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we are in for a beautiful day, lower humidity and sunnies still enjoying it while you can. the justin is here to tell us when we may see storms again. good morning i'm brooke thomas. i'm jim donovan. justin will be along with the forecast in just a moment but first here's what you need to know to start your day in the morning minute. >> sixth amendment has triumph but you should have a jury of your peers. >> delaware supreme court has ruled that the state's death penalty law is unconstitutional. >> he was shot the in the face arm and leg. >> reporter: philadelphia police kay a card or dice game led to the shooting in cobbs
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creek overnight. a stunner for the republican party, presidential nominee donald trump refused to endorse two top republicans in their reelection campaign. biggest in the world, don't worry about that, i love babies. i love babies. i hear that baby crying i like it. >> they say he can be a nice guy, okay. i. >> actually, i was only kidding, you can get the baby out of here. >> that crying baby, wants to stay here and he is acting like an adult when adults look to trump. >> i will not be weeping about the weather today, i walk outside 2:30 ape it was nice. >> this is how you want it to be on your cruise. >> going on vacation, justin, keep all of the hurricane and whatever stuff away. >> just don't get down to the yucatan peninsula.
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>> i'm not going there. >> good shape. >> enjoy it. >> enjoy weather today and next couple days, real nice for august, we will get a break from the high heat and humidity in july. good day to play hookie, but don't tell your boss i said so. behind me clear skies, nice sunrise just after 6:00 o'clock this morning. we are in the low to upper 60's in the region, 67 at the airport in philadelphia, mid 60's in millville, new jersey. fifty-nine still up in quakertown. we are dealing with some 50's in the cooler suburbs and as i said it feels nice and that is all about dew point temperatures. it tells us how humidity feels. right now temperature of the dew .61, that is the threshold when 60 or higher we will call it humid. less than that we will start to feel dry but when it is 60 this time of the year we will take it, enjoy. clear skies we will see a few clouds arrive later this afternoon just due today time heating but we will keep things dry today. temperatures by noon time in the lower 80's just a nice
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lunch break with low humidity on our way up to 84 degrees. we have 90's in the the forecast and we will let you know when that arrives in a few minutes. now lets head over to meisha for a check of the road. >> i don't mind those 90's one bit. happy wednesday to you we have a disabled vehicle here schuylkill westbound past south street just make note it will not slow you down. we don't have volume levels to sustain that yet but we know on the schuylkill, especially pushing in the 6:00 o'clock hour if that doesn't get moved out or doesn't get cleared out of the way or what have you that can certainly slow you down. looking at congestion levels while at it we can see travelers at posted speed. as we push in the southbound direction in the s curve you can see how many vehicles are on the roadway right now. it is probably going to be a busy wednesday morning. i would highly recommend giving a couple extra minutes on 95 south, boulevard looking at headlights in the southbound direction at fox street looking good both moving in the south and
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northbound direction. blue route taillights moving in the northbound direction a approaching mid county, take a look at the that sky, absolutely gorgeous, septa for those taking septa airport lines, train 403 running a six minute delay that was 28 minute delay i would say about 15 minutes or so ago. airport line, 480 2a 15 minute delay. just make note, for those taking september, delaware memorial bridge southbound left lane still block until 2:00 p.m. friday, over to you. philadelphia's district attorney says case against monday or william lynn is not over. >> he is vowing to retry the former church official over his handling of the child sex abuse complaints. "eyewitness news" reporter justin finch joins us live from the cbs-3 news center. >> monsignor william lynn is due back in court thursday for a status hearing ahead of the new trial to be scheduled. judge called for lynn's release tuesday on $250,000 bail, after a pennsylvania state supreme court granted him a new trial. here's a look at lynn's prison
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release outside scranton. we are told he is living with loved ones as preparations are made for his new trial. six five-year oldies nation's first reman catholic church official charged and convicted for conspiring to protect pedophile priest. he was convicted in 2012 and since served almost half of his three to six year sentence. backed by the philadelphia archdiocese lynn's legal team appealed twice for that new trial, d.a. seth williams is vowing to try lynn again. lynn's attorney says his team is prepared. >> a jury of monsignor lynn's peers in philadelphia found him guilty of endangering welfare of children and the evidence was sufficient to show that he was part of the creating a play book that shielded pedophile priest from his prosecution. >> for some reason, you know, he continues to want to beat up on this guy. i think we all know where he stood meaning where lynn stood in this hierarchy, we all
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understand that lynn never touched a kid. >> lynn's attorney thomasbergstorm says lynn will be in court thursday for that status hearing. he says case could go to trial sometime in 2017. jim and brooke, back inside to you. >> thanks, justin. delaware supreme court ruling is in regarding the state's death penalty. it is unconstitutional. >> 148 page opinion yesterday, justices said delaware's law, violates constitution because ate allows the judge to sentence a person to death end of a jury's recommendation. also delaware law doesn't require juries to be unanimous when recommending a death sentence. delaware's legislature came close to abolishing a death penalty this year but debate was put on hold to await the ruling by the high court. time is 5:36n business news this morning an end to over posting on instagram. >> find out what wall street's waiting for this week, money watch's jill wagner joins us live from the new york stock exchange, good morning, jill.
