courtroom, audible gasps as they declared anthony wright, not guilty. wright's family as they left the courtroom, could not contain their grief. >> thank you. >> reporter: hugs, cheers, tears, for their son, father and brother, anthony wright. >> it has been a long time. it has been a long time. >> reporter: wright spent past 25 years behind bars, for the 1991 rape and murder of 77 year-old louise tally, on this block in nicetown. a signed confession and witness testimony convicted him in 1993. he claimed that the confession was coerced and in 203, dna evidence link another man to the crime and wright's conviction was overturn. but the d.a.'s office retried the case. >> they seem to want to disregard the scientific evidence. >> reporter: his attorneys for the for years and after two week trial, the jury found wright not guilty on all

charges. >> the science never lies for anything. >> reporter: prosecutors argued that rodney byrd, man linked to will tally by dna violated her after death, but the jury didn't buy it. >> it didn't add up. >> reporter: wright's lawyers say they are not done just yet. >> first, only d.a.'s office in america where we have this compelling evidence of knows tones make a man go through a second trial and they should pay for that. >> reporter: wright will turn 45 on monday, you can reza shourd there will be the biggest celebration of their lives. >> now my daughter gets to experience all this, all this, get to have him 100 percent. >> very emotional right now. you just don't know. this is a great day. >> reporter: d.a.'s office decline to comment on the verdict but thanked the prosecutors and the jury for their service. as for when anthony wright will be set free, his lawyers are hoping it will be today but assure us it will be, very, very soon.

>> chere greg, live, thanks very much. a pennsauken man is arraigned on first degree murder charge in the death of his girlfriend's two-year old son. twenty-four year-old zachary tricoche appeared in court in camden earlier today. he is charged with beating jameil baskerville, junior to death. officers were called to the 5900 block of mansion boulevard late saturday, baskerville later died at cooperville university hospital. we will have a full report on "eyewitness news" at 6:00 o'clock. reputed philadelphia mob boss joey merlino pleaded not guilty to racketeering charges in new york federal court today. the 54 year-old is accused of taking part in the health care fraud scheme. merlino was one of the four dozen a alleged members of the east coast crime syndicate who were arrested and charged earlier this month. local leaders and law enforcement from all across the country were in new york today to say good bye to former philadelphia police commissioner john timmeney. the 68 year-old timmeney passed away last week after

battling lung cancer. a funeral mass was held at st. patrick's cathedral in manhattan. timmeney was laid to rest in west chester county in new york. in addition to philadelphia, john timmeney served as first deputy commissioner with the nypd and as miami's chief of police. the in the presidential race the campaign trail is running through our area again today, wright now donald trump's running mate is rallies supporters in bucks county. "eyewitness news" reporter alexandria hoff is live in the area with the details, alex? >> reporter: donald trump's asking him to run beside him and owe is speaking to a crowd of hundreds inside of worth and company here in pipersville, as you can see a effort to reach working class voters. this is his second stop of the day immediately, prior to this, he spoke to a crowd in montgomery county at a private event held at the text tube manufacturing company.

most recent trip to the deep south, with presidential nominee donald trump. despite being a relatively consistent supporter on have free trade to day he advocated for keeping small businesses strong. >> gary was working down the street, working in the trade himself when couple decade ago he scraped together the money to buy this company, 11 employees, now more 300 strong, here at texttube. story of american entrepreneur ism. >> perfect. >> very good. >> mike pence. >> mike pence. >> governor of the state of indian, running for vice-president of the united states. >> all right. he made a brief introduction there that was mike pence stop at relatively long ride, and got a haircut on his way, wanting to deck with the people of pennsylvania. now currently hillary clinton holds nearly a ten-point lead

overdone old trump here in pennsylvania, today, pence is hoping to make a dent. reporting live,al sand that hoff for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> alex, donald trump is fund raise nothing texas before holding a rally in austin this evening. he is focusing on immigration this week. trump continues to say he will build a wall, along the u.s./mexican border but no longer saying he will deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants estimated to be living in the you had. meanwhile democratic nominee hillary clinton went to justin timberlake's santa monica home as part of the star studded california fun raising trip that included an appearance on jimmy kim ill live. clinton talked about debating donald trump her health and latest twist in her e-mail controversy. the state department is reviewing nearly 15,000 previously undisclosed messages the fbi uncovered during its investigation. >> my e-mails are so boring. >> yes. >> i know. >> i'm embarrassed about that. they are so boring. we have already released i

