search and rescue operation, at this hour. here in atlantic city we can see weather conditions are not ideal for a search and rescue mission like this. there is heavy cloud cover as you can see here out over the atlantic ocean, also, a steady rain is falling as well. so we are continuing to monitor the situation, the faa is continuing to keep us abreast of what is happening, and of course we will bring you more information as we get more details. we're live from atlantic city, natasha brown, for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". natasha, thank you. turning now to our other top story tonight, storms moving through the the area right now, our camera caught people trying to get out of the rain, as the poured down today, and spring garden. and more is heading our way. meteorologist kate bilo is live with the first lot at forecast, kate. >> reporter: we have been dealing with this heavy rain all day long, and, since this morning and heavy rain continuing to push through the area, and good news, if there is any good news, the rain is weakening a little bit as this batch of rain moves in the

philadelphia area. you can see over the past hour or so, the yellow and orange shaded areas start to tape tore a uniform green. this means a moderate steady rain is coming down but it does mean that the storm is starting to push away and starting to weaken a bit. steady rain is expect through the next couple of hours, at least, it the is just now pushing into philadelphia still pockets of that heavier rain over portions of montgomery county, and, and, 422, and and, that will certainly, and, traffic here this evening. flash flood watch doesn't remain in effect until 8:00 tonight. still with the heavy rain coupled with the heavy rain we saw earlier, facing the threat for flash flooding, especially in the areas, and, creeks and streams that could breach their banks. number of flood advisories still in effect from the lehigh valley, poconos, berks county, bucks, montgomery counties and chester county off mercer county under a flood advisory until 6:30.

what to expect for rest of tonight? well, scattered showers and thunderstorms. heavy at times. soaking downpours will continue, we will end up with a general one to 3 inches of have rain meaning still an additional inch or so could fall through next several hours and that threat for flash flooding. worst of it moves out by 8:00 tonight. coming up we will have better news for end of the week and start of the weekend coming up in the seven kay forecast. ukee and jessica. well, phillies make a major change in the front office as they rebuild for the the future. >> today the organization announced the firing of the general manager reuben amaro, junior and "eyewitness sports" reporter leslie van arsdal is live at citizens bank park with the details, leslie. >> reporter: you both know ruben amaro, junior had taken a lot of heat the past couple of years and president andy macphail said he knew that the fans were not happy and he was ready to make a fresh start. after seven years with the phillies, the team has decided to part ways with general manager reuben amaro, junior. >> i didn't think this one

would be as hard as it turned out to be, but again, i've got, i'm charged with the certain responsibility, i have a responsibility to the franchise, the fans, ownership, to do what i think is best and get this thing back to where it was as quickly as i can. >> reporter: amaro became gm of the phillies days after they won 2008 world series, they made it to the post season following three seasons. for now scott proflock would be the interim gm. he said he was shocked when he heard the news. >> i was stunned. i was just surprised. >> reporter: phillies manager pete mackanin says he gets it. >> it was a sad day for me as well as a lot of people but i have been in the game for 47 years. ruben fired me at one point. i have been fired, i have been traded, i have been waved, i have been everything happens to you if you are in the game

licensing enough. >> macphail was asked if rube bone take another position with the team. he said, never even came up. so now, the search for a new gm, begins. back to you, ukee leslie, thanks very much. phillies fan base has been dealing with the dismal year. will this change their outlook. "eyewitness news" reporter todd quinones has been taken it to the streets what did you find out. >> reporter: as you know a lot of fans wanted a man marrow, junior gone but there is at least some sense here, be careful what you wish for. the question is asked, now what? because you don't really have anybody to kick around anymore. >> reporter: on 94wi p sports radio and also at the water cooler the next question is does ruben a amaro's firing mean a better phillies team. >> i don't know if they can find anybody better. >> reporter: there is no denying that the painful decline of the phillies have worn some fans out, even faithful still heading to tonight's ballgame could not muster strong reasons amaro could stay.

