>> a crash in camden left a trail of destruction and sent two people to the hospital. we'll show you what happened moments before. >> good morning, i'm broke thomas. >> i'm jim donovan. first here is what you need to start your day in the morning minute. >> have you ever seen anything like that before? >> not here, not here, not in this town. >> police say they were involved in a shooting on the eastbound lanes of the atlantic city expressway, near mile marker 11. >> two children are recovering after being shot inside a south philadelphia home. authority believe a 13 year old boy watts playing with a gun when it fired. >> church officials hope to reveal after massive fire gutted their century old church in the overbrook neighborhood. >> the stained glass windows were original. all busted out. >> i'm with me and you'll be ♪ ♪ in a world of pure imagination ♪ >> funeral arrangements have

not been announced yesterday for gene wilder who passed away sunday at the age of 83. >> oh, my god. oh, my god. pull me out. pull me out. i'm on fire. >> and that was stephen colbert spoofing beyonce red hot performance at the mtv, vma. >> listen, i know with him nobody is safe. but you don't mess with beyonce. that wasn't funny. but speaking of red hot, it wasn't fun. >> i okay, well, i'm not commenting. >> speaking of red hot, katie, will we be breaking 09 degrees today? >> i don't think we'll quite get there. we'll flirt with it for sure. but thankfully not terribly humid outside. actually real comfortable right now on the skydeck, really everywhere else, a lot of dew point currently even at most into the low 60s, so really comfortable. actually in the 50's on the dew point here in philly. but, this is certainly going have been very warm month,

looks like warm end to the month of august as well, out to the graphics. let's look what this month in review is looking like thus far. ' we officially will be wrapping it up in a day or two. precipitation has been below average by over an inch and a half. so, we could use some of that moisture right now. but look at the temperature. 4.3 degrees, above average for the entire month. and, again, we still have two more days of data to add to this. regardless, highest temperature flirting with 100, and the lowest we got was 62 degrees, that was actually the coolest it had been since june. so, quite warm lately, storm scan3, very tranquil, it stays that way today, courtesy of high pressure, at the moment, you have got temperatures all over the place, you have got 70s in the city. 60s at the shore, 50's, even in the mountains. so, it is a really comfortable start to the day. if you have got the time, and the innocent, you want to roll out of bed, maybe stick your coffee on the porch, why not. it will be really refreshing start to the day for you that way. meanwhile, sun will shine all

afternoon, and that's going to heat things up here. so 89 the event ooh hi, by 7:00 p.m. phillies about ready for first pitch, 82 degrees, still in the sunshine, but, we will see some hiccups in this forecast down the road. we mention that warm end to august. potential for some additional thunderstorms a the week progresses, which we'll discuss later in the show, but also, we've got three separate systems in the tropics, that do have at least a indirect impact on our area. so, we will discuss that, in more detail, as we said, as the show goes on. for now, meisha, a we send it into you. >> katie, thank you so much. looking outside, guys, good morning, happy tuesday. new jersey, 42 freeway northbound creek road, just what you are looking at here, certainly, starting to heat up, far cry from what we saw 25, 30 minute ago. so, a lot of vehicles hitting rodeway inn new jersey, moving in the northbound direct, creek road, approaching 295, you might want to give yourself just couple of interest extra minute. schuylkill headlight eastbound direction, before the blue route, you can see, both moving in the eastbound and westbound side. actually looking okay,

starting to just pick up our pace, just little bit. exactly what happened, same time frame as we were dealing with yesterday on a monday, we can expect that on a monday and tuesday. lots, some construction in new jersey for pothole repairs, new jersey turnpike northbound the ram top route 322, is closed right now, make note of that. it is supposed to be closed until right around 5:00 a.m. this should be actually picking up sometime shortly. also more construction on the pa turnpike between virginia drive and valley forge, that right lane is block there. plus, weaver an accident, out there swenksville. park avenue closed at pennypack err road balls every downed pole. you will have to use alternate, spring mount road probably your best bet, brooke, jim, back over to you. >> thanks, meisha a we'll update breaking news in camden new jersey when car lost control and destroyed everything in it past. >> this happened near haddon and newtown avenues, just about an hour ago, "eyewitness news" reporter justin finch live at the scene now, where he just spoke to an eyewitness, justin, we've seen some of the is scene video. that car must have been

