Liberty metal here in philadelphia. Shamin perez was 93. Theres good chance your morning commute will look like this. Bummer to bummer. Relief could be on the way for busiest highways im ukee. Im jessica dean, the heavily travel road between philly and king of prussia often looks more like a parking lot than highway Nicole Brewer has the details of the traffic plan and what commuters think about it. Reporter the schuylkill expressway at rush hour a 12mile fourlane highway known for driving motorists crazy. Its actually most infewer rating roads. Reporter the stretch between valley fortunate and route one seemed impossible to prove is there anything you can do with i76 and im happy to say, yes, there is something we can do. Reporter penndot announced a 125 Million Dollar multifacetted plan that would improve traffic flown i76. Thats the good news. Fabulous. Looking forward to that. Reporter the bad news, construction wont start for another five years. Wont start for five years . Thats not even, thats not even close. Talk to me when it happens when penndot gets the green light they will use the shoulder as another lane. Working closely with Law Enforcement to insure safety and efficiency especially in emergency situations. If you dont have the shoulder to be able to pull over, if you have had a flat tire or an ambulance needs to get by. Maybe they need to rethink. Theres the partnership with septa which will increase Mass Transit Service improve the conshohocken station and place signs on the highway providing parking information and train time ythat way people can have a choice, i dont want to sit in the traffic. Theres another option. Reporter penndot proposed meeterring onramps to help with modernizing on road that run parallel. Like taking back roads jrnls an enhancement to the Schuylkill River trail. I hope they get it done quick. Height everyone in the philadelphia area can agree that 76 is awful. Reporter pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf released released statement saying, plan announced to improve the transportation by road, rails trail by 76 corridor is an important step toward improving infrastructure, Traffic Management and excess ability to no matter how you commute and travel. Now, this roadway and the entire corridor are vital to the economic vibe and my administration will continue to prioritize improvements that help drivers, riders and bicycle of its move more efficiently. It will be westbound between roosevelt boulevard and belmont meanwhile construction isnt planned another five years, penndot will begin installing speed limits and detector that is will be up and running by late 2018. Its a long time coming. Off a long time coming. Thank you, nicole. More Important News for drivers, the walnut lane bridge reopened today. That bridge has been shutdown since april. Crews will keep working on the sidewalk and make repairs to the concrete arch as part of the nearly 15 Million Dollar project news of a bombshell in the bridge gate trial. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is responding to serious allegations made by a former ally on the witness stand. Reporter a few hours ago, governor Chris Christie continued to deny knowing about a plan to create a traffic jam leading to the George Washington bridge as political pay back against the new jersey who would not endorse the governor did i know about it . Did i have anything to do with it . The answer was no in january of 2014, its been no every day since. Reporter Chris Christie did not hold back tonight on his ask the governor radio show when asked about bridge gate. An accusation that is he was involved. I knew nothing about the lane realignments before they happened. I knew nothing about the lane realignments as they were happening. I had nothing to do with the planning of it. I had no nothing to do with authorizing it. Reporter in court today, Chris Christies former friend David Wildstein testify that governor Chris Christie himself was told of the political motivation behind the traffic jams near the George Washington bridge. Wildstein says he and former Port Authority executive bill baroni bragged to Chris Christie about the lane closures during a 1911 ceremony in 2013. According to wildstein Chris Christie laughed. This is a photograph from ceremony. We cant know for sure what the governor did or didnt know. But we can look at how he run his office. Reporter dr. Shana shamas is a science professor at Rutgers University in camden. Seems to me like this a hierarchical office. In those systems, it would be highly unusual for the person at the top not to know what his subordinates were doing. Reporter theres no word if accurate constitutes will be a witness in this crile. Shandcuff amy clienta says even if hes telling the truth and he had no involvement, she believes the scandal continues to damage his reputation. Anybody whos ever sat in traffic cares about this scandal. Particularly if you ever thought the traffic is caused by something stupid and it usually is. Reporter David Wildstein already pleaded guilty and is cooperating with the government. Want to be clear. Governor Chris Christie has never been charged with any crime and continues to deny involve on any level in this case. Reporting live, david spunt cbs3 Eyewitness News thank you. 41 days until election day and the ratings are in. 84 Million People watched the first president ial debate between donald trump and Hillary Clinton. Making it the most watched debate ever. The candidates continue attacking each other on the campaign trail and Battle Ground state to say tonight. Tram rallied supporters near orlando, they insisted which you didnt was in the pocket of special interest and failed create jobs as new york senator the jobless situation is horrible. And she said she was going to do something about it and the day after the election, it was like byebye and thats exactly what would happen if she ever won clinton rallied supporters in rally North Carolina today, there she criticized the states voter id law and transgender bathroom bill. She also blasted trump debate performance he made it clear he didnt prepare for the debate. At one point, he was kind of digging me for spending time off the campaign trail to get prepared but just trying to keep track of everything he says took a lot of time and effort. Today was the first of clintons three planned visits to North Carolina this week. That state is a tossup. Vice President