Transcripts For KYW Eyewitness News At 5 20240622 : comparem

KYW Eyewitness News At 5 June 22, 2024

That is not happening anytime soon. Youll be able to get outside and enjoy to it day. You will like this forecast a lot of sunshine around this weekend. The most of the weekend should stay dry so dont cancel outdoor plans at all. Heres what we have as far as temperatures, this morning very nice stuff. Upper 50s in the Lehigh Valley to the upper 60s in philadelphia. Sixty in millville, new jersey. Delaware is at 64 at this hour. Suburbs looking nice, pos town quakertown, doylestown all in the 50s at this hour. The wind are calm as we have a breeze out of the northwest and that north west wind direction is key. That is keeping the dry comfortable air mass in play. We will look at dew point temperatures if you were watching last weekend i was showing you numbers in the mid 70s. Now they are in the mid to upper 50s. That is a big difference and much dryer comfortable air mass. Storm scan three maybe a few fair weather clouds passing this morning into the afternoon but overall a mostly sunny day. Heres what to expect, lots of sunshine. Very warm temperatures but humidity stays low. We will break it down for you. By lunchtime we are in the mid 80s already. Very warm by 3 00 in the unshine upper 80s and around the region we will go a high of 89 for philadelphia, lower 80s at the shore. The great beach day. Poconos looking nice at 80 degrees. We will talk about our next storm chance in the seven day forecast in a few minutes nicole, back to you. Justin, thank you. Right now disturbing allegations against a owner of a restaurant in the popular philadelphia neighborhood. Police arrested 41 yearold alex capasso as part of the federal child pornography investigation. Capasso is the coowner of the crow and pitcher in the the rittenhouse neighborhood. Eyewitness News Reporter david spun t has more on the investigation. Reporter for customers everything seems normal at crow and the pitcher at rittenhouse square. Employees are still coming to grips after coowner and head chef alex capasso was pick up for his alleged involvement with child porn. How do you expect Something Like that . Reporter Michael Franco and alex capasso opened up just over a year ago. Authorities arrested capasso on monday but his collogues just found out late friday afternoon. The last three hours have been a tail spin, you know, i havent seen him for the whole week. Reporter according to federal documents obtained by Eyewitness News capasso allegedly sexually abused a fiveyear old girl and had pictures to prove it. Shes niece of one of his friend according to authorities. The paperwork describes capasso texting in under cover Police Officer in washington d. C. , who claimed have to have a nine yearold daughter. The under cover officer told capasso he had permission to touch the daughter. Text messages paint a disturbing picture, according to Court Documents the under cover agent said cool, what all you looking to do, i do have a few limits with her. Capasso allegedly responded oh, i would be happy just to watch but will go just as far as you will allow. What are the boundaries. Reporter rest of the conversation is too graphic to share. I cant believe that somebody who runs a restaurant in my neighborhood, i just cannot wrap my mind around it. Reporter rosa lee has spent time inside capassos restaurant. There are children here all the time. Reporter they arrested capasso at his collinswood home. Things were quiet outside his home friday night. We became like a family. It is hitting us hard. Now we are just going to band together and continue to do what were doing. Reporter alex capasso will face that child pornography charge in washington d. C. His bio has been removed from the web site. According to the document capasso admitted to having those photographs but he said he found them on the internet, reporting from rittenhouse square, david spunt for cbs3 Eyewitness News. The accused killer of the Drexel University graduate sit behind bars this morning. Authorities say that the former handy man had access to that rick tims apartment even though he lost his job and had a lengthy criminal history. Natasha brown has latest now from police headquarters. I mean he is a monster and were happy to get him off of the street. Reporter this is the the face of the Monster Police are describing, 56 yearold career criminal james harris now charge with the murder and Sexual Assault of the 27 yearold jasmine wright. He has got 31 priors, back in 82, he was a arrested for killing his own father. He has been arrested several times for Sexual Assault several robberies and burglaries. Reporter recent drexel graduate was fun beaten, strangled and sexually assaulted last week inside her third floor apartment in the 200 block of south 50th street. Witness accounts coupled with dna and fingerprints led police to their suspect harris who worked as a handy man in the victims building. He had been fired a week prior, but was last seen entering july 16th, 30 minutes before the victim. He broke into her apartment, she came in, about 30 minutes later after she was inside the apartment. She was on her cell phone talking to her mother, lived in virginia. At that time he attacked her. Reporter police are still trying to figure out why he still had keys to the building a question that haunts this resident who says he lives in another building owned by the same man who owns the property on 50th street. He didnt want to be identified. If you have some kind of business where you have people that you are renting to, you should have a system or procedure that you do prior to you hiring any people, you know, handy man or maintenance guys because if not anybody can just come in here. It is i terrible thing. It is an atrocity. Reporter back in Jasmine Wrights neighborhood residents grabbled with grief, gratitude of news of an arrest. A memorial continues to grow