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don't walk out the door without an umbrella this morning. for the thirds straight day, we are picking up some rain. katie lets us know when we get a start from the soggy weather. good morning, i'm brooke thomas. >> i'm jim donovan. we will get katie's forecast in just a minute. first, what you need to know to start your day in the morning minute. >> two people were shot this morning, police not able to find a shooting scene without any blood or balistic evidence. montgomery county teach is her facing charges, she had a sexual relationship with a student. >> the entire country is depending on the state of indianna to pull us back from this. >> the hoosier state could be make or break for the cruz campaign. >> in the democratic race, bernie sanders rallied supporters here in
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indianapolis. he is in a virtual tie with hillary clinton. >> boehner also called cruz lucifer in the flesh. ted cruz really were the devil, i think there would be signs. the earth would open up and swallow people when they said his name. >> the next president of the united states, ted cruz. >> oh, my god. >> it is almost as if there is some sort of demonic power about saying the phrase the next president of the united states, ted cruz, gone. >> yes, carly fiorina took a little bit after dive. >> i was worried if she was okay, she look like she was fine. >> we haven't heard any reports she was injured. you cringe, and then people start laughing later on. i just thought she disappeared, like what is this, some kind of special effect? >> right. let's head out to the skydeck. katie, the day getting off to another soggy start. >> it real i you know, last
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couple of round every rain we see roll through here guys, to get away without umbrella, because the timing works in my favor, but it did not this morning. so umbrellas obviously broken out at this point, and pretty much the whole region is under some type of wet weather. >> this snap snot, yes, few breaks in the rain, but the damage has essentially already been done here if you will. already seeing some rain push through every single location, here in our delaware valley, and as a result running into puddles on the road, damp roads for sure. yet, you will naturally get slowed down by this, now, more rain on the way before the morning drive. all said and done. at the moment our temperatures are already flirting with 60 at philadelphia international airport, flirting with 50 autumnal pocono, mid 50's being reported in atlantic sit, but not going to see heck of a lot of movement on these values. take a look, we go through the course of the early afternoon, and at best, low 60s by 7:00 as the sun is dropping over the horizon again, start to see the temperatures drop off again, but for now, expect is that rain is going to get you as you walk out the door
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this morning, later today mainly just clouds we see the dis -- we see it pull away. coming upleapt err in the show, i'll time it out for you, when the heaviest rain set to fall, meantime, meisha, a don't expect a heck of a loft sunshine even when we get breaks, we don't really see the clouds break all that much. >> yes, all right, katie, great advice, thanks so much for that. good morning, everyone, happy tuesday. yep, it is true. you are waking up to some very wet roadways, it sounds like it will linger on through the entire morning commute. buckle up, leave little early, of course do you have take your time with this one, the schuylkill tail light moving in the even direction at the girard, you can see, it is looking pretty good. i would say both moving in the eastbound and westbound sides. >> see disable, not causing any slow downs, make note it is there, it is still very wet
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out there. tail light moving in the southbound direction past the betsy ross bridge what you are looking amount, moving in the southbound direction we are certainly starting to heat up. i think that's because a lot of people are heeding the warning, getting out on roadways little earlier today. it is going to be busy. we know that for sure, even if we don't have the wet roadways. you have the wet roadways it, will really slow down. moving on, i will show you 95 south at naman's road pulled off to the shoulder since cleared. what we are looking at here downed tree perkioman ville road closed at salford station road. use alternate still gravel pike will be your best bet to maneuver yourselves around that. also, just reminder mass transit, ac rail lines, bussing, because of delayed bridge repairs, april 30th through may sixth, also may 14th, through may 20th. check your schedules on line, jim, back to you. >> thank so much. indianna's turn to choose its favorite in campaign 2016, front run remember counting on victories to help seal their nominations, their rivals however aren't giving up. "eyewitness news" reporter justin finch live in the cbs-3 sat center to explain why the steaks are high.
