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back to you for now. data breach could put millions of shoppers at risk. syma chowdhry joins us now over at the acme market in south philly to tell you more about it, syma? >> reporter: that's right, ukee, erika. first, it was target. then home depo. now, acme shoppers may have to double check their credit and debit cards after a possible security breach. that is because the supermarket says their
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customers personal information may have been hacked. acme's parent company says malicious software was found on networks that processed credit cards and debit cards in the stores. the company says it immediately contacted the authorities. the customers that may be at risk shopped attack me sometime in late august, until the beginning of september. now, shoppers are having to monitor their credit cardiac tiff at this, although, it is not clear if any customer information was cents actually stolen. >> more inconvenience than anything, but sometimes, you know, if it ends up being money being stolen, obviously not, not good for anybody. >> and, the ceo of acme parent company released a statement saying, quote, we take our responsibility to protect our customers payment card data seriously. we sincerely regret our customer's data was targeted. taking a prepare re at measures to enhance the protection of our customers
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payment cards data. live in south philadelphia, syma chowdhry, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". syma, thank you. right now 4:33, want to hear more about what is it low pressure system, katy? >> exactly a lot of times we talk about high pressure, very often high pressure bridges us some very pleasant weather. but not this time around. actually dealing with low pressure, which is what which is what's going to eventually bring us couple of showers out there. we take it out to "skycam 3", first and for most, things are pretty quiet. did actually send up seeing sliver of rain move in, it gradually has progress from the west to east here, through the overnight. so still left with as we go to storm scan3 next, a little slice of wet weather activity here and there. so, if you are traveling south on 95, expect to see just few damp roads out there, it is not enough that it will really mess with your morning drive, any of this should start to clear out, as the morning progresses, but generally, any showers, through the morning, are going to be confined toward the jersey shore. you can understand why. when you see this little batch
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of rain basically moving from southwest to northeast, but, slow to go, it is at least retreating at this point. so we do end up with some sunshine, but here is the other thing. we have a got moisture to work with in our atmosphere, i will not be surprised if you see dense fog in patches, especially through the western suburbs outside of philadelphia. so, currently, already under mild visibility in mount pocono. the same goes for lancaster, in fact, under half mile. it is specially going to be true for the west and northern suburbs, well outside of philadelphia, that you really do see that fog. but even mine in my neighborhood, closer to the city saw a little bit of it myself driving in this morning. something to keep in mind. 656 currently at the airport, we are into the mid or low 60s recalling around the board, cooler through most outlying suburbs, today one of those days where we see shower here and, there not huge deal, you don't need umbrella we will get bit more sun too in philadelphia. should actually heat up again to the upper 70s, tory? >> thank you, good morning, lots of construction zones all around, what you are looking at right now, one of those
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construction vehicles, pulling away on the westbound side of 422, right around trooper. now you will notice even on the eastbound side, that we still have a few every those cones set into place. and you will notice lane closures in this area. so just give yourself little more time. not seeing any major volume. so it is not going to set you back that way. just something to be aware of. traveling on 95, around the commodore barry bridge, also have an active construction zone here. i know very difficult to see it in this shot, but it is around, probably going to be pick up soon we approach 5:00 a.m. take a lock at the speed censors, still not dealing with too much after problem. fifty your average on the schuylkill, a five traveling on the blue route, then also 55 traveling on 95, even through the construction zones, at bows coat man and girard. still lots of good news this morning, move now to the pennsylvania turnpike, in both directions, around bensalem, watch out for guys and gals in the hard hats there, also, construction in new jersey on 295 southbound, between the black horse pike and 42. this would be ongoing until 6:00 a.m. mass transit looking just fine. erika? >> torrey, thank you. new this morning, fire damages a home in philadelphia's olney
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neighborhood. it happened just before 1:00 a.m. on the unit block of east spencer street. crews were able to get a handle on the fire in about 20 minutes. no one was hurt. the cause is now under investigation. also, new morning, a man is in crit l condition after he shot three times in west oaklane. it happened just before midnight on the 7700 block of than avenue. responding officers found shell casings from an ak47, as well as spent rounds from a 40 caliber handgun. the shooter, or shooters, were gone, but police tell "eyewitness news", this does not appear to be a random shooting. >> angry parents at school in hamilton township, new jersey say they are keeping their children home until they know what killed one preschooler and sickened another. the fear it was enterovirus d68. tensions hyatt last night's meeting at yards ville elementary school. four year old boy was out wednesday and died at home the following day. preschooler symptoms were
