>> reporter: there are injuries. we don't know how serious. two armed men entered a restaurant. this all happened in barcelona. a popular tourist area. we're going to join the bbc in their coverage.

>> reporter: main story at bbc news at 5:00. >> reporter: to repeat, a van plowed into a crowd of pedestrians in barcelona today. we're going to be back with any major developments. unsure of how many injuries. joanne will join us by telephone, she's in barcelona. what do we know what's happened? >> i didn't see it, but i was walk in las ramblas.

shortly people started screaming saying cops said to get away from the streets and run. we didn't know what was going on or why. we were only 50 meters away at the time. streets very narrow and no cars. we were trying to decide what to do. different direction doctors inveighing they heard gunshots from near the cathedral.

so, we've been just kind ever sheltering in the middle of some narrow streets listening to the sirens and helicopters now he's leading us out somewhere to might be possible to get a taxi because metro is closed. >> the barcelona police are labeling this a terror attack. from the pictures we're seeing there appear to be quite a few people injured on the streets. have you seen anything like that where you are? >> no. because we have been just past that area when it started. our tour guide didn't want to take us back that way. so, we did not go to the scene. >> reporter: can you describe the area where the attack occurred for people who have not been there?

just the places and, the place for tourists to go and hang out and take pictures and guy things. it's in the middle of the street. >> you were pushed into a store to get out of the way were you told anything about what had occurred? >> no. we did not know what was happening. we just heard sirens and just people screaming and running and running. and the woman in the store, she was very nice about it. it was afterward that people started going on the phones and finding some information about a van plowing. now i'm hearing reports about two people in a restaurant that very close to where we started out also, just about 200 meters from there now. >> are you seeing a substantial

police presence? >> not where we are right now. but i'm hearing a lot of helicopters and seeing them. but we're walking away from the scene. >> what about ambulance are you hearing them or seeing them? >> we did hear sirens. the thing is he's trying to keep us away from actual loads where there are cars. we're in the more walking narrow streets and where no cars are. >> joanne if you would stay with us a moment. are you still there? >> yes, him. >>: just stay with us a moment i just want to repeat for people. there's breaking news in barcelona, spaina van jum jumpee curb and plowed into pedestrians. a picture of las ramblas a main

sort of tourist attraction in the heart of the city. there are injuries. we don't know how many yet or how serious they might be. joanne stern with cbs news who happened to be in barcelona and close by when this happened. again, tell me again what exactly you heard in the aftermath of this? >> well, what we heard were just screaming people running down the streets saying -- now there's a whole bunch of sirens coming by me now. and the ambulances, too. a lot of people just screaming, running away from las ramblas saying that it is cops told everybody to move away. that -- i don't know exactly where it happened along that area. i don't know if it was exactly right where we were or just down the road a bit.

can you hear me? >> yes, we still hear you. i just wanted to inject we've been looking at some extremely disturbing video of victims on the curb. van jumping the curb plow can into pedestrians. there is also a report from reuters that two armed men have entered a restaurant in that area. we don't have any further information on that yet. i believe we have debra from our london bureau who has been monitoring this on the phone. can you hear me? >> we don't have official death toll yet. you can see bodies on the ground. a driver drove a van into this incredibly popular destination as you pointed out anyone who has been to barcelona have been there. the police you have to go.

popular, cafe, bars, the place to be scene. they picked a good place. a very, very busy, popular tourist destination. during the weeks up to this there have been grieve being posted very threatening grieve. now this particular incident, police have confirmed that they believe that this is indeed a terrorist attack. we also understand, very disturbing reports that two armed men after the attack went into a restaurant. the driver of the van fled the scene on foot. >> debra with an update on latest developments in story that is breaking as we speak as you see enormous police presen presence. >> there are clearly multiple injuries and very serious ones to tourist. we're looking at bbc coverage

right now of the event and let's listen in. >> in the last few minutes. >> jam packed with -- about the sit down. literally second later heard a crashing noise. the whole street i heard screaming, everybody started to run so i started to run in the direction people were running to shops. families are screaming for their kids. within second police officers were out. i noticed yesterday within we arrived in the city that there's a pref eye police presence, police officers were there within seconds. guns were out, ambulance, fire engines, you can see at the top of the -- a van, tried to get

