ling passes for the pope's visit. not everyone who wants a ticket will get one. what you needed need to do today if you want a shot at riding the rales when the pope comes to town. >> new this morning, about the last thing you want to see when go out to your car, right? we have new information about the vandal accused of slashing tires and almost dozen cars overnight. >> also, raging wild fires continue to grow out west. dozens every homes have already been destroyed and even more are at risk this morning. we'll have the latest for you on the effort to contain those flames. >> good morning, it is monday, august 3rd i'm erika von tiehl. we want a quick check on your your traffic and weather together with katie and mere, a getting to be little muggy out there. feels like, ladies? indeed. feels like getting little busy for werth but also getting very busy for traffic. so what are we looking at in terms of roadways, katy? >> at lows it is dry. we still have that going for us it, will continue to stay that way for the better part of the day mere a cold front will be bringing us shower or thunderstorm at some point. we think later on today.

but, even that looks like it will be pretty scattered. i would say if you have outdoor plans, you can totally keep them. be sure have the sun block ready to go, and also be prepared for it to start feel more muggy even though it was still, you know, in heatwave territory the last couple of days it sure felt good outside. granted it was hot. it didn't feel muggy or oppressive. we go outside, live neighborhood network, isn't this beautiful view, sun comes up. just couple of clouds at the moment as we face east here overlooking the genesis bay, this take friend milled township high school at cape may courthouse, 69 degrees there. you have got generally mid upper 60s in most locations little cooler, little milder, just again depending where you are. but storm scan quiet at this hour. doesn't mean it will stay that way, we eventually look forward in the nor cast later today. we mention cold front set to cross through. so that will not only help knock up the humidity little bit here, but also bring with it a shower or thunderstorm, 66 the current temperature meanwhile nearby to cape may courthouse atlantic city, already in the 70s in

philadelphia. and we are shooting for 93. shouldn't have had a hard time hit that today. at minimum expect to go hit 09 degrees, that will extends this heatwave by yet another day. this will make it day seven officially, if you are counting anyway, and it does look as though we will keep the trends going for one more day, but there is an end in site to the worse of the heat. >> sounds good thanks so much katie. good morning everyone, just joining us welcome. so activity on the roadways, let's get right to t we have overturned vehicle, the right lanas you can see is block this is 95, northbound, between highland avenue and 322, approaching the commodore barry bridge, now what's happening here, is the far right two lanes are blocked so everyone's put putting on their brakes, almost like a parking lot, once you get around the accident then it clears up. but behind this, let me just show you what's going on here, here is a look at 95 northbound around 452 and i can tell you right now usually around this same time it is no problem. this does not look anything like this.

so you are seeing some major backups on 95 northbound at 452. and also we had building fire plymouth township butler pike closed at germantown pike. use the alternate of sierra road. when i go to the wide, you can see, everything is looking great. slowing down little bit on the vine street expressway, showing you around 95 headed northbound you are traveling at about 10 miles per hour. give yourself couple of extra minutes in the area. >> thank you right now, 03:00, so much to do and just 54 days left to get ready for pope francis visit to philadelphia. septa commuter competing in lottery for the special passes on regional rail lines. eyewitness neutral reporter justin finch joins us at septa headquarters to tell us all about it. >> lottery began 12:0; goes until 11:59 tonight.

you can bet buyers near and far clamouring for their chances to enter and septa says many will enter few will win, so in the end it will come down to few clicks and prayers. >> the lottery is live. since 12:01 a.m., site link to go papal pass lottery runs until 11:59 tonight. >> no matter what time you smith your lottery submission, everyone has the same chance of being selected. >> have time, date, three rail station preferences only 18 will run your e-mail address and then wait. once the lory shuts down it system weeds out fraudulent entries, then thursday emails go out to buyers who won chance to purchase up to ten passes each, only 350,000 are for sale. >> i wouldn't stress, one day at a time. >> comes first go at on line