don't know 30,000 plus, so what is a few more good clinton does not have any public events today, the fundraisers are private. clinton's running mate tim kaine is in colorado at a small business round table, democratic vice-presidential nominee told supporters that trump is using his campaign to make money for himself. he pointed to a huffing ton post report that found trump jack up rent on his campaign headquarters, once he wasn't footing the bill any longer. former president jimmy carter says that the presidential race has been exciting and unprecedented, the 91 year-old democrat spoke at site of the happen tall for humanity construction rog neck memphis today. and he offered his analysis on the race between clinton and trump. >> unfortunately the way it has turned out both parties are quite unpopular but i don't have any doubt that one of the candidate is better qualified than the other. >> reporter: carter talk about his battle with cancer. he says he no longer has any

signs of cancer but is being checked periodically. today president obama visits flood ravage louisiana for first hand look at historic damage. the floods there have killed at least 13 people. >> the prayers of the entire nation are with everybody who lost loved ones. >> reporter: president toured east baton rouge, parish one of the hardest hit communities, flood waters destroyed or damaged 60,000 homes. >> peoples lives have been up ended by this flood, local businesses have suffered some terrible damage, families have in some cases lost homes. >> reporter: water in this house came up to the owner's shoulders, repair crews gutted the home tearing out flood damage wood and soaked carpet and tossing it all on his lawn. >> your whole world is gone, all of the clothes, baby things, everything is gone, it is like okay god has a reason for us and we will listen to what he says he will provide for us. >> reporter: more than 106,000 people registered for emergency federal aid,

80 percent of the people in louisiana do not have flood insurance. the president says that the government is beginning to distribute 127 million-dollar in federal disaster relief, to those hoff had to flee their homes. >> i need all americans to stay focused on this, if you are watching us today, make sure that you find out how you can help, you can go to volunteer louisiana dot gov. >> reporter: president's visit follows one by donald trump on friday, the republican nominee criticized the president for not cutting short his two week vacation on martha's vineyard. today trump tweeted the visit by the president was too little, too late. hillary clinton says she will visit the region when her presence would not disrupt emergency response efforts. brittany spears is helping out, her home state of louisiana she has teamed up with the american red cross and crowd funding web site crowd rise to raffle off outfit that she will wear at upcoming mtv video muse ache ward. money raised will go to those

affect by floods. spears grew up in kentwood louisiana. coming up on "eyewitness news" can you guess what turns 25 today? here's a hint it is something most of us use every day and some can't live without it. >> the answer to that is next. will jerry sandusky receive a new trial or be released from jail? i'm greg argos in the center county with the hearing that just wrapped up and is what next for his defense. uber buys a company that makes driverless trucks what could that mean for you for your ride in the future, kate. it was another beautiful day dew points are low, sunnies shining but humidity will be creeping back as we head toward end of the week. i'll tell you when hottest day of the week will be and when thunderstorms can return and when we may cool things down yet again coming

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miami area teenager is lucky to be alive, after he was affect by what is usually a fatal brain eating ameba.

the 16 year-old boy arrived at the hospital two weeks ago complaining of a headache. doctors who are trained to look for that sort of ameba went into action and lowered the boy's body temperature reduced a coma and gave him a drug not readily available the at most hospitals. doctors had no idea, when he would wake up or what kind of outcome they would achieve. >> decided to get some help and... >> since then he has done tremendously well. we are very optimistic. he is walking. he is speaking. >> incredible. ameba that affect that teen has a 97 percent fatality rate making him one of only a few survivors of that type of infection. well, uber is getting self drivers vehicles on the fast

track. they bought auto that is designing autonomous big rigs and it will be testing, self driving passenger cars. cbs correspondent john blackstone took a test drive. >> reporter: at 55 miles an hour, with no one behind the wheel, auto has tested its technology on, closed road. for test runs like the one we took on a busy free way. with that the truck is driving itself. >> reporter: safety driver sits behind the wheel, just in case. leroy is co founder of otto. >> your goal, it is to build equipment to be put on to any truck to make any truck a self driving truck. >> correct. >> reporter: the announcement last week that uber is buying otto for an estimated 680 million-dollar, gives the ride sharing giant access to otto's advanced technology. >> it will allow to us really get to that future sooner then later.

