katie and vittoria are keeping an eye on it for you good morning. >> good morning. i didn't do it. >> hey, i didn't either. >> come on, you guys. >> come on katie it is not your fault. >> you're welcome. >> i know, i don't like to have to give you the news that i have to give you sometimes like when we have a major snowstorm i know that most of you don't want to hear about that but we have to tell it like it is. we try to be real here in the eyewitness weather department and give you a sense of exactly what will happen. and that is where we come to give you a a sense how day will unfold and get your day going on out here. at the moment we have a few showers on the tri-state sweep across the western counties and, western valleys poconos region, we did show you that second day off to the west, we will see humidity and moisture and see that heat, build up in advance of it, granted, we will not see, too much sunshine today but we have got heat to work with already and that does mean that the next disturbance on

the way will trigger some stronger thunderstorms. downpours are biggest issue with damaging win and we will see, fresh lightening strikes too. it does look like the timing will be about five to 9:00 p.m. give or take depending on how fast this thing gets in here but in the meantime, we have to a allow for the possibility of some small hail, or even a tornado. it is never a guarantee but atmosphere may be ripe for that to take place. we will keep a watch on it. we want to you also keep it here to cbs-3. we will keep you up to date, and informed obviously as things do start to evolve. for now we are at 77 degrees at philly international. mid to upper 60's in allentown ain't mound poconos area we have rain cooled air up there. we did see a front crossing through, stalling nearby so we are still warm and steamy. further north you go we have a clash going on there. cooler dryer air that will eventually start to move our way. for now watch it for those

storms guys, later in the day, maybe initial showers here and there but up until those other storms start to ignite later on, vittoria. good morning everyone. right now traveling on the majors, traveling on the bridges, it is still so very quiet. we are looking at ben franklin bridge where traveling in either direction is a breeze. traveling from new jersey into philadelphia or reverse is fantastic. in problems, right now. if you are traveling on the majors it is same story. if you are traveling on i-95 this shot here in the too far from center city right around girard. you will notice traveling north or southbound only a handful of vehicles that we're seeing in the shot here, it doesn't matter where we're going, maybe throughout your bucks county area, maybe heading toward trenton maybe heading opposite into delaware county, it is all good and even in delaware. lets go down your checklist right now we are still dealing with some trolleys that will be shuttle busing, they have been experiencing fire department activity in those areas, so be mine full of that. patco will be running new

schedules, because on the north bound side they are doing construction. so southbound they are single tracking, this will be going on for quite sometime and it is in either direction. for septa regional rails they are having some fewer cars, but new jersey transit as well as tracks both running on time really still looking okay, now back to the desk. developing right now after hours of emotional, often tense debate the the south carolina house voted earlier to remove confederate flag from the capitol ground. >> "eyewitness news" reporter justin finch is live with what happens next, justin, good morning. >> reporter: nicole and erika good morning. next step is for governor nicki hail toy sign the bill. she has been supportive of the measure so there is a a chance that flag could come down as soon as tomorrow. the vote came down to 94-20 south carolina house approved a history making bill, bipartisan act removing the confederate flag from capitol grounds. >> we have shown how it can be done and how it can be done in

a manner that is peaceful, and respectful. >> reporter: the session was tense, at times personal and wrought with emotion and from start to finish running more than 13 hours. >> i just don't think the solution that came over from the senate is the solution that respects everybody. >> reporter: governor nicki haley supports the bill saying in the statement that this is quote a new day in south carolina, a day that she said people can be proud of. >> jesse jackson was on hand after the vote and recalled event he believes brought his state to this day. >> innocent bloodies very powerful and they could not in the end vote into that blood. >> reporter: mortars a reference to nine black parishioners gunned down in charleston's a ame church. mass murder which brought the confederate flag to the national forefront. it has been a main stay for 54 years and by tomorrow, it could come down. among the dead in the church

shooting state senator clementa pinckney who looms large, debate. a black cloth cover his desk. live from the sat center, justin finch for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". first it was united airlines and then new york stock exchange both hit with technical health downs yesterday that caused chaos. united suffers what it called a network connectivity issue. it affect hundreds of flights with thousands inconvenienced. then trading at insuring stock exchange was down for three and a half hours. wall street journal web site also shut down. cyber security expert at drexel university hopes the stock exchange will learn from what happened. >> i would hope that the publicity that this garnered, international media outlets picked it up, that the stock exchange will use this as an eye opening sort of experience. >> government officials say it does not appear that the incidents were related or as a

