a gruesome attack in the olney neighborhood of philadelphia overnight a man was stabbed and then shot before he was robbed. why police are hopeful they can find those responsible. good morning i'm erika von tiehl. i'm nicole brewer in for ukee this morning. we have summer paving underway in philadelphia where crews are starting and how drivers will be affect, katie. nicole, we are looking to a much more pleasant day when it comes to just your sheer comfort out there today expect dew points, humidity levels moisture in the air is dropping off. you can't get too used to it but enjoy it while you got it. we will take you outside to sky cam three where things are off to a quiet start

skies have cleared and this goes for everyone and we are expect to go keep that nice clear sky for better part of the day. problem is it does not last forever. make the mess of the pleasant weather while you've got it. we will talk tropical moisture on the way as we look ahead to the full forecast, all coming up, erika back to you. new this morning, three people accused of shooting and stabbing a man before robbing him in philadelphia's olney neighborhood mr. now police are looking for the suspects. "eyewitness news" reporter justin finch is live at police headquarters, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. at this point victim is a joe dough, stabbed in his back, shot in the thigh and he has puncture wound to his face. he told police before passing out he was robbed of his wallet cell phone ape watch. lets go to video of the crime scene in olney at sixth street. the calls came into police just after 11:30. police arrived to find that man on the sidewalk, stabbed in his back, punched in his

face and shot in the left eye. all they know about the victim is that he is in his 20's or early 30's. that victim did tell police he was attack by two men and one woman who stole his wallet, cell phone and watch. he was taken to einstein medical center as police, set up their crime scene and began their investigation in olney. >> we do have several witnesses in this mainly residential neighborhood who witnessed not only the the assault ape robbery but also the shooting. they are being interviewed by northwest detectives at this time. >> reporter: police potentially have witnesses in this case and they are scanning that area for surveillance video in hopes of getting a a look at the people three people in the a attack. as for that victim he is believed to be in extremely critical condition and is now under going operations. we are live at police headquarters i'm justin finch for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". coming up at 4:33.

we better enjoy today. >> if you are not a fan of humidity because that will be building once again and we are expecting a more active pattern to move back in the delaware valley looking forward in the forecast. today we have a nice break. make the most of it. storm scan three is completely quiet and empty. not even a hint of ground lover. but we are in the looking at any wet weather today. later tonight that does all change again as a warm front lifts back in. we can see the cold front from yesterday, moving on through to the south. it drops off to the south and then we will see a new cold front or i should say a warm front into the overnight and lead nothing to tomorrow. pattern remains active for us but today is a bright spot. high pressure in place and a lovely day setting up here. let's talk comfort, shall we. dew point measures moisture in the air. current dew point is comfortable already dropping to about 60 degrees right now. pretty much when you hit 65 or high other you will net is the steaminess but we expect those

midday dew point toss continue to drop off a little bit here. it will feel, so comfortable to you. pleasant, isn't that lovely, just really nice day unfolding here. the thing is, again, you have to get it in while you can. enjoy weather while you cap because clouds will start to least build for us. we should hit more seasonable temperatures here, mid 80's the spectation but there will be cloud that build in early as this evening because of that upcoming warm front. the active pattern kicks in do round out our workweek. we will track some tropical moisture. so down right soggy conditions are heading our way vittoria, good morning. >> good morning everyone. traveling on the vine street expressway we had earlier construction, that was compromising a lane or two. traveling on the westbound side it does seem to be that the westbound side has reopened eastbound we are still dealing with the closure between the area of the schuylkill and broad street. we will switch up vantage point for a second and take you to another construction

zone. if we are traveling on the 42 freeway we have an active construction zone on the 42 freeway southbound making your way at creek road. majority is on the shoulder but it is compromising a rain or two. traffic is moving beyond it, ever so fine, because there is in volume to speak of at this hour. really all majors even with construction are moving well, so i cannot deliver too much bad news, which is a good thing for us all. we have construction in the northeast on the northbound and southbound sides of the roosevelt boulevard between rhawn and strahl, inner lanes are closed so just stay to the outer lanes and bypass it without a problem. we have construction on i-95 northbound at 476 blocking the off ramp, nicole. a major repaving project is underway in center city. construction is much needed after long winter took its toll on area road. work began monday night tearing up asphalt in olde city. crews will try to make road like these better. >> it makes the street safer

