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breaking right now two men rush to the hospital after getting shot overnight. police say neighbors are lucky they were not hurt as stray bullets flew through down the street. we are live on the scene with the search for the shooters. first though you could get soak, storm scan three shows rain heading our way right now and katie has been watching that storm all week long, all morning long too. >> she's in the weather center, good morning. >> this really has been a storm we have had an eye on for days and if you will recall in the last two mornings we have been showing you aftermath of the nasty storms that rumbled through portions of the deep south and southeastern united states, for us, this really ends up being a very, very significant nuisance, but it is not a severe weather producer. we will show thaw huge zoom on storm scan three this system is so strung out and large and so slow to retreat and that is why it is taking so long because it is so expansive that it needs time to traverse the eastern two thirds of the
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united states but right now, here we go, you have a's got very heavy rain here, across west virginia after layer an mountains and alleghenies and it will roll our way. these pieces funneled up along the leading edge of the frontal boundary and that why is we will see sort of pocket would i say of heavy rain coming through throughout the course of the day. right now it is really warm. granted we have got clouds out there but this is a a nice mild start to the day for you but look at the difference, back toward st. louis and little rock and blues starting to show up in the northern plains but you can so tell where front has yet to cross. seventy from philadelphia, 75 down to charleston and 50's off to the west in atlanta that is a spot where front has done it thing and gone. future rain amounts for us are impressive. keep in mind this is a model but this shows you what we're talking about here potential to see anything from half inch up to two plus inches depending where heavier round have rain do end up rolling
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through. an umbrella is a a good idea here today, meanwhile it is still mild as we mentioned, showers will advance, it will culminate later in the day with heavy rain, fussty thunderstorms firing up as well. when we say gusty we have gusts as high as 35 to 40 miles an hour or so. vittoria, over to you. that will make things tricky later on in the commute. right new we have good news. all majors look good, 95, schuylkill expressway, vine street expressway, pennsylvania, delaware, new jersey great way to start your morning. we will start first with the look at schuylkill expressway east and westbound commuting, really well and not only around this point here in the too far from girard, montgomery drive, both sides looking great not only around center city but in your western suburbs, speed sensors are still high up in the 50's. look at ben franklin bridge no delays just yet making your way westbound in philadelphia or eastbound into new jersey, everything is looking and moving fine.
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not only ben but bridges. fifty on the schuylkill. fifty-five on the blue route n delays anywhere you cut it. we have an accident closing limestone road at 926, homeville road is your best alternate, ukee? vittoria, thank you. breaking news in the ebola out break second health care worker just tested positive for ebola. that worker help take care of thomas eric duncan after being diagnosis with the virus n word on that workers' mediate condition. we will update you as soon as we have more information. cdc outlined new steps to prevent ebola from spreading on u.s. soil. governmental agency will send a wrapped response team to any hospital in the nation that diagnoses eerie bowl a patient. cdc director doctor tom freedan cigarettes that a response team was not available sooner. facebook found are mark suck areberg has donated 25 million-dollar to the cdc foundation. the money will be used in areas of the world where ebola
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is a threat. temple university associate professor of medicine is on the the front lines battling against ebola in west africa. doctor eye leap work with the world health organization on infection control in liberia. this is a picture of one of the decontamination units used in the clinic there. the the doctor says although the message is out is there still a lot of work to be done. >> it is incredibly important at this time that we don't do things like ban flights and we don't let fear and anxiety take over, but that we respond actively and help support this response because that is the only way that it will be controlled. >> doctor farnan says is there a major effort underway to make a dent in the number of new infections. stay with "eyewitness news" for continuing coverage of the ebola virus at home and abroad, remember when not near your television you can get updates anytime at ourer with site at cbs philly.com.
