sfx: crowd cheering sfx: crowd booing ♪ sfx: crowd chanting sfx: crowd cheering music stops sc johnson a family company. ♪ >> now at 11:00 mainline teacher is fired and some say it's because of her sexual orientation. tonight a group of parents is rallying around the popular educator. good evening to you, i'm jessica dean. waldron mercy academy in merion is responding to night to the firing of teacher margie winters. some parents say the school's actions are unjust. "eyewitness news" reporter matt rivers is live in fairmount where a meeting in support of

wints just wrapped up. matt. >> reporter: that meeting wrapped up within the last hour and a half or so. it was about two hours long and there was over 130 people here who showed up including the teacher who was fired margie winters. all of the people came out here we're told to show their support support. our cameras are not allowed inside that meeting room but we're told margie winters received a standing ovation a show of serious support. margie winters has been married to her wife since 2007. and she worked add waldron mer cease cad me for about that long that is until last friday when parents were sent an e-mail notifying them that the popular director of religious education had been let go. no specific reason was given but "eyewitness news" has learned several parents at the school had complained about winters sexual orientation. in a statement the school's principle would only say "for the privilege of calling ourselves catholic we adhere to the teachings of the church. but said the school's policy for bids speaking about personnel decisions.

it wasn't good enough for some parents wednesday night. many of whom want answers about what prompted the firing. >> i was shocked upset angry sad. i mean i really ran the gamut. this weekend. >> several dozen of those parents met at jack's firehouse in fairmount with winters in attendance discussing what they planned to next. some even suggested that they might pull their kids out of the school. they hope to get answers from administrators soon about a fire many are calling unjust and hope it doesn't alter public perception of their community. >> this is not how we're viewed. your children go to waldron mercy that's a school where they fired this person much that's upsetting to all of us. >> reporter: not every parent involved in the school was at tonight's meeting. presumably there are parents within the school that support the decision that was made. with that said, however, there were lot of parents out here tonight and it seems that the support for margie winters to get her job back is growing. whether that will actually

happen remains to be seen. we're live in fairmount matt rivers cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> matt, thank you. tonight's storms have moved out of the region but high heat and humidity are expect totter spark more storms tomorrow and some of those could be severe. meteorologist kate bilo is in our weather center now with more on what comes next. kate? >> jessica, we've been dealing with the threat for thunderstorms pretty much every day this week as the heat and humidity have really ramped up this full week of july and we've got another threat tomorrow. most of the storms this week producing heavy downpours the storms tomorrow, however v a damaging wind threat component as well. let's take a look at storm scan3 on our wide zoom right now showing a few scattered showers around our area mainly to the south and to the west right now. but the storms back over portions of illinois and end inn that's going to be impacts throughs tomorrow afternoon and evening much this line storms along a strong cold front will slice into the heat and humidity that gives eight lot of fuel to work with and much drier air comes in behind that front when

you get that clash of air masses you get the risk again for strong to severe storms. in the near term a few showers this storm has now weakened light showers over portions of central new castle county in delaware. this could drift over south jersey but it is weakening and overnight can rule out couple of showers here and there into tomorrow morning. but again later tomorrow evening that the threat for severe weather rears its head once again. so let's time it out. overnight again just a few clouds rolling through. tomorrow morning don't be surprised if an area of showers develops when you wake up in the morning around 7:00 a.m. it could be raining in a few spots but then the sun will try to break out in the afternoon and any sun we get will really increase the threat for severe weather it will heat up the ground arc lot of moisture in place and that of course feeds the threat for severe weather and watch these strong lines of storms try to develop around 6:00 p.m. they sweep through the western suburb at 7:00 you can see this will be a straight line wind threat damaging winds when storms line up like that and have that little bit of a bow hook to them. this comes through the city between seven and 9:00 p.m. and then heads down the shore. we do expect again these storms to produce downpours as well as

strong potentially damaging winds. i'll have more on this threat and better news finally for the weekend coming up with the seven day forecast. jessica. >> kate, thank you. first it was united airline. then the new york stock exchange exchange. both were hit today with technical melt downs that caused chaos. this morning united suffered what it called a network conduct have the issue. hundreds of flights were delayed nationwide. thousands of flyers inconvenienceed. then another big computer glitch. trading at the new york stock stock exchange was down for nearly four hours. there werely computer problems at the wall street journal. the combined troubles drive home just how dependent all of us are on technology. david spunt is live in our sat center with more details on these disruptions. david? >> reporter: jessica things are back to normal tonight. federal investigator it's continue to investigate exactly what happened. there are a lot of questions. meanwhile i spoke to an expert tonight a local cyber security

