su, ly store, live on the scene on what led to this fiery corning, a case of being in the wrong place, at the wrong time. a woman just getting into a cab get shot. but police say, led to the gunfire. >> and swerving, it is a dangerous trends, on philadelphia's street, and police are cracking down. from today is friday, august 4th, good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm jan carabeo in for rahel solomon. katie, meisha, keeping an eye on things this morning, good morning, everyone. >> good morning. >> what is the buzz word today >> tgif? >> sure, tgif. happy friday. >> i never know what she going to say.

>> well, never know. >> construction, yes, but also accidents this morning, and picking up little bit. we will get to all of that coming coming up. >> weather shouldn't be a major issue. yes, you may have sun glare issue throughout the course oft, you know, three hour loop. we had one lil rounds of showers that continue to push across parts of central, or rather, new jersey, but in the , what just fired up here outside of new york city. there is pretty heavy thunderstorm actually about ready to hit the borrows there so if that's where your travels take you, maybe on your way out the door for mercer county, something like that, that should continue its trek pretty swift leer here. regardless you might finds damp roads in the city later today if you are a come out near new york. back here locally, all looking pretty good. low 70s up and done i-95. upper 60s lancaster to allentown, mid 60s, mount pocono. you get the idea. off to mild typical start, for us to be in this range of temperature readings, at the onset, warm up pretty efficiently later today. mid upper 60s in the outlying suburbs, too, quakertown, pottstown, doylestown, all of up e fishmid to upper six's

lint which time. take a look at your friday forecast, another humid day, noe don't expect this. but we will hit 09 degrees, it will be somt day. yet again, couple of showers, thunderstorms are likely to fire up. city on northwest, if you are down the shore today, all-in-all, i good throughout the daylight hours with sunshine granted humid bu you're going to the beaches, right, smear. >> exactly. >> for summer fest, t>> y, justf you are going down to the water 09 degrees,o m >> right? and i got to tell you guys, my air conditioner doesn't work >> sweaty mess all day long. looking outside right now, the t you are working with right there. headlight, i would say that here. >> this isn't the only place. really actually starting to build levels kind ofeverywhere. schuylkill, near spring garden , what you are looking at, there looking great, nice dry roadways, schuylkill

specially both moving in the westbound and eastbound directions have kind of been focus all morning long simply because we started off with overnight construction, accident blocking all lanes, those have all since been cleared, but it is kind of leaving us with a residual effect heating up little busier than other areas. ben franklin bridge actually though looking pretty good, we push in the westbound direction from jersey over the bridge, and into center city. looking hazy out there. but, hopefully, we will be seeing that sun sometime soon. just pack your sunglasses, might need. that will then mass transit airport regional rail line shuttle bussing this weekend, so between 30th street, and airport, talking more about this coming up in a little bit jen, jan, back to you. >> thank you, breaking news this morning, car sparks massive flames after crashing into a bucks county pool store >> "eyewitness news" reporter trang do live in quakertown, this morning, with more on what officials say was a hard fire to fight. trang, what's the latest? >> well, good morning, jan, jim, southbound lanes, just

now, just at this moment, northbound lanes have now reopened to traffic, this fire , is out, but it is still smoldering. take a look, i'll get out of the way so you can see. what we are focusing on here, see the massive hole in the side of the building. that's where the car went into the building. that will car has since been towed. but the biggest mystery left, is why that driver lost control, and slammed into the building, investigators say, there were no brake marks on the road, or in that parking lot there. but take a look at this video of the scene overnight. this fire started just after 2:00 a.m., at 1618 northwest ends boulevard, also known as 309, in quakertown. now, state police say someone was driving on the road, here, when they, for unknown reason, their car left the roadway, crashed into pool pro, which is a spool supply company. the billing then caught fire. as you can imagine firefighters dealing with lot of chemicals towards inside the building. they had to wear their air packs due tore chlorine and acid that was in the air. now, i spoke to a man who lives above the business, he describes the scary moments when the car hit the business.

