>> good afternoon, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel sullivan. looks like the police have a murder mystery on their hands. greg, police are hoping they can gather more clues, good afternoon. >> that's right, rahel, jim. this double homicide really baffeling neighbors and police here in south philadelphia.

now this all started around 1:45 last night, here, 1300 block every federal street just off broad. when the relative of one of the two victims first floor apartment, that you are looking at right now, called 191, inside that home, police found a man and his girlfriends dead inside. now investigators not yet released the names of the victim, but spoke with family members identified the couple at 50 year old can license did o gonzalez and his girlfriends who the family identifies as kate. family members saigon valez's mother lives on upper floor of the same apartment building, and around 11:45 p.m. last night she bent downstairs to check on her son. that's when she found him and his girlfriends beaten in their apartment. philadelphia police rushing to the scene and investigators say the apartment a periods to be ransacked, however, there was no obvious sign of entry. police say both gonzalez analyst girlfriends found with breezes to their faces and laying in pools of their own blood in different sections. the victim's conditions inch

has no clue why gonzalez and his girlfriends kate may have been targeted. >> he was a great person, i mean, he was so full of life. if he could give you his socks off his feet he would. i mean, he just had this energy that was unbelievable. he is a single father raising his son, unfortunately, couple of years ago, back, he lost his brother right here on these same steps, on those same steps. >> now you are looking right now at picture of gonzalez and his girlfriends, kate, that was confirm by family members here at the scene, but once again this afternoon rahel, jim, many more questions and answers here in south philadelphia, as homicide detectives work to figure out exactly what happened here around 11:45 p.m. last night. we will continue to follow this developing story, and of course provide you the latest later on at cbs-3 "eyewitness news," live in south philadelphia, rahel, jim, back to you. >> greg, you said it a lot of work for investigators, thank you. also this noon, learning more about the man accused of plowing his car through counter protesters, and white

nasa rally in virginia, ohio man facing murder charges in his first court appearance this morning. correspondent brook silva bragga in charlottesville with a look look at his backgrounds >> fields a periods by video in charlottesville courtroom, accused of ramming his car into counter demonstrate he is at white supremicist rally saturday. thirty-two year old heather he yeer was killed and 30 orders injured. >> just after the hearing, one of the white nationalists who still is in town came in front of the courtroom, caused bit of with the media, now being escorted away by police. this is the moment for folks across the country, to look at what's happening in charlottesville. something that could happen in your community. >> fields seen here just before the incident was attending the unite the rite rally, protest against plans to remove confederate statue.

derrick world meeting of families err was fields' high school history teacher, he said his racist views were well known. >> sympathy towards nazi, hitler, that he had belief in white supremacy. it would start to creep out. >> at memorial, people from charlottesville came to pay their respects. >> this is about somebody who hate add different group of people so much that they just try to slaughter them. >> they say this kind of hatred has no place in their hometown. brook silva bragga for cbs-3 " eyewitness news." and philadelphia's among the city's taking stands against racism. an estimated 2,000 people passed thomas payne plaza last night, see there, candles to shed light on peace, equality, co-existence. the group say they stands in solidarity with counter protest eggers opposing white nationalists. >> president trump facing criticism after failing to explicitly condemn white supremecist hate groups in his

response to the deadly protest this charlottesville. the president said many sides are to blame for the violence. over the weekends the white house issued this statement saying of course that includes white supremecist, kkk, neo-nazi, and all extremist groups. today attorney general jeff sessions defended the president on cbs this morning. i'm sure he'll speak about it again. but his own spokesman said that. i just think we are making him too much out of this. >> some of the loudest critics come from within the president 's own party. several gop lawmakers calling for the president to make a stronger statement. in other news, there are new developments in the escalating tensions between the united states and north korea. marine corps general joseph dunford top us military official told his counterparts in a visit to south korea today that if provoked, our military is ready to defends itself and its allies from north korea the general said the us seeks peaceful rest lakes, the general will later travel to japan and china for

more talks. back in our area, federal judge has given the army corpse of engineers the okay to resume june work on margate 's beaches. the army will have to meet several conditions, they're required to fence off the basins, dunes, bulkheads, must also add sands to the area to elevate them. also have to provide elevated walkways and pump out excess water that collects in those areas. also set up a procedure to test the storm water. >> closing arguments are expected today in the trial of a radio station dj, accused of groping pop star taylor swift. dj david mueller said he was fired from his job after swift made those allegations to his radio station. he sued swift, her mother and swift staff member claiming they tried to ruin his career ment last week the judge dismissed the case against taylor swift, but the case against swift's mother and the staff member can proceed. jury has not yet decided on the groping case. >> well, bensalem police are asking for the public's help identifying a theft suspect caught stealing from a hope

depo. seen last thursday afternoon, the store on bristol pike. he had hard time getting two drills that he tied to a rope over a fence in the garden center. the suspect re-entered the store and then tossed cents the drills over 40-foot tall fence. he then later falls from the same fence, while getting away if you recognize this man, call 911. >> huge powerball jackpot is still out there just waiting to be won. nobody won the powerball jackpot during saturday night 's drawing. four winners did match five numbers for a $1 million prize the grand prize is now up to, you know, just a mere $430 million. the next powerball drawing is wednesday. >> we have to put our monday any for the offers pool. >> you got to get on this. excitement building over the solar eclipse, now just one week away. >> coming up on cs -- cbs-3 " eyewitness news," one of the place toss see the phenomenon in our area, see how they're gearing up for an event that's out of this world, katie? >> indeed it will be. already, looking ahead to upcoming weekends, but we are also in the meantime going to

be looking ahead to some 90s building heat, as well as even little unsettled weather. so quiet for now, does not stay that way, i'll walk you through the full

