we are following breaking news this morning, huge flames, spread by a natural gas leak in an apartment building in montgomery county. we are live with the very latest on how this fire is affecting residents. good morning, it is wednesday, august 26th, i'm erika von tiehl. i'm nicole brewer. a hero's home coming. one of the three americans who helped take down a gunman on a paris bound train is celebrated this morning. back in sacramento they are thinking parade, and, so proud of these guys. >> yes. >> heroes. >> absolutely. >> and your our local hero with this forecast. >> yes. >> it feels amazing, out there. >> is it august, i know.

>> yes, i'm sure. >> and it is not just today we will getaway with that, by the way. isn't that nice. we have nice weather attached to today and as we head into thursday and friday but heat i will not tell you it is gone for good. we have to get through this month. september can be a a hot one too. lets look at where we are, because today is gorgeous. 70 degrees in philadelphia you can see wind at 5 miles an hour out of the north. really nice there. 51 percent humidity. that is making it feel so lovely when you walk out the door. up on the sky deck a few moments ago and i wanted to stay out there. it is really nice. temperatures 07 in philadelphia 59 in allentown. fifty-nine in reading. sixty-three in millville. wildwood coming in at 63 as well. everybody please an. storm scan three is showing just how clear skies are. look at this, barely a few high clouds. you have to head back into new york state to find them back into parts of the western pennsylvania. looking terrific. that is what we will see throughout the the day-to-day.

our three day forecast is divine, look the at this high of 84 today. eighty-three tomorrow and friday. lots of pleasant sunshine. if you are at the shore, wow, it will be a nice one out there will we get through the month without another really warm day? well, we have this next three days looking good, but when we talk about the weekend we are talking about, a little bit of heat. so it is a question. 2.4 degrees above average, so far this month, a lot of red on that map, meisha but we are in the looking to add to it today, tomorrow or friday. saturday and sunday we will talk about in a few moments. >> sound good, kyla, kyla bringing good news on this hump day. thank you very much. good morning, everyone. if you are just joining us, thinks a live shot from mobile three. we had a very serious crash overnight in burlington county, new jersey. what you are looking at is this vehicle was actually split in half. for a while split was upside down. part of the car was upside down. where this exactly is, it is route 130 northbound at route

543. the north bound lanes are completely closed, so use an alternate such as 295, but this is a very serious crash that happened overnight. you can see crews, out there taking picture, taking video. this is a crime scene. they are still doing their investigation work. give yourself a couple extra minutes in and around this area taking a lot at the schuylkill eastbound before the conshohocken curve, you can see travelers moving in the eastbound direction. headlights coming toward the camera. certainly getting a little bit more busy on the schuylkill and i-95 southbound at cottman just starting to build that volume in that area as well. overall it should be a pretty busy morning. nicole, over to you. meisha, thank you. we are updating the the breaking news we have been covering all morning in montgomery county. a huge fire races through an apartment building in king of prussia this impacted a dozen apartment and forced more than 30 people out of their homes. "eyewitness news" reporter justin finch is live with the update from this fire, justin? >> reporter: erika and nicole, within the past few minutes the the last of those flames have been put out, fire

fighters tell us at least, 30 people have been displaced by this fire and all 16 units in this building here, at the abrams one apartment complex has some kind of a fire damage to it. we're on bill smith boulevard here at the the complex here but lets take to you video from the scene earlier here, at its height witnesses and fire fighters say tall flames and waves of thick black expect consumed this complex. first responders going door to door here to knock on those doors toe vac the wait those residents. this fire was reported first at 1:30 or so this morning. king of prussia fire arrived to the scene here. the fire was then raised to two alarms and crew from his all over montgomery county came into assist. at one point during the the fighting of this fire, a water main broke which caused the problems initially but water was able to come back on by other sources, to continue, to soak out the flames here. the fire was brought under control by about 3:00 o'clock or so this morning and in all, the fire chief tells us that

