>> good morning. in the world of traffic everything is looking nice, roadways nice and dry. we have a couple minor accidents we will talk about in a moment but it is just construction, katie. >> weather is cooperating too. i would suggest dressing in layers on a day like this. we're off to a cool start and while temperatures drop we will discuss that but lets turn focus where everybody is sort of has their mine, trained here at least in terms of the weather up and down eastern seaboard. so here's another look at that satellite picture down over bohamas that storm is churning, well defined, obvious eye to the system and it is crossing through northwest through the course of the day movement here but over the course of this entire day, bohamas is where it is at and up toward florida later today impact starting to be felt. it is still, not expect to be an impact here, we may see some tropical moisture get drawn north with the frontal passage but that is it. we're really dodging the worst of this storm system. the meantime storm san three,

no storms to report here locally we have high pressure and that will linger through the rest of the this workweek and we will even up with wet weather by the weekend. we will talk about that through the course of the show. but lets look at the variety pack we have 60's, 50's, 40's and 30's out there. thirty-eight in mount pocono. quite the cool start in the suburbs and i suggest dress nothing layers to take but it will be bright, comfortable, warming up with time all the way to 76 degrees. one of the excuses to find a reason to go outside, beautiful afternoon, unfolding for us here but just chilly as is typical for relevant i october, meisha. >> seventy-six, gorgeous but as katie pointed out, it is chilly with kid out the door, pack them with a sweat shirt. boulevard headlights moving in the southbound direction before the schuylkill this is what we're looking at, looking good, exactly what we want to to see in the 5:00 o'clock hour on a thursday. we are looking quiet both place that he is we look this

is schuylkill headlights moving in the eastbound direction approaching gulph mills. it is a steady stream, you can expect that in this a area. but that is heavier then boulevard at schuylkill. then we have vine close overnight for that construction between schuylkill and broad, moving in the westbound direction toward the schuylkill, a couple friend out there overall eastbound side is still closed. i will let you know when that happens. accident in horsham at easton road and another one this limerick, cross hill road at masters drive. we have two accidents. they are more locally condensed. they will not affect too much of you but just head up in that neck of the wood. pennsylvania turnpike eastbound construction before downingtown that right lane is still block there. jim and brooke, back over to you. hurricane matthew is pounding bohamas right now and expected to intense file as it approaches the u.s. >> forcing some airlines to cancel flights to florida. "eyewitness news" reporter justin finch is live at philadelphia international airport where he actually found some travelers about to board, the the only flights, to south florida, justin?

brooke and jim, good morning. there has to be at least one and we totally found them. it depend where you are going to florida as to what your flight will do here. check out or land owe, still has take off signs for most of the morning. miami, fort lauderdale are different stories. they are taking off at 6:00 a.m. if you are traveling you will face problems going to miami today, last flight to that area taking off philadelphia today at 6:00 o'clock this morning. that is just about one hour. looking now at video here one passenger land in florida they won't have time for sunshine. more than 1.5 million people have been told to evacuate azamat you nears. it is florida's strongest hurricane threat in more than a decade. matthew's forecast along south east coast after ravaging the caribbean where two dozen are reported dead. from the floor of the carolina coastlines are rushed to snatch up supplies ahead of the storm an aftermath, and in those at risk areas around the

clock efforts to ready for hat the you's land fall but still, there are some who have to get down south, and their reasons ranged, despite this storm. >> i got to go back home and take care of my dog, house, board windows up and take shelter i guess. >> we are going to miami florida to see fsu miami game my daughter is a student at university of miami. >> hopefully that game won't be impact by this. we are looking at american airlines, so far, so good in terms of the flights moving around that area. that is not south florida. again their last flight out to miami will leave at 6:00 a.m. in just about one hour. per flight aware.com some 1600 flights have been cancelled between wednesday and friday because of of the penning threat of matthew. brooke and jim, back inside to you. thanks, justin. nine u.s. military helicopters will be rested into service to help haiti, island nation was hit hard by hurricane matthew, country is

