cleve bryan spoke with the home owner today and joins us live with more on that, cleve. >> shooting involved troopers from the bridgeton station here and it is an active investigation with the new jersey state attorney general's office. so, when we spoke to the survivor of gerald sykes at advice of his attorney he could not talk about details about the case but he does tell us it was his mind that kept him going as his body was failing. >> had that been another half inch i wouldn't be here. >> reporter: gerald sykes has battled back from the brink of death just before midnight july 29th upper deerfield resident was shot in his home by state police who were at his house by mistake investigating a 911 hang up call. >> i'm doing pretty good. i'm alive. beginning to feel better. a lot of the pain subsiding now. >> reporter: authorities said that the night of the incident two troopers knocked on sykes front door and didn't get a response so they check around back. as they shined their flashlights in the glass doors there was an exchange of gunfire, trooper fired off

four times, sykes fired a shotgun once. one officer was grazed, sykes took two bullets to the chest and within to the groin. >> i had a collapsed lung, two fractured ribs, ripped die frame, destroyed spleen, perforated bowl. >> reporter: sykes said he lost annex stream amount of blood and could have gone into shock, margaret sykes at his husband's side believes his calm demeanor saved his life. >> because he is strong, his mind is strong and he can almost cope with anything. >> reporter: authorities say officers identified themselves, but sykes attorney says the elderly man thought they were intruders outside his house. he said shakes grabbed his shotgun for protection and fired a round after he was shot. authorities won't say who fired first. do you hold a grudge. >> no, not really. i always believe in the police and i still do. >> reporter: troopers who have not been identified were placed on administrative leave but one of them, the officer

that was the one that shot his gun has an attorney and said it is trooper's job to investigate every 911 call as a serious incident and when they encountered someone with the gun they cannot assume what their intentions are but he said that is just a hypothetical situation. not actually sure what happened. all that is still under investigation. live, cleve bryan, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". police executed a search warrant on a home long the 2100 block of north locust street in wilmington today. that home is connected to a person of interest, in a murder investigation. yesterday, police discovered body of the 21 year-old map precious hoskins in the trash can around that urn core. she was shot multiple times. police asked anybody with any information to come for. judge sentence and attorney who represented jerry sandusky in the child sex abuse trial. car roam goer will spend 19 years in prison for stealing

$800,000 from clients. he pleaded guilty in may. prosecutors say that he spent the money on casino gambling. the four three-year oldies awaiting sentence nothing a tax evasion case. philadelphia's district attorney is getting a lot of questions about who gave him gifts, and why. "eyewitness news" reporter joe holden has the list. >> reporter: good evening, there were plane trips, vacations, suits, watches, many gifts, the question though the people behind those gifts and what possible influence do they have over district attorney seth williams. a staggering gift giving controversy is hanging over the d.a., personal and professional tokens of appreciation from 2010 through 2015 that seth williams admitly failed to disclose. the documents filed this week with the ethic board tell the story. most expensive, this $45,000 new roof on the d.a.'s overbrook home, paid for by a new jersey contractor, who is said to be a friend. williams wasn't home when we

came knocking. >> i know him on a personal level. >> but neighbor patrick doherty wanted to talk with us about the questions, now swirling about the d.a. >> got a lot of stress. he has two daughters who are in private school, you know, he has a lot of work load and deal were being the district attorney in the fifth largest city. >> reporter: documents show vacations including one to pun to can a, airfare paid by friend, if adjudge gifted williams ticket to the phillies and trip to ac. >> trying to reach the judge is he around. >> reporter: the judge scott declaude ohio didn't get back to us. woman who answered said criticism was price williams and the price were paying for being life long friends. a spokesmen for williams campaign told us all of these gifts were from close family and friend. did he make mistake of not disclosing them and that is what that is at issue here. d.a. seth williams has not been around to answer to any of these questions. it is unclear when he will be back on the job. in center city, outside d.a.'s

