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KYW Eyewitness News At 430 August 10, 2016

That heres other good stuff to katie and meisha getting out of the door the right way. That is right, good morning. Happy wednesday. Things are looking good. We have an accident in delaware we will get to that in a moment and a lot of construction. Starting things off on a busy note. The it is still quiet when it comes to the heather but things starting to go downhill here. Looking at storm scan three at local zoom no make or problems just a couple of cloud, one zoom out shows you some activity to track, and primarily, bypassing us well off to the north here but we are eventually going to get in on this with some showers, thunderstorms that fire up as the day progresses in the second half of it. Excessive heat watch not issued just yet, it start noon time tomorrow and that will last us until 6 00 p. M. A saturday. So, it is going to be a stretch it looks like of some pretty, well, again, excessive heat that fires autopsy cross our region here in the next couple of days. Already off to the mild start, we will drop another couple degrees before the sun comes up and cracking at least 70 degrees, every where across this map, of observations. So it is a very warm start that will get us off to a good start as a result to have no problem and to easily hit 90 degrees and the then the thing is you cant go by the thermometer. Starting to day that humidity ramps up and as it does so it will feel hotter then thermometer read. In addition meisha these showers and storms to track as the day goes on. I could feel humidity walking out the door early. Thank you so much. Looking outside, you guys, the vine it is closed moving, both in the west and eastbound side you can see how quiet. The westbound side is just opening right now. Eastbound side is pretty quickly to follow. We will see that open up quickly. The just know it was closed for that construction overnight. The thinks where we had more construction, mack cade boulevard between swarthmore and blue route. Make note of that. We could see crews out there. There is not enough levels to sustain. That we have lighting maintenance 95 south between walt whitman bridge and broad street. That is moving in the southbound direction on i95. We have an accident this morning, newark, delaware this happened around 3 00 a. M. Track road is closed between route 896 and, whittaker. Use west Chestnut Hill road would be your best bet. I will have more on construction in ten minutes. Joe, over to you. A six yearold philadelphia girl caught in the cross fire is at st. Christophers hospital this morning. We just checked in shes in critical but stable condition. Now, this shooting happened last night while she was playing in front of her East Germantown home. Police say two people exchanged shots in the 6300 block of north wood stock street. One of those bullets hit the girl under her arm. This was very, very disturbing for the police. Help someone gets hit with the stray bullet and they are innocent, that is a particular concern to us. Reporter police say in all 21 shots were fired, several other bullets also hit two parked cars, detectives are searching, for those shooters. Philadelphia police are looking into whether another shooting in East Germantown is related to the one on north wood stock street last night, this one happened about a block away, early this morning a 47 yearold man was shot near 21st and chelten. He told police he was walking near his home when he heard gunfire and realized he was shot. He is in stable condition, and a park car was also hit the by, bullets. Mayors in the three wildwood are calling for beach go tours stay out of the water when life guard are gone. In the past few you days there have been eight rescues and life guard were off the job. Six people were rescued sat the day evening in north wildwood, three more were rescued in wildwood sunday night. One man in the second incident died from his injuries and Eyewitness News still found a few people in the the ocean, long after the sun went down. It is real nice out, not as much people bothering you. Relax, enjoy the scenery, that is really it. Reporter it is not illegal to swim after hours but guard strongly urge people between 10 00 a. M. And 30 00 when life guard are on duty. Eight yearold boy is in Critical Condition after rescuers pulled him from a backyard pool in sicklerville. Police and emergency crew from his winslow township responded to i call late yesterday afternoon from a home on scene you view drive. They say the child nearly drawn. The Camden County Prosecutors Office and Winslow Township Police are investigating. A man accidentally shoots and kills himself at a gun range in philadelphia. This happened on the 500 block of north percy street, in the the cities Spring Garden section, shortly after 7 00 last night. Police say that the 21 yearold man accidentally shot himself once in the the chest and pronounced dead a short time later at hahnemann hospital. Grief counselor will be on hand in Burlington Township middle school after a murder suicide leaves three family members dead. Prosecutors believe ruben johnson, junior killed his wife mishanda and their ten yearold son before turning the gun on himself monday night. Officials have not release aid possible motive but county record indicate that the couple may have been in financial trouble. The home was scheduled for a sheriffs sale in october. Neighbors say they have no eye idea what the family was going through. It is such a complete family. You would never just expect that. So, it is a tragedy. It really is. I didnt see them out much, but the kid was always outside, playful, happy. Older child is attending college out of state. The family has set up a go fund me page to help pay for funeral expenses for mishanda and her