live in camden, cleve bryan, cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> cleve, keep us up to date. thank you. >>> water main break in south philadelphia is making for some tricky travel today. the break had the three outer southbound lanes of southbound broad street closed between the 32 and 3300 blocks. one lane has now reopened. the 12-inch water main ruptured near broad and geary streets yesterday leaving a gaping hole in the ground. today crews are working to inspect and assess the necessary repairs. >>> philadelphia police are investigating the shooting death of a 22-year-old man late last night in strawberry morning. police say the man was shot three times in the stomach near york and garnet streets around 11:30. the victim was driven in private vehicle to temple university hospital where he underwent surgery and later died. >> we believe the victim was standing on the curb when the shooter fired three shots striking the victim all three times. from witnesses the victim then ran south on garnet street. >> police right now say they are reviewing surveillance cameras from the a

cleve? >> reporter: ukee, the parking lot starting to fill up and the excitement reaching a fever pitch. people walking by doing the eagles chant. but we've been here since about lunch time and met some really hard core tailgaters, to find out how to do it this year. >> ice in the cooler, charcoal on the grill. generator fired up for the outdoor tv. >> i'm so fired up. >> reporter: eagles football therefore tailgate season has gun in south philly >> i'm ready for football season. >> this is best part of the season. we just start >> callahan from northeast was first to start setting up in the wells fargo lot with the eagles mobile too >> we had an eagles mobile one, which was old, and finally fell apart. >> reporter: been waiting eight months to roll out the yawning, raise the flags and show off the signatures on the rv. >> this is my -- this is the mayor of north dakota, carson wentz fan >> the next car load had a similar setup >> this is great charcoal >> grill, burgers, little who the dogs

live from camden, cleve bryan, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> cleve, thank. >>> thieves targeted a habitat for humanity work site in gloucester county. they stole $1,500 worth of tools used to build a house on tanner road in west deptford. officials say that the thieves broke into a storage unit and took a nail gun and compressor that house is intended for a young woman who served two tourness afghanistan. >> this is actually their third time it has happened at this site, first two times, although first time they broke into this house, i mean, made decision lets just get this project done. let's not bring any attention to it. third time is the charm. i kind of snapped. thinks ridiculous. >> habitat for humanity is increasing security at the work site. >>> boeing says recent 276 million-dollar army contract will bring nearly two more decade of manufacturing jobs to our area. this is video from boeing of the army h47 shoe nook army helicopter. more than 500 to the medium to heavy lift helicopters will be brought to the factually in ridley township delaware county for upgrade. >> we are well

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new jersey reporter cleve bryan is in margate with the very latest chapter in this dune battle, cleve. >> reporter: city commissioner's meeting town leaders are going over that restraining order and it is so packed, inside, that people are actually outside here listening to the meeting on speaker, some of them so passioned they are ready to get out to those dunes with shovels and buckets and tear them down themselves. in court city attorneys called multiple block pond created during the dune construction as a health and financial crisis for margate. attorneys for the state argued that draining pond and filling in the base thin week should address the problem but superior court judge william menendez ruled in favor of margate and ordered a one week work stoppage. he ordered both side to meet daily on reaching a solution. this is the mayor's reaction. >> it makes me very happy. we just can't allow this to continue, you are doing wrong and continue to do wrong. we have a week, let's sit at a table and see if we can work it out. >> reporter: this meeting is continuing, many people taking

in atlantic city, cleve bryan, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> good to be out there. >> yes. >> what a cool today, hot, steamy especially in the city, all that concrete trapping in the heat. those people down there have a little sea breeze but feels brutal, but it is about to come to an end. this is is just a brief blast of the summer heat and humidity but blast it is looking live from center city philadelphia sunshine in the scene and a lot of heat. 91 degrees right now. feeling like 97 degrees factoring in that humidity. we have a healthy breeze out of the southwest at 21 miles an hour but still just blowing around that hot air, heat advisory back for philadelphia and surrounding suburbs for next couple of hours. it will expire at 8:00 p.m. and still hot, steamy 89 degrees in trenton. eighty-nine in wilmington. eighty-nine in allentown. feels like temperatures are still, quite brutal feeling like 90's in wilmington, in philadelphia, mid 90's in the lehigh valley and berks county those dew points are way elevated in the 70-degree range. we are talking florida like humidity values right now

