>> good morning, first, here's what you need to start your day in the morning minute, today is friday, august 25th. >> boarding up and getting out hurricane harvey is picking upstream, and headed for the gulf coast. residents aren't taking any chances. >> a community gathers together, calling for an end to hate after racist graffiti is found outside a local elementary school. >> will not be accepted in our - >> to have this discussion. >> a strong pre-season performance from the eagles, beating the dolphins, 38-31,.

>> the highlight of the night came from the offense, and carson wentz. >> i feel confident. >> biting breast cancer one step at time this morning, the annual susan g. komen three day walk for cure gets underway. >> i've called, told them i will not be coming back. >> doesn't have to work ever again. the massachusetts woman the lucky powerball jackpot winner pocketing $336 million after taxes. >> i'm going to go hide in my bed. >> amazing. >> she said she plans to pay off the car she bought in september. i would just get rid that far car, and buy a whole fleet, and wants to sit back and relax. >> understanded that. matt peterson in for katie. matt, we may no have millions of dollars but at least we could have good weather, right >> i think we have a million dollars forecast, that's what i would say. we have fantastic weather the last couple of afternoons, it will be wonderful for friday, and all the way through the weekends, as well.

so, we got to just get maybe through our friday work day, and then just will be great saturday, sunday. now couple of light showers trying to work their way through the area here this morning, so we get a look at the weather headlines for friday, again, lilt dollars chance for shower here this morning, but, plenty of afternoon sunshine. and then, we continue that trends of cooler than average temperatures, and that low humidity, as well. really will be feeling very, very nice. storm scan3, there are those light showers, actually, fizzling out, as they continue to push toward the delaware valley. then, the lehigh valley out toward reading, berks county, again, northern bucks county at this point, maybe some part of northern month co, getting few light showers out there, then back down through delaware. so if you do wake up this morning, do you have a little bit of precipitation, don't be shocked. but then also don't be wore tid will be raining all day. it is not. it will just be lasting here probably until sunrise or so, then clearing out. temperatures for us here this morning, we sit at 67 in philly. so dropped degree in the last hour, 62 down at the a.c. airport, 52 in mount pocono,

waking up to 61 in reading again where few light showers are. and 64 in dover, again, for couple of the rain showers poking through the clouds. for the rest of the morning, you see here, magnificant start to the day, 69 at 9:00 this morning, up to 75 by lunchtime, then outside this afternoon, plenty of sunshine for us, 08 degrees temperatures, meisha, so wonderful ends to our work week. dry conditions on the roads. so doesn't lock like weather should be too much of a factor for us here this morning. >> not at all, matt, things looking great. i had zero complaint, real now complaints, this is looking gorgeous. the ben franklin bridge always does, seems to never disappoint from jersey westbound into center city, this is what you are working with. so still early. we know it will start to get busier in the 6:00 hour. but enjoy the nice open roadways while we've got them. specially now in the 5:00 hour friday's, how much, tends to be lighter travel day, no matter what. ben franklin bridge, you are looking great. then 95 south at cottman, this is what you are looking at coming around the s curve.

starting to see little shift on 95 right now pushing in the southbound direction. starting to i don't want to say slow down, but certainly getting more and more vehicles out there as you leave your homes this morning, just heads up, 95 maybe slowly starting to get little busier. and we do have accident out there, as well, new hanover township, shaver road, it is partially blocking so if that's your neck of the woods, bring it to your attention, probably won't slow you down too much. just to be aware of t construction clues still out there. seventy-six between 676 and route 130. three lanes are blocked each way, yes there is will start to slow you down, not yet, not in the 5:00 hour, showing a bunch of green around the areas but i would say in the 6:00 hour, if that's your route, that you would normally take, give yourself couple of extra minute, plus, crews are here, route zero seven between haddonfield road and 295, one lane block, this is one lane each direction, just by the way, and also construction crews out there route zero nine, as well there is one near betsy ross bridge, route zero nine eastbound between the betsy ross and route 73, two lanes block there. and starting to show little

yellow letting you know tapping your brakes ever so slightly. hurricane harvey has strength toned category two. lable it a life threatening storm, most powerful storm system to hit the us since 2005. hurricane has the potential for up to 3 feet of rain, 125- mile per hour winds, and 12-foot storm surges. other models show the storm stalling out over southeastern texas from days. >> we could see the worsen vier on mental disaster in the u.s. history. >> the concern here, that is works its way back down to the southeast, possibly out over the open water, we could be seeing maybe a restrengthening going into tuesday, of next week. >> and the governor of texas calls pre-emptive state of disaster in 30 counties yesterday, the storm expected to make landfall, either late tonight, tomorrow morning, as category three hurricane. >> and while many coastal residents are making their way out of the path of the storm, doctors, nurses and other rescue personnel are heading toward the storm to help.

