a few patrons in this restaurant at the time but all were evacuated by the fire department. we do know that when the fire fighters arrived on the scene, police told them that the sprinkler system had gone off at first and put fire out ones but flared backup again and second time it got up in the eaves and ventilation system and ran the entire ceiling. fire chief tells us that the deep friar must have been hot and may not have been cleaned at some point to spark that fire and it can flare up when that happens. now, it went up to the ventilation system and that is when the roof set on fire. here's what the chief said they had to do after that. >> we had a major roof problem and we have had collapse so we evacuated everybody out and did extra fire fighting. >> reporter: they had to go all around the building and drawn out the fire with water. it was put under control in 30 minutes. one fire fighter did twist his knee on the hose and transported to tower hospital but was released already. he is fine. other than that there were no injuries. the chief was saying that he has been here since 1980, this restaurant is a local tradition here, it has been opened since 1961, chief remembers coming here as a kid for spaghetti dinners on tuesday. so very unfortunate for the town, this is a local stapel but he is hoping that the family who owns this does rebuild. we will have have more coming up at 5:30. that is latest, jen bernstein for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". also new "eyewitness news" live at philadelphia's west oak lane neighborhood where police are investigating an armed robbery at this 7-eleven. it happened at 3:30 at the store on stenton and ogontz avenue. thieves got away with cash, and right now detectives are looking at surveillance video hoping that will provide them with more clues. also new this morning a suspect is in custody after a stabbing in the emergency room at crozer-chester medical center. it is still not clear what prompted this attack and there has been no word on the victim's conditions. police will have more details when their investigation is finally completed. right now 5:03. time to get traffic and weather together. >> good morning, everyone. it is thursday and it is really a broken record kind of a week. a lot of cloud cover and moisture and shower and thunderstorm activity. yesterday we had showers and storms in the morning and clouds mainly in the afternoon but you today we have another round of those locally heavy afternoon storms to wait for. lets take a look outside, center city philadelphia shrouded in fog on sky cam three. can't see top of the sky scrapers there low clouds there. be safe outside on the roads this morning. there are pockets of dense fog. let's look at storm scan three, you can see everything drifting from south to north and that is pattern today as these storms form, they will move from south to north which means they will move over the same area continuously for a couple hours bringing risk for flooding. that is why a flash flood watch is issued. this is berks, lancaster, chester, lower becks, philadelphia, camden gloucester northern and burlington counties in new jersey and also new castle county in delaware. what does this mean in the flash flood watch? it means we have scattered thunderstorms this afternoon. they are not every where but any spot with a storm could inch per hour causing ponding on the roads. remember how quickly that the water can rise when these storms form. watch what happens after 1:00 o'clock this afternoon. here are storms coming and watch them drift from south to north. look at new castle county delaware. the these storms drifting up in the afternoon. they have may get hit two or three times. depending on where storms form we could be looking at flooding problems today. temperatures right now only in the lower to mid 60's. we will keep you posted on when and where storms will form and seven day with better news coming up. for now, lets check with bob, good morning. it looks like a tricky day and a rerun from yesterday. thick fog, wet roads, rain along the way. route one in bucks county by path turnpike. in problems or delays. you have to see the fog laying over neshaminy mall complex here. now rain and the fog, impacted, last night's construction project, it was a bust. we were supposed to set up a new project north on i-95, between girard anal gain that i did not happen but same pattern in play for morning rush hour but it is on the way, sometime over the next couple of days we will see that, fall into place. right now 95 normal northbound and southbound we have construction above cottman and girard. when we get heavy rain, be extra careful in those construction zones because drainage grates are most likely in the travel lanes and if you are rolling through. 