Jim, we are this close. Yeah. It is coming. Yes. Yes, did you know that. Yes, more about them. Roadways are looking good, nice and dry for the the most part, a lot of construction, we will talk about septa as well. Yes. Weather is nice and quiet. How about yesterday, gorgeous summer day, finally kick out that humidity and then again this morning nice comfortable conditions. Dew points on the low side by august standard down around 60 s allowed our air temperatures to cool during the overnight per with the dryer air in place. Feeling nice and comfortable in philadelphia. 68 degrees your current temperature. Sixtyfive down the shore. Even a little cool, might need long sleeve in the poconos at 55 degrees. The storm scan three showing a bunch of nothing. We had nice sunshine and now we are clearing with clear sky conditions. We have another boot any store. 75 degrees. Bright, comfortable. Beautiful to get out there on your lunch hour. Mostly sunny skies, 82 degrees. Humidity levels stay on the the low side but we will increase them as we head into tonight, and more humid day for friday. We will talk about that and all important weekend forecast, meisha, coming up in a couple minutes. Looking beautiful, thanks, very much. Good morning everyone. Im still dealing with that cough, just bear with me. Looking at the vine we are closed overnight ever since dnc left the vine closure between schuylkill and broad is back on the road for overnight construction. It is closed west and east bound, and ill let you know when it does and when it comes back down. For traffic, construction near project we have been talking about is now completed, on 202, great news for those around 202 but what is still right now we have three lanes opened instead of just two but we are seeing overnight construction, more of that clean up around that area between route 30 and route 401. We will be dealing with that around there but overall we are looking good at that construction project, is now completed. Construction here in new jersey 42 southbound to the 295 northbound will be closed until 5 00 a a. M. Also northbound between the 25 and route 55, one to two lanes are block until 5 00 a. M. And then 295 north and south at route 45, left lane is block, until around 3 30, jim, over to you. New this morning a man is in Critical Condition after a shooting in the fair hill section of philadelphia. It happened at 2 00 this morning in the 2800 block of american street. The 54 yearold man was shot in the leg and back and rushed to temple hospital. Police have no motive and so far, no suspects. Well, trump taj mahal will shut down after labor day. Employees are set to get their layoff notices by even of the week. Casino was opened in 1990 by developer donald trump and had a share of problems. Property is now own by trumps friend businessman carl icahn. Workers began striking last month in the dispute over health care. It is longest casino based strike in Atlantic Citys history. I have four children. We cannot support our family on these jobs without health care. We dont want to be on subsidized living. Add day for Atlantic City. A the lot of people will get hurt not just union people. Thousands of people will be without jobs when the casino closes next month. It will be fifth casino to shut down in Atlantic City any two years. Atlantic club, show boat, revel and trump plaza all closed. Eyewitness News Reporter jan carabao will have a live update in about 30 minutes. Today a former philadelphia a Catholic Church official is out of prison but back in court for a hearing. This is video of the monsignor william lynn, leaving the prison on tuesday. Lynn was quick of conspiring to protect pedophile priests, in the philadelphia archdiocese, and his convictions, has now been overturn, twice, and we talk to the parents of the abuse victim shawn mcilmail who died of a Drug Overdose abe his parent are furious lynn is free, once again. It is an insult, it is a lap in the face. My son was a boosted. Because of his decisions. The judge at the hearing is expect to set a new trial date, for monsignor lynn. Eyewitness News Reporter justin finch will have a live update in the 5 00 a. M. Hour. This morning a man is facing dui charge after police say he crashed his car into a philadelphia home. It all happened just after 7 00 oclock yesterday in the 6400 block of allergen avenue, that is in the Oxford Circle section of northeast philadelphia. Investigators say the driver was speeding, when he lost control of his car, drove on to the lawn and then into the home. The driver had minor injuries, the woman was home at the time but she was not hurt. Septa a services on the media elwyn line is backup, and running after a person was hit and killed by a train in delaware county. This happened at 9 30 last night between fern wood, yeadon and angora a station. Passengers were transferred to the bus while Police Conduct an investigation at the scene. Heres some good