>> ♪ >> live from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia, this is cbs3 "eyewitness news." >> right now at noon, left for dead, four people are shot a teenager is killed and another is caught in the crossfire. the oldest victim is 19, the youngest just 13 years old. good afternoon everyone, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. police are investigate wag led to the violence. henry rosoff is live at the scene in germantown where he spoke with a family member of the victim who was killed. hi henry e hi rahel and jim. just a few minutes ago this was swarming with police

activity and detectives still investigating this all unfolded just a half block from where two of the victims live. take a look at this picture. it was just shared with us by the aunt and grandmother of jai custis. they describe him as a 16-year-old who was big for his age hadn't a even bigger heart. he was shot in the back fleeing this shooting around 8:30 last night. his aunt says his 13-year-old sister was also shot grazed in the arm. i just met her actually, she's already out of the hospital but very shaken up barely even uttering a word. an 18-year-old and a 19-year-old were also shot and are still in the hospital though expected to survive. the family says the emotion and frustration they feel right now is unimaginable. they say jai was not involved in drugs or any sort of crime like that and they say they never felt unsafe with him playing just a half block from his home. >> can't even play no more. they can't play on the basketball court. they can't play in the

playground 'cause everybody come and they shooting they doing whatever they doing. where the kids play at? so, he came out to play like anybody else like all the rest of the kids and everybody start running and they killed my nephew. >> reporter: police still searching for a suspect. in fact still searching for a motive in this crime right now. coming up a little bit later today on cbsphilly i will have a look at the bigger picture, crime stats, specifically homicide stats are up this year. we'll break down the whole thing for you at 5 o'clock and 6 o'clock. that matters though very little on this block where youngsters were shot and one 16-year-old was killed. live in germantown henry rosoff cbs "eyewitness news." >> henry thank you. desperation is puerto rico is growing in the wake of hurricane maria one week after the storm hitly island's power grid is still down. david begnaud reports from

juan. >> we are best friends. >> reporter: jesus is battling stage four cancer. his wife a breast cancer survivor herself brought him to the hospital de maestro the night hurricane maria hit. >> being here is very difficult. it's no air conditioning in the rooms. >> reporter: just one generator keeps two floors operational but fuel is low and frustrations are high. >> i think that we have been like abandoned. >> reporter: that's medical director veronica rodriguez who says only one of the hospital's five operating rooms is useable. >> what i fear most is that a patient can die because of this. >> reporter: temperatures have reached 90 degrees. nearly half of the island has no water. the governor just told us they're desperate for drivers. he says, look i've got food and water sitting at the port. it's ready to go but i don't have the people to drive it to the stores. i said to the governor okay so

what are you doing he said we're literally asking anyone bus drivers, commercial truck drivers anyone who can drive a truck legally. >> if you are a bus driver and have equipment come to where it's dispensed, where the food is being dispensed in the ports, we're making every effort so that everybody knows this. >> reporter: david begnaud, cbs news san juan puerto rico. >> seems hurricane maria won't go away. the storm is gaining strength once again. meteorologist kate fehlinger live on the cbs3 sky deck with the latest on maria an cool down headed our way. >> that's right. this isn't a storm that's hovered between category one and tropical storm status for the last 24 hours. since earlier this morning it had been a tropical storm again but now it's upped about 5 miles per hour with its max sustained wind speed so it was able to be qualified as a category one storm testimony let's take you to the satellite and radar composite of that storm right now t it's making its closest pass to our region here today and even

though it's not going to have a direct impact on our shore line it could throw back just enough moisture that you see a shower in the next couple hours and it's keeping that surf awfully choppy. again, a category one hurricane keeping the surf very churned up and also it it memes the rip current risk remains quite high. this may feel like a good excuse to take a dip in the waves. i would stay on dry land. again you don't want to risk it since the guards are no longer on duty at the shore points at this point. these are your actual air temperatures. factoring in the humidity it feels stymie outside like the low 90's in wilmington more like the upper 80's in the city as well as towards trenton. it is a very hot afternoon and we still got a few more degrees, folks. those are your feels-like values but we're expecting a steamy official high of about 87 degrees. the record to beat is 91. we'll come close to that.

