tv Eyewitness News Sunday CBS July 3, 2016 6:30pm-7:01pm EDT
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more than a hundred septa cars are now out of service as structural defect were found. eyewitness news reporter joe holden cecity's commute could be rough for rail riders. >> reporter: just after midnight friday septa officials say an inspector note sister silver liner rail car was leaning. the problem more serious than first thought. cracks were found. >> this is an all hands on deck situation for september t we understand the profound ways in which this will adversely affect our loyal riders: at a rare holiday weekend news conference septa manager details actions. all silver liner fives were taken out of service. make up about a third of septa's entire regional rail fleet. >> with one third of our fleet out of service, however, tuesday is the challenge. and unfortunately, it will be rough on our railroad customers. >> reporter: 95 of 100 silver
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liner cars inspected were found to have a crack in a part of the suspension system. we asked the worse case scenario if left un addressed. >> at high speed you could have a derailment. >> reporter: it will be complicated transit authority is working with the trains manufacture which may not be completed until august. >> every rush hour train is going to be very crowded. there are going to be passengers who are passed by. >> reporter: matthew mispickel with delaware valley of passengers septa riders should brace for significant. >> when you have to pull the entire fleet out of service and that fleet is one third of your entire railroad system it's a very serious effect. >> reporter: septa officials will be reaching out to new jersey transit and amtrak to try to consult if they have any trains to add to ease the passenger load. as for that rush hour coming tuesday morning, we expect
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another briefing on monday as to how the transit authority will deal with the significant problem. at jefferson station joe holden cbs3 eyewitness news. >> well coverage continues online you can watch entire news conference on our website cbs philly .com. 12 pink death toll is rising in bag dad after a truck bomb exploded. wendy jill let reports suicide bomber targeted a busy shopping area just before the end of ram ma don. >> reporter: flames inside a shopping mall lit up a dark neighborhood after a bomb in the back of a pick-up truck exploded early sunday. the carnage was substantial. more than 100 dead including at least 15 children, 10 women and six police officers. almost 200 others were injured. hours later in daylight, crowds
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gathered to see the burned down building where most of the victims decide. suicide bomber struck just after midnight in a popular commercial air lined with stores and restaurants in the downtown area. this man says after the bomb went off people couldn't recognize relatives because they were en gulfed in fire. pope francis offered prayers for the victims as well as for those killed and injured in the bangladesh attack friday. islamic state has claimed responsibility for both and for an attack at istanbul's last week. wendy gillette for cbs news. >> a second car bomb exploded in northern bag dad. we've got new details as well in the investigation into a deadly water crash accident in somers point a father and his young son were on oo jet sixty three when they collided with another jet
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ski yesterday. the boy was sitting closest to the jet ski steering en controls that is being looked at as a possible contributing fact. police say jet skis can be difficult to control for inexperienced. suspect recovering at thomas jefferson university hospital after police say his hand was severed during home invasion. police say the suspect broke into into a house on canal street in north hampton last night and attacked a resident. the suspects hand was somehow severed during the incident of the the victim sustained head injuries. police believe a second suspect was involve. no word on his whereabouts just yet. cruise are repairing a water main break in philadelphias rhawnhurst neighborhood, water began flowing along shully avenue and east wood street about 5:00 this morning. we have not received any reports of damage to any homes in that area. no word either on when the water main repairs with ultimately be
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treated. we have had a great weather weekend so far for the holiday. a lot of outdoor activities taking place tonight, tomorrow as we celebrate our in pennsylvania. lauren casey is here with your holiday forecast and how it's shaping up. hey getting a recent snapshot of rehobeth beach, rain is starting to come down unfortunately. we have seen a train for light rainfall mainly over delaware beaches over the last couple of hours. light intensity still might chase you off the beach. we do have high level clouds that are t dense and filtering out sunshine across the delaware valley. rehobeth beach with sprinkles coming down at the moment. if he don't have the umbrella you are it hading the board walk. 76 degrees right now in philadelphia. average high temp would have us in the middle '80s. where at 70 in millville.