into a shop people were panicking. there was a shopkeeper said something about -- dash tried to ask him he said he saw a van had driven into the crowd. five or six people with very serious injuries. at that point the ambulances and police officers were on the scene with machine guns and guns very quickly. people were panicking we were pushed back again and keep getting pushed back. police are absolutely everywhere at the moment. >> that's one british man who is -- >> bbc coverage of the events in barcelona which are still developing once again a van has jumped the curb and plowed into pedestrians in las ramblas in the heart of barcelona. there are multiple injuries we do do not know how serious, clearly some are very serious at this point. we'll have more -- we'll follow

this story throughout the day we'll be back on the air with any major developments as well as local station this evening in our 24 hour streaming news network cbsn and right here tonight on the cbs evening news. i'm anthony mason, cbs >> ♪ >> live from the cbs broadcast center this is cbs3 "eyewitness news." >> a family calls for justice for the preliminary hearing of a man charged with killing a teenaged girl during a fit of road rage. the tragic case made national headlines. good afternoon i'm jim donovan. >> and i'm rahel solomon. we will continue to follow the developments in barcelona and bring you any developments as they happen but for now we're back in our area. "eyewitness news" reporter henry rosoff was in the courtroom for this morning's hearing on the chester county case. he joins us live from west chester where dozens of

supporters for the victim gathered. henry. >> reporter: jim and rahel friends and family of bianca roberson attempted to pack this tiny courtroom looking for answers for the man accused of pulling his truck alongside of roberson's vehicle and shooting her in the head. >> this is senseless. he murdered an innocent child. >> reporter: roughly 100 bianca roberson supporters gather an hour early outside the chester county district court. >> we're here to support her and we want to see justice for bianca. >> reporter: they file in one by one but once inside the proceeding lasts only mere minutes with david desper waiving his right to a preliminary hearing. desper has yet to offer any additional information about the day he's hack queued of shooting 18-year-old roberson in the head during an pap rant road rage incident. after the hearing roberson's father rodney tells us there's nothing the accused killer could have said anything. >> we don't know anything. we don't know nothing and i

don't really care about why he did it 'cause it's no excuse. he can't justify why he murdered my daughter. >> he still suspects this may be a hate crime. >> because i can't think of no other alternative he would have done something like that. my daughter wouldn't have did anything to him that would have caused him to want to shoot her like that. >> reporter: desper is still being held without bail until his trial. inside the courtroom he gave short yes and no answers. live in west chester henry rosoff cbs3 "eyewitness cbs "ey" >> president trump is striking back after reaction to his statement that both sides were to blame for this weekend's violence in charlottesville and according to the latest cbs news poll there's more details from the fallout from tuesday's press conference from capitol hill. >> what happened in charlottesville was a tragedy. and the president has been

clear on this tragedy and so have i. >> reporter: vice president mike pence is cutting his overseas trip short to return for meetings with the president. the white house is in damage control following tuesday's press conference where the president addressed the charlottesville protest. >> i think there's blame on both sides and i have no doubt about it and you don't have any doubt about it either. >> reporter: a cbs news poll out this morning shows 55 percent of those surveyed disapprove of the president's response to charlottesville. however, a majority of republicans approve of his message. some republican lawmakers are asking the president to change his tone for the sake of their party and for the country. will herd of texas is one of three african-american republicans in congress. >> you're trying to equate neo nazis and skin heads and anti-semites to people that was trying to stand up against hate. >> reporter: and south carolina senator lindsey graham said the president's words are dividing americans, not healing them.

>> some of these groups believe they have a friend in donald trump. donald trump's job is to dissuade them. >> reporter: president trump struck back at graham on twitter this morning calling him a publicity seeker who is sore because trump beat him in the primary election. seth lemon for cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> and hundreds of protesters took to the streets in center city philadelphia yesterday for a rally organizers dubbed philly is charlottesville. they're calling for the removal of frank rizzo's statue citing allegations of racism and brutality against of a americans during his time as mayor and philadelphia police commissioner. >> ♪ >> switching gears now we are counting down to monday's eclipse with our special eclipse fest coverage. unfortunately we won't get the full effect here in the philadelphia area. >> this animation shows us what our view will be. we're going to see only a

