>> live from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia. this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news " this morning. >> new this morning, an aparle itmen fluding a firefighr to the hospital. we'll tell you peo he are out of their homes right uns president trump as he returns home to new york, thetherotestee commanders in chief. >> grab the umbrella before at center city from our central parkway live camera. we'll tell you how much rain you can expect on your way to work. >> and today is tuesday, august 15, good morning, i'm jim donovan. iall of that plus big changes for test for students in forecae and the roads with meisha. >> good morning, jim, how are you feeling. >> feeling little better.

little, you know. >> looking outside right now,sto my fink remembers crossed for dry roadways. about a deluge today, in any broad in t last couple of hours there have been some rounds every showers moving through, frankly well. so couple every hours to dodge at the moment, northern new castle county part of of montgoo not much, but what is out there, is going to roadways, for sure. so we have to deal with this throughout the think, real coy n at any time. but, scattered, much like what you're finding nature. so, there may even be locally drenching downpour do, have moisture to work with, looking at the wider zoom, more in the pipeline if you will here off to the south and west back through maryland and crossing into the virginia area. so, with time, we will see some of this migrate our way, as well, and if that doesn't mean an unsettled day. currently dew point are relatively high. you will notice that it feels

a little muggy specially across south jersey and good portion sean of delaware, 73 the current value at the airport, 72 atlantic city, low six's up in mount pocono, we do have hurricane to talk b we'll get to much more on that a little later in the show, meisha. >> all right, sounds good, thanks so much, katie. right now, yes, a lot of construction, also looking at this disable tractor-trailer maybe just moving out of the way now, vine westbound ramp from 22nd street to the vine. by the way the vine is closed, overnight construction between the schuylkill and broad. just heads up on that, hopefully moving out of the way. quick peak at the vine looking very quiet. also, looking at the overnight resurfaced project on the schuylkill. just affecting eastbound side between gulph mills and the conshohocken curve. you can see kind of the cones in the roadway right here. you can also see the levels around the area, as well, they're kind of, i would say, little busier than what we typically see at 4:30 in the morning, heads up on. that will also construction 95 north between route one, 332, right lane compromised that's in bucks county. jim, over to you.

>> new this morning, apartment fire sends three people to the hospital in northeast philadelphia. >> "eyewitness news" reporter trang do, live at the scene with an update now from fire officials, trang, good morning , what are they saying? >> reporter: well, good morning, rahel, jim. those injured people include two people who live in the building as well as one firefighter. an officer here on scene tells us one of those injured is a woman who had to be revived by cpr. but take a look here, still very active scene. at this apartment complex, right by the northeast airport , it took crews almost an hour to get this fire under control. dozens of people were inside these apartments when the fire broke out but fortunately we're told the alarm system in the building was working, but take a look at the scene just few hours ago there is fire started just before 12:30 a.m. inside the canterbury court amounts on the 9900 block of academy road. firefighters arrived finding heavy fire coming from second story apartment. paramedics transported two people, one person inside the apartment and another person in an apartment next-door to

area hospitals. medics also transported a firefighter to the hospital with a minor injury. in all, 50 people are displaced this morning. >> one building affected, one apartment actually has the fire in it, but, how much, we do have smoke damage throughout the building and water damage, that's why we have such a high number. >> and taking a look here at the septa bus, where fire officials had kept many of the displaced resident, while the offers of emergency management and the red cross are looking for shelter for so many people right now, the cause of this fire still under investigation but, for now, live in northeast philadelphia, trang do, cbs-3, "eyewitness news," rahel, jim, back to you. >> trang, thank you. >> happening today. preliminary hearing for a day care center owner accused of sexually assaulting two children. police say duncan round of medford lakes, new jersey, is accused of assaulting 25 year old children, boy and girl, at sprouts day care center in south philadelphia. pennsylvania department of

human services has since shutdown that center. >> and camden county, five people arrested, when a car plows into them, in clementon. chopper three over the scene around 9:00 last night, the 3300 block every east atlantic avenue. police say all five victims including at least three minors are expected to be okay the driver stayed on scene, after that crash. >> bucks county community will come together tonight to holds another vigil for the violence , the victims of the violence in charlottesville, virganskaya. >> "eyewitness news" at state and center streets in newtown last night, at least 100 people joined in the gathering to denounce racism. organizers say they wanted their rally for peace to make an impression on those passing by. >> there is not a lot of diversity here. but it makes me feel real good about where i'm living at now. i'm so glad to see this. >> the group then marched to the newtown friends meeting house where they discussed ways to keep peace in their community. tonight's vigil is at clock 30 in the garden of reflection in

