front. much like the last cold front if you remember, that cold front came through and did not live up to it name at all. it knocked the humidity back in a real nice way. but that cold front did not cool us down. so, this is very similar scenario in terms of temperature at less from one day to the next. but we are eventually going to see some cooler, quote unquote, cooler air move in as the day progresses or the days progress, i should say. we go on outside. show you waist going on here first and for most. live look overlooking the ben franklin bridge, take friend the campbell's field camera across the river but all quiet both on the new jersey side of things and certainly in p a and delaware for that matter. we look next at storm scan3 all you have really got going on here is a little hint every ground clutterment things still very dry at the moment. relatively low dew point not terribly muggy just yet. but off in the distance, we are tracking a new cold front. so eventually, there is going to be shower or thunderstorm that fires up, for now though, expect sunshine, heat to build once more today expecting the high to hit 93 in philadelphia, and

eventually, a scattered shower or a thunderstorm. i did want to track these for you, i'll wait until the next hit for that, but quick hour by hour look for you. get a sense of what the day has in store. start off with full sunshine, heat to up 93, between two p.m. and 5:00 p.m. then eventually shower or thunderstorm set to rumble through. i promise ill track those for you little later in the show. mere, a we send it to you for now. >> so evening return, though have their air conditioners working. all right, thanks so much, katie. happy monday, good morning, it is early but with that being said monday is one of the busiest travel days, so the more vehicles on the roadways, we can run into some problem. do have a crash this morning in kensington, aramingo avenue at lehigh avenue. the left lane blocked. two vehicles are involved. it doesn't look like it is causing any slow-downs obviously, looks more like side road. just make a mother of that. we do have first crash there of the morning. here is a look at the ben franklin bridge for those of you coming over from jersey in center city looking just beautiful. as it does every single morning in that spot. ninety-five northbound, at

452, as you come, try to make your way toward in and around the airport area looking good, looking actually nice and quiet. these travelers this black space i am moving to is moving in the northbound direction 959 actually overall moving in the southbound, northbound directions looking great. here is a look at the wide map. you can see, all of the censors are nice and hi, everyone traveling at posted speeds. this is what we expect in the 5:00 hour. we will of course see levels drop just little bit as we move into the 6:00 hour. erika, over to you. >> meisha, thank you. back to the stop story now and the countdown underway at 54 days until pope francis makes his historic journey to philadelphia. and as the city anticipates millions of tourists, hundreds every thousands of commuters they're trying to get their hands on septa special rail passes for the big weekends, justin finch joins us outside septa headquarters in center city and the lottery underway hopefully easier lottery to win justin, good morning.

>> maybe not so. it is here, goes until late tonight. septa says given the high demand for these passes, this system is actually the most fairway to get the passes in as many hands as possible. so that means for buyers here, and around the world hundreds of thousands of them it, will come down to few clicks and a prayer today. the lottery is live, since 12:01 a.m. septa side has been linking to its papal pass lottery, which runs until 11:59 tonight. >> no matter what time you enter your lottery submission, everyone has the same chance of being selected. >> on the lottery site, up enter your time, date, rail station preferences and e-mail address, and then wait. once the lottery shutdown, it weeds out suspicious, fraudulent entries, then thursday emails go out to buy heres want a chance to purchase up to ten passes each. by the way only 350,000 are for sale. >> i'm not going to stress

right now. i just take one day at a time. >> septa's lottery comes after last month's first go at on line pass sales flocked. their site crashed under the weight of thousands of requests for the pope's visit september 26th and 27th. only a few hundred passes were sold. the one day 10-dollar passes are a must to travel the regional rails during papal events that weekend even if you're not planning to see the pontiff. >> well, if i don't get a pope pass i guess i won't be riding. simple as that. >> simple as that indeed. if you don't get a pass, perhaps you can watch on tv, from home, you can also tell you that this week, septa could also announce the sale of more passes, these are for subways, trolleys, buses and they'll run from september 26th through the 28th. 750,000 of those are up for sale, also too your monthly passes and tokens will work for that. but not the same for the regional rail passes. so if you're in the city, it

may be better for you. live in center city, justin finch, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". new this morning nearly dozen cars are damaged in south philadelphia. residents are awakening to find their tires slashed. if happened in several spots including the 1,000 block of ellsworth and the 800 block of south broad street. police tell "eyewitness news" a 29 year old suspect is in custody at this hour. >> also, a man is shot in philadelphia's point breeze neighborhood. it is unclear what led to the shooting which happened just before 1:00 this morning at 19th and ellsworth. that man is in critical condition with gunshot wounds to the chest and right arm. there is no word yet on a suspect. and, police are also investigating a home invasion in south philadelphia. investigators say that two men broke into a home on the 1500 block of south marshall street around 1:00 this morning. they reportedly tied up at least one victim. >> and, 18 year old man is shot several times in the city's olney section.

