this is a live look at center city hall and center city philadelphia. cooler weather is on tap. good morning, i'm vai sikahema. >> and i'm tracy davidson. it's 73 degrees outside. let's check in with "first alert" meteorologist bill henley. >> thank you, tracey. there's still storms we're tacking to the north of the pocono mountains there's wet weather coming down but north of philadelphia, skies are clearing up. rain is tapering off in the scranton area this morning. and the radar shows those showers to the north. there they are. showers are pushing off to the east. and that's exactly what happened to the heavy storms and severe weather that rolled through early this morning. those are well offshore now. and the temperatures, we're in the 60s and 70s, we're cooler than yesterday morning by 7 degrees in philadelphia. and we'll stay cooler this afternoon. there you see some breaks in clouds. a view from the nbc10 studios, 74 at 7:00. by 9:00, might be a spot or two of a shower. but most of the area will be dry and see some sunshine, 79 degrees. but then showers are likely to retu

rain is coming down, atlanta city and philadelphia in the upper 70s. but rain has cleared out and rolled through with lots of lightning. no lightning in center city, the clouds have tapered off considerably as the showers are fast-moving and right along the jersey coastline and into southern delaware. nowhere near as much lightning activity right along the coast as what we were seeing just a half hour ago. those big storms are pushing offshore. and now we're seeing clearing conditions. a few scattered showers in camden and burlington and philadelphia. much of the area is going to be dry. but clouds will remajor and there's still a possibility of scattered showers. future weather at 9:00 this morning. you can see a few scattered showers in the area. possibly breaks of sunshine. where we're going to see the breaks of sunshine, it's going to be a fast warmup. upper 70s. but clouds will remain in the philadelphia area at noon time. it's more likely we'll see scattered showers at noon time. even the temperatures into the middle 70s and into the early afterno

center city philadelphia residents who are concerned about safety are encouraged to attend a public meeting at the presbyterian church tonight. councilman johnson scheduled it in response to rape of a 26-year-old woman and 27-year-old milton garcia is charged with the crime. >>> coming up more on the tilting of the 495 bridge in delaware and scott hartnell says so long to the city and the flyers. and ducis rogers returns with the threat of heavy downpours when "action news" continues tonight. [cell phone chime] yeah! [giggling excitedly] [splashing water] c'mon! (announcer) ready for a little fun? you could scratch your way to instant winning. play the pennsylvania lottery's new instant game, $1,000 frenzy, with 8 top prizes of $300,000. it's kinda fun to make a splash. keep on scratchin'. >>> animal control officers are telling residents to look for an elusive black bear that is roaming around for a few days, in burn township, official says that as long as the bear doesn't cause problems they won't try to catch it. >>> a neighborhood in upper darby is on edge after four women awoke to find

here and there, and pops of downpours meaning business in populated areas, especially center city and philadelphiawe look at the heart of center city near tenth and fairmount avenue, and seeing no lightning with them but lots of rain, and in is ponding and flooded roadways, that is near darby and east baltimore avenue, it jumps over the river into camden and cherry hill and morristown and this area near palmyra is filling in with reds and lightning strikes there and this is one downpour centered around center city, it is creating downpours in philadelphia county near the airport, that is clearing out as well. and citizens bank park, and that is salem to gloucester to camden county and that is being to subside. if we go towards gloucester county a picture from heather. this water is almost bumper deep in that parking lot there. you never want to drive into flooded roadways or even flooded parking lots, your car could stall and you could get into trouble. the temperatures are rain cooled in philadelphia and millville, 72 to 73 degrees, it's muggy and where we haven't seen the rain, temperatures are

philadelphia. down the shore you won't see much relief. 91 in atlantic city. atures in cape may close to 90 degrees. 92 in vineland, around the philadelphia area staying in the mid 90s. 95 degrees for philly, close to that record of 96. 94 will be the high in chester and in wilmington. for today, hot and humid conditions, also thunderstorms expected overnight. temperatures will range between 92 and 95 degrees. your seven-day forecast again shows this is a peak with our heat. by the time we head into tomorrow, we will be at 90 degrees, a chance of storms again for your thursday. drying out as we push into friday, 84 degrees. as we head into saturday and sunday, another chance of storms returns. stay with us. you're watching nbc 10 news. you know the value of a healthy improvement. and so does gateway health. that's why we're so excited to welcome university of pennsylvania health system to our network of care. for a medicare advantage plan that gives you all the healthcare coverage,y chll 1a small business owners this is your last chance. your free upgrade to fi

