hurricane marie ace regaining strength as it ravages the caribbean and leaves historic destruction in puerto rico we are tracking the storm, plus this. >> rescuers are looking for survivors after mexico's deadly earthquake: i'm chris martinez with the very latest coming up. and teachers strike in montgomery county is over, find out when students can return to the classroom today, it is thursday, september 21st , good morning, i'm jim donovan. i'm rahel solomon. katie and meisha keeping an eye on things this thursday morning. >> we're all back together. >> yes, we're here. >> we are this close to the weekend. it is your monday and your thursday that is so true, we are looking outside, we have three or four accidents right now, and, we know it is getting busy: weather will cooperate. it is very warm, but i do want to show you jose, churning out

over, opened over water as a tropical storm and that will get that, churned up here. we will be dealing with the higher rip current risk here, and if you are enjoying off season at beach, i really want you to stay i would in the risk it because it can be, again, pretty treacherous out there when we are dealing with tropical storms, churning up the waves. it looks like a nice july like day, already 71 degrees at the airport, 65 in atlantic city, and, where we have been flirting with 30's in recent weeks. we are not breaking out here a nice warm day here in the mountains with until the sunshine, and, here in philadelphia it is going to feel like summertime. fall is literally right around the corner, equinox takes place tomorrow afternoon, we are still 40 days away from halloween so still time to

figure out what your halloween costume will be. have you given any thought, what will you go dressed up as this year. >> i really haven't. >> elv ira. >> what is that. >> you don't necessity who that is. >> oh, no. >> meisha doesn't know either. >> what are they say. >> el v ira. >> we will figure it out in the break. >> no, at least one person does that, i was thinking more like a egg or a piece of toast or something like that. we are looking outside right new we have a disable vehicle here schuylkill westbound to the boulevard northbound it is still out there. i think, yes, split is, it is pulled off to the right. we have flashing lights. they are not quite sure exactly what exactly happened here, we can see box truck. we are not sure if there is a vehicle in front. we are starting to slow down passing by there we will have gaper delays pulled off to that left. if i were you around this area schuylkill westbound to boulevard north bound give yourself a couple extra

minutes. then, lets see we have had a disable vehicle i-95 north off ramp to bridge street that has been clear. we are looking at cones in the roadway from construction crew s around that same area, that might be cleared out, you can see things are heating up. 295 northbound pennsylvania burlington mount holly road, two lanes blocked there because of an accident, bumper to bumper conditions there and another accident in bucks county falls township, business route one at tyburn road one lane blocked there, more to talk about when we come back in the next 10 minutes, jim and rahel, back over to you. take a look a close-up view of the eye of hurricane maria, right now, deadly storm battering the dominican republic after ripping through puerto rico. >> jan carabao is live from the sat center with more on the devastation there, good morning, jan. >> good morning, "eyewitness news" was actually able to speak to the with man who lives there in puerto rico and she says when it is safe to do so and if she can she will drive around to check on her

family members one by one, after all, puerto rico is in the dark. hurricane maria has knocked off the power grid and cell towers as well so communication is extremely limited. this comes as the next threat now turns to the rain, and potentially, life threatening flooding. hurricane maria again gaining strength as the storm churns off the eastern shore, of the dominican republic, fierce winds and storm surge battered the island late wednesday, this is after the storm left a trail of destruction in puerto rico where maria dumped 20 inches of rain and brought savage 155 miles an hour wins, streets flooded and debris flew threw the air there, many residents' vac wait todd safe buildings. cabrera rode out the storm with her children in the shelter. >> when winds started to increase, we were very scared. the roof started falling. >> reporter: this couple on vacation took shelter from the

storm in a hotel. >> the noise, i mean it just sounded like the water, you know, you could hear the doors shaking, it sounded like it was going to come into the building. >> reporter: puerto rico's emergency management officials say hundreds of home were destroyed and entire island is now without power. national hurricane center says after passing by dominican republic today maria is expect to move to turks and caicos where some residents are leaving. others are staying and stocking up on fuel and fuel. >> went to the gas station, filled up my tank, after here i will go to the food store and stock up on some food and i will good from there. >> reporter: southeastern bohamas are also in the path of the destruction. now, maria has already left at least 10 people dead throughout the caribbean and maria is not yet done with puerto rico. officials expect this storm to drop between 20 and 30 inches of rain on that island through saturday. we are live, jan carabao for

