tv Eyewitness News at 530 CBS August 20, 2015 5:30am-6:01am EDT
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good morning, everybody. today is thursday, august 20th, i'm nicole brewer. i'm erika von tiehl. in the news concerns in a west philadelphia neighborhood after another sexual assault, we have details for you. good bye to the man empty locker, wonderful memories are all that remains of the chase utley's time as a philly. we will have more on his career in philadelphia. >> so or toy see him go. >> so happy for him. >> yes. >> ape if that is not sad enough we have a storm moving in. >> we have a little bit of rain. >> it is spotty,. >> well, we're trying here. >> we have to find a positive when we are dealing with soupy air, humidity, bad hair day, on top of it all, it is hot, steamy, i know, blah, right, i can hear you. tomorrow is friday.
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try to find a bright side. silver lining. however, another good thing about this too is we could use the rain. we have seen heavier rain moving through in pockets in the last couple days but nothing that has been widespread. not everyone has gotten hit. at my house we have not had any rain. it depend where you are what you will fine initially here but there will be a line of then are storms that moves in. we will get you outside and show you deal here on storm scan. at the moment most of the activity is off to the south and west butuy starting to encroach our area we have one pocket of showers over lancaster county and as day progresses this will start to fill in, especially west of philadelphia, but later on into tonight the line of ran and storms will rumble through for pretty much everyone. here's how it feels. sunnies not up and it feels like 80 degrees. that is close to the thermometer reading. you can tell exactly where that front crossed through. much cooler by comparison in terms of the dew point,
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wichita feels like the the 50's right now, little rock feeling like 60's. new orleans it still feels soupy at 83 degrees. here back in philadelphia and region as a whole another steamy morning. a loud for a shower, perhaps a rumble of thunder some point this morning and, scattered showers and storms throughout the day, but then that cold front will approach toward 3:00 p.m. earliest later this evening, tail end of the evening rush, meisha heavier rain and storms will be set to rumble in. >> good to know. good thing is for your morning commute roadways are nice and dry. it is light haze, soupy, humid out there but the the commute so far is looking nice, blue route southbound at ridge pike you can see just headlights and taillights. this is just after mid county looking great on the blue route. anywhere there, everyone traveling around at posted speed. ninety-five south at broad street approaching girard point bridge looking good here as well. more and more vehicles starting to get out on the
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roadway but looking good overall. 422 eastbound at pennsylvania turnpike you can see plenty of vehicles but when we see this kind of level, taillights, headlights everyone traveling around at posted speed it looks like everyone is traveling really slow but everyone is going at posted speeds so that is g down wires between -- excuse me parks turnpike east and westbound between fort washington and bensalem, right lane is block in this area. and crumb road is closed at king of prussia road and brook wood road, all lanes are block. philadelphia police are investigating another sexual assault on the ground of the golf course. it happened last friday night at cobbs creek golf course in overbrook. "eyewitness news" reporter natasha brown explains possible link in both attacks. >> it is the a area, don't see too much going on up here. >> reporter: stun reaction along a sexual assault at cobbs creek golf course. thirty-nine year-old woman was walking through the course at
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7500 landsdowne avenue at friday night at 8:00 p.m. victim said she was approached by a man who began removing her clothes and physically and sexually assault aing her. >> it the surprises me because i never heard of anybody being attack up here but like i said, it is dark, so it wouldn't be surprise me that it could happen. >> reporter: special victims unit is still investigating allegations of era salt on a golf course. saturday july 11th at 3:30 a woman walking to work reported being dragged on the course and being sexually assaulted. there is no confirmation on whether they are link but enough to ring the a alarm of people in the area. >> i wouldn't walk through here at night. it is too dark with all of the bushes. >> reporter: police have similar descriptions of suspects in both cases hispanic male, in mid 30's or so with a muscular build and close cut haircut. they are still trying to establish if there is a pattern. at the special victims unit, natasha brown, cbs-3
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"eyewitness news". 5:34n business news this morning how passengers are react to go a new economy class ticket. >> also how oil prices are impacting the markets. the lets check with jill wagner at the new york stock exchange with those stories and more for us, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. falling oil prices are taking a toll on companies like exxon mobile and cheveron and that dragged down the market yesterday. dow jones fell 162 points, nasdaq dropped 40. from oil to electric, audi is rolling out a new electric suv traveling more than 310 miles before it need to be recharged. car will start production in 2018. analyst are already saying it will out perform rival tezsla, which is set to roll roll out its model x, suv in a few weeks. target could be back on the mark, recent earnings report was a lot stronger then many other big retailers. target appears to be ring back its reputation by offering more cheap and chic options.
