public safety, but his address did not offer any specific details about policy changes. it also lacked the humor and i am prom too style that once defined trump's speeches as he tried to convince americans he's ready to be commander in chief. fireworks lit up the sky outside the arena, as balloons rained down on donald trump, mike pence and their families, the joyful celebrations contrasted trump's dark 75 minute address in which he vowed to restore law and order to a nation in peril. >> the crime and violence that today aflict our nation will soon, and i mean very soon, come to an end. >> reporter: trump also made his caso pope case against hillary clinton. >> when obama made the decision to put hillary clinton in charge of america's

foreign policy. let's defeat her in november. >> clinton's campaign fired back over social media throughout the speech. >> i'm with you, the american people. >> the presumptive democratic nominee took particular offense when he mock her campaign slogan firing off this tweet: i'm with you, not included women african-americans, lgbt people, muslims, latinos, immigrants. trump's speech also aims to sway republican voters, still skeptical of his campaign. his oldest daughter ivanka trump did her best to reach women voters. >> he will fight for equal pay, for equal work. >> talk about equal pay for women, i thought she did a great job. >> the focus now shifts to democrats, whose convention starts next week in

philadelphia. >> and hillary clinton is expected to announce her pick for a vice president sometime this afternoon, just in time to energize democrat as they head to your city. a virginia senator tim kane is the top contender. brooke, jim? >> thanks a lot, weijia. former pennsylvania governor and dnc host ed rendell was on "eyewitness news" last night. >> he offered his take on the republican national convention. >> this was fairly disastrous convention with plagiarism on monday night, with attacking governor cast i can, republican governor of ohio a state they have to carry, on tuesday night you had ben carson saying that hillary clinton talked to lucifer, you had trump's speech wednesday night, i have never seen anything like that at a convention, and then you had a very poor speech by donald trump tonight. i think the convention was a disaster. >> we will have much more on

the democratic national convention in just a few minutes. >> when the delegates and media arrive for the dnc, they'll be greeted by some of our hottest temperatures in years. >> so katie i'm hoping that they're packing as if they're traveling to the caribbean. >> seriously that kinds of heat, will feel down right tropical outside for sure in the next couple of days, for now, we've gotten at least some clear, quiet skies out there, we will actually ends up with couple every showers and thunderstorms later in the day, maybe help cool some things off, help wash away, you know, some of the worse of the pollution that's out there, especially, up through the northern counties, but, generally speaking, today's just going to be a hot day, with some sunshine, so our excessive heat watch not in effect yet, but hot day regardless. tomorrow when it actually goes into effect, than pretty much covers most of the delaware valley. so, what are we talking about here? into the the upper nine the's, evaluated humidity, will easily feel like potentially

above 105 degrees in some communities, so of course you have to take it easy out there, we always say stay hydrated and water is the beverage of choice when dealing with this kind of heat. here's what it feels like out there right now. actually pretty darn on par with temperatures actually reading right now, despite hint every humidity it does feel like what the thermometer reads. that will change, though, as the day goes on, expect that you can tack couple of degrees on to the daytime high of 94, that's what you will want to use as a gauge for when you walk out the door here. but 94 degrees in the sunshine generally speaking, we are going to see couple of showers, thunderstorms, fire up specially through the p.m. hours. meisha, over to you. >> katie, thank you so much. good morning, everyone, happy friday. a lot of stuff going on this morning, primarily construction, and we've got some tree trimming here, pa turnpike, onramp to bensalem, intermittent lane closures until about now. should be clearing sometime soon. also, route one southbound right around this area, while there is activity there. make note of. that will also the vine, construction canceled until after the dnc next week, so

