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>> from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia. this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> good morning, three americans hailed at heroes for stopping a gunman on a french train. what police believe is the reason for the attack, why those men rushed into action. >> good morning, today is monday, august 24th, i'm erika von tiehl. also in your headlines, kathleen kane finds herself on the other side of the law this morning. more on her appearance today, in a montgomery count you courtroom. first we check on the forecast and the roads right now, gorgeous weekend, now back to work, sorry, guys >> pretty quiet indeed, yes, i always like to call it transition day, we'll have clouds eventually roll in, will eventually be bringing us shower or storm, especially into tonight. >> frontal boundery no big deal.
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completely quiet, completely clear, will stay that way for the better part of the day. the only thick you might is that to notice, it starts to get little must year, you know, nice clear sky, still actually feels real comfortable outside. eventually we see few additional clouds, also notice that starting again to feel little steamy outside. we will hit the upper 80s later, so it will be getting hot. real calm winds, low dew point, kind of crisp. feels more like fall than anything. which is very comfortable, right? 52 degrees up at mount pocono, dairy say that is fleece weather. sixty-eight here in the sit, in ac, at 63 degrees, but again, you have got the nice calm wind region wide that is the theme, 80s for pair of daytime highs, warm afternoon, even warmer than average, again, also start to see the humidity creeping up. so timing everything out very quickly for you here, watch for scattered shower or storm tonight, or even early
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tomorrow morning, and then, that's it, meisha, all pretty much free and clear beyond that point. >> it is monday, early busy out there already. couple of crashes this morning, this is one still active, the right and center lane is block, broomall. see the tail light below here here the lower part of your screen. you know it is not super busy outside. still seeing some movement. but, let me show you something. this is the back up here for this. yikes. you can not tell that by the screen i just showed you. this is the blue route northbound, past broomall. this is looking like a parking lot. an as we move toward the 6:00 hour there is will only get heavier. only worse. so again, blue route northbound near broomall where do you have the crash still active, very, very slow in that area, give yourself couple of extra minute. looking at the ben franklin bridge, however, looking nice
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and great for those of you traveling out of jersey in center city. nice smooth ride in basically anywhere but the blue route. erika, over to up. >> thank you, happening today, pennsylvania attorney general, kathleen kane, will be on the other side of the courtroom in montgomery county. kane faces her first preliminary hearing on charges she leaked grand jury material and then lied about it under oath. montgomery county attorney fuhrman made the decision to charge kane earlier this month. >> two teenagers face weapons charges after an accidental shooting in south jersey home. a 17 year old boy was shot in the chest saturday night. police say, his two friends brought a gun to his mt. laurel home. accidentally discharged while handling it. the two friends fled the scene, but were later caught. the victim's now recovering from his injuries. in campaign 2016, joe biden considers a white house bid this weekend's private meeting with massachusetts
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senator elizabeth warren is just the latest sign that those deliberations are growing more serious. cbs news core upon dent giuliana goldman has more on whether or not vice president biden will run. >> are you ready to make change? >> senator elizabeth warren's sport would be game changer for any democratic presidential hopeful. but specially for vice president joe biden. she's an icon with liberal activists and one of the most visible women in the democratic party. her sway with the party base could be key for biden who just last month cast himself as a champion for working class americans. >> the reason i always talk about the middle class and had my whole career is simple. when the middle class does well, the wealthy do very well, and the poor have a way up. >> tight circle of advisors has spent the last couple of weeks reaching out to donors as well as potential supporters in early voting states. aids say biden will make a decision by late september. but the intensifying
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deliberations are also tied to growing concerns about frontrunner hillary clinton, and her declining pole numbers a mid the fall-out over her use of private e-mail service as secretary of state. as biden waves a decision, people close to him say he's looking for a viable path to the nomination, also wary of getting in only to lose, damaging clinton in the process, and derailing someone who could be the first woman president. >> my hero, the next vice president of the united state, joe biden. >> most important consideration is his family, while still mourning the death of dough biden, the vice president's late son reportedly urged his father to run. family friend journal corn is working with the draft biden 2016 super pack. >> biden family generally has seen, has had first-hand, first-hand view, of what it takes to be president, and the strain it puts on your family. >> value iaian a goldman, cbs news, washington.
