. from the cbs3 broadcast center in philadelphia. this is cbs3 "eyewitness news". good morning.lphia. it is tuesdayings august 11th, i'm erika von tiehl. a new poll of new jersey voters may be bad news for governor chris christy. we'll tell you what the poll said. the tracy mortgage crash is the subject of a federal meeting in washington today. we'll have details on what the nationals transportation safety board is looking into. first those roads are wet and soggy out there this morning. possibly storms coming. >> that said out there. >> it is a mess out there. honestly. that is an under statement i'll have the updates.

i'm sweating. >> that will make for a messy drop, stay tuned for her report. we are got to get you out the door. it's going to be a rough start. when it comes to the weather, i come bearing better news down the road. this is going to be one of those all day events unfortunately. looks as though we start off with heavy rain initially. likely at least a little bit of a break at mid day, then additional thunderstorms that fire up for your afternoon and evening drive. let's start off by taking you outside. show you scattered storm sstorm scan, tracking the active weather, the heavy rain is most confined at this point. sort of a vertical line here from say 95, the jersey turnpike right through central and eastern new jersey, and then down into as you say sex county. the brunt has essentially moved through philadelphia. you're clearly not out of the woods just yet. you still got moisture to work with on storm scan. we look at this at a wider zoom and put things into motion you got to get a cold front and that said going to take time.

we got time to kill in other words before that can happen. for now, we got to allow for a shower or thunderstorm at any time through the mid day but it will be at it is worst in terms of the heaviest rain right now up until the end, go figure of the typical morning drive. with the downpours, the gusty winds and also paneleding on the roadways, it is already slowing you down, again, stick around for the report. . but let me show you the current wind speeds. seeing is pretty stiffened decent breezes anywhere from ten to 15 plus miles per hour in most locations, it's not only rainy but plus ri, and that and that means your umbrella is going to fly around as you're walking from car to office. as the day progresses around the reach as a whole, we are expecting the rain to happen, heaviest this morning, but then some more thunderstorms later on on today, so not much of a break here but thrift the heaviest stuff scheming coming down for now. >> we just have to smile. got to get over it somehow.

good morning, happy tuesday, it's been a very busy morning in the world of traffic. as you're heading out the door, the roadways are extremely wet. give yourself couple extra minutes, and for the first time i'm going to say this, even when you can drive posted speeds, you might not want to. this is what we have an accident, a car spun out. flooding in the far right lane, the schuylkill expressway eastbound between 30th street and south street. i would use an alternate like the vine, 295 if you can. slippery in this stretch, you can see lanes starting to open now. also an accident, jackknife tractor-trailer pulled all the way off to the shoulder, which is good, all lanes were blocked westbound. the schuylkill expressway near south street, traffic is being diverted to grays ferry exit, you can see this. what a mess this is. looking like a parking lot here. use an alternate if you can. if you're just using 95 to the vine what i would suggest. also another accident here, another tractor-trailer. the pennsylvania turnpike westbound between delaware valley and street road, so use

caution in that area as well overall give yourself a couple extra minutes, erika over to you. >> thank you. philadelphia businesses worried about how pope francis's visit will affect them? we'll get to a to sit down with city leaders, jan carabeo joins us overlooking the ben franklin parkway, where the pope will celebrate mass. >> reporter: good morning. you would think that center city businesses would be clam erring to capitalize on pope's visit. he's expected to bring more than a million people to the parkway in that last week of is he not. many businesses have many concerns. many security and safety concerns. how they're even just going to get their employees to work on that very busy weekend. "eyewitness news" has learn that city officials plan on meeting with these business owners to address some of these issues. >> juice bar in center city has a prime location for pope francis's visit in september, just blocks away from the art museum. these seats are poison poiseed to be packed, many who work here

would rather see the doors closed during the much anticipated papal visit. >> too much for our customers to come in and get the deliveries out, and it's going to be too high security for. >> reporter: road closures have plots concerned. last week, philadelphia announced that the ben franklin bridge would close for the pope, and officials detailed streeksdz in and around the now famous traffic box, mayor michael nutter sets city is trying to release as much information as it can, as as soon as it can, for businesses can plan accordingly. >> of course we want businesses to be open. we're open welcoming city. >> reporter: touch end "eyewitness news" learned city plan on meeting with businesses soon to address mounting concern. the details of those meetings have not yet been released. nuter says it looks like decisions to stay open will have to be made on a business by business basis. >> we have an incredible opportunity to highlight the city of philadelphia. there will be some inconvenience

depending where you're located and whether you're a monday to friday business or happen to be open on saturday and sunday. >> reporter: meantime, a bit an update this morning on those septa one-day regional rail passes, now, if you weren't selected in the first around of the lottery, people are being notified today if they were selected in the second round of this lottery, and if there are passes left over after that deadline is met to pay up. then we're told by septa you'll actually be able to buy these passes on-site at the 18 out lying stations that will be serving this region come the busy week of september and 27. reporting live in center city, jan carabeo cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> thank you. and stay with "eyewitness news" as we follow preparations for the papal visit, our coverage continues on line at cbsphilly.com. it's been another tense night of protests and arrests in ferguson missouri. a state of emergency is in effect following renewed protesters overnight. police arrested more than a

