father was arraigned today, alex? >> reporter: well, this is just a terrible story all around, and while the district attorney says that this death was indeed unintentional he stop short of calling it an accident because he says weapon was left within reach, of the little will boy who loved guns. alongside mourn full family nicholas wyllie entered a bucks county courtroom this a tearful state, beginning of the case with no winning side, according to district attorney matthew weintraub. >> in this instance the defendant, wyllie did not intentionally kill little two career old benjamin, we believe and we will prove that he is nevertheless criminally responsible for his two-year old sop's death. >> reporter: september 12th state troop's arrived to the milford township home that wyllie haired with his grandparents and two-year old son benjamin. wyllie told police that while watching tr he heard a loud bang from his bedroom and found his son with a gunshot

wound. wyllie told police that he had recently purchased a smith and wesson 45 caliber hand gun this little benjamin he grabbed it and ultimately caused to kill himself. >> reporter: according to court documents family members and boys mother who does not live at the location had warned wyllie about leaving weapons out, adding that the two-year old loved guns and had practiced using them with toy versions. a family member told police that a lot of those toy guns looked real. >> is there anything you want to say. >> reporter: wyllie has been charged with with involuntary manslaughter, reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of the child. >> the defendant will be serving a life sentence, regardless of what happens to him criminally, and that is the terrible tragedy here. >> reporter: wyllie has been told to turn over any remaining weapons he may have, he has been released on $50,000 uncured bail. reporting live from bucks countial sand that hoff for cbs-3 "eyewitness news" good will alex, thank you.

new jersey authorities continue continue on investigate the driver who hit and killed a pedestrian, before slamming into the side of the rick tim's home. deadly crash happened around 8:00 last night on hamilton township. family members tell "eyewitness news" that five three-year old daniel quinnlen had gone outside and put out the trash. forty year-old driver was taken to the hospital, with minor injuries, we will hear more from the victim's family and police on the investigation coming up on "eyewitness news" at 6:00. forty days now until election day, and we're seeing just how important pennsylvania really is in the presidential race. another high profile surrogate is in philadelphia, stumping for democratic nominee hillary clinton. "eyewitness news" reporter greg argos is live at lah will sal university with this story, greg. >> reporter: jessica, good afternoon. another day, another high profile campaign stop we're here at lasalle university and this is where the first lady, stumped for hillary clinton. michelle obama taking on time to really criticize donald trump but not one time did she

actually use his name. >> michelle obama. >> yeah. >> reporter: first lady pitching for the person who could become the first madam president, on wednesday. >> i am thrilled to be here today to support the next president and vice-president of the united states hillary clinton and tim kaine. >> reporter: energy high in front of the mourn 3,000 people, at lasalle university. michelle obama's purpose there to get people registered to vote. >> either hillary clinton or her opponent will be elected president this year and if you vote for someone other than hillary or if you don't vote at all, then you are helping to elect hillary's opponent. >> that owe bone event donald trump the person she never mentioned by name. >> we know that being president isn't anything like reality tv. it is not going to be an apprenticeship. it is not just about fiery speeches or inn ultimating

tweets. >> reporter: trump campaigning in the first lady's hometown. >> the contributions of the polish people, to america have been enriching every aspect of our lives, and will be honored if i am in the white house. the polish people will be honored. >> reporter: this morning in northwest chicago at polish northwest alliance where he talk the economy and jobs. >> i will be the greatest president for jobs that god ever created, i can tell you. >> reporter: of course donald trump had much more criticism i hud say about hillary clinton, you will hear exactly what he had to a, more about what the first lady had to say coming up tonight at 6:00. for now we're live here at lasalle university, i'm greg argos for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> greg, thank you. hillary clinton and bernie saunders presented a united front at campaign rally in new hampshire. former rivals joined forces to urge progressives and young voters to cast their ballots

