chelsea and meisha will be along in a moment but first here's what you need to necessity to start in our morning minute is wednesday, august 23rd. police in phoenix fired gas and flash bang grenades as angry protesters took to the street as president trump held a campaign style rally. >> we are fully, totally committed to fighting for our agenda. we will be on the scene for four or five days. >> ntsb continues continue on investigate tuesday's crash at 69th street terminal. today they will talk to the conductor of the train. >> politician as cross the garden state are remembering jim whelan, who died at 68 and served in the new jersey legislature as atlantic city mayor and a life guard. u.s. navy is dismissing the commander of the u.s. seventh fleet, vice admiral joseph ocoin being booted after two major collisions in the last few months most

recent involved u.s.s. john s mccain. i was on the -- >> buy a car. >> me and my family will go together. >> i like that lady, she has it all planned out, power ball >> yes, 700 million. >> yes, right. >> go on vacation what do you think, chelsea. >> it sounds awesome. >> you know what else is awesome? weather by this afternoon. we have to get through this bump overnight and this morning but things are looking fantastic for the rest of today and also as we head into this weekend. lets start off with a live look, at the neighborhood network the city from the new jersey side of things. notice we are dry right now, and that is same reflection on storm scan three we're drying out we have risk for shower or storm for south and east, around eight or 9:00 but overall trend will be to see improvement throughout the day , we have a flood warning

in place, same area with that flash flood warning overnight from wilmington to philadelphia until 8:00 this morning. if you see ponding on the roadways, turnaround, don't drawn, temperatures in the mid 70's in philadelphia. seventy-four millville. 77 degrees in wildwood. lets plan your day now. temperatures looking good. 81 degrees. we will see decreasing clouds and increasing sunshine. by 3:00 p.m. we will see decreasing dew points, much more comfortable afternoon with tons of sunshine and temperatures in the mid 80's. we will talk about fall-like weather heading our way very soon. how are road looking, meisha. >> they are looking good, with every passing, 30 minute increments, things are looking better. good morning to all of you, of course. we are looking outside at 422, route 29, headlights in the eastbound direction. the shots are looking wet, but we can expect that. but really majority of the pooling will be found on the bridges, bridge decks and

sidewalks, pulled over to the side shoulders. just drive around and overall we are not seeing that many problems just yet, so far we are looking good. this is just a quick peak at vine not closed for that construction. we are looking good. we have a couple accidents out there. route 42 southbound at 295 that left lane compromise there had and admiral wilson boulevard eastbound near federal street will be affected. so just know they are out there, whenever we have a couple accidents when it is coming on the heels of the rain coming through we will want to be mindful and take it easy. down wires as that storm passed through here route one baltimore pike closed between cheyney road and schoolhouse lane. use this alternate glen mills road is your best bet and seeing some, what you are dropping a little bit less than posted speeds. we are looking at what was a, this is still out there route 206 at province line red and in cross traffic and route 206 north and southbound closed

between charter road and elm road. that has been out there a little bit. that will be lingering out there through september, end of september. it will be out there through september 30th. just a head up. also water main break, two of them we have one's wind road at trooper road, one lane block there we have another one here so just be mindful, lot going on this morning. route 202 dekalb street closed between fourth street, and use an alternate around this area dekalb pike is probably your best bet, rahel, back over to you. president trump had a campaign style rally for blaming media for divisiveness that arose in charlottesville and reaffirmed his commitment to building a wall on the mexican border. predicted nafta will probably be dissolved and hinted at a pardon for former arizona sheriff joe ar pa io, things did get heated after president 's remarks. police used tear gas to disperse the crowd. back at home investigation continues in upper darby as

ntsb try to figure out what caused yesterday's train crash that hurt dozens of passengers >> "eyewitness news" reporter trang do is live with more on what investigators had to say, good morning, trang do. >> reporter: good morning, jim and rahel. they plan to interview train operator today who has already submitted samples for drug and alcohol testing. they plan to be out here at the scene gathering evidence but it will be sometime before we get any answers. ntsb investigators combed tracks at 69th street terminal after a terrifying crash between two norristown high speed line railcars. one pulling into the station, the other park on the track. the accident which happened just after midnight on tuesday injured 33 people, including the train operator. >> i see that we have 69th street, why are we going so fast, boom. >> reporter: ntsb investigators charged rubin takeon they have a eight member team on the ground in upper darby.

