meisha, what do you think? >> b. >> b for meisha. >> i go d. >> hum, lets guess with a. well, you're all wrong. it is actually 1.5. >> all right. >> we'll justin to move on here. all wrong. no point this time around. but yes, that's what you would use as at least the determination after strong quote unquote el nino season. so what's all of this really mean? now, we heard about from the noah representative there, that back in 1997, early 80s, we had very strong el nino then, too, remember, looking bare here to 1997 values there is bright white, red coloring, indicating that's where you had some of the warmest sea surface temperatures around the equator, this is the projection, actually what's going on right now over the central pacific. how does that actually impact the weather? in a very strong way. it leads to very strong pacific jet stream, which can actually split to a southern and northern branch it, causes that jet stream to move off to the north, what you will ends up have happening here, is that you will likely get some very beneficial rainout toward the places th

katie and meisha keeping an eye on things this morning. good morning to you ladies. >> good morning, tgi. f. always so nice to say it is friday, then you add on top of it the weather is gorgeous. >> doesn't it always just make it better when you can say happy friday? >> yes, it does. >> on top of it, too, meisha, a you said it, weather really looking phenominal here today. if you liked yesterday, you'll love today. that's the bottom line. little warmer granted. but that's why, throughout the course of the week, i've said hey try to plan a pool day around this, it will be warm enough, you want to take a dip, but not so oppressive that you just can't hands it will and you have got to be in the air conditioner. casino of like right on that verge, very quickly, i also want to address what's going on with the earthquake we had just mentioned in the breaking news, very minor earthquake, that registered at 2.5 on the moment magnitude scale. virtually, no damage out of it, you may have felt little shaking, but as of yet we have yet to hear any rep

guys, over to you. >> meisha, thank you. storms that moved throughout the philadelphia region left parts under water. >> pottstown, montgomery county, firefighters had to rescue driver after his car got stuck in a flooded road. you always say it, don't drive onto them. "eyewitness news" reporter justin finch joins us at pottstown at the hire house thereto tell us more about it. justin, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. you know when you're in a rush it is so easy to underestimate the flashflooding out here. sometimes you also forget the risk you put yourself in as well as others. but once you see this story from overnight, you may want to think twice. >> behind the wheel, snuck high water, place no driver want to be. >> i was like oh, crap hope i can make it through. >> he made it through. his car did. no the water here west high street and college drive montgomery county may not look high but it is. flashflood that this driver didn't expect, as he made his way into the pottstown borough area. >> just snuck up on me.

lets check with meisha and katie for latest on the road and the forecast. good morning ladies. >> you are bringing great weather, yesterday for the ballgame to day another ballgame in the afternoon how will it look for that. >> not bad at all guys. we can expect to see another dry day. we might see green yet concerned about that and that is fair, i get it. when you see green on the radar you think is there rain copping because that is what you are looking for? but remember radar can pick up on things that are not there. sometimes we will get the ground clutter effect. we will start off by going outside. we will take you first and information mess to a new camera shot a little idea what we are looking at here, a new shot, sky cam three we are facing east from our station headquarters in center city overlooking spring garden street facing east. this is a a nice shot as sun comes up but facing east on spring garden here and just quiet a as can be through center city. here is the ground clutter. we have speckles showing up on the area radar but not precipitatio

ladies, back over to you. >> meisha, thank you. new this morning, police investigating an overnight hit-and-run on temple's campus. paramedics responded to the call and broad and cecil b. moore streets. police say car helped a curb, and hit a woman. the driver left the scene, but was track down by police, a short time later. >> police are also investigating an overnight homicide in camden, it happened around six street and shelter end avenue around 3:00 this morning, no word yet on the victim, we will continue to follow the story and bring you the latest as it becomes available. >> 4:34, just gets closer and closer, 43 days now until pope francis comes to town. finally learning more about security parameters for the weekends. >> inside the so-called traffic box, two security zones, which include fences even metal detectors, "eyewitness news" reporter justin finch live on the ben franklin parkway where the pope will be celebrating mass. justin, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, the city is breaking for the parkway to be packe

so what are we looking at. >> not lag bad at all meisha. we should have a very nice summer afternoon. it will be a warm afternoon. we're expecting upper 80's but we have a couple key factors that are changing with this forecast, namely more refreshing breeze for us and we will have lower humidity. we will start off by going back in time. we were over achievers yesterday, no big deal but we hit 93 degrees. the that made it, the eight 90 plus degree day in our area in philadelphia specifically is what we're tracking here and it does make witt this heat wave we have seen since july 2013. but we are expecting to come close, granted but not quite get to another day for us of 90 plus degree heat. looking at storm can three we had our fair share of thunderstorms through the southern most counties moving out to sea. we are left with nothing more than a few clouds. we're in transition as we see cooler air settle in. here's where our temperatures stand, low to mid 70's f

