Out in hot ingham, pa, chester county, dime size hail. Currently watching the cluster south of trenton. See the thunderstorms firing up ice of philadelphia, moving pretty quickly but it is brink withing it gusts up to 40 Miles Per Hour, there is possibility still see small size hail. Torrential downpours in this little cluster of storms, so, watch for that, as you move into western burlington county. Youre going to be running into this, and we have seen actually got another tweet from somebody else saying that it is like a light show out there. Across some of these counties, so just keep that in mind. You are going get slowed down by the storms this morning slight risk actually until the storms move out of here, in terms of Severe Weather potential. And we have already had downpours, they are currently on radar gusty wind, currently occurring with those, and even, yes some small size hail as we mention reported to us from one of the eyewitness weather watchers. We lynn it to get reports as the morning goes on, keep updating you. But again, it is out there. And eventually, once this rolls on through we are looking at much quieter afternoon. Here is how it feels much warmer across south jersey than it does across say the poconos, western suburbs because thats your frontal boundary guys, whats moving through right now. It should still be a hot and somewhat muggy day but regardless, it looks like much quieter afternoon for most of us but i still meisha think you can still see spotty shower or storm at some point. Really good to know, yes certainly, especially for this morning for morning commuters just starting to head out on the roadways, pushing toward the 6 00 hour we see volume levels pick up, then add lick roadways, can be kind after doozy, thanks for waking one us happier here, live look outside the blue route southbound at the midcounty toll plaza, you can see it is looking great here, just looking damn many on the roadways, good thing we dont have any accidents right now to report. Thats great. Specially with the number of volume everyone trying get earlier start to work. Cottman, coming around the s curve you can see plenty of vehicles here, but the i stretch yesterday. We expect that but not necessarily before we hit the 6 00 hour. Give yourself couple every extra minutes lever couple of extra minute early. Up and in the area of west chester, 202 northbound at route three, see headlight coming at you nothing too busy there. But i will say that we saw some droplet on the camera, looking very busy, then we go to our big map, you can see all of the speed censors are still nice and hi, 55 Miles Per Hour on all of our main line thats exactly what we want to see right now especially given a we are dealing with with Mother Nature erika over to you. Thank you, new this morning, Philadelphia Police are investigating an accident that sent one of their officers and two people in a taxi to the hospital. Police say the officer was responding to a call around 3 00 this morning, when the collision happened at 56th street and haverford avenue. We are told the cruiser lights and sirens were on, all of the injuries are minor. We have up a date now to story we brought you yesterday morning on Eyewitness News a Gloucester County man is under arrest for a vandalism spree in south philly. Twentynine year old norman is accused of slashing tires on nine cars, on the 1,000 block of ellsworth street. Police say he was caught in the act, with a knife in his hand. He is facing several charges including criminal mischief. Police in west vincent township have released this sketch after robbery suspect. Investigators say a man sitting this description broke into a home on burtlet school road. The man asked him if he was having any water problems, then forced his way in, punched and tied up that man and then took cash, jewelry and a laptop. The victim was not seriously hurt. If you have any information you are asked to call west vincent township police. 5 34, and in his first local appearance, pennsylvania congressman, chaka fattah, vows to run for re rec election. Concerns of the allegation that is have been made, i am innocent im going to do my work, on behalf of the people who have elected me. And im going to be a candidate for reelection in my district, next year. Fattah was in havertown Delaware County to take part in the ymca advocacy week kick off event. The democrat, who has spent more than two decades in congress, is accused of miss appropriate g hundreds every thousands of dollars in federal, charitable, and campaign funds. Fattah says as you heard him say that he will clear his name. 5 35 right now. In Business News this morning a move by one State Government that could save lives. Money watchs hena daniels joins us from the new york stork stock exchange, with that story and more, hena, good morning. Reporter good morning, erika. Yes, new york state is moving to stop sales of toy guns. Retailers including walmart, sears, amazon have agreed reduce sales of lifelike toy guns. They also agreed penalties of more than 300,000. The state attorney general says there have been 63 shootings in new york, since 1994, as a result of someone holding a toy weapon. Airbus has just patented new hypersonic jet. The company says the jet could reach speeds as high as four and a half times the speed of sound. The plane could fly from london to new york in a hour, thats compared to conventional jet which takes about