dn't deserve it. she's innocent. she was an necessary event child. >> reporter: for the first time the parents of the eight year-old child is talking about the horrific incident that nearly cost her doubt her life. at 53rd and haverford avenue in west philadelphia, she went in the back seat when someone hit a passing car shot outside the rear window. the the small caliber bullet lodged in her head fracturing her skull. >> my daughter, she's making progress but she's in pain. >> reporter: her stepsister jayl a seen here and her four year-old sister were in the back seat and they were not hurt. shooting happened just after 9:00 the girls were in the back seat, a niece a's mom and boyfriend james hall were in the front. hall had double parked outside his apartment police believe that two people and a dark colored sedan, got upset about traffic being blocked and one of them decided to shoot into the rear window. >> whoever this idiot was who fired this gun he needs to be

a man turn himself in, accept responsibility for what you did. >> it is a child. it could have been worse. my daughter could have been dead. >> reporter: she was last listed in critical condition but she's alert. she has been talking and she's expect to make full recovery. in the meantime police want anyone out there who might know who the shooter toys contact them, immediately. reporting live tonight outside chop, todd quinones for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> wishing that little girl a speedy least coverry todd, thanks. developing right now philadelphia police are searching for a man who they say, abducted and sexually assaulted a woman last week. "eyewitness news" reporter david spunt is live in fishtown where that alleged attack happened. david? >> reporter: jessica, very scary story police just released some information to thus afternoon. i want to back out of the way because we are told that woman was actually walking down east york street at 5:00 o'clock in the morning on friday. we're told she's two. she was walking when someone in a van.

we want to show you a video of the van. pulled up. the man had a semiautomatic handgun. he forced her in the 90's dodge or chrysler minivan we're told, the back seat was taken out. we have a picture of the suspect. it is not the a picture but just a rendering, this is what the victim was able to give police. this is what police believe is their man right now. authorities say that woman was treated and since been release budd police are looking for any bit of information regarding, this picture this man, anything about this case at all. we will continue to follow this and have an update at 11:00. we are live in fishtown, david spunt for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". awe 6:00 big cuts coming to the fire department and department of recreation as city moves forward with plans to eliminate 200 positions. "eyewitness news", new jersey reporter cleve bryan is live with what is behind that push,

cleve? >> reporter: chris, over the last year the city has eliminated about 200 jobs by not filling positions as people leave. now the mayor says he is ready for layoffs. but union official with the fire department says that he has a lot of concerns about laying off a third of the department when emergency happen will atlantic city ace fire department be ready to respond? that is question fire fighters union wants answered after finding out the mayor's plan to cut 85 fire fighters dropping the rolls from 236 to just over 150. >> devastating devastating. i don't know, what we will do let alone what the city resident will do. >> reporter: with several casinos shuttered and city revenues decimated the mayor's office has been working with a state appointed emergency manager on budget cuts. on friday new jersey's civil service commission approved the cities plan to eliminate 200 jobs. so far only specifics available are 40 cuts to the 52 member parks and recollect department and 85 fire fighters.

>> any concerns about public safety with cutting so many fire fighters. >> no. i think if you look at other cities comparative in new jersey 150, 180 is right number for atlantic city. >> reporter: both fire union and members of the city counts will not given advanced notice about the lay off plan which does not need city council travel. >> mayor can say all he wants but this will be affected. you lose a third of your manpower it is affected. >> there is no communication on this thing and it has been done since april 17th, we had a couple council meetings since then. >> reporter: do you think democratic process has been compromised. >> i think transparency has been compromised as well because we could have helped, with this situation had we been brought in the process. >> reporter: fire union tells me not only fire fighters being cut but two fire stations will to have close. fire union says right now they are looking into legal action. in atlantic city i'm cleve bryan, cbs-3 "eyewitness

news". >> cleve, thank you. bensalem township police officer was injured when his motorcycle collided with a vehicle this afternoon. that crash happened on knights road near street road around 3:30. chopper three over the scene there investigators say the vehicle was leaving a shopping center when it crashed into the motorcycle officer. he was taken to the hospital but we're told that officer will be okay. the driver of the vehicle will remain at the scene and did police. investigators now say they need your help, as they try to solve a deadly hit and run in audubon, camden county. detectives with the prosecutor's office, and volunteers passed out flyers to daze looking for information about the crash that killed christopher dean. officers found the gravely injured 36 year-old in the street last month. dean's sister says that the family just wants answers. >> there are people out there that choose to not say i'm sorry. that is hard. >> reporter: what is problematic in this case is