>> what is his legacy here. >> it is kind of milk. first, last couple years have been frustrated with him. he did good with the recent deals at the trade deadline but sad to see him again. >> in the world of sports talk radio talk was about how few people seemed to be talking about ruben amaro, junior being shown the door. >> my eagles. >> absolutely. >> reporter: how many calls are phillies and ruben amaro did you get. >> zero. >> zero. >> yeah, zero. >> nobody cares about the phillies anymore. it is unfortunate because phillies were once such a popular figure here. they wait todd licensing to let this thing gone. >> reporter: fans seemed eager to turn the page. >> since amaro became gm, it has gone downhill. >> reporter: ike reese added that since amaro junior era as assistant gm and gm phillies went to two world series, winning one of them and therefore he deserves a lot of respect. reporting live from south philadelphia, todd quinones

for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> remember it well, going back to back. what do you think of the phillies decision to part with reuben amaro, junior. weigh in on facebook and twitter and make your voice heard. use the hashtag cbs-3. new at 6:00 camden county is taking a stand begins puppy mills. >> pet stores in the county will be banned from selling animals that come from large scale breeding operations. "eyewitness news" reporter david spunt is live outside the camden county animal shelter in blackwood with more. david, we hear the dogs. >> reporter: jessica, since it started raining we stepped inside. dogs are excited with the live tv cameras but reason freeholders decided to hold this event at camden county animal shelter is because they want to make sure that the animals here at the shelter go directly to the pet stores and now they say they have legislation to stop puppy mills and make this actually happen. in just days camden county freeholders hope to inact norman's law a way to prevent pet stores in the county from selling animals that come from

puppy mills. >> in camden county, there will be no commercial sale of dogs or cats that come from these atrocious, atrocious facilities. >> reporter: camden county freeholder jeff nash introduced the legislation after his dog named norman, animal activist call it the puppy mill breeder system and they claim local pet stores use it all the time. joining nash, nancy as a who insists that her dog had severe medical problems because she came from a puppy mill. >> we tried everything to save her and spent thousands of doll ars, close to almost $8,000 but her condition worsened and we had to put her down one week before her second birthday. >> reporter: as freehold's announced the new legislation in blackwood cherry hill residents braved the rain and held up signs protesting anything to do with puppy mills. >> we would like to see more rescued pets getting into pet

stores, rather than puppy mills. >> reporter: anti puppy mill activist admit change won't come overnight. legislation also protects cats as they too are found in many in mills across the country. and, the mill ban will go into effect next thursday, here in camden county. it is important to also point out that camden county is one of the handful of count ace cross america that has similar legislation to actually ban puppy and cat mills across the country. we are live from the camden county animal shelter, david spunt for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". also in the news tonight a man caught on surveillance video kidnapping a woman off a philadelphia street last year pleaded guilty in federal court today. delvin barnes admitted to abducting the the woman as she walk in germantown last november, and holding her captive in maryland for three days. sentencing hearing is scheduled for january. barnes faces three years in prison. philadelphia police are investigating, a series of

sexual assaults in germantown. two women were attacked on tuesday within blocks of each other. "eyewitness news" reporter real solomon is live in the neighborhood with more on the search for a suspect sexual predator. >> reporter: well, jessica, police tell me that each of these cases, the suspect grabbed his victim from behind, pulled her into a driveway or an alley way and committed these crimes. as you might imagine it has neighbors here very shaken up. police in germantown are stepping up patrol after the reported sexual assault, of three women. >> we have really sick people out here. >> reporter: two of the attacks happened tuesday, one on the 5400 block of wakefield street in broad daylight, second that evening at 8:20 on the 400 block of east locust avenue. police source tells cbs-3 that a third victim reported another attach before tuesday, and fit pattern. >> i'm three blocks away from that. i got kid and everything. that ain't safe at all. >> you never know who will do what, very scary.