seven to eight hours for that very same flight, there is no timetable of when this jet will be built. And when the weather heats up coffee shop sales usually cool down. But, Cold Brew Coffee is now the hottest craze, and americans are willing to pay for it. Starbucks, peach coffee, tee and guy and ballard are just some of the Companies Offering it this summer. It is made with more coffee beans than regular iced coffee, which means Coffee Companies can charge more for it. Erika . Coffee, come on, guys, hena thank you. The manna cured of murdering Memphis Police officer during a traffic stop is expected to appear in court today. Twentynine year old will burn turned himself into police last night. He allegedly shot and killed officer sean bolton saturday night when he unknowingly interrupted a drug deal. Nebraska man will spend five years in prison for a road rage incident where he kicked a teenage boy until it knock him out. The incident was caught on camera and some of you may finds this video disturbing. The attack happened after 35 year old ryan len hand cut off the 15 year old driver and hit his pickup truck. When the teen got out to exchange information, lenhand attack choking punching, kicking the boy in his face until he lost consciousness. Lenhand agreed take plea de to reduce his prison time. Right now, rescue at sea caught on camera, more than 40 miles off the coast of cape may. Check it outright here. The Coast Guard Air lifted the man who had been in the ocean for several hours. He went overboard off a ship east of cape may and after being thrown a life perserver by a passing ship, made it back onto his boat. That man was taken to the hospital and is expected to be okay. 5 38 right now. An exciting day for eagles fans. The team will hold its first open practice for the 2015 season. Justin finch joins us at lincoln financial field because that lightning, i know you are stuck in the truck but i know youre real excited, justin, good morning. Thats right. Good morning hoping the skies clear by 10 00 a. M. When the stadium opens up, of course quite the off season for eagles fans, watching all of those roster changes and of course all of the off field it up, as women and today at 10 00 they will be eager to see new birds fly under head coach chip kelly. Look out the lynn will be loud from cheering eagles fans to coaches calls down on the field. Going to win the superbowl in three years. Tuesdays open practice invites fans of all ages and levels for a sneak peak at head coach chip kelly home team make over, including demarco murray, already at home in what was enemy territory. Great team. Great group of guys. Great group of coaches. Great organization. So like i said, i definitely feel like an eagles. Eagles fans have high hopes. Im with chip, absolutely. Like this season is casino of like much more exciting, because we dont know exactly what do expect. There is buzz too about brandon boykin, exeagles cornerback just tradd to pittsburgh heating up headlines after comment some took as an echo of past claims of differences between coach kelly and black players. In my quote i said he was uncomfortable with men of our cult europe. I am not saying he is a racist at all. Thats not what i said. So i think now it is kind of taken out of context. I like brandon. I just dont know, rally dont know. Guys, like, mexican bradford, arent you like native american, and kiko is colombian, black guys, white guys polynesian guys. Come on, thats craze. I then there is mark sanchez, qb now likely looking over his shoulder after reports new addition sam bradford has been working out first time offense. And coming off a record last season fans are hedging their bets this goaround. One thing is for sure. Fans are looking for at least a division win this year from their eagles that remains of course in question. Practice starts today at quarter to noon. It will be packed, those music here as well as fun and lot of free things, i hear, as well. We are live at the linc, justin finch cbs3 Eyewitness News. Who doesnt like freezing . Exactly. Still ahead, Eyewitness News, melted siding, a problem causing homeowners thousands of dollars this summer. Jim donovans on your side with what you need to know. And then, listen to this, rapper 50cent in court detailing his finances, but wait until you hear how much he says hes paying for his gardening. Uhhuh. Then, a program thats helping children with disability, enjoy water skiing. Just great story here. Well have this when we come back. Good morning. Heres look at your headlines today on cbs3. Police cruiser and taxi cab collide injuring an officer and two others. The officer was responding to a call of a person with a gun at the time of the crash. It happened at 56th and haverford avenue in west philadelphia. Also, this Morning Police in holmdale new jersey are looking for a suspect who shot two people leaving a hip hop concert featuring j coal. The shooting happened in a parking lot near the pnc bank art center. Eyewitnesses say the gunfire broke out after an argument. And firefighters continue to work to put out a massive wild fire in northern california. The blaze jumped a lie way that severed as containment line. The rocky fire trip felled size over the weekends to 97 square miles. Well, have you ever heard of solar distortion . Thats what they call it when a homes vinyl siding melts due to reflecting sunlight. This had a sank all across the country costing