well to day is wednesday, july m jim donovan. >>> i'm rahel solomon.ie and meisha keeping an eye on things this wednesday morning. >> happy wednesday, in the world of travel is there nothing to talk about other than construction. >> yes. >> i mean, yes. >>ck

jim donovan is off. all that plus summer favorite returns to the ben franklin parkway but first lets check the forecast with katie and road with meisha. good morning. >> gateway to the week end as well, we're seeing nice and dry, thank you so much mother nature and katie, of course. >> of course. >> we have one minor accidents but all good. >> i'm happy for quiet weather here but don't hate me for what about i'm to going to say >> it will be steam i for yet another day and we're at the point where we will call it dangerous heat. so once more we will say it again and ad nauseam right through rest of the week and weekend kind of heat we are dealing with is kind of heat you have to be taking extra precautions for. as of noon this afternoon we will start to see these excessive heat warnings and advisories take effect regional wide. everyone is impact, only place that is out of the wood, i guess you can call that it no pun intended is poconos where we will end up with pretty warm conditions but not kind of ex

. >> i'm jim donovan. katie and pat will be along in a minute. here's what you need to know to start your day in the morning minute, today is friday, july 28th. >> serious blow to president trim's jen did a, the senate overnight, reject the so-called skinny healthcare bill. >> look how low that cloud deck s the rain will hit us. when it does it will come with a vengeance. >> investigators in ohio now want to know how this thrill ride passed inspection, just hours before the deadly accident. >> a night of fun turns soar during center city sips. >> we will be happy to take it >> the most let the leak ers know he's onto him. >> what the president and i would like to tell everyone a very, very good idea, who the leak ers are, who the senior leak remembers in the white house. >> i've also done some research. we've been able to put together this composite police sketch. >> that whole washington is crazy, like a circus down there. >> hi, katie. >> my head feels like it will explode watching it. v all day. >> sometimes you need to decompress, stop, step

today is monday, july 31, good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'll rahel solomon.

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. >> i'm jim donovan in for jim donovan. keeping things on this quiet morning so far. >> it really is quiet. just dealing with closures out there, katie, nice dry roadways, overall things looking really good. looking quiet today, tomorrow. >> here's hoping a lot of people do have to go to work tomorrow, might be one of those crafty situations, definately look ahead to pretty decent day. take a look, storm scan3, we do have one cluster every rain, experts say right now, really kind of between parts every i08 and 81, so, about ready to hit some of that farm country, just outside the bucks county area, into the lehigh valley you'll run into this as well over the next hour and a half, but all just a predecessor of the kind of wet their we will find throughout the day, with frontal boundary just draped nearby to our south. possibility remains, that at any point you can see spotty shower or thunderstorm ignite specially in the southern half of the region specially later on today. seventy-six the current temperature meanwhile at ph

. >> today is monday july 10, good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> a rahel solomon. good morning, ladies. >> good morning. happen mine day, welcome back. looking outside, same story, lots of construction do, have accident, couple of accident, disable vehicles, disable tractor-trailers and car fire. >> i do have thunderstorms, very isolated, wouldn't happen until after lunchtime, i don't think, primarily, if you're wacking up to us from the shore, lucky you. >> any chance for showers or storms happen further inland, show you the deal. oh, what beautiful morning. >> we've got sunshine out there, couple of clouds currently, this is actually different view, from our very own station headquarters we are face east here overlooking, you can't really tell because of this shadow, but it is broad and spring garden, as the sun has just risen, it is such a beautiful start to the day, sun glare clearly becomes an issue as you travel eastbound. storm scan3, might imagine, not heck of a lot to see here folks. it will stay that i way at least for the rest of the morning. but later t

jim donovan is off. katie and meisha are keeping an eye on things on this holiday morning. >> happy fourth every july, the roadways, i'm sure everyone can imagine are very, very slow. closures we will talk about because of the festivities going on, but enjoy the open load ways. all looking pretty good, while we could see spotty shower or thunderstorm along the way, things very quiet right now, little vale of cloud cover here and there, going to keep the temperatures warm when that is the case. heat can't get lost in the atmosphere, trapped under literal blanket of cloud cover. shot from central library camera, see off in the distance here, logan square, beautiful beginning to the day, and yes, meisha, said it, things really really quiet right now. i see couple of looks like that is from actually just the walkway. so, all-in-all, not too much going on out there. storm scan reflect that. now, we have seen few little speckles of green firing up on the area radar, north of the city through berks, or rather b