son. Details are on our web site at cbs philly. Com. Pennsylvania attorney general Kathleen Kane returns to the norristown courtroom this morning. Prosecutors attempted yesterday to paint kane as a public official out for revenge when they say she leaked secret grand jury information in 2014. Shes accused ovulater lying bit all under oath. Her defense team says that she made a honest not a criminal mistake. The trial is expect to last, a week. We have all been there, at a meeting or out to lunch and you have to stop to pay that parking meter. Now Philadelphia Parking Authority is expanding its meter up program to help with that. The app allows driver to pay for parking through an app even a way from their car. It was only available in center city but now it works city wide. Signs on how to use the app will soon start to appear at meters, and kiosks throughout the city. People who run a casino this maryland are hiring and they want workers from Atlantic City. Mgm National Harbor is hosting a career fair at important the georgia a today as they are trying to filled hundreds of jobs from table games deal tours bartenders. Fairies from noon to 6 00 p. M. But auditions for table game dealers start at 9 00 and will go until 6 00. The franklin institutes monthly science after hours, was a real blast. The events, exclusively reserved for people 21 or older gave them the opportunity to explore the museums hands on exhibit spaces. The last nights theme included exploding experiments. Next science after hours is september 20th, the theme for that night wizard school. All right. Have that much fun you better be 21, that is what it is all about. A former Philadelphia Eagle may soon be trial his hand at something new. Yes, tim tebow announced his plans yesterday and set to have a work out with all 30 major league teams, but there is another team that is hoping to get in on some tebow time. How about this, Atlantic City Police Tweeted this yesterday that the department wished tebow good luck as he tries baseball but they say if that doesnt work out, he would be welcome at the Atlantic City police department. Sound like a good deal. He has options. Yes, he has got some options. Republican date donald trump taking heat for saying, Second Amendment supporters could stop Hillary Clinton. Critics say he is calling for violence but he is saying not so fast, we will tell you what he says he really meant. Plus recent rider say he saw something wrong on the water slide where a young boy died over the weekend, what it was that concerned 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. Back on Eyewitness News with the latest on campaign 2016. Donald trum is in hot the water again and his Campaign Leading round for controversial comments about the Second Amendment. Hillary wants to abolish essentially abolish the Second Amendment. By the way if she gets to pick. If she get to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, i dont know. Well, republican nominee maintains the remarks yesterday were a call for political mobilization or unification. Clintons campaign and other democrats accused trump of insighting violence. Then trump tweeted media desperate to distract from clintons anti 2a stance, i said pro 2a and Second Amendment, citizens must organize and get out vote to save our constitution. Well this morning there are questions about the state departments relationship with the Clinton Foundation during Hillary Clintons tenure as secretary of state. Judicial watch released 296 pages of emails, New York Times reports some emails show the foundation tried to grant donor access and influence at the state department. The Clinton Campaign says emails do not involve her or relate to the nonprofits work. Heart breaking news this morning in iraq, a fire, erupted overnight in the baghdad hospital and killed 11 new born babies. Investigators believe that the fire started as an electrical short circuit in the maternity ward. Seven other babies and 29 new movies were rescued. Awful story. Part of the kansas water park is reopening three days after a ten yearold boy died there. The 17 story water slide he died on will stay closed for the rest of the season. An autopsy shows schwab died after a neck injury. One person who was ridden the water slide tells cbs affiliate kc tv says safety restraints on his raft were not working properly when he rode july 26th. So far no comment from the park. He is called the worlds most successful olympian and with good reason, Michael Phelps has 21 gold medals to his name. He won 200meter butterfully yesterday four years after losing it at london olympics. That means u. S. Continues its lead in the medal counts, right now u. S. 26 medals, nine gold. China second with 17 overall and japan now in third with 14. So this time now is 4 44. Katie has another check of the forecast. The katie, the break from the humidity is over. Pretty much, yep, yes. We are starting to notice our dew points are climbing here. There is no organized system moving through rather we are just building up heat and humidity, until a system comes through to help relief us of what will be some pretty oppressive days looking ahead here. Now on storm scan we have showed you this earlier in the broadcast we have heavy showers and storms firing upright along new york state border. It looks like that will bypass us, perhaps, you will see a sprinkle or a mist, in the far northern pocono region but more than anything we have got warm front lifting in as we speak and later today that we will see on showers and storms. They will be bubbling up in very scattered fashion, where you get hit you could get drench. There is a a slow moving frontal boundary crossing through with time and boy, will it take its sweet old time, it will take days for that to get through. We will keep building up more heat and humidity