he didn't know his seven year-old little girl was sleeping in the back seat we will hear from the to you truck driver about this big misunderstanding. a wrong way crash in south jersey has left one person dead and shut down a major roadway. pat has details. the clean up continues, after strong storms, rumbled through our area we will tell you how many people are waking up in the dark this morning. it is thursday, june 22nd, good morning i'm jan carabao, jim's off today. i'm rahel solomon. katie and pat are keeping an eye on things this morning.

meisha's on vacation. >> i feel like we should text jim this morning. wouldn't that be fun. >> good morning, guys. route 55, that accident is there one fatality we will tell but that, coming up. >> weather has calmed down from yesterday's storms. that is good news. we will battle sun glare in a half an hour. keep that in mind if you are waiting, watching, maybe half an hour and then hit the road here but regardless it looks like a pretty nice day just hot and certainly turning more humid if you like it hot, this is day for you. yesterday with those thunderstorms, we have a trough that was digging in. relatively weak all things considered but those storms ended up with some gusty wind and good heating of the day and they lasted a while. they didn't fizzle as they moved east. this is still, leaving behind a handful of cloud but it is really nice beginning to the morning for us. this is not a typo, it is actually below 50 in mount pocono, much milder by

comparison off to the south here. southeasterly wind starting to take grip once more not a strong wind per se but southeasterly flow is what is keeping us in the heat and in the humidity and around the rest of the region we have a couple out liars that are dropping in the 50's this morning but it does still feel muggy and will feel more so as day goes on. hot afternoon f there was a excuse to hit the pool, pat, this is it. >> today is one of those days. yesterday those storms rolled through in northeast philadelphia, and this is what happened, as i move out of the way here. this is boulevard at rhawn street. we have one lane closed in the inner lanes because of those trees hanging over the side of the roadway. so, as you know that area you have to go underground and trees are hanging over the side. they have got that closed. not sure when they will clean that up. hopefully by morning rush but not quite sure, about that just yet. in new jersey, route 55 we have had a fatality with an accident, overturned tractor trailer and a koran fire,

thinks causing some major delays, and will be, as the morning progress necessary this area. it is one fatality right here sad to say. as we go to the cameras, main street in lower southford. it was main street and now back, main street and lower southford a road closed and car hit a pole right here and maybe you cannot see it in the top corner but the accident is up the roadway just a little bit. over in new jersey route 130 southbound at dunnsville, jug handle is close because of construction that might be due to those trees that have flipped over on to the roadways, jan. >> pat, thank you. new this morning a bizarre chain of events when a seven year-old child is broad away from the pizza shop in west philadelphia "eyewitness news" reporter frank does live in kingsessing where that strange owe deal came to an end. good morning trang do what do we know so far. >> reporter: first and foremost that little seven year-old girl is okay. she slept through the ordeal and did not wake up until she was removed from the minivan

which you can take a look here is still on the scene along with the tow truck that was involved in all of this but here's what we do know. police say a man, woman rather was park outside her job in west philadelphia dominoes, clocking out for the night when a tow truck drive repossessed her minivan. seven year-old daughter was was asleep. as driver was pulling away from forty-fifth and chestnut the driver says a number of people began yelling at him but he continued to drive away mother then called 911 to report that her child had been taken with her van. officers were able to stop the driver about a mile and a half away at 50th and wood land. >> she was still asleep when vehicle was towed. i'm not ensure she knew she was being taken for a ride on a tow truck at this particular time. >> obviously still a lot to sort out here at this time, it is too early to tell if any charges will be filed. coming up at 6:00 hear directly from the tow truck driver about what he says

happened. we're live, i'm trang do, cbs-3 "eyewitness news", jan and rahel back to you. >> interesting, trang do, thank you. see you then. nearly 2,000 homes remain without power this morning after powerful storms rolled through our region. this was the scene on the 7800 block of limekiln pike in philadelphia's business oak lane section. strong wind uprooted trees there and knocked out power, fortunately no one was injured millions of people along the gulf coast are bracing for more rough weather as tropical storm cindy continues to move closer to land fall. >> cindy already began making her presence felt yesterday bringing high wind, flooding and tornadoes to parts of the region. correspondent hanna daniels has the latest. >> reporter: heavy rains, strong wind, battered galveston texas overnight as tropical storm cindy inched closer to the gulf coast. cindy began hitting parts of the region hard wednesday, toppling trees in biloxi, mississippi and flooding low

