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good morning and new this morning it is a hero's home coming at the airport as world cup star carli lloyd returns home. just been a whirlwind couple of days for the delran native and it is not over yet either. we will let you know what is next for the soccer super star. >> great times. steamy start to the day quiet right now outside but we are bracing for some afternoon storms. let's get more on that, just a little bit from katie. i saw them moving in. a lit built. >> it is on the way yesterday it started to get very, very steamy outside today it is still steamy outside and we're just buying time, at this point waiting for this front to get through. so that is the problem. waiting, is always the worst. >> you know it is coming. >> it is like getting car maintenance done or having to go to the dmv you are just stuck. >> yes, you have no control over it. >> that is right.
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>> exactly. >> speaking of highlights. >> yes. >> in the way back machine. >> in the doctor's office. shout out to the doctor. >> very nice, very nice. >> not to get complete liz off topic, sorry. >> guy lets get back to the system at hand here. we are seeing those cloud begin to bilo in at this point. we will start off with some sunshine but it will not last us very long when we look at is what heading our way in the last three hour loop. we are over taken by the clouds and then by showers and thunderstorms. at this point they look like they would be generally non-severe thunderstorms which is good news. mostly because you need sunlight and that heating of the day to get instant built going. general synopsis is this, afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms some of which will include heavy downpours, some of which could be locally gusty as well but we're not not talking about any kind of severe weather potential out of this at this point. that is definitely helpful but
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it will in messy think with your afternoon and evening drive plans. 78 degrees the current temperature at philly international, we're within that range around the entire board, and everybody is getting that humidity here today. muggy morning on tap. we will walk through the rest of the day with the showers moving east, slowly, that is why we have so much time to build up so much humidity and we do think that at some point we will have a shot to flirt with 90 degrees but notice how temperatures drop. once we see wet weather picking up here, it does mean we will see temperatures get cooler, as the the rain moves through. >> all right thanks, very much katie. >> good morning. if you are traveling out and about on the roads you will note that is we're starting to find peaks of rush hour in area. it is not awful but this is how it starts. we will take a look at the 492 freeway evening travel north bound direction, barely any vehicles out there we tend to see a rush hour approaching the area of 29 five still early for that. rush hour doesn't come into play until 6:00 or 6:15 but we
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are seeing a few more vehicles on the roadway which means that folks are starting to arrive, as we look at 476 you will net is traveling blue route in either direction not too far from the area of lima springfield we are moving great. traveling around route one still looking great. we are looking okay right around 95, schuylkill, mid county toll plaza it is all good. speed sensors are high in the 50's. even i-95 is looking okay. would i still however say if you are in the planning to get to i-95 or if you are planning to get on i-95 within the next maybe ten to 20 minutes by the time you get there around girard and cottman you will find construction pockets so keep that in mine. for mass transit remember patco is still single tracking on the southbound side to accommodate northbound construction, so that has been setting people back in the morning so just something to plan for ukee. new this morning team u.s.a. star carli lloyd is back in philadelphia. the new jersey native scored three goals in the first 16 minutes in the game against japan and received a big
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welcome home from her boyfriend, fiance at the airport earlier this morning. "eyewitness news" caught up with lloyd when she arrived at philly international. >> life has definitely change for me. i think i have to buckle up ape get ready for it but it is good. it is fun. i have to enjoy it. >> welcome home, young lady. yesterday team u.s.a. celebrated with fans during a huge party in los angeles and in new york city they will host a ticket tape parade for woman's world cup champions on friday welcome back, congratulations. former eagles quarterback donovan mcnabb could spend 90 days in jail after his a reason dui charges in arizona police say mcnabb was driving drunk outside phoenix last month when he rear ended another car stopped at a red light. this is his second dui arrest in the state of the air zone, he spent one day in jail after pleading guilty in 2013. a second conviction means a minimum sentence of 90 days behind bars. it is 5:34n business news this morning a new item on the
