eye on things this morning. >> yes, yes. >> perfect description. >> yes. >> you know, in the world of travel as well, katie. >> yes. >> oh, thank you. >> i love that phrase. >> exactly. >> let's talk about this construction. >> yes. >> well, we have a couple accidents overall, roadways looking nice and dry and hopefully a comfortable commute this morning. >> not so comfortable because of the humidity. >> you know, we want to be able to open our windows and sun roof and enjoy crisp air. that is not the story, next couple days we will crank up the air conditioning through second half of the today. while it might be comfortable in terms of the traffic levels when it comes to the comfort and air mass thaw are driving through, you know, it is not feeling so good. we did show you these storms moving right now, primarily far off to the north and west, maybe northern poconos, we're talking north of i80, quick

shower, or rumble of thunder but overall, we should be in the clear so to speak here for next couple of hours. later today we will start to see some showers and storms popping up. we will walk you through the future weather forecast in time but afternoon, evening is when those pop up as a whole. excessive heat watch will take effect not to day, rather tomorrow at high noon. we will give you a good precursor of excessive heat here as we top off to 90 degrees in the city and we're currently off to a good start. we might lose a degree or two but generally we are on pace to easily hit 90 later today with some sun a long the way but storms as well, meisha, over to you. >> no fun to have those storms. thank you so much. good morning. happy wednesday to you. looking outside new jersey one of the first looks 42 freeway north bound at creek road looking good. looking nice and quiet. we see headlights but we are looking fairly typical in that area schuylkill headlights moving in the eastbound direction before spring

garden, see what you are looking at there. everything is holding steady looking fairly typical but when we do see this amount of vehicles out there just cracking in the 5:00 o'clock hour usually good indication that it will get busy and we know that. ninety-five south at academy looking good, something off in the distance pulled off to the shoulder not causing too many slow downs. we have an accident in new jersey 295 north bound at auburn for those in and around that area and construction on 295 north bound ramp to route 168 is closed, closed until right around 5:00 a.m. one and two lanes leading up to that is closed. construction pennsylvania turnpike westbound between norristown and valley forge two right lanes are block in that area. back to you. six year-old fail a girl is recovering this morning after someone shot her. >> police are on the hunt for two shooters. "eyewitness news" reporter justin finch is live where the little girl was transferred overnight, justin, good morning. >> reporter: joe, brooke good morning. this girl was shot right outside her front door in east germantown. that bullet going toward her

left armpit dangerously close to her heart and lungs. she's recovering at st. christopher's as police set their sites on finding the shooters. tuesday evening the start of the summer scare, for many concerned callers who dialed 911. all shaken by sound of some 21 gunshots piercing the eras the sunset and little girl played by the front steps of her east germantown home. >> upon police arrival they found a six year-old female, laying on the sidewalk, she was unresponsive, suffering from a gunshot wound, to her left armpit. >> reporter: thirty-fifth district officers got the her to einstein hospital where she was stabilized after emergency surgery, before her transfer to st. christopher's children's hospital her caretaker by her side. >> we are going to find out who fired these shots. >> reporter: back on the 6300 block of north wood stock street the northwest detectives division launched an investigation seeking

witnesses, suspects and evident. >> this is very, very disturbing from police. when someone gets hit by a stray bullet and they are innocent that is a particular concern to us. >> reporter: early signs are that two guns were likely involved at least one a semiautomatic weapon. police know ballistics evidence indicates that the shots were fired southbound on north wood stock where two cars were also shot. that six year-old girl most likely not the target, but struck by a stray bullet. >> the description of our shooter is just a male, wearing a white t-shirt, and fled on foot in an unknown direction. >> reporter: back live, that six year-old girl is recovering still at st. christopher's her condition is said to be critical but stable at this time. thirty he lease are looking for a man seen running from north wood stock wearing a white t-shirt, police are telling us there were several surveillance cameras in the area and they hope to have video of that suspect and perhaps this shooting as it happened as well. we are live outside st. christopher's i'm justin finch for cbs-3 "eyewitness news",

brooke and joe back inside to you. thanks for that live report. a few hours ago there was another shooting in east germantown just blocks away. philadelphia police want to know if it is connect to the shooting that hurt that little girl some one shot a 47 year-old man this morning near 21st and chelten. gunfire also hit a parked car. man told police he was walking near his home when he heard the shots and then later realized he had been shot twice. he is in stable condition. police continue their search for a black honda possibly involved in racing another car that struck and killed a little girl. three-year oldest ter palmer was in the carbon monoxide night whether her family when it was hit near second and york streets in kensington. the driver that struck them was 17 and police suspect he was racing that black honda. esther's grandmother remains in critical but stable condition this morning. developing right now gunshots sent protesters fleeing, in ferguson, missouri

