>> we are not nation building again. we are killing terrorists. >> it is the longest war in american history, now president trump has unveiled his new strategy for afghanistan. >> well, today is tuesday, august 22, good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. katie is out. matt is here. matt and meisha keeping an eye on things this morning, good morning, guys. >> hey tuesday, yes, we have the big crash this morning around 12:15, norristown high-speed line, by the way loft updates coming in, this should help us out a little bit. plus accidents out there, what , already, we have mystro roadways, matt, not sure what was going on. >> a case of the tuesday's. >> right? >> weather, not a problem for folks traveling this morning. it is going to be an issue though later this afternoon, not because we're going to have necessarily any bad weather, but we are going to be dealing with high heat, high humidity, like we haven't seen, pretty much since the very beginning of august. so, do get ready for triple digit heat index values later this afternoon. neighborhood network shows you across from the jera side, it ia

little bit haze think morning. so, not necessarily going to be the greatest sunrise it doesn't look like right now. temperatures for the most part are in the 60s and 70s, definately, up above average. starting the day at 75 here in philly. it gets even warmer head down toward milville and wildwood where we are at 76 and 68, to start your day out in the lehigh valley and allentown. rest of the shore points, 57 cape may. again 76 our temperature to both, there stone harbor, ocean city back up toward barnegat, as women. here are the dew point, in the 60s, 70s, will remain on the high side all the way through the afternoon when you add in the heat and humidity looks like heat index values flirting with the trip ill digit throughout the afternoon maybe as high as 103 at times. we go from 80 at 9:00 this morning, to up just shy of zero nine at noontime, with a temperature of 87, then meisha , we peak at 93 degrees later this afternoon, but as we said, no real weather issues here so far this morning, couple every thunderstorms though do have a factor later in the day. >> going to be so warm outside

, matt, i always say if you're outside walking around, buying yourself bottle of water, grab two, hand it to someone outside. that can be dangerous sometimes for too long. looking outside, 422 at route 29. what we're looking at both directions starting to build levels. overall still 422 traveling around at posted speeds, 42 at college drive, looking okay here. i would say moving in the northbound side, where we are starting to hipt. the bulk of the heat up northbound side. construction here near marlton , heads up, route 70 westbound, closed right now, between hartford road and maple avenue. you will have to use alternate , church road or route route 38 your best bet. more con struck sean north broad closed until october 2nd , old york road or 15th will be your best bet there. plus 295 southbound onramp from sloan avenue closed until 6:00 a.m. then train accidents, update, okay, starting at 6:00 a.m., norristown high-speed line trains running every 20 minutes, no express service, no bryn mawr trips either. just make sure to check those schedules on line of course, any updates that we get i'll

bring them to you right away, jim, back over to you. >> thank you shall meisha. more on break cents news, of course, train with septa commuters crashes into empty train sending dozens to the hospital. >> it happened after midnight september's he street terminal where we find "eyewitness news " reporter train dough, live to tell us what happened. trang, good morning. >> good morning, rahel, jim: just learned the operator of the trolley was treated and release from the penn presbyterian hospital. in addition, 41 passengers were hurt, but take a look, the trolley involved, still here, on the tracks, with police tape across it, so many people grateful this morning, that there were no life threatening injuries. >> paramedics returned passengers clearly in pain into ambulances, after a trolley accident at 69th street terminal. norristown high-speed line trolley was pulling into the terminal, around 12:10 a.m. car, park on the tracks. >> i said something is wrong. >> passenger identified himself as ronnie said he

almost skipped the trolley because he noticed it went past his station and had to reverse. he says the same thing happened at the next several stops. >> we got to the terminal. i stood up. to get off and get ready to get to my bus on time, and snack, hit the other trolley parked. >> septa says 42 people including the operator are hurt. four of them critically. >> my face hit the wall, put big hole in the wall. i went straight down. i black out. >> there is blood everywhere, yes, the driver all banged up, there is this one girl bleeding out of her face pretty bad. >> medic rushed the injured to seven area hospitals. upper darby mayor, tom, says the response was a highly coordinated effort between emergency agencies, that was praised bypass inning ers a mid the trauma. >> we had incident about four months ago, always constantly pre-planning this, in the terminal with septa. so the cooperation between all of the agencies was seamless. >> meanwhile, the norristown high-speed line is operating every 20 minutes, but no

