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tight with thousands every police officers on duty. weijia? >> goods morning, jim, brooke, the stage is set, the convention is set to begin at 1:00 p.m. every day, there is a different theme that is a branch of donald trump's signature message. to make america great again. >> ready for thousands of republicans in cleveland for the party's national convention. >> we're very proud of it, and very pleased with how it has turned out. it is the highest technology that you can builds today. >> the theme for the opening day is make america safe again. on sunday, donald trump and runningmate indianna governor mike pence spoke about national security during the first interview together on 60 minutes. >> we have people that hate us. we have people that want to wipe us out. we have to wipe out isis. >> monday's key speakers
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include trump wife and required michael flip, the line up ranges from parent every americans killed in terrorist attacks, to reality show stars to actors, former new york city mayor, rudy guiliani, also set to speak. >> the rnc has planned for this convention for over a year. not only for events here inside the arlene, a but heightened security measures outside. protests were peaceful over the weekend, but cleveland's police chief says he knows that could change. >> we planned for anything and everything that could happen. >> 500 of the city's officers are assigned to the convention, and thousands more from across the country travel here to help. >> reporter: trump himself is not on the official schedule for today, but his campaign manager says donald trump will be donald trump. we know he doesn't typically stick to schedules or scripts,
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so says there is a chance he'll make a few appearances. jim, brooke? >> thanks, weijia. >> meanwhile, in other news, rnc delegates from our area have arrived in cleveland, yesterday two dozen delegates from the philadelphia area rallied before boarding a bus in exton, chester county. fifty-four of pennsylvania republican delegates are un bound, but most have pledged to vote for trump. they say the goal is for the party to unify at the convention. >> i think donald trump has a backgrounds to create one of the solutions to the problem, and that's jobs, opportunities, african-american community, we need jobs. >> during the pennsylvania primary, trump won 57% of the republican vote. our own jessica den will be live at the rnc all this week, look for her live report here on cbs-3. you can stay with "eyewitness news" for continuing coverage of campaign 2016 on radio, with "kyw news radio" and 1210wpht also, on line, with
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cbs philly and of course, your "eyewitness news" team right here on cbs-3. well, turning not to the weather justin drabick in for kate think morning, justin, several days every heat and humidity, any chance today will be different? >> it will be hotter. >> whatever. >> it gets worse before it gets better. but relief in site this week. but do you have remember, mid-late july. this is typically our hottest time of year on average. expect this stuff. typical philly summer. 60s, upper 70s right now already up to 77 degrees at the airport in philadelphia, atlantic city airport checking in the upper 70s, little better up in quakertown, mid 60s, pottstown, you guys are at 72 degrees, now the key here, humidity, dew point temperatures on the rides, yesterday, they weren't that bad in the 60s, now in the 70s, once they hit the 70s we call it pretty much oppressive, mid 70s unsufferable, stay inside. dry, few clouds rolling in right now, mid to high level
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clouds, not producing any rain, could change late this afternoon into the evening hours shall specially north and west of the city could run into some scattered showers and storms, and containing some heavier downpours, will slow travel down little bit for the evening commute. key here scattered, not everybody sees it, because every cold front approaches, today's high up to 95 degrees, for philadelphia, we should in the upper 80s this time of year at the shore, upper 80s, cbsphilly.com breeze should develop in the afternoon, poconos looking pretty good, watch out for late day shower, storms high mid 80s, but talk about cooler temperatures in the seven day in just a few minute, but let's hit the roads with meisha a good morning. >> good morning, justin, happy monday to you, happy monday to all of you at home, just wacking up with us, welcome back, kicking off brand new week, you can see the sky starting light up little bit, lodging gorgeous as usual, boulevard headlight moving in the southbound direction as poaching wissahickon, i would say, it is looking fairly typical, today, but the schuylkill starting to heat up. one of the hot spots so far this morning. looking here though the vine at the schuylkill, actually looking pretty good. vine was not closed overnight like we normally see it
