breaking news out of dallas texas this morning where five police officers have died after sniper shootings during a protest downtown. six others were hurt, today is friday, july 8th, 2016. i'm brooke thomas. >> i'm jim donovan. we'll get to the break news out of texas in just a moment. first, under excessive heat warning, here's kate way look at the forecast. >> once more looks like broken record in terms of the forecast today, guys. once again, going to see that excessive heat take grip. that warning still in effect for all of the counties that had been in effect with the excessive heat warning, the last two days, but this will be the day that expires. so there is eventually some relief on the way. we start it off with quick check on storm scan, remains

empty, hint every ground clutter showing up, very moisture laden air mass once more, here is a lock at the warning for you again. i know it begins to start to sounds almost like the movie groundhog day. every single day in the last few had looked very much the same. where we start off with not just the excessive heat warning but steamy air, it is very warm right now, only at 80 degrees, this hour, 4:31 in the morning, just 08 degrees at philadelphia international airport. we may drop few more degrees before the sun officially rises but regardless don't need jacket on morning like this, that winds remains very, very calm. stowe will feel awfully uncomfortable. now, yesterday, we hit 94 officially at philadelphia international airport. we expect to hit the exact same temperature later today. that will officially make it our latest heatwave. the average high is 87. so not terribly far off from where we should be, but regardless, when you factor in the humidity, certainly the fact that it is a handful of degrees above average, it is awfully toasty outside. so take care, we'll have heat safety tips for you throughout the show. >> thank you so much, good morning, everyone, looking outside on the roadways right

now, still very early, only 4:30, like katie said, another warm one, already the 08 degrees mark at 4:32, traffic levels looking as they normally should on a friday morning, ben franklin bridge, this is what you are looking at, moving into the westbound direction, i will say construction is here, can't see it in the camera shot, but it is both directions three lanes open in the eastbound side, one lane open on the westbound side, and this is just lingering out there, until the 5:00 hour mark. so, another half hour and that should be moved out of your way. looking at the at 95 south around cottman, looking at the s curve, looking like it should, schuylkill, nice and quiet. accident in horsham, county line roadblocked, blair mill road, meeting house road. use an alternate. street road would be your best bet. another 15 minute, a lot of news this morning, brooke, over to you. >> thank, meisha a we begin this morning with breaking news this time four dallas texas police officers and a dallas transit officer are dead. and more are hurt.

>> that's after an ambush during a demonstration over recent police-involved shootings. "eyewitness news" reporter justin finch is live in the cbs-3 sat center. justin, we are hearing all of the suspects in custody at this point? >> jim, that's right. sister station in dallas is confirming the information this morning, the investigation it will ongoing. but, harrowing news to wake up, to as you mention, four dallas police officers dead, and one dallas transit officer also killed. with one suspect reported dead, police confirm they still have other now in custody. about 8:45 p.m. dallas time authority say gunfire rack out as a rally protesting the deaths of al ton sterling of luis anna, and castile of minnesota coming to a close. both black men were shot and killed in police custody earlier this week. dallas police report the shots were fired, from elevated platforms, causing crowds below to scatter, what some are calling sniper style ambush, targeting officers on the grounds. investigators report that they've three suspect in

custody, one woman, three men, all found in the same downtown dallas parking garage, some leaving in a car. and after the gunfire was over, officials braced the city on the suspect search. >> we still don't have a complete comfort level that we have all the suspect. so we will continue a very, very rigorous investigation and search of downtown, we will likely to be working throughout the early morning hours of friday until we are satisfied that all suspect have been captured. >> downtown dallas is now being called a crime scene, officials expect to slowly reopen buildings and street over the next several hours, especially now possible explosive device on hand. we are still learning the scope of this attack, we'll have updates for you throughout the morning. brooke, jim, back into you. >> thanks very much, justin. >> the us justice department

