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breaking news this morning an about face for minnesota vikings in the wake of the child boost allegations against their star player adrian peterson. the the major announcement various made overnight. good morning, i'm ukee washington. i'm natasha brown. we are following developing news in the attack of the same sex couple in center city philadelphia. police are closing in on the suspects after releasing new surveillance video of the vicious beating, we're live from central detective with that story. and more breaking news a water main ruptures in center city turning the treats into a river. this is a live look, you can sea water spewing from the ground in the interest section of seventh and locust. crews are on location working to get that situation under control but you want to avoid that area, of seventh and locust if you have, plans on income this part of the city
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this morning. >> oh, boy. what a mess. lets check our forecast. fall is around the the corner. getting another taste of to it day, katie over there in the weather center. >> yes, when that rain got out of here it brighten up. it was so pleasant. >> we have no worry with wet weather. straight up nice day. >> yes. >> straight up, now tell me am i right? >> it is going to be one of those weeks where overall weather pattern is very quiet. there is a lot of moving pieces in the upper levels of the atmosphere. we have high pressure, cool front, warm front and another cool front and another round of high pressure but it doesn't have a huge impact on the city. we will continue to talk about nice weather all of the details are come up in the next few, ukee, back over to you. philadelphia police say tips pouring in after surveillance video shows the suspects wanted for a hate crime, and assault in center city. >> "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabao is live in central
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detectives where investigators are waiting for one of those tips to lead to an arrest in this case. good morning, jan. >> reporter: natasha and ukee, good morning. it seems like just a matter on have time before these suspects are caught especially with the crystal clear video police released in this case and police tell us, they tell "eyewitness news" it could be just a matter of time before these suspects are caught because tips have been flooding their tip line. take a look at this surveillance video that they have just released. police describe a dozen or so men and women in their early 20's as clean cut and well dressed. they were caught on this surveillance video walking in center city just minutes before the attack. >> it was around 11:00 last thursday when i fey couple was assaulted on 16th street just south of walnut and chancellor. the 28 year-old victim was so badly beaten he was hospitalized for more than days and his jaw will have to be wired shut for eight weeks. his 26 year-old boyfriend
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has bruce toes his face, as they were beaten, the the couple says that gay slurs were being yelled at this as well. it is a disturbing series of events for many here in center city. >> us, as a city,er with trying to be more progressive and that is just absolutely horrible. i cannot fathom of the thought. >> is what everybody so mad about i just don't get it. people are entitled to their lifestyle how they choose. >> reporter: police are urging anyone who didn't throw a punch and seen in that video to come forward and work with police before it is too late. there is a combined $11,000 reward being offered for information leading to an arrest of these suspects and coming up, we will hear from the victim who wanted to tell their story so this does not happen again. we are live outside central detectives, jane carabao, cbs-3 eye witt the necessary news. traffic and weather together. here's katie. >> good morning, everybody. happy hump day being sent your way. we have some beautiful weather
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for this middle part of the week and mess of the week has been really nice say for the the wet weather that held through around this time yesterday. but, as he we look at sky cam three all is calm and quiet in atlantic city, things will start that way today and with bright sunlight heading to the shore you have been lucky enough to score a mid weekday off, you will definitely need sun screen. lets look at storm scan three where things are totally quiet. you might see fog developing in the higher terrain, northern new jersey, perhaps traveling i78, one of those new york commuters along 78, watch for that and higher terrain i could see happening. high pressure is in place for everybody. that means skies have cleared out nicely and it means temperatures have dropped right back down. so yesterday we had cloud cover to keep temperatures from dropping too far but we are right back in the 30's in mount pocono. forty-nine in allentown. fifty-seven in philadelphia as well as down i-95 in wilmington delaware. throughout lining suburbs it is cooler in, northeast
