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building. they have been searching the building to see if there is anymore graffiti but they tell thus one slurries all they have found. investigators have been looking on the ground here for any evidence left behind and possible most importantly they are looking for surveillance video, you can see a camera right in the front of the high school there. unfortunately i'm told that the video isn't very good especially since the entrance seemed to be obscured by the scaffolding. there is another camera right across the street but investigators say it doesn't point in the direction of this school. in the meantime, detectives are going to be continuing with this investigation, they will be following up on interviews later this morning and we are still waiting for word from this school. we will bring you latest as soon as we have them but for now we are live, jan carabao for cbs-3 eyewitness muse. a montgomery county mother is arrested for injecting her teenage daughter and her teenage daughter's boyfriend with her win. patricia a daf than port, seen here, and megan rodolph, they
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are both charged with drug possession and child endangerment. lower southford police say the pair traveled to philadelphia 30 purchase drugs with davenport's children age eight and 15, both in the car. davenport then inject her 15 year-old boyfriend and her daughter's 16 year-old boyfriend with her win on the ride home. >> it is incomprehensible to me that any parent would ever introduce their children, their child to drugs like this. >> davenport is held on $50,000 bail. police in camden county need help finding a a man robbing banks in dress up. police say a man, robbed a, bank in audubon yesterday. they think that same guy may have robbed two other banks in camden and audubon last month. all right. lets get traffic and weather together, time right now 5:31, good morning, katie. >> it will be one of those days to take advantage of, get
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out and enjoy this because we will see plenty of sunshine. we will see light wind. we are also going to feel nice and comfortable. the just warm enough to be nice and confidentable. would i suggest you walk out the door with the extra layer. it is still on the chillier side but seasonable so. storm scan three quiet, empty at this hour. keep it that way. you can see the entire delaware valley here nice and clear with high pressure in place. problem is it doesn't last very long. look at the temperatures though on to that clear skies. we have had cloud around and they were starting to clear so we can see lunar eclipse take effect as you can recall but that clear sky listed all night so temperatures are to ten to 15, almost 20 degrees different and cooler i might add, 56 at the airport. fifty-two in atlantic city. we have been moving back and forth here and there, we were in the 40's at last check but as we go through the day here
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you can expect that sun to be running theme. keep unglasses ready to go if you are going to be on the roadway when that sun comes up. maybe you have a long trip here this morning. 70 degrees by 3:00 p.m. when we do expect to hit our daytime high, it will be a nice day and a great excuse to be outside as we said, enjoy it, here we go, next frontal boundary brings in cool air and that will be what brings us our next round of rain by tomorrow. so with that said we will track that system and give you better sense of time, as it pertains to the weekend, vittoria. it is so funny how things can change like that in the instant because just as i was doing a little bit of the tease in the opening here on i-95 southbound that police activity is going off on girard avenue has been completely cleared. we are not dealing with that any longer. just crazy how things can change. that is why it is good idea you tune into us because things will definitely change for your rush her commute. ninety-five southbound we are in the clear at off ramp and
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i-95 anywhere traveling from northeast philadelphia, you look great. same thing with the schuylkill expressway, it is we had opened westbound out towards 202 or eastbound down towards center city. as we look at our wide more speed sensors are reflecting great news, 55 on your schuylkill, 422 and 202, no major delays. we have construction on both sides between fort washington and bensalem that is blocking two lanes. be mindful of. that traveling in new jersey 295 northbound between route 47 and the 42, we have ongoing construction until 6:00 a.m. but don't forget when you are on the road you can always get updated traffic information about backups in your area with the new your drive app, down load that app for apple and android devices by going to cbs philly.com/your drive. thanks very much, vittoria. two dozen people face charges in atlantic city after protesters block missouri and arctic avenues, last night members of the local 54
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rallied against proposed health benefit cuts for union workers at taj mahal. trump entertainment resorts owner of the taj mahal is threatening to close the taj unless the the union gives up pension and health insurance. in business news this morning more about the hack their hit one of wall street's biggest firms. >> and why some people could be getting a refund from at&t, money watch's jill wagner joins us live from the insuring stock exchange, that sound good, good morning, jill. >> reporter: that is right, good morning, erika and in a cash a at&t customers could be getting money back. at&t wireless agreed to pay 105 million-dollar fine for billing customers for services they never asked for, things like ring tones and hard scopes. it is a practice that is called cramming, 80 million-dollar of that money goes to consumers. here on wall street we are coming off the best day for the market. so far this year. the dow jones soared 275 points, nasdaq jumped 83. the hackers who stole customer