nicole, over to you. >>> meisha, thank you. 6:16.oming up next why vice-president joe biden says he might not have emotional fuel to run for president. >>> coming up later we are live at the adventure aquarium in a aquarium hanging out with the hippos. they are hosting their first ever hippo awareness weekend. we will tell you all about that coming up next. >>> all right. a look at the race for the the white house, hillary clinton says she's in the race, of the white house whether vice-president joe by up runs or not. the republican rest will will with front runner donald trump. correspondent hand daniels reports from the campaign trail. >> clearly, donald trump didn't like my question, and then that is what happens, he tried to silence me. >> reporter: univision best known news personality jorge ramos found common ground with "fox news" host megyn kelly wednesday night, both journalist have exchange word with donald trump. on wednesday the billion air mogul defended his decision to eject ramos from the news conference. >> he stood u

now, creepy crawlers over at meisha's spot right now. it over to you my friend take ate way. >> thanks, katie. as i just said warm weather outside brings out all of the buggies. it is an insect invasion this weekend. annual bug fest is back at academy of natural sciences at drexel university. plenty of creepy crawlers will be on hand. karen is a invert bray specialist at the academy and she's here to give us a sneak peak at the little biggies we will see. turf say they are darn cute. it is funny because bugs typically they invoke ane motional reaction to people, either you are incredibly fascinated by them because they are so prehistoric or other people are scared to death. what is it about it, what do you think that is. >> grasshoppers have beautiful colors. they want to be like look at that, so cute but, the more gress side, but lit doll they know grasshoppers they regurgitate and all kind of cool stuff. we will look at that under a microscope. and then there is a fascinating factor like our material walking sticks like you have, yes.

erika, over to you. >> meisha, thank you. year starting up, parent are used to schools asking for money, part of the process, right? one texas middle school pta decided to have little fun with parent. they sent home this form, as an alternative fundraising with funny sayings like: i do not want to bake. here is the money i would have spent on those cupcakes. picture was post today facebook page of a mother of three, she says time is valuable and she appreciates having the option to just donate instead. >> still ahead this morning on "eyewitness news", a lot of people turning to e cigarettes inch sped of traditional cigarette. now some are using those to commit crimes. and police say they're hard to catch, too. details on that coming up. first though, here's what's ahead tonight on cbs-3. >> on your health watch, new threat, people are using electronic cigarettes to smoke synthetic drugs. smoke-free devices like e-cigs popular way to break the nicotine addiction consideration allow the smoke tears get the amount of nicotine th

and roads are at least dry, right, meisha. >> right, they are that. we have that going on. good morning. the road are dry, looking good out there, we have been in construction season one of the ongoing lingering things. this is just cleared, i-95 southbound between route 413, woodhaven road, two lanes blocked, both cleared, everyone traveling up to posted speeds in that area. also construction i-95 north wonderful girard and allegheny. the don't see it right now. this is looking good. but as you can see it is still early before the 5:00 o'clock hour and already plenty of headlights out there for to you maneuver around with. we have down wires from the king of prussia road and brook wood road, all lanes, alternate you will want to use upper gulf road. down wires because of an earlier accident. for those traveling, just make note, and some construction on, 413, veterans highway, an accident between western avenue and route 13. we have got some active out there but for us, it is still early, for those just leaving your homes anytime soon, you will still

meisha, a over to you. >> we can handle that. two days, we can do that, this monday morning, good morning, everyone, waking up together. here's a live look outside 95 at girard. you can see already this is getting very busy, so, mondays tends to be one of our typically busier travel days, if you will, mondays and tuesdays, really are, and we're seeing residue that far right now on 95, and girard. the schuylkill expressway, looking actually pretty good. and then here is a look at the blue route, there we go, there is the blue route, mid-county toll plaza, you can see looking pretty good here as well. so both the blue route, 422, i took a peak at that just little bit ago, looking good as well, the busier area right now is going to be 95 at girard. also, emergency road repair already busy area, one southbound lane open until 9:00 a.m. after that, it is closed. and we will have police out there directing traffic, but we know that it is very busy, 15th street between south penn square and chestnut. make note of that. that is going to

. >> not lag bad at all, meisha. we should have a very nice summer afternoon. it will be a warm afternoon. we're expecting upper 80's but we have a couple key factors that are changing with this forecast, namely, more refreshing breeze for us and we will have lower humidity. we will start off by going back in time. we were over achievers yesterday, no big deal but we hit 93 degrees. the that made it, the eight, 90 plus degree day in our area in philadelphia specifically is what we're tracking here and it does make witt this heat wave we have seen since july 2013. but we are expecting to come close, granted but not quite get to another day for us, of 90 plus degree heat. looking at storm can three we had our fair share of thunderstorms through the southern most counties moving out to sea. we are left with nothing more than a few clouds. we're in transition as we see cooler air settle in. here's where our temperatures stand, low to mid 70's from philadelphia on south and quite cool, as you go in more remote suburbs where we didn't have any rain to deal w mount po

good morning. >> good on my end, meisha, a how are you holding up? >> could you see me running around to get everything together? >> i wasn't going to say anything. it is okay. >> well, it is early. the roads are actually looking pretty busy right now, we tip he cannily see that on a monday, when everyone is going back to work, everyone gearing back up to zoo. so seeing things out there. i know it looks beautiful outside, dark outside. >> feels good. still pretty comfortable f you have been out early, it has been very, very comfortable. that will sort of is the theme throughout the entire day. today sort of our day i like it call it transition, the day of transition, where we start to see new system makes its arrival. things get little different with time. won't be just looking at sunshine, comfortable air all day long today. we start thing off, obviously not sunny just yet. need time for the sun to rise, beautiful view, over look from palmyra cove nature park, center city well off in the distance, but reflection from all of the lights and the lights

