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>> ♪ >> from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia, this is cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> now at 11:00 casino concerns. atlantic city's already fragile gambling market takes another hit. the trump plaza may be next to shut its doors. so, what does this mean for the casinos still stand? good evening, i'm natasha brown. thanks so much for joining us. hundreds of employees will likely learn their fate in the days to come. "eyewitness news" reporter matt rivers spoke to one

gaming expert who says the closure of trump plaza may be what atlantic city needs to get back on track. >> reporter: atlantic city's cold street goes on with the announcement that the trump plaza a boardwalk staple since 1984 will likely close down. its owners told the associated press while no final decisions have been made its doors will likely close on september 16, taking over 1,000 jobs with it. >> it's sad. we come down for girl's weekend and it goes down. >> reporter: the casino has been struggling for sometime. gambling revenues are down 27 percent since last year when it only took in $73 million. >> shame it's dead. we came back from the tropicana. it's not a lot of gambling going on. >> reporter: the trump plaza is hardly alone. the atlantic club shut down, the showboat set to close august 31st and revel will soon follow if a buyer isn't found. nearly 7,000 employees have already lost their jobs or could lose them soon. that's nearly one in four in

all casino workers in atlantic city and it's happened since january 1st. >> the weakest companies were the ones that are in the news right now. >> reporter: israel months interis a casino industry expert and says it's no coincidence that the worst performing casinos are also the ones shutting down but when weaker casinos close it strengthens those that remain. for now he thinks the closures are over with. >> i really don't anticipate any other companies announcing anywhere in the near term. i could be wrong but i don't see it. >> reporter: here's hoping he's right. but with attitudes like this -- >> it's very sad. >> i think ac is a great time. cement like it's going away. >> reporter: the city by the sea could use more good news. more details about the future of the trump plaza should be announced on monday. matt rivers, cbs3 "eyewitness news." >> well, actor comedian tracy morgan has been released from a rehab facility one month after a multi vehicle pileup left him critically injured. a spokesperson says morgan

will continue to recover at home with an aggressive outpatient program. now morgan did suffer a broken leg nose and ribs on june 7 when a wal-mart tractor-trailer slammed into his limo van on the new jersey turnpike. fellow comedian james mcnair was killed and we've also learned morgan is now suing wal-mart. he alleges the retail giant allowed truck driver kevin roper to drive despite being awake for more than 24 hours causing him to fall asleep at the wheel. now, in response to the lawsuit wal-mart said in a statement "we are deeply sorry that one of our trucks was involved. we know it will take some time to resolve all of the remaining issues as a result of the accident, but we're committed to doing the right thing for all involved ." and turning to our weather tonight we're turning up the heat for the weekend. "eyewitness news" in chinatown where the crowds were out on saturday night. so what can we expect for the second half of the weekend? we hope the same. lovely temperatures hopefully. meteorologist kate fehlinger is in for justin tonight.

good to have you here. >> thank you very much. yeah, and still awake. bright eyed and bushy tailed. i'm doing well i think. i think part of it is because we had some really beautiful weather. we had an absolutely gorgeous beach day out there. we'll take you on a time laps here. so many people out and about understandably so on what was an absolutely beautiful day before the shadows took over and then we end up with the shot where you can't see anything anymore. now the moon is shining. if you look closely you can see it reflecting off the water but we are expecting a pretty quiet night in general around the region. stale few speck kelce of activity out there especially back through berks county where we've had several little pockets of showers and even strong thunderstorms rumbling through since, say, early this evening and late afternoon. meanwhile our current temperature readings are still on the mild side. probably going to drop another five, 6 degrees or so around the region as a whole as we move forward in the forecast here. again a quiet night on tap and we're expecting steamy conditions to build around the region on sunday. looking ahead down the road,

severe storm threat is going to make a return appearance to the forecast so coming up a little bit later in the show i'll have all the details to your and when to expect that severe storm threat. in the meantime, you can always have your weather on the go any time you need it with our brand new cbsphilly weather app. check your weather, up load pictures ands it's free. the cbsphilly app is available for all apple products and the android version will be coming soon. natasha back to you. >> thank you very much. developing right now for the first time since the conflict israeli military forces went into gaza and raided a long range missile launching site for israeli soldiers -- four of the soldiers were injured during a exchange of gunfire with hamas. the international community is calling for a ceasefire. cbs news correspondent alfonso van marsh has more. >> reporter: israel stepped up its air assault on gaza saturday but militants fired back sending at least three missiles sailing over tel aviv

