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Transcripts For KYW Eyewitness News At 8 20170827

Injured. More than 200,000 homes and business remain without power across the state. Six counties have been declared federal disaster areas. Storm surges up to 12 feet are predicted in some places. We have team of correspondents. Lets go to Mark Strassmann in houston. Good morning, one of americas most major cities is quiet this morning and take a look you can see why. This city is under a flood emergency. People have been ordered to stay inside but urged to stay inside the reason is obvious. This is a bit of a lull in the storm system. As light as rain has fallen all day. On the radar it shows that this city is going to get pounded again by rainfall in fact starting to pick up right now. The rainfall total so far are something straight out of the Old Testament on sunday morning, six inches of rain an hour, 14 inches of rain in three hours, as much a is 30 inches of rain in some spots and another foot of rain in the forecast before the day is over. And even though harveys siege has barely begun some people are quickly running out of options. Hundreds of rescues already. Some by boat. Many people have been calling the 911 center they have claimed into the attic to escape rising waters. If the waters continue to rise those folks will be trapped in the attic the police chief is warning people if you go into your attic make sure of an axe that can hack your way through the roof at least you have some place even higher to climb to escape all these rising waters. Again, christine, another foot of rain in the forecast, when you think about what the city is going to go through to mid week, this citys watery misery is going to get worse before it gets better. Mark strassmann thank you. Now for latest on harveys path we turn to scott in dallas, fort worth. Scott . Good morning, Tropical Storm harvey Still Holding that tropical status as you take a look drifting to the southsoutheast at one mile per hour causing torrential rain right now. Damaging rains in houston, the Galveston Area this is a four hour loop of those rain bands continuing to push on shore in the houston area. Flooding merge sees happening all the residents there do not get into your attic get out on to our roof is your house is flooding because we continue to see the feeder bands pushing their way. This stretch is all the way down to south of brownsville. That feeder ban will feed in that means the flooding will continue. Through the day today probably even through the night. Just over the last hour, 14 inches of rain south and east now galveston, but take a look at the rain totals over the last 24 hours. In some spots, 23, almost 24 inches of rain closer towards the austin area, 1318 to even a foot of rain down near galveston were not done yet. Taking a look on the wider view what is going to happen as we go through remainder of the day today and next few days on top of already the 24 inches of rain, theres the potential by the time we get towards the end of the week we can see another 22 inches of rain in houston to near 1 4 15 inches to 18 down towards the south and west. Here is the reason why. Harvey is drifting, by later on in the afternoon down closer towards victoria off towards the north, dealing with this throughout the week. Christine . Scott, thank you. There will be more about harveys devastation in south texas on your local news on this cbs station. Our 24 hour streaming news network cbsn and also on cbs sunday morning. For now im Christine Johnson. Cbs news new york. For news, 24 hours a day, go it is sub kay august 27th im jan carabao. More on harvey in just a moment but first back here at home if you liked yesterday weather youll love today. Were in for a repeat of great conditions heres meteorologist Matt Peterson with the forecast, hi there matt. It is another fantastic day for us here across the Delaware Valley waking up to temperatures that have a little bit of my in the air, it is to the point where we are out early on, or even now as we push through early parts of the 8 00 oclock hour youll want a sweat shirt. Check out Lehigh Valley we will see 50s there. It was in the 40s until the last her or so, and down the shore, a quick look for 60s there. It is warm in barnegat at 67 degrees. Not too much happening in the Lehigh Valley, we did have fog , starting to dissipate though. We will get up to a high later this afternoon of 81 degrees, looking good. Looks great, thanks matt. 8 06. Back to the aftermath of harvey. Dozens of paramedics and rescue specialist and Fire Fighters are on their way to texas. They left and driving for 22 hours straight. Eyewitness News Reporter anita oh is live this morning, so what will these First Responders be doing once they arrive. They will get right to work , jan. Fortyfive Fire Fighters from the Philadelphia Fire Department and surrounding areas left to head to the naval base in texas to help with the devastation and if conditions worsen officials here plan to fly 40 more people down. The pennsylvania Emergency Task force includes doctors, tech specialists, rescue specialist and even two k9s, they are bringing down water equip accounts food and other materials to allow them to be selfsufficient for up to a week. As soon as they arrive they will hit the ground running working around the clock. Deputy fire commissioner gary lows explains what the team will be focusing on. We will be out helping people, on the roof of their houses, things like. That but they are apt on getting into heavy concreted, buildings that have collapsed, or under water and they will go in there, and search. Some of those philadelphia Fire Fighters, have actually been on duty overnight and according to lows they had time to grab their go