But we are starting to clear out. Today is a transition to better day. Better. Transition goo worse, but now that the front is getting out of here but what i want to do is take you back in time and show you on storm scan three what went on yesterday. We were looking at yesterday at noon. We were on the air at talk philly nothing to find but as time progressed, sun was shining and steaming things up. Look at these lightening strikes. We calculated thousands of lightening strikes, as those storms went through last night. Here we stand at 4 00 he clock hour still lingering presip out there, no lightening strikes to be found but were not completely out of the woods yet. It will be a matter of time but it is Getting Better with time and i will have bet are weather news, full details, straight ahead, ukee, back to you. Now to the crisis in the middle east. Smoke can be seen as war continues in gaza. The faa lifts a ban on u. S. Airlines flying in and out of israels main airport in tel aviv. Temporary ban was put in place following a rocket strike that landed near the airport. In the meantime secretary of state john kerry reports some progress for a ceasefire for israel and hamas. Don champion has the latest. Reporter american air liners can once again fly into tel avivs airport after faa lifted its want on u. S. Planes traveling to israels main hub. In a statement overnight the the agency said it lifted the ban after getting new information on measures that the Israeli Government is taking to ensure the safety of flights in and out of the airport. The decision ban flights had been met with Harsh Criticism from the israeli ment. There is no danger in flying, it is not to stop the flights but to stop the rockets. Reporter ban had been in place for more than a day after hamas rocket strike in the neighborhood near the airport on tuesday. U. S. Secretary of state john kerry flew back to cairo without brokering a ceasefire in the 17 day conflict between israel and palestinians. Kerry and u. N. Secretary general work both sides of the conflict in israel and west bank, on wednesday. I can tell thaw we have in the last 24 hours made some progress in moving towards that goal. Just miles away from where peace talks were going on Israeli Military continued its a salt on hamas targets, in gas a don champion for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Well, it his 33 00. Time for traffic and weather together on the threes but first. A line of sum are storms filled with heavy rain and dark clouds blew through the area with pretty impressive lightening last night. This is eyewitness video from the bustleton section of philadelphia, an impressive display by mother nature. Lets get back over to kate toy talk about those storms. Thankfully the worst of those storms have wound down for us here, we will see it all the time in the summer where we will build up moisture content in the atmosphere, we have a clash of air masses and then we will get what happened last night a round of heavy, nasty then are storms coming through. Heres storm scan three at the moment generally bulk of precipitation is out to sea or in maryland. We will get clipped by this but notice not seeing any lightening strikes here over the last couple of hours. Things are starting to sort of just quiet down in the atmosphere. We will look a little bit wider on the zoom, back towards pittsburgh, skies are beginning to clear so it is just a matter of time, before we will do the the same but we have not quite turn the page on this front and the humidity that comes witt. Speaking of the lightening that we just saw, amazing video of, cloud to ground lightening if you were looking for lightening we have a good shot to find it. Look at the amount of strikes. The last time we counted up lightening strikes we had just over 9,000. Last night 12,300 with the tool that we have in the weather sent for count them up. I mean it was every where, we always say, if you a hear thunder head inside because you are close enough to be truck by lightening if you hear thunder. Seventyfour is the the current temperature. Still steamy but will get better with time in terms of the comfort level. Still not the best hair morning but it will be a good hair afternoon, later on today sixtynine in willow grove and we are seeing skies clearing out. If you want to forgo umbrella today you can getaway without that. There will be some clouds around but with time skies are clearing in the mid 80s and more sunshine as day goes on. The looks better with time, bob. Good morning, everybody. 4 35. We are picking up the cones. Live look here at i95. This is that construction project that began on monday. The northbound lanes between ridley and philly international airport. It is a project that will last through december. They will repave northbound side, they will flip her around and come southbound between the girard point and ridley. Only one lane opened right here and, of course, if you are watching right now and as you head northbound you will that have uneven pavement here from the stretch where they milled and is there always a cuss cloud the first 15 or 20 minutes as cars start rolling. Live look here at the schuylkill expressway looking good, downtown, no problems at all in or out of the city at least for the moment. 