incident. >> it is a day by day process. >> a show of support for a friend taken too soon, three years after a deadly crash claimed the life of the south jersey teenager, loved won turnout as man accused in her death head to court, plus this >> reporter: man bypasses security, gets to sit hall roof and the tower, i'm joe holden, why his high wire stunt all caught on camera is now subject of the police investigation. and sunny start to august, in center city but storms are flaring up across the area i'm meteorologist lauren casey with the late lease at storm scan three and preview of your weekend forecast, cbs-3 "eyewitness news" at 6:00 starts right now. little nervous to go back out there i will share with my office co-workers and let them know and hopefully we will buddy up and not walk alone. >> a community is on alert

works man sexually assaulted at gunpoint while running in the popular farm. tonight search for suspect is on. terrifying attack happened in broad daylight, good evening, i'm ukee washington. i'm jessica dean. police say victim was running in norristown farm park just before 11:00 this morning when the man attacked. that is where "eyewitness news" reporter david spunt joins us live and still tracking this still developing story, david. >> reporter: victim is at einstein hospital recovering from her injuries. she's 19 year-old. we will take a live look from the chopper to show you it is still an active investigation. there are still crews on the scene processing this scene. i want to point out this is a big park 690-acre and there are parts of this park that are extremely isolated. authorities rushed to norristown farm park on tuesday morning, after a 19 year-old woman, called in a panic. she told authorities that a man pulled her off the trail and sexually assaulted her at gunpoint. >> i see park rangers out all

the time, i see them cleaning the path. there is maintenance. i'm surprised, yes. >> reporter: authorities described suspect as a black male, wearing a black mask and or a dark hooded sweat shirt. he is armed. authorities say that he was hiding in the wood before the attack. >> that is crazy not something would i expect here i'm here all the time. >> reporter: norristown state hospital was on brief lock down during initial manhunt but has since reopened. crews expect to be on the scene to gather more evidence in the night. >> i'm nervous to go back out there. i will share with my office co-workers and let them know and then hopefully we will buddy up and not walk alone. >> reporter: neighbors coming home tonight to hear this disturbing news, thinks a huge park 690 acres. east and west nor it town police department are the lead working with montgomery county district attorney's o any information call police immediately. remember they take anonymous tips. they just want information to get this person behind bars. reporting live from montgomery

county, david spunt for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> thanks, david. police identified a suspect they believe is responsible for the shooting death of a man in haverford. the police say derek rollins is on the loose, armed and very dangerous. twenty-four year-old rollins is accused of shooting and killing 29 year-old john leon saturday near haverford road. police also believed that rollins is involved in another random shooting. >> we believe he is armed, he is extremely dangerous. we have seen here where he shot at three separate people and killed one and it looks like these are clearly in philadelphia at least random attack on individual clearly protecting their neighborhood. >> "eyewitness news" has learned rollins has a rap sheet that includes multiple arrests for drugs and firearms , u.s. marshals and fbi are assisting philadelphia police in, this search. a dangerous, stunt recorded high atop philadelphia's city hall and posted on you tube has the attention of city officials and police department.

"eyewitness news" reporter joe holden is live at police headquarters with more on the security breach that has launched an investigation, joe >> reporter: jessica, it appears this video was shot between the last two and three weeks, surfaced on you tube this past weekend and has sparked a significant security review at city hall. philadelphia city hall with 700 rooms, combined 15 acres of total floor space, it is 116 year-old fortress of the building one that is apparently less secure then many knew. >> this is first time you're seeing this. >> reporter: sure is. >> david oh admits he has never seen inside clock tower but man taking video goes there. >> it is, you know, surprising he could access the tower, climb up a ladder. >> reporter: he keeps on climbing all the way up to the statue of william penn pen which at the time was surrounded by scaffolding. >> no, he shouldn't have made it up there. >> reporter: he did and expos ed a significant loop

hole in security. video pops on you tube under the name carson king, police central detectives are leading what is now an investigation. >> right now it does appear when he went into the tower and continues to go up it appears there was a event. >> reporter: mayor kenney troubled by the risky maneuvering. >> it about on the meres that some within wants to climb to the city hall and same thing with the bridge. >> reporter: two photographers were caught scaling a bridge tower last week, dozens of rescue crews, cut it short, and they are facing felony charges. at city hall a security review ironically was already underway. >> our home land security unit department wilson and his staff and office of public property were already doing a security audit, overhaul for city hall anyway. so this gives us more reason to continue to do that. >> reporter: man behind the lens faces tough questions for detectives. >> that is dangerous. >> very dangerous, and exciting at the same time. >> reporter: exploring with

