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 mexico.

>> will be built across the island. >> hurricane maria batters puerto rico, officials warned people to head to shelters. the storm has already devastated the caribbean island of dominica. jose wipes away chunks of beaches along the jersey, delaware coast, waves crashed over the sea wall in wildwood and water almost met the road in sea isle. one of the things we say in the book is that in recovering from this and you lean heavily on charred in a. i was wondering if would you care for a... >> sometimes a little alcohol makes a job much smoother. i have been asking a little mi mosa bar here, a little something, something. >> yes, a little on the side for your coffee. >> hillary clinton stopped by late show and they talk about

her new book what happened, a reflection on on her unsuccessful campaign run. >> also, turning to the forecast, right now, matt, fall's almost here but when will it start? it is not feeling like it. >> natasha, you are right, it feels like we're in the middle of july but fall officially starts on friday, and it could be looking at temperatures in the low to mid 80's on friday. so definitely not feeling like we are getting ready to turn the make into that, cooler season that we get here in the delaware valley. it is warm today, once again and of course, we are keeping an eye on the tropics, not just down in the new jersey shore, of course we are keeping an eye on jose, it caused a problem at the shore, yesterday, all eyes continue to watch maria too, which will be likely to make land fall in puerto rico in the next hour or maybe even a little bit sooner then that. this is our tropical satellite , of course, still watching jose, spiraling off the coast, but marie, models bring it overtop of puerto

rico through morning hours today, it will be affecting puerto rico all wednesday long and as we move later on in the forecast period by the time we get into next week we could be seeing it hug the coastline here of thee coast of the united states and we will keep an eye on it as it works its way northward that could be affecting us in the middle of the week along the jersey shore once again. temperatures, for the most part here this morning it is warm, little bit muggy, as well, on the sky deck but we will have a little breeze throughout the day so 71 right now int lower 70's, we will get up to 84 degrees, later this afternn will be warmer tomorrowd warm start to fall, so i will be back inside to break dn deta. >> matt, thanks very much. very good morning to you. happy wednesday, guys, mid part of the week guys, we are looking outside, still dark,eayg up a little bit. we have construction crews in

bucks county 95 south between 332 and route one that left lane is compromised. war down to one drivable lane and starting to get congested there. just a head up, construction here as well passyunk avenue right lane is compromised. our workers right here leftt los really quiet, calm there accident is still out there. morning long new jersey turnpike southbound past hightstown outer roadway alternate, inner roadway or route 130 is your best bet a backups, i would say, definitely will to nave use a use route 130 because of more vehicles getting out there now construction route 38 westbound near chapel avenue two right lanes blocked and route zero seven between haddonfield road and 2951 lane block there. construction on 322 is closed between harvard road and route 47. your alternate ellis street or delsea drive is your best bet. now, back to you. rescue crews and

volunteers continue to search for survivors in central mexico. 7.1 magnitude earthquake that has killed at lee 248 people. >> forty-four buildings mexico city and others shook from side to side. thousands came together in the city to assist overnight in search efforts. twenty-five bodies have been recovered from the mexico city grammar school, that partially collapsed. thirty children and eight adults are still reportedly missing the mexico's deadliest earthquake since 1985, that earthquake killed more people. more than 20,000 mexicans call philadelphia home and many are worried about their family members still living in mexico. mexican consul has been very busy shielding calls helping those having trouble getting in touch with their loved won. >> as long as we have information we will provide that information to our community to be patient while they a media. >> well, quake struck on the 32nd anniversary of another

devastating quake in md moexic n 10,000 people, many work place s were holding drills when the real earthquake struck. well, puerto rico and u.s. virgin island are bracing for ha inches closer this morning. puerto rico's governor is warning people to seek shelter ahead of the category four storm, officials saycould be wae area in generations and it already ripped through caribbean island of dominica,r r help after he says the hurricane caused quote mind bogglingown the shore are feeling the eff jose after effects as storm impacted the coast. massive waves crashed against sea walls last night, water covered the beaches during high tide, officials say they are growing concerned and flood, and in shore towns, high surf beach erosion and flooding are just a few of jose's predict effects. and many of the local

heroes whoel hurricane harvey and irma are finally back home this morning "eyewitness news" was there as members heta force one arrived k home in northeast philadelphia last night. they helped out on the front lines after hurricane struck in texas and florida. captain jim kelly says it was not easy but the teams pulled together. >> it was a lot of, destruction the kind to gist helped outlooking basically forecaster t that just to make sure that be in was in them and then we went hed other task force search some homes in the end. >> task force team has served in texas and florida for almost two weeks. well, time i business news e major retailer is blaming for a bad earnings report. >> and money watch's roxana live insuring stock exchange with the very latest, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, jim

waiting for the federal reserve's latest take on the economy. fed wraps up two dgo day and exo indicate when it might raise interest rates. on tuesday dow points, nasdaq finished six points bath and beyond plunge after disappointing earnings report. they announced sales of nearly $3 billion a drop of 2 percent from the same time last year. new jersey based companyrestruce harvey weighed on profits. health insurance premiums were up 3 percent for families last year, but new report find workers at small co are being , workers at firms with fewer then 200 employees contribute j$6us00 a year on average for a family. now that is 1500 more than workers at big co and kieser family foundation finds half of thees workers offer health benefits at all. in the sneaker wars raising ahead, industry tracking group says company's august sas

