We had heavy rain through new jersey, if you will recall but it is all out of here and we are sitting pretty nice. Kickback, put the my feet up on the desk. Go ahead. Im just kidding, ill work for the next 4. 5 hours but we are looking to pleasant weather. Kind of forecast i like to give you because it is a well deserved break after the storms, heat and humidity. Now just, like a breath of fresh air. We will have good details coming up. Eventually on storms will return to the forecast with you ill tell when in the minutes ahead, guys, back to you. After nine days of air strikes is there a brief truce in the midst east conflict. Both sides agreed to the pause for five hours so palestinians cannery stock food and water. Violence his left more than 200 palestinians and one israeli dead. President obama says it is time for air strikes and rocket attacks to end. The the israeli people and the Palestinian People dont want to live like this. They deirv to live in peace and security free from fear. That is why we will continue to encourage diplomatic efforts to restore the ceasefire and we support egypts continued efforts to bring this about. The president also says israel has a right to defend itself but he is heart broken about the the deaths of civilian in gaza. Preparations are underway for a president ial visit to wilmington today. The president will tour damaged i495 bridge to highlight importance of investing in the nations highways and bridges. Dell dot says that the southbound side of the 495 is on track to reopen, several weeks before labor day. Bridge you may remember closed june 2nd when engineers discovered four support columns were tilting. Coming up on 4 33. Lets head back to kate toy hear about our nice forecast. I havent had much good news, i know, i get it but please dont shoot the messenger on this one. You cab send flowers to me today if youd like. That is how nice it will be. We are seeing the the retreat of the frontal boundary, it is out of here. We will clear out. It is just a really comfortable start to the day. Cloud cover aside, sky cam three as we look live here no problems seeing that bridge or well across it here, were off to this nice tranquil and just dry start. When i say dry i dont mean the fact that the rain is out as we go next to storm scan three you will see rain continuing to retreat but aside from that, due points have dropped off. Moisture content in the atmosphere is so much lower that it is a good hair day. Ladies, go for that intricate hair style and love it because youll have a excuse for it. Light wind, low humidity, beautiful out there. Coy think eventually there will be enough lingering instability, poconos could see a spotty sprinkle but you that will be the exception rather than the normal and we are looking ahead to the beautiful day. Coming off a three days straight here sunday, mob or tuesday where we hit 90 or above. Now we are in the lower to mid 80s which is where we should be but it is below average. Sixtyeight is the the current temperature, far cry from where temperatures were yesterday in the mount pocono area. Fiftyseven. Sixtyfour in ac and wildwood. Those were spots that were generally about 10 degrees mild they are same time yesterday. Sixtyone in doylestown as well as willow grove, pottstown, mount holly but magic number this those area day ahead looks great. Expect sunshine. Back to the low to mid 80s and the comfort is the key today, bob, over to you. Good morning. 4 34 on this thursday morning, a live look at i95 where they are doing some construction here along the the northbound side of 95 approaching the walt whitman bridge, down to only one lane here again. So watch for delays, featuring airport up through south philadelphia. Guess who is coming for lunch . Who. The president , 12 00 to 3 00. Stop at ukees house along the way. I hope you tidy thing up here. Air force one will touchdown here at new castle airport, at the navy base there and heres the location of the scene of the press conference there at 495. So, between noon and 3 00, all that activity is going to happen right here, south of that 495 closure. So obviously a motorcade madness from the airport, probably up i95 and into that 495 closure point. So the lower end south of wilmington on alert there for some closures and shut down with the president ial visit. Now a new speed limit begins today on the platt bridge down to 35 miles an hour and they did that because folks were speed ago cross the span. I bet you they will be ready to check those speed limit on the bridge, beginning this morning, erika, back over to you. A philadelphia man faces murder charges in the the death of a recent art School Graduate laura araujo. Jeremiah jackson is accused of beating and strangling the the young woman and putting her body in the duffle bag and dumping it in kensington on monday. Former security guard, in iraq were neighbors in a West Philadelphia boarding home. We are told 29 twoyear old man confessed, to the authorities. The motive was robbery and it is believed that mr. Jackson believed that she had some monday which her, a large amount of cash. Police say araujo had an earlier run in with