422, 202, socked in with thick fog this morning. fire location down here along chester pike is block at south avenue. traffic using macdade boulevard. if you are expect to go fly today grab a magazine and jumbo pretzel, already 56 minute delays at philly international and that is before we even get in the beginning of the morning rush hour there at the the airport. so again pack your patients heading to the airport, back over to you. happening today west philadelphia man is charge with causing a major scare at lincoln tunnel will be in court. police say 39 year-old donald wallace calls 911 tuesday and claimed he would shoot people heading into new york city. detectives traced that call to a building overlooking at the tunnel in new jersey. wallace was not there but he was track down in manhattan. "eyewitness news" has also learned that wallace was arrested in philadelphia back in april for making terroristic threats. wallace is now charged with that same charge of terroristic threats and creating false public alarm. a man charged with perjury in the grand jury probe of the 2012 kensington fire is scheduled to go on trial today. prosecutors say richard until goer warned the delivery driver that inspectors and investigators were looking for them. they say he testified under oath that he did not know that man. the april 2012 fire and building collapse killed philadelphia fire lieutenant robert neary and fire fighter daniel sweeney. well, lottery could be the latest trick to help cash strapped philadelphia school district. the city council members will talk about a plan to have the pennsylvania lottery create a game just for philadelphia and money from that game will get to the district. just yesterday council committee approved a plan to bureau 27 million-dollar to help district, finally pay its bills. also school safety issues are sure to be a hot topic when mayor nutter visits bartram high school. police officers have been guard willing hallways after several teachers and staffer were attack earlier this year. six students were arrested in march after a huge fight. developing right now islamic extremist have taken over more towns in iraq in the last 24 hours after launching a surprise attack earlier this week. the nation is now reaching out to the u.s. for help and as susan mcginnes reports, the white house has gathered top pol willcy makers and military leaders to figure out how to respond. >> reporter: some iraqi troops abandoned their post and seen walking in civilian clothes near the the city of kirkuk. the retreat comes as the obama administration is moving closer to ending aid to battle al qaeda inspired militants across iraq n a statement the white house acknowledge ongoing violence and said it will quote continue to provide and as required, increase assistance to the government of iraq. wednesday the insurgents to go over saddam hussein hometown of tikrit sending more soldiers running from their post. they seized iraq's second biggest city mosul and moved in the turkish consul taking dozens of diplomate, police and children hostage. group is said to be moving south to baghdad with the mission of establishing a vast fundamentalist islamic state. u.s. official says iraq wants the u.s. to consider air strikes including the use of of drones to help country fight the the insurgents. white house signalled it is not considering that option. >> we're focused right now how we can assist the government at this point in time during a very challenging security situation on the ground. >> reporter: u.n. estimates hundreds of thousands of iraqis in mosul fled their homes amid the attacks. susan mcginnes for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". well, new developments this morning in the family feud over radio icon casey casem, a judge reversed his own ruling and said his daughter can take him off of the life support. the eight two-year old casem is in critical condition in the washington hospital and his children and wife have waged a public fight over his care. former american top 40 host has a form of dementia and his wife called the ruling a death sentence. right now 5:10 and bear on the loose in the local neighborhood. we will let you know where that animal was spot. new twist in the tracie morgan turnpike crash, truck driver appears in court for the very first time as investigators shift their focus on the deadly collision. plus we question how people can be so heartless. a horrible case of animal cruelty disturbing abuse he survived and how you can help him, that is coming up, kate. we have a flash flood watch starting at noon time today as heavy then are storms will form once again this afternoon much like we have seen already this week. i'll tell you when it will break coming up when we come because the more you know, the more we can help you. at farmers, we make you smarter about auto insurance, cut. lower. shave. chop. and drop your insurance rates. if you want to save hundreds, talk to farmers. ♪ we are farmers bum - pa - dum, bum - bum - bum - bum ♪ [announcer] the more you know, the more you save. talk to farmers and you could save hundreds on your auto insurance. call 1-800-910-2222 today. accident investigators are looking into what role a truck driver's commute played in the crash that critically injured comedian tracie morgan. truck driver kevin roper pleaded not guilty yesterday in new brunswick. he is facing death the by auto and a all the by auto charges. roper was driving a wal-mart truck when he swerved to avoid slow traffic on the new jersey turnpike and plowed into morgan's limo. 5:13. more rain to talk about kate, good morning. >> good morning, well, yeah, more rain for sure. lets look at what is happening outside right now and you can see we've got fog, damp conditions, tarp is on the field here in campbell's field