>> reporter: that future is arriving in pittsburgh where uber is introducing a fleet of new cars, equipped to drive themselves. for now, those uber cars will have a safety driver, but more than a million uber drivers around the world may be seeing a future, where they are no longer needed. >> i think self driving technology will be similar to smart phone technology of the last ten years, meaning it will show up quickly, and it will change things dramatically. >> reporter: truck drivers may have more job security, otto's self driving trucks are designed to operate only on freeways, trucker will still be needed for everything off the freeway. john blackstone for cbs news san francisco. >> we will discussion our discussion. uber isn't only company developing self driving cars its competitor lyft is working with general motors on self driving taxis. ford and most other major car companies are pursuing the technology. i don't know that the interstates, that is what makes it unsettling.

>> i was just thinking about that. >> earlier a olympic silver medalist returned home from rio to a very warm welcome. >> cbs-3 was there as nia ali stepped off the plane. she was greeted just after midnight at the philadelphia international airport. ali took silver in the hundred meter hurdles in the rio games. she grew up in germantown going to west catholic before transferring to pleasantville high school in new jersey for her senior year. among those there this morning her 15 month-old son titus. ali told us that she has definitely felt the love and support. >> i want to thank my supporters and i want to thank everybody that came here and my family for coming up. >> nia ali and her team hates gave the united states its first sweep in 100-meter hurdles and its seventh in the history of the olympic track. now, ali, hoist proud of both her philadelphia and new jersey roots tweeted this it

is not up for discussion, philly made me who i am through and through and jersey has been nothing short of amazing to me, on and off the track. congratulations again. i love that. we're happy to welcome her back with fabulous weather. >> yes, welcome back to a beautiful philadelphia. >> yes. >> it is gorgeous out there today. this is kind of take where you want to talked away, put tonight your back pocket and on february 18th, open it up. >> yes, remember that combination. >> thinks day you dream about in the middle of winter doll drums.nks day you dream about it is just pure summer perfection out there. it is warm, sunny, not too hot, humid it is goldie locks day. not too hold, too cold or just right. this morning was nice and cool, comfortable. if you can tomorrow morning maybe take coffee out on to the patio. our floor director kevin told us perfect combination with the chill in the air and hot cup of coffee is there nothing better than that this time of the year. beautiful afternoon. take a look you can see down

the shore folks are loving it. a great week. wait until the end of the season, water is pretty warm, the sunnies shining, the beach is nice, it is perfect down the shore in ocean city. you can see folks outside on the sand coming up we will show what you this beach looked like earlier today, it was even more pack then here but folks stretching out this day past 5:00. quick look here from live neighborhood network camera from the palmyra cove nature park in new jersey. beautiful day. 83 degrees. i said beautiful i think 12 times already but that is best word i have to describe this day. how about stunning, gorgeous, just perfection. storm scan three is clear no problems out there as we widen out you can see nothing heading our way anytime soon. this next system across the midsection is what will swing through here on friday bringing threat for a few showers late thursday night into friday morning and then afternoon then are storm friday afternoon when humidity is also going to ramp up noticeably. temperatures right now, really

nice, in fact degree or two below average we are at 82 in philadelphia. eighty in allentown. autumnal 73 in mount pocono. eighty in millville. seventy-eight in wildwood right now. cool morning when we started off the day at 62 headaching it the cooler arees temperature since june 18th more than two months ago. that is also coolest temperature certainly of the month of august. so far we are 4.3 degrees above average. slightly below normal precipitation wise. high temperature 98. low temperature 62 degrees. tomorrow little bit warmer by a degree or two. thursday when we start to steam up as this front approaches could be showers thursday night into friday morning along a warm front and that cold front will bring spotty thunderstorm friday afternoon. we have got a couple areas to watch. we have a area in the tropics this one is possibly going to impact portions of the southeastern you had, that would be late this weekend, into early next week. we have tropical storm gaston,

gaston does not look like a threat to the continental u.s., mainly staying out to sea, coming up next we will talk about potential impact of that system for south east that possibly could mean a little bit of rain for us as well but that is not another week to week and a half. for tomorrow looking good, sun which low humidity again. 86 degrees for tomorrow. 88 degrees on thursday. then watch out for thunderstorm friday afternoon back to 92, but the 90's will in the last that long. i will show you rest of the seven day. >> give goldie locks a high five. >> we enjoyed this. >> i will do just that. still ahead on "eyewitness news" anything for love. >> a stunt to impress a woman gets a man in the bizarre situation and why police and paramedics were called into help, wow. >> find out what happened when a wall stood between a player and a ball. plus, signed, sealed, delivered this brand new eagle just arrived hours ago why

