live from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia. this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news". right now on "eyewitness news", an excessive heat warning issued for philadelphia. blistering temperatures settle over the delaware valley. good afternoon everyone i'm jim donovan. >> i'm brooke thomas, looking at temperatures topping 90 degrees this afternoon, meteorologist, katie fehlinger is live out on the cbs-3 skydeck, katie, what's going on. >> definitely warm, you said it, guys, i would say it is excessive heat. not like we've never seen this before. important to point out that this is somewhat typical. that over the course of the summer we see days like this

unfold, it is just we haven't seen it in a while. when you deal with the kind of humidity that's going to un fowl for our area the next few days, it does feel awfully sweltering outside if you are not smart about it, so get you out, there show you first and for most, the warning we're talking about, all of the counties shaded in hot pink coloring there, basically i95, and the count frist new castle up to mercer, even as far inland as eastern chester county. but talking about not just temperatures that soar into the low and mid 90s, but, heat index values, that's where we get you, with those heat indexes topping off around 100 degrees. in the next couple of days, and the other thing, a warning that lasts for multiple days, going in the friday afternoon, so, three days every excessive heat expected. what we're looking at here are feels like values, currently feels like it is 97 degrees in dover, 92 at philadelphia international airport, and the technically temperatures are actually into the upper eight's most of the spots, so we will continue to heat up from here. it could be worse. we could be in new orleans

down any buoy, already feeling like the triple digits, that will continue with time. not seeing ends to this any time soon. mid 90s where we expect to top off in philadelphia, officially on the thermometer, but tack on another five, six, 7 degrees onto that, and that's how it feel. so do the math in your head if you check the thermometer before you hit the road here. plenty of sunshine region wide, granted, great pool day. but if you have to be outside in this, be smart, we'll have heat safety tips coming up a little later in the show, guys, back to you. >> thanks, writer of the regional rails are suffering through day two of delays and crowded trains. >> joe holden live at jefferson station, in center city with the ways septa riders are getting through this mess, joe? >> reporter: afternoon, dejavu for sure, still residual delays, expected through the entire regional rail system. now, of course last night, the commute many riders torch

septa on media, and this morning septa warned riders brace for yet another case of significant delays, the worse line we saw was the line going coming in from marcus hook, right now a lot of the rye ers seem to be grinning and bearing it. >> space on septa regional rail lines wednesday morning was at premium, worse than two, that was day what some describe on social media as septa gettin just trying to juggle with the septa questioned you. >> in morning, trains constantly moving without stopping. you know? it is like you kind of look through the windows to see is it crowded? >> passengers late, delayed by an hour or more, on friday, septa removed thirds of its rail fleet after cracks were discovered in what's called equalizer beam. since then the transit authority has been operating on modified saturday schedule. that means, trains, generally run, only on the half hour.

uber drivers have been spotted at stations, trying to pick up the slack, and cash in. >> yesterday, we jumped up about 30%, we expect that to grow even more today, work it out, get your things together. >> tuesday's evening commute nothing short of melt down for some riders. >> going into the airport it was like sardines. >> expect silver liner five cars to take months, and the investigation into what happened continues, the agency is looking to other transit authority for possible lease options, all the while, another rush hour is just down the track. >> just trying to prepare myself for the worse, so whatever happens, at least, i'm not caught by surprise. >> now, at this point, septa is hoping riders are heeding their warnings, finding all the that the route. for some it is just not possible. >> question that has come up about the dnc, this problem, not expected to be fixed by then, but they say, most of the diligence will, one, not be traveling at peak hours, two, they expect most of those

folks to be bus in the here to center city. of course we'll wait and see how rush hour on the way home for day two plays out it, won't be dejavu, this will now become jim, brooke, a situation more like groundhog day. live in jefferson station, in center city, joe holden, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> thanks so much, joe. let us know how your commute is going on the regional rails these days, connect us with us on twitter and twitter, #cbs3 commute. >> day after fbi announced it would not charge hillary clinton in the e-mail server scandal, she is in atlantic city, democratic presidential, will say donald trump made millions in ac wheel leaving other out to dry. cleve? >> reporter: well, former secretary clinton coming to atlantic city as she tries to filter pace that presumptive nominee donald trump is unfit to be president, she chose this back grounds here, former trump plaza, which has

assemblance of his name, even though taken off instead of saying he made a mark here, made a point she believes he made a stain here in atlantic city. secretary clinton expected to talk about the bankruptcy that donald trump filed for while owning casinos in atlantic city, where she says, that local contractors were the ones who paid the price during those bankrupcies that were not paid in full. prior to secretary clinton's arrival here in atlantic city, presumptive nominee donald trump offered some thoughts on twitter. we have them for you to see. i'm sorry, i a popjoys, we lost our ability to read that out here in the philadelphia, we have a lot of things going on here. there is also some response from the republicans in new jersey that offer some of their thought which we have for you. we're going to have much more of our live coverage coming up at 5:00 this afternoon, she is expected to take the stage at 12:15. we have some of those local democrats already warming up,

