texans along gulf coast clean up after hurricane harvey's land fall others more inn land are facing a life threatening flood. i'm don champion in corpus christi with the latest on the storm coming up. packing up and heading to texas fire fighters leave philadelphia early this morning to help with hurricane relief efforts. and the may weather my/ mcgregor match up after months of hype this highly antis the filed end with the harsh dose of reality. today is sunday, august 27th, good morning i'm jan carabao, if you liked yesterday's weather get ready for round two here's meteorologist matt peterson with the forecast, good sunday morning, matt what

a glorious day, went outside for lunch, walk, soaked it in. >> if you did not yesterday get another chance today. round two for some of us to wrap up our weekend. it will be a great afternoon. waking up this morning it is a clear start of the day. there is light patchy fog developing in a couple areas but overall a nice clear, quiet, sunday morning. lets take a look outside, kutztown area on our neighborhood network it is 52 degrees, sweat shirt weather on this sunday morning up in the lehigh valley and a wonderful scene there, all kinds of bright colors for us as our sun continues to rise, officially, rising at 6:23 or so this morning. we've got another 22 minutes until it officially becomes day break but until then looking for great sunrise pictures. it is not just chilly in the lehigh valley but we're in the 40's up toward mount pocono, definitely sweat shirt weather further north from the city you go. sixty-two in philadelphia lots of 50's across the rest of the

area. trenton 55 this morning. millville at 59. sixty-two, the same as our temperature here in philadelphia is what we are looking at in wildwood. down on the beach maybe cooler then that. not a bad morning, down at the shore, dew point is very low, we are looking at 50's out there, a lot of low humidity last few days and today will be not be any different. we will see dry air sitting overtop of the region making it very comfortable. 9:00 this morning we will be up to 68 degrees, have your coffee outside, sit on the back patio, sunshine for us and then we will be up to 81 degrees this afternoon. i'll update you on some things with harvey and what we can expect for week ahead coming up. >> all right, looking forward to it, thanks, matt. this morning is what left of hurricane harvey is causing devastation in texas. the storm is now being blamed for a second death in houston, woman drowned after driving in high water. first death happened in the coastal city of rockport person died in the house fire

during the storm. harvey is a tropical storm after making land fall as a category four hurricane, it is still dropping a lot of rain there in texas. houston's mayor says rain will continue, for another three to four days, the flash flood emergency is in effect, officials still don't know the full extent of the damage, the severe weather is making it hard for crews to get to the areas hardest hit. quarter million people are without power, and correspondent don champion shows us the dam age. >> reporter: harvey hammered houston overnight with torrential downpours and led to widespread flash flooding. in some areas, 14 inches of rain, fell in the span of three hours. rising waters, stranded drivers, submerged cars, prompting a warning from the cities mayor. >> let me tell you it is dropping a lot of water. and the streets are treacherous. >> reporter: as water rosa cross the region 911 centers were inundated with calls, police say one woman was

killed after she drove her car into high water and then got out. >> we heard, somebody hollering, out here, and it was ron, the man across the street, that had seen her floating face down in the water. >> oh, god bless her. so or toy hear that. >> reporter: this is video of live stream than line by houston's chief of police as he helped rescue stranded residents. >> i want you all to see this, your situational awareness, you do not have to be out here >> reporter: to the south in places like rock port and corpus christi people are cleaning up after harvey made land fall here, friday night, as a category four hurricane. now downgraded it is spoke meander over eastern parts of the texas. adding to the devastation more than a dozen tornadoes have been report add cross the region, harvey's flooding rain could impact the state for the next three days. don champion for cbs-3

