>> this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news". tracking hermine, hurricane warnings are in effect for parts of florida, as the tropical storm gains strength in the gulf of mexico. it could develop into a category one hurricane, when it makes landfall as soon as tonight. and it is a pretty soggy day here at home. we spotted plenty of umbrellas, as light rain fell on people. making their way around center city. good afternoon, i'm joe holden in for jim donovan. >> i'm brooke thomas, we head into the long holiday weekends, we're keeping close

eye on hermine any potential impact on our area, first look at the forecast, with meteorologist, katie fehlinger tracking the system in the cbs-3 weather center, katy? >> we are of course keeping close watch on what this system decides it wants to do, matter of ooh miles could make or break your outdoor plans, coming up this weekend, let's just start things off by taking you right on out to the satellite. you can see the storm system over the course of time here, really beginning to churn, and gather some strength, right on the tail end of the loop. see little more what looks like comma formation, with this system, so it is again gathering strength, and even though it is technically still tropical storm right now still building, its intensity, as a result could see it become low grade category one hurricane as it does make its landfall. regardless of its actual categorization, this will be a very heavy rain producer, especially across florida, more on that later on, you what do we really know this so far? well, for one thing, it has pretty substantial winds speed, up to six a miles per hour right now, so florida

landfall is given, and it will happen later tonight. the uncertainty is how far out to sea does this stay, as it migrates, to the northeast. and that will certainly have a huge determination as to how we have any impact here in the way of any rain, any wind, even the intensity of the rain and wind. looking at the different forecast models, they're trying to keep this out to sea, but notice, there are couple of out liars either have it loop de loop back here at home or actually straight inland. that's where the uncertainty lies. much more on what we think will happen this weekend, showers we have this weekend are starting to winds down here at home, brooke, back to you. >> thanks, good news for septa regional rail riders. there is an update on the fleet of train cars, that had to be taken out of service earlier this summer over structural defect. "eyewitness news" reporter greg argos live at 30th street station with the story, greg? >> reporter: and brooke, good afternoon, you said it, good news, huge sigh of relief for many regional rail riders this morning, septa, announcing,

they put back into service four of the silver liner five's after pulling all 120 of them from service exactly two months ago today. now, those four silver liner five cars departed from the fox chase station, at 8:49 this morning. and this is video of one of them arriving here, at the 30th street station, sometime later. 120 of the hyundai silver liner five's were pulled from service on july 1st, after hairline cracks spotted in the equal lies err beam. this morning, septa officials say there is still a loft work needs to be done, showed us process of what it takes to fix those beams, which helped distribute weight throughout a train car. the beams are cut from american steel, and created at the pen fab facility in bucks county where plasma cutter precisely slices into the high strength metal. there is that inspected and painted before the final steel foot is installed. finally beams are transported by truck to septa facility where workers install them into the actual train car.

four equalizer beams are required per car to fix the problem. the creation process from cutting to foot installation takes 12 hours per equal lies err beam. >> transit agencies, we do a a lot of work with them, but having us work in pennsylvania particularly bucks county super important. this project is just one project alone, at any one given time, probably employs 200 people, talking about truck drivers, transportation, all of our different machining operations, anaplasma cutting, everything else. >> septa officials say they hope to have all 120 of the cars fixed, by mid-november. live here in the 30th street station, greg argos, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". greg argos, thank you for that live report. the eagles play their last pre-season game of the year tonight at the linc. but there is even bigger news for philly football fans. the nfl draft will be in philadelphia, next year, we will switch live, take a listen, philadelphia city and

tourism officials make the big announcement from nfl peter o'reilly at city hall right now. let's listen. >> as they start their journey and enter the nfl family, we couldn't be more excited about that. >> and we know, and we're very confident, that philadelphia will help take the draft to another level. this is clearly a very passionate football town (applause) also a city that is deep in nfl history, not only tide to the draft but tide to the history of our league, and it is also a city that, like chicago, sits within driving distance of 9nfl markets, and a place where nfl fans will converge at the end of april april 2017. i want to thank a few people. i want to start by thanking the philadelphia eagles, i want to thank them for their very strong commitment and support for bringing the draft here to philadelphia,

