all lanes had been blocked on the schuylkill expressway eastbound. e shot i've been watching people turn around and drive the wrong way on the on-ramp just trying to get off of the schuylkill, dave. >> what mess karen. the weather is not a mess. it will be similar to yesterday. we had a few clouds around early but i expect to kick those out. it's going to warm with a high of 85, mostly sunny maybe a tad humid in a couple of spots but not bad. >> between eakins oval and what's going on on the schuylkill you'll want to keep it here every 30 minute for updates. for karen rogers, dave murphy, matt o'donnell i'm tamala edwards. have a great tuesday. >> see you later everyone. pat toomey started his career as an investment banker. then, a wall street wheeler-dealer, overseeing stock trades in new york, london and tokyo. next, toomey moved to hong kong to work with wealthy chinese investors. in the senate, it's no surprise toomey's been siding with wall street. voting to allow banks to continue making the risky investments that wrecked our economy. pat toome

this is the schuylkill expressway eastbound at 202, they have been blocking all lanes on the schuylkill expressway eastbound that's what they are doing right now. that's off to the right-hand side. 202 stopping traffic at times. schuylkill expressway eastbound, 202 the police on the scene, 202 is moving, but schuylkill expressway eastbound temporarily have it blocked while they clear debris out of there, dave. >> reporter: all right, karen on the big board we have shorts and ts on the kids and no rain gear because it's nice and bright and comfortable today. if you're out running errands anytime of day works. 66 degrees by 8:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m., 72. in the upper 70s by noon. this afternoon we'll see a high of 82 around 3:00 p.m., 4:00 p.m., but nice, low humidity a little bit of a breeze, tropical storm hermine it was a hurricane now it's been downgraded now it's pushing away from the florida coast. they got a drenching overnight. it's on its way here, a question mark on how much rain we'll get from that, but strong winds are part of the package saturday night into sunday. i'll have more

we have lanes blocked on the schuylkill expressway eastbound. they have been intermittently blocking all lanes, i'm watching a police officer walking around. looks like they are picking up debris. traffic is not getting by on the schuylkill expressway eastbound. 202 is moving, the schuylkill expressway is not. watch for an accident, big one, multi-vehicle accident schuylkill expressway eastbound at 202. chopper 6 is heading to the scene. highway northbound in delaware i-95 and 273. they had to shut down highway 1 northbound. they are forcing traffic off on to route 70. use route 40 or i-95 to avoid the delay with that. an accidents in pottstown, route 23 at pottstown pike warning you about this one in south coventry township. >> breaking news, hermine made landfall as a category one storm overnight. it was downgrade to do a tropical storm during this broadcast. this is video from tallahassee florida, as hermine roared a shore at 8 miles pero miles per. the last storm to strike florida was wilma ten years ago. jersey is waiting for remnants of her

also, disable vehicle, the schuylkill eastbound, at montgomery. it is an u-haul truck. yikes. i hope someone's not driving still, and moving all of their stuff, never the levels, it is disabled right now pushing people to try to swerve around there. and when it is wet, sometimes you can get hydroplaning action, as well, make note of. that will again, give yourselves extra time this morning, brooke, jim, over to you. >> it is the event everyone has been waiting for. the first presidential debate. >> hillary clinton and donald trump finally met face-to-face and it didn't take long for the fireworks to begin. correspondent jamie yuccas live at hofstra university in long island where the debate took place. good morning, jamie. >> reporter: good morning, jim, brooke. we are just 43 days away from election day. and i have to he will it you the candidates are now back on the campaign trail, as early as today trying to get out the vote. both of them taught that they were big winners in last night's debate where there were plenty of attacks, both personally, and on policies. >> i've be

accident the schuylkill eastbound past girard, all lanes still block.ook at city avenue, extending even out to the boulevard right now, not to mention bad accident on the blue route passing saint david's and villanova. >> burger adding cheetos to its popular chicken fries. >> why snot? new cheetos chicken fries makes the debut today, covered in cheesey cheetos breading, i think it sounds good. jim doesn't. either way it, goes for 2.89. >> check out these instagram picks posted by lancaster county college student visiting home, said he's had it with his mom. >> said mom always asks to bring snack after bed time. when he gets there she is always asleep. this has gone viral. nick disappointed hoping this would keep her awake. >> well, next on cbs this morning, charlie roads speaks with former president bill clinton about his wife, donald trump and more. have a great day. ♪ >>> good morning, it is tuesday, september 13th, 2016. welcome to "cbs this morning." former president bill clinton talks with charlie rose about the health of his wife, the presidential

again, the schuylkill eastbound past university ave.t right lane only was blocked, now, all lanes are blocked, trying to get that cleared out of your way. also because of the explosion in new jersey overnight, amtrak northeast corridor service suspends in the elizabeth also new jersey transit, north jersey coats line also suspended between the newark airport, a lot more coming up in about ten minutes. back to you. >> police officer finds himself in the right place at the right time. >> and it all happened during a baseball game yesterday in san francisco. take a look, the officer was standing in the crowd when a foul baum came screaching toward him. he took off his hat and caught it. pretty cool. best thing the officer gave that foul ball to a child in the stands. good for him. >> he made that child's day. >> exactly. >> and coming up in the next half hour of cbs-3 "eyewitness news", big fuel shortage. >> tell you the reason five states are dealing with long lines and high prices at the pump. >> plus, tragedy after a high school footbal

