reporting live at aid, rahel solomon, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> thank you very much, rahel. meanwhile in other news, jerry sandusky, is in the center county courtroom right now looking for a new trial. seventy-two year old sandusky arrived at the courthouse this morning, serving 30-60 year prison sentence after being convicted of dozens of sex abuse cuts. >> cash strapped atlantic city buys more time in its looming financial crisis, mayor says bonds payment due today will get paid. "eyewitness news" reporter cleve bryan is live at city hall to break it all down for us, cleve? >> reporter: jim, the situation for atlantic city finances is kind of like a ship that is singing, and today they got a new bucket so they could keep bail out a little while longer. what i am talking about is over $240 million worth of debt and today they got some of their tax payment received so they decide that they would spend some of that, in paying down a little bit of that debt. about $1.8 million. now, the decision is casino of tough, because they have to prioritize, do they want to pay police of

reporting from kensington, rahel solomon for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> thanks, rahel. >>> a man is recovering after being shot and robbed on temple university campus overnight. this happened just before 12:30 on 13th and west more land streets. police say the 45 year-old victim's cell phone and what will wreath stolen. he is in stable condition at the hospital. detectives home nearby surveillance cameras help them catch the shooter. >>> police need your help identifying trouble makers in overbrook. one of the boys a tacked a 61 year-old man, who walk his dog last saturday on 66th near malvern avenue. victim suffered a broken nose and police say the teen was in the company of four other boys who were seen on surveillance video trying to open up car doors in the area. >>> and a pennsylvania women becomes the first u.s. citizen to contract a bacteria resistant to last resort antibiotics. the woman went to a health clinic for a urinary tract infections when doctors discovered she had drug resistant e-coli bacteria in her system. she was successfully treated with a different course of t

today our rahel solomon visited beverly national cemetery in burlington county where loved ones remembered the fallen. >> walter from collinswood new jersey. >> reporter: they are names we don't often hear. their individual stories we may not know. >> he was a gunner in the b24 lynn later bomber. >> reporter: collectively they are some of the men and women who died serving our country. >> he was shot down over more and in i. >> reporter: emily, of philadelphia said he and his older brother were in the same time, and in the navy his brother thaddeus in the air force. thaddeus never made it home from world war two. >> shot down over the european theater, that was in 44. >> reporter: each of the stories here are different and each of the stories of people who visit here are different as well. henry for example tells me for a long time he could not come visit because it was just too hard. others however say they make it a point every single year not the just for themselves but now, for their children. >> i have been doing this every year since i was a little kid and it is important to bring my

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. >>> good evening, i'm rahel solomon. natasha brown has the night off.et's get right to meteorologist lauren casey in our weather center to help us time out the rain that is heading our way. lauren. >> thanks so much. yeah, today was certainly a scorching day. 90-degree heat in may and not just today. this is three consecutive days in a row and that defines a heat wave. so, it's officially, yeah, heat wave in philadelphia. our average high temperature 77 degrees. remember most of the month of may? dreary, wet, cool conditions. wow, what a transition over the last several days and it is extremely mild at this late our getting a live look at center city philadelphia on this start to the holiday weekend. 74 degrees right now but dewpoints have dropped off pretty dramatically, dropping 6 degrees in just the last two hours, so actually feels a little bit more comfortable when you step outside in the city. storm scan3 showing us quiet conditions. we had thunderstorms over the poconos, a few stronger storms producing street flooding but now all is quiet with a

i'm rahel solomon in somerton coming up frightening moments straight from the victim. >>> surrounded by smoke and flames officers race against time to save a motorist from the burning car. we will show you more of the rescue. >>> and new at 6:00, this breast cancer survivor's battle with cancer was anything but easy, but we will tell but the at macing honor that she's getting a at citizens bank park this >>> authorities are investigating a home invasion in philadelphia's somerton neighborhood, a family was a wakened by men with guns and questioned, about money. during the ordeal one of the suspects said they might have targeted the wrong house and that is something police are trying to figure out. "eyewitness news", continues at 5:30, hi everyone i'm jessica dean. >>> i'm ukee washington. as rahel solomon reports the family had to untie themselves before they called for help. >> reporter: authorities called it one of the most quiet spots in philadelphia, but early friday morning that silence was shattered when a real life nightmare for one family. >> scariest thing in my life, like,