on very warm day. live in atlantic city, cleve bryan, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> thanks a lot, cleve. atlantic city in the spotlight tore another -- for another reason today. day six of at c trump taj ma. actually no sign the walk out will ends any time soon. no new talks on the schedule right now. union workers want health insurance and pension plans restored. benefits were terminated by the previous owners in 2014. current owner, carl icon, says he offered union workers help last week. >> this evening, donald trump will campaign with former house speaker newt gingrich in cincinnati. gingrich is rumored to be on the short list of potential republican vice presidential candidates. >> president obama makes changes to america's exit strategy, in afghanistan. today the president announced the united states will maintain 8400 american troops there through the end of his administration, he had previously planned to reduce troop levels to 5500, by the ends of 2016. the president says the security situation in

afghanistan requires a larger us presence, and he also had a message for the taliban. >> you have now been waging war against after began people for many years. you have been unable to prevail. afghan's journey forces continued to grow stronger, as a commitment of the international community, including the united states to afghanistan and it people, will endure. >> the war in afghanistan began in october, less than a month after the september 11 attacks. >> the search is on this noon for driver and a gunman who opened fire on a crowd in hunting park, and hurt a teenager. police collected eight shell kates action from the 4300 block of darien street just before 11:30 last night, the 13 year old boy has gunshot wounds to his leg. police say a woman argued with people on the street in a short time later returned, with a man. >> it is mainly residential blocks, and the resident were sitting on their steps, playing on the street, when this individual intentionally

fired shot into the crowd. >> police are checking surveillance video from that neighborhood in an effort to track down the car used in the shooting. >> police in east germantown are investigating another shooting there is one put a 14 year old until the hospital in critical condition. authorities say the girl and her friends were playing with a gun inside a home on the 5600 block of blloyd street. the girl was hit in the hands and upper body. police recovered two guns from the roof of a nearby home, but have not tracked down other people involved. >> louisianna governor says the us justice department will investigate yesterday's police shooting in batten ruge. cell phone video shows a black man being shot and killed while being held down by two police officers. david begnaud is in batten ruge. we warn you some of what you are about to see is very disturbing. >> reporter: sell phone video shows officers confronting sterling outside could convene jen store in baton rouge, the suspect tackled, he got a gun,

second later shots fired. sterling pronounced dead. >> the 37 year old family and community leaders are calling it murder. sterling's son broke down. >> he had to watch. one of the greatest, and to see your child hurt, and no one does nothing, you can do about it. >> batten ruge police say officers were responding to report after man selling cd's outside after convene yen store. that man had reportedly threatened someone with a gun. >> suspicious, gun, gun in his pocket ... >> the convenience store owner said police took gun out of the suspect's pocket after he was shot. >> it is irrelevant. if you look at the video, it certainly speaks for itself. mr. sterling was not reaching for a weapon. >> the shooting has sparked protests across louisianna capitol city. head of the baton rouge naacp

calling for the police chief to be fired. david begnaud, cbs news, baton rouge, louisianna. >> coming up on cbs-3 "eyewitness news", former olympic sprinter oscar pistorius is headed back to prison. how long he's spends behind bars for killing his girlfriends, reeva steenkamp. >> and a huge multi alarm fire tore through a building. we'll show you where this happened, and let you know how long firefighters have been fight willing these

>> welcome back to "eyewitness news" at noon, security guard said he heard fireworks just

before this fire errupted at construction site on the border between oakland and emory ville, california. the six alarm fire broke out around 2:30 in an apartment building under construction and quickly spread to townhouses and condos. fortunately, there are no reports of injuries. did i graced paralympian oscar pistorius going back to jail this time for six year sentence for murdering his girlfriends. >> the south african handed down his sentence this morning. >> six years in prison. >> for murder south africa, 15 years in jail, but oscar pistorius was given just six years for killing his girlfriends, reeva steenkamp. that is because the original trial judge found there were compelling circumstances to reduce his punishment. >> long-term imprison. will not serve justice in this measure. >> safe to say pistorius is broken man, whose life has already been ruined, and is a

good candidate for rehabilitation. he rejected the defense's request, how much, for house arrest. >> in a dramatic moment during last month's sentencing hearing, pistorius hobbled awkwardly around the courtroom without his prosthetic legs to show how vulnerable he was on the night he shot and killed steenkamp. he has always maintained he thought she was an intruder. steenkamp's father barry broke down and beg the court to impose a stiff sentence. >> oscar has to pay for what he did. he has to pay for it. >> steenkamp's family stared on as they led pistorius away. may is her after thirds of his jail term before considered for parole. >> this means he could be released minimum two years behind bars, cbs news, pretoria, south africa. >> bill cosby due in montgomery county courtroom thomas his attorneys try to get sexual assault case dismissed.

the 78 year old attorney wants to question his accuser, andrea constand, before the case goes to trial. now, prosecutors say that is beyond the scope of tomorrow's hearing. the pennsylvania supreme court is considering the issue, cosby is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting constand at his home in 2004. >> well, coming up: popular children's toy is being pulled from shelves. >> still ahead on "eyewitness news" find out why more hoverboards are being recalled. we're talking hundreds of thousands. katy? >> wow, we're certainly gearing up for some scorching sunshine, building humidity, bottom line, excessive heat. there is going to be one saving grace from mother nature which i will tell you about coming up.

