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WTXF Fox Morning News At 5A July 25, 2016

Expecting because excessive heat warning is in effect, all that associated with a warm front that will let hotter air moving in with heat index and triple digits and actual temperatures in the upper 90es a it is 80 degrees in philadelphia. Were expecting a high of 98. It will be hazy and hot all day but chance of more pop up thunderstorms later on in the afternoon. We could be going through this weather drama all over again, later on in the day. We will keep an eye on todays storms. This mornings storms, and get you ready for extreme heat coming up, bob kelly, wow. Good morning everybody. 5 01. These thunder bombers moving through quick and that quickly an overturn vehicle on the schuylkill expressway eastbound right here at city avenue. You can see here police just pulled up but only one lane opened on that eastbound side. Heres a live look at i95 in Delaware County near highland avenue where thunder and lightening, boom, do you see it there, lightening strikes throughout the area, lighting up our traffic cameras. So again, road are becoming quickly wet, dont be afraid to delay your trip for a couple of minutes or pull over to a safe spot because, again, these heavy downpours flooding the roadways. The as i just showed you that first accident on the schuylkill. Now if you are heading up and down i95, everything is opened just be prepared for a heavy Police Presence as they push off any vehicles that way way five opposite or greater, southbound i95 out of the northeast approaching the vine street expressway. Is there only three lanes opened, come north on i95 toward the airport area, all of the trucks and over five ton vehicles, forced to use platt bridge. Bottom line with the Police Checkpoints is there only two lanes opened. Even if you are not going to the convention which majority of the philadelphians arent. Majority of the everybody traveling today up and down i95 will feel the effects. Septa situation still the same deal, limited trains on the regional rails and a change here in the parking lot at the novacare complex is not able to be used this week. All of the free parking is located in south philadelphia high school, chris, back over to you. All eyes on philly this week as city hosts 2016 Democratic National convention this morning we have you covered with crews all over the city. Steve keeley is at the Convention Center keeping an eye on the planned protests, dave kinchen has his umbrella out on broad street and lets go to Lauren Johnson at the Wells Fargo Center. At least you had are indoors. Heres the thing, lauren, with the email scandal from Debbie Wasserman schultz. Right. Before the Convention Even begins we have a huge bomb shell, huge controversy. I know, so last week it was plagiarism, this week it is email leak. Start of the Democratic Convention is dealing with the major controversy over that email scandal that had had chair woman Debbie Wasserman schultz. These are dnc emails from Party Leaders who seemingly conspired to promote the Clinton Campaign at the expense of the senator Bernie Sanders. Sanders himself has long accused the party of favoring Hillary Clinton despite democrats claiming they were neutral during the primary season. Nearly 20,000 emails suggest dnc officials work matters in clintons favor. They included suggestions that his campaign was a complete mess, one exchange is between two staffers penned by dn doctor Communications Director , louise miranda, at the time, questioning sanders religion writing in part for kentucky and West Virginia can we get someone to ask his beliefs, does he believe in god . He stated on saying he has a jewish heritage. I think i ready is an atheist. This could make several point different with my Southern Baptist peeps between jew and atheist. Sand hours has claimed for wasserman shut to step down has said he was disappointed by wikileaks revelation but not shock. I told you a long time ago that the dnc was not running a fair operation. That they were supporting secretary clinton. So, what i suggested to be true six months ago turns out, in fact, to be true. Now dnc chair woman Debbie Wasserman schultz will not preside over the convention. She plans to step down when it is all over. Congress woman martha fudge has been task todd preside over the dnc. Shes former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and considered to be a rising star in the house. As far as todays events go the theme is united together putting families first. Todays theme will focus on the future of American Families front and center, and how were stronger together when we build an economy that works for everyone, not just for those at the top and when everyone has a chance to live up to their god given potential. Keynote speakers will be first Lady Michelle obama, senator Bernie Sander and astread silva, who came to the u. S. At four, will share her story and keep her fight for immigrant families together. Her stories mirrors that of thousands of nevada immigrants and welcome reminder of just is what at stake during this election. There will be several local speakers at the Wells Fargo Center, during the d dnc this week. Some politicians on that list pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf , senator bob casey, congressman brendon