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>> frustrated law makers have a lot to say after the senate reject four different gun control measures during a heated showdown on capitol hill. >> coming up. hear local gun shop owner areas idea to limit some of the gun violence. >> good morning, i'm brooke thomas. >> i'm jim donovan. katie is also tracking some storms headed our way today. but first, hoo err's what you need to know to start your day in the morning minute. >> they say the shooter actually had two guns. >> manhunt is under way in kensington after double shooting sends two men to the hospital. >> i got punched in the nose, and i got punched in the back of the head. >> this was brutal attack right here at geno's steaks in south philadelphia. now, police want your help in tracking a group of attackers. >> attorney general, loretta lynch; head today orlando today to meet with investigators. >> almost didn't get a second chance at life. >> two survivors now back in
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philadelphia, are recalling the ordeal. >> in transcripts, released by the f.b.i., omar mateen told negotiator, quote, to tell america to stop bombing syria and iraq. >> a teenager has been arrested for allegedly trying to assassinate donald trump, and one of his own rallies. investigators say, sanford, british citizen, have been planning this attack, for about a year. >> we are a hoping for little devine intervention, then decided oh, we'll bring them up on the dugout. >> that's funny. but the dancing nuns didn't help the phillies. highlights from the game coming up later on in the show. >> nuns are actually performers of the hit musical sister act playing at the walnut st. theater. katie outside on the skydeck, so even devine intervention won't help with us these storms today. >> yes, it was interesting, got to meet the nuns, as well, we had our alex telethon, as
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well, meantime, yes, jim you're right, do have thunderstorms to track on the radar. the beyonce fan as we now call it out is -- is out and about, thankfully not blowing hair across my face, but the wind is stirring up. tri-state sweep. is her know on what's happening here. obviously i'm still dry here on the cbs-3 skydeck. frequent lightning continues to show up in some of the locations here, across portions of the poconos, lehigh valley, seeing those pockets of rain come through steadily right now, farther off to the south, there is so much lightning to report currently that you cannot even make out the town names over cape may county, but that's what we are focused on here, and we have seen quite a bit of lightning showing up. see if this live look has any to garner up here for us, but you can see the clouds, outside middle township high school, currently storms rumbling on through, as this camera faces east, right now, though, not seeing any fresh lightning strikes that they
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have certainly been out there. meanwhile, what do you need to know the rest of the day? go going see some sunshine, guys, not a total wash of the day, because there is a cold front crossing through, later on once the first rounds gets out of here another rounds picks up. some of those necessary rounds every thunderstorms could be locally strong if not severe primarily through the southern tear of the area have the biggest concerns for heavy downpours, gusty winds, possibility, all well, of maybe even some hail out of this, and rain and the that could easily accumulate upward of half inch in a short amount of time. so good moisture content to work with within the atmosphere for sure. taking you hour by hour through the rest of the day, 3:00 p.m., about 89 degrees, dough think we will get you up to 90 for yet another day. that will will officially make it a heatwave for us, we kick start the summer season, even though you will see some sun, humidity set to climb once more for us today, also, it is not cents worth idea to keep the umbrella at the ready as eventually anyone is fair game to see fresh rounds of showers, thunderstorms, but again, meisha, a looks like unless you're in the southern tear of the region, that
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really is where we will find the worse threat for storms later on. >> great information, thank you so much, katie. all right, you guys, good morning, it sounds like we will have mixed bag today. right now, the cameras that we're looking at for the most part are looking dry right now. but it is also looking a little dark. so it is one of those things where we know something is brewing. boulevard headlights southbound direct at fox street, see what you are working with there, the boulevard actually looking okay, casino of holding steady here, looking okay there, 59, headlights southbound direction before girard, heating up interstate 95 pushing in the southbound direct, see that increase specially once the word get out to everyone we'll see rain, too, we though it will slow you down. first accident of the morning, this is in conshohocken, center street, one lane block here. not going to cause too many slow downs yet, will know in a little while. also just reminder of mass transit, regional rails, buses, trolleys, running new schedule, make sure to check your schedules on line, media elwin line bussing between elwyn and swarthmore, than will be going on through
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september 4th. i'll be tweeting that out as well, construction here in new jersey route 73, southbound before route 322, one to two lanes are block, and this should be lifting right around 6:00 a.m. so i will confirm as soon as it does so, jim, over to you. >> thank you, meisha a week after the orlando mass shooting congress voted on competing republican and democratic proposals to keep guns out of the hands of terrorists. >> all for prow postals went down in defeat large @ long party lines. mark albert has the story from capitol hill. >> proposals to keep guns out of the hands of terrorists failed in the gridlock senate. >> the motion is not agreed. >> republicans defeated democratic plans to expand backgrounds checks on firearms, button line and at gun shows. and propose thal would have stopped people on the no fly list, and terrorist watch list, from buying guns. >> what am i going to tell the community of orlando that is trying to come together in the healing? >> the democrats stopped
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republican proposals that would have required a court order showing probable cause to block the sale after gun. and a plan that would allow the mentally ill to challenge their diagnosis in order to buy guns. >> the other side says they support seconds amendment rights. we have every reason not to believe them. >> the national rifle association led the lobbying effort against the gun regulations, saying, the focus, is misplaced. laws didn't stop them in boston. laws didn't stop them in san bernardino where you had every type of gun control law could you have. it didn't stop them in paris where people can't even own guns. >> connecticut senator chris murphy had nearly 15 hour filibuster on the issue last week says the nra has taught them a lesson. >> ultimately the only way that you win this i shall sue by building a political infrastructure around the country that rivals that of the gun lobby. >> the nra says it represent more than four and a half million members. mark albert, for cbs-3, "eyewitness news".