50 plus fire fighters were on hand to bring this fire under control, he is in the middle of the fast moving conditions, that utilities like gas, electricity, caused some challenging. lets take a listen. >> the fire is separate from the initial fire. we are not sure. it is under investigation. it is still burning here, it is a gas fed fire. structural fire itself is under control but we have a gas fire that is still being fed. the electric and gas is a problem also. >> reporter: as we saw a few minutes ago the last of the flames from the gas line were brought under control. fire fighters are now douse ago this area and kind of telling the the soil where that fire was, emerging just minutes ago. at this point no reports of any injuries, the fire fighters or resident here at the complex. we are told that those affected are working with the red cross and also the management company to find some housing for now. we are live from king of prussia, i'm's justin finch

for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> thanks, justin. meanwhile, parents are concerned schools in the cash strapped chester up land school district might not opened up on time. school board discussed how to close a 24 million-dollar budget short fall at chester high school. earlier a judge refused the district's request for a 20 million-dollar reductions and how much the district must pay charter schools for special education students. judge refused to slash four million-dollar that the district must pay for students in cyber charter schools. parents tell us they are fed up with the district's financial problems. >> mainly parents are concerned. they want to know why is this happening once again and they want to know where is the money going. >> parents say no decision was made on if schools will open up on time. right not, 5:36. business news this morning, maybe a question you don't want to think about on your way to work, how much time do you spend stuck in traffic. >> probably too much. we would all agree. and is what going on with wall street. money watch's jill wagner joins us live from the new york stock exchange. that is a question a lot of us

have, jill, good morning. >> jill? >> good morning, nicole and erika, we could be in for another wild ride on wall street. yesterday dow jones finished down two hundred and five points, nasdaq fell 19. those closing numbers though don't tell the whole story. stocks surged at the opening, at one point the dow jones was up 441 points. rally was wipe out by a stunning sell off in the last hour of trading. investors are concerned about a china economy. whether a slow down there will spread to the other markets. the market haven't had a correction in four years. for the first time amazon says customers of its prime now service will be able to order wine, beer and other alcohol for deliver any less than one hour. amazon is testing that service in seattle, first. and this won't come as a surprise to anyone who commutes by work, who commutes by car to work, excuse me, grid lock is getting worse.

new study find that the average commuters spend 42 hours a year sitting in rush hour traffic. in philadelphia, it is even more than that, about 48 hours. traffic is a lot worse in d.c. where commuters sit in 82 hours of traffic a year. followed by los angeles and new york. when you are sitting in that traffic, it is the worst. >> that is why you have to bring your snacks, get your coffee. >> digging in the lunch bag. >> we don't have a commute, five minutes to work. >> working overnight helps too, i'm with you, at 3:00 in the morning. >> yes. it is 5:38. the plans are underway in sacramento for a celebration parade, honoring the hometown heroes who took down that heavily armed man on a paris bound train last week. >> just a nation. >> three men have been awarded france's highest honor for bravery and aster i okita reports present sacramento, one of them is now home.

>> reporter: anthony sadler is finally back home in sacramento, safe, sound, days after he and his two childhood friend, helped foil a suspect terror attack on a train heading to paris. soon to be rack amount owe state senior managed to slip past reporters at the airport on tuesday. leaving college friend john dick son, who coincidently was on board the same flight, to speak on his behalf. >> yeah, he is exhausted, yeah. he has been getting a a lot of attention the past few days. he just wanted to get some sleep. >> reporter: other passengers report being star struck. >> people got up during the flight and shook his hand report report last friday sadler with air men spencer stone, and national guard men alex skarlatos, hell topped over power, the suspect. french prosecutors say the minister rock an gunman was carrying over 200 bullets and looked at jihad i video on his cell phone just minutes before the chaos. sacramento mayor kevin johnson, says plans are in the

works to honor the trio. >> this is patriotic, these young men gave us something to, believe in. >> reporter: skarlatos remains in german which stone as, stone continues treatment for injuries sustain in the attack. terry okit a for cbs news, sacramento. >> so proud of those guys. officials at the national zoo in washington are facing challenges trying to keep two baby panda is a live. we have a new picture of the smaller of the twins. baby has to be bottle and tube federal because momma panda is only nursing the larger cub. she's not letting keepers swap out for smaller new borns. zoo workers say a it is important for both to have equal time with their mom so they can get enough to eat. >> 5:40. japanese liquor company is boldly going with nor distiller has gone before, outer space. case of the heart stuff was part of the japan's 10,000-pound cargo ship. that arrived machine to the international space station. the japanese spirits company wants to find out just how