for clinton. sanders won the state by 22 points in february's democratic primary. >> this election is enormously important for the future of our country. it is imperative that we elect hillary clinton as our next president. >> thank you, bernie. thank you for your leadership and thank you you for your support in this campaign. >> reporter: a monmouth university poll shows clinton leading trump by nine points in new hampshire. trump's running mate indiana governor mike pence visits york pennsylvania today he will rally with supporters at the reikeling fat it is, 1500 people are expected to attend. as election day nears, federal authorities are telling states to improve cyber security, for voting systems. speaking to day at house judiciary commit thee, fbi director james comey discussed hackers efforts to breach voter databases all around the country. >> we are urging the states just to make sure that their

dead bolts are thrown and their locks are on and to get the best information that they can from dhs to make sure their systems are secure. >> law enforcement and election officials said in august that hackers had breached databases for election systems in arizona and in illinois. breaking news right now service on the outbound broad street line is suspended at the race and vine street station, police say a train struck an elderly man who felon the tracks around 4:30 just over a half an hour ago no word on the rick tim's condition we will take on top of this breaking story. well, have the rain gear handy, you will need it the for a while, rainy stretch of weather has arrived. meteorologist kate bilo joins us to let you know how long we will be dodging the drops, kate. >> it will be a matter of days instead of hours, look at how it looks outside, over the city's sky line it is gray, glummy, dark clouds and we have haddon and off spurts of rain and showers all day long. current temperature 67 degrees thanks to the low clouds and also the rain that has been on

and off all day long, wind east at 21 miles an hour, we started the day nice and now it turns out nice like this and get used to this view. that is what we are seeing tomorrow, friday and wraps into saturday as well. looking at storm scan three shows showers off to the west right now you you can see one batch of heavier rain poised to move into lancaster county. we have spotty showers across the viewing area right now and that could be the case again through tonight, and into tomorrow. it does look like the heaviest of the rain will fall south and west of our area, is there a flash flood watch in effect for washington d.c., eastern maryland and flood watch for south central pennsylvania. no much wases or warnings for our region just yet but that doesn't mean we're out of the wood. even though we are not seeing flooding we will see steady rain coming up i'll time out heaviest and tell you whether it clears out in time for your weekend plans, for now, back to you. >> kate, thank you. new research on birth control for woman that will raise concerns on the healthwatch tonight. it rolfs the link between harmone alcon that president istives and depression.

>> health reporter stephanie stahl is here with details on this new study. >> reporter: just out today, this is called a land mark study. others had mixed results but this research published today says it has a clear link between contra seventhtive that is contain hormones and depression among adolescent. many contraceptives contain hormones new study mond in jama psychiatry find these birth control methods such as pills offer implants may increase the risk of depression. >> they found there was a 23 percent increase, compared to non-users of harmone alcon that exception, in terms of the depression, diagnosis, or use of antidepressants. >> reporter: researchers looked at data on more than a million girls and woman age 15 to 35 in dead -- denmark. >> the cognitive development is certainly not asthma tour as woman who are older, and, relationship issues may be more prevalent in that population. so i think that sort of

reflects that trend. >> reporter: doctors say more recent is needed to prove link but doctors and patients should watch for some symptoms. >> women if they do develop, signs of mild depression, they should interface with their provider. >> reporter: and now it is estimated that 60 percent of women reproductive age use contraceptives in the u.s. with birth control pills being the most popular. so, lots of people probably will get excited about this, first of all, more research is coming and if you have any questions, as always, talk tour doctor. >> that is right. >> good point. >> open conversation there. >> yes. >> thanks, stephanie. coming up on "eyewitness news" shooting of another unarmed black man sparks protest in california. why police thought he had a weapon and why his sister says he just needed help. full story at 5:30. mission to mars there is a new plan to send hundreds of people to the red planet but it will not come cheap. find out how much it could cause and what it could happen. he has become one of the