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reportedly consistent with d68. his sample was sent to the cdc for testing yesterday, but results could take days. officials say, the school is safe but questions remain. >> why did a four year old toddler passes? four year old toddlers just do not pass. so the concern is to find out what this poor child passed from. >> we brought in a whole cleaning crew and we completely sanitizing that room all day friday. >> now, one week ago, another child in the same class was hospitalized, with a respiratory illness, to health department wait to go see if the cdc will accept his sample for testing. happening today, an auction scheduled to resume for the now closed revel casino hotel. florida developer, again straub, is offering $90 million, but he's not the only bidder. revel closed september 2nd after failing to turn a profit in two years of business. it cost $2.4 billion to build. mayor don guardian says
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atlantic city can't offer tax breaks at the trump taj mahal to keep the casino hotel open. billionaire carl icon is considering a $100 million investment to save the taj from closing. but, the plans call for a big union give-backs, steep tax breaks, from atlantic city, and $25 million in funds from a state redevelopment agency. the summerset county prosecutor's offers may release new information today on the fire that killed the president and ceo of cooper health systems and his wife. john sheridan, jr., and his wife, joyce, found dead after a fire at their home in montgomery township sunday. the couple was found in their bedroom. >> right now 4:38. much more to cover here on "eyewitness news", the head of the secret service is in the hot seat. we learn new information on how far an intruder got into the white house. and in sports, help is on the way for the eagles offensive line. back in a couple of minutes. good morning.
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security breach focus of congressional hearing today. this follows word inch truth here ran through the front doors made it farther into the building than previously reported. on september 19th, 42 year old omar gonzalez enter erred the white house. he then made it all the way through the entrance, and across hallways, past the staircase, leading to the first family's residence, and then into the east room. the breach happened after the president and his daughters left for camp david. last week's fire at chicago area air traffic facility prompted federal aviation administration to review its security practices. the fire allegedly set by a contract employee, forced cancellation of all flights at chicago's two airports, it also caused service disruptions across the country. service, at o'hare airport, back to 60%, mid-way airport operating at 75%. a live look right now, at unprecedented show of civil
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disobedience in hong kong. pro-democracy protest remembers blocking streets. they've set a deadline for today, for response from the government to meet their demands for reforms. the protesters want beijing to give up its veto power when choosing hong kong's next leader. all right, coming up on 4:43, when what do youy? >> i would say get away without the jacket, ed abrams outrage philadelphia rained on his golf game. >> oh, i can understand. >> come on, but just keep the umbrella ready in case you want to go out to the golf covers, just depends how long you'll be out there. a nice long strep of 18 holes, you may want to think about umbrella otherwise just running from your car to the office, you don't need it. we're good. let's show you why. we start things off just by getting you outside to storm scan three. we did ends up seeing some moisture that we did not
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predict. you we're predicting the future here, doing our best, here you g we ended up with some rain through the overnight, bulk is now pulling away, thankfully, that does mean we end up with more sunshine than what yesterday offered up. we are also tracking this next weakening area of low pressure, you can still see it, slowly but surely, brinking in little bit of wet weather here through the great lakes. that's going to be the next sort of impetus for us to ends up with couple of showers. so that said, here's what happens. calling it a mixed mid week. i love that headline. you get whole mixed bag of different things, some sun, some clouds, couple of showers, pop of thunderstorm along the way, all from this guy. this very slowly rolls on through today and tomorrow, bring a shower, you know, perhaps even a quick rumble every thunder but generally i think talking showers here. but not enough that i would call it a wash out. one of those, you know, just enough to make it interesting kind of forecast. by thursday we catch break between systems, we get you to the 70s here, eventually tracking much more potent frontal boundery later in the week. so call it stray shower here
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today. high still flirting with 80 degrees, still nice, warm, few showers will be dotting the landscape here later on tonight, we drop down to mild 61, under plenty of cloudsment and tomorrow that sun is a bit more limited. still with a shower in the forecast, thursday, totally dry, no worries, by friday, we start off innocent enough, but eventually, that potent front comes along, looking at some heavier rain and some gusty wind, as well. ukee, back to you. >> katie, thank you n sports the eagles holes the st. louis ram sunday at into and lincoln financial field, looking to shake off the loss in san francisco, nick foles completed just 21 of 43 passes, in the 49ers game. they often struggled in the game. the eagles could have won, but coach kelly says it is not all foles. >> the position of quarterback obviously is that one that gets all of the focal point when things are struggling on one side of the ball, easy to say well let's take him out. but i've never been that way. i don't think you can't pin all of this on nick. >> we just have to execute. they ought to execute us, they