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information from jp minister again reportedly tried to hit at least 12 other financial giants like citigroup, e trade and adp payroll processors. in most cases the security of those firms was too strong to breach, according to the wall street journal, investigators do believe they took data from at least one other organization, other than jp morgan. and fresh off release of apple's new iphone the tech giant sent out invitations to yet another big event this one is on october 16th. apple isn't saying what is in store but there is speculation that apple could unveil new ipad a models, they think they might be thinner and bigger screen, possibly with new color options like gold. so here we go again, erika and natasha. >> everything needs a replacement. >> apparently so. it is a bitter sweet morning for new parents in philadelphia, dan and jena
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haley posted these pictures of their son, shane, was born early this morning. while jena was pregnant shane was diagnosed with a rare birth defect where part of his brain and skull are missing. most babies born with this condition don't live very long, because of that, they have made a bucket list for shane and become sensations on facebook posting pictures from their travels. for now haley's say both mom and shane are doing well. >> so great to hear. well, celebrity couples calling it quits, we have word on who is splitting up now. also ahead a lot of people have questioned after the first person to be diagnosed with ebola in the u.s. dies. doctor rob is here and in studio to answer your questions about the ebola out break. and all this new jersey boy want to do is run but his school won't let him why they are keeping him off the the cross country team. don't forget to help us pick game of the week where should beasley go for friday football frenzy. cast your vote right now on the audio road show app, your
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front doors. authorities removed that graffiti earlier this morning. within person was killed in the fire at a delaware count fey silt for people with disabilities as fire broke out around 9:30 last night on the 100 block of elwyn red in elwyn. also republican governor of pennsylvania, tom corbett, and democratic challenger tom wolf, they met in their final debate last night in pittsburgh. new jersey governor chris christie campaigns for corbett this afternoon in wayne, and hillary clinton campaigns for wolf at the constitution center later on tonight. well now to an "eyewitness news" exclusive, out of tabernacle, new jersey the story of a young boy who desperately wants to run on his school's cross country team but his school just won't let him his father says. "eyewitness news" reporter matt rivers tells us why the young boy is side lined. >> reporter: here are two brothers, one of them is essentially blind in one eye. can you tell which one? we could not. >> i think it is an under
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developed optic nerve. >> reporter: that is dad donald talking about his son, 11 year-old jacob who has had the condition since he was born. it has never sled him down, that is until now. >> i felt sad. >> you felt really sad, how come. >> because everybody else runs but me. >> reporter: jacob wanted to run for cross country school at olson middle school in tab nick california township. his physicians signed off noting his eye issue but affirming he could play all sports without restriction but that was in the good enough for school. >> school doctor will in the allow him to run because they want a. >> reporter: report district officials wanted jake on to see a eye doctor and gave his parents two weeks to do so. in the meantime he was allowed to compete but no matter what the eye doctor says officials would not guarantee he could continue to play so his parents refused to make the appointment. then their son had already received medical clearance. by not letting him compete that amounts to discrimination. >> why it any different for
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him to run in those two weeks then it is in the fifth and sixth week. >> reporter: we called school district for comment and received a call back from the superintendent george rafferty he left a message saying school district does not comment with issues with individual student but if we had anymore questions he is a i had to give him a call. we did, four more times, since then, in response. jacob says he runs in gym class every day. he has even done the mile run. district says that is okay but running cross country apparently that is at different story. matt rivers, cbs-3 eyewitness naus. all set for traffic and weather together. good morning, katie. >> we wanted to she you what is going on with our pattern here and the reason why we will see nice wet ter day but a very significant, significantly different day from one day to the next tomorrow and leading in the weekend. so right the now we've got a nice large dome of high pressure that will only sit here for one more day here before it moves out to sea iron we will see our next stalled frontal bound dry
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start to lift in. with that said you can see precipitation blossoming over iowa, missouri, and as we were talking about yesterday if you will recall, we had just a little thin sliver of cloud cover through central plains that has been since blossoming into this and we will also draw you upon this moisture which is currently bringing us heavy rain across portions of the four corners. that is tropical moisture no less from what is left of what was tropical storm simon. for all of these factors bring us some wet weather issues then, by tomorrow, and leading in the upcoming weekend. let's walk you through the pattern with prettier graphics in between systems we will set with high pressure. 70 degrees is our high with sunshine, light wind, lovely day. new by tomorrow here's your frontal boundary starting to stall itself out. precipitation start to move north into the afternoon and if you aring to go get some sunshine you will to have go in the poconos i think, where you basically see it, for as long as the longest amount of time because thinks lifting from the south. steady rain then friday night
