Nbc 10 news starts now. Officer down. Shots fired. Officer down. Three officers dead. Three others hurt in another ambush attack on Law Enforcement. This time in baton rouge. Attacks on police are an attack on all of us. Tonight this latest act of violence heightening concerns at the Republican National convention which starts in cleveland tomorrow. Good evening. Im Jim Rosenfield. Live in cleveland tonight. Team coverage from the Republican National convention. Tracy davidson and lauren will be joining me bringing you the sights and sounds of the rnc. 21,000 visitors expected here. Theyll find a very skwecure quicken loans arena when this kicks off tomorrow at 1 00 in the afternoon. Well show you how security here has been affected by situations like todays ambush down south. First we want to send it back to Denise Nakano back in philadelphia with the latest on the ambush in baton rouge. The nations attention is once again shifted to a deadly ambush against officers. Three officers are dead, three others are hurt. And one is described as fighting for his life. The officers were shot after they responded to a report of a man with a gun. Police say the shooter was killed and his motive remains unknown. Chaos followed an all too familiar call of officers down. Shot fires. Officer down. Shots fired, officer down. Officers responded to a 911 call of a man dressed in black fatigues walking down the highway. This cell phone video captures the ambush that killed two Police Officers and one sheriffs deputy. These men risking their lives to protect and serve this community were taking out taken out the way that they were. The officers who died were married and leave behind children. Deputy brad garafola, a father of four. Officer Matthew Gerald with Baton Rouge Police department four months and officer montrell jackson, a new father recently shared on social media what it was like to be black and a police officer. I swear to god, i love this city but wonder if the city loves me. In uniform i get nasty, hateful looks and out of uniform some consider me a threat. Police shot and killed a lone shooter gavin long of kansas city, a marine veteran who served in iraq. The ambush comes less than two weeks after the policeinvolved shooting death of alton sterling resulting in nationwide protests. Days later, five officers were shot and killed in dallas. Sterlings aunt calling for an end to senseless violence. We dont call for no bloodshed. Thats how this all started. With bloodshed. We dont want no more bloodshed. Prayers are with the most critically injured surviving officer. President obama saying attacks on police are an attack on all of us. Protesters hit the streets of philadelphia chanting black lives matter and calling for equal treatment of africanamericans when it comes to the investigation of police brutality. Marchers made their way down broad street from north philadelphia to center city blocking traffic in many spots. And police say there were no arrests. Philadelphia Police Officers continue riding in pairs tonight. The change was made to ensure officer safety after the deadly ambush on Police Officers in dallas ten days ago. Sad. It really is sad. Its just an allout attack on Law Enforcement. Its really not necessary and our heart goes out. Its tough. Its sad. It makes us angry. But on the other hand, when the outpouring of support for us comes through, it reinforces why we put the badge on. Today the ocean city fast Pitch Organization presented plaques to local officers thanking them for their service and sacrifice. In light of this attack in baton rouge, and the violence in dallas and nice, france, security concerns are high for the Republican National convention which starts tomorrow. Some 5,500 officers are assigned to convention security. Lets go back live to nbc 10s Jim Rosenfield who is in cleveland monitoring the security concerns. Jim . Denise, this convention has long been designated a National Security event. The u. S. Secret service is in charge of trying to keep people safe here. We walked the streets of cleveland this afternoon and this evening. Its really a Party Atmosphere out there, but its designed to make delegates feel at home, but they will find security is tight when they try to get in here. The welcome signs are out in cleveland. The visitors are rolling in. Inside the q, 125,000 patriotic balloons are ready for the big event. So, too are more than 5,000 Law Enforcement officers, including 3,000 federal officers in town assigned to rnc security. Convention officials tell nbc 10s Tracy Davidson the security plan has been a constant work in progress. Especially in light of recent policeinvolved shootings, National Protests and officer deaths, including todays violence in baton rouge. If i were to use one word to describe cleveland right now, its prepared. Reporter prepared with a fortress of checkpoint s and fencing. Philly ph ph it definitely heightens your awareness of things. Reporter security on peoples minds. I want to check in with lauren make who is down below me on the convention floor. Shes been dith delegates as theyve been arriving. Is security an issue for them right now . Are they worried . Jim, it is certainly on their mind. They are aware of it, but they also know that there is going to be a lot of security here for a lot of people. And there are more than 600 people from pennsylvania, new jersey and delaware here. Thats not just delegates but also party officials, alternates and guests. And i was with