Joe Biden stumped for clinton during a National Voter registration day event at drexel. A passionate bind fire up Young Democrats we are second to no one. Thats the history of the journey of america. And god willing, Hillary Clinton and Katie Mcginty will write the next chapter of that history. Register, vote, go out and get engaged. We need you badly. First Lady Michelle obama will campaign for clinton at Lasalle University tomorrow at noon. Shell also visit pittsburgh sglchl. Philadelphia faith leaders held a Racial Justice rally outside father order of police headquarters. The Deadly Police shootings in charlotte and tulsa. A second Sexual Harassment claim leads to a major shake be urge. Fenerty declined to comment when joel holden questioned him earlier today about an allegation that he sexually harassed a female employee last year. The board originally decided to allow fenerty to keep his job before a decade old claim surfaced today. That move brought Harsh Criticism from the public. Mr. Fenerty is an embarrassment to the city and should step down effective immediately. Ppa chairman joe ash dale tells Eyewitness News he will recommend that fenerty be fired at its Board Meeting thursday. A delaware woman is charged with the murder of her threeyearold grandson. She called 911 to confess and report she wished to harm herself, paramedics found the child in the felton home. An autopsy will be determined to determine the cause of the childs death. No word on what caused the house fire that claimed the lives of two wilmington firefighters. Tonight we have learned when those wilmington firefighters will be laid to rest. Public viewings will be held thursday and friday for senior firefighter jerry fickes junior in delaware. A viewing for lieutenant Christopher Leach at 10 00 a. M. In Saint Elizabeths in wilmington funeral mass beginning at noon. Saturday both men will be remembered during a joint service on the wilmington waterfront at noon. Big move by a local university. All aimed at making college more affordable. Still ahead at 11 00. Tuition is being slashed by nearly 30 . Find out why not all of that discount will end up back in studentss pockets. The fight to save history, why a home built in the 1700s is set for demolition. And how one group is trying to stop that from happening. Kate . Its quiet outside right now. But this system over the great lakes is going to bring us several chances for rain through the rest of the week. Ill tell you which day looks the wettest and whether it will be cleared out in time for the weekend. Coming up. Its being called a revolutionary medical event. The first baby born with a dna from three parents. Lasalle plans so slack a tuition price trang do went to the olney campus to see how students are reacting to the news. Great day for our students at lasalle and their parents, Lasalle University is turning back the clock, resetting tuition from 40,400 to what students paid back in 2008. 28, 800 a year. Which is huge for our university not only in the tuition cut but you dont have the for the coverage and, you know, showing that lasalle really cares about the students. Lasalle president doctor colleen hanash says keeping College Affordable has been a major priority this year we were the only university who a chose to freeze tuition at last years rates the rates will go in a effect for the 2017, 2018 school year. She says in the end most students there save between 1,000 to 1500. Institutional aid will also be reduced with a lower tuition it definitely helps make my decision to come here. Now that tuition went down lower is great rosemont started the trend last year when the school announced that it would be slashing tuition by 43 this school year. College president dr. Sharon hearsh says the move paid off tremendously. We have the largest growing students in schools history lasalles administration and students alike are hopeful the move will attract more family with this lower tuition, that will definitely bring in a lot more at least a lot more looks. Check it out and maybe fall that love with it, like a lot of people do here. Reporter unfortunately for graduate students this only applies to undergraduate tuition. Room and board are also not part of the tuition reset. From the campus of the Lasalle University, im trang do, cbs3 Eyewitness News. Temple University Officially appoints its inaugural dean of the Lewis Katz School of medicine. Larry kaiser was formally given the title tonight in an on campus ceremony. Dr. Kaiser was the dean of temples medical school before it was renamed in honor of the late fill less than throw persist lewis katz last october. He died two years ago when the plane crashed in massachusetts theres a big push to save a revolutionary Camden County house from demolition, the hug Harrison House sits in bellmawr and in the middle of a construction project at route 42 and 295. The new Jersey Department of transportation says the house does not meet Historical Preservation requirements. Supporters want the federal Highway Administration to step in and pay 80 of the cost of relocating the house. This is an extremely significant property in south jersey for American Revolutionary war history. We would like to see it preserved, moved to a new location where its history can be displayed. Is the state department of transportation says it does not have an exact demolition date but bellmawr borrow Officials Say it could may be as soon as november this child has dna from three people, his mother, father and an egg donor. The mother did not want her child to inherit leesyndrome, a neurological disorder that took the lives of her first two children. Doctors pushed some of her healthy dna into the donors egg and fertilized it. By doing this, the doctors say parents can prevent passing disease on to their children usually, its a very desperate situation for babies and for the family. Critics of the techniques say children born from this process should be trap tracked to insure health. Britain was the first country using it. This has no yet been approved in the united states. Kate joins us with a look at the upcoming forecast. Whats in store for us. Looks like the umbrellas are coming out. The umbrellas will be coming out. Now, its not the worse thing in the world. We need the rain, were above average. Thursday is the day. If youre forget full like i am, thursday is the day you dont want to forget it. Make sure you have it. The other days