a crash lead a mote or cyclist dead on kelly drive in philadelphia, we will tell you what investigators say happened just before this wreck. philadelphia day care owner is facing some shocking and disturbing allegations, hear how parents are reacting and day care history of troubles. a small pennsylvania town is desserted after a dangerous derailment, we will tell what you that train was carrying that sparked a big fire, and an evacuation. today is august august 3rd good morning i'm jim donovan. i'm jan carabao. rahel has the morning off. get ready to pay more for alcohol in the keystone state. but lets check the forecast with katie and road with meisha. >> wine cooler prices, jim.

>> they are going up. >> it is gateway to the weekend. we are looking outside, things are looking good, lots of conn trucks, you mention that had crash on kelly drive. good news is road has reopened we will talk about that coming up. >> weather is quiet. i don't know how long it will stay that way. we will see isolated showers and thunderstorms not as widespread as yesterday but what we will find at least initially here is potential fog issues right now. for the most part we are finding relatively okay visability but quick peak of storm scan shows cloud cover, there has been a couple showers rolling through at least outskirts of the delaware valley, they have had a chance to fist will. we're in the clear in that regard and again, that isn't necessarily going to stay that way. we will notice looking at visibility odd ball out is allentown that is spot where visibility with this observations is near zero, in fact. keep in mind that fog could cross up on you, and there are no advisory at the moment but there are areas where patches

of locally very dense fog are a concern. sixty-eight is the airport temperature. seventy in atlantic city. calm wind. predominantly out of the south that moisture content is there warmth is there we will heat up easily yet again up to 89 degrees with some sun but also a couple of scattered showers, or thunderstorms once more, meisha. >> katie, thanks very much for that. very good morning to you. so, piggy backing on that nice , dry roadways as katie pointed out for now, vine close forward that overnight construction. west and eastbound still early , still very dark out there but we have overnight resurfacing too we will talk about all week long. looking at it again today this time schuylkill, yes but not eastbound side just westbound side we are looking at between gulph mills and city avenue and they are starting to condense it more to belmont and city avenue this camera shot is sewing city avenue, construction workers still outside, tapping on your brakes traveling on by. overall though we are looking okay, on this run but

schuylkill does get busy, early. jim, back over to you. police are investigating a deadly accident on kelly drive late last night. investigators say four three-year old man was killed when his met or cycling hit a car making an illegal left turn from kelly drive to brew ery hill drive. police say motorcyclist was wearing a helmet at the time but suffered chest injuries. the female driver of the passenger were not injury. they are cooperating with the investigation. owner of the south philadelphia day carries behind bars this morning. >> he is accused of sexually assaulting two children multiple times, at sprout's day care. "eyewitness news" reporter frank does live in bell a vista with the very latest, trang do. >> reporter: duncan rounds was arraigned overnight on seven felony charges related to the sexual assault of two of the 37 children, entrusted in his care here at sprouts preschool now in the event that rounds post bail he has been barred

from coming to the building. five three-year old duncan round of medford lakes, new jersey is facing unthinkable charges for a day care operator. rape, sexual assault, involuntary deviant sexual intercourse, endangering welfare of the child. charges stem from an investigation initiated on july 25th after a five-year old boy and five-year old girl who attends sprouts day care in bell a vista began behaving differently. >> we conduct forensic interviews at philadelphia children's alliance, and both children disclosed they were indeed sexually assaulted by the offender. >> reporter: captain markberg man says they happened multiple times at the preschool. they uncovered, physical evidence during a search of the building. parents picking up their children on wednesday were stunned by the disturbing charges. >> it was a week or two ago saying there was an investigation, but yeah, i didn't think it that was serious. >> reporter: sprouts is in good standing with the state

but inspection record reveal violations dating back to 2013 and 2014 of children napping unsupervised and staff members not cleared to work with children. day carries, for now remaining opened with some parents expressing disbelief and support for round who has owned sprouts for about a decade. >> great guy, he loves kid and this is a great place. you feel like family here. it is all just a shame. >> reporter: investigators are working to determine if there are any other victims, they are urging parents whose children attend sprouts to have a frank discussion with their children. but for now we are live from bell a vista i'm trang do for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". jan and jim, back to you. >> thank you. in other news search is on for cold hearted thieves who stole from habitat for humanity in salem county. take a look, tools used by the group to build homes for those in need, were stolen from a construction site in pittsgrove, and the theft was discovered on monday when