doctors at cook's children's medical center in fort worth are working feverishly to transport critically ill babies out of the path of the storm. now, they're wore i had that high winds, flooding could create major power outages, that could affect available food, and clean water. >> if i were a parent, i would be scared, but i know that we will take care of their children as if they were our very own. >> speaks toward the dedication of what they do, how much it means to them to be able to serve. >> for those who can't leave a texas task force, specializing in search and rescue is mobilizing, the elite 70 member team is ready to assist both folks trapped in buildings or stuck in high water. >> well, time now, 5:36. in business news this morning, hurricane harvey is expected to impact gas prices. >> money watch's meg oliver joins us live from new york with the details. first a look at the numbers on wall street. good morning, meg. >> reporter: good morning, jim , rahel. yesterday on wall street, the dow fell 28 points, and the nasdaq finished the day seven points lower. the approach of hurricane

harvey to the texas gulf coast is driving gas prices higher. platforms and rigs are being shutdown and the coast home to three fineries. it is estimated gas prices will jump five to 15 sent a gallon in some parts of the country. >> and amazon takes over whole foods monday, tan will rollback prices. potentially erasing the organic groceries unofficial name. amazon says its time to make organic food more accessible to everyone, a.m. amazon prize members will benefit from the whole foods customer rewards program with special offers and discount. >> united airlines employees are taking their dress code up a notch. the carrier announced it is working with brooks brothers, on new line of uniforms, for its more than 70,000 in-air staff. the new duds are expected to hit the runways in 2020. jim, rahel? >> meg, i used to be flight attendant in the 80s, 90s. >> were you wearing brooks brothers?

>> horrible, like 100% polly ester, you would be like in the caribbean sweat to go death. horrible. just things you need to know about me, meg. thank you so much, and you have great weekends. >> thanks, things you need to know, maybe little too much information. thank you, meg. well, the controversy surrounding confederate statutes and monuments have triggered changes at stockton university in galloway township, richard stockton, sign err of the declaration every independence and slave owner temporarily re displaced however will be included in new exhibit also in the library. says that exhibit will teach student and promote dialogue about stockton, man a man the school calls a controversial figure. >> meanwhile the city of philadelphia want your input regarding the future of the frank rizzo statue. rye now the statue in front of the municipal services building and some want it torn down, for race relations, but other want it to stay. you can smith your ideas at cbsphilly.com. >> man is behind bars for vicious attack in bensalem.

police say his alleged victim texted 911 for help, while hiding in a apartment closet. this is the suspect, 23 year old kris do you have err, of cooling dawn, delaware county, the alleged incident took place saturday. authorities say an emergency dispatcher who 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 dispatcher talking her through the whole process basically told her, listen, stop texts, dial 911, but don't talk. because the guy was still in the area. it may have saved her life this technology. pretty darn close to it. >> he's being held on 10% of $10 million bail, faces several charges including rape , and false imprison: >> a snap chat post leads police to this man in gibbsboro, police arrested mason, at his clementon road saturday. they say he sexually assault add woman and posted images of her, on his snap chat. a friend of the victim saw her

in the post and called police. mallo in being held in the camden county jail. >> mother accuse of using her young daughter to help burglarize a chinese restaurant. it happened earlier this month surveillance video shows a woman placing a order at the counter on chase street, camden, police say she told her seven year old daughter to climb through an opening in the plexiglass, and then steel money from the cash register, that mother is now charged with burglary. >> local lawmakers want the federal government to speed up the pros what's investigating septa train accidents. "eyewitness news" got exclusive look at the 69th street station platform, in upper darby, where septa train crash happened tuesday. trains failed to stop and plowed into the back after park train, 33 people were hurt. there was also a train accident in upper dash any february. congressman bob brady, upper darby mayor tom, are outraged at the lent of type of typical natural transportation safety board investigation and brady want congressional hearing. >> this is going it take

