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comparison, so we just keep on continuing, that decline on the thermometer full details on the temperatures coming up, vittoria. >> as far as roads right the now, it is not awful. we have a few construction project like traveling on 202 right around 29, north and southbound but we will talk about a few other things that may set you back in just a bit, ukee. now new this morning a two car crash in northeast philadelphia sends a woman to the hospital. it happened around 1:30 this morning at oxford and the boulevard. forty year-old woman was stuck in her overturn suv and had to be pulled free. she's listed in stable condition right now. police are investigating to try to figure out if charges should be filed. a police chase from mayfair to torresdale starts with a car, dragging a a police officer and then gunfire, and ends with a man in jail. however, that is not the only reason he is under arrest. "eyewitness news" reporter nicole brewer joins us from police headquarters with the very latest information, good morning. >> reporter: erika, good morning to you.
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police say this 34 year-old suspect will be charged in connection with an abduction and aggravated a assault of a young with man earlier this week. these are charges that are ultimately compounded by his run in with police. go ahead and roll some video. we will take you through a wild night for police. it started in the 7300 block of ditman avenue where police spotted a green toyota camry that fit description of the car involve in the abduction monday night. when police approached that vehicle the driver threw tonight reverse striking an officer and then dragging him several feet. that prompted the officer's partner to take aim at the rear windshield but it didn't stop there. the just a wild scene. police persued for about a mile until it collided with another vehicle at frankford and convent where the suspect fled on foot but was ultimately caught up, by police, involving a physical altercation as well. as for that female victim we're told she's in her mid 20's, she reported the incident to the east division of the fill will a police and her ordeal, nothing short of
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ter filing. >> she was abduct, she was duct taped, her face, her body and she was assaulted. she has injuries to her face and her mouth and her eyes. this individual is looking at serious charges. >> reporter: crime scene investigators were on the scene processing that evidence. there will be a thorough search of that vehicle, this is as police say they are searching for other suspects, involved in monday's abduction. we are live outside police headquarters, nicole brewer, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> nicole, thank you. happening today a former philadelphia police officer goes on trial. kenneth fall on is charge with two counts of violating a protection from abuse order. police accused allen of assaulting his then girlfriend in september hoist also a philadelphia police officer. coming up on 5:03. lets get traffic and weather together. wow, you need that coat today, katie. >> you will want to have the extra layer walking out the
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door, it is a chillier start by comparison, wait until you see the difference from the last 24 hours. pretty substantial and noticeable. but we have noticed a a lot have fog out there this morning as well. this is really coming in, shortly because our frontal boundary is still close enough there is moisture left from the front that brought those showers. this is video that we have from woodhaven road from northeast philadelphia from earlier this morning. but we have some pretty poor visibility in some spots, that you will just want to slow it down if you run into the fog obviously. it is somewhat patchy but locally dense. here's storm scan three, you can still see moisture off in the lower right hand corner of the screen as it makes its retreat, dryer air takes its place and knocking our temperatures back look at the spread here we are going from ten to 25 plus degrees difference, across the region from same time yesterday. it is noticeably colder no matter where you are. have your jacket ready to go at minimum. 47 degrees at the airport. 35 degrees currently in mount pocono, and it is definitely
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going to be a chilly start the two day and a cooler day just in general. we will expect full sunshine once this fog lifts which it should before sunrise, but as we go through the day that sun isn't going to have too much of a chance to warm things up any further then upper 50's, a, because we are off to a cooler start by comparison and cooler air is just settling in but despite the chill for the next few days we will keep it the quiet in this weather pattern at least through halloween. weekend we have been talking about this for a little bit of time new does bring a new storm. scenario is looking better for us, however, we will talk about what we're expecting here coming up after the next couple of minutes, torey, over to you. >> thanks, katie good morning everyone. you can expect right new is opened roadway, minimal problems but a little bit of fog. lets take a look firstly at how you are doing on 202, construction zone we are dealing with on both sides, northbound and southbound. northbound where we see flashing police lights as a few headlights here compromising the right-hand