carson you tube page has exploded with views, since news of this all broke, of his expedition across city hall roofs. in fact many of the comments tonight are telling him, philadelphia police want to speak with him and that is certainly the case here we can tell from you police headquarters. reporting live, from center city, joe holden for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> thanks very much. former mayor of pennsylvania's fifth largest city has pleaded not guilty to federal corruption charges. former reading mayor vaughn spencer appeared in philadelphia federal court today and was later released on $50,000 bail. vaughn was indicted last week with allentown married he had pawlowski and three alleged coconspirators. they are accusing of running a pay to play scheme, pawlowski pleaded not guilty to similar charges last week. bill cosby's lead attorney has filed paperwork to withdraw from the comedian's defense team. brian mcmonigal represented cosby in his sexual assault trial in montgomery county and that, of course, ended with a hung injury any june.

cosby's retrial is scheduled for november 6th. no word on why mcmonigal wants to withdraw, judge stephen o'neill will consider the request during a hearing august between the second. several beach necessary margate remain closed as army core of engineers works to pump out large pools of water behind newly construct dunes. we first told but this yesterday about how that area flooded from recent rains. residents blamed poor drainage from the controversial beach fill project, lawmakers will meet tomorrow to discuss whether to seek a court injunction to stop the project in the meantime the beaches from the ventnor board tore gladstone avenue are closed until further notice. after a bit of the cool stretch we're turning up the heat, all around the region and meteorologist lauren casey 's on the sky deck tracking these higher temperatures, lauren. >> yes, sir, definitely feeling heat but good news we don't have that oppressive humidity. we don't see significant impact on those heat indexes

right now. we are seeing an impact on temperatures object rain cooled air we had storms firing autopsy cross the region. pretty sparse in nature but we have one cell that is likely slowing things down commute wise looking north and east of philadelphia, we have a hearty cell that has been ongoing for a better part of an hour impacting cinnaminson and stretched out over the river. i turned lightening off to see where heavier lightening is positioned over pal my, yeah slowing things down on torresdale avenue and tacony area. we have the most storms concentrated toward lehigh valley and poconos with these storms that continue to flare up, in and around allentown and lehighton watching out for localized flooding in these areas due to the slow moving nature of the thunderstorms. is there rain cooled air in the poconos where we're at 71. down the shore we have a sea breeze, at 85 degrees, hot but not all too hume mid philadelphia, 90 right now but that heat index only 91 degrees. so it could be worse. as we head into tonight

temperatures will fall back in the lower 70's, warm overnight period with that chance of isolated storms as we head in the next couple of hours and then after sunset that storm threat will diminish but we will increase storms as we head into tomorrow afternoon so we will talk about the coverage of those storms and get a preview of our weekend forecast, rain your full forecast in just a few. >> lauren, see you then, thank you. national night out celebrations are under away across our region right now. lights give you a live picture , and, national night out is a chance for police and a community and they serve to connect the annual event, take on a block party feel and emphasized crying prevention -- crime prevention tonight's event features that police k-9, demonstration and much more. a strong show of support in atlantic county courtroom. friend of the teen hit and killed by a car in 2014 showed up to day for the vehicular homicide trial of the driver. he is facing multiple charges.

new jersey reporter cleve bryan is in mace landing with more on a tragic loss, that is still being felt years later. >> we just want to continue to show our support. >> reporter: dozens of teens packed a courtroom for trial of the man accused of killing one of their friends, nicholas goretti from vineland faces charges of vehicular homicide and assault by auto for crashing in the car full of mainland high school girls back in august of 2014. three girls were hurt and 14 year-old ashland cook died. >> i missed her dearly. debut day process still. >> i go through day and wonder what would it be like if she was here with us. >> reporter: about to be a starter as a freshman mainland retired number four soccer jersey. she would have been a senior next month. >> it is sad but she's here, looking down on us. >> reporter: authorities say he was driving under influence of the commonly known drug known as xanax. he crossed yellow line hit a

