Officer. He has an unblemished record and looking forward to having his day in court. Reporter attorneys for some of the officers pointed out that when they are held in pretrial detention as two of the officers are, they are in a special housing unit meaning they are confined 23 out of 24 hours a day. That is designed to protect them but the Defense Attorneys argued it would be a hardship. The hearing for the sixth officer john splicer is expect within the next 24 hours, here in federal court. Live from the u. S. Courthouse im walt hunter, cbs3 Eyewitness News. Walt, thank you. Three innocent lives taken too soon, hundreds gathered to say good bye to the siblings killed in the carjacking crash in north philadelphia. Eyewitness News Reporter jan carabao has the the story. Reporter they came by the hundreds, mayor michael nutter, elected leaders and an entire community all to support a family dealing with the unimaginable, burying three children just 15, ten and seven years old. Everybody is so heart broken by this. Angel toss leave us is truly sad to our community and it hurts. Reporter Herman Douglass was a former teacher of 15 yearold kiera williams. Remembers her talent format and reading and love of her mother, 34 yearold keisha williams. She would walk her children to School Every Day to make sure they were safe and nothing was going wrong. Reporter every week kiera and her brothers joseph reid and Terence Moore would help their mom sell fruit and water as a fundraiser for their church. That is what they were doing july 25th at corner of germantown and allegheny avenue when two men in the carjack suv lost control hit and killed them. Hopefully those of us that remain and commit ourselves to serving others like they did so their lives didnt end in vein. Reporter three shining examples of good, that family will remember and celebrate even on the day filled with sadness, today turning to their faith in saying this is not the end but only the beginning. Although we cannot measure it, we cannot prove it, we know it because it was palpable in the room today. Reporter the the childrens mother was not able to make it to the service. She was critically injured during that crash and is still hospitalized. Meanwhile this memorial continues to grow and another vigil planned for the end of the movement reporting from north philadelphia, jane carabao, cbs3 Eyewitness News. A fundraiser effort is underway to help the family of the carjacked victims. Eyewitness news at philly gets fit on washington avenue in south philadelphia today, all of the proceeds from their classes today will go towards to are to that family. In philadelphia we are all one giant community in the big city but in a very small place but we know we are all inter dependent and so this is just one way of showing that no matter where you are in the city, we are all connected and support one another. Reporter there is another class at 7 30 tonight. In other news a man is killed when he is crush by a car today, chopper three over the Auto Services on bristol pike in bensalem. A car that had been jacked up came crashing down, on that man who did work at the shop. There is no word on his identity. Police are investigating that death. An excess of propane gas is being blamed for a deadly food trunk explosion in feltonville last month. That is as per findings of the fire marshall. Ignition source of the blast is still not known because there were multiple burners and warmers used inside that truck. The explosion on wyoming avenue killed a mother and daughter, and also left 13 others injured. Two people remain happiesed tonight. Mr. There is breaking news a new york city happies treating a patient who may be infect with the viruse bowl a that is happening at mt. Sinai hospital in new york. Were told that man reportedly traveled to a west african country where the virus has been reported. In the meantime the second american aid worker known to have the virus is set to arrive in Emery University hospital in atlanta tomorrow. We will have more on the developments on the cbs evening news with scott pelley right after this newscast. Philadelphia Police Released identity of the suspect they are searching for in the deadly shooting of a threeyear old in grays ferry. Police are looking for Brandon Ruffin of south philadelphia. They believe he pulled trigger friday night on eding street killing than tan near a important dumb caught in the cross fire two. Others were hit by bullets. Intended target a 24 yearold man was shot in the head. Because of the communitys involvement and them coming forward and providing information on the shooter we have identified and have a murder warrant for Brandon Ruffin, a 22year old male. He should be considered armed and extremely dangerous. Reporter 22year old douglass woods is in connection with the shooting and has been charged with murder and other offenses. The search continues tonight the for a suspect in the double shooting in west oak lane. That shooting happened overnight along the 7100 block of georgean road. Police say a man was shot at least seven times in that car. He crashed