office joe holden for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". in camden county two people were hurt after their car was struck earlier this afternoon. crash happened in haddon heights at clemens bridge road and east atlantic avenue. intersection was closed for a few hours while investigators combed that scene. two people were taken to cooper trauma center in camden. their conditions are not yet known. authorities say no crew members on that train were hurt. a bucks county woman has been accused of rigging horse races by introducing performance enhancing drugs. twenty-five year-old merion vega is facing charges. investigators say she gave drugs to horses while employed at parx casino and racing venue. vega is out on $20,000 bail and set to peer in court august 31st. bucks county district attorney david heckler says he is ready to call it a career. announced his retirement at a news conference in doylestown this afternoon. the 69 year-old what's electric to the office in 2009 after spending a decade as a

judge. his last day in bucks county's top prosecutor will be on september 2nd. >> i consider myself, very, very fortunate to have had this opportunity and i'd like to say to the people of bucks county that i believe i'm leaving you an office in great shape and that will continue to do the important job of representing you through the criminal courts of this commonwealth. >> heckler's successor will be up to the bucks county board of judges. after eight straight days of 90 degrees or hotter, we finally broke that streak today. meteorologist kate bilo is outside on the skies deck with a look ahead at the forecast, hi there kate. >> not a bad evening outside, for sure, definitely much more manageable then the heat wave we have been feeling. it is a hot, steamy summer night but as you mentioned the heat wave is finally coming to a close. our high today hit 88 degrees in philadelphia a, that makes it the first day below 90

since august 9th, that kind of puts in perspective how long we have been suffering in the 90's, and we even got to 98 degrees briefly last week but today 88, meaning that heat wavecom to a close, temperatures are sitting at their daytime highs and still steamy. eighty-eight in the city. eighty-seven in wilmington. eighty-six in millville. eighty-seven in reading. got news is what we were talking about is the humidity and how much worse it felt then what the thermometer indicated. it is 88 and feels like 89. not too bad at all. lower 90's in south jersey and central delaware. mostly dry this evening, just a a few clouds, there is a i breeze picking up which feels nice but in the lehigh valley or poconos you can see scattered showers and storms, drifting south and east, most of us staying dry but there could be a pop up shower or storm for areas far to the north and west. unfortunately humidity will continue to climb and we will have a better chance for storms coming up this coming weekend, i will have your weekend outlook and news about a really beautiful stretch of

weather, that we have to look forward to. i'll tell you whether he that starts coming up inside. >> now back over to you. let's update you on breaking news, chopper three live over a serious crash that has northbound route 55 shut down in vineland, new jersey. a dump truck, tractor trailer and other cars were all involved in this crash which as you can see looks very serious. we are told at least three people have been rushed to the hospital. still to come tonight on "eyewitness news", competitive ax throwing it is a a real thing and here in philadelphia. we will take you inside this unusual sport and meet the people, behind urban axes. plus tori down the shore with a cool art project, tori. >> some people go to rome, some people go to france but why not go to atlantic city and take this is beautiful views of the ocean and do something picture perfect, right,

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tonight torey takes us to a bakery in montgomery county that has a very special flare to its signature dishes. you won't want to miss tonight's taste with torey only on cbs-3 "eyewitness news" at 11:00. right now sharpen your skills, a new league is coming to town and not talking about bowling. >> a new ax throwing league is chopping its way in to philadelphia and reporter justin udo of our sister station kyw news radio has those details. >> reporter: nestled between newly construct housing developments in dilapidated buildings a old warehouse in kensington plays home to urban access in philadelphia. >> we looked at philadelphia and felt this neighborhood hat a right mix of up, coming restaurants, right people that we wanted in the local neighborhood to come. we want to engage at local community level.

>> reporter: urban ax is first and only indoor ax throwing league in the country. he fell in love with the sport a few years ago when he moved to toronto and wanted to bring it back to the states for others to enjoy. >> people can come with their friend, book a private event, throw with a group of two, or 24 and experience the fun of indoor ax throwing. >> reporter: folks at urban ax says it doesn't matter if you chop down trees or never pick up an ax, there is something for people of all skill levels. >> some people you know, not surprisingly are intimidated by the idea but once they come in here and try it and see how safe, supervised it is, they think it is fun. i mean people love it. >> reporter: rules are surprisingly simple. >> it is a game played in pairs, you play against another player, and basically do three rounds of five throws each. >> reporter: urban ax a byob is set to officially open in mid-september. justin udo for kyw news radio for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". how about that.