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well, it was great while it lasted. free parking wednesdays, in center city, over. >> so long free parking wednesday. today is last wednesday drivers can enjoy a free spot while shopping and dining in philadelphia. city's also ending free park nothing olde city for first fridays. parking authority says that it will increase parking timer limits to allow visitors to enjoy dining and entertainment in the city. a celebration took place today for new center in the lower schuylkill innovation district. university of pennsylvania, epa and philadelphia economic development corporation, came together and invested nearly 37 million-dollar, in this brand new facility. the incubator space will be a dynamic hub for innovation, research and entrepreneurialism. united scholars and students with the private sector to

generate economic development in the city. kate bilo is joining us now. kate, you were talking earlier, i feel like we had four days of heat inner one day. by the time we got in it was rainy, sunny, rainy, sunny again. >> and transitioning from nice weather to not so nice weather and today was that transition period where sun was saying i want to stick around and everyone saying sorry. >> struggle is real. >> it is. we started off with good amount of sunshine we had breaks of blue skies. it was pouring coming into work but off in the distance the city sky line was blue. it depended where were you today. today as we head through evening clouds thickening across the region and get used to them because we will not see much of the sun through the end of the week, and even in the weekend. we will take you out to bethlehem our camera mounted atop hotel bethlehem looking live along main street where it is glummy, about an hour ago road were pretty wet there. now it looks like they have dried out. this is what we will be seeing through next couple of days. we are talking about spurts of

rain on and off. not a total wash out for two straight days but we will see spurts of steady rain at any time so just be prepared for it. look at how glummy looking live from the palmyra cove nature park across river to the sky line where you can barely discern outline of the buildings there you can see here in the distance it is pretty glummy, foggy, low clouds in place this afternoon and cool thanks to the clouds, but only 64 degrees right there. right now 67 at the airport. seventy in wilmington. sixty-eight in millville. sixty-eight in allentown. mount pocono, only in the the 50's, this evening. so storm scan three is showing rain lifting in from south to north. it looks as though i-95 corridor around baltimore and d.c. will be the hardest hit from this system. it will stay off to our south and west but these kind of storms are notoriously tricky where heaviest rain will occur. we're not out of the woods as far as heavy rain. it is very close. if those heavier downpours shift we could be looking at threat for some poor drainage flooding or ponding on the roads with any of these rain

showers that come through tonight and into tomorrow. and as part of the system i have been telling but days upon days you can see the swirl here from that cut off low just sitting and spinning pulling in tropical moisture from the south, conveyor wealth of moisture and that is producing rain over our area and down to our south as well. timing this out on future weather this will take news to saturday, watch how much rain we're talking. heaviest stuff off to the south and west and just keeps coming and coming through tonight and tomorrow especially baltimore and d.c. but we will get on the privilege liz with scattered showers at anytime through the day thursday, 11:00 o'clock thursday still raining, especially to the south and west, friday morning may be some of our steady yes, sir rain here in philadelphia at 10:00 o'clock friday morning. friday afternoon still raining, finally by the weekend we will start to see things taper down, this is saturday still cloudy, still some scattered showers but we are not seeing that heavy rain especially to the south and west like what we will be seeing thursday and friday. take a look at these rain amounts though over d.c. and baltimore some indication that

is a few spots could see over half foot of rain before this system is finished with us. here in philadelphia we are looking at an inch or so with the steady amounts in our far western and southwestern suburbs. heading to the tropics now we have tropical storm matthew moving through lesser ant tilles, this will be hurricane hat you, a lot of uncertainty with this future track. we will talk about that in the next half an hour so stick around for that. overnight cloudy, showers around at anytime that is case tomorrow. breezy, cloudy, showers at times. 68 degrees. the wind gusting to 20 to 25 miles an hour. very you been settled thursday for us. that continues on friday, clouds, showers, even some heavy rain at times. saturday gets better, but i still cannot rule out a shower or two. we will look at weekend with the weekend watch but it does look like sunday is it a better day i to get outside. switching gears, imagine this in the not too distant future humans could be living on mars. meteorologist justin drabick tells us about a mission to blast a spaceship full of

