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tonight i talked to the homeless man. he tells me he's not a violent guy but that he definitely had some concerns. he wanted to talk to mayor michael nutter about. this video shot by an eyewitness and first aired on cbs3 shows a homeless man cursing at and getting into a tussle with a member of the mayor's security detail and mayor michael nutter himself gets involved. tuesday night i showed the video to 56-year-old george kramer. did you have any intention on harming the mayor. >> hell no no, no, not at all. >> things turned pretty quickly. >> reporter: nutter down played the confrontation tuesday night outside his city hall office where just across the street kramer has been spending a lot of his nights often sleeping underd stairwell on the concourse next to the municipal services building: in the video nutter can be seen pulling creamer off the police officer and helping subdue him. >> stop it. stop. >> in my pain role here, quite frankly it was really just try
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to calm him down. >> reporter: kramer says the homeless in the city are running out of places to stay. do you fear you're going to be forced out of here for when the pope comes? >> yes. we're going to be forced out of here when the pope comes. >> reporter: what about a shelter? >> shelter is not a nice place. >> reporter: the altercation happened monday after the mayor and some city officials were there talking about issues related to the concourse but a spokesperson wouldn't go into more detail. for his part mayor michael nutter says he has no plans on increasing his security detail. >> i'm seven and a half years never had any kind of situation and i mean, again, i was not harmed, i was not threatened, i didn't feel threatened. i'm from west philly. i can take care of myself so... >> reporter: well, no one was injured in this scuffle and creamer was not arrested. reporting live tonight from center city, todd quinones, cbs3 "eyewitness news."
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>> all right, thanks for the follow-up, todd. it is a warm and muggy night out there and once again, we are tracking storms. these are expected to dump drenching rains across the region so we go top meteorologist kate bilo who is closely watching the timing on these storms. kate. >> jessica the biggest threat with these storms will be heavy downpours and you can see the storms as they are firing up off to the west do have a lot of heavy rain with them right now. we want to watch this area right about here just west of d.c. that's going to be lifting into our region overnight and some spots could see locally heavy thunderstorms. then another line of them will come through tomorrow afternoon. so right now skies are clear but clouds are starting to build in and we've got these heavy showers off to the north. this batch misses us to the north and another round again coming in through the overnight hours. let's take a look at future weather. we'll time it out for you. 3 a.m. showers and thunderstorms, maybe strong storms especially in southern delaware. that moves out. i think we start off tomorrow morning with clouds, some sun
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maybe a couple of spotty showers in the afternoon. another threat for showers and thunderstorms does look like the greatest risk will be east of philadelphia down the shore and into portions of delaware and notice the yellow, the orange shading that's an indication of some very heavy rain with any one of these showers and storms and at 5:00 p.m. for the evening commute they are still around. again like today they are not everywhere but any spot that does get stuck under one of these storms will have slowdowns on the roads possible ponding and blinding rainfall that could slow things down. wednesday scattered showers and storms at any time. some with localized downpours. poor drainage flooding will be a concern as well as slow travel across the area. temperatures still very warm and steamy right now. these showers and storms have a lot to work with. 78 at the moment in philadelphia, 77 in wilmington and 76 in trenton but with dewpoints in the 70's it is oppressively steamy out there right now and this is providing all the fuel for these heavy showers and storms to pop up. coming up better news for the
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end of the week. jessica back to you. >> kate thank you. a freak accident along the wissahickon creek in east falls claims the life of a fisherman tonight. the 53-year-old was fishing with friends near the 4900 block of ridge avenue and got a snag on the line. eyewitnesses say when he went waste deep into the water to unhook the fishing line he slipped and fell. we're told the water in that area is around 25 feet deep. a philadelphia police officer is now in custody for charges including conspiracy and obstruction. only "eyewitness news" was there when officer robert penn surrendered to authorities today. the charges stem from when penn was shot off duty in march of 2014. he's accused of paying his former brother-in-law to implicate penn's current wife in the shooting. the 25 year veteran has been suspended from the police department for 30 days with intent to dismiss. >> president obama is back in washington, d.c. tonight after visiting philadelphia for the naacp national convention where he spoke about criminal justice reform.
