it is thursday august 18th, i'm jim donovan. i'm brooke thomas. katie and meisha are here as well keeping an eye on things outside. >> good morning. >> overall roads are looking good. maybe a little wet, damp, not too bad. >> whatever. >> usually i'm debbie downer in the morning but i will not even go there. it is thursday. we are close to friday and we're looking okay. >> good, fantastic. i will be the debbie downer then. we have some weather to track courtesy of storm scan. but first lets go back in time here. we will show you a little bit about what happened yesterday ape hot stretch continues, we will call it a eight day heat wave, longest we have had so far this season, we expect to break heat wave today. it will be close though, until we see how we do but 91 was official high at philly international yesterday. here's that look at storm scan 31 more time, we will zoom it out and back in. we will get to the closer zoom if we can. we are looking at a couple

scattered showers but where we have them we are flicking windshield wipe their could be slowing you down. you have spray from other vehicles but at this point no lightening, thunder reported with these pockets. that is good news. mid 70's where we currently stan or lower 70's in the northwestern suburbs outside of philadelphia. seventy-three appease in dover, millville and you are in the mid 70's as well up and down the 95 corridor. looking ahead to the rest of the day it will be close. eighty-nine is the spec high in philadelphia. while the bulk of any showers are spotty, happened this morning, then there may be a left over one here and there at some point later on today. overall second half of the day is partly sunny but don't be shock if you feel rain drops out there. mid to lower 80's the spectation meanwhile for the rest of the resort towns, back over to you. >> that rain is taking humidity we are all for it. >> there you you go. >> thank you so much. looking outside right now we are waking up to some wet

roadways. so we have an accident, in the eastbound schuylkill at city avenue i know. so just give yourself a couple extra minutes. you will need to do so. we have lost that left lane here and you can see how many are starting to pile up as we come up around this ben and try to immediately move over in the right lane. it will slow you down a little bit so give yourself i would say 20 minutes at this point. i'll update you whether he that does clear maybe a little bit more if you heading out the door in the next 30 minutes or so. boulevard moving in the southbound direction, you are looking good once you jump on moving in the westbound side we are looking okay. just schuykill eastbound side we are keeping an eye on. we have a disable vehicle not slowing anyone down. opened roadways. one or two vehicles passing through. i-95 north at broad street pulled off to the right shoulder not causing any problems. new regional rail schedules started this past machine so lansdale doylestown west trenton media, elwyn, warminster i will tweet this one out. others are still in the interim schedule. down wires in new castle county delaware are still out

there intersection is still closed. jim, back over to you. thanks, meisha. there are new developments in the robbery of u.s. swimmer ryan lochte and three teammates. >> two of those swimmers were detained last night, as they tried to leave brazil. "eyewitness news" reporter justin finch joins us live from the cbs-3 news center with the very latest, justin, what can you tell us. >> reporter: brooke and jim, thinks an ongoing probe involving law enforcement and olympic officials. concern is that parts of the story has descrepancies, that is why those swimmers were held because the judge wants to hear from them what happened. american swimmers gunner bentz and jack conger forced off their flights home and rerouted in to brazil police custody. speak nothing portuguese a lawyer for the pair says that they were at first confused about their detainment but will comply with authorities request for testimony. >> the issue, report of the robbery this week involving them, and fellow u.s. star swimmer ryan lochte.

