well, new this morning a car, at a gas station riddled with bullets, the driver is rushed to the hospital, we will tell you where the overnight violence unfolded. police are searching foreman who sexually assaulted a woman inside a montgomery county park we will tell you why this case is proving to be so tough for powe lease. city officials are planning their next step to stop a controversial beach project, in margate, the details of what they will be discussing later today. it is wednesday, august 2nd good morning i'm jim donovan. i'm rahel solomon. let's check the forecast with katie and traffic with meisha, good morning. >> good morning, happy wednesday, ham i hump day a lot of construction. yesterday it was just a mess, you guys, good news, knock on

wood, it is looking great, fingers crossed. >> right now things are pretty tranquil. we will keep it quiet. can we get storm scan control. that is not what we need to be looking at right now. we will find out, right there that we are seeing clear skies , couple of skies, across the region as a whole and as morning progresses we will fine partially sunny skies and humidity, build ago cross the region as well. now, as we look across the region in terms of the temperature readings, we are off to a mild start, cross the area as well. we are starting off in the mid 70's. sixty-nineal even town. fifty-nine in mount pocono. at this hour, we're currently in the mid 70's up and down i-95. now, again, day progressing humidity will be a concern. it will get hotter with time. here's the temperatures, graphic we want 59 in mount pocono. lower zero seven's up and down shore points and around the region as a whole we are in

the mid up toker 60's, low to mid zero seven's. quickly looking ahead at area headlines with time we will see frontal passage that takes place and that does mean that the weekend will get nicer. we will walk through that transition later in the show, meisha. >> weekend gets nicer, that is buzz word. thanks very much. we are looking outside right now as i said just moments ago we are looking pretty darn good. so the vine was closed overnight for overnight construction and it still is. you can see this moving in the westbound and eastbound direction. some crews flashing lights out there still dark. still very early. hopefully that gets moved out by 5:00 o'clock. it usually does. just know that vine is still closed. construction for route 30 bypasse bound on the route 202 is closed until 5:00 a.m. and resurfacing project on the schuylkill, we have been talking about all week long and talking about it again eastbound between blue route and belmont avenue between city avenue and gulph mills the left lane is blocked both directions. you can see some cones right now. then we have construction, trooper road, between north

lane and boulevard, the left lane is blocked in, both directions here as well awe can see crews out on foot. take it easy. more construction when we come back in a little bit. jim, back over to you. police in delaware county are investigating a fighting at a gas station this happened at sunoco station on east 22nd street at edgemont avenue in chester. you can see a car riddled with bullets, we're told victim is in critical condition. there is no word on a motive or suspect. meanwhile also new this morning a man is shot outside an abandon home in the cities kensington section this happened on the 1800 block of east college tine street just before 1:30. we are told that the 19 year-old victim was with a group of friend when a car pulled up. the driver quickly fired shots into the crowd and then took off. that victim is in stable condition. a manhunt is underway in montgomery county this morning after a woman is sexually assaulted while out for a jog. >> victim was attacked yesterday morning while she was running in norristown farm

park. >> "eyewitness news" reporter frank does live where the attack happened. so trang do, what can you tell us. >> reporter: well, jim and rahel, montgomery county d.a. 's office and east and west norriton police are handling this police do not have much to go off of so they are appealing to the public to get this dangerous man off of the streets before he attacks again. a heinous attack in broad daylight, on tuesday triggered a shot dunn and manhunt around norristown farm park. >> that is crazy, nothing would i expect here, so, like i said i'm here all the time. >> reporter: around 10:50 a.m. 19 year-old woman called to report that she had been sexually assaulted at gunpoint inside the park month. man told police she was running when a man pulled her off of the trail in the wooded area. >> it could have been me, it could have been anyone else. >> reporter: it hits too close to home for 18 year-old, saunders who wrapped up a run at the park just 20 minutes before the attack. >> i can't believe i missed it