i'm rahel solomon in camden county plus the first female k-9 officer here. >>> and, dieting is abouto become a whole lot easier, we will tell but bold new change that he is will help you understand nutrition of packaged foods. be right back. >>> a man accused of a deadly shooting spree in michigan is ordered to stand trial, but it was this outburst, that got him hauled out of court. >> unaudible. >> jason dalton was dragged out by deputies, for interrupting a victim's emotional testimony. prosecutors say that dalton carried out the february 20th attacks that killed six people and wounded two, all between picking up and dropping off uber passengers. >>> now to a fire on apy her in southern california, in seal beach just south of l.a. flames ripped through a former restaurant that had been closed since 2013. control folks, attacked it with water cans on. no one was hurt. the cause of the fire has yet to be revealed. >>> the cdc says number of pregnant woman infect with the zika virus in the u.s. has more than tripled to 157. today president obama urged law make tours pass his $1.9 bill

reporting from frankford, rahel solomon for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> rahel, thank you. >>> caughtn camera a frightening road rage incident in florida. watch as this driver runs over a man and woman on a motorcycle. this happened near tampa. before the incident police say word were exchanged between the driver of the car and the people on the bike. the bikers were not seriously injured, the driver of the carries facing charges. >>> a fellow boater comes to the rescue of a family left stranded off the coast of florida. they were miles away, when their boat began to take on water. another heard their distress calls and raced over to help. >> you could tell they were headed, they have two young children, couple older folks on the boat. they weren't eager to get in the water. there was a chance to lend a hand. i know somebody else would help me in distress. >> reporter: all ten people were able to swim to safety before their boat sank. >>> wildwood is offering an incentive to take part in their beach clean up day next month, crowd left a 15-mile stretch of the beach a mess, with trash

good morning, i'm jan carabeo, rahel solomon is in tonight.orologist, justin drabick with eyewitness weather. hearing new information about tropical depression bonn think morning? >> yerkes the storm has weak ends little bit. it was never strong. winds did get to up 40, 45 miles per hour, but even though it is weakening, still rainout of the system. but, but, not going to see direct impact. i mean, if we would even say there is a storm out, there you wouldn't even know. just say hey plane olds showers. >> raining. >> exactly. >> we will get that later tonight. so most of today dry. outdoor plans, no problem. don't worry about it, it is later in the evening, we start to see some shower chances increase, and there is potential for heavy rain overnight into at least the first half of memorial day. 69 right now at the airport, we're in the sunshine, few high clouds out there. south breeze, yes, 3 miles per hour, dew . temperature right around 60. so feels little humid

. >>> today is sunday may 22nd good morning to you i'm rahel solomon. well, we have heard it before but yet again we are talking about rain. lets send to it justin drabick. i necessity immediately we're talking more rain but we have a big warm up and that will be nice. >> it is good timing. >> absolutely, holidays. >> yes good people want to open up their pool. it doesn't feel like summer. hard to believe memorial day is already here with these temperatures. it gets better i promise. >> he promises. >> i won't let you down. you have to have patients. few more days, pattern starts to change up a bit. still this morning waking up with dreary conditions, good morning to stay in bed, just watch the show here not missing much outside if you can stay indoors, good thing. still some light rain showers, the not moving back toward the city from the west, again, this is scattered so it will not be raining the whole day, may rain for five or ten minutes and let up a little bit and just off and on through the day, you should break up heading in the afternoon but st

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. >>> good morning to you it is sunday may 15th i'm rahel solomon. thanks so much for being with us. let's get you started with weather. justin drabick joining us now. yesterday was pretty nice. >> we did get that rain in the afternoon but it is out of here now. we are dried out. big difference is the temperatures. it doesn't feel like mid to late may. >> at all. >> we're talking about a freeze watch in effect for parts of the area tonight up in the mountains. so, that cold air is sticking around but that seven day does bring back warmer air but we have to get through a few chilly days and cool nights ahead across the delaware valley. sunnies up this morning. the we are out in full right now but we will see cloud later this afternoon but enjoy it. 48 degrees at the philadelphia west wind kicking up a bit, 13 . wind conditions will continue throughout the day every where. thirty-four in mount pocono. forty-five in reading. forty-five in allentown. maybe dropping another degree, we have leveled off with the low temperatures 43 in quakertown. forty-eigh

