well, we're in for a record setting wednesday, this is a live look at center city where high temperatures to day will reach, get this, the mid 80's, it will feel like summer, good morning, i'm jim donovan, brooke is under the weather but katie and meisha are here, holding down the fort but first here's how need to know to start your day. >> reporter: according to the faculty union's twitter account faculty union is officially now on strike. this impacts more than a hundred thousand students. >> i'm supposed to graduate.

i need my credits. >> i heard five gunshots, within a matter of three minutes. it was filled with police officers. >> man is shot in rittenhouse square park, two men were trying to rob people in the park when a good samaritan intervened. >> this is our final time. >> hillary clinton and donald trump are getting ready for that are final debate in campaign 2016. >> have you forgiven your husband. >> yes. >> do you think these scandals will doom your husband's chance is among women. >> no, bad boy, bad boy. they are all an has. >> stephen colbert adding his take on election campaign 2016, so katie, mid 80's. you're dressed for summer. i am dressed with summer colors. >> why i, indeed, it is warm enough not just in the urban

area of philadelphia and i-95 corridor but even in the outlying suburbs you will be able to walk out without a coat and be completely comfortable. it is going to feel like a taste of august out there, yet again here today. lets take a look at what storm scan has, not a lot, we have a quiet start to the day there there is a more humidity in the air but look at these values. even in hunt pocono 65 degrees right now. pair of six's in millville, atlantic city. we have 70 at philly international. sixty-eight in trenton. we will get the idea. sending your kid off to school here i say go without the extra layer, it is a nice, warm day, the ride to school featuring temperatures flirt with or in the 70es a. eighty-one by lunchtime. a few more clouds too but we are expecting to eventually see this go by the way side. record smashing warmth in the meantime today. record to beat is 80. that is no problem. we will see that broken by

lunchtime. showers to move in as a cold front passage moves in and a significant cool down, waits in the wings. i will tell you how cool and when, a bit later in the show, meisha. >> thank you so much. good morning, everybody. happy wednesday to you. so, we have talked about this all morning construction i-95 south between cottman and bridge. it doesn't look like much now but all morning what we have been seeing is just a sea of vehicles backed all the way up completely stopped, sometimes left lane gets by. looks like it is easing that tension. i-95 in the southbound direction we are looking better then did you 25 minutes ago. so good news there. you will to have give yourself as much extra time but still give yourself extra ten to 15 minutes but that construction is new clearing out, great news for those on i-95 because it will be busy in another 45 minutes or so. schuylkill eastbound this is had we are looking at in the east and westbound direction we are looking good. the as we normally do at this hour. same story here for new

jersey, 42 freeway north bound at creek road to 295 this is what you are working with. not bad. it looks like a lot but overall 42 is looking typical and looking good, jim, over to you. >> thanks, meisha. updating big breaking news, faculty members have gone on strike at 14 pennsylvania state universities. the decision came just moments ago affecting tens of thousands of local college students. some of the schools were teachers will be walking the picket lines, millersville, kutztown, east stroudsburg and west chester. "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabao is live at west chester with the immediate reaction, good morning, jan. >> good morning. that is right faculty union went on strike at 5:00 a.m. today at west chester university. you can see a number of professors, faculty members already out here on the picket line. this is had it will look like in ten different locations on campus. we will see a lot of the teachers, here, and to talk about how this will impact operations here at west

chester university. the professor here as well as spokesperson for local union. thanks for being on our show this morning. what is the feeling like with the faculty here this morning stepping off the job. >> there is a lot of solidarity among union members people are committed, we have had 15 months without the a contract. this is a necessary step forward. >> reporter: west chester university has said classes will be opened today, students should go to class if their professor is there or not there they cannot leave. what do you anticipate happening here to take. >> talking about 900 faculty members that is impossible to replace. students hey be showing up but there won't be classes. >> reporter: this will shut down classes for today, as the strike continues. >> we're talking about 17,000 students at west chester, 110,000 students across the state. >> reporter: obviously these professors don't want to be out of their classroom so is what their feeling. >> we recognize this is