homeowners thousands of dollars. Jim donovan has more on the problem in this weeks angies list report. Vinyl siding, is the most popular singlefamily homicide g product in the united state. It is attractive, economical, durable, but some say their siding has melted, because of their neighbors Energy Efficient windows. A perfect series every events that leads to. This you have to have the right sang he will of the sun. Depending on the time of day if the suns high in the sky or not. We actually see more cases weve been called out more in the wintertime when the sun is lower. Often referred to as low e windows, they act like a magnifying glass. Shooting the suns rays like a lazer beam on to the house nextdoor. This has become such a problem, many of the vinyl siding companies are excluding damage from low window reflection from their warrantees. Vinyl siding companies and window manufacturers point the finger of responsibility at each other. Numerous lawsuits are in the works, but that still leaves homeowners like maura lewis to find their own solution. One option to upgrade to fiber cement or hardy planning siding. But thats about three times more expensive than standard vinyl. I kind of felt like our hands were tide. You know, we were kind of stuck with the situation, not really being able to fix it at the time until we got more information on how to do that. Expert recommend installing exterior screens over the offending windows to diffuse the heat. That requires a cooperative neighbor. Bill saw what his windows were doing to the house nextdoor and had no issues spending 245 to have three screens installed. Hopefully people have the minds set of being neighborly. We all want to sell our houses at one point. You really cant sell a house that has severe damage. If you notice solar distortion on your home, try talking to your neighbor to see if they would be willing to install screens or ages to help protect your house. For more information on solar distortion visit cbsphilly. Com angies list, im jim donovan. Group every wisconsin kids getting chance to enjoy sum near way they never have before. The on the edge Childrens Foundation helps children with disabilities, and this weekend, the kids went water skiing. Check it outright there. Organizers say that all children should have the chance to do something fun and take part in the challenging activities too they add that it is safe, and for the kids, oh, just so exciting, as well. Just a part of summer. Great to see for everyone involved there. Katie, not the best day to try little jet skiing today . Storms moving in . Right. I wouldnt say at least for morning jet ski excursion wouldnt be the best idea. We are tracking stormy weather, and thats where we will turn our eyewitness weather watcher focus here, taking things out to the center of the map here. So 67 degrees came in to us from barbara lane, more than anything, we want to focus on her icon, thunderstorms have been moving n just sent this in within the last five, six minutes, out in willow grove pa. We take you awe across the river, 73 came in from lynn. She is loving this. She, too dealing with some thunder and lightning. She, because i think she is an eyewitness weather watcher you tends to love the storms when they roll n actually did wake her up. And then bill is just west of where this little cluster formed. He said that things have actually quieted down for him. He just sent that within the last seven minutes. Rain has stopped. Had a heavy downpourment didnt last too long. When it rumbled through, boy did it, meanwhile jason down here across middletown, delaware, one of the golds star weather watchers as well in the morning. He is not seeing anything yet. He mentioned how humid it is however. And when we look at the severe thunderstorm warnings, nothing posted for the cluster ill show now second, just off to the north. But here is through the south kent and New Castle County now affected by some heavy downpours that are moving east damaging winds with these storms, potential for excessive 60mile per houses go with the cluster maybe even up to quarter size hail with this, as well. Lets go to storm scan, show you what we are talking about here, so right now the heaviest thunderstorms are obviously firing up, around trenton, basically on south to central portions of burlington county, where you have pretty frequent lightning. Here is the storminess actually just saw tweet down from baltimore that they had some haim, as well. So there is already been hail reported with this cluster. And again, it is basically moving due east, expected to affect portions of new castle and kent county here, probably in the next half hour, moving along pretty speedily here. Lets look at this eyewitness weather seven day, one more day of 90 degrees, then we officially break this heatwave we think 88 degrees the expectation tomorrow. Nice zimmer day, still warm granted, humidity dropping, dont have to worry about wet weather again until friday. Mere, a over to you. Thanks so much. Yes, right now roadways damp as they are things looking pretty good out there. Here is a look at the ben franklin bridge, for those every you coming in, you can see from the headlights, glare on the surfaces, letting us know that it is a little bit slick out there. Always give yourself little bit of space from the car in front of you but things are looking good. Here is a lock at the roosevelt boulevard as you head