them as some of them rolled into town today. Trump trump trump reporter the chants and the signs got out. I am a trumpster. I go everywhere i can. I go door to door. Hes our man. He is the man. Youre pretty excited to be here. You cant tell . Yes, i am. Inside the hotel, delegates and party loyal will find some comforts of home like yeungling beer and utz potato chips. There are signs of the convention everywhere from celebration to precaution. A long security line to get into this big party. Dozens of officers on bikes riding through downtown as it swells with visitors. Among those making the trek from pennsylvania today, congressman tom merino. Hard working taxpayers are fed up with the republican establishment and democratic establishment. Merino endorsed him early. Some of them have not. Some of them are not even here this week. What does it say . Just because theyre not here this week doesnt mean they are refraining from supporting him. I know that for a fact. Reporter he expects support to grow. Convention week is traditionally a time for parties to come together and gear up for the campaign ahead. A lot of euphoria amongst the delegates. A lot of excitement. This is my seventh convention. I havent seen this much excitement since ronald reagan. And each state has a spot on the floor here of the convention behind me. And theyll largely stick together this week. Each state delegation staying in a hotel together having breakfast together, events together and then starting tomorrow, traveling here to the convention together. Live in cleveland, im lauren mayk, nbc 10 news. Back to you. Thank you lauren. The pa delegates get a front row seat to a speech from paul ryan. Ryan is scheduled to deliver the key note address for mondays breakfast. And well continue our live coverage from cleveland and throughout the rnc on nbc 10 and on the nbc 10 app. Look out for our live recap shows every night as the Convention Starting tomorrow night at 7 00. That heat wave continues for a fourth straight night. Theres no relief coming for us tomorrow. Youre looking live at center city from our Kimmel Center campus camera where it was slightly less humid today, but temperatures still topped 90. It will feel more smothering tomorrow. Lets go to meteorologist karen thomas for the first alert forecast. I like that word, smothering. Its getting warmer by the time we get to tomorrow. Mostly clear tonight with temperatures dipping down mainly in the upper 60s, lower 70s. Heat and humidity building in for our monday. Think of a steamy monday for tomorrow as we start off our next workweek. Temperatures really not cooling off quickly this evening either. Still in the 80s in philadelphia. 83 degrees. 80 degrees here in wilmington and 80 degrees currently in dover, delaware. So were talking heat wave three. We did top out at 92 degrees for a High Temperature in philadelphia. Were headed to 95 for a High Temperature tomorrow. And so this is what we mean. We started back here on thursday. And the heat wave will be continuing tomorrow. Humidity coming back into the picture tomorrow. So it is going to feel oppressive. But were keeping a close eye on some storms, possibly severe, coming in tomorrow afternoon. Ill be back with that in a bit. New at 11 00, a northeast Philadelphia Restaurant goes up in flames. The story was first on the nbc 10 app. You can see crews trying to extinguish this fire at applebees restaurant. Fortunately everyone managed to make it out safely. No injuries were reported. The tensions in turkey have calmed after a coup attempt two days ago. But efforts are heating up to get a man from pennsylvania sent back to turkey to face justice for that uprising. Plus, circling the city with love. Thats what people in cleveland are trying to do after another devastating day of violence for our nation. Our coverage continues next. Hey hows it going, hotcakes . Hotcakes. This place has hotcakes. So why arent they selling like hotcakes . With comcast Business Internet and wifi pro, they could be. 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Its unclear whether he acted alone. It comes less than two weeks after a black man was shot and killed by Baton Rouge Police in a confrontation that sparked nightly protests across the city. A call to come together today in the wake of violence that hit communities across the country. Several dozen people gathered for a peaceful march along germantown avenue in mount airy. They were urging people to unite in order to make a difference and create change in the world. A planned remembrance in Delaware County for the victims of last weeks terror in nice, france, took on new meaning today after news broke about the violence in baton rouge. Agape International Baptist church in lands down had both communities on their minds as they celebrated the churchs tenth anniversary. Unity was on display in cleveland today. Hundreds of people from the group circle the city with love held hands across the Hope Memorial bridge for thu30 minut of silence. A gesture to show the world what they say cleveland stands for ahead of the rnc. I dont care who becomes president. I dont care what happens. All that i care about is that everybody, no matter what happens, care about each other and dont just treat people who they are or what they want to be or anything like that. She said it right there. The group applauded dozens of bike officers who rode across the bridge during the rally. Coming up, well go back live to cleveland to check in on