>> now at 11:00 the clock is

tick. pope francis arrives in philadelphia in less than two months. and many of have you less than one hour to enter the lottery for septa's regional rail papal passes. online lottery ends at 11:59 tonight. i'm ukee washington. >> i'm jessica dean. those passes are required if you plan on using regional rail to get into philadelphia the weekend the pop is in town. todd quinones is live outside septa headquarters with how this process is going. just little time left now, todd. >> reporter: well, jessica, despite all the publicity our of surrounding this online lottery we found people who remain on the fence about it. time is running out the papal pass lottery for regional rail ends at 11:59 tonight. >> do you plan on trying to enter the lottery? >> um, i was giving it some thought. but i mean -- >> time is running out. >> i know. september tra indicates there are about a thousand entries per hour for the one day online lottery. and there are those who are hoping for some devine

intervention g we're on plan b. so plan a was try to get the tickets with everyone else when the system didn't work. >> reporter: after crushing demand crash the original ticket site, septa came up with a lottery idea. the hope is to try and make things as fair as possible and also buy eliminating the first come first serve system tamped down the mad rush to log on to get tickets. >> things are going great. >> septa reports it's working as it should. the transit agency will send out confirmation e-mails to lucky rider who's are eligible to buy regional rail passes for the pope's visit on the weekend of september 26th. >> once a person has been selected they'll get an e-mail. it's going to be sent out between thursday and sunday. >> reporter: but there are those who who are not planning to ride the rails into get into town when the pope is here despite warnings from top city officials we found people planning to hit the road. >> how do you plan on getting into town? >> probably drive. >> i'm not sure it's going to happen. at this point i guess no one

knows what streets will be closed down. >> reporter: as of 8:00 o'clock night septa reports there have been more than 31,000 entries made on to the online lottery and they're averaging roughly seven tick requests per entry. reportly live tonight, todd quinones cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> it is going to be quite an event there no doubt about that, todd, thank so much. we're now 54 days away from the highly anticipated rifle of pope francis and from now until then we will bring you the latest developments on the preparations on tv and also online at cbsphilly.com. the hot streak continues. tomorrow is expected to be the eighth straight day of 90 plus temperatures. when are things going to cool off bit. for the answer let's go up to the sky deck. here's kate. >> thank you ukee. not too bad outside on the sky deck this evening. there's a nice breeze and not a ton of humidity either today, though, hot but not all that stifling but the humidity will rise tomorrow. the last day of our what will be

8-day heat wave is on the way and then some big change by the end of the week. we could be talking temperatures struggling to hit 80 by friday and much needed rain in the forecast as well. speaking of rain let's take you out to storm scan3. a few showers creeping across the state of pennsylvania right now a few lifted north of the lehigh valley a few more showers firing up near land cost county at the moment and showers and thunderstorm headed towards state college a few of those could get our area overnight. so this first batch has thunder and lightning with it. lifting away from us up toward the pocono region. don't be shocked if you wake up in the middle of the night and hear a rumble of thunder or see a flash of lighting out the window or hear that pitter patter of raindrops on the rooftop a few showers could come through overnight. temperatures still very warm. we're hanging on to 81 degrees at airport. 80 in mill val. 79 degrees in wilmington. 71 in mount pocono warm just about everywhere, and tomorrow starts off warm and steamy. we'll see some sun in the

morning, 76. 82 by 9am. and 86 an bit more humid by 11am. not a they are reasonable day for us, but there will be the chance for few strong thunderstorms mainly south and east of philadelphia in the afternoon. i'll tell you more about that and that big pat concern change in the seven day forecast coming up when i join you inside. >> a funeral will be held this week for the 22-year-old mother shot and killed in her own port richmond home with her young daughter nearby. as police search for her killer tonight her boyfriend talks only to "eyewitness news" about the shocking crime. reporter david spunt is live at philadelphia leak with this story. david? >> reporter: jessica, there's a killer on the streets tonight and that does not stitt well with stephanie's family. her boyfriend who lived with her and their little two year old daughter had this to say for the first time on television. >> i don't understand why someone would do this. she was the best. >> sean, is one of the last people to see 22-year-old stephanie alive.

