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The own are in of a restaurant in a popular philadelphia neighborhood. He is under arrest tonight as part of a federal child pornography investigation. Good evening everyone im ukee washington. Jessica has the night off. Those who know the suspect 41yearold alex are shocked by the accusation against him. He is co owner of crow and the pitcher in philadelphias rittenhouse neighborhood. Eyewitness News Reporter david spunt is outside the eatery right now with the details of this investigation. David . Reporter ukee, chef alex opened the restaurant a little over a year ago his bio has been removed from the website in just the last few hours. This the governments case against him. Tonight i have to be honest with you this document is tough to read. For customers everything seemed normal friday night at crow and pitcher in rittenhouse square. The employees are still come to go grips after co owner and head chef alex was picked up for his alleged involvement with child porn. How do you expect Something Like that. Michael franco and alex opened the place just over a year ago. Authorities arrested him on monday but his colleague just found out late friday afternoon. The last three hours have been like a tailspin. You know, i havent seen him for the whole week. Reporter according to federal documents obtained by Eyewitness News. Cappssso allegedly sexually abused fiveyearold girl and had the pictures to prove it. The niece of one of his friends according to authority. The paper work describes him texting Undercover Police officer in washington, d. C. Who claimed to have nineyearold daughter. The undercover officer told him he had permission to touch the daughter. Text messages paint a disturbing picture. According to Court Documents the undercover agent said cool, what all you looking to do, i do have a few limits with her. Today paso allegedly responded oh id be happy just to watch. But will go as far as you allow. What are the boundaries . The rest of the covering is too graphic to share. I cant believe that somebody who runs a restaurant in my neighborhood i cant even wrap my mind around it. Rows sally lives in the neighbor and has spent time inside cap pasos restaurant. Children come by here all the time. Reporter officers arrested him at his collingswood home things were quiet outside the home friday night. You know we really became like a family. So its hitting us hard, and you know i think now were going to band together and continue doing what were doing. Reporter alex cap paso will face a judge in washington d. C. According to this federal Court Document alex cap paso admitted to distributing child pornography but said the images were from the internet he did not take those images. We are still waiting that hear back from his Legal Council reporting in rittenhouse square, david spunt cbs3 Eyewitness News. David, thank you. In other news tonight accuseed killer a Drexel University graduate is behind bars but some are still living in fear. Authorities say the former handyman had access to the victims apartment even though he lost his job and had a lengthy criminal history. Our Natasha Brown joins us now from Police Headquarters with more on this story. Natasha . Well, ukee, homicide detectives worked around the clock to try to solve this case as quickly as possible news of an arrest tonight brings closure to those who knew the 27yearold victim. I mean hes monster and were very happy to get him off the streets. Reporter this is the face of the Monster Police are describing. 56yearold career criminal james harris now charged with the murder and Sexual Assault of 27yearold jasmine wright. Hes got 31 priors, um, back in 82 he was arrested for killing his own father. Hes been arrested several times for Sexual Assault. Several robberies. Several burglaries. Reporter the recent drexel graduate was found beaten strangled and sexually assaulted last week inside her third floor apartment in a 200 block of south 50th street. With witness accounts coupled with dna and fingerprints led police to their prime suspect harris who work as hand man in the victims building. He had been fired a week prior to the murder but was last seen in entering the building july july 16th 30 minutes before the victim. He broke in to her apartment. She came in about their minutes after he was inside of the apartment, she was on her cell phone talking to her mother who lived in virginia, at that time he attacked her. Reporter police are still trying to figure out why he still had keys to the building. A question that haunts this resident who says he lives in another building owned by the same man who own the property along 50th street. He didnt want to be identified. If have you some kind of business and you have people youre renning to you should have a system or procedure that you do prior to you hiring handy people you know like handy men o s or maintenance guys. If not anybody can come in here. Its a terrible thing. Back in Jasmine Wrights neighborhood residents grapple with grief and gratitude tide with news of an arrest. A memorial continues to grow honoring a young woman whos life was tragically cut too short. Im grateful that the mother and the father has closure. Thank you in this matter. You know, somebody is off the streets that did harm to more than one person. Reporter will police say right now harris is not being cooperative with investigators. They have still not uncovered a metif in this case. Meantime he is facing a lengthy list of charges including murder, rape robbery burglary and other related offenses. Thats the very latest for now reporting live here at Police Headquarters tonight, Natasha Brown cbs3 Eyewitness News. Natasha, thank you for that. Were learning more tonight about the gunman behind a deadly louisiana theater shooting. Investigators today collected more evidence from the Movie Theater in lafayette. About 20 minutes into the film train wreck 59yearold john houser stood up and opened fire killing two people and injuring nine others before taking his own life. Houser had been treated for Mental Illness when he was young young. He was evicted from a rental home last year and has been described as a drifter. His hotel room was also searched searched. We found wigs and glasses and disguises basically in his room. His vehicle had a switched license tag on it. It is apparent that he was intent on shooting and then escaping. 