jackson that left her so shaken she was planning on moving out of the boarding house after only a week of living there. Police are looking for the the gun man who shot two men in north fill. It happened at 8 00 at fourth and cumberland. Investigators say the gun man shot a 27 yearold man twice in the head and once in the gang. Second victim a 23 yearold man was shot in the back and leg. The driver, got out of the drivers door, and as the the maxima drove by, the shooter from point blank range fired shots while standing on the street. The gun man was last seen driving a silver pick up. New this morning a man remains hospitalized with multiple gunshot wounds after a overnight shooting in brewerytown. Eyewitness news at scene at 28th and west styles street. Shooting happened just after midnight. Victims condition is not yet known at this time and there is in word of a motive or suspect. Police are looking into two suspicious deaths, this morning. Elderly couple found dead with in signs of trauma or forced entry. Eyewitness News Reporter Nicole Brewer is at Strawberry Mansion right now where husband and wife were found by a relative, nicole. Reporter good morning to you, ukee and erika. I just spoke with the nephew of the deceased and he tells me that this husband and wife found dead, they are 66 yearold gladys perry, a retired Hahnemann Hospital nurse, and her husband 79 yearold roofus perry. According to the the family members this couple lived in their home for 40 years and in constant touch with family and in good health. You can imagine just how horrifying it was when their daughter came to check on them last night and discovered both bodies on the living room floor. It all happened here on the 2500 block of north spangler street in Strawberry Mansion. Neighbors heard that daughter screaming and called 911, just before 1 00. When police arrived, they found perrys unresponsive and unconscious but with no signs of trauma witnesses and family members have been taken in for questioning as medical Examiners Office prepares to conduct an autopsy. Right now, unknown cause of death, but the husband and wife were both found dead together, both pronounced at the same time, one, 10 00 a. M. , and it is an ongoing investigation. Inn investigate are are on the scene and you can imagine family remains in shock. Many huddled around that home just a block from where im standing. They called mrs. Perry their pay matriarch. Coming up 59 00 we will hear from the nephew donald carlton, the Deputy Commissioner of the philadelphia streets department. That is latest live from Strawberry Mansion, Nicole Brewer, cb is s3 eyewitness news. We will see new 30 minutes. In other news police are investigating how a four yearold child with special needs was left in a van for hours. That child was supposed to be dropped off at the the Friendship Circle center in croyden but stayed in that ran instead. Temperatures outside Tuesday Morning were in the lower 80s. The bus driver went home and didnt realize the child was still inside that van until the drive back to school. Preliminary findings from the drivers employer show policies were not followed properly. They are instructed as strict policy that they check the entire van from front to back when they drop off and pick up students. The intermediate unit says the driver is suspended with the intent to fire. Child was taken to the hospital after spending two and a half hours loan in the van, but they are said to be okay. This morning, remembering a Philadelphia Police officer killed in the line of duty. Family and friend unveiled a mural dedicated to the memory of chuck cassidy. It is at penn crest gym in northeast philadelphia it celebrate officer cassidys services to the north east and his love of sports. Officer cassidy was killed during a robbery in West Oak Lane in october of 2007. Is there much more to cover here on cbs3 eyewitness news. Area pool may not open this suummer after a donation for renovations falls through, we are back in two minutes. Well, what goodies a Swimming Pool in the middle of summer when it is closed . That is what people in norristown want to know. Pool at George Washington Carver Community center needs 30,000 worth of repairs. A donation was in the works but it fell through. Town council says that the entire pool needs an overhaul, the city says it ties late to open this summer. Rec center adds that the pool is costly to run. Just running the pool by itself we had in repairs to do at all we are always in excess of 20,000 to run the pool. Town officials want to take a closer look at the the Community Centers business plan. Today might be a great day to hit the pool if you are looking at the forecast. Absolutely, this is a good excuse to get outside. It feels so much better. When you walked in this morning. No question. There is even a slight breeze. Just enough to make it comfortable. It wasnt enough to blow your hair out of whack but just enough to say it feels nice. Ahh. It wasnt that hot steamy breeze we had a last couple days. Now it is coming from the northwest. You are cracking up. Feels so much better outside. I come bearing much Better Weather news ape it