>> this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news" this morning. >> hours before his birthday, gunned down in colds blood while walking down the street. now police think they know what led to the murder. >> first, face-off. the two candidates for u.s. senate in pennsylvania clash over jobs. the supreme court vacancy, and whether each is backing their party's nominee. >> mill ann ya trump standing by herman a mid accusations of sexual misconduct by her husband, hear what she has to say about the lake case that has everyone talking. >> today is tuesday, october 18th. good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm brooke thomas. we're getting your day start wad check on weather and traffic with katie and meisha. >> good morning, welcome back, katie, brooke, jim, all of you, great to have you.

>> here with our guest stars? >> and they held down the fort, did a great job. yesterday we start off with a crash on the schuylkill, same thing overnight, fatal crash on the schuylkill, get to that in just a moment, tough, tough, tough driving on the schuylkill. we know one place we don't want that the schuylkill expressway. >> tough as it is. the wet letter cooperate for us here today. really looks like just a nice day, and a nice sense of summer here too. we take a look at storm scan, totally quiet at the moment. will stay that way yet again high pressure in place, throughout the day see lot of sunshine to help warm things up very efficiently to the point that we are flirting with record territory. low-lying cloud cover has formed. i saw a hinton my own drive in already towards day bring, at its worse, at the moment, patchy, a lot of spots like philadelphia international airport, where it is clear as a bell. no problems. that may change, though, over the course of the next couple

of hours, sun officially rises just before that happens, typically when we'll finds the worse of the fog. so it is bad timing because it comes right in line with typical morning rush, as well. but you are under a mile in lancaster, already down to one and a half mile visibility in trenton. currently though at 63 degrees, really mild. to start things offer here at the airport, 58 mount pocono, isn't bad either. as the day progresses check it out. 84 degrees the expected high in philly, well above the seasonable average, obviously, and with the full sunshine across the board here today. might as well be summer. i know meisha you've been battling whether to put the shorts away, put them away. i hope you kept them out. >> they're all in my room, the shorts, the sweat pants, the jackets. but i won't complain, katie. outside, we switch gears, waking up, good morning, happy tuesday. up at the desk moments ago talking about over night fatal crash tractor-trailer and

vehicle it happened around 1:13 last night. this is some video of that, the schuylkill eastbound near montgomery, and it was completely closed down. now, however, it has reopened, but i will let you know that because of yesterday, and what we were drivers and all experiencing yesterday on the schuylkill, just a heads up on this. yesterday was very busy on the schuylkill, with all eastbound lanes closed, westbound lanes were closed for some period of time, as well. now, the schuylkill near montgomery where the accident was overnight last night that's now cleared just heads up though. give yourself extra time in the area. also, construction here 95 south before bridge street, right lane compromised that should be opening up quickly and for those every you left behind, it is all clear, jim, over to you. >> thank you, the search is on this morning over cold blooded killer police say murdered a man in the kensington section of philadelphia. >> police tell us today would have been the victim's 30th birthday. "eyewitness news" reporter justin finch is live outside police headquarters with the latest on the investigation. justin? >> reporter: good morning, that's right, friends of that victim were brought here to

speak with homicide detectives, likely recounting how previous fight with another group of men may have led to this man cornering their friend, opening fire, and leaving him for dead on that kensington street. let's get you now video from that scene there overnight. twenty-four district officers got several calls of shooting close to 11:30 last night. the scene, the 700 block of east allegheny avenue, that's where they found a man police say age 30, lying on the ground, with two gunshots, one to the upper back, one to the back of his head. he was unconscious. so police got him, themselves, to temple university hospital. he did die there a short time later on what should have been a day of celebration. >> what makes this case even more tragic is this 30 year old victim today was his 30th birthday. so this individual got shot and killed on his 30th birthday. >> we also do know surveillance cameras in the

area caught the entire crime in progress, detective have seen it, and could release portions of that video. we also know police are looking for a shooter, a man wearing no shirt, last seen wearing blue cut off short. live here outside the round house, justin finch, cbs-3, "eyewitness news", brooke, jim, into you. >> thanks, justin. >> developing now, crime scene tape surroundings burned out car in west philadelphia. police and firefighters rushed to the 5400 block of media street, just before 2:00 this morning. while there is no official cause yet, the fire marshall believes it may have started in the engine. >> that fire is getting a extra hard look by police because they are still searching for a suspect in a string of car arsons, not far away in overbrook. surveillance video caused -- caught someone starting a fire at 56th and mascher. flames were so fierce, it damaged a maserati park nearby. here's the owner of the car telling "eyewitness news" how he found out about what happened. >> i was asleep. and somebody was banking on my

