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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 put that.
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at points. whole day is not a throw away, guys. we have to deal with some showers, thunderstorms. it is different scenario today granted some could be locally drenching but they should in the be as widespread and they will not move as slowly as they did yesterday but they will be out there and they will fire up in the late day, p.m. time frame. for now we had a couple showers around but they are primarily outside, out to sea or on the outskirts of lancaster county and having fizzled away. your main concern this morning is actually fog. even though there are no technical advisories posted for fog it is still dense, in some areas, just watch for that, here in center city, i can barely make out low lying included cover. it is in the a problem every where but we have tonight spots. watch for that as that suffers especially. sixty-six at philadelphia international or rather at allentown. sixty-eight at philly international. mid up toker 60's in the region as a whole. we are off to a relatively warm start we will heat up
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with in problem later this afternoon to at lee flirt with 90 for yet another day, fog lifting with the courtesy of the sunrise, and we will see some sun throughout the better part of the day. just watch for that shower or thunderstorm chance to pop up as early as lunchtime for some areas but this is a scattered situation where you cannot guarantee where things will pop up but everyone is fair game throughout the course of the day. just one more time looking at bullet points patchy fog, mix of sun and included generally, hot, sticky up to 89 for peak of the day and pop up then are storms that come with this pattern currently setting up. coming up later in the show we will talk about the pattern change, that waits in the wings whether that arrives for weekend and if we will have to deal with wet weather, meisha. >> good to know, katie, thanks very much. good morning, to you. we are looking outside, we have an overturned, tractor trailer, 422 on ramp, 422 eastbound on ramp from trooper so head up on this.
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southbound trooper is also closed at audubon road, because of this, so, usually, your alternate ramp would be route 23 ramp to 422 eastbound but that is closed, through late fall, so your alternate for the accident where the overturned tractor trailer is and for this ram in general will be first avenue ramp again that is 422 eastbound on ramp from trooper and southbound trooper is closed at audubon road. head up because we are getting busy around there. as we progress deeper in the 5:00 o'clock hour it will continue to do so. we are talking about mass transit, the repairs are being completed, so it will be resume, full service to day. patco new jersey transit river line will be cross honoring all day licensing. i will tweet that information out as well. we have two accidents, so one in willow grove, one in flourtown, fitzwater town road at 63 moreland road and bethlehem pike at wissohickon avenue. then from an earlier accident we have a down pole so this is
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in berlin, new jersey. head up route 30 white horse pike eastbound near franklin avenue. this has been out there quite sometime, sound like a down pole from the earlier accident was way earlier, i think around 11:00 p.m. last night. this is still out there route 30 white horse pike eastbound near franklin avenue that right lane is block. it was all lanes were closed off and now just right lane that is block, jan, back over to you. the owner of the south philadelphia day carries behind bars, this morning, accused of sexually abusing two children in his care. police arrested five three-year old duncan rounds of medford lakes, new jersey, the owner of the sprouts day care on the 600 block of south ninth street, investigators say a boy and girl both five were assaulted multiple times inside the day care, some residents are expressing their outrage, while others are still in disbelief. >> he should be castrated and spend the rest of his life in jail, if not worse. >> he was a great guy, he
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loves kids, this is a great place, you feel like family here and this is all just a shame. >> police are checking to see if there are more victims. president trump is on the road heading to west virginia for another campaign style rally, the president is rallying supporters amid growing interest on capitol hill into donald trump's junior meeting with the russians during the presidential campaign. congressional investigators want phone and e-mail record from everyone at that meeting, including presidential son in law jared kushner and campaign chairman paul manafort. secretary of state rex tillerson is also on the road heading to southeast asia for an annual summit of asian leaders. talks are likely to be dominated by north korea ballistic missiles test in what appears to be a show of force, u.s. military launched an unarmed intercontinental ballistics missle of its own yesterday. time is 5:35. in business news what starts the most arguments between couples. >> and amazon is struggling with one of its goals for 2017
