>> i'm brooke thomas. >> i'm jim donovan. here's what you need to know to get your day started in the morning minute. >> happening today, smokers in pennsylvania will be coughing up more cash. the state's cigarette tax is increasing by a dollar per pack. >> whatever will help people stop. >> the man stabbed to death in the city point breeze neighborhood, happened about 9:00, 2300 block of garrett street. the lebanon pennsylvania woman is one of two dead after severe flooding in maryland, swept away their car. more than 100 other had to be rescued. >> she had nothing to say. maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say. >> the war of words continues, between trump and the muslim father of a fallen us soldier. >> had to take that shot at her. this is ignorance. >> remembering everything doesn't mean you know

everything. >> tell me, we got to move. jason born dominated the box office, earning $60 million this weekend. >> did you see it? >> i did not, but it was a good movie weekend, i mean, the rain every time i looked outside, it was raining, i didn't know whether to go out with a umbrella or just stay inside. >> justin, what do we have to look forward to today? >> same deal as yesterday, guys, another good movie day, stay inside in the air-conditioning if you can. it is pretty brutal out here as far as the humidity goes, a lot of moisture, you can feel it in the air. and possibility, hard to see right now, clouds lowering, could be few areas of fog developing this morning, as well, but watch out this afternoon, another round of some scattered showers, some storms possible. we do have one storm though in ocean county at this hour, very slow move just like yesterday morning, south of toms river, this area was already hit hard, i'm surprised they haven't issued flood warning at this area yet. some parts got up to 6 inches

of rain, south of toms river. everybody else dry on storm scan3, will probably change little later this afternoon. key word here is scattered. >> i wouldn't cancel plans just yet. for any additional rain, will continue through this evening, temperature wise, low and mid 70s. at this hour, low seven 70s in pottstown at this hour, humidity running really high. we have the dew point numbers up into the lower 70s, that's like a tropical air mass, so any time we're in the 70s that's when i want to stay inside in the air-conditioning, try to avoid outdoors. at least high temperatures will be in the 80s today. not talking about heat indexes over 100, so 88 for philadelphia, which is close to average, eight an at the shore, and 70s up in the poconos, now, there are some cooler temperatures on the way in the forecast. we will drop the humidity a little bit. i'll let you know when that arrives coming up in the full forecast in just a few more minutes, but we hit the roads with meisha a what's the

latest out there? >> let's do, that good morning, everyone be happy monday. roads are okay, accident out here hatfield, along lexington route, line lexington road, that right lane is compromised. you can see how many vehicles actually around this, quite a bit. trying to filter by this, a loft flashing lights, have little bit of gaper delay, overall it is okay, not going to slow you down too much right now. but if that lingers, over the next 20 minutes, 30 minutes or so, i would say it will start to slow you down little bit. fifty-nine south at academy, what you are looking at therefore those of you that take interstate in the morning, we know it get busy specially, cranking in the 6:00 hour, what you are looking at right there, actually, out in the distance we can satisfy brake light going off. vine looking good, not closed overnight between the schuylkill and broad. we will see that construction come back later on this week, right now, moving in the westbound and eastbound side, this is what you are looking at. looking actually okay, holding steady there. in mass transit, for those of that you take the warminster line, dealing with 20 minute delay, because of signal problems. also, route 13 trolley, that was delayed, that is back to

normal now. a lot of construction out there this morning, guys, 422 westbound between sanatoga and armand hammer boulevard, also, another point of construction out there, still lingering around out there, let me see if i can get it, might need to help me, there you go, change there, off ramp to 202 now reopened. that's clear. looking good here in that area. and the lane shift, i'll show that you nail lit b first going to the wide. show you what's going on there. looking all green. looking good here. dropping just little bit on the vine. overall this is what we can expect this morning, so overall on monday commute this morning it will heat up. we know. that will right now so far so good. brooke, over to you. >> thanks, meisha a now to the campaign trail. the election is less than 100 days away, so the presidential candidate and their runningmates are stomping across key battlegrounds state. >> meantime, republican presidential nominee, donald trump, faces new criticism for his so-called attacks on the parent every muslim american soldier, who died in iraq.

