off the beach and into the courts, happening today, the battle over margate's dune project head to federal court, we're live with the big decision a judge is expected to make this morning. also breaking news overnight it is called a deliberate attack on soldiers overseas. six service members were run down in the suburb of paris and we will tell you what the marries now saying. eyes of the world have turned once again to north korea as kim jong unthreatens u.s. territory of qu a.m. but as president trump who fired a first shot in the war of word

with the nation. we have brand new images of u.s. war planes over korea this morning. it is wednesday august 9th , good morning i'm jan carabao, jim donovan is off. >> i'm rahel solomon. lots of news overseas and at home. here's a look at weather and traffic in our region. >> we have a lot going on. in the world of travel things are looking g we have construction and overnight closures that will impact you this morning. >> no weather related issues but sun glare will be an issue at 6:00 a.m. hour. it is a problem you don't mind that much because it is promising to be a absolutely gorgeous not only sunrise but beautiful day in general. looking at storm scan, say for that little, batch of cloud rolling away you wouldn't know there was a loop going here because it is just that clear outside. that is a thermometer drop off more readily as well but dew points have done the same in short it does not feel as humid as it has in recent days yesterday not too bad certainly but we are warming up with that low humidity

today. we have got everything working for us, a really nice pattern as high pressure puts itself overhead with light wind to go witt. it looks, all good, you have got, smooth sailing as far as i'm concerned when it comes to travel say for that sun glare. our temperatures, yeah, they are on the cool side, sweat shirt weather in allentown. how about wool sweat inner mount pocono. forty-seven there, long the shore points couple cooler spots but all and all really nice day coming up here. here we go lets check off those boxes with the low humidity, light wind, sunshine make an excuse today, it last like a good day to take a nice long 10-mile run. >> i will be working out, pull my bench press out there, right on the sidewalk. >> yes, we will see you doing that. >> good morning, everybody. happy wednesday to you. so we are looking at construction here. we are looking at 422 westbound between route 23 and trooper that right lane it is, compromised right now and we are starting to get slow around, this area, traveling

by workers there you will be putting on your brakes, taking a peak. i would encourage to you keep going because this is an area that will get busy. we are looking at i-95 south, heating up, and 42 freeway approaching 295 is looking great, jan and rahel, back over to you. battle to resume that controversial dune project in margate, is now moving from the beach to the courtroom today. >> "eyewitness news" reporter trang do is live in margate with more on is what at stake, trang do, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, rahel and jan. atlantic county judge issued that restraining order to stop work here, to this dune project that you see here, this massive, mess, margate officials say it is not only a eye sore but health hazard that is temporarily closed many of the beaches here. for people live in margate summer 2017 has been marred by the formation of the body of water they never asked for. >> health has air,

inconvenience, definitely not ideal. >> reporter: dubbed as lake christie the massive pools of water formed as a result of the governor's controversial dune construction project have blocked off beach access in parts, and has been breeding grounds for harmful bacteria. >> our fear is that this is the new normal for mar gate. we're being asked to essentially live with this. >> reporter: governor christie ordered dunes be built following hurricane sandy but city officials who have opposed project from day one says construction has been hit by drainage issues after heavy period of rain. >> one-third of our beach is now unusable because of this colossal screw up. >> reporter: in the hearing thursday attorneys for the state via teleconference admitted that the current situation is less than ideal in receipt tremendous expect digging out behind the dune as much as they did, was not a good idea. >> reporter: superior court judge menendez ruled in

margate's favor putting a week licensing work stoppage in place a move cheered by the mayor. >> it makes me very happy. we just can't allow this to continue, you're doing wrong and to continue to do wrong. >> reporter: but battle is far from over. the judge ordered state department of environmental protection, army core of engineers, their contractor and margate officials to hold daily meeting toss come up with a drainage solution. parties met monday and tuesday and will spar again in federal court wednesday morning. taking another live look at what residents here are facing , this is beach front property here this hearing is considering lifting the restraining order scheduled for 10:00 a.m. later this morning n federal court in camden it is opened to the public and we expect many margate residents to be there we are live, in margate i'm trang do, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". back to you. >> thank you. water main break in south philadelphia could make for some tricky travel this morning. a break has three outer southbound lanes of south

