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Breaking news right now. Traffic is at a standstill on i295 and route 73 after a deadly truck fire in mt. Laurel. Eyewitness news has now learned one person was killed in the crash. It happened on i295 under the route 73 overpass and drivers are currently being detoured around this accident scene. Of course, stay with Eyewitness News for the very latest. Also tonight Amtrak Service between philadelphia and new york city will be running in time for the morning commute. It comes less than one week after the deadly Train Derailment in Port Richmond. Good evening everyone. Im natasha brown. Thank you so much for joining us. Heres the very latest on the aftermath of the amtrak derailment. In addition to amtraks full service resuming, septas trenton regional line will be partially restored. But trains will not stop in north philadelphia, bridesburg or tacony tomorrow and delays are expected. Also amtrak crews spent the weekend installing speed controls on the section of track where train 188 derailed. And today awake was held for one of the eight people who died in this crash. Bob gildersleeve his body was the last to be pulled from the wreckage. White News Reporter matt rivers joins us live from outside of 30th street station with the latest. Matt . Reporter natasha for the first time in nearly a week amtrak train will leave here from 30th street station bound for new york. That train set to leave tomorrow morning shortly before 6 00 a. M. Eight people died as a result of this weeks derailment and today those people were the focus of a Small Service near the crash site. bell tolls . Reporter eight tolls of a bell. Eight doves released, one for each person who died in a crash that injured hundreds more. Last tuesday was the worst day few dozen people gathered near the scene of the crash sunday for what mayor nutter called the service of reflection local politicians joined pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf in u. S. Transportation secretary anthony fox who had a message for family members left behind by those who died. We will mon honor them by making sure this again. Reporter first step in the process happened over the last few days had this second of the northeast corridor opens again monday morning it will be equipped with positive train control which will automatically stop a train going above safe speeds. Amtrak officials said that would have likely prevented tuesdays crash. We did it right away when we say were committed to safety were committed to safety. Reporter positive train control is scheduled to be installed along the rest of the northeast corridor bite end of this year. The investigation into caused the crash continues. As authorities worked to determine why the train was going 106 miles an hour into a curve with a 50 miles an hour speed limit. Back at the service those questions were put off for another day. Reporter in a somber reflection of lives lost on a warm spring night. Reporter the investigation into what caused this crash will likely take a significant amount of time. Most of the ntsb officials that were here in town left philadelphia over the weekend but we do expect them to reinterview the trains engineer sometime soon. We are live outside of 30th street station matt rivers cbs3 Eyewitness News. Matt, thank you so much. Also an ntsb official and u. S. Senator from pennsylvania appeared on face the nation this morning. To address reports that something hit the windshield of amtrak train 188 and he dispelled rumors about a bullet. It looks like something about the size of a grapefruit, full and it did not even penn straight the entire windshield. Senator bob casey appeared on the show and said congress should support amtrak and not cut funding. Congress should not put amtrak in the position of choosing between positive train control safety and fixing crumbling bridges. We have to do both and weve got to make sure theft resourcesed to that. Of course stay with Eyewitness News for the very latest on the amtrak tragedy. Coming up in our neck half hour, we will hear from the widow of one of the victims of the deadly derailment. Gunfire does erupt in a Texas Restaurant leaving nine rival gang members dead and 18 injured. Police say it happened this afternoon in waco. Five gangs met up to focus on turf and recruitment when something went wrong. Police did know about the meeting in advance and they were outside of the restaurant when the shooting took place. Police did shoot some bikers but theres no word fay deaths were the result of police gunfire. Officials do not think any were injured. Also a marine has died after a helicopter made a hard landing today in hawaii. A military Spokesman Says it happened during a training exercise. 22 people were hahn board. They were all hospitalized for treatment. Its not yet clear what caused the helicopter to crash. Investigators are trying to figure out what spark this huge fire that destroyed a Montgomery County warehouse earlier this morning. Flames broke out at about 3 30 at the american flooring and centex blinds building in plymouth township. Firefighters had their hands full running hundreds of feet of hoses to nearby hydrants and also dealing with accelerants. We believe we have a variety of chemicals that were used thats used in the flooring business that were involved in this fire. Had powell pell collapses of walls, structural walls inside and outside the building including the roof. The fire was just a few hundred feet away from nearby homes. But the flames were contained to the businesses. No one was injured. Police have released name of the man who died when he crashed his truck into a Montgomery County high school. Witnesses say 32yearold philip pay Andre