you may be able to sneak away with running with your coat over your head perhaps from work to the car. And vice versus but thursday you may need the heavier rain gear with steadier downpours. The question it hang around . Well start off outside now, clear sky, patchy clouds outside. Cooler than recent nights with clear sky, temps like to drop more quickly than on a cloudy night like last night. You can see temperatures on our live Neighborhood Network looking chilly at 50 degrees in kutztown. At the kutztown area middle school. In millionford its 52, pottstown 53, princeton, 56 right now. Overnight low in the city, 58. Just a few patchy clouds, its cool. Comfortable. May need a light jacket or sweatshirt as you head out tomorrow. Tomorrow starts with sun but the afternoon, clouds will roll in. After sunset, a couple of showers could sneak in. I dont think tomorrow is bad. Thursday in a friday, is when steadier rain may sneak in. Its thanks to this system right here. You can see the swirl of clouds over the great lakes. The front that came through is out to sea, were in a little bit of a lull. But this system, its an upper low pressure system circulation around the great lakes, this will be sliding southward and impacting our weather through the end of the week. Its a cutoff low. The jet stream flow is to the north. A concentrated area of strong wind. When you get a low to separate. It doesnt have anything to move it along out of had here. Usually these systems come through quickly. These cutoff lows do not, so very slow moving producing clouds and showers right into weekend. Heres what it looks like. Well time it out. Clear skies most of the region, 6 00 a. M. Sunshine for most day. The sun will be shining. Generally overnight tomorrow night and into thursday mornings and steadier rain could move through and pretty much all day thursday well have the chance for showers and heavier rain thursday, its tough to time the actual shower activity with these cutoff lows. Depends where it forms. It looks like the steadiest may be off to our southwest but you can see even fray, the threat for showers remains all day long. It looks likes well pick up over an inch of rain before all is said and done with locally higher amounts of over an inch and a half or two inches especially off on the south and to the west. So rain arrives by tomorrow evening in the form of showers, showers at times thursday, possibly periods of heavier rain thursday and stays unsettled friday into saturday with scattered showers around. Your Eyewitness News weather sevenday forecast again keep this in the 70s. Its not too hot. Not too cool either but very cloudy and very showery thursday into friday. Saturday, im hopeful the sun may peak out here and there. But still chance for showers at any time. Sunday looks like your better of the two weekend days. Take a closer look at that weekend coming up with our weekend watch in a bit. Next week, looking pretty fantastic. I like that. Thanks, kate. Appreciate it whats come back next in sports talking about baseball right now. Ryan howard does something for the 15th time in his career. Find out what. Plus, why are all these fans stare to go the ground . What are they looking for . A bizarre story in the stands tonight. Trust me. Coffee, a bloody nose and 18 vomiting. None of those annoying ailments could keep joel embiid away from sixers practice. Because injuries the sixers big man has waited two years to join his team mates. Today, he crashed day one of training camp. The sixers in stockton getting ready for the season including joel embiid, the team has three centers, nerlens noel made news by saying hes not thrilled with the situation. Brett brown weighed in i dont begrudge nerlens noel at all for what he said. I dont have any problems with it and i said to him and i said to you and the public from day one, i will coach him until he is not here. I will coach him until maybe hes here for a long time. None of us can really know whats going to happen down the road. Hes got to come in great shame compete, do his job. Moving on its the second of three consecutive nights of preseason hockey for the flyers, the orange and black hosting the islanders. Dale white gets his first as a flyer. 10 flyers, Wayne Simmons had great year last season, first of two on the night. Flyers win 40. Friday Football Frenzy four days away. Abington at newshamty. Vote now, cbsphilly. Com frenzy. Hes not gone yet but already i miss him. Six games left in the phillies season, that means there are six games left in ryan howards phillies career. Go to the phillies the braves face is loaded for the big p. Right field. Get up and get gone. 15th career grand slam. Alex rodriguez for the most since 2004. Phils up 40. Mother nature trying to rain on ryans parade. The game finally out of a rain delay after a onehour 52minute stoppage of play. Phils leading 61 in the sixth inning. The yankee stadium. What do you think is going on . All those fans looking for something on the floor . That dude right there proposed, was trying to propose but dropped the ring. Everyone is like, dude, we got to help this guy out. Hes looking. Theyre searching. Finally. Yes. He proposes. One knee, she says yes. I love how everybody moving. They found it. Beer on it. Corn on it. Peanuts. Up next, how i was on my way to work, the next thing you know, i was on the ground. The trash truck ran over both my legs. I had sixteen surgeries. I dont sleep through the night unless i have my medicine. My medical bills was piling up. My employer stopped paying me. Pond lehocky has put me back together. Big announcement from the philadelphia zoo. A baby gorilla born in august is a girl. She doesnt have name just yet. But thats where you come in. Just a dollar you can choose between four different names. Money will go toward gorilla rehabilitation and conservation. The voting ends thursday at 4 00. Head over to the zoo website we got a link for it on our website. Kate . Thank you, ukee and jessica, the weekend looks like it may be a little bit better than the next couple of days at least thats stub born upper low i was talking about, still a chance for couple showers saturday. Sunday looks like it has a chance to turn warmer and drier with temperatures in the upper 70s. Well keep you posted on that weekend so you can make its the late show with stephen colbert. Our morning is back from 4 30 to 7 00. 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