humanness -- humans into orbit. >> reporter: space time here elan musk has his eyes set on a mission to mars. man behind tesla and space x has unveiled a plan to take hundreds of people to the red planet. goal, to colonized earth's neighbor. this is what the first manned mission to mars could look like. >> what i'm trying to achieve here is headache mars possible. >> reporter: space x founder, says people can fly to mars in about a decade. >> and lift off. >> that is ambitious for a space company that has yet to launch a manned mission at all. spaceships would carry 100 passengers, each paying $200,000. >> i think first eight months will be very dangerous, risk of fatality will be high, there is no way around it. >> reporter: this explosion of the space x rocket on september 1st is reminder of the significant consequences

of fail another. >> falcon two, nine rockets and there is a sense that the earth would like to see him master that before talking about sending people to mars. >> reporter: it could cost about $10 billion to get the first ship off the ground, franklin institute chief astronomer says mission is another significant step in the space exploration process. >> even if the ultimate goal of this doesn't pan out, the product that comes out of this trying to attempt this will push us along in a direction that will benefit everybody. >> reporter: he is hoping for a partnership to pay for the partnership and project but in the meantime he is prepared to his money where mouth is. mission to mars would be a one way trip. whoever lives on mars will also die there. journey will take between three and five months. in the einstein health care science center i'm meteorologist justin drabick. >> that is serious. >> telling it like it is. >> it is your future written in the stars. >> big question, which stars, coming up on "eyewitness news"

aloft people talking about the shift in astros logical signs and what it means for horoscopes, don. tim tebow plays his first professional baseball game a massive success or serious embarrassment, we have the answer, plus carson wentz takes home an award that no eagle ever has? find out what next in sports. elan must being.

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don joining us now more honors for carson wentz and you say how many days into now. >> it is amazing, three and a half weeks. it feels like an eternity we have been on this wentz wagon. seventeen days ago carson wentz made his nfl debut. since then he has gone three and zero, shout out from the president, we refer to the keystone state as wentzsylvania and then now this, wentz was named nfc offensive player of the week

for his performance with the steelers on sunday. bird won 34-three but carson threw for 301 yards and two touchdowns. becomes the first rookie quarterback in team history to win the award. eagles next game is october 9th, at detroit. baseball now phillies farewell tour for ryan howard got the a big boost, big piece with the grand slam home run with the braves. the his 15th career grand slam, and he is tied, that is tied for most in the business since 2004. phillies, however lose the game seven-six your final score. you can share with us your favorite ryan howard moment, by using #, thanks, ryan on facebook, instagram, and twitter, or go to our web site at cbs philly.com thanks ryan just our way of saying, thank you. that is to the big piece. tim tebow's first professional baseball at bat, the very first pitch, he sees, and it is, gone. a solo home run, the former

heisman trophy winner and nfl quarterback playing for the mets instructional league, his first organized game since junior year of high school and he gets to home plate and mobbed by his teammates. those kid are all teenagers. he took them out to dinner. he can afford it. >> yes. >> they are like yeah, yeah. >> his home run trot down he has to slow it down, too fast. >> yes. >> he is not playing quarterback, slow it down. thanks, buddy appreciate it. still a lot more just ahead picture captures second before another shooting of a black man killed by police. why police say they were concerned about the man's sister claims he just needed help. and he has become one of the most hated men in america, pharmacy executive who inflated the price of the life saving drug, now he is offering to let someone punch him in the face. yeah. we will tell you why. and then new at 6:00 o'clock tonight, turn those old collectibles into

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for you not to look at us, like us, we want to you look at us, like you. >> a southern california community is outraged over another police involved shooting that has left a black man dead. police now say that the man was not armed with the gun but pulled an undisclosed object from his pocket. the news continues at 5:30. good evening, i'm jessica dean. i'm ukee washington. protesters took to the streets of the california, last night demanding answers in the shooting death of 30 year-old alfred poland co. >> you killed my brother.