it is wednesday, july 26th, good morning, i'm jim donovan. >>> i'm rahel solomon. it feels cooler. >> it is lovely. >> katie will check the forecast in a moment. meisha watching the road, good morning, guys. >> happy hump day, happy wednesday. we are looking outside and singing same old tune lots of construction but good news, dry roadways, that is good this week. >> for the most part. we will find some drizzle. >> i know, i have to have a caveat, yes. >> yes. but let me show you what is up , on storm scan, we will take you to a camera shot, i called for this camera, my short term memory, yeah, that is my bad, in the control room lets look outside, logan square, all is quiet right now here as we look live on sky scan three and we will continue to keep, generally calm but again, keyword there is generally. lets go to storm scan. i will show you what i mean there. that little batch overly high, berks county. it looks like it will fist alloway but we have slow moving showers, specific to that area, 222, parts of the 78, route 22, you may have run into or seen wet road

jim donovan is off today. an excessive heat warning just went into effect.et's get to kate fehlinger who has more on how hot it feels right now. katie. >> yes, it is quite brutal rahel. you said it a couple triple digits already showing up on the heat index. let's start it off just very quickly with the numbers to beat if 24 end we were to end up with a.m. couple of -- a couple of records. so, here's that excessive heat warning as well as the heat advisory. look where you're located and where you fall. regardless everybody except the poconos is included in this. it's still hot up that way too just not quite this oppressive. it may feel as hot as 103 those at the core where the core of that heat is located and there's no centralized. urban corridor, you go into delaware and even parts of southern new jersey that already feels like the triple digit, in philadelphia at the philadelphia international airport like it's flirting with a hundred already and we still have many hours left of the afternoon to go here. so, as the day does progress, obviously the extreme

person of interest is already behind bars, and charge not related to the case, good afternoon, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. joining us from solebury township, wrapped up news conference within the last hour watch have you learned? >> reporter: jim, rahel, we know 20 year old bensalem man who was arrested yesterday on gun charges, unrelated, person that has been named a person of interest in this case. that man, cosmo dinardo. what we know about cosmo dinardo, he has history of mental illness, comes according to police. we also know the play where authorities are focusing for the four missing men that property belongs to dinardo's family, the fbi, state police, several police departments here in bucks count have i focused their search on that property here in solebury township for at least two days now. and today, that police presence as you mentioned has increased with 50 cadets being brought in to help with the search, along with the cadets around the clock, forensic units have been seen at the site. search and rescue dogs have also been seen scouring the properties, chopper three h

. >> today is monday, july 10th, good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. katie and meisha are keeping an eye on things this monday morning. >> good morning, how does monday get here so quickly every single week? >> i don't know. >> we're looking outside right now, a lot of construction, we have an accident out there, as well, so we'll get to all of that. >> at least quiet weather, that's something you can bank on here today. for now anyway. later today, the spotty showers and thunderstorms will fire up. most of it, actually dry day, warm day at that, ever so slightly more humid for us. we ended with real nice weather yesterday. i hope you have chance to enjoy it, it was so-so beautiful n that nice lit sky right now, totally empty, as the day progresses see more sun than anything, there is frontal boundary starting to drop in that will eventually trigger spotty shower or thunderstorm. expect that later this afternoon or toward evening. >> if you're in the mid or upper 60s, or even the 50's, allentown, to mount pocono, dew points relatively low. nice start t

. >> i'm jim donovan let's get to "eyewitness news" reporter greg argos joins us live from northwest detectives where investigators just wrapped up a new conference. greg washington have you learned? >> reporter: very bizarre story here, jim and rahel but police have shed some new light on exactly what happened here just a few days ago. saying that casket that was dumped here in north philadelphia was actually dumped by an employee at a new jersey funeral home this afternoon the big question is, why this employee did exactly that. let's give you a timeline. this casket with baby's organs was discovered 3,000 block of clearfield street in north philly monday night. and today we've learned it contained the remains avenue three to four month old baby buried in south jersey last thursday. police say after that baby died an autopsy was performed and the organs placed with the body. according to northwest detectives shortly before the baby's funeral workers at that new jersey funeral home noticed the casket latch was broken. so they transferred the body into a new casket but the organs from

. >>> it is thursday, july 27th, good morning, i'm jim donovan. >>> i'm rahel solomon. meisha's off, katie's here, pat is keeping an eye on the road. >> things are looking good on the roadways, so get out there and start your day. >> i like it. >> good point. >> yes. >> keep it that way. >> stick with us for a little while, we'd love to have you along for the ride. all and all today is not looking too bad. it will be warmer. we will still see sunshine but we have to watch for a shower or thunderstorm primarily p.m. time frame. here's a live look from a different side of our building here in the spring garden section of the city broad and spring garden, pat's right, all of one single car driving through here so we have space to your selves if you want to head outside on the roadway but at the moment clearly you still have darkness over spreading the region no light of day and that sun continues to come up later and later with every passing day and setting earlier, we have until 5:55 before we will see sunrise but we will get light of day over next half an hour. storm sca