>> someone is shooting. >> gun [gunfire] fire rang out moments after a car hit a young protester so hard he flew in the air. he was badly hurt. but there were no reports of anyone shot. protesters were blocking the street marking the two year anniversary of michael brown's death. woman is dead this morning after a police officer shot her during a self-defense exercise in florida. police say it was citizens academy exercise and during a role playing scenario about whether to use lethal force. they say the officer mistakenly shot and killed barry. that officer is on administrative leave pending an investigation. we are learning more about a family of three found dead from a apparent murder suicide. >> police believe lauren johnson junior killed his wife mishanda and their ten year-old gun before turning the gun on himself monday night. officials have not said a possible motive but county

record indicate the couple may have been in financial trouble. home was scheduled for a sheriff's sale in october. neighbors say they had no idea what the family was going through. >> it is such a sweet family. you would just never expect that. it is a tragedy. the it really is. >> grief counselors will be on hand in burlington township middle school. family has set up a go fund me page to help pay for funeral expenses for mishanda and her son. the details are on our web site at philly.com. amtrak is beginning to settle lawsuits that now silenced victims of last years deadly derailment in port richmond. the first settlements why reached last week with dozens more still pending. lawyers involved in the process say a strict confidentiality clause prevents them and their clients from talking about how they are doing or how much money that that they are getting. in may of last year the washington to new york train, sped into a sharp curve and jumped the tracks. the derailment killed eight people and injured more than

200 others. pennsylvania's attorney general kathleen kane is back in court today. this is video of her arriving yesterday morning in norristown. in opening statements, prosecutors painted a picture of kane as a public official benton revenge, accusing her of leaking secret grand jury details and then lying about those actions allegedly under oath. the defense attorney says kane made an honest mistake but is not a criminal. still ahead a hot air balloon pilot made an emergency landing but what happens after it touched down that could have been the catastrophic. also a head danger down the shore, why officials say some swimmers are putting themselves at risk. plus, a thick smog of dust and dirt makes its way over parts of the arizona we will tell you why weather in mexico is to blame. >> ♪ >> team u.s.a. has lots of pockets full of gold, michael

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a kansas water park is reopening today three days after a boy died on the world's tallest water slide

there. ten year-old caleb schwab was killed on the water slide sunday and it will remain closed for the rest of the season. officials have not said exactly what went wrong but an autopsy shows schwab died of a neck injury. kansas city newspaper says state of cap as as hat inspect the slide since it opened two years ago. it was a very close call for people inside a hot air balloon in august a, new york. mechanical issue forced the pilot to make an emergency landing near power lines after the basket touched down, the balloon, draped itself over power lines, knocking out power. the faa is now investigating. the incident happened less than two weeks after 16 people were killed, in a hot air balloon crash in texas. take a look, a dust stop bearing down on phoenix arizona, visibility down to a less than a quarter mile yesterday. there it is rolling through downtown area. national weather service says it is related to a tropical storm in mexico. storms came to the area right before dumping almost 2 inches

of area of rain in the downtown area. warning from the three wildwoods. >> when life guard are off-duty stay out of the water this follows eight rescues in the past three days after beach patrol left for the day. saturday, there were six rescues in north wildwood, sunday there were three rescues in wildwood. man in the second incident died, "eyewitness news" caught people swimming long after the life guard, called it a night. >> i like it. they don't like us throwing footballs around, they don't like us doing little things so good to come out to throw our football arm, stuff like that. >> life guard are on duty from 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and it is not illegal to swim after hours, but city leaders say it is dangerous to swim in unprotect waters. and, it is so true. >> it is. >> so we will go to wildwood crest at the southern end of the island. life guard get out there, they blow their whistle at 5:30 on the mark but everybody out but as soon as life guard wrap up,