take the schuylkill eastbound. those are your best bets. i'll be back in ten with more. >> announcer: now, your nbc10 "first alert" weather. >> 21 minutes after 6:00. it's cloudy and dreary morning. heading out, grab an umbrella. i'm tracking showers and thunderstorms. we will see scattered shower us and a chance of thunderstorms during the day even in the late afternoon hours today. this evening, looking good for the game. gradual, clearing skies drying out for beautiful weather for tomorrow. but this is what's going to greet you first thing this morning. for now, it is dry in philadelphia. look at the rain, south jersey, delaware, and areas northwest. you can see the rain moving through chester county, montgomery and bucks county. richmond, harvey, all getting rain right now. that steady right lane. heavier downpours tracking them through delaware. now moving into cumberland county and new jersey you can see some crossed the shore. on and off rainfall during the day today. this is all coming from a cold front, it's already drying out with

accident schuylkill eastbound past university ave., guys, where we had first accident, right lane blocked, all lanes block, so it is all sin cleared. looking now actually traffic slow in both direction both moving in the eastbound and westbound side of the schuylkill right now. actually looking pretty darn good. we do have an accident roosevelt boulevard southbound outer drive at woodward street. make note of this. it might slow you down little bit progress through the morning, already looking little busy out there, mondays, tends to be busy. so heads up. might want to give yourself couple of extra minute. then because of that explosion that we're talking about in new jersey overnight, amtrak, right now, northeast corridor, is suspended, also, new jersey transit north jersey coastline, and northeast corridor, also suspended, make note of this. i'll be updating you as soon as we hear anything, we were hearing it might start running again with modifications but you can expect delays. so as soon as we hear what's going on, we will let you know. right now this is what's suspended. also, some

with the schuylkill expressway headed eastbound that's another way to get to 95. we'll have more updates throughout the morning. >> announcer: now your nbc10 "first alert" weather. >>> clouds overhead. showers and a chance of some thunderstorms. you see the wet weather that's moving through easton this morning. this is a live view from easton which has seen some light rainfall in the last hour. that's the rain moving through the lehigh valley. berks county and lancaster county. that's the cold front pushing through the area. ahead of it, we've seen heavier thunderstorms. thunderstorms rolling through eastern maryland have died out, but we're still seeing rain from the same showers. in new castle county right now. we've seen breaks in the rainfall. not going to be an all-day rainfall. keep the umbrella handy. occasional thunderstorms and even through late afternoon. look how nice it is in northwestern pennsylvania. that's what we can look forward to overnight tonight and tomorrow but then tomorrow, we're watching the tropics. one tropical disturbance. a depression

take roosevelt boulevard south bun to broad street or schuylkill eastbound. your best bet right now. i can tell you with how many vehicles we were seeing out there, in this accident all of those road and alternates are getting very busy. excuse me. so, anywhere you have to go right now give yourself extra time, we will need at least 45 minutes and depending how long that takes to get cleared up, it could be more. we know some backups are extend to go girard on i-95. all of those vehicles are trying to get out to the vine. then another accident speaking of the vine moving in the westbound direction closed for that construction, but now all opened. that accident on 295 that has been just cleared, joe, over to you. >>> now an update on the breaking news on i-95 fire fighters were hurt when a tractor trailer crash with ladder trucks. >> meisha and justin has been covering this all take. much of the i-95 south highway near columbus boulevard exit looks like a parking lot this morning. >> "eyewitness news" reporter justin finch is live in the thick of it, good morn

accident schuylkill eastbound ramp passyunk avenue, that right lane is compromised. you can see all of the flashing lights, certainly will have a lot of gaper delay around the area. and it is most definitely going to slow you down, just quick peak at 95 south at girard, looking here, actually looking okay, fairly typical for tuesday morning on interstates 95. we do have an accident in souderton, washington avenue at west broad street. make note of that. for those of in you and around that area, and also, collegeville, trap road, closed right now, near bechtel, make note of this. this is absolutely going to slow you down. it sounds like we might have some debris in the roadway as well. then weave ' -- we've got overturned vehicle, inner roadway pass molly pitcher service area, left lane blocked there, absolutely will slow you down as well. so kind of string of accidents in that nearby area of the new jersey turnpike, then we have this downed pole from earlier accident this morning in robinsville, new jersey, route 130 southbound past church road. right lane is blocked

on the schuylkill, talking about this little go, law enforcement showing up to the scene, schuylkill eastbound past king of prussia. that left lane compromised and what makes it even worse is people were out of their vehicles, walking around, the schuylkill which was putting all of the brakes on all lanes blocked, just for few moments, nevertheless, so those people, you can see couple of lanes are blocked, some getting by, but also on the far right shoulder you can see, we also have activity over there. so this is absolutely going to slow you down, i would say, at least give yourself extra 30, maybe 45 minutes, if you can avoid the area, even better. ninety-five south at cottman, however, actually looking pretty good. holding steady levels right like this, what we saw yesterday, i know a lot of people little nervous about interstate 95 today. what we are looking there, looking okay. route one northbound closed at route 273. so right now, guys, traffic social security diverted to route seven, the alternate, route 13, or route 40. to route 896 probably your best bet. there are word it is an over