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into saturday morning and then right new our models are picking up on at least an inch of rain for spots. but today is an a plus. you have to give it an a plus. sunny, light breeze overall, 07 degrees, just beautiful and seasonal. by tomorrow clouds are thickening, rain arrives in the afternoon and then it will start to link inner to sat take morning before tapering off in the second half of the weekend looks so much nicer, vittoria, over to you. good morning, everyone, so, still not seeing too much rush out there but we will start off on 422 traveling in either direction we are in the doing awful this shot around trooper road we will start to see eastbound delay but notice good amount of break in between the vehicles here which means good news for you. hopefully it stays that way for as long as possible. same thing traveling on 476, this shot here not too far away from the area of 95, and it looks great in either direction, in major problems. moving on to our western suburbs 55 is your average on 422, northeast extension moving well, pennsylvania turnpike in either direction
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we have construction between fort washington and bensalem this will be blocking two lanes. it may set you back just a tad. no major delays for mass transit, erika. >> torey, thank you. officials are working to calm ebola fears after first u.s. patient dies in the texas hospital. memorial services were held in dallas last night for 42 year-old liberia national thomas eric duncan. we have learn a sheriff's deputy went inside duncan's apartment is evaluated as a possibly bowl a case. cdc says every precaution is being taken especially with those arriving from liberia, and sierra leon. >> it is going to be a licensing hard fight but we remain convinced that we can contain the out break in west africa. health care workers throughout the the u.s. need to think ebola a in people who have fever and have return from any of these three countries in the past 21 days. obama administration has requested temperature checks for travelers from west africa who land at new york's jfk,
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newark liberty, washington dulles and hartford jackson in atlanta. 94 percent of tonight from that region arrive at those airports. a lot of people have questions this morning about the ebola out break and what happens next. >> family physician doctor rob danoff is here. doctor rob, thanks for being here. what is the cdc doing about ebola right now. >> they are doing a lot right now. they are having screening airports, coordinating the international airport when people leave from western africa or actually at any airport right now. when they come in they are advising people at symptoms. all health care providers are getting a alerts every day, we're going through drills to make sure that we're aware of this so cdc is doing a the lot, we have teams in the field, we have 20 isolation areas in 20 different airports in the country. they are on top of this coordinating on top of the research and develop. so we can be assured they are not ignoring this and height
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even sense of alert, not panic because we don't need to panic but cdc is on top of this. >> a lot of people are scared when they hear about this but we need to keeper speculative, right. >> that is a great point. i'll give i an example, malaria over 1200 children die every day in africa from malaria, 600,000 people die every year from malaria, in this country alone between 3,049,000 people will die from complications related from the flu. so that is why we want to get our flu shots. so is ebola a scary disease? absolutely do we know how to contain it yes by isolation and information. africa does not have the health care facilities. they can't just walk to the emergency department and be isolated. we have facilities here. will there be cases here? probably because of international travel. do we know how to deal witt? yes. earlier it is identified and someone gets medical treatment better chance they have. >> we have heard about these
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experimental vaccines they appeared to work for couple folks brought back here to be treated. tell me where you see this going and what is on the horizon for vaccines. >> well, world health organization is recommending serum, anti bodies in serum from survivors of ebola a be used to try to help people and that has been used in some patients. >> we have vaccines being developed, there are two that they may start trials in human toss make sure they are safe and effective in in, they are start ago this, earliest they can out to try to prevent it is next year. we have several medications that have shown some promise but they are experimental because we have in the used them very much. but the best thing is to identify it early, and get them into the hospital, early. isolate them, early. and provide them the medical support that they need. the biggest thing is that we necessity where this is coming from. get expert to western africa which the world is doing now try to help them f you know
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where source is coming from, identify the source not at end point and if we can help them there we will be helping them in the world. >> doctor rob, thanks very much. >> take care. and of course you can get latest news on the ebola out break on cbs philly.com. before you walk out the door we will check on traffic and weather together onn the three's. >> but first lets check out is what coming up tonight on cbs-3.