box truck and slammed in the car full of girls driving to a charity soccer tournament. a doctor for him testified even low levels of the drug can impair a person's driving. >> full instruction, and can be drugged. >> reporter: his attorney pointed out effects can vary significantly from person to person. >> the defendant made a terrible choice that day and we suffered the consequences of that choice and these girls are living with that every single day. >> reporter: both of the doubt ers were in the car with cook and something they struggle with every day. >> they have not overcome this i don't know, i don't necessity if they ever will. >> cleve bryan in atlantic county. >> still to come on "eyewitness news" stepping up the fight against lung cancer our stephanie stahl explains first of the kind campaign being rolled out and reason it is being launched today. tackling a serious issue we will tell you who is swooping into provide life

saving gifts right here in philadelphia, what was being handed out and why don. around this time of the year there is a big difference between doug pederson and chip kelly how eagles training camp just got physical, later in sports.

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fighting the leading cancer killer. >> health reporter stephanie stahl is here on the importance of early detection. >> reporter: thinks a tricky one. lung cancer kills 18 people, every hour, and on this world lung cancer day a new push to save lives with a simple screening for high risk patients. >> maureen smoked 12,000 packs of cigarettes. >> reporter: first national ps a campaign called saved by the scan, and educating people at potentially life saving, low dose ct scans that can detect early stage lung cancer >> if we wait for symptoms to

develop it is often too late in the course of the disease, but earlier we fine lung cancer, the more effective we are, at giving that patient a long term good outcome. >> reporter: doctor patrick ross, chair of the surgery at main line health says reason why lung cancer is so deadly because it is usually found late once symptoms like a cough develop the cancer has usually spread. >> this is a treat 60 which involves us to look at slices to the chest. >> reporter: he said ct scan is best twi find early stage lung cancer, recommended for long term smokers who are most at risk. >> what we need to do is recognize this is an epidemic and that by finding these cancers early, by identifying better ways to more effectively treat them we will save lives. >> reporter: it is already happening at main line health where ct scans have found cancer in patient was no symptoms, the usual treatment is surgery. >> there is no question that of all of the innovations, this is one of the best that we have, better surgical techniques, better radiation

oncology techniques, markedly improved chemotherapy and we are finding it earlier so we don't need other things, that is the answer. >> now for patients hoff smoked for a long time the scans are covered by insurance , and the american lung association is saying that 9 million people in the u.s. are at high risk for lung cancer, and more than 15,000 lives could be saved if just half of them got those screenings. so it really could make a difference. we will have more information on cbs philly.com, click on health. >> steph, thank you. big donation will protect children at police athletic league facilities in philadelphia. >> today pal officials accepted nearly two dozen automated external defibrillators known as aed's, at eagles training camp, the defibrillators can reverse cardiac arrest and be placed inside all pal centers. philadelphia nfl draft host committee and made donation possible and will protect more than 18,000 children and 200

staff and volunteers annually. lauren casey joins us now, as the heat is on. >> heat is on but we don't have humidity to combo with that. it feels toasty but not super steamy. that is trend as we head in the next couple of days. temperatures right now 89 degrees in philadelphia. we're at 82, rain cooled air sneak nothing to allentown. we are down in the 70's due to thunderstorm activity that has been ongoing in the poconos. seventy-one in mount pocono but still up to 85 in atlantic city. we have a sea breeze feeling great at barnegat light house 78 degrees but warmer down toward cape may at 86 degrees right now. storm scan three is showing us we have storm activity mainly concentrated far north and west of the city but we have this one cell that wants to keep going and now national weather service issued a flash flood warning until 10:15 this evening, for this cell that has been ongoing for better part of the two hours, and it continues to strengthen right

now, impacting parts of the northeastern, philadelphia county and stretched out into burlington county just right over the river right now. it is nearly stationary in its forward motion but it is stretching its way northward up into bustleton and also stretching its way south and east as well. so stretching over toward pheasant run, head up next could be moorestown, maple shade starting to see light rain as it continues to stretch off to the south ande. eppen saukin seeing this activity. flash flood warning in effect for these area because of heavy intensity of rainfall in and around cinnaminson, bellevue, palmyra, tacony and also the fact that it has been in progress now for better part of the one to two hours. we have this storm activity up toward poconos and lehigh valley right now, little cell just off to the southe of allentown, quite a bit of activity for portions of carbon county, seeing this cell, continue along, just south of allentown right now, frequent lightening, heavy