"eyewitness news". and, first responders from our area are now on their way to texas, they will be helping with search, rescue efforts in the aftermath of harvey, "eyewitness news" reporter anita oh is live from the news center this morning, so how many people we talking about here. >> reporter: forty-five fire fighters from the philadelphia fire department and surrounding areas left just a few hours ago to the naval base in fort worth, texas to help with the devastation. pennsylvania emergency task force is on the road and driving 22 hours, straight, the crew includes doctors, tech specialist rescue specialist and even two kay nines bringing down water, food and other materials that will allow them to be completely self-sufficient for up to a week because once they get there, of course, they will be working around the clock. gunfire commissioner gary, explains what the team will be focusing on. >> we will be out with the people, to help from the house s and things like that but they are apt on getting into heavy concreted, building

s that have collapsed or under water and they will go in there, and search. >> now this is is what called a type three deployment which is second largest kind, it is feel, federal emergency management agency moves that up to a type one, officials here will fly 40 more personnel down to help. live from the news center this morning anita oh for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> hurricane harvey slams texas with what some people caught right in the middle of the destruction. one woman recently moved from the delaware valley to houston says that she thought she would be okay until a tornado ripped through a neighborhood. henry rossoff has her story. >> at 1:00 o'clock a tornado hit and it just rolled through the neighborhood, i have never seen, anything like it before. >> reporter: we face timed with jamie phillips, she and her family are from aston but moved to houston for her husband's job these pictures are from what neighbors believe was a tornado cause by

hurricane harvey that ripped through her neighborhood. >> about 15 hems, who roofs, one of my friends the roof is in their living room another friend had park a tree through a bathroom, and little girls, window blew out and got injured in it, and people were having to run to get to the closets, it sounded like a freight train, it was just scary. >> reporter: phillips says next issue is flooding, that is also case for brian matthews originally from just outside pittsburgh dropping off his daughter in college in austin. >> it has been raining non- stop ever since then and that is what we will than seeing as well. >> reporter: with the flooding more power outages are expected. that during the texas summer can be deadly. >> biggest concern here, is the air conditioning, it is hot. >> reporter: volunteers from local red cross chapters are all ready in texas helping out with the red cross chapters, down there, and truckloads of supplies from our area on

their way down as well. in the sat center henry ross off for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". make sure you stay with cbs-3 "eyewitness news" for continuing coverage of the now tropical storm harvey, we will have updates this morning on air and, of course, our coverage continues on line at cbs philly.com and cbs local app. new this morning police arrested a suspect for arson after a building goes up in flames in the cities overbrook section. flames erupted on the 800 block of north 64th street around 3:00 this morning. fire fighters quickly got those flames under control in just about 30 minutes, investigation is underway, no one was hurt. in other news this morning authorities charged a philadelphia public school teacher, after an altercation during a protest, earlier this month. police say manmade terroristic threats against an officer at a frank rizzo statue protest >> bleep, bleep, bleep.

>> police arrested six three-year old john edward sheeran on august 16th after police say educator verbally threatened a police officer there. school district of philadelphia removed sheeran from his position as a teacher an investigation is underway. we have spoke with lee whack from the philadelphia school district who released this statement reading in part safety of our students, staff is our highest priority, this is a matter we will take very seriously. school district ace rest of his arrest but prior to his arrest mr. sheeran had been under investigation and has been removed from his school pending our investigation. meanwhile mayor kenney's office is calling out president after president trump pardoned former arizona sheriff joe arpaio, the eight five-year old was quick of ignoring a judge's order to stop racial profiling in traffic patrols. president trump called him an american patriot who kept arizona safe. mayor and his director of immigrant affairs released this statement which read, in

part, this pardon, like many of the other president's actions contradicts his professed claims for respecting the rule of law. he does not represent american values and does not represent the law enforcement officers who do their jobs with professionalism and fairness every day. that president pardon was sentenced to potential jail time but it is unusual for a president to do so, president trump did not violate any constitutional law by pardon ing arpaio before sentencing. turning to one of the most anticipated sports match ups of the entire year, floyd may weather is wrapping up his historic career with the epic win over connor mcgregor, may weather wore his opponent out in the tenth round when he scored a technical knock out to win match but despite the loss mcgregor is credited with putting on a respectable performance. may weather says he is retiring and spoke about his few tour. >> i want to help these

fighters, i look forward to becoming a boxing trainer, just helping trainers as far as, my daddies a hell of a trainer, as you know, he tout me this sport and everything that he taught me from day one i still necessity but i want to help other trainers, help make fighters better. >> may weather ends his career undefeated with, get this an incredible 50-zero record. let the celebration, begin , philadelphia. back to back champions. >> the philadelphia soul are league champions, once again, they defeated the tampa bay storm 44-40 last night at arena bowl 30. it took place at the wells fargo center. this is the teams second straight arena bowl title and third overall, we will have highlights from the game coming up later in sports. still to come right here on cbs-3 "eyewitness news" this sunday morning new rules of the road, for convicted

