For today. Tgif indeed, jan, always so great to see you. A rainbow on a friday morning, still early out there. Looking outside, roadways, lots going on including a big gas break, we will be talking about that coming up in the next ten minutes. Quiet weather overall still in the forecast today, we coned one shower or thunderstorm at some point later this afternoon, but for now, it is all clear and really warm outside. Our temperatures are off to very, mild start, and youll be able to walk out the door without a coat for sure here today. Another hot one, guys, storm scan empty at the moment, will likely not stay that way, again, shower or thunder storm in the cards. It is not as warm as yesterday, but certainly, 75 degrees is mild enough that you again can walk out the door without any coat here today. Thats for sure. Were going to ends up doing here maybe dropping another degree or two before we rebounds from this point. Low mid 70s, even at the shore points at this hour, very mild beginning, and even those outlying suburbs like quakertown, doylestown, also starting off in the low sevens here this morning. So, as the day goes on, shower, thunderstorm will fire up in a couple of spots. It is very isolated, very spotty, if you dont want to take an umbrella i dont think you have to. Today is another hot one, shooting for 91, as long as we crack 90 that would make this little stretch of heat a heatwave by definition. But no matter what the thermometer reads, meisha, another hot one. Oh, a lot of people want it to be over. I dont. But a lot of people do. Im with you. Thank you, good morning, everybody, and a big happy friday. So this is what were waking to up, than is big news, take a look at this, it happened around 1 15 a. M. Gas main break in cherry hill, route 70 eastbound closed at curtis avenue right now. You will have to use these alternates, park boulevard, route 38, your best bet. Live images outside, well see in a little bit. Looks like it just looks not good. It is exploding outside of the grounds. Looking that the coming up in a little bitment but just a heads up, route 70 eastbound closed. These alternates are must use this morning as we push toward our 5 00 hour. Then we have fatal crash here, the investigation was underway, it happened around 2 00 a. M. Frazier road between friendship, and old county rose closed thats news since cleared. Looking okay there. We do have some construction crews zero crews, nine at north to broad, thats closed still. Let you know as soon as that clears up. Blue route norristown, left lane still compromised, of course ill let you know when crews are out of the way there, as well. The driver who plowed through crowd in new yorks time square killing one, injuring 22 others, facing laundry list every charges this morning. Police identify the suspect as 26 year old richard rojas, who they say, has history of driving under the influence. Eighteen year old alycia killed, 22 other injured yesterday, four still in critical condition. Rojas has been charged with murder, attempted murder and aggravated vehicular homicide. We caught up with one parent who witnessed the horrific scene. He accelerated. He wasnt stopping, ran on the pavement, and hit quite a few people, and i just saw people flying in the air like dolls. Now eighth graders from saint cecelia in north philadelphia were in new york for a class trip. Thankfully, all students and staff in the group of nearly 100 were unharmed. Officials say they do not believe this was an act of terrorism. Police continue their search this morning foreman accused of firing a shotgun into another drivers car in bucks county. Rich lands Township Police looking for brandon grass owe, they say hes been involved in three confrontations, including one in quakertown where he is accused of shooting a cars rear windshield. Police dont know what led to that incident. They think grosso is driving a Mercedes Benz sedan. Police say he should be considered armed and dangerous. Amtrak engineer charged in the fatal 2015 train crash in Port Richmond is out on bail this morning. Take a look, thats Brandon Bostian leaving jail with his lawyer last night. The 34 year old turned himself in earlier in the day, was arraigned on Involuntary Manslaughter and other related charges. It hurts to see people go to jail. You know what, he changed peoples lives, he ruined my life. We filed these charges in a attempt to seek justice for the victims of the amtrak train crash. Bostians bail set at 81,000. He did not have to pay that bail. But instead was released with a promise he will return to court next month. New Jersey Transit looking into why this train door stayed open for at least eight stops before it pulled the train out of service. Passengers, the winds whipped by, this happened tuesday night on the way from new york silt toy trenton. New Jersey Transit says a train obviously should not be in motion while door is open. A Schuylkill County father facing child endangerment charges. They found his three Young Children in their pottstown home alone, one of them was locked in a cage. Pottsville, about 100 northwest of philadelphia. Thirtyeight year old cecil cruz is behind bars on quarter Million Dollars cash bail. Investigators say they found his 22 month old son in a makeshift wooden cage, one year old boy in a play pen, and a day old