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targeted added mankins in stores, restyled jeans and plaid clicks including diapers and blankets. passengers rights group says delta is shaming travelers, into upgrading their seats. their new base ache economy ticket is more like economy minus, passengers are told there is no ceta sign. until after check ins, seat can't be changed, and they will be among last to board which means there can be no room up in the overhead bins. i hate that, erika and nicole. >> isn't this the bulk of air passengers people looking for the cheapest ticket but calling it the economy minus. >> maybe just a flying term. >> maybe, i don't know. >> reporter: i'm the person who would be like okay, fine i'll upgrade, give me all these extra things. >> hopefully they will catch on with the other airlines. >> jill, thank you.
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5:36. papal count down continues and new down to just 37 days until the arrival of the pope francis. when he gets here in philadelphia. a and authorities, they are now saying that some vehicles will aloud into the secure area during papal visit. world meeting of families partnered with go ground, vehicles registered with that company have access to restrict areas like i-76, and parking. vehicles that qualify are motor coaches, school buses, mini buses, rv and pass he canner advance but they have to carry a minimum of eight people. >> no doubt you the this is best way to travel because you will get access to parking, you will get immediate and fast track access into the the city, and then right at the end you'll get easy access to the city with septa a. >> registration comes with a special plaquard that will give access to restrict areas, that plaquard will cost you third 50 a day. on the septa papal pass on line, the lottery you can new
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purchase tickets in person. septa will begin sales for one day regional will rail passes at stations starting on friday, tomorrow, you can get them at the the stations that will be opened september 26th and 27th. the one day regional rail passes, they are $10 each and buy up to ten passes for each day. 5:38. donald trump says he likes pope francis but in a cnn interview the presidential candidate has issues with the pope's criticism of capitalism. >> i will to have scare the the pope because there is only one -- look, the pope i hope can only be scared by god. i pope i hope can only be scared by god but the the truth is, you know if you look at what is going on they better hope capitalism works because it is the only thing we have right now and it is a great thing when it works properly n our country, chris, it had has not been working properly. >> a new cnn poll shows trump narrowing the gap with
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democratic candidate hillary clinton. trump is six points behind her last month was just 16. 5:38. another hollywood couple calling it the quits and a tv star opens up but her battle with with breast cancer. >> we have details in the word, coming up, jan. and what is better than a concert on the beach in the middle of the summer? i cannot think of too many things. there is one happening this afternoon in atlantic city, it will will be a good one, rascal flats is in town and we have everything you need to know to have a safe, fun time on the beach. great way to kick off an early weekend maybe thursday night, sounds good to me. these are in ordinary jeans, we will tell but a designer making wardrobes for people in wheelchairs when we come right back.
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he ground one up the middle, utley good play, has in play at first, throws home, and out is the call to end the inc. >> some of our favorites moment of chase utley with the phillies. chase utley is now a l.a. dodge they are morning. >> but we will have the memories, like that one from 2008 world series that we just saw. check out cbs philly.com for more memories, in addition to the coverage of the trade we will look back at his big plays with the phillies, as we like to talk about and make you feel good, days gone by.