news for septa aridders, septa says the train cars pulled from services in july will start coming back soon. Ten new cars will return to services each week starting later this month. Septa expects to be on a normal weekday schedule by early october. More than 120 silver liner cars were pulled from Services Early last month after crack where is found in the train car, under carriage. And local law firms want to talk to people in horsham and other communities affected by contaminated water. Lawyers have been exploring lawsuits after tests found contaminated water in wells. Contamination was blamed on Fire Fighting foam used at Naval Air Warfare Center in warminster and Willow Grove Naval air center in horsham. Two law firms are holding a, meeting in horsham. Well, this morning a new study find pennsylvania is a monk the worst states in the country when it comes to Student Loan Debt. Consumer web site wallet hub compared 50 states plus the district of columbia, pennsylvania came in at number 47, and was among the state with the highest average Student Loan Debt and highest portions of students with debt. Maine, oregon, west virginia, washington d. C. Faired worse. Delaware rang 19th, new jersey ranked 22nd. Vicepresident joe by ups efforts to fight cancer are being recognized right here in philadelphia a. This was the scene last night at hyatt at bellevue where he received at last award from the World Affairs council. The award for his leadership on cancer moon shot 2020 which is an effort to develop new treatments for the disease. His son, beau biden, died of brain cancer last year. After receiving the award he spoke exclusively with our own Ukee Washington and they discussed the cancer moon shot and other topics including the race for president and g. O. P. Nominee donald trump. I have have a lot of friend, republicans senators and they are perplexed at the what seems to be the constant self infliction of wound. They dont understand why would he take on a gold star mother and father, why would he be not endorsing, the republican leader of the house paul ryan. Donald trump, some of the things he says shows that he is cluelesson some of the Foreign Policy issues. Vicepresident also talk about Hillary Clinton, you can hear that plus what he says he will do when he is out of the office during the exclusive interview tonight on Eyewitness News at 11 00. You have seen them around the city but they are heading out soon. Donkeys around town will be leaving philadelphia, a few weeks early. Reason, the philadelphia 2016 Host Committee for Democratic National convention says those donkeys are high maintenance. The volunteers who took care of them are now gone, and now that the dnc is over with, so most of the donkeys will be heading to their home states. Fiftytwo of the 57 donations have signed up to take their donkeys home. Donkeys will be taken off of the street on august 23rd. Now not all of the donkeys will go home to their home states though, new york, connecticut, puerto rico and American Samoa has not claimed their by yesterday afternoon they left their donkeys behind. Yes. Exactly. Well, as Hillary Clinton and donald trump trade attacks the on the campaign trail libertarian side is making it case. Parties president ial nominee and running mate made their case at a town tall last night. We will show you why they say voters should think about supporting them and their big goals in the coming months. Hurricane earlies making land fall in Central America. The reason people are worried about this storm. Stay with your daughter wants youfrom artificial ingredients. You want to stay free from artificial preservatives. And your debit card wants to stay on a diet. Fill your cart with Small Victories like giants natures promise brand. Great prices on over 800 items. Eat well for less. Only at my giant. In London Police are trying to figure out why an attacker with a knife killed one person and hurt five more people. Witness described how police and ambulances flooded the scene in london for full square. A body on the floor, which you could see, you could see the boot underneath from where the rest of the person was. Police took an 19 yearold man in custody. Although initial reports indicated police were treating it as terrorism a London Police official say they are not ruling anything out. Early indications suggest that Mental Health is a significant factor in this case and it was that kind of an inquiry. At this stage we should keep an open mind regarding motive and consequently terrorism, as a motivation remains a inquiry for us to explore. So far police have not announced the condition of the five survivors of that london attack. On the cam paper trail donald trump is on the attack against Hillary Clinton a again labeling her as quote founder of ice is, at a rally yesterday. Meanwhile a fox news poll released wednesday has her leading trump by ten points. The libertarian side took center stage during