hena daniels has the latest. >> republican vice presidential nominee mike pence south to diffuse the conflict between donald trump and the muslim soldiers' parent sunday night. in a statement, pence said that both he and trump believe can is quota american hero. add tag his family should be cherished by every american. the comment did little to extinguish the fire storm sparked after trump's bashed, for criticizing him in a speech at the democratic national convention. leveling this attack at his wife. >> if you look at his wife, she was standing there, she had nothing to say, she probably maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say. >> the slain soldier's mother responded to trump in a add for the washington post, without saying a thing, all the word, all america felt my pain, appearing on cnn her husband was less diplomatic. >> he is a black soul and this is totally unfit for

leadership of this beautiful country. >> house speaker paul ryan and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell released separate statements sunday condemning trump without mentioning him by name. speaking at a church in cleveland, hillary clinton called him out directly. >> mr. khan paid the ultimate sacrifice for his family. and what is he heard from donald trump? nothing but insult. >> clinton now holds a slight lead over trump in 11 key battleground states, following her party's convention. hena dance daniels, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> the discussion about captain khan has drawn his after at this sean to his grave at arlington national cemetery. people have left flags, flowers, other items in front of his tombstone, some people left behind note for the fallen soldier. >> the time now 5:36. in business news this morning, lucky charles lovers are getting even luckier.

>> and find out which government report investors are waiting for. money watch's jill wagner joins us liver from the new york stock exchange, jill? >> reporter: good morning, brooke, jim, invest remembers waiting for the july jobs report, it comes out friday. last week, the markets finished mixed, the dow dropped 24-point, the nasdaq was up seven, futures are pointing to still higher open. we also learn the economy grew much slower than expected this spring. second quarter increased just 1.2 percent as businesses cut spending, so far, this year, the economy is grown about 1%. that is the weakest level since 2011. instagram making some changes, to help reduce on line harrassment, users are able to filter comment on their posts, or turnoff comments completely, high profile count will be the first to get the new features. now you can buy the best part of lucky charles without the actual serial. medically hills farms is selling 1 pound bags every charges cereal marshmellows available on amazon for about

ten bucks a bag. one reviewer said they are quota childhood dream come true. brooke, jim? >> what? >> who is not a big fan every lucky charles? they weren't really -- >> debbie downer. >> what about count chock uvula, though? did those march every mellows? now, that, too many colors, things going on. >> look bribing and i want to enjoy the moment, okay? >> i don't have time for you. >> america's favorite cheer owes. >> cheerios in instead of lucky charles? this is the kind of child he was. >> i'm all about the marshmellows. >> well, meanwhile, happening today, smokers in pennsylvania start paying more for cigarette, the state's cigarette taxes increasing by a dollar a pack. governor tom wolf recently signed the tax increase into law, as part of the state budget. the taxes expected to raise $430 million to balance the budget. >> it will be a prepare reap ate dollars, as far as tax money. it goes up, either you quit or

you keep on smoking. >> i don't think i will ' buy another pack, i mean, what's this look like, 11, $12 now? that's crazy. >> now the state hopes to use part of the new cigarette tax to add more than $30 million a year to children's health insurance programs. and $20 million to pre suffer of statefarm lands. >> there is a viewing tonight for the philadelphia firefighter who died while on duty last week. firefighter gabriel lee died july 23 while on duty ladder 12. his viewing is tonight at 6:00. at the deliver rase evangelistic church lehigh avenue. another viewing tomorrow before his funeral service. firefighter lee was 42 year old, 17 year veteran of the philadelphia fire department. >> investigating members of hot air balloon grounds crew after it crashed saturday killed 16 people on board. cbs news correspondent omar villafranca in texas with the latest. >> reporter: matt row and and his wife sunday were among the victims killed in saturday's crash, according to his brother.

