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Our sky scan and no shortage of lightening worse by 12 30 this morning. Fire officials believe lightening sparked this overnight house fire in sellersville bucks county at height of the storm just after 12 30 on the 600 block ofe temple road, flames were contained to mostly upper floors, fortunately there were no injuries reported. We are getting reports of the down trees so lets check with meisha and Chelsea Ingram , good morning. Good morning. So great to have you with us this morning. So much fun to watch and so much fun to work with you guys Flood Warning on my cell phone at 12 30 what is going on. Usually so peaceful to sleep but last night i woke up like, wow what is going on. It really was. So roads are looking okay, we will see smaller road those are flooded, we were talking about this a little bit. Down trees we will get to in a little bit but just construction. Nasty storms they rolled through overnight but things are looking so much better, taking a live look at storm scan three where we are just dealing with sprinkles here and there, couple sprinkles down the shore, up near new york but things quieted down significantly, we do have flood advisories and Flood Warnings that we are watching very closely though for chester, delaware, gloucester and new castle counties until 8 00 a. M. This morning. Remember turnaround dont drawn. Temperatures checking in the 70s. Seventysix in philadelphia. Seventyfive wilmington. Right around 76 in millville. Overall trend today will be to improve, turning sunny, less humid by the afternoon, looking for High Temperatures in the mid 80s. Things looking much better but we will have to watch potential for flooding as we head through morning hours. Could we see trouble on the road because of the flooding. Probably a little bit, we will see more on smaller roads and, sidewalks, bridge decks and sidewalks so would i say head up walking as well because that will affect you on the sidewalk or under those bridges. Just be careful out there, primarily what we are looking at in terms of the main things is just construction this morning. We are seeing that in bucks county route one both directions are closed at Oxford Valley and then reenter on Oxford Valley. We were talking about that a few weeks ago. Now it is back out there just a head up on. That overnight resurfacing schuylkill and gulph mills that right lane compromised there and see how wet it is, that water condensing to the side of the road. Head up through those puddles you are at risk for, hydroplaning so just a head up construction between route one , 332, that left lane compromised there. Back over to you. Intense protests erupt on the streets of the phoenix overnight. This followed president Trumps Campaign style rally where he touched on several hot buttonnish yous. Police officers in riot gear used tear gas, rubber bullets and flash bang grenade toss break up protest. Many tossed bottles and rocks at the officers. Four people were arrested. Heres correspondent Chris Martinez with more on the president s visit. It is finally time to rebuild our country. To take care of our people. President came to the city following a tour of the Border Patrol center near mexican border. We are building a wall on the southern border which is absolutely necessary. Reporter as Trump Supporters filed in the arena. That was a job that he is producing. Reporter protesters marched through streets to denounce president s previous views on charlottesville. Im really doing this to show you how bleep dishonest these people are. Reporter president read parts of his remarks on the violence before the crowd and blamed media for being dis honest. Then i said, racism is evil did they report i said that racism is evil . Reporter mayor of the phoenix asked President Trump to delay his visit here to keep the peace. Many demonstrators outside the arena expressed outrage that the president is considering pardoning former sheriff joe a rpa io after he was quick of carrying out illegal traffic patrols targeting immigrant. Mr. Trump dropped a big hint. He should have had a jury, but you know what, im going to make a prediction i think he is going to be just fine, okay. Reporter states two republican senators john mccain and jeff flake have clashed with the president in recent days, president issued a veiled critique of both of them without mentioning the senators by name. Chris martinez for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Back here at home investigators from the ntsb will be back, trying to piece together the events that led to yesterdays crash that injured dozens of passengers. Eyewitness News Reporter trang do is live at 69th street station with the next step in the investigation, good morning, trang do. Reporter ntsb investigation will be here for the next several days, they also planned to interview train operator today but take a look, trolley involved remains here on the tracks, taped off, a day after this accident. Ntsb investigators combed tracks at 69th street terminal after terrifying crash between two norristown high speed line railcars, one pulling in the station, other parked on the tracks. The accident which happened just after midnight on tuesday , injured 33 people including the train operator. I