we have a disable vehicle schuylkill eastbound before belmont you can see blocking that left lane. problem is it is still very dark. all these vehicles on the schuylkill are having to slam on their breaks and moving over to the right. could be a recipe for something else. we will keep an eye on this. if you are heading out there that will most certainly slow you down here right now. we have a more serious accident in bethlehem 78 eastbound is closed, closed until 8:00 a.m. heller town you have to use alternate route 22. really your best bet. another accident new jersey turnpike before route 168, we have an overturned truck there left lane is blocked because of it, because of it garden state northbound that accident has been moved all the way off to the shoulder. great news for those in and around that area take a look at this, we have a road closure mlk, is closed between spring garden and sweet briar, make net of that, closed every day through friday. a lot going on. construction, slow downs, accidents, road closures, you name it, we have got to it day. >> thanks very much. >> in

schuylkill eastbound, heading into center city we are looking at a beautiful shot of center city. still very dark. we are heating up ever so slightly on the schuylkill in the eastbound treks. then we have an accident garden state parkway north bound before route 30 that left lane blocked there. we have another accident, take a look, new jersey turnpike southbound before route 168 that left lane is block, it will slow you down a bit, brake lights in that area road closures, mlk drive outbound is closed between spring garden and sweet briar 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. every day through friday. so just a head up on this. i will tweet that information out as well. brooke and jim, back over to you. >>> we are now just down to 54 days until americans elect a new president. now there are even more signs of just how important pennsylvania is in this campaign. >> donald trump chooses delaware county to take a stand on i am loving child care hours after president obama campaigns for hillary clinton in philadelphia. "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabao is live on the steps of the art museum in t

schuylkill. everybody jamming up. eastboundtarting to slow down but it's really westbound where we've got that heavy volume on the vine street expressway. the construction that was on the northeast extension northbound has cleared near lehigh valley. all lanes opened so traffic's looking better there. but still this right lane blocked, this downed pole has been causing a problem. crews are trying repair it in robbinsville mercer county. slow go 130 southbound past chump road one lane blocked. tam. >> thank you karen. >>> breaking overnight a driver slams into a man and then fled leaving that victim struggling to live. police didn't find the striking vehicle but the driver was long gone. "action news" reporter annie mccormick is live at the scene of the crash in northeast philadelphia with details on exactly what unfolded here. good morning, annie. >> reporter: good morning, tamala. no arrests have been announced at this hour and police say that that victim is in critical condition. the hit-and-run happened in the parking lot of

schuylkill ahead in the eastbound direction at said boulevard looking at east and westbound side you can see it is still looking really nice. so until 5:00 o'clock hour. so overall your morning commute is looking pretty good. we are looking in delaware county i-95 north at 452, this is what you are looking at, looking good, really nice, most areas we're looking at the in our camera. construction westbound one lane is blocked there, and that will slow you down right now but it will later. also construction, lincoln drive southbound between green street and wayne avenue, one lane opened until september 30th, brooke and jim, over to you. >>> thanks, meisha. temperatures may feel like summer but today is first day of fall. >> we think of fall we think of linvilla objectingard that is where the april he will of his mother's eye. >> it could be apple of our eyes. >> okay. >> apple of eyes, pat. >> i was trying to give a shout out to mrs. gallon at home and you rudely interrupt me. the path trick. >> am i not the apple of your eye, jim, come on. >> again i was trying to give a shout out. >>

watch for that eastbound on the schuylkill expressway. vine street expressway, approaching the schuylkill expressway, we can see traffic moving okay in both directions. no construction, no delays on the vine. looking good there. construction on the northeast extension southbound between lehigh valley and lansdale, the right lane blocked. >> we are following breaking news, a suspicious device exploded in a trash can near a north jersey train station as the bomb squad was attempting to disarm it. annie mccormick is live at 30th street station with the latest on what we know. good morning, annie. >> reporter: good morning, tam, according to the fbi there was a suspicious package with multiple i am pro -- improvise device exploded this morning as the bomb squad attempted to disarmed it with a robot. two men discovered the device in the trash can around 8:30 p.m. they reported seeing wires and pipe coming out of the package. passengers were stuck on amtrak trains last night while new york-bound amtrak trains were held in trenton and new jersey

schuylkill expressway. looking live near gladwyne and this is your eastbound traffic as you try head towards center city. out the travel times just went up. 46 minute ride on the schuylkill between the blue route and the vine. now with no delay, it would be 14 minutes. so a huge delay on the schuylkill. we he -- we had a disabled vehicle. for right now you're really jammed at this point from conshohocken to past belmont and you're watching for that eastbound on the schuylkill where at belmont we had a disabled vehicle that cleared but you're still stuck way 46 minute ride. we are jammed on the schuylkill expressway eastbound. another big story is right here in egg harbor township atlantic county. chopper6 on the scene showing this messy accident. look at this tractor-trailer t it's demolished. so meals say the tractor-trailer went off the embankment down here went into the woods. they've got a heavy duty tow truck you can see it's kind of hooked up and they're trying to pull it out of there. in the meantime lost debris he everywhere. they've got to pick that up. this is on the garden state parkway approac

this is another alternate boulevard southbound at broad street and schuylkill eastbound.robably your best betty can tell you that the congestion levels are significant on the vine. we have a lot more coming up, don't go anywhere we will take a quick break cbs-3 "eyewitness news" will be right today, guns can be bought or at a weekend gun show. and if the wrong people get a gun... we know what can happen. pat toomey put our safety ahead of partisan politics. toomey crossed party lines twice, first to support background checks, and now to stop gun sales to suspects on the terror watch list. no wonder pennsylvania cops endorse pat toomey as best to protect our families. independence usa pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. this is your moment, this is your time. i believe in you. congratulations bro on a job well done. i'm so proud of you. you are amazing. ♪ ♪ >>> emma ward winning cbs soap opera young and rest list is celebrating a milestone. today the 11,000 you th episode will air. take a look, hard to believe but daytime's thumb within drama went on th

