from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia. this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news". the papal pilgrimage is just weeks away. more than a million people are expected to travel to philadelphia to see pope francis, and in the next hours, learn how new jersey travelers will make their trek, learning more about philadelphia's plans. >> forty-four details until the pope arrivals, and final

details are coming out. >> revealing plan to get people into and out of philadelphia for not only the world meeting of families but also for the papal advice the, the papal weekends, one way to park in jersey, tune walk across the ben franklin bridge, which will be closed to vehicle traffic. officials held a news conference, in north jersey, earlier this morning, and detailing plans to increase transit lines to philadelphia. this afternoon we also are expecting philadelphia mayor michael nutter to update city plans, and also, how it will affect city businesses, we'll have more for you on "eyewitness news" starting at a . in other news this noon, the death toll is expected to rise after explosions rocked philadelphia's sister city in china yesterday. the fiery blast errupted at a port warehouse with hazardous materials inside, killing dozens, injuring hundreds. cbs news correspondent set don't report from the disaster area. >> the explosions turned the

night sky a vivid orange. first one ball of fire, and then another, even bigger blast. shock waves knocked people off their feet, surveillance video shows doors blowing back into this man. hospitals were inundated with hundreds of wounded. some staggering around, stunned. >> i was actually quite far from the explosion site. this heavily bandaged security guard said. the explosions were sparked from a warehouse, for hazardous materials, hundreds of cars in this parking lot, were left charred shells, and windows shattered, buildings more than a mile away. >> where is your house? >> this man told us, he was petrified. >> your windows were blown out. can you describe the explosion? >> there was fire, i thought it was a plane crash, some said, the building started shaking and my wife and i just ran out. there is no word yet on what

caused the blast. state media is report that top management of the company that owns the warehouse has been detained. >> former president jimmy carter is getting some well wishes from across the nation today, after revealing that he's to undergo treatment for cancer, that has spread in his body. cbs news correspondent craig boswell with more details from washington. >> former president jimmy carter say he and his doctors are still gathering facts about the cancer that's gun to spread, issued statement saying the cancer is in other parts every my boyde. i will be rearranging my schedule as necessary so i can undergo treatment. >> clearly devastating news for the president and his family and for the many people particular leer here in georgia who admire him. >> ninety year old did not reveal exactly what kind of cancer he has or where it originated that information will dictate what kind of treatment he receives.

>> in general, metastatic cancer, cancer that's spread is not curable. but they are can i lengthen life, hopefully make life better by reducing symptoms. >> most reason opt book, a full life, carter talked about how his father, brother, two sisters, all died of pancreatic cancer. >> he has greater than 50 times risk of average of pancreatic cancer, first four family members with this disease. >> president carter has had recent health problems three months ago cut short visit to guyana due to bad cold, last week revealed he had surgery to remove small mass from his liver. >> surgery, led to the discovery of his cancer. craig boswell, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> turning to the forecast you just cannot complain about the weather today. gorgeous outside. >> beautiful. if you remember correctly, one of your favorite days of the forecast. >> loudly, and the reason is it is not too hot. it is just right, like goldilocks would have preferred, you know?

>> you don't have to deal with the humidity, for mid august, just phenominal weather. we'll keep the sunshine around for couple of more days, starts to get hot fresh here, also eventually, a lot steamier, as well, in terms of humidity levels. so, make the most of. >> this get out, enjoy this while you can. let's go ahead, start things off by taking you out to storm scan3, not too much happening here. high pressure really building in nicely for us, under the clear sky, look at this shot, you can barely, okay, so maybe one, two, very small puffy clouds out there. for the most part just beautiful blue sky over middle township high school right now. cape may courthouse, pretty much everywhere, even if you have got couple every clouds, beautiful day. 79 degrees, currently at this observation site. and that wind direction, that is the thing. because our wind direction, it is not windy day granted but the directional flow of the atmosphere is out of the northwest, you have got a relatively by comparison cooler and drier air mass to

work w so, we're only flirting with 80 as we speak. we expect the daytime high in fill toy hit about 84, and we will just check every single one of these things off your practically perfect list, full sunshine, warmth, low humidity, light winds, you have got it all going on. so what more could you ask for? pat, back over to you. >> katie, thanks very much. >> a two car crash shuts down parts of route 130 delran, burlington county, the crash happened just before 10:00 this morning, on northbound side, near chester avenue. firefighters had to rescue two people trapped in one of the overturned vehicles no word on any conditions, northbound traffic on route 130 is being directed around the accident scene. >> chopper three, over the scene after tractor-trailer accident this morning, i76 the schuylkill expressway, this is westbound approaching belmont. caring sheet rock, you can see in the pictures, that sheet rock all over the road.

