Transcripts For KYW Eyewitness News At 5 20170913 : comparem

Transcripts For KYW Eyewitness News At 5 20170913

Morning before cloud bubble up in the afternoon another round of those hit and miss but locally intense showers and perhaps a thunderstorm, that will take you right through your thursday night and into friday morning, although you can see friday looks like a transition day, showers are more few and far between as we start to send irma out to sea, in longer irma but remnants of that system. Only 73 degrees in philadelphia but it is steamy. Coming up we will talk bin crease in dew points, how long humidity sticks around and what to expect for the weekend for now, back over to you. In the news tonight criminal investigation is underway following the death of eight people, at a nursing home without air conditioning in hollywood, florida. Crewness florida continued to make progress in restoring power but nearly 4 million homes and businesses are still without power, in the sunshine state. Water services is slowly being restored to the upper florida keys but key west area and lower keys are still off line due to storm damage. President trump will visit southwest florida tomorrow, stopping in the naples area. Correspondent moa lenghi is in florida with more on the continuing clean up, after irma. Reporter more than 100 elderly patientness a hollywood florida nursing home were evacuated wednesday after three patients were found, dead in the facility. Several more died at the hospital. Others are still in the er. Mess of the patients have, been treated for respiratory distress, hydration and heat related issues. Reporter police opened a criminal investigation looking into whether the center had electricity or using generators in the wake of irma that is part of the criminal investigation as to how cool they actually were, where there was cooling anything. Reporter across florida, crews are working around the clock to restore power. Utility Officials Say they are making progress but some customers will be in the dark for more than a week. Were sitting at restoring 60 percent of the outages that we experienced during irma. Reporter in the hard hit florida keys where irma first made land fall as a category four hurricane search crews went house to house while homeowners started to clean up turf put on a new roof, on and we have to get the electric and water and everything back. Im work on that. Reporter satellite images show the keys, before and after irma, fee man estimate 90 percent have homes, suffered damage. Moa lenghi for cbs3 Eyewitness News. As you might imagine, restoring power is tough, slow work. This is video from Florida Power and light. Watch as they reconnect fuse getting pur back on in Miami Dade County that was earlier this morning. Crews work throughout the night to make it happen. Drone video is providing with us a new look at extensive damage irma caused in saint martin. Damage is there widespread and estimated to be more than a billion dollars. French president s manual macaronis visiting and vowing to rebuild the island. President trump is reaching across the aisle for help on his signature issues tax reform. One democratic lawmakers received inmates to the white house today for discussions on how to get it done. Thank you very much. Reporter President Trump sat down with House Republicans and democrats to talk tax reform. We want to have a great new tax cut and tax reform simplification and massive cuts and we want to get our country working again and competing again worldwide. Reporter he is making a pitch to both part toys get congress to act object one of his top priorities. The president has not provided a specific plan for tax overhaul. The rich will not be gaining at all with this plan. Were looking for middle class , and were looking for jobs. Reporter republicans on capitol hill are working on the details and promised a draft by the end of the month. I would love to have democrats supporting and working with us, but we will do it, no matter what. Reporter after republicans failed to repeal and replace obama care this white house seeing wowing democrats to ensure tax reform has enough votes to pass. They want tonight a bipartisan way. It was very good for them to reach out to us. Reporter group of senators including West Virginia democrat joe mansion joined the president for dinner tuesday night. We had a i think an in depth conversation, on our concerns, and that the president was adamant this is not a tax cut for the rich. Reporter other Senate Democrats sent a letter to the president and Republican Leaders saying they wont support a package that cuts taxes for the top 1 percent. Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi return to the white house tonight for dinner with the president. White house says president will spend a day every week on the road this fall to build momentum for tax reform. We continue to follow news out of washington state. Authorities say one student is dead, and three others are injured after a shooting inside of a high school. Shooting happened around 10 00 t coast time, at Freeman High School in rockford. Police have the shooter in custody. No details on the age or their condition at this time. Philadelphia police are investigating a Home Invasion that sent a resident to the hospital. It happened 5 30 in the roxborough neighborhood. Police say suspect somehow gain entry to a home in the 7300 block of hill road and got away with the residents vehicle. Victim was taken to an area hospital to be check out for chest pain, so far, in one has been arrested. Police are also searching for shooting suspect who prompted a standoff with officers today in north philadelphia. Authorities say that around 8 30 this morning suspect shot a man in the leg on 15th and cambridge and then ran into a