>> actually looking at yet another day of stormy weather out there. you probably heard the rumors about this polar vortex style cold front, that's dropping in. true. there is going to be some much cooler air starting to settle in, back to the midwest, northern planes, for us, though, it is not so much a cool-down that waits in the wings, rather, just the stormy conditions that we are we'll finds out in advance of t now, we're had some storms in the last couple of hours, but there is also a batch out there right now of storm scan3, just southwest of our viewing area. so, if you have any kind of plans to travel perhaps south on 95, or going toward the baltimore area, you will likely runs into some of it, heavy rain, expected, with that pocket as it rolls into our area, so we have to keep an eye on the radar, at the moment, that's all we've got going for us. later today storms will be more widespread, talking potential for severe weather. we'll break all of the details down in the next couple of minutes for you. >> in the news, developing right now, fire officials are trying to ida mysterious odor at montgomery county community. >> already forced evacuation of 150 people. "eyewitness news" reporter steve patterson joins us now, in skippack township with the latest on, that steve, good morning. >> good morning, erika, ukee, the origin still mystery, but the results are everywhere this morning. an entire neighborhood ghosttown, more than 100 homes evacuated nan place of families this morning, these green notices, telling residents to simply stay away. earlier the fire department, the county, the epa action hard adder us response teams all counts out to the fair lounge court development near skippack township, reports of strong odor shortly before 6:00 last night. now, most people voluntarily left their homes, the odor actually traced to the sub pumps of several basements, in this area. at the moment, it is being called a volatile organic compound. no reported illnesses at this time. although, testing obviously in removal a big priority, so that work is being done at the moment. we spoke to meanwhile an area state representative concerned about residents and volunteers in this area,. >> epa, number one goal, find out what though volatile compounds is. they've not confirmed. the township will be providing more information at 8:00. i would suggest that they will not know at that time what is been detect in the these homes. >> i can smell it, and then we called 911, they came out, invites dollars us to go get my wife and kids checked at the hospital. >> reporter: behind me it is dark, nobody is here, everybody mostly last left their homes, we're told, the red cross is assisting four families, ten people without a place to stay this morning. reporting live from montgomery county, steve patterson, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> steve, thank you. right now, 4:33, we want to get back to katie and talk more about our forecast. >> our forecast another stormy one, also very, very muggy outside, so the moisture content is out there in the atmosphere, we'll heat up again here today, "skycam 3", pretty quiet for the moment. but just few minutes ago, when we kicked off the show here shall i showed you storm scan3, there is a little activity just outside of our viewing area right now. lets guess there next. storm scan3 is up. we do have, again, little pocket that's developed over the last few hours, generally out toward say 81, but it is north of baltimore, and it is going to be clearly ruling basically from southwest to northeast here with time. so, we will eventually get in on that across southern portions every lancaster county, chester county, see how it holds together. see a lot of it previous activity actually sort of fizzled with time. so here's hoping that's what happens with that particular pocket. meanwhile deeing with potent trough digging into the atmosphere. telling eventually with heavy thunderstorms and flashflood watches not in effect just yet, but take effect at noon today. generally for philly, surrounding vicinity, across the river, then off to the north and west. that's where we have the best likelihood to see any heaviest of our downpours, and where it could lead to some flashflooding issues. seventy-five is the current temperature meanwhile at the airport, cooler up toward mount pocono, lancaster. everybody's feeling the steam. as we go off to the northwest, again, talking about much cooler air starting to settle in, place like buffalo, state college, only into the 60s right now. so starting to see some signs every cooling trends take place. this is slow system to move through. so, it is hot. it is steamy. we'll get to the potential for strong if not severe weather, and probably the same case tomorrow, as well, big old welcome to our buddy bob kelly. we missed you. >> thank up, missed you too. boy, tough getting up this morning! been sleeping in a week, normal people time, man, that alarm lent off, hello. live look at i-95, right near girard avenue, the construction zone, i thought though have had this finished while i was on vacation? >> sorry, man. >> apparently southbound no problems at all coming in toward philadelphia. how is that schuylkill doing? live look here, little wet behind the ears from all of the rain that came through last night, thunderstorms as katie mentioned, we got drenched on the overnight. so we'll see some puddles, damp roadways as you roll out of the driveway this morning. watching us down the shore near lbi, parkway, southbound near the wear town interchange, north of lbi an accident. coming back from the shore like a loft folks like to do early on a monday, good to go. back roads out of wildwood, no problems or delays there. construction crews out with us on the westbound turnpike, right near willow grove. 