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, i didn't know amazon could struggle but money watch 's roxana saberi joins us live from the knock stock exchange, good morning, rocks san a. >> investigators are watching to see if the dow jones will powe seventh straight record high. dow jones passed 22,000-point mark for first time. april emmys responsible for most of the yesterday's gains. amazon wants to hire 50,000 people but it saw fewer applications then that at 12 sites across the country on wednesday. on than line giant said it received 20,000 applications, and hired thousands on have people on the spot and will hire more in coming days. company faces challenges with unemployment at lowest level in 16 years. hbo is trying to reassure workers after a sign's tack, network does not believe its quote e-mail system as a whole has been compromised but on monday it had been hit by a sign's tack after a anonymous hacker posted about leaking full episode of ballers, and
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written material from next week episode of game of thrones. and what sparks many arguments between couples in america? money. new poll find 48 percent of people in the serious relationship add mid bickering over finances. 60 percent said one person is spending too much or being too frugal. when it comes to buying engagement rings 23 percent of those surveyed say one month's salary is reasonable amount to spend on a token of love, jim and jan. >> that doesn't surprise me though. >> money. >> money doesn't make the world go round, does it. >> but i am very thrifty with my cash. >> as you should be. >> yes. >> i am. see you tomorrow. well in, other news fired fbi director james comey will make some money, writing a book about leadership and decision making. >> his publisher says comey will draw on his experience of law enforcement and government his book will be published by flat iron books, comey will write about his handling of the up investigation into
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hillary clinton's e-mails and his investigation into connections between president trump and russia. comey was fired as fbi director, back in may. and the marches back at least for a little while, oust ed white house communications director anthony scaramucci says he will speak to the american public on various platforms tomorrow, cnn has obtained a memo of things he wanted to do as communications director which included improving media relations, scaramucci says he will stay out of the lime light, spotlight until announcing his next move in september. in other news this morning a havertown woman is safe after police say he was abducted and robbed by a man she believed to be a lyft driver. brittany law was with her sister in center city yesterday morning near 12th and saint james, they hopped in the car they thought was their lyft ride. on the ride home police say driver asked brittany's sister to buy him some water at a west chester pike gas station and then took off with
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brittany. >> he then grabbed her phone, and grabbed her credit card, debit card. he then threw her out of the car. >> police say driver dumped brittany in northwest philadelphia, lyft tells "eyewitness news" it has no record of any pick ups in the area of 12th and saint james. reward is now $10,000 for information leading to an arrest in the sexual assault of the runner in montgomery county. this happened on tuesday, at norristown farm park, the 19 year-old victim was running when attacked in broad daylight. for those who frequent the park or live near it they are on the edge, spokeswoman for district attorney's office say detectives are tracking down several lead. police in haverford township released surveillance photos of the witnesses to a weekend murder. reward of $7,500 is offered in connection to the case, investigators continue to search for suspect in the death of 29 year-old generally , lee was shot to death, saturday at an apartment complex in haverford
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road, and the accused killer, 24 year-old derek rollins is still, on the loose. all residents of the small pennsylvania town, were evacuated hours after a freight train carrying hazardous materials, derailed, igniting fires there officials say at lee 32 cars on the csx freight train derailed early yesterday morning in hideman, pennsylvania near pittsburgh. one of the railcars smashed right into a person's home's garage, at lee one car containing liquid petroleum gas and one car containing molten soul fewer leaked and caught fire. >> i'm afraid it could go at any moment. >> we're just grabbing our stuff and getting out with whatever we have and getting out. >> residents were sent to an area church for fear that the railcars could explode, train was traveling from chicago, to new york. investigate north minneapolis will return to a school where a gas explosion killed two people, yesterday. police say contractors doing work at the school ruptured a gas line cause ago this
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explosion. school officials say one of the two people killed in the blast was a long time receptionist at the school. several others were also injured. >> workers as you can tell was in shock, they are screaming that there is more trapped. >> just reading the paper and there was just a huge blast, the whole house jumped and moved to the right. >> students were reportedly at the school at the time of the blast but fortunately they were not hurt. coming up next on cbs-3 "eyewitness news" we will tell you two things rihanna is doing to help young girls in africa. we will tell but a big honor planned for maroon five, plus this. new report find many people don't buckle up in the back seat putting themselves and others at serious risk i'm chris mar teen necessary los angeles with the details