>> they will be collecting evidence in the specific discipline which includes mechanical, operation, signal, train control, crash worth iness, emergency response , and human performance. >> reporter: so far investigators select on board video recorders from both railcars and they have plans to interview the operator sometime wednesday. >> we cannot rule out anything right now. >> reporter: passenger told "eyewitness news" that the train seemed to have trouble breaking at two prior stops. >> i talk to the guy at gulph mills and he said that is not right, it never passes like. that something is wrong. >> reporter: there was very little visible damage, he says further inspection should provide some needed answers. >> we saw some damage from walking inside, once we can get under the cars and tear into them, we will know just what extent they were damaged and whether they performed as designed. >> reporter: ntsb investigators take quite a long time to see, final report could take nine to 12 months to be released.

we are live outside 69th street station i'm trang do for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". jim and rahel, back to you. 5:37. in business news sales are going stale for a fresh food provider. >> money watch's roxana saberi joins us live with that and more, good morning, rocks san a. >> reporter: good morning, jim and rahel. will stocks keep up their rally today? they surged yesterday after a shaky couple weeks, dow jones rose 196 points and nasdaq finished 84 points up. blue apron is putting in a hiring freeze for salary workers. company delivered boxes pack with fresh ingredients and recipe card to make meals at home. since going public in june its shares dropped 50 percent. company says it is laying off 14 recruiters as part of the organizational restructuring. state department is warning americans to think twice about visiting several popular spots in mexico. issued an advisory warning of the spike in homicides in

resort towns including cancun and playa delcarmen. state department says turf battles between criminals group led to violent crime in areas frequented by americans, some shooting incidents innocent bystanders have been injured or killed. teens new say snap chatties cooler then facebook. researcher firm e marketer say more 12 to 17 year-old will use snap over facebook but news isn't entirely bad for facebook, lot of those teens are expected to turn to instagram which facebook, owns jim and rahel. >> if you talk about facebook to a teenager they look at you like you are a dinosaur. >> reporter: it is true. >> facebook has change. i remember when facebook first started, you had to be in college. so exited to get to college. now anybody can join and it has lost its appeal. >> kid are like, my parents are on it, i will not be on it >> exactly. >> how can do you things you want to do when your parents are watching.

>> thanks, roxana. >> good news for atlantic city casinos, new data shows casinos made money, rahel, gross operating profits are up , 308 million-dollar, that is nearly a 20 percent increase from last year. tropicana reported biggest increase followed by resorts and golden nugget. new jersey senator bob menendez federal corruption trial is now underway, jury selection began yesterday in the new washing courtroom, menendez is facing bribery and fraud charges. you may recall he is accused of taking campaign donations and gifts from his wealthy friend florida eye doctor salmon reagan in exchange for using his political influence. both men are on trial and deny any wrongdoing, opening statements are scheduled for september 6th. fate of the frank rizzo statue remains unclear this morning. statue which sits in front of the municipal services building in center city has been subject of the very controversial debate, some want it torn down citing rizzo 's record on race relations, others want to it

stay. group calling itself pro rizzo , pro police anti hate committee released a statement reading in part a group of italian american organizations and others met with the mayor, discussion about this has started and mayor assured us, that nothing will be removed or moved at this time. we call on council woman helen gym to apologize and recall her bigoted remarks which continue to divide our city and promote violence. council would man's gym office told cbs-3 that the council would man never made any bigot ed remarks and claims that any remarks be substantiated and made public. philadelphia police hope surveillance cameras help fine people vandal icing a northeast philadelphia cemetery. damage was discovered yesterday morning at memorial church of st. lukes, in the cities bustleton section. you can see dozens of tomb stones were toppled, one member of the church arrived to find his family's tomb stones knocked over. >> i was so angry and that is why i would like to find out who did this, why they did it, and would they be man enough to come do it in the day light

and beat me here, or they could be seen. >> they will in the do that. they are too cowardly. cemetery dates back 156 years and is resting place for civil war figures such as union colonel penknock hughy. haverford township murder suspect is behind bars this morning. police arrested him near atlanta authorities say derek rollins fled after killing 29 year-old john light in july. rollins is accused of shooting at two men in philadelphia's overbrook section that very same day. those men were not hurt. police say rollins will be brought back here to face aggravated assault charges. well, up next forbes is out with their annual list of the highest paid actors, and who is making most money in hollywood. and why south korea is launching these balloons, there they are, over north korea. then find out why espn will not let an announce are work a game this weekend and it has nothing to do with his performance. as we head into break a

