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there. >> mystery solved. >> first though let's check traffic and weather together. katie and torrey in the house. >> that's awesome. good morning, everybody, well, if this is your big day back to school or your big day back to work after nice long weekends, looks right now like it will feel very summary outside. so, perhaps you can still clock a little bit of pool time later today. but it is hot. it will be steamy. also going to be tracking some more wet weather, so lots it discuss, we will de that in the next few, victoria? >> thank you, air feeling traffic will heat up a lot this morning, coming offer the holiday weekends, and then definitely with that morning rush, with school now in session. i can't even believe it. we take you outside quickly, here is a look at the parkway made in nerve still yapping up. we'll have all of the details coming up in a little bit. let's head back over to ukee and erika. >> revel casino with minutes away from saying good-bye after only two years on the atlantic city boards walk. >> $2 billion resort opened with high hopes of revitalizing the shore towns
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gaming industry. "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabeo on the boardwalk right now as the clock is ticking down. >> final countdown, 30 minutes from revel, final closure and you can see behind me this morning, security has already put up chain at the boardwalk entrance, no one going in at least from this point, of course, the casino is scheduled to close at 6:00 a.m. when revel opened it, did so to great fanfare seen as the savior of atlantic city two, years later to multi-billion dollar casino and hotel, never turned a profit. again, the casino is scheduled to close at of a.m., the lights on the gaming floor, you can see there, are still on, but they are about to go out for good. but the wind down actually started yesterday. crews were out on the boardwalk chopping off the sign out front, around 11:00 a.m. the final guests checked out before the hotel closed. only the casino remains open now. but its luck is about to run out, as well. revel took two and half billion dollars to create. it was supposed to rejuvenate
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the atlantic city flaming gaming industry. in its we years it filed for bankruptcy twice there is time around it couldn't find a buyer. when revel closes today, for good it, will leave more than 3,000 people without a job. >> i don't want to work in another casino after you work here, i don't think, i don't know. >> sad to see this happen. >> still have fate and hope in the city and hope it turns around. >> but, it has been a rough couple of days, for atlantic city, just two days ago, showboat closed leaving 2,000 employees there out of business, and revel of course has been winding down its business over the last two days of course the big concern, is the thousands of people now left without a job, in total, in all, the casino closures, throughout this entire year, 8,000 people, will be left looking for a new job here in atlantic city. live in atlantic city, jan carabeo. >> let's remind everyone if you are still holding onto some revel chips or slot
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vouchers, what you need it knowment you can redeem them at the revel general cashier office monday through friday up until the the end of the month. that far file claim through us bankruptcy court. so if you still have the cash out, you want to do so and do it very soon. you only have two weeks left to gamble at trump plaza, that's the next casino to fold when it shuts down september 16th. atlantic city started the year with 12 casinos, but there will only be eight left by the ends of the summer leaving about 8,000 workers once again out after job. >> good morning, everybody, if you are headed back to work and school today, generally speaking it, looks okay, at least initially. but it is going to be sticky outside. really notice it feels very, very steamy, very humid, and we will be talking about dew points here in a second. the meaning of that, if you need little refresher there. meanwhile nothing refreshing about this forecast, storm scan3, still empty over the overnight, new castle county, quick round of showers, storms, rumble on through, all
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since basically fizzled away, so off to quiet start. technically, there is a loft moisture in this atmosphere. eventually we also see our next cold front cross through later on today. so much like what we've seen in recent days, the last two really afternoon, evening, but the next few hours should be quiet. but, look at these dew points, oh, they are just really really high. benchmark for where it begins to feel humid, dew point of 65, and into the low and mid 70s, in a lot of locations, take a mental image of this in your head. going next to gup couple of choice temperatures, these temperatures are really close to the actual dew point, in other words, our air mass is essentially saturated right now, so, it feels so sticky outside. and that moisture combined with the heating of the day, and the heat that will go on from that solar energy that we do get at least initially, not only did we head up to 92 degrees, also end one some showers, some storms, that rumble on in here. again mainly p.m. issue, this would be fantastic excuse to
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hit the shore if you are lucky enough to maybe still have day to kill or extra day off. up in the poconos it will be smidge cooler but you will be keeping that humidity up through the mountains as well. victoria, over to you. >> thanks, katie. at least the bus stop will be dry, flight. >> there go. >> good morning, everyone, headed out and about back to school coming off beautiful holiday weaken, hope you had a great holidayment right now still trying to wrap up the festivities from the made in america festival. parkway still experiencing some closures, still closures martin luther drive. we'll let you know it does wrap up. in regard to rush hour commute. pretty beautiful ride. 476 right around the mid-county toll plaza might have disable tractor-trailer on the northbound side, approaching the tolls, but again, no major problems. >> fifty-five on 476, if you are traveling the pa turnpike, northeast extention, 422, not bad at all. as we take a look, though, we have new schedule in effect
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for the manayunk norristown line due to track work starting today will be ongoing until september 14th. so no. that will and traveling in reading still dealing with a accident on 422 near old swede roadment be mindful. and a traffic light malfunction, traffic lights on flash, the boulevard at holme avenue, so be mindful of that in the northeast, we head back to the deaths being, erika? >> thank you, time right now 5:36. in business news this morning, what the monthly jobs report could have to is he about men and women. >> what green plants in your offers says about your boss. money watch's jill wagner joins us from new york at the stock he can changes, hey, jill? >> good morning, ukee, erika, here the markets reopen after the long holiday weekends with the s&p 500 at a new record high. the dow finished up about 19 points, on friday, and the nasdaq added 22. investors will be watching as the government releases its all important monthly jobs report at the end of the week. new numbers show that women are falling behind men when it comes to job growth. since the great recession.