pass sales flopped. their site crashed, under the weight of thousands of requests for the pope's visit september 26th and 27th. roam few hundred passes were sold. >> want to be able to get the papal passes into people's hands, so they can make some serious concrete decisions about their transportation plans. one day 10-dollar pass also a must to travel the regional rails during papal events that weekend. even if you're not planning to see the pontiff. >> if i don't get a pope pass i guess i won't be riding. simple as that. >> simple as that indeed. you might be tell topped enter more than one time to expect the odds in your favor to win resist that temptation, septa says, that if you enter multiple times, you can risk losing all of your entries making you ineligible for any passes so play fair, good luck. live in center city, justin finch, cbs-3, "eyewitness

news". >> thank you other news this morning, some south philadelphia resident are waking to up find their tires slashed 1,000 block of ellsworth and the 800 block every south broad street. police tell "eyewitness news" their 29 year old suspect is in custody. >> police also looking for two men who broke into a home in south philadelphia. the home invasion happened just before 1:00 this morning 1500 block of marshall street. investigators found at least one victim tied up inside the home no one was hurt. >> police officer and several bystanders were injured when an out of control car runs up on the sidewalk in jersey city speed being driver hit a car under the sidewalk into 12 people. chain reaction crash happened after 8:00, the driver tried to leave the scene but was

arrested. >> philadelphia police are locking for a driver who hit a five year old girl and then took off the crash happened yesterday afternoon 2200 block of north lambert street in north philadelphia. police say driver was in light colored suv with pennsylvania license plate jsg6673 on it. we are told that little girl is in stable condition. happening today, president obama will unveil his plans for cleaner energy. >> biggest change we've ever taken to combat climate change. >> existing power plants must cut emissions and begin transitioning to more renewable energy sources like winds and solar power. critics predict the changes will force you to pay more for electricity.

>> disaster declaration for atlantic burlington, gloucester townships and counties. those hard hit communities can get money back from the government for debris removal and other repairs after the storm. developing right now, a raging wilds fire in california forces some new evacuations as those flames continue to spread. and that's not the only dangerous fire burning right now. also startling surveillance video when gun fight erupt outside house party watch police say sparked this dangerous shoot-out. >> world famous hitchhiking robot after arriving in philadelphia. hear what the robot creator says about the unexpected ends to their experiment. >> ♪ ♪ >> another classic summer day hazy, hot and humid. katie lets you know when you get some relief from the heat. we're going ahead and calling

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>> firefighters trying to get a hanible on more than 20 wilds fires, burning in that state. the largest fire known as the rocky fire nearly doubled in size over the weekends engulfing 50,000 acres. twenty-four homes and 26 other buildings have been destroyed. more than 12,000 people and 5,000 homes have been evacuated. rain is giving fire fighters australia a helping hand. flames have been ripping through the blue mountains outside of sydney all weaken long. hundreds of firefighters battled that blaze. although no homes were threatened alert was issued for residents, the situation as it changed. back here at home, feeling the heat today. katie, i love that we have this cool-down in air quotes coming our way right? >> i always put it in air quotes because we are going to see a cool down, but still going to exceed 80 degrees, every single one of the days here in the eyewitness weather seven day. you will see. but today and tomorrow still expect to hit 90 plus degrees. today will actually be the

hottest of the next seven. you can see new cold front though, starting to just merge, and bring with it at the moment too some very heavy thunderstorms right over cincinnati ohio. see how things fizz philadelphia bit of time to kill before this arrives but it will be the next front that crosses through later today brink withing it shower or under this earl storm, jen lip, scat nerds nature. >> disturbance off to the south, don't worry about it, more than anything, just looking at this front for now, that's going to be impacting our weather. we will talk again more about the local weather coming up in a second. dow also want to highlight what's going on out over the central pacific here. hurricane, formed, right now category one hurricane but look what's right in its path here. hawaii the hawaiian islands on pace toned up with tropical storm looking ahead moving over relatively cooler water deepening with time, certainly, it will be making headlines for us the next couple of days.

