keep in mind that we are still one year away from the philadelphia meeting. still, the cityf philadelphia is moving ahead with plans for a papal visit, in may a papal em czar i traveled here to survey the area and check out art museum steps as a possible location for a papal mass but until official word comes from the vatican, all philadelphia can do now is wait. jessica dean, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> in the meantime, a group of pharmacy clerks were stunned when pope francis join them for lunch in the vatican cafeteria, can you imagine. pope tuned on fish and chips we are told ape lunch for the holy father was free, of course. cashier said he did not have the nerve to charge him. >>> we will of course follow all of the developments in the possible papal visit here on "eyewitness news". you can get very latest, on cbs philly.com. >>> facebook's surging stock pushes the the company to new heights. the social media giant is now bigger than coca cola and at&t. founder mark zuckerberg is $1.6 billion richer today thanks to the surge after a weak initial public offering facebo

he's now in stable condition. >>> and happening today, philadelphia city officials will join the familyf a fallen police officer to dedicate a mural in his memory. the mural honors officers chuck cass deal. it will be unveiled at the penncrest gym in northeast philadelphia during a ceremony at 6 o'clock tonight. officer cassidy was a 25 year veteran of the force who was killed while responding to a robbery in 2007. his killer is now on death row. >> new on "action news" an autopsy is that scheduled on a body discovered in a lehigh valley park. a family was walking through canal street park in the borough of northampton last night when they noticed a man face down in the lehigh river. they immediately called 911. police say they recovered the victim's bicycle, backpack, shoes and socks. right now they do not suspect foul play. >> tesla cars are pricey status symbols but a new report is knocking a little shine off the electric vehicles. maribel aber live at the nasdaq in times square with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning tam. a chinese company will actually pay you to hack a

the parents of the four children who died in last weekend's fire, poured out their emotions to philadelphia city officials to day. councilman johnson, held a meeting to discuss the circumstances, surrounding the blaze. residents of the 6500 block of gesner street in southwest philadelphia, have said that the emergency response was too slow. fire officials, reject that saying crew is a arrived within three minutes but these grieving parents say that is not enough. >> the city is saying that we are out there, for accurate information, are we stupid. we lost four kids? i want them to say i'm sorry, i'm with y'all. >> liberia's ambassador to the united states was also there tonight. >>> a buckling foundation wall toys blame for collapse of the two row homes in the cobbs creek section of philadelphia the department of licenses and inspections says that a party wall dividing 6015 and 6017 spruce street collapsed on monday, causing the buildings to cave-in. fortunately nobody was hurt. a contractor must now demolish what is left of the houses within 30 days and inspectors say that the surrounding homes

. >>> happening right now, the crisis in the middle east, takes center stage in center city philadelphia chopper three is live over love park at this hour, dueling rallies are underway, they are happening not far from one another. one in support of the palestinians, other in support of israel, so far things have been rather peaceful only a few minor incident have been reported. >>> of course, weighing on the mind of the many on the rallies flight ban in tel aviv in effect. today faa continued that ban for another 24 hours. "eyewitness news" reporter syma chowdhry is at love park with more on today's news, syma. >> reporter: that is right, chris, this rally, both are being held just hours after the faa ban. you can see behind me here at love park this is a pro israeli group, they are standing hundreds of them with flags, posters, shouting, chants, talk about standing with israel. as you can see the police presence is heavy here. in fact, they have police bikes making sure in one can get on the sidewalks so that way this crowd can be at peace. across the the street on the other side we hav

. >> i think it's still possible for us to allow philadelphia to raise their own taxes on cigarettes, only in the city and county of philadelphia. that's still an active discussion but we're only one part of the emotion that involves the governor, the house >> reporter: republican lawmakers are offering their support over the cigarette tax in exchange for democrats to back pension reform. the bottom line is the cigarette tax we understand will be voted on later today. first, the senate will take it up and some lawmakers, well this be they say they are not leaving harrisburg until the cigarette tax is decided. reporting live from center city, conshohocken, nbc news. >> no one is awaiting the outcome more than the philadelphia school district. they're depending on the cigarette tax for a majority of their funding. the school reform commission unanimously approved a $2.6 billion budget, leaving a $93 million gap. that's because they're waiting to see what palaumakers in harrisburg decide on that cigarette tax. without that revenue, the district is facing deep spending cuts, including laying off 1,300 emp