422 and 202, no problems at the moment heading in toward king of prussia. ukee, erika, back to you. >> bob, thank you. today employees at trump plaza atlantic city expected to receive warning notices that the casino is closing. now, if trump plaza does shutdown, ac could lose a third of its casinos and more than a quarter of its work force. showboat is closing next month, revel has shutdown if it can't find a buyer. some have been a pictures since 1984. now, the gaming industry is hoping for better news out of ac when new jersey division every gaming enforcement releases its june earnings reports from atlantic city's 11 he is casinos. saw 5% increase in gross operating properties last quarter, hotel casino occupancy also improved, to 70%. and in may, internet gaming participation increased nearly 9%. also, happening today, the furniture store owner charged with perjury during the investigation after 2012 kensington warehouse fire, he adds status of plea hearing. prosecutors say richards warned a delivery driver that investigators were looking for him, and they testified under oath that he didn't know that man. that building and the building collapse killed a firefighter and a fire lieutenant. right now, it is 4:37. a man is facing dui charges this morning after his car struck a septa paratransit bus in north philadelphia. >> five people were injured in the crash. police say man driving a cadillac blew red light at sixth and cram bee a, slamming into the side of the bus. impact of the crash caused the bus to flip on its side. all on board were rushed to the hospital including the driver. renee cross the street to help the people out here, people screaming inside the vehicle. i just jumped recalling, and helped the one lady up, holding on the seatbelt. praise god nobody was killed in the accident. >> told all of those involved in yesterday's crash are expected to be okay. >> we now know the jersey city police officer killed in a drug store had only been on the job for six months. authorities say the accused gunman laurence campbell never tried to rob the walgreens. they say he was waiting to ambush police. minutes before shooting 23 year old officer melvin santiago, campbell allegedly told an eyewitness to watch the news because he was, quote, going to be famous. santiago was shot in the head before he got out of his cruiser. >> he was just 23 years old, and he was a good boy, and he didn't deserve to get a bullet in his head for no reason, for just doing his job. >> campbell shot or rather police shot and killed campbell at that scene. he was wanted for a previous murder. no customers were injured. thousands of palestinians in the gaza strip are taking shelter as israel warns it will bomb the area as part of its offensive against hamas. israeli military sent in ground troops to take out rocket launch facility controlled by palestinian militants. other it, and armored vehicles are also stags dollars along the border waiting for further orders. so far, calls from the international community to de escalate the situation have fallen short. >> thousands of cyclists pedal to help fight cancer? had he hit the record for the 42nd annual americans cancer society bikathon. bikers started at the ben franklin bid, and travel some 65 miles to buena in south jersey. event organizers tell us they raised more than $1 million. oh, that's great. >> that is. sticky day for a bike ride? >> just a bit. once you hear that okay i song, come on, now, it is gone, game on. nicely done. >> much more to coverer this morning on "eyewitness news". >> took little extra time, but the world cup finally came to an end with a great finish. that and more when we come back in a couple of an exceeding day for space entheusiasts off the coast of virginia. >> three, two, one, and we have -- >> oh, so excite to go see, lift off of the rocket caring a cargo ship to the international space station. significant just took off from wallops island, virginia, caring monday than 3,000 pounds every supplies, food, and some america mental exercise outfits. nasa says new clothing is resistant to bacteria and odor, so the astronaunts will smell as much don't their two hour daily workouts. >> okay? >> saturday marks the 5,000 day of continous human habitation in orbit. i guess it is the little things. >> that counts -- that counts, that's right. >> expensive smell could indicate altzheimer's disease. new research shows a decrease ability to identify oath ores -- odors could be associated with the loss of brain cell function. revealed this weekend at the altzheimer's association international conference in denmark. everyone has