all westbound lanes of the expressway were shutdown for close to three hours, it has since reopened. >> investigating deadly accident on a train track in delaware county. one person was hit by an amtrak passenger train, around 11:30 last night near septa glenolden station. that train was traveling between washington, d.c., and new york city, it was delayed for about two hours. that scene is now clear. the victim's identity has not been released. >> police are also investigating an accident in folcroft, delaware county. a pedestrian was hit by a car while crossing the street. it happened around midnight at the intersection of chester pike, and folcroft avenue the the driver did stop and is cooperating with police no word on the victim's condition. >> cell phone video shows huge fire here in beachfront home in bethany beach, delaware. cbs-3 plow eye waist on the scene and shot this video for us. the fire broke out around

1130. >> fire swept through single-family home in evesham township burlington county this morning, happening in the 100 block of weaver drive. thankfully, no one was injured, and the fire was placed under control, just before 7:30. the red cross stepped it to provide food, clothing, baby supplies to the displaced family. crossing the delaware river will soon cost you more, burlington county bridge commission voted unanimously last night to increase tolls, on the talcony palmyra and burlington bristol bridges. starting september 15th, about a month from now, the toll for tax customers doubles from $2 to $4. e-zpass commuters will pay $3, those fares only forecaster, motorcycles, and light trucks, larger vehicles will have to pay more. the commission says the mondayly go toward capitol improvements. well, just in time for back to school or any occasion for that matter, brand new

shopping destination has opened to the public in south jersey. "eyewitness news" reporter syma chowdhry live for us, at the gloucester premium outlets, in blackwood, to tell us about this economic boost to that region. syma? >> that's right. pat, the gloucester premium outlets now open today a lot of folks are out and about, it is beautiful weather. would you think this is a saturday or sunday with so many folks out here exploring the shops. now, this is a center part of the mall, and if you want to get a little bit of idea what kind of stores they have, i'll give you mini tour if you follow me. right here, you got banana republic if you're a fan, calvin klein, little down in the middle there you have yankee candle, there is a jewelry store, lots of different stores for a lots of different folks. so we do have video what it looked like earlier this morning when shoppers were lined up, just to get inside some of these stores. now, the mall sits off of route 42, and blackwood. the groundbreaking took place

about a year ago. and crews kept on working, to open up on time for back to school shoppers. now, the outlet center home to 90 retailers, and including reebok, columbia sports wear, and vera bradley, which has been one of the more popular stores today. center employs about 800 people that includes full time and part time employees, it is already having a positive chain reaction in the area. and this is what the mayor of gloucester township had to say. >> this is just the beginning, so excited about it, access right off route 42, atlantic city expressway, black horse pike, route 168, tremendous accessibility for folks in philadelphia and south jersey to come here, and you're right, this is just the beginning. we have phase two, with restaurant planned, and just going to be a very exciting and tremendous for gloucester township. >> and the location seemingly seems to be smart move for the simon property group. they have another outlet center which is in limerick.

that's about 40 miles away. and there is another outlet mall in atlantic city also about 40 miles away. if you want to take a look at landscape in general, one near jackson, which is near great adventure, another one up north in pitman falls n terms of location, seems to work real well for a lot of folks out here in south jersey. and pat, erika, i have to say, you know, i didn't get a chance to go shopping just yet, but for research purposes only, research purposes only, i am going to go and start shopping and go from store to store. is there anything coy get for you guys or keep my eyes open? or put it on the cbs card, right? >> hey, i like it. >> i know probably little baby boy that could use an outfit or two, you know? so there you go. >> we'll take anything for research purposes. >> just research. >> thank you. so, here's a question. is beer the new breakfast of champions? we will be talking about that for quite a while. we'll explain why this could be valid question to some, to some others it is not,. >> depends what you are a champion of, frightening

moments inside concert hall made famous by the musician prince, sealing collapse, and all caught on camera. >> courtroom sketch causing quite an uproar, wait until you hear who this is. if you don't recognize him. and you will probably understanded why there is so much fuss about it. we're coming right back.

>> ceiling collapsed, at least three people were injured,

parts of the ceiling collapsed, they caught it on camera here, last night during show by the bands theory of a dead man. you see the chaos there as the building was evacuated. sources say that the reverberation of music caused leak in the pipes of the ceiling, the tiles then fell down after becoming saturated with water. well, you can count former minnesota governor jesse ventura as supporter of donald trump. ventura said if trump wins the republican nomination, he's open to running with him as voice president. the former pro wrestler support for trump comes despite some major political differences, trump has taken a very hard-line stands on immigration, ventura, who lives in mexico, has actually criticized trump for those remarks. right now we want to talk about deflate gate. now led to some sketches, people calling this now sketch gate, after patriots quarterback tom brady appeared in new york courthouse wednesday. >> he was there asset lment talks with commissioner roger goodel. no decision but did get some

people talking. a sketch artist version of his appearance is raising some eyebrows. some are saying that brady looks more like a village from scoop i do than four time superbowl champ. the sketch artist, jane rosenberg, is responding to that criticism. >> now, i apologize for not making him look pretty enough to the world, and all those fans of tom brady, very good looking guy, but i did a wide shot, with a lot of people in it, and it was a big competency, and tom brady was a tiny little head in that competency, with pastels, it is very hard to get accurate when you work small. so i did the best i can. if somebody else can do a better job, let's see. go ahead, show me. >> it could be a mother of her artistic style. >> tough, trying to work so quickly, you can't erase pastel tell. she did the best she did. tom brady, really? >> breakfast and beer, normally you don't think of them going together.