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beat us on offense, as simple as that. we just have to early i got to hit some passes to really get the chains moving for us. >> some of the troubles come from depleted offensive line. there is help on the way. eagles expect suspended offensive tackle lane johnson back at practice today. he missed the first four games after testing positive for performance enhancing drugs. training camp starts today for what appears to be another rebuilding season for you are 76ers. yesterday media day for the team, won just 19 games last season. turned out to be the third worse record in franchise history. and expectations are low for this time around, as well, but last season's rookie of the year, michael carter williams hopes to prove the critics wrong. >> i think we'll -- i'm not saying we're going to go out there and win every game. but i think we'll win more games than people expect us to win. >> get them, fellows, go get them. speaking of free season, flyers are barak some practice hockey. last night the rangers went right after the fly guys, built up a lead and won six to
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three. could see captain claude giroux when the rangers play at the well. jerro been out all of the pre-season so far with the lower body injury. but the winter sports in full effect. here we go. >> still ahead on "eyewitness news" this morning, how can you lose wheat white -- loose wheat while eating at a restaurant? >> first, here's what's coming up tonight on cbs-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.
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>> acme as parent company says there has been data breach at some stores in pennsylvania, new jersey, and delaware. the company also has cents had a data breach over the summer, so if you shop there, check your credit cards statements. >> the centers for disease control is expected to start testing whether a four year old who died over the weekends in mercer county had the enterovirus. preschooler attended yardville
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end miri school. >> auction for today's revel casino. it closed earlier this month after filing for bankruptcy twice. an investors has already offered $90 million for the place, which cost more than $2 billion to build. our time now 4:49. let's get a check on business. >> money watch's jill wagner joins us from the stock exchange. sharp sell off on wall street yesterday. what happened? what are investors watching? >> good morning, ukee, erika. there are really many factors, for one, the tension in hong kong helped drag down the markets. hong kong is considered a stable financial hub in asia. so the fear is that these pro-democracy protests might damage and cause instability, investors, do not like that. the other thing to remember, september is traditionally the worse month for the markets. investors come back from summer break, and they decide to sell, luckily, we're almost in october. ukee, erika? >> that's right. hey, jill, it can be tough to stick to a diet while eating
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at a restaurant. i understand where you sit could help? >> yes, there is as new book called slim by design. it says that people who sit in well-literaries, like by a window, or near the door, make healthier choices, and people who sat furthest from the front door were actually 73% more likely to order dessert. researchers think it is because the darker it is, the hardest it is to see how much you're eating, so you feel less guilty. they say choose a high table, instead of a boot. interesting, ukee, erika. >> how about that? >> it really does, think about it. >> i think about it, yes, true. >> all right, thank up, jill. >> fun fact. >> indeed. coming up after a short b
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4:53, let's get traffic and weather together. >> good morning, everyone, i would say really your commute
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is very calm, serene, if you are traveling on any of the majors, 95, the schuylkill, the vine, so on, so for the. all basically look like this. the one thing to watch out for, 59 southbound around the area of 320. we do have construction out and b i know little difficult to see in the shot here, do have few cones moving through this area. you will find the same thing around the commodore barry bridge, also as we take you now, this is 202 right around 29. if you are traveling in the southbound direction, that would be right here, few flares up, again, another construction zone, as you maneuver through the malvern area. so again, place toss give yourself more time, not causing too much of a setback because really volume wise, it is just non-existent. speed censors high into the 50's, blue route, everywhere else, traveling the turnpike, northeast extension, all moving well, but have construction zone to watch out for on the pa turnpike in either direction around bensalem. watch out for guys in the hard hats there, and gals, 295, traveling in new jersey, southbound between the black horse pike and the 42, also some overnight construction
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ongoing until about 6:00 a.m. how much, for the most part, even at the philadelphia international airport, and also for mass transit, everything running on time. septa, new jersey, dart, again in the green. so overall, lots of good news, that we have traffic wise, and i think for the most part weather wise, still have some pretty good news out there today. >> overall, torrey, definately the case. just enough of instability, with this next system, to keep it a little interesting for us, as forecasters, but tacking g green on the traffic map it means good. talking green on storm scan map, doesn't always mean so good. yes, frankly, we could use little wet weather. but a lot of times that's not necessarily the best news for us here. now, we start things off with a quick check on "skycam 3", atlantic city all is beautiful right now. going over to storm scan, looking at three hour loop here, there has been wet weather. so if you are one of the folks that wakes up super early, like to take a nice walk on the board walk, ends up seeing damp roads and damp roads.
