are saying. you know how it goes. >> yeah, no green thumb over here, nicole, trust me on that. good morning. yes, roadways are wet, definitely leave your homes early this morning. you will need to. i will have those updates coming up. >> i wish i can say it is muggy and super nice but it is not, it is raining, we have humidity in the air and we have a rough start to the day. lets talk about what happened yesterday real quickly. look at the rain coming down looking live from campbell's field and make out the that moisture. we are looking across ben franklin bridge there in to center city. this is where we had heat yesterday. we got up to 93. check outnumbers in orange. the those were daily record. in allentown 95. reading 94. trenton 93. daily record for georgetown as well. the just incredible heat. today we have stormy weather that will knock that heat out but not quite yesterday. we are still dealing with muggy conditions. we have rain rolling through philadelphia thunderstorms, complete with lightening this morning and temperatures in

the 70's. i wouldn't call it pleasant when you walk out the door. we are at 72 degrees in philadelphia we have some good news coming. temperatures today will be seasonal, lower 80's, finally, storm toy day through tonight the but as we get to friday we will start off with sun and less humidity, won't that be nice. it has been a while since we could say that. let's head over to meisha, i think she can talk about traffic because this rain is causing some trouble. >> it certainly is. it never fails whenever we have rain it usually brings in busyness. it is thursday and it is busy. here's breaking news from mobil three an accident on the the schuylkill eastbound at broad street. an overturned vehicle. it is now turn right side backup. you can see crews are trying to get this cleaned up because we know this is a busy stretch. all lanes are block, schuylkill eastbound at proud street, void this this area if possible. and then also switching cameras here, a serious

accident, two tractor trailers involved route 130 north bound a at groveville road at burlington township. use an alternate of street road, excuse me, route 206, that is, your alternate, avoid this area if you can, a very serious accident there. woodhaven road eastbound between boulevard and i-95 we have construction, all lanes are blocked here as well, use an alternate of academy. so again i think rule of thumb on this very busy morning is it is wet outside, there is still construction in place despite the fact that we have wet roadways and we have some accidents. we are in the sure if that is distribute together rain but allow some extra time at this early hour, back over to you. new this morning an accident investigation is underway in new castle delaware. it happened last last night on the 700 block of east basin road in new castle. details are limited right now but we are hearing pedestrians may be involved. we will bring you more information as soon as it

becomes available. 5:02. only 16 days until philadelphia welcomes pope francis. >> it will be here before we know it. >> city already has plans in place, the suburbs they are working on their. "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabao is live as the final destination at benjamin franklin parkway, jan, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we are coming to you live from the back of the live truck this morning because we have rain, lightening outside. we want everyone to be safe this morning. papal visit will have a widespread impact all over the delaware valley. a lot of people coming from the western suburbs into center city. planning is well underway. some of those plans are still a work in practicing gress. for many the the pilgrimage to see pope francis in philadelphia will start on the train. the norristown transportation center is expected to be packed, it is just one of the several septa transportation hubs in montgomery county that will be used to get tens of thousands office visitors

in the city. >> we are scheduled to have 10,000 septa riders coming through our rail station in the seven hour period. our concerns are where are they go to go park. >> reporter: papal planning in the suburbs is well underway, norristown just held a public meet to go discuss everything from emergency services to parking in the area. >> i think it will be interesting but i hopefully it will be off to the point where it will be manageable to get to work. >> we plan on doing notification letters to the communities, business owners to let them know what the impact or what we see it will happen. >> reporter: radnor township held a similar meeting wednesday night. at the same time 10,000 free tickets for pope's sunday mass on the parkway were available on line for free. the archdiocese says they will reserve in less than a minute. the same thing happened with 10,000 festival of families tickets available earlier in the afternoon. back in norristown residents are getting ready. ninety-one year-old hank sysco hanging a welcome banner anything to feel closer to the

pope. >> his name is francis and my name is francis. i was christened, fran cyst. >> reporter: those free tickets to see the pope at various spots all across the the city was incredibly fast. remember they were free tickets. this morning we are finding them popping up on line, to be sold for a hefty price we're talking about hundreds of dollars and coming up 5:30 we will see that. >> last thing the pope would want. >> i know for a mass of all things, not right. >> thank you. >> you can stay with "eyewitness news", to get ready to welcome pope francis. we have everything you need to know on line, go to cbs philly.com/papal visit. two former rutgers university football players and another student have pleaded not guilty to a series of home invasions. andrew boggs and tj johnson entered their pleas during a hearing in new brunswick. prosecutors say one of the home invasions happened in new brunswick another in a campus

dorm room. boggs a defensive back was among five players dismissed from the team following their arrests last week, erika. nicole, fail woman accused of being master mind behind the basement of horrors case now faces life in prison. five five-year old linda weston pleaded guilty to 196 counts wednesday. only "eyewitness news" spoke to one of those victims soon after the hearing. our natasha brown has that story. >> it hit me, and she was -- several broken bort. >> reporter: tamara braid on still has some scars, from broken bones. tamara is now safely in the care of her parents, a far cry from where police found her in october of 2011, locked away in the dark basement of horrors in tacony with three other mentally disable adults. they were living in squalor, mal nourish, beat when bats and hammers, within man was found chained to the boiler. on wednesday, five five-year old linda weston pled guilty

