>> live from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia this is cbs3 "eyewitness news". hillary clinton brings her campaign to delaware county. >> she's holding a conversation with families at this hour hoping to capture more of the women's vote and beat donald trump in this critical swing state. clinton is also joined by two high profile surveillance vo gates g afternoon rahel salomon. brooke thomas is off today. >> i'm jim don vat event is just about to get underway.

greg argos joins us live from haverford township, delaware county. good afternoon, greg. >> reporter: good afternoon there jim and rahel. this event was supposed to start around 11:45 but like many of these events little bit late right now. what's different here in haverford, pennsylvania, we're at the community rec and environmental center. you can see the setup here for a family town hall this is much different than a rally type environment around 500 people or so are inside this community center right now. hundreds more outside ticketed guests who are right now being turned away. we're expecting hillary clinton, of course, to come here on stage along with her daughter and u penn graduate and actress elizabeth banks. they'll be talking family questions, of course, talking jobs for families. the economy for families. health insurance, a like. this comes just one day after hillary clinton held two rallies in ohio talking about similar topic as well as donald trump's taxes. we're not unsure whether or not she'll touch on that this afternoon. event will last around one hour

here and we're told she is in the building expected to begin momentarily. going to be very interesting rally here because folks are going to be able to ask them questions on stage. really interesting different type of event here in haverford, pennsylvania. now, this is also exactlily one week before the deadline is to register to vote october 11th, of course, that is when that is expected the deadline that is and we could hear hillary clinton or some of her surrogates this afternoon really pushing people to get out and register and that's because of the importance of pennsylvania. we are a swing state of course. this is being called hillary clinton's fire wall state. if she loses pennsylvania it's going to be very hard to winter presidency. once again, this rally expected any minute here. the former secretary of state expected to come on stage with her daughter chelsea clinton and u penn graduate and actress elizabeth banks. the talk much different environment about 500 people once again here gathered to hear

the three speak. we'll of course bring some of that coverage to you live if and when it happens. but for now we're live in haverford, pennsylvania, i'm greg argos cbs3 eyewitness nouse. >> greg, thank you. meantime, republican nominee donald trump continues to defend his tax returns. new york times reported that trump took a write off of near $916 million on personal tack filing in the '90's. now because of that he could have legally avoided federal income tac tacks for for near to decades his cam pin manager told cbs this morning that he did pay federal income taxes in other years. >> the fact that this man has paid one hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes over decades excise taxes, federal payroll taxes, real estate taxes, property taxes -- >> you didn't say income taxes. >> he certainly has in the years that he made a profit like anybody else he paid income taxes. >> later today trump will continue to campaign in colorado and also arizona. well tonight the presidential running mates take center stage in their first and only debate.

republican governor mike pence and democratic senator tim kaine will go toe to toe at long wood university in farmville, virginia. compared to their famous running mates pence and kaine are relatively unknown. polls show many people don't have an opinion of either of them. tonight moderator is cbs news correspondent and cbs anchor elaine qiano. the debate begins at 9:00 right her on cbs followed by "eyewitness news" at 11:00. a developing story now from north jersey this noon where apparent gas leak has leveled two homes. neighbors roar add smell gas beforehand and firefighters were on the scene almost 20 minutes before the explosion. flames spread from the explosion scene to other homes on the same block in paterson. emergency workers say they believe all residents were out of the home and fortunately no injuries were reported. >> in there oh news this noon hurricane matthew wreaking havoc in the carribbean hitting haiti hard. >> it made landfall this morning empty western hemisphere's poorest nation bringing

torrential rains. here's the latest from kingston jamaica. >> torrential rains and more than 130 miles per hour winds slammed into haiti. roads became rivers in the poorest nation in the western hemisphere. across the island in santa domingo dominican republic the depth luge dropped sheets of rain. forcing cars to drive through floods. jamaica is also feeling the effects of matthew. this road was washed away in a mudslide. across the eastern coast of cuba, people were urged to head for higher ground. more than 300,000 people have reportedly been evacuated. >> you can expect to see impacts on florida beginning wednesday and through saturday. >> reporter: florida governor rick scott is taking no chances declaring a state of emergency. >> you must leave before it's too late. we can rebuild a home and rebuild a business. but we cannot rebuild your life. >> reporter: north carolina governor pat mc corey also declared a state of emergency