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more now on our breaking news bulletsfully in the north philadelphia neighborhood, the gun fire wounds two men and also shattered windows and cars and homes. "eyewitness news" reporter nicole brewer joins us from police headquarters with the latest information, nicole, good morning. >> reporter: good morning tower contact. in all 20 shots were fired, two people, three houses and four vehicles struck but police say outcome of this argument and eventual double shooting could have been much worse. it all happened 12:30 near third and west wellens avenue where police responded to multiple 911 calls after a reported dispute in that area when authorities arrived they found a large crowd of witnesses, several shell casings but in victims. they have later learned that a 20 year old male with the grazed wound to the chest and 23 year-old male shot in the hip were taken to einstein hospital and listed in stable condition. now the good news in all of this is that there were no additional victims despite the fat being that all of those homes and those vehicles were
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struck by gunfire. >> one of the homes the the bullet went in through the living room wall entered through siding, went into the living room wall of the occupied property where a husband, wife and 23 year-old daughter, fortunately, luckily were upstairs asleep at the time. three houses struck by gunfire there are no injuries, police check on the well-being of all of these homes, there are no injuries from stray bullets. >> that is some good news there. shooter described as only two males who fled north through a rearal friday third street and probably entered a white vehicle. now police are hoping surveillance video from the area local school and nearby businesses may help aid them in this investigation. we are live outside police headquarters, nicole brewer, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". our time 5:36n business news how a sneaker company is stopping counterfeit chuck taylors. >> what is causing latest
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recall on the road. money watch's jill wag more joins us from the insuring stock exchange with those stories and more, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, ukee and erika. another car recall, toy yet, recalling 1.6 million cars, including, more than 400,000 in the u.s. toyota says is there an issue with the fuel delivery system and could include a fire. it could crown and car role a toy yet ace not aware of any injuries relate to the problem. investors who are on wall street are watching for new numbers on last month retail sales. the stocks stabilized yesterday after the worst three day drop since 2011, dow jones finish the day six points, lower than the nasdaq which was up 13. commerce is taking some steps to stop copycats of the chuck taylor all stars. the foot company is suing 31 companies, including wal-mart, sketchers and ralph lauren for
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illegally copying the shoes. converse say goal, it is to get imposters off store shelves. whole foods start ranking its pro tuesday today. super market chain is interest tuesdaying a program that will label fruits and vegetables as good, better or best and that is based on the producers farming practices, things like water and energy usage. new system bans several common pesticides and it really comes as whole foods faces more competition traditional super markets are offering organic foods. ukee and area. >> interesting. >> very much so. >> i will check on my chuck taylors too, appreciate it, jill, thank you. in other news, a federal bankruptcy judge will decide fate of trump taj mahal casino on friday. judge will deciding whether to terminal union contract with the atlantic city gaming hall.
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trump entertainment resorts plans to close the casino november 13th unless it gets relief from pension and health care obligations. trump taj mahal employs about 3,000 workers. a beer controversy you might the say is brewing, a at a chester county sports complex. owners of the united sports training center in west brad forward township want to start selling beal to adult patrons but some resident are against this proposition, and they have packed last night's board of supervisors meeting. their argument they don't want beer sold in the place where kids play. >> if the the adults want to have their alcohol, let them go go support the local diners, air local bars or tavern, not here. >> i have seen how the service of beer can be manager in the facility like this for the safety of everybody. >> a vote on the matter is expect at a hearing scheduled for next month. good news for can i lovers, philadelphia ranked one of the best cities for trick or treating. >> what makes halalloween so great in the city of brotherly love, we will tell you. also an all out brawl in the middle of the soccer field
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how a drone spark this nasty fight. also this... >> ♪ >> ahh, back to their roots, boys two men returns to the philadelphia school where it all began. we will take you to their special concert coming up, we will be right back.