volunteers returned to work on the road where two homes are being built. they saw a lock to their construction trailer was broken and every single tool inside was gone. >> even our first aid kits, t-shirts, i mean they took everything. >> unbelievable. unbelievable. it is really sad, because we know what the habitat is all about. >> reporter: habitat says that the tools were recently purchased and cost the organization over $4,000. community members in west philadelphia held a rally with toy fight against open air drug markets in their neighborhood. several civic group and public officials came out last night on the 700 block of north holy street. organizers say they wanted to discourage drug activity. >> we know what it is like to get it done, it is a community that has to show up. we can do this. i'm happy to see some of our community is here, and we're going to keep moving and get this done. >> now, event organizers are trying to keep their streets,

drug free, especially during the middle of the day since that is when seniors and children are most likely to be outside. in other news this morning the search for a missing swim inner atlantic city has been suspended. coastguard suspended its search around 8:00 last night coastguard crews have been searching since tuesday night after someone reported seeing a man enter the water by steel pier and not return. there is no word on that missing swimmer's identity. well, here's good news for commuters in south jersey, service resumed on new jersey transit atlantic city rail line, service had been suspended between philadelphia and cherry hill after a truck hit aid bridge in pennsauken last friday. the crash, seriously damaged the track, on the bridge, workers fix the problem, a week, ahead of schedule. all residents of the small pennsylvania town were evacuated hours after a freight train carrying hazardous materials derails igniting a fire. officials say at least 32 cars on a csx freight train derail early yesterday morning in

hideman, parks 100 miles south e of pittsburgh. one of the railcars smashed in the home's garage. at lee one car containing liquid petroleum gas and one containing molten soul fewer leaked and caught fire. >> there is a moment it can go >> we are just getting out, and with whatever we are getting out. >> residents were sent to area church for fears of the railcars could explode, the train was traveling from chicago to new york. you might to have pay extra for your favorite bottle of wine, soon. pennsylvania's liquor control board announced yesterday, that it is raising prices on more than 400 different drinks almost all of the price hikes will cost you an extra dollar per bottle, and this is the first time that the liquor control board has increased prices since the early 90's, new prices are expect to start this month. president trump's spokesperson is scrambling to crack the president's claims about last weeks appearance before the boy scout, the

president told wall street journal that the boy scouts leader called him to say it was greatest speech ever made to them, scouts say they were unaware of any call, president trump claimed mexico's president called to compliment the immigration policy but mexican officials say there has been no recent communication. >> multiple members of the boy scout leadership following his speech, there that day, congratulated him, praised him >> mexico is referencing a conversation they had at g20 sum it new quinnipiac university poll says 62 percent of americans think that the president is not honest and 71 percent say he is not level headed. meanwhile new white house chief of staff john kelly has called attorney general jeff session toss tell him his job is safe, there has been speculation sessions could be on the way out after president trump slammed him for his re cuesal from campaign-related investigations but president also tweeted that sessions was quote, weak for not prosecuting hillary clinton for using a private e-mail

server. the man in the george washington scheme is sounding off on chris christie. >> david wildstein was sentenced to probation. yesterday christie said a cubs fan was lucky he didn't get nachos dumped on on him after heckling the governor at the game. wildstein says he wishes all of the governor dumped on him were nachos. wildstein says he put his trust in the governor who neither earned that trust nor deserved it. coming up more than 40 children are recovering after a pool day. what went wrong during an afternoon at ymca that sent dozens of people to the hospital. >> reading a paper and just a huge blast. >> reporter: heart break in minneapolis after a blast kills two people at a school, and we will tell you what we're learning about the victims and the cause of the how did we test our improved dixie ultra plates? with two pounds of steak.