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philadelphia at 53 and we're flirting with the 40's in doylestown. we have a good shot to get there because the sun has yet to come up. but once it does, i mean we're talking about wall to wall sunshine all day. mid 70's expect range of highs in most locations but as i said make sure the sun block is ready to go and that is in the just for folks heading to the shore but that is for everybody today. it will be a nice one. jes, good morning. >> good morning, everybody. 4:35. we will get outside to our cameras here on the schuylkill expressway, you can see everything is moving nicely just at spring garden. headed east bound toward the city is where we will see that volume start to accumulate as rush hour gets underway later on. westbound moving nicely as well. over on the vine street expressway pretty much the same story eastbound toward 95 is where you can see some headlights as they gather through here towards 95 looking great. towards the schuylkill
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expressway heading westbound. in center city road closure seventh street completely closed due to a water main break at locust street. your alternate is just to take ninth street. in new jersey a truck fire due to an earlier incident, new jersey turnpike southbound near exit 6a truck fire taking out right lane at the pennsylvania turnpike. majors still moving nicely. fifty-nine from woodhaven road, vine street expressway heading clear, and really clear still on 422, if you are heading eastbound, ukee and natasha, back over to you. manhunt intensifies for suspect wanted in the deadly ambush of two pennsylvania state troopers. >> investigators say, eric matthew frein opened fire on the blooming grove barracks in northeastern pennsylvania friday night. brian dickson was kill. evidence found a car submerged in the pond, led third to frein. >> also found in that vehicle, the defendant's social
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security card, a game commission range permit for the defendant, camouflage face paint, flashlight, two empty rifle cases, military gear. >> authorities say that fre in is a survival list with extensive weapons training. he is considered armed and dangerous. the minnesota vikings have deactivated adrian peterson again. this time the team says peterson cannot return to the field until his child abuse case is resolved. peterson was arrested friday accused of beating his four year-old son with the tree branch or a switch. the team deactivated peterson for last sunday's game but then reinstated him monday, sparking widespread criticism, including a call from the governor to suspend the the 29 year-old running back. peterson will still be paid while away from the team. well, happening to take resource center is available for laid off workers at now
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defunct trump plaza in atlantic city. employees can sign up for unemployment benefits and other assistance at boardwalk hall starting today through friday. trump plaza is the the fourth atlantic city casino to close this year. former owner donald trump says he may consider buying it, and soon to be shuttered taj mahal. also today a hearing for delaware county school bus driver is set to begin. police say, he was not the regular bus driver, and could not find some stops along his route when he ordered elementary school student off his bus last march. the children age five to 12, were left blocks from their stops. he faces, more than 20 counts of child endangerment. a preliminary hearing for this man jeremiah jackson who is facing murder and related charges in the death of the 23 year-old laura ara joe. he is accused of, strangling the art school graduate when
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she caught him burglarizing her room. her body was discovered inside a, duffle bag last july. candle light vigil in frankford for megan doto and child she was carrying when she was died. she was shot to death sunday morning. her baby delivered by c-section died in the hospital. police say doto was shot by a stray bullet. investigators are searching for devon, in connection with the shooting. well, central bucks band teacher is now accused of having a sexual relationship with a 14 year-old student. bridget, now faces a host of charges and has been suspended from her job at central bucks high school south. police say relationship happened back in 2012, when she worked at lenape middle school in doylestown. she lives in philadelphia. she's married with one child and is pregnant with her second. entero68 that rare respiratory virus infecting kid nationwide is now in philadelphia. children's hospital of
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philadelphia, has confirmed four cases. the cases were treated at children's hospital have been already discharge. doctors say the virus is spreading very quickly but children back to school now. much more to tell but this morning, could there be american boots in the ground in the fight against isis, find out what one of the top military commanders have had had to say. also this... >> protesters out in force in ferguson, missouri calling for charges against the police officer who shot an unarmed teenager who death. we are back in two minutes.
