>> from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> now at 11:00, transported for treatment. the latest american with ebola arrives in atlanta, and we found out why health officials let her on a commercial flight even after she had a fever. >> but first tonight, our eyes are on a big rainstorm.

we're getting ready for more heavy rain and wind there will move through the area very soon. meteorologist kathy orr is tracking the storm. >> kathy, what can we expect tonight? >> more rain and more wind. you'll be hearing that rain going pitter patter on your windows during the early morning hours. it continues to train from the south to the north and i want draw your attention to this rain right here. looks like it's offshore. off of cape hatteras but this is actually going to rotate back in toward philadelphia and its suburb. we have broad air area of low pressure and that counterclockwise flow will guide that heavy rain right into the region. right now we're seeing spotty showers an few areas of heavy rain mainly going up through the lehigh valley and lancaster county where they've had two to 3-inches of rain. additional rain is expected. take look at some of these amounts. reading 2.5-inches. kutztown looking at 1.74-inches. had didn't field .6. philadelphia .56. and newark delaware, .31. the heaviest rain through

reading, berks county, down through lancaster, chester county hahn know brook and points to the north. we have a flood advisory in effect for additional rain expected overnight that could total an inch and add that on top of what they've got close four to 4-inches in some areas. poor drainage flooding is expected during the early morning hours. for the rest of us we're expecting another round of heavy rain during the overnight and for the rest of the region up to 2-inches total for the rain amounts including everything we got today. ponding on roads, poor drainage flooding especially to the north and west. gusty winds and those wet leaves will leave slick spots come tomorrow morning coming up we'll talk about what to expect for the morning commute want comes after the storm. in the meantime, get your updated forecast any time with the new cbs philly weather app. it's available on i tunes and now on google play. check live radar, get severe weather alerts and share your pictures with us. >> tonight officials vac weighed the second health care worker to contract ebola in dallas out of that city for treatment.

amber vincent wore a yellow hazmat suit as she arrived at emory hospital's infectious disease unit in atlanta just a short time ago. we also learned today, she flew on a commercial airplane from cleveland to dallas even with a fever of 99.5. the cdc tells cbs news the agency allowed vincent to fly because she did not meet the criteria for somebody at high risk. the cdc says it's now closed that gap. meanwhile president obama has canceled his campaign trip to monitor the ebola outbreak. >> what i've directed the cdc to do is that as soon as somebody is diagnosed with ebola we want a rapid response team, a swat team, essentially from the cdc to be on the ground as quickly as possible. >> 132 passengers on vincent's flight are being asked to call the cdc to be monitored for ebola symptoms. and tonight the hospital in texas that employs the two sick

nurses commented on its happened link of ebola. this comes as nurses in our area and across the nation are calling for more training and better protection. diana rocco is live in the sat center with these late developments. diana? >> reporter: today before a congressional sub committee officials from dallas presbyterian hospital apologized for the mistakes made in treating ebola. but tonight, some local nurses aren't so sure things would have happened much differently here. >> the infection of a second nurse with the ebola virus has left many on the front lines of the fight feeling vulnerable. >> in liberia, ebola is now called the nurse killer disease. so that gives me great cause for concern. >> reporter: on couldn't friend call with more than 11 thus san health care workers, the largest union of registered nurses is demanding higher standards from hospitals. crozer-chester nurse kathy toomey was on that call. protocol at host hospitals is sub par or non existent.

>> we're the front line. we're the people that are going to be going in and if you don't have the proper protocols in place, one mistake is all it takes. what i am afraid of is being try trying to short cut your protection and ending up like dallas. >> reporter: in dallas nurses alleged the allegations include no specific protocol in place. thomas duncan was left in a public area with other patients for several hours. nurses didn't have proper protective gear and duncan lass lab samples were unsealed and trance poured through the general distribution center. also, the nurses who treated duncan were allowed to interact with other patients. toomey is calling for standards followed by the university of nebraska and emory who successfully treated patients without further if he can. she train with anti contamination gear regularly and wear hazmat suits. >> these patients get very sick. they vomit. they have probably 10 quarts of bloody diarrhea a day. if they're not the highest standard like emory or university of nebraska then i would not feel comfortable taking care of a patient.