>> the car came down from 309, coming this way, somehow managed to crash into the pool pro about 30 seconds later, it burst into flames. it woke everyone up, in my apartment, i ran outside to see what was going on. and then i seen the car that was lodged in there, engulfed in flames. >> and, fortunately, we did learn that that driver has died. but no other injuries, surprisingly, in what was a very crazy fire involving all every these chemicals here. in addition to the pool pro business you see three families have been displaced, the red cross is assisting them this morning, and jim, as you mentioned earlier, you actually frequent this business, and you know the owners, right? >> they're very nice group of people. always pleasant. i mean, it is horrible what happened to that driver, and that business, i mean, that's just devastating. hopefully they can rebuild, thank you, trang.

>> also new this morning, police are investigating after a woman is hit by a stray bullet overnight. police say the victim was just getting into a cab when shots rang out at broad and olney. the victim was shot in the right wrist. police say she walked into nearby einstein medical center for treatment. police are now reviewing interviewing eyewitnesses, and checking surveillance footage to identify the shooters. >> meanwhile, resident in parts of south jersey drying out after severe flooding amount look from chopper three over route 130, burlington city last night, the heavy downpour stranded drivers in the streets. businesses and homeowners 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. >> fortunately, there are no injuries to report. the storm yesterday also caused flight delays at philadelphia international airport. >> one person is dead, another is injured, after a multi vehicle crash in camden county

this crash happened around 9:00 last night, on kings highway near miami avenue in cherry hill. the wreck involved two motorcycles and at least one other vehicle. no word on the condition of that person who was injured. police are now investigating the cause of the crash. >> police are cracking down on bicyclist who is they say are playing a dangerous game of swerving in the streets. take a look at these videos. police say teens throughout the area have been spotted intentionally swerving into the paths of vehicles and pedestrians. bikers are seen riding on front wheels, their wheels up, and showing off just how close they can get to oncoming cars before swerving away. >> getting worse every day. they're swerving in and out of traffic, going head-on with cars, i guess, playing a game of chicken with the cars. >> bikes don't way a lot. they have to follow the rules or the par lent see them in the hospitals. >> they fear it may startle drivers to the point every

losing control which could lead to a deadly crash. >> by the ends of todd president trump will be on vacation at his golf club in bed minister, new jersey, but looming over his time off, new development in the investigation into ties between russia and the trump campaign. correspondent hena doba explains. >> the russia story is a total fabrication. >> reporter: president trump called the investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election a hoax at a rally in west virginia, thursday night. just cbs news learned special council robert mueller is now using a grand jury to vance his federal probe. the move allows mueller and his team to streamline the process of getting subpoenas for records and testimony. the president insists this is all soar grapes by democrats, still upset by his win in november. >> there were no russians in our campaign. there never were. we didn't win because of russia. we won because of you. that i can tell you.

>> white house press secretary , sarah sanders, issued a statement, that former fbi director, james comey, had, quote, the three times that the president is not under investigation. and we have no reason to believe that has changed. react to go suggestions by mr. trump, that he may be looking into firing mueller, two bipartisan groups of senators introduce bills thursday make that much harder to do. they stipulate if the president ever gave such an order, that order would then require the court's approval. >> one of the most admired people i know. fire him, you will create a fire storm here. >> ty cobb, member of the president's legal team, said the white house is fully cooperating with mueller and quote favors anything that accelerates the conclusion every his work fairly. cbs-3, "eyewitness news." >> back here at home now, the do you know construction project in margate is now on hold. superior court judge in new jersey has halted construction there, after complaints that

it created pools of standing batter outside of beachfront homes. now, city attorneys call the project a health and financial crisis. attorneys for the state argue draining the ponds and partially filling in the basin there, should address the problem. >> well, up next, unusual weather out west, flashflooding leads to several rescues, that's not all they're dealing with out there >> and remember, this video of a group of men dragging a shark behind their boat. it sparked outrage on line, and now we're learning more about one of the men in that video and why some people aren't surprised by his actions. plus this. >> oh, that's distressing. i would never want that to happen to my bag. >> hundreds of passengers, jim , left the airport with stink i luggage. >> oh,. >> this is gross.