and new york air machining the city of philadelphia will be competing with. >>> well to day marks the 70th anniversary of d-day, of the 16 million americans who returned home from world war two, barely a million are still with us. today, veterans gathered for d-day event at independent see sees port museum. artifacts are on exhibit there. among them american, flag, carried troops and equipment and june 6th, 1944. >>> "eyewitness news", walt hunt er spent his day with the d-day vet who like so many helped change the course of history. >> it didn't hit you until you get into there and you saw shells flying over. >> reporter: now, the legs need a little help from a cain, and from le vana his nursing aid but you on this day, 70 years ago, there were brothers in uniformal his side and they were dying. >> it was crazy. it was absolutely crazy. we had all these bodies floating around in the water and all of these dead people laying on a peach. >> reporter: like so many of the greatest generation, lucas was young, barely 21, jumping from this landing crash, struggling through the waves. >> th

philadelphia and mt. holly. still a chance of late-day showers in atlantic city and dover up to 83 degrees with some rakes of sunshine this morning. and clouds back this afternoon. that's when we will see more showers in the i-95 corridor for philadelphia, chester and wilmington. a look at the weekend. and we are in for at least one very nice day. that's when we come back. >>> the weather always causes havoc on the roads. >> let's get details from jillian mele. >> that's right, we're following an accident on the walt whitman bridge. this is what's happening right now. we do have wet roads throughout you need to take caution and keep in mind with the power outages this morning, you can expect to run into malfunctioning traffic lines. if you see that, make sure you treat it like a four-way stop sign. at the walt whitman, as i said, there is an accident. the approach for the bridge, as you're getting on walt whitman bridge, that's where we're seeing an accident. it's a single vehicle accident so one lane is blocked. route 47 at route 9, you see the roads down that way still wet throughout. looks like we're dealing with

city, solidly in the 60s. south philly in the upper 60s right now. currently 67 at philadelphia international. look at the 50s for millville, mount holly, atlantic city. clouds north and west. allentown and reading in the upper 60s right now. that's where we'll start the day. a nace start, the humidity on the low side today again. 73 degrees. a nice mild morning, 9:00 by lunch ti -- 90s by lunch time. >>> let's start you off in center city philadelphia with a live look at the vine street expressway. it's quiet right now. that's how we like to see it. this is where we typically see the delay later in the morning. as you can see, no delays to report right now. also in center city, traffic closing 13th street between arch and race street. the new jersey turnpike is clear, so is the 42 freeway. you can see feeds on all of t majors, 50s to 60s. >>> extremists have captured 60 girls and women and 31 boys in nigeria. this happens after 200 other girls, kidnapped by terror group boko haram. most of those girls remain missing. no word on exactly who is responsible for today's kidnapping. the associate

double scan wide, a couple of showers in surf city but the biggest concentration is around center city philadelphiand east along i-95 as you work north of center city. heavy rain near the northeast airport. also, bensalem is starting to move to the north there into southern parts of bucks county, again not much in the way of lightning and thunder, falling in a short amount of time because of high humidity, downpours just north of manayunk and german town avenue near chestnut hill, and ridge pike, you connect with the turnpike at king of prussia and plymouth meeting, another downpour popping there. we have flood warnings from gloucester to camden county and northern burlington county and sections of southern delaware county until 8:15, for high water on some of the area roadways, backyards are becoming more like ponds and this is sent in from the facebook from jen and this is piling up quickly when the drainage system cannot handle that amount of rain in such a short amount of time, everyone is extremely muggy as we have more southerly winds with high pressure move ago way from st. louis and high pr

we start off in center city philadelphia, the vine street expressway looking great out there. of 76, this is what it looks like right near route 1 between city avenue and the roosevelt boulevard. you can see a few driversut

he's being held at the federal detention center in center city philadelphia. >> philadelphia' largest is now have won i wasn't owner. a deal was finalized today giving ownership of the philadelphia inquirer, the philadelphia daily news and philly.com to philanthropist jerry lend fest this after the family of his late partner lewis katz sold its stake. lend fest and katz bought the newspaper last month but katz died in plain crash just days later. >>> the 2014 special olympics usa games are underway in new jersey and today there was a special program for the kids who are too young to officially compete. fox's matt king was there as they got to check out some of the events to see if they'd like to be a future special olympic athlete. >> reporter: picture amy clark because it feels nice to have the wind in her hair, cheering crowd at her back and ultimately a medal around her neck but she also brought her talents to this new jersey track on this scorching hot race day with another goal in mind. >> ice cream. >> reporter: smart kid this amy. >> it makes me run faster. >> reporter: running

