to be a complete lost, take a look at damage. bye many including one man who barely escaped with his life say they are just saying prayers of gratitude. as flames erupted inside of the historic church near 65th and land down avenue. >> i got out of the shower, and, could not see a thing. >> i could not breathe crawling down the hall way, you know, i guess it is because they would make it up for a second. >> reporter: good shepherd presbyterian church said he was on the third floor at the time and crawled out of the window to the roof. >> thank god for these guys who took me down the ladder. >> and shots neighbors, more than 120 fire fighters and rescue crews, put out a blaze monday morning. >> which officials believe started in the basement and then quickly spread collapsing

part of the have roof. >> only a couple minutes for the whole church to go up. total disaster. it looks like a disaster. inside is all gutted. >> reporter: good shepherd presbyterian church and five other congregation that is worshiped here will have to find a new home, coming up we will tell what you this church meant to the community, and as it was offering to help. for now, we're live in overbrook anita oh for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". a driver returned after crashing into dutch neck presbyterian church in west windsor township mercer county. it happened shortly after 1:00 0 block of south mill road. no one inside was hurt, authorities are checking to see if the building's

structure integrity has been compromised. we are hearing from the father of the man punched in the face in philadelphia's lawncrest neighborhood and late are died as a result. the incident was caught on video, victim was hit, then fell and hit his head on adams avenue on friday. he died over the weekend. "eyewitness news" reporter rahel solomon spoke with the victim's brother and she's live at police headquarters, rahel. >> reporter: jessica, medical examiner just today ruling this death a homicide saying victim died of blunt force trauma to the head, as for motive detectives say it appears there was no motive, appears to be random. video is disturbing, reason behind the attack, perhaps, horrifying. >> he all of a sudden just, without any notice throws a punch and clear that the victim never saw it coming. >> reporter: investigators say seemingly random unprovoked attack happened on the 700 block of adam avenue in the lawncrest section in the northeast. victim was 30 year-old and he

and his brother have been in the u.s. for eight years from quad mal a. >> he hit my brother. i never seen anything like it. >> reporter: victim's brother who says he ace frayed to show his face while attacker are still out there said his brot wore work landscaping jobs and while they had very little here, they did have each other. >> reporter: police say it was just this one sucker punch to the head that killed the man, he stumbled, hit the ground and the group not even waiting a a moment, runs away. detectives are looking into whether this brutal attack could be part of the knock out game where people are unsuspectingly punched or hit on the street. >> it is certainly a possibility but regardless of what the motivation is, it is still, a pretty scary crime that some person could be walking town the street and be approached and punched for no reason and then killed. >> reporter: looking at that

video you see three males. detective believe they are between 16 to 20 years old. here's the thing, we only see one person make that punch and take that punch and officials this evening are urging other two heals to come forward and make this easier on themselves is. reporting from police headquarters, rahel sol machine for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". we are following some breaking news, multiple people have been shot in egg harbor township. >> we want to get to "eyewitness news" reporter trang do for break goatee tails, trang? >> reporter: ukee, we have learn that there are five total victims one dead, take a look at this scene here, a wawa parking lot, troopers, egg harbor township police have taken over this section of the wawa parking lot here where suv involved remains park. very disturbing site, i will warn you here, you can see rare passenger side window is shot out as well as that back rear tire, front windshield is now cracked. here's what we know state police and egg harbor police

responded here on tilt on road in egg harbor township just off exit number nine on the ac expressway. people say that police rather say they are believed to be involved in some kind of a shooting incident near mile marker 7a on the garden state parkway. they say four injured people drove to the wawa in the bullet riddled suv, witnesses say they received medical treatment before being taken from ambulances at the a same time troopers also responded to a car, northbound, garden state parkway, that the reports of an injured person, and at this time police are trying to determine if those two incident are related, for latest, police hoping to show up here and get us more information and we will bring you that at the top of the 6:00. for now we are live in egg harbor township new jersey, trang do for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". in other naus police are investigating a shoot-out that left three teenage boys hurt in grays ferry overnight. it happened after midnight at 27th and tasker. police say evidence left at the scene suggest that two

groups exchanged gunfire. when it ended a 16 and 17 year-old was shot in the leg. another 16 year-old was shot the in the back. all were taken to local hospitals in stable condition. authorities hope that surveillance video nearby will help lead them to any suspects. we have no description of the shooter or shooters at this time. just one of the shooters, may have been in an older model, white, vehicle, and nissan last seen traveling, west on castor from 27th. >> the authorities are also looking into whether the teenagers were targeted or innocent bystanders. authorities in increased reward for any information for the shooting death of an eight year-old girl. gabriel hill-carter died after she was hit by gunfire near her home on the 900 block have of south eighth street last wednesday night. camden authorities and the citizens crime commission of delaware valley are now offering, $70,000, for information, for those gunman. gene wilder star of the