bag, complete medical evaluation and then get on the road. Live from the news center, anita oh for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Great job, lot of work ahead, thanks. Many people in texas got caught right in the hurricane s path and more, one woman who recently moved from the Delaware Valley to houston said a tornado tore through her neighborhood as well, Henry Rossoff has her terrifying story. About 1 00 he clock last night a tornado hit and it just, rolled through the neighborhood i have never seen anything like it before report report we face timed with jamie phillips, she and her family are from aston but moved to the houston area for her husbands job. These pictures are from what neighbors believe was a tornado caused by Hurricane Harvey that ripped through their neighborhood. Fifty homes, within of my friends the roofies in their living room another friend had a tree through a bathroom, little girls window blew out and he got injured in it and people were having to run to get to closets and it sounded like a Freight Train, it was just scary. Reporter phillips says next issue is flooding, that is also the case for Brian Matthews from outside pittsburgh and new dropping off his daughter in college in austin. It has been raining non stop ever since and we will be seeing it for next few days as well. Reporter with the flooding even more Power Outages are expect. Is that during a texas summer can be deadly. Biggest concern here is air conditioning, it is hot. Volunteers from local red cross chapters are all ready in texas, helping out with the red cross chapters down there, and truckload of supplies from our area on their way down as well. In the sat center, henry ross off cbs3 Eyewitness News. Stay with Eyewitness News for continuing coverage of the Tropical Storm harvey we will have updates all morning licensing on air and, of course, our coverage continues on line at cbs philly. Com and cbs local app. New Police Arrested a suspect for arson after a housings up in flames in the overbrook section. Flames erupted on the 800 block of north 64th street right around 3 00 this morning , Fire Fighters quickly got those flames under control in just about half an hour an investigation has had been underway and fortunately in one was hurt. Still to come on Eyewitness News this sunday morning new rules of the road for convicted drunk drivers right here in pennsylvania, what a new law means foreign first time dui offenders. Also ahead, it is taste of england in this weeks taste with tori she head to haddonfield to get story behind the british chip shop coming up drunk drivers will face tougher restrictions. First time dui offenders will be required to drive with an ignition interlock immediately beforehand police would suspend the drunk drivers license from 30 days to a year and then the driver would get an device. Some people say it is a great way to crackdown on drunk drivers. Now, whole different system , you are better off just being a wear of where you are and especially when behind a wheel bottom line. The ii forces drivers to breathe in the breathalizer in order to start their car, state says little more than 7,000 people in pennsylvania already have the meanme triple a says damage from Hurricane Harvey could lead to higher gas price s depending on the damage in the onethird of the nations Refining Capacity sits in low lying areas along from Corpus Christi texas to lake charles louisiana. If youthere is not much drivein southeastern pennsylvania youll pay an average 2. 5rdersey price is 2. 28 dallas a gallon and ince is 2. 23. Matt, we are talking about effects of Hurricane Harvey but still drenching texas and still very muclway the biggest n with this. Of course, category four hurricane makes land fall it is strong winds at first but meandering that this storm is doing, just sit, training over same areas and it looks like it will be lasting until the end of this coming week. Rainfall totals are incredible, expected to be. Were seeing over 20 to 25 inches of rain, already, and then when you add on top of that the fact that we could see another, 15 to 20, to even 25 inches of rain on top of what, folks have already seen, were talking about localized amounts down in south texas that could be in the 40 to 50 inch range that is insane amounts of rain were talking about that the strophic flood ago this could be seen and we are seeing extreme flooding, across the houston area, back down toward some of the outer Barrier Island toward galveston and further south as well, back toward where the Tropical Storm hurricane at the time made land fall back down to where san jose island. Overall main concern is, all that water that is continuing to inundate houston back down toward galveston where amounts of rain have pushed well over the 20inch range we are seeing flood emergency in the houston area, houston airport is completely shut down because there is water over runways and Emergency Managers are telling people to get on top of their roofs if they have to or if they have to get to the highest level of your house and then never want to stay in the attic that is what people are being told in the houston area. This is a very dangerous situation, it has been ongoing situation and would that is likely continuing through the week. Here are rain totals from down in south texas, you can see outside houston area, 22 inches on have rain already in the league city area in south texas 21 inches on have rain, extreme amounts and these are as of 1 00 in the morning central time and it has continue to rain, obviously since these reports have come in. That is why we could be well up above these amounts already as we head back closer to home we will look at storm scan 3a quiet scene across Delaware Valley which is welcome