following a televised promise they would strike at 9:00 p.m. local time. it's the latest in the exchange of rocket fire between israelis and hamas militants. earlier a missile destroyed a mosque in gaza the israelis claimed was used to store weapons. south of tel aviv demonstrators like israeli mahmoud called for an tend to the israeli air strikes. >> we stand today against a bombing gaza. >> reporter: but as they protested, israeli air sirens warned of incoming rocket fire. the israeli military says its air defense system shot two hamas missiles out of the sky. several other hamas rockets landd in open fields. the antiwar protesters regrouped despite calls by their leader to go home for their own safety. these protesters are in a minority here but they say they'll keep demonstrating until their israeli government stops what they call a massacre. soon below israel supporters

showed up singing patriotic songs. the two groups separated only by a traffic lane but fears of confrontation never materialized. at least here in jaffa where the olive branch triumphed. in jaffa israel, alfonso van marsh for cbs cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> prob will speak about the economy and we'll have full coverage of the presidential visit right here on "eyewitness news." a brother and sister missing from northeast philadelphia since friday night have been found safe and sound. sincere mcgovern and mikhaila tucker were reported missing after they did not return home from the decatur school playground. police say the kids are okay but did not say where they had been all this time. and police are also investigating a family murder in philadelphia's oxford circle neighborhood. detectives say a 51-year-old man was shot in the head by his brother on the 1000 block of levick street.

this is all happened around 6:30 this morning. the brother is currently under arrest. no word on what led to this shooting. a motorcyclist is dead after a crash in burlington township, new jersey. this happened about 1:15 this morning in the 2000 block of route 541. police say the driver of the harley, 58-year-old peter price, collided with an suv. price was rushed to the hospital where he died. the driver of the suv was not injured. this investigation does continue. and firefighters rescued two people from a house fire in philadelphia's mantua neighborhood early this morning. two other residents managed to escape the flames. "eyewitness news" on the 3900 block of aspen street just after 2:30. one firefighter did suffer a minor hand injury. the cause of this blaze is also under investigation tonight. and the mural arts program dedicates its latest masterpiece in philadelphia. tolerance is the subject of this piece of art at the smith recreation center in west

philly. this is all part of the summer of peace campaign. the goal here is to reduce crime, also to educate kids about alternatives to violence in the city of philadelphia. >> ♪ still ahead on "eyewitness news" tonight, the words of a young hero. tonight we are hearing from the 15-year-old girl who survived a shooting rampage that left her entire family dead. her message of hope is coming up. plus, a warning at a new jersey lake. we'll tell you what's lurking in the water that has a community very concerned. katie. >> and, natasha, we are looking ahead to the potential for not one but two separate days of severe weather in our forecast. so, we'll tell you when to expect that threat and also when do we get some relief from the stormy weather? full details straight ahead. >> straight ahead in sports a late surge by the phillies ties up the game against the nationals.

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>> tonight we are hearing from the 15-year-old girl who was the only surviving avenue shooting this week near houston that killed her entire family. her public appearance comes just three days after the deadly rampage. >> thank you all for coming and showing your support for me and my family. stay strong. (applause). >> cassidy suffered a skull fracture and lost part of a finger trying to protect herself from the gun shots. she is the sole survivor after her exuncle broke into her familiars home and killed both of her parents and all four her siblings. she survived by playing dead. on saturday she spoke for the first time since being released from the hospital quoting harry potter. >> happiness can be found even in the darkest of times. if only one -- if one only remembers to turn on the light. i know that my mom, dad, brian emily becca and zach are in a much better place and that