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isis. retired marine general john allen is coordinating an international effort at this point made up of 40 countries to defeat isis. protesters in missouri continue their call for justice in the police shooting death of mike brown. ferguson police officer darren wilson shot the unarmed 18 year-old during a confrontation last month. mike brown's family joined protesters at council meeting demanding officer wilson's arrest and rein novel of the county prosecutor, investigating the case. all right. 4:43. pleasant morning out there. >> yes. >> very nice. >> definitely cooler then yesterday was but not like the chill. >> no, not yet. >> not yet. but, up in the poconos we're in the 30's right now. nice clear skies. any of that heat we built up yesterday goes right backup in the atmosphere, gone. so chilly start for some spots but in philadelphia, only a
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couple degrees cooler then yesterday morning was. so we're looking at a really decent start to the day and this whole day, i mean, thanks mother nature. she's hooking us up. this whole week is really very nice even despite a relatively active pattern. we have high pressure now that is weak. we have a whimpy cold front that you can make out on the radar. believe it or not bringing in some snow across the canadian border. check it out, there it is, it will basically reenforce cooler air here now, no snow, don't worry about that and i think because it does come through so weak, it the is likely to bring nothing in the way of precipitation at all. high pressure today, cold front tomorrow, bringing in nothing more than a couple clouds and then temperatures get knocked back, to the point where we have a hard time hitting 70 degrees in a couple spots and then there may be a warm front that moves in, followed up by cold front down the road. there is an active pattern but just not strong enough to
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cause any major temperature swings or major weather pattern changes. a abundant sunshine today, beautiful. 75 degrees. dropping down to the upper 50's tonight. if you want to leave these windows opened, if you haven't turn your air coming off, take advantage, this is so comfortable. we will see nothing but a few clouds. tomorrow also looking good. a couple of clouds, will move in but we are in the looking at wet weather. next up whimpy frontal boundary but temperatures take a hit by friday, in warmer than 70 degrees, ukee, back over to you. in sports, phillies and padres go at it again tonight out west, many of you were probably asleep when last night's game ended early this morning. freddie galvis put the phillies up in the fifth inning last night, two run home run was his third of the season. freddie has only ten hits all season long, three of them are home runs but in the sixth, alexis put the padres back in front with the two out, two run home run and padres, out
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last fightins, your final score was five-four. philadelphia union going for their first ever u.s. open cup title against seattle sounders at ppl park in chester. maurice ado puts union up early but it was all seattle after. that clint dempsey had one of the three goals and sounders win their fourth u.s. open cup three-one. somewhere in that crowd was our own katie fehlinger cheering our guys on. she's tired this morning. >> i'll get through you. >> entire flyers roster hit the golf course trade nothing their skates for golf shoes. flies alumni golf outing in pine hill, camden county raises money for ed snyder youth hockey foundation. nicely done. get ready for some football, tomorrow night right here on cbs-3. an afc south divisional match up, pits tampa bay buccaneers against the atlanta falcons in atlanta. falcons quarterback the matt
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ryan played locally at penn charter. start your week on the football season at 7:30 tomorrow night on, cbs-3. >> i'm ready, thanks ukee. can you guess which university has the most billion air graduates? i'll give you a hint here, it is right here in philadelphia a jill wagner has the the answer coming up in money watch. but first a look what is on tonight on cbs-3.