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justin? >> frontrunner donald trump, and meantime, democrat, clinton, sanders, find themselves in yet another tight race. >> if we win indianna it is all over. >> donald trump look to go lock in big win in indianna where 57 delegates are at steak. ma mathematically the gop frontrunner inning ever closer to a win, he is currently only 244 delegates away from clinching it. >> now i'm going to start focusing on hillary clinton. it will be so east. >> i the latest pole shows trump with 15-point lead over ted cruz, in indianna. cruz has been on the move in the hoosier state making five stops on monday alone. despite challenges that second in line can date still aims to pull from trump and trigger contested convention. >> indianna don't want you. >> the entire country is
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depending on the state of indianna to pull us back from this. >> tough race for democrats, too, though hillary clinton has a commanding national lead, she and bernie sanders were at near tie by some counts in indianna where 92 delegates are on the table. another wrinkle, super delegates, who can't commit to either candidate, are now overwhelmingly backing clinton, sanders now asking them to reconsider. >> by far, bernie sanders is the strongest candidate to defeat donald trump. >> i really do want to just get into it. >> clinton spent the day campaigning in kentucky and west virginia, where voters go to polls late this month. >> and gop presidential hopeful, ohio governor john kasich, is still in the running, though new polls show ohio ands would prefer he drop out. kasich, and cruz, so-called alliance against trump. polls open 6:00 a.m. nod just about a half hour or so. jim, brooke, back to you.
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>> thank you so much, justin. time is 5:36n business news this morning shall forget on line dating profiles. we have the real reason people want to date you. >> in some good news for airlines. bad news for drivers. money watch's jill wagner joins us liver from the new york stock exchange, good morning, jill. >> reporter: good morning, brooke, jim, stocks on wall street rebounded after last week's big tell solve. dow gained 117-point, nasdaq finished 42-point higher. gas prices are at their highest levels in more than six months, triple a says the national average remained above $2 a gallon for 40 consecutive days. oohs the price of cried owl rebounds, jumped 20% last month. low gas prices sending airline profits to record levels. taken together, us airlines, 25 points, billion dollars in the black last year, almost triple the profit of the year earlier. data from the department of transportation shows that nearly all of those, that extra profit, was due to lower fuel costs. and, forget looks, and
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personality. newspaper survey from bank rate. com finds a person's credit score can impact their attractable. almost two in five adult saying no one ascarid earth score would affect their interest in date that person. i don't know how you would get that information from them, but who knows, brooke, jim? >> not the first time i've heard that. >> rival through their stuff? hey, i think people who have similar financial goals and needs -- >> that's why you casino of fight them off? >> i'm telling you. >> thanks so much. >> well, atlantic city avoids default by paying $1.8 million bonds. mayor don guardian says the arrival of may property taxes means city employees will get at least one more paycheck. sit adds the resort will run out of cash by june, guardian hopes the state assembly will approve a rescue plan, which protect collective bargaining agreements, and puts off a state tack-over for two years. >> i humbly ask all of the members of the new jersey general assembly to be on the
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right side of history and support the only bill that allows for compromise. >> you made your debt payment. now what's next? does he want a gold medal for that? >> governor christie wants a senate measure that gives him broader and more immediate power. >> ever wanted to swing for the fences just like the phillies? >> well, today is your chance. pat? good morning, jim, brooke. live here at citizens bank park this morning, it is rainy, it is dreary, but there is a great event that is taking place this morning, and you can get involved and it honors a former phillies legend. we will tell you all about that coming up. >> i hear them say it, it was like wow, okay, i can't tell my family just yet. >> a diagnosis that changes a woman's life. how those friends battled breast cancer, and are now helping find a cure for the disease. stay with us.
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>> bat letters step to the plate today, all for great cause. >> well, the 19th annual richie ashburn memorial homeruns for hearts to raise money to fight against heart disease. our pat gallen is live at the ballpark with all of the details. patrick? >> good morning, bit of ugly morning out here, it is raining, it is dreary, but later on, the fields will open up. the cage will open up.