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reward in the weekend murder in haverford township is up to $7,500. police released surveillance photo of the several witnesses they hope to speak w investigators continue to search for suspect in the shooting death of 29 year-old john lee, he was shot to death saturday at an apartment complex on haverford road, the accused killer 24 year-old derek rollins is still on the loose. community in minneapolis is in mourning after a deadly gas explosion at a school, police say contractors doing work at the school ruptured a gas line yesterday causing the explosion. at least two people died in the blast, several others were injured, and neighbors described what they saw. >> workers you could tell were in shock and they are screaming that there is more. >> just sitting reading the paper and there was a huge blast, you know, the whole house shook, you know, jumped and kind of moved to the right >> students were reportedly at the school at the time of the blast but they were not hurt.

underground explosions prompted evacuationness downtown detroit. a number of manhole covers blew up without any warning. one eyewitness say manhole explosion sounded like bombs going off. fire fighters say the covers started to explode after a transformer blew up. ymca in north caroline ace expect to reopen today after a chemical leak caused dozens of children to be hospitalized. this happened at ymca in downtown durham, yesterday afternoon, more than 40 children and several adults were all sent to the hospital, and they were exposed to chemicals from a pool, at one point the children in the pool stopped playing as they started to get sick. as i came out coughing, choking, spitting up, and they tell everybody to get out of the pool. once everybody was out they were choke and spitting up. >> it is very scary because that that is my only child. won't be getting in that pool anytime soon with them. >> it left six children in serious condition. officials say there was a reaction between a chemical

used to clean pools and one that balances water ph, and they are investigating the incident. international news venezuela's attorney general said she plans continue on investigate claims into possible voter fraud. she said that she's appointing prosecutors to look into sunday's election, yesterday the company that made the voting system used in the election said turnout figures had been tampered with. president nicholas maduro is dismissing those allegations. he originally called for this election that create aid new legislative body with the power to rewrite the country's constitution, meanwhile, vice-president mike pence is calling the election a sham. well, time is 4:45. katie has another check of your forecast. >> we had a lot of rain to deal with yesterday. hopefully today is looking better. >> i like how you put that. i don't think we will be dealing with widespread coverage necessarily or as slow moving of the thunderstorms that kind of variety we saw yesterday but we will still likely see a few showers or thunderstorms popping up and we will notice in the last couple of hours that will still continue to go

on through south central pennsylvania, southwestern pennsylvania and we will see that, again, get triggered here. there is no organized storm system per se that is moving through, but with time there will be but not today. this is more classic showers, thunderstorms of the summertime variety so you don't necessarily know exactly where they will fire up, but anyone is fair game for. that lets take to you future weather just shortly after lunchtime about the time things do start to get underway with this. not everyone will be hit at any given point but we are all fair game and look, as these blossom these thunderstorms could be quite heavy so up toward mercer county we will get clocked, in this particular model run will verify out, same goes for north philadelphia county but as day progresses, it is scattered and more so then yesterday and then through overnight it clears out once more much like what we saw yesterday. throughout today it is sticky, warm, starting off with fog in areas as well so watch out for that.

any showers, thunderstorms, will happen primarily this afternoon and evening, high of 89. tonight we will get back down to the 70's with areas of showers, storms primarily in the evening. overtime though temperatures drop off, cold front passage takes place saturday. by sunday we are getting a nice breath of fresh air. it doesn't last long. sunday looks awesome. by monday thunderstorms and showers make a return appearance, meisha. >> thank you very much. good morning to you. happy thursday for vine still closed westbound, eastbound still completely closed westbound on the schuylkill let you know when that clears, it clears before the eastbound side. we are also looking at overnight resurfacing project on the schuylkill. overnight just westbound side, between gulph mills and city avenue and belmont and city avenue at this point this cameras is showing you city avenue in the westbound direction and you can see with the crews outs there we are tapping on the breaks traveling by. we have a down pole from an earlier accident in berlin, new jersey. head up, route 30 white horse pike eastbound is closed near

franklin avenue your alternate new freedom road is your best bet at this point but still early so, maneuvering around all these areas, pretty easily so far. we do have an accident in flourtown bethlehem pike at wissohickon avenue and not too far away we have construction going on as well, chemical road at ridge pike just a head up as you head out the door there we will talk about mass transit when we come back in the next 10 minutes, jan, jim, back over to you. thank you. check out these children's shoes they may look cool but critics say they could victimize girls. we will show you what about these sneakers, is sparking, some outrage. that is coming