cbs-3 "eyewitness news", new back to you. >> what a mess. down in florida a massive effort is underway to rebuild the florida keys after hurricane irma's devastated that region. house speaker paul ryan took an aerial tour of the damage. he late's shourd that the federal government support for those affected by the deadly storm. florida governor rick scott and senator bill nelson toured nearby shelters. earthquake in mexico has taken at lee 245 lives. >> dozens of people have also been rescued. cbs news correspondent chris martinez is live where crews are working around the clock searching for survivors, good morning, chris. >> reporter: good morning, and this is one of the spots we are talking about where crews are working really non-stop, it just does not stop here for these folks in search and rescue mode, this was an office building what you are looking at now and collapsed on tuesday in that earthquake and they have been searching the ruble since then looking for survivors, scenes like

this, playing out this morning , all across the region a little girl is alive but still stuck under the ruble of what used to be her school in mexico city. she has been moving her fink ers in response to calls from rescuers all day and night crews have been trying to reach her and any other students who may still ab live this rescuer telling a reporter that special cameras they are using indicate that there are at lee two other children still inn side. dramatic video from earlier in the day shows two students being pulled to safety through cracks in the debris. school crumbled tuesday during the massive earthquake killing more than two dozen, mostly children, a few are still unaccounted for. here in mexico city nearly 40 buildings collapsed, officials say, more than 50 people have been rescued alive, from the ruble left behind. this woman was pulled through a hole in the ceiling more

than 24 hours after the quake hit, this man was carried away on a stretcher after being trapped inside his building where bottom two floors collapsed on to each other like a pan cake. mexican president enrique pena nieto says efforts are underway to help those left without homes, but the priority, almost two days after the quake remains saving lives. and for everyone of the buildings or structures that were flattened like this one there are many, many more that were damaged in some way. we are told as many as 2,000 public schools in this region, sustained some type of damage on tuesday. other good news folks from this area say that power now is nearly fully restored, to the almost 4 million people who lost it during the earthquake, jim and rahel, back to you. >> incredible, chris martinez

live in mexico city, mexico, chris, thank you. in other news a woman is critically injured after being hit by a koran roosevelt boulevard. it happened around 9:30 near southampton road. police say victim who was in her 20's was struck in the northbound inner lanes, and this was initially reported as a hit/run but we're told that the driver did return to the scene. teachers in the methacton school district have ended their strike and will return to work tomorrow. teachers union and the methacton education association have agreed to enter none in binding arbitration, teachers went on strike on monday and they were at odd with the district over medical premiums. teachers have been working without a contract since january, schools are closed to day for rosh hashanah. still ahead on "eyewitness news" this morning president obama is slamming efforts to repeal and replace his health care plan, hear what he says frustrates him the most. plus jose is now a tropical storm but it is still packing a punch along east coast, he was expect to bring flooding and strong wind today

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jose left its mark. >> tenth street in avalon beach erosions created, gullies, closer to the waterline. storm surge push high tide mark about a football field beyond where it usually begins and margate pumps worked around the clock to alleviate flooding in the area. in ocean city near fifth street pounding waves, exposed roxanne dunes. folks on the coast are bracing for jose, the storm is expected to bring heavy rainfall, coastal flooding and strong wind over next few days . residents are preparing for the worst but hoping for the best. >> time is 6:14. let's bring katie back into the equation.

it looks very warm. high was 60 degrees. i came back, flight attendant says on land, 80 degrees. how about it, a little taste of july to kick off the fall. it seems backward. in the like it has never happened but it will be very warm. we will have a cool start up at broad headville. a few cloud helping to limit the cooling taking place this morning, for the most part, we are under a generally clear skies, but jose as we were just talking about still out there, still churning away and bringing more for at this point strong surf and rip currents. no more wet weather at lee not right now. that storm is very sluggish in the next couple daisy don't think that wave heights per se is a as it is the chopines of the surf and the strength of the rip current risk. so that will last us right through the rest of the week my advice is this if you like

the off season you will have perfect beach weather but think about this before you go in the waves. it may be best to stay on dry land. you don't have a lot of life guard around at this point of year abe with that dangerous surf we dent want accidents. stay on the sand and enjoy warmth and sunshine. sun block required, of course. hurricane maria, modeling will take this on a right-hand corner and pass our area some models, out liars bring it further west, thinks something that need to be machine toward in the meantime but for right now, our summer day is looking very quiet. first day of fall is coolest day of the next five and we're going to be flirting with 90 degrees, both, eagles game day sunday and monday, like a said, i love it, i necessity you do too. >> you betty do, i love, summer, period, so we can get that to fall, i'm happy. speaking of that hot weather on sunday tori i will be hosting our first tailgate of the season with pip.