. >> happening today a noontime rally in center city philadelphia in support of israel. we'll have a report in the next half-hour. the violence continues in the middle east. a rocket from gaza struck leaving a man injured. gaza has fired four missels into israel over the last four days. gerard from bala cynwyd just returned from israel, he took a picture of himself in a bomb shelter. >> there's all these people rushing trying to cram into this little room. >> reporter: israel has bombed 900 targets in gaza. palestinian officials say most of the dead is women and children. president obama is hoping to help broker a cease-fire. >> 5:04. relative also of people shot by -- relatives of people shot by police officers turned out in city hall. commissioner ramsey was on hand as investigators invited the public to talk about their experience with the police department and where they think the department fall short. some did not minutes words about what they call a lack of trust by the force. >> we believe it's hard to get justice for the victims of police-involved shootings beca

this is a live look in center city philadelphia. the vine street expressway is looking fine it both directions. we're not seeing any delays out here just yet. we have volume near the conshohocken curve. let's take you outside right now to a live look in center city philadelphia. this is about top of the comcast center. skies are looking good in this area. elsewhere if the area, we're seeing rain. >> you got that right. yeah, storms have fired up once again in some of the western suburbs. chester county seeing heavy rainfall with thunderstorms. they're moving off to the northeast into montgomery and bucks county as well. some of the heaviest rainfall right in the west helpen area crossing the turnpike, wallace seeing some of that heavy rainfall. downingtown is getting drenched this morning as well. more storms late today and in between the storms you can see that an active one with more lightning strikes. we'll see a big warmup into the 90s this afternoon. >> as you heard bill tell thus morning, hurricane arthur is making its way up

already starting to warm up, nicole, through center city philadelphia., won't stop there, though, we will be going all the way up to the upper 80s today, center city looking just great from the cbs-3 studios, "skycam 3", and it is busy at the shore, as you might imagine. look how many people are closing out the holiday weekends, maybe not even closing out the holiday weekends, a lot of people will tie that

but take look at the temperature right now in center city philadelphia. 82 degrees. but this is the deal. the humidity it's only in the 20s% category so really comfortable for this time of year. satellite and radar showing quiet condition conditions for a few high clouds moving in. but look at all of the moisture to our south. most of that will likely stay to the south as we move into the upcoming weekend. but look at the temperatures right now. 72 degrees in the pocono mountains. we have low 80s in philadelphia as well as wilmington. 76 degrees right now in atlantic city. so if you have friday plans looking pretty good. 80 by 7:00. 9:00 o'clock, 76 degrees and low 70s as we move toward the 11:00 o'clock hour. that saturday snapshot for you kicking off the weekend. we'll have more clouds than sun but it looks like we'll stay dry. coming up, we'll time out warmer conditions as well as the threat for some rainfall. iain? >> scott, thank you. >>> memorial service takes place tonight for a woman whose body was found inside a dufflebag. friends and family will remember 23

you can see center city philadelphia in the distance.are looking pretty good on all of the area breaths. no yeshs to report. still not reporting any accidents out there. 309 at the pennsylvania turnpike is clear. our issue right now comes to mass transit. septa airport line suspended service and septa wilmington/newark line suspended service due to amtrak problems that happened yesterday evening. shuttle bus service is operating right now between 30th street and the philadelphia international airport. chris? >>> up next, two deliveries, one involving a newborn who aarrirr in quite a unique way. that story straight ahead. >>> and a postal worker with a unique approach to making his deliveries. those stories and more ahead on nbc 10 news today. >>> a lehigh county man will spend the next 17 years in prison. he pleaded guilty earlier this month to eluding police. a camden police officer was injured during that chase in march of last year. it all started in camden and ended in philadelphia. in court, he apologized to that officer who can no

look at your overnight forecast here in the city of philadelphia, feeling nice. 66 degrees. mainly clear. few more clouds starting to creep in as we go in the early morning hours on saturday and then saturday's forecast partly sunny, warm, more humid with a isolated shower or storm. high of 88 degrees. here is your seven day forecast and shore cast and you can see we will steam up through the weekend, best chance for storms sunday into monday but once we clear that front out take a look at what is beyond the three day, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, gorgeous low humidity, comfortable friday looking nice as well. back to you guys. >> that looks good, ready for some football. >> always. >> come on now training camp gets underway eagles fans are anticipate gooding things this season. >> many good things. when they helped to lincoln financial field that home game experience will be a little different when season starts in september. kyw news laid ohio steve, checks out upgrades. >> reporter: front office led the media on a tour of the link on the receiving end of some nice upgrad