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don, we are welcoming someone to philadelphia signed, sealed, and delivered. >> i thought you meant ukee. >> good to be back. good to see you. >> and family. >> and, i'm glad you have you. >> steven tullock reported for work he has a reputation for showing up, every single day. for example one of his coaches once tried to give him day off for practice. simple enough, right. tullock was mad, he wants to practice. all the time. and eagles, want that kind of attitude. tullock literally signed his one-year contract today and ten year veteran has been reunited with defensive coordinator jim schwartz. they were together for six years total between tennessee and detroit. that relationship is a big reason why tullock is here. >> i have a lot of love and respect for coach schwartz. i thanked him for the opportunity i had in tennessee, you know, after he drafted me, or pushed to draft me back in 2006 when nobody else wanted to go after me.

like i said, he called me, i wanted to help build this team. >> everybody has something different they bring to the table. and, you know, we embrace that and try to find a role for all of those guys but what role he will play, you know, it is yet to be determined. >> reunited and it feels so good. phillies are on the south side of chicago for the first time in 12 years to take on the white socks shortly after 8:00 p.m. rookie jake thompson makes his fourth career start. last night in tampa a high fly ball to left center field, giving chase this dude thinks he has a home run but an drew, leaps over the wall and brings it back. no, you don't. >> yes, he did. >> yes. >> are you kidding me. >> give me that. >> that was a delicate balance. >> he might have a little bruce on his right hip. >> that coulded have ended in so many bad ways.

>> great catch. >> indeed. >> thanks, buddy. >> a rebater it. >> coming up what instagram post can tell about a person's mental state. also this... >> a young father and city employee is gunned down in front of his hotter's own door i'm rahel solomon at police headquarters coming up story that has his story and philadelphia police confused about who would do this. a man chased for 5 miles by police and then gunned down why his brother says he may not have even known he was being persued. plus, i gave up a baseball bat. >> just look at him now. this little boy made medical history one year ago when he became world's first child to have a double hand transplant, the procedure was performed at chop and today he returned to chop to see just how much progress he has made. our stephanie stahl talks with him and she will have his story

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it is just not fair. >> a family's heart break after their sonnies murdered in spring garden over the weekend, just steps, from his mother's home. he was shot in broad daylight saturday and his killer remain at large tonight. "eyewitness news" continues at 5:30, good evening, i'm jessica dean. i'm ukee washington. twenty-five year-old leonard boyar the third worked in the commissioner's office. "eyewitness news" reporter rahel solomon at police headquarters with more from his heart broken family and steps investigators are taking to find one suspects, rahel, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, ukee. police sources tell me for some reason they believe that this victim was in fact the target but this afternoon both

his family and detectives say that they don't know why. for the family of 25 year-old leonard boyar, the third, saturday was supposed to be like any other weekend. it wasn't anyone's birthday, no specific reason to gather other than just to be around one another. >> just a normal saturday coming down, bringing the baby, laugh, joke do what we do. we had no plans. unaudible. >> reporter: at 5:00 that afternoon the family heard shots. police say as boyar was walking to his mother as door on the 600 block of north 12th street, two men fired 13 times hitting boyar twice in the head and once in the back. by 8:30 that evening he had died at hahnemann. >> no one has the right to take him from frustrates or from his daughter. what do we tell his daughter when she's asking for her dad? what do we tell her. >> reporter: boyar work in the cities commissioner office training election board officials and out in the

community, to helping to register people to vote. tuesday commissioner schmidt told "eyewitness news" in a statement leonard was a dedicated city employee, strong work ethic and always available to help the public whenever we needed him. the pain his co-workers are feeling right now is evidence of how good a person he was. boyar's death ace monk five in philadelphia this weekend alone. >> it has got to stop. we have to do something. they just took another, life. >> at the this point homicide units special task force has the case. the detectives that typically works on high profile murders and also cases considered especially difficult. as for this murder officials say they have video to get through so hopefully that helps but at this point they do not have much more than a vague suspect description. reporting at police headquarters i'm rahel sol machine for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". rahel, thank you. jerry sandusky's three day appeals hearing is over for