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he will be missed. that is all happening on cbs philly.com. a sinkhole reopens in tampa, florida in the same spot where a man swallowed up two years ago. this is drone video of the new hole when measures 20 feet in diameter. the authorities say it poses no danger to the public but the lot has been fenced in since 2013 when that man was swallowed up as he slept, erika. we celebrated pretzel day, no technology day, everything it seems, is there plenty of others but this is first. today is world mosquito day. the the day celebrates british doctor ronald ross who discovered that mosquitoes discovered malaria, an important discovery, a a few facts to celebrate mosquito day only by the by female mosquitoes make you itch. there are more than 3,000 species of mosquitoes. >> okay. >> all right. bucks county has mosquitoes in honor of this special day, county is spraying for mosquitoes in warwick and warminster township tonight
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weather permitting. always a bummer of summer. it is nice out. >> i understand celebrating ones accomplishments but, celebrating world mosquito day is a little off day to celebrate. >> you could get in early plans if you have to. you have to take the the dog for a walk. maybe you have to get your morning jog in it the is what gets you going or maybe dunkin' donuts does, who knows, but the eyewitness weather watchers are report ago lieutenant of muggy air, right now. we have temperatures in the mid to upper 70's right now. even as we go out to our most remote place necessary central, new jersey, mark in chatsworth he has 72 degrees already. just a a couple cloud. 96 percent humidity n thank you, but very soupy out there, so that is the word i like to describe this. that proverbial pea soup
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effect. further off tout southwest we have 73 from margot. she has 95 percent humidity. muggy start. she feels the air. it is in the rain in the air this morning. good way to put it. eventually we will see some rain, pretty much every where. storm scan three is quiet. we have moisture working its way from the south and west, however, so eventually that will start to fire up a scattered round of showers and or thunderstorms across our area. we are looking nice wide zoom of the storm itself, it is the core of the storm center. eventually this whole thing will migrate east and that is where we will have our heavier showers and storms but gets here by i'd say as early as late half of the typical evening rush, and that is when we will see the heavier more widespread rain falling but we could see two, in the models at some point projecting 3 inches of rain if it falls in one location heavily enough. flash flooding is a real concern with anything that
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fires up later on today. mid 80's, general expectation through weekend, tomorrow morning still lingering rain and skies clear and it does bode well for weekend at this point, meisha we are looking at partially sunny skies and much quiet weather overall. >> sound good. definitely looking forward to that weekend, right around the corner and right now still early but roadways are still nice and driest specially when we know rain is in the forecast. here is malvern 202 north bound past 252. let me back out of the way, headlights and taillights, but route 22, it looks this way. nice, calm basically through 5:00 o'clock hour and certainly is right now. 422 eastbound, we will show you this about 15 minutes ago you can see it is starting to heat up, it is what we see as we push toward that 6:00 o'clock hour. i-95 south for those heading in to center city we have problems on this stretch. sometimes we do because of the overcrowding on i-95 but right
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now moving into center city still looking good for those thinking about heading out of your homes now looking good on this thursday morning. erika, over to you. 5:47. had happening today when one of country music's biggest acts are getting ready to rock the beach. i cannot think of the more perfect summer venue then beach, country music. >> rascal flats is coming to atlantic city. "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabao is live with what you need to know if you are heading down the the shore to get that concert. >> she can get the best seat. >> um-hmm. >> reporter: good morning. i'm right here on the boardwalk, quiet right now but tens of thousands of fans are expect to come out here to atlantic city to see this beach concert with ross california flats that start at 4:00 p.m. but beach concert area opens up at noon and shuttle buses run at ten. we will see more people here very, very soon. to talk more about all of the excitement is the executive
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director with atlantic city a lines, jeff mar teen owe. jeff, thanks for being on our show. >> good morning, what a beautiful sunrise. >> absolutely right over our shoulder. >> maroon five the concert on sunday was a huge success. how are we expecting crowd to look today. >> we think cloud will come for a fantastic concert on the beach. today will be different then a sunday because it is thursday. people might come later, they might come earlier. there will be some cloudy skies. it will not be as hot on the beach. we are looking forward to another extraordinary concert. >> maroon five brought in 50,000 people, how will people get on the beach with that amount of crowds. we are adding entrances. >> we are adding more entrances to get on the beach more quickly. there will be 30,000 people here for rascal flats concert which is three times the size of the wells fargo center and boardwalk hall here. we are really ready for a great crowd. we think people will come early and come a little later
