"eyewitness news" reporter alexandria hoff talked to passengers at philadelphia international airport and she joins us live with more, alex? >> reporter: good evening, well, triple a tea fines holiday travelers as anyone traveling between now and the fourth, and it is 3.3 million americans will hit skies thanks to cheaper airfare and hotel rates with more crowds it can make things more complicated and most passengers and security. airport security will remain typically, high, although more visible this holiday weekend according to a spokesperson at philadelphia international airport. this follows the terrorist attacks on a airport in istanbul that killed dozens and injured others. >> unaudible. >> reporter: most holiday travelers we spoke with arrived to the airport hours before their flight, expecting burdensome security lines. >> we're here early but it is moving faster then we thought.

>> reporter: philadelphia international says thanks to having five checkpoints and multiple tsa agents, lines here of not grown to the likes of other major cities. >> you you never know. it is all part of the training. >> reporter: security was seen combing unsecured areas of the airport and that was met with understanding from passengers with big prance to celebrate the fourth of july or their upcoming nuptial. >> we're going to las vegas. >> for what. >> your bachelor party. >> reporter: domestic passengers are asked to arrive two hours before their flight, make that three for interest national. unnecessary issue security has been dealing with is influx of unintended bags which causes them to pause what they are doing to investigate. it is crucial that all passengers keep their belongings with them. reporting live from philadelphia international airport alexandria hoff for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". meanwhile death toll from the airport attack climbed to 44 today, investigators

revealed three suicide bombers who carried out the terror attack were foreigners from asia a. dna tests are underway to confirm their identity. cbs news source believed they train and for the on the battle field in syria and possibly iraq. so far in one has claimed responsibility for the attack. for the latest developments on the bombing in turkey watch the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley coming up at 6:30 right here after our broadcast. philadelphia community comes together to remember a 13 year-old boy who died after being shot in the face, yesterday. you are looking live at a vigil for teen in germantown. this is organized by anti violence group philadelphia cease-fire, that group focuses on spreading the message of keeping guns off the street and out of the hand of children. >> he was actually a block child and this gun was found on the block. he had his mom, you know, preparing, wouldn't let him go off the block or nothing like that. it was unfortunate he found a

stash of weapons. >> reporter: two teens are facing charges in connection with the shooting, a 15 year-old is charged with involuntary manslaughter, a 17 year-old is charged with reckless endangerment for loading and handling that gun. detectives arrest a 15 year-old in the carjacking of a grand mother in hainesport burlington county. we first showed you the photo of the suspect last week, invest faithors say he slapped the eight two-year old victim across the face in the super market parking lot and then stole her car. some of you recognize the suspect in that photo and called police. detectives arrested him in atlantic city on tuesday. he is now charged with carjacking. new at 6:00 a teenager is facing charges for a crash that killed the robbinsville school superintendent. steven mayer was hit and killed back in april while he was running with his dog. police announced an 18 year-old woman was distract by her cell phone when she hit mayer. she also charged with leaving the scene of the deadly crash.

police are not releasing her name because she was 17 when the crash occur. wilmington police say this man has confessed to sexually assaulting a woman near the brandywine river. we showed you the picture of the suspect yesterday. police say 31 year-old daequan rodriguez admitted attacking woman on south park drive on tuesday morning. the new jersey senate is not likely to vote on raising the state's gas tax until after the july 4th holiday. on tuesday, the assembly approved a plan that would raise gas tax by 23 cents a gallon, in exchange for lowering the sales tax by 1 percent over the next 18 months. monday would i go toward road and bridge repairs. the senate is not on board with the current plan and seeks another way to replenish the transportation trust fund. >> this isn't a competition we are not looking for fight we are looking to come to a solution. we want to unite, not devariety. >> reporter: transportation fun runs out tomorrow but lawmakers says is there enough money to fund law projects for another month.