i'll be able to see them again one day. >> the man accused in the family's death is 33 year old ronald lee haskell accused of breaking into the family 's home while searching for his ex-wife and then shooting them. haskell collapsed twice in court. he had to be wheeled out of court. she just want d to thank the community. >> i'm really thankful for all of the people that have been praying for me and keeping me and my family in their thoughts the past couple days. and i would like to thank all of the first responders, nurses and doctors that have taken care of me. i'm feeling a lot better and i'm on a very straight forward path to a full recovery. >> it ended with the release of 600 balloons, 100 for each of the victims. >> the suspect ronald lee haskell has had a handful of

previous run ins with law enforcement in. the last surviving member of the punk band the ramons has died. tommy ramon died in queens new york. he had been 65 and had been in hospice care. he was the drummer in the ramons which he cofounded in 1974. the group earned an induction into the rock and roll hall of fame in 2002. we have a warning tonight for swimmers at a new jersey lake. the largest lake in jersey. there's an unwandered guest in the water. a boa constrictor has been spotted at least a dozen or so times around lake hopatcong. the 15 to 20-foot snake once briefly slither need a local boathouse. animal control officials say people need to be very cautious right now. >> what we're afraid of is the animals, small dogs, cats,

raccoons and i would advise people not to put their baby in the lake. a snake this size could probably swim about 25 miles an hour. >> well, officials believe the snake was once a pet and was released into the lake. now, boa constrictors are not poisonous but they can squeeze a person to death. some of the area's finest firefighters meantime they faced off for some friendly competition. the montgomery county water battle returned to towamencin montgomery county today. several hundred volunteer firefighters from at least 14 different departments competed in events like a tug-of-war and a barrel on a wire. the challenges forced the firefighters to use the skills they learned during training. >> this camaraderie with the fire companies, everybody gets together, you know, we fight fires together, you know, so you might as well do something, have fun together. >> the water battle has roots that date back to the nation's very first fire department that began here in philadelphia in the 17 hundreds. ben franklin used water battle competition to train

firefighters. and katie, it would have been a good day to have some of that water doused on you. >> another activity that would be very welcomed on a day like this i think. >> absolutely, absolutely. it wasn't too bad, though. >> it really wasn't too bad. this is classic july. a touch humid, it's definitely hot outside but it's not too bad, right. >> no,. >> a couple showers and thunderstorms did fire up in the evening but nothing that bad. >> it was totally bearable. >> and i tell was we have some pretty cool video to show you here. have you guys seen the moon yet? >> no. >> awesome. this is the supermoon and it's actually the first of three that we're going to see this summer. a zune moon is a full moon, nothing more, that appears about 14 percent larger and 30 percent brighter than you'd normally find it because it's actually at its closest point to the earth in its orbit. we only typically see this about maybe once every 13 and a half months or so, but this

one -- this time around we're seeing it come a little bit sooner. so, cool stuff for you there. here's another view for you, a nighttime all lit up not necessarily from the moon but from all the amusement park rides and all the lights on the boardwalk if ocean city t beautiful view and a very packed view on the boards right now ocean city t let's talk about water temperatures. they've been a little cool as of late. you go into the bay area, though, it's way warmer. it's a little bit of a smaller body of water to heat up so it's had a chance to moderate up a bit more readily here. in fact beach haven we get our off shore buoy reading from sandy hook which is a little further in towards the bay area. you're generally in the lower 70's. still a little cool for my tastes but it's getting there. storm scan3 as we look here next had a little activity as we tacked about earlier on, a few stray showers, a pop-up thunderstorm was out there but that's starting to fizzle away. most of us are just left with a partly cloudy sky through the overnight. but you probable have heard the rumblings of this polar vortex style pattern changes

coming our way. one system rolling south right now ushering severe weather across the midwest, then reinforcement moving in from canada. once that rolls our way we don't necessarily see any kind of polar air necessarily. we'll rather see a little bit more of a just a refreshing air mass take over but more than anything i think severe weather ends up being the big player for us. already the storm prediction center has issued a severe weather outlook. a slight risk for most of the delaware valley. right now just the shore points are in the clear but downpours, hail, damaging wind, it's all a possibility. again that's for monday, no the tomorrow. however, there's a caveat here. tomorrow we are also tracking this next cold front. could bring in a couple of showers or thunderstorms. right now future weather wants to bring them in really heavily at times. so, we're building up the moisture content in the atmosphere. that could lead to some very heavy rain at times tomorrow, possibly on monday as well and again that's when our severe weather threat starts to take effect once again. association it's looking to be an unsettled couple of days am i hate to be the bearer of