a peeling for help in reaching devastated communities. crucial bridge collapsed in the storm and people have been stranded on both sides. stay with cbs-3 as we continue to monitor matthew and when not on air you can get latest on the conditions on our web site at cbs philly.com. surprise announcement this morning, ride the duck has announced it is shutting down its philadelphia operations indefinitely. company provided water to land sight seeing tours around the city since 2003, but it says an increase in insurance premiums of more than 300 percent is making it no longer financially feasible to operate in philadelphia, at this time. the company employees 42 full and part-time workers. you may remember back in 2010 a crash on the delaware river involving a ride the ducks boat killed two hungarian students. philadelphia attorney robert mongeluzzi issued a statement saying that through our extensive experience, representing victims of the

duck boat disasters we have determined they are fatally flawed. he he says a city without duck boat tours is a safer city, that is a quote. philadelphia police are looking for clues in the deadly kensington shooting. police say a 47 year-old woman was gun down in the 100 block of east sterner street. officers say someone shot her in the head, neck, shoulder and she was pronounced dead at the scene. police are searching for a suspect and they are looking into the possibility that the victim, may have been an innocent bystander. well, red cross is helping four tam list left home less when a natural gas explosion tour a house down in trenton. two people were rush to the hospital, the blast caused extensive damage to the duplex on wayne avenue, the red cross is providing aid to 14 people, right now all of the injuries are said to be minor. investigators are working to determine if it was a gas leak that spark a deadly house fire in philadelphia's bustleton section. we told but this yesterday morning, the fire on the 9800 block of bridal road left two

residents dead it is unclear whether or not the home had working smoke detectors. clown threat phenomenon continues to sweep the nation but for police departments in our area it is no laughing matter. authorities made four more arrests in connection with the threats, a 12 year-old in bensalem and three juvenileness monroe township. this is the heels of the three other arrest this is week. philadelphia police say they are investigating threatening posts made by a 13 years old. now to the lateness campaign 2016, hillary clinton and donald trump are gearing up for presidential debate number two. two candidates are set to meet face-to-face again sunday this time in the town hall setting. trump is looking to rebun. he is holding a small town u-haul meeting in new hampshire while clinton is taking time off from the campaign trail to prepare. it is no secret pennsylvania may be the key to winning the whole election. coming up at 5:30 from philadelphia to johnstown we will show you what the candidates need to do to win

the keystone state. the ratings are in for tuesday night's vice-presidential debate and it seems like interest just wasn't there. 37 million viewers tuned into see mike pence and tim kaine in a display that many thought was too argumentative. by comparison, 70 million people watched sarah palin and gentlemen biden debate in 2008 and 50 million tuned into see gentlemen biden and paul ryan debate in 2012. concerns impact this years presidential election that was so large, cnn reports 24 states asked department of home land security for help. it is in the clear which state, you even though pennsylvania is said to be one of the most vulnerable. dhs official say there has been 20 attempted hacks on voter registration systems nationwide and russia is believed to be the culprit. contractor for the national security agency is behind bars, accused of stealing government secrets. federal prosecutors say that harold thomas martin the third

at midded to stealing highly class fight computer code he knew were top secret. martin posted highly posted secrets about the agency's signer tools on line. investigators initially believed another country was responsible for the breach but quickly shifted their focus toward 51 year-old martin. off again, on again, off again, the controversy over new jersey's proposed gas tax increase continues. we will tell you why lawmakers did not vote on it yesterday. also police dash cam video shows dramatic chase and its aftermath, wait until you see the rest, it is up next. big story is track of hurricane matthew from video from the bohamas, katie is updating her forecast and will have the latest straight ahead. >> ♪ how would you you like to buy your very own island, there is one for sale not too

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go on, get on the ground right now. on the ground. >> wild police chase comes to an end in new hampshire, right there, this all happen early yesterday morning. an officer says they saw a white car speeding between lanes, and then started to chase the the car and after losing sight of it, the officer says he then spotted it flipped. driver was arrested and taken to the hospital. he is charged with driving while impaired among other things. and a horse is expect to be okay after rescuers pulled him from the mud in chester county. crews worked for hours, and needed help of the crane to free the horse named cyrus. yesterday afternoon, in thornbury township. the 1700-pound, 18 year-old clydesdale escaped and found a short time later almost neck deep in mud. crews had to sedate cyrus to free him and vets say his condition this morning is guarded. if you are catching an uber x or lyft in philadelphia your driver is technically operating illegally.