partial eclipse only about 80 percent of the sun will be covered by the moon. derek pits chief astronaut interat the franklin institute tells us the partial eclipse might be hard to notice. >> it's still going to look pretty much like daytime. if you didn't know an eclipse was happening you wouldn't guess there was an eclipse happening. it's going to appear as if maybe there's some thin high clouds. what this means is that you'll be able to patch of watch the partial phases vols as long as you use some sort of hi protection and in that way you'll be able to see the beginning of the eclipse right through the maximum and out to the end of the eclipse. >> here in the delaware valley the partial eclipse will begin at 1:21 p.m. peeking at 2:44 p.m. and ends at 4:01. >> the only way you'll get a good look the with government approved eclipse glasses. if you still need a pair. "eyewitness news" will be handing out our cbs3 limited edition eclipse glasses

tomorrow at noon at dillworth park. >> 925xtu today's 96.5 and wogl are giving away glasses throughout the weekend. listen to your favorite wade yo' station for details. >> we want to see you wearing those glasses. hear your photos and videos with your glasses using the #cbs3. >> did you know this eclipse is a friendly one. that's what renowned astrologist susan miller says. hear what in the stars for you once the eclipse arrives heater you're a leo gemini or any of the other signs susan miller says something good is in your future. find out what that is at 5:00. the question everyone is asking. will we have sunny skies for monday's partial eclipse. >> katie knows the answer and katie you'll have it for us next. >> indeed i will. and i think you'll like the answer but we have also a relatively decent looking weekend coming up here. a frontal passage is going to

leave behind a clearing sky on saturday and even though our daytime highs are still into the mid or even upper 80's over the course of the weekend we're back to sunshine for the majority of it so your outdoor plans are a go. i'll have the rest of that full for

>> welcome back. we want to give you a sense of how the rest of the week is going shape and take a look at the weekend and eclipse. let's start things off here and now as we look at a loop on storm scan. not too much has taken place over our area. a couple of showers and thunderstorms have rumbled through parts of the southern delmarva peninsula some of which could lead into part of our area as well later on today just a spotty shower or

storm is in the cards in the southern counties but we're talking again spotty isolated, that sticky word there. you've got a really well defined storm system brewing across the midwest and very strong wind gusts with some of these storms as well as some very heavy rain coming down in parts of the midwest and this is the system that impacts us into tomorrow and primarily through the day tomorrow but it may leave behind a shower early saturday morning. so a warm front lifts in first, brings in the warmth and humidity and then the cold front crosses and it all basically takes place tomorrow. we'll talk more about that in a second but let's focus on the tropics briefly here. now as since early this morning hurricane gert has been downgraded to a cat one hurricane. it is still the strongest hurricane we've seen thus far this season as it maxed out as a cat two. it's expected to continue to lose its steam as it moves into ever closer toward the arctic circle in fact but this continues to remain well out to sea. but you tend to have indirect impacts from situations like this. if you're going to the shore at any point the rest of the

afternoon here we've got to watch out for dangerous surf and rip currents. have a floatation device if you want to go into the water. it's a really nice afternoon. i can't blame you but make sure you're swimming near a lifeguard because this is the situation where rip currents can thrive and form and sometimes they're the you have to see. elsewhere in the tropics we've got the potential to see our next tropical depression. it would be number nine and this is over the next two days that that may form over the next five days there's two separate wastes of waves of energy. one with a six in 10 shot of developing the other a four in 10 shot. we are also approaching the height of atlantic hurricane season so this isn't all that atypical. low to mid 80's region wide. cooler at mount pocono. a really nice start to the afternoon. dewpoints they're not terribly high. they will climb a lot tomorrow so enjoy the rest of today. beautiful start to the afternoon. outside kutztown area middle school, beautiful blue sky 80 degrees.

saw the kids on the soccer field at practice early this morning and as the afternoon progresses i think we'll top off around 87 degrees. humidity does begin the climb and especially tomorrow looks quite oppressive in that regard. we flirt with 90 any way but factor in high humidity and it will feel really uncomfortable and we'll also end up with some showers and thunderstorms courtesy of that front we mentioned. the weekend clears out and eclipse day right now stays clear with

>> an update on the breaking news in spain. there is a heavy police presence in barcelona after a van jumped a current hit semple people. barcelona police are calling this a terrorist attack. >> this happened a little after 11:30 a.m. our time in one of the city's top tourist destinations. the number of victims and extent of injuries is currently unknown. police have closed off the street and ordered nearby metro and train stations to close while they investigate. stay up to date online at cbsphilly.com. this ends this edition of "eyewitness news" at noon. i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. for katie and all of us here thanks for watching. "eyewitness news" continues at 5:00. >> "the young and the restless" is next. have a great day, everyone. >> ♪

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