if you can make it out there we would love to see you. we will also be on wip radio coming up as well we have an accident, right here schuylkill westbound ramp to boulevard westbound, pulled off to the right, you can see cones, flashing lights, and you are going to have a little bit of a gaper delay. give yourself a couple extra minutes, westbound, right over there, over those trees you can see we are looking busy as well. we have an accident here 295 north bound pass burlington mount holly road that cleared in this camera shot. we are looking at significant backups because of that accident but it looks like that is really starting to, remedy the problem. i would give yourself a couple extra minutes. i would say, maybe an extra half an hour or so in that area another accident here, in falls township bucks county, business route one and tyburn road one lane blocked, brian, thanks for waking up with us. thanks for sending that information as well, rahel, back over to you. republicans are making a last ditch effort to repeal and replace the affordable care act before an upcoming deadline, harder to push

through. lindsey graham and bill cassidy co wrote the plan to eliminate affordable carable subsidy that makes health insurance cheaper and give states lump sum money to create their own health care systems. president trump says he is optimistic. >> you look at the rates and what is happening with premiums, for people that cannot afford obama care, it has been a catastrophic situation. i believe that graham cassidy really will do it the right way and it is the right way. it has tremendous support from republicans. >> republicans need only 50 votes to pass the plan instead of the normal 60 votes in the senate, but the legislative tool that allows that lower vote total expires september 30th. and former president obama speaking out, we don't often hear from him but he says g.o.p. effort to repeal his health care reform would inflict suffering. the president addressed the bill at an event, he said republican events to under mine obama care hurt people it is supposed to help.

>> so when i see people trying to undue that progress for 50th or 60th time, a bill that would raise costs, reduce coverage, it is aggravating. >> president obama says republican efforts would make coverage unavailable to cancer survivors, pregnant woman, children with asthma and others with existing medical problems. well, it is not even halloween yet but national companies are looking to hire workers for the holiday. if you are looking foresees nal job apply now, as the saying goes, the early bird gets the worm. now hiring for the holidays, companies impacted by the gift giving season have big plans to hire seasonal workers. those people who typically get paid hourly and work from november through january. fedex expects to add more than 50,000 of those employees to help get packages where they need to go. ups wants to hire about 95,000 seasonal workers, and target plans to stock its stores with

people, adding about 100,000 jobs. amazon, gap, toys-r-us are also hiring seasonal workers. the temp job could become permanent. ups says over past three years 35 percent of seasonal workers got a full-time gig, fedex say many of the 50,000 jobs added last year, brings full-time job opportunity, and if you need a job go on line start searching key phrases like seasonal jobs or holiday hiring near me. you can also, go to the web site of a national company to apply for that perfect position now. now one retail giant not looking for a seasonal help is wal-mart, instead, store plans to increase hours for existing employees. wal-mart's move comes as tightening labor market makes it harder to fill open positions. rahel, in case you are wondering there are 94 days until christmas, only 14 fridays in case anyone is counting paychecks. >> this is year i will get my

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we are looking at a week end that features summer-like warmth. temperatures in the upper 80's and lots of sunshine to go witt. it is time to make an excuse to get outside and lucky enough to have a pool opened near you you will have an excuse to use it, guys. all right, katie, thank you. for a look at newspaper headlines across our region. >> burlington county times, officials at rowan college in burlington county confirmed that the schools board of trustees placed president paul

drayton on administrative leave. this comes after a college employee filed a federal discrimination complaint. drayton was placed on leave august 30th, 1st day of the college's fall semester. reading eagle berks county district judge timothy dougherty admitted to stealing nearly $100,000 from a volunteer fire company and miss handling more than 15 you this dollars from his former office in west reading. in the mercury, expect activity this saturday as pottstown celebrates veterans community day, in addition to the events, planned and memorial park there are plans to transform the island in memorial park into veterans island, and anything we can do to acknowledge our veterans that is a good thing. >> i second, third that. >> that is the newspaper headlines around the delaware valley. well, remember when robo cop was science fiction on. >> now new technology could soon make it a reality, tech company out of california has created a new wave of crime fighting robots, they expect to roll role them out, to malls and airports right next