for 66 counties. >> we can't gamble and we won't gamble with people's lives and the livelihood of many people up and down the coast. >> reporter: if matthew tears into cuba it could force the relocation of detainees at guantonimo bay. but the focus today is haiti. the island least equipped to handle a disaster like this. mark strassman, cbs news kingston, jamaica. >> that's really an understatement as matthew treks north the question which way will the hurricane turn and to impact our area. meteorologist katie fehlinger in the cbs3 went center tracking the storm. katie, what's the latest for our neck of the woods. >> at this point, jim, it is frankly still a little too early to have an exact guarantee as to where the storm is will go after it bypasses the mid atlantic. the closer we get to those areas, the outline is definitely more clearer. let me start things off by showing you satellite this storm system is a monster as you know as you mentioned it is already made its landfall in the

southwestern tip of haiti on pace its way towards cuban also boo hamas. multiple hurricane warnings in mace right now all the way up to the bahamas and you can see there are now some tropical storm watches that are now going into effect off near miami and florida keys. as we take you forward with this -- with this trek here's the latest. still has maximum sustained winds at 145 miles an hour impressive crosses over the bahamas likely as category four. then may even make landfall in southern carl as category three. still major hurricane status. here's where things gip to become a little bit more dicey and unclear. how close does it get to our coastline? regardless it is appearing as though we are going to see at least a glancing blow out of this storm system. by the weekend. so the closer we get the more fine tuned the forecast will become. we'll have much more on that storm and what is now, guys, tropical storm nicole also forming in the atlantic. much more on the later on.

rahel. >> thank you. atlantic county officials now say that the police involved shooting of a man in ventnor began as domestic disturbance. chopper three over the 700 block of berkeley after 49-year-old john feather barricaded himself a home last night. police say feather fired shots from inside the home then came out and pointed a handgun at members of the swat team. officers fired and eyewitnesses say the scene was chaotic. >> i was watching tv next thing you know you heard gunshots maybe four shots fired. i came out. cops rolled in. half an hour later you heard more shots and after they went off maybe 15 shots in row. >> we're todd told ventnor police were able to get his parents out of the house before the gunfire started. in other news gloucester county woman faces theft charges after police say she stole money from an emergency worker's wallet while she rode in an ambulance. police say 25-year-old britney car rullo has admitted to the theft. investigators say she was allowed in the ambulance after her boyfriend was hit and killed by a car on mullica hill road in

harrison township sunday afternoon. police say she took the wallet from the purse of emt worker the wallet was recovered returned by missing $120 in cash. >> hard to believe a story there. golfing world in western pennsylvania this noon paying tribute to one of the greatest of all time. >> golfers, friends and family are there to remember arnold palmer. the pennsylvania native won 62 tournaments in his career including four masters and two british opens. he died last week at the age of 87. among the mourners palmer's long time rival jack nicholaus. today's hem memorial service is taking place at vicinity zen college in will he trobe. still to come this noon on cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> the threats have had communities on edge now local police in two jurisdictions say they've identified the kids behind the clown scares. that's coming up next. and police bring that in a theft ring they've label the

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get him out of here! get him out of here! get the hell out of here! priorities usa action is responsible for the content of this advertising. take you down to breaking news right now with chopper three on the scene of an overturned tractor trailer. the produce truck flipped over win the last 30 minutes near interchange five of the new jersey turnpike in westampton burlington county. there are no reports of injuries but there could be traffic issues in the area. so you want to be mindful of that. two new jersey teens are arrested for making scare row clown threats on social immediate y posts surfaced across the country involving clowns threatening violence at