Pinto Silva accelerated into the wall early yesterday afternoon in lower mooreland. No one else was injured. Today crews spent the day patching up the building and the school will be open tomorrow. Turning now to our weather the humidity sticks around fort start of the wok week but will we stay dry . Thats a question. Lets check in with meteorologist Justin Drabick live on the cbs3 sky deck tonight with the first forecast. Hey, justin. Hey, natasha. Pretty nice outside right now six floors up on the sky deck have a nice little breeze but yes, still feels very muggy. Fels like the middle of summer outside. The good news, were quiet on storm scan3. So it look like well get through the next several hours through the overnight with dry conditions. A few clouds. You can see all the spotty showers we had around earlier kind of dissipateed typical for this type of pattern each afternoon well see a flare up isolated showers or thunderstorm thunderstorm. Pretty good overnight. Here are the temperatures. Were in the low and my 70s still in the warm spots. 75 in philadelphia. Even 62 in the mountains at mount pocono thats not too cool for this time of year. 68 in doylestown. 72 in palmyra, new jersey. There are the dew point temperatures. That tells us its very muggy outside. Once youre into the 60s to around 70, that air mass almost has an oppressive feel it to heres what happens tomorrow. Well wake up into the 70s by 9 00 oclock. Should be dry but once we hit noon noon through 6 00 thats our best chance for isolated shower or thunderstorm and that temperature top off near 80 degrees. There is a bit of a cool down though in the seven day forecast well show that you comeing up in few more minutes. Natasha. Thanks justin. See you soon. President obama is comeing to camden tomorrow on his itinerary visit to the newly stabbed Police Department and also a tour of the community. Eyewitness News Reporter Steve Patterson previews his visit. Camden is my home. Reporter she was born here she was raised here, and about a year and a half ago will he sean today carter started her First Business in camden. Here will be the kitchen. Reporter carter started a personal care service for area veterans. She gave us a tour of what she says will be the first home for vets in camden. And i thought why not make this a business . And help people that needs help. Reporter carter is an example of what city officials hope is highlighted in the next few days much entrepreneural spirit and positive change. I think within the neck 10 years the redevelopment of the city will be a National Model an National Story of progress. Reporter monday president barack obama will visit camded to tour the newly stabbed Camden County Police Department formed during the height of the citys infamy for being unsafe but things have changed. Violent crime has dropped nearly 30 compared to this time two years ago and in those two years, the murder rate has nearly been cut in half. Perhaps of the rest of the nation should be looking at camden as to how were conducting our police activities. Reporter poverty is till well above 40 . The president recently designated the City National promise zone allowing quicker pathway to federal funding with the hope of economic turn around around. I want him to get the sense that we are improving. That people in the city of camden do care. Lashonda hopes the president can shine a brighter light on a city looking for a second chance. Something she calls her lifes work. I am so passionate. This is what i live, eat and breathe. Making somebody else live better better. Reporter air force one scheduled to land monday afternoon. In camden, Steve Patterson cbs3 Eyewitness News. Stay with Eyewitness News for coverage of president obamas visit to camden. Both on television and online. Cbsphilly. Com. Stay with us. Still ahead on Eyewitness News news tonight Police Evacuate the memorial in new york. Well tell you why. The travels of everyones favorite great white shark mary lee. Where the big fish app to be heading now and the countdown is on to David Lettermans final late night show. From stupid pet tricks to stupid human tricks well take look at the segments that are uniquely dave. Coming up in sports, dont look now, but the phillies they are on a winning streak. Lesley van arsdall has the highlights and much more when we 16yearold girl is recovering tonight after she was gored by a bison at Yellowstone National park. Police say the girl was posing for a picture near the bison on friday afternoon when it attacked her. The teenager is an Exchange Student from taiwan. National park service says her injuries are serious but they are not live threatening. Also now a scare today for visitors at the 9 11 memorial in lower manhattan. People standing near the southern reflecting pool began choking and coughing. Forcing an vac weighing. It turns out that algae had grown in the pool causing an odor that made it difficult to breathe. Officials say the pool will be drained and the water filtered overnight and they expect to open as usual tomorrow. She was heading south last check but now mary lee the shark is making movements back north. We just cant keep up with her. Her last sighting was about 7 30 tonight south of ocean city maryland. But well off the coast. We don know where she will turn up next. But we do know that twitter is certainly watching. The fake sitter twitter handle at mary lee shark has drawn more 50,000 followers. That handle by the way is not affiliated with o search the Company Tracking her every move. Its almost the end of an era. David letterman will host his final late show from the ed sullivan theater on wednesday. But before he does, were continuing to take look back on on late night tv. Cbs news correspondent Susan