service at hughes park or bryn mawr, so commuters should definately expect delays. but nor now live outside 69th street station, i'm trang do, cbs-3, "eyewitness news," jim, rahel, back to you. >> thank -- trang, thanks for the update. >> evident street accident earlier this year, four people hurt, authority say, at that point, the train operator activated the emergency mode at the last minute, in hopes of prevent that crash. the broad street and market frankford lines have atc, or automatic train control, with which is supposed to prevent accidents, s, today's crash. >> bill cosby will be back in a norristown courthouse today for his pretrial hearing. >> the entertainer also unveiled who he has hired to represent him. "eyewitness news" reporter henry rossoff live in our news center with the latest in the cosby case. good morning, henry. >> good morning, the announce ment made on twitter late yesterday after both bill cosby's attorneys in his last sexual assault trial asked off the case in the past few weeks

the 80 year old comedian now says he'll be represented by tom mesereau, mesereau won acquittal for michael jackson during the singer's 2005 child molestation trial, joining the legal team sam silver, he repled now imprisoned former congressman, chaka fattah. finally, former federal prosecutor, athlete bliss, is also joining the team. today's pretrial hearing was set after cosby's old team who defended him during the trial that ended in a hung jury, asked off the case. los angeles based attorney, angela agrussa asked off the case after lead defense lawyer removed earlier this month. as of right now according to on line court records, the last pretrial conference scheduled before the actual retrial set to begin november 6th. liver in the cbs-3 news center , henry rossoff, cbs-3 " eyewitness news." >> thank you, henry. police in camden county, manna

tacked with a michetti. happened yesterday on pine grove avenue lindenwold old. victim in his 60s, returned to cooper university hospital after the attack. no word right now on any arrests or what prompted this attack. >> well, philadelphia councilwoman, helen gym, renewing her calls to remove frank rizzo statue from center city. protesters gathered outside of pain plaza yesterday, calling for the former mayor's monument to come down. councilwoman gym, and local civil rights groups, said last night, that rizzo statue should be relocated. frank rizzo's legacy remains a controversial topic, on race relations in the city. rizzo raised hell in our neighborhood. i was young when he was just police commissioner, and he became the mayor. >> my father was not a racist, matter of fact, the he protected blacks, asians, white, every race, in the city of philadelphia. >> now, those who support keeping the statue where it is , canceled their planned

rally yesterday, in exchange for meeting with mayor jim kenney. >> it is a busy day for president trump. he heads to uma arizona to push for border wall and rally in phoenixment last night the president addressed the nation it announce new strategy in afghanistan. he said he number of american troops, but didn't specific few how many. the afghan war now in its 16th n american history. >> seeing the president trump, a lot of people talking about there is did he something he look up at the to yesterday. eclipse, without wearing his special glasses we've been telling you about, have been warning for weeks not to look directly teston avoid eye damage. dow believe after that point though did he put on his glasses, brief glance up. >> his wife was probably like put the glasses on now please. >> well, president trump isn't the only one who looked to the sun without protective glasses coming up, finding out how long it takes to notice signs of possible eye damage. >> plus baby rescued from the rubble of deadly earthquake on italian resort island. crews now working around the

clock to serve for more survivors. >> good friends are good for you. finds out how the relationship ships you make in high school impact your health. that's coming up next. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> shout out to all of my best friends from high school, alicia, ... class of -- just kid being, not going to say, but all my best friends live in the area. >> are they watching? >> i don't know, i'll get some text messages soon if they are >> we want them to tweet us. >> we will be right back. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪

>> this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news" this morning with jim donovan, rahel solomon, katie fehlinger, pat gallen, and meisha johnson. >> welcome back everyone, deadly earthquake rocks italian resort island. >> firefighters pulled a baby from the rubble of a house where he had been trapped with his family. the 4.0 magnitude quake struck near naples monday night. one woman was killed, about half dozen people are unaccounted for, local authorities say some 20 people suffered minor injuries. >> well, across the country people had their eyes on the sky, to look at the eclipse, but doctors want people to be mindful of their vision it, does seem like most people listen to the warnings, and wore protective eye wear yesterday. but, you know, there is always those people, some folks decided to go without. eye driver's say looking up for quick peak likely won't