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>> residents on the west coast hoping for a break, areas near los angeles dealing with the aftermath of yesterday's flashflooding, and other sections are broiling in the heat. correspondent john loyer ends with the latest on this wild west coast weather. >> flashflooding engulf parts of southern california thursday, in the community of acton, about 50 miles outside of los angeles, roads were washed out, vehicles were trapped, and some people needed to be rescued. in a metro link train, caring about 200 people, was stopped, due to walter i eroding section of track. >> over in palm springs, early morning thunderstorms were to blame for flooding, power

outages, and road closures in the coachella valley. washington state could use some precipitationment wild fires are scorching some spots like lewis count. >> i speak it just to get worse in the next certain days of this dry weather continues. >> the area hasn't had significant rain in weeks and is dealing with record-breaking high temperatures. air quality problems are report in the seattle. >> if you're outside even for five minute, ten minute, and when it comes, the kind choke comes into your chest, your throat, and tightens up. you are kind of gasp for breath. >> in addition to the heat, smoke from canadian wild fires are bringing blanket of pollution over the area. >> a lot of this can be an irritant reaction, near it reaction to any of your airways, so it could be your nose, your eyes, throat and your lungs. so what's happening, you can get inflammatory reaction that essentially occurs in a lot of folks. >> john loyer ends, cbs-3, " eyewitness news". lot of problems out there. >> turning now to weather back home, katie?

>> pretty calm. >> right. by comparison for sure. nothing terribly extreme about our weather lately other than granted you've had some flooding issues in the last couple of days, but these thunderstorms are essentially run of the mill for the summertime. you kind of expect it will happen. nothing out lands i shall. certainly don't have any wild fire issues, that's good thing but we do have our own set of minor issues, to contends, with all courtesy of frontal passage will take place later tonight and into tomorrow. but outside cut town area middle school to kick things off, little haze, low-lying cloud cover over the soccer field here, may run into some poor visibility in spot, because of this, but not quite as widespread. i'll show you what happened yesterday, even though still scattered. 66 degrees, the current temperature, here, in kutztown , but he will where low 70s at the moment. justin to build up the warmth in the atmosphere, all ahead of this, much more organized looking storm system, center of circulation, here is the trailing front, that's what

crosses our area, later tonight, into tomorrow. that's what's going to help trigger any wet weather for the area. meantime, you know, for the most part, any showers, storms , that would pop this afternoon would likely happen inland. so i think if you are going to the shore, actually got real nice day. granted humid. warm, up to 58 degrees, water temperatures are, however, also beginning to climb a little bit more with every passing week, and we're still in the mid 70s, looking ahead at the philadelphia conditions , or at least the temperatures, this is still representative, though, of the pattern across the region, when you look at the icons. we do still expect to see shower or storm fire up early tomorrow morning, but that is all with passage of this front so should clear out. humidity drops. temperatures obviously held back. and with lower humidity, sunday looks gorgeous, more rain, more storms monday, clear it out again for mid week. meisha? >> katie, thank you so much. very good morning to all of you. happy friday. certain starting to heat up 59 south at girard right now. you can see anywhere basically moving in the southbound direction of 95, you will start to heat up now. you can see a little bit of

the sun glare, overall kind of holding up. >> just headed out the door, again, pushing in southbound direction, i would maybe give yourself couple every extra minutes. not so much the same story here, although kind of pecking you will levels in new jersey, 42 freeway northbound at creek road. although not too much the construction levels that are peaking my interest here, actually casino every holding steady. >> schuylkill near gladwynn, eastbound direction, an area both eastbound and westbound, that's certainly starting to heat up. might want to factor in couple every minute extra minute there. then earlier we've been talking about this accident that happened earlier this morning, car went into a building in quakertown, so route 309, west ends boulevard , closed between hilltop road and cherry road. your alternate, old bethlehem pike, or northeast extension, will be your best bet, jan, back over to you. >> meisha, thank you. apparent act of road rage in western pennsylvania all caught on camera. surveillance video in l.a.