now. it will continue at a later date with attorneys for former penn state assistant football coach saying they want to call more witnesses. "eyewitness news" reporter greg argos is in center county with the latest from court. >> reporter: this three day appeals hearing just wrapped up here in center county but this case is far from over. jerry sandusky's defense team says that they hope to call even more witnesses to the stand, at a later date. >> any comment. >> unaudible. >> reporter: whole story will be told. >> maybe some day, who necessary. >> reporter: at least part of the jerry sandusky's story told over the course of the three case, in a hearing that could eventually lead to a new trial or even release of the convicted child sex offender. >> we still are working on it. we are putting things together. certain legal arguments to make. >> reporter: this multi day hearing which focused on alleged problems during the initial 2012 trial will continue at a later undetermined date. sandusky's attorney al lindsey says he hopes to call two additional witnesses including one of the sandusky's victims

to the stand. at issue here did the seven two-year old receive a fair trial? >> we believe that the case against mr. sandusky originally was very flawed. >> reporter: tuesday lindsey focused on alleged grand jury leaks calling both prosecutors from the original trial frank fina and joseph mcgettigan to testify. both said they were concerned how a local reporter received what should have been sealed testimony. fina says attorney general's office, even opened up an internal investigation in the matter. >> we took these things very seriously. we would conduct, we would take various measures to try to keep the process as appropriate, secret. >> if we can establish there were leaks made by government agents it could result in the dismissal of the case. >> reporter: the appeals process will continue as both sides have stashingly different opinions on the potential outcome. >> it is all complex and hard for the cases go through, this one will in my opinion has no

merit and will be unsuccessful >> it is going better then we plan and we think we will be successful ultimately. >> reporter: there is no set date for the next step in the appeals process. in the meantime jerry sandusky himself headed back to prison. reporting here from center county i'm greg argos for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". roadside bomb killed an american solder assisting nato forces in afghanistan today. a second american service member and six afghan soldiers were also injured. it happened in afghanistan's helmond province just one day after 100 u.s. troops were deployed there to help push back the taliban. officials say that the militant effectively controlled 80 percent of that area, none of the american soldiers have been identified. police pursuit in north caroline and heed with a 29 year-old hearing impaired man being shot and killed by a trooper. north carolina officials say police tried to stop the vehicle for speed ago long an interstate. pursuit ended about 5 miles

away in a residential charlotte neighborhood where the man lived. neighbors say they even heard gunshots. his brother says he may not have have even known he was being persued. >> what we need to know is that the system is able to change to prevent horrific tragedies like this from happening where people die because of something simple as i don't hear what the police say because i'm deaf. >> north carolina state highway patrol is conducting an internal investigation and trooper who shot harris is currently on administrative leave. a four hour ordeal for paramedics in pittsburgh as they rescued a man trapped between two buildings. police say grant birdsong, a university of pittsburgh student was trying to impress a girl by jumping from this shorter building to the taller one. well, he failed miserablely and fell three stories down in the crack between the two buildings. the girl he was trying to

impress called for help and watch the whole thing unfold. >> it appears there were three walls that he had to go through and also we had people on the roof, one of the paramedics did repel down three stories, rendering assistance and provided some landmarks as to where he was. >> crews eventually got him out through a hole they had to make in the wall of the mexican restaurant. it is unclear if he will face charges. he did suffer a broken ankle. >> he was trying to say baby i'm your super man. >> don't do it like that. >> yikes. >> still to come, americans on a rafting trip blown to canada by high wind. why this caused an international incident and trying to swim back to the u.s. the worldwide web turns 25, we will show you how our web site has changed over the years, kate. another beautiful day another cool, comfortable night ahead, question is how long can we keep this string of beautiful weather going?

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if you are on instagram, you might want to pay closer attention to the pictures your friend are posting. a new study suggest their instagram pictures can possibly indicate if they are depressed. researchers at harvard university and the university of vermont looked at 44,000 instagram pictures, and found people who are depressed post pictures that are more blue, and gray. they say that depressed people also post more often, they apply more filters, and they are more likely to include, faces. in celebration of the worldwide web, turning 25 today we wanted to give you a look back at cbs-3 web site throughout the year.

it evolved from kyw.com in the 90's to our current web site cbs philly dot the come. the inventor behind the worldwide web is british scientist timber nard lee, august 231,991st he granted the general pun access to the web for the first time, and now, everything is different. >> it has come a long way. >> it is a watershed moment. >> unbelievable. >> i remember those pictures very well. very well. are your kid eating too much sugar? we will tell what you there is are saying at how much they should be eating