especially i want to thank owner and chairman jeffrey lurie and thank president don smolenski, who is here today. (applause) i want to thank mayor kenney and his team at city hall for their strong commitment. (applause) his strong support and vision for thinking about bringing this pretty accessible event to philadelphia and to the people of philadelphia and we couldn't be more proud of that support. also, i want to thank julie coke err gram (applause) at the philadelphia convention and business bureau for her leadership and her vision around this, and larry needle -- >> okay, we've been listening live to peter o'reilly with the nfl. of course we'll have much more on this exciting news, the draft coming to philadelphia, that coverage starts on "eyewitness news" at 5:00. the eagles take on the jets tonight at the linc and

subway riders heading to the stadium can ride the broad street line for free. mcdonald's giving away free tokens, now, estimated 5,000 tokens will be distributed at the walnut and locust broad street line entrance. >> good news for parishioners, mother of divine grace church, statue has been found, statue was taken tuesday night from monmouth and east constant street by someone who got through a wrought iron fen. churches tell cbs-3 the statue found in a grocery cart around 7:30 this morning near second and girard, they are finalizing details to return the statue right now. well, coming up on cbs-3 "eyewitness news", a fiery launch pad explosion, we'll show you the scene and tell you where it happened. and, walking and working. some 220 miles above earth. we'll head up to the

he's making it up. of course, anyone who commits a violent crime needs to be prosecuted -- and put behind bars. narrator: katie mcginty will keep us safe -- more police on the streets, better training and equipment, and take on the gun lobby for gun safety laws. katie: i'm the daughter of a police officer, and the mother of three. i'll stand with law enforcement to fight crime, and protect our families. i'm katie mcginty, and i approve this message.

>> welcome back, that's smoke billowing from launch pad at cape canaveral, company space x said an explosion, for the planned weekends launch. israeli satellite was also destroyed. company was test firing an unmanned rocket, when the explosion happened. and, astronaunts on the international space station took their second space walk in 22 weeks today. commander jeffrey williams, folded up 40-foot radiator no

longer in use, nasa wants it towards on the space station as a spare. williams returns to planet earth next week. he already holds the national record for time in orbit. he spent 534 days up there over four space station missions. >> incredible. turning to campaign 2016, a new, war of words teaming up between hillary clinton and donald trump. >> she called yesterday's visit's trip to mexico as failure. x-rays bog wet with more from the white house. >> donald trump spoke to the same veterans group that hillary clinton addressed yesterday. he promised to create a new american future. >> in this future we will have a honest government that includes a honest state department, not pay foreplay. she probably didn't men that to you yesterday. >> trump's american legion event follows his meeting wednesday with mexico's president, and major speech last night on immigration. >> we will build a great wall

along the southern border. >> president enrique pena nieto said he told trump that mexico will no pay for the wall but the republican presidential nominee has a different version. >> we did discuss the wall. we didn't discuss payment of the wall. >> despite the discrepancy, the trump campaign said it set new record in small on line donations following the mexico visit. the clinton campaign says trump choked and later the campaign amended its statement, saying it turns out trump didn't just choke, he got beat in the room and lied about it. >> he didn't have the guts to look the mexican president in the ian bring up the central position in his campaign. it was a diplomatic embarrassment, and it shows that the guy's not ready for prime time. >> the latest national pole shows two rivals in a statistical tie. clinton leads trump by just two-point, when the libertarian and green party candidates are included. craig boswell, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> we are now 67 days away from election day.