current dew point at the moment 65 degrees, that's right about the time it starts to feel little steamy. so starting to see with those dew point climbing, bit more humid, bit muggier for you out there. we still expect to hit 93 today. ninety tomorrow. despite the passage of front. i should mention we also expect quick scattered shower or thunderstorm later on today. and then by wednesday 88 degrees thursday, and friday, both days that could bring us some showers, at minimum, friday maybe steady rain depends which computer model you believe at this point, but we'll keep an eye on that. >> heatwave that won't end. welcome change, day seven as long as we hit 09 or above. very good shot at that. >> how are you roads? >> still love the sunshine, still love it, even humidity, i don't care about my hair. >> good for you. >> it is monday, this is one of the heaviest travel days of the wok week, and i can tell you we do have accident out

there, this is the one that i really want you to take note of. ninety-five moving northbound direction, overturned vehicle causing some major slow downs as you approach that commodore barry bridge, and let me tell you, it is look being like a parking lot. >> this shot right here, you can see not only sun glare but this is where we have the overturned vehicle, and i just want to say too, i really hope the driver that far vehicle is okay. with that being said, what you are seeing is we have some law enforcement out there trying to move the vehicle out of the roadway. they were not moving. now the good part is it looks to your back to the two right lanes being blocked these drivers are trying to maneuver around that, then free to go. moments ago, you weren't even being able to move. so let me show you 95. this is the opposite shot southbound there is will cause major delays, just thinking about leaving your home any tune soon, i would advise to

you stay there. i would say give yourself another laugh hour. because that looks like a parking lot. back to you. >> meisha, thank you. and speaking of traffic news here, part of i76 camden county will be shutdown tonight for repairs after a tractor-trailer caught fire. one of the strikes tires ignite the the fire near gloucester city. the highway is open now but crews will have to close it at some point tonight to fix the highway. >> here's a look at your headlines this morning on cbs-3, septa has new approach for selling those special rail passes for pope francis' visit next month. a one-day lottery underway for passes on the regional rail lines, it ends at midnight tonight. >> also, new this morning neighbors in south philadelphia are waking to up find their car tires slashed. it happened to about dozen cars and several spots. police say they do have someone in custody. >> and, police are looking for two suspects in a south philadelphia home invasion. investigators say, the duo broke into a home on south marshall street and tied up at

least one victim. >> 6:16 right now. an explosions rock two churches during sunday morning mass, just few miles a wart from each other. hear the message investigate verse for the people responsible for those blasts. also, more racism accusations against coach chip kelly. former eagle tries to set the record straight after calling out his old coach following his sudden trade. details on that coming up in sports. we'll be right back.

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>> will burn shot the officer, and they say they think the trooper interrupt add drug deal. shooting outside house party in brooklyn, new york. nine people were wounded. police say an argument over women led to that shooting, which happened around 2:00 yesterday morning. the victims both men and women range in age from 18 to 38. the nypd says all of them are expected to survive. police have no suspects. a pair of explosions rock morning service at two churches in new mexico. this morning the fbi is investigating. one explosion destroyed church's mailbox then trash can blew up, and windows were shattered at church nearby. both churches are in last cruz north of el paso, texas

they written side when the blasts went offer. >> if your intention is to bring fear to those who worship you have failed. >> no parishioners were hurt. investigate verse not yet determined what caused those explosions they're also work to go determine if those incidents are connected. 6:21 right now. talk about night to remember. you have to see what happened when a man got interrupted while trying to propose to his girlfriend. also, don't let the heat stop you from exercising, doctor rob will join us here in studio to help you prevent getting muscle cramps during those summer workouts. >> and, katie is updating the forecast, not bad start to the day, flight. >> not terrible. that humidity however is beginning to ever so slightly creep up on us, that's going to be one of those variables that you do start to notice here today. but the heatwave continues regardless. we're talking temperatures and also, a little bit after cool down shall we say coming up.