. >>> more on the breaking news a violent night in the the city of philadelphia, philadelphia police investigating five separate shootings. two people were killed. "eyewitness news" reporter syma chowdhry is live at police headquarters with more, syma? >> reporter: that is right, nicole, several shots were fired throughout the city, overnight when police wrapping up one investigation at one shooting they had to head over to another, five in total, two fatal, one of them including a teenager. shots fired across the city overnight leaving two dead including a teenager. the first fatal shooting happened a little after 11:00. three to 400 people were in the lot having an impromptu barbecue on the 1800 block of north franklin street when police arrived to disperse the crowd. at least ten shots were fired as people spilled over to the 700 block of montgomery street. a 16 year-old boy was taken to temple where he was pronounced dead, a 19 year-old was also taken to temple and he is listed in critical condition. this shooting was a close call for officers, as bullets hit a police vehicle. >>

southwest philadelphia was one of our most violent areas of the city.t was historically 120 young men would be killed on yearly basis. and that number has been cut in half. >> loot of guns in this area. >> war on crime rages on -- >> these officers have imbedded themselves into these tough communities. their mere presence he had aing a sense of piece in areas normally clouded by violence. >> if you look on the streets you'll see a will the of older people sitting out on their now. children are playing in the streets whereas a lot of these neighborhoods were plagued with violence. >> foot beat officers are assigned to at least six of the most violent districts in the city. they are there not only to prevent crime but also to stab a rapport with the community they serve. we're live here at the 25th police district in kensington tonight, natasha brown, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> all right, natasha, thank you very much. >>> pennsylvania's attorney general kathleen cane will release a report on monday about how her predecessor handled the jerry sandusky inv

center city philadelphia coming in at 78 degrees.s is live shot from right outside our old market studios. maining seeing temperatures in the 70s. some of us have cooled quickly. 64 in pottstown. 68 in allentown. 66 in millville. some of us hanging on to the 70s and i think we all fall down into the low to mid 60s by tomorrow morning. clear skies overhead tonight and we'll be greeted with sunshine early monday morning. as i said temperatures will start off in the 60s. comfortable for your monday and while it will still ab very nice day it will start to feel warm especially north and west as think core of very hot air starts to move in. mid to upper 80s by tomorrow afternoon. certainly still going to be cooler down the shore. 65 in the city tonight. 60 in the suburbs under clear skies. much more on this warmup is still ahead. dawn and chris. >> all right. thank you, caitlin. >>> remembering entertainment icon casey kasem. the radio legend died this morning at 82. he was surrounded by his loved ones. he was born kamal kasem in 1932 to

city. we are right under the arden theater on corner of filbert and second, and look who i found, six boys from philadelphiahemselves after the bar. they hope to be here every friday night in olde city tonight, come check them out. >> ♪ >> all right, guys. thanks so much. a little weather background tonight for weather. lets go to storm scan three and we will show you what is going on. we will zoom into our location on second. you can see our temperature in philadelphia is 76 degrees. very comfortable with low humidity. high today 77. normal 8o the record is 100 degrees setback in 19 256789 lets look at that surface map. high pressure dominate our weather for the next couple days. to the north it will bring in a northerly flow and that means more comfortable conditions and you will see that blue sky with relative low humidity. it looks great with temperatures in the 80es a. same for sunday. next system moves from the west to bring us a chance of showers by monday. now lets look at the uv index over course of the weekend here in the city, in the maryland rate to high range for both saturday and sunday. by mo

that's the eastbound side as drivers make their way into center city philadelphia.our drive times right now, that's going to take you about 14 minutes. vai? >>> an exhibit at the national museum of american jewish history is celebrating our national pastime and the role is played in the lives of immigrants. it's called chasing dreams. baseball and becoming american. we found people taking in the exhibit on independence mall yesterday. the national display highlights baseball and how it helped shape america, especially among immigrants and minorities. >>> up next, why kfc is coming under fire this morning. >>> plus, battle on the streets of brazil. protests play out during the world cup of soccer. see why this one piece of video is attracting an enormous amount of attention. >>> out with the old. why a piece of history will vanish when this old parking garage goes away. >>> a live look here at center city philadelphia in all its glory from across the delaware river. 64 degrees out there. and it will get warmer. the trial resumes for six philadelphia traffic court jud

first, we go outside to the live camera in center city philadelphia.uisance on the scene, big show, 13th street blocked, blocked between arch and race, as a result of last night's underground steam pipe that burst. right underneath the hub here of the pennsylvania convention center. >> now, going to the maps, if you are coming into or through center city, this morning, you are going to need to use either 11th street or broad street, and expect delays, again, 13th blocked arch over to race street. and the talcony palmyra again in the middle of an opening. do we have the foghorn? the foghorn has been out of commission, for couple of weeks of the let me see >> (foghorn heard). >> here we go. >> talcony palmyra, second opening in the last hour or so here. on the tac-pal, betsy ross of course always good alternate. >> around the same time now, specking owning at the burlington bristol, any minute. so if you are headed out the front door, be prepared for delays, at both of our area bridges. otherwise, mass transit, looking good. ukee, back over to you. >> ge