>> lochte right behind him. >> reporter: lochte made headlines winning gold as part of the mens relay team and with the claim he, bentz, conger and fourth swimmer jimmy feigen were robbed by men posing as brazil police after leaving a party 4:00 a.m. local time on sunday. >> he got his gun, cocked it, put to it my forehead and i put the my hand up, i was like whatever. >> reporter: then this surveillance video obtained by daily mail claiming to show swimmers return to the olympic village that night. a judge reportedly noting none of men seem shaken up an investigation is now underway. >> we just got a quick report that it does not confirm the information that he was detained at gunpoint. >> reporter: back at the olympic village relief among fellow u.s. swimmers. >> certainly very happen that i all of those boys are safe, you know, the number one priority. >> and brooke, jim, we have conflicting reports of the number of robbers who were

present and just where that gun was aim. swimmer jimmy feigen is safe but you reportedly does not feel safe in rio. other u.s. swim team members say there were extensive discussions and training about safety and, of course, all side here want this sorted out. back inside to you. >> thanks, justin. new this morning officials are investigating a row home fire in the cities strawberry mansion neighborhood. it happened around 2:00 a.m. in the 2700 block of new kirk street, fire fighters battled flames while dealing were on going heat wave, thankfully, in one was injured in this fire. well, child sexual assault charges are filed against a chester county man with ties to local scouting groups. police arrested michael kelon of parkesburg on wednesday, their investigation of child sexual abuse dates back to 2011. they are asking parents to contact them if their children may have had contact with him. he remains behind bars on $300,000 cash bail. they put their lives on the line every day to serve

and protect and now a delaware county police department is celebrating the achievements of some of their own. folcroft police chief presented commendations for several office are are for their service. among them recognized way officer chris dorman, he is survived being shot, seven times, on the job back in june. he and fellow officers david depietro took home first commendation of veil our award. >> it is nice to get the recognition but i was just doing my job and it could have been anyone else, in law enforce; and i was just unlucky one who got there first and thank god i was working with who i was and they saved my life. >> dorman is still recovering from the june shooting but said he hopes to be back to work before the summer is over. funeral arrange also have not yet been announced for former philadelphia police commissioner john timmeney. he passed away yesterday after a battle with lung cancer. timmeney was the top deputy in new york, when then mayor ed rendell recruited him to philadelphia back in 1998.

he served here for four years before becoming chief of the miami police. john timmeney was only 68 years old. well, in the race for president donald trump will have his new team with him today as he hits the campaign trail in north carolina experts say trump's decision to hire former breitbart news executive steve bannon as his chief executive is a risky one. meantime trum received his first classified security briefing yesterday. republican nominee also met the with advisors to discuss his plans, to fight terrorist. hillary clinton will be campaigning in monday tan a a new poll find that lath teen owe voters trust democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton much more to trump. surveys conduct by "fox news" latino said they believe that the g.o.p. presidential candidate donald trump is neither honest or trust worthy. now some polled believe the same thing about clinton but by a much smaller margin.

1 percent believed she could not be trusted. green party candidates are making their case to voters. doctor jill stein and her running mate, took part in the town paul last night. stein blasted both trump and clinton. >> i will have trouble sleeping at night if donald trump is elect. i will also have trouble sleeping at night if hillary clinton is elected. >> meanwhile libertarian candidate gary johnson says that his campaign haze raised three million-dollar in the last few days. recent poll shows johnson at 9 s polling around 5 percent. there are now just 81 days left until we vote. stay with. cbs-3 "eyewitness news" for latest campaign 2016 news or go on line at cbs philly.com. well, a monster wild fire in california, shows no signs of slowing down. coming up a little later in our newscast we will show you the warning fire fighters has for families forced to leave their home. also ahead louisiana could be looking at its biggest

housing crunch since hurricane katrina, a decade ago, find out what the national guard is doing to try to save the remaining homes, from historic flooding. and if you are heading to the nation's capitol scratch the washington monument off your list have of places to visit, we will tell you why it is closessed again when we come back. >> ♪ so are you lays i oh, my that could be a good thing why researchers say being lazy could mean you're smarter, we will have the details coming up.

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back on "eyewitness news" with flooding in louisiana head of the home land security will tour damage today. >> at least 13 people have died, and officials say that at least 70,000 people have already been asking for federal disaster assistance. done ton champion reports on the recovery efforts from baton rouge. the head of the home land security will tour damage from the historic flood in south louisiana today. the fight to protect downstream communities from the water that already flooded the baton rouge area has taken to the skies. the mississippi national guard helicopters have been dropping massive sandbags, to control the flow. >> i appreciate that.