result of the sabotage. now, when the closing bell rang yesterday the dow jones lost 261 points ending at 17,515. nasdaq has dropped 87 points and s and p lost 34 points. we will have a live report from wall street coming up in our next half an hour. right now police are looking for a gunman after a deadly shooting in north philadelphia. the shooting happened around 8:30 on the 2900 block of north bailey street. police say that a 24 year-old man was shot multiple times and he was rush to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. police say a private surveillance camera reported part of the shooting and detective are reviewing it new to id the shooter. search is also on for a suspect in the double shooting in frankford police say a 22-year old woman and 31 year old man were shot in the 4600 block of hedge street. investigators say that shooter armed with an assault rifle fired several shots in the victim's home. >> there were nine other

people in the house, at the time and there were seven juveniles, and two other adults. so seven shots fired into that house, with a total of 11 people only two of them are shot. now that is still two that is still a lot but it could have been worse. >> the female victim is in stable condition and male victim is in critical. that shooter left the scene in the white jeep-type vehicle. this morning waldron mercy a academy is responding to the fire of the teacher marge i winter and is there speculation that her sexual orientation cost her her job. "eyewitness news" reporter matt rivers talk to parents outraged by that decision. >> reporter: marge i winters has been married to her wife since 2007 and she work at waldron mercy academy for about that long 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 learn when parents at the school had complained about winters sexual orientation. in a statement the school's principal, mel would only say quote to the privilege of calling ourselves catholic we adhere to the teachings of the court but school's policy forbids speaking about personnel decision. that was not good enough for some parents wednesday night many want answers about what prompted the firing. >> i was shocked angry sad. i ran the gamut this weekend. >> reporter: several dozen parents met at jack's firehouse in fairmount with winters in attendance discussing what they plan to do next. some even suggested that they might pull their kid out of the school. they hope to get answers from the ad minute straightors soon about a firing many are calling unjust and hope that it doesn't alter public perception of their community. >> this is not how we're viewed, your children go to waldron mercy that is where they fired this person. that is upset to go all of us. >> reporter: not every parent

involved in the school was at wednesday night's meeting and there are parents who are in favor of this decision, and there were a large amount of parents here so movement appears to be growing for wint tours get her job back, whether that happens remains to be scene. we're in fairmount matt rivers for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". the obama administration is drafting rules to force railroads to install cameras inside train cars. this follows the derailment of amtrak train in philadelphia, last may. investigators are trying to determine why the train accelerated to twice the speed limit just moments before it left the track. eight people died and hundreds more were hurt in that crash. engineer says he has no memory of what happened before the derailment. 5:09. more trouble for bill cosby this morning. local honor he could lose after his bomb shell admission about drugs and woman. wild video inside panera restaurant when two workers duke it out. we will let you know what sparked that brawl. fire works failed for two

nfl players. new york giants star loses a finger and he is not the only athlete paying a price after playing with fire works. >> ♪ waking up to another steamy morning katie is tracking severe storms. >> again. >> i know. repeat of yesterday. >> it certainly is. >> she's updating your forecast coming up next.

fall out from the bill cosby scandal has reached our area philadelphia's mural arts program may remove a work featuring the entertain are that went up in 2008. the north philadelphia a mural celebrating fathers day had been considered for removal because of the wall where it is painted is in bad shape but spokeswoman says recent headlines, factored in the decision to move that mural higher on the commission list. bill cosby's first accuser a has asked a why to release the comedian's full deposition in the sexual assault lawsuit which includes questions under oath about his use of of quaalude is a and other drugs. andrea constand's lawyer made with the saying cosby broke confidentiality agreement that sealed the 2006 court settlement with public