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lane. thinks right around 29. it is in the causing a major delay but it is definitely out there and follow accounts are taking notice. it will slow things down a bit. southbound on 202 around this area as well we will run into a construction zone. this is the the schuylkill expressway at 476, the schuylkill up top and 476 underneath. really difficult to see because we are in the seeing too many vehicles right now and not even on the schuylkill. there is one but as you will see in this shot definitely low visibility. just practice extra caution this morning. the as we look at speed sensors nothing to talk about because all of them look great. we are in the green. not only in pennsylvania but new jersey and delaware as well. we are dealing with an accident on the roosevelt boulevard northbound at oxford issuing is will and down pole on 130 southbound at riverton road no delays for mass transit, ukee. today marks day four of contract negotiations between septa and transport workers union. now without a deal the union has threatened to call a strike as soon as next week that would side line city buses, trains and trolleys. "eyewitness news" reporter
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jane carabao joins us from the 69th street transportation center in upper dash which reaction from riders, january. >> reporter: ukee, now no time line has been set, just yet about a possible strike but we could learn more about that over the next coming days, in the meantime, union leadership says the two parties are very farrah part. septa passengers left on the edge of their seats waiting to hear how long they will still have a ride, as union leadership and septa officials continue to negotiate a new contract. some passengers, no matter what a inconvenience, are in the looking forward to yet another strike. >> i went through it when i was teaching years ago and it was very hard to get around. >> reporter: riders are hoping it doesn't come to this they are keeping their fingers cross that had negotiations just don't break down. members of the transit the workers union local 234 have been working without a contract since march. union is septa a's largest representing 5,000 bus drivers, subway and trolley
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operators and maintenance workers. main sticking points are benefit increases and pay raises. sunday members authorized leader ship to strike if they deem it necessary and union leader ship says decision on whether to strike could come by weeks end leaving riders thinking about other options which many say are extremely limited. >> i catch four buses in the morning. >> i don't have a car right now so i use it a lot. >> reporter: septa officials say they continue to give fair and reasonable wage, benefit and pension benefits f a strike were to happen it would impact the trains, trolleys and buses. it were not impact regional rails and union leadership said they would give the public 24 hours notice. we are reporting live, from upper darby, jan carabao for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". in other news we could learn if the state of maine will get a court order to make a with man stay in her home over ebola concerns. nurse tracie hickcox says she's vowing to fight back if that happened. she spoke outside her home
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with her partner. she was in,ly quarantined in new jersey for three days, after landing in the new washing airport. she was told she could complete the rest of her to second one days quarantine in main. hickox feels her civil rights have been violated since returning from her work in sierra leone. >> there is in way i could give someone's bowl a and you are telling me i cannot see my friend after i have been fighting a tough battle will will for four weeks in west africa. it ise mostly draining. >> according to white house officials ebola czar ron klain will visit the cdc today, erika. there was a contentious encounter between governor chris christie and heckler between the governor's tour of the sandy ravaged shore town. >> he i got the picture. i read it. >> jim right there held up the sign and interrupted the
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governor's speech in bellmawr monmouth county. he is founder of the finish the job which is critical have the pace of rebuild ago assistance. governor christie eventually had enough. >> i have been american happy to have a debate anytime you like, because somebody like you doesn't know a dam thing what you are talking about except to stand up and show off when cameras are here. i have been here when the cameras aren't here, buddy. >> governor went on to a shore resident help is on the way in the form of $1 billion of federal housing assistance. he says those eligible for reconstruction grants should get award by next spring. new this morning, rowdy fans set fires in the streets of the san francisco, to celebrate the the the giants thrilling world series victory. the celebrations turned ugly after giants held off kansas city in the seven game, san francisco police say two people were shot and office's rested a handful of people as well overnight. series mvp madison bumgarner shut down royals out of the bull pen and got
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perez to foul out to even the game giving giants a three-two victory. it is giants third world series, win in the last five years. >> wow, three in five. >> that is dynasty. >> yes, that is it. >> baseball season over, spring training starts in february, lets go phils. come on. searching for answers after a spectacular explosion. >> early speculation about what caused this rock death blow up and we're hearing from local student whose exexperiment was destroyed in the blast. plus a driver nearly swept away by this raging river, why rescues cures had to use heavy construction equipment to save him. another setback in the manhunt for suspected cop killer, why the latest high tech tool, failed to find eric frein. >> ♪
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>> we're feeling the chill again this morning and katie says it is only going to get colder this weekend. she's packing those tumbling temperatures as we do traffic and weather together on the three's. >> here comes november. >> we will be right back.