>> reporter: police say woman in the area don't to have feel helpless. >> i try not to walk, and pay attention to what is going on, you know, if you have headphones, or ear budd just ab wear of your surrounding. >> reporter: women described their attacker as a black man in his 20's, 5 feet five to 5 feet seven, thin build and wearing dark colored jeans and white t-shirt at the time. people who live and work in germantown say that they will be on alert. >> we have to look out for each other. we really do. >> reporter: police also say that if you are walking down the street and see someone behind you, you do not know, cross the street but also make sure that they know, that you see them. reporting live from germantown real sol machine for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> thank you. organizers say it was a dedication, 14 years in the making. today memorial center to those who for the and died on flight 93, officially opened up in shanksville, pennsylvania. flight 93 was only hijacked plane on 9/11 that failed to

reach its intended target thought to be united states capitol building. it uses photos and interactive display toss tell the story of flight nine 367-8926 million-dollar solicitors center sits on a hill overlooking the the crash site. well, still to come, on "eyewitness news" new information on the papal visit what mayor nutter revealed today that could mean more headaches for people that park their cars in certain areas of philadelphia. piece of american history is unearthed in south jersey, i'm cleve bryan, how officialness burlington city believe this ended up in the ground, this cannon. we are continuing to track very heavy rain with our eye on the storm tonight, steady rain still moving through, it is weakening right now and once it moves out we have better conditions to tell but before the end of the week but we will recap how much rain has fallen and what is still to come tonight all coming up when we come right

we are getting a 3-d aerial view of the papal visit as fail makes final preparations. >> officials showed us secret service rendering of the what the final security set up will look like during the latest update. mayor nutter announced parking restrictions. residents within the blue secure zone will need to locate their cars, by, september 20th, that would be

relocate their cars. located and relocate their cars by september 20th or face together. >> another option is naval hospital lot at 1600 paterson avenue. this location has about 1500 parking spots and will be available for free, beginning that week. >> the parking authority is also offering $20 placards that will allow parking in certain garages with no in and out privileges for the entire weekend. it is almost here just 16 days new until pope francis arrives. a major arc logical find, has people buzz nothing burlington city, new jersey. "eyewitness news" reporter cleve bryan has more on how historians are working to find origin of the massive revolutionary war cannon unearthed this week. >> reporter: too heavy for most men to budge this cannon now stored in the burlington city garage is encrusted in both dirt and mystery. >> it has a story to tell but right now the town is not telling us the story. >> reporter: city unearthed it by accident wednesday while

starting construction on the wheelchair ramp at american legion hall in high street. >> we brought folks down from the the state historical department and they indicated that they believe that it is from the 18th century either revolutionary war, possibly war of 1812. >> reporter: shape and size indicate that the cannon was from a ship but who owned it. interestingly both british and americans fired on burlington city. next question why was it buried. perhaps, to keep out, and, people didn't want to look at it. >> after world war one there was an anti war sentiment and some of the cannons that were in town, displayed in town, may have been buried. >> reporter: jeff from the burlington county historical society has his own theories, he thinks cannon comes from the war of 1812 era where similar artillery was manufactured in new jersey. it is also time period when burlington city resident captain james lawrence famously declared motto don't give up the ship. he thinks cannon is authentic

but was just discarded decoration at the home but not an important relic. >> when they put a world war one how lightser, statue, possibly, that took precedent. >> reporter: staring down barrel of history, officialness burlington county, want to learn origin of the cannon but as far as its future, it is simple. they want to put it on display. >> we are proud of the history. we do find things from time to dime but not every day we find a cannon. >> reporter: site will be checked for other artifacts that could be leading to more buried treasure but puts construction of the wheelchair ramp on hold n burlington city, cleve bryan, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". fascinating. >> it is interesting. you see rain there too. it just rained all day long. >> yes, it did. >> it has been on and off, spurts of heavy rain, break, and then heavy rain. >> a tease. >> if you thought it was over and venture out, you may have been caught in the downpour today and still going on right now. we have another batch of heavy rain moving in the city.

it is starting to weaken, that is good news and this should be last of it once we get this round out, we have nicer weather to look forward to we will continue to have our eye on the storm tonight. sky cam three which we can see is looking pretty obscure that view of the city with the low clouds overhead and light rain falling at the moment in the city of philadelphia and you can see traffic looking slow there, along 16th street and traffic is slow just about every where tonight thanks to the puddles and ponding on the roadway and it has been with us all day long. look at the the time lapse. this is from leader ship academy in philadelphia and starts this morning. low clouds, i'll set in motion. quick downpour comes through and then we will see clouds break, there is another downpour and then clouds break again and on and off these pockets of heavy rain all day. another round poised to move in right now. lets peak on storm scan three showing again the heavy rain now moving into the city of philadelphia, you can see it lines up from the poconos down into portion s of delaware. you can see how it has