>> the eagles are working out at nova care with the first open practice of training camp tomorrow. but on day one the focus is on remarks by a player, not even on the roster. the board's training boykin to the steelers over the weekends boykin said eagles

coach chip kelly was quote uncomfortable with some players. kelly says he doesn't feel that way. >> i didn't say anything, billy felt the same way when he left, you know, and i like brandon. i just don't know. i really don't know. >> 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. so i think i that was taken out of context. >> the eagle continue their workouts today. the first pre-season game is a week from this sunday against the comes at the linc, and it will be here before you know t. >> did you hear about this? north carolina man postpones his marriage proposal to help traffic and weather a robbery. nick anderson went to dinner with his girlfriends with plans of propose to go her. as he was getting ready to pop the question he says a man walk into the restaurant, demanding money. the robber, and employee, got into a scuffle, and the worker called for help. >> the guy that he was chasing tried to hit him. i grabbed the guy from behind. at the end of the day when i lay down at night, i think that, you know i did the best

i k that's it. >> police arrested the suspect, they say robbed the restaurant twice before. as for anderson, did he finally get around to proposing, we are told the couple went to nearby park, and she said yes. but talk about story they won't forget. >> coming up in the next half hour of "eyewitness news", we have everything you need to know if you are trying to get your hands on one of those special septa papal passes this morning. >> erika, pit burying area doctor, now becomes the second american under investigation for allegedly illegally hunting and killing a lion in zimbabwe. i'm jan carabeo reporting live, coming up more on his background. >> jan thanks. also; vice president joe biden ready to run? the growing speculation that he could join the race for the white house. meisha? >> traffic is certainly heating up at this point in the morning. we had big crash that was causing some major slow downs on 95 headed northbound between 322 and 422 now that's been cleared. all of the updates coming up in just a moment.

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good morning and another sizzling start to the work week. beautiful shot here down the shore. temperatures right now in the 70s, but we're not getting any relief from the heat later on today. katie, looking at this stretch of seven days last week, thinking man, this is heatwave that never ends, it seems to keep ongoing today. >> absolutely, and it is going to keep ongoing we think through tomorrow. and then finally start to wayne away here. air quote cool down later. >> exactly, cool down back to the 80s back to reality really. but you know, we've definitely seen longer stretches of this kind of heat before.

actually going to start things off by taking you back in time, little history lesson, boo out fullback grounds shot for you here, but showing you here the top three heatwaves in terms of shear lent. so one lasted 17 days, can you imagine more than half month of 90 degrees or above? that happened back in 1995. with relatively similar time to go what we're finding right now, 13, was number two, 13 days back in 1953, that one was little later in the season leading up toward about labor day then 12 days, makes for number three of the top three longest heatwaves we've ever reported here in philadelphia, since records began, that happening back in 1999. so you know there is one is expected forecasting it to be l eight day heatwave. now on day seven. storm scan3 at the moment, quiet as can be. we do have a frontal boundary however, that is set to cross. that's going to help pick up the humidity level for you. already starting to happen as we speak. currently at 73 in philadelphia. little cooler around the outlying suburbs at the moment, feeling pretty goody

would actually say, dew points aren't terrible just yet. in other words humidity, but that is going to be changing with time. so as the day goes on, start to get little more moisture in the atmosphere, starts to heat up little bit more here. notice it feels a bit muggier, later today also watch for scattered but perhaps even locally strong shower or thunderstorm, when it moves through and we keep the heat going right into tomorrow as well. meisha? >> sounds good, thanks so much katie. good morning everyone, happen mine day. just joining us, welcome. we had crash earlier, 95 northbound between 322 and 452. so take little drive. should we? see how it is looking? see the brake lights still going on, traveling a little bit less than posted speeds. good news, not just me, everyone in front of me driving less than posted speeds as well, as we come up to the crash, i can tell you it, looks like this, and this is a lot better than we were just looking at. hopefully now the crash moved out of the way thing will start to pick up in the area. look at 42, creek road,

approaching 295. you can see, a nice steady flow of air looking good for those of you traveling outside of jersey, trying to make your way toward 295 then beyond into philadelphia. also, going to the wide, see all of the censor maps up. dropping couple of ours right in the vine street expressway, and also, 95, if you head southbound right around cottman and girard, that's where we're seeing some slow downs there. overall mass transit looking good, no delays at the airport, erika over to you. >> meisha, thank you. septa's trying an on line lottery today for passes during the papal visit next month. it is randomly selecting only 350,000 people they'll be able to buy passes for the regional rail line. you have until 11:59 tonight to enter the lotteriment septa says everyone has the same chance of getting selected no matter what time you enter. now, you must get one to ride into the sit that i weekends even if you don't plan to see the pope. >> well, if i don't get a pope pass i guess i won't be riding. simple as that.

