live from the cb cbs broadcast center in philadelphia. this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news " this morning. well, developing right now , neighbors make sandbags and board up their windows as hurricane lar have i gains strength putting the texas gulf coast on edge. >> and, ends being the hate. bucks county community comes together after someone vandalize z a school sign with racist graffiti. >> and big night forecaster on wentz. how his performance at the linc put the eagles on the road to victory. >> today is friday, august 25, good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon man. let's get a check on today's weather with kate and take a look at the roads with meisha. >> we are friday, and looking at construction, roadways nice and dry. are you excite that it is friday, mr.?

>> well, wah, wah, you know, always nice, friday, it puts energy good mood, so we stick with that even though it is my monday, we have some showers that we are talking about this morning here as well across the delaware valley, now, they haven't quite work their way into philly just yet. but they are slope slowly getting here. we could watch for couple of scattered showers, not just in philly but the poconos, maybe even back down toward the shore points. earlier in the day they quickly clear outment look for plenty of sunshine throughout the friday afternoon. don't fret, even if you do wake up to little bit of rain, it will still be nice well into the afternoon. temperatures out, there seeing lots of low 60s, but couple of hours still on the warmer side including here in philly at 68 . little warmer wilmington, 66. but as you head up toward the poconos, only 52 in mount pocono, and it is very low on that humidity, that's been our theme the last couple of days it, will remain that way through the morning and into the afternoon, as well, meisha

see temperatures later this afternoon in the eight's, so really, you got to enjoy that, it will be great all weekends long, not too much going on the roadways weather wise. >> it will help us out todd specially for our friday. and friday's tends to be lighter travel days. morning, and still very dark, still early. matt, thank you so much. very good morning to all of you. looking outside at the talcony palmyra bridge scheduled to go up about now. we should see some movement coming up. construction out there this morning, construction project that we've been talking about basically all week long, route one at oxford valley, southbound, southbound side closed, exit off oxford valley then re-enter onto oxford valley. northbound side, closed yesterday, northbound side today is open. resurfaced project on the schuylkill, eastbound between blue route, gladwynn, right lane compromised. camera shot is showing around the blue route area, trying to get it out of here way before 5:00. hopeful they it they do. more convention, between route

1413, business route one. more construction when we come back in a bit. >> thank you, hurricane harvey now category two storm, gaining strength as it closes in on the texas gulf coast. the storm could hit land as early as tonight. weijia jiang explains why it could be the most fears hurricane to hit the us in almost a dozen years. >> the national hurricane center is calling hurricane harvey life threatening. the gulf coast of texas is right in harvey's path. residents and business owners are boarding up. >> things can change. so i err on the side of caution. >> some beach-goers in corpus christi aren't worried just yet. >> might as well get our beach time in before it hits. >> for the first time issued off recall storm surge warning for the texas coastline, the surge in corpus christi could be as high as 10 feet putting people in low high area in harms way. >> we are recommending in the strongest terms that if you live in those low-lying areas

that you get out and you begin to get out now. >> many businesses are already closed anticipating harvey's arrival, expected to make landfall late friday, early saturday, as category three hurricane and stall out near the coast or just inland. >> residents stocking up on supermarket essentials, metropolitan areas like houston expect rain. >> houston gets 16 plus inches of rain it will be significant , not catalanotto involve i can, property lost. >> forecasters say the downpour expected to stretch into next week. >> as it works its way back down to the southeast possibly out over the open water we could be seeing a restrengthening going into tuesday. >> another ripple effect, gas prices hit three week high with at least two refineries in corpus christi shutdown. weijia jiang, for cbs-3, " eyewitness news." >> in fact we could feel the impact of harvey at the gas p.m., as well, they predict it

will jump five to sent sent per gallon, workers have also evacuated from off shore oil drilling platforms ahead of the storm. this morning, police are investigating home invasion in north philadelphia. officers say just before 1:30, two armed men broke into a home on the 3,000 block of north 23rd street. one of the residents ran for the front door, she was shot in the back, and currently in critical condition. police are questioning two men , they have no motive just yet. >> two men in the hospital after an overnight shooting in east germantown, police say they heard shots the 1300 block of east rittenhouse street, just before 1:00 this morning, when they arrived the car sped from the scene. it crashed into a house blocks away, that driver is now in custody, but passenger ran away. police still looking into the cause of the shooting. >> well, police are investigating after a man is gunned down in philadelphia's kensington neighborhood. chopper three, was over the scene near north front and west lippincott street.