live, i'm cleve bryan, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> well portion reese say a man is in custody after break nothing an overbrook home and stealing a car. home invasion happened around 9:30 race night on the 200 block of west mt. airy avenue. suspect then drove the home owner's suv to a bank on city avenue and tried using her atm card. officers spotted the suspect near st. joes university where he left the car and threw his pants and shoes in the nearby yard. police caught the man and plan to charge him. >>> suspect appears in court accused of injuring a delaware county sheriff's sergeant in collindale. authorities say jerome jones threw a molotov cocktail at sergeant nick marine yesterday afternoon. the sergeant suffered burns to his legs as he tried to survey search warrant at a home on macdade boulevard. authorities say jones then barricaded himself inside the home before he finally surrendered. the sergeant was released from the hospital today and is expect to make a full recovery >>> switching gears now, game time, practice style, it may in the count but bird are in green bay for

bryan, cbs3 "eyewitness news". >>> cleve wasn't holding back on those kids nom way.hing you can't start the school year it's a backpack a local organization is making sure that no child goes without one. the philadelphia out reach development council donated thee hundred backpacks and other school supplies to some of the city's needy yesterday families. today was the ninth annual back to school event benefiting family organizations but organizers say they need help year round. >> usually around the mill of the year those bags and those supplyings wear out, right? we find organizations like that. always looking for people that we can partner with and we support teachers halfway during the school year to reload bags and supplies for the kids set them um for the second last the year. >> the physical out reach development council says it will hold another donation drive for students needs in january. >>> check out this incredible sunflower grown by chester county family serious green thumb. they zen us this photo of their daughter michelle standing by papa the sunflower.

"eyewitness news" reporter cleve bryan joins us live with the latest on the dune battle, cleve. >> reporter: things winding down with the margate commissioner's meet ago this has been going on for two hours, people voicing their concerns about the dune project but some at least happy for now but there is a temporary stoppage. day after telling an angry crowd they would fight to halt dune project that created a bacteria infested swamp on their beaches margate commissioners and their attorneys took matter to court >> it is now a crisis. it is a disaster. one-third of our beach is now unusable because of this colossal screw up. >> reporter: project run by new jersey department of environmental protects and army core of engineers failed to meet drainage need after annex stream rainfall last week even. resulting pond cut off access for several blocks and became such a ses pool two life guard are sick as well as several members of the public. at a hearing, issue a restraining order, attorneys for state spoke via teleconference and said things didn't go as intended. >> in retrospect digging out be

cleve? >> appreciation today for some state workers that many would say have a thankless job.an, coming up, what they did to help a police >> another friday shake-up at the white house, steve bannon out as president trump's chief strategist, it follows weeks of spec lakes he would not last much longer, in the administration. >> white house chief strait i can us, steve bannon helped put president trump in the white house, now he's out, the president's press secretary issued a statement saying, white house chief of staff, john kelly and steve bannon have mutually agreed today would be steve's last day, grateful for his service, and wish him the best. >> speculation about bannon's future had been banning for awhile, and president trump was non-commit al about bannon 's future. >> i like mr. bannon he is a friends of mine. he came in very late, you know that, i went through 17 senators, governors, and i won all of the primaries. then came on very much later than that, but we will see what happens with mr. bannon. >> sources tell cbs news that new chief of staff, john kelly , was e

live from margate, cleve bryan , cbs-3 "eyewitness news" >> cleve, we will see you at 6:00, thank you. >>> search continues for possible missing swimmer near steel pier in atlantic city. chopper three over the search effort month. man said that she was with a 31 year-old man who went in the ocean around 8:00 o'clock last night. woman told police that she left the area before the man got out of the ocean, authorities say that it is not yet known whether the swimmer return to land. >>> well, coming up on "eyewitness news" u.s. launched an unarmed intercontinental ballistics missle flexing its defensive muscle. that is not the only action taken to show our nation's power. the story at 5:30. >>> also a train derails in pennsylvania, we have the video of the moment of impact, as that train left the tracks and hit a home. we will show you. >>> and it sounds like the plot of a movie, do you remember armageddon? nast has technology that could intercept an out of control asteroid, and it will be put to the test, very soon. >>> stay with us family we train derails and crashes in the home causin

live, i'm cleve bryan, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> cleve, thanks very much.ly it has been a quiet hurricane season for our area but peak is just happening now and as we know sandy occurred toward the end of the hurricane season so certainly it is not out of the realm of possibility we have to be prepared, this hurricane season. meanwhile pretty quiet evening here in beautiful downtown haddonfield. we will have the full forecast as we head in the weekend and tell you how cool it will be in a few minutes but for more on today's news, let's send it back to nicole brewer in the studio. >> thanks very much. >> we have some news to cover here, including a story about fire fighters, battling a three alarm blaze this afternoon. this is at an apartment building in delaware county. flames could could be seen shooting out of the roof on the 1,000 block of woodlyn avenue in sharon hill just a few hours ago. all residents had to be evacuated from the building and authorities say one person was hurt and was transported to the hospital. no word on that person's condition, i