nearly a mile from the shooting scene while trying to escape the gun fire. That vehicle a Ford Crown Victoria has at least ten gunshot holes, mainly in the drivers door, and in the door jam around the driver door and several of the windows of the vehicle were shot out. That man was rush to the hospital in critical condition, a 25 yearold woman was shot in the leg. Well, the struggling Philadelphia School district says it is running out of time and money. Education leaders rally with mid harrisburg today hoping to force law make tours act on a cigarette tax craft todd help the budget crisis get resolved. Eyewitness News ReporterSteve Paterson was there for the slow down. It will come to an agreement in some way to make sure that there is funning. I cant answer that. Reporter after a series of private meetings between governor corbett and Republican House leadership no resolution, justin tension. Governor told the leaders that he does plan to work with the School District tone sure they do have the cash flow. He will try to front them as much as possible. Meetings went on during a rally, a collection of philadelphia students, teachers and Community Leaders filling the capital rotunda calling outlaw makers for refusing to come back from the session break to vote on a 2 cigarette tax. We need it now. Reporter both school and state leaders say the tax will cover the districts 81 milliondollar budget gap, saving some 1300 school jobs, insuring that the will school year will open up on time but state lawmakers decided not to come citing complications with the bill. We have to make sure that the School District has the the bare minimum. Reporter Democratic State representative Cheryl Parker met with republicans on monday and she says tax passage and nothing else is what the district needs. Anything short of that will be forcing 1300 potential layoffs, and class sizes to be approximate thely 41, and the potential for school not to open up in september. Reporter the take away is despite series of meetings here on monday no resolution from the state leadership just a simple promise and leaders say they will to have keep that prom vice soon. Reporting from harrisburg, Steve Paterson for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Well, he became a major symbol in the battle over gun control rights, still to come, on Eyewitness News as nation mourns the loss of former White House Press secretary jim brady we will look back on a interview he gave to Eyewitness News just a to you short years ago. And revel unclear future, todays important deadline concerning the the fate of that casino, beasley. Phillies ace cliff lee says his season may be over after reinjuring his elbow last week. I have an update. Plus he was one of the best pass rushers to ever play the game, this week is he showing eagles how to get it done inside eagles Training Camp at novacare complex all a hello im a kid. And us kids have an Important Message for our grown ups. Three grams daily of betaglucan. A soluable fiber from whole grain oat foods like cheerios can help lower cholesterol. And where can you find betaglucan . In oats. And, theyre yummy im going back to being a kid now. Thank you tonight pounding headaches, people usually turn to medications for relief, but now something that has help with weight loss is working for pain relief and you dont even need a doctor. Our Health ReporterStephanie Stahl will show us how the works tonight on Eyewitness News at 11 00. Former White House Press secretary james brady had has died, brady was shot and paralyzed during 1981 assassination attempt on president ronald reagan. That incident led him to become one of the nations leading gun control advocates. A federal law requiring background check on handgun buyers bears his name, and brady was 73 years old. After leaving washington, james and sarah brady moved to Rehoboth Beach, delaware. There they continued their work as gun control advocates. In an exclusive interview three years ago bradys spoke to Eyewitness News about at as nation attempt that changed hear lives that day in march of 1918. Can you describe the ups and downs of the last 30 years. More downs then ups. I mean it ruins your life in so many ways. Everything that you have ever dream of doggies shattered. Stay tune for the cbs evening news with scott pelley for more on the life and legacy of james brady, that is tonight at 6 30 immediately following Eyewitness News here on cbs3. Man charge in the deadly crash that killed a Millville Police officer two years ago has a plead to a plea deal. Eyewitness News Reporter cleve bryan fills us in on what happened in court today. Reporter saidel has been in the state of limbo for two years. Authorities say july 8th, 2012 he was trying to avoid being pulled over when he crash in the Millville Police cruiser. Officers Christopher Reeves died and another officer was permanently injured. Reeves was an eight year veteran of the force and a parttime fire fighter. Up to this point saidel has maintained his innocence but money change the plea to guilty. Mr. Saidel wanted to accept responsibility today for his conduct