temperatures aside, it is always that humidity, meisha, that makes or breaks you. and that is what is going to start to make things very un comfortable. >> i can totally see that, park in the shade, i made the mistake of having my sun park in the blazing sun. lesson learned. >> right. good morning, everyone, happen my n day. still very early, very dark out there out there and the roadways looking real niles. no accidents to report. we still do have overnight construction, you can shy one not just overnight, this actually is expected to clear it by then, this is the schuylkill westbound between belmont and city avenue. you can see moving in the westbound direction, that right lane is still blocked. so, this will be okay up until 5:00. until then, a slow down. philly at tasker, plenty of activity. mondays tend to be one of the busier travel days soaker give yourself couple of extra months on a machine day, you will need it. looking at the ben franklin bridge, those of you coming over from jersey, looking good. taillights, activity, even all of the bridges, i looked a

meisha that affected road. >> yes. >> as we look forward to today weather will not play a part. you might have sun glare but at the moment quiet as can be. we have had heavier then are storms retreating out to sea. still lingering clouds. that is it. with high pressure taking place of that, frontal boundary dropping out of here it is scattering the sky line. i have to show you this shot. beautiful view out in the live neighborhood network this morning. i love our kutztown shot when we have days like this where you can see just beautiful colors on the sky line here. farm cile owe in the distance v light wind. look at the direction out of the northwest. that means a dryer air mass moving n temperatures are cool. we're in the 50's there. fifty's in the mount pocono. still primarily a west/southwest breeze through philadelphia a and atlantic city but that is turning more to the northwest with time, and as it does so again it starts to feel more and more comfortable, with every passing hour. here's what we expect, around a whole today. sunny warm in philadelphia. it may be residual s

check on your forecast, and a look at the roads with meisha >>> coming up on 4:53, we check in with meisha this monday morning. rupp are the roads looking? >> roads are looking pretty busy, as we push toward the 5:00 hour. what we see is the volume two. accidents to tell but. this is the first look, 422 eastbound, the off ram top north 202, see car has spun out. facing the opposite direction, as the moving traffic. so just make note that far. but not causing any major slow downs. make note of it if you are headed out on the roadways, also, another accident, right center lane block on the blue route near broomall. see the flashing lights. we have this big street sign in your way again here not causing any imagine or slow downs, but as we move into the 5:00 hour these minor incidents can start to cause some slow downed. now, construction the vine st. eastbound between the ben franklin parkway at 23rd street. right lane block because of the construction, let me move out of the way so you can see the flow of traffic. plenty of headlight on the vine, we typically see that as we push toward the

clearly it is on meisha. don't miss this. coming up next. road to hell is paved with good intentions. mr. president, we know you tried to make a good deal with iran. whose leaders stone women, hang homosexuals, sponsor mass terrorism, scream for the destruction of israel and death to america. so, what if you're wrong? and they can't be trusted? senator coons, don't trust iran. vote this down. school starts tomorrow, with s110% ready.'ll be notebook, folders, glue sticks. 25¢, 15 and 50¢. aw, now i'm not sure if i'm ready for them to go back. i'm so ready. make low prices happen. make 110% ready happen. staples. make more happen. >>> i love to hear temperatures we are reporting, kyla. >> they are really nice. good morning everybody. to all of our eyewitness weather watchers. lets take a look the at this one, this is 65 from lisa from wilmington. she's enjoying the day reporting some sunshine starting to peak out. gorgeous morning with low humidity and light breeze. happy hump day. i agree, looking g lets look at within more 62 degrees from ph

watch for scattered shower or storm tonight, or even early tomorrow morning, and then, that's it, meisha, all pretty much free and clear beyond that point. >> it is monday, early busy out there already. couple of crashes this morning, this is one still active, the right and center lane is block, broomall. see the tail light below here here the lower part of your screen. you know it is not super busy outside. still seeing some movement. but, let me show you something. this is the back up here for this. yikes. you can not tell that by the screen i just showed you. this is the blue route northbound, past broomall. this is looking like a parking lot. an as we move toward the 6:00 hour there is will only get heavier. only worse. so again, blue route northbound near broomall where do you have the crash still active, very, very slow in that area, give yourself couple of extra minute. looking at the ben franklin bridge, however, looking nice and great for those of you traveling out of jersey in center city. nice smooth ride in basically anywhere but the blue route. erika, over to up. >> thank yo

heat wave, it is coming to an end but it doesn't feel any better out there lets check with katie and meisha. we will take the moral victory. >> good morning. it is our hump day, we have made it, katie, i necessity yesterday was warm but will it look same way today. >> that is the thing, erika said because we are not in the middle of the heat wave anymore we still have moisture content that will make it feel so muggy and that is the the gauge you wanting to by. when you deal with that kind of moisture you are dealing with major mugginess today and that will continue to be a theme until our latest cold frost crosses through. we will start off with a lovely zoom out of our center city camera taken from the cbs-3 studios. note that is haze telling in on top of the center city sky line. we are in the middle of a up i air mass basically and what that will do is not only bring in a few more cloud then what we have even, but trigger hour or thunder storm. what we are finding is you have to look closely. there is green hoeing up, i would a really throughout the second half of the day, afternoon and

