smoot.did you learn about shawn smoot? >> we found out that he ran an allstate office there in west knoxville. >> married, children? >> married, was no longer married at that particular time. >> reporter: amy denlinger is a former employee of shawn's. >> what were your impressions of, of shawn? >> seemed like a nice enough person, outgoing, typical sales, easy to get along with. >> reporter: shawn smoot, the name rang a bell with brooke's family and friends. not long after brooke's divorce, sean had hired brooke as an assistant in the insurance office. >> i remember the day that she had the interview. we had lunch right before, and she was so excited, you know? >> it was a real job. and i said, "there's gonna be so much potential for you to move up in this company." you know? i was really proud of her. >> did you feel like this was kind of the fresh start brooke needed? >> yeah, we did. we thought -- we -- we all thought it was gonna be a good thing for her. >> did she seem happy? >> oh yeah

high amounts of tree pollen, and if you are smooting today good mass tranit, and on the water going to be good but a few light breezes. tonight temperatures around 50 under mostly cloudy conditions. sue? >> we are going back to the golden gate bridge where there is a crash but the car moved on and there's guardrail damage so they will need to repair that, so just a heads up for later this morning. right now traffic is looking great. green good on the road sensors. and not too bad for this hour at 4:38. we do have a vehicle versus a deer in green bray, southbound 101 before st. francis drake boulevard. debris there, and heads up for a traffic break there. we will come back and look at your morning mass transit in just a few minutes. >>> arm wrestling contest could be trouble for players, and why the league is now investigating the contest. >> doing that well is really amazing. >> an all female high school robotics team headed to a national competition, and they national competition, and they do need your when i have an asthma attack... i feel scared. sometimes my parents have to take me

stop riding bikes and just go sell drugs or smoot people? >> reporter: corey and other bikers say all they want is more places in the city to ride their bikes and he is becoming quite the celebrity, lucy. he was just interviewed today by the wall street journal. also be on "good day philadelphia" tomorrow morning. >> hmm. all right. thank you very much, chris. >>> your radar let's check it out tonight. windshield wipers getting a work ut already as we take a livework look at i-95 in wilmington on my way back from trenton -- i was not in trenton i was in harrisburg see how tired i am. [ laughter ] >> kind of the opposite direction. it was already raining when i was going to say it's only going to get wetter tomorrow, though, kathy orr. you've been tracking this mess of a storm which is just killed the carolinas. >> it certainly has. inches of rain there. flooding conditions. if you have any friends down in the carolinas give them a call that. storm is moving our way. in old city philadelphia it's dry and cool little bit breezy 53 degrees the

sharing. >> no boys around the sh she shed. >> except for one boy. >> they're dog jake. >> cynthia smoothere's what happens. >> $3,000 i'll buy it as house. >> here's what happens, steve. when you have kids they take over the house. >> i know. >> so moms do need it. >> take over the she shed. >> you can get the she shed and you can keep the house. >> um-hmm. it's a better idea. >> okay. so many options. 8:21. >>> still ahead five-year-old asked for help with her homework assignment. >> her parents were stumped. maybe you can solve it. we'll take look at the assignment coming up next. ♪ ♪♪ >> 8:24. there's your look outside. 53 degrees which is not so warm. >> seems chilly after yesterday. >> you know what allison on weather school, when we get to it in just a moment, we're going to go to school first and tucker -- we had straight a's. >> can you believe that? [ laughter ] >> now let's go to real school. we all need to help our kids with their homework, right? not for me after fourth grade math but that's not what we're talking about. would you think kindergarten' homework assignent would

>> you go back to the 1930s and smoo smoot hawley. important to make the distinction. >> there are a lot of republicans who are saying you should go ahead and have this kind of tariff on imported goods coming in, including some from your home state. >> well, i think the wto would say tariffs are unlawful and would be a violation, but this was a border adjustment sglaks isn't that the same thing. >> that a lot of countries use. >> countries use this in different variations on how you tax imports and exports. >> what about the speakerer -- the speaker paul ryan is from wisconsin. he supports that so-called border adjustment tax which would affect the same things has tariffs? >> there ear other countries -- 1270 countries use some kind of border adjustment. >> wouldn't that make products for working class families more expensive? >> no. so the theory behind this is that the american currency, the dollar, would increase in value and so as you purchase any goods at, again, walmart and target in my example, you wouldn't see any increase in

stop riding bikes and just go sell drugs or smoot people?porter: and corey's celebrity continues just today he was interviewed by the wall street journal for an article coming out and he'll be appearing tomorrow morning on "good day philadelphia". iain. >> all right, chris, thank you. >>> a tragic accident involving two teenaged friends in southwest philadelphia. one accidentally shot the other boy in the eye trying to wake him up for school. police say a 16-year-old friend of the victim came to the 17-year-old friend's house before school to wake him up. the 16-year-old had a gun and pointed it in the 17-year-old's face. the 17-year-old tried to swap it away. the gun went off. police are now trying to figure out how the teen got the gun and say the boy will likely face some serious charges. >>> dozens of protesters took to the streets outside the criminal justice center in center city as convicted cop killer mumia abu jamal headed ba tock court. abu jamal is opening to overturn all of the state supreme court decisions against him from 1995