cleve bryan has that story from rowan. >> reporter: when it comes to the buildup for the solar eclipse have had more to do than the director of the planetarium. i got your e-mail. >> i'm sorry i can't spell my own last name. >> reporter: been busy lately. >> i have. >> reporter: she has been guest lecturing for months on solar eclipses and preparing for a big event monday at the university to celebrate the i can clips which has become a national obsession. >> eclipses are not all that rare. they happen about once a year on average. but what's rare both one is that it's in the u.s. which is which has not happened for almost 40 years. >> reporter: the edelman planetarium which has a 40-foot dome screen and seats about 100 people is a great place to learn about astronomy year round. this weekend planetarium visitors wanted to learn more about what else. >> the solar eclipse. >> reporter: what are you excited about with in. >> i never got to see one before this one. >> reporter: this is sort of the calm before the eclipse. munroe and what expects to have more than a thousand people at thei

what do you do on a summer day without electricity. >> going swimming. >> reporter: in doylestown, cleveryan cbs3 "eyewitness news." >> traffic is now moving once again on the schuylkill expressway eastbound in montgomery county. eyewitness video shows cars wading through flooded lanes earlier this morning after heavy rain. this was right before the belmont avenue exit. police say the flooding has been cleared. >>> and what began as a dreary and flooded day for many folks dried out fairly quickly. the rain didn't last long. the blue skies returned. meteorologist chelsea ingram is live in the weather center with good news for us. >> hi, natasha. definitely a welcome change compared to those storms that we dealt with earlier this morning. we have cooler air and also drier air that's moved in. 78 degrees right now in philadelphia. 78 in millville. we are in the mid to upper 70's. down the shore it's 76 n-wildwood right around 78 degrees and the atlantic city look at the temperature change we're anywhere from two to 3 degrees cooler in wildwood up to around 10 degrees cooler in reading. 7 de

what do you do on a summer day without electricity. >> go swimming. >> reporter: in doylestown, cleve cbs3 "eyewitness news." >> recent weather disrupted drivers early this morning flooding closed several lanes here on the schuylkill expressway eastbound in montgomery county. eyewitness video shows cars wading through the pools of water trying to drive through. this was right before the belmont avenue exit. >>> also federal investigators continuing to look for answers after an explosion at an islamic center near minneapolis. this happened in the suburb of emergency bloomington today. witnesses say an explosive device was thrown into the imam's office. as many as 20 people were preparing for morning prayer at the time. >> hate is not okay. we need a better america. targeting people because of their race their ethnicity or their religion is absolutely unamerican. >> an attack on a mosque is an attack on a synagogue is an attack on a church is an attack on all faith communities. >> fortunately no one was injured in the blast. the fbi says it's too early to call on whether this is hate cr

. >> as "eyewitness news" reporter cleve bryan tells us the decision comes after the war fears of the residents, were realized. >> reporter: frustrated margate residents flooded city hall inside and out wednesday morning after a dune construction project, flooded their beaches. >> the beaches are ruined. >> we should sue, put it all back like it was. >> reporter: city commissioner passed resolution to seek a temporary restraining order to get the agency in charge of the dune project. army core of engineers and new jersey department of environmental protection. >> they better stop, figure out what went wrong, what is wrong with the engineering when they correct it, move on. >> reporter: army core says basins meant to collect and percolate storm water didn't work as planned. many people named the multi block beach pool lake christie for governor who insisted on the project and called people who opposed it vein and selfish. >> well, i think he is responsible for it. so we ought to name it after him. >> reporter: as of wednesday afternoon four pumps had lake almost drained and dosers were

our new jersey reporter cleve bryan is live in camden where residents argued that the it is a public safety has air. is what latest. >> reporter: we have been hearing testimony since 10, we heard from an environmental engineer on behalf of the sit hoy says that water in the ponds in the beach in margate is like water in a sewage treatment plant, bacteria levels 37 times the legal limit for swimming. we also saw that there were dozens of people who made the trip from margate to camden to fight for their beaches, this has been a complete disaster. >> reporter: you know what or high water, margate property owners are fighting a flooding mess on their beach that began with the construction of sand dunes they never wanted. >> they don't even know how to fix the problem. >> i paid almost $40,000 a year in property taxes for a house i use three months a year and this is a complete utter disaster for myself, my family, the community and everybody in margate. >> reporter: federal judge list toned arguments from the u.s. armored core of engineers who want to resume work on dunes after a state