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>> local gun store owner kept close eye on the vote on capitol hill. anthony owns the delaware valley sport center, a seconds amendment advocate, says he preaches personal self at this and responsibility support backgrounds checks and believes lawmakers could cut back on gun violence if they allowed only face-to-face gun sales. >> i don't think we should have guns on the internet. >> sorry, i'm gun dealer, i don't think we should be selling guns off the internet. ends of story. you want to stop some of the loopholes, some of the none zest, kill the internet sales. >> internet gun sales sometimes don't include background checks, but have become more popular in recent years. president obama has also suggested tightening loopholes for on line gun sales. >> well, the time now 5:37n business news this morning, who is number one in fast-food customer satisfaction? >> and, what are oil prices doing to the prices at the pumps? money watch's jill wagner joins us live from the new york stock exchange, jill? >> reporter: good morning, brooke, jim, rally to start
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the week on wall street, the dow rose 129 points monday the nasdaq jumped 36. investors un courage boyde new polls, british will remain in the eu, not when they vote on thursday. and still too close to call though. fed chair janet yellen heads to capitol hill, will brief the senate banking committee, last week, the feds decided not to raise interest rates in part because of weakness in the job market. rising price of oil has been sending prices at the gas pump higher. triple a says usually hit highest point in fix six month of the year, and the national average has been falling for about a week, triple a says prices could go up from their dis zero disruptions like a hurricane l it comes to fast-food, chick-fil-a is number one in new customer satisfaction index pole. the officials there say they do one thing and they do it well. chicken, sales hit $6 billion
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in 2015. making 48 straight years of growth. brooke, jim? >> wow, that is that not a big surprise there, line always around the corner every time i passed by a chick-fil-a. >> those waffle fries. >> thanks, jill. >> in other news, mayor jim kenney signs philadelphia newest legislation, the sugary drink tax into law. they'll be a 1.5 sent per ounce tax on sweetened beverages lick regular and diet sodas, sport drinks, bottled coffees. opponent of the bill say it is unconstitutional and have i to fight it in court. mayor says the city prepared to take on those critics. >> we've been talking with our law department, which is extremely capable every handling the situation. going forwards, nothing happened, we're prepared to fight it. >> tax expected to raise about $90 million in annual revenue. that would go toward expanding universal pre k, improving parks, rec centers, and various other budget programs. it goes into effect in january. >> a judge has denied bail to
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a man who allegedly tried to kill donald trump at one every his rallies. this happened saturday, in las vegas. authorities say michael steven sanford tried to grab an officer's gun to shoot the presumptive republican presidential nominee. now, police arrested him immediately. investigators say sanford, british citizen, had been planning the attack for about a year. he's not enters a plea. >> meanwhile, trump said he fired campaign manager because it was time to run a different kind of campaign. trump made the call when his numbers declined, un favor recall ratings rise. you may remember earlier this year, he was charged with battery involving a reporter in florida. but prosecutors dropped those charges. >> hillary clinton is back on the campaign trail today after celebrating being a grandmother again. saturday her daughter chelsey gave birth to her second child, a little boy. the presumptive democratic nominee is expected to outline why she thinks trump is unfit to run the economy. the federal election
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commission shows clinton is raising much more money than trump, has campaign treasure chess of more than $41 million, this is compared to trump's 1.3 million. >> all right, president obama still has a little time left in the white house. but, he's actually already looking forward to his next job. >> he talked about his prospects yesterday during a speech at an investment summit in washington. >> in seven month or so i'm going to be on the job market, and i'm glad i'm going to be here. i'm going to get on linked in. you know, see what comes up. >> it could work. >> i agree, i think it is safe to say he won't have a problem making connections on the site. can you imagine? >> going to break the site, right? >> here's some sweet news for chocolate lovers. finds out how local researchers are using technology to make the treats tastier and healthier, when we come back.