to 196 counts against her in this case, master mine, prosecutors say behind forcing mentally disable adults to designate her as her care giver, allowing her to illegally collect $212,000 in social security checks over the course of ten years. >> 196 counts today, really bring us much closer to closure. >> i was scared before to go outside, to eat anything, nightmares every night, waking up. >> reporter: for three three-year old tamara breeden the night mayors are disappearing replace by heart warming images of her ten month-old daughter ava olivia. >> i'm so thankful for my family and kid and everything is fine for me. >> i thank god that they have found her guilty, her and her caughter and i just thank god this is all over with. >> reporter: tamara will likely wear these scars forever but she's freed by her

forgiveness of perfect captor and her spirit. >> i'm still gorgeous, i'm still pretty, i'm a survivor. >> reporter: weston's daughter jean macintosh and one other defendant have pled guilty in this case. two other co-defendants are still awaiting trial. at the federal courthouse, natasha brown, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". a kid kidnapper delvin barnes is expect to change his plea this morning. barnes a had plead the not guilty to kidnapping a woman in germantown last november. the frightening ordeal was caught on surveillance video right there. prosecutors say barnes found, stuffed, 22-year old carlesha free land gate inner to his car trunk and then drove to maryland. she was, later found and rescued in the parking lot. well, people in arizona are on edge after reports of ten shootings on a major freeway in just the past one weeks. >> this suspect has not been named yesterday. state a's director of public safety is calling the incident quote domestic terrorism crimes. cbs correspondent don champion

has the very latest. >> reporter: state, federal and local police are looking for the person whose targeting mote the wrist along the main freeway, through phoenix. >> why would someone shoot at anybody at all especially shooting at some innocent person, i mean that is just insane. >> reporter: drivers who use interstate ten are nervous. >> very serious, very horrible, i hope they catch the person. >> reporter: incident started on august 29th, the latest, happened on wednesday, where the passenger side window of this pickup truck were the shattered. arizona department of public safety confirmed seven vehicles were hit by bullets and three were hit the by projectiles. law enforcement the is ram pink up patrols on the ground and in the air. >> it is a huge safety issue at this point so we want it stopped. >> reporter: so far there have not been any serious injuries. >> it is just a matter of time if this behavior continues that we have tragedy on our roadways. >> reporter: police have no suspects, arizona a is calling on officials from michigan,

colorado and kansas for help with their investigations. each of those states have dealt with similar situations over the past year. drivers are being urged to stay vigilant. don champion for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". developing right now, rescuers are busy bringing flood victims to japan higher ground. two days of rain had residents going and out their balcony, inn and much of the damage is north of tokyo. one person is missing, landslide hit houses at the food of the steep wooded incline. rivers have overflowed knocking some homes off their foundations. >> terrible. so terrible. 5:10. instead of policing the prison's six current and philadelphia corrections officers they will find themselves behind bars. we will tell you how they are accused of helping inmates. a michigan fire fighter is struck and killed collecting money on a roadway what happened moment before that has police saying this was no accident. then another gap for nypd. this is an officer tackling a cuffs the the wrong man.

that man by the way just happens to be a former pro tennis player. we will tell how this is and what happened up next. >> ♪ >> our little treasures there in the control room, say hello, folks, that is our crew, overnight crew, we are also talking about the nfl treasure in bruno mars, word is he was invited to perform at the super bowl once again. we will have details on that once again. last go around. also, we have news about joe banner's prediction about the eagles season. i think you'll like it. we will have the information coming up next in sports. stay with us.

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welcome back. a driver in michigan is accused of, raising money for charity. lansing fire fighter dennis rodman exchange word with the fire fighter while collecting money yesterday. investigators say driver circled back around and struck the veteran fire fighter. he tied hours later. collogues say the 35 year-old

just got married and was expecting his first child. >> you cannot make sense of the tragedy but i know that he died, and he was loved, and, who knows, he might have saved a life or two, because there is this ticking time bomb out there that will explode and it happened that he absorbed the brunt of that ticking time bomb. >> just so sad. that driver was caught after a short chase. former pro tennis player is holding a news conference today after an apparent mix up at the hand of the nypd. james blake was waiting outside a manhattan hotel for a ride to the u.s. open. he said an officer threw him to the ground and handcuffed him during an investigation of the fraudulent cell phone purchases. someone misidentified blake as a suspect. police released him after a detective told them they had the wrong man. >> have you had any conversations with him at all.