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between the schuylkill and broad. vine eastbound and westbound looking good right now all open, it has been all morning long, all right, i'm going to pull you to the construction here, we do have bridge inspections, schuylkill eastbound, westbound, between university and the vine street expressway. take a look at this, westbound is the right lane, that's going to be closed between nine a.m. and 1:00 p.m. eastbound is going to be the left lane, 12 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. yes, that will slow you down just little bitment make note of this, i'll be tweeting this out for this morning as well. dealing with more construction in new jersey, 295 northbound and southbound, you will see traffic shift, some lane shift there, make note you might want to give yourself couple of extra minutes in that area. overnight construction 202 north and south between route 30 and 41 between eight p.m. and 5:00 a.m. this will be going on tonight, through thursday, brooke, over to you. >> thanks, meisha a this morning, investigators in louise ann are trying to figure out why gunman killed three baton rouge police officers. >> they say the alleged shooter gavin long act the alone. "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabeo live in the cbs-3 sat
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center with the latest on the investigation. good morning, jan, what have you learned? >> jim, brooke, good morning. >> police now going through the shooters social media activity foreign site, just week ago gavin long positioned video on youtube, where he spoke out about police violence against african-americans. >> investigators now trying to determine why 29 year old gavin long decorated exmarine opened fire on police sunday in baton rouge. three officers were killed, three other were wounded. >> the officers were responding to reports of suspicious person dress in the all black with a gun and an eyewitness live stream the ambush on social media. >> cbs news has learned, long often posted on line under the sued miami cosmo. >> you got to fight back. that's the only way a bully knows to quit. one of his final act the five year veteran tweeted just because you wake up every morning doesn't mean you are
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living, and just because you shed your physical body doesn't mean that you are dead. speaking in australia, vice president joe biden condemned the attack. >> despicable act. it is an attack on our very way of life at home. >> meantime in northeast philadelphia, black bunting hangs over the doorway at the fraternal order of police lodge, an american flag outside flies at half staff. and a sign displays a message of support. >> every day i feel for the safety of police offers earnings, i feel for the safety of the citizens. thawed 1% out there, no matter where you go, who just don't want to abide by the law. >> after what happened in baton rouge, philadelphia police look at patrolling teams of two, as they did immediately following the ambush of officers in dallas. >> so we have to come in with a way to take out how to -- that the community trust the police officers, again, police officers trusting the community again, they have -- there has to be an answer out there somewhere. >> back to baton rouge, police do believe this shooter acted
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alone, he was shot, killed, thereon scene. coming up in the next half hour, we will look more at the victims, their background, and the huge outpouring of support for their family and friend. brooke, jim, back into you. >> thanks, jan. meanwhile in other news locally, police in the kingsessing section of philadelphia are looking for clues in the shoot that had left one man in the hospital. this happened just after 11:00 last night, police tell "eyewitness news" the victim was found near the intersection of south 58th street, and chester avenue. they rushed him to the hospital where he is currently in stable condition. >> good news as you head out the door, septa hopes to add little more breathing room for it regional rail commuters. this morning, septa is adding five more lease rail cars to its fleet. transit agency also released new temporary schedule, it is trying to make up for the 120 defective cars it, took out service this month. we have a link to the new rail schedule on our website cbsphilly.com. >> pedal power can go a long way there is weekend hundreds
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of people road their bikes to the shore to raise money for the families of fallen police offerser. >> 2500 bicyclists left yesterday from the irish pub at 20th and walnut in philadelphia. and road all the way to the irish pub in atlantic city. it was all part of the annual tour de shore, team wheels every justice led by montgomery county d.a. kevin steel was the largest group in the race. well, when we come back, cleaning up after the storm. >> find out where not one but two tornados touchdown, causing a lot of damage over the weekend. >> plus tense moments when hostage situation unfolds. right inside of a burger king. see how it came to an end coming up next.