local schools. 1384 old girl who attends bunker hill middle school and 14-year-old boy from orchard valley middle school were both charged with cyber harassment. >> i love the way our district handled it. they made sure us as parents felt safe. we were able to reassure our children that everything is fine and we have nothing to worry about. >> meantime philadelphia police have also identified a 13-year-old girl who they say sent several scary clown posts threatening violence in number of philadelphia public and private schools. the da will now decide whether shell face charges. well san francisco police say they've caught 16 people who are part of a theft ring that they've labeled the rainbow girls. take look. this is how the group of teens does it. they walk in, split up and then start grabbing things off of shelves. they earned their nickname because of their colorful clothes and died hair. police say they've struck in several cities including los angeles, phoenix and las vegas. now why they may have caught several people police say they're worried about copycats. and still ahead on "eyewitness news", a ferocious

hit on haiti from hurricane matthew. >> i think

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welcome back everyone. hurricane matthew slammed into haiti southwestern coast earlier this morning. residents are bracing themselves for the region's strongest storm in nearly a decade. life threatening floods, landslides and sustained winds of up to 145 miles an hour are expected to come with this category four storm. organizations are standing by to begin emergency relief. your heart certainly goes out to everyone down there. we have to watch and see what will happen here.

>> we dodge this is going to really strike quite a bit of real estate over time. you mentione mentioned 145 miler that's incredibly strong for landfall. we'll sever stronger storms out in the open water for that to make landfall at that speed on that island in particular it's just so unfortunate. >> it really could be devastating. unfortunately i think we'll be seeing lot of very tragic looking pictures coming out of haiti in the days ahead here but this storm is obviously still on its track it's still got a lot of other places that it may strike or even just have a glancing blow to. we are one of them. let's get out there on talk a little bit statistical information we mentioned that wind at landfall. it was impressive. we've certainly seen stronger storms at landfall super typhoon out in the pacific that was strongest ever reported camille from 1969 here in the atlantic and struck with 190 miles an hour sustain winds but winston was you will there that heat figi, mer ran tee was recent near taiwan and matthew has now gone into the books here as one

of the strongest win of the strongest rounds of wind at landfall that we've seen in the meantime here's matthew your eye gets drawn to it immediately now we also have another tropical storm in nicole. so this storm possibly becomes an issue for bermuda specifically. i don't think it's an issue for anyone else. we'll discuss in the minutes ahead here, but take look where the track goes. there's bermuda. it's essentially going to head that way. but then likely fizzle nearby. so hopefully it in fact does that. regardless we are mud today will be on stand by to see what happens. let's good become to matthew and talk about what the situation is over all with the atmosphere pattern here and why this system is making so many twists and turns. you have an area of high pressure trying to nudge in here right now despite the clouds but we are going to see some sun in the next couple of days from high pressure but it's blocking the overall flow. along comes a trough in the days ahead, and this storm matthew is trying to nudge right into it. so both of these pieces are basically going to help steer

the storm. so the biggest thing to me is the speed of this jet stream. fit gets here with the right timing it could either, a, bring matthew a little closer to the coastline in the delaware valley or, actually help it make a right hand turn and go out to sea. so that's where the question marks really remain. but i still think in my own personal gut we're going to end up seeing a glancing blow from this. near the coastline especially. but again time will tell because it looks like it will likely be saturday night no sunday many days away. in the meantime storm scan at the local level you see the clouds nudged in here not the prettiest afternoon unfolding you can tell that also from our life neighborhood network shot here at pleasant valley middle and high schools. temperatures in the mid and upper 60s currently not going to tack too much on to that however with sunshine will possibly be a shower not enough to warrant the umbrella still worth mention. wednesday, thursday, friday all calm and clear. now maybe the time to start thinking about how you'd prepare if in fact we've got tropical activity this weekend but again the impacts from matthew would

come as early as saturday and especially into sunday. jim, we'll zen it over to you. well, celebrity chef robert irvine is known for his culinary expertise helping struggling restaurant owners safe their businesses in shows like restaurant impossible but another project close to his heart supporting the brave men and women of our military and their families. robert is in philadelphia for the 75th annual liberty u.s.o. gala and joins me here in the studio to talk more about this special event. thanks for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> so why is the uso so important to you and how long have you been involved with them. >> first of all i was in the british military. when i moved to the states i wanted to continue helping so i traveled extensively with our troops and work with uso very closely. we just came back from afghanistan at christmas we'll be off to kuwait and some other places in november, and then whirlwind tour on christmas day which we can't talk about so much right now. kind of exciting. >> what can we expect at the gala?