flying? >> reporter: brooke, jim, good morning, yes, a very gruesome scene here at haddon and newton avenues in camden. just behind me here we have police working to confine and comb through that crime scene. at this hour, here, the vehicle involved is a red chrysler sedan, we are told that a male person who was inside that car was ejected, as you can see, it caused quite a bit of damage going toward the southern side every haddon there this morning. let's take to you some video from just bit earlier, about two armor so, report of speeding car going north on haddon avenue. at some point it did lose control. striking a power pole we're told, another vehicle, then onto a porch there, perhaps you saw the damage there. the impact to that porch is so severe it was clearly disablized by the impact. there are again reports of at least one person who was ejected from that car and thrown toward the area of the poor: we are told he had head

injuries and leg injuries as well. he was quickly returned to cooper hospital. we are hearing at last check that he was in critical condition at this time. we also spoke to a man who says that he heard the impact, and saw the aftermath of this crash. >> crazy, i mean, to think somebody could be moving that fast, that short after distance, you have to think, he made the turn down there, and what do you think? eighty, 100 miles an hour or better to do something like that to a car? he was moving. >> reporter: and that of course is the big concern this morning, why was that driver going so fast on this road leer? it appears he was the only driver. prance if you see on the road there, there is a wide debris field, we saw battery of car door, other car parts, just the underneath, and kept under a hood, scattered, for hundreds of feet, down the road there. again, we do know of at least one person, who was hospitalized, there are report of two at this time. but police here on scene are

telling us they know for sure of one man, who was taken to cooper hospital. this will take quite a bit to clear up. we understand, this is a transportation area for public transit. so, there could be chance that your impact, rather, you could be impacted by this investigation here going on this morning. back into you. >> thank you, justin, to for bringing us up-to-date. >> right now pennsylvania, drug company, in pennsylvania, is working on an experimental vaccine to fight the zika virus. pharmaceuticals, launching clinical trial, testing on 160 adult volunteers. now, if the result work, the company would meet with regulators to discuss further developing the vaccine. puerto rico of course part of us hardest hit by zika virus. >> right now 5:37. in business news this morning, what's new about the new iphone? >> and why stocks of hershey chocolates are down this morning. money watch's jill wagner joins us as always live from the new york stock exchange, good morning, jill. >> reporter: good morning,

brooke, jim. bank stocks led rebounds on wall street, fed hint at another possible interest rate hike. dow gained 107 points, the nasdaq finished 13-point higher. a sweet merger is no more. oreo cookie maker says it will no longer pursue deal to buy hershey who shares fell on the news last week, chocolate maker rejected the latest offer, that potential merger would have created the world's largest chocolate company. >> jay crew connection, like italian cashmere sweaters, pant, available in 16 nordstrom stores there is partnership gives j crew exposure to higher end customers for nordstrom the deal helps differentiate itself from high end rivals. >> first glimpse at apple's newest iphone next week, next big event september 7th in san francisco, apple will likely show off the iphone seven. it is expected to be similar to the iphone six, but with camera upgrade 3d touch home

button and no head phone jacks, apple could also update its watch, brooke, jump. >> thanks, jill, i know jim good with his iphone first generation. >> i'm very happy, thanks. well, happening today, law makers in harrisburg will vote on the confirmation of bruce beamer the governor's nominee to replace attorney general kathleen kane. beamer provided testimony that helped prosecutors convict kane of leaking grand jury testimony, and lying under oath. kane resigned earlier this month, and faces prison time. voters will pick a new attorney general, this november. >> well, golf experts met with people in horsham, montgomery county to talk water. at a public forum, they discussed the health effect water contaminated by chemicals used at the willow grove and john naval air station cents since 2014, 16 public wells, and many private wells, have been shut off in the area. that's because they were tainted with compounds, found in fire fighting foams used at the navy bases. many people said they didn't

feel they heard real answers, though. >> i just don't trust that we're not going to be the next flint michigan, you know, ten years down the line. i don't think that we're getting a straight up answer. and i don't think i trust what they're doing to remediate the situation. >> aside from a houseful of bottled watt their we're getting for free, but how else do we resolve this? are they looking at what impact it is having on what our homes are, and serious health issues that my husband and i both have. >> horsham town cons he'd -- cancel, the congressmen say they're continuing to push for blood testing even though federal health agencies don't think it is necessary. >> well, the controversy continues this morning. over an nfl player's decision not to stands for the national anthem. >> after receiving a lock of backlash, kaepernick getting support from a really big name, and we'll tell how.

>> same day historic church burned down here in philadelphia, another historic church in the state was damaged beyond repair. what officials say is to blame coming up next.

