Department. Yes, we had a fatal crash that happened early then 3 00 a. M. Because of that part of the schuylkill is closed and we are looking at a live shot, and it is bumper to bumper conditions, in that area. That is very reason you check traffic on kyw news radio, check in before you hit the road because you never know and this will be a huge problem for folks, but the weather shouldnt be a bother at lee not initially. We have a front that will be crossing through here or trying to cross through and that will deliver a couple showers to the north and west but with that said, all clear right now, sun will come up and it will shine for a good portion of the day but included start to build. You can see watching us in hd some little speckles beginning to show up in the far upper lefthand corner of your screen there but for now it is all calm, not clear but it is calm and it will continue to warm up efficiently throughout the day. High easily in the lower 80s in the city and off to a mild start, wait until you see but late day shower is a possibility especially true from the city north and west and further north and west you go youll have that likelihood toward night fall most specifically. When it comes to temperature take a look not completely hour by hour but couple different hours we have cherry pick from the day coming up and even by 7 00 a. M. In the lower 60s but normal high is 70. We exceed that by 10 00 a. M. It can only go up by here. May be a shower by night fall but just case of increasing cloud across the region as a whole for better part of the day. If you wanted to walk out here today without the umbrella i think you are safe to do that especially further south ande you go but toward night fall we will see a shower rolling through parts of the area. All right, katie, thank you , good to know, very good morning to all of you. If you are just waking up heading out the door if you have to go around the schuylkill pay attention. We did have, in case you missed it, we had a fatal crash that happened earlier this morning by 3 00 a. M. Involving a vehicle and met or cycle. This is schuylkill eastbound past University Avenue we are looking at video shot earlier, right now all lanes are closed , traffic is being diverted on University Avenue and as we go to a live picture outside we will show you this bumper to bumper conditions, all of the vehicles are traveling east bound being diverted on to University Avenue. This stretch of the schuylkill plus once you get on to University Avenue will be very busy and we are just now, just crack nothing to the 5 00 oclock hour. They are saying that for next two to three hours it should be before they are done investigating that means two to three hours straight through the rush hour it will be bumper to bumper conditions if you have an alternate route from your place to the place of employees implement or where ever today i would say mess certainly use it. If you do not use schuylkill you certainly dont want to even if you have to use where it is diverted on University Avenue it will be very busy. Schuylkill westbound at 30th has been since cleared and so does schuylkill ease round ramp to the blue route that has been cleared, jim, back to you. Las vegas authorities investigating deadly is mass shooting in u. S. History are turning to the gun mans girlfriend for insights. Cbs news correspondent mola lenghi. Reporter investigators in las vegas continue to comb through life and hotel room of gunman Stephen Paddock trying to figure out why he carried out sundays massacre. We dont have any immediately accessible thumb prints that would indicate the shooters idealology or motivation. Reporter president trump, visited city wednesday to meet with survivors and First Responders as they provided fresh insight in the faithful night. They say is there evidence paddock planned to escape rather then killing himself as officers closed in. Officials add none of the cameras he brought to his room for surveillance were recording. Clark county sheriff Joseph Lombard owe say it is hard to imagine one man alone could stockpile so much weaponry. You have to make the assumption he had to have some help at some point. Reporter investigators are hoping paddocks girlfriend can yield some answers she voluntarily flew back to the u. S. From the philippines and met with the fbi for hours of questioning. Just before the shooting paddock sent Marilou Danley to visit family and also wired her money. Through her lawyer danley insisted that she thought that was preparing her for a break up. It never occurred to me in anyway that he was planning violence against anyone. Reporter Law Enforcement say paddock stockpiled 47 guns since 1982 and bought 33 of them over the past year alone. Mola lenghi for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Debate over gun control is likely to take center stage in the gun show in montgomery county. Annual gun october fess begins tomorrow at expo center in oaks. Event organizers say there is no law in pennsylvania, restricting the sale of socalled bump fire stocks which was used for las vegas shooter. They say it is time for a nationwide discussion of gun issues. Right now it always seems when an unfortunate incident like this happens that right away one side wants to ban guns and the other side doesnt want to do