broad street closed between 32 and 3300 blocks. the 1200 main ruptured near broad and geary streets leaving a gain hole in the road. officials are working to restore what the tore three nearby businesses. new this morning philadelphia police are investigating shooting death of the 22-year old man late last night in strawberry mansion. police tell us man was shot three times in the stomach, near york and garnett streets right around 11:30. the victim was driven in the private vehicle to temple university hospital where he underwent surgery, but later died. >> we believe the victim was standing on the curve when the shooter fired three shots, striking the victim all three times, from witnesses, the victim then ran south on garnett street. >> police say they are reviewing surveillance cameras , from the area and looking for a suspect wearing a white t-shirt and camouflage shorts or pants, if you have any information, you are asked to call the police. more gun violence this

time a shooting on the streets of the wilmington. detectives are working the case right now, we counted 10 shell casing at intersection of the north pine ande sixth street where shooting happened around 2:30. so far police have made no arrest. philadelphia man accused of sexually assaulting and killing his one year-old stepson is expect to make a appearance in court today. salem salem is facing murder assault and rape charges in the death of the baby. they found child unresponse with bruces and abrasions in the home in the 1700 block of south can stowing a street. baby was pronounced dead at children's hospital. salem has been held without bail in the philadelphia county jail. residents of qu hans am find themselves in the dangerous war of word between president trump and north korea. the president issued a threat of fire and fury yesterday and north korea responded to threaten force begins the island which is a u.s. territory. here's cbs news, correspondent

hanna dova. >> reporter: u.s. air force planes conduct bilateral missions over korean peninsula with japan and south korea b1 bombers took off from guam where the governor addressed residents of the u.s. territory after north korea said it is examining operation al plans for attacking the island. >> i have reached out to the white house this morning. an attack or threat on guam is a threat or an attack on the united states. they have said that america will be defended. >> reporter: north korea's threat are part of the dangerous ramping up of rhetoric between north korea and u.s., tuesday president trump issued his most stern warning yet. >> north korea best not make anymore threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. >> in response was mixed, to the president's choice of word

>> the great leaders that i have seen, they don't threaten unless they are ready to act and i'm not sure that president trump is ready to act. >> he was sending a clear signal to north cover rea language they can understand. >> reporter: u.n. leveed we have joost sanctions yet over north korea, in response to two recent launch tests which showed the regime has missiles capable of reaching the u.s. a new assessment by u.s. intelligence believes north korea has produced a nuclear war head that can fit inside of those missiles. hanna dova for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". our coverage of the rising tensions with north korea continues all morning long, coming up on cbs this morning david martin's at the pentagon with the latest developments plus senator lindsey graham will weigh in at 7:00 right here after "eyewitness news" on cbs-3. breaking news this morning , authorities say that

a driver in the dark bmw deliberately ran his car in the group of solders in paris. paris's mayor calling this attack without a doubt deliberate, police are searching for the driver and vehicle, six soldiers were injured in this attack, there is no word yet on their conditions and this comes just four days after a teenager tried to attack the security forces guarding the eiffel tower. back here at home a chester county man is charge with murder after he admits to shooting and killing his neck door neighbor. fifty-one year-old clayton cart's allegedly shot g brooks jennings once in the head and then stood over his body and shot him again this was during an argument around 1:00 a.m. tuesday morning on box elder drive. carter had a long standing dispute with the victim and other neighbors. carter claims jennings threatened him with the knife. he remains in the chester county prison. a mother faces charge's accused of abandoning her son in the wood near joint base maguire, and 39 year-old