tropicana is latest casino to avert a strike this july 4th weekend involving members of the atlantic city's main casino workers union. union also reached an agreement with bally's, caesar's and harrah's earlier today. negotiations continue with the trump taj mahal. local 54 of the unite here union says it wants the return of concessions made back when the casinos had shaky finances. new at 6:00 delaware health officials confirmed two new cases of the zika virus both involved men in new castle county and they were both bitten by mosquitoes traveling abroad. that brings total number of cases in delaware to seven, so far no one has gotten zika from a mosquito bite in the united states. also on the healthwatch a new video challenge to help children with brain tumors. >> health reporter stephanie stahl is here to explain the pet connections. >> this is such a mission. remember the ice bucket challenge to help als? well, this one involves people and their pets. it was started by a philadelphia woman who was a

patient herself. >> it is a new video challenge created by jennifer penalt who has three brain tumors. >> i'm not sad about it. i'm doing what i need to do. there is not a lot of awareness for people with brain tumors. >> reporter: jennifer, 43 has brain tumors who are inoperable and it is tremendous pain. >> they call it suicide disease because pain is so severe and so unreal that unfortunately there is a lot of people that took their own lives because of the pain report report she has a hope tattoo and butt are flies hoping better treatments will allow her to fly away from the agony. her paws up challenge is for children with brain tumors. people post videos to raise awareness and money for pediatric brain tumor foundation. >> paws up for three. >> animals love children and children love animals and it wasn't that far to kind of check that out. >> this is a letter from president obama. >> reporter: jennifer, who lives in the northeast has

reached out to a variety of community leaders and politicians, the president responded. >> each day i'm inspired by people like you. >> reporter: paws project is her second video challenge. two years ago she started the air guitar challenge to help adults with brain tumors. >> that was just something silly, i came up with because i loved music. music is therapy to me. >> reporter: her mission now toys help children. >> it is making these kid smile and forget about their illness. they see videos and think wow, look what this person and this animal is doing for me. >> reporter: now, jennifer has been collecting the videos on her paws up for brain facebook page for about two months now. we will have a link at cbs philly.com, click on health, wow, what a mission. how about those dogs faces. >> so cute. >> high five to the paws up, no doubt bit. thanks, stephanie, appreciate it. honoring muhammad ali in philadelphia. >> the special role the champ's daughter the city

played in his career. also this. >> it could be do or die for a major project in marple township. i'm joe holden we will tell you how county leaders are figure nothing this heated debate. just a beautiful evening outside but we have a squeeze play thomas showers lift from the south and another line moves in from the west, i'll tell you when showers and storms will impact us and fit clears out for the holiday weekend, ton done. midnight tonight, why it means so much for sixers and flyers, plus the ghost delivers his biggest assist, and doug pederson gets sack find out who thinks eagles rookie is the worst coach in the league, sports up next.

well, a land battle is heating up in delaware county. >> is there a fierce debate over what to do with hundreds of acres of prime real estate. "eyewitness news" reporter joe holden shows you what is at stake. >> reporter: delaware county officials thursday morning announced acquisition of the little flower manor property, 37 acres bought with grants that will soon be a county park. >> county council will continue to look for ways, to preserve open space in our county. >> reporter: just up the road much higher profile battle is unfolding over land in marple township. >> this township and delaware county has to look at the big picture. we don't need another shopping center. >> reporter: former done until a was so the to be new homes and other businesses. traffic and pollution

dominated the debate. delaware county leaders have been repeatedly asked bio pope events to weigh in the issue and protect massive piece of land. we took that question to county councilman john mcblaine. >> right now, as far as i know, the property is under agreement of sale. it is working its way through land development process, marple has zoning laws that are intact. >> reporter: because of those zoning laws the development has developed setbacks. folks with save marple green space take credit for shifting public opinion, convincing marple township leaders to reject parts of the deal but a 47 million-dollar sale between a developer and archdiocese is still on. some in marple are hoping to same outcome in darby township with little flower can happen here along sprawl road. >> right there we are looking at 213 acres that is looking them in the face that could be a community park. >> reporter: earlier this week i spoke to marple township's manager. he said ideal situation would be to leave this property undeveloped. today i spoke to the the

property developer bruise good man and would not comment if they are moving this deal forward. however, the archdiocese says, they were set to close the deal, by end of today. in marple township i'm joe holden for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". philadelphia city council honored boxing legend muhammad ali at city hall. the council members presented a proclamation to one of his daughter, and they includedded his fight for human equality and social justice. she says that philadelphia had a meaningful role in her father's career, because there would be no ali without his rival and philly's own smoking joe frazier. muhammad ali passed away june 3rd at the age of 74. great watching that on video. >> indeed. >> don joins us now, with sports. >> yeah, whole lot to talk about, guys. we will start talking hoops. former collogue of mine herman edward had a bunch of famous quotes in his career. one of them nothing good happens have after midnight.