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>> welcome back, not a fan of heat and humidity? one uninvited guest found one way to beat the heat. >> simple, a black bear took a dip in someone's pool. so what do you do when a bear decides your fool will be his pool? what would you do, katy? >> i think just let him do it. >> right? >> best idea. keep your distance, possibly move out of the country. the mcneal's captured the bear's swim on video.
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joan said she was sitting by the pool, didn't even see him jump in. >> the bear, the bear, the bear. wasn't really scared. >> when first saw him, he was closer to the deepened, you know, and he came in the shallow end. and it was pretty exciting. >> after paddling around, the bear got out, shook himself off, headed down the street. then people in the area say there have been more bear sitings, too. i would have passed out if i look, and there was a bear in the pool? >> big fellow, too, right? >> yes, yes. >> my goodness,. >> small bears scare me, too, for the record. >> doesn't take much. >> showers maybe coming this way? i'm happy because my allergies, my head feels like it is going to explode right now. >> i've got my tissues, i am i've got my tea. >> i think he has a cold but he won't go with that. >> no, i don't have a cold. >> you guys, hilarious. >> like a married couple.
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>> yes, i wouldn't want to catch this, i'll walk on over. >> exactly, going to help. it is your allergies, jim, we'll see whether it is, we do at least have rain currently moving through, as we take you out to the shot. we showed this to you earlier in the broadcast, northampton county bethlehem high atop hotel bethlehem just saw, you know, the trees waiving in the breeze, saw the flags waving, now the rain is here. so i wasn't lying. there it is. bringing with it some poor travel conditions certainly for folks in the lehigh valley, poconos, and then also a separate round which we will show you on radar coming up down across the southern tear of the shore. so, let's take you out to the eyewitness weather watchers. these are the kind of mornings where i love hearing from the watch, because they give us such point location information across the region, it is a warm start, mid 70s in some spots, but keith sent in from sailors berg, at this point, within the last half hour, just seeing clouds, but he did say that there was
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thunder and lightning out there this morning, and certainly, if you ever hear thunder, you want to head inside. from to head outside and travel, don't be shock if you start to see the raindrops falling. going little further south, we zero in actually here, to some of these milder locations, 77 degrees, comes in this morning, from john. he's dry. just clouds. but certainly no sunrise for us this morning, with the frontal boundary that's crossing on through. see if he has anything further off to the south. we do. let's take you down here. 75 degrees comes in from greg wood. and he is seeing the thunderstorms. now this came in within the last hour, thunderstorms have gun to migrate off shore, and out to sea, actually our own pat gallen is waiting on the storms to get out of here, in wildwood for us, regardless, the storms are out there. and they are certainly making their presence known. we start off with dew points though, we switch it back to the computer graphics here, seeing dew point currently in the mid to upper 60s, even 70s, remember, six an is kinds of the benchmark for where it starts to feel humid. and now, you have got that building humidity, even
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breeze, not going to help matters much. really feels quite steamy outside. here are the storms we've been tracking, three hour loop. only took few hours for these to zip southeast across cape may county. and now seeing the final traces of it, starting to move out to sea, also, still some rain falling. those storms were a lot heavier in the poconos in the last hour, they are starting to fizzle at least little bit. and i think other than quick shower, you are very likely going to get by bypass in the in philadelphia and point further inch lanment doesn't mean we are out of the woods unfortunately cents because fresh rounds of showers and storms fires up later today, and those put us in a slight risk, here across portions at least of basically the southern third of new jersey, as well as essentially the entire state of delaware. more of marginal risk, in other words, not as high of a risk, for those stronger thunderstorms across philadelphia county. and your primary risk here, guys, lightning, heavy downpours, gusty wind, possibility as well of some small size hail. so really just need to keep an eye on the radar the bottom line, starting to get short on
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time, later today see fresh round of scattered but locally heavy strong to severe thunderstorms develop, all out of here by wednesday, brief break, next storm already hereby thursday. >> katie, thank you. yes, we are bracing ourselves looking at the roads right now, the cameras that i'll show you, they are still looking dry, we know this will change little later as katie pointed out but right now the blue route southbound mid count what i you are looking at, looking great on the blue route. great company. if you are headed out there i would say earlier is obviously better than later. schuylkill westbound before city avenue what you are looking at here, more vehicles here than what we just saw on the blue route, schuylkill specially moving in the westbound direction around city avenue where we are starting to see it heat up. also starting to see it heat up in jersey, 42 northbound, creek road, approaching 295, what you are looking at here, kinds of holding steady but plenty of vehicles out there already. this is our first accident of the morning, in conshohocken, center street, one lane, is blocked there right now. also some construction out there this morning, route 73 southbound before route 322,