1971 children's classic willie won contact and chocolate factory has died. family members say actor and writer passed away last night in stanford connecticut from complication from his alzheimer's disease. wilder was known for his rolls in films like young franken stein and mel brooks comedy blazing saddles. gene wilder was 83 years old. >> italy's government will hold a state funeral for many of the 290 earthquake victims in amatrice the town hardest hit by the quake. the decision comes after earthquake survivors expressed their anger over a plan to hold the funeral, and airport hanger, 40 whiles from amatrice. at least 223 of the earthquake victims are from the small medieval town. and a memorial mass was held today in jackson, mississippi for two nuns, stabbed to death in their home last thursday.

women both 68 years of age worked at a health care clinic, for the poor and led bible study at a church. killings shocked people in the small communities where women committed their lives to helping the poor. police say the 46 year-old rodney earl sanders confessed to the killing. the national transportation safety board is working to determine the cause of a serious incident involving a southwest airlines jet. flight 3472 from new orleans to orlando divert todd pensacola after the front part of engine number one, left the airplane in flight. it then struck the fuselage creating a hole and decompression of the cabin. the passengers and aviation expert are praise ago this crew for happening the plane safely. >> being at cruise altitude, we have altitude, we have sometime and gives some options, so they would have sometime to work through this problem until it was successfully completed and they would have had a lot of altitude that they can use to reach an airport even if, the engine failure had required

them to descend. >> none of the 99 passengers or five crew members was injury. united airline pilots are due in the scottish courtroom to face charges of intoxication. thirty-five year-old paul brady, and 45 year-old carlos in a cone owe was arrested shortly before their transatlantic flight was scheduled to take off from the airport. they are accused of being drunk as they prepared to fly 141 passengers from scotland to new jersey on saturday. captured on camera panicked travelers running for safety at los angeles international airport. false report of gunfire sent people for the exits last night. it happened right after officers with weapons, drawn detained a man dressed as fictional crime fighter zorrow, five terminals were shut down. 280 flights were delayed by this false alarm and 27 planes were divert todd other airports. no one was injury in the panic. as concerns about the spread of the zika a virus continue to grow, several of the nation's most popular

theme parks are often protections. walt disney world, universal orlando resort and sea world orlando are now roving mosquito spray and lotions free of charge to park visitors as a precaution. no mosquito transmitted case of zika has been found in central florida. shortage of school bus drivers has one area school district scrambling just days before the start of class. that is still coming up on "eyewitness news" at 5:00. also ahead 49ers quarterback colin kaepernick is on the receiving end of criticism for refusing to stand during the national anthem. now an eagles rookie says he plans to sit out as well, that is coming up. but first what would it be like to live on mars? six scientists found out, well, kind of, sort of, they just wrapped up a year on living on a mock mars, right here on earth. see what they have learn from that unique mission. hundreds of reindeer suddenly die, we will tell you what is behind this strange event. the tropics are heating

up, we now have have three tropical systems to keep an eye on i'll let you know what impact we can expect in the

a mock mission, to mars, has just ended and it could reveal what it would be like to live on the red planet. nasa is preparing for potential mission to mars in the 2030's. >> a very excited crowd gathered sunday in hawaii to welcome home the six person crew back to earth, after they spent a year, on mars or more accurately after they simulated living a year on mars. they have actually been spending all of their time in the solar powered dome on the side of the volcano in hawaii as part of the nasa funded program high seas. >> it is really exciting to be able to, you know, welcome the crew back to earth. >> reporter: last august the group including an architect astros biologist and aerospace engineer came from across the

