>> calm conditions now, storm scan3 tracking a line of storms and they're headed this way, it will go from steam toy stormy. good afternoon, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm brooke thomas, some of the storms could be strong. meteorologist, justin drabick, is in the cbs-3 weather center to let us know when the storms will arrive. justin? >> good afternoon, everyone, right now dry across the delaware valley for the next few hours, later this afternoon into the evening we introduce better chance for showers and storms, keep looking at scattered, not

everyone sees it, but outside right now, weaver full sunshine, few fair weather cumulus clouds popping up due to daytime heating but it is really warming up. already up to 92 degrees, at the airport, southwest breeze at 13 miles per hour, pumping in the humiditiment look at the the's across the region, 90 in allentown, reading, close to 80 degrees in mount pocono, not much relief in south jersey near the shore points right now, until that sea breeze kicks in, palmyra new jersey comes also in the 92 degrees, showers, storms, over central pennsylvania right now, cluster you see over williamsport, just went severe. so do you have threat of severe storms specially north and west of the city, later on this afternoon and evening, so scattered showers, storms, best chance between four p.m. and 8:00 p.m. tonight. so watch out for some heavy rain, they'll sloan down the evening commute and some gusty winds, areas in yellow basically from the sit north and west through the poconos, slight risk for severe thunderstorms, that will be the highest racing in our area, today's high, 95 for philadelphia, 80s at the

shore, poconos relief coming in the next few days, we'll get to that in a few more glints. >> download the free cbs philly weather app, available on itunes and google. >> i in other news, judge has just acquitted a fourth baltimore police officer in the death of freddie gray. >> prosecutors have filed charges against six officers after in the back of a police van last year, his death led to days of riots in maryland's largest city, today judge acquitted brian rice, highest ranking of the officers charged, three other trials ended with two acquittals, and mistrial. investigators in baton rouge now say yesterday's gunman was in fact speaking out -- seek out police. three officers shot dead, three others hurt. >> twenty-nine year old gavin long opened fire less than two weeks after the officer involved shooting death of alton sterile. cbs news correspondent chris marched inch owes in barton ruge with the latest.

>> a police chaplain put up crosses. >> in my house -- >> and red scriptures near the battoning ruin convenience store where gunman ambushed police officers on sunday. >> just too much violence. >> the shooting began, when officers responded to a call about an armed man, dressed in black. >> shots fired, officer down. >> police say former marine, gavin long, was targeting police. he died in a shoot-out with officers. three officers from two different departments, were killed, 45 year old father of four, brad, 41 year old former marine, matthew gerald, 32 year old montra jackson, had just become a father, three other officers taken to the hospital, one in critical condition. sit on edge after two weeks after police shot and killed black man during a struck. >> i another police shooting in minnesota and the killing of five dallas police officers has added to tensions across the nation. >> we're going to have to do

bet nerve terms of our dialogue, but we can't pretends that will be enough. we need new long enforcement strait edge. >> i cbs news has learned long was part of a group that believed government and law enforcement do not have any authority i frequently posted videos on line. >> i thought my own thoughts, i made my own decisions, i'm the one, who got a listen to the judgement. >> carried out the attack on his 29th birthday. >> chris martinez, cbs news, baton rouge. >> security is a top priority, specially, in the wake of the recent police shootings, with the death of the officers in baton rouge and in it will as. philadelphia police commissioner says the department is changing some of the security planned for the dnc. greg argos live at police headquarters, with details on what's being done to keep the public safe. greg? >> and jim, after the dallas police shootings, which killed five officers, commissioner

richard ross here in philadelphia says, his officers would then work in pairs. that will now continue after three more officers in baton rouge yesterday, ambushed, shot and killed. >> judge few wore words to describe. >> just shocked. >> this time investigators say three officers in battoning ruin louisianna gunned down by gavin long. >> officer down. >> the shooter, decorated former marine. >> every time it happens, the last time, and your concerned about the men and women, obviously, everywhere, here. >> and here in philadelphia, the killings in dallas ... and now baton rouge, mean more changes to how officers patrol our street. >> you know we double up patrol calves, challenge for us, because of our manpower, so we had to staff police cars with veterans. >> dnc showcase in our city in

just one week, commissioner richard ross says his department is tweaking security plans with state and fed rad agencies folk you g on keeps those visiting, those patrolling the city safe. >> most people choose not to do, some of whom will tell you -- the fact of the matter they have the same concerns, they have families, just like everyone else, and we have to make sure we show them support which we do. >> as for the specific details of the security changes, for the dnc as you can imagine, commissioner richard ross would not elaborate. live here, police headquarters, greg argos, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> thank you, greg, for that report. >> now, donald trump's core nation as presidential nominee officially gets underway today in cleveland. kenneth craig at the quick and loans in cleveland, ohio with what you can expect from the first day of the republican national convention. >> day one of the republican