. >> live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 5:00. >> five at 5:00 pictures speak for themselves. strong winds, heavy rain knocking down trees and even power lines. even ripping off roofs and we are not out of the clear just yet. more powerful storms are on their way right now thank you for joining us. i'm lucy noland. >> i'm iain page. the damage so severe some thought it could have been a tornado but the turns out straight line winds between 60 and 70 miles an hour left behind this path of destruction in voorhees. several trees were knocked down there and tonight some residents could see even more damage. let's get you right over to chief meteorologist scott williams. >> good evening iain and lucy. we could see more straight line wind damage violent up drafts producing violent down drafts producing that severe weather. yesterday in sections of burlington and also camden counties. as we take look at the threat right now, severe thunderstorm warnings in effect former sorry county until 5:30. also sections of kent and new castle county until 5:15 so watching showers

no evacuations were necessary. >>> it is 5:05 and happening today, philadelphia city officials will join the family of a fallen police officer to dedicate a mural in his memory. the mural honors officers chuck cassidy. it will be unveiled at the penncrest gym in northeast philadelphia during a ceremony at 6 o'clock tonight. officer cassidy was a 25 year veterans of the force killed while responding to a robbery in 2007. his killer is on death row. >> doctors say the delaware county teenager who was struck by lightning this week is going to be fine. 14-year-old david bodkin paris was leaving his mother's glenolden home on monday night just as the storm unleashed dozens of lightning bolts in the area. one of them hit the teen just as he reached for a friend's car. >> i was just kind of like running and i heard it and then i was just shocked. i was shaking. and i was bleeding everywhere from right here just gushing blood. >> amazingly the teen was left with only a small wound on his arm. some involved in his treatment believe the soles on his sneakers saved him from injury. however, the nat

it is 6:00 here in center city philadelphia. and here's meteorologist, carol erickson, the eyewitness weather center, with a first look at the weather. how is it looking? >> you had a little problem coming in this morning with the rain? >> i just got ton telling you, as soon as i parked, go figure, downpour. >> sometimes computer models are right on, sometimes they are not. but actually the one we were showing yesterday, pointed out these showers that were going to be coming through early this morning, completely right on, not everybody saw them, so often the case with the weather, but those who did got a downpour. i want to show you on storm can three, this is loop over the last three hours, even little thunderstorm went through the philadelphia area, so we'll get little close near some of these, you can see what we were dealing with first thing this morning, you can see why liz was out there, trying to find, i don't know, a newspaper, a food bag, anything to put over her head to come running into the building. so we had seen s

we're also dealing with construction in center city philadelphia. 5th street tunnel is closed until 2:00 on wednesday afternoon. tracy? >> jillian, thanks. the president said something about dessert at the white house last night. it's making headlines this morning. >> had people chuckling. plus, this wild ride here, dramatic video that looks like something straight out of a movie. as the people in that car can tell you, it is very real. >>> plus, look, ma, noç hands. how shooting a selfie on your cell phone just got simpler. >>> 4:44.ç a live look at cape may. we'll get the weekend forecast coming up. >>> the camden county police department hope this sketch will help them find a man they were looking for that sexually assaulted a woman last week. the man pulled up in a car. this is video of the older white toyota avalon with jersey plates. the man forced her into the car and sexually assaulted her before driving away, the woman says. >>> a boil water advisory is still in effect in two bucks county communities, west rookhill township and sellersvil

keep in mind that we are still one year away from the philadelphia meeting. >> still the city of philadelphias moving ahead with plans for a papal visit. in may, a papal traveled her to survey the area and checked out the art museum steps as possible location for a papal mass. but until official word comes from the vatican, all philadelphia can do now is wait. >> in the meantime, group of pharmacy clerks were stunned when pope francis joined them for lunch in the vatican calf tower ya. for the record the pope dined on fish and chips. lunch for the holy father was free. cashier just didn't have the nerve to charge him. >> we will continue to follow all the developments in the possible papal visit here on "eyewitness news". you can also get the latest any time the commodore barry phill philly.com. >>> they're called the best band in the land and they're known for their eye catching performances but tonight the ohio state marching band is in the middle of a sex scandal. hear what the leader is accused of making his members do. >> but first, incredible video of a storm that seemingly swallowed an

center city philadelphia went dark just after 7:00 o'clock last night. here's time lapse video. you can see the city just disappear. meanwhile, crews all across the the region are working to restore those outages, in the the philadelphia area there are about 1300 customers still in the dark. the most of those in philadelphia and bucks county. moving to new jersey, is there about 3,000 customers that are still without power, pse&g reporting most significant can't outageness camden county. >> in addition to the power outages storm caused widespread damage all across the region. lets check with fox 29's jennifer gist live from voorhees, new jersey with the damage look there, jen. >> reporter: that is right dawn and kerry, you can see this tree and roots completely ripped out of the ground. taking a look at the bigger picture you can see thises one of many trees this tree covering an entire portion of someone's front an inside yards here on the block, last night, our crew where is out and about throughout this neighborhood. we actually got video of some power line fires, transformer

