It is a gateway to our weekend, you guys. Oh, yeah. Yes, it is. Good morning. For you guys out there we have an overturn vehicle, thank you for tweets we have been getting, out there construction but good thing is that the roadways are nice and dry and katie, we are hoping it will stay that way after yesterday. Welshing not necessarily. We will have a couple thunderstorms to dodge, as the day progresses. The story will be the heat. It is so, hot outside later today we have a excessive heat warning that will take effect here. We will take you to sky scan three. It is still damp. There are still some signs that there is some rain that moved through last night. The center sit friday our cbs3 studios looking clear, however but we will talk about the potential for thunderstorms in a second. The let talk about the heat first. The that is the bigger head line for us. As of noon that excessive heat warning goes into effect for our area and we will see basically just i95 and five counties here be rolfe in that for frankly what could be dangerous heat not taking precautions. Heat index rally with yous will sore to 100 or above as we go through the height of the afternoon. Now looking the at storm scan three at this live zoom we will telltale signs rolling through western central pennsylvania heavy duty thunderstorms in the course of the last three hours. They have had a chance to somewhat sizzle but we are still sitting in the middle of some unsettled air here. So as a result eventually some showers and storms will fire backup for us. Currently temperatures are already in the mid to upper 70s. The once sun comes up we can only go up from here. It sound like it will be a hot one, katie. Thank you so much. Good morning everyone. Good news it is still early. So roadways are looking calm right now. We have construction out there and so lets get right to it. Vine street is closed both moving in the west and eastbound direction. I will let you know when that opens backup. Construction schuylkill eastbound from the ramps to the vine left lane is closed leading up to the vine there. You can see these arrows pushing you to the righthand side. We are still looking good though. A lot of vehicles. Ninetyfive south at cottman, off the s curve, it is looking good. It got bus bye you not until the 6 00 oclock hour. Ac expresswaye bound at williamstown is moved off to the shoulder. Great news for those in that area. Construction on 322 is closed a at route 54 at 6 00 a. M. More on that, coming up. Jim, over to youing. Buzz is swirling arent donald trump. Who will he choose for vicepresident for campaign 2016. We have a report from new york, the big decision is expected tomorrow. Reporter donald trump says he has brought down his vicepresident ial picks to two, ahead of his big announcement. Appearing on fox news, he hinted at who his vp might be. I want to pick somebody who is solid, smart, im in the looking for an attack dog. Reporter former house dog Newt Gingrich indicated the choice myself be between him and indiana governor mike pence. I know sitting by the phone waiting. Reporter he hud with the gingrich anal bam a senator Jeff Sessions in indianapolis wednesday. Meetings came after trump and his three eldest children met with governor pence at his mansion. He is giving it careful consideration, and, were humled to be part of that. Reporter new poll find trump gaining ground in several key swing states, including florida, and pennsylvania. In illinois, yesterday the Presumptive Democratic candidate continued to paint herself as a unifier, delivering an address from the same location where Abraham Lincoln made his famous house divided speech. Donald trump is so dangerous. His campaign is as divisive as any we have seen in our lifetime. Reporter clinton has been eyeing virginia senator tim kane as a potential vp, she will campaign alongside him in his home state today. Brian web for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Eyewitness news anchor jessica dean will be in cleveland to cover the Republican National convention, and it gets underway on monday. Look for her reports next week on Eyewitness News. In the meantime, count down continues until the Democratic National convention right here in philadelphia. We are just 11 days away from the opening gavel at the wells fargo center. As a source reported yesterday there is a a potential problem for delegates in town. Hundreds of the workers at Philadelphia International airport have voted to strike. There is in walk out date set but baggage handlers, wheelchair attendants and other workers want better schedules, clarity on sick pay and they want to unionized. Mayor jim kenney says he supports workers and does not anticipate strikers, interfering with the dnc. It was a strong show of solidarity for Philadelphia Police in northeast philadelphia. It was the hundreds, lined the streets at frankford and cottman avenue in mayfair for a pro police rail. They wanted to show their support for men and women in blue. We need to support our Police Department, because at the end of the the day when something happens, when your family is hurt, that is who you call. I have a lot of friend who are