temporary permit issued in july before democratic national convention expired at the end of september. uber is calling on pennsylvania house representatives to pass ride sharing legislation, the week of october 17th when house meets again, ronald blount of the taxi workers alliance of pennsylvania says taxis are strictly regulated and he wants requirement on uber and lyft. >> not as much as we got but some regulations to uber x and some of the safety, definitely with vetting drivers and vehicles. if that could happen we would have an agreement that all side can live with. >> until a decision is made uber x and lyft drivers risk ticketing and immediate impoundment of their vehicles if caught. plans to raise the pump at the pump in new jersey are on hold temporarily. lawmakers hope to vote wednesday to raise tax by 23 cents per gallon but a procedural problem in the state senate push the vote back to friday. tax hike is expected to pass then and then extra money will be used to pay for

transportation projects, in the garden state. of course, all eyes are on the tropics as we continue to track hurricane matthew. >> katie is here with the latest, katie. >> most new and up to date information coming from the national hurricane center. matthew has strengthened, since last check, yes, so let me get you outside to the satellite. this is a look at a very well defined storm system moving right in and over bohamas island and its next stop is florida. so at this point we do still have numerous, extensive hurricane warnings as well as watches that extend up to south carolina coastline and even tropical storm watches go out to the western side of florida. it gives you a sense that this storm is just very expansive, with wind field and certainly rain field extending all the way out, to the western side of that state. in the meantime here's where center of the circulation resides, you can see that wind flow, again, just that vortex

but as this storm moves north and west there is a possibility that it continues to strengthen and right now it is only 6 miles per her shy of category four status. a very strong cat three and as morning and afternoon progresses is there a good one it end up as a category four before it makes land fall over florida. even if it doesn't make land fall it is coming awfully close to that shoreline so hence evacuation taking place and look what happens through the course of the next day and a half here. it is a slow mover. this will be stuck for multiple days across south east. this goes out to sunday and it is only making that right-hand curve by the time we hit second half of the weekend. it will be down across shorelines for many days on end and as a result causing major, major just not the just devastation but just flooding usuals and whipped damage that will be coming from this is pretty extensive. let's track those sustained wind speed. darker magenta shading indicating where we have

strongest wind speeds and that starting to get underway where it is 50 miles an her greater wind flow as early as this afternoon on the coast of florida. then moving up near cape canaveral area where we will see land fall in the early morning hours of tomorrow and continues right up the coast. if this before to continue north we would be keeping a close watch on it but that right-hand turn is still expected. it is really good news for us, unfortunately for the folks in the southern states. it will be something to keep an eye out for possibility we will need to help, efforts down there with the red cross. storm scan is quiet. we have high pressure on our side in part helping to steer that storm and keep it suppressed to the south. looking at palmyra cove nature park no problems seeing that sky line. tough to tell lit up in pink in support of the breast cancer awareness month. we expect that sun to shine, nice warm afternoon but cool start, dress in layers, typical for october and really tomorrow looks like a carbon

copy forecast. by sat the take cold front crosses bringing showers and clouds and by sunday we are in the clear officially and we will see temperatures drop as well, meisha, over to you. katie, thank you, look at that sunshine we will get, that is some good news for us in the delaware valley. blue route taillights in the north bound direction, this is before the schuylkill and you can see moving in the northbound direction. it is not looking that great. when we look over here to the southbound side that is where i have got my eye, overall southbound side that is starting to heat up. northbound side is looking good. i-95 south at academy what we are looking at here both directions looking fairly similar and looking quiet on interstate i-95. now that we are pushing deeper in that is a good sign. 422 taillights moving in the eastbound direction near pennsylvania turnpike, moving eastbound direction is what you are working with westbound not keeping my eye over here. mainly looking at eastbound side and now maybe starting to heat up ever so slightly but

