Welcome back to the real world. Yes, here we go. Yes. Were so close to the weekend. We are looking outside right now just a lot of construction , blah, blah, blah we will have that coming up. It is quiet, weatherwise but isnt it nice to have the whole team together. It has been a long time since we have been together. Who is on first, is what on second i dont know is what on third. I think rahel had a much more interesting reason to be off then i d lets talk about temperatures folks, because it will get very, very summer like. Today our expect high is 87 degrees. What . Exactly. Normal high 76, jim so we are exceeding what is average and this is not only day like this in our future here. Eagles tailgaters will be out in tanks and sweat pants or shirts this upcoming sunday. We are looking ahead to very warm air. Despite the fact that we are right around the corner from fall. High pressure is our main theme here. You like sunshine, summertime heat, this is forecast for you eightyseven by 3 00 p. M. By the way, Tropical Storm jose is still churning out to sea, thankfully but that does mean rough surf and rip current risk at the shore, even though weather looks perfect for the beek, meisha we have to be careful heading out to the beach. No doubt bit. Thanks, katie. Halfway to the weekend we are looking outside right now to the same story we were talking about yesterday around this time. We have vine closures, closed between schuylkill and broad west and eastbound and we have overnight resurfacing project on the schuylkill. We will get used to it. Schuylkill westbound between blue route and turnpike right lane compromised there eastbound between gulf road and blue route. Camera shot showing schuylkill near blue route and another shot, schuylkill eastbound between gladwynn and city avenue left lane is blocked there. Plus we have some construction on i95, i95 north off ramp to Bridge Street right lane compromised there and construction in bucks county as well 95 south between business route one and 413, right lane is compromised there, jim and rahel, back to you. Now to the latest on hurricane marie, right now deadly storm is ripping through the Dominican Republic maria made land fall on the island as a category three hurricane earlier this morning monster storm is expect to continue on its path of destruction, next heading, to the turks and Caicos Island before hitting the he hamas tonight. President trump declares a major disaster in the u. S. Virgin islands overnight. He said g will Fund Recovery efforts after Hurricane Maria batters the region. Crews are surveying damage after maria ter through puerto rico. This it is what it looked like after it made land fall on island as a category four hurricane yesterday morning. Storm destroyed hundreds of homes, and has left the entire ireland without power. We have spoke with one woman on the phone who asked that we keep people of puerto rico informed. Information, instructions. That is the only way that we can see what happened because here we dont have a location. Search and rescue missions are now underway, crews continue to survey the damage from the deadly storm. Officials say flood waters continue to rise, and turning some streets into rivers. Incredible there. Crews continue to sift through ruble in mexico searching for survivors following tuesdays powerful earthquake. Rescue teams pulled an elderly man alive from his mexico city apartment yesterday. Ordinary citizens have joined Fire Fighters and others to help save at lee 52 people, banker assisted in rescuing four people from his office building. They were making noise, so, that they volunteers and rescuers could hear, that is all. Forty buildings were reduced to rub until mexico city alone, outside capitol people in other devastating areas have begun to bury loved won this was the deadliest earthquake since 1985 when 10,000 people died. And one man from our area was an eyewitness to the quake , leo cabrera is in mexico city. He owns a Rehoboth Beach restaurant. He says he was on the subway when the ground started to shake. People were scared, of after shocks. Unaudible. Here at home many are trying to reach family or friendness mexico, the consul has set up a phone number to assist. We have posted that information on our web site at cws philly. Com. Team from el salvador is in mexico helping rescue victims still trapped. They arrived in the country yesterday. Crews First Mission was to save a person from the six Story Building that collapsed in mexico city. In other news this morning woman is fighting for her life after she is hit by a car on the boulevard. Accident happened around 9 30 near southampton road. Police say victim in her 20s was struck in the north bound inner lanes. Now this was initially reported as a hit run but we are told the driver did return to the scene. The man accused of punching a disable man in west chester in may faces trial next week after changing his mind about a guilty plea, not once, but twice. Barry baker was sentenced to, was set to event their plea in court yesterday. The alleged confrontation was caught on camera. Prosecutors say that baker and the man he is accused of assaulting never met before but baker claims they had exchanged word earlier that evening, the judge ordered bakers attorneys to