accidents this morning. >> thankfully. >> we are expect to go see skies clear out nicely here, visibility has been a problem for past few mornings, rain is a big problem for part of the morning drive yesterday but now, it is clear, or we are clearing. we will continue to see cloud break as day progresses for more and more sunshine which will be a welcomed sight at this point. even though it has only been two days worth of glummy skies it feels like an eternity sometimes since we were just getting started with the week here. now that we are hitting wednesday things are clearing out. we have high pressure for at least two days, before the next system gets here. that storm makes its departure and as it goes, bye-bye we will see temperature rebound to 5 degrees with high pressure in place. more sunshine as well. dew points are lower then they were. even same time yesterday. they look like they are close to the actual air temperature, 42-degree dew point in philly, verse 49-degree air temperature in philadelphia it is kind of close.

because wind is more northwesterly, breeze picks up , dryer air moves in. that basically means it will start to feel less humid outside. daytime high 62. it will be breezy, brighter, and then we have got that sunshine, throughout the course of the day looking really nice overall, meisha. >> it is so, nice to see that sunshine, thanks very much, katie. good morning, everyone. happy wednesday, looking outside at ben franklin bridge , pushing in the westbound direction at center city looking good, really good , but just as it should, i would say giving yourself extra time outside the door like you did past couple days, visibility is not as much of a factor today but i will say i would still give yourself some extra, time out there. i really would do that. it will be busy as well. pushing in the westbound and eastbound direction we are building levels ever so slightly but just cracking in the 5:00 a.m. hour we will see things heat up pushing toward 6:00 o'clock hour or deeper in the 5:00 o'clock hour and we are okay. we have got bridge inspections

vine westbound ramp to the schuylkill, right lane blocked between 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. and more construction schuylkill westbound between vine and girard, the left lane blocked, that is afternoon construction that starts at 1:00 p.m. and should be clearing around 3:00 h gets underway. just a head up; we will tweet this out to you as well. jim, over toy. authorities stumble upon an interesting find during a drug bust in chester county. take a look a tiny monkey. the monkey with 100 mature marijuana plants were found inside north coventry home. the plants could produce drugs worth a half million-dollar. police arrested three cuban nationals and charged them with felony drug trafficking. >> it is funny all these hard core drug guys that came out after the investigation not to tell us there was over a hundred plants of marijuana in there but to say there is a really cute machining i in there. >> hey, it is important, monkey business other monkeys

at an unnamed sanctuary. jim, thank you. it is national an easy process but work continues to restore grave stones vandal ized at jewish cemetery in philadelphia "eyewitness news" reporter trang do is live, in wissonoming with more , good morning, trang do. >> reporter: good morning, rahel and jim, rained all day, hampered crews efforts but they still managed to restore 25 headstones, today they are working and continues over next two weeks, weather permitting. about a month after a man visiting loved won discovered upward of 100 headstones broken or knocked over, in mount carmel jewish cemetery, craftsman began repairing damage that was done. >> our hope is to over the next couple of weeks, be able to restore a few hundred grave stones. >> reporter: response to the vandalism has been swift, in the days, weeks, following the discovery, some 300 people rolled up their sleeves to clean up the cemetery. jewish federation of the

greater philadelphia went on to raise 220 you this dollars to fund restoration. >> it has been a incredible outpouring by the whole community of love, generosity and we have had a lot of people coming out and lend their hand to help us, clean, and mass this cemetery. >> let's go, they were down, they were knocked over by vandals. >> reporter: conservation expert joe, with grave stone matters cemetery preservation and national park service are leading the effort which will include repairing fencing and installing additional lighting members of the bricklayers anal identify craft workers local one are also donating their time. >> we will be done in a matter of probably an hour or so by a few vandals will take hundreds of hours of skilled labor to redue. it is just so needless. >> reporter: meanwhile, police have yet to make any arrest ness this case but a $74,000 reward for information