cause any harm. it is when you stair into the sun for long stretch of time, that could actually bring on eye damage. >> if your vision is not as good as it was, if you think that it is new, it is not an emergency, you don't have to drop everything, give your eye doctor a call, arrange to get seen. and they'll ' vale it. >> doctors say it takes between 12-24 hours for signs of eye damage to pop up. if you are experiencing blurred vision, problems reading small texts or clearly seeing faces, then contact your eye doctor. >> i have that problem without even looking at the sky. well, this won't hurt your eyes, but check this out. this is what the eclipse looked like from space yesterday. spotted the moon shadow as it moved. so you can actually see how it made it way across the usa. >> very neat. >> so, matt, it traveled from oregon, did it go down to florida, south carolina. >> south carolina where it went off the coastline, and what people, i i saw couple of people were asking, they didn't realize it went west to east, instead of east to west, because everybody thinks the

sunrises in the east goes to the west, but the way the earth and the moon kind of cross, it has got to go backward to get the shadow. >> however it moved, it was very cool for me to watch. >> it was really cool. the satelite picture we just showed what we call the ghost scene, the newest noah weather satellite up there, and it is haytaian res, one of the coolest tools us folks in the weather community have. cool to see that visible satellite image from oregon back down toward south carolina if you were at the beach yesterday you probably had good viewing of the eclipse. if you are at the beach this morning, hazy, maybe little foggy. you see that here on the neighborhood network camera down in margate. it is again quiet start to the day at the beach. but muggy start to the day. so because of that, it is a little bit on the foggy side. to say the least. mostly sunny for the shore later this afternoon. temperatures are going to be in the mid to high 80s, but when you add in the humidity, feeling like up into the 90s, maybe even near the triple

digits. in the war at 76. sunscreen definite today. very high for the uv index, moderate risk for rip current, make sure as always you're some g by the lifeguard. future weather for us not too much in the way of anything we need to talk about through most of the afternoon, just going to be hot, humid, sunshine, couple of isolated thunderstorms not ruled out. going through the evening and overnight tonight, cold front sweeps on through. giving us more scattered thunderstorm chances, those clear out, though, by the time we really get into tomorrow afternoon. our feels like temperatures today high nine's to around triple digit, but not too bad for us thomas lower humidity does take over. heat advisory, from one p.m. to 8:00 p.m., 98 to 133. looking at the seven day forecast, after 93 today, 84 tomorrow, then lower 80s, lower humidity by thursday, friday, then 70s into the weekend. >> you're loving that, aren't you, matt? >> i am ready for cooler temperatures. >> i love those 90s. thank you so much, matt. so looking outside, pretty busy all morning long.

happy tuesday. looking outside here to an accident. schuylkill, conshohocken curve pulled off to the right shoulder, right lane, casino every squeezing by this this left lane. so, yes, we will start to get some backups here, plus not to mention the fact building volumes at this point in the 6:00 hour. so if i were you, schuylkill west before the conshohocken curve, not the first problem area, in this area, this morning. so, this seems to be casino after hot spot this morning, if i were you, i would certainly give myself extra time specially moving in the westbound direction. speaking of some of the fog, some of the haze matt has been talking about all morning long , ben franklin bridge, pushing in the westbound direction, in terms of congestion, there isn't any. just going to be a little, have little bit every visibility issues, overall looking okay. norristown high-speed line, train accident, here is a update for you, 69th street terminal. starting at 6:00 a.m. training moving every 20 minute.

>> on the help watch, friendships matter when it comes to your mental health. i've always said. >> this doctors in virginia discovered teens with close relationships and friendships in high school, had lower social anxiety, increased self worth, and fewer symptoms of depression later in life. >> i believe. that will my best friends in high school, alicia, kiana, ra fia, all helped me with my anxiety, very type a. i have my moments. also in the health watch, despite the risk of sudden infant death, many parent still don't do what they're supposed to. >> nicky with more on the start lidge research and experts advise to new parent. >> joselyn is enjoying her first snuggle with her new son matthew brian l it comes to sleep, this mom knows what's best. >> definitely better to love them on their backs, bass thin , crib. >> but suggest many moms still not getting the message. new study in pediatrics of more than 3200 moms shows

while 77% say they usually place their babies on their backs to sleep, only 44% always do. >> it is critical because we know that we will prevent sudden unexplained infant death. if you have something that you know works, then you should be doing it. >> we went the baby to be alone on their back. >> some hospitals are educating new parent from the beginning, and nyu winthrop in new york one of 1500 hospitals taking part in the halo safer twi sleep program. >> they got bombarded with lot of information from family and friend, that's not always accurate, as well's things in the store. >> new parent get bedside list on in swaddling babies in blanket. >> make sure you never have extra blankets, pillows, stuffed animals in the crib with the babe. >> i joselyn followed the recommendations with her older children. >> it is almost amazing what you forget. i was with him yesterday and i felt like a first timer again. you can't take anything for granted. you don't always know everybody.