>>> good morning everyone i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. here's what you need to know to start your morning, this wednesday, july 5th. >>> a dazzling light show in honor of america's birthday but now time for the clean up. crews are busy getting the parkway back to normal. >> we have seen these crews out here working tirelessly in order to get this parkway cleared before the morning rush. >>> holiday ended on a violent note in philadelphia were four shootings leaving at least one person dead. >> shot multiple times pronounced dead at 2:20 a.m. >>> u.n. security council is meet to go day to address north korea's latest missle launch, experts say this missle flew for 37 minutes and could reach alaska. >> not much further then that to reach insuring or washington d.c. >>> new jersey state offices are opening for the first full workday today, and budget impasse calls governmental shut down. >> ♪ >> yes, that is boys two men going off not too hard, not too soft on the ben franklin parkway. >> some rain during the concert sent people ducking and

today is thursday july 6th, good morning i'm jim donovan. >>> i'm rahel solomon. we should keep an eye on what could be a potentially wet thursday. >> that is coming, but before the rain chance, it is very busy out there, for the gateway to our weekend, i got to say pack extra time already moving in the 5:00 o'clock hour. >> debbie downer. >> yes. usually i'm the one that is there is rain coming. >> yes. >> you sure didn't set me up all that well, did you. we do have wet weather, at the moment not looking too bad. road are dry, this is a prime example here. as we look live outside hotel bethlehem here, moravian college off in the distance things are still dry in most locations. not necessarily the case throughout the day, however, it will turn more unsettled before it turns bright again so today don't expect to see sunshine. it will be overcast all day but with these rounds of showers, and thunderstorms, coming in and net is at the moment only spot where you might find late showers are lancaster, chester county. that will start to creep in as the morning, afternoo

. >>> aim jim donovan. katie and meisha will be along in a moment but here's what we need to necessity to start our day in our morning minute, wednesday, july 12th. >> thought to be a drive by. >> two women found dead overnight in the pickup truck in north philadelphia. >> police have only identified the victim is here as a 28 year-old woman and 19 year-old woman. >>> everyone is talking about this. >> the search for four missing men, not letting up in bucks county. >> authorities have been painstakingly searching this family farm just down the road from here. >>> got a flight to catch? be prepared for picket lines at philly international. >>> in receipt tremendous expect i probably would have done things a little differently. >> donald trump junior facing scrutiny after he releasing a series of e-mails way russian lawyer. >> this is moving into perjury , potentially treason. >>> you know who else couldn't believe don junior published e-mails one reporter tweeted i work on the story for a year, and he just

today is friday, july 28th, good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. meisha is off today. can katie and i just try to keep in you line? >> weather watch. i know how particular, very atlantic city tiff glike it is , there are definitely specifics. >> what's going on over here? >> traffic wise, a lot of construction in the area, but, so far quiet for a friday morning. >> yes, i won't be shocked if those guys start picking up the cones somewhat early. because we will be dealing with pretty soaking rain later today. time that out, i think it is generally going to hold off. the heaviest rain anyway, the most widespread rain, until early evening. now, you are going to see some scattered showers. much like what you currently do. most of us are still, again, quote unquote, in the clear right now, but you are finding even low hanging cloud cover, that could trip you up when it comes to some visibility, generally somewhat scattered, that dense fog, but it is out there. so, just watch for that. but, also, again, you may be flicking the windshields wipers hands fu

today is monday, july 3rd, good morning, i'm rahel solomon, jim donovan is off today. katie and meisha keeping an eye on things this morning. >> good morning, hammy monday. lucky jim. oh, nice to be out today. but i will say, nice driving conditions, dry roadways, some construction out there, the vine, open, i know katie lovers this. and a lot of construction normally deal with is not out there. that's good. work crews still throughout. >> i do my rocky pose. >> oh, my goodness, no kidding. all right, well we do have like you mentioned dry roadways at the moment. could there and shower or thunderstorm later on? i think so. but it it -- will it be spotty? i think so. if you have the outdoor plans certainly keep them. first half of the day stays dry. that's the guarantee. but second half of the day, afternoon and evening, the usual culprit, when it comes to timing, that you will likely see a shower or storm fire up on the area radar. even then not everyone is getting hit. all courtesy of frontal boundary if you look closely, keeping the clouds on the tail end of the loop,

. >> and i'm jim donovan. we have live team coverage of this developing story.e begin whip "eyewitness news" reporter trang do. she's live in solebury township where officials just wrapped up a news conference within the hour. good afternoon, trang. >> reporter: well, good afternoon, jim and rahel. at this point bucks county d.a. matt weintraub still not able to identify those other human remains found in that common grave just down the road from here on that property and they continue to search that property but they're not able to identify those additional remains but what we know at this point is that 19-year-old dean finocchiaro seen in this photo has been identified after being recovered from a 12 and a half foot grave on the solebury property owned by the family of cosmo dinardo. the d.a. is still not calling dinardo a suspect but rather a person of interest. investigators continue to search the site identified by the cadaver dog. the other three persons are still considered missing though the d.a. has said finocchiaro's death is considered a homicide. inv

