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>> reporter: it was a matter of time. what took hours to pull out only took an instant to go in. >> it was bam and it was out. >> reporter: school janitor dan said if that instant was just a few seconds earlier he would would be dead. >> i i would have been gone. no question. it blew it apart. yeah i feel lucky. >> reporter: police say shortly before 2:00 this afternoon, this black pickup truck drove straight into a wall at lower moreland high school. eyewitness josh, says he watched the car accelerate with no sign of braking. >> i saw a black truck. i saw it rev its engine and smoke coming from it. i her it gun down the parking lot all the way down until i heard this gigantic whack. >> the driver was pronounced dead at the scene. the truck struck several water pipes causing flooding and cutting power to the high school school. less a minute away from changing

dan's lifer. >> i've already thanked god more than once. >> reporter: the work now is speedy repair. not only patching that whole but fixing any flooding left over and restoring power after what happened in this accident. in the meantime, no word yet on if school will start on monday. school officials will make that decision on sunday. reporting from lower mooreland steve patterson cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> turning now to our weather. we saw some thunderstorms around the region today. "eyewitness news" in northern liberties for the preakness at the piazza. the rain was pouring at this point. but it didn't put too much of a damper on everyone's good time. meteorologist justin drabick is in the weather center to tell us what the rest of the night looks like. >> we're looking much better as far as thunderstorms go. majority of steady rain moved offshore especially east of ocean county new jersey. maybe a few areas of light sprinkles or drizzle through the overnight hours. we're not done yet. out to the west a surge that has

to come through tomorrow with that humidity around a threat for scattered shower or storm sunday afternoon sunday evening but we had damage reports earlier tonight. especially in up montgomery county. gilbertsville at 1 inch diameter sized hail also 55-mile per hour wind gust reported in one of the thunderstorm. douglas township and new happen never township in montgomery county both reporting trees down as well with some of those thunderstorms. 71 degrees this hour right now we're in the 60s north and west. little bit cooler because of the rain but still very humid outside. doylestown quakertown coming in at 64 degrees. and we're in the upper 60s right now in mt. holly, new jersey. here's what you'll wake up to sunday morning. it will be mild start to this finish of the weekend. mid and upper 60s early around sunrise then top off once again the mid 80s it will be humid. watch out for scatter shower or storm anywhere where you are. not everybody sees it and i think the chances will be less than what we had tonight. talk about how long the warmth and humidity lasts in the seven day forecast coming up in a few minutes.

natasha. >> thank you so much justin. we are following developments in the amtrak tragedy. here's the very latest now at 11:00 o'clock tonight. federal officials ordered amtrak to improve safety in the area of tuesday's deadly dee ray rail many in port richmond. trail service between philadelphia and new york will resume on tuesday. work does continue to replace the tracks and other equipment in that area. five crash survivors remain in critical condition at temple university hospital. the ntsb is interviewing a septa engineer who had something strike his train just moments before the amtrak crash. "eyewitness news" reporter matt rivers spoke exclusively to an eyewitness who was on board that septa train when it happen. >> reporter: we don't yet know what caused this damage, a september regional rail train windshield cracked by a projectile on tuesday night. monica williams was just a few rows behind the train's engineer when it happen. >> we hear this thud and um,

immediately i'm thinking, oh, god, we hit somebody. >> reporter: it turns out something hit the train. the septa train came to a hard stop and the engineer opened his door. >> at that point he he comes out and you can see inside and you can see the windshield there's a shatter. it's shattered. there's a hole. >> reporter: few minutes later amtrak 188 stopped and moments later it derailed. >> the train just passed. >> a second train was also hit by a projectile scene in this passenger photo. the amtrak train heading south from new york city to philadelphia was struck in the same area and shortly before the derailment. now investigators are trying to figure out if amtrak 188 was the third train that night that was hit by a projectile. the train's engineer told ntsb investigators he doesn't remember if his locomotive was