. >>> well, today is sat take may 21st, good morning to you i'm rahel solomon. yesterday the weather may have spoiled us, it was warm, it was beautiful. justin drabick you say a are different picture today. >> yesterday was awesome. that is how it should be for this time of the year. we have had temperatures mid to upper 70's in the sunshine not happening today. that time of the year. starting off the week went rain across the region. now we're still dry so if you have to head outside and don't want to be stuck in the rain now is time to do it. i don't know what is opened a at this time of the morning but we have a few more hours before we get steady rain. 56 degrees in the philadelphia at the airport. east wind at the 5 miles an hour. generally just other cast skies. we will will see that rain trying to get into lancaster county maybe extreme western berks county. it may take time to reach the ground. a few more hours to go. steady rain still south and west of baltimore and washington but it does get in here by mid-morning. fifty-six at the airport. fifty-two w

good morning, i'm rahel solomon. lets send it over to justin drabick. i feel like we're moving in the wrong direction. we're supposed to be moving more toward summer. >> another setback. you cannot win this time of the year. it is either too cool are gets too hot. five or six years ago we had 90-degree days and people were complaining it is just too hot. >> i know a little bit more warmth. >> a little bit the more. >> i'm working on. that by the end of the week we will get where we should this be time of the year but a big change, from yesterday, we were in the mid 70's, got the rain, it was from a strong cold front. we are bringing temperatures back down to more like early, april standard, and compared to this time yesterday we are 8 degrees cold inner philadelphia a. seven in mount pocono. seven in wilmington delaware. actual numbers upper 40's to around 50 degrees, this hour, and suburbs, kind of the same deal, mid 40's in quakertown, and pottstown and willow grove. the reason for the temperature is the wind kicked up a little bit, sustained ten to 1

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. >>> good morning it is sunday may 1st i'm rahel solomon. thanks for being with us. let turn over to meteorologist justin drabick to see how long this rain will stick with us this morning. >> not a good day to be outside. >> or to be runners too. >> they like cooler weather. i don't know about the rain. >> but you are getting wet. >> yes. >> as if it is no the hard enough to run 10 miles. >> i could not do it, props for sure. one of the days you may want to stay longer in bed or good day to watch our newscast all morning long because we are under the gun for rain. the it is here. the it will continue throughout the morning and into the afternoon and pretty much entire week remains unsettled as we kick off the month of may. let check out the temperature. 49 degrees. light rain in the city with the overcast skies every where, light wind out of the east at 59 miles an hour. that keeps us cool. we will be stuck in the 50's. storm scan three just lit up in green all across the region and it the is not a heavy rain but enough to slow things down and just that steady light

"eyewitness news" reporter rahel solomon is at the scene with the very latest on the investigation, rahel, good evening. >> reporter: ukee, good evening. philadelphia police tell me they believe excessive speed and weather were factors in this crash, meantime i spoke to the victim's wife and she tells me her husband had just left work, went here behind me waiting for 58 bus to go home and of course we know he never made it there. >> there was cops every where. >> reporter: in the harsh light of day, the scope of a violent, fatal hit and run overnight clear. the victim was 50 year-old alejo molina a family members said he left work, and he was waiting for the 58 bus. molina never caught that bus, never made it home to his two children and wife. he was less than a mile away. >> rest in peace baby, i love you. you were such a strong man, such a wonderful father, i will miss you. i love you to the moon and back. >> reporter: police say driver of this black lexus ran off on foot but after seeing morning news coverage of the wreck turned himself in. >> he did tell us that was very important he

shooting in the northeast that gunfire erupted early this afternoon and "eyewitness news" reporter rahel solomons at police headquarters with the details on that, rahel. >> reporter: i can tell you detectives are inside police headquarters speaking to several people from the scene trying to get a better idea of exactly what happened this afternoon. police tell me that two weapons were recovered, one just besides the victims, possibly even belonging to the victim. for some, the sound tuesday near higbee and digman streets in the northeast were recognizable. they have been heard here before. >> i need all new roofs because of bullet holes. this neighborhood is going down the tubes and i mean down. >> reporter: philadelphia police say they have received calls about tuesday have afternoon's shooting around 2:30. the adult male victim in his 20's was reportedly shot once in the head, neighbors say they heard many more shots. >> it was like fire works, so, more than one. >> back to back. it was six to eight shots. >> reporter: she tells "eyewitness news" the victim was found in the driveway behind a h