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asked for joint custody of their son. they were married for eight years separated earlier this year. the split came in the long after thick's controversial 2013vma performance with miley cyrus and rumors of him cheating after pictures surfaced of him grabbing another woman's back side. and speaking of the vma do you remember homeless man was miley cyrus date at the the awards show this year, he is now behind bars. jessed spoke about being homeless while accepting her award on stage. he was locked up for violating his probation on a criminal trespass charge. he is facing six months in jail now minus time already served. all right. interesting story here french tourist visiting paris, asked jay-z are you? yeah, jay was like who are you? classic response, watch what happened. >> i told you he was like who are you, dude. >> jay-z didn't think it was funny at all that a frenchman
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didn't know hoe was. he was headed to the museum with his daughter and beyonce. man shooting video seemed stunned at all of the attention that the group was getting jay-z's body guard asked tourist to please stop recording when the man asked who is he. jay-z turnaround and said who are you, and he kept walking. >> i guess he will figure it the out. >> yes. >> what being has that man been under. >> oh, boy. lets get traffic and weather together, how are we looking today. >> storm scan three, we have high pressure building back in place here, pretty pleasant day is expected here and no wet weather until tomorrow but by tomorrow clouds are already beginning to build in as morning progresses and eventually showers move in by the afternoon. here's where we stand, under clear skies temperatures have drop. we are down to the 40's, 50's. still at 63. holding tough in wildwood. fifty-one in trenton. as day progresses expect
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sunshine, 70 degrees. very much a seasonal and just nice day, vittoria. >> thanks, katie. >> overall it is a very nice commute. lets look outside. traveling right now on the 42 freeway you will notice a few more headlights out and about in the northbound direction making its way down towards 295 but we do have have breaks in the traffic. we are not seeing a long stream of volume just yet like traveling anywhere else, 4 422, 202, schuylkill expressway all moving well but things will change, stay with us, we will be right back.
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my one word to describe ac would relaxing getaway fun unique beautiful serenity shenanigans refreshing shopping surprising happy place you know what i mean? i want to say friendly. exhilarating adventure the boardwalk #nosleep it's a great weekend. there is so much to do here. it's so great to have it so close. it's just a great location, a great place to be. we love atlantic city.
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well, new this morning a story you won't see any are else, words of hate sprayed on the doors of the center city high school. >> "eyewitness news" reporter jane carabao joins us from hallahan high with the latest on the police investigation, jane, good morning. >> good morning, erika. disturbing case of vandalism here at the this local high school, graffiti spray painted right on the front doors, there, of this girls catholic high school, a disturbing site that has since been cleaned off but still police are investigate to go find out who this was and why this all happened. an early morning clean up job formant naps here at john w hallahan catholic girls high school in center city scrubbing away at a racial slur scrolled in the middle of the front doors. this is what it looked like before maintenance arrived. we have blurred it out this racial slur was spotted just before 1:00 this morning. he tells us he was walking
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