newborn in a baby seat on the floor. The children are now in the care of social services. Police say their mother was in the hospital from complications after childbirth. Dante island of Delaware County has pleaded guilty to six counts including two count of attempted murder. Authority say island shot Folcroft Police officer Christopher Dorman last june. Dorman was shot seven times while responding to a call about drug activity. Officer dorman has since returned to work. The nations capitol now, President Trump leaving this evening for his first overseas trip since his inauguration, elvis it israel and the west bank, saudi arabia, roam, the west bank, is hely, one day, found no russian ties to his campaign associate, the president denounced the new asomugha agents. If there was any doubt about how President Trump feels about the special council a pointed in the russia probe, there isnt any more. Trump on twitter calling it the single greatest witch hunt after politician in american history. During a joint News Conference with the colombian president , Juan Manuel Santos thursday, President Trump denied he ever column eude dollars with russia. The entire thing has been a witch hunt. There is no collusion between particular lie myself and my campaign. I think we have a very divided country because of that, and many other things. Republicans and specially democrats had praise for the a appointment of robert mueller, highly respected former fbi director, who could offer some stability, and credibility, to the investigation. The appointment of a special council, i think, helps assure people and the justice chapter in going to go do their jobs independently and thoroughly, which we have called for all along. Meanwhile, rod rosenstein, man who appointed mueller after recommending trump fire comey, briefed senators behind closed doors on capitol hill. The take away i have is that everything he said was that you need to treat this investigation as it may be a criminal investigation. Lawmakers on both sides ramming up their calls for comb toy testify. Eager to find out why he was fired, and whether trump asked him to ends his investigation into michael flynn. We still would like to hear from director comey, the American People need to hear his side of the store. I in washington, scott mcclane. Pennsylvanias auditory general says his office is review of a 10 million state grant for the Democratic National convention could be over by the ends every july. Governor tom wolf asked for the review, after word got out some of the 4 million surplus from the dnc in philadelphia last summer went to bo just toss staff members. Auditor general trying to determine if any of the state grant money was used to pay for those bonuses, chairman, ed rendell, sayings the answer is. No. We raise that all ourselves. I raised most of it, jason omalley, development director, he was responsible for raise that mine, he came out of what we raised. Governor wolf argues the surplus money should have been returned to pennsylvania taxpayers. Well, we now know the cause of death for Fox News Channel founder roger ailes. The palm beach medical examiner said he died from complications from a fall in his home. Ailes got his big break here at kywtv producing the mike douglas show back in the 19 60s, one every his guests Richard Nixon later hired ailes as media advisor. Went onto help elect president nixon, ronald reagan, george h. W. Bush. Last july accusations of sexual harrassment forced ailes to retire from fox news. Roger ailes was 77 years old. Meantime, Seattle Space needle went dark for hour in memory of chris burnell, front man of the group, the wayne county Michigan Medical Examiners Office ruled colonels death a suicide by hanging, although full autopsy report is not yet complete. Colonel was born and raise in the see at and helped Form Foundation which would become grunge scene. He was 52 years old. Another sure sign of spring in philadelphia is the annual stotesbury regatta. We have some video, maybe get it to you later in the show. It is the oldest and Largest High School Rowing Competition in the world, held annually, has been since 1927. High schoolers from all across the country and canada had complete. Last year the largest society beer any history. Always good event. Absolutely. Well, there is much more to cover on cbs3 Eyewitness News, list of best summer hot spots, includes four beaches close to home. One and last confederate statue coming down in the biggies i. Why one what happen in broad daylight. I never anticipated that i was heading all i wanted to do was stay off the street. And this man proves it is never too late to learn. Were back in two minutes. Edge like the first statues the city has removed it, will take down leaves during the day. Officials say the other had to be done overnight, because of threat made against workers involved in the effort. It is commencement day at villanova university. Win member of the class of 2017 getting his diploma. Will receive honorary doctor of humanity degree, the worlds war two veteran has been taking classes therefore 24 years, part of the enrich piments program. He loves to learn. He shared with us how he chooses his classes. I choose them based on, number one, is it of interest to me, and will i learn something from it that i didnt know before. And thats