lying area. >> water is coming up at our place and we had to take off because i think the road is going to be flooded. >> reporter: with up to 15 inches of rain predict for some spots the national hurricane center has issued a warning of potentially life threatening flash floods. >> the rainfall, coupled with the already high water that we're seeing is it is really there is not a place for anything to drain. >> reporter: some residents say with forecasters expecting an above average hurricane season they are prepared for cindy, but saving their panic for now. >> this one is just going to bear down and stay in. >> reporter: at least one death is being blamed on the storm, a 10 year-old boy in an alabama beach was struck and killed, yesterday by a log, on the shore by storm surge. >> the child sustained very severe head injuries, had to be pulled from out underneath the timber. >> reporter: the shore system is predict to take a turne hitting mid-atlantic coast with heavy rain by the weekend

hanna daniels for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". and back here at home crew ness hamilton township mercer county are calling search and rescue effort for missing swimmer a recovery operation. search efforts for a 17 year-old boy, were called off late last night and are expect to resume later this morning. police tell us two teens were swept away yesterday afternoon while swimming in a marshy area, near west cot avenue. only one made it back toeshoe. >> it reached out, trying to grab him, and in a ditch, and i took him away from my hand. he went down. he was going under. coming back for air. going back down, backup for air. and then we let him around the corner and who sight of him. >> multiple new jersey law enforcement agencies including state police are assisting in the search efforts. jurors names are released just four days after the bill cosby sexual assault trial is declared a mistrial. judge stephen o'neill granted a motion, to make the jurors

names public yesterday. the 12 jurors and six alternates chose friend allegheny county spent more time deliberating and listening to trial testimony last week. we spoke with one jury expert, who says that both the prosecution and defense teams were against the release of the jury's names. >> both side did not want the court to release the jurors names? in large part because in the future what that could possibly do to selecting jurors for the next go round. >> abc news reports says that two members of the jury prevented cost bid from being found guilty, there is no rule for releasing names of jury members, each state, county, judge usually makes their own decision. meantime prosecutors zone in on philadelphia's district attorney seth williams alleged spending habits as they helped in today three of his federal corruption trial, prosecution witnesses took to the stand yesterday afternoon. the manager at the union league and employees at

nursing home where his mother lives testified against the d.a. the nursing home employees say that williams dodged bills and calls asking for payment for his mother's care, the manager at union league says williams spent thousands of dollars on fine dining, williams denies any wrongdoing. still ahead on cbs three, congressman steve scalise's condition is improving we will tell you big celebrity sending hill well wishes. we will update this shocking case of road rage that ended with a crash in california and the whole thing was caught on camera. and not everyone is worried about tropical storm cindy, we will hear from some surfers horren joying the storms waves. >> ♪ there are certain songs no matter what you are doing when they play you want to dance. thinks one of them. have you heard there is a reason we are playing this song.

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we have road rage video in southern california, a video begins with the motorcyclist and driver getting too close to each other. motorcyclist kicks the car, the car swerves, bumps motorcycle hits a barrier and then skid back into traffic hitting another car. the freeway 14 we are told one person suffered minor injuries but no word what caused this chaos. i don't know if there is any cause for that. act of terror canadian man remains in custody accused of stabbing a police officer at a flint, michigan, airport. police raided the suspect's apartment in montreal, quebec. the accused attacker amore fat uti shouted god is great in arabic and stabbed the lieutenant in the neck. he is in stable condition. bond hearing for that suspect is set for next week. congressman steve scalise continues to improve, after he was shot in the hip last week. he is listed in fair condition louisiana republican and house