damaging thing for all parties. e want this to be as short as possible. we need a good quality contract investing in education in pennsylvania. >> reporter: here i want to you take a look at this not only west chester university, is there 14 colleges and universities across the entire state of pennsylvania. what obviously do you hope to be accomplished by this. >> again, idea is long term stability of the system, to have a good quality educational system. we need an investment, we need a fair contract to be available to us as profession also on. >> thank you so much. on campus today at ten different locations this is what you are seeing, the teachers, professors on strike, there have been students showing up in solidarity as well. this is a developing story. we will keep you up to date. >> thanks, jan. police are investigating a child's fatal fall from the imperial apartments in wynfield heights. emergency officials say that the four year-old boy climbed on to a balcony, and then fell

seven stories and died just before 7:15 last night. authorities have not released the child's that i am and still too early in the investigation to determine if charges will be filed. time is 5:37. in business news this morning the most popular halloween costumes this year. money watch's jill wagner joins us live from the insuring stock exchange, good morning, jill. >> good morning, jim. strong earnings from united health care sent markets higher. dow jones, and yahoo's revenue plunge in the last quarter, first report, since submit to go a has i have data breach in 2014. marisa mayor cancelled the conference call with supporters ending few details about the hacking and when company first knew bit. yahoo is in the process of being sold to verizon. samsung wants to make sure flyers ditch their dangerous galaxy note seven's before boarding a flight, governmental officials banned those devices, and samsung setting up exchange at

airports around the world. with their data, for different device. and kid are trade nothing crowns for cake, national federation, more kid will trust as super heroes then princesses. the as for adults, batman, witches and animals like cats, dogs and bunnies. for families, brooke who dress up their pet most common cat and dog costumes are pumpkins and hot dogs. so jim, results, they are dressing their an has as pumpkins. >> okay. i will keep that straight in my head there, jill, thanks very much. we will check with you tomorrow. well, in other news a shooting send people running for cover in philadelphia's rittenhouse square. intense moments unfolded around 9:00 last night at 19th and walnut inside of the busy park. we're told victim was a good samaritan trying to break up a robbery. tim jimenes from kyw news radio is live there with the latest on the investigation

good morning, tim. >> there morning there has been a strong police presence around the park and victim a 39 year-old man is recovering at the hospital after being shot multiple times, the situation is upgraded to stable. police are searching for at least two hen who ran away there here this all happened last night, that 39 year-old man was on his bike, stopped by, when he saw this, intended robbery at gunpoint, and police say he said something along the lines of you are not going to rob these people. police say one of the robbers using a revolver shot him, and this happening on the warm fall night, lot of people out and about here at rittenhouse square. neighborhood rarely touched by such violence, very upsetting to those who live here. >> it headaches he very angry because we pay a lot of taxes, on this property. it is a beautiful neighborhood. the cost of living is rather high here. it is looked upon as one of

the high end areas, being in this area for over 30 years sort of angers he that it has come down to this. >> reporter: police have spoken to several witnesses and banking on surveillance cameras here, who were then to known to frequent this area. reporting live, from rittenhouse square, tim jimenes for kyw news radio for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". awe new list ranks best cities for trick or treating and philadelphia has a surprising spot on the list. we will tell you five best areas in the city to go this halloween, pat. good morning, jim. we're here doing some experiments at franklin institute and i'm dressed like a owl, you have it correct, i'm dressed like a owl, we will do some cool things because it is halloween, pat toomey and donald trump: they're just wrong for the women of pennsylvania. "new fallout for donald trump." "should a woman be punshied for having an abortion?"