globe to live in the nearly 1500 square foot dome. over next 12 months they had limited food, water and used a computer with at least a 20 minute delay to communicate with the outside world. >> it is the first time we get to be out side and everything is different. >> reporter: it the is fourth, longest time high seas has performed this type of mission. >> mission to mars will be a complex system of systems. >> reporter: kim is principal investigator of the project. >> some systems will be technological and human and just as bad as human part of the system fails then if the rocket blows up. >> reporter: crew is optimistic about travel to mars. they said they would make the trip themselves if they could. >> i can give you my personal impression, which is that, you know, everything in the this picture is realistic. >> reporter: this mock mars simulation was second longest of its kind, after a similar

one in russia that lasted 520 days. mother nature kills hundreds of reindeer in central norway. wild life officials say power fall lightening is responsible for an unusual natural disaster. animal was a cross the mountainous area. officials say reindeer tend to stay close together in bad weather which explains why so many were killed at the same time. new orleans is remembering the devastation caused by hurricane katrina, 11 years after that storm. cities mayor took part in the prayer service in honor of the victims. contact rena made land fall august 29th, 2005. it killed 1800 people and displayeded more than one hill in the gulf region. >> lauren casey joins with us our forecast. i was at union league of

torresdale golf club for an event for holy family, absolutely beautiful. >> beautiful. >> yes, very nice. the sunshine, yes. >> beautiful way to cap off august. humidity not too bad. as we head in the next couple of days we are going to keep those temperatures on theuple toasty side but humidity levels will remain in check. the brutally humid but maybe noticeably muggy but as we head into wednesday, it will creep backup before we get a big cool down as we head into the start of september but certainly warm right now, place to be is, down the shore, obviously, check in on our live neighborhood network looking at margate right now, the scene is, popular with people enjoying the water, water temperature now up in the middle 70's and want to take a dip with these numbers, and getting a live look at center city philadelphia. 93 degrees right now, we have a northerly win, that is ushering in slightly dryer air for our feels like temperature, it is not too bad, 1 degree warmer feeling like 94 and dew points to tell

us about that sticky factor dew points are around the 60-degree mark right now in philadelphia, especially points northward, so it is not too brutally humid. our comfort index as we head in the day tomorrow will say not bad to maybe inching up into the steamy category but all together by august standard, not too terribly bad. humidity wise but the temperatures they are definitely toasty along i-95 corridor. 93 degrees in philadelphia a91 in trenton. even down the shore with the lack of the sea breezing go to 86 in stone harbor. 88 degrees in cape may. overnight tonight, still mild and running above average, mostly clear, 68 degrees for our day tomorrow. 89 degrees, mostly sunny. a repeat of what we had today but not quite as warm. storm scan three showing us quiet conditions, just a a few of those cumulus clouds but much more activity looking off to the south, this is tropical storm depression number eight, and rainfall, and breezy conditions, to the outer banks of the north carolina but we

will need a closer watch for this system over cuba this is tropical deprecious nan and hurricane hunters flying over this finding peak wind speeds of 36 miles an hour, 39 would make it a tropical storm. it will likely strengthen to tropical storm status as we head into the day tomorrow. next name is hermine. you can see that track moving off to the northwest and northeast now crossing the florida peninsula on thursday potentially as a strong tropical storm. if you do have vacation storms, friend, family in this area keep a close eye on the track of tropical depression number nine. only impact we will see here in the delaware valley are indirect with these tropical systems. we have a moderate risk for rip currents down the shore and that will be all throughout the week. keep that in mind it will be a good day to be at the shore tomorrow great beach day mostly sunny, 82 degrees, sunshine and poconos 79 degrees but with those rip currents be sure to swim with the life garden joying a nice vacation week leading up into

the labor day holiday, chance of a thunderstorm mainly wednesday night and early thursday, morning as a cold front moves through the area and will bring us lower humidity values and beautiful conditions, check that out, friday, sat the day, sunday even monday it is a little hard to say but it is shaping up pretty nice. >> that looks good. >> you have a strange looking cloud and understand why it may have scared some people. it was spotted over the weekend. over the weekend in siberia. emergency services were flooded with calls, residents worried it was a mushroom included from a nuclear explosion but thankfully it was identified as a harmless cloud. have you ever seen that. >> it is a angle of a thunderstorm. >> wow, expert. >> bingo. >> expert solved. >> well, if you have ever lifted your child's backpack, and new a at 5:30 we will take you backpack shopping, see which ones can help lighten

the load for your students. an eagle says he would like to join colin kaepernick and sit out national anthem for the game on thursday but will he do it. will we see quarterback carson wentz playing in the final game? we will hear from head coach

after saturday's game with the colts doug pederson said that carson went may be able to play in the final preseason game. today he is going to take that back. carson went suffered a rib injury in the first game of the preseason forcing him to miss week two and three. he was seen working out before the game saturday looking good, giving fans hope he would be ready real soon. doug pederson says he is no the quite 100 per event. >> just got word he had a ct scan done and came back and he had the two ribs there so the tenth one is completely healed, the 11th one still shows 60 percent.