this was just after 9:00 last night. authority tell us the 39 year old victim was shot at least three times. he was returned to temple university hospital where he died a short time later. so far no word on motive or an arrest. community comes together to discuss ways to end hatred after racist graffiti is found on a bucks county school. >> target herbert hoover elementary school in langhorne , at the town hall meeting last night there community members addressed the gracie graffiti scribbled on the school's sign days before the beginning of the school year. investigators say hate has no place in their community. >> ugly race graffiti was found, the community is concerned about it, kids are starting back it school next week. so we thought it would be good to bring people together and talk about their concerns. >> police say nearby amounts were also vandalized, investigators believe the same person had hit both locations. the graffiti has been removed.

so far no arrests. >> well, a man is behind bars after attack in bucks county. police say woman texted 911 for help while hiding in a apartment commodore barry police it. this is the suspect, christopher hand began of collingdale, delaware county. investigators say the attack happened saturday in ben sal e authorities say emergency dispatch here received the victim's text messages, told the woman to call 911, so they could find her location from the gps on her cell phone. >> the 911 dispatchers talking through the whole process basically told her, listen, stop texting, dial 911, but don't talk. because the guy was still in the area. it may have saved her life, the technology, pretty darn close to it. >> the bail for hen began is set at 10% of $10 million. charges against him include rape and false imprisonment. some local lawmakers want federal governments to speed up the process when finding out what causes the septa train accident. "eyewitness news" got an exclusive look at the 69th

street station platform in upper darby where a septa train crash happened on tuesday. a train hit the back of the non-occupied parked train, injuring 33 people. there was also a train accident in upper darby in february. congressman bob brady and upper darby mayor tom are outraged at the average lent after investigation by the nts b, brady wants congressional hearing. >> this is going to take another year, almost a year, to find out what's happened. that's unacceptable. you got to get confidence back in these riders? and ntsb spokesman said investigators are methodical and thorough and that if an immediate safety problem is identified the agency will issue an emergency alert. >> debate over controversial statues and monuments is leading to charges at richard stockton university in galloway township. the university has temporarily removed a bus at stock tan, sign err of the declaration every independence and slave owner from its display case, however part of the new

exhibit in the library which the university says will teach students about stockton's, and it cause it is a controversial figure. >> also, philadelphia taking action a mid the debate over the frank rizzo statue. the office of art, culture and creative economy is now asking you to share your ideas about it future. the statue right now is in front of the municipal services building, siting the mayor and police commissioner's record on race relations and other want it to stay. idea at cbsphilly.com. >> turning to sport, what a great night to be at the linc. >> the eagles and the miami dolphins kept fans on the edge of their seat. the eagles offense started hot with carson wentz throwing 50 yards to tori smith. smith scores a touchdown. wasn't all roses though for the offense, though, wentz going to throw, but the ball gets tipped at the line and gets pick off. wentz wasn't done, though there is time, looking to wide receiver alshon jeffrey from

15 yards out. went finished the day six of ten with two touchdowns, and one interception. the eagles win it 38 to 31. >> feels good. i feel confident. i'm thankful for the most part everyone is pretty healthy, too. i think this offense tonight was good showing for us, like i said, interception was unfortunate, but moved the ball well, for the start he is it is excite to go to start get dollars started for washington. >> fans outside side the stadium just as the game was wrapping up. >> i liked the defense, i likes the offense. i think they played really really well. their defense was on point. the offense could have been a little bit better but they did really good. >> now the bird face the new york jet, at mid life stadium next thursday night for the final game over the pre-season >> new report commissioned by the philadelphia convention and visitors bureau is calling the nfl draft in philadelphia an economic success. it finds the draft had an

economic impact of nearly $95 million. that's well above the estimated eight # million. record braking 250,000 people including myself attended the draft from the ben franklin parkway, we were still waiting to hear if philadelphia will host the draft again next year >> well, there is much more to cover on cbs-3 "eyewitness news" this morning, meet the newest multi-millionaire. what the winner of the powerball jackpot plans to do with all of that money. >> i have some identify eats what i would do, but i didn't win. neither did you. also, this new jersey waitress she didn't win either. but a couple did leave her quite a big tip. we'll explain, back in two minute.