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landmarks are all dressed in pink this month, check out ben franklin bridge all a glow for national breast cancer awareness month. those pink lights are a bright reminder to schedule a ham gram, and stay vigilant in the fight against breast cancer. coupe are university hospital in camden is also sporting pink lights, this is the 15th year for the lights for the cure campaign and you can find out more information at cbs philly.com/cure. well, living in philadelphia has its advantages, especially for trick or treaters.

it turns out that the city of brotherly love is top city in the country for your little hon stores to score the best goodies, according to the real estate group zillow. researchers looked at sit is is where kid can trick or treat wither on kids and get hose candy in the most short amount of time. they also took into account home values, crime rate and population and age. the best neighborhoods to trick or treat in philadelphia, cons creek, frankford, logan, germantown east and fairmount. >> interesting. >> i will say, i live in olde city and for the past ten years i have never seen a trick or treater. i'm thinking, are there any kids in this neighborhood? exactly. >> i wonder what kind of candy they are getting. it is american just skitles anal honda joy. >> i love them. i love the hundred you this dollars bar. >> something about being wrapped in gold. >> yes. >> so delicious. >> we are looking ahead to a very warm day, will not feel

like, halloween but it will by the weekend. so, eventually this is a very significant change that we will see take lays over a period of time. we will start off with a location that i have a feeling will be, very busy here today. that is area beaches. outside we will go to ocean city where, again, little bit of the haze, more moisture to work with the in the atmosphere. too breezy to allow fog to form, which is good, but at this point, it is nice, quiet and calm. that is the story throughout the day and very warm day expect. the as we check with our eyewitness heather watchers this morning it is warm, folks. couple out liars where right now we are only seeing 56 degrees, but she always tend to have a cool observation of the entire package typically but even this is a spot that could come very close to if not break a record here today. in philadelphia the number to beat is 80. we will shark that with no problem here. meanwhile lets see where else can we go zooming into a portion of new jersey and take

to you cherry hill where it is 67 this morning from jenny, she has a couple cloud. let me go right next door, 68 degrees from lynn, she too finding nothing more than a couple clouds in cherry hill. look, new profile picture, very nice. feels very warm, for october and definitely the story. we walk out the door it the is already milder, right now, then it is on a typical mid-october day. so we're also off to a mile start. we will have to problem rebound to go record breaking levels here today. you have to look closely, and rub the eyes, wake up before you can look at this but there is a line of scattered showers that continues to fizzle, and that is frontal boundary that crosses through, drops through, knocks temperatures back and then lifts back as a warm front and another cold front comes along for the weekend and that will send our temperatures on this nose dive ape by the time we hit weekend we are back in the lower 60's at best. it may not feel better than 40's on saturday when we factor in the wind but yeah, if you have been looking

forward to the shorts weather, today is the day, then we will see temperatures dropping back with every passing day,. good morning, thanks for. that happy hump day, construction here i-95 south between cottman and bridge street looking really busy for a while, still is but that construction has been since cleared. we are heating on like we typically would. boulevard, taillights, before the schuylkill this is what we are looking at moving this is southbound directionment looking good on the boulevard right now. blue route taillights moving in the northbound direction approaching media swarthmore. this is what you are looking at. anywhere we look it is looking like that. eastbound at new jersey toll plaza, betsy ross bridge has construction there and bridge opening is complete at that coney palmyra bridge. jim, over to you. franklin institute is known for headaching science fun and that includes for grown ups too. science center is preparing to host its next science after hours event, and evening featuring experiments, exclusively, for the adults.

this who it is holy -- halloween theme, "eyewitness news" reporter pat gallen is live at franklin institute this morning to tell us all bit. we thought there was something wrong with ursinus, pat you were doing some kind of of thing to clear your nose. >> who? oh, me. >> owl. >> i am an owl, i look like an owl, don't i. we are here for science after hours at the franklin institute. if i can come over here once a week to have fun, would i to it. the last time i got to drive an rc car that exploded. so they had me back. why not. this is mickey. good morning. >> how are you. >> doing well. you guys have a really cool thing called science after hours. tell us about that. >> science after hours we're toward the end of our season here but we have two great events coming up. first of which is on october 31st for halloween and the theme is creatures of the night. your costume looks great. >> thank you. >> so i can see you are trying