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to help girls in the african nation of mallawi to get to school. they will fund scholarships and doughnut bakes to help kid make their often long trek to school faster and safer. honors for maroon five, grammy winning band fronted by adam le vine is set to receive decade award at this years teen choice ceremony recognizing their impact on music, culture, over the past
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10 years. they will pick up their prize at teen choice award 2017 a week from sunday. and i got to tell but car pool karaoke the series, apple music's original series stars ariana grande, john legend and cleveland cavilers star lebron james. the series is a spin off of the late, late show james corden, which airs right here on cbs-3, two episode will be released every week on apple music, beginning august 9th. and check this out, here's proof that a great actor is in character, actress meryl streep was seen going to dinner in insuring in full costume, she's in town for her latest film the papers, street portrays journalist and publisher catherine graham, she was dining with her film crew, in harlem. i'd love to have dinner with her. >> i believe she would be fascinating. >> you go to the movie, you immediately forget she's meryl streep and she becomes that person. >> yes, she does win the award
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>> speaking of award. >> yeah, not with this forecast, i wouldn't say that, unless you are hoping for more rain. yes, exactly. a very rotten tomato indeed. lets go outside. we have had fog issues this morning. this is not one of those cameras where you will find. that it looks like it is almost completely cleared, over center city right now. this is a quiet looking view at the sun as we see about a half an hour or more like 20 minutes or so before the sunriseness philadelphia. and all and all it is just looking nice, well, it did, look nice and clear at our camera shot here. little fuzzy, that is cobwebs out here it looks like in the cameras. perhaps you have the same. lots goat a cup of coffee and get out there together. it looks dark over and all looking at palmyra cove nature park. center city in the distance here. notice it looks hazy here. keep in mind this camera is about 10 miles away in palmyra , from philadelphia, so
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you do have that haze out there but you know, just depends where you are with where we have poor visibility. lets check with the weather watchers and see is what up. we have storm cloud, most of these, or all of them came from jenny janssen but let me show you damage picture too, several from lynn, both jenny and lynn are in cherry hill. there were really heavy thunderstorms that came in but do you see that tree that fell over into her neighbor's yard, lynn's picture she sent another one of the debris outside her shed, and yeah, some mess to clean up. this is trees, that felon a pur line in her neighbor's yard. they have some cleaning up to do out that way. lets go back to the map, and regional wide, mess of the watches checking with mid 60's , that is consistent with the observation that is we're getting in from the larger cities but john in perkasie a smaller community, 65 degrees and is there a hint of fog around tree tops. that is you're mediate issue
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here, so jump pennsylvania palmyra nature park and look at visibility. it is scattered but where we have it, it is quite poor under half mile in millville, allentown but not bad elsewhere, just a little hint of noticeable fog and many other locations. that will move away as day progresses but once more showers, thunderstorms ignite. they should not be as widespread but could produce rainfall, few scattered thunderstorms friday and saturday morning, beyond that rest of the weekend clears out and sunday what a gem, it looks awesome. >> it looks perfect, all right , katie, thanks very much gateway to our weekend in the world of travel we will work with right now particularly thinks overturned tractor trailer 422 eastbound on ramp from trooper is closed but also because of this southbound trooper is closed at audubon road. now typically your, you would have a ramp alternate but that is closed, route 23 ramp to 422 eastbound is closed through late fall, so what has
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become your alternate, ramp alternate is first avenue ramp to the eastbound 422. just a head up that overturned tractor trailer 422 eastbound on ramp from trooper is closed and south bun trooper closed at audubon road. that will affect you and it is starting to get busy, we are seeing it pick up a little bit as we push toward that 6:00 o'clock hour. then, what do we have here? we have two accidents one in willow grove one in flourtown and we have a building fire. accident fitzwater town road at 63 moreland road. we have bethlehem pike at wissohickon avenue and building fire, willow grove avenue is enclosed near cottman road. lots going on, jim, back to you. new report find that many people, choose not to wear seat belts while riding in the back seat of cars, and experts want the auto industry to do more to remind people to buckle up no matter where they sit. chris martinez, reports. >> reporter: this is what can happen when you don't buckle up in the back seat, this
