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tv   Eyewitness News at 530  CBS  July 27, 2015 5:30am-6:01am EDT

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>> good morning, new this morning, powerful magazine cover a lot of people are talking about. dozens of bill cosby accusers come forward sharing their allegations of abuse. we'll tell you what they are saying about their encounter with the philadelphia comedian, why their stories are now getting traction. >> first, don't leave home without the umbrella you are going need it today. storm are rolling you there the region right now leaving behind the wet roads for your monday morning commute. because, mondays aren't rough enough. >> all right. >> weren't we just saying
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that? >> and some accidents out there, meisha? >> no accidents, flooding, disable vehicle that's kind of all cleaning itself out there right now. i will say give yourself couple of interest meant levels are building very fast, right around 4:30, now it is 5:30. >> back to work. >> it is. >> it looks that way this rain pounding down right now so specifically where we're dealing with some of the heaviest rain, southeastern new jersey, now portions of delaware that's where you are going i think to see the slow down at the most, rain currently falling from the sky. i want to walk you through baby tour hereof storm scan3 give you sense of what's happening as we speak. that's where we will actually start. in fact, going out to southeast most new jersey, start with shore camera. it looks like it is a little hazy on the view at the moment. starting to see the brunt of the rain moving right into some of the shore point. so in atlantic sit definitely seeing some of the rain falling. some of it is coming down heavily up and down the shore. so let's go ahead go next to storm scan, where there you have t everything moving steadily south and east,
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within the last two hours seen it move from the northwest suburbs outside of philadelphia all the way to down here, so it is trucking along, you know? but it is slowing all every us down along the way. here is the thing all part of larger frontal boundary, fizzling front not the strongest system we've ever seen, even though the brunt of what's crossing through we're not done once this is out of here. guys actually going toned one few additional rounds looks like of scattered showers and storms but there will still be wet weather around, so i would say umbrella not the worse idea today. your eyewitness weather health report featuring lots of pretty colors. you have moderate air quality level out there pollen level pretty low uv index interestingly enough, still hi despite the fact you have more cloud cover than what the recent days have brought us, jump back to what's going on with flood advisories, good news, even before we went on the air, kent county still in flood advisory, just like that everything updates before your very eyes, left with flood advisories stillly through southwestern new jersey, area temperatures muggy low 70s
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for the most part across the board right now. our eyewitness weather day planner bringing in at least little bit of a break for you by mid-morning, then see again scattered showers storms, fire up again through the rest of the day. so hopefully you brought your umbrella, meisha, we send it over to you. >> rain, rain, go away, but it is good for the trees good for the animals good for the grass, that's the silver lining. live look outside, vine street expressway westbound at 11 street approaching broad street, traveling moving in the eastbound direction, see still traveling at posted speeds but it is just very wet out there. vine st. area that we are going to see build now. we are starting to see that in the past 15 minutes seeing more and more headlights start to go both the eastbound and westbound direction. give yourself couple of extra minutes, i think i will sound like broken record, but want to specially with the slick roadways disable vehicle, 95 northbound on the ramp to the blue route pulled way up on to the ramp. see the blinking lights off in the distance, there not causing many slow downs right now, although, if that doesn't get out of the way as we push
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toward the 6:00 hour it very well could start to cause some slow downs certainly. the roosevelt boulevard southbound, i can let you know that that's another busy stretch this morning i've been keeping my eye on, that and the vine st. looking busy on the roosevelt boulevard looking toward the schuylkill expressway, as you can see then those headlights give you nice sheen on the roadway letting you know it is slippery out there. erika, over to you. >> meisha, thank you. this morning getting our first look at powerful new york magazine cover. it features stories from dozens of women now accusing comedian bill cosby of sexual assault. "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabeo joining us now with more, really is powerful image. >> incredibly powerful image on the cover. de tickets 35 women who say bill cosby sexually assaulted them. this project, was six months in the making and inside the pages of new york magazine, each woman is featured and shares her individual experience. >> the faces of assault their stories spanning decades. these are 35 out of the 46 women who say bill cosby
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sexually assaulted them. it is the latest cover story by new york magazine, one that quickly crashed the magazine's website overnight. the feature is entitled cosby the women and unwelcome sisterhood. one by one they tell their stories, new york magazine posting to its twitter beverly johnson's account quote, the part of it i wasn't prepared for was the onslaught of women that have been assaulted anthem telling me their story because i told mine. then there is barbara bowman's experience. who says she was assault the by cosby over the course every years, she says, i felt like a prisoner. i felt like i was kidnapped and hiding in plane site. i could have walked down any street in manhattan at any time and said: i'm being raped and drugged by bill cosby. but who the hell would have believed me? nobody nobody. tamara green allegedly assaulted in the early 19 70s goes onto zero to talk about culture that wouldn't listen, in 2005 she says bill cosby controlled the media. in 2015 we have social media. we can't be disappeared.