for all modes of transportation, bikes, vehicles buses trucks and pedestrians crossing the street. >> would i rather deal with the little bit of inconvenience of traffic to have the road paved. >> reporter: officials say it will take over a month to complete all 23 projects, for a full list head over to cbs philly.com. work begins on those streets, the city of philadelphia unveiled it transportation plan for the upcoming papal visit. >> mayor michael nutter says resident and visitors should prior to do a lot of walking. >> this will be the largest event in the city of philadelphia in modern day history. >> beginning the week of september between the second there will be plenty of road closures with an estimated one to 2 million people will be in center city for the world meeting of families. for those two days of pope francis visit september 26th and 27th, only 31 of septa's 282 trains, subways and trolley stations will be opened. now i have posted a link to

the cities mass transit plans on our web site at cbs philly.com and click on papal visit. just an fyi mayor will be among a delegation heading to the vatican to finalize plans surrounding our papal visit. our jessica dean will be traveling with them and she will have have reports starting next monday on "eyewitness news". right now philadelphia police are searching for a man whom they say stole ten taxi cabs in one week. they believe those stolen cabs are being used to commit other crimes including a recent shooting and robbery in west philadelphia. so far five of the taxis have been recovered. they are 2007 through 2009 crown victorias that were ones used as police cars. suspect has been the disabling the tracking systems inside those cars as soon as they are stolen. man who robbed a pharmacy and carjack a priest in camden county is still on the loose this morning. that man got away with with prescription drugs from the rite aide in haddonfield last night.

he pulled a gun inside that store, carjack the priest and abandoned the car and ran off. he is described as a white man, 6-foot two and 200-pound. if you have any information you are asked to call police. rachel dolezal says her racial identity is more complex then it seems. she resign as a head of the naacp spokane chapter after her parents said she's a white woman passing herself off as black. her story fascinates philadelphia civil rights leader todd bernstein president of the global citizen is white. bernstein says he had has no problems leading a civil rights group as a white man. >> there are a lot of people who work as a allies of the civil rights movement, like myself being white but i certainly don't pretend to be something other than who i am bernstein says dolezal may have been more effective as a

leader if she came clean years ago. erika. in campaign 2016 donald trump wants to go the from the board room to the oval office. yesterday, the will real estate mogul and reality tv star host announced he is running for president. trump is joining the president race and says his goal, it is to make america great again. donald trump has been flirting with running for president in the past but this is first time he has officially thrown his hat in the ring. and trump may have entered the race but made pretty clear many people just don't see him as a serious contender. democratic national committee jokingly said trump's entry in the raspberries some much needed seriousness to the g.o.p. field. comedian jumped at the chance to make fun of the donald for his colorful speech. >> as you know donald trump announced he is running for president, true or false, the following will were actual lines in his speech. now please keep in mind that the answer will always be,

true. quote one i'm using my own money, i'm not using donors, i don't care, i am really rich. david. >> that is definitely true. >> of course, it is, that is the donald trump could ever possibly say let's take a look. >> i'm using my own money i'm not using robberies i'm in the using donors, i don't care. i'm really rich. i shared that with you. >> wow. >> of course catch late, late show with james corden. >> my goodness his impression uncanny, hair, i love it. good stuff. 4:40. good news, tropical storm bill has been downgraded to a tropical storm depression. >> it is still dumping rain over the wet midwest. here in our area, we are

cooling down and saying good bye to the storms. that is good news as well but weather might put a damper on our weekend plans. katie has forecast coming up next.