we are looking good. accident here in horsham mapel at easton road heads up for that neck of the woods. we have a second accident out there in limerick that has now been since cleared but we have construction out there pennsylvania turnpike eastbound before downingtown right lane there that is still blocked. brooke and jim, back over to you. now for a look at newspaper headlines across our region. >> from the front page of the burlington county times in light of the rash of shootings willingboro township is considering putting up surveillance cameras, in trouble spots. there have been about two dozen shootings in town since january. from the cover of the mercury it looks like days of zero tax hikes in pottstown may be over. thanks to the late season property assessment challenge, rising worker health care cost, homeowners face tax hike of 5 percent, in 2017, unless council members can find a way to cut the budget or add $380,000 to it. from the intelligencer, a

hearing to discuss variances for proposed wawa in plumstead has been put off for two weeks. some voiced concerns about potential impacts, 4700 square food convenient store and gas station would have at heavily traveled intersection of the ferry road and route 313. that is a look at some of the newspaper headlines from around the delaware valley. he seemed to have it all but hear surprising admission from a popular rapper creating a huge swell of support on line. also natalie portman is getting oscar buzz and her film has not been released yet, see preview of her latest work

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we have a live picture from new saw in the the bohamas where we are seeing hurricane matthew's impact there as a category three storm, forecasters increased storm strength and katie will have an update in seven

minutes from right thousand. well eagles are coming off a bye week as they helped to detroit. >> during their time out don bell had a chance to catch up with head coach doug pederson. >> eagles lines on sunday, however, this week i had had a chance to hit practice field to work on my own hand, my quarterback doug pederson, take a look and a listen. >> i will take some off. >> you know, i try to get out there once in a while. >> i will go to the station with a missing tooth. >> game of catch with doug fresh, we have talk about his time coaching high school football, influence of andy reid and hall of famer don shula and much more including carson wentz. seeing doug pederson like you have never seen him before, that is tonight have after thursday night football here on cbs-3, that is all for sports i'm don bell, have a great day. that thursday night football game is cardinals at

49ers, cardinals quarterback carson palmer is sidelined with the concussion, so backup qb drew stanton will start. they face chip kelly's 49ers hoff been unable to protect against the rush this season. kick off 8:25 right here on cbs-3. baseball playoffs continue and san francisco giants are moving on, thanks to some late inning heroics. the last night against mets, conner gillespy hit a ninth inning, three run home run, to win it for the giants. the game was scoreless, scoreless tie until then. the giants madison baumgardener pitched a complete game shut out. they play chicago cubs a at wrigley field tomorrow. today cole hamels and rangers take on the blue jays and the indians play red sox. we are congratulating other baseball champs, city police athletic league champs. "eyewitness news" in spring garden last night where trophies were handed out. cobbs creek pal won 14 and under division.

fair hill pal was runner up. hard owe gate pal won 12 and under division with oxford circle pal being runner up in that case. congratulations to all of the young athletes. well, coming up next on "eyewitness news" could it be a growing trend the huge complex where you won't be able to shop on thanksgiving. and we will tell but a whole new spin on pillow talk. the economy is a top priority, in battle ground pennsylvania but many areas are struggling, i'm weijia jiang in johnstown with which presidential candidate voters think can turn things around coming up. and how about this conversations, so private even the government cannot see them. we will show you facebook's new feature, katie is this. brooke, as we look ahead to the upcoming weekend things are becoming more clear as to what matthew will do and news is good, we are expecting that eventually we are going to see certainly some showers courtesy of the coal front

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gaining steam over the last 15 minutes hurricane matthew strengthened and hurricane warnings in the u.s. have been expanded. good morning i'm brooke thomas. aim jim donovan.

katie will update us in just a moment but first here's what you need to necessity to start your day in the morning minute. i just want to get the heck out of here because everybody else will be gone. >> 2 million residents of the atlantic coast has been told to evacuate ahead of hurricane matthew. you never think about it with happen here on your street. >> inspectors will be on the scene of the house collapse in trenton today, fire officials say natural gas leak caused an explosion that hurt two people and displaced four families. ride the duck announced it is shutting down philadelphia operations indefinite thely this is as an increase in its insurance premiums of over 300 n longer financially feasible to operate. creepy clown sighting is a cross the country, creepy clowns. >> i feel for these clowns. >> they are just trying to entertain us. >> scary clowns, knock it