>> reporter: in places with new flooding, like the town of moreapaul, crews used boats to check on people still in their homes. not far away from the town of sorento, mayor estimated 75 percent of the land in his town is under water. >> my house has probably 5 feet. >> right here is like this. >> reporter: in baton rouge where water has receded, homeowners like mrs. johnson are starting the clean up process. she said it is overwhelming. >> i know it is material things and you can always get them back but you feel like you are violated. >> reporter: for yet another night curfews were in place in hard hit areas. done ton champion for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". katie, it is awful that this same area is having to deal with something so tragic, again. >> absolutely. it looks as though things will start to get better for that area in terms of the weather

pattern and same can be said for our pattern as well. we are still dealing with our own share of wet weather issues but certainly far cry there what has gone on in louisiana. we are left with lingering showers, even though storms that did rumble through you can see how heavy they were in the beginning of the loop there. now they are long gone, out to sea but they are still a scattered variety of showers still coming down. no thunderstorms just showers. that is good news. back down toward louisiana things have begun to calm down in the sense that we are not finding as much heavy rain pushing in the area. i do want to turn our focus on quickly to the tropics as well. we're coming up believe it or in the to the heart of the hurricane season in the atlantic basin. new through late september is when you have the heart of the hurricane season and you do see the jet stream and westerly wind pushing off to the north here. what that basically means is it provides a pathway for storms to form and head our way. you have got warmer water, an active trade wind and with the strong ridge of high pressure

set up over center of the atlantic it steers things that may start to bubble up. we have got something that bubbled up. tropical storm fiona now a name system and if i'm not mistaken this is earlier f named storm system we have seen here since 2012. taking a look at greater picture here it does at this point appear to be staying out to sea. still many days away from even this point in the latitudes but bermuda may need to be on their guard and if you have travel interest, stay tune we will keep you posted. taking a peak at what the rest of today has in store 89 to break heat wave and left over shower here and there and later tonight we will have a partly cloudy, warm 72 degrees. i would jump to the early part of next week we will be back to much more sunshine and thankfully the losees humidity we have seen in a while. >> absolutely gorgeous. >> all right, thanks very much. happy thursday, to you. so this is what you are waking

up to the schuylkill eastbound, we have an accident there blocking that left lane. it is causing some slow downs now, because we have all of the vehicles, on the roadways. it is just leaving a stream of vehicles around this ben having to make a quick right-hand turn into a string of vehicles, sometimes they don't want to let you in. so slow you down a little bit. this is for sure slowing you down. so would i say at this point give yourself a extra half an hour if you are traveling right past schuylkill eastbound at city avenue. these are your backups. thinks belmont avenue. backup extending to gladwynn. just a sea of headlights out there just that minor accident block ago this left lane on the schuylkill in the 6:00 o'clock hour can cause this backup. just make net of that. give yourself at least 30 minutes. the accident all cleared, pennsauken new jersey involving a down traffic signal. we have got down wires i will have all that coming up plus a lot more when we return from this quick break. stay right where you are.

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governor christie signed an executive order to fund emergency road projects this comes as the fight continues over raising of the gas tax to replenish the nearly deleted transportation trust fund. construction workers pleaded with governor christie and the legislature to make a deal to end the shut town. workers hoff been off the job for seven weeks say they are

