we are getting a clear picture of just how much damage has been left behind by hurricane irma, 5 million people are still without power right now, including places like flat keys. a judge throws out charge as begins the engineer involved in the deadly amtrak derailment. what is behind that decision and is what next for brandon bostian. a live look at storm scan three shows some rain out there, including, the remnants of hurricane irma, katie's here to tell us what to expect and how long you may need your umbrella today is wednesday, september 13th, good morning, i'm jim donovan. i'm jan carabao, rahel's

off today. katie and meisha are keeping an eye on things this morning. >> good morning. >> is it nice to with you. >> it really is. >> oh, yeah. >> so true. we are looking outside, speaking of going outside on the roadway just tons of construction, disabled tractor trailer. lots going on the schuylkill. we will talk about that coming up. >> pretty quiet for now. we will get through the morning drive, that is some good news, at the moment, we will notice a few speckles of green on the radar, and don't worry about that so much, it is not even rain verifying just yet but moisture is beginning to build in the atmosphere because we have cloud overhead and also allowing temperatures to stay on the milder side, through the overnight and tonight looks milder then that because of the continued, cloud deck that we will have in place here, and you can see leading edge of that outside of baltimore moving over d.c. just a couple of showers at the moment out of this. i'm not all that concerned as the day goes on. this time of the day i have clicker trouble i don't know what that is all about, turf

figure that out. but at 5:00 a.m. this guy doesn't want to work. we have showers though, irma at this point, you cannot even call it irma it is remnant moisture but that is moving our way here with very minor impacts in the next couple of days. for now here's where we stand le to mid 60's, and down toward southern new jersey and rest of the delaware, as well, taking you down the shore, rehoboth checks in at 67 degrees. wind flow starting to turn more southerly southeasterly as day goes on but it end up as a seasonal day and scattered showers which i'm going to time out later on, meisha. >> thanks very much, katie and very good morning to all of you, just waking up with us we are looking outside right now 95 south at cottman. this is one stretchy keep my eye on in the morning because it heat up quickly and right new looking good, looking quiet, you can see your friend s but overall we are ever so slightly starting to pick up levels as we push in the 5:00 o'clock hour. ninety-five north between route one and 332 we have

construction. that lane has been since cleared, and going to that overnight resurfacing project on the schuylkill, it is just eastbound side left over,e and westbound, between turnpike and blue route and yes, penndot thanks for helping me out here. i will just say there is some cones in the road in that area just a head up on. that disabled tractor trailer on the new jersey turnpike we will talk about that, in the next 10 minutes, jim, back over to you. days after hurricane irma devastated the state of florida many are beginning to head back to home to see is what left. >> "eyewitness news" reporter trang do is live from the cbs-3 news center with the very latest on the clean up efforts and how hollywood is helping out, trang do, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, jan and jim. many people returning to sit is and towns that look unrecognizable w clean up efforts underway, stars came together last night for a benefit concert that raised millions of dollars to help those rebuilding their homes and lives, for years to come.

>> ♪ >> it was a star studded hour network, celebrities and musicians united for one cause , hurricane relief. >> we have incredible people in the house tonight. there is oprah winfrey, there is so farrah versacegara. >> hand in hand tell-a-thon went on to raise 14 million-dollar to help victims of the hurricane harvey and irma. meanwhile, scenes of the clean up efforts like this one are playing out across florida. this video taken just outside miami of a nun with the chain saw going viral. >> oh, man sounded like a freight train. >> reporter: in the hard hit keys people are returning to find one quarter of all homes destroyed. nearly 23rds of the rest have major damage. >> there is some that disappeared in the ground or behind it, i don't know how it collapsed. >> reporter: twenty homes were destroyed at this rv park just north of orlando. officials blame irma for at least two dozen deaths across florida, georgia and south