comments he has made over the years. 5:13. just a wild scene inn identify a new york city panera restaurant when a worker gets punched out in front of the customers. that is a a male manager viciously hitting a female worker yesterday afternoon. person who posted this video on you tube said that worker was quitting in the middle of her shift and that is when things got responded. they say both workers have now been fired. all right. we want to get latest on the storms heading our way. katie, is this a repeat of yesterday, what are we looking at. >> i wouldn't say that at all but we will end up with stronger thunderstorms. today will be the worst of the two days, so, we have the possibility to see some severe weather out of this next disturbance moving. we have to worry about damaging storms from later today. we will walk you through that pattern here. lets look at a view at storm scan three looking at regional zoom you can see our next disturbance creeping in here

across buck eye state and western lake erie and lower michigan yeah, heavy rain with this and this whole thing will essentially move from west to east, and bring with it not just heavy downpours but frequent lightening and possibility of other kitchen sink style severe weather threats that come with that. we will see more cloud then anything here today but there is plenty of moisture to work with plenty of heat to work with and we will get enough sunlight that we are worried about. that the slight risk will be issued, it is already issues forward our area once this gets out of here i want to you take notice of the fact that there is virtually we are devoid of activity back a across dakotas and minute so the a that is high pressure that will eventually move in the wake of this disturbance. so often i show you that wide zoom to show you what is bubbling up in the radar but that i wanted to show you just the fact that we will see things clearing out and do so for a couple days here. future wind gusts at the moment they are in the bad at all. they will begin to creep up with time, thursday at

8:00 a.m. a few hours you will not notice much wind but it does get breeze which time and then a cher sign that the thunderstorms are rumbling in. look at how they peak here 30's and 20's and we might see, stronger win gust was the strongest storms that rumble through. window for these storms generally looks like about 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. moving from west to east. again we could see those severe weather threats coming with anything that bubbles up. for now we are in the upper 80's or into tomorrow with less humid for you here. it does progressively get better. bullet points on what to expect, strong to severe thunderstorms, heavy downpours, damaging wind and small sized hail. let me show you what is happening in the eyewitness weather seven day forecast. upper eight owe's today with the threat of the nasty thunderstorms. friday saturday, nice breath of fresh air. vittoria. >> good morning everyone. right now schuylkill expressway... you can take it in, traveling in either treks in, delays around center city. it looks as nice throughout

western suburbs. it is a beautiful ride. speedensors nice and high in the 50's. we are looking great in the schuylkill. you can access eastbound side of the vine sleet expressway coming from 76. we had earlier police activity closing because of construction. construction will be haunting us for quite sometime, but now traveling on the vine street expressway is not a problem between broad and schuylkill and in the a problem at all traveling around i-95, with the exception that if you are traveling the vine eastbound the ramp to i-95 southbound right lane is block. it is still accessible but right lane will be block. that would i a assume affect more so rush hour then i would right new but is there only a handful of vehicles out there looking at kelly drive outbound at hunting park avenue, the right lane is ongoing, blocked until friday as a result, construction, so be mindful if you have weekend plans for tomorrow, erika. >> thanks, torey. two nfl players are recovering after being severely injured in separate fire works accidents over the fourth of july weekend. cbs news correspondent brian

web said that the million-dollar mishaps may put their nfl futures up in the air. >> reporter: new york giants all pro jason pierre paul is recovering after having his right index finger amputated wednesday at a out florida hospital according to national football league sources. it follows a fire works injury he overed on july 4th. after the accident rashad correction wished his teammate a speedy recovery. >> accidents happen to everybody. nobody is i immune to accidents. it is unfortunate for that and for the team. he is a big part. >> reporter: giant pulled a long term 60 million-dollar contract off the table following pierre paul's fire works accident. pierre paul isn't the only nfl player to lose a finger after a fourth of july accident this year. tampa bay bucks nears cornerback cj wilson lost two after fire works exploded in a canister he was holding. cj's father ace future of his son's career is not his focus

right now. >> for me that really doesn't matter, my on is a alive so god took care of him as far as that but we will cross that bridge later on down the road. >> reporter: it is unclear if or how the injury will impact wilson's professional football career. brian web for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". washington redskins say they will appeal will a decision by a federal judge who has ordered cancellation of the team's trademark registration. the judge ruled that the team may be disparaging to native americans. removal of the copy right protection would not go into effect until the appeals process is complete but this is the biggest blow against the team in the fight over its mascot and name sake. well phillies play another late night game on the left coast tonight, they will wrap up dodgers series in los angeles, game time 10:10 p.m. eastern time. last night clayton kershaw struck out 13 phillies, big blow offensively was by former phillies fan favorite,