so just make note that far until august 31 back to you. >> meisha, thank youment philadelphia police investigating a deadly overnight shooting in north philadelphia. a 18 year old man is dead and his attacker is still at large. new this morning, we join "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabeo, at the scene, with the latest information. jan, good morning. >> reporter: erika, good morning, and police say this is an unusual shooting, because all of the eyewitnesses here on scene earlier this morning tell police that the person who pulled the trigger is a woman. now the victim, a man was taken to temple university hospital in critical condition this morning. he has not survived those injuries. soap now philadelphia police are investigating a homicide here in north philadelphia. the crime scene unit has been here all morning long, but they just wrapped up, and moved out of the scene. so take a look at the video. this shooting happened right around midnight. police with the 22nd district responded to the 1900 block of north crosskeys street for shots fired and a person injured. when they ar

erika, over to you. >> meisha, thank you.a commuter hoping to catch aglimmerments of of pope francis, hoping to get their hands on the special regional rail passes today. taking part in a lottery where only 350,000 winners will get a pass. "eyewitness news" reporter justin finch joins us outside of septa headquarters in center city. and the website is working good news at least justin, good morning. >> erika, good morning good news indeed. so far no complaints about that lottery system, a you mention, only 350,000 passes are available not a lot considering the demand to see the pope in september, how much. septa says all who enter for chance to see limb with these reginald passes have a chance to be chosen. the steps here are vicinal. first, go to septa site. you look for the linc to the lottery page. there you will enter your travel date, your times and your station preferences to up three stations because only eight teams running enter e-mail address click sends then do you have wait. then after 11:59 tonight, the lottery i

so meisha has that for now second. but i want to address waist going on, with the storm system we had been tracking now pretty much all week long, prognosis so much worse earlier in the week with this expecting heavy rain. that brunt of moisture, has long since moved out to sea so this is all we're left, with the timing just sped up nicely. more on our side today. that means skies will gradually only clear from here although you are still going to find damp start as we mentioned across the southern most counties. meanwhile, we do keep temperatures for the next couple every days below average, the he can peck takes, early mid august, about 87 degrees in fill, we'll flirt but not quite reach t so it is kind of a benign forecast, looking forward here. here's where we stand with the current area temperatures, 70 both philly, as well as dover wildwood checks in at 72 degrees. and your currently into the cooler by comparison 50's, up in the lehigh valley and poconos, more than anything just because you have had skies clear o

meisha, over to you. >>> any excuse to be outside. good morning, happy thursday, it just feels like this week is going so fast. i don't know about you but even they it is dark outside it is going right by. here's collegeville 422 eastbound past route 29, you can see taillights in the camera but overall everyone traveling around at posted speeds in this area similar picture approaching downingtown 30 bypass eastbound past route 340, you can see headlights coming at us. everyone, it is still dark. traveling around posted speed. then the the schuylkill expressway one of the areas i look at early to see how it is looking. the eastbound at montgomery looking great here as well as anywhere i look is looking good. and then also we have a water main break earlier, lafayette hill, use an alternate, stenton avenue between joshua and thomas road. that area is closed just so you know. nicole, over to you. >> meisha, thank you. >>> new you this morning a train strikes and kills a person near septa's glenn olden rail station. it happened just after

erika, over to you. >> meisha, thank you. following some breaking news out of ferguson, missouri, man in critical condition after shoot-out with police. the gunfire interrupted demonstrations, one year after a white police officer killed an unarmed black teenager. sunday a day filled with peaceful protest he is, but the mood changed after night fall. >> reporter: with report of thrown bottles, and two businesses being broken into, police called in reinforcements in riot gear. the situation got tense. with demonstrators still shouting at the officers, police ordered the crowd to disperse. first son's interim police chief said he wanted to avoid inciting the crowd. >> we're trying to work with the community. we're explaining to them their right. we just want to be as patient as possible. >> message to those who are looting. >> that's when he heard gunfire. (gunfire heard). >> reporter: as people scramble for cover, gunfire continues. it wasn't until later officers could clear the scene sending in tactical units and pushing back

and meisha. good morning, ladies. >> good morning, yes, roads looking pretty good. how is it feeling out there, kyla. >> feeling soupy out here already. and i got to tell you, this early, right? already feeling it, if you have to do any strenuous physical activity today, you got to get out early. it will be another scorcher. we are winding up our august awfully hot. start september that way, too. let's take look at some of the statistics, of what has happened so far this month. well, our temperatures have been about 2 degrees above average, but look at how much we have been down on precipitation. we're about 2.3 inches less than we should be. our highest temperature so far this month, 94. our lowest, 63. that's where we've been. this is where we're going, everybody. current temperature in philadelphia, 77 degrees. 60s in the poconos. mid 70s already down in atlantic city. so it is toasty. we feel the humidity. look at the 77 already in palmyra, 73 in pottstown, so you know when you are seeing seven's and it is 5:00 in the morning, we will be warm today do. have clou