stay with "eyewitness news", for continuing coverage of campaign 2016. five philadelphia firefighters have been treated and released from hahnemann hospital. investigators say they were hurt when their truck was hit by a tractor-trailer on i-95. this happened in the southbound lanes near columbus boulevard, around 3:20 this morning. the ladder truck was assisting another accident scene when it was rearended. investigators say, the tractor-trailer jackknifed and hit a wall inside the chestnut street under pass. drivers were stuck. >> just ran right into it. >> i walk down there, i saw the tractor-trailer taking up the whole road. >> emergency vehicles had been moving us around to get through over there. so this looks like a really major accident. >> the road was closed for nearly four hours, and reopened around 7:00 this morning. still ahead on "eyewitness news": a foot of rain, that's what people are preparing to handle in the gulf coast. >> katie is tracking tropical storm hermine. hey, katie. >> that's right, it could end up very well having an impact

on our area, directly or indirectly. so coming up we'll discuss the scenario, what each of them would mean for your holiday weekends. stick around, the full forecast is after the break.

>> more on tropical storm hermine. told to expect more than foot of rain and possible tornados. >> correspondent omar villafranca in clearwater where the storm has already soaked the area before even making landfall. >> reporter: relentless rainfall.

how long winds and rising waters, pummeled florida's gulf costes outer bands from tropical storm hermine pushed towards the sunshine state. >> little nervous. little more than a little nervous. >> in is my parking lot. i don't think i can park there. >> overnight in sarasota, voluntary evacuations were underway. emergency crews navigated through waist deep water looking for anyone possibly trapped. >> they were coming up to me, gun belts were up to here in water. >> the storm has yet to make landfall. but has already submerged streets in the coastal town of gulf port, dumped more than 9 inches every rain on parts of the state. governor rick scott has declared state of emergency in more than 50 florida counties. >> we have 8,000 members of the national guard, that are prepared to be mobilized, but you as individuals have to do your part.

three days of water, three days of food, and if you think you need to go to a shelter, know where the shelter is. >> schools are canceled here today in anti payings of up to 20 inches of rain. to make matters more difficult, there could be tornados in florida, and georgia. omar villafranca, cbs news, clearwater, florida. >> so, katie, clearly they're bracing here. >> absolutely, yes. already, certainly as we just saw in the report, rainout of this, making its landfall in florida later tonight, then just move up the coast. we'll give you the latest, the latest track of this, and also, what we are expecting in terms of the impact here. i will just say up front there are still question marks that remain, because until this really moves on shore, and then starts to, you know, we need little more time basically in order to pinpoint exactly what will happen here, because within 50 miles there could be major differences within this forecast. so let's get you outside, actually we start thing off by taking about what is happening here locally first, since we did have wet weather to track, earlier on this morning, still finding some left-over showers

at this point. but the brunt of the morning frontal passage long since moved taught sea, actually zoom it out one time you can see skies clearing nicely in the wake. enough cool air building in aloft could help trigger a residual shower here and there. but turn our focus now to the tropics, we take you right on down just off shore. this really has organized nicely in the last kim of hours, look at these heavy rain bands, pushing into the panhandle right now. that is going to add up quickly, and, again there is isn't making landfall into florida until later tonight. now as we talk about the actual track of this, here is the latest cone of uncertainty frankly as we look ahead to the next couple of days. see how it stays very confined until it passes virginia. then it just sort of opens up. it is like okay, we don't know what's going to happen. so granted it is going to be making northeasterly tracks, but how far west is it? how far east is it? that's critical if you have got outdoor plans. now timing on this generally looks like it is sunday,

possibly as early as saturday day night, possibly as late as into early monday. but here is a couple of scenarios we are looking at, especially if this were to move further on shore or inland at least it, would be very, very close to the coast, bringing in the heaviest amount of rain, the most gusty the winds, certainly potential for beach errosion, coastal flooding. the coast would definitely see the main impact from this. but you could end up with rain as far inland as some of the western suburbs outside of philadelphia. if it were to stay little further out to the east, you wouldn't even have any rain further inland, and you would likely ends up with more sun than anything sunday. but minor coastal impacts would still be a concern. so, the running theme regardless of what ends up actually happening is that the coast will see at least a indirect impact out of this. we still have got some damp weather at the shore points in rehoboth beach. this is one spot could end up with soaking rainout of this storm. but, regardless, skies are trying to brighten up right now in the wake of the frontal passage we showed you moment ago. currently temperatures are anywhere from the low to mid