and it will feel like triple digits, le triple digit looking forward to the next couple of days. Not necessarily so much today, there might be a couple spots that end up with a heat index that tops off at a hundred but we will start off with some cloud, later today even as late morning, the models anyway trying to pick up that we see a few bubbles that pop up in scattered fashion with showers and storms. They will be, not everyone will get hit but where we do see showers and storms we could get drench. Same scenario firing up same time tomorrow. Let me jump you to the seven day to get you forward here. We will start streak of 90 plus degree heat today and will last us right in the weekend. Yeah, look at the that, all right, katie, thank you. Good morning, everybody. Happy wednesday. Looking outside right now, we have some lighting maintenance on 59 south between walt whitman bridge and broad street. You can see crews block ago this far right lane. Not causing too many slow downs as we just dont have enough vehicles on the roadways just yet but that will change. So also some cop trucks on macdade boulevard between swarthmore and blue route, pulled off to the shoulder, so again not causing too many slow downs. But it is out there. Vine closed moving in the westbound direction but now is opened. Eastbound side is very slow, slow, slow but it is opening right now. Eastbound side looking better and couple minutes it should be all cleared but westbound side we are looking good there. We have an accident in newark delaware. It happened around 3 00 a. M. Well be track road close i had. You will to have use an alternate. West Chestnut Hill road is your best bet eater accident in new jersey that popped up here 295 northbound at auburn make net of this as well a lot of activity on the roadways but we have try conditions, which is a a plus, joe, over to you. Meisha, thanks very much. Mayor jim kenney is known for his active twitter presence which is not lost on his biggest fanfare. Philly mayor jim kenney is a liar or a idiot, take your pick. I vote for idiot. Reporter we will show you why some of the top mean tweets he has received over the last year and we will have some hig welcome back at ten minutes before 5 00 and time for a check on business news. Money watchs hena daniel joins us live from the new york stock exchange, good morning, hena. It looks like ride sharing and coffee could soon go hand and hand. Reporter not a bad idea, guys, good morning brooke and joe. Lyft will begin selling 20 gift card at participating star bucks locations. They will come with a fivedollar gift card as a free bonus. Partnership will help them gain market share and compete with their rival, uber. Hena, it last like he limb pick athletes are chasing more than various gold these days. Reporter you can say that, use of the dating app tinder has soared at the Olympic Village jumping 129 percent, over the weekend as more and more athletes moved in. Tinder is among most widely used dating app and said number of olympic users is growing every day. Amazing. Yes. I mean they are searching for more than gold because Michael Phelps took it all. There is no gold left. That is right. Hena daniels thanks very much. Philadelphias mayor jim kenney celebrated his birthday over the weekend. He showed video of how he celebrate by reading nice tweets he has received in the last year. At philly mayor it usually takes years to become the cities worst mayor, you did it in four days. Must be some kind of record. Thank you very much. Appreciate your confidence. At philly mayor if i saw that man in the street i would throw an egg at him, ostrich egg. Arent they endangered. Philly mayor, at ted cruz wants to know what is wrong with america, look at jim kenney, he is your poster boy. What is wrong with america . Wow. More closure for septa, we will show you route that will be affect starting this weekend, katie. I a appreciate mayor kenney has a good sense of humor. That is right. We are starting the forecast off on a pretty steamy note. That will be a running theme for us in the days ahead with shore instability in the atmosphere. We will tell what you that does to the forec and weve got a little bit of cloud cover out there, thankfully nothing terribly low to the ground over Center City Just yet but a few patches where we see some fog here and there but generally speaking we are off to an okay start. Good morning, happy wednesday to you we are looking ahead here to the beginning of at least a stretch of the 90 plus degree days in our forecast and we do have again some clouds overhead but no wet weather to report just yet. Although, as you look just off in the distance to the northwest, let me zoom it out one time we have showers and storms rumbling through off to the north and west. Far north and west but perhaps poconos get clipped by a quick shower this morning. Generally we will wait until this afternoon in mess locations for any wet weather to start popping up. With that said it is scattered variety of showers and storms later today but it is a running theme from here on out. Heat index is something that gets progressively worse and worse and it looks like the worst of the humidity leading to these high index values will be peeking on friday and saturday. 105 is where we will max out for feels like values around the city on friday and saturday and you can understand why. Those will be the hottest day but we will hit low to mid 90s every day of the next five days and with some sun along the way it is hot and humid but everyone of those days also features potential for showers and storms, meisha. Very hot and humid. All right, katie, thank you. Looking outside this morning we have lighting mate nantz out there. That has been since clear. Lighting maintenance 95 south between

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