deborah wisler is charge when endangering the welfare of the child. wisler abandoned her 10 year-old son with special need with nothing but luggage passerby spotted the by. our cleve bryan came face-to-face with wisler. did you leave your son in the wood no. >> did you leave your son in the wood no. you have been charged with that? why would police charge you that. >> can you please leave. >> she's clearly denying it. child is in a temporary home and recovering from some minor injuries. he is already facing theft , forgery and fraud charges and now police say funeral home owner stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from clients in bucks county. investigators first led to funeral director david faust, the owner of faust funeral home in humeville in, april, and he was charged with forge ry, social security fraud , this time he is accused of taking $300,000 in prepaid funeral expenses. police say that money belonged to 54 clients. >> as a result of the complaint we filed in april we

were contacted by numerous individual who were concerned about the status of their prepaid burial contract. >> now, pennsylvania law requires that funeral homes set up escrow accounts for client who want to prepay for a funeral, that money can only be used with the death certificate. investigators say that money paid to faust never made tonight to those accounts. coming up next on cbs-3 "eyewitness news", how to keep your pets eye safe during the historic solar eclipse. cameras captured moment deadly earthquake strikes chine, we have got latest numbers on the injured, plus this. ♪ >> remember, the rine stone cowboy, we will take a look back at the music and legacy of singer glenn campbell who passed away yesterday, this song, went to number one for campbell, we will be right back.

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southwestern china officials say almost 200 people are injured or missing. rescue efforts are difficult because the earthquake has compromised communications in the area. we are days away from the solars eclipse. >> protective eye wear but some folks are wondering to prepare their pets. rare total solar eclipse is causing some concern among pet owners so should dog owners want to watch the eclipse with their k-9 companion get them protective eye wear too? dog owners weighed in on the dilemma. >> you know just enjoy witt me probably will just blindfold them. >> they will have some eye protection, they would suffer the same eye damage as a human would. >> so, despite concern that their four legged friend suffer possible eye damage doctors say there are no real specific precaution that is pet owners need to take to protect their friend from the eclipse. we are gearing up for and counting down to this historic event in the coming days we will prepare you for this rare , exciting experience. >> yes, every day, every

newscast, "eyewitness news" will have you covered with the eclipse information that you need, so stay with cbs-3 and cbs philly.com, it is eclipse fest, that is a real thing, starting monday august 14th and only here on cbs-3. >> katie, are you geeking out over this. >> come on, i love that we're making it a fest, it is fantastic, it only comes around once every handful of decade typically. it is a big deal. it will be my first total eclipse. very, very cool stuff. but we do certainly have beautiful weather today as we bring it back to the current conditions, and by the way, i was just looking ahead very long range model and even though it is about 306 hours out right now, we do have at the moment quiet weather predict. we will talk about that coming up but at the moment anyway, storm scan is quiet, we have high pressure in control, keeping control throughout the entire day. as we get loop underway here

give it a second, computer still thinking, here we are in the middle of high pressure. beautiful day, light wind low humidity, all those boxes check for a beautiful day. lets turn our focus to the tropics because franklin is still churning out there at this point moving over the gulf of mexico. is there an hint or indication that may develop more strength before it strikes for second time, the mexican coastline here. so there is a lookly who this will be a cat one hurricane before making that land fall thursday and then would it run in the mountains, lose its steam, and bring torrential downpours to this area. that end up being legacy this storm will leave behind for rest of mexico. looking forward in our forecast, here stateside and locally more specifically it looks great for today, tomorrow make excuse to get outside, friday i don't think we're talking spotty thunder shower at worse, keep your outdoor plans if you have them saturday a few scattered showers or storms return and