but this is the last very steamy summer-like day before fall actually returns. we'll talk about that pattern change a little later on guys. >> thank you katie. veterans affected by hurricanes harvey and irma are getting some help from a local car dealership. the conicelli hyundai in conshohocken this morning officials from the norristown american disabled veterans chapter presented a check to the disaster relief fund. the grand total was $22,000. that's 100 percent of the proceeds from the chapter's annual golf outing. >> after gop lawmakers failed in their latest attempt at overhauling healthcare, they're focusing on tax reform. president trump is expected to deliver a speech in indiana. the proposal will cut taxes for individuals and corporations. it nearly doubles the standard deduction used by most americans. much more on the president's

speech later today beginning on "eyewitness news" at 5:00. >> well, it is an election that some predict will o rock the gop establishment the hands picked president by president trump has lost a senate primary in alabama. former alabama supreme court chief justice roy moore won the republican senate nomination for alabama yesterday. moore easily defeated luther strange who had trump's support appointed to the seat vacated by attorney general jeff sessions. >> the question was called today in the state of alabama. who is sovereign, the people or the money and alabama answered today, the people. >> together we can make america great. we can support the president. >> moore again the former chief justice of the alabama supreme court was ousted twice from his post on the state supreme court. he'll face democratic nominee doug jones in a special selection in december. >> in his first television interview we're hearing from

congressman steve scalise. the house majority whip will speak with nora o'donnell for this sunday's episode of "60 minutes." scalise will talk about that june attack in which four suspects were shot. the suspect was killed in a shootout with police. watch "60 minutes" this sunday at 7:30 on cbs3. philadelphia charter school students left the classroom today for a lesson about fire safety. the kindergarten first and second grade classes at global leadership academy went on a fire safety walking tour this morning. they visited nearby engine 16 in west philadelphia. firefighters interacted with students showing the kids what they do to keep city residents safe. sure they found that really fun. >> teaching them while they're young. it's one of the season's most anticipated new shows and it's on cbs tonight. we'll talk with the star of the military drama seal team. philly native david boreanaz and he's coming up next. >> plus, you may notice some tweets are getting longer.

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>> welcome back. the new military drama seal team premiers tonight on cbs3. >> you're way overthinking this. we're going in same way we're going out.

>> the show follows the most elite unit of navy seals as they deploy on high stakes missions then come home to complicated personal lives. david boreanaz is the team's leader. the actor is a philadelphia native known for his role on bones. he told me about his inspiration for the new series. >> i spoke to a tier one operative who is an executive on our show and was on 13 deployments. what struck me most about it was his genuine conversation and how he wanted to get it right. he wanted to show the guys and the brotherhood that they have on these deployments and missions and how they're joking when they're on it. it's a lifestyle then control that chaos. >> tonight on "eyewitness news" at 11:00 our vittoria woodill takes a special trip to new york to board the u.s.s. intrepid. it served as a special screening vessel for the new seal team show. david boreanaz's family was also on board including his father philadelphia television

legend and weatherman dave roberts. >> this is a special place and we're so pleased to be here with the family. >> an emotional intervene surprise mission david set out to complete for his dad. >> before "eyewitness news" at 11:00 premiere week continues. catch survivor at 8 o'clock followed by seal team at 9:00 and criminal minds at 10:00 p.m. >> well its a dream come true for fans of the show "game of thrones." two of the biggest stars are engaged. >> harrington proposed to his co-star and long time girlfriend rose leslie. the two met five years ago on the set of the popular fantasy series. the actor says they kept their offscreen relationship under wraps and only told a few family and friends. well, still ahead on "eyewitness news" at noon. >> a quick encounter that makes a big difference. meisha. >> well, we're going through a trying season sometimes all we need is a little extra loving from our animal friends. we're meeting a little boy who finds his greatest pleasures

in what some will say are the simple things in life. katie. >> it promises to look and feel very much like fall a generally clear sky although i don't want to rule out a shower on saturday especially but feeling very much like fall as we struggle to even hit 70 degrees over the course of the weekend. far cry from that right now though so we'll whack you