cops, cousins who are cops, so, they go through a hard time every day and you have to get out there and show them thaw care. Reporter tempers flared for some who carried a black lives matter sign. But rally ended peacefully. Community leaders, Law Enforcement officials and citizens in north philadelphia are coming together time prove relation was police. State representative Curtis Thomas called meeting at 12th and Cambria Rec Center last night. Group wants to end, wants a end to gun violence in philadelphia neighborhoods. We dont need these weapons anymore. We need to have a new system but it is not the fact of having a new system but it is correcting what we had and stick with what is good for the whole community, period. State representative thomas says there had been 135 homicide in the city of philadelphia so far this year, that is up 4 percent over last year. Funeral services are expected tomorrow and saturday for two Police Officers killed last week in dallas. Services for three of the officers took place yesterday. Hundreds gathered to remember five fiveyear old Sergeant Michael smith. Public service for former army ranger is set for today at noon in dallas. Officers, stood with the family ace corporal loren ahrens. It included members of the Los Angeles Police department where he started his career. The former Football Player was a 14 year vet of dallas Police Department and gun solute honored brent thompson. And thompsons daughter whats motional as she recalled a special routine that she shared with her father. I would say good bye, daddy, love you, be safe. Good bye, we love you, be safe. Tomorrow, Dallas Police officer michael krol will be laid to rest. Funeral for officer Patrick Zamarripa is sat the day. Turmoil at temple is taken another turn as we told you last night at 11 00. Future of temple universitys leadership is in the hand of the board of trustees. They have voted in favor of the firing president neil theobald, they do not support how he ousted the schools provost, di. He was accused of being responsible for a 22 milliondollar short fall. Primarily because of the boards concerns about the way that president theobald handled the events leading up to the dismissal of provost di. Im disappointed. I didnt really expect that. We never heard anything bad about our president. Theobald reportedly was given a chance to resign his position as temples president and refused. The board of trustees will vote to officially fire him next week. Meanwhile di also denies report that he sexually harassed a employee. He released a statement saying accusations were quote, complete and utter fabrications, end quote. Di went on to say, i will not rest or retreat until i have persued every avenue available to me, including through a court of law, to restore my good name, end quote. It is on the way, right now were talking about pokemon go. Coming up why park rangers are, embracing the, mobile game and how people are making money off the new obsession. And find out how you can bike the streets without washing the cars. We will show you the 9mile stretch of the city that is set to go off limits, to set to go off limits, to motorized vehicles when for all those pokers, prodders, shuckers and sniffers, all giant produce is triple checked. Were focusing on fresh. So you dont have to guess. My giant. Are going to feel super fresh. They just came from one of our many nearby farms. Were focusing on fresh so you dont have to guess. My giant. Police are investigating a serious car crash that left six people hurt including three children. Two cars collided around 5 00 yesterday on Martin Luther king drivein fairmount park. Chopper three was over the scene between falls bridge and Strawberry Mansion bridge, both vehicles suffered heavy damage. The injured were taken to Hahnemann University hospital but no details just yet on their conditions. Well, pennsylvania legislators take another step toward permanently legalizing Ride Sharing Services across the state. Governor tom wolf signed a bill allowing uber lyft and other companies to operate in philadelphia through september. Legislation reenforces the agreement announced last week between the Philadelphia Parking Authority and uber. Lawmakers are expect to vote on a bill to permanently legalize Ride Sharing Services across the state this fall. Well, mark your calendar, car free in south street from sprees street harbor park to the south street bridge will be closed to vehicular traffic on september 24th, between 8 00 a. M. And 1 00 p. M. Walkers and cyclist had been asking for this ever since icy shut down streets for the papal visit last september. City is planning fun activities along the route. National park service in philadelphia is embracing the pokemon go app craze. Now you may be able to find and capture those pokemon creatures on independent mall. Now contrary to offering to help, they believe pokemon app will bring in a younger crowd to experience the historic sites. For the young people down to the other sites, that may not have as much visitation say as the liberty bell, or independence hall. Some people are offering to drive pokemon hunters around the city. We found one that