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right now lets get traffic and weather together and tumbling temperatures, katie. >> we need to break out alliteration dealing with this kind of a pattern. we are tracking a system for the weekend but we want to give you a sense how that will shake out. i promised you earlier in the she we have a better case scenario this time. we will start off with the here and new. we have retreat of the first of two systems helping to knock temperatures back and pulling a away but it left behind some fog issues this morning but that should dissipate with time. this is a short term concern, meanwhile high pressure here
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to stay for the next two days before the system gets moving. we will jump it all the way ahead and put things in motion with our active jet stream. jet streams not only separate coldest from the warmest air but they helped the storms. saturday brings in blustery conditions, temperatures generally in the 40's but we will likely top off in the lower 50's, you know for an hour or two and then showers are also going to be press event here. but the the the reason thinks better case scenario two piece that he is need to merge over our area do so over the atlantic. back to the here and now in terms of the visibility. not ideal. our observation site at the the airport at 6 miles doesn't mean whole city is at 6 miles, it is patchy but locally dense. watch out for it. it will get better with time. 59 degrees with sunshine out over the horizon and then a cooler day with far cry from yesterday's high and further cry from what we saw the day before. partly cloudy and chilly as we drop down to 42 degrees.
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you might need the heat tonight, as we head into tomorrow. keep it dry for halloween festivities and we will see showers moving in, by saturday. vittoria. >> thanks, katie, good morning everyone. you know the weather even though we are expect ago this sunshine later on, we have fog covering the roadways. we will take you outside and give you a better idea what we're talking b this is 309 around the area of the turnpike and we will have some low visibility in what is a good thing to mention in this shot here, if we can drop that for a second, thank you. shiny spots on the roads. we still have a lit about on it have that moisture on the road and we want to be careful because things do cause accidents. so red light thely. as we look the a ben franklin bridge, in delays in either direction, all bridges are moving well this morning. same thing for all of our majors no major delays a at all on the majors, average speeds in the 50's and not only in pennsylvania but delaware, new jersey. we still are dealing with an accident north bound at the boulevard and oxford circle, very serious intersection there. so, just be extra careful, erika. >> thanks, variety tore y wild
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night in northeast philadelphia tops your head lines this morning. police chase end with the crash on frankford avenue and one man is in custody. that man allegedly tried to run over officers and one shot out the back window of his car. suspect faces charges from last night and more charges in connection with assault and an deduction on monday. septa and workers union meet for more talks. union for bus drivers, subway and trolley operators could strike as early a as tomorrow. nurse tracie hickox said she will fight any court order to keep her inside her maine home. officials wayne hickox in quarantine after work with her ebola patientness west africa but she says her civil rights are being violated. your time 5:16. social media is buzzing with reports of an earthquake down the shore.. >> now we know what made people feel the ground shake. it is unstoppable disaster moving at a stale's pace, find out where that dangerous river of lava is heading today, we will be right back.
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a as authorities investigate what went wrong with this rocket launch we are getting a new look at the explosion from a south jersey high school student. that student from ocean city high school took this video of the explosion. a group of students from that school witnessed the launch in virginia. they had an experiment on board that rocket. it was one of 19 experiments from across the nation chosen to go to the international space station. >> and we all like jumped back and we all just stood there for like at least a minute, oh, no. >> investigators planned to take a close look at the the rocket's 30 year-old engines to see if that caused the blast. dramatic rescue in china to tell but when this suv gets washed away by a raging river. driver made the in mistake of trying to drive across that flooded river when he got
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stuck. the current was so fast rescuers had to use an excavator to pluck him out of the water. they reached him just in time because the suv was swept away just a few seconds later, there it goes. a driver in north carolina survives getting trapped in his truck after it flew 40 feet off a cliff. driver spent ten hours pinned under the upside down truck before being saved. he only suffered a leg injury but police did give him two tickets for that crash. >> i'm sure he is happenty pay him considering he is okay. >> yes, exactly. >> right now 5:20. some stores are bucking the trend with extra early black friday bargains, find out who won't open up on thanksgiving. plus, i hope my family is still proud of me in the choices i made. >> the terminal willly ill woman's controversial decision to end her life got a lot of people talking and she admits