trobe shows man in the green car there pulling into the entrance near a silver car police say the driver came out , got out, hit him twice through the window. he said he doesn't remember pulling anyone off before pulling in to get gas. >> pulled in front of him or something, but even if i did, there was no reason for him to do what he did >> who could forget this video , shark being dragged behind a boat off the coast of florida now, getting a look at one of the ringleaders of the group responsible for this act new photo has surfaced of the man, this time, he's holding a federally protected eagle '. now, holding one like that is against the law, and just one of numerous photos in videos that show this man and other mistreating animals. despite the pictures, though, no charges have been filed. >> i'm little surprised. i mean, i don't, you know, in the case these days, so much

video evidence that we have now, because of the technology , you know, things are little easier to solve. >> now the us, fish and wildlife service investigated the same man in 2015 after photos came to life showing him abusing endangered birds, but there are issues with statute of limitations making charges tough to prove. >> well, southwest passengers may be giving the airline a rotten review. >> i would say so. that's after hundreds of bags were accidentally sprayed with sewage in nashville, yes, sewage. toilet at nashville international airport had been stuffed with paper towels, and overflowed yesterday morning, well, the toilet water and sewage then leaked through the floor, and onto a baggage conveyor, one floor down. passengers were shocked to find out this isn't the first time this has happened at that airport. >> second time? oh, no. oh, they will reach backlash on. that will accidents happen but that's a big accident. seconds time it has happened? first time okayment but the

second time like this? >> airport spokesperson says clean up crew was called in and sanitizing the bags. i don't know if i trust that they can completely sanitize. that will similar incident happened in june last year, southwest says it will replace some of those bags. >> that's what you call a crappy vacation. speaking of smell, find out how your sense of smell could impact your ability to lose weight next in the health watch. >> plus, pat gallen is always up for an adventure, isn't he? this morning he's trying water skiing and fly boarding. see if he signings or swims coming up a little later. stay with us.

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guys? >> now, for a look at newspaper headlines from across our region. >> from the delaware county times, cocaine dealer gunned down after copying a plea. police say 41 year old antonio anthony reeves was gunned down on lindburgh boulevard in philadelphia early this week. just one hour after he was given probation for his role in the highly publicized coke trafficking ring in chester. >> in the burlington county times, florence police chief john bunt was taken off the job earlier this week pending outcome after investigation concerning his conduct. bunts has come under fire from the municipality and from rang and file members every his department. the times says bunt could not be reached for comment. >> from the mercury, finishing touches made to the new $3.5 million home of the limerick fire company. it is believed that the fire company saved rough lay million dollars by conducting new station rather than trying to renovate the old facility built in 1984. a ribbon cutting is her moanly take place in a few month. >> very good. that's a look at some of the

newspaper headlines from around the delaware val. >> i on the health watch, possible link between sense of smell and wing games. >> real interesting. using lab mice, reese searches in california found obese mice , without a sense every smell, lost weight, but mice with a sense of smell who ate the same amount gained twice their normal weight. i don't tone. understands. researchers believe there is some connection between food oath or, how our body process the calories. more studies needed but researchers hope this will help them better treatments for owes bees at this. >> that's wild. coming up: update on breaking news, a fire at a pool store full of chemicals. >> plus, officials want answers, after this residential skyscraper in dubai goes up in flames for the second time in two years. we'll also have this. >> mcdonald's is making fast-food even faster. i'm wendy gillette in new york city, i'll tell you how it is just the latest trends embracing technology. >> tgif to you. looking pretty good this

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>> this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news." morning, everyone, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm jan carabeo. rahel solomon is off today. it is 6:30, here's what you need to know to start your day in the morning minute, august 4th, 2017. >> car crashes into a pool store, then the store goes up in flames. >> take a look at the scene, still tons every crews out here. >> a grand jury is now being used in the russian election meddling investigation. while the president goes on the offensive. >> street surfing, up close to cars, bike sicklies cents get a sterning warned about this