not to laugh at me because i'm dressed up but everybody will dressed up like this. >> people will be dressed in costume and we encourage people coming out to this night, wonderful time, great partners, activities that we will have on hand, for all of our friend, 21 and over. >> beautiful you can come out, have some fun as an adult, maybe a couple drinks if you want to. >> absolutely and play in our exhibits. >> beautiful. >> as part of that we will do some experimenting for us. >> yes. >> so what are we looking at right here. >> we have our dragon's breath activity and. >> that is like the morning. >> yes. >> but for this one, in particular, we will have a breath that looks more like what a dragon would breathe out. we have a graham cracker here, sitting in liquid nitrogen. now that you can do this. >> willie burn my hand. >> i hope not. >> so what do i do. >> put tonight tour mouth as if you will eat it. >> put this in my mouth. >> are you sure about that. >> be careful there. >> as you exhale, you have a

great looking breath. >> pay attention. >> smoking owl. >> graham crackers, get them cold. we will also be doing some electricity and other creatures of the night. reanimated for electricity. we are the franklin institute ben franklin institute, great experiments as well. if you wouldn't mind holding these light bulbs for he. using a small electrical device here, we have you completing a circuit and plasma. do you feel thinking in your fingers. >> no, i do not. >> you are conducting all of this electricity through your skin without actually, feeling any. >> try it one more time. >> i'm kidding, i would never. >> same effect with the fluorescent light bulb. >> if you wouldn't mine hold ago this for me as well. >> completing a circuit. >> electricity is coming to

you, and coming off of our tea vice here. >> jim, let's complete the circuit back to you in the studio. >> perfect toss. >> really good stuff. we will check with you later, patrick. this is no halloween advertise play find out why this mummy is being x-rayed, we will be right

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how big a pumpkin on your front step. in where near the size of this one that just arrived in boston. city chooses one pumpkin to display at boston's public mark. the lucky winner weighs in at 1,028-pound, gordo will enjoy company of another 800-pound gored through autumn. researchers at university of chicago are conducting a digital autopsy, on a 2800 year-old mummy. the first thing that they have learned it is a girl. mummy has been part of the university's collection since 1894 but never been examined, this closely. experts say it will allow them, possibly even determine the cause of the person's death. well, virginia high school student was with down syndrome thinks years home coming

queen. her face lit up with joy when crown was placed on her head and the sash over her shoulder to be charlottesville high school home coming queen. the classmates and teachers say her infectious experts earned her home coming crown but she's not taking it for granted. >> i am truly honor to be home coming queen. it is a big year for me. >> that is just great. she plans to attend college after she graduates from high school. that is wonderful. >> that is a big thing. >> and in the spirit of inclusion, fantastic. >> it is about the spirit of home coming queen, the person that she is justice. >> infectious girl. >> good stuff. coming up next on cbs-3 "eyewitness news" faculty from 14 pennsylvania colleges and universities are on strike, we

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fourteen colleges and universities in pennsylvania are walking the picket lines. we are looking live at west chester university, one of the schools affected, this impacts more than a hundred thousand students, jan carabao is live with what they should do this morning. good samaritan tries to break up a robbery in rittenhouse square and gets shot, what people who live in that exclusive neighborhood are saying about the violence. and the stage is set in vegas for third, final presidential debate we are live where we have a preview of both candidate trying to shift focus way from their looming controversies. today is wednesday october , i'm jim donovan. brooke is under the weather today but katie and meisha are here holding town the fort with me. >> good morning. happy wednesday. we are looking good now that i-95 is cleared out, we are heating up as usual. >> nothing usual about my forecast. >> i was going to say. seriously, can we coup that song. we are looking ahead to an

august-like take here guys, to you like shorts, you like t-shirts, you like flip-flops, there is a forecast for you. outside in pleasant and middle valley high school here, it is very quite to it start the daze here but i will show you this for a reason. thinks a mild spot. we are off to a warm spot in the mountains. we will start off in the up are 60's which is farrah above even typical daytime high, storm scan still nice and quiet, throughout the course of the day in the mountains where you may see a very isolated shower but looking at these current temperatures, we can handle a shower. sixty-six is current temperature at mount pocono, only up that way, and we have to worry about wet weather, anywhere else in philadelphia, atlantic city and vicinity no rain in the forecast. there is a front crossing through but sizzling in terms of the moisture content. we expect that we are going to break but shark the daily record here in philadelphia. number to beat is 80. we