hit by something but this hole in the train's windshield is suspicious enough that the fbi is now involved. >> immediately i wonder if it's connected, how often does it happen that windshield shatters and the train we just saw there was a tragedy. >> reporter: even if the train was hit by a projectile there's no telling if that played roll in the crash. the question investigators will attempt to answer in the days and weeks to come. the meantime while that investigation continues repairs continue to be made along the damaged pouring of that track. officials best hope those rail lines can reopen to commuters sometime early next week. we're in the sat center, matt rivers cbs3 "eyewitness news". also today federal officials ordered amtrak to add speed restriction systems to northbound trains along the frankford curve where that derailment happened and along other dangerous curves along the northeast corridor. the system notifies the engineer when the train is above the

speed limit and automatically applies the brakes if the engineer doesn't son. amtrak must also now post more speed limit signs to alert engineers. stay with "eyewitness news" for the very latest on the amtrak tragedy. we will have updates for you both on the air and any time online cbsphilly.com. fire breaks out on the ocean city boardwalk tonight. this eyewitness video posted to twitter shows smoke billowing out of the seventh street surf shop just south of gillian's pier. we spoke with ocean city police this evening and they told us there were no injuries. no word on what caused the fire just yet. penndot meantime says the pedestrian bridge over roosevelt boulevard at sully avenue in rhawnhurst is safe. inspectors were called out to take a close sr. look because it appeared a section of the bridge hit this. the boulevard was shut down for a short time for the inspection but all lanes have since reopen.

also now crews have recovered the bodies of all eight people from u.s. marine helicopter it crashed during an earthquake relief mission in nepal. the wreckage of the chopper was found friday in the mountains northeast of the kathmandu. at the time of tuesday's crash the aircraft was carrying six marines and two nepally soldiers soldiers. as the global humanitarian effort continues in that region "eyewitness news" reporter alec andrea hough spoke with local doctors just returning from the earthquake ravaged region bream us had in front of the qatar airline desk. destinations kathmandu. >> do you ever quite know what to expect, never. no. >> reporter: team of eight volunteer doctors and logistics professionals are head to do nepal to relieve a team that has been there since before a second devastating earthquake hit the country on tuesday. >> just had another earthquake this morning a 5.5.

so flexible i think is the word required. we'll overlap with the team on the ground and they'll debrief us let us know what's going on. >> the delaware medical relief team was createed in 2010 following the earthquake in haiti. >> i know what we're capable of what with what we've got and the supplies we've got and the team we got we'll do good work it. >> will the 10 day trip be rewarding much that's thinking too far ahead. the team is hoping to be effective. reporting from philadelphia international airport, alexandria hough. cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> police arrested gunman who robbed man who won $12,000 at the sugar house casino in f the suspect followed the victim from the casino to his home on mildred street 5:00 o'clock this morning. surveillance video from the casino helped police track down the suspect. first philadelphia female firefighter to die in the line of duty was honored today.

philadelphia second alarmers association presented a canvass tribute to lieutenant joyce craig. she died in december of last year while bat lining is fire in west oak lane and today fire commissioner derek sawyer officially septembered septemberred the print for members of engine 64 the firehouse where craig was stationed. stay with us everyone. coming up on "eyewitness news" tonight united states deal as big below to isis. find out who special forces neutralized in a raid and what it means for our fight against the terror group. plus honoring a fallen hero tonight. see how aommunity joined together to remember the life of local marine killed in the line of duty justin. >> stays warm and humid for the rest of the weekend. we'll have showers and storms. >> we'll have a bid for a triple crown this year as american pharoah wins in the mud at the preakness. lesley van arsdall has more

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>> as david letterman prepares to end his incredible career of the host of the late show he's talking about his time behind the desk. >> jane paulie who has known dave for years and years sat down for him before his final shows. here's a sneak peek of that interview. >> when i'm down here during band numbers or commercial breaks i will go to various places and try to memorize what it look like and how i feel and look at the audience and get the scale of things. >> jane paulie revealed even more about her inmate talk with david letterman to our own ukee washington. >> i love to get your feelings on what you are looking for when it comes to your coverage. >> i want to fine the real dave. he's kind of an end anything ma. >> i was surprised when we sat down for the interview he couldn't have been more open and