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she's having second thoughts. first here's one of the stories we are working on tonight for "eyewitness news". time again for i team to ask some uncomfortable questions. >> it is a controversial subject, right. >> yes. >> this time about law enforcement officers retiring, collecting their pension and then getting another bank to get a paycheck too. some people call that double dipping. >> just because something isn't illegal, doesn't mean it is not a waste of money. >> in just to be clear it is your tax money paying for it all. >> why do they have the right to double dip to get all that money, and here i am struggling to live my inning will parent life. >> reporter: i'm charlotte huffman with an exclusive iteam investigation tonight on
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me too... we're practically twins! right now 5:23. lets get traffic and weather together. should you bundle up to day. >> i would say basically the normal this point to have to have have the extra layer
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ready to go. you will grab that extra layer tighter. chillies settling in. in the the wake of this frontal boundary which by the way has left behind enough moisture to cause fog problems this morning. we will look at average over the course of the fall season and obviously you expect to see a drop on the thermometer. when we're talking about averages as we come in the upcoming weekend we would still be in the 60's, however, that is really in the a case here for next couple of days because of these, this duo of system that is coming through cold front yesterday and another reenforcement by week even. forty-seven is our current temperature, much cooler by comparison expecting high at best to hit 59 today, upper 50's tomorrow but quiet and cool, it is still dry for your trick or treat plans by saturday, even chillier by this point the breeze and showers move in. torey. >> thanks, katie. good morning. we are still dealing with fog out and about and i can't wait to get to a shot of the
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schuylkill express because. this looks like halloween. we will look at the vine street expressway. in delays on the vine heading to 76, you see those taillights commuting west bun or eastbound making your way dunn toward 95. vine street expressway is wide opened. a as we continue this is shot of the schuylkill doesn't it look like halloween. like candy corn color skies, right? taking a look at the schuylkill expressway at the shot here bright spot is we are not seeing any major delays. you will have if you go to compromise your commute. be extra careful and as you leave the house, taking a look at speed sensors it is beautiful out there. ninety-five, schuylkill. 467, northeast extension, lots of good news we have an accident at dekalb pike at morris road, if you are traveling montgomery county, ukee. flyers play lightening tonight in tampa going for their fourth win in the row. they are coming off an overtime win against the stanley cup champion kings tuesday night. >> to the hardwood and nerlens
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noel made his regular season debut in last night's season open inner indiana. he had six points, ten rebound, pacers took control in the second half and ended upbeating sixers 103-91. nerlens looked good on the defensive end, he a had three blocks. sixers play bucks tomorrow night and opened the home schedule at day night against the miami heat. and it is that time again, time for to you vote on this weeks friday football frenzy, game of the week, your choices are moorestown at timber creek, collinswood at west deptford or glassboro at bishop eust ace. vote on the audio road show app. we will a announce the win are tomorrow, erika. coming up in the next hall an hour of "eyewitness news" a music mogul arrested what a police officer says he did to a photographer, jan? >> reporter: with contract negotiations continuing septa passengers are wondering how much longer they will have a ride with the possible strike, still on the table. aim's jan carabao in upper darby with the details straight ahead.
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vittoria and katie return with traffic and weather together on the three's, a foggy scene down the the shore. when will that if you go lift? katie tells you coming up. in macarthur's world, he opposes new laws to ensure women receive equal pay for equal work. and macarthur opposes a woman's right to choose backed by a group that would outlaw abortion even for rape and incest. for us in the real world, aimee belgard.
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its i waiting game for septa passengers, workers threatening to strike return to the bargaining table today with many people wondering how they will get around town. we are following the latest developments on the contract talks with the strike looming, right around the corner. it is tough to see out there in many areas, it a appears the the blue route if you are outside on the road, put your low beams on there is a lot of fog on the roads this morning. when will things clear up? lets check traffic and weather together. katie and vittoria are in the house. >> the the good news is the fog is a short term problem. we will talk about that but bigger weather story overall
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is our pattern change and in fact with these temperatures with every passing take continue their decline, so we have to talk temperatures obviously and you have heard probably rumors of the weekend storm. we will discuss that too all coming up, torey. we definitely do have have some fog out there but as we jump outside ever so quickly we will get to i-95 where it looks clear. it will be patchy places in the western suburbs. me and kate write talking about this earlier. we will show you fog shots coming up but we are in the seeing that rush full blown, just yet, lots of things we are waiting on. happening today back to the bargaining table for septa and leadership with the transport workers union. >> work are have been without a contract instant is march. "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabao joins us from the 69th street terminal where riders are bracing for a potential strike, jan? >> reporter: ukee and erika good morning a strike would cripple this city leaving a lot of people wondering where to go and how to