>> it was the worse hot air balloon crash in us history. matt specialize in the burned treatment research for the army, skip nichols at the controls when the balloon plunged to the ground near austin, steve had previously flown with nicole twice before, he said nichols was passionate about flying. >> he just came off as like, you know, your uncle, your good buddy, uncle, who is going to take care every you. >> human error is something investigators say they'll consider as they try to determine what went wrong. the deflated balloon was found three quarters after mile from the gondolla. >> our mission to find out what happened, so that we can keep it from happening again. >> power lines are all around this area. the ntsb says the balloons maintenance history and cell phone video will be important clues in the investigation. >> there is physical evidence to indicate that the balloons or some component of the balloon hit the wires themselves. >> officials also recovered more than dozen electronic devices, but it is not clear how useful they will be. they say some were destroyed.

investigators plan to meet with the balloon's grounds crew monday. omar villafranca for cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> still ahead do you play pokemon go? well, we have a warning about the popular games. >> also, pope francis is talking about the fall he took last week. find out what he says he was looking at when it happened. plus this: >> ♪ >> ♪ >> and we'll show you one of the more serious moments from last night's team choice awards. the awards show stop the violence presentation. you will see it when we come back. >> ♪

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with compassion and love. i think it is part of the reason why to this day i try to live my life working most closely with making music with and spending so much of my time with an amazing group of people, male, female, straight, gay, every walk of life. >> a lot of people thought timberlake's speech was apology of sorts as criticize in the june for commenting on actor jesse williams speech. >> nice pant suit. it is huge, cute. >> nice head badger, not ridiculous. >> i love john cena can i take a moment and say that. >> got into the presidential spirit hoses channels their inner presidential candidate during one of their many spoofs and skits. the bit was in honor of teen choice, to bring awareness to the voting process, and prompting younger generations to be involved. >> now, there was serious moment at the awards last

night, actress jessica alba and artist neo introduced the audience to family victims of the orlando shooting. west catholic grad honored. the group promoted the hashtag stop the violence. >> all right, now i have to tell you some news from broadway, cast is back. the rival of andrew lloyd webber legendary musical debuted on broadway sunday. you know the first show was in 1982, and it ran for more than 7400 performances. in london, author jk rawling was on hand for the officially opening. the play based on original new harry potter story. it is set 19 years after the last harry potter book, rawling also released this script in book form over the weekends. a lot of people talking about that, as well, over the weekend. but i love john cena. >> oh, ya, he is cool.

>> or if he hears it? >> i think he's cool. >> he is, he is. justin, the weather not cool. >> no, out on the skydeck for two minute, i feel like i am 5 pounds lighter swweating off, the water weight. that's the deal today, maybe more showers and thunderstorms shall but does get better the next couple every days will slowly drop the humidity, still pretty good for august, mid week time period, august 1st already, and the sun isn't up. days starting to get shot err -- shorter, looking liver at some of the buildings, hard to see the tops, because of the low clouds, fog, all of the moisture in the air, indicate ago lot of humidity out there, current temperatures in the 70s, but go ahead, look at some of the backyards from the weather watchers, see what's happening out this morning, again, most areas dry for the most part here, the exception out in ocean county. but we have warm numbers, this hour, john jacobs up in perkasie, 70 degrees, mostly cloudy skies, most people are

reporting clouds this morning, with the low clouds, and little bit of fog around, 72 out in nottingham, chester county at fran's house, we go into south jersey pretty mild this hour. at john carol's 75 degrees, in mullica hill, again, mostly cloudy skies, so you get the idea. so clouds this morning, should see few peaks of sunshine, coming in, later this afternoon, but that's just going to bring a risk for a shower or maybe even a thunderstorm. slow moving storm. so dropping a lot of rain. good thing is most of these should not be severe. we do have one thunderstorm right now ocean county slowly moving off the coast, but yesterday, same issue. some areas just south of toms river, burkely township picking up 6 inches every rain yesterday morning, this area does not need rain. everybody else dry. looking pretty good for the most part this morning, just the afternoon we have to keep a heads up. yesterday we did hit 90 degrees in philadelphia. that made it 16 days for the month of july, 09 or higher. so far this season 24, the season until average 23, already above that, last year, throughout the season we had