the city says this time line issue has hampered the ongoing investigation. reporting in southwest philadelphianneth moton, channel 6 "action news." >> happening today, hundreds of casino workers are expected to fill the boardwalk to fight the closure of the showboat in atlantic city. 2100 jobs will be lost if the hotel closes next month. workers claim the showboat's owners caesar's want to close it down to protect other properties. new jersey assemblymen chris brown is proposing a bill that in part would place a limit on the amount of casinos that a company would be allowed to own in atlantic city. >>> philadelphia city and school officials waiting for the state legislature to finalize the cigarette tax are left frustrated again. the pennsylvania senate voted 43 to five to approve the hike but wants the tax to expire in five years. that change plus another measure on hotel tax center city forcing the bill to be sent back to the house for a second time. school superintendent dr. william hite says a five-year limit on the tax throws the schools back into uncertainty. mayor michael nutter says wi

in philadelphia 82, trenton 80, in the poconos 72. along the coach from beach haven to sea isle cityratures in the lower 70s. 79 lancaster, allentown, lehigh valley 79 degrees. here's what is going on on the big picture. looking where we were one year ago today, what a difference a year makes. this year a high of 98 degrees. you probably remember that as well, in the middle of an eight-day heat wave, the longest and the long-lasting one last summer. and 98 degrees was the highest temperature we had last year as well. what a difference a year makes. i would definitely take the low humidity and temperatures in the 80s today. and satellite 6 and action radar showing you what is going on. high pressure still in control. the high tomorrow moving to the east, the return flow picking up the clouds. you see a lot of moisture in the southern plains and through the ohio valley. the moisture to the west, but a few high clouds will drift north and east as the weekend progress dre progresss. and it stays offstory but some can fill in in our coastal communities, especially by tomorrow evening. and

>>> live from center city in philadelphia. this is "fox 29 news" at 6:00. >>> first at 6:00 a child fighting for his life after falling two stories from a window in philadelphia's cobbs creek neighborhood tonight that boy is in critical condition. good evening, everybody, i'm joyce evans, as a neighborhood recovers from the shock, questions are being raised about how something like this could happen. let's go straight out to fox 29's dave kinchen live at children's hospital of philadelphia tonight. dave, what have you learned? >> reporter: joyce, there are certainly a loft questions here. philadelphia police are calling this an unusual incident and right now that boy is here at the children's hospital of philadelphia in critical condition trying to recover from injuries to his face and his head. police tape marks the home, 5400 block of malcolm street, cobbs creek, where police say a four year old boy fell out of second floor bedroom window this morning. critically injuring himself, hurting his face, and head. >> well, we hear

it is 8:00, right on the dot here in center city philadelphia.check in with meteorologist, carol erickson in the weather center, keeping quite busy this morning. >> yes, a lot has been going on, you doubt often finds thunderstorms in the morning, liz, as you know, but we did finds them this morning. we saw one through philadelphia, about 4:30, and we've seen many others, along the shore, now, all of that activity has moved to the east for now thing calming down, find still clouds over philadelphia, and som

>> right now we have a few clouds out here in center city philadelphia. but many locations are seeing clear skies and get close to many of those records overnight. and for early tomorrow morning. on storm scan3 you can see the clouds still around especially through the philadelphia area. but where it is clear, those temperatures are falling fast. in allentown already 60. the same in reading. the poconos at 54 getting down into the 40s over 98 tonight. philadelphia still holding on to 71. 50s through state college, through scranton and western pennsylvania and those are the cooler temperatures that are moving our way. here are numbers to beat. philadelphia 58. we'll come close but i do not think we'll beat that record. wilmington 55. cape may 54. lower 50s in atlantic city and west chester and allentown the record 50 degrees. coming up we'll take look at how quickly those temperatures will rebound and a weekend spoiler that could provide more clouds than anything else coming up this saturday and sunday. i'll be back with that seven day forecast later in the

. >> the city of philadelphia has been actively aggressively engage in the ongoing process to evaluate our regulations, our laws, standard procedures, all in an effort to do better, and to do our best to ensure that another tragedy does not occur. >> the new signs will offer, include a qr code so anyone hoist concern can link their smart phones, to l and i's web site and get more information about that project. >>> well, up next here big scare for a bucks county woman. she was simply using a store dressing room, tonight, the search is on for the man who was peak nothing that room. hear why the victim want an apology from the store, kate? >>> what a beautiful day it has been, sunshine and really comfortable temperatures, low humidity and things are looking great for tomorrow as well, we will have have your updated forecast coming up. kathy is enjoying this beautiful day at the shore, hi kathy. >> kate, could we get so lucky then to have a perfect shore weekend? well, it is looking more and more likely lots of folks on the beach enjoying the day, surfers in the water as well, we will tha