great news for those of us that take the vine. still looking at the westbound and eastbound sides, you're looking great. in real good company right now. we do have this disable vehicle 95 north aproaches route one, right lane compromised looks like it is pulled off to the shoulder, very deaf kilt to see coming around the ben, still very dark outside, make note it is out there. also construction on the commodore barry bridge westbound, left lane block, more construction route 322 closed at route 54, until around 6:00 a.m. and also, new jersey turnpike southbound between route 73, and routes 168, that left lane blocked, until around 6:00 a.m. so we have another hour on that. we have more construction 95 in delaware, that coming up in a little bit, jim, over you. >> thank you, meisha. now all eyes are on philadelphia, just four days away from the democratic national convention at the wells fargo center. and hillary clinton is expected to announce her runningmate later today. >> presumptive democratic nominee is in florida "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabeo live at the wells fargo center, with the names

topping the list for vice president. good morning, jan. >> reporter: brooke, jim, good morning, the political spotlight now shift from cleveland to philadelphia and center stage is right behind me here at the wells fargo center. happening this morning, the democratic national convention committee will unveil the stage and podium here, all part of the final touches now being put into place ahead of opening day of the dnc on monday. meantime, a very big announcement as you mentioned, brooke, jim, expected very soon from presumptive democratic nominee hillary clinton. she should announce her vp pick as early as today. virginia senator, tim kane, and ago youth verbal, tom billsack, said to be on clinton's vice presidential short list, both as seen as having a lot of executive experience. >> hillary clinton has made indications she's most concerned about experience. and she really, i think, want to double down on experience to contrast what she views as lack of experience and lack of seriousness, quite frankly, in

donald trump's presidency. >> reporter: new jersey senator cory booker and massachusetts senator elizabeth warren were also rumored to be in the running. clinton is campaigning in florida today and is expected to make an announcement in that state. now back here in philadelphia, the clinton campaign now has a democratic party office open near 15th and cecil b. moore in north philadelphia. democratic members of city council were on hand last night to celebrate. volunteers in this office will work to get clinton elected as well as other democrats on the ballot in november. of course security will be tight here in philadelphia over the neck week, during the dnc. "eyewitness news" got an exclusive look at how the us coast guard has trained for this event, crews, from the atlantic city air station, will protect, restricted air space, during the convention, if an aircraft violates the no-fly zone, the coast guard is the first line of defense. now, back out here live on scene, on the ground, you can see, these huge fence, this fencing is all around the

wells fargo center, it is the same type of fencing we saw during the papal visit so. lot of activity is now popping up, and ramp up ahead of the dnc. also happening today, the six-day political fest begins, and coming up in the next half hour, we'll take a look at the different site and activities that you can look forward to, as women. reporting live in south philadelphia. jan carabeo, cbs-3, "eyewitness news", jim, brooke, back into you. >> thanks, jan. 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. >> new this morning, a deadly shooting in the cobbs creek section of the city. police say the 21 year old victim was shot in the head just after midnight on the 5700 block of locust. he collapsed on the sidewalk, where he was pronounced dead. police believe the victim was shot at point blank range.

we found one spent shell casing about 2 feet from the victim's body, which is an indication that the shooter was standing in very close proximity to the victim when the shot was fired. it appears that the shot was fired from point blank range, that's why the balistic evidence is so close to the victim. >> now, police are hoping that surveillance cameras from a nearby school can help them track down that shooter. this morning, a delaware man is behind bars, after police say he hit and killed a six year old girl, while driving under the influence. dover police say david randall was driving while intoxicated wednesday, when he road up on the sidewalk and hit six year old anya jackson and two other. all three victims were rushed to the hospital where jackson died. randall faces several charges and is currently being held on $34,000 bail. >> the na -- nba is moving

their game originally supposed to be held in charlotte, the league opposes the state's controversial house bill two. that requires people to use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender at birth. it is widely seen as discriminatory to the transgender community. now, in a statement, north carolina governor pat mccrory blamed quote the sport and entertainment elite, attorney general roy cooper and the liberal media for what he calls misrepresenting the state's laws. >> his statement goes onto read, quote, left wing special interest groups have no moral authority to try and intimidate the large march/of it american parent who agree in common sense bathroom and shower privacy for our children. we will have more on the move coming up at 5:30. >> still ahead: the feds step in to help philadelphia fight the zika virus. we'll tell you how much money the city is getting, and when they can expect it. >> then, flames spread to a

california motel, sending guests running. why authority believe this fire did not start in the building. we'll explain. >> and, a little later, talk about leftovers. we'll show you how a last minute change of heart, and a lot of fundraising, helped save this 110 year old lobster from the boiling pot. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> speaking of spoiling, here goes again. temperatures are climbing to near triple digits. >> oh, my. >> katie's forecast is up next.