charges 50 for two hours and, guess what, he says business is good. Wow. Look, jimmies speechless. People just need to get a life. A lot of people say that but it is a game, and i like when people find something that makes them happy, there is so much madness in this world, jim. But they are so focused on a device. That is not true if you are safe and you are smart, but if you are just Walking Around your neighborhood and i think it makes me happy to see people so happy. That is good. That is good. Katie, help me. I can appreciate that. Whatever it takes, jim, yes. It is a good thing. But yes, you know, at the same time, you can have too much of a good friend and you can have too much as far as heats concerned. We will turn over to the Weather Forecast where at the moment we have a couple showers currently rolling through north of philadelphia and those pockets of rain are heavier. There were heavy thunderstorms rumbling through western pennsylvania, most of which have since sizzled but we are still just on the leading edge or just out ahead of the cold front which is going to help eventually to not, put temperatures back a little bit but for right now we have to dodge these scattered showers and thunderstorms this particular pocket will sizzle and we are done with wet weather for the rest of the morning. The as day progresses isolated showers and storms will fire up once more. They hud not be as widespread as yesterday but look at these dew points, my gosh, so muggy outside. Temperature is almost on par with where these dew points currently stand this air mass is essentially near saturation. Once we see sun coming up and temperatures sore to 94 degrees or so with the higher humidity it will feel oppressive outside. One hundred to 104 is basically the range of feels like values across the region. Friday we will feel like it is flirting with a hundred or up to that point. So today really is the worst in terms of how it will feel outside but we will keep you at 94 appease for both today and tomorrow. Frankly dangerous heat to be outside in, if you have to the to work or construction, landscape, take frequent breaks and be careful in this. Meanwhile by tomorrow, we expect dry weather overall looking to the weekend we can expect temperatures to rebound in the upper 80s, meisha. Katie, thank you so much. Good morning everybody. Happy thursday. We have a lot of construction out there, schuylkill eastbound leading to the vine we have lost that left lane. Over here you can see in the flashing lights that little arrow telling you to move on over. Overall it is looking good on the the schuylkill anywhere that we look granted, it is so early before the 5 00 oclock hour. We will see this start to change and we will also notice how many headlights are out there. A the lot of vehicles on the roadway already, not even to 5 00 oclock hour. Vine, just now opening, in the westbound direction and the eastbound side is just starting to somewhat open upright now. Westbound side is looking good. So overturn vehicle where we have it ac expressway eastbound at williamstown that has been cleared. Great news for those in that area. Construction route 322 is closed a at route 54 and as i said, closed until 6 00 a. M. Also Road Construction on 295 northbound before route 32, two right lanes are block, this will be opening up around 5 00 a. M. Take a look speaking of 42, 42 north ramp to 295 north that ramp is closed until 5 00 a. M. I have Road Construction on 42 coming up in ten minutes. Jim, over to you. If you are heading out the door stay up to date with our forecast on our sister station kyw news radio 106o also horsham township is getting a ten milliondollar grant to continue to struggle with public Water Systems being contaminated by chemicals. Philadelphians have gotten more mobile, in recent years in the new study they have found some intriguing patterns. Actor Brian Cranston is in a new movie, the one will have some thoughts on the infiltrator. Check in two, three, four times a day on kyw news radio 1060 on your am dial. Still ahead on Eyewitness News this morning. Lost and found. We have an update on the flag that honored the ultimate sacrifice paid by a vietnam war vet. That is coming up when we come right welcome back. In pennsylvania we could see a cigarette tax hike of is first dollar per pack to help balance the state budget. Similar taxis 2. 60. The tax hike is part of the 1. 