door, you know what i mean? so i came to the door, and he said, you, you know, you guy the own that maserati? i said ya. he said it is on fire. i'm angry but i'm grateful at the same time they was able to catch this early. you know what i mean, put it out, you know what i am saying? it still starts up. still drives. >> authorities say there were seven fires over a span of five city blocks. if caught, the suspect faces arson charges. in other news, candidates in pennsylvania's senate race, one of the most watched battles of campaign 2016, debated for the first time last night. in pittsburgh, they hit on points like how they each made their millions, and how they would vote on a supreme court justice. they also talked about how to create jobs. both candidate were asked if they would support their party's nominee. democrat mcginty said yes, republican toomey was bit more rhett sent. >> i will work with a secretary clinton, and a president clinton to bring good jobs back to

pennsylvania, and to grow income. but, again, the senator is the only person in the united state of america who has not leveled with his constituent on the simple question: are you voting for donald trump. but what i think is objectionable, is that senator toomey has refused to answer this question. won't tell the voters that he's still, why he is still standing with donald trump. now, we will hear the senator say he has disagreements with donald trump. >> i've been very public about my many disagreements with donald trump. i have been willing to criticize him, because i think he is a badly flawed candidate. on the other handy also know if he were president woe probably sign legislation that would be constructive, like repealing of obama care and restoring sanctions on iran. what i can't believe is katie mcginty can't criticize anything about hillary clinton including all her lies. >> toomey said at some point before the election he will probably reveal whether he will vote for trump. mcginty and toomey both bee nouns trump claims the

election in pennsylvania is rigged. second and final debate will be october 24th in philadelphia. >> donald trump is campaigning in colorado today, meanwhile, his wife melania is coming to her husband's defense. in her first interview since sexual misconduct allegations against her husband, melania trump calls the charges lies. in the past week several women have come forward to claim donald trump made unwanted advances toward him. she also told cnn's anderson cooper her husband was provoked during those leaked 2005 tapes, when he talked to billy bush about groping women. >> they were kind of boy talk, and he was lead on like egg on from the host to say dirty and bad stuff. >> you feel the host billy bush was egging him on? >> yes, yes. >> during the interview, like her husband, melania trump also accused the media of

slanting store toys influence the outcome of the election. >> the conversation between trump and billy bush has actually cost bush's job on the "today show". nbc fired him after he was caught having that conversation about women with trump when he was hosting access hollywood back in 2005. now, once the tape was made public, bush said in a statement, he was embarrased and ashamed of his behavior. he had only been with the "today show" for two months. >> former president bill clinton heads to montgomery county today to campaign on behalf of his wife. he'll be speaking at montgomery community college central campus, doors open at 2:00 this afternoon, meantime the investigation into hillary clinton's private server has uncovered a possible quid pro quo between top officials at the state department and the fbi. the controversy surroundings an e-mail about the benghazi attacks. clinton's under secretary, patrick kennedy, began pushing the fbi last year to make the e-mail unclassified. in exchange, he reportedly offered to allow the fbi to

deploy more agent in foreign countries. the fbi says in the end, no favors exchanged hands, and the classification level stayed as is. >> when you have an fbi themselves say that he was in a quid pro quo discussion with the under secretary of management at the state department, that should scare everybody. >> really assertion that this was somehow tid for tat, quid pro quo, in that manner, insulting. >> fbi document included an interview with a diplomatic security agent at the state department. he said clinton, quote, frequently and blatently disregarded security protocols, start contract from her predecessor condoleezza rice. >> nominees will face-off one more time before voters head to the polls, the final presidential debate is tomorrow night starts at 9:00 right here on cbs-3. and much more to cover this morning on cbs-3 "eyewitness news". so, what does this look like