that news but again, it's july in philly. we see this every year at least for a couple of days. meanwhile feature heat index. sunday at 11:00 a.m. already feels like 90 degrees so it's going to be a steamy day. our daytime high is only going to be shy of this by five, 6 degrees or so but it is going to feel hotter when you factor in the building humidity. even monday morning the sun has barely been up and it's already feeling like it's into the 80's and it might flirt with triple digit heat index values so keep that in mind. going to be a pretty hot couple of days, unsettled for that matter, partly cloudy, seasonably mild as we drop down to 70. tomorrow we're shooting for a pair of eight's, humid day, some sun but again there will be a shower or thunderstorm around. monday, tuesday looking to be our potentially severe weather days. by wednesday though we're starting to clear out pretty quickly and again it's going to feel so much more refreshing to us. so that's the bright spot in the forecast to look forward to for sure. >> thank you very much. dying to hear about the phillies. >> another bright spot.

they've been on fire lately. looking for a season high win streak, they face off with the nats tonight. two aces in south philadelphia. highlights in a moment. and they were teammates on the gridiron, today they were foes on the hard word

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>> phillies enter tonight's game against the nats as hot as they have been all season after winning their fifth in a row friday over washington but they trailed the braves by eight and a half games with 69 to play. top of the sixth, after cole hamels walked anthony rendon jayson werth gets revenge right there takes an off speed

pitch out. hamels two lead off walks. washington led three-nothing the point. phillies looking to answer in the bottom of the sixth runners second and third, one out. and that's marlon byrd. he delivers right there. that's a single to left. jimmy rollins scores. here comes chase utley. thrown not in time. phillies cut it to three to two. go to the bottom of the eighth, phillies runners second and third, two outs, ben revere hit right there, that scores cody asche. game now knotted at three. we go to extras in this one. top of the tenth, two outs, nats runners first and seconds, ryan zimmerman rips into center bernard span scores. washington snaps the phillies five game win streak. nationals win five to three. staying with the phillies cliff lee on the side line since may 18. he'll throw 75 pitches on monday. the 35-year-old lefty could return to the big league club

july 19th in atlanta. carlos ruiz cleared to partake in baseball activities after passing baseline testing. ruiz suffered a second diagnosed concussion of his career on june 26. he'll work out in clearwater during the all-star break. count county down to eagles training camp 13 daimples lesean mccoy making the most of his free time. shady holding his first annual celebrity birthday charity weekend to benefit the als association. today found mccoy and friends at newman college for a celebrity basketball game that included desean jackson. here's leshawn on desean and his current teammates. >> obviously the friendship and the bond are still there. i would do the same. happy to have him here. they came out to support me. that's what it's all about. >> mccoy shared his thoughts on the man who will be handling and throwing the ball this year.

here's shady. >> i think we saw a glimpse of him being a great player being in a tough situation. no matter if i throw 20 interceptions i'm the quarterback. >> philadelphia's two points out of the playoff spot in the eastern conference. second half 73rd minute two-one, andrew. wenger. a clutch kick. game end in a very disappointing fashion for the union in a three-three draw. >> ♪ >> world cup bronze medal game netherlands and brazil. tough day for the host much this one was all netherlands. they would win it three-nothing and the brazilians were booed as they

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>> well, that is "eyewitness news" tonight. i'm natasha brown, for rob, katie, all of us here, thank you so much for joining us. if you're up early join nicole and carol starting at 6:00 a.m. we're always on at cbsphilly.com. criminal minds is up next. take care. >> ♪

jj: previously on "criminal minds"... the bureau thinks that mity to lead this team has been compromised. i'm resigning as unit chief at the end of the week. what?! i'm not leaving the team. i'm just no longer in charge. me? you are. ms. barnes, i'm sorry for your brother's death. i know that sounds like something people say, but i truly am sorry. thank you for helping me through this. of course. i think yo to cut contact with tamara barnes. penelope, she lost her brother. she just wants answers. i'm not involved.