to security guard, now, they can detect weapons and pick up on radiation. >> the ability to do concealed weapon detection to necessity someone is carrying a firearm in an area where they should not be. >> they found that security checks. company will add audio event detection, this will use sound to help security guard locate a crime scene more accurately. >> must go an interesting site but scary. coming up next on "eyewitness news", biggest mistake when planning for your retirement. hurricane maria gains strength lashes the dominican republic. get the latest on the track and devastation it left in puerto rico. they are a big part of the pregame, we're talking about the grounds crew at lincoln financial field, pat gallen shows us what it takes to get the link ready for game day, meisha. >> well, welcome to our gateway, we're getting bus witt accident on the schuylkill westbound, another on presidential boulevard and one in bucks county, we will have those updates coming up

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good morning i'm jim donovan. 's rahel solomon. it its 6:30. here's what you need to necessity to start your day in today's morning minute to day september 21st, 2017. >> hurricane maria takes aim at dominican republic after carving a path of destruction through puerto rico. "eyewitness news" was able to speak with one woman. >> i speak to my mom, daddy don't know if they are okay. >> she tells us as soon as she can she will drive around and she will check on her family. rescuers are working around the clock after mexico 's deadly earthquake. >> dramatic video shows two student, being pulled to

safety. my goodness, they are going to get help for the person who was struck by the baseball and as soon as it sailed off in the seats frazier was down on a knee. two instagramers men for these wild shots they are at it again. >> ♪ foo fighters late show with car pool karaoke, time for me to get you back. making fun all morning because of the movies i have not seen. >> yeah, um-hmm. >> do you know who foo fighters are. >> i could not tell what you songs they do but i have heard of them. you have her the name and song >> i'm not under a rock. >> name a song. >> i haven't heard, if you played a song would i know what it is, katie but i have

heard of them. >> well, okay, so here's a trivia question you may not know the answer to. dave grul the lead singer formally a member of what band >> she should be on jeopardy. >> i know everyone is pretty -- >> nirvana. >> yeah. >> i got ann murray and michael boulet in my musical collection. >> yes. >> i have some ann mur tie, she has a voice like silk. >> yeah, like butter. >> we were speaksed to be making fun of him with the foo fighters, you are not helping. >> we will get him back later. it always comes around at some point and usually involves an eagle suit. lets take a look at is what going on with the weather right now. not too much locally. we have tropical storm jose churning out to sea churning up the surf and rip current risk at the shore. if you are trying to take advantage of what promises to be great beach weather i would prefer that you stay on land don't go in those waves.

temperatures are off to a mild start, even only in the lower 60's around reading, allentown and mount pocono. you could theoretically walk out the door almost anywhere without need of an extra layer today. ride to school will be very mild, and with the sun not yet even up, it feels pretty darn comfortable out here on the cbs-3 sky deck. eventually we will rebound to 87 degrees, folks, more reminiscent of is what typical in july. so very warm, obviously and this is a trend that will last us a while. just how long? we will have the answer later on. >> i don't think too many people will be complaining about that, thanks very much, katie, very good morning to you. gateway to the weekend is underway. we have an accident here. we have vehicles, an accident schuylkill westbound ramp to boulevard north bound pulled off to that right, and yes, it is very slow moving around there. so again schuylkill westbound ramp to boulevard northbound pulled off to that right. you can see cones in the roadway, brake lights and as you come to this split this is

where you'll slow down leading up to this we will add gaper delay. would i factor in an extra half an hour. another area that you want to factor in, 95 south at cottman pushing toward center city. just a sea of taillights, very bus think morning. plus another accident presidential boulevard at city avenue road is block here, and take a look at how slow moving the schuylkill is, moving in the westbound and eastbound direction. i would give yourself extra time in this area and bucks county falls township still out there business route one at tyburn road an accident blocking one lane, rahel, back over to you. more on hurricane maria flood waters continues to rise in puerto rico after the storm slammed the island. maria made land fall as category four hurricane yesterday morning. rescue workers are sifting through the ruble. officials say it is strongest hurricane to hit the island in 80 years. entire island is still without power. we spoke with one woman who asked that we keep people of

