age of the first winner. "eyewitness news" reporter elizabeth hur has more on this pageant predicament. >> reporter: two miss delawar delawares crowned in less than two weeks. >> i was completely shocked when i found out tuesday because all of this was verified. >> for amanda long acre it's disheartening and disappointing. in her view, she won the miss delaware 2014 title fair and square. >> i had given all of my documents, my birth certificat certificates, my social security card, night driver's license. >> reporter: to be told this week she's simply too old to compete she was dumb founded. >> i've been truthful and honest this whole time. i proceeded everything to them and this is a mistake that happened on their par. >> reporter: to get some answers we headed down to dover where on this night the miss delaware scholarship organization awarded the title to the run are in up brittany lewis. >> i'm so ecstatic. i so great to be representative of the state of delaware. >> reporter: she was honored but prohibited from commenting on the controversy. we then turned to the organization's le

" reporter elizabeth hur. >> reporter: the terrifying moments when this 45 year old woman fought for her life. not only can you see how frightened she was, you can hear it in her voice. her screams for help saved on her cell phone. >> i never felt like the way i'm feeling right now. >> reporter: for her protection, we are not department feig the victim still bruised and shaken. >> at the time he grabbed me, i was talking to somebody. so he say call your friend and tell your friend what's going on and he got to bring money. >> reporter: 45 year old had just returned home sunday night when she was followed into the entrance of her apartment by a stranger who demanded money. she said she gave up everything she had but the suspect wanted more, and dragged the victim back out to her car. >> when he was on the car with moo he told me, you know i got gun. i blow your head. i blow your head. i blow his head. if he's coming with the police. >> reporter: we're told for the next 40 minutes the victim was driven around the city waiting for the friend with the money. >> that's when i'm trying to conv

the streets. "eyewitness news" reporter elizabeth hur is live at philadelphia police headquarte headquarters. liz? >> reporter: chris, police tell us in recent weeks there's been a rash of bank will be brees in the northeast philadelphia area and in each case police have the suspect description and same mo and tonight police believe they finally have their man. bang robbery suspect under arrest tracking him down according to police took only about 20 minutes. >> for some reason he felt the need to after robbing the bank get on septa bus as his get away vehicle. >> reporter: a septa bus known to make frequent stops but that's not all. >> bank employees gave up the money but also put a tracking device in the money. >> reporter: that's right. with a tracking device on him, police say the suspect was on the run. it was around 4:45 tuesday afternoon. police say the suspect rob the wells fargo at welsh and the boulevard. then hopped on a septa bus. police say officers from the eighth district responded right away, and managed to locate the tracking device about a mile away at cottman

. "eyewitness news" reporter elizabeth hur is live at special victims unit with breaking information on this case. liz? >> reporter: jessica, just minutes ago, we got some more information from sources and here's what we are being told. the first person of interest and his bike were picked up from where he work at broad and christian. the three remaining men and one more bike were picked up a home at eighth and moore streets. and police sources tell us that home at eighth and moore, that place of interest for investigators since saturday, and tonight police finally able to obtain a search warrant. could the mandi picketed in this composite sketch soon be under arrest? police sources say they are close. police released this sketch along with new surveillance video yo after interviewing the victim a second time on monday. the video shows the suspect parking and locking his bike in the 1900 block of spruce street. before approaching the 26 year old victim a local doctor who according to police was threatened and ordered by the suspect into her apartment early saturday morning. police say o

was later released unharmed. "eyewitness news" reporter elizabeth hur is digging deeper into what happened. >> reporter: kidnapped, blindfolded and held for ransom. >> they called home and my season was the speaker, you know, going crazy report roar christian's stepson who we are not identifying is back home. >> my son was scared. the hunt is now on for the three men who held the 15 year old hostage and robbed him parents at home in broad daylight. >> they actually grabbed the kid right at the corner. they both wearing white colored tank tops, dark colored pants and purple latex gloves. >>> according to police the 15 year old was walking home his parents were expecting him. so when someone knocked, the mother opened the door only to be confronted by two armed men. >> there were two inside the house and one waiting in the car with my son and then my son called us from the guy's phone, and said give us everything. i give them everything, the money, jewelry whatever you got. >> reporter: the family complied but the says specs fled with the stolen loot and the 15 year old still in the

elizabeth hur, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> also breaking news right now burlington bristol bridge is back opened after a head on collision shut down both directions, at around 3:30. chopper three over the scene after a box truck and pickup truck slammed into each other forcing that closure. one person was taken to the hospital but no word this afternoon on their condition. >>> you can find out when breaking news happened right when we do sign up for breaking news text alerts, text cbs philly news all one word to 84816. >>> well, a summer-like sizzle has now descended on the region. we are under a heat advisory at this hour. "eyewitness news" in center city philadelphia where some braved the heat, and the blazing sun in the park, shade and cool drink certainly proved useful today. the heat, did give some students the afternoon off, at philadelphia school district dismissed at 12:15 today as a result of the temperatures. >>> lets go outside, we have team coverage of the heat, meteorologists kathy orr and carol erickson. katie, we will start with on you the sky deck, it was a hot one. >> cer