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"eyewitness news" reporter david spunt is at the convention center with more on what the president had to say there earlier this evening. david. >> reporter: ukee, the president left this area earlier this evening back in d.c. but he made some news when he was here at the convention center. he said he wants to change things for certain inmates make things easier and he said ultimately it will help the american taxpayers. >> ♪ >> reporter: the president walked onto the philly stage to a supportive crowd and he didn't take long to get town business. >> all right everybody have a seat. i got some stuff to say. >> reporter: president obama laid out his plan to make changes that would help nonviolent criminals. >> over the last few decades we've also locked up more and more nonviolent drug offenders than ever before for longer than ever before. >> reporter: the president made the case to allow excons to vote and loosen solitary confinement programs found in
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american prisons he argued putting nonviolent offenders behind bars doesn't protect americans it breaks their bank accounts. >> every year we spend $80 billion to keep folks incarcerated. 80 billion. for $80 billion we could have you've universal free school for every three and four-year-old in american. >> reporter: we spoke to philadelphians who have mixed reviews on the president's plans for nonviolent criminals. >> they're not hurting other people. >> i think it should be the way it was stay like it was 'cause if you did something you o should be penalized for it. >> i don't think prison sentences are a great way to try and curb drug use in the first place. >> reporter: after addressing the convention the president made a stop in rittenhouse square for a private dnc fundraiser. just before 7:30, president obama left for air force one. on thursday, the president will travel to oklahoma to a
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federal prison to visit with inmates to talk about what he mentioned here tonight in philadelphia. interesting note, he will be the first sitting president to visit a federal prison. we are live in center city, david spunt, cbs3 "eyewitness news." >> david, thank you for that. earlier the president praised a landmark deal to limit iran's nuclear program. tonight congress is deciding whether to go along with it. after nearly two years of talks diplomats from the united states iran and its partners announced the agreement in austria today. iran gets relief from economic sanctions in return for opening itself up to inspections. israel says it opposes the deal because iran continues to seek its destruction. congress has 60 days to review the agreement. >> new video tonight of a small plane making an emergency landing on a highway in stafford township ocean county. in this video from stafford police you can see the plane landing safely is on a grassy median on route 72. the plane which was carrying five people including sky diving students lost power shortly after takeoff sunday.
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one person was treated for a small cut but no other injuries were reported. a south jersey man is recovering tonight after a tree fell on him and trapped him while he was working. this happened on loucroft road in haddonfield this morning when the 52-year-old private contractor was trying to take down a large branch. instead, the tree fell the wrong way trapping him in the bucket of his truck. after two hours of intense and dangerous work, emergency crews were able to rescue him and secure that tree. >> i just kept telling him to hang in there and that we were going to try to get to him as quickly as possible but we had to make sure that the limb was secured first. >> he had a severe injury to his left leg. >> officials say the contractor is in critical but stable condition. >> a former church official convicted for his handling of priest sexual abuse complaints is no longer at a philadelphia jail that pope francis plans to visit. monsignor lynn is serve
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throwing years. he's been held at the city's cure ran fromhold correctional center but his lawyer says he's back at a state prison near scranton. pope francis is scheduled to visit inmates at curran fromhold during his trip in september. the delaware river port authority says it will approve a commuter discounter for frequent bridge users starting tomorrow. e-z pass holders will get a $18. enrollment is automatic for e-z pass holders. the discount is expected to rollout within three months. >> a local man thought he was donating money to help veterans learn how to fly. >> to do something like that it's just low, very low. >> so, where was the money really going? see what happens when the head of the charity is tracked down. >> a teenager escapes the wreckage of a plane crash and then hikes to find help. tonight we're hearing her 911 call. kate.
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>> and ukee, we are tracking another round of some heavy showers and storms as we head into our wednesday. they're off to the west now but they're headed our way. we'll time it out and i'll tell you when the weather turns nice and if it will stick around for the weekend. >> plus, major retailers are giving bargain hunters a reason to shop tomorrow. the summer sale wars are on now but will you really get the best deal? the details when "eyewitness news" at 11:00 continues.