puerto reek on informed. >> that is the only way is to to look at what happened because here we don't have the location. >> more than 155 miles per hour wind raked the island income down power lines and tearing roofs off of homes. maria is second major hurricane to hit the caribbean island in two weeks. after leaving trail of destruction in puerto rico maria is lashing the dominican republic. maria made land fall this morning bringing vicious wind, rain and waves up to 115 miles an hour, wind up to 115 miles an hour. monster storm is expect to move toward turks and caicos before heading to the bohamas tonight. rescue teams are not giving up in mexico, almost two days after a devastating earthquake, right now number of dead stand at 245. and elderly man survived a full day trapped under the ruble of his mexico city apartment building. ordinary citizens have joined emergency crews to save at lee

52 people, a bank's cyst ted in rescuing four people from his office building. >> they were making noise so that the volunteers and rescuers could hear that noise >> now this was country's deadliest earthquake since 1985 when 10,000 people died, one delaware man was an eyewitness to the earthquake, lee a cabrera is in mexico city and he owns a rehoboth beach restaurant. he was on the subway when the ground began shaking. here at home many are still trying to reach family or friendness mexico, consul has set up a phone number to assist those folks and we have posted it on cbs philly.com. president trump is set to discuss north korea today. they will meet during u.n.

general and, and, on tuesday, and, totally destroyed, forced to defend itself. we have seen warnings that many americans are unprepared for retirement. >> even people with the basics right fail when it comes to other key areas of retirement planning, cbs news business analyst jill schlesinger joins us live to help prevent these potential costly mistakes, good morning, jill. >> reporter: good morning. >> we have discussed this many times in the past what is biggest retirement planning mistake that people make. >> reporter: sort of the good news/bad news. we are living longer, except we totally under estimate how long we live, when we are planning for retirement. financial engine survey found 75 percent of those surveyed did not know a typical six five-year old man can expect to live another 20 years. of course, it is not possible to know for sure but you can use a great tool put out by

those actuaries, the act you war he is longevity illustrat or tool that provides a range of possibility but what your life expectancy is. >> i've got this body, i will just live forever. >> is that right, jim. >> yes. >> thanks, jim. >> thanks, jill. sometimes you say things that just require no response, no comment. hackers target u.s. securities and exchange commission tapping in the government's corporate filing system, fec announced the on line data breach late last night and they first learned about the incident last movement hackers had access to information about co that were not made public, officials say that means that the hackers may have used the information for illegal trading or monetary gain, federal investigation is underway. speaking of hackers they are even targeting the real estate industry now and they have figured out how how to to steel down payments for moment national association of realtor and fbi are warning buyers to watch out for e-mail scams. hackers send fake e-mails and

instruct buyers to wire money. these are usually, sent a same time the buyers is expect to go make some sort of a payment experts are telling everyone, buying or trying to buy real estate, it is to verify any instruction that is they receive in an e-mail. up next, where it is snowing, just days after 90- degree heat. plus coping with back pain it impacts millions of people, doctor jen's here with somalia tips on how to relieve some of that pain, patrick. hey, guys we are just three days away from eagles football right here at lincoln financial field when they take on the new york giants. we think about the quarterback , coaches but we want to take you behind the scenes to the group of people who make nfl football possible on sunday. it has got something to do with this, katie. >> fascinating, very inn trueing, pat. we are looking ahead to superintendent-like warmth, not just today but right through eagles game day and beyond, just how hot it will get coming up but first here's your cure auto insurance travel forecast.

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greener and i think mess people would love their lawns to look that pristine, that is gorgeous. >> isn't it beautiful? it is bermuda grass. guys, i see the link between the song, and the package that we are about to throw too. >> thanks, pat. >> yes. >> good stuff, isn't it. but anyway, as i said, we often think about here watching on tv we think about the quarterback or the defense and we think about the head coach, maybe some are thinking about the cheerleaders on the field. i don't know maybe that is your thing. we don't think about the good people at the link who help make it possible by keeping this field, beautiful. are you ready for some football? this place is ready to rock. lincoln financial field is quiet right now but that won't be the case september 24th when eagles home schedule begins. that means two teams will be utilizing link for next four months for temple owls home

