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 off.

>> give us back our dignity. >> a clown psa. >> i feel badly for clowns. if that is what your living is and they have to tiehl with all this stuff. >> clowns matter. they are scary to me regardless. >> okay. all right. >> do you remember. >> did he scare you. >> no, because he was goofy but just in general at carnivals and birthday parties. >> we will do a protective ring around you. lets go to katie. i saw you looking at models for matthew. the so it strengthened. >> it has in fact strengthened. it came out from the national hurricane center it is a very both end category three storm system but now an even stronger category three storm

system only 6 miles away from the threshold to return to category four status. now thankfully i can report that we can breathe a sigh of relief here locally but taking a look at forecast models look the at interesting thing that happens here not only will storm make a right-hand turn but trying to recurve and go in the circle like ring around the rosie which is bizarre to see. this is, a little will bit of the different animal of a storm system not kind of system we have seen down in the the south east in many, many years. so taking it very seriously for that part of the country. here at home it is a much more quiet pattern and we do not have to worry about any trek impact from matthew thank goodness. storm scan quiet as can be nothing more than a few clouds here and there. the as you sending kids off to the school bus dress them in layers. grab your sweat shirt on on your way out the door from school, guys because they will not need extra layer even by recess time.

they may need to remine to bring strat layer home. in the meantime your ride home we are talking 76 degrees, nice and mild all day but tomorrow a carbon copy. matthew is expected to stay south but we do have rain, in this forecast and over the frontal passage coming this week we will time that out later in the show, meisha. >> katie, and in the world of travel at least on the roadways we are looking good. happy thursday, good morning, schuylkill eastbound at city avenue, eastbound side, very quiet, and westbound side, we are starting to heat up but overall so far on this thursday morning we are looking pretty quiet, really anywhere, delaware county 95 north 452, 5:30 in the morning, looking as it should but what we are looking at here, quiet here as well. we have an accident in southwest philadelphia involving injuries, but buck road near lindberg boulevard might slow you down. flashing lights out there you will have a gaper delay so just take it ease any that

part. another accident horsham at mapel avenue at easton road heads up there as well. not causing any slow downs i want to let you know it is out there. also this in the world of the mass transit amtrak south east region is suspended, cancelled today and friday, silver star ought the owe train, take a look at these. we have listed where they are traveling to and from and this one, 89 and 90 between d.c. only, and that goes from nyc and savanna georgia. i will tweet this out. we will talk about this as we push throughout the morning but just a heads up. brooke and jim, back to you. millions of the people along the coast are bracing for hurricane matthew. after hitting bohamas category three storm could regain strength as it inches closer to florida tonight. heavy rain, powerful wind and storm surge are expected. the deadly hurricane is expect to bring similar conditions to georgia in the carolinas over the next few days. of course, stay with us as storm watch continues on cbs-3

and when we are not on the air you can always get the very latest on the conditions on our web site at cbs philly.com. for past six presidential elections pennsylvania has gone blue for democrats, and while hillary clinton currently has a slight edge in the polls, it is still a battle will ground stage. weijia jiang took a road trip across the state and found in this election cycle party lines may be blurred. >> reporter: parts of the pennsylvania are undeniablely hillary clinton country. at this philadelphia farmers market diehard democrats crave the chance to cast their ballot. >> in 2008, 83 percent of the vote in this city went to president obama, 85 percent in 2012. clinton hopes same turnout will help her clinch the states 20 electoral votes. >> we will be ones who make world go around and the at

least we will of medicine care. >> even this is policy debate, he guess got in. >> reporter: as city scape fade along the pennsylvania turnpike so does clinton's staunch support. while signs of the donald trump territory emerge. we met mark at a johnstown steel mill million turned scrap yard. >> twenty-five years ago this place was making wheels and stuff, metals and now it is a guess town. >> reporter: it is a guess town. >> reporter: yeah. >> reporter: steel industry employed 18,000 people here at its peak in the 1950's, foreign competition and new technology wiped out those jobs, and the community has yet to recover. the change is coming. >> we see someone trying to bring jobs back to america instead of shipping them out, and letting them do stuff overseas. >> reporter: jws industries is one of the few steel factories still operating in town. ceo bill, says his workers

will believe trump will protect u.s. manufacturing. how many of your employees are registered democrat. >> roughly 75 percent of registered democrats. >> reporter: how many are voting for donald trump. >> about 90 percent. >> reporter: loyal base has helped democrats win pennsylvania since 1992 but many voters told thus year they are looking at the candidate, not the party. weijia jiang for c about s3 "eyewitness news". and it is getting closer, we are just 32 days away from heading to the polls and electing a new president. stick with "eyewitness news" for your complete coverage of the campaign 2016. well, time right now 5:37. in business news this morning help for people that cannot sleep. >> what is behind a surge in the markets. money watch's jill wagner joins us live from the new york stock exchange, good morning, jill. >> reporter: good morning, brooke and jim. rising oil prices are end ising markets higher. dow jones rose 112, nasdaq

