construction every single morning, it is really heavy today. even though friday will be a lighter travel day give yourself a couple every extra minutes. >> and running out the door, it ways on you. that moisture, that atmosphere, but today i don't think we're talking about any wet weather. if you do have the either trying to or maybe get out to the pool to or get out to the beach, great excuse to do. that will excessive heat is still a very serious thing that we have to talk about. so still have excessive heat warning remaining in effect, the heat advisory that we had from yesterday, obviously gone out of effect, at this point the urban corridor where it is at when it comes to the core of the worse of the heat and the core of the worse of the humidity making it feel that much hotter. new kohl's county, that's where you're going to see the worse of the heat here today. already, it is a really warm start to the day. so we'll have mo problems spiking right back up into the mid 90's later on. now take a look what's happening here in the last couple of hours, looking at 12

our loop, from the storms that rumbled in yesterday, until this point. things have really call up down, and quieted down, and back into some sunshine through the day today. here is where we currently stand. upper 70s up and down i95, so really really warm start out there, guys, as a result, you know, it is not going to take too much for us to get right back into the mid 90s for us here today. still have humidity to contend w so sutterly wind says it all, southerly push, warmer air basically shoved into the region, as a result it will lead to high humidity and heat, meaning, it feels kind of excessive out there. so there is some relief down the road, i'll let you know when the worse of the humidity will drop off coming up later in the broadcast. >> thank you so muchment good morning, everyone, happy friday to you. this is where we were looking at disable vehicle, ramp from university ave. to the westbound schuylkill, and by the way, let me back out of the way, take a look at the westbound schuylkill. already, we are just tipping into the 5:00 hour, already, this many vehicles on the

roadway would not shock me whatsoever if it was monday through thursday, but on a friday morning, i would say, that that's not so much heavy, but i would say little bit heavier than what we typically see at 5:00 in the morning on a friday. the vine was closed overnight between the schuylkill and broad. eastbound just now re-opening, westbound has been open for about five to ten minutes or so, 422 westbound between 202 and trooper, whether you are looking at here, construction, flashing lights blocking the right lanement make note of that. and also in jersey 42 southbound between 295 and creek road, three lanes blocking until around 6:00 a.m. inbetween 130, one, two lanes blocked until around 6:00 a.m. jim, over to you. >> thank you, meisha a lots of news this morning, horrific attack during celebration in france, as a truck plows through a crowd of bastille day revelers. >> it happened in the resort city of nice. this morning, more than 80 people are dead, one witness called it carnage. "eyewitness news" reporter justin finch has been monitoring the latest coming into the cbs-3 sat center. justin, what can you tell us? >> this morning we now know at

least two americans are among the dead. and meantime, in nice, france, search is underway to uncover if that truck driver acted alone. >> overnight, forensic teams in nice examined that bullet riddled white truck. hours before it driver killed by french police used it to mow down dozens celebrating bastille day. >> i was talking to him. i felt like some accident. he looked, because it was like. >> this so we thought, everyone thought it was an accident. >> an eyewitness was rolling as the truck gained speed and throttle down the prom made. nice resident heard screaming as crowds ran for cover. >> we look out our window off our balcony, and there were just people, you know, streaming down this pedestrian mall, and, you know, knocking over the tables of the cafe. >> hide withing other in a restaurant storage room, ben captured this video. he recalls that truck driver opening fire on spectators watching fireworks before

police shot and killed him. >> believed it was fire crack ers going off or fireworks, but it became clear that it was something a little more sinister than that. >> french president francois hollande telling terror struck once again, in the u.s. president obama condemned the attack. >> among the dead at least two americans, 51 year old sean cope lands, and his 11 year old son, brody. the family was visiting france on summer vacation. a search is now underway for additional suspect. >> and you will recall in recent years that france has been a terror target, some 130 people killed. now, last november's attack at the theater, we are watching the story throughout the morning, expert announcers coming up in the next half hour, brooke, jim, over to you. >> thank you, justin, for all of that information. >> white house reacting to the attack, what president obama re less ago statement saying