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it is on line and can never go away. the cover comes after the release of documents from a 2005 sexual assault lawsuit. in them cosby admitted giving sedatives to women he wanted to have sex with. but cosby has always denied wrong-doing, and has never been criminally charged. >> and during that 2005 deposition cosby insisted that the woman who filed that lawsuit had consented now this cover, err cape, just the lateness this ongoing saga you. >> mention in your story so many people want to read the article, but crashed overnight. is that become up and running. >> at last check the site is down, did tweet out h.u.p. elf hours ago they're women aware of the technical difficulties and work to go fix it as quickly as possible. >> so many people want to dive in and hear the stories. >> thirty-five of them. >> thank you. right now 5:36. in business news this morning a huge recall and a record fine for major car maker. money watch's jill wagner joins us from the new york stork stock exchange jill, good morning. >> reporter: good morning,
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erika. fiat chrysler will pay record $105 million for violating safety laws. federal regulators say the auto maker was too slow to tell customers about 23 recalls, and then didn't fix the 11 million recalled vehicles fast enough. as part of a deal, owners more than million recalled jeeps with rear mounted gas tanks will be able to trade their cars in, for above market value. fiat chrysler must also offer to buy back more than 500,000 of its best selling ram pick-up trucks, defective steering parts that can cause drivers to lose control. some previous repairs have not worked. the stock sell off continued in china in morning despite massive government efforts. we'll see how it impact the markets here in the u.s. on friday the dow fell another 1063 points. the nasdaq dropped 58. and, keep your elbows offer the table. but maybe not your smart phone. ikea has a new play mat it, comes with a pocket for your gadget. protect your phone from food and drinks, and you can still
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see, though, when you are getting a phonecall. that new line goes on sale in september. is this a step in the right direction, the wrong direction? i think maybe the wrong direction. >> i'm with you. put the phone away to enjoy your people. that's just me. jill, thanks so much. >> exactly. >> have a good day. people in north brunswick, new jersey, can now return home after loose week's huge warehouse fire, remember? enormous forced dozen poof many to evacuate. that fire field buy plastic cars household goods broke out early wednesday morning. officials worry the plastic from the warehouse had compromised air quality and safety in the area. the cause of the fire remains under investigation. family, friends, are holding out hope as the search for two missing teenagers in florida continue. the 14 year old boys went missing on friday after they left for a fishing trip. authorities now say their capsized boat has been recovered. cbs news correspondent wendy gillette has the story.
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>> reporter: hundreds gathered sunday evening in jupiter florida for a vigil. to pray that perry cohen and austin stephano are safe. the 14 year old did not return from a fishing trip friday. they were last seen at this fueling station in jupiter. they bought more than $100 worth of fuel, and may have been planning to head to the bahamas. >> we'll do anything to get our children back. >> retired nfl great joe nameth has offered his help to find the boys. he lives near perry and has known both teens for years. >> so fine, these two young fellows, we just keep on praying, man it is just hard, it is so hard. >> the 19-foot single engine boat the boys were in was found capsized sunday nearly 200 miles down the coast. the coast guard is altering its search plan based on the boat's location. as the boys were leaving friday, the weather had started to turn stormy. >> everybody was racing toward the inlet. and i do remember seeing a small boat going out the inlet with a kim of kids on it, and
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saying to myself, these kids are crazy. >> the tweens were supposed to be fishing near their home. now dozen of private boats and planes are searching for them, hundreds of miles from where they had told their parents they would stay. wendy gillette cbs-3 "eyewitness news". 5:40 right now. still ahead rough trip overseas, for snoop dog. we have the word on yes was arrested after a concert. >> also, gone too soon. we're taking a look back at the life of whitney houston's only daughter, after bobbi kristina brown died. >> and a scary day on the job for a tv reporter. see what made her run for cover. we'll be right back.