that resulted in the unfortunate and horrible result that took place back in july of 2012. Reporter saidel pleaded guilty to the charges of aggravated manslaughter and aggravated assault. He will believe a sentence below max full for each charge to not exceed total of 20 years. Are you pleading guilty to these two counts because you are guilty. Yes. Reporter state dropped some of the initial charges but prosecutor Jennifer Mccray says that does not mean zdybel will get off easy. We will talk more about that at sentencing. Reporter there were more than a dozen of Reeves Police officers in court to show support for reeves family which sat in the front during the hearing. They were with the reeves after the court hearing. It is an important important step in the process. We have gotten a guilty plea. We are excited about having the opportunity to go to sentencing and have victim impact statements from the family so they can tell news their own words how they have been impact by this very tragic event. Reporter i spoke with reeves family after court. They said they didnt want to talk on camera but they may break their silence with all of the legal matters being over. October 24th, sentencing, here at cumberland countys courthouse n cumberland county, cleve bryan, cbs3 Eyewitness News. Today ills the deadline for investors to submit bids for Atlantic Citys bankrupt revel casino. 2 billion bids are sealed to be opened by a new york law firm. Federal bankruptcy judge in camden will ultimately decide which offer is accept. If no buyer is found the casino will to have close putting more than 3,000 jobs at risk. Well, certainly a Beautiful Day to kick off the workweek and we have team three coverage. Kate bilo is out at linvilla orchards where it is a big in month for peach lovers out there but first lets check with kathy orr with the forecast, kathy. We are looking at a gorgeous day. No weather issues, deep blue skies in ocean city Cape May County and in one wants to move. We have a breezy day. You can see right here beach blanket waving in the breeze but making it feel very comfortable with low humidity. That will change. Our live Neighborhood Network takes to us philadelphia and Leadership Academy where over the the course of the day the ground warmed, the arrows and, of course, we have had ground cover but these are fair weather cumulus clouds. Gorgeous view of the city in the background, but humidity will slowly creep up over the the next couple of days. We have a stationary boundary that continues to linger off shore. This is one that pushed eastward and west ward and gave us clouds over course of the weekend. It has moved off shore and it will provide us a break with the clouds. We have an approaching cold front from the north and west and in between miles of sunshine. So during the date tomorrow another repeat performance with a little bit warmer. Right now in philadelphia 83. Seventynine in millville. Seventynine in Atlantic City at the airport in pennsylvania moan a48 in reading. Eighty in lancaster. Down short comfortable day. Barnegat light at 81. 72347 stone harbor. Cape may and Rehoboth Beach delaware. Ocean water temperature has warm up to 72. We will watch and as we squeezed between these systems again but good news is, the stationary boundary will keep hurricane bertha at bay and we will just see some very warm conditions can temperatures in the 90s for tuesday this front will be moving through the the region on wednesday bringing us a shower or a storm, and this time it will kick that shower activity further out to sea. We will be seeing a dryer air mass working in for thursday, and friday. Northerly wind create breezy, dry conditions. It will be that refreshing canadian air. Temperatures will only be in the lower 80s with mostly sunny skies for thursday and even into the workweek. Here is very latest on hurricane bertha packing a maximum sustain wind at 75 miles an hour. That stationary front, keeping it out to sea, which is very helpful for us. It will be impacting our shore points. It will be moving north. Then the north east, well out to sea, but we will feel the effects with some rise in surf and also rip currents. They will be moderate to high over next couple of days so please, only swim when those beaches are guarded. In the meantime we are looking at the dry conditions, overnight, comfortable lows in the 60s with partly cloudy skies. High tomorrow 90. I dont think it will happen much this month but it will happen tomorrow with the increase in humidity. On the exclusive eyewitness weather seven day forecast and shore cast after we get through a storm or two wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday look great, from the city, to the shore, even monday, expect partly sunny skies, and high of 86 at home and 82 down the shore. Great day to be outdoors and picking peaches perhaps. Kate bilo is live at linvilla orchards in media delaware county, kate what is going on out there. August is National Peach month and we are building up to a really fun event at linvilla this weekend. I want to show what you ive got behind me. These are white