>> this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news" this morning. >> clean clean up is underway after rain floods and leaves drivers stranded. >> special election in the probe, gets help in this investigation: >> and as police department's nationwide sounds the alarm over carbon monoxide fumes inside their ford explorers, philadelphia police are taking precautions of their own. well, today is friday, august 4, good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm jan carabeo. rahel solomon is off today.

good morning, meisha, kate. >> i good morning, guys, it is friday. so happy. i don't even have the words to tell you, looking outside, just a lot of construction, so far dry roadways? >> yes, we had some thunderstorms obviously came through yesterday, the wrap of that is still underway. quieting down for now. so take a look at storm scan3, last couple of hour loop, thunderstorm rapping through south-central new jersey began to fizzle at least, still finding some lightning strikes firing up across and outside mercer county. while we are generally in the clear, again, there may be couple of showers or thunderstorms that pop up later again today. now we don't sit in any major severe weather threat, across central pennsylvania we do, so if that's where your travels are taking you since it is coming up on a weekends, maybe going out toward hershey park, keep in mind, could be pretty heavy thunderstorm fire up later today out that way. here locally, country temperatures off to pretty mild start, 74 degrees in

philly, wilmington, and as the day progresses we'll heat up yet again. similar temperature, same time yesterday, but once more, expect that there will be a shower or thunderstorm that fires up specially inland at the shore, likely to stay dry, but it is quite humid. still waiting a frontal passage, that's going to happen this weekend, meisha, bridges about pretty substantial transition which we will talk about. >> thank you so much. good to know. good morning, happy friday. so yes. looking outside right now, looking good. although the vine, it is closed both westbound and eastbound, let you know as soon as that opens up. usually as we know it is usually around 5:00 or so. just know it is still closed. then connecticut vukovich sean at the schuylkill, left lane commodore barry pro mice dollars there is camera shot showing you city avenue. you can particularly looking at these cones you can see those out there. just the yellow, moving in the eastbound direction. movement out there this early friday morning both directions on the schuylkill. then construction route 30 bypass to 202 closed until

right around 5:00 a.m. so another one should be clearing around 5:00 a.m. then we do have disable tractor-trailer here 95 north before route 413, that right lane is blocked. so just heads up moving on out around 95 around the area probably get busy more maybe into the 5:00 hour. construction betsy ross bridge as well, right lane block, that's going to be blocked in each direction. jan, jim, back over to you. >> thank you, meisha. we begin with breaking news this morning, vehicle crashed into a business in lehigh county, we are told the impact of the accident has killed the driver. this happened just before 3:00 , that's a pool supply company, 1600 block of northwest and boulevard, in coopers berg. there is no word yet on what caused the crash. and "eyewitness news" crew is headed to the scene. we'll have live report in our next hour. >> this morning, residents in part of south jersey are cleaning up, and drying out from severe flooding. >> heavy downpours yesterday, flooded streets, chopper three , over route 130, burlington city last night

where traffic barely moved. some drivers became stranded in heavy flood waters, businesses and homes in the area, were also flooded. >> you have a problem, regarding flooding, please do not drive-thru the flood, flooded street. if you see a line down, do not cross the line. please dial 911 so someone can come out there. >> always good advice. fortunately, there were no injuries to report. the storm yesterday also caused flight delays at philadelphia international airport. >> well, special council robert mueller has reportedly impounds a grand jury any washington it investigate russia meddling in last november's presidential election, cbs news has learned the grand jury has been on the job for weeks, road zester reporting that the panel has already issued subpoenas, in connection with the june 2016 meeting between the president 's son, donald trump, jr., russian lawyer, and others. >> last night president trump responded to the latest report during a campaign style rally, in west virginia, large crowd

filled arena in huntingdon. the president called the russia store a total fabrication. he calls it an excuse for democrats who suffer what he says is the greatest lost in the history of american politics. >> most people know there were no russians in our campaign. there never were. we didn't win because of russia we won because of west west virginia governor jim justice said he's switching from the democratic party to the republican party. president trump heading to his bed minister, new jersey golf club for 17 days. out of necessity, everyone who works in the west wing has to clear out for much-needed maintenance. >> well, authority in camden

