morning. >> good morning, happy gateway. if only it was that easy. it is coming in. good morning you guys, things are looking good, roadways are nice and dry, construction out there and some great news for our septa riders this morning. >> well, we will only open a door for a day saturday, opened and then shut by sunday, and get back out of here, but for today nice conditions, once again, yesterday, that humidity, it really was absent and it is august, it was such a nice feeling day and once again we are dealing with dew points on the lower side, certainly by august standard and with that dryer air in place our temperatures, these are the coolest we have felt in quite sometime after spending 16 days in philadelphia in the 90's last month. 68 degrees. that feels nice. sixty-one down the shore. middle 50's in the poconos. might even to have break out sweat shirt this morning. storm scan three showing us very quiet conditions, we have high pressure in control across the eastern seaboard so

the showers well off to the south and west where they will stay but we have a cold front up wind a affecting parts of the upper midwest and oppressive storm system moving through parts of the minute so the and that cold front is in our future as we head through the day saturday and bring us a storm chance. but no storms, just a ton of sunshine mostly sunny skies heading in the second half of our thursday. comfortable humidity levels once again, temperature at 82 degrees for lunchtime and top off right around average by the time we end up the day-to-day with the high temperature up around 87 degrees. >> awesome. that looks like a beautiful forecast, enjoy it today while we got it. good morning. happy thursday. tacony palmyra bridge is back down and opened for traffic as we have upright around 4:45 and came down great news for those taking the bridge. ben franklin bridge, it looks absolutely, beautiful. the it almost looks like a big carnival looking beautiful and quiet, like normal, coming

from new jersey. jim loves that. he loves thinking that looks like a carnival. fifty-nine south past cottman moving in the southbound direction looking exactly as it should this early morning pushing in the 5:00 o'clock hour we will of course see things heat up around 5:30 but things are looking good there. we have down wires here blocking some lanes not quite sure exactly which ones but it is blocking lanes, pass kerr between 32nd and 33rd street make note around that area. also construction still lingering this morning overnight construction route 42 between the 25 and route 55, one to two lanes block there. right until about now, lifting anytime soon, i'll let you know when it does. news on septa coming up in a little will bit. jim, over to you. lady luck run out for struggling taj mahal casino in atlantic city. >> they are set to close the at the even of the summer. "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabao is live in atlantic city which action, good morning, jan. >> reporter: this is officially the longest strike for unite here local 54 in

atlantic city's history but it seems like after labor day weekend this fight will come to a close. that is when management company for trump taj mahal says the casino will close taking with it about 3,000 jobs. owner says he has lost 100 million-dollar on the taj over the last 18 months, compared that with the strike that is still going on behind me this morning and he sees no other option. now striking hospitality workers are still on the picket lines here on thursday morning, and this is, again, longest strike for these workers. they have been out here since july 1st and they are striking for restoring of the health insurance and pension benefits which were taken away in bankruptcy court nearly two years ago. donald trump opened up the taj mahal in 1990 but has not been involved for about seven years. current owner carl icahn offered to restore health benefits to the striking workers but at a level at least than what the other casino received. union reject that offer saying

it wasn't fair. >> i have four children. we cannot support our families on these jobs without health care. we don't want to be on subsidized living. i don't want to be on the affordable care act. why should i pay $300 and government and taxpayers pay $700 when... our numbers have been up prior to this. >> the president of the tropicana which runs the taj has this to say this is statement, icon enterprises saved tropicana and today has lost almost a hundred million-dollar trying to save the taj when no other party including the prior equities own hours put into its recent bankruptcy was willing to invest one dollar to save it. currently taj is losing multi millions a month and with this strike we see no path to profitability. back out here live on the scene when taj closes after labor day it will be the fifth casino to close in two years, a thousand people lost their jobs then, and now the exact

date of this casino closure is not yet known, company intend to send out warn notices to employees before the weekend, coming up in our next hour at 6:00 o'clock we will check with the casino expert who says this may not be the end of the taj after all, and we will find out what he means at 6:00 a.m. we are live from atlantic city, jan carabao for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". back inside to you. two days after being released from a state prison a former philadelphia the catholic church official is heading back to court. monsignor william lynn could find out today when his new trial date will be. lynn was convicted of conspiring to convict pedophile priest in the archdiocese. his conviction has been overturn, twice at 5:30 reporter justin finch will tell you what abuse victims to have say about lynn a's release from prison. jerry sandusky could soon take the stand for first time. a judge ruled sandusky's lawyers can file a paperwork to let him testify. sandusky is currently serving