still looking at delays eastbound on the schuylkill.nto the vine and those delays spilled out onto the ben franklin bridge. the ben is extra heavy as you come into the city because of that and of course president obama's visit. we've been talking about the closures that are already in place all around eakins oval specifically and also you're being detoured coming off of kelly drive, mlk drive, spring garden street and starting at 9:00 a.m. the entire area shuts down so you're going to watch for that gridlock because of the president's visit. matt. >> thank you karen. pleasant conditions for a rally today. let's go to meteorologist, david murphy. >> no kidding matt. right now we've got some clouds over parts of the region. take a look. 68 trees in philadelphia. and -- 68 degrees in philadelphia. it's pretty comfortable this morning from north to south. this afternoon will be warm but humidity won't be that bad. sunny 85 is your high. then tomorrow will be more humid and hotter too with a high of 90. that's near the record of 92. and late

schuylkill eastbound past montgomery, there are repairs to a downed pole, so we do have some construction going on there. plus, the vine was closed overnight for some of the construction both westbound and eastbound. we're waiting for the sides to open. jim, over to you. >> thank you so much, meisha. still ahead on "eyewitness news" this morning, vote on plan that may have saved consumers lots of money, is abruptly canceled. we'll tell you why. also, ahead, the tulsa police officer accused in the shooting death of unarmed black man is in court today. we'll tell you why her lawyers wanted the hearing moved up by a day. we will be back. stay with us. does your makeup remover every kiss-proof,ff? cry-proof, stay-proof look? neutrogena® makeup remover does. it erases 99% of your most stubborn makeup with one towelette. need any more proof than that? neutrogena. >> welcome back, the south carolina teen who allegedly killed hills father before opening fire at an elementary school is due in court today. the 14 year old shot a teacher in two, six year old boys on playgrounds on wednesday. one of

past king of prussia very slow moving here and also another accident, schuylkill eastboundas blocking right lane and now pulled off to the shoulder and now jim, over to you. >> next update 7:55. up next on cbs this morning italian village where people live past age of 100 i'm jim donovan make it a great for senate, katie mcginty or pat toomey? mcginty supports clean energy jobs. pat toomey voted to protect tax breaks for oil companies. mcginty is pro-choice. toomey wants to overturn roe v. wade and criminalize abortion. mcginty will consistently stand up to the gun lobby. toomey's against an assault weapons ban and gets an a rating from the nra. this year, pennsylvanians have a clear choice. senate majority pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. >>> here is a live and gorgeous shot at the smithsonian's newest mutual. this is the national museum of african-american history and culture in d.c. and doesn't open until the public until december 24th but we are telling you today, that on monday, "cbs this morning" will be the first to broadcast live from this mus

was hoping to say go over the vine street expressway, take it westbound and get back on the schuylkill eastbound and ahead down that way. unfortunately, it's backed up past that scene. no one can get to that point. your best bet is to avoid 95 altogether. if you're going to head out that way for right now, your best bet is to take that direction, get off of 95. and you can get back on the schuylkill expressway at some point. not vine. we're still closed on the vine street expressway with ongoing construction. more details in the rest of the morning. >> announcer: now, your nbc10 "first alert" weather. >>> nine minutes before 5:00. take a close look and you can see it's a bit damp in parts. there's been light rain and some heavier downpours. you may have heard some thunder and lightning. there's a chance we're going to see more of that during the day today. so, grab your umbrella. you'll need your rain gear. it went be an all-day rainfall but you will see scattered rain showers and a chance of thunderstorms later in the day. during the evening hours, you'll see gradually clearing skies. mostly cl

looking outside, we have an accident, the schuylkill eastbound past king of prussia. left lane clearly compromised, you also have little run over here, pulled all the way taught that right shoulder. this is going to slow you down most certainly. i cannot show you a back upshot right now, so just make note, you can see the people walking across the schuylkill right now. they are all over the roadway. and that's causing everyone to have to slam on their brakes and stop there, and wait, and figure out where people are coming from, who is walking where, whatever. so, you can only imagine, if we were to look behind this, what that back upshot would look like exactly. so if you are just headed out here, the scrub eastbound, past king of prussia. know that this accident is still out there, we'll get flashing lights, also people out there. so it will be a little hit or miss, when people are traveling past. i would hold off, if i were, if you can, give yourself at least a extra 30 minute, in this area. delaware county 95 north at 452, take it up to the airport. that's what you

this is the schuylkill eastbound at montgomery drive.ittle bit wet as the people are traveling you can kind of see the spray kicking back behind them. we have a disabled u-haul truck kind of stuck if the gore point. police were on the scene. they left. we can see some of the flares that are still set up so just watch for that. we think this is a tractor-trailer just kind of taking a snooze off to the side. it's not really related to that. the walnut lane bridge finally it was closed down since last april, it is scheduled to reopen today so congratulations everybody, you can take the wall nutter lane bridge over wissahickon creek. tam is very pleased. is that helping your commute. >> yes. >> this is all about tamine want to help her ride in and ride home more importantly. looking live no speeding on that bridge, though. vine street expressway at broad street, we're still closed at this point in both directions. we can see just a couple of cars starting to move through but the ramps have still been closed with in overnight construction, ma