>> it is simple as that. septa will notify the lucky winners by e-mail starting on thursday. we have a link for to you sign up for those septa lottery passes on cbsphilly.com. 6:34. and while outrage continues over the death of cecil the lion officials in zimbabwe are investigating whether another lion was killed in the same area by a doctor from pennsylvania. "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabeo joins us in the satellite center with the new details, good morning. >> good morning zimbabwe wildlife authorities have also banned bo hunting. they have also suspended the hunting of lions leopards, and elephants. this after you mention the second american comes under investigation for an illegal hunt. this american is a doctor from the pittsburgh area. yet another american facing harsh criticism today for allegedly killing a lion in an illegal hunt. doctor jan seski now under investigation.

here he is seen in pictures found on line, posing with number of dead animals including a zebra elephant and hippo. seski lives in murrays ville pennsylvania, east of pittsburgh. gynocological oncologist, who has two private offices in pittsburgh. zimbabwe national park, says he killed a lion with a bo and arrow. that's the same park where cecil the lion lived. cecil was found dead last month sparking international outrage at minneapolis area dentist walter palmer. accused of illegally killing the animal outside the park. in seski's case the owner of the safari company has been arrested, officials say he was operating without a permit and is now assisting in the investigation. >> our law enforcement office remembers looking into the matter so we can really understanded what transpired. >> this new investigation is part of an industry wide crackdown following the death of cecil the lion. his coalition partner jericho

the lion was feared dead this weekend, but zimbabwe authorities say research project snapped this photo of jericho on sunday morning feeding with his pride. and back to the two investigations, authorities are trying to expedite palmer to face charges not so at this time for seski but that could change. reporting live in the sat center, jan carabeo cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> see what happens, jan thanks so much. in campaign 2016, reports that vice president joe biden will run for president are picking upstream. as cbs news correspondent brian web reports if biden jumps in it would shake things up in a relatively small race for the democratic party nomination. >> vice president joe biden is considering a run for the white house sources tell cbs news, but final decision isn't expected for at least another month. >> the question for biden is where does he fit in, and he is pretty much as much establishment as hillary clinton is. so, he couldn't come in and be the anti-establishment

candidate. >> have reportedly been talking to party leaders and donors after biden's son, beau biden, urged him to run for president before his death last may. >> while the vp waist his options, hillary clinton's campaign moving forward. clinton's first tv commercials begin airing this week, in the early primary states of iowa, new hampshire. >> i think joe biden is a great human being and a great vice president he's a good friends of mine. >> but i am a hillary clinton supporter. >> vice president biden is currently third in the polls behind clinton and bernie sanders. >> i've known joe biden for many years, viewphone of joe. but i think the american people who are sitting in the middle class of this country disappearing want to go beyond convention at establishment politics. >> if-ee elected joe biden at 74 would be the oldest president at the time of his first inauguration. >> brian web cbs-3 "eyewitness news". your time right now 6:37. and severe weather blows through the midwest. we have new video of those storms and the damage left

behind. also combating cramps. doctor rob lets you know how to avoid those uncomfortable muscle cramps when working out in the summer heat. >> and, if man versus machine when the worlds famous hitchhiking robot is destroyed, well, philadelphia. >> ♪ ♪ mr. rob oatho. >> ♪ ♪ >> oh, got to give a big high five air high five to journey the producer for putting on mr. rob theo. hear what the creators say about the ends of the road for their experiment, again live look from our studios doctor rob, just walked in, in his white lab coat over there. talking about how you can avoid the cramps you get when working out in the summer heat. that and more when we come right back. good morning.