drunk drivers right here in pennsylvania. what a new law means foreign first time, dui offenders. also ahead last weeks solar eclipse was extra special for one local couple, meet the bundle of joy that kept mom and dad waiting until the big event when "eyewitness news"

authorities are cracking down on dui offenders, drunk

drivers will face tougher restrictions thanks to a new law that kicked in on friday. first time dui offenders will be required, to drive with an ignition interlock immediately before police were suspend a drunk driver's license anywhere from 30 days to a year and then, get a device. some people say it is a great way to discourage the habit. being aware of what you are and where you are doing behind the wheel, bottom line. now the ii forced drivers to bring in the breath lies tore start their car, and the state's dui association says little more than 7,000 people in pa currently have the device. well, triple a says damage from hurricane harvey could lead to higher gas prices depending on the damage on the gulf coast, nearly one-third of the nation's refining capacity sits in low lying areas along the coast from carp us christie texas to lake

charles, louisiana. there is not much change at the pump. if you drive-in southeastern pennsylvania you'll pay an average 2.54 for gallon of regular gasoline, in new jersey 2.28. and in delaware the low price is 2.23. matt, i any we will be talking about the effects of harvey for some time to come. >> maybe not just this week but into the future this will be one of the storms that from a meteorological standpoint we are, talking about a long time >> it is not enclose took done , we're talking three, four, maybe five more days of what they are calling catastrophic flooding. >> sometimes up to 3 feet have rain. >> yes, exactly depending how many have already seen some areas could see another 25 inches on have rain between now, before this storm ends, three or four days, it will be an incredible, scene, once we're able to start to see the clean up efforts that do go on of course, it is so hard to do

that clean up while the storm is churning away down along houston texas coastline, but the good news for us here closer to home, it is we don't have anything like that happening here this morning. it is a quiet scene along the shore points here, into new jersey, this is coming in from ocean city, this morning, our live picture, again, a quiet start to the day, couple people enjoying a nice cool morning down in the ocean city boardwalk. unfortunately folks along texas coastline not getting that as another day of heavy rain, and strong, gusty winds taking over along the coastline down there along the gulf of mexico. harvey, of course, a tropical storm those winds at 45 miles an hour but biggest concern and it was a concern really from the get go is just how much rain will be seen. areas of houston a city prone to flooding, galveston getting in on that heavy rainfall, already here this morning, and there is the storm scan three showing you all that moisture

coming on shore. you can see houston just covered in yellows, red, orange, at times, there has been reports of 6 inches of rain per hour, that is rainfall rate in harris county where houston is. as we zoom in, galveston has been inundated with tons of storm surge to go with all of the heavy rainfall and barrier islands further south as well. so, some strong thunderstorms there you see bay city, texas and needville area too. this is what we're concerned with now. rainfall amounts of already topped 20 inches in a few areas including houston where we have seen just over 22 inches of rain, league city has over 21 inches and lower areas in the 10 to 15-inch area already and we will expect more down long texas coastline before this is all said and done. back closer to home we will look for mostly sunny day on our sunday, nice quiet, comfortable day as we wrap up our weekend. moving into monday morning a

few cloud early on in the day but it is a dry drive to work, mixture of sun and cloud throughout our monday afternoon and then tuesday things change, not a ton of sunshine for us on tuesday, should be dry for most of the day but we could look for shower chances toward second half of the day, tuesday night and wednesday, south jersey and back down into delaware as this system stays off coastline. sunday 81 degrees for our last day of the komen three day walk. looking at our seven day forecast, 81 today. eighty tomorrow. we have scattered showers, thunderstorms as we go throughout the week but then looks great by friday and next saturday. >> i'll take it, thanks, matt. child birth is already a special event but becomes more memorable when it happens during an eclipse. baby born last week in south carolina was named eclipse, and here in our area there were a few deliveries during the big event. health reporter stephanie stahl has story of one's clips baby from abington hospital.