in part on behalf of the american people, i condemn in the strongest terms what appears to be a horrific terrorist attack in nice, france. we stand so dar at this and partnership with france, our oldest al lie, as they respond and recover from this attack. >> both hillary clinton and donald trump are condemning the apparent terror attack in france. >> but brian web shows us, while both say were at war with isis, they have different ideas on how to fight back. >> after the massacre in nice, france, during bastille day celebration, donald trump said on fox news if he is elected press, he would ask congress for a declaration of war against isis. >> this is war. if you look at it, this is war coming from all different part, and, frankly, it is war, and we're telling with that with people without uniforms. >> trump delayed today @ announcement of his vice presidential pick because of the attack. cbs news confirmed his vp pick will be indianna governor mike

penned. in a separate interview, hillary clinton said the us is no war against radical jihad groups, and said she would focus on building a stronger coalition to prevent future attacks. >> it is a different kind of war. we need to be smart about how we wage it that we have to be determined that we're going twin. >> after the attack in orlando. s authorities had been on high alert ahead every next week's republican national convention . >> have to look at this as how do you potential to expire somebody domestically with it ease, because trucks, moving trucks, transport vehicles like this, are everywhere. >> clearly the nay's have it. >> last night in cleveland, gop committee defeated an effort to un bind delegate at neck week's convention. it is a major blow to a group of conservatives who wanted to

stop trump nomination. brian web, for cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> "eyewitness news" anchor jessica dean will be traveling to cleveland to cover the republican national convention. look for her reports next week here on "eyewitness news". >> and it is getting closer. we are now just ten days away have the start of democratic national convention right here if philadelphia. >> tonight at 5:00 at philadelphia city hall will be among several across the country remembering victims every police shootings and calling for police accountability. middletown, delaware, clergy and members of the middletown matters movement got before a vigil last night. law enforcement officers, resident, spoke at franklin square, then marched down mitt dollars it town's main street. >> vigil in the spring garden section honored philando castile. dozen of local food service workers gathered to remember the 32 year old minnesota cafeteria supervisor one of the two african-american men shot and killed by police last week. catille's girlfriends live

streamed the aftermath of his shooting on social media. she and more than 1500 other attended a public funeral forecast teal yesterday in st. paul. >> for a look at newspaper headlines from across our region. >> on the present page of the intelligencer err, us military says it won't provide bucks tests to bucks and montgomery county residents who may have been expose today potential toxic chemicals, ewing philadelphia fire fighting foams at former and current military bases eventually got into the water system contaminating area wells. >> from the delaware county daily times, developer threatening to sue after a deal unravels, in may, marple township commissioner shot down a proposal by good man properties to bill cardinal crossing, at a mixed use development at the former village. >> the mercury police looking for 28 year old woman believe to be connected to the theft of $18,000 worse of horse ride willing equipment. it was put up for sale on facebook, a warrant has been issued for the arrest of avery

white, equipment included 11 saddles, recovered at a home in pottstown as part of ongoing investigation. >> that's a look at some of the newspaper headlines, from around the delaware valley. >> well, coming up: new way to help get help in case after emergency. >> we'll let you know where you can now sends a text to 911. we will also have this. >> giving you us the low down on the river liner, takes us right up to the point where the problem happened. we'll tell you the questions that still persist for riders in the system. >> and ukee has a lot to dish out during his guess co-host appearance on the talk coming up. hear about his friendly wager. >> ♪ >> the heat of the moment. katie is about to tell us when we may see a little relief. stay with us. >> ♪

>> it's been two weeks since they pulled their rail cars out of service. >> joe holden has an update on when the trains will be back on the tracks.

