tv Eyewitness News at 430 CBS May 26, 2017 4:30am-5:01am EDT
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>> "eyewitness news" this morning begins with breaking news, a tour bus and tractor-trailer collide on the new jersey turnpike, dozen are returned to the hospital. >> manhunt for suspect accused of sucker punching a man with cerebral palsy. now police want him for another crime. >> the jerse jersey shore open r business. memorial day, kicking offer the summer season. today is friday, may 26, good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. kicking off memorial day weekends. let's get a check with the day's forecast with matt peterson. >> matt, you look so great, nice to see you on this friday. >> katie a little under the weather, hopefully not
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watching. >> yes. >> katie, all right, matt, good to see you, happy friday, very busy in the worlds of travel. very serious accident out there amongst flooding and whole other host of issues this morning, so we're getting to all of that. >> weather shouldn't be causing too much after problem, the big problem for us yesterday on the area roadways, of course we had all of the showers, and we had few areas of thunder as we move through the overnight house, but the good news that low now moving off the coast, with just few scattered rain showers here across the area this morning. cloud cover is out there, as well. shouldn't again cause too many problems on the area roads on this friday morning, of course, everyone trying to get going little early. temperatures for us, in the 60s, actually race friend 58 degrees about an hour and a half or so ago, up to 60 in center city, looking at 60s down toward the shore point, dover, 59, 58 kicking off the morning in wilmington. it will be breezy day for us even though temperatures will be warm they are afternoon. right now in the five to
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10-mile per hour range. we will be gust to go maybe high as 20, 25 miles per hour later this afternoon, we get up to high temperature of 77 degrees today, meisha. >> that looks nice, matt, but it doesn't look good in the worlds of travel, thanks, matt. outside, still early, still dark, and slick in certain areas, as well. this is live shot here. this is what jim was just talking about up, jim and rahel, were talking about this tour bus collided with a tractor-trailer and the tour bus was overturned. new jersey turnpike, southbound, before route 322, that right lane, you can see, is compromised, more off to the shoulder, your alternate, 295, route 345, if you want to try to avoid the area at all costs. there are injuries involved with this accident. it sound like a tow truck has turned up. hopefully they get this cleared out of your way, i know our trang do will have more coming up in a little bit. heads up on. that will that's when we one of several issues, now another more serious accident, pedestrian struck with serious
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injuries, route 55 southbound closed right now before route 47. your alternate, route 47 will be your best bet around there. then we have another accident here. another serious accident, northeast extension northbound. you can see overturned vehicle, it is closed right now past quakertown, you will have to use alternate, route 309 will be your best bet around there. another accident montgomery county kutztown road. we will be talking about more flooding in jersey coming up in a little bit. jim, rahel, back to you. >> meisha, thank you. back to major breaking news, dozen of people returned to hospitals after their tour bus collides, with a tractor-trailer on the new jersey turnpike. >> "eyewitness news" reporter trang do, live at cooper university hospital where some of the victims are being treated. good morning, trang. >> well, good morning, jim, are h we are told 32 of the 50 people involved in this accident were transported to area hospitals, nine of them are here at cooper hospital. now, the extent of their injuries is unknown, but a turnpike spokesman tells us, that there were no serious injuries, fortunately, but take a look at this video of the scene that we have.