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one to two lanes blocked. than should be lifting right around 6:00 a.m. right now just know that two lanes can really start to slow you down, construction turnpike eastbound, it on the westbound side, now cleared, on the eastbound side between downingtown and valley hill road. right lane is block there, also, reminder 495, closed until next thursday, back to you. >> phillies hope change of scenery will change their fortunes after historically bad home stand. here is sport direct or don bell with your morning sports. >> phillies are in minnisota to start nine game road trip. they wish they could hit the reset button. lost 24 out of 30 games, their latest lost came during matinee against arizona cast members, sister act from walnut st. theater, that's right, sipping abreu, taking selfie, what else would you do at a ballpark during the day? >> swinging cool inch it end shops to right field. two run shot. decent start by jeremy, our
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quality start, about three runs in seven innings. second inning we go. phils try to get on the board, tyler to centerfield and back to the wall it goes. one run in. phils trail three-one. shelby miller pretty good on the mound, gave up one on six plus innings of work. the phils with only six hits, lose three-one, so the first time since 1964, the phils swept in a home stand of six or more games. meanwhile, the phils have signed their number one pick, the number one overall pick, in last week's draft. baseball america is report that prep star mickey received $6 million signing bonus, 18 year old outfielder will be introduced at the ballpark in a press conference this afternoon. >> that's all for sports. i'm don bell, have a great day. >> well, big milestone in the fight against the zika virus. >> we have the key roll local company is playing to help keep people safe. >> and fast melt down. see why that man lost his cool at the counter and attacked a worker.
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we'll be right back.
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>> dallas man are searching for a man who attack a man caught on camera all over a milk shake. man became so upset about the
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milk shake, he threw it at her. he also through a chair, then hopped the counter and tried to attack her. she is 16 years old, she said he threatens to kill her. police are investigating. >> i hope they find him. on the hilt watch, potential break through to battle the zika virus with a company with local ties. pharmaceuticals base in the plymouth meeting has developed an experimental vaccine. they just received approval of to start testing the vaccine on people in a few week. researchers hope the vaccine will help prepare the immune system to combat the moss keys keith owe born virus linked to birth defect. >> go get -- if you get a charge out of chocolate, we may have some tips for you. >> a way to make great toasting -- great tasting and low-fat chocolate. allows chocolate to flow through the candy making process but temple research indicates it will taste just as well after being run through electrical field. that will cuts the amount of fat by about 10%. and chocolate expert say it tastes great.
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research isn't over, but off to great start. sounds great to me. >> hey, i'm interested. coming up in the next hour of cbs-3, "eyewitness news", group of therapy dogs from our area is about to fly to orlando. that's to help people affected by the night club shooting. how long they'll be there, and what the dogs handlers are saying about their mission. >> plus, a mountain lion attacks little boy. but his mother saved him. we have this story coming up. finds out how she was able to get her son away from the wild animals.
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this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news" this morning. storm scan3 shows storms heading our way. katie will time them out, let us know when we'll see some relief from the heat. plus this: >> everything happened within second, like there wasn't even a opportunity for me to pro secretary myself. >> caught on camera, outside geno's steaks, vicious beating. live with simple request to spark the violence. >> developing right now, race against time out west. where wild fires are devouring thousands of acres, what is
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making it so difficult for firefighters gain the upper hand. >> well, today's tuesday, june the 21, good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> hey, there i'm brooke thomas. katie and meisha are here as well helping you get your day started. good morning. >> how are the roads so far? >> roads looking pretty good. we know that will change, so, for the cameras i've seen, still look okay, construction, couple accident, one clearing, the update coming up. >> wet weather we've been talking about it is very, very localized. we don't have drop of rain right now at our station headquarters, but take a look, you can actually see in the camera shot, guys, the storms currently pushing off shore, see the demarcation there where there is little more light of day on the right side of your camera or your tv screen here. and all gray, indicating rain still falling as you look little further off to the left. that's one location. and in addition, as we go to one of the live network shots, interesting, do have gray clta

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