long alcohol will age in space. the stash will be stored on the space station for about a year and later brought back to earth for comparison to the earthly brand. >> little extra time and money >> yes. it could be interesting. still ahead on eyewitness knew do you want to know is what going on at home when you are not there do it yourself home security system. plus, the mishap at a museum that damaged, a pricey masterpiece. >> your heart goes out to that kid. >> just awful. still summer but halloween costume is sparking outrage on line, more details on this when we come right back.

okay, we have breaking news right now a fire forced dozens of people from their homes. huge flames, tore through an apartment complex, in king of prussia earlier today. natural gas leak, fed more flames. there are no reports of any injuries. also breaking a serious car crash in burlington county, one person was rushed to a hospital after this crash on route 130, about 2:00 this morning. so far that victim's condition has not been released. republican presidential candidate donald trump has a uni vision reporter kicked out of a press conference yesterday, this is after 15 minutes. did he allow jorge ramos back in. ramos was grilling trump on his immigration policies. 5:44. setting up a home security system doesn't have to be hard

or expensive. >> in this tech minute czar an prof is has three do it yourself options. the. >> reporter: do it yourself home security system made up of motion sensors and alarms. it is something triggers your alarm you will get a text message letting you know as well as a automated call. from there calling police is up to you. it starts at 199 and add a camera for another $150. net cam is a home security camera, the system streams 1080p, hd video straight tour smart phone so you can see what is going on at home. the cam is $200 and store your cameras footage plans start at $10 a month. finally if you have an old android phone free app called salient eye can call it into a motion detecting advice. it using the the camera to detect motion and capture

photos of the action. in san francisco, i'm sharon prof theis for c net.com for cbs news. repairs are underway after, and horrible accident, your heart goes out to this little boy, you have seen the the accident on video. >> security cameras on top of the 12 year-old caring a drink as he stumbles and breaks his fall with 350 year-old oil painting that was worth more than a million-dollar. he put a fist sized hole in the flowers, by italian painter, pablo, artery storers are doing their best, but museum officials say the painting is insured. >> the family won't be responsible, if the insurance company will pay for restoration of the painting. >> that is good to know. >> what museum allows kid to walk around with a soda can. >> no food in, drink, leave it at the door, might be a good reminder. >> kyla, weather. >> i have never been allowed to walk through a museum with the soda can but that poor

kid. honest mistake. exactly. we have got some people keeping an eye on the weather. our eyewitness weather watchers. good morning everybody. lets lot at observations we are seeing here. the nice start to the morning. 63 degrees. matthew is reporting in conshohocken, pennsylvania. you can see humidity is still 72 percent but it is a beautiful morning a lot of people are feeling that as we start our day to day. 64 degrees this is coming from ron from riverside and humidity, it is better there he is down to 63 percent. and lets take a look at another one, with the little further over here 53 degrees, good morning to mark, in chats worth, he enjoying a morning. nice cool start to what promises to be a great day. you are right, mark. we are off the two races for a great day. lets go back to our local weather now and talk about where we are with temperatures 567892 mount pocono. seventy in philadelphia. sixty-three down in wildwood. it will be a nice one out there, everybody. so due points are in the 50's,

not bad at all. that is why it feels so lovely walking out the door. it doesn't feel like you need another shower after you already took a shower. comfort index, that moisture condition tenth in the air. we are at 51. that translates to absolutely awesome air. you can see we will be in that awesome, pleasant range today. it will be a fantastic one. taking a live look at storm scan three you can see skies are clear here. just bayly a few high clouds. we have had rain pushing off of new england but even that is out of here as we start our wednesday. so, our health report today is a nice one. air quality is good, we have pollen levels, medium high. here scratchiness in my voice. i'm he feeling. that uv index is high because of the sun out there heat index will not be a problem today. high pressure is in control as we start to see those 80's roll in. it is not just today, tomorrow but also friday. but we have some heat coming, meisha, so we will get to that when i come back to you in a bit. >> kyla, bring on the heat, right. can't complain about that.