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this accident happened around 1:00 a.m., in the southbound lanes of the new jersey turnpike near mile marker 19. now, that's in the area of west depford township. a turnpike spokesman says a bus caring 48 passengers and tractor-trailer collided, cause that tractor-trailer jackknife, and cause the bus to over turn, and into bushes along the side of the highway. again, 32 of the 48 passengers on the bus were transported to area hospitals, for number of minor injuries. now the drivers of both the bus and the tractor-trailer were not hurt. but let's go ahead, go take a look live at the scene as we see it now. now, traffic at you can imagine was back up for hours, but our photographer there on the scene now tells me that traffic is getting by on the far left lane. now the right lane still closed as first responders are working to get that bus off of the highway. they've already removed that tractor-trailer, and at this point no word on what caused this very serious accident. but for now, live in camden, trang do, cbs-3, "eyewitness
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news." jim, rahel, back to you. >> thank you, trang. >> this morning a man fighting for his life after overnight shooting in philadelphia's cobbs creek neighborhood. this happened near 58th and montrose street just after midnight. police tell us 32 year old man shot in the stomach. he was returned to the hospital where he was last in critical condition. so far, no word on any arrests. >> man wanted for viciously assaulting a disable man in chester county is also wanted for other crimes. this is surveillance video, taken outside of 7-eleven in west chester, man with cerebral palsy minding his own business, police say, the suspect, 29 year old barry baker, mocked the man and then punched him in the face. >> many people have called and said i watched that video once. and i can't watch it again. it is too disturbing to see it more than once. >> and the victim is expected to be okay. meanwhile officials say baker's facing long list of charges, he failed to show up in court for a domestic relations case, and is also facing a probation violation
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in the past baker spent time behind bars for theft and forgery. >> unable to reach averred, the jury in the murder trial of david creato junior will resume it deliberations tuesday, the prosecution argues he killed his three year old son because the child hindered his relationship with a teenage girlfriends. but defense argued prosecutors failed to prove that creato was guilty. brandon was found dead in a wooded area of cooper river park in 2015. one of survivors of the 2013 center city building collapsed has been award the 96 and a half million dollars. arbitrator made that award to maria planningan, burried under the rubble at the salvation army store at 22nd and market for 13 hours. her injuries were so severe that doctors had to amputate her body below her hips. the collapse killed seven people, injured 12 other. >> the national transportation safety board is investigating the fatal crash after medical helicopt nerve new castle county. the pilot, 37 year old michael murphy, of franklinville, new
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jersey, died in the crash. no one else was aboard the medical chopper registered to the university of pennsylvania crashed behind a postal facility on quigley road in new castle around noon yesterday. it went down about a mile south of new castle airport. authority say murphy was on a training flight from atlantic city international airport. >> sounded like it was out of gas. it sounds like the propellers weren't moving, like it was struggling, i looked up, i seen it go straight down. at the last minute, it went off the course. >> fa a and delaware state police are also joining the investigation. no one was hurt on the ground. >> fire crews have contained volatile flammable gas from a rail car in gloucester county. officials say a faulty valve caused the leak from a tanker car at the pure land industrial park in logan township. hundreds were evacuated and hundreds of workers of the industrial park were sent home early. children at a day care center were sent to a hotel. one person suffered a non-life
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threatening injuries. president trump is in italy this morning for his first g7 summit. the president and first lady melania arrived in sicily yesterday ahead of the meetings. over the course of the few days the president will sit down with leaders from some of the worlds' wealthiest nations to discuss topics like terrorism, trade, climate change. sicily is the fifth and final stop of mr. trump's first international trip as president. and that trip follows the nato summit in brussels, a lot of people talking about this video which appears to show president trump, you just saw him there, pushing aside the prime minister to get to the front of the group for a photo op. the president then addressed his jacket, the white house says the standing order for the photo op was pre-determined, as usual. >> british police are once again sharing intelligence about the manchester bombing with the united state. they had halted communications briefly after intelligence shared with the white house was leaked to the media. meanwhile we're learning more about the suicide bomber. here's tina krause.
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>> reporter: millions across the uk united for a moment of silence thursday, to honor those killed and injured in monday's suicide bombings at manchester arena. as brit paused, police kept up their dragnets searching for people who may have helped 22 year old abedi, and brought the bomb disposal team with them. police arrested at least eight people since the bomb i. more information is emerging about abedi. police think he stayed in this apartment building in the days before the attack, after he had come back from libya, possibly with instructions from isis. authority are angry that critical information they wanted to keep secret for as long as possible, including the bombers identity and the nature of the bomb's construction, was leaked to us news outlets after it was shared with us security officials. >> it is wrong. it is arrogant. it is disrespectful to the people of greater manchester, but mainly to the families who
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have lost loved ones and to those injured. >> in brussels for the nato summit prime minister theresa may met privately with president trump. >> intelligence shared between law enforcement agencies must remain secure. >> u.s. attorney general, jeff sessions, released a statement saying his department will make every effort to put an end to the leaks. the death toll in the bombing remains at 22. queen elizabeth visited some of the young injured survivors at the hospital on thursday. tina krause, for cbs-3, "eyewitness news." the investigation into russia's meddling in the u.s. election now includes president trump's son-in-law. cbs news has confirmed that jared kushner was also the president's senior advisor under scrutiny by the f.b.i. this does not however meanest suspected after crime. looking into meetings kushner held in december with russia's ambassador and a banker from moscow surround jay. the trained by refresh a's security agency.
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>> and, another legal defeat for president trump's reveals dollars travel brain. it appears they have blocked from suspending new visas for people from six muslim majority countries. appeal to the supreme court is likely. >> mitch more to cover on cbs-3 "eyewitness news." one night after charged with attacking a reporter, a candidate for congress in montana learns the outcome of the election. we will tell you what he had to say about the run-in. >> and, wildwood lawmakers make decision on smoking ban on the board walk, why they say more than just a health issue. back in two minutes.