southbound, coming up to the junction of the schuylkill, then it kind of jams up around schuylkill expressway westbound but right now i just took a peak at the area looking good there. Just wet out there. Here is a look at the blue route northbound route one. It doesnt actually look too bad here in fact you can just see nice steady stream everyone traveling as posted speeds headlights, plenty of headlights coming at you still slow moving. Construction, 422 westbound between sanatoga, arm and hammer boulevard left lane block for those every how have to travel in and around the area. Then we had traffic light malfunction, the inner and outer lanes are blocked at route one at cottman avenue because of the traffic lights. So another little note to make this morning erika over to you. Meisha, thank you. Toy maker Ty Incorporated has created a cecil the lion beanie baby to raise funds for animal conservation efforts. The creation of this toy comes after american dentist Walter Palmer was accused of killing the well known lion in zimbabwe. The company says that all profits from the cecil the line beanie baby will go to the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit of the university of oxford in england. That toy goes on sale at the end of september. Anarchs louisianna dentist and his family are getting Death Threats following cecils controversial killing. However, they have the wrong doctor palmer. Doctor james palmer says hes anything but an animal killer. His wife says that she has been responding to each negative post on his Facebook Page clarifying his innocence. Now days are i more like to watch the animals and than to harm them. Getting tired because im constantly checking oh, there is another one, and have to delete that one, or got it respond to that one. Palmer did call police after the first threats came through. Step up patrols around his business and home. Well, the annual list of the nations Top Party Schools, it is out. Well tell you the top three coming up. First though, heres whats coming up tonight on cbs3. Couple announces theyre not speaking, no doubt, well tell how it is right now. Superstar rock couple gwen stefani and gavin, filing for divorce. Stefan i and ross have been together for 20 years. Married for 13. The couple has three sons together. They say though, they will remain partners in parenthood. They would is celebrated their 14th wedding anniversary next month. Rapper 50 cent told Connecticut Bankruptcy Court his monthly income is 185,000. But his monthly expenses, are 108,000. With get there is five grand a month alone. Just going to his gardner. Must good to be 50cents gartner, can you imagine that . Rapper board curtain jackson the thirds filed for bankrupt are you after new york Court Ordered him to pay 7 million for a woman leaking her sex i have it on line. All right, do you think you have what it takes to be contestant on the hit cbs show the amazing race . Cbs3 is holding casting call this friday. Is at the Kalahari Resorts in the poconos get all of the details you need to know at cbsphilly. Com. Search for amazing race. Princeton review out with their list of the Top Ten Party Schools in the country and now number one listen up, the university of illinois urban a champagne campus is the Top Party School first time topping the list, probably not too thrilled about. That will coming in second, the university of iowa followed by the university of wisconsin wandering for the 18th year in a row bringing ham Young University came in as the most sober school. Partied the least ranking based on answers to student survey. There you have it, coming un in the next hour of Eyewitness News crash involving both police car and taxi. Then heart stopping moments, as train slams into a car, see the dramatic rescue as Police Officer saves the driver with just seconds to spare. And, it is National Night out. Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey will join us here in our studio with some easy ways to make your neighborhood safer this summer. Well be right back at the top of the hour. Good morning. Good morning, new this morning, a police car and taxi all smashed up after an overnight crash. Three people including an officer are rushed to the hospital. Were live with how theyre doing this morning. Also, new, there is a manhunt in new jersey, after two people are shot in the parking lot outside after hip hop concert. What witnesses say led up to that shooting. And, a stormy start to your day, seeing rain and lightning rolling through on storm scan3, how will it affect your morning commute . Good morning, it is tuesday august 4 im erika von tiehl. Quick check on traffic and weather together, with katie and mere, a some folks woken up by the thunderstorms overnight, those strong storms are here. Good morning, ladies . Absolutely, good morning. Good morning, everyone, despite the fact that it is wet roadways, everyone seems to be doing okay. Good news. Yes we will keep the fingers crossed it stays that way for sure, mere, a certainly whenever you have got wet weather on the radar, it will be slowing you down. As we said, some of these storms definitely strong, and theyre coming through with some hess, lets say. Going out to one spot, where it is not raining yet. But boy is your visibility starting to recede here in atlantic city, you have got some very thick fog settling in the moisture sours is
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