carolina millions of people remain without power in florida creating dangerous conditions. a man died in marion county after his car collided with another at an intersection without working traffic lights >> people are blowing through these intersections here just like this jeep here not stopping. >> reporter: the president and first lady are scheduled to visit florida to tour damage on thursday but they have in the yet announced which area they will visit. we are live, from the news certainty i'm trang do for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". jan and jim, back to you. hurricane irma's effects will be felt for a very long time. stay with cbs-3 "eyewitness news" as we continue to follow recovery efforts from this historic storm. you can find very latest on cbs philly.com. mixed reactions after a judge decide to drop charge is a begins the train engineer in the deadly 2015 crash, saying it was an accident. here's brandon bostian arriving, for court yesterday with his attorneys, inside of the courtroom a municipal court judge dismissed criminal

negligence charges, you may recall on may 12th, 2015 bostian propelled amtrak train 188, to 106 miles an hour into a set of curves, capable offhandeddeling half that speed. eight people died and 200 others were hurt when the train derailed in the cities port richmond section. >> brandon bostian's only job was to get people from one point to the other, safely. he didn't even need to steer the train. >> these charges should have never been brought. this was never a crime. this was an accident. >> the case was first originally dismissed by philadelphia district attorney 's office and then the pennsylvania attorney general picked it up hours before the statute of limitations was set to expire. happening today, a preliminary hearing foreman who surrendered in connection with a deadly hit and run. woman police described as, homeless, was killed when she was hit by a white suv near 13th and race streets in

center city august 6th. the striking vehicle was later found in delaware county. now 35 year-old brandon hey faces involuntary manslaughter and other charges. hey's lawyer says it was an accident and should not be a criminal case. well, as students mourn death of the college student in the lehigh valley, investigators are trying to figure out what caused the freshman's death. "eyewitness news" at lafayette college for a vigil held for mccray williams. the 19 year-old was found unconscious outside a dorm on sunday afternoon and died monday at a local hospital. officials from williams former high school say he quote fell over the weekend and suffered a major head injury. meanwhile college officials say that only that he had a medical emergency. west chester east high school freshman is suspended and faces not only expulsion but criminal charges after an apparent on line hoax. police say the 14 year-old posted instagram photos of other students as they wrote that they would die.

post include racial slurs, and they have now been deleted. police figured out who made the threats within hours and the district superintendent says that investigators determined the whole thing was more of a hoax, then a threat. >> we take all threats very seriously, safety is our number one priority. we look at some of these things particularly with social media and try to purge fit is credible threat or not. >> there was a lot of concern about the hate crime aspect of this, juvenile being an african-american, is an african-american 14 year-old juvenile. >> that student faces charges of making terroristic threats and cyber harassment. a man is behind bars this morning after police say that he opened fire, at a mobile home park in morrisville bucks county. suspect, 54 year-old jimmy stormantis facing attempted homicide charges. shots rang out around 8:00 yesterday morning in the pen wood crossing mobile home park on old bristol pike. police say at least 10 bullets were fired at the community's office building, all while a

group of children were waiting nearby at a bus stop. >> thing that was most concerning to us was across the street was a bus stop for young kidding to go pennsbury school district, and some of the bull deaths travel across old 13 striking trailers on the other side here where the kid were at the bus stop. >> now fortunately no within was hurt, police tell us that the gunfire stemmed from a dispute over maintenance, to stormant's trailer. he is being held on $750,000 bail. new this morning going head to head with mosquitoes in camden county as officials battled west nile virus. camden county mosquito commission began spraying around 2:00 this morning and will wrap up in an hour. targeted spraying areas including barrington, cherry hill, gloucester township, waterford and winslow. officials say the spraying is scheduled on a as needed basis and it is not harmful to human s or pets. well, the 63rd annual hero thrill she comes to the wells fargo center a week from saturday. >> but this afternoon we will

get a sneak peak. here's some video from last years event, this afternoon at noon on the 1800 block of market street we will get a look at some of the dare devil moves by the philadelphia police motorcycle drill team. the show raises money for survivors of the deceased police and fire fighters killed in the line of duty. well, we are learning more about a sudden swarm of insect s in the philadelphia area. coming up we will tell you where they came from. it is not just florida rebuilding after hurricane irma, we will take a look at damage left behind in saint martin. and fire tears through an elementary school, ruining a historic building, we will tell what you happened just before the flames broke out. ♪ >> well, it looks like pat gallen is hanging around with some scare crow this is morning, why not, it is almost fall, we are live at peddler's village coming up in our next

half an hour, stay with us.