>> very hungry. >> reporter: bright sunshine is glowing again over abington hospital where carter anthony parsons was born during the solar eclipse, at 1:53 on monday. >> he was six days late. >> reporter: erika parsons says when she was scheduled to be induced she figured would it take a day so they would have time to watch the eclipse but that wasn't in the stars. >> when it turned out he was born as it happens, so it wasn't in the card. >> reporter: doctors say the eclipse has no impact on labor delivery, mother nature has a mind of her own. >> were you thinking about the eclipse during delivery. >> honestly i was not. >> reporter: but big sister jordan was, she and rest have the family were in grand mom's backyard watching the celestial event while carter was making his debut at the hospital. >> he was born on the eclipse. >> reporter: many astrologies agree babies born during an eclipse are destined for great ness. >> an eclipse baby should be

good luck. >> he is a part of history. >> reporter: 9-pound baby seems unphased but his parents are over the moon and hoping that they're clips delivery will mean sunny days are ahead , for little carter. the baby and his mom will be heading home on wednesday, eight year-old sister jordan says she will be saving those eclipse glasses that she wore to look at the sun a souvenir for her little brother who has distinction of being an eclipse baby. i'm stephanie stahl, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". and still to come right here on cbs-3 "eyewitness news" this sunday morning a consumer alert about ordering on amazon, one customer says his order never arrived, even though amazon record show it d how you can avoid falling victim to this latest delivery scam when we come right

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you ordered something on line and you expect it to be delivered within a week or so but one amazon customer says his order never arrived even though amazon record show it d recorder julie watts tells us about the new delivery scam. >> this is camera that i bought. >> reporter: dave polanco says third party seller on amazon seemed legitimate until delivery confirmation arrived before his delivery. >> i thought that was strange. >> reporter: his amazon account said his package had been delivered to pleasantto california which is where he lives but when he called fedex to investigate. >> he said this was never addressed to your address this was addressed to a corporate

address. >> reporter: according to amazon it was handed to a receptionist and someone named someone signed for it. >> not me. >> reporter: he is not alone. other buyers are now, complaining on a new scam where third party sellers send your package without the product to era dress in the same city, where someone else, signs for it, creating a delivery record that prompts amazon to deny your claim. >> all amazon at current time seems to check for is that the package shows it is delivered and signed for in that same city and state. >> reporter: amazon says with the a to z guarantee customers are always protected but like others, dave's claim was denied despite fedex record not once but three times after which amazon said it may in the reply to further e-mails. we reached out to amazon which agreed to refund his money telling us amazon does not tolerate fraud and as fraud stores get smarter so do we. dave just wishes it hasn't taken several hours, three

appeals and call to the tv station for amazon to acknowledge the fraud. >> i was completely in the right. >> reporter: amazon wouldn't comment on dave's case or tell us fit confirms a deliver a dress before denying a claim but dave's seller was brand new and it is always best to choose established, amazon sellers, with multiple positive reviews. julie watts for cbs news, san francisco. good advice there. well, coming up in the next half an hour on "eyewitness news"... >> hurricane harvey continues to hammer parts of the texas with heavy rain, and after a winds leveled homes and businesses, i'm weijia jiang winds leveled homes and businesses, i'm weijia jiang in corpus christi, ♪ ♪ award winning interface. award winning design. award winning engine. the volvo xc90. the most awarded luxury suv of the century.

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good morning, sunday morning everyone i'm jan carabao. we will catch you up on tropical storm harvey in just a moment but first, another great day on tap here in the delaware, lehigh valleys, meteorologist matt peterson is here in the weather center this morning to talk about our weather, matt and dairy say, it is chilly out there, this morning. >> it is a little bit on the cool side this morning, jan, it will be a day where we will break out the sweat shirts.