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how much, that circumstances all should start to pull away, and basically just taper offer as the morning progresses, you can see, little bit of break between systems here. the problem is, what you see back over toronto, the great lakes region, the combination every weakening thankfully area of low pressure will start to move in and likely deliver a couple of additional showers. so, here's how future weather sees t starting start at just 6. this morning, rainy showed awe second ago will pull away. get more sun than what we actually end ended up with yesterday. still shower here and there. that's the thing, you probably can get away without umbrella today. even tonight there will be shower around, we will say, into tomorrow, as well, with the area of low pressure starting to pull away. as it does so, does look as though wednesday night, leading into thursday, things start to clear out nicely. currently temperatures because of the cloud cover, nice and mild, low 60s, generally, around the board, across some of the outlying serbs might have bit of fog, cooler, still shooting for temperatures to flirt with 80 degrees today under generally some sun. but there will be a shower here and, there for some of
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you, as well. ukee, back to you. >> katie, thank you. a look at stories our sister station "kyw news radio" 1060 will be following for you today. philadelphia school district hopes so-called amnesty boxes also keep students from bringing weapons or drugs into school. a philadelphia charter school strapped for carbon the verge of closing. the company that wants to buy pgw from the city defends itself from accusations cents it is using scare tactics in an ad campaign. check in two, three, four times a day, "kyw news radio" 1006 on your a.m. dial. >> coming up in the next hour of "eyewitness news" g following latest news in the data breach h that could affect acme customers. >> dangerous drive. see what happens when this stunt goes horribly wrong. >> and don't get dinged by sky high atm fees. three is on your side to help you avoid paying more money when you take cash out of the bank. top at
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this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news". hack attack on local supermarket. a lot of acme customers are on edge this morning, after thieves steel information from debit and credit cards. we have what you need to know if you shop there lately. >> also, this morning, the head of the secret service will get grilled today after the latest security breach at the white house. and, we're learning surprising new details about this scare, that makes it even worse than first thought. it is tuesday, september 30th, good morning, i'm ukee washington. >> i'm erika von tiehl. also there is morning, community is on edge. parents demands answers, after a preschooler dice suddenly from a suspected respiratory virus. katie? >> erika, today's going to be one of those days where it is just active enough to keep the forecast interesting. the potential for little bit
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of wet weather, but generally, we've got an okay day coming up. i'll have all of the details you need to know coming up. >> moving fairly well on all of the majors, few construction zones to talk about, like the westbound construction zone that usually sets you back on the ben every morning, so all of the details coming up. we head back toutiesting. >> torrey, thank you. parent company of acme markets announces new data breach. >> hackers may have gained access to shoppers credit and debit card information in 21 states, that includes pennsylvania, new jersey, and delaware. "eyewitness news" reporter syma chowdhry joins us now, at an acme market in south fill which more on this. syma? >> good morning, erika, ukee, if you shopped attack me, do you have listen up. that's because of possible data breach, customers may now have to monitor their credit, and debit cardiac tiff at this. -- activities. >> con same trying to, you know, thinking you're s

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