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 chaos. >> donald trump seems like a

larger than life figure do you think wow do well in the world of professional wrestling. >> it was made for a guy like donald trump. >> is there any chance that his campaign is scripted and you know how it ends? >> that was pro wrestler john cena on the late show with stephen colbert. >> i love him. >> i know you do. >> we have had him on the show. okay. lauren, what is going on outside. >> not too much, a little hot in there but cool out here, girl. your temperatures, i don't want them to come after me i'm in the a pro wrestler so take it away with the weather. >> 68 degrees right now, it is feeling good. beautiful start to the thursday. open window weather this morning. 61 degrees down the shore. we have some 50's in the

poconos, wind are nice and calm and dew points in the upper 50 a to near 60 degrees means it is not too humid. storm scan three shows us quiet conditions. you can leave all that umbrella rain gear don't need to it day as we will have dry conditions in store all throughout the day and beautiful conditions getting you out the door on a thursday morning, bright sunshine in the 7:00 o'clock hour even in the 9:00 o'clock hour. sunshine sticking around. pleasant conditions. 75 degrees for your 9:00 o'clock temperatures so a great start to our thursday. >> all right. thank you so much. and good morning, everyone. happy gateway to our weekend. we are kicking off this thursday morning and it is looking absolutely gorgeous outside. now, you can see we are starting to heat up on interstate i-95, we were talking about this 15 minutes ago. the this is before girard. already this many vehicles on the roadway around 5:30 we know it will be busy in the 6:00 o'clock hour. have give yourself a couple extra minutes, vine headlights moving in the westbound

direction approaching schuylkill is looking pretty good. vine street was closed for that construction project between schuylkill and broad that has been since cleared. now that the dnc has long since gone, it is back in play overnight. just make note of that but it is looking good there this morning. 422 taillights moving in the eastbound direction, headlights in the westbound direction at valley forge that is what you look like right there. great news for septa riders, take a look at this septa regional railcars back in service starting week of august 21st, 10 cars per week all cars in service by week of november 6th. normal weekday services are hoping to begin by early october, headaching people very happy. i have to say i'm right there with you. accident northeast extension southbound pass quakertown that left lane is block, over to you. a former philadelphia catholic church official is heading back to court today. >> monsignor william lynn is a accused of conspiring to protect pedophile priest in the archdiocese. "eyewitness news" reporter just to continue finch joins us from outside criminal justice center, good morning,

justin. >> reporter: brooke and jim, good morning, today he is set the for a status hearing during which a judge will schedule his next trial date. >> he's responsible for so much, so much pain and suffering. >> reporter: mike mcilmail reacting to the tuesday release of monsignor william lynn from a wayne county area prison outside of scranton. lynn, first u.s. roman catholic church official convicted of covering up clergy sex abuse claims is now staying with family as he awaits another trial. that prison release video and new developments in lynn's case have been unbearable for mcilmail and his wife debbie. couple hold five five-year old partly responsible for a ledge molestation of their son, sean. >> my son was a abused because of his decisions. >> reporter: mcilmails believe sean was violated while a student at resurrection parish school at the hand of the father robert brennan a secret

sean kept for years. his parents say sean battled addiction but was able to file a police report but days before he was to testify before brennan, sean died of an overdose at age 26. brennan's name would be tied to other sex abuse allegations and investigations led to defense lawyers thomasbergstorm says lynn was not in charge of the priests. that was up to cardinal anthony bevilacqua who has since died. >> he knew what he was doing. i don't want to hear bevilacqua, krol, all up the line, you know, at some point these priests have to become moral human being. >> reporter: quick in 2012, lynn has served half of three to six year sentence with the child endangerment convictions twice overturn he was released on bail but d.a. seth williams various to retry lynn,bergstorm says his team is ready. >> for some reason, you know, he continues to want to beat

up on this guy and i think we all know where he stood, meaning where lynn stood in this hierarchy, we all understand that lynn never touched a kid. >> reporter: now lynn's trial will be likely held sometime next year in 2017, and his lawyer thomasbergstorm says archbishop chaput has maintain contact with lynn throughout all of this, and that hearing is set for 9:45 this morning here at the criminal justice center. we are live, i'm justin finch for cbs-3 "eyewitness news", brooke and jim, back inside to you. trump taj mahal casino is set to close at the end of the summer. >> employees will get layoff notices by even of the week. the casino opened in 1990 by developer donald trump and had a share of rots. it is now owned by businessman carl icahn. workers began striking last month in the dispute over health care and pension benefits. it is the longest casino based strike in atlantic city's