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now, that's because partly because male dominated industries like manufacturing and construction have really bounced back, and analysts say many companies cut office and administrative positions which are largely held by women. protester plans, as in past demonstrations, workers will be staging acts of civil disobedience at mcdonald's and other fast-food businesses, calling for hike in the minimum wage, they want to make about $15 an hour. and green around the office can be gold for businesses. new study found that when levy green plants are placed around an office, productivity increases by about 15%, after several weeks, workers in three offices in the uk and the netherlands said that air quality had improved, and they had better concentration, and employers care about their welfare. ukee, r kay?
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>> how about in a? >> do fake plants count? that's what i want to know. >> uh-huh, that's a good question. just a visual? >> just curious. >> doesn't improve the air quality. >> is it helping, that fern in the corner? thanks, jill. right now a 38:00. community members protest outside a south philadelphia store that they claim is selling realistic looking bb guns. "eyewitness news" test point save supermarket in point breeds, demonstrators demanded the store stop selling those guns. when our crews weathered the store, we did not see any guns on the shelves. but they say the gun cell video, the guns with the children with the bb guns they purchased. they also say children can remove the guns orange tip, and color them black, to make them look like real guns. what's going to happen when they sell one of these young men, and these men are acting like they shoot someone and someone kill them? what's going to happen?
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>> nothing. >> that's wag go happen? >> philadelphia police officers were on the scene to make sure the rally remained peaceful. the stores owner declined to talk to us during the protest, and has not returned our calls. >> final decision on controversial name dropping. it will meet at the municipal complex on renaming the john f. kennedy center the barack obama center. 1966 it opened as high school in memory of the 35th president. it is now a rec center undergoing an overhaul. supporters want to honor the current president. opponents say that is slight against kennedy. well the school bell rings this morning to start the year for camden area student, mayor dana red and other city officials are scheduled to meet and greet parents as they take their children to their first day of classes. good luck to all. by the way, as the kids head back to school, where ever you are, snap and share your picks of the first day of classes cents, tweet your pictures us to using hashtag cbs-3 mornings. we would love to see your best
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shots, may even see it on tv right here on "eyewitness news". love the back to school picture. >> i do too. >> who wasn't lined up outside the house awkwardly with your lunch box, back pack on? >> i was getting ready to say booing back. >> potato-potah-to. >> bear with a nose for trouble, ends up with a bucket stuck on his head. >> you have to see how he was finally rescued. >> i feel for the guy. also, celebrities hacked. their private pictures posted on the internet for anyone to see. how to prevent your personal pictures from being published. also, eating healthy isn't always easy, but now, you can trick your brain into kicking back junk food addiction. we'll so many you thousand do it. >> i need that for french fries. >> ahh. >> biggest weakness. >> what about crab fries? >> i have to make an exception there. guys, talking about some heat, humidity, eventually more
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storms here at home, and also maybe while were you sleeping, new tropical storm on our hands out there in thehe gulf of mexico. details on dolly hey, jennar fuzz mike trooawwwwww scram!g... i'm crust mike jubby roll bond chow gonna lean up an kiss bet.