>> well i'm emceeing it. a lot of off the cuff fun. some great food. and really honoring the men and women who serve our country, our nation. >> a lot of folks don't know lot about the uso and how people can help the cause. when people ask you what can i do? >> the u.s.o. has 33,000 random acts of kindness every day around the world. and it can be as good as or small as going to an airport and working in one much their locations and feeding or making coffee or it donating money or just time. you know, one thing we've got a lot of is time and when you use that time wisely, the men and women appreciate it. >> want to talk also about your show that airs here on the cw. are you still filming the show episodes? >> we film four shows day right now. three days week in la and it's very interesting. you know, if you take restaurants away from restaurant

impossible you're left with the robert irvine show and some fun parts, some serious parts, and a lot of fun. >> you have always come across in the restaurant portion as being very direct and blunt. can we expect anything different in the talk show? >> maybe a little bit more compassion but not much. >> okay. >> okay. >> and you're in philly. anyplaces you'll be checking out to eat while you're here? >> well i love park. i love any of jose garr says' restaurants. vetris. just great restaurants here. we're very lucky to have so many great chefs in philadelphia. >> um-hmm. looking forward to the gala. again, what date is it? >> the seventh of october. >> you're the emcee. >> i'm emceeing. >> you're not cooking for everybody. >> i'll in the kilt chen. i'm making sure they're doing it right but i am emcee. i'm not actually cooking. >> thanks so much. >> thank you. appreciate that. and again you can see the robert irvine show weekdays at 1:00 p.m. on the cw. we'll b

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north carolina man says he needed change so he gave his suv a makeover. >> you could say he made his chevy into a lincoln. take look. larry hall covered his end tear suv with 51,000 pennies he says it took about seven weeks and gallons of glue tocometer the job. he tried to glue them on heads up but wound up tales any way. that's okay. [ laughter ] >> he says the pennies added about 300 pounds to the weight of the car and jim of course you being the consumer reporter --

>> that will cost him more in gas. weighing down the car. >> he's got a sweet captain's hat. >> yes. yes. >> katie penny for your though thoughts. >> very nicely done. >> i try. >> okay. we'll look one more time at the scenarios here with matthew, and we'll take out to the graphics very quickly. so here's the thing. we have mechanisms in place with greater atmospheric pattern. either a, the storm hugs our coastline or it actually makes right hand turn and doesn't mess with us too much. keeping our fingers cross it's the ladder and now we're starting to see some of our other computer guidance we like to trust jump on board with that. here's hoping things will change. many days ahead here they look nice at least. >> matthew turn right. that's "eyewitness news" at noon. i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel seoul solomon for katie and all of us here thanks for watching if "eyewitness news" continues at 5:00. we're always online for you at cbsphilly.com. >> young and the restless is next. ♪

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>> dylan: come on, you're telling me a blocked caller id's gonna stop you, kevin? i need to know who's calling my house and harassing my wife. >> kevin: yeah, i get that, dylan, but i am slammed. hold on. >> dylan: kevin, don't put me on hol-- >> sharon: are you getting kevin involved in this? >> dylan: yeah, he's the best. he's gonna help. >> sharon: [ sighs ] >> kevin: sorry about that. i'm very popular this morning. but like i was saying, i'm buried with work. >> dylan: are you kidding me? we're talking about my family. >> kevin: i get that, but -- >> dylan: kevin, please. i'll owe you. >> kevin: maybe, and this is a big blinking neon "maybe," i can spare a few hours later today. >> dylan: great. great. you get started. i'll get the warrant from judge ramsey, and i'll be right there to see what you got. thanks. >> paul: so, was that dylan? >> kevin: yeah, looking for a favor. so i'll just add it to the quadrillion other things i'm juggling. >> paul: right.