21yearold macy bro and 33yearold Jillian Johnson were killed. We now know the identity of a philadelphia swat officer wounded in a shoot out. Officer frank sis whelan took a shot through his bullet proof vest while executeing a search warrant wednesday. Authorities say murder suspect devon g u. S. Hard was killed in shoot out with police at a northeast philadelphia apartment apartment. Officer whelan was check out at the hospital for a bruce to his stomach and then was released. Expect traffic detours to last for weeks as camden gets ready to demolish a fixture of ski skyline starring tomorrow Commerce Building built in 1965 and hail as a sign of camdens progress at the time but now the property at broadway and federal streets will be turned into a parking lot. Demolition is expected to take about two weeks. During that time streets all around the demolition site will be closed to traffic. Buses will also be deedee toward. State regulators criticizing the response by Atlantic City electric to a storm in june that left 280,000 Customers Without Service for days. Report by the new jersey board of Public Utilities found the companys communication with customers, officials and regulators was problematic. They stated in part Atlantic City electric should have informed local communities more quickly about the extent of and challenges being faced in terms an extended recovery. Outage of Verizon Cell Service every day you called there was always a time but never just came back on. Obviously we want to make improvements to our process cease and if we can do Something Different thats what were looking for. Atlantic City Electric was dealt a major blow with a total of 419,000 customers affected by the storm. Countdown is on. In 64 days pope francis will arrive in philadelphia. It is sure to be one of the biggest events in our citys history. The pontiffs visit has sparked a rental crack down. As eyewitness News Reporter diana rocco tells you some hoping to cash in on out of town visitors are finding they could be out of luck. Many throughout center city and beyond have already listed a condo or apartment expecting big bucks for the popes visit. Some asking more than 1,000 a night. We have raised the daily rate about 500 to see if its something we can get. Craig beer man manages a south philly building he legally posted a building on air b and b and so far its been two months with no bites. Everybody is saying they can get 500 or a thousand dollars for this and that, um, is mistaken because im out there and i can see that thats not really happening. I look at all sorts of web sites most notably air b and b its very easy to find them because they have to put where the opportunity. Chuck hole mr. Is one of many building managersing tolling air b and b to find unit owners sub letting or renting ill heel. I tell them to take the listing down. Condo bylaws prohibit Short Term Rentals it violates insurance policies and the safety of other owners. Transient renter is not going to have the same kind of stake they came to pilgrimage to see the pope they find fight themselves on the street. Gary, represents condo associations throughout center city. Management companies have every write to deny access. They wont be able to get through the front door. So theyll be left high and dry and we dont like to do that. We dont want to do that to visitors to the city but we have to protect our clients need to protect interests of the owners of the condominium. Non compliant openers could even find themselves in court. Theres been a lot of air b and b talk. A lot of craigslist ads. Little bit concerned about who is coming in for the week. For tenants little more cut and dry. A sub let of any kind would violate the term of a lease agreement. Weve reached out to dozen of people in the center city area. Nearly all have declined an interview. At the art museum diana rocco cbs3 Eyewitness News. Well tonight Major Airlines under investigation. Did they raise fares in the wake of the amtrak tragedy . Still ahead well tell hugh is launching this investigation and what theyre demanding the airlines to turn over. Also a popup beer garden opens then is shut down by the city of philadelphia. Why the owner would not take no for an answer. Kate . And the past three days have been a terrific trifecta of summer weather. It does warm up this weekend but we do have some pretty nice weather for to you get outside and another heat wave to talk about. Ill have all the details coming up with the seven day forecast. The video that just makes you crimple. Cars swerve as a family of ducks makes a harrowing journey across very busy highway. That story whoa, when we come back. Back on Eyewitness News with a geyser shooting three stories into the air. This happened today in brooklyn. A huge broader water main burst forcing police to close the street in both directions. It took crews almost two hours to shut the water off. No injuries were reported. Well tonight airline are denying they jacked up fares in the aftermath of the deadly amtrak derailment in philadelphia. Department of transportation is investigateing. Officials sent letters to delta american, united southwest and jet blue today asking for information related to the legs. The may 12th derailment in philadelphia disrupted service along the northeast corridor for almost a week. Fiat chrysler is recalling 1. 