see that we have 69th street, why are we going so fast, take the train, boom. Reporter ntsb investigators involved ruben says agency has a eight member team on the ground in upper darby. They will be collecting evidence in their specific disciplines which includes mechanical, operation, and, signal and train control, crash worthiness, emergency response, and human performance. Investigators collect video recorders from both railcars and plans to interview the operator sometime on wednesday we cannot rule out anything right now. Reporter passengers told Eyewitness News that the train seemed to have trouble braking. I was talking to a guy at gulph mills saying that is not right it never passes like that something is wrong. Reporter little visible damage to the outside, of the railcars he says further inspection should provide needed answers. We saw some damage from walking inside. Once we can get under cars and tear into them we will know just what extent, to what extent they were damaged and whether they performed as designed. Reporter ntsb investigations take quite a long time final report in this accident could take as long as a year to come out. For now we are live at 69th street terminal im trang do for cbs3 Eyewitness News back to you. Meanwhile in other news new jersey politicians are offering their condolences following sudden death of the state senator jim whelan, whelan represented Atlantic County in the new Jersey Legislature for more than a decade. Before that the democrat was the long time mayor of Atlantic City, a city schoolteacher and life guard. Whelan did not seek reelection in november. He had kidney surgery last month, no word on his cause of death, jim whelan was 68 years old. In a Statement Governor Chris Christie said i came to know jim as a forthright, honest leader whose word was his bond. The current come back of Atlantic City is due in no small part to the efforts and passion of jim whelan. Senate president Stephen Sweeney said jim was rarely one to raise his voice but was a advocate for Atlantic City a city he loved dearly and was determined to see it thrive. New this morning a man is fighting for his life after he was shot in south philadelphia this happened at 16th and le tonia street just before midnight. He was shot multiple times in his chest and stomach. Surveillance cameras captured two men running from the scene around the time of the shooting but no word on a motive. Update on the man accused in the haverford township murder last month is behind bars, Police Arrested him yesterday, and officials have been on the hunt for Derek Rollins since july when he killed 29 yearold john lay, rollins was also wanted for shooting at two men in the overbrook section that very same day, those two men were not hurt, they will will bring rollins back where he will face aggravated assault charge s. We are learning one of the sailors missing after the accident involving the u. S. S. John mccain has ties to our area. 22year old kennett smith spent his senior year at high school at cherry hill east. Smith was working as an Electronics Technician on u. S. S. John s mccain when it collided with a tanker trip near singapore on monday. He and nine others remain missing, smiths mother is hopeful they will be found soon. I just want to be over there searching, his father and i could not be more proud of our son. Great kid. Military Officials Say some bodies have been recovered but they have yet to be identified meanwhile u. S. Navy intend to difficulties smith joseph oakcoin as commander of the u. S. Seventh fleet, mondays crash was second major collision in the pennsylvania few months involving the seventh fleet, seven sailors died in june when u. S. S. Fitzgerald collided with the container ship in the waters off of japan. It looks like you will finally be able to feel the love in philadelphia come november. The cities park and Recreation Department say renovations at love park are on track. Parks and recreation officials told Eyewitness News back in may that crews had a ventilation system and piping during digging and that set it back six months. Parks commissioner said that she was confident that the park would be opened by thanksgiving. Her confidence is paying off. Tonights power ball Lottery Jackpot is now worth get this, 700 milliondollar, second largest jackpot on record for any u. S. Lottery game. Largest was 1. 6 billion power ball back in 2016. This current jackpot has been growing since june 10th, the chance by the way of picking all six winning power ball numbers is one in 292 million, and if you play, good luck. Well, it is turning out to be a environmental mess thousands of salmon accidentally released in the opened waters. If you can believe this some are blaming the Solar Eclipse, how it happened and judge it is a big concern. Will they stay or go . Major decision was made in charlottesville, virginia concerning the confederate monuments, we will tell you why it may not make either side if what you see then youve hit the jackpot. You cant fake steak. Longhorn steakhouse. Tonights special, the Great American steak dinner for 12. 