all the preparations from the start of the Republican National convention tomorrow. Nbc 10s Jim Rosenfield joins s again in about 20 minutes. Turkeys Justice Minister says his government expects washington to extradite the pennsylvaniabased islamic cleric accused of orchestrating the attempted coup. Turkey will be submitting the necessary documentation but hopes the u. S. Will extradite fethullah gulen. He lives in the poconos and denies any involvement in the plot. Turkish officials arrested more than a dozen judges and prosecutors and a high ranking military official today following that failed military coup. 11 have been put under arrest so far. At least 294 people were killed in clashes when parts of the Turkish Military attempted to seize power. Today mourners gathered in ankaran istanbul as funerals for the victims began. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather. We have a fairly warm night out there. Mostly clear skies. And well stay dry. Tomorrow, hazy, hot and humid as the humidity builds into our monday. So the heat comes back for sure and then we are looking at the potential of scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms. A good potential for that late tomorrow afternoon into the evening hours. Temperatures right now on the warm side, 80 in delaware. 83 in philadelphia. It will take you up to the Lehigh Valley at this hour. Pick your neighborhood. Theres your temperature. Right now 75 degrees in cookstown. 78 in mertstown. Almost 80 in blandon. Not cooling off too, too quickly. Overnight low temperatures, well be dipping down, but certainly not cooling off too much. In the mid70s in philadelphia. 71 in vineland. 73 degrees in atlantic city. So dry tonight. Tomorrow, the weather pattern will become active, especially later on in the day. Doppler showing us that we are dry. Dry conditions. A big bubble of High Pressure right here that is keeping the clouds and precipitation away for now. But what we can expect is the possibility of some of the storms rolling through later tomorrow afternoon. Especially north and west of philadelphia. It could become somewhat severe. Keeping a close eye on the systems rolling through late tomorrow afternoon into the evening hours. Futurecast will take you hour through hour. We see most of the day we are sun filled. Thats going to help to build the heat and humidity. The approach of a cold front coming in from the ohio valley. A line of storms and rain cells setting up. Keep your eye to the sky and down here at the shore line later on in the evening. Thats when rumbles of thunder can be expected to roll through Tuesday Morning. Some residual shower, cloud cover. By tuesday afternoon, it should be out of here. So for tomorrow, the timeline in atlantic city, waking up mostly clear but warming up very, very quickly. And as i mentioned, it would be tomorrow night into Tuesday Morning down along the shoreline that those potential storms would roll through. So that would be much later. Tenday forecast in philadelphia, not doing too bad. Weve got midweek cooldown that i think a lot of people are ready for. Especially after a fiveday heat wave. Im Danny Pommells from Comcast Sports net. Coming up, how they kept the phillies offense off balance today. Plus, supposed to be a time to chill. What had the young and old so upset today. Well show you. When youre the parent of a disabled child, you realize that the world can be a harsh place. But you also realize it can be a really loving, wonderful place. When i saw donald trump mock somebody who was disabled, i was appalled. You gotta see this guy. Ahh, i dont know what i said, ahh, i dont remember that reporter suffers from a chronic condition that impairs movement of his arms. It told me everything i need to know about his heart and what he believes deep down. Priorities usa action is responsible for the content of this advertising. This is sports desk brought to you by xfinity. X1 from xfinity will change the way you experience tv. Danny pommells withuous. The phillies quest for a series win over the mets was derailed by a lack of offense. Simply put. Not a lot of bounce in the phillies steps today. This guy had some bounce. Top of the third, curtis granderson. Takes zach eflin out. Were showing you this for one single reason. This single up the middle was the phillies only today because degrom was like smokey robinson. Degrom gobbles it up. Bottom nine, herera standing in. Had as much chance as you trying to drown a fish. Phillies fall, 50. Not a whole lot to talk about offensively. Pretty much sums it up. Degrom just kept us down. It was his day. I mean, he made pitches when he needed to. That happens. But it was just his day. Pirates and nationals. One strike away from getting the win. Daniel murphy, solo shot to right. Were tied at one. Look at this little pirates fan. He is none too happy. The game goes to extra innings and beyond. This kid just starting to get tired. Sitting in his mommys lap. This one went to 18 innings. The equivalent two of games. Could it be . Is it enough . Gone. Wake up, kid. Its time to celebrate. Is it over . Yeah, mommy, its over. Pirates won the game. Two for one. Across the pond for more action. Henrik stenson and Phil Mickelson engaged in a final round dule to decide the open championship. A frustrating game golf can be. Some call it a good walk spoiled. Hates this shot so much. He cracks his club over his knee and tosses it into the bushes. On to the guys who held on to their clubs. Phil mi