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too. >> tickets still available with that many people. >> ticket are still available. they are low cost for great beach day and great event and concert. she is extraordinary m ruin five wasn't even on tour. >> ross california flats is on tour. everybody is pull topped see them. any last minute advice for people coming by what they can and cannot bring. >> go to do atlantic city.com to find out to do and what not to do. this is i major public event. people are looking at security. they want to make sure we look great. we have three down, one more to go and people have an extraordinary time. >> thanks very much for being on the show. >> thank for being here. >> a lot of excitement today. we will preview this concert right down those do's and don't's in the next hour. back to you in the studio. >> twenty bucks, that is a great deal, rascal flats, jan that sound awesome. tell him i said hello, such a great guy. if you are not going to
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rascal flats concert staying in the city, dinner on blank returns to philadelphia 4,000 people will be dressed up in white a tire. secret location will not ab nunsed until minutes before dinner. past locations have included avenue of the arts and logan circle. if you are out and see people dressed in white, it is not just you. >> very fancy. the word this morning is, splitsville for yet another hollywood couple. >> yeah, guys megan fox, back on the market, i'm sure some are happy to hear. that brian and brian austin green are heading for divorce after five years of marriage. people magazine reports they have been separated for months. they have two sons both under the age of three. brian austin green you may recall famous from his 90210 days. >> oh, yeah. >> news about another beverly hills alumni shanon doherty is battling breast cancer. she talk about her illness to people magazine after suing her former business management firm for failing to pay her
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insurance premiums. doherty says her health insurance lapsed and she didn't receive medical care which allowed the cancer to spread, that is very sad. 5:51. a kentucky woman has taken to designing jeans specifically for people in wheelchairs. >> you wonder why no one saw this before. >> heidi mckenzie was just 21 when she was paralyzed in a car accident. she created these jeans because she had trouble finding clothe ago this fit her body too. they retail for $80 and they have features like a higher waste and in useless back pockets. mckenzie's company alter your ego has launched a kick starter campaign to raise money to make more clothing and what a brilliant idea. >> you need a higher waste because sometimes those lower jeans you need to have higher waist. >> they are looking at, with that kick starter campaign looking to create more of these fashions, blouses, dress jackets, things like that but love to see that because they are accommodating those folks and i'm sure it will help.
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>> i love this idea. 55:00 16789 we hear the expression dance like no one is watching. >> hard to do though. >> that is what a police officer was caught on camera doing. i love these videos. take a look. >> yes. >> he has got some moves, just busting it out. we will hear from that officer straight ahead. >> but first, got a little crazy here. >> but here's is what coming up on cbs-3.
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that's a fact. but this whole "blondes have more fun" thing... ♪ standing by for fun. ♪ one person who is dancing on his own, quite a bit of it, utah police officer has become an internet sensation for his dance moves. >> officer bryce was asked to bust a move to that song and he is at a convenient store. he has in the realized though that he was being watched. there is a security camera recording it. >> i was singing a song and i walk in the front door and they asked me if i knew the dance, i was like i know the dance so i did the the dance, and i forgot about the surveillance camera.
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>> police officer for doing it. >> i love it. >> co-workers thought the police department shared it with everyone else. >> that is great. >> over 400,000 views so far. i hope this video bridges the gap between the public and those behind the scenes. >> i'm going to busta move don't let this uniform fool you. >> no. >> how much was that rehearsed. >> how often had he done that. >> oh, yeah. >> very impressive. >> coming up next on "eyewitness news" it is a big story, everyone is talking about this morning, chase utley traded to the dodgers, but we are live with how fans are reacting to the news. parents, listen up, a new bedtime story promises to put your kid to sleep in just seven minutes, say what, um-hmm, okay. we will explain how this works
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leaving the city of philadelphia. they have been so good to me, so supportive of me over the years, that i can't thank them enough for it. it is the end of an another, chase utley is traded to the l.a. dodgers, and with that tip of his had hat to the fans last night, he walk off the field as a philly for the very last time. a hard to believe, isn't it, grab that umbrella as you leave this morning we are tracking storms for today and tomorrow. i guess we're due but never good news. >> today is thursday august 20th, good morning, i'm nicole brewer. >> i'm erika von tiehl. lets check the forecast with katie. it is dry right now ladies. >> yes, i'm in the beerer of good news, but right now i am, because we have some rain coming in. >> we do. >> sour apples. >> yeah, exactly. >> i hear you, yeah. once in a while i have to bring bad news we cannot have it nice all the time b
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