boyle, senator corry booker, congressman bob brady and former Philadelphia Police commissioner Charles Ramsey will be back in our city. We will plan to see several celebrities around town over the next several days as far as the star studded power goes , today, alycia keys will be performing at an invite only event, janel mone will head line Nancy Pelosis opening day party. A lot the to sianni a lot to sianni going on in our city on day one of the dnc. Lauren, not just inside the Wells Fargo Center either. Protests planned all over. Steve keeley is live at the Convention Center f they are protesting right new they would be all wet. Thinks the lead story in philadelphia, everybody. It is pouring outside, a lightening show, like no other , it sound like the subway is above our head. Fortunately we have park under this archway at 11th street. You can see lightening and in the spotlight thank god power has not been knock out like we have seen this summer. You can see heavy downpour and lightening, that factor we are looking east from 11th street and look at the rain filling the sewer car egg all of the trash down here. We will see flooded streets, bob kelly, you like to use that word ponding. I like to use puddles, plane oldening establish to describe big puddles. Greg, come out here and look down 11th street the rain was blowing sideways when lauren was talking about Debbie Wasserman schultz. You see more lightning south philadelphia over the Wells Fargo Center where lauren is but it is pouring out. We have showed you police on stand by and on duty. Greg will turn to the right. We have got police, let me show you something they were a cross the street at the Convention Center. Reason they are so close to us this rain was blowing under this arch. First they stood one door in, and then they got drenched and said we better stand in further. So some of these cops got drenched even though they were under this archway a lieutenant of Police Taking cover for them, this is right across the street from the Convention Center. So nobody will be protesting out in this chris murphy, i can tell you that. This will cause traffic trouble around and hopefully they will heed bob kellys warning and wait until this passes or lightens up before you start driving in this stuff because visibility must be near zero going 50 miles an hour, in this drive rain. Look at it blowing sideways. As we look at your live shot, i just asked sue serio and she says storms is moving at 35 miles per hour, heading toward new jersey right now. I guess that is good news as we look at the radar. What a show with the lightening. We have flooding outside our studios at fourth and market. We will keep an eye on this good advice about being careful driving out there right now. Those who support Bernie Sanders are making their voice s heard throughout philadelphia activist marched through Center City Yesterday supporting bernie and the earth friendly political platform. Sanders Delegates Network a group not associated with his campaign, using the convention to make their voices heard, calling for more progressive platform at this weeks convention. Group criticized Hillary Clintons choice of senator tim kaine as a vicepresident ial running mate the selection of kaine will make defeating donald trump that much more difficult this is an assault on the base, the progressive base of the Democratic Party that has in the numbers of 13 million voters flock to supporting Bernie Sanders. Sanders got about 43 percent of the vote here in pennsylvania, during the democratic primary. Youre looking for a guide to help you survive 2016 National Convention, head to fox 29. Com. Find a banner at the top of the page for all of our coverage. Still ahead on an overnight shooting leaves one person dead. What Police Believe suspects did with the murder weapon moments before they were caught. Plus a terrible crash involving a septa bus right here near a local hospital, dozens hurt, what Officials Say happened just before impact and sue, look at the weather, it the is going crazy outside right now. These are strong, strong, to severe thunderstorms, moving through the philadelphia area and now aiming toward new jersey. It is already raining in cherry hill. This is a a look at our latest Severe Thunderstorm Warning in effect 234 58 45 North Western camden county, North Central gloucester county, west central Burlington County as well as delco and south philadelphia as well. All of these heavy downpours and high wind, and some hail, associated with this as well. So it is moving pretty quickly as we mentioned earlier, 35 miles an hour these storms are moving, but it is leaving quite an impact, and including an flash flooding we are seeing here in the city. So bottom line is if you you can delay your trip, wait a little while, and especially if you are in southeastern pennsylvania, because these storms will be out of here soon and keep an eye out if you are in new jersey because they are heading your way. We will have have more details in your Weather Authority forecast coming up. Im Robert De Niro and new york is my home. Its the best place to visit in the world and now its the easiest, because now there are new tourism guides on the road, and on your phone that make it easier to find the places you love. Find great dining, amazing history, and worldclass entertainment, no matter