national convention kicks off today. >> real opportunity to just control the dialogue, control the narrative, and suspend your message. >> today's message all about national security and i am graduation. but, the over reaching goal throughout the campaign will be the soften trump's image, introduce vice presidential candidate mike pence. trump told 60 minutes he selected pence to help bring republicans together. >> and now they're saying what a great pick. you see the casino of reaction. many political pundants describe as awkward, but senator john, who worked with pence in congress, says, their differences will work well together. >> donald trump speeches with lofty, big picture, but mike is the guy to dig into the details. >> president a.m. know, typically spirited convention until the last day. donald trump isn't your tip cap candidate, he plans to take the stage tonight to

introduce his wife milan ya when she speaks. >> she came into the country, she gained legal status, as the expression goes, and she is a terrific person and a terrific woman. and she will, i will bet she gives a great speech. >> rest of the line up includes politicians, the starve duck dynasty, and former teen heart throb, scott bay owe. kenneth craig, cbs news, cleveland. >> house speaker paul ryan visited pennsylvania gop delegation this morning in ohio. he praised donald trump's vp pick, mike pence, alongside ryan, when pence was in congress. >> this is an imagine who has courage every his convictions, so we have here a very, very good leader, a willing conservative, and a ream reagan-like happy warrier joining this ticket. and so i amex cited that you'll get to know mike pence. >> "eyewitness news" anchor jessica dean will be live at the rnc all this week, look

for her reports right here on cbs-3. meanwhile, presumptive democratic presidential nominee hillary clinton hold five-point lead over donald trump in the latest cnn pole. clinton also in the state of ohio today, but in cincinnati at the naacp convention, republican donald trump turned down the naacp's invitation because the rnc was starting today in cleveland. >> stay with "eyewitness news" for continuing coverage of campaign 2016. on the radio with "kyw news radio" and 1210wpht, on line with cbsphilly.com. and on tv with cbs news, and of course, your "eyewitness news" team, right here on cbs-3. so, was there any relief on the rails for septa riders today? coming up on cbs-3 "eyewitness news", septa puts more trains on the tracks, and releases a new schedule. we'll find out how commuters fared this morning. plus, drivers doing double take in front of center city this morning, why air force one was on the ground and on the roof.

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>> welcome back, another day of crowded rail cars on the septa regional rails. >> our justin finch shows us septa's working to fix the problem, but it is slow going for officials and commuters. >> another day, another wait for septa regional rail riders . >> we leaf to come today with five new rail cars, into the

septa's busiest regional lines. now taking the combined, lansdale-doylestown, many of norristown, paoli thorndale, anwar minister lines, could soon find less train crowding and less cars bypassing them at peak travel times. >> i try to get on the earl yes, sir stop so i can get in and get a seat. >> monday septa rolled in five least dollars rail cars, and the commuter service and another five from maryland by mid week. the agency also leasing cars from new jersey transit and amtrak. >> by friday open who have 25 leased cars to help with the evening and morning commute. of course a drop in the bucket, go down 120 silver liner cars, but, at this point, riders say that any amount of trains that can help them will help them. >> september an inspector found tracks on load bearing suspension beams on one car, last week, "eyewitness news" was invited to see the defect up close.

>> we checked everything out, had some work -- >> more than 100 other silver liner cars were also damaged causing septa to pull them from the fleet. the agency says it is working with its hyundai, to get the cars back on line eventually will be. >> will be affix, can we have an interim fix as women as long-term solution. >> justin finch, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> it's opinion 20 years since twa flight 800 exploded in air killing all on board. friends and family gathered on long island beach last night, tossed flowers into the ocean in honor of the 230 people who lost their lives in the crash on july 17th, 1996. investigators believe a spark in the plane's center fuel tank caused explosion shortly after the boeing 747 jet took off from new york city en route to par us. >> precious cargo arrives intact at the international space station today. >> lift off of the falcon nine

to the space station. >> launched unmanned falcon rocket from cape canaveral, flocked a, new docking port for astronaunts, nasa says the port needed before americans can fly to the international space station, into new crew cap sells set to debut next year. >> coming up if you are not playing poke man go yet, you may be missing out. >> i ahead on "eyewitness news", how one city embracing with pokemon. hey, justin? >> tracking some storms later this afternoon, and in fact, it is looking like the storm watch issued for parts of the area, i'll break it down for you, eyewitness weather when we come back.

pokemon go has become the most popular video game ever. >> heaven help us, led players into plenty of dangerous situations but one city actually em brazing the craze. you may have heard the horror stories two, men chased a pokemon off a cliff in california, another player hit by a car in pittsburgh. but, in los angeles, well, they're offering pokemon tours. park rangers lead the gamers and they avoid things like rattle snakes, poison ivy and traffic. which is a good thing, i guess, in a combined group, safety in numbers. >> there is safety in numbers, exactly. >> your normal how to stay alive rules? that's the meat of a lot of this. >> too much. >> trying to beat the heat here.