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72 degrees in wide wood. allentown with more sunshine 78 degrees. chance of rain for 4th of julyly. mainly dry during daytime how many times in the evening we are going to see showers and thunderstorms moving in. and heavy rainfall as well. we'll break down the timing on these. if we can get the fireworks in over the parkway before the rain starts to fall full forecast coming up. >> one of the most popular events of the welcome america celebration is happening tonight. part of a big party on independence mall. we get more from eyewitness news reporter trang do live in the middle of all the fun right now. >> reporter: hey, you can see the huge crowd off the distance they are over there in front of independence hall. now if you are not down the shore this is the place to be of the you got music. food, entertainment and history all in one place. independence hall was the site for several his store rack
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gatherings. historic block party being the latest one. drawing locals and tourist alike to celebrate the fourth, philly style. >> the food is great definitely it was really nice. amazing. >> reporter: many dressed for the occasion from head to toe. >> i bought it yesterday. it go along with my outfit. everything red, white and blue. >> reporter: kids exercised with the police explorers while others exercised freedom to choose from plenty of food options. >> we bought about 80 crab pretzels, that's a philly pretty sell with crab done cheated jack cheeses melted on top. >> reporter: while people are on two separate stages made sure the crowd stayed entertained. >> the crowd is excited. its been an awesome experience and awesome day. >> reporter: and the vicinity here go on until eight p.m..
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philly pop take the stage for a free concert that everyone here is looking forward to t rider now we're live from independence hall i'm training t do eyewitness news. >> for a complete list of all the near by firework shows and family events this weekends you can head to our website cbsphilly.com. philadelphia mother bethel ame church is celebrating a milestone, african methodist episcopol service 200th universe. eyewitness news in society here mother bethel is un veiling a statue chew of church founder richard allen into richard allen was a revolutionary, activist. a fighter for justice on social action way before it got popular. >> it's fantastic. and it's a beautiful thing to live to see it and it makes you feel so happy to be a part of
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it. e82 jot celebration continues tomorrow with un veiling of a richard allen mural at first district plaza. freak accident in new york, tourist badly injured when he steps on something that suddenly explodes. coming up what investigators think caused the blast. rendezvous five years in the making where this will arrive tomorrow why this mission has nasa excited. fills look up to pick up a win against kansas city leslie has
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>> at least five people were killed in a fiery highway trash in florida this morning. police say a tractor trailer slammed into a bus transporting farm workers to their job. both vehicles struck a power poll that burst into flames. the bus ran a flashing red light just before the collision. 82 jay very scary serenoa 19 year old virginia man was walking with two friends when he stepped on something and it exploded the man suffered a severe foot jr. fire officials say he was taken to the hospital with a possible amputation. the accident is believed to be fireworks related. nasa's close encounter with june tear is only one day away. the solar power space craft juno is set to start orbiting
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tomorrow. and get ready for some stunning pictures. juno has a special camera that takes up close color photos. juno was launched in 2011 its mission will end 2018 when it will crash into jupiter. >> cool. great weekend. a little cloudy now. doesn't look so great. it feels really nice. we're not dealing with extreme heat. humidity levels are comfortable. that's going to change. we'll keep things where's ahead into the day tomorrow. we are watching a chance for shower and thunderstorms activity that could interfere with some of orifer works displace.
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the clouds in space.initely high level clouds turning out sunshine. no precipitation falling right now in center city philadelphia temperature 10 degrees below average it's 76 degrees. nice breeze out of the southwest. temperatures generally in the 70s even some 60 in july. 69 degrees mt. pocono. down the shore temperatures generally in the 70s. 70 degrees in ocean city. sea breeze trying to develop. 70 degrees in cape may ocean temperature 69. dewpoints are down into the 40 and 50s. mostly as we head yesterday humidity level very comfortable as we head into the upcoming week these dewpoints are going to be climbing well up into the 70s. enjoy the lower humidity right no. great sleeping weather tonight dropping back to 64 degrees. nice and comfortable. mostly cloudy conditions with northwestly wind. for fourth some sunshine i think for the first half of the day. shower activity starting to develop in the afternoon becoming more widespread as we head into tomorrow night. high temperatures for or 4th of july below average 80 degrees. storm scan 3 showing us a trend more sunshine up towards the
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poconos. we do have badge of shower activity, mainly southern delaware very light intensity. we are seeing rain coming down in some of the delaware beaches that could be chasing you indoors. do have a weather system up wind in moisture streaming in. september is still back into the midwest its going top continue to h into had eastbound drag a warm front into the area where's we head into the area tomorrow conversely a cold front as we head into tomorrow night. rain is in the forecast for most. as we head into monday we'll see most sunshine in the poconos and then showers developing for late day. mainly evening showers in the city and surrounding counts and we could see thunder shower activity even earlier in the day down the shore with high temperatures in the middle 70s. future weather showing us a pretty quiet starter to our holiday. tons of sunshine up towards lehigh valley. poke niece cloud is going to spread to the north as we need the second half of the day. a few spotty insurance thunderstorms mainly to the south in the afternoon hours.