422 and 202 in good shape working your way in towards king of prussia accident up here in the allentown area route 145 is closed right here near lehigh street. Milkily road is the best bet. All bridge lease fine. The mass transit running with no delays. Natasha, back over to you. More remains of victims killed in the malaysia jet liner shot down over eye rain will arrive in the netherlands today. Two military planes carrying bodies of the 40 victims arrived for a somber ceremony, each coffin was loaded in a hearst and driven in procession. Many lined around to pay their respects, some even brought flowers. British investigators will examine data from flights 17s two black boxes. Officials received them on monday mid fears ukrainian rebels may have tampered with the information. Although planes voice recorders were damage specialist say they were not manipulated. Happening today, a philadelphia woman found guilty but mentally ill in the murder of her own mother is scheduled for sentencing. She was convicted of shooting lolita lee inside her cobbs creek home in 2007. She then doused her mothers bod which gasoline and then set her on fire. Another woman was badly burned but survived the resulting house fire. Mother and daughter, critically injured in the food truck explosion in feltonville have died. Explosion was caught on surveillance cameras at third and wyoming, earlier this month. Fortytwo yearold olga gomez, succumbed to her injuries on sunday. Her daughter, jaylen landvery passed away on tuesday. Family members tell us Funeral Services are set for friday and their bodies will be flown to guatemala for burial. Eightynine yearold philadelphia man accused of nazi war crimes has died, johann briar died on tuesday the same day that a judge granted a request for his extradition to germany. German prosecutors hoped to try briar on charges of aiding the murder of more than 200,000 jews at the auschwitz death camp. The retired toolmaker was arrested at his northeast philadelphia home just last month. Investigators say a main line mcdonalds employee was selling more than burgers while at work. Fast food worker alan trammel was and reza accused of dealing crack in the parking lot. Undercover officers say they arranged several deals with him that took place in the mcdonalds parking lot in radnor township. When he was working at the mcdonalds he would walk out parking lot at which time wow sell crack cocaine in package form to the under cover officers. One minute he is out dealing in the parking lot with the crack cocaine and then he is back in preparing food. Is there the Health Concerns there as well. Trammel was arraigned and now in Delaware County jail. There are Unsung Heroes in every war. But now some veterans are making sure that our four legged soldiers are getting recognition that they deserve as well. Military dogs do everything, from sniffing out explosive devices on the battle field to providing companionship to soldiers. Supporters of the National Defense authorization act of 2013, traveled to washington yesterday to encourage congress to reunite retired military war dog with the hand letters. Sign into law, over a year ago now, but it has not been implemented in anyway. U. S. Military keeps about 3200 dogs in combat zones, on average, 10 percent of them retire each year. The goal, it is to return the dogs to their former hand letters but sometimes it can get too extensive. Is there much more to cover on cbs3 Eyewitness News including potential buyers for revel casino in Atlantic City. Phillies game had a rain delay as you know but wait until you see what happens in yankees stadium. We are back in two minutes, it looks like there are potential buyers ready to go in on the struggling revel casino. The the Atlantic City casino goes up in sale in bankruptcy auction next month. Yesterday, Atlantic Citys mayor says there are six buyers showing very serious interest, the the casino has declared bankruptcy twice since it opened in april 2012. Industry experts think that there is potential for the future. You know, they have got to get the a pretty low price to be able to hope to turn a profit there but it has everything a modern casino needs in terms of amenities, it has meeting space, small areas where you can have little conferences and things like that. It is a great hotel for Atlantic City and it would be a shame to lose ate the this point. Several hundred workers from show boat are planning a rally tonight, that casino is expect to close next month. Workers are hoping a buyer will step in and continue to operate show boat as a casino. In addition show boat trump plaza is expected to close in september. Rain eventually washed out yankees and rangers game in insuring but take a look at the ground crew here. They had a tough time, getting the tarp down. They tried