now. yeah, storm already dumped hail, on mount holly and other parts of the burlington county, this afternoon. hi, good evening, i'm ukee washington. i'm jessica dean. we are expecting more downpours, tonight so lets get over to meteorologist kate bill other who is tracking storms, and the weather center, kate. >> these storms are scattered in nature not everyone is seeing nasty weather right now. in fact it is a nice afternoon in much of our area but spots getting slammed by these storms are getting hit very hard especially cumberland and atlantic count business that particular cell right there, also watching these storms that have have just formed and intensified very quickly south and east of baltimore. they could stay on the same trajectory moving into portions of delaware here within the hour. i'm most concerned about this particular cell. i have been showing you this for a while. prompted a flash flood warning in cumberland count that i started to lift north but still raining in vineland. i heard from a follower on twitter tim carti who sent me a photo and i will try to get it on the air in a few

minutes. he said road in vineland are flooded. very dangerous situation for people traveling on 40, 55, places like that. rain is heavy. this storm is now crossing the atlantic city expressway. one of the busiest shore travel day of the year, a lot of folks on that road and we have frequent lightening, heavy flooding rainfall. there have been rotation indicated with this storm. i wouldn't be surprised to hear reports of lots of wind damage with this storm before the night is through. see where it is right now. you can see reports of storm damage. we we have a report of hail slightly larger than pea sized near vei land earlier this evening and we have numerous warnings attached to that storm. severe thunderstorm warning for atlantic county until 6:15. flash flood warning with over 3 inches, radar indicated from that cell, that goes until 8:45 tonight. and we're in the done with the showers and storms at least until 11:00 or midnight when it finally clears out. coming up i'll time out storms exit and tell you about nicer weather that awaits for start

of the weekend. for now, back over to you. hopefully everyone stays safe. thanks very much. many people are down the shore enjoying the holiday and surely the busiest time of the year down there. our cleve bryan is in atlantic city tonight with how people are planning to spend their fourth of july. >> having fun at the beach. we walk on the boardwalk. >> reporter: some people can hardly contain their excitement about spending the holiday weekend at the new jersey shore. what makes the shore the perfect place to spend the fourth of july weekend. >> the water, the people, the food, and fun. >> reporter: karen new and her family were wearing their stars and stripes gear. >> today we are hanging out on the beach. we will go have dinner tonight, not sure, have a few drinks, do a little gambling. >> reporter: mcgovern's had kid friendly activity in mind. >> fire works and doing ride, steel pier. >> reporter: atlantic city ease iconic steel pier has been hub for family fun for 118 years. fourth of july marks start of the prime season. >> next six weeks are heaviest

weeks of the summer. that is when you have to get good weather, have your help on, target, and make it happen report report while games and rides are a summer stapel for many families, others are experiencing it for the first time. >> beautiful day, enjoy it, our first time here. >> reporter: speaking of new experiences i had to try this one. that is 225 feet of high velocity fun, still the best is safe for best this weekend. travel experts expect to see record numbers of the people on the road this holiday weekend. if you want to come down and enjoy all there is to do ande give yourself a little extra time for the ride. in atlantic city, cleve bryan, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> quite a ride for cleve, for sure. if you are planning to stay put for the fourth there will be two big fire works show tonight. 7:00 p.m. fire works will light up the sky over camden side of the river. at 9:30 they will fire off from penns landing. if you are looking for a good spot to take in the show the

battleship new jersey, big j is hosting viewing party from the ship's deck. to find fire works show in your neighborhood and other fourth of july festivities head to cbs philly.com right on our home page. it never has happened before an argument forced shut down of the popular carnival in bucks county. what happened next ended with several people stabbed across the street from fun and games. "eyewitness news" reporter greg argos is live in tulleytown with the details new, greg. this incident began around closing, 10:30 according to police. carnival tonight has just opened for the evening and there are plenty of security personnel to make sure everyone here remains safe. the famous michael dearc angelo carnival has been a stapel for more than six decade. >> fun place to come to enjoy with your children, is there fun and good food. >> reporter: thursday night after an argument broke out on the fair ground police closed the event around 10:30 and