4 million cars and trucks in the United States after hackers were able to take control of a jeep over the internet. The company will update software to insulate the vehicles from being remotely controlled. The recall affects vehicles with 8. 4inch you connect touch screens. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is launching an investigation to see iffy yacht chryslers recall will be affected. The pop up beer garden at the center of a nasty battle between its owner and philadelphia officials will reopen tomorrow. Its been shut down twice in two weeks. Eyewitness News Reporter to quinones has the story from point breeze. Reporter developer john, showed me the rooftop view from the Atlantic City Apartment Building hes renovating. Look at that view. Reporter wow. A lot of potential. While this project moves forward, another one of his has been shut down. Six weeks after it opened, the pop up beer garden in the point breeze neighborhood in philadelphia was suddenly shut down. Long acre who own the lot says without warning the Citys Department of licenses and inspections came in and closed it. You have to have a real zoning hearing so thats crazy. Reporter two sides have been battling back and forth in court for weeks now over zoning. Theres no clearly defined policy in anyone direct. Report roar long acre contends l and i is over reach reaching since he has permission through the state and Liquor License to open temporary beer garden. If the city didnt inter 15 and make up new policy for us we would be open. Neighbors agree much they tell me this was vacant lot people often dump their garbage on. Bringing live to the neighborhood. You miss it now that its closed. I do. Long acre spent 60,000 renovating the beer garden and the abrupt city shut down echoes complaints hes heard from Developers Like himself. Its not attractive for Developers Like yourself to come and do what youre doing. Theres too much red tape. Too many circumstance like this that keep people from coming in. Reporter late this afternoon long acre actually won his most recent battle in court meaning at least for this weekend beers will once again be flowing from the taps as for l and i a spokesperson there said they had no comment citing pending litigation. Reportingreporting in point breeze, Todd Quinones cbs3 Eyewitness News. The mural arts in philadelphia taken taking a building step one that will require you to look up artist is install his latest work on the top floors of the grand building. The faces faces face is of um bra ham shaw its part of a poke called open source aim at highlighting physicals diverse urban identity. He said can i take your picture. Yeah, of course. 14 other pieces of temporary art will be pigged all around the city. They will be meet by the end of october. New tonight giving children a safe place to play. Eyewitness news at the pal center in the 5900 block of elmwood avenue. Pal locations all across the city are open on friday nights from 5 00 to 9 00 and on saturday from 1 00 until 9 00 p. M. Those hours are good all summer long. I used to roller 68 up there in that area. Old elmwood skating ring bruising up my elbows. Falling down. Great night to get out and skate and just about anything. You may wanted to Indoor Sports next week when the heat and humidity comes back to the area. Unfortunately we have been really enjoying some great weather this week since we got rid of heat huhn from earlier in the week the dog days of summer are not quite through with us yet. Weve got one more comfortable day thats tomorrow and then the humidity is back. So lets take look outside. A lot of people enjoying this friday night. Fabulous friday night with dew points only in the 50s. Low humidity. Its a clear night. It is beautiful outside. Even may need a light jacket if youre in a couple of spots. Down the shore you get that breeze off the water put thon sweatshirt to walk the boards here in ocean city but things are looking good. Look like the ferris wheel shut down early for friday night. Lights are not on there but the stores are still lit up, and still pretty pack here at 11 19 on the ocean city boardwalk. Storm scan3 is very quiet right now. Nothing going on across the northeast. The showers and storms over southern new england have fallen apart and as we head to the south we see just a couple of showers and thunderstorms in south florida. 92 portions of the deep south thats something to watch ill tell you more about that in a moment. Lets get through the near term. 74 at the airport. 70 in allentown a cool 59 in mount pocono. 