3 billion revenue package signed by governor tom wolf. They extended the state 6 percent sales tax to digital down loads of music, videos, games, books, apps. Passage of the revenue package comes less than 48 hours after the budget became law without wolfs signature. Well, time is 4 50. Time for a check of business news. Money watchs hena daniels joins us live from the new york stock exchange. Hena the Chinese Government is expect to hack into fbi secret computers. What can you tell us about that. Reporter good morning, guys. This broke overnight. They possibly hacked in the hack in the computers. A congressional report says breach took place in 2010, 211, and 2013. The breach included the work stations of then fbi chair, fdic, insures bank deposit and keeps controversial information on 9,000 banks and savings and loans. Brooke and jim. That doesnt sound good. Electric car maker tesla unveiled a cheaper version model of its x, suv, is that right. Reporter that is right. Of course, cheap is a relative term, this is a new model x, starting at 47,000, and it comes down to 66,500. So is that cheap . I guess it depend on the customer. It does have a estimated driving range on a full charge of 200 miles. Back to you. Ill pass, but thank you very much. You do not seem to be a tesla fan. Im not spending that much money on any car. I appreciate it. Coming up after the break, we will check on weather and it is a hot one. Well, good morning everyone. We have a couple of showers to dodge out there right now on the area radar but the key is, more than anything when it comes to weather head line is the heat that is just going to score much us here today. When you factor in the humidity it is a day you want to find indoor activities, or unless you plan to be sitting by the pool or place to cool off very readily here. Looking at current radar a couple of showers rolling into portions of west central new jersey. Do i think we will see some sun here today but watch out for a late the day shower or thunderstorm. Shore is a good place to head, if you are trying to beat the heat or 85 degrees. Friday up to 88, back in the sunshine and we have humidity to day is the steamy, of the next few, and again, excessive heat warning and also now into the Eyewitness Weather Center a heat advisory for anybody not in the warning. 94 degrees today, tomorrow. Slightly easing up then for the upcoming weekend, meisha, over to you. We are seeing wet roadways in the camera shots we are looking at right now. Take a look at some construction we have on the schuylkill eastbound leading up to the vine, left lane looking wet in this area. Also, take a look at this you can see that shine on the bridge letting you know it is wet, so it will be slick, if it is slippery. Take heed of the warning, as we said every morning when we have wet weather because we always could see some stuff pop up here later because of the wet roadways. Ben franklin bridge is looking good, ill have more coming up in ten minutes, brooke, over to you. American flag stolen from a North Wildwood family from the fourth of july is back where it belongs. The flag is a family heirloom that honors memory of patrick cork ran who died during vietnam war at age of 19. When someone took the flag last week his family got out that they wanted it back no questions asked, a few days later an unidentified woman dropped it off. Just walk up, put this on the rocker, and said, this is yours. So, by the time i got out of the house, it was back in the car and left. The people that took the flag, i sincerely thank you for making a right out of a wrong. The corkran family plans to continue their tradition of flying the flag every memorial day in patricks honor. Very nice. Coming up in the next hour of cbs3 Eyewitness News a family prepares to say good bye to Philando Castille the man killed by police last week. We will tell but a vigil happening today to pay tribute to him in our area. And some beer drinkers battling the bulge, we have the change coming to beer bottles and cans, coming back at the top of the hour stay at the top of the hour stay with longhorns grilled tastes of summer. Our new smoky pepper crusted filet. Our new hawaiian salmon. And our famous outlaw ribeye. But hurry, summer doesnt last forever. Only at longhorn steakhouse. You cant fake steak. Well, get ready for an extremely, uncomfortable day, looking live at center sit the eye, katie is tracking the excessive heat. Wow, wow. Hundreds rally showing support for police but tempers did flare. See confrontation we caught on camera. Will it be donald trump when he reveals his pick for vp. We will tell you who is on the short list of potential running mates. Today is thursday, july 14th, good morning im jim donovan. Im brooke thomas. Katie and meisha are here keeping an eye on things this morning. Good morning. We are starting to look wet in some areas right now and we have a very serious accident in cherry hill, so just take it easy this morning. One little will pocket too. There is a little sliver of showers currently moving through. We will get to that in a second. Lets talk about the heat. Yes. It is really rough stuff, guys. New advisory actually posted, and it takes effect at noon time today. It is not in effect yet but make no mistake it is muggy outside but excessive heat. We have excessive heat warning, that is your hot pink, but also heat advisory, that is that burnt orange look. We will see that take effect at noon time today for all surrounding counties. As of at least the last half an hour or so it just was the excessive heat warning, but we know it will be hot enough for National Weather service has since issued the heat advisory for everybody else. So it really will be the core of that excessive heat does hit 95 throughout the day. That is where we will see heat index values sore to one hundred or above and frankly dangerous to be outside if
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