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>> reporter: good morning brooke and jim. wall street is talking jobs this week this morning payroll processor adp will release numbers on private sector job growth. on friday the government release is it more complete jobs report. strong job growth makes it more likely the fed will raise interest rates this year. price of the the crude oil keeps falling dragging down energy stocks and witt the dow jones it fell 90 points yesterday, seventh straight day of declines. nasdaq fell 46. fit bit shares rose in after hours trading. sales of the fitness trackers and smart watches in the last quarter soared. profits are down. company is investing in products and research in their plans to roll rel out new items during the holiday season. instagram launched a new feature called instagram stories like snap chat you can add text and stick tours videos and pictures and they disappear after 24 hours. the instagram says stories will post more of without worrying about over posting.
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>> you are rolling out because snap chat gets on your nerves is what is interesting is instagram sort of did the same thing to vine a little while ago with the video, that they popped up and it blew blew up a and people stopped using vine. >> are you calling instagram a copycat. >> i think i'm calling them smart. >> reporter: it is actually they could be taking over the world soon. >> they are owned by facebook, which is pretty much taking over the world. >> we will see. >> world is coming to an end. >> i post on instagram, i think i posted something the other day. >> and facebook. >> let me guess, jim still has old school photo book, that is what i'm going to guess. >> yes, i do. >> reporter: i love it, that is actually a good policy. >> thank you. >> thanks, jill. google will soon be making deliveries by drone.
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the white house announced dog will's project wing will start testing. faa says it hopes drones will be a able to fly problem free before the end of the year. amazon recently said it will start testing drove deliver is in great britain. it is believed that the drone industry could create nearly $38 billion to the u.s. economy. >> until something falls on your head. >> believe it or not, your phone or lap top battery status could be helping web site get personal information about you. >> that is according to researchers at princeton university. number of the web sites tracking how much charge is left on your device battery. why? one idea is it could be better to target ads and products to users. still ahead justin beiber is taking sides in the taylor swift/kanye west feud. >> who do you think. >> i don't care but we will show you next. the path path, blue please help me. >> i'm here at long wood gardens where it is so serene
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magazine kanye had a scheduling conflict and was very apologetic. he sent three dozen white roses arranged in the shape of the cube. corden says it is an honor and privilege to be set up by kanye and car pool karaoke will happen but he is really hoping to get queen b in the car. jim, listen up, speaking of kanye west, justin beiber is taking side in the musical feud between west and taylor swift. >> oh, my. >> yesterday during a face time call with the rapper and friend beiber took a screen shot and posed it on instagram with the caption, taylor swift, what up. >> do you see what he is doing there. >> no. >> post got more than a million likes. i will explain later. >> i'll explain to you later. >> you get it, that is all that matters. new host for golden globe award. jimmy fallon takes over hosting for the the first time. he joked on twitter he is looking forward to spending time with the foreign press,
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before donald trump has them all deported. that is his quote, okay. mel gibson is returning to the big screen with the project he has had in mind for 20 years. he will star in the professor and mad man based on the best selling book about two men, who changed literary history by creating the oxford english dictionary. sean penn is co starring. the first time that the two have worked together. got to tell thaw bronze sculpture of lucy ball that was mocked across the internet is getting a second life. it was unveiled last year in new york. you will probably remember this. people thought it was ugly, and scary, for lucy. later it will be replaced with a new statue by another artists, and scary lucy will be sent to a nearby mall for its annual haunted house shopping event. >> that is just wrong. i love lucy. >> i do too. >> she had a great tv show it didn't look like her much you watched i love lucy.