99. A centercut sirloin with a side, plus a starter, or dessert. And for lunch, try one of our new burgers. Like the bbq bacon burger. Only at longhorn. Police hope surveillance cameras can catch active vandalism at a northeast philadelphia cemetery. Damage was discovered yesterday at Memorial Church of saint luke in the bustleton section. You can see is there dozens of tomb stones toppled, members of the church say they are both shocked, pained by what happened here. And im still angry and that is why we would like to find out who did this, why they did it and they would be man enough to come here in the day light where they could be seen. Makes an interesting point. Cemetery dates back 156 years and resting place for civil war figures such aspennick hugh i. Officials decided to cover up confederate statues in charlottesville, virginia, following public outcry to tear down monuments. The decision comes less than two weeks after violence broke out just feet from the statues of robert lee and stone wall jackson. Dozens of angry residents showed up demanding the statues be removed, a City Council Member explain why their hands are tied. We are not allowed by courts at this point because of the injunction to do anything physical to the statues, we cannot put up scaffolding or anything like that but this seems like something we could do that doesnt damage the statue and not in violation of the injunction but it does express our sorrow as a community for what has happened. Many residents are still not satisfied and instead they are demanding that the statute being removed. Solar eclipse is blamed for a fishing disaster estimated 5,000 Atlantic Salmon escaped from the damage pen in Washington State over weekend. Farms owner is blaming high tide coinciding with the Solar Eclipse for causing dal age. It is outraging Environmental Concerns saying Atlantic Salmon are nonnative species to the pacific northwest, they are encouraging recreational anglers to catch the salmon what do you think about that, salmon. Never would think about that. The combination of everything. Yes, i would expect fish to go down my block last night because at 12 30 i said what the heck is going on out there we had a flash Flood Warning, torrential downpours and that flash Flood Warning has been replaced with a Flood Warning because we are still dealing with flooding problems out there take a look at storm scan three. Things have quieted down on radar. Just a couple sprinkles here and there but not a big deal, heading in the next couple hours we will have potential for another shower, possibly redevelop especially for south and east of philadelphia but heres where we had that Flood Warning in place. Chester, delaware, gloucester, new castle counties and philadelphia, this is until 8 00 a. M. And in surprise that we are still dealing with flooding concerns out there because look at this rain from wilmington to philadelphia, doppler estimate, inches of rain fell with that storm, that ran through the area earlier last night or this morning i should say. 76 degrees in philadelphia. Seventyfive in wilmington. Mid 70s in millville. Seventys down the shore. Seventyeight in wildwood. Seventyfive in Atlantic City. It will still be on the muggy side this morning. We will see showers winding down. Muggy side around 7 00 a. M. Dew points in the 60s. Look at the improvement throughout the day. By noon it is feeling more comfortable out there 60 degrees and mid 50s as we head into this evening. Perhaps you can dine outside, it will be a comfortable evening across the delaware valley. Sunny, less humid, 84 for that High Temperature, looking for a low around 64. We can give ac a break. Mostly clear, comfortable. Now lets look at your seven day forecast, it goes like this 83 on thursday. Tons of sunshine. Look at that sunshine in the weekend. Temperatures feeling like fall as we head into saturday and sunday. Meisha. That looks beautiful, the weekend, they will love those zero sevens. Thanks very much. Very good morning to you. Happy wednesday, or should we say happy hump day. We are talking about a water main break, real quickly here, flashing lights here, egypt road at trooper road. Head up on this, not too much right now but maybe a little bit later how long it takes to move it out. We will let you know. Construction bucks county route one both directions closed at Oxford Valley crews moving out of the way right now in that area as well and they are clearing up overnight project on the schuylkill between gulph mills and gladwynn, right lane compromised there,e and westbound side. It can be bait and switch. Today just eastbound side. They are moving out of our way we have down wires, chelsea has been talking about that storm that came through last night. We have down wires. Head up in Concord Township route one Baltimore Pike closed between cheyney road and schoolhouse lane. Alternate glen mills millions road. Jim, back over to you. The Atlantic City air show takes to the skies today. We will have a preview what you will see down the shore. All that and more when Eyewitness News if you like cinnamon toast crunch then youll love strawberry. French toast. And new Apple Cinnamon toast crunch. From our crazy delicious family to yours. Crave those crazy squares money watchs Roxana Saberi joins us from the new york stock exchange. Good day for wall street yesterday. What is the very latest right now. Reporter it was jim and rahel. We will see if stocks keep up their rally. They surged