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KYW Eyewitness News At 5 August 9, 2016

Pocono, sole rye i just depends where you are whether you want to think about maybe heavier type of a top or maybe just a hang top. But regardless, today ends up being nice warm summer day here in the city. Tad more humid, but still nice up to 88 degrees. Georgous, looking outside, guys, talking construction this morning, kind of used to that specially in the summer month. Talk about the boulevard at ridge avenue right now, two lanes block for quite some time, now only one lane, you can see crews out there not causing any slow downs right now, now, it could if it lingers out there progressively through the 5 00 hour. Maybe even into the 6 00. I think it will be gone by then. Vine however, it is now all clear, schuylkill eastbound ramp to the vine was closed couple every minutes ago, looks like that might be opening now, westbound side you are all clear. Construction in delaware, route 141 north bound between airport road and exit 3b, left lane block there, again, a lot of this is not going to cause any slow downs, material i for. That will 95 southbound between route 141, route 273, three lanes blocked until 5 30 a. M. Black horse pike northbound route 130, all lanes block until around 6 00 a. M. Brooke, over to you. Thanks, meisha. Happening today, the trial get underway for Pennsylvania Attorney general Kathleen Kane. She remains on the job while fighting perjury and obstruction charges. Eyewitness News Reporter justin finch is live outside the courthouse in norristown with the very latest. Good morning, justin. Reporter joe, brooke, good morning, the judge has said that kanes perjury trial to last about a week, and this morning begins opening arguments, before a jury of six women, six men, and of course alternates, we can tell you hours after Kathleen Kane her legal team and her twin sister first arrived to the norristown courthouse, pressed on questions, including if they would struggle deciding kanes case, or if they had ties to her office, Law Enforcement or potential witnesses. Kane is accused every felony perjury for allegedly lying about leaking secret grand jury details to the philadelphia media. There are also misdemeanor charges of obstruction, official oppression, conspiracy, and false swearing. Almost a year ago, the state Supreme Court voted to revoke kanes law license in the wake of her perjury indictment. Kane has insisted shes a target for her expose ago state workers found trading offensive and expolice it emails, the socalled scandal forced two state Supreme Court justices to step down, and several of kanes own staff, and some may take the stand against her. Now, back out live, again, opening arguments are set to begin this morning. Kane is the first democrat and the first woman elected attorney general. She is not seeking reelection. Live here in norristown, justin finch, cbs3, Eyewitness News, joe, brooke, back into you. Justin, thank you for the live report. Happening today, a Court Appearance for joey merlino. The reputed philly crime boss seen here on the left will find out if a florida judge will free him on bail. Last week, federal authorities arrested merlino as part of a alleged organized crime ring. Hes spent almost 12 years in federal prison on racketeering charges before his release in 2011. Developing now, expect more delays and concellations if you are flying on dement a today. The airline is still working to get back up and running after yesterdays major computer glitch. Delta says their systems are back up and running, and they are investigating what caused the meltdown. In the meantime, they are offering vouchers for customers check your flight status, log on to cbsphilly. Com. Someones been targeting asian Business Owners in philadelphia. Police are investigating a dozen robberies in the past three months. Surveillance video shows the men police think robbed Business Owners, who live above their shops. The latest Home Invasion happened yesterday morning, on the 5100 block of haverford avenue. Investigators say the robbers have a common pattern, all the breakins happen between 4 00 and 6 00 a. M. Psychological trauma is huge so were working with the fbi. We have Victim Services people out here working with the community, and were trying to do our best to make our eyes and ears and officers to get in and make arrest. If you have any information about the robberies call southwest detective or even leave anonymous tip on line at philly police. Com. Police say drag racing may be to blame in a fatal crash that killed a three Year Old Girl in kensington. It happened around 7 15 last night near second and york street. Police say a car speeding down the street possibly racing another car hit the passenger side of the car caring the toddler. The child was thrown through the back passenger window. She was taken to st. Christopher hospital where she died. The 17 year old driver of the other car was taken to temple where they are in stable condition. Philadelphia police think they have found the murder weapon in a deadly shooting in the somerdale section of the city. Police say a 45 year old man was shot several times at close range on the 1,000 block of alcott street. He died from his injuries. A