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welcome back. parents are outrage over a sneaker design so feel the sneakers could possibly make their child a victim and not even know it. take a look at this, the sketchers sketch raise, the boy's sneakers light up, they

are reflected side and mirrors on the toes. some parents believe the reflective design on the tip of the show could be used to look up little girls dresses. >> they are super cool, they are just a designed. >> at first glass that will reflect, all of that but when you pay attention to it you cannot make anything out. >> it looks like a mirror in a fun house, you cannot tell what is in it. i don't think boys, think of things like that at that age. >> so some say maybe it is just design flaw calling the new sneakers an innocent mistake. >> i think it is an ugly sneaker. >> just stay away, not cute. >> i don't know. 4:51. time for a check of business news. >> money watch's roxana saberi joins us live from the new york stock exchange, so we're talking about the dow jones. what drove the dow jones to the latest high. >> reporter: jim and jan dow jones hit 22,000 after stocks advanced for past five months thanks to rising corporate profits and economic growth, as of yesterday, dow jones was

up 11.4 percent for the year. index gained 52 points with apple responsible for 48 of those, tech giant's biggest jump in six months, since march 1st dow jones gained around 1,000 points, three co, boeing, mcdonald's, united health made up 700 of those. weaker dollar which helps exports has boosted corporate earnings. >> we are hearing about a successful test of the experimental transportation system, what is this all about >> reporter: well, yes, it is called hyper loop and it is making history. yesterday, the company says, company called hyper move one pod built for passengers along a stretch of 192 miles an hour test outside las vegas last week tripled the speed of the similar test in may. it uses magnetic levitation to whoever a pod above a track. that travel at speed of 700 miles an hour is possible, that means a trip between new york city and philadelphia could one day take as little

as 10 minutes, instead of around hour and a half now it takes by train, jim and jan. >> sound better than driver less cars. i will put my chances on this we will check in next hour. coming up, katie is tracking rain this weekend. >> katie, the whole weekend doesn't look like a wash out. >> definitely not. all and all you will experience an decent upcoming weekend front loaded rainfall forecast for our area, we will explain and time

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as we overlook center city things are looking nice and clear here. don't bank on it looking this clear every where, however this morning, we do still have pretty cloudy skies or moisture rich, air, in place with light wind, to create cloud cover. it is not terribly widespread

or all that dense where we do find it, there are places where visibility has dropped off. at the moment on storm scan three it is generally clear you can tell over last few hearst there have been some showers moving outside, lancaster county but it has fizzled. all and all we are off to an okay start. you will note that is humidity but any wet weather should hold off until second half of the day. eighty-nine the expected high. we're flirting with 90 but still feeling awfully hot outside. later on tonight we will drop down to 71. i don't expect thunderstorms would be as slow moving or as widespread as yesterday but they could still douse you so umbrella still not war idea in the world to pack with you today. by saturday, meisha a front crosses through to clear things out, for an absolutely gorgeous second half of the weekend. >> look at that sunday. >> thanks very much. we are looking outside right now, things are looking good, still dark, early, we are looking at a little bit of fog in our camera shots.

it is a hazy shot of 95 south at cottman coming around the s curve, working were not bad, looking typical but i will say all week long 95 and schuylkill have been really bus think week. looking outside at schuylkill where we are looking at resurfacing project that has been cleared westbound between gulph mills and city avenue. this camera shot showing city avenue at schuylkill heading westbound but crews have moved out of the way. we are looking good there. down pole from an earlier accident in berlin new jersey route 30 white horse pike eastbound closed near franklin avenue because of it. so use new freedom road is your best bet, jim, back over to you. coming up next hour of cbs-3 "eyewitness news" another late night for phillies in l.a. pat has highlights in sports. former white house communications director anthony scaramucci will be back in front of the cameras tomorrow, we will tell you what he is planning to do. and find out about a new report on back seat, seat belt safety, we're back at the top of the hour.

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betrayal of trust a day care certainty own's accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting two children in his care overnight duncan rounds faced a judge and we are live with reaction from the parents congressional investigators are asking for more documentation connect to the meeting between donald trump, junior and russian lawyer i'm hanna dova in insuring with the latest coming up. thieves show no humanity making off with thousands of dollars worth of tools from a local habitat for humanity site, we will tell you how the community is helping to right the wrong. it is thursday, august 3rd , i'mim