>> wright tornado caught on camera yesterday, as it moves through a fields southwest of des moines. you can see cloud of dust and debris at the base that far twit twister as it makes its way across the landscape. some winds hail damage, but the good news here, no one was hurt. also, a powerful storm in suburban chicago cow cents a tent to collapse killing a 35 year old man. fifteen other were taken to the hospital. clams happened in wooddale yesterday afternoon. witnesses say there was strong hail lightning, right before the tent got blown away, then came crashing back down. no storms for our forecast but some sizzling temperatures, chance of rain you think? >> yes, i think we have a shot for shower or thunderstorm later today but not initially here erika. we can at least expect to start off with quiet weather for your morning drive certainly, some sunshine to go along with it, checking in with the weather watchers, almost sort of just going right down the i95 corridor, with a lot of the values. 65 degrees came into us from peter, he has full sunshine,

lawrenceville, than just went last couple every minutes here. 68 degrees, came in to us from phil, he too under full sunshine north wales. he is at 68 degrees, nice start to the day he said, right now the humidity still isn't too too bad. we're in at 69 degrees from fran, he is out in nottingham, again under full sunshine right now reporting 73% humidity so yes i mean, little bit of humidity but not terrible at this point. let's take a look though at the heat. when we talk about the extreme of, you know, how this heat can ellie affect you, doctor rob onset now, will be up to talk about it little more what this can mean as far as your exercising goes, and with the heat, trying to deal with that, keep in mind, though, you actually is more heat related not just ill know cents but also, death because of how extreme that heat can be. so it beats out lightning it beats out flood, tornado and hurricane deaths, just because more than anything it is one of those things we take for granted. so be smart about it. today we are expect to go hit the low and mid 90s easily

again today. extending the heatwave by yet another day. your eyewitness weather health report, start to seat yellow showing up here, know it is not ideal. air quality moderate, pollen levels medium to hi, haven't had much rain. uv index is very, very high. now we have got frontal boundery that will be crossing through, some humidity climbing so watch for not just it to feel little muggier out there today also late in the day, shower, thunderstorm, likely to get triggered with the front passing through. tomorrow, still hot but drying out. and then wednesday we finally break the heatwave. only up to 88, meager degrees here, meisha, by that point. >> all right good to know, katie. thank you so much. yes, make sure the air conditioners are working, you will need them. here is a live look outside the schuylkill expressway, city avenue. very busy here. been busy all morning started picking up even in the 5:00 a.m. hour. we typically she on a monday. monday can be one of the heavily travel days, schuylkill expressway pushing

toward our rush hour starting to heat up also for those of you coming over from jersey taking any of the bridges right now, but here is a look at the bryn bridge for those of you coming in, looking very busy there as well, of course you have lost the far right lane, use today that now just know definitely heating up there, as women. ninety-five southbound at girard, we typically see this, very busy, but i would say the that this usually looks in our rush hour. it is not even 7:00 a.m. yet. already, it is looking like this, so very, very busy. ninety-five, between i would say cottman and then once you get to the vine street expressway. going to our wide, see where we're dropping little bit. schuylkill expressway, right around roosevelt boulevard also the vine street expressway, 95 also, r moving in the northbound direction. erika, over to you. >> meisha, thank you. bobbi kristina brown heads to her final resting place today besides her mother, brown will be burried at fairview cemetery in westfield, new jersey, with the late singer whitney houston. despite family drama and ongoing fights over her inheritance, there was huge turn out for her private funeral in georgia on

saturday. brown died last month at the age of 22, nearly six months after she was found unresponsive in a bathtub. >> as we age we all know how important it is to protect bones and joints, but how much after role does staying active play in building strong and healthy muscles? from your posture, to your energy levels, really does make a difference. family physician doctor rob dan off joins us to talk more about muscle health. doctor rob always great to see you. >> good to be here. >> new study recently looked at physical inactivity how it affect our muscles (it is so important to stay active. what does the study finds? >> the journal of rehabilitation look at people who were active. who some may have become inactive for two weeks. so looked at guys, guys who he can err size, good muscles young guys lost about 30% of their muscle strength, if they were inactive for two weeks. >> okay? >> they could have taken vacation, maybe had cast on their leg, it was equivalent to them being about 65 years

