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hillary clinton and her first late night television appearance since the presidential election, hear what else she had to say about president the u.n. well, today is wednesday, september 20th, good morning, i'm jim donovan. > rahel. katie's off. we have matt with us checking on the forecast, meisha checking on traffic. >> yes, day two for natasha. >> yes. >> day two. >> we appreciate it. >> we love seeing natasha, so great to have you. >> we are looking outside, and construction, construction, construction. it is out there. there is a lot. we will talk aut you are busy. >> busy day in the weather department. we are watching maria after we got done dealing with jose here, all of our neighbors in puerto rico, a lot of people have family down there. it is a big deal for all of us we are keeping an eye on. that we will give you an

update in a second. this is what we are looking at this morning in center city, it is a clear, quiet start to the day. you really get a great scene, with the downtown area, sky line looking fantastic on this wednesday morning. as we wake up, you look outside, 71 degrees. this is our current temperature this isn't our forecast high, 71 as you wake up and step outside. a warm, muggy start to the morning. winds coming from the north at 13 miles an hour. could be breezy. watch for wind gusts up to as high as 20 miles an hour. for the most part taking a look at future weather maybe overall a mostly sunny wednesday for us. as we get into our aga, a sun filled day and we will wrap up our workweek on friday with another dayfshine. temperatures that are definitely above average, so be prepared for not necessarily cool start to fall mostly sunny 84. that is what we're looking for

, for our afternoon high temperature today andn be contp say and maria in a little bit, meisha. thanerery good morning to y. happy wednesday, so we are making it through halfway part of the workweek and starting accident. accident new jersey turnpike past hightstown outer roadway is closed. this camer bkups, use an alternate, roadway, and,rout130g at in terms have the backups use route i'll let you know when that clears. hard to see in that camera shot here. construction here schuylkill eastbound, right lane compromised. our crews in the roadway and blinking flashing lights letting you know to stay to the left. cones in the roadway. as soon as they pick up that i will let you know. resurfacing project on the schuylkill all clear. is what also clear is overnight construction p ctwest and eastbound between schuylkill and broad where we had overnight construction,

again, crews out of the way looking g westbound jumping on the schuylkill. everybody driving around, eastbound side big thumbs up as well. construction 95 south between 332 and route one, it looks like we have cones in the roadway here. crews are not out there block ago this left lane. you are condensed to the one drivable lane.at clears as well. this is an area that starts to heat up around 5:30 or natasha,. at lee 248 people are mexico, after a destructive earthquake. >>el folks panicked as it shook streets geologicality yesterday survey tells us that the earthquake's epicenter is milesl "eyewitness news" reporter jan 3 sat center with more on continuing rescue frantic morning, jan. >> reporter: natasha and jim, good morning. toll only rises as search and rescue efforts continue this

morning there in among the dead are dozens of children who are in school when the earthquake hit their building collapsed. reight and against the clock in mexico city searching fo earthquake struck yesterday afternoon. as t cw s used buckets and wheel barrels to dig throuhe at lee 22 children were killed when the school building oths are still missing. family members rushed to the scene looking for won, searchers wrote silence on a school building with spray listen for survivors while digging through the ruble. jonathan mendoza isng cousin. >> only thing they have told us is to go to the hospital to verify our family i family has e there and we don't have news on our family member. the magnitude 7.1 quake was centered 76 miles south east

of mexico city. mexico city's mayor says that in the capitol alone, at least 44 buildings came crashing to the ground. mexico's president, enrique pen use nieto ddof emergency ane efforts are the priority. 's dressed the country saying this test , and a painful one for our country. many businses around mexico were rehearsing earthquake drills earlier in the day, itasarly remembrance o0 quake that struck in the city on the very same d in 1985, killing almost 10,000 people. and th actually inspired new building code and one of the world'sst detection . new this latest earthquake comes on the heels of anothere t magnitude 8.1 on the southern mexico coast a little mo that earthquake killed at least 90

people. weton this story. we're live from the sat certainty, jan carabao fcbor3 ". closingand jim back to you. in on puerto rico threatening to bring devastation to that correspondent nicki batiste is live in the broadcast center with more on what theanare fo this category e storm, good morning, nicki. >> reporter: good morning, jim e ace most powerful storm to hit the u.s. territorypresent trumpo rico being hit by a new monsterour hearts are with you,e will be there to help. hurric on puerto rico with winds topping 160 miles an hour, thousands of residents have taken shelter. saying facing another storm, means we will be without services for a long time. governor ricardo warned that