why a local man says the s so-called affliction is very real. >> the city of philadelphia told the ownersthis house their street tree was dying and that the city would remove it. that was nearly two years ago. now the tree is on top of their house. fox 29 working to get results. i'm bruce gordon. the story straight ahead. >> and the phillies, they were almost no hit today. but then wait until you see what happened. and maybe the golf shot of the decade. that's all coming up in sports. >> howard, coming up in weather, ultimate doppler lit up depending on your location. the flood con >> right now philadelphia police are searching for two men after a robbery in franklinville. think happened at peter's seafood on the 3500 block of germantown avenue. police say the men got into the store by cutting through the front gate and then they got couple of cash register. 40 bucks and six cartons of cigarettes. anyone with information is asked to call police. >>> new developments in last spring's big drug sweep that targeted those schools on the mainline. timothy brooks was in court today and waived hi

center city philadelphia went dark just after 7:00, here's a look at sometime lapse video, city justisappeared. meanwhile i mentioned there are power outages that are still occurring this morning. so crews in the region working very hard to repair them. peco reporting 2800 outages in its services areas. outages have gone up in bucks and delaware counties since we last reported them to you. meanwhile in south jersey pse&g reporting 3500 outages, camden county is suffering the most. >>> meanwhile one person is in the hospital following a lightening strike. this happened on the 100 block of west ashland avenue in glenn olden delaware county. it was last night, there is no word on the condition of that person but we are checking and we will bring you very latest information as soon as we get it. >>> powerful storms stretched all across camden county as well toppling trees and bringing down power lines. >> lets check in with fox 29's jennifer joyce live in voorhees with the look at the damage there, jen. >> reporter: well, good morning, dawn. recreational crews tell thus massive crew behi

say whoever these two suspects are destroyed a family and now they are calling on the entire city of philadelphia, to help track them down. late this afternoon the announcement no one wanted to hear, three children, killed. >> i have been in the homicide unit six years and this is one of the most sadest cases i have ever come across. you have three innocent children, to has the rest of their lives in front of them that were taken in this fashion and it is very sad. >> reporter: family torn apart, victims a 15 year-old girl, a ten year-old boy and a seven year-old boy, all siblings, all killed. their 34 year-old mother clinging to life in critical condition. >> i know them kids. for somebody to hit them kids like that and just keep going doesn't make sense. >> reporter: shortly after 11:00 police say two suspects carjacked a 45 year-old woman, a realtor at gunpoint on the corner of sixth and huntington, from there they drove to germantown and allegheny, blow a tire, lose control, into the family and a six five-year old woman. the carjacking victim tossed in the back seat when he was in the car at

good morning, everyone it is 5:00 o'clock exactly in center city philadelphia a let's check in with meteorologist carol erickson with our first forecast, good morning, carol. >> welcome to yeu. we will talk about why nicole is not here this morning coming up, it is exciting news. we have very comfortable temperatures, liz and i enjoyed coming in with temperatures in the lower 70's and a lot of would you like those temperatures. the lets see what we have right now out there. you can see we have temperatures that are comfortable even at the shore, margate, yes, there is something down there. that is a live look at the beach. 71 degrees before the temperature in margate at this point. storm scan three is showing a few clouds over the area and this weekend will be less sunny, much of the time and the chance at least of picking up an isolated sure or thunderstorm today but we have clouds over us right now and we cannot totally rule out a spotty shower here or there later on this afternoon. we have better chances on have that happening though by the time we get to sunday. as far as temperatures go most

forced to close its doors despite a successful season in 2013, the prince music theater in center city philadelphia is having difficulty raising money. >>> the announcement to close comes on a banner year for the prince music theater, more than 60,000 people visited it this year. for more than 200 pofrps performances and events and movies. >> we had soldout events, a hit for the family during the holiday was potter potter. >> all because of the herb lotman, the main fundraiser who died in february. >> he launched a fundraising that restored the bring. the stars of "about last night" were here and last night for "think like a man two" visited. and this building was founded as the american music theetder in 1884 and reborn as the prince music theater in 99, won't be able to make a full recovery. >> to see how successful we were out of the first year and knowing we cannot continue here is upsetting. >> for now it has the funds only to stay open until the end of november. lisa thomas-laury, channel 6 "action news." >>> visitors to the national constitution center in philadelphia had a chance to rise wi

philadelphia area. already impactin impacting someg flights toward new york city as well as the philadelphia international airport because of the activity to our west. so now until 7:00 that line continues to approach from the west. from 7:00 until 9:00 moving toward the north and western suburbs, the philadelphia area, the i-95 corridor, and then as we move from 9:00 until 11:00 the storms weaken a bit as they move into south jersey and sections of delaware. we'll talk about the heat relief on the way with the seven day coming up. >> all right. scott, thank you. of course, you can keep track of the storm system as it moves into our area tonight. by just heading to our website it's myfoxphilly.com all you have to do is click on the weather tab. >> skyfox over an accident in north philadelphia tonight. police say four vehicles were involved in this crash on west lehigh avenue and north eighth street. it happened around 4:30. two children have been taken to saint christ mers hospital. another person was hurt and has been taken to temple hospital for treatment tonight no word on their conditions or what led