>> unaudible. >> i immediately ordered the deputy commissioner in charge of the internal affairs to open an investigation. nature of what he described is not what we do, not what we're supposed to do. >> blake, once the world's fourth ranked tennis player suffered a cut on his elbow and bruce toes his leg. the nypd is investigating. students at a southwest philadelphia school now have a pretty nice view to look at during the day. >> the philadelphia charter school invalid veiled a 10-foot community garden. the addition includes a new playground and school kitchen. project was completed with donations and volunteer efforts from community members who were honored at the unveiling. mother nature helping out with the guard toning day. >> indeed. little bit of the messy start to the day unfortunate will you but we will be much cool tore day if that helps at all. lets start live with our camera right on the rooftop here looking into center city. i'm in the sure if mother nature will do this but i saw lightening out here earlier. it will not happen on cue but

we have lightening in the area just a heads up we have rain moving through and, it is dangerous out there right now. it will be throughout the afternoon too. so we will have a little bit of the ways to go with stormy weather. lets start with a look at farrah away, i wanted to mention we have a new tropical storm this morning, it is tropical storm henri, currently sustain wind. henri will exit pretty gracefully here. it is expect to track north and east so it will not have impacts for us but we will keep an eye on those things. we are keeping an eye on the radar here and is there rain moving through philadelphia, that lightening starting to be pick up on the tracker here and as you can see it will continue, because look at how fed this storm is as it will tunnel all this toward us throughout the day-to-day. it won't be a quick storm but we need some rain. we have had three and a half inch deficit since august 1st, no measurable rain since august 20th, and yes, we do

have some drought conditions, in and around an hour area too in the area in yellow you can see that we are dry. in the in drought but certainly dry. we can use the rain. hour by hour shows us we will see stormy weather today, so temperatures stehlin in the upper 70's and lower 80's for a high today, big difference, we have a cold front. that humidity will be income down. big difference toward weekend. we will watch for a second front to track in as well. we are talking some rain totals, as we go through the next 24 hours we could see some pockets of three plus inches of rain. that is unusual. mostly an inch or less. we are humid. tonight a low of 65. our seven day forecast, shows we do cool down measurablably. highs in the 07's by sunday. >> beautiful. >> thanks, kyla. >> yes, if we are just tuning in, very busy world in the world of travel and also in the world of weather, we can see clearly we have wet roadways out there.

we have construction, woodhaven road eastbound between boulevard and i-95, all lanes are block, use an alternate such an academy or street road to maneuver. i'll let you know when that clears. also, schuylkill eastbound past broad street we have an accident one lane is block here so you are able to maneuver around, a little bit but if you were you would i avoid this area if possible. if in the within lane is open. very serious accident in bordentown township, two tractor trailers, route 130 north at groveville road all lanes are blocked. use an alternate such as route 206 to maneuver around this area. we do have reports right now coming in that there is another accident, around this area, at route 156. so again, the challenge to day give yourself a couple extra minutes. roadways are very wet out there. erika, over to you. meisha, thank you. kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples is going back to work on

monday. kim davis left a jail cell earlier this week after refusing a federal judge's order. she was released after deputies started issuing marriage licenses in her absence. it is not clear right now if davis will comply with the order when she returns. meanwhile half dozen current and former correctional officers are facing charges in a sting operation. here three of the six suspects who worked in philadelphia prisons. bryant fields, george kindle and durpea myers. authorities say that the guard got 500 to $1,500 for those delivery, the suspects face possibility of decades in prison. still to come this morning the the ntsb had has released a cause for plane crash that killed lewis katz and six other people. we have details coming up in a bit. also ahead parents of the catholic school students are required to sign a pledge, we will tell what you they need to agree to for their kid to be able to attend school and why some people are not very happy about it. that is coming up next.

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phillies host chicago cubs tonight. phillies lost eight of the ten and not getting any easier. they will fake a pitch her threw a no hitter a few weeks back and 18 record with a 2.03 era. last night was bring your dog to the ballpark night and there was plenty of room for them. phillies and braves battled in front of the announced crowd of 15,000 and phillies lost this one, it was their eighth time, lose nothing just ten games. former philly michael born had four hits for atlanta a including a two run triple. phillies lost eight-one. they have the worst record in baseball. >> they have dogs there to comfort them. >> there is that. >> yes. >> football season kicks off this weekend and bird open up in prime time monday night in atlanta eagles and starting quarterback sam bradford have ended contract extension negotiations which means sam could make a a lot of monday which a good season.

he have is coming back from two acl tears but had a a strong preseason. speaking of the eagles quarterback tim tebow is heading back to the sec. he was cut by the bird last week and former florida heisman trophy winner will return to his last job as a pregame analyst for espn. he will cover the georgia/vanderbilt game on saturday. and speaking of former eagles former eagles president joe banner is making a couple prediction about the the upcoming football season. before we reveal that prediction, just want to remind you he nailed them all last season. banner, he tweeted out super bowl champs, eagles. there we go. he also says bears will lose big, khalil mack should have been number within pick and saints should win nfc south. fingers are crossed here, nail though predictions again this year. we will have sb champs in town. >> it is time. >> yes. >> one of the big stars in the previous superstar half time show could be in line for

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good morning, it is thursday, september 10th i'm nicole brewer. >> i'm erika von tiehl. tickets are free, or they were free but that is not stopping some people, they are selling them on line some asking for thousands of dollars. our jan carabao has more on this. >> donald trump is back at it, controversial comments he made about fellow candidate carli fiorina. >> really. >> this is no kingdom for trump. >> it has been dry and hot, and new we have wet road out there. >> yes, cause something problems. >> you know, everybody is