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>> bobbi kristina brown has died just 22 years old many danielle nottingham has the details. >> bobbi kristina brown passed away not long after her family moved the 22 year old to hospice care. bobbi kristina was the only child of singers whitney houston and bobby brown. she was found unresponsive in the bathtub. her suburban atlanta home, january 31st. >> possible cardiac arrest, river bend manor, 21 year old female in the bathtub face down -- >> she was place in the medically induced coma, the
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circumstances were early similar to her mother's death in 2012. whitney houston was also found unresponsive in the bathtub of her los angeles hotel room on the eve of the grammy awards. heart disease and cocaine were listed as contributing factors. bobbi kristina spoke at the 2012 billboard music awards. >> i want to say thank you to everyone who supported us through it all. >> bobbi kristina grew up in the spotlight while both her parent struggled with drug addiction. she appeared in reality shows including the houston's on her own. bobbi kristina is whitney houston's only heir, her death expected to start a legal battle over the superstar's estate between bobby brown and nick gordon, gordon orphan grew up in the houston household, bobbi kristina said he was her husband, but the two were not legally married. danielle nottingham, cbs-3 "eyewitness news".
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the word this morning is arrested. rapper snoop dog is stopped by police in sweden on suspicion of drugs. the rapper was arrested and taken to the police station saturday night to take a drug test. snoop had just performed in stockholme when police pulled him over. he was later released and free to leave the country. afterward snoop went on social media calling it racial profiling, says woe not return to sweden. >> you're just a thief. >> no. >> a mad man. >> small but mighty, ant man takes the top spot for second straight weekend. marvel's hero, earns $24.8 million this past weekend. and it is just pixels starring adam sandler took in 24 million, mill johns, train wreck, saw paw, round the out the top five.
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>> initially here, we have very very rain falling across southeastern new jersey, as well as into delaware. almost everybody to deal with the heavy line p of thunderstorms, rainfall amounts have come into us from our eyewitness weather watcher network. shy of half inch came in from bath pa, from charles out in perkasie, john had just over .3 of an inch, phil out in philadelphia reporting just over a quarter of an inch of rain from the rain that's already moved on through, in fact phil actually had picture that we go on over to here, he shows all of the rain coming down where he is located around the chestnut hill section of the city. yes, it always messes with you, right, you can tell by the snapshot i am and just hazy halo glow around the street lamp, and the car lights. so it definitely reduces your visibility. now things have started dry out briefly at least across our live neighborhood network. back toward cut town, at 68 degrees to start things off
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here. we are seeing the dampness left behind. but the rain has since retreated off to the southeast. here's the thing, even though this will continue its trek, mover out to sea then we catch break, it is just that. it is just a break t does appear as though we ends one scattered showers thunderstorms, key word scattered, but more that moves in as the day goes on. we need the front to completely fizzle away, will need little more time. high pressure starts to build back n we start to heat up very significantly here. take a look what's going to happen here. we have temperatures easily going to be rebounding, back into the 90s, for the next couple every days, with a rise in the jet stream, in other words, ridge that get carved out by high pressure. so mid-week, it is dry with sunshine, but it is hazy, it is hot, it is humid and we, my friends might be looking at another heatwave here as long as the projected daytime highs pan out. meantime thursday, new frontal boundary, next shot after today, for another shower or thunderstorm. meisha, over to you. >> i see some sun. that's good news. thanks so much katie. good morning everyone, it is
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monday, authorities get going. and it is raining. that just kind of throws another curve ball at us. downed tree on mlk drive at falls bridge. police right now are directing traffic. they are diverting it because all of your lanes are blocked, so i suggest using the kelly drive or the schuylkill expressway for alternate. certainly don't go anywhere near that. you can't get through. here is a look at 95 southbound before girard. see plenty of headlights out on the roadway we do expect personally when wet and slippery out there and just to that effect make sure to give yourselves ample space before the car in front of you specially because it is going to be slippery. disable vehicle, 95 northbound, on the ramp to the blue route. pulled all the way out to the right, shining things on the roadways, people like to tap their brakes. this will certainly slow things down, as we progress into the morning. overall side note, give yourself couple of extra minutes. >> here are your headlines this morning on cbs-3 search onto find the person responsible for fatal hit-and-run in juniata park.