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rosswell park cancer center in buffalo, new york reportedly helps a patient immune system target brain tumor cells and cancer cells. for 15 patients, testing the vaccine, it is hope. >> i'm so lucky, i feel very lucky. >> the prognosis not good so we were looking for some hope and the vaccine is that hope. >> so far one patient on the drug survived four years and just saw margot cruz, she has out lived original expectations doctors had for her, the vaccine is in the second phase of testing. new recommendations when it comes to the amount of sugar your children should consume. american heart association say children should eat or drink less than 25 grams of added sugars every day. that is about six teaspoons equaling about 100 calories. a doctor says children routinely consume an average of 19 tea soons of added sugar. research shows eating too much added sugar in childhood is

link to an increased risk of obesity and higher blood pressure. fire crewness southern california contained a massive wild fire that broke out last tuesday, fire scorched nearly 57 square miles and left 105 homes and 216 other structures destroyed. investigators continued to search for what caused the fire, as another one on california's central coast grew slightly overnight to 58 square miles. nearly 1900 homes are being threatened by that wild fire. about 1500 americans, are at center of international incident today. they were taking part in the annual port heron float down on saint clear river in northern michigan help wind pick up and actually blue them in canadian territory. some who were afraid about landing in a foreign country without proper identification tried to then swim back to the u.s. analyst picked up and return to american soil by bus. fire breaks out in a new jersey home with the family still inside. >> they were trapped from a second floor, this all

happened in sayreville south of newark yesterday afternoon. officer brian gay was first on the scene. he says that when he tried to go upstairs to get to the family he saw the staircase was in flames. he said he went through back of the house and saw a girl with the her head out of the window yelling she was going to jump. >> people getting the ladder then looked up and she was already jumping. she was on her way downey caught her. >> reporter: we're told two more children did jump out and with man climbed down a ladder. the cause has yet to be determined. kate bilo joins us now with some beautiful weather for all of us in the area. >> i took a walk this morning, um. >> ,. >> um, um. >> this morning sitting outside, nice cool breeze and get up early to go for a walk or run or even this evening to do these things, these are things we have not been able to do with all of the heat and humidity. >> can i say it again: um. >> there you go. >> already. >> that is sound effect we need. we will display that and

everyone will know it is a beautiful day because it is gorgeous outside. question is how long will it last? it has been a rough august. we started off on a nice note and then everything went downhill with the heat wave. now we're sitting receipt i but it will steam up again. let show you beautiful shot to this evening, looking live from the camden side toward ben franklin bridge and of course sky line of philadelphia look at those sun off the water just a gorgeous, panoramic view of the city, river, camden waterfront. it is a beautiful evening outside even stuck in traffic maybe heading over bridge or home from work everyone is enjoying the sunshine on their shoulders, have sun roof opened, hughes i can turned up this evening. what a great day. weather watchers loving it as they to, take a look at some numbers, mostly spots are in their 80's. we are at 80 degrees north of the city. checking in with barbara lane in willow grove. she's looking at sunshine 80 degrees and says dew point

is 54-degree dew point not a lot of humidity in the atmosphere, dew point measures moisture contend in the air and in the 50's that is when things are good. thirty-eight at walter's house in newark, delaware. he said this is best day to walk outside, in weeks. totally concur with that, walter. what a perfect day. barely sweating outside today. eighty-one in the home of margot cimans, low humidity, clear skies, dew .58 equals awesome weather day. could not agree more. photos from weather watchers shows sunshine today, we have horses, we have blue skies, we have sun, through the trees this morning from phil, just a great day across the game, it started out nice and ending on a nice note as well. tomorrow will be flight but warmer than today. lets look at our live neighborhood network camera here's palmyra cove showing river, blue skies in the background up in the poconos up toward pocono region in byrneville at junior/senior school at 79 degrees without a cloud in the sky and west of

the city all the way out in berks county near reading the whitefield elementary school camera where it is 81 and looking g high pressure is in control. you can picture where high is. we will get clockwise circulation. picture it right about here and note this spin of cloud around the periphery of that high. eventually the system that you see here over country's midsection will permeate that dome of high pressure and that is our next chance for showers and storms. tomorrow is completely try daze full day of sunshine. cloud increase over ohio valley. cloud will increase a bit thursday, most of thursday is dry, thursday night into friday morning an area of showers will pass through along warm front and chance for afternoon thunder storm along the cold front and that is later friday afternoon. humidity will ramp up as well. tomorrow very pleasant, from the green, thursday not bad but friday it starts to turn steamy and back to the 90's and then that front sweeps through with the thunderstorm and back to the not bad range to start weekend on saturday. town the shore looking good,