heard that saying, one man's trash is another man's treasure. how but one man's trash is another person's boat? contestants in the kansas city trash boat regata highlighted rafts and boats made out of trash, old tires, pretty creative. any items from the trash or resigning lynn bin could be used to build these unique boats. >> i like the one with the little paddle on the back. that's cool, man. >> ya, creative. >> got your life vest on, you're good. >> steamy and stormy, hot summer day out, there some sunshine, but i would definitely be very careful if you have outdoor plans. the storms headed our way today, we always said if you hear thunder head inside. >> of, because fuss hear thunder you can in fact get struck by lightning. these storms today will be pretty powerful once, not one, but two days straight in fact, of the potential for severe weather out there. today looks like most likely widespread potential, but will be a day that very likely sees very strong storms, so we break it all down for you. start out with a view of the outside network, couple street lamps lighting things up on the roadway, quiet for now, 72 degrees, wind very, very tapered, as well. barely even blowing at all at 1 mile per hour. meanwhile, we do still have frontal boundary trying to very slowly dig in here. soap, because of that, we will keep the moisture source going. we will keep the heat and humidity going. it is going to help fuel the fire for these storms that fire up later on today, to be locally strong and severe. they can see what's going on here. it is almost like up through the polar region some very cool air getting funneled down south. that's basically where the clash is taking place, you heard, i'm sure, the rumbling about this summertime polar vortex coming in. well, it is not necessarily a true to form polar vortex. that's responsible for this. it is going to be a much cooler couple of days, back through the midwest. for us, not so much a cool down, i think it is more about the severe storms that fire up. and today it will be the most widespread potential for that. damaging winds, flooding rain, possible hail, i can't rule out a tornado. so, i really want you to stay on top of the weather here today, download the free app, on the app store, cbs philly weather, search term will finds it for you. we will certainly do our part to let you know in things evolve. 90 degrees is the expected hi, showers and storms continue tonight, we drop down to 74. but there is better news down the road, so i've been calling this is the front loaded forecast. we load it up, a lot of stormy weather initially, by wednesday it clears out, it feels a lot more refreshing, as well. guys, back over to you. >> in sports this morning, phillies end they are year's all-star break 11 games un 500, and ten games behind the first place nationals in the national league east. phils and nationals met yesterday in the last game before the break. jayson werth, three run homerun, put the nats ahead to save, before there was anybody out. in the first inning, kyle kendrick has allowed 24 earned runs in 191st innings this season. the phils lost this 110 to three, phils resume the season in atlanta friday night. >> things to look forward to, the second part of the season, having cliff lee back, and short period of time, ruiz will be back. so we do get pretty much full strength. >> all right, here we go, to the world cup final, with germany on the attack, in the second extra period, germany mario scores, 113th minute, gives germany the lead. and the last minute argentinian super star, miss as chance to tie the game on a free kick. germany wins one-nothing for their fourth world cup. it was an exciting tournament. >> started way back in april. >> it's been a long one. >> good action. still ahead on "eyewitness news" this morning, we head to new york for preview of the day on wall street with jill wagner. >> first, what's coming up tonight on cbs-3. hi. i'm shawn johnson of the 2008 u.s. gymnastics team. i'm here with our friends from "veggie tales" to say... all: be a player. get up and play an hour a day. besides gymnastics, how do you stay in great shape, shawn? i love to dance and rollerblade. cool. cool. you don't have to be an olympian to be a player. just do the things you already love to do, like jump rope, ride a bike, or even play freeze tag. now, that's something to flip for. well done. for fun ways to get healthy, visit www.smallstep.gov. >> more that 150 people have been forced from their homes deuce to strong odor in skippack, montgomery county. residents reported the odor. got high readings of hydrogen cyanide. but told there is not in the area. search is on for the source of the odor. >> five people injured when a car hit a septa paratransit bus. police say the driver of the car ran a red light, that driver is now facing dui charges. >> investigators say the man who shot and killed jersey city new jersey police officer melvin santiago, did he it because, quote, he was going to be famous. he was shot and killed by police. santiago had been a police officer for only seven months. time for business news. >> money watch's jill wagner joins us from the stock exchange. the department of justice expected to