authentic. very open. >> he had a bout with drinking. do you get into any of that. that really must have been emotional. the story about his alcoholism is surpriseing. if you have known him for the last 33 years, you have never known him as a drinker. but he tells the story and i -- in some detail and you'll find that among the most interesting part of the interview. even at that, he makes -- he make it funny. >> you can watch jane paulie's interview with david letterman on cbs sunday morning tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. right here on cbs3. it really is hard to believe that dave only has three episodes left. the three night event starts on monday with the academy award winner tom hanks. on tuesday bill murray stops by and this will be his 44th appearance on letterman's show. on wednesday dave's final show will be an hour filled with lots of surprises memorable highlights and his final top 10

list. it's all right here on cbs3. hoping to change the future for those who live with autism, that was certainly the mention mission for many in mt. laurel, new jersey. hundreds participating in the walk now for autism speaks 3k run. 5k speed walk. the crowd enjoyed a beautiful day once the rain cleared out earlier this morning i had the honor of actually helping to host event my third year always a great time. always great to see tomorrow families and corporate sponsors helping the cause as well. a local marine meantime killed in afghanistan is honored today. a homerun derby was held to honor captain ryan iannelli and to raise money for scholarship in his name. ryan's family, friends and community members came out to kings way regional high school in gloucester county today for a fun competition on the baseball field. the same field he once played on on. >> a great man h profound effect on everybody he ever came in

contact with and we're just looking to honor him and carry that name on for the rest of our lives. >> ryan was killed in 2011 in a helicopter crash during a combat mission. he was posthumously promoted to captain. >> the largest high school regatta continues right here in philadelphia today. more than 5500 student athletes from all around the country competed in the rowing championship on the schuylkill river. today was the final day of the two-day competition. a little bit of rain out this morning in jersey where i was. it cleared up and now a little bit more tonight. >> good news the storms have come to an end. now we'll talk about a chance for maybe shower overnight. kind of a the same deal tomorrow tomorrow. could see a scattered storm break out in late afternoon and evening. the chances will be less than tonight. nothing widespread. let's go out to storm scan3 right now. cold front to our north. basically across southern tear of new york state where we have the instead your showers and

storms. for us scattered shower comes through you can see more showers extending back into the ohio valley that needs to come through here. that will come through tomorrow especially later in the afternoon and into the evening. there you go steady rain moving east of toms river now. there may ab sprinkle or two near dover delaware. a lot of this not reaching the ground on radar. improving conditions overnight. better travel weather. at least we had rain today. it's been awhile. we're starting to clean out the atmosphere. get a break from the high pollen also the grass needs watering obviously over quarter of an inch in philadelphia from the thunderstorms tonight. as well as trenton .32-inchinches. not a whole lot of rain to the north and west. reading over a tenth of an inch. struggled to to get to .06 of rain in wilmington. allentown not that much rain. low 70s even upper 60s cooler spots to the north and west reading right now 66 degrees. and it's really a warm and muggy all there was out entire northeast and mid atlantic.

this summer like air mass sticks around again during the sunday. we look at the dew point temperature. this tells us how much moisture is in the air. when it's high it feels humid. right now a dew point of 67 degrees. that's very high. general wal we see in the middle of the summer. very huggie outside. tomorrow's dew point the same deal. lower 60s so again due feel in the air tomorrow outside. noire heff until the middle of next week. the front stays to our north tomorrow. we're still on the warm and humid side. late day shower or storm is possible. again not widespread. little bit cooler on monday i think we start to see 70s especially across new jersey as we get that wind off the ocean much the wind switches right back out of the south for tuesday. warms up again mid 80s with some scattered showers and storms as the next cold front through. let's time thing out. overnight 2:00 a.m. this model showing the clouds maybe a spotty shower or twosome locations and then tomorrow morning much quieter with the

