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new this morning bullets fly in montgomery county a victim is shot and left to die in the mcdonald's parking lot we will have have details straight a head. first time in our nation's history, that a woman will be a major party nom minute knee. >> hillary clinton makes history but bernie sanders is not dropping out of the race. we will tell you why sanders is heading to the white house tomorrow. i understand the responsibility of carrying the mantle and i will never, ever let you down. >> donald trump addressing supporters after his primary wins, we will tell you why this speech was different then most of his others.
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today is wednesday june 8th good morning i'm jim donovan. i'm brooke thomas, we are getting started with weather and traffic with katie and meisha. good morning. >> good morning, happy hump day. looking good. still very quiet. other than construction we are looking nice. >> definitely starting off on a quiet note. there will be a few showers that role through midday but little disturbance but generally speaking not causing too many headaches. we are looking at storm scan three here locally no problems at the moment but we will zoom it out and there it is off to the west a little bit of shower activity primarily now moving in the alleghenies, lower highland area but that is scheduled to make its arrival here as early as 9:00 other clock across western suburbs and it does move through midday. that is only issue we will face here today, upper level le disturbance pushing through where that is getting triggered. in the meantime it is a heck of a lot cooler then this time yesterday. we are currently in the upper 50's and 40's even up in the northwestern counties a and
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mountains. pair of five's currently reported in millville. sixty-three at philly international. still comfortable. with that said dew points have to continued to drop off. it is feeling a lot less humid. sixty-one the current temperature in palmyra we're in the upper 50's in quakertown, pottstown and day progresses, watching for a shower here and there and it will move through generally midday for most of you, a little earlier for western suburbs and later closer to the coast obviously but wind picks up for everyone as this little disturbance pushes through and more than anything would i say main head line it is a heck of a lot cooler by comparison today. >> i could feel it right away when i walked through the door relevant i. thanks for the head up. seventy's will feel okay but certainly can feel a difference out there looking at the roads vine was closed for overnight construction between schuylkill and broad. we are used to. that lifts around 5:00 o'clock. west and eastbound still closed. we have construction on i-95, i-95 south atwood haven road
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that right lane is block not causing any slow downs, right now. not enough vehicle tolls do so. giving you a heads up 95 south and northbound headlights moving in the northbound direction. off ramp to street road is closed abe 95 northbound and southbound at street road that right lane is also compromised. make note, for those in and around that area construction here route 202 both directions between 401 and route 30 that left lane is blocked in each direction, jim, over to you. new this morning a mcdonald's parking lot the in montgomery county is now a crime scene, after a person is shot, and killed. >> police say victim was pronounced dead at the scene and it happened outside the mcdonald's on west main street in norristown around 11:30. no word on a suspect or motive at this time. hillary clinton is celebrating a historic milestone as first woman to lead a major american party ticket. >> new jersey primary gave her more than number delegates to lock up the democratic presidential nomination. donald trump is last republican standing but john kasich and ted cruz who
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dropped out a few weeks ago were still on the bat ol. >> president obama called hillary clinton to congratulate her or clinching the nomination in addition to new jersey she won in new mexico and south dakota still no word yet on california. cbs nooses mates she has 2648 delegates more than enough for the nomination, once the democrats meet in philadelphia next month. clinton noted that is this not just her victory. >> tonight's victory is not about one person, it belongs to generations of women and men who have struggled and sacrificed and made this moment possible. >> bernie sanders won in montana and north dakota he put his time in california, sanders told supporters the struggle continues and vows to fight all the way to philadelphia. >> and then we take our fight for social, economic, racial
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and environmental justice to fill, pennsylvania. >> president obama also called sanders last night, the two will meet at the white house tomorrow at sanders request. for donald trump it was a clean sweep of five states, cbs nooses mates trump has 1535 delegates, and he became presumptive republican presidential nominee weeks ago. in going after the clintons, trump read off a teleprompter in a prepared speech something that the billion air businessman rarely does. >> we cannot solve our problems by counting on the politicians who created our problems. the clintons have turned the politics of personal enrichment into an art form for themselves. >> meantime trump is trying to explain his comments that the federal judge could not preside fairly over a case over trump university because of his mexican heritage. trump says his comment was