looks like we will be in for a nice stretch here of quiet weather overall a few more clouds build up, but earlier in the week we thought there might be wet weather to dodge, it is looking better for the weekend as a whole. We will start things off by taking a look here at july, thus far. How have we faired in terms of averaging when it comes to precipitation and temperatures. It has been above average. You could have guessed that. It has been hot for a couple weeks now on a handful of days. Highest temperature is 96 but we had most 90 degrees days so far in the last couple weeks. Precipitation has been above average because we have had, so much more moisture to work with, it has allowed for heavy rain to soak us, so we are above average there as well. Meanwhile heres the frontal boundary that brought in nasty storms and heavy rain in recent days but even still it is trying to pull away but we are done with it at this point. We can expect that much more comfortable air mass to really take over at this point. Temperature change over the last say 24 hours, it is anywhere from five to ten, pushing 15 degrees out towards pine land region. It can drop off more readily when pattern like this, but it just feels so much better. 84 degrees is our expected high today under sunshine. I can see a sprinkle just enough lingering instability but we are mostly dry and clear and that will be the story tonight as well. Clear and comfortable. Tomorrow 86 with sunshine. A few more clouds for the weekend but we will stay dry here by next week. We are starting to heat up and seeing a return of that humidity, ukee, back over to you. Thanks, katie n sports, players representing your philadelphia 76ers play top seeded Chicago Bulls in the Las Vegas Summer League tournament. The sixers advanced to the second round thanks to their reserves stepping up last night, millsap shared the team lead with 19 points against lakers and keyed their tough defense with seven steals. Sean kill patrick had 19 points for the sixers, sixers without nerlens noel, kc mcdaniel and still beat l. A. 8563. Soccer action in chester with the union tipping off the new york red bulls. Home team took a one to nothing lead in the ninth minute on the goal by connor casey who had an assist to his stat line a little bit later on. Union ended their seven game home winless streak with the three one win over bulls. Union play chicago fire on the road saturday night. Hey tiger woods and rest of the field will be teeing off today for the first round of the 2014 open champion ship. Tiger teed off 45 minutes ago. Defending champion Phil Mickelson ts off at 9 00 eastern time this morning. All of the action taking place across the town at royal liverpool. We will keep you up to date throughout the morning. We know you have your app pulled up on your phone ready to watch that. Who, me . Still ahead, jill wagner standing by in insuring with the preview of the day on wall street. But first heres what is coming up tonight on cbs3. Breaking news leads our morning headlines. Police are investigating the death of the two elderly people inside a home on the 2500 block of spangler street in Strawberry Mansion. Husband and wife were related deputy philadelphia streets commissioner donald carlton. President obama visits wilmington today and will check out progress on i495 bridge repairs and make marks this afternoon. Bridge has been closed since last in when officials determined it was tilting. And, one man is in the hospital have after a shooting near 28th and west styles street in brewerytown. Investigators say that the man was hit several times and the extent of his injuries are not yet known right now. 4 49. Lets check business news. Money watchs jill wagner joins us now from the New York Stock Exchange and jill, we are hearing General Motors Ceo Mary Barra heads back to capitol hill to answer more questions about the auto makers botch recall. What are we expecting this time. Reporter good morning, ukee and erika. For the first time barra will be joined by gms top lawyer Michael Milken when lawmakers will get to question him about what role the companys Legal Department had in the delaying that ignition switch recall which we know has been link to 13 deaths. Lawmakers also want to know why the the companys top executives never found out about the problem, gm has forced out 15 lower level employees, for failing to take action, on that problem, for more than a decade. Ukee and erika. Many of us dream of winning the the lottery but a new survey i hear has some surprising results about what people would actually do if they struck it rich. Reporter yeah, what would you do if you won the lottery, buy a private island, drink dackries all day. Career builder surveyed thousands of people and they say about half would actually still keep working and biggest reason they give is they said they would be bored if they didnt work. Three in ten people side even if they won lottery they would keep the same job. What do you think ukee and erika if you won the lottery would you stay anchoring the morning show at kyw. I love this gig. I would have to wait to win the lottery to see how i feel. But a island and dackry sound nice. Erika would come in with a whole new attitude. Whole new wardrobe. Jill, thank you. Coming up after a short break traffic and weather together. 