this could be the kind of storm the island has not seen for several generations. >> i asked for america's pray ers. my administration has done everything within our power to prepare for this event, and to protect the lives of everyone in the island. >> reporter: this is second maximum strength hurricane to hit the caribbean this month. maria's massive side captured on these dramatics pictures from space, she brushed by martin sneak leaving most of the island unharmed. antigua also suffered a glancing blow. the storm killed person in quadloop and devastated tiny nation of dominica. locals and visitors in puerto rico rushed to catch the last emotionalt. ride, you know, and i rea around for this next one. >> reporter: hurricane center forecast say maria will bring life threatening flooding from rain, and storm surge. now, the national hneca

maria will cross puerto rico today before passing north of the northeast co of the dominican republic tonight and tomorrow. it is too early to know if the maria will threa u.s. jim and natasha. well, meanwhile people down the shore, are feeling, hurricane jose's impacts. waves crashed against brigantine's sea wall during high tide last captured this in north wildwood where the water surged oveec massive waves almost knocked over those trying to get a close lear. high accounts rough surf is one of the effects. one woman we talk to was amazed how the water took over the beaches. >> all the way out there >> yeah. >> it is gone right now. >> yes, there is in beach. >> surfers like this one in ocean city took a risk in the rough waters, earlier yesterday. water nsea isle ahead of the hih tide, officials say their big

concern are high surf, beach erosion and dangerous rip currents along new jersey's beaches. president trump delivers his harshes warning yet to north korea regime during his first major address to the u.n. general assembly. during the speech he referred to north korea leader as, rocket man and warned u.s. could destroy the north, if forced to oral is. the president's former rival hillary clinton reacted to the speech, during an appearance on the late show with stephen colbert. very dark, daing rust, not the kind of message that the leader of the greatest nation in the world should be delivering. >> clinton was on colbert to promote her new memoirs what happened which hit store shelves last week. stay with us, everyone st cbs-3 "eyewitness news", two sons in northeast philadelphia come to the defense of their mother and now they are in the insidel with stab wounds. a hospital, employees on camera forcing babies, to

dance. what may have caused a giant sinkhole to swallow up part of . ♪ >> i sometimes sing t myself. >> oh, sure. >> one florida woman says she's too sexy toit conditionin, hear what she did to try to catch the attention of power cr c up.

philadelphia police are looking for a suspect in the double stabbing overnight, it happened on the 1100 block of fillmore street in frankford. police say the victim a 20 year-old and seven year-old are siblings they were stabbed defending their mother from their ex-boyfriend. both are currently in stable condition. also a man is charged in connection to multiple child lurings outside a philadelphia public school. police say that 35 year-old marjuan deb tried luring kid into his car in northeast philadelphia investigators tied him to six attempted case s so far. deb allegedly used cash to entice the children. detectives used a similar un

solved case from february to track him down. so far deb faces four counts related to child luring. employees at a florida hospital are facing potential criminal charges after posting disturbing videos of new born babies on line. this snap chat video shows a staff member at a military hospital in jacksonville making a new born baby dance. and, and, calling babies mini satans. that hospital has issue an apology and say workers involved have been removed, from patient care. take a look, giant sinkhole, swallowed up part of the home near orlando, florida family inside escape unharmed, they say they noticed deep cracks in the bathroom night before and moved their belongings to the front lawn before the home crumbled. it is in the clear if the sinkhole is related to heavy rains from hurricane irma last week. and some good news, power is back for most of florida, after hurricane irma. >> however some are still in the dark and one woman without

power is trying to make light of the situation. check this out, woman in fort myers made this bright pink sign to get power crew is a tension. sign read hot single female seeks sexy lineman to electrify her lights. she got the idea from social media. >> i saw a post on facebook abe thought it was really funny, and i said, i can do that better. i just thought, hey, maybe when the line men get to my neighborhood this will make them laugh and they will hook me up first. >> guess what? it work. lineman restored her power, took a picture in front of the sign and said, power on, due to your ppl lineman. good for her. >> you have to do what you have to do. >> you have to do what you have to do to get power back on i guess. lets check back into see what is going on. i know you have been tracking everything with the shore and is what happening today. >> yes, it is a jammed packed forecast today. jose made it cloudy, showers down the shore yesterday.

we had rough surf across the shore points yesterday and that rough surf will be back today. if you are down the shore thinking jose's moving out, don't be so exited to get out there just yet because it could be another rough day for us down near shore points. outside in our neighborhood network, down in rehoboth on boardwalk plaza camera and tough to see but out in this area you can still see the waves and they are still on the higher side. so it is going to be another day, of some higher, surf and still possibly, a little bit of gusty winds at time. we have a coastal flood warning in effect for south jersey, back down to rehoboth as well. this goes until 2:00 in the afternoon, delaware bay included in that. is there still chance for higher water right along the coastline until about mid afternoon or so, today. tropical satellite for us, there is jose spiraling off the coast for the most part we have more northerly wind but we could at times still get a problem with some beach erosion today because of that