by 20 minutes. it is really just nerve rack to go me. >> reporter: police closed the 690-acre park to search for evidence. nearby norristown state hospital was also lock down as officers searched for the attacker. for now people who once enjoyed a care free stole at the park are now taking extra precautions. >> i'm a 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. >> reporter: victim described her attack as a black male wearing a black mask and dark hooded sweat shirt. anyone with information is asked to contact the d.a.'s office or east or west nor it town police. we're live from norristown farm park i'm trang do for cbs-3 "eyewitness news", jim and rahel, back to you. police on the man line said they are hot on the trail of the suspect wanted in the deadly shooting. $5,000 reward is offered for capture of 24 year-old derek rollins, you see right there on your screen there investigators say that rollins

shot and killed john lee near haverford road on saturday. investigators say rollins was involved in another shooting incident in overbrook park, less than an hour before. weekend murder was on the minds of haverford township residents and officials taking part in national night out, despite their concerns though residents came out last night to give thanks to first responders who, of course, worked so hard every day to protect the community. "eyewitness news" at quarry center on township line road where police put on a k-9 demonstration, to the delight of many attending the event. >> good night after a bad weekend. >> random act and for everybody to come out, without fear, that is a great thing, good show of support for our police, they know they are there to get our backs. >> haverford forward township suffered its last homicide 12 years ago. if you have any information about the suspect in this weekend's murder please call the police. and philadelphia mayor jim kenney also took part in national night out, "eyewitness news" at police department's third district on south fourth street last night

annual event held across the country is designed to bring together police with the communities that they serve. well, we're expect to go get an update on the investigation of the murder in gloucester county earlier this summer. chopper three was over woolwich township, home of the 47 year-old michelle long, this is back in june. long was found in a swimming pool in her cause of death determined to be blunt force trauma. at the time, gloucester county prosecutors were told, told citizens there were no safety concerns but for other residents but there have been no arrests. meanwhile investigators have released several image from his surveillance cameras of the man wanted in baby formula thefts in bucks county police say this man took bottles of the formula from the target store on rockhill drive-in bensalem sunday afternoon. police tell cbs-3 this is not the first time the suspect has been spotted doing the same thing. they say the suspect got away in an older model red pickup truck. sit leaders are meet to go day to discuss a controversial

construction project mid ander from residents. recent ranks have left large pools in, margate beaches and sitting in newly built sand dogs. army core of engineers is working to pump the water out. residents blame the san dues dunes. today city leaders will discuss whether to seek a court injunction to stop the project. in the meantime all beach that he is have standing water are closed until further notice. new jersey governor chris christie signed a bill that gives back pay to new jersey state work's expected by this summer's three day governmental shut down. remember governor ordered non- essential government services closed from july 1st through 3rd but lawmakers could not gree on the state budget. christie signed 359 billion-dollar budget by the july 4th holiday. recent new york times report says that president trump is preparing to sue universities over a affirmative action. according to the times, the white house wants the justice department to investigate certain universities. the president is reportedly targeting schools with admissions policies, that make it preference to students based on race.

in 2016 the supreme court upheld the right of universities to use diversity, in their admissions. the u.s. says it is willing to talk with north korea if the communist country stops pursuing nuclear weapons secretary of state rex tillerson made the announcement yesterday, on friday north korea successfully launched a missle capable of reaching the u.s. tillerson says he hopes two countries can have a dialogue but not if the u.s. feels constantly threaten. >> we're trying to convey to the north koreans we are not your enemy we are not your threat but you are presenting an unacceptable threat to us and we have to respond. we hope that at some point, they will begin to understand that. >> tillerson also said china is in a unique position to put pressure on north korea china account for 90 percent of trade but tillerson added that china is not to blame for north korea's actions. white house is slamming venezuela's government after two opposition leaders were

taken from their homes. white house calls lopez and antonio ledesma political prisoners. they are being held for a regime led by nick race man dura. officers came to their homes and took them away. they are now in a military prison. new article on golf.com claims president trump called white house quote a real dump. the president reportedly told this to members of his golf club in bedminster, new jersey and according to the article president says he goes to the golf club so often because that white house is a real dump. president trump has spent nearly every weekend during his time in office at the properties he owns and leases, the white house has not yet responded to the story. but former first daughter chelsea clinton did have this to say on twitter, thank you to all of the white house, ushers, butlers, maids, chefs, florist, gardeners and plumbers, engineers and curators for all you do every day.

