye. how many more chances at the age f 33 will he have? five-time champion exits arthur ashe stadium. let's go down to mary joe fernandez. mary joe: thanks, bill. marin, amazing match. congratulations. how were you able to hold your nerve so well in that last game? >> just amazing day for me. i feel amazing and to be able to play like this, i never dreamed of and i think today was my best performance ever in my career. mary joe: in the final you'll play another first time finalist in kei nishikori.

what are your thoughts on that first big final for both of you? >> i think that's going to be a sensational day for both of us. i'm extremely happy to be in the final. first time in my career and i'm just going to enjoy is, be happy and try to win. mary joe: congratulations, great effort. >> thank you, everybody. thank you. bill: marin cilic and kei nishikori will play for the title on monday. straight sets over roger federer. that will do it for semifinal saturday at the u.s. open. tonight on cbs begins with "person of interest" followed by back-to-back editions of "48 hours." and join us again tomorrow after football when our live coverage of the u.s. open continues with the im-- women's championship. serena williams going for a record-tying sixth u.s. open crown takes on caroline wozniacki. over the years so many men and women from cbs have worked tirelessly to bring you coverage of america's grand slam. from that first year in 1968

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>> ♪ >> severe storms targeting the region. this iwitness cam video was sent to us from tom, the rain coming down so hard as you can see at this voorhees target that people were abandoning their shopping carts just

trying to get out of the way. storm scan3 shows the storms moving across the region. some of them have been severe at this point. the entire viewing area is under a severe thunderstorm watch. good evening everyone, i'm natasha brown. thanks so much for joining us. meteorologist justin drabick is tracking these storms for us at this hour. he's joining us live in the cbs3 weather center with the latest on where they're heading at this point. justin. >> good evening, natasha. looks like the impacted areas right now are in northern delaware and central new jersey. that's where we have the thunderstorm activity. little bit of light rain around philadelphia up to northeast philadelphia, through trenton but severe storm moving into ocean county as we speak. right now a lot of lightning with that storm as well as lightning heading into the wilmington area. we'll zoom in closer to some of these storms. again, this one is severe. located right around the manchester area right now headed for pine land park at 6:28 toms river, 6:40. seaside heights 6:57 as that storm moves to the east at 20 miles per hour. lot of lightning and heavy rain and winds gusting up to

60 miles per hour. heavy rain from wilmington down into chesapeake city, maryland and this is also moving to the east. a lot of rainfall right now around bear, delaware, newark and glasgow as that heads off to the east. not a severe storm but certainly we'll have some heavy rain and winds gusting to about 40 miles per hour. looks like the warning has been canceled for ocean county so certainly that's good news but that is a strong storm. severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect for the entire area all the way until 9 o'clock tonight so we're not done yet. still some scattered showers and storms breaking out across central pennsylvania. some of the storms are slow moving with a lot of rain. we've seen flash flooding across areas of chester county. that goes until 7:45. estimates of about three to possibly 4-inches of rain from the earlier storm that rolled through. so, through tonight, scattered strong to severe thunderstorms, damaging winds, 40 to 60 miles per hour. potential for that flash flooding in some of the storms

and watch out for frequent lightning. could lead to power outages. rain cooled area in philadelphia, temperatures still hovering around 90 degrees especially across south jersey and the shore near did he ever delaware. there are changes on the way. if you did not like today's weather hot and humid conditions wait another 12 hours or so we'll get a cold front through here. check out what's behind the front. 60's and 70's. that is what returns to our area for the second half of the weekend. cold front moves through overnight improving conditions later on tonight, partly sunny for sunday. high temperatures little bit below average, upper 70's to around 80 degrees. it stays on the cooler and less humid side for monday. want to watch an area of low pressure track along the front. may move close enough to the coast on tuesday to bring more showers around, certainly some clouds. that will keep temperatures down. now through about 10 o'clock or so we'll be under the gun for some scattered storms and they'll shift farther to the south and east across south jersey. improving conditions overnight. should wake up with dry conditions sunday morning,

just some clouds into the afternoon, more sunshine returns. keeps skies partly sunny through the day on monday, noticeably cooler, more comfortable and then on tuesday a couple showers possible especially along the coastline as that low pressure system tracks near the coast. look at the temperatures. we're become into the 70's to around 80 on sunday so we're going get rid of all this heat and humidity, cooler monday with a flow off the water, temperatures in the mid 70's. so again through the evening best shot for some scattered storms, it will be muggy, low 67 degrees. tomorrow improving conditions less humid with a high near 80 degrees and of course can check out that eagles forecast. kickoff 1 o'clock, 77 degrees. beautiful conditions there. again at the shore cooler as well, temperatures in the upper 70's. ocean water in the upper 70's as well. here's the extended forecast. look at that. some fall weather early next week. monday and tuesday should be a shower on tuesday and then again late in the week. looks like we warm up to the mid 80's by thursday. you can download the cbsphilly weather app to get the latest severe weather alerts.

send us pictures through the app available now on itunes. natasha. >> thank you very much justin. the council rock high school south football team returns to the field and they are playing with very heavy hearts. today they pay tribute to three classmates killed in a car crash on labor day weekend "eyewitness news" reporter noel mclaren is live with more details. noel. >> reporter: the students were supposed to be out here last night cheering on their friends on the football team but instead, they were attending their fourth day of funerals and memorial services for their friends. tonight, however, they are out here remembering them as they play and continue on their lives on the field. >> they're no longer with us but they will always be a part of the council rock family. >> reporter: a moment of pause for their peers. >> thank you. >> reporter: as council rock students kick off their first football game of the school year without them. >> shamus digney, cullen

keffer and ryan lesher. >> reporter: the three were killed in a crash in paupack township last weekend after the suv they were riding in flipped over multiple times. police say a 15-year-old was driving. tonight their memory was right on the top of the bleachers as it was at the top of everyone's minds. this game students say is for their friends. and tonight's rainy weather sets a somber tone. there have been rain delays here throughout the evening. however, right now you can see we're in the middle of a half time and it's supposed to continue as soon as possible. we're live at council rock high school north, noel mclaren cbs3 "eyewitness news." >> thank you. volunteers from the 9/11 garden reflection of memorial made a trip to ground zero today. "eyewitness news" was in lower makefield township as they returned from there 9/11 memorial museum in new york.

their tour guide was retired nypd officer arnold roma. he was in the south tower when it collapsed. his son, keith, died in the north tower. >> i firmly believe he's watching out for me and this gives me a place to sit and be calm and to catch your breath and unscramble your head and that's how important this place is and i think most of the families would agree. >> well, each year the garden of reflection memorial picks a theme for the anniversary of 9/11 and this year the theme theme for the anniversary of 9/11 and this year the theme is heroism rul fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. everybody knows that parker. well... did you know auctioneers make bad grocery store clerks? that'll be $23.50. now .75, 23.75, hold 'em. hey now do i hear 23.75? 24! hey 24 dollar, 24 and a quarter, quarter, now half, 24 and a half and .75! 25! now a quarter, hey 26 and a quarter, do you wanna pay now, you wanna do it, 25 and a quarter- -sold to the man in the khaki jacket! geico.

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