rolling it the out but the rain and wind made it almost impossible to cover the field. By the way yankees won the rain shortened game twoone. We got a little bit of that but not as bad as that at all. No good that was intense. That was pretty rain at times in some locations yesterday. I was down at the shore yesterday afternoon, all we had was wind through the afternoon and eventually some rain came in late at night. It just goes to show, what a micro climate you can have, in this area poconos totally different from the city, totally different from the shore. It really goes to show what a variety have of climatic influence we have here in our area which makes it the so interesting for somebody like me but when it comes to your forecast it can get wordy at times. I want to get you out there and show you one viewer photo that came in. This is from our wonderful weather intern jared who took a picture of one lightening strike of thousands that is came in from cherry hill, new jersey. Thankfully in additional lightening showing up at the moment here locally on storm scan three but not totally out of the woods just yet. So we still have wet weather primarily back through, the d. C. Area, and down through maryland, virginia, but we are probably still going to get clipped before it is all said and done and this whole thing clears out. We have generally starting to be more clearing going on back through western pennsylvania but we will get in on that with time. Just a matter of it at this point. Lingering shower, still damp outside and it is still steamy too but we are not anywhere near as hot this afternoon and more refreshing air mass that will take overtime. Mainly clear, comfortable tonight as your low drops to 64. Good excuse to forgo conditioning for yet another night. Eightyfour and sunshine. Talk about a gorgeous day tomorrow, pair of eights, still a sunny sky and we are heating up. We will flirt with 90 on sunday that will be our next shot for a shower or late day storm, ukee, back over to you. In sports afternoon baseball today with cole hamels going against giants tim hudson in south philadelphia. First pitch 1 05. Last night a pitchers dual, aj burnett got help from third, he threw eight shut out innings after a 59 minute rain delay. Trouble is phillies could in the score either. Ninth inning and hunter pence with the bases loaded double off jonathan papelbon. Phillies lose this 13one. Papelbon ace tracking attention at the trade dead line. Unaudible. I dont think about it one way or the other. I have no control over it. We will see what happens. Ryan howard hat the night off last night, the the big piece is batting just. 224 this season and in the last 25 games he is hitting only. 168. Fans are sounding off and ryan says everybody is feeling the same way. A lot of frustration. There is frustration in the fans, there is frustration here. I have my own personal frustrations as well but, you know you just try to stay positive. Rumors out there they might buy hihim out of his deal. We will see what happens. Still ahead on Eyewitness News, jill wagner joins us from the New York Stock Exchange to get us an update on the day on wall street. But first a look what is coming up tonight on cbs3. Steven colbert will not only follow in David Lettermans footsteps but he will be doing it on the same stage. Cbs, the Parent Company of this station, announced colbert will keep his show in new york at the ed sullivan theater. His debut date is still up in the air. It all depend on when dave decides he is ready to sign off. Lets get you up to speed with the quick look at this mornings headlines, late last night federal Aviation Administration lifted its ban on u. S. Airlines flying in and out of israels main airport. Ban was in response to bombings near the airport in tel aviv. Meanwhile secretary of state john kerry is in israel talking with israeli and palestinian leaders working towards a ceasefire. Mcdonalds employee alan trammel is under arrest accused of dealing crack in the restaurant parking lot in wayne, Delaware County. Authorities want to make sure no food was contaminated after trammel handled the drugs. Mother and daughter critically injured in the feltonville food truck explosion earlier this month had died from their injuries. Eleven other people were injured in this massive explosion, police blamed a leaking propane tank. Our time is now 4 50. Lets get a check on business news. Money watchs jill wagner joins us live from the New York Stock Exchange, good morning, jill, it is earnings season and delta says profits soared last quarter so what is behind that. Reporter well, good morning ukee and natasha. Delta says more people are flying and unfortunately for us we are all paying more for tickets. Delta is also cramming more people into each plane. Now their average flight is 86 percent full, that would have seemed impossible, even a few years ago. Airline also bought its own oil refinery in 2012 to help keep the cost of fuel down. Ukee and natasha. Personal trainers can be expensive. Now there is a a new