>> she said experienced moms can use a reminder. >> nicky batiste, for cbs-3, " eyewitness news." good advice there. up next, using electric shock, electric shock, to help make better financial decisions. plus, another first for american girl doll. we'll tell you about the new doll now available in stores coming up.

>> thinking about the weaken already, and it will be cooler , lots of sunshine saturday, sunday, expected, but the humidity, much, much lower. and temperatures that could be reminiscent of early fall coming up in saturday and sunday. jim, rahel? >> good weather for a run. matt, thank youment now for look at newspaper headlines. >> from the delco times, man shot and killed a woman in the

parking lot after netter providence funeral home yesterday before turning the gun on himself watch police are calling murder-suicide. the incident occurred just after 1:00 p.m. near the intersection every south chester road and providence road, identities of the victims have not yet been released the press of atlantic city atlantic city salute the armed forces parade will take place this year, for the past six years kick off the air show week but organizers say they could not come up with the $15,000 fun willingness to fund the parade. >> from the mercury, you can't go home again, but not only returned to her childhood home , she bought it, thanks in part to new initiative designed to encourage pottstown school employees to buy homes in the borough. the program provides eligible applicant up to $10,000 in the form of a forgivable loan. >> interesting idea. that's a look at newspaper headlines from around the delaware valley. >> little girls all across the country have grown up with these dolls. >> now american girl is introducing its newest member to their doll family. say hello to nania mitchell,

the first native hawaiian doll , the character gross up during world war ii, wardrobe includes 194's era outfits, hula attire, accessories and the doll cost about $116, very beautiful. >> pricy. >> yes, they always r i had a kenya girl, never an american girl doll. but beautiful doll. >> coming up in the next half hour, trang live with an update on breaking news. >> welshing dozens every people hurt after a train accident at 69th street terminal. i'm trang do, live with a witness account of the scary incident. >> plus, electric shock? it punishes you when there is too much on your yesterday the cards. >> norristown high train accident cleared, but do very much dates there, also couple every accident causing delays, as well as construction, all of the updates coming up of the first we'll take a break, stay right where you are, cbs-3 "eyewitness news" will

be right back.

>> this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news." >> good morning, i'm gem donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. just about 630:67:89 here's what you need to know to start your day in the morning minute today august 22, 2017. >> dozen of people are hurt, after an accident at 69th street terminal. a train crashes into a parked train. >> there is that heat advisory through the i59 corridor, 98 to 103 for our heat index values today. make sure you're keeping yourself safe throughout the afternoon. >> raised hell in our neighborhood. >> my father was not a race us >> more than 100 people gather along jfk boulevard in center city. so call for the removal of the frank rizzo statue. meanwhile philadelphia councilwoman, helen gym, renewing her call for it removal saying it doesn't

belong to the footsteps of city hall. >> president trump is laying out a strategy for the war in afghanistan. >> terrorist is take heed, america will in the let up until you are delta lasting defeat. >> it was a surreal moment. and it is just getting started >> a homecoming celebration for the kennett square junior league baseball team. the team center feel is her still getting props for epic catch at the junior league world series. >> the junior league baseball team returned to heroes welcome yesterday. >> they went undefeated in the regular season, they won usa championship, big congratulates toss them. turning to the forecast, if you're not a fan in heat, humidity, today's forecast not real a win, matt, but maybe the next couple of days? >> yes, gout to get past today if you're not big on the high heat, high humidity dog days of summer kind of forecast, today like you had said, rahel , not the day for you.

but cold front comes sweeping through tonight, tomorrow morning, and then the second half of the week coming in thursday, friday, into the weekend. now what we are expecting today unfortunately is highs up into the low 90s, heat we haven't seen since the beginning of the month add in the humidity, will only get worse in the afternoon, heat index values up triple digits or near the triple digits most of the afternoon, so heat advisory goes in effect at 1:00 today. it does last until 8:00 this evening, don't forget all every those heat safety tips we talk about through june, july, going to be leaving those again today, take frequent breaks, lot of cool water stay in the shade as much as you can, again, with the heat advisory out there. and because it is so hot and humid, pop up thunderstorm isn't completely ruled out as we go through the afternoon hours today, either the better chance for that, though, going to commas we get little later on into the evening. because that's when the front comes through. storm scan3, right now, not too much going on.