schedule taking place right here. that means for the head of the grounds tony leonard is busy season. >> two or three days we have a crew of eight or nine days that will come out here to get this field ready. come in first thing in the morning we mow so the field does get mode five to seven times per week and then shortly thereafter we will start to paint, we will spend three or four hours each day painting. >> reporter: leonard's main concern when it comes to keeping field pristine is 300 million-dollar worth of athletes using it. >> it is great challenge maintaining that safe surface. players want to know they can performed at the best of their ability. we want to watch them perform at the top of their game, so we have tried to provide them with the most safe field possible. >> reporter: eagles ray lion a special turf grown in charlotte with a cost of $150,000. thinks bermuda. >> yeah. >> it is lovely. >> yes, it looks like a golf course. >> thinks one of the premiere grasses that the nfl players

like to play on. >> reporter: to keep it pretty they need to keep it dry. they manage that with aqua troll from paulsboro, new jersey very important element for us. it provides with us that drainage. we had 2 inches of rain last night and able to walk out here and mow first thing in the morning report rorrer for winter months. they have 28 miles of heat pipe laid beneath it to keep it from freezing but one of the most fond memories was where fancy technology would be of no use, eagles 2013 snow game against detroit. >> we had 8 inches of snow, i believe. so we had to react. we weren't prepared for it. we just grabbed all of the tools that we had, we had backpack, blowers, shovels. never want to do it again but glad to go through it at least one time. the lines at the link have not yet been filled in, just yet, but that will come probably within the next 24 hours, as they prepare for sunday's game with the new york giants. pretty fascinating stuff about the heat pipes beneath the

field, all of the paint they use here. good to shed light on the people behind the scenes, to get everyone prepared for sunday's game, jim and rahel. >> interesting. >> they do an amazing job, thanks, patrick, we appreciate it. >> you got it we can see pat glistening. he looks good but you can see him glistening. if you think it is hot here in philly, windy city, chicago has a record 92 degrees yesterday. last time it was that hot in the sit honor after september 20th 1971. >> oregon went from 90 degrees to two straight days of snow. mount hood got over a foot of it on tuesday, wednesday, secures are cherishing it since they know it will not stay there that long. powder is expect to start melting, as temperatures rise this weekend. they tend to see that out west where they get the hundred tane ranges but they tend to be more temperate typically but we will be steaming up. it will feel more like july and you want to be talking

about record, well, i dent think you will today. record to beat is 97 setback in 1895, so very long standing one and we don't come close to it. we are going to end up 11 above average. lets check with our eyewitness weather watchers up dark and early and reporting for us and lisa is reporting 66 degrees she got a couple cloud, nice mild start in wilmington. just to her south is delores on the cool he side at 52. she's reporting from newark where it is, yeah in the valley just cooler for her but she knows that heat is coming, so, you know, being able to prepare in advance. we have 66 degrees coming in from jer think morning. he is finding more included then anything. mentioning he has included out there to start but with time i do think we will see more sun. lets switch gears very quickly to talk about maria if it will impact here. right now it is not appearing so. it is still a major hurricane at category three with max sustain wind speed of 115 and

moving northwest. with time it will make that curve and even though it maintains good strength it is expected right now at least that it will stay out to sea and not be a direct hit on the u.s. coastline. we have to keep an eye on that , when it that is far out things almost always will change and hopefully will continue that outward curve but that is the spectation. meanwhile back here at home tropical storm jose still churning off shore, not bringing any wet weather to the shoreline but we are going to deal with rough surf dangerous rip current risk right through end of the week. i would stay on dry land, off season is awesome. water at its warmer, we have summer-like heat but that rip current risk is real legitimate deal. please be smart, if you are going down the shore. over next few days mid to upper 80's easily and eagles game day, meisha, 88 degrees in the sunshine. >> we love it, tori and i will be hosting the first wip tailgate of the season and we cannot wait and we hope to he

sigh as well. we will be on the radio as well. looking at the accident schuylkill westbound ramp to the boulevard northbound pulled off to the right. cones still in the roadway and yes, very slow moving not to mention the fact we have police activity around this area pulled off to the right. schuylkill westbound before gladwynn that has moved out of our way but we have one stalled car pulled all the way off to the right. it is slow moving both directions. so, schuylkill we will look at that, bumper to bumper there plus an accident here presidential boulevard at city avenue road is partially block just a head up heading out in that direction plus two accidents here take a look willow grove, route 611, easton road and home depot road and 611 york road at davisville road the intersection is there partially block. we also have another accident, in blue bell, so 22 dekalb pike at blue bell springs drive, another area to keep yourself a little extra time. rahel and jim, back to you. thank you. back pain is one of the