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it happened around 10:30 last night at the intersection of east luzerne and i streets. police say they think that they have recovered the suspect's vehicle the driver, though, is still on the loose. >> residents are evaculated after fire rips through their apartment building in pennsauken, new jersey. that fire broke out just before midnight on the third floor inside the cooper river plaza apartments. one firefighter was injured. >> and, the man suspected of stabbing his wife and one year old daughters behind bars this morning. police found 41 year old steven burton in maryland. both mother and daughter in critical condition. >> 5:49. with just over six months into the eye owe did a caucuses, race for the republican nomination intensifies, not without controversy. andrew spencer tells us it is not just what donald trump is raising eyebrows. >> to. >> reporter: the tone of donald trump's campaign has drawn no shortage of de tractors. this time, though, it is mike
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huckabee creating controversy invoking imagery of the holocaust in talking about the iran nuclear deal. during interview with bright bar news he said quote this president's foreign policy is the most fact less in history so naive he would trust the iranians doing so woe take the iranians -- israelis and march them to the door of the oven. would lift economic sanctions if iran allows international inspections, and scales back some of its nuclear capabilities. huckabee's analogy drew demands from the chair of the democratic national committee to apologize to both the jewish community and the american people. huckabee's campaign instead used twitter to double down on the comment sunday, campaign spokeswoman told cnn the comment speaks for itself. meanwhile, trump's campaign is celebrating recent polling victories. the latest cnnorc polls shows him as top choice for the republican nomination. lead over jeb bush is within the pole's margin of error. trump has also generate add
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lot of negative attention though, 42% of republicans in the pole said they had an unfavorable view of donald trump. among democrats, that number was much, much higher. andrew spencer cbs-3 "eyewitness news". still ahead this morning imagine being banned from starbucks. one man said he has been outlawed from the coffee shop. find out why he says he is no longer welcome there. first though here's what's coming up tonight on cbs-3. so you're telling me staples will give me everything on this list at the lowest prices? we have a 110% price match guarantee for back to school. look me in the eye and tell me staples has the lowest prices. staples has the lowest prices with our price match guarantee. works for me.
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blands could be arrested for no crime at all surely this racist state trooper can be arrested. >> bland was found hanging in her jail cell three days following the arrest. the medical examiner has ruled her death as a suicide. >> a scary day on the job now for news crew in washington state. a tense situation escalated saturday evening when gunshots were fired near them. >> good thing she moved quick limit entire thing caught on camera here, reporter and her photographer were getting ready to record a piece for the evening news when two cars sped past themment second later they heard gunshots. >> the shots were fired and of course my immediate reaction was just to get down. and so within a few seconds of that i ran around the front of the explorer, got in the passenger seat, casino every just ducked right under the dashboard. >> now similar situation happened the night before where several homes in that area were hit by bullets.
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police now using this video that they have right here as evidence saying the cars seen are the suspects' vehicles. luckily, no one was injured. well, this will have you talking, florida man said heist been banned for life from starbucks for policing their parking lot. rob rowan said he was regular at starbucks and he used to get short decaff smoke a with whip. he said he got a letter kicking him out for good because he would confront other customers who parked in the store's handicap spots. >> i said to them, you are parked in the one handicap space. and you need to move your car. it was obvious they weren't handicapped. and i made sure they weren't handicapped, wasn't a handicap parking spick error plate. >> he said he has son-in-law who has handicap and uses those spots. there are reports starbucks has lifted the ban but so far no independent confirmation. we'll be right back.
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oh, this long stretch of just fabulous weather we've been having it, came to a stop overnight. heavy rain and lightning took over. part of our area also waking to up flood advisories, this morning. >> also, philadelphia police say they've caught the man who
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stabbed his wife and one year old daughter, we're live with how they tracked him down to another state. and, a history making day for the bow scouts of america. the group is poised to lift ban on openly gay leaders. details in a few minute. >> good morning, it is monday, july 27th, i'm erika von tiehl. oh, that weather really impacting your commute this morning. we want to get right to katie and mere a a lot of wet roads out there. >> so true. they say traffic and weather together go hand-in-hand. certainly affecting drive times, it is right now. >> yes. looks as though unfortunately meisha left with more of the same even as the day progresses. now the brunt of what this frontal boundery has up its sleeve, falling even as we speak. of course the morning drive will be most affected by it. you can see just how it is lit up over my shoulder. that's how we start thing off by taking you out to just view of the snapshot of the most current up-to-date radar image here from storm scan3. and as we make our tri-state sweep, picking up on the area

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