"eyewitness news" reporter rahel solomon will have the latest on the investigation at 6:00 o'clock. >haka fattah's corruption trial is underway in philadelphia he is accused of accepting bribes and misusing campaign funds, and federal grants. "eyewitness news" reporter joe holden joins us live from federal court in center city where fattah spoke just a short time ago, joe. >> reporter: jessica, good evening. this is expected to be one of the most watched trials in recent philadelphia history. the courtroom was pack, both with supporters and those just wanting to catch a glimpse of these proceedings. now the congressman, just left about 20 minutes ago, hailing a cab, on market street. congressman can we talk to you about day one? >> only thing i can say is that it is day one, we will be back here in the morning. >> reporter: with congressman chaka fattah, generous influential law maker, a man with the backing of the powerful house appropriations who delivered cash to inner city programs and charity or the 11 term congressman a architect behind a kickback and bribery scheme rig ago mach

reporting live from temple university hospital, rahel solomon for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> jerry sandusky appeared in the central pennsylvania courtroom to appeal his child sex a boost convictions. his lawyers want permission to question witnesses including sandusky's former lawyers, about the investigation, and his trial. "eyewitness news" reporter greg argos has more on today's legal developments from center county. >> clad in his orange jump suit, former penn state assistant coach and convicted pedophile jerry sandusky arrived at center county courthouse in bellefonte with this defiant statement. >> unaudible. >> inside courthouse his attorneys, did the talking in, front of the judge john cleland arguing that the seven two-year old was not offered a fair trial in 2012. defense team has filed 33 issues with the original case including whether sealed grand jury testimony was leak. >> really didn't have time to be honest with you to develop a trial strategy, the witnesses were not interviewed. there was a a lack of preparation overall. >> reporter: sandusky's attorney are asking

. >>> volunteer pastor is killed by hit and run driver in kensington i'm rahel solomon coming up what he was doing just moments before he was killed and what police say was >>> turn yourself in is the message from the family of volunteer pastor killed by a hit and run driver in kensington last night. police have a stronger message for that driver, you can run, but you will get caught. "eyewitness news" continues now 59:30. good evening, i'm jessica dean. >>> i'm ukee washington. "eyewitness news" reporter rahel solomon joins us from the scene on north front street with the latest on the investigation, rahel. >> reporter: ukee, good evening. philadelphia police were in this area for most of the earlier part of the day searching for surveillance, they tell me if you are a driver involved in this type of accident, the best thing you can do is stay at the scene. but this driver did not. now church, community, family and police hope someone comes forward. friend and family say he died doing what he loved, helping others. >> he was preaching. he had a great message last night. have after th

good morning, i'm rahel solomon. let's get right out to justin drabick out on the cbs-3 skydeck with eyewitness weather. justin, still little wet this morning, fortunately, you say, the ends is near. >> exactly, not as bad as yesterday, still it is dreary, we got little light mist to deal with. so little rough this morning. if you can hole off heading outside, maybe just sleep in little longer, because we will get bet they are afternoon and maybe see few peaks every sunday shine, i promise tomorrow we'll see the sunshine return for sure. check it out across the region, another overcast start to the morning, temperatures in the 40's, to around 50 degrees, 50 at the atlantic city airport, storm system still stuck over the delaware valley, so overcast skies, couple of showers around, looks like the steadiest rainout across southern new jersey right now, part of cumberland and atlantic county even southern camden, gloucester county. then get into new castle county delaware seeing some showers around wilmingtonment the st

"eyewitness news" reporter rahel solomon is live in laci township where fugitive elusive run came to an end, rahel. >> reporter: no audio. >> we don't have to worry, sleep easy tonight. >> reporter: peace of mind again in new jersey after monday morning authorities captured inn made 38 year-old arthur buckel after a week on the run. >> everyone was scared. everyone was locking their doors. i had one of my family members call me and tell me to come out, by the house. >> reporter: ultimately though it was what someone saw that led police to buckel off the garden state parkway in laci township. >> passing motorist thought they saw a person in the wood their the rest stop, and detective pierce was in the position with a state corrections officer, officer daniel row then dough a k-9 officer from state corrections to take the subject down quickly. >> reporter: state the police and local authorities have been actively looking for buckel after he was reportly scheduled to turn himself in sunday evening the forked river rest stop in laci township. officials say he took off before troopers arri

good morning, i'm rahel solomon. we sends over it justin drabick to let us know it will start to feel like may. >> dude, breaking news, look behind me, i don't foe if you can see, but that's the sun, that's the blue sky. >> i remember that! >> yes, go figure. >> i thought it was fake for a seconder i thought it was an old image. yes, luck ill, parts of south jersey, seeing little sun. >> yes. >> some parts also seeing rain. it will get better. we will get this rainout of here, we talk about it, and second half of the weekend for sure, that best time to be outdoors. like i said, possible to see little sunshine, today specially later this afternoon, if you are lucky, really depend where you are. check it out, what we are talking about. there go. blue skies, live look from cape may township high school, enjoying brief break in the overcast skies. right now, still threat, for some showers. you can check out the storm system over us right now producing some light rain, drizzle, across philadelphia, some steadier showers,