newtown. for the first time since his inauguration, president trump will be waking up at new york city's trump tower. last night thousands of protesters and dozens of supporters were outside the manhattan skyscraper, the president's motorcade bypassed the demonstrators, now the message seems to vary, some calling for impeach. , others denouncing white supremacy, many say they'd been out there all day. >> and coming here today, so we are going to send him message ... that this is what america looks like. >> some of the protesters were critical of the president's delay in calling out white supremecist and neo-nazis after the charlottesville attack. did he finally denounce the attackers yesterday. >> now prompted 3ceo's to quit his manufacturing council. he said he resigned to call

attention to the serious harm our divided political climate is cause to go critical issues under founder and ceo kevin planning condemned in a tweet, saying, there is no place for racism or discrimination in this world. and ken frazier from merck here sitting next to the president was the first to quit. philadelphia native criticized the president's initial failure to condemn specific hate groups. >> now, afl-cio president richard trump has says essay zest g the union's role on the panel. >> philadelphia police, looking into a man who tied up a woman in her own home in queen village. the man broke into the home around two p.m. and tied up the 84 year old woman using belts. he got away after stealing some cash. the woman eventually managed to free herself. >> he had her tied up in the basement. she untied herself and went up and yelled fire. the woman is a genius.

i've always admired her. >> police describe the suspect as a thin, white male, wearing black pants. if you have any information, please call philadelphia police. police say a foul odor led them to house in west philadelphia. inside they found an elaborate man war a growing operation, spanning all four floors of the home. officers removed more than 100 plants from the home on the 4800 block of cedar avenue. this was around 3:00 yesterday afternoon. fire, police, narcotics, and hazmat officials were all on that scene. neighbors arriving home to police activity on their typically quiet street are shocked. >> been here since 2001, the neighborhood is a real nice neighborhood. a lot of doctors and lawyers, nurses, i'm actually a nurse, yes, now this is really a quiet neighborhood. quaint, people know each other >> now, police tell us they have a lead on who owns the property. but they say the owner may have nothing to do with the pot growing operation.

>> police searching for the man caught on camera defacing north philadelphia synogogue. police say the man-made on scene hand gesture at the doors of congregation bet solomon on tomlinson road early sunday morning, them apparently urinated on the synogogue the the man did get away in a white four door sedan. if you have any information, philadelphia police want to hear from you. >> the atlantic city police department is searching for a man who they say stole an officer's cell phone while chasing a drug suspect. police tell us the officer was shoved to the grounds during that pursuit. that's when she lost her phone they say the man you see here pick it up, and never returned it. if you recognize this man, you are asked to call atlantic city police. >> well it, has been rocky few years for atlantic city casinos, but the casinos that manage to remain open are posting gains. saw 3.9% increase over last year, including revenues from internet gambling. those numbers are without the trump taj mahal, which closed last october. the biggest increase was posted by resorts, which was

up 14.4%, overall, the casinos have made more than a billion dollars so far this year. some folks in south jersey aren't happy about new utility polls popping up in their backyards. massive polls just like this one have already been installed in gloucester and salem counties. atlantic city electric says it is all part of a project spanning a 18-mile stretch between paulsboro and woodstown, some homes in east greenwich township, already have the polls. neighbors say they weren't expecting the polls to be as large as they are. >> well, i didn't realize it was going to be this big. they had just dropped a little card off and said we're going to be putting polls in. i come home from work, i work two jobs, and this is what i okay.ome to. >> now the new polls are made to with stand 1 officials are hoping this will prevent future power outag power more than two weeks, two summers ago, because of severeu. governor tom wolf is announcing changes to tests he l

lower the amount of time student spends taking the tests, the ing this school year grades three through eight will spend average of0% than on state-wide testing, some sections of the test haves been removed, other shortened, governor wore says he's responding to concerns from parent, teachers, and students. coming up: another confederate statue comes crashing down. >> this was the scene down south in north carolina. we'll tell you what protesters did after toppling over that statue. >> and severe weather causes damage at george washington's mount vernon estate in virginia. so just how much mondayly it cost to make the repairs? we'll tell when you we come back.