tropical storm bill has been downgraded to a tropical depression as its dumps rain on texas. center of that depression was located 40 miles east of austin just before 1:00 this morning. windy creased to 35 miles an hour and it is expect to weaken over next few days. still inches of rain are expect in texas and neighboring states as well. tropical depressions can dump rain. >> absolutely. that is what we have to remember here is that they have gotten downgraded they measure this by wind strength and central pressure. the rain will be a concern here guys. as we look forward. this is something we will track in our area believe it or not by this weekend. fathers day specifically looks like it could get dicey here.

we want to give you a sense of what is to come here. we will start off by taking you out to storm scan a good place to start. we have continue, actually can we put our graphic backup on air? we will start over again. lets see if we cannery start storm scan. we are not sure what happened there. lets go start things over again, don't mine me just run over to figure out is what happening and i will meet you at the wall in one second. here's what is going on. we will go to storm scan. we have a storm system off to the north to st. louis. just outside we should say heavy rain. here's bill. we just mentioned it has been downgraded to a depression but you can see circulation moisture getting pulled in from the gulf of mexico. so flooding rain is absolutely their biggest concern here in texas and this will dump inches and inches of rain across this part of the you had. lets take a look what is going

on with the storm in terms of the track. take a look, it will be a trackable features we think leading in the upcoming weekend and eventually makes a beeline for us, flash flood watches, warnings, advisories posted all across this section of the you had and eventually we are going to see it all head our way but it is at least waiting until weekend. beautiful day. less humid. still warm. more sunshine. enjoy it. by late tonight we will see our next warm front step in and send temperatures up come friday and maybe a lingering shower but partly sunny friday. saturday starts with sun and then that tropical moisture starts to move in. saturday night but primarily fathers day and first day of summer, we are heating up to 91 degrees. with all that tropical moisture you can bank on heavy rain heading our way nicole, back to you. golden state warriors are celebrating the team's first nba title in 40 years and

former sixer played a big role in bringing home that championship. regular season mvp step curry had 25 points in last night 105-97 game six victory over, the cleveland cavilers. andre iguodala had 25 and added duty of guarding king james. he was named mvp of the finals. big congratulations to the warriors. phillies come home tonight to play orioles a night after making history for all of the wrong reasons. last night in baltimore orioles scored early and often, o's manny gave a second pitch of the ballgame for first off the record eight home runs and baltimore pound ed the phillies, get this, 19-three. that is right. phillies lost all eight games of a road trip for the first time since 1883 and yes i said it, 1883. that one hurt. >> nineteen-three. >> yes.

>> he can only go up from there. >> room for improvement. >> once you hit rock bottom. >> yep. >> still ahead on "eyewitness news" first drones and now amazon is experimenting with a new way to deliver a package. >> but first here's a look at what is coming up tonight on cbs-3.

philadelphia police are searching for three people in connection with the armed robbery in olney. a man was stabbed several times and then shot once. they say two men and one woman got away with cash, a watch and a cell phone. that victim is in critical condition. the city of philadelphia is getting road ready for september's papal visit. more than two dozen road repaving projects will be underway in center city over the next month some several blocks long. work started monday night in olde city. speaking of the papal visit, the city announce the transit plan to handle millions of people expected to

come to town. plans include increased public transportation, both buses and regional rails and you can get the full plan at cbs philly.com. 4:50 right now. time for a check of business news. markets rebounded yesterday after monday's loss. >> some good news there. >> money watch's jill wagner joins us from the new york stock exchange. so what are investors watching today. >> reporter: good morning. federal reserve wraps up policy meeting this afternoon. investors want a decision about when the fed will raise interest rates and they have been near zero since the financial crisis in 2008. a rise in rates could push up borrowing cost for consumers and businesses. everyone will be watching as that meeting wraps up this afternoon. >> am a son has been experimenting with different ways to deliver packages. first we heard about drones and now we are hearing about something else, is that right. >> reporter: am a son's new delivery guy could be your neighbor. wall street journalist reporting that amazon is delivering a app that with

bypass carriers like ups and instead pay ordinary people to drop off packaging and even route to other destination like an uber but for amazon delivery. >> that is something, i hope they are trust worthy. >> reporter: that is one little problem that they were talking about. >> just a little one. >> reporter: what if they drop the package, a lot of issues that could come up. >> just create some tension in the neighborhood. >> jill, thank you, we will see you later this morning. >> 4:51. coming up, after the break weather and t