dozen people who blocked traffic. earlier, hundreds of protesters marched in st. louis leaving a sign that read racism still lives here. monday night was the fourth consecutive night of protests marking the anniversary of the death of michael brown who was unarm when he was shot and killed by a white police officer. >> i just really wish we had peace. we don't need this. no one needs this. it's not just the police officers i'm concerned about. i'm concerned about everyone. >> a demonstration the same location sunday night was interrupted by gunfire. police shot and critically wounded an 18-year-old accused of opening fire on them. 5:37 right now in business news this morning, very big change for a very big company. money watchers jill wagner joins us the new york stock exchange, what's google up to these days? >> good morning, start with the markets rallied to start the week. the dowel gained 241 points

yesterday, the nasdaq finished 58 point higher. china devalued it is currency this morning, which caused it's biggest one-day loss in two decades. the stock market has plunged trade is slowing down. and another efforts to boost the dmienz economy have not been effective. agrees reached an agreement on a new bail-out deal that would keep grease re agrees in the euro zone and avoid bank. grease's -- google gotten so big, it is restructuring creating a new umbrella company called alphabet. consumers won't notice the difference, google search jen and google maps will all remain under ignoring. another experimental businesslike google x which developed ignoring glass and self driving car will be managed separately, and diet pepsi without as pertain will hit

store selves this week, removing the sweetener in response to customer feedback. diet pepsi will be sweetened with other, like splen today, still not clear if the revamped drink will pop or of his he will. >> will sales stay flat though? very cute. >> we do what we can, have great. happening today, the ntsb will meet to determine the cause of a crash that seriously injured comedian tracy mortgage, the limousine van morgan and his friends were riding in was hit from behind by a wal-mart truck last year, the accident killed his mentor james mcnightmare, during today's meeting the ntsb is expected to make safety recommendations. pennsylvania attorney general kathleen kane will address criminal charges she's facing during a press conference tomorrow in harrisburg, kane was arraign over the weekend after being accused of leaking secret grand jury information to a

newspaper reporter and lying about it under oath. kane insists she is innocent and has resisted calls to resign. for the presidential material. that said how some new jersey voters see their governor in a poll just released overnight. according to this latest rutgers eagleston pole, 54 percent of voters in new jersey say presidential is it does not describe constitutes at his at all t half believe smart describes him very well, 58 percent describe him as garnt, 52 percent say he's self-centered, and 49 percent describe him as a bully. meanwhile rick perry's presidential campaign could be in trouble. the texas governor stopped paying campaign staff in the south carolina. staff spokesperson says that tough decisions had to be made because of time and monetary resources. perry faced low pole numbers that kept him off the main stage

at last week's prime time gop debate. while rick perry struggle it is democrat bernie sanders is thriving, picking up his first major labor endorsement, national nurses united is endorsing sanders for the democrat presidential nomination. the group points to serenades's record to expanding medicare and other things, national nurses united has 185,000 members. right now it's 5:41 and we have new details about a hollywood hole stars is secret wedding. re also ahead, a of a disaster emergency is declared in colorado. the eta says this orange river, local officials say it's costing them millions of dollars in lost tourism we'll have the latest. soggy start to your tuesday morning, katie has your forecast and checking on those roads

. here's a look at today's headlines on cbs3, the search on for the driver responsible for a hit-and-run in glassboro. police say it happened around 1:20 this morning on quincy court. victim suffered a head injury. two dozen people under arrest in demonstrations in ferguson missouri, the protests surrounded the anniversary of the shooting death of michael brown.

brown is the unarmed african teenager shot by a white police officer last year. and philadelphia officials plan to meet with concerned business owners about pope francis's visit. last week, mayor michael nutter announced the traffic streaks, some in the food and hopitality industries fear this tight security will affect deliveries and get to go staff in and out of town. 5:45 right now and three million gallons of toxic waste is flowing to two rivers that caused colorado new mexico and utah. the river is a shaved orange. look at that color. after crew working for the epa accidentally breaded a damn holding heavy metals used in gold mining. correspondant matt has the latest. >> reporter: this now notorious orange plume is clearing in der rang go but the problem this toxic sludge left behind go far beyond the yellow tinge and river rocks still visible from downtown. >> it's been -- really cat trove tick for at the community.