crowd migrate add cross the street to the wal-mart parking lot. that is where a fight broke out, three people were stabbed, and four others arrested. >> sixty-three years that the carnival has existed this is first time they are recommending anything like this anyone injured we're very sorry for that and we pray and hope they will recover. >> reporter: police say those injured will be okay and the father and pastor of the church says he hopes this incident does not hamper attendance at the fair. >> i do a lot of praying. i'm hoping not. i hope that does not happen because what that would do is taking a way some of the extras that we could possibly give to certain children. >> reporter: every cents of the profit from the annual fair. >> every single penny. >> reporter: goes towards off setting tuition costs for low few wigs families in the area. >> in some cases tuition is pick up by carnival. >> reporter: he believes this is an isolated incident which happened outside of the carnival ground, he is still taking additional precautions

to assure the final two weeks continue without any other issues. >> we're going to increase the number of security volunteers, which we have on the property, and police are going to introduce other police measures, one of them is they will introduce other police men who will be on the property, plainclothes as well as uniformed police. >> reporter: in total parish officials say the carnival brings in $200,000 a year in profit and once again that all goes towards tuition assistance. we're live from tulleytown, i'm greg argos for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". a new twist in bill cosby's sex assault case, cosby's lawyers asked a judge to force andrea constand to give back money cosby gave her to settle a lawsuit. constand accused cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting her in 2004. now cosby says constand violated their confidential agreement by speaking to police about the case. cosby's due back in the

montgomery county courtroom next week to try to get criminal charges thrown out. new at 6:00 police in radnor township arrest a 31 year-old man for allegedly groping a woman while she was getting a manicure. jamie is charged with indecent assault. police say he inappropriately touched a woman giving her a back massage at blooming nails salon on lancaster avenue. he works at the salon. police are asking for any other possible victims to come forward. union workers at trump taj mahal in atlantic city walk off the job and on to the picket line. striking workers gathered on the boardwalk today calling for better benefit and wages. local 54 union representing almost 1,000 cooks, food servicer and housekeepers at the taj mahal. resort management says that they are negotiating in good faith including increasing contributions towards employee health insurance. new at 6:00 hillary

clinton is coming back to our area before the democratic convention. >> we will let you know where she will campaign next week. also putting the brakes on road work in new jersey, reason governor shut down projects across the state, plus... run across a girl with that much pass, athletism and that drive to work hard. this young boxer isn't pulling any punches to find out the skills that makes this young phenom the best boxer in a group of boys, kate? we have been tracking showers and storms all day long but some of the strongest storms we have seen today is out there right now this one over atlantic county producing very dangerous traveling conditions and more storms to follow, coming up i'll tell you when storms move out and what to expect for the rest of the holiday weekend, leslie. phillies back home after a successful road trip. we will tell you whose bat is on fire in the phillies line up later in sports.

we are continuing to keep an eye on storm scan three as heavy downpours rolled through the area right now, kate is tracking these storms and will have more in a few minutes. but first count down is on to the tell i can national convention we are just 24 days away from the start of the convention here in philadelphia hillary clinton announced she's bringing her campaign to atlantic city next wednesday. presumptive democratic nominee said she will make case of rival donald trump and highlight issue destruction his business dealings caused in the sea side town. clinton brings her campaign back to pennsylvania next friday. clinton and vice-president biden will rally supporters in his hometown of scranton where she also has family ties. meantime, trump delivered a speech in denver this afternoon. three day conference calls itself the largest gathering

of conservatives outside of washington. fighting terrorism was a big component of the presumptive republican nominee's speech. he called clinton weak on national security. local girl is punching through barriers. >> future of women's boxing could be in her hand, as "eyewitness news" reporter rahel solomon shows us if you go toe to toe with this eight year-old, you just might lose. >> reporter: at eight years young, briere mathis of camden, new jersey is used to standing out. young boxer was youngest in her ridiculously fit boxing camp that just wrapped up, she was only girl and her instructor says that she was also the best. >> at first, they thought that she was just a regular girly girl kid, but as camp three, they all knew that briere will be head of the pack like we have to keep up with her. >> reporter: her strategy is easier said than done she's quick on her feet. >> i'm the fastest.