. >>> it is thursday july 6th good morning i'm jim donovan. >>> good morning, jim good morning, rahel. >> i am's rahel solomon. katie and meisha keeping an eye on things this thursday morning. >> good morning. >> it is friday eve. >> good morning. >> look at that outside, we have a couple accidents and a lot of construction. when i say a lot a lengthy list, we will get to all of that. >> yes. >> okay, katie, how about that >> it is out there, i saw it. >> um-hmm. >> my goodness. at lee for now roads are dry. it has been progressive. you can see activity popping here on storm scan three. we have been talking about this for several days but today is a day you will want to have your umbrella ready to go because eventually as the first disturbance moves in here we will dodge off and on showers and thunderstorms really, really anytime. especially as we go in toward chester county, lancaster count that i wet weather is creeping in, as showers and for the time being most of us are still, dry, now looking at area temperatures we are off to a mild start. mid to upper 60's with a handful of tem

. >>> i'm jim donovan. investigators are working to identify three of four victims whose remains were found buried in the bucks county farm. anita oh is live outside bucks county courthouse with what we have learned about the possible accomplice, good afternoon, anita. >> reporter: good afternoon. that man according to sources is 20 year-old shawn crats, authorities believe that the two men used construction equipment to bury four young men who have been missing since last week. this comes after cosmo dinardo confessed to participating in all four murders, and told investigators that he had a co conspirator. we have just saw bucks county district attorney matthew weintraub arrive here in doyletown, but staying tied lipped until a press conference scheduled for this afternoon. dinardo commented briefly to "eyewitness news" cameras, on yesterday. >> what do you have to say to these families, cosmo, are you sorry. >> i'm sorry. >> as authorities, led him away in handcuffs, dinardo apologized to the families of

i'm jim donovan, good afternoon. >> i'm rahel solomon. we weren't the only ones who saw crazy weather overnight. possible tornado owe on the eastern shore of maryland caused damage in the kent island area, homes completely knocked down. county officials say no one was hurt. meteorologist, matt peterson joins us from the cbs-3 weather sent war live look of our storm look. >> i should say it was a very wet start to monday, a messy morning, for lot of folks on the area roadways, talking about that possible tornado in maryland, the national weather service is sending survey team down there, check it out, hopefully know later th afternoon or this evening what happened down there in maryland, but for the time being we are dry, here, across center city, and across pretty much all of the viewing area, storm scan3 shows all of the precipitation that we had this east, now, new york still getting light precipitation there, but again for those every us here in the delaware valley up to the poconos down the shore it is a quiet start to the afternoon,

today is monday, july 31, good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'll rahel solomon. little a literation you got going on over there. >> mighty magnificant. >> keep the theme going. >> looking outside right now, really your commute looks real nice. just talking about some construction really, looks great. >> i would say real comfortable for those construction workers, too, you don't have the humidity like you mentioned, stays pretty low throughout the day. the only big difference from yesterday, how it is getting a little hotter. but for the end every july, this is not bad. all right, let's take you on outside. we look at "skycam 3", light traffic overlooking spring garden and the broad street intersection there. if you look closely, the sky is clear enough that it is still pretty early, but you can already make out, you see that little light of day. gout to maybe squint little bit. it is there. see the sun continue to come up a little later, little later, with every passing day, now that we have some solsus, but looking at the area temperatures right now, it is prett

. >> i'm jim donovan. cbs3 just learn the mares of allentown and reading named in the indictment along with reading school board officials. the indictments accuse allentown mayor ed paw law ski and reading mayor of taking part in play to may scheme. pair palowski and his attorney are scheduled to hold a news conference in allentown this afternoon u.s. attorney' office in philadelphia will also hold a separate news conference to make quote an announcement of charges in matters concerning lehigh and berks county. we'll have it all covered for you and bring you details both news conferences beginning on "eyewitness news" today at 5:00 and on cbsphilly.com. >>> on to other news right now. at this noon, crews are on the scene of a crash in voorhees township, camden county. authorities say a dump truck came in contact with live wires along haddonfield berlin road near liepert avenue. the road is now closed along haddonfield berlin road from victor boulevard to lafayette avenue. officials expect the road to be cl

i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. "eyewitness news" reporter joe holden is in solebury township where officials wrapped up a press conference about an hour ago. joe, good afternoon. what's the latest now? >> reporter: good afternoon. district attorney was brief in his remarks. he did talk about locating important pieces of evidence as the investigation moves forward. but he would not tell us what those pieces of evidence were. this as investigators continue to comb a 90-acre farm owned by the dinardo family and whose son 20-year-old cosmo dinardo has been identified labeled make that as a person of interest in the disappearance of these four men. chopper three high above the farm earlier this morning capturing the unfolding scene blow on this remote farm. fbi and police were huddled under a white tent and were making use of a wooden board to excavate something out of that hole. when i asked the da specifically about this, he would not comment on what they were digging up. now jimi tar patrick, dean finocchiaro, tom ma