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partial building collapse in keck zest being, the fellowship center on the 4800 block of woodland avenue is off limits after part of the second floor fell in. >> president obama leaves for astonia today. he will attend summit in whales later this week. heightened russia, plus the threat from the islamic state group among the subject of the meeting. well, things should be back to normal on the ben franklin parkway after last weekend's made in america festival. workers had been busy all night breaking down the stages, cleaning up all of the mess left hine by that two day concert. the city says the parkway should be open again in time for your morning commute. they had a loft work to do. oh, right now, a 43:00, and sticky weather to work in overnight, as well. >> you took the words right out of my mouth. it is so steamy out, there you feel for the guys doing the construction, it is hot to be around all of that equipment anyway, then to be stuck with this casino of pattern. but dow want to start off here with the tropics. turn our focus there, dolly,
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formed, our next tropical storm, developed here, we actually saw it turn into a depression yesterday afternoon. just like that became tropical storm, so here it is. on the tail end of the satellite loop, basically, making a b line to the bay of catchpeach i, this will be turned up the surf as far north as the southern most tip of the lone star state. so we are watching that. this is where it is headed. it is barely a tropical storm with max sustained winds 45 miles per hour, will slowly creep on shore. bringing flooding rain to areas like this. so if you are lucky enough maybe to have travel plans, vacation plans, you are going down that way, pay close attention to what's happening in the next few days, back here at home, sitting pretty still with high pressure technically keeping control. at least for now. they were still drawing on southerly component to the wind flow, so this next frontal boundary will start moving on, in keep us in the midst of some very humid air, but dow think that this huge batch of very heavy rain is likely going to fizzle somewhat as it approaches our area, because it is basically battling the clock t needs
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have some good heat and humidity to work with, by that point the sun going down. brand new school day forecast graphic for youment isn't it preppy? i love the camouflage back padge, isn't that nice? good stuff. expecting it to be hot afternoon for the kids, though, sticky outside, 92 degrees, so hopefully your school is air-conditioned. but we do expect some sunshine eventually a shower storm will fire up. but the key word here is isolated. if you maybe have after school football practice planned, upper 80s by tomorrow, thursday, cold front doesn't live up to its name, but at least we'll wipe out some of the worse of the activity. victoria, over to you. >> unfortunately we do have an accident that just popped up on the westbound side of the pa turnpike. if your traveling westbound at the off ramp to bensalem, an overturned tractor-trailer, is now on scene. now, notice we do have few emergency vehicles, it may seem that this vehicle here could have been involved. we're still investigating it. but again, this is the westbound pa turnpike, at the bensalem off ramp. so, traveling in that direction, you may notice that
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it, could potentially cause gaper delay. the good thing is that there aren't too many vehicles on the roadway just yet. again we will definitely can continue to keep you updated. speed censors still looking great this morning, 55 on 95, 50 on the schuylkill, 55 on 476. 422 moving well. northeast extension, so on, so for the. if you are headed back from beautiful holiday weekend from the shore, looking great. acx, garden state parkway, 47 all moving real well. do you keep in mind however if you are traveling the manayunk-norristown line there is into schedule in effect, also don't forget, when you are on the road, you can get updated information about traffic backups in your area anywhere really. with the new your drive app. download the app for the iphone and android devices by going to cbsphilly.com/your drive. breaking news coming into us from nashville. new video here, after a massive jail break at a youth detention center. thirty-two teens escaped late last night by climbing under a
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fence, during a shift change. that's almost half the teens held there. as of this morning only six of the teens have been captured. >> other news this morning, hundreds of right at celebrity photos, on one of the biggest hacking incidents ever berks not the only ones at risk. to keep your information safe, experts suggest using different passwords for different accounts. and changing them frequently. they say you should also opt out of cloud sharing, check privacy settings, and use a two step verification system. it is almost i am fos completely bulletproof your life. bee share so much stuff. we use so many cloud services which are really great for backing up information and keeping it safe and access from different places but it does add an agree of vulnerability, bass it is throughout. >> recently, and apple said it patched a security gap with the i clouds after the latest breach. >> here is a picture that was
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meant to be shared with the world. country star carrie underwood used social media to announce her peg any san he, the first child for underwood and her husband, mike fisher. the couple just celebrated their fourth anniversary in july. the baby is due in the spring. congratulations. on the hell watch, popular weight loss strategy may also be good for your heart. researchers of louisianna found low cash owe hydrate diets out performed low-fat die whets it comes to weight loss. followed group of obese adults for a year, a.m. suggest low carb diet could help risk factors for heart disease. >> speak to go a diet isn't always easy, but scientists say there could be a way to row wire your brain to crave food that is good for you. >> live in washington, d.c. to show us thousand train our brains for a healthy eating. thinking carrots not french fries. good morning. >> apparently really is mine