drivers make their way into center city philadelphia, traffic moving along fine. the roads are wet so slow down and use caution. when we have a rainy morning commute that means delays are worse so we'll keep you updated on all of the delays as they form. this is the boulevard, that's southbound approaching 76 both directions of the boulevard are in the clear right now. when it comes to the drive time, very average. that's the start we're having. the blue route both directions between 95 and 76, that's going to take you about 18 minutes. then 7 minutes both directions on 422, that's between oaks and route 202. no issues on 202. chris. >> how you doing philadelphia? >> cultural pride and gay rights celebrated across philadelphia yesterday. thousands packed penn's landing for the gay pride parade and festival. this one had an extra level of excitement given that the legalization of same-sex marriage in pennsylvania happened three weeks ago. >>> nevada's governor is calling it an act of senseless violence, two police officers ambushed as they sat down to eat lunch. tr

in center city philadelphia, all is quiet at the moment. but things will definitely change during the early morning hours. i think between about 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. will be the peak of the thunderstorm activity. on storm scan3 you can see it's lighting up the radar here. a lot of lightning associated with these storms. you can see them firing up near baltimore and washington. crossing over the chesapeake bay along the eastern shore of maryland. when you add up all these lightning strikes with these storms you come up with over 1700 lightning strikes. a lot of cloud to ground lightning. a lot of heavy rain. and also some gusty winds in there. severe thunderstorm watch in effect through the overnight right through lancaster county and we'll see if this gets extended toward our region but for now we're expecting general thunderstorms with this and that's the good news as we take a zoom in, these storms will be moving into dover within the next half hour or so with very heavy rain. already we're seeing them moving over the border. in the me

he is listed in stable condition. >>> it was a violent weekend in the city of philadelphia.hree people were killed in at least nine shootings. the most recent happened sunday evening in west oak lane. police say they found more than a dozen shell casings on the 1900 block of 69th avenue near ogonwgontz avenue. no arrests have been made in any of this weekend's shootings. >>> ten families are out of their homes one day after a fire in montgomery county. it started in this building on 4th street in pensburg. the red cross is providing food and shelter for those who have nowhere to go. >>> firefighters have a wildfire in new mexico 60% contained. the fire has burned more than 22 square miles since it began more than a week ago just east of the arizona/new mexico border. areas north of the fire re-opened yesterday as the firefighters made progress against this blaze. investigators believe the fire was likely caused by a human. >>> a dog belonging to a california firefighter who disappeared during a backpacking trip has been found but his owner remains missing this morning. 36-ye

a live look at center city philadelphia as the sun just is coming up. bill henley says it will be a nice day leading into your weekend. his forecast just ahead. >>> this morning an investigation is under way after dozens of workers at the center for disease control in atlanta may have been exposed to live anthrax bacteria. as many as 75 workers and employees were exposed. it happened after researchers failed to inactivate live anthrax samples for safe handling. lab technicians who later worked with the samples used inadequate protective equipment. the cdc launched an internal investigation. >>> four minutes before 6:00 right now. philadelphia city council passed a bill that relaxed the rules on marijuana possession. that was just yesterday. anyone caught with less than an ounce of the drug will only get a $25 fine. >>> new york is expected to become the latest state to legalize medical marijuana. lawmakers say there appears to be enough votes to pass the bill. under the proposal, the medical vbase.na could only be used in lawmakers will v o ter today. s

it happens far too frequently across the city of philadelphia. but i really think we need to get back to the conversation about enhancing our ability to monitor realtime throughout the city. >> johnson is calling a special meeting wednesday for residents upping them to buy cameras as a part of city tax credited safe cam program and urging them to form a neighborhood watch. >> talk to the neighbors. take a look at it. all issues of public safety so neighbors know what tools are available at their disposal when an incident like this take place and to reassure them they're safe. >>> and johnson says they're planning to hold that neighborhood or rittenhouse square center city meeting wednesday at 6 p.m.. but the location is still to be auns noed. he says he's contacted the district for more information. as for the victim police tell us she's with family and working closely with detectives. for now reporting live in center city, annie mccormick, "channel 6 action news." walter. >> thank you, annie. we have an update to a story "action news" brought you

this is in old city philadelphia. how hard the rain was coming down throughout the area and this item almost couldn't see out of his windshield as they were driving down the street. part of i-95. let's see other parts of the area and this is in allen and the water had flooded the road and was going off of the roadway. you want to make sure you are not driving through. this is what it looked like earlier in the area. around allentown and lehigh valley. the video doesn't do it justice. this is in berks county. you can see they are being used for people trapped in high water. you can see more of the photos on nbc 10.com. >> people lined up for several city blocks and get a chance to meet secretary of state hilary clinton. they got her signature on a copy of her new book at the library. you spoke with the expert about what it could mean for her possible run for president in 2016. >> reporter: i did. the high temperatures did not keep the people out or away from hilary clinton. things have calmed down a little bit, but the