on the brink of desperation. christie and lawmakers agree on raising gas tax by 23 cents but they have competing plans on how to cushion that blow for drivers. and if you are planning to sight see in washington d.c., scratch the washington monument off the list for the time being. it is closed until further notice. electrical problem shut the elevator down sunday, it was fix monday but then broken cable shut it down again wednesday. about 80 visitors had to walk down 900 steps in the the heat to get out. workers are repairing it right now. well, we always hear about benefits of exercise but now there may be an upside to being lazy. >> what? >> a new study find people who tend to be more lazy also tend to be smarter. doctor todd todd mcilroy led three-year study, he says it is because lazy people have time to think. study got the attention of students at florida gulf coast university, where mcilroy teaches. >> lazy people are smarter, they have more things on their mind, they just don't do it

all at once. >> it has a way of bracing one self esteem if you happen to be someone who considers yourself lazy, now you may also be intelligent and it may justify your laziness. >> study could mean big things for people who suffer from a disability. if they are inhibited by physical activity, they can be compensated by engaging in cognitive activity. okay. >> who pays for these studies. >> that is all i want to know, katie? no, katie is looking at me over here and she's nodding. >> i'm staying out of there. >> coming up, why mcdonald's will stop giving out those popular activity trackers with their happy heels. well, because lazy people are smarter. plus pennsylvania's grocery stores have green light to sell wine and we know what stores made the list. maybe if we're lazy we use the word contemplate i have, maybe that is better, perhaps, but what we are facing ahead is better weather as we look

forward in the forecast and actually some really nice pay back for hot and steamy days in the seven day so stick around for that i'll tell you when coming

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intelligencers this centennial school district is modifying contract with the firm that provides substitute teachers. rather then extended deal with source for teachers for a full year, school word agreed this week to a contract through december. on the cover of the times, six montgomery county branches of the naacp are coming together to discuss plans to collaborate with local police departments throughout the county. hope to implement recommendations put forward by a federal task force on policing including developing comprehensive, policies on consent before searches, and racial profiling, and use of force. from the page of the county press as his business nears its 50th anniversary gabriel of d and d tailors of newtown square will receive a lifetime achievement award next month from the international. the custom clothing company started his business in 1966. congratulations to him. that is a look at the newspaper headlines from around the delaware valley. well, mcdonald's is getting a lot of positive

feedback about its latest happy meal give away, until right now. >> fast food giant says it will start removing these popular fitness trackers from happy meals after reports of possible skin irritations. the act it trackers measure a child's steps like a fit bit but one arkansas mother posted on facebook that her child wore it and got burned after eight minutes. mcdonald's is investigating the issue. well, coming up next on "eyewitness news" lockrity robbery investigation and why brazil is preventing two u.s. swimmers from coming home, plus this. fire fighters in southern california are working to contain a massive blaze. i'm testimony testimony wait in wrightwood with the very latest coming up. and what started as a fire led to a 300 year-old discovery by construction workers in the heart of philadelphia. see what they dug up when we come back, meisha. we are looking at an accident on the schuylkill causing slow downs plus down wires due to weather, and wet

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as you get ready to start your day grab your umbrella we could see a morning shower. but when will we see more comfortable temperatures, katie will let us know, coming up, good morning i'm jim donovan. i'm's brooke thomas at 6:30. here's what you need to know in your morning minute. was american swimmer ryan lochte touring the rio olympics. >> multi agency investigation is underway, brazil an police pulled jack conger and gunner bentz from their flights last night. >> new this morning fire rips through a row home and this is in the strawberry mansion

neighborhood. >> massive blue cut wild fire burning east of los angeles is devouring everything in its path, and it is getting bigger, more than 1,000 fire fighters are working to get a handle on the flames. republican presidential nominee donald trump is back on the campaign trail with new leadership in charge. >> there is no new donald trump, thinks it. >> despite changes trump is still the same man, who insults gold star families and others. blocked. it is over. the united states has won the bronze. >> kerry walsh-jennings and april ross came from a set down to a win, bronze metal in beach volleyball. >> of course, katie is outside on the sky deck. how does it feel at this hour. >> muggy beginning to the morning out here. we are still tracking a couple