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his acceptance speech to apologize for the altercation. >> last night i made a mistake. i took an action that i can't take back. i'm not proud of what happened. i should not have treated that reporter that way. and, for that, i'm sorry, mr. ben jacobs. >> that reporter ben jacobs of the guardian, democrats hope the altercation would bring out undecided voters for them, but seemed to have little effect specially since half of montana voters cast their ballots earl. >> i we all know smoke something a leading cause of cancer? so is specked hand smoke, so it prompted wildwood officials to ban smoking on the boardwalk, new ordinance goes into effect january 1st of 2018. but officials are asking that people voluntarily refrain from smoking, this summer. in addition to health reasons, wildwood leaders say the board walk is susceptible to fires. >> and while we are talking about wildwood, "eyewitness news" is kicking off summer fest, memorial day weekends kicks off the tourist season at the shore, our pat gallen takes us behind the scenes of
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maui's peers coming up this morning at 5:00 a.m. meantime the time is 4:44. >> matt here with another check of the forecast, you're a native. you know wildwood is jumping memorial day weekends, always big weekend. >> always will get down there, all of the roller coaster, great time to be out on the prom made. watch the tram car, please. that's about the only thing that you need to worry about out there. but we do have little bit of precipitation here this morning, as well, our low pressure spiraling through new england, showers, thunderstorms, north of boston. little bit of wrap around precipitation now moving through the delaware valley. the good news, not anything like what we had yesterday morning. where we were dealing with again plenty of problems out on the area roadways, so still little bit of sprinkles out there, could still cause some myfoxphilly.com. but just be concerned with just maybe a light shower here for the most part to kick off our friday, and the start to our holiday weekends. you can see, future weather just cloud cover for the most part, not so much going on here in the way of showers early on in the dayment you can see we do bring in maybe few spotty light showers, go
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through the afternoon, not going to be as widespread probably as the models show at this point. can't rule out maybe stray shower, excuse me, stray thunderstorm, maybe through the afternoon, then get later tonight into tomorrow morning, we clear things out, that's good news for us, it will be cool, but not overly cold going through the nighttime hours tonight into tomorrow morning. then couple of showers maybe in the southern half of our viewing area for our saturday. maybe scrape some of the shore point, saturday morning, and in times, maybe in the afternoon. so if you are from atlantic city through wildwood, areas like avalon, stone harbor, maybe in the afternoon, again, chance for a shower for you tomorrow in the afternoon. but for the most part looks like it will be dry, most of us, 77 the high temperature today, up to 78 on saturday. and then looking for sunday, 76, then monday, 83 degrees, but unfortunately does remain unsettled all the way through it looks like our holiday weekends. meisha? >> yes, kind of mix of everything. all right, matt, thank you so much. very good morning to all of you. we made it to friday. but we are not without problems on the roadways, in
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fact, we have a lot of them out there. so, first and for most, this map does no do it justice, we've been talking about all morning long, so tour bus collided with a tractor-trailer, west depford township new jersey, new jersey turnpike southbound before route 322, that right lane is block now. it was all lanes, were you having to take an alternate. i would probably say you're safe to go out there right now, looks like crews are clearing this up for you. but it was still little slow moving through there. so if you do want to avoid it, you can take 295 or route 45, otherwise, you're going have to just kind of swivel through it, crews just cleaning up the last bit. that's the big story. heads up on. that will i think trang will have little bit more on that many coming up. serious accident here cumberland township new jersey involving a pedestrian with serious injuries here. route 55 southbound closed right now before route 47. so, your alternate, route 47, will be your best bet there. overturned vehicle in quakertown, northbound closed past quakertown, you will have to use alternate.
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route 309 will be your best bet there. also more minor accident here, montgomery county, cut town road near sawyer road. one lane block there. of course do have flooding in jersey as well, route 44, paradise road, one lane blocked, there route 130 closed at route 322. your alternate, 295, lots going on, jim, such busy morning. >> thank you shall meisha. still ahead on "eyewitness news" this morning, a tv cartoon favorite of baby boomers is moving to the big screen. >> and a long time tradition returns to the main line. find out what else is there aside from the horses when "eyewitness news" continues.