expert, who says what happened today may have not been an attack but he said it could have been a practice attack for the future. >> it started off like any other day with the sound of the opening bell. but just before lunch time, panic set in when the and tire new york stock exchange shut down. >> we're running in a technically advanced world that does no problems sometimes. >> exchange leaders blamed a software upgrade. united airlines saw backups for hours after the company computer system also shut down. >> everything just blank. >> wall street jump also left web readers wanting more. after that site shut down for several hours. >> veteran trader ted weiss berg toll cbs news as three companies went dark as part of a coincidence. >> it doesn't happen because people make it happen. it just happens. >> reporr: but the new york stock exchange, wall street journal website and united

airlines all around the same time? >> first thing that came to my mind was an attack. >> dr. robert dividio is a cyber security expert at drexel university. and won't say what happened is an attack, but he believes it was more than just a few simple computer glitches. >> these are very high profile entities. new york stock exchange you don't get much bigger than that. >> reporter: all three organizations have denied any connection meanwhile united airlines planes are in the air right now. the wall street journal website is back up and the stock exchange is set to open with that opening bell tomorrow morning. we're live in the sat center. david spunt cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> all right, very interesting david, thanks so much. by the way at the end of the day stocks closed with sizeable losses dow jones lost 261 points ending at 17,515. the nasdaq was down 87 points. the s&p gave up 34 points. today was the second time in two months united has been hit

by major computer troubles. this time about 3500 flights were affected. united states says a router failed knocking out several critical systems and that meant passenger cos not check in. employees reported flight plans could not be sent to cock pills and cruise schedule link software also stopped working. this outage is expected to cost united millions of dollars. >> something like this can't happen for an airline the size of united. the impact on united from just today's event is going to be into the millions of dollars if not tens of millions of dollars. >> again united flights are notifying night. the hope is all will be back to normal tomorrow. also tonight more fallout from the bill cosby scandal. philadelphia's mural arts program may remove a week featuring the entertainer earlier than plan. the wall where it's painted in north philadelphia is in bad shape. recent headlines factored into the decision to move the mural higher on its dee commission list. meanwhile, disney hollywood

studios theme park removed a cosby statue. cosby has yet to comment on his bop shell admission he obtained drugs with the intent of giving them to women with whom he wanted to have second. a colonial school district employee is accused of having sex with a student. michael morris work as an audio visual technician. prosecutes say he had sex with 12th grade school at plymouth white marsh high school it's alleged the two he can change thousands of text messages between december and june. morse is now charged with sex assault and is being held on $50,000 bail. new tonight baltimore's mayor has fired that city's police commissioner anthony bats. this move comes a mid a spike in the city's homicide rate in the week after the death of fred doo gray. gray suffered a critical spinal injury in police custody. that sparked rioting within the city. six police officers have been criminally charged in gray's death. right now, baltimore's homicide rate is up 48% from this time last year.

a bank robbery ends with a suspect shot in hatboro. chopper three over the td bank on south york road there. around 10:00 this morning a suspect demanded money from the teller. as that alleged suspect fled he was chased and then shot by borough councilman george fortune who was nearby and saw what was happening. that suspect 30-year-old kevin phil license johnson way was taken to abington hospital. hokessin woman charged with stealing a delaware city fire department pickup truck. harding allegedly stole the truck from county police headquarters parking lot on tuesday. she was arrested after authorities say she crashed the vehicle then tried to take back to the parking lot. harding is being held on 5,000 dollars bail. new tonight a special graduation ceremony in gloucester county. the gloucester county police academy graduated its 46th class tonight in sewell. proud friends and family of the graduates packed that gym to take part in the special moment. the 40 men and women who

graduated tonight will go on to careers with various departments in south jersey as well as the state division of fish and wildlife and rowan university. congrats to them. tom celek sued a lawsuit accuses the popular tv actor of stealing water. we'll have the details on that case coming up. plus a new high-tech way to get more hair. that's right. no more thin spots or balding. health reporter stephanie stahl gives us an exclusive first look how this new robotic technology work. kate? >> and jessica all the storms have died out for tonight but as we head into tomorrow, yet another severe weather threat is on the way. finally some dry days ahead. i'll have the full seven day forecast coming up. >> and it's a custard cut back. why rita's water ice is no longer serving its famous creamy treat whe