of showers, note the umbrella, it is a fine, fine mist american anything out here but just enough that i say you know what i better break it out. it is your call as to whether you take umbrella with you this morning, what you will notice here is everything out there is pretty scattered in nature. some of you are not seeing a drop of rain and you very well may in the see anything for rest of the day but we are finding these showers regardless so they are out there, see damp roads, you may have to flip the wipers but just a day where it is in the a requirement to take umbrella but up to be your call on this one. moving forward throughout the rest of the day what we will experience is worst of the the dew points dropping, we should be back in the 60's but it is still muggy with dew point at 71. so we do coin it oppressive but again whole day is not going to be that way as we move forward, in the forecast and as hours past the sun comes up and helps to dry out the surface of the atmosphere

where we will end up with temperatures that read up in the upper 80's. we should break our heat wave here. that is what we think will happen. we will see it brighten up for more sunshine. i could still see a left over shower at some point later today but main extra energy producing those showers is with us right thousand. so this really is worst of what we will deal with today, meisha, back to you. >> looking like mary poppins out there so cute to see that umbrella not that we ever want to see the rain which is what we are seeing. good morning, happy thursday to you. so, what we are looking at right now is an accident on the schuylkill eastbound at city avenue. it is pulled off to the shoulder. yes, it is causing some slow downs, we are seeing some significant backups because of that accident but good news is that it was previously blocking this left lane and it has now been moved over to that shoulder easing that attention. some backups that we were seeing was going back to gladwynn. we are not seeing it extend so

far and seeing it as i said ease, and you can see how much space we have. moving over to the westbound side though do you see that. disabled tractor trailer on the westbound side. this is around the conshohocken curve, and yikes, taillights moving in the westbound direction. really you are hit on both east and westbound side one because of that accident, down shoulder, another one because of the disable tractor trailer thaw cannot see. either way if you are around either one of the areas conshohocken curve in the westbound direction city avenue and eastbound side give yourself at least 20 minutes. i would say, 30 minutes, at least, especially moving in the westbound direction by conshohocken curve. this is i-95 south at cottman we are keeping an eye on that as we push toward that 7:00 o'clock. no longer traveling at posted speed there as well. brooke, over to you. >> this morning team u.s.a. swimmers jack conger and gunner bentz are a at an

undisclosed location in brazil after being pulled off their plane last night. they and jimmy feigen are stuck in the country and will be questioned about ryan lochte account of being robbed at gunpoint. lochte is already back in the u.s. blue cut wild fire continues to burn east of los angeles, devouring everything in its path, and it is getting even bigger. more than 1,000 fire fighters are working to get a handle on the flames, tom wait is near the flames and has the very latest. >> reporter: inferno raged on for second night in san bernardino county. fire crews are paying particular attention to the ski town of wrightwood where flames are inching closer and closer to homes. >> hopefully we have got these guys taking care of it and we can be safe because we got no place to go. >> reporter: blue cut fire has managed to score much thousands of acres and destroy countless homes in the tone of phelan, many like ron ramirez return home yesterday to find his dogs safe and his rot

still standing. >> all these houses across the street are to the ground, everything burned to the foundation so i didn't have much hope for our place but we were fortunate. >> reporter: despite mandatory evacuation order in wrightwood some homeowners have mixed feelings about leaving their rots. >> it is my home. would you leave your home? >> our cars are line up, ready to go if we have to go. >> reporter: kathy mathingly of california fire has warned against staying behind. >> last summer we did lose some people, fire behavior changed and they refused to leave and there were lives lost. >> reporter: so far more than 82,000 people have been forced to evacuate, tom wait for cbs news, wright wood, california. this morning a six year-old boy is doing better but still has a long road to recovery one week after someone shot him multiple times in germantown this pictures show mahaj brown smiling from his hospital bed at st. christopher's. he has been upgraded to stable condition after being caught in the shooting on west clarkson street. last night at a rally near