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time for traffic and weather together with vittoria, good morning. >> good morning everyone. right now we are traveling very well, on all of our majors we are starting first in center city, traveling on the vine street expressway westbound commute no problems there. earlier construction for the most part has been lifted on

the westbound side, folks every day they have been switching between west and eastbound closures of the vine because of construction. right now trying to head in the eastbound direction you can now access vine street expressway from the schuylkill. that is an improvement. i-95 no delays at all beautiful ride in and out of the northeast. this side southbound traffic taillights, north bound your head lights and it doesn't matter if you are traveling center city, south philadelphia, delaware county it is all good. we have an accident on the eastbound side of the pennsylvania turnpike between willow grove and bensalem, left lane is block. because we are not dealing with so much volume would i say it is not causing too much problem but something to be mindful of. katie, two things. one, i like your dress. not that i don't love it all the time but today is exceptional and two how are we looking weather-wise. >> thanks, first and foremost. you are so sweet. you just made me morning. we are looking ahead to great weather. i think sun glare may be an

issue in your reports as morning progresses but small price to pay when dealing with such a beautiful day coming up here. it is a short lived break before we see more active weather return. look at this shot. i love mornings like this when sun comes up nice and early. i can show you gorgeous camera shots and this is just one of am i will show you throughout the morning. storm scan three totally empty, high pressure regaining control albeit very briefly but we will see that sub shine nice and breezily. perfect excuse to get outside high u.s. index folks keep that sun block ready to go. tomorrow levels drop off because our next warm front is lifting in. that means as early as late tonight, the cloud build and then late tonight showers return to the forecast, maybe rumble of thunder too and it looks like primarily we will be dealing with the worst of the wet weather tomorrow in the morning and just a lot of cloud for the rest of the day. nicole back to you. now lets check the stories our sister station kyw news

radio 1060 is following. a new report questions removal of the appendix in cases of appendicitis. the pennsylvania turnpike will begin trying out all electronic polling with the pilot program at delaware river bridge, in january and child advocates are working to get undocumented children in pennsylvanian insurance program. check in two three, four times a day on kyw news radio 1060. coming up next, we are live as detectives look for the attack hours robbed a man and left him fight forgo his life. plus a teen lost his arm in the shark a attack talks about the terrifying experience, hear how he is keeping a positive attitude throughout that tragedy. phillies take a stand against domestic violence see message for fans starting at tonight's game. we are back at the top of the hour, good morning.

stabbed, shot and then robbed, new this morning a man is fighting to survive after a vicious attack overnight. we're live with the search for robber happening right now. also, ten taxis stole men nine days but the thief isn't using them to pick up passengers, what police know about the man wanted for stolen cab spree plus... >> this will be the largest event in the city of philadelphia, in modern history. and get ready for a traffic nightmare when pope comes to philadelphia in september, we will let you know cities plan to help you get around smoothly. good morning it is wednesday june 17th i'm erika von tiehl. i'm nicole brewer, ukee

has the day off. street corner in olney neighborhood is a crime scene after three people stabbed shoot and robbed a man. >> police have leads that could help them solve the case, "eyewitness news" reporter justin finch is live to bring us up to date, justin. >> nicole and erika this victim suffered pretty severe injuries multiple stab wound to his back, gunshot to his thigh and puncture wound to his face but despite that he may have been his own best witness able to give detectives a solid lead as they search for his attackers. >> in olney overnight philadelphia police canvassed a crime scene on sixth and west somerville avenue their eyes and flashlights focused on finding more clues about their victim and however left him for dead. >> but we're not sure who he is, he is a john doe,'s peers to be a male in his 20's, possibly early 30's. >> reporter: 11:30 tuesday night came several 911 calls