peaches. They have the more red, skin. Lets take a look at this we have a typical yellow peach thaw sianni thinks a white peach. It looks more red where yellow tone has more yellow tone from the outside. Both are delicious. I may have peach juice running down my chin. One thing we have learned is that peaches dont ripe even on the tree. You will not pick them and find that they are soft and ripe and ready to eat. You can still eat them but give them one day on the countertop at home they will be perfect, perfect for peach cobbler, if you are healthier just toss peach halves on the grill. Take a listen to Norman Schultz the farm manager here to tell us is what going on this coming weekend. This is our beach festival, second biggest festival of the year, strawberries number one because people are waiting all winter to get out. Peaches are the height of the season and cant get a peach this good in the supermarket so it has a really big following from this saturday. Reporter i can vouch for that. This peach is delicious. I will keep eating it here. People out here all day picking peaches coming out in the orchard and taking home bushels and pecks back to their house. I will tell you it is a peach of an assignment this afternoon at lynnville a lets take a quick look at your weekend forecast, as kathy just showed us, temperatures in the middles with low humidity and full sunshine both saturday and sunday in addition to the fruit theyve got live music, activities for the kids. You will definitely want to come out for this beautiful weekend. Reporting live from linvilla orchards in media im meteorologist kate bilo for cbs3 Eyewitness News. I didnt know peaches didnt ripe on the tree. Learn something new every day. How about that. So much fun, kate. Good evening, everyone. Traveling out and about 95 wont be too much fun for commuters. Lets take a look at 95 northbound right around mancott avenue. If you are traveling in the northbound direction you will notice that things loosen up a touch but through the construction zones not so much. Southbound side where you see these headlights here making commute from approaching cottman dune through vine street expressway is still slow out there, katie perry is in south philadelphia tonight so her fans are heading out of the north east. Fifteen minute delays for west trenton regional rails so note that. As far as your rush we are still dealing with Speed Sensors in the 20s, 27 on parts of the i95, 24 on the schuylkill, now to the eastbound side is worst between 202 and gladwynn and little bit of traffic around vine street expressway but stay with us as eyewitness you know pass rush is in need of some work, last year they were ranked 20th in the league with just 37 sacks but this week that will be focus for defensive coordinator billy davis at trach camp. They are getting extra help from three time all pro linebacker kevin green. During his 15 years in the league he earned a reputation as one of the best pass rushers ever, and valuable experience, to bring to the younger guys. Im just here teaching some of the things that i did on the corner as far as defeating an offensive tackles, big guys on the corner. Im primarily concentrating on pass rush fundamentals and technique and this kind of thing. Very basic fun. Al rushing the passer he is bringing their way to dwight. Ask our guys about their response to kevin. We are excited about picking his brain for three or four daoff for phillies after a rough weekend in washington falling to the nationals in back to back shut outs. Cole hamels on the mound yesterday, pitched a good game allowing only four hits and one unearned run, in seven innings tf work but the offense still not giving him any help. Putting up just three hits against righty steven stratberg. Team gets back to work tomorrow night at Citizens Bank parka against the houston astros. Meantime cliff lee is expect to get his mri on his elbow early this week. He reinjured the arm and last thursdays game against washington, and still no word on how bad it is, but he believes his season could be watching everybody eating what they want all day oh this tasteless cardboard brings me nothing but more shame turning every turn until i find something right and it. Takes my breath away thanks for watching Eyewitness News at 6 00 we are back at ten on wpsg the cw philly and back here on cbs3 at 11 00. Stay where you are cbs opening news comes your way next. Scott pelley reports tonight from new york. Pelley tonight, news in the battle against ebola. The u. S. Screens delegates arriving for the africa summit in washington. An american infected in liberia continues an experimental treatment in atlanta and a world bank pours 200 million into the emergency in west africa. Dr. Jon lapook has the latest. Teri okita with nature at its worst. Mid slides and wildfires drive californians from their homes. Hundreds of thousands in the midwest are told its finally safe to drink the water. Adriana diaz is there. He gave his name and much of his life to the battle against gun violence. James brady gravely wounded in an assassination attempt 33 years ago has