again, relatively clear skies up above. there is a little bit of haze out here, though there is morning, because it is so hot, humid, but the fog will be burning off as the sun comes up. 60s, 70s, from the philly area back to the shore and poconos, get a look at the eyewitness weather forecast across the region today, 93 philly. eighty-eight down the beach. if you are up in the poconos, thunderstorm chance out there with high of 84 degrees, meisha, i know you're all about the 90s so enjoy today. you might be the only person who doesn't like the 70s. >> starting to gather this around here, matt, thank you so much. very good morning to all of you. all right, so, talking about very busy area right here on the schuylkill t has been the second accident of the morning , around the same vicinity, accident schuylkill westbound before the conshohocken curve right lane compromised looks like right lane might be opening, being push all the way up up to the right shoulderment backups around the area, pretty substantialment take a look at this, belmont, push

westbound direction. headed to where the accident just is, pulled off to the shoulder now, but it was blocking a rate lane and yikes , you're going to have to factor in some major time here , over an hour at this point, most certainlyyou can wad absolutely suggest do you so, otherwise just headed into, that just going to have it sit there anyway. quick update here, norristown high-speed line, train accident update 69th street terminal high-speed line trains, running every 20 minute. so no express service. no bryn mawr trips. just make sure to check those schedules on line. we have a lot more con vukovich stone to talk about coming up in the next ten minutes, jim, over to you. >> thank you shall meisha. back to the breaking news, train hits park train at septa 69th street terminal. >> dozen went to the hospital after the impact, knock people out of their seats, " eyewitness news" reporter train dough live upper darby reporting on this all morning long, what can you tell us now >> reporter: rahel, jim, weaver learn that the operator

of the trolley was treated and released from penn presbyterian hospital in addition, 41 passengers were hurt, but take a lock here, the trolley involved remains on the tracks, with the yellow crime tape across from it, the despite this, norristown high-speed line still running every 20 minutes, with no huge bryn mawr service, so things definately heating back to normal here. take a look at the scene overnight, happened just after midnight as norristown high-speed line trolley was pulling into the 69th street station. that's when the trolley crashed into an empty car park on the tracks. in all, 42 people including the operator are hurt, four critically. they rushed the victims to seven area hospitals, here's eyewitness account from raymond woodard shall passenger released from the hospital this morning. >> i fell asleep coming from work, i heard the train going fast, super fast, i'm looking up, i see we have 69th street, why are we going so fast, and then the train, boom. the train, i mean, i fall out of my chair, the glass, windows shattered, hit my head , everybody on the floor. >> now, you may remember,

similar accident, just about in february. >> this accident this morning, no words on the cause. but for now, liver from evident street terminal, i'm trang do, cbs-3, "eyewitness news," rahel, jim, back to you >> thank you, for that update. >> bill cosby has new defense team, just in time for philadelphia's preliminary hearing. his sexual assault retrial. tom mesereau leading the team responsible for the acquittal in michael jackson's molest santiago trial. will be joined by former federal prosecutors catalanotto lean bliss and sam silver, who represented chaka fattah. cosby's first sexual assault trial ends wad deadlock jury. >> well, this is interesting. a new product is marrying technology and negative reinforcement to help curb your bad spending habit. >> but does it work? cbs news analyst jill schlessinger joins us live from new york with a look at how you may be able to make some small charges in your day-to-day routine to help limit yourself. good morning, jill.

>> good morning. >> this is called the pavlock, and it is a wearable device, kind of like a fit bit, or an apple watch. it cost $179. here is how it works. basically you put it on, you program it to help you stop doing things you don't want to do. like spending money if you program it hey i don't only want to spend certain amount on my credit card, go over that amount it, will give you, ready, little small electric shock, and it is supposed to help you break that habit by awakening your senses, to every time you do something bad. >> doesn't that happen when you get the bill? >> so, jim, it sounds bill bit extreme. do we really need to shock ourselves to stop spending?