>> i know. >> no audio. >> as we head up in the northern parts of the viewing area to the lehigh valley and poconos, as well, so again, break out the sweat shirt if you need to this morning, and then get ready for what should be a fantastic afternoon. we will see temperatures today that are again, right around the seasonable range, maybe a couple degrees below average and plenty of sunshine out there, as well. so get ready to enjoy a wonderful end to the weekend. a few areas of light patchy fog, have developed, across the area don't look for it to be widespread, it is not causing too much issue on the road this is morning but if you do drive around and catch yourself in the patchy fog don't be surprised. it is as i said going to be another great afternoon today with plenty of sunshine out there but a few extra clouds will roll in through nighttime hours tonight and then that will lead news to what looks

like a partly cloudy but dry, monday, so that is our one blemish for monday we do not get as much sunshine thomas we get today. here are those temperatures, it is on the cool side, we are at 62 degrees, our temperature in wildwood maybe a degree or two cooler then that on the sand this morning in wildwood on the beach, 58 to kick off in wilmington, 57 in millville , 55 in reading, lehigh valley, allentown 53 and up in the poconos we will get mid 40's, to start the morning out, that is reminiscent of fall, not what you might expect, foreign the end of august but again, get ready for another string of really cooler mornings and some very comfortable afternoons all the way through week ahead. storm scan three not too much happening right new little bit of cloud cover out there but overall it is a generally clear start to the day. here's hour by hour forecast we will start things out in the 60's as we have but we will quickly warm up in the

zero seven's by lunchtime we are looking at 77 degrees, plenty of sunshine for us. we will go with a high of 81 later this afternoon and then jan, i will talk about some shower chances through middle of the week and thunderstorm as well, coming up. >> thanks, matt. this morning tropical storm harvey continues to drench texas, the storm made land fall as a category four hurricane among places hardest hit is coastal city of rock port. local sheriff there says calls came in for help during the storm but first responders simply could not get out. meanwhile he has been since dealing with flood, remnants continue to drench the region and that rain is not expected to let up anytime soon. correspondent weijia jiang shows us what people there are dealing with their, this morning. >> reporter: harvey continues to pound southeastern texas with torrential rain, and the water is rising, fast. >> it ranges from corpus christi to the houston area, perhaps as much as between 20

and 30 more inches of rain could becoming down. so there is a potential for very dramatic flooding. >> monster storm slammed in the texas gulf coast late friday night with 130 miles an hour wind, the town of rock port was hit hard, many homes and businesses are gone, torn apart by power of the category four hurricane. >> we have no idea. >> reporter: seven five-year old elton joseph's house was destroyed. >> rain in the house, the roof caved in, had a clay tile roof it is all gone. >> reporter: we met jones at only opened business in town, a coffee shop still with power thanks to a generator. matthew otero is owner. do you even recognize being port this morning. >> i do, i do but as a hurt rockport, as a fallen rockport you know. >> reporter: even before harvey hit flooding was a major concern and this is exactly why many road around here are already flooded

leaving cars stranded and even more rain is expect in the days to come. >> the movement, it is stationary, that is dangerous. we will deal with catastrophic flooding from harvey next few days. >> reporter: coastguard rescued more than a dozen people left stranded when boats started to take on water near the port and as many as 50 homes were damaged by a suspect tornado in missouri city. another possible twister forms in cypress, just outside of houston. hundreds of evacuees remained in shelters, saturday night not knowing when or what they will find when they do return home, weijia jiang for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". meantime paramedics fire fighters and rescue specialist from his our area now heading to texas, they will be helping with rescue and recovery efforts thereafter hurricane harvey. "eyewitness news" reporter anita oh is live from the news center this morning. those first responders left early this morning, right? >> reporter: right, jan some of those philadelphia fire

fighters in the pennsylvania emergency task force were on duty last night as well and had to grab their go bags to deploy down to fort worth, texas. forty-five members of the philadelphia fire department, and surrounding areas, left, to help with the devastation after harvey made land fall there. they are driving 22 hours straight, stopping only for fuel, and will be getting right to work upon arrival. mostly they will be focusing on search, rescue efforts in collapsed or under water buildings. deputy fire commissioner gary says relief efforts are all hand on deck. >> anything that you can think of, they are going to have on these trucks, water, food, anything at all, we even have two k-9's going, doctors going , we have rescue specialist, tech specialists, and like i said they are going to be on the road. some for up to a week on their own. >> this is what is called a type three deployment which is second largest kind but as