or 70 years of age. that's how much muscle strength and mass they lost. now, our senior citizens at their inactive for couple of weeks say they're ill or break a bone wear a cast. they lose about 25% of their muscle strength and as we get older it is important to maintain muscle strength for health. >> naturally. what are the benefits every strengthening those muscles not just doing the cardio, strengthening the muscles? >> so right. andorrans, activity daily living, whether it is climbing stairs, lifting our kids, doing gardening, we feel better. also our clothes will fit bert. muscles tone, you know, you work out. you know? we burn more calories f we have more muscles, we burn more calories at rest. wouldn't you like to burn calories just sitting smear. >> i would love. that will. >> we do that also, we feel more energized and we have just stronger muscles, and better balance less chance of falling. so it is real important. here is the side benefit. stronger muscles and more in shape muscles have good benefit consideration decrease blood sugar, so diabetic, have strong muscles and exercise.

that will help you better control your blood sugar. it will decrease your body fat. overall great benefit for us. >> win-win. sometimes when working out trainer or somebody, you know, push yourself being downing more, and your muscles may start to shake when you are working out. can you over work the muscle? can you over stress it? >> yes, that's good point. you know start to feel the shaking or your muscle starting to hurt some people say no pain no gain. no no pain, then you are out for awhile. if you have the pain. so if you are starting to feel pain, then back off that. make sure you stretch properly. do the activity and practice it prior to. that will because you don't want to work through that barrier, if not you will hurt yourself. >> right. summer months i feel like somehow we cramp up a little bit more during the summer month when working out outside specially. >> yes. >> do you have anyways to avoid that? is that even true or just something we made up? >> it is true. if kate coy lower the temperature and humidity we wouldn't have as much muscle cramp. come on, katie. when it gets real hot humid we work outside we exercise, our muscles, we sweat a lot.

we lose electrolytes, sodium, potassium. muscle cramps, real painful consideration common suddenly watch do we dough? here is a little tricky learned years ago. have some salty type food. that will will help. first train appropriately just don't go out there and do stuff without your muscles being used to it, light stretching. what's that mean? whatever active till you're about to do, go through it gently, then your muscles will be more used to it. >> right. >> also you want to drink water when thirsty, but have some foods that have salt and potassium. so i'm big with pickles. pickles before and after activity. >> pickles are perfect. popsicles, maybe salted crackers, they work well. >> thanks so much. right now 6:49. and we're a little more than month away until steven cobair bridges new late night laughs to cbs-3. new late night show giving us a taste whatever he expect when he takes over. >> i'll talk about the news, tell jokes and have fascinating conversations with celebrities, athlete musicians, and of course,

politicians. wow. do you a great mitt romney. >> i am mitt romney. >> that's it stay in character. >> the first three official promos for the show were released last night. cobair also showed off his charlie rose trapper keeper. check it out. and he throws in a card trick, as well. see what he has up his sleeves when the new late show debuts september 8th right here on cbs-3. and right now 8:00 -- 6:50. we new charlie roads was a keeper. let's check in and see what's coming up this morning. good morning charlie. >> good morning, i have not yet seen that. you're head of me. here is what we have for you. we're in california tracking wild fires they've already destroyed dozens of homes and thousands more are in danger. plus we're on big pennsylvania story. another american under fire for hunting lions. also this, cops go undercover as homeless people to crackdown on distracted

drivers. and national geographic traveler revealed it annual photo contest winners. that will and more, the news back in the morning see in you about ten minutes. >> having senior trapper keeper, can i tell you you look fantastic. it looks great. >> thank you thank you. >> take care. >> world famous robot meets a sad ends here in philadelphia. hitchbot the hitchhiking robot was two weeks into cross country john when someone damaged it in old city. "eyewitness news" reporter steve patterson shows us what happened. >> this is the way family wants to remember hitchbot. >> ♪ ♪ >> the robot famous for hitchhiking across germany canada, the nerve err lan start his venture in the eastern united states, then he came to philadelphia. >> we're very disappointed. >> hitchbot survived by his parent canadian creators