clouds around into the afternoon afternoon, peeks of sunshine maybe or shower two late afternoon into the evening. monday kind of the same deal. starts off quiet in the morning. afternoon shower possible with that wind coming in off the water. temperatures again warm start to our day. sunday 60s to around 70 degrees. inland spots again will be surging into the lower 80s running about 10 degrees above average once again. little bit cooler on monday. you can see that push of cooler air in off the owing. overnight, shower chance otherwise mostly cloudy, 68 degrees. tomorrow partly sunny humid afternoon shower or thunderstorm thunderstorm. phillies game tomorrow you may have to dodge that shower chance especially later during the game game. first pitch 1:00 they've. temperature 78. warm humid for tuesday. humidity drops wednesday back into the mid 70s thursday very nice. 72 that kick off orr at the shore as we get close to the summer season. >> that's the beach ball. >> that's the beach ball. >> love the beach ball. >> love the seeing the beach

ball. >> thank you justin. >> all right lesley. hi. >> lesley with sports highlights highlights. >> record crowd down in ball more today for the second leg of the triple crown and phillies fans got rained on as the team tries to make it for in a row for the fir this seaso jamie wanted a taste of the real new orleans and we just couldn't say no to that face. then we wanted more of that local flavor

so betty says... oh yeah, that's betty. you're going to want to do this alligator thing. and betty didn't lead us wrong. a little later we passed some dancing. and who doesn't like dancing? especially when it's followed by fireworks everyone's nola is different. follow yours.

>> lesley sports highlights. >> i'll put in you a good mood. >> the first time since last august the phillies on a three-game winning streak. >> we'll take it. >> chance to make the four as they take on the diamondbacks down at the ballpark the second inning jeff front cure having a very good week.

first he helps jonathan pell pell bon get the safe record. today homerun right here and one to nothing phillies. ryan howard hot hitting continues as well. rips the ball off the right field wall. that will be a double for ryan. freddie galvis scores on this one and it's two to nothing phils. this is a good sight to see. chase utley with a single to center. breaking out of that slump and three to nothing phillies and then the rains come and the phillies had a one hour and 50 minute rain delay. eighth inning the phillies this 17 to five. >> day baseball braves visiting marlins. carlos san ton crush that is homer. dead centerfield. travels about 475 feet and check out this fan catches the ball with one hand amazing hit amazing catch. that hasn't has to be hurting the braves within five to three. >> bad news for the soul on the road tonight in jacksonville. they lost their first game of the season 55-47.

>> and they're into the trench in the slop at pimlico and american farrow has pulled away to a 2.5 length lead over dividing rod and huge long shot is making a move on the far outside but american farrow is all by his sell. they come to the wire and american for row and victor espinosa have won the preakness! >> yes, we have a shot at a triple crown american pharoah wins the 114th preakness. last triple crown in 1978. three weeks from now at belmont he will have his chance. >> the flyers still looking forehead coach and the hottest on the market right now mike babcock going announce his decision by may 20th. let's hope he likes orange and black. game one of the eastern conference finals. third period lightning down one to nothing not any more.

andrew with the power play goal will tie it at one. okay. under three minutes left. rangers get the game winner. dominic moore gets his first goal of the playoffs. the rangers within two- one. rock paper scissors showdown. major contest during a rain delay. take rock paper scissors serious seriously. taking the big win. they're exciteed. the game was postpone. at least they wouldn't something that night. i like it. >> enthusiastic out there.

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on cbs3 "eyewitness news" new developments in a shooting that injured george zimmerman. see what happened to the man that is accused of of opening fire on zimmerman's car during a confront teague. >> our summer like forecast will continue for the rest of the weekend. showers and storms. i'll bre

>> investigation continues into the cause of a deadly crash in montgomery county. a man d crashes through a wall on the campus of lower moreland high

school. around 2:00 o'clock this afternoon witnesses say the driver of the truck accelerateed straight through the wall on the other side of the brick was maintenance supply room with water main and electrical supply. also in the building at the time of the crash about 100 people participating in a fundraiser. nobody in that group was injured injured. school officials say they have not announced if classes will be held on monday. stay tuned for that. also we are following the latest developments in the amtrak tragedy. here's what we know at this point. federal officials ordered amtrak to improve safety in the area of tuesday's deadly derailment in port richmond. amtrak says rail service between philadelphia and new york will resume on tuesday. work continues to replace the tracks and other equipment in that area. five crash survivors remain in critical condition at temple university hospital. and the ntsb is interviewing a septa engineer who had