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>> welcome back everyone, eclipsefest has arrived here at cbs-3. we're just one week away from this once in a blew moon event we will only get to see

partial eclipse here in the philadelphia area. pretty cool event to experience. meteorologist, matt peterson, traveled to one viewing spot in the area gearing up for the stellar occasion. >> the first total solar eclipse since 1979 is just days away. while many people will travel to other parts of the country to see the moon totally block out the sun, we still get pretty good view here in the area. one of the best place toss see is close by, in delaware. the observe tore any greenville, new castle countly have its telescopes ready for the historic event. first solar eclipse to be totally contained in the continental us in almost 100 years, on august 219 moon will pass between the earth and the sun on a track from oregon to south carolina. >> we're orbiting around the sun, the moon orbiting around the earth. but the moon's orbit estimated little bit to respect to where the sun; so every once in a while the moon actually passes >> here in our area, only about 80% of the sun will be covered. but those who see total eclipse will get to view a

phenomenon known as the corona >> when the moon is blocking the surface of the sun, then you can see all that thin gas surrounding the sun. >> telescopes at the observatory need to be protected just like our eyes do. so they'll be fitted with a special solar filter, just for the big event. if you missed this eclipse, you'll have to wait until 2024 for the next one, but at some point in time, solar eclipses will fade into history. >> about 500 million years, there aren't going to be any total eclipses any more. >> that's because the moon is slowly retreating from the earth and eventually will not be able to block out the sun. but that's not going to happen for a long, long time. if you would like to see the eclipse at the mount cube observatory make sure to call them to make reservation since space will be limited, for cbs-3 "eyewitness news," i'm meteorologist, matt peterson. >> space will be limited. did you like the wording? >> well, amazon is taking action against potentially counterfeit solar eclipse glasses, the company announced that it is issuing refunds to some customers, who purchase glasses on the site that may not comply with industry

standards. well, later today on " eyewitness news" at 5:00 medical reporter stephanie stahl will tell us which glasses we're supposed to wear, what can happen to our eyes if we don't have the correct protection. >> and also today, the franklin institute's chief astronomer, derrick pits, will take your clips questions live , happening today, 12:30 p.m., on the cbs philly facebook page. just log on, in just a few minutes, little more than, ask him anything you want to know about the eclipse. >> and, stay with cbs-3 for all of you're clips coverage every day, every nice cast, we have you covered with all of the eclipse information you need to know. just keep it tuned to cbs-3 and cbsphilly.com because it is eclipse fest, only on cbs-3 well, one of the world's most recognizeable landmarks fell silent. >> that's coming up next on " eyewitness news" at noon, meisha? >> well, serious illness can make a family feel very alone in their struggles consideration bring what's important to the surface, as well n today's love it, meeting family that's changing the way they look at time and how they use it, that's coming up. katie?

>> meisha, as we get prepped for another week of work, well , we've already got our sides on the weekends, at the moment it does appear as though it will be quite typical for mid-august here with some sun, some clouds, warmth, humidity, just like you would expect in these odd days of the summertime. but, we do have some unsettled weather to tell you about. so we will talk about that in your full forecast coming up

>> iconic landmark out of service for the next four years while renovations are carried out. >> big ben fell sigh atlantic for maintenance in 2007. it will continue to climb for important international events >> were you just in london. >> i was. cheerio.

>> oh, i was there few months ago, too. just like -- >> well, good thing you got there when did you. >> i'm telling you. you know, you got to get to places. >> you got to live your life, katie. >> that long for the maintenance, but back here at home, for those traveling overseas, at least today the weather should be real nice. >> looks real good. we've had some clouds billowing in here, all-in-all really is a very, very comfortable beginning to the afternoon for the area, i don't think that we have to worry about much in the way of wet weather. although later tonight, couple of spotty showers are likely to roll on through. but for now, yes, clouds moving in aren't necessarily indicative of something yet to come the rest of the day, just sun yelding to clouds. some of are you actually still seeing more sun than anything, which we will show now camera in a second. start it off just by taking you out to wider zoom on storm scan3, more of region wide zoom, where it looks right now like there is heavy batch of steady showers working its way towards us, notice if you look closely, see how just north of the w, in washington, over washington dc you see how things sort of just get stuck there. much of this is going to