postal worker found a gun inside a mailbox, about three blocks away. Harrisburg officials are calling for calm after a 20 year old was shot and killed by police after allegedly threatening his mother with a knife. Police say they found earl pinkney holding a knife at his mothers throat. When he supposedly refused to drop it, an officer fired one shot, killing pinkney. People there say it did not have to ends that way, and pinkneys mother insists she could have calmed him down. This needs to stop in harrisburg, this is getting worse, and now it hit my home. Not only does the family of the victim cry, but the whole city is crying for the young man. Whether the use every deadly force was justified to protect others in this circumstance. That will be the focus of the investigation. Authorities have not announced a timetable for the completion of that investigation. The officer who fired the shot is on leave. The ukrainian man who posted aspen Pen High School student has entered a guilty plea to several charges, including sexual assault, and falsifying documents. Twentythree year old Arthur Samarin posted as a student at dolphin County High School and had sexual relationship with a under age girl. He faces up to 40 years in prison, and deportation at his sentencing next month. Hillary clinton is wrapping up a two day Campaign Stop in florida with a visit to miami. She is expected to visit a Health Clinic to raise awareness on zika virus. Clinton also says she will appear in all three president ial debate. Donald trump claims clinton is rigging the debate because two of them are scheduled at the same time as nfl games. And nonpartisan Commission Set the schedule last fall. Group of conservatives is moving to replace donald trump as the gop nominee. They want the Republican National committee to host a special meeting. Now, organizers admit it is a long shot and the Republican National committee is already dismissing the effort pointing out trump won the president ial nomination barely. Stay with Eyewitness News as we follow campaign 2016. Our coverage continues on line at cbsphilly. Com. Still ahead we are learning more about a deadly accident on a kansas water slide. Plus well tell you when the park is expected to reopen. Also, frantic efforts to gain the upper hand of this wild fire in southern california, but at this hour all it is doing is getting bigger. Well tell you how many people had to leave their homes. And the sand every time no match for some artwork, hundreds of years old. Where this was discovered, and why officials are not giving the exact location. Move over, michael. Well tell you who just booted the king of pop for the most top 40 hit by a male artist. Stay with us. Were coming back. Fios is not cable. 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Priorities usa action is responsible for the content of this advertising. Welcome back. It was the nations costly he is Natural Disaster nearly 11 years ago, Hurricane Katrina came roaring ashore, virtually drowning new orleans. This home here stands as a stark reminder of its power. Now the group levies. Org plans to turn abandoned house into a museum of the the group says the building was flooded to the rafters. City councils little vote on the proposal today. It is expected to cost 50,000. The fire fight continues in california southland, despite extra manpower, there is no end in site for this wall of flames. Hundreds of San Bernardino county residents are already evacuated, a thousand more being or the erred to leave. The smoke is so thick and choking, it stretched all the way to the dose another las vegas. So far 10 miles or about 4500 acres, have been scorched. It is only about 5 contained. Kansas city water park will reopen tomorrow after a young boy died there recently. Meanwhile, authorities are releasing more info on how the ten year old boy died. They say he died from a neck injury. He was riding the parks 106foot tall water slide named verruckt, German Foreign sane. We now know the massive slides opening was repeatedly delayed with early test video showing rafts flying off the slide. The water slide are will remain closed as the investigation continues. And this is frightening, as well, three girls are recovering at the hospital this morning, after falling from a ferris wheel at a county fair in tennessee. It happened in greenville, in the eastern part of the state. A basket reportedly tipped over and dumped the girls out. They fell about 45 feet, bounced off the ride and hit the ground. All rides at that fair were shutdown last night while investigators determine what went wrong. Workers building stone wall around walt disney worlds seven sees look goon, alligator killed a toddler earlier this summer. Disney Officials Say the barrier wall is part of the new security plan following the death of two year old lane graves from omaha, nebraska. Disney leaders also put up one signs and ropes after graves was dragged by an alligator into the lake in june. Hawaii sands are shifting and in the process revealing a secret more than 400 years old. So take a look, they are called tetra glimpse, images kronofed rock. At least 17 figures were uncovered, stretching for 60 feet. Tourists from texas actually stumbled upon them. Authorities have since recovered