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>> it is you that is not known to all things. >> i watched it every day. >> i did because that is why you are both fred and ethel. >> yes, thank you. >> i do have their characteristics. i have to admit. justin, help me out here. >> we will save you here, weather is looking great here. >> what, isn't he. >> i have to play both side here, that is the deal on this show. the shore, we will be in good shape to day this morning still some cloud around but giving way to mostly sunny skies. sunrise coming up at 6:00 o'clock this morning and again, nice little breeze off the water, ocean water in the mid 70's keeping air temperatures right around 80 and sunshine. make sure sun block is on before hitting the shore or beaches. we have some nice temperatures north and west of the city waking up from the neighborhood, upper 50's. 57 degrees, at eileen's house in gilbertsville. showing clear skies at this
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hour. even around city low to mid 60's, that is good compared to what it has been in the past few weeks. we will go to interior central new jersey, mark, 59 degrees in chatsworth. again typical cool spots in the pine land. down in delaware milder, middletown, we will check in at jason's house with 66 degrees, dew point temperature there higher but humidity stays le all throughout the region. really for next 48 hours so enjoy it. nice and dry up and down east coast, mid-atlantic northward into new england. high pressure dominating our area good day to be outside hit grill maybe later this afternoon and this evening. meisha is our grill master today, bringing sunshine, 84, jim's will be guest bartender. you have to come out. invited to meisha's house. bring a few items for her to cook up. into the tropic, southwest caribbean we have a tropical storm earl, heading west toward belize and could be a category one hurricane as we head toward thursday before making land fall.
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this is our fifth named storm of the season. we will start to ramp up as far as tropics but we do not peak until september. future weather just quiet. we will have clouds from time to time but not producing any rain, tomorrow but not until saturday our next best chance for scattered shower or storm, sunshine. eighty-four, low humidity what are you grilling for us. >> i will be cooking up some mean hot dish and other delights. >> heard of it but never had it. >> you will smell it throughout the studio as well. good morning, everyone. we have had a disabled vehicle schuylkill westbound past south street but it has been since clear. blocking left lane now that it is clear we are looking okay there, schuylkill westbound past south street. we are looking at schuylkill taillight moving in the eastbound direction past king of prussia looking great here. gorgeous sky. man almighty when you walk out the door this morning it feels so nice outside. ninety-five south at girard a
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steady flow, you can see a sea of headlights letting us know it will get busy now. it will heat up in the 6:00 o'clock hour. i want to call your attention to the serious accident involving a met or cycle near downingtown and it is involving injuries. route 113, at uwchlan all lanes blocked near route 30. you have to use a alternate. best one will be norwood road for those in abe around that area, all directions, they are block, all lanes, right now, right around this area involving ate motorcycle and it is season for motorcycle friend to be outside on the roadway. also on septa, the airport line, 4802 is delayed 12 minutes and has been delayed all morning long before it was around 28 minutes to 30 minutes, now down to about 12 minutes. we are getting better there. check those schedules on line, jim, over to you. well, starting to day nights will be brighter at long wood gardens. >> the exhibit knight scape a
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light and sound experience returns with new displays. our pat gallen is live with the preview, pat? >> good morning jim and brooke. we are here at long wood gardens and what is so spectacular is when you first walk in it is all about the sight and the smell but they are adding something to that here at long wood gardens and that is sound. it is called night scape light and sound experience and to tell us more is patricia evans, communications manager, if morning. >> good morning, glad to have you here. >> thank you. >> tell us about this because this is such a cool eye tea. they may not get the gist have of it but when it is dark in here it is just so beautiful. where does this come from. >> night scape was done here in philadelphia and it the is a combination of the light, sound, projection that is uses our plant as the canvas. it is extraordinary. something you have probably never seen before. >> no, not at all. i have never seen anything
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lick this before. it really takes creative mind to come up with this. where did this idea stem from? did you see it somewhere else. >> our director called this a few years back in another garden nearby and he brought cliff out here and said what with you do at long wood and gave them free rain and and result is night scape and it is amazing. >> when we walk in here pitch dark you can see colors flickering. what i find interesting my first time here at licensing wood gardens is smell when you walk in here. when you though them all together it is something special. >> absolutely, they say long woodies spectacular. come during day see beautiful flowers, aroma, feeling of summer and at night whole new world emerge was night scape. >> give us a background. for someone hoist a november hoist walks in here a first time. >> long woodies over a thousand acres of beautiful gardens from one of the best gardens in the world. we are in chester county in kenneth square and we track 1.3 million visitors every year. we are opened every day of the year.