rain embedded with within that cell. we could see flooding toward lehigh county what to expect tomorrow and thursday? we are going to increase our afternoon storm chance, pretty typical days with morning sunshine and storms firing up after lunch, scattered in nature and's then as we lose heating those storms will diminish. heading in the next couple of hours we will see these cells that we have diminish as we lose that heating of the day, overnight tonight quiet, for the first half of the day and then scattered storms, note that is coverage as we head in the afternoon and evening hours. slim chance for a storm tomorrow will be along the coast. tropical depression emily in the a problem for us, it will continue to move its way off to the sea but we will get busy as far as tropics are concerned, we are on the precipice of this expo next increase of tropical activity until september 10th. overnight tonight partly cloudy, isolated storm, and, as we head in the day tomorrow , and 89 on the high temperature with that scattered afternoon storm activity. later in the day we will see

storms developing on thursday, but again, scattered in nature , and then as we head in the upcoming weekend clearing out by saturday afternoon, sunday, not a change to that forecast, still looking awesome. >> awesome. >> all right. >> thanks, lauren. >> don's up next with sports. >> we are talking training camp. eagles football is back. how eagles got physical at training camp. look good, feel good. new addition to the sixers not that guy but uniform he is wearing, up next in

you talking about practice the guys who didn't do it. star wide out alshon jeffery was out with the shoulder injury, torey smith had back spasm and lagarrette blount was excused for personal reason. now we are talking about practice. eagles back at it after a off day, their first live practice which means that they tackle to the ground. they didn't do so much when chip kelly was here. they didn't do that sort of

thing. doug i fresh believes in physical practice. >> they say you cannot evaluate until they put pad on whole different game with the pad on. >> long day but you get used to it. we will play some games when it is very hot. good day. sun was out. it wasn't raining. we had fun. >> big thing is for young guys , been a while since they have gotten hit and used to that contact. it is good to build competitiveness as well but definitely for young guys it goodies for them to show what they can do. >> it is part of the conditioning process of the body and mind and understanding that football is a physical game and we need to do this from time to time. >> on the hoops, sixers have new uniforms. again. but this time, they are made by nike and they have a stub hub patch on the shoulder. sixers unveiled new jerseys that have a red drop shadow on the letters and numbers, phrase brotherly love is on the hem line. as for patch, nba is trying a three-year pilot program where

teams can advertise on their uniforms. that of course is markelle fultz the number one pick. all right. phillies hit road after sweeping braves and winning five in a row. they will be in anaheim tonight to take on mike trout and angels. aaron nola gets the ball for fightins. check this out, texas star andrea bell tray picked up his 3,000 hit on sunday. yesterday he is facing former teammate felix hernandez and during the game hernandez walks up, gives him a hug before he pitches to him and then adrian is like thanks, appreciate you, number 3,001. right up the middle. that hug though. >> yes. >> you know what, deserve him one up. >> it felt that way. >> thanks, sir. >> yeah. >> we will be right

took the mann music certainty stage by storm today. >> ♪ >> this is step africa using drum beats, call the movement, dancer introduced young ought dense to aspects of african culture. performance was part of the mann's young people concert series which is free, opened to the public. thanks for watching "eyewitness news" at 6:00 we are back at 10 on our sister station cw philly and we're back here on cbs-3 at 11:00. up next, "cbs evening news", from new york here now is anthony mason. take care family we will see

you tonight. ( applause ) >> mason: the bell ringer. stocks at a record high. 401(k)s, too, but... but. >> reporter: how is the economy grading out? >> not as strong. >> mason: also tonight, the president was involved in his son's misleading account of the meeting with the russians. >> he weighed in, offered suggestion, like any father would do. >> mason: a warning about travel-- not abroad, but in one of the 50 states. teenaged drivers-- why the oldest teens are a bigger risk than the youngest. and for astronauts in space, it was the most important place on earth. >> reporter: when you look at the condition of the room today, what goes through your mind? >> it's a combination of frustration, anger,