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misconstrued. we have the outcome of the rest of the races in the new jersey primary on line at cbs philly.com. it is just 47 days and counting until the democratic national convention starts here in philadelphia. go to cbs philly.com/dnc for a look at the preparations. in other news we could learn today if philadelphia mayor jim kenney's controversial soda tax will be a reality. city council is set to vote this morning. if you are in the area expect a big protest outside city hall today, employees from the soft drink industry and owners of the independent grocery stores will rally at 10:00 a.m. 3 cents per ounce soda tax would bring in an estimated 95 million-dollar annually. the mayor says that the money would fund universal prek as well as improvements to city facility. also happening, driver accused in the deadly hit and run in northeast philadelphia is due in court for a preliminary hearing. thirty-five year-old john cook, crashed into a bus stop at cottman and bustleton
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avenue last month killing a lay hoe mow lean a cook surrendered to police almost eight hours after the he faces involuntary manslaughter a and other charges. pennsylvania state police are looking for the driver who fired a shot, during a rush hour road rage incident on i-95. they released this sketch of the suspect described as a black male 30 to 40 years old with the goat tea, at 6:30 tuesday morning state police say he started aggressively tailgating another driver just before the girard point bridge. he pulled up on the right side of the victim's car and fired off a gun. >> one round struck the rear passenger side area have the victim's vehicle and actually punctured the tire and victim could have crash and seriously injured himself. >> victim was able to safely pull off the road and call 911. suspect's carries an early 2,000 chevy impala or malibu with weathered black paint. state police hope surveillance video will led them to the suspect police are searching
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for a prisoner got away from episcopal hospital on lehigh after new last night. hasan miguel ran away from the facility at 9:30. he is 5-foot eight, 175-pound with a tear drop tattoo on his face. he is wearing a gps ankle monitor. police believe he is still in the area. mother of sixers assistant coach jones brooke said their family is over served. >> he served asiana cysttent to brett brawn have after a 12 year nba career. he suffered a heart attack in a philadelphia restaurant yesterday. so far no funeral plans have been announced. he was 46 years old. meanwhile there will be two opportunities for fans to pay their respects to the late boxing legend muhammad ali. officialness louisville, kentucky have distributed 4,000 free tickets for tomorrow's islamic prayer service honoring ali. free ticket will be handed out for this morning for the friday funeral in downtown louisville. ali died friday in arizona after a 30 year battle with
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parkinson's disease. he was 74 years old. well, still ahead a truck plows in the group of bicyclist why police were searching for the driver before the crash. also a head a wild ending to a police chase in kansas, see more of this dramatic video. a leopard gets loose in the the utah zoo we will tell what you visitors did to protect themselves and what the cat was doing when it was found, we will be right parts a and b and want more coverage, guess what? you could apply for a medicare supplement insurance plan whenever you want. no enrollment window. no waiting to apply. that means now may be a great time to shop for an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company.
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back on "eyewitness news" with a end to the police chase in kansas. driver of the pick up loses control, drives off the highway and lift in the grass. check that out. police rescued a woman beneath the truck. believe it or not she was only minorly hurt. this is a sad story in my, a driver plowed in the bicyclist killing five of them. authorities say they have been searching for 50 year old driver after getting many concerned calls. just minutes before he crashed near a park in the western
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part of the state. eyewitnesses say they rushed out of their homes after hearing a loud bang. i seen a dodge ram slide past me coming toward my house. i seen a blue truck spin around and land in the yard. >> he hit a tree, like it didn't sound like he collided, with people, bikes. >> four other cyclist were seriously hurt. names of the victims have not been released but we know they are all adults and the driver has been arrested. guests at a utah zoo are forced to take shelter after a leopard escape. four year-old 60-pound republican air name isaiah didn't move far from her exhibit. she was sleeping just 2 feet away. still guests were taken inside buildings as a precaution. she was tranquilized and is expect to be fine, it is unclear how she was able to get out of her enclosure. time is 4:42. >> kate has another check of your forecast, katie. >> guys, it is not terribly breezy but that will change in
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time. wind will kick up for us. we are tracking a upper level disturbance which we will get to in a second. beautiful beginning to the day here. very quiet, peaceful here in ocean city on the boardwalk with ferris wheel in the distance and, obviously light of the day beginning to pop over that horizon and specifically at 5:32 we will see sun coming up in philadelphia a minor two earlier then that at the shore towns. here's storm scan three. you can see a hint of wet weather firing up here through central, western pennsylvania. thinks part of the upper level disturbance. that front that came through is gone, upper level disturb a answer that will trigger showers in our area and generally speaking basically talking about midday for these to roll role through l me walk you through future weather, all fine and dandy through the entire morning rush hour. take a look by the time we hit 9:00 a.m. give or take far northwestern suburbs are hit with showers, there could be brief, locally heavy downpours with this. by lunchtime it is rolling its way through i-95 in