, still stand, but for now we are live from wissonoming i'm trang do, cbs-3 "eyewitness news", rahel and jim, back to you. >> thank you, trang do. police charged caretaker after toddler was found dead in west oak lane last week this is suspect, jadeeyane smith, concealing a death of the child and abuse of the corpse. two-year old a seem jones was found unresponsive in the 7100 block of north 15th street. there is no word on the toddler's cause of death. new jersey governor chris christie is heading to washington td contractor he and president trump will host a opioid round table discussion this comes as christie refuses to confirm or deny rumors that he has been selected to lead a national effort to combat opioid abuse. christie promised to dedicate his final year as new jersey governor to fighting the opioid epidemic. last mow signed legislation limiting first time opioid prescriptions and requiring that insurance covers six months of substance abuse

treatment. happening today, two former aid to christie are scheduled to be sentenced in the bridge gate scandal. bridget kelly and bill baroni were convicted last year on conspiracy and other charges. prosecutors say that they closed lanes on the george washington bridge, in retribution for north jersey mayor's refusal tone doors christie for reelection. kelly and baroni face 46 months in prison but they filed paperwork requesting probation. lawyers for bill cosby don't want jurors to hear that cosby gave woman drugs, money or educational fund. judge has ruled most of those women can't testify, at cosby 's june trial, and now his lawyers don't want cosby's deposition allowed either. judge is considering the request, and the 78 year-old comedian has pleaded not guilty to charges he drugged and molested a temple employee in 2004. philadelphia district attorney seth williams could have his bail revoked unless he find a new lawyer to defend him against corruption charges by this friday. williams current lawyer michael diamondstein is

seeking to withdraw over concerns that williams can't pay him. judge however, has ordered that diamondstein remain on the case at least for the moment. this is audio obtained exclusively for cbs-3 from yesterday's hearing. >> you signed on to dot case. i don't have any basis as i see it right now to recommend to judge diamond that you should aloud to withdraw. >> i'm only telling the court that my client has no fund for his case and investigation. >> prosecutors have no objection to diamondstein leaving the case. williams has said he should have another attorney by friday. well, a line of severe storms moved through parts of the texas spawning tornadoes including this one, look at the size of this. this one touched down in the town of ovoka and stayed on the ground for a while. there is no reports of damage or injuries. the same cannot be said about another twister nearby three storm chasers died yesterday. >> corresponderd read binjohn has details including a interview with one of the victims recorded just weeks

before the fatal crash. >> reporter: about 50/50, some people say you are crazy, other half says i will go with us. >> reporter: storm chaser kelly williamson, talking about the risk and reward. >> every storm has got something about its own personality, it is just like a person. >> reporter: that profession proving deadly tuesday, he was within of the three storm chasers killed in the crash pursuing tornado in texas. police say it happened when a black suburban driven by williams, stopped by a stop sign and collided with a jeep driven by another storm chaser williamson his passenger and driver of the jeep were pronounced dead at the scene. while tornado itself may not have caused the accident, severe weather had been sweeping the area. >> fog, heavy rain, there was a tornado spotted just a few miles west of here. >> reporter: slippery road and low visibility may be, but storm chasing's biggest hazard according to williamson was one that he highlighted in a interview just weeks before his death. >> the biggest danger out is

there other chasers, and the grand mom that is trying to get her kid, tornado sirens are going off and she's trying to get them to safety. you have to watch out for everybody out there. >> reporter: read binbeyond for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". up next, see dramatic video showing infant rescued from raging flood waters. nurse to flames and miraculously everyone makes it off the flight. we will tell what you officials say caused the fire. cleaning up from a major cyclone see more damage left behind in australia. ♪ >> so, i kind of like ed sheeran before this but this has made me, hard to miss his new single shape of you, later on we will tell you how it actually landed a woman in jail. >> in jail. >> yeah. >> you don't say.