>> yeah. >> throwing axes. >> are we all going to go. >> we can try it. >> doh. >> is it easier to throw a football or an ax, i don't know. >> probably right about the football. >> it depend on who is throwing it, not saying just saying. let's talk about the bird. quarterback cannot thrive if his targets can't catch the ball. sound like common sense but that is what we're looking for tonight and in 45 minutes eagles take on the steelers in their second preseason game. sam bradford and starters will play at least one quarter and so far, the wide receivers have been a huge disappointment. jordan matthews is still out with the injury and newly acquired dario green beckham will not play, but, what about the rest of the guys? are they really ready to step up? bradford has their back. >> very well. they have work hard. they have shown capabilities to make plays. they have done it. it is just like all of us we are working to be more consistent but overall i think

those guys have done a great job. >> reporter: we have some breaking news at this moment, according to a report, u.s. olympic swimmers ryan lochte and james feigen have been indicted by authorities in rio on charges of false reporting of a crime. now lochte and three of his teammates say they were robbed at gunpoint during a night out in rio. but newly released video shows that claim, may be questionable. police say lochte and his teammates lied to cover up their own act of vandalism and confrontation with security guards. they say that this tape shows no violence against the athletes. lochte has return to the u.s. while two teammates have confirmed to police that no robbery or violence occurred that night. moving on now, let talk about some baseball, final game of the chase utley home coming. phillies/dodgers get underway in 45 minutes. utley, he was zero for five last night but the dodgers win the game anyway. phillies are trying to avoid being swept at the bank through two games, they have

been out scored 22-seven. pitching has been suspect. offense sluggish. phillies manager pete mackanin hopes he will have a healthy rotation sometime soon. >> within of our strengths for the better part of the season was the fact that our rotation has taken us deeper in to games making the games closer allowing to us scratch, claw and win a good share of games. now our rotation is scuffling. hopefully we will get back on track and get a good performance from eickoff tonight and hopefully will get us going. we have had some off days which will help through the month of august but we need to get back on track with the starters. >> phillies/dodgers. you can hear that game on the radio at 7:05, talk radio 1210 wpht. also, the eagles on the radio at wip. don bell, thank you for sharing. >> saw said that the weather down at the ballpark, not too bad. >> pretty good weather, warm outside but compared to the

warmth we have had the past couple weeks it is a nice night to be out. not too bad tonight and weekend looks okay as well but nice weather will arrive next week. temperatures right about where they should be for august as we head in the weekend. slightly above but next week we may have a few days below average which will feel fantastic. we will take you outside, look at our go pro camera at cbs broadcast center looking out over our beautiful view of the philadelphia a sky line. that view never gets old, it is gorgeous right now, sunnies shining, dew points in the 60's, not a dry evening out there but we have hat worse then this so nobody is complaining and we have got temperatures in the upper 80's right now. here's a live look, which does show a couple pop up showers and storms drift ago long pennsylvania/new york state border. mostly not making tonight our region but in the far north and western suburbs in the the lehigh valley, poconos pop up shower or storm cannot be ruled out tonight. as we widen out over eastern

half of the country in general not much going on, we have showers ape storms over portions of the deep south and next front thinks one that is system that will impact us over weekend and will approach on sunday and will eventually knock down temperatures next week. august so far though we have not had many down temperatures, temperature is 4.4 above average on the month, precipitation about an inch below average. it has been hot, dry, our high temperature is 98 degrees. low temperature is 66. might there be a night we could go lower then that? there could be. it remains to be seen. future weather shows again maybe a stray shower or storm off to the north ape west here tonight. tomorrow starts sunshine most of tomorrow is dry there could be a stray shower or storm that tries to form along the coast in the afternoon. mostly not seeing anything at all. saturday same story just scatter, spotty thunderstorms awaiting the arrival of the front as i mentioned and here it is as we widen out on sunday you can see that front approaching sunday afternoon. this is 3:00 p.m. mostly off to the west.