>> they can his out. a large sting way caught on the second avenue beach in north

wildwood. this feet was posted on the wildwood boardwalk facebook page so you can now add stingray to the list of ocean wildlife scene on jersey shore beaches this season. it goes along with the portuguese man of war and baby sharks. actor tom selleck accused of stealing water from california. selleck's local water district is suing him. it claims the magnum pi and blue blood star stole truck loads of water from public hydrant and took it to his ranch. he grows avocados there. they require a large amount of water. california is current until the midst of historic drought. women's world cup champion delran new jersey native carli lloyd is back home tonight. lloyd was the hero of team usa scoring three goals in just the first keep minutes of that championship game against japan. and she received a big welcome home from her fiance' at philadelphia international airport today. "eyewitness news" was there and spoke with lloyd after she

arrived. >> life has definitely changed for me. i think i have to buckle up and get ready for it. but it's good. it's fun. i got to enjoy it. >> she's got quite a ride ahead. yesterday team u.s. a celebrated with fans during a big party in los angeles. on friday they'll be honored with a ticker tape parade in lower manhattan's famed canyon of heroes. on the cbs3 health watch tonight, hair loss is a problem for millions of people, and now there's a new kind of transplant that uses cutting edge technology. health reporter stephanie stahl has an exclusive first look at how it works. >> reporter: it's the new high-tech way to do hair transplants with a robot. this demonstration on mannequin head. it's called artist a 3d microscopic camera feeds images to a computer that analyzes and maps hairs on the back of the head every removes them with delicate precision then they're individually transplanted by

dr. thomas griffin at his philadelphia center. >> the robot gives the advantage of very accurately extract extracting those follicles and therefore providing for the best possible final result. >> reporter: dr. griffin says with tra dig al hair transplants there's scarring and the follicles are often damaged. artists eliminates that. >> it is the newest and greatest greatest. transplants are right through here. >> reporter: 42-year-old chris dixon had robotic hair transplant about five months ago ago. >> i like it. >> his thinning hair made him look older than he felt and was especially noticeable after water sports. he decided to try the robotic hair transplant because he wears his hair short and didn't want something unnatural look looking for scars. >> this is what my hair should look like. >> this look like it might be painful. is it painful? >> it's done with local anesthesia so it's really -- it's not painless but it's not -- it's a very well tolerated procedure. >> reporter: chris says the first numbing injections were a little uncomfortable.

the procedure takes most of the day, and there's a week long recovery. >> as you can see it came in very naturally. >> it will take year for chris to see his new hairline these photos from are a tas show finished results on another patient. >> this is a centrifuge. >> dr. griffin is adding a therapy to the transplants. prp plasma rich platelets a few vials of blood are taken from the patient and separated in the centrifuge then the platelets are injected into the scalp. >> platelets contain growth factors which they release into the scalp. niece growth factors are involved in wound healing and also actually stimulating follicular growth. what we're trying to do to do is maximum our results for our patients. >> reporter: the plasma therapy weren't used alone to stimulate hair growth or in combination with robotic trance man that. procedure can cost up to $10,000 and is not covered by insurance. it's currently only being done on men but it could be expanded to women. i'm stephanie stahl, cbs3 "eyewitness news".

>> just in time for summer, a shortage of eggs is causing a custard cut back at rita's water ice. the avian flu is affecting supply of the egg yolk product they use to make the custard. instead of custard they are selling soft serve ice cream. >> tastes very similar almost identical recipe witness exception of eggs to our custard so we got it just as close as we can so the consistency is the same. >> rita's says there is a chance they could have custard back on the menu before the end of the summer season. we've all got our fingers crossed. kate we've been looking at the custard all day and now that's all i can think about. >> you want what you can't have. >> there it is. >> no custard all we want is custard. >> that's right. fingers crossed. >> it would be a good night to have some. >> no kidding. >> out on the boardwalk maybe or just steamy outside but we've got really great picture to show you. let's take a look earlier tonight one of our photographers here at cbs3 ed took this photo of a rainbow after the storms this is in ridley park and what

great shot that is. i have to tell you in easton earlier today for kid fasters even and this adorable little girl named audrey had this line. she said it's rainy with a chance of rainbows today i thought was such an optimistic way of putting a stormy forecast forecast. look leaks audrey had the forecast right. she may get hired. let's take look outside. i mentioned the boardwalk and still going strong most of the stores look like they're closed now but a lot of folks still meanders about on the ocean city boardwalk. i remember doing that as a teenager staying out as late as you can to stretch out those long shore days. well tomorrow will be another nice day down the shore at least until evening and that's when we're tracking our next threat for severe weather it's this area of storms you see back across portions of the midwest. this front will be moving in for us tomorrow evening. and it will bring the risk of risk for severe storms. in the near term a couple of sprig kills down northern delaware over 95 here told tour middletown not a big deal. this storm has weaken a few sprinkles here and there. but in the meantime, it is still