shooting scene his mother, mrs. brown, had this message for the shooters. >> somebody have a heart, have a soul, and somebody come forward. i just want to see my baby coming home, i want to see him back to the mahaj that we know. >> she said her son was hit with ten bull frets an assault rifle and he has had seven surgeries already and will remain at st. christopher's for the next three to four weeks. construction crews digging in olde city make a 300 year-old discovery, shirt corner store stood at third and market for almost 60 years until the it burn to the ground in 2014 because of the faulty wiring last week construction crews found two brick arches a few feet below the ground. city archives show a prison was built at this site 54 years before the signing of the declaration of the independence. >> i was told these old tails that this was a jail cell and it went to dock street. i was very skeptical about

mentioning anybody to him because if i make a big deal out of it, i will lose my building and i will have no where to go. >> this was the fourth jail. they always had the prisoners come to market street because they wanted to display them. if you are going to whip somebody you would save it the for market days which were wednesday or saturday. >> well, philadelphia historians say stone prison lasted most of the the 18th century. new items coming tour pennsylvania grocery store that has many saying cheers. liquor control board has approved 84 stores to sell wine across the state including several in the delaware valley. iga this port richmond is only one in philadelphia so far and while many cheered convenience factor some say move may take away small businesses. >> i'm excited, that is cool. >> it is a really long time in coming for us to be able to do that. i do wonder about pricing. >> reporter: little neighborhood bars in the the area that is where everybody

used to go. i feel like it puts a damper on their cash outs. >> you can also get wine shipped to your home directly. there are a hundred stores waiting for approval but for look at stores in go to web site cbs philly.com. uber is in the food delivery business. well known transportation company unveiled uber eats app yesterday, it allows users to get food from over 100 philadelphia restaurants delivered at uber speed for full list of participating restaurants check out cbs fill it.com. happening today will be a sea of white somewhere in philadelphia for diner en blanc. as usual the location will be a mystery until a few minutes before the scheduled time. thousands showed up for annual pop up picnic, the large gathering is pack with food, cocktails and entertainment. as you can see here the party goes on rain or shine. well, coming up, on "eyewitness news" reason you could see more cockroaches around, oh, know.

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there are more roaches around. >> that is an odd question. but there are fans of the heat and humidity. they thrive in it. experts from academy of natural sciences say hot weather increases their

population and helps them move around more. the heat also gives them the strength to fly. >> up here on cooler days, dryer days our cockroaches that we see a lot in the city aren't able to really take full flight because they don't have enough energy to do so. but where that heat helps give them that and they can take off more. >> is everybody in the room freaking out like me or just me. to keep roaches out of your house keep damp areas well ventilated, and keep loose food sealed. roaches will start flying. i feel like we are not grasping how serious of an issue this is. >> i see a bug like that, i move. very simple. >> i'm out. i'm out of town. >> i have to give it to karen at the academy of natural sciences, she has giant roaches crawling all over her with a smile on her face. i at least are coming bearing

better weather news, when it comes to the worse of the heat if you are not a roach fan i cannot say many people are, that is something to look ahead to here. we are off to a very warm start not just to the day but with the humidity. we have cloudy shots as well, lou sent this one in gray sky where he is and we have, again just a lot of, what is called a dark gray sky according to phil. is there still some showers out there and we will get to that in a second. the just a quick look at area temperatures. it is cooler, very often tend to be in gilbertsville, jerry is checking from blue bell at 73. john in tabernacle at 71. low to mid 70's around the region as a whole, lisa in wilmington at 71 degrees. list goes on with similar readings coming from the watchers. as we go, to storm scan three look closely you can see little showers rolling through. no lightening reported with any of them. they are just showers. that is generally a light rain. we have a system that is a

