we begin with breaking news from overnight a devastating house fire in the northeast leaves a man and woman dead. it is a tragedy still unfolding this morning in bustleton. your son or my son handled classified information the way hillary clinton did they would be court marshalled. >> that is absolutely false. >> vice-president candidate mike pence and tim car spar at their first and only debate and it was intense. hear what they had to say about doned old trump's taxes. this is what hurricane matthew looked like in hate which whipping wind and churning waters, monster storm continues to move through caribbean as it eyes east coast of the united states we will show you how residents from florida to the carolinas are preparing. it is wednesday, october 5th good morning i'm jim donovan. i'm rahel solomon in for brooke. lets get wednesday started with weather and traffic lets

check with katie and meisha. >> good morning you guys. roads are looking nice. we have one accident but try roadways for now, construction out there. >> yeah, and staying dry all day. i don't have to lot at radar for. that it makes job easier for you, you don't to have worry about having umbrella ready here today and next couple days look very very quiet. we will have much more on matthew but i want to get you out the door just waiting to find out how today will transpire. to problems, storm scan is nice and quiet. we have high pressure bill nothing place and it will help bring back sunshine, definitely more clear sky out there right now and we can expect that throughout the take. great are northeast is quiet. very thin, very scattered in nature. meanwhile as a result under that clear sky, remember the cloud basely act like a blanket the hi would trap in the heat from the day before but because the skies are clearing out more readily especially near poconos and upstate new york we will see

more blue contouring showing up. mid 50's, generally every where else, milder, cooler, all depend upon your location, more remote suburbs, cooler it will be this morning. throw an extra layer. we are at that time of the year, good idea to have extra layer ready to go but i do expect you will have a pretty nice day here, very seasonal for early october standards in the city of philadelphia right where we should be 71 and sunny in the bad, breezy down the shore but sun will shine every where and we are in the mid to upper 60's in the resort towns but meisha, matthew that is a hot topic. we will have more later in the show. katie, thank you. eyes on today looking great in terms of the weather, as katie just pointed out. roads are looking nice. we have construction and as we said we have one accident out there. morning construction crews out here 95 south between route 413 a and cot hand that right lane is compromised and you can see where all those cones are laid out in place as well. probably will be slow, especially moving in the

5:00 o'clock hour. also vine street expressway closed for construction moving in the westbound direction still closed jumping on the schuylkill, also eastbound side still closed. we will let you know when that happens. for now that is what it is. accident in montgomery county, franconia indian creek road an heads up for those in that neck of the wood and construction at 42 to 295 northbound closed until five. 295 both directions between 47 and 42, one to two lanes are block until 5:00 a.m., jim, over to you. breaking news a fire tragedy in the the bustleton section of philadelphia. >> a man and woman were killed in the overnight fire and a fire fighter was also hurt. "eyewitness news" reporter justin finch is live with the very latest, justin it appears there is very much a scene behind you. >> reporter: good morning, that fire fighter is stable with a minor injury but despite cpr and on the scene efforts to save their lives a man and woman died both found on the first floor of their home. let's take you to "eyewitness

news" viewer video that shows flames leaping from the rooftop of this house on the 9800 block of bridal road. fire fighters pulled up just before midnight to an intense interior fire a full box alarm was quickly called sending as many as 40 fire fighters, four fire engines two ladder trucks and two chiefs, crews pushed in and trapped that fire to the first floor, knocking it down in just 35 minutes, they say, but inside, two victims were found, a man and a woman. neighbors say that they are a couple in their 50's and just took their daughter off to college. one victim was found in the foyer, the other in the living room area. >> unfortunately the bustleton section of philadelphia, suffered a tragedy today, and the companies found two victims on the inside on the first floor. they brought them out and started, cpr immediately. sad to announce we lost both of them. >> i'm extremely shocked.