city, i'm elizabeth hur cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> elizabeth, thank you very much. >> one person is dead. 16 others in critical condition when twin tornadoes sweep through nebraska. look at this dramatic video tape that captured those twin twisters carving a path of destruction in stanton county northwest of the omaha. more than half a of of the town of pilger has reportedly been wiped out. they're assessing the damage and the governor of nebraska declared a state of emergency. >> and this is just an "eyewitness news". it shows the damage left behind by the twisters. you can see it is extensive and horrifying. many are being told to stay it way from this area so that first responders can do their jobs. our meteorologist kathy orr is here now with more on how these unusual twin tornadoes came to be. kathy? >>> chris, during the evolution live cycle of a tornado it is not that rare to see it changing and evolving and having more than one vortices or funnel. two tornadoes touching down and creating significant damage. when you look at the picture it is amazing see this captured. eerily

. elizabeth hur is in south philadelphia near the scene with the very latest now, liz. >> reporter: chris and jessica, right now we are standing at corner of 20th and morris where officials have have set up their staging area, this is whereas can see behind me here fire crews and paramedics are on stand bias police have officially declared a barricade situation. that situation, according to police is just a block over in the 2,000 block of mountain street new as far as the information is concerned, this is what we know at this point. police say it was shortly before 5:00 this evening eyewitnesses told police two men opened fire. their target appeared to be a white car. police say a 13 year-old is sitting inside that car, was hit twice, once in his thigh, and once in his arm. we found that car nearby, park in the 2,000 block of hamburger street and we in fact saw about a handful of bullets on the front passenger side of that car. and, at this point as you mentioned police say that the 13 year-old was immediately rushed to chop and right now that child is listed in stable condition. once again

elizabeth hur is there live tonight with breaking details. liz? >> reporter: jessica and chris, police say a 67 year old man is in the hospital fighting for his life at this hour. after he was shot and robbed in this parking lot behind me here. now as you can see, police detectives are still here gathering evidence as they continue to try to track down the suspects who were still out there. now, let's show you some video we shot just as soon as we got to the scene. police say the victim together with his 68 year old friend both were customers here leaving the gun range when a man and a woman both armed with guns approached them and announced robbery. police say both of the victims complied and gave up their wallets, cell phones, money and even their guns. but police say the suspects still turned violent. >> for some reason, after the robbery, our male perpetrator fired one shot striking our 67 year old victim in his groin. and he's present until critical condition. the suspects male and female then fled the scene in a dar dark-colored vehicle with dark tinted windows. so now these two

elizabeth hur cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> liz, thank you. a teen gunman armed with rival kills a student and injures a teacher before taking his own life at an oregon high school. this happened at reynolds high school in the town of trout dale near portland. after opening fire, the suss spec was found dead in a bathroom. students and staff held their hands in the air as they were evacuated from the school and police cleared the scene. >> we just heard two gunshots. everyone was freaking out and we all ran into the weight room hallway and we just hid and locked all the doors. >> the motive for that shooting is now under investigation. there's in word on the identity of that gunman. >>> the us now is averag averagg about 16 active shooter incidents year that's about three times as many as a decade ago. a study by text tuck state university found between 2,009 and 212476 people were shot, 209 killed and active shooter situations. >> swimmers at the delaware beaches are on alert after frightening encounter in the water. a teenager suffered a shark bite there and tonight we can see th

and tonight police searched that child's home. "eyewitness news" reporter elizabeth hur is live at southwest detectives with the latest on this disturbing case. liz? >> reporter: jessica, we just got an update from police and police tell us two people now face charges in this case and they are the child's mother and her boyfriend and police confirm they now know where the girl got the drugs from and we are told it came from the girl's home. because of their sensitive assignment, we were asked not to show the faces of these narcotics investigators in this case called to search the home of a sick year old girl who brought 11 packs of heroin to school. >> all the parents are concern concerned. >> i was afraid. my child is seven years old. >> expressing fear, shock and anger are parents of the 20 first graders from barry elementary school led on to a schoolbus to be check out app chop after possibly being exposed to the drug which even in small doses can be deadly. >> we know that one of the packages clearly looks like it was bitten and we do have one student saying that the young lady

rains led to flooding in parts of montgomery county elizabeth hur got close up look at the mess she's life in cheltenham township. liz? >> reporter: jessica, we chose this location just hours ago because we were standing in front of road closed signs due to flooding, and the source of that flooding was what you see behind me here, at a cooney creek that looked like a raging river as you can see it has calmed down quite a bit. from abington to pli morning meeting and elkins park -- >> it was crazy. a couple feet. >>> roads turned in rivers in minutes. >> in the course of 10 maps we went from there's water out there to oh, my god the water is all there. >> reporter: leaving the oswalds in awe. >> truly the definite anything of a flash flood. truly. >> reporter: and this father and daughter stranded. >> when we were going it was just drizzling and then when we -- after we took out our books it was pouring. >> it was a tremendous downpour and we decided we'll camp out in the library and rode some books. >> get nothing where fast appears to have been the case for many in montgomery county