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ground. there is no word on how the fire started, but no one was hurt. >> this morning, passengers and officials at southwest airlines are hoping things will be back to normal this morning before cancelling flights yesterday. thursday clothe to 700 flights were canceled, and more than 2,000 flight were delayed, including, flights out of philadelphia international airport. so, what was the cause? airline executives blame a massive computer glitch. the airline says most systems have since recovered, and should be operating normally. >> anywhere cool, yes, further north and in latitude you go, the better off you'll be if you are not a fan of the heat, the heat is creeping in, will stick around for the majority of this forecast, let's just say it, the entire forecast is going to be pretty toasty. there are dates hotter than others, and we'll walk you through where the most excessive heat will be. we will talk statistics here, start things offer just by taking a look at the standards

of 90 plus degree days. so, for the month of july thus far, actually had eight days at 09 or above. the season has as a total we've had 16, and the average for the entire summer season, of 90 plus degrees days in philadelphia; 23. we had the the average, so actually going toned up here with quite a few days, july strung together, of some pretty excessive heat here, weekend most specially, going to be the worse off. for now, things are pretty quiet at the local level on storm scan, you can see though a little cluster of nasty thunderstorms starting to move right across lake erie, don't worry about this cluster here necessarily but frontal boundary will nudge here, brink withing it couple of showers and thunderstorms, as the day progress, meantime, here we go again with the dew point, 69 degrees currently, flirting with 70 obviously, and that's about the point that it start to feel what we call quote unquote oppressive out there. so definitely muggy start to the day. the whole day is pretty steamy, however, as we speak

right back into the mid 90s here, in full sunshine generally speaking generally isolated in nature, especially through the northern half. anyone star game, but it looks like most prone to seeing some showers or storms, could turn somewhat gusty as the day goes on. seventy-seven, at coolest, through the overnight, so offer to really warm start tomorrow. that's when our excessive heat watch will go into effect, have no problem as a result, spiking to the upper 90s, flirting with records, but not quite reaching it, though it will feel like the record territory of 100-105 degrees, on sunday, we hit 95. by monday we're actually tying the record. regardless of records, though, meisha, you know, this is such a string of really pretty, you know, bad heat. so you have to take care. >> yes, absolutely, katie, you nailed t you always have a lot of great reminders for us, thanks so much for that.

>> tree trimming, the turnpike, until 5:00 a.m. this should be lifting any time shortly. still seeing crews out there, make note of that, route one southbound at the ramp, activity out there, still lingering out there, guys, make note that far headed out to the pa turnpike, might start to slow you down little bit. vine moving good, westbound side and eastbound side, i would say eastbound is probably heating up little bit quicker than the westbound side. but, overall, vine is looking good, and the construction has been canceled, until after next week's dnc. so great news for all of thaws take the vine, and also, we do have this disable vehicle, 59 north approaching route one, hard to see but you can see flashing lights, it is pulled all the way off to that right lane. busy morning, just a lot of construction out there, jim, brooke, back to you.