says it will monitor the investigation in minnesota where a police officer shot philand innocence co castile this week. the video burr to see is very graphic. diamond reynolds live stream her boyfriends' final moments after the shooting outside st. paul. reynolds said they were pull over for a broken tail light. standing at a rally outside the governor mansion yesterday, reynolds explained why she kept the camera rolling. >> i want everybody in the world to see what the police do. and how they roll, and it is not right. it is not acceptable. >> police say they attempt topped give castile cpr but he later died. minnesota's governor mark just vowed justice will be is herred. >> would this have happened if the driver passengers white? i don't think it would have. >> and last night hundreds gathered to remember castile at the school where he served lunch to 500 children every day. authority identified the officer involved in the shooting as officer injury on

mow janez, placed on paid administrative leave. >> the department of justice investigating the police involved shoot that left alton sterling dead in louisianna. the community is now coming together. last night, governor john bell edwards led a prayer service, 2 miles away a mural has been painted at the place where police officers shot and killed sterling. his family is calling for justice, and change, nationally. >> if you don't care there is something wrong with you. we can't run from this any more. we have a problem all over this country. >> meanwhile, we're now learning a homeless man-made that 911 call that led police to the the response in which sterling was killed. sources tell cnn the homeless man approached sterling as he was selling cd's tuesday and asked for money. man persistent, and the sorts sayings sterling told the man to leave him alone and then showed him a gun. the man allegedly called 911. officers responded and during the confrontation that was caught on camera sterling was shot.

>> now, sometime in the next 30 minutes, we are expecting president obama to address the shooting of those police officers in dallas. we will carry that live when it happens. yesterday, speaking to reporters, in poland, the president called the deaths of sterling and castile tragedies and says the country should do better. >> when people say black lives matter, that doesn't mean blue lives don't matter it, means all lives matter, but right now the big concern is the fact that the data shows black folks are more vulnerable to these kinds of incidents. i just ask folks to step back and think what if this happened to somebody in your family? how would you feel? >> the president also said community mistrust of police makes it harder for the officers who are doing a great job and the right thing to do their job. >> black lives matter activist plan to protest this evening in philadelphia marching from

the corner every broad and ear toy city hall at 5:00 p.m. >> last knit protests went into the night. clergy members who are in town for the international ame church convention led a march. alexandria hoff shows us how the peaceful demonstration unfolded. >> it was less of a protest than a collective prayer, that began at 12th and arch. >> we pray that our march will represent our protest and represent the fact that we as a people are tired and we can't take it any more. >> around 6:30, hundreds began to walk. the call to action prompted by two deadly police shootings this week in other part of the country. it was a different scene than yesterday's protests throughout the city which prompted police action and blocked traffic. but the message was the same. >> we have a policy. we have a protest agenda. most of all we are people of faith. >> this march 1 every both unity and outrage. >> i am out here today because i'm upset. >> the crowd made stops throughout center city.

>> no justice, no peace. ♪ >> before bringing their message, full circle. inside of the arch street united methodist church, a plea heard by police commissioner richard rot. >> there is work to be done in law enforcement. i think most leaders will tell you that. it is not an indictment of the men and women who proudly wear this uniform across the country it, just means that you have to see things for what they are. >> and what this was, a peaceful demonstration of people seeking to have fate in law enforcement. >> in jesus name we ask it all, amen. >> reporter: this marco inside dollars with the ame church's international gathering here. >> the ame clergy members are being credited when keeping thursday protest peaceful. our coverage of the faith al shooting of five police officers in dallas, and the

fall-out of the shootings in minnesota and louisianna does not end here. coming up at 5:00 hear from a man who was wrongly accused of being behind the dallas shootings. he was later inter get dollars and released by police. also, our coverage continues on line at cbsphilly.com and on the cbs local app. >> on cbs-3 "eyewitness news" this morning, campaign 2016. >> hillary clinton makes an early stop in philadelphia ahead of the democratic national convention. we'll let you know where she will be speaking today. >> and, olive branch? the surprising person donald trump is invite to go speak at the democratic national convention and that person responds. stay with us. for all those pokers, prodders, shuckers and sniffers, all giant produce is triple checked. we're focusing on fresh... ...so you don't have to guess. my giant.