. >> "eyewitness news" reporter cleve bryan has the story now from east greenwich township. >> i have the gigantic. >> i when she heard she was getting new utility pole in her front yards, she never expected this. >> i didn't realize it was going to be this big, they just dropped a little card off and said we would be putting polls n i come home from work, i work two jobs, and this is what i come home to. and i'm like okay. >> why does an elevator shaft and two to three times the height of most utility polls, this is part of mine mile infrastructure project by ac electric to fortify the grid between paulsboro and woodstown, several holmes in east greenwich township have these massive metal structures in their yards, others have over size wooden polls. >> the neighbors are like why did you let them? i said well it is the right of way must much of this region lost power for much after week because of severe thunderstorms, atlantic city electric says these new polls which can with stand 120-mile per hour winds should minimize outages. in a statement they said during the past five years,

that's what he's trying to do. >> thanks be cleve. >> hoping the weather will cooperate. the skies look good. >> meteorologist lawrence casey is tracking scattered showers and thunderstorms, joins us live from the sky deck with a look at the timing on this. of. >> just dealing with sunshine and a bit of a sea factor right now. could be a cloudy storm this evening, things get active overnight and very active as we head into our friday. but dealing with the return of the summertime heat. 86 degrees right now in philadelphia. factoring in that humid factor feeling more like 88 degrees. of that south wind pumping in the moisture, 84 at the shore, feeling more like 87. and we're at 76 degrees right now. a little bit drier in the poconos. stormscan 3 showing us sunshine for most. we are seeing a few showers popping especially over parts of delaware, have a heavy shower moving towards lewes. as we head to evening, we will see a spotty thunderstorm, otherwise mostly cloudy and warm with temperatures lingering in low to mid 80's but tomorrow, we do have a severe weather potential

new jersey reporter cleve bryan is in mace landing with more on a tragic loss, that is still being felt years later. >> we just want to continue to show our support. >> reporter: dozens of teens packed a courtroom for trial of the man accused of killing one of their friends, nicholas goretti from vineland faces charges of vehicular homicide and assault by auto for crashing in the car full of mainland high school girls back in august of 2014. three girls were hurt and 14 year-old ashland cook died. >> i missed her dearly. debut day process still. >> i go through day and wonder what would it be like if she was here with us. >> reporter: about to be a starter as a freshman mainland retired number four soccer jersey. she would have been a senior next month. >> it is sad but she's here, looking down on us. >> reporter: authorities say he was driving under influence of the commonly known drug known as xanax. he crossed yellow line hit a box truck and slammed in the car full of girls driving to a charity soccer tournament. a doctor for him testified even low levels of the drug can impair a per

cleve bryan met a few of these boys and girls today using past experiences to encourage others rt. >> reporter: filled with snacks and hygiene products these bags going out to the homeless in camden decorated with inspirational quotes from local kids. >> i wrote, be positive and make a change. write your own psychiatrist. >> the rest of her live script doesn't have to be the same as the first act. she and the rest of the kids who wrote these encouraging words share a common tragic thread. each lot of loved ones to violence. >> 2011 i lost my cousin like my father figure and just like hurt me real bad and i didn't how to deal with it. >> what they needed was a safe place to heel and found it at saving grace ministry in camden. she lost her husband to gun violence. >> he was shot 18 time and at the time we were raising one child. >> reporter: over the last seven years saving grace helped more than 400 children who lost family members to violence. they offer mentor ship, tutoring, counseling and most importantly hope for a better tomorrow. >> if you're going to reach the violence continu

"eyewitness news" reporter cleve bryan has the details. i was there. and i know what happened. >> reporter: more than 14 years after the korean war reached cease fire garfield harper man add machine gun along the dee militarized zone. arriving during a resurgence of conflict in 1967, he was exposed to a extreme cold frequent gun battles and a potent chemical known as agent orange. >> we would wake up and you could smell that something had been sprayed in the air. >> reporter: he developed a skin condition that plagues him to this day and getting medical help from the veterans affairs hasn't been easy. >> you have to sort of prove to them any evidence you have that you were there and they put you through a whole lot. >> reporter: as with vietnam the va where korean vets are presumed to have suffered agent orange exposure. harper and some other who served before that date april 6, 1968 got members of congress to help them individually. tuesday at the american legion post pemberton, new jersey, congressman tom mc arthur announce add bill to help more kore