>> we still have a hard time doing this. spending the money that we're just making >> the best way to do there is look, you have to pay attention what's coming, in what's going on. something people have been asking for for so long, well, just tell me how much to spend so i'm going to give it to you 50% should be on those needs, those necessities, right? so, it is your rent, and maybe credit card payment, or student loan payment. 30%. you're one. the stuff you like to do, like to go out to dish, 20%, saving , you can start by saving your emergency reserve funds and then some in retirement, and hopefully by the time you're in your 30's, four's, 20% of all of the money coming this is going to straight retirement. there are your guidelines, here, just gave you a shot. how did it feel?

>> i think that's really good breakdown. so i think jill what you're saying though if you want to try to get your necessities as close to 50% so you have the 30% to play around with. that's the key. >> i would not say i spends $179 for this stupid device. it is called pay cash. you don't have the monday any your wallet, you're not going to buy the thing. people just need to -- >> not easy for everybody. >> it is called self control. i like a lot of things but i'm not out there running and during everything i see. >> i see. >> jimmy new you would get fired up on this one. >> hey it, drives me crazy. i watch people that can't pay their electric bill but they have a big screen tv in their house. brand new. >> i like that breakdown, jill : good advice, thank you. >> take care. >> welshing president trump says us troops will fight to win the war in afghanistan. >> president outlined new strategy in prime time address last night. here's more from seth lemon. >> conditions on the ground, not arbitrary timetables, will guide our strategy from now on

>> reporter: president laid out new course of action monday night for the war in afghanistan. the president zade he will boost the number of american troops, but wouldn't specify how many. he also wouldn't say what conditions would signal a victory. the president insisted this is not a blank check. that afghanistan will have to carry the heavy load in securing it future. >> we will not dictate to the afghan people how to live or how to govern their own complex society. we are not nation building again. we are killing terrorists. >> the president was widely applauded by fellow republicans, even those who have come out against mr. trump's response to the violence in charlottesville. senator john mccain tweeted, i commends potus new strategy for afghanistan. we must move past last admit's failed policy of postponing defeat. >> i'm pleased with the way he went about making this decision. >> on the other side,

democratic house minority leader nancy pillows is released a statement criticizing the president, for , quote, declaring an open ended commitment of american lives, with no accountability to the american people. the afghan ambassador to the u.s. praised the president's plan: taliban released statement urging the us to withdraw all troops insisting it will fight with strong spirit and full determination. seth lemon, cbs-3, "eyewitness news." >> up next: the most unliked member of the royal family. >> can you guess who it is? >> dozen every puppies crammed in the back of a new jersey van in a parking lot. why authorities are so interested in where they came from, pat? how

>> the solar eclipse, in the path of totality it, turns day into night. >> the path of the total solar eclipse start in the oregon, end in the south carolina, check out this video from salem, oregon, one of the first spots that went completely dark. you can see the crowd looking at the skies, total darkness, and officials estimated 1 million visitors traveled to the state of oregon for this event. >> the eclipse head today st. joseph, missouri, cloud to midpoint of the cross country trip when it hit that area, eager viewers were afraid the looming clouds would ruin their chance every seeing anything up in the sky. the time lapse of aerial shows the moment the area eventually went dark. >> and maybe a little closer to home, beach-goers, ocean city here, went from playing in the sun, to staring at t people grabbed their certified eclipse glasses or pin hole viewers, turned their eyes to the sky around 1:30 yesterday afternoon, live guards even

passed around glasses, so all could enjoy. and i was out on my lawn, my apartment, it was nice. people were staring through their glaze z, i had to cope my eyes on the sky, but nice, people staring, everyone wanted to enjoy it. >> i will say when i looked outside this is not impressive , until you put the glasses on. >> right. >> otherwise if you didn't have the glasses it was like it was a busht. >> i saw people using their regular sunglasses, and i ride it for a quick second, no way, no way you could sit therefore more than a half second, all right, this is done. then you put the glasses on, and it looks fantastic once you did that. so our weather watchers were able to send pictures that far yesterday. talking about warm, muggy conditions. and in their backyards here on this tuesday morning, as well. so let's check in with our eyewitness weather watchers right away. see lot of 70s this morning, out, there for all of those folks that are up early this morning, reporting all of the temperatures for us, so take quite look at what a lot of people are seeing out there. eye loan saying it is 66 degrees, in gilbertsville there is morning, levittown,