50 percent, compared to the same time last year. that was enough to past jordan as second most popular sneaker line in the u.s., nike still hold the top spot overall, jim and natasha. >> i don't even know what kind of sneakers i have. >> really. >> no. >> i had a podiatrist say good sneakers but i buy whatever is on sale. >> my goodness. >> with your kohl's cash. >> yes, w2 warehouse where ever the heck i am thanks, we will check in tomorrow. it turns out philadelphia isn't the only city in our area trying to lure amazon to set up shop. city of camden wants a piece of the action too freeholder board voted unanimously to work with the state to make a proposal with the company to build its secretary headquarters in camden. move could create as many as 50,000 permanent jobs, in addition to temporary construction jobs. well, classes are cancelled once again in the methacton school district as teachers roll into the third day of their strike.

"eyewitness news" here at a school board meeting in eagleville last night, board asked the teachers union to meet with them to try to hash out some kind of a deal. teachers started striking on monday morning, and that is after weekend negotiations between their union and school board, failed, the two side are at odd on salaries and medical premiums. we have new information today in the death of a lafayette college student, authorities say that on september 7th, 2 days before mccray williams died, the freshman fell in his dorm room after attending a party where he was drinking. lacrosse teammates became concerned about williams the following day, when he kept insisting on sleeping, and he became combative. they called 911 and williams was rush to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead next day from a head injury. >> at this time i have no evidence of any criminal conduct on the part of anyone, at this time, and i leave that opened because obviously if some new information would come we would revice that it issue. >> now district attorney went

on to say, that he did not see williams death as a quote, penn state case, referring to the hazing death of timothy piazza. cabrini university is holding campus wide town halls to answer student concerns after discovery of more racial slurs in residents halls. we told but this on sunday about a freshman who found message go away and a slur on her dorm room door. the university says that it has cleaned up two more instances of racial graffiti and increased security on the campus in radnor, delaware county. is there a court appearance this morning foreman accused in the murder of a temple university student last month. joshua hupperterz, faces murder and other charges in the death of 22-year old jena burleigh. investigators say hupperterz met burleigh at a north fill bar and killed her august 31st authorities say he used the ride services lyft to transport her body to his grandmother's property in northeastern pennsylvania.

well, this story has my shaking my head a customer takes down a robber inside the star bucks. so why is the good samaritan being sued. interesting. >> also straight ahead this is out in full force, it wasn't a red carpet but blue carpet, but stars of star trek, walk for premiere of their latest series. the world's most dangerous celebrity, can you guess, who it is, and what makes them such a threat? we will let you think bit, as we take this break we will be right back. listening to lady gaga there coming up next we will tell but a new documentary that takes a look at would the man behind the on stage person a. >> oh, yeah. >> stay tune. >> gaga. >> lots more to come.

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well, i got to tell you you may want to think twice before you search on line for news about avril lavigne after the star tops an alarming list of the singer song writer has been dubbed this years most dangerous celebrity.

cyber security firm mcafee compiles the list every year and it shows which stars are the most risky search results. experts say cyber criminals use fan fascination with celebrities to steer them with malwear laden websites. also got to tell you a new documentary about lady gaga premiers friday on netflix. >> everyone is touching me all day, talking at me all day. >> well, gaga actually is 5- foot two, very short actually. she says she takes a look at woman behind the on stage persona woman that she is behind all that, she reveals that she lives with par any, fear, body pain and anxiety. gaga recently cancelled european leg of her tour to seek medical treatment. also got to tell you about a new star trek series discovery on cbs all access, stars walk the blue carpet, in los angeles yesterday. one of the stars of the first

star trek, says his career, boldly went where it never would have if it wasn't for the famous show. >> i have donna loft things other than star trek but i think that propelled me into this kind of celebrity has been star trek. >> the show is set decade before the original star trek series and writers and pre duesers hope ate peels to fans of the old show and new star trek as well. >> i do think william shatner is very funny. >> absolutely. >> was it boston legal or something a few years ago, and commercials, price line commercials. >> yes, price line. >> i think he is hilarious. >> i think i will do the weather the same way william shatner does all of his lines. >> there you go, i get it. >> yes, you have to emphasize, over acting but not quite over acting. >> good point. >> and the emmy goes to... >> our weather forecast we don't love the weather