and "eyewitness news" reporter cleve bryan has that story from rowan university. >> what whether it comes to the build up for monday solar eclipse, few have more to do than rowan university plan tear yum. >> arracl -- >> i got your e-mail. >> what a day. i'm sorry, i can't even spell my own last name. >> been busy lately? >> i have. >> she has been guest lecturing for months on solar eclipses and preparing for big event monday at the university to celebrate the eclipse, which has become a national obsession. >> eclipses actually not all that rare. they happen about once a year, on average. but what is rare about this one, it is in the u.s., which has not happened for almost 40 years. >> the plan tear yum, which has 40-foot dome screen, sits boo -- sits about 40 people, has great astronomy year around. >> this week they wanted to learn more about what else? >> the solar eclipse. >> what are you excited about with that? >> i've never got to see one before this one. so excited. >> so this is sort of the calm before the ' clipping. come monday rowan specked to have more than a thousand people

"eyewitness news" reporter cleve bryan looks back at his life and career. >> hear jim whelan's name you think of atlantic city. >> reporter: shore town grieving after sudden death on tuesday of former mayor and state senator jim whelan. >> a real good man and we are certainly or toy lose him here in atlantic city. >> reporter: whelan served more than 35 years in government and atlantic city councilman from 1982 to 1990 and mayor from 1990 to 2001 before moving on to state office. >> anybody for school system whether it was, increasing the public safety, he is always, an advocate for atlantic city in the strongest way possible. >> reporter: born in philadelphia whelan's first job was on the beach patrol. he became a teacher, assemblyman and rounded out his career for state senator for new jersey's second district. former mayor scott evans and current mayor don garden counted on whelan as amen for. >> he was like a big brother to me, a lot of advice. >> he was very smart, methodical and he knew what it took to get things done. >> reporter: one of most my fond memories was three years ago

he fridays millville and new jersey reporter cleve bryan is there with more, on this, and cleve. >> reporter: ukee, deborah wis ler is home away from custody this afternoon. we tried to talk about her son not a topic that she wanted to discuss. can we talk to you about these charge difficulties leave your son in the wood no. >> reporter: thirty-nine year-old deborah wisler showed no interest in explaining herself tuesday afternoon. police say five days ago she abandoned her 10 year-old son with special need leaving him in the wood by joint base maguire dixon lakehurst burling ton county. can you talk with what happened. >> no, bye, bye, bye. >> reporter: will you talk about what happened with your son. >> no. >> reporter: is he with you now. >> no, please leave premises. >> reporter: state police say thursday august 3rd a passing driver spotted her son in the wood near visitors center at the base. military personnel check him over and found minor injuries. he told police his mom walk him in the wood with luggage and then left. he fell asleep and woke up hungry. he provided his mother's name,

new jersey reporter cleve bryan is live from camden with more from the hearings, cleve. >> reporter: we know that the state judge put dune construction project on hold because of those flooding concerns. now the army core of engineers is asking a federal judge to lift that temporary restraining order, saying that every day that they are not working on these dunes it is costing $120,000, per day. now throughout the day we saw people coming in and out of the federal courthouse from margate they made that trip up here dozens of people, concerned about the beach in front of their homes. they say because of this pond ing, it has put a damper in many ways on the summer businesses, to visitors and it has become a public health has air. some people that testified including life guard, that got rations and had to miss work because of walking through that bacteria filled pond. now big issue here is that the city doesn't want dune construction project to go forward until they figure out how to avoid future ponding when there is rain, however, army core of engineers say that is part of the proce

"eyewitness news" reporter cleve bryan shares her story. >> a quarter mile of non-stop thrills.iveway satisfied south jersey need for speed for more than a half century. this weekend's lucas oil drag racing series sure to be one of the biggest events of the summer. for more than 450 cars lined up. >> it is all good, but the alcohol cars of tomorrow is going to be where it is at. >> named for the fuel they use alcohol cars among the fastest race cars in the worlds. at 52nd down the track, they'll beat about any muscle car. but don't have to be masculine to go fast. >> i've been 270 miles an hour in this. >> karen embracing alcohol dragsters for more than 20 years, mullica township resident has won a lot every races and turned a lot of heads. >> there was a little voice somewhere. and when his mom or dad told him that i drove the car, he's like no, girls don't drive race cars. then when he finally saw me run at the came back and he was like oh, okay, i can see you drive a race car now. >> she learned race interesting her dad with husband tom, also accomplished racer, for passing t

in at coast, cleve bryan, cbs-3 "eyewitness news." >> good luck to karen. well there is surely is a site to see. authorities in sea isle city now trying to catch a coyote running wild on the beachment take a look. the coyote spotted yes on the beach between 39th and 40th streets. police and animal control haven't been able to catch it quite yet. it keeps running into the dunes, traps, though, have been set. so now do you have worry about sharks and coyotes on the beach. >> well, it is common for security system companies to be door-to-door looking for new business, but the better business bureau says some salesmen make fraudulent claims and trick people into switching alarm companies. critics explains. >> says salesman came to his front door saying they were taking over for his current alarm condition. and he would get all new equipment. >> and he toll me a lie. >> because he later learned he was tricked into signing a contract with a different alarm company. and was now facing two, monthly bills. linda says the salesman at her door promised to get her out