i just have a feeling, ladies, over to you. >> meisha, thank you.g up next, video you have to see to believe of a woman breaking into jail, not out of jail, into jail. plus this: >> are you crazy? what's wrong with you? >> what are you thinking? >> chilling video hereof some new jersey parent going to extremes to teach their children about social media and stranger danger. they real bring shock at the result. that's just coming up. i guethought to the acidity much in any foods. never thought about the coffee i was drinking having acids. it never dawned on me that it could hurt your teeth. my dentist has told me your enamel is wearing away, and that sounded really scary to me, and i was like well can you fix it, can you paint it back on, and he explained that it was not something that grows back, it's kind of a one-time shot and you have to care for it. he told me to use pronamel. it's gonna help protect the enamel in your teeth. it allows me to continue to drink my coffee and to eat healthier, and it was a real easy switch to make. so you're telling

but meisha, how are we doing on traffic? i see lights behind you. >> this is construction, that's good. as long as i can say it is not an accident, that we're in the clear. but, kyla, bringing the heat again, thank you for. that will still dark out there. but it is friday, everyone in good spirits, here's the construction, woodhaven road eastbound at bristol pike, the camera, construction between the boulevard and 95, in the left lane. you can see a lot of shiny lights, not causing any slow downs, but just see the travelers trying to move through the construction zone ever so slowly, which is he can actually what they should be doing, just they don't have a lot of company out there. here is a look at the ben franklin bridge, beautiful shot of all of the light again still dark out there, still early for those every you coming in from jersey looking good. both across the ben franklin bridge and also 42 freeway northbound at creek road. as you approach 295, this is what you are looking at. looks great here. in fact, this is ver

meisha, we send it over to you. >> sounds good to me, thanks, katie. everyone, happy monday. just waking up with us, it is definitely pretty much turning out to be busy morning indeed. good news the accident we had earlier are getting cleared up pretty nicely. here is a look at the schuylkill expressway, westbound at city avenue. just a moment ago, when i was looking at this camera, it almost looked like a parking lot. so it is hit or miss here, getting very busy on the schuylkill. ninety-five northbound, at 452, looking great, but up in the left hand corner you can see that sun starting to peak out. so for those of you traveling in this direction, or for sure the even direction, just pack those sunglasses, you'll need them right now. 422 eastbound at trooper road. you can see, pulled off to the right shoulder, we do have some construction in play, not causing too many slow downs, although just couple of minutes ago on this stretch, as well, i saw everyone starting to tap their brakes. little more after gaper delay than anything else, but just know tha

. >> this morning, probably not, meisha. it is still moisture laden air mass we are dealing with right new but your best shot does not start to fire up until we get past a typical morning rush and heading in the afternoon and evening. anything out there should be scattered in nature but we will eventually see a cold front crossing through that will affect us all. we will start off here by getting you outside to storm scan three which at this point you can see a few little speckles looking really closely on the area radar but more than anything, notice motion of the cloud they are moving from the south and that indicates that fact that you have a southerly wind flow not windy today, but rat their wind flow means it is definitely a moisture rich and muggy air mass. over the course of the next couple days pretty obvious where cold front comes through, right, thursday and friday bringing in high chances for precipitation for us. here's where we stan temperature wise a very warm start to the day in at 76 degrees at the airport an

that was a bonus, katie. >> yes, one down. >> meisha says what five. >> meisha says five. >> i thinkdue me. kyla our new meteorologist was saying two, two, and steve our executive producer giving us two, two down, 40 seconds to go, katie, yes. any parent out there knows how tricky, yes. >> it is not on backward. what am we doing here. >> we giving her bonus time. >> yes, totally,. >> one diaper down. >> here we go, three down, can you do it in ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. well done. >> we have to hold these up ande if these fall off. >> right, all right, yes. >> and i think this was okay. >> four for four, well done. more than i thought. >> yes. >> we will be right back, see is what coming up tonight on cbs-3. i'm so not ready with staples, you'll be ready. i can get 30 comp books and notebooks at a low price? yep, 50 and 25 cents each. oh, i can save money and have less stress. and less drama. he's the drama teacher. got it. make low prices happen, make %110 ready happen. staples, make more happen. after that pregnant pause we need a forecast. >> well d

all right, thanks, meisha. >> the moves?ime, hiding in there. >> fda a proves new cholesterol drug. we'll tell you more about. that will plus concern and fear in one neighborhood when this creepy van shows up and parks on the street. find out what the driver had to say about it. and kyla, miss kyla, i know you can shake your thang. >> how is the forecast looking? >> looking great for today. sun coming up it will be beautiful day. heat is on the way. i'm talking 90s as we head toward next week. so i will give you all of the details on that whether we come back. stay with us, bill'slie here... tough looks like we have some sort of sea monster in the water hazard here. i believe that's a "kraken", bruce. it looks like he's going to go with a nine iron. that may not be enough club... well he's definitely going to lose a stroke on this hole. if you're a golf commentator, you whisper. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it's what you do. this golf course is electric.