>> reporter: she's strong. >> always the first, push-ups, all on point. >> reporter: because a lot of love for the sport. her instructors eric felder has been boxing most of his life and working with young athletes for eight years. he said he has never seen anyone quite like bri. >> i don't run across a girl with that much passion, athletism and that heart, drive to work hard. little older, not at eight years old. she's definitely one of a kind. >> reporter: stand out in a sport some say struggles to be seen. some in industry claim recognition, respect of the sport is still lacking, although female boxing dates back to the 1700's the sport wasn't included in the olympics until 2012, and meantime for bri she's not thinking professionally just yet, but when she gets in the ring she has one focus. >> how to beat them. >> reporter: under the watchful eyes of past boxing legend, both real and seemingly real this possible future boxer is in good

company. while the group boxing camp has ended, bri's love for the sport has not. she has set up for boxing lessons through the summer n east falls, rahel solomon for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". that is great. discipline will go far in life. >> yes. >> it sound like she has been focused. >> wonderful. >> leslie is here now with professional sports. >> that is right. >> something they were playing when they were younger. >> yes, stay focused. they have been on a roll. phillies will spend holiday weekend at the box starting a a one game series against world champion royals. jeremy hellickson on the mound, ryan howard will play first base. the well, the phillies, they have been may go well. they have won five out of nine on their west code road trip thanks to the offense that came to life scoring 57 runs and batting .3726, hottest bat blank to go peter borg us who the batted 47,272nd and raised

his average to 262. >> just trying not to do too much. just letting everything happen instead of trying to make things happen. >> he cut his winning down and started using the whole field. henderson has been beating it to him and he finally started to do it. he is full of confidence. i have a lot of confidence in him now. >> free agency started at midnight in the nba. sixers loaded with cash to spend so did president brian colangelo proceed with caution or go on a shopping spree. well, so far brian has been conservative he sign veteran guard jared bailis to a three-year, 27 million-dollar deal. he averaged ten points and three assists, and in the games last season for bucks. he ranked fifth in the nba in three-point shooting, last season. guard ish smith will not be back, he signed a three-year, 18 million-dollar deal with the pistons. he averaged 15 points and seven a cystness five games with the sixers. he did reportedly want to bring him back but he decided to take the offer from the pistons. free agency also started in the nhl.

unlike sixers, flyers do not have a lot to spend on the free agent market but gm ron hextall did sign one players that are boyg gordon who played last season with arizona and they added dale weeze who played for montreal last season have. it is a four year deal worth 9.4 million a season. he had 14 goals with montreal and said to be a fiery player. we like passion. >> we do. >> you cannot become a pistons fan she loves ish smith. >> yes. >> mother nature does not care about the holiday weekend but she has got some stuff going on. >> mother nature did not say atlantic city expressway is pack, let me give those folks a break. people sitting on the atlantic city expressway are getting dumped on, very heavy rain, this particular cell, has a history of producing flash flooding, we have numerous water rescues over cumberland county mainly around vineland area and these storms are not letting up just yet.

for city ape points north and west worst seems to have come to the even. we cannot rule out another stray shower or storm most has moved east. good news for phillies ballgame goers and fire works tonight but to the south and east you've got some problems. we will start off with a look outside our go pro cam here at the cbs broadcast center looking live out toward city and well, it is looking brighter then it was a little bit ago. we have had ominous cloud and those have push to the south and east. if you are looking toward new jersey you're seeing dark cloud. looking back west toward western suburbs then things look nicer. you can see cumulus included off to the east i should say. storm scan three here's what we are dealing with right now. you can see worst of this is off to the south and east, the strongest cell is over atlantic county and extend right back in cumberland county as well. still some rain coming down. look at the lightening right over atlantic city expressway, dangerous frequent cloud to ground lightening as well as

likely flooding or ponding on the road there. very dangerous travel for folks down the shore. if you know anyone tell them to pull off to the side before they see this storm moving out because this is a dangerous system. severe thunderstorm watch until 10:00 o'clock tonight the severe thunderstorm warnings have just expired but we are under a flash flood warning for much of the cumberland county, vineland on south through millville, commercial back toward cedarville. we heard from a twitter viewer watcher who said his rain gauge has over 5 inches reported near vineland area here's doppler estimated rainfall totals, anything in it or range shading there is over 3 inches of rain, millville at airport reported three and a half inches of rain in less than three hours. when we get that much rain and that amount of the time we will lead to threat for flooding, roads flooded please be safe. folks cut through here to get down to cape may county, low lying areas, farmland and look at this photo from our