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a second dallas health care worker tested positive for ebola. that worker also took care of the first man diagnosis with the ebola in the u.s. also breaking news this
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morning there are bullet holes in homes and cars along 200 block of west wellens avenue this morning. two men are at einstein hospital with gunshot wound. lets look live at camden's new grocery store price right on mount evefram avenue opens up at 9:00 this morning. thinks the only grocery store in the city right now. a mother of three is run off the road and then killed. her family is asking for the driver to turn themselves into authorities. police say the driver cut off lisa demayo in the southbound lanes of i-95 in bensalem. demayo swerved, her vehicle hit a guardrail and flipped over multiple times. her husband was on the even if with his wife at the time of the crash. >> then i heard a scream and i was, i was yelling on the phone until someone heard me. >> i could hear daddy yelling and i got really scared. >> right new police are looking for late 90's and early 2,000 model black sedan,
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that they believe played a rel in this crash. our time 5:43. we have traffic and weather coming up in a moment but first a massive storm system that expound tornadoes and caused widespread flooding in the south is churning toward our area this morning, in georgia, twisters centuries crashing down on many homes and in the state of florida heavy rain left drivers stranded and water so deep they could in the open up their doors. katie has been watching this system and has latest as it heads this way, katie. >> this is very same storm system. when we look at storm scan three of the nice wide zoom this storm is absolutely, enormous, it extend hundreds and hundreds of miles here across the canadian border down into florida and very evident with this sort of comma shape here. we have got a classic mid latitude cyclone setting up here. we have a warm front, two days ago. so it has been a couple days worse have of waiting for this system to get here. when it finally toss in terms
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of the worst that it will be bringing our area we will be dealing with this kind of heavy rain. look at the training taking place almost like train tracks basically that is why we call it training because it is all rain moving over the exact same area here and that is why flooding is a good concern for our area. nothing major, but it will slow you down out there lets walk through future weather, so 7:00 a.m. this morning we are seeing signs of life on radar through western suburbs, heavier rain may pick up as early a as noon time hour up toward berks county, lehigh valley and then eventually move in for everybody. later it gets, you will start to see this picking up every where across the board. notice how it comes through in pockets. there will be spots that may pick up a half inch of rain out of this, others could pick up 2 inches out of this so it just sort of depend where heavier pockets set up. by thursday morning we will be going off the air on our sister station cw philly and this will be done.
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it looks like we will in the see too much of the breeze kick in the wake of this. no harm no foul when it comes to that but obviously we are in for a 24 hour stretch here of some nasty weather and increasingly getting worse before it gets betterment currently our temperatures around the board in the live neighborhood spots are very, very mild, upper 60's but that warmth is not going to trum the school day forecast here today. it was very close to becoming an f but we gave it a d plus because we are starting off with clouds. it is eventually those showers will move in and steady thunderstorms as well which could be gusty, please be careful out there. by tomorrow we will see the skies gradually clearing out, friday looks awesome and burst of school air is on the way for the weekend but with the rain heading our way we want to make sure your cbs philly weather app is on your smart phone. go check radar around the clock get your updated forecast and down load it right now on itunes and google play available for android devices, vittoria, over to you. good morning, everyone still a great commute, and it
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doesn't matter where you are going, traveling in pennsylvania, new jersey or delaware majors are still wide opened at 5:46. looking at 202 around 29 we have an active work zone and still blocking two left lanes in either direction between paoli and 29. between paoli and malvern watch out for that but foulke moving fine. forty-two freeway we are start to go see more volume build on the north bound side of the 42, not much. we will have space in between vehicles which is always a good thing but you will start to see that rush hour traffic form shortly. looking at speed sensors we are seeing a dip on i-95 commuting southbound around girard, 50 on your schuylkill 55 on the blue route no delays on the extension or pennsylvania turnpike. we have an accident in chester county limestone road is closed as a result of it, at 926. homeville road is your best alternate. if you are traveling, well, using pennsylvania turnpike well you will note us we have construction around the area of the bensalem but don't forget when on the road you
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can always get updated traffic fur about backups in your area using the new your drive app, down load that app for iphone and android devices by going to cbs philly.com/your drive. home coming is word for philadelphia's own boys two men. >> grammy award winning group hit the stage to perform a concert at their alma matter. >> ♪ >> ♪ east coast swing >> "eyewitness news" bat philadelphia high school for creative and performing arts, capa last night where the group met started singing in the halls and the rest is philly history. private performance was held for 200 chosen students. >> this is our roots, thinks where it all started, this is what the song motown philly was all about. >> energy of what the kids is about and what they believe in here is the same, it feels good to be back. >> last night's concert will
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era satellite radio, the same day the group new album drops, nice. >> two avengers will be facing off on the big screen, variety reports robert downey junior is in the final talks to appear in captain america three as iron man, but, captain america three won't be happy reunion. premise pits two avengers against each other in the marvel comic civil war story line. downey junior signs on that dotted line he is reported to set to make a hefty 40 million-dollar. captain america three hits theaters in 2016, ukee. >> four million-dollar. >> wow. >> i'm going with iron man in that within. you don't have to go far to find the best trick or treating in the country, real estate web site zillow ranks fill at fourth best city to collect candy on halloween. they have looked at which children get the most candy in the least amount of time with the fewer safety risks. san francisco, tops the list.