. >> today is tuesday, july 11, good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. >> good morning, happy, great day today, jimmy? >> have you her her forecast? >> oh, always a great day. this is why god invented air-conditioning. >> you killed it. looking outside just a lot of construction out there, i'm thinking the same old song every day. >> yes, and you know, i will be actually, too, this weekend, 90s, heat, humidity, thunderstorms, primarily going to be in the p.m. hours. morning drive all-in-all doesn't look like all that impacted more of a pm issue. when you take a look outside here, okay, looks can be deceiving sometimes. it is a very tranquil looking view, right? but let's look at the current conditions, okay, what what time in the morning? 5:00 # one, and only 77 degrees? it actually feels warmer like it is almost 80, because we've got the southwest winds flow, modest winds flow, helping to bring in the warmth, it is helping to bring in the moisture, and that as a result means our dew points are little higher. so feels more humid to you when you walk out the door. in shor

humidity is also finally breaking, good news there, today is tuesday, july 25, good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. matt and meisha are keeping an eye on things, we'll check in with matt in just a few minute >> sounds good, guys. yesterday as you know the commute was very, very difficult. a lot of people, i have to tell you, already in the 4:00 hour seeing some real slow downs. that means it will be another very busy day on tap. because it is wet out there again, drizzle coming down, any time we have any bit of water on the roadways it will slow us down specially on a busy tuesday so looking outside right now looking at the gorgeous ben franklin bridge, looking pretty good. as you can see, cable of the sheen on the roadways, just letting us know that it is a little damp, when i was driving in this morning, toyed use the windshield wipers, toyed walk in with a umbrella, more on that coming up in a little bit. but first, just know, whenever it is wet we have to factor in extra time on our commute. and we have to today. we head to yesterday. we'll have to again today. looking at

. >> i'm jim donovan. also this noon, philadelphia police investigating two separate shootings overnight, one every them was deadly. that shooting happened at fourth and indianna in the city fairhill section. officers say man was found shot in the head in his 20's, they returned him to the area hospital, where he later died. investigators are trying to figure out a motive in the case. >>> they're working in the neighborhood, trying to find surveillance video, right now they've not found any. so they are continuing to do a neighborhood canvas to see what they can uncover. >> so far no arrests have been made in the case. >>> mrs. are investigating another shooting this one in the city feltonville section, police say 17 year old girl was hit by a stray bullet, while sitting insides her home on 4900 block of b street. the bullet came through a window, has since released no arrest have been made. >>> bensalem police are asking for the public's help locating a mother accused of leaving her seven month olds baby

. >>> and today is friday, july 7th, good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. happy friday. katie and meisha keeping an eye on things this friday morning. >> good morning to all of you. yes, looking outside right now, some construction out there, but really the fog and couple every accidents already. i don't know that has anything do with the visibility netsly but they're out there. >> who knows, but you're right, visibility, but also worth a mention, part of southwestern new castle, northwestern kent counted count, look at this, very east late dollars spot. but get this, listen up, you won't believe this. there has been doppler indication that this zone, still a flood warning for the next half hour, has seen five to even as much as 8 inches of rain over the last 24 hours. that's led to flooding and certainly since we don't have the sun up just yet this is definitely a problem down here, i know it is a smaller zone, but, maybe not the most populated area of the delaware vale, but if you have plans to travel down this way, please be careful, there could be some

today is thursday july 13th good morning aim jim donovan. >>> i'm rahel solomon. lets check with the forecast with katie and road was meisha >> good morning guys. happy gateway to the weekend. wow, it hits you. it sure does. construction workers are out there already in this morning, lots of construction coming up in a little bit. >> i feel for construction crews midday because it is still hot out there with all of their equipment and in big suits too we are thinking about you making sure you take care of yourself. much like yesterday it is excessively hot but it does peak today. our excessive heat warning takes effect and in the in that excessive heat warning the entire rest of the region that isn't shaded in magenta you are in a heat advisory but both of those alerts aring to go last from 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. regardless where you are, this day requires, an extra planning on your part if you are outside in it throughout the day. at the moment all quiet on storm scan three, once more we will see showers and thunderstorms redevelop toward evening and we will get

night getting ben franklin parkway back to normal, today is wednesday, july 5th, good morning i'm jim donovan. >>> i'm rahel solomon. lets check the traffic with meisha and katie with the forecast a lot of people heading back to work. >> welcome back you had fun yesterday ring ago this bell. >> it was a thousand degrees outside, baking in the sun. >> you were saying how people were dressed up. >> yes, i'm thinking better you then me. >> looking outside, it is looking busier then what we saw monday and tuesday. but so far, so good. >> so far, so good in weather as well. we got unlucky with that heavy batch of rain that came in just over the parkway but that has new cleared out. we are at this moment looking quiet all and all. could there still be a shower left here today, i think that is a possibility but things are dry. i will she you storm scan in a second. first a quick check on the area. conditions at the airport it feels like what the thermometer read, wind out of the northeast. not all that humid either. as day goes on we are still stuck with a disturbance more so a frontal boundary, nea

