Thanks so much for joining us. That pilot had to put the huge air ship down in the middle of fishtown and new video now shows the harrowing moments just after it landed but as Eyewitness News reporter alexandria hoff shows us, the man at the controls never lost his cool. Reporter rubberneckers experienced an extra strain during their friday commute as a blimp was dragged and then billowed just off of i95. I knew i could land it was just a matter of finding a spot to land. Reporter this was long time pilot trevor thompsons third run above philadelphia in two days hadnt planned to return to where he had taken off from at kroc center field in camden. Look, its getting lower. Reporter but around 6 30 p. M. It was clear that wasnt happening. We were flying about 1 mile north of the ben franklin bridge when he had a first engine failure. Reporter the blimp or thermal air ship owned by air science and displaying adhesive company bostic was restarted and then failed again so thompson decided on what he calls a precautionary happening. Unfortunately the engine failed for third time when i was coming in for a landing on a field, a greenfield and the wind pushed me backwards and up a able to put it down in a construction spot. Reporter without full engine power a thermal aircraft will operate pretty much like a hot air balloon hence the less than ideal landing area here in the 1900 block of richmond street in fishtown. Once there Good Samaritans jumped into action. Pretty much stopped the car, went over the barrier to try to help the the pilot. Reporter personal items inside of the carriage were damaged but thompson and his passenger escaped injury. The faa continues to investigate this incident. People came out and this helped us and they were friendly and it was it was a good experience. It was a good experience in a bad situation. Reporter in fishtown, alexandria hoff, cbs3 Eyewitness News. An underground explosion shut down streets in University City this afternoon. Were told a transformer blew underground on the corner of 30th and market. No one was injured but roads were closed and septa and Regional Rail service was disrupted in the area for just a bit. But everything is up and running again. Now, we started the weekend off with gloomy skies out there and some rain around parts of the area. Meteorologist lauren casey is in the cbs3 went center to Weather Center to tell us what we can expect. More dreary weather and more rainfall. Who is sick of this miserable mayweather sao i know i am. Storm scan3 showing us a lot of hands going up in the studio. Storm scan3 showing us the rain shield is starting to fill in now and were seeing heavier pockets of rainfall especially to the north and west of the city, heavy 84 downpour moving through the poconos trailing off to the north and east and also heavier pockets along the i95 corridor yellow popping up there and this again moving off to the northeast so the rainfall intensity in Center City Philadelphia will further increase just a bit as we head into the next about 30 to 45 minutes. So, we have the clouds, we have the rain picking up and then we have these Cool Temperatures. We should be in the middle 70s as far as averages are concerned. Not anywhere near that. 56 degrees right now in philadelphia, our warm spot, warm 62 degrees in allentown. 59 degrees right now ac because of our easterly wind. What to expect as we head into the rest of the evening and tonight, more periods of rain with some heavy pockets of rain and then the area of rain will become more scattered especially as we head after midnight but we will keep around these Cool Temperatures thanks to that easterly breeze off the ocean but we are going to see that sunshine trying to peak itself out as we head into tomorrow and then a taste of summer, i swear its in the sevenday forecast and ill let you know when to expect that coming up. Well hold you to that. Thank you lauren. Appreciate it. A second jewel of the triple crown gets off to a tragic start. Today two horses died in raises leading up to the 141st preakness stakes. Home boy chris wearing number three collapsed and died of a heart attack after winning race number one at pimlico. Three races later a horse broke down and had to be euthanized on the track due to a catastrophic leg injury. The horse was bred by the owners of barbaro. Comedian jon stewart adopting a Lancaster County horse whose story of abuse made national headlines. You might remember little who was shot with dozens of paintballs and abandoned at a stable back in march. She was recently treated at the Bolton Center in kennett square. Stuart and his wife will bring little ill and another 93ed mayor to his sanctuary in Monmouth County new jersey. A firefighter is injured battling a house fire in bensalem. Crews