>> reporter: and tonight the nurses union sent a letter to president obama asking foreman dates for better safety measures. they want to see hazmat suits, respirators and continuous training for nurses treating ebola patients. we're live in the sat center tonight, diane in rocco, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> all right. diana, thank you. stay with "eyewitness news" for the latest on the ebola outbre outbreak. we assembled a resource guide to help keep you inform. look for it on cbsphilly.com. >> business analysts believe that ebola may be partial toll blame for a pretty wild ride on wall street today. (bell tolls). >> concerns about the virus along with concerns about the economy both here and in europe drove stocks sharply lower for a fifth consecutive day. at one point the dow was down 458 points. but by the close, it had recovered some of those losses. here are the final numbers. blue chip stocks down 173 poin

points. tech stocks lost nearly 12 and s&p was down 15. new at 11:00 o'clock tonight, some parents are shocked and angry after a philadelphia charter school says it has to cut its number of ki kids. now 250 students will have to find new schools. todd quinones is in northern liberties tonight with the story that you will see only on cbs-3. >> reporter: a lottery will be held here on thursday to determine when students can stay and which students have to go. a total of 250 kids will be told they can no longer go to school here. >> i feel very blind sided because like i said we've been supportive, supportive, supportive the whole time and then all of a sudden we have an emergency meeting and you tell us it's a lottery pick and it's objection. like that's so unfair. >> reporter: there will be lot of empty chairs at this charter school come monday. 250 in all. and who gets to stay will be left to chance a lottery on thursday means everything to parents the results will be announced at 5:00.

>> i just don't know what to do. all i can do is just pray. >> reporter: walter d. palmer is the president and founder of the charter school that bears his name. his schools in northern liberties and frankford out 300,000 dollars a month he claims after recently losing a long court battle with the philadelphia school district. the two sides have been arguing for years ovary em burst many money. >> we have exhausted almost all of our legal options to try tore vile lies this. >> the student has 1200 students in grades k through 12. the greed cap for city charter schools is 675 kids. the district successfully argued in court it does not have to reimburse palmer charter school for the 525 students over the cap. parents, though, are caught in the middle. >> so now she can't go to school i have to miss days of work. and this is truly -- this is not fair at all. roar report on top of all of that, if the school here does not get some additional funding in a hurry, they will likely have to tell an additional 300

more students that they, too, can no longer go to school here. in the meantime, the philadelphia school district has been in contact with parents to help them enroll their kids in the public school system if necessary. reporting in northern liberties, todd quinones cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> the camden charter school network held its first digital school lottery tonight. software projected the names of students drawn at random on the big screens at the promise charter school. that lottery was for several grades at that particular school and three other camden charter schools. >> claims of excessive force inside philadelphia's curran-fromhold prison needs to a federal lawsuit. the altercation was caught on tape september 20th. surveillance video shows inmate james akuba handcuffed and being he is cored for medical attention after a pepper spray minute in his cell. seconds later you see a correct officer james wise beck start to punch him. he puts a cuba in what appears

to be a choke hold before other officers break it up. the corrections department disciplined weiss beck for the incident he's now back on the job. >> this brazen violent behavior took place in front of 10 other co's in a common area of prison where there's five other video cameras. the concern is what does this officer do in a dark corner of the prison when no one is looking. >> weiss beck claimed the inmate threatened him, taunted him verbally and spatting at him in statement "once i felt spit land on my facial area i reactioned with hard empty handed use of force". >> we have exclusive new information tonight about a woman found dead in a car near 30th street station. following an autopsy, eight months of at the timing officials say they cannot determine the cause of death for 22 year old nadia monthly leck. she disappeared february 9th from upper darby and was found dead in a car february 20th.

her boyfriend who police say was with her around the time she disappeared was arrested in february for violating probati probation. he's not been charged in connection with her death. well playground specifically for special needs children is vandalized covered with canola oil. this is the field of dreams playground in absecon, atlantic county. professional cleaning company had to be called in to clean the oil off the metal and plastic. in an act of vandal limb that just happened sometime in the past 48 hours. police say that they recovered an empty canola oil bottle nearby. they are now reviewing surveillance video. well, a shootout in the state capitol will tell you why one pennsylvania lawmaker says he was forced to pull his gun. kathy? >> coming up, more rain tonight. but even more significant weather after the storm coming this weekend we'll talk more about that as welcoming up with the seven did you. >> we could be on the edge of a brig break through. what's being done here in philadelphia that could save the life of a young father and so

many others battling an aggressive form of cancer. >> then forget the food. we'll take you to the bucks county drive through that is serving up