>> reporter: dean said the spill triggered by an epa close-up team working was here last week will cost this area millions of dollars in lost tourism and some is effects might not be known decades. >> we got lot of questions for the epa. >> reporter: so far epa only release some day results from water tests saying there is led and arsenic in the spill people here desperately want to know what exactly was left behind in the water. >> i cannot shower, cook. i cannot do anything with the water from my water well. >> reporter: the apartment says the toxic flume so visible for days is finally dissipateing as it moves downstream towards lake pow. a mine cannot cannot contaminated no lrlg leaking into the water, reporting for your cbs3 news. >> up close view of california historic, this the is the santa claire body where the river bed is dry, there's trash in there,

weeds and rocks, that said from water once flowed in downtown san jose, water officials concerned about residents and wild life. >> it's very difficult, you know, we want to maintain habitat and we want to maintain our ground water and there's not enough water. >> it's rough to see everything dry. i basically haven't watered my lawn all smish. >> officials say california's rivers and creeks are with this erring and some cases disappearing altogether after four years of historic kale dry conditions. >> certainly no lack of rain for us today, katie, my goodness. >> absolutely not. when we check in with "eyewitness news" weather watchers network, we'll go to the maps, sort of trailing the delaware here, actually we still have a flood advisory posted guys, from philadelphia county on northeast bound in toward central new jersey. again sort of trailing the highway. let's go ahead and take a look around. you'll see why we're finding that flood advisory.

you've got rainfall amounts right now coming into us from kathy, she's in wenonah, new jersey, so far she's recorded over an inch of rain at her location. 71 degrees the temperature there and she definitely had, you know, a lot of moving through already. finding some of the brunt of that moving east of her area, due point at 70. it's a saturated air marks you're going to get a lot of moisture coming out of that sky. clouds ringing themselves out. meanwhile, ron russell checks in at 69 degrees. he's seen just high half inch of rain where he is, one more 70 degrees came in from sandra and she too in burlington finding the rain as you might imagine. she has soak rain as well with a eventually scattered thunderstorms later today and that's what we'll be tracking across the board through at the afternoon, we need this whole front to get out of here before we can say, ok, we're clearing out, we're drying out. going to take some time back edges way back here towards the border of ohio. until all of this tracks through, you're going to have to dodge a couple of scattered showers or storms, brunts of

rain out there now, but we're going to have to deal with additional wet weather as the day goes on. mid day you're going to catch little bit of break here, through the second half of the afternoon, scattered and locally gusty or heavy thunderstorms are still the storks i would really say both commutes affected. we're bearing the brunt of a morning drive for sure. again this is basically an all day 18. by tomorrow, clear out maybe left over showers, thursday looks awesome going to start heating things up, flirting or actually hitting 90 by the tail he wanted over the 7-day. misha over to you. >> grab your pen and paper, your traffic teacher is in and i got notes for you. let me tell you, we're going to go right out there. there's a lot. this is where a car spun out schuylkill expressway eastbound between 30th street and south street that has since been cleared. however you can see in that far right lane, there is flooding, travelers trying to maneuver around that water to try not go over it. car just spun out there. i would avoid that lane if i were you as well. also here's another accident jackknife tractor-trailer all

westbound lanes between the schuylkill near south street traffic being diverted to grace, south street, i can tell you right now, looking a little bit better. the pennsylvania turnpike. we had a tractor-trailer accident here, the rye lane blocked near delaware valley, use caution in and around that area as well, and also going to our right i can tell you we just had reports of an accident on 95 southbound between academy and cottman, so overall, give yourself a couple extra minutes this morning, it is wet and dangerous, erika over to you. >> thank you. the word is out about jennifer anniston secret wedding to justin shock job howard stern is spilling all the details, stern at the, everyone had to give up their cell phones. couple exchanged vowels in front of family 10 friends at their california home on august 5th, jimmy kimmel officiator the ceremony and stern made a speech. guests thought they were

attending a birthday party, turns out it was a wedding. the countdown is on for the new late show for steven colbert and the new host got the star treatment at the television critics association party in west hollywood. sullivan's theater sports his name. says he never thought he'd be asked to take over for david letterman, george clooney will be his first guest coming up. you can catch the premier of the late show with steven colbert is tuesday september 8th less than a month way 11:35 p.m. following "eyewitness news" at 11:00 right here on cbs3. some of us will be dvring that. surviveing members of red carpet straight out of comp ton t film kron keels dr. driveway ice cube, easy e and the rest of group in california in the late 9080's, ice cube's own son portrays him, straight out of comp ton rolls out of theaters on friday.

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you do want to take it easy. it is tuesday august 11th i'm erika von tiehl. check in with two busy ladies misha and katie. >> i think it's sometimes easy to under estimate how wet roadways can slow down a commute. today is not one of those days, give yourself extra time for sure. >> i know you've already had a lot of incidents, misha going on out there. weather related, we really have been hit hard so far this morning. with very, very soak rain. some instances from some of our "eyewitness news" weather watchers we're getting reports at least half inch plus even in some spots picked up an inch from this. we're looking at a three-hour loop here of the pounding rain that came through and still continues tads, but there's obviously a pocket where you're dealing with the heaviest stuff and at this point, the good news is, it's starting to move out to sea, so if you're maybe down the shore watching us, you're probably still stuck in the really heavy stuff a