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philadelphia there could be heavy rain, future weather is accurate here but that said, by two or 3:00 p.m. it is winding down pushing its way across shore points and out to sea. midday again expect a couple showers by tomorrow, we are looking to see up here, expecting sun to shine and nice day. in the meantime expect partly sunny skies, showers through midday, depending where you are, it will come earlier or later and tonight feel free to forgo that air conditioning, feeling comfortable, mid to upper 70's, lower 80's this weekend with yet another cold front scheduled across the region, meisha. >> i turned mine off this morning, thank you for that. happy wednesday. take a look, we have construction. ninety-five south and west wound, this is street road in the right lane. it is block, the off ram tops street road are also still closed so that morning construction. i'll let you know when that lifts. similar construction 95 south atwood haven road, you can see it block off. those cones and markers, we
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have have early risers but things are still looking darn good there. vine, westbound side is just opening and closed overnight for overnight construction between schuylkill and broad. westbound, now opened, eastbound you are still closed. more construction here you can see crews, route 202 both directions between route 401 and route 30 that left lane is blocked in each direction. and then also, some more construction here on the pennsylvania turnpike eastbound between willow grove and bensalem, two right lanes are block right now this isn't going to cause too many slow downs but it certainly will moving into the 5:00 o'clock hour. jim, over to you. well, campaign 2016 tops this morning's headlines on cbs-3, democrat hillary clinton won the new jersey primary yesterday, and primaries in new mexico and south dakota president obama has called to congratulate his former secretary of state, on clinching the democratic nomination for president. donald trump won all of the republican primaries yesterday and he is clinton's presumptive g.o.p. rival in the november election.
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police are searching for a suspect and motive in the deadly shooting in norristown. victim was shot and killed around 11:30 last night in the parking lot on the west main street. police have not identified the victim. pennsylvania state police are involve in the search for a driver resembling this sketch, police say he took a shot at another driver during rush hour yesterday, it happened inner girard point bridge at six credit 30 in the morning. the other driver was not injured. well, still ahead tsa is updating us on those long lines at airport security. also ahead we will have the reason a pilot was forced to land his plane on a glazer. plus the message he and his passengers wrote on the plane,
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if you are heading outside stay updated with the forecast abe our sister station kyw news radio 1060. also philadelphia public school principals union and blue color workers union vote on tentative contract agreements. if you have asthma chances are
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you have another problem you may not the know about. and a major golf tournament comes to town. check in two, three, four times a day on kyw news radio 1060 on your am dial. time is 4:49. time for a check on business news. >> money watch's jill wagner joins us live from the new york stock exchange where dow jones continues to climb back toward the 18,000 mark, but jill, there is dire news about the global economy i hear. >> reporter: that is right, warning from the world bank, global economy could be on the verge of a slow down, world bank cut gross projections for this year and next says falling oil prices are hurting russia, nigeria, here in the united states, the elections are increasing uncertainty. brooke and jim. >> so jill, folks are traveling in summer we have good news about airport security lines finally. >> yes, finally tsa says it added staff and significantly reduced wait times at u.s. airports from earlier this spring. 99 percent have of u.s.
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airport passengers were able to get through security lines in half an hour over the memorial day weekend. airfare watch dog polls 2100 travelers about what should be do than about shrinking airline seats. 55 percent said government should regulate, 38 percent said airlines should be required to disclose seat size more prominently, 6 percent say they have not noticed that the seats are getting smaller and 4 percent say nothing should be done. how can you not notice when your knee is hitting the seat in front have of you. i'm 5-foot two and he noticed. >> thanks, jill. well, dinner on blank is set to return on august 18th. >> we don't know where it will pop up we know it will be bigger and better than ever. preview party was held at reading terminal last night. two caterers joined the line up. the event will host 5,000 guests all deck out in their fine whites this year table theme is celebrating philadelphia a city of firsts. i was there to check out and
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sample dining options, it was a lot of fun. you know, plenty of delicious samples. >> you love the food. let you get the to the top of the line. >> looking forward to that. >> yes. >> coming up, we will get another check of weather and traffic. >> katie will show us when we grand canyon and glacierger than national parks combined.