where you are. Take the ultimate road trip and see why i love new york. For more information, go to iloveny. Com visiting philadelphia with a Cop Convention we are well copping with you a bang from thunder and you can see lightening. This is a shot from center city right around the Convention Center where were all deck out with the American Flag but they are blowing around this morning because of these strong to severe thunderstorms moving through the area. So lets get to it, heres a look at the radar we are showing all of the lightening strikes, moving through the area but you you can see things are clearing up in Chester County and it was only a half an hour, 45 minutes ago that it was fast, furious moving through there but we have storms in delco. Here we have bryn athyn, montgomery county, cheltenham getting a heavy downpour right now, bensalem, bristol in bucks county. We will move further south right here in philadelphia, heavy downpour outside our window right now. Upper darby still raining hard and in paulsboro, new Jersey National park in new jersey, bellmawr, new jersey and cherry hill, very heavy rain heading your way and even further south down in salem county, Carneys Point also get something heavy rain right now. Watches and warnings right now every where for the heat to take, were still going to get to 98 degrees with the thunderstorms moving go through. It is not going to relieve the the heat at all. More heat and humidity for tomorrow, for wednesday, a high of 95, mid 90s still steamy on thursday, pop up thunderstorms possible whenever we get heat and humidity but more likely toward end of the week. This could end up being bob kelly a seven day heat wave because it began on friday. Were seeing the effects of these then are storms on the roads right thousand, right. Mother nature free light show here this morning. 5 15. I will cycling through some of the cameras, thinks downtown philadelphia, the vine street expressway we are seeing that win swept rain, kind of rolling through. Heres ben franklin in the background. That is the Police Presence you will see on the major roadways moving through philadelphia. Heres a live look at i95. Remember in the Construction Zone look at everybody they have blinkers on, wow, there goes lightening strikes. Thinks i95 south at cottman avenue where that quick heavy rain steve called it ponding, big old puddles, whatever you want to call it, it is bringing traffic to a stand still especially in the Construction Zones, and as sue mentioned it is moving in new jersey. The heres a live look at 42 freeway at a crawl between the Atlantic City expressway and walt whitman bridge. Two quick accidents that we are seeing heavy rain west on the turnpike at willow grove, already backed up from philly bensalem into willow grove and crash here in media Delaware County, Baltimore Pike between 352 and 452. Only good news is as quick as it is moving in is as quick as it is moving out, chris, back to you. We have to get this this breaking news out of florida. At least two people dead, 15 others are injured in a shooting in a nightclub in fort myers overnight this happened around 2 30 this morning the at a teen night at a place called club blue in fort myers. We will have much more as it becomes available. We understand one person of interest has been detained a bunch of teenagers in there as young as 13 years old when this happened. All eyes, of course, are on philadelphia for the Democratic National convention after more than a year of preparations, we are in the final count down, the stage is literally set, security in plates and delegates have been streaming into town all weekend. We will make history in philadelphia yet again. Were used to making history in philadelphia, yet again, arent we. We are. We had pope here. Now heres the dnc. Okay chris with so many people fit to fill this arena and prominent figures set to take the stage behind me, security is top of the mind this week. Officials anticipate tens of thousands of protesters. Factors beyond anyones control may play a part in the actual numbers. Foxs rick levinthaw has more. Thousands of demonstrators creating oppressive heat to show support for clean energy and Bernie Sanders and other causes. They are hoping the world will Pay Attention on the eve of the Democratic National convention. People united will never divided. Reporter city predict 35 to 50,000 protesters daily on the streets of the philadelphia issuing permits for dozens of rallies and marches but heat and humidity in the triple digits could a affect turnout. 5,000 person planned march because the weather is is he stifling 2,000 show up. Nice day maybe more than 5,000 show up. We dont really know. We will be prepared for whatever were facing. Reporter with the dnc designated National Special security event the secret service took charge of the convention site. Creating a fortress around the Wells Fargo Center with nearly four miles of no sale fencing with barricade, vehicle checkpoints and more. Rest office city remains under the control of the philadelphia cops with plans being revised after recent attacks on police and terror incident overseas. Just when you thought were you beyond all that craziness and chaos we get Something Else happening. Unfortunately unintended rents es is every

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