eyewitness cam video from tim carte in vineland. look at this road completely covered. this is chestnut in vineland. this is very dangerous. these cars should turnaround and go back way they came. future weather shows this will move out. we still cannot rule out the a stray shower or storm until nine or 0:00. we will clear it out. humidity drops. the rest the weekend is nicer. thunderstorms early, then we will clear it out. tomorrow low humidity. 83 degrees. your fourth of july '83 with sun to cloud and evening shower but saturday and sunday looking great and then gets hotter again late next week. be safe out there tonight. ukee and jessica back over to you. are you looking for something fun to do this weekend. >> vittoria woodill has an idea for you. >> summer season and that means blueberries are fresh. find out where to pick up your own and where to find the biggest, most jui

driving around new jersey this weekend don't expect to see many construction workers. governor chris christie has ordered most road work in the state to stop by tomorrow night. that is because the state's transportation trust fund is nearly out of money. governor reached a deal with the state assembly to raise gas tax by 23 sent per gallon in exchange for cutting the sales tax. but the state senate put the brakes on the gas tax hike without extra money for the transportation fund, all those road projects will stop at first of august. we will be

just in time for fourth of july holiday treats blueberries are ripe for the picking. blueberry season in south jersey. >> vittoria woodill ventured out over to the farmers market in mullica to pick some for herself. torey, you used a interesting technique for finding the best ones. >> that is right we have a few tips for finding the best blueberries i won't tell you right now but i will tell you we are live in mullica, new jersey, in new jersey, the garden state you can see why it is blueberry season. we are at mood's farm. it is most incredible place to have fun with the whole family and celebrate the best season, blue bring season. check it out. >> i end up eating them all. >> reporter: they are irresistible, summer is ripe

and so are perfect blueberries in new jersey. mood's form market in mullica has been family owned and operated for over 100 years and fourth generation patty mood's tell us they pick all kind of pre dues but right the now. >> right now all about blueberries. >> they pick by hand and use machine to help sort the best but here you can play farm hand, bring your own container and pick your own. >> pay for what you pick. >> reporter: with what makes the perfect blueberry. >> they are probably big, juicy, very sweet. >> reporter: i notice bigger ones are on the bottom. >> a lot of people don't want to bend down to get bottom ones you can probably find a lot of them down underneath bushes. >> reporter: that is key to get down. >> get down and look underneath. >> reporter: which is why it is great for kids. >> do you think you guys will share with me. >> not really. >> reporter: no, come on, you guys, please? no. just one. >> and if you want to share two, culinary director of

rosily's market fresh, chris, shows us they are great for entertaining. >> like in a bubbling, salad or perfect sandwich or a garnish. >> fourth of july just happened in my mouth. >> reporter: in short, blueberry season just brings us all together and isn't it sweet. >> come here you guys, great team work. i met a with man that was picking blueberries and she said i'm 31 years old and i have been coming here for 15 years and it never gets old. so if you are looking to start a brand new family tradition and everybody can get their hand dirty on these beautiful blue, bits of goodness, i would suggest coming to mood's farm for sure. they have a blueberry festival not this weekend but july 9th lots of fun stuff plan. back to you guys. >> we caught it. looks good. really good. >> we have got a quick weather update, flash flood warning has been issued for atlantic county until 10:00 tonight. we will update you late are at

ten and 11:00. >> thanks for watching. "cbs evening news" is >> elliott: yet another deadly terror attack. gunmen kill police and take hostages in bangladesh as security tightens across the u.s. for the holiday weekend. also tonight-- >> i certainly wouldn't do it again. >> elliott: attorney general regrets her meeting with bill clinton and pledges to accept the recommendations of prosecutors investigating his wife. a state of emergency as toxic algae as thick as guacamole covers beaches in florida. >> oh, it's just nasty. >> it's disgusting. >> elliott: and steve hartman visits a neighborhood that's been reborn thanks to momma shoe. >> reporter: run through your background in urban planning. >> i don'te