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every time you come to long wood you will see something different. we have tree hoses for kids, 4 , beautiful outdoor gardens. something for everyone here. >> as far as night scape go, 180,000 people came through last year for this so you are expecting big things. >> we are, so excited to be welcoming night scape back, now on through october 29th. wednesday through saturday and evenings. you have tour ticket in advance so we encourage people to buy their ticket on the web site and come out and experience night scape, it the is unforgettable. >> i will be here. jim and brooke we need to put together a cbs-3 slumber party when it is dark. little weird and trippy with the lights but they have a beer garden here too. >> that music makes me drowsy right now i'm already very relax. >> i'm down, let's do it. my blood pressure is relaxing. >> jim's out of town so let's really do it. >> we will be right back with the look at jersey shore town that may be changing its name
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pageant, more than 50 crabs compete for cucumber rind, symbol of crustation, and previous winners include crop cabana and taxi crab and sand castle contest and king of the cluts race. effort to rename town of the north wildwood is moving forward. >> city council passed a resolution to put a non-binding referendum on the november ballot. the proposed name, anglesea is what the town was called more than a century ago. >> name could cause problems for tourism authority though since it collects taxes from wildwood, wildwood crest, and north wildwood, to advertise, the entire wildwoods. >> it is a cleaner, to say wildwoods and simpler to say wildwoods? it is. but if we have to deal with that when it comes, we have to sit with our sister communities and make it work.
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>> if it does get renamed, north wildwood would be the fifth new jersey town to change its name in the last 13 years. out in california, everyone is trying to get a break from the heat. >> that means everyone including these guys, check it out, three bears, who were seen enjoying water at lake tahoe east of sacramento, bears had fun swimming and playing in the sand. people who were there didn't seem to mind the company. hey if there is a bear nearby you just don't sit on the beach, move along people. coming up next on cb. one "eyewitness news" beef between donald trump and two g.o.p. leaders. why he is refusing to endorse paul ryan and senator john mccain. grocery store self check out lanes are supposed to make life easier but new report shed light on just how many stores may be getting ripped off, by this. we will explain straight ahead. also a head how this little boy amazes everyone with his first pitch at last night's orioles game. we are back in a
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donald trump says he will not endorse two powerful members of the republican party, while dnc is laying off more employees in the wake of their e-mail hack. i'm hena daniels in new york with more on campaign 2016 coming up. new jersey home owner is set up with pokemon go hear about the lawsuit he is filing against the company that makes the popular game. it is wednesday, august 3rd, good morning i'm jim donovan. i'm brooke thomas, justin drabick and meisha johnson are keeping an eye on things this morning. >> good morning, happy wednesday, we have a serious accident near downingtown involving a motorcyclist, it is the season with motorcycles oz roadway. we will get to that in a moment. it will be a good day keep windows hoped driving around, nice refreshing air mass nice breeze take advantage for relevant i august. we are in the 50's in some suburbs to mid up toker 60's. we are ready for sunrise at 6:02 for philadelphia, 68 at th
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