blazing hot weather is moving in the region, people on kelly drive, were sweating it out earlier today, as hot

and humid already, but it business to get even worse. good afternoon everyone aim he jim donovan. i'm brooke thomas. as we head in the weekend we are facing hottest temperatures this summer. lets get a first look at forecast with meteorologist katie fehlinger in the cbs-3 weather center. >> if afternoon to you both. this will be a are hot, stretch for our area and it comes this time for so many people coming to town for the democratic national convention and it looks like this will be a stretch of days that lasts us, well into next week, but we really do have a core of the heat, that is going to be most palpable in the days ahead. that is where we will turn our focus to the excessive heat watch while which turn in the warning but for now just a watch and kicks in effect tomorrow morning, and it will last us right through to monday, afternoon, so a three day stretch, of what we coin, excessive heat. now at the moment on storm scan not much is happening locally but we will show you this wider zoom for a region. we had then are storms rumbling through western pennsylvania a sign have of

things yet to come for us. we are expecting isolated thunderstorms today which we will get more into in terms of the detail a bit later in the broadcast but turning to those, heat and how it feels right now it is pretty brutal stuff already. already, we're feeling like 90's up and down 95, lehigh valley, reading and shore towns. it feels like the low to mid 90es a. it is a scorcher, folks. this is just the beginning, you are not a fan of the heat you may in the like what we have in store in the seven day forecast bothritis, regardless, watching for a few thunderstorms later in the day, some of which could turn locally strong for some have of you. coming up later in the she more detail and what the main impact will be, when they will get here and also, just how hot will it get in the days ahead, we will have all of it later on, brooke? >> thanks, katie. donald trump is declaring the republican national convention, one of the most beautiful and loved filled conventionness history. trump addressed volunteers in cleveland today, he down played the risk to the party. he said that he didn't care, about the fact that ted cruz

failed to endorse him in his wednesday night space. >> i like ted, he is fine. i don't want his endorsement. if he gives it, i will not accept it just so you than stan. i will not accept it. won't matter. >> "eyewitness news" anchor jessica dean was in cleveland to see the speech everyone was talking about today. this year, the improbable, became the unstoppable. >> i humbly and greatfully accept your nomination for the presidency of the united states. >> reporter: trump rattled off a litany of crime statistics and declared he was the man to make america safe. >> there can be no prosperity without law and order. we are going to build a great border wall, to stop an

illegal immigration. >> reporter: he direct the crowd to stop the would the man he called crooked hillly saying she's in the hand of the special interests. >> she is their puppet and they pull the strings. >> reporter: his daughter ivanka introduced her father and shot back at accusations that he is racist, and sexist. >> he is color blind and gender neutral. he hires the best person for the job, period. >> trump delivered a full throated promise of the catch phrase, so many people voted for. >> our plan will put america first. >> reporter: now things looking ahead to the democratic national convention in philadelphia, we will have coverage of the dnc for you soon. in cleveland, jessica dean, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". meanwhile the clinton campaign criticized the tone of the trump's speech last night n a tweet hillary clinton said simply we are

better than this clinton is expected to try to stop any trump momentum by naming her running mate very soon. one of the top candidate is virginia senator tim kane, in a tweet friday morning her campaign urge supporters to text the campaign, to get first word of her choice. now we are now just three days a way from the start of the democratic national convention right here in philadelphia a. but now, all eyes turn to philly, for the democratic national convention. we're getting a first look inside of the wells fargo center. rahel solomon joins us live, rahel. >> reporter: brooke, good afternoon. thinks first time we have seen inside wells fargo center in quite sometime. crews had been busy just getting this area ready for the 50,000 people who are expect to come into town. take a live look right now at the stage, which is really coming together, parts of the stage, and next week again 50,000 people and it is not just delegates but also the media and role tears that are necessary to make this event a success. early this morning, media was

invited to get a tour and from ten to noon the public was allowed in as well. we are trying to see the crowd finally starting to clear out this was an opportunity dnc officials say for those hoff been very excited, and interested in what will happen here next week to see the stage, take photos, vendor boot and, of course, kick off monday and conclude resolved with hillary clinton officially accepting the party nomination. she will make history. something a lot of people are talking about today. >> we will nominate the first woman major candidate in the democratic party and she will go on to win in november and we will, shot their glass ceiling forever. >> i love to see the big stage, that she will becoming out on, so, when we're outside, i could feel the goose bumps willing for her. we have a physical reaction. >> another woman to woman. >> reporter: back out here live, in a look at some of the

