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night but that warmth turned frosty when he delivered what appeared to be more of a stump speech for himself, in fact, he only mentioned donald trump's name once. >> day three of the rnc was supposed to be all about vice-presidential nominee, mike pence. >> i accept your nomination to run and serve as vice-president. >> reporter: but indiana governor's moment became overshadowed by bad blood between donald trump and former rival ted cruz. >> stand a speak and vote your conscious, vote for candidates up and down the ticket, who you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the constitution. >> reporter: texas senator was enthusiastically booed during the speech for failing to endorse the billion air. >> god bless the united states. >> reporter: jeers quickly turned to cheers as trump entered the a rena and later brush off the non-endorsement
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as no big deal via twitter saying i saw his speech two hours early but let him speak anyway. hillary clinton used crews own word to capitalize on the moment urging people to vote their conscious and choose her in november. >> cruz last stand came just one day before trump takes center stage, here in cleveland tonight. reaction to cruz from delegates was mixed. >> this guy is the future he will have to come to the table but it was an embarrassment. >> he gave a mess a age that was clear but he has to give a message that was in force. >> reporter: ivanka trump is expect to address unity tonight before her father formally accepts the g.o.p. presidential nomination. and, political is reporting cruz reacted to the fall out by saying he had to tell the truth and the chips will fall where they may. jan and brooke. >> what is ted cruz strategy
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here. >> reporter: you know, it doesn't seem like it is any secret anymore that he has presidential ambitions for 2020. he is the face of the conservative movement. this is his way to show he will stand firm in what he believes and he does not think that donald trump is right for the party. the his supporters are also here, they were chanting 2020 when they were greeting cruz and that is the year of the next presidential elect. thanks, weijia, reporting live for us in cleveland, we will have lots more on this throughout the show. >> "eyewitness news" anchor jessica dean is in cleveland as well, tune in for her live reports on cbs-3 "eyewitness news". we are just four days away from the democratic national convention here in philadelphia and we're learning the excitement for the city will not end on the last day of the convention. this morning we have new information about a rally hillary clinton is planning to hold day after she accepts the democratic nomination for
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president. the rally will be held friday, july 29th on independent mall and it will, it will be opened to the public. you can rs vp or hillary clinton.com. clinton is expect to reveal her vice-presidential running mate tomorrow in florida. right now, the two leading candidates that have emerged are tom vilsack and virginia senator timothy kane. the president of the philadelphia's police officers union is not happy with the list of speakers at next weeks democratic national convention. john mcnesby put out a letter chris citing the clinton campaign for not including widows or family members of police officers kill in the line of duty. mcnesby told "eyewitness news" by phone he is upset that the mothers of the michael brown, eric garner and sandra brand will be speaking. they all died during interactions with police and their deaths prompted public protest. >> it is like salt in the wonderful by having these speakers up there and supporters of this anti police
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movement. >> the clinton campaign says former police commissioner charles ramsey is set to speak and we have also learn that joe sweeney a former nypd detective who rescued people on 9/11 will speak to delegates next week. stay with "eyewitness news" for continuing coverage of the campaign 2016, more on the radio with kyw news radio and 1210 wpht. also on line cbs philly.com and on tv with cbs news and, of course, you're witness news team right here on cbs-3. we are in for another nice day but may be the last within for a while. >> lauren casey is in for katie and we are close tore possibly setting a record, heat day, which one is it, prepare me lauren. >> yeah, i hope your ac is up working ready to go in the upcoming weekend but we will have scorching temperatures and on top of that, tropical like dew points heading in to saturday but you for right now things doing good, looking live at center city
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philadelphia how much traffic this early hour, 72 degrees, wind calm out of the southwest and pick out our cooler spots, long sleeves hard to believe across our area kutztown right now 58 degrees, bethlehem at 62. we are at 59 in millville but we have this excessive heat watch as we head sat take morning through saturday, evening, into sunday this is for the entire delaware valley, soluting poconos, lehigh valley, included as is shore and delaware beaches for heat and humidity will be honest specially on saturday, how it will feel, like 105 in the city, wow on sunday. feeling like 101 and even into monday feeling like 102 when you factor in the heat and dined in the humidity but pool side today lucky enough to be there on this thursday. up to 89. slightly more humid. not oppressive humidity levels. bright sunshine, and that uv index is up there at nine, so