so the u-haul pulled off to the shoulder, schuylkill eastbound at montgomery, again pull off to the shoulder seeing too many slow downs around there. actually pulled all the way off, block ago lane, pulled way off now to the far right. so it is not going to slow you down little bit. you might tap your brakes coming around the s curve, just a tad if you notice it by glance, last second, but overall it is not posing too many problems. ninety-five south at girard, what you are looking at here. you can see how wet it looks here. specially going to get on the sidewalks, side streets, bridges, overpasses all of that where it will accumulate watch can happen specially in pothole areas too, we can get hydroplaning, just use your best discretion, leave your homes little earlier this morning, with wet roadways like that on interstates, definately going to need it, brooke, over to you. >>> thanks, meisha. time for a look at newspaper headlines from across our region. >> front page of the burlington county times authorities say 37 year old pemberton township man was shot and killed sunday night during h

we are looking dry at schuylkill eastbound at city avenue. this is what we are looking at eastbound and you can see headlights, between westbound direction coming off the boulevard. it is busy, hence, looking at this 95 at the girard in the southbound direction, we know this will get as we push toward it at 6:00 o'clock and it is a steady stream of vehicles and headlights right now. blue route, however headlights moving in the southbound direction at media swarthmore we are looking good on the blue route. keeping an eye on that all morning long and so far, so good. i want to call your attention to the water main break lincoln drive at green street intersection is closing at 8:00 a.m. it happened around 7:00a p.m. use germantown avenue or wissohickon avenue is your best bet, and also just know, construction this is actually crews cleaning up another water main break, different water main break, not the same one but kind of in this same general area. these will occur through friday. jim and brooke, back over to you. >>> a work out trend so popu

for now, let's check the schuylkill. eastbound from the blue route to the vine street expressway. that's only a 12-minute trip. no problems headed westbound. speeds into the 60s. heading down the shore, the garden state parkway, right around the great egg toll plaza looks great. flashing lights up ahead. that's construction headed southbound coming off of the tolls. the northbound side looks fine, a couple of cars out the door. more updates. he'll check in with more of our majors when i'm back in the next ten. >>> now your nbc 10 first alert weather. >> just about ten minutes before 5:00. a clear view from center city. no sign of any fog here, just cool temperatures again this morning. 50s in the suburbs and the lehigh valley. delaware is at 62 degrees. philadelphia 64, 50s in interior new jersey and there are some cooler spots this morning. 60 degrees in turnersville. atco is 51. princeton, 49 degrees. very light wind to start with and more of a southerly breeze during the day today. a combination for warmup. a little bit warmer than yesterday. 85 degrees in center city and somer

already an accident on the schuylkill, this is a live look at eastbound schuylkill expressway right here near university. only the left lane, opened here on that eastbound side, and then latest from mass transit it will be a rough go right out of the gate. amtrak services suspended through elizabeth new jersey because of the police activity, it is about six amtrak trains right here, south of the new brunswick area, in word yet from amtrak what the deal is for the morning rush hour but no train are coming to elizabeth. same situation with new jersey transit, all services, suspended on the northeast corridor, new jersey transit has said that ticket will be cross honored along path, new jersey transit buses and private carriers, and to second extra crowded conditions on all of the new jersey transit bus these morning, back over to you. >>> 4:32. three attacks in three u.s. cities in one single day. terror investigations are underway in new york, new jersey and minute so the a now there are reports of another threat this time in elizabeth new jersey. jennifer joyce is live from elizabeth wit

this is the schuylkill eastbound, the off ramp from the vine eastbound and looks like they just clearedt through. i saw some cars starting to move right now on that ramp and that construction on the vine wrapping up so things are looking a lot better right now if you're about to head out there. it is wet, though. so the roads are wet. you want the slow it down. this is i-95 approaching cottman avenue. that's your southbound traffic. you can see howett it is on 95 at this point so coming in from langhorne or bensalem give yourself a few extra minutes to travel on the wet roads but i've got to say every day we've been seeing accidents. the one day we have bad weather and we expect accidents we're not seeing any so that's some good news. looking at the ben franklin bridge coming westbound or eastbound no problems. just wet out there. let's hop into new jersey. this is what it looks like on 42. that's your northbound traffic coming up from deptford or turnersville. a little slow traveling through the rain but not moving too badly just yet. matt and tam. >> all right, thank you karen. >>> we

schuylkill eastbound beyond the conshohocken curve, looking at both moving in the eastbound and westboundhat it is again i want to say heating up, but really just kind of more holding steady here on the schuylkill. so the schuylkill actually looking okay. still traveling at posted speeds there. 995 south before girard, what you are looking at here. we've been watching interstate 95 push in the southbound direction basically all morning long, again kind of like the schuylkill, same story there. kind of holding steady at these levels right there. so if you were waiting to maybe move out there little later i can tell you everything holding steady except for blue route. headlights moving in the northbound direction, this is past route one, i can let you know one of the areas you're know longer traveling at posted speeds evidence by that picture, rahel, back over to you. >> thank you. armed robber holds up pastor and his family in the city frankford section. but it is quite the surprise. police say when he, his wife and son came home, a man pointed a rifle in their faces and demanded cash but