>> reporter: video taken moments shows a distraught woman whose identified as man's sister. >> unaudible. >> reporter: she says she called police for help and told them her brother was mentally ill and unarmed. officers confirmed they received that information, and when they arrived at the scene, they say that the man was acting erratically and refusing commands. >> still non-compliant and won't get his hand out of the pocket, walking all over the lot. >> reporter: this video shows the moment, before the the shooting. >> at one point the male rapidly drew an object from his front pants pocket, placed both hand together on it and extended it rapidly towards the officer, taking what appears to be a shooting stance. >> reporter: one officers discharged a tasers while simultaneously another opened fire. police have not said what the object the man pulled out was but they now know it was not a gun. >> they didn't say anything. he didn't hear no rights. he was a black man. he oughtcally had no rights.

so they shot him. they shot him five times. he is mentally challenge. >> no justice, no peace. >> reporter: tensions intensified at the scene as growing crowd demanded answers but you police are urging calm. both officers involved in the shooting are on add behind straight i have leave, their names have not been released, local police department is conducting its own investigation that will be reviewed by the district attorney and the fbi. we have new information, in a school shooting in south carolina the suspect teenage gunman killed his father before heading to the school and opening fire inside. three people were injured, two students, and a teacher. all have been hospitalized. no word on their injuries. shooting happened today in townville a community in the northwestern part of the state. the suspected gunman is in custody. stay with "eyewitness news" as we continue to follow this developing story. for the first time since president obama took office the senate has blocked one of his vetoes. senate overturn the president's veto of the bill allowing families and victims

of the 9/11 terror attacks to sue saudi arabia. president's veto the bill saying saudi arabia is a key alley and legislation could open door to suits against u.s. bill now moves to the house where it is expect to pass. authorities say they stopped multiple attacks in niece since the bastille day massacre in july. top trench prosecutor say targets included religious sites, stadiums and schools. at least two suspected terrorist, who have been arrested are female teenagers. isis took responsibility for the july 14th attack, 86 people died when a man rammed a truck in the crowd as it opened fire. dutch investigators say missle system that shot down malaysia airlines flight 17 came from russia. they also say missle was launched in territory controlled by pro russian separatist in eastern ukraine. it was shot down two years ago, all 298 people on board were killed, they were mostly dutch citizens.

russia has repeat thely denied any involvement. the u.s. has agreed on a plan to send additional american troops to iraq. 615 u.s. troops will help iraqi forces retake mosul from isis. the pentagon officials say this is expect to be the final addition of u.s. military troops in iraq. currently there are more than 4,000 troops in the country. former israeli leader shimon perez died in tel aviv two weeks after suffering a massive stroke. nine three-year oldies remembered as a true visionary and man of peace, and principal. israeli leaders held a moment of silence to mourn passing of one of their country's founding the fathers, shimon peres. >> as israel's president he did so much to unite nation and the nation love him for it. >> reporter: nine three-year old statesman suffered a stroke earlier this month and died at tel aviv's hospital wednesday surrounded by his family. >> we say farewell to our

beloved father. >> reporter: his storied career span more than a half century, perez held nearly every senior political office in israel, including president, and prime minister. in 1994 he won the noble peace prize for his role in brokering the accord, a historic peace tiehl between israelis and palestinians. former president bill clinton who hosted two sides at the white house says that he was a quote genius with a big heart, a eloquent dreamer until the very end. >> a comprehensive peace moving forward. >> reporter: workers are preparing a grave for perez will be laid to rest on friday, the public will have a chance to pay final respects on thursday, when the former president's body lies in state at israel's parliament in jerusalem. israel's foreign ministry says guests for tomorrow's funeral include president obama and former president, bill clinton. family friend, fans are gathering to pay their final respects to miami marlins

pitcher jose fernandes. he died in the boating accident over the weekend. team invaded fans to marlins park this afternoon to watch funeral procession. public viewing for fernandes is underway through 11:00 o'clock tonight at saint brandon's church in miami. private funeral mass will be held there tomorrow. breaking news now into us right now philadelphia parking authority detectives vince fenerty has resigned, he was suspended on monday with intent to dismiss after the ppa board received a new allegation that he sexually harassed an employee in the past. we will have much more on this breaking news story just in coming up in a live report at 6:00 o'clock. center for autism unveils expanded facility on grant avenue in northeast philadelphia today. center was awarded a grant by commonwealth of pennsylvania which helped fund the development. with more than 15,000 square feet of added space, it can now offer services to a growing number of families, affected by autism. still to come on