>> there is one thing you will not have from me for the next however long, but that's a complaint. >> you love the heat? >> i don't care how humid, how hot, it is better than it was. >> well, hey, if you love it, i'm glad you like it. i'm glad you like it, and you know it is great, i'm keeping my mouth shut. it is grateful weather, really is. >> great -- mouth closed. >> there in lies the problem, exactly. so i vote we just set up maybe baby pool on the skydeck, something like that. that would be lovely. regardless, gentlemen, it is very hot outside. great beach weather, and a lot of people are certainly take that cue and headed out to the area beaches, down the shore, we start things off by taking you out to one of the live neighborhood network shots, where you have this beautiful beach weather. you can see here, clouds, granted, overall just fantastic weather unfolding, snapshot view in rehoboth.

talking hundreds upon hundreds of beach umbrellas lining the shore towns here, and that's going to be the theme i would say through the next couple of days. couple safety tips, all common sense type stuff. wear light colored loose fitting clothing, the benefit of climb al controlled studio like i do, but just keep that in mind, really good way to help beat the heat, keep that waking off of you, drink plenty of water the beverage of close. draw the blind during the day, if you don't have the benefit of air-conditioning, just keep in mind, too, if you park on the path specially indirect sunlight your car will turn into an oven in a matter of minutes. makes sure to check on the elderly, they can't regulate their temperature quite as easily, all important common sense type stuff. we always like to remind you. looking at storm scan, actually little round every thunderstorms that rumble through the southern most delmarva peninsula, did barely clip sussex county but pretty much out of here at this point at the scene. in the midst of weak area of high pressure keeping things bright, sunny, and toasty.

in the meantime, some pretty nasty thunderstorms currently errupting across central missouri eventually going to see some showers, some thunderstorms though in the days ahead, to help cool some of you off. the course, jet stream well off to the north keeping us very far away from any cooling that will take place, will take couple of days, easily mean spike to the 90s with no problem the next few days, factor in the building humidity that comes along with it, it feels like closer to 100 folks the next couple of afternoon. so when you look at dew point like this, six a, remember, that's your benchmark where it begins to feel muggy outside. 60s pretty much across the board here, not as harsh just yet, or pressed, up at mount pocono, you have dew point of 75 both wildwood, dover, and that's sticky conditions, will continue in the next couple of days. another side effect of this kind of pattern is air quality that's far less than ideal. we do have alert out for those

would be falling into the sensitive category that's little unhealthy for you. elderly, children, and if you got any casino of respiratory illness because basically the summertime sunshine and heat bake the pollutants together at the grounds level, and then you have unhealthy levels of grounds level ozone. that's where that comes from. so we have hot verb coming up the next couple of days, hey, are we approaching records? not quite. it will feel close to record territory. won't count but will feel like it. mid 90s the next couple of days, break the heatwave by sunday, and by that point, as well, humidity thankfully starts to lessen. couple of scattered showers, storms along the weatherer cool few every us offer, won't be terribly widespread either. not everyone gets that. >> thanks so much, katie. >> ten recalling 10,000 hoverboards because the batteries inside can over heat annex provide. recall affect some of the most popular brands like swag way, officials say there have been

nearly 100 reports of overheating battery packs. >> dangerous? general, i feel like i've fallen right off one of those anyway. >> it was not east. >> i no, i bet. >> have to have really good balance, right? >> still ahead, there were no mega millions jackpot winners last night. we'll let you know just how much money is out there in the ne

>> we're looking liver at hillary clinton on the stage

this noon in atlantic city. she is criticizing donald trump's business dealings in the sit. we'll have a full report on cbs-3 "eyewitness news" today at 5:00 including reaction from donald trump. >> the new jersey gop released statement on clinton's visit saying, quote, it is not surprising hillary clinton would want to blow off little steam in atlantic city after spending fourth every july holiday being interviewed by the f.b.i. it goes on to say, she is going to need more than car tricks to convince americans she was doing anything but dealing with our nation's security by using secret server as secretary of state. >> you should expect longer lines for the mega millions jackpot, no winner last night on the jackpot now $508 million. >> check to see your tickets, see if you matched any of the winning numbers, 29, 46, 53, 64, 73, the mega ball is ten, you can see the numbers again at cbsphilly.com. that's "eyewitness news" at noon, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm brooke thomas. for katie and all every us here, thanks for watching. "eyewitness news" continues at 5:00 we're on cbsphilly.c

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