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♪ good goes around good goes around and around and around. hey! ♪ >> well, the winner of the $758 million powerball jackpot plans to retire and pay off her car. the woman from massachusetts check dollars her big check, the only winner of wednesday night's drawing, the 53 year old the mother of two grown children. she picked the numbers herself

and found out she won after leaving work with a colleague. >> he said i bet you someone won these numbers, they're birthdays. >> i said oh, no, it will never be me. it is a pipe dream i've always had. and i pull mine out and i go hey, i have that number, i have that, i have that, and he goes let me see that ticket. and he goes you just won. i go are you squalking? come on, please. finds that ticket now. >> sign it right away. this is the largest ever prize for a single lottery ticket. the chose the lump sum payment , that's about $336 million after taxes. >> and although no one hit the jackpot here, there were a few big winners locally. there were $1 million tickets sold at the 7-eleven on street road in warminster, white's market on cedar crest boulevard in allentown, l and k petroleum route 47 in dorchester. >> waitress in new jersey hit a jackpot of sort, no, didn't win the powerball but did leave work with a pretty big

tip. brianna segal waitress at bar in woodbridge township waited on young couple actuals, she said the couple paid their bill, 20 bucks for burger and drinks, then they handed her an envelope. inside that envelope was a 1,200-dollar check. >> i didn't know if it was real. i didn't know if it was a scam the girl turned around, there is something in it, but just don't open it until you foully like leave the parking lot. >> all right, how about this? also inside that envelope was was a note that red in part, whenever it gets hard, know god's got you. the couple does remain anonymous, and god told them to give the money to someone who touched their hearts. she plans to put the money toward nursing school. she made yearly quite an impact on that family. >> talk about a generous couple. paying it forward. >> absolutely. >> time 4:45. >> matt's here with another check of the forecast. i don't know if you have a 1,200-dollar check but we'll take a good forecast. >> the forecast so nice, maybe you guys should be paying off

the meat comegys here at cbs-3 , just saying. it has been just fantastic, storm scan3 does show couple of showers, we will continue to watch these as they track early on our friday. you can actually even see little bit of maybe even more moderate rainfall, little bit north of the city at this point up through the lehigh valley. so if you do wake up this morning to few showers, don't be surprised. but the good news, we take a look at future weather, paid out by the time weep get little past sunrise or so. so they're not going to last even into the early morning hours at this point. we go with sunshine throughout our friday afternoon, heading into saturday morning. still, looking great out there and as we wrap our weekend up sunday, nothing changes, it stays warm, but not overly hot humidity stays low. and it is just going to be wonderful wonderful sunday to go along with great friday and saturday, as well. outside right now, if you are looking at our neighborhood network, you see little dark out there on the board walk rehoboth. it will be great beach day for us.

check out your forecast for the shore, 78 degrees what we're looking at for high temperature down on the beach. basically perfect beach day if you ask me just make sure to latter up with sunscreen, ton of sunshine. for today, 8 degrees here in the city for our high temperature, we go with 79 tomorrow. back to 80 for sunday, of course, we have our komen walk , starts today, goes through the weekends, looks like fantastic weather for. that will we kick off next week with 79, again, on monday , meisha. but then unfortunately few scattered showers there in the forecast for tuesday. but those temperatures, i know you like the 90s, but those of us ready for cooler weather, i think we're getting it. >> i got to jump on the bandwagon for that, it looks absolutely beautiful. matt, thank you so much. good morning to all of you. we made it, friday, looking outside right now, talcony palmyra bridge went up, now it is coming back down. so those of you waiting on the bridge, you're pretty good, too. construction route one oxford vale, looks like construction crews are moving it out of your way right now, if it is still out thereby the time you

get out, there exit off oxford valley, re-enter on oxford vale, as well. resurfaced project, eastbound, looking at this basically all week long, looking at it again , eastbound between the blue route, gladwynn, right lane compromised still, camera shot showing around the blue route area, and you can see the crews are still out there. hopefully in the next 15 minute or so they'll start to kind of move on out of the way construction 95 northbound between route 413, business route one, one lane open there and we've also got construction roosevelt boulevard so, so bound between cottman avenue, bustleton avenue, outer lanes closed. still snowing a lot of green, letting everyone know you're still obviously at this hour still traveling around just as we should. and the betsy ross bridge, as well, construction westbound, two left lanes, compromised there, and some more construction to talk about coming up in the next ten minutes, rahel, jim, back to you. >> meisha, still ahead on " eyewitness news" this morning , trouble retailer makes plans to close more stores. >> also, whole foods makes some changes under new ownership. how those changes will affect your wallet. when "eyewitness news"

