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. >> today is monday, june 30, 2014, good morning, i'm ukee washington. >> i'm erika von tiehl. >> developing right now, down the shore the search for a 14 year old swimmer who went missing. we're live in ocean sit. >> i also, new this morning, the water department's had a busy night dealing with broken water main in the northeast. the details and the detours for you. >> happening right now, the oscar pistorius trial is back on it, resumes in south after a we'll have the details on what's next coming up in just a bit. right now we will talk about our forecast. carol is in today. >> say good morning to carol and the deal for today? >> get ready for summer. >> the heat is on? >> the heat is on. this may be starting tomorrow,
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a heatwave, it is possible, close to 09 degrees, and the heatwave definition we use, 30 days of 90 plus, on tuesday, and thursday, we should be right around 90, 1 degrees shy, we don't call it heatwave. let's just say for how you feel and how your pets would feel and your neighbors and your friends would feel it, will feel like a heatwave. we've got 72 degrees right now out in reading it, looks very, very nice out there, and we move to other locations, and when do we see? we see not much going on. so, just looking for some very quiet conditions this morning so far. but things will be changing, as we go through the next couple of days and i'll detail all of that coming up. ukee, erika? >> carol, developing right now, teenage swimmer missing down the shore. >> this 14 year old boy was just swim withing friends when apparently swept out to sea. jen bernstein joins us now in ocean city where the coast guard has been searching all night. jen? >> good morning, ukee, erika,
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as of right now the coast guard tells us still no sign of this missing swimmer who went into the ocean yesterday. we do know this morning an us coast guard help copter will begin the aerial search or continue the aerial search from last night starting at 5:00 a.m. as soon as it gets a little light out. we also noah us coast guard cutter, ship from kay may, will also join in the is her this much morning, we go to video we have from last night, crews searching for the 14 year old, made difficult buy the pure fact it was nighttime out and very dark as they searched the water for this missing 14 year old boy, last seen in the water near ninth street, which is where i am standing now, authorities say the teenager was swim withing friends, it is believed he may have been swept away by a rip current. the others managed to make it back to shore. we did speak with a woman who called 911. here's what she had to say. >> the children playing on the
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rocks, and somebody had fallen in the water. that's when we were not sure what happened. so we called 911 and i don't know what happened. ii don't know. >> the ocean city police department was alerted by the coast guard, alerted by -- the ocean city police departmental letter dollars coast guard shortly before 7:00 p.m. last night. so this teenager was in the water around that time. this was an earlier in the day. again this morning, just about half hour expecting the coast guard helicopter to go back up and begin or continue that aerial search for this missing 14 year old, of course we'll keep you updated. that's the latest from ocean sit, jen bernstein, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> jen, thank you. we're hoping we'll have good conditions today out searching for the boy, carol? >> yes, it is such a worry and such a thing that you really
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have to pay such close attention when you head down to the shore. so the weather will be calm enough today for that search to continue. we are looking at the ben franklin bridge right now, it is all lit up, everything is looking really nice this time of the morning, and it is comfortable. and i think the temperatures this morning are probably as comfortable as we will find over the next four, five days in the overnight time period. so we definitely getting in this summer season with a vengeance. 72 degrees the temperature out in redding this morning, very light winds out of the east about 2 miles an hour, and storm scan3, notice those showers to the north, oh, we're tired, we're going to bed, and we're out of here. and we will be seeing cloud or two moving through the day, that's it, temperatures warming up definitely. they're fairly warm right now, but still in the comfortable rage, when you see them in the 60s this time of the year, overnight, we'll take that. 68 degrees in philadelphia. we have 66 in trenton, 67 in wilmington, 65 in the poconos,