jumped 26. futures pointing to a lower opened. airlines watching hurricane matthew. they have cancelled about 1500 flights through friday, all in anticipation of the storm. miami, bohamas are seeing biggest impact. most airlines are letting passengers change free of charge. prepaid debit card will have same ways i can protections as other debit card. new rules from federal regulators are two years in the making and they include protections for lost, stolen cars, clearly marked fees for cards and providing users basic account information, free of charge. and the next time you cannot sleep, math the trust company will help pass the time, start up casper created this bed, the quote, friendly easily distracted bot text from her for mind less chat, bot is busy between 11:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. brooke and jim. >> look at your face. >> i don't understand that.

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secret. don't send me your secret messages, i don't want them. for years, black friday a has been creeping more and more into thanksgiving, but now the biggest mall in the country is saying, enough is enough. >> good. >> minnesota's mall of america usually deals were 400,000 people on thanksgiving day, black friday, and the following week end. but this year mall officials say they are closed on thanksgiving day. workers and shoppers like the idea. >> i think that is good because then employees can be with their families. >> it is nice to have a corporation take care of its people. >> everybody wants to spend thanksgiving day with their families so we're thrilled to be able to do that year. >> mall will, however have security in place for any stores who might want to open on thanksgiving but they are expecting most stores will be closed. fifteenth annual lights for the cure campaign kick off last night in center city. i stayed up late to join my cbs-3 collogues at one liberty

observation deck, susan komen philadelphia presented our vice-president of public affairs, joann, with her award for tireless efforts on behalf of the organization. it was a tape, she is a super hero here at cbs-3. every october buildings throughout our area turn pink to remind women to schedule a mammogram and remain vigilant in the fight against breast cancer. here's the pink sky line chopper three over one liberty lays, at two liberty place buildings, 15th year for lights for the cure campaign. the find more information at cbs philly.com/cure. well, coming up prince paisley park home is opened to the public today. find out what tourist will get to see, pat? >> reporter: happy birthday please touch museum. we are here inside hamilton hall at the police touch museum, they are obviously celebrating a huge milestone and guess what they will let me do they will let me play with toys this morning, how

cool is that? join me in ten minutes

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fans go inside will see his recording studio filled with keyboards and guitars. prince died of a drug overdose back in april the age of only 57. rapper kid cud i has checked into rehab for depression and suicidal urges. rerevealed this in a long post saying he has dealt with anxiety, depression his whole life. he wrote quote, i am not at peace and later it is time i fix me. of course, he owes us no explanation the rapper became a powerful trending top inning on twitter soon after the post with many people discussing the stigma of mental health and ways have of diminishing it as well as support for kid cudi, he is saying he is nervous but he will get through it. he signed witt his birth name scott mccudi and i'm pulling for him. it is only october but is there oscar buzz about national the lee port man. the here's why.

>> think back on all of the tails that you remember. >> she plays first lady jacqueline kennedy in jackie, film details rise and fall of the camelot through mrs. kennedy's eyes, it opens up in theaters, december 2nd. i don't want -- i do want to see that. >> there is some fascination with that family. >> i was just going to say something about kennedy's, absolutely. >> as we turn our focus here talking about the weather, lot of people are still thinking, focusing on what is going on with matthew. thankfully we can report no threat here? thank goodness. >> perhaps some indirect impact which we will get to but lets start off by going outside and show you current path this storm is taking as we track what is still a very strong category three storm, it did actually gain some strength over the last couple of hours and since very last national hurricane center report 125 miles an hour

sustained wind speeds still being reported with that potent system. it is speeding up ever so slightly. this will be a very significant concern for not just bohamas ape florida as day progresses. i want to take you out to future weather and show you how things progress with the rainfall. what you will find is notice time stamp starting with this morning, lingering through rest of the dejesus outer band of the storm bringing rain in the keys as early as this morning and then it really starts to get underway. sunshine state with more scattered variety showers by 3:00 p.m. but then coastline gets in and heavy rain continues for the florida coastline and eventually as we put things in motion here right up the shore, through the georgia coastline, up the carolinas and then you go out to saturday by this point. taste worth of soaking rain and some of these areas that can lead to easily a foot of rain. if not more. it will be just from the flooding concerns, a major