dangerous trend. >> they need to follow the rules or they'll get hit. >> new jersey state troopers are enjoying some early morning treats, thanks to a nine year old little boy. >> it means a lot to us, really does. >> really good. >> we're going to go down to stone harbor in just a little bit where you get to see me water ski, not eating donuts, water skiing and fly boarding. >> oh, dangerous. we'll see him in about 15 minute, as pat's in stone harbor, just in avalon, where anything goes at duck do you nuts. >> not bad morning out there, katie. and really not a terrible day either. >> not at all f you're at the shore, generally expect some pretty quiet weather for the majority of the day. we have had some bad luck with our summer fest celebrations with stormy weather. so that's very welcome news, i'm sure, for the very

extensive crew that has got to get out there and make that production happen. big kudos to those guys headed out there today. but, you know, things are all-in-all not looking too bad at the onset here, granted still awaiting the passage after cold front, that's going to take place tonight into tomorrow morning. so meantime still building heat, still building moisture, still finding few showers and storms, at the moment, not necessarily localized, say for that little cell that just popped up over northern berks county, there is pretty heavy thunderstorm currently rumbling it way towards new york city. now, at the moment, you're still standing in the low 70s, upper 60s most supports, notice the winds coming in still out of the south, so the building moisture and building heat is still out there for the just cold front passage, so finds few pop up thunderstorms primarily in the afternoon mix every sunday and clouds otherwise, daytime hits about 90 degrees, again still awaiting the passage of the colds front, going to get much more into detail about how that will impact the region with timing and whatnot, little later in the show, but,

if you are going to take the kids maybe out to the park today, or even to the pool, expect that sun could definitely make the metal slides feel little extra hot to the touch. but the heat index not too bad still, low 90s granted so make sure you're staying hydrated and keeping the kids the same here. but all-in-all, meisha, today, if we have to deal with stormy weather still not a terrible day. >> no, absolutely, and actually right now you are just standing out there, katie , looks real nice, hopefully fingers crossed stays that way and it has so far for the morning commute this friday. good morning, looking outside right now, we do have disable vehicle, 59 southbound off-ramps to bartrum avenue. pulled off to the right. just it is out there, overall though 95 actually looking okay. but 95 southbound, around girard, you know that's getting very busy right now. schuylkill at the boulevard, tail light moving in the eastbound direction, headlights then moving in the westbound direction, you can see what you are working with there, tapping brakes. but actually kind of hit our stride right there, actually holding steady. that's good. now we've been talking about this accident, car went into building earlier this morning,

in quakertown, route 309 west ends boulevard closed between hilltop road and cherry road. your alternate will be old bethlehem pike or northeast extension going to be your best bet. and then we do have some construction here as well water break belmont avenue. take a look at this, this will be because that far water main break, clean up, it will be running through next friday, not over the weekends, just during the week, belmont avenue closed between rock hill and city avenue. 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., so conshohocken state road your best alternate. jim and jan, back over to you. >> thank you, meisha. more on breaking news this morning, car crashes into a pool store in bucks county. killing the driver. that crash then sparked a fire at pool pro, on the 1600 block of northwest ends boulevard in quakertown. that's route 309. fire officials tell us, the pool chemicals inside the store made it difficult for firefighters battle those flames. "eyewitness news" caught up with one person who was right above the store at the time of

the crash. >> woke everyone up in my apartment, i ran outside, see what waist going on. and then i seen the car that was lodged in there, engulfed in flames. >> authorities are still trying to figure out what caused that driver to swerve off the road. >> meanwhile, flames ripped through one of the worlds' tallest residential towers in dubai. more than 40 floors of the 86 story torch tower were burning on one side of the building. that blaze burned for about two hours, sending chunks of fire debris plummeting to the grounds. so far no injuries have been reported. now, this is the seconds major fire to engulf the tower , the building also caught fire back in 2015, there were no injuries in that fire either. >> back here at home, police in yeadon, delaware country investigating after shots are fired during a car chase there authority say the gunfire errupted at cyprus and palmly road around 6:00 last night, driver and passenger being chased were.

who victims managed to driver to the yeadon police station with the front windows shot out. >> we don't know whether it stemmed from road rage or whether it was a personal related, drugs related, still trying to find that out. >> now the victims were taken to the hospital for treatment. the suspected shooter fled the scene and remains at large this morning. if you have any information, call police. now, a day day care center owned by man charged with child sexual assault is shutdown by the pennsylvania department of human services. officials say, they're now working with families of sprout preschool in bella vista to find new care fast ill tis for their children. duncan rounds posted bail, they arrested him from medford lakes, charged with assaulting 25 year old children at the day care center we have an update to a story we told but yesterday, theft of construction tools from habitat for humanity construction site.