fema the federal emergency management agency moves that up to a type one officials here will fly 40 more people down to help. live, this morning i'm anita o h for cbs-3 "eyewitness news" >> always thank our first responders, anita working very hard, thanks very much. hurricane harvey has torn through texas bringing torrential rain and suspect tornado near houston, lets take a look at some of the storms aftermath. people believe a tornado touched down, by hurricane harvey and ripped through their neighborhood around 1:00 . we have face timed with one woman who moved down south from the delaware valley. >> about 50 homes who roofs, one of my friends, the roof is in their living room, another friend had parked a true through their bathroom, little girls window blew out and got injured in it, people had to run to get to the closet, it sounded like a freight train, it was just scary.

>> now residents say that they are concerned, at this point it is flooding which may cause even more power outages. back here at home now and happening today runners will hit the streets for philadelphia 10k, race starts at eighth and south and just about an hour now. 6.2-mile course, then passes through italian market, passyunk and washington square and finishes at fifth and south what a nice route. about 4500 people are expected to take part. speaking of fun runs here in philadelphia, check this one out, more than 2,000 people showed up at philadelphia mills yesterday for philly color vibe 5k, runners started out with white t-shirts and then ran through color stations those shirts did in the stay white for very long as volunteers sprayed them with paint. runners celebrated at the finish line with a dance party while putting paint in the air looks like fun. proceed help at risk children. 400 people will be crossing the finish line at susan g komen three day in

philadelphia comes to an end. here's video we shot yesterday as walkers carried into their second day, breast cancer survivors, family walking in memory of loved won and friend s supporting those still bat egg disease joined together in the fight against breast cancer. the walk fund raises for research that could help find a cure. >> there is hope, there is hope for you, there is hepp for me, there is hope for all of us, but within day we will end breast cancer. >> such a great event. philadelphia is one of the seven u.s. sit that is hoe susan g komen three day, next walk will be in seattle next month. be sure to check out our web site for more information, videos, and pictures from this event, we have all of that and more of course for you right there at cbs philly.com. still ahead on "eyewitness news", darts of war that is what you are armed with when you go inside this local indoor playground we will take a look at new gloucester county business, and we will

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>> three, two, one... >> reporter: moment has arrived for a washington township business. this camo glass bunker filled battle field is called darts of war. >> place for kid to come and just play nerf wars. >> reporter: doug and his wife christie are celebrating opening weekend for their play gun arena that is inspired by their children's favorite toys >> my husband was with my business and they were looking on line and they saw an indoor norf arena. >> i said where is that? he said in colorado. i said, you know what i can do that report report gloucester township couple decided giving starting a business a shot. >> i was pregnant getting ready to go on maternity leave when we knew we were having fourth one at home he said this is what we have to do we need a family business. >> he has moves, we will do it , i started to buy all this nerf stuff. >> reporter: they turned this property into a faux war zone.

>> it is cool to try to like shoot the people and all of the different things. bazookas, machine guns, shotguns. >> reporter: at darts of war as a parent you can sit out there or get in the action and best part of it, at the end of the day you don't to have clean up. whether you're three or 43, it is fun and a work out. >> i cannot even see, the glasses right now, it is fun. he is having fun. these little kid are killing me though. >> we want them playing, running around, sitting there on their computers all day watching tv. this is getting them out and active. >> reporter: whether it is a group or individual this is the place to do it. >> thinks cool. >> reporter: in washington township cleve bryan, for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". looks like a whole lot of fun, matt, we should take the news room out there and do some team building exercise that could go one or two ways that could be great or people well, you know, start shooting >> go home upset.