william's house, 74, john in tack err knack he will, 72. barbara, chesterfield, 74, even up to 75 in mt. laurel, so again, very warm start to the day. as i said, couple every great pictures for us, as well, of the eclipse, but little fog toy start the day out as well. so let's check in with ed looking at temperatures in the 70s, but he's got some fog to start the day out too. so be prepare for that. if you're out on the area roads this morning, good news, once the sun comes up, which it already has, will quickly burn off, this morning fog. heat advisory in effect cents, the i95 corridor, heat index values 920-8103 later this afternoon, so be prepared for high heat, and high humidity, for us, across the entire area getting a look at storm scan3, we have cold front that's out to the midwest, that's going to slowly be tracking to the east. and that's what's going to fire up some showers and thunderstorms, as we head into the evening hours. see by 8:00 this line just around the poconos or so, as we get to the 10:00, 11:00

midnight hour, pockets of heavier rain, shower activity, continues through the overnight tonight, as that front pushes through the region, and then as we get into our wednesday morning, for the most part it, looks like just a stray shower or two, possibility, and then we clear things out. as we get into our saturday, or excuse me, our wednesday afternoon. ourself ear weather threat for today, there is slight risk up through the poconos, some gusty wind, heavy rain. we are continuing to keep an eye on the philadelphia, the delaware valley, too, because there is marginal risk for us here closer to home. 93 degrees for high temperature today, again heat index values closer to maybe 100, 84 tomorrow. remains little muggy for our wednesday. but then once we get into thursday, friday, temperatures here, 82, and 80 degrees, the low humidity, and some 70s as we head into the weekend. meisha? >> yes, i love that heat, but i have to tell that you weekends looks gorgeous matt it, looks just like beautiful weekend coming up. thank you so much. well, for now, happy tuesday. the beginning of the work week , looking outside,

accident, schuylkill westbound , before conshohocken curve pulled all the way up to the far right shoulder, slow moving as you travel on by here. so it was blocking far right lane, just kind of squeezing by in the left lane, now, it is pulled all the way off to the shoulderment take a look at the backups, still pretty substantial. belmont, headlight moving in the westbound direction, toward where the accident is. take a look at this, from the vine to the blue route, talking about 80 minute or more. so definitely going to want to factor in extra time into your commute this morning, i would say if you can hole off little bit at home, certainly want to do so if you have to head out, just factor in a lot of extra time. accident here, 295 north before route 38, pulled off to the far left. again, having some backups, because of this, not only because you're going have a lot of gaper delay, but also because congestion levels are slowing down, it can support those major slow downs now, heading toward the 7:00 hour. construction, near marlton, route 70 westbound, closed

between hartford road and maple avenue. use alternate, your alternate around this area will be church road or route 38. it will be your best bet. then also looking at some construction as well north broad closed between 68th and zero seven until october 2nd, so it will be one of those that lingers out there, your alternates, old york road, 15th street, will be your best bet. more to come in the next ten minutes. jim, over to you. >> thank you shall meishament some sad news, military officials have suspended the search for five missing crew members, of an army blackhawk helicopter. the chopper went down last week off the coast of hawaii during a training exercise. the coast guard and the navy searched more than 72,000 square nautical miles. military officials say total of four helmets were found. along with other debris from that helicopter were found. >> council meeting in charlottesville, virginia ends with three arrest. protesters interrupted the public meeting last night.

some were calling on their city representatives to resign this was the first council meeting since the city's deadly protest on august 12th. protesters were upset that the white supremecist rally was allowed to take place. police removed some protesters >> closer to home, 26 puppies now safe after being found in a hot van outside of new jersey wal-mart, the english and french bulldog pup wrist discovered in this garfield bergin county parking lot. animal control officials say all were crammed into two crates, think about that, 26 puppies, two crates, they were severely dehydrated. investigators are now trying to piece together where these pups came from. >> there were paperworks with them. and in another language. it was determined we believe they might have been from columbia. >> the puppies can sell for one to $3,000 each. animal services stay probably and they probably won't be available for adoption for awhile because of potential diseases. >> they need to find who ever

is responsible and stick them in a hot crate. >> ocean crews keeping track after whale after it was spotted too close to the shore the 20-foot put on quite a show for onlookers yesterday in long beach.hink i is the same whale that turned heads earlier this month, after they say it was separate from the its mother. the crews are trying to make sure gets its way safely back to the open sea. >> meanwhile, prince charles popularity has hit a new low. >> only 36% say he's beneficial to the monarchy, down from 60% just four years ago. his sons, how much, prince william, prince harry, popularity rates in the high seven's, very well-liked apparently. that's thursday, august 31, will be the 20th anniversary of princess diana's death. >> time now 6:51. there is a lot coming up on cb s this morning. >> gale kings joins us with a preview, wearing the same color this morning, gale, good morning. >> because rahel, yellow is the happy color. >> i was thinking about prince