philadelphia police say it happened on the 200 block of lynton avenue late sunday night. the victim was rushed to einstein hospital where we're told he's in stable condition. police are searching for a suspect at this hour. >> police are also looking for the driver who took off after hitting a five year old girl in north philadelphia on sunday. it happened on the 2200 block of north lambert street. that girl was taken to the hospital and is in stable condition. officers are searching for a light colored jeep with pennsylvania tags jsg6673. if you have any information you are asked to call police. >> right now 5:06. and hitchhiking robot who caught world-wide attention has met his untimely end in philadelphia. hitchbot, the hitchhiking robot, was two weeks into a cross country journey when someone damaged it in old city. "eyewitness news" reporter steve patterson picks up the story.

>> reporter: ♪ ♪ this is the way family wants to remember hitchbot. ♪ ♪ the robot now famous for hitchhiking across canada, germany, and the netherlands was just starting his adventure in the eastern united states, and then he came to philadelphia. >> we're very disappointed. >> reporter: hitchbot survived by his parent, canadian's. >> i didn't expect t now on social media -- >> reporter: hitchbot designed as social per spent to appear child like, defenseless going from one social interaction to another, dependent on the care of humans and the kindness of strange tears get across the country. >> we just pick up a hitchhiking robot. so weird. >> it was supposed to test the human spirit. at some point late friday night, along the oldest street in philadelphia, we failed that test.

the image after dismembered robot slain in philly has now gone viral. >> i think we'll just leave him. >> video captures hitchbot's final hours but the creators say this is not an indictment on the city of brotherly love. >> this could have happened anywhere. >> yes. >> absolutely. we don't really think it has anything to do with philadelphia. >> and they say don't grieve. hitch's demise is all part of the per meant creating it own social data, fitting maybe that the end after global journey happened in what many consider the birth place of the worlds areas greatest nation. >> it has been a very saddening, but amazing. >> steve patterson cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> that's hitchbot, come on, guys 5:08. eagles are in training camp after off season of big moves and controversial comments, as eyewitness sport reporter pat gallon shows us, the controversy is not over yet. >> reporter: in the latest episode of as the eagles world turns, chip kelly with a

forced to dis smell more rumors that race plaza factor in his roster decision, according to csn philly brandon boykin said chip kelly was uncomfortable among american of our culture. >> he shook high hand, gave me a hug so didn't say anything, billy felt the same way when he left. i like brandon i just don't know, i really don't know? some of chirp's players still on the roster don't under stands the compliment. >> i know for a fact chip likes uniformity. it is in the necessarily a bad thing, not about personalities or race or whatever. it is just about it being about the team. >> guys are like mexican bradford, aren't you native american, and kiko is colombian, we got black guys, white guys, polynesian guys. that's crazy. >> later clarified his comment during the opening of steelers camp. >> that's not what i said. i was misquoted. i said that in my quote i said he was uncomfortable with men of our culture. i am not saying he is a racist at all.

that's not what i said. >> when you are a play you want to be able to relate to your coach no matter watch outside of football. so whether not talking football scheme, i want to be able to sit there and talk to you about whatever. there were times where, you know, he just wouldn't talk to people. you would walk down the hallway and he wouldn't say anything to you. i'm not saying's racist in anyway. i am just saying that as a player, you know i wanted to be able to relate to my coach a little bit bert. i felt like a lot of guys in the lockerroom feel the same way. of course when you are in the organization you won't feel your opinion. >> pat gallon, cbs-3 eyewitness sports. we know any mention of football fires up the fans here in philly. some fans we spoke with like their chances others though are taking a cautiously optimistic approach. >> i am feeling good about the season. defense improved, great line back, best in the league i feel secondary little shaky but i got fate in chip, man in chip we trust. >> sam bradford, sam bradford

healthy, then the team has health in there. if not down the stretch you're going to see mark sanchez -- >> the eagles first pre-season game sunday august 16th against the colts, at the linc. and we have all of your eagles updates throughout trading camp as the birds prepare for the season, get everything you need to know right here on cbs-3 and our our website cbsphilly.com. well, check out these flames right here from a wild fire that broke out over the weekends in australia. they're not the only ones battling fires either. we have the latest on fire fighting effort in california, as well. also ahead gunfire breaks out all of it is caught on camera. police release surveillance video from a shooting that has left nine people hurt. we'll have the latest. >> also, is vice president biden considering a presidential run? the new details had a that have some speculating he'll be throwing his name into the ring. >> ♪ ♪