find that video but the footage no longer exists. In Bucks County Court yesterday lee kaplan was sentenced to between 30 and 87 years in prison for sexually assaulting six girls from the same family. Investigators say kaplan had 11 amish girls living in his bucks county home and he fathered two children with one of them. At sentencing judge called kaplan corrupt, perverted and atrocious. Berks County District judge Timothy Darby will be sentenced this november on theft charges. Darby pleaded guilty to charge that he is stole more than 15,000, from his office and nearly 98,000, from the wyo missing volunteer fire company where he was a treasurer. He served as a district judge for 18 years before his arrest corruption trial of the new jersey senator bob menendez resumes monday after a break for the observance of rosh hashanah. Prosecutors shed documents showing menendez failed to report gifts from his codefendant florida eye doctor salmon. They say the doctor broad him with flights on the private jet and Luxury Hotels in exchange for his political influence. Defense team for menendez says trips were at his own expense. Now to the latest in the russia investigation special Counsel Robert Mueller now wants to look in documents related to president trumps actions in the oval office. Sources familiar with the matter said he wants documents and emails related to the dismissal of National Security advisor Michael Flynn and james comb i. They want information about trumps meeting with russian officials in the white house in may. White house layers say they do plan to cooperate with the special counsel. Callus suing president Trumps Administration over his proposed wall on mexican board. They filed suit yesterday in the Federal District court and number of reasons for opposing the wall among them. It says president S Administration is violating state and federal environmental laws, california also claims that there are constitutional issues. Trump administration violated several provisions of the u. S. Constitution, including, the separation of powers doctrine and the tenth a moment. In california that will not fly. Department of home land security got a waiver last month which would allow to it go around environmental regulations so it can build wall faster. Congress has yet to offer funding for the wall. Teachers in the Methacton School district have agreed to end their strike and return to work tomorrow, Teachers Union in the Methacton Education Association have agreed to enter none in binding arbitration. Teachers went on strike monday , they were at odd with the district over medical premiums. Teachers have been working without a contract since january, schools are closed to day for rosh hash shan a. Commonwealth of pennsylvanias Credit Rating is taking another hit thanks to the budget stalemate between Governor Wolf and republican controlled legislature. Standard and poors has downgraded pennsylvania for a second time over the impasse, which means that lawmakers will pay more to bureau money. That could add up to 10s of millions of dollars a year, pennsylvanias now in the bottom five states in the u. S. Rated by standard and poors. Well, it is now official Delaware RiverPort Authority plans to reopen the Franklin Square station along patco high speed line. Drpa awarded two milliondollar design contract to bring it back to life. Franklin square stop does need to be updated to be compatible with federal law, american with disabilities act. It has been closed since 1979. Officials say the project is set to be complete by 2022. A couple years. Coming up, coastguard and navy spent several weeks seizing drugs off the coast of central and south america. Heres what they got for their efforts, tens of thousands of pounds of cocaine , incredible amount of money the drugs would go for on the street. More trouble for florida nursing home where several patients died during hurricane irma, we will tell what you state officials decided to do as a criminal investigation, unfolds, stay with an investigation is underway after hacker target u. S. Securities and exchange commission, fcc announced on line data breach late last night. Markets regulators say hackers tapped in the governments corporate filing system, they had access to information about companies that were not made public, Officials Say hackers may have use of information for illegal trading or monetary gains. Officials in florida suspend a Nursing Homes license after nine patients died in the aftermath of hurricane irma, eight of those patients died september 13th just three days after irma hit south florida. The storm knocked out facility s power in Hollywood Hills and left them without air conditioning. Ninth patient died tuesday. Reports say that the victim died of heat related injuries. Police launched a criminal investigation. Coastguard and navy are celebrating, they have partnered for 25 drug operations off south and Central America and they have netted, get this, more than 50,000pounds of cocaine. And those drugs were off landed in san diego yesterday, confiscated drugs are estimated to be worth almost 680 milliondollar, the drug operations began last month. Single most, vulnerable part of the entire drug network may be the ability that their weakness at sea. Now more than 600 suspect drug traffickers have been arrested so far this year, attorney general Jeff Sessions says the coastguard has kept nearly half Million Pounds of drugs, off of american streets well, were getting a better look at damage left by hurricane jose at the new jersey shore. Tenth street in avalon the beach erosion created a rand scape of mounds and gullies close to the low waterline. Storm surge pushed it back about a football field beyond where the soft sand usually begins. In margate pumps worked to alleviate flooding in the area in ocean city near fifth street, pounding waves exposed roxanne created cliffs in the dunes. 