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KYW Eyewitness News At 5 June 22, 2017

Director with the Hamilton Police athletic league. This week is greatly impact , all of our residents, particularly the children. Officer white made such a significant difference in the city, for our children. Reporter local officials believe these two tragedies may help bring the Community Together and if any children need help with counseling, they can get that by contacting the school. In Hamilton Township aim cleve bryan for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Crews have recovered body of the second teenage swimmer who disappeared in the ocean off of Atlantic City a week ago. Authorities say 15 yearold ramone quinn vanished while attempting to rescue 16 yearold, clea hand. She was caught in the rip current near Martin Luther king boulevard they were both swept out to sea. Hands body was recovered on monday. Many people are heading in the water to escape heat so please, please be careful. On this second official day of summer it was a hot, humid day meteorologist chelsea in grammys on the sky deck to let us know when we might expect a break. It is feeling like summertime for sure, lets show you temperatures across the Delaware Valley. We are checking in with numbers that are in the upper 80s in many locations, right now were checking in around 88 degrees, in philadelphia, we have, 87 degrees located just to our north and down the shore, we are looking at temperatures that are checking in currently in the lower 80s it is 80 degrees right now in wildwood. Now dew points are perhaps a little bit more noticeable, you feel humidity, dew point measure of the absolute moisture in the air, we have dew point around 66 degrees, so humidity is more noticeable and in store for a muggy night live look at storm scan three not a whole lot going on until Delaware Valley. We have showers and storms that are popping up in locations out to our west, that could be impacting us in the latter part of the evening but tons of tropical moisture located down to the south and west in the Tennessee Valley, that is impacting us later this week and this weekend. We will have details on what you can expect coming up in a bit, back to you. Chelsea, thanks very much. Authorities meantime in new jersey are looking for a suspect who was attacking a woman running on a trail. The attack happened on monday night, about 5 00 oclock at harvest state park in pittsgrove salem county. Police say suspect jumped out of the wood on the parvin lake trail. He struck his victim in the face and neck with a stick. She for the back and then ran to the state park campsite where she met up with a new jersey state trooper. The victim was in the seriously injured in this attack. Now this is suspect sketch, who is described as a white male, 20 to 30 years old, 6 foot two with a skinny build and short, dirty brown hair. We are learning more about how jurors deliberated in the bill cosby trial. One juror tells the Associated Press they were almost evenly split in the number of jurors who wanted to quick or acquit. Another told abc news they voted 10two to convict cosby on two counts. Juror who spoke anonymously to the ap confirmed that vote but said that three jurors later change their mind. Trial ended saturday in a mistrial. Coming up on Eyewitness News at 6 00 how conduct in the cosby trial courtroom has spark another investigation. Meanwhile representatives for bill cosby say that they are fielding requests for the 79 yearold entertainer to go on a public speaking tour about the justice system. Representatives say the request have come from churches and other organizations, including at least one right here in philadelphia. Well, it is day three of the philadelphia d. A. Seth williams federal corruption trial to day the prosecution called a man to testify, who allegedly benefited from favors in exchange for gifts, to williams. Our david spunt was in the courtroom all day long and joins us from federal court in center city to break down all of the days developments, david . Reporter ukee, very big day to day, federal prosecutors say that Seth Williams used his mothers nursing home money for those expenses to pay his own bills, and they say he went on a lavish vacation from an associate of the friend named muhammad ali and in exchange for greasing the wheels of justice. Federal prosecutors, call it justice for sale, Seth Williams under federal indictment walks past our camera exchanging pleasantries without talking about the case williams is charged with what prosecutors labeled as five schemes, they say he accepted an all expense paid trip to the Dominican Republic, from his friend, muhammad ali, seen here walking in to court morning in exchange, Authorities Say williams promised ali he would smooth over the Customs Security process, when ali returned to the united states. In court, a border agent testified that ali came back from a trip to the Dominican Republic with his family and did not go through the proper secondary screening customs checks. The agent said a Philadelphia Police officer met ali at jet way and skipped the secondary screening. The agent called it abnormal and said it appeared ali had a special connection. The judge told williams defense attorney to lower his voice and not fight with the witness. Ali told jury he befriended williams because he was a man who had power, during the day s testimony williams sat to the side, taking notes, and frequently looking back at observers and journalist, one of williams friend sat in the front row highlighting bible verses. At the end of the day as he left the courthouse williams told us this. First thankful for my attorneys they are doing a great job. Reporter according to prosecutors and Text Messages presented today muhammad ali told Seth Williams allegedly that he had a friend that had some legal trouble but he didnt want to go to jail. Williams allegedly wrote back that he would look into the issue. Williams attorney said while d. A. May have made bad decisions did he nothing illegal and they look forward to presenting their side of the case. Reporting live, david spunt for cbs3 Eyewitness News. David, thank you so much. Also tonight parts of the walnut street in olde city remain closed after scaffolding on and Apartment Building collapsed sending two workers to the hospital. Police say a line snapped, dropping the scaffolding nearly 30 feet, on to the rooftop of a adjacent building at fourth and walnut street. Workers were transported to Jefferson University hospital, and there is no word on their conditions, just yet, police say the 40500 blocks of walnut street will remain closed until tomorrow morning. Philadelphia police continued to investigate why a seven yearold girl was asleep in a car, towed by a repossession man earlier this morning. Special victims unit is now hand telling case and they want to know how long the girl s 26 yearold mother was inside of the West Philadelphia pizza place where she worked, and if she routinely kept her daughter inside the car while she was at work. Investigators are interviewing coworkers and checking surveillance cameras to try to piece everything together. Police say the answers will help them deciding whether the woman should face child endangerment charges. All we can do is look