>> right now, it is 5:12. looking live at center city. time to rev those sleepy eyes, folks. get up get your week started. we have your forecast with katie. mean a -- meisha has her eyes on the road. we'll be right back. >> ♪ ♪

i saw a commercial that said you can save $500 by switching to progressive. that was me, mom. [ laugh ] i thought you said "that was me, mom." [ laughter ] >> rain is giving fire fighters australia a helping hand. check the city out here, flames ripping through the blue mountains west of sydney all weekend long. hundreds of firefighters battled that blaze. although no homes were threatened alert was issued for residents to monitor the situation for changes. >> and, it is a different story in northern california over 20 wild fires are burning in the state. the largest fire known as the rocky fire, doubles in size over the weekends, burning thousands of acres and prompting more evacuations. cbs news correspondent chris martinez has the latest. >> the rocky fire north of sack meant owe is raging on for a sixth day. thousands of firefighters, from around the state are doing their best to box it in

battling dry vegetation, and irradic winds. >> that's big, big problem for us then we don't have one direction that the fire's going, it is going in several directions. >> even with the constant water drops overhead, the rocky fireman and dollars to double in size over the weekend. since it errupted wednesday, a mid record heat, the fire has scorched more than 50,000 acres, and destroyed dozens of homes. thousands of resident had been forced to evacuate. >> terrifying. but you just go and get everything you can take care of your animal, and do what you can to get out of here. >> richard hardy has taken up shelty at nearby red cross center. >> i couldn't get back if i wanted to, and with the fire danger i'm not sure i want to. >> the rocky fire is just one of more than 20 fires burning across the state. >> there is a lot of fear this fire season just continues until we get significant rainfall. >> fire officials say the danger is only expected to continue with scattered thunderstorms, gusty winds in the forecast. chris martinez, cbs news,

clear lake, california. 5:16 right now. sure could use some rainout west. we have some rain headed our way, right? >> actually do. tracking cold front, more of lackluster system than anything. it is cold front for one thing, but doesn't do much to cool us down. it will however usher in shower thunderstorm here and there as the day goes on. but it is also going to help trigger little bit more humidity. we haven't real had i too much of that in the last few days, heat granted i'll give that you, we've had that but been comfortable heat. we can't always say that specially at this time of year. let's go ahead take you back in time, start things off despite checking out statistics, and with yesterday, did hit 90 degrees as anticipated normal high still upper 80s for the area. but this does now make this the, let's see the tally 20th day thus far this year. we expect to tally onto that, an additional two days, today tomorrow for 2015. so we really up those numbers just in the last week or so, tacking on six additional days from what we originally had

had. i don't think we'll come close to 2010 at this point but certainly at least making good run toward 2011 standards obviously already on par with 2013. let's go ahead talk about what's going on in the atmosphere. tracking code front. at the moment all calm, all completely collected, see the center city skyline well off in the distance granted but it is there, it is visible at least here outside palmyra coach nature park. we take a look what's going on on storm scan, nice wide zoom. shows you the approach of this latest cold front. there is some very heavy duty thunderstorms headed toward cincinnati, starting to fizzle lit bit. but his front is what is crossing through later today. as mentioned, you have little bit of fizzle effect going on with the leading edge of that, and really just looking at scattered shower or storm. disturbance passing us by well off to the south here, another well off to the south just through the big bends of florida that too expected to stay to the south. so this forecast isn't really all that action packed. we are going to see little bit after cool down in time. we walk you through meanwhile

what's going to happen through the rest of the day as of 10:00 a.m., clear as can be, starting to see humidity creep up. there is the speckle effect on the radar few showers few thunderstorms begin to get triggered with the passage of the front. look ahead to the eyewitness weather seven day forecast, yes, we don't cool off all it this much. still sun and clouds, wednesday looks beautiful with lower humidity, and new disturbance does move in with additional showers as early as thursday. 82 degrees though meisha, that will be like cold spell at that point. >> i just, like jolt to my system when you stay that 80 degrees can be cold spell. katie, am i right? let me tell you let's talk minnesota weather shall we one day? happy monday to you still dark outside still very early. we are happier with us, having the cup of coffee. a look outside. this is spring garden onramp to the schuylkill expressway westbound. as you can see, this is the schuylkill expressway, the onramp reopens tomorrow. but the off ramp is closed until august 12th.