balloon that is will descend to the tens of thousands i would assume this will be a huge event. now, of course, just coming off the rnc in cleveland and we didn't see any major problems with protesters there coming up we will talk to dnc officials about what they expect for protest here and also, one major difference, between how, police officers and cleveland. reporting live from south philadelphia, rahel solomon, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> thanks, rahel. stay with "eyewitness news" for continuing coverage of the campaign 2016. on the radio with kyw news radio and 1210 wpht, on line, with cbs philly.com, and on tv with cbs news and, of course, you're witness news team right here on cbs-3. in other news state of pay is getting a cash infusion to fight zika virus. sick ace spread by mosquito by the and been link to health problems including serious birth defects. the state will receive 1.8 million-dollar, next month, as

part of the cdc's 60 million-dollar program, against zika. money will help authorities monitor the zika virus and control the mosquito population. people have been warned not to drink the water in a town near denver, colorado. officials say that the active ingredient in marijuana may be contaminating the water supply. barry peterson shows us state investigators want to know how thc wound up in the water well. >> when we have a presumptive positive of thc in our public water we take that extremely serious and we will investigate that until the even. >> reporter: police say substance may have been introduced in the system, at one of the town's five water wells, and if so, it looked like it was done on purpose. >> there were signs of tampered, forced entry if to what would have been the raw water supply. >> reporter: presence of thc was discovered by a company that conducts routine employee drug tests but the results, are far from definitive, and

samples are on their way to state labs. still, it is cause for big concern in this small town of more than 700 people. >> i was in the grocery store, and i was in there about ten minutes and in that amount of time people had rushed in and sold out of the water. >> this causes real concern, because, if it happened to people in colorado, it can happen anyplace. >> reporter: colorado law permits the legal saying of medical and recreational marijuana but counties candy side whether or not to allow it. hugo, part of the lincoln county, does not contain any commercial commercial pot sale operations but people can grow restrict amount at home. for the moment, authorities are simply not sure what they are dealing with. >> towns people start getting bottled water this morning, and, experts say, that the substance, whatever it is, will be flush out of the system, by the weekend. barry peterson, cbs news, denver. well, coming up on cbs-3 "eyewitness news".

>> this is not how a camping trip should have evened for more than two dozen kid. we will have the story from the scene in the poconos, when we come right back. and more on the heat wave heading our way, we will take you to the states already sweltering, under the system that is taking aim at the delaware

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gerald was gunned down in an ambush by a lone gunman killed by police. he had been on the force for just one year, after time in the u.s. army and marines. funerals for the other law enforcement officers kill in the ambush will be tomorrow, and monday. fourteen children and church van driver in the hospital after a crash in the poconos. well, it happened about 2:00 this morning on route 423 near tobyhanna monroe county. one person was air lifted to the hospital but rest of the injuries are minor. van was heading to new york after a trip to the pocono resort. there is no word on what caused the accident. and a massachusetts lawmakers is making a play for the 2017 nba all-star game. nba is moving the game from charlotte, north carolina because of the league's objections, to a state law, that limit anti discrimination protections to gay, lesbian and transgendered individual. massachusetts house speaker

robert dileo says nba should move the game to his state because of the transgendered rights legislation recently approved. well, still ahead on "eyewitness news". >> tough waste to end the workweek, city crews are sweating it on it and katie has a warning for all of us. >> absolutely, it will be very hot, not just rest of today but well in the weekend and well beyond that in the seven day outlook here but in addition to that we will be dodging a couple thunderstorms, we will have all of those details in your full forecast coming up.

welcome back. what forecasters call a heat dome is hovering over large areas of the country today. >> we are in for it, beginning today, dean reynolds shows us how the city of chicago is fighting back, against the extreme heat. >> i'm extremely hot. >> this humidity is terrible.

>> yes, it is. >> reporter: more than 150 million people will be struggling with oppressive temperatures as the heat dome moves east. in texas, brutal sun caused this highway to buckle, in madison, wisconsin school district officials had to cancel summer school. in chicago, fire fighters have been put on zero to 15 minute rotations, to prevent overheating. the city is trying to do its part to bring temperatures down. >> so this little plot of grass is probably doing a little bit of cooling for the prudential building. >> reporter: chicago's former chief sustain ability office karen wigart says darker surfaces like concrete and asphalt, retain high temperatures, and, so-called, deep islands. >> in the day, the heat is absorbed and often actually released at night n day and night we even up with a harden requirement and move out more, we will get more trees, and green.