"eyewitness news" there is a new doctor in the house from cbs news hit drama code black. >> veteran actor rob low joins the cast, we will talk to him as well as cast member marcia gay harden about the show's second season. in today's brotherly love story a food drive inspired by a very famous person and it is right on time, kate? and it is that time of the day again where we break down the weekend so you can make those plans sunday, definitely looks like better day for plans outside across the entire area but what we're seeing outside today is what we will see as we head into sat take, it will be mostly cloudy, scattered showers, temperatures only around 60 in the poconos saturday, 70's in the city and down the shore. sunday that upper low weakens, temperatures warm up we will see sun return but still cannot rule out a shower even on sunday, we will be right

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sad news to report from hollywood, rosemont's own agnes nixon passed at age of 88. nixon is creator of many popular soap rap including all may have children and one life to live. visitation will be held friday night in ardmore and funeral mass on saturday at saint thomas of villanova rosemont chap until rosemont. hit cbs medical drama code black returns tonight for its second season premiere and this season actor rob lowe is joining the cast as colonel ethan willis. >> she's out. >> lots of blood. >> do you want to do it here. >> come on are you with me on this. >> i spoke with rob and co-star marcia gay harden

about the new season and what rob brings to the show. >> sizzle will. in one word, rob lowe brings sizzle because it is rob lowe hoist incredibly ugly, irritating and boring, this file is just bringing sizzle and we love him for it. >> i'm the human bacon, i'm sizzling. i do, i do love the show because it the is a departure for me because i have been doing five years of comedy, parks and rec, grinder, so to step back and to legitimate drama, it was a great opportunity. >> catch code black tonight at 10:00 p.m. with mr. sizzle here on cbs-3, followed by "eyewitness news" at 11:00. rob is a big football fan, big l.a. rams fan, he has buyers remorse because they have the topic, top quarterback and this guy isn't even dressing. i'm not on the wentz wagon but he is wishing he was with

them. >> yes, indeedy love those two. looking forward to that. >> it will be fun. is what your sign? it turns out, it may not be what you think, we will explain the shift in the stars coming

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with breast cancer awareness month about to begin, local women connected by a grim diagnosis, are sharing their stories of survival, and the details are in a new book, to be released this week and reporter cherri gregg of kyw news radio explains. >> still very emotional. >> reporter: tameika williams still cries when she thinks of december 17th, 2015, the day that she was told that she had stage three breast cancer. >> it is like, you know, you are going, walking along in this beautiful weather and then a storm comes upon you is what it felt like. >> reporter: she spoke through her interpreter doreen sharing her pain. she could barely walk, and

three weeks ago it claimed her breasts but now she's healing, thanks to support from this. >> i am ready for chemo. >> reporter: tracie smith is a breast cancer survivor who started tracie's bio, a non-profit that supports women, while refusing some of what cancer takes away. >> cancer took away things that you are supposed to be beautiful, your hair, it takes your breast. >> reporter: group provides services, days of fun, and celebration, and in a empathetic ear from a family of survivors. >> it takes a toll on you and only my pink sisters understood. >> reporter: last year tracie published the pink sister chronicles where 12 women shared their stories. this week they will launch volume two from bald to bold. >> hopefully if someone reads this they can relate to what we went through and to empower them. >> reporter: empowered tameika who will give voice to her pain and her triumph.