looking at the schuylkill expressway though, looking pretty darn good for a busy monday morning. now this is where we had the first crash. morning in kensington, aramingo avenue at lehigh avenue, the left lanas you can see is blocked, two vehicles were involved, but it looks like they are now just starting to get this cleaned up. did i see some cars just moments ago trying to swerve around. that will but not causing any major delays. here is a look at the roosevelt boulevard, head southbound around the s curve trying to make your way to the schuylkill expressway, nice steady flow, but because we have some headlight out there we know it will be a busy morning, erika over you. >> meisha, thank you. a nine year old boy who was hit by a bat during baseball game in kansas over the weekends has died. we're told that kieser carlisle was a bat boy for the liberal bj's and amateur baseball team. he was running to retrieve a bat when the on deck hitter took a practice swing and accidentally struck that boy. kieser was wearing a mel met at the time of the impact. police in memphis are now offering a $10,000 reward for

the suspect who shot and killed a police officer. that suspect is identified as 29 year old treemain will burn. will burn accused of shooting a and killing officer sean bolton during traffic stop. they believe he interrupted drug deal at the time. will burn was on supervised release after serving federal sentence for robbery. a police officer is struck by an out of control car that also injured numerous others in jersey city. eyewitnesses say that a speeding driver hit a car sending it on to the sidewalk, and into nine people. the chain reaction crash happened just after 8:00 p.m. last night on ocean avenue near middle avenue. the driver tried to leave the scene, but was apprehended. a house party in brooklyn, new york ends in gunfire wounding nine people. we have surveillance video for you here of the shooting. it happened around 2:00 sunday morning, after an argument. the victims both men and women, range from 18 to 38. nypd says all of them are

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>> birds are at the nova care tuning up for regular season, of course plenty of questions in this camp like who will be the eagles starting quarterback, has secondary improved, who will fill out the offense i am line? look we'll get to answers to those and plenty of other questions coming up in the next few weeks. >> the eagles biggest off season acquisition is former dallas running back and nfl rushing champion demarco murray. he was not on field yesterday. njn.com reports he may have injured himself while

training. murray is supposed to speak with reporters after practice today. speaking of the dallas cowboys, receiver dez bryant and cornerback, tyler patmon got into scuffle at training camp yesterday. the two tangled on a play during 11 on 11 drills, and took cowboys quarterback tony romo to step in there quiet two down. coach jason garrett spoke to both players. also owner jerry jones we're told they didn't seem overly concerned. by the way, bryant and patmon both went to oklahoma state. >> turning to baseball now phils have the night off tonight after taking three of four from the braves in south philadelphia. the phils have been on quite a roll recently, but were derailed yesterday. the braves jays peterson hit three run homerun off phillies rookie starter adam morgan in the third inning. the phils couldn't catch up, and the braves won six to two. the dodgers and jimmy rollins in town tomorrow night. >> and, to the pennsylvania 500, at pocono, not a great day for brad's pit crew. he came in to the pit row a

little too fast, and took out three members of his team. you see that right there? thank goodness no one seriously hurt. winner matt took the checkered flag, because the two drivers ran out of gas. it was the second victory of the year. 5:27. coming up in the next half hour septa as lottery website for papal passes is up and working and running this morning. we have a live report for you coming up after the break. jan? >> erika, second american is now under investigation for allegedly illegally hunting and killing a lion in zimbabwe. i'm jan carabeo, reporting live in the sat center this morning, coming up we find out more about this person who is from pennsylvania. jan, thanks, also brand new study released this morning sheds some new light on children who are picky eaters. katie, i bet you will be listening up for that one. >> absolutely, ears are perked, my friends. well, we are looking ahead to another hot and now steamier day, the heatwave continues. i'll tell you how long it is

expected to last, there is an ends point in site. full details are coming right

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