she was his girlfriend. the two lived together in this port richmond home with her two-year-old daughter. he was out late thursday night when he got a call that stephanie was shot and killed inside their home. >> i went crazy, man. i didn't know what to think. i didn't want to believe it. i got the phone call they heard a sound. >> neighbors told police they heard a single gunshot around 11:00 o'clock thursday evening. detectives tell "eyewitness news", the front door was open. giving the killer easy access. >> homicide detectives are vest of interested in this surveillance video. it shows a possible suspect quickly run across the street. >> rest in peace baby girl. >> friday evening hundreds came out to remember stephanie but he wasn't there. he was in police custody for hours answering questions about his girlfriend's murder. police released him saturday morning. >> i want to help them as much as they want to help me, you know. they're doing -- they're trying, they're doing their job, you know, they're -- they're doing

as much as they can and that's all we want to keep doing. >> he has not been charged with her death. and insists he had nothing to do with it. his focus is the couple's two year old daughter and helping police find her killer. >> could be walking by every day giving me condolences like everybody it's unreal. crazy that someone would do this to me, let alone my little girl. >> there is a $20,000 reward through the city of philadelphia for anybody that can lead to the arrest and conviction of stephanie's killer. we're live tonight at police headquarters, david spunt cbs3 "eyewitness news". all right, david, thank you. philadelphia police are investigate a homicide in brewery town. this happened in garage in the 2700 block of west cavity stre street. a 48-year-old was shot in the chest. pronounced dead at the scene. police tracked oily footprints to an apartment several block away. they thought the suspect might

be inside. swat was called out but no suspect was found, and the investigation continues. police arrest add gloucester county man after an overnight vandalism spree left cars damaged in south philly. 29-year-old norman, accused of of slashing tires on nine cars on the 1,000 block of elsworth street. police say he was caught in the act with a knife in his hasn't. he's facing several charges to night including criminal mischief. >> police are asking for the public's help to track down a suspect putting squirms on atm atm's. shows surveillance video of the suspect from the 7eleven at 800 walnut street earlier this mom police say the suspect has targeted an atm there twice. as well as an atm in old city and several in montgomery coun county. $3,000 reward is offered for information leading to an arre arrest. a show of support tonight for a teacher fired from a mainline catholic school for being married to another woman. margie winters and about 50 supporters went to the archdiocese with a box of

petitions signed boy about 23,000 people. those who signed their names want winters reinstated as director of religious education at waldron mercy academy. she was fired june 22nd after her same sex marriage became public. and winters says she has a message for archbishop chaput. >> i'm hopeful that ellis zen to over 20 -- almost 23,000 people who signed this petition. the school and the sisters of mercy had me in this position for eight years and it wasn't until this diocese was notified that something change the. so that's really all i can do. you can draw your own conclusions. >> the archdiocese has issued a statement. it says quote the basis of the petition itself is probable let me mat tick. as has been noted several time, waldron mercy is a private catholic school and does not fall under the administrative pursuit archdiocese of

philadelphia. pennsylvania congressman chaka fattah plans to run for re-election despite being indicted on federal corruption charges. >> in terms of the allegations that have been made, i am innocent. i'm going to do my work on behalf of the people who have elected me. and i'm going to be a candidate for re-election in my district next year. >> fattah was in havertown delaware county today taking part ymca advocacy week kick off event. democrat who has spent more than two decades in congress is accused of of misappropriating hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal, charitable and campaign funds. today fattah vowed to clear his name. vice-president biden it will future is the topic avenue lot of conversation right now with many wondering if he will jump nap the race for president. top local aid to the vice-president's late son beau biden has joined the super pack

working to create biden to run. vice-president is expected to make a final decision by sometime next month. caught on camera a rescue more than 40 miles off the coast of cape may. take look at it. the coast guard airlift add man who had been in the ocean for several hours. he wept overboard a ship east of cape may and after being thrown a life preserver by a passing ship made it back on to his boat. coast guard found him in rough shape. >> started shivering a lot more and kind of like in the fetal position. i knew we needed to get him out of there. >> there's a thunderstorm that had blown through the air. the seas were kicked up. >> the man was taken to the hospital and is expected to be okay. tonight philadelphia police and residents come together to send a very important message of the community is letting criminals know that they stand together. it's part of a larger event happening across the country on this night before national night out. tomorrow 38 million people are expected to turn on outside

lights and spend the evening outside with neighbors and the police. the goal is to prevent crime. a robot that hitch hiked across the world meets an up timelily unfriendly end in philadelphia. >> there's hope for hitch bot. why one local group says this does not have to be the end of the story. we'll show was they're doing. >> a state of emergency. why crews in california are having a tough time battling raging wildfires. kate. >> and here at home we've got a few showers moving into our area overnight. you can see showers and thunderstorms into central pennsylvania. tomorrow still hot but a cool down is comin coming and with it perhaps much needed rain. i'll have your full seven day "eyewitness weather" forecast coming up. >> also a local police officer enjoying day off comes to the rescue of a woman in new york city. the story when we come back.