>> i want them to know i'm a fighter. >> reporter: in lansdowne, chere greg for kyw news radio for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". did you you ever think you would want an opportunity to punch an infamous person in the face? well, you have deep pockets, you certainly can. martin made famous for hiking up a life saving drug for profits is offering up a chance to punch or slap him in the face to the highest bidder. millionaire investor say he will give proceeds to the family of a friend whose son died of cancer. right now the bidding is up to $80,000. i know. >> okay. >> well, kate joins us now, with a look at the forecast, and it looks like the rain might be here a while. >> it will be here a while. it is not a complete, total wash out where it pours for two days straight. it is not going to look like that for us. we will deal with spurts of rain, showers that will be impacting us right now and we have had it on and off today

but continuing through tonight and right into the start of the weekend. here's what it looks like outside as we look live to our spring garden camera at intersection there of spring garden and broad street here in the city where it is glummy but not wet for the moment. we have most of the rain staying off to the west for now, but a chance for showers will be with us, as we go through remainder of tonight, tomorrow, and friday, and then right on into the weekend. looking at our live neighborhood network spots you can see it is looking glummy, damp here at boardwalk plaza in rehoboth beach, kutztown area middle school showing dark clouds, brightening sky, we did see breaks of sun here and there, sunny start and then cloud really won out. at the junior/senior school in bernville it is mostly cloudy, cool as well at 64 degrees. here's the current status on storm scan three. most of the showers are off to the west. heaviest right now right here over lancaster county and down toward d.c. area right around chesapeake bay. we will focus on this for a moment. you can see how these storms really getting organized. there is a slight risk for

severe weather with any of these storms, a lot of rotation with this system. is there a threat over portions of virginia this evening, for an isolated tornado thanks to the rotating atmosphere as this storm continues to spin over the great lakes, midwest, pulling in all of that moisture and it does look like areas just south and west of us will be dealing with the heaviest rain not only tonight, but through tomorrow and friday as well. we will be on the periphery of it the here in philadelphia. eyewitness weather watchers checking in on this glummy, damp evening with temperatures in the 60's. the cloud have knocked temperatures down. sixty-six at allentown. dell with his cute baby there. lousy, drizzling day and this, weather system will be in place, through saturday. lets get used to it. it is cloudy, damp. feels like a day you want to snug he will up, with the blanket, book, netflix and just hang out at home but most of us have to be outside working, picking kids up at school. you will need umbrella out and about next few days. barbara lane at 67 in willow grove. we have got temperatures in the 60's in south jersey as

well. buena vista township margot at 67 degrees. again, the storm that is impacting the area one that you see there closed low we have been talking about for days now and we will continue to talk about for days now because it is just really not going anywhere, and we will see showers, and storms, associated with that system, and at least through friday, we will start to ease off as we head in the weekend but tonight, tomorrow, friday, showers at times, thunderstorms, some heavy downpours and some flooding is possible, and it will be quite breezy with wind gusting to 15 to 20 miles an hour in the city and as high as 30 miles an hour down the shore and that goes right through friday evening. the here's the latest on matthew with the tropical storm, you can see, the hurricane models taking it the in to the caribbean and abrupt turn to the north and as of right now most of the models congregated near bohamas as we get in the early part of next week. uncertainty beyond that. we will watch it, we will have more and official nhc track of the storm coming up at 6:00 o'clock. for your thursday, showers at times it will be breezy, showers on and off all day, cool day at 68.

friday, cloud, showers again, just a few scattered showers saturday, and then it looks like we will clear things out as we head into sunday, and monday. we will send it back to the desk. white and red food donation boxes are popping up in montgomery county, to spread some brotherly love. >> it is organize by county's tourism board and they were inspired by a very famous visitor. last year for one special night pope francis stayed at saint charles important me owe seminary in lower merion. >> world figure coming to stay in montgomery county and we were knocked back about it. >> reporter: dan of the valley forge tourism and convention board said county visitors wanted to give the visiting pontiff a tangible thank you. >> is it a bowl, engraved plaque, something that we present to him in physical or is it something else. >> load them up. >> reporter: this is what they chose, food, not for the pope but poor. >> results thaw can see