Marques has more. Oh, kitty. Moew. Reporter daves humor has always been a little off beat. A little absurd. What do you have there . Pizza. Can you take the pepperoni off the pizza and leave it on the sidewalk . There they go. And destructive. Dave stuck with a particular kind of comedy. There was a sense of irrelevant river answer and sort of anything can happen. Reporter two of lettermans signature segments are stupid pet tricks and stupid human tricks. There have been more than 200 of these segments about half of them here on the late show. Its time for a Little Something we call stupid pet tricks. applause . Reporter dont forget his legendary top 10 lists. Number 10 our electric sexual chemistry. Yeah letterman didnt reinvent late night but letterman did it in a way that i think people havent seen before and hadnt seen done quite that way. Ive got Zsa Zsa Gabore with me. Shed like a fill o fish sandwich watch kind of wine do you have. In new york Susan Marques for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Always funny. Hard to believe dave only has three episodes left. The three night event starts tomorrow with a Academy Award winner tom hanks. On tuesday bill murray stops by and this will be his 44th appearance on lettermans show on wednesday daves final show will be an hour filled with surprises memorabilia highlights and his final top 10 list. Its all right here on cbs3. Looking forward to that. Definitely. Yeah, a good lineup there. I guess a good week so far. Not bad. If you like summer weather youll like the next few days but hold on if you dont like it wait a few more days. Wednesday and thursday its actually looking real nice by the end of the week as we head into the Holiday Weekend much outside right now pretty quiet. Not much happening just a few clouds rolling on through. Live look at the ben franklin bridge right now. Hazy conditions. Its humid. Its muggy. Temperatures still well into the 70s but at least we are dry. I mentioned that change coming later this week as far as the temperatures go, so kind of a split week. Something for everybody in this forecast. Average High Temperature 74. Thats where we shall be for this time of year. Forget that, for monday and tuesday, well above that. Well be back around 80 degrees on monday. And then well into the 80s for tuesday. But then by wednesday and thursday we start to drop the temperatures again actually go below average for thursday afternoon then as we head into memorial day weekend we warm it up pretty much where we should be for this time of year. Pretty mild for this time of night. 72 in trenton. 71 in allentown. As well as the capital city of delaware. All through the northeast new england and into the mid atlantic we are warm and humid this hour. Buffalo 68. Cleveland at 74 this hour. You can look at storm scan3. Patchy clouds across the mid atlantic and northeast. Some pop up showers now diminishing as we lost the heat from the day but again were just stuck in this warm humid air mass. More showers should pop up once again tomorrow afternoon. So kind of a typical summer like day. Again, there could be a stronger thunderstorm as well in some spots. What about the humidity . When will it go away . Not any time soon. Monday and tuesday still feeling very steamy out. Now wednesday and thursday, thats the day lesley is look looking forward to because she keeps hammering me with this. When is the humidity gone. Its a girl hair thing. Tomorrow, well be in the upper 70s to around 80 degrees. Tuesday another chance for more showers and storms as this next cold front approaches. Still humid but once that front passes by later on tuesday youll feel the difference. Northwest wind comes out of canada dries us out pushes out the humidity. Were back into the mid 70s. So tomorrow morning waking up just some clouds. Mainly dry conditions. Into the afternoon theres spotty showers maybe a thunderstorm. Not everybody sees it but have the umbrella around just in case case. Start to quiet down during the evening hours and then once again tuesday afternoon theres the actual front that comes through. Mid afternoon. We can see some more scattered showers and perhaps thunderstorm thunderstorm. So with the temperatures kind of the same deal as today waking up 60s to around 70. Into the afternoon we get to near 80 but i think its areas west of the city are going to be warmest because well get more of an easterly wind. So eastern new jersey youll be cooler. Into the low and mid 70s but the farther west you go, thats where well have our warmest temperatures but wind switch out south again for tuesday. So it looks like everybody will be back into the 80s on tuesday afternoon. So again overnight partly cloudy mild, slight chance for showers. 67 for center city. Little bit cooler in the suburbs suburbs. Shower storm chance monday afternoon partly sunny skies 79 for the afternoon temperature. All right. Here the extended forecast. Back into the low and possibly mid 80s tuesday. Depending on how much sun we see watch out for the afternoon shower or storm. Wednesday and thursday, forget the humidity. Its gone. Low and mid 70s. Now were at average or even below average temperatures you see the beach ball that means orr at the shore begins as we head into the Holiday Weekend. And good news if you have outdoor plans for memorial day weekend. It looks like sunshine friday, saturday and is you day temperatures close to average. Mid and upper 70s. Do guys not worry about humidity with their hair . Is that what youre saying. Hair gel. I like youre calling us out for our hair. Thursday is the best hair day of the week . Wednesday and thursday. He always has great hair. Thank you. Great news for the phillies. Theyre on roll. Little bit of a streak going right now and looking to complete the sweep of the diamondbacks for their first sweep of the season. The phillies need your help. Well tell you why coming up in sports next. [africanstyle music] take my hand to the land take my hand to the land, whoaoh narrator only one family goes to incredible lengths to bring the thrills, the adventure and the best of africa back home to you. Kalahari resorts. Coming to the pocono mountains summer 2015. Book now at kalahariresorts. 