in every class. You can never walk out after classroom and say i didnt learn anything today. What a great message, congratulates tosser win for his military service, he received purple heart, bronze star medal. Check it out. Trip advisor has new list of americas top 50 summer hot spots. Four towns within less than three hours driving distance, made the top ten list. Wildwood crest, came in at number one, with ocean city, second, Rehoboth Beach with six, and cape may, tenth. The survey looked at various factors including the percentage increase in Seasonal Hotel book interesting spring to summer, as well as the value travelers get for their money. Wouldnt minds going to any of those. Beg ertz cant be choose ers. Looking good there. Should be good week toned get out there, too. Specially after the last couple of days, so hot. It will definitely and lot cool they are weekends, still overall very pleasant, if you are making beach get away. At least we dont have to worry about soaking rain foreign tire day like we did last weekends, but certainly going to notice less humidity, this is region wide, not just at the shore, and also much cooler conditions. Even just slightly below average, in fact, very heavy thunderstorms breaking out at the moment across iowa, missouri, this is eventually a system crossing through, but at the moment, weve got nothing more than spotty showers, thunderstorms in our forecast here for today. It is specific to the p. M. Time frame. For now, you can see a little bubble up here across part of kentucky, west virginia, this is what eventually starts to bubble up over our area, from frontal package, knocking the temperatures back, speaking of the beaches you want to head out there today, go for it, looks like another great beach day, overall, but mind the uv index. It is awfully high. The rip countries being nice and low. But it is only 80 degrees, by comparison to the 90 that we think we will hit in the city. Upped the and the tee, remember, by definition, loose definition basically of heatwave three days straight of zero nine or above. There will be couple of spotty showers, key word here is spotty, all very isolated, possibly under this earl storm from the frontal passage, but a front that sort of lacks moisture content. So even though we could end up with thundershower, many of you will actually not even see raindrop throughout the afternoon. Looking forward, though, talk about a drop off. Nearly 20 degrees, just shaved right off of the daytime high from one day to the next. It will be a lot less humid. It will be a lot more comfortable. I at this point dont want to totally rule out showers tomorrow, guidance trying to bring it in, allinall i think good weekends looking forward, more wet weather on the way for monday. Looks like great weekends. Katie, thank you so much. Very good morning, tgif to you. We made it to friday. But we are waking up to some news that we have to talk about. Gas main break here, route 70 eastbound, it is closed, and this happened around, i would say, 1 15 in the morning or so. So again, zero seven eastbound closed at curtis avenue, alternates, park boulevard, or route 38, going to be your best bet. Sounds like it is just a big explosion coming out of the grounds. Stay away from the area. Still early. Hopeful will he gets cleared up for us, moving out deeper into the 5 00 hour, confirm when it does clear. Then looking at the closure, 95 north, ramp to broad street, because of construction, thats now since been cleared. Where crews were. You can see, some headlights out there. Some of your friends and neighbors driving around, first looking at the 42 freeway northbound creek road looking good there, as well. Looking very, very dark, good thing, weaver nice dry roadways this morning, so hopefully well have a fairly smooth friday commute for you today. And, we are talking about this up at the desk, i think i heard jan talking about it, stotesbury regatta, kelly drive closed until 7 00 p. M. Saturday, use the alternates, i76, mlk drive, ridge avenue your alternates. Jan, back over to you. Thank you still ahead right here on cbs3 Eyewitness News this morning, automakers settle claims over defective airbags. Finds out if your car is covered. And Graduation Day for those with four legs. Newest for these k9 cops when Eyewitness News continues. Ae3z y2ae3y y12fy money watchs jill wagner joins us from the new york torque stock exchange, good morning, big settlement that could help customers . Takata agreed settlement with four automakers, covers toyota, subaru, could compensate over 16 million cars and trucks following the recalled defective airbags. Those airbags are blamed for at least 16 deaths and 180 injuries. The federal court still has to approve the deal. Jan, rahel . That was a big deal. Stay tuned for. That will jill, ibm was one of the First Companies to encourage it employees to work directly from home. Now, reversing course. Whats that about . Yes, ibm is a pioneer in remote work. But it plans to tell thousand it is of workers to return to the office or leave the company. According to the wall street journal, ibm says working in the office will improve collaboration and pick up the pace of work. So interesting there. See how the workers react to that. Jill, see you in the next hour, thank you. Tonight, at 11 00, cbs3 anchor jessica