it's big story is the arrival of downpours in the tri-state area, this is the sky over center city philadelphiah the eyes of sky 6, the storm clouds painted an ominous picture over the philadelphia skyline, and this is a results of the visitors at an outdoor farm market. they were pelted by heavy rain just a short time ago. we should check out double scan radar, woe know there is rain and how heavy and where. >> it's all the moisture in the atmosphere, it will be move scattered than widespread and that is some good news and mainly confined to the state of pennsylvania and new jersey and much of delaware escaped the downpours later. stormtracker 6 live double scan showing it's quiet out there, one thunderstorm in mercer coin, moving away from pennington and cherry valley road and 206 south and east of the princeton, 14 lightning strikes in the last 15 minutes and this has the history of producing heavy rainfall in the pennington area, at the rate of 2 inches of rain per hour, it's moving quick enough that we don't see enough in the way of flash flooding, a heavy amount of rain in a short period

philadelphia, of course, is great city in which the host huge event. >> philadelphia does have some competition. other cities in the running for the dnc include new york, specifically brooklyn, brief cleveland, columbus, orlando, phoenix and salt lake city. >> tonight remembering d-day. president obama paid tribute to u.s. service members and their allies who stormed the beaches of normandy 70 years ago. >> these men waged wars so that we know peace. they sacrificed so that we might be free. they feet in hopes of day when we'd no longer to fight. >> the d-day invasion liberat ld france from nazi germany. they laid a wreath honoring the sacrifice of more than 150,000 allied troops. the men who stormed the shores changed the course of history. walt hunter introduces to one local who fought valiantly and made it home unlike so many other. >> it didn't really hit you until you got into those boats and you saw the shells flying over. >> reporter: the 90 at legs that cared abe on to normandy beach that day need a little help from cane and from his nursing aid. but on this day 70 years ago, there were

we are dry in center city philadelphia, even on the camden side, this, of course, a few from campbell'slooking across the bridge. look at this sky, it tells a story, hazy skies, with lots of cloud cover and sure it is sticky, on storm scan three we are looking at some storms, heavy downpours and all this is moving toward the northeast but the big problems, have been occurring in the southern part of the montgomery county, and it is stretching into bucks county right now. places like horsham, 276, heading toward norristown. this is where it was. you can see it spreading to the north east with very heavy rain and some flooding concerns. you can see right here the green indicates a flood advisory, in the red, indicating a flood warning for horsham, abington and cheltenham, very heavy rain, going on the at the current time. in this flood prone area we're talking about downpours and potential for ponding on roads, street flooding, need flooding in poor drainage area ab wear of. that even reduced visibility and cloud to ground lightening, associated with these storms. please ab wear. that adv

hall, david please explain. >> jim, thanks to a bill passed by city council today, getting busted for a small amount of weed in philadelphia may no longer mean another night in jail and council came up with more money to bail out the school district. >> today's funding, additional funding package illustrates one again the city council is standsing firmly on the next generation of leaders. >> both heap praise on city council for authoring a bill of $27 million in loans this year and another $30 million next year and they called on harrisburg no reinstall funding that was cut off the past four years and council passed north bill to help young people. making a possession of a small am of marijuana a summary offense, a $25 ticket instead of an overnight in jail and an expensive court. >> it's $40,000 in police costs and $37 million in court costs. kenny says that philadelphia is the only municipality in the state that locks up suspects instead of sending them on their way with a summons. it could send them on the way to ruin. >> she spent the night in jail and lost her job. >> i had to call a sick day, now i have to pay $200 a

trenton, philadelphia, reading and it does feel quite muggy outside but you know it could be worse but we are going to be eventually flirting with the record. we are shooting for 95 in the city of philadelphia record was last set in 1957 at 96 degrees. over next couple days we will see that heat easing up. by friday it will be one of of the most comfortable days that we have of the next seven but we are flirting with even 90 by tomorrow. today and tomorrow look like most stormy days, later this afternoon and this evening especially we have a few showers and storms moving in. tomorrow will be more widespread, guys, back to you. >>> thanks very much. >>> rare stamp owned by disgraced chemical heir, john du pont at newtown square fetches an incredible auction. >> 1cent postage stamp from the 19th century british colony in south america for nine and a half million-dollar. in new york last night. now it was won over telephone by an unidentified bidder. du pont purchased the world's most famous stam in 1980 for $935,000. he died in prison in 2010 while serving time for killing wrestler david schultz on his farm but 1cent stamp for nine and a half millionon-dollar. >> amazing wow.

