new at 6:00 noel mcclaren witness that had first hand. >> reporter: from south of the border, to the middle of pennsylvania's cornfields, bethenny children's home in western berks county can be home to as many as 32 unaccompanied minors waiting to be reunited with their families each with a story of struggle and danger as they crossed in to our country. >> seeing this lit 58 year-old girl you know, thinking of her can't swim crossing rivers on rafts and walking and riding on top of a train, good grief. >> reporter: representative charlie dent of lehigh county, pat meehan of delaware county and jim gerlack of berks county toured facility earlier and met with some of the young children september here illegally from central america. >> handing our young children over to a stranger to go thousands of miles, i just can't imagine. you must be desperate beyond all measure to be willing to do that. >> reporter: but despite how they feel the congressman say that their tour of the berks facility has pressure them to create new border securing policies in washington. >> policy based on the rule

"eyewitness news" reporter noel mcclaren tells us tonight the mother of penn football player who suffered from brain trauma is pleased with the settlement. >> he was always happen. >> i it's been four years since u pen defensive end owens took his own live, but his mother said she has been forced to live with his painful choice every single day. >> he's casino every like froze never time now, as college student. he will be that forever for us. >> shortly after his death, a detailed examination of thomas' brain revealed that he suffered the early stages of cte. a condition linked to depression, and i am pulls control. specially among full contact athletes. >> there is no reason that he should have it except that he played sports. >> but there is new hope for families of college players, like thomas', the ncaa agreed settle a class action head injury lawsuit by creating a $70 million fund toward diagnosing athletes with brain trauma's. for families like thomas', the hope is that the $07 million funds will find its way here, to the field, and help diagnosis young athletes before it is too la

noel mcclaren shows us where pennsylvania is changing speeds. >> reporter: they are picking up the pace on the pennsylvania turnpike. highway officials are stepping up the speed limit, for a 100-mile stretch of the interstate. starting wednesday, between the blue mountain and morgan town interchanges you will now be able to go 70 miles per hour. >> i think everybody goes that fast anyway. >> reporter: right now the speed limit is 65, the turnpike officials say their studies show at least this section of the highway can accommodate faster traffic with the hope have have improving suggestion. >> these speed limits were impose todd get people good to their destinations faster. >> reporter: what about safety. >> i get scared if i starting to too fast. >> reporter: triple a says higher speeds come higher risk. nearly 200 died in speed-related incidents in pennsylvania last year, alone. but we're not the only stats picking up the pace. thirty-four other states have maximum speed limits of 70 miles per hour, or higher, so turnpike officials say they are just moving in the direction of everyone

"eyewitness news" reporter noel mcclaren is live at the scene tonight, noel? >> reporter: well, police have been out here since shortly before 7:30, this morning, when those shots, were fired, and you can see here behind me, that police are still out here, processing the scene, d.a. and family of that man the shot, questioning why such annex stream force was used over warrants, for parking tickets. >> how it happens that this man end up doing shots, for an unpaid ticket. >> reporter: mohammad is struggling to figure out how father of her son and long time boyfriend kevin mckillers is paralyzed from the waist down over have hundred dollars worth of unpaid parking tickets. >> our whole family life has just change over a second. >> reporter: she claimed mckellers was unarmed simply leaving their town house to pick up coffee when she heard two gunshots. she quickly realized one hit her boyfriend. >> he cannot breathe and cannot move. >> reporter: lehigh county district attorney jim martin says two constables were serving mckellers a warrant for unpaid ticket but h

noel mcclaren, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> noel, thank you. coming up on cbs-3 "eyewitness news" incredibly close call with a train is caught on camera. >> how they survived that, nothing short of a miracle. >>> two women scramble to get out of the way, with only water below they have no place to go. see how they made their jaw-dropping escape. >> for the first time small electric cars go through the same crash tests as regular cars. "3 on your side"'s jim donovan tells you how thecoma. >> wild new twist to the philadelphia cheese steak. is it mouth watering? we'll let you be the judge >> new campaign underway to warn trespass tears stay off railroad tracks after couple women cheated death walking on railroad bridge in indianna. it is caught on tape. take a look at these women. they try to run away from this oncoming train. now, when they realized they really have no place to go, they laid down, and the 100 car train passed right over them. railroad officials called indianna police, who tracked the duo down, and they have been charged with tre

noel mcclaren, cb136789 "eyewitness news". >>> still to come tonight, taking advantage of the tragedy a troubling trend that is happening in some local communities. >>> fire victims, fall from predatory contractors and public adjusters. we have got the warning signs, before you sign any papers. >>> also tonight, a colorful mesh shuts down a chester county road what was that purple substance on the road, kathy? >>> in weather we're tracking some clouds on storm scan three we have a system bringing those cloud, right through the delaware valley over the course of the weekend and then a developing storm off the coast, this could mean, some trouble spots for the shore this weekend we will talk about that in spot. >> it is seven days until eagles start their training camp we will hear from shady mccoy, his outlook on the new season plus phillies up against division rival tonight, back from the all-star break, can they salvage the rest of the year? that is all a ahead in sports. >>> well to day in chester springs chester county a spill shut down part of route 113, a stretch between kimberto

"eyewitness news" reporter noel mcclaren gives you a preview. >> reporter: you might want to look your best walking past that septa transit office they are week. >> one photo. >> reporter: he could be taking your picture. >> every contact that an officer has, will then be video and audio taped. >> reporter: force is trying out a new body cameras designed to crackdown on transit crimes. >> we're hoping it will reduce the number of use of force incidents, we're hoping it will reduce the number of complaints, we're hoping that it will help us, in investigating some complaints. >> reporter: camera is disguised in the officer's actual radio microphone, so everything, the officer sees, the camera, does too. three office are will be outfitted with the new technology this week and they will be patrolling the broad street, subway, and market frankford el. septa police chief thomas nestel estimates that this model, costs around $300. and if this weeks trial runs smoothly he will seek grant funding to put one on all 275 officers on his force. >> i'm hoping that it works. would i love to have it.

in center city noel mcclaren for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> costa concordia cruise ship is on the final journey tonight. two tugboats are pulling concord a to the northwestern part to a journal that i is expect to take four days. when it arrives the vessel will be scrapped. this is, of course, cruise ship that capsized more than two years ago, killing 32 people. >>> minute so the man and hiú two kids are asked to leave a southwest airlines plane over a tweet. watson tried to board a southwest plane in denver with his kids. he is an a list passenger meaning he gets priority boarding but gate agent would not let his six and nine year-old board with him. they would all wait to board later. watson gated that the gate agent was rude and then he was asked to deplane. he says he was then forced to delete the tweet. family was allowed to reboard, watson says southwest did apologize and then gave him $150 in vouchers. >>> new at 5:30 a new direction for atlantic city. officials are pointing to two concerts on the beach as proof of how the town is trying to lure visitors as gaming faulters. "eyew