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in the crash. >> we crashed and i was the only one that made it out. >> okay. made it out from the collision or survived. >> yeah, the only one that survived. >> friends say she is expected to be released from the hospital soon. search teams have yet to locate the wreckage or the step grandparents. >> a man claims he was spearheading a special effort to help veterans. this raffles brought in big bucks, more than $100,000. but the i-team charlotte huffman takes a closer look to find out if the money is really going where it's supposed to. >> reporter: jason is a licensed pilot. he claims to be helping out veterans but is he? he runs winged warriors which according to his facebook page is a california based nonprofit organization which raffles off planes to raise money for no cost pilot training for active and retired military. >> individually they're 50
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bucks each. >> reporter: jim from atlantic county bought one. >> well, anything that we can give back to the service people that gave to us i thought that was a really great thing. >> reporter: others thought so,, too and raised a lot of money including $8,720 from people new jersey, pennsylvania and delaware. according to documents obtained by cbs he brought in almost $175,000 selling nearly 4,500 tickets to people all hoping to win this beechcraft sierra. but he never owned the plane that he claimed was being raffled off. >> we own the beechcraft. >> reporter: bob hancock owns it. he had his plane up for sale and even cut the price when he offered to buy it for the raffle. >> i thought it was awesome. >> reporter: but all three winged warriors checks bounced and the transactions never went through. cat ya' franchise tax board says winged warriors is not even recognized as a charity and the california attorney
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general's office says it's not registered to hold raffles. we alerted him. how does that make you feel. >> made me sad 'cause to do something like that it's just low, very low. >> reporter: so, our sister station in l.a. tracked down him. can you prove you trained 25 vets? you can't, can you. >> i'd like to. >> reporter: you'd like to but you haven't, right? are you scamming people here. >> absolutely not. >> reporter: with that he pedaled away from further question. since then, the web site to donate to winged warriors has been taken down. if he were sitting here what would you say to him. >> i would say he's very pitiful. as far as we going forward i just would be more cautious. >> reporter: so, what can you do to make sure a charity is legitimate before you write the check? we've got a clarity checklist on our web site as well as where to go to find out if that charity is college registered. go to cbsphilly.com/i-team. i'm charlotte huffman, cbs3
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"eyewitness news." >> it is beginning to look a lot like christmas for online deal hunters. retailers are engaged in that a summer sale war. tomorrow amazon celebrates its 20th anniversary with amazon prime day. deals will be announced every ten minutes. not to be outdone wal-mart has launched an on line dare to compare. consumer advocates say don't be tempted by the hype. >> coming up in 10 minutes the following item is going to be on sale and this kind of hurry, hurry, do your research and you got to grab it because it's gone because its a limited time. that's not my idea of fun frankly. >> reporter: there are more deals to be had. best buy will hold a black friday sale on july 24th and 25th. history is made a day after we got our first closeup look at pluto. >> after traveling billions of miles nasa spacecraft made a
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drive by of pluto. it was the fastest spacecraft everybody launched. pictures from the closest approach are expected to be released sometime tomorrow. some science after hours tonight at the franklin institute for summer camp for adults. the 21 and up event brought adults right back to childhood where they made dna friendship bracelets, walked across a lego brick lake of fire and even got some pet animals -- got to pet the animals. attendees also got to use gummy worms to recreate the classic camp drink bug juice. the museum holds after hours events for adults about once a month. very cool. take you back in the way back machine. >> remember when you would get the chocolate pudding and put the gummies in. >> good old days. >> that was fun. >> my little boy, it was his
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birthday and i crawled through the big heart. so much fun for adults. >> the heart, it is. >> and the brain is amazing. >> the brain too, yeah. >> it was a nice day on and off throughout the area. some spots got heavy rain. other spots didn't get anything at all and that the kind of what we're looking at for tomorrow another round of those heavy downpours and it's another steamy day on the way as temperatures rise to the mid 80's but dewpoints hold in the 70's. that's where they are right now and it does not feel very comfortable outside whatsoever. let's take a look outdoors, though and you can see the boardwalk still all lit up. they've taken off the lights on the rides the ferris wheel shut down in ocean city right now but still a lot of people out on the boardwalk. it is sticky down the shore. boy, warm and humid. stay dry there today but tomorrow i think down the shore we'll have a better chance of a few of these heavy showers and storms popping up. but with the showers and storms you also get the good stuff as well like this photo from one of our "eyewitness news" watchers doug that sent us a shot of the rainbow after the storms moved through this afternoon. speaking of storms here's what
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we have. one line moving away from us into the carolinas. these showers and storms firing up over pennsylvania. this line right here, this is the front that will push through tomorrow. once this moves through what was clear things out and this clear air back out to the west that's comes in for us. down near washington, d.c. these will be lifting in as we head through the overnight hours and there's a marginal risk for severe weather in portions of south jersey and northern delaware an slight risk in southern delaware so some of these storms overnight could pack a bit of a punch. don't be surprised if you wake up to downpours strong winds and flashes of lightning and rumble of thunder outside. temperatures right now are holding in the upper 70's. we're at 78 the at the airport, 77 in wilmington but again the dewpoints making it feel a whole lot worse. been a pretty wet summer but hasn't been that was hot. only 10 days above 90 degrees so far this year. this time last year we had 11. 12 in 2013 and look at 2012, 21 days above 90 by july 14.