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12% contained has thousands of firefighters battle those flames. the wildfire has prompted evacuations for more than 12,000 residents and has destroyed dozens of structures. record heat and the drought have made conditions especially tough. the fire is one of nearly two dozen burning in the state. republican leaders in the house have enough votes to support a resolution of disapproval of the obama administration's nuclear deal with iran. it's unclear however if there would be enough votes in the house to override president obama's expected veto of that legislation. the president is counting on democrats to sustain his veto and allow the nuclear dealing to forward. a new quinnipiac university poll finds a lack of public sport four the nuclear deal. 57% of those asked oppose it. 28% support it and 15 didn't know or declined to answer. president obama is ordering unprecedented limits on power plants in the united states. the cuts on greenhouse gases are even steeper than expected with

a goal to reduce carbon emission buys 32% by the year 2030. states have until 2022 to comply with these new rules but opponents are promising a tough fight. 20 to 30 states say they will sue the administration and won't comply with the rules. >> the only child of the late witness neat houston bobbi kristina brown has been laid to rest in new jersey. the 22-year-old was purchase read neck to her mother at fairview cemetery in westfield, union county. bobbi kristina died at hospice care last week six months after she was found unresponsive in a bathtub in her georgia home. a local off duty police officer being called a hero after he jumped into action in a dangerous situation and saved a woman. >> camden county ryan dubeil was in new york city sightseeing with family when he noticed a man acting rear rat klee. he kept an eye on the man from across the street and saw him charge at a woman and knock her to the ground. >> he grabbed her with his right hand by the back of her hair he

brought his other arm up around her neck. put her in choke hold. seventy three shouting and cursing at somebody and being aggressive once i gave him the command i said, sir, you know, relax, you know, i'm here to help you. wait an ambulance is coming. >> that man left in an ambulance and the victim was not seriously hurt. >> hope for hitch bot. his cross country tour was cut short on the streets of philadelphia. >> steve patterson shows i was local tech groups wants to make amends by helping create a new robo. >> i think it's really important that people rise to the challenge. >> in other words to the rescue. >> it's a pride issue man. there's no way i love philly much this is my hometown. >> one day after the world freak out beaver over the philadelphia fate of the child like globe trotting robo celebrity hitch bot, a collective of phillies brightest tech keys say their committed to the come back story. >> immediately i was like let's put it back together. that can't be too hard good for this team, it's not.

georgia is the guth tree a the director of the philadelphia non-profit the advancement of all things tech. >> we want to hopefully tribute something valuable to the world. >> donation started rolling in immediately. 24 hours after the story broke, they nearly collected $400 to save hitch bot and philly's reputation much the team now toy wig the idea of being a new hitch bot or philadelphia version as homage. they say they have the tools. >> so the code for hitch bot is open source which basically means its creators put the road map for how it works on their website. which in turn means the team here basically has all the ingredients they need to make a similar robot. pretty cool. >> max lawrence says they may not be able to change the story but hopefully they can at least repair some of the damage. >> i wouldn't even be that presumptuous to pretend we can rewrite the ending.

we can at least attempt to give it like another chance. >> reporter: this thursday the in other words meet to plot their revenge. in west philly, steve patterson cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> that is pretty cool. >> we'll see what they come up with. maybe we can give a little something back. >> the sequel. >> we are making our way through a heat wave. >> we are. this is the longest one we've had in two years now. >> really? >> wow. >> since 2013. eight days as of tomorrow. and then we get a little break from the heat and the humidity the humidity is going to start to creep back tomorrow, but a big pattern change bite end of the week we're talking even some rain and by friday temperatures may struck get to even hit 80 which is a far cry from eight straight days in the 90's. let's take look outside right now. take you oh it to skycam3 showing the ben franklin bridge from campbell's field. it's all lit up everything looks pretty nice out there tonight. actually not a bad night at all. a little breeze out there. humidity wise it's not all that bad but if you're laying in bed