announce pretty big settlement with a big bank watch can you tell us? >> that's right, good morning, six years after the financial crisis, the justice department reached a $7 million settlement with citigroup. the government is investigating city -- has been is investigating city after its failed mortgage, last year jp morgan chase reached $13 billion settlement over a similar issue. ukee, he can care? >> jill, kind of like a yo-yo, but the news we like to hear, gas prices on their way down. what's behind it? >> yes, finally some good news for drivers. the average price after gallon of regular is down 4 cents, the past three years, according to the lundburgh survey, thanks in part to the price of crude oil, which is also down, as the crisis in iraq really hasn't affected oil supply as was feared. tulsa, oklahoma has the lowest gas prices in the nation. san francisco the highest. in philly, prices are about 3.73 a gallon, bit higher than the national average. ukee, erica erika? >> going down, thanks so much. coming up after a short break. tracking we d do it on the 3's. we'll be right back. >> good morning, great to be back, everybody, live look here at the vine st. expressway. roads are little damp here from all of the rain that we had on the overnight. so, looks like we got some more on the way, next day and a half looks like it will be a live tough. dating standing by to tell us more about. that will live look at i95, right near the girard point double decker bridge, and boy, things are about to go down here on 95, over the next six months or so. because, penndot has now announced another construction project on i-95. as if we don't have enough construction on i-95. here comes another spot. beginning tonight they'll resurface 95, between the girard point double decker bridge through the airport area, all the way down to route 420, now, they'll work on the overnight, mill the roadway, and resurface. that will last through december, and kate a lot that far work on the overnight, that will be weather de ten dent, day one could be maybe rained out? >> it is possible. it looks like these storms are going to be somewhat scattered in nature, but if they hit the wrong place, at the wrong time, yes any plans you have could be washed out. some storms could be very strong if not severe. so we're looking ahead, giles, to two straight days already activity creeping ever closer toward the southwestern corridor of lancaster county. >> so your visibility are ideal >> it is a muggy and mild 75, both in atlantic city, as well as at philadelphia international. looking at very hot and steamy day. >> today and tomorrow features storms, then we clear out from mid week on. ukee, back to you. >> thank you, a look at some of the stories our sister station "kyw news radio" will be following today. philadelphia university awarded google glass grant to create memory aids for everyone from the absent minded to altzheimer's sufferers. the games continue in houston, track and field event. philadelphia team includes kyw jim mel worth, who is a kidney donor. while the world cup is over with germany as the winner, folks at a south jersey shop say this year's south jersey tournament was big winner for soccer in the u.s. check in two, three, four times a day 1060 on your a.m. dial. coming up on cbs-3 "eyewitness news", sunbathers scramble to get off the beach. wild video that sent them for cover. >> terrorist taunt. see the mocking message from the man responsible for kidnapping hundreds of school girls. is your ipad making you sick in the unusual health problem being blamed on the developing right now, a strange smell forces more than 100 people out of their homes. crews have been out there all night long searching for what's causing this mysterious odor, we're there live with new developments. also this morning, another casino closing in in atlantic city. >> this time on the verge of closing. major development, preparing for uncertainuture. >> it is monday, july 14th, good morning, i'm ukee washington. >> i'm erika von tiehl. also this morning, val raj g crippled cruise ship, complicated project happening right now, more than two years after this ship ran aground. >> starting off work week with severe weather, activity to track, we'll do that, thank stress storms, time them out, all coming up. bob? >> 5:00 o'clock straight up monday morning, looking live at i-95. construction project here, through cottman avenue, penndot just announced another stretch of 95 will begin construction today, all of the details coming up next. good morning. >> in the news, investigators trying to determine where mysterious odor in montgomery county community is coming from. >> unusual spell has forced evacuation of about 100 homes. "eyewitness news" reporter steve patterson joins just skippack township with the latest on that situation. good morning. >> good morning, erika, ukee, just standing outside you can't smell a thing, but, several neighbors report serious odor inside their homes, we're live in the neighborhood now, now most of the homes, in fact, all of the homes look like. >> this dark, with a green notice on the door that says you know what you better stay away, and most have heeded those warnings this morning.