forecast. unfortunately it has been a mess, guys and not getting better overall today. slightly better, closer to home, jose is still making it's affects men a little bit but overall it will not be too bad here in the mid-atlantic with jose today. we will look at our bethlehem camera. nice quiet, clear start to our morning. that is always nice when we can talk about what is going on here locally anyway looking pretty nice. again we are going to potentially see weak effect from his help say later this afternoon. our eyewitness weather watchers are up, some are up in the northern sections, of the viewing area we will start with 68 degrees this morning in john's house, perkasie, relatively clear skies for him but it is a mild, 68 degrees, for sure. lets go further north and gets warmer, it gets warmer further north 70 degrees at charles house in bath, he has more cloud cover to start the day out. here's what is going on closer to home when it comes to

potential tropical risk. we have coastal flood warning until 2:00 this afternoon for areas in south jersey back down toward the delaware beaches because jose is still spiraling off the coast, and, that was a high, 8:46, this morning, and that will maximize our chance for that coastal flooding and after that time will start to go down and chances for flooding will go down witt. tropical satellite showing you maria. it is getting closer and closer, the outer eye wall already now, probably hitting, parts of the southeastern puerto rico. it will officially make land fall here early this morning and it will be packing a punch , 150 or so mile an hour wind. it is a category four storm. it will be making land fall again today. as it works its way north it will effect bohamas as we get into thursday and then further on here in the forecast track by early next week it will be off coastline of georgia and

south carolina and then get further toward mid-atlantic. we will keep an eye on it if it does effect us in the mid-atlantic it will be much weaker they be anything that we see right now. eighty-four today. eighty-seven tomorrow. first day of fall is friday, coming in at 83. meisha, i know you are going down to the lincoln sunday. eighty-seven for our high forbidder game. >> that is crazy, we usually have our leather jackets on and tall boots over skinny jeans but no, shorts and tank top, sounds good to me. good morning, everyone. we have a disable vehicle 95 south, to the vine pulled off to that left shoulder. this is an area that starts to slow you down, head up on this coming around the bend it is very dark and people have their vehicles so take it easy 95 south ramp to the vine where we have a disable vehicle. accident here still out there new jersey turnpike southbound past hightstown outer roadway was closed now just two lanes are blocked. if you want to avoid this area

because we are seeing backups and we have been off and on, inner roadway or route 130 is your best bet. that accident still out there causing problems for us. construction schuylkill eastbound pennsylvania passyunk avenue pulled off to the right but in terms of the flow we are looking good. construction bucks county 95 south, between 332 and route one, left lane compromised, it is hard to see in this shot but it is still out there or just starting to clear now. more construction, lot more to talk about in the next 10 minutes, jim, back over to you well, new details about an accident involving a septa norristown high speed train, in upper darby. accident you may recall happened august between the second at the 69th street terminal, in a preliminary report, operator of the train told investigators he tried to stop but was unable to do so. the train car slammed into a parked train that was empty, operator and 42 passengers were rush to the hospital, and now before the crash, operator

, slid pennsylvania the platform at gulph mills station and then reportedly, reported slippery rails, ntsb is still investigating the cause of that crash. get a load of this good samaritan stops a knife wielding robber in the act and now he can be sued. surveillance video shows craig jerry attacking a suspect at a star bucks in california last july. jerry, hit him with a chair hain was stabbed in the neck during the struggle before he wrestled the knife away and stabbed the robber. now the suspect's mother, the robber's mother, says that her son plans to sue for excessive force. >> the guy in my opinion went from a good samaritan to a vigilante, you know, stabbing somebody that many times it doesn't take that many stab wounds to get somebody to succumb to you. >> um, yeah, her son, just a beauty there. her son the suspect was stabbed 17 times. he is in jail right now, jerry

does not face any criminal charges for his actions. >> oh, boy how you can flip the script, right. >> no one takes any responsibilities for their actions anymore. >> don't get jim started, he has been talking about this all morning. >> and, all around, us as we know, dieting just doesn't work. >> what if your next meal was a imagery one. >> um-hmm. >> see how it works and how it is a lot more than just, losing weight, we will be right back, stay with

this story is strange so follow along with me, dieting often doesn't work because you miss your favorite food. that makes sense. >> um-hmm, that makes sense. now you can enjoy those food, if not in your mouth at least in your minds eyes apparently. i don't know what this is about. california non-profit called family dream survival is introducing its imagery diet. the founder says it is like creative visual says that athletes use but in this case to imagine eating your favorite food, the mayor of his home town says he is a believer. >> i imagined i would pour

milk on it, nice imagery cold milk, and i imagined picking up the spoon. >> would you begin to feel that experience, first couple of times you are just fighting it. >> um-hmm. >> group with like people to try imaging eating once a week , and donate meals cost to the charity that fights world hunger. that is a great cause. >> good cause about this is stupid, thinks california, figure it comes out of california. coming up next hour of cbs-3 "eyewitness news", pat gallen takes to us a local coffee shop serving up a real perk to the community. and healthwatch as well why future dad should avoid obesity, stay with

dozens of students, still missing, after their school crumbles. also this morning danger in the tropics hurricane maria begins to impact puerto rico, island could take a direct hit from this monster hurricane. tropical storm jose is no longer posing a threat to our area and we are warming up as summer, winds down. today is wednesday, september 20th, good morning, i'm jim