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>> began more morning say yesterday morning, tj smith crashed his car outside burger king trying to get away from police. officers say he ran inside burger king, held four people hostage, including seven year old girl. >> learning more about the man who carried out the bastille day attack in east france. days before the truck driver ran over dozens as they enjoyed fireworks, police say, he surveyed the area twice in
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a white 19-ton truck. investigators have questioned at least eight people, including the attackers estranged wife. eighty-four people died, either along the promenade or in the hospital. residents and tourist are paying tribute to the victim. >> i'm very sad, cried, cried, other people, children. >> these kind of events, can't put your life on hold and lock yourself up in your home, you have to carry on. >> the university of california berkley confirms that one of their students who is reported missing in nice died in the attack. two other americans, a father and son, from texas, were also killed. >> thousands of terrorists rally to show their support for president and his party. on friday, at least 294 people were killed, during clashes in turk when parts of the turn i shall military attempt topped receive pear. arrested 139 police personnel in connection with the
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attempted coup. plays turn i shall cleric, for the coup. he lives in the poconos, wants the us to ex interest diet him to turkey. >> mean in iowa cleaning up this morning after two, tornados touched down. strong winds ripped down tree limb, power lines, and too far rolfs off of buildings. it hit east of iowa where a camper flipped over. thankfully no one was hurt, number of businesses did close yesterday because of the damage. people say the clean up could take week. well, turning to the weather in our area, justin, there is a storm headed our way, possibly tonight? >> that's right, jim, some of the storms out across the midwest will be pill impacting us, mostlily during the evening, north and west of the city. until then, starting the morning off dry, warm, humid, throughout the morning hours, into the afternoon, really cranking up the heat. let's i can zero take to you ocean sit, getting ready for nice sunrise in about a half hour, good color out there, few clouds around, other than that decent beach day at the
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jersey shore, and delaware beaches, with full sunshine, so make sure you have the sun block on, really anywhere across the delaware valley if you have outdoors plans today throw it on, sun very strong this time of year. so we continue to see the stretch of 90 agree temperatures, go back last thursday hit height of 96, yet, low nine's, today back to the mid 90s but the big difference, humidity, it also hot not as last thursday, not under any heat advisories or excessive heat advisories. >> what to expect after today? >> improvement. heatwave will come to an end. deal with lots of sunshine so the dry pattern continues humidity drops, so dot temperatures, nice temperatures mid week, if you can wait couple every days that will get here. seventy-one in reading, already warm this morning, shore temperatures nice breeze out of the south and southwest, mid to upper 70s, 757 stone harbor, 79 ocean
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sit. ocean drops little bit upper 60s, but still feeling pretty good to escape some of the heat and humidity, dry over the del war vale, little band of some clouds rolling on through, notice showers, storms, over the midwest, they start to move eastward later this afternoon, into tonight, it is a cold front, that will come through as later on tonight into tomorrow. so, 2:00 this afternoon do see line of showers, storms, but then tries to break up by the evening hours, so, for evening commute could run into scattered shower or storm anywhere. best chance north and west of the city. overnight still another passing shower, tuesday looking much drier, increasing sunshine, humidity drops throughout the day. look at the temperatures today, inland spots well into the middle 90s, eight's at the shore, tonight still warm, muggy, in the 70s, over most locations but notice those temperatures, little bit cooler tomorrow. we will be back closer to average in the 80s. so forecast high today up to 95 degrees, hot, humid, tonight, chance for shower, storm, early then clearing late with low 74. so, mid 90s today, get rid of
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the nine's for few days, mid eight's on wednesday. that will feel good, low humidity, but back to the mid 90s boy friday into next weekends, what's the latest on the roads? >> have you been out in the sun lately, because you are looking tan. >> oh, yes, i was at the beach. >> yes you were. we know all about you on the weekends the good morning, everyone, looking outside, you can see a sea of headlights and taillights moving in both the eastbound and westbound direction. what you are looking at, headlights, just past the conshohocken curve. is this typical? yes, for monday it absolutely is. adjust either increase as we push deeper into the 5:00 hour typically into the 6:00 hour monday morning, what we can expect. schuylkill starting to heat heat up. delaware county, north 452, moving in the northbound direction toward the airport, this is what you are looking at, gang, looking actually real good. moving in the southbound direction, just beyond these trees start to see more early risers moving in the