majority whip is, starting rehabilitation. fbi says gunman who shot scalise had no ties to terror. meantime u2 singer one owe was at the capitol yesterday and signed a get will card for scalise after meeting with scalise staff. meantime capitol police officer crystal grinner is recovering after being shot last week. she threw out first pitch at congressional woman's softball game in washington d.c. last night. congress woman from both parties faced off against female journalist, they who to the press core two-one. event raises money for breast cancer charity. to an update now just minutes ago tropical storm cindy made land fall in the gulf coast. >> while most people were bracing for impact, some were embracing it. take a look, dozens took to the sand and surf in galveston , texas yesterday, despite dangerous risk for weather. surfers enjoyed a storm swell that produced five to 6-foot waves and they say it is kind of day they have been waiting

months for. >> we have our first one this year, this summer, it has been pretty good. >> i pretty much only come down when is there a tropical storm where hurricane is about to hit, and try to get out there and hit a wave or two. >> tropical storm cindy is expect to bring life threatening flash flood and tornadoes. back here at home, summer 's here and pools across philadelphia are opening up foresees on. >> just in time, first of the cities 73 pools opened up today, all of them will be opened by july 1st, and the city has three indoor pools and 70 outdoor won for to you cool off in. all right. time right now 5:15. katie has a check of the forecast. talk about right on time. >> my gosh did you say it. >> i wonder if they just wait for philadelphia school district to wrap up because we had several weeks, so far where we could have been, already getting a really nice dip in the pool here. but at lee looks like a fantastic opening day for so many of those pools and generally just sunshine and you will note that is humidity

building with time as well. we are starting warf a few cloud but those should begin with time. we will get outside and show you storm scan at the moment three hour loop and not showing a heck of a lot out there we have some pretty nice thunderstorms that rumbled through last night but those have long since departed, and now as the anchor's mentioned a moment ago, cindy has since made land fall that will make a right-hand turn but that moisture gets drawn in. high humidity for us and with the cold front passage that we are waiting on in the upcoming weekend there will be heavier thunderstorms out of. that better look, a tropical, a tropical satellite, closer look for you here, at cindy and is there just a lot of heavy rain, currently, banding in, around this storm circulation. this is going to eventually lose some of its strength but it still has a lot of moisture that end up being a problem, legacy that the storm will leave behind, heavy rain dumping across the gulf states and into parts of the ohio river valley. lets talk about our dew point

though, i harp on this every single summer, all the time, dew point is so critical to how you feel. current dew .67. bench mark to feel steamy is 65. it is within that range. it is especially toward evening it will probably need to be, up, a category here toward oppressive, dew point is likely reaching 70 toward evening. so yeah this is a steamy day for all of you guys walking out the door wearing three pete suit would i highly suggest a breathable suit, you know what i mean. lots of sunshine. high of 90. more humid. if you had are grilling out with the kid here maybe this evening, it is still hot but we keep that sun around and i think we will have a barbecue at the pennsylvania path's place what do you think, burgers. >> nope. >> oh, come on. >> why not. we will look forward to friday and saturday when those storms start to rum many in and by sunday it looks like a great

day, 83 in the sunshine. you are a killjoy. >> i love you guys, i would totally have you over. not. >> we saw that. >> good morning, everyone here's a look at main street in lower salford between mapel avenue and harleysville pike there was an accident that looked lining it was cleared. they have cleared that out, roadway still closed as they clean everything up off the roadway. also ben franklin bridge looking beautiful this morning as you head into the sit friday camden, new jersey, in delays right here as of yet. but there are some delays, there might be some delays in this area as they clean up this accident, route 55, closed between route 40. if you to have use delsea drive to get around this, this is just north of vineland where there was an overnight accident that had a fatality, tractor trailer, colliding with a car, car caught on fire , unfortunately, again there is one fatality with this accident. in delaware, right around wilmington, 495 southbound between 12th street and terminal avenue, this has been going on now maybe a week or