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family of three was thrown around when the cab they were riding in was hit by another car, in this video, the woman on the right is wearing a seat belt, woman on the lefties not in the accident, she's thrown across the cab. >> people are less likely to buckle up in the rear seat. >> reporter: jessica co authored a new report from the insurance institute for highway safety. survey found that while 91 percent of people always use their seat belt in the front only 72 percent use it in the back seat, and that number drops to 57 percent when traveling in cabs and ride hailing services like uber and lyft. uber driver justin goodfield says people do not buckle up on short trips. >> i will say something i net is you are in the buckled, it would be good idea to be buckled. >> reporter: experts say riding without a belt puts not only back seat rider at risk but people in front. in this test video person unbuckled in the back slams
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into the driver during an accident. >> we know that drivers are twice as likely to be fatally injured when passenger behind them is unrestrained. >> reporter: she wants more auto make tours install same belt reminders cars are in the front seat for people in the back as well. she believes it could get more ride tours buckle up. and help prevent injuries. chris martinez for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> i have to admit i'm in the as vigilant in the back seat buckling up in friends cars but in uber and stuff. >> maybe you will now. >> yeah. >> temperatures in parts of the west coast are over a hundred degrees we will show you how one size helping keeping animal cool, coming up next. plus out of this world job find out how much you can make working for nasa to protect the earth, we will be right
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tim & charlie, 4th graders. lazy 3rd graders. they even have those new easy open gogurt tubes. we used to struggle 20 minutes to open our gogurts. we were on our own. and when we finally got those things open, we'd be overcome with the sense of accomplishment no 3rd grader today will ever know. hi guys. get a job. you believe this guy? new ez open gogurt. kids never had it so easy.
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that turtle needed was a little bite i can, the turtle was released from the beach in panama city florida, yesterday she was brought to authorities by a fisherman who found him with a injured front flipper. she was nursed back to health at marine institute and once she was able to swim, dive she was released. >> good for her. >> here's something to beat the heat, washington park zoo in portland is turning the hose on the elephant, and other animals to make sure they are comfortable. they say all of the enclosures have abundant water supplies and also have pools to cool off in, afternoon high temperatures in the area are in record territory right now. well, nasa sure does have a job that sound like science fiction on. >> space agency is looking for a planetary protection officers, the person in this role would protect the earth from alien life forms. sign me up. we are not talking about green people with big eyes, the person would prevent microbes
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from outer space from making its way to earth. that sound is too scientific to me, forget that. they would also prevent human contamination on other planets , nasa is offering a salary of 124 to $187,000 a year, for the right person. >> wow. >> not quite qualified, jim. >> no. >> just barely. >> speaking of planet defense, nasa is testing planetary defense system in october. that is when a small asteroid will pass by earth but don't you worry we are not in any danger here. system is made up of observatories that detect and track asteroids. scientists don't expect this to get closer then 4200 miles. coming up next on cbs-3 "eyewitness news" they are called resilience socks, pat gallen has story behind the socks and how they are giving cancer patients a creative outlet and so much more. plus, they look like a cool pair of shoes for kid but some say they could victimize girls, sneakers controversy
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trump junior and russian lawyer, i'm hanna dova in insuring with the latest coming up. it could be soggy as we head out to work, this morning , katie's tracking another chance of storms today today is thursday august 3rd, good morning, i'm jim donovan. i'm jan carabao in for rahel solomon. katie and meisha are keeping an eye on things. >> good morning, looking outside right now, yeah, roadways are nice, dry for now but i have to tell you we have problem spots out there, already so shaping up to be a busy thursday morning. >> yes. >> why do you look at me. >> problem child at the desk right now. weather is cooperative but you mention that had fog. you may run in poor visibility depending on locn.
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