house on poplar street which business a block away. Eyewitness said he didnt see where shooter went but he did try to help the victim. He was obviously in pain, screaming, trying to calm him down and before you know it, police were there, responding quickly. At last check victim was hospitalized in stable condition. Police searched the home where the suspect was believed to have run into but it was empty , Authorities Say they did recover a gun. A south Jersey School district has implemented a new character building curriculum for its students. Eyewitness News Reporter cleve bryan explains what the students will be learning and why administrators thought the change was so important. As history, teaches like to say one of the reasons we studied the pass is so we dont make same mistakes. It is deadly clash necessary Charlottesville Virginia are any indication, america still has a lot to learn about racism. As things happened over the summer, it just gave me a sad feeling to watch our country coming apart over racism, intolerance and so forth. Reporter as supervisor, for vineland Public Schools ross standinger wanted to incorporate something new to promote tolerance. Fellow administrators joanne n egrin had the same goal, she suggested doing the town what she lives cherry hill did putting out signs for hate has no home here initiative. Then they took it a step further and put theme in the curriculum as part of the districts Character Education program. We want students to embody through projects, what it means to be tolerant and respect if i have of all of the different people. Reporter project will incorporate latest Technology Like having students create their own movies and pod casts , promoting tolerance and diversity to really drive home a point that this is a community that welcomes everyone. Reporter school Officials Say anti racism lessens wont be just led to aid single unit within social studies and history classes but something they will work in the curriculum throughout the school year. It is not something thaw are born with, hate is something that you are taught, as is idea of tolerance and respect for people. Reporter in vineland, cleve bryan, cbs3 Eyewitness News. Last week Equifax Breach has left half the u. S. Populations personal information like addresses and Social Security numbers at risk. As the scale of the breach becomes more clear, three on your sides jim donovan has advice from Security Experts about what you can do to protect yourself. Reporter it could be largest theft involving Social Security numbers in history. Credit monitor equifax said hackers gained access to the personal information of 143 million u. S. Consumers, yet Many Americans dont even know if they are affect. I have not check. Reporter if you ever applied for credit equifax may have your information. It is one of the three major credit burroughs used by banks , lenders and businesses to approve loans and credit card. You can find out if your information was compromised by going to equifax security 2017. Com. Cyber security expert adam levin says the information, exposed in this equifax hack puts millions at risk of identity theft. That means your checking of the credit reports, look at your Credit Scores to make sure they dont take an unexplained drop, check your accounts, your bank and credit card accounts to make sure that every transaction that you see is yours. It is best to assume that your information has been compromised. Reporter cbs News Business analyst Jill Schlesinger said people who feel their information is at risk can freeze their credit file at each of the three agencies. A credit freeze essentially prevents anyone from opening new credit in your name and, of course that includes you. So that is why it is a little bit of the pain in the neck but it is most safe approach to take. Reporter youll have un freeze your account if you want to apply for a loan but extra steps could keep criminals from crack your accounts. Equifax is offering one year of free credit monitoring, which after public outcry no longer requires consumers to give up certain rights in order to join. Reporting for three on your side, im jim donovan. Target is recalling, tens of thousands of pieces of furniture because they can injure children. We will have details at 5 30. Hollywood comes together for hurricane relief. Total is in. How much money was raised from last nights hand in hand tell athon. Police officers posting about their hurricane patrols got more than they bargained for on line, craze comments and how they turn the situation into a fundraiser. A device that helps people lose weight is being used to help control diabetes. Health reporter Stephanie Stahl shows us how it works in the next half an hour. Glad you are with us, we will take a short bre you each drive a ford all yes. Ght . Im going to show you a next generation pickup. Awesome. Lets do this. The bed is made of highstrength steel, which is less susceptible to punctures than aluminum. Stronger the better. And best of all, this new truck is actually all laughing oh my. The current chevy silverado. Current chevy owners and lessees get a total value of tenthousand, six hundred dollars. Or, 0 financing for 72 months on this silverado all star. Find new roads at your local chevy dealer. You saw last night star studded benefit to raise money for victims of Hurricane Harvey and irma. Some celebrities, like houston native beyonce sent in taped messages asking for support, while others answered phones, to accept donations. The public showed its support in a big way, organizers say benefit has so far raised more than 44 milliondollar, and, donations are still being accepted. For a lincoln how you can help, go to cbs philly. Com. Country singer, teams up with tony hawk to help inner city children and victims of