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Hits it out to left field for his third homerun of the season and phillies will take a two to nothing lead. To the sixth Miguel Franco had been on a aaa part of the reason he got called up friday. Changing that right here. Hits this ball off the wall in dead centerfield. Darrin ruf scores all the way from first on that. Franco goes head first 923rd with a triple. Then in the eighth franco again. Really gets a hold of this one. That will be his First Major League homerun phillies go up five to nothing. But check out what happens after the homerun. Poor lady has the ball, drops the ball, and then this man bums her out of the way and takes it. Phillies win the game six to nothing. But we did talk to the phillies they want to make up to this woman who was robbed and if you know who she is contact the phillies are us here at cbs3 or you can always contact me on twitter. Playing good baseball right now. Today was a good example. Its nice when you can give chase and howie and freddie the day off and still go out there and put up sick runs. Bullpen has been great. Pretty much the whole year. So just clicking. Speaking of great check out the braves shelby miller. He dominated the marlins today. Took a no hitter into the ninth inning before finely giving up a hit with two outs in the ninth. So close. He ended up giving two hits but got the complete game shut out the braves win six to nothing. After the game the marlins fired the manager. The union trying to turn things around tonight at home after tying the club record with four consecutive losses. They took on d. C. United the best team in the eastern conference. It wont be union. Easy. It union look like they were going to get on the board first. Connor casey thinks he has the goal. It gets waived off for hand ball ball. We go to stoppage time. 93rd minute local product zach pfeffer thats your game winner. Huge win for the union one to nothing the final. Game seven between the clippers and rockets. Rockets come up big. Trevor with the three. He had six, three pointers and 22 points. The clippers turn the ball over 18 times. Here with the rocks good deal fence james hardin had 31 points points. The rockets win this one 113 113100 and theyll take on the warriors next. Game one of the western conference finals Blackhawks Blackhawks ducks. Ducks up two to nothing. Brad richards score. To pull chicago within one the third period all anaheim. Nate thompson will pick up his second goal of the playoffs. That will make it threeone and anaheim eventually goes on to winter fourone. How about that poor lady at the game. I know. Just awful. I thought he was going to reach over to give her the ball. Oh, no. That would be really hip check on that one. That was just awful. If you know who she is i know. Call us please. Weve got to get her a ball. Thank you so much, lesley. Jamie wanted a taste of the real new orleans and we just couldnt say no to that face. Then we wanted more of that local flavor so betty says. Oh yeah, thats betty. Youre going to want to do this alligator thing. And betty didnt lead us wrong. A little later we passed some dancing. And who doesnt like dancing . Especially when its followed by fireworks everyones nola is different. Follow yours. Party for dogs today in south philadelphia. Several hundred owners took their pooches to Columbus Square for a fundraiser to revitalize the dog park. The four legged friends got to roam around freely and play in the fenced in city block. Some even adopted new furry friend out l thats great. Theres more to come on Eyewitness News tonight. We will have a lot more on the amtrak tragedy and the lives forever changed in this deadly derailment. For the very first time were hearing from the wife of one of the victims. Plus we will also start off the week with more rain and justin has the full forecast. Thats strata hemmed stay with we do have an update on breaking news were following. This is eyewitness cam video of a deadly box truck fire on i295 under the route 73 overpass in mount laurel. Madison worthy sent in this dramatic video which captures what sounds like explosions from the truck. New Jersey State Police say one person was killed and right now both route 73 and i295 are closed in both directions. Stay with Eyewitness News for any updates on television and online as well throughout the night cbsphilly. Com. Also tonight trains will start rolling once again between philadelphia and new york city in time for the morning commute. Justy amtrak derailment in Port Richmond that left eight people dead. Amtraks full northeast Corridor Service will resume tomorrow morning. And septas trenton regional line will be partially restored as well. But trains will not stop in north philadelphia, bridesburg or tacony tomorrow. And delays are expected. Amtrak crews spent the weekend installing speed controls on the section of track where train 188 derailed. And today victims of First Responders were honored near the site of the tragedy in Port Richmond. Mourners gathered to remember one of the people who died in the crash bob gildersleeve. Awake was held in his hometown of red bank, new jersey. Gildersleeves body was the last to be pulled from the wreckag

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