ladies, over to you. >> meisha, thank you. heavy rainfall triggered flooding in part of the philadelphia region. katie talked about this, about an inch of rain fell in pottstown montgomery county. that's where two cars got stuck in deep water in the middle of west high street near college drive. this happened around 11:30 last night. firefighters helped get one of the drivers out of his car. >> just snuck up on me, i thought i was able to drive through it, and i wasn't obviously. >> the driver did get out of the other car and on her own. >> new this morning, a shooting in the talcony section of philadelphia leaves one man dead. police say a man was shot multiple times, 4400 block of longshore avenue outside after carment victim pronounced dead at 12:20 this morning. his identity not yet released. unclear what started that gunfire. >> no criminal charges filed against two bridgeton new jersey police officers over their use of deadly force. now, civil rights leaders plan to ask the justice department to investigate. cumberland c

let's do it, miss meisha.s the swirling rumors, now that he's divorcing allegedly his wife, jada. oh hang on. meisha, brought her a game. page, traffic producer, come on, there is katie bring it up in the weather department. here we go. let's see it. katy? there you go. got the big arms, all right we'll be right back. i saw a commercial that said you can save $500 by switching to progressive. that was me, mom. [ laugh ] i thought you said "that was me, mom." [ laughter ] >> septa on line lottery for the pope's visit to philadelphia is closed this morning, if you missed out still may be some passes left. 350,000 passes are available for the weekend the pope is here. early numbers indicate nearly 40,000 commuters entered the lottery yesterday. officials say it is a possibility that everyone who entered the lottery will get a pass. >> there is no preference. once your entry is selected whether you order one ticket or ten of the passes, you know, if you are selected as a winner then you can complete your transacti

meisha, any changes. >> is there one drivable lane now.chuylkill expressway, westbound between city avenue and belmont. this is what happened, a truck lost its load. you can see it push off to the right shoulder. all lanes are block for a while there causing just a parking lot of delays. now one lane as you can see is moving by. this will help you out just a little bit. live chopper three capturing all this live action for you. we have pedestrians out on foot trying to clean this up. problem is we are pushing toward that rush hour right now just before 7:00 a.m. hour. this will cause some slow downs and those backups we were looking at those backups earlier, look at this, still looking like a parking lot trying to squeeze by but we have got three to four lanes of traffic merging together to make their way in to one single file lane. this is definitely going to cause problems for most, so if you possibly can give yourself a couple extra minutes this house this morning you will certainly want to katie, i will let you take it from here. >> at

can't beat it, right shall meisha? >> you really can't.ing this weekend, so i'm so glad to hear that there is no rain. >> perfect. >> stay away. and for those visiting in from minute society, a as well, they will have some nice philadelphia weather to enjoy. so nice. all right, so the accident in delaware county, nine at northbound at ridley park, that has cleared. you're able to drive through. so the back up, what you are looking at 59 northbound approaching the blue route, still getting taillights, traveling less than posted speeds, but certainly a lot better in this area, starting to get some movement. no real gaper delay any more, everything been cleared out of the way. great for those every you traveling in and around the delaware county area. is it have the car fire new jersey winslow township area, the off ramp closed from the atlantic city expressway, at winslow, make a note of, that i'll let you know it clears, but still out there for those of you hanging around, casino of talking about that. fifty-nine northbound at 452. tank on

erika, over to you. >> thank you, meisha. congressman chaka fattah due to make his first appearance in federal court in addition to federal indument. the philadelphia democrat facing conspiracy charges. fattah sent letter yesterday calling for congressional action to review his case. fattah stands accused of miss appropriate g hundreds of thousands of dollars if federal, charitable and campaign funds. >>> and, stay with cbs-3, "eyewitness news" for continuing coverage of congressman fattah's court appearance. you can find the very latest any time on our website cbsphilly.com. >>> right now, 5:34. teenage boy is under arrest in connection with the brutal beating and rape of a five year old girl in north philadelphia last month. police say that little girl was kidnapped, in the middle of the night, from her home on the 2600 block of hutchinson street. detective say the 15 year old suspect assaulted her, then left her semi-conscious in the backyard. police say the girl positively identified the teen. he faces long list of charge

kyla grogan and meisha johnson, good morning. >> good morning. it is our hump day, right. >> yes. >> you know, everyone is always asking will it be, wet, and i feel like whole week will be beautiful, isn't the it, kyla. >> i'm bearer of good news. every time i show up here weather has been nice. that is what we will see today. a as far as traffic is concern the weather will not be an issue. we're talking about loge humidity, we're talking temperatures in the the low to mid 80's today. already pretty nice looking at the region here, mount pocono 63. seventy in philadelphia. twenty-six at atlantic city. that wind is nice and calm. the radar is gorgeous, today. nice and clear. usually we will keep an eye off a to the north and west for something to catch us off guard? it will not happen today. in fact next three days are looking absolutely gorgeous. look at this, lower 80's, sunshine, and even at the shore you pick the the week for it. we are looking at highs of 79 to 80 degrees over next three days. simply divine is what we are looking at. we will

meisha, over to you. >> so nice to hear the humidity will less n and lessen. thank so muchment happy friday to you. still early. in the 5:00 hour still, so welcome, just grabbing your cup of coffee, tuning in to see what's going on on the roadways, southbound at fox street, you can see, plenty of headlights out there. kind of what we tend to see around 5:30, then moving into the 6:00. looking really good. no accident to report this morning, the overnight construction project have basically lifted for those that were in place. this is schuylkill westbound at the spring garden the onramp from spring garden, on to the schuylkill westbound. you can see on the skewing, plenty of activity, everyone still traveling at posted speeds, for those every how take the spring garden you know you are down to lane, so can be little slow on there. right now at this early how looking pretty good for those of you coming jersey looking pretty good here as well as you travel 42 northbound at creek road. approach 295 up to 295, everything pretty much looking like this. nice, steady,