"eyewitness news" reporter cleve bryan, shows us exactly how the game works. >> some are for superherostown heroes. >> my daughter, little obsessed. >> the obsession is for painting rocks. >> she's taken me out every day, want to go drop them off, paint every day. >> lauren and her kids are playing a game all of the summer craze in williamstown, new jersey, painting and playing hide and go seek around town with rocks. >> i found a specially pink one, and one of the water. >> hundreds of families in town are now playing the rock game. and it started with this stone , that christine found on vacation in florida. >> i looked on the back it, said martin county rocks. adorable. i look on facebook formatter inch county rock and there it was. >> mom made their own facebook group williams towns rocks, painted dozens with their own kids and hid them around town. pretty soon it caught on. >> i think it is pretty cool. it gives us something to do, if we don't find them we can paint them at home and i could take them places and we can re -hide them. >> what do you like about painting these rocks an

"eyewitness news" new jersey reporter cleve bryan, gave it a go. >> three, two, one. >> reporter: moment has arrived for a washington township business. >> go, go, go. >> reporter: this camo class bunker filled battle field is called darts of war. >> place for kid to come and essentially play nerf wars. >> reporter: doug and his wife christie are celebrating opening weekend for their play gun arena that is inspired by their children's favorite toys >> my husband was with my business and they were looking on line and they saw an indoor a reen. >>> i was like where is that? it is in colorado. i said i can do that. >> reporter: year ago gloucester township couple decided to give starting a business a shot. >> pregnant, i was getting ready to get on maternity leave. when we knew we were having our fourth one at home he said this is what we have to do we need a family business. >> he has moves, we will do it , i started to buy all this stuff, all over my house. >> reporter: they turned this property on the black horse pike into a foam war zone. >> it its fun. >> it is cool to try to shoot the

"eyewitness news" reporter cleve bryan shows us what rowan university is now doing, for tomorrow. >> reporter: when it comes to the build up for monday's solar eclipse few have had more to do then director of rowan university planetarium amy bearclaw. >> i'm sorry, i cannot even spell my even last name. >> reporter: busy. >> i have. >> reporter: she has been guest lecture on solar eclipse and preparing for a big event monday at the university to celebrate the eclipse which has become a national obsession. >> eclipses are not all that rare. they happen about once a year on average, but what is rare about this one is it is in the u.s., which has not happened for almost 40 years. >> reporter: the planetarium which has a who foot dome and seats 100 people is a great place to learn about astronomy year round. is this weekend visitors wanted to learn about what else. >> solar eclipse. >> reporter: what are you excited with. >> i never saw one before this one. >> reporter: thinks calm were the eclipse. come monroe an expects to have a thousand people at their event here, and they will be do

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"eyewitness news" reporter cleve bryan has the more. >> reporter: he protect us, so we ran out. he needed a hand. so we protected him. officer, sometimes assigned security detail at the motor vehicle commission office in washington township. april 18th this year, the job got physical. >> there was a guy outside in the parking lot. he seemed like he was starting to fight with this other couple. i just tried to break it up. and the guy attack me, i guess looking for a fight. >> officer said trying to arrest the man turned into an all-out brawl. and when the man put his hands on officer's throat, that's when the motor vehicle agency workers returned to his aid. >> the officer was being attacked by in his neck. and he was trying to choke him and then we ran down and we tried to help as much as we could. >> state employees andre, david frazier, and ryan armstrong, wrestled the men off officer. >> we basically tried to keep him on the ground, so he couldn't hurt anyone else. >> the suspect peter strickland charged with assault and resisting arrest, these men are being honored. >> ofte