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>> meanwhile new jersey governor chris christie fight to go stay in the top ten, republican candidates. made appearance on "face the nation" this weekend, took on republican frontrunner donald trump and his plan for immigration. >> you know, in many ways it is just too simplistic. the idea of, you know, billing a wall, kicking everybody out, and end g right for citizenship. all sounds appealing in some respect toss some folks, but i think it is a very complicated problem. and it needs someone who understands how to do a complicated nuance solution to the problem. >> while christy had has had trouble grange traction, trying hard to stay in the top ten so he can appear on the next debate. >> speaking of trump, still see him on cover of popular magazine, rolling stone will use trump as a cover man due out early deems. last week graced the cover of time, and featured on the the hollywood reporter.
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>> business news this morning, the markets are pretty shaky as we kick off the work week. we check in with money watch's jill wagner joins us at the new york stock exchange, not the best day on the markets. good morning. >> yes, good mornings erika. we could be in for another bumpy ride today. markets crashed, asia tumbled this morning, china's main index biggest one day drop since 2007. here in the u.s. mark lets open after their worse week since 2011. the dow plunged 530 points on friday, alone. it is now in correction territory. that means, the dow down about 10% from its hi, the nasdaq, lost more than 171 points on friday. and this all started with a slow-down in china, the worlds' second largest economy. another factor is the plunging price of oil a mid more supplies. target is going gourmet. starting october, retail letter test new cafe concept in about 14 stores. the fast casual chain pressure, pizza hut, will dark
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it hotdogs and nacho office. target says customers want higher quality food options while they shop. >> and ralph lauren going high tech with new smart shirt. has sensory receivers being a silver fine that's track your heart rate and energy output will send the directly to polo app on your iphone. not cheap. the shirt costs about 295 bucks. >> holy hanna, quit a shirt. >> well, if you have noticed your iphone taking some blurry photos, your cameras skills might not be to blame. apple everything watch of iphone to fix picture taking defunct the problem is with the eyesight camera on certain iphone plus six. recalls affect sold between september of 2014 and january of 2015. custom kearse have those cameras replaced for free. early this morning, three americans received top honors, in france. they're being hailed as heroes after stopping a gunman and saving hundreds of passengers
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on train from amsterdam to paris. "eyewitness news" reporter alexandria huff joins us with the story, and you just love the story this morning, you want to hear about these guys just taking action and really saving the day. >> absolutely, and tumble, my kids so young, early 20's, three long time buddies, two with military training out to explore europe together. now all three of them will return home with a symbol of bravery as very unexpected souvenir. >> in a language other than their own, three stood tall in paris. >> tries to charge the weapon anal he can just hit me on the shoulder and said let's go. >> along with british businessman chris normal air force members spencer stone national guards man alec scareloto and saddler presented by francois holland to the take down of heavily armed shooter aboard a train from amsterdam to paris. >> i feel our training mostly
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kicked in after the assailant was already subdued. >> captured the end of the violent confrontation after the men took shirtless gunman to the ground. >> i woke to up people basically ducking, why is everybody ducking, then i turned around to look and he had just entered the gunman entered the car with the ak. >> the group rushed the man and a fight ensued hitting the suspect with his own arsenal of guns including ak47 and nine rounds of ammunition according to french officials. >> please do something. don't just stands by april and watch. >> stone surrounded injuries to head and neck, severed his thumb. through his lawyers, suspect more ac and national alkazani, said the continue end sean to simply rob the train. >> suspect's lawyer added her client found the weapons in brussels but recent travel also linked the man to isis fighters turkey. now the thing is i think that the take away, i think that
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young man said it there real well, you can't just sit back and watch. really, demonstrate courage and care. that will was just awesome. >> fantastic. this yes bless today have the training and know what to do. but just to have the courage. >> instinct, they say first thing sparked, instinct and training took over. >> once the guy was talk up. -- tied up. >> 54:00; former president jimmy carter speaking out about his fight against cancer. carter taught a bible study in his hometown every planes georgia yesterday. first since announcing his battle with cancer. former commander in chief shed lit light on his life with the congregation there including more on his treatment. >> we we had another mrit showed up i have four places in my brain, soy this thursday they treat that with radiation. and i'm taking some additional medicine through stimulate my autoimmune system to fight against cancer? carter scheduled to teach seven more lessons over the next two month. then he hopes to travel to nap