charles, he wonder if it bothers him his son is feeor bar guy, just done everything he's supposed to do. you know? >> i do too, jim. i was thinking that, too, done all of the right things, and i think he's probably ready to be king. we'll see. rahel, always good to see you, excellent taste in colors. >> we're at the white house, new war strategy. talk with former advice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, that's james, about why this plan concerns him. plus, we've got all of the best views of the solar eclipse, we got them, what nasa scientists captured on pair of planes that flew through the moon shadow 50,000 . all of that plus the eye opener. what you know means world in how many second, jim? >> ninety seconds. >> he passed his test. aced it with flying colors. >> thank, gale. >> he always does. >> see you at 7:00. less than ten minutes from now >> bye. >> well, colleerewill be busy welcoming student back to classes this week. >> that time of year for

freshman at widener university today is move in day. these new student will be the class of 2021 and the school's 200 graduating class. "eyewitness news" reporter pat gallen live on campus this morning, pat, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, guys, don't you miss the back it school days when you were younger, much, much younger? there is a little bit of nervousness going back to school. obviously little bit of sadness, because summer over, but obviously excitement as well because it is a new year, time to start new chapter. they're doing that right here at widener university. it started to. the freshman class begins. this is catherine, from widener university, good morning, how are you? >> good morning, i'm very good , very excited to be here today and to welcome our new class. >> so tell us what you're expecting, what student and par rent especting with they drop their kids off today. >> we are real excited. spent a lot of time preparing to have our student event a great experience, and to be welcomed to our campus in a way to ease the anxiety, most of the student and families are real anxious about the

experience to come to campus, so whole host of folks who volunteer to help, faculty, staff, president, student leaders, variety of folks here to help bring down the stress and san kai at this, make it easy experience. student to jump from high school into college, but just as difficult for the parent, they have trouble letting go as well. >> true, weaver a session today about midday for parent, called letting go, it is really a helpful process, our dine facilities to talk to the parent about the experience, how they can get experience from other parent, and help them with their process? so whether does the fun begin on campus? >> we wart checking our student in at 9:00 a.m. >> we have one here up earl which us, kelsey robinson, good morning. >> good morning. >> so you came early last week >> yes, last week. >> what was that all about? >> in a pre orientation program called 1821, it allows us to common campus, meet new friends, and tour it city before school starts. >> you're from north jersey. it was difficult coming in

here on your own, starting like a new chapter of your life? >> yes, speciallyly because i am an only child. so it was a little nerve wracking but the comfortable. >> that's good thing with a tough watching your parent walk this is son me now, all about me, the freshman student in. >> it was kind of a cry baby little bit. >> awe. kelsey, i'm sorry. kelsey robinson, not a cry baby, a lovely student here at widener university. enjoy yourself. >> thank you, i will. >> so they're starting here today widener university and many college campuses around the country. you guys remember, you remember what it felt like right? >> i do. i was very excited. i was ready to go. but my mom was crying. >> i never moved n i stayed with my parent. they couldn't get rid of me until i was in my 20's. >> my mom was balling, so sad. >> thank you, pat. >> and we will be right back.

>> last check on weather and traffic. >> yes, it will be a loath one today, guys, heat advisory in effect, starts at 1:00 this afternoon, so 8:00 this evening, heat index values near the 100 degrees mark, 93 for the actual air temperature >> yikes. all right, matt, weaver an accident at the conshohocken curve back up schuylkill westbound at belmont, those are starting to clear up, and 295 northbound before route 38e.

>> remember to join us each westbound day morning cbs-3 good morning it's tuesday, august 22nd, 2017. welcome to cbs this morning. president trump reverses his stance on afghanistan outlining a strategy that will require more u.s. troops but his prime time address to the nation included few details. the pentagon orders a temporary halt to navy ship operations around the world after the latest collision involving a december stroier. divers join the search for ten missing sailors and police in ohio want to know why a man ambushed and shot a judge in a dramatic shootout outside a courthouse. >> plus, millions of americans awe struck by the solar eclipse.