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>> welcome back, a lot of people were talking about this yesterday but new jersey environmental officials say there is no mountain lion on the loose in camden county. good news. this grainy photograph taken with a hunter's camera show what is a large house cat. not mountain lion. some had thought. i'm back on team bad newsment there is also some moving video of the cat take never winslow township. there had been several sitings leading to the rumors. >> a big cat. if you say so. if you were up looking at the skies last night, you may have seen it. a rocket blasting off for virginia.

orville rocket lifted off from whallop high landing signals come back for one of the companies that makes deliveries to the international space station, the first flight of destroyed all of the cargo for the space station. well the launch provided a show for sky gazers along much of the east coast. chopper three caught the launch last night, folks on the grounds in our area, also, got a view of the rocket. hurdling toward space. this is the scene on the steps of the philadelphia museum of art. fortunately, there wasn't a cloud in the sky. >> time now 44:44. >> katie is here with another check on your forecast, hey, katy? >> guys, still pretty clear across majority of the region right now. we might see little fog develop out there, since we are seeing southerly wind flow take grip here across palmyra cove nature park, where you are finding, very mild beginning to the morning,

though, 61 degrees, but obviously as we take a look well off in the distance, no problems. making out that center city skyline, if you are watching us, just off the screen there, but regardless, we are expecting to see more than anything sunshine here today, even though we may start off with fog in couple of spots. all right, so these are the numbers to beat today. here in philadelphia, it is a very long standing record. we think we're going to come just shy of it. so that may be a record from 1908 of 85 degrees. that holds, but we're expecting to come all the way up to 84 degrees. here today, we'll see how we do, we may be over achievers, wouldn't be the first time, but regardless temperatures into the low and mid 80s, little unheard of this time of year. obviously it can happen. those are the numbers that we've got to beat. meanwhile, built of wet weather very far off to the north on storm scan3. still under the influence of very large high pressure off to the south, helping us feed in that sort of torch from mother nature here to send the temperatures where they're going here today. we expect to stay dry, with

sunshine for the most part, again starting off with little fog, depending on location, but coming awfully close at 84 degrees for hi, modest breeze, barely notice, feels like summer being break out the shorts, break out the t-shirt, why not? starting the morning off into the 60s and dropping back into them yet again here later on tonight. looking formed in the forecast, how is two for two for you? 83 and more sunshine tomorrow. then we start to dramatically cool things down hereby the course of the upcoming weekends well below average in fact, we expect to see couple of showers maybe thursday and friday too. meisha? >> eighty-four to, to 61, good job. happy tuesday, see flashing lights out there, what we're looking out there right now, an accident, car hit a deer, it is actually right off the camera screen down this way. this is where we've got our squad car, 309 north at norristown road. just heads up on that. probably going to slow you down ever so slightly. you will have to wiggle around this squad car. know it is out there. that deer we will put cameras. i'm not quite sure what will

happen with that. construction right lane still compromised. report kind of moving out of our way right now, see brake lights going off, overall the flow of traffic around this area on 95 actually looking pretty good on the interstate. we know will start to heat up in the 5:00 hour, certainly what we saw yesterday. then we've got accident clear here the schuylkill eastbound past montgomery, fatal crash overnight last night, again the schuylkill right now actually looking pretty good and all cleared, jim, over to you. >> thank you shall meisha. still ahead on "eyewitness news" this morning, why the burbon may stop flowing at one distillery. >> i don't see any promotions for the last day here. that not always good, can you explain that? >> honestly wasn't a lot of room for advancement in my last job. >> just wait until you see president obama getting help seeking a new job from the late show host stephen colbert when "eyewitness news"

>> 4:49. time for business news. >> jill wagner joins us live

this morning from the new york stock exchange, hey there, jill, good morning. let's talk about netflix. because shares are expected to open much higher this morning. >> reporter: that's right, good morning, netflix shares surged in after hours trading by as much as 20%. getting really big boost from original programming, like the surprise summer hit stranger things. netflix added three and a half million international subscribers in the third quarter beating expectations. brooke, jim? >> jill, we hear the growing burbon business has also produced some unintended consequences? >> reporter: yes, workers at the world's largest producer, jim bean, are striking, they claim they're over worked understaffed staffed. contract talks are set to resume today. brooke, jim? >> wow that doesn't sound good. thanks, jill. >> well, coming up after the break, meisha checks out potential trouble spot on the roadways and highways. >> we're here to find out what you are going do for a living, all right?