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al for charity work, with habitat for humanity. >> police officer assigned to new york mayor bill de blasio was shot with a pellet gun in front of the mayor's home sunday night t department spokesman says the officer was exiting an unmarked police vehicle, when she felt pain in her lower back. the officer was taken to a hospital for treatment and released. a 18 year old boy and 17 year old girl are now being questioned. >> still ahead this morning, rapper wiz kalifa arrested over the week he had at alax. main reason he say he was busted. >> we are in a stretch of perfect weather. may get chance for some storms later tonight. katie is watching it on what she calls her transition day today. a look at the forecast coming up
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>> looking at headlines this morning on cbs-3, pennsylvania attorney general, kathleen kane, will be in montgomery county court. she's facing her first evidence hearing on charges she leaked grand jury material and then lied about it under oath. >> also, three americans who stopped gunman on board a train in paris received france's highest honor. just happened within the last hour. the french president presented the men with the legion of honor. >> philadelphia, releasing so-called papal play book at noon. the own line guide will give resident more details about the upcoming wormed meeting of families and the pope's visit. >> well, hard to believe it is almost time to go back to school, kids.
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i know, summer's over so fast. but showing our back to school photos on cbs-3, here is someone you might recognize, upper right hand corner, photo of me, we little thing on my first day, i think of kindergarten, i remember being very pumped about my lunch box. we want to see your photos. snap and post them to your facebook, twitter, instagram pages. use the #cbs3, then look for back to school photos here on cbs-3 during the morning show. katie, you don't want it hear about the end of summer. great weather recent. >> i so beautiful. you are the the cutest thing ev. >> oh, stop. >> that was adorable. >> thank you. >> what happened, right? >> oh, stop it. >> you're still the cutest one of the group. love all around, folks. all right, we go on out to the eyewitness weather watcher network. some cool air reports coming in, very comfortable air mass in place right now, actually we take you if you look at the map here, allentown, all the way up into the pocono region at 54 degrees, that came into
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us from keith, under nights clear sky in sailors berg, virtually no wind. did he say it is feeling little muggier for him. it was a nice night. looks to be nice sunrise and day overall. we go little further off to the south here, in fact, take you right in the outskirts of philadelphia. at 59 degrees, still checking in with nice clear sky in cart inning ton, he is feeling the cool air, with the low dew point here, currently, it is not a terrible start. feels real comfortable outside, down to delaware, 363 degrees, from jason, and then he is in middletown with the clear sky, as well. hasn't felt this nice in the morning for quite a while. amen to. that will boy has it been muggy for the last week or so. now just got the crispness in the air. doesn't necessarily last all day, but we will keep it as long as possible for you here, guys. we do eventually see cold front that will cross on through, so we walk you out, there taking you to storm scan, high pressure still the story, still the theme overall you can see off to the west here some of the clouds starting to bill owe little
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bit. sign of things it come. circulation, up here, over central canada, and that's draping frontal boundary. look closely, really not that huge after system or impressive of a system. what it does do, help trigger little more humidity with time, eventually shower, storm. our monday looks beautiful at the beaches, though, boy. rip countries being nice and low, up and down the delaware beaches as well as the jersey shore points. our water temperatures, they're not bad. at 74 degrees, so, perfect escuse to take a dip in the waves here. we keep up in the upper 80s this afternoon, rising humidity by tonight watch for shower or storm that goes for anyone it, will linger early tomorrow morning, then clear out for sunshine, and it is basically wall-to-wall sunshine meisha, right through the end of the week, probably saturday, too. >> thumbs-up all the way. and coming off such beautiful weekend as well. thanks so much. bringing ought of the good news, been busy in the word of traffic. this is where we have our first accident, still in the