anything. I think we have to sit down have a rational discussion of where we go forward in this country. Organizers intend to folk ounce gun safety at the show. Turning to news from overseas three green beret solders were killed and two other american solders were hurt in the northeastern african country of niger on wednesday they were ambushed on, patrol, a group of fill eighthed withal cade ace suspected to be behind that attack. Police are investigating a triple shooting in north philadelphia, one man is dead while another man and a teenager are in the hospital. Shots rang out on the 2500 block of dover street around 11 30 last night, the Police Say One man was shot in the head, officers rush him to the hospital where he later died. Officials also rushed a 24 yearold man and a 17 yearold boy to the hospital, both of them are in stable condition, eyewitnesses told police they saw the shooter take off. The shooter, may have left the scene in a white van or minivan. Police say they found shell casings from two different guns and investigators are trying to figure out if there were one shooter or two shooters with two guns. Authorities are investigating an overnight fire that destroyed a pace shop in chalfont bucks county. Smoke pouring out of the building there on the 400 block of west butler avenue, four fire co had to put out flames. Inside appeared to have been charred. No injuries were reported and no word on how that fire started. Police in Union City New Jersey are investigating after three officers are seriously hurt on duty. It started last night when a teen was hit and killed by a garbage truck. While police were on the scene of that incident two motorcycles barreled through, three officers were hospitalized as a result. They are all expect to survive one driver, crashed and is expected to live, other driver escaped. A member of the Pennsylvania Congressional delegation said he will retire in 2019 after public allegations link him to a extra marital affair. Pittsburgh area congressman tim murphy made decision the day after Text Messages surfaced in which murphy suggested that his mistress have an abortion. Murphy, you see ace pro life supporter, at the time both murphy and his mistress believed she was pregnant but it turnout that she wasnt. A delaware day care worker is charged with child abuse after police say she assaulted an 11 monthold, girl. That infant is recovering from the broken leg. Thirtyone yearold amber worthy, seven an employees of happy kid academy in newark turned herself n worthy repeatedly hit the infant last week while trying to get her to go to sleep. Worthys freon 20,000 bail. Search is on for two men who abducted and sexual lay salt aid woman in bucks county it happened at lake noxamixon monday night. Victim poweed police she was on the fishing pier when two men forced her in the car. She says suspect took her to another area of the park and raped her. Police believe the suspect in their early 20s and driving a silver honda civic. If you have any information, please call the police. Well, fire lights up the sky in, california, we will tell you what sparked this overnight blaze. Also ahead in our next half an hour another penn state frat is in trouble for under age drinking, the action that the school is taking after a student is found unconscious. But first we will have this. A new study finds Entertainment Systems in cars can be just as distracting as smart phones. Im meg oliver in new york with the details, coming up. Well, we were wishing for summer to come back you just might be in luck, you might get your wish, katies here to tell us about a warmer weather trend. A trend. Yes. A trendy like. Oh, my. When we come right back. [bullfighting music] [burke] billygoat ruffians. Seen it. Covered it. We know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two. We are farmers. Bumpadum, bumbumbumbum welcome to maxx you. 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Youll warm up, ahead of them, cool down behind of them. You come through and you have two days of change and that is it. Not the case this time because front were dealing business get something what stuck, in place, it is stalling out, basically, just to our north but it is getting too close for comfort. So we are throwing in the potential for a shower specifically for folks far north and west of philadelphia especially and that will take place, toward, late day, early evening. So we will look at storm scan at this more regional zoom, we have showers across North Central pennsylvania, this will start to just gradually drop a little bit south. Poconos, parts of the lehigh valley, most likely suspects to end up with this, berks county as well, i dent want to rule it out for philly. It is all about the placement of the front but it is likely to be clipping our region as a whole. Further south you are more likely you will stay dry here today, all the while, the further south you go we are heating up. We will have that surge of warmth, southerly wind flow and in advance of the systems like this to help spur on that temperature climb. In the meantime new that the 5 00 a. M. Update has come up from the National Hurricane certainty we also want to update what you is going on in the tropics. We have a tropical depression very likely this will become nate at some point probably today