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then we are going to see this widespread precipitation building in and in association with weather system this is 10:00 going to be a really close call with those fireworks over the parkway. if you have a vantage . that you can run indoors quickly some of the shower and storm activity starts to develop that's going to be your best bet for the firework activity. activity really starting to pick up as we head into tomorrow night. periods of heavy rainfall. rain could come down kind of foreign actually at times. we could see stronger storms mainly to the south marginal risk of severe weather across parts of delaware mainly late damon and monday night. a few of the showers and thunderstorms billowing leer into tuesday morning before we turn it over to clearing. and then things get super hot and steamy as we head into midweek high temperatures in the '90s on wednesday and we have have a streak of high 90
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temperatures. brutal humidity. there are bright spots. >> he can we'll look at the bright side. thank you so much, lauren. appreciate that. you bright side with phillies. >> speaking of hot the phillies the final meeting of that three game series against kansas city royals, things start off well. first inning runners on first, this one into the stands that's going to bring everybody home. phillies jump on the board three to nothing. cody adding solo home run shot into the right field. that will make it four-nothing. they did get on the bowered in the fifth. phillies lead in the half they walked off or smiles winning this 7-2. >> pitched very well. we had concerns that's why we went out early we didn't see the velocity. but, he assured us that he felt
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fine. he thought maybe that it was a dead arm he was going through he wanted to stay out there i know we had it in us. i always felt, even for the first two months we were better hitting team than we showed. and it was kind of an in enigma why we weren't hitting better it took time. now the guys as a group they are starting to hit. well sixers looking to make more rooms there were rumors they were interested in crawford but he decided to stay put. sum murr league practice, first chance to see ben simmons in action after practice simmons talked about getting out there on the court with his new team. >> i love playing the game its amazing i love being and o the court. meeting everybody. >> well last night this picture of him signing his contract along with the message happy to
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say i'm part of the family. nba free agency continues with oklahoma kevin durant meeting with the heat today as we decides whether to stay or take his talents elsewhere. who showed you, but a certain super bowl winning quarterback tom brady trying to convince did you ranted to come to boston. >> bridge stone invitation in akron ohio back to back wins for dustin johnson. he, invitation, he shot a four under par 66 to overcome world number one jason day. coming up tonight wip mark joins me to talk about the sixers move and flyers move and free agency. we're also going to talk about the struggle phillies pitcher. they are getting offense after eyewitness news at 11. >> lots to chat about. tom brady involved in everything
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>> welcome back everyone. disney picks car finding dory dominates the box office for the third straight weekend. >> according to studio estimates findsing dory earned 49.9 million dollars. this movie is doing so well. legend to tarzan, rounding out the top five election year the bsg and independence
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>> they sound so lovely. >> they can fit right in. >> one last look at the forecast. tomorrow will be dry during most of the day but showers and thunderstorms developing as we head into the evening hours heavy rain, periods of heavy in a overnight tomorrow early tuesday before things dry out at least precipitation wise. the steam factor is going to return wednesday 93 and we keep it in the '90s from wednesday till next saturday the ac is going to be chuging along. >> oh boy hopefully it won't in rain on our fireworks. keep us posted. thank you for joining us i'm natasha brown for leslie lauren all of us here we always appreciate you being with us especially the holiday weekend. we'll see you back here 10:00 and back at 11 on cbs3. have a great night, everyone
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