eastbound delay is significant. we had all traffic stop for the last 15 minutes or so headed by the scene. again, it's the schuylkillexpressway eastbound right around university avenue where you'll see some of those delays. also ending with breaking news of the morning, mass transit, new jersey transit, northeast corridor and new jersey coastline, service is suspended due to a bomb threat through elizabeth, through the elizabeth station. that's something that will affect a lot of people this morning, especially heading up towards new york. amtrak acela express suspended. they are cross-honoring tickets with new jersey transit as well. with cross-honoring the tickets, expect major delays getting to your destination, if your destination especially is headed up to north jersey or new york. >>> let's talk more about that, jessica. we are following the news out of new jersey this morning where nj transit service has been shut down. >> matt delucia is live at the trenton transit station this morning. the devices found in a backpack in elizabeth appear to be pipe bombs, right? >> that is right, pam and tracy. we are about

schuylkill expressway. >> looks like there's a problem near the zoo. jessica, fill us in. >> around girard avenue on the eastboundide. all traffic moving into center city, we just found an accident scene in our cameras here. it is blocking off the right-hand shoulder. one lane getting by on the schuylkill expressway right now. that's moving toward the city. that's one of our biggest times anyway right now. right approaching the 6:30 or so hour where we start to see the big delays. a lot of police officers there on the scene as well. one lane moving by on the schuylkill, we'll start to see major delays behind that. on the westbound side, traffic is moving along. we don't see any real gaper delay yet. this may also have a truck involved. we'll keep our eyes on it for you. i'll have some of the drive times when i come back. this accident scene is not as much of a big deal on 95 right now. southbound, just around 420 and in between ridley park. this general area headed southbound. all traffic approaching the blue route, you might see small delays there. watch out for it. looks like in our map system we're still into

it's the schuylkill eastbound around south street. 're watching route 202 in king of prussia for another accident scene headed northbound around the schuylkill expressway there as well. moving down into newark, delaware, there's also an accident reported with delays behind it on route 1 northbound around the 95 northbound interchange. here's route 73 over in berlin, new jersey. a couple of cars around there. this is right around the berlin circle area. this traffic is headed northbound. if you're headed up towards the tacony palmyra bridge, no scheduled openings right now. good to go there. >>> a picture of a philadelphia police officer's tattoo is causing controversy for the department. >> we'll explain the outrage over what some say is a nazi symbol on the officer's arms and we'll tell you what city officials are doing to get to the bottom of this. >>> plus, we are tracking hermine. we go live to george for an update on the storm and we'll have a report on the impact to our weather this holiday weekend. ♪ sleep number beds adjust on

eastbound from 29 to the schuylkill, that's an eight-minute trip.ven minutes only if you're headed westbound. speeds into the 60s also. egg harbor township, there's an accident on the garden state parkway on the northbound side around the white horse pike, exit 40. no problems there on any of our majors. everything is still looking green. we're checking in with the new jersey turnpike and 78 when i come back. vai and tracy. >>> a bear scare leads to a school lockdown. we'll tell you what an elementary school in our area is doing today to help keep students safe. >>> and the eagles newest quarterback gets a shout out from the president. hear what president obama told a crowd in philly about carson wentz. >>> and your vote counts. here are your choices for the high school blitz game of the week, parkland and easton, st. joe's prep and archbishop wood and cb west at north penn. call the numbor text the number screen or go to nbc10.com. as prosecutors, we checked out pat toomey's record... and we saw a guy who has our backs. toomey crossed party lines t

westbound traffic right here headed towards the schuylkill or eastbound towards 95. you'll have no problems doing so. also watching the schuylkill expressway. no big backups or delays to report. still quiet and a good trip eastbound. speeds into the 50s there as well. also watching route 73 around the atlantic city expressway, no problems or delays here if you're headed down the shore or maybe back home earlier this morning, no big problems or delays as well. you can see with no backups, we'll have updates for you. >>> as you just heard from bill, the threat from hermine is not quite over. >> if you're going to the shore, it will be dangerous to go into the water. nbc 10's pamela osborne is live in ocean city. good morning, pam. >> good morning, vai, rosemary. it's a little bit windy here this morning. it's a little bit dark outside but the waves are already crashing pretty hard this morning. i don't know if you can see the foam there from where they're breaking up against the shore right now this morning. we're seeing intensity already. if you're headed out to the be

the schuylkill expressway eastbound whatever you need to do to avoid i-95. all lanes are blocked forcing everybody off on the vine street expressway. >> reporter: light rain is falling on the terrace. take a look, storm tracker 6 live double scan has showers in the region. every now and then they are highlighted in yellow and steadier. cumberland county seeing that. the shore getting rid of that, as well. bucks, montgomery county. berks county. and steadier stuff still to come in lancaster county. a second batch of rain is possible this afternoon again we're talking spotty showers this afternoon and later. 74 degrees currently in philadelphia. 70 in allentown. 75 in cape may. it's muggy with dewpoints in the 70s across the region. we expect the dewpoints to drop late today and tonight. as we roll through the day it's not as hot or as warm. 70 in the morning. 82 is the high at 3:00 p.m. perhaps afternoon sunshine and maybe more as we head into the evening hours. some showers this morning and another batch this afternoon. we're keeping our eyes on tropical sto