>> all in good fun. >> it always is. it always is. we are having great weather, it has been great if you are doing any exercises outside last week at work or just, enjoying yourself it has been fantastic last couple of afternoons. yesterday was no different. we got to 81 degrees beach. low average. our average high temperature 84. came in just below that. we started the day out a couple degrees below normal at 65 instead of 67. with all that sunshine it looks fantastic on our saturday. if you are waking up, in the poconos, lehigh valley in the broad heads area it is 48 degrees north of the city. fog developing as well and that fog will burn off as sun continues to come up, warm us up. up in the poconos it is a fantastic day, sweat shirt likely needed in the morning because we will see temperatures in the 40's but bright sunshine in the afternoon warms us up to 73 degrees, a great, great day

up north of the city. here is storm scan 3a wide range scene. we have a fair amount across the eastern half of the country, so of course lets start down in the gulf, we have harvey which continues to just inundate the texas, southeastern texas kes line with extreme rainfall, again, those rates around houston around 6 inches of rain an hour at times in harris county where houston is. we are watching that very closely. we are also watching another area of low pressure that was at 92l, a potential tropical system. it is an area of low pressure center over jacksonville, florida. that will ride up the coastline. as it does it will get push out to sea but couple outer bands could give us showers on tuesday near the shower and down in delaware. we will keep an eye on. that we are also watching another area have low pressure through great lakes a cold front draped down to the south to the west of chicago and southern iowa and back into northern missouri spawning

some thunderstorms actual any nebraska as well. we will watch as that system prop gates eastward and bringing in some showers and thunderstorms, to the delaware valley as we, get in the second half of our week. now, right now on storm scan three close to home it is a quiet morning, nice, clear. we will look at future weather a few included out there, through times this afternoon but overall it will be a sunny day for us. we will start out monday dry a few cloud once again it should be an easy drive to work, no problems with our commute it doesn't look like tomorrow morning and same goes for tuesday as well, we will have a mixture of sun and included monday afternoon, cloud cover then on tuesday morning but then we will see a few showers , again, that is where shore points in new jersey and back down into delaware as well, again as that remnants of the tropical moisture moves from florida up the coastline. as we get into thursday, that is when we could potentially see thunderstorm activity thanks to the cold front i was just talking about. eighty-one for our high today. gorgeous end to the weekend. then other seven day forecast,

it stays nice, temperature wise on monday and 80 degrees our high on tomorrow. that makes a sun and included a few showers, again south and east of the city on tuesday 77 for a high. wednesday scattered shower chance. thunderstorm with that cold front on thursday and then, jan, friday and saturday check that out 70's and sunshine if that doesn't scream fall i don't know what does. >> you know i love that the weekends have good weather. we can deal with rain during work week as long as we can ends are good. >> i completely agree. >> thanks, matt. 6:47. time to check the road. lets go to kyle hahn in the cbs-3 traffic center. >> good morning, jan. we will start off with a crash on the northeast extension southbound in the area of cole road, access gate, blocking right lane. there may be residual delays making your way through that area we have an accident investigation in south jersey on route 47 blocking both directions between goshen road and route 657, a utility pole crash so use 657 as an

alternate route to get around. that we will take a look at travel times and as far as everything goes, everything is looking good, on the major interstates as you'll have a decent drive on i-95, vine, blue route, turnpike as well as bridges in and out of the city. in the cbs-3 traffic center i'm kyle hahn now jan, back to you. a stape until korean cuisine is becoming quite popular in the u.s., many people are discovering kinchi and health benefits. chris mar teen he's more on the kinchi craze. >> reporter: for years, they had baked bread in his kitchen but new he is learning to master something new, korean dish kinchi. he likes it not just for the taste but also the health benefits of the food fermented vegetables. >> good for your gut. i learned high in antioxidants >> reporter: kinchi has been a fixture in korean cuisine but now catching on in western markets with its popularity

surging in the u.s. foodies are fast discovering the dish made mainly of korean radishes and napa cabbage. >> 18,000-pound of napa comes through here a day. >> a day. >> reporter: cosmo food is largest kinchi maker in the u.s. distributing hand packed jars from their southern california factory. while their products were once only found in asian grocery stores they are new being stocked in a number of main stream retailers including costco and trader joe's. >> napa cabbage for tomorrow's production. >> reporter: anthony simmons say sales are sky rocketing up , 25 percent over each of the past two years. >> i think this year we're also looking at maybe 25, maybe 30 percent more then last year. >> reporter: scott says he is always looking for new ways to enjoy his own home may kinchi. >> i will usually put it on a grilled cheese sandwich or something like that and it kicks it up, makes it interesting. >> reporter: western twist for