history. >> i have four children. we cannot support our families on these jobs without health care. we don't want to be on subsidized living. >> sad day for atlantic city, lot of people will if the hurt and not just union people. >> thousands will be out of the job when casino closes next month and it will be the fifth casino to close in two years. the atlantic club, show boat, revel and trump plaza have all closed. time is 5:37. in business news this morning harry potter is making young readers and book sellers very happy. >> dow jones is back on the move up. money watch's jill wagner joins us live from the insuring stock exchange, hi there jill, good morning. >> reporter: good morning brooke and jim. oil prices are rebounding, dow jones snapped its seven day losing streak climbing 41 points, nasdaq edges up 22, futures pointing to a slightly higher opening. hiring speed steady any july, private sector added slight lid more jobs then expect last month, 179,000, a cord to go

payroll processor adp. tomorrow the government releases its july jobs report, strong job growth makes it more likely the fed will raise interest rates this year. before the opening bell today the government will release data on how many americans filed for unemployment benefits last week. bank of england is meeting right the now discussing steps to boost the economy there abe minimize fall out from the brexit, uk decision to leave the eu. bank is expect to cut interest rates for the first time since the financial crisis. harry potter and first child parts one and two, sold more than 2 million print cop is in north america in two days on the market. that makes it one of the fastest selling books in history, it is still far behind the harry potter and death le hallows that sold 8.3 million copies on its first day alone. i have yet to read even one harry potter book. are you guys fan. >> thank goodness i have not read any of them either and

people look at me like i'm crazy. >> reporter: i know we are the only ones. >> i did have butter beer at universal studios at harry potter park. it tastes like a melted butter scotch candy, it is delicious. >> okay. >> that is my harry potter connection. >> help me jill, help me. have a good day, jill. >> thanks, jill. more local law firms want to talk to people in perfect sham and other communities affected by contaminated water. lawyers have been exploring lawsuits after tests found contaminated water in wells. contamination was blamed on fire fighting foam used at nearby military bases. two law firms are holding a meeting at 7:00 at manor house at commonwealth in horsham. in london an attacker went on stabbing spree in the popular tourist area killing one person and injuring five others. it happened wednesday night in london's russell square. police took a 19 year-old man

in custody. they say the suspect has a history of mental illness. police are investigating any possible links to terrorism. in washington transit officer is facing federal terrorism charges for allegedly trying to provide material support to isis. authorities say 36 year-old nicholas young bought gift card worth more than $200 with the intent to give them to isis operatives. he is first american law enforcement officer ever accused of aiding in the terror group. it took more than two decades but a new jersey man who maintained he was innocent of rape has been exonerated by the dna. dion hurled got a shoulder hug from his lawyer after a monmouth county superior court's clear his name on wednesday. he was wrongly quick in 1988 and served four years in prison. only people in prison are entitled to new dna testing so lawyers push prosecutors, to retest.

>> you know you're a right keep going for it. >> maintain your innocence. you have to fight. >> he will now be removed from new jersey's sex offend are registry. still ahead we will show you how new york city, celebrate tony bennet's birthday. researchers say texting may help with weight loss, my gosh, brooke will disappear. it is not considered exercise, we will explain how it is keeping dieters on track in the healthwatch. also hear from this woman who had to be rescued from a muddy lake and find out what she ended up there in the first place when we come

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celebrated the big day with the ceremony, his occasional singing partner lady gaga was there too and there was a party at 30 rock plaza he is not retiring. >> i love being alive, i love every day. it is magic to me, you know. >> empire state building honored his italian american heritage by lighting up in the colors of the italian and u.s. flags. we have to say happy birthday to president obama. >> ♪ happy birthday to you >> the president turns 55 years old, today. he got serenaded yesterday participating in a summit for young african leaders. to this will be his last birthday in the white house no details on how he plans to celebrate. any guests. >> no. >> a little basketball i think. >> he is a leo.

>> hang out with the family. >> i'm a leo too. >> what does that mean. >> i don't know. >> jim donovan turns the big five-zero. >> next week, going on vacation. >> yes. >> where are you cruising too. >> i cannot tell you. >> i am going to bermuda. i'm celebrating on a ship. when five-zero hits i may jump off the ship. >> thank you so very much, young ladies. >> how is weather going to be for my birthday. >> fantastic. >> you will not care because you are on a cruise but weather today is nice, clear sky conditions right now as we get a live look at center city philadelphia a we are about 15 minutes away from official sunrise getting this thursday kick off, nice start to the day, and temperatures are pretty cool in our weather watchers are commenting on this cool start to our thursday morning. it was so hot so humid for