to upper 70s, do anticipate we add couple additional degrees onto this before it is said and done. i wouldn't call it the best beach day you have ever seen, but you will see more sunshine before said and done. keep in mind, rip countries, have remained moderate. and it will stay that i way with choppy surf, stronger surf no less because there is so much going on in the tropics as of late. so, we've got our eye obviously on sunday. keep with us, we will be tweaking this as we go along, track obviously is critical here, but at least i can promise you nice ends to the week. tomorrow looks beautiful. just the weekend, that's very likely going to have some tweaking as we get closer. keep checking with us. >> and take it a day at a time. >> even just model run at a time. >> there go. >> okay, good stuff. long running soap opera the young and the restless hit major milestone today. >> y and r has been on the air 43 years, today marks show number 11,000. that's a whole lot of twists and turns, mixed with back

stabbing and lots of love. our own ukee washington was in los angeles to help celebrate. and after all this time ukee found out it is a labor of family-like love. >> we watch each other go through marriages, divorces, the birth of children, death of your parents. we've all been through it with each other. in that sense it is very much a family. >> ukee will have much more about today's milestone with behind the scenes look at the long running soaps, later today on "eyewitness news" at 5:00. and, don't miss the 11,000 episode of the young and the restless today at 12:30 right here

he's making it up. of course, anyone who commits a violent crime needs to be prosecuted -- and put behind bars. narrator: katie mcginty will keep us safe -- more police on the streets, better training and equipment, and take on the gun lobby for gun safety laws. katie: i'm the daughter of a police officer, and the mother of three. i'll stand with law enforcement to fight crime, and protect our families. i'm katie mcginty, and i approve this message.

coming un later today on "eyewitness news" at 5:00 unusual discovery in montgomery county. the unlikely spot, that small alligator right there was spotted this morning. >> and it is a big day for high schoolers. >> on this first day of september, it is the first day of school. this is the universal audenreid charter high school. nearly 700 student were greeted by men, from grays ferry, point breeze. along with teachers, staff, parents and community leaders. good luck of course to all of those and other student starting school, this year. that's such an awesome story. >> okay, so, of course we want to just give you one more wrap up here on hermine, still churning out over the northeastern gulf of mexico. there you see on storm scan, really gathering good strength.

just a variety hereof what could see, i think key here, to remember, there is still a question mark on this. but at the coast is the best shot to see the strong winds, dangerous rip currents, high surf coastal flooding heavy rainfall, as well. quickly we also give you one more glance at the seven day, so you can try to make the labor day plans around. >> this i suggest tomorrow and saturday and certainly labor day right now as the best time to schedule your picnic's, but sunday still again keep in mind is a question mark. we'll continue to keep it really close watch on what this system decides it wants to do and let you know as it evolves. >> i'll take it. >> thank you. well that's "eyewitness news" at noon, i'm joe holden. >> i'm brooke thomas, thanks for watching. >> i'm katie fehlinger. "eyewitness news" continues at 5:00. we're always on for you at cbsphilly.com. >> the 11,000 episode of the young and the restless is coming your way. have a good day, guys.

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>> dylan: we believe adam newman, the prisoner, is being aided and abetted by his wife, chelsea. [ camera shutter clicks ] we now have a lead on the car she and her son used to flee genoa city. it's a gray sedan, wisconsin plate tah 7m2, last seen headed west on market street presumably headed out of the city limits. now, if you have seen this car, if you have any information on its whereabouts, please contact the gcpd tip line -- the number's on the screen -- or our website. though the passengers aren't considered dangerous, it is urgent that they are found safely. >> chelsea: no. you are not turning yourself in. our new life, our new plans -- >> adam: compared to connor's health, none of that matters, babe. he needs to see a doctor. >> chelsea: okay, adam, you just need to just take a second and think about this. >> adam: his fever's not going away. you said it yourself. we'll take him into town, we'