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welcome back to "eyewitness news". >> authorities have launched investigation after a plane burst into flames in the airport. this was at an airport in the andes yesterday. passengers were rushed off

that plane and had apparently just landed from lima. local media reports that the plane's right wing broke which started fire but thankfully no one was hurt. >> staying in peru a baby girl rescued from the home completely under water. relentless rain, continues to torment that country, nearly 100 people died as a result of flooding, peru army shot this video as they rescued a family of five including two children peru's emergency management agency issued flood warnings for various rivers in that area. well, the cyclone that tore through northern australia has been downgraded to a former tropical weather system this morning we are getting a look at destruction it left behind. both were washed up on beaches , trees uprooted and power lines, snapped across the coastal state of queens land. cyclone debbie was category four storm when it slammed island early yesterday with wind of 160 miles an hour. >> we're always complaining about the rain, the rain, and you know, wind, and stuff like that we have a lot to be fortunate about. this stuff does not happen a

lot around here. >> we have our own hurricane season that is still a couple months away, right but yeah, by comparison, what is going on couple states away will be sheltered, in regard, to a comparison, sake anyway looking at what some other folks across the you had has to deal with for the rest of the week. not just in the form of the large storm system a sluggish one at that. we will talk about our weather , right now, and as you walk outside the door. clearing out nicely, and it looks, it looks almost like there is a sheen on the roadway but at this point things have dried out. it is just glare of the pavement that is playing a trick on us. everything is dry at this point. we will see that throughout the course of the day. lets look at storm scan next. things beginning to clear out. do you see breaks in the cloud that show up over the loop and that is high pressure taking back control, so same thing with the air when it comes to areas of high pressure. that means cloud get scoured out. here's storm system producing major, weather across these areas, kansas, nebraska, down

into texas. look at this line, boeing out, wind driven line of severe wet 's cross dallas and heading close to houston at this point too but this storm is going to entry hit us with time. let's track this very slow storm. notice future weather we are jumping to midnight tomorrow. it is still, only, over the plane states and that point moving in the midwest. because it is so slow it will have ample opportunity to drench our region but wind get through thursday without a hitch, even by 5:00 p.m. sunnies still shining here by thursday, late night, there may be a few showers and there is a good possibility that we will get into 8:00 a.m. friday we will get through our morning commute without any wet weather. it will be mid to late day that this starts to, drench the region, and i would still walk out with an umbrella out throughout the day because 3:00 p.m. you have soaking rain here. this is next storm system in the pipeline affecting us friday into maybe as late as

early saturday. today's high is 62. a few degrees above average. we will have a chilly low of 36. as i get rap lets get to the seven day and show what you is to come. today, tomorrow looks nice overall. breeze here, two days. friday rainy, gradually skies will clear and weekend not looking bad at all. >> loving the 62 and sun today , tomorrow, thanks for that, katie. instant mood lifter, right? looking outside, 95 south at girard you can see just a string of headlights hitting our interstates and highways right now. head up whenever we have rain and fog to start off as we saw monday and tuesday that probably will leave with us a very busy commute, today. so i would say, even though it will be gorgeous, we will have that sun, here we will have to pack, the sunglasses by the way we will deal with some, slow downs, i would also give yourself extra time because we will have a little bit of the residual effect because of how busy cars will be hitting roadways earlier. head up on that.

forty-two freeway northbound at creek road approaching 295 what we are working there some neighbors out there. you can see them sipping by traveling at posted speed, of course, we know they are traveling right at posted speed, delaware county 95 north at 452 taking this up to the airport. delaware county is looking great,