check on the forecast and a look at the roads with meisha and katie. good morning. >> good morning, it is monday, back at it, you guys, i got to say, the wet they are past weekends was gorgeous. >> i know. >> yes. >> at least one more day of the same. starting to see little more humidity creeping up on us, had to ends at some point right? we are now looking ahead to possibly seventh day in a row of our heatwave. ninety plus degrees, in other words. and that's definitely going to be the case in terms of thermometer readings, but going to eventually see the humidity creep back up on us, too, coming as new frontal boundery set to cross through. let's go ahead take you out first and for most, two of you of "skycam 3", overlooking atlantic city, lights lit up on the boardwalk, it is quiet you have little hint of a haze going on out there just from the moisture, from the sea breeze, generally speaking it is completely clear across the board. not terribly humid just yet. next, take you back in time, show you what we ended up with yesterday in terms of daytime

meisha, how are roads looking. >> road are looking good. still dark. people are just waking up just grabbing that cup of coffee with us, this morning, good morning, we are happy that you are here. gate the way to the weekend. we are all in a good mood. it is happening in the both east and westbound directions on the the vine between broad street and ben franklin parkway. it is blocking right lanes in both the east and westbound side. just make note. vine is looking really nice. we have construction on the the schuylkill westbound off ramp to the blue route. again, because of this being so early not even 5:00 o'clock, not the causing any slow downs and this construction is overnight projects that are lifted but by the time we start rolling. so i'll update you and let you know when had gets clear. ninety-five and cottman looking good around those red cones there for quite sometime in center city. looking good. i will keep my eye on that stretch that picks up. i would say in the the five and of course in the 6:00 o'clock hour. west trent than line expect

>> outdoor plans, obviously. >> meisha meisha, how are the roads? >> pretty good.till contends withing overnight construction project, no accidents to report, always nice monday morning, it is very busy, and i'm here to tell you mondays typically one of the busier travel days, looking very busy out there. one thing, we have disable tractor-trailer, on 95, as you head southbound, near cottman. this is causing some significant delays, all the way past academy. so, for those of how have to take this stretch in the morning, you know that it can be busy, and then you add into the mix that it is a monday, and then you add into the mix that we have this disable tractor-trailer, and this is certainly going to cause some slow downs for you now in the 6:00 hour. as we push toward that rush hour. now, as you know, i like to jump in the car take little ride with you. right now we take little drive down 423 freeway northbound approaching 295, and you can see, all green, and isn't it funny, almost looks like in one of the old leather top cars, almost feeling like convertible. cr

. >> meisha, thank you.aking of traffic news here, part of i76 camden county will be shutdown tonight for repairs after a tractor-trailer caught fire. one of the strikes tires ignite the the fire near gloucester city. the highway is open now but crews will have to close it at some point tonight to fix the highway. >> here's a look at your headlines this morning on cbs-3, septa has new approach for selling those special rail passes for pope francis' visit next month. a one-day lottery underway for passes on the regional rail lines, it ends at midnight tonight. >> also, new this morning neighbors in south philadelphia are waking to up find their car tires slashed. it happened to about dozen cars and several spots. police say they do have someone in custody. >> and, police are looking for two suspects in a south philadelphia home invasion. investigators say, the duo broke into a home on south marshall street and tied up at least one victim. >> 6:16 right now. an explosions rock two churches during sunday mornin

we will be >>> let's get a check of the roads with meisha. at least they are dry. >> yes, they are looking really good. we had april accident here at 95 south near blue route that has been since cleared. that is nice thing. we have dry roadways and these incidents get clear fairly quickly. on i-95 southbound we are looking good there. we have overnight construction i-95 south near airport has been since cleared. i-95 south in this stretch is looking good. then schuylkill expressway eastbound at montgomery is looking good as well. overall though things this morning, nice and dry roadways in, complaints. we will let you know delaware memorial bridge there is bridge, so one lane blocked in each direction. then the northbound lanes, the right lane, and then wide, everything is looking great, septa trolley, ten, 11, 13, 34, 36 is diverted to 40th and market. all right. now katie, i can tell you it is so nice to see dry roadways this wednesday morning. >> doesn't it make a difference. totally different day, so much nicer by comparison. we had to de

so it is a question. 2.4 degrees above average, so far this month, a lot of red on that map, meisha but we are in the looking to add to it today, tomorrow or friday. saturday and sunday we will talk about in a few moments. >> sound good, kyla, kyla bringing good news on this hump day. thank you very much. good morning, everyone. if you are just joining us, thinks a live shot from mobile three. we had a very serious crash overnight in burlington county, new jersey. what you are looking at is this vehicle was actually split in half. for a while split was upside down. part of the car was upside down. where this exactly is, it is route 130 northbound at route 543. the north bound lanes are completely closed, so use an alternate such as 295, but this is a very serious crash that happened overnight. you can see crews, out there taking picture, taking video. this is a crime scene. they are still doing their investigation work. give yourself a couple extra minutes in and around this area taking a lot at the schuylkill eastbound before the conshohocken curve, you can see travelers moving in the