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over matter if you are maybe supposed to be going with the carrots instead of the sugary cookies the all of this is really part of the brand new pipe lot study just published recently in the journal nutrition, rather, journal of nutrition diabetes. it states changing your eating behavior can actually change hour your brain react to high versus low calory foods. so, this is how it works. researchers have participate in the two groups. experimental group offered healthier meals for six months, asked to reduce calorie intake a day down it a thousand. well, the meals of the control group were not adjusted. experimental group ended up losing about 14 pounds during that period, at the end of the six months, both the experimental and control group of the participants were shown photos of healthy and unhealthy foods. and mri scans revealed low calory options stimulated the brains of people in the experimental group compared to usually appealing or usually appealing high calorie foods. how much, that was not the case for the controlled group here. researchers concluded while they still have plenty more work to do in their study,
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they still have to re-evaluate the situation here. they were able to confirm at least that the weight loss program seemed to really change the way people think about some of these foods. but how about you guys, though? wouldn't you really be able to at least train your brain to go account health year option? >> no training needed here, all i would have to do is just think about mom and dad giving me the look as a kid. >> i opportunity see the look. >> eat your veggies. >> no, you don't want to see the look. it will scare you indeed. >> we seem to eat pretty healthy. but katie mentioned the french fries, you get the whiff of freshly fried french friday. >> information moderation, right? >> intoxicating. >> some fries here and, there we'll get through this together. thank you, man, appreciate you. before you walk out the door, nothing check of traffic and weather together. we'll do it on the 3's. >> first though here's what's coming up tonight on cbs-3. >> crab fries!
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group of people in collar yen county, a bear cub who just needed a hand there. black bear seen walking around with a bucket stuck on its head since june. >> while love officials say they couldn't do anything because he wasn't hurt anything one. now, that's a neighbor stepped in, how about that? neighbor stepping in to help the bear. they helped him using -- saw the bear and they named him the bucket bear. eventually were able to help him get that thing off his head. >> got it right off. okay. >> that's all right. >> bear with the bucket on his head. >> since june? for three plus months? oh, that poor thing. >> how did it eat?
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>> i know. >> he is okay now. >> thankfully. >> that is tough to see. >> poor guy. >> at least okay now. >> storm scan3, quiet for now here at home, but very, very seem i outside. that will will set the stage for this next frontal boundery to move n right now bringing heavy rain, nasty storms, right north of that ohio river valley. later in the day, we start to see our own scattered czar eye of it of shower or storm, but decent beach day otherwise, 88 degrees at the shore, hot, and humid. victoria? >> pretty decent commutement accident popped up, let's get you outside, details, if you are traveling on the pa turnpike westbound, the off ramp to bensalem, overturned tractor-trailer, is compromising the right hand lane. we do have a few emergency teams on scene. we'll continue to keep you updated on. that will the best thing to dodo is to stay with us right here. we'll be right back.
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>> proud father from north pennsylvania, shows entheusiastic baby gives thumb up. clearly little one a proves of his living arrange, although does to have share the space with a twin sister. oh, that's great. good to go. let's do this. >> love it. >> coming up our breaking news revel casino in atlantic city about to close its doors any minute now. live with what that means for thousands of workers? back to school for many student in our area. doctor rob is here to take about those if i days jitters, and also, how staying healthy helps in the classroom. we'll be right back.
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>> all bets are off at the revel casino. >> shut its door for the final
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time moments ago. jan carabeo joins us now on the bore walk with more on the able pact this closure bridges. >> good morning, ukee, erika. count t revel now the thirds casino to close here on the atlantic city boards walk in just the last eight months, and it won't be the last of course trump plaza scheduled to close in just two weeks, see behind me this morning of course that wine was taken down yesterday. this morning, that yellow chain was put up just few minutes ago, and this officially closed just few minutes ago. now, when the revel opened just two short years ago it, opened to great fanfare. not so today. just couple of security guards simply came out to the board walk and put up that chain and that was it. meanwhile, inside this is what the gaming floor looked like during the final hours, people here all night soaking in the final hours, playing the last hand, for the most part the casino was empty. in its two years, revel never turned a profit. and when it filed for bankruptcy for the second time this year it, never found a

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