back on "eyewitness news" with a huge fire in florida. it happened at lee elementary school in east tampa a area

recovering from hurricane irma the fire reached three alarms, we're told the school is wadley damaged. authorities believe that the flames were sparked when the power came back on in the area this historic building dates back to 1906 named after confederate general robert e lee. one week after hurricane irma turra cross the caribbean saint martin residents say it will be a very long time before things are back to normal there. crew is assessed damage on the dutch/french island yesterday. officials say nearly one-third of all buildings on saint martin were destroyed in the storm. irma slammed the island last wednesday leaving residents to pick up the pieces. >> we are under water right now, especially drinking water we need water to survive. hopefully we pray to god that we get water and electricity can come a little later but water is main thing to survive on, you know. >> irma killed four people and injured dozens of others on the island while nearly 200

people are reportly missing. this morning we have a look at dramatic video as authorities rescued a couple stuck on their sail boat during hurricane irma. this happened just north of palm beach, as irma's outer bands began hitting the coast on sunday. you can see choppy water tossing the boat around. rescuers managed to pull both people to safety. >> we were just trying to figure out how to approach the boat without collide nothing to it orlanding on top of it. >> just grab a hold, pulled her on the boat and second gentlemen we pulled up close and we were able to help him on. when we did we pushed on and john gos us out of there. >> a court to go martin county officials the couple on the boat didn't necessity how to swim. it amazing me, they knew it was coming. people are not bright. >> and then they put the lives of the first responders. >> exactly, rescuers at risk. >> very brave for going out there. so katie, is this affecting our shores up here

though. i noticed the waves. >> not irma, jose. that is the storm bringing some indirect impacts because it is still churning over opened water right now in the atlantic miles away, hundreds of miles away but these big storms can have a big impact and a very broad scope, outside, of where they actually are situated. we will get to that. but lets talk about that remnant moisture from irma. it is on the way. you can see speckles of the green, very light showers, rolling up to the beltway outside d.c. right now. i think primarily we will see any showers here fall around midday, so yeah, umbrella is not the war idea but we are absolutely not talking about a wash out here. if you have outdoor plans you can probably keep them but do i expect you will see showers around mid date but even then they will be scattered in nature. so that is all that is left of irma, it is pretty much at this point a memory, so we can get back to life and start to recover from this across the south east.

here is owe say. it still looks like a relatively impressive category one storm system but look at where computer models take this. important to note, these are models, this is not gospel it is just a general, thought of each and everyone of the different models that we take into account here. now this is an out liar that would take this into florida, that is very likely to not happen but what i worry about is these outer lining won that as the storm recurves itself could this make a relatively close pass to the east coast? it is certainly not a guarantee. it is possible. we will just keep an eye on this, couple days need to unfold before we can get a better handle on where that will head but it is a storm that is expected to make a loop in the next couple days and then head north. so, even though it is still over opened water it is still churning up the surf for eastern seaboard and max sustain wind are like they were yesterday at this same time about 75 miles an hour. so here we go with the

official cone from the not hurricane center, this keeps it out to sea. we will keep our fingers crossed that it does stay that way but we have to keep an eye on it since we have shorelines here in the delaware valley. outside to the river line here and where you are finding some pretty quiet weather. just a lot of cloud currently over center city sky line. it is at lee visible no problems seeing it. we have more cloud to keep the warmth, trapped in here throughout the early morning. we will find a few showers though to day especially tomorrow and then friday, maybe even saturday. so it is still a prolonged pattern but a very minor showery pattern we are having to deal with by comparison. >> good, i'm glad to hear the word minor for sure. thanks very much, katie and a very, good morning to all of you, happy wednesday, guys. we are looking outside at the vine where we talk about that overnight construction on the vine, that is closed on the west and eastbound side we have in the seen that in a little while. same story this morning. vine westbound ande bound no matter where you are traveling