>> reporter: i'm sorry. getting the right view from under a train, not for those really tight spaces, that's jim with septa holding the flashlight. he's pulling out the now notorious cracks along with what is called the equal lies err beam the silver liner five train. >> see the cracks? pretty hard, isn't it? >> for the record, i couldn't see it. few actually could, but september an inspector went digging for answers avenue after a silver liner car was leaning, how hard could it be? >> in that location, incredibly difficult to seement looking about the size after business card, through a tube, an arm's lent away, looking for smile shiny crack. >> this, touring the over brock maintenance facility, the entire fleet out of service, septa wanted to show us why. >> well, to stop. >> i want you to look at this huge piece of equipment. there are two of these on every septa train.

now, let's go in deeper, show you exactly where the problem sprung up. it is in a crack in this little area, that is very vision recall to the eye. >> so to help us out, septa use the red dye to brighten the crack. still don't know how it formed. >> we'll let everyone get up and underneath to see. very dark line right at the well. >> and there it is, the crack, that in a worse case scenario could have led to a situation that could have been much different if not. >> there is a lot of dirt on there, a lot of nooks, cranies, all around here. >> at this moment there is no solution on how this is going to be fixed or even how this happened. all of the steak holders involved are at the table. they are pouring their thoughts onto paper as to how to come to a resolution. in the meantime, the civil liner five's are here, and at other part of the city, also, the silver liner four's, they're the 40 year old trains

pressed into service after all of this, they're on accelerated inspect ton schedule because of the heavy use they're now undergoing. in west philly, joe holden, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> ex not exactly good news for commuters, good news for people for the wet they are weekend, katy? >> depends how you look at it, a the low of people would love to hear it is going to be hot, steamy, sunny, because they're going to the beach or they have pool plans, and definitely that's going to work for you here with the forecast that we've got to report. but, it is still going to be another one of those really steamy days. we take a look already, some of the light of day popping over the horizon yesterday, certainly very cloudy, steamy start to the day. so we a lot of low-lying cloud cover, outside we go to kutztown area middle school, it is a beautiful looking sun advise, eventually, give it about a half hour, give or take, before that sun officially rises in kutztown and everywhere else. regardless light of day already obvious, because we've got generally clear sky. storm scan, pretty quiet at this point, as women, but again, it is still steamy. now, we had a front cross

through yesterday, there is nothing that -- nothing really obvious when you look at the bigger picture that you can track here. but regardless, we are going to see frontal boundery stall nearby here in the days ahead, and as an area of low pressure rides along it, ups our chances once more for couple of showers or thunderstorms down the pike here. what we will face here today, the initial concern, is strictly that excessive heat. so with elevated humidity still a problem, highs back to the 90s, will feel basically anywhere between this range, 97 to 103. yesterday was the worse, but i'm not saying it is much better today. so you have to take it easy for yet another day. pool great place to go. latter on the sun block, with full sunshine today, and no hint every thunderstorms, it will be a sizzler, and it is definately one of the days where you have to be bewaring adequate spf. ninety tomorrow. another hot one, slightly less humid sunday, but certainly not cool by any stretch, still upper 80s for the second half of the weekend, meisha. >> still very warm, katie,

thank you so much. good morning, everyone, and happy friday to you. taking a look at the schuylkill eastbound, so this is the schuylkill eastbound, the ramp then to the vine closed this morning, for overnight construction, but again, that's now also been cleared. the vine anywhere on the vine right now looking at good, westbound, eastbound, looking nice there. also good on the schuylkill, you can see already in the 5:00 hour, in just the top of the 5:00 hour talking about how many vehicles we can see there already out on the schuylkill. indicator of things to come? i don't know. we will see. 202 northbound, and southbound, between route 30 and route 401, this was compromised, right lane compromised because of construction, overall looking good there, pull your attention to this absolutely stunning sky, just take a moment, just take one moment, of gratitude, for that thing. because that's beautiful. 422 westbound between 202 and trooper, you are still dealing with some construction right there. that right lane is still compromised. overall when we see the congest ten levels around there, not much. overall looking good there.