tools are used by habitat volunteers there, and someone stole them from a storage trailer in pit grove. well, a couple who asked us not to release their names has now donated $5,000, in the form after home depo gift card , and another monetary gift, memorial hospital of salem county, also donated $4,000. >> nice to see they can continue their good work. well, sources say, special council robert rob earl mueller em panelling grand jury to investigate russian meddling in last year's presidential election. roiders is reporting the panel already issued subpoenas in connection with the june 2016 meeting between donald trump, jr., a russian lawyer, and others. president trump criticized the investigation, at cam campaign style rally in west virginia. >> getting fast-food is getting faster, as more restaurant bypass traditional methods to take and make orders. but, as wendy gillette reports , the new technology could lead to job cuts. >> jonathan alvarez has only

30 minute for lunch. when the mcdonald's near his job added self-order kiosk, he saw them as valuable time savers. >> almost 50% fast. >> mcdonald's says skipping the traditional cashier part of the experience of the future. at some locations, you can order foods for the mcdonald's app and pick it up at the drive-thru. or even get table service. mcdonald's plans will to have key rosing in most of its 14,000 restaurants in the u.s. , by 2020. >> the fast-food giant is not alone. as more and more quick ciarrocchi of restaurant add ordering through kiosk or mobile apps, and bypassing cashiers could be just the beginning. this is flipies, burke err flipping robot, that will be used in select cali burger restaurants next year. the machine uses artificial intelligence, to identify foods, and cook them properly. >> i think that that's an inevitable process. >> martin ford, all the or of rise of the robots, believes more fast-food restaurant will

adopt this type of technology in the future. leading to fewer jobs. >> for me, it is easy to imagine a fast-food store employing 30% fewer employees, maybe even half as many employees. >> the helps customers manage the new kiosk at mcdonald's, and she is not concerned she will lose her job. >> i think there is always going to be a need for someone to be up there, someone to fix something, something is wrong, technology is always going, you know, be not 100%. >> these kiosk are as familiar as atm's. wendy gel it, "eyewitness news ". >> twist on breakfast favorite >> plus new jersey family's fight to keep their daughter on the school basketball team moves from the court to the courtroom. and pat gallen is down the shore. >> i'm in stone harbor. i'm trying to water ski. when we come back, see if i

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>> time for harry potter fans to hop back on the express. >> actors from the london production of harry potter and the cursed child are head today broadway. producers made that announcement yesterday. they say, there will be 28 newark tours, in the two-part play, the new york production will tell the story, 19 years after the ends of jk rawling's final potter novel. >> been one of the best experiences of my life. i can honestly say. that will the three of us, we did it together, and we work very closely together, and but i trust them completely. i never would have let this happen if i hadn't known i was doing it with the right people >> the play opened in london last year, and went onto win nine awards. >> well, this is us just,

scoring knock out guest star, stallone set in the upcoming season will star alongside justin partly, who also plays kevin in the role he will play kevin's co-star in the movie, the character is filming on the show. well, stallone will portray himself and will serve as a father figure for hartley's character. >> and, take a look at this, now, that's the crowd at the popular music festival la la pal ooze, a event forced to wrap up early in chicago around 9:00 last night. severe thunderstorms, ended day one of the four-day music festival, about an hour earlier than expected. over 170 acts are booked for the entire event, 400,000 people are expected, to attends that event, over the weekends. an la la let down there. just little bit. >> they don't seem to be worried, though. >> no. >> not headed to work. >> so katie, what can we look forward to the rest of the day >> today is the day that we have been looking ahead to, as the day where frontal boundery