fitness ban that will whip new to shape. How about it. Reporter yeah, in case you are looking for motivation, you should check out the new padlock fitness bans. If you skip a work out or just not working hard enough the ban gives you a light electric shock or you get to pay other padlock users. But if you reach your goals you will get rewarded eater with money or gift card. The fitness bans cost between 150 and 230. Boy. Wait a minute. It is just a little jolt. That thing goes hey wire you are all over. All right, thanks, jill. Appreciate it. Coming up after a shortt break, traffic and weather together we will do it on the threes. Stay with us, that is traffic and weather together, good morning bob kelly. Downtown 2345 tasha brown great to have you here, limo pulled up in front of the station, i said, natasha must be with us this morning. Driver has a little hat on and everything. Live look at the schuylkill expressway, here in king of prussia. In problems or delays at all. Little damp from all that rain, thunder boomers last night, maybe trash Collection Day today a box or can lid could be bounced from the rain last night but for the most part majors are in good shape. Good morning to fishtown, live look i95 coming south in the work zone no problems or delays up and down that corridor. Route 145 is block at lehigh street with a crash. Detour in play there this morning. Crews are still out on the turnpike eastbound right here near philadelphia bensalem interchange. Out and about coming into philadelphia, from say south jersey or from south philadelphia and using the the schuylkill expressway, crews will be working to day between university and south, we will take that down to within lane, and kate, boy those thunder boomers last night i had to explain to austin that was angels bowling. That is exactly what happened, technically speaking. Thank you for reenforcing that. Yeah, you know what though, at least and thankfully all those thunderstorms are out of here, bob and we are looking good. Granted still some lingering showers a sprinkle here and there but worst of those storms have long since retreated and we will gradually clear out, so storm scan three is starting to clear out a little bit here. It looks better then it did yesterday evening for sure. Currently we are looking at dew point is here, still somewhat high but they are slowly dropping off across our northern communities here. So with time, everybody gets in on a much more refreshing air mass, mid 80s today and tomorrow and saturday we are looking at beautiful weather here. Sunday our next shot for a shower or storm makes a return, back to you. Here is a look at our sister station kyw news radio 1060 is following. New simple test can be done to save lives of people with irregular heartbeats. Franklin institute hosted a event dedicated, opening the earth and Port Richmond couple continues to fight on behalf of their 22year old son who died of acute complications of asthma in 2012. Check in two, three, four times a day, kyw news radio 1060, natasha. Coming up next, an execution in air zone gets botched and it takes the inmate almost two hours to die. The details, as to why this happened coming up. Story of the sick little boy in massachusetts is touching hearts of the people right here in our area. We have the story of danny snickerson, we are back at the top of the hour, good morning. The the faa ban on all u. S. Flights in and out of israel has been lifted but fight against gaza rages on. We are live with the update on the crisis in the middle east. Eyewitness news has just learn that the food truck explosion in feltonville, earlier this month has turned deadly. Today is. Ites wednesday, july 24th im ukee washington. Im Natasha Brown in forker contact also this morning sum are storms leave their mark all across the region. Dark clouds moved in and then came the rain and lightening. It was pretty impress turf watch the light show in the sky, i certainly thought so last night, katie. There were so many lightening strikes, thousands of them, once again, as we counted them all up last night but we still have a lit built of lingering wet weather to track for you and we will do just that and tell you when things clear out, coming up, bob. Good morning, 5 00 oclock straight up on a thursday morning. We are looking live at 42 freeway, were letting dust kick up. There is still construction on i95 plus we will check with mass transit coming up next, ukee, good morning. Now to the latest on the crisis in the middle east, faa lifts a ban on Airlines Flying in and out of israels main airport in tel aviv. This morning smoke continues to rise as israeli tanks and war planes pummel the gaza strip. U. S. Secretary of state john kerry says there has been progress made towards a ceasefire between israel and hamas. Eyewitness News Reporter jane carabao is live at Philadelphia International the airport with the details for us, jane . Reporter well, natasha, ukee, now that the faa has lifted this ban, the first flight leaving here for Philadelphia International