it is still, you can see, still early, still kind of dark out there. here's new jersey, 42 freeway north bound at creek road approaching 295, steady stream of vehicles here, a lot of headlights coming toward the camera northbound. you can see our friend pulled off to that shoulder. he is always there. not causing any major slow downs on 42, looking good there, 422 eastbound at pennsylvania turnpike, taillights moving in the eastbound direction. that steady flow we are starting to see as we progress toward the 6:00 o'clock hour. that is when we will typically heat up especially machine through wednesday. ninety-five southbound through girard, plenty of headlights but good thing is everybody is moving around at posted speed. even though volleys starting to build. now, this is a good thing as we purchase move toward the 6:00 o'clock hour. ladies, over to you. son of the vice-president, joe biden is now linked to hacking web site ashley madison. e-mail address linked to hunter biden was found in data released by the hackers. married father of three said

he hasn't used the e-mail address in question in year. several lawsuits have been filed by users of the cheating web site. the defendants claim that the site didn't do enough to protect their date a they are seeking at least five million-dollar in damages. mother of the local child actress says the philadelphia school district is not doing enough to keep her daughter safe after an alleged bullying incident. eight year-old shane coleman has work with some of the hollywood's biggest stars. officials at john hancock elementary school in northeast philadelphia told the girls mother another female student threatened to kill her back in june. the girl's mother asked the district to transfer her daughter to another school but school policy says there needs to be a direct assault before that can happen. >> i didn't know that anybody would want to kill me or hurt me or anything because everybody is really my friend. >> she has stolen her markers, her crayons. she will kick the back of her chair. she pushed her in the bathroom

stall. >> i thought it was kid stuff up until the death threat. >> wow. >> shane's mother was just working to home school her eight year-old daughter. >> wow. >> 5:51. prosecutors in los angeles are revealing evident deciding whether charges should be filed begins caitlin jenner in connection with the deadly crash. jenner was driving a suv that slammed into two cars on be if seventh. sheriff investigators support a manslaughter charge against jenner whom they determine was driving at an unsafe speed. powell's family is suing jenner. caitlin meanwhile is subject of the controversial costume being sold on line by halloween retailers. >> call me caitlin costume comes with that padded top wig and pageant stash. it is designed to will like jenner's vanity fair cover. some people are upset the by $75 get up. is there a petition at change.org calling retailers telling them to stop selling it. >> spirit halloween released this statement, reading in part caitlin jenner has proven

to be the most real life super hero of the year and spirit halloween is proud to carry the costume that celebrates her. at last check however the costume was no long's veilable on spirit's web site so we will see what happens there. >> yes. >> 5:52. we will be right back in a moment. >> but first here's is what coming up tonight on cbs-3. so you're telling me staples wion lowest prices?he g we have a 110% price match guarantee for back to school. look me in the eye and tell me staples has the lowest prices.

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sit down. go ahead. >> donald trump on another tirade, this time he had a well known news anchor thrown out of his press conference. we will tell you who it is. >> all right. it is wednesday, august 26th, good morning to you i'm nicole brewer. >> i'm erika von tiehl. >> we will get you started with check of traffic and weather with kyla, meisha and it feels so nice when you walk outside the door, ladies. >> happy hump day. we are looking good. you are one bringing all of the good news this morning. >> i'm seriously considering just setting shop up, out here. >> do it. >> and staying here the rest of the morning. >> it the is stunning, gorgeous out here. absolutely beautiful. you walk outside and feel freshness in the air and it feels like a season change. we're not quite there yet but it will be a gorgeous run of a couple of days. lets look live at our neighborhood network and you can see this beautiful shot here, middletown ship high school 62 degrees and sunnies just coming up. boy, what an indication of the beautiful day we're about to se