was finally approach and finally cross through, into the upcoming weekends, that bridges about nice transition, refreshing change of pace for the upcoming weekends. first though, we will check in with what's happening and being reported by eyewitness weather watchers, weaver hands full of reports, motion folks finding current temperatures into the upper 60s, like sandra, out in burlington, where it is 68 degrees at her house, she did mention that she had some really heavy thunderstorms come through, wicked how she described it, hoping for calmer friday, and i think you may get lucky, in a lot of spots where you don't necessarily have to deal with any super heavy thunderstorms, but the best chance for that north and west, which we will get to 69 the temperature right now from andy, actually more sun than anything. >> cell of thunderstorm activity, try to pinpoint on wider zoom in a second, but

got new toy, drone, cool pictures from him, coming in now, as a result. now, let's switch it on back here, take a look at storm scan. yes, i know you have a zero, in the wide zoom, but one little cell, right there. that's the one that we saw in that drone picture, meanwhile, this is a storm system, and the frontal boundery has attached to it, that is what crosses through our area. so we have the rest of the day to wait for. >> this we will still see some showers, some thunderstorms that do pop specially north and west of the citiment so might stay totally dry, stormy at the shore. once it get to us, the sun will have dropped over the horizon. so we may not ends up with a severity of storms like we may see through central pa, through ohio, at least good news, now we do have summer fest activities going on, there will likely be thunderstorm around later tonight, i think the daylight hours are good, stone harbor, perhaps even left over shower tomorrow morning, then the sun breaks out, not just at the shore but everywhere else, the weekends as a whole looks like pretty nice one. not as holt for one thing, not as humid. monday again wet weather.

clear it out for more sun by tuesday, meisha? >> katie, thank you so much for that. and very good morning to all of you, happy friday, looking at 42 right now, couple of times, still looking kind of the same. holding steady here. yes, it is looking little busy travel on toward northbound towards 295. burr overall, like i said, still traveling at posted speeds and holding at the levels. sunshine becoming little bit after issue. but not so much so where you're traveling less than posted speeds here either. schuylkill near king of prussia, both directions, actually looking pretty good for awhile there start today heat up. that was kind of set the tone so far. so far until hopefully in the 7:00 hour, probably heat up little bit. accident here, twp. line road near route 422, so just heads up on that, probably slow down just traveling on by little bit. airport lines heads up on this , you are shuttle bussing because of track work. between 30th street and airport. so just a heads up on this. but, i also want to pull your attention to some fun stuff as well. the ac triathelon, atlantic city triathelon, hang on

saturday, 1500 athletes participating. it will be very busy, take quick peak at these closures, i'll be tweeting this information out for you, as well, jim, back over to you. >> well, cbs-3 summer fest will be in stone harbor, and avalon today. some of us like to spends a summer day relaxing by the water. >> right. then there are those every us ready to dive right in q " eyewitness news" reporter pat gal earn live at islands water parks in stone harbor. good morning, pat. >> reporter: good morning, jim , jan. yes, what do you do when you come to the jersey shore? specifically, avalon, or stone harbor, women, you come to island water sport, you get to play on their amazing acqua park, or go a little bit deeper, like i did, and you can try your hands atwater skiing or fly boarding. this is what happened. need something fun for the

summer? island water sport, stone harbor, has been keeping kids and parent happy for 29 years. >> what were you doing? >> paddle boarding. >> was it fun. >> yes. >> you work out, right? >> yes. >> what's the best part being out there? >> the water. >> just the water self? >> doing those things. >> have you been out here? >> no. >> why not? >> it would take me a week to recover from that thing, trust me. >> in addition to the aqua park, and paddle boarding, two of the more extreme activities are water skiing, and the fly board. we gannon the skis. first time, never done it. give me some tricks. >> awesome. so, basically, we will get you out on the boom first. that will give you the feel for t be sure to keep your knees bent, your arms straight , and your butt back. >> sounds easy, right? not so fast.