two where they are closing lanes, two left lanes closed until 8:00 a.m. that is a problem for your morning rush, it was yesterday and one more thing, we have been telling but this all morning long, roosevelt boulevard, southbound inner lanes near rhawn, trees are hanging over roadway so one lane is closed, guys, back over to you. all right, pat, thank you. now for newspaper headlines across our region. >> reading eagle reports, professional fire and e ms union in exiter township is rallying support to force township to give up plans to switch emergency services providers. exiter's supervisors voted last in to allow negotiation toss begin with hershey medical center based life line burlington county times reports that despite mayor chris walker announcing his resignation, officials have yet to receive official notice of the letter of resignation. township is waiting for one before taking action to fill his seat. mayor walker cited health reasons for his decision to resign. news journal reports on

study conduct by christiana care and university of delaware, examining the relationship between health, opportunity and physical violence on wilmington's west side. residents there can earn $75 if they participate this weekend in the study. researchers are looking for african americans age 16 to 44 that is your newspaper headlines from around the delaware valley. up next, it was a crime that outraged the community. >> still ahead victim of the vicious beating caught on tape gets to spend sometime with his favorite hockey team, we will show you how flyers helped make a difference, we

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thanks for being with us here on cws3 "eyewitness news" this morning. >> pat's here with sports and it is a big night for sixers. >> huge night, are you excited yeah, trusting the process. >> i like it. sixers process could becoming to fruition, 2017 nba draftings down tonight at barclay center in brooklyn and for second year in the row sixers have the first overall pick, they will be taking markell fultz, out of washington, a top freshman scorer in the country. sixers fans are responding as well, the team sold 14,000 season tickets so far, the most in the nba, and, a franchise record. flyers have lost one player in the nhl expansion draft, 32 year center pierre edward bellmawr will be on the very first las vegas golden knights team, he had only four goals, four assists last season but flyers team leader and a excellent penalty killer the nhl draft is friday

night, flyers have the second pick in the first round. and a special moment for one flyers fan in our area, "eyewitness news" at the skate zone in voorhees, where the team presented mark smith with a personalized jersey, smith is the disabled man punched in the face by teenagers in germantown earlier this month. in addition to the personalized flyers jersey mark got an exclusive tour of the flyers facility, you got to love that. phillies close out their home stand this afternoon with the cardinals in south philadelphia, phillies one-six on the home stan, not good. last night you guessed it another bull pen melt down, card came back from five runs down to tie the game on the ninth inning home run, his second of the game. phillies could win it in the bottom of the ninth. watch odubel herrera run right through stop sign at third base and get thrown out by a mile. what are you doing. to the tenth, phillies ramos tosses this pick up throw, over the head of tommy joseph,

that is so phillies right now. they lose seven-six in 10 innings. we are gearing up, my friend for another summer fest friday right here on cbs-3. if you have been down the shore, well, there is no doubt you bought a bag of ice to pack that cooler for beach and it likely comes from sea isle ice a stape until south jersey and beyond. i got a behind the scenes tour of their facilities and the amazing story of how it began for joe ray mano and family tomorrow right here on cbs-3 live from sea isle city. >> i was down there yesterday. >> yes. >> veterans live in sea isle city for decade. it would be a good time. >> good show. >> fun to see, pat, thank you. still ahead next on cbs-3 "eyewitness news" we will tell you how gas prices are looking ahead for the big fourth of july holiday weekend. more and more states legalizing marijuana we have results of the brand new study which looks at effect is it is having on traffic crashes.

plus a local junkyard goes up in flames, we will show you more of this dramatic video, katie. well, getting ever closer to the upcoming weekend and it is looking more focused now first half of the weekend is not ideal, second half sure is , we will have showers, thunderstorms heading in to saturday some could be heavy and by the time we hit sunday i love alliteration it will be sensational out there, still warm, mid 80's, sunshine but lower humidity, absolutely something to look forward to stay there we will be right back with the

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i'm rahel solomon. >> i'm jan carabao in for jim donovan. katie and pat will be here in a moment. but first here's what you need to know to start your day in the morning minute thursday, june 22nd. >> the truck driver makes a bizzarre discovery overnight a seven year-old found asleep in the back seat of the repossessed car. that little seven year-old girl is okay, i'm told she slept through the entire ordeal. big clean up after severe weather rolls through the region. >> she came down, came down quick, like boom. the first major storm of the season takes aim at united states, tropical storm cindy inches