another year, almost year to find out what's happened. that's unacceptable. you got to get confidence back in these riders. >> well, ntsb spokesman said that investigators are methodical, thorough, if an immediate safety problem is identified, the agency will issue an emergency alert. >> meanwhile, november gloucester county, robbers target habitat humanity work site for the third time this happened at this site in west depford sometime between tuesday night and yesterday morning. this time around authority say the thieves stole $1,500 worth of tools after breaking into a storage unit and taking a chop saw, nail gun, and compressor. >> this is actually the third time it has happened at this site. first few, first two times, although the first time they actually broke into this house , i made the decision let's just get this project done. let's not bring any attention to it. >> i guess third time's the charm, i kind of snapped. this is ridiculous. >> sure is, this is ridiculous

crews are building the house for a woman who served two tours in afghanistan, meanwhile, officials say they're amp up security. >> up next, hear taylor swift 's brand new single t dropped at midnight. plus this. >> gun it. >> oh. >> bad news out of hollywood. remember actor jay thomas passed away yesterday after battle with cancer, david letterman fans know this was a christmas tradition on the show. >> and it is time to show you what makes haddon fold's a great place to live and visit. summer fest is in town when we come back.

>> funeral arrangement pending for thomas, he won roles on murphy brown also known for acting on cheers. in recent years, he had more serious roles in ncis new orleans, and radon van, thomas died after battle with cancer, he was 69 years olds. i have to tell you, the wait is over. taylor swift's finally releases new single, of her upcoming albumn. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> okay, the song, look what you made me do, dropped last night, and it fiery lyrics. quickly started trending on line. swift you may remember sent

her france from a frenzy after wiping her social media pages clean, and posting strange videos of snakes, her six albumn reputation will be out november 10th. >> i've never, just going to say, i've never purchased a taylor swift albumn, but her songs are always catchy. >> some say there are like hidden sub tech was kanye. >> we keep talking about this kanye west thing. >> jim, i'm let you finish and then dot weather. >> okay, so, all very excited, everybody excited about this wetter. >> oh, absolutely. i'm excited. you guys are excited of the the weekends is exciting. just will be fantastic out there. everybody ready to get going. take a look outside center city this morning from our library cam, see logan circle there, it is looking really nice on our friday morning. we don't have any showers here , but there are couple of folks up in the lehigh valley, up near reading getting few

showers here early this morning. they're going to be clearing out by the time, though, we get to about sunrise, just little less than an hour we actually should be looking at dry conditions across the entirety of the viewing area. we are checking with the weather watch they are friday morning, as well, wacking to up some cool temperatures out there. we start north of the city. let's gun, it is 61 degrees this morning. john's house, up in perkasie. with a little bit of light shower activity, he's reporting, so he says, just little weak rain, to wake up, and walk around here this morning, with the puppy dogs. it is a little uncomfortable, but i think that's really just because of the rain, not whole lot of humidity out there. also, 06 degrees, at eileen's house, up in gilbertsville, also reported little bit after shower, visited gilbertsville this morning, but the good news, most of the precipitation starting to work it way out of the area, and we head back down to delaware, 63 this morning, at jason's house in middleton. a lot of cloud cover for him at 63 degrees, and he says

that the roads are wet, thanks to shower that passed through the arch so again, delaware also getting in women line shower, here this morning, so we take a lock what we're talking about as we head over to the maps. lehigh valley, this is berks couldn't, lehigh county, northern bucks county, you see , some showers out, there around allentown, getting little bit of a yellow to pop up on our radar. so maybe slight chance for more moderate rainfall just around the allentown area being back through philly nice and quiet. not too much going on. then here is the light showers , from dover, back down toward milford, you see here, down into southern delaware for the most part right now all we're looking at for that light shower activity, for the southern sections of the area. our future weather shows we're going to be dry through pretty much the rest of the day today going to look for temperatures that climb all the way up to about 80 degrees, meisha, with that humidity staying low. we really can't ask for better way to wrap up our weekend, than, or excuse me, our week, than what we are getting right now. getting ahead of myself. already ready for summer.