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southbound direction some over here moving in the northbound direction, but overall delaware county looking real nice this morning, i know we'll keep it that way probably until even the 6:00 hour. forty-two freeway, look ago that little earlier, may get to that in just a moment. fifty-nine headlights southbound trend past the ditsy ross bridge, see what it is looking like there, overall though 95 holding steady here, just looking that the s curve around cottman just little bit ago. this is what it is looking like, pretty good for those of you with early jump start. forty-two northbound at creek road, what you are looking at, certainly starting to heat up little bit here as you approach 295 overall, what we can expect on four it, for those every in you jersey i would say give yourself couple of extra minutes, probably need it, this is shaping up to be a busy monday morning for you in that area. construction, you see that, jim, i know you saw that right away. construction passyunk avenue bridge intermittent stops between nine a.m. and 3:00 p.m. that will slow you down just little bit, brooke, over to
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you. >> thanks, meisha. now time for look at newspaper headlines from across our region. >> on the front page of the times herald overdose deaths are up sharply in pennsylvania. the new report issued by the drug enforcement agency finds over 3383 drug overdose deaths in 2015, that's 23% increase from what was reported in 2014. heroin was the drug most often associate the with the fatal overdoses. >> from the burlington county times several democratic law makers in new jersey introducing ledges tryings to establish special prosecutor within the state attorney general's offers. they want that prosecutor to investigate any cases every police involved fatalities. >> from the delaware county county time boeing employees celebrate the company's 100 anniversary while also celebrating the anniversary of the delaware county site. 4800 employees work in the h47 chanook and b22 osprey programs, engineering labs, and the philadelphia design center. >> and that's a a look at some
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of the newspaper headlines from around the delaware valley. >> well, pat joins us now with a pro view of sports, good morning, sir. >> morning, guys, phillies didn't have very much luck with the mets this weekend, sunday they struggle. we'll show you what went down next in
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>> welcome bark, 5:23. busy weekend in the worlds of sports. >> and here is the man to tell us all about it, pat gallen. >> good morning, guys, who you are you? yes, phillies, are try to get back on track when they open series against the miami marlins tonight, in south philly. yesterday, the mets, jumped out to a one-nothing lead, in
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the second inning. that ball, yes, just inside the line right there. as the mets would take the early lead. that's juan, the phils were never in this one. and mets fans enjoy a relaxing game at the ballpark, phillies manage only one hit off of mets ace jason, and that was phils pitcher zach, he threw his first career shut out, all nine, and the mets win five-nothing. >> didn't look like we took a lot of bad swings, just made pitches. he was down in the zone. ball had little movement on it. and then when guys hit that right at him, you know ... >> the last time phil mickelson won a tournament the 2013 british open. that will year hen rick was the runner up. >> this year, we flip the script. stenton beat mickelson six under with the rounds of his life.
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drops a birdie on 18, for a eight under 63, the lowest closing round ever in a major, benson shoots 20 under, overall, his first major championship, mickelson finished three shots back. >> i play bogey three round of six a, far round of major, usually good enough to do it. and i got beat. i got beat by ten birdies. >> dream come true. as a young kid, not that young, i was 11 when i started playing, but, you know, it was the open championship with those big early memories i had. so, to sit there, and all of these trophies, amazing. >> to chester for the union, the new york red bulls bill cock back for the home team, union down two goals in the second half, come roaring back, fabian, next, equalizer in the 68 minute, the final a two-two draw, union holds onto second place in the eastern conference of the mls. they will play the new england
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revolution in the open cup on wednesday night. so some big thinks happening this weekend, guys. >> oh, hot out there to be playing soccer. >> have to do it. >> thanks so much, appreciate it. coming up in the next half hour of "eyewitness news", smoother ride. >> septa making some changes this morning to speed things up on the tracks, as it deals with a train car shortage. >> and what a way to interrupt a meal. a local restaurant packed with customers when a big fire breaks out. this morning, who fire fight remembers crediting with action to keep the diners safe. justin? >> good morning, everyone, today will be even hotter, also tracking some storms, but there is some row leaf in site. i'll break it all down for you,
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>> nothing justifies -- >> investigators are trying to learn the gunman who killed three baton rouge law enforcement office that's wound three other acted alone. >> investigators say, gavin long, a decorated exmarine, exchanged gunfire, with police officers, at a gas station. police are investigating a shooting that put a man in the hospital in the kins seg g section of philadelphia. >> we plan for anything and everything that could happen. >> security is tight around the quicken loans arlene, a gearing up for it convention. >> septa hopes to have more breathing room for its regional rail commuters. the transit agency has released new temporary schedule to help alleve ate congestion. >> three, two, one. main engines up and running. and lift off of the falcon nine to the space station. great videoe

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