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everyone need a sun screen hitting the pool, laying out, getting some rays, absolutely. >> don't forget the water. thanks very much, lauren. good morning, everyone and happy gateway to our weekend. we are getting there. disable tractor trailer route one before i-95 pulled off to that shoulder looking good. still quiet on that a area. it will in the slow you down at all. ben franklin bridge looking gorgeous, as usual for those from new jersey in center city looking g still nice and quiet to see, some delays, 95 south at cottman looking good as well. more and more vehicles hopping on the interest state and also you can see in the northbound side quite a few vehicles in the northbound direction as well. i would say almost just as heavy, as the southbound side of i-95. pull your attention, to the most serious news, fatal accident involving a pedestrian this happened around 1:45 in the morning in nicetown. wissohickon avenue between robert and hunting park avenue is closed. you will to have use an
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alternate. fox street or germantown avenue an i have notes on overturn tractor trailer coming up in ten minutes. jim, over to you. turning from the roads to the street, flying on if i a on southwest airlines pack your patients and expect delays. >> blame that on major commuter computer problems, sorry about. that "eyewitness news" reporter justin finch is live at philadelphia international airport with the latest on what is going on, justin. >> reporter: jim, brooke, good morning. you said it. if you flying southwest today double-check your flight status with the airline, this is, of course, as a result of the glitch that took down this computer system and we are seeing lines behind us right now this morning. now the result of all this happened with five flights to philadelphia, never getting there yesterday and same store a cross the country. this all took off wednesday afternoon. southwest began seeing, issues and now blame on the computer outage so ground stop was called one the airline left 700 flights cancelled and hundreds more were pulled from
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delays from coast to coast. thousands of passengers found themselves in long lines and were frustrated. service drop hit southwest app and web site. by night fall flights came back on line but after hours of delays and waiting is there a backlog of flights to process and passengers to serve. it is expect to trickle to today too. some say they have known something was off yesterday as they make their way to the airport. >> i was in the taxi on the way over here and it was a hour long commute, i was trying to get on line and check into my flight and entire web site was down, app was down and i called my sister and asked her if she could check and see if it was working and she said it just kept spinning. >> reporter: we are looking live at southwest ticket counter, people here but they want to you no key oz being here are not working. it appears that the gate agent are processing the request of their customers, again,
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southwest is urging their customers flying to check on their web site on their flight status, again, once you see your flight, perhaps taking off, expect long lines or at the airport so get here early. back in october, there was a similar issue southwest said then they were working on changing their computer system one they hope to roll roll out on line in 2017, one that will cost them, hundreds of millions of dollars. i'm sure customers cannot wait for that day. live, justin finch for cbs-3 "eyewitness news", brooke and jim, back inside to you. in other news a violent night in the city of philadelphia with several shootings including this one that ended in a car crash in overbrook. police say victim was in his car in a driveway in the 5800 block of wood crest when he was shot at by at least two gunman with semiautomatic weapons. victim tried to drive away but hit two nearby park cars. he died at the scene. police are reviewing surveillance cameras for
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clues. another deadly shooting in the fair hill section of the north philadelphia, it happened overnight at intersection of the cambria and masher streets. police tell "eyewitness news" someone shot the victim 14 times including five times in the head. he was rush to the hospital and pronounced dead shortly before 2:00 this morning. there is no word on any suspects or motives. unfortunately there is more gun violence as well, this time the victim is a 15 year-old boy. this victim is in critical condition and police tell us that the shooting was retaliation for a fight yesterday in frank for. it happened around 5:30 yesterday afternoon on the 4800 block of griscomb street, police say they necessity who the gun man is based on "eyewitness sports", they also are interviewing a with man and waiting a warrant in a search for a gun used in the shooting. new this morning a 23 year-old man is dead, police say he was hit and killed by a suspected drunk driver. >> it happened just after 3:00 f wissohickon avenue.