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64 degrees down in wildwood at this point this morning. now, our temperatures today will be breaking down like this. by 3:00 p.m., we mitt have already hit our 88 degrees high for the day. so expect to find a warm day today, even by noon, 08 degrees, but still, not all that humid. more humid than it was over the weekend, but not as humid as it will be getting. so our future weather, what's it have in store for us? we clear out cloud wise perhaps, few more, by the time we hit 3:00 in the afternoon, otherwise, we are looking at pretty quiet conditions, some clouds moving in here tuesday morning, and then after that, we start to pick up maybe a chance of a shower or thunderstorm. but here's the seven day forecast, notice the heat, we could be that three day heatwave tuesday, wednesday, and thursday, really hot, really, really how many i out there. but how are the monday roads? >> good morning, carol. thank you for getting up nice and early. oh, hold on, let me step out
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here, i'm getting west. live, northeast philadelphia. water pressure tough. this is why. a look at northeast philadelphia somerdale avenue just off shelmire avenue developing right now, again, look at the gushers, there the white caps coming up and over the grass and into the street, all happening right now northeast philadelphia, right behind northeast high school. just to gave you a idea, so going to the maps, early morning getting out of the gate, somerdale and shelmire on the back side of northeast high school up here off of cottman avenue, your best bet this morning, stay with cottman oral gone. live look at the schuylkill expressway coming into downtown, no delays at all from center city all the way out through king of prussia overnight also an accident, coatesville, with some downed wires, along straws berg road right near dough run road. otherwise good shape. no problems up and down the blue route, i showed you the schuylkill, 95 looking good through the construction zone,
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and mass transit off to good start with no delays. ukee, back over to you. >> and developing right now, oscar pistorius' murder trial resumes in south africa after month long hiatus. this is live look inside the courtroom. we've just learned pschiatric report finds pistorius did not suffer from a mental disorder at the time he shot his girlfriend reeva steenkamp last year. neither the prosecution nor the defense october to the findings. pistorius underwent a pschiatric evaluation spurred by earlier testimony from defense witness. officials are still trying to figure out what caused a security gate to fall at rita's water ice killing a three year old girl. winter larkin standing outside the store in brewerytown saturday afternoon when the 2,000-pound metal game came crashing down on her. police say winter was with her mother attending a fraternity fundraiser event. heart sick neighbors wonder what went wrong. >> structures just don't fall down, you know, it had to have
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been loose. >> and it always takes something to happen, a tragedy, for something to be addressed. >> l & i officials say they inspect these gates only when they receive a complaint of apparent defect. well, happening today, the clock is ticking for the pennsylvania send tooth okay the budget for the next fiscal year, which starts tomorrow, they will get back to work at 1:00 o'clock this afternoon. now the appropriations committee approved spending plan. how much, critics say, governor tom corbett will not discuss alternative methods of revenue generation, to fund public schools, because he wants pension reform. the governor calls current pension plans un sustainable. >> we are seeing high pension costs killing our school districts, all across pennsylvania, there are some that are looking at the political side of this game rather than the student's side. and i would urge them to work very hard on behalf of the
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students. >> the governor also said if something is not done the state is looking at more than $3 billion in pension contributions in the next three years. $32 million in philadelphia alone. now, while lawmakers in the state house supporters rallied in harrisburg for more funding for philadelphia public schools. the system has asked for $150 million in new funding from the state. demonstrators say years of budget cuts have created classrooms that are too large, and resource that is are too few. they say there are ways to make ends meet. we believe that there is revenue. marcella sale be the most obvious, would make huge difference. we also we want to freeze the cuts the big business that have been going on during the corbett years, and the close some of the corporate tax loopholes. >> now, another possible revenue stream lawmakers considering, a 2-dollar tax on each pack of cigarettes.
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there is much more to cover here on cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> pain at the pump. summer gas prices are the highest they've been in years. we have the state by state numbers on the other side. back in a couple of minutes. good morning.