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updating our breaking news a water main ruptures in center city. we are looking live there, water spewing from the ground near intersection of seventh and locust. crews are on location, working to get that situation under control but if you plan to use this area you will want to avoid it, just to give you some detours coming up, once again in the area have of seventh and locust. >> um-hmm. now for another look at
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this morning's headlines, breaking news overnight, as the men so the a vikings have now deactivated adrian peterson again. this time the team says peterson can't return to the field until his child abuse case has been resolved. philadelphia police could be closing in on the the suspects after releasing new surveillance video of the vicious beating of a same sex couple, in center city. we will keep you updated. lets check a look at business news. >> money watch's jill wagner joins us live from the new york stock exchange. jill, good morning to you. investors are in a buying mood. it appears. so is what moving the the market. >> reporter: well, good morning ukee and natasha. investors are feeling optimistic as federal reserve wraps up their policy meeting. they are waiting for clues about whether the central bank could raise interest rates. the right now they are at record low levels. there is a lot of anticipation around allie bobaip o. the cities expected to start trading on the floor of the insuring stock exchange on
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friday at $68 a share. that would make it, a biggest ipo in history. ukee and, natasha. philadelphia college is at the top of the new list that ranks universities but it doesn't look like the the usual criteria like academics? >> reporter: that is right, it is a new way to measure success of the university. see how many billion air is it counts as alumni. a considered to go wealth and billion air census the university of pennsylvania tops the the list when it comes to billion airs. after that it is harvard, yale and university of southern california. ukee and natasha, my alma matter university of michigan number 14, sadly i'm not helping that ranking. >> i hear you. >> i know where you are coming from. >> thank you. >> thanks, jill, appreciate it. coming up, traffic and weather together we will do it weather together we will do it the on the
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morning jessica. >> good morning in in a cash a good morning, to everybody waking up getting ready to head out the door. it 4:54. we will go outside to a relatively quiet start on route 309 at the pennsylvania turnpike. you can see pennsylvania turnpike right up there moving nicely in the northbound and southbound lanes. moving along great there on 309 as well. pretty much the same story on i-95 at broad street. the headlight coming in heading northbound, southbound headed towards the city moving great as well. can't say same story for center city. we have a road closure due to the water main break seventh street closed at locust street. alternate to get around that take ninth street. now we will send it over to katie in the weather center. >> good morning, everybody. high pressure is here to stay the at least for the rest of the day to day and mess of tonight. by tomorrow we will see our next cold front. a very, very weak one by the way rolling through. as you might expect a lot of times with high pressure in control we have nice fair weather and that high is basically right overhead today. so you'll see abundant
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sunshine but you are lose ago this sunlight with every passing day. tonight's sunset takes place at 7:06. by september 30th it is 6:45. on the halloween night, 6:00 o'clock, on the nose. so, that equates to two and a half minutes of daylight being lost on a daily basis. i know our erika von tiehl loves that because it is easier to fall asleep at night but we are losing, again, daylight with every single passing day. enjoy what you got because we have three straight days basically of some pretty picturesque weather in the delaware valley. after what overall has been a really nice start to the week. we will just keep that theme going and looking forward. by friday a chillier start out there, as we mentioned a weak cold front coming through and that is the reason. >> for the record, i can fall asleep anytime. >> me too. >> here's a check of the stories our sister station kyw news radio 1060 can follow for you today. prominent leader in the latino community is throwing his hat in the ring to be the next
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breaking news from overnight, minnesota vikings reverse course and make a stunning announcement about running back adrian peterson in the wake of child abuse allegations. developing right now, take a very close look here at these people, caught on surveillance video, police say these are the suspects, wantedded in a vicious attack on a same sex couple in center city. we are live with information. also, about an award in this case. it is wednesday, september 17th i'm ukee washington. i'm natasha brown in for my friend erika today. we have more breaking news in center city. we are looking live at seventh and locust where a water main break is flooding the roadway this morning. steer clear of that, i'm sure jessica is definitely going to tell but that because you don't want to be near there,
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i'm sure. >> you don't. i will cover that in a couple minutes. lets head outside to the ben franklin bridge moving nicely in there, even though you can see two lanes out for that ongoing construction project. still moving great heading in the city. westbound we will cover that water main break in a couple minutes. ukee and natasha, good morning. updating breaking news that broken water main is still flooding this neighborhood in center city. this is a live picture from seventh and locust streets in washington square west as hundreds of gallons of water continue to spill into the street. now water department crews are on the scene, right the now working to turn off that broken main. there is no word on if residents in that area have suffered any water damage at this point but this is continuing to cause some traffic problems, so again, you do want to avoid that area, of washington square area center city philadelphia. >> once again not in our shot. once again department ion
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