i was actually crying a little bit because i hoped they got out. >> you are looking live at the investigation, still underway here on the scene here. there were reports of the gas leak possibly here on the scene that was contain. in word if that caused the fire. that of course remains under investigation at the this time. fire marshall is here on the scene and upon arrival we heard crews said there were no working fire alarms that they heard and again that fire fighter is stable at aria torresdale with a minor injuries. rahel and jim, back inside to you. in other big news this morning hurricane matthew is slowly barreling toward the bohamas and threatening the u.s. east coast, deadly category four storm is packing winds of 145 miles an hour. matthew made land fall in cuba yesterday after causing massive devastation in haiti. forecasters say it could reach south east florida by late thursday. people in miami are stocking up on supplies. >> i got batteries, i got some

gas canisters, for a generator , and a couple of head lamps if power goes out. >> we have been through wilma, katrina and pretty much see what devastation it can cause so i'm not taking chances. >> reporter: residents in the storm path have been told to have enough food and what the tore last three days. fresh from last night's vice-presidential debate tim kaine mike pence will campaign in pennsylvania. kaine will be in philadelphia tonight, pence in dauphin county this morning. last night both faced off in their only debate in virginia and as we gentleman jiang reports it didn't take long for one candidate to interrupt the other. >> reporter: virginia senator tim kaine indiana governor mike pence met for the first time on the debate stage each accused the other side of running a negative campaign. >> donald trump during his campaign has called mexicans rapist and criminals. he has called women slobs, pigs, dogs, disgusting. >> this insult driven campaign, that is small

potatoes compared to hillary clinton calling you will half of the donald trump's supporters basket of deplorables. >> reporter: kaine pence spared overdone old trump's use of the tax code. >> smart to not pay for veterans, smart not to pay for teachers and i guess all of house do pay for those things are stupid. >> do you take all of the deductions you take. i do. >> reporter: pence cast doubt on hillary clinton's integrity. >> there is a reason that people question trust worthiness of hillary clinton and that is because they are paying attention. hillary clinton had a private serve inner her home that had classified information. >> two trekly talk over each other. >> richard nixon released tax returns. >> people at home cannot understand one of you when you speak over one another. >> running mates face off again this sunday in the town hall style presidential debate. weijia jiang for cbs-3 "eyewitness news".

again, hillary clinton, donald trump hold their second presidential debate sunday night. clinton is holding a fund raise inner washington. during yesterday's town hall in haverford township clinton pushed for paid family leave and sick days for working moms. trump is rally with anything henderson and reno. during a round table with oil and gas leaders in denver trump said regulations are damaging the energy business. just a reminder trump and clinton's second presidential debate is sunday at washington university this st. louis. coverage begins at 9:00 p.m. on cbs-3. as we learned more details about last week's deadly train crash in hoboken, a lawyer for some of the hundred people injured have filed notice for intent to sue. rose marie arnold said blame lies with new jersey transit. her clients have injuries that are permanent or medical bills greater than $3,600. so far there has been no comment from new jersey transit, and meantime a u.s. official tells the associated press, that the train was going between 20 and 30 miles

an hour when it slammed into the station, the speed limit at that spot is 10 miles an hour, investigators have recovered the second event recorder from the wreckage and front facing video. both in the ntsb lab in washington d.c. happening today, new jersey lawmakers could raise state's gas tax by almost a quarter. democrats and republican governor chris christie made the deal last week. extra money will go for road, bridge, transit improvements. if passed the agreement would raise new jersey gas tax to more than 37 cents a gallon, but that it still lower then pennsylvania. deal would cut sales and estate taxes. uber hopes to make ride sharing legal. they made a emergency filing with the parking authority yesterday to extend temporary ride sharing regulation that is had been in place since july they expired last friday. law makers in harrisburg plan to take up comprehensive ride sharing legislation this month. well, the philadelphia housing authority is laying off 14 percent of its work force, we will tell you what they are doing to try to help

those workers. plus a piece of a mural goes missing find out why they are being taken. a view of hurricane matthew from space shows just how big the storm has become, don't miss katie's forecast with the latest on its track help we come

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updating you on our breaking news this morning a fatal fire in the bustleton section of philadelphia. this is eyewitness cam video from the 9,000 block of bridal road, man and woman were killed which short out shortly before midnight. a fire fighters was taken to aria torresdale with minor injuries. fire marshall is investigating a cause. philadelphia's magic garden is calling on anyone who took pieces of the society hill playhouse mural will to bring them back. >> playhouse is being torn down to make room for apartments and since the demolition started people have taken pieces of the mosaic home with them. neighbors hope that the pieces