but, new incident just popping up around center city philadelphia, or old city rather, to eighth and callowhill, dealing with an accident, where a vehicle had went into a pole. so, if you are traveling the southbound direction, of eighth street, in that area, you will notice that problem this morning. and, take a look, speed censors all over really indicating sofa nice ride. but, talk about heating up, weather wise, katie, what are we in for today? >> very toasty day for us out there, victoria. good morning, everybody, in for day that's going to actually top off to the 90s for the first time in 2014. so little shock to the system, you know, we do see our fair share of 90 plus agree days, every single summer, but, this is the first time. so it is a bigger deal, right? meanwhile, storm scan3 has already showed sign of life here. had couple of showers, even thunderstorms rumbled through late last night, mainly confined to new jersey, will start to clear out of here pretty quickliment look at the difference in the temperature, if you recall from yesterday, if you were up in the mountains

this is a view from our cbs-3 studios here in center city philadelphia. right now, seeing a few flashes in the sky. we'll continue to see some heavy rain moving through overnight tonight. a cold front is moving through but not so cold tomorrow. on storm scan3 you can see the line of showers and thunderstorms with the bright yellows and oranges and reds from maine all the way down through baltimore and washington. 600-mile long stretch of real estate almost really covering all of i-95 there and we are looking at some very heavy rain, frequent lightning. downpours, though the real issue with this and as we take a zoom in you can see it moving right toward philadelphia and its adjacent suburbs on the new jersey side. now, this will be in the city by 11:24. camden by 11:31. gloucester by 11:45 and in pemberton shortly after midnig midnight. so the main threats with this we're talking about heavy downpours, some lightning. winds gust to go about 30 even 40 miles an hour. but hail and tornadoes clearly not a threat with this line of thunderstorms. now, now thro

any tax increases. >>> at one time it was the crown jewel of the philadelphia skyline but over the years it's turned into one of the city'siest eye sores but new life is coming to the historic divine lorraine hotel in north philadelphia. as chris o'connell tells us, it may just be the spark north broad street is looking for. ♪ >> reporter: has anyone told you you were crazy to invest in north broad street? >> pretty much everybody told me i was crazy. >> reporter: you might think eric bloom men felled is crazy, too. after all would you dump $31 million into an abandoned 10 story graffiti filled shell of a building in north philadelphia? >> when i force came here over 10 years ago, nobody had an interest in this corridor. i mean, i heard people call it god forsaken. >> reporter: no one a laughing these days. blum men felled has started a long awaited major renovation to the old lady of north broad street. the divine lorraine hoe physic physical. >> this is probably the most iconic building in philadelphia. >> reporter: blum men felled took us on tour of the historic hoe physical built back in 1894. >> these sales are origi

philadelphia. tonight. even darker questions about the shooting death of a driver in the city's feltonville section. police are investigating it as a road rage attack and tonight, fox 29 uncovers possible ties to a notorious local motorcycle gang. fox 29's dave schratwieser is live at philadelphia police headquarters with todays developments. dave? >> reporter: iain, 34 year old christopher fields a ranking member of the wheels of soul motorcycle club is behind bars night charged with murder after a confrontation with a driver and bikers turned ugly. >> president around anywhere at the headquarters of the wheels of soul motorcycle club in west philadelphia, members had few words to say about one of their own now being charged with murder after a road rage incident on the boulevard saturday night. >> as far as we know he's a good kid. >> members confirm that 34 year old christopher fields is a 1% tower with the club had it's roots at 61st and mark. he's charged with gunning down 43 year old todd riley after the bikers surrounded riley's car after he let them pasta red light. >> wheels of soul members

the umbrellas are up at center city, philadelphia. rain has been falling for most of the day now and it's just going to keep coming. >> here's a look at the skylines covered in low cloud and fog. that mist will linger for your commute this evening. fog, rain and a flood watch. >> those are all the problems that nbc 10 first alert meteorologist sheena parveen is keeping an eye on tonight. >> yes, we're watching rain move through this area, some could be heavy at times. of course, that's going to give us the threat for some flooding. locally, we just have mostly the lighter rain around now. if we zoom into the philadelphia area, the i-95 corridor into new castle county. and as we go through this evening the rain to our south will continue moving in this direction. so we have more rain in the forecast for the next several hours. you see all the rain south of the area. it's all moving in this direction. so we will keep the rain in the forecast. it will get heavy at times. we also have a flood threat because of this. flash flood watch all

a beautiful look at center city philadelphia from our camera at the aven tur aquarium in camden. nley says it will get to the mid-80s today. >>> philadelphia police are looking for an armed robber who ripped off a dollar store in the city's strawberry neighborhood. >>> philadelphia police are looking for the driver of this truck who they say is one of two men wanted in connection with a theft in the city's port richmond neighborhood. this happened earlier this month. officers say the men broke into the grounds of the kawa trading company and stole a muffler system off a truck. that's worth about $800. >>> a montgomery county man accused of exposing himself to women while holding swiss cheese will not face any time behind bars. he pleaded guilty to harassment. a judge sentenced him to eight years of probation. here's pagano with a piece of swiss in one of the encounters. >>> the old rivalry between the dog and the mail man has caused some homes in north jersey their door-to-door postal service. this is happening in rochelle park in burgin county, not for from new york city. meet ma