did respond to the 1100 block of tennis avenue about 9 oclock this morning. They area tried a heavy flame on the second floor. Investigators tell Eyewitness News a firefighter was injured when he fell off the roof of the house. One person inside the home was also injured. One occupant was located outside with burns and smoke inhalation. That firefighter along with others were up on the roof venting the roof trying to get the smoke and super heated gases out of the dwelling. Its a common function on a house fire and somehow lost footing and fell hit the porch below and then onto the ground. Were told the firefighter is expected to be okay. The cause of this blaze is still under investigation. Any and police have now identified the victim of this mornings deadly accident in voorhees camden county. Police say the driver, 34yearold Christopher Gonzalez of browns mills lost control of his car and hit a utility pole. It happened at about 4 oclock this morning in the area of route 73 and William Feather drive. Gonzalez was pronounced dead at the scene and the cause of the crash is still under investigation at this hour. Now, democrats hit the campaign trail today as Bernie Sanders tries to close in on frontrunner Hillary Clinton. Sanders fired up the crowd today in new mexico claiming that he is the best candidate to beat donald trump in november. Meanwhile clintons husband former president bill clinton rallied supporters in california. Clinton says his wife is the best qualified candidate to lead the united states. Trump did not hold any Public Events today. President obama embarked on a week long trip to asia with stops in vietnam and japan. The commanderinchief depend from Andrews Air Force base earlier today. In vietnam the the president will visit hanoi and ho chi minh city. Hell fly to hiroshima becoming the first sitting president to visit the city since the bombing. Authorities have recovered a critical clue that could ultimately help investigators figure out what caused the crash. Jonathan vigliotti has more. Reporter shredded clothing shoes and heavily damaged plane parts are just some of the items search teams have recovered from egyptair flight 804. Investigators also found the doomed flights black boxes about 180 miles north of the egyptian port city of alexandria. The data could help determine what caused the plane plane to plummet wildly into the Mediterranean Sea thursday morning killing all 66 people on board. Technology played a Critical Role in tracking down the wreckage. Radar on board this e130 helped find debris from the missing plane. The u. S. Navy sent a p3 orion to join in the search. The aircraft can detect wreckage from under the oceans surface. Greece, the uk and france have sent teams as well. The aviation herald an web site published. They showed smoke was detected in the bathroom near the cockpit and aveion in this nick. No terror group has claimed responsibility for bringing down the airbus 320. Still to come on Eyewitness News a deadly volcanic eruption. Find out where this happened and see the devastation its already caused. Plus,. A brand new ease of technology could save lives and time when it comes to fighting fires. Im anita oh in center city. Coming up how much this new piece of Technology Costs and how firefighters here are training for it. And were dealing with more rainfall, damp conditions and Cool Conditions on this may saturday but we are going to see some big improvements as we head into midweek next week. When to expect sunshine and temperature in the 80s coming up next. Eruption in western indonesia killing three people and injuring four others. It blasted ash as high as 2 miles into the air today. The victims were working on their farms near the mountain when it erupted. Now the mountain lay dormant for four centuries before springing to life in august of 2010. Also now new technology could make firefighting a lot safer than ever before and its coming to philadelphia. Eyewitness News Reporter anita oh shows us exactly how it works. Reporter the fire alarm at the 54 story bny melon center sounded off like it does in any other emergency. Going to the roof. Reporter and on saturday morning, that was the point of the Philadelphia Fire Department Training Exercise to simulate a highrise blaze with 10 victims. Coming out now. Reporter but this time there was something new in play. A 1. 