>> two days after his party officially nominated donald trump, republican us senator, pat toomey, still hasn't thrown his full support behind the new york businessman. during the campaign stop in doylestown, pat toomey praised trump's election of governor mike pence as his runningmate, while pat toomey hasn't endorsed trump he said he's seen some encouraging signs. >> us department of justice has filed suit against bensalem. the suit alleges the township violated federal law when it denied zoning approval to a group seeking to build a mosque. >> on the front page of the times herald spirits are rising in norristown, tomorrow the grand opening of firehouse seemed micro distillery anbar on east main street. the officials hope it will be a lynch pin of downtown revitalization, now occupies the historic site that was once the humane fire engine company number one. >> and that's a look at some of the newspaper headlines from around the delaware valley. >> well, still ahead on "eyewitness news", coast guard is crediting a five man crew

with saving the life of a dolphin. >> see the video of their rescue effort ahead. also this. >> i'm nancy odel, coming up we go behind the scenes with the cast of star track beyond, crew of the enterprize reunite a st

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>> the time is 5:23 there is friday morning, the phillies begin road trip tonight in pittsburgh, following a lost at home to the marlins. >> here's sports director, don bell, with the highlight. >> sign every things to come, or a blip on the radar. that was a question at the ballpark. the answer won't make fans

happy. seriously, against the marlins in south philadelphia, star wars night at the ballpark, and who doesn't love? storm trooper dancing, ny. >> this a, hit it. jar old runs this trouble. christine, had pretty good series against the fighting phils, goes opposite fields for the homerun. one-nothing, fish. to the fourth, phils down four-nothing. ryan howard, the big piece. a two-run bleacher reach tow left field. phillies now down four-two. but that was it. fifth inning, derrick reach on the ends field single, terrible throw. the phillies only manage three hits, they lose nine-three, they head to pit burying for weekend series which starts today. >> that's all for sports, i'm don bell, have a great day. >> well, we have some must-see video for this morning, a dolphin rescued down in florida. >> thursday, coast guard crew members, in fort myers beach saved a distressed dolphin after it found it way inside a boat near the bay.

rescue workers say the dolphin didn't give them any trouble at all. >> it kind of new that we were there to help him. so he wasn't struggling, he wasn't flopping around, he just waited until we could help him off. >> well, after saving the dolphin, the coast guard and other officials decide the the dolphin should be released back into the water. >> this is such a cool story. this lobster named larry is on his way to a new home at the main state aquarium. thanks to the effort of a team in florida. larry was looking like lunch at a restaurant called the ten fish when word got out larry is 110 years old. the business owner's pitched in for the $300 it took to buy 15-pound larry. they packed him up and shipped him north. he joins a 17-pound lobster at the main aquarium. >> i think meisha is about to cry. larry is all right, meisha. >> coming up in the next half hour of "eyewitness news": a

change of heart for the comedian who quit twitter over bullies. >> plus, getting ready for the dnc with preview of some of the fun event going on in town. >> reporter: it is official, about $100 million is traveling out of north carolina live with nba yanking the game from the city of charlotte, katie? >> justin, we are setting ourselves up for a string of more 90 plus degrees heat. we'll tell you how long this heatwave is set to last, and just how hot are we talking? full details in your full forecast coming

>> get ready for triple digit temperatures, hottest stretch of summer about to begin. good morning, i'm brooke thomas. >> and i'm jim donovan, katie's forecast is coming up. first here's what you need to know to start your day in the morning minute. >> i humbly and gratefully except your nomination for the presidency of the united state. >> donald trump promise to go tell it like it is, setting america first if-ee elect in the november. >> decision from hillary clinton, on runningmate, is imminent. virginia ten tore jim kane and

ago secretary billsack rumored to be at the top of the vice presidential list. >> appeared the shot was fired from point blank range. >> deadly shooting in the cobbs creek section of philadelphia. police say, a 21 year old man was shot in the head. >> any chance i could a news on the show tonight you are hillary clinton vp pick? >> i think i would know it by now so probably not. >> have a great show. see you out there, bye. >> now we might learn later today who hillary clinton will pick to be her runningmate. >> we sure might. how is the weather outside? >> definitely muggy, very light breeze, however, here on the skydeck, right now about the time, too, if you are just waking up with us, and you must get outside, wheth i