>> a lot of serious news to get to. katie is out, matt peterson, and meisha, you have your hands full, too, this morning. >> yes, very, very busy, good news with the train crash, we have a lot of updates, we should be getting back to normal. so i'll update you on the latest right now, also, few accidents out there, as well. so yes, been very bus knit world of travel. >> nothing to need to worry about weather wise, but later this afternoon it get so hot, haven't had a day like this in quite some time, so we forget what we need to do on these hot days, take care of your pets, need to check on the elderly, check on the small kids outside playing around, so just remember all of the heat safety tips that we like to tell everybody about, going through the dog days of summer you have to remember, though, here today, because it is going to be hot and humid afternoon. taking a lock at the neighborhood network down in rehoboth, actually little bit of almost looks like haze out, there because it is so humid this morning. moisture on the lens starting the day out watch we are expecting today, well highs will be in 90s pretty much across the entire region, and when you add in around 70, whichll be i is well up into the oppressive range, heat index up near the triple digits, so heat advisory goes in effect at 1:00 this afternoon, lagging until 8:00 this evening. because it is so hot and so humid, pop up thunderstorm not completely ruled out as we go through the later part of the day t looks like the better chances for that will be a little bit west of the city. right now, waking up to 75 in philly and down at the shore, poconos, little bit cooler, still above average. 65 degrees, to start out the day. south-southwest winds, what we are looking, a switching to more of north err errly flow, but take a look at the regional forecast here it is going to be on the hot side of things later this afternoon, meisha. >> looks that way, all right, matt, thank you so much for. that will very good morning to awful you. happy tuesday. yes, very busy already in the world of travel. so let's get right into it. an accident here, schuylkill westbound at conshohocken, pulled off to the far right shoulder, yes, you can see the people out there. but also they've set up flares in the roadway blocking far two right lanes here condensed all the way to far left lane, you bet there is already backups through this area, not to mention the fact once you get up and trying to travel on passion, you will have some gaper delays, everyone tapping the brakes, peaking what's going on, should slow down, we have people outside their vehicles, still so early, so dark out there. this will be an area that's very slow again the schuylkill at conshohocken, then also got construction crews, still out there working hard, 422 westbound between the schuylkill and route 23, left lane still compromised, 95 north, between 413 and route one that has been cleared. let's get you updated dollars on the train accident. what happened around 12:15 a.m., 69th street transportation center norristown high-speed line, we are resuming service right now , it will be 15, 20 minute inch very meant, absolutely expect delays. good news, no closures on market streets, more on this coming up in the next ten, 15 minute, jim, rahel, back to you. >> thank you shall meisha. and again, breaking news this morning, septa train has crashed into another train sending 42 people to the hospital. it happened after midnight at septa 69 street terminal. that's where we find training dough live to tell us more about it, good morning. >> good morning, rahel, jim. four critical injuries, but officials say none of them are life threatening. i'll takeinto the dis pans, tror was involved with that police tapet, despite all of those injuries, very minimal, visible damage to the train cars, both officials and passengers praising emergency responders for their handling every such a difficult situation. paramedics returned passengers clearly in pain into ambulances after a trolley accident at 69th street terminal. trolley pulling into the terminal around 12:10 a.m. when it crashed into an empty car, park on the tracks. he said he almost skipped the trolley because he noticed it went past his station and had to reverse. same thing happened at the next several stops. get off, get ready to get to my bus on time, and snack, hit , hit the other trolley parked. forty-two people including the operator are hurt. four of them critically. >> my face wall, put big hole in the wall, and i went straight down. i black out. there is blood everywhere. the driver all banged up, one girl, bleeding out of her face pretty bad. rushed her to seven area hospitals. upper darby mayor says the response was a highly coordinated effort between emergency agencies, that was praised bypass inning ers a mid the trauma. incident four months ago, always constantly pre planning this. so the cooperation between all of the agent agencies was