so looking good on 422, one thing, main thing i want to pull your attention to, we do have water main break in manayunk, main street closed, at levering street. you will have to take an alternate. ridge avenue is probably going to be your best bet. i will have an update coming up in a little bit on. >> this and i will be tweeting it out for you, asbell, jim, over to you. >> thanks, meisha. from dialing to texting, people in need of help in camden county now have a new way to contact police. >> that's right, starting today, they can sends a text to 911. natasha brown shows us how the new technology works. >> 911 dispatchers are always standing by ready to take your call. but, if you can't call? now you can text your emergency. >> you're now able to physically text 9911, dispatch will be answering you live, through text messaging. >> in march, the camden county communication center became the first to unveil the new technology. a collaboration between the

state using gps to hone in on the location of the text message. dispatch verse already received 130, 8911 test messages so far. >> if you are in a situation where can you not call, you can only text, then text 911 is the way to go. >> responded, certain ways to do the texting. >> the 911 text system will be available throughout the state of new jersey, 21 counties. for those who find themselves in a situation where a voice call may not be available or may compromise their safety, there is now another option. in some cases, the discretion after text could mean the difference between live life and death. >> we received 911 text that ended up being domestic violence incident in one of our towns, we are able to dispatch the police department and -- >> good idea, any time you can speed up communication or establish communication

between the community and the police force is positive. >> officials say calling 911 is certainly still the priority, but if you can't, you now have another option with texting. meantime, as of friday night, every county throughout the state of new jersey will have access to the 911 text system. in camden, new jersey, natasha brown, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> thanks a lot, that the tasha. meet the newest sixer coming up next in sports. >> our own ukee washington makes little bet. >> little later pokemon go may be the latest craze across the nation, but a new jersey mom is putting new spin on the game. back in a moment.

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>> welcome back, it is 5:24. after four day all-star hiatus, the mets are in town tonight. >> sean bell shows us all eyes on the sixers playing exhibition games, and women coming a new big man to the front court. >> the season continues, 2014 lottery pick dario loafing his european pick to join the sixers, he arrived at philadelphia international airport around 5:00 p.m. yesterday. here is video of the star walking through the airport, he will records educationally sign with the team today. led to qualifying win for the olympics, played rio before turning his full attention to the sixers, here's what czar i can had to say. >> well, of course, after 2014, ...

have a chance to make ... >> welcome to philly dario. sixers, taking on the brooklyn mets, ben simmons not playing, hanging without noel on the ben. sixers leading by two, with the jam, dunks, right there, and sixers lead 55-51. 2:50 left in the game. draining the three. sixers cut the lead to one. clock winding down. need another three. paul, no good. and the sixers fall 87-84. >> that's all for sport, i'm don bell, have a great day. >> thanks, don, now, you may have noticed ukee has not been anchoring much of the news this week, and that's because he's working on a special assignment. >> ukee is guest hosting the talk on cbs-3 today. it is the third time ukee has sat down with the ladies at the table.

but he's talking, one. guest actor chase crawford, his brother is quarterback tony romo. so they made a little bet. >> if the cowboys finish a better record than the eagles, ill send you a case of philly authentic delicious cheese steaks. >> oh! >> now, we know that's not going to happen. >> so, what will crawford give ukee if the eagles finish with a better record? well, you will have to watch the talk this afternoon at 2:00 that's right here on cbs-3. >> how are they going to holdup on the way to dallas. >> you. >> put them in the stirofoam, you know, with the dry ice. i've shipped them before. >> the eagles, all right. coming you up in the next half hour, heat hangs on, right, katy? >> it absolutely does, brooke, yes, still in the midst of excessive heat warning, some air quality issues to talk about, but thankfully, some relief down the road, and i'll tell when you that gets here

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