♪ >> a couple of pennsylvania lawmakers involved in shootout with robbery suspects in harrisburg. representatives marty flynn of scranton and of erie were held at gun point by a man who demanded their wallets last night. flynn is a former prison guard. he had a handgun and drew that gun and he can changed gunfire with the suspects. >> i can tell you i'm completely blessed to be here now. the individual did shoot at me. the bullet went right past my head. i thank goods i'm here right now. i thank god that representative flynn was carrying a firearm with him. i think if he did not have that firearm on him i think that we would be seeing something probably a little bit different. >> representative flynn is licensed to carry a gun in pennsylvania. by the way total of four

teenagers have been arrested in connection with that attempted robbery. >> vice-president joe biden will be in our area tomorrow in the morning he'll be in philadelphia touring a dredging barge with senator bob casey. he'll also be speaking briefly at penn's landing about the nation's infrastructure. in the afternoon the vice-president will head to maple shade, new jersey, for private event with democratic congressional candidate amy bell guard. >> earlier today, first lady michelle obama made a campaign stop in philadelphia in support of democratic gubernatorial candidate tom wolf. hundreds passe passed the rec cr in mt. airy to hears obama caulk about her husband' as accompli accomplish. and the importance of turning out at the polls november 4th. meanwhile in harrisburg, governor court signed hannah's law into effect. this expands the list of disorders in newborns for which hospitals in pennsylvania must screen. the bill is named for hannah from buck county. she's fighting caabbe disease affecting about one in 100 thus

sand newborns. this new law takes effect in 60 days. >> there's important research being conducted right here in philadelphia that's helping doctors get closer to curing a difficult form of leukemia. three on your side health reporter stephanie stahl tonight with look at that promising new research and at the father whose life it just might save. >> reporter: the time marshall jenn zone spends with his three year old is precious. >> i'll did a little face on him. >> reporter: because marshall doesn't know how much time he has left g my doctor told me that -- words you never want to hear your dr. say. he said, there's nothing more we can do for you. >> the 30 year old is now in a philadelphia hospital bed far from his home in utah. he has leukemia that's spread to his spine and brain. experimental genetic therapy is now his only hope. emily whitehead was the first to get the therapy two years ago when she was just seven. the treatment uses the patient's immune cells engineering them to tack the cancer.

emily remains cans sr. free. >> one of the most exciting things about this therapy we have people who are in remission two to three years out from getting the therapy. >> reporter: dr. know yell fry hematology oncologist at hup which has just published new results on the therapy. it shows a 90% remission rate for patients getting the t cell treatment. >> honestly when i heard the results that they are getting on the study i kind of did a double take. report roar patients like marshall are only eligible when they've relapsed several times and nothing else works. he's hoping this last try will be the one that does. >> now it's like, hey, i might actually get, you know, continue with my family life and go forward and it's just really a great feeling. >> marshall just finish up his treatment. he should know whether it works in were you month. meantime if this phase of the research continues to be positive, doctors hope to make it a standard therapy for some kinds of leukemia and maybe even other cancers. i'm stephanie stahl cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> our very good friends at ronald mcdonald house charities

are celebrating a very special day. >> the first ever ronald mcdonald house opened in philadelphia on this date 40 years ago. famous socks to celebrate the anniversary you'll see them in a minute. more than 350 houses in 52 countries serving the families of children receiving medical care. it will be a gala to celebrate the milestone on saturday note. he had socks on earlier. >> yeah. >> bucks county church providing a quick dose of faith for people too busy for weekly worship. >> saint john's methodist church in ivyland is now offering drive through prayer every wednesday afternoon. "eyewitness news" was there today as people drove through to use the service on almshouse road. the church says that drive through prayer is open for everyone. >> they come over to the car. they say hello. they ask you, you know, what's going on? and i stopped a few weeks ago when i was having some troubles, and prayer really works. >> saint john' methodist is among several churches in the

region offering drive through prayer. we made it through so many rounds of rain now. are we getting to the end? >> we are. >> yea! >> round one this afternoon. boy was that something. >> oh, yeah. >> round two this evening. and round three would be the biggest of all. especially during the overnight. the good news, most of us will be off the roads but if you're traveling overnight we do expect heavy rain ponding on area roads and poor visible at times. take a look outside. we have some fog as well not a huge issue but it is oscuring our beautiful center city skyline. on storm scan3 we're looking at pocks of heavy rain. most of it to the north and west of the region. you can see it coming up through cecil county, maryland, through new castle county, delaware and this is going to move right through delaware county, chester county and continue to lift northward in those trouble spots through berks county also lancaster where we have seen at least and two and 3-inches of rain.