>> after several tumbles ... >> doing awesome! ... i found my footing. >> there we go! awesome. keep those arms straight. yes, you're doing great. oh, saved him. >> after strong finish, back to calmer waters, in time for the fly board. he showed me how to get up. >> stands straight with your legs, then rise. if you come up with bent knee you'll get pushed back. >> using water fracture a jet ski, propelled 20 feet above the bay. >> pretty, or not, it was a

blast! >> so thank you, to island water sport for letting me have fun earlier this week. and, fly boarding, i've got to admit, is really cool. now the water skiing took a little bit of time to get used to. i finally did get up. but there are some more wounds , if you will, i mean, take a look. this is what happened, jim, jan, when you are not great atwater skiing. you get nasty bruises all over your legs. so i'm still licking my wounds from that. but, all-in-all, a great time, so if you're down here in avalon, stone harbor, come by island water sport. >> this thing is awesome, as well. a hundred kids out here. some bigger kids, as well. because blast down here, so i'm sure, jim, jan, you guys would love to get out on the water skis? >> i would like the fly board. wonder why you were walking like a little old man yesterday, now we see why. >> now we see. >> telling you. good stuff, pat, thank you. stay with "eyewitness news," we continue to spotlight light the fun at the shore, "

eyewitness news" continues today at 5:00 with lauren wood he will, lauren casey, see what makes avalon and stone harbor such fun places to visit. well, the time now, 6:52. a lot coming up this morning. >> margaret brennan joins us live from new york with a preview. good morning, margaret. >> reporter: good morning, jim , jan. ahead, cbs news investigation. kris van cleave has a new development on the problems for both police ford explorers we've been covering. plus hear from the transgender man who gave birth to a son. how he hopes his family's experience can help others. and 35% of americans living in rural areas still don't have high speed internet we'll advice the one town affected as the government takes stems towards bridging that divide. >> all of that, plus the eye opener, your world, in 90 seconds. we'll see you at 7:00. >> thank you, margaret. >> well, a new jersey family's legal battle to keep their daughter on the school basketball team escalates. >> now the young girl's future is at the school, once again,

in question. thirteen year old sydney phillips was kick out of saint theresa school in union county last year for want to go play on the boys team while her family's successfully sued the school to get her on the team, and the expulsion was reversed now the school has denied applications for both sydney and her sister for the upcoming school year. >> this is retaliation that we filed a lawsuit. you know, they are blaming us for all of the bad publicity, it is not us, it is them. >> catholic school has a particular mission and we're unable to do it because of frankly because of the behavior of the parents. >> now, a judge will decide whether the phillips girls will be allowed back at the school next month. well, on that note, we will be right back with three to go.

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>> here is three to go. >> investigators trying to determine what caused a car to crash into a pool store in bucks county. the driver died and the impact of the crash sent the business on fire. >> special council robert mueller using grand jury as part of the an investigation into potential coordination between the trump campaign and russia during last year's presidential election. >> and superior court judge has halted construction, of the dunes project in margate.

the town says it created pools of standing water outside beachfront homes, and that's three to go. >> let's get last check on weather and traffic. >> looks as though hot and steamy day yet again, expect to see some sunshine out there , also, spotty shower or thunderstorm along the way, too, quickly checking the eyewitness weather seven day, tonight, early morning, and by monday few more thunderstorms rumble through, back to sunshine tuesday, smear. >> all right, katie, thank you so much. we do have disable truck, pulled all the way out to the right there, 95 south near broad street. just heads up on that, overall congestion not looking not too bad. accident from earlier take a quick peak, route 309 still out there. >> thank you shall meisha. we have reason to celebrate this morning, national chocolate chip cookie day. >> a salute to the inventor. so sources tell us, cbs-3, that roof grades wake fields invent the the chocolate chip cook when included the recipe in 1938 cook book. ruth was a dietition and co- owner of massachusetts toll house in.

by the way, a great cookie maker. >> krispy kreme peanut butter donut is here but only for limited time, features reese's peanut butter filling, chocolate icing, drizzle both on top with mini peanut butter cups, mere 400 calories if you care. next on cbs this morning, the challenge of bringing broad bands to rural america. >> and don't forget, we're in avalon and stone harbor for summer fest all day today. see more of the fun starting on "eyewitness news" at 5:00. we leave you now with some fun out takes of, who else, pat gallen, trying to learn how to water ski and fly board. >> have wonderful day everyone and a wonderful weekend. >> ♪ wipe out ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪

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