or into tomorrow but notice this may also achieve hurricane status before it strikes the u. S. Coastline. That is almost a given right now that it will strike some part of the gulf coast but it looks likely it will bypass houston, beaumont area, thankfully but still regardless going to make likely another land fall, as some named storm whether it is a Tropical Storm or hurricane so this area is on guard for flooding rainfall. Notice it is heading our way. It will have weaken as a overall system by then but very likely to see at lee some showers into early next week and probably on the order of study rain by monday, and, shower in the meantime we talked about here, and north and west, specifically and otherwise we have sunshine to start the day off. If you want to walk out would the he had need of an umbrella i think you are okay to do that for the most part. It is late day, toward evening , far north and western suburbs especially that end up with that wet weather. Sixtyfive tonight. It will feel muggy, folks. This is not even the warmest day of the bunch here, saturday is, expect to feel that humidity really climbing and then, by monday, at minimum, showers are probably steady rain, we will keep an eye on it, meisha. All right, katie, thank you very much. Very good morning, everybody. So what are we looking at right here . Well, we have some video right now of the fatal crash that actually happened earlier this morning, before 3 00 a. M. Involving a motorcycle and a vehicle, where is this . The schuylkill eastbound past University Avenue, all lanes are currently blocked, again we are looking at video but right now what were looking at is a live shot. If you can pull up that live shot that would be great. This is traffic being diverted on to University Avenue, and i can tell you right now, it is very, very slow moving, bumper to bumper conditions, throughout that area they are saying that it will be two to three hours longer before the investigation wraps up. That will carry us through the rush hour. If you can avoid that area will want to do so. Traffic being diverted on the University Avenue bumper to bumper conditions, you are completely stopped through that area you can only imagine on the busy thursday morning what it will look like around 7 00 in the morning. Again if you have alternate routes around where you are heading from home to work or where ever you are heading, you will want to use them. Right new looking outside very , very slow moving. Plus we also have an accident out there in wood town, new jersey, your alternate for this route 40 closed near route 45 is route 322, it is going to be your best alternate for now, rahel, back over to you. Meisha, thank you. Smart phones are often first things we think about when we hear about the distract driving, cbs news correspondent meg oliver shows us new technology built into many cars can be part of the problem. Entertainment systems put technology at our fingertips but new study from triple a finds the screens can be distracting. Tune the radio to 97. 1fm. Reporter researchers had volunteers test 30 different vehicles on a residential road , they measure how much drivers had to look at the screen and think about what they were doing while making a call, sending a text or using a stereo and Navigation System professor David Strayer from the university of utah led the research. How about the most advanced systems are really very difficult for the driver to use, it may take minutes to actually perform. Reporter study found drivers were visually distract for more than 40 seconds when programming the Navigation System or sending a text message, triple a says removing are eyes from the road, for just two seconds doubles risk of the crash. Ricardo mayes took part in the research and nearly missed a stop sign while using a touch screen. The cars that use the screens touch pad are won that make me feel most uncomfortable. Reporter researchers say voice commands also take the drivers attention off the road. Calling. Reporter look at this womans eyes as she tries to make a call. Triple a is sharing results of the auto makers, Safety Experts want Car Companies do change systems so that the most distracting features are locked out when the carries in motion. Meg oliver for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Now for a look at newspaper headlines across our region. In the Burlington County towns a left leaning think tank is sounding an alarm about the republicans proposed tax overhaul plan and its likely impact in new jersey. Washington d. C. Based institute on taxation and Economic Policy says that the tax cuts would overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy as taxpayers and that one in four filers would likely pay more. Norristown is moving forward with plans to acquire the greater norristown Athletic League building on harding boulevard. The Municipal Council voted to approve allowing for the purchase of the recreational center. In the press of Atlantic City an American Sign Language teacher in Ocean City High School is 2017 18 new jersey governors teacher of the year, amy anderson has been teaching sign language in ocean city since 2004. Thanks to her efforts the ocean city program has expanded, and students who take it can earn a seal of by literacy on their high school transcript, i could