for the rest of us we'll see additional rain overnight tonight with one more heavy band moving through. our live neighbor network takes a look at some of those high amounts. lee height ton nearly 3-inches of rain. more on the way. wyomissing hills at the elementary school in reading 2.5-inches. oxford over an inch and philadelphia eagles novacare complex nearly an inch of rain. now as we look ahead, it is mild for now, but not for long. so cooler air moving in with our cold front. state college 57. pittsburgh vick. cleveland 58. a sign of what's to come. now here's a look at future weather. it's really capturing what's going on through maryland and also new castle county and this lifting toward the north overnight. that's not the last of it. early in the morning between 3:00 and 4am we'll get all that rain that's down off the mid atlantic pushing back in and threw philadelphia and its suburbs some heavy rain at 4:00 a.m., maybe a break at 5am, more lifting through through 7:00 a.m. could slow you down in some of our area roads particularly

northeast extension and then it continues to lift on through especially through about 8am. but then by 9am it is moving o out. so the surprise of this forecast is how quickly the rain moves out and the fact that the winds are light after the storm is gone. usually the wind remains. not going to be the case tomorrow. so early rain, and then by the end of the commute, light winds and even some sunny breaks by the 9:00 o'clock hour. temperatures will be mild in the 60s. after the storm, temperatures pretty decent for thursday in the 70's. the same for friday. the same for saturday. so the weather pretty benign. late saturday night this front moves through and just like that we cool down to serious fall weather by sunday. huge dip in the jet stream work its way east. another cool pool of air moves into sup saturday knight into sunday morning and it will be the wow factor as far as the chill come sunday morning. overnight showers, a few imbedded thunderstorms. the low 62. thursday lingering rain early then partly sunny the high 72.

and on the exclusive "eyewitness weather" seven day for check it out we are looking for. cooler air by sunday morning. 40s in the city. theirs in the suburb. after that, highs in the 50s. >> owe! >> yes. ouch! that is chilly. we are going to pack the sweaters. >> um-hmm. for if the ball, soccer whatever you have going on the second half the weekend. >> got the sweaters out today. all right. kathy thanks. >> hopefully as the temperatures fall the flyers will heat up. >> let's hope. we're still waiting. the flyers hitting the road and still looking for that first win of the season. help is on the way in the form of defense. plus a royal number in can can't city. one half of the world series locked down. sports is next.

>> still looking for the first win. the flyers will hit the road this weekend against dallas. good news there's a chance the defenseman brayden colburn could be on the with the teal. did he return to practice in voorhees after recovering from

lower body injury. last week he was walking around with crutches. feels good and hopes to be ready to go on saturday. sixers future prospect could come to philadelphia sooner than expected. he did sign on to play in turkey for two more years. reports now say he's not happy with the amount of playing time that he's getting. his dad spoke to reporters about the possibility of trying to terminate that contract. >> to the major league the giants and cardinals playing right now in game four of nlcs. the giants leading the series two games to one and right now they're up six-four in the seventh inning. also today the kansas city royals clinching the american league championship series with sweep over the orioles. the royals opened up with two run in the first. baltimore answering back with a homerun in the third. that's as far as they would get. kansas city the pitcher able to hold on for the win. the final score two-one and royals will advance to the world series for the first time in 29

years. >> the eagles getting some much needed rest during bye week. the injuries continuing to be i was major issue. darrin sproles has been mvp for the team this and. he is expected to be out for a couple of weeks and at this upon he's not sure if he'll be ready for the next game against arizona. the rest of the league will pick back up tomorrow night. prime time football right here on cbs-3 much the new york jets traveling north to take on the new england patriots. a huge division rivalry here in the afc east. pre-game show coverage begin at 7:30-ton night we want to hear from you. who do you think will win tomorrow's gape. share your predictions with us on twitter use the hash tag cbs-3 nft and check out cw pillly.com. we have great matchups coming this weekend for friday football frenzy we need your help to pick the game of the week fan out where beasley goes. here's your choices... >> log on to the audio road show app right now.

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♪ >> franklin institute in center city philadelphia is in the pink night. cbs-3 and the cw philly teaming up with susan g. komen philadelphia for the lights for the cure campaign once again. it is of course during october which is breast cancer awareness month. landmarks around the area did he say play their pink lights as a reminder for women to schedule a mammogram. lights for the cure now in its 13th year. well tonight the philadelphia theater company kicked off its 40th season. >> "eyewitness news" at the susan roberts theater where i was honored to celebrate that milestone with many of the people who made it possible including former governor ed rendell and developer carl dan off. the 40th season premieres with detroit which runs through notify ninth. congratulations. we'll be right back.

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