seamless. and the norristown high-speed line is back up and running, passengers should definitely expect delays. coming up at 5:30, talked to a passenger about his harrowing ordeal, live from the 69th street terminal, trang do , cbs 3, "eyewitness news," rahel, jim, back to you. >> thank you so much, trang. >> justprere, the second accident that septa 69th street station this year. the you may remember february 21 an accident injured four people, authorities say the train operator activated the emergency mode at the last moment, in hopes of preventing the crash. the broad street and market frankford line do have atc or automatic train control, supposed to prevent accident, at this point forks word on what caused this crash. happening right now, city-wide outage at the philadelphia police communication center has just ended. this is video from police headquarters, outage affecting the real time crime center, as well as commodore barry pewters deal with the one system. 191 was working throughout the outage, for the time being officers patrolling in two person units. >> bill cosby heads back to norristown today for his pretrial hearing. >> comes day after the entertainer announced his new legal team. "eyewitness news" reporter rosss center more on the cosby case, good morning, henry. >> good morning, announcement made on twitter late yesterday afternoon. both bill cosby attorneys in his lacks sexual assault all tile. the 80 year old comedian now says he'll be representing by tom mesereau, mesereau won acquittal for michael jackson during the singer's 2005 child molest take trial, also joining the legal team, semenya silver. he represented now imprisoned former congressman, chaka fattah. finally, former federal prosecutors kathleen bliss is also joining the team. today's pretrial hearing was set after cosby's old team, who defended him during the trial that ended in a hung jury in june asked off the case. la based lawyer, angela agruss a most recently made the request after locally attorney brian mcmonagle asked to be removed as of right now, according to on line court records, this is the last pretrial conference scheduled before the actual retrial set to begin november 6. live in the cbs-3 news center, henry rossoff, cbs-3, " eyewitness news." >> thanks for bringing us up-to-date. >> this morning, president trump heads to uma arizona to push for congressional funding for wall on the us mexican border. the president addressed the nation to announce new strategy on afghanistan. he said he will boost the number of american troops in afghanistan, but didn't specify how many. the afghan war, now in its 16th year, is the longest war in american history. >> camden county man recovering this morning after he was attack wawa michetti. "eyewitness news" at the scene yesterday on pond grove avenue lindenwald. police say man in his 60s was injured when another manna tacked him with that michetti. the victim returned to cooper university hospital. there is no word on arrests or what prompted this attack. >> well, philadelphia councilwoman helen gym is renewing her calls to remove frank rizzo statue from center city, protesters gathered outside of pain plaza yesterday, calling the former mayor's monument to come down. councilwoman gym and local civil rights group said last night that rizzo statue should be relocated, frank rizzo legacy remains controversial on the topic of race relations in the city. >> rizzohood i was young when he was the police comiobeca the mayor. >> my father was not a racist, matter of fact, the protected blacks, asians, white, every race in the city of philadelphia. >> those who support keeping the statue where it is canceled their planned rally yesterday in exchange for meeting with mayor jim kenney. >> workers trying to help a wayward whale who is back in danger. we'll have an update just ahead. >> also ahead, deadly earthquake strikes italian resort town, efforts to rescue several people including a babe. >> i and this wild fire continues to burn in monday at any a, how many thousands of ache verse been scorched so far. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> weather is about to be changing, from a triple digit heat index, to feeling like fall. i, myself, a.m. very excited. great forerunners. most people probably not. matt will break it all down for us when we come back. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ because none/ons witness news, more than 30 acres every lands in the wild fire, a thousand crew members work to contain the flames. officials are concerned, that strong winds, on wednesday, could cause the fire to continue spreading. >> overseas, now, an earthquake rocks italian resort island killing one, and injuring several others, frantic search for survivors now underway, with firefighters pulling this baby , you see there, to safety the quake struck near naples causing several build togs collapse, one woman did die in the rubble, a half dozen people are unaccounted for, a hospital in town says about 20 people will being treated for minor injuries. crews in southern california are keeping track after whale, after it was spotted too close to the shore , the 20-foot baby gray while put on quite a show for onlookers yesterday in long beach. officials say this is the same whale that turned heads earlier this month, after they say it was separate from the its mother. crews are trying to make sure it gets safely back to the open sea. >> well, the sole ali clips captivated dollars audiences across the country. >> now doctors warning people to keep an eye on their vision with heads tilted back, most people did wear protective eye wear. or use indirect viewing options yesterday. but it also wasn't hard to find others who perhaps missed the memo. eye driver's say quick look, that's okay, but the temperature takes to stare at sun for long time is dangerous severe cases every eye damage are reportedly rare but permanent. >> if your vision is not as good as it was, if you think this is new, it is not an emergency, you don't have to drop everything, give your eye doctor a call. arrange to be seen and they'll ' vale it -- evaluate it. >> it can take 12-24 hours for sun's eye damage to occur, shows up through blurred vision, problem reading small text or clearly seeing faces. >> i don't know how anyone could have stared at that thing without glasses, my eyes . take a look at this. >> at space yesterday, nasa site light captured the moon shadow as it made its way across us, so you can actually see how it moved from coast-to-coast. >> interesting. >> matt peterson, so jim and i talking about it, we enjoyed it, where did you look at it from? >> i went to bucks couldn't hung at with my parent house, and neighbors, couple of different watch party. so made the rounds, walk around, and talked to a bunch of little kids, they were loving it, little cloudy at times, right at the peak time, right around 2:44 or so, at least where i was, up in bucks county but cleared out enough that we could see the end of it, so just great day yesterday for science in general, wonderful day to get out, enjoy, what is something that we don't see all that often here across specially the entire united state. now a little warm yesterday. little bit muggy, not going to be anything like what we're dealing with today. today is going to be heat like we haven't seen in quite some time, about the beginning since august we haven't seen temperatures lick this, this is last time, again, we have seen highs in the 90s, today all the way to 93 degrees, and whether you add in the high humidity, it will be feeling even warmer than that we have heat advisory going in effect 9:00 this afternoon lasting until 8:00 p.m. this evening because we have the triple digit heat index values in store for us today. overnight tonight looking at few scattered showers, couple of scattered thunderstorm, cold front starts to push its way through, temperatures though remain on the mild side of things at 75 degrees. heat advisory, wilmington, philly, trenton, all incorporate in the there. again, 98 to 103 for the heat index values today. temperatures in the 70s, some 60s head little further north, waking up to 75 degrees here in fill. it is 73 in tron ton, not too much on the future weather through the afternoon hours but toward the 5:00, 6:00, 7:00 time frame, cold front moves on this, showers and thunderstorms a possibility but clear out by the time we get into tomorrow. do have slight risk for severe weather through the poconos today, also taking a an ion things in the philadelphia area, see here, 93 today, but down to the 80s, then 70s, by the end of the week. >> yes, well, we know who will love those 70s, jim, heating his watermellon right now at the desk waiving it at me. good morning, everyone. >> it will get hot today but it is also heating up on the roadways, just string of problems out there, good news, one of the big accidents having some gaper delay and starting to back us up on the schuylkill westbound at conshohocken, blogging far rightan shot, but we don't even need to do so. so clearing up there, schuylkill looking actually pretty good, back to where it should be. fifty-nine south at cottman, come around the s curve headed into center city starting to build levels. we can expect that on a tuesday, construction crews still out here on 422 westbound between the schuylkill and route 23, left lane compromised and the vine not closed overnight for some construction, we will be updating you on the norristown high-speed line that crash happened 12:15, i can tell you real quickly service has resumed but more detailed information coming up in a little bit. rahel, jim, back to you. >> from the burlington county times, 23 year old yamir board ly of camden, has been indict in the decks with what officials are calling the largest seizure of phentinol in new jersey history. 