they drag the chairs backup the beach and most people just go back in the water which, of course, they are unsupervised beaches a the that point. katie, word to the wise. >> absolutely. >> even though sometimes we report and very often, certainly as ovulate we had low rip current risk you can still see these small rip currents near piers and jetties. you always want to be swimming near life guard and parents, you need to be paying close attention to what your kids are doing as well because all eyes on everybody is best way to be most safe out there. but, i get it, you know, it is hot, certainly getting hotter and more humid, just be smart about this, guys, we want to you stay safe. lets look at is what happening on storm scan three where the at the moment we have heavy then are storms rumbling in upstate new york, and just over the pennsylvania state border, some of these showers and storms are going to start bubbling up for us mainly later today. while i do think you can get in your beach plans keep in mind if you hear thunder head

to the boardwalk, do some shopping, head inside until the storms pass, and everything that will be out there looks like it will be pretty isolated in nature. really anyone's fair game in the just shore points. off to the south we have that same pesky system ushering in heavy rain to portions of florida. we don't to have worry about that. there is a frontal boundary slow to progress through our region. that is what is essentially going to need to be pushed through before we can break is what setting up to be a hazy, hot, humid pattern. jet stream works north and allows heat and humidity to move north as well. heat index values over next couple of days will sore into the triple digits, as high as 105 degrees on friday and saturday these will be the worst days for the heat and humidity to be the at its worse. so make sure you are taking it easy out there. we have all these common sense tips that we all know, practice them, we will tell them to you for a reason obviously and it can be frankly dangerous to be in this heat if you are not smart bit. lets go back to the water, it

is feeling inviting at this point when we have water temperatures as high as 80 degrees off atlantic city and buye. nice couple days overall when it comes to being at the shore, watch out for scattered showers and thunderstorms to pop up. they will be scattered. not everyone gets hit but that includes the whole delaware valley. next five days we will hit 90 in the city, it will feel hotter then that, meisha. >> look at that, you said it, that humidity will make or break any day, good morning, happy wednesday to you in the world of travel headlights moving in the southbound direction at fox street moving in the southbound direction, you're heating up a a little bit moving in the north bound direction we are still looking g southbound side is where i'm keeping my eye on a wednesday, monday through wednesday anytime we can expect that moving in the 5:00 o'clock hour. blue route southbound at mid county, we do have our trucker friend here pulled off to the shoulder not causing too many slow downs. anywhere on the blue route i look right now in this

beautiful still dark wednesday morning we are looking okay. ninety-five south at cottman you are looking good here. seeing a few brake lights go off but nothing significant. still traveling at posted speeds and will be for some time. gorgeous shot at ben franklin bridge moving in the westbound direction. just a few early rises. overall on the ben franklin bridge heading in to center city looking good this morning, joe, over to you. >> thanks, meisha. now for a look at newspaper headlines across the area. >> pottstown mercury reports of the warning from police about telephone scams n1 days caller says they were with the irs and demanded payment in the form of itunes gift card. in new jersey trenton paper reports green party presidential candidate doctor jill stein will be on the ballot in the garden state come election day. she was able to produce 2,506 signatures on her petition. >> bucks county is thinking

snow despite warm weather. courier times reports county officials are waiting to hear from the federal government. they are hoping get relief for cost as associated with the blizzard last january. >> too early to think about snow. is there your look at the newspaper headlines from across the delaware valley. >> star bucks is adding to its menu and may change how you have your morning coffee. >> we will tell you what it is and when you can get tonight money watch, pat. good morning, guys. we have the latest on the possible suspension have lane johnson and see what michael phelps was up to in the pool in rio? could he overcome a wardrobe malfunction? we will tell you next up

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welcome back here on "eyewitness news". >> so emmy nominated pat

gallen is here. >> oh, stop it. >> got the distinction last night, we want to congratulate you. >> can i say something, i'm sitting next to two recently emmy nominated men. >> a hh, did you know that. >> well, thank you, thank you, i appreciate that. >> appreciate that. >> should do i sports. >> yes, would i like to. >> this is your day. >> well, captivated by spectacle that is olympic games. perhaps you have not been paying attention to the phillies as they continue their west coast trip which has, by the way, turned ugly. things started well enough for fightin phillies, this is a two run shot by aaron altear giving phillies a lead in the second inning but after that, all dodgers. l.a. rocked southern california native vince velasquez for nine runs including three home runs, and dodgers win nine-three. dodgers now tied for first place with the giants in the nl west. they will finish that up this afternoon.