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blue route north near broomall. okay, so, we have reports now that it is an overturned vehicle, blocking possibly throw lanes of traffic. now, in this camera, you can't really see much. but take a look at this, this is the back up, this is the blue route northbound past broomall. and it is almost looking like a parking lot. now we're not even in the 6:00 hour. this is not typically what we see even sometimes when we have an accident you don't typically see backups like. that will so definitely give yourself couple of extra minutes there. here is a look at those of you traveling from jersey 42 freeway northbound, at creek road, approaching 295, looking good here, again, looking busy as we approach the 6:00 hour, isn't even typically what we see on the 42 freeway, so just busy overall for those of you traveling in and around mass transit, west trenton line bussing today between wood born and west trenton, and i have tweet the timetable adjustment those you have looking to commute on mass transit. erika, over to you. >> the word this morning is
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cuffs for rapper wiz call eva, arrested at the international airport. says the confrontation began when he refused to get off of his whoever board. yes, calling marty mc fly, he said did he not want to get off his whoever board. no word from law enforcement becomes you was it real a whoever board? what was he standing snob closer look what was kalifa cruising through, that's what it is, imagine segway scooter but without that bar to hole on tonight just casino of new way skateboard. but when police say to get off, just get off. >> in kansas city foo fighters turned the table on anti-gay picketers. blasted rick, zero's hit, never going to give you up outside the spirit center friday. that's when members of westboro baptist church, they gathered this to protest the band. the infamous music video has been used as internet prank for years, known as rick
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rolling. for the second straight weekend in row, rap ruled out the box office. >> ♪ >> that was don't, dude. >> straight out of compton raked in $28.8 million. the movie tells the story of the rise of iconic rap group nwa. the clear win near quiet weekend at the movies. coming in second, mission impossible, rogue nation, got over 11 million, in things sinister two, 10.6 million. rounding out top five, hitman agent 47 and the man from uncle. >> still ahead this morning, okay, how good are you at video games? well, even if you're an after i had gamer, chances are you got nothing on these giles, more on the huge video game tournament over the weekend, and just how big this sport is actually becoming. first though, here's what's ahead tonight on cbs-3.
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brian web explains how this is becoming really big business. >> madison square garden home to the new york nicks, but in this championship, no ball, no basket. instead the sold out crowd cheering for ten guys sitting in front of computers. this is the league of legends video game, north american championship. with team solo med taking on counter logic gaming for the sumner cup. fans are passionate, even dress up as game characters. >> no better twi appreciate a character you play all the time than to be that character for a day. >> millions more watched the broadcast at home with announcers and highlight. >> there are major sponsor like coke, and players are shrek rid us. >> better known by screen name dibble lift plays for counter leglike how much practice do you put in? 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. every day. >> there are more than dozen other video games that are played on the professional
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level. >> top pro earners are making, you know, close to a million dollars. >> dustin beck is with riot game, which makes league of legends. his company says 27 million people watch the 2014 world championship match. almost double the average audience for last year's world series. >> after almost three hours, counter logic came out on top, now head to the world championship, brian web, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> well done. >> katie has a look at your forecast, meisha checking on the roads. also, it is being called the papal play book. it will be available later on today. find out how philadelphia residents can get more information on how pope francis' visit will affect them. >> and, something simple, couples can do, to boost intimacy and lead to happy relationship. more on that, when we come back. good morning.
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is enough evidence to move forward to trial. and, world markets plunge a mid concerns of china's economy. in just a few hours, all eyes will be on wall street after last week's markets melt down. hoping for better week this week. >> good morning, it is monday, august 24th, i'm erika von tiehl. right now we check in with katie and meisha and the roads and the skies, good news with one department. good morning, ladies. >> yes. kately take that one. yes, certainly, i mean, i can just feel it is a monday out on the roadways, already very busy, had some problems, so katie, yes, ma'am, you get the cake. >> i know, you have been working hard since the sun came up really even since before then, meisha, a just because things are looking pretty active out there. but weather wise not terribly so. we've got one frontal boundery that we have to track tonight into tomorrow. that will kind of it is it for the next five days. very trans will weather is about town fold for our area. i think we'll all take t we've enjoyed beautiful weather in recent days, but also certainly some very active weather, a w
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