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center in philadelphia this is eyewitness 3 news. right now on eyewitness news severe weather has been rolling through the area all day today and we're not out of the woods just yet. we're tracking these storms as they head east. good evening. i'm natasha brown. thanks for joining us. flash flood warnings are in effect for parts of the area. let's get over to lauren casey in our weather center with the latest on the track of these storms. lauren. >> thanks, natasha. we do have a newly issued flash flood warning in effect now for parts of burlington and atlantic county. this until 2:45 overnight tonight. we a standing flash flood warning for millard and camden county and bowlington county. we have a cluster of thunderstorms that are stagnant over parts of south jersey. you can see some of the towns included in the flash flood warning including bowlen, waterford, and also the secondary warning now includes

carver city and cape may as well. we have been dealing with the heavy rainfall that's clustered and sat there for a period of hours. check out some of the doppler radar estimates. this is the past six hours. most of the rain fell in the last three to four hours. you have the bull's-eye indicating five inches of rainfall. this areas picking up three inches of rainfall across parts of camden county. it only takes about six inches of rainfall to impact your vehicle, so now with rainfall totals four to five inches, and then we have poor drainage areas. that water will be standing in some locations. not great travel conditions right now. especially across parts of camden county. the good news is the rainfall is finally dissipating after hours of steady rainfall. still have some lingering rainfall across parts of burlington county, but that will trend to dissipate even in the next 30 minutes or so. we didn't have that heavy pocket of rainfall over this area. this loop is three hours long. even at the beginning of the rain it was coming down, so just very steady. these storms very stagnant and

stationary. the high rainfall rates and totals, again, the secondary area, the rain is now starting to trend back as well. future weather showing us as we head into the overnight period, the rain will completely come to an end across the area and give us a dry start to our sunday, and it will be much dryer day so we can dry out some of this rain. we'll talk about our sunday forecast and when we'll get some relief from the steamy summertime weather and the full forecast coming up. >> thanks, lauren. meantime, we'll be back out tomorrow morning hoping to find a missing teenager. the 17-year-old dove into the shark river in belmar, monmouth county, and never resurfaced. he was last seen at 5:00 p.m. teams from at least three agencies looked for hours and will resume the search at 6:00 a.m. also, a scholar living in self-exile in the poconos is speaking out tonight against accusations he was involved in the failed military coup in his native turkey. eyewitness news reporter trend e

trent was the only local reporter to interview gulen tonight. >> reporter: an extremely rare look that fethullah gulen has called home the last seven years. the place he seepz, eats, and prays. the reclusive scholar in self-exile opening up his doors to speak out against accusations that the president erdogan, a former ally. he said that he believed gulen was involved in the failed military coup on friday. it's a charge that gulen vihamently denies. gulen conducted an interview with cbc 3 is and several international media outlets entirely in turkish. it's been translated by an aide. gulen suggested the coup was like previous attempts and appeared to be staged.

it appeared like a scenario. >> reporter: meanwhile, outside the compound about 100 proteste protesters, many wrapped in turkish flags, expressed their support for president erdogan and urged the united states to extradite gulen. >> hopefully they'll send him back to turkey. he will be charged in turkey. >> reporter: gulen says he has no problem with that because he would be found innocent. >> translator: no problem. >> reporter: secretary of state john kerry would entertain an extradition request but the turkish depos turkish government has not made one. he says the turkish government would have to present evidence to back its claim. eyewitness news.

thousands of people filled the streets of ankara chanting support for their democratic government. friday's failed coup was led by a faction of the military using tanks, fighter jets, and firefighters. turkey's government has arrested or fired thousands of troops and judges. france has entered the first of three days of national mourning following the bastille day attack that killed 84 people. a memorial is growing in nice. isis is now claiming responsibility for the bloodshed via social media, but the attack of history and mental illness and lack of previous political furvor called it into question. alexandria hoff says many are remembering the victims right here at home today. ♪ >> reporter: every five seconds for five minutes. bells tolled from the top of the washington chapel in valley forge.

[ bells tolling ] >> reporter: the sound carried to a grassy spot which calls to mind paris. that's where well wishers gathered to pay tribute to those killed during thursday's terror attack in nice. >> prayers go out to victims and their families in france. >> we're sad. we're far away, and there's nothing we can do. >> reporter: a ceremony concluded with a moment of silence, and then the singing of the french national anthem. ♪ >> reporter: emotion comes with being able to honor the lives lost in such a resounding way. something interesting about those bells is that half of them were manufactured in the united states. the other half in france. reporting from valley forge, alexandria hoff, eyewitness news