dean takes you behind the scenes of madam secretary as the cast and crew shoot on location, in washington, d. C. , for the First Time Since the pilot episode. Hear from stars like tim dale what i it is like on the set, what to expect from sundays season three finale. Go behind the scenes of madam secretary tonight at 11 00. And coming up after the break, another check on weather and traffic. Plus, katie, apparently we have another scorcher . Yes, look that way here guys. Eventually there is pattern change that waits in the wings for us. Ill he let you know how long that is expected to last, what the seven day has up its good morning, everyone, we look back to another day coming up here. It will end up being very toasty day, once more. We are now upping the expectations, expect to go crack 90 degrees once more, generally expect sunshine, to bake things, at the surface here, the good news, no air quality issue at this point. The winds is going to start to pick up a little bit. Do have bit of wet weather in the forecast, not necessarily going to be a very widespread batch of rain, but see bit of activity already pushing it way through northwestern pa, eventually scattered shower, thunderstorm that pops up throughout the second half of the afternoon. Seventyfive the current temperature with pretty modest wind out of the southwest, boy, you know, when the winds blows it, actually feels warm at this point. Seventyone in atlantic city, 68 in mount pocono, so yet another scorcher after day as we had allude dollars to. Again, im expecting spotty shower or thundershower. But by the time we hit the weekends, with the front lasting moisture, boy does it make up with knock on the thermometer readings, back to the low 70s, actually below average throughout the weekends, but heck, looks comfortable allinall. Spotty left over shower cant be ruled out saturday, meisha, allinall looking good for the weekend. Looks that way as far as what i saw. Thanks so much, katie. Looking outside right now, what we are talking about, a big gas main break in cherry hill. Route 70 eastbound, right now, closed at curtis avenue. So you will have to use an alternate. Park boulevard, or route 38, is going to be your best bet. This happened around 1 15 a. M. Yikes. We dont want to wake up to that, hopefully gets cleared out of the way pushing deeper into the 5 00 hour. Crews are still out there. Not too far away, construction happening, route zero seven east and westbound cropwell road, one lay block, will be blocked until 6 00 a. M. Many well confirm when that lift. Schuylkill headlight eastbound direction at girard, both moving in the eastbound and westbound direction, looking okay there. And the vine as well, looking pretty quiet. As we push in the westbound. And the vine, as well. Pretty quiet youre looking just as you should, as well. Construction, 42, closed, around the next five minute or so crews should be picking that up. Did have disable vehicle here on the 42, 95, also cleared, jan, over to you. Stay updated, also special drug for numb south jersey reveals some big secret when it comes to your child hiding and using drugs, plus montgomery county, repairing several bridges, list the structurally deficient for years, they explain how they got the money. And information overload when it comes to medical conditions. Filtering the good information from the bad. Check in two, three, four times a day, on kyw news radio 1060 on your a. M. Dial. Well, it was Graduation Day for three special dogs who are now members of local police departments. There he is, 16 month old German Shepherd and graduate of Training Program at penn school of veterinary medicine. He is also the newest member of the Norristown Police department. His partner is officer brian. Hell be in the car, answering calls for service, you know, out in the community, meeting people, helping us improve our relationship with the Community Members in norristown, and narcotics search, hell be completing those, as well. Also very vocal. The two other dogs who graduated are going to be Lower Merion Police department and septa police. Theyre so well trained. They go through so much training, continued training, theyre working dogs, you dont mess with them when you see them out on the street. I think i asked an officer once if i could pet, and he said no. Hands off. Hes working. Coming up in the next half hour on cbs3 Eyewitness News, live in washington as President Trump gets ready for his first foreign visit as his commander in chief. Also, just learned, this three alarm fire in Texas Shopping Center has turned deadly. Update on this developing story. And, it is a creepy crawly big problem in one area. We will tell you where hundreds every giant snails are invading. Were back at the top of the hour. This is cbs3 Eyewitness News this morning. We have new developments this morning. Hear from local class on fieldtrip to new york when the panic happened. President trump is taking off for his first foreign trip. Can he escape the controversy here at home . Im weijia jiang on capitol hill with the latest coming up. And, a commuter alert. This is a live look at a gas leak in cherry hill, mobile three live along the scene, on route 70 and penn avenue. If you look real close you can see the gas is still spewing. Meisha has the road closures. Today is friday, may 19