there is still some injury there. he is 60 percent with that rib, probably not. >> colin kaepernick made headlines this weekend after refusing to stand for national anthem, now eagles rookie linebacker mike tarvarez plans on sitting. like kaepernick he believes this is way to show he does not approve how minorities are treated here in the states but late this afternoon published reports say he has change his mind and he will stand because, according to his agent, he does not want to be a distraction. phillies back home to start three game series, nl east leading nationals, 22-year old jake thompson on the mound for the phillies. hey, philadelphia soul is finalizing details on festivities following that arena bowl championship, spokesperson says that the fans can count on some kind of, celebration outside city hall at noon. we will bring you final details once we know from the team. >> so happy for jaws. >> yes. >> time to celebrate. >> yes. >> absolutely. >> great job. >> thanks, leslie. >> appreciate it. area school districts are

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huma abedin a top aid to hillary clinton is calling it quits her husband anthony weiner. former congressman is accused in another sexing scandal. abedin announced the separation after the new york post published lewd photos of her husband that he had sent to an admirer. "eyewitness news" continues at 5:30. hello i'm ukee washington. i'm jessica dean. thinks third sexting scandal for weiner. sexting lines with anthony weiner was front page news in the new york post. it claims to have text and photos of former new york congressman sent a woman who is not his wife last year. one photo shows him in his underwear with his toddler next to him. the toddler's mother is huma abedin, top aid to hillary clinton n a statement she says quote after long, painful consideration, and work on my marriage, i have made the decision to separate from my husband. weiner has not yet commented and deleted his twitter account, this is his third public sexting scandal.

>> i'm ashamed of my terrible judgment and actions. >> reporter: after the first one weiner reined from congress. second happened during his campaign for new york city mayor. >> i have forgiven him. i believe in him. >> reporter: donald trump weighed in after the news broke in a statement to the new york times trump praises abedin's choice to separate but who knows what he learned and who he told. just another example of hillary clinton's bad judgment. trump has tried to tie abedin's marriage to clinton's judgment before. >> it is a stretch to think to try to do that but he has been trying to do thanes will continue to do that. how this will rest mate with the average american remain to be seen. >> reporter: abedin has men clinton for two decades and worked with her for more than 15 years. several news organizations say that they used, for politically commentary have cut their ties with him. we are a little more than two months away from the presidential election. voters are across the nation and will head to the polls in just 70 days. but tonight the fbi is keeping

close ties on this election cycle. federal authorities are investigating whether hackers gained private information, from registered voters, in two states. this is as donald trump and hillary clinton both pushed their campaigns in over drive. correspondent weijia jiang has more from the white house. >> they won't tell. >> reporter: donald trump is preparing a speech wednesday, as planned. he is recently softened language about deporting the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the u.s. >> i think that he has been very clear on this. we're not going to have amnesty. what we are a's going to do is get those breaking the law out of the country as quickly as possible. >> reporter: hillary clinton is fun raising in insuring but last week she says trump has a history of discrimination. >> i think we all remember when trump said a distinguished federal judge in indiana could not be trusted to do his job because quote, he is a mexican. >> reporter: trump has said several times if he loses, it

will be because the election is rigged. now the fbi is investigating foreign hackers who breached election databases in arizona and illinois. fbi issued a flash bulletin warning one state was breached in july, other one earlier this month. now fbi is requesting each state check voter databases. michael isocough broke the story for yahoo and talk to cbsn monday. >> in the case of the illinois which is more serious one there was theft of data about up to 200,000 voters. >> reporter: illinois board of elections confirms hackers took some voter information including addresses and partial security numbers but they have increased security measures. weijia jiang for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". new hillary clinton campaign offices have opened in pennsylvania, the chester delaware county office opened saturday, an office in bethlehem opens up at 6:30 tonight.