the month of july so getting a nice break and refresher. lets check in, with weather watchers up early with us reporting their current conditions and we appreciate that. 58 degrees right now is your current temperature, by wayne, he is in landingberg pennsylvania and he says that this morning brisk morning, yes, by august standard these temperatures and that dry air in place definitely gives it a crisp feeling. he has a nice picture that he took. butterfly with a breakfast. we appreciate. that lets check with one more weather watcher, see is what going on. 61 degrees as reported by megan came from richboro pennsylvania and she also commenting a very chilly morning, it will be beautiful and sunny throughout the day. she knows what forecast we have in store all across the delaware valley. lucky enough to have the day off beautiful conditions once again. 68 degrees is your current temperature in philadelphia,

we are at 61 in atlantic city. comfort index, not too bad with that dew point around 60 degrees and that is where it will stay through much of the day to take what to expect this afternoon? another beautiful day. mostly sunny. comfortable humidity levels. high temperatures in the mid to upper 80's and southeasterly wind that will be light. storm scan three there is enough to see because we have quiet conditions, dry conditions, and no rain in the forecast but as we take new to future weather showing you as we look ahead toward next couple of days we could see showers developing as early as saturday morning. then a good chance have of the showers and thunderstorms into our saturday afternoon, a few on the stronger side so could make roadways slick so have that backup plan if you see those storms rolling in your neighborhood late day on saturday. >> great advice, thanks very much. all right. good morning everybody. happy thursday. looking at your roadways this morning. i-95 south at cottman looking at as i would expect it to as we approached the 6:00 o'clock

hour. give yourself extra time. we are still traveling at posted speeds there. and, and, eastbound direction, and westbound side, and i would say it is heating up quicker then eastbound side but schuylkill both directions at boulevard is holding steady there. delaware county, looking nice and calm, with this normally does. i-95 not at the 452 you take that to the airport and that is what you are looking at. check your flight status on line. construction here, we have crane operation going on around this area in wissohickon main street closed between shores lane and ridge avenue until 7:00 a.m. so you will to have take ridge avenue but this might slow you up a little bit on kelly drive and cause congestion there just make note of. that down wires, tasker between 32nd and 33rd street and blocking lanes there jim, over to you. on the cbs-3 healthwatch proof that texting could help dieters. researchers say obese teens

who received a text message reminding them of their commitment to eat healthy were eight times more likely to keep their weight down. that is compared to teens who did not receive the text. sleep problems such as insomnia and over sleeping may increase risk of stroke and may also get in the way of recovering from a stroke, according to a new review in the journal neurology that recommend people who had a stroke be screened for sleep disorder. there are new concerns about the security of the chip based credit card but it is not the chip that is worrying researchers. it is card's magnetic strip, thieves hey be able to rewrite code to make ate peer that a chipless card. customers complain they take too long to process and retailers are spending billions to upgrade their technology. this is crazy month. man took her dog for walk and ended up getting stuck 5 feet in mud. it is because her dog went on a wild goose chase. this all happened in charlottesville virginia.

carolyn o'neill took her dog for a walk near partially drain lake, while there her dog got distracted and ran off. >> my dog saw a goose and ran after the goose, and into the lake. well, the dog and the goose got stuck and since my dog had caused this goose to get stuck in the mud, i not only needed to rescue my doggie really needed to rescue the goose too. >> so the dog was able to get out but when women went to rescue the goose she got stuck. she had her phone and was able to call for help. rescuers pulled her to safety n word what happened to the goose it actually was a real wild goose chase. forget coke or pep a is there is a brand new cola war. >> how soda accompany is trying to predict the outcome of the presidential race, we will be right

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of star wars, star r1d2. they will be looking for precious resources like platinum, by the way google says it will give 20 million-dollar to the first company to make the to the moon. have you ever wondered where old airplanes go when they stopped flying. >> have you. >> no, because i knew this answer. >> okay, all right. we are getting a a i look at american airlines airplane bone yard to make loom for 97 new american airlines planes on top of the 127 they added last year, old planes are being shipped to a new mexico junkyard. it is sad for some pilots to fly the planes on their last flights and even sadder when they know what will happen to their old friend. >> they will take any usable parts that they want off of the airplane, take the engines off and pulling wings apart, take all these seats and carpet out and then just turn tonight to a aluminum can. they say not all planes are destroyed, some are

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well, it is another end of the era in atlantic city, trump taj mahal announced it will be next casino to shut its doors. we are live with striking workers who are making history of their own this morning. donald trump is trying on get his campaign back on track amid signs of kay cross in the g.o.p. a live look from our roof camera in center city philadelphia another beautiful day. don't get used to it. heat and humidity will be back before you know it. today is august 4th good morning i'm jim donovan. it is august, relax. >> i don't mind heat but not humidity. >> i'm brooke thomas. lauren casey and meisha johnson are keeping an eye on things this morning good morning. >> it is summer and i know we will be just complaining in january, we know what is coming. >> of course. >> every day, right. well, good morning, roadways are looking good but we have a car fire out there. an accident is clearing. we will updates in a