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good morning everyone we have a upper level disturbance through the region today. so we will throw potential for wet weather back in the forecast. i would say general hi speaking it the should be one quick round of showers and a thunder storm and then we're done. take a look at storm scan three off to the west and distance here some showers and pockets of steady rain currently pushing into western and central pennsylvania. that will likely make it's a arrival here in the far western suburbs as early as, about the time we are wrapping up the typical morning rush so lets give a window of nine to 3:00 p.m. for any wet weather
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to roll through. storm prediction center thinks we will set in the marginal risk for thunderstorms. this is looking more potent then originally anticipated. scattered showers but a few thunderstorms within that and heavy downpours that fire up. this is a region wide concern but not at all, day event. 9:00 to 3:00 is your window from west to east. the it gets later closer to the coast. by the time this rolls roles out, breeze still with us tomorrow but sun returns and it will be a comfortably cool day for the standards and by the time we hit weekend more seasonal but we will be tracking another cold front that could trigger a shower or thunderstorm assay saturday afternoon, meisha a. >> weekend looks great, katie, thank you. good morning, happy wednesday, so we are dealing with construction out there. trying to get it moved out, crews are busy trying to move this out of i-95 south and north bound at street road, right lane is block and also, the off ramp to street road are right now closed but again, it looks like they are out there hopefully trying to
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move this out of the way as we are seeing more and more vehicles just slowly trickle out on the roadway. construction on i-95 south atwood haven road, and backup here in front of the eastbound woodhaven road on to i-95, you can see thaw also have the cone still there. they have not moved those out of the way. both ramps and on i-95 at woodhaven road we have construction. eastbound vine looking like it is opening. the westbound opened earlier. eastbound side just now opening. that is great news for this morning commute, brooke, over to you. pilot of the small plane was forced to make an emergency landing in an unlikely place. >> eighty-one year-old vern hanna took a wrong turn on the flight from vancouver to british colombia. his approaching mountains and forced to climb higher. then he spotted a glazer and landed the plane saving all three people on board. hanna says he is no hero. >> i had the accident to begin with, i'm just glad to get out of it, yeah.
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>> with cell phones and emergency beacon not working men wrote their names and directions on where to find them on the plane. a snowmobiler spotted wreckage and rescue chopper found the trio. they had their names written on their arms in case they didn't make it. hanna says his flying days are over. >> i think that was a good idea at this point. coming up next on cbs-3 "eyewitness news", big move that could make it easier to buy wine and beer in pennsylvania. plus horrible case of animal cruelty see how a garbage man saved this kitten's life. terrifying kidnapping attempt in broad daylight see how a mother stopped that man from snatching a daughter in the store, we will be back in the top of the hour.
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new this morning a murder investigation in montgomery county, a man is found dead in a mcdonald's parking lot. we are their life with the few clues, police have about this deadly shooting. for the first time in our nation's history that a with man will be a major party nominee. >> this data peers set for november presidential election after hillary clinton and donald trump both crossed key marks in their race for the parties nomination. we will show you the promise bernie sanders made to his supporters earlier this morning. it seems like everyone has an opinion about philadelphia's proposed soda tax. key vote expected today and possible change to the controversial plan.
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we will tell you it is wednesday, june 8th, i'm jim donovan. i'm brooke thomas. katie and meisha are here keeping an eye on things this morning. >> how are the road? >> roads are looking g we have a lot of construction. we are seeing crews get that out of the way. commutes are looking good and roadways nice and dry. >> i believe those construction workers love the weather like this. >> so comfortable outside. >> yes. not terribly chilly but it is cooler by comparison. it feels really good outside. >> yes. >> wind does pick up with time and lets start off with the gorgeous shot the here in about 32 minutes, to be exact. we will see sun officially rise but obviously light of day popping over the the horizon, this is a live look on sky scan three over spring gander and broad street there from high atop station headquarters. good morning, everyone. lets go to storm scan three, nice and clear as a bell. just zoom it the out one time and you can see what is waiting in the wings. our next round of showers, potentially thunderstorms firing up, thinks all triggered by an upper level disturbance that rol

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