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it will all be for a great cause. in conjunction with the american heart association, it is the 19th annual homerun's for heart t honors former phillies legend, richie ashburn, passed away back in 1997 of heart disease and as you will recall his great partner, the great harry kalas, also passed away of heart disease back in 2,009. so, we took some swings yesterday, to hit back at the disease that's taken so many lives. and i was here yesterday as part of the many who chipped in to help raise awareness, and raise money, and my swing certainly needed a little bit of work. it was cold. it was raw. i didn't have my batting gloves. all of those excuses, you know how it goes, but i would absolutely do it again for great cause such as this one. it is raining right now, rain or shine event. it begins at 8:00 a.m. it goes until 4:30 this afternoon, here at citizens bank park. but don't let the dreary weather stop you from swinging away here on the field.
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and joining me this morning from the american heart association, theresa russell. theresa, talk to us about this event and the mission behind it. >> lard disease the number one killer, doesn't discriminate men, woman, regardless of race, our mission is to build lives free of cardiovascular diseases, fun events like this that involve being active, active lifestyle, one of the key factors. so we like to have fun while still raising money and awareness. >> i don't know a lot of people understanded this is number one killer, that's shocking. homerun -- derby, big aspect. >> the heart disease, we have blood pressure screening, on the philly side, philly fan at sick here for little bit, also out in the field, shag balls, as the batters hit, just walk around the stadium. cool to be here when there is not actually game going on and get to see everything behind the scenes. >> i tried that yesterday. i hit. it was ugly. i also tried to shag some balls on the field, also ugly. but if you want to try that come down here and do that, as
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women. so if the if the public can't make it out today how can they help? >> go to heart.org/homeruns, heart.org/homeruns, make donation right there on the website. >> coming up at 6:00. i talk to a youngster, six years old, his name is alex force. talk to his family great kid, had ten surgeries in his life, three of them before the age of three. how does this event help young kids like al next. >> we have a great research development program that we have, great research here in philadelphia, and locally, to the various hospitals that are here. so kids like alex, his treatment, his procedures, all of the cutting edge things that are happening, related to heart disease, when results, congenital, funding the research behind that, so everything gets improved, everything is minimally invasive, really trying to help get ahead of the curve and diagnosis early and get treatment early for all of those kids. >> so little rain shouldn't stop people from coming down here and helping? >> it is nothing.
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>> think of the kids you're helping. >> thank you, theresa. >> no problem. thank you. >> see theresa later today. come down to the ballpark, help raise money and awareness for great cause. live at citizens bank park, pat gallen for "eyewitness news", jim, brooke, back into you. >> thanks, pat. good stuff. >> hopefully they don't get rained on today. >> katie, i hope it is not too bad. as pat mention it is for a great cause. >> kids you're helping, couple of raindrops should not stop you. so definitely go on out if you are able. partake in it, thankfully looks like eventually things are going to dry out guys. one, outside first and for most, another shot at the ben franklin parkway, very soggy start. starting to see little more traffic than we did in the last hour here. regardless you're going to have the sheen from the vehicles, poor visibility, rain on the win shield, all of that stuff. that naturally slows you down all courtesy of the weather. so, we bring it back to the eyewitness weather watcher network. rain totals came in so far from the watchers. we have short list for you here. john pick up quite a bit.
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just over inch and a half here in perkasie, as did eileen, inch and a half even. 1 inch even in delran from dall end. looking at least couple of hundred or tent after inch here, some spots, half inch from lynn in cherry hill, speaking of lynn she did have comment here if we can go on into her observation very quickly, 55 degrees coming in from her. she is still seeing the rainout there. actually said that thunder woke her up last night. thankfully at this point we have seen the worse of any thunderstorms wind down. no lightning being reported on doppler. however, storm scan, still obviously has a lot green on it, so, still going to see the rounds every rain rolling through, and even if it has take answer break from falling from the sky, at this point, you're still going to be dealing with the damp roads for sure. moving drive obviously impacted areas of steady rain by this afternoon, we should dry out. it is a break in the action, but not a total dry out. another rounds of showers moves in, one awesome thing about weather pattern like this you don't have to deal with the terrible pollen.