well to day is wednesday, july m jim donovan. >>> i'm rahel solomon. katie and meisha keeping an eye on things this wednesday morning. >> happy wednesday, in the world of travel is there nothing to talk about other than construction. >> yes. >> i mean, yes. >> knock on jim's head. >> yes, you know. >> yes. >> that could be interesting. >> yes. >> well, you know to day is one of those days that heavy duty gel is probably required. >> yep. >> keeping your hair style looking nice at all because it is so steamy outside and staying that way all day, really hot day coming up, lower 90's with no problem and it will feel closer to the century mark then anything. really steamy conditions and at the moment storm scan is generally quiet, that too is something that will change with time. it feels like we're honorary pete with minor changes with every passing day here but the moment again storm scan is quiet even though we had a few sprinkles in the last few hours but later today and toward evening showers and storms will reignite. we are thinking most best, knows

. >> i'm jim donovan. katie and meisha will be along in just an employment. first, what you need to know to start your day in the morning minute. today is monday, july 31. >> a violent night in philadelphia. a man is dead and a teenager hospitalized after she was hit by a stray bullet. >> no arrest in either shooting, police do remain on scene near in fair hills. >> i heard pop, pop. >> resident on edge, after two random shootings left an hour apart in haverford township in overbrook park. >> a lot of people were saying they saw a person with a red hood on. >> president trump begins a week with a new chief of staff he's hoping retired general, john kelly, will bring some order to the white house. >> another viral moment for new jersey governor, chris christie. >> it happened during a baseball game in milwaukee. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> and nine year old dane miller singing his favorite whitney houston song, i don't have you. >> that video has gone viral with more than 5 million views , and katie, right through the heart of me. you know what my heart w

watch out for scattered showers and storms throughout the day g afternoon i'm jim donovan. >>> i'm rahellomon. meteorologist katie fehlinger is track the rain and she pinpoint timing for the rest of the day, hi there kate. >> he we had soaking rain over broadcast center and we had heavier rain off to the north and west of that. you can see the progression of that rain at the moment, even a couple thunderstorms out there too but lets talk statistics, briefly specific to allentown again, lehigh veil, poconos have been blasted with soaking rain and this is just so far for to day , 1.78 inches of rain has fallen and had does pretty much shatter the old record left at 1947 for daily rainfall of 1.39 inches. with that said, it is clearly not only place that got hit hard with rain. you will notice at the moment this wider zoom that the bulk of the widespread rain is up toward, long island, parts of the connecticut. we have this line moving through. once this gets through and even already we are starting to see skies clearing out. take a look for example at, an interestingly, packed beach at boa

>> i'm jim donovan. katie and meisha will be along in just a few minute. first, here's what you need to start your day in the morning minute. today is monday, july 10th. >>> where are they? the search is on for four young men from bucks county, who vanished, several days ago. >> at this point, it is unclear if any of these cases are connected. >> we don't have no respect for themselves, for the kids. >> neighbors in kensington are upset after a gunman opens fire in front of kids in broad daylight. >> it is back to court this morning for members of a penn state fraternity charged in the death after 19 year old pledge. >> president trump's eldest son admit he met with russian lawyer who promised damaging information on hillary clinton. >> i went down to get mitt being and could not come back. >> nearly 8,000 people are out of their homes in california asthmas i have wild fires continue to burn out west. >> a near tragedy, caught on go pro. a cyclist clipped by a car in nashville. he's okay. >> the driver in that case was arrested and charged with hit-and-run

good afternoon, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm are robyn rahel solomon. >> you may find the images disturbingcbs news correspondent adriana diaz has the latest from columbus. >> reporter: dramatic amateur video shows a row of seats from the thrill ride appearing to detach from its housing. with the sound of the crash stunning onlookers at least two people were thrown from the ride. >> i heard a girl scream helped and i looked over and i seen something fly out and then i seen it crash to the ground. first responders and witnesses rushed to help the victims who were scattered across the ground. >> so scared. >> multiple passengers were ejected at high speeds with high energy. many feet at least 20 or 30 if not more into the air and then crashed at a significant distance from the ride. >> reporter: the ohio state fare is one of the nation's largest with hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. ohio governor john kasich ordered all rides shut down after the malfunction. >> this is the worst tragedy in the history of the fair. but we'll recover from this as well and we'll move on but that does