>> reporter: wigart says chicago's, and, helped propel heat and provide shade. >> it is staying away from situations where vegetation has been removed, and then we have counter balances. >> reporter: heat dome is spanning much of the country in the 90's here, as well as in washington d.c., and new york, and with the humidity, it will feel like it is in the hundreds. dean reynolds for cbs news, chicago. >> wow. >> katie, that heat dome that like under the dome cbs show i would rather be under that then this thing. >> yes. that has more climate control. >> yes. >> it will be humid, and pretty brutal when it comes to the feels like values but not as bad as what we will find in some of those communities. it could be worse but it will feel awfully hot and since we have got so many people, just descending on this city in the next week with the democratic national convention, it is going to be a little bit of an over achiever in the weather department for those visitors coming to town when it comes

to what is typical for summertime heat. i'm not saying we will never see temperatures like this but it does get brutal when you factor in humidity on these days. lets start off with a quick check of storm scan. we were talking about possibility of thunderstorms and over the last couple of hours, lot of those storms have been dwindled and fizzled out across western pennsylvania. now eventually we will see more of them, firing up over our area. so especially through northern branch of the region we will likely end up with a possibility here for some of these what will be isolated showers and storms, so to potentially strong locally strong or severe. most, basically central sliver of the delaware valley sits in the marginal risk, lowest on the totem pole and your pomp up variety further south and off to the northerly high valley, northern most tip there of bucks county and portions of the pocono sit in the slight risk for any of these heavier storms, downpours, gusty wind, small sized hail, we will keep an eye on the radar as day progresses. nothing right now though but temperatures are certainly spiking, aren't they, pair of

eight in philadelphia, allentown, trenton and ac, heck in the 90's in the most outlining suburbs in reading right how but you have to factor in the humidity. over next few days we have see a worst chunk of where that heat will be at its most brutal. tomorrow is the worst, feeling like 105, possibly hotter then that in some community, more like a whooping 100 on sunday, it is ever so slightly less humid but still pretty rough stuff and then, on monday, as we are right back into 104, as far as the peak of the heat index values. all of the common sense stuff we talk about, if we don't have benefits of the air conditioning space or maybe you don't have that at home, you want to just, find a mall, movie theater, anything to stay cool in this a and limit your outdoor activities the at the height of the day. 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at its worst at this time of the year. beautiful shot from a pocono cameras at cam aal back. they have the right idea smirk and splashing at the water park at cammal back. of course head to the shore

but keep in mind with that sun blazing down, it will burn you, awfully fast. put on the sun block and take all of those smart and just commonsensical types of precaution that is we always talk b the shore again will be a pretty nice place to head, if you don't mind the steaminess 90 degrees tomorrow. feeling hotter when you factor in the humidity. heat persisting for shore standard on sunday as we top off at 88 degrees. meanwhile your seven day, it is a hot one like we have seen, 91 the spectation tomorrow in the city, that is where we will peak. we will expect to tie the record, just as the convention is starting to kick off. let's shift gears, last week we met some great kid, who might get to do what i do as a living when they grow up. we held kid caster auditions at crayola experience in easton and here is a look at some of our favorites. >> i want to be a cbs-3 forecasters, because i want to share the news with everyone. >> i want to be a kid caster

because i love hearing the weather and being on tv. >> the weather today is about 86, and sunny. >> uv index is at nine, so remember sun screen. thanks for watching cbs-3. >> i like the map. >> oh, yeah. >> they have great maps. >> great background. >> so cute to see that. >> aren't they the best. >> one of the highlights of my year. >> thanks, katie. >> now some video of the dog who really trusts his best friend. >> um-hmm, they are usually part of the leadership and team building exercises. take a look and watch this golden retriever puppy who falls backwards on command. watch and he knows his owner will give him attention after his trust falls. video of watson has been viewed more than a half million times. >> that ace adorable. we will be right back.

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term boycott. and now with the dnc set for monday, you may notice bright lights, and patriotic decorations around town. >> thirtieth street station has a fresh look it is now red, white and blue. lighting installation will greet thousands passing through the train station during the four day convention. the it is a partnership between university city district and amtrak, you can see light show, each night from 8:00 p.m. to 3:00 a a.m. through july 31st. beautiful. >> i like that too. >> well that is "eyewitness news" at noon i'm's jim donovan. i'm brooke thomas. for katie and all of us here thanks for watching. >> "eyewitness news" continues at 5:00. we are always on line cbs-3.com. >> stay cool, young and restless is up next, have a great weekend.

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