are returned. >> it is vandalism almost kind of. >> some people come at nighttime and they can hear tapping up on high deck upstairs. i guess people are taking their memoirs. >> reporter: officials say they don't want to get anyone in trouble but they want piece toes use for future artwork. time is 4:43. >> lets get a check of the forecast with katie. you have been watching matthew for quite sometime but in the short term it appears we should have a nice day. >> absolutely high pressure will hook us up with very pleasant days. we will talk much more about the good part of the forecast but lets back it up and look at what is going on in the tropics, a devastating hurricane for portions of the caribbean and already that storm has moved through portions of haiti, making its path north. thankfully beginning to weaken a little bit but it is still, a major hurricane and category three currently. as of 5:00 a.m. a new track will be coming out and we will share that with you at 5:00 o'clock hour. there are still hurricane

warnings in place, all of the bohamas included in that, still over spreading eastern cuba and haiti and up to the eastern branch of florida. this could be a devastating storm system for eastern florida shoreline. still potent category three hurricane. still major status when it comes to that category. we will see this, essentially, ride the coast of the southeastern united states. i'm showing you forecast models because they are starting to jump on the possibility and more likely possibility that this storm makes a right-hand turn and turns out to sea before it gets up to the virginia coastline which essentially will shelter us. that is great news for our area. there could be changes. we advise that. we are settle relatively early on in terms of the impact here from that storm system but right new there is a better chance it will bypass us so that is great. in the meantime is there a potent system erupt ago cross the plains, this is the front that will help steer matthew

but it is where next front will be coming from and that does bring a chance for on is rain toward the weekend. for now mostly sunny, pleasant high pressure for a couple days. under clear skies we will cool down more efficiently tonight to 53. tomorrow and friday looking lovely, warmer as win flow shifts from the south and west. come saturday we are allowing at least the chance for some rain especially p.m. hearst but as long azamat eustace on the current projected path we get bypassed and we end up with skies that start to clear. as we switch gears, i want to give you a heads up that i would love you to join me at noon raising money in honor of breast cancer awareness month. part of the 15th annual lights for the cure event. i will broadcast live from liberty place rotunda so come out, take a selfie with me, you might to have teach me, meisha needs to come along. with the pink toyota camry. for more details head to cbs philly.com/pink toyota. meisha, back over to you. >> we will do that during the break i have tips up my

sleeves. >> please. >> good morning, happy wednesday to you. what are we looking at right now? we are looking at vine closed overnight the for construction. you can see moving in the westbound direction, just around the schuylkill we are looking okay. eastbound side is we are still waiting now but overall we are looking good. still early. not even 5:00 o'clock hour. we should be looking good and we are. this is where we had moving construction crews 59 south between route 413 and cottman. right lane compromised. those crews have left the building. we are looking nice there. we do have an accident out there montgomery county, franconia, take a look are to those in this neck of the wood at indian creek road. in this area it will not slow you down too much right now but as i always say this early hour if it continues, and lingers in the 5:00 o'clock even 6:00 o'clock hour they do do that. that is when it will slow you down more. construction pennsylvania turnpike eastbound before downingtown that right lane is block right now, heads up on that and also new jersey turnpike southbound at route 322, that right lane is block and that is going to hold out

there until around 6:00 a.m. little bit longer then what we typically see closures at 5:00 e this 1295 both directions between route 47 and 42, one to two lanes are blocked and as i said that will lift right around 5:00 a.m. i will confirm when it does. speaking of new jersey route 42 northbound that off ramp to 295 northbound that is scheduled to lift around 5:00 a.m. and we will let you know when it does. we are holding steady at 55 miles an hour basically every where, jim, over to you. >> construction, construction and more construction. well, up next we will tell you why retailers are getting excited about the holiday season in a live report from wall street. plus a boost on the move, the reason authorities decided in to the tranquilize this big guy in a mall parking

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among the highest in the nation. vote takes place in new jersey, honorary placing the century old camden high school, and a program aims to change the experience senior citizens patients are having at area hospitals. check in two, three, four times a day on kyw news radio 1060 on your am dial. philadelphia housing authority is laying off 126 workers or 14 percent of the work force. pha says it is an effort to close a 20 held budget gap, agency is offering replacement services to laid off workers. the head says it is serving 3800 more families since three years ago despite receiving less funding. time right now is 4:50. time for a check of business news. >> money watch's jill wagner joins us live from the insuring stock exchange and jill, airlines, of course, have been keeping an eye on hurricane matthew but what do travelers need to know. >> reporter: airlines will let you change your flight without a change fee, american airlines says it will wave fees on trips scheduled thursday on friday to and from