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shake shack menu. >> how about that. >> another deadline for greek financial officials money watch's jill wagner joins us now from new york at the new york stock exchange, hi jill good morning. >> reporter: good morning, ukee and erika. investors are watching global markets again. yesterday they this shrugged off uncertainty and got in the buying mood. the dow jones jumped 93, nasdaq up five. this morning greece faces a final deadline to avert financial collapse. european leaders want the greek g to deliver new proposals for cut backs before an emergency summit on sunday. greece's government and banks are just days away from running out of money. chinese stock markets plunge for a second day regulators say is there a mood of panic since june shanghai composite is down 32 percent. well facebook buy twitter? that is the big question in a big media conference happening in sun valley, idaho. mark sucker and jack dorsey
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are two of the big wigs in attendance. facebook spent $21 billion to other purchases. shake shack is taking on chick-fil-a with the first ever chicken zapped witch made with christie fried change, lettuce, pickles and mayo on a bun. it is only available in three locationness brooklyn but so far people who have tried it, they say it is fabulous. i bet it is. >> it looks good. >> yes. >> thanks, jill. >> we're hungry now right. >> yes, thanks for that, jill. >> they look great. >> we will get back to you in morning. a montgomery county woman goes to the white house today to be honored for being on the cutting edge of treating a devastating disease. >> "eyewitness news" reporter nicole brewer joins us more to talk about a home town hero. >> reporter: thinks a big honor, good morning. her name is emily crammer a 30 year-old bala cynwyd woman whose advanced cystic fibrosis inspired her to find new treatment for the the disease
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and in the process she has raised one and a half million-dollar, an effort recognized by president obama a. so this is a big deal. today em lie license one of nine people as people awarded champions of change as part of the precision medicine initiative that encourages research on targeted treatment. through her organization, emily's entourage she's buying time for a medical break through that she hopes to benefit from. despite losing 65 percent of her lung function her voice as an advocate is as strong as ever. >> my hope that is emily's entourage and this precision medicine initiative will lead to a break through that gives me, you know, a future. >> emily says research is evolving from precision medicine and has potential to save her and tens of thousands of other patients but of course as you heard her say time is running out so she hopes that today's honor will raise more awareness and money for that cause. you can find out more about emily's entourage at the white house honor on cbs philly.com
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and emily is pretty exited to meet president obama. >> yes, she is a champion of change. >> yes. >> that is great. >> someone fighting for their life but donating so much time and effort to this cause. >> making a difference. >> beautiful. >> thanks, nicole. pope francis leaves ecuador for believe, yeah second stop of his latin american tour, his last day in keyto included an open air mass that drew more than 1 million people. while greeting the crowd the pope took a selfie with disable children. environment ministering to the poor and government's tense relations with the catholic church are on the agenda when he goes to bolivia. still ahead a police officer survives a terrifying traffic stop you have to see this video when a car goes flying right at him. also it is a bug that is causing huge problems, how to tell if the emerald ash gamer is infecting your trees. also, check this video out, your eyes are not playing tricks on you that is a skeleton behind the wheel of that car the driver pulled
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celebrity chef paula dean is in hot water, again over a race issue this photo posted on dean's social media account shows her and her son bobby dressed a as characters from i love lucy. bobby dean in front on the right is dressed as richie richardo with brown face make up. after a twitter fire storm dean deleted the photo and fired her social media manager. a california doughnut shop owner claims that the pop star ariana grande right there licked and spits on pastries in the store. our affiliate in los angeles obtained this video shows a woman, leaning forward, and with a man doing something to those doughnuts. owner of the shop says it is obvious what she and her bow were doing to the powdered doughnuts. >> she lick two of them and owe that is four doughnuts why didn't she just take them. i'm surprised she didn't
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liquor spit on her doughnuts. >> grandy's management team has in the yet respond todd these accusations doughnut store owner says she's welcomed to come back to the store but before she does they will put the doughnuts away. >> what was that all about that was crazy. why do that. >> unbelievable. >> fire fighters, attempts to rescue a woman after her suv got stuck on the flooded road. vehicle was submerged when fire fighters go the to the scene. officials say they responded to over 31 water rescues yesterday morning. some people in the same texas town decided to go fishing in the flood water and they caught a few fish, in their nets. forecasters say more than 8 inches of rain fell in abilene yesterday breaking the record that was set way back in 1928. lets get more on our storms with katie. >> we are eventually going to be dealing with the same, you know, kind of weather here, in the necessarily that kind of rain that accumulate but heavy downpours, flooding is an issue for us. we may end up with gusty