barely get through spanish and french. She has done a lot, congratulations to amy. That is a look at the newspaper headlines around the delaware veil, up next, pat has your morning sports. Good morning, pat. Hi guys, it started with the preseason debut of ben simmons and Markelle Fultz and ended with the flyers on the west coast. Plenty of pretty highlights coming your way in paulsboros a very with the closing of thee refineries and theres no jobs in the community. If theres no jobs, theres no education, theres no food on the table. Whats important is the children. Steve sweeney. He fought for em. This is where hes from. Steve sweeneys been here since the beginning. Steve spearheaded the whole project and really brought it to fruition. It wouldve never been done without steve. It was a pride in building this port and then knowing that were coming back. Hepension padder. Ing doubledipping pension padder he had two government jobs, two paychecks and padded his pension along the way. Hes a doubledipping pension padder now hes making over 300,000 a year as a lobbyist and a senator. Doubledipping pension padder so hes all set thanks to you, the taxpayer. Which is why Steve Sweeney had no problem voting to raise your taxes 145 times, including the largest gas tax hike in history. Sounds about right, coming from a. Doubledipping pension padder trusted battery for your do you need the most sons favorite toy . Maybe not. Maybe, you could trust he wouldnt leave the upstairs water running. woman screams or, you could just trust duracell. Welcome back, glad you are with us. Pat has your morning sports , lot of tired flyers fans out there this morning. Stayed up late for sure. Nhl season kicked off last night but it was a late start of the year they opened things up at 10 30 in san jose but if you stayed up, were you rewarded. Lets start early first period Claude Giroux gets free and is there your first goal of the 2017 18 season. The power play, was popping as well, tied at three in the third, Wayne Simmonds redirect is it in front his second of the game. He would add an empty netter for the hat trick. The flyers, scored three times on the power play and start the year with a huge win over the sharks, fivethree. They get right back at it tonight with the kings another 10 30 puck drop. Long wait for both ben simmons and fans of ben simmons exactly one year ago sim simmons had surgery to repair his fracture in his food. He was ready to put on the show for the home crowd last night as sixers opened up the season, preseason against memphis. And ben and Markelle Fultz making their home debuts, there. There was definitely some rust simmons had a nice showing but didnt shoot well. He finished with six points and seven boards but added nine assistness 22 minutes. Fultz had four points on two of 13 shooting, sixers lose, 11089 but the coach like what he saw from simmons. The pace that which he play s, i love. His ability to see things, find corners, and defensive plays just a moment he can find stuff well. The finishing, you know, at the rim i thought we struggled as a group, we will continue to try to work with ben on finishing at a high rate. Who in the shuffle behind the flyers and sixers are the threeone eagles. They take on Arizona Cardinals this sunday at the link. All alone the top of the nfc east. But one member of the carson wentz wide receiving core isnt flying as high as the rest of the bird. That is wide out torey smith who has had a couple of big drops in the early going. He tweeted, he is in the war stretch of his career right now. You know, it is not the last time i will fail to make a play. I know who i am as a player. My female know who i am and that probably means more then anything. I just have to pick it up. Sometimes it is not like a magic fix, sometimes you just have to do it. And we have a winner this week, wood row wilson against more town is our friday Football Frenzy game of the week, thank you all for voting , we will have another vote next week and cbs philly. Com but we will see you tomorrow, in moorestown, big sports night though, everybody is excited, flyers are back, they play again tonight. Sixers back. Exciting times. We have eagles at home. Yes. A lot going on, thanks, patrick. Coming up next on Eyewitness News starting to day the at them will no longer aloud to the independent mall. And trang do has another latest on the a fraternity in trouble at penn state. Reporter another student found unconscious after a suspect night of heavy drinking. I will tell you which fraternity is under investigation right now. Also ahead a little boy wont be riding his tonka toy truck again why his parents say they were surprised it caught fire, even though the toy was under recall, katie . Guys, we are looking ahead to another weekend that does promise above average warmth, now, at the moment it is looking like we may still see some showers around on sunday, saturday in the meantime, does bring with it a partly sunny sky but daytime highs are well above average and at lee 80 degrees, saturday the warmest a real taste of august coming up. So you can still keep those flipflo good morning im rahel solomon. Im jim donovan. Katie and meisha will be along in just a moment but first heres what you need to know to start your day in todays morning minute, thursday, october 5th, 2017