there is in surveillance video and there are no eyewitness accounts at this point. if you have any information you're asked to cat police. we now know more about the fire yesterday in west caln township that claimed three lives. investigators say it was started by smoking materials that had been put in the plastic trash bin outside the home. they called that fire accidental. wind and weather conditions did play a significant role in spreading the fire as quickly as it spread. the victims have been identified as 58 year-old rolandaremel, five two-year old sally remel and her daughter angel remel. philadelphia streets department worker is fighting for his life tonight after sustaining burns from an electrical shot this morning. police say that the man was fixing a streetlight at 51st and wood land in kingsessing when he came into contact with overhead wires. peco briefly suspended power in that area, until the situation was under control.

we are two weeks away from the primary election and race for philadelphia's marries heating up. for the next four days "eyewitness news" will be profiling each mayoral candidate and today we will begin with a familiar face, jim kenny served as a member of the city council since 1992 but now he is focused on a new job. i recently sat down with him about his visions of the city and what he has learned over the the years. why do you want to run for mayor now you? why is the time specifically right for now. >> i think first time i was thinking about it, i really didn't think i was old enough or mature about it. i have gotten to the point in my career where i was finished with what i was trying to do in council. >> reporter: jim kenny grew up in south philadelphia, oldest of four children born to the fire pater father and a stay at home mother. he lived in philadelphia his whole life and his entire career, has been in public service. >> you have seen mistakes and seen things that are done

right and wrong. >> reporter: kenny sees way forward as universal prek, end of the stop and frisk and equality for all philadelphians. >> my goal, it is in every family no matter where they live in the city, no matter what their ethnic or racial background is or their economic status is, has a chance to have their children to have a better life than their parents. >> reporter: when we asked philadelphians what mattered most to them they came back to one issue. >> how to you realistically considering with the current budget is, fix our public school system. >> i don't fix schools we fix the schools. harrisburg has had a constitutional responsibility to fully fund education in pennsylvania. in many ways they have in the done it. but when we need to continue to engage them to get a fair funding formulae more importantly immediately toys get reimbursement for charter schools. >> reporter: over the years kenny has required a reputation for speaking his mind, a reputation amplified by his twitter feed. remember that tweet after

governor celebrated a dallas cowboys win with jerry jones. >> in south philadelphia, fat ass is not exactly that much of a slur. people call you that in terms of endearment. i didn't mean terms of endearment at the time. >> reporter: those days of tweeting his mind are probably over. >> if you want to take that next step to become mayor is there certain ways you have to conduct yourself. it is an important position. you are the leader of the city. >> reporter: lesson learn one he hopes will lead him to the mayor's office. kenny was fourth behind decriminalization of marijuana in philadelphia and supports medical marijuana which could be legalized by the state legislature real soon. we told but heroic actions of office hours jumped in to save two lives at the broad street run. >> but one of the heroes that day was also a runner, what he did as soon as he noticed his fellow racers was in trouble. exclusive story is coming up. kathy? a cold front is moving through with some showers and thunderstorms moving up that i-95 corridor, we will track them and show you how cool it

will get coming up. renovations are underway, we will tell you about the big changes in store for one local park. after two straight wins, changes for phillies tonight in atlanta darren ruf is given another start chase utley gets nights off as his batting average continues to plumet. that is

so, what brings you to jersey? well, geico's the #1 auto insurer in new jersey, new york and connecticut. so i just came by to say "thanks." #1, huh? that's great. here you go. a little token of appreciation. oh, that's... that's... that's great... now i'd say you probably need a large. geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. there's over two hundred thousand students in philadelphia. jim kenney and tony williams are fighting over public schools versus charters. i think they're both wrong...it's making sure they all get a good education. teachers should have their contracts respected. they also should be held accountable. and it's wrong philadelphia gets less school funding than other parts of pennsylvania. i'll work with harrisburg to change that. but if they refuse i'll take them to federal court.

as mayor i'll do what's right for them.