you think you are winding up the heat, meisha, when you get it at the ends of the august, but not in time. just kicking it up a northbound. >> just too good to be true, kyla, i don't know. >> it is gorgeous, yesterday was gorgeous, today will be gorgeous, it is just the philly weather, i tell you, just beautiful. here's some construction we're looking at. now, this is camera at woodhaven at bristol pike, the accident, the construction, rather, between the boulevard and 95. again, this is construction, so what you are seeing is vehicles trying to squeeze around one lane, this isn't causing too many slow downs right now, because it is so early, but until they get the red cone zones out of the way, as we continue to pick up volume in the 5:00 hour there is could certainly cause some slow downs, but right now, you are doing okay. while they are still in place. shear look at 422 at oaks, as you are moving into the king of prussia area. look at this. no one is awake. no one is up. still camera. everyone traveling at posted speeds there. here is a look at the roosevelt boulevard as you appr

meisha, a how is it looking? hour, here is a look at the boulevard, just near broad street. we have disable vehicle blocking the right lane. use cubs there. starting to get gaper delays, look at this 95 southbound at girard, for those of you trying to make your way into center city certainly traveling west, quick look, seeing 50 miles per hour, 59 southbound, between cottman and girard, then as you maneuver into center city, so, you know, monday is typically very busy, and we're seeing that. >> that happens. coming up cbs this morning, author brad, helps his 11th grade teacher find kidney donor, nora mentioned this few minute ago, incredible how social media helped to have that special story. also, reminder to join us bright and early every weekday morning right here on cbs-3, starting at 4:30 a.m. >> do you hear that quiet roar, parent cheering? >> dow. >> first great day back. >>> good morning. it is monday, august 31st, 2015. welcome to "cbs this morning." hillary clinton sees a sharp slide in the polls in the

. >> another thumbs up kind of a day, meisha, yes, looking good here. we will start off on the very quiet note here in the delaware valley american anything we are looking at nice clear sky out there and beautiful view overlooking center city far in the distance from palmyra cove nature park. one of my favorite cameras here because it is, so pretty. especially with a clear sky it can make beautiful views and this is exceptionally nice this morning under that clear sky. looking at storm scan it is quiet as you might expect here, high pressure hanging on for the at least next i would say 12 hours. we will see low pressure, we will show that to you a moment ago at the top of the show there and starts to head our way. enjoy today. most of the day will feature more sun then anything. we will see dew point not your air temperature but it does measure amount of moisture contend in the air, lower it is, dryer it is, and when we have dew points below 65 a across the board, heck even in the mid 50's this is a i good hair day. you don't have too much win here. thi

that down the shore yes likely to still see showers around specially this morning but considering meisha like the big thing for the week, not a bad weather story overall. >> good, especially on a friday who want to hear that friday morning right? thanks so much. good morning everyone, waking up with us, it is still very early, good news it is friday so tgif. this is our first look outside. we do have an accident not causing in i slow downs just not enough vehicles out on the roadways at this point. ninety-five northbound between academy and woodhaven right lanas you can see blocked cutting into the shoulder as well. we have crews on scene, give yourselves couple of extra minute just leaving now. like i said, just not enough vehicles it cause any slow downs in the areament then table a book at the ben franklin bridge, coming from in jersey looking great here, love showing this camera shot, one of the first in the morning, because it is always so breathtaking. construction 202 northbound off ramp to route 401 is closed friday. that's going to be closed 7:00 p.m. through monday at 5:00 a.m.

ladies, over to you. >>> meisha, thank you. >>> 5:18. just 31 days and counting one month away, we are rapidly approaching that one month mark until pope francis arrives in philadelphia philadelphia archbishop chaput is urging local catholics to brave the crowd and come see the pope. >> archbishop sent out a letter to the catholic community. he says based on the number of registered participants philadelphia is the the largest world meeting of family in history. chaput said do not give into the anxiety and war that is goes on to any major effort like this one. archbishop writes quote the there is a temptation to focus on possible problems, security, logistics, transportation, and when that happens, people begin to wonder if the the effort of coming to center city is worth the time and energy. i promise you that it is. >>> diocese of camden is also getting south jersey's catholic community involved in the papal visit. volunteers are practicing what pope francis preaches by shining the spotlight on poverty. the diocese is inviting people t

meisha, a you can totally get there is right? go through the uncomfortable, sometimes unflattering symptoms to bring a child into the world. so that's beautiful. >> such a beautiful -- >> hello, not born yesterday. this has been going on since man casino, like, i will never understand. that will this happens around us, has always happened, and always will. >> basically giving you one big hug. >> teamwork. >> thank you so much. what i have to say, is simply that, all i wanted to do was get something off my chest. >> so thrilled to see it can turn something as positive as this came. thank you for the love, the hugs, the kisses, support. i've been up limited by t i even felt like working out over the weekend? hey, nine months pregnant, working out. that's impressive. >> those little babies do you have show them some of this footage, how cool, this is getting way in advance, 15 years from now maybe, but how cool for them? >> so proud of everything that's happened. >> cool just like our lack of humidity. >> we'll show you what's going