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back on "eyewitness news" this morning two men are in critical condition after a shooting in east mt. airy. police say a vehicle pulled up to the victim's vehicle on the 7700 block of williams avenue and opened fire. the driver was shot in the head and a passenger was hit in the chest. investigators say a passenger in the back seat jumped in the driver's seat and raced the two victims to einstein hospital, the gun man remains at large. a spokesmen for bill cosby tells "eyewitness news" that the entertainer hopes to have a new lawyer by the end of the month. brian mcgonigle who served as cosby's lead attorney and defended him against sex

assault charges filed paperwork to withdraw from the case yesterday. a judge will consider his request at a hearing later this month. cosby's first trial ended in a mistrial, and jurors were dead locked after deliberating for 52 hours. cosby will go on trial again in november. former reading mayor vaughn spencer will remain free, on bail, until his trial on federal corruption charges. prosecutors say that spencer told businesses and individual s that city contracts would be withheld until they made campaign contributions. spencer and allentown married he had pawlowski were indicted last week. pawlowski also entered a not guilty plea. out west now teen traveler jumps off an airplane and authorities want to know y it happened after the plane landed yesterday at san francisco international airport, the flight originated in panama city. passenger said they opened an emergency exit and jumped out because teen acted so quickly in one had a chance to stop him. >> he just jumped on the wing and starts climbing down and

then just runs. he starts running the other way. >> now airport officials say construction crew on the ground, detained the 17 year-old until police could arrive. passengers said the teen seemed to be fidgety and nervous during the flight, airport spokesmen said he appeared to be in emotional distress. you have always wanted a place to go to get away from everyone, listen to this there is real estate up for auction, a light house, in the chesapeake bay. here's pictures of it. light house is 2 miles off the coast near baltimore, the light house was lit for first time back in 1873. now current bid is $15,000, the auction closes, in september. how do you get there. >> good question. >> pull out your kyack. >> row, row, row your boat. >> yesterday was beautiful. >> it turned out to be nice day. >> yes, definitely a couple showers, few thunderstorms,

they were very much hit and miss. helped cool off a couple communities but we didn't have that much humidity that it was all necessary for it to, you know, douse you and cool you off but again it wasn't that terrible. definitely warm. it will be again today. but essentially what will happies the fact that we will start to not only build heat but build humidity. as moisture content buildness our atmosphere the next couple days it does start to get much more uncomfortable and we will have much more moisture to douse us in showers and thunderstorms that do pop autopsy cross the region. so for now storm scan is a okay at least locally w time we will have a few showers and thunderstorms that fire up out there we will lot big picture here is what left of this point post tropical depression emily still churning if you want to call that it out to sea, thankfully on that northeasterly path. this will not have any additional direct impact on the east coast other than what it had done in florida. there will be, however another front that crosses our area and that is, not necessarily

helping to steer the storm system out of here but it will , certainly help keep atmosphere moving along, so don't worry about that storm system. now we will, however solve showers and thunderstorms that fire up with time, later today and again, dousing, drenching thunderstorms. seventy-five is current temperature at the airport. mid to lower zero seven's in trenton, wildwood, dover and across the bay and cooler in the north and western most suburbs. down the shore wind flow is southeasterly and even though it is a light wind that southeasterly direction is the key, as that is bringing in, the warmth, bringing in the humidity, and gets more steam which every passing day, meisha. >> katie, thanks very much for that. very good morning to you. happy wednesday. so we are looking at the vine closed overnight for that construction project but it sound like westbound side is closed and eastbound side that has opened up quicker. sound like eastbound side is opened now and we are still looking at this resurfacing project we have been looking at all week long. schuylkill eastbound between blue route and belmont avenue

and westbound between city avenue and gulph mills, left lane is block in, both directions and you can still see cones out there i'll let you know as soon as they pick those up around 5:00 o'clock a lot of this clears out of our way. then construction trooper road between north tell lane and boulevard, left lane, is blocked here in both directions as well. i will say it does look lake this is maybe starting to get picked up just a little bit. a lot mercon trucks when we come back in a little bit. rahel and jim, back over to you. >> all right, see you seen. star bucks is unveiling a new drink. >> yes. >> this one has got beef jerky >> um. >> yes, i said beef jerky. we will explain in this morning's money watch report