3, cbc news. a peace sign written on a french flag waved during the annual bastille day celebration at the state penitentiary. hundreds came out to see the french revolution play out in a spectacle of song and dance. the bastille attack was on everyone's mind. stay with eyewitness news for the latest on the bastille day attack. we'll have updates on-line and on our air as well. another police officer killed in the dallas ambush was laid to rest today. patrick ripa was one of the five officers gunned down following a protest in downtown dallas on july 7th. the 32-year-old officer served three tours in iraq as a petty officer second class with the u.s. navy before joining the dallas police department. he leaves behind a wife and two children. now campaign 2016 donald trump offered the americans the first glimpse of what the 2016

republican presidential ticket will look like. today he formally introduced his first pick for vice president, indiana governor mike pence. cbc news correspondent has more. >> reporter: supporters packed an airport hangar to welcome governor mike pence back to indiana just hours after donald trump officially introduced him as his running mate. >> today in new york city i accepted donald trump's invitation to run and serve as vice president of the united states of america. >> reporter: pence tested out his stump speech before the hoosier crowd. >> donald trump is a good man, and he will make a great president of this nation. >> reporter: trump said he admired the work pence has done in indiana. >> indiana -- this is the primary reason other than. governor penguice balanced the budget.

can you imagine a balanced budget? >> reporter: he will work to convince skeptics that trump can unite the party and defeat hillary clinton in november. the republican running mate sat down with leslie stahl for the first interview that airs sunday on "60 minutes." >> what is the negative side? he apologized for being a negative -- >> i understand that. i'll give you an example. hillary clinton is a liar. hillary clinton -- it was just proven last week. >> reporter: trump said he won't ask pence to be negative. cbc 3, eyewitness news. our own jessica dean will be covering the rnc live from cleveland with reports all next week right here on eyewitness news. meanwhile, final preparations are underway for the democratic national convention. just nine days now until it begins. the convention runs the 25th through the 28th. presumptive democratic nominee hillary clinton is promising to introduce an amendment

overturning citizens united. that's the supreme court ruling that opened the door to a flood of corporate and union spending in politics. clinton made the announcement tonight in a video showed to liberal activists meeting in st. louis. plans to ban smoking at many new jersey beaches went up in smoke. governor christie vetoed a bill that would have outlawed smoking at all of the state's public beaches and parks. christie says he hates smoking, but he wants towns to decide if it should be banned. smokers, some of them, are happy with the governor's decision. >> i can understand for, like, health issues as far as young kids, but if you are out in a parking lot like this and there's no kids around, i would say go for it. >> hundreds of towns in new jersey already have their own no smoking bans in place. stay with us. still to come on eyewitness news, see how on-line shopping is about to get much more convenient for some folks in

philadelphia. pokemon go goes down. what's with the wild and popular smartphone game off line for hours today? plus -- >> we'll have steady rain across parts of the area tonight, and tomorrow will be a much dryer day, although the heat is still going to be on. we do have a big break in humidity. i'll let you know about that in your full forecast coming up.

pokemon go was a no-go when it was launched in 26 new countries today. a hacking group said they crashed the server during the game's worldwide roll-out, and another strike on pokemon is coming, they say. the company behind the popular smartphone game says it's working now to fix the server issues. pokemon go was launched on july 7th and was only available in eight countries up until today. on-line shopping is surging,

and now ups is hoping to kafcasn with saturday delivery. but only in a few locations. ups will test the saturdayly deliveries this summer before deciding to make it permanent. fedex and the u.s. postal service already delivers on saturday. 80,000 baby gates have been recalled because they can unlock by themselves leading to falls. ten injuries have been reported already. the recalled gates include the patrol safety gate and extension, the patrol fast safety gate, and the patrol climber safety gate and extension. if you have one of these gates, stop using it immediately and return it for a full refund. volunteers in montgomery county spent their saturday morning helping a disabled mover. anita hall has the story now. >> reporter: they're the professionals. this kind of work is routine.

for carol multiple sclerosis has made it nearly impossible. >> every try, and it would take me -- >> reporter: a few hours is all these guys need to make a difference. around 30 volunteers from the buckmont chapter of the remodeling industry heard about carol's story and spent their saturday pitching in to help her completely free of charge. >> i want to do something. a lot of landscape and yardwork. >> reporter: that used to be the prized work of carol. a war veteran who passed away in 2013. anthony was only 17 when he first served in vietnam. he served two military tours after that, and volunteers say they're here to give back to someone who gave so much to this country. >> it's only right we give back.

could not ring more loudly than today. >> i did not expect this. >> reporter: anita oh, cbc 3, eyewitness news. such a lovely, lovely day today, and they had good weather. bad weather going through this evening, though. >> it was a good start to the day, and then it end odd a rocky note. we did earlier today, unfortunately, in ocean county, point pleasant, had two injuries due to lightning strikes and separate incidents. some lightning strikes, lightning -- unfortunately, so far this year in the united states we've had 12 fatalities due to lightning strikes. in the last ten years 326.