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>> time for check on business news. >> meg oliver joins us live from new york, meg, good morning. so, we hear that more sears stores are coming to a close. what's the latest with that? >> good morning, jim, rahel. that's right. sears is closing more stores, as they continue to struggle with declining sales, in competition from retail giants , including wal-mart, amazon. 180 sears stores will close this year, with another 150 on the chopping block. sears holdings also plans to shut 28 k-mart stores, jim, rahel. >> that used to be the big stores in the 60s, 70s, meg, i understand good news for on line shoppers in the grocery aisle? >> that's right. amazon officially takes over while foods monday, and it will rollback prices, potentially erasing the organic grocer's unofficial name. amazon says it is trying to make organic food more

accessible to everyone, amazon prime members will also benefit, from whole foods customer reward programs with special offers, and discounts. jim, rahel. >> meg, they need to cut the price on pineapple. you need like a second mortgage on your home to afford pineapple at whole foods. that is fortune. >> pricy. >> exactly. >> meg, we're here for that casino every news, thank you, see you in the next hour. >> coming up after the break. we get another check on traffic. >> plus, matt, getting ready for wonderful weekend? >> it is, it will be fantastic , we continue with the low humidity, comfortable temperatures, but the next chance we have for few showers in the delaware vale, all after the break.

>> we are waking up to the delaware valley to comfortable conditions, but couple of light rain showers have poked their heads out this friday morning, storm scan3 shows that you rain activity, as it slowly travels through the area here on this friday

morning. we will take you up near the reading area, berks county, where we have some light and maybe even at times right through reading right now some moderate rainfall. the good news is even though we're coming out from showers here early on in the day, they'll be clearing off before sunrise it looks like, back down into delaware, as women, see middletown, through dover, back toward milford, as well, some light showers along the coastline here on storm scan3, on this friday morning. so, be prepared for that, across the area to start the day. but then again, plenty of sunshine later on this afternoon. we are going to haddonfield later today for summer fest. 80 degrees our summer fest forecast. plenty of sunshine, as well, we continue the low humidity, so it looks like it should be great if you're planning on checking out summer fest later this afternoon and this evening, temperatures for us right now, 68 degrees in philly. sixty-two down at the a.c. airport, your hour by hour forecast, top things out at 80 e sunshine, does it get any better for a friday? >> really doesn't. for a friday that's exactly

what we would want to see. matt, we like you, good morning, happy friday. looking outside at the vine. it was -- westbound, eastbound , looking great. moving around, just as you should as we approach the 5:00 . forty-two, same story here. very dark. very early. this is typically what we see on the 42 freeway northbound approaching 295 at this hour. resurfaced project still out there on the schuylkill eastbound before the blue route, gladwynn, camera showing you around the blue route area. crews are out there right now trying to get this cleaned up for you. i'll let you know of course as soon as they move out of the way. construction tweet 413 and business route one, one lane open here. this is an area that will start to slow you down a little later if they don't move out of our way, boulevard southbound also construction between cottman avenue, bustleton avenue. outer lanes closed there, and we're keeping our eye on the censor maps, making sure everything still looks green. so far so good. betsy ross bridge westbound, two lanes, compromised there. as you can see, still traveling at posted speeds showing all green. more construction to talk

about when we come back in the 5:00 hour, jim, back over to you. >> thank you, meisha. dog owners near their four legged friends, extra attention in old sit. >> i now offered free dog watches. all part of the fourth annual dog days of summer event. now, although the dog watchers were free, many dog owners made donations to the local no kill animal shelter save me. tomorrow by the way is national dog day. >> good stuff. coming up in the next hour of cbs-3 "eyewitness news," we are following the newest developments, as hurricane harvey strengthens, and eyes up the gulf coast. >> also ahead, susan g. komen three day kicks off today. live with more on this, emotional journey, for walkers across our area. >> don bell has recap of last night's eagles pre-season game we will hear from quarterback carson wentz. back at the top of the hour. don't go away.

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>> hurricane harvey could be the most destructive car storm to make landfall. hurricane hunters flew into the storm which has strength ends now to category two. we'll have a report from texas , where some areas could get 35 inches of rain. inch credible there. also, the birds were flying high at the linc, where they won another pre-season game. we'll have a look at the offense, and hear from quarterback carson wentz. >> live look at bethlehem help and the lehigh val think morning, wacking to up cool, comfortable temperatures, great news for the walkers in this year's komen three day which kicks off today. and today is friday,us