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storms but thankfully this is not a major severe weather is situation, so that is good news. we want to check with our eyewitness weather watcher network. we have a couple 83's out here. mid to upper 70's. we will show you list view to give you a better idea in the list format. seventy-three from fran, eileen in gilbertsville, mark in chats word, new jersey and poconos. thinks coolest spot we have been able to find. sixty-eight from keith in sailorsberg in the poconos region. it is a warm, very muggy start to the day. we have a nice picture that was sent in from ed connor, he is out in chesterfield, most typically reporting and he did have a shot of some cloud beginning to move in here but this was the mood early this morning before the sun came out. in the meantime lets take a look what is going on out here. we are again just waiting we're just waiting for this system to arrive. in the meantime we will have certainly some cloud it is steamy outside but we should see a little bit of sunshine along the way. here's that front that will be
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scheduled to cross through our area, and bring with it the heavier downpours and gusty storms. all that moisture that we just talked about bringing heavy rain through texas is still getting drawn in. there will be an area have low pressure that redevelops off the tail even of this front and that is the story for tomorrow. so in the meantime, i wouldn't call the next few days the most pristine, beach days we have ever seen, we will see at least some sun at the shore but man it is hot and steamy outside, upper 80's that way with late day showers and storms. uv index is lower just because we are starting to see those cloud build in here. looking forward in the forecast though, as far as philadelphia is concern really rest of the region tomorrow is mainly cloudy, but we will see some more showers and storms at night toward evening with that next disturbance and then breathe sigh of fresh air here, friday, saturday and sunday at this point look pretty nice, but will be hot outside, just not as humid. that is important. calling all kid caster. your kid to show off your
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forecasting skills with meteorologist kate bilo. she will be in the air conditioned crayola experience in easton pennsylvania and she will host our kid caster audition from his noon until 2:00 and you can of course find out all of the details you need at cbs philly to the come,/kid caster. vittoria, over to you. i cannot wait to check them out. >> they are the best. >> awesome. >> good morning, everyone. well katie was talking about the mugginess we have out there. look at i-95. it is looking like that out there. not causing too much low visibility to the vehicles but still a milk, it makes you feel like it is a drag. so if you want to travel on i-95 in the southbound direction out of the north east through the vine we are accumulating rush hour traffic right around cottman and girard, and this shot here not too far from girard avenue as you will notice a few more vehicles are on the roadway. as we continue we will take you elsewhere once i get my clicker going, we are going to the ben franklin bridge where it looks great. traffic is moving without a hitch really and all bridges
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are looking fantastic. and fyi, septa regional rails they will have some fewer cars, because they are doing some fleet upgrade. so keep that in mind on our trains this morning. if you are traveling or plan to travel, patco, they are still single tracking on the southbound side, because they are working on the northbound side, so make sure that you keep that in mind that is in either direction and we have a few sets of detours due to fire department activity so keep that in mine, but also, don't forget, when you are on the road you can get updated information about traffic backup, with the new cbs philly traffic app and you can down load that app right now on i tunes or google play, ukee. here's a look at today's headlines, world cup champion carli lloyd arrived in philadelphia earlier this morning. she scored three goals in the first 16 minutes of the game against japan the 2015 world cup final. also washington township still cleaning up after those damaging storms, two weeks ago. tree debris is finding its way in streets and storm drains, washington township's mayor
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barbara wallace says that smaller companies have been hired to clean up the mess but they are not getting the job done fast enough. fall out continues from bill cosby's add in mission that he obtained drugs with the intent of giving them to women he wanted to have sex with disney world removed a bronze bust of the comedian from their hollywood studio theme park overnight. we are now learning that the gunman, the gun, used to kill, a woman on the san francisco pier belongs to the federal agent. shooting had already fueled a fresh round of fierce debate over u.s. immigration policies. here now is andrew spencer with more. >> reporter: juan sanchez made his plea in court on murder and weapons charges. , i am not guilty. >> reporter: judge set bond at five million-dollar, and lopez sanchez appears difficulties openedded in a prison interview with prison tv and in the quite clear if he understood the questions in parts of the interview which was conducted in both english and spanish.