looking live over the city. you cannot even see top of the bridge here because of the fog which is in place and just another glummy morning. i think we have learn hourlies on on monday and tuesday. we have a flash flood watch to tell you about, very similar pattern to monday and tuesday. storms scattered. this is not just a widespread event, there are some spots that may stay dry but depend where those storms form. the storm that formed over ambler, we saw it on tuesday storm over new castle county and gloucester county. some spots didn't get much of anything at all but any spots could see locally heavy downpours on the order of an inch or two of rain. you can see that moisture lifting north and temperatures are rising, we have a lot of moisture, like ringing out a sponge. they love to form in this environment. watch by 1:00 o'clock we will see these storms forming in the western suburbs and notice they are oriented south to north and they drift south to north. i'm concerned about areas that get a storm, another cell and another one after that that could lead to localized flooding as other portions of the area don't see much at all and impossible to pinpoint where they will crop up. new castle county, chester county, montgomery county will have a best chance of picking up rain today. temperatures only in the low 60's, heading up to 78 with clouds and fog and locally heavy showers and then are storms. now here's bob kelly. >> 5:15 on this thursday morning. roads are wet, we are dealing with thick fog as kate just showed us. lets look live, checking roadways, 202 and route one socked in. today is worst fog day of the week, so far, we will have thick fog and certainly have the roads that are wet, that is double bubble, as we roll out of the driveway this morning, already close to an hour delay at philly international. now philly international they don't normally see the start of any activity on the commercial flights until about 5:30 or 6:00. so they are beginning day with close to an hour delay because of the weather. that will have a ripple effect throughout the rest of the morning. keep in mind with this closure of 495 between exits two and three, we have seen a lot of grid lock. everybody heading south and north using i-95. here's a little tip forget there is a river here, maybe try using commodore barry bridge into new jersey, go down 295 and back over the delaware memorial. that may sound crazy but i'm telling you i have talk to people that have sat in the delay and i may self have use this alternate. i had no problems at all going up and over the bridge and coming back in over delaware memorial. that is the the ticket for this weekend's trip to any of those delaware beach these weekend, natasha, back over to you. thanks very much, a couple gets a huge surprise while taking their engagement pictures you have to see the the celebrities who dropped in on their photo shoot, plus. >> i'm sure... >> can't blame him that teen is recovering after getting bitten in the delaware beach by a shark. now he talks about what goes through his mind during that attack and how he escape. we will be right back. an effort underway to help a dog who may have been victim of animal cruelty. he is under going treatment for various health problems and may have been duct taped. "eyewitness news" reporter todd quinones picks up the story. >> reporter: he was found alone and wandering in cumberland county, new jersey. he was thin, weak but perhaps most disturbing are these burns around his must will, which rescuers believe they may be from being duct tape. >> some of these marks could be from duct tape, somebody trying to be cruel and confine his mouse. >> reporter: because he was in such sorry shape buckly as he has been named was taken out of the shelter and placed in foster care. he is not out of the woods just yet. >> it is in the clear who may have duct tape buckly but medical problems are extensive. he has lyme disease, heart warm and mange, all as a result, according to rescuers of buckly being abused and or neglect. sherry smith and stephanie hawkins are from one love animal rescue from mount laurel. the his mange is so bad his furies missing and his skinnies raw. >> whole earned ising of his eye just started weeping blood. most sad thing i have ever seen. >> you question, you know, humanity, you really question how people can be so heartless. >> reporter: buckly a ten month-old lab mix is under vet care and on the mend since being found two weeks ago. he now weighs close to 35 pounds and is looking for a home. >> all they want to do is be loved and lick your face and cuddle. >> reporter: in mount laurel, new jersey, todd quinones, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". if you'd like to help maybe adopt him we have more information on line go to cbs philly.com, natasha. warning for people in camden county be on the look out for a bear, winslow township police have snapped this photo yesterday of the bear wondering around, it is also already been spotted twice in the township and it was last seen yesterday on pennington avenue heading for waterford township. keep an eye out. hard to miss that walking around. >> just stay inside. >> yes. >> leave the bear alone. >> call authorities. >> 5:21. if you went to bed early last night you missed a thrilling