sunny again, nice and warm. 80 degrees. water temperature about 75. uv index is nine. water temperature at or above average in most of the shore towns. sandy hook current water temperature 80. cape hey's water temperature 74 which is a degree above average. overnight clear, comfortable, 50's in the suburbs. sixty-five overnight the low in philadelphia. for your wednesday mostly sunny pleasantly warm at 86. eyewitness weather seven day forecast not looking too bad we're talking about temperatures in the 80's for next few days. friday only day in the 90's and back to the 80's for weekend. chance of the thunderstorm on hon, late next week we will have to keep an eye on tropical moisture coming up at 6:00 we will look closer at tropics and tell you which systems could indirectly impact us. for now, back to you. >> kate, thanks very much. it is that time of the year again. today temple university students check into their new home. >> annual tradition on north broad street, "eyewitness news" outside johnson and

hardwick halls as student unloaded their cars for a move in day. more than 5,000 students are moving into the university housing this week. the fall semester starts next monday. it is here. >> yes. >> game on. >> still ahead on "eyewitness news", final five go to hollywood. >> how gold medal gymna

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forbes which tracks the mega richest mate that gates net worth is at a mere $78.7 billion. america's sweetheart the final five olympic gymnast have landed stateside. >> insider debbie joins us from los angeles with more on that, debbie. >> reporter: ukee and jessica rio's gold medal girls are clearly enjoying their new found celebrity status and even in the shadow of lochte gate. they have still managed to out shine the controversy. >> we're with each other the whole time. we were at the beach. we were in our own little world. >> everyone is just watching, you know, my immature antics, and i'm just embarrassed. >> we really didn't know. >> reporter: like true olympic champions and gymnast when rio went low they stayed high. >> look at that. >> reporter: the final five were still on top of the world

literally. >> relishing in their gold medal home coming at empire state building. >> competing was most precious and now we can relax. >> reporter: relax ago this simone biles has five shiny medals to show for her first olympic experience. the 19 year-old allowed fans to be part of her journey. >> we're back. >> reporter: social media star snap chatted her way through brazil and now she's documented her new normal back on u.s. soil. >> it is different. i still dent think about it. we wake up and we do whatever our daily lives but it is different, it is a new thing. >> we will have so much more tonight on the insider, ukee and jessica back to you in the studio. >> all right. thanks very much. get your hollywood news tonight and every week night at 7:30 by watching up siderite here on cbs-3. that will do it for "eyewitness news" at 5:00. now at 6:00. >> reporter: after learning details about how a two-year old was pun topped death victim's family speaks out, i'm cleve bryan coming up what

they say punishment should be for his allege killer. also a family's joy, their loved one was behind bars for 25 years and then he was retried and today was found not guilty. why this man was given a second chance and what evidence set him free. how a local university and colleges handling students safety? i'm joe holden. u.s. senator pressed that question to perhaps ease parents mind. >> what do you want people to know about dreams. >> they can come true, if you put your mind to them. >> reporter: he is just nine years old and wise beyond his years this little boy marking a milestone tonight, it is one year since he received a, double hand transplant so how is zion doing today? we will show you. "eyewitness news" starts right now.

new information tonight in the murder of a toddler, prosecutors in south jersey say that this man killed a two-year old after getting into a tight with the boy's mother over groceries. the suspect is now behind bars after a court appearance. good evening i'm ukee washington. i'm jessica dean. we are hearing tonight from the family of that toddler, they are just beginning to deal with this loss. "eyewitness news" reporter cleve bryan spoke with them and he is live in camden, cleve. >> reporter: jessica, typically at rain. the is a short court proceeding but today was jammed packed with new information about the violence that led to the two-year old's death. >> i just love him. i will see you one day. >> reporter: family of two-year old jameil baskerville, junior were full of raw emotion after learning details about how the boy was allegedly punched to death by his mother's boyfriend. >> you are less of a man to sit there and put your hand on any type of child no matter what age he is. he was two years old. there is no reason you should want to hit