2 million piece of technology called mask app. Heres how it works. The Incident Commander will be able to quickly access the buildings preplan which shows essential and where the hose line connections are. One philadelphia fire official called it the cadillac of highrise preplanning. Anything that helps us save time does have a direct reflection of saving helping us save lives. Reporter before this kind of Technology Fire officials had to rely on good Old Fashioned paper. Youre wasting two to three solid minutes on arrival and a if i were doubles in size every minute that it burns. Reporter Curtis Massey president of massey disaster planning says it took his Company Three years to develop the app. You can touch that, bring up your shaft diagram. Reporter the hope is that it can be the spark that helps make Fire Departments even faster and more efficient. Philadelphia was one of the first Fire Departments that was progressive enough to grasp the importance of this type of technology that is going to change the landscape of the fire service. Reporter reporting in center city, anita oh, cbs3 Eyewitness News. All right. Welling lauren is along to tell us more about the gloomy forecast. I know, i cant say im excited about this. I just i dont know. I know, everyone fed up at this point with our mayweather were ready for some sunshine, some warmth. Were not getting it this evening but it is in the sevenday forecast. Storm scan3, though, showing us, yes, this trend, more wet weather for our may and the rain swath is starting to fill in and rainfall intensity picking up a bit as well in spots so it is going to be a soggy evening as we progress into the next several hours. Storm scan3 showing us some heavier spots of rain especially up towards the poconos and the rain really starting to fill in in the Lehigh Valley now back into berks county, reading seeing some moderate rain coming down at this point. As we look at the i95 corridor, rainfall intensity certainly has picked up over the last hour. Now weve been seeing a couple of yellow returns there indicating some more moderate intensity rainfall. Down the shore youre dry for right now interior parts of southern new jersey but you see showers that are continuing to move up to the north and east moving out of delaware so youll see some of the shower activity moving into cape may and atlantic counties as we head into about the next hour. Do have an area of low pressure off shore. Most of the moisture is off shore with that center of low pressure. It will continue to move off to the east and that will provide a best chance of shower activity off to our west as we head into the day tomorrow. But for this evening, we are going to see these areas of rain kind of heavy in spots. Future weather showing us as we head into the next couple of hours umbrella worthy weather for sure. As we head into midnight, we will see some more breaks in this kind of area of precipitation and the shower activity becoming a little bit more scattered as we head into the overnight period but certainly a dreary day. A live look at Center City Philadelphia, rain coming down clouds in place. Spring definitely has stalled for the month of may. Our 80degree count or so far this season is five days but weve will none of those in the month of may. Our warmest may temperature is 76 degrees. Thats pretty puny for the warmest day so far this month. Temperature right now very cool. 56 degrees, winds out of the northeast at around 12 Miles Per Hour. Dewpoints up there into the low 50s. So, theres a little bit of hugoness witmugginess. High temperature 62 degrees. We should be in the upper 70s as far as averages are concerned. Nowhere near that. Those temperatures are going to hover in the 50 as we head into the next several hours to near 60 degrees right now in millville and these cooler temperatures compliments of the rainfall, the clouds and this northeasterly wind off the ocean driving in cooler ocean air and breezes picked up over the last couple hours. Wind speeds now 10 to 15 Miles Per Hour so overnight tonight periods of rain especially before midnight. That cool northeasterly wind down to 52 degrees tonight. Tomorrows going to be a better day. Still some clouds around, maybe a few spotty showers but we will see some peeks of sunshine and more mild high temperatures up to around 69 degrees but it certainly has been a very wet may so far. Check out all of the days weve had precipitation. Of course including today and now our monthly total is surpassing over 3inches and our rain chances as we head into the next several days will actually start to decrease. So, 40 percent chance of rain especially off to the west tomorrow as we head into monday rain chances start to reduce. Future weather going to show us what tomorrow is looking like and we he do have that best chance of some spotty shower activity mainly west of the city and youre going to like this model data. Taking a look at the jet stream, cool over the next couple of days as we head into midweek. A serious surge of warmth so by wednesday and thursday temperatures are going to be cruising up into the 80s. Check this out. 75 by tuesday. Drier conditions wednesday, thursday