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. >>> good morning, i'm rahel will solomon. authority are investigating a fatal crash in a camden county highway. police responded to the accident on route 73 at william feather road around 4:00 this morgue. police say one person died when a suv hit a pole. route 73 has since reopened to traffic. >>> lets get a check of weather, justin drabick joining is now still looking dry but not for long. >> not long at all it is close nothing now we are starting to see that rain push across western suburbs in, to chester county, maybe getting up toward berks county but still dry, philadelphia all the way up to the the lehigh will valley. live look from the help tell bethlehem, nice and quiet on the streets with the overcast skies but get ready for some rain. check it out on storm scan three rain will start to rise within the next hour or two, taking its time to get here still dry air in place but once it starts it will come down steady. rain arrives with the steady heaviest rain late this morning in the afternoon. tonight still chance for

i'm rahel solomon. check with justin drabick who is celebrating not all bad news this morning. we have sun, little warm. >> not a bad day. warm day. little deceiving. i know there is that person that wakes up andse

. >>> it is sunday may 1st, good morning, i'm rahel solomon. thanks for being with us. let's turn it over to justin drabick with eyewitness weather. we are starting off on a cool note. not how i envisioned this going. >> we are going all backward. it is pay back from a week or so or so. >> kind of of used to it, this week, it is unsettled, temperatures will be cooler then average. we have a few warm days but overall not tip will california for the start of the may, but delaware will valley, we're used to it around here. temperatures all over the the place for next few weeks. worst of the rain will be today this week though. we have a steady light rain across the city. 48 degrees at the airport. the light wind out of the south east at 7 miles per hour. that is keeping temperatures down on the chilly side, once again today, we will be struggling to get back into the upper 50's this afternoon. steady yes, sir rain, happening right now, you can see, storm scan three the entire region seeing steady rain. there is in the really any heavy rain out there so we shouldn't have to

. >>> it is sunday may 22nd good morning to you i'm's rahel solomon. we will send it over to just continue drabick with eyewitness weather. i feel like you have been honorary pete the last couple of weeks. >> that is right, another weekend with rain, go figure. >> all right. i'll see you next week. >> next week looks good. you will want to look forward to next week. great timing for memorial day unofficial start to the summer season. a lot of people will get rain for beach and pool season. we have a nice forecast shaping up. lets hope it stays that way over the next few days. still this morning we have some rain to deal with, just west of the city, get out toward delaware county, chester county, northern delaware, around newark and wilmington seeing some steady showers again developing right now, a little bit dryer now in parts of the sent central new jersey toward shore points, dover looks to be in good shape but you can still see light rain all across the region. so anytime today you could run into a scattered shower, some good rain though yesterday,

. >> good evening i'm rahel solomon. these storms are the remnants of tropical depression bonnie. let's get right to meteorologist lauren casey. she's tracking the wet heather. hi lauren. >>> it was a nice weekend. we got in two good days of sunshine and summer like conditions. conditions have been deteriorating. getting a live look at center city philadelphia. rain drops on the lens of skycam 3. temperatures 72 degrees right now. winds out of the south relatively light. significants miles per hour. dewpoints are way elevated toward the 70 degrees mark. very humid as tropical moisture continues to saturates our atmosphere. a flood advisory for a large portion of the delaware valley. does include center city philadelphia. we could see localized flooding in poor drainage areas. and the culprit of course the moisture from the remnants of bonnie. what is left of the circulation is still over the carolinas still well far away that's not stopping all the moisture to flow up into our backyard. rainfall intensity is starting to pick up over the last hour or two across portions of the area

between the second, good morning to you i'm's rahel solomon. i don't have to tell you it was pouring yesterday. lets the get over to justin drabick. at some point it was pounding but you say nothing ago this bad today. >> we will get red of the steady rain but you will still need that umbrella around because we are tracking showers around today, maybe even into tomorrow. >> aren't you tired of saying that. >> yes, i think people are tired of this weather. we will get good weather by end of the week. it will be worth it, i'm telling you but bet the tore day. we are waking up with some widespread showers. we will start dissipating throughout the morning but still in the afternoon there could be scattered showers across the region. steady rain out a cross central pennsylvania. that should remain there. you can see over delaware valley it is more scattered in nature so it rains for five minutes, and lets up. we are seeing left over rain long new jersey shore, central new jersey, part of the delaware and you can see that is breaking up, some of it m