4 44. I just got back from europe as you guys know and came back to quite a mess. So much action and busyness. There is, thankfully even jose didnt have much more than a glancing blow. But the tropics are just lit up, and it is height of the season. We expect it to be an above average season. This is crazy. This is unfortunately in the caribbean, these poor folks keep getting hit. We will talk about that as the show goes on. Lets bring you back to where we are located and lets talk about our area which isnt a lot. Granted we do still have a couple cloud, trying to roll role back in on the most outskirts, edge of jose, which is still a Tropical Storm by the way, but other than really churning up the surf and kicking up rip current that storm will not have any other direct impact on our area heres maria here. This is at the moment still expected to stay as a major hurricane but eventually make a righthand turn and then hopefully it stays this way bypassing the own tire eastern seaboard of the united states. It could be a problem for as far south as new england but Atlantic Canada that is still very far out. It is one of the things we will to have continue to monitor. In the meantime as again we will talk about these wave heights you do have to worry about some stronger surf and rip currents. I dont think we will have to deal with much higher surf anyway then would you normally fine, however, rip current risk definitely has increased and also have some rougher surf, choppy surf coming in because of jose so close by. So just keep that in mind. Hoeffelfully tempting to jump in the waveson a day like this since the beaches are so empty we have that whole shoreline to yourself. But because of that, stay on dry land. We dont have benefits of the life guard on most of the beaches so you have to be really smart about this, guys. Eightyseven in the sunshine. If you are lucky enough to have a pool opened today and right through this forecast we have got opportunities to make use of it, even though fall is officially starting with the equinox tomorrow, meisha, Mother Nature aint having it. We are flirting with 90 come monday, can you believe that. Unreal. I have to tell you, tori and i will be hosting the tailgate on sunday, look at that 88 degrees. Yes. We sure will. Thanks very much. Good morning, happy gateway, to our weekend. We are looking outside right now we have a vine closure in place overnight is closed between westbound and eastbound hopefully crews move out around 5 00, they usually do west and eastbound they are still closed. We will let you know when they reopen between schuylkill and broad. Overnight resurfacing project, mess of the areas have moved out, only one lingering out there westbound between the blue route and turnpike, right lane is still affect, you can see cones still out there we will let you know when those are pick up but they are picking that stuff upright now construction i95 north, construction at Bridge Street right lane compromised there that is still out there bucks county construction 95 south between business route one and route 413, the right lane was compromise budd that has since cleared a lot of this starting to move out of the way. Commodore barry bridge we have construction here one lane is opened in each direction, and fine for now but later in the 5c oclock hour, it is still out there. Jim and rahel, back to you. Well, riding in style, a childrens hospital, letting its young patients drive through its hallways, in luxury. 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Current chevy owners and lessees get a total value of tenthousand, six hundred dollars. Or, 0 financing for 72 months on this silverado all star. Find new roads at your local chevy dealer. Ready to do this. Time for a check on business news. Taylor swift, yes. Hanna doba joins us live from the new york stock exchange, good morning. There is news from the Federal Reserve this morning. Good morning, jim and rahel fed chair janet yellin said Federal Reserve will leave Interest Rates unchanged at one and a quarter of a percent for remainder of the year. Central bank pointed to a strong, economy, and yellin says recent hurricanes will slow the economy but get will begin once again, when the rebuilding begins. Overall fed has a 4. 