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♪ >> welcome back to cbs-3 "eyewitness news". fans of chester bennington are remembering the singer. vigil took place near bb and t pennsylvaniaville john in camden last night. bennington was lead singer of the lincoln park. the group was scheduled to perform there yesterday. bennington committed suicide last month in california. time is 4:51. time for business news. >> money watches roxana saberi joins us from the new york stock exchange. so dow jones flirting with a fresh milestone thanks in part to strong numbers from apple, what might we see. >> reporter: well, yes, dow jones is on the verge of pushing through the 22,000 mark for the first time. yesterday the dow jones gained 72 points closing at a fifth straight record high, nasdaq finished 14 points up. apple stocks are surge go to an all time high after closing bell when tech giant announced strong earnings and berth than expect sales of i phones. company sold more than 41 million phones in the last

quarter, next version of the i phonies now expected on selves as early as september. apple also sauce a rise in i pad and macks well above overall industry sales of tablets and computers, jim and rahel. well, roxana on this shift we are a fan of coffee. i understand, star bucks is introducing a coffee drink for the adventurer, so what is it. >> reporter: yes, star bucks will be begin selling, a drink called pepper nitro with a jerky twist, that is beef jerky, beverage infused with nitro gold blue with black pepper syrup, topped with a piece of jerky. for now it is available only at coffee chain's gourmet location in seattle. jim and rahel. >> what a bummer, only available in seattle. jim donovan looks like he wants it. >> no, that does not appeal to me. >> me either. >> always creating something new maybe next invention, next creation we will like but that is not it.

>> thanks, roxana we will check in next hour. well, some of us may not need beef jerky but you may need umbrella today. >> that is what katie says. katie will let us know her

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you can forget your bathroom trips. but little miss puffytail can never forget. "the only thing worse than having such large ears, is having such large eyes." welcome back everyone as we look live from high atop hotel bethlehem overlooking bethlehem, there. off in the distance all pretty quiet at the moment. it will stay that way through the morning but toward afternoon and then evening some showers, thunderstorms will fire up as a whole, very quickly checking storm scan three not much happening say for cloud cover building in, definitely a milder, muggy air mass as day progress we will notice more cloud cover out there but we will still see sun break through and in the meantime today we will sore to 90 degrees for yet another day , scattered thunderstorms will fire up and these could

be slow movers which mean they can drench you and granted even though not everyone will get hit it wouldn't be war idea to keep umbrella on stand by this afternoon and evening. upper 80's continuing right through friday but into saturday, our next front does cross through and that is going to start to clear out on saturday, humidity drops off but there may be a shower or thunderstorm left over but by sunday beautiful conditions expected here, really looking nice with sunny skies, by monday chance for rain does return so sunday is a gem, you will want to enjoy it. >> another warm day to day. thanks very much for that. very good morning. happy wednesday, lead to hump day. westbound side, is opening right now, on the overnight construction project on the vine, we thought eastbound side was opened but it is opening, right now, we are just waiting on the schuylkill jumping on the vine there overall we are looking good here vine will get a big thumbs up in the next five minutes or so.

resurfacing on the schuylkill eastbound side between blue route and belmont that has been cleared. so is westbound side still lingering between city avenue and gulph mills. left lane is compromised but is in the process of clearing right now. that construction on trooper road between north bound lane and boulevard, the left lane was compromised in both directions, that has new been since cleared so we are looking good there. we have some construction still lingering on the roosevelt boulevard south bun at cottman avenue, right outer lane is compromised there, and we are showing some yellow, probably tapping your breaks as you travel there, and 295 north ramp to 42 northbound is closed until 6:00 a.m. jim, back over to you. well, coming up next on cbs-3 "eyewitness news" hear what mayor jim kenney is saying about the dare devil dangerously scaled philadelphia's city hall. also ahead, race to the rescue, as rescued a woman trapped in the sin king suv. we will hear from that grateful woman. phillies are on the west coast hoping to keep their winning streak alive, pat's

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