>> back now on "eyewitness news," a rally outside a county courthouse in north

carolina. that ended with a confederate rat monument. >> this happened last night in durham. once the statue was pulled down, some quickly ran up, began spitting on it, several others began kicking it. the confederate rat statue representing a sold here fought in the civil war has been standing in durham since 1924. >> well, crews are getting ready to make repairs at george washington's mount vernon estate, that's after powerful storms left damage behind, a huge slice of the historic wall is gone and some of those now damaged bricks date back as far as 1799. about five to 7 inches of rain soaked the grounds, and triggered a mud slide friday night, that mud slide damaged parts of the wall. a nearby memorial and several arc logical sites were also flooded. officials say it will cost more than a million dollars to fix the site. >> what went through your mind when you first saw this, first time? >> all of us who work here, we love this place. so it is like a part of us, you know, being injured, if you will. >> officials say they're going to try to re-use as many of

the original bricks as possible, but they also plan on improving drainage on the site as they rebuild. always sad to see when they lovingly care for these places and restore them, and then mother nature comes through, yes. >> did it rain last night? >> in a hands full of spots, yes. we do actually still have a little bit of wet weather out there at the moment. it is rolling through in very scattered fashion. so we're not all getting hit at the same time, but with time, many of us are going to see something out whatever we've got in the weather pattern today. so essentially there is just a disturbance rolling on through , frontal boundery trying to cross through, but getting what hung up. it should clear to the south later tonight. for now you still have to dodge some additional showers along the way if not few thunderstorm, so no major severe weather threat, but because of the clouds, because of the rain, it is really going to hamper any kind of potential to warm up super efficiently, still going to be warm day, but not quite as hot as we've seen in recent days because you won't have that solar angle to work w so meantime, let's take you out, nice wide zoom. take a look at gert, has had a

chance to develop further. it is now a category one hurricane. making it actually the second hurricane that we had had so far for the 2017 atlantic hurricane season. let's see where this track is going. not much change in that regard it is still expected to remain out to sea, which is good news , however, even though it is still taught sea, a lot of times you see indirect impact from systems, and this particular event is going to probably help turn up the surf if you are going to the beach here in the next couple every days, there is possibility that there is some stronger surf, some dangerous rip current, so maybe keep an eye on that, meantime, thankfully the eye of this storm is going to bypass us completely. so that's a good thing, in fact, the entire atlantic canada board is her also going to get bypassed, so just the wake it is shaking out, looks like almost tracing the path of the continent. looking forward, well, tomorrow really is the brightest spot of the pack, also the hot else, where we end up at 90 degrees, we will be in the mid or up over 80s for the rest of the week, at the moment, meisha, it looks

clear, sunny, keep our fingers crossed as we get closer to the big celestial event. >> no doubt about that, fingers crossed indeed. a lot of people looking forwards to seeing that, watching that, thanks so much, katie. good morning, everybody. the vine is closed overnight for that construction project, westbound and eastbound right now, i'm let you know as soon as it clears, still dark, still very earliment not much going on, overnight resurfaced here the eastbound, schuylkill schuylkill, pulled off to the right. you can see the cones in the road. you can also see how many vehicles are traveling through the area. so, i'm not going to say give yourself extra minutes, not yet, but it is one of the areas that does get pretty busy pretty early. ninety-five north between route one and route 332, the right lane compromised hopefully that's starting to hopefully get remedy, maybe even push out of your way. then 422 westbound at route 202 and trooper between route 202 and trooper, left lane compromised. see the crews out, there all of the cones in the road, another area that will get pretty busy. lot of headlights, even tail

light out there already. and then on the turnpike, eastbound, past route 29, left lane, and westbound, past valley forge, right lane, construction, there as well, jim, rahel, back to you. >> thank you shall meisha. for the past few days we've been warning you, you will need to wear special sun glass toss watch next monday's eclipse. >> but your phone needs protection too, what photographer experts say you should do to protect your phone's camera while snapping pictures the eclipse, for urine is that gram friends. we'll be right back.