>> welcome back. if you're seeing longer tweets on your time line not a glitch. >> twitter has doubled its limit to 280 characters but only for a small test group. the test group includes those who use certain languages including english spanish and porch go. twitter says it's because

those languages can express more ideas in less words. twitter has yet to decide if it will expand the feature to all users. >> interesting. >> a lot of people talking about this on twitter today. >> i'm not a fan of the idea. >> i can barely come up with the other characters let alone add more. >> you still don't know what an emoji is. >> i do. >> he just doesn't know what they mean. >> i think i'm posting a smile face it looks like i'm crying. >> katie is posting all kinds of sun emojis. >> lots of them and the heat. it's fuego out there. >> look at you. >> international newscast. [laughter] >> it's turning into that. but we have a lot to talk about there's a very substantial pattern change about to take place in the form of a cold front passage as well as maria getting out of here. there's a lot of moving pieces in the atmosphere then all equal very fall like conditions for us by tomorrow. if you stepped outside you already know how steamy it is. we'll start off with a view of

storm scan at a regional zoom. we have maria upgraded again to a category one hurricane so it's kind of gone back and forth waffling between whether it wants to be a tropical storm or a hurricane and it really has been a matter of about 5 miles per hour with its maximum sustained winds speeds. that's a really led to the categorization. the leading edge of the showers will getting closer to the delmarva peninsula and south jersey. we're like to end up with a band of should yours that comes through here. we have a cold front that's going to cross through, somewhat moisture starved from illinois north and east but even though it's not going to bring much wet whether it definitely brings about some cold air. it will make up for it with that. here's where we stand technically on the thermometer right now. 85 is the warm midwest spot of the pack out in wilmington we're at 83 in philly likely to tack another 4 degrees onto that. you can see where this front has marched east from yesterday but where this front is crossing through you're

anywhere from the mid 60's to upper 60's at best now in saint louis, in chicago. the same time yesterday you were in the upper 80's but you're still holding tough in the 80's east of that. with time some of those conditions are going to be our story. not just the thermometer readings but the humidity starts to drop off so you go from pretty oppressive steaminess out there right now to much more comfortable more crisp air. what you would expect this time of year starting tomorrow and that will last into the upcoming week. let's quickly talk about the wet weather chances though. do you need an umbrella? probably not but notice when some of these showers get under way, there's a possibility they pack a punch and bring in maybe a locally steady downpour. so i don't think you're talking more than maybe an hour or two worth of this wet weather. this is 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. and then it fizzles away but it may be out there as the kids are getting home from school as you're getting ready to pick them up so it could mess with your afternoon travels in a minor way. here's the hurricane though. max sustained wind of 75 miles per hour to categorize it as a

cat one storm but it's still going to make that sharp right-hand turn and go completely out to scene bypass canada. north america is spared at this point forward from that storm system. meanwhile outside beach patrol headquarters yeah it looks a little choppy doesn't it and it's going to stay that way right through the rest of the work week. we'll need maria to really get far out to sea before this doesn't become an issue anymore so my advice again is stay on dry land. we have some very fall-like conditions coming up though by the time that front crosses through, boy, you're going to notice the breeze tomorrow. it really is a nice looking day all in all, back to sunshine, 76 the high and then we have somewhat of a struggle to even get to the low 70's friday, saturday and sunday. reinforcing cool air comes along on saturday. that's why it's the cool left day and that's why we could see a shower or two but overall it looks like a pretty good weekend generally speaking. >> all right. >> sounds good. thanks katie. >> a small moment makes a big impact in a boy battling cancer.