because we do not need all of that rain but we are continuing to think about down in south texas. Future weather we have sun and included from time to time, it is a very comfortable day. Monday a few extra included in the forecast no precipitation just yet but it is i dry and once again comfortable day to start out workweek. As we get into tuesday it gets cloudy and in the second half of the day and evening there is a system that spirals off the coast and that could spawn a couple of showers out toward new jersey shore points and back down into delaware as well as we head through second half of the day on tuesday and tuesday night and maybe into wednesday as well. Eightyone is what were looking at this afternoon participating in the last day of the komen three day walk it is a great day with that. Eighty with cloud cover tomorrow we will go with 70s on tuesday as cloud roll in and jan we could look for a then are storm as a cold front sweeps through. Thank you. Time to check road lets get to kyle hahn in the cbs3 Traffic Center. Hi, jan we have an accident investigation in south jersey on route 47 affecting both directions between goshen road and 657. It is a utility pole crash but lanes are beginning to open up in that area as crews continue to work to clear the scene. We will look live at the schuylkill expressway at belmont looking very good on bothe bound and westbound side as drivers get about their morning commute go to and from the city. From the cbs3 Traffic Center im kyle hahn, jan, back to you. When you solicit haddonfield new jersey we are surrounded by reminders of the American Revolution and in one place reminder will satisfaction your appetite. British chip shop serves authentic food from across across across the pond, our victoria woodill just had to take a taste. In haddonfield there is a chippy paying homage to the queen and british aisles. Spot the flag blowing in the breeze below youll find british chip shop proudly serving fish and chip heaping helping of curry and more scotch pie. Maybe just have this every week. Native of haddonfield at two with you he was born in the uk. British. My dad was in the u. S. Air force nearby inoo and met my mom there. It is a small part of the england. Reporter his family moved to the u. S. Therewh garys britt right at home. There is a , you know, it is all tiny little shops. Same haddonfield has. Reporter gary opened up a english gardeners ftwe trinketm england, shortly thereafter op rite across the street serving fr clike these, but this. We have hand cut them here. Our chip their we use we got from england. Put your fish down, we batter the fish and put the chips in at that time. Reporter perfect times for me. I can smell those chips from here. This is a necessity. Yes. Hello, hello. Owe yah. That batter, just has the most perfect golden, crisp, crunch to it. The fish melts to get that awesome crunch and inside so delicate. I love when there is not just one but a few. In the word of mary poppins they are practically perfect in every way. By george i think he has got it. I think tori had her john lenon frames on for that one, dually noted. When we come back bet mid letter and her return to despite the loss mcgreg or is credited with putting on a respectable performance. May weather is retiring and spoke about his future last night. I want to help these fighters, you know, lie forward to becoming a boxing trainer, you know, just helping trainers, as far as no different from my dad who is a hell of a trainer, he tout me the sport. Everything that he tout me from day one i still know but i want to help just other trainers, help make fighters better. A nice shout out to his dad too may weather ends his career undefeated with an incredible 50zero record. Let the celebration begin philadelphia. The philadelphia soul, are League Champions once again they defeated tampa bay storm 4440 last night arena bowl 30 it took place at wells fargo center. This is teams second straight arena bowl title and third overall, we will have highlights coming up later, in sports. Well, bettemidler is starring in hello dolly and she sat down with cbs this morning gayle king, with an interview. Heres a preview what you will see later on cbs this sunday morning. Bettemidler is ultimate designing woman. Her career spanning, well, generations shes constantly creating and recreating, leaving a trail of memorable personas and unforgettable performances. And at age 71 shes re inventing herself, yet again this is the biggest challenge of my career and i need a challenge. Need a challenge. I came off road two years ago. That was a huge show. Very successful show. I took to it europe. Had a great time. I had done it. I didnt want to do it again. Reporter what she has done instead is return to broadway starring in hello, dolly, winning rave reviews, tony award for best lead actress in a musical and playing to sold out houses. It is extraordinary, very grateful for it. It doesnt matter in what frame of mind i know when i get out there, it will be there and i will just sail. We will go on a little journey, lovely little Joyous Journey for two and a half hours and we will have a ball. Bettemidler from a special sunday morning from amsterdam right here at 9 00 a. M. Still ahead in the next half an hour of cbs3 Eyewitness News this dog went missing during Hurricane Harvey. We will tell you how caring dog lover and social media helped reunite the pet with his family. Meisha johnson takes us on yet another dream drive to see is what new down on the farm and see what is ripe for picking coming up next. Matts back with the details on a wonderful toned our weekend we will be right good morning im jan carabao. Meteorologist Matt Peterson is live outside on the cbs

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