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little drier tomorrow. that's why the spike tomorrow, with oklahoma, birch, maple at the primary issues it, does drop off, you can understand why that's is happening, another storm here. mid 60s continues both thursday, friday, looking like carbon copy. but thursday really end up being the weather of the two days with areas of steady light rain, through the course of the day, more scattered showers, on friday. meisha, over to you. >> katie, thank you so much for all of that information. and yep, like she pointed out, it is looking very wet, very damp out there, it is going to be slow commute. i will say a lot of the accidents that we saw, in the 4:00 hour have moved out of the way. that's great news. 422, tail light moving in the eastbound direction, near valley forge. this is basically what you are looking at out there right now, not look too long bad, we push towards six. sure, a lot of vehicles heeding the warning you should probably leave little early with the wet roadways, great idea, but over all those things are holding steady, things looking good. blue route southbound, what you are looking at, there overall again, not that bad. vine, headlights moving in the
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eastbound direction, this is near 95, toward 95, you can see, both directions, starting to she down ever so slightly, and you can see a lot of that water kinds of kicking up from the tires, which goes right back out to the windshield, it causes everyone to put on their brakes. so it is going to be slow it, sounds like the rain is going to linger throughout the entire morning rush this morning. down through here, perkioman ville road, closed near salford station road. you will have to use alternate. gravel pike is going to be your best bet right now, still has not cleared, so causing some slow downs in that area. jim, back over to you. >> thanks, meisha. this sunday the parkway will be filled with thousands of breast cancer survivors for the annual susan g. komen race for the cure. >> absolutely. each one of them has such incredible experience to share. actually talked to two friends, right at their church, about how they conquerred their battles with breast cancer. >> these two friends, have a lot in common. they go to the same church, at one point, had the same job. both proud parents. and now, they are both breast
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cancer survivors. >> regular checkups, like, you know, go to the -- go get your mammogram. you expect to get the little letter saying, you know, thank you for coming in everything is okay, negative, make your appointment for next year. >> but i got a phonecall. >> for me, a shock. even though i knew, i found the lump myself. but to hear them say it, it was like wow. >> another come on, vivian, kelly, both also watched their older sister fight breast cancer before them. kelly said the worse part of her diagnosis was having to tell her big sister their family would have to go through this again. >> i didn't want to tell her. because she was still like just finishing off her five years. >> they fought cancer as a family and won. now, kelly can't wait to join
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thousands of other women, as they walk down these very steps at this year's race for the cure altogether as proud survivors. it will be kelly's first year, but her friend, vivian's, second. >> this is a race for the cure. so now we got to find a cure, and we're going to beat cancer. >> the cause means so much to vivian, back in 2014 she promised herself she would fight to end breast cancer for other women. as soon as she finished radiation, she finish that promise, showing up weekly to volunteer susan g. komen philadelphia. >> yes, i have breast cancer, yes, i'm a survivor, and i want to reach out and help somebody he will. >> we are here 24/7, to help women, reach out, as they address all of the problems that they will couldn't front. >> susan g. komen
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philadelphia. >> every year 6,000 survivors will come to my door for help. >> she says, many women in our area lack insurance, or are under insured, unable to cope with high deductible and co-pays, that's where komen comes in. >> a million dollars just went out to 15 hospitals. so, they can see these women in the under served communities. >> the race, helps increase awareness with the philly pops. >> 2300 women at the kim em center that learned from 25 doctors, and 25 survivors. how to address the needs. >> quick to point out. >> it takes dollars, ongoing dollars, all the time. >> and we're working to raise those dollars at the race for the cure on sunday. >> you can walk or run with the "eyewitness news" morning team by signing up at cbsphilly.com/cure. and if you register with team
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>> another rainy day, when will the sun return? >> we're live with what happened after a shoot that has investigators asking a lot of questions. and, it is primary day in indianna. the latest pole numbers and how today's results could help seal the nominations from both the republican and democratic presidential candidates. >> well, today is tuesday, may the third, good morning everyone, i'm jim donovan. >> that's right. no longer monday. that's a good thing, i'm brooke thomas. >> i like that. >> wet start to the tuesday morning, katie, meisha here keeping an eye on things this morning. >> yes, that's right. yes, so, leave your homes early, leave them early, because we are starting to see things heat up. accident out there, that tree blocking the road has just been cleared. >> thankfully. i won't be shocked if the weather had something to do with that honestly. because we had some strong thunderstorms rumble through last night the thunder was pounding down, rain and the, pretty impressive. pick you have over an inch, pottstown, just short l

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