our reporter cleve bryan questioned wisler on her porch >> reporter: did you leave your son in the woodreporter: you have been charged with that why would police charge with you that. >> can you please leave. >> passerby spotted the boy, notified military personnel. the child did suffer minor injuries and is currently in a temporary home this morning. >>> investigators say a bucks county funeral director stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from his clients. police were led to the funeral director david faust, owner of faust funeral home in hume ville back in april and they charge him with forgery, social security fraud this time around they say faust took $300,000 in prepaid funeral expenses, pose lee says that belonged to 54 clients. >> we discover the fact that the defendant david faust had used almost $300,000 in prepaid burial contract money. >> pennsylvania law requires that funeral homes set up escrow accounts for clients wishing to prepay for a funeral, that way money can't be touched without a death certificate, police say some of that money paid to faust never made tonight t

weather left more than 10,000 people, in the dark yesterday morning, as "eyewitness news" reporter clevean explains a neighborhood in doyletown took the biggest hit. >> a crack and all of the sparks and all was pretty scary. >> reporter: it was a bang and then lights out for a doyletown neighborhood after a tree took out power lines, utility poles and nearly landed on the house across the street from marie. >> i hard a big loud crack and then all of the sparks from the electrical wires. >> reporter: peco says at one point more than 10,000 customers who power in the region because of an early morning storm, of the 4,000 homes and businesses without power in bucks county the majority were in the doyletown area. >> i who most of our traffic signals, good part of the doyletown boro with parts of the township are out of power. >> reporter: north street and chapman avenue happened to fall less than a quarter mile from a peco substation on route 313, tree crew where is on stand by while peco tried to reroute power and make these lines, safe. >> once this tower is known to be totally out we were

so what do you do on a summer day without electricity. >> go swimming. >> reporter: in doyletown, cleve, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> the severe weather also made for braving the schuylkill expressway a tougher task. several lanes had are and, and , and, you can see right there, and, and pools of water in the area right before the belmont avenue. >>> and veterans this weekend, with the parade and ceremony in ridley township. service members, enjoyed some food off the grill at third annual veterans appreciation day, several local law enforcement agencies joined them at vfw hall 928 and organizers of the event is crucial in helping veterans find local resources. >> my job, it is pretty ease any terms of being able to help veterans but it is difficult when, they are not aware that i'm there. i'll tell you it is remarkable as a veteran to see how much these people really care. >> yeah, they had a great day for it. event started off with a motorcycle procession and parade. >>> this weekend independence sea port museum celebrated coastguard's 227th birthday. august 4th, 1790, congress establi

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the storm has people at new jersey shore remembering, super storm sandy, "eyewitness news" reporter cleve bryan was in brigantine with more on sandy 's long lasting effects. >> it has been a mess for people. >> reporter: in some shore neighborhood hit hard by sandy the recovery isn't over. >> a storm working on things how many years later almost five years later. >> reporter: about 400 homes and businesses in brigantine suffered substantial damage from sandy and some people are constandly reminded of the pennsylvania they wonder about the future what if another major storm came like harvey slamming texas. >> it would be devastating. >> reporter: the brigantine mayor says is there no minut ing word, category two or larger would be a disaster but they have done millions of dollars in safety improvements since sandy like new pull tops drain road and higher bulkhead to prevent bay flooding and around town almost 200 homes have been raise todd much taller elevation standard. >> elevation is the december protection obviously, against flooding and we have embarked on the mitigation project, whic

we sent our new jersey reporter cleve bryan to get in on that action. >> three, two, one... >> reporternt has arrived for a washington township business. this camo glass bunker filled battle field is called darts of war. >> place for kid to come and just play nerf wars. >> reporter: doug and his wife christie are celebrating opening weekend for their play gun arena that is inspired by their children's favorite toys >> my husband was with my business and they were looking on line and they saw an indoor norf arena. >> i said where is that? he said in colorado. i said, you know what i can do that report report gloucester township couple decided giving starting a business a shot. >> i was pregnant getting ready to go on maternity leave when we knew we were having fourth one at home he said this is what we have to do we need a family business. >> he has moves, we will do it , i started to buy all this nerf stuff. >> reporter: they turned this property into a faux war zone. >> it is cool to try to like shoot the people and all of the different things. bazookas, machine guns, shotguns. >> repo

so what do you to a sum dare without electricity. >> go swimming. >> reporter: in doyletown, cleve bryan, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> the severe weather yesterday also made braving the schuylkill expressway an even tougher task. several lanes had been closed thanks to that flooding, those lanes were on the eastbound side in montgomery county, eyewitness video you see right there shows people driving through pools of water, right before the belmont avenue exit >>> in other news this morning the fbi is looking for suspects after an explosion rocks a muslim community center outside of minneapolis. it happened as members prepared for morning prayer, as wendy gilette reports, members say this isn't the first time that mosque has been targeted. >> this broken window is what is left after someone threw a bomb inside a mosque in the minneapolis suburb early saturday morning. >> one of our congregation members came out immediately and saw a truck, fleeing from the parking lot, running at high speed. >> reporter: witnesses say device that exploded was thrown in the imam office at the el farouk mu