harvey. Kid moore stage his first ever music city state jam on sunday in nashville. It was part concert and skateboarding demonstration. It was set up to raise money for Charity Known as kid fund which built state parks for children and teens as does Tony Hawk Foundation but after the recent event part of the money raised will also help victims of harvey. Watching skating, growing up in the community, it is a different sense of brotherhood and skating, every walk of life, and, all taking care of each other and my thing was if i can create these, and give these kid a safe place to go. He gave a crowd of performance of hits and new songs, from his album, slow heart. Well, Hurricane Irma First Responders are creating quite a but on social media intimate video taking us to the journey of her pregnancy. Serena saying she was in the hospital for six or seven days before being able to bring her bundle of joy, home, but despite complications, yes look who we got, we got a baby girl. Reporter on to Pitch Perfect star rebel wilson speaking out for First Time Since being awarded more than 3. 6 million u. S. Dollars in an australia defamation case. Largest defamation damage awarded in the legal history. And actress said today was end of the long, hard court battle continuing on that with her damaging she explore to helping different charities and getting back to her career and, finally, one Hurricane Irma story gets lots of attention for reason you might not expect. It centers around these First Responders, from the Gainsville Police department. And at airing this photo they have been inundated by thousands of comments with women, inquiring about the officers relationship status. And the photo was shared over 240,000 times, on facebook. The Department Posted more photos, with another unique, unit getting involved. Gainsville officers are fulfilling their facebook admirers requests and will be releasing a calendar of the departments finest, with proceed benefiting hurricane recovery efforts. Hey, it is for a charity. That is your hot minute im be x from todays 96. 5. She did say dream i. Oh, bless us. Okay. Shes funny. Well, kate bilo is here now, speaking of remnants of irma were getting tail end of , irma, icky. Yes. It is just a miserable day out there. Yes it is cloudy, foggy, it is gress. We have showers in the forecast in the only for rest of today but few and far between but they will ramp up tomorrow afternoon and possibly even gannon friday, and then we will shift toward the weekend and possibly hurricane jose making some waves, down the shore. But lets start off, with the look outside, speaking of the shore, what a ugly looking beach day, it is in ocean city good day to walk boardwalk do some shopping, grab pizza, funnel cake, and soft serve, Something Like that, not best day to be at the beach but rides are going, nice day on the ocean city boardwalk. It always is. You can see low cloud, very gray outside inn a that is the case through next couple days as well. We have gray skies in margate as we take a peak at beach patrol headquarters camera. Nobody on the beach today but looks pretty desserted out there even life guard stand is looking desserted this afternoon. Gray skies, and the waves have been rough. We have rip current, caution in effect through rest of the week and weekend, irmas moisture cause something showers, thunderstorms possibly tomorrow and help say will be lurking just off eastern seaboard over the weekend. You can see that first band of showers that pushed through this morning has shifted in to new york state and long island as well. We are not seeing a whole lot in the way of wet weather but very damp, light my, drizzle few drops here and there, slow conditions on the roads. It is all thanks to irma. Heres center of circulation from what was once irma. It has drifted to the north now and all this still has to come through before we can clear it out. It is very, very slow moving. Tomorrow looks like most active day of the forecast period as that moisture starts to move n pretty decent temperature gradient from north to south, cool near 70 degrees to the north, closer to 80 down toward millville, dover. Seventythree in philadelphia. But, it is very, very steamy. Look at these dew points, dew point in millville is 74. Dew point in philadelphia 71. 65degree dew point in allentown. A dew point of 71 puts us right in the oppressive range, it is very humid outside, this is tropical air were dealing with and it will stay very sticky through the rest of the week as well. So you can see moisture moving from the west. Heres tomorrow morning just some cloud but then that center of circulation moves through, scattered showers perhaps thunderstorm tomorrow afternoon and evening. Friday we will see it start to clear out, still cloud, still sprinkles but gets better and then we will start to dry things out on saturday. We are looking at least than half inch for most of the area so this isnt a huge deal as far as rainfall totals are concerned but just in the nice weather for next few days. Terrible hair day as well. Fog developing outside tonight , tomorrow mostly cloudy, warm, sticky at 82 degrees. Scattered showers and thunderstorm. Friday still chance for sure but then saturday even though it starts off with fog 81 degrees with sun, High Pressure starts to knows in, sunday through wednesday looking really, really nice as of right now. Keep an eye on jose. We will have more in the next half an hour. Still ahead on Eyewitness News looking ahead to the holiday season. Major retailer is hiring a thousand people right here in our area. What is a monument . Mural arts program in philadelphia wants to you think about that because youre december, could raise your own monument all over the city. More o

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