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he has come a long way since marky mark and funky bunch, mark wahlberg has been named hollywood's best paid

actor, forbes magazines say wahlberg made 68 million-dollar over the pennsylvania year, last year big winner dwayne johnson took second place with 65 million-dollar and finishing out top three vin diesel, he earned 54 and a half million-dollar. how about this though, highest paid actress emma stone she only made 26 million-dollar. got to tell you george clooney and his wife amal are making a political statement with their wallets. they have donated one million-dollar to fight hate groups in the u.s. money will go to the southern poverty law center to support its effort to fight against violence, extremism, this comes two weeks after violence erupted during a unite the right rally in charlottesville well, here's a question is there any award that the legendary morgan freeman hasn't won? actor already has an oscar, kennedy center honor and star on the hollywood walk of fame and now, screen actors guild is giving him a lifetime achievement award.

offerings say he embodies the finest ideals of acting profession. he sure does. what is in a name? pop star bruno mars got to meet the man behind his nickname, check it out, that would be, mars, posing with retired professional wrestler bruno san mar teen owe. he is a ledgeend in pittsburgh where mars was perform last night. it was an honor to meet his name sake and got to pose with his old wwf title belt. well, espn coming under fire for booting an announcer off a football game. network announce that had robert lee will not be in the broadcast booth next month for university of virginia season opener, and network spokesperson sites safety concerns because the announcer has same name as confederate general, whose statue was center of recent violence in charlottesville. espn says decision to rhea sign lee was made collectively

>> that is the most stupid thing i have ever heard this morning. >> it sound like a stretch, i'm curious if he was involved in that decision but if it would affect his safety and he feels like he is on board. >> how much do you want to bet collectively, what they say when they say you'll do this. >> would you want to be in the situation where you felt threatened. >> i can take care of myself. >> i just think that is ridiculous. >> yes. >> silly. >> so, last time i saw 12:30. >> not very happy. >> i am happy because it is moving out. >> flash flooding overnight, we have a couple flood warnings that we're watching from wilmington if ale but things are looking so much better you guys. >> good, good. >> you can see hey we're dry right now on the roof cam looking at center city but we are stuck under the cloud and we will be for next couple hours but overall situation is going to be looking so, so

much better as we head into the afternoon and for next several days, lets take a look at our weather watcher numbers we have overall temperatures in the 70's across the region. still, bill in philadelphia says 72 in his backyard. fran in nottingham says 71 in her neighborhood. seventy-three from he had need chesterfield. let's see, clementon we have david, right around 74 degrees where he lives. overall yeah temperatures in the 70's to start off the day stopper scan three look at how things are clearing out, drying out now the storms that we dealt with overnight associated with the cold front , that cold front is sweeping to the south and east and we will see improving weather throughout the day, drying out, we will see decrease in humidity, finally. temperatures right now checking in the zero seven's. seventy-six in philadelphia 75 in atlantic city. seventy-four millville. seventy-seven down the shore in wildwood. as we head in the next several days, look at how humidity continues to drop, this is what i'm talking about

pleasant conditions on thursday, feeling down ride awesome as we head into friday and rest of the weekend. by the weekend we could talk about dew points in the upper 40's, you heard me right, that is feeling spectacular and in the something we see this time of the year. these showers, these cloud also with that front, looking at it move out. we are seeing a couple cloud and redeveloping showers, and various south and east of philadelphia but overall look at how those skies clear out this afternoon. we will see increasing sunshine and things looking so much better out there. here's what you can expect for today, high temperature right around 84 degrees, turning sunny and less humid, i'll have your seven day forecast in a bit. meisha, how are road looking. >> i have to say they are looking good. what we were talking about, every 30 minutes they keep getting better and better and that forecast, chelsea you are bringing good stuff our way. looking outside right now roadways are looking more dry, even in the 4:00 o'clock hour. we are looking good here 95

