Kensington avenue just north of lehigh a large and growing encampment of the addicted and homeless has turned this already rough neighborhood into a war zone. 39yearold Nicole Stevens walks through the battlefield every day on her way to the local methadone clinic. Its a struggle every day. Its not easy. Reporter addicted to painkillers after a car accident at 19 shes trying to get and stay clean. I go by every single dane it breaks your heart half them people out there. Are they going to freeze to death at night. The city of philadelphia teamed up with conrail to clean up nearby Railroad Tracks and roust addicts who made this round zero are to the citys heroin epidemic. The fear at the time was that those addicted would simply move to new location to get their fix. Those fears seem like theyve come about. Definitely came true watch did they expect people to do . , you know if they cant stay there they got to stay somewhere. Reporter Business Owners up stratt from the kensington say th
Expressway, closed until five or 5 30. Everybody push off here at 30th street and right back on. Live mass transit and bridges looking g karen and thomas back to you. 4 01. Search is on for driver who struck a woman in bucks county and left her in the street with life threatening injuries sky fox over the scene, hit and run happened right in front of the fire department, lets get out to steve keeley hoist working the scene in trevose this morning, steve. Reporter we can tell bob that the police have finished their investigation and heres a Vantage Point you didnt see from the sky fox shot, 45 miles an hour is the speed limit but where this happened, look, that driver was coming at your angle watching from home, and you can see they are coming ought on a curved hill, so, very, little chance to see anybody if they are walking in the middle of the street when you are doing 45 around a curve, coming down a hill which you cannot see over on the other side of the hill and right to the left o
All shop not lost going forward. Election 2016. Congratulation to the real donald trump fork electsd thank you, thank you america from hairy and this morning. Getting a lot of tweets coming in throughout through you see another one. Well continue to share throughout the day today. If you would like to have a notice your tweets use our hash tag and well try to put that up there as well. As Trump Supporters gathered so on pennsylvania avenue. Trump hotel became a hot spot with reporters getting together to snap photos and commorate the president elect victory. We sent mem Anjali Hemphill down. She joins us now, good morning. Good morning, guys. Reporter a lot of activity this early in the morning out here. Despite the fact its starting to rain out here. Its just drizzling and holding off for now. We expect more rain later. Not sure if that will affect possibly protest the Election Results. I do want you to take a look behind here though behind me here this is Trump International hotel yo
Something that Hillary Clinton has herself said that will happen for her support tours get that information out about her vicepresident ial candidate. So should be coming down, ukee and nicole, probably in the next hour or so when we find out, we will bring it to you reporting live, david spunt for cbs3 Eyewitness News. We are getting our first look at where Hillary Clinton will officially accept the democratic nomination for president. The dnc begins in three days in philadelphia. Lets look inside the Wells Fargo Center from our cbs3 broadcast suite. Jessica dean and i will be here bringing it to you sunday night at 11 00 oclock. Today organizers unveiled the stage where history will be made. Eyewitness News Reporter rahel solomon is there. Reporter the stage is set, and now a national, even global audience awaits. Here just days away from the start of the 2016, Democratic National convention. It is just amazing to see it transformed the way it is and for National World stage. Were ve
In the meantime Rockville Pike a huge mes huge necessara water main break shutting down southbound and some northbound lanes. Were talking about this out of bethesda, maryland theres a water main break 1600 block of Rockville Pike. It will affect commuters. Melanie alnwick, good morning. Good morning, guys, yes, take a look at the debris all over the road here. Were standing close to where the end of water rushing down where it settles is here at the intersection of 355 and cedar lane. You can see all of the debris, mudd, the gravel and rocks that have been pushed from the site of the breakdown to the intersection. The site of the break is actually further up wisconsin avenue not wisconsin avenue, well, yeah, 355 Rockville Pike. Its Rockville Pike here the fsh while i was talking to the crews they think they pin pointed where they need to start digging. Heres the interesting thing. There is pretty much the same location if you remember where we had water main break here in october 2015