county are investigating a multi vehicle crash in cherry hill, that's left one person dead crash happened last night kings avenue near miami avenue the wreck involved two motorcycles, at least one other vehicle no word on the other person's condition this morning. >> forces across the country have in the dollars a dangerous flaw in some of the ford explorers, authority say, exhaust is leaking into ford explorer intercept err suv's, philly's police department 188 of the vehicles, so far, there are no report of problems locally, but 20 officers in texas tested positive for carbon monoxide in their blood and one officers even lost consciousness near boston police officials nationwide working to pull the vehicles from the fleets. >> as a result of that, several vehicles have been taken out of service. >> i stand here confident

we're making the right decision today based on what we know with the carbon monoxide exposure we've had the impact it has had on our work force. >> ford spokesperson says the auto maker working with police departments across the us to check for problems. >> police are cracking down on by sickly cents who say are playing dangerous case of swerving in the streetment take a look at the videos, teens throughout the area have been spotted intentionally swerving into the path of vehicles and pedestrians. bikers are seen riding front wheels up, and showing off, just how close they can get to an oncoming car before wear syringe away. >> it is getting worse every day, they swerve in and out of traffic, going head-on with cars, playing the game of chicken with the cars. >> i don't weigh a lot. so they either follow the rules or will end up in the hospital. >> they fear bikers may startle drivers to the point of losing control which could lead it a deadly crash. pennsylvania department of human services has shut down the day care center owned by a

man charged with child sexual assault. officials say they're now working with families of sprouts preschool in bella vista to find new care for their children. the suspect, duncan round; out on bail. philadelphia police arrested the medford lakes man on wednesday, charged with assaulting two, five year old children at the dai-ichi care center do you know construction project in margate is now on hold. superior court judge in new jersey has halted construction there, after complaint it created pools of standing water outside of beachfront home. city attorneys call the project a health and financial crisis. attorneys for the state argue draining pond and partially filling in the basin should address the problem. >> pennsylvania's state treasurer has okay short-term line of credit long enough to pay the bills. state treasurer joe tore sell an okayed the $750,000 loan to keep the state's general fund out of the red. senate passed revenue package to patch a 2 billion-dollar hole in the state's budget for

the fiscal year, started july 1st. plan could face opposition in the house before it reaches the desk of governor tom wolf, who supports it. >> well, there is much more to cover on cbs-3, "eyewitness news," a fire tears through one of the worlds' tallest buildings and it is not the first time that it has first time that it has happened.underwear

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>> fire engulfed one of the tallest residential build something now under control. more than 40 floors of that 86 story torch tower in dubai went up in flames this morning , now, it is not clear what caused the fire, there are no report of any injuries, fortunately, than is the second time the tower there has caught fire in the last three years. >> northeast philly landmark demolished to make way for redevelopment project. chopper three over the former nabisco plant on roosevelt boulevard, the 27.5-acre property was sold to a villanova based developer last year, after closing in 2015.

plans for the site include a mix of retail and industrial uses. >> a new jersey family's fight to keep their daughter on the school basketball teams moves from the court to the courtroom. thirteen year old sydney phillips was kicked out of saint theresa school in union county last year for want to go play on the boys team. her family successfully sued the school to get her on the team and the expulsion was reversed but now the school has denied applications for both sydney and her sister for the school year. >> this is retaliation that we filed a lawsuit. they're blaming us for all of the bad public tisly. it is not us, it is them. >> cattily school, had a particular mission, it was unable to do it because of, frankly, because of the behavior of the parent. >> a judge will decide whether the phillips girls will be allowed back at the school next month. >> well, an update to story we first brought to you on wednesday night, donations are pouring in to help habitat for humanity. someone stole thousands of dollars in tools from the group at salem county

construction site. the tools used by volunteers were stolen out of a storage trailer in pittsgrove. couple wish to go remain anonymous reached out to habitat after watching our story. welshing they've donated $5,000 home depo gift cards and another monetary gift. and memorial hospital of salem county, well, they've also donate add check for $4,000. >> people coming forward in times of trouble. >> till good people out there. >> exactly. time now is 4:43. >> katie is here with a look at the forecast. hopefully a bit drier today, katie? >> most of us actually should evening out pretty quiet day generally speaking, but it is one of those calm before the storm type scenarios. we do have cold front that's crossing through, potential shale for severe weather central pennsylvania. we don't necessarily here locally sit in any major is he severe weather threat, but it it is something to watch as heavier rumble storms, but the cross crossing our area