south approaching betsy ross bridge, both directions, you can start to see a change as we creep toward 6:00 a.m. hour by the way good morning to you , schuylkill headlights moving in the eastbound direction approaching gulph mills. this is where we have 95 at the airport. look at that sky isn't that absolutely, gorgeous. pink, yellow, green, blue just so stunning. i wanted to bring you an update train accident yesterday at 69th street terminal, so norristown high speed line trains are running every 20 minute increment, no express service, just to remind to you check those schedules on line and we have two accidents here one at route 30, 142 south, bet of which have cleared. big thumbs up in that area we have down wires from the storm that moved in last night on route one and that has been since cleared so we will talk about construction coming up in the next 10 minutes, jim, back over to you. south korean activist are finding a unique way to get their propaganda over border in north korea they are using balloons to send up leaflets,

dvd and flash drives. some of the material contains south korean soap operas or mini documentaries. one said he sent up his empty food wrappers so they can see good life they are missing in the south. man in california faces 10 years in prison after pointing a laser at helicopter pilots this happened near los angeles on monday night, pilots in a sheriff's chopper say they were on routine patrol when green light suddenly disrupted their vision. they located the source of the light, a 38 year-old man with his wife and children. >> sitting down playing with his children and he illuminat ed us several more times. >> it might hit you for a few brief seconds but effect that is last minutes or sometimes in my case days afterward. >> police say suspect tried hiding laser when they arrived , within of the pilot involved has damage from the previous time someone pointed a laser at his chopper. fishing disasters in the waters off washington state is blamed the solar eclipse.

estimated 5,000 atlantic salmon escaped through a broken net over weekend. farm's owner is blaming high tide that is coincided with the solar eclipse for causing the damage. it is raising environmental concerns since atlantic salmon are non-native species to the pacific northwest. state officials are encouraging recreational angl ers to catch the salmon. up next not so terrible tuesday, celebration for panda 's second birthday. plus this... we will tell you where you can see spectacular sites in the skies, today we will be right

planes will be soaring through the skies over the ac beach and boardwalk today. >> annual atlantic city air show is celebrating its 15th year. check this out "eyewitness news" got a special preview, people on the beach there looked up to the sky to watch practice runs for the big show free event takes flight at 11:00 a.m. and continues until 3:30. line up includes demonstrations by military, private aircraft as well as, u.s. air force thunder bird. we have a couple birthdays in our news room, today our assignment editor josh, jake,

one of our writers but nothing compared to the cake giant panda got to celebrate his birthday. >> national sue threw a big party for baby, he celebrated by squeezing his 150-pound frame into that small becomes there labeled birthday boy and taking a few by the of a panda friendly cake. >> birthday cake was made out of the apple juice, grape juice, it had carrots, apples, sweet potato his favorite things. >> ahh. >> and zoo officials say he has grown more independent over pennsylvania year. i remember when baby was born and you can never say happy birthday too many times another happy birthday to josh our assignment editor and jacob one of our writers and 5:00 a.m. producer, vince, he and josh are very good friend, best friends, they tease of. >> they will have a sweet potato cake. >> i haven't tasted it this morning. coming up next hour of "eyewitness news" more beaches close todd back tear, yeah find out where you cannot go

in the water right now. have you ever heard of this? >> no. >> trust me it is a total body work out that is as challenging as effective see if i'm up to the challenge, up

well, strong storms moved through the area overnight, they have woken you up and now

ushering in big changes in the forecast. protestness phoenix demonstrators took to the streets before, during and after president trump's speech , hear what he said that has people still talking this morning. power ball jackpot rises to 700 million-dollar making it second largest in u.s. history, find out your odd of winning, tonight's drawing, we will be winning to it day, it is wednesday august 23rd good morning i'm jim donovan. i like it. i'm rahel solomon. wet weather may have kept you awake, it kept us awake. we were talking about this. check out time lapse video. sky turned gray, drenches our sky scan and in shortage of lightening. it seemed to pennsylvania about 12:30 this morning. fire officials believe lightening sparked this overnight house fire in sellersville bucks county at the height of the storm just