69 in reading. Already down to 65 in millville. Once again we are the warmest spot here in philadelphia mainly thanks to that urban heat island effect all that blacktop and concrete retaining heat from the day. Right now its 90 in little rock. 81 degrees in oklahoma city. 90 in dallas all the heat is here it will be living north and east as we head through the weekend into next week. Meaning the comfort is on borrowed time in fact the dew point has jumped up to 62 degrees in philadelphia. Most spots are still in the mid 50s. Im calling the pleasant but getting closer to the nod bad range and what follows the not bad range back to steamy by the next next week well talking about oppressive conditions with regard to humidity at least once a again well see dew points back up near 70 degrees starting monday into tuesday and that makes it feel 10 to 15 degrees hotter than the thermometer indicates. High pressure overhead tomorrow. Sunday upper 80s near 90. More humid watch for a stray afternoon thunderstorm. You can see how the humidity is going to start to increase each day. Tomorrow still on the pleasant side. Getting closer to humid though. Humid on sunday and then were up towards steamy by tuesday. Lets take look at our tropical satellite. All this red and orange here thats convection showers and storms blowing up this stalled frontal boundary will be the focus of potential tropical requests late next week. Some of the models want to bring that often the eastern see bore late next week. Well let you know if anything happens that could impact our weather. Tomorrow 89 degrees. Sunny and nice warmer and down the shore looking good. Were at 83 degrees. Uv index is 10. So mack sure you put on the sunscreen. Sunday look warm and humid. Nice summer weekend like last week warm and steamy. Monday 89 degrees with a thunderstorm. Tuesday our next heat wave. Hazy, hot and humid the 3hs tuesday through thursday. We can be in the mid 90s by thursday again so we thought we were done with it. Were not. Dont look for autumn any time soon. I dont think well be back there any time soon pat gallen with eyewitness sports. Afternoon baseball out in chicago. The trade rumors continue to swirl around the phillies. Well have pictures coming up. Plus something you might not know about chip kelly. That and more to come in sports. The trade deadline fast approaching with cole hamels the most taught sought out target on the phillies. He slated to pitch tomorrow in what could be his final start as phillie. However, they still have to play the games and they start up weekend series at Wrigley Field today. Phillies contingent always very strong in chicago especially especially the summer. Pretty good farmers tan. Chris showing off his gun two run shot. Puts the cubs up threetwo in the fourth. We go to the ninth inning phils still down a a run. Company dee asche buries another double into the ivy. It would score galvis and would tie the game at three. That means free baseball but not for long. Jeff francoeur whose been in trade rumors of his own helps his own value. Two run homerun in the tenth puts the phillies up fivethree. Phils win they have come out of the break red shot sixone after the all star game game. Wwe cut ties with one of the most influential wrestlers of all time. Hulk hogan had his contract terminated after a report surfaced that he was filmed in 2008 using racial slurs and proclaiming he is a racist. The 61yearold has seen apologized in a statement to e news. On august 8th junior will be induct flood the pro football hall of fame. His daughter toll the New York Times she planned on introducing her father but told by the inform fl she cannot. He committed suicide in 2012 and was diagnosed with cte a traumatic brain disorder found in several nfl players after their deaths including former eagle andre waters team usa will shoot for their place at the gold cup take on panama tomorrow at 4 00 oclock at ppl park. Gold cup final is at the linc on sunday between mexico and jamaica. U. S. Mens head coach is happy to be at ppl mark in chester but hed rather be playing in south philly. Obviously, you know, its not the game we wanted to be in. Obviously. We wanted to be at the eagles stadium. We feel privilege any way to be at this stadium and a beautiful a rona and finish things off in this gold cup. Heres something new. Many think chip kelly is the most interesting man in the football world. Now we have an interesting addition to his story. According to the washington post, chip kelly had been married for seven years something that was not previously common public knowledge. Currently he seems to be married to football. Dont go anywhere. Well be right back. Patients across the country have spoken. They recently rated their Care Experience at over 3,500 hospitals nationwide in a survey conducted for the centers for medicare and medicaid. Just seven percent received five stars. Among them were four hospitals that are part of Cancer Treatment centers of america. Learn more at cancercenter. Com. Cancer Treatment Centers of america. Care that never quits. Appointments available now. vo you can pass down a subaru forester. dad shes all yours. vo but you get to keep the memories. Love. Its what makes a subaru a subaru. Before we go tonight why did the ducks cross the road . Tell you what these ducks dont care about your answer. Take a look at this video from minnesota. Drivers on interstate 35 near minneapolis had to swerve to get out of the way of the ducklings as they could have the highway. Traffic cameras caught about a dozen car narrowly missing those ducks. After seeing this video the Minnesota State patrol advised drivers not to stop for wildlife because that could cause a Chain Reaction crash. Fortunately that didnt happen as you see yeah, over the finish line. Oops. Everybody got youre like everybody got out. How could you not stop. I know. I know. I know. But tell me about it. Very tough. Thanks for watching Eyewitness News at 11 00 oclock. The news continues tomorrow morning at 5 00. For pat kate and everyone here im ukee washington. Ncis is next. From our entire music etta james at last plays throughout sometimes, at last doesnt happen at first. Your dad just kissed my mom. Turning two worlds into one takes love. 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