eight cities in florida, delta says it will be watching hurricane path as well and could cancel flights, jim and rahel. >> i understand holiday sales forecast are now out, and so let me brace myself, how much are we expect to spend. >> reporter: well, good news for stores, actually. national retail federation says holiday sales for november and december are expected to rise, but 3.6 percent. this is incredible, 59 percent of the people surveyed say that they plan to shop at amazon.com, and that there is also expect to be a 3.3 percent growth at actual stores. so some people want to get out there and see what they are buying in person. >> okay. >> have you done your christmas shopping yet. >> absolutely not i wait until the last minute. i'm one of the 3.3 percent i like to go in the store and i like displays, lights, christmas feel you are one of the crazy people. >> yes. >> i can listen to it on my

ipod at home. thanks, jill. we will check with you in the next hour. coming up after the break we will get another check of weather and traffic. >> stay with us, we will b

good morning, everyone. we are keeping a close monitor on is what happening in the tropics as it pertains to our upcoming weekend, however, for now looking at the tropical satellite that storm is still churning as a category three storm matthew that is over the caribbean island there and we also worth mentioning have tropical storm nicole on our hand, that formed yesterday morning, not expected to be any kind of threaten to bermuda but it will start moving northward as the day progress. in the meantime at this point, we are keeping fingers crossed it looks like matthew will be a essentially a non-issue for us. it is expected to make its land fall in the south east united states and turnout to sea. in the meantime we have a clear sky with pink buildings lit up in honor of breast

cancer awareness month. support of that. very proud sponsor of that here at cbs 389. 58 degrees. dew point, in the low 50's. good hair day. we are looking g back in the 07's for next few days and then by saturday other than a chance for some rain, it does look like, nothing more than a glancing blow from matthew, meisha, great news there. >> that is fantastic news. >> a lot of people worried about that. good morning, everybody. happy wednesday. looking outside, i-95 before girard you can see some early risers out there. some of your neighbors out there possibly. offer all we are enjoying nice wide opened roadways. if you can get out early i would suggest it. if you have to leave the house, and let the kid go it will be busier today. the nice news is that we have got nice dry roadways. we are not contending with any rain or anything like. that schuylkill taillights in the eastbound direction at belmont. looking at ease and westbound side as well overall schuylkill belmont looking good. vine closed for construction we are opened right now and all good for business, and still taking crews but they are moving out of the way,

west and eastbound vine looking good. accident this franconia, godshall road and indian creek road just make note of the accident. rahel, back over to you. well, you have heard of being sent on a wild goose chase, what about a wild moose chase. >> a moose wand nerd a mall parking lot in bismarck. people with their cell phones captured the glimpse of this moose. look at the size of this thing. >> huge. >> there wasn't much police with do they feared tranquilize wore agitate the moose. police say he probably levittown. >> okay. >> okay. a fan gets out offhanded at blue jays/orioles game. >> we all know philly fans get a bad rap in the national media but one fan did in toronto was outrageous. the outrageous moment. plus people turned out to watch the debate at watch parties throughout the area. parties throughout the area. hear what they have to say when i was one year old, i was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer on my spinal chord.

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eyewitness video captured these huge flames from the devastating house fire that claimed two lives. a fire fighter was also injured, how fire fighter is doing and what neighbors saw. >> hold on a second. >> he said ours is an insult driven campaign. >> gloves come off running mates face off in their only debate of the campaign season. big take aways. hurricane matthew is leaving destruction behind in the caribbean as it heads north and now it could set its sites on the u.s., katie tracking storm with brand new information just coming in right now. today is wednesday, october 5th, good morning, i'm jim donovan. i'm rahel solomon in for brooke. katie and meisha are here. my ears perk up when i hear

good hair day. >> absolutely. i love that. >> fabulous. >> okay. >> i got to tell you. >> i'm so concern. >> my ears perk up when i hear hump day and it is wednesday. i feel like here we are we are getting over hump together. road are looking g nice and dry. one minor accident but overall things are looking nice. >> things are looking good in the weather department. we have got nice low dew points, light wind, sunshine, looks beautiful. keeping a close watch on matthew but i come bearing better wet ther news when it comes to that. definitely good news. as we look at matthew, yes, still churning away as a pretty potent category three storm. it was a devastating blow to portions of haiti and continues its trek across eastern cuba, bohamas. hurricane warnings posted there and there will be a curve ape make its way back toward florida coastline. hurricane warnings posted there. right now and we will have more on this throughout the hour so stick with us but