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you can see suspect's white bmw heavily damage. police say they found alcohol this is driver's car that driver is now in custody. also this morning route 100 in pottstown has reopened after a suspicious tea vice was found under a bridge last night. bomb squad responded to the shoemaker exhibit around 8:00 o'clock after the device was reported to police. they safely designate had device and reopened roads shortly before 10:00 o'clock no one was injured and there is no word what that device was. >> more than 1,000 atlantic city casino workers plan to rally in front of the trump taj mahal. local 54 union has been on strike for three weeks now and it doesn't look like the situation is getting better. workers walk off the job july 1st demanding better health care and pension benefits. despite the walk off the casino has remained opened. still ahead temple university's board is meet to go day and we will tell you about the change that is expect to happen. also ahead more fall out
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bill cosby is fight forgo the chance to question his accuser in the sexual assault case before the casings to trial. cosby's lawyers have filed their late's peel on the issue of whether andrea constand must testify at a preliminary hearing. now current law allows prosecutors to use victim statements, for the state supreme court is reconsidering the issue. cosby insists his 2004 encounter with constand was consensual. constand claims she was drugged and assaulted. board of trustees at temple university says it will officially seek dismissal of school president neil theobald at a meet to go day. the board voted in favor of
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firing theobald last week. it does not support how theobald ousted the school's provost hy long die. they were accused of being responsible for 22 million-dollar short fall. board is expected to make chance already richard engler of acting president. >> okay, give us the news. i'm bracing myself. >> i don't mind the heat, but humidity that i know is just coming. >> that is the old adage it is not heat but humidity. we will all say that as we head into saturday with tropical like humidity. it will feel like florida. but for today not feeling too bad. it has been a steamy, stormy month so far but this morning we are absent both of those factors and getting a live look at sky scan three right now or, storm scan three, we are seeing isolated conditions off del marva peninsula staying off shore, quiet
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conditions, not even a cloud in the sky right now. temperatures were cooler then this time yesterday. 63 degrees in atlantic city. 62 degrees in millville along i-95 corridor where we have our most mild temperature. 72 degrees in philadelphia, malvern. sixty-five, heading north and west of the city, check this out we have 50's this morning. that feels nice in allentown. 58 degrees. fifty-one in mount pocono. 59 degrees in quakertown. we have a dryer's in place off to the north and west allowing those temperatures to cool more efficiently, the current air temperature cannot fall below dew point numbers so with the dew point up to 67, that is holding our temperatures up in the city and with dryer air in place to the north and west it feels cooler this morning. how it will feel heading in the next several days to day, not too bad, tomorrow we will get into that steamy category and then as we head in the upcoming weekend especially on saturday, it is going to be down right- press i have and then we will get a little break in the humidity on
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sunday but no the with the heat. both days will be very hot, high temperatures up in the upper 90's in the city for both saturday and sunday. elevated humidity levels. that feels like temperature up in the triple digit range. you know what that means. drink water. take it easy. heat is the number one weather killer so we want to be very weary of this as we head in the upcoming weekend but for today looking good, philadelphia mostly sunny, topping off at 89 degrees, beautiful beach day, meisha, sunshine. thirty-eight. going for a nice hike looking good too, mostly sun which a a high of 82. >> look at that, all done. thank you so much for that lauren. good morning. happy gateway to our weekend. we are this close. blue right mid county guys looking good both directions around blue route anywhere that i was looking at blue route this morning. we are looking good. we have a disable tractor trailer, probably one of my buddies, route one north bound before i-95 pulled off to the
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shoulder. around that area it is looking good. it is looking quiet. so, see you later, bob, hopefully he gets out of there. overturn tractor trailer, guy, call your attention to this involving a spill, this is near route 13 southbound and tyburn road on and off ramps are closed that is involving a spill, sometimes that can take longer to get cleared out of your way. make note that this is going on. also call your attention to something a little bit more serious this morning, in fact, lot more serious. this is a fatal accident involving a pedestrian. it happened this morning. the this is in nicetown, wissohickon avenue is closed between roberts avenue and hunting park avenue. you will to have use an alternate. fox street or germantown avenue is your best bet, i'll let you know when that clears as soon as i get the war. water main break route 206 is closed at princeton pike your alternate will be route one, brooke, over to you. now for a look at newspaper headlines former -- from across our region.