this is basically what you're looking at still traveling around at posted speed, basically anywhere but we are seeing things heat up a little bit and we can expect that. as we approach the 5:30 mark when we start to see our, we set the tone for morning. we will see what happens. but you are building levels. blue route headlights in the north bound direction before route one what you are looking at there 95 at the airport no delays by the way, everything looking good around that area, and 42, 42 freeway north bound at creek road take this north bound toward 295 in new jersey this is what you are working with there got very busy yesterday. see what happens today. i have a suspicion we will be busy, plus we have construction where we will be talking about in the next 10 minutes or so, jan and jim, back over to you. meisha, thank you. new for a look at newspaper headlines across our region. >> from the trenton, trenton chapter of the naacp is calling for resignation of the police director ernest perry, junior. chapter president janet smart sent a letter to the mayor

eric jackson says it is concerning. among other things she was referring to body camera footage that captured perry referring to city residents as quote, hood rats. in the reading eagle, a pennsylvania economy lead study find that financial instability among communities threatens the entire state. look at 2300 municipalities, find that is tax burdens are increasing, while tax bases have grown as slower rates or remained flat. from the delaware county daily times super natural hard or film it opened in theaters last weekend but did you know that the film has a local connection? screen writer gary, a member of the pen crest class of 1995 wrote the adoption of the stephen king's 1986 novel, the film raked in 117 million-dollar, in the opening weekend. >> way too scary for me. >> that is a look at some of the newspaper headlines around the delaware valley. well, check this out a new sculpture that popped up in center city is turning head and has people talking.

>> it is a giant after rowpick outside the municipal services building in center city. it is called all power to the people and was create by hank willis thomas. the times are driven to the surface of the plaza with the fist at the other even. sculpture is just feet away from the statue of former philadelphia mayor frank rizzo here's the grand unveiling yesterday by monuments lab which is a public arts and history project, afropick stand 8 feet tall and weighs 800-pounds. this is a temporary monument. artist say it is a sim about to highlight ideas related to community strength, perseverance, comradeship and resistance to oppression. up next on cbs-3, in the so fast, phillies. >> it looked like a walk off in the ninth but hold everything, it wasn't over, we will show you how the game really ends coming up next in

welcome back. phillies played marlins again tonight after working overtime last night. >> overtime, indeed. >> it took them a while but phillies bring home a clutch win. actually, phillies made up a five run deficit and it looked like they won the game in the bottom of the ninth on this play at the plate. but upon further review, the call was overturned and all that celebrating, well, it was for nothing. phillies wound up down a run in the bottom of the tenth, when rhys hoskins hits his second home run of the game to keep things tied. hoskins has hit 16 home runs in just 112 major league at bats, his legend just keeps on growing. to the 15th inning, longest game of the year for the phils and nik williams single wins it. phillies win nine-eight. lots to be excited about this team next season. in cleveland they are excited about this year,

indians beat brewers last night, two to nothing for indians, 20th straight win. that ties the 2002 oakland a's for american league record for consecutive wins. next up was 1935 cubs who won 21 in a row and then giants who won 26 games in a row in 1916, but that streak, included a tie. well, eagles have made a signing to replace injured kicker caleb sturgis they have signed jake elliott off of the bengals practice squad, bird play andy reid's chiefs in kansas city on sunday afternoon. coming up in the next half an hour of "eyewitness news" with the magic eight ball finally get in the toy hall of fame? all signs point to... well, we will find out. a live report from wall street with the details. also ahead political rivals come together today, we will have more on meet to go work on daca legislation. and nine year-old girl is faced this morning after

jumping three stories to escape a fire we will hear from her and neighbor who caught her. katie? and jim, getting ever closer to the upcoming weekend and right now i'm expecting sunshine and i'm expecting fingers cross that had jose stay well out to sea but we have to keep a close watch on that storm's path and it may have indirect impacts on our shoreline which we will get to later in the show but for now expect some warmth this weekend and highs in the 80's, not bad from mid-september, we will be right

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good morning i'm jan carabao in for rahel solomon. >> i'm jim donovan. but first here's what you need to know to start your day in the morning minute, it is wednesday, september 13th. >> this nun with the chain saw just outside miami is going viral. for her efforts to clean up after hurricane irma. millions remain without electricity. >> the president, first lady are scheduled to visit florida to tour damage on thursday. >> disappointed would be an under statement. >> a judge tosses out criminal case against the engineer behind the deadly 2015 amtrak derailment. >> say that again. >> no. >> not as planned,