and wake up in the mill of the night to the pitter pat of raindrops on the rooftop or you see a flash of lightning or hear that rumble of thunder don't be shock. we have a few showers and storms firing off to our west. you can see a few popped up near lancaster right now. another cluster of storms with lots of lightning and heavy rain moving through state college and into our area as well. most of this should miss us to the north. but again we can't rule it out a couple of showers to our north right now. moving up into northern new jersey upper mount bethel further to the north an few showers now into lancaster county. as far as temperatures are concerned it's still very warm outside. 81 at the airport. 78 in millville. 78 in wilmington and 74 degrees in reading even warm down the shore upper 70s in zone stone harbor and cape may still 80 right now in rehoboth beach. the peak of the heat was last week tuesday and wednesday temperatures right around 93 both days and then low 90s through the weekend. 93 out there today. the longest heat wave since

july 14th to the 21st, back in 2013. longest heat wave ever here in philadelphia 17 days july into august of 1995. we had a 13 day stretch in 1953. and 12 days back in 1999. so certainly not the worst heat wave we've ever had but it's still feels like a long time it's been hot and steamy. a few showers 3am924am still a couple of showers moving through. we start tomorrow with clouds and sun and most of the day is dry. stray shower or thunderstorm mainly well to the south down the shore through the delaware beaches in the afternoon. once we get that front out of here, temperatures cool off. wednesday lower humidity it's a but full day. thursday sun will give way to increase in clouds and we could see rain try to creep in on thursday night. overnight partly cloudy with isolated shower or storm. tomorrow hot and humid a stray thunderstorm most of us are dry but if there is a chance a better chance down the shore than in the city. 87 degrees for your tuesday down the shore. beautiful beach day wednesday at 84. and the "eyewitness weather" seven day forecast look at the difference here.

88 wednesday. thursday 82 with those clouds building in. thursday night into friday some rain comes through. could even ab steady rain at times. and then it does look lick we'll clear it out for the weekend but it gets cooler. low to mid 80s this weekend. big change in the weather. >> you'll be able to tell the difference for sure it. >> will be a huge change. >> nice. >> he has left the eagle empire and almost time to fly like an eagle. >> there's lot of chatter yesterday about demarco murray. is he okay? what's going on. full go at practice today. we'll tell you why he was hell out of yesterday pots team drills and eagles made over the secondary are they better than last year's squad? i hope so. billy davis will tell us why coming up i

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cowboy demarco murray. he was a full participant day after lack of reps yesterday. the coach is trying ease him into camp but demarco says he's healthy and happy to be an eag eagle. >> been here for a couple months. um, become part of this team, and great team, great group of guys. great group of coaches an great organization. like i said i definitely feel like an eagle and working with these guys has been amazing. >> kelly also revamped the secondary the birds past defense ranged 31st and gave up 72 plays of 20 yards or more that is the worst in league. cary william bradley fletcher let go. byron mack well and walter thurman brought in to improve the secondary. davis was asked are they any better. >> the reality of the nfl until you start hitting sundays for real not the preseason games and guys showing how they do in the heat of battle against the main quarterbacks and refers you don't know if you're better or worse. >> you take the guys we have right now with the work we put in, um, i think -- i think we're

better than we were the last two games last year. >> the phillies have the night off. tomorrow they take on the dodgers. you know what that means. the return of jimmy rollins much the first time j roll will be back at the bank. ryan howard was asked how he thinks the crowd will greet the 2007mvp? >> i expect it to be good. i expect to be a lot of cheers much he's dawn lot of positive things here in the city and helped bring the city a championship. i would expect there to be lot of cheers. >> i mean it should be a standing oh vague. why wouldn't it? um, jimmy is a phenomenal guy. he's a hall of famer. >> brown trade traded to the dos in december. he was the team's all-time hit leader. >> i would say deaf staning oh vague but after hitch bot i just don't know any more. >> i know. >> we don't know a lot. >> jimmy gets a standing o. count on that. >> we'll be right back.

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♪ more preparations underway for the pope's visit. >> the choir for the pope's mass has now gunnery hersalls. we're getting close now. ♪ >> "eyewitness news" at the cathedral basilica tonight.

the papal choir is expected to grow to 500 parishioners from across the region and they will sing at the papal mass taking place on september 27th on the ben franklin parkway. it will close the world meeting of families. >> beautiful. >> thanks for watching i were the news at 11:00. for lesley, kate and everyone i'm ukee washington. >> i'm jessica dean. we're always on at cbsphilly.c cbsphilly.com. up next for you scorpion. >> thank you for our entire te team. thanks for staying up with us. good night, family. sleep well.

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