tonight. we will have zapped the innocent from the heating of the day because the sun is down. so in short we will still see heavier showers, thunderstorm, but should be somewhat scattered in nature, the brunt of this really will be mainly off to the west. but you can see much more organization with this at this point. center of circulation over the great lakes, colds front scheduled to cross through the area by tonight. so it is trucking east as we speak, meantime, all we can do is build up heat, bill up moisture, eventually see couple of pop up showers or thunderstorms, primarily will fire to the north and west of philly. so there is high likelihood right now that philly or at least point southeast of us specially near the shore just stay dry. but in the you will see couple of speckles of rain, thunderstorms firing up on the radar into the early afternoon so, if your travels are taking that you way, or maybe going up the northeast extension toward the poconos by that point there may be wet weather to deal with. here is the line of heavier thunderstorms after the sun has gone down according to this model when those will be rumbling on through central pa by the time it is reaping us

say 2:00 a.m., 3:00 a.m., sun long since down, may still granted see shower even thunderstorm into tomorrow morning. but, really, start to clear out somewhat swiftly here. so the weekend really is not look that bad. if you are not crazy about the heat, humidity, jim, it is looking better. saturday, sunday, that humidity starts to drop off nicely. sunday really is the gem of the forecast, but all-in-all, meisha, are it really does look like pretty nice weekend. >> specially sunday looks gorgeous, happy friday you guys. we are starting off with a couple of accident. first one here, hard to see, we do have some green in the roadway, car turned backward, kind of blocking the center lane. only far left lane was just squeezing by. this is the schuylkill eastbound at montgomery drive. and it looks like now everything is stopped. even that far left lane. extra time, i don't know if this is just a temporary closing for the next couple every minute or it will be should down here for little

birth. regardless, headed out the door right now headed out there again, schulkhill eastbound at montgomery drive looks like right now all lanes have just been blocked for now i'll let you know as soon as that clears. second accident, new jersey turnpike southbound past pa turnpike, two inner roadway lanes are blocked, just heads up on that, still showing green out there. and then back to the schuylkill real quick, talking about some construction, where we have construction, schuylkill westbound, between city avenue and the blue route the left lane is compromised. see the cones out there right now there is camera shot showing you at city avenue. we will be back back a with an update in about ten minute, jim, jan, back to you. >> still ahead on "eyewitness news" this morning two, rival car makers team up for joint venture. >> and the future takes flight at boeing. finds out more about what the aviation giant's high hopes are, that's when "eyewitness news" continues. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> and if it is friday it must be summer fest on cbs-3. this time tail of two towns as we head to stone harbor and avalon in cape may county. >> coming up this morning, pat

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>> and a new deal for boeing watch are the new detail on this one, roxanna? >> yes, boeing has land add major government contract, to help push the airport into the future. the seattle based company says the air force want time proof technology with aircraft controls. and in other areas. pentagon awarded woke bart of $9 million for research and development. jim, jan? >> teaming up. thank you, we'll check in with you in the next hour. meanwhile coming up after the break, another check on traffic. >> that's right. plus, the class of 2017, phillies music walk of fame. katie? >> and, jan, looking ahead to the upcoming weekend planning to see a nice transition taking place, how long the sun is expected to last in the low humidity, this time

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>> welcome back everyone, as we take a live look for you here overlooking center city

philadelphia, all clear. i don't suspect we will have the kinds of visibility issues we had yesterday, even though it was somewhat scattered. philly didn't have to deal with it too badly. even though that said, you know, we do actually still have quite a bit of moisture pent up in the atmosphere, and it made its presence known yesterday with some of the very drenching downpours. now at the moment, storm scan still generally quiet. still have one little left over pocket of showers, there had been some thunder and lightning associated with this , since at least gone away from doppler indication anyway but, that said, most of russ going to evening out pretty quiet day, it is later tonight , that our next front does cross through. so, couple of showers, thunderstorms come along with it, avalon, stone harbor, relatively bad luck for summer fest, i think avalon stone harbor can actually end up with real nice conditions, for the gang that's going to be down down there throughout the afternoon and evening. late tonight talking late night couple of showers or thunderstorms likely do rumble on through, they would still pretty much be scattered in nature, be left over, tomorrow