now, an "eyewitness news" exclusive, we told you yesterday about the heroics of police officers, and fbi agents who helped save two lives in the broad street run. >> well, tonight we are hearing from another one of those heroes, a doctor who happened to be at the right place at the right time. "eyewitness news" reporter walt hunter has that exclusive story. >> i saw just ahead of me a bunch offhanded combo up, wave in the air and bunch of shouts of we need help over there. >> reporter: suddenly doctor paul shore went from broad street run tore life safer. this fbi video obtain exclusively by cbs-3 showing the pediatric intensive care specialist performing cpr on a fellow runner who collapsed with heart problems 3 miles into sunday's race. >> soon after stopped breathing, turned blue, at that point i started breathing for him. >> reporter: as a specially train philadelphia police officer and three fbi agents

sprinted to the scene with the defribillator doctor shore assisted by a team of nurses, also running by, administered cpr none in stop on the three three-year old runner who began showing signs of life. >> a dozen or so perfect strangers could all come together to do exactly the right thing. all on the same page to try to save a life. >> reporter: incident here at broad and lehigh on sunday is the fourth time that the doctor has used cpr to help save lives. including a fellow runner who collapsed during the 2013 philadelphia marathon. >> cpr saves lives anyone can do it. >> reporter: doctor shore's wife leann a cpr instructor who carries a face mask so she could administer it at any moment hopes wider message sent by life saving actions is that everyone must learn cpr. >> you never know when you could be, the vital person at the right time in the right place to save someone's life. >> reporter: just hours before

the raise these pictures show the the shore's seven year-old son, playfully, practicing cpr on his dad but on broad street, the threat was very real and knowing cpr in those moments may well have helped save a life. in north philadelphia, walt hunter cbs-3 "eyewitness news". annual blood drive at a north philadelphia high school is extra special to students and staff this year. three students at the institute charter high school have sickle cell disease and the school is hoping to raise awareness of african-american blood donations the statistically african americans have low participation rates with donating blood. dozens of students participated in today's drive all in support of their classmates. well, there is great news tonight for children in the york town section of philadelphia, the play ground is going to get a make over. >> officials and community members broke gown on the renovation project to day. council president darryl clark was among officials there, his

office clinted over $200,000 to fund this renovation. the the new play ground will get re-surfaced a spray ground and a brand new play equipment. >> um-hmm, just in time for summer. >> just in time for good weather to be outside and outside, which is great. >> most of it is already here. we are going to get a jump on the summer season. we have cooler weather moving our way courtesy of the coal front with spotty showers out there. take a look outside from our vantage point looking press any center city philadelphia plenty of sunshine before sunset with temperatures still in the 80's. on storm scan three different story, we have a cold front moving from the west but a big gap in the precipitation north central, pennsylvania, and south central new york state seeing some showers and then through harrisburg, through lancaster and even through state college we have a bit of the dry slot and then look at baltimore and washington a line of showers and thunderstorms. this is moving east, seeing a few cells bubble up along the chesapeake that could make tonight to new castle county

delaware but just some spotty showers with downpours expected through the evening and then after we lose that day time heating after sunset it should be dying down. right now along that i-95 corridor temperatures in the 80's through philadelphia and wilmington. dover at 80 degrees. cooler in reading where temperature is 76. rape cooled temperature same in allentown where we have had showers earlier today. atlantic city airport sitting at 83. much different down the shore with those south southerly wind temperatures in the 70's from ocean city to rehoboth beach delaware. barnegat light seeing light showers and a temperature of only 68 degrees, contrast that with philadelphia's still in the 80's. watching the cold front go to the south tomorrow. cool high pressure build in. flow is clockwise and that means you get an easterly flow that on shore flow keeps it cool with temperatures in the 70's. we will be 10 degrees cooler tomorrow then we were today. as high moves off shore more sun, less win, and temperatures get back in the