results pouring in. >> reporter: for second year in a row they are collecting non-perishable food county wide. timing is right, september is hunger action month, and this is action. >> thanksgiving style food drives have not kicked in. >> reporter: it is called freedom from hunger, 12 donation boxes at hotels and valley forge attractions says president and ceo michael bowens. >> we will get to 1776-pound of food this year. >> 1,776-pound can equate to 3,000 meals for those in need. >> reporter: food will be distributed by philabundance. >> in montgomery county so there are physically 80,000 people in need today. any food drives we are extremely grateful for especially those bringing in high items and protein, including peanut butter, canned soup and tuna. >> more boxes that are not empty, the happier we are. >> reporter: we have a list of donation sites. check it out at cbs philly.com/brotherly. results are pouring in. good to see. >> i love that. >> do you read your horoscope every day. >> get this there has been a

shift in the stars and some would say, there are now 13 astros logical signs, not 12, and that it is changing all of the dates. does that mean i'm not leo anymore. >> oh, no. >> oh, no is right. >> vittoria woodill will explain

is what your sign? it is a question a lot of us have been asked, but what is all this star about a new zodiac sign in we asked vittoria wood tolly see if the answers are really written in the stars. >> you may have heard rumors that nasa has introduced a 13th constellation, in fact, they did but is it fact or fiction that the original 12 that line with our astros logical signs will then shift too? i feel 100 percent like a virgo to say that i'm leo. to further explain if the new constellation will give us new

signs we sought expertise of the astrologies junea and astronomer derrick pets. lets start with what makes a constellation. >> our classic definition of the constellation is a group of stars organize in such a way as to describe a story or to key pick a picture. that is how we classically think of the constellation. nowadays, modern astronomy identified a constellation as a area of the sky, that includes, the stars that have the story or the picture that we typically associate with them. >> reporter: those pictures or constellations making up the 12 zodiac signs, now what an astrologist counts as new constellation and cause a change in your chart. >> to have 13 i don't know where they get idea to use that, it is because it does not fall into the systems that really work so well. there are different aspects of astrology that don't exactly line up with the astronomy. but it doesn't mean that the systems don't work.

>> reporter: an astronomer. >> it is separation between identifying this as a belief system verse science. that new constellation has always been there it is just that we only have 12 months. if we count the constellation that is in there we have 13 zodiac constellations and we only have 12 months. so we need another month. >> d pits. >> i love how he breaks it down. so great. >> he is the man. >> yes, indeed. >> no new signs and everyone is settle what they are, and i can hear all of the sighs of relief all over town. >> leo's in the house, leo right the here. >> leo. >> kate, what are you. >> gemini. >> we have a bunch. >> thanks, torey. that is "eyewitness news" at 5:00. now you at 6:00 breaking news in the philadelphia parking authority scandallal, a major decision from the executive director within the last half an hour, amid

serious allegations. taking out the trash for his elderly parents a south jersey man is killed by a driver who went off the road. cleve bryan, coming up why eyewitnesses say it was difficult for first responders to find the victim. and we are tracking a rainy stretch in the system sits and spins off to our west, coming up we will time it out hour by hour when heaviest rain will fall, how much we will sianni we will have latest on tropical storm matthew in the caribbean coming up at 6:00. also, these toys are not the just child play the way these vintage dolls and games could earn you cold hard cash. but you have to act fast. we've got breaking news, the executive director of philadelphia parking authority steps town, amid sexual harassment allegations, these developments happening just within the last half an hour or so. good evening, i'm ukee

washington. i'm jessica dean. our joe holden was only reported that confronted vince fenerty about the allegations yesterday and he joins us now with new developments from center city philadelphia. joe. but jessica parking authority behind me is where vince fenerty worked for last 30 years, and just within the last hour we were told he handed in his letter of resignation, essentially, taking a fire from the board. they were expected to terminate him, in the morning. in the meantime, there is a call for inquiry, a probe into how the parking authority does business. twenty-four hours after the philadelphia parking authority was further rock by scandal, city council members are demanding a thorough review of the agency's operations. >> my concern is that it appears to be a very poorly run, poorly managed organization. >> reporter: councilman david oh says city controller and attorney general should initiate audits, late wednesday an attorney general spokesmen told me that they are looking into that.