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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'm jim donovan.
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i'm jan carabao. rahel is off. katie and meisha are here keeping an eye on things this morning. always good to see you. we are this close to the weekend. >> yes, almost there. >> you can just great. we are looking outside things are looking good, dry for now, hopefully it stays that way. >> well, not all of it. at least during our shift we're good. you know, i know you have had issues with traffic but weather hasn't had too much of an impact, it is later in the day. poor folks on five, six, 10 and 11 have had to deal with all that. we may still find some fog. we will get to that in a second. there aren't any advisories, just a mention. i noticed it. fog wasn't terribly thick but still out there perhaps creating a haze, minor visibility reduction as a result, but storm scan is still quiet even in the last couple of hours when these showers fizzled outside greater delaware valley region later today we will see more
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showers and storms popping up with time. we are sitting on western most edge of an area of high pressure waiting for a frontal boundary to credits through. that will take another day or two. we are in the upper 60's from philly to wilmington. same in southern new jersey, mid 60's in he had looking, allentown and trenton and cooler in mount pocono. overall wind flow is still out of the south and when we do still have a wind flow from the south but not windy at all , light wind, moisture laden air we will see areas of fog develop. later today, later this morning that fog lifts out, sun returns, heat things up to 89 degrees. just watch for a couple showers or thunderstorms, meisha. >> katie, thank you so much. we are looking at lots have construction but i want to call your attention to the overturned tractor trailer, just head up, starting to see brake lights here, 422 eastbound on ramp from trooper , that is where it is, and it looks like vehicles are kind of stopping now, as they travel on by so just a head up
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this just happened overturned tractor trailer 422 for these heading out i will let you know when that clears but that will slow you down until they figure out what is exactly going to be block or closed off. >> vine street opened, for overnight construction so westbound, eastbound we are looking good now we are seeing movement there ramp from eastbound schuylkill was closed and that is just now opening. quick peak in new jersey we can see how dark it is out there 42 freeway northbound approaching 29 is what you are looking at there and more to come in the next 10 minutes. jim, over to you. police are looking in the possibility of more victims after a day care owner is arrested for sexually assaulting children in his care. >> the assaults happened several times at sprouts day care in south philadelphia. "eyewitness news" reporter trang do is live in bell a vista with the very latest, good morning, trang do. >> reporter: good morning jan and jim. duncan round was arraigned on felony charges related to the sexual assault of the two of the 37 children entrust they
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had into his care here at sprouts day care. in the event hes been posted bail, he has been ordered to stay away from the building. duncan round of medford lakes, new jersey is facial unthinkable charges for a dare care operator, rape, sexual assault, involuntary deviant sexual interest scoring and endanger welfare of the child. they stem from the investigation initiated on july 25th after a five-year eld boy and five-year eld girl who attend sprouts day care in bell a vista began behaving differently. >> we conducted immediate forensic interviews at children's alliance, and both children disclose that had they written deed sexually a ultimate sad. >> reporter: the captain says the assaults happened multiple times at the preschool. investigators uncovered physical evidence during a search of the building. parents picking up their children on wednesday were stunned by disturbing charges. >> there was a e-mail a week