cnn town hall last night. President ial nominee gary johnson and his running mate bill well tried to portrait them self as a option for people not happy with the democratic or republican ticket. Either trump or clinton are elected, that things will be more polarized then ever, neither side will get along with the other, and what if you elect a couple of former republican governors, two term, reelect, running as libertarians what if you elect them as president and vicepresident calling out both side. Johnson is a former governor of new mexico and weld a former governor of massachusetts. They say one of the big priorities is getting a spot long side republican and democratic nominees. For that to happen they need support from the at least 15 percent of voters in national polls. Fox news poll released yesterday shows them at 12 percent. Hurricane earlies making land fall in Central America. This is video from the area on the coast of the yucatan peninsula, expected to hit bellies and mexico over next few you hours and intense rainfall is a big concern since it may lead to flooding and mud slides. You dont want to hear that. No. Our weather, hopefully, all right. Nice so far for august. Also off to a good start after a hot and humid july. Temperatures coming down, humidity coming down a lot. Gorgeous day yesterday, beautiful, we will have another nice one today if you like yesterday. Temperatures are even a little cooler outside. 62 degrees right now for an august morning in the Lehigh Valley in the middle 50s in the poconos. 65 degrees in ac. Sixtytwo in millville and calling in at 68 degrees in philadelphia, right now. We have a dry air in place that allows temperatures to cool more efficiently throughout the overnight period, dew points down in the 50s and lower 60s meaning it feels nice and comfortable when you step outside. That will be the case all through the case once again today, mostly sunny, comfortable, up to 87 and that is our average high at 6 03. Wind will be light through the day today and calm overnight tonight. A few passing clouds and turning muggy as we head to the second half of the overnight period dropping down to about 68 degrees, but nice, quiet conditions, once again with High Pressure in control across the eastern see game. Storm scan three shows us closest precipitation off to the south and west over parts of the virginia and we will have another dry day in store for us, but of course we are just talking about hurricane earl has just made happened fall near belize city in belize, still a category one hurricane and as we talk about the biggest concern now with earl will be that rainfall. We could see rainfall amounts over this area in mexico and Central America up to 18 inches and flooding will be a big concern there but for us, just another nice day, and tomorrow looks pretty great as well, 87 degrees but we will turn more humid by second half of tomorrow for upcoming weekend, wet day, meisha is on the saturday with scattered showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon but by sunday beautiful once again. It looks great, all right, that is a forecast we can take, thank you so much. Happy gateway to our weekend, and we will look outside right now at 202 where we have that construction project that is now complete. What we are dealing with is overnight clean up, and this is between route 30 and 401, one lanes are opened as opposed to two, great news for those taking 202 in that area we have an overnight construction project between the schuylkill and broad that is back out there, westbound side looks like it is just opening right now, eastbound side usually follows, good ten to 15 minutes afterward. Tacony palmyra bridge is up, you can barely see it. Ill let you know when it comes back down for construction. Route 42 southbound ramp to 295 northbound and take a look at this still out there 42 northbound between the 25 and route 55, one to two lanes block until around 5 00 a. M. However 295 northbound and southbound at route 45 you are looking good and all clear, jim, over to you. We will be right back with business news, stay with well column back. Time for a check on business news. Money watchs jill wagner joins us live from the new york stock exchange, good morning, jill, lets talk about these big changes at cvs, i know the drugstore chain will no longer cover some drugs, is that right. Reporter that is right, cvs health will add 35 products to the list of excluded drugs next year, and no longer cover some treatment for cancer, diabetes. Now this is first time brand name cancer drugs of been taken off of cvss standard list. Company Officials Say they are taking a stand against egregious drug price increases that unnecessarily add cost for clients and their members. Brooke and jim. Well, jill, i understand walmart may make a big purchase trying to compete with amazon. Com, what is that all about. Reporter yeah, walmart is reportedly in talks to buy jet. Com