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>> no life guard on duty, trenton life guard at cities four pools stage a protest over threat of the pay delay. life guard walk off-duty around 2:00 in the afternoon shutting down calhoun street to cooper, martin luther king and robert clemente pools. they were later reopened. from the spirit in delaware county despite the fact that the americans with disabilities act was signed into law 26 years ago newspaper found not all buildings are disability friendly. spirit found several locations and found federal post office building in chester and darby boro pose challenges for those in wheelchairs. on the front page of the burlington county times board of trustees at rowan college approved a 25 million-dollar contract to build a new student center. the 78,000 square foot student success building is scheduled to opened in 2017. that is a look at some of the newspaper headlines from around the delaware valley. still ahead the phillies work to snap a losing streak,
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(vo) at our house, we need things that are built to last. that's why we got a subaru. (avo) love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. hi there, welcome back, thanks for joining us on "eyewitness news". path the path gallon has a look at sports. good morning, pat. >> good morning, how are you this morning. >> phillies are doing well because they won last night. tonight at 7:05 phillies will look to take series from the marlins and scoring some runs which have been hard to come by lately but in the last night. after back to back extra
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inning losses, phillies jumped out to an early lead tyler goodell with the opposite field home run in the first inning into the first row that puts the phillies up two to nothing. jeremy hellickson, he could be a valuable chip at the trade deadline coming up, he struck out eight over eight innings and allowed one run. phillies win, four-one. philadelphia union and new england revolution last night in the open cup quarter finals from the campus of harvard. forty-fourth mink jeff on watson strike to put revolution ahead but in the eighty-ninth, union herbers would tie the game right there but revolution win on penalty kicks four-two. they advance against the chicago fire next month but union will return to mls play saturday night in montreal. jim a and brooke, i have done trapeze, horse back riding, yoga on the river. >> i remember that. >> hopefully they don't make me do this new niagara falls
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zip line, carry thrill seekers 2200 feet through niagara gorge, up to four riders at a time can go, so i see morning show crew totally getting on board with this what do you think. >> i would do this. >> we need seven. >> we can go four and then three at a time. >> i have done that twice once this is caribbean and once in canada a and loved it. >> you can go four and two at a time. >> i'm not doing it you will not do that. >> meisha will go twice. meisha is like dare meisha to do anything, okay. >> if meisha does it then i will do it. >> i will be waiting with a big smile at the end. >> snap chat. >> thanks, pat. coming up next, on "eyewitness news" we will show you why one comedian isn't laughing. >> we will tell you why leslie jones is leaving social media. also the latest on water safety concerns in bucks and montgomery counties, we will tell you about the help that is on the way. meisha is here with the
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we must make the most of our moment. >> speaking of moments, texas senator and one time presidential hopeful ted cruz, was greeted by a course of boos at rnc. good morning i'm brooke thomas. >> aim jim donovan. cruz controversy is part of what you need to know in the morning minute. >> i accept your nomination. >> reporter: day three of the rnc was supposed to be all about vice-presidential nominee, mike pence. >> stand and speak and vote your conscious. >> reporter: but indiana governor's moment became overshadowed. >> cruz last stand just came one day before trump takes center stage here in cleveland tonight. the president of the philadelphia police officers union tells us he is not happy with a list of speakers at next weeks dnc. rash of gun violence overnight in philadelphia, police are looking for at least two suspects who shot and killed a man and shooting in strawberry mansion sen
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