a 30 to 60 year sentence for sexually abusing ten poise. a judge agreed to hold hearings, to see if the former penn state assistant coach deserves a new trial. sandusky did not testify, in his original trial. he is expect back in court friday, august 12th. well, checking campaign 2016 donald trump is trying to get his campaign back on track while democrat hillary clinton has expanded her lead in national polls to double digits. hena daniels shows us how candidates are gearing up for the final stretch. >> reporter: campaigning in florida wednesday donald trump got to refocus attention on rival hillary clinton blaming her for the creation of ice is. >> she should get an award from them as the founder of ice is. >> reporter: tying her to accusations that obama administration made a so-called, ransom payment to iran in january. around the same time four american hostages were released. >> 400 million-dollar in cash, how does the president do

that? how do you do that? this was all started by crooked hillary clinton. >> reporter: the attacks came amid signs of the deepening rift between the g.o.p. nominee and members of the own party. yesterday illinois representative adam kiss singer became latest republican refusing to support trump in november angry over his dispute with the gold star families. trump's own running mate mike pence endorsed house speaker paul ryan. >> i'm strongly supporting paul ryan, strongly endorse his reelection. >> reporter: "fox news" poll out shows trump trailing clinton by ten percentage points nationally. speaking at a denver based tie company the democratic nominee attack her opponent's business record. >> i would like him to explain why he paid chinese workers to make trump ties, this is one of them, it has his name on it, of course. >> reporter: today clinton will continue to talk about jobs and the economy at an event in las vegas. hena daniels for cbs-3

"eyewitness news". two former governors are also running for president on the libertarian ticket. they say that a vote for the major party candidates will get you no where. former new mexico governor gary johnson, parties presidential candidate and former massachusetts governor william weld, libertarian vice-president candidate held a town hall meeting on cnn. both dispute claims by major parties candidates and say voters should vote libertarian. >> i don't think life in america has ever been better. i mean we get along better, we communicate better, our kid are smarter then ever. >> if you want to waste your vote on trump or clinton are our guest. >> libertarians are polling at 12 percent. they need support from at least 15 percent to be included in the vice-presidential debate. g.o.p. congressman charlie dent says he will not be voting for donald trump but six term representative said he won't be voting for hillary clinton either.

dent, who represents allentown, says he is concerned by what he calls trump's incendiary comments and lack of policy specifics. congressman backed john kasich in the primary. vice-president biden was honored for his work in the so-called cancer moon shot, "eyewitness news" at the height of the bellevue where the world affairs council presented its at last award. the vice-president has been involved in an effort to develop new treatments for cancer. their goal, to have a cure by the year 2020. relief for riders of septa's regional rails, transit service says train cars pulled for repairs will soon be back on the track. more than 120 silver liner cars have been out of service since the july 4th weekend. fatigue cracks were found on the trains under carriage. septa says that ten new cars per week will be returned to service, once testing is complete. septa projections it should be back on the normal weekday schedule by early october.

still ahead we will show what you officialness south florida are doing today to combat the growing spread of the zika a virus. also ahead crews worked for hours to gain upper hannan this warehouse fire that sent several fire fighters to the hospital. we will have an update on their condition. and months after devastating wild fire we are getting a new look at devastation in fort mcmurray, canada. brittany spears is on the chart one more time we will have news on later on i got a tell you, when we come back, stay with us. i have asthma... ...one of mlife.ieces in my so when my asthma symptoms kept coming back on my long-term control medicine. i talked to my doctor and found a missing piece in my asthma treatment with breo. once-daily breo prevents asthma symptoms.