>> that is a look at newspaper headlines from around the delaware valley. up next, pat gallen is here with sports, good morning , pat. >> good morning guys. we will catch you up on the sixers and flyers both playing well last night but we also hear from the man in charge, jeffery laurie gave an update on the state of his franchise we have got a details next up on

well come back we are so glad you are here with us on "eyewitness news" this morning pat's here with sports and we are talking eagles. >> it is always eagles season. but patients is a word we hear over and over again when it comes to the philadelphia eagles but head man is also, preaching, last night nfl owners meeting jeffery laurie spoke for the first time in a year. he said eagles must continue with a disciplined approach and not look for 10 and six. he said he will push for kelly green jersey to make a come back. thats as for roster another busy day they signed eight year veteran end chris long to a two year deal, and he was with the patriots last year during their super bowl run were four sacks and he is son of the famous villanova alumni

howie long. bird signed patrick robinson, he has played for colts, saints, chargers in in his seven year career. he will join a youthful, de pleaded secondary that who noland carroll and leodis mc kelvin. >> there are opportunities to get value in free agency at this time of the year. we are looking at anyways to improve our team. we are trying to build this for long time but at same time when we see opportunities to improve our football team and competition level and the depth on our team we will take those opportunities. and might be off season but carson wentz still doing work inside philadelphia he hung out at columbia north ymca on broad street teaming up with jc penny and soon to be nfler desean watson. they talked, about the kid, looking and feeling their best >> is it too lit tool late for flyers? they continue to make a late season push for playoff birth but they really cannot afford any losses.

the ghost and flyers hosting ottawa senators last night third period flyers down a goal, and craig anderson with the turn over right in front, jordan wheel, right place, right time, his sixth goal of the year. we are tied: to a shoot-out, steve mason need a stop for the win, he is stoned. he stones them. they win three-two. but they are six points out of the playoffs with just six games left. so brooklyn take me in, dario, rock and sixers taking on the nets last night. dario had a bad game sunday but he maid up for it betting lopez there nice craft i hook shot in the lane, and then another hook, right here, dario 23 points, six rewound, even heard mvp chants, under 902nd, robert covington cleaning up tj mcconnell miss, he had 21 and 13 rebound, sixers beat war team in the league, 106, 101. so, we're back to some wick ways, flyers and sixers both win. >> was that a little shade there they beat the war team

in the league. >> they are by far the worst team in the league. so facts. >> okay. >> thanks, patrick. coming up next on "eyewitness news" a high tech way the u.s. postal service is helping residents make sure that their mail isn't being stolen. plus this... >> chairman of the house intelligence committee is refusing to step down while denying he is delaying an investigation into alleged russian involvement. i'm hanna daniels in new york with more coming up. it has been more than two weeks since a tennessee teacher allegedly kidnaped his teenage student without any sign of the pair, we will tell you where authorities believe they may be hiding out. katie. well remarks hell as we get closer to the upcoming weekend we still expect some showers will be lingering saturday morning but sunny sunday regardless and temperatures that begin to rebound. we will be right

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a bizarre raid in chester county. >> inside of the house police found enough plants to produce 200-pound of marijuana along with a half pound monkey. work continues to restore grave stones vandalized in the jewish cemetery. >> police have yet to make any arrestness this case. >> race to cover severe weather turns deadly in texas three storm chasers are killed when their vehicles collide. and my administration is putting an end to the war on coal, and we will have clean coal. really clean coal. >> i know clean coal. it sound like an oxymoron but so does president trump. >> we are here at ronald mc donald house tell-a-thon. >> keep on ringing. >> i just want to show my love and support for ronald mc donald house so i'm donating $10,000 to the cause. >> hometown boy we are so proud of him.

>>in hart man. >> 1.2 million-dollar in the ronald mcdonald house charities tell-a-thon. thunder. more from kevin hart and final tally that jim just gave away there. >> i didn't realize we were doing it later. >> but for now lets get out to katie. we have rain lately but we are in for a sunny, wednesday. >> we are indeed, yes. yesterday, we could not see the sun even if we wanted it all they we had plenty of sunshine in our hearts with a wonderful success of the ronald mcdonald's house charity tell-a-thon. i didn't realize that was donation kevin hart made. he does so much for the communit to pi es here in the city. so a nice, quiet pattern at weather never does maintain't one pattern, does it. but skies are clear. we see how this break from the cloud cover. as i look overhead at cbs-3 sky deck is there a thin veil of cloud cover it is tough to detect at t thin. starting to clear out