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. >>> today is saturday, may 28, good morning, i'm january scan carabeo, rahel solomon will be here tonight. here's meteorologist, justin, perfect timing for the weekend? >> waiting for the warm weather to finally get here but now feeling like the mid-july time, so jumping from spring to summer, so unofficial summer season kick willing off feeling like mid summer. perfect time to hit the beach or maybe hang out to the pool, poconos, niles weather to kick off this holiday weekends, outside it is mild, 69 degrees at the airport, skies starting to brighten up little bit, sunshine, sun coming up in about 20 minutes or so. 69 again at the airport, south wind 7 miles per hour, humidity around once again, it will be a humid day today. upper 60s to about 70 degrees over most locations, early this morning, and with that sunshine out through the morning hours, we rapidly climb upright around to 90 degrees once again. if we hit 909 this would be three days in a row. so off i shall tray does make it a heatwave. low grade heatwave, pretty early in the season. storm scan3 quiet. fair weather clouds strea

. >> good evening i'm rahel solomon. these storms are the remnants of tropical depression bonnie. let's get right to meteorologist lauren casey. she's tracking the wet heather. hi lauren. >>> it was a nice weekend. we got in two good days of sunshine and summer like conditions. conditions have been deteriorating. getting a live look at center city philadelphia. rain drops on the lens of skycam 3. temperatures 72 degrees right now. winds out of the south relatively light. significants miles per hour. dewpoints are way elevated toward the 70 degrees mark. very humid as tropical moisture continues to saturates our atmosphere. a flood advisory for a large portion of the delaware valley. does include center city philadelphia. we could see localized flooding in poor drainage areas. and the culprit of course the moisture from the remnants of bonnie. what is left of the circulation is still over the carolinas still well far away that's not stopping all the moisture to flow up into our backyard. rainfall intensity is starting to pick up over the last hour or two across portions of the area

i'm rahel solomon. let's check with justin drabick who is celebrating not all bad news this morning. we have sun, little warm. >> not a bad day. warm day. little deceiving. i know there is that person that wakes up and sees the sun, first look at weather, goes out and then boom. >> not listening to you. >> exactly. >> then i will get the complaint. >> no, no, no, overall not a bad start to the weekend this morning. looks great. full sunshine every where, with the exception to the north where we had fog this morning. it is afternoon we will see chance of some showers, maybe a thunderstorm, little will cool will in spots but comfortable, 56 right now at the airport in philadelphia, light breeze out of the southwest at 3 miles an hour but look at that shot in center city, looks great, blue skies, i can't remember last time we have seen that on a week even morning. forty-eight in allentown. we have dense fog. forty-nine in reading. fifty-three in wilmington. some more 40's in the suburbs, quakertown checks

. >> today is sunday, may 29, good morning, i'm jan carabeo, rahel solomon is in tonight. here's meteorologist, justin drabick with eyewitness weather. the big question, justin, will we get through our sunday without seeing any rain? >> i think the rain holds off until later tonight. good news. at this . i wouldn't cancel any plans today. another good day to hit the pool or the beach, it will be hot, humid, temperatures well in the upper 80s, maybe 90. we hit our first heatwave of the season yesterday, three days in a row, 9 degrees, so we're in a good run at least for the holiday weekends, things go downhill little later today and tomorrow. so you may want a back up plan for memorial day itself. we will talk about that in just a bit. good start to the sunday morning, check it o generally sunny skies, few fair weather clouds up there, high thin serous clouds, just sign eventually approaching storm system, 66 at the airport, dew points not too bad. we're in the upper 50's, so not that humid right now. that will change little bit later this afternoon. current air temperature

rahel solomon is finding on you the what makes them snap tonight on "eyewitness news" at 11:00. >>> still to come on "eyewitness news" at 6:00, west chester students are taking new society to new heights, vittoria woodill will will explain. >>> she's one of the best lacrosse players in the country but this temple star battled off the field is earning her high praise, her amazing story and impact it is having on others, don. >>> owe web he will herrera is the little bull, find out what makes phillies best hitter so special. >>> and a kick to the groin. the play that brought a grown man to his knees, knees, coming up next in sports. ♪ >>> well, the city of philadelphia opens up a new training school for people looking to make a career, in construction. >> one, two, three. "eyewitness news", and school says stool can earn college credit and they are all internationally accredited. these united safety academy is in new york and has four branches there. >>> a local superstar athlete makes winning look easy but the real battle, off the field. >> it is captain of temple lacrosse and started ever