and gloucester a crash at 130 crescent boulevard and a crash on the schuylkill, eastbound side right by the blue route and off to the side, still extra sluggish coming away from 202 from this point in king of prussia and the blue route and delco, route 222 the busy stretch, speeds there are just in the teens. >>> lets grab the ipad and do the commuter report on this hump day afternoon. in fishtown, a crash on girard avenue close to 2nd street, slowing is associated with that accidents as well. we'll check them again in the next half hour. >> all right matt, thank you. >>> still ahead, a man drives his car through a group of police officers and investigators say he did it on purpose. the latest on the case against him and the officers he hurt. >>> samsung says they have a fix that will stop its phones from catching on fire but they are not making it available in the united states just yet. >> and technically it's still summer but companies are planning for the december shopping season, it's business they plan to hire almost 100,000 employees for the holidays. (vo) when it comes to you

westbound traffic right here headed towards the schuylkill or eastbound towards 95. lems doing so. also watching the schuylkill expressway. no big backups or delays to report. still quiet and a good trip eastbound. speeds into the 50s there as well. also watching route 73 around the atlantic city expressway, no problems or delays here if you're headed down the shore or maybe back home earlier this morning, no big problems or delays as well. you can see with no backups, we'll have updates for you. >>> as you just heard from bill, the threat from hermine is not quite

meanwhile, we had construction that ran late schuylkill expressway eastbound through the vine eastbound have left. everything is reopened along the vine, but they returned tonight at 11:00 p.m. at this point everything is open. no major issues on the big picture, i-95 construction is gone, schuylkill expressway and boulevard look fine. overnight work on the pennsylvania turnpike westbound chester county has cleared. one zone left on the northeast extension lehigh valley interchange, right lane out of commission on this thursday morning. >>> a routine fire call uncovered a gruesome scene in germantown. the man was stabbed 77 times the fire perhaps to cover up the crime. let's go over to katherine scott at police headquarters. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, this process a grooz so will the are ever jovanni oyola this was a gruesome crime. a smell traveled through the vents and hallways of east church lane. >> i smelled it throughout the week. >> reporter: what did you think it was? >> bad food, rotten chicken. >> reporter: neighbors thought nothing of it, but 9:00 a.m., monday,

we have a few issues we're watching at 4:30 a.m., the schuylkill expressway eastbound they have a pole they are fixing on montgomery drive. all the lanes are open. farther along what is not open the vine expressway. despite the weather that was close overnight for construction. it should be opened in the next half-hour. speaking of construction, the work zone on i-95 getting reports of standing water between girard and allegheny. watch out for lots of puddles. that's the case on most of the roads, but also in the work zone. the boulevard, inner drive is blocked between rhawn and bustleton. stay on the outer drive. we have a downed tree on the route 1 media bypass. eagleville reports of a vehicle into a building main street at school lane. i think it's going to be an interesting friday morning. >> interesting does not mean good. thank you matt. >>> while federal investigators continue to sift through the wreckage of the new jersey crash, a train barrel into a train station and 534-year-old mother was killed by fallen debris. annie mccormick is live from our satellite center. >> reporter

the delays from this are spilling back onto the schuylkill itself, schuylkill eastbound so you might want to keep going on the schuylkill to broad street and then run broad down neiffer instead of trying to use 26th street this afternoon. we'll keep tabs on that. we're watching a disabled vehicle for poconos bound travelers this afternoon. it's on the northeast extension 476 northbound approaching lansdale. just 16 miles per hour because the left lane is blocked. you might want to think about coming up 309. our crash on 309 southbound near perkasie luckily that's cleared out of the way. and the crash that we had earlier here on 202 just south of west chester is gone. still a little bit sluggish here by matlack street and westtown road. not unbearable though. a little bit farther south in northern delaware watch out for a wreck just off 202 the concord pike along silver side road. we'll check it again rick and monica in the next half hour. >> see you then. >> thanks matt. >> much more still ahead on "action "action news" at 5:00 tonight. major opening today for the city of camden. we'l

accident the other way on the schuylkill expressway eastbound right here near passyunk avenue, crash out in the neighborhoods city avenue and lancaster in front of the seminary. we are starting to see volume pop on i-95. people out of collegeville where we have been dealing with fog all morning and down wires at eighth and chestnut watch out for possible delays at philly international because of the early morning fog but otherwise we're in good shape up and over the bridges. mike and alex, back to you. >>> eagles headaching a statement in chicago on money not football. what is statement? statement we're really good. the statement we're okay. what are we? carson wentz, with another strong performance leading eagles to a 29-14 win over bears in chicago. eagles now two-zero on the season. the let's ask dave uram from 94 wip. what is the statement big dave. >> statement is carson wentz. the statement is the wentz wagon. the statement is that guy eagles were planning on not even dressing for any games this year because they have sam bradford and that guy is two and zero. that guy is a fir

on the schuylkill expressway eastbound montgomery drive a pole is sticking out in the right lane. reports of high water in the work zone between girard and allegheny. you have to drop the speeds that will lead to more problems. that's the case on many highways a lot of standing water. we have a vehicle into a building main street school lane eagleville. got some tree branches on wires in north wales at north second street. a whole tree is down in delco blocking the route 1 media bypass, if you're using the blue route head to ballot pike instead. >>> destruction left behind after new jersey transit train blew into the concrete barrier into the platform on hoboken. 100 people injured and one mother is dead. we are learning more about the man behind the wheel. >> reporter: we are early in the investigation, in fact federal version including those for the national transportation safety board got into the crash. right now they are on the ground. they are be looking into everything from human error to mechanical problems. chaos on the track inside the hoboken station as new jersey trans