tonight herman could be wrong. nba free agency starts at 12:01. sixers are rumored to be interested in harrison barnes, former golden state warrior and dion waiters, stay tune. hey what up, no respect for dougiep, nfl.com releasing power rankings for coaches. doug pederson is rang third second, dead last, kind of foul when you consider he has not coached a single game. they admit it is not fair but site his handling of the quarterback situation so far with bradford, daniels and wentz. we shall see. flyers defenseman shane gostisbehere stopping by folcroft police department today to visit office are christopher dorman. dorman was shot seven times last friday in the line of duty. gostisbehere presented him with the jersey and talked about why he decided to stop by. >> when we look at a role model people see hockey players and athletes. he is police officers, fire fighters like that and see what he is going through right now and how much warrior he is this guy walking around a week

ago and it is amazing and sure people will be looking up to him. >> quality play by the ghost there. other flyers news nhl free agency opens tomorrow. flyers say they don't have much to spend but they are looking to retain their own talent like brayden schenn and ryan white. some veterans could be on the movie a trade to create cap space. now story about one of the most positive people you'll ever meet, last friday philly's prospect mack imoff was stretching with the resistance band anchor to the wall. metal base broke and smash his face. he eventually lost his right eye. doctors are replacing witt a prosthetic, imoff posted this photo saying it has been the hardest week of his life but it is going to take a lot more than this to bring me down. >> wow. >> smile on his face right there. he is in clearwater with the phillies, when this happened. >> we wish him the best. >> great attitude but what a

terrible thing to happen. >> yes. >> kate joins with us our forecast now as we get closer to the holiday weekend, it is just about here. >> just about here. judging by traffic out here you would think it is here basically because things are crazy outside. they will be craze year tomorrow and tomorrow doesn't look like the best day to be outside on the road either. you will be slowed down by showers and thunderstorms, heavy rain at times doesn't sound like best day to be traveling tour eventual fourth of july destination but we are getting the travel part done while you are in the car, while it is raining and then rest of the weekend looks great. lets take a look down the shore, one spot where a lot of people are heading to day and will be heading tomorrow, certainly shore will be packed this weekend, but boy will it be beautiful down the shore at least saturday and sunday, mess of monday as well looking just fantastic. it looks great out here, today and yesterday were perfect beach day, still a lot of folks just enjoying these last couple hours before the sunsets. storm scan three shows us what is going on we have two

systems to watch in the mid with the high pressure overhead starting to exit, stage right and as we zoom down to the south we will just start to see a few showers popping up, lifting from south to north mostly south of the region one stray shower in kent county delaware. this is lifting to the north heading through overnight hours tonight and tomorrow morning. then we have to watch this system which is a pretty nasty storm over iowa and miss sure think evening. here's the setup as we head through tonight, right now we have got this storm to the north with the cold front a attached. we have a stationary system off to the south activating back north as a warm front as we get in the day tomorrow. is there that warm front, we have started the day with clouds and sprinkles here and there everything intensifies in the afternoon this front will eventually come through, sweep this system out to sea. that is good news. bad news when you get a front like this it will be explosive, especially with the humidity that will be in place. strongest storms tomorrow evening and then that front sweeps through saturday high