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preliminary hearing, but the judge disagreed. cosby's lawyers say they'll appeal. >> the defense operated under a mistaken belief that they had a right to confront the victim at this stage. they do not. >> today someone who has given so much to so many has his constitutional rights trampled upon once again. we are confident that our state's highest court will right this wrong. >> no trial date has been set. cosby's accused of drugging and sexually assaulting constand in his montgomery county home back in 2004. >> presumptive democratic hillary clinton hillary hill isg a stop in philadelphia today, set to talk to the ame convention tonight happening at the convention center spending most of the day in pennsylvania, also campaigning in scranton this afternoon, with vice president joe biden. on the republican side, we're learning senator ted cruz will be speaking at the republican national convention, that is

after presumptive nominee donald trump met with him and offered him a speaking plight. there is no word yet on whether he'll endorse trump. >> the time now 4:44. >> katie is tracking some showers for our area this morning. >> yes, we eventually ends up with wet weather at the moment. things are quiet on the radar, like yesterday, start to see the showers and storms bubble up. see we start at the beginning of the loop here overnight things sort of again fizzled away, and now just left with the steam in the atmosphere, much like what we saw yesterday morning, so if you stepped outside from the air-conditioning yesterday, and you know how how clammy your hands got, your hair got flat, frizzy. that will happen again. once again in the midst of just again really really humid air mass, later on today, though, showers, thunderstorms, set to pop up. could be locally heavy just because wove so much moisture to work with. so once more, the dew points are going to lead to oppressive feeling. when you walk out the door here, heading into the weekends, though, thankfully

things get drat dramatically better with time, specially by monday even though we keep the summertime heat we lose the humiditiment isn't that always the problem? it makes it feel so much worse when you factor in those kind of high dew point. meanwhile we hit the upper 80s at the shore, good place to go, if you are trying to beat the worse of the heat at least, or you're close to, about five, 6 degrees cooler by comparison at the med yacht shore point, under partly sunny skies, likely be thunderstorm out there on saturday, as well, but generally call it partly sunny. by sunday, beautiful day. meanwhile, as it pertains to the seven day forecast, you are going to keep the 90's here in philadelphia for the next two days, today make it officially heatwave, as long as we hit 90 or above, which we think we'll do very easily, come sunday, monday, granted, seasonably warm, july after all, but keep the sun, and lose the humidity. meisha, over to you. >> that will be nice, katie, thank you. good morning, everyone. happy friday morning to you. looking outside, the schuylkill, taillights eastbound direction, you can see early risers out, there as well. this is fairly kip call for a

friday morning, that is. specially this early, looking really quietment ben franklin bridge, you were experiencing some construction both directions three lanes were open on the eastbound side, one lane open on the westbound side, that was scheduled to clear at 5:00. good news for those of you taking the ben franklin bridge. it is already cleared. accident, where we've got it, county line roadblocked at blair milan meeting house road. street road probably your best bet. then construction out there this morning, guys, new jersey turnpike southbound between burlington mt. holly at route 73, two right lanes block, this is going to lift at around 6:00 a.m. so towel put one that through the 5:00 hour. more construction here as well, 422 westbound between san towing and and arm and hammond boulevard. one lane blocked there. >> meisha, if you are just waking up with us, breaking news in texas this morning. >> five police officers are dead after a sniper opened fire during protests in downtown dallas. this is a live look outside the hospital where other officers, who were also shot,

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an update on breaking news from dallas, five law enforcement officers have been shot and killed, and other injured after an ambush during a protest over recent police-involved shootings. four of those killed are police officers, the other victim is a dallas transit officer. three suspect are in custody. another suspect has taken his own life during a stand-off with police. >> the time now 4:49. time for a check on business news. >> that's right, money watch's jill wagner is joining us live this morning from the new york stock exchange, jill, the jobs report for last month is coming out in a couple of hours, what are economists thinking? >> reporter: so the big question today is did hiring pick up in june after a drastic slow down in may.