finally a few philadelphia freedom, took stock and sights of the city to day. they are playing in seven home matches at villanova starting tomorrow. good luck to the home team. the perfect timing for your sports in 60 seconds. >> all right, beasley, thanks. >>> coming up in the next half an hour it looks like another atlantic city contact seen he may have run out of luck. trump plaza employees are getting warning net zest today, we are live with what another casino closing will mean for the city. >>> plus the costa concordia is floating once again in the biggest salvage operation ever attempted. running with the bulls isn't good enough for one man he wanted a selfie of that experience and now because of that he is wanted, now >>> i'm jessica dean with some of the day's top stories, an "eyewitness news" tv exclusive, a vr whistle blower speaks out, he is now working with federal investigators have complaining about major issues at the va regional offices in business hick object. investigators found some veterans aren't getting benefits that they deserve in the t

fourth of july, as well, but we are waking to up dry conditions this morning, check out event err city philadelphiave look from logan circle, sunrise in 15, 20 minutes. it is warm, though, check out the temperatures already at 73 degrees at the airport, in philadelphia, 70 in trenton, low 70s, in reading. a lot of humidity already in place, that will just increase over the next 24, 48 hours, so it will feel humid today. an oppressive wednesday. still on humid side thursday, because of that, we will see a good shot of showers and storms returning to our forecast. dry this morning, though, just few clouds, streaming through our area. there is a line of showers and storms across the midwest. now, most of the activity stays to the west, but with the humidity in place, can't rule out a shower, thunderstorm this afternoon, some spots. so these are the padge tours, oppressive heat, 90 degrees temperatures, humidity, we have strong storms from cold front pushing eastward, and then we got to throw a tropical system into the mix. , could become tropical storm arthur, just added moisture to parts of the delaw

. >> meanwhile they cut the ribbon tonight to new office center in center city bringing jobs to philadelphia. the tech and design industry called think brown stone is based in conshohocken and employs 50 people. 15 want to work in the city. and so they're opening this satellite location called a gateway office at the historic packard building 15 and some son. >> still to come on "action news" tonight we're learning more about the violent past of the man accused of killing six people in texas. lus a medical break through that could double a life saving organ transplant. cecily. >> we have flash flooding in ocean city, new jersey now. chester county is getting hit. i'll let you know when all of this finally clears out in the full accuweather 7-day forecast. >> and plus the made in america invention the walmart has named worthy and ducis rodgers with the phillies looking for four in a row. the phillies looking for four in a row. "action news" continues in a lpueden mantener seguros. las que usamos todo el tiempo sin pensarlo. las que aguardan en silencio a salvarnos la vida. y, ahora, las que l

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already starting to warm up, nicole, through center city philadelphia. we have 71 degrees, won't stop there, though, we will be going all the way up to the upper 80s today, center city looking just great from the cbs-3 studios, "skycam 3", and it is busy at the shore, as you might imagine. look how many people are closing out the holiday weekends, maybe not even closing out the holiday weekends, a lot of people will tie that into having all next week off. so, busy at the shore, and it is a great looking beach day. storm scan3, no problems at all. we hate seeing high clouds, but they are moving off. i think you will be seeing plenty of sunshine today. not looking for any precipitation at all. even if you want some, you will not be finding it today, though, there are chances this week, coming up. >>> 69 degrees out at the airport in philadelphia, now, we have 67 in trenton, 68 in wilmington, already warming up, though, at the shore, 72 down in wildwood. sixty-one up in the poconos. so, it is starting to get a little bit hotter. but the dew points are remai

of ceremonies for the annual of ceremonies. >> what an exciting week this is to be in the city of philadelphia. i am so pleased to welcome you to what is the most historic square mile, in all of america, independence mall. >> we also included music, and guest speakers, bells ring in other cities throughout the nation at this same time as the liberty bell. >>> and, kate billow is with us now with a little more rainy, little cold this morning, in the inner city but things are looking really good now. >> things have been progressively improving. >> yeah. >> i was out west of the city, and saw blue skies, around 11:00 and then blue skies started to move further east as the clouds departed in the wake of arthur. now we're looking great just about every where. lets look outside. here is our sky cam three shot of the ben franklin bridge. this is live from campbell's field and boy, doesn't that look nice. nothing but blue skies and a few high puffy clouds, a cool refreshing air mass has just swept in gotten rid of the sticky humidity that we have been feeling for the past couple of days, and now we're