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at least we're not suffering through the heat but the humidity is here. it will be around tomorrow with showers and storms at least until that front moves out by tomorrow evening i think we'll try to clear it out and then thursday the humidity drops, high pressure builds in, it's less humid its sunny, it's a fantastic day slightly below average temperature-wise. overnight mainly cloudy and muggy with that shower, 72. maybe a thunderstorm in spots. for your wednesday humid scattered showers and storms again most likely east of philadelphia but we can't rule them out anywhere. in fact i could see a storm around the city right around rush hour tomorrow evening. but keep that that in mind. plan accordingly. make sure you have that umbrella with you. thursday and friday beautiful and then it steams up again over the weekend but it's a great pool weekend a great shore weekend and not a bad summer weekend all around. >> that sounds nice. umbrella critical tomorrow though. >> yeah. >> you don't want to get stuck in one of these downpours. >> got it in the car indeed. coming up next in sports, lesley's got details. >> still talking about number five, donovan mcnabb.
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>> baseball's best got together for the mid summer classic. this game wrapping up as we speak. millville's mike trout starting it off with a solo home run for the american league. american league started to pull away. trout opinion fished the night with one hit, one rbi, one walk and two runs scored. jonathan papelbon has not been on the field tonight he represent the phillies at the all-star game but spent monday lobbying for a trade. he told the phillies off to make a move or "get off the pot." ruben amaro marrow responded on the wip morning show. >> he's a very good pitcher. he doesn't know anything about
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the front office. [laughter] >> it's as simple as that. listen i'm the gm and pat is my -- pat is my boss. and in all these deals particularly ones that are as complicated and can be involved and have so much money involved, you know, these are all discussions that we've had. when i was with david montgomery, same thing. >> the phillies are talking with other teams right now in regard to trading papelbon. there's more bad news stemming from donovan mcnabb's second dui arrest. he had a blood alcohol level that was more than twice the legal limit. that is referred to as extreme dui in arizona where he was arrested. if convicted he faces a mandatory 90 day jail sentence and it could max out at six months. summer league basketball sixers playing the knicks in las vegas. another look at jahlil okafor. check out the spin move. okafor had 18 points but the team leader scotty. he nailed six 3-pointers added
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three boards and three assists. the game goes into overtime. unfortunately this one just wouldn't go so new york will win it 84 to 81. we have a friendly match down at ppl park. the union lost premiere league league. philly will head to toronto on saturday. bournmouth back to england. but okafor -- >> scotty who? >> right. >> we'll remember that name.
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business by selling food out of a trailer and began entering barb cue competitions six years ago. it paid awfully he won big and it looks great. >> did he do that? >> that looks good. thanks for watching "eyewitness news" at 11:00. hope you can join our colleagues dark and early tomorrow from 4:30 to 7:00 a.m. for "eyewitness news" this morning with erika von tiehl, nicole brewer. >> i'm jess a dean and you can always find it as cbsphilly.com. ncis new orleans is on its way next. >> from our entire team, thank you for watching. good night family. sleep well.
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