cleve ryan came face to face with whistler today. >> did you leave your son in the woods. >> no. >> did you leave your son in the woods. >> no. >> you have been charged with that why would they charm you with that. >> you can please leave. >> he's now in a temporary home. >> a man admitted to shooting his neighbor to death. clayton carpenter had longstanding dispute with several neighbors or box elder drive including victim jennings, carter claimed jennings shined a light in his eyes 1 a.m. when carter says he shined high beams at the victim's yard and grabbed the gun and shot jennings killing him. he says he was threatened with the knife. >> they recovered a knife, gun and two shell casings at the scene. >> and a standoff with plymouth police before 8:0 this morning a woman told 911 she saw four help climb through her neighbor's window. they quickly arrested two suspect and two others remained inside the house for three hours before surrende surrendering. the neighbor who called police recounted the ordeal. >> it was very scary. we've lived here 50 years, never, ever had a problem. nev

our cleve bryan came face-to-face with wisler. did you leave your son in the wood no. >> did you leave your son in the wood no. you have been charged with that? why would police charge you that. >> can you please leave. >> she's clearly denying it. child is in a temporary home and recovering from some minor injuries. >>> he is already facing theft , forgery and fraud charges and now police say funeral home owner stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from clients in bucks county. investigators first led to funeral director david faust, the owner of faust funeral home in humeville in, april, and he was charged with forge ry, social security fraud , this time he is accused of taking $300,000 in prepaid funeral expenses. police say that money belonged to 54 clients. >> as a result of the complaint we filed in april we were contacted by numerous individual who were concerned about the status of their prepaid burial contract. >> now, pennsylvania law requires that funeral homes set up escrow accounts for client who want to prepay for a

our cleve bryan came face-to-face with lawyers. >> reporter: did you leave your son in the wood. >> no. >> reporter: you have been charged with that. why would police charge with you that. >> can you please leave. >> reporter: child is recovering from minor injuries and is now in a temporary home >>> president trump issues a strong warning to north cover re's leader moments after we learned north korea refined its nuclear capabilities. "eyewitness news" reporter greg argos is live in north jersey where president challenged north korea with a threat of his own today, greg. >> reporter: jessica, good afternoon, the president is here in northern new jersey on a working vacation, just a few miles away, at his country club here in northern new jersey and he made it very clear this afternoon exactly what the united states stance is on north korea's nuclear program. at his bedminster new jersey golf club on tuesday president trump not mixing any word as he warned north korea's leaders stop threatening the united states. >> he has been very threatening, beyond a normal statement. as i said, th

cleve ryan came face to face with whistler today. >> did you leave your son in the woods. >> no. >> did you leave your son in the woods. >> no. >> you have been charged with that why would they charm you with that. >> you can please leave. >> he's now in a temporary home. >> a man admitted to shooting his neighbor to death. clayton carpenter had longstanding dispute with several neighbors or box elder drive including victim jennings, carter claimed jennings shined a light in his eyes 1 a.m. when carter says he shined high beams at the victim's yard and grabbed the gun and shot jennings killing him. he says he was threatened with the knife. >> they recovered a knife, gun and two shell casings at the scene. >> and a standoff with plymouth police before 8:0 this morning a woman told 911 she saw four help climb through her neighbor's window. they quickly arrested two suspect and two others remained inside the house for three hours before surrende surrendering. the neighbor who called police recounted the ordeal. >> it was very scary. we've lived here 50 years, never, ever had a problem. nev

. >> back out here live i've got prince george's county cleve hang sa within can i with me. we just saw your tweet saying he was in good condition. at least non life threatening injuries. can you give us a little bit. i'm very pleased to come to the martin, while injured, the situation is not life threaten ing. he he is surrounded by his familiar i there. they are still assessing him and the medical professional s here have done a great job. i want to thank the fire and ems department. i also want to thank the citizens who stopped and helped chief martin it was a collision between the chief who was riding a department motorcycle and a vehicle. he was obviously thrown off of that motorcycle. the citizens immediately intervened, fire, ems was there very quickly and he was transported here. he is conscious, breathing, he has a strong pulse. they're evaluating him for extent of his injuries. we're investigating the collision. i want to thank mayor grant as well as the entire seat pleasant. things& are not as dire as we thought and i'm very thankful for that and i'm very proud fo