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special eclipse sun glass that is you would wear, just make sure to turnoff the flash, and the auto focus. >> and stay with "eyewitness news" for our continuing eclipse fest coverage. we have more all morning. >> time now 41:51, time for check on business news. >> roxanna joins us from the new york torque stock exchanges, good morning. so, china responding to an order announced by president trump yesterday, to review its trade practices? what's the latest? >> gentlemen, china is criticizing the whether beijing is stealing technology inventions. china says it violate international trade rules. mr. trump's move comes as he tries to balance his america first trade views with working with china to rain in north korea. on monday markets regained some of their losses from last week, as tensions eased over north korea the dow gained 135-point, and the nasdaq added 83. jim, rahel? >> so, roxanna, i understand chick-fil-a is adding a breakfast meal here?

what's this all about? >> yes. chick-fil-a is expanding its menu there is time with a breakfast bowl, called hash brown scramble. made of hash browns, scrambled eggs, cheese, and either chicken nuggets or pork sausage, for anyone looking for something to wake them up, the dish comes with a side of pal mean yo salsa, jim, rahel. >> i'm ball that, chicken anything frets chick-fil-a are the best thing. >> the waffles fries, sweet tea. >> ice cream. >> i wanted to mention to you guys, i know we keep mentioning, new meals, yesterday was the taco bell burito with a punch. i brought a little property today. do you remember the beer receipt owe has pop rocks? our cameraman matt bought me some of these, i haven't had some of these singes i was a kid. >> remember that you are joined lend, pop rocks and coca-cola, symptom explodes, it was an urban legend. never really happened. you know when you're a kid you

believe everything. >> you'll enjoy it for us, so funny her photographer matt, our photographers are the most prepared people in our business, right? >> stay away from the cola. >> you'll find out if i'm not here tomorrow. >> see you in the next hour. thanks, roxanna. >> well, rain is moving toward us right now, i can feel it. >> yes, we can feel it in the air. so, katie, how much can we expect this morning? >> i feel like we need to fill up phil collins, do you fowl like coming in the air this morning? looking ahead to wet weather, unsettled weather in this forecast, i'll let you know how long you need to keep the umbrella on stand by, that's coming up.

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>> today we ends up with more unsettled weather than we experienced yesterday. yesterday featured more clouds building than anything, but today, we're going to see frontal boundery trying to cross through it, helps trigger the showers. i don't think you're talking widespread wash out certainly. but this is one of the days,

take the umbrella just to have it as a safety net. we will see showers, or even few thunderstorms rumble through here. really, at any time. for the majority of the day. later tonight it, should begin to clear out. but, for now, not the preallot yes, sir day we've ever seen with all of the cloud cover, and the rain will limit the warmth, only held back to the mid 80s at best throughout the afternoon. later tonight, though, looking better, still pretty mild, still pretty mug that i said. we clear things out and heat up for one day tomorrow, before the potential at least of a few showers return to the forecast specially to rounds out the week and leading to the upcoming weaken, no wash out, but not the best forecast in the world either. >> yes, no, i was was thinking the same thing, good news, i don't know if you like, i know with the fall coming up it, could change, so 90 tomorrow, kind of excited about it what do you think? looking outside, 59 near the betsy ross bridge, looking good. yesterday i would say right around 5:00 right when we enter in the 5:00 start to see things heat up little bit. already, still early, still dark, pushing in the southbound side of 95, we are

starting to see little bit more movement than what we typically do, then we have some construction here, 422 westbound between route 202 and trooper. our crews are still out there working hard, the left lane compromised, you can see the cones in the road. you can also see how many vehicles are trying to squeeze on by there. so again, this is 422 westbound between 202 and trooper, that left lane compromised, and might start to slow you down if crews don't kind of move out of the way. overnight resurfaced project schuylkill eastbound between gulph mills and the conshohocken curve has just been moved out of the way. so actually looking pretty good on the schuylkill all directions, maybe heating up ever so slightly, but you know the deal. vine was closed overnight for the construction project and it looks like we're opening now, both westbound, and eastbound, more to come in the next ten minutes. jim, back over you. >> thank you shall meishament coming up in the next hour of cbs-3 "eyewitness news," live at the scene of apartment fire in northeast philly where several people have been hurt. dozen sense been displays -- displaced. >> could another shake up be coming to the white house? we'll tell you the big names

and whose job could be in jeopardy. >> finds out about the local spot that could be one of the best places to view next week 's solar eclipse. we are back at the top of the hour. stay with us.

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this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news" this morning. new this morning, fire forces dozens every residents from their apartments, several people are hurt, one woman had to be brought back to life, we're live with what helped save so many people who were sleeping when the flames broke out. >> and storm scan3 is tracking showers and storms heading our way just in time for the morning rush. a lot of -- a live look at inter dependence hall looks dry right now, but you will definitely feel the humidity when you walk outside. >> high fly ball to deep left field. way back there. it is gone. >> and if you went to bed earou