so, economists really opportunity know if may was the start after bigger trend in the slow-down in the job market. or if it was just an out lie err, may's shockingly weak report was one reason that the fed did not raise interest rates in it last meeting, analysts are expecting employers added about 173,000 jobs, and the unemployment rate picks up a bit to 4.8%. so again, comes out before the opening bell today. >> jill, i lover my low gas prices when i fill up at the pump. i'm hearing a rumor they could be around for awhile. what's behind that? >> reporter: yes, oil prices plunged after data showed that oil inventory fell a little bit less than expected, so that means there is still plenty of supply, as you just said, the good news there gas prices will be falling, triple a says they'll likely go even lower. and new numbers what americans are doing with all of the monday that i they're saving on gas, according to jp morgan chase, they're spending a lot of it, back at the gas

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height of the day specially, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., that window, where you will see the most direct and highest sun angle come in, wear light colored, loose fitting clothing if you must be out, construction workers, landscapers, just don't have the option, so, take care of yourselves. also, of course, keep kids, pets, cool as go throughout the rest of the day here. we will easily top right back off to the mid 90s. that will officially make it our latest heatwave. meantime, we keep the theme going tomorrow. the one thing that begins to change tomorrow is the worse of the humidity, our excessive heat warning does expire at 6:00 tonight. likely still residual showers, thunderstorms, late today, as well as tomorrow, as we see the next cold front start. that will knocks temperatures back at least little bit. but more importantly on sunday, we see that humidity really start to drop off. so some nice summer weather, seasonable summer weather sunday, monday, tuesday, with sunshine, minus the worse of the humidity, meisha? >> crazy to think that 87 is our cooling off good morning,

happy friday to you, looking outside to the vine, both moving in the westbound and eastbound direction, so for those every us that take the vine in the morning, great news, it is all open and looking great this friday morning. new jersey 42 freeway northbound at creek road, what you are seeing there, a lot of early risers out there, however, i will say, basically monday through friday, on 42, basically what it looks like approaching the 5:00 hour. looking good, looking typical. 959 south before girard, what we are looking at here, both northbound and southbound directions, southbound of course, and looking good. looking good in both directions, we can expect that until we crack later in the 5:00 hour on a friday, we know monday through wednesday, starts little earlier. accident here in horsham, county line roadblocked at blair milan meeting house road, have to use all the that the. street road is probably your best bet. also construction out there, new jersey turnpike, between mt. holly and route 73, two lanes blocked, clearing around 6:00 a.m. also, more construction here, 422 westbound, this is between sanatoga, and arm and hammer

boulevard, one lane still blocked. i'll let you know when the construction clears, overall some construction not bad for a start on a friday morning, jim, over to you. >> thanks, meisha a we're following breaking news this morning out of texas. coming up at 5:00 the latest on deadly ambush in dallas, that's left at least five police officers dead. our justin finch is monitoring the latest developments. here at home, atlantic city gets ready to reopen the showboat. we'll show you out one thing differ end about it when we're top at the back of the hour.

>> gunfire breaks out during demonstration in dallas. the target, police officers. >> complete pandemonium. >> the gunfire sent demonstrators running for their lives, and other law observe foles. officers rush to go help. in some case it is appears wounded police officers were shot and point blank range. >> we must come together, lock arms, and heal the wounds that we all feel from time to time. >> dallas' mayor is urging

calm as residents wake to up headlines like this in the morning news. ambush, now the deadliest day for law enforcement since the september 11 attacks. today is friday, july 8th. good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm brooke thomas. we are waiting on remarks from president obama about the ambush in dall a, going to cbs special report momentarily. here at home, it is another day of dangerously hot temperatures, katie has your first forecast, important news you have for us, katy? >> certainly another day, much the same from what we've seen in recent days here, brooke. good morning, everyone, storm scan3, quick peak here, not much happening at the local level at the moment. but, you know, sometimes the radar just doesn't tell the story. it is all about how it feels outside right now, granted, cloud cover overhead, eventually we will see much like yesterday few scattered showers and thunderstorms pop up as the day progresses, very classic summertime forecast for us here, but a lot hotter than average for sure. outside we go to the palmyra nature park, we see the haze settling in over the betsy ross bridge, pretty reflection certai