. >>> well, today's monday, july m jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. katie off today. so matt, holding things down, meisha keeping an eye on the roads, already wet out there. >> oh. it is busy, in the traffic department. i know, matt, you're just as busy if not more busy. i have to tell you we have flooding guys, everywhere, delaware, new jersey, accident out there, we have hydroplaning going on shall we have so much activity, so take it easy. >> definitely, now the good news for the folks on the roads is it looks like the main precipitation starting to kind of fade out. so we will get little bit of drier conditions, at times here this morning, which could help us not just with our drive to work, but all of the flooding that's out there, like meisha was just talking about on the roadways, we definitely need to be kind of clearing that off. outside right now, on our neighborhood network, if you are down near the delaware area, it is a little bit better. we are looking at some some drier conditions. storm scan3 shows all of the precipitation still out there. all of the r

today is monday, july 10th, good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. let's get a check with today's forecast. it is not only the heat that bothers people, it is the humidity. >> that's what they say. >> good morning, did you have a good weekend? >> yes. >> it goes so fast. we're already here looking outside, construction crews, at the billion you can of the construction, one accident to talk about. >> in terms of the wet their you'll end count when he when -- that you'll encounter, sun glare will probably be a knob about an hour or so. but all-in-all, looks pretty good. now, there will eventually and shower or thunderstorm that will pop up today. it will end up being toasty day, as well, man could you beat yesterday's weather so, so nice now. for now, off to an okay start. it is pretty comfortable, i'll say, low 60s, in many locations, the outlying suburbs, heck, even the pocono area, flight g -- flirting with 40 ', 69 in wildwood. take you down to some of the other our shore points, waking up at the beach this morning, lucky, you looks like pretty nic

. >> i'm jim donovan. katie and meisha will be along in a moment but first here's what you need to know to start your day in the morning minute , it is thursday, july 6th. >> a man is hospitalized after being shot in germantown. >>> he was hit in the neck, chest, torso, completely unresponsive. >> this community meeting had already been scheduled before this recent wave of violence in german town. >> a fire send dozens of people out of the center city high rise fire broke out on the second floor but smoke could be seen coming out of the roof. >>> a 3409 old baby is hospitalized after paramedics found him in the manayunk home with the needle sticking out of his legs. >> the showers are thunderstorms are likely to fire up at anytime, and it is one of those are you feeling lucky situations. >> it is only aggressive when it is time to eat but otherwise just a pet. i cannot say it is surprising. i did have the door opened. >> and that is si l.a. h el-shabazz talking about how calm 7-foot python managed to escap

. >> i'm jim donovan. katie and meisha will be along in just a moment. first, what you need to know to start your day in the morning minute. today is friday, july 7. >> unruly protests, ahead of the g20 summit, and president trump's first meeting with vladmeere putin. >> president trump has several other meetings, with high profile world leaders, the talks will likely be dominated by north korea's latest missile test. >> part of the lehigh valley, poke nobody, if you have weekend get away, headed up this way, you will be running into the possibility of some flooding up that way. >> the germantown community calls for a toned gun violence, after several shootings, in just two days. >>> how can you expect the police department to do something for you, if you don't try to help them out? >> remembering five police officers gunned down in the line every duty. today somber anniversary, one year after the deadly shooting rampage, in dallas. >> with seconds to spare, septa police officer and passerby pull an injured driver from burning car. >> and we will hear mo

reporting for three on your side, i'm jim donovan. >> oh, jim. matt it is the good old-fashioned air-conditioning we needed to. that's all i need. >> the only imette st. guillen only i the one you need to send your one today is the fire. >> or the sweating ' mobile. >> i this will be the fifth day in a row of 90 degrees or higher, temperatures, definitely looking at the heat wave criteria here across the philadelphia area, and our eyewitness weather watchers up this morning on what's a very warm start to the day. not whole lot of them, i am seeing a lot of people taking it east think morning, i don't blame you, it is 72, though, out in phils' house right now, in the philadelphia area. what he is saying is it will be another hot and hazy day out there, the fifth day of our heatwave. and that's right, phil, and jenny saying oral and saying it is 73 degrees, and he is saying head to the beach. i know that's where he's going well, alan, i wish i could be headed to the beach, too, great day to sit down there on the beach. and here is our "shorecast,"

good afternoon, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm row hal solomon, first time back since his cancer diagnosis. on twitter president trump thanks dollars the send or for coming back to vote although it remains he will vote on his party's legislation. >> on capitol hill where there is still uncertainty whether the bill has enough votes to pass. >> reporter: senate republican lead verse kept details of the repeal and replace baum. >> brought together to vote on a bill, that has not been made public, or printed for us to review. >> republicans on both ends of the spectrum have competing concerns. conservatives want to repeal without a replacement. >> i think to get conservatives on board, do what we promised which would be clean repeal of obamacare. >> just three no votes from republicans will kill the bill susan collins every maine is expected to be one of those two, other moderates, lisa and shelly, are concerned about deep cuts to medicaid. >> we look forward to having at least 50 votes in the senate, and the vice president will be there, obviously tomorrow, in order to break a tie if there is

our jim donovan explores the controversy. >>> and teen driver, in jail after allegedly live streaming , a car crash, on instagram, a crash that killed the sister, of the tragedy unfolded in real time, on line >>> and last orca whale born in captivity has died what animal activist are saying caused the baby's death coming up, chelsea. >>> i'm tracking more storms by end of the week plus i'll let you know how long this cool weather sticks around in your full forecast up next. >>> three month-old kiara was treat when her health declined monday in san antonio park, sea world has not said specifically what caused her death but animal rights activist believe a life span in captivity could to be blame >> with the death of this young animal tells thaws these animals cannot thrive in concrete tanks. >>> postmortem is being conducted to determine exact cause of death, sea world plans to phase out orca program from 2019 but activist say this does little for 22 or cas in captivity. >> vatican decided to turn off its famous fountains for first time in recent history. hot and dry weather has trigge