>> thank you, dave. >>> the city of philadelphia may be about to go easier on people caught with smallmounts of marijuana but will new legislation be snuffed out by the mayor? bruce gore didn't just back from city hall where legislation was pass dad and he's live in our newsroom with the latest. bruce. >> reporter: dawn, philadelphia's district attorney scaled back his prosecution of minor drug possession cases. the measure passed today would further reduce the penalty forgetting caught with a couple of joints. the bill sponsored by councilman jim kenny would do away with the current arrest, jailing and $200 fine for those caught with less than 30 grams of marran. instead the pot would be confiscated and the pose sore would pay a $25 civil fine. kenny says police in courts are wasting their time on minor drug cases. >> it's a waist receive sources and people's live for doing knuckle headed stuff. everybody in our lives have done knuckle headed stuff. we don't get locked up for it and we don't is criminal record that follows us for the rest of our lives. >> reporter: oh hand for the cit

die beat is a big problem in philadelphia health department tells us about 16 percent of city resident have diabetes, the national average is 9 percent. now the highest rates in west and north philadelphia, this new research says that there are ways to change, the upward trend like most patients newly diagnosed with type two diabetes doctors first told arlene to get more exercise and work on a healthier diet. >> healthy foods like vegetables, salad and fruit. >> reporter: new national study followed high risk patient force 15 years and found established prevention treatments for diabetes work. >> diet and exercise, use of the drug metformen were able to prevent progression to diabetes to a very significant degree. >> reporter: people more likely to develop type two diabetes are often overweight and set friday and having a family history increases odds for developing the disease. doctors say there is good research showing the risk can be significantly reduced. >> lifestyle changes, percentage-wise, work twice as effective as medication alone in preventing progression to diabetes. >> rep

city neighborhood on edge. kenneth moton is live at the south philadelphia restaurant where the suspect worked. >> milton garcia was hired at a restaurant on broad and katherine street. he worked at other businesses in the city. he ran into a quite a bit of people daily. his alleged crime and illegal status in the country has people asking questions. >> what is your reaction? i am scared. >>reporter:monday night they raided his home on the 1800 block of south a street in south philadelphia. by morning he been charged with the weekend rape and home invasion of a 26-year-old doctor from huff on spruce street. they got a ping from the cell that led them to the home where he lived with other illegal immigrants. >> people that rent to the house, they are supposed to be legal. >>reporter:the owner the rental property could not be reached for comment. deshawn on road street is speaking out. it's the upscale indian restaurant where he was working. he was a part-time kitchen employee. the honduras man that was employed last year and returned was employed at two other businesses where he was a deliver michael nutter. mic

. >>> right now a beautiful live look at the skyline in center city, philadelphia. we're expecting a mix of sun and clouds today. your first alert forecast is just moments way. >>> and a good sunday to you. welcome to nbc0 new today. i'm george spencer. the time now is 7:00 a.m. we'll begin with a look at sunday forecast and meteorologist ted florendo. >> good morning george. we're starting off with cloud this is morning. not entirely sunny. it's warm throughout much of the region. there's a live look at cape may. got people actually on the beach this mor. you're wakg up to overcast skies down the shore too. right now we're also seeing fog that's developed across the area. it's not thick fog but patchy in some parts of th area. lancter visibi four s. fog in mount hoy. elsewhere not d. some of you areaking up to fog. luckily it is not dense though at this hour. right now looking at radar, no echoes coming back. we're dry. clouds are thickening as they're moving across the region. clouds around throughout the day. good sun breaks in there. won't entirely be cloudy. we

"eyewitness news" in center city philadelphia where some braved the heat, and the blazing sun in the park, shade and cool drink certainly proved useful today. the heat, did give some students the afternoon off, at philadelphia school district dismissed at 12:15 today as a result of the temperatures. >>> lets go outside, we have team coverage of the heat, meteorologists kathy orr and carol erickson. katie, we will start with on you the sky deck, it was a hot one. >> certainly was and still is, chris. that heat advisory continues through 7:00 o'clock tonight. cloud just passed by and light breeze and boy did it feel better. take a look at our numbers. we have heated up through the 90's today hottest day of the year so far, high of 94 and still warming. the record 96 setback in 1957. is there a look at our heat advisory that will roll on for next couple of hours. we are talking about heat and humidity making it feel like close to 100 degrees in some places. in dover it feels like 100 right now with the heat index. it feels like 97 in wilmington, millville and wildwood, it feels like 96

the ceremony held at the national museum of jewish history in center city, philadelphia. the event commemorated world refugee day. america welcomed 6.6 million naturalized citizens. >>> and still to come on "action news" friday night. >> an nfl team now on the receiving end of a lawsuit connected to the legal troubles of a former player charged with murder. >> and we break down how you can become a part of sunday's premier of "rising star" seen here. >>> and a comfortable end to the last day of spring. sake hello to summer over the weekend and the call from accuweather coming up. >> p >>> and ducis rodgers joins us with a look at sports. [cell phone chime] yeah! [giggling excitedly] [splashing water] c'mon! (announcer) ready for a little fun? you could scratch your way to instant winning. play the pennsylvania lottery's new instant game, $1,000 frenzy, with 8 top prizes of $300,000. it's kinda fun to make a splash. keep on scratchin'. >> a 19 year old in texas can serve a life sentence over pot brownies. jacob back in court, allegedly making and selling baked goods with h