storm but the wind and storm surge makes it that much more dangerous. very understandable that they are trying to evacuate as many people as possible from those shorelines. storm scan locally very, very quiet. nice clear sky. with that said we will check with eyewitness weather watcher network where we are fining cool air. a lot of temperatures dropping down to even nearing the 30's in willow grove. barbara lane in at 47 degrees, she said dew point is close too we will zero in on 50 degrees from phil chapline he too finding a clear sky out there. one more we will go tighter here and go out to 51 degrees from lynn, she had a comment under clear skies still chilly and she turned her heat on last night. so that tells you something. so meanwhile let's jump forward to the eyewitness weather seven day forecast where it is beautiful here. cool at the start. nice and mild. the dress in layers today and tomorrow, saturday that indirect impact, possibly tropical moisture drawn in with the cold trent passage nothing direct from matthew so

we are just talking about showers, meisha. >> katie, thank you so much for the heads up. good morning, happy thursday in the world of travel things are looking pretty good this morning. look at the ben franklin bridge from new jersey into center city traveling from the westbound direction, looking great. it is looking good every where we have looked. we have a couple accidents out there but for the most part what we are seeing it is looking nice, i-95, southbound direction at the airport few airports, south of us are closed just make sure to check those schedules on line traveling by flight, also 95 south at betsy ross bridge what you are looking at things are heating up on i-95, pushing in the southbound direction you can expect that pushing toward 6:00 o'clock. an accident here in southwest philadelphia involving injuries have grown near lindberg boulevard and another one where we have injuries reported in northern liberties. sixth street at fairmount avenue in these neighborhoods make note you might get flashing lights. and then this amtrak south

east region is suspended cancelled today and friday because of hurricane matthew. this information is a lot. i will tweet this out and talking about it later in 15 minutes or so, jim and brooke, back over to you. well, please touch museum is celebrating a major milestone, 40 years of learning through play. >> it is part of the fun museum is featuring toys from the last four decade. "eyewitness news" reporter pat gallen, he is live there with a look this morning, hey there, pat. >> reporter: good morning, guys. every day my job gets harder and harder. yesterday was squash, today i get to play with toys from the has four decades. how hard of a job is that? it is really tough. this morning to tell us about cool things happening here at please touch museum is trish, good morning. >> good morning, welcome. >> so as we go through last 40 years of toys we will do that in one second but this is an important building. you have had a great history. here for the last eight years.

>> correct. >> reporter: you have been going 40 years strong. >> forty years young, we call it our 40th birthday. we celebrate birthdays. we do an amazing job here. generations of kids and families have walk through the doors here starting on 21st street and then prior to that the academy and just had fun learning through play and that is what we have been all about. >> reporter: people are crying, kids are crying when they are leaving that is a good thing because they don't want to go. >> i'm happy when kids cry when they leave because it means a parent and adult will bring them back very soon. >> reporter: lets go through 40 years of toy starting with this the cozy coupe. >> every kid's joy can i drive a car like mom, dad, grand mom, grand pop, and little tikes came on the scene in the 1970's and believe it or not this out sold the most popular adult cars in the market at this time. >> reporter: no, that is incredible. >> yes, it did. >> reporter: my niece and nephew still had one. i had a cabbage patch kid when

he was young, his name was brute us, little creepy but they like to keep things when i was a kid. >> do you still have adoption papers. >> reporter: they might in a box somewhere. >> that is how it started, babyland general hospital and get your cabbage patch kid and adopt it. they were called kid, not babies and they were really instrumental in the parent craze of can i get that toy for the holiday season? that has continued to this day. >> reporter: finally last few here, the newer ones. >> mr. barney, kid love him, adults hate him, very fascinating study yale university did a study, 150 moment in each barney show. >> is that right. >> that is impressive. >> totally for the kids. >> and then to the 2,000, the pet, it makes noise, cuddles, again it was a craze and sold out like crazy and people would go overseas to buy them.

>> reporter: mr. potato head in the 6:00 he clock hour. >> how do find your inner futurey will put one together, throw it back to you, see you in the 6:00 o'clock hour. >> yes look for paperwork for your cabbage patch kid just in case. make sure you look for it. >> thanks, pat. >> we will be right

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track. unaudible. >> this is a frantic rescue effort after an explosion caused a house to collapse, trapping people inside, and find out how neighbors were able to save everyone. and ride the ducks makes a surprise announce. one impacting tourism in philadelphia. it is thursday october 6th good morning i'm jim donovan. i'm brooke thomas, it is friday eve. katie and meisha are keeping an eye on things this morning. >> good morning. >> whenever i say roads are looking good, he says do not jinks yourself. knock on wood. i can tell you, i just jinked myself. i said it was looking great, accident after accident all over the place. that is what we are dealing with. we will get to that in a moment. we have a nice dry roadways. >> absolutely sunnies not up yet, and i mentioned sun glare will get you, so make sure either advisor is working in your car or you have sunglasses ready to go. the lets turn first and fur most to the tropics. you k