finish, thanks to an unlikely hero. wild video to see to believe when an suv slams in the liquor store nearly crushing the cashier. what the driver told police about that crash. stay with us. right now you 5:23. time for traffic and weather together. we have serious weather today. >> another round of serious weather, and it is not every where. much like monday and tuesday and there is no where to pinpoint where these storms will form. they can form anywhere and they will be locally heavy. we have to be on guard through the afternoon. lets look outside and see the fog blanketing the shore. you cannot see the boardwalk. we have pockets of dense fog across the area this morning and your forecast later today clouds fog, showers and thunderstorms and they are scattered and locally heavy. flash flood watch from noon to tonight. cloudy, showers, muggy still at 68. your seven take forecast brings another round of storms in late tomorrow but finally good news. we will break out for weekend and weekend looks gorgeous once again with sunshine. that is good news for dads like bob kelly. hi bob. >> 5:24. we are off to a good start this morning, like a carbon copy of yesterday as we look live at 422. i think one slight difference is that the fog, although we had it yesterday is thicker. we can barely see collegeville there in the background. we have a fire lex in norwood chester pike blocked at south avenue. so for the start we will use macdade boulevard. they didn't even get started last night on this construction pattern change. everything is normal because girard anal gain which that new pattern that is on the way over next couple days and already close to one hour delays this morning at philly international. new here's natasha with a look at sports. phillies play some day baseball in south philadelphia, they have a chance to sweep padres, game time 1:05. new last night cole hamels pitched eight shut out innings with a season high, 11 strike outs. the phillies did, reid brignac's three run home run gives phillies walk off style victory. it the is game four of the nba finals tonight. san antonio spurs lead the high two games to one. the the stanley cup finals, will go to a game five thanks to great goal tenning for the rangers. their goalie made 40 saves, including this one to help by a teammate. rangers beat kings two-one at madison square garden. kings are ahead three-one, game five tomorrow night in l.a. looking live here at brazil, that is where the opening ceremonies for 2014 world cup takes place this afternoon. right after that the host country takes on croatia in the first game, team u.s.a. has to wait until monday for its first game against their opponent. >> huge around the world. >> i know, nice. >> come up, in the next half an hour, a strip club scam. how unsuspecting customers say they were duped out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, jen. >> reporter: norwood stapel burns down this morning i'm jen bernstein coming up i'll have an update from outside the toll whose tavern. plus talking trash the new fight brewing at this local trash incinerator. bob and kate return with traffic and weather together on the three's. look at that fog. kate has the answer, we will be right there's no place like it in the world. my favorite place is long island. it's an endless beach, from long beach, to montauk, to long island sound. with incredible fishing, teddy roosevelt's home, and the first port in the u.s. come discover your favorite part of new york. ♪ i'm in a new york state of mind ♪ plan your summer vacation at iloveny.com. there's something for everyone. breaking news a well known restaurant is demolished after flames ripped through it overnight this picture shows flames at the the height of the fire. we are live on that scene with the look at obstacles fire fighters faced overnight. it the is foggy outside at the moment and more storms are on the way today. we're also talking about the the threat of flooding as well. lets check with weather and traffic with kate and bob. >> good morning. we have got another day of stormy weather to tell but flash flood watch goes into effect at noon. much like monday and tuesday storms scattered but very heavy rain possible with anyone of these cells. we will bring you very latest updates and show you timing on the storms and when storm pattern breaks coming up, bob. 5:30. like a rerun from yesterday, thick fog that is thicker this morning then we have seen all week, and wet roadways. it will be a little bit of the mess, already problems at the airport and we will check with that i-95 construction project coming up next, erika and natasha good morning. back to the the breaking news flames tear through a popular tavern in delaware county. >> toll house tavern caught fire after midnight and "eyewitness news" reporter jen bernstein is live there to bring us up to date this morning, jen. >> reporter: good morning to you. we are told this fire started in the kitchen as a grease fire put out once but flared up in this building went up fast that second time. i will move out to see clean up crews on the scene here. toll house tavern on chester pike is a stapel, been here for more than 50 years but this is what is left after this early morning fire. we have photos sent

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