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welcome back. hours after this massive fire, broke out, inside of a new york city warehouse fire fighters have placed it under control. it took more than 250 fire fighters to gain the upper hand. the flames erupted in queens sending black smoke across the city. four fire fighters suffered minor injuries, the warehouse was destroyed. the pilots of the kansas city police department helicopter were forced to make an emergency landing at a busy

intersection. you can imagine how surprising it was for eyewitnesses last night. pilots say a mechanical issue forced them to land but no one was hurt. in other news in south florida, planes used for aerial mosquito spraying will be back in the air to help fight the spread of the zika virus. meanwhile florida governor rick scott says that zika tests for pregnant woman will be free at any county health department statewide. scott also says that the state would provide additional lab services to handle the expected increases and insured that results are processed quickly. new aerial drone footage is showing up close look at the devastation in fort mcmurray, albert a wild fire that broke out in may consumed 1.5 million acres. it forced mass evacuation of the cities 80,000 residents and fire destroyed 2400 buildings. well, in maryland, more bad news for a town inundated by flood waters last week. >> new there is a massive leak of sewage in ellicott city, as

much as 5 million gallons of sewage a day are pouring in nearby waterways. it is heading towards chesapeake bay. flooding devastated the downtown area and crews are having a hard time fixing the leak. officials say it is difficult to get to the area. >> those poor people can't get a break accounts right? >> yes. >> just a mess. >> doesn't get any worse than sewage leaking, wow. >> how is the weather supposed to be down there, same weather we are expecting this weekend. >> fortunately we have high pressure in control so drying conditions, and certainly that is what they need there. we dealt with our own flash flooding in the princeton area and we did have water rescues that had to take place unfortunately but nice quiet weather prevailed yesterday and we will get much of the same today and temperatures are kind of cool for august as we wake up on this morning. 68 degrees right now, is your current temperature in philadelphia. 62 degrees in the lehigh valley. even some 50's on the board in the poconos, and lower 60's down the shore but dry

conditions, right now, across much of the i-95 corridor with high pressure in control, promote ago this sinking stable air and we will keep that around throughout the day to day. lucky enough to not head to the beautiful ballpark, phillies taking on the giants, 83 degrees. mostly sunny conditions for first pitch at 1:05 this afternoon. we will have high pressure in control as we head in the day tomorrow. it will start to shift off to the east as we head into late day friday but will give us a nice front of sunshine increasing clouds by late day tomorrow and then that approaching cold front that is positioned currently over upper midwest. it will move its way in to saturday and will generate showers, even before lunchtime on saturday across the delaware valley and then becoming more active as we get in the heating of the day saturday and we could see a few stronger storms as we head into that second portion of the day on saturday. storm prediction center has much of the delaware valley in that marginal risk of severe

weather on saturday. keep yourself wet's wear and that have backup plan for your outdoor plans for first day of the weekend but as we head into sunday no problems at all in the forecast, bright sunshine. becoming less humid once again and even into monday, meisha, conditions looking lovely, sunny, 86 degrees. >> yeah lauren, they are just looking beautiful, thank you so much. >> i wish i was going to that game instead, at home trying to get two cats trying to like each other, two rescue cats. i will tweet about them later. this is what we are looking at in the southbound direction, looking good on the boulevard, basically anywhere we are looking at boulevard right now, looking good, you are heating up on interstate 95. boulevard at wissohickon looking great. schuylkill, same thing here. taillights moving in the eastbound direction past girard both east and westbound we are looking nice in this direction as well. blue route southbound at mid county what we are looking at here looking great pushing in the southbound direction basically any where on the blue route we're looking good. it is a fairly typical

thursday morning commute so far and typical in the world of the travel it is not a bad thing. however, we have this accident in the northeast extension southbound past quakertown that left lane is block not causing slow downs, quite yet but it will, for as long as that lingering out there. down wires blocking lanes here between 32nd and 33rd street and that can always be a complicated situation. in the world of septa regional railcars are back in service during week of august 21st. we will have more coming up in ten minutes, jim and brooke, over to you. now for a look at newspaper headlines from across our region. >> on the cover of the news of the delaware county complaint in upper darby that the school board left district administrators in the dark help they secretly decided to put the school superintendent on paid administrative leave. rick dunlap, junior is currently finishing up his first, three-year contract with the district, a defacto leader has not been named

while it is in effect. officials celebrated the official opening of the the new trail connecting hopewell state woods to french creek state park. in addition to the trail, it is accessible parking area that has been installed and groups are working on educational opportunity along the trail. from the hamburg area item state street square in hamburg is being spruced up with landscaping areas of public art. organized by the hour town foundation a mural will be painted on state street as part of the art installation. that is a look the at some of the newspaper headlines there around the delaware valley. well, deserving kid got the to spend a day at the philadelphia zoo. >> that is right, part of the variety club camp. check this out camp's mission is to build independent and self-confidence in children with will physical and developmental disabilities. they took part in face painting, dancing and they even got to feed animals with food that they grew themselves at their camp. ever wonder where airplanes go when they are