an eastern food favorite, chris martinez for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". and still ahead on "eyewitness news" sports is up next. also ahead a total body work out called slt and, according to "eyewitness news" anchor rahel solomon, it is as challenging as effective. see what it is all about and how she does it when "eyewitness news" comes right

phillies playing game two with the weekend series with the cubs and reese hopkins dream season continues some

guys are wearing unique jersey was nicknames on the back as part of the players weekend. but out of the box in the first reese hoskins gets the things started with a two run home run to left field, which is unbelievable. that is 10 home runs in 17 games for the rookie. to put tonight perspective it took mike schmidt 71 games to reach 10 home runs so yes, he is hot. >> two-one phillies in the third and this is when they give up the lead, ben lively giving up a three run shot and after that cubs go on a offensive explosion and phillies will lose this one big time 17-two the final, game three this afternoon at 1:35. across the street at wells fargo center a reen bowl 30 philadelphia soul defending champions and it was a slow start against tampa bay storm but in the third down six dan raudabaugh connect was darius reynolds for a 40-yard touchdown. soul take 21-20 lead. wig play right here fourth and

one, storm touchdown was won by michael benson. soul regained the lead 28-27. this is how the soul seal the arena football league championship, sk with the touchdown, the second consecutive title for the soul , final score 44-40. to soccer the philadelphia union back in action on saturday they hosted atlanta united in chester. union trying to earn a playoff birth, they get on the board first, roland alberg scores in the 18th minute mark but union is not done, alexandria pedroia will score on a 23rd minute mark and just like that it is two to nothing union. unfortunately atlanta battled back and the game tying goal in the 90th minute, and that is how it ended a two-two draw to football now eagles return to practice today, on saturday the teammates and roster moves ahead of their final game with the new york jets on thursday night. the bird waved wide receiver k

evan lukes and cornerback wright. eagles to have get that, roster down to 53 players by september 2nd. that is sports, i'm leslie van arsdal, have a great day. as many people necessity our rahel solomon is training for her first marathon this november so she's always looking for fun ways to cross train and she found a work out new to philadelphia that will make anyone sweat. it is called slt and it is h-a -r-d, check it out. >> slt is a fine le impact full body work out, done on the mega warmer, it is strength training, cardio and elements of pillates put in one. >> reporter: sounds easy to me but moments into think i realized i was wrong. >> oh, my goodness. is it too late to turnaround. >> oh, wow. we'll see. classes are intimate with a dozen mega formers in the room >> right here you have all of

your springs. when it is on, one level it will move from all the way from the front, which is over here to the back of the machines. >> you have weights dunn there , and, it looks intimidating i will in the lie >> don't be intimidated. if this is your first time you take it slow move at your own pace. >> reporter: celebrities like christie teigen and sophia ver gara have linked the training work out and because of the entire 50 minutes is on the mega former it is said to be low impact and good for anyone. >> never really stepping on, jumping up and down. it is probably hardest work out i have ever done in my life. keeps me coming back. you can see changes real fast, your muscles really shaking on the machine and when you get home i didn't even know i had abs there. it is a fast way to get in good shape. >> reporter: perhaps fast but definitely not easy, even for those who like stephanie, a dancer, previously considered herself an athlete.

>> i will say it is a humbling work out. >> reporter: it humled me, i needed extra assistance there but maybe it did strengthen, tobe, and lenghten a bit too. >> fun work out but it is also really hard. it will kick your butt. >> reporter: that i can agree with. >> the new studios on 16th and walnut street and rittenhouse, and now they did just open this month and is there only enough space for about a dozen people so they recommend signing up early if you are interested in taking a class. rahel solomon for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". that is it for "eyewitness news" at 6:00 here's what we have coming up at 7:00. streets disappear as hurricane harvey causes catastrophic flooding in southeastern texas we will show you some of had destruction. plus, here at home philadelphia fire fighters rushed to a burning house in overbrook and now investigators say this was no accident. it will be a glorious day to day matt peterson's back with your forecast just after

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harvey is now a tropical storm moves deeper in texas and turns deadly along the way , get you up to date. they are packed up, heading south, the rules some of the philly's first responders they will take to