light volume so far here i am bound, heading in towards philadelphia, slow at an earlier crash at gulph mills and traffic down here near cityive look at i-95 down towards airport, traveling out of town, where you are coming in and out of philadelphia for fire works, just ab wear, i-95 is hot mess with construction. so much construction zone and as you can see here lane shifts of what used to be the shoulder is now far right travel lanes and just pay attention to the newly painted lines as you head out and about, over this holiday weekend. otherwise blue route looking good, schuylkill looking good no problems there busy weekend tomorrow we have the parade at 10:00 o'clock which will take us through center city, filled by party on the parkway and concert and fire works tomorrow night on the parkway, ukee, back to you. >>> here is other news events happening today. malvern music teacher anton fauxman will be in court to face sex abuse charges. the 44 year-old is accused of abusing several students. >>> georgia man whose son died in the hot car asked a judge for bail. justin harris says he accidentally left the boy in the car.

square. >>> well, in weather we have a lovely day if you can dodge the rain drops, in center city philadelphia no issue but parts of the montgomery and bucks county and mercer county we had a few storms rumbling through with our skies cam three looking at our beautiful center city, it is hazy, and later we will get stormy. national weather service and also severe storm center prediction center, did indicate that severe storms are possible tonight so now we have a watch in effect. on storm scan three we are tracking a line of showers and storms, some of which are severe and are moving east at 45 miles an hour. in that speed they will be in the delaware valley this evening. philadelphia between eight or nine or 10:00 o'clock tonight. we have a severe thunderstorm watch posted for the entire region from the poconos, wildwood and southern delaware until 11:00 o'clock tonight for possibility of of course, downpours, frequent cloud to ground lightening, wind and even hail, the tornado risk would be low with these storms , and that is good news. damaging wind are a good possibility in some spots. we

center city philadelphia from our cbs-3 studios, just the highest and thin he is of clouds, but still another very comfortable start to the day, and it will probably be in the upper 80s by the time we finish the day, the sunshine will be out, looking at storm scan3, notice those clouds that i just mentioned, you can see them, they are moving through, as we look to the philadelphia area. again, they are high. they are thin. they are not blocking the sun at all. it will be a dry day today. so, our temperatures, well, they're chilly, in some spots, it is 50 degrees in the poconos, and there is cool for the summertime. fifty-seven in allentown, 59 degrees in trenton, 66 out at the airport in philadelphia. and 67 degrees downtown. it is 58 in millville along the shore 66 degrees down in wildwood. our dew points are higher than yesterday. so, it will be feeling more humid, but not humid. if you understand that. we will be finding yesterday the dew points in the 40's, today in the 50's, so just little bit more humid, but get used to that trends because that's coming in a major way by the tim

. >> well the mayor of philadelphia and the city's police commissioner spoke out today strongly refuting any suggestions that corruption in the police department is widespread. as walt hunter tells us tonight, city leaders condemned six indicted narcotics officers. >> will not allow in the most recent circumstance six scumbags to negatively impact the representations of 6,000 plus men and women who risk their lives each and every day. >> mayor michael nutter made his feelings clear, about six narcotics officers indicted on corruption charges. and he added the statistics show their alleged actions do not reflect department wide problem. >> the majority had hard-working honest police officers. they are not corrupt. period. >> the commissioner says, he was offended by the front page daily news illustrations showing police headquarters wrapped in crime scene tape. >> that is a slap in the face to anybody who walks in the building and don't conduct that. >> department wide corruption that does not exist. >> to sit back and never rana (beep) thing in their live, nothing. >> the law firm, alrea

philadelphia is one of four cities to receive that grant from housing and urban development.will be used for revitalization projects in the north and north central part of the city. >>> food and craft beers will be served at the new venue which overlooks the liberty bell and independence national historical park. >>> there's a new way to have in your way at burger king. they are serving up a gay pride burger called the proud whopper. it comes in a rainbow colored rapper with the inscription that says "we are all the same ç inside." it's being sold through tomorrow at one of their san francisco restaurants. the proceeds will be donated to an organization that benefits lbgt high school seniors. >>> now yourful first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. >> parts of area running 6 degrees warmer. we are watching the coastline. that's a live view from cape may. iclunds this afternoon. jillian mele, how is the traffic log morning? >> it's looking good, bill, especially when it comes to drive times. 95 southbound from wood haven to the vine is 13 minutes, 14 minutes on 70,