an on line retailer that launched last year to take on amazon. Jet kind of operates like on line costcos or sams club. Membership will cost you 60 bucks a year but members say ten to 15 percent on products. This battle is interesting because i wouldnt have guessed walmart would be the one stepping up, every time they have a big sailor Something Like that, a amazon event coming up, walmart does it too, this is interesting. Im not a big on line shopper. Anything that helps consumers. Thanks very much, jill. Lauren is keeping an eye on your forecast. On your forecast. She has all next, stay with and spent eleven months in a pow vcamp. M what donald trump said about our members of the military being captured is a disgrace. Hes a war hero because he was captured. I like people that werent captured. When you fly over enemy territory, the odds might be against you being able to come home. Donald trump doesnt understand the weight of sending americans into harms way. Hes unfit to be president. Priorities usa action is responsible for the content of this advertising. Welcome back. Your time is 4 53 early on a thursday morning. If you liked yesterdays weather youll like today as well. Another very nice day in store comfortable humidity levels, warm temperatures and another round of sunshine, once that sun gets up over the horizon but still darkness right now as we look live at Center City Philadelphia all is quiet and temperatures on the coolish side, certainly by august standards. 68 degrees. Wind out of the north at 3 miles per hour, nice and light. We have certainly gotten a big break over the last couple days, yesterday felt awesome. How it will feel through the daytoday pleasant once again, not too bad as we head into tomorrow but humidity on the increases specially in the second half of the day and then by saturday, steamy once again, oppressive to insufferable humidity levels. We will bounce back as we head into sunday feeling comfortable once again. Really pleasant weather over next couple days and relaxing today, dont have to go to the work place down the shore poconos beautiful conditions at both locations, meisha, timed temperatures at 82 degrees, down the shore and delaware beaches a and in the upper 70s in the poconos. We really cant complain about this forecast. Looks great. Thanks very much. Good morning. Happy thursday. Tacony palmyra bridge opened up at 4 45 and still opened and let you know when that comes down. Vine, all clear, looking good, moving in the the west and eastbound direction just waking up with us, this was closed so that construction between schuylkill and broad. New jersey 42 freeway first look at new jersey looking good, looking just as we wanted it, as we approach the 5 00 oclock hour but 42 northbound between the 25 and 55, one to two lanes are block and this is opening up in about five minutes or soso we will let you know when it does. Great news for septa a regional railcars back in services during august 21st, take a look, ten cars per week, all cars are, excuse me, scheduled to be in service by week of november 6th, normal Weekday Service by early october. Great news. We will talk about that all morning long, and also pennsylvania turnpike eastbound between willow grove and bensalem that right lane block there, jim, over to you. Meisha is all choke up about this next story, a canadian woman decided she would celebrate canadas 150th birthday by tying herself to a bunch of balloons and floating in the sky. 150th birthday is not until next year but it marks 150 take a count down. Fortunately shes a professional sky diver and she was tethered to the ground the whole time. That is most important part she was tethered to the ground. I think i would do this, can you you believe that. No, would you not do that. Yes, that is true. I thought it looked cool. It looked cool but you would not do that. 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Lauren and meisha are here keeping an eye on things this morning. Good morning, happy gateway. If only it was that easy. It is coming in. Good morning you guys, things are looking good, roadways are nice and dry, construction out there and some great news for our septa riders this morning. Well, we will only open a door for a day saturday, opened and then shut by sunday, and get back out of here, but for today nice conditions, once again, yesterday, that humidity, it really was absent and it is august, it was such a nice feeling day and once again we are dealing with dew points on the lower side, certainly by august standard and with that dryer air in place our temperatures, these are the coolest we have felt in quite sometime after spending 16 days in philadelphia in the 90s last month. 68 degrees. That feels nice. Sixtyone down the shore. Middle 50s in the poconos. Might even to have break out sweat shirt this morning. Storm scan three showing us very quiet conditions, we have High Pressure in control across the eastern s