31 pounds. that's one of the deadliest opioids with a potency 50 times greater than heroin. >> the reading eagle pennsylvania governor tom wore took walking tour of west red willing yesterday. checking out revitalization project, funded by the statement department of community and economic development. for the past five years provided nearly $600,000 to the west reading community development project. >> news journal, rahel, battle of food festivals, the delaware burger battle in its sixth year begins in bellevue, second annual delaware taco festival will keck off at 1:00 t trolley stadium. or tos? >> i don't know, coy use a good taco. that's a look at some of the newspaper headlines from around the delaware valement taco tuesday, up next, pat is here with your morning sports. >> i'm going burger, but we'll get you caught up with the latest with the eagles including two high profile injuries that affect thursday 's game. plus video of fan on fan thievery. you have to see to believe in chicago. we will show that you when we come b of ' ad ' pe ' at ma >> glad you're waking up with us. >> talking eagles news? >> yes, weaver some news here, getting through the pre-season without major injuries, half the battle in the nfl. eagles avoided those yesterday , it appears, when jordan hicks and brandon graham both left practice. hicks injured his groin, gram has triceps, both are out tomorrow, but should be okay for the regular season opener, against washington. those injuries, with the miami dolphins have, another today, the two teams will play thursday night, in the third pre-season game, that usually means some dust ups, but smith won't be throwing punches. >> when i tell you get fine, i have kids, i can't lose that mine, so that's more than enough for me. i'm not fighting out there. >> the eagles also did some roster man eve erring yesterday, matt tobin traded along with a seventh rounds pick to seattle. the birds received a fifth round selection in the 2018 draft. tobin was not a lock to make the final roster here in philadelphia. giants fans are holding their breath this morning, after odel beckham, jr. went down last night against the browns. caught the 18 yards pass but took low shot from the browns ryan body calhoun. beckham, walk off the field but towed take a knee in the tunnel. reports are that he has sprained his left ankle. >> you want to see double the baseball, today is the day to do so. phillies and marlins are playing two at the bank, aaron and nick will be on bump for the fighting a's. >> kids from jackson, new jersey, taking in the eclipse yesterday in williamsport. that's rj variable, he hit them to the moon. slash i hit two homeruns on the day, jackson scored nine runs in the third. they beat california, 12-nine. they'll play fairfield connecticut tonight. >> jacque jones you are grounded. the great lakes pitcher buses the camera behind home plate after a throw during warm up. jones, and his team, from michigan, beat italy, 11 to seven. they become the first michigan team to win a little league world series game in 35 years. you'll pay for that, young man and watch what happens in game two of the white sox twins double header in chicago, this is insane. jason castro fouled the ball down the left field line. a woman steels the ball from a younger fan's hands and keeps t you have to be kidding me, right? >> ya. come on, and in a attempt, yes , ridiculous, attempt to make things right, fan an autographed ball by announcer steve stone, and jason vanetti that's pretty embarrassing, really, really embarrassing stuff. the woman just steels it right out of his hand. i have no other words for it. >> ya, you know, i mean, you got a lot lot of different things. a woman, there, thinking well maybe he should give it to her , but's child, so you have to give it to the baby. >> fair and square. >> i mean,'s not a child. >> he's younger, that's ridiculous. >> child. give him the ball. >> indicative of our society today. thank you, patrick. coming up in the next half hour, bad news for prince charles. find out what the public really thinks of him. >> plus, live look, more on the breaking news, trang? >> well, dozen of people hurt after a train crashes at 69th street station. live with a witness account from a man just released from the hospital. >> president trump outlines a new plan for the war in afghanistan. lawmakers on both sides of the aisleway in. i'm in good morning, i'm rahel solomon. >> i'm jim donovan, here's what you need to know to start your day in morning minute. today is tuesday, august 22. >> breaking overnight, a train crashes into an empty train at 69th street terminal. dozens are hurt. >> i stood to up get off and smack, hit the other trolley hard. >> there were four critical injuries but still officials say none of them are life threatening. >> it will be 15 to 20 minute increment, and you can absolutely expect delays. >> comedian bill cosby's defense team returns to court. he's hired michael jackson's former lawyer, tom mesereau, for his upcoming sexual assault trial.