honoring a young woman whose life was traj click cut too short. Im are grateful that the mother and father have the closure in this matter, you know, somebody did some harm to american one person. Reporter police say harris is not being cooperative with investigators, they have not uncovered a motive in this case. Meantime he is currently facing murder, rape, robbery burglary and other related offenses. At police headquarters, Natasha Brown for cbs3 Eyewitness News. We are learning more about the gunman behind the deadly louisiana theater shooter. About 20 minutes into the film train wreck john houser stood up opened fire, killing two people and injuring nine others all before taking his own life. Houser had been treated for Mental Illness when he was young. He whats vick from the rental home last year and been described as a drifter. The his hotel room was searched. We found wigs glasses, and disguisees basically in his room. His vehicle had a switched license tag on it. It is apparent that he was intent on shooting and then escaping. Twentyone yearold macy breaux and Jillian Johnson were killed. The philadelphia swat officer wounded in a shootout is new recovering at home this morning. Officer Frances Whalen took a shot to his bulletproof vest executing a search warrant on wednesday. Authorities say that murder suspect Devon Guisherd was killed in a shootout with police. The officer whalen was checked out of the hospital for a bruce to his stomach and was released. Well, happening today demolition begins on the fixture of the city sky line. You can expect detours for at least the next few weeks. Commerce building was built in 1965 and hailed as a sign of camdens a progress. Now the property at broadway and federal streets the will be turned into a parking lot. Demolition is expect to take about two weeks and during that time streets around that demolition site will be close todd traffic. We should mention that buses will also be detoured. Well, new this morning president obama arrives at the Global Entrepreneur ship summit in kenya. President obama taking podium to praise africas economic and business potential saying incomes are up and middle class is growing. Later today the the president will visit Memorial Park on the site of the 1998 u. S. Embassy attack. More than 200 people including 12 americans and 34 local Embassy Staff died in that blast which was blamed on al qaeda. President obama is the the first u. S. President to wrist it kenya. Count down is on, in 63 days, pope francis will arrive here in philadelphia, it is sure to be one of the biggest events in our city. Of course, pontiffs visit has sparked a rental crackdown lots of changes throughout the the city. As eyewitness News Reporter diana rocco tells south hope to cash in on out of town visitors and they are finding that they could be out of luck. Reporter many throughout center city and beyond have already listed a condo or a apartment, expecting big bucks for the popes visits. Some asking for more than 1,000 a night. We have raised the daily rate about 500 percent just to see if it is something we could get. Reporter craig beerman manages a south philadelphia building, he legally posted a unit on air b and b and so far two months with no by the. Everybody saying they can get 500 or a you this dollars for this and that is mistaken because im out there and i can see that is in the really happening. I look all through web sites most noteably air b and b and very easy to find them because they have to put where the unit is. Reporter thinks one of the many building manages trolling air b and b to find unit owners subletting renting illegally. I tell them that they cannot rent but if they continue to try to list the unit there will be financial sanctions. Reporter by laws prohibit, violates insurance policies and safety of other owners. Transient renter will not have have the same kind as stake as a long term resident. If someone were to come here and didnt belong here and they came to see the pope, they might find themselves on the street. Reporter real Estate Attorney gary, represents condo associations throughout center city and said Management Companies have every right to deny access. They went be able to get through the front door. They will be left high and dry and we dont like to do. That we dont want to do that to visitors to the city but we have to protect our clients need to protect the interests of the owners of the condominium. Reporter noncompliant owners could find themselves in court. There has been a lot of air b and b talk, a lot of craigs list ads. We are just concerned about who is coming in for the week. Reporter for tenants it is a little cut and dry, a violation of the terms of the lease agreement. We have reached out to dozens of people in the Center City Area nearly all decline an interview. At the the art museum im diana rocco for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Our coverage of the papal visit continues on our web site go to cbs philly. Com papal visit for everything you need to know to plan for that big weekend in september, coming up soon. You dont see this every day in new york city, coming up next on Eyewitness News what sent water gushing 40 feet in the air. Plus do it yourself orthodontics . Yeah, does straightening your teeth the at homework . See what the doctors to have say about that. We will be right back. Well, sir. After some serious consideration id like to put in my 15year notice. Youre quitting . Technically retiring, sir. With a little help from my state farm agent i plan to retire in 15 years. Wow youre totally blindsiding me here. Whos gonna manage your accounts . This is a devastating blow i was not prepared for. Well, im gonna finish packing my things. 