you can salvage most of the week toned get outside whether at the pool, down the shore or just out doing some yard work. we're talking upper 80's. sunshine each day. not too bad at all. this front will come through late sunday evening into sunday night. locally heavy thunderstorms and cooler, dryer air will sweep in behind that front and watch what happens to the humidity levels. tomorrow feels on the border of not bad and steamy. a lot like today. saturday steams up more. sunday we are right back to oppressive humidity but then that front comes through and we will cut it way down. we will clear it out on monday. it will feel awesome. we're talking about dew points in the 40's near 50 degrees next week which is a major change from where we have been. this is isolated shower to the north and west tonight, otherwise partly cloudy at 72. mostly sunny, hot, generally dry, 90 in the city. mostly sunny down the shore. can't rule out that stray thunderstorm. one or two spots again tomorrow have afternoon much like this evening. and you're witness weather seven day forecast still warm, steamy friday, saturday and

sunday but then monday breezy, humidity drops, 84 degrees. look at tuesday night's low 61 or tuesday morning's low 61. if we get down that far that will be will coolest temperature of the month and it will be nice crisp autumnal start to the day. >> what a big change. >> all right. >> very good. >> thanks kate. it is thursday and that means torey down the shore. hi there, tori. >> ohh, so relaxing, well, we are painting on the pier we are in atlantic city tori down the shore, how are you doing girls? very busy at work. that looks amazing, lovely. coming up see my skills. i'll give you details how you can do this friday and saturday. we will have some fun, right, girls. okay. check this out

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it is thursday, and that means vittoria woodill is down the shore. >> that is right, to take she's in atlantic city to show us a very cool art project, torey. >> that is right, it is an art project with an amazing view. how awesome is this. we are painting on the pier in atlantic city they have an amazing art gallery inside, the pier, however, they will go anywhere and we have decided best place to be will be right here by the ocean, where we are painting a beautiful ocean scape mona, wow. >> yeah, usually i paint in gallery but this beautiful scenery is awesome. i love it. especially just natural talent coming out. >> i love when you get a

project like this and amazing instructors they bring out all those great things. >> i would love to do this in the few to. >> me too. that is why we have kelly here, kelly, you are one of the instructors here painting on the pier. you are lovely number one. number two you will teach me tips how to do a sunset. >> i'll make it as easy as possible and fun, enjoyable so you get to enjoy yourself and bring out that creative energy. do you feel that. i feel that energy. here's what i will do, i will give you my microphone and can you instruct me how to make this beautiful sunset. >> of course, first thing pick up your paint brush and get some have of your yellow paint. >> yes. >> i mixed it in with the blue is that okay. >> that is okay. >> yes. you will make nice easy brush strokes in the direction of your shape of your sun. so half circle shape. beautiful, beautiful.

>> like a small. >> the nice thing about painting on the pier we give you up trucking but you are allowed to be as creative as i like. >> well, i will add a little will bit of this, beautiful, okay, all right. a little shadowing. >> i like it. >> okay. >> wow. >> beautiful. >> are you impressed. >> i'm impressed. you get a a, plus, plus, plus. >> as long as it wasn't a c, that is good. all right you guys friday and saturday they have opening go to painting on the pier got come. i have got an art project to finished. >> nice progress, so far thanks. >> thanks for watching "eyewitness news" the 6:00 we are back at ten on cw philly and back here at 11:00. up next, the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. we will see you tonight.

>> pelley: meddling with the truth. ryan lochte and three other u.s. olympic swimmers are accused of making up the story about being robbed in rio. police say this video proves it. also tonight, the spread of zika. florida reports two more cases, apparently spread by local mosquitoes. the chicago police superintendent wants seven officers fired, accusing them of a cover-up in the fatal shooting of a black teenager. and maybe this child can get the world's attention. he's the new face of syria's civil war. captioning sponsored by cbs wihis is the "cbs evening news"