frontal pound dry that doesn't want to completely pass us by here. that is why we are stuck here yet again with still unsettled weather. as we turn here to temperature you may have heard reports that july ended up becoming the warmest july, that we have ever recorded and that goes back 100 plus years, so unusual warmth in the ocean for the pacific, to help lead to that and global we're talking global average temperature for the entire month was 62.01 that is one and a half degrees above the average. this is a big deal. hottest in on record. mean while we will check out quickly the eyewitness weather seven day easing up on the thermometer and humidity by monday, meisha. >> so nice for so many. >> thanks very much, katie. >> looking outside, this is where we saw an accident, eastbound schuylkill at city avenue pulled off to the shoulder causing significant slow downs. now our attention is turn to the westbound side or actually

no, still eastbound side where we have disable tractor trailer. this is by conshohocken curve. for those heading out take a look we cannot see disable tractor trailer in this camera shot but just know schuylkill eastbound at the conshohocken curve that is where sights are set. city avenue eastbound is looking relatively okay but westbound side you saw how bus that i was looking. i-95 south before girard this is what you are looking at there. there we go. we got it. pull off to the shoulder. you can see disable vehicle here but just so you know penndot zoomed in. we were looking at wide shot at this at girard looking very busy n longer traveling at posted seed. give yourself extra time on all major interstates and highways right now particularly because you're waking up with wet roadways. whenever we have that we will get some problems. in the world of the mass transit broad street southbound running ten minute delay equipment problems at fernrock. i will tweet that as well. brooke, over to you. show must not go on for adele. she had to cancel her phoenix

she because of the bad cold. >> she posted an apology to her 27 million fans on instagram and twitter. >> i cancelled my show tonight. i'm really sorry. i have had a cold for a couple days and i did my show last night and i pushed too hard and my cold has gotten a bit worse and even if i did the show it wouldn't be very good. >> that is legitimate. hello singer was bear face very apologetic present heading to phoenix. she performed six nights in a row in los angeles. in wonder her cold got worse and she lost her voice. she has to take care of herself. >> yes, indeed. in other news harry potter fans rejoyce this fall jk rawlins is releasing three more books in the series. author revealed news on her web site potter more, new works including stories about the head mistress, professor mcgone gallon and potions of master slughorn. look for the books on

september 6th. i have never read a harry potter book. >> they are awesome. >> i know, i never got into them. >> how about this today is your chance to be a soap opera star. >> yes, pay attention. >> meisha, 18 or older you just made the cut they are invited to audition for a chance to appear in the episode of the young and the restless or bold and the beautiful. the auditions are at sugar house a casino. the two stars will be there there is more information at cbs philly.com. time is 6:49. there is a lot coming up on cbs this morning. >> charlie rose joins us from new york with the preview. good morning, charlie. >> good morning, brooke and jim. we are on the front lines of the california wild fires, they say it is unlike anything they have ever seen before plus donald trump... >> we are having some issues there we're only seeing a portion of your head there so we apologize we will tune in though at 7:00. >> we will be here full body

at 7:00. sometimes a helping hand can go a long, long way. >> "eyewitness news" reporter pat gallen spoke with a local man that went well outside philadelphia to help a teen in need. >> yes, very cool story. 800 miles away a college student in conyers georgia packed his things and headed to school on his brother's bike six hours in 100-degree heat. i spoke with a northeast philadelphia auto machine that i can loved his story so much he decided to lend a hand. nineteen year-old fred barley wanted a job at gordon state college before the semester began so he wrote a -- rode a small bike and then slept in the tent. that is where local mechanic andrew, comes in. >> when his story hit facebook i caught wind of it and inquired if the kid had a driver's license, which he did, and when was in a position to accept a vehicle, process of paperwork, which he

was. >> reporter: he had a 2003 hyundai that need aid home. drove from philadelphia to georgia to give the car to barley. >> we got together thursday night which cast bay before we presented the car to him. he is a great young kid, he has a infectious smile and laugh. loves to hug everybody he is a real dedicated kid with drive and moxy. >> reporter: ungaro just felt it was a great time to do a nice thing so he told barley when he is done with the car he needs to pass it along as well. >> i look at it as a pay it forward thing. if anybody is in a chance to help somebody out and in a position to do it, help them out because it is what makes the world go round. >> reporter: barley is attending gordon state college as a biology major and wants to be a doctor. he was aided by many other strange wheres nearly $184,000 to a go fund me page. he cannot believe outpouring of support. >> i just wanted to personally say thank you so much for all you have done for me.