really, one last day, jim, i'll hook you up with some nice weather. >> thank you so much. >> were you complaining so much this morning. >> don't mind the heat, just the humidity. >> it is, it is out there today. that will help bring some showers, some storms, so if you are headed outside next few hours, just get ready for big time heat. obviously the place to be down the shore. take you to the ocean city area, look at that, jammed packed beach and boardwalk, at this hour, temperatures there, well into the 80s, foul, again, little more of southerly breeze. that will help bring in some cooler air off the water. that ocean water temperature right now upper 60s, so that will feel pretty good to jump in to get rid of these 90 degrees temperatures, check out across the region, 92 already in philadelphia at the airport, 91 wilmington, wildwood also at 90 degrees, the exception mount pocono, at 79. but we break it well into the mid 80s, zoom into shore temperaturesment look at that, south winds, not doing much yet. cape may, stone harbor, both low 90s, ocean city cooling effect at 83, comfortable 79 in barnegat.

so here it is, day six, with temperatures reaching the 90s, now, go back last thursday, that was pretty brutal. ninety-six, really high humidity, today's humidity not quite as bad. we reach the mid 90s, finally put ends to the 90 degrees temperatures for few days. so we got some nice couple of days ahead once you get past this afternoon. so after today, heatwave does come to an end, lots of sunshine the rest of the week, humidity drops specially starting tomorrow, and also the temperatures actually return little bit below average. we're dry on storm scan3, outdoors, traveling in the next few hours, good shape. dry conditions, poconos, the exception, next to ours, run into shower, maybe thunderstorm, cluster of storms, tracking to the east at about 30 miles per hour, but, as those showers and storms run into the hot, humid air mass, do have severe thunderstorm watch now in effect until 8:00 tonight for the lehigh valley and pocono region, this area best chance to see some strong to severe thunderstorms, threats from the storms i would say heavy rain, strong wind gusts up to

06 miles per hour, frequent lightening, and low chances for hail or tornado, but the threat is there any time you get severe storms. how about the humidity? before the front moves through, it is hot today, feels oppressive. tomorrow actually drops by the afternoon, feel big difference, wednesday, that is the day, specially at the gym, low humidity that day, great mid-july. >> thank you. >> any time, i'll hook you up. time things out, going later this afternoon to the evening, can't rule out scattered storms around philadelphia, be aware, could be slower evening drive, chances continue into the evening hours, things quiet down overnight. tomorrow morning, should be dry, just some clouds, give way to more sunshine through the day, just feel that drop in the humidity, but look at the temperatures, widespread -9d zero's this afternoon, tonight, not much relief. it is still going to be muggy. 60s, 70s for the overnight low. tomorrow noticeably cooler, mid to upper 80s, close to average. hot, humid this afternoon, 95 degrees, watch out for the scattered shower or storm, later on today into the

evening, key word scattered. not everybody sees it, look at the seven day forecast, mid 90s today, we go to 88 tomorrow. still warm. less humid. it is comfortable wednesday, high of eight a degrees, with some sun. by the ends of the week, though, we start to bring back that typical mid-summer stuff, hot, humid conditions return for friday. jim is moaning and groaning, 94 degrees then we keep it in the mid 90s next weekends, make sure the air-conditioning is running at your house, you'll need it for the next few days. but last week we actually met a great group of kidcasters at the crayola experience in easton let's take a look now at some of our favorites. >> i like to be a cbs-3 kid caster, because i always wanted to be a meteorologist since i was in fifth grade. >> if they had 89 degrees, feels like 95 degrees. stay cool. >> great 100% hot.

thanks for watching cbs-3. back to you. >> oh, i love it. i love it. >> so cute. >> i could watch this all day long. >> just talking to lauren casey, she hosed it, said a great, great turn out. a lot of good kids. >> future meteorologists. >> they've after our jobs. >> another decade or so. >> well, coming up: air force one stops traffic in center city. stay with us.

quite a site during this morning's commute. >> the road was an airplane, chopper three over the schuylkill expressway earlier today, as a replica of air force one, minus the wings, made its way to the convention center. courtesy of the philadelphia host committee for the dnc. visitors will be able to see what it is like to fly like a president. >> and, here's what it is like to be lucy the elephant in this campaign year, in honor of the margate icon's birthday, lucy running for president, the national historic landmark turning 135 years old this summer, our platform is peanuts for all vote being takes place this saturday for all, and that's "eyewitness news", for today at noon, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm brooke thomas, for justin all of us here thanks for watching. >> "eyewitness news" continues at 5:00. always on line at cbsphilly.com. >> the young and the restless is next.

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