sunshine low to mid 80s and the 80s stick around into friday and saturday with just a chance of an afternoon popup thunderstorm so thats a sight for sore eyes. Hold on tight. Were almost there. Were almost there. Were trudging along. Thank you so much lauren. Nasty day for some baseball though. Imagine this is the day you had your phillies tickets. Phillies playing the braves in game two of their series. Fightans came into the contest two games out of first place despite scoring the fewest runs in baseball. This couple trying to keep their infant dry and hoping the phils could would score some runs. Morgan got the start for the phils. Freeman hit this line drive. But in the fourth, no score. A blooper to center. Her rare are a cant make the catch. Once again the phillies bats were silent. Two hits. The braves shut out the phillies twonothing. Over the next month the sixers will be doing their homework on whether to draft forward ben simmons or maybe Brandon Ingram with that number one overall pick. There will also be some trade rumors since they will have five big men on the roster. Biggest rumor so far is a trade that would send Jahlil Okafor to the celtics for a number three pick an player. Sixers continue working out players since they also have the 24th and 26th selections in the first round. They have seen at least 12 players this week. Brett brown was asked what he towed these nba hopefuls. Always they snead to make one team love them. Paths to the nba arent always direct. You may end up in instanbul or real madrid and then come back into it. In my old life we cut danny green twice and now hes just fine and so you just try to share stories to help them and let them know who we are. Game three tonight between the cavaliers and the raptors in the nba on conference finalsly cleveland with a twonothing series lead havent won both games by an average of 25 points. After the cavs won game two lebron james and crew showing some love for their head coach dousing him with water. Lou broke pat rileys record for most consecutive wince to start a coaching career. If the cavs win the series lebron will held to his sixth straight nba championship series. Unbelievable. In there nhl playoff game four of the western conference finals blown the blues and sharks. San jose leads two games to one. Blues will start jake allen in goal to replace brian elliott. Check out this shot tyler tony of dude perfect shot this jumper from at tap the tower in oklahoma city. We wouldnt show it to you if it didnt go in. And swish. Unbelievable. Thats the world record for the highest jump shot. It crushed the old record of 117. Maybe he should come in and try out for the sixers. They could use a shooter. Oh, my gosh. That is unbelievable. How could you even see the thing the basket. Thats what im saying. I have no idea. Bring it herely we need him. Well take him. Thanks so much lez see. Stay with us. Still to come tonight on Eyewitness News honoring a welcome back. Back now on Eyewitness News with an emotional event in Gloucester County to honor an american hero. Eyewitness news at Kingsway Regional High School woolwich township new jersey. There was a military flyover followed by a home run derby to remember captain ryan ianelli he died overseas in a helicopter accident. Todays event raised money for a foundation started in ryans name to benefit local students. Well be right back. Well, lauren is back with one last check of yet more rain. More rain. Youll need the umbrella if youre heading out. As we head into the day tomorrow well see some sunshine, more mild temperatures just some spotty showers especially west of the city. Some hit or miss thundershowers on monday. Were back up into the 70s and by wednesday and thursday, break out the sunglasses and the tshirts, looking good, 80s. Nice. Finally. Yes. Thank you so much lauren and thank you so much for joining us. We appreciate it. Im Natasha Brown for Lesley Lauren all of us here, were always on for you cbsphilly. Com. Well be back with you on the cw philly and back here at 11 00. Have a great night. Ninan the search for the black boxes from egyptair flight 804. Were told the devices which could reveal why the plane went down have been located. And she said, oh, well i tried to retract. Ninan also tonight, donald trump and Hillary Clinton face off on gun control. Back off ninan a new York City Police officer is stripped of his gun and badge after allegedly pointing his weapon at spectators. A dramatic spike in the number of pregnant women in the u. S. Who have tested positive for zika virus. And its hard to watch, but wildlife Officials Say this is the best way to save rhino rhinm poachers. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs weekend news
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