doctor searle and doctor harris smith. >> circulated now on social media, to vaunt lies at this point -- >> hitchbot was designed as a social experiment to appear child like, defenseless going from one social interaction to another, dependent on the care of humans and the kindness of strangers to get across the country. >> we just pick up a hitchhiking robot. so weird. >> it was supposed to test the human spirit. and at some point late friday night along the oldest street in philadelphia, we failed that test. the image after dismember robot slain in philly has now gone viral. >> i think we just got to leave him. >> video positive popular youtube personality catches his final hours. but creators say this is not 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 experiment creating its own social date a fitting maybe that the end after global journey happened in what many consider the birth place of the world's greatest nation. >> it has been very sad ending but also amazing. >> steve patterson cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> what a shame. before you walk out the door, we're updating today's top stories including the latest on overnight tire slashing spree. first though here's what's coming under tonight on cbs-3.

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j here is a look at today's headlines on cbs-3 about dozen car owners wake up with slashed tires in south philadelphia. nine cars were hit on ellsworth street and two carson south broad street. >> philadelphia police are investigating a home invasion as well this morning. investigators say that two men broke into a home on the 1500 block of south marshall street and tied up at least one victim.

and, firefighters want thousands of people in northern california to evacuate because of several wild fires. the largest is in the lower lake area, that's north of san francisco. the 84 square mile fire is threatening 6300 homes and already, destroyed 24. happening right now septa holding lottery for commuters trying to get regional rail pass for the pope visit's next month. justin finch joins you now outside of septa headquarters in center city and folks are getting on line. good morning. >> as of 6:00 a.m. nearly 4600 successful intrants into its lottery, and it ends at 11:15 tonight. so still time for you, zero problems to report so far. the rules here are simple. you just go to septa site being look for lottery inning, but rather, link, enter e-mail address, preferred stations, as well as your times and dates and then from there the emails go out on thursday to all of the winners they can

buy up to ten passes per entrant, and only 350,000 passes will be sold, that breaks down to 175,000 passes, per day september 26th and september 27th. so, there is still time to win, and every entry no matter the time, septa says, has a chance to win. good luck. we are live in center city, justin finch cbs-3 "eyewitness news", erika? >> don't go entering more than once justin, thank you. last check on your traffic and weather together. oh, the humidity, feel it steaming up out there. >> absolutely, that's going to be the story here today. we are also tracking frontal boundary that's crawling on through at some point to bring shower storm. beautiful beginning to the day. very modest breeze, wind direction, notice that, coming from the southwest so, that is where you start to get some of the moisture creeping in. but beautiful view outside cut town area middle school, pretty much everyone of the field cameras has nice bright blue sky. clearly something waiting in the wings fizzling frontal

boundary, when it gets here, will help trigger shower, perhaps heavier thunderstorm, scattered in nature, and primarily through the second half of the day. so we just have to watch for that later in the day meisha. >> sounds good. right now the roadways are nice and dry just busy. look at. that will 95 southbound at girard making your way into center city. both directions, southbound, and northbound at 95. yikes, we don't typically see it like this. we had crash here earlier, 59 northbound, so those of you coming in and around the airport area, pretty nice. up in the left, you can see that sunshine, so sometimes we have that sun up slow down, if you will, that sun glare can be testy for the drivers. >> sure can. thank you. coming up next on cbs this morning, california a blaze, more than 20 wild fires have consumed nearly 50,000 acres in the state. they have a report on the state of emergency from the fire's edge. also, quick reminder joining us bright and early every weekday morning we kick things off 64:30 a.m.

cbs this morning starts right ♪ good morning. it is monday august 3rd, 2015. welcome to "cbs this morning." explosive wildfires in california force thousands from their homes. an entire town is threatened by fast-moving flames. a massive manhunt is under way this morning for ab alleged cop killer in memphis after a routine traffic stop turns deadly. and police so desperate to crack down on distracted driving, they pose as panhandlers. we'll take you inside that very unusual sting. but we begin with a look at today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> everyone we know that lives down there, they have nothing anymor