most common reasons people visit the doctor many of experienced it at some point in our lifetime. >> is what best way to bounce back from back pain. family physician doctor jen cuddle is here, with that advice. good morning. >> doctor jen. >> good morning. >> is there different degrees of back pain. >> there are, and tour point, rahel, i think you mentioned this going to your doctor for low back pain is second most common reason that people see their doctor behind colds, flu s. 80 percent will get low back pain. we have acute le back pain what back pain from lifting something or something happens and you get it, it last less than four weeks. we have subacute which is four to 12 week and chronic low back pain greater than 12 weeks. ites defined by time. just to be clear we are talking about non-specifically back pain, back pain that is not caused by any particular reason, but less dangerous, muscle sprains, strains, i wanted to say that, is there different causes of back pain. >> doctor jen, i feel like there are misconception about back pain.

is best rest best for curing or fix ago leave eighthing back pain. >> a lot of people think they should rest, bed rest, if they have low back pain, for most of us, it is non-specifically back pain that answer is no. bed rest can make your back pain worse because of the muscle spasm. so that is really important. activity tends to be better. >> does heavy lifting cause it i have pulled a few muscles in the pennsylvania and it does take a few weeks. >> it can. you are right. if you pull a muscle in your back if you get a muscle strain/sprain very common cause for non-specifically back pain you don't want to be lifting heavy objects. i tell people, always you want to keep moving but lifting heavy objects can be difficult make sure you lift appropriate ly from your knees, hold item close tour trunk, be careful, things like that. >> heavy objects we hear about book bags for woman, our purse s. >> oh, lord my purse. >> okay. heavy school purses, do they contribute to that back pain.

>> yes, they can, to my back pain. i shouldn't talk about my purse. my purse is way too heavy but you are right backpacks, kid are back in school now, we actually recommend for kid their backpack weigh no more than 15 to 20 percent of their body weight. it is important to keep in mind that yes, ladies and gentlemen don't carry big, large, bags, purses, and things for kid. >> we are seeing more kid wheeling their book bags, yeah >> with the wheels, i like that idea. >> how do you cope with just day in and day out pain. >> yes, day in, day out it is important to make sure we have preventive things. we have a full screen here. make sure you are stretching and exercising before physical activity. that will help you prevent low back pain. don't slouch sitting and standing. just as i read that, yes, we all sat up straighter. we want to make sure our work surface is at a comfortable height and using chairs with good back support. comfortable low healed shoes are important. these are things that will hi

you cope but prevent. i would say, for those of us with load back pain, physical therapy can be great, your doctor can prescribe medications, exercise, stretching can be awesome for non-specifically back pain. >> sound good. >> thanks, doctor jen good to see you guys. >> we will be right back with three to go. you each drive a ford pickup right? (all) yes. i'm going to show you a next generation pickup. awesome. let's do this. the bed is made of high-strength steel, which is less susceptible to punctures than aluminum. stronger the better. and best of all, this new truck is actually- (all laughing) oh my.... the current chevy silverado. current chevy owners and lessees get a total value of ten-thousand, six hundred dollars. or, 0% financing for 72 months on this silverado all star. find new roads at your local chevy dealer.

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well, here's three to go. >> hurricane maria has made land fall in the dominican republic. they have wins up to 150 miles per hour and already left puerto rico devastated and in the dark. president trump is meeting with leaders of the south korea and japan, taking place during u.n. general assembly and they are expect to focus on north korea. phillies go for a sweep at home with the dodgers, game time in south philadelphia 1:05. >> lets get a last check of weather and traffic. >> looking like a good day, i expect to see more sun then anything, but it is a warm day we will look like a innocent ocean but keep in mind help say is out to sea, but still tropical storm strength churning up those waves. really nice beach weather but that is a concern, and look at this we are talking about july like warmth into early next week, meisha. >> all right, katie, thanks very much. gist a couple volume cameras, 95 before girard slow moving berk in the southbound direction, look at the schuylkill, yep, westbound at

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