high surf because water getting churned up by jose. heading back down to maria, of course, we have really extremely powerful category 25 storm most likely going to be making land fall or almost making land fall in the next hour or so, in puerto rico. so again this is a extremely powerful storm and packing winds as high as 150 or so miles an hour, as it makes land fall, again, probably in the next hour or so, it will slightly weaken as it moves over puerto rico skirt on the northern edge of the hispaniola and go toward bohamas. it looks like by thursday afternoon it will be north of hispaniola and then into the weekend hour, weekend time frame it will get upward maybe toward continental united states but off the coast line of north carolina around sunday. here's our seven day forecast, 84 today, 87 tomorrow, 83 for first day of fall friday and stays warm, muggy all the way

through our weekend. >> all right, matt, thanks very much. you have been busy, doing a great job, thanks very much. looking outside good morning, happy wednesday. we have construction here in bucks county 95 south between 332 and route one, left lane still compromised see cones in the roadway just here. you cannot use far left lane. condensed to the right lane. are you slowing down? maybe a couple brake lights. not so much right now but you will after you get cleared out of the way pushing more toward 6:00 o'clock hour. construction schuylkill eastbound, that right lane is compromised you can see our buddy, our crews right now you can see cones in the roadway here. i would say these areas right now they are actually looking good in terms of the congestion, mostly getting used to these construction project but still want to know if you can wait to get in your homes longer, if you can't, just know they are out there still. accident new jersey turnpike southbound past hightstown outer roadway is close so use an alternate, inner roadway or route 130 is your best bet, would i use the alternate,

would i use route 130 if i were you, i will let you know when that clears but it is still out there, natasha and jim, back over to you. well, new for a look at newspaper headlines across our region. >> in the delaware county daily times andover home own's so, has filed a motion to halt work on the sunoco marinere two construction project. it will bring natural gas to the marcus hook industrial complex. it will cross the community land. they want work stopped until work on an appropriate dust mitigation plan has been approved. from the bucks county courier times pennsbury school board voted to approve a program that will make drug counselors available five days a week at pennsbury high school. student mental health assessments will be available as well. mercury pottstown boro council, voted to acquire land for expansion of the pollack park. the lot on cross street has chemical contamination in the soil and groundwater. current plans call for area to be paved over and used for

parking, and or additional basketball courts. that is a look at newspaper headlines from around the delaware delaware valley. up next pat has your morning sports. good morning, patrick. >> good morning, guys, one and only rhys hoskins was at center of it all as phillies looked to knock off dodgers. see how bad it has gotten for the eagles next

welcome back to cbs-3 "eyewitness news" this morning , glad you are with us. >> pat's with us as well with sports this morning, phillies playing on a team with baseball's best record, pat. >> phillies playing spoiler

this september and delaying dodgers from clinching the national league west. they got fantastic performance s from the future of their team, phillies got another great outing from aaron nola last night, he struck out eight dodgers over seven innings. phillies down two-one in the seventh bases loaded and rhys hoskins comes through yet again. how amazing is this guy, he cleared bases on the tenth pitch of his at bat, and phillies get on to win six-two s and dodgers, again tonight. new york giants come to the link oner this sunday and with the bit of turmoil. their head ben mcdue blamed monday night loss on sloppy quarterback play but he e one of the criticism. his main target is odell beckham junior and they will need both of them to step up. the first eightas scored just quarters of the season. beckham is recovering from a high abird defensive coordinator

jim schwartz expects him at 100 percent. >> we have to expect him at 100 percent f we expect anything less, we're in the wrong business because he has a full week to prepare. he was obviously well enough that they played him for 33 plays i think it was. he is another week away from that, another week ahead of his rehab and things like that . we will have to be ready for him being the same guy t we remembered from last year. >> now is time for to you come to the aid of you'retmt. vote now for the friday football frenzy game of the week. we've got hill school at ep trenton at rancocas valley. and delsea at paul the sixth. you can go philly.com/ frenzy to vote. >> i'm amazed how many thousands of people vote each week on that isn't that amazing we love when students come in like they did last two weeks. it isnvolved. >> thanks, patrick, appreciate

it. coming up next half atnes n. >> mayhem in mexico after a massive earthquake, we will have the veryd recovery efforts, including the very latest on the search for survivors of the grammar school that was leveled, during the quake. tricking the body in to losing weight, could it be something called the imagery diet? i'm interested in this one and how it is more than just dropping pounds,, wet. are looking to the weekend, of course, saturday and sunday, it will not be all that fall- like temperatures, well above average but we will see plenty of sunshine out there on saturday and sunday. not a bad couple days to get outside. i'll give you at maria when i come back

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well, good morning everyone i'm natasha brown. rahel's off. >> i'm jim donovan. matt peterson and meisha johnson will be here in a moment but first here's what you need to know, on this wednesday, september 20th. >> sirens. >> utter destruction in mexico this morning, as the death toll continues to climb, following a devastating earthquake. search and rescue efforts continue this morning in