very very steamy and uncomfortable out there right now. look at these temperatures. it's still 80 degrees at the airport. it's 78 in dover and 79 in wilmington. that's only half the story. you have to factor in the dew point as well. dew points are in the 70s. look at that, dew point in dover, 75. that means the air is almost fully saturated. so it's just like stepping out into a steambath at you step out this evening and into tomorrow morning. so watch this system as it heads our way. most of the day tomorrow especially during the afternoon hours we may see some sun but keep in mind any sun we see just contributes to the risk for severe weather because it really provides the fuel the heat and humidity for these storms to get going. 5:00 p.m. in our far normal and west suburbs seven 8:00 o'clock we expect this line of strong storms to move through the city and it could produce again damaging straight line winds the biggest threat as well as that heavy rain. clears the coast quickly and then clouds decrease during the day friday. friday turns out to be a nice less humid day. and on saturday, we express stress all the clouds to the south a great sunny warm start

to a summer weekend. so take look at your storm threat for tomorrow afternoon we've been dealing with the heavy downpours all week long. we really haven't that much in the way of wind threats. tomorrow a high risk of straight line winds lightning and hail a moderate risk as we head into thursday afternoon. as far as rain chances in the coming days, 70% chance for tomorrow. that's all across the area. most spots will get at least a shower if not a stronger severe storm. friday a 10% chance of a morning shower. doesn't look like anything saturday and sunday should be fine as well 10% i think most of us escape rain free through the weekend friday, saturday, sunday looking pretty good to me. overnight showers ending, mild and muggy 74. tomorrow partly sunny warm and humid showers in the morning and then some sun. then watch for those strong evening thunderstorms but finally some good news in your forecast we brac out steamy and stormy pattern through the weekend. friday the humidity drops down to 86. saturday it's sunny, it's warm. but it's not that steamy heat.

89 degrees great pool day. sunday looks nice as well and monday still in the 90's that's when the humidity comes back full force with a chance for a thunderstorm. but altogether it looks like a great summer weekend. >> that's great. we like the eye on the prize for the weekend. >> get through tomorrow and we're good. >> i love the rainy with chance for rainbows. >> isn't that adorable. >> i wish i thought about that. >> kids are very smart. >> they are. kate thanks so much much lesley is here. you got good news fort phillies. >> i'll put a spin on this one too. phillies averaged 5.5 runs game the second best in baseball. okay. tonight they go against defend defending cy young winner and what do demarco murray's pierce think of him on the field? does he rank with the rest of the players in the nfl.

>> game three between the dodgers and physical lease out in los angeles. kershaw on the hill for dodgers. phils have not scored a run against clayton in 22 ink.

two runners on for the phils in the second kershaw struck out adam morgan. phillies down two to nothing in the third. jimmy rollins has a flare for the dramatic. three run homer the dodgers with a five to nothing lead in the fourth inning. sixers with the night off in the utah summer league final tomorrow tomorrow night again the jazz. jahlil okafor has been impressive scoring 13 points and grabbed nine boards. monday he scored 20 and nine rebound. he said c plus. pretty hard on himself. the flyers holding annual trial on the aisle today in stone harbor where the team's draft picks and prospects including that is year's top two picks participating in drills off the ice and signing autographs there. the day at the beach way to get the flares to bond. >> eagles running back demarco murray voted the best running back in the league and the fourth best player overall by his piers. he ran wild last season in dallas. rushing for a career and cowboys

team record more than 1800 years, 100 yards in the first eight games of the season set setting a nfl record. he'll be on chip kell's high octane offense. >> after donovan mcnabb second dui arrest in arizona he's taking a leave of absence from his sports radio show citeing personal issues, he faces minimum sentence of 90 days in jail following that june 28th arrest. british open champ rory mcilroy will not defend his crown last night at saint andrews. he ruptured a ligament in his left ankle playing soccer over the weekend. he will withdrawal from the tournament. his absence makes jordan seats the favorite to within. big upset at the men's quarter finals wimbledon after two rain delays. the french open champ will take on novak jeff 56 in the men's semi finals.

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update about woman doing amazeing things in the fight against cystic fibrosis. 30-year-old emily kramer was honored at the white house as a champion of change. she has advanced stage cystic fibrosis and coach founded emily emily's enter tour ratch it's an organization raising funds and awareness for cystic fibrosis and she lives right here in our area. she was one of nine people honored all across the country. congratulations to her. wonderful work she's doing. >> thank you for watching "eyewitness news" at 11:00. for lesley, kate and everyone here i'm jessica dean. we're always on at cbsphilly.com cbsphilly.com. up next is blue bloods. have a good night. ♪

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