>> i got you. matt, thank you so much. yes, gorgeous outside. nice dry roadways. it has been looking real nice. we know for matt that it is going to be beautiful weekend, too, so everyone is in a good mood. driving out there you can tell look at the smiles all over the headlight, vine at eighth street near 95. headlight moving in the eastbound direction, looking good here, starting to build levels ever so slightly, but really what happens we build the levels up until 6:00 a.m. ment then it kind of hits a snag than the stride, then we start to build again. see what happens today. but right now fine at eighth streetment big thumbs-up. looking good. 295 at route 38, look looking good, enjoy the nice open roadways, 42 at the a.c. expressway same story although moving in the northbound direction around the area getting little busier. but still, everyone still traveling around posted speeds , there as well. we do have accident new hanover township, shaver road, at swamp. if this is your neighborhood, your neck of the woods, just pull this to your attention, car fire near in souderton,

309 at souderton road, pull off to the shoulder. might start it get maybe little gaper delay, overall still traveling around okay. traveling around 3 miles per hour maybe tapping the brakes. then construction crews out here on 76, as well, 76 between 676 and route 130, three lanes blocked in each direction. so that's going to start to slow you down ever so-so slightly. more construction should be clearing around 6:00 a.m., route 70 between haddonfield road and 29a1 lane block in each direction there, jim, rahel, back to you. >> cbs-3 summer fest live in haddonfield new jersey tonight picking up the past and celebrating the future all over town. >> this week all about ties to the american revolution. and a place that has preserved its history tucked away 10 miles from philadelphia. stop along the camden and atlantic railroad has been a hub of activity since 1701.

while haddonfield was founded as quaker settlement, the people couldn't escape the revolutionary war that came right through the center of town. >> many coming up at 6:00 i'll take to you haddonfield's public library, found dollars more than 200 years ago, see some of the cool programs they offer for residents. >> then join jessica dean, kate bilo, vittoria woodill more on haddonfield unique historic homes and charming neighborhoods, cbs-3 summer fest on "eyewitness news" tonight at 5:00, 6:00, 10:00 and 11:00. we will be right back.

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>> from the tiny to the mighty >> staff at the london zoo have gun their annual way in of their animals, zoo keep ertz will bewaring 200 species over the next several days, including turtles, goats, penguins, gorillas, yes, even lions. zoo keepers use clever tactics to entice the animals to be

measured or weed, the results go into data base to be shared with zoo's around the worlds quite in time, we can make any changes to diets, nutrition, based on what we see today. and any pregnant animals, and looking to the next steps for them. >> fascinating so the zoo says its heaviest 1800-pound giraffe, the lightest, their lea cutter ant waying in whopping thousand avianca owns >> very cool. >> let's just keep talking about animals. shall we? >> police department in new jersey looking for the owner of adorable dog. >> we can only hope this pup was obeying the speed limit in long branch it, appears she was pulled over in her pink convertible by sergeant shamrock. the long branch police department is trying to track down the owner so they can throw a magnent that says long blanch loves our cops onto that dog's car. a a door job it is summertime.

this is remarkable story, news report nerve ohio is getting second chance at life, thanks to co-worker. >> really sweet. howard, reporter at the cbs affiliate owe at in cincinnati , needed a kidney, station tells us the viewer response was so overwhelming, so many people got tested including the station's 6:00 news producer, and it turns out, he is a match. surgery scheduled for monday. >> wonder if vince would give us a kidney if we needed it. >> vince, the 5:00 a.m. producer, barely gives us enough time to stretch, let alone giving us his kidney. >> we'll see. well, coming up in the next hour of cbs-3 "eyewitness news,h younger kids, but one dad warns it is not safe, what he wants other parents to know so they can pro tech their children. >> canadian prime minister justin trudeau, like you have never seen him before. >> what's that all about? >> i don't know but i like it, coming up.

>> hurricane harvey strengthens overnight as resident along the texas gulf coast prepare for the worse. i'm don champion in corpus christi, texas with the latest coming up. >> back here at home, big win for the eagles in the pre-season. thanks to carson wentz and the offense. how did the defense do? taking a closer look at the players. >> it is noticeably cooler as you step outside this morning. right now temps still in the 60s, the question is, will it

last? today is friday, august 25th, good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. matt and meisha keeping an eye on things this morning, good morning. >> good morning, guys, isn't it nice to finally turn down the air conditioner little bit >> i still have mine. >> i turned mine off. >> nice outside. >> i had mine on. i sleep in a meat locker. >> you do? really cold? >> then do you have a big blanket over you? >> i like. >> moving right along, just a lot of construction, overall things looking really good. couple every accident, cleared out easy, so your drive so far so good. >> weather not going to be a factor for us this morning, now, there are a couple of light showers out there, but again, our commute, not going to be affected by those showers. you see on storm scan3, there they are, moving through the lehigh valley few areas down in delaware, could get few light showers, as well. but, in general, here, across philly, we are dry. now, we can't rule out maybe a stray sprinkle or two for maybe about the next half hour or so. but that's really about it.