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>> 4:50, and time for business news. >> jill wagner joins us live this morning from the new york stock exchange, good morning, jill. so, markets are at or near record highs. what's behind that? >> well, mostly it is strong earnings, yesterday, best buy shares actually surged by double digits after it reported better than expected earnings for the first quarter. best buy got a boost from an
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unexpected surge of americans spending tax refunds on electronics. there were strong sales from mobile devices and new nintendo gaming console. >> jill, i i understands cartoon classic coming to the big screen? >> yes, warner brothers moving ahead with movie version of the jetson's, that original cartoon, ran from 1962 to 1963, of course, the it chronicles the life of george, june, judy, he will roy, in the year 2062, not to forget astro the dog, the co-director of sausage party actually been tapped to develop that animated jetson's movie, so far no release dates. >> i remember watching the jetson's as a kid in the repeat. but the fun fact, it actually premiered in prime time. it was a nighttime cartoon in the 60s. >> oh, that's interesting. >> see? >> i got to say i feel like oftentimes we're living in that era. may not be 2062, but we got the flying cars, the drones.
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>> i agree, you know, so much of that seems so crazy, and out of this world, and now we're really talking about it, and we have all of these things. >> microwaves, remember, microwaves? i remember microwaves from that thing, and then suddenly we got a microwave. telling you it, all happens, coming truement thanks, jill, we'll check back in with you in the next hour. another check on traffic. >> plus headed for the shore this weekend? how will it be, matt, what do you think? >> i think we're going have kind of up and down holiday weekends, chances for showers, maybe thunderstorm, some days, but will be warm. saturday, sunday, monday, we'll breakdown your forecast
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>> welcome back, we're all concerned what it will be like across the delaware valley for our holiday weekends, long weekends for lot of folks. here is our outlook for saturday, sunday, into monday, as well. looking for few clouds on saturday, across the area. looks like maybe, maybe a very small chance for a stray shower, late in the day saturday. but saturday is going to be the best day of our holiday
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weekends with some showers, maybe isolated thunderstorm as we get through sunday, and monday, now, temperature wise, through saturday, sunday, monday, 70s for us, saturday, sunday, 80s, looks like as we climb then into the beginning of the next week, which of course includes memorial day on monday. storm scan3 this morning, not too much happening out there. we have few stray rain showers, relatively light, nothing like what we had about 24 hours ago, as the area of low pressure continues to spiral off through new england and to the north. temperatures are relatively mild. actually climbed couple every degrees in the last about hour and a half almost two hours from 58 in center city up to 60, 59 in allentown, still clinic to go some lower 50's out toward the poconos, mount pocono 52 degrees, 61 down at the shore, in wildwood. getting a look at our hour by hour forecast, we will be in the 60s for at least the first half of the morning. up to 70, though, by noontime, then our high temperature, this afternoon, 77 degrees. you can see we start the day out with some sunshine, cloud cover does still pour in through the afternoon, three,
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five, toward 7:00 as well, when we will be watching for maybe stray shower to roll through the region. meisha? >> thank you for that 77, matt, like that, thank you. good morning, everybody, happy friday to you. waking up in the world of travel, well, got some wet, damp roadways out there, i was talking about that little bit. we look outside, kind of see the sheen on the roadways, schuylkill headlight moving in the eastbound direction, before montgomery drive. and one of the more peaceful commute of the morning, it has been a very, very busy morning. so we do have a serious accident here in cumberland county new jersey involving a pedestrian, with serious injuries. route 55 southbound closed right now before route 47. route 47 is going to be your alternate around that. i would say avoid the area if you can. we've also been talking about the tour bus that collided with a tractor-trailer. new jersey turnpike southbound before route 322, that right lane is the only thing compromised right now for little while there it was all of the lanes blocked, crews have now been towing all of the vehicles that were involved out of the way, and now it is just the right lane that's compromise the. so for those of you headed
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through, okay to go through there, if i were you, just give yourself couple of extra minute, overturned vehicle northeast extension northbound closed at quakertown, your alternate route 309. also more minor accident here, kutztown road, near sawyer road. one lane blocked there. a lot more to talk about when we come back in the next ten minutes. >> the devon horse show underway in chester count. >> i some of the worlds' top equestrians are taking part in the competition, opening day, the crowd, and despite the rain, it included rides, games, lot of food for everyone. the devon horse show runs through june 4th. coming up in the next hour of cbs-3 "eyewitness news," we continue to follow breaking news, dozens of people hurt when their tour bus rolls over on the new jersey turnpike. >> then, playoff hockey. the senators and pen wins go into double overtime last night. this morning the stanley cup finals are set. >> and we're going down the shore this memorial day weekends, join us along with pat gallen as we kick off cbs-3 summer fest. live in wildwood. that's coming up next.
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>> we are following breaking news, tractor-trailer and the tour bus collide in south jersey, dozen of people are hurt right now. we're live at the hospital with the latest on the investigation into what went wrong. >> and a suspect accused of soccer punch a man with cerebral palsy wanted for another crime. also learning more about his rap sheet which includes stealing from the dead. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> stop dancing in your seat, meisha, we're kicking off
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