fifty-five, tough time to start over for a man. okay. >> this is so good. imagine being an outgoing president and going for a job interview? late show host stephen colbert put the president through the job seeking process. stay with us. we're coming back in a

good morning, expecting very pleasant day unfold and very warm day. that will said, temperatures will spike very easily to the mid 80s, later on today, which is obviously well above the seasonable average. take a look at very wide zoom on storm scan3, wet weather to discuss, but often to eastern end right now, we won't experience any of t we have high pressure on our side, large dome off to the side n part where some of this sort of quote unquote blow torch weather is coming from. because we are seeing southerly wind flow. not windy day, but the winds flow is coming from the south, and it will allow the temperatures currently in the 50's, or mid 60s, even, some spots, to spike very easily, later on today.

so, it is one of those days that definitely, you know, you may want to think about having a long sleeve shirt on when you walk out the door, much later in the day you won't need more than shorts and t-shirt and flip flops. one of those days that has a bit of everything to it, forecast in general that's got something for everyone, too. summer like both today, tomorrow. tomorrow showers make return in the forecast, see pretty significant cool-down in time for the weekend. >> katie, thank you so muchment looking outside right now, you guys, we do have an accident that's just been cleared. foggy camera. 309 northbound at norristown road, car had hit a vehicle. we have some squad cars out there with their lights on. take it easy around there. also construction 95 south before bridge. right lane compromised. that's now since been cleared. so looking good here on 95, although you can see some markers out there, slow you down little bit, people tapping the brakes, to maneuver around t also, vine, it was all open overnight. both moving in the westbound direction toward the schuylkill and the eastbound side. you can see just couple of your neighbors out there,

that's about it, construction out there, so 309 southbound route 663, john fry highway, lane block for another five minute or so. i'll let you know as soon as it clears. pa turnpike both directions between downingtown valley forge left lane block. i'll let you know as soon as that clears. jim, brooke, back to you. >> thank you, steven colbert has president obama on the late show once again there is time, to discuss the president's future job prospect. >> the accentric late show host pretended to be a manager that wants to help the president figure out howell make a living after he leaves office in january. watch this exchange as colbert asked president obama how he would help businesses get the attention of millennials. >> well, i told him straight up that this is the most important election of their lifetimes. that they have the opportunity to make history. and that the result in november could change their lives forever so they have to get out there and vote. >> you know there is a snap

chat filter that gives awe flower crown? >> of course i know that. >> colbert will host his own election night special on the show time channel. of course you can also watch him here every night on cbs-3 after "eyewitness news" at 11:00. i have to point out, jim, the president -- >> the flower drawn, i know you know about the crown. >> the president uses snap chat. >> coming up in the next hour of cbs-3 "eyewitness news", he's responsible for nearly a dozen bank robberies in our area. see the sketch authorities hope leads them to the so-called straw hat bandit. >> and there is new study on the effect of coffee on your heart. we'll tell you why you may not have to give up that morning cup of joe. we're back at the top of the hour.

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>> a man shot and killed just hours before his birthday, we're live with what police say happened in the moment before gunfire broke out. >> the asking open, hours after deadly crash. we'll have more on what led to the arrest between a car and tractor trailer. >> feels more like summer than fall. "eyewitness news" cameras in chinatown last night, katie says, we could be in for near record warmth today. >> good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> hey there, i'm brooke thomas, i'm happy, busy morning of news, katie and meisha keeping an eye on things this morning.

>> good. >> hard to talk about traffic. we will be talking about 80s in late october. but, we will anyway. construction, construction, construction, construction, that's what's out there right now, we'll get to that in just a moment. great weather for the construction workers. mid 80s for today as well as tomorrow. records either challenged or actually tide or broke here in the next few days. so, let's take you out there. sometimes dollars side effect that come with it are this, when you go look out over the live neighborhood network there. some fog already beginning to set until for us. than is going to be running theme across good chunk of the area, especially outlying suburbs, near the river beds, might run into this, obviously skewing the visibility. right here at pleasant valley middle and high school up in broad heads ville. no light of day yet, typically under the street lamps we would be able to see the building in the distance here, little tough to do right