5 trillion balance sheet, here on wall street yesterday, dow jones set another record climbing 41 points, nasdaq shed five points. Jim and rahel. I understand with the Holiday Season upon us, ups is announcing they will make some hires. How many folks are we talking about. They expect to higher about 95,000 workers for the crucial Holiday Season. Seasonal employees would start in november and work through january, and it is important to mention up to 35 percent is seasonally hired employees over last three years have become fulltime employees i have a question, do you tip delivery people . Like i got a dhl delivery, i gave them a few dollars. He looked, so surprised. I do not tip delivery people. I never tip. On holidays i always leave something in my mailbox for them like cookies but that is bit. That is about it. For postal people. I gave him a few bucksy felt bad. He was working late. Thanks, hen a. Something to think about. Well, childrens hospital, is making surgeries a little less scary for their young patients. The happies using remote controlled cars to take children to the operating room and yes, of course, they are luxury cars, the patients can pick between a lamborghini, mercedes and bmw. Cars are donations from the san diego regional Law Enforcement teddy bear drive. Anytime you can see a child that is ill, or in pain, you see them smile because of something that we were able to do, it is great for the kid, great for us in Law Enforcement and great for to us connect that way. The cars are operate by a nurse or a doctor but the hospital says that the children are happy, clearly having fun. I love that idea. That is great. Well, today is last full day of summer. But katie, it feels like we are in the middle of summer outside. Yeah, more like july outside when we are talking the kind of temperatures we will energy not just today but through majority of this forecast and along with it we have got sunshine, for days, how long can this pattern last , however . We will have the answer to that question on the other mom i dropped my ball. Got it. Ewwww oh eat it lysol kills 99. 9 of bacteria on soft and hard surfaces. One more way youve got what it takes to protect. Youre lucky youre cute. Lysol max cover with 2x wider coverage kills 99. 9 of bacteria. One more way youve got what it takes to protect. Welcome back taking a live look at hotel bethlehem, it looks like a gentlemen is cleaning up the street here, outside of the help tell and, you know, you can barely even see the wave of the flat there just a light breeze and really nice day, all and all not just for Lehigh Valley but entire region. It will look and feel like summer at the height of it no less. Were talking upper 80s. Normal high this day of the year is 76 degrees. We are flirting with 70 outside palmyra cove nature park and this is a more remote location far from the city and in the nature park. 68 degrees the current temperature there in our live neighborhood network. Lets take a wide zoom as a reminder, remember that Tropical Storm jose is still churning, it will not have any direct impact on us but we will have strong surf, dangerous rip currents that that last us right through rest of the weak because of the storm nearby. This is great beach weather. Stay on dry land. Be smart. No life guard at the beach at this point. By sunday tailgating for eagles, well, do so in some midnight, green and black, i guess, shorts and tshirts, it is looking like a steamy day. We will get out there i cant believe that, kate, almost 90 on sunday. Meet us out there at that tailgate. More information to come later looking outside right now vine westbound side is just opening, eastbound side is still closed between schuylkill and broad because of the overnight construction project. Overnight resurfacing project, schuylkill westbound between blue route and turnpike, right lane compromised there and construction as well i95 north off ramp to Bridge Street right lane compromised. Brian, thanks for waking up alerting us to an accident here, business route one at ty burn road, one lane blocked there thanks so much for that, brian we will keep an eye on this. More construction out there, Commodore Barry bridge, one lane is opened, in each direction, plus, some more, construction, on the turnpike eastbound before Delaware River bridge, jan, back over to you. Thanks, meisha. We are tracking latest on marie, storm strengthened and we will have a live report at 5 00. We are live in mexico city as rescuers continue to work to free people trapped by a deadly earthquake, their focus on a badly damaged school. And from sweltering to snow, we will tell you where dramatic change in temperature happen over a few days, we are back at the top of the hour, you each drive a ford all yes. Ght . Im going to show you a next generation pickup. Awesome. Lets do this. The bed is made of highstrength steel, which is less susceptible to punctures than aluminum. Stronger the better. And best of all, this new truck is actually all laughing oh my. The current chevy silverado. Current chevy owners and lessees get a total value of tenthousand, six hundred dollars. Or, 0 financing for 72 months on this silverado all star. Find new roads at your local chevy dealer. Running around the block looking for survivors after mexicos deadly earthquake, im chris mar teen necessary mexico city, the very late is coming up. Back here at home live look from our center city cbs3 studios we are in the final hours of summer because parentally Mother Nature has not gotten the message. Temperatures today in the upper 80s with no relief in sight. It is thursday september 21st good morning, im jim donovan. Im rahel solomon