>> but doesn't mean that cereal and beer don't farewell. we'll tell you about wheaties beer, katy? >> interesting, interesting. well, my friends, we are looking ahead, well, to just the rest of the day being absolutely phenominal. but could there be another heatwave in the cards for the delaware valley? in short, the answer is yes. i'll tell when you though coming we value sticking with things. when something works, people stick with it.

more people stick with humana medicare advantage. because we stick with them. humana medicare advantage. the plan people stick with.

judge wheel east has been called the breakfast of champion. a cool one name after the popular breakfast food? wheaties teaming one kraft brewery in minnesota to produce limited edition wheat beer. it will be a wheat beer and what they call it after wheaties, the hefe wheaties. brew does not actually contain wheaties, no little bits grounds up. it will be available for limited time starting in august, on august 26th, but there is a caveat, it is only

available in minnesota. >> interesting. >> so, i'm sure you can order some on line, find some way to get around that. but i never would have thought let's get some cereal and beer? you snow. >> i have thought about beer and pizza. >> yeah, hey. >> early in the morning. >> very organically they go together. >> they do really. >> and specially when you are a certain age, like you're in college. >> as you mentioned earlier. >> just beautiful day, kate. >> i this is stuff the that gorgeous summers day are made of, low humidity, full sunshine, so comfortable outside. >> love. >> so nice and warm for you granted. actually going to keep the low humidity at least through tomorrow, and then we start to see things really getting a lot more steamy, across the delaware vale, and i want to explain why that is happening and how the pat learn sort every shake out. but overall, pretty simple forecast, let me explain, start it off by getting you out to storm scan one more time, wider zoom, still shows re trees of cloud cover here, well obviously out to sea, but high pressure the main story here, that continues to build in for us, here's how it feels

right now. i got to tell you the feels like values around the delaware valley, very much on par, with where the actual air temperature sits. but, i show you the feels like, because what we will do, take you on down to the deep south where it is feeling more like it is into the triple digit, in new orleans, down near the buoy, 84 how it feelings in birmingham, upper 90s in houston, and some of that heat is going to start to creep our way here, in the next couple of days, as high pressure essentially nudges east out to sea, we get the return flow around it. remember, you have got clockwise spin, with high pressure in the northern hemisphere, so on the back edge of the hi, you start to build the heat, you start to build the humidity, and that's where things start to get awfully steamy for our area. so, in the meantime, this is just, i mean, so, so comfortable for the standards of mid july. not bad at all, dew points down into the 50's generally speaking, but today and tomorrow, and then by the weekend, you will really start to notice a difference, where it starts to become more palpable, more, i don't want to call did a presser just

yet, may start to feel that way looking ahead to the early part of the week. meantime perfect weather for the beaches, higher. v index, to latter on the sun block, rip countries being remains low, boy will it be nice weather, down at citizens bank park for the billy joel concert. we like this forecast just the way it is. just the way it is. >> there you are. >> kind of working, thank you, thank you foreign tumbling me. clear skies, great night, 73 degrees, as that concert kicks off. i want to say it is about 8:00 p.m. or solt looking forward in the forecast it, does start to get a lot hotter from here, check it out, i mention the heatwave before we went to the break in the last block, and looking at at least three days right now, where we are at 90 or above. and, that will make it heatwave officially as long as we hit the values. so, not only are we getting a lot hotter, but again, with the humidity, building in, the steamy necessary starts to return, possibly spotty shower or storm saturday, and otherwise, just hot, sun. >> i temps moving out? >> well noticed.

that's all i can do. >> well done. katie, thank you so much. >> we've been hearing this for the longest time. >> oh, there you go. there she is. >> well done. >> ♪ >> i can see the gears grinding lik

>> font at "eyewitness news" at 6:00 city run golf course in philadelphia may be getting big boost, millions of dollars in private money is being raised, and in hopes of returning it to its former

glory. todd quinones will have that story tonight on "eyewitness news" at 6:00. when billy joel comes to citizens bank park tonight, he will have a little extra thing to sing about. >> the entertainer and his wife had a baby yesterday. >> ♪ >> time to closure eyes ♪ >> i will say there will be some wonderful eyes in that baby's future, billy joel and his wife alexis welcomed baby girl, dela, married her in a secret wedding back on the fourth of july. how beautiful for them. and you know, extra special sing tonight when he since. >> absolutely. >> and katie i know you sing your lullaby to your babies all right. >> i do, i do. i wouldn't say that i sounds anywhere near as good as billy joel. >> that's "eyewitness news" at noon, i'm pat ciarrocchi. >> i'm erika

[ mid-tempo music plays ] [ music intensifies ] >> summer: aah! [ gasps, breathing heavily ] >> kyle: hey. hey, it's okay. it's okay. you're just having a dream. okay. >> summer: no, it's -- this is real. >> harding: there. >> marco: where are your manners, detective?