organizers and volunteers are working to get 3 million registered or committed to vote for clinton ahead of the november election. a center city parking garage gets a make over and ceremony was held today to show off the new fat it is. ribbon cutting mark special occasion as the park garage at eighth and market was reopened today. mayor jim kenney was there for the event and said improved garage is part of the continued effort to revitalize the market east commercial district. >> this parking garage will help modernize commercial district and make the area more attractive to businesses as we move forward with the highly anticipated renovations of the gallery at jefferson station. >> project which also involved the renovation of the building complex on eighth street cost 33 million-dollar, the officials are hoping to improve the business district, and, create more jobs, as well. delaware school districts are struggling to find shuttle drivers to take school and from will school. shortage means some students may not get to school on time,

and some low income children eat breakfast at school could miss their first meal of the day. >> a public meeting tonight in horsham montgomery county will focus on the communities on going the water contamination issues. public and private wells in the montgomery and bucks county of been shut down because of the possible contamination linked to military bases. horsham township council state representative and experts will all be on hand, the doors opened up at 5:30 tonight at hatboro horsham high school. well, the list, of the top party schools in the country is out, and one local college made top five. we will tell you which one coming up. after an outcry of sit cyst many, epi-pen will come in the form of much less expensive device. find out when this generic version will be available. advice for parents as kid head back to school there is a lot more to backpacks then you might think we will show you thousand shop for best ones and how to make sure they are not too heavy and can cause backaches. lauren.

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updating our breaking news from earlier police are investigating a deadly shooting in egg harbor township where we're told that at least five people were shot in two locations, one of those victims has died. police are looking into whether a shooting victim on the garden state parkway connect with multiple victims in the vehicle that ended up in a wawa convenient store parking lot nearby.

trang do is awaiting a a news conference from police and we will bring you a live report at 6:00. following intense criticism, maker of the life saving treatment will offer a genetic version of its epi-pen. mylan announced it is u.s. subsidiary will put out a generic version of the epi-pen that will have a list price of $300 for two pack. the it will be available in 0.15 and 0.30 strength. fit bit is targeting swimmers with would be of its new devices, company added swim fu flex two, to its tracker line up. model is sleeker then previous versions and you can leave it on for lapse in the pool or while taking a shower. facebook ceo mark zuckerberg gave pope francis a drone when he a and his wife visited the vatican today. he posted this picture on his personal facebook page. suck areberg hopes solar powered drone will leave expansion to internet access to developing countries.

vatican spokesmen says pair discussed how to have communication technology to alleviate poverty. a little girl's broadway sound rendition of the popular kids's song has exploded on social media. >> ♪ >> that is the alphabet song being sung by two-year old violet ojeer. her mom posted it about a week ago and since then it has gotten over 3 million views. >> he has the hand down. you were an expert. you have the the mouth moving the right way. >> look at that posture. >> i love it. >> yes. >> i love it. you go, girl. coming up which area college made top five list of party schools.

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princeton review is out with the best list of the party school. >> copying list university of wisconsin madison, west virginia university was second, followed by the university of illinois, and urbana champagne. two pennsylvania schools made the top five, lehigh fourth and bucknell in fifth. well, mtv video muse ache ward continue to get a lot of

buzz and remains top trending topic today. >> insider louie agear joins us from los angeles with the best moments from last night's show. >> it would not be vma's without news makers, shockers and show stoppers. >> ♪ >> first, on fire beyonce... can only be described in one word: hot. she played her lemonade album into one flawless 16 minute performance. and win our a ward for most amazing collaboration, that coordinating fashion were four year-old daughter blue ivy was, everything. >> beyonce showed up with the best accessory in toe, blue ivy in a mishka dress, this wasn't a dress from your local gap kid, this was a $4,000 dress. >> slipping out of her sleek to show more skin in the

glittering yellow jump suit. while she looked amazing social media was quick to make a harsh comparison. >> some people were making comparison to brittany's on stage look to borat swimsuit but brittany was wearing a strategic body suit to show off her amazing figure and she rocked it. >> reporter: she rocked it with her guest rapper geezy and it looks like he tried to go in for a kiss and was deneed. >> is there any surprises tonight. >> i might have something up his belt, but you never know. >> we will have more on this story tonight on the insider, ukee and jessica, back to you. so many thoughts on all of. that get your hollywood news tonight and every week night at 7:30 right here on cbs-3. >> we all went, boom, blue ivy, $14,000. >> yes, not helping around with that dress. >> no, she was not. >> our forecast now. >> beautiful day. >> beautiful day today.