>> and andrew such a great guy, awesome story. as for fred he was hired by a his rhea near his school and free lodging at a school until the semester began. his crazy story one that gotten attention but awesome story that comes back to the city of philadelphia anus sharing a little brotherly love about 800 miles away. >> still willing to help. >> great for fred and you surround yourself with good people. >> he is a good person. >> i have known him since i was a kid, good guy that andrew. >> thanks for putting us on a map for a good thing. >> thanks, pat. not everybody is happen bye a arkansas rule about banning parents from the premises. >> school administrators say it is for student's own good. sign on the door of the catholic high school for boys says if you are dropping off your sons forgotten lunch, books, homework, equipment, et cetera please turnaround and exit the building, your son will learn to problem solve. administrators and students say it is a lesson worth learning. >> simply to help boys avoid

the default switch of calling mom and dad when things don't go right and to come bail them out. >> think for myself and in the rely on other people to do things for me and if i make a mistake i need to learn from it and fix it. >> administrators should give kid a break but school officials say they will learn to do things for themselves. this morning a doug, famous on social media is getting a new web series. >> it follows him running around, a pack man mate. look at this twinkey the jack russell terrier plays pack man popping balloons and avoiding the ghosts. twinkey became famous a while ago for breaking world record for balloon popping. pack man that writes me back a few decades. we will be right back with three things you need to know to start your day.

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and donald trump reshapes his campaign leadership and head back out on the campaign trail as hillary clinton stumps for votes in cleveland and led in the new pole. lets get a last check of weather and traffic. >> still unsettled outside. we have a couple scattered showers out there, gray, it hasn't been most beautiful sunrise, 72 degrees currently outside in middletown ship high school here in live neighborhood network. we have a smattering of green on this snapshot view of storm scan three. while not everyone is hit we have gray skies every where. i promise that the the skies will brighten up for more sunshine as the day goes on and still warm, right in the weekend, meisha. >> looking outside with wet roadways, what a mess on the schuylkill. schuylkill eastbound at conshohocken curve where we have a disable tractor trailer that has been moved out of the way but it is still very slow. look at this, it is extending all the way past the blue route, to the gulph mills area on the schuylkill. if you are pushing in the eastbound direction give yourself at least, 30 minutes.

let's switch gears tomorrow morning at 6:00 a.m. on the road again with my cbs friend for another dream drive. i'm checking out a old rustic area transformed into an really cool family fun place, mini golf, with a beautiful water view and i'm also going to get off the road and get a river taxi that is, lets look. >> we have a little bit of culture, and tran quilt and fine dining as well. >> and free arcing. >> um-hmm. >> i'll tell you where you can get on board and show you these sites you might in the realize in your backyard, they are, all this tomorrow on dream drive at 6:00 a.m. right here on cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> thanks, meisha. next up this morning a report from the front lines of the massive california wild fire. >> and remember to join us early each weekday morning here on cbs-3 at 40:00 a.m. >> have a great day.

captioning funded by cbs good morning. it is thursday, august 18th, 2016. welcome to "cbs this morning." firefighters battling a raging california wildfire say they have never seen flames like this. 80-foot walls of fire put tens of thousands of homes at risk. will donald trump's new campaign managers be able to build a ground game to turn around his eroding support? campaign manager kellyanne conway is here in studio 57. >> ryan lochte his teammates were removed from their flight home by brazilian authorities. we begin this morning with a look at today's "eye opener." your world in 90 seconds.