morning. so eight a with sunshine, certainly steamy at the shore point today. that doesn't go just for avalon, stone harbor, really up and down the jersey shore, you certainly will need the sun block across that region here today. the high though in philly hit zero he is, the one and only 90 agree of the pack here, below average technically only few degrees by below average forecast as we look forward here. so saturday, just left over shower, thundershower in the morning, then skies clear out. sunday looks awesome. more rain, more storms monday. then we clear it out again, for mid-week, meisha. >> thank you so much for. that will good morning to all of you, happy friday. looking outside. couple every accident, right out of the gate. we have one on the schuylkill eastbound at montgomery drive. all lanes blocked just moment ago. now the accident has been pulled all the way off to the far right shoulder. traffic is getting by. so overall things looking okay there. heads up that the accident is out there. another accident new jersey turnpike southbound past the p a turnpike, two inner roadway lanes are blocked right now, just a heads up there. and construction, back to the

schuylkill we go. schuylkill westbound, between city avenue and the blue route this camera shot actually looking at city avenue t looks like crews are out there right now picking it up. far left lane clearly the one compromised, as soon as the crews move out of the way, things looking good in that area. then the vine closed overnight for the construction, both sides opening up, westbound side open, eastbound schuylkill eastbound ramp to the vine, probably waiting on, that but it looks like, looks like the eastbound side might be completely clear now as well. then, also, dis ached tractor-trailer before route 413, right lane compromised not slowing you down, still traveling at posted speeds, but start to slow us down maybe more in the 5:00 hour, if that isn't moved out of of the way, see what happens there. construction on the betsy ross bridge as well, right lane block, this is blocked in each direction. now the traffic we're seeing on the censor map all green, still traveling at posted speeds, just heads up, though ment construction pa westbound, left lane compromised there before valley forge. even more construction as well when we come back in about ten

minutes, jim, back to you when if you are headed out the door stay updated with katie's forecast "kyw news radio" 1060 also, three judge panel orders a new trial for a former depford police officer convicted of murder and aggravated manslaughter, in the death after friends over four years ago. >> philadelphia mayor jim kenney and lgbt veterans are pushing back against president trump's decision to reinstate a ban on transgender people, serving in the military. and a summer camp for young wizards and witches. check in two, three, four times a day on "kyw news radio " 1060 on your a.m. dial. >> some new addition also coming to the philadelphia music walk of fame. >> the walk of fame's 2017 class inductees were announced at the independence visitors center. here are the new additions, jill scott, sister sledge, labelle, mcfadden and whitehead, sister rose, soul survivor, chris swartz, and radio personality, bob pan tan owe from our sister station, w

ogl. >> the this year's inch duck it tees, powerhouse vocals, signature anthems, soul full vibes, spiritual lyric, and production firsts within r and b, pop, genres, we are thrilled these inductees over eight years of excellence. >> the class of 2017 will be formally inducted on october 4th, in a ceremony along the avenue of the arts. >> well deserved. well, coming up in the next hour of cbs-3 "eyewitness news " we're headed down the shore for summer fest. pat gallen takes us to a shop that serves breakfast with dessert? that sounds good. also this morning, authority in delaware county are investigating a shooting. find out what they say happened before the gunfire errupted. >> and abrupt ends to concert in chicago. we will tell you what caused organizers to clear the crowd. we're back at the top of the hour. stay with us.

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>> we are following some breaking news this morning, in quakertown bucks county. you're looking at the smoldering smokey wreckage after deadly crash, driver went out of control, driving directly into a pool supply store which then caught fire. just spoke to the fire chief on the scene, liver report coming up. >> a grand jersey now being used in the russian election meddling investigation. while the president goes on the offensive. i'm with the latest from the white house, coming up. >> and, we're celebrating cbs-3's summer fest today. visiting two great towns at the shore. pat gallen is taking us to a shop that's found a way to combination dirt and breakfast into one delicious