keep in mind how vital this is for the city of philadelphia's public schools. would inject $80 million into the public school system. coming up in the next half hour, you'll hear from lawmakers about it. reporting live in center city, katy zachry, nbc 10 news. >> this have our nbc 10 trenton bureau. new jersey does have a new budget in place. governor chris christie signing that spending plan late yesterday. he used his executive power to veto two tax hikes and cut back the state's contribution to pension funds for public workers. unions for public workers are suing the state for full pension funding to be restored. >>> happening today, remembering the three israeli teens whose bodies were found monday almost three weeks after they disappear. tracy davidson is live in the digital operation center. one of those teens has family in this area. >> there's been an international uproar over this but it does have local ties. we spoke with relatives of 16-year-old neftali frankel. they were praying for his safe return. that was not to be. people will remember frankel a

live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 5:00. >> crews are about to enter the second night in their search for a boater had disappeared in atlantic county, new jersey. the search has been extensive with coast guard taking to the air and water. officials say andrew bittle's boat ran into trouble late last night in longport. i iain page. >> i'm lucy noland. we're learning more about what happened on the water last night right before things went wrong. let's go live to fox 29' is that so bean in a occur companies live in longport tonight. is a bone in a? >> reporter: lucy and iain the coast guard search continues to widen. officials found an article of clothing they believe belongs to this experienced boater and father of three. >> heard a big thud and then i heard, um, help, help, help! screaming i knew it was somebody in the water. >> eyewitness describes the frightening moments after a boat struck a buoy in longport catapulting two men on board into the water around 11:30 last night. coast guard officials identify the boat's operator as 44 year old andrew whittle egg

in the end, anybody going to be mayor of the the city of philadelphia needs to figure out how to penetrate the african-american vote. it's the largest block of votes in the city. if you have credible candidatesn clark running it's hard to figure out how that happened and as terri will tell you ultimately, it's about all the coalitions and everything and sooner or later election the vote breaks and it typically breaks to a can daylight. and so if you have council president clark and senator williams in that election it will be hard to figure out. there's apathy in the voting base now everybody knows what the turn out may not be what it is you have to figure out how to break that voting block and it's not easy to do. >> rendell, which he ran for mayor. the black vet waswas good. >> i know a little bit about that. >> yeah. >> and -- >> you do? >> really? >> i think that that ed rendell, was exception in a time block where everybody thought that ron castillo was probably going to be mayor of the city of philadelphia. as you remember -- >> then a lot of things happened. >> mayor rendell lost to

. >>> an international poetry competition continued today in center city, philadelphia. who knew it would be so competitive. day three of the 17th annual brave new voices international youth poetry slam. 50 teams went head-to-head in a series of bouts. and the contest wraps up sunday. >>> "world news with diane sawyer" is next. and "action news" continues at 10:00 on phl 17. and join us for "action news at 11:00" on channel 6. for cecily tynan, adam joseph, ducis rodgers and the entire "action news" team i'm jim gardner. we hope you will join us at 11:00. ♪ if he were a lobbyist... if they were political contributors... maybe tom corbett would listen to them, instead of cutting... funding for their schools. but corbett's huge tax giveaway to the oil and gas... industry has cost us billions. forced deep cuts in education. and his mismanagement caused a massive budget deficit. now corbett wants to give the oil and gas industry even... more handouts. because that's who tom corbett listens to. and this is who pays the price. >>> tonight, a special edition of "world news." th

. >> it looked like christmas in center city philadelphia, santa and mrs. claus arrived in style. they announced their i'll be home for christmas spectacular. the show is an annual tradition and they recognize men and women that serve their country. 2,000 tickets to the december 5th premiere is given to the if he were a lobbyist... if they were political contributors... maybe tom corbett would listen to them, instead of cutting funding for their schools. oil and gas companies gave corbett 1.7 million dollars in political contributions. and he gave them a sweetheart deal on taxes that's costing pennsylvania billions. corbett's mismanagement has caused a huge budget deficit. and his painful education cuts are forcing teacher layoffs and increasing class sizes. now corbett wants to give the oil and gas industry even more handouts. and what's he getting from them? corbett's keeping that secret. so pennsylvanians are challenging tom corbett to come clean. release the records of your meetings with donors... that you've been hiding. disclose all the contributions, letters and emails from

philadelphia, of course, a city that prides itself on food trucks.ly hundreds of them that move throughout the city. some kind of an accident occurred, with this one earlier this afternoon, again, critically injuring four people. this is chopper three live over the the scene right now, you can see emergency responders who are there, and, any kind of fire that may have originated within this truck appears to be out at this time, but again, we do know that this blast did injure four people. >> thinks at third and wyoming in feltonville and as you look at the area surrounding that truck you can see it does look like it was a forceful explosion, of some sort, that is at least what it appears to look like and you can see fire crews there on the scene. it took four people that we have been told were burned and two of them suffering critical burns at this point. so clearly they are getting medical attention, right now, a big scene there, and as they zoom in there you can see a blackout portion of that truck. it doesn't sianni you cannot clearly see what typ