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vaughn ditty combs is taking his skills to the classroom. >> imagine, showing up for your first day of school and purr daddy greets you. remember when he was called puff daddy? >> six years ago, approached the prep charter school about opening the new school. he spent several years making it happen, and even spent his own money on the project. >> you could have a dream to be a doctor, a rapper, an engineer. after you have that dream, then you have to actually open your eyes and handle the reality whatever it will take for you to achieve that dream. >> i mean, this is really really cool. the school currently has about 180 student. it plans to expands to 700 student and go through the 12th grade. >> and i got to tell you, spike lee is backing 49ers quarterback colin kaepernick's decision to sit during the national anthem. the director of simply says it is an american right to protest. >> the same way john, carlo, tommy smith raised their block

gloves fists in mexico, the same muhammad ali refused to fight foreign justice, in a war that was crazy, yes, viet nam war, these are rights americans have. >> kaepernick has saidel not stand during the star spangled banner as protest over race relations in the united state. >> interesting. >> spike lee, our right as americans, so there you have it. >> there you have it. >> you want to talk about weather. >> yes, thank you. i've got the whole weekend off. >> you know, no complaints. >> yep, it is looking so, so lovely in the next couple of days. only few hiccups along the way that we have to discuss, that in the form of some issues at the shore, also couple of showers or thunderstorms, let's get, you know, not going -- >> no. >> let's go on outside. we take you to live look here, at "skycam 3", here, overlooking center city,

beautiful shot here, really, just very, very pleasant beginning to the day. i was just out on skydeck ten minute ago it, feels so, so comfortable outside. which is nice to see at the end of the august, you know? flipping the calendar in the next couple of days already it will be september, already coming up on the holiday weekend, and it really at this point is looking pretty phenominal. let's go ahead, take a look at the eyewitness weather watchers, they're reporting some pretty fantastic conditions right now. you have 70 degrees, this is pretty much the warmest spot that i've got at least of attack, comes in from john in delaware, eventually no winds. further off to the north, couple of cooler spots, let's take you to this one, 57 this morning coming to us from john jenkins, nice clear sky in perkasie. here it is. tough to be a kid back to school when you have got this gorgeous weather outside. not to rub it in or anything, but regardless, yes, if you are head today school, or going to be walking to work, it will feel at least really comfortable to you. then a lot of other markings

here into the 60s, this morning. okay, all kidding aside, let's look what's happening on storm scan. we do have hurricane gaston, actually, radar doesn't cut off. but out in or does cut off out here middle portion of the atlantic, still very, very far away. not going to have any direct impact, but still churning up the surf all the way here, at local shore points, please be very careful your travels do take you to the shore in the next couple of days. heed any watches or flags, anything that you see out there on the beaches. and stay close to the lifeguards. in addition, two separate tropical depressions, those two expected to stay out to sea but will churn up the surf so the rest of the week looking as though it could bring some dangerous rip current. keep in mind, guys, how to spot rip current. you will see what kind of looks like chan i, i'll get it out, channel of choppy water off in the distance. it may be a little bit after different color to the weighter, might see break in the wave pattern, that's how you spot a rip current. if you ever find yourself

stuck in one, swim parallel to the shore, then you will feel yourself get out of the rip current trying to drag you out to sea. and then you can swim back to the shore line. in the meantime, next couple every days, starting to heat up. also turn steamier too specially tomorrow. next cold front eventually crosses will bring in kim of showers or thunderstorms mainly toward night fall and early thursday morning. and then, thursday, rest of it, starts to turn less humid. beautiful friday. phenominal day. keep the theme going into the weekends, low 80s here you go, jim, not bad at all in the sunshine, yes, very comfortable, serving it up just for you, my friend. meisha, a back to you and brooke, as well. >> what about us? >> hey. come on, now, common. thanks, katie. thank you so much. good morning, everyone, hand i tuesday. looking at 422, taillights moving in the eastbound direction, at valley forge, you can see, starting to heat up little bit. but overall, everything is looking like a very typical tuesday. that being said, we do have few accident out there, i'll get to you in just a

momentment just sneak peak at 95 south at cottman, coming around the s curve, see a lot of brakes lights starting to go off now. starting to heat up on interstate 956789 on a tuesday we can expect that. we do have accident here, little more serious, malvern, someone has been eject from the their vehicle, route 29, this is between the pa turnpike and route 202. make note of this. most certainly, there is going to be some flashing light out there. it most certainly is going to slow you down just little bit. so heads up for those every you in the malvern area there. also, another accident, pa turnpike westbound, at king of prussia. big heads up on this, as well, whenever we have flashing lights around 5:30, pushing actually 5:45, 5:49. whatever it is. as we approach 6:00, these are all going to start to slow you down just little bit. also another accident in swenksville. park avenue closed at pennypack err road because every downed pole. you will have to use alternate, spring mount road your best bet. another accident we've been covering in camden, haddon avenue closed at newton avenue. you will have to use alternate here, as well. broadway to ferry back to haddon probably your best bet right now. a lot of accident, but in