decreased in intensity over past two or three hours. the it had red and yellow shading right about here. now it is mainly just green and then starting to lighten up. actual back edge of this system is right here h this will push out in the next couple hours and get back to nicer weather. but rain amounts we have seen over an inch and a half of rain in many locations, 1.77 in need wood. trenton 1.68 in mercer county. a new daily ron. smyrna 1.35. woodbine 1.15. over an inch in bala cynwyd. by 7:00 we have rain generally light to moderate. by eight or 9:00 this tapers to a few showers. that will continue through the overnight hours. tomorrow morning we will see sun return return and by afternoon things look nice. problem is we have another system to watch this weekend, not as big a deal that is one but notice a few showers creeping in by saturday afternoon. between now and 8:00 still areas of heavy rain. eight to midnight scattered showers and cloudy skies mainly our only concern after midnight.

cloud giving way to cloud. weekend rain is possible late saturday into sunday morning. another system rolls through but then next week looks gorgeous. stale bit steamy, with that system nearby but by early next week humidity drops drastically as we will note that is difference. overnight still heavy rain early, cloudy, humid with rain tapering to showers. tomorrow much nicer day. morning cloud, less humid and 82. watch for late day showers and storms saturday. showers sunday as well. next week starts a pattern of gorgeous september weather, thaw are going to love starting monday, we will be right

a move many phillies fans expected for a while today as phillies cut ties with the general manager reuben amaro, junior. >> leslie van arsdal is live at citizens bank park with the very latest on this, leslie. >> phillies taking on the cubs tonight but this big story here today is absolutely it is the end of an era for ruben amaro, junior.

fans were not happy, they made that very clear. phillies president macphail met with the media and made decision two days ago. he informed ruben this morning. he said ruben did do great things with the team but they needed a fresh approach and owner john middleton agreed. >> a well run successful companies there is accountability. even they people are making decisionness groups, is there still a person who is primarily responsible for that decision that has to be held accountable. i think that we're trying, we recognize that we had a problem and we are trying as fast as we can to get the out of that problem and get back to winning. >> i'm entrusted to create a baseball operations department that will compete, and achieve success and sustained success, over a long period of time, i felt that a change was required. >> welshes fans let their thoughts on our facebook page, timothy wrote ruben is a great guy, over stayed his welcome. did he things with his heart

instead of his brain. he was part of the best moments in phillies history. made some of the best and worst moves. angel has a different take. he said phillies should hire me to be the general manager, i necessity how to put together a winning team. all right. lets talk about the eagles. they continue to get ready for their season opener in atlanta. aside from quarterback sam bradford the fans cannot wait to see the bird new running back demarco murray, he says he is ready to go. >> i feel great. you know, i have had a great training camp. it work out for all of us. i work out for the team. i feel great. legs feel great. i feel fresh and ready to go. >> back here at the ballpark, we're waiting for phillies/cubs. you can see behind me the tarp is still on the field and i think it could stay that way for quite sometime, we will be right

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"eyewitness news" got one of the first looks at the new vatican splender exhibit that arrived at the franklin institute. it is one of the largest vatican collections to ever tour the u.s. and collection includes historical and religious objects from as far back as the first century. the exhibit opens up september e for the papal visit. >> before we go you want to talk about flash flood warnings. >> flash flood warning until 8:15 for chester county, valley forge, tredyffrin township be safe on those roads out there. >> thanks for watching eye witt the necessary news at 6:00 we are back at ten on cw philly and here on cbs-3 at 11:00. "cbs evening news" is

next. jim axlerod is at the desk. take care fam >> axelrod: it's getting nasty and quite personal. trump attacks fiorina, jindal hits trump. >> he's a narcissist, he's an egomaniac. >> axelrod: and the chinese deflate the trump ego. >> reporter: do you know this guy? >> jeb bush. >> axelrod: also, fear in phoenix after another highway shooting. >> axelrod: sh and we have a new branch of our family tree. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> axelrod: good evening. scott's on assignment. i'm jim axelrod. and we begin tonight with some breaking news. on this eve of another september 11, federal officials say they have broken up a plot