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>> if you are hitting the road for july 4th, be prepared to spends time at the pump. >> gas prices surging, gallon selling for 3.75 on 22nd street in philadelphia, 3.99 on spring garden street. now the average nationwide is 3.68. triple a says it is the highest we've paid in early sumner six years. now pennsylvania's overall, paying about 3.78. new jersey residents are paying 3.57. and delaware drivers are being charged 3.66. and, carol, i think you might like this. take a look at these brave dogs, took to surf boards and paddle boards in san diego over the weekends, all part after fundraiser for the
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fundraiser, brought dogs down to the beach for surfing lessons. the dogs just enjoyed being around the families and in the water. i always wonder if they're terrified? >> look at that tail down. look at those scared eyes. >> yes? >> they don't enjoy t. >> off the board. >> if we can just be on the beach with you guys, we would love that. there you go. >> always look at the tail, you're right. >> good day today? >> i think it will be a great beach day over the next couple of days, it will be cooler there than inland. it will be very, very hot inland. we've got temperatures that will be approaching 90 degrees today, and then we probably will be therefore the next couple of days after. that will let's take a look and see what we have out there. we've got atlantic city, how nice. couple of casinos lit up. and we've got people that will be out on the board walk, on the beaches, et cetera, et cetera, and speaking of boardwalk and beaches, what do we find? we find ourselves down in rehoboth beach where the
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lights are bright and the sky is dark for now anyway. but we get these early sunrises this time of the year. so it will be a nice looking day to start the day. 70 degrees, already, in rehoboth beach. so it is great to get out, get your exercise done if you want to avoid the sun, fine, comfortable even at this hour of the morning. notice some clouds. they are just off to the west of philadelphia. do they hang together and come through? we might see few clouds out there. so that's all we'll see. it looks like it will be a dry day today. though we may start to pick up chances of showers, thunderstorms as early as tomorrow, and then better chances ' we get through wednesday and thursday. so, storm scan3, relatively quiet for this time of the morning, we've got 68 degrees in philadelphia right now, 71, though, up in allentown, so very mild temperatures are out there with temperatures getting into the 90 degrees range tomorrow, and then on wednesday, and then on thursday the front comes through, we could be getting soaking rain from time to time. which would be okay, i think we could probably use one.
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80 degrees at the beaches today. we've got high uv index of course with all of the sunshine, and a 82 degrees for our temperature tomorrow, again, high uv index, the rip countries social security low, but obviously make sure you stay in the site of the lifeguard. 88 degrees, partly sunny skies, two mostly sunny skies today. seventy for our overnight temperature, then as we go through the next couple of days we will be looking at temperatures that are going to be hot. ninety, 93, 90 degrees, and even on the fourth of july, channels of shower or a thunderstorm. now in the forecast, the weekend at this point looks dry, ukee? >> all right, carol, thank you. in sports, phillies look to break their four game losing streak when they travel to miami tomorrow to play the marlins. top of the second yesterday. and atlanta's bj upton hammers this ball to straight away centerfield. it is going back, going back, and over the head of ben revere for two-run triple, two-nothing braves. braves went up three to one on
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line drive in the gap. phils lose this 13-two, fighting phils are struggling to score runs again. >> offensively, 13 hits, two walks, scored two runs on two solo homeruns. so had our chances, had men on base, couldn't come up with a hit, with multiple guys on base right down to the end. >> baseball field to the soccer field to ends the world cup where team usa faces belgium tomorrow in the first match of the so-called knock out round. the first time team usa has made it to the round of 16 and back-to-back world cups. coach says it is an important step on the path to american soccer excellence. >> we want to be one game, you know, in the top ten, top 12 in the world. so if you want to be there one day, this is now the moment. >> everything starts over. one game, you win, you move on, you lose, you go home.
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so it is important for us to embrace that, be excited for that. >> game on. go usa. still ahead, we head to new york for preview of the day on wall street with jill wagner. >> first, what's coming up tonight on cbs-3.
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>> philadelphia police tell us a man barricaded himself on a home 7900 block of mars done street. now the situation here started around 3:00 this morning, officers do not know if the man is armed swat teams are on the scene. we'll update you as news comes into the cbs-3 news room. >> other developing store thinks morning, authorities continue to search for missing 14 year old who disappeared while swimming with friends near ninth street beach in ocean city.