. >> brooke thomas and rahel solomon thereto take part in all of the festivities., rain or shine, these fans love their birds. >> all the way from california, i love my eagles, yeah. >> the eagles will resume ota tuesday. carson wentz spent his weekend in la not to see the stars on the hollywood walk of fame but take his picture for his first training card. so if you are wondering, actually looks like an eagles green. wonder how much it will cost when his career is over? >> coming up tonight, six 6ers have the number one overall pick, so who are they going to take? lsu, ben sill ons, or duke brandon ingram? entire sixers beat, joining me tonight, late news right here on cbs-3. >> oh, boy, does this weather have an effect on the mood? >> makes you feel sleepy. >> at least we brightened up for the occasion here. >> we had to bring the sunshine somehow. >> i'm done, done with may, it is miserable, mother nature needs to get it together. the only -- >> did you have a talk wither? >> ya, we'll have a conversation like after the show, immediately. >> hello. >> memorial d

. >> rahel solomon monday there to take part in all the festive ties. rain or shine these fans love their birds. >> i love my eagles,s yeah. go eagles. >> coming up next in the sports zone sixers now have the number one overall pick. who should they take? keith pompey will be joining me in a few minutes. >> thank you, lesley stay with us. skwlfrjts. >>> welcome back. there's a new movie at the top of the box office. >> we're not supposed to be nice. . >>> angry birds dethrowned captain america with a 39 million dollar opening weekend. animated film is based on on the 2009 mobile game. became quite a smash hit. it generated an additional $111 million overseas. captain america civil war fell to second place with 33 million in sales. neighbors two sororities rising was third about 22 million. the nice guys came in fourth . >>> welcome back. voorhees police department went on a sunday rescue mission. these little ducklings became stuck on kirkbride road when the residents called the department mike perez and harry came out to remove the drain cover and brin

port roaring in the sat center, rahel solomon cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> a busy summer for wal*mart convenienceres with expansion recent modeling on the calendar. wawa will open 50 new stores and half will be in florida. also more than 200 legacy stores in the delaware valley will be remodeled for about $1 million each. newer stores with gas pumps will get a facebook. wawa did $9 billion in sales last year. >> it sits along business sigh stretch of the boulevard known as the roosevelt expense way in nicetown a large structure that often causes drivers to do a double take. >> what is it? good question. nicole brewer joins us now. there's a long history to this understand. >> there certainly s this question came josh berlin on twitter. he wants to know what is that strange structure along the rows vessel express ways near wissahickon avenue. it's a good question, josh, specialsly if you travel that stretch of the boulevard. ♪ >> it's kind of random metal sculpture. >> like a little warehouse. >> what do you think this is. >> solar panels. getting ready to be built. >> modern art. >> insulation th

port roaring in the sat center, rahel solomon cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> a busy summer for wal*mart convenienceres with expansion recent modeling on the calendar. wawa will open 50 new stores and half will be in florida. also more than 200 legacy stores in the delaware valley will be remodeled for about $1 million each. newer stores with gas pumps will get a facebook. wawa did $9 billion in sales last year. >> it sits along business sigh stretch of the boulevard known as the roosevelt expense way in nicetown a large structure that often causes drivers to do a double take. >> what is it? good question. nicole brewer joins us now. there's a long history to this understand. >> there certainly s this question came josh berlin on twitter. he wants to know what is that strange structure along the rows vessel express ways near wissahickon avenue. it's a good question, josh, specialsly if you travel that stretch of the boulevard. ♪ >> it's kind of random metal sculpture. >> like a little warehouse. >> what do you think this is. >> solar panels. getting ready to be built. >> modern art. >> insulation th

. >>> today is sunday may between the second, good morning to you i'm's rahel solomon.terday. lets the get over to justin drabick. at some point it was pounding but you say nothing ago this bad today. >> we will get red of the steady rain but you will still need that umbrella around because we are tracking showers around today, maybe even into tomorrow. >> aren't you tired of saying that. >> yes, i think people are tired of this weather. we will get good weather by end of the week. it will be worth it, i'm telling you but bet the tore day. we are waking up with some widespread showers. we will start dissipating throughout the morning but still in the afternoon there could be scattered showers across the region. steady rain out a cross central pennsylvania. that should remain there. you can see over delaware valley it is more scattered in nature so it rains for five minutes, and lets up. we are seeing left over rain long new jersey shore, central new jersey, part of the delaware and you can see that is breaking up, some of it moving to the west, on is of