covering the quarterback blind spot is essential, that is why eagles gave lane johnson a contract worth up to 63 million-dollar in february to eventually take over for jason peters and become anchor of the offensive line but it is hard to do that when you have been reportedly suspended, again. multiple reports say johnson will be sidelined for ten games by the nfl for violating the policy on performance enhancing drugs. it is true, he will not only lose those games but roughly 35 million-dollar in guarantied money. this would be his second offense, since he was drafted fourth overall in 2013. johnson denied the report with local media but jay glazer said he was told by johnson he would be fighting the suspension. now lane's agent ken sarnoff spoke out with this statement saying we are aware that the member of the media has started a rumor that lane will be suspended for a ped violation. lane has in the been suspended and any report to the contrary

is false. nonetheless we will not comment on my client's protected health information. yesterday, before any of the lane johnson drama became public birds addressed the media. so at that time the team had not responded to that news of johnson's suspension but today they will continue to prep for thursday night when they hit the field for the first time against the buccaneers. from football we will get back to baseball which is exactly what former eagles quarterback tim tebow hopes to do. the 28 year-old has been working out in scottsdale arizona with the goal of playing in the big league. tebow hasn't been on the diamond since junior year of high school, his agent, says exactly, his agent says tebow will hold a work out for mlb teams this month and they swear this is not a pr stunt. >> swear. texas rangers dh prince fielder expect to quit after under going his second neck surgery. ap reports fielder is not formally retiring but doctors will not clear him to play.

three two-year old has played 12 seasons and hade 319 home runs, exact same number his father cecil hit in his career. last night was david ortiz bobble head night at fenway park so why didn't fans leave with them? well, because they were ugly, awful and just not very good. promotion was called off at the last minute. team called it a depiction of ortiz racially insensitive, unacceptable and not appropriate and also done by my five-year old nephew. fans will receive a bobble head in the future. good news is red sox beat yankees five-three. to the rio olympics where we are seeing chad leclos mind games did in the work. michael phelps got his revenge in the 2012 games in the 200-meter butt near any rio. phelps won by a near second offer japan swimmer. despite his loss, the 31 year-old had dominated the event for the bet are part of

the last decade but phelps of course was not finished. even though he ripped his swimming cap just before anchoring four by 200 relay phelps led the way to another gold medal. ryan lochte also won gold in the event. the it is phelps 21st gold medal, 24th overall and he has three more races to go in rio. lets see if phelps can add to that ridiculous total. meanwhile on the women's side cade i le decky is making a amazing run of her own in the pool. she won her second gold medal of the rio games, latest in the 200-meter free style. she won 400-meter free style the other night and at this pace, the 19 year-old might challenge phelps haul off medals sometime soon. u.s.a. woman's gymnastics team is celebrating a gold of their own as well, team of allie raysman, gabby douglas

and others, won the team competition in rio. biles is a three time world champion in her own right. the those girls, they are ridiculous, amazing. simon biles has a move named after herself. >> only one that can do it. >> who is backing the truck up to get all that gold home. >> that is a lot. >> heavy plane coming home. >> heavy plane. >> do we have time to talk about tim tebow. >> so when will it be easier to throw a baseball then a if the paul. >> well, it is smaller and lighter, right. i don't know. i'm not very good at either so i can't say. >> but i'm told his college team beat mine, big game that year. >> yes. >> we have something here for you. >> yes, check this out, it is a samba in the streets of brazil. normally it is held in february but this was a display for visitors in rio.

lots of music, costumes and dancing. so for partying these people get gold medallal. >> how about it. >> all right. >> well, coming up in the next half an hour of "eyewitness news" we have results of the new study that may have you thinking twice before drinking tap water, plus this. did donald trump try to insight violence, against his from it the california rival hillary clinton. i'm brian web in new york, hear what he said and what clinton supporters think about it coming up. also a potentially deadly bacteria was discovered in the maryland hospital, we will have an update as doctors work to get babies out of harms way, stay with

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