yesterday after a shaky couple of weeks. Rise were led by big gains for tech and retail companies. Dow jones rose 196 points and nasdaq finished 84 points up. Wow. Well, roxana, google, walmart i understand they are teaming up to take on amazon. So what is this all about. Reporter they are. They are trying to take on amazons growing dominance by offering walmart products to people who shop on Google Express, that is googles on line shopping mall. It is first tile walmart is offering products on line in the u. S. Outside walmart. Com. It paves way for people that make walmart order by using googles Voice Assistant instead of amazons alexa. Jim and rahel. You know i dont buy things on line. What . I dont. Really. Believe it or not, i like to go in the store, i touch things, it is clothing, i like to see it. Have you ever heard of Google Express before this story, roxana. Turf say i do because in new york it is pretty good service, it comes within a day of your order and i probably make too much use of it, i get toilet paper and that kind of stuff. Thanks, roxana. Atlantic city air show is taking off. Fifteenth annual event returns to the skies today. Heres a sneak peak. Eyewitness news was on the beach for a preview of the show. Beach goers got some sun and watched the practice runs over the beach and boardwalk during todays four hour show. It is jammed packed were performed answers by military and private aircraft and u. S. Air force thunder bird. Always an amazing show. Well worth it. Region got a soaking overnight. Chelsea, do you think rain will be a concern for morning commute. Things will be looking much better for morning commute and also throughout the daytoday ill let you know when it will feel like fall in your full how dixie ultra plates . Roved with two pounds of steak. In each hand. Dixie ultra. Stress tested so you can stress less at dinner. Why do the best things in life create so much mess tackle it all with finish® quantum. Even on the toughest messes you get an unbeatable clean. And now get 25 more loads then cascade® platinum™ switch to finish® quantum. Heres a live look in bethlehem you can see a shine on the road. Road is on the wet side of the things but we will see improving weather heading our way as we move throughout the daytoday. Lets go live to storm scan three where things are certainly improving there this morning. We have very strong storms that rolled through earlier, but now, look things are starting to dry out, and that will be the trend throughout the morning and into the afternoon. Areas south and east could still deal with the lingering shower before things completely dry out. Because of the rain we received overnight we have a Flood Warning in place from wilmington all the way to philadelphia. No surprise there. That is where we had flash Flood Warning, you probably heard your phone going off in the middle of the night but this has been replaced with a Flood Warning for chester, delaware, gloucester and new castle counties until 8 00 in the morning if you see ponding on the roadway remember the golden rule turnaround dont drawn. Temperatures in the 70s. 76 degrees in philadelphia 74 degrees in wilmington. Right around 76 in millville. Heres what you can expect throughout the daytoday decreasing cloud, in addition to that decreasing humidity. So by afternoon it will be feeling much better, we will see sunshine and a High Temperature around 84 degrees by 3 00 p. M. Meisha, we had rain but you are telling me not too many problems on the roads. It is looking good, chelsea i will say yes, we are having pooling, ponding on those bridges, on top of the bridges , sidewalks, side streets but overall our main freeways and highways are looking g we have a couple minor things we will get to in just a moment but for now things are looking okay. Thanks very much, chelsea 95 south at cottman i would say levels are looking, great, they are looking just as they should still dark, still early , we are looking at a water main break another egypt road at trooper road that will not slow you down too much. We are looking at construction lingering out there route one north closed at Oxford Valley, southbound side as well, now just north bound side. More coming up in a bit. Jim, back over to you. Coming up next on Eyewitness News we are tracking reports of the storm damage from overnight and we will take you to areas hardest hit. Then caught on camera a man shines a laser in the Police Helicopter and moments later he is in custody. We will tell you what he did when an officer approached him espn is facing Harsh Criticism this morning why they will not let an announcer call a game this weekend we are back at the top of the lightening, thunder, wind and rain this was the scene in center city earlier this morning. We saw strong storms moving through in the Early Morning hours, chances are some may have woke you up. Certainly woke me up. Storms did leave behind damage in sellersville bucks county where lightening may have sparked a house fire on the 600 block of east temple road, fortunately in one was hurt there. Magnolia Camden County part of the basement wall collapsed, this happened on the 500 block of Beverly Drive and believed that the heavy rain caused the ground to le

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