cannot rule out shower or storm on sunday. by this point we will look at machine is there a chance we will see steady rain. so now is the time to enjoy. >> yes, indeed now is the time , i promise, i will, thank you so much, good morning to all of you, happy wednesday. looking outside schuylkill at montgomery drive taillights moving in the eastbound direction looking good. both directions i will say are heating up a bit but we can expect that at this time in the morning. construction is still out there we have crews outs here, construction on 422 westbound between route 23 and troop their right lane compromised and earlier this morning we were starting to see backups in and around this area but right new it looks good, head up, that they are out there still, around that area, and as soon as they clear we will let you know. vine street closed between schuylkill and broad. as you push in the westbound direction toward schuylkill or eastbound side see what you are working with here, would i say this is pretty standard stuff on a wednesday morning, it will get busy so we are building levels up now that

the vine street expressway is open. construction as well boulevard southbound between ryan avenue and harbison avenue looking a lot of green around there but we are going to start to see this slow down right here from yellow start to show up here, in a little bit. rahel and january, back to you now for a look at newspaper headlines across the region. >> delaware county daily times reports a chester mother of four was sentenced to five to 10 years after negotiating a guilty plea to seven counts of straw gun purchases. perez was charged under the brad fox law. pottstown mercury reports montgomery county has its first case of the west nile virus. state health officials made the announcement yesterday, without offering anymore details on the patient. health official does recommend that residents minimize their exposure to mosquitoes. in the burlington county times students at willingboro stem scam seven were using this week to learn about

medicine. doctor ashley macintosh graduated from willing before he high school where she was sharing her knowledge with students. they even got to examine a three week old puppy, who doesn't like that. >> that is a newspaper headlines from around the delaware valley. coming up, james corden's car pool karaoke is back. >> he had a very special philadelphia guest last night. >> ♪ >> see more of will smith the late, late show coming up. we will be right back.

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innings with three strike outs , and contributed with the bat, drove in a run that put phillies up to stay and the phillies beat the braves, five -two. switching to football, eagles are gearing up for their first preseason game tomorrow night, for many that means a trip to a historic stadium. >> here's don bell with morning sports. >> good news eagles will get to hit another shade of green, bad news they will not test themselves against one of the best in the business. aaron rodgers is signature tom 's preseason game in green bay. eagles defense will face a packers team without the former mvp. but bird have new faces on the team and here's what linebacker jordan hicks wants to see. >> i want to see everybody make their tackles and a lot of energy. there will be mistakes in every single game especially this first one but definitely want to eliminate that and go into it, feeling crisp, get the jitters out, knock that rust off game rust off and go

out there and compete. >> now trip to green bay means match up at historic lambeau field. tundra will not be frozen, of course but mystique remains. carson wentz will start with the bird and play on the same home field as his, boyhood idol, brett favre. >> i'm excited for it. i grew up a favre fan, followed vikings, a lot. never been to lambeau. it will be a cool atmosphere, you know, for some of these rookies, we're talking saying your first ever game at lambeau field is pretty cool. i'm exited to go check it out as well. >> that is all for sports, i'm don bell, have a great day. coming up next on "eyewitness news", two giant jackpots that just keep on growing, we have got last night's mega millions numbers plus we will tell you where a lucky power ball ticket is worth one million-dollar. >> i'll take it. we are following latest on the escalating tension was north korea hear from a local retired colonel who spent time on the north korea south

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good morning i'm rahel solomon. i'm jan carabao in for jim donovan. katie and meisha will be here in a moment but first here's a what you need to necessity to start your day in the morning minute today, wednesday august . >> an attack or threat on guam is a threat or an attack on the united states. >> tensions rise as north korea threatens a missle strike on the pacific island after president trump said this. >> north korea best not make anymore threats, they will be met with fire, fury. >> breaking overnight, vehicles slammed into a group of soldiers guarding a suburb, eyewitnesses say it was a deliberate act. a powerful earthquake rocks southwest china. 6.5 magnitude quake struck a popular tourist area killing several people. ♪ rine stone cowboy >> music world mourning loss of the glenn campbell country