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he said he found the gun wrapped inside a t-shirt on the ground. gave contradictory answers to reporters about what had happened and how he felt. and at one point he said he could not recall details of the shooting because he had taken sleeping medications. then he repeated several times the the shooting had been a accident, and the weapon had gone off on its own. his defense attorney suggested the same, on monday. >> this very well could be a completely accidental discharge of a firearm. >> reporter: sanchez is an undocumented immigrant and felon who had been deported five times to in mexico. politicians campaigning for the presidency have seized on these facts debating u.s. immigration laws, on the campaign trail. also under scrutiny what role local authorities should have had into forcing those federal laws. late tuesday, another twist in the case came when a source revealed that the gun belonged to a federal agent and it wasn't immediately clear which federal agency the gun was tied too or how it ended up in
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the hand of the shooter. it is also unclear whether the revelation about where the weapon came from will affect the case. andrew spencer for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". utah highway patrol trooper is seriously injured after being struck, while responding to an accident. watch it happen from the police dash cabbing. trooper was investigating a car accident on the median when a second car hydro plane and hit the car and trooper. fire fighters used the jaw of life to lift the car off trooper and that trooper suffered broken ribs but he is, expect to make a full recovery. >> horrible to see that. >> isn't it. it might be unsettling to see this driver on the road, the skeleton driver in kentucky is work of the mechanic andrew johnson. he bought the jeep with the steering wheel on the right side of the car and he had a fake steering wheel put the left side. skeleton could be in the driver's seat. johnson says that the prank started two halloweens ago and it is always, gets the attention. i bet it does. >> that is funny.
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a destructive bug blamed for killing millions of trees in the midwest has been found in our area take a lot at emerald ash gamer it is called, it kills arbitraries originally from ash it has done most of the damage in the midwest but making its way in the states of new jersey, and pennsylvania. the insects feeding is cutting off all of the transport of nutrients and water going up. >> we're looking for that leading edge, that we know and we can help, these plants. >> officials are setting up traps to contain the the beetle and keep it from spreading if you own a arbitrary look for yellowing of the leaves, and the letter d shaped holes, in the bark. if you see either of those two give the department of agriculture a call, you can find that information on our web site at cbs philly to the
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come. after record snowfall in boston this winter part of the city is still melting it is july, still melting. the the glacier of black ice filled with trash used to be known as the snow farm, but when plows and trucks cleared the road they brought around trash on the street. >> i knew there would be a lot of trash under that snow, because first blizzard, as everyone remembered, in one wants to talk bit. and then right after we had second blizzard. every weekend we got more snow on top of snow. >> everything you see there was on the streets when the snow hit and none of it went into boston harbor which is a terrific thing. >> while state did clear cities and towns with snow in the water because of emergency conditions as you heard that man say boston chose not to. instead they made that 20-foot mountains of snow. everyone right new taking bets on just how long that thing will last, hopefully it is gone before the summer is over. talk bay rough night on the job foreground crew in pittsburgh, one the of the ground keeper got swallowed by
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the tarp, when they tried to cover the field during a rain delay, they gotten gulfed and couple pirates players pitched into help rescue him you hear cheering of the fans, there he is it was all hand on deck, no doubt about it. that is amazing, you see this a lot those guys are trained and they necessity how to deal with that but when it happens, wow. >> still scary. >> and players help out as well. >> yeah. >> that is a family right there they got it together. >> i think pirates won the game but that is important thing everybody is okay. >> yes, make sure he is all right. coming up in the next hour of "eyewitness news" two weeks after storms tore part of the neighborhood debris is still in the clean up. resident are bracing for more storms today. katie has your forecast. also it is a sign of the times find out where some students will be now taking a class in sexing when classes resume in the fall.
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breaking news this morning there is a active hazmat situationing right now in ocean county. we will bring you a live report from the scene very shortly. world cup hero and delran native carli lloyd arrived at philadelphia international airport a few hours ago and we were there to greet her as was her fiance.
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hear what she had to say about the championship and is what next for the team coming up. another steamy day again but things turn stormy, one look at storm can three and you can see unsettled weather heading in our direction moving left to right there on your screen. it is wednesday, july 8th i'm's ukee washington. i'm quarter von tiehl. storms could hit this afternoon. we will check on traffic weather and we are clear right now, ladies. >> absolutely, i would say so. i would say rush hour is, coming in a little bit. >> yes. >> well, hang on. >> hold the phone. >> yes exactly. >> we said that we have more time to kill here, before things start to get more active, but i would still suggest if you have got maybe an entire day heading out for entire day to work thaw will likely want to keep umbrella on stand by because once they get here they can douse you. lets start off by taking you out to storm scan and that wide zoom we showed you a second ago. there is leading edge of the
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