. >>> good morning to you it is sunday may 15th i'm rahel solomon. justin drabick joining us now. yesterday was pretty nice. >> we did get that rain in the afternoon but it is out of here now. re

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i'm rahel solomon at beverly national cemetery with some of those stories. >>> plus a wild weekend inrk, trash on the beach has city officials fired up. the mayor's message to the beach goers. >>> and at 6:00 o'clock here's is what happening a four alarm fire at a philadelphia american legion hall, tonight, crews are still working to put out, the hot spots. the fire started this this afternoon in philadelphia's brideberg neighborhood, good evening, i'm ukee washington. >>> i'm he jessica dean. "eyewitness news" reporter david spunt is live with the very latest on that fire, david? >> reporter: jessica, yes, people living here know this american legion that has been here for decade. i will back out of the way and you can see crews are continuing to douse the blaze with what the tore get those hot spots out but for the most part building has suffered serious damage. things don't look too bad right now but look at this video from just about an hour ago. >> relentless flames shot through the roof of the american legion on orthodox street in brideberg, crews with the philadelphia fire depa

. >> today is sunday, may 29, good morning, i'm jan carabeo, rahel solomon is in tonight.out seeing any rain? >> i think the rain holds off until later tonight. good news. at this . i wouldn't cancel any plans today. another good day to hit the pool or the beach, it will be hot, humid, temperatures well in the upper

. >>> good morning it is sunday may 1st i'm rahel solomon. thanks for being with us.to be outside. >> or to be runners too. >> they like cooler weather. i don't know about the rain. >> but you are getting wet. >> y

rahel solomon will be here tonight. >> here is meteorologist, justin drabick, with eyewitness weather. justin, i can't see how anyone has a complaint about this weather. >> i'm with you. >> i don't know about this humidity issue that they're having, but i'm loving t un official start of summer. >> i know, you want to be outside, the weekends to do it. we have the weather in place. it will be dry today, sunny, humidity not that bad. more humid than what it has been, but could be a lot worse. and it will get worse. give it another month or so. >> some people just got to complain about anything. >> i hear ya on that one. enjoy it, nice weekend, good start to the weekends, we will bring rain chances in here 2 half of the holiday weekend, but overall really not that bad. temperature right now at the airport, coming in at 68 degrees, nice looking sky there, mostly sunny, few areas that are dealing with some clouds this morning, but they'll quickly pass by, so decent amount of sun today. light breeze out of the south, six miles per hour, southerly wind, keep us warm today, upper 60s, to abou

. >> "eyewitness news" reporter rahel solomon spoke to the grief stricken family as they paid their respects to one family members, and mourn the loss of another. >> reporter: in a city all too familiar with death, thursday evening in camden somehow things gotten lower. >> it is horrible. i don't know what kind of animal would do that. savage. >> reporter: 22-year old jonathan vasquez was just outside a viewing for his grandmother, 70 year-old rosa a sirano when someone opened fire, shooting that vasquez several times and at funeral home in the sheer panic. >> it was havoc, chaos. i mean everybody is trying to run through the side door but everybody is like bunch up at the door because we thought it was going to come inside and start shooting. we didn't know what to think. >> reporter: police did not say whether they believed the shooting was random but victim's family says they cannot imagine who would want to kill vasquez. >> we don't know who would do this, we don't, or why. why this did this. >> reporter: making him the second homicide victim this month, and the 14th this year. family me

. >>> good morning to you, it is sunday may 15th i'm rahel solomon. thanks so much for being with us. we will send it over to justin drabick. any time we talk about chilly temperatures in may your ears perk up. >> when like it or not we're stuck with this for the next few days. >> i'm waiting too. heat kick on this morning at my house. what the heck is going on. catch a break on the electric bill, in may when we should be but chilly to temperatures tonight. it will be down right cold. suburbs waking up tomorrow will be in the 30's a. it gets even colder tomorrow morning. so you thought today was chilly keep that heavier jacket around. we have sunshine going for us right now. it looks pretty nice but cool outside. 51 degrees. west wind kicking autopsy at 17 miles an hour adding a little chill to the eras well. and temperatures will in the climb a whole lot more. maybe another 10 degrees as we have a rush of cooler air building from canada a49 in allentown, reading, 50 in wilmington, suburbs, similar. upper 40's in quakertown and willow grove at this ho