at what happened this day im sure from what investigators say they will piece it together to see if there are instances of this and that may be the result of not only talking to the mother but other people that work there to see if that is something that is recurring. Police say mother is being held on outstanding warrant in an unrelated case, the operator was already cleared by police. Northbound route 55 reopened around midmorning after being shut down, for hours, as police investigated a deadly wrong way crash. Chopper three over the scene in Franklin Township gloucester county. Investigators say pickup truck heading south in the northbound lanes, slammed head on into a dump truck causing both vehicles to catch fire. The driver of the pick up was killed, and still unclear if the dump truck driver was injured. Well, this is the night, sixers nation has been waiting for, as specially now that the team has traded up for first pick in tonights nba draft. It is a big night, excitement is building, cbs3 sports director don bellies live at Barclay Center in brooklyn as team gets ready for this huge night. Were all ready, don. Lets go. It is a huge night and just under two hours the nba draft will get underway and the sixers they have the number one selection, in this draft, as you mentioned and they are expected to take the top prospect in the land, that is guard Markell Fultz out of the university of washington. He is 6foot four, 190pound, explosive scorer, averages 23 points per game and his lone season with the huskies. His squad did struggle, they who their final 13 games, nine 22 overall but he is said to be a good leader and he is even a better teammate. Once again he is expected to go number one overall to the sixers. I want to read you a tweet he sent this morning at 8 30. He said i woke up thanking god for everything, per usual, my life is about to change in a few hours and im full of emotion. We hope fortunes of the philadelphia 76ers is about to change, as well. Now coming up later on in the show we will hear from his High School Coach down in de massa high school in maryland. Coming to you from brooklyn insuring, im don bell, cbs3 eyewitness sports. Can i use my slogan now it is fultz steam ahead for sixers. What is that. Fultz steam ahead. One more time. You know, i told you last night i was going to use it, fultz steam ahead. Kaine use it. I could not hear ya. He wants to use it later tonight. Im sorry. That is all right. Well played he wants to use it tonight, thanks, buddy, ill get back to you. Coming up later it has been shrouded in secrecy until today Senate Releases details on the Health Care Bill but are all republicans and democrats on board. 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Plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. Because obama carries a direct attack on the middle class and American Families deserve better then its failing status quo. Reporter plan eliminates individual mandate forcing people to buy Health Insurance as well as some obama care taxes. It also makes cuts to medicaid payments but not as quickly as house version, and it keeps some protections for people with preexisting conditions but democrats say millions will lose Health Insurance, if the bill is passed. Senate republicans are going to keep telling americans that they are fixes their health care, right up until the second when it gets taken away. Reporter plan also sparked a rare back and forth on the senate floor as democrats said they were shut out of the process. Let us right now, democrats and republicans, sit down, and try to come up with a bipartisan bill. Were willing to do it today, now, this minute. Will you accept that offer. 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Eyewitness news on Independence Mall they are concerned about the possibly limb nation of the jobs in the Environmental Protection agency, Social Security administration, Veterans Administration and National Park service. Unions representing the employees organized this rally cindy has weakened to a tropical depression but storm system is still making life miserable along the gulf coast storm made land fall overnight in southwest louisiana packing 40 miles an hour wind and rain downpours in mississippi led to flash flooding making driving very dangerous. Some road were even washed away, heavy downpours made people question their decision toss ride out the storm and flood prone areas. This is crazy, i will not stay a night again because where we was, the water was almost inside the camper, lights went out. As remnants of cindy moved north some areas of arkansas and tennessee could get 5 inches of rain. Look at this amazing video from pensacola beach, florida, cindys arrival spawned this water spout. It came out of the gulf, across the beach and made its way cross a resort. No injuries were reported. Down south, hot weather up here for us. Hot, humid, feels like summertime for sure, great place to be during this weather, that is down the shore or down the beach. So things are looking great down there and our delaware beaches. We have some cloud that have been on the increase, throughout the afternoon here is a live look but still tons of people out there enjoying the boardwalk, also enjoying beach we are not seeing sunset until 8 32. Loving these long, long days. Nice weather, down there but unfortunately the entire weekend will not bring us beautiful beach day but we will get to that. 88 degrees in philadelphia, that ace above average for this time of the year. We are at 83 in millville. Eighty in wildwood. It is 81 in Atlantic City. Eightyseven in allentown. Eightyseven in reading. It is right around 79 in mount pocono. Perhaps more noticeable thing when we step outside it is humidity. It has been on the rise, dew points are in the middle 60s in the Delaware Valley. In the 70s in some spots down the shore. Seventyfour in wildwood. With the dew point around 66 degrees we are in the more steamy category and dew points will be on the rise as we head into tomorrow, and also saturday we will see those dew points climbing up in the lower 70s. We will make tonight that oppressive range once again. Heres good news there is not going to last all that long. We will get a break from the heat and humidity. We have to get pennsylvania next couple days here. We are down to 87 on saturday, but still with that humidity will make it feel warm. We will have plenty of rain and we will talk about. That we will drop down by sunday to 84 degrees. In the only that but we will get a break in the humidity too. It will feel more comfortable as we head into sunday afternoon. Monday we are well below average with the high of 80 degrees. Cant ask for much more during this time of the year. Eightyone into tuesday and dealing with the break in humidity. Storm scan three shows not a whole lot across the Delaware Valley. We have a couple showers and storms popping up located out to our west, moving through portions of central pennsylvania these could make tonight our neighborhood later this evening and then it looks like as we lose that day time heating after midnight things will be very, very quiet. Looking down to the south and west they tons of tropical moisture associated with what was Tropical Storm cindy, that

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