fizzle as it tries to head our way. so again later on and specially tonight you may see a shower, but i'm not concerned p that for the rest of the day. in the meantime, off to the south, and specifically out in the open waters of the atlantic, here is gert still churning away as a tropical storm system. so we will take a look at the system, it is coming awfully close now to atlantic coastline, right? good news, looks like it will be kept taught sea, out to sea , put you on this tap here and show you how things are expected to pan out. granted might continue northerly path like trying to clip the carolinas, but expected to make the right-hand turn, briefly, become category one hurricane likely tomorrow, night, as it makes pretty much the closest trek to the atlantic coke line in our area, but then just keep ongoing. even completely bypass atlantic canada. good news for the entire north american coastline, on the eastern side, is that we won't have to deal with this in any direct way. now the pollen levels have started to be aggravating,

ragweed, especially, has really spiked, in recent days, so, in the next couple of days , we don't have any real significant rain coming along, to wash this out of here. if you're an allergy sufferer, jim donovan, you may want to pay attention to this. have your allergy medication ready if you suffer from bad allergies specially ragweed but also grasses and net also in this batch of the most predominant pollen. rest of the afternoon, yes, see the clouds building but actually feels pretty darn comfortable all-in-all if you are going to take the kids out to the park or do anything else the rest of the day. our high hits about 84 degrees in philadelphia, down the shore, look for some sunshine, on the stands we can expect the high to hit around 80 degrees, light winds, not bad, uv index even despite some clouds is still high. remember the uv rear ' can penetrate through the cloud deck, then low risk for rip current, tempted to take a dip at the moment looks cloudy outside beach patrol headquarters in margate, before we went on the airy saw some sun trying to peak through, intermittent, but

with that said here is a look at the current temperatures, comfortably mild, as a hole, upper 60s in the mountains, and we're into the upper seven 's for the most part along i i-95, at the airport currently 80 degrees. take a look moving forward, in this eyewitness weather seven day forecast, here goes, couple of hot days coming up here, we hit zero apiece both wednesday, friday, at the moment it looks like any showers or storms zero would probably be scat nerd nature, that's tuesday, thursday, friday. but those at the moment look to be the unsettled days of our outlook, bottom line here is this is just going to get hot. but it is august. nothing too atypical. >> exactly. young boy's heroic actions in the face of adversity. >> meisha has his inspirational story in today's love it. >> you guys, california teen, trying to make the most of whatever time he has left. he has malignant brain tumor and based on what doctors say he shouldn't be alive. but his spirit is thriving. take a look. >> ronnie was a normal active kid when he developed a rare and aggressive brain tumor.

he was given radiation, but doctors said it was no use. >> essentially they said he has no time. this is it. and there is no treatment. there is no surgery. there is no radiation. there is nothing we can do. >> but ronnie recovered enough to walk and go to school again and began to focus on his bucket list items, like attending the nba finals, and even getting a letter from president obama. but then his condition declined rapidly again. and he lost his speech and the use of his hands and feet. again, doctors said it was over. ronnie was offered a risky treatment that had not yet been a purchased in the united state. but it was the only hope the family had. saying he didn't qualify for any other kind of treatment. and while treatments continue, and progress is slow, the family says they're now turning their focus to something better. the quality of life over quantity. one of ronnie's favorite pasttimes, watching the simpsons. yep, nothing like a little comedy show, and a little laughter when you have a heavy heart. the family says when you've

been given only short time left to live, it is all about living each day to its absolute full else. soaking up the little things that make you so happy. and while the safety and efficacy of ronnie's treatment still has not been proven to work, it is offering something the fda doesn't test for, hope i love that. if you have any other story ideas you can always sends them my ways, guys, back to you. >> meisha, thank you. and up next, celebrating a milestone. >> watch as this baby panda gets a checkup to

>> breaking news into our news room. chopper three is live over a crash involving a septa bus in philadelphia's east mt. airy neighborhood. authorities say the bus and a car collided around 11:30 on stenton and east goring he is lane, 23 people on the bus, one in the car went to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. meanwhile coming up later today on "eyewitness news" at 5:00 alcohol and it effect on your health. the age old question, how much can you drink or should you drink? and now, we have an answer from heart doctors who studied hundreds every thousands of people, and that answer may surprise you. tune in today at 5:00. >> then on "eyewitness news" at 6:00 cold problem south jersey homeowners say they're dealing, with the reason these tall tours are rubbing residents the wrong way, and the response from the company behind them. that's tonight at 6:00. panda handlers in japan say they'll be naming their new he star after gathering some suggestions from the public. >> wait until you see her. the baby just turned zero six days old. told she in good condition,

tipping the pails 6.6 pounds, 6.6 inches, baby daughter of tokyo zoo's resident giant panda, shin shin. >> oh, reminder we're now just about four minutes away from our eclipsefest, facebook live event. franklin institute chief astronomer derrick pits will take your questions live on our cbs philly facebook page. log in at 1230, ask him anything you want about the phenomenon. >> that's "eyewitness news" at noon for today, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. thanks for watching. >> "eyewitness news" continues at 5:00. of course you can just it us on line at cbsphilly.com. >> the young and the restless is next. have a great day, everyone. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪

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