37, 90 agree plus days. dew point, running high. 73 degrees, once you have dew point in the 70s it, indicates a lot of moisture in the area, you can feel it, it feels oppressive to insufferable this morning, that's the trends through the rest of today. so good place to be today. poolside if you can. 88 degrees, but just heads up, this afternoon, especially, there could be shower or storm, and if you can hear thunder you're close enough to be struck by lightning. not much happening through the morning, maybe shower or two, far coastal areas in new jersey, the afternoon we start to see scattered showers popping up. again, key word here scattered, that threat continues tonight and tomorrow starting to look little better than drier weather returns, forecast high today up to 88 degrees, warm, humid, wednesday, thursday, less humid, but by the weekend talking highs back into the 90's. let's head over to meisha for a look at the roads, good morning. >> good morning, justin, good morning to all of you at home, as well, just waking up with us so glad you're here kicking offer brand new week together. looking at 95 north, headlights northbound direction, at broad street, you can see, these ramps were

closed last week for the dnc. they are now all open. we're looking good, both directions right now, you can see, plenty of vehicles out there, but overall holding steady basically anywhere we look right like that. accident in hatfield, route 309 southbound at line lexington road all cleared, looking good for those of you listening 15 minute ago, when i was talking about might slow you down little bit. that accident, cleared. blue route headlight moving in the northbound direction past route one, you can see what you are looking at there just kind of stream of vehicles in the northbound direction, but take a look at this shot. gorgeous, with the treason both sides. overall things are looking good. look at the sky, kind of dark and hazy, looks like that is what we are dealing with this morning, in mass transit, warminster shrine delayed 20 minute because every signal problems, and also, route 13 trolley, you are back to normal this morning. we also have car fire in willow grove, forest avenue at church street. make note that far for those of in you and around this area, overall too early to slow you down all that much. also, construction, route 422 westbound between sanatoga and armand hammer boulevard, right

lane blocked between seven a.m. and 1:00 p.m., jim, over to you. >> thank up, meisha a pope francis used his flight back from poland to offer thoughts on several issues including the islamic face. francis said people should not identify islam with violence. the pontiff was asked about the recent murder of two french priests by, excuse me, french priest by two followers of isis. he said he reads every day about catholics committing crimes. and that there are fundamentalists in every religion. the pope also addressed this fall last week during mass, he said he was watching an image of the madonna and forgot the steps. he told reporters, quote, i let myself fall, and this saved me because if i tried to resist i would have gotten hurt. end quote. francis, who is 79 years old, was not injured. and happening today, the media will get a tour of the first mormon temple in pennsylvania. construction has just been completed on the philadelphia temple of the church of jesus christ of latter day saint at vine st., pluck get a tour of

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give the children free pancakes. >> good mornings everyone, i'm jim donovan, it is monday august 1st. >> i'm brooke tomorrow. a crash that almost sent a firetruck into the peco billion g in center city. but first, justin is in in for kate think morning tracking some rain, meisha keeping an eye on the roads, good morning. >> how are the roads right now. >> roads looking really good, nice and dry, a lot of construction, other random stuff we'll get to in just a couple every minute. >> very humid out there, we could see shower or storm coming in later today, have the umbrella in case, key word scattered, not everybody will see it, but once again showers could produce very heavy rainfall corks lead to flashflooding, clouds over the city rightful, hard to see tomorrow of the tops of the skyscrapers, indicating warm humid air mass, 75 degrees east breeze at 9 miles per hour. >> thunderstorms still sitting over central ocean county souse of toms river, headed off the coast right now,