pressure builds in, nice breeze from the the north and west and humidity drops saturday almost feeling refreshing. even though we are in the mid 80's it will feel different then tomorrow's tropical humidity. best threat for severe thunderstorms stay off to the north in the pocono region but all of our areas under risk for severe weather. greatest threat will be heavy rainfall and that is because of the dew points. watch what happens overnight. dew points in the 50's. the it feels fantastic outside. starting to moisten up, and as we head through offer night hours dew points climbing in the 60's. by tomorrow we have got dew points in the 70's. this is oppressive humidity, lot of moisture, it is like a sponge, things will drop again, dew points back to the 50's over the weekend. just isolated thunder shower this evening, tomorrow, humid, scattered storms at anytime, heaviest in the evening, down the shore as well we will see those showers and thunderstorms, morning and night and monday looking good for most of the day but we have to watch for thunderstorm our shore in the evening and

i'm hoping it stays away for fire works displays on monday but there is a chance for wet weather so we will keep you posted on that, saturday and sunday though, looking good. >> coming up tonight at 11:00 taste with torey, a byob restaurant meaning bring your own boat. vittoria woodill dines at river front spot featuring an old world menu and quite a night, the best of the worst tonight on eyewitness news. >> no way. new look for an old spot. >> we will let you know about the new name for a station on the market frankford line, torey? well, it is torey down the shore and all about fun and games but right now i'm taking a break for food. i don't know where my competitors went. thanks, mike's sea food, hey, come on i'm supposed to get my strength, more game, food and fun coming

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next time. >> local leaders unveiled the new name of the fifth street station today it is now known as fifth street independent hall station. the renaming comes just in time for cities july 4th festivities. >> that is great. >> "cbs evening news" is just a few you minutes away. >> josh elliott joins us with a look ahead, josh. >> ukee and jessica, hello to you. tonight on the "cbs evening news", more on the pentagon's land mark decision, we will speak with the transgender army captain about the historic change. plus growing political fall out over a private meeting between bill clinton and attorney general loretta lynch. some good travel news just in time for the holiday weekend, just ahead on

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you know that is all about. time for torey down the shore. it don't matter which jersey beach town you go to it is sure to be a celebration. >> vittoria woodill is on the beach, in sea isle city getting a head start on the fun, torey. >> reporter: that is right, family fun games in sea isle, earlier myself, lisa, ion from the sand department in sea isle we have kid games and now adult games. we're upping the anti what do we have. >> we have spike ball, spike ball is basically volleyball

played on the trampoline. we have four local good friend playing, they play between two people. hit it back and forth, spike the ball, other team gets it, really fun. looks hearter then what it is. >> they don't look like first timers. >> they are professionals. >> i can see that. >> what do we have over here. >> we have our new game called, disk drive, what you are doggies trying to knock the bottles off the poles with the frisby and other team is trying to catch it before it land on the ground and you do not score a point. >> looking harder then what it is. >> the great thing is all these games are fun, perfect for fourth of july and if you decide to come to the sea isle for fourth of july, they are having a big independent day celebration, and it is the independence day concert, at 7:30, monday, as the jfk boulevard and the promenade, so come to sea isle for fourth of july. they are having fire works at 9:00 p.m. and they will be launched from an ocean barge. fine the list for all of the

shore town fire works on cbs philly.com. i got to get in here i got to get in here, let me do this. can i bureau this. jump in. okay, that is how things are done, you guys, did youe that? did you see that. >> slam dunk. >> that was good. >> yes. >> she's got it. >> she has got skills. >> torey, threw it down. >> yes. >> thanks for watching "eyewitness news" at 6:00 we are back at ten on cw philly and we are back here on cbs-3 at 11:00. up next, "cbs evening news". more tonight on the pentagon's major policy change to drop ban on transgender service members. was it an inappropriate meeting. many people are asking questions after bill clinton and loretta lynch met privately on a airport tarmac. here now is josh elliott in for scott pelley. take care, we will see you tonight.

>> a barrier falls. the military lifts its been on transgender service members. >> i can go back and prove it. >> also tonight, confusion and a lockdown after a report of a gunman at the military base where air force one is kept. terror in turkey as police round up suspects. we've learned all three suicide bombers were from former soviet republics. rotten in rio. olympic athletes will compete in filthy waters. >> it smells horrible from up here in the air. >> and with gas prices at an 11-year low, americans hit the road like never before.