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the coast guard will add a chopper to the search at daylight. >> a broken water main has filled streets with water over in rhawnhurst, crews have capped a leak. they say there is no danger to homes or cars and water service in that area has not been disrupted. >> oscar pistorius is back in south african courtroom after break for his mental health evaluation. experts have concluded he was not suffering from mental illness when he killed his girlfriend last year pistorius shot and killed reeva steenkamp in 2013, thought he was intrude nerve his home. >> time for check of business news. >> jill wagner joins us from the new york stock exchange, jill, hearing gm will announce plans to compensate the victims every those bad ignition switches. what kind of compensation are we expecting here? >> good morning, ceo marry bar says there won't be any cap on payments so eligible victims can take the money instead of suing the company. don't have any dollar amounts
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at this point. the company does say they there were at least 54 crashes, and more than 13 dents caused by those faulty switches. but, lawyers, say, more than 100 people died and hundreds more were injured. now, this funds will be handled by kenneth fine berg, administered the money given to the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. ukee, erika? >> i heard growing ankle fresh facebook users about an experiment that manipulated facebook posts, what do you know about that? facebook revealed about 700,000 users for one week in 2012. researchers changed the numb of positive or negative posts people saw, part of experiment to see if-ee motions can be spread on social media. they found that, yes, can be contagious, but growing ankle fresh some facebook users who say it is not right to manipulate people's news feeds, experts say what they did was legal, but just
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notelet call. >> troubled, carol, thanks. >> traffic and weather together, we do it on the 3's,
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now, that's something to flip for. well done. for fun ways to get healthy, visit www.smallstep.gov. good morning, monday, looking live at i95 here, of course if you come southbound, new traffic pattern for you, really not only just south but northbound, as well, that stretch between center city and allegheny avenue. right now the headlights head southbound in toward downtown, looking good, roads are dry as we kick off another work week, live look here at the vine expressway, this fellow coming around the curve coming in toward i-95. going to the northeast, that water main break right behind northeast high school. so through the morning rush hour, cottman avenue anal gone avenue, will be your two best bets to work it through the neighborhood. carol, were you talking about maybe heatwave this week?
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>> yes, i was, if we get those temperatures, for three days in a row, that is the definition, could be finds that tuesday, wednesday, thursday. let's see what we find out there right now. we find it dark, quiet in ocean sit, won't be for long though with temperatures as warm as they'll be getting today. we start out with a temperature of 68 degrees, through philadelphia, along the shore areas, looking at temperatures in the 60s, as well, so it is a very comfortable start to the morning, and as comfortable a start as we will be finding for days, as we take a look at the seven day forecast, high temperature this afternoon, get to go 88 degrees, tomorrow, 90 degrees, wednesday, 93, maybe chance of showers, thunderstorms, and specially on thursday, where we can still be at 90 degrees, erika, ukee. >> state lawmaker scrambled to see a budget. democrats swatted down proposal by governor corbett to link votes for public
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pension re storm to philadelphia school funding. bridge over the jenkintown train station will finally reopen this morning, around 10:30, and new york playwrite has embarked on two year collaboration with an unlikely partner. the historical society of pennsylvania. >> coming up in the next hour, we are going back live to the shore, the coast guard searches for missing swimmer. >> also, this isnsn't what you want to see in the middle of your flight. the emergency slide opens in to inside a plane. new this morning, hearing from the passengers about this scare in the air. and rob ford returns to work today after his trip to rehab. the big change people will notice when he heads back to sit hall. we're back at the top of the hour.
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>> braking news in the holmesburg section of philadelph. a man remains barricaded inside a home on the 7900 block of mars done street. that stands out started just about two hours ago. officers do not know if the man is armed, but we are hearing that he is not holding any hostages. we'll continue to update this story as information comes into our cbs-3 news room. >> developing right now, tragedy down the shore. the search is on for a teenage swimmer missing -- missing in the ocean, coast guard launching a helicopter to join the search effort any minute there, and we're there live. >> new video this morning of water rushing down a street in northeast philly. check it out. bob has the detour around the over night water main break for you. >> it is monday, june 30th, good morning, i'm ukee
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washington. >> i'm erika von tiehl. also this morning: all the sudden heard the faces go like this, a big bang, and a his. >> oh, this must have been so scary. mid-air scare when a plane's emergency slide opens in the middle of the flight inside the plane. new this morning, we're hearing from passengers after this emergency landing. >> carol? >> that would be terrifying. looking at weather that will be warming up today looks fine, it gets hotter and hotter, though, and i'll show you those numbers just ahead. bob? >> good morning, 5:00 o'clock, looking at the water main break, has folks going on due tour, give you the location and alternate coming up next. ukee, erika, good morning. >> in the news, and developing right now, search underway for missing swimmer off ocean sit. >> i friends last saw the 14 year olds boy in the atlantic ocean near ninth street. "eyewitness news

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