them, and in an effort to protect it, are now giving out the exact location. Pretty smart there. I guess thats wise. Ya. They would be gone, right . Somebody come along, take them . Right, right. Hey, a severe from the trip whats going on outside . Definitely very quiet here, looking at High Pressure for at least another day, will end up being a nice warm summer day, in the humid, although a smidge more humid than yesterday. We are eventually going to end up with some showers, some thunder storms, more heat, more humidity, pattern essentially if you are not a fan that far starts to go downhill. Lets peak whats happening here. Nice wide zoom for to you start it off on storm scan3, i show you this wide zoom. We want to check in on whats going down in the Sunshine State of florida, where we still have whats essentially stationary system here, drawing in moisture from the eastern gulf, and bringing with it some torrential downpours to localized communities. So you are still around the bend, tampa, for example, getting just clobbered with the rounds of soaking rain. Thats going to be story for them for the next few days. Now, we dont have to worry about this necessarily, migrating north. But there is a warmfront thats going to get lifted north here. And that is what is going to help bring back the heat, bring back the humidity, as all of that very warm humid air starts to nudge north. So we jump to future weather, same time tomorrow. Clouds will have built in. The warmfront will start lifting tonight. We dont think you have to worry about wet weather until tomorrow. The mugginess returns. Generally expect late day showers, storms, but this particular model is pegging that even as early as late morning, could already be couple of pockets of granted localized but very heavy downpours if not thunder and lightning that companies that. So not everyones going to get hit. This is classic summer weather. It is hotter, more humid, anyone stands a shot to see shower or thunderstorm. Thats kind of the pattern that we see unfold for the next few days beyond that point. Now, my allergies were really bugging me this morning. If you know you suffer from any kind of allergies from grass, chen pod, nettle, i know theyre oddball ones you dont think about, i would keep your medication ready to go. They drop off tomorrow, how much, we start to see more of the moisture nudge in here. Quickly a look at the shorecast, yes, you have the possibility after shower or storm starting tomorrow right through the weekend. But i still think you can get in outdoor plans. Keep your ears perk for the thunder. It is hot back in the city. Most of the seven day here, meisha, is in the 90s. Yep, i see that. All right, katie, thank you so much. And looking outside right now, guys on the roadways, things looking pretty good. This is the schuylkill eastbound at city avenue. Eastbound direction, looking good. Westbound side, as you can see, a lot of early risers out there, we can expect that specially around city avenue. Well see that only progress from here, overall, so far this morning, things are actually looking pretty good around city avenue. We do have some construction out there, see the crews out here, the boulevard, headlights moving in the northbound direction at ridge avenue. One lane block. See the cones. Overall it wont slow you down any. There is just not the vehicles out there on the roadways yet to sustained that. Overall looking good there. Ben franklin bridge, looking good there, just few early risers there, as well. On tuesday morning, i will say, were holding pretty steady for the 5 00 hour. See that change in the 6 00 overall though. Make note of the construction, black horse pike northbound at route 130. All lanes are blocked here. These will be blocked until around 6 00 a. M. Joe, over to you. There you go, now for a look at newspaper headlines across our area. Bucks county courier times reports last nights meeting in warrington was packed. Hundreds of people turned out to discuss concerns over water contamination left over from a nearby military base. Experts say chemicals detected have a link to cancer. The trentonian reports local director jeff stewart has a film selected to appear in a horror, the to appears alongside 25 other films. Making the cut, the times her old reports the norristown area area Football Team, fresh new cuts, thanks to celebrity styles. Owner paul owens gave free haircuts at his barber shop yesterday. And there is a look at some of the newspaper headlights from around the delaware valley. Coming up, would you pay 1,200 for some sunglasses . No, but i would wear them if you bought them. 1200, a bit much. But, a local soccer team is a big winner at Major National tournament. Plus, a old friends did a familiar thing last night against the phillies. Weve got so many sport, and it is coming up today, guns can be bought or at a weekend gun show. And if the wrong people get a gun. We know what can happen. Pat toomey put our safety ahead of partisan politics. Toomey crossed party lines twice, first to support background checks, and now to stop gun sales to suspects on the terror watch list. No wonder pennsylvania cops endorse pat toomey as best to protect our families. 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