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i have no clue. >> how do they to these studies. >> no clue. >> but have have a safe one, happy and safe one indeed. as we go to break we have an eye on the ray heading toward delaware valley, katie has your forecast when we do traffic and weather together on the three's. on the three's. >> goo in cases of rape,pposes aborin cases of incest,ions. and in cases where the mother's health is in danger. no woman should be forced to carry a pregnancy from a rape. mario scavello sponsored a bill to force women to have unnecessary and invasive ultrasounds. it's horrifying. women need to know that mario scavello wants to stand between them and their doctors in making decisions that aren't his to make.
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happening today pennsylvania governor tom corbett signs the bill known as hand's law. bill is name for hanna, a bristol township bucks county native. hand ace fighting craba disease a disorder affecting one in 100,000 new borns. legislation requiresto offer prenatal screening in crabe and five other diseases.
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on the healthwatch this morning, a new tool in the fight against enterovirus. cdc just started using a faster lab test to diagnosis the respiratory virus that is spreading like wild fire across the the country. now, it should take oly days, instead of weeks to process lab results. the virus has sickened hundreds of children and may have killed at least six others. and, raising the red flag on event joy drinks, the world health organization warns the drinks could cause public health problems because they are loaded with high levels of caffeine. unlike coffee, the caffeine in energy drinks is designed to go down fast. researchers want to cap the amount of caffeine and in turn limit their sales. coming up at 5:53. lets get traffic and weather together with katie. >> ukee, we are halfway through objecting and we have a large storm system to track as we continue through the day here starting off with the clouds but showers build in, you can see leading edge, already, just barely clipping lancaster county.
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only matter of time and very heavy rain embedded within this. you can see that one little line basically moving over these exact same area there are numerous flash flood watches across virginia and maryland, in here yet. we will let you know if that changes. it is october 15th and give you sense of how things are going in the month of october. we are normally dry. we are just shy of the half inch below average here in terms of the precipitation. been a mild start to the month. our high temperatures what we hit yesterday almost 80 degrees. 79-ton exact. our low temperature came at 43 degrees. three day forecast for you, watching for rain, expect to get heavy with time, so think about taking the umbrella with you because you you will thank yourself you got it later on. the gusty thunderstorms accompany the passage of this front, vittoria. >> thanks very much, katie. good morning. lots of good news. lets go right outside. traveling currently on i-95 in the southbound direction that would be around girard avenue. now good news is that we're in
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the seeing a full swing rush just yet so you are just a little bit slow approaching girard. bad news is that eventually it will come so plan accordingly and stay with us. northbound i-95 in major problems, things in delaware county moving well. speed sensors look good but when sun comes up rush
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and all out brawl breaks out during a soccer game between two rival nations albania and serbia were facing off yesterday when someone flew a drone on to the field with the albania flag. certain player grabbed it and that sparked a fight. officials stopped match because spectators were shooting off flares, it was abandoned for good when the fists start todd fly, crowd hurled garbage at the players, as they started to run for the exits. we have heard of snakes on the plane what about snakes on the train, subway passenger in insuring snapped this picture that guy is kissing a huge bowa constrictor out of the backpack and is there another one on his left.
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tough to shock most new yorkers though women next to him, just reading her ipad there. read to go get off on her stop. just a another day. we will be right back. ♪ i thought it'd be bigger. ♪
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in. it looks like it is coming through in pockets. that is what you are fining as this wider glance at storm scan three. is there only a few spots where we have bright colors of yellow, orange showing up there is rain basically every where in this wall of water that is moving our way but it gets very heavy, at certain point, like cutting right across a pennsylvania state border from western mess maryland. the eventually all that will be rolling through our area, at the moment, we have a couple little speckles of green across say harrisburg, lancaster county so generally speaking we are stuck in the clouds for new but that will change for time. sixty-eight at the airport. we are in the low to even mid 70's. look at reading. 73 degrees right now but notice where cool air is, brought here and it is anywhere where rain is moving through or cold front has crossed. back in the 50's in pittsburgh. state college is 10 degrees warmer than pittsburgh. th