temperatures toasty but humidity not too bad. we have been on a nice sunny stretch. you might have noticed your lawn looking crispy and we have pretty minimal rain chances over next several days and in rain on the scene right now as we get a live look at... i'm not sure, i thought it was ocean city. the art museum, there we go, so hard to see in the monitor. a live look at the art museum, beautiful conditions, sunshine in the scene there and it was a nice sunny day after a nice sunny weekend but temperatures they are toasty and our weather watchers are noticing that right now. we will check in with their current conditions, right now and a lot of 90's, upper 80's as well, we will check in, with 88 degrees right now. close to norristown, pennsylvania, our weather watchers david is supporting sunny skies. he has commentary 88 degrees, clear, beautiful beach day, fine late august weather, geese, thanks david. and as we take a look at

another weather watcher report we will go down this delaware. 91 degrees reported by our weather watcher walter and reporting partly sunny conditions, 91 degrees and a beautiful blue sky conditions. they have been in effect over last several days and humidity levels that have been on the more comfortable side. throughout the weekend we had toasty temperatures but wasn't all too steamy, not a steam bath and as we head this is day tomorrow in the bad on our comfort index but you as we head into wednesday, dew points do creep up once again before dropping back down on the back side of the cold front into thursday and feeling great by week's end with low dew points but yes, toasty heading out to the bank taking on fightin phillies for first pitch mostly sunny skies, warm 87 degrees. temperature overnight tonight still very mild. eighty's. ac running. mostly clear. as we head in the day tomorrow temperatures dropping backup once again 89 degrees under mostly sunny skies.

kind of the of the repeat pattern of just a lot of sunshine. storm scan three showing us trend all across the region which is a bunch of nothing with high pressure in control. again tomorrow we will see mostly sunny conditions, before cold front does drop in as we head, wednesday night mainly we could see a thunderstorm popping up by wednesday after afternoon. but the best chance to see some shower or thunderstorm activity will be in the morning hours, on thursday, and before skies clear out and temperatures, turn a bit cooler as we head into thursday, but certainly not cool right now, very active and hot in the tropic, hurricane gaston a major hurricane at this point looking impressive on the satellite imagery. this will stay out to sea. good news there but i focus on tropical depression number nine, likely a tropical storm as we head into tomorrow. tropical depression number eight likely also to be a tropical storm but it is only going to have minor impacts as far as east cozies concerned as far as rainfall and wind speeds but larger swells due to these tropical systems off

shore, so watch out for wave heights down the shore, really throughout the week and strong rip currents. we have had one fatality due to rip currents so far this season in ocean county. be sure to swim near life guard and it will be beautiful shore weather tomorrow. mostly sunny great beach day looking good as well sunshine pleasant with a high of 79 degrees. we're steamy briefly into wednesday with the chance of the late day storm, morning thunder shower possible on thursday and then into friday and saturday, beautiful conditions, low humidity, sunshine and high temperatures right around 80 degrees, perfection. >> all right, lauren thanks. on the healthwatch with students headed back to school many are geared up with backpacks but a growing number of students are getting injuries from those heavy backpacks. >> health reporter stephanie stahl has advice from doctors to keep your children safe. >> time to head back. >> can you believe it. >> here we go. >> backpacks can weigh 20 or 30-pound if they are packed with books and say a drink. for smaller, young are students those hefty backpacks

can be dangerous. pass experts say there are easier ways to make them safe. nine year-old jackson montgomery is ready to start fifth grade with the new backpack. >> there is no doubt once you put in even the lunch things and all of the other things not even talking about heavy books that they are carrying decent weight. >> reporter: this is designed to care more weight and evenly distributed. the bag has more straps and compartments, about 5400 kid are treated each year for backpack injuries. many of them sprains and strains to the shoulder or lower back. pediatrician parise, recommend kids avoid messengers backs, use a bag with two wide padded straps to distribute the load and make sure that the bag isn't too heavy. >> take the child's weight and do 10 percent or less if you can. it is usually hard but a good approximation. >> reporter: american academy of pediatrics suggest adjusting backpack so that the bottom sits at the waist and packing it properly. >> if you have heavy item try