terms of the other roadways, actually, looking pretty good this morning, jim, over to you. >> thank you, meisha a former girlfriend of philadelphia district attorney seth williams charge in the connection with tire slashing incident outside of his home. the targeted vehicles make up part of the secure detail for the da's officer. stacey cummings now facing charges, just now hearing about it, even though it happened nine months ago. say sources every williams yams own staff initially handled it. prosecutors delaware county now handling the investigation. unclear if cummings is a city employee. what her status is, the allegations and the apparent admission that is she did this, i'm not really sure what, whether she is unionized employee. >> earlier this month, williams submitted revised financial documents for four years disclosing $160,000 worth of previously undisclosed gifts. well, if you are an

atlantic city casino worker looking for new job, attorney in new york state looking to hire. hosting job fair today from 10:00 to 6:00 p.m. bringing resume to the claring hotel casino hotel. hiring full and part-time jobs. >> historic church in western pennsylvania faces demolition. parts of the roof of what used to be holy trinity roman catholic church in duquesne, came crashing down yesterday afternoon. the long vacant church is in ruins. authorities blame heavy rains over the weekends, now demolition plans are on the fast track for the safety of people who live nearby. >> it was black smoke, it was a rumble sound, and i called the police, and they came up. >> what did you see? >> black smoke and we seen the building fall in. >> the roof came down, all of the rain last night took the roof out, shifted the whole building sideways. >> the red cross has found temporary lodging for 13 adult, and four children, all forced to evacuate their apartment building near the old church. >> well, two workers had to be rescued from bucket truck left

dangling over a river. talk about a bad day on the job. it happened in rhode island yesterday. the truck rolled over, sending the crane and boom curling under a bridge with two workers inside. luckily rescuers pulled them to safety. other than being shaken up, the men did not suffer any injuries. all right, so imagine, you're at the beach, anagoge the nice summer sun, then you decide to get in the water. and see this. a snake. >> that's what some beach-goers down the shore recently saw. the reason that snake may have been there, and just how often snakes hang out at the beach. we'll tell you coming up.

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>> it seems like everyone is trying to get some time in at the shore before summer end. >> including snakes. >> what? >> snakes. guards err snake poking its head out from the sands in avalon. turns out that wasn't the only one. another picture was snapped by a beach goer on the family trip to the same new jersey beach. don't worry, wildlife experts say, it is unusual to see a snake on a beach. i've never seen a snake in the

surf. they're not known to go into salt water. you know, they don't drink salt water. so they're going to hang where the fresh water s only reason they're even on the island going after the food sources. >> they're non-venamous, the gardner snake could have been looking for toads or maybe fish. but he was probably just down there moseying around. >> so, snakes on planes are okay, but snakes on the beach aren't. in the unlikely event you do see a snake, chilling on the beach, experts say, don't touch it, just call animal control, or police. >> you call it a gardner snake. let me tell you, they are all anaconda's to me. >> that's a python coming at you? you will not seabrook on labor day at the beach. >> coming up, the scent every spending r, how retailers could be to your sense of smell in order to get you to open up your wallet. >> nutritious lunch poor for kids to stay energized throughout the school day.

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>> this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news" this morning. >> crazy, when you think somebody could be moving that fast. >> chaos in camden, an eyewitness describing the utter destruction after a

driver loses control taking out cars and porches of a home. >> one person is dead, four others are hurt after a shoot-out on the atlantic city expressway. and now, we are learning of charges filed in philadelphia, related to this case. >> plus this: >> donald trump is using a sections scandal involving hillary clinton's closest aid to attack the democratic nominee's judgement. aim hen a daniels, more on 2016 coming up. >> today is tuesday, august 30th, good morning everyone, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm brooke thomas. katie and meisha are here cents, as well, keeping an eye on things this morning. good weather coming up. >> that's the crazy thing, great weather, great driving conditions, but we have a lot of accident, kind of sprinkled all over the roadways, one you guys are talking about in camden, but no rhyme or reason sometimes. >> yes, and the sun just barely popping over the ri