stick to columbus boulevard or broad street or the schuylkill expressway eastbound. seg -- as we go back to the shot, i-95 southbound this is where they are forcing the traffic off on to the vine street expressway into old city at this point. vine street expressway is reopened, you can take the vine, people are being forced on to the vine from i-95, dave. >> reporter: in addition, we have wet road across the region. you can see spotty precipitation every now and then it's coming down pretty good and in dover west of new castle county we have occasional lightning strikes and heavy downpours. out to the west from reading and harrisburg another band of precipitation coming in. south jersey it's pushing through and getting off the coast at this point. damp everywhere. we expect the off and on shower pattern will continue through the afternoon. temperatures are similar to the last couple of days, too, 74 degrees in philadelphia. 69 degrees in allentown. 71 in trenton. 72 in wilmington, 75 as you step outside in cape may. for now it's muggy, too, with these dewpoints up in

use columbus boulevard or the schuylkill expressway eastbound, i-95 southbound shut down with the major accident. we'll be on top of this online and as well as the air all morning. the vine street secrets way is closed, but it will reopen at 5:00 a.m. >> reporter: adding to the fun the showers, there is some pushing off the coast of atlantic city. there's more moving in from the west there's a wider precipitation that's out near lancaster and getties burning that may creep in later on. there may be a lull midday before we get another band of hours this afternoon. it's cloudy out there as well. it stays cloudy until this afternoon when we get to the other side of this there's a chance of late day sun. 74 degrees in philadelphia. 07 in allentown. 72 in reading. 73 in wilmington. 75 in cape may. pretty humid this morning with a lot of the dewpoints up around the 70-degree level that's oppressive humidity. it does look like during the day it's not going to be as hot. 72 degrees by 7:00. 10:00 p.m., 74 degrees and spotty shower activity in through here and midday. maybe a lull in neighborhoo

penndot on the scene, two vehicles off to the side blocking the right lane, schuylkill expressway eastbound30th street. other than that mass transit looking good this morning. no problems with septa regional rails, you would expect them to pop up. >> reporter: hot and humid across the region, if the kids are going to school, dress them in shorts and ts, it's that time of day. if you're heading out to get errands done, do it early. this afternoon, forget about it, 95 degrees is the high, we'll probably hit that at 5:00 p.m., again it will feel like around 100 degrees this afternoon. tam. >> thank you, david. >>> new on "action news," an apparently drunk passenger forced a pilot to avert a british airways flight. the flight was heading from orlando to london the pilot reported an abusive passenger on board. he is being charged with interfering with the flight crew. the flight took off a short trial later and make its way to orlando. >>> and this baby boy was born to travel. the newborn was awarded a lifetime of free flights after his mother gave birth to him on airplane. mom was on her way to

what you are looking out there, schuylkill eastbound, on spring garden headed into center city.t that, enjoy those load ways this morning. we are dealing with those probably all morning long. specially, what we are thinking about is our main hour of the rush hour, which is 7:00, it will be approaching in approximately 25 minute or so. and leading to up that, this is what we got. so if you have to hit the roadways, interstates, highways, doesn't matter, you are in great company this morning. take a look at interstate 95 moving in the southbound direction at girard. sure do have early risers out there just starting to get out there right now. so the first time we're towelly starting to see, i would say, i want to say traffic, but a little bit. a little bit. that can slow you down, still traveling right where you should at six a miles per hour, but just heads up, that's heating up just ever so slightly, and the vine, looking at this around the ben franklin parkway because we do have some closures out there from the made in america festival over the weekend. but first, disable truck

we'll soon have no problems on the vine street expressway but at this point the ramp from the eastbound schuylkillthe eastbound vine remains closed. should be reopening any minute. otherwise the westbound side of the vine is completely opened for you. near plymouth country club there's a crash this morning shutting down plymouth road. i would stick with sandy hill or germantown pike to get around that. overnight construction on the pennsylvania turnpike westbound in chester county has cleared. everything is reopened there with speeds in the mid 60's and this is a live look at 42 close to 295. the southbound off-ramp from 42 to 295 northbound was closed overnight. that was scheduled to reopen right now but there is still some overnight milling work going on on 295 between 42 and repaupo in gloucester county. restrictions on 295 itself until 6 o'clock. matt. >> thanks matt. >>> authorities in charlotte north carolina have been using tear gas to disperse protestors. officers have been injured and they have shut down a highway. all this violence erupted over the fatal shooting of a black man by police

look at the wet roads on the ramp from the schuylkill expressway eastbound to the vine eastbound just opened with the construction that wrapped up on the vine. you see how wet it is, slow it down, accidents already. >> back to our developing story, police are investigating a tragic and brutal crime they believed led to a police-involved shooting. officers shot and killed a man suspected of stabbing two children in a violent rampage. annie mccormick is live with the details. >> reporter: an 8-year-old and 13-year-old remain at the children's hospital of philadelphia. we are told they were brought here they were fighting for their lives. they are linked to a what -- a t was a chaotic night last night where police say one man was involved in assaulting several people. that man was shot by police. this is the suspect, here he is taken to pen pretty bad -- presbyterian hospital where he laid died. it started on the 6200 block of hazel at 7:00 p.m. there was reports of screams and gunshots. >> there was an 8-year-old with injuries to the throat and abdomin, and 13-year-old. >> the suspect g