80's. we will stay there enduring the day on friday with plenty of sunshine but then we're watching an area of low pressure right now developing, you can see over bohamas. this area right here has a 40 percent chance of developing into an area of low pressure with tropical moisture. we have weak steering wind, it looks like this tropical moisture will lift into the carolinas by the weekend. what does this mean for us? we're talking about additional cloud drift nothing and that could knock down temperatures a few degrees. right now we are not expecting in the way of the significant changes in the forecast. overnight mostly cloudy, a few spotty showers low 60. high tomorrow of 74. normal high 71. thinks still above average. this is very comfortable. hour by hour 66 in the morning. by noon hour 72. afternoon temperatures, 71. by 5:00 o'clock at 68. good exercising weather. on your seven day forecast 80's are wild for thursday, friday even in the weekend. look for 75 degrees or 74 for

wednesday but then by week even we are in the mid 80's saturday and sunday 85. eighty-four on monday. by tuesday 82 with a few showers, still looks great for mothers day on sunday and for race for the cure. >> we like a good forecast for that day kathy thanks. good evening everyone. traveling right new on the ben franklin bridge, it is not awful. you will notice you're moving out there heading in to new jersey or down toward eighth and vine both side of the ben are moving well. i-95 schuylkill expressway cannot say the the same. still dealing with rush hour. same thing traveling on 476 lingering traffic on 422 around oaks and pennsylvania turnpike out of the valley forge. what i do want to point out is an earlier brush fire on the northbound side of route one near area 23. emergency personnel are still blocking right-hand lane, we have one lane getting by, definitely will be a slow spot in this evening's commute. traveling on the vine street expressway at 16 still lingering delays on the roosevelt boulevard give

yourself some more time there. if you are making your way in to delaware county, on i-95, by the time you hit commodore barry bridge we are still slow. be mine full of the construction on the pennsylvania turnpike in either direction. this will be going on between 11:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. this morning. chris. vittoria, thanks very much. "cbs evening news" comes your way in a few minutes. >> scott pelley joins with us a look ahead scott. >> great to be with you here in philadelphia, here's "cbs evening news" tonight. up investigators are tell us that the texas terror suspects are two of thousands that is they are tracking in the you had. we will also have a cbs news investigation about american taxpayers spending billions on dubious drugs for wounded warriors. and the art of camouflage you won't believe your eyes, all of this just ahead on the "cbs eve

a part of what standardized tests don't measure, very frankly they don't measure the diligence, the potential passion of a student. so it's really a measure of how adept you are to working out a problem quickly. but what if you're brilliant and it might take you twenty minutes, but you can figure out something if you were just given time to do it and show real brilliance. is that a real measure of ability and intelligence? what you can do in one minute on a problem? get out of here.

big night for a fightins new face. >> it ace story of, perseverance chad billingsly has been through a lot makes his first start in two years tonight back from a pair of right elbow surgeries. it is game two between phillies and braves. phillies bats were solid last night in the five -two win. darren ruf went three for five, with a double and scored a couple of runs. he was batting clean up a and playing first base. tonight he will bat fifth and play left is eight for 16 with three doubles and home run in his last four starts. chase utley will in the play tonight and he is struggling mightily. utley is hitting .103, the league's lowest batting average among qualifying players. utley has replied in all but two games just four hits since april 15th. he has nine hits in 87 the at bats. nfl draft has come and gone and chip kelly is molding the eagles to his

specifications. today we caught up with lineman bennie logan who believes that fans will eventually come around to chip's rehaul. >> they are so used to one certain thing, so you change it up, it is hard to them add just to it. but when shady is traded, everybody was bashing him why would you trade him. then we pick up demarco murray then people just are in the used to change. it is different. so once he makes changes and establish what he wants to do more people will buy into it. >> the union goal keeping situation takes another bizarre turn, mbolhi was back to the team and he return to europe to be with his family. third string goal keeper, lasalle a alumni john mccarthey has played the last five games. full slate of playoff action tonight, kimmo timonen and black hawks looking to win a third straight game against minnesota, followed by anaheim

and calgary in the other western conference series. on the hardwood it is wizards and a hawks at 8:00 p.m. wizard up one to nothing. then mvp step curry and golden state warriors looking to take two to nothing series lead over the memphis grizzlies. there is more news when we come right back.

thanks for watching "eyewitness news" at 6:00 we are back at ten on cw philly and back here on cbs-3 at 11:00. up next "cbs evening news", scott pelley reports tonight from new york.

>> pelley: tonight investigators tell us the texas terror suspects are just two of thousands they are now tracking in the united states, and in phoenix, we've learned more about the men behind the assault. a cbs news investigation has found that taxpayers are spending billions of dollars on dubious drugs for wounded warriors. as a silicon valley legend is remembered, his tragic death exposes a danger in the gym. and don't trust your eyes-- one of these works of art is actually a cbs news correspondent. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: we've learned that both gunmen in sunday's texas terror assault were being