>> here's meisha with today's love it. >> a young boy going through a very rough time as he battles cancer but his young spirit doesn't ask for much. it's the simple things he finds joy in nowadays and sometimes that's all that matters. one look at jasper's face and it's easy to see he'll never forget this moment. inside the wildlife center in charleston jasper got a heart felt hug from his very favorite animal a sloth. why does he love them? well, in his own words. >> i don't know. 'cause they're slow like me. >> reporter: it may seem like an odd explanation to some but not for jasper who wakes up every single morning and fights. >> march he was diagnosed with leukemia and last year we did, what, 80 days in the hospital in and out. >> reporter: recently jasper placed his daily chemotherapy regimen with a visit from a chimpanzee but that wasn't all. he also met a fox and tiger cub. things are looking up on this day but not every day will be

this easy. >> a lot more good days now than bad but we're not going to be done until 2019. >> reporter: in the meantime then t-jasper phils up on medicine that no doctor can prescribe. a little love from some animal friends to keep those spirits high. you said it dad, you cannot give up despite the fact that jasper's treatment continues for the next couple years. he says he smiles a lot and knows that there are more good days to come. mark, little man that. healing power in animals. >> good therapy. >> i didn't expect a sloth though i'll tell that you. i'm kind of surprised by that. >> are they not the cutest. >> katie goes no diaper. >> yeah. >> he wasn't wearing a diaper any. >> well, jasper said more good days are coming and i would like to add our very best days are ahead of us you have to believe that. jasper has the winning attitude and bravery to boot love it. if you come across any other

inspirational story ideas you think i should hear about send them my way on facebook or twitter. >> meisha thank you. >> yes. >> up next an exciting new exhibit coming to philadelphia. >> where you can see dinosaur eggs, yes, i said dinosau meet steve sweeney. he's a double-dipping pension padder. double-dipping pension padder! he had two government jobs, two paychecks and padded his pension along the way. he's a double-dipping pension padder! now he's making over $300,000 a year as a lobbyist and a senator. double-dipping pension padder! so he's all set - thanks to you, the taxpayer. which is why steve sweeney had no problem voting to raise your taxes 145 times, including the largest gas tax hike in history. sounds about right, coming from a.... double-dipping pension padder!

>> take a look at this. nasa just released this time lapsed video of an aurora over north america. >> i always thought that name was so pretty. crew members on the

international space station recorded this earlier this month. beautiful. >> when it comes to dinosaurs we think of huge prehistoric creatures like the t rex. >> at the philadelphia academy of natural scenes we get to see something much smaller but just as impressive dinosaur eggs. the feature opens saturday. >> you will be even be able to touch a real dinosaur bone. just remember if you break it you buy it. the exhibit runs through january 15. i don't like touching things like that because i'm -- >> pat said earlier, he said they have an interactive exhibit where they toss the eggs from i don't know how many feet above the air and you see how far they are. >> the things you learn. >> that's "eyewitness news" today at noon. i'm jim donovan. >> and i'm rahel solomon for meisha katie and all of us here. thanks for watching

>> ashley: hello? what are you waiting for? get phyllis in here! call her out on what she did! and kick her out on her backstabbing adulteress butt! >> jack: no. >> ashley: what do you mean, no? >> jack: her adultery and backstabbing, loathsome as they are, don't enter into this. >> ashley: okay, jack, she downloaded confidential r&d files, okay? it's called cyber theft, remember? >> ravi: ashley, i actually -- >> ashley: one second. excuse me, i'm sorry. please explain to me why you refuse to treat your ex-wife like you would any other criminal. >> jack: because i am certain phyllis is not our spy. >> ashley: because you're certain that she's above corporate espionage? i mean, how blind can you be? >> jack: quite the contrary. my eyes are wide open. i know who did this to us. >> victoria: we agreed. we won't log into the scene of the crime using phyllis' work computer. it's too risky.