that he understands we're not supporting him and that the city of philadelphia understands that we need to support somebody else. >> reporter: new jersey governor christie is the chair and of the governors association. reporting in center city todd quinones cbs-3 it witness news. >> speaking of governor christie there's news tonight in the scratch washington bridge scandal. the governor's chief of staff testified before lawmakers in trenton today during about two hours of testimony kevin o'dowd recalled when he first learned that one of his subordinates bridget kelly may have been involved. kelly has been cued of conspiring to cause a traffic jam in fort lee last september as political pay back to the town's mayor. >> the governor said something to the effect of, kevin, this bridge issue is stylette there. all the noise about politics, political retribution, this is a major distract. >> o'dowd testified kelly denied being involved but later gave him an e-mail that showed she knew what was going on as it unfolded. >> as new facts come to light in the va scandal, we are hearing tonight ho

crazy you could see the passion, you can tell it's a hockey city and i am lucky to be here. [ cheers and applause ] good evening philadelphia! isn't this supposed to beet supposed to be the city of brotherly love. nhl commissioner, booed big time. he loves their passion. >>> crazy finish, brazil, chile, how about the match, goes to a penalty shootout, chile misses. brazil advances and serena will -- will williams out at wimbledon. >>> storm tracker 6 live doubling scan radar it is quiet across the delaware and lehigh valleys. it will stay that way tonight. as we get into sunday, high pressure stays in control for the last weekend in june. the high today in philadelphia, a little bit above average, we climbed to 87 degrees. normal for this time of year is 86. the record 97 set back in 1963. as we look at the numbers across the delaware and lehigh valleys dleerchg most locations -- this evening, most locations are in the 80s. the exception along the coast, an onshore wind will be the trend for the weekend. temperatures along the coast getting cooler in the afternoon hours. dover, 80. same thing in millville, the poconos 74. p

and taking a live look at center city philadelphia. it is first friday and the weather right now is just right. but what can were he expect later on night? chief meteorologist scott williams knows and he's outside our old city studios with the answer. beautiful were there on this friday to get outdoors and enj enjoy. as you mentioned it is first friday here in old city. so folks are out and about the restaurants are open and the vendors, they are outsetting up as well across the area here in old city. let's talk about this beautiful weather. temperatures today were in the 70s. 76 degrees right now and it's just comfortable because the humidity is in the 30s right now. we have those winds out of the northwest. but look at the sat late and radar. nothing going on. high pressure it's in full control. that will set us up for pretty nice weekend but look at the temperatures. 75 in reading right now. 73 degrees in atlantic city and 76 currently in wilmington. so beautiful on this friday. in fact, what about 7:00 o'clo 7:00 o'clock. get outdo

philadelphia. still, this one caught these me >> an old city. everything pretty old, you know. so i guess they had to be replaced. >> crews tell me what helped in this situation is the way the road is situated. the water was able to flow down bradford street away from people's homes. we're actually only a fewck feek. nbc 10 news. >>> a lot of breaking news to tell you about this morning. just within the past ten minutes, we've learned police made an arrest in a double stabbing, philadelphia's olney neighborhood. 18-year-old anthony waters stabbed to people at a home on north 4th street. officers say he broke into their home to steal their car before he stabbed them. the victims are both at einstein hospital in critical condition. >> it is warm out there this morning. we could see temperatures today hit the 90 degree mark. a live look now at the skyline of center city, philadelphia. >> one of the best places to beat the heat is the jersey shore. taking a live look outside from our camera in cape may. nbc 10 first alert meteorologist brittney shipp is here with the forecast for u

roaring live to neat in atlantic city, todd quinones, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> todd, thank you. >> today's philadelphia city council changed the charges for posing small am of marijuana. that legislation sponsored by councilman kenny gives the option of issuing a $25 ticket instead of arresting violators. the new law could save the city $4 million a year. >> with all the things we have to do in our city, 17,000 hours of police off the street processing people holding small amounts of marijuana is better crime fighting than we're doing now. >>> the marijuana bill will likely become law in three months as the council has the votes to override a mayoral ve veto. >> somewhat do you think about philadelphia city council's ruling on marijuana? you can tell us and connect with us on the cbs philly facebook page or you can center us a tweet at cbs philly. >> tonight president obama says that he's ready to send military advisors but not troops to iraq to prevent a civil war. sunny militants continue to hold several cities north of baghdad and they have vowed to take the capitol city. but the president will not