now, of those nearly 80% of the victims are -- when you hear the thunder, you want to go indoors because 15 miles of an apparent thunderstorm, the lightning can reach out and strike. in i time you hear thunder, you are at the potential risk of being impacted by the lightning, and potentially being injured, and, of course, we never want to see that. we have the lightning issues earlier in the day, and then the heavy rainfall issued later in the day contributing to some flooding concerns across portions of south jersey. check out some of the rainfall totals in just a matter of hours. this evening nearly four inches of rainfall. picking up two and a half inches of rainfall. medford, about two and a half inches of rainfall. of course, the doppler estimates at the top of the show, picking up five inches of rainfall in some parts of camden county. checking in on a live network, also telling the story of heavy rainfall and steady rainfall throughout the evening. camden picking up over an inch and a half of rainfall. we have the lightning injuries. picking up well over an inch of

rainfall earlier in the day. we have the flash flood warnings in effect for parts of south jersey, burlington county, atlantic county, camden county, and gloster county as well. travel not advised in these areas over the next several hours until we get the rain to drain on out. fortunately, the rainfall has shrunk. heavy rain that was so persistent throughout the evening hours with the rain coming down in this three-hour loop is now diminishing and moving off to the east giving us dryer conditions. there are a few lingering showers in and around the pocon poconos. we a moderate cell right now. pocono over the last couple of hours, you've seen lightning and heavy rainfall, but the city of philadelphia, temperature 74 degrees. nice, calm winds, and temperatures due to that rain-cooled air feeling a little better this evening than this time yesterday evening. 73 degrees right now in millville. we're at 71 in a.c., and overnight we'll warm up maybe a degree or two as we head past

midnight and then stabilize our temperatures. 74 degrees for the overnight low. partly cloudy and still a little bit muggy as we head into the day tomorrow, and another hot one in store. 91 degrees the high temperature. a bit more humid. you'll be feeling that the last several days. mostly sunny. keeping that storm chance out of the forecast for most of us. i think we could see an isolated shower. maybe a rumble of thunder pop up along the coastline, but, again, isolated in nature. not going to see anything. we'll see this tomorrow evening. mostly sunny conditions. topping at 84 at the shore. hot on monday. 88 degrees. starting off with a storm on tuesday. we're looking better later in the day with clearing and gradual decreasing humidity. we are toasty once again into monday. humid conditions as well. chance of thunderstorms with a cold front that moves in monday night into the first part of the day on tuesday that you're going to love this behind that cold front. much dryer air in store. even by tuesday evening. you're going to feel that dramatic difference in the humidity. wednesday it's going to be a

beautiful day. low humidity. 85 degrees. bright sunshine. we'll heat up into thursday, but we still keep the humidity on the comfortable side into thursday and friday as well. if you have vacation days saved up and you can dole them out quickly, those are good days. >> good idea. thank you, lauren. >> sure. we'll talk about that, a and -- we'll be back.

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game two -- good which comfortable down in south philadelphia. they've won 21 out of 28 games since june of 2013. it was the first game since the all-star break. there was a line drive that went

into the crowd, and check it out. the ball took out the beer of a fan. terrific seats. let's go to the second. ryan allard gets all of this pitch deep into the phillies bullpen. that's 370th career homer. that will tie with gill hodges on the all-time home run list. game tied in the sixth. a slow roll into short. tries to score, but it was called out at the plate. in the seventh they were finally able to take the lead. peter borgis, speedy peter, scored. came to a high to beat the mets 4-2. >> i didn't want to hear the mets fans. >> at that moment you're playing the game, but, you know, when your time comes, it's actually pretty cool. you know, i still have some work

to do, but, you know -- >> well, summer league bats. next time we're going to see ben simmons is training camp in october. he will be spending his downtime figuring out how to use him on the court. last night they got a double-double scoring 16 points. the 6ers win. when he comes to camp, he will be sharing time. both of these guys -- >> trying do it in a game, and i think we will make good team. not just me. i think whole team. >> the third round of the british open. phil mickelson with the one shot lead over henrik stenson and rory mcelroy. not like his shot on the 16th hole. it goes way right. whose fault is it? it's the 3 wood, of course, and

he slams it down. break it in two. mickelson at the 16th. under. one under 70 in second place. stenson shot a three under 68 and has a one-shot lead going into tomorrow's final round. >> i know he is not going to back down, and certainly i'm not going to back down either. he is one of the best to play the game. >> today could have been a day that got away from me. instead i shot under par, kept myself right in heading into tomorrow's final round, so i'm proud of that. andrew getson and i have some work to do to get my swing back to where it was the first couple of days, and it shouldn't be too far off. i would love to play tomorrow's final round the way i did the first two and give myself a shot. >> come on, phil. >> yeah. the weather there is so different. they have jackets on. >> thank you so much.

stay with us. still to come tonight on eyewitness news, local artists and performers showcase their skills on the banks

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now we have to say good-bye. >> have it's supposed to be a good school. yeah, parents pumped a lot of money into it. you know the place? caught a case here a while back. what do we got? ten-year-old female, jenna wallace. never made it home from school. parents over there reported her missing an hour ago. any witnesses? crossing guard saw the girl leave the building. ma'am, can you tell us what you saw? uh, jenna had just crossed the street, um, a white car pulled up, a two-door compact sedan, um, she got in, they took off. did you get a look at the driver? no. i didn't catch the license plate either. does jenna usually get picked up from school? no, tha-tha-that's the thing... she walks home every day with her friend stacy. really nice kids. no signs of struggle, huh? no. the way she got in the car, it seemed like she knew the driver. i keep thinking i should've done something. you've been very helpful, thank you. i got a bad feeling about this one. at least we got the make and model of the car. yeah. excuse us. detective reagan.