center of the backpack, pack it the in the lower part of the backpack because it distributes the weight. >> reporter: jackson loves his new backpack. >> it kind of help me in school or big books, carry back and forth for the. >> reporter: using one he and his dad feel good about. now, experts say kids who have to carry a lot of books might want to consider a backpack that has wheels so you can roll it. that is not popular all the time. other thing is how about more work on computers. >> yes. >> you don't to have hall all stay stuff around. >> back in the day we had 12 books on our hipps, uphill, both ways. >> no shoes. >> right there. >> yes. >> backpack. >> anyway. >> thanks, stephanie, good stuff. well, a escape roomies a new fad, popping up all over the place. >> tori found one just for kid. see how students are using their math skills to solve a puzzle, and escape. be r

well, mathis one of those subjects that can be especially tough challenge for some children. >> our vittoria woodill a has mere on a effort to make it easier to learn. >> reporter: math, is one of the things intimidating sort of like an escape room, finding your way out of the dark room and solving a math problem entails a set of steps to take. sometimes you do not the always know your way, so the take of the fear out of numbers one new jersey mom dude air and math wizard is cracking code with success on numbers. >> it is not a one way street. so many ways to get to the stop. you just to have find your

way. >> reporter: kit wong is engineer and founder of math accelerator in moorestown, new jersey where funnies her focus. >> i had a chance to talk to kit, listened to her story about how she was building on their foundations, and how she was trying to help them logically work through problem and build their confidence. i just knew exactly this was place i needed to bring them. >> reporter: her passion for numbers stemming from the benefits of the book that she learned as a child in china my mom would say if you can keep within the budget, you can get a reward each day. every day i would come up with better strategy how not to spend money. >> reporter: continuing to reap through rewards with working through mothers this author and mom developed a way of learning where logic is key. >> i teach them techniques and logic behind the table so they can just take that and learn the table without any stress. >> reporter: this lesson leading to offering an escape room to students where challenges force you to think outside the box. >> everything looks so much more complicated then it is.

but all i have to do is just arrange it and it went from very complicate todd very simple. >> it makes groups of ten, easier to count up. >> reporter: her daughter amanda an eight year-old not afraid of big bad numbers or escape room helped me learn tricks for escaping with ease. >> i got one. >> we did it. >> yes. >> i went in feeling nervous but less feeling like math wasn't anything to run from. in the einstein health care science center i'm vittoria woodill cbs-3 "eyewitness news". that is "eyewitness news" at 5:00. now at 6:00 latest on the breaking news, deadly shooting in south injuries that i ended with a vehicle pulling in the wawa parking lot riddled with bullets. we have new information. also a church in west philadelphia is the destroyed by flames and those inside, barely escaped with their lives. tonight, church members are vowing to rebuild the

sanctuary that was a pillar in their community. lauren. we have been on the sunny hot streak but we do need rain but we are running in the deficit when can we expect our next chance of storms i'll have answer in the full forecast, coming up. a snake seen on the beach in avalon coming up will experts think that it was doing here. at 6:00 o'clock we have breaking news to start a shooting on the south jersey highway, end with at least one person dead and a bullet, riddled suv in a wawa parking lot. police say victims drove to the convenient store after the shooting to find help. was ways on tilt on road in egg harbor township atlantic county and that where we will find "eyewitness news" reporter trang do with new information. >> reporter: that is right state police tell thrust are five total victims four people

hurt one person dead. police put us back off the scene here. this is a wider section of the wawa parking lot where that suv involved in the shooting remains in bullet holes and damage. you can see they are processing that vehicle will right the now. but here's what we know so far. state police in egg harbor township police responded to the wawa parking lot on tilt on road off exit nine on the ac expressway. they said four injured people drove here in the bullet riddled suv. group was involve in the shooting on the highway. witnesses say people in the suv received medical treatment before being taken away in ambulances, at the same time troopers also responded to a koran northbound garden state parkway where they found a deceased person inside, believed to be involved in this same shooting. now people here at the wawa say that they are stun by it it all. >> i'm shock. i come here all hours of the night, two or three or 4:00 in the morning. this is crazy. i have never seen nothing like this before. >> reporter: now taking a look at the that