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well come back thanks for waking up with us. >> phillies went in extra inning last night and another thriller and patrick is here with the the highlights. >> it was a thriller, yeah, good to see phillies on a streak here. prior to the game though phillies got bad news which we will tell but in a second but that bad news meant first career start for phil kline, promoted from lehigh valley for a spot start and he got to take part in another entertaining game, between phillies and giants. bottom of the seventh inning, phillies trailing four to nothing that is ryan howard, and a opposite field home run, his 15th of the season and he was three for four. phillies on the board there next batter cameron rupp, center field, and that is donkey strength right there.

phillies trail four-two. miguel franco to right, jimmy parades and sees a air hernandez would score. to extra we will go, late in the evening, bottom of the 12th, franco singles to shallow center, tommy joseph scores and phillies win and they beat giants five-four. >> now to that bad news starter aaron nola scheduled to pitch against the giants last night but instead fine themselves on the dl. twenty-three year-old has a strained right elbow, with only two months left in the season he could be shut down. jakement company ton looks likely to take his next turn in the the rotation. it brought back visions of andy reid, under chip kelly, it was forbidden but under new head coach doug pederson hitting is part of the equation in training camp. beautiful day for first smack in the the mouth practice since 2012 when andy reid was in his last season. doug pederson believes and

needs to be part of the getting ready for the season. fingers crossed though there are no injuries, and, starting running back ryan matthews and starting offensive lineman brandon brooks, remain out. team u.s.a. has begun its quest for a fourth straight olympic gold medal in soccer taking on new see land in rio. hope solo roundly booed every time she touched the ball in yesterday's game. rio fans upset over her comments about the zika virus. solo did hold the new zealanders scoreless and delran own's carli lloyd put team u.s.a. to stay with nine minutes in, they won two to nothing. team u.s.a. plays france saturday. fans can celebrate villanova mens national championship at the pavilion on campus during nova night at the philadelphia freedoms tennis match. they can pose with the trophy which brings them back to that amazing night on april 4th. police athletic league had their celebrity softball game last night prior to the

phillies game and there were some familiar faces taking part. that is right, that is cleve bryan, and that is me, who is that handsome fellow right there. >> yes, along with other local media penalty we went to bat in the softball game at citizens bank park to benefit pal. game began with the first pitch being thrown by police commissioner ross and a lucky pal kid, carlos ruiz was also recognized for his service the in the community and i'm happy to say after a four year losing streak we helped team tv beat team radio by a score of six-four. i feel good. >> you and cleve. >> i'd like to think it was, yeah. >> pure athletism. >> not quite the player i used to be. >> field of dreams i saw you on twitter saying he will be tired in the morning. >> knee hurts a little bit. >> thanks, patrick appreciate it. coming up next, one person is dead after a stabbing spree in europe. we will have the latest on the

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out of prison but back in court, monsignor william lynn is back in philadelphia for a

hearing and we are live with what a judge is expected to decide on today. good morning i'm brooke thomas. i'm jim donovan. but first here's what you need to know to start your day in our morning minute. >> sad day for the atlantic city. >> reporter: trump taj mahal will shut down after labor day employees are set to get their layoff notices by end of the week. and today a former philadelphia catholic church official is out of wrist on but back in court for a hearing. monsignor william lynn is convicted of conspiring to protect pedophile priests, in the philadelphia archdiocese. in london police are trying to figure out why an attacker with a knife killed one person and hurt five more people. >> early indications suggest that mentallal health is a significant factor. >> the campaign is doing really well. >> reporter: despite that assessment those close to donald trump believe his campaign is in