jimmy rollins. it was j roll's eighth home run of the ease on. phillies lose this 15 to nothing. here's one you don't see very often not one but two inside the park home runs in the same game. tampa bay lewis forseth hit the first one when the outfielder got tripped and fell down trying to catch that ball. darren guyson repeated that after the rays miss played a blooper down the left field line and he sprinted around the bases. first time there has ever been two, inside the park home runs in the same game in what, 18 years? doesn't happen too often. >> there you have it. right now 5:20. still a head a big surprise in the new jersey river for an alligator, in the water, we will let you know he how animal ended up there. this dog has a taste for more than just treats wait until youe what he decided to snack on to led to an emergency trip to the vet, we will explain.

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here's one you don't see every day alligator found in the north jersey river.

wild have officialness bergen county removed that 5-foot long, 40-pound alligator from the merky waters of the passaic river yesterday. and, a fisherman spotted the reptile, in elmwood park. officers struggled to capture that gator. they described him as fast and slippery. it took quite an effort. the mayor said he was concerned about residents safety. >> we have a lot of people that come here and they put up their chairs and they fish, and little kid come with their parents. we have had some unusual situations occur here in the past but never this. >> i can see why. wild life officials say that gator may have been somebody's pet that they could not take care of anymore and out grew him. he is now in custody as gaming officials look to find a zoo or educational sent to give it a home. this is i different rescue for philadelphia fire fighters when they stumbled upon on new born kitties outside their firehouse. fire department tweeted this picture of the four kittens born in the bushes at engine seven, ladder zero, on kensington avenue in juniata

park. kittens and the the mom are now looking for homes the fire department called it another good save by our members. you can always count on them. hopefully they will find a home. hey doctors were shocked with what they found inn identify this western pennsylvania dog get this, 62 hair band, eight pairs of underwear, four rubber band and a band-aid. now, the owner took the black lab to the vet after she was suffering from a stomach ache as you can imagine. tiki went in for emergency surgery after x-rays shows a training mass. >> there was a hair band, and hair band, another one awe another one, and so many others. >> eight pairs of underwear and 62 hair band is a lot to be in the dog's stomach of tiki ease size. >> we are happy to report that she's doing well despite all that, it turns out this isn't the first time she has eatenning on. he has been eating something odd. she ones aid a nerf dart as

opposed to 62 hair band. >> that can give you a stomach ache. >> it is tough, you have to lock up those hair band. >> it is not a fun even if call to get. >> i was than the going to go there. >> i know you have had some issues. >> she enjoys laundry diving, now it is under lock and key. >> yes quite the appetite. erika, thanks. coming up next on "eyewitness news" magnum pi busted by a real private investigators why tom selleck is in hot water this morning. dramatic ocean rescue when family is pulled under by a rip current. how a piece of technology helped i have their lives. something we talk about this time of the year, that is for sure. we are dealing with more thunderstorms today of the potentially severe variety owe we will have full details and full forecast, coming up, nicole. and we're keeping an eye on the road, vittoria has everything you need to know before heading out the

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good morning, to you. i'm sorry to tell you but get ready for more rain. for the second straight day. hey, blame katie. >> hey. >> no, blame mother nature. >> storm scan three is showing rain heading our way this afternoon and is there a slight risk it could be severe.

it sound like yesterday but a do over. >> that is exactly it. we will see enough instability created in the atmosphere today. we have at least saw some on have that yesterday there were stronger storms that came witt. today is within of those days where it produce that he is potential for more. i call it a kitchen sink effect where you cane almost anything happen. >> right in time for rush hour too. >> yes. >> i am going down the shore tonight, i'm going to north wildwood i will be barbecue in north wildwood to celebrate seventh annual barbecue competition in north wildwood this weekend. you need to do something for us. >> okay. i might have to put the hair in the bun umbrella, pennsylvania ville beyond. >> i hear you and it looks like the timing is from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. or so. >> yes. >> basically will coincide with that, yes. >> have a