15 years will really sneak up on you. Jennifer with do your exit interview and adam made you a cake. Red velvet. Oh, thank you. I made this. Take charge of your retirement. Talk to a state farm agent today. I get out of work, and i go to the store, and somebody says, smellin around, i smell cookies. I said, oh no you just smell me, i just got out of work thats honey bunches of oats, thats all. I said dont eat me now. Back now on Eyewitness News as a geyser is shooting three stories in the air this happened in brooklyn. Huge water main burst forcing police to close the the street in both directions. Now it took crews almost two hours to turn the the water off and thankfully, no injuries were reported. But yeah, that will turn your head. Walking down the streets of new york. Wow. Exactly. Crazy. But enjoying this weather justin. Amazing. Exactly, nice stretch we have going on. We will warm it up today and tomorrow, bring back that humidity for sunday but today will be pleasant. All right. Upper 80s. Good pool day hit the shore hang outside maybe cut the grass, chores around the house, it will not that be bad. Lets go outside right now skies lightening up as we get close to sunrise at about 40 minutes or so. Just a few cloud over us, just taking a live look at ben franklin bridge right now comfortable start to our morning. Temperatures around the city in the upper 60s. Suburbs still waking up in the 50s. Heres your weather headlines. Lots of sunshine on tap and for the rest of the weekend. We will heat those temperatures up, over the past few days but we will go back above average. We will talk about our next shower thunderstorm chance, coming up in the seven day forecast. Here you are current numbers trenton is at 63 degrees. Nice, 58 in allentown. Fiftynine millville. Down at the shore low to the mid 60s to kick off your saturday morning. Heres how it will feel today still on the pleasant side. That is great news. If you dont like humidity we will even christ that level on sunday. Still not quite that bad. Monday tuesday it cranks up a bit. We will bring back some heat for middle of next week but enjoy the weekend. Check out storm scan three nice and quiet right now just a few fair weather clouds passing by. Large area of High Pressure over midatlantic and northeast which means calm conditions, for the entire weekend. Maybe you are traveling up and down the east coast looking pretty good, both today and tomorrow. Heres the chances today given it a zero. Tomorrow we will throw in a 20 percent chance because of the increased humidity, we will throw in an isolated thunderstorm chance late in the day but most like liz areas are going to stay dry. Monday 30 percent chance is our best shot at next few days and then back to zero on tuesday. The lets time things out for you this is one computer model throughout the afternoon a lot of sunshine. Very quiet. The not much to talk about into this evening if you have evening plans around town or where ever you are traveling tonight, it looks pretty good. Partly cloudy skies in, to sunday, maybe a few more cloud, increased humidity. Watch out what happened. We do see isolated showers and storms breaking out mainly north and west, possibly up in the poconos your best shot to see a shower, activity. And 80s today upper 80s for inland spots. Lower 80s near the the shore where youll find relief from the heat and then evening temperatures looking g we will drop down in the 70s. Comfort level still high tonight, into tomorrow, same deal upper 80s to we do see lower 90s for inland locations on sunday afternoon with decent amount of sunshine. The heres your shore forecast, looking good today very pleasant. Nice breeze off the ocean out of the south east at 10 miles an hour, that keeps air temperatures in the the lower 80s. That ocean water is nice. 74 degrees. Have sun block though. Uv index is high. We will give it a ten today. Inland spots up to 89 degrees for this have afternoon. Tonight mostly clear mild, still comfortable at 70. Here we go extended forecast we will bring back humidity, throw in an isolated storm chance late in the day sunday with a high of 91. Monday better chance to see scattered showers and storms at 89. It does get hot, we will see low 90s return with sunshine, and temperatures at the shore will range in the low to mid 80s. Nicole, back over to you. Justin, thank you. On the cbs3 healthwatch do it yourself orthodontics. With braces being so expensive some people are trying to strengthen their teeth at home. Health reporter Stephanie Stahl tells us about the the potentially dangerous trend. Reporter dina hicks has felt subconscious about the space between her teeth. The perfect smile for me is a smile with no gap. Reporter she could not afford braces so she decided to try do it yourself orthodontics on line, monk the options, moving teeth with inexpensive items like clear hair band, elastic and dental floss and paper clips. I have seen more than one incident where harm has been done irreversible damage. Reporter that is because even if teeth and gums appear healthy on the surface there can be underlying problems that effect treatment. Band pitched on line as gap band are considered one of the most dangerous quick fixes. The tooth is shaped like an ice cream cone. That rupp are band, it pulls that teeth out of the bone. Reporter which can lead to tooth loss and dental problems. Tina spent 20 on gap band and said while they work short term she had to stop using them. They were cutting into my gums super painful. Reporter for now tina is learning to embrace her gap. I have a love hate relationship with this gap. Reporter American Association of orthodontics that issued a warning about the dangers of the products say it if cost is an issue most orthodontics have Monthly Payment plans or special fees for low income patients. Im Stephanie Stahl cbs3 Eyewitness News. You have to be careful with that stuff. 5 20. Still ahead something for kid teens and adults, this weekend at the movies. Im Kevin Frazier coming up a super model goes missing in movie paper town, and Jake Gyllenhaal gets buff and heading to the movies lo

© 2025 Vimarsana