. >>> today is thursday, july 6th good morning i'm jim donovan. >>> i'm rahel solomon. katie and meisha keeping an eye on things. good morning. >> good morning. >> we are looking outside much like yesterday it was very busy out there. we are looking busy again, string of the accidents, lots of construction, obviously as well but accidents, yesterday, today, yes. >> what is up? >> weather still dry for the moment but this is day we have been mentioning if there is wet weather on the way would i recommend walking outside with an umbrella. you will notice most of the region is still dry. we may eke out a relatively okay morning commute, but, you know, there is heavy rain just waiting nearby if you look closely, lower left-hand corner of your screen, soaking rain moving into the nation's capitol and that is essentially going to be moving up i-95 heading our way. we are finding light showers across new castle county, southern west most portion of the region here through lancaster and chester counties as well. we are off to a mild start. they will in the rebound that much. at

reporting for three on your side, i'm jim donovan. >> i have a feeling jim wouldn't like.her. what i am in favor of, chelsea thinks weather we have today. >> i don't know about you, jan but aim the kind of person who likes to get out on the beach about 9:00 o'clock, no later, early reiser. and get my day started, lots of beach people already out there, today, and, setting up the spot for the day and here's why look at that abundant sunshine out there, plenty of people also walking the board getting their morning exercise in. it is a gorgeous, refreshing feeling morning. storm scan 3a reflection of those blue skies, we have clear scan, all thanks to high pressure in control. temperatures right now checking in the 60's and zero seven's now. sixty-five in atlantic city. sixty-five in wildwood. sixty-three, in pemberton. sixty-six in cherry hill. in philadelphia we are checking in the a 67 degrees. palmyra 66. sixty-five in trenton. sixty-five in mount holly. then up near allentown we are in the lower 60's. 63 degrees. sixty in mount pocono and 66 degrees right now in quakerto

. >>> well, today is friday, july the seventh, good morning, able ' jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. katie and meisha keeping an eye on things this friday morning. >> good morning, guys, happy friday, tgif. so katie yes working hands in hand little bit today. it is busy already in the traffic department. i think a lot of accident, also some rain coming out of the camera shots, a lot of fog. >> this is one of the days where variety is the spice of life. we have everything going on. i was actually just looking for some of the neighborhood network cameras, place like rehoboth, bright sunshine right now, but outside palmyra cove nature park nothing but fog overlooking philadelphia right now, you can't even make out the center city skyline, i promise you it is there but shrouded in the clouds, and certainly have rain to deal with. look at this, i mean, very much, an issue for the northwestern most suburbs shall right? lehigh valley, pocono region getting slammed with soaking rain right now, eventually this will rotate through philly. but we probably get through the typical morning rush b

. >>> with jim donovan, rahel solomon, katie fehlinger, pat gallen, and meisha johnson. >> welcome backi is facing terror charges this morning, after authorities say he tried to support isis. federal officials arrested 33 year old i. ka over the weekend as part every sting operation following year long investigation. now, authorities say he offered to provide isis with military support not knowing he was actually dealing with f.b.i. agent. >> the material support included providing military document, person he believe would pass them to isis, to be involved in the purchase after drone, with the intent that it would be provided to isis in providing combative training to an individual he believed was affiliated with isis. >> now, according to his military record, was deployed to afghanistan in 2013, and in iraq in 2011. he even earned a global war on terrorism service medal. authority say no military document ever reached isis. >> very disturbing story there. dozen every wild fire fires continue to burn out wets, more than six battling wild fires in california, at least 3500 people are ou

. >>> good morning, i'm jim donovan.iece of the former trump taj mahal, everything is up for grabs as part of the liquidation sale, including furniture, fixtures, gambling tables, pianos and artwork. sale lasts until it is all gone, next summer taj will reopen as hard rock hotel and casino. >>> lets send it over to katie for a look at today's forecast >> not the best forecast we have ever seen, jim, for sure but we eke out overall what has been a pretty dry morning drive. that is beginning to change. we will look at storm scan and understand y pretty heavy rain dousing parts of the d.c. area , some of that will be lifting our way and, round of off and on showers and thunderstorms. on our live neighborhood network at whitefield elementary school thinks dim, tough to tell from the camera view but turning dam in western suburbs especially and even through to tomorrow at lee first half of the day showers and storms are still a theme. weekend, however is definitely looking up. meisha. >> yeah, looks beautiful. thanks, katie.