4 53. Lets get traffic and weather together. Good morning, bob. Good morning. Live look at i the the five. Only construction, right now, i95 northbound right here near walt whitman bridge. Only one lane opened. We had light volume but watch for slow downs as you head north with only this right lane opened, near the walt whitman bridge. The president ial visit on the agenda. Air force one will touchdown one at the National Guard side of the airport and hit nine a with the motorcade and that will go into that 495 close another point which is exit number two and that is where press conference will be right there, with that bridgework in the background. So from noon to 3 00 obviously a hot mess here, south of wilmington. Remember, they will close the roadways, about 15 minutes before and after, the motorcade gone in and motorcade going out. That will impact everyone south of wilmington from lunchtime on. That will set the tone too for the evening rush hour. 422, the schuylkill, so far, so good rolling on it of the drive waste. One accident at route 40 at route 77 but after a rough couple of days with some storms it looks like we have a good looking day for a press conference outside, right. Absolutely whatever your plans entail generally you can keep them and expect to have beautiful weather for them. Is there one minor caveat up toward pocono region they have a shot to sees a very isolated sprinkle today but generally speaking we are looking good as you can still see though, this frontal boundary is so slow to retreat, you can still see some of the moisture that is left here but thankfully it is long out to sea and we are just clearing skies out here, with time, we will end up with sun across the board. It will be a beautiful day. Fiftyseven is your current temperature. Cool and crisp in the poconos. Sixtyeight at the the airport but a very mild north northwest breeze and we are at 64 cool degrees, even in Atlantic City think morning. A far cry from where we were this same time yesterday through south jersey where we were still so steamy because we had heavy rain moving in. Heading out to the shore today, expect dry sand for one thing, since yesterday we had wet san left behind. High of 81 degrees. High uv index to go with that and water temperatures depending on the beach, are still on the cool side, low to mid 60s. Ukee, back to you. Here are the stories our sister station kyw news radio 1060 will be following today. Century old carousal on the boardwalk here in Seaside Heights will be put up for auction. Penndot is showing off artifacts that have been uncovered during excavation for i95 improvement in Port Richmond and fishtown. Gross revenues at pennsylvania casinos are down almost 3 percent despite an up tic in the play of table games. Check in two, three, four times a day kyw news radio 1060 on the amm dial. Coming up next a bank robbery in callus garnering National Attention after witnesses say it turned into a war zone. And a massive crater found in siberia has gotten the the attention of, russian scientists and we will tell you why when we come back and we are back at the top of the hour, good morning. Breaking news right now a mystery in Strawberry Mansion a couple found dead overnight, and were learning they are related to a well men city official. Also happening today a president ial visit in wilmington. We will let you know what president obama plans to give them later this afternoon. Im quarter von tiehl. Also developing this morning, all is quiet right now in gaza after israel agrees to a ceasefire. But, it may not last long. Why israelis are holding off on their air strike for at least next few hours, katie. Erika, today is going to be pay back for what we have been dealt in the last few days, much nicer forecast unfolding for us and it will be a stretch of quiet weather. Ill tell you how long it last coming up, bob. 5 00 oclock on a thursday morning. We are looking live at ben franklin bridge where three lanes are opened coming into philadelphia with the construction project, we have a accident in south jersey and running down mass transit coming up next, ukee and erika, good morning. A suspicious Death Investigation in philadelphia, an elderly couple found dead in their home overnight. Eyewitness News Reporter Nicole Brewer is in Strawberry Mansion right now. I understand you spoke to the victims family members, good morning. Reporter good morning, that is right, ukee difficult speak with the nephew of that couple, who has identified them as 66 yearold al gladys and roofus perry, al gladys is a retired nurse from Hahnemann Hospital but looking behind me many family members have gathered here just looking for more answers trying to get information about what happened here overnight. According to the family members we are told this couple was in good health, in constant touch with relatives. You can imagine just how horrifying it has been and how horrifying it was for their
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