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or two ago saying there was an investigation but i didn't think it was this serious. >> reporter: sprout is in good standing with the state but inspection record reveal violations dating back to 2013 and 14 of children napping un supervised and staff members not cleared to work with children. the day carries for now remaining opened, with some parents, expressing disbelief and support for round who has owned sprouts for about a decade. >> he was a great guy, loves kid, and this is a great place you feel like family here and thinks all just a shame. >> reporter: police are working to determine if there are anymore victims, they are urging parents hoff children who attend sprouts who have attended sprouts to have a very sprang discussion with their children and come forward to police. for now we're live, i'm trang do for cbs-3 "eyewitness news" jan and jim, back to you. in other news, police are investigating a crash that claimed the life of the motorcyclist last night, chopper three over kelly drive
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in brewery hill drive where investigators say the four three-year old man's met or cycle crashed into a car, making an illegal left turn, the driver of that car and a teenage passenger were not injured and police said they are cooperating in the investigation. well, coastguard suspends its search for missing swimmer in atlantic city. crews have been searching since tuesday night after someone reported seeing a man enter the water there by steel pier and never return, authorities suspended the search right around 8:00 last night, there is no word on the missing swimmer ease identity. service has resumed on new jersey transit atlantic city rail line, services had been suspended between philadelphia and cherry hill after a truck hit a bridge there in pennsauken last friday. the crash seriously damage the tracks, on the bridge, workers fix the problem a week ahead of schedule. well, president trump starts his day at the white house and then head to west virginia for another campaign- style rally. event comes as investigators look for documents connected
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to donald trump's junior with the meeting with russian lawyer during his campaign. hanna dova is in new york with that and details on the president's latest push for immigration reform. >> reporter: cbs news has learned congressional investigators want phone and e-mail record of the everyone involved in the meeting donald trump junior had with a russian attorney, during the 2016 campaign. that includes president trump 's son in law jared kushner and then campaign chair paul manafort. even long time trump supporters like republican senator james rich says it is time we know anything and everything having to do with that encounter. >> i guarantee through were phone calls in addition to those e-mails and i want to hear all of it. >> reporter: on wednesday president signed a new set of sanction as begins russia but not before calling them quote seriously flawed. mr. trump then turned his attention to immigration, unveiling the raise act a new merit based system for green card this competitive application process will favor
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applicants, who can speak english, financially support themselves and their families, and demonstrates skills that will contribute to our society and economy. >> reporter: those opposed insist it is short sighted for skewing the process too much in favor of highly skilled workers. >> there are certain areas like meat packing, tourism and agriculture thaw just cannot find american labor to do those jobs and keep a company from going out of business or moving overseas. >> reporter: raise act would cut number of refugees admitted each year from 110,000, to 50,000. hanna dova for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". a local charity falls victim to theft. >> someone stole tools belong to go habitat for humanity, they were stolen from a construction site in pittsgrove salem county, the theft was discovered on monday when volunteers returned to work on the road where two homes are being built, and they saw a will be to their
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construction trailer was broken and every single tool inside was gone. >> even our first aid kit, t-shirts, i mean they took everything. >> unbelievable. unbelievable. it is really sad. we know what the habitat was all about. >> now, habitat says that the tools were purchased, earlier this summer and cost the organization more than $4,000, and one resident who heard of the theft has since donated a valuable tool safe to the group. >> that is good. well, coming up former fbi director james comey writing a book and we will tell you if he plans to discuss his firing earlier this year. trapped on the bus with flood water rising inside, we will tell what you happened when trying to find safety during major flash floods. also ahead imaging dangling 30 feet up in the air for an hour we will tell you where fire fighters had to use ladder trucks to rescue riders in a county fair.
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move the flag. new this morning a california man is happy to be on the ground after getting stuck on the bungy jump ride 30 feet in the air upside down for 40 minutes. authorities say ride malfunctions at ventura county fair and fire crews that had use a ladder truck to get him down, two other people were stuck in the steel cage from a crane for more than an hour. a passenger in boston captures moments when busy is riding on starts filling up with water. >> footage shows cars in front of the bus driving through pools of water, flash flooding , hit boston as storms moved through there, in new england in the afternoon and evening. people inside that bus stood on seats to keep dry. >> that is a sight you don't
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always see. >> yeah. take a look at this sight you don't often see investigators say a driver of this car somehow drove up a support wire and got stuck there vehicle became tangled in power lines yesterday, and mother and her two children were safely removed and they are expect to be okay. >> frightening. >> how does that happeny don't know. >> you have to be careful. >> my commute up callowhill is dangerous, that is stuff. >> how do you drive up a wire. >> there are more flasher at the end of our show. >> yes. >> but the weather, you got it all covered. >> yeah, you know, yesterday was pretty crazy in the afternoon as those thunderstorms, i mean storm scan blossomed and wasn't like one little cell popped or another one they all showed up at one time. if you were trying to drive home at around lunchtime or so , you got hammered in a lot of spots, with drenching rain, frequent lightening and actually by the time it was
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said and done quite a bit of damage reports. we will go through a short list right now, in fact, there were a lot of lightening strikes that led to a couple fires in, fact white marsh montgomery county, marlton, burlington county, both locations you ended up with some fires courtesy of lightening strikes in those areas. structure fire took place on chapel road in mount laurel, vineland we had wires down there wasn't a lot of wind with these storms so that wasn't driving them through all that quickly and in short because there were such slow moving storms, we have a lot of flooding out of those thunderstorms that rumbled through there. i-95, schuylkill a couple minutes went by and huge puddles every where that really slowed people down. now as we see at the moment all calm and collected. it will in the stay that way but at the moment morning drive will not be hindered by wet weather. your issue this morning will be fog, and i was listening in , on kyw news radio and another of our traffic anchors steve reese was driving in and
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on 422 especially this really dense fog. it is localized but where we have it, it is dense. keep that in mine. meanwhile eventually we will see showers and thunderstorms firing up around our local area but at the moment they are confined, back west across pennsylvania. dew points, you know they are not crazy, flirting with zero seven in millville and ac airport it still feels steamy but this is insane levels of dew points. they are at the point where it feels humid. you will net that is throughout the course of the day n short with that we have light wind so that is what is allowed to come from warm, muggy, at the shore not a bad day. water temperatures in the mid 70's, hit mid 80's on dry land but also watch out again further we get for showers and thunderstorms to crop up in scattered fashion and that continues tomorrow and then saturday morning more showers, storms, from a cold front passage but then we will clear it out for rest of the weekend , meisha. katie, thank you so much. very good morning to all of you. what are we looking at right
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here we have an overturned tractor trailer 422e on ramp from trooper and that is closed so just a hoeds up. see squad car, penndot moving camera around but i will say as we were watching cars travel by we were putting on the breaks. please avoid the area just know 422 eastbound on ramp from trooper is closed. looking at ben franklin bridge , into center city in the westbound direction we are looking g things are quite from it our camera shot showing a little bit of fog out there we have a down pole from an earlier accident in berlin new jersey 30 white horse pike eastbound closed near franklin avenue. your alternate new freedom road is your best bet. we have two accidents here, fitzwater town road at route 63 and bethlehem pike at wissohickon avenue. lots going on this morning. still dark, still early. but just a head up. visibility issue may play a factor as well, jan and jim, back over to you. meisha, thanks. now for a look at newspaper headlines across the region. >> from the mercury police
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identified victim of the fatal stab nothing pottstown and issued an arrest warrant for the suspect. fifty-four year-old stephen holmes stabbed 35 year-old a man to dead on sunday. holmes is believed to be homeless and men to frequent pottstown area police are asking for public's help in locating him. intelligencer, holy redeemer health system will begin offering nitrous oxide this month for seeking relief from pain and discomfort during labor and delivery. most commonly known as laughing gas is an alternative to other melt odd to alleviate pain like narcotics or epidural. a home in riverton has become first in the boro to be designated with a historical mark are. house on banks avenue was built in 1851 and connection to the underground railroad, because owners hope to turn tonight to a museum. >> that is a look at some of the newspaper headlines around the delaware valley. up next on cbs-3 "eyewitness news" pat's has our morning sports good morning, guys.
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we will get you caught up on late night baseball between phillies and angels. mike trout beat up on his favorite team as a kid plus we have news from training camp see who could miss the first preseason game next week, that is all ahead in
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welcome back, to cbs-3 "eyewitness news" this morning >> pat's here with sports. phillies had another late game in l.a. >> they do they will close that out tonight. phillies will be at it again late tonight on the left coast looking to break an 11 game losing streak against angels. last night was basically over after third inning, millville mike trout beating up on his favorite team as a kid, his 20th home run of the season, one of the three home runs, angels hit in that inning,
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angels put up a seven spot and coast todd a 207 nothing win, since scoring first run of the series tuesday night phillies have been out scored 14 to nothing, and series at 10:07 tonight. phillies alumni weekend will not include pete rose on the team's wall of fame and rose will not be in town for festivities. rose backed out of the event, after an alleged relationship with a 14 or 15 year-old girl came to light. we told but those allegations yesterday. rose said that he thought the girl was 16 which was age of consent at the time and in the state of ohio. in the statement released by phillies, rest says while i'm truly honored that the phillies fans voted for me to be this years wall of fame inducte i am concerned other matters will over shadow goodwill associated with alumni weekend and i agree with the decision not to participate. eagles have questions heading in to next month's season opener and secondary may be the first one.
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yesterday's work outs at training camp at novacare may have answered some of those questions, guys like jaylen mills, malcolm jenkins and brooks made fine plays but we will see them play real football august 10th begins green bay in the preseason opener. positive sign for a unit that has a couple openings at cornerback. >> i mean just coming off practicing and knowing our expectations in the room. we have high expectations. knowing we will get another day to do what we love to do. you have to recognize that. >> i think dbs came out and did play well. i think that there has been a lot have talk about their position group, but there is one thing i know they have got leaders in that room. when you have guys like malcolm jenkins, rodney mc cloud, guys like that to push these guys in the secondary, as long as rest of those guys scrap, we will get pressure from that d line. >> bird secondary did not have to cover all pro alshon jeffery, the man expect to be the bird best wide out missed his second straight practice with a shoulder injury. eagles say it is minor but
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bleeding green nation reports jeffery will in the play in the first preseason game, again that game is a week from tonight at green bay. tomorrow, cbs-3 summer fest head to avalon and stone harbor so i will go down the shore to try my hand at water skiing, see more of how i did, it got ugly, it won't lie plus fly boarding see more of that less of me falling and more have my flying, all beginning tomorrow morning on "eyewitness news" at 5:00. tail of two towns, avalon and stone harbor we will showcase their beautiful beaches and sweet shops on "eyewitness news" at 5:00 a.m. and continuing all day long. >> i'm impress by fly boarding , that is really hard. >> that was fun, water skiing, really beat my legs up which you'll see tomorrow, it got ugly but fly boarding is fun. >> thanks, patrick. coming up next on "eyewitness news" we will tell what you anthony scaramucci,
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the marches planning to do tomorrow that has him back in front of the cameras. plus this... dow jones industrial average closed at a record high yesterday, we are live in new york stock exchange with the preview of what to expect today. we have the findings on a new report about back seat, seat belt safety and how passengers are putting themselves in danger, katie? well, jim looking ahead to the upcoming weekend we have a front still schedule to cross leading to wet weather, initially on saturday, but as the day progresses humidity drops, temperatures get held back, skies clear, breeze picks up and we are setting up for a beautiful upcoming sunday. how long does that last however? we will have the
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i'm jan carabao. i'm jim donovan. but first here's what you need to know to start your day in the morning minute. today is thursday, august 3rd. troubling accusation as begins a philadelphia day care owner, police say he sexually assaulted two children. >> duncan rounds was arraigned overnight on seven felony charges. unbelievable. unbelievable. >> a local habitat for
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humanity, suffers a big loss, thousands of dollars worth of tools are stolen from a construction site. >> even our first aid kit, t-shirts, they took everything >> a bungy ride breaks down mid flight, one person, was hanging in the air for nearly 40 minutes. nasa is looking to fill a new position. >> planetary protection